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The seventh series of You Can Dance - Po prostu Tańcz! premiered on TVN on 7 March 2012. Augustin Egurolla, Michał Piróg and Kinga Rusin returned as judges and Patricia Kazadi presents the show again. The auditions began on 11 December 2011 in Kraków and ended on 12–13 January 2012 in Warsaw.

The winner of the show will receive a three-month scholarship at the International Dance Academy in Los Angeles, the place where many famous artists, including Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Britney Spears, train. The winner will also have their personal trainer, who will take care of dancer's abilities and launching career in the United States.  In previous years, the main prize was a scholarship at Broadway Dance Center in New York.

Auditions
The auditions were held in five Polish cities.  The first day was an open audition, when the producers chose auditionees, who would perform in front of the judges and live audience. The filmed audition with judges took place on the following day. Footage from these auditions was shown in the first five episodes.

Top 36 dancers
During the auditions judges picked 36 dancers. These dancers were taking part in a choreography camp in Santa Cruz.

This dancer was shown in a pre-season sneak peek.

These dancers were shown only in youcandance.tvn.pl website extras.

These dancers earned the tickets after the choreography round.

Returning dancers
This season there were some dancers returning from previous seasons.

Choreography Camp (Casablanca) week
Judges: Agustin Egurolla, Kinga Rusin, Michał Piróg

Eliminations during Choreography Camp

Dancers were practising choreographies during first three days of the Camp. Then there were no cuts. Judges gave some dancers who didn't handle the choreographies well yellow cards; second yellow equals a red card. Some dancers received red cards immediately, before even getting a yellow card.
After rehearsals contestants performed in every style they practiced - then judges cut 12 dancers.
After these cuts the remaining contestants faced the Final Choreography round with Tina Landon.
Some dancers had to dance for their lives after the Final Choreography round.

Order of eliminations
Red Cards: Edyta Wajer
First elimination after 3 days: Artur Świrad, Radek "Shin Tao" Peciak, Natalia Andersz, Paweł Porwoł, Marek Hylak, Angelika Paradowska, Karolina Barańska, Magdalena Jakubowska, Jessica Ali
Cuts after dancing for life after the 1st elimination: Natalia Zduńska
Cuts after Final Choreography round: Gracja Górniak, Wojciech Koper, Kamil Ignaczuk, Barbara Węgorzewska, Oliwia Berkowska
Cuts after dancing for life after the Final Choreography round: Joanna Tuliszka, Paweł Hołderny, Michał Przybyła, Artur Golec

Top 14 contestants

Women

Men

Elimination chart

Note 1: Because of injury Martyna Andrzejczak had to leave the competition. She was replaced by the female dancer who was eliminated last week - Kinga Mucha. According to So You Think You Can Dance rules she will be allowed to come back next season.
Note 2: Because of injury Mateusz Sobecko had to leave the competition. He was replaced by the male dancer who was eliminated last week - Igor Leonik. According to So You Think You Can Dance rules he will be allowed to come back next season.

Performance nights

Week 1: Top 14 (25 April 2012)

Group Dance: Outta Your Mind — Lil Jon ft. LMFAO (Krump; Choreographer: Kwame "Big Wave" Osai)
Top 14 Couple dances:

Bottom 3 Couples solos:

Eliminated:
Sarah Kukliński
Sebastian Mazur

Week 2: Top 12 (2 May 2012)
Group Dance: Off To The Races — Lana Del Rey (Jazz; Choreographer: Geneviève Dorion-Coupal)
Top 12 Couple dances:

Bottom 3 Couples solos:

Eliminated:
Kinga Mucha
Jakub Frydrychewicz

Week 3: Top 10 (9 May 2012)
Group Dance: National Anthem — Lana Del Rey (Modern Underground; Choreographer: Thierry Verger)
Top 10 Couple dances:

Bottom 3 Couples solos:

Eliminated:
Karolina "Cuki" Dziemieszkiewicz
Igor Leonik

Week 4: Top 8 (16 May 2012)
Group Dances:

Top 8 Couple dances:

Bottom 3 Couples solos:

Eliminated:
Kinga Mucha
Stanisław Korotyński

Week 5: Top 6 (23 May 2012)
Group Dance:Body - Sean Paul(Hip-Hop/Dancehall; Choreographer: Joao Assuncao)
Couple dances:

Top 6's solos:

Eliminated:
Joanna Zwierzyńska
Bartosz Wilniewicz

Week 6: Top 4 (30 May 2012)
Group Dance: Put Your Graffiti On Me - Kat Graham (Jazz; Choreographer: Matthew Tseng)
Couple dances:

Top 4's solos:

Results:
Winner: Brian Poniatowski
Runner Up: Anna Matlewska

Week 7: Finale - Top 2 (6 June 2012)
Guest Dancer:
Patrizia Kazadi & Rafał "Roofi" Kamiński (season 1) - Troublemaker - Taio Cruz - Hip-Hop
Group dances:

Top 2 Couple dances:

Top 2 solos:

Results:
Winner: Brian Poniatowski
Runner Up: Anna Matlewska

All-stars
During the season finale all-stars danced with the finalists as the part of the competition. Every dancer was asked which dancer they want to dance with. And the dreams came true, because the top 2 were privileged to dance with their favourite You Can Dance - Po Prostu Tańcz! dancer.

Controversy

In his role as executive judge, Agustin Egurolla has overruled several of the majority decisions of the judges panel over the course of the season.  The first of these was a decision to give auditioner Sarah Kukliński a ticket to boot camp, despite opposition from both Kinga Rusin and Michał Piróg.  Later, in the Top 8 live show he made a unilateral decision to select Anna Matlewska and Igor Leonik as bottom (dance for your lives) dancers for that week, although the other two judges felt they should be safe.   He said he felt Matlewska had only had to prove herself in contemporary styles so far in the competition, mitigating the impressiveness of her performance to that date.

First for any So You Think You Can Dance series
 From this season every dancer has his/her own SMS number, and it won't be changed during the season.

First for You Can Dance - Po Prostu Tańcz!
 SMS cost has reduced from last season. Now it is 2.46 PLN per SMS; in previous seasons it was 3.69 PLN per SMS.
 The winner gets a 3-month scholarship to the International Dance Academy in Los Angeles.

Ratings

References

Season 07
2012 Polish television seasons


... In the frosty air.
This morning Wren officially opened his first gift from the pile of Advent items! It was a little plastic toy dog figurine, she adores trinkets like that and was thrilled. As soon as we dropped her off at school the snow started coming down, so I guess that signals the official start of the Holiday Season!
I have abandoned my usual latte the past week or so for piping hot mulled cider, that smell filling the house bright and early of all the cinnamon and spices just adds to the Holiday cheer I can't help but feel this year.
I am a holiday baby (December 23, I actually came home from the hospital in a stocking!) so I sometimes feel an internal struggle to not be TOO Christmas-y until we hit the Birthday week since Wren is also a holiday baby and I always want her to feel like her day is not an afterthought to the holidays. But both her and I have been decorating and crafting in full Holiday style, with carols blasting and baking treats like it's going out of style. It just feels like it will be a VERY merry Christmas, and most of all I'm so impressed that for a nearly 8 year old girl she's barely made mention of what gifts she wants or expects and she actually surprised me by putting the very first wrapped gift under the tree! (I'm guessing she made it herself since she doesn't do any shopping LOL).
So we will continue with our trimming and baking and singing and spreading of cheer, and if you feel like joining in, well the more the merrier!
If you are looking for extra holiday inspiration, here is a fun post I did last year with our Minda Home stockings and foyer layout!


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You may enter up to 3 pieces. They can be 2D or 3D.
This is a juried show, which means that there will be two judges (Former art teachers at DO).
They will decide which pieces get to be in the show.
So only submit your best pieces.
The deadline for entering your 3 pieces is March 22, 2019.
Before you enter the DO Student Art Show, you will need to do the following.
Choose the 3 pieces of your best artwork that you want to enter.
Photograph the artwork correctly. Consult one of the art teachers for help.
For 2D artwork, make sure that the image is straight, reads upright, is cropped so that only the artwork shows and the color is correct so that the photo looks as much like the art as possible.
For 3D artwork, Photograph your sculpture or ceramic piece against a dark or white background. (White or black fabric, white foamcore, etc.) Make sure that the piece is lighted well so that the form can be seen. The piece should be straight and fill the frame.
Use an online program to reduce the size of your photos. They must be no more than 1 MB is size. Google "reduce size of image".
Artwork that is poorly photographed will be rejected.
Name each of your images using your first initial and last name and the letter a, b or c for each of your pieces.
Example: M.Smith A for your first piece, M.Smith B for your second, M.Smith C for your third piece..
Fill out this form. Make sure you upload each image.
Once the judges have made their selection, you will be notified at the email you provide on the form.


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Биография
Наум Пасхов е роден в 1893 година в Охрид, тогава в Османската империя, в будното и родолюбиво българско семейство на Никола Пасхов, български учител и революционер и Хрисанта Пасхова, дъщеря на Антон Митанов. Наум Пасхов завършва държавни науки в Лайпцигския университет. След Първата световна война заминава за Виена, където завършва медицина. Във Виена има кабинет, където в 1922 година спасява живота на Николай Лилиев след тежка операция.

По-късно Пасхов се завръща в София, където отваря частна хирургическа клиника на етажите над Тръпковата галерия. В София има успешна практика, по време на която спасява от осакатяване Вера Мутафчиева.

Умира в 1978 година в София, където е погребан в Централните софийски гробища.

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Родени в Охрид
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Починали в София
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Campaign Bombshell: Ben Carson Did Have Relationship With Mannatech
Ben Carson's business manager dropped a bombshell when he confirmed to CNN that Ben Carson did have a relationship with Mannatech
3 years ago by Heather
On Wednesday night's CNBC Debate, Ben Carson basically called Carl Quintanilla, the CNBC moderator a liar because he quizzed him on his relationship with Mannatech, a company that's been sued for false advertising. Carson shouted from the heavens that he had NO relationship with them and that CNBC was using propaganda against him. .
"Well, that's easy to answer: I didn't have an involvement with them," replied Carson, a former pediatric neurosurgeon. "That is total propaganda. And this is what happens in our society -- total propaganda. I did a couple speeches for them. I did speeches for other people. They were paid speeches. It is absolutely absurd to say that I had any kind of relationship with them. Do I take the product? Yes. I think it's a good product."
As Carson was pressed on his relationship with Mannatech, the audience booed Quintanilla for daring to question the neurosurgeon on it. Well, yesterday on CNN Jake Tapper interviewed Armstrong WIlliams, Carson's business manager and he admitted that Carson did have a relationship with the supplement company because he negotiated the contract with them.
Dr. Ben Carson's business manager acknowledged Thursday that the Republican presidential candidate did have a "contract" with a medical supplement company at some point.
Armstrong Williams told CNN's Jake Tapper that he negotiated the retired neurosurgeon's contract himself.
Yet Williams told Tapper on "The Lead" that he thought it was fair for Quintanilla to ask Carson about his ties to the company. He argued that Carson wasn't involved hammering out the details of his speeches or testimonials for the company, though.
"Nothing is ever what it appears to be," he said. "What is good about this is that I actually negotiated the contract as his business manager."
Tapper pressed Williams to clarify the nature of Carson's ties to Mannatech.
"That does seem to suggest there was some relationship," the CNN anchor said. "It's over now, but there was some relationship at some point."
Williams didn't answer the question directly.
In the real world a lie like this would finish off a candidate running for president, but who knows what will happen in the GOP presidential primary.
Dr. Carson is using the Mannatech line of questioning by CNN, which he describes as "gotcha questions,' to try and get the rest of the Republican candidates to take over the rest of the GOP debates and force them to do what they want.
Screaming fire from a burning building is a crime when there is no fire, Ben.
Armstrong Williams, Ben Carson, CNBC GOP Primary Debate, CNN, Jake Tapper, Mannatech, The Lead
Armstrong Williams Acknowledges Ben Carson Had 'Contract' With Supplement Maker
CNN, The Lead with Jake Tapper, Oct. 29, 2015. Read more... http://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/ben-carson-mgrs-bombshell-carson-did-have
Dodging Submarines With Ben Carson And Breitbart
Breitbart investigates to try and clear Ben Carson's name in the Mannatech controversy.
Ben Carson's Pathetic Attempt To Separate Himself From Mannatech's Snake Oil Claims
Ben Carson looked foolish at the CNBC debate when he was exposed being paid to shill for a company that was selling phony cancer cures.
Ben Carson Lies About Connection To Mannatech
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Pending a peaceful resolution of disputes, what is pressing now in the South China Sea is for all parties to exert self-restraint and avoid actions that would complicate the situation, a Vietnamese told a recent Asia-Europe workshop in Hanoi.
Representatives of civil society organizations from 13 Asian and European countries took part in a Hanoi workshop on September 9th-10th in preparation for the 10th Asia-Europe People's Forum (AEPF-10) scheduled for next month in Milan.
A Vietnam–Myanmar Friendship Association has been founded, bringing to 108 the number of organizations affiliated to the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organizations (VUFO).
A delegation of the Vietnam Peace Committee (VPC) headed by its Vice-President Phạm Văn Chương toured different parts of Laos from July 21st to 25th at the invitation of the Lao Peace and Solidarity Committee (LPSC).


Accessory producer Olloclip has introduced two new series of lenses that can be clipped onto an iPhone, with the Intro series aimed as a low-cost way for amateur photographers to change their smartphone images, while the Pro series offers higher quality lenses for prosumer or professional usage.
Olloclip's new lenses form part of the company's Connect X lens system, introduced earlier this year to add support for the iPhone X to the range, and in turn supporting the iPhone XS, covering both the rear and front cameras and allowing extra lenses to be fitted. The new Intro and Pro series lenses work with the iPhone X Clip, future iPhone attachment clips, and the Multi-Device Clip.
Previously, Olloclip offered lenses at one price point, but has extended the range with Intro and Pro to offer a variety of price points. While the Intro series is intended for novice photographers who want to make changes to how the image appears in-camera, the Pro line is on the more costly side, promising a higher quality than others offered by the firm.
The new Intro Wide Angle Lens provides both a Wide Angle and Macro lens in one product. Providing a slightly more spherical effect than Olloclip's Essential Series Super Wide Lens, the Intro version offers a better way to shoot groups and larger areas with the smartphone camera, while the built-in Macro lens can magnify a shot.
Olloclip is offering the Intro Wide Angle lens for $19.99 on its own, or from $39.95 with an attachment clip.
The Pro series consists of two separate lenses. The Super Wide lens provides a wider field of view, but at the same time providing the least amount of distortion of all lenses of this type that the company produces.
The Pro Telephoto lens offers a two-times magnification of the picture, similar to other telephoto lenses in the range. For this model, Olloclip has made it able to gather more light to help produce a brighter photograph.
Both the Pro Super Wide and Pro Telephoto lenses are offered for $99.99 each, or $119.95 with a lens attachment clip.
I've bought a lot of different lenses for my iPhones over the years. Truthfully, no matter what the reviews have said, they've mostly all been close to junk. One problem is that unless Apple releases the lens designs they have, it's tough to make an add-on lens that matches well. The second problem is centering. If the add-on is just off by a few thousands, considering the diameter of the elements in the camera, that's enough to screw the IQ of the lens.
but that doesn't mean that you can't get a pretty decent lens. But most are in that $15 to $99 range. The cheaper lenses are no more than toys. The "expensive" ones can be much better, but not always. Fortunately, making smaller lenses without all the complex mechanical bodywork lenses for conventional cameras need can bring the price down without killing the optical quality too much. So my Moment macro costs $89, but it pretty good. But their tele is called a portrait lens, because it's sharp in the middle, but not so moving outwards. That's not really a tele lens.
I've got two Zeiss lenses for the iPhone as well, but Zeiss hasn't moved forward on cases for newer model phones, so they sit, unused. They were pretty good.
i'll wait a bit on these, and try the better models from the line-up. Hopefully they will be decent.
By Zeiss, do you mean their ExoLens brand? I have that for the iPhone 7. However, when I checked for a mount for the XS Max, the website said that they are no longer operational.
Yeah. Very good lenses, mediocre mounting, and no upgrades past the 7/7+.


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The Princeton Family YMCA receives Princeton Area Community Foundation's All Kids Thrive Grant to battle chronic absenteeism.
The Princeton Family YMCA's ACE (Accept. Complete. Excel.) Project Director Mike Roseborough joined the Y's team in December 2018, and has been focused on rolling out the program to reduce chronic absenteeism at Princeton High School.
PRINCETON - The Princeton Family YMCA officially launched its new ACE (Accept. Compete. Excel.) Program on Wednesday evening, June 19 at Triumph Brewery with its organizational collaborators including Corner House Behavioral Health, The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation, and the Princeton Public Schools. Participating students, family members, and volunteers also attended.
The Princeton Family YMCA and Princeton Public Schools were one of 10 nonprofit and school partnerships selected by the Princeton Area Community Foundation to receive support through its strategic initiative "All Kids Thrive" which is focused on reducing chronic absenteeism in the Mercer County region. Each partnership was awarded a grant up to $300,000 over a five-year period; it is hoped that the long-term commitment will reduce administrative burdens on schools and nonprofits, allowing them to focus on impact.
This partnership between the school district and the YMCA aligns with the Princeton Public Schools strong commitment to equity and the recommendations outlined in its 2017-2018 Educational Equity Culture and Curriculum Audit. Superintendent Steve Cochrane enthusiastically supported the initiative when the YMCA proposed it. "Chronic absenteeism is often about removing barriers – barriers that may prevent access to clean clothes, access to academic supports, and even access to bias-free learning," Cochrane stated. "Our staff have enthusiastically embraced this opportunity to work with volunteers, with our community partners, and with our students to identify, overcome and eliminate those barriers."
The YMCA and the school district social workers and administrators work closely to identify participating students, based on attendance, academic records and other factors. Each school year, cohorts of students (5-7 students) are identified and rolled out, one in the early winter and one in June, with an expectation that the group will grow every year. Based on the program's success, girls may be added in the third year. Activities are also planned to keep students engaged over the summer months. YMCA CEO Kate Bech added, "the Y is deeply committed to equity and fairness and to supporting and nurturing youth of all backgrounds in Princeton. We are truly honored to have been selected by PACF for this grant. The ACE program adds another dimension to our rich and diverse portfolio of programs including Princeton Young Achievers, Latinos en Progreso, Y Scholars, and the new Youth Forum. It's exciting to see our progress in connecting to children and youth who need the YMCA in their lives the most."
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Mike joined the Princeton Family YMCA from the Newark and Vicinity YMCA where he served as the Program Director of the 21st Century Learning Center grant, a program that focuses on daily academic support and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) for students. Mike shared, "This is an exciting opportunity for us to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our students. Already I've enjoyed working side by side with professional colleagues here in town, and the dedicated volunteers who are eager to be part of a solution. Our students, while challenged in many ways, are wonderful young people who are excited to have caring adults in their lives."
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About the All Kids Thrive Initiative and Chronic Absenteeism in Mercer County from the Princeton Area Community Foundation: All Kids Thrive is the Community Foundation's bold new initiative to transform the lives of young people living in poverty, which is among the risk factors for chronic absenteeism. In Mercer County, more than 1 in 10 students are chronically absent from school – they miss an average of two days a month or about 10 percent of the school year. Those absences dramatically lower their chance of success throughout their lives. The 10 partnerships will work in four communities: Trenton and Hamilton, which have the highest levels of chronic absenteeism in the county, and in Lawrence and Princeton, whose district rates fall below 10 percent, but have rates among certain student groups that are well above 10 percent.
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Wrestlemania's 2000 – X8
March 11, 2015 February 27, 2016 thegeekregistry
Per last week's post I am beginning my snap shot reviews of what I consider the modern Wrestlemania's (from 2000 on) in preparation for this year's Wrestlemania 31:
Wrestlemania 2000 – This was an overall solid show that kicked off the 2000's quite well. One of the things I notice when watching shows from this period of time is how over every single wrestler was. From the lowest spot on the card to the main event, the crowds are in to everything and it seemed as though every match had a storyline of some sort which the WWE really needs to get back to.
One of the key matches was the first every triangle ladder match for the tag titles featuring Edge/Christian vs. The Dudley Boyz vs. The Hardy Boyz. Simply WOW. This was very early in the long running rivalry between these three teams and this match was simply amazing. High spot after high spot and not a move seemed wasted. Edge and Christian left with the titles and us fans saw the beginning of an industry changing rivalry.
The main event was a four way for the WWF title with a McMahon in every corner. Triple H with Stephanie, Mick Foley with Linda, Big Show with Shane, and The Rock with Vince. The McMahon gimmick was definitely a bit overboard and unnecessary and four way matches can be disasters, but with four good workers this match came off very well. Triple H retained the title and the match was well paced and the wrestlers themselves did a great job making this a worthwhile main event.
Wrestlemania X-Seven – Possibly the best, or at least close to the top, of all the Wrestlemania's. Edge/Christian vs. The Dudley Boyz vs. The Hardy Boyz in a TLC match somehow managed to surpass their match from a year back and ended with Edge/Christian winning the tag titles again. With interference from Lita, Rhyno, and Spike Dudley this match never slowed down and was simply amazing.
The main event with Stone Cold Steve Austin beating The Rock for the WWF title was well worked even though most people did not like him turning heel at the end of the match and working with Vince McMahon. Even the Vince vs. Shane McMahon street fight was solid with a lot of great moments. Overall, an amazing show with the WWE being at a high point creatively and talent wise.
Wrestlemania X8 – Notable since this is the last 'WWF' labeled Wrestlemania and the first one after the WCW buyout by Vince McMahon the year prior. The Undertaker and Ric Flair had a brutal and bloody match that was a hell of a lot of fun to watch. Stone Cold and Scott Hall had a match that has been lambasted for many years but watching it again it was much more solid than people give it credit for. Triple H won the Undisputed Championship in the main event which was a very well worked match.
The highlight though is Hulk Hogan vs. The Rock. This match was well paced and worked to perfection. Clearly, this match was heavily planned out beforehand since Hogan was past his prime, but still came off as a viable threat to The Rock with both men having an incredibly historic match. This match alone makes this one of the most memorable Wrestlemania's of all time.
So far a nice start to the modern Wrestlemania's. Since this is the WWE's biggest event every year it is usually a good, solid show with not too many disappointments.
I'll be back next Wednesday with the next batch of Wrestlemania's which will lead to what could be one of the best Wrestlemania's yet in this year's 31st edition.
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Moses of Uganda
E. B. Solomont, American Jewish Life Magazine, January 1, 2007
Aaron Kintu Moses performs weddings, ministers to the sick, and teaches in a Jewish school. Sound like the typical rabbi? Well, what if your pulpit was in the bush of Uganda?
Open text. On his first trip to America this fall, Ugandan Jewish educator Aaron Kintu Moses became something of a one-man public relations phenomenon. Hailed by local rabbis and synagogue sisterhoods, he tirelessly criss-crossed the country from Massachusetts to California to Wisconsin and back to raise awareness about the very existence of his home community in Uganda. As headmaster of the Abayudaya Primary School, the local Jewish elementary school, Aaron came bearing stories and fundraising items, not the least of which was himself: a flesh and blood member of Uganda's Jewish community.
After more than a dozen lectures in as many cities, he landed in Wayne, N.J., his final stop on the tour. I caught up with him there, the day after his lecture at Congregation Shomrei Torah, where congregants crowded around him after a prayer service and wished him well. Wearing a mustard-colored dress shirt and gray slacks under a black windbreaker, Aaron did not remove his jacket inside the synagogue. With a quick smile and an easy laugh, he reminded me that East Africa's tropical climate is considerably warmer than here. Outside, it couldn't have been more than 35 degrees Fahrenheit.
It's not the only difference between the countries, not by a long shot, although Aaron's mission over the past month has been to garner American Jewish support to sustain the projects of its Ugandan counterparts. (That is to say, all 753 Ugandan Jews, including Aaron's two-month-old baby.)
It's a critical mission. "We are actually trying to fight isolation, which we have been living in for a long, long time," he tells me. At this point, I admit I'm a novice when it comes to Ugandan Jews. "Ah yeah," he says, knowingly. "That's why I came."
As the face of the Ugandan Jewish community, Aaron himself says he followed the footsteps of his father, who served as a spiritual leader in Abayudaya (Ugandan for "Children of Israel"), until his death in 1986. Two decades later, Aaron calls his father one of the biggest influences in his life. Aaron recalls riding to synagogue on the back of his father's bicycle, and singing Jewish songs with him. "He would tell us stories about Israel," Aaron says. "So these stories influenced me to love his ways."
Today, Aaron reflects on the fact that life as a Ugandan Jew is not, and has not, been easy. In a country where more than 80 percent of the population is Christian, Jews have been an extreme minority since the community's inception there in the late 19th century. Currently, the Ugandan government does not recognize Jewish holidays, so government employees who are Jewish must work on those days, Aaron says. Similarly, there are no Jewish representatives to the national government, effectively eliminating their public voice. "They don't treat us badly," he says, but "we don't have much influence. We don't have people in the central government, but we are not oppressed as such."
Historically speaking, it's a familiar role. The Ugandan Jewish community traces its origins to founder Semei Kakungulu, who rejected Christianity brought by missionaries in the 1880s. Instead, he sought Jewish principles he learned in the Old Testament (which the same missionaries also gave him). In 1919, Kakungulu circumcised himself, his sons, and a group of followers, practically declaring themselves Jews. Over the next hundred years and counting, community life has ebbed and flowed: faltering after the patriarch Kakungulu's death in 1928, growing to 3,000 members under new leadership, diminishing to 300 during the regime of the dictator Idi Amin, and enjoying an upswing after he was overthrown. Perhaps most significantly, the community was bolstered in 2002 when a panel of Conservative rabbis converted the Ugandans to Judaism, authenticating their Jewish status in the eyes of many (excluding the Israeli government, which only recognizes Orthodox conversions).
Today, Aaron says most Ugandan Jews live in Mbale, himself included. In addition to several synagogues, two schools are the centerpieces of the Abayudaya community. In general, many in Abayudaya are observant, and Aaron tells me his family keeps kosher and observes Shabbat: eating challah, reciting kiddush, attending synagogue. As far as community relations go, the Jewish community – once shunned – has partnered with a Muslim and Christian coffee-producing cooperative. Although it sometimes hinders their ability to observe their Jewish rituals, many who are not subsistence farmers are employed at municipal jobs; Aaron himself was a public school teacher in a former life.
It's no stretch to imagine, therefore, that Aaron considers education to be something of a thread of hope: It sustained the Jewish community in Uganda more than a hundred years ago when the community got started, and he hopes it will sustain the community in the future, via Jewish schools. As such, one day six years ago, Aaron quit his public school job. He had no salary, three children to feed and a wife to support – but he says he was fueled by the (until then) foreign concept of a Jewish school. Initially, Aaron attracted no more than 15 students to a small, two-room schoolhouse where the children received Judaic and secular instruction. Today, there are 200 elementary school students, and 260 high schoolers. In fact, the growing student body and a desire to build more dormitories propelled Aaron to the United States this year.
As our meeting winds down, Aaron and I leave the synagogue together; he has been asked to participate in one more study session with local rabbis before flying to Entebbe later that night. He hands me promotional material for the school, pointing out his daughter's smiling face on a postcard. I ask if he gets angry that Israel won't recognize them as Jews. He maintains a calm demeanor. "It should be repealed," he says of the policy. "We are Jews."
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The economic model spells out modalities by following which economic integration amongst the regional countries of ECO could be possible on the pattern of European Union. This thesis is important in the sense that it has proven the efficacy of idea of economic grouping among the member countries, which can lay the foundation stone of unprecedented progress of these nations. Historically, any talk of regional economic grouping among the Islamic countries was rejected as it was termed unfeasible on various counts.
Through his well researched thesis, Dr Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri has exposed the hollowness of this long-held notion. His work has become a solid reference point for further research on the subject. He has rather advocated the desirability and viability of such grouping.
It needs to be mentioned here that Dr Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri served as a member of Board of Studies of University Syndicate in year 2010-11 and a representative of Post Graduates Students. He got elected to this prestigious post in 2009. However in 2010, all seven contesting candidates surrendered in favour of Dr Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri who got elected unopposed.


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Which NFL fans wear their jerseys to church?
Oh c'mon, you know who does this the most.
By Ryan Nanni May 18, 2017, 12:47pm EDT
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Fall Sundays in the United States belong to two monoliths that ask for your faith and your dollars: the National Football League and church.
Each has a suggested dress code, though they don't overlap unless you're Dad Wearing His Team Polo And Leaving After Communion Because Traffic Is Awful. But if you regularly attend religious services (which aren't always Christian and don't always occur on Sunday, I know) in an NFL city, you may have, at least once, seen a fellow believer wearing a jersey.
We are not here to deal in anecdotes, though. We're here for accurate and meaningful statistics. 465 people responded to my survey, which asked two simple questions: What is your favorite NFL team, and have you ever worn their jersey to a religious ceremony?
Thirty-eight people answered yes to the second question, a rate of just above 8 percent. That's a pretty low number, but things get very interesting when you start looking team by team. Let's break it down.
Fans That Will Absolutely Wear A Jersey To Church
Three teams cracked 25 percent in this survey: the Ravens (2 of 7 respondents), the Steelers (6 of 19), and, with a full one-third of those responding saying they'd worn a jersey to a religious ceremony, the Chiefs (3 of 9). That means if you're attending services in Kansas City and you go to join hands with the people next to you, either one of them is wearing a Chiefs jersey, or you are. Pittsburgh had the most total fans respond in the affirmative, a fact that should not surprise you when you realize that there are two kinds of Steelers fans: The ones that own zero jerseys, and the ones that own three or more.
Fans That Might Wear A Jersey To Church For Important Games
Multiple Dallas (4 of 23), New Orleans (2 of 11), Green Bay (3 of 29), Atlanta (3 of 24), and New England (5 of 23) fans said yes, they'd worn a jersey to an event of worship. I believe they do so for different reasons.
Dallas/Green Bay/New England: Believe their teams are God's personal favorite as well
Atlanta: Feels natural given that most religion is based on the premise that your sacrifices will lead you to paradise ... just not on Earth.
New Orleans: Woke up in jersey hungover, no time to change.
Fans That Won't Wear Jerseys To Church, But Have A Cousin Who Would
The Bengals, Rams, Raiders, Colts, Titans, Seahawks, Dolphins, Eagles, Panthers, and Browns each had only one fan who said they'd worn a jersey to religious ceremony, leaving us insufficient data to make any broad conclusions about these fan bases. This also exposed a flaw in my methodology — it doesn't account for members of the Black Hole.
I choose to believe this woman is a youth pastor.
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That's not a jersey, so she could have come straight from church and honestly answered No to my question.
This leaves us with 14 franchises that didn't have a fan who admitted to wearing a jersey during a religious ceremony. I believe there are different reasons why this is so.
Three Cardinals fans and one Chargers fan responded to the survey. That's not enough for me to conclude anything other than these teams have fans who are too smart to use Twitter (where I sent this poll out) or follow me on it. Good on them.
Not Very Religious
Colorado and New York are particularly low in religious attendance of the states with an NFL franchise, which explains why the Broncos and Giants don't have anyone wearing jerseys to church.
Not Welcome In Church
Bucs fans.
Texans fans. I know some of y'all wore a jersey to morning services before T.J. Yates had to face the Ravens defense in a playoff game.
No Longer Believe In A Higher Power Because Of Their NFL Affiliation
Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota, the Jets, San Francisco, Washington. Can't say that I really blame you, either.
The 49ers might have been the best team in the NFL, and it's a damn shame we'll never know We'll never know how good this team could have been.
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← Night of the Meteorites!
To conclude my discussion of optics basics, I want to introduce some of the standard quantities used to describe waves and wave propagation. Unlike previous 'basics' posts, this one will necessarily deal with a little bit of algebra and perhaps a little trigonometry.
We can also measure, at a single instant of time, the distance between two peaks of the wave. This quantity is known as the wavelength, and represents the length of a single 'up-down-up' cycle of the wave. Finally, we can focus on one location on the wave, and measure how many cycles of the wave go by in a fixed interval of time, i.e. # cycles/time. This quantity is known as the frequency of the wave, and represents how frequently the wave repeats itself.
Looking at the term in the parenthesis, a little thought shows that the speed of the wave is necessarily v = νλ. Thus frequency and wavelength are not independent quantities, but are related through the speed of the wave.
The speed (velocity) of a wave is dependent on the type of wave (sound, water, light) and the properties of the medium the wave is passing through. Light in a vacuum has a speed of roughly 300000000 meters/second. Sound waves in air have a speed of about v = 344 meters/second, but this can change significantly depending on temperature and other factors.
The individual 'ups and downs' of visible light is not something that we can detect directly with our eyes, or even with sophisticated sensors: the frequency is on the order of 10^15 cycles/second (a '1' with fifteen zeros after it). Similarly, audible sound has frequencies ranging from 20 cycles/second to 20000 cycles/second, also resulting in 'ups and downs' than we can detect directly with our ears. Of course, our eyes can detect indirectly the frequency of light, which roughly translates into the color of the light.
A perfect harmonic wave, which oscillates up and down with the same frequency and wavelength for all time, is obviously a mathematical idealization. Can we assign a frequency and wavelength for an arbitrary wave disturbance, such as the one shown in the figure below?
In general, we can! It is to be noted in the figure above that the 'ups and downs' of the disturbance are still more or less evenly spaced, which implies a relatively well-defined wavelength. In general, we can express any wave disturbance as a sum of harmonic waves of different frequencies, and the dominant harmonic wave in that sum is the center frequency of the disturbance. Because of the simple relationship between frequency and wavelength, we can also refer to a central wavelength of the disturbance. The mathematical formalism for describing an arbitrary function or waveform as a sum of harmonic waves is known as Fourier analysis, a topic too advanced for a basics post such as this one!
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I am Arabic PhD student in applied mathematics. My specialization is Thermoelastic waves. Your explanation is very good and very clear. I need more basics about my majour. Could you please recommend me what should I do?
Hard to say, without knowing more about your background! Usually, the best thing to do is read as much as possible — start with introductory texts on the subjects that interest you and research papers in your field. Odds are you won't understand everything you read in the research papers, but hopefully reading a lot — and following up by tracking down answers to questions that arise during your reading — will gradually make things become more familiar.
Also, ask your PhD advisor, or any specialist in the field, for help in tracking down the most important papers/books in the field, and don't be afraid to ask them questions!
I am a starter in Optics and I have a very basic question: It we let f(x)= A sink(kx), where k is the propagation number. I read in a basic optics book that if we replace x in the Eq. by x-vt, where v is the speed of the wave then it transfroms into a progressive wave? please can you explain this for me?
Also as temporal frequency F=1/T, is the number of crests or troughs passing a fixed point per second so why we introduce angluar frequnecy in Equations of Electromagnetic waves in optics? what are the physical reasons?
Mmy questions may seem very stupid questions but I wanted to ask for learning.
Also please can you elucidate in simple words the concept of monochromatic harmonic waves? My these two posts having many typing erros so i apologize for these. Thanks.


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Come join us on Sunday, September 16th, 2018 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm for Nap Town Chickens' 8th Annual Tour de Coops, presented by Hope Plumbing.
Think of it as a home tour but for chicken coops! Ride, bike or walk a route designed to showcase a variety of different coops. Talk with local chicken keepers and join the festivities at Agrarian! Tickets and more information are available at http://www.naptownchickens.org. Tickets are $5 in advance and $10 at the door. Meet us at Agrarian on the 16th to pick up your map! We will be hosting a variety of local vendors, providing kids' activities and live music for everyone. Hope to see you there!


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Supporting local communities and businesses is important to Ashley both in and out of the workplace. For the past couple of years she's been involved in Venture Connectors, a non-profit organization based in Louisville that invites entrepreneurs from all over the state to pitch their business concepts to investors and venture capitalists. Venture Connectors incentivizes the skilled people of Kentucky to stay in Kentucky, by providing a space where their ideas might be realized. According to Ashley, supporting the culture of a community and retaining talent is essential to the overall system that makes this state a great place to live. We couldn't agree more!
These operating principles tie into Ashley's work as the new champion of Volta's Managed Service offerings. She's excited to develop ongoing relationships to support commercial businesses as an agile IT resource. Our goal is to be that local talent so that businesses in our region don't have to rely on technical assistance from someone hundreds or thousands of miles away. Ashley views this kind of devoted relationship as an opportunity to create efficiencies for the customer's business. Instead of working retroactively to fix an issue, she plans to bring the talent of Volta's Services Team to the table as strategists, who can proactively provide recommendations based on our dedicated knowledge of a customer's environment. We're looking forward to introducing Ashley to our community in person. Make sure to say hello at the next event, or feel free to contact her for an introduction at acraig@voltainc.com.
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Notified joins forces with Intrado (formerly West)
Notified joins Intrado (formerly West).
Today is a very special day for us at Notified. We're super excited to announce that we are joining forces with West Corporation, where our combined resources will enable us to create the next generation of PR and marketing technology software. Read the full press release here.
From our humble beginnings as a bootstrapped SaaS-company, our ambition has always been to create world class technology on a global scale. Notified has evolved from being a pioneer within social media listening to becoming a fully integrated and automated communications solution suite. We've unified the values found in traditional point solutions to a greater whole, enabling PR and communications professionals to work in new and meaningful ways.
After the launch of the new Notified platform in early 2018, we started to plan for our next steps as an organization. Although our plans were to go on as a stand-alone business, we were at the same time approached by West Corporation, a leading technology enablement company that connects people around the world. After their recent acquisition of Nasdaq's PR solutions and digital media services businesses in 2018, they had been working on strategies to take this line of the business to the next level. As our discussions evolved, we realized that the joint power of their resources and PR technology services with our cutting edge technology, had the potential to bring a unique offering to PR and marketing professionals around the world.
As founders, we are incredibly humbled by the fact that our once simple software has evolved in a way to make this happen. We are incredibly thankful for the loyal support of our customers, who are the heart and soul of this business. Moreover, this would have never been a reality if it weren't for all the world class people who are, or have been, involved in the Notified journey. Personally, we're excited to take on new leadership roles within the West Corporation, and continue bringing the Notified brand to a much larger audience.
We're thrilled to join a global company with more than 50,000 customers and more than 8,000 employees, backed by one of world's largest private equity firms, Apollo Group. We look forward to share with you all the amazing possibilities this new relationship will bring in the coming months. Stay tuned!
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Catherine's debut novel, The Beauty of Broken Things, is now available on Amazon in ebook or paperback.
"Suddenly Kerry saw Alex as he must appear in the other man's eyes. Old, poor, broken and alone: a failure by every conventional measure. Someone like Mike could never perceive the depth of soul and the ragged, leonine grace that made Alex more mesmerising than anyone in the room."
Kerry is forty-something, out of work, and reeling from a recent divorce. She's also grappling with crippling anxiety. When she volunteers to sort second hand goods at a charity shop in Manchester, she meets the collection of big-hearted but complicated people responsible for keeping the operation going, including Alex, a man who is seventeen years older than her and who sets her on fire.
But Alex is struggling with mental health issues of his own. He's clinically depressed; a photographer who used to work with the rich and famous but was forced out of the limelight years ago by the all-consuming effects of his condition. Now, unwell and precariously reliant on welfare, he doubts he can make any woman happy, although he can't deny that he's deeply in love with Kerry.
The forthright shop manager, Sue, does everything in her power to drive the couple apart, certain they're destined to make each other suffer. As Kerry and Alex fight to make it work, the charity shop goes through trials of its own, including a devastating loss that no one saw coming.
"A story of ordinary people, in an ordinary location, facing recognisable human problems. What makes Catherine's book extraordinary is the empathy with which she lifts the ordinary into the high plains of compassion. It's uplifting." George Costigan, actor and author of The Single Soldier.
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Randy Harrison Quotes
List of quotations by the american actor Randy Harrison on topics like people, kind, life
I hope that they are finding satisfaction.
I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
— Randy Harrison in finding quotes
I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career.
I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
— Randy Harrison in ability quotes
It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.
— Randy Harrison in clique quotes
I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.
— Randy Harrison in crew quotes
It's upsetting that it is such a big deal.
I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
— Randy Harrison in acting quotes
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
— Randy Harrison in ahead quotes
I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer.
— Randy Harrison in hat quotes
I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet.
You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
— Randy Harrison in closet quotes
It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin.
I'm not. People can be talking to me and I know they think they are talking to Justin. It's hard to explain.
— Randy Harrison in explain quotes
The whole character of Justin and the club life he lives - I have no experience with it. It's really foreign to me, which is annoying, but that's just how it is.
— Randy Harrison in annoying quotes
When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
— Randy Harrison in character quotes
I wasn't being bullied at school at this point.
I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
— Randy Harrison in bullied quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college.
We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
— Randy Harrison in agent quotes
I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
— Randy Harrison in actor quotes
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
— Randy Harrison in dad quotes
I was always the shame of the family - the one Yankee who was actually born in the North.
— Randy Harrison in born quotes
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A lot of my friends are club people. It's not me. It's funny to represent that, because it's not me. I don't fit into a gay club setting. It's just ironic that I represent that somehow.
— Randy Harrison in club quotes
I don't want to be the center of attention.
My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
— Randy Harrison in ashamed quotes
It makes me proud, and it makes me scared.
More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.
It's nice to see that people in Middle America are really affected.
— Randy Harrison in affected quotes
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
— Randy Harrison in feel quotes
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
— Randy Harrison in artist quotes
By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it.
The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
— Randy Harrison in afraid quotes
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
— Randy Harrison in coming quotes
I wonder what kind of lives they will have built for themselves when they turn 45 and can't really have any connection with people because they are so used to fleeting sexual.
— Randy Harrison in built quotes
I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
— Randy Harrison in behalf quotes
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
— Randy Harrison in answer quotes
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
— Randy Harrison in justin quotes
I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.
— Randy Harrison in blockbuster quotes
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Walter Stephen Simpson
Rank/Branch: E6/US Army
Unit: K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Date of Birth: 21 August 1941
Home City of Record: Trenton NJ
Date of Loss: 21 May 1967
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 105416N 1072032E (YT560063)
Status (in 1973): Killed/Body Not Recovered
Category: 2
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground
Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing)
Source: Compiled by Homecoming II Project 01 September 1990 from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.
SYNOPSIS: SSGT Walter S. Simpson was the track commander of K Troop, 3rd Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. He was on a convoy escort mission when his unit was ambushed by Viet Cong forces about 10 miles southeast of Xuan Loc in Khanh Province, South Vietnam.
Simpson's vehicle was at the rear of the column when it came under enemy fire. It sustained several hits from recoilless rifles and was totally destroyed and completely gutted by fire.
A thorough search of the ambush area was made on May 21 and May 22, but although three other remains were recovered from the track vehicle, Simpson was never found. He was listed Killed in Action/Body Not Recovered.
Walter S. Simpson is listed among the missing because his remains were never found to send home to the country he served.


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70-72 Carlton Street, Toronto
Landmark recognition
The intersection of Carlton Street and Church Street is hallowed ground for sports fans. Yet, ironically, this iconic status never precipitated any inflection of the city's urban morphology. Hockey fans and concert-goers spilled out of Maple Leaf Gardens onto narrow sidewalks. With neither a public square nor grand façade, this area typified Toronto's matter of fact commercialism. Now, the proposal to build a mixed-use retail and residential building on the northeast corner of the intersection offers the opportunity to finally achieve landmark recognition for this historically important area of the city. The Stanley will be a unique 45-storey tower, its slender curvilinear tower and stepped top profile visible for miles.
Architectural presence
At its base, The Stanley will offer generous sidewalks by increasing the setbacks from property lines on the public streets. The sleek glassy base will offer big light-filled facades on the street with a crisp cornice line at the seventh storey, recognizing and at the same time contrasting with the historic arena's introverted opaque brick box that gave no quarter. Finally, the area's grim matter-of-fact urbanism will be brightened by a modern exquisitely detailed architectural presence.
Curved surfaces
The premium quality glazing system used in the base will feature seamless but jointed glass forming a glistening smooth surface. The glass surface has been further accentuated by avoiding typical balcony projections common to residential units. Instead of balconies, the base of the project has large glass doors that slide open so that the ends of all of the units have access to the outdoors. Above the base, the tower is composed of curved surfaces that undulate in and out of the setback.
Designed to float above the base
Undulating surfaces include both the glass wall of the units as well as balcony guards at the edge of the concrete slabs. The tower and base of the building are separated by a two-storey reveal. Dramatically inset from the perimeter of the tower. This reveal has been designed so that the tower appears to float above the base. Inside this single storey space, there is an amenity facility offering residents a series of spaces as well as access to outdoor decks on the roof of the base.
Unique curvilinear tower
The proposed new building at 70-72 Carlton Street offers a generous ground level urban environment, well-considered retail and residential spaces, and dramatic architectural presence. The unique curvilinear tower will be a landmark appropriate to the importance of its corner site. It is a fitting neighbour to the former Maple Leaf Gardens arena and a harbinger of the rebirth of this centrally located area of Toronto.
Structural: RJC
Mechanical: Novatrend Engineering
Electrical: Novatrend Engineering
Interior Design: Patton Design Studio


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Abram WAKEMAN, Congress, NY (1824-1889)
WAKEMAN, Abram, a Representative from New York; born in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, Conn., May 31, 1824; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Herkimer Academy, New York; studied law at Little Falls, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City in 1847; member of the State assembly in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful Republican candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856; at the outbreak of the Civil War raised the Eighty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers; postmaster of New York City from March 21, 1862, to September 18, 1864; surveyor of the port of New York City; resumed the practice of law; died in New York City June 29, 1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.


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Home General News Ghana receives First Shipment of COVID-19 Vaccine
Ghana receives First Shipment of COVID-19 Vaccine
Earlier on, Ghana was listed among 145 countries to receive vaccines from a number of suppliers through the COVAX Facility according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
On Wednesday, February 24, Ghana received the first batch of the Coronavirus vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra.
The Unicef Representative In Ghana, Anne-claire Dufay and Who Representative to Ghana, Dr Francis Kasolo thanked the Government of Ghana – especially the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service, and Ministry of Information – for its relentless efforts to protect the population.
"We are pleased that Ghana has become the first country to receive the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility. We congratulate the Government of Ghana – especially the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service, and Ministry of Information – for its relentless efforts to protect the population. As part of the UN Country Team in Ghana, UNICEF and WHO reiterate our commitment to support the vaccination campaign and contain the spread of the virus, in close cooperation with all partners, including Gavi and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)," the statement read.
According to the Minister-Designate for Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu, Ghanaians should not be concerned about the safety of Covid-19 vaccines as they have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).
"I believe that the general public should cooperate with the efforts of the scientists, government, the Ghana Health Service, World Health Organization (WHO) and others who are all doing their best working in good faith to try to solve this problem," he stated.
The Ghana Health Service (GHS) will, in March, begin the mass vaccination exercise with Covid-19 vaccines for selected segments of the population.
Read Full Press Statement from UNICEF below;
"After a year of disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 80,700 Ghanaians getting infected with the virus and over 580 lost lives, the path to recovery for the people of Ghana can finally begin.
"This is a momentous occasion, as the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines into Ghana is critical in bringing the pandemic to an end. The only way out of this crisis is to ensure that vaccinations are available for all. We thank all partners that are supporting the COVAX Facility to deliver safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines to all countries quickly and fairly.
"These 600,000 COVAX vaccines are part of an initial tranche of deliveries of the AstraZeneca / Oxford vaccine licensed to the Serum Institute of India, which represent part of the first wave of COVID vaccines headed to several low and middle-income countries.
"The shipments also represent the beginning of what should be the largest vaccine procurement and supply operation in history. The COVAX Facility plans to deliver close to 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines this year. This is an unprecedented global effort to make sure all citizens have access to vaccines.
"We are pleased that Ghana has become the first country to receive the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility. We congratulate the Government of Ghana – especially the Ministry of Health, Ghana Health Service, and Ministry of Information – for its relentless efforts to protect the population. As part of the UN Country Team in Ghana, UNICEF and WHO reiterate our commitment to support the vaccination campaign and contain the spread of the virus, in close cooperation with all partners, including Gavi and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).
Vaccines save lives. As health workers and other front-line staff are vaccinated, we will be able to gradually see a return to normalcy, including better access to health, education and protection services. In the spirit of Universal Health Coverage, let's leave no one behind."
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Nightmare Ends with Shanks' Dream Finish
Posted Wednesday, December 6, 2017
By Tom Kendra
The media were fixated on La'Darius Jefferson, and who can blame them?
The senior quarterback validated his recent selection as the MLive statewide Football Player of the Year by rushing 32 times for 245 yards and all four of Muskegon's touchdowns in a 28-10 victory over Farmington Hills Harrison in the MHSAA Division 3 Final on Nov. 25 at Ford Field. He followed that up by giving the dejected Harrison players a classy postgame pep talk.
If it wasn't Jefferson, the cameras were focused on eighth-year Muskegon head coach Shane Fairfield, who overcame four losses in the title game by finally taking the final step and hoisting the championship trophy,
But the best story coming out of Muskegon's recently-won title belonged to senior cornerback Willie "Bo" Shanks – a tale that started with heartbreak, which morphed into an ongoing nightmare, which had to be confronted and converted into motivation, then mixed in with relentless hard work before finally culminating with redemption. Sweet redemption.
"It felt great; it felt right," said Shanks, the soft-spoken leader of the Big Reds' secondary. "I guess the lesson in my story is that with focus and hard work, you can overcome anything."
The heartbreak occurred one year ago, when Shanks was playing cornerback on the final play in Muskegon's heartbreaking 2016 Division 3 Final 29-28 loss to Orchard Lake St. Mary's. Shanks was running with receiver Ky'ren Cunningham, who abruptly turned in at the goal line. Before Shanks could react, the ball was in Cunningham's arms on the ground in the end zone with six seconds showing on the clock, courtesy of a perfectly-timed pass from quarterback Caden Prieskorn.
Even though player after player, coach after coach, fan after fan, and family member after family member pointed out that it wasn't just one play which cost Muskegon the championship, Shanks couldn't shake it off.
"I think about it every play," the soft-spoken Shanks said earlier this season. "I think about it every day in practice. I think about it every time we go out and play a game. I even think about it when I`m asleep. I have nightmares about it, so it just motivates me a lot to not let it happen again."
Fairfield decided right away that the best way to deal with the pain of that loss was to bring it out in the open – confront it and then work to overcome it.
"We got beat with six seconds left, so everything ever since has been six more reps, six more sprints, six more drills," said Shanks, a 6-foot-2, 180-pound senior who is also a starting guard on Muskegon's basketball team, which opens its season Friday at home against Rockford.
The hard work by Shanks and fellow seniors Clinton Jefferson and Marvin Harwell and junior Lamarion Sherrill turned Muskegon's perceived Achilles heel – pass defense – into a strength.
In both of Muskegon's losses in 2016, against visiting Chicago Lincolnshire Stevenson (38-35) in Week 2 and the Final against St. Mary's, the Big Reds were torched through the air. Led by Shanks in the secondary, the Big Reds fielded a defense for the first time in years this fall that was equally good against the run and the pass – with only Muskegon Mona Shores having even a modicum of success passing.
"He was our solid rock all year back in the secondary," Fairfield said of Shanks, who is now hoping to play defensive back at the college level.
Shanks had his individual highlight in the Regional championship game against DeWitt on Nov. 10 at Grand Haven, when he intercepted three passes (including one he took back for a touchdown) as Muskegon rolled to a shocking 49-0 victory. Those three interceptions gave him 10 for the season, breaking the school record of eight held by three players, including ex-Southern Cal standout and NFL player Ronald Johnson.
If the story ended right there, it would have been a much happier ending than most ever get in the sports world. Sports Illustrated and others have told countless stories of wayward kickers, not to mention recognizable figures like Bill Buckner and Steve Bartman, who never quite recovered from a single play during a game.
But this story had a perfect ending not only for Shanks, but for the Muskegon football program as well.
After dispatching overmatched Battle Creek-Harper Creek, 42-0, in the Semifinals, Muskegon returned to the familiar confines of Ford Field, almost one year to the day of its last-second defeat.
No worries this time around. When the scoreboard clock reached :06 this year, the Big Reds were comfortably in celebration mode.
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 …0.
For Jefferson, Fairfield and the entire Muskegon football family, it was a dream come true.
And for one Big Red in particular, it also was a nightmare vanquished.
Tom Kendra worked 23 years at The Muskegon Chronicle, including five as assistant sports editor and the final six as sports editor through 2011. E-mail him at kendra.tom@gmail.com with story ideas for Muskegon, Oceana, Mason, Lake, Oceola, Mecosta and Newaygo counties.
PHOTOS: (Top) Muskegon senior cornerback Willie Shanks tackles Farmington Hills Harrison receiver Joe Stevens during the Division 3 Final. (Middle) Shanks defends Grand Rapids Christian's Duane Washington during last year's Class A Regional at Grand Haven. Muskegon entered the game undefeated, before falling to the Eagles. (Below) Muskegon football coach Shane Fairfield, left, and Muskegon basketball coach and athletic director Keith Guy pose with the Class A District championship trophy after the Big Reds defeated Zeeland West this fall. Fairfield and Guy sharing great athletes like Shanks has put Muskegon's programs among the state's elite in both football and basketball. (Photos by Tim Reilly.)
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Buenas tardes, en mi trabajo tenemos una maquina llamada xiipad el cual corre una aplicación desarrollada en QNX el cual de un día para otro dejo de funcionar, el hardware donde está instalado es un Beetle/M fabricado por Wincor Nixdorf la aplicación está en un disco duro de 8gb, un día la pc no quiso arrancar más, indica un error cargando el SO (imagen adjunta) se restauró el disco duro con imágenes de respaldo que se habían hecho en anteriores ocasiones pero indica el mismo error.
Good afternoon, in my work we have a machine called xiipad which runs an application developed in QNX which from one day to another stops working, the hardware where it is installed is a Beetle / M manufactured by Wincor Nixdorf the application is on a 8gb Hard disk, one day the pc did not want to boot anymore, indicates an error loading the OS (attached image) restored the hard disk with backup images that had been made on previous occasions but indicates the same error. Text translated by google.
Since you restored a backup image and it still fails to load that would tend to indicate a hardware problem.
I would suggest checking the BIOS settings. Something may have been wiped out (especially if the CMOS battery failed).
Also /dev/hd2 usually means there is more than 1 hard drive (/dev/hd1 is 1st hard drive). Are there 2 hard drives or 1 drive with 2 partitions in this machine?
Tim wrote: Since you restored a backup image and it still fails to load that would tend to indicate a hardware problem.
The bios settings usually only get in the way of booting. Your clearly loaded the OS off the hard drive using the BIOS and it started executing, but failed when trying to access a disk. That could indicate corrupting, but since it repeats when you reloaded, it suggests maybe a hard drive problem. It's probably worth trying a new hard drive.


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