IT professionals will have come to work this morning amid warnings following last week's cyber-attack. Late on Friday morning stories started to emerge about the National Health Service being compromised by a ransomware attack. By the evening it was apparent that the incident was worldwide. The latest reports suggest 150 countries worldwide have been hit.
The UK press will inevitably continue to portray this as an NHS cyber-attack. To get to grips with what's really happened it's important for the specialists to put that idea out of their minds. 150 countries have not been hit by a targeted cyber-attack on a single-country organisation, however important it may be. The NHS has been caught in the slipstream of a worldwide assault.
An assault which could have been rendered completely ineffectual.
It feels peculiar to be writing something so basic but it seems necessary. In the same way that journalists end up writing things like "don't use your partner's or pet's name as your password" with a sinking feeling that people shouldn't really be doing this anyway, we're now having to write "keep your systems up to date".
Specifically, a lot of the computers that allowed the latest breach to happen were running Windows XP. That would be the system released on 24 August, 2001. That would be nearly 16 years ago.
Consider for a moment any other pieces of machinery or work equipment that age. If you had a fleet of vehicles and hadn't run maintenance schedules on them, you'd expect them to be falling to pieces. If you had medical equipment that wasn't updated and maintained for a decade and a half you'd be worried.
And yet something in the culture of the IT professional has said it will be OK to be "getting around to" updating the computer systems. This is a system that Microsoft declared would be unsupported – no security updates, nothing – in 2014. In April the same year, Private Eye ran a piece saying this was a crisis waiting to happen (it's not online but it's in the 18 April edition if readers happen to have an archive handy).
And yet the crisis hit and we're threatened with continued difficulties.
We need to be clear. A number of commentators with political motivation have said this is due to the NHS not having the money or other resources to keep systems up to date. That may be a factor but it doesn't explain how 149 other countries were hit by the same thing.
The underlying difficulty (other than some criminals not caring who or what they hurt, which is a given) has to be that although IT professionals know perfectly well that a 16-year-old system will not stand up to the current environment, a handful think it's OK to stuck the update on the do-list and assume it will take care of itself.
It isn't. It won't. And that's why the problem has been so huge.


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A number of races have been held between power boats Pioneer and Brodie Girl, and more will take place later on. Wednesday, July 26th, Pioneer beat Brodie Girl by 50 seconds.
William Wallace's new power boat Counterfeiter is placed in the water. She presents a fine appearance as she ploughs through the water at an 18-knot clip, shoving her long nose into every wave, and sending clouds of spray into the air on either side. They worked day and night in order to have her ready for the Easter Y.C. races, but she was not ready until Friday morning when she went over one round with Spaghetti, and then returned to the harbor. it was not thought that she would complete one lap, but she went beyond the expectations of her builders and would have finished had her steering gear worked satisfactorily.
On the morning of July 27th the first race in the three days' series took place. Provisions were made for both automobile boats and launches, but as none of the former class were ready this class was omitted. Launches were divided into four classes: First, all over 50 ft. rating; second, all cabin boats and boats with standing awnings over 21 ft. rating, and not over 50 ft. rating; third, hunting launches and open boats over 21 ft. rating and not over 50 ft. rating; fourth, not over 21 ft. rating..
The race was run over the Eastern Y.C. course from Buoy No. 3, Marblehead Neck, 3 miles Northeast by East 1/4 east, to and around a red flag buoy½ mile Northerly from baker's Island Light, and then back to Buoy No. 3, leaving it on the starboard and repeat, making it 12½ miles in all.
Prizes of silver were offered for the winner in each class. A second prize was also offered in each class where four or more boats were entered, and a third prize if seven or more boats were entered. The Gay Cup was presented by Rear-Commodore W. O. Gay to be awarded to the boat which, having started in each race, should make the smallest elapsed time for all three days. Each boat was required to make four laps in order to compete for this class. Boats must be under 40 ft. over all length, including propeller, but not including rudder, to compete for this cup.
The restrictions for launches were as follows: The total number of persons on board a boat throughout the race shall not be less than two. All boats, except fourth class launches must be fitted with serviceable anchor and cable must be carries on each boat, shall have on board one serviceable life-preserver for each person on board.
No boat shall be allowed to compete unless equipped with the necessary light required by law, a compass, and a fog signal.
At 10:30 a.m. three boats crossed the line in the first class. Five minutes later four boats crossed the line in the second class, and five minutes after these, twelve boats got underway in the third class. In the fourth class there were no entries.
During the first lap Essex had the ill luck to break her propeller shaft near the engine, thus putting her out of the race and leaving only two to finish in her class. Hupa finished first in the first class, completing the course of 12½ miles in 43 minutes and 53 seconds. As soon as she had finished Hupa went back into the harbor, being too large to compete for the Gay Cup. Spaghetti finished second but kept on and completed four laps for the Gay Cup.
In the second class Blink came in first, completing the two laps in 1 hour, 18 minutes and 2 seconds. Seven minutes and 58 seconds later Right o'Way came in, finishing second.
In class three Tai-Kun finished first with an elapsed time of 1 hour, 5 minutes and 40 seconds, and then went around twice more for the Gay Cup.
About an hour and a half after the start the Thomas boat Dixie came on the scene, and immediately started round the course after the Gay Cup, finishing the four laps, 25 miles in all, in 1 hour, 13 minutes and 8 seconds. At the start of the race Dixie was on trucks at the Marblehead Yacht Yard, where she had just arrived from New York. In an hour and a half she was ready to race. Dixie is certainly the fastest power boat ever seen in Marblehead waters.
On Friday morning 20 boats had entered. A special class was started at 10:20, known as the Eastern Y.C. Special 32-Ft. Class. When the signal was given 2 boats, Counterfeiter and Spaghetti, started on the first lap. Ten minutes later the first-class launches were started, with Dixie leading. Five minutes after these were underway the second class was started, with only one boat, Blink, entered; and five minutes later the third class.
On finishing the first round Counterfeiter withdrew, leaving Spaghetti to finish alone. Hupa had the ill luck to break down on the second round, but managed to run back to port without aid.
The third day of the races dawned fair and calm, offering an ideal sea for any power boat, whether large or small.
William Wallace did not enter Counterfeiter, as she steers badly, and in the second class no boats were entered.
At 10:30 a.m. the whistle blew of the first class boats, Tama crossing the line first, with Dixie close behind, and Hupa bringing up the rear. Dixie presented a magnificent spectacle as she ploughed through the water at a 22-knot clip, sending clouds of spray high into the air on either side, and at times almost hiding the racer and her crew from view.
Five minutes after the first class had been started the whistle blew for the second class, but none crossed the line. Five minutes later the third class got underway, making a fine picture as they ploughed down the course close after each other at the rate of about 9 miles per hour, with Tai Kun, the new Stewart boat leading, and the Bugess & Packard jolly boat, Saucy Sal, as she was christened by the press, fetching up the rear.
Hupa had the ill luck to get overheated during the second round and was forced to retire. Certainly the new Binney boat had hard luck. had her engine gone all right she would have been a winner, for her superior size enabled her to take seas that forced smaller boats to slow down.
It was thought by everyone that Dixie would win in her class, but when the time was figured out it was found that she had lost to Tama by 31 seconds. In the total elapsed time for the Gay Cup, however, she won, beating Spaghetti.
In the third class Little Egypt and Omeomi made a good showing, but they were unable to come up to Tai Kun. Only two boats, Dixie and Spaghetti, went the four rounds for the Gay Cup, for the rest knew that they would have no show against Dixie.
It was a great disappointment to many that L. R. Speare's Winton did not arrive, and it is thought by many that had she arrived she would have changed the record considerably.
The races were managed by A. A. Packard and W. B. Stearns for the Eastern Y.C. Regatta Committee.


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Afternoon briefing
Oprah Winfrey developing family drama for HBO
HBO is developing a new family drama with Oprah's Harpo Films. Here's the plot: It centres on a wealthy academic who has become the first black president of a prestigious liberal arts college. He and his family are thrust into national headlines, forcing them to present an idyllic public facade, all while engaging in agonising personal battles and struggling with dark obsessions.
American Idol start date revealed
Fox has announced the start date for the new season of American Idol, featuring judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Keith Urban and Randy Jackson. The first two episodes will screen in the US on January 16 and 17.
Bonnie's dad cast on The Vampire Diaries
Bonnie (played by Kat Graham) is getting a dad on The Vampire Diaries. Rick Worthy will play the part of her long-lost father, Rudy Hopkins.
Rescue Me star joins Nurse Jackie cast
Rescue Me star Adam Ferrera has joined the cast of Nurse Jackie. He will play the part of an NYPD officer, who becomes a love interest for Jackie (Edie Falco).
Greg Kinnear to star in new Fox TV pilot
Fox has a new legal drama called Rake in the works, which will star Greg Kinnear. It is based on an Australian series about a criminal defence lawyer named Cleaver Greene. EW says the Kinnear's character will have "a mind-numbing lack of discretion and a total inability to pause before speaking … The clients that Cleaver loves the most are those whose cases appear to be utterly hopeless." Kinnear will also serve as an executive producer of the show.
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Q: Three.js - Rendering to renderTarget first and then to screen results in a white screen In my current project, I want to use multiple shader in one render pass. I thought this could be achieved by rendering only the last pass to the screen and all the previous passes to a renderTarget and then passing this renderTarget as a texture to the next shader.
The problem in my case seems to be in my render loop in this following code:
// something is going wrong here:
viewer.renderer.render(viewer.scene, viewer.camera, viewer.renderTarget);

viewer.uniforms.tDiffuse.value = viewer.renderTarget;
viewer.uniforms.fragmentShader = viewer.fragment2;

viewer.renderer.render(viewer.scene, viewer.camera);

In order to make things more clear, I built this snippet

var viewer = {
    width: 512,
    height: 512
};

initViewer = function() {
    viewer.vertex     = $('#vertexShader').text();
    viewer.fragment1  = $('#fragmentShader1').text();
    viewer.fragment2  = $('#fragmentShader2').text();

    viewer.camera = new THREE.OrthographicCamera(viewer.width / -2, viewer.width / 2, viewer.height / 2, viewer.height / -2, -1000, 1000);

    viewer.camera.position.z = 100;

    viewer.renderer = new THREE.WebGLRenderer();
    viewer.scene = new THREE.Scene();

    viewer.uniforms = {
        alpha: {
            type: 'f',
            value: '1.0'
        }, tDiffuse: {
            type: 't',
            value: ''
        }
    };

    viewer.initialMaterial = new THREE.ShaderMaterial({
        uniforms: viewer.uniforms,
        vertexShader: viewer.vertex,
        fragmentShader: viewer.fragment1
    });

    viewer.plane = new THREE.Mesh(new THREE.PlaneGeometry(viewer.width, viewer.height), viewer.initialMaterial);

    viewer.scene.add(viewer.plane);

    $('body').append(viewer.renderer.domElement);

    viewer.renderTarget = new THREE.WebGLRenderTarget( 512, 512 );

    render();
};

render = function() {

    // commenting out the next line makes everything work
    viewer.renderer.render(viewer.scene, viewer.camera, viewer.renderTarget);

    viewer.uniforms.tDiffuse.value = viewer.renderTarget;
    viewer.uniforms.fragmentShader = viewer.fragment2;

    viewer.renderer.render(viewer.scene, viewer.camera);

    requestAnimationFrame(render);
};

initViewer();
canvas
{
    border: 1px solid lime;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script id="vertexShader" type="x-shader/x-vertex">

precision mediump float;

varying vec2 v_texCoord;
varying vec4 vertexPosition;

void main()
{
    v_texCoord = uv;
    vec3 p = position;
    vec4 mvPosition = modelViewMatrix * vec4(p, 1.0 );
    gl_Position = projectionMatrix * mvPosition;
    vertexPosition = gl_Position;
}
</script>

<script id="fragmentShader1" type="x-shader/x-fragment">

precision mediump float;

void main()
{
    gl_FragColor = vec4(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.2);
}
</script>

<script id="fragmentShader2" type="x-shader/x-fragment">

precision mediump float;
uniform sampler2D tDiffuse;
varying vec2 v_texCoord;

void main()
{
    gl_FragColor = texture2D( tDiffuse, v_texCoord) * vec4(0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.2);
}
</script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/91/three.min.js"></script>

Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

A: Solved it by building the shader I need from chunks (like this: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/r50/src/renderers/WebGLShaders.js)

A: Simplest way: Render all passes to separate textures and then applying them to full-screen quad that will blend them with shader. Or on separate full-screen quads and set Blending to add.
also you can use only blending and multiply renders of same objects with different shading methods(read this) it will save you GPU memory and Texture Fill Rate if you need only simple composing.

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania has been selected as one of thirteen hub sites that will anchor the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network (PennREN) project, a statewide fiber optic network.
PennREN will extend some 1,700 miles through thirty-nine counties, with the potential to provide a high-speed Internet backbone to more than five million residents in more than two million households and 200,000 businesses.
The network will also provide the capability to connect colleges and universities, public institutions, regional networks, and last-mile providers across the commonwealth. Pennsylvania is among only a few states that currently do not possess such a network.
Other PennREN hub sites among Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education universities are Clarion and Slippery Rock. Institutions of higher education were chosen as hub sites because of their strong presence in the potential service areas.
Each hub site will host Ethernet switch, hardware that joins multiple computers within one local area network, and other networking equipment.
According to Balint, PennREN's function will be similar to what the Pennsylvania Turnpike does for transportation.
On February 18, President Barack Obama's administration awarded $99.6 million in federal stimulus funding to the Keystone Initiative for Network-Based Education and Research for the project.
KINBER is a coalition of Pennsylvania colleges and universities, research and health-care organizations, and economic-development entities that submitted a joint application for the construction and management of a robust, statewide broadband network.
In addition to PASSHE, KINBER's founding members include the Association for Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania, Bucknell University, Carnegie Mellon University, Drexel University, and EINetworks, a collaboration of the Allegheny Library Association and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
KINBER members also include the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University, the Mid-Atlantic Gigapop for Internet2 (MAGPI) at the University of Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges, Pennsylvania State University, the Three Rivers Optical Exchange (3ROX) at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.


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/*
** Configure tool
**
*/

#include "configureapp.h"

QT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE

int runConfigure( int argc, char** argv )
{
    Configure app( argc, argv );
    if (!app.isOk())
        return 3;

    app.parseCmdLine();
#if !defined(EVAL)
    app.validateArgs();
#endif
    if( app.displayHelp() )
	return 1;

    // Read license now, and exit if it doesn't pass.
    // This lets the user see the command-line options of configure
    // without having to load and parse the license file.
    app.readLicense();
    if (!app.isOk())
        return 3;

    // Auto-detect modules and settings.
    app.autoDetection();

    // After reading all command-line arguments, and doing all the
    // auto-detection, it's time to do some last minute validation.
    // If the validation fails, we cannot continue.
    if (!app.verifyConfiguration())
        return 3;

    app.generateOutputVars();

#if !defined(EVAL)
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.generateCachefile();
    if( !app.isDone() )
        app.generateBuildKey();
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.generateConfigfiles();
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.displayConfig();
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.generateHeaders();
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.buildQmake();
#endif
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.generateMakefiles();
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.buildHostTools();
    if( !app.isDone() )
	app.showSummary();
    if( !app.isOk() )
	return 2;

    return 0;
}

QT_END_NAMESPACE

int main( int argc, char** argv )
{
    QT_USE_NAMESPACE
    return runConfigure(argc, argv);
}

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package script.box;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.config.equip.ItemPojo;
import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.db.mongo.ItemManager;
import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.entity.user.Bag;
import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.entity.user.PropData;
import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.entity.user.User;
import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.reward.Box;
import com.xinqihd.sns.gameserver.reward.RewardManager;

public class BagBoxTest {

	private String userName = "test-001";

	@Before
	public void setUp() throws Exception {
	}

	@After
	public void tearDown() throws Exception {
	}

	@Test
	public void testEnlargeBag() {
		User user = new User();
		user.setRoleName(userName);
		user.setUsername(userName);
		//26002	小背包
		ItemPojo littleBagItem = ItemManager.getInstance().getItemById("26002");
		PropData littleBag = littleBagItem.toPropData();
		Bag bag = user.getBag();
		bag.addOtherPropDatas(littleBag.clone());
		assertEquals(1, bag.getCurrentCount());
		assertEquals("小背包", bag.getOtherPropData(20).getName());
		assertEquals(70, bag.getMaxCount());

		//Enlarge it
		RewardManager.getInstance().openItemBox(user, 20);
		assertEquals(0, bag.getCurrentCount());
		assertEquals(100, bag.getMaxCount());

		//Use it again. should not exceed 100 items.
		bag.addOtherPropDatas(littleBag.clone());
		RewardManager.getInstance().openItemBox(user, 20);
		assertEquals(1, bag.getCurrentCount());
		assertEquals(100, bag.getMaxCount());

		//Try to use the big bag
		//26003	大背包
		ItemPojo bigBagItem = ItemManager.getInstance().getItemById("26003");
		PropData bigBag = bigBagItem.toPropData();
		bag.addOtherPropDatas(bigBag.clone());

		RewardManager.getInstance().openItemBox(user, 21);
		assertEquals(1, bag.getCurrentCount());
		assertEquals(140, bag.getMaxCount());
	}

}


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I Am Not Your Negro review: The past lives on
By Sandra Hall
September 5, 2017 — 12.07pm
MA, 128 minutes
For decades, the writer James Baldwin maintained an elegant disdain for racism and white liberal paternalism and it gave his voice great power.
Writer and social critic James Baldwin, centre, managed to maintain friendships with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X – no mean feat. Credit:Magnolia Pictures
He worked tirelessly for African-American civil rights during the campaign's most turbulent years, and for all his passion, he never lost his poise, managing to cultivate friendships with both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X – no mean feat in the days when these two symbolised the polar extremes of the civil rights movement. What's more, he was with the activist Medgar Evers when he dared to launch an investigation into the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Mississippi, who, it was claimed, had had the temerity to speak to a white woman.
Baldwin's friendships with these three, who were all assassinated in the mid-'60s, form the touchstone around which Joel Peck's documentary feature has been designed. Peck grew up in Haiti and he says he started reading Baldwin when he was 15, finally finding fictional characters with whom he could empathise and an "emotional syntax" to accord with his own. So Baldwin's words – sometimes spoken by Samuel L. Jackson – guide us through the narrative, which marries archival footage of Baldwin in interviews and forums with film of his era's political and cultural milestones.
He was living in Paris in the '50s when the civil rights campaign began to build. And it was television footage of a black teenager being hooted and spat at on her first day at the newly desegregated Little Rock High School in Arkansas which sent him home to do his bit for the cause.
He and Malcolm X met in New York, where Baldwin was giving a talk. The other man was sitting in the front row, he remembers. "I stumbled through my lecture with Malcolm never taking his eyes off my face."
They sound at first like unlikely allies yet Baldwin's calmly sardonic style could, in its own way, be more than a match for Malcolm X's ferocity. You catch a hint of it it when he's talking about Bobby Kennedy, who clearly fell short of his expectations. Asked to make a moral commitment by being present at a de-segregation rally in the south, Kennedy declined. "He seemed to feel he'd be wasting his time," Baldwin says with the same tone of contempt he uses when talking about Hollywood's approach to race relations. Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and The Defiant Ones both get short shrift, dismissed as films made solely to reassure white liberals.
Peck brings the film into the modern era with the notorious 1991 footage of Rodney King beating by Los Angeles police. The Charlottesville riots are too recent to make the cut. Nonetheless, the message is clear. "History is not the past," Baldwin says. "It's the present."
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall is a film critic for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


A technician inspects after a client complained that the joint filler was protruding. A water main leak had caused the concrete to rehydrate so the problem wasn't due to the filler and, therefore, wasn't covered by the warranty.
While many suppliers offer one-year warranties on their products, it's not surprising that several are willing to go the extra mile and supply coverage that can last five, even 10 years or more.
The catch? The products must be installed by a contractor certified by the company, and that typically means more than simply taking a manufacturer's training course.
That's not to say that every job needs a warranty or every client wants one. Paul Koury, president of San Diego-based Westcoat, says it depends a great deal on the client and the job.
He adds that some warranties not only cover material components, but also warrant the installation itself.
A product warranty can certainly be a selling point, says Scott Metzger, president of Metzger/McGuire in Concord, New Hampshire. He says it's no different than comparing the merits of two contractors who are bidding on painting the exterior of your house.
"At the end of the day, it's definitely an important way to express you have confidence in what you're selling," says Metzger.
And, it can benefit both large and small businesses because it helps set their company apart from others, regardless of the market.
Husqvarna is so concerned about the contractors using its machines that it offers classes simply to make sure they're getting the most out of their equipment, particularly the diamond tooling. Its only warranty is to the owner of that equipment.
However, for companies selling component systems, that concern spills over into being focused on making sure their installers are the best they can be, and the emphasis is on an entire line of products.
Annika Oeing, marketing communications manager for Ardex Americas based in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, says its program is all about peace of mind.
In this instance, an improper, shallow fill — when the job-specified installation to the full depth of the joint — voided the manufacturer's warranty.
Company training is an important aspect of these warranties, but it's seldom the end-all and be-all. Both Koury and Metzger agree that training is important, but their formal training programs are only part of the story.
That means a contractor can't install a job and then at the last minute call to get an extended warranty. If the contractor doesn't have the qualifications, the company might write a limited warranty on the components and materials, but it won't write a job-specific warranty.
Metzger says in his company's case, the classes it offers certainly help, but they're only a first step in what can be a more comprehensive process.
For the contractor willing to go the extra mile and get that certification, the result is likely worth the effort.
While it's obviously nice to get that referral, that relationship can do more for a contractor than just that. Both Metzger and Koury say their companies are happy to send out a technician to meet with the contractor-applicator if there's any concern about the job.
Koury says that can be particularly important when doing a restoration job.
And, in some cases where cost might become a factor in correcting a pre-existing condition, Westcoat isn't willing to write a full warranty as a result.
Even with new construction, Metzger says his company sometimes sees problems, particularly with cure times.
Still, the biggest advantage with these extended manufacturer's warranties is that someone has your back if there's a problem.
Metzger notes that his company likes to be involved in every step of a project, going so far as to make annual visits to check on the condition of its materials and offer recommendations for its maintenance. And, if something does happen, he says it may take only a day and a little research to determine where the problem lies.
With a warranty, the manufacturer is naturally going to be involved in the process, and there is documentation. As Ardex's Oeing notes, the installing contractor must work in that company's system, use the products as stated in the warranty terms, and follow industry standards and installation methods.
"In the case of a failure, these requirements will be reviewed by analyzing a core of the installed materials to determine the cause of the failure," Oeing says.
Westcoat's Koury says his experience is that often, the building owner, the general contractor and the installing contractor can get their difficulties worked out without calling in the materials manufacturer.
However, if there is a defect in the material, Westcoat will send a technician. And, if it's not, the company will still send someone to help get the issues sorted out.
The bottom line: most manufacturers will warranty their products for a year. However, if a client needs a longer warranty and the main requirement is that you send in the name of the project and get one, it may not be a good sign. It's important to find companies that take the certification and warranty process seriously.


I just noticed this, and I don't think it used to display this way. It seems to make more sense as "k views". Can we change it (back)?
P.S. Rest in peace, "manswers".
It's really easy to miss the "kviews" when scanning because it's tiny compared to the number. I prefer the first way.
The column values should all be of the same units.
The 'kviews' thing knots up my knickers like you wouldn't believe. It's like someone took my pony away. Childish, I know. But please...make it better.
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StackExchange feedback: Shouldn't "3 kviews" be 3K views"?
Shouldn't "mviews" actually be "Mviews"?


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Television Of The Weak: Your C4 Is Strong, But My Crack Fox Is Voracious
This week we've got 24, The Mighty Boosh, Lost, Survivor Tocantins & American Idol
24: "2:00AM - 3:00AM"
Not having a firm grip on biology is making the recent "Kim Bauer's innards can save Jack" subplot into the finest part of the season. If Jack just wanders around with a foot long piece of his daughter's lower intestine in his mouth, will that make him okay again? Would her optic nerve work? Does it have to be a reproductive organ? (Actually, if 24 had the crazy to go full Sopranos/Deadwood direction and make Jack Bauer into that one thing Fox will never allow, a true anti-hero of demonic proportions, the best solution would be one where they vivisect his grandkid--introduced this episode--because only Jack and his creepy scars can save the day. It's gross, but don't doubt for a second that Al Swearengen would've killed and eaten his way through an orphanage for a 4% discount on whiskey.)
Whatever trick is required to bring Jack back to fighting strength, it looks like it's time to take the plunge, as this episode ended with Keifer doing his worst imitation of Lamaze breathing in an attempt to deliver the message that's been pounded like a drum for the last few hours: Jack Bauer Is Dying, People, Oh Gosh Aren't You Tense And Upset. The deafening answer has been "No, of course not", but hey, the writers put themselves in this corner--good luck finding a plausible way out. Either way, Jack's "i'm so puffy and weird" shit doesn't get in the way of another Tony 2.0 show, wherein our new anti-hero reveals that he was working for the Forces of Evil all along, and all that jazzy razzy matazzy about America? Suck it. You killed Michelle Dessler, America: Almaeda is going to make you pay, and if that means setting up a bunch of stock FBI agents for a fiery doom, all the better. (It's actually a pretty good business decision, if you look at it from Tony's point of view: a horrible tragedy is what turned him into a gun-for-hire, so why not put as many government gun-toters in similar situations? Eventually somebody is going to ask for an interview.)
Of course, just like everybody else on this show eventually learns, and the one lesson that Tony 2.0 already knows: never try to float Jack Bauer down the same bullshit river that non-Bauer types happily dive into. Sick or no, Jack will always figure out your gameplan, no matter how much your scowl and mutter. Considering that the final four hours are only one episode away, expect next week to be when they figure out the whole "terminal incurable disease" thing.
After that? It's time to start shooting your friends in the face.
The Mighty Boosh: "The Strange Tale of Crack Fox" by Sean Witzke
This week's episode Vince and Howard fight with a crack-addicted fox who lives in the mountain of trash bags in their back yard. This is the first episode where the US version hasn't had the animation sequence cut out. So yeah, meet Dante the Racist Badger, America. You didn't get Peacock Dreams, and you'll never get to hear the story of Rick Wakeman and The Funk, but you do get Dante the Racist Badger.
The Crack Fox is probably the most awful character that's ever appeared on television, and not in the cool "hateful bastard" category. No, I love those people. Actually, the Crack Fox is disgusting to look at, all covered in duct tape and with syringes for fingers. He speaks in a high, pointed voice and says cute, brain-damaged things. You know, like a crack addict. (The funny ones, not the Bubbles ones.) And then he pretty much says he's going to rape Vince. There's actually precedent of antagonists attempted to sex on Vince in this show, believe it or not, although it's normally by way of Rich Fulcher. But gutturally saying "I'm gonna put a dress on you and hurt you real bad" is a little more disturbing for some reason.
The magician's council puts Naboo to death after the Crack Fox steals his Shaman Juice, which gives them their powers. But for the entire scene they argue over who can handle their drugs the best, which is the best stuff of the episode. Tony Harrison the ball man is (literally Noel Feilding's head with a pair of balls and tentacles) always genius, yelling "When I go, I go large!" about doing poppers at Glastonbury. But Kirk's the best damn part. Whenever they show Kirk, it just gets funnier and funnier, especially when he's high. A small child getting far more high than a council of heavily-drug-abusing mystical weirdos, that shit is funny. "He's off his tits!"
Naboo going "I'm gonna have to turn my back on you" is here as well, clearly the character's finest hour. All in all it's actually hard to remember what they cut out this week, and that's a first. Mostly it's just the opening exposition scene with Fielding doing his best Tim Westwood. Hey, they didn't butcher this one! How screwed up is that? The most blatantly alienating episode is the one they leave alone. I don't care, it's still arrived on our shores relatively unscathed and that's a minor miracle. The next episode is the party, which is so windows-to-the-walls great they're going to have to cut something brilliant out of it. So in case they ruin it "TUSK, IN IT'S ENTIRETY, WITH THE PAUSES, LIKE LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM INTENDED!".
American Idol: "Top 7 2.0"
So, yo, check it out, baby: America still doesn't like people of color. And it's not so hot on women, either. Not much else could explain the elimination of Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai, and the bottom three placement of Allison Iraheta this week. Lil Rounds gave the weakest performance of the night, sure. Anoop gave an aiight performance, but one less awkward than Danny Gokey's "September" or Matt Giraud's "Stayin' Alive"—both of which came off as whiiiiite ass versions of songs with a decent amount of the whiteness in them to begin with. Allison straight-up killed it with her rock monster version of "Hot Stuff," and, again, none of the actual voters cared. Outside of the context of American Idol, Adam Lambert's "If I Can't Have You" and Kris Johnson/Smith/Whatever the hell his last name is's "She Works Hard For the Money" (which, he took the time to explain before singing, "is about a woman") were probably horrendous; in it, they were relatively satisfying. You can't really win with Disco Week. Either the songs are going to sound kitschy and dated—because most of the hits that contestants would pick ARE kitschy and dated—or the singers are going to make their own arrangements of the songs in which they seek the deep meanings behind Donna Summer's lyrics. I would like to see House Music Week, where contestants just repeat the same phrases over and over again, and then their eyes roll into the back of their heads, and someone has to drag them into the chill out room.
Survivor Tocantins: "The Biggest Fraud in the Game"
Remember a couple of weeks ago, when we were all like, "Survivor is awesome, but it's a little too boring this season to write about"? Well, it looked like Survivor: Tocantins would continue to prove us right, as the next episode contained a tribal merge and a lot of strategy talk, but no tribal council and no one getting voted off—as one of the competitors, Joe, got Medevaced out of the competition with an infected injury on his knee. All season long, it seems like the producers and editors have had a ton of plot that sounds exciting—blindsides, colorful casting, cross-tribal alliances—but have had little to no idea of how to make it translate to actual exciting television. Now, it looks like the editors are interested in simply letting some of the bizarre characters and situations do most of the work for them, turning the show more into a character sketch than a game show. Momentarily, it's working.
There's an interesting phenomenon happening, where every single player in the game has fallen in love with JT, the cattle rancher from Alabama. One guy, Brendon, is so smitten with JT that he's willing to lose the game in order to let JT win it. At one point, he confesses, "I stayed up all night. I sat in that shelter and did not sleep at all, just running through all the different scenarios about how do I get JT to the finals." Either Brenden was a little maladjusted before showing up to compete on Survivor: Tocantins, or the twenty-some days in the jungle have seriously taken a toll on him. Fittingly, he's voted off at the end of the episode—and, face it, when you start staying up all night trying to figure out how to get someone else to win, you should be—in favor of the tribe's keeping the person that has emerged as the show's star: Coach.
The editors have taken to just putting Coach on camera and letting him fly. He starts off the episode with a little advice: "No matter how bad it gets in your life, there's always something that's going to make it much worse." Later, in the episodes best moment, the players are competing in teams of three in a reward challenge, the object of which is to hurl a rock at an opposing team's colored tile in order to break it. The first team that breaks all of the opposing teams' tiles wins. Brendan, explaining why his team does not have an advantage, says, "We're throwing underhand, breaking tiles. None of us have ever done this in our lives." Coach raises his hand and says, "I have." But the thing that will probably go down as one of the best moments of Survivor: Tocantins is when the editors simply let Coach tell a long story at the top of the show. In the spirit of the episode, we'll just print that story verbatim:
"I want you guys to know that there are three people in the world that know this story. I was airlifted in [to the Amazon]. I had a military helicopter drop, actually drop me off a couple of feet from the ground, up in the Peruvian border, where the Amazon supposedly starts, and it was real rapidy. I had an eighteen foot kayak. I was paddling early one morning, and I just felt like, 'I'm being watched.' I look over and I think I see some indigenous people that are sitting there creeping through the bush. At first I counted six or seven of them. They're probably four, four and a half feet tall, and they've got their arrows… they've got their bow and arrows drawn. They jerk me out of the kayak, they tie me up, they tie my hands behind my back, they tie my feet, they drag me into this hut, they tie me to this stake, and they take turns beating me with a club. I don't know how long it lasted. Sometimes I blacked out. Sometimes I just went to a faraway place. I knew they were about ready to kill me. I finally wore through that rope and I slipped out the back. I got in the kayak and I dipped it in the water, and I paddled like hell. And I paddled so hard that my hands started bleeding. I just can't describe the feeling of being stalked by another human being."
Lost: "Some Like It Hoth" by Zeb L. West
"Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue?" This is the second time this cryptic spy-check question has gone unanswered, and the Lost community is a abuzz with speculation. Here at TFO headquarters, the Fax machine has been cranking out page after page of conspiracy theories from rabid fans who insist that "the well" (home of the icy crank) is the answer, because the statue's back is visible when the Dharma bums briefly visit the ancient past. At this point it's tough to speculate, but I'm open to kickass guesses in the comments section!
This week's episode focused on the heretofore elusive Miles, and the Producers have once again called upon the Creepy Kid Talent Agency, INC to provide another nightmare-inducing child actor to play the young ghost whisperer. In case your sleepless nights haven't already been plagued by images of young Aaron or Ben, we now have the tortured adolescent Miles, who in his teens turns to lip piercings and grunge to stave off the burdens of being a reluctant Medium. More straight-man/funny-man hijinks ensues between Miles and Hurley, but the biggest laughs came when uptight Dr. Chang joins the scene, un-ironically professing his love of Country music. I found it a bit rote that Miles is the all-too-familiar psychic who chooses to be a con man, but I'm holding out for an interesting WHY. With Lost's recent turn toward filling in gaps, it's easy to get distracted by additional back-story, but the real trick will be in learning WHY all these things tie together.
I would be remiss in my duties if I did not snark a little on the lame revelation that Hurley's secret journaling has really been an attempt to re-write The Empire Strikes Back. In some bizarre attempt to both glad-hand and totally insult the loyal hordes of geeks who love Lost, the writers decided Hurley should misremember the famous "I am your father" scene from Empire, which he drums up to convince Miles to reconcile with Dr. Chang. Hurley compares Miles' reaction to Luke's, who "found out Vader was his father…overreacted, and got his hand cut off." If the writers are going to claim Hurley has seen Empire "like 200 times" then they should at least have him remember those events in the right order.
I only point this out because it pains me to see my man Hurley, who is usually a reliable pop-culturist, look like a n00b. And because they were so proud of their cute little Star Wars references that they titled the episode "Some Like it Hoth." (If there's a connection to Marilyn Monroe or supergroup Power Station's 80s hit somewhere in there that makes this title clever, I didn't catch it.)
We round out the episode by finally learning the whereabouts of Daniel Faraday, who we last saw babbling incoherently as he lamented the death of his last-minute love Charlotte. As it turns out, the physicist has been breaking one of the main 'rules' of the island - by leaving! Granted, these rules may only apply to the hostiles, who build strange Egyptian-esque temples, have a good rapport with the black smoke, drink tea with Jacob and probably know the lay of the statue's shadow like the back of their collective hands. But still, the fact remains that a perfectly sane Farady has been gallivanting in the 70s doing lord-knows-what!
My guess: He was out in Hollywood, coaching a young George Lucas in the delicate art of crafting a space opera.
-Sean Witzke, Martin Brown & Tucker Stone, 2009
Tucker Stone in Television | Permalink
Tags: 24, american idol, boosh, lost, survivor, television
I don't watch survivor, so I know nothing about this Coach fellow, but his story sounds pretty unbelievable. Is there a chance that it's true, or is he a bullshit artist like it seems? Because it sounds totally made up, at least from reading the transcript. Eh, screw it; I'll just keep an image in my head of an annoying guy spouting ridiculous stories about idiotic adventures.
Posted by: Matthew J. Brady | 2009.04.23 at 11:00
Hey Matthew, was Dollhouse canceled this week? Or is fox just moving it around now that they know it's not coming back?
Posted by: Sean Witzke | 2009.04.23 at 11:07
Not only did the producers and everyone that was there know he was full of shit, but they just let him go, and aired it practically uncut. Coach is totally an annoying guy, but he's easily the best thing this season has going for it.
Posted by: Marty | 2009.04.23 at 12:23
I hope Voight pulls through, only so he can purse those wet, wet, Midnight Cowboy lips together when Jack's dad shows up as the Master-mastermind.
You know he will, now that there is another Bauer grandchild in the mix. Kim named the kid Teri? In honor of her mom that was pregnant when she was killed by her father's traitor mistress, spending the last 12 hours of her life suffering amnesia while looking for her spoiled runaway daughter?
those will be some awkward Thanksgiving dinners.
Posted by: seth hurley | 2009.04.23 at 22:08
Hey Sean, they just didn't show new Dollhouse this week, that's all.
Oh god, I don't think I could handle more James Cromwell. I wish they'd recast Jack's dad to be James Garner. That would be fun.
Posted by: Tucker Stone | 2009.04.23 at 22:24
Maybe Hurley has the order wrong because that was the version he saw and the ending we know is the one in the journal he is writing. This would be an awesome idea if they didn't already state that the past cannot be changed. Maybe he gets Desmond, who is immune to the plot-rule, to do it.
Posted by: Mr. Rendon | 2009.04.24 at 12:06
What Tucker said. I thought about writing about Fringe, but that show isn't inspiring much from me lately beyond barely being able to stay awake.
@Mr. Rendon - That's an incredibly clever counter-theory and if you hadn't poked a hole in it yourself, I probably could have been convinced! :)
And if Faraday's new attitude is any indication, even that rule might be reversed!
Posted by: Squidhelmet | 2009.05.05 at 22:21


Because she's been a spy, an assassin, and a political intrigue expert for several centuries? What can I say, she tends to go where the trouble is. Her influence is often subtle for how powerful she is, but it's there. Only on rare occasions does she start incidents of historic import (and poor Ferdinand seems to get waxed in most dimensions) but she does like to finish them.


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David Adams is not just a staple of the annual organ recital series on the Rieger organ of St Michael's Church, Dún Laoghaire. He's the man who regularly gives the closing recital, and he often chooses programmes that are utterly unlike anyone else's. This year he leaps from the late 19th-century showmanship of Widor's Marche pontificale to Alberto Ginastera's 1980 virtuosic treatment of a fifth-century musical fragment, Variazioni e Toccata sopra Aurora lucis rutilat. That's followed by Mauricio Kagel's Rrrrrrr . . ., a set of pieces from 1980-81 all bearing titles starting with the letter "r", and Andrew Johnstone's arrangement of Astor Piazzolla's 1962 La Muerte del Angel. You get the idea. There's no predicting where Adams's fancy will take him. Works by Enrico Bossi (1861-1925), Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) and Henri Mulet (1878-1967) complete the evening.
Claudio Monteverdi, the earliest great opera composer, had to wait a long time for the revival of his stage works. There was a gap of over 250 years from the last 17th-century performance of one of his operas to the first 20th-century concert performance of his Orfeo in 1904. Orfeo didn't make it to Ireland until 1973, when Eric Sweeney conducted a production for the Dublin Theatre Festival, and performances have not exactly been frequent since then. So if you don't catch the last two performances of Patrick Mason's Opera Collective Ireland production of The Return of Ulysses with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin under Christian Curnyn, you might have to wait a decade or more before the next Monteverdi production comes along. The title role is taken by Gyula Nagy, with Raphaela Mangan as his long-suffering wife, Penelope.
The big attraction at this year's Westport Chamber Music Festival is the tenor Robin Tritschler. He's going to be heard in works familiar (Schumann's Dichterliebe with Michael McHale) and unfamiliar (Milhaud's Chants populaires hébraïques and Honegger's Petite Cours de morale with Diana Ketler, and Lowell Liebermann's Yeats setting, A Poet to his Beloved, with the Heath Quartet, flautist William Dowdall and pianist Hugh Tinney). Other notable guests include cellist Natalie Clein (playing Shostakovich with Ketler and Fauré's Piano Quartet in G minor with McHale, violinist Giovanni Guzzo and viola player Eivind Holtsmark Ringstad). This year's Next Generation Artist Concert brings together cellist Killian White and pianist Gary Beecher for works by Beethoven, Debussy and Schumann.
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National Public Works Week WINNER!
As we close out this week of celebrations we'd like to once again extend our gratitude to all of you. We are happy to acknowledge the "quiet dedication and indispensable influence" of all our friends in the Public Works world.
We're ending the week with a glimpse at the more unusual side of citizen requests. No doubt you hear a wide range of requests and complaints from your community, and this example had us laughing.
We received this submission from Anne Harrison, the City's Citizen Service Representative.
He then asked if I would please just send a pulse through the wire enough to shock them, so they will not land at his yard any more!
We're assuming she answered 'no' to that last request! Thanks for the chuckle, and thanks for your dedication (and patience)!
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Pedagogy in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Karina Martin Hogan, Matthew Goff, Emma Wasserman, editors
EJL 41
Engage fourteen essays from an international group of experts
There is little direct evidence for formal education in the Bible and in the texts of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. At the same time, pedagogy and character formation are important themes in many of these texts. This book explores the pedagogical purpose of wisdom literature, in which the concept of discipline (Hebrew musar) is closely tied to the acquisition of wisdom. It examines how and why the concept of musar came to be translated as paideia (education, enculturation) in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint), and how the concept of paideia was deployed by ancient Jewish authors writing in Greek. The different understandings of paideia in wisdom and apocalyptic writings of Second Temple Judaism are this book's primary focus. It also examines how early Christians adapted the concept of paideia, influenced by both the Septuagint and Greco-Roman understandings of this concept.
A thorough lexical study of the term paideia in the Septuagint
Exploration of the relationship of wisdom and Torah in Second Temple Judaism
Examination of how Christians developed new forms of pedagogy in competition with Jewish and pagan systems of education
Karina Martin Hogan is Associate Professor of Theology and Women's Studies at Fordham University. She is on the editorial board of the Journal for the Study of Judaism, the Journal for the Study of Judaism Supplement Series, and the Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph Series. She is the author of Theologies in Conflict in 4 Ezra (2008).
Matthew Goff is Professor of Religion at Florida State University. He is the author most recently of 4QInstruction: A Commentary (2013).
Emma Wasserman is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Her most recent book Apocalypse as Holy War: Divine Politics and Polemics in the World of Paul is forthcoming in the Anchor Yale Bible Series.


Newcastle left-back Jose Enrique believes Manchester City midfielder Nigel de Jong should be banned from football until Hatem Ben Arfa is back playing again.
The Dutchman's tackle left Ben Arfa with a broken leg in two places, which is likely to keep him out until March at the earliest.
The challenge, which came just three minutes into City's 2-1 victory over Newcastle, was described by Magpies boss Chris Hughton as 'unnecessary'.
And Ben Arfa's Newcastle team-mate Enrique thinks De Jong's punishment should match the crime.
"They should ban De Jong until Ben Arfa can play again," Enrique told reporters after the game.
The incident was reminiscent of scenes from the World Cup final, when De Jong escaped a red card from Howard Webb following his chest-high foul on Alonso during Holland's 1-0 defeat in South Africa.
Frenchman Ben Arfa, on a season-long loan from Marseille, has insisted he will come back strongly.
The FA are unlikely to punish De Jong as the referee saw the tackle but chose not to award a foul.
He has though been punished by his country, with Holland manager Bert van Marwijk dropping him for their upcoming qualifiers against Sweden and Moldova.


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To do something in a new way. She really broke the mold with her innovative approach to this notification system—several companies have since adopted her method.
COMMON If someone or something breaks the mould, they completely change the way something has traditionally been done, and do it in a new way. Note: The `mould' in these expressions is a container that is used to make something into a particular shape. Soft or liquid substances are put into the mould, and when they harden they form objects with the shape or pattern of the mould. His ambition is to create a third party and break the mould of US two-party politics. Together, these alternative, left-wing comics broke the British comedy mould in the late Seventies. Note: The verbs shatter and crack are sometimes used instead of break. These people shattered the mould of South African politics. Note: You can use mould-breaking to describe someone or something that completely changes the way something has traditionally been done. Later that year, he launched a mould-breaking wine business. Note: You can use mould-breaker to describe someone who has done something in a completely new way or something that has been done in a completely new way. As the first female partner in one of Scotland's top 10 legal firms, she was something of a mould-breaker in the legal world. The lifestyle magazine he launched in 1994 was a mould-breaker and a commercial success.
put an end to a pattern of events or behaviour, especially one that has become rigid and restrictive, by doing things in a markedly different way.
Originally this phrase referred to casting artefacts in moulds: destroying a mould ensured that no further identical examples could be produced. The expression became a catchphrase in Britain in the early 1980s with the foundation of the Social Democratic Party. Its founders promoted the party as breaking the 'out-of-date mould' of British politics, a phrase used by Roy Jenkins in a speech in 1980 .
(British English) (American English break the ˈmold (of something)) change what people expect from a situation, especially by acting in a dramatic and original way: After a string of defeats, he finally broke the mould by getting through to the semi-finals of a major competition.
A mould/mold is a container that you pour a liquid or soft substance into, which then becomes solid in the same shape as the container.
And now, as part of her job for this university that has a ratio of four women to every man, and offers graduate degrees in second- and foreign-language education, Tomoko travels the world, including many Third World countries, looking for bright young women who want to break the mold.
Hubbard for the job he did here in trying to break the mold of California racing,'' Van de Kamp said.
LOS ANGELES -- La Curacao, the Hispanic retail department store chain, known for its outside-of-the-box marketing strategies that have successfully captured its ever-growing Latino immigrant clientele, will again attempt to break the mold when it launches its new "La Curacao Money Transfer" service.
Hanks likens the cable channel to the BBC in terms of its willingness to break the mold.
HS International, LLC is focused on fashion forward lifestyle products that break the mold and offer alternatives to the boring and mundane.
He has pioneered new avenues of drug design to break the mold of traditional pharmaceutical drug development, which typically aims to produce new drugs that can reap sufficiently large returns in developed countries to cover the high cost of research.
Two predictions which will break the mold of this research: Pepsi's brilliant campaign offering 100 million free iTunes will get people to switch to Pepsi.


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Die Impaktgesteine Wengenhausen befinden sich in einem Steinbruch nahe Wengenhausen einem Ortsteil der Gemeinde Marktoffingen im schwäbischen Landkreis Donau-Ries in Bayern.

Lage
Der Steinbruch befindet sich etwa 450 Meter nordwestlich von Wengenhausen. Das Areal ist als Geschützter Landschaftsbestandteil ausgewiesen.

Beschreibung
Im Südostteil des ehemaligen Steinbruches stehen stark zerklüftete Kristallingesteine, die von mehreren Metern mächtigen Kristallinbrekzie überlagert werden. Im Nordteil des Steinbruches liegt über der Kristallinbrekzie der Süßwasserkalk des ehemaligen Ries-Sees.

In zertrümmerten Kristallingesteinen des ehemaligen Steinbruches wurden sogenannte "shatter cones" (Strahlenkegel) gefunden. Strahlenkegel bilden sich beim Einwirken von hohen Drücken und sind ein Beweis, dass der Ries-Krater des Nördlinger Ries durch einen Meteoriten-Einschlag entstanden ist. Am oberen Rand des Aufschlusses erkennt man die gelb gefärbten Sedimente des Kratersees. Darunter liegen die Trümmergesteine des kristallinen Grundgebirges. Die "polymikte Kristallinbrekzie" besteht aus Bruchstücken unterschiedlicher Kristallingesteine wie Gneis, Granit oder Amphibolit.

Vor etwa 14,5 Millionen Jahren, zur Zeit des Tertiärs, schlug im Übergangsbereich der heutigen schwäbischen- und fränkischen Alb ein rund ein Kilometer mächtiger Meteorit mit einer Geschwindigkeit von etwa 70.000 km/h ein. Seine Aufprallenergie entsprach der Energie von 250.000 Atombomben des in Hiroshima verwendeten Typs. Der Meteorit durchschlug dabei 600 Meter dicke Ablagerungen der Jura- und Keuperzeit und zertrümmerte das darunter liegenden kristalline Grundgebirge bis in eine Tiefe von sechs Kilometer. Gesteine wurden hierbei zerbrochen, umgewandelt, ausgeworfen, aufgeschmolzen oder verdampften ebenso wie ein Großteil des Meteorits. Durch Rückfedern des Kraterbodens gelangte das sonst im Untergrund liegende kristalline Grundgebirge somit an die Oberfläche. Übrig blieb ein Krater mit 25 Kilometer Durchmesser, an den sich großflächige Auswurfmassen anschließen. Nur Sekunden nach dem Einschlag löschte eine Druck- und Hitzewelle das Leben in weitem Umkreis aus.

Nachfolgend entstand im Einschlagskrater ein abflussloser See, der mehrfach zeitweise trocken fiel. Bäche und Schlammströme schwemmten Gesteinsschutt hinein und bildeten mächtige Seeablagerungen. In flachen Uferbereichen entstanden fossilreiche Kalke. Nach rund zwei Millionen Jahren war der Krater vollständig mit Ablagerungen gefüllt.

Seit mehr als 200 Jahren beschäftigen sich Wissenschaftler mit dem Nördlinger Ries und seinen Gesteinen. Lange Zeit nahm man eine vulkanische Entstehung des Kraters an. Um ortsfremde Gesteine und Schliff-Flächen zu erklären, wurde fälschlicherweise sogar ein "Riesgletscher" als Theorie aufgebracht. 1904 äußerte der Schwäbisch Gmünder Kaufmann Ernst Werner erstmals die Theorie der Entstehung durch einen kosmischen Einschlag. Beweise für diese Theorie wurden jedoch erst 1961 gefunden. Da entdeckte man im Suevit (auch Schwabenstein genannt), die Minerale Coesit und Stishovit. Das sind besondere Formen von Quarz, die nur bei extrem hohen Drücken wie bei einem Meteoriteneinschlag gebildet werden.

Neuerdings fand man ein weiteres Mineral in den Sueviten, das nur bei sehr hohen Drücken entsteht. Es sind mikroskopisch kleine Diamanten, sogenannte Impaktdiamanten.

Geotop
Der Steinbruch ist vom Bayerischen Landesamt für Umwelt (LfU) als geowissenschaftlich besonders wertvolles Geotop (Geotop-Nummer: 779A012) ausgewiesen. Er wurde auch vom LfU mit dem offiziellen Gütesiegel Bayerns schönste Geotope ausgezeichnet.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Geotope im Landkreis Donau-Ries

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 www.naturpark-altmuehltal.de, Impaktgesteine Wengenhausen

Geotop im Landkreis Donau-Ries
Marktoffingen
Geographie (Landkreis Donau-Ries)
Steinbruch in Bayern
Geschützter Landschaftsbestandteil in Bayern

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Remember Cameron from our recent interview about energy healing? Well she is back to talk about the power of choice and how we can use it to bring more happiness and joy into our lives!
Let's get real for a minute. Take a quick survey of your life in this moment, everything from how satisfied you feel in your career to how connected you feel in your day right now.
Everything in tip-top shape? Or feeling like there's definitely room for improvement?
The thing is, there will always be room for growth and improvement in life. It's a simple fact of being human. We're rarely satisfied and often looking to expand to the next level.
There are ladders to climb in every direction we look, and sometimes that feeling of not being where we want to be or not feeling good enough can feel totally debilitating. Overwhelming.
The good news is, there's a way out. You don't have to live with a looming feeling of dissatisfaction any longer...that is if you're willing to do the work.
Because the solution is simple, but it's not easy.
So what's the answer? One word: choice.
You have a choice to react, or you can take a deep breath and let it go.
You have a choice to complain and be frustrated, or you can do something about it to create change.
You have a choice to get annoyed, or you can share your opinion and move on.
The solution to free yourself from the epic drama that is the human experience lies in every single choice you make.
Taking stock of your choices is very tedious. It's a full time job that requires a keen attention to detail.
So how do you start overhauling your mental outlook? It's easy to justify your feelings of dissatisfaction.
It takes a willingness to broaden your perspective and accept that there could be another solution to create a mindset shift. That being said, I'm going to ask that you check any pity parties you're throwing for yourself at the door.
Now, let's get real. Are your choices supporting your needs?
Problem: "I'm not happy with my job."
Is your choice supporting your needs? What other options do you have? Are you stuck because you refuse to leave? Have you tried to talk to someone at your place of work to improve your dissatisfaction?
Problem: "I'm unhappy in my relationship."
Is your choice supporting your needs? Have you communicated what you're unhappy about? What could you do on your end to improve the situation (relationships are not a one-way street)? What do you need to receive in order to improve the situation? Would life get easier if you were single?
Problem: "I want to be making more money."
Is your choice supporting your needs? Have you asked for a raise? Or have you raised your prices in the past year? Do you allow your inner voice to talk you out of your creativity or do you choose old habits over creative ones? What hobbies or creative ideas do you have? Can you sell anything on Etsy, Amazon, Ebay or your local farmer's market?
Problem: "I wish I was in a relationship."
Is your choice supporting your needs? Are you willing to allow yourself to get vulnerable? Are you allowing the fear of rejection to outweigh your desire for a loving relationship? What are you doing to meet new people, or connect with people you already know, romantically?
Life is all about choices. And it's impossible to make a wrong choice when you're following the path of joy.
How am I to be sure I'm making the right choice?
Your life, everyone's life, is about joy.
When you make decisions that increase your ability to create, play or experience joy, you're moving in a direction that is unquestionably supporting yourself and your long-term needs.
The catch is, we have to choose the path of joy. That means making choices that put ourselves first, before deadlines or obligations. That means speaking up for our needs and finding the courage and confidence to ask for what we need, be it a raise, more time off or an apology (instead of expecting those things to happen).
Your well being comes down to how well you're managing your joy. And the choices you make to honor and respect your joy above anything else.
So, allow me to ask you again: Take a quick survey of your life in this moment, everything from how satisfied you feel in your career to how connected you feel in your day right now.
What choices will you make to improve your life today?
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94-year-old's pool is most watched Land of 2017
Lonely after the death of his wife, Keith Davison has filled his yard with children by installing a pool
Author: Boyd Huppert
Published: 9:13 PM CST January 1, 2018
Updated: 10:30 PM CST January 1, 2018
Editor's Note: This was our most-watched Land of 10,000 Stories of 2017. Judge Davison is looking forward to opening his pool again in the spring. But he has some big plans before then. TV's Rachael Ray saw his story – and is sending him on an all-expenses paid trip to a resort in the Dominican Republic.
MORRIS, Minn. – Peace and quiet seem like a good thing, until you've had too much. Keith Davison got his fill in the months that followed the death of his wife Evy.
"You just can't imagine what it's like," says Davison, who lost his wife to cancer in 2016 after a marriage of 66 years. "You cry a lot. That's just the way it is, because she's not here."
But it's not quiet at Davison's house anymore. Late this spring the 94-year-old retired judge installed in his backyard an in-ground pool – then filled it with the neighborhood kids.
Pool time in 94-year-old Keith Davison's new backyard addition
"I knew they'd come," says Davison, laughing.
Plenty of people thought he was kidding when Davison first floated the idea. His neighbor Jessica Huebner was among them. "This spring when I saw him marking the yard, I told my husband, he's really going to put a pool in his backyard."
94-year-old retired judge Keith Davison shares time at his new pool with neighbor Jessica Huebner and her daughter Irelynn
Since the opening of the pool in July, Huebner and her four children have been regulars. "It's him spreading joy throughout our neighborhood for these kids," Huebner says.
Davison's backyard addition is no mere wading pool, at 32 feet long – and 9 feet deep under the diving board. It's a welcome addition in a town that doesn't have an outdoor public pool.
The backyard pool just installed by 94-year-old Keith Davison
"Now we're going to be here every day," says Jaime Mundal, a neighborhood mom.
Davison has three adult children, but no grandchildren. Huebner says she now tells her neighbor, "'You kind of adopted our whole neighborhood of kids, these are your grandkids.'"
As a dozen children giggle their way through diving board flips and pool volleyball, Davison sits nearby in the shade, enjoying the show from his lawn chair. His pool rules require a parent or grandparent also be present when children are swimming.
94-year-old Keith Davison watched the neighborhood children play in his new backyard pool
Davison says the kids won't be having all the fun. He still enjoys swimming himself after the children have gone home.
Still, Davison is first to admit, from an economic standpoint, there's no sense to be made of a 94-year-old installing a pool. He just doesn't care. "I'm not sitting by myself looking at the walls," he smiles. Besides, Davison asks, "What else would you think of doing where you could have a whole bunch of kids over every afternoon?"
Grief can be a deep, lonely place. Keith Davison took another step out, the day the neighborhood dove in.
PHOTOS: Judge pool land
Retired judge Keith Davison relaxing next to his new backyard pool
94-year-old Keith Davison (center, back of photo) visits with his neighbors alongside his new swimming pool
Keith Davison in his favorite room in the house, where he used to spend time with his wife Evy.
94-year-old Keith Davison sits in the shade enjoying his pool full of neighborhood children


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SBBN Relationship Building Local to Worldwide
By Sandy Goe | March 24, 2021 | 0
The Santa Barbara Business Network joins BeeKonnected The Santa Barbara Business Network (SBBN) is defying effects of social distancing with building relationships through virtual networking events and reaching beyond local parameters through it's association with the new global B2B business community called BeeKonnected. The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the livelihood of individuals, businesses, and our…
Spite the Covid-19 Affect – Reach Out and Make Alliances
By Sandy Goe | January 31, 2021 | 0
The Covid-19 has had economic, social and psychological impacts. Enough of the isolation! Enough of making decisions based on fear and the "what if"s. The future generations will forever be affected by the decisions we make today. As an entrepreneur and leader in your field, you have the power to make a difference, the power…
2020 Viva la Fiesta! Old Spanish Days in Santa Barbara
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2020 is like no other year before! As the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world during the first months of the year, "business as usual" is gone. Every business owner and event planner knows the challenges and urgency to pivot quickly and get innovative with their resources. The annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta is no exception.…
NEW Santa Barbara Promenade? What do you think?
What are your thoughts? Keep parts of State Street blocked off? What would you like the name to be? What are your thoughts on other Santa Barbara developments? This is YOUR opportunity to contribute towards the decisions that will be made. The Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Institute of Architects is conducting a 2020 Design Charrette to…
Is your Business Ready to reopen successfully? Part 1
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Article written by Mary Jean Vignone, Success Reach Ltd. Who could have predicted that we will be sheltering in place when you set your 2020 business goals back in January? Here we are after months of stores, restaurants, and businesses closed, and millions of people on unemployment. It's hard to believe that we find ourselves…


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Cambridge City Council
Row over 'commercial motivation' behind Park Street redevelopment
The Liberal Democrat opposition have criticised the council's plan
Benjamin Hatton
Park Street car park design plans
The major redevelopment of a city centre car park has been criticised as being "entirely commercially motivated".
Cambridge City Council announced on Tuesday (February 4) that it plans to fund the scheme to demolish Park Street car park and build an aparthotel with underground public parking in its place.
The council's investment deal is still being negotiated and yet to be finalised, but is expected to cost around £80million to £90million which the council said would create revenue to fund services.
The investment will be the "biggest single financial investment" in the council's history, according to leader Cllr Lewis Herbert.
But opposition group leader Cllr Tim Bick has criticised the move.
"Labour is straining to make the best out of an entirely commercially motivated scheme," he said.
"What a pity they couldn't have used this site to address some of the city's housing deficit and still obtained a financial return.
"What a pity the new building won't achieve a carbon neutral standard and still builds in reliance on gas.
"And what a pity the scheme eliminates the existing public service of public toilets. Overall the council's declared values are being sidelined and a huge opportunity is being missed."
New details emerge about the Park Street Car Park redevelopment
The most rat-infested parts of Cambridge revealed
Redevelopment will 'generate £10m for affordable housing'
But Cllr Herbert responded to the criticism, highlighting that the scheme includes an environmentally friendly build, and will generate £10million for affordable housing.
"The carefully prepared transformation plans for Park Street Car Park have always had ambitious multiple objectives to meet the needs of our whole community, contrary to the misleading and selective claims that opposition councillors continue to make," he added.
"The planned BREEAM Excellent low carbon building adds an aparthotel and shrinks the car park by a third in line with expected future reductions in cars entering Cambridge.
"The whole of the ground floor is dedicated to expanded secure cycle parking, subject to further detailed design work with CamCycle, and the scheme will generate a new £10m investment in affordable housing.
"The council also plan to invest £100,000 of next year's city budget to expand nearby toilets that already exist at Quayside, including to add a Changing Places type toilet to greatly assist disabled visitors and families.
"Toilets built into city centre car parks are regularly and badly damaged and vandalised and sadly that has been a serious, repeated problem at Park Street.
"For that reason, no other Cambridge car parks have had toilets added, so the intention, like at the Grand Arcade and Grafton car parks, is to have future toilets a short walking distance away, in this case at Quayside."
Lewis Herbert
Tim Bick


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ELCA Bishop Gordy: 'Resist These Repressive Laws' on Immigration
Bishop H. Julian Gordy of the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on September 4 joined bishops from the United Methodist Church in Southern California and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock for a screening and discussion of the documentary film "Gospel Without Borders."
According to the Baptist Center for Ethics, which produced the film and hosted the event, the screening was one of the few autonomous faith events held around the Sept. 4-6 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The film looks at the lives of undocumented migrants who find their way to communities across the United States. A second screening was held at Park Road Baptist Church with faith leaders from Arkansas and North Carolina.
Bishop Gordy chairs the ELCA's Immigration Ready Bench and has long been an advocate in support of fair and humane immigration reform and against harmful state immigration laws.
"I believe that as people who follow Jesus, we Christians are called to resist these repressive laws," he is quoted as saying in Michael Cass's September 4 article in The Tennessean, "Nashville Faith Group's Film on Immigration Screened at Democratic National Convention."
"They're mean-spirited, and they don't do anything to make us safer," Bishop Gordy told the audience in a post-screening session with the religious leaders. "What they do is foster a spirit of hostility and suspicion and ethnic discrimination."
LIRS is grateful for Bishop Gordy's work to encourage others in his synod, such as the Southeastern Synod Lutheran Youth Organization, to Stand for Welcome and bear witness to our broken immigration system.


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Сулейман аль-Джерби () — ливийский политик, дипломат и государственный деятель. Был министром иностранных дел Королевства Ливия с 4 мая 1961 года по 27 января 1962 года.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, in conjunction with the University of Maryland, is convening an international conference on European perspectives on poverty, inequality and social exclusion, currently scheduled to be held in Paris on March 16-17. The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading scholars from Europe as well as from North America whose research focuses on measures of poverty, inequality and social exclusion along with their uses in policy. The papers presented at the conference will be published by the Oxford University Press in an edited volume. The volume is intended to provide a high level reflection of the European perspective on measures of poverty and inequality and their uses in a policy context for academic and policymaking communities interested in the topic.


The King's Arms is a free house pub that's at least 350 years old (the building is Grade II listed). It was a King and Barnes pub (the brewery tap) and subsequently part of the Hall and Woodhouse pub estate. It became a free house in late 2017 and was refurbished in early 2018 with a re-opening on 2nd March.
The pub has five hand pumps and sells several local ales including, when I visited, beers from Chapeau Brewing, Welton's and Dark Star Brewery. Update: Brolly Brewing have their Bishop's Pric ale at the pub.
There are two oak-beamed bar areas with stone floors. And a wood-burning stove that makes it very cosy in the winter.


UPDATE: Deputies said they have located Amber Messervey.
Authorities in Ontario County are asking for your help finding a missing South Bristol woman.
Twenty-seven-year-old Amber Messervey was last seen Saturday evening around 6:30 getting into a dark Dodge pickup with a man and a woman.
She was supposed to be getting a tattoo -- possibly in the Dansville area.
She is 5-foot-6, 120 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She has a tattoo on her left arm, and the word "Forever" on her right wrist.


As you read this story, you're probably not thinking about the coal, sunlight, or nuclear power that transformed into the electricity that now powers the device you are using.
Students in the R.C. Hill 4th grade classroom of Mrs. Cynthia Abel have been studying energy, and more specifically, how energy transforms. For example, in the video you'll see how light powers a radiometer and how light raises air temperature.
As you watch the video, don't be alarmed by the noises in the background. One of the stations in the classroom had students trying to move objects with the vibration of their voices. Being the intuitive learners that they are, they figured out pretty quickly the louder the voice, the more vibration! Watch the Video!
Everyday after school throughout VVSD, teachers and staff members facilitate and nurture the interests of students through extra-curricular activities. Many of the activities are well-known such as athletics and the performing arts.
But there's also a myriad of other clubs formed by teachers and students to meet the specific, and sometimes esoteric interests of our students. Come with us to visit the A. Vito Martinez Middle School Knitting and Crochet Club, advised by 7th Grade Language Arts Teacher Mrs. Vicki Witt. For one student, his participation fits like a glove! Watch the Video!
B.J. Ward 1st grader Manuel Nunez's dream is to become a Navy SEAL. If he follows through on that dream, he will be the second soldier in his family.
You see, Manuel's mom, Jacquelyne Rock is a member of the United State Army. Pvt. Rock was deployed right after Manuel's birthday in October and had not seen Manuel since, so when she had a window of time to come home for the Holidays, she surprised Manuel by showing up unannounced to greet Manuel at B.J. Ward on the final day of school before Christmas.
Division with negative numbers has caused angst among students since the dawn of mankind. Multiplication with negatives is a concept that is reasonably learned, but, division, OMG!
Watch the video and take a visit to the Humphrey Middle School 7th grade math classroom of Mrs. Margot McNulty and Mr. Michael Data. The students have just solved multiplication statements with one unknown. Now, the task is to rewrite those statements as division equations.
The purpose of the lesson is to demonstrate the rules for determining if a quotient is negative or positive, are the same as for determining if a product is negative or positive. (Please note this video was captured during 1st period on a Monday morning!) Watch the Video!
We compiled a list of the most watched VVSD videos of 2018 and counted them down on the VVSD Facebook page during Holiday Break. Here's a recap of the Top Five.
#4 Rules of the Road Regarding School Buses- Courtesy of the Village of Romeoville Police Department.
The Bolingbrook HS Boys' Basketball team has been a regular member of the Chicago Sun-Times Top 25 this season and will be making two TV appearances this weekend. On Fri. Jan. 18 Bolingbrook HS will visit Homewood-Flossmoor HS at 7 p.m., and on Mon. Jan. 21 Bolingbrook HS will face Morgan Park HS at 2 p.m. in the City-Suburban Shootout at Fenwick HS. Both games will be broadcast live on WCIU's UToo Channel 26.2. The UToo can also be found on Xfinity 230 & 360, RCN Cable 35, WOW Cable 170, DISH Network 48, and U-Verse 24.
Three VVSD middle school cheer teams competed at the IESA State Cheerleading Championships on Sat. Jan. 12 at the Peoria Civic Center. Brooks Middle School placed 7th in Small Team Cheer. Jane Addams Middle School placed 7th in Medium Team Cheer. A. Vito Martinez Middle School placed 9th in Large Team Routine.
Brooks Middle School 7th grader Sumaiya Idress was the last speller standing and champion of the Brooks Spelling Bee. Finishing second was 7th grader Baraka Mujitaba, and third was 8th grader Aaliyah Glover. Sofia Aragon was the winner of the 6th grade title.
The 2019 Spelling Bee Champion at Jane Addams Middle School is 6th grader Ishika Rana. Her winning word was "exordium". Finishing in 2nd place was 7th grader Yulian Lezama and 3rd place was claimed by 8th grader Nathan Dowuonah.
At Lukancic Middle School, the Spelling Bee came down to two 7th graders with Noah Pulins emerging as champion in the 20th round. Noah claimed first place by correctly spelling "astonishment". 7th grader Heavenly Carlos finished second. The 8th grade champion is Collin Johnson and the 6th grade winner is Taejon White.
The Black History Month Awareness Club & Valley View School District Present the 21st Annual Community Wide Black History Month Celebration "Soaring to New Heights" on Sat. Feb. 9 from 2-5 p.m. in the Roger and Pat Claar Family Auditorium at Bolingbrook HS. Admission is free.
Left- Wood View Elementary has set their daily attendance goal at 100%. In order to reach that goal, Community Schools Coordinator Mrs. Leanne Lyons and Security Office Mr. Steve Potete have begun at "Walking School Bus" program which will visit homes of students to reinforce the importance of being in school every day.
Center- The office staff at Tibbott Elementary School dressed to bring to life some of the titles from the "If You Give a......." series of children's books. From left to right: "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie", "If You Give a Pig a Party", "If You Give a Dog a Donut", If You Give a Moose a Muffin", "If You Give a Cat a Cupcake".
Right- The Wood View Robotics Club is preparing for the 4H Robotics Competition. The students were visited by Ms. Megan Walsh from the University of Illinois and 4H. She discussed some of the possible challenges of the contest and gave students a few tips.
The Bolingbrook HS Speech Team is hosting the 11th Annual Tournament of Dreams on Sat. Jan. 19. The tournament honors the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and all 14 IHSA Speech Individual Events will be contested among 26 participating schools. The Tournament is open to the public and there is not charge to attend. Competition begins at 8 am and continues throughout the day. Enter through Door 17. The awards ceremony at 4:30 will be preceded by a rock show by the BHS Music Revolution Club and a special performance by the BHS Speech Team dedicated to Dr. King's Dream.
The Romeoville HS Spartan Dugout Club is hosting their annual fundraiser on Sat. Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. at Strike N Spare in Lockport. Tickets are $50 per couple or, $30 for an individual, and include three games of bowling, shoes, and a buffet. You must be 21 years old or older to attend. For more information visit the Romeoville HS Spartan Dugout Club Facebook page.
The Bolingbrook Park District Winterfest "Flurries and Fun" is coming up on Sat. Feb. 9 from 10 am - 2 pm at the Annerino Community Center. There is no charge to attend the event. For more information about Winterfest and all Bolingbrook Park District programs, visit the Bolingbrook Park District web site.