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New Essex hospice celebrates 'topping out'
August 22, 2019 | No Comments
Categories: Care, Featured, and People & Places.
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A major milestone has been reached in the building of a new hospice for Essex. Lydia Plews, whose mum was cared for at Fair Havens Hospice before she died, explains why the new facility will be so important for local community.
This week the last piece of the roof was fixed in place at the new Fair Havens Hospice in Southend, part of Havens Hospices. The 'topping out' event was attended by staff and volunteers who, in spring 2020, will be caring for patients in this building.
The term 'topping out' refers to the installation of the final piece of the roof, meaning the building has reached its maximum height. The honour of fitting the final tile was given to one of the charity's fundraisers, Lydia Plews. Her mum Mary was cared for by the existing Fair Havens Hospice before she died in July 2012, eventually inspiring Lydia to apply for a job raising money for the charity.
Mary, 54, was a nurse at Southend Hospital and had worked with many of the Care Team at Fair Havens. Lydia says: "I think if we knew more about Fair Havens earlier, we could've persuaded her to [come to] the hospice and may have had a few more weeks with her as the doctors and nurses at the hospice were brilliant.
"It was tough for us, but for the Care Team too. Many of them knew mum but for her it was a comfort to know she was being looked after by those who knew her best. She was absolutely clear she didn't want to die at home so to be at the hospice being cared for by a trained palliative care team – who involved us in everything – was just amazing.
"Mum died at 6.10pm on Monday 9 July 2012. We were all there and Fair Havens Hospice helped make this happen.
"Before mum became ill, we remember her talking fondly about Fair Havens when they announced they needed a bigger hospice to care for more people. She talked clearly about the importance of the hospice and that has never left us.
"We had a really positive experience at Fair Havens Hospice, and we feel fortunate that mum managed to get a bed. But to think about those 11 patients every month who can't get a bed because there isn't room is heart-breaking. This is why the new Fair Havens is so important."
"It's been a real privilege to be part of this topping out ceremony. We are nearly at the point of completion. I am so pleased to be part of this project and take great comfort in the fact that we'll be able to care for twice as many families, just like mine."
'Topping out' is a significant development as it means that the hospice is now officially watertight so work can start on the inside of the building, creating rooms for the patients. Thanks to increased Day Hospice and Wellbeing support, the hospice will be able to care for twice as many patients as it currently can.
The building was designed by LSI Architects and the project is being managed by Barnes Construction, which has experience in building healthcare environments having worked on Arthur Rank Hospice and the East Anglian Children's Hospice.
Mark Hart, Joint Managing Director at Barnes Construction said: "As the focus shifts to the interior, the project has reached its busiest stage with over 70 people covering a range of trades from electricians and plasterers, to carpenters and glaziers, now on site at the same time, all working together so the hospice can start caring for patients in spring 2020."
The project has cost £17.2 million and there is just £350,000 left to raise. The charity has launched its 'Power of a Pound' campaign, stating that if everyone in Southend, Castle Point and Rochford donates a pound each, this target will be met.
For more information visit Havens Hospices
Fair Havens to break ground on new site September 17, 2018
Hospice buildings for sale March 1, 2019
New hospice for Southend edges closer November 29, 2019

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Establish on sponges of a vice of a slip from soft metal (brass or aluminum plates) for prevention of damage of the steering mechanism and fix last (fig. 5.36) in a vice.
At installation of the steering mechanism in a vice fix it so that sponges of a vice совмещалисьс an installation site of a bracket of fastening. Other way of fastening in a vice can lead to damage of the steering mechanism.
For check of the general moment of rotation of a leading gear wheel of the steering mechanism by means of a special key rotate a gear wheel of the reechny steering mechanism within one turn during 4–6 about (fig. 5.37).
General moment of rotation of a leading gear wheel of the steering mechanism (nominal rate): 0,6–1,3 N · m.
Measure the moment of rotation of a conducting gear wheel at a full speed of a steering rack.
If the measured size does not correspond to nominal rate, at first adjust the provision of a cover of an emphasis of a steering rack and then again check the general moment of rotation of a leading gear wheel of the steering mechanism.
If it is not possible to adjust the general moment of rotation of a leading gear wheel, check an emphasis cover, a spring of an emphasis and an emphasis of a steering rack and if necessary replace details.
Make 10 strong turns of a tip of steering draft.
By means of a spring dynamometer measure resistance to rotation of the hinge of steering draft (fig. 5.38).
Moment of resistance to rotation of the hinge of steering draft (nominal rate): 8–22 N (2–5 N · м).
If the measured size exceeds nominal rate, replace steering draft assembled.
If the measured size less nominal rate, however steering draft turns smoothly, without excessive люфта, such tip is suitable for operation. If the measured size less than 4,3 N (1 N · м), replace steering draft assembled.
Check a protective cover on absence of damages or condition deterioration.
Check correctness of fastening of a protective cover.
If обнаружны defects of a protective cover, replace it new.
Remove a tip from steering draft (fig. 5.39).
Clamp a tip of steering draft in a vice, then remove a protective cover of the spherical hinge (fig. 5.40).
Remove a big collar of fastening of a protective cover of steering draft (fig. 5.41).
Remove a small collar of fastening of a protective cover of steering draft (fig. 5.42).
Pull together a protective cover from the case of the steering mechanism on steering draft.
At replacement of a protective cover be convinced of lack of a rust on a lath of the steering mechanism.
Disconnect tubes of the steering mechanism from the case of the valve and the steering mechanism and remove them.
Slowly moving a lath, merge working liquid from the case of the steering mechanism.
By means of a chisel расчеканьте a lock washer which fixes steering draft and a lath of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.43).
Remove steering draft from a lath of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.44).
Be careful at removal of steering draft from a lath of the steering mechanism, do not bend a lath.
Unscrew a lock-nut of a cover of an emphasis of a lath (fig. 5.45).
Remove covers of an emphasis of a lath by means of a tool head on 14 mm (fig. 5.46).
Remove a spring of an emphasis of a lath, a lath emphasis, a cover of an emphasis of a lath and the loose leaf from the case of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.47).
Unscrew two bolts of fastening and remove the valve case assembled (fig. 5.48).
Turn the limiter of a course of a lath clockwise until the end of a lock ring does not leave a groove of the case of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.49).
As soon as the end of a lock ring leaves a groove of the case of the steering mechanism, turn the limiter of a course of a lath counter-clockwise and take a lock ring (fig. 5.50).
Remove ring laying from the basic plug of a lath (fig. 5.51).
Remove an epiploon from the basic plug of a lath (fig. 5.52).
Easy postukivaniye of a hammer with plastic brisk accurately take a leading gear wheel and the valve assembled from the valve case (fig. 5.53).
By means of the special tool take an epiploon and the ball bearing from the valve case.
Be careful, do not damage an internal surface of the cylinder of a leading gear wheel in the case of the steering mechanism.
By means of the special tool take an epiploon from the case of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.54).
Be осторонжы, do not damage an internal surface of the cylinder of a lath in the case of the steering mechanism.
Check lack of wear or damages on teeths of a steering rack.
Check a contact surface under epiploon installation on lack of excessive wear or damage.
Check straightforwardness of a steering rack (lack of a bend or twisting) (fig. 5.55).
Check a sealing ring on lack of excessive wear or damage.
Check an epiploon on lack of excessive wear or damage.
Check teeths of a leading gear wheel on lack of wear or damages (fig. 5.56).
Check smoothness of rotation and absence of extraneous noise at operation of bearings.
Check absence excessive люфта in bearings.
Check absence of loss of needles from the needle bearing.
Check absence of damages on an internal surface of the cylinder of the case of the steering mechanism.
Check protective covers on lack of wear, cracks and gaps.
Put recommended working PSF-3 liquid on a working edge of an epiploon of a lath of the steering mechanism on all its circle.
Establish a restrictive washer and an epiploon in the case of the steering mechanism, as is shown in drawing 5.57.
Put recommended working liquid on an epiploon of the basic plug of a lath of the steering mechanism on all its circle.
Establish an epiploon on the basic plug of a lath (fig. 5.58).
Put recommended working liquid on ring laying and establish it on the basic plug of a lath of the steering mechanism.
Put recommended konsistentny greasing on teeths of a lath of the steering mechanism.
Recommended greasing: SAE J310, NLGI No. 2 of general purpose.
Do not fill with greasing a ventilating opening of a lath of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.59).
Insert a lath into the case of the steering mechanism, then establish the basic plug of a lath and the limiter of a course of a lath (fig. 5.60).
Insert a lock ring into an opening of the limiter of a course of a lath through an opening in the case of the steering mechanism when openings are combined. Turn the limiter of a course of a lath and finally fix a lock ring (fig. 5.61).
After installation of a lock ring its ends should not be visible through an opening in the case of the steering mechanism.
By means of the special tool establish an epiploon and the ball bearing in the valve case (fig. 5.62).
Put recommended working liquid on a leading gear wheel and the valve assembled, then establish them in the valve case (fig. 5.63).
Put recommended working liquid on an epiploon and establish it in the case of the steering mechanism. Establish the valve case in collecting and ring laying on the case of the steering mechanism (fig. 5.64).
Establish a new lock washer and steering draft. To Zachekanta of edge of a lock washer in two places on steering draft.
Get in two places short moustaches of a lock washer in dredging of steering draft.
Before installation always replace a lock washer new (fig. 5.65).
Establish the loose leaf, an emphasis, a spring and a cover of an emphasis of a lath in the case of the steering mechanism in the sequence shown in drawing 5.66.
Put hermetic (semydrying sealant) turning into "rubber" on a carving part of a cover of an emphasis of a lath before its installation.
Establish a lath in the central situation, then insert a cover of an emphasis of a lath into the case of the steering mechanism. By means of the special tool tighten a cover of an emphasis of a lath the moment of 15 N В· m (fig. 5.67).
Turn out a cover of an emphasis of a lath on 30-60 В° and tighten a lock-nut of a cover of an emphasis of a lath the nominal moment of 50-70 N В· m.
Establish and tighten fastening of tubes of the steering mechanism by the nominal moment, then establish into place rubber support by means of special glue (adhesive).
Put recommended silicone greasing in an installation site of a small collar of a protective cover on steering draft (in a flute on draft).
Establish a new big collar of a protective cover of steering draft.
Before installation of a protective cover of steering draft always replace new a big collar of a protective cover.
Establish a protective cover of steering draft into place, without allowing its twisting (fig. 5.68).
Fill an internal cavity of a protective cover of the spherical hinge of a tip of steering draft (A) and a working edge of the spherical hinge (B) with recommended greasing (fig. 5.69).
Put on a sealing edge of a protective cover recommended hermetic and fix it on the spherical hinge by means of a collar.
B – SHOWA SUNLIGHT MB2 or equivalent.
Recommended hermetic for a sealing edge of a protective cover: THREE BOND.
Wrap the left and right tips of steering drafts so that the length of an acting part of draft at the left and on the right was identical and corresponded to nominal rate. Fix situation by a lock-nut (fig. 5.70).
Length of an acting part of steering draft: 204,5 mm.
Check the general moment of rotation of a leading gear wheel of the steering mechanism (a preliminary tightness of a shaft of a leading gear wheel of the steering mechanism).
Establish the steering mechanism assembled through an arch of the right wheel (fig. 5.71).
Establish a basic plate of a protective cover of a shaft of a steering.
Connect a protective cover of a shaft of a steering to its basic plate by means of a new tape collar.
Connect a shaft of a steering and a steering column assembled to the steering mechanism assembled.
Establish other details as it should be, the return to removal.
Remove air from hydrosystem of the amplifier of a steering.


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Q: Rendering data on specific calendar dates Goal: display data in calendar on days specified by a datepicker.
Problem: I am unable to assign data to specific dates- all calendar dates display the same data.
The calendar component is rendered by passing a function to its dateCellRender prop which generates the content to be displayed in the cell. The function passed to dateCellRender accepts a moment object as its sole argument, which is generated by the datepicker form. I inspected the Moment object and everything looks good there, i.e. calling moment.date() returns a number.
I tried to mimic the pattern in the documentation, but I keep running into the same issue.
What I'm really confused about is where the filtering is supposed to happen and what's going on behind the scenes. Is dateCellRender being called for every single cell in the calendar and displaying content only when a conditional is met?
Thanks.
The documentation example Calendar displays the list data on 8th, 10th, and 15th of every month. I'm putting it here for convenience. My code is below.
function getListData(value) {
  let listData;
  switch (value.date()) {
    case 8:
      listData = [
        { type: 'warning', content: 'This is warning event.' },
        { type: 'normal', content: 'This is usual event.' },
      ]; break;
    case 10:
      listData = [
        { type: 'warning', content: 'This is warning event.' },
        { type: 'normal', content: 'This is usual event.' },
        { type: 'error', content: 'This is error event.' },
      ]; break;
    case 15:
      listData = [
        { type: 'warning', content: 'This is warning event' },
        { type: 'normal', content: 'This is very long usual event。。....' },
        { type: 'error', content: 'This is error event 1.' },
        { type: 'error', content: 'This is error event 2.' },
        { type: 'error', content: 'This is error event 3.' },
        { type: 'error', content: 'This is error event 4.' },
      ]; break;
    default:
  }
  return listData || [];
}

function dateCellRender(value) {
  const listData = getListData(value);
  return (

      {
        listData.map(item => (

            <span className={`event-${item.type}`}>●
            {item.content}

        ))
      }

  );
}

ReactDOM.render(
  <Calendar dateCellRender={dateCellRender} />
, mountNode);

My exploratory code. "test" is displayed on every day of every month when the 3rd is chosen from datepicker.
  testDate = () => {
    console.log("in testDate", moment.date());
    if (moment.date() === 3) {
      return "foo";
  };

  render() {
    return <Calendar dateCellRender={this.testDate} />
  }

I expect 'foo' to be displayed on the third of every month when moment.date() === 3, but it's displayed instead on every date.
There are no error messages.

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Up Close & Personal With Tommy - 'TV' Tommy Ivo
And The Buicks He Made Famous
Eric GeisertphotographerDon Prietowriter
Many have wondered how famous racers, be they drag racers or any others, got into cars in the first place. So, we put the question to "TV" Tommy Ivo: "How did it all start for you?" He said, "I was always mechanically inclined. My bicycle was apart more than it was together, and my earliest motive power memory was attaching playing cards to the fender struts of my bicycle to flap against the spokes and make that power sound.
"I believe I was about 15 at the time, working steady as a movie actor, and coincidently making quite a bit of money. As I approached my 16th birthday, and the chance to get a driver's license neared, I started thinking about buying a car. My then-girlfriend, Nancy Davidson, who lived across the street, and I got on our bicycles and toured the Burbank new-car dealers and picked up brochures. We took them back to my house and spread them out on the floor. After looking over all that was available, we (I) decided the Buick was the best looking of the lot."
Soon 16-year-old Ivo, with driver's license in hand, headed to the local Buick dealer, along with his friend, and began asking questions about the new '52 models. Apparently, the salesman (named Mr. Pansy), virtually ignored the two youths, until Ivo produced a fat roll of $100 bills, and asked, "How much for that red Super over there?"
The wad of hundreds apparently got Mr. Pansy's attention, and Ivo and his friend took home the new hardtop. He would have liked to have purchased the Roadmaster model "with four portholes," but it was out of range for the money he had.
Soon after his purchase, Ivo took the Super to the Saugus drags and turned 66.66 mph (there were no elapsed times at early drag races). He made two more runs and achieved the exact speed and got beat by the first car he raced. He promptly lost interest in the drags.
He turned to customizing to make his car different, and shaved the hood, the deck, and hooded the headlights. While the car was still in primer, he painted assorted sixes of polka dots all over it. He also painted big pink feet walking up the trunk lid. It was just for a lark, but it did turn some heads when he drove by.
Some three years later, it was time for a new car and he went out and bought a brand-new '55 Century. He removed as many engine parts as he could and had them chrome-plated. He was styling. A friend by the name of Tom Jandt, a member of the much-admired Road Kings car club, came by and encouraged Ivo to go with him to the drags. Jandt had a '32 Ford with an Olds engine in it, and he planned to race. Ivo agreed to go, and upon arrival at the Saugus drags decided to enter his '55 Century. He reports that he blew off the entire field and set a record at 84 mph. When it was time to get his trophy, Lou Baney, then strip operator, saw all of the chrome and declared the car illegal. Baney figured the car couldn't have been stock. Ivo popped off to Lou while pointing at the power steering pump, saying that it was a supercharger in disguise, and Baney told him to "not let the door hit him in the ass on the way out."
The next week, Ivo took the Buick to the Pomona drags and again won and set the track record. This time, he got the two trophies (he called them Oscars). He won again at Colton, San Fernando, Lions, and so on-lots of trophies and the hook was set.
As did most SoCal teens of the period, Ivo cruised and hung out at Bob's Big Boy in Toluca Lake, California. He got his share of attention from the locals and the girls with his new Buick; that is until Norm Grabowski came upon the scene with his freshly built T roadster, with its gleaming chrome and polished aluminum multi-carbed Cadillac engine sticking out in the breeze.
The local guys and gals dropped everything and gathered to ooh and ahh over the sharp little hot rod, with its bug-eyed driver who made his trademark funny faces. It wasn't long before TV engaged Norm in conversation about building a similar machine.
Artist supreme Tom West received the nod to place pen to paper and create this accurate drawing of the twin-engine dragster.
"Sure kid," was Norm's curt reply while turning his attention back to the young surrounding chicks.
Accepting what he saw as a challenge, Ivo set out to build a T-bucket of his own. He started by precisely measuring Norm's car in his driveway while Norm was elsewhere. He carefully checked the wheelbase, engine setback, ground clearance, and the like, and he says he didn't miss a thing.
Because of the success of his '55 Buick at the local drags and its smooth delivery of power, Ivo elected to use a Buick V-8 engine in his new hot rod and promptly found one offered for sale. "It was a metal-sprayed stroker," he said, "and while it was a fairly strong motor, I didn't expect it to last very long."
With the help of friend Randy Chadock and some members of the Road Kings club, Ivo built the T pickup from a variety of parts, including a '25 T touring cowl, a shortened pickup bed, and a frame from a wrecking yard. He acquired a '40 Ford and scavenged all of the running gear. Once it was clear that the little hot rod would run and drive to his satisfaction, it was disassembled for plating and painting, which is something he became noted for-clean, exceptionally thought-out hot rods.
Then, it was off to the drags. The pretty little T-bucket was not only great-looking, but it also hauled ass, and Ivo was off on a drag-racing career, never to look back.
He won the Street Roadster class quite often, and he even beat Norm Grabowski on the only occasion that they raced. He won many Top Eliminator trophies in the process and became the target of others in the class who thought he was cheating; they protested everything, including lack of windshield wipers, fenders, and so on, but they never figured out the secret.
Ivo relates the success of the car to its engine setback; it looked very normal, but it had better rear weight bias with the axle mounted ahead of the spring perch, and that was the reason it got such great bite at the dragstrip. He even built a truly legal car that looked just terrible on purpose, with mud flaps, twin antennas with foxtails mounted on them, and an axe buried in the trunk lid. He didn't even bother touching up the paint where it got burned from mounting the body braces in it. You would nowadays call it a "rat rod," and it was 500 pounds lighter than his original show/race T roadster without all the fancy "extras" on it.
At Bob's Big Boy one day, Don Johnson stopped Ivo and asked if he was interested in putting his engine in a dragster. Ivo complied, and they bolted his 401-incher in the Kent Fuller chassis'd Daddy's Auto Body dragster. In the process, they reversed the shifting arms on the LaSalle gearbox. When Johnson made a run, the digger bogged badly and came to life about halfway down when he shifted. After two runs and the same thing happening, Ivo decided to give it a try. He noticed it moved much easier when the car was in what should have been high gear. He shifted it into the other gear and went to the starting line. This time in the right gear, Ivo made a full pass and the car didn't bog but made a clean run. It went straight and fast, and he knew at that moment he had to have a dragster.
A chassis from Scotty Fenn's Chassis Research was the hot setup in the late '50s era, but they were expensive, so Ivo convinced/paid a young Kent Fuller to build him a look-alike chassis and mount his Buick engine amidships and go racin'. The car was successful right from the start, and Ivo became a very competent driver. With his combination of the high-torque Buick and a two-speed LaSalle gearbox, he quickly became the dragster to beat at the local dragstrips. His constant sidekick-one Don Prudhomme-his main man Fuller, and many of the fellow Road King club members presented a formidable team everywhere they went. As Ivo puts it, "The little dragster left its fingerprints all over the drag racing world."
With a crew all in white, Ivo has plenty of help from fellow Road King Club members at the drags.
Ivo did a lot of winning, but the handwriting was on the wall, as the blown Chryslers and the twin-engine cars of Lefty Mudersbach and Hayden Proffitt were cutting some fat times. Time was upon him to match the competition and build a twin. His engine of choice was again Buick. He built two side-by-side (one ran in reverse) engines and meshed the flywheels together via the starter ring gears, driving high gear only, and the power was passed through one single quick-change rearend. Again, Fuller was called upon to provide the "pipe," and the "92" wonder was ready for action. Ivo had produced another winner and a dragster that would set a lot of records and achieve many firsts: first in the 8-second e.t. bracket; first to run 170 and 180 on gas; and best of all, he and this car became the first West Coast touring professional, albeit by one week. He was contacted by a strip operator in Denver who wanted him to come to his track "for money" and run for the fans. One week later, Jack Chrisman and the Losinski/Duncan dragster, with a blown Chrysler, went in a southerly direction and thus became the second touring professional.
As a side note, Ivo went on to win the '60 NASCAR Summer Nationals on this tour (you read right, they tried drag racing for a couple of years), and for that he got a '60 El Camino as a trophy. His dad drove it all over Burbank for years with the signs in place, shouting, "Winner-1960 NASCAR Summer Nationals."
With a newly found source of income, Ivo decided there was money to be made in this drag racing game, and he left town with his helper, Don Prudhomme, and established himself as a touring pro.
It should be noted that Ivo sold his single-engine car to Prudhomme, and it was inevitable that the two would race. One night at Lions, the two met for Top Eliminator. It was early on in Prudhomme's driving career, and Ivo put him away. On the return road, Prudhomme complained that he would have won if he had two engines. Ivo saw a chance to put the cocky kid down a notch and agreed to swap cars for a rematch. Ivo knew full well that Don had no experience in the twin, which required some clutch slipping by foot to keep the tires from smoking. They lined up on the starting line and when the flag flew, Ivo was gone. Prudhomme sat there in a cloud of tire smoke. This rivalry would have many chapters added throughout the decades ahead, but that was the first.
As time went on, the twin Buick dragster saw its day, and Ivo surmised that if two was good, four was even better. He sold the twin to Ron Pellegrini in Chicago, and Ivo and Fuller set about building the very first four-motored drag car-a four-Buick-engined monster. And a monster it was. It weighed 3,500 pounds and it was scary. So much so that he offered the first drive to Prudhomme, knowing the fact that he had just started filming the TV series Margie, and the studio did not want him to be driving during the run of the production.
They took the newly completed car over to Forest Lawn Drive in Burbank for trials. Let us remind you that it is a two-lane city street, and they were going to fire the beast and make a quick, short pass.
Well, you know what happened, don't you? Prudhomme smoked the tires and the oncoming traffic was, shall we say, startled at the sight of a huge machine covered in smoke coming right at them. This didn't phase the two drag racers. They simply rolled the dragster into the trailer and took it home like nothing happened.
Shortly thereafter, Ivo and his four-engined car appeared on the cover of Hot Rod magazine with TV in his Margie regalia. It was a big hit with the fans, and while Ivo and his hot rod had been featured on the covers of magazines (sometime two in the same month), Ivo reports that, "of my 36 cars, this is the car that made me famous," and it opened doors for the tour and brought thousands of new fans to the drag races. He would send video tape copies of Haywood Botts, his character in the Margie show, ahead to the track promoter, and they would have the local TV station promote the appearance of the four-engine car at the local track. It was a huge success.
The National Hot Rod Association did not take kindly to the presence of a four-motored car at their races and promptly relegated it to Exhibition Only status. "It's a good thing, too," said Ivo. "It was not much of a race car, but the spectators loved it and I made lots of dough."
As nitro methane fuel was reintroduced into NHRA racing, Ivo saw his chance to mix it up with the pros, and he partnered with Dave Zeuschel and went Top Fuel racing big time. It was the end of the Buick era for Ivo, but the car lived on in the hands of fellow Road King member Tom McCourry, who campaigned it as an exhibition car for years.
Ivo said that of all the stuff he's done-more than 100 movies and 150 television shows-his single most favorite moment was winning his first trophy in the '55 Century Buick.
He said, "It was like winning an Oscar to me."


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The 189th Maintenance Group hosts the annual Aerospace Aerospace Alliance Business and Industry Day, Jan. 5, 2023, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. The event provided the opportunity for military service members across the base to see what the Central Arkansas aerospace industry has to offer in the civilian sector. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Jessica Roles)
By Master Sgt. Jessica Roles
LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark, -- The 189th Maintenance Group in partnership with the Arkansas Aerospace and Defense Alliance conducted the annual Arkansas Aerospace Alliance Business and Industry Day on Jan. 5, 2022, at Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark. The exposition was held at the 189th Airlift Wing's maintenance group and provided opportunities for Guardsmen to learn more about opportunities within the community to apply their unique skills as well as for members of the Arkansas Aerospace and Defense Alliance to familiarize themselves with the wing's unique mission and share opportunities with potential aerospace candidates.
According to www.arkansasaerospace.com, the Arkansas Aerospace and Defense Alliance is a group of public and private aerospace companies, government agencies, and educational institutions dedicated to growing the aerospace, aviation, and defense infrastructure in Arkansas and training a qualified workforce. The group creates, business opportunities within the Air National Guard, develop professional relationships with military leaders and Guardsmen, and encourages regulations and policies that are put in place to ensure the safety of all aerospace parties.
Since 2006, the group has provided more than 10,000 jobs, contributed to a nearly $2 billion economic impact annually, and pulled aviation and aerospace-related companies together to encompass a wide array of talent and competencies. As the industry grows and flexes, programs such as this are used to seek out new talent and bring them on board to experience new opportunities after a military career is finished.
For more information on the Arkansas Aerospace and Defense Alliance, visit www.arkansasaerospace.com or contact 501-725-1220.
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The Central American, who shone at the World Cup, played alongside Cristiano Ronaldo who scored four goals in the game.
Costa Rican goalkeeper Kaylor Navas debuted with the Real Madrid on Tuesday, but had an easy night in the pitch.
Four goals by Cristiano Ronaldo secured a 5-1 Real Madrid victory against Elche 5-1 in Spain's La Liga.
Elche tried to attack in the first minutes of the game, and scored first with a penalty kick on 15 minutes, but Real Madrid's Gareth Bale tied the game just five minutes later.
From then on, everything was Cristiano Ronaldo's show. The Portuguese striker hit a hat-trick for his second straight game. On Saturday, Ronaldo scored three goals in his team's 8-2 victory against Deportivo la Coruña.
"Scoring four goals is very difficult. I thank my teammates for giving me the ball and letting me score", said Ronaldo, who apparently is fully recovered from knee the injury that affected his performance in the final games of the last seasons and during Brazil's 2014 World Cup in July.
Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas, who signed with Real Madrid last summer, faced no serious attempt on his goal after the penalty kick.
Madrid paid almost US$13mn for Navas last summer, though he has to compete with the team's historic goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
Casillas is not in his prime, but he is Real Madrid's captain and one of the most important and loved players. Casillas has been in Madrid's goal for 15 years, and has won every possible competition with the team.
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Types of Compulsive Eating
Samplers and Grazers
Traumatized Overeaters
Overworked Overeaters
Picky Overeaters
How do I STOP?
Take a Bite
Biography & Contact
The Cure That Doesn't Work
I'd like to tell you a story about a friend of mine named Amy.
Amy has had a disease for as long as she can remember. It disfigures Amy, so everyone who sees her knows she has it.
This affliction is seen as shameful and disgusting. When she was little, other kids made fun of Amy for it, and didn't pick Amy for their team because she had it.
Amy's parents talked about it in hushed tones, and tried strange remedies to make it go away. These odd remedies made Amy feel alone and defective. However, they didn't make the disease go away.
Amy has become obsessed with getting rid of this disease. She tries all sorts of home remedies offered on the internet and TV. None of them works. Amy decides to go to a new doctor, a specialist in the area. He gives her a new remedy for her illness.
Amy asks him, "How often does this remedy work?"
He says, "About one in twenty patients get better as a result of it."
Amy doesn't like these odds, but she is desperate, and nothing else she's ever tried has worked. She believes she will be the exception, the one in twenty who will get better because of the treatment her doctor is giving her. After all, she's so motivated, right? Maybe his other patients didn't try as hard as she will, maybe they didn't follow his directions exactly as he said. She'll be the exceptional one who licks this disease once and for all.
So Amy tries the remedy for six months.
At first this remedy reduces the disfigurement. Her friends notice and tell her how good she looks. Her parents breathe a sigh of relief. Amy feels excited and hopeful.
But, after a few more months, the disfigurement comes back. By the time a year has passed, it has become even worse than before she started the remedy.
What do you think Amy should do? If you were Amy, would you go back to the same doctor and try more of the same remedy that doesn't work? Would you look for a different treatment? Or would you give up, and just learn to live with your disfigurement?
Some of you may have realized by now that the disease I am talking about is emotional overeating and the "cure" that doesn't work is dieting.
Copious research shows that only one in twenty people who go on diets are able to maintain their weight loss for more than a year. And yet, overweight women return again and again to the diet cycle, trying to lose weight but only managing to put more on.
Why is this? What makes these women keep repeating a treatment that doesn't help them, in fact makes them worse?
Because Amy blames herself, not the treatment, for putting those pounds back on, she keeps dieting again and again. She (along with many other women) has been told, many times and in many different ways, that if they can't keep weight off it's the result of their own lack of willpower.
When will women recognize that they are not to blame because diets don't work?
I have spent the last 20 years working with women who compulsively overeat, most of whom have gone through the diet cycle at least four or five different times. I believe that diets don't work because they don't explore the underlying emotional issues which cause women to eat when they are not hungry. I believe that, until those issues are addressed, compulsive overeaters will not be able to keep the weight off that they lose.
I do not promise a simple, quick or easy fix to compulsive overeating. What I do promise is a program that helps emotional overeaters develop more compassion for themselves. As opposed to diets, which create ongoing shame and a sense of failure.
Women who participate in my program are able to move away from food preoccupation, the state of constantly beating themselves up for what they eat and how they look. They learn to a focus on what they want to get out of their lives as well as their everyday joys and satisfactions.
In other words, the women I work with can develop the capacity to feel good about themselves and their lives, no matter what they weigh.
Many of them find that, over time, their eating becomes self-regulating. They may be able to stop binging. They learn how to eat more regularly and more moderately. They develop the capacity to sense when they're full and stop eating when they are no longer hungry. They may add regular, enjoyable exercise to their lives.
Some of these women lose weight, though usually this is after they have been in treatment for a while. If they don't lose weight, they learn how to live with it. They turn their focus to how they can create a satisfying, meaningful life for themselves and what they can do to positively change their lives. They no longer pursue the unattainable dream of looking like a movie star.
Are you tired of going round and round on the diet cycle, the cure that doesn't work? Are you willing to consider another way?
I have helped compulsive overeaters change the ways they think about food, their habits and their lives. Check out my free resources today, including a quiz to determine if you are a compulsive overeater.
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Gauri Khan has now taken up Jacqueline Fernandez's home for a makeover as part of her show Dream Homes.
In the latest promo of the show, Gauri is seen discussing ideas with Jacqueline for her bedroom.
Fans get an insight into Jacqueline's all-white bedroom which has a huge vintage bed and antique interiors.
Gauri Khan taken on the challenge of redesigning the room.
Jacqueline definitely looks amazed with the results.
Gauri Khan made an appearance on Karan Johar's chat show and spilled the beans on being a star wife.
When KJo asked Gauri if it's difficult to be Shah Rukh Khan's wife.
She share, "I have to admit he is the easiest person I've ever met.
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Q: Logs on azure sql database We had an issue yesterday that we are trying to figure out. Out of nowhere everything on the database changed,
We know it was an update without a where clause, but we are just a few developers. So if any of us would have done it we would know it.
It was at a strange time of the day, very late at night and only a few ip addresses are allowed into the server.
Is there any way to get the full log with ips of all the transactions on azure?
Did anyone had a similar problem? can it be a break through?
Are there any software protections, scripts that we can add to limit this?

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Is there any way to get the full log with ips of all the transactions on azure?

Few options i could think off,Even this is not possible  in onpremises..if you don't have correct measures to detect this...else contact support for a request to read TLOG of the database(Azure support won't read the log,unless you have a business justification,as this involves involving many teams due to safety reasons)
1.) You could use activity log to know more details..

2.) There is an sys.event_log (Azure SQL Database)  DMV ,which shows connections successfull or not .you can correlate to know the users based on your office set up..this won't show success or failures
To avoid this happening again,Audit data and Azure offers many features to know more on whats happening like
1..Get started with SQL database auditing
2. Enable rules to get alerted when some thing happens..

A: Enable Auditing and Threat Detection on the server if you hadn't
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"De ratones y hombres" narra la historia de Lennie, un deficiente mental, y su compañero y ángel de la guarda George, dos braceros al borde de la indigencia. Contratados en una granja regentada por un ex boxeador, la insatisfecha esposa del patrón pone en serios aprietos a Lennie, que la mata accidentalmente y huye al bosque. Un conmovedor canto a la amistad y sobre todo una novela intensa con unos diálogos ejemplares y perfectamente construida, de la que ningún lecto podrá olvidar su desenlace.Coincidiendo con el centenario de John Steinbeck, hemos publicado con una presentación como se merece el autor esta obra y otras dos "La perla" y "Hubo una vez una guerra".
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In recent years Steinbeck has been elevated to a more prominent status among American writers of his generation. If not quite at the world-class artistic level of a Hemingway or a Faulkner, he is nonetheless read very widely throughout the world by readers of all ages who consider him one of the most "American" of writers. Born in Salinas County, California on February 27, 1902, Steinbeck was of German-Irish parentage. After four years as a special student at Stanford University, he went to New York, where he worked as a reporter and as a hod carrier. Returning to California, he devoted himself to writing, with little success; his first three books sold fewer than 3,000 copies. Tortilla Flat (1935), dealing with the paisanos, California Mexicans whose ancestors settled in the country 200 years ago, established his reputation. In Dubious Battle (1936), a labor novel of a strike and strike-breaking, won the gold medal of the Commonwealth Club of California. Of Mice and Men (1937), a long short story that turns upon a melodramatic incident in the tragic friendship of two farm hands, written almost entirely in dialogue, was an experiment and was dramatized in the year of its publication, winning the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. It brought him fame. Out of a series of articles that he wrote about the transient labor camps in California came the inspiration for his greatest book, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the odyssey of the Joad family, dispossessed of their farm in the Dust Bowl and seeking a new home, only to be driven on from camp to camp. The fiction is punctuated at intervals by the author's voice explaining this new sociological problem of homelessness, unemployment, and displacement. As the American novel "of the season, probably the year, possibly the decade," it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. It roused America and won a broad readership by the unusual simplicity and tenderness with which Steinbeck treated social questions. Even today, The Grapes of Wrath remains alive as a vivid account of believable human characters seen in symbolic and universal terms as well as in geographically and historically specific ones. Ma Joad is one of the most memorable characters in twentieth-century American fiction. It is her courage that sustains the family. Steinbeck's best and most ambitious novel after The Grapes of Wrath is East of Eden (1952), a saga of two American families in California from before the Civil War through World War I. Cannery Row (1945), The Wayward Bus (1947), and Sweet Thursday (1955) are lighter works that find Steinbeck returning to the lighthearted tone of Tortilla Flat as he recounts picaresque adventures of modern-day picaros. The Winter of Our Discontent (1961) struck some reviewers as being appropriately titled because of its despairing treatment of humanity's fall from grace in a wasteland world where money is king. Steinbeck also wrote important nonfiction, including Russian Journal (1948) in collaboration with the photographer Robert Capa; Once There Was a War (1958) and America and Americans (1966), which features pictures by 55 leading photographers and a 70-page essay by Steinbeck. His interest in marine biology led to two books primarily about sea life, Sea of Cortez (1941) (with Edward F. Ricketts) and The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). Travels with Charley (1952) is an engaging account of his journey of rediscovery of America, which took him through approximately 40 states. Steinbeck was married three times and died in New York City on December 20, 1968 of heart disease and congestive heart failure. He was 66, and had been a life-long smoker.
Titre De ratones y hombres
Edhasa literaria
Edhasa novela
Novela / Edhasa
Novela/Edhasa Series
Auteur John Steinbeck
Traduit par Román A. Jiménez
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Éditeur Edhasa, 2002


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Malta Set to Add 40 DAB+ Channels in 2010
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Dec 2, 2009 12:18 PM, By Mark Krieger
Digi-B Networks, owner/operator of a DAB+ multiplex in the Republic of Malta, plans to add 40 channels of additional content sometime in 2010, according a story by Joanna Ripard in the Times of Malta.
Among the new entries will be channels devoted to opera, classic rock and other niche music formats that will join local broadcasters such as Radio 101, One Radio, RTK, Calypso, Campus FM, Radju Marija, and 897 Bay, along with international programming from the Voice of America and BBC World Service.
Sergio D'Amico, managing director of Digi-B Networks, says his firm believes that by offering a broad choice of content, the proportion of Maltese who actively listen to radio — currently about 50 percent of the total population — can be substantially increased.
D'Amico's firm also produces a line of DAB+ receivers sold in Malta, with expected sales of roughly 30,000 units in 2010. Digital receivers on the island currently are said to number about 8,000.
The tiny island nation has a population of roughly 500,000 and a landmass of only 110 square miles. DAB+ has been on the air there since July 2008.
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A new park for Bath.
Proposal's for the first new park in Bath for a hundred years go on show next week.
On Tuesday 16 April, Housing Association, Curo will be hosting a public information exhibition to showcase the developed proposals for a new public open space which will be delivered at Mulberry Park – alongside proposed improvements to Pope's Walk bridleway.
Curo Chief Executive, Victor da Cunha, says: "We'd like to thank our stakeholders and residents in Foxhill, Mulberry Park and Combe Down who've taken the time to attend our previous workshops and exhibitions and helped us shape the plans for the new public open spaces at Mulberry Park.
"Alongside well-designed areas for events that are accessible for all, the park will also have play and picnic spaces, sensory and edible planting and connections to other places – for example, Springfield Park and the popular National Trust Skyline Walk.
The exhibition will take place at The Hub at Mulberry Park from 3pm until 7pm on Tuesday 16 April and will also offer residents the chance to trial free activities currently on offer at the community centre.
Manager of The Hub, Lizzie Irvine, says: "This event is all about the community, from getting involved in the plans for their new park to joining one of the free 30-minute taster classes offered by the fantastic instructors at The Hub.
Curo will submit the developed proposals for the park to Bath & North East Somerset Council for approval in May. Subject to planning permission, the anticipated completion for the new park is 2022.