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Remembering Tucker Sterling Jensen
Tucker Sterling Jensen, a widely known and loved local musician, died on March 11 of cancer.
By Ksenia Gorinshteyn
Tucker Sterling Jensen's love of local music was almost unprecedented.
He did not look for the obscure just for the sake of it. He looked in order to share it, uplift it and, in the process, help create a space and community in music unlike any other.
The artist played gigs regularly around the Twin Cities, collaborated with numerous musicians, created a local music streaming platform called Radio Five Watt and recently released an EP with his band Dirt Train. His name was well-known, his music well-loved. On March 11, Jensen died of lymphoma at 29.
The artist's determination to create honestly and support locally has stuck with many, whether they were close with him or not.
In November, Jensen's band Dirt Train released their EP "Dead Beat Shake" to a packed house at the Terminal Bar. The six-song EP was a culmination of months of writing and collaborating, and the release show was a "return to home base," Jensen said in December.
Rachelle LaNae Smith of Tacky Annie, who teaches voice lessons, saw Jensen's performance style as something to strive toward.
"[I told him] I want to take my students and just put them in front of him and say, 'This is what performing looks like. This is what making music looks like,'" Smith said. "He just didn't give a fuck on stage. He rolled with the punches in every performance."
As a songwriter, Jensen selflessly shared his talents with those around him. He often stepped in to play in bands or offer some guidance with songwriting.
Local acts like Tacky Annie, Lydia Liza and Laura Hugo, among countless others, say they looked to him for valuable feedback of their music.
Hugo, Dirt Train's "number one fan" and a close friend of Jensen, was set to produce her EP with Jensen in the coming months.
"He did this thing where he'd smile and tilt his head," Hugo said. "One of my favorite things in the world. Kind of like it was his head tilt of approval."
Jensen also wholeheartedly believed in the importance of recognizing and rocking out to local musicians.
"He was supportive to almost a self-sacrificing level," Liza said. "Creating with him was so safe and loving, and I really appreciate the safety he brought to any space he was in."
Jensen's enthusiasm went past head tilts and advice. He regularly attended gigs around the cities, inviting almost everyone he knew to come with.
"You always hoped that wherever you were, [Jensen] would walk into the room," Hugo said.
Beyond his work as a musician, he was also the station manager and program director for Radio Five Watt. He gave musicians the opportunity to have their music played on-air or in-shop at Five Watt Coffee.
"He totally loved to be there for other people and watch other people shine, even though he was obviously the brightest star in the room," Smith said.
While the Twin Cities music community mourns the loss of a prolific performer and an immensely loved human being, Jensen's impact will remain prominent among the many he inspired.
"His absence will be painfully noticeable, but there's peace in the fact that he fought hard and empowered so many," Hugo said.
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Ask as many questions of your roofer as it's good to before you rent him. If you do not ask questions, you might be much more likely to hire someone whose work you're ultimately unsatisfied with. Talk about the materials the person makes use of, the safety measures they take and more to get a way of how they do their job. By no means wash your roof with the identical stress washer you employ to clean the perimeters of your own home. The excessive-powered water circulate can reach right up underneath your roofing shingles and pressure them off! Even if it would not occur all at once, strain washers will damage your roof, inflicting more problems for you than it solves.
Make sure you install a ridge vent into your roof so as to forestall dry rot from occurring. Contrary to widespread perception, dry rot shouldn't be brought on by water injury, however relatively an absence of ventilation. Putting in a ridge vent will make sure that your roof is properly ventilated throughout the year. It's best to choose a contractor who is a member of different business associations. Good contractors hold current with the most recent developments and expertise of their trade. Not belonging to any trade association may imply that a contractor shouldn't be as knowledgeable as he must be, and never as concerned with quality as you want him to be.
Be sure to get a detailed estimate by any contractor you're considering of hiring to work in your roof. This estimate needs to include every part from permits, supplies, cleanup and labor. It is also important that you get this estimate in writing. Any reputable enterprise ought to be greater than prepared to provide you with one. It is not easy to hire a contractor. An awesome home is nugatory without the suitable roof above it, however you possibly can't discover the best roof with out the precise contractor. Observe the guidelines offered right here to seek out a wonderful contractor to help you. Along with good instruments and supplies, you'll be able to rework your roof from sufficient to great form.
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Shingles aren't just a nasty illness, and gutters aren't just one thing you find in a bowling alley. There's so much you must know relating to roofing, and this article is the proper place to studying. In the following paragraphs, you will discover some high notch roofing tips and tricks. In an effort to decrease the hassle to maintain your roof, it's essential to give just a little all through and never neglect your roof. That leads to serious issues down the highway. Make good use of the tips you just learn in this article if it's good to repair your roof. Any prices that go into sustaining the roof might be recouped over time.
Ensure that your roof is nicely ventilated. Without good ventilation, heat and humidity will be able to do some serious harm to your roof. You'll be able to improve your roof by adding additional events, or by including a single power vent. As long as your roof has room to breathe, you will be in good condition. Control your roof's color. In case you spot streaks, this might imply that your roof is infested with algae or mold. Your roof can get better if this is addressed immediately, however if you let the problem fester, your roof's lifespan could be significantly shortened. Infestations like this may also cause leaks.
You might not be a roofing knowledgeable, but that does not imply you'll be able to't take great care of your roof. No matter what path you observe, the advice you read above should help. Don't be afraid to seek out more roofing data in the event you need it. Before long, people may be asking you to provide them roofing suggestions! Ask for references for any roofing contractor that you're contemplating. If they are respected, they should have plenty of references obtainable. In the event that they let you know they've finished work for others in your space, drive by and check out what they've completed. Attempt speaking to some owners if that is an out there possibility.
To protect the integrity of your roof, clean the gutters frequently. Many roof issues, resembling leaking, are brought on by again-ups in the gutter system.


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Dallastown's Koons bows out of state tennis tourney
HERSHEY - The most decorated freshman tennis season in York County history drew to a close Friday morning at Hershey Racquet Club in the first round of the PIAA tournament.
Dallastown's Koons bows out of state tennis tourney HERSHEY - The most decorated freshman tennis season in York County history drew to a close Friday morning at Hershey Racquet Club in the first round of the PIAA tournament. Check out this story on gametimepa.com: https://gtpa.co/1TKwgmk
Jeff Dewees, For GameTimePA.com Published 8:47 p.m. ET May 27, 2016
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Dallastown's Holden Koons — the 15-year-old District 3 Class AAA singles champ and son of Wildcats head coach Mark Koons — came up short in his state debut at against Strath Haven's Xandy Hammitt, the District 1 tournament third-place finisher.
Hammitt pounded out a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-2 decision against Koons to advance in the Class AAA singles tournament and end the scholastic debut season for District 3's top Cat.
Koons was the only YAIAA player competing at states this weekend.
Koons and Hammitt are familiar with each other on the tournament circuit rounds. During Friday's match, the Strath Haven junior seized on a couple of first-set service breaks, dropped a tight tiebreaker during an on-serve middle frame, then aggressively snuffed out Koons' baseline game down the stretch by attacking the net and choking away the alleys.
"He was just playing really well today, and there wasn't much I could do about it," Holden Koons said. "It wasn't my day. His game, he plays either on or off. Today, he was on. … Big serve, goes for it. I just didn't perform my best.
"It kind of stinks to out like this, but it was a good season overall."
Hammitt's aggressiveness was by design.
"I went aggressive right away," he said, "because I knew he (Koons) could be consistent if I kept the ball in the court. I tried to end points quicker so I didn't have to grind with him.
"I just had to go for it. We're both tired, so I just started hitting out again."
Mark Koons noticed right away that Friday might be a struggle for his son.
"A real slow start. Xandy was serving at 15-40 the first game of the match and Holden let him of the hook," Mark Koons said. "Then, Holden double-faulted next game so he's down 2-0. That first set, he never got back. The difference in that match is that Alexander served unbelievably. It's tough to break him indoors when he's serving like that."
The coach said he didn't think the freshman was battling any first-time state jitters.
"For some kids, yeah, but Holden has played so many nationals tournaments that probably have a similar feel," he said. "So I don't think the moment was too big for him. He knows most of the guys here."
As the first freshman District 3 singles champ in at least 26 years, the coach framed the player's first high varsity campaign.
"The great thing is how much Holden just enjoys playing with the guys and playing for his school," Mark said. "Just being part of a team. That's meant a lot to him and it's been a real positive experience for him."
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Rosslyn Park
Founded in 1879 by cricketing friends in north London, at the end of their first season, Charles Hoyer Millar proposed forming a football club to keep the players together during the winter. There was already a Hampstead Football Club (from which both Wasps and Harlequins sprang), so the cricket club's name was adopted, reflecting the area of Hampstead where the cricketers first played their scratch games in the grounds of Rosslyn House. Their original rugby ground was at South End Green, Hampstead, then Gospel Oak and Acton before a lengthy tenure at Old Deer Park, Richmond until 1956, when Rosslyn Park moved to its current premises in Roehampton. After an initial blue shirt with white Maltese cross, its current red-and-white hoops were adopted in 1881. It still remains a Football Club, without the need for the word Rugby, and so is correctly Rosslyn Park FC, not RFC.
Early fixtures were generally against second XVs of leading clubs, but in the 1890s Rosslyn Park joined the first rank with fixtures against Oxford University, London Scottish, Richmond and Harlequins. Park's acceptance into the elite was signalled when venerable Blackheath agreed to play home and away fixtures in 1909. The club became the first English side to play rugby internationally when it beat Stade Français in Paris on 18 April 1892.[2] In 1912, the club played exhibition matches in Prague, Budapest and Vienna – the first rugby matches ever played in those cities – and in 1913 played two games in Hanover, Germany.[2] In 1939, Rosslyn Park inaugurated the annual Rosslyn Park Schools Seven Tournament, which expanded from sixteen schools to 350 in 1996. With some 7,000 players annually, it is the world's largest rugby tournament.[2] After the Second World war, Park again led the way with a first international fixture in 1945 against traditional rivals Stade Français. In 1951, Park was the first to bring the Ladies' Cup from the Melrose Sevens south of the border. In 1975 and 1976, the club played in the final of the John Player Cup, narrowly losing on both occasions
The club runs five senior men's sides and a ladies side (the "Slingbacks") who play on Sundays. Rosslyn Park also have one of the country's largest mini- and youth-rugby set-ups with sides at all age groups from under-6s up. When English league rugby began in 1987, Park were placed in Division two, which they won. The first team currently play in the third division of the English league system, National League One.
The club plays at Priory Lane, Roehampton in South-West London on a ground leased from the next-door Roehampton Club. There is one 4G (4th generation synthetic turf) pitch at the main site; additional games are played on grass pitches in nearby Richmond Park. Changing facilities for both sets of pitches are at the main site in Priory Lane. The clubhouse has two bars, which are named after two of the club's famous players – Andy Ripley and Alexander Obolensky. The first floodlights for the main pitch were famously provided by the hell-raising actor Oliver Reed who was also a member of the club and occasional player. Those lights have now been replaced after storm damage.
Some 350 Park members served in the Great War, of which 109 died, believed to be the highest number from any club. The story was told in a 2012 book The Final Whistle: the Great War in Fifteen players. The original memorial was lost but was replaced with a new board in 2014 when a Centenary memorial match was played under the Laws prevailing in 1914 and the memorial was unveiled by Bill Beaumont Chairman of the RFU.
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The cultural program is an essential part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks. Below, you can find descriptions, locations, and dates of presentations, shows, and exhibitions that are part of the event. The program will be updated soon.
The motto of this year's German-Chinese Culture Festival – hosted by Bambuspforte e.V. – is "Diversity of Culture".
From May 14 to May 19, 2019, almost 100 artists from China and Germany will gather in Berlin and present at numerous events. The versatile program includes exhibitions, concerts, dance shows, and readings.
Please find detailed information on the organizer's website.
MIGRANT BIRD SPACE is a Berlin- & Beijing-based art foundation and gallery, offering a professional platform for cross-cultural communication between China and Europe with a focus on contemporary Chinese art. During the APW, they invite to "Wearing the Fog", the solo exhibition by Chinese artist Yafei Qi. In her video installation "Wearing the Fog", she focuses on a family living in a city whose industry is developing rather rapidly. Yafei Qi demonstrates the gap between two generations, the estrangement between father and mother and the clash between individual and social development, all of which is enhanced and manifested through the use of double-screen video with a non-linear narrative structure.
The Aedes Architecture Forum is a world-renown independent institution and exhibition space for the international communication of contemporary architecture and urban design.
In China, rural regions have become a new space for experiments. This creates a new countryside at a speed and scale unseen in the Western world. With projects related to housing, local production, cultural practices, agricultural tourism, and revitalization of communities, the exhibition depicts a panorama of the contemporary Chinese Countryside. Get to know the exhibition "Building a Future Countryside in China" from a new point of view by participating in a guided tour with architectural historian Dr. Eduard Kögel.
The movie "Great Wall" tells the story of two mercenaries, William Garin and Pero Tovar, who traveled from Europe to China in order to steal the secret of the black gunpowder during the reign of the Renzong Emperor.
But when William is imprisoned within The Great Wall, he discovers the mystery behind one of the greatest wonders of his world. As wave after wave of marauding beasts besieges the massive structure, his quest for fortune turns into a journey toward heroism as he joins a huge army of elite warriors to confront this unimaginable and seemingly unstoppable force.
A representation of Indian mythology and it's universal relevance. The celebration of the Mother Goddess Durga as an ethos and storytelling from the Vishnupuranas through dance by Sohini Roychowdhury.
Please note: Free entry to all events for a maximum of 200 guests with valid Indian, German or other valid ID cards/passports having German stay permits. EU citizens may carry copies of their local registration certificate. Bags are not allowed. Information: 030-25795405.


Vourvoulos is a quiet beach known mainly to the residents of the nearby village and is located in the north east of the island, near a small harbour.
It has sand and black pebbles and is surrounded by impressive cliffs. The beach is partly organised with few sunbeds, umbrellas and a tavern.
It is located about 6km from Fira. You can easily access the beach by car and find a parking space close to the beach.


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Sand Castle [Netflix]- Release Date: 21st April 2017
Set in the middle of the Iraq war in 2003, 'Sand Castle' opts for a more character-focused view of the Middle East conflict and does a solid, albeit unremarkable, job of capturing the mood and telling the character's stories. In an over saturated genre full of blockbuster hits, 'Sand Castle' never stands out as anything but an average war flick that's pleasant to watch but one that won't be remembered as the years tick by.
The story follows Private Matt Ocre (Nicholas Hoult) and his squad as they're tasked with fixing a water problem for a remote village whilst battling tensions amongst the locals and ambushes from the enemy. There's a good level of tension and the ambushes are legitimately well scripted; they catch the audience off guard almost as much as the characters.
The biggest issue for me though is that the film never feels like it gets going until near the end and when it does, its cut short by a plot point that leaves the entire resolution unsolved. It actually soured the experience for me which is the reason this film hasn't scored higher. The pacing feels a little off at times with some parts feeling like they drag on a little too long whilst the action scenes, by contrast, are over in a blink of an eye. Despite some amazing effects, gorgeous sweeping desert vistas and a good rise in tension, 'Sand Castle' never quite delivers in any meaningful way.
The characters are well fleshed out and adequately acted though. If anything, Ocre is one of the least memorable here and whilst its easy to empathise with his reluctance and fear consuming gaze as he witnesses the horrors of war, it did become a little laborious to endure after nearly 2 hours. There are long scenes of him staring off into the distance or in long bursts of shock during tense shootouts and although I understand the reasoning behind this (He's a normal guy shocked by the horrors of war) it was a bit unnecessary just how many times they relied on this throughout.
Overall though, 'Sand Castle' isn't a bad film and despite the questionable decision to end the film with an unresolved conflict (ironically echoing the actual war itself?) there's still things to like from this war film. The camera work is solid, the tension is rife throughout and some of the ambush scenes are very well scripted and shot. Unfortunately, with titles like Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and most recently Hacksaw Ridge among others all igniting the war genre with some truly incredible stories and action, 'Sand Castle' is one for the average pile and not one that will be remembered for years to come.
Verdict - 5.5/10
Categories Drama, Film Review Category Archive, history & war Tags 2017, afghanistan, April 2017, drama, Henry Cavill, netflix, Nicholas Hoult, Tommy Flanagan, Treehouse Pictures, war


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Q: show dialog without FragmentActivty This may be rather obvious, but I cannot get it.
I am trying to use the suggested way of creating dialogs, by extending DialogFragment. Now, the problem is, I don't know how to invoke it. Documentation states:
DialogFragment newFragment = new FireMissilesDialogFragment();
newFragment.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "missiles");

but my Activity does not extend FragmentActivity (and due to the design of my application, it cannot extend it), so getSupportFragmentManager() cannot be invoked.
Any workaround for this?
I would like to skip the deprecated way of creating a dialog.

A: The answer is no.
The FragmentActivity (and it's variants) are the ones that support the FragmentManager and the Fragments.
Common solutions to what you might believe "and due to the design of my application, it cannot extend it"

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*If you're using a ListActivity, just put a list in your layout.

*If you're using a MapActivity, switch to the new map API.

*If you're using a TabActivity, that's deprecated, you should use Fragments.

A: For example you can create a class that extend DialogFragment and invoke it like this:
_dialogFiltre = FragmentDialog.newInstance(R.string.tle_dialog_filter, this);
                _dialogFiltre.setValidDialogListener(this);
                _dialogFiltre.setCancelable(false);
                _dialogFiltre.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), null);

The method new instance :
public static DialogFilter newInstance(int title, Context context) {

    FragmentDialog dialog = new FragmentDialog();
    Bundle args = new Bundle();
    args.putInt("title", title);
    dialog.setArguments(args);
    dialog._context = context;
    return dialog;
}

If you are not in a FragmentActivity i don't see any solution. Why does your application design does not let you use FragmentActivity ?

A: well you can directly invoke getSupportFragmentManager(); on FragmentActivity but not on Fragment itself. So to invoke getSupportFragmentManager(); what you can do is first get FragmentActivity and on that call getSupportFragmentManager();. So as you're getting FragmentActivity, you can call this function like:
getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();

here getActivity() returns FragmentActivity associated with your Fragment.
what you have done is
1. First you have created instance of your custom DialogFragment class.
2. you're showing that dialog.
Now as you've already created an instance of custom DialogFragment why not use that to retrieve support for fragment manager. So what you can do is:
DialogFragment newFragment = new FireMissilesDialogFragment();
newFragment.show(newFragment.getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager(), "missiles");

what this will do is you're getting FragmentActivity associated with newFragment and on that FragmentActivity you're calling getSupportFragmentManager();.
Unfortunately I have not tested it but this might work. Try it and let us know.

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Record Mode Screens & Menus
(All screens can be displayed on the LCD or EVF)
Here is the Auto mode screen display. Minimal information is displayed and only a few parameters such as image size or recording mode can be changed. Upper left is the battery level that's constantly displayed. The image size is "7M"egapixels, the image folder is 101, there's space for 470 shots, a graphical icon of the Memory Stick and in the center are the Auto Focus area target marks.
This is a "P"rogram AE screen. Top left shows the battery level (partially depleted). You can see icons for ISO speed set to 80, the realtime histogram, along the bottom are icons for "S"ingle "A"uto "F"ocus, Shutter and Aperture values.
The Program AE mode also allows the user to "shift" the shutter speed and aperture settings. By rotating the command dial you can select other combinations of shutter speed and aperture values.
When you half-press the shutter release the AF marks will turn green indicating the area of focus, it will also show the selected shutter speed and aperture.
Here's the screen when using Shutter speed priority mode. It allows you to select the desired shutter speed and the camera automatically selects the proper aperture. A slower shutter speed will allow you to show motion, where a faster one will freeze the action.
In Aperture priority, you select the desired aperture and the camera selects the proper shutter speed. A large aperture (small f/stop number) will create a shallow depth of field, where a smaller aperture (larger f/stop number) will create a larger depth of field.
Here's the screen when using Manual mode, it allows users to select both the shutter speed and aperture value, and displays exposure compensation to inform you if you are about to take a under or over-exposed picture (in this case, 1EV underexposed). The live image is displayed with the degree of under or over exposure that would result from current settings.
When you rotate the mode dial a "virtual mode dial" is displayed. Select from: AUTO, Program AE, Shutter-speed priority AE, Aperture priority AE, Manual, Scene Modes (Night, Night Portrait, Candle, Beach, Sports, Landscape, Portrait) Movie and Playback.
The image resolution menu is called-up by depressing the resolution/delete button. Available settings are 7M, 3:2, 5M, 3M, 1M, VGA (E-mail) and 16:9 (HDTV aspect ratio). The display suggests maximum print size and number of images that can be stored in the remaining available capacity of the Memory Stick.
Record mode options:
Color mode - Normal, Vivid, Natural, Sepia, Black & White
Metering - Multi-pattern (default), Center-weighted or Spot
White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Incandescent, Flash or One-Push custom
ISO - Auto or fixed at 80, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1000
Picture Quality - Fine or Standard
BRK - AE Bracketing step value +/- 0.3, 0.7 or 1.0 EV (option appears only when mode is AE Bracketing)
MULTI BURST - 1/7.5, 1/15 or 1/30 (option appears only when mode is Multi Burst)
Flash Level - +/- 1 EV in 1/3 EV steps
Saturation - Normal, + or -
Contrast - Normal, + or -
Sharpness - Normal, + or -
The recording screen in the VX Fine Movie mode. VX Fine mode is VGA resolution 640 x 480 full screen @ 30fps with audio and the length is limited only by the space available on the memory card.
The Movie quality menu is called-up by depressing the resolution/delete button. Options include VX Fine, VX Standard (640x480 16 fps) or Video E-mail (160x120, 8.3 fps). The menu estimates the remaining recording time on the installed memory Stick.
Movie mode options:
Color mode - Normal, Sepia, Black & White
Metering - Multi-pattern (default), Center-weighted averaging or Spot
White Balance - Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Fluorescent, Incandescent, or One-Push custom
Playback Features


text: Q: How to handle the event propagation dilemma I am trying to make 3 controls working together in my app and they are panel(can be open or closed from the page), modal and a color picker. Their relationship is the panel creates the modal by clicking some button in the panel and inside the modal, there is a color picker. The panel and the color picker comes from a library and the modal implemented myself. The panel has a has an event listener using the capture option on document.body (top-down event priority), so the panel will handle the mousedown event before it reaches the modal causing the panel to close while clicking on the modal created by the panel, thus closing the modal as well. To prevent this, the capture option to the mousedown event listener on the document to stop mouse down event propagate is added in the modal. Now I want to add a color picker to the modal, unfortunately, the color picker has event listeners to mouse down event to handle color selection in the color palette. If I have stop  propagation on the document, the mouse down event never reaches the color picker therefore cannot pick color. I would like to know if there is any way to solve this problem(with cannot modify code in panel and color picker but modal is fine)? Thank you!


The excessive deterioration of the tomb made the tomb of Seti I the perfect candidate for digital preservation and provides a second case study, following the tomb of tutankhamun, of employing facsimiles to mitigate damage caused by tourism.
With the data collected the tomb now has a baseline for future studies, a reference point to assess further damage, and provide guides for conservation. Groundbreaking study and assessment has already taken place on the data from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Lastly this offers a chance to repatriate facsimiles of artifacts and large portions of the tomb that have been extracted during the discovery in the early 19th century and distributed throughout the world. It provides the most complete and centralized collection of the tomb of Seti I for study and dissemination.
As facsimiles need perfect geometry, the documentation process requires very high resolution. However, it requires larger scale and lower resolution data to place the digitized portions into context within situ as well. To accomplish this, a combination ultra high resolution Lucida (type for scanning), photogrammetry, and traditional terrestrial laser scanning were used in tandem. Because of the complex differences in the data types, Reality Capture was the perfect program combine everything into one cohesive dataset.
The chambers of the tomb were scanned and photographed in Luxor in May 2016. The sarcophagus and various objects from the original tomb were documented at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London. More than twenty wall fragments removed after the tomb's discovery in 1817 by Giovanni Battista Belzoni were examined and registered in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection) and the Louvre Museum.
The burial chamber, the sarcophagus and the fragments were documented using the most suitable combination of high-resolution technologies for recording each object. These techniques include close & long-range 3D laser scanning, high definition colour composite photography and short & mid-range photogrammetry.
Photogrammetric imagery was captured inside the tomb providing critical information for colour matching and understanding the unfinished walls. Multiple images are taken with a constant, diffuse, light-source using a DSLR camera and following a clearly defined protocol with significant overlap between each image. The multiple images are processed using Reality Capture, a software package by Capturing Reality from Bratislava. The results are starting to match the best results that are possible with more expensive 3D systems. Photogrammetry is playing an important role in the recording the tomb of Seti I – It will become more important as the work proceeds.
The imagery provides higher resolution geometry than the underlying point cloud, which as seen below, requires extremely fine detailing. Unlike the process of creating 2D elevations, architectural plans, or virtual environments which require high resolution textures, milling and 3D printing require fine geometry as it is that data that will be replicated. Traditional laser scanning does not provide a high enough resolution for this process.
Despite the heavy influx of tourists following the tomb´s re-opening in November 2016, Factum Arte successfully completed a 3D survey of the tomb using a FARO Focus 130 Terrestrial Laser Scanner. The data obtained with this system provided information about the general geometry and spatial dimensions of the tomb. These provided the framework to which all other data was added to provide provenance to the scan and photo data.
With the context and general geometry captured by the photogrammetry and laser scan data, the Lucida collects the fine detail integral to the reproduction process. However, limitation on mobility and adaptivity require the original data to fill 30% of the wall area as well as the roof and ground.
The laser scan data was processed and registered in Faro Scene to generate a E57 point cloud. The photographs were processed in Lightroom to achieve ideal exposure, clarity, and coloration. After this portion the data is imported into Reality Capture for the bulk of the processing. The images were divided by room and each section was imported and aligned individually, being exported into unique components. Once all the rooms were processed, all of the components were registered together using the laser scan data as a scaled base.
Once the project is successfully aligned a high resolution model of each individual wall in each room is created using the photogrammetry and laser information to allow for finer geometry on the smaller details.
Unlike modeling for web or game use the highest resolution model with the most detailed geometry is preserved.
Each high resolution wall mesh were exported into an OBJ format and edited into sections for the 3D printing process.
Lastly, using the built in "Ortho Projection" tool, depth maps of each wall were created. These depth maps are used by the CNC routing machines as a topographic map of how deeply to excavate the material in each section across the panel.
Factum Arte's approach to the production of high-resolution facsimiles is dependent on the merging of the 3D information of the surface with the high-resolution, colour photography recorded in the tomb. Fabrication requires multiple methods of creating both the 3D surfaces and the 2D textures including elevated printing, routing, and elastic printing.
The elevated printing technology of Project EIGER is a form of additive 3D printing. It can create fullcolour, textured prints with a maximum size of 2.44 x 1.19 m and a height up to 5 mm. To create these a depth maps exported from Reality Capture were combined by depth maps exported from the Lucida scanner. As the walls in the tomb of Seti I exceed the 5 mm,the research and development department of Océ- Technologies created an experimental slicing algorithm and modified the print processes to create monochrome prints with the required relief while maintaining the accuracy.
Factum produced a monochrome printing of the tomb of Seti I, and added colour later. The Océ prints were created as negative moulds of the walls of the tomb from which casts were taken. Had Belzoni had access to this non-contact technology, the walls of the tomb might retain their original colour today.
Most of the tomb has been carved into boards of polyurethane using CNC routing machines. Like the elevated printing, the routers were guided by depth maps exported from Reality Capture were combined by depth maps exported from the Lucida scanner. To rout a 1x1 m panel in 3D at a resolution of 250 microns takes approximately 120 hours. The walls were routed into panels of approximately 1 x 2 m that are then joined together. Once complete, these panels were assembled to form complete rooms. These are then cut into irregular shaped sections that can be transported and bolted together with invisible joints.
The remaining portions of the exhibit were 3D Printed using a resin based system. The meshes used for printing were created within Reality Capture at the highest possible resolution and then reduced to the ideal polygon count from printing without detail loss. These meshes were then cleaned and prepared in an external program before being printed in house. The objects rounded out the exhibition with the routed and elevated printed panels.
The preparation of an elastic printing media was a direct response to practical need. Factum Arte's flatbed digital printer can overprint in perfect register but it cannot print a detailed and focused image onto an undulating surface. A layered mixture of three different materials has been developed and is made as required. It is an ultrathin, flexible, slightly elastic material suitable for inkjet printing with pigmented ink. It is made of two thin layers of ink-jet ground backed with an acrylic gesso and then an elastic, acrylic support. It is built in seven layers rolled onto a slightly textured silicon mould. The skins have a short working life and need to be made freshly to ensure that they stretch and fit the surface in the correct way. The skins can be printed in sheets that are one and a half metres wide and up to three meters long, minimising the number of joints in the final facsimile.
When everything has come together the culmination is an incredibly impressive exhibition. In the case of Seti I, this exhibition took place in the Antikenmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. A full catalog of artifacts, tomb facsimile, educational content, and interactive areas have come together to educate museum goers not only on the tomb but the rediscovery and fabrication.
Additional details, including panels and artifacts now being held in museums throughout the world, were all painstakingly scanned and brought together with the tomb. This is the first time since its rediscovery that the tomb can be seen as a complete exhibition.
Lastly, the tomb illustrates the meanings behind the hieroglyphics and ritual artifacts found throughout the exhibition. Imagine getting to learn about the ancient Egyptians in a setting like this. Artifacts you can touch, information on the purpose of each item, background on the discovery and extraction by Belzoni, and all over 3000km away from their current resting place in Egypt. Exhibitions such as these showcase what is possible if you have the inspiration, technical knowledge, and equipment at your disposal.
The Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in 2009 in Madrid. It works alongside its sister company, Factum Arte: a multi-disciplinary workshop in Madrid dedicated to digital mediation in contemporary art and the production of facsimiles. The Foundation was established to demonstrate the importance of documenting, monitoring, studying, recreating and disseminating the world's cultural heritage through the rigorous development of highresolution recording and re-materialization techniques.
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Zlata Rodošek, slovenska gledališka igralka, * 26. marec 1922, Števerjan, Italija, † 30. september 2002, Ljubljana, Slovenija.

Odraščala je v Srbiji, kjer je v Novem Sadu obiskovala gimnazijo in se prvič srečala z gledališčem. Leta 1940 je vpisala študij germanistike na Filozofski fakulteti v Ljubljani. Po štirih semestrih germanistike je opravila sedem semestrov na konservatoriju, a je njen študij prekinila druga svetovna vojna in okupatorjevo zaprtje univerze. Med vojno je delovala kot statistka in v manjših vlogah v predstavah režiserja Bratka Krefta (SNG Ljubljana). Po koncu vojne, ko so sestavljali gledališke ansamble, se je odločila za Slovensko stalno gledališče v Trstu, kjer je delovala do svoje upokojitve leta 1981.

V svoji karieri je poustvarila okrog 200 likov. Poleg gledališča je nastopila tudi v več filmskih, radijskih in televizijskih vlogah ter poučevala izgovorjavo.

Njena hči je slovenska radijska napovedovalka Jasna Rodošek.

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Za svoje delo je prejela več priznanj, med njimi nagrado Združenja dramskih umetnikov Slovenije (1962) in Severjevo nagrado (1981). Leta 2000 je prejela tudi častni znak svobode Republike Slovenije »za zasluge na področju gledališke umetnosti«.

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Good news for Bressay with former school redeveloped
1 comment, 20/05/2017 , by Rosalind Griffiths, in Headlines, News
The cafe staff (from left): Rozanne Tulloch, Anne Bateson, Susan Manson, Erin Lowe and Beatrice Lowe. Photo: Dave Donaldson
Bressay's fortunes are very much on the up with the transformation of the former primary school into a community hub and the Speldiburn Cafe, officially opened yesterday by MSP Tavish Scott.
The spacious school building, which once had 55 pupils, closed in 2014.
MSP Tavish Scott at the opening. Photo: Dave Donaldson
It now houses a good-as-new shop, a library, an art and craft studio, a recycling facility and rooms for workshops, classes and Bressay's under-5s, as well as the all-important cafe.
The achievement is thanks to the determination of Bressay Development Ltd, whose members could not bear to see the place stand empty.
Mr Scott, once a pupil at the school, said it was "a really important day for the community". It showed the resilience of the locals and marked the island "moving forward in a positive way".
Losing the school had had a "major impact", Mr Scott said, but the "wonderful effort" that had gone into the creation of the new resource had been a "fantastic achievement".
The official opening is part of a three-day celebraton of what has been achieved since Bressay Development Ltd took over the lease from the council in November 2015. The cafe was open on a trial basis last summer and kept going two days a week in the winter.
The packed cafe at the opening. Photo: Dave Donaldson
Chairwoman Hazel Anderson said: "The hope was we would create something worthwhile for the community, and we're quite satisfied we've reached a point where we can have a celebration."
Since 2015 the achievements include recruitment of a development officer, creation of a community office and exhibition spaces, besides all the other facilities.
Mrs Anderson said they couldn't do it without continuing volunteer support, and added that more volunteers were always needed.
Vice-chairwoman Robina Barton said: "When we lost the school it could potentially have been the end of the story. We managed to turn it into something useful for the community, it's a nice social place and a focal point for the community."
Ms Bartson said that the project would be working in partnership with the hall, the lighthouse and the newly reopened Maryfield House Hotel.
Development officer Sharon Anderson said: "When the school closed it was a big blow to the community. We wanted to see something happening to the building. It was a huge thing to take on."
The artists' studios. Photo: Dave Donaldson
The cafe, housed in the former canteen, in particular had "gone really well", Ms Anderson said, with soup, hot meals and snacks in the winter and quiches and soup in the summer. It had become a social place for locals and visitors as well as an eatery.
The good as new shop in the former music room, offering "everything you can imagine" from jewellery to furniture, opened in February. Ms Anderson said: "I never thought it would be so busy, it's completely taken off."
Development officer Sharon Anderson. Photo: Dave Donaldson
The profits would go into running costs for the building and night classes, she said.
Classes, workshops and taster sessions in subjects such as yoga, gardening and composting have taken place, and more are planned. Future plans could include furniture upcycling and IT, and Ms Anderson said: "We're open to all suggestions."
Additionally, funding is in place to purchase bikes to hire to tourists, which will be another positive development for the isle.
Bressay Development Ltd
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I should like to offer the Speldiburn Cafe my very best wishes for its future.
My husband and I, with two friends, were there at the beginning of May and were impressed by the food on offer and the efforts of the volunteer staff to make eating there a happy experience. With its nearly-new shop it's a real asset to Bressay, which is in need of similar projects to help the island's economy.
Good luck Speldiburn-we look forward to our next visit.


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Hero's Blend of City-Building and Adventure Sees Steady MAU Growth but Variable DAU
By Pete Davison
Hero is a role-playing game for Facebook from Chinese developer Hero Legend. The game previously appeared on our top 20 list of emerging Facebook games in December, about six months after its launch. After holding steady throughout the beginning of 2011, its monthly active users are again on the rise. Daily active users are another story, however. Today's figure comes just after a recovery from a large drop, which oddly coincided with a spike in MAU.
According to our traffic tracking service, AppData, Hero currently has 948,000 monthly active users and 77,000 daily active users.
Hero's gameplay has several elements. Players can build up a castle, take part in Mafia Wars-style quests and pass through a "Time Gate" to enter into combat with a variety of fantasy-themed foes. The game opens with a simple tutorial to teach players how to play, but a shaky translation from the original Chinese means that the game demands a certain level of familiarity with the genres involved — or at least a willingness to explore and experiment. The mechanics involved will be familiar to those who have been playing social games for some time, but the combination of genres offers something a little different to the norm.
The game's main social elements come from recruiting other players for bonuses and gift-exchanging purposes. More experienced players are able to join guilds to take on tough challenges for useful bonuses. Players can also declare war on neighboring players' kingdoms in an attempt to gain even more bonus items.
Hero is monetized through the sale of its premium currency, diamonds. These can be purchased via PayPal, credit card, cellphone, Ukash, Amazon Payments, Social Gold, Click and Buy or PaySafe. There's also an offer wall provided by Tapjoy that enables players to earn diamonds by completing offers, taking surveys or trying other Facebook games. There's also a paid monthly membership option which gives players free equipment every day plus a stipend of 4 diamonds per day. Members also get discounts in the in-game store. Currently, the game does not feature any sort of Facebook Credits integration.
We were unable to contact Hero Legend for comment on the game's growth pattern, but it appears that game updates are somewhat sporadic, which could account for the sudden MAU uptick. Past updates seem to have revolved around revamps of the user interface, and new equipment for players to purchase in the in-game store. There was also a seasonal event around Christmas of last year where players could purchase a special Santa Claus item to heal their heroes. It's fair to assume that the game will continue to support its community with content updates, particularly if the MAU figure continues on its upward path. If Hero Legend plans to stick around on Facebook, Facebook Credits might also be a forthcoming update as the mandatory deadline for social game integration goes into effect at the end of next month.
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In May of this year, The Fine & Country Foundation donated over £26,000 in grants to charitable organisations across the world, helping them in their fight against homelessness and poverty.
One of those recipients - nominated by Fine & Country York - was SASH, awarded £1,000 in this round of donations. Working across York, North and East Yorkshire, they support young people aged between 16 and 25 to end the cycle of unemployment and benefit dependence, ultimately escaping homelessness for good.
Since receiving their grant, SASH have kept The Foundation updated on how they have adapted during the pandemic and how funding has helped.
"Thank you for the part you have played in helping us to adapt by making a grant of £1,000. We could not have done it without you"
"The world has changed in the past months. We have made sure that SASH has changed with it.
Very early on, we knew that young people would still need SASH at a time of crisis. We had a very important role to play in keeping young people safe and off the streets. Working with our hosts and partners, we prepared the way forward. As staff moved to homeworking, we contacted all the volunteer hosts. Whilst most Supported Lodging hosts were happy to continue in their role, some, because of their vulnerabilities and need to shield, stepped back. Thankfully, we were able to move their young people to new hosts.
Throughout the past months, we have continued to place young people who cannot return home or do not have the skills to live independently with Supported Lodgings Hosts.
Zoe moved in with her host in May. Prior to lockdown Zoe had been referred to SASH but she was unsure whether our model or support was for her. She didn't take up the place and she was placed in Stay City hotel by City of York Council after becoming homeless. She was struggling and not getting much support. Still unsure about SASH, potential hosts did some video calls with her, with no pressure, and she moved in.
Zoe has settled in well, she arrived with just a small bag and her bike, but thanks to grants, she was able to buy essentials including underwear and shoes. Within a few days she had already committed to returning to college in September. She is thriving; spending time doing embroidery, visiting friends, and becoming happier. She recently celebrated her 18th birthday with her hosts – her smile says it all.
Lockdown has meant our normal support programmes have changed. SASH support workers usually meet face-to-face with the young people, where activities and workshops are held, as well as social outings. Instead we have focussed on virtual and online support. The funding which we have accessed is enabling young people to get online – including laptops, data for phones, headphones, and tablets.
Many SASH lodgers have taken advantage of the slower pace of life and the availability of their hosts to expand their cooking skills, learn new skills and join in their host family's activities, such as watching films together and taking part in quizzes.
Kitchens across our Supported Lodgings and Nightstop Hosts have become hives of activity. Cooking and even gardening have helped young people fill their time. Seven young people in the Scarborough area took part in a weekly online cook-along with their hosts. Others have taken on the role of Cook for their host.
"I am cooking with my Host nearly every night since lockdown and I find it really fun and helpful. I enjoy learning new recipes and my host is going to help me with a food budget plan too."
- Emily, in Supported Lodgings through SASH
Over the following months, SASH will continue to pivot our support in line with Government guidelines. In particular, we are developing new employability workshops in recognition of the impact that COVID-19 has on young people's employability and the availability of work.
We could not have done this without you. It is thanks to you that Zoe, and many more like her, have the support they need now and will need in the future."
For more information about SASH visit their website www.sash-uk.org.uk or follow them on Facebook.
To find out more about the charities which are supported through The Fine & Country Foundation Spring Grant Programme, and the other work we do, please visit www.fineandcountryfoundation.com


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Niche Markets: Golden Age?
It's supply vs. demand in the senior housing ring.
Robyn Friedman
There's a waiting list for Livingston School Apartments, which reimagined a Depression-era vocational school in Albany, N.Y., as 103 units of mixed-income apartments.
Images by Christian Skully
Senior housing is drawing the interest of a lot of developers these days, and for good reason. The aging population is creating plenty of demand, occupancies are steady, asking rents are rising and returns are healthy.
"Demand for senior housing units is far outpacing the supply of available units," said Matthew Whitlock, vice chairman of the National Senior Housing Group at CBRE. "And there is an ability to develop new senior housing units based on the availability of low-cost capital in the marketplace."
But despite the demand, concerns are rising about overbuilding in some markets that could cause a slowdown in absorption, leading to lower occupancy rates. That's causing some lenders to take a more critical view of proposed projects, developers and facility operators.
As in years past, much of that overdevelopment is occurring in the assisted living segment. Total senior housing units in the 31 largest metropolitan areas has grown by 7.6 percent over the past three years, according to Beth Burnham Mace, chief economist for the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care. Assisted living dominated that growth, increasing by 12.7 percent, while the number of independent living units increased by 4 percent.
"After the recession, a lot of activity came back to the market, and it was viewed that assisted living, because it's more need-based, was a little more recession resilient," said Mace. "So that's where a lot of the development dollars went."
Indeed, in January, Newport Beach, Calif.-based REIT research provider Green Street Advisors reported that assisted living units are being constructed at twice the rate of independent living. And the impact of that new construction is starting to affect assisted living occupancy rates.
According to the NIC, the occupancy rate for assisted living in the 31 largest U.S. metropolitan areas was 87.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016, down from 89 percent in the fourth quarter of 2013—and at a six-year low. Yet the average asking rent in those markets was $4,643, up from $4,258 in the fourth quarter of 2013.
The occupancy rate for independent living in the same markets was 91.1 percent in the fourth quarter, up from 89.9 percent three years earlier and at a seven-year high; average asking rents were $3,119, up from $2,863 in the fourth quarter of 2013.
"Demand has been fairly high for assisted living, but new supply has come on, and we haven't quite been able to absorb some of it," said Allen McMurtry, an executive director at Cushman & Wakefield in Tampa.
According to Mace, in the fourth quarter of 2016, the net absorption for assisted living units was the highest it's ever been—4,700 units in the 31 largest metros—yet occupancy fell because with 5,900 new units coming online in the same quarter, the demand simply wasn't strong enough to satisfy the supply.
Independent living supply and demand is much more balanced. In the fourth quarter of 2016, inventory grew by 1,842 units but net absorption was 1,846.
Oversupply concerns
Due to all the construction activity, some assisted living markets are getting stressed, with slowdowns in occupancy rates and rents. Austin, Denver, New Orleans and Jacksonville, for example, will have a lot of inventory to absorb and may face an oversupply of assisted living, Mace said. Other markets—such as San Jose, Memphis and Toledo—have very few projects under construction.
Independent living is another story. Of the 99 markets the NIC tracks, new construction constitutes less than 1 percent of inventory in 37. In particular, there are relatively few independent living units under construction in Albany, N.Y.; New Haven, Conn.; Pittsburgh; Riverside, Calif.; and San Diego.
On a national basis, senior housing construction starts as a whole are beginning to slow down, Mace said. And since banks are becoming more cautious, a natural slowdown may soon offset any oversupply.
Concerns about oversupply of assisted living may be short-lived, however. Demand for senior housing remains strong, and many active development markets are seeing population growth. "Atlanta has experienced tremendous new development, as have Dallas and Denver," Whitlock observed. "I do not mean to suggest that these housing units won't ultimately be absorbed—there is demand for the product—but there might be a slowdown in absorption."
And niche opportunities abound for well-capitalized developers.
Adaptive reuse. Transforming an existing structure into senior housing offers advantages to developers. "You can't get much greener than reusing an existing building," said Scott Maenpaa, a project architect with The Architectural Team in Chelsea, Mass. "As long as the structure is sound, there should be cost savings."
Maenpaa has worked on a number of innovative senior projects, including adaptive reuse. One recent effort created Livingston School Apartments out of a Depression-era vocational school in Albany, N.Y. The 230,000-square-foot building was converted into a 103-unit, mixed-income senior community. The $20.7 million project is fully leased, at rents ranging from $625 for a studio to $1,200 for a two-bedroom unit—and there's a waiting list of more than 100. The developer financed the project through a variety of private and public funding sources, including tax credits and subsidies from the federal, state and city governments.
Affordable housing. There's a huge need for affordable housing across all sectors of the market, and senior housing is no exception. But making the numbers work on an affordable project can be challenging.
Big Rock Partners is developing Windsor at Celebration, a 239-unit, Gensler-designed senior living facility in Walt Disney Co.'s Celebration community in Orlando.
Image by Shimahara Illustration
"Everyone is trying to find the secret for providing an appropriate level of quality care, albeit at an affordable price," said Russell Dey, a vice president at Bethesda-based commercial real estate lender Walker & Dunlop. "Your average retiring American is typically not in a position to pay $5,000 a month for assisted living."
Luxury facilities. Baby Boomers are the wealthiest generation in U.S. history, and many are retiring with sufficient wealth to support a luxury lifestyle. Developers in affluent markets, like South Florida, are responding. Walker & Dunlop recently closed a $41 million construction loan for Windsor at Celebration, a senior living rental community in Orlando by Big Rock Partners. Scheduled to open in 2018, the luxury facility will include 239 independent living, assisted living and memory-care units. The property will be the only senior housing project in the area, and the developer believes demand is strong.
High barriers to entry. Experts note that there are opportunities in cities with high barriers to entry—such as Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle—where land is expensive and the entitlement process is long and challenging. There's been little senior development in these cities, yet demand is strong from those seeking an urban lifestyle. Well-capitalized developers with the ability to acquire the land—and the patience to wait out the entitlement process—could do very well in these areas.
LGBT communities. A small but growing segment of the senior housing sector is LGBT housing. One new project, the Los Angeles LGBT Center's new Anita May Rosenstein Campus in Hollywood, Calif., was approved in November. Slated to open in 2019, the campus, designed by Santa Monica-based KFA Architects, will include as many as 100 units of affordable housing for seniors. Additional projects are in the pipeline around the nation.
Originally appearing in the March 2017 issue of MHN.
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Ms. Rich was previously responsible for Vision, Brand and Communications at Inova Health System and led the Thought Leadership Forum at Perkins+Will. She also co-founded and advises Blu2Green LLC and serves on multiple community boards. Ms. Rich graduated with a MS in Health Systems Administration from Georgetown University, a BA from Lehigh University, and a certificate in Healthcare Quality from Harvard University. Ms. Rich volunteers enjoys photography, other people's cooking, and voluntary running.


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To recap, we have been over the years planting our own firewood fuel for the future. We set off with a more traditional plantation of hazel, ash and oak coppice but since the problems with ash were not going to be abated, we added alder, birch, maple and, more controversially, sycamore and some SRC Willow hybrids. I am braced for the rock throwing but please remember that we are not planting woodland, we are planting energy crops.
I have been thinking about adding some Eucalyptus into the mix and sourced some seed from frost tolerant varieties. Even though I only sowed them this spring, I have had to plant them out as they are climbing out of their 2lt pots already (Omeo Gum) but all the other varieties are a bit more stable and will hopefully remain in pots until autumn.
After 8 seasons and for what it is worth, my non scientific thoughts in terms of productivity would be Alder, Birch and Syc are proving the best with the SRC Willow and Ash a close second.
Whilst this is even more difficult to quantify, the benefit to wildlife has been immeasurable and much more diverse than the most optimistic predictions.
I'm very pleased with progress but the trial goes on!
The area of "shrub" that naturally regenerated on the bare peat (where I got a height dozed into a hollow) only about perhaps an acre in size, mostly goat willow and birch with a few whins and lodgepole pine, plus misc flowering shrubs, Rowan etc.
Plus I planted mostly quickthorn/whitethorn/hawthorn hedges over some 500m, which have been growing uncut and unchecked for prob 8 years and flowering in parts for the first time this year, and the smell on a damp morning was heavenly.
Is all proper HOOCHING with bird life and game trails.
not 100m from the house.
No rock throwing here (although I didn't bother planting birch as it rots so quickly & we have plenty self seeding anyway). Can you post pictures of your efforts?
Similar plantings to yours here Marko, but also growing Italian alder as windbreak, cherry (very fast growing so far) robinia, walnut, larch, lime (more for wildlife and craft), sweet chestnut and some random individual specimens here and there.
I had planted some more softwoods, but most of those didn't take.
How is Alder as a firewood? I was under the impression it wasnae great, but the community forest project here has loads of it that could be thinned out as firewood.
Birch, Oak and Ash are all great, I would happily plant Sycamore for firewood (why the expected rocks). Willow's an odd option, quick to grow, but poor to burn. Eucalyptus is probably a very good call.
Keep us informed of how it's going!
Alder is good . Likes wet ground but once dried out burns well .
Ah-ha, a use of all those acres of Alder, and there I was thinking they were only useful for sluice gates.


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import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.Input.Keys;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.Color;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Batch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.BitmapFont.HAlignment;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Vector2;
import wdwdn.Assets;

public class Dialog {
    String[] texts;

    int index = 0;
    Vector2 pos;
    float time;
    public boolean removeDialog;
    boolean keyFix = false;

    public Dialog(String... texts) {
        this.texts = texts;

        if (Gdx.input.isKeyPressed(Keys.SPACE))
            keyFix = true;
    }

    public void update(float delta) {
        if (!Gdx.input.isKeyPressed(Keys.SPACE))
            keyFix = false;

        time += delta;

        if ((Gdx.input.isKeyJustPressed(Keys.SPACE) || time > 5.5f ) && keyFix != true) {
            if (index + 1 >= texts.length) {
                removeDialog = true;
            } else {
                index++;
                time = 0;
            }
        }
    }

    public void draw(Batch batch) {
        batch.draw(Assets.pixel, 200, 40, 1280 - 400, 160);

        Assets.font.setColor(Color.BLACK);
        Assets.font.setScale(.4f);
        Assets.font.drawWrapped(batch, texts[index], 300, 150, 1280 - 600,
                HAlignment.CENTER);
        Assets.font.setColor(Color.WHITE);
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}

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There are many different moves you can perform in poker on your turn. A very common one is the 'call'. To 'call' in poker is to match a bet or a raise. So, if someone bets 3 dollars then matching the bet would be a call, and you would have to put 3 dollars into the pot. If someone raises, then you call the raise and put in an equal amount to the raise.
Calling keeps you in the game, if you don't match the bet or raise then you fold and are out. You only need to call if you are in the betting round, which means someone has to have raised or bet in some way. Like with the small and large blind. If the betting round is not in place then you just 'check'. Which is the equivalent of calling the current bet of zero dollars.
The call can also be referred to as seeing. "I see your raise" would mean they are calling. "Bob saw the raise from Jill" would mean Jill raised and Bob called that raise. When you are out at poker night, remember that calling keeps you in the game without having to lose more money than you have to. This is likely to be used when you are still confident but don't have the best hand in the world. If you have two pairs, but suspect someone on the table can do better than that, its good to keep calling as long as the raises don't get too high. A very high raise means they are either bluffing that they have a good hand, or that they have a good hand.
So, a call is a very basic move and one you need to know when playing poker. It is simply seeing someone's bet or putting in an equal amount to the bet or raise. Have fun and good luck playing poker.


Global Coronary Stents Market is expected to grow significantly over the forecast period. The market held a market value of USD 9,382.63 Million in 2017 and is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.81% over the forecast period.
The global coronary stent market is mainly driven by the high prevalence of heart-related diseases and huge demand for diagnosis and treatment methods. Additionally, the increasing availability of diagnostic services for coronary heart diseases also fuels the growth of the market. Moreover, favorable reimbursement policies are likely to boost the market growth.
Many private and government insurance organizations are present in developed countries. Over 50 private insurance companies are present in the U.S. The policies cover more than 75% of the cost of the devices and treatment. For instance, under the Medicare plan in the U.S., if the average cost of three stents is approximately USD 10,000, then USD 7,500 is reimbursed. Additionally, in developed countries such as the U.K., Canada, and Germany, other similar reimbursement policies are available. On the other hand, alternative treatment methods for coronary arteries disease and numerous cases of product recalls may hamper the market growth.
The global coronary stent market is segmented on the basis of type, mode of delivery, material, and end-user.
On the basis of type, the market is segmented into bare-metal stents, drug-eluting stents, and bio absorbable stents.
On the basis of mode of delivery, the market is segmented into balloon-expandable stents and self-expanding stents.
On the basis of material, the market is segmented into metallic stents, cobalt chromium, platinum chromium, nickel titanium, stainless steel, and others.
On the basis of end-user, the market is segmented into hospitals and clinics, cardiac centers, ambulatory surgical centers, and others.
The American coronary stent market is segmented into two regions, namely, North America and South America. North America, being the largest market, is mainly driven by the increasing patient population suffering from coronary heart disease, growing investment in healthcare, and increasing geriatric population. Furthermore, the U.S. is the largest market in North America owing to the presence of a large number of market players manufacturing coronary stents and the increasing awareness about risk factors for the coronary heart disease. Canada is expected to be the fastest growing market which is driven by the overall increasing demand for medical devices with progress in coronary stent devices. South America is expected to be the fastest growing market due to technologically advanced devices for diagnosis and the increasing demand for treatment options of the coronary heart disease.
Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest growing market whose growth is attributed to the increasing burden of cardiovascular diseases and increasing focus on early diagnosis and treatment of heart diseases. Furthermore, other factors contributing to the growth of the market are lifestyle changes, the influence of western culture among adults, and addiction to smoking. Additionally, the increasing environmental pollution and exposure to harmful chemicals also attribute to the growth of the market.
The European coronary stent market exhibits a positive growth with an increasing emphasis on the diagnosis of heart diseases and other related diseases. Moreover, Germany and the U.K. are the major contributors to the growth of the market. Additionally, the increasing expenditure in healthcare by major countries in Europe also accelerates the growth of the market.
The Middle Eastern and African market for coronary stents exhibits a steady rise with an increase in the number of healthcare facilities providing treatments for chronic conditions and the flourishing growth of the medical device sector especially diagnostic devices. In the African region, the awareness about the coronary heart disease is increasing the growth of the market.


Drama. The story is centred on the period of the Thirties against a background of politics mixing with art in the United States, particularly in this instance on the New York stage. Several leading lights of the era are portrayed, predominantly Orson Welles and John Houseman, along with Marc Blitzstein. Blitzstein was the author of the musical drama 'The Cradle Will Rock', the production of which was set to be closed down by the authorities on the occasion of its premiere, leading the entire company to march through Manhattan and perform the piece from the auditorium of another theatre.


After the departure of Buzz Williams, Mike Young has been sworn in as the new head coach of Virginia Tech.
To start, he's a New River Valley native. Young is from just up the road in Radford and mentioned growing up going to games and campus as a kid in the Cassell. The transition for him and his family will be easier than most job changes as he's familiar with the area which allows them to hit the ground running.
Being from the NRV, he made it clear he wants a long tenure at Virginia Tech and is around for the long haul. As he reminisced about past memories growing up a Tech fan, you could tell he was overjoyed to have this position offered to him and wants to continue to build a winning tradition at Virginia Tech and sustain it.
Mike has been at Wofford for the past thirty years as an assistant and then as a head coach for the past seventeen seasons. As you'd expect, the first several years at the helm were a struggle and turned in a less than impressive record. However, after adjusting to the job and getting a full roster of his recruits, he turned Wofford into an annual contender for the conference title in the Southern Conference. Once winning his first conference title in the '09-'10 season, he didn't look back and has one four more including this season (five conference titles in the past ten years).
On the schematic side of coaching, his teams look similar to the recent Hokies team. He likes to run an offense that focuses around stretching the floor with shooters and relies on a big man to create looks for others. Having a similar motion offense will make the transition for returning players a lot easier than in they scrapped everything. On defense, he uses minimal zone and likes to have physical and energetic man to man defense.
Offensively, Wofford ranked 13th in the nation in adjusted offensive efficiency, 16th in points per game, and 2nd in 3 point field goal percentage. He runs a no nonsense, no turnover offense and makes sure his guys can shoot the ball. One more key to his offense is building around the talent. Young had senior guard Fletcher Magee who was a marksman from deep; and Mike Young knew how to use him. When he's had talent over the years, he gets the most out of it which will be huge going forward for the Hokies.
Defensively, Young's team ranked in the top sixty in efficiency but left it all out on the court. What his team lacked in athleticism, they made up for in effort. As mentioned before, he gets the best out of everyone and makes sure you can and will play both sides of the ball every possession.
So, Tell us how you feel. The Facebook page has been humming. Match it here.
What? Who? Humm... where is Wofford, and who is this guy anyway?
Sounds like he grew up tubing on the New River in the Summer and then having a big picnic at McCoy. Other that that I cannot say.
He spent 30 years at somewhere small and hit gold in the last 10. 5 Trips to the dance with not much is something. Give him a chance he might just make us all smile.
Okay, Whit, we'll see. If it's bad you'll hear about it. Spring Game is Saturday, that's more important, anyway.
Hokies Baseball Goes 2 for 4 in the Last Week The Baseball Team is still a work in progress, but no one is kidding anyone. The goal of this season is .500+. We aren't competing for ACC honors yet. A winning season would be serious tonic for this team.
Diamond Hokies Turning It Around There isn't too much argument over the past few seasons of both the softball and baseball teams. This season we are seeing the effects of some major changes, some solid recruiting, and a new coaching setup. The Hokie Softball is ranked 21/20, it's keeping opponents off the bags, and it's scoring. The Baseball Team has a winning record for the first time in years, and is looking to finish strong. GO HOKIES!!!!


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BRITISH BRDC F3
EUROFORMULA Open
The Euroformula Open Championship is a junior formula racing series based in Spain. It was one of six national and international Formula Three championships in Europe and Scandinavia that together use to form an important part of the established "career ladder" below Formula One.
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Recent Career History
24th - 25th April Portimao Portigal
15th - 16th May Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet France
19th - 20th June Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Belgium
17th - 18th July Hungaroring Circuit Hungary
10th - 11th September Red Bull Ring Austria
25th - 26th September Autodromo Nazionale Monza Italy
16th - 17th October Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Spain
The European F3 Open was created in 2009 by GT Sport, who has been the official organizer for a decade of the championships such as Spanish GT / Iber GT, Spanish Formula 3 and International GT Open.
In 2016 the Euroformula Open will enter its seventh edition, having enjoyed a growing success in terms of excellence and quality of entries, raising interest, exposure and geographical expansion.
Today Euroformula Open is…
– The best platform to enter F3 racing at the moment
– The series offering the highest F3 racing performance
– The F3 championship with the best cost/exposure ratio
– The F3 championship with the biggest number of Dallara F312s, most recent F3 car developed and built by Dallara.
The Euroformula Open philosophy is to keep rules simple and stable during the years, maintain costs under control, visit only top-level circuits, offer professional level formation for drivers, and provide premium TV/media coverage.
Euroformula Open is run with Dallara F312 cars.
Toyota-based engines are provided directly by GT Sport and maintained by Piedra ta Sport.
Tyres are mono-brand provided by Michelin, new tire provider as from 2015.
Fortec Motorsports confirms Roberto Faria return for 2021
LUKE BROWNING CROWNED BRITISH F4 CHAMPION IN DRAMATIC BRANDS HATCH FINALE
FORTEC MOTORSPORT'S RISING STARS SHINE AT BRITISH F3'S SILVERSTONE FINALE
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Q: Is this the correct way to define the complex logarithm, log(z) so that it is holomorphic on a set H? if we set $H:=\Bbb C \setminus\{-ir:r \in \Bbb R, r>0\}$, and we wanted to define a complex logarithm $\log(z)$ which is holomorphic on $H$. Then is the following what we would do ?
We know that $\log(z)$ is not differentiable on the negative real line because the arg(z) is not continous on this line. We also know that $\log(z)=\ln|z|+iArg(z)$
So to define $\log(z)$ s.t. it is holomorphic on H we say $\log(z)=\ln|z|+i(Arg(z))$, where $Arg(z)\in(\pi,-\pi/2) \cup(-\pi/2,\pi) $ (i.e the angle goes from $\pi$ to $-\pi /2$ but doesnt include these points , then it goes from $-\pi/2$ to $\pi$ again not including the points).


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1000memories integrates with Facebook to fill Timeline with old photos
Colleen Taylor Jan 26, 2012 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post
Screenshot of ShoeBox uploads in Timeline (click to enlarge)
Within the next few weeks, every Facebook profile will be converted to the new Timeline user interface, which shows each user's life over an expandable Timeline that dates all the way back to his or her birth. That's exciting and all, but it also means that a lot of profiles out there will suddenly have big, vacant gaps with no content between the time a user was born and when they joined Facebook. Don't panic, people: A San Francisco startup called 1000memories is here to help.
ShoeBox, an iPhone app made by 1000memories that helps you quickly scan and share your old printed photos, has debuted a new integration with Facebook Timeline. The updated app now lets you scan physical photos directly into your Facebook Timeline. Also, now all photos that have already been added to 1000memories by existing app users can now push selected photos to their Facebook Timelines.
Photo scanning made easy
Now of course, people have been scanning old photos and adding them to Facebook for a while now. But the ShoeBox app makes the process super easy. The app automatically detects where a photo's edges are and crops it accordingly; users then add details such as dates, names and locations onto the photo, and automatically tag Facebook friends before sharing it to Timeline. The whole thing makes so much sense that Mark Zuckerberg himself reached out to the 1000memories team when the ShoeBox app debuted in October, 1000memories co-founder Rudy Adler told me in an interview this week:
"On the day we launched ShoeBox, we got an email from Mark Zuckerberg saying that he really liked it and wanted people to use it to fill their back stories on Timeline. The whole thing was serendipitous. We were probably halfway through building the app when Facebook first announced Timeline at the f8 conference, and we automatically thought it'd be a great integration then. Anyone who activates Timeline has this big gap between their birthdate and when they joined Facebook."
ShoeBox uploads in Facebook Timeline (click to enlarge)
1000memories launched out of the summer 2010 class of Y Combinator with a primary focus on being a website where people could remember friends and family members who had died. But in 2011, after landing $2.5 million in funding from Greylock Ventures, the company expanded its focus to helping everyone organize and archive their photographs and memories online.
Keeping a standalone service
Even with the new Timeline integration, 1000memories still expects to grow as a standalone service apart from Facebook, since not every old photo is appropriate for social sharing. "Everyone has these really cherished photos sitting in their closets. They're things you would save in a fire, but we want to breathe new life into them," Adler said. "A lot of our current users use 1000memories as a place to put all those photos, and you don't really want to share everything on Facebook."
1000memories is a free service at the moment; down the line, the company could start charging for premium features and services, Adler said. In the meantime, 1000memories is working to improve its existing offerings, and a ShoeBox for Android app should make its debut in the next couple of months. To make people feel more safe about using 1000memories as a place to back up their treasured photos, all public content on the site is preserved through a partnership 1000memories has with the Internet Archive.
In all, I think the new version of ShoeBox seems like a very complementary fit with Facebook's current push of Timeline to all users. It'll be fun to see how people take to the app in the weeks and months ahead.


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Q: Creating Multiple Objects using the same functions I have a timer that counts down to 0. It works fine with one, but I want to create a second timer on the same page. I can create the second timer, but it won't countdown and the first one counts down twice as fast. How would I do this. Here is my code

<?php
$tomorrow  = mktime(0, 0, 0, date("m")  , date("d")+1, date("Y"));
$currentTime = time();
$today = $tomorrow - $currentTime;
?>

A: The reason it's ticking twice as fast is because both the countdowns are sharing the same TotalSeconds variable.

A: Here's an example of how to make an independent timer. Parameters are passed to start, they might be better passed to getTimer or to an init function. There is also call a stop method to stop the timer at any time, clear and restart methods could be easily added.
function getTimer() {
  var el, currentNum, lag, timerRef;

  function start(id, startNum, delay) {
    el = document.getElementById(id);
    currentNum = startNum;
    lag = delay;
    run();
  }

  function run() {
    if (timerRef) stop();
    el.innerHTML = currentNum;
    if (currentNum--) {
      timerRef = setTimeout(run, lag);
    }
  }

  function stop() {
    if (timerRef) clearTimeout(timerRef);
  }

  return {
    start: start,
    run: run,
    stop: stop
  };
}

window.onload = function() {

  var t0 = getTimer();
  t0.start('d0', 10, 1000);

  var t1 = getTimer();
  t1.start('d1', 20, 500);

  var t2 = getTimer();
  t2.start('d2', 40, 250);
}

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On Earth Day, Global CSOs condemn violent dispersal of IPs mining barricade in the Philippines
22 April 2020, Manila - Ottawa – Over two hundred NGOs from the Philippines and across the world have signed a statement condemning violent police action against a peaceful community barricade at a mining site in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya on 6 April 2020. The indigenous peoples' barricade was set up in July 2019, following the expiration of Canadian-Australian mining company OceanaGold's mining permit.
The police accompanied three diesel tankers and stormed the barricade, brandishing a letter from executive secretary Salvador Medialdea authorizing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to allow the tankers into the mine site. The diesel was said to be used to drain water seeping into the mining tunnels of OceanaGold's suspended operations.
The community barricade, set up by the municipal government of Kasibu and local indigenous people, refused to disperse as the letter contradicted local government and court orders to suspend the operations of OceanaGold's copper-gold mine. The communities' peaceful blockade of the road was met with violent action by the police who beat and arrested community leader Rolando Pulido and wounded others.
In a petition circulated online, over two hundred local and international solidarity groups condemn the violent dispersal and call on the Office of the President to cancel OceanaGold's permit renewal application with finality, on the basis of the project's atrocious environmental and human rights record. Some of the signatories include Friends of the Earth International, London Mining Network, European Network on Indigenous Peoples, Institute for Ecology and Action Anthropology (Germany), IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands, Amigos de la Tierra Argentina, Spirit of Eureka South Australia, 11.11.11 Coalition of Belgian North South Movement, Finnish Asiatic Society, Publish What You Pay Australia, Fresh Eyes UK, Global Forest Coalition, and the Center for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives (CICADA), McGill University (Canada).
"The violent attack on peaceful people who were blockading the suspended mine with the support of their local government was shocking and outrageous to see" said Dr. Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada. "Particularly as the assault occurred to allow three large fuel tankers to pass through the blockade to extend the life of a mine that has a long history of harmful impacts on human rights and the environment."
Meanwhile, Friends of the Earth Australia spokesperson Cam Walker said, "This should concern all Australians: Oceana Gold is an Australian-Canadian owned mining company which is being opposed by many in the local community. We stand with the community - whom must be protected in these troubling times - and support the call for local authorities to enforce the suspension of operations of Oceana Gold whilst legal proceedings continue."
"This dispersal contravened the right of the community to assembly and violated local and court orders that have suspended the operations of Oceana Gold. The unwarranted resort to force by the police to disperse a peaceful assembly of indigenous people is a reflection of the extraordinary latitude that the government has given to the mining industry. The government has also weaponized Republic Act 11469, using it to arrest a community leader for allegedly violating quarantine protocols when the community was very careful to observe physical distancing at the barricade," said Atty. Ryan Roset of Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, one of the solidarity groups which organized the petition. R.A. 11469, or the Bayanihan To Heal As One Act, is the law recently passed by the Philippine government to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the petition, the groups called on President Rodrigo Duterte to shut down Oceana's operations and cancel its request for extension. The permit of Oceana is classified as a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA), which can only be approved by the president.
The groups also called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to issue a cease-and-desist order to Oceana Gold and on the Department of Interior and Local Government to investigate the conduct of the members of the police from Region 2, Quirino Province and from the municipality of Kasibu.
"It is outrageous that Oceana Gold shifted precious government resources at a time when all efforts should be trained on flattening the curve of the corona virus infections," said Jaybee Garganera, national coordinator of Alyansa Tigil Mina.
"The emergency situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic should be all the more reason to close down this illegal and destructive mine that has disrupted the water and sanitation of communities. It should not be used to justify business as usual for short-term profit but long-term damages to people and planet," said Leon Dulce, national coordinator of Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment.//ENDS


We are the UK's leading charity dedicated to conquering stroke. We rely on your support to provide vital services, campaign for better stroke care and to find better treatments.
We believe in life after stroke. That's why we support stroke survivors to make the best recovery they can. It's why we campaign for better stroke care. And it's why we fund research to develop new treatments and ways of preventing stroke.
Sunday 4 March – Resolution Run at Les Quennevais Cycle Track & Railway Walk. What's your resolution ? This is a fundraising fun run over 5k or 10k, designed to people can sing up on-line now at www.stroke.org.uk/resolution You can run, jog or walk the route, Resolution Runs are for everyone. A Resolution Run is exactly that – your resolution for the new year, it's the ideal event if you want to get more active in 2018.
Sunday 8 July – Step Out for Stroke along the seafront St Helier. This is a 1 mile sponsored walk and anyone can take part, stroke survivors, carers, friends and family. Not open for registration yet and can send more details as we have them.


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Relic Whiskey Bottle Found at Eagle Point Pavilion in Dubuque
Tim Koehler Published: June 9, 2021
Photo: Tim Koehler
Whiskey Bottle from the Days of Pavilion Construction Uncovered
A worker replacing the roof at The Bridge Pavilion in Dubuque's Eagle Point Park discovered what is thought to be a long-ago stashed whiskey bottle. It appears as though workers a long time back left behind an empty Windsor Straight Bourbon Whiskey half-pint bottle. The bourbon, distilled in Peoria, was bottled on October 15, 1936, according to the label on the back of the bottle . That would date it to right around the time of the pavilion's construction.
Workers provided us with photos of several other bottles and cans uncovered during current renovations. Scroll down for a look. The construction project is expected to be completed by the end of July
Eagle Point Park opened in 1909. Sources vary on the construction dates of the park buildings. Work on the park shelters, recognized as among the most influential pieces of architecture in Iowa, with formal dedication of the area in 1937.
The shelter area's designer was former Dubuque superintendent of parks Alfred Caldwell. Caldwell was a Frank Lloyd Wright disciple who, although he never studied directly under Wright, incorporated many Wright design concepts throughout the park.
In an ironic twist, Eagle Point Park was purchased by the city from noted distiller and brewer, Joseph Rhomberg. Rhomberg purchased the area of bluff upon which the park sits in 1873. He and his family cared for the area and kept it in its natural state until the property was purchased by the city in 1908.
Eagle Point Park, an absolute gem of a park if ever there was one, is open from 7:00 AM until 10:00 PM Monday through Thursday and 7:00 AM until 11:00 PM Friday and Saturday.
$1.00 per car,
$5.00 per bus.
Bicycles and pedestrians are admitted for free.
Eagle Point Park is located at 2601 Shiras Avenue
Eagle Point Bridge Pavilion Renovation Finds
Photos: Tim Koehler and "My Guy!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Point_Park_(Dubuque,_Iowa)
http://www.encyclopediadubuque.org/index.php?title=EAGLE_POINT_PARK, https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Pp1dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=0VwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=2444,3334905&dq=history+of+eagle+point+park+dubuque&hl=en
https://www.thegazette.com/news/time-machine-eagle-point-park-dubuque-distiller-set-aside-land-depression-era-workers-enhanced-it/
https://www.cityofdubuque.org/573/Eagle-Point-Park