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From A Mathematician's Apology, G. H. Hardy, 1940: "I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. If a man of mature age loses interest in and abandons mathematics, the loss is not likely to be very serious either for mathematics or for himself."
Have matters improved for the elderly mathematician? Please answer with major discoveries made by mathematicians past 50.
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Halfdan Faber
$\begingroup$ Such questions are usually counted "community wiki". $\endgroup$ – Wadim Zudilin May 23 '10 at 7:01
$\begingroup$ Rmk: Hardy suffered of depression, and was living not exactly in the most suitable environment for that. Unfortunately, this wrong idea of "mathematics is a young man's game" had an incredible success. $\endgroup$ – Pietro Majer May 23 '10 at 8:10
$\begingroup$ Cliff Taubes (b. 1954) recently solved Weinstein conjecture, Gopal Prasad (b. 1945) has done multiple great things (separately with J-K. Yu, A. Rapinchuk, & S-K. Yeung) on buildings, Zariski-dense and arithmetic subgroups of ss groups over number fields, classification of "fake" projective spaces, etc., Serre turned 50 in 1976 (e.g., his precise modularity conjecture published in 1986 exerted vast influence over number theory ever since), and Jean-Marc Fontaine (b. 1944) is as dominant as ever in $p$-adic Hodge theory (e.g., Colmez-Fontaine thm. in 2000, recent work with L. Fargues, etc.) $\endgroup$ – BCnrd May 23 '10 at 13:04
$\begingroup$ This isn't exactly what you were asking for, but Littlewood himself, after overcoming depression at age 72, did good mathematics throughout his 80's--it's hardly a young man's game. $\endgroup$ – paul Monsky Jun 1 '10 at 23:50
$\begingroup$ Re "Littlewood himself": Of course it was well known that Littlewood was the name Hardy used to publish his lesser results (cf "A mathematician's miscellany"). $\endgroup$ – Victor Protsak Jun 2 '10 at 0:09
Roger Apery was 62 when he proved the irrationality of $\zeta(3)$.
David Hansen
$\begingroup$ I think disregarded is a bit too strong - more like, met with considerable skepticism, on the grounds that it was not expected that such a venerable problem would be solved by such low-tech methods. The community took the proof seriously enough to go through it in detail and then acknowledged that it was valid. $\endgroup$ – Gerry Myerson May 23 '10 at 10:22
$\begingroup$ Victor, read the article "A proof that Euler missed" maths.mq.edu.au/~alf/45.pdf This provides some historical context around the announcement of Apery's proof. Skepticism toward proofs the prover has not produced the details of is healthy, not snubbing. $\endgroup$ – Ben Webster♦ May 23 '10 at 14:08
$\begingroup$ "Upon re-reading it and the article that Wadim linked it became clear that the so-called "community" acted in a worst possible manner. It was only thanks to the determination of a few outstanding mathematicians that he got the recognition that he deserved." I would say this differently. Thru the determination of others Apery's ideas went from a convoluted multi-100 page work to a 3-page note. Has anyone bothered to see if his original manuscript did in fact prove bounded denominators? That's the crux, and vDP's cheeky "utterly compelling" numerically (so is 1.2020569..., no?) is a nip off. $\endgroup$ – Junkie May 24 '10 at 2:43
$\begingroup$ The following is my (probably flawed) recollection of part of Cohen's lecture at the Lenstra Truerfeest a little over 7 years ago: "Apéry gave a shameful talk. He explained almost nothing, and many of his formulas didn't make any sense. One of his sums seemed to have zeroes in the denominator of every term. But there was one formula that he wrote that looked interesting and new, and Hendrik was sitting next to me with a calculator. I asked him to check the first few terms on his calculator, and they matched very well. After the talk we were able to use it to reconstruct a proof." $\endgroup$ – S. Carnahan♦ May 25 '10 at 3:36
$\begingroup$ I think between "Hendrik was sitting next to me with a calculator." and "I asked him to check the first few terms", Cohen made some remark about calculators being rare and expensive back then. $\endgroup$ – S. Carnahan♦ May 25 '10 at 3:49
Kurt Heegner published his only, extremely influential paper, in 1952 when he was 59. However it took nearly 20 years for the mathematical community to realize what a gem it was.
Victor Miller
$\begingroup$ GREAT example,Victor.A sad story,too. $\endgroup$ – The Mathemagician Jul 19 '10 at 6:07
Since no one has mentioned A.N. Kolmogorov (born 1903), I hope I may be forgiven for a second answer. The following is from Kolmogorov's Wikipedia biography.
In classical mechanics, he is best known for the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem (first presented in 1954 at the International Congress of Mathematicians). In 1957 he solved Hilbert's thirteenth problem (a joint work with his student V. I. Arnold). He was a founder of algorithmic complexity theory, often referred to as Kolmogorov complexity theory, which he began to develop around this time.
John Stillwell
$\begingroup$ John, Great answer! I don't think there should be any limit on the number of good answers from any one contributor, for a question like this. $\endgroup$ – Halfdan Faber May 25 '10 at 7:47
Weierstrass approximation theorem was proved by Karl Weierstrass when he was 70 years old
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Leonhard Euler. According to the wikipedia page, he still managed to produce one paper per week in the year 1775 (at age 68), despite deteriorating eyesight. As a concrete example, at age 65 he proved that $2^{31} − 1$ is a Mersenne prime, which may have remained the largest known prime for the next 95 years.
$\begingroup$ A more precise version of the history on M_31 can be found here: primes.utm.edu/notes/by_year.html He certainly did not do the necessary calculations himself at a time when he was completely blind. $\endgroup$ – Franz Lemmermeyer May 23 '10 at 10:58
Marina Ratner (b. 1938) proved Ratner's Theorems around 1990. They are some of the biggest advances in ergodic theory for quite a long time.
jeebus
P. S. Novikov was 54 when he gave the first proof (143 pages!) of the unsolvability of the word problem for groups in 1955, and 58 when he co-solved the Burnside problem with S. I. Adian.
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$\begingroup$ But Sergey Ivanovich (Adian) was much younger at the time of solving the Burnside problem! +1 for recalling a remarkable family of results. $\endgroup$ – Wadim Zudilin May 23 '10 at 12:46
$\begingroup$ Another in the same family of results is the theorem of A. A. Markov that the homeomorphism problem is unsolvable for manifolds of dimension $\ge 4$, proved in 1958 when Markov was 55. $\endgroup$ – John Stillwell May 23 '10 at 23:17
There are many examples of people doing significant work into their 60s and 70s, but fewer great discoveries. Here are a couple of my favorites:
August Ferdinand Möbius discovered the Möbius band in 1858 at age 68 (the date referenced in Wikipedia). Other sources place the discovery even later: in 1861 he submitted to the French Academy prize competition a paper on it that passed unnoticed. As John Stillwell pointed out, in 1863 (age 73), Möbius published the classification of surfaces by genus (and in 1865 he finally described the Möbius band and the notion of orientability in print). Johann Benedict Listing turned 54 in 1862, the year in which he published a memoir discussing a 4-dimensional generalization of Euler's formula and described the Möbius band which he discovered independently.
Julius Plücker was 64 in 1865, when he "returned to the field of geometry" after a hiatus of nearly 20 years (Wikipedia, McTutor, Cajori) and discovered the "line geometry" (it is possible that the roots of this discovery go back to his 1846 monograph). The first volume of his book Neue Geometrie des Raumes describing it was published in 1868 and the second volume was completed and published posthumously by Felix Klein in 1869. The idea of using higher-dimensional objects as points in new "geometry" made profound impact on Klein and Sophus Lie and led to the Erlangen program and, by route of Lie sphere geometry, to Lie's general theory of transformation groups. This also marked one of the first appearances of higer-dimensional spaces in geometry.
The question has been closed, but perhaps the following recent example deserves mention:
As described in a Quanta magazine article, a retired German statistician Thomas Royen proved the Gaussian correlation inequality (GCI) in 2014 at the age of 67. CGI was a major conjecture at the interface of probability and convex geometry that remained open for more than 40 years. An additional twist to the story is that the proof went virtually unnoticed for almost 2 years.
Victor Protsak
$\begingroup$ At an even later age, Möbius in 1863 discovered the classification of closed orientable surfaces by genus. $\endgroup$ – John Stillwell May 23 '10 at 8:51
$\begingroup$ Thank you, I didn't remember that! On the other hand, Kolmogorov and Yushkevich ("Mathematics of the 19th century", vol 2) indicate that Plücker's idea of line geometry originated already in his 1846 "System des Geometrie des Raumes". I don't have Klein's "Lectures on the development of mathematics in the 19th century" close at hand to clarify this point, but apparently Plücker switched to doing physics around that time (1846) due to strained relations with German mathematicians and unfavorable reception of his analytic methods. $\endgroup$ – Victor Protsak May 23 '10 at 9:13
$\begingroup$ "The idea of using higher-dimensional objects as points" - What does this mean? Could it mean that Plucker's idea led to generic points in algebraic geometry (and more generally, non-closed points of schemes)? $\endgroup$ – David Corwin Aug 21 '12 at 1:47
$\begingroup$ No, just to the idea of more abstract spaces, such as homogeneous spaces $G/H$ and the simplest examples of moduli spaces. $\endgroup$ – Victor Protsak Aug 23 '12 at 1:34
An answer of particular contemporary relevance would be Yitang Zhang, who established earlier this year (2013) that there are infinitely many pairs of primes which differ by less than 70 million (this constant has subsequently been improved to about 5,000). He was born in 1955 and had only two previous journal publications.
Ian Morris
$\begingroup$ For the lazy, 2013-1955=58. $\endgroup$ – Federico Poloni Oct 27 '13 at 12:44
Although I concede that there is some truth to the belief that the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics are made by younger mathematicians, I think it has led to the mistaken idea that older mathematicians rarely do anything significant.
I just don't think it's that uncommon for top mathematicians today to be productive after they're 50. Atiyah and Bott did great work after they were 50. It seems to me that so did Singer. Although most mathematicians slow down after they are 50, so do most non-mathematicians. But there are not a few exceptions to this.
And is any of this that different from other fields?
Deane Yang
$\begingroup$ +1 for the last line especially. $\endgroup$ – Mark Meckes May 23 '10 at 18:24
$\begingroup$ He told me several anecdotes about Hardy, but he presented each story in a sarcastic tone. "Hardy's opinion that mathematics is a young man's game is nonsense," he said. (Goro Shimura, André Weil As I Knew Him, ams.org/notices/199904/shimura.pdf) $\endgroup$ – Victor Protsak May 24 '10 at 1:37
$\begingroup$ How are other fields different? Well, I always picture experimental sciences as being much more hierarchical, with the (older) team leader being credited for the work of the whole team. Thus, one's impressive achievements would come later in life. Disclaimer: I don't know what I'm talking about, as I wrote it's the image I got, but not necessarily from very reliable sources. $\endgroup$ – Thierry Zell Feb 15 '11 at 16:56
Zariski proved what might be arguably his greatest result, the theorem on formal functions, just after turning fifty. He also initiated a whole field of enquiry, the theory of equisingularity, in his late 60's.
Theorema Egregium was published by Gauss in 1828. Since Gauss was born in 1777, he ought to have been a little over 50 then.
Ref: Disquisitiones generales circa superficies curva (1828)
Anweshi
$\begingroup$ Gauss usually keeps his stuff in his sleeve for a while. So you never knew when he had the insight. $\endgroup$ – T.... Aug 21 '12 at 4:20
According to wiki, Mihailescu got his PhD at the age of 42; and then proved Catalan's conjecture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%27s_conjecture) in 2002, age 47, so almost 50.
Louis de Branges solved the Bieberbach conjecture in 1985 when he was 53.
$\begingroup$ Was that his first or his last attempt at the solution? I understand that he worked on it for quite some time. $\endgroup$ – Victor Protsak May 23 '10 at 22:41
$\begingroup$ Depending on how one counts it might have been his second or third. de Branges is no shrinking violet. He's also announced solutions to the Poincare conjecture (before Perlman) and the Riemann Hypothesis. $\endgroup$ – Victor Miller May 24 '10 at 3:36
$\begingroup$ I'm not aware that de Branges ever claimed a proof of the Poincare conjecture, which is a bit far from de Branges' area of research. He has been working relentlessly on the Riemann hypothesis for quite a while now. $\endgroup$ – Deane Yang May 24 '10 at 15:25
$\begingroup$ @Deane A few months ago,he claimed at the archive to actually have the proof-but so far,no one's been able to verify it. I hope someone really takes a good hard look at it-if only to stop him from saying it. $\endgroup$ – The Mathemagician Jul 19 '10 at 6:10
Furtwängler proved the principal ideal theorem when he was almost 60. No small feat given that Artin and Schreier simultaneously were working on it.
Franz Lemmermeyer
Christos Papadimitriou is in his late 50's now (I can't find his exact age, which is a little strange), and in just the past few years he's done major work in algorithmic game theory, a field at least somewhat removed from the one he made his career in. Technically, he's a theoretical computer scientist - I say this is close enough though.
DoubleJay
Paul Erdős continued to do work in many fields including combinatorics after his 50th birthday. Some of his papers are here
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This is not really an answer but an objection to most of the answers at this pages and in particular to not so well formed question (it does not do justice to Hardy's book in my opinion).
If you read the whole chapter of Hardy's book where the excerpt is from, Hardy explains somewhere that he does not know a highest class mathematician whose best discoveries came after 50. I recall after reading the whole chapter that I was convinced with the bulk of text that Hardy meant that there are no major advances by a mathematician after 50, unless they had major discoveries also before 50. So Euler and Poincare are not counterexamples to Hardy's experience, and some other answers in this column are not as well! Of course some people completed earlier work after 50, or continued with major advances while they already became major mathematicians before, but do you really a know a mathematician who done no major research before 50 and done such world class research after 50 ?? Also do not look the publication dates but the creation dates.
Zoran Skoda
$\begingroup$ well, even your formulation is a bit extreme. I don't see the need to require "no major research before 50". How about just a well-known mathematician whose best work was after the age of 50? Although this is less common, I don't think it is any more rare than it is in any other field. $\endgroup$ – Deane Yang May 24 '10 at 14:38
$\begingroup$ As I understand it, Apery, who has already been mentioned, remains a good example even if you restrict the question in this way. $\endgroup$ – gowers May 25 '10 at 12:54
$\begingroup$ @Deane,gowers: Thank you,gentleman.This old wives' tale of Hardy's has probably prevented many a late bloomer from pursuing thier dreams. And that's tragic. $\endgroup$ – The Mathemagician Jul 19 '10 at 6:04
$\begingroup$ @Deane: "How about just a well-known mathematician whose best work was after the age of 50?" Examples? How about a man who began his mathematical work (or even became a mathematician) after 50 ?! $\endgroup$ – Sergei Tropanets Jul 19 '10 at 13:27
$\begingroup$ Andrew, a person who does mathematics in order to be famous or "major mathematician" and not to enjoy path of curiosity is tragic in the first place, whatever be his/her achievements. The present day celebrity counterculture, statistics based on "official results", meaningless linear lists of comparison and so on aggravate the situation. Among the worst is the funding agency habit that they award more future support to those who got in past more support, else param. equal. That is, if you achieved the same with more spending in past they consider you more efficient, what is outrageously wrong. $\endgroup$ – Zoran Skoda Jun 26 '11 at 8:59
Something fitting this description that I haven't seen mentioned here is Norman Levinson's proof that asymptotically 1/3 of the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function lie on the critical line, which was the best result of its kind at the time. He was a little over 60 when he proved this, shortly before his death. What I find most remarkable about this is that he didn't really do much number theory until his last few years.
Michael Greenblatt
Karl Dickman (born 1862) published the only math paper in 1930 (age 68) about distribution of prime factors. He discovered the asymptotic distribution of the largest prime divisor of n, where n is chosen uniformly from $1,...,N$ and $N\to\infty$ (this is Dickman distribution). Much later the distribution of other prime divisors was described. This is related to the famous Poisson-Dirichlet distribution. (see also "The Poisson–Dirichlet Distribution and its Relatives Revisited" by Lars Holst).
Leonid Petrov
Philip Hall published his paper with Higman, as well as his "Theorems like Sylow's", after he was 50. These are arguably his two biggest papers (and the Hall-Higman paper is arguably one of the most important papers in group theory).
Tibor Rado introduced the busy beaver function and proved its noncomputablity at the age of 67.
Péter Komjáth
When Khare and Wintenberger proved Serre's conjecture, Wintenberger was older than fifty.
Jérôme Poineau
And of course, Dennis Sullivan and James Stasheff, both well into thier 60's and 70's, are still both major contributors to topology and categorical algebra.
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$\begingroup$ And we can add John Milnor to that list as well with his late contributions to dynamics. $\endgroup$ – The Mathemagician Jul 19 '10 at 6:05
Connes has initiated whole new areas of mathematics since turning 50: spectral triples, and his novel approach to the Riemann hypothesis, for example.
Abtan Massini
$\begingroup$ But has his approach to RH really yielded progress? My impression from one top expert in analytic number theory is that it ultimately isn't novel (after stripping away the fancy-looking language) and hasn't shed any light on any key issues (after quite some years now). $\endgroup$ – BCnrd May 23 '10 at 15:36
$\begingroup$ One "idea" of the Connes reformulation is that one can "see" how a dynamical system of primes could prove RH, if one ignores issues like renormalisation and dealing with infinitely many primes rather than finitely many (he proves the S-local analogue of the trace formula). His later programme with Marcolli/Consani has used evermore iffy language and analogues, IMO. On the mathematical end, Meyer had a nice paper on some of the function space constructs, though he doesn't actually try to get RH to appear via his re-working. projecteuclid.org/euclid.dmj/1113847338 $\endgroup$ – Junkie May 24 '10 at 2:35
$\begingroup$ With my admiration for our guru in noncommutative geometry, we must be realistic: his Fields medal-winning discovery of classification of factors of type III and his a bit later single-handed introduction of major characters in noncommutative geometry like the introduction of cyclic homology 30 years ago, while not as perfect as some modern ramifications seem historically far deeper and more striking discoveries than the more synthetic mature (and more collaborative) works at present. $\endgroup$ – Zoran Skoda May 24 '10 at 14:46
A recent example (you may or may not think it's a major advance - but it is certainly big news in fundamental game theory): William Press (64) and the legendary Freeman Dyson (89) have shown that iterated Prisoner's Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent (in the paper bearing the same title).
Harun Šiljak
$\begingroup$ Here is a link to the PNAS paper: pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/16/1206569109.abstract $\endgroup$ – Joseph O'Rourke Aug 20 '12 at 20:10
The Fermat number $F_6$ was shown to have nontrivial factorization, by Landry at the age of 82. And apparently it was Landry's only mathematical publication.
(Source: Ribenboim, Prime number records(the smaller book).)
This is perhaps not a "major mathematical advance" in the sense of Hardy; but is inspiring nonetheless. I have seen a good number of elderly retired people with dreams of solving Fermat's Last Theorem or other such theorems in a simple way, and doggedly keep on trying and without getting disheartened by the lack of recognition for their efforts.
This "almost" answers Zoran Škoda's question: Otto Grün (his theorems in group theory are still well known) published his first paper at the age of 46.
Andre Weil lay the modern foundation of "theta series" in Acta math. (1964/65) when he was almost 60 years old!
Caspar Wessel, a surveyor born in 1745, presented his only math paper "Om Directionens analytiske Betegning" (in Danish) in 1797 at the age of fifty two on complex numbers. His paper was forgotten for almost 100 years until his paper was translated into french in 1878(?). In the meantime Gauss in 1831 and Argand in 1806 re discovered Wessel's idea.
By reading the texts in Complex Numbers you will hardly know the contributions Wessel.
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$\begingroup$ Interesting example, but I think the statement of Hardy is best understood for professional mathematicians (not that I agree with it, btw). $\endgroup$ – Thierry Zell Feb 15 '11 at 16:49
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There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
The knife had done almost everything it was brought to the house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet.
The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately.
The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet.
The street door was still open, just a little, where the knife and the man who held it had slipped in, and wisps of nighttime mist slithered and twined into the house through the open door.
The man Jack paused on the landing. With his left hand he pulled a large white handkerchief from the pocket of his black coat, and with it he wiped off the knife and his gloved right hand which had been holding it; then he put the handkerchief away. The hunt was almost over. He had left the woman in her bed, the man on the bedroom floor, the older child in her brightly colored bedroom, surrounded by toys and half-finished models. That only left the little one, a baby barely a toddler, to take care of. One more and his task would be done.
He flexed his fingers. The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself, and he would not allow himself to smile until the job was completed.
His hair was dark and his eyes were dark and he wore black leather gloves of the thinnest lambskin.
The man Jack was, above all things, a professional, or so he told himself ...
The toddler's room was at the very top of the house. The man Jack walked up the stairs, his feet silent on the carpeting. Then he pushed open the attic door, and he walked in. His shoes were black leather, and they were polished to such a shine that they looked like dark mirrors: you could see the moon reflected in them, tiny and half full.
The real moon shone through the casement window. Its light was not bright, and it was diffused by the mist, but the man Jack would not need much light. The moonlight was enough. It would do.
He could make out the shape of the child in the crib, head and limbs and torso.
The crib had high, slatted sides to prevent the child from getting out. Jack leaned over, raised his right hand, the one holding the knife, and he aimed for the chest ...
... and then he lowered his hand. The shape in the crib was a teddy bear. There was no child.
The man Jack's eyes were accustomed to the dim moonlight, so he had no desire to turn on an electric light. And light was not that important, after all. He had other skills.
The man Jack sniffed the air. He ignored the scents that had come into the room with him, dismissed the scents that he could safely ignore, honed in on the smell of the thing he had come to find. He could smell the child: a milky smell, like chocolate chip cookies, and the sour tang of a wet, disposable, nighttime diaper. He could smell the baby shampoo in its hair, and something small and rubbery — a toy, he thought, and then, no, something to suck — that the child had been carrying.
The child had been here. It was here no longer. The man Jack followed his nose down the stairs through the middle of the tall, thin house. He inspected the bathroom, the kitchen, the airing cupboard, and, finally, the downstairs hall, in which there was nothing to be seen but the family's bicycles, a pile of empty shopping bags, a fallen diaper, and the stray tendrils of fog that had insinuated themselves into the hall from the open door to the street.
The man Jack made a small noise then, a grunt that contained in it both frustration and also satisfaction. He slipped the knife into its sheath in the inside pocket of his long coat, and he stepped out into the street. There was moonlight, and there were streetlights, but the fog stifled everything, muted light and muffled sound and made the night shadowy and treacherous. He looked down the hill towards the light of the closed shops, then up the street, where the last high houses wound up the hill on their way to the darkness of the old graveyard.
The man Jack sniffed the air. Then, without hurrying, he began to walk up the hill.
Ever since the child had learned to walk he had been his mother's and father's despair and delight, for there never was such a boy for wandering, for climbing up things, for getting into and out of things. That night, he had been woken by the sound of something on the floor beneath him falling with a crash. Awake, he soon became bored, and had begun looking for a way out of his crib. It had high sides, like the walls of his playpen downstairs, but he was convinced that he could scale it. All he needed was a step ...
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Her vast sundeck features an observation area forward, and an exceptional panoramic and air-conditioned dining room, bar and lounge, perfectly suited for casual dining throughout the day or relaxing in the shade. Aft of that is a dedicated helideck certified for touch-and-go commercial use or unrestricted private use, complete with refuelling capability and fixed firefighting systems.
The owner's private deck is below, featuring an informal dining area, ideal for al fresco breakfasts on a generously-sized and covered aft deck. Moving forward, his and hers studies lead through to a vast full-beam owner's suite with full-height windows offering excellent views and flooding the room with light. Forward of that is a magnificent onyx-laden bathroom and walk-in dressing room. Leading from the owner's lobby with spiral staircase, there is a fully-equipped gym, and forward to the owner's observation lounge with magnificent 180-degree views.
On the main deck aft, is an 18,000-litre infinity pool with contraflow swim against jets and a lounge area with bar. Inside is the main salon, commanding excellent views through huge full-height windows, leading to the formal dining room to port and a fully-equipped bar with baby grand piano to starboard. Large folding balconies either side open up the space creating the ideal location for pre-dinner cocktails.
Four generously sized guest cabins are located on the lower deck; three doubles and one twin, which complete accommodation for 10 guests in five cabins. Forward of the guest accommodation is a dedicated cinema with a 75in screen for movie nights. Aft of the guest cabins is a spacious tender garage with a shell door to port for launching the Costoldi 23 jet tender, and a range of other water toys.
LADY CHRISTINE is an exceptional yacht, custom-built for an experienced yacht owner.


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Q: RecurrenceTable and While Good day.
Let's take an example from Help on RecurrenceTable:
RecurrenceTable[{x[n + 1] == 0.7 x[n] + y[n], y[n + 1] == -0.7989995 + x[n]^2, x[0] == 0.142857,
y[0] == 0.33}, {x, y}, {n, 1, 2500}]

How to add here a While condition so that iterations stop after x[n] reached some threshold value, smth like While[x[n] > -1, <continue recurrence>)]?
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I need this because in my real code for some initial conditions there will be overflow, so MMA issues warnings, and I think it is better to stop iterations at some threshold.
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Simple approach, but I think not efficient in terms of time and memory, would be this:
RecurrenceTable[{x[n + 1] == If[x[n] < -1, -10, 0.7 x[n] + y[n]],
y[n + 1] == If[x[n] < -1, -10., -0.7989995 + x[n]^2],
x[0] == 0.142857, y[0] == 0.33}, {x, y}, {n, 0, 10}] /.{-10., -10.}->Nothing

Of course, here we have unneeded iterations.

A: For an explicit recurrence relation like yours, an iterative approach with NestWhileList works:
NestWhileList[{0.7 #[[1]] + #[[2]], -0.7989995 + #[[1]]^2} &,
              {0.142857, 0.33},
              #[[1]] > -1 &]

(*    {{0.142857, 0.33},
       {0.43, -0.778591},
       {-0.477591, -0.6141},
       {-0.948414, -0.570906},
       {-1.2348, 0.100489}}       *)

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Huber Heights woman indicted, accused of stealing and selling wild turtles
By Jen Balduf
A 43-year-old Huber Heights woman is accused of taking wild turtles out of season — including those too small — and illegally selling them.
The Ohio Department of Natural Resources began investigating Kelly R. Blore because she was advertising the turtles on Facebook, Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Greg Flannagan said.
Blore was issued a summons following her Monday indictment to appear March 30 for her arraignment in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. She is facing seven counts, including felony charges of illegal sale of wild animals and theft, as well as misdemeanor charges of taking turtles out of season, taking undersized turtles, fishing without a license (for frogs and turtles), failure to apply for propagation license and failure to maintain records.
ExploreOhio AG sues contractor accused of scamming homeowners hit by 2019 Memorial Day tornadoes
Blore is accused of stealing wild turtles from the state of Ohio, which were valued between $1,000 and $7,500, from Jan. 1, 2016, to Aug. 11, 2020, and trying to illegally sell them, according to her indictment.
The state values the wild turtles at $20 each, Flannagan said.
Blore also is accused during the same time period of catching frogs and taking turtles without a valid state fishing license; taking snapping or softshell turtles with an upper shell length of less than 11 inches; failing to apply to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife for a propagating license; and failing to keep records, according to her indictment.
It is not clear how many turtles or frogs Blore is accused of taking, nor for how much she allegedly sold them.
Blore is not in custody.
Prosecutor: Indicted Riverside parents 'starving these children'
Middletown bank robbery suspect arrested
Man pleads guilty to lesser charge in Dayton stabbing
Driver charged in fiery Brandt Pike crash; one victim still in hospital
Judge calls Darke County sheriff 'social media influencer,' moves 2...
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Jen Roppel Balduf covers breaking news for the Dayton Daily News. She earned a bachelor of science in journalism degree from Ohio University and also writes for the Journal-News, Springfield News-Sun and Dayton.com.


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The Dirty Nil Drop "One More and the Bill"
The song appears on the Hamilton band's forthcoming album 'Fuck Art'
The Dirty Nil have shared a new song from their forthcoming album Fuck Art. Listen to "One More and the Bill" below.
"Let's be clear: social media hates you," frontman Luke Bentham said of the song, which he described as "an ode to the primitive, casting off the shackles and enjoying life while you've got it."
"Smash my TV / Smash my phone / Leave politics alone / Go outside for a while," he sings on the track.
The single is being billed as the "emotional centrepiece" of the band's new album, which is set to arrive on January 1 through Dine Alone Records.
It's the latest in a string of new songs from Fuck Art, following the release of music videos for "Blunt Force Concussion," "Doom Boy" and "Done with Drugs," as well as a cover of Nirvana's Bleach favourite "School."
The Dirty Nil's last full-length release was 2018's Master Volume.
Fuck Art by The Dirty Nil
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B.A Johnston, the Dirty Nil, Ed the Sock Celebrate Hamilton in 'This Is the Thing' Trailer
The Hamilton music and comedy scene will be coming to the small screen thanks to This Is the Thing, a new show featuring some of the Ontario...
The Dirty Nil Are No Longer Rock Underdogs on 'Fuck Art'
In 10 years, the Dirty Nil have gone from scrappy small-town Ontario upstarts to Juno-winning rockers with a devoted base of riff addicts an...
Watch the Dirty Nil Frolic Through Some Flowers in "Blunt Force Concussion"
Hamilton hometown heroes the Dirty Nil have returned with yet another new music video, this time pitting their punk rock image against an un...
Watch the Dirty Nil Cover Nirvana with Odds' Craig Northey
The Dirty Nil are getting set to release their new album Fuck Art, but before they do, the band are taking on a grunge classic. The Hamilton...


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from __future__ import division, absolute_import, print_function, unicode_literals

import cherrypy
from cherrypy import request, response

def cors(origin="*", methods=None, headers=None):

    response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = origin

    if not methods:
        methods = request.headers.get("Access-Control-Request-Method")
    if methods:
        response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = methods

    if not headers:
        headers = request.headers.get("Access-Control-Request-Headers")
    if headers:
        response.headers["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = headers

    return request.method == 'OPTIONS'

cherrypy.tools.cors = cherrypy._cptools.HandlerTool(cors)

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Chanelle Group - Jobs Expo Galway, 16th February 2019.
We're delighted to have Chanelle Group return to exhibit with us at Jobs Expo Galway. Their recruitment team will be talking to jobseekers about their great job opportunities. Register for this FREE event and we'll see you 16th Feb in Killanin Stand Suites at the Galway Racecourse.
Chanelle is a leading provider of generic human and animal pharmaceuticals worldwide. Headquartered in Loughrea, Co Galway, Chanelle has operations in over 80 countries and currently employs 400 people.
Chanelle has over 1700 animal health licenses registered in the EU as well as 500 animal health licenses registered around the globe. Consequently, they have the largest number of registered veterinary licenses of any company in Europe. Furthermore, Chanelle is the largest indigenous pharmaceuticals manufacturer in Ireland.
The company has a consistent and rapidly growing customer base. They have key markets in the EU, Australia and New Zealand, as well as Japan, South Africa and the Middle East.
Chanelle has four dedicated R&D operations, three located in Ireland as well as one in Jordan. The company also has sales offices in Galway, Ireland, Hungerford, UK and Mumbai, India.


We introduce our BNCpack, a numerical computation library, with both IEEE754 standard floating point arithmetic and multiple precision floating point arithmetic. This library in which we have implemented basic numerical algorithms is able to obtain numerical results faster than expensive proprietary symbolic processing softwares. At last, performance of parallelized multiple precision numerical computation using BNCpack is shown.


Design for a fundraising brochure for Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, using photos from their archive.
Concept development & writing by Alicia Mehl, under direction of Courtney Wingate, Director of Development at Sylvester Manor.
I've worked with Piderit + Partners on communication projects for Accenture for over 15 years. The 20 designs shown below represent one kind of project—marketing brochures for print and digital distribution. We also collaborate on interaction and video assignments.
In "The Art of Color," Johannes Itten professed a belief in the relationship between the twelve musical notes and the twelve colors of his color wheel.
Like the twelve musical notes, the twelve colors are arranged in steps. Each note is a defined by the surrounding notes; each color is defined by its adjacent colors.
Goethe wrote that red "conveys an impression of gravity and dignity, and at the same time grace and attractiveness." With that in mind, I assigned a red background to the C chords. The designs move up the musical scale and around the color wheel. The backgrounds and finger dots for each chord are expressed in split-complementary colors.
The ColorChord cards for tenor guitar (below) are a fun way learn chords and chord progressions, and simultaneously play with colors.
I use these cards to map out chord progressions—and I've discovered some interesting correlations between music and color.
For example, a standard rock 3-chord progression has the same structure as a split-complementary color chord: C-F-G = red, yellow-green, blue-green.
The Mehl ColorChord cards for tenor guitar were originally commissioned by Moo and published on the blog QuartoKnows.
I was introduced to the Niarchos Foundation in 1999 by Hildy Simmons, a managing director at JPMorgan. Over the next eight years I worked with Hildy on a series of printed reports, describing the Foundation and listing the grantees. Stavros Niarchos, the namesake of the Foundation, was a Greek patriot—the images we used in the reports are expressions of his love for his country.
My favorite images are arranged below—abstract compositions of lines and shapes, ancient Greek designs, inscribed into stone panels. These digital compositions were made from photographs I shot in early 2007 in the Greek galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For me, these ancient designs are expressions of the timeless design principles that guide my work.
Leonard Cheshire Disability is a UK-based organisation with five regional offices in Africa and Asia. Their joint projects with partner organisations support children with disabilities to go to school, adults with disabilities to earn a living, and all disabled people to access the rehabilitation, health and other support they need.
Here is sampling of the projects I have completed for Leonard Cheshire Disability, designed to be used by people with vision impairment.


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New UK 'Degree Apprenticeships' scheme removes student fees, focuses on digital skills shortage
Digital Economy Minister Ed Vaizey today unveils a new government initiative whereby students aiming to enter the digital sector will be able to 'earn and learn' their way to a degree in a 'Digital Apprenticeships' scheme which will obviate student fees and, to an unspecified extent, the need for student loans.
In what reads as a reversal of a conventional undergraduate 'work placement' module, students will apply for apprentice placements with companies and study simultaneously for a full honours degree with a number of participating universities. The government will meet two-thirds of the placement's tuition costs up to an unspecified cap, whilst the employer supplies the final third. Whether or not students have an obligation to the host company after completion of the degree is not made clear in the initial release, and though it is stated that student fees will not be required under the scheme, the level of remuneration for student participants has not been detailed.
The scheme is being funded from £20mn set aside in Budget 2014, and is aimed not only at the digital sector but specifically at the fields of web development, data analysis and technical consultancy – areas in which migrant talent currently holds strong sway in the UK marketplace due to the skills gap.
The report states: "Website development has been chosen for the pilots as a proven area of need. Only 61% of small and medium sized businesses have a website and just over half of these are selling their goods or services on-line (BIS, Small Business Survey (2012). The annual turnover of UK SMEs could be boosted by £18.8 billion per year if they all sold and marketed online. Website sales in 2012 amounted to £164 billion, up from £92 billion in 2008.."
Companies involved in the Degree Apprenticeships program through the Tech Partnership include IBM, Halifax, British Telecom, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Hewlett Packard, Lloyds, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, CGI, John Lewis and Network Rail.
Universities taking part in the initiative include University College London (UCL), Manchester Metropolitan, Aston, Exeter, Greenwich and the University of the West of England.
The Stack discussed the Degree Apprenticeship scheme with Richard Pettinger of UCL, Principal Teaching Fellow in Management Education, who said: "working with the companies and the employers that are involved means that there is a mutual benefit. It's development of our expertise and also it's a development of their capability to fill what is an acute and chronic skills shortage."
Pettinger sees the web-development emphasis not only as a chance to address several areas of the UK's chronic digital skills shortage, but also as an entry to far wider scope for the scheme at a later stage. "It's going to be one of those things," he observed. "this is the little plant that you buy from the garden centre, and once you've got that in the ground, you're going to see all the other possibilities. Companies are going to be saying to people like us 'Please can we include this in the program?' or 'Would you have anybody who is expert in area X or area Y?'"
The report addresses the concerns of many UK employers that graduates' real-life working skills are either under-developed, too theoretical or completely absent: "This model," it states. "breaks new ground by fully integrating on the job training and academic learning at degree level with courses co-designed by a range of employers and a range of universities specifically for apprentices, testing both the academic learning and on-the-job practical skills."
The scheme will be piloted from April of 2015, with a view to a full-scale launch in September 2015.
The Halifax told The Stack that 30% of the company's Degree Apprenticeships will be filled by external candidates from the most disadvantaged areas of the UK. "We have made a public commitment," said a spokesperson. "within our Helping Britain Prosper Plan that we will create 5,000 apprenticeship positions with permanent employment by 2017 – this newest scheme will help us deliver upon our commitment."
In addition to the full-fledged degree-oriented schemes, Vaizey's plans include shorter government-aided digital/technology courses aimed at existing workers who need to upgrade their digital acumen, graduates, people returning to work after an absence and the unemployed. The short courses, which include technical, business and 'interpersonal skills' as components, are cited as new and 'industry-accredited'.
The shorter courses are as yet unbranded, but are also backed by a significant raft of companies including Google, the BBC, Royal Mail, IBM, BT, Cisco, HMRC, National Grid, Jaguar Land Rover, Direct Line Group, Network Rail, Save the Children, ARM and Oracle.
Vacancies will be advertised in the new year by those companies taking part.
Commenting to us on whether the new scheme is intended as a replacement model for undergraduate education in the UK, Richard Pettinger is sceptical: "Will it revolutionise things? No, because the companies and organisations will say how many students they are going to take – five, or ten, or a hundred or a thousand. That is very much in the company's hands. If as a result of this we create an extra inroad into the skills shortage that we've all identified, then that's progress."
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The SmartWatch 2 is a streamlined version of Sony's first smartwatch (which went on sale in 2013) with a number of new features. The SmartWatch 2 has a thin bezel; it's almost all screen, which gives it a modern, sleek look. You choose from one of two strap designs, black plastic or black stainless steel, or you can swap those out for a leather strap in one of seven colors ($20 each). We tested the model with the plastic strap, which is light and flexible and can fit close to your wrist.
The LG G Watch was the first one we tried that uses Google's Android Wear OS (the Moto 360 and Samsung Gear Live do as well). It includes Google Now, the company's Siri-like "intelligent personal assistant." Say "OK Google," and you can do Google searches, compose texts, and make requests of your watch ("Show me my steps" or "Set an alarm"). Google Now also offers up a stream of "cards" on the watch's face, with information it determines is relevant to you. If, for example, the card tells you how many minutes it would take you to get home from your current location, you can click on the card and get specific traffic and navigation information.
If fitness is your top priority, the Apple Watch Series 1 has a good number of shortcomings compared with a dedicated fitness tracker. It doesn't have onboard GPS, so you'll need to carry your iPhone to accurately track outdoor activities, like running or cycling, and it's not waterproof enough for swimming. And unlike a dedicated fitness tracker, the Apple Watch can't automatically detect and track workouts—you have to manually start it—though this feature is coming with new Watch software this fall. And Apple's built-in Activity app doesn't provide much detail, so if you want to dig into your fitness data, or access sleep tracking at all, you have to download third-party apps.
The style offerings for smartwatches have improved dramatically, and your options are no longer limited to "large, nerdy and round" or "large, nerdy and square." Still, even with more than 300 Fossil-branded watches planned across 14 major watch and fashion brands, smartwatches are generally much wider and chunkier than standard watches, as the size needed to accommodate the electronics and battery lends itself to bolder, more pronounced styles.
To round off the Gear Sport's positives, it has very solid battery life (almost never less than 50 percent of the battery remaining after a full day), it can play offline Spotify playlists (even for free accounts), and if you have a Samsung phone, it integrates easily with most of the apps you have installed there. The Gear Sport is easier to set up with a non-Samsung Android phone than previous versions of the Gear watch, too. It still requires the installation of at least four apps and some regular updating, but it's not the hour-long trial-and-error of other Gear watches we've tested, working reliably in our testing.
The MetaWatch M1, like the Cookoo 2 and Martian Notifier, is a basic smartwatch. It shows alerts for texts, e-mails, social media updates, calendar appointments, weather, and Caller ID, and can control your phone's music app. The notifications are configurable in terms of what you are alerted to and how: whether via a vibration or on the watch's display. Also built in are a timer, a stopwatch, and an alarm
Being able to customize the watch faces and layouts, made the Series 3 a shoo-in for our list of best smart watches. Much like you can customize the homescreen on your iPhone, you can change the layout of apps and even display the weather. While you can't opt for third-party designs, you do have 12 different watch faces to play with. Tinker with color schemes, add or remove widgets (called "complications" on the app), and decide whether you want to have all twelve faces available on your watch (we always like having options), or cut back.
Samsung's Galaxy Watch, a Tizen OS watch (starting at $329), is our favorite smartwatch for Android users. In addition to up to four days of battery life and a great design, the Galaxy Watch offers built-in GPS, heart rate sensor, water-resistance, Samsung Pay support, plus a nifty rotating bezel for navigating the interface. You can also download music from Spotify to the watch for offline listening. However, you get far fewer apps than you would with a Wear OS watch.
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Tenayuca (nahuatl: tenanyōcān) è un sito archeologico mesoamericano precolombiano situato nella valle del Messico.

Durante il periodo mesoamericano postclassico Tenayuca era un insediamento sulle rive del ramo occidentale del lago di Texcoco, circa 10 km a nord-ovest di Tenochtitlán (cuore dell'odierna Città del Messico). Tenayuca viene considerata la prima capitale dei Chichimechi, tribù nomadi migrate ed insediatesi nella valle del Messico, dove stabilirono i propri regni.

Etimologia

Il termine Tenayuca significa luogo murato in lingua nahuatl.

Posizione geografica

La piramide di Tenayuca si trova a San Bartolo Tenayuca, in Tlalnepantla de Baz, nello Stato del Messico. È stata assorbita dall'esplosione urbana della zona Metropolitana di Città del Messico.

Storia

Secondo alcune tradizioni storiografiche, Tenayuca sarebbe stata fondata attorno al 1224 da Xolotl, un re semi-leggendario di una tribù "chichimeca" insediata nella valle del Messico poco dopo l'inizio del XII secolo, quando collassò l'egemonia della precedente civiltà dominante della valle, l'impero tolteco di Tula. A Xolotl successe Nopaltzin, il quale consolidò il regno chichimeco. Il figlio, Tlotzin, divenne signore di Tenayuca. Quando morì Nopaltzin, il successore Quinatzin spostò la sede del potere a Texcoco, relegando Tenayuca a sito di importanza secondaria.

I resti archeologici recuperati a Tenayuca indicano un'attività che si protraeva fin dal periodo classico, molto prima della fondazione descritta nei documenti storici del tempo. La sua popolazione aumentò all'inizio del post-classico, continuando ad incrementare dopo la caduta di Tula, quando Tenayuca divenne un importante centro di potere regionale.

Alla fine del XIII secolo, poco dopo l'arrivo dei Chichimechi a Tenayuca, Tochintecuhtli, regnante di Tenayuca, si alleò con Huetzin, signore degli Acolhua di Coatlichán, ed insieme dominarono la parte centrale della valle del Messico, spingendosi a nord-est fono a Tulancingo. Alla metà del XIV secolo il potere di Tenayuca era già scemato, e la città fu conquistata e sostituita nella gestione del potere da Azcapotzalco. Attorno al 1434 Tenochtitlan conquistò Tenayuca, assorbendola all'interno dell'impero azteco.

Al tempo della conquista spagnola Tenayuca era ancora occupata, e nel 1520 vi fu una battaglia. Il conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo parla di Tenayuca come della "città dei serpenti".

Ad un certo punto il sito fu abbandonato. Fu scoperto durante alcuni scavi effettuati dagli archeologi messicani nel 1925.

Genesi dell'architettura sacra azteca

L'architettura dei templi aztechi si sviluppò principalmente a Tenayuca, che presenta il più antico esemplare della tipica doppia piramide azteca, che consiste di un singolo basamento che ospita due templi. Dopo la caduta di Tenayuca sotto al dominio azteco, gli Aztechi utilizzarono questo stile rivoluzionario per il culto dei propri dei.

Il tempio di Tenayuca si è conservato meglio di quello simile di Tlatelolco, ed i suoi muri di serpente restano per buona parte intatti su tre lati della base della piramide.

Disposizione del sito e descrizione

Il sito è composto da una massiccia piattaforma piramidale con una doppia scala che risale il lato occidentale, fin dove si trovano i templi gemelli di Tlaloc e Huitzilopochtli. Quello di Tlaloc è sul lato settentrionale della piramide, mentre quello di Huitzilopochtli si trova a sud. Alcuni gradini del tempio sono scolpiti con glifi raffiguranti gli anni, quali coltelli, cerchi e scudi. A sud della scala, al piano terra, si trova una piattaforma con sculture di ossa incrociate e teschi..

Come molti altri templi mesoamericani, si trovano molte fasi di costruzione una sull'altra. Nel caso di Tenayuca la dimensione dell'edificio è cresciuta in sei fasi, anche se la forma originaria è rimasta immodificata. L'originale doppia piramide è stata ampliata cinque volte, la prima probabilmente nel 1299, e poi ad intervalli di 52 anni. L'ultima fase di costruzione è probabilmente databile al 1507 emisura 62x50 metri. L'influenza dell'architettura azteca è ben visibile fin dal terzo stadio di costruzione (1351), con i seguenti che sono in puro stile azteco come dimostrato dalle forme inclinate della piramide rispetto ai muri verticali dei primi lavori.

La piramide è circondata da un coatepantli (termine nahuatl per "muro di serpenti"), una bassa piattaforma con 138 sculture in pietra raffiguranti serpenti. Un tempo queste sculture erano ricoperte di gesso e colorate in varie tinte, con le scale nere. Sui lati settentrionale e meridionale della piramide, al piano terra, si trovano due sculture di serpenti arrotolati. Le creste sulle loro teste hanno segni indicanti le stelle, che li identificano come Xiuhcoatl (il serpente di fuoco). Tutte le sculture di serpenti attorno alla piramide vengono associate con il fuoco e con il culto del sole.

Ci sono numerosi altari e santuari nelle vicinanze, anch'essi scavati, ed alcuni di loro contengono sculture di serpenti.

A 200 metri dalla piramide principale di Tenayuca si trovano i resti di quello che sembra essere stato un complesso residenziale per le classi privilegiate, in cui sono sopravvissuti i pavimenti in gesso di alcune stanze Quest'area viene chiamata Tenayuca II dagli archeologi, e sembra aver attraversato varie fasi di costruzione.

La piramide di Tenayuca è sotto la gestione dell'Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia ed è aperta al pubblico.

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate

 Teopanzolco
 Tlatelolco (sito archeologico)

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Siti archeologici aztechi
Tlalnepantla de Baz

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Gabrielle Union Introduces Dwyane Wade's Transgender Daughter, Zaya, To The World
02/12/2020 03:01 pm ET Updated Feb 12, 2020
The "Being Mary Jane" star praised her 12-year-old stepdaughter for deciding to live as her authentic self.
By Curtis M. Wong
Gabrielle Union had nothing but kudos for her 12-year-old stepdaughter, Zaya, whose family publicly introduced her as transgender this week.
The "L.A.'s Finest" and "Being Mary Jane" star praised Zaya as "compassionate" and "whip smart" on Twitter Tuesday, just as her husband, Dwyane Wade, was making an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show."
In his chat with DeGeneres, Wade recalled the moment Zaya came out to him as trans and said he and Union were committed to giving his daughter "the best opportunity to be her best self."
On Twitter, Union went a step further by allowing Zaya to speak for herself. In a short video included with one of the tweets, Zaya is seen riding in a golf cart with her father while encouraging others to embrace their authentic selves.
Meet Zaya. She's compassionate, loving, whip smart and we are so proud of her. It's Ok to listen to, love & respect your children exactly as they are. Love and light good people. pic.twitter.com/G2lLVdD2VT
— Gabrielle Union (@itsgabrielleu) February 11, 2020
"Be true, and don't really care what the stereotypical way of being you is," Zaya says in the clip. "I know it can get tough, definitely, but I think you push through and you be the best you."
Wade ― who is also dad to Zaire Blessing Dwyane, 18, Xavier Zechariah, 6, and Kaavia James, 15 months ― said Tuesday that he and Union had been actively reaching out to members of the LGBTQ community, including the stars of FX's "Pose," as Zaya made her gender identity known.
Union expressed her gratitude to all who provided "information, resources, love [and] encouragement" on her family's journey.
Huge huge huge THANK YOU to everyone whose dms I slid into, friends, & family who provided information, resources, love & encouragement. We are humble LGBTQ+ allies with ALOT to learn & grateful for all the support. We encourage yall to check us as needed 🤗 Again, thank you!
Union and Wade, who have been married since 2014, came under fire last year after posting photos of Zaya, then 11 years old, attending an LGBTQ Pride event on social media.
Wade, however, shrugged off the criticism.
"I'm very uneasy about accolades that come from supporting my kids or the negativity that comes from it," the retired NBA star told Variety in June. "I'm doing what every parent has to do. Once you bring kids into this world, you become unselfish."
"It's my job to be their role model, to be their voice in my kids' lives, to let them know you can conquer the world," he continued. "So go and be your amazing self, and we're going to sit back and just love you."
Dwyane Wade Is Proud To Give His Transgender Child A Chance To Be Her Best Self
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Local Hotels Working with Feed Maroon Program to Provide Meals to Aggie Students
April 01, 2020 at 01:00 AM EDT
Two Valencia Hotel Group properties in Bryan College Station, The George and Cavalry Court, have partnered with Dorm Dish to help Aggie students in need of a meal.
SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) April 01, 2020
Two Valencia Hotel Group properties in Bryan College Station, The George and Cavalry Cour t, have partnered with Dorm Dish to help Aggie students in need of a meal.
Carlos Pernia, Director of Food and Beverage for The George and Cavalry Court hotels, said the idea for the Feed Maroon program sparked out of a simple conversation between himself, Brian Hall, founder of the nonprofit Friday Harbour, and Austin Fanning, founder of Dorm Dish.
After Brian Hall had spent a relaxing weekend poolside at Cavalry Court in College Station; he learned that students could be laid off as businesses started to shutter. Hall initially had the idea to feed 10 Texas A&M students for 10 days who had lost their jobs because of the Coronavirus, which soon escalated into the Feed Maroon program. Brian says "This goes to show that 'ways to help' are generally right in front of us and simply needs a catalysit and some partners to make it happen."
"The need to help these students was identified, and in a short three days we all worked together to start feeding the students and raising funds," Pernia said.
A GoFundMe was organized by Dorm Dish to help generate funds to provide these meals. Within a matter of days, the money began flowing in.
"We've had donations of all amounts, some enough to feed one student for a day, and others in upwards of thousands of dollars," Fanning said. Fanning said the idea behind this is similar to "sponsoring an Aggie," and has hopes that it will continue long after the pandemic ends. The program currently sits just $1,300 away from its goal of being able to feed all 30 students on their list for the rest of the semester.
"Right now, we have 30 students receiving meals each day, with another 60 on our waitlist," Fanning said. "We want to be able to feed every student who is struggling financially, which is where all of these donations come into play."
In this partnership with the two Valencia Hotel Group properties, The George and Cavalry Court, Dorm Dish agreed to provide microwavable dinners to the students, with Valencia Group's catering service providing lunch. Meals are picked up at Cavalry Court's on-site restaurant, The Canteen, from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, Monday – Friday.
"Community is one of the most important aspects that Texas A&M has cultivated," Pernia said. "The giving spirit of current and former Aggies is what has allowed this program to succeed, and by us being able to extend a hand to these students cements that spirit of community. We know that as Aggies, we can make a difference to the current students, and they in part will rise up to meet the needs of future classes when they are able to."
Through the Feed Maroon program, Fanning has not only been able to help feed students in need, but has also been able to share the program's prosperity with the community and the two hotels.
"To know that you are helping put food on the table for a student in need until they can get back to work or go back home to their families is such a great feeling," Fanning said. "This entire program is a joint community effort. Once this is all over, we hope to have people come back and stay at The George and Cavalry Court as a 'thank you' for their help during all of this."
Monetary donations will be accepted via GoFundMe through April 28th. If you're an Aggie student in need of a meal, email feedmaroon@gmail.com to apply to be put on the list.
About Valencia Hotel Group
Houston-based Valencia Hotel Group is a fully integrated hospitality company that provides management, development, branding and repositioning services for independent, full-service hotels owned by the company, in addition to third parties. Exceptional service, style and location have become brand trademarks. Earning both national and international recognition for their distinctive designs, amenities and settings, Valencia Hotel Group properties are destinations and gathering places within their respective communities, some further benefitting from and enriching their space within the cultural heart of a city. The company continues to forge a niche with hotels that anchor and add value to urban, mixed-use environments, which further support or enhance the guest experience with superior residential, restaurant, retail and office components. The Valencia Hotel Group portfolio currently includes the Valencia brands: Hotel Valencia Santana Row in San Jose, CA and Hotel Valencia Riverwalk in San Antonio, TX. In partnership with developer, Midway, include Valencia Hotel Group's The George™ in College Station, TX and Hotel Alessandra in Houston, TX. The Court concept brands include Lone Star Court in Austin, TX, Cavalry Court in College Station, TX, Texican Court in Irving, TX and coming soon Cotton Court in Lubbock, TX. For more information, please visit http://www.valenciahotelgroup.com
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Although the primary mission of the CHAM Pediatric Emergency Department is to provide a safety net for poor and unaffiliated children who may otherwise have no access to healthcare, the Department is also deeply committed to answering clinically relevant questions through a focus on translational and clinical research.
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CHAM pediatric emergency medicine researchers have shown that point-of-care sonographic identification of an elevated posterior fat pad and lipohemarthrosis is a feasible, accurate and reliable marker for elbow fractures. Using this imaging modality to rule out fracture can reduce the use of radiographs in about 50 percent of children, thus avoiding radiation and reducing their time in the Emergency Department. Researchers are also studying point-of-care sonography for other musculoskeletal injuries and acute chest pain in sickle cell patients.
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Researchers in the CHAM Emergency Department are conducting a study evaluating the use of virtual reality as anxiolysis for children undergoing laceration repair. By providing immersive distraction techniques clinician-investigators hope to make the laceration repairs a less frightening experience for children.
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Investigators at CHAM have a Federation of Jewish Philanthropies grant to study the implementation of scribes in an urban academic pediatric emergency department and its impact on patient safety and satisfaction. By removing some of the burden of documentation, physicians should be able to spend additional time face-to-face with their patients.
Identifying Children at Risk for Serious Bacterial Illness
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It's shaping-up to be a very fracture-filled start to the year! Following the successful release of our upgraded multi-client "Regional Appraisal of Fractured Reservoirs in Kurdistan & NE Iraq" study in the Autumn, we're now busy with early season fieldwork (including more fracture data acquisition using UAVs).
So it was great to see a suitable response to such a pessimistic view in the form of two success stories from Kathy Kelly (Gulf Keystone) and Bob Trice (Hurricane Exploration), both showing the value and importance of carefully constrained quantitative fracture properties from relevant analogues, and how these can be combined with static and dynamic data from the sub-surface as these become available. As we carried out fracture characterisation for both Gulf Keystone and Hurricane (on Shaikan and surroundings, and on onshore analogues for the Rona Ridge), it was fantastic to see how well both companies are progressing with field development.
Main image (above): Fieldwork on Shaikan, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Then it was off to Oman for the Third EAGE Workshop on Naturally Fractured Reservoirs. Two great days of presentations and discussion sessions – with the added highlight of a fieldtrip to see fractured carbonates in the wadis on the southern flank of Jebel Madmar, south of Muscat. Many thanks to Pascal Richard (and Loic Bazalgette from afar) for a really outstanding trip!


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It was great to see Rory McIlroy announce on Tuesday that he is joining the growing band of European golfers snubbing the US Tour in favour of a place on the European circuit.
It has been a great year for European golf with Graeme McDowell and Martin Kaymer claiming two major victories and the Ryder Cup returning to Europe, a new World No.1 in Lee Westwood with Kaymer (No.3) also pushing hard for the top spot.
The mandatory 15 tournaments needed to qualify for a PGA tour card would appear to be putting too much pressure on Europe's golfers. They would appear to prefer to pick and choose their competitions 'across the pond' these days, rather than being forced to spend more time there than they want too.
Along with Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer, McIlroy's return will add more prestige to the European Tour. And with bigger names will come more sponsorship and bigger prize money, meaning the possibility of even more of the world's top golfers plying their trade on this side of the Atlantic.


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Dominique Ducharme says he is ahead of his plan
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Dominique Ducharme was only leading his fourth training session as interim head coach of the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, but he said he was ahead of schedule when he was promoted last week.
Even if the Canadian lost his first two games under his command, the Quebec coach said he was happy with the progress of his troop.
"I thought it would take more time to establish certain things," he said in videoconference Monday. The guys are showing that they have the good of the team at heart. They are committed to applying the adjustments in our game.
"I already knew we had a good group. I am even more convinced today that this group will be successful. "
Ducharme had explained last week that he didn't really have a game system, but rather rules to follow and frameworks in which players could express themselves.
Players questioned Monday on the adjustments made by Ducharme still reported several changes in the Canadian's playing systems.
Defenseman Joel Edmundson said the structure is less rigid in zonal defense and players can follow a rival if they move up to the blue line in man-to-man defense.
"You have to read the game and adjust while signaling it to your teammates," said Edmundson. Since the start of the season, we haven't spoken much on the ice. Dominique stresses the importance of communicating well in the heat of the moment. I think in the last game we talked a lot more. "
For his part, Jonathan Drouin mentioned that the wingers had to go lower in their zone and cut the play towards the enclave, which has often hurt the Habs so far this season.
Drouin was also questioned whether Ducharme gave his players more freedom on offense than his predecessor, Claude Julien.
"Like all coaches, (Julien) wants you to fulfill your responsibilities on defense, but he didn't prevent us from expressing ourselves on offense," Drouin insisted.
"With Dominique, there are also things you can or cannot do. There are things to respect before you can be creative, "he added.
Drouin also believes that the adjustments Ducharme made in the transition game will help the team to attack with speed, in addition to providing better support to defenders during pullbacks.
The same philosophy
Drouin had known Ducharme with the Halifax Mooseheads in the Major Junior Hockey League between 2011 and 2014.
One point that has not changed in Ducharme's philosophy, he noted, is his insistence on creating two-on-one situations all over the ice.
"You don't want to be one-on-one, except maybe in some places in the offensive zone where it's okay," explained Drouin. If you're backed by a teammate and you lose the puck, you've got someone to help you get it back. It makes the game easier. Even in the defensive zone, if your teammate takes possession of the disc, you are there as a pass option.
"We always want to have a supporting teammate everywhere on the ice. It offers gaming options. It'll help our game if we can apply that mentality. "
For his part, Ducharme explained another aspect of his coaching philosophy on Monday after Drouin revealed that he would sometimes give different instructions to his lines according to the strengths of his players.
"As a team, we have a way of thinking, for example, offensively. And inside of that, each line has different tools that they can use to generate attack, "said Ducharme.
"In short: we have a philosophy, what we want to create. From this, each individual or trio is encouraged to express themselves thanks to their strengths, "he added.
With the Canadiens' busy schedule, Ducharme explained that he would try to reduce the time on the ice, but ensure that the pace is high during practice. He also said he will focus on special teams during practice on match mornings.
"We are trying to make progress in all aspects of the game, but we will be dealing with issues one at a time," he concluded.
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Currently the university has about 27,700 students and employs about 6,000 people. After the dissolution of the Dano-Norwegian union in 1814, close academic ties between the countries have been maintained.
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Azkals gain boost in Kyrgyzstan win
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The Philippine Azkals gained a morale-boosting win before the AFF Suzuki Cup after defeating Kyrgyzstan, 1-0, Wednesday night in their international friendly match at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.
Misagh Bahadoran supplied the only goal of the match which came in the 65th minute even as the Azkals defense prevented the visitors from finding the back of the net to erase the misery of losing last month's friendlies against Bahrain and North Korea.
"We didn't did much in the first half, then in the second half was great commitment from the players," said Azkals coach Thomas Dooley. "When you think of the last two games, this was a game not because of the system we played but also because of the players."
"They were fighting, you could see that they're not just jogging and acting. They were acting instead of reacting.
This was the first time they did it."
Bahadoran scored when he capitalized on a deflection by a Kyrgyzstan defender to fire a left-footed shot that virtually gave the Azkals their second win against the same team after the 2-1 victory last August in Bishkek.
The Azkals still have some minor kinks to fix before the Suzuki Cup opens on Nov. 19 with a match against Singapore at the Philippine Sports Stadium in Bocaue, Bulacan. The Filipinos are also grouped against defending champion Thailand and Indonesia.
Azkals team manager Dan Palami said they are working on the availability of European-based players Daisuke Sato and Mike Ott, striker Javi Patino who has some contractual obligations with Chinese club Henan Jianye, and United Football League MVP Pika Minegishi, the Fil-Japanese midfielder whose Philippine passport is being finalized.
"The coach will be making a decision based on this game and we will have new players coming in," said Palami.
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Flashback to the mid-nineties, when you finally convinced your parents to get you a Game Boy Color for Christmas, complete with two whole game cartridges (Space Invaders and Pokémon Pinball, naturally). Who'd have known then that there would one day be people who make their living by live streaming video games to hundreds of thousands of subscribers?
Watching these live streams is so popular that the total number of people who watch others play video games online outpaces the combined audiences of Hulu, Netflix, HBO, and ESPN. Clearly, we like video games. But it has not always been an easy road for live streamers. For those who made it their full-time path, and even those who are still hobbyists, it was difficult to monetize their audience beyond a standard paid partnership.
Streamlabs, the newest HeadSpace member, is focused on bringing live streamers a new way to earn money. They've created a platform for streamers to process "tips" or donations from viewers who enjoy their content on platforms like Twitch, Mixer, YouTube, and Facebook. Streamlabs also gives streamers access to overlays, chatboxes, mobile streaming, and other helpful tools.
Some of the live stream theme options Streamlabs provides to users to customize their channels.
Based on the fact that live stream viewers have a "higher average income than other gamers" and are willing to spend it on video game-related content, this model works. In fact, Streamlabs is used by 78% of the top Twitch and YouTube streamers.
With this success, the San Francisco-based company decided to acquire TwitchKit, a local startup, and open a Dallas office. Streamlabs then began work on a new offering – branded merchandise.
"We allow streamers to sell customized merch with [their] logo and designs and dropship it directly to their fans/viewers who purchase it," says Geoff Garber, Project Manager of Merchandise for Streamlabs and co-founder of TwitchKit.
Garber is an entrepreneur in his own right, having manufactured and imported goods from overseas since he was 15.
That freedom has found a home in Dallas, which is becoming a hot spot for startups and entrepreneurs to plant their roots. Garber cites the affordable cost of living and lower cost of operating expenses as some of the reasons why Dallas is an attractive location for startups versus a more saturated market like Silicon Valley.
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You know how it is: Slapped on the side of a souvenir, stuck to the bottom of a vase, you spot the sticker and start peeling it off with your fingers. But then it quickly tears and you hold a sad little scrap in your hand with the remaining bit stubbornly laughing at you. So you start peeling again from the other side but it is no use. It just rips off too — leaving you stuck with a sticky square of frustration.
That's when it's time to go Domestic MacGyver on it — wheeling out big guns like the edge of a credit card, nail polish remover, Windex, or even a hair dryer. Nothing is off limits as you fight for your right to give a non-sticky boxed action figure to your nephew for his birthday.
So you rub in oils and lotions, dig your fingernails in there, and finally, huffing and puffing, smear it all off. But it takes a long time, gums up your fingers, and causes a great deal of stress.
So just smile and love it lots when that tag rolls off in one smooth peel.
It's impossible for me! I think I've only successfully ripped one completely off twice in my whole life.
water works for stubborn stickies too….
You know what works wonders? Fireworks. And LOTS of them.
Did this at the weekend with 2 Bob Marley CD's, 4 labels in all. Quadruple joy!
There are newer price tag stickers that are made to come off with little effort but they are still satisfying after years of scraping off the old ones which I can only assume were attached with thin layers of cement. Future generations will never truly appreciate removing their price tags in one smooth motion, but for now this truly deserves its place amongst the awesome things in life.
ahhh, that's SUCH a good one! it's the worst when you have to scrape the tag off and there's still residue left over. getting it off it one clean peel is such perfection! love it!
How about those tags that have the little circles to prevent the swappage of prices? It's extra awesome if you can get one of those off without leaving any circles behind.
Ah, I never realized why they perforated them like that. I always thought, "Why do they make them so hard to take off?!" Seems so obvious now, I'm a moron.
I don't know if that's the official reason, but it's what I've always figured.
wow, i didn't know that either, that makes sense.
Ha ha ha "Domestic Macgver". I hope he makes some return appearances in future entries.
I really wish there was a comment editing feature, so I could edit to change Hamilton to Anderson. D'oh.
Windex works well. But it's best if you just go REALLY slowly… as slowly as possible.
A few years ago, my mom introduced me to one of the greatest cleaning inventions ever made….Goo Gone. It takes anything sticky off of any material. And anything that can save me from the perils of tediously picking off a price sticker bit by bit is…..
So true… when the label comes off in one peel you feel like you've won some of your life back!!
It is best when the sticker leaves no glue behind either.
I always take the sticker off a little bit at a time. It takes a ridiculously long time, but it usually leaves the sticker in one piece. Usually.
Ha! Taquito style. Love it!
Another great is when you think you've defeated because the tag starts ripping, but you start again on the other side and voila! It's a one-piece paradise.
A real man grabs a Milwaukee Tools 4″ grinder and somewhere amid the sparks and ozone smell are the ragtag remains of the furschluginger sticker.
(Of course the wife just might object a little…..
i love it when it doesn't make a mess!
OK – this has been a pet peeve of mine for a LONG time!! So I definitely agree it's Wonderful when tag comes right off!
Thing is, you Know they could make tag that easily comes off… I guess it's so you can't switch tags or something – STUPID.
the absolute worst: when they are on bottles of wine and you are on your way to a party and you cannot get the price off without leaving a sticky little remnant behind. even worse: forgetting to take the price tag off altogether. doh!
I agree with the Goo Gone. It does not damage the cardboard when the geniuses decide to put a tag on the cardboard of a collectible Barbie doll….
Isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol. End of story.
I ALMOST did this the last time I bought something.
But alas, there was a microscopic piece of 1-layer goo.
I JUST did this today, and it was such a great moment! Bought a new journal and it had three different price stickers on the back and they ALL came off perfectly, in one go. Success!
My God, people JUST STEAM IT OFF!! Or use a hairdryer to soften the glue! Garghhr… bah!!
Artist's turpentine. But not mineral turpentine, unless you want some bad things to happen to whatever you're getting the sticker off.
Not long ago, my eldest daughter taught me this trick~ white out!
Works for many other things too, like books for gifts too.
somebody's gonna' look after me~ I hope!
great idea. i'm sure even mcgyver would be proud.
I'm really good at doing that with a lighter. And I don't even leave sticky residue behind! Awesome.
i hate it when that happins!!!!!!
I love it when those perforated stickers come off in just one try. It makes it easier if the store puts new stickers on top of the old if they do a price change. Sadly, most just slap it elsewhere on the package and then you've got two or more price tags to remove instead of one!
Luckily, I have longer nails, but I still lose this battle. Next time I'll have to try nail polish remover!
When I was 14 my school had a CONTEST!! And the best part of was I won , I peeled 32 tags of perfectly!! Talk about wonderful!!
Peanut butter is great for this!
OMG. Words cannot describe the joy of ripping that little piece of price tag off one time. I hate getting the sticky thing off later in multiple tries.


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Battery and camera specs for the Galaxy A14 just leaked
By Arthur Brown
Samsung has a ton of smartphones in the mid-range market, and those are some of its most popular devices. We've been following rumors about the upcoming Galaxy A14, and now we have a fresh leak. Thanks to Galaxy Club, we have information about the battery and camera specs for the Galaxy A14.
Samsung's "A" series of phones are some of its most popular phones. This year, it released the incredible Galaxy A53 5G. This device is a close competitor to Google's Pixel 6a, and it comes with some nice features. You can read the review for the Galaxy A53 here and the review for the Pixel 6a here.
We have battery and camera specs for the Galaxy A14
Now, let's talk about this upcoming mid-range phone. Not too long ago, we got some leaked renders of this phone, and they show that it will have a headphone jack and a U-shaped notch on the display. Also, it looks like this phone will have a glossy glass back
Looking at the camera package, it might be an interesting story. According to the renders, It appears that this phone will have each sensor protruding individually in lieu of a camera bump. This is significant because this is what the Galaxy S23 devices may look like based on a recent leak.
According to the most recent leak, the Galaxy A14 will have a battery with the model number EB-BA146ABY, and it's rated for a capacity of 4900mAh. With that rating, it appears that it'll be advertised as a 5000mAh cell.
It wouldn't be much of a surprise if this phone does come with a 5000mAh battery. A lot of mid-range devices come out with a battery that big.
As for the camera, rumors point to this phone having a 50-megapixel main camera. It might be the same sensor that Samsung used for the Galaxy A13. We don't know much about the other sensors, unfortunately. Also, we don't know what Samsung will use for the front-facing camera either.
When this phone launches, we expect it to be around €230. That's not a bad price for a phone with a 1080p+ display, 5000mAh battery, and a 50-megapixel camera. However, other specs on this phone are still a mystery. We'll have to wait on more information to fully paint a picture of this phone.
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Women in Manitoba celebrated a milestone anniversary this week – earning the vote 100 years ago. Indeed, we've come a long way, baby. Gender equality has been a long fought battle. Yet I've never really felt myself on the front lines.
Women have long been fighting for their place in sports, too, and earning the right to get in the game. The Olympics let ladies enter track and field events in 1928. The Boston Marathon allowed its first registered female runner in 1967. Full-court basketball welcomed women in 1971, and little league baseball welcomed girls in 1974. Jump ahead to 2016, and women can play any sport they want. Since I love sports, I play a few myself, including curling… Read entire story.
My football-loving history stretches back to playing the game with my siblings on our farm in Marquette, Manitoba. There were enough of us to make two teams, so we'd play often.
We also watched football on TV, and, after moving to Winnipeg, we'd go to Bomber games whenever we could. To us, the Grey Cup was a good excuse to have a party… Read entire story.
The wait is over. After years of preparing, partnering and constructing, Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature is officially open in our city. And it's unlike anything most North American spa-goers have seen.
Nestled on the edge of the forest beside Crescent Drive Golf Course, Thermëa is intentionally set in the heart of nature. The thermal spa ritual involves cycles of heat and cold, allowing the body to eliminate toxins, stimulate circulation, release adrenaline, and increase flow of endorphins. This results in purification, relaxation, and rejuvenation… Read entire story.
The Goaldiggers are a hockey team (my team!) made up of ladies of all ages and skill levels from the Canadian prairies. Our unlikely story starts with one resilient woman. Her name is Tyla Turman.
Tyla played hockey in Winnipeg at Canlan Ice Sports for many years. She got her start by joining a friend's team who gave her a chance, taught her the game, and supported her along the way. But when the team decided to part ways, Tyla was determined to keep playing. Maybe even give back to others who wanted a chance of their own… Read entire story.
Did you know the largest spa in North America is a spectacular sprawling setting on a hillside in Chelsea, Quebec? And that Winnipeg's Wildwood Park neighbourhood will soon be home to its sister facility?
If you've driven down Crescent Drive lately, you may have noticed construction on the edge of Crescent Drive Golf Course. This is the development of Thermëa by Nordik Spa-Nature, a thermal spa set in the heart of nature. It's the second Canadian location for an exceptional spa concept that has been popular for centuries across Europe. Read entire story.
He came. He curled. He commentated.
He also licked a few donuts before giving them away, threw a rock that came to rest in the rings under the tutelage of Glenn Howard, and donned a traditional Scottish kilt inside the TSN booth.
Welcome to the busy and bizarre world of 'legendary anchorman' Ron Burgundy, who chose the Olympic curling trials as a tour stop for Anchorman 2. It was his first Canadian visit to promote the new movie – which opened December 18. It also put curling in the spotlight, introducing the sport to an audience that otherwise might not see it. Read entire story.
One of my favourite things to do while traveling is going to spas. Come to think of it, one of my favourite things to do at home is going to spas. From the places I've been and the spas I've seen, I believe we've got one of the best right here in Winnipeg.
Ten Spa at the Fort Garry Hotel strives to deliver 'a perfect ten' to each and every customer. The owners spent years researching the world's foremost spas to come up with unique treatments. The result is a wide range of classic techniques infused with a modern edge, designed to nurture the body, soothe the soul, and indulge the senses.
The experience begins with staff providing Italian spa sandals, Turkish bathrobe, and a locker. Both the men's and women's change rooms boast rain showers, and experiential stalls with cold fog and tropical mist. State-of-the-art steam rooms decorated in tiny metallic blue tiles are complete with aromatic vapours and light therapy, giving the illusion of twinkling stars glowing through hazy duskiness. Read entire story.
It's been four years since I've done any distance running, which to me is anything greater than five miles. I do the odd three-miler every now and then just to stay conditioned, but rarely do I go beyond five anymore.
When I agreed to run the Winnipeg Police Service Half-Marathon relay with a friend (6.55 miles each) my intention was to train. However, due to a number of circumstances including a sprained ankle the week before the event, and numerous excuses before that, I only managed to get in six runs before race-day.
Eventually I ran out of training days (and excuses) and would just have to do it as ready as I was. Was I confident I could do the distance? Yes. But the big question was, how fast? Read entire story.