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The New York Times: Guidelines on Our Integrity by the New York Times, adopted May 1999.
Reporters, editors, photographers and all members of the news staff of The New York Times share a common and essential interest in protecting the integrity of the newspaper. As the news, editorial and business leadership of the newspaper declared jointly in 1998: "Our greatest strength is the authority and reputation of The Times. We must do nothing that would undermine or dilute it and everything possible to enhance it."
At a time of growing and even justified public suspicion about the impartiality, accuracy and integrity of some journalists and some journalism, it is imperative that The Times and its staff maintain the highest possible standards to insure that we do nothing that might erode readers' faith and confidence in our news columns. This means that staff members should be vigilant in avoiding any activity that might pose an actual or apparent conflict of interest and thus threaten the newspaper's ethical standing. And it also means that the journalism we practice daily must be beyond reproach.
No one needs to be reminded that falsifying any part of a news report cannot be tolerated and will result automatically in disciplinary action up to and including termination. But in a climate of increased scrutiny throughout the news business, these further guidelines are offered, to resolve questions that sometimes arise about specific practices:
Quotations. Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said. The Times does not "clean up" quotations. If a subject's grammar or taste is unsuitable, quotation marks should be removed and the awkward passage paraphrased. Unless the writer has detailed notes or a recording, it is usually wise to paraphrase long comments, since they may turn up worded differently on television or in other publications. "Approximate" quotations can undermine readers' trust in The Times.
The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like "um" and may judiciously delete false starts. If any further omission is necessary, close the quotation, insert new attribution and begin another quotation. (The Times does adjust spelling, punctuation, capitalization and abbreviations within a quotation for consistent style.) Detailed guidance is in the stylebook entry headed "quotations." In every case, writer and editor must both be satisfied that the intent of the subject has been preserved.
Other People's Reporting. When we use facts gathered by any other organization, we attribute them. This policy applies to material from newspapers, magazines, books and broadcasts, as well as news agencies like The Associated Press (for example, "the Senator told The Associated Press"). In other words, even though The AP is a co-op and we are members, we do not treat its reporting as our own. When writing from a pool report, if we have not witnessed the events, we attribute them to the pool reporter. In a roundup, we may use a phrase like "reports from news agencies and New York Times bureaus."
Our preference, when time and distance permit, is to do our own reporting and verify another organization's story; in that case, we need not attribute the facts. But even then, as a matter of courtesy and candor, we credit an exclusive to the organization that first broke the news.
Attribution to another publication, though, cannot serve as license to print rumors that would not meet the test of The Times's own reporting standards. Rumors must satisfy The Times's standard of newsworthiness, taste and plausibility before publication, even when attributed. And when the need arises to attribute, that is a good cue to consult with the department head about whether publication is warranted at all.
In those cases when it makes a difference whether we directly witnessed a scene, we should distinguish in print between personal interviews and telephone or E-mail interviews, as well as written statements.
Fact Checking. Writers at The Times are their own principal fact checkers and often their only ones. (Magazine articles, especially those by nonmembers of our staff, are fact-checked, but even magazine writers are accountable in the first instance for their own accuracy.) Concrete facts  distances, addresses, phone numbers, people's titles  must be verified by the writer with standard references like telephone books, city or legislative directories and official Web sites. More obscure checks may be referred to the research desk. If deadline pressure requires skipping a check, the editors should be alerted with a flag like "desk, please verify," but ideally the writer should double back for the check after filing; usually the desk can accommodate a last-minute repair. It is especially important that writers verify the spelling of names, by asking. A person who sees his or her own name misspelled in The Times is likely to mistrust whatever else we print. And too often, our correction column makes it clear that someone has guessed a spelling by the sound.
Corrections. Because our voice is loud and far-reaching, The Times recognizes an ethical responsibility to correct all its factual errors, large and small. The paper regrets every error, but it applauds the integrity of a writer who volunteers a correction of his or her own published story. Whatever the origin, though, any complaint should be relayed to a responsible supervising editor and investigated quickly. If a correction is warranted, fairness demands that it be published immediately. In case of reasonable doubt or disagreement about the facts, we can acknowledge that a statement was "imprecise" or "incomplete" even if we are not sure it was wrong.
Rebuttals. Few writers need to be reminded that we seek and publish a response from anyone criticized in our pages. But when the criticism is serious, we have a special obligation to describe the scope of the accusation and let the subject respond in detail. No subject should be taken by surprise when the paper appears, or feel that there was no chance to respond.
Anonymity and Its Devices. The use of unidentified sources is reserved for situations in which the newspaper could not otherwise print information it considers newsworthy and reliable. When possible, reporter and editor should discuss any promise of anonymity before it is made, or before the reporting begins on a story that may result in such a commitment. (Some beats, like criminal justice or national security, may carry standing authorization for the reporter to grant anonymity.) The stylebook discusses the forms of attribution for such cases: the general rule is to tell readers as much as we can about the placement and known motivation of the source. While we avoid automatic phrases about a source's having "insisted on anonymity," we should try to state tersely what kind of understanding was actually reached by reporter and source, especially when we can shed light on the source's reasons. The Times does not dissemble about its sources  does not, for example, refer to a single person as "sources" and does not say "other officials" when quoting someone who has already been cited by name. There can be no prescribed formula for such attribution, but it should be literally truthful, and not coy.
Fictional Devices. No reader should find cause to suspect that the paper would knowingly alter facts. For that reason, The Times refrains outright from assigning fictional names, ages, places or dates, and it strictly limits the use of other concealment devices.
If compassion or the unavoidable conditions of reporting require shielding an identity, the preferred solution is to omit the name and explain the omission. (That situation might arise, for example, in an interview conducted inside a hospital or a school governed by privacy rules.) If a complex narrative must distinguish among several shielded identities, it may be necessary to use given names with last initials or, less desirable, given names alone (Hilary K.; Ashley M.; Terry). Descriptions may serve instead (the lawyer; the Morristown psychotherapist). As a rare last resort, if genuine given names would be too revealing, real or coined single initials (Dr. D, Ms. L) may be used after consultation with senior editors. The article must gracefully indicate the device and the reason.
Masquerading. Times reporters do not actively misrepresent their identity to get a story. We may sometimes remain silent on our identity and allow assumptions to be made  to observe an institution's dealings with the public, for example, or the behavior of people at a rally or police officers in a bar near the station house. But a sustained, systematic deception, even a passive one  taking a job, for example, to observe a business from the inside  may be employed only after consultation between a department head and masthead editors. (Obviously, specific exceptions exist for restaurant reviewing and similar assignments.)
Photography and Images. Images in our pages that purport to depict reality must be genuine in every way. No people or objects may be added, rearranged, reversed, distorted or removed from a scene (except for the recognized practice of cropping to omit extraneous outer portions). Adjustments of color or gray scale should be limited to those minimally necessary for clear and accurate reproduction, analogous to the "burning" and "dodging" that formerly took place in darkroom processing of images. Pictures of news situations must not be posed. In the cases of collages, montages, portraits, fashion or home design illustrations, fanciful contrived situations and demonstrations of how a device is used, our intervention should be unmistakable to the reader, and unmistakably free of intent to deceive. Captions and credits should further acknowledge our intervention if the slightest doubt is possible. The design director, a masthead editor or the news desk should be consulted on doubtful cases or proposals for exceptions
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It is hard for her to stay at of the spotlights, like it or not. She writes, she speeches, she is being interviewed, she interviews, she appears, she makes statements. She has the strength and the courage to continue.
In this article you will find an interview with the Nigerian (or global?) writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.


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19 B St - Deira, Dubai - Salahuddin Road, Dubai
Star Metro Deira Hotel Apartments is a business-friendly apartment located in Dubai's Deira neighborhood, close to Reef Mall, Deira City Centre, and Gold Souk. Additional points of interest include Dubai Museum and Grand Mosque.
Property Features.
Star Metro Deira Hotel Apartments's restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Room service is available 24 hours a day. The apartment serves buffet breakfasts (surcharges apply). Recreational amenities include an outdoor pool, a spa tub, and a fitness facility. This 4-star property has a 24-hour business center and offers small meeting rooms and audiovisual equipment. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available in public areas. This Dubai property has 5 meeting rooms. For a surcharge, the property offers a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request). Additional property amenities include a rooftop terrace, a coffee shop/café, and a concierge desk.
Guestrooms.
166 air-conditioned guestrooms at Star Metro Deira Hotel Apartments feature coffee/tea makers and complimentary bottled water. Furnishings include desks and sofa beds. Kitchenettes include refrigerators. Bathrooms feature separate bathtubs and showers, bathrobes, slippers, and complimentary toiletries. Wireless Internet access is available for a surcharge. In addition to complimentary newspapers and safes, guestrooms offer direct-dial phones. Satellite television is provided. Also included are blackout drapes/curtains and hair dryers. Guests may request extra towels/bedding and wake-up calls. A nightly turndown service is offered and housekeeping is available daily.
Star Club Deluxe
This room measures 463 square feet (43 square meters). Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite channels are offered for your entertainment. The private kitchenette is stocked with a refrigerator and a coffee/tea maker. The private bathroom has a separate bathtub and shower, as well as bathrobes, slippers, and complimentary toiletries. Climate control, a sofa bed, and a direct-dial phone are included.
Star Club One Bedroom Suite
Deluxe Studio
This room measures 452 square feet (42 square meters). Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite channels are offered for your entertainment. The private kitchenette is stocked with a refrigerator and a coffee/tea maker. The private bathroom has a separate bathtub and shower, as well as bathrobes, slippers, and complimentary toiletries. A washer/dryer, a sofa bed, and air conditioning are among the conveniences offered.
This room measures 527 square feet (49 square meters). Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite channels are offered for your entertainment. The private kitchenette is stocked with a refrigerator and a coffee/tea maker. The private bathroom has a separate bathtub and shower, as well as bathrobes, slippers, and complimentary toiletries. A washer/dryer, a sofa bed, and a separate sitting area are among the conveniences offered.
Satwa Mosque
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St. Mary's Catholic Church
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Buzz Club
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Nightclub a great place to hang out with your friends and loved ones, unlimited drinks and listen to some exclusive Retro, Hip-Hop, Bollywood and House music !
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Asiana Hotel, Deira, Dubai
Phone: +9714238 7777
Nightclub Adding to Dubai's fast paced nightlife is the spectacular Boracay Nightclub .This 3 storey, 10,000 sq. ft and a seating capacity for at least 400 ... more
Jw's Steakhouse
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Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve
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Dubai has come of age in the area of conservation. In a destination known for its mega-projects, a less well-known local fact is that the Dubai Desert ... more
4x4 Hatta Safari - Mountain Springs
Travel from Dubai in the 4x4 vehicle and journey through a variety of terrain on your way to Hatta. View spectacular scenery across undulating desert and rocky ... more
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St. Mark & St. Bishoy Coptic Orthodox Church
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Dubai Museum In Al Fahidi Fort
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Dubai Museum is a must-see for anyone interested in the social history of the Emirate (and indeed the country). A visit starts at the al-Fahidi fort, which has ... more
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Rock Bottom Café is actually the top place to go if you want an insane night out. Rock Bottoms is a Dubai institution, and a sure thing - good fun, perfect for ... more
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The cable car at Creek side Park (also known as Creek Park) is hard to beat. It's a stately 20-minute one-way journey that gives you a bird's-eye view of the ... more
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Grand Mosque
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Shiva And Krishna Mandir
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Bur Juman Centre
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The Blue Elephant is widely considered to be one of the best Thai restaurants in Dubai, showcasing a diverse and delectable menu. Complete with waterfalls, ... more
Al Majed Mosque
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The preferred airport for Star Metro Deira Hotel Apartments is Dubai (DXB-Dubai Intl.) - 3.8 km / 2.4 mi.
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The rapid increase in websites and journals of an academic nature has encouraged the Committee of the Greek Society for Ethnology to create the electronic journal Ethnologhia On Line.
The electronic journal Ethnologhia On Line is an annual scholarly publication of the Greek Society for Ethnology, distinct from its annual printed journal Ethnologhia. Its aim is to stimulate and promote discourse in the disciplines of Anthropology and Ethnology with an emphasis on issues of theory and methodology, while also giving anthropologists and ethnologists a venue to present their work speedily.
Essays intended for publication should display a theoretical and methodological background and a broad perspective of their subject of research. In Ethnologhia On Line there is also space for articles dealing with theoretical and methodological issues regarding the disciplines of Anthropology and Ethnology themselves.
Essays submitted should be written in Greek, English or French and be accompanied by a summary of 250 words in one of the two other languages.
Essays intended for publication are to bear the signature of their authors, who are responsible for their content. Anonymous or pseudonym-bearing articles, book reviews or any other relevant texts will not be published.
Matters relating to the publication of the journal are decided by the Committee of the Greek Society for Ethnology, which selects the three Society members who make up the Editorial Committee (Please see also the regulations of the Society's printed journal, Ethnologhia, in our website).
The publication procedure for essays submitted to the Editorial Committee is the following: The members of the Committee will read the essay submitted for publication and decide jointly, on the basis of purely scholarly criteria, whether or not the essay is to be published. If the Committee decline to publish the essay, it will be returned to its author with a written evaluation. The author can re-submit his work to the Editorial Committee of Ethnologhia On Line only after s/he has revised it in the light of the Committee's advice. If the essay submitted is accepted by the Committee, but if the Committee offers comments and advice on, for example, bibliographic, methodological or linguistic matters, the author is invited to take them into account with a view to improving his/her work, but is under no obligation to follow them. The entire evaluation procedure leading to publication takes about two months.
The length of articles submitted should not exceed 100,000 characters including the main text, footnotes and bibliography. Only articles not previously published are acceptable. Articles should be submitted in electronic form.
Pictures or photographs should be submitted in digital form and should be of high resolution (300 dpi). The licence for using these pictures is the responsibility of the writer.
Articles should use the Harvard system or references inside the main text, as follows: (Alexakis 2000: 35).
Footnotes should be at the bottom of the page.
For books : Turner V., 1986, The Anthropology of performance, Paj Publications, New York.
For articles in journals : Rivers W.H.R, 1900, "A genealogical method of collecting social and vital statistics", Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 30:74.
For articles in collections or conference proceedings : Pitt-Rivers J., 1965, "Honour and social status", J.G. Peristiany (ed.), Honour and shame. The values of Mediterranean society, Wiedenfeld and Nicolson, London, p. 21-75.
Articles submitted to the journal are the intellectual property of the writer. Translations or reprints of articles from Ethnologhia On Line should refer to the original publication.
Articles should be submitted by 31 October of each year to be considered for publication in the issue of Ethnologhia On Line of the same year.
For further clarification please contact: Lefteris Alexakis, on +30 210 3819465, or Maria Koumarianou, on + 30 210 6446903.


The true essence of one of the most fascinating countries of Southeast Asia in the book by the photographer, filmmaker and explorer Luca Bracali.
Photographs by Luca Bracali / Texts by Nadia Ballini.
In late 1800s, in "Letters from the East", Rudyard Kipling wrote: "This is Burma, and it is quite unlike any land you know about."
The English writer had synthesized in this way the uniqueness of a country that has continued to inspire novelists and directors, fascinated with an area dotted with thousands of pagodas, inhabited by more than a hundred ethnic groups and characterized by cultural differences and customs that have remained unchanged over time. A country that has been able, even today, to keep its authenticity intact.
In this volume Luca Bracali, photographer, director and explorer, signs his Myanmar, telling its true essence through photographs of rare sensitivity.
One picture after another relate the history and the legends of ancient monuments and you can feel the deep spirituality that envelops the country. Life is given to the faces of its kind people which are expertly sculpted by the light and the complex social tissue, where food has a special symbolic meaning, is documented.
To conclude the book there is a chapter dedicated to two traditions in the process of extinction. There are striking pictures, full of pathos, of women whose bodies bear the indelible marks of tribal rituals.


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Júlia Dudics (* 24. November 1954 in Nyíregyháza) ist eine ungarische Badmintonspielerin.

Karriere
Júlia Dudics feierte ihre größten sportlichen Erfolge mit der Mannschaft von Honvéd Zrínyi SE. Mit diesem Team wurde sie sowohl 1988 als auch 1989 ungarischer Mannschaftsmeister. Bei den Einzelmeisterschaften blieb sie dagegen ohne nationalen Titel, konnte jedoch einige zweite und dritte Plätze erkämpfen.

Referenzen
Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben? Band 1 (A–H). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1994. ISBN 963-7806-90-3

Badmintonspieler (Ungarn)
Ungar
Geboren 1954
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Scientists have recently found a new way to use magnets for the betterment of life. Magnet plays a very important role right from the magnetic data storage devices to the magnetic needle on a compass. The MRI body scan machines in the health sector also make use of the magnet for accurate data capturing. The magnets are generally used in the solid form in most of the technologies, but now the researchers are looking at using its liquid form. An advanced 3D printer was used by the researchers at Berkeley Lab to create liquid form of magnets. The printable liquid devices can help make artificial cells for targeted cancer treatment, flexible liquid robots, and a variety of other applications.
The new material is magnetic and liquid developed by the lab helps pave a new path for science that is magnetic soft matter. Researcher Tom Russell initiated a program named "Adaptive Interfacial Assemblies Toward Structuring Liquids" that focuses on constructing 3D-printable all-liquid structures. The ferrofluids are used to form liquid structures as they can act as a strong magnet in the company of another magnet. The 3D-printing technique was used to print 1-millimeter droplets using ferrofluid solution containing 20 nanometers-sized iron-oxide nanoparticles. The droplets were found to have North and South poles just like the usual magnets and act as a solid magnet. These liquid magnets can help create synthetic cells or robots with great flexibility.
Likewise, a team of scientists from the University of Greifswald and Graz University of Technology has manipulated the ferromagnetic material's magnetic properties on a time scale of electrical field oscillations of visible light parallel to that of the electrical factors through laser pulses. The time-resolved attosecond spectroscopy was used to measure the influence on the magnets. The modified magnets can prove beneficial in the defense, medical, and other commercial applications.
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I hope to be remembered for my atrocities! Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
U.S. Nero's Secrets of Charisma and Congruence
Henry Kissinger was the sole purveyor of American foreign policy, with the exception of presidents Nixon and Ford. While he was National Security Advisor, he essentially made the department of state irrelevant by taking over many of the tasks, like communicating with foreign officials and heading foreign policy task groups, typically reserved to the secretary of state. By Nixon's second term, he was serving concurrently as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State, and had pushed out most other foreign policy advisors from the policymaking process.
Kissinger was involved in Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War, the opening of China (essentially the establishment of relations with Mao was not a great triumph for human rights, but another triumph of realpolitik), the coup that brought Pinochet to power, etc. The human rights perspective of Kissinger's detractors, everything Kissinger did was terrible. He was not bothered by this at all, as he was a firm member of the realist school of foreign policy, which holds that in the anarchic system of international relations, only power matters. Realists believe that international institutions such as the United Nations or international norms such as the concept of human rights are irrelevant. (In the Cold War, this became especially acute as Kissinger allied with brutal regimes, and conspired against democratic ones, in the name of anticommunism.)
Take this quote from Kissinger:
"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern."
Remember that Kissinger is Jewish himself. That's how much of a realist he is.
While Kissinger was in office, the world was undergoing significant upheaval. There were various international crises originating in the Third World, and there was also domestic unrest in every region of the world. The most important aspect of Kissinger's foreign policy outlook was his overriding concern of maintaining international stability, particularly by maintaining the Cold War's bipolar global order. Wars in Vietnam and the Middle East and domestic protests in the U.S. and Europe all threatened to upend the bipolar order. Kissinger believed that wars in the Third World might drag the two superpowers into military conflict or nuclear war, and domestic unrest in Western Europe could open that continent up to greater Soviet influence. Simultaneously, domestic unrest in the U.S., particularly protests against the Vietnam War, had the potential of leading the U.S. away from the global interventionism necessary to maintain its superpower status.
Furthermore, Kissinger was able to elevate himself to an unusual degree of celebrity in the 1973-1976 period because of Watergate and the elevation of the unelected Ford.
Kissinger was the only major public figure of the Nixon Administration to escape Watergate unscathed (because he didn't know about it, as it was a domestic election thing. To clarify, Kissinger had no connection to Watergate), and Ford, who had no constituency other than the existing Administration, heavily relied on Kissinger. [As Saigon fell, Kissinger's polling dwarfed Ford's.]
Because of the unusual circumstances of this presidential term, Kissinger is now a symbol of everything realpolitik. (He's a lightning rod for criticism from non-realists.) Many people adopted elements of this view of foreign policy, but none personified it like Kissinger.
There are four excellent biographies of Kissinger:
Jeremi Suri, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (This book provides a more favorable view of Kissinger than most other biographers).
Jussi Hahnimaki, The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy
Mario del Pero, The Eccentric Realist: Henry Kissinger and the Shaping of American Foreign Policy
Robert Dallek, Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
The following are excellent studies of U.S. foreign policy during the Nixon-Ford administrations:
Daniel Sargent, A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s
Jeremi Suri, Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente
Barbara Zanchetta, The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War World
Gary Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
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The Palace Grill is about as comfortable a restaurant setting as you will find. When you pick up the menu (well worn, of course), you'll find the same sense of comfort, all the regulars are there. Simple food, prepared as it has been for generations in the South. The bread is white, and a judicious number of cans are opened in the kitchen, but, what the heck, it is the same way my mom cooked all those years ago. I told you it was old school.
Ask the waitress what she suggests, and I'll bet she steers you toward the daily special. On the day of my visit that was fried chicken, country fried steak, grilled or fried pork chop, three sides, coffee, bread and dessert, all for just $9. Shazam. If that is not a broadside of old standards, I don't know what is.
The last item on the hand-written menu was a grilled chicken, bacon melt, with Texas toast, fully dressed, of course, for the whopping sum of $6.25. I went all out and ordered it and a small order of fries ($2.25), cheese (75 cents), and chili (another 75 cents) and ended up with far more food than I could finish.
There is also a small, but adequate selection of soups, sandwiches, plate lunches and burgers on the menu. My partner in this adventure was Leslie Fenton, and she went for the mushroom Swiss burger ($4.20) and while she did share my loaded fries, she found absolutely nothing to complain about.
Please do not get me wrong, I am not trying to be cute or condescending, the Palace Grill gets high marks in its category of local diner.
I get asked all the time what my favorite place to eat is, and I always respond by asking what category. It would be silly to compare fine dining with a taco place, or a burger joint with a tapas bar. The Palace Grill has been getting it right for many years, and generations of businessmen have stopped here for lunch on a regular basis. Want good food, without all the frills, that is served with a smile and is about as affordable as it can get, then the Palace Grill is right for you.


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Gay and interracial unions have a moment of brief respite as the Senate voted to pass the Respect for Marriage Act, marking a small albeit productive step forward for federally recognized marriage equality.
The bill, passed in a 61-36 vote, requires states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriage licenses, regardless of whether a jurisdiction recognizes those unions.
"With today's bipartisan Senate passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, the United States is on the brink of reaffirming a fundamental truth: love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love," President Joe Biden said in a statement, following the vote.
"For millions of Americans, this legislation will safeguard the rights and protections to which LGBTQI+ and interracial couples and their children are entitled," he continued
The Respect for Marriage Act does not impose a federal requirement for states to issue marriage licenses to same-sex or interracial couples, but it adds a layer of protection for said unions, reaffirming its validity in the state where it was performed.
Congress had to work in a crunch before the midterm elections to rally enough Republican support, 10 at minimum, for the bill to survive a vote. There were other delays, like protections for religious liberties, to be deliberated before a consensus was reached.
Many Republican Senators said they could not support the bill without amendments to reinforce religious exceptions.
Language in the amendment clarified that the federal government would not recognize polyamorous unions and confirmed that nonprofit religious organizations did not have to provide "any services, facilities, or goods for the solemnization or celebration of a marriage."
There was also some delay when Congress entered a brief period of break over the Thanksgiving holiday, further delaying the deliberations in the Senate, which continued the following week.
The Respect for Marriage Act reaches an almost minimum consensus in the U.S. Senate
Susan Collins, the Republican Senator for Maine who was instrumental in getting her GOP colleagues on board, said she wanted to thank "all of the Republicans who have supported this. I know that it's not been easy, but they've done the right thing" before the final vote.
It was initially floated around Capitol Hill in June after the United States Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a landmark 50-year ruling that enshrined abortion protections in the courts.
A draft opinion published by Politico evoked concerns because its language insinuated the court should also revise the legal reasoning applied in Obergefell v. Hodges, the ruling which upholds same-sex marriage protections, authored by Justice Samuel Alito.
In a concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas — also a conservative appointee of former President George H. W. Bush — wrote that justices "should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell" — referring to three cases relating to Americans' fundamental privacy, due process and equal protection rights.
The opinion maintained the ruling was limited to Roe, but it didn't stop Congress from acting on the Supreme Court's behavior.
The 12 Republican senators who voted to pass the bill were Roy Blunt (Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.), Susan Collins (Maine), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Cynthia M. Lummis (Wyo.), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), Rob Portman (Ohio), Mitt Romney (Utah), Dan Sullivan (Alaska), Thom Tillis (N.C.) and Todd C. Young (Ind.).
The bill now heads to the House for a final vote before reaching the president's desk.


Marg Helgenberger has been playing Catherine Willows on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation from its inception in 2000, when she co-starred with William Peterson. Since 2008, she has been sharing the screen with Laurence Fishburne, who played Dr Raymond Langston.
This season she has a new leading man, Ted Danson, who portrays DB Russell, the head of the Seattle Crime Lab who has been brought in to replace Catherine as the new CSI Supervisor.
Everyone expected last season to be Helgenberger's finale on the series, which was immediately addressed at the TV Critics tour.
Last year you mentioned that you thought it was going to be your last season. Did you get a second wind, and does that second wind have anything to do with Ted Danson being cast? I'm curious to know what it was that gave you a renewed enthusiasm for the show.
This was something that was talked about through the middle to end of last season. Carol (Mendelsohn, the show's executive producer) had asked if I was planning on leaving after last season.
The combination of that information, and me having a hard time letting go, honestly, of this show and this group of people, I said, 'Yeah, maybe I still need it as part of the process. I'm not done yet playing this character. I'm not done yet letting go.' So that's why I decided to extend it a little bit.
Are you saying this is your last season?
Ted said he was going to try to make you stay.
(she laughs) I look forward to hearing their scenarios of how they can engage me to return. Right now I'm still feeling that this is it. It's a hard show to leave, because everyone is so amazing to work with. We laugh a lot. It's a high quality show. It's the number one show in the world. It's got a lot of pluses to it.
I still feel committed to the fact that I want to switch it up and see what else is out there. I've been meeting with a lot of theatre producers hoping that I can explore that side of my acting ability. Obviously I'm not closing the door to any kind of other television or film work, but something as magical as CSI comes along once.
Is your former co-star William Peterson an inspiration in that way?
Yeah, because he comes from the theatre and actually he grew up in Evanston and I went to college in Evanston, Northwestern University, which has a great theatre program. I did a lot of plays there and musicals, and I've been itching to get back on the stage.
It's been hard because of the commitment to this show and then raising a son, who is now twenty, and a production assistant on CSI. He was nine when I started on the show.
That's one of the cute things about being on the show this long, a lot of the crew members' children who were all little kids at the time are now working as staff and that's what makes it even more of a family. It makes it even harder to leave.
What is the dynamic between your character and Ted's?
You mean, am I pissed off that I've been demoted? Yeah. There's a little bit of resentment there. But Ted's character so far is pretty endearing, and he really has a unique way of looking at a crime scene. It's a nice kind of fresh perspective, and I think it kind of gets under Catherine and everybody's skin a little bit in a good way.
I think Catherine's very intrigued by him. Catherine ultimately is a team player, and took some liberties at the end of last season in the way the crime was solved. She's one to admit it, that things were done and this is the fallout.
Can you talk a little more about your dynamic with Ted in this? When somebody new comes in all the dynamics with all the characters change slightly.
It was interesting, because I didn't have any idea who they were going to hire to replace Laurence, which was kind of a shock, none of us expected that. I really enjoyed working with Laurence very much, he's a wonderful actor and we shared a lot on and off camera.
Ted was such a refreshing idea. I thought, 'Wow, that's so completely different.' I'm a fan of his acting and a fan of him as a person. I've known him in social situations.
We actually have been in a project together before, but we didn't play any scenes together. It was a miniseries, called Thanks of a Grateful Nation, about post-traumatic stress disorder having to do with the [Gulf] War in the early nineties. It was a great project.
So I said, 'Bring it on.' I was so excited he was the chosen one and so far it's been a blast, he's got such a great, easy going manner and he's so curious and eager to jump into this group of people who have been together for eleven years.


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The Pitch Type Linear Weights ("Pitch Values") section on FanGraphs attempts to answer the question, "How well has a batter/pitcher performed against/using a certain pitch?" Pitch values make use of the changes in average run expectancy from one count to another and while the changes in run expectancy between an 0-0 count and a 0-1 or 1-0 count are obviously very small, when added up over the course of the season, you can get an idea of which pitch a hitter was best against. If they hit one pitch especially hard or they are less likely to chase on sliders, these successes will show up using Pitch Type Linear Weights. Also, if a hitter swings and misses on a specific pitch frequently, this problem will show up as well.
You'll notice that there are two different types of Pitch Type Linear Weights: total runs by pitch (which is shown as wFB, wSL, wCB, etc.) and standardized runs by pitch (shown as wFB/C, wSL/C, wCB/C, etc.). The first category is the total runs above average that a hitter has contributed against that pitch or total runs saved by a pitcher using that pitch. However, it is tough to compare these total numbers since hitters see different amounts of each pitch. The second category corrects for this, standardizing the values on a "per 100 pitch" basis. In other words, when you see wFB/C, that represents the average amount of runs that hitter produced against 100 fastballs thrown.
Calculation:
You would very likely never choose to calculate pitch type linear weights or pitch values on your own, but the basic mechanisms are pretty straightforward if you want to put in the effort to customize your own values.
Essentially, there is an average run expectancy for each count (0-0, 0-1. 1-0, etc) and the change from from one to the other is the run value we use to create the pitch value. For example, if we start in a 0-0 count we begin at a perfectly average 0.0 run value (because all PA start as an average PA) and then the run expectancy of a 1-0 count is 0.04, meaning the value of taking that pitch for the hitter was +0.04 and -0.04 for the pitcher. If the next pitch is a strike, the run expectancy of a 1-1 count is about -0.02, so the batter gets -0.06 and the pitcher gets +0.06 from moving from the +0.04 world to the -0.02 world. Those run values are attached to the type of pitch thrown in each case, so if both were fastballs, the total wFB would be -0.02 for this at bat so far. Or -1.00 wFB/C, when scaling to 100 fastballs.
The numbers used above were rough estimates meant to demonstrate the concept and are not the precise values we use. Those values are included in the table below (table coming soon!)
Now imagine it's a 1-1 count and the run value sits at -0.02. If the batter singles, the run value of that single is roughly 0.45, which means they will get a +0.47 for that pitch and the pitcher will get a -0.47 for that pitch. This brings the total for the three pitches (assuming all fastballs) +0.45 for the hitter and -0.45 for the pitcher. If the first two pitchers were fastballs and the third was a changeup, the wFB would be -0.02 and +0.47 wCH for the hitter.
Run values for the offensive actions vary by run environment, but this can serve as a helpful guide.
The run values of each count are based on the average offensive output in that count relative to the average offensive output in a 0-0 count and are generated using Linear Weights. These weights are averaged across all counts and are not conditional on the base-out state or the inning. A first pitch ball is a first pitch ball no matter the situation using this method. Also, the count change is the only thing that is captured using this method. A swinging strike and a called strike are the same and a ball on the corner and one way outside are identical. Additionally, a foul ball after two strikes has a run value of zero even though it is technically a "strike," because the count did not change.
Why Pitch Values:
Pitch values allow you to see how "successful" each pitch has been over the course of a season. You may know that a hitter has a .350 wOBA or that a pitcher has a 3.10 FIP, but there are more fine grained details to consider. Has a particular pitch been effective for a pitcher? Do hitters struggle to produce against sliders? When the hitter puts a changeup in play, is it usually an out or a home run?
Pitch Values are an accounting method for attaching run values to each specific pitch rather than each specific plate appearance. There are reasons to be cautious, discussed below, but if you want a retrospective look at which pitches were crushed and which were effective, pitch values will provide you with some approximate totals. If you see a wFB/C of 1.50, you can generally say that hitter was successful against fastballs that year. It's not always that simple, but that's the basic idea.
How to Use Pitch Values:
Pitch Values can be a fun tool, but you also have to be careful about two major issues when using them. First, Pitch Values aren't predictive. Looking at a pitcher's wFB/C doesn't tell you much about his true talent or about how he's going to perform using his fastball in the future. Great pitchers will have better numbers, but you can't treat pitch values as a strong measure of true talent.
Second, pitching is complicated and interdependent. Sure, you got a batter to swing and miss at a fastball, but that swing and miss didn't occur simply because you threw a good fastball. That swing and miss occurred in part because of the quality of your other pitches, your location, and the sequencing of those pitches. In other words, when you get a +0.08 on a specific pitch, that single, solitary pitch isn't the only reason you got a positive outcome.
If you have a great fastball, you're going to usually have a great wFB, but if you also have a great slider, there's a good chance it will help your wFB too. Pitch values are about the change in run expectancy against various pitches, or the production against those pitches. You can't leap from performance against a pitch to the quality of the pitch. Baseball just isn't that simple. Use these numbers appropriately as a reflection of what happened, not necessarily a method to explain why something happened.
A score of zero is average, with negative scores being below average and positive scores being above average for both hitters and pitchers. A positive outcome for a hitter is equally negative for the pitcher, but the numbers are calculated so that positive values equate to positive outcomes.
In general, pitches will generally fall somewhere between +20 and -20 runs, with the most extreme pitches touching +/-30. This is obviously conditional on how often the pitch is thrown so a very effective pitch that is thrown sparingly might look less impressive than a solid pitch which is thrown often. For example, fastballs fall into the -20 to +20 range regularly, but sliders are more typically in the -10 to +10 range. On a per 100 pitch basis, the range shrinks to around -1.5 to +1.5 runs for fastballs and -5 to +5 for other types of pitches. Again, you'll see some extreme scores on either end of the spectrum, but that's the range you will usually observe.
● This stat has limited predictive power. It can show you what pitches a hitter has had success with in the past, but you should be careful in extrapolating those results and projecting the future. It's a descriptive statistic, not a predictive one. The year to year correlation is below 0.25.
● Beware of sample sizes! Pitches can be misclassified and a handful of good outcomes against a particular pitch can dramatically swing the outcome without sufficient data.
● Pitch Type Linear Weights can be used to evaluate hitters and pitchers. Positive values are always good for the player in question.
● FanGraphs has Pitch Values based on Baseball Info Solutions pitch type data and PITCHf/x pitch type data. The calculations are the same, but they draw on different pitch classification protocols.
Pitch Type Linear Weights – FanGraphs
Pitch Type Linear Weights Explained – FanGraphs
Searching For The Game's Best Pitch – Hardball Times
Pitch Run Values and Count – Hardball Times
More Run Values – Baseball Analysts
Piper was the editor-in-chief of DRaysBay and the keeper of the FanGraphs Library.


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After two seasons of angel war insanity, Syfy has officially pulled the plug on the lowish-rated supernatural action saga Dominion.
Deadline reports the network made the decision as the ratings for the show dropped by 45 percent when compared to last year (and last season's numbers were never that great). The second year of the series averaged a 0.3 in 18-49 (Live+ same day), with 0.9 million viewers. The series took a bit of time to finally find its footing, but fans who stuck around found a Season 2 that embraced the mythology of this future-set angel war, based on the 2010 film Legion.
Had Dominion survived to see a third season, the producers had previously teased next year would see Lucifer as the Big Bad, and some of the action would've shifted to a new setting via Helena. Sadly, we'll never get to see what they were cooking up.
Though fans are likely bummed to see Dominion get the axe, it does clear up some room on the schedule for the myriad new shows currently in development at Syfy (Corporate owner of Blastr -Ed.). Between The Magicians, Hunters, Childhood's End, The Expanse and returning space-set action shows Dark Matter and Killjoys (which is awesome) — there should hopefully be more than enough fresh sci-fi fun to fill the void.
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What does the Twins payroll look like now?
I'm pretty sure the team is setting a record... and that they can still add pieces
By TJ Gorsegner@badcoffeetwins Jan 15, 2020, 9:00am EST
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As Twins fans, we must always be cognizant of the pennies and nickels falling out of Jim Pohlad's pockets. Wait—this just in, we don't. The Twins and Josh Donaldson came to a contract agreement that shattered the team record for an outside free agent. Not all of the contract details for Donaldson have come out, but we do have enough information to make some conjectures.
Donaldson's deal is for a total of $84 million for the seasons prior to his option. That would be 2020-2023. The option year, 2024, is a team option for either an eight million dollar buyout that brings the total contract to $92 million guaranteed, or if the team picks up the option, its worth $16 million, which brings the contract to a nice, round $100 million. His contract's average annual value is an ironically delicious $23 million (I'll never stop bringing this up) but obviously has a bit more assigned to those first four seasons. The exact breakdown hasn't been reported, so we don't know for sure yet if the deal is front-loaded, back-loaded, or evenly distributed.
We also have a tweet from the occasionally-correct Bob Nightengale, which we can infer a bit of information from, if the blind squirrel did find a nut.
The #Twins currently have a $121.8 million payroll for their 20 signed players, the largest in the AL Central.
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) January 15, 2020
Spotrac has 18 of these 20 contracts updated for the season. Those 18 contracts total about $97 million. The two players not yet listed are Miguel Sano and of course Josh Donaldson. Sano will be making seven million in 2020 under his new extension, which brings the total to roughly $104 million, and simple math suggest that if Nightengale's information is right, that means Donaldson's 2020 salary will be about 17.8 million. Either Nightengale is wrong, or the Twins will be paying Donaldson more in the latter years of his contract.
Prior to adding Sano's extension or Donaldson's contract, the Twins payroll was at just under $105 million for 2020, according to Spotrac (this includes pre-arbitration players.) Adding everything together, this puts the Twins at a total payroll of $129.8 million. That would be a new team record, but just slightly. The 2018 Twins hold the current record at $128 million.
All of that being said, if the Twins still wanted to add another pitcher, be it one of the few remaining free agents, or a trade acquisition, they could easily do so. While $128 million is the team record, the window is open, and the Twins could easily press past the record. Spotrac currently lists the MLB average payroll as $125 million, and that number will rise a bit before opening day. Other small-market teams like the Cardinals and Rockies are in the range of $150 million, and the Twins could easily reach that height for a season or two, if the team is competitive. Adding another $20 million per year to the payroll could add a pretty decent starting pitcher, although that may be a bit much to ask.


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Cross-country skiers can have a doggone good time on the North Valley Trail System, since almost a third of the 115 kilometers of ski trails are open to dogs. Season passes are available for both skiers and their best friends, and the popularity of the canine season passes is reflected in the numbers—almost a thousand were sold last year.
Dog trails have emerged nationwide in response to the desire of skiers to allow their pooch to enjoy the outdoors with them in winter. Our local dog trails are popular, well-used parts of the North Valley Trail System.
A recently formed local committee has been studying the trails with the goal of creating a comprehensive overview to address the best possible ways to accommodate dogs and skiers. Safety and grooming issues were studied, as well as ways to keep both dog-owning skiers and skiers without pets happy.
Check with the Blaine County Recreation District, 208.788.2117, and Galena Lodge, 208.726.4010, before getting Fido ready for a ski outing: Remember, your furry friend is permitted only on specific trails. A map of the entire system, with dog information, is available through local retailers that sell trail passes. Also, the beginning of every trail has a sign indicating whether the trail is open or closed to dogs.
This article appears in the Winter 2002 Issue of Sun Valley Magazine.


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Q: Passing an array via Ajax using json I have some textboxes generated dynamically through Ajax. I'm using Jackson 1.9.8 to parse json. I can retrieve the values of those dynamic textboxes using jQuery as follows.
var itemsArray=[];

$('input[name="txtChargeSize[]"]').each(function(){
    itemsArray[i][2]=$(this).val();
});

This can retrieve each element of the textbox array txtChargeSize[] one by one.
itemsArray is an array which already holds
The value of weightId on the itemsArray[i][0] position,
The value of weight on the itemsArray[i][1] position,
The value of charge on the itemsArray[i][2] position which is the value of the textbox being assigned in the above code.

I need to pass this array to Spring controller class to insert these values into the Oracle database. I'm trying the following.
var i=0;
$('input[name="txtChargeSize[]"]').each(function(){
    itemsArray[i][2]=$(this).val();
    objectArray[i]=[["weightId",itemsArray[i][0]], ["weight",itemsArray[i][1]], ["charge",itemsArray[i][2]]];
    i++;
});

It doesn't work as I expect. I need to pass something like the following.
[["weightId", 1], ["weight", 12.4], ["charge", 15.5]]

so that it can be parsed to java.util.List<Object[]>. I don't have precise knowledge of Javascript to accomplish this. How can I pass in this way the values held by itemsArray to Spring controller using json?

A: var i=0;
$('input[name="txtChargeSize[]"]').each(function(){
    itemsArray[i][2]=$(this).val();
    i++;
});

try javascript constructor method like this.
for(var i = 0; i < itemsArray.length; i++) {
   objectArray[i]= new createObj(itemsArray[i][0], itemsArray[i][1], itemsArray[i][2]);
}

and the constructor function is
function createObj(weightID, weight, charge) {
   this.weightId = weightID;
   this.weight = weight;
   this.charge = charge;
}

and finally if you want json string then use this
var str = JSON.stringify(objectArray);
alert(str);

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Pinball in a galaxy far, far away is coming to the Nintendo Switch.
Florida's largest arcade and pinball expo, Free Play Florida, is back this November for three days of retro gaming fun.
Free Play Florida returns to Orlando this November.
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You are here: Home › Pre-Generated Characters Volume I published!
M. W. Poort (AKA Fingolwyn) has recently published Pre-Generated Characters Volume I, a free supplement available for download from Dragonsfoot. This supplement contains 16 pre-generated characters of levels 2 or 3, suitable for use in an AD&D or OSRIC game. These characters are good for use as pre-gens for a convention or one-off game, and work equally well as NPCs.
Each character is presented on a one-page character sheet of new design. The original character sheets published by TSR were pretty, and more modern character sheets range from pretty to functional. These sheets are absolutely bare-bones functional, nothing pretty about them.
When running a session, the DM often doesn't want (or have) to devote time to digging through a character sheet for pertinent information. This design is barebones and enables the DM to find information quickly and efficiently.
If used as PCs, these character sheets are equally useful to the player. All information necessary to play the character is laid out neatly and succinctly.
The top of each sheet has an illustration (nice touch!), the stats, bonuses for those stats, plus class, race, alignment, AC, hit points, etc. This is laid out in a tabular format that makes it easy to read.
Below that are boxes that segregate weapons (including damage), armor, magic items (if any) languages, equipment, racial/class abilities, saving throws, spells (if applicable), and notes that provide additional details and explanations for abilities. For some characters the notes is long, others less so. Oh, where applicable (armor, weapons, equipment) encumbrance is listed.
All in all, concise and easy to use. A lot of pre-generated characters exist on the internet. This collection stands for its usefulness.
Note that the name says "Volume I". Volumes II and III are in the works. Each of the succeeding supplements reworks these 16 characters, bumping them to levels 4 – 6 and 7-9, respectively. When done these 16 characters are fully useful in any campaign from first to ninth level (as PCs) and useful in any context as NPCs.
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Known as the Mother Bayou, Buffalo Bayou is some 18,000 years old, more or less. Though sections of the bayou have been stripped of its magnificent natural forest, straightened and dredged, or stripped, landscaped and hardened by property owners, Buffalo Bayou is one of the few remaining streams in the city that remains largely unchannelized. This urban river is remarkable for its ancient high bluffs and remaining forest, accessible to the public in Memorial Park. Beaver, river otter, alligators, coyotes, snapping turtles, alligator gar and many other creatures live in and on its banks and waters.
Stripping and straightening, widening and deepening waterways for flood management has been largely abandoned elsewhere, in large part because it increases flooding and erosion downstream. A meandering stream is longer and actually carries more water (p. 9) than a stream that has been straightened and therefore shortened. Trees and vegetation growing along the banks are necessary for protection against erosion, for cleansing the water including our polluted urban runoff, for slowing runoff and reducing flooding, and for shading and regulating the temperature of the stream, among other things.
Rivers, including bayous, are living, dynamic systems with a particular requirement for appropriate width and depth to remain stable. Streams will naturally adjust to increased flows by widening and deepening themselves. But artificially widening and deepening the channel of the bayou, like any river, for rare and occasional high flows will cause the banks to collapse and the channel to fill with sediment as the stream seeks to stabilize itself. Artificially deepening and widening requires costly and continuing maintenance and destroys the environment, including disruption of the stream's natural and beneficial process. The focus has shifted to stopping stormwaters before they flood streams, as well as widening the floodplain along the channel, rather than the channel itself — known as "making room for the river." But the outdated and damaging practice of widening and deepening continues in Harris County.
In addition to numerous small creeks and streams, Buffalo Bayou has thirteen major tributaries and at least five minor tributaries on the north, and two major and seven minor tributaries on the south. Of these, at least ten have been channelized and straightened, including Greens, Halls, Hunting, White Oak, Bear Creek, South Mayde Creek, Willow Fork, and Williams Gully on the north, and Brays and Sims bayous on the south. This list does not include streams that have been channelized into pipes, buried, or filled. Opening up or "daylighting" urban streams is the advanced practice elsewhere for flood risk management, water quality, and social and environmental benefit.
Buffalo Bayou is a natural river, of course, with important biological and ecological functions, like cleansing the water. And like all natural rivers, part of its function is transporting sediment — more or less sediment depending on the flow. Depositing sediment on one side of the river, picking it up on the other, spreading it out over the banks and fertilizing its natural floodplain during floods, and moving it down into Galveston Bay, is something the bayou has been doing since its beginning. Trees shading and falling into the bayou are also a vital part of this natural system. Fallen trees help fortify and stabilize the river and its banks, trap sediment for rebuilding and restoring the banks, and provide food and habitat for wildlife, among other beneficial functions.
There are two federal dams on the bayou's upper watershed in west Houston, built in the 1940s for flood control. Barker Reservoir and, just across Interstate 10 to the north, Addicks Reservoir are both dry reservoirs. Built exclusively to control flooding downstream, both federal dams drain into Buffalo Bayou and hold storm water only temporarily to prevent the river from adding to dangerously high flows downstream. The floodgates are always open except when it rains at least an inch downstream–or half an inch if the Corps is already in the process of releasing impounded storm water from the reservoir pools–explains the Corps' Galveston District Water Control Manager Charles Scheffler.
The bayou, a perennial river, meaning it flows all the time, has water in it even when the dam floodgates are closed. The bayou even floods when the floodgates are closed. This is because rain that falls downstream of the dams runs off the ground (and through drainage pipes, streams, etc.) into the bayou. (That's unless it can soak into the ground or be absorbed by trees and plants, which helps recharge the groundwater and reduces flooding.) In addition, three ditches or sloughs that run around the outside perimeters of the dams carry rainwater from the south and north and empty a significant amount of stormwater into Buffalo Bayou even when the floodgates are closed.
Numerous tributaries and creeks, not to mention ditches, stormwater and treated wastewater downstream of the dams, flow freely into the bayou through ravines, which is why so many parts of the city, especially close to our bayous, are sloping – or once were. Many ravines and creeks have been filled and covered or encased in pipes, stripped and straightened into ugly ditches. The Clodine and Barker ditches and Turkey Creek empty into the bayou right below the dams. Clodine Ditch, which has its origin in the Longpoint Slough in Fort Bend County, drains an area of 10-15 square miles, runs along the east side of Barker Dam and flows into Buffalo Bayou at Highway 6 just below the dam floodgates. There it meets Barker Ditch, which drains runoff from Interstate 10 and runs along the northern outside edge of Barker Reservoir and then south into Buffalo Bayou. Turkey Creek receives water from as far north as Jersey Village, flows along the outside eastern edge of Addicks Reservoir and enters the bayou in Terry Hershey Park near N. Eldridge Parkway.
However, base flow in the bayou — the flow when it's not raining – is very low and slow, about 150 cubic feet per second. This is due in large part to the fact that so much of the city is covered with impervious surface, preventing rain from infiltrating the ground and slowly seeping into the channel. Like most urban rivers, most of the base flow in Buffalo Bayou is now treated wastewater, which is likely cleaner than the polluted water running off our urban roofs, yards, and pavement.
In Harris County there are some 22 different watersheds draining into a central stream, many of them ultimately feeding into Buffalo Bayou. The entire system is considered part of the much larger San Jacinto River watershed, all of which feeds into Galveston Bay. Image courtesy of the Harris County Flood Control District.
There are differing opinions about what makes a bayou a bayou. Some say a bayou is a slow-moving muddy river, generally found in an alluvial or coastal floodplain, particularly the Mississippi. But there are rivers called bayous in the upper Midwest that are not slow moving and not all bayous are muddy. Buffalo Bayou is sometimes clear and once was often clear, according to anecdotal reports.
Others will say that a bayou is a tidal stream, and it is true that Buffalo Bayou and our other bayous are tidal. But so are rivers in Maine.
Someone somewhere has an idea how Buffalo Bayou came to be called Buffalo Bayou. We have a number of streams called Arroyo del Cíbolo (bison) in Texas, named by Spanish explorers in the eighteenth century. But we do not actually have buffalo in North America. We have bison, a different species. Herds of bison did roam the prairies surrounding the bayou back in the day, crossing the shallow river, like the indigenous people and later settlers, on the sandstone fords.
The Harris County Flood Control District designates Buffalo Bayou as Unit W100-00-00.


HIGH The old man on the pier.
LOW A rather generic final boss.
WTF The settings menu has a… vegan option?
If limitation breeds innovation, Minit feels like a self-imposed challenge by its developers. Here's what a game can be with only two colors, two buttons, and a 60-second frame in which players are permitted to do anything. It's one of the purest arguments for "less is more" that I've seen in recent memory.
The main character of Minit – an orb with a beak, because that's all the detail the visual style affords – finds a sword that curses him to restart his adventure every minute, so players have exactly that much time to make progress before they're yanked back to the starting point and forced to begin anew. That this gimmick works even remotely well is a herculean feat, as it requires everything in Minit to be whittled down to its simplest, most succinct form.
Environments must be easy enough to read that players don't waste valuable time figuring out what they're able to interact with, and how. Characters must communicate important information in as few words as possible. The world must be compact enough that players actually have time to reach any location in it. The controls must be basic, and the moveset needs be uniform. Minit looks and plays like it could have been released on the original Game Boy, and that's the only circumstance in which a concept like this could work.
However, it's not a full-on Groundhog Day scenario. Enemies respawn and puzzles reset, but players permanently keep any items that they obtain, and the general state of the world carries over from one attempt to the next – if an NPC is rescued, for example, he stays rescued for the remainder of the campaign.
The structure of the game is relatively routine, with players' ever-expanding arsenals granting them access to farther reaches of Minit's world. We get our hands on a stronger sword, and suddenly we can chop through any plants that are blocking important routes. We find a pair of flippers, and now bodies of water don't halt our progress.
If the 60-second time limit didn't exist, this would be the shortest and easiest Zelda game ever made – by necessity, the puzzles and fetch quests are all simple enough that they can be completed in a matter of moments. However, the time-loop mechanic turns seemingly mundane tasks into moments of fist-pumping bravado since everything is a speedrun.
The final boss is the only aspect of Minit that betrays its sensibilities – it's an over-elaborate bullet hell-style fight, and the devs compensate for this by not erasing players' progress whenever they die or run out of time, essentially providing unlimited continues. It's not a frustrating battle, but it's a surprisingly uninspired note to end such a clever little game on.
Disclosures: This game is developed by Jan Willem Nijman, Kitty Calis, Jukio Kallio, and Dominik Johann and published by Devolver Digital. It is currently available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. This copy of the game was obtained via publisher and reviewed on the PlayStation 4. Approximately two hours of play were devoted to the single-player mode, and the game was completed. There are no multiplayer modes.
Parents: According to the ESRB, this game is rated Everyone and contains Mild Fantasy Violence. There's absolutely nothing to be concerned about here.
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Gamers: All dialog is text-based, and sound cues never play a vital role. It's fully accessible.
Remappable Controls: The two commands, "action" and "retry," can be remapped, though movement controls can't.
Colorblind Modes: There are no colorblind modes available in the options. Note that the game is presented exclusively in stark black-and-white.


Join the Wheeler Centre and Ballarat Art Gallery for a special event with writer Anna Funder, as she discusses her Miles Franklin Award-winning novel All That I Am.
Anna Funder is an internationally acclaimed best-selling Australian author whose debut Stasiland was published in 20 countries and translated into 15 languages. Hailed in the UK by The Guardian as 'a classic' and by the Sunday Times as 'a masterpiece' Stasiland went on to win the world's largest non-fiction accolade, the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize.
For the past five years Anna Funder has been immersed in researching and writing her first novel, All That I Am, which is based on the real anti-Hitler activities of Ruth Blatt, the genesis of the character Ruth Becker.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking action against three mortgage companies for misleading consumers with advertisements implying U.S. government approval of their products. The CFPB is suing reverse mortgage lender All Financial Services, seeking to halt its illegal activities. The CFPB is also ordering Flagship Financial Group and American Preferred Lending to end their false advertising.
The 2011 Mortgage Acts and Practices Advertising Rule prohibits misleading claims in mortgage advertising, including implying a government affiliation. The CFPB alleges that mailings by All Financial Services, American Preferred Lending, and Flagship Financial Group imitated U.S. government notices. While government programs insure or guarantee certain mortgages, the private lenders that make these loans are not government entities and are not affiliated with the U.S. government. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loans are loans from private lenders that are regulated and insured by the FHA, a government agency. Veterans Affairs (VA) loans are similarly made by private lenders to eligible veterans, current servicemembers, and surviving spouses; they are guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
All Financial Services, based in Maryland, is a mortgage broker and lender in Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. It has offered several kinds of mortgages, including reverse mortgages.
The Bureau also alleges that the company falsely said that no monthly payments are required "whatsoever" under a reverse mortgage "as long as you and your spouse live in the home." The CFPB alleges this ad is misleading for two reasons. First, homeowners who take out a reverse mortgage are still required to pay taxes and insurance. Second, at the time the ads were disseminated, the reverse mortgages they advertised could be due upon the death of the last borrower, regardless of whether a non-borrowing spouse still lived in the home.
The CFPB is filing a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland seeking a civil fine and a permanent injunction to prevent future violations. The complaint is not a finding or ruling that the defendant has actually violated the law.
Flagship Financial Group, headquartered in Utah, is licensed as a mortgage broker or lender in 35 states. The company originates conventional loans and VA loans. It also brokers FHA loans on behalf of other originators.
The CFPB investigation discovered that from August 2011 to December 2012 the company sent mailings implying that its VA loans were endorsed or sponsored by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The company claimed, in more than one million mailers, that it was "HUD-Approved." For example, the ads included text about federal legislation, and said, "HUD-Approved Flagship Financial Group has been directed to get VA homeowners instant relief by lowering their monthly payments." Flagship Financial Group has no unique affiliation beyond that of other lenders to originate VA-guaranteed loans and was not "HUD-Approved" at the time it claimed in its advertisements to have that status.
The company also sent tens of thousands of mailers advertising mortgage credit products that looked like a government notice. For example, the mailings had a heading, "PURSUANT TO THE FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION (FHA) HUD No. 12-045," instructed consumers to call their "assigned FHA loan specialist," and obscured the company's name as the source of the advertisements.
With today's action, the company will be prohibited from falsely implying a government affiliation in future advertisements. It will also pay a civil penalty of $225,000.
American Preferred Lending, headquartered in California, originates mortgage credit products, including FHA and VA residential loans. The company is a mortgage lender and mortgage broker in California; and it is a mortgage loan originator in Florida.
CFPB's investigation revealed that American Preferred Lending, from August 2011 to February 2013, sent mailings to potential consumers that appeared as if they were U.S. government notices, obscuring that they were actually from American Preferred Lending. More than 100,000 mailings were sent that had an FHA-approved lending institution logo, and referenced the web address, www.FHAdept.us. These factors combined gave the impression that the ads were from the U.S. government, or an entity affiliated with the government. Although the company is authorized to originate VA and FHA loans, it is not an agent of, or affiliated with, the U.S. government.
With today's action, the company will be prohibited from falsely implying a government affiliation in future advertisements. It will also pay a civil penalty of $85,000. The civil penalty amount reflects, in part, the company's financial condition, and will be paid with funds contributed to the company by its owners.
Today's three actions stem from a joint "sweep," a review conducted by the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission of about 800 randomly selected mortgage-related ads across the country, including ads for mortgage loans, refinancing, and reverse mortgages. The agencies looked at public-facing ads in newspapers, on the Internet, and on mail solicitations; some came to the attention of the CFPB and the FTC from consumer complaints.


Professor Jackie Waterfield is the Head of the Division for Dietetics, Nutrition & Biological Sciences, Physiotherapy, Podiatry & Radiography.
Jackie trained as a physiotherapist at Sheffield City Polytechnic before working in Rheumatology and Immunology at the Hammersmith Hospital in London, during which time she obtained an MSc in Behavioural Biology at Surrey University. She then moved to the School of Health Sciences at Coventry University. In 1998, she joined Keele University to develop and lead a modular postgraduate framework within the Faculty of Health. Jackie has experience in teaching behavioural sciences and research methods across postgraduate programmes in health and social science, and she has taught and supervised on professional doctorates and in education and health as well as supervising PhDs. She serves as external examiner for taught programmes and research degrees at a number of other universities. Nationally, she was chair of the Physiotherapy Research Society. Her own EdD thesis examined continuing professional development of physiotherapists in the context of NHS policy, and for this work she was awarded the Jo Campling Memorial Prize by the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2014 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.
Jackie has been a member of Council of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Chair of its Education Committee and is currently on the Professional Practice Committee and shortlife working groups for apprenticeships. Recently, she chaired the Scientific Committee of the International Education Conference of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. She has worked extensively with other HEIs in the UK and overseas, both directly and through engagement with the CSP and the HCPC. By virtue of her recognized expertise in education, Jackie has served as an independent reviewer for the validation of both qualifying and postgraduate programmes, and has been invited to conduct reviews, problem-solve, and mediate in challenging and complex cases at other HEIs. Jackie joined QMU as Professor in Education and Head of Division in 2017.
Jackie's principal research interests lie in the area of professional education, and in practitioners' experiences and attitudes relating to lifelong learning. She has also conducted research in pain, initially in musculoskeletal conditions, and more recently in two NIHR-funded studies of pain in pregnancy and obstetrics. As well as publications from empirical research projects, she has written papers and chapters on qualitative research methods.
Qualitative methods; interviews; focus groups; mixed methods.
National Teaching Fellow, Higher Education Academy.
Jo Campling Memorial Prize by the Academy of Social Sciences.


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Today we have a special guest post by longtime Brainery teacher Andrew Coletti, author of the blog Pass the Flamingo, all about about ancient food. Andrew has rounded up some of his favorite books for history buffs, and we hope they'll inspire you!
It only took us about 10 years to realize we should probably offer up some Brainery t-shirts! You can order one (or a notebook, tote, or sticker) from Teepublic here in **just about any color and size** under the sun, and we'll keep an eye out for you all rocking them throughout the borough! They're even on sale for the next couple of days, so don't delay.
We're coming to Park Slope this fall! Our new spot is in a lovely historic storefront on 8th Avenue + 11th Street, right off the F/G trains to 7th Ave. We have a great lineup of classes already planned (see below!) starting in mid-October.


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Q: Скорость работы закраски ячеек в openpyxl В моем скрипте я закрашиваю несколько тысяч ячеек экселя. Использую openpyxl, функция закраски выглядит так:
def fill_row(sheet: Worksheet, roew: int, col_maxv int):
    for col in range(1, col_max + 1):
        sheet.cell(row=row, column=col).fill = Pattern fill(fgColor='000000', patternType='solid')

Но работает это жутко долго, судя по профилировщику, эти несколько тесяч ячеек закрашиваются около 10 секунд.
Не понимаю в чём проблема, но судя по всему, упирается все в реализацию openpyxl. Как это можно ускорить?


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Experience Paddington Station with These New Screens and Art from The War of the Worlds
Reverb Inc. has released some more screenshots for The War of the Worlds. Check them out after the jump.
Here we have two in-game screenshots and one piece of concept art from one of the early levels in the game, Paddington Station. Arthur Clarke, the protagonist, has just awoken from a train crash in the station caused by unknown invaders – this somber, moody level will have players platforming through dangerous obstacles and surveying the damage these Martians have caused, which is only a mere hint at what's to come…
The War of the Worlds is a dark and breathtaking new vision inspired by the classic H.G. Wells novel, retold as a single player, 2D action-adventure. The gameplay narrative parallels the timeline and events from the 1953 movie adaptation, but introduces a new story arc, characters, locations, and sub-plots. With gameplay paying homage to classic cinematic platformers such as Out of This World, Prince of Persia, Flashback and Heart of Darkness, players follow the exploits of an unknown everyman struggling to escape the Martian invasion of London and rescue his family. Forced to think through insurmountable odds, players will outsmart an army of alien tripods, spiders and drones as they make their way through a landscape of total devastation.
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