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10 New Year-Round IPAs Taking Over Craft Beer
West Coast IPA and its low-alcohol versions are making some breweries ditch their old recipes and craft beer flock to one style. Where have we seen this before?
Jason Notte
PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- One of the biggest complaints about large beer brewers that helped give rise to craft beer was that they insisted upon replicating a middle-of-the-road light lager and just about nothing else.
It was what the overwhelming majority of beer drinkers drank for years, but it made small brewers broaden their horizons and try various styles and recipes.
Now with craft beer thriving and growing, craft beer brewers of all sizes find themselves drifting toward yet another, milder version of a common style: the year-round India Pale Ale.
As much as they've embraced sour beers, potent Russian Imperial Stouts, lighter wheat beers and sweeter fruit beers, small brewers tend to live and die with the IPA. Symphony IRI saw a 36% spike in IPA sales during the first half of last year. As our colleague Tom Rotunno at CNBC noted in an IPA story last year, sales of IPAs jumped 39% in 2012 just before last year's leap.
The problem is that while increasingly hoppy, blisteringly bitter IPA is just fine for folks who'll wait on line for cans of Alchemist's Heady Topper in Vermont or pints of Russian River's Pliny The Younger in California, it's a bit overpowering for average beer drinkers who are starting to find IPA on tap handles at big chain bars and restaurants. As brewers are starting to discover, there's a delicate balance between the low-bitterness India Pale Ales microbrewers made in craft beer's early days and the high-octane IPA at the end of the spectrum today.
While some brewers have watched the pendulum swing back to their older IPAs -- Uinta Brewing of Salt Lake City declares proudly that its low-alcohol Trader Session IPA of today was its original India Pale Ale of 21 years ago -- others have had to beef up their beers and replace flagship brands. Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada in Chico, Calif., modeled his hoppy Pale Ale after Ballantine Brewing's original IPA when he first began making his original flagship beer in the late 1970s. However, when tastes turned hoppier in the mid-2000s, Pale Ale's 37 International Bitterness Units just didn't cut it. Sierra Nevada introduced its Torpedo Extra IPA as a year-round beer in 2008 and, six years later, the 70 to 80 IBU beast is not only the brewery's new flagship, but has lent its name to Sierra's new Torpedo Room taproom in Berkeley, Calif.
BridgePort Brewing of Portland, Ore., was founded 30 years ago and introduced its BridgePort IPA in the mid 1990s. At the time, its 50 IBUs and Centennial hops were considered potent for the style. Less than a decade ago, the brewery introduced its 87-IBU Hop Czar IPA that now serves as a co-flagship. Even Brooklyn Brewery's once-potent 45-IBU East India Pale Ale has been elbowed out of the spotlight recently by the more complex 53 IBU Brooklyn Blast.
All of those new year-round IPAs adhere to the "West Coast IPA" convention of packing in as many hops as possible, but their 7% to 8% alcohol by volume makes them a bit more unwieldy that the original IPAs and pale ales they replace. The new batch of year-round offerings continues this theme, though some knock down the alcohol a bit while keeping the aroma and base bitterness they're hoping will get them some tap handles in places beer geeks typically wouldn't tread. They'd better hurry, though, as even Anheuser-Busch InBev is looking to stake out that IPA middle ground with its newly released, low alcohol Goose Island Endless IPA session beer. Here are just 10 examples of year-round IPAs that are trying to transform the style into U.S. drinkers' everyday beers:
Upheaval IPA
Widmer Brothers Brewing
Portland, Ore.
Alcohol by volume: 7%
International Bitterness Units: 85
It's hard to get a beer drinker unfamiliar with IPA to embrace your year-round version of it when that IPA keeps changing.
Widmer Brothers, the branch of the Craft Brew Alliance that prides itself on its credibility among even the most discerning craft beer enthusiasts, used to call its ever-changing Rotator IPA series its "year-round IPA." While it's true the series kept a Widmer IPA on tap all year, it would introduce a new version every three months or so. Beer geeks love that variety, but newcomers and even hardened craft beer veterans tend to like a more standard style.
Upheaval fits that bill. We got a sample of this in a box filled with hops, and the hop aroma is the first thing that hits when you go for a sip. Alchemy, Simcoe, Willamette, Chinook, Brewer's Gold and Nelson Savin hops are poured in at two pounds per barrel and clock you right in the nose with a citrusy, grassy scent that follows through in the flavor. Instead of being tongue-scraping bitter, though, the hops are balanced out by an unfiltered, wheaty character that makes this beer more like a strongly hopped Hefeweizen.
With witbier fast becoming the gateway beer of choice for those transitioning to craft styles and IPA established as small brewing's promised land, it's a bit of creative genius to combine the two into one refreshing beer.
Samuel Adams Rebel IPA
Boston Beer
Alcohol by volume: 6.5%
Jim Koch should buy Lagunitas' Tony Magee a car for what the Petaluma, Calif.-based brewer did for Rebel IPA.
When Samuel Adams announced Rebel IPA last year, it seemed to be using all the right tools in all the wrong ways. It billed Rebel as a "West Coast IPA" and used Cascade, Simcoe, Chinook, Centennial and Amarillo hops, but couldn't help itself from balancing it so much with malt that the IBUs clocked in below the IPA that West Coast BridgePort is trying to replace.
It gave the beer a nice, edgy spray-can tap, but didn't follow up with anything like spray-can style tallboys. It looked like a nice effort but, ultimately, a pale version of the style. Then Magee went on Twitter and blasted Koch and Boston Beer for targeting the IPA taps that his flagship Lagunitas IPA and others occupy. Keep in mind that the entire point of the list you're reading is that a whole lot of brewers are doing the same thing Koch and Samuel Adams just did.
Well, that cinched it. Instead of letting Rebel go off and do what Samuel Adams IPAs tend to -- putter along at a respectable pace until they're replaced -- Magee put Rebel IPA right in the middle of the craft beer discussion. If taprooms weren't going to put Rebel on before, they might do it just to spite one of the loudest, most abrasive voices in the industry.
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That's how a "West Coast IPA" that tastes nothing like a modern West Coast IPA thrives as the flagship hoppy offering for the biggest brewer in craft beer. Instead of being another middling East Coast offering, it just had an angry West Coast IPA brewer legitimize its existence. Good work, Tony.
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Meanwhile, when you're an actual West Coast IPA brewer, you don't need to go whipping up a year-round IPA out of thin air. Sometimes, that session IPA you already have kicking around the brewery will do just fine.
Stone introduced this pleasant little number in early March and, unlike its heftier Ruination or Enjoy By IPAs, made this beer with the express purpose of being somewhat less than imperial. See that ABV? That's a light lager number that in no way prepares you for how absolutely floral and hoppy this beer is. Founder Greg Koch and company like to keep their hop mix under wraps, but they wrung every drop of resinous goodness out of those little buds by dumping a whole lot of them into the final phase of the brewing process.
There's a whole lot of hop bitterness to this beer for a recipe so light on the alcohol content, but that's exactly how a good brewer plays this game. If you can offer a new drinker a light lager and something infinitely more flavorful and tell them that there's the exact same amount of alcohol in each, you're going to get a few converts.
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Dogfish Head already has two mighty serviceable year-round IPAs in its 60 Minute IPA and 90 Minute imperial. You could probably count the brewery's Burton Baton English Ale/IPA hybrid if you wanted to be pedantic about it.
So why add another? Because the aforementioned 60 Minute and 90 Minute are just big mouthfuls of bitter, grassy hops that are nobody's idea of a gateway beer. Want some training wheels? Try the Namaste witbier or Indian Brown Ale. Dogfish Head IPAs tend to be for beer's advanced class.
But they don't have to be. Founder Sam Calagione discovered that if you cut the 60 Minute with a little bit of Syrah grape must, it takes on a fruity flavor that's almost winelike, but with the same strong hop backbone. It could be construed as a blend designed to lure wine drinkers to beer, but the flavor seems to push the palate in the opposite direction: It makes wine more palatable to the beer drinker.
Dogfish Head is going year-round with this and fiddling with the blend every three months or so. The same basic premise is in place, but like various wine vintages, it will never taste exactly the same.
Deschutes Brewing
Bend, Ore.
Like Stone, Deschutes has plenty of year-round IPAs to chose from. Also like Stone, however, Deschutes' IPAs tend to be way more bitter than a moderate palate can handle.
Its Inversion IPA is a relatively benign 6.8% ABV, but clocks in at 80 IBUs of bitterness. That's fine for the hometown crowds in the Pacific Northwest, but does you no favors when you're trying to woo Yuengling drinkers in Philly. Its Chainbreaker White IPA is a relatively mild 5.6% ABV and 55 IBUs, but its Belgian yeasts and Cascade and Citra hops make it taste more like a fruity wheat beer than an IPA. Its Armory XPA experimental pale ale has IPA chops with 5.9% ABV, 55 IBUs and lots of Nugget, Northern Brewer, Cascade, Centennial and Citra hops, but it's available only in 22-ounce bombers and primarily along the West Coast.
Fresh Squeezed is the middle ground that fans have been waiting for. Bittered with fruity Citra, Mosaic and Nugget hops and available in six-packs and on draft, this pleasant, palatable IPA should be a summer favorite but has a flavor profile pleasant enough to weather even the worst months.
All Day IPA
Founders Brewing
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Sure, Founders' Centennial IPA is hoppier at 65 IBUs, but it's also hefty at 7.2% ABV. It's not the type of beer you'd put in a 15-pack of cans for the summer.
All Day IPA has no trouble being that beer. From a brewery known for big beers such as its Breakfast Stout and Dirty Bastard Scotch Ale, All Day IPA had its issues. A hop shortage in 2012 held it to a limited run, with Founders unable to release it to all markets until February 2013. Once it arrived, however, its easy drinking nature and light blend of Simcoe and Amarillo hops made it Founders' most popular beer.
It went year-round in July, became the first Founders beer sold in cans and, this year, becomes the first craft beer released in a 15-pack when that package debuts this spring. That last bit places it firmly in macro beer territory and chases summer packs of light lager with something packing a whole lot more aroma and flavor. It's about as macro as a craft IPA has ever been and makes a strong argument for IPA as the next dominant U.S. beer style. It all starts just one mellow sip at a time.
Limbo IPA
Long Trail Brewing
Bridgewater Corners, Vt.
Long Trail has been around since 1989 and helped put Vermont on the map as a brewing state. Since then it's seen big competitors such as Catamount and Magic Hat bought out, seen newcomers such as Alchemist and Hill Farmstead steal the spotlight and seen its own brewery and others around it relegated to old news.
It's a beer many Northeast beer lovers remembered fondly, but didn't always remember when they had one last.
That didn't sit well with Long Trail, which ended up buying out fellow Vermont brewer Otter Creek in 2011 after that neglected longtimer opted to sell. Long Trail still had a vibrant brewery and a brewpub that packed to the catwalks on leaf-peeping weekends. It just didn't have an updated lineup.
Consider Limbo that much-needed breath of fresh air. Introduced last year and packed with Bravo, Chinook, Galaxy, Mosaic hops, Limbo is a spinoff of the brewery's Vermont-only Farmhouse Ales series and its brewery-only Brown Bag series of experimental beers. With the brewery's malty, 50 IBU traditional English IPA dating back to 2005 and tasting nothing like a West Coast IPA even then, it decided to introduce Limbo as a nod to what was quickly becoming the dominant version of the style.
Higher in alcohol but far higher in bitterness, Limbo did the job it had to do: It made Long Trail IPAs relevant again in a state where they had to compete with Heady Topper. That gave Vermonters and visitors a choice: Either stand on line for your two cases and hope they don't run out, or settle in with some readily available and mighty fine Limbo and be just as contented. All but the most insufferable of beer snobs should have no problem with the latter, though this beer is no one's consolation prize.
Last Chance IPA
Weyerbacher Brewing
Easton, Pa.
The East Coast is soaked in aging, malty, "balanced" English-style IPAs that seem underpowered compared with their West Coast counterparts, but that breweries can't bear to part with because East Coast drinkers still drink them.
There should be two options for those beers: Either recast them as "Traditional," "English" or "East Coast" IPA, or kill them to eliminate confusion.
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Weyerbacher is one of those rare, brave breweries to chose the latter. The brewery created its first IPA, Hop Infusion, back in 1998 and used what was on hand at the time: Cascade, Pilgrim, Centennial, Liberty, Saaz, Fuggle and E. Kent Golding hops. What nobody told it was that if it eliminated about five of those hops and went heavy on the Cascade and Pilgrim, it would have been ahead of the curve.
But keep in mind that this is 1998 in Easton, Pa., and the balanced, Harpoon-style IPA reigned. In fact, that sweet and soapy IPA worked out so well while Weyerbacher's other brands did the heavy lifting that the brewery didn't get around to tinkering with it until 2012. By that time, the brewery had decided to create a new IPA and donate a portion of the proceeds to local animal rescue groups. That Last Chance in the name is really some poor animal's last chance at finding a home.
Fortunately for the abandoned animals of Eastern Pennsylvania, Weyerbacher learned its way around Simcoe and Columbus hops, threw them in with their Cascades and Centennials and made a beer that could certainly qualify as a West Coast IPA.
Instead of keeping old Hop Infusion around, however, Weyerbacher decided to retire it and keep Last Chance as its IPA of choice. The animals are being rescued, but there's no hope for some old beers that stubbornly refuse to learn new tricks.
Easy IPA
Flying Dog Brewing
Frederick, Md.
This brewery makes it incredibly difficult to focus on the beer.
One of its founders, George Stranahan, is an astrophysicist, photographer, rancher, writer, philanthropist and educator who has also founded three schools and scaled K2. Co-founder Richard McIntyre runs the Flying Dog Ranch conference center and retreat in Carbondale, Colo. Their neighbor, the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, not only wrote an essay about their beer when the brewery was still in Colorado, but introduced them to artist Ralph Steadman -- who designed the covers for Thompson books including Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Steadman has illustrated each of Flying Dog's labels since.
The brewery's globetrotting CEO, Jim Caruso, still keeps in contact with Thompson's widow Anita and occasionally uses hops from Thompson's Colorado ranch in the brewery's beers. When you do finally get around to those beers, however, they're nothing shy of astonishing. We had the great fortune of trying the brewery's limited release Mint Chocolate Stout in Delaware at the end of last year and living the dream of having a favorite ice cream flavor seamlessly transitioned to beer form. Raging Bitch Belgian IPA, Snake Dog IPA and Double Dog Imperial IPA have all been Mid-Atlantic favorites hopped like Colorado IPA, but at 7% to 11.6% ABV, they're all incredibly potent beers.
Easy IPA takes it down a notch by lowering the alcohol content considerably but loading it with citrusy hops that still give it a pungent aroma and plenty of bitterness. This isn't a brewery known for holding back or embracing convention, and creating a low-alcohol IPA with this much intensity certainly continues that streak. Now if only Thompson had left them some high-powered blunderbuss capable of preventing Anheuser-Busch InBev from blatantly ripping off Steadman's label art.
Weekday IPA
Rough Draft Brewing
It's one thing to update your IPA because the old version is out of fashion. Shipyard Brewing in Portland, Maine, just released its Monkey Fist IPA as a West Coast-style update to its original-recipe IPA -- which it now refers to as Fuggles IPA to show off its British roots. Summit Brewing in St. Paul, Minn., also released its Saga IPA as a West Coast counterpart to its longstanding original IPA -- which now goes by the name True Brit in deference to the milder British style.
It's completely another thing to offer a milder IPA because your current offerings are a bit too intense. That's the problem Rough Draft was facing after finding great success with its Eraser IPA (80 IBU) and Hop Therapy Double IPA (94 IBU). While San Diego tends to reward brewers who make their drinkers feel as if they've been gagged with a bale of hops, some brewers realize that it's hard to woo converts in this craft beer town if you don't start them off slowly. They also know that even the most hardened hopheads occasionally like a beer they can drink more than one of without getting blitzed.
Last year, Rough Draft drifted into session IPA territory with Weekday and never went back. The year-round offering is packed with citrusy Simcoe and Citra hops and brings in all of the hop flavor without the imperial alcohol content. It's a lot easier to dial back your beer when it doesn't lose any of its character as a result, but it's still interesting to see upstart brewers hitting IPA alcohol content that their predecessors found decades ago, while those established brewers seek bolder hop profile and flavor that seems to come so easy to the new breweries. If those sides can meet in the middle like Rough Draft has, we'll eagerly await the wall-to-wall IPA future.
-- Written by Jason Notte in Portland, Ore.
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"We just celebrated Earth Day. May 5 is more like Broken Earth Day, a worldwide witness to the destruction global warming is already causing," said Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, the global climate campaign that is coordinating the events. "People everywhere are saying the same thing: our tragedy is not some isolated trauma, it's part of a pattern." Seven in ten Americans now believe that "global warming is affecting the weather," according to a recent poll conducted by Yale University.
Over 80% of Americans have personally experienced an extreme weather or natural disaster in the last year. "Most people in the country are looking at everything that's happened; it just seems to be one disaster after another after another," Anthony A. Leiserowitz of Yale University, one of the researchers who commissioned the new poll, told the New York Times. "People are starting to connect the dots."
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Portland and District YMCA Youth Services;
South and Port Melbourne Y.M.C.A. Youth Services Inc;
Young Men's Christian Association of Stanthorpe Inc;
Stanthorpe & District YMCA Youth Services;
Stanthorpe YMCA Amateur Basketball Association Incorporated;
Sydney YMCA Youth Services;
New South Wales Council of Young Men's Christian Associations Inc;
State Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Queensland Inc;
State Council of Young Men's Christian Associations of South Australia;
State Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Victoria Inc;
Victorian Council of YMCA Youth Services;
Western Australian YMCA State Council Inc;
Young Men's Christian Association of Tewantin-Noosa Inc;
The Young Men's Christian Association of Thuringowa Inc;
Young Men's Christian Association of Toowoomba;
Young Men's Christian Association of the Top End;
YMCA of the Top End Community Services Incorporated;
The Toronto & District YMCA Youth Clubs;
Young Men's Christian Association of Townsville;
Traralgon and Districts Young Men's Christian Association Youth Services Inc;
Walkerville YMCA Squash Club;
Walkerville YMCA Youth Services;
Wangaratta and District Young Men's Christian Association Youth Services Inc;
Wangaratta and District YMCA Youth Services;
Young Men's Christian Association of Warrnambool;
Warrnambool YMCA Youth Services;
Warrnambool YMCA Volleyball Association Inc;
Young Men's Christian Association of Whyalla;
Young Men's Christian Association of Williamstown;
The City of Wollongong and District YMCA Youth Clubs;
The Lockington and District YMCA Youth Clubs Inc; and
The Scout Association of Australia NSW Branch.
Video: National Redress Scheme
National Redress Scheme Frequently Asked Questions
Should I get legal advice before applying to the NRS?
Yes. Everyone should complete our claimant information sheet first. You don't want to do the wrong thing and find yourself sold short or missing out on a civil claim against the institution.
How do I apply for the National Redress Scheme?
Fill in our claimant information sheet first so we can assess what is the best strategy for you. We will complete your redress form for you if redress is the better way to go. Everyone's case is different.
What institutions are involved with the Scheme? (National Redress Scheme Participating Institutions)
Currently all the State governments, the Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Uniting Church, The Salvation Army, PCYC and Scouts Australia have signed up to the scheme. The Jehovah's Witnesses have not.
How does the National Redress Scheme affect current and/or previous clients of Kelso Lawyers?
We will assess all previous settlements to see if you are eligible for a top-up from redress. Please get in touch for more information.
How does the National Redress Scheme assess the claim?
The scheme has an unfair and potentially re-traumatising matrix for calculating redress payments. For example, the "extreme circumstances" payment is only available in penetrative abuse matters involving institutional vulnerability and non-sexual abuse. Psychological abuse is often overlooked.
This includes physical abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect.
It also takes into account:
The egregious nature of the abuse
The duration of the abuse and;
The disabilities the survivor now experiences like psychiatric injuries, trouble completing everyday activities, difficulties maintaining relationships and employment, and more.
During the application process, the scheme requires detailed accounts of the abuse. If any information is missed or not described accurately, the applicant could miss out on the potential for $50,000 – $60,000.
This is why it's crucial to speak to an experienced child abuse lawyer before applying for the scheme. We can help you navigate the application process and achieve the maximum possible payment. We will support you throughout the entire process, as we know how confronting it can be.
How long does the Redress Scheme take to evaluate claims?
There is no clear answer to this question. In July 2020, the Federal Opposition suggested it could take half a century for the estimated 60,000 survivors of institutional child abuse to receive redress. The Federal Opposition also said National Redress Scheme payments will decrease by $610 million by mid-2021 due to a "slower than expected uptake by survivors' for the write-down".
The Redress Scheme is taking applications and shelving them all until they have worked out what to do. This is an unsatisfactory answer but it's what the Redress Scheme is telling us.
How An Abuse Lawyer Can Help
The Royal commission into institutional responses to child abuse ultimately resulted in the National Redress Scheme to compensate the widely publicised victims of the Catholic church and other institutions involved in abuse. However, the Scheme is far from cut and dry and presents a number of issues.
The National Redress Scheme's legislation is complex. Its convoluted language puts it beyond the understanding of even the well-educated people. You have to be a lawyer to have any chance. This is probably deliberate.
The launch of the website went ahead in test mode with a search functionality which was unreliable and unhelpful. This has caused a lot of frustration, adding to the stress of many institutional abuse survivors trying to find out what to do.
The institutions listed in the legislation (see below) do not yet include the Catholic Church, Anglican Church, Salvation Army. In fact, there are no churches on the list. This is either because their applications are pending or they haven't signed up to the Scheme at all. You won't find the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) on the list either. Why aren't they on the list? Because the Government haven't forced the worst offending institutions to sign up.
Whether you were abused by an institution on the public list or not, you should contact Kelso Lawyers. We can help you with your claim and tell you if redress is the best option for you.
National Redress Scheme: Frequent Offenders (Complete Guide)
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function [ CAOut] = ConAnal(gene_list,newcenter,options,...
    shellboundaries,variability_bins)
%UNTITLED Summary of this function goes here
%   Detailed explanation goes here

if nargin <4
    shellboundaries='ribosome';
end
if nargin<5
    variability_bins='standard';
end
if strcmp(gene_list,'aln')
    [FileName,PathName] = uigetfile({'*.aln';'*.*'},'Select the aln File',...
        'MultiSelect', 'off');
    if ~isequal(FileName,0) && ~isequal(PathName,0)
        Alignment = multialignread([PathName,FileName]);
    end

elseif exist('options','var') && isfield(options,'Method') && strcmp(options.Method,'alignment')
    Alignment=multialignread(options.alignment_file);

else
    num_genes=length(gene_list);
    Sequences(num_genes).Header=[];
    Sequences(num_genes).Sequence=[];

    for i=1:num_genes
        GenePept(i)=getgenpept(gene_list{i});
        Sequences(i).Sequence=GenePept(i).Sequence;
        source=GenePept(i).Source;
        source(isspace(source))='_';
        Sequences(i).Header=source;
    end

    if exist('options','var') && isfield(options,'Method') && strcmp(options.Method,'clustal')
        if exist([options.Name,'.fa'],'file')
            recycle('on');
            delete([options.Name,'.fa']);
        end
        fastawrite([options.Name,'.fa'],Sequences);
        command=[options.Path,' -INFILE=',options.Name,'.fa',' -OUTORDER=INPUT -QUIET'];
        system(command);
        Alignment=multialignread([options.Name,'.aln']);
    else
        Alignment=multialign(Sequences,'ScoringMatrix','gonnet','GapOpen',...
            10,'ExtendGap',0.2);
    end
end

cSequence=seqconsensus(Alignment,'gaps','all');
Variability=ShannonEntropy(Alignment);
variability=Variability;
cSequenceCut=cSequence;
if ~isempty(newcenter)
    species3D=MatchSequence(Alignment,options.File);
    sequence=Alignment(species3D).Sequence;
    variability(strfind(sequence,'-'))=[];
    cSequenceCut(strfind(sequence,'-'))=[];
end

if exist('options','var') && isfield(options,'File')
    Proteins = BuildProteins(newcenter,shellboundaries,...
        variability_bins,{cSequenceCut},{variability},options.File);
else
    Proteins = BuildProteins(newcenter,shellboundaries,...
        variability_bins,{cSequenceCut},{variability});
end

CAOut=ConAnalOutput(Proteins,Alignment,Variability);
if ~isempty(newcenter)
    CAOut.AddSpecies3D(species3D);
end
end

function species3D=MatchSequence(Alignment,File)
FAM=ImportPDBs(File);
%Warning, this doesn't handle skipped amino acids yet
AllSequences={Alignment(:).Sequence};
[~,I]=unique([FAM{1}.Model.resSeq]);
TargetSequence=aminolookup([FAM{1}.Model(I).resName]);
lenTS=length(TargetSequence);
numSeqs=length(AllSequences);
pmatch=zeros(1,numSeqs);
for i=1:numSeqs
    AllSequences{i}(AllSequences{i}=='-')=[];
    offset=min(strfind(AllSequences{i},TargetSequence(1)))-1;
    numres=length(AllSequences{i});
    if offset+lenTS <= numres
        match=zeros(1,lenTS);
        for j=1:lenTS
            match(j)=TargetSequence(j)==AllSequences{i}(j+offset);
        end
        pmatch(i)=sum(match)/numres;
    end
end
[~,species3D]=max(pmatch);
end

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Convert your Excel spreadsheet into a Node.js application that performs all the calculations on the server, and displays the spreadsheet on the web.
To provide a secure operating environment for business-critical calculations, the Node.js flavor of SpreadsheetConverter creates the program code separately from the web page. When a website visitor wants to use the calculator, the web browser downloads the web page from the web server without any sensitive program code. Instead, special code snippets in the web page act as conduits between the web page and the program code on the Node.js server. This effectively hides the spreadsheet's formulas and their program counterparts from any prying eyes.
We converted this spreadsheet for Node.js and uploaded the calculator to one of our own Node.js servers. Click on the image to see the results.
See more examples of what SpreadsheetConverter Node.js can do for you.
We're not only talking simple plus-and-minus spreadsheets here.
Create mobile-friendly, responsive forms that automatically adapt to different screen widths, portrait/landscape orientation etc.
To make it easier to understand a large form, split it into two or more separate steps and let users navigate between the sections using tabs, next/previous buttons or sliding panels.
Use graphical widgets like menus and calendars to make the form easier to use.
Hide rows or complete sections of a form until you know they are applicable.
Allow file attachments with submitted web forms.
You can have mandatory responses.
Use hidden fields to discretely include supplemental information in the form.
With Real-time Sync, two or more persons can share a web form and collaborate in real-time.
Fetch live data from corporate databases when run on ASP.Net or Node.js servers.
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Use live, interactive charts that invite users to point-and-click, and the charts automatically update when values are changed.
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It's easy even for non-programmers: SpreadsheetConverter turns your business users' Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into fast and scalable Node.js applications.
It runs on almost any web server. The Node.js environment runs in most standard web server environments including Windows, Macintosh OS X and Unix.
You can easily protect your calculators and web forms behind a login. You manage the user list yourself and there's nothing extra to install on the server except for the converted web page.
It's so easy to change: Just change the spreadsheet and re-run the conversion to regenerate the Node.js server code.
It looks so good on the web: Normally, it takes a lot of time to make a web page look this well-designed. With Excel you just format the page the way you like. SpreadsheetConverter creates a web page that looks the same: borders, colors, fonts, checkboxes, dropdown lists etc work as they should, and numbers are formatted on the fly with decimals, thousand separators and currency symbols. Play with new layouts inside Excel before you convert them to web format, which saves lots of time (besides being lots of fun). Use graphical themes to give all your calculators a common look.
Work together across the web: users can share a calculating webpage with colleagues, and work together with them in real-time on laptops, tablets and smartphones.
Integrate with other systems using barcodes, e-mail and http.
Looks great on any device: smart responsive design automatically reformats the calculator so that it looks great on any screen size.
The Link Image widget allows you to show different images in the web page depending on cell values or formulas. Now you can build advanced imaging applications where an image on the screen changes with the values in a web form or calculator.
Users can include up to ten files with any form they submit. Job applicants can include their CV, and expense reports can include scanned copies of receipts.
Use your existing skills. If you can do it in Excel, you can now put it on the web.
Everybody's using the latest version. No more old prices or discounts in old spreadsheets.
You can hide your formulas with our server flavors.
It's lightning fast. Your spreadsheet formulas are converted to small, fast scripts that run in the user's web browser.
You don't need a programmer. You don't get live, calculating web pages like these for free from your web design company. Here you do all the work yourself, in Excel and with the converter, and you still get higher quality and performance – we've done this so many times before.
It's very easy to change: Business is changing all the time. New prices, new discount structures, new regulations. With hand-crafted web pages it's hard to keep up with the frequent changes – and you have to pay the programmer every time. With SpreadsheetConverter, you just change your spreadsheet and update the web page.
It supports almost all Excel's built-in functions. You can do some pretty advanced calculations in your web page. All but a few advanced financial and statistical functions are supported.
If you need help, don't hesitate to contact our Help Desk. We guarantee free of-course-we'll-get-you-up-and-running support during your free trial and for at least six months after you purchase a license. Expect an answer by the next business day, often within the hour.
We first released SpreadsheetConverter in 2002, and have added more and more value to the product in many releases since then. Our update policy gives you free updates within the same major version, e.g. if you have a version 10 license you get all version 10.x updates for free.
We have three support centers in Europe, America and Asia that provide almost around-the-clock support during workdays. Technically competent support engineers will answer your e-mails and solve your problem. Most of them are programmers or web developers with long experience.
With any error report, we beg you to include the spreadsheet that's causing you problems. Yes, we know they often contain terribly important information, but we need to recreate your problem in order to solve it, and it may be so difficult unless we have exactly the same data as you have.
If you buy a license, and we happen to release a new version within six months after your purchase, we're not greedy – we'll automatically give you a complimentary upgrade to the new version free-of-charge.
We'll gladly convert one of your own spreadsheets for you. It's so simple to do, we won't even charge you anything for it. It won't take us much time anyway.
If you like the result, we hope you'll want to install the program and take it for a test drive in your own laptop.
E-mail us one of your spreadsheets right now!
SpreadsheetConverter is an add-in for Microsoft Excel in Windows. If you have a reasonably current version of Excel running in a Windows PC, you're probably good to go.
For an overview of the various flavors of SpreadsheetConverter and their exact technical requirements, please study the product comparison chart.
Web pages generated by SpreadsheetConverter Node.js require a web server with the free Node.js environment.


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Soul on Ice: Beyoncé's Ivy Park Honors Figure Skating of Harlem
Filed to:black girl magic
FigureSkatingHarlem
Beautiful black baby girls on ice skates is a sight to behold. Perhaps that's why Beyoncé just blessed Figure Skating of Harlem, the only organization in America that offers ice skating and academic mentoring to girls of color, with workout gear from her line, Ivy Park. On its website, Ivy Park stated, "We donated bc these girls embody our motto #strongbeyondmeasure."
Figure Skating of Harlem was founded in 1997 as a direct response to Harlem's need for enriching athletic and academic mentoring for girls ages 6-18. FSH established itself as a safe space, but more than anything, it's also a place where these young ladies can get out of their comfort zones and into another world for the pursuit of excellence—on and off the ice.
Full disclosure: I'm a figure skater. It's a humbling and unforgiving sport that demands focus and precision. I've been on the ice taking my own lessons when the students who are awarded access to the FSH program are in session, and I am always impressed by these young ladies. Let me tell you: Their focus, discipline and dedication across the board is stellar; while instructors are speaking, you can hear a pin drop.
My skating coach, Wendy Wilke, is among the 75 high-level professional coaches who volunteer their time to train the students at FSH. She says they are among the "most mature and respectful students [she's] worked with anywhere in the world."
For 20 years, FSH has been open to girls who live in Harlem or New York City's Bronx borough; my native Detroit recently launched a chapter of the charity as well. To qualify, students have to show evidence that they are striving for an A average, consistently maintain a B average or get extra homework tutoring with a C average. Figure Skating Harlem helps to provide academic as well as athletic instruction for its students'—who often come from low-income communities—success for life.
Combating poverty through financial literacy is also part of FSH's year-round academic program; as described on its website:
Through weekly classes developed by award-winning journalist Stacey Tisdale, senior editor of Black Enterprise, students learn about financial values. Her "Winning Plays" curriculum emphasizes the importance of setting goals and creating action plans to achieve confidence about financial matters. Lessons include generating income, understanding the value of saving and spending wisely, and techniques to help students stay on track with their short-, medium- and long-term goals.
Couple these comprehensive services, which also include nutritional counseling and periodic health assessment of students' physical progress, with the serious time commitment of 9-15 hours on ice each week per student. Then add the 40 minutes total it takes to gear up and strip down before and after class, and you have kids who have a full schedule of positive, life-building skills.
Founder and CEO Sharon Cohen told The Glow Up:
FSH creates a culture of academic success where 100 percent of our graduating seniors go on to colleges like Georgetown, Spelman, Mount Holyoke, Howard and Barnard. Through rigorous academic tutoring and educational classes in communications and STEM, we prepare our students to aim high and succeed on and off the ice!
Hopefully we'll see another generation of beautiful black baby girls skate their way to success.
Veronica Webb loves Detroit, speaks French, is addicted to French fries, French fashion, runs an 8 minute mile and can never find her keys. www.webbonthefly.com


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import DonutChart from 'yarn-ui/components/donut-chart';
import ColorUtils from 'yarn-ui/utils/color-utils';

export default DonutChart.extend({
  draw: function() {
    // Construct data
    var data = [];
    if (this.get("gpu-render-type") === "gpu-memory") {
      data.push({
        label: "Used",
        value: parseFloat(this.get("gpuInfo").gpuMemoryUsage.usedMemoryMiB),
      });
      data.push({
        label: "Available",
        value: parseFloat(this.get("gpuInfo").gpuMemoryUsage.availMemoryMiB)
      });
    } else if (this.get("gpu-render-type") === "gpu-utilization") {
      var utilization = parseFloat(this.get("gpuInfo").gpuUtilizations.overallGpuUtilization);
      data.push({
        label: "Utilized",
        value: utilization,
      });
      data.push({
        label: "Available",
        value: 100 - utilization
      });
    }

    var colorTargets = this.get("colorTargets");
    if (colorTargets) {
      var colorTargetReverse = Boolean(this.get("colorTargetReverse"));
      var targets = colorTargets.split(" ");
      this.colors = ColorUtils.getColors(data.length, targets, colorTargetReverse);
    }

    this.renderDonutChart(data, this.get("title"), this.get("showLabels"),
      this.get("middleLabel"), this.get("middleValue"), this.get("suffix"));
  },

  didInsertElement: function() {
    // ParentId includes minorNumber
    var newParentId = this.get("parentId") + this.get("gpuInfo").minorNumber;
    this.set("parentId", newParentId);

    this.initChart();
    this.draw();
  },
});


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A New Website for Taking Shots at Your Boss
A new website is betting you're willing to dish about your co-worker's job performance just as you would a Netflix movie or an Amazon purchase. The site, dubbed Unvarnished, came out of private beta testing last week and aims to create an open forum to rate professionals in the workplace — for better or for worse. [via time]
It's a concept that has caused some controversy, particularly since Unvarnished allows employees to be reviewed anonymously and with no way of removing a negative review. But the co-founders, veterans of sites like LinkedIn and eBay, think there's a market for honest, unfiltered feedback about how individuals perform in their jobs and say their site will ultimately be more useful than the carefully selected job references or curated blurbs on someone's LinkedIn profile. "We're trying to take how professional reputation works in the offline world and port that online," says co-founder Peter Kazanjy.
Here's how it works: Say you have a gripe with your co-worker. You can log in to Unvarnished using your Facebook profile and either create a profile for your co-worker or add a comment to a page already created, assigning them a rating and giving a description of your issue. Your name is kept anonymous, meaning your co-worker can't seek you out for retribution, and your comment is left there for the world (and potentially future employees) to see. Want to give someone an attaboy? You can add that comment on their profile too. The site aggregates reviews to spit out your professional reputation on a five-star scale, along with comments from individual reviewers.
It's not a completely new idea. Sites like Rate My Professors and Rate MDs have proven popular for assessing members of specific professions. But Unvarnished is unique in the scale of its sounding board: you can rate your doctor, IT guy or boss without ever giving away your identity. (Comment on this story.)
Kazanjy says the anonymity is necessary; without it, people couldn't be "candid or nuanced in their reviews." But at the same time, it opens the system up to potential abuse. Feel slighted by your boss? Take it out anonymously on his or her Unvarnished page; there's little chance you'll be caught, and potentially very real consequences for your boss's professional reputation. (See the 25 sites we can't live without.)
Kazanjy says Unvarnished has controls in the system to prevent people from simply trashing their co-workers. All users must "authenticate" through their real-world Facebook profile, providing the company with actual names and personal information in case of a defamatory post. The system is closed to anyone under the age of 21, and abusive comments can be reported and removed by administrators. Users also gain authority based on the helpfulness of the reviews they provide. "We're not being Pollyannish about [anonymity], but we also don't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater," says Kazanjy. "We don't want people to not give out negative reviews."
And while you can't remove a review, there are some tools to manage your reputation on Unvarnished. If you log in and take ownership of your Unvarnished profile, you have the ability to respond to each post, giving your side of the story. You can also invite trusted contacts to contribute reviews of their own, in essence bringing friends to bear to burnish your reputation.
Ultimately, Kazanjy says, the controversy surrounding his site isn't anything new. "If someone has an ax to grind, they can already make a smear campaign behind your back," he says. "It already happens in the online world every day." Unvarnished may make passive-aggressive digital warfare easier, but at least it gives some tools to fight back.


On Feb. 2 at 8:31 pm the White Hills Co. #5 and the Huntington Co. #3 responded to a report of an odor of gasoline at #26 Megan Lane. Firefighters found gasoline leaking from a snow blower in the garage was the cause. Two engines responded.
On Feb. 2 at 2:49 am the Huntington Co. #3 and the White Hills Co. #5 responded to a report of smoke in the area of Lark lane and Quaker Ridge Road. Firefighters checked the area and determined the smoke was from several wood stoves or fireplaces in use. One ladder truck responded.
On Feb. 3 at 2:22 pm the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the Huntington Co. #3 responded to a motor vehicle accident on route 8 south bound near exit 13.One engine and one rescue truck responded.
On Feb. 3 at 3:06 pm the Huntington Co. #3 and the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident on route 8 north bound near exit 13. Two engines and one rescue truck responded.
On Feb.3 at 3:46 pm the Huntington Co. #3 and the echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to a report of a motor vehicle accident on route 8 north bound near exit 11. Upon arrival firefighters found no accident but a disabled vehicle. One engine responded.
On Feb. 3 at 4:43 the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to the area of #542 Howe Avenue for a transformer fire on top of a utility pole. One engine responded.
On Feb.3 at 4:46 pm the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the White Hills Co. #5 responded to an automatic fire alarm sounding from the Subway Sandwich Shop at #462 Howe Avenue. There was no fire. The cause of the alarm was not determined. One engine and one ladder truck responded.
On Feb. 3 at 7:31 pm the Pine Rock Park Co. #4 and the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to check on water leaking into an electrical box in a garage. Two engines responded.
On Feb. 4 at 6:53 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1, Pine Rock Park Co. #4 and the White Hills Co. #5 responded to #33 Hull Street for a report of a fire in a machine shop. Upon arrival firefighters found a small fire in fiberglass insulation. The fire was caused when an electric heat cord used to keep a water pipe from freezing short circuited. Damage was confined to the insulation.
On Feb. 4 at 4:06 pm the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the Pine Rock Park Co. #4 responded to a report of a fire that occurred at #1 Murray Avenue. The fire, which occurred on a stove top, was out upon arrival of firefighters. Damage was minimal. One engine, one rescue truck and one ladder truck responded.
On Feb. 4 at 4:28 pm the Huntington Co. #3 and the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to a report of a car fire on route 8 north bound before exit 13. There was no fire. A vehicles radiator overheated and was mistaken for a fire. Two engines responded.
On Feb.4 at 7:30 pm the Huntington Co. #3 and the White Hills Co. #5 responded to #30 Newcastle Drive for a liquid that had spilled from a 55 gallon drum in the driveway. No further information was reported. One engine and one rescue truck responded.
On Feb.5 at 9:06 am the Huntington Co. #3 responded to the area of #28 Woodfield Drive for a power line down in the street. One engine responded.
On Feb.5 at 9:14 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the White Hills Co. #5 responded to an automatic fire alarm sounding from #43 Sinsabaugh Heights at #187 Meadow Street. There was no fire. A dead battery in a smoke detector was the cause of the alarm. Two engines responded.
On Feb.5 at 10:28 the Pine Rock Park Co. #4 responded to the area of #20 Murray Avenue for a report of power lines down in the road. No power lines were down but phone and cable were down. One engine responded.
On Feb. 5 at 10:48 am the Huntington Co. #3 responded to the area of #19 Soundview Drive for power lines down in the area. Firefighters found no power lines down but phone and cable lines down. One engine responded.
On Feb.5 at 11:11 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to the area of #70 Platt Road for a report of power lines down in the road. Firefighters found an energized power line down upon arrival. Firefighters stood by and protected the area until the arrival of a repair crew from UI. One engine responded.
On Feb.5 at 11:51 am the Huntington Co. #3 responded to the area of #44 Meadowlark Drive for a report of a power line down in the road. Firefighters arrived and found phone lines down in the road not power lines. One engine responded.
On Feb.5 at 12:52 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to the area of #195 Myrtle Street for a report of power lines down in the road. No power lines were found down. Wire insulation was mistaken for the wires. One engine responded.
On Feb.5 at 1:25 pm the White Hills Co. #5 responded to Indian Well Road for power lines down in the road. Firefighters arrived and found energized power line down across the road that were fallen by a tree. Power was out in the area for quite some time due to the issue. One engine responded.
On Feb. 5 at 1:41 pm the Echo hose H & L Co. #1 responded to the area of #180 Howe Avenue for a report of a power line down in the road. Firefighters arrived and found phone lines down in the road not power lines. One engine responded.
On Feb. 5 at 2:46 pm the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to the area of #19 East Knollwood Terrace for wires down in the road. One engine responded.
On Feb.5 at 4:22 pm the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 responded to the area of #187 Howe Avenue for wires down on a vehicle. Upon arrival firefighters determined the wires were not energized and secured them. One engine responded.
On Feb.6 at 2:42 am the Echo hose H & L Co. #1 and the Pine Rock Park Co. #4 responded to assist EMS with removal of a patient at #107 ½ Hill Street. One engine responded.
On Feb. 6 at 8:10 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the Pine Rock Park Co. #4 responded to #85 Newport Avenue to assist EMS with removal of a patient. One engine responded.
On Feb.7 at 9:11 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the Pine Rock Park Co. #4 responded to a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Howe Avenue and Center Street. Two engines, one rescue truck and one utility truck responded.
On Feb.7 at 11:12 am the Echo Hose H & L Co. #1 and the White Hills Co. #5 responded to #74 Jane Street for a carbon monoxide detector sounding. One engine responded.


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30mm width at the widest shell, 10mm width at the narrowest shell, and 115mm at the widest diameter.


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Art Through Touch is a relatively new organisation that provides art activities for blind and partially sighted people in south London. In December 97 I led a one day workshop with an eight person group from Art Through Touch. This collaboration resulted in us creating a series of Panels called 'The Language of Touch Group Project'. The panels were based on my work using massage techniques as forms of mark making which were combined with music to suggest the mood of the finished work. This project as well as another titled 'The Human Body Group Project' were exhibited in November 98 at Saint George's Hospital Totting in London as part of the annual Wansworth Arts Festival.


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Raceway crash kills N.H. teen
LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) – Grief counselors were on hand Tuesday to help classmates of a 13-year-old Londonderry boy who was killed in a motorcycle racing crash in West Virginia during the holiday weekend.
Alex Lyskawa was racing at the Summit Point Raceway in West Virginia on Monday when police say he struck another driver's cycle, and both were thrown to the ground.
The teenager then was run over by a third motorcycle. He was pronounced dead at the scene of massive head and neck trauma.
Lyskawa was a seventh-grader at Nashua Catholic Regional High School. A memory wall was being built in the school's gymnasium in his honor and a memorial service was held Tuesday.
Grief counselors were available at Londonderry Middle School, where the teen attended last year.
His parents said motorcycle racing was a passion.
"When the crash occurred, I went right over there and I was there for most of the aftermath," said his father, Bruce Lyskawa. "They wouldn't let me on the track initially. I was just counting riders and downed bikes and there's a sheet over one rider and it was hard to not want to just, you know, bully your way out there."
He said he and his son had discussed crashes. "Everybody generally walks away from them, but this one was a freaky one that took his life."


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Адамовский сельсовет — упразднённая административная единица на территории Полоцкого района Витебской области Белоруссии.

История
10 октября 2013 года сельсовет был упразднён, его населённые пункты вошли в состав Азинского сельсовета и Боровухского сельсовета.

Состав
Адамовский сельсовет включал 28 населённых пунктов:

 Адамово — деревня.
 Бело-Матейково — деревня.
 Болдыши — деревня.
 Голяково — деревня.
 Грамоще — деревня.
 Заполье — деревня.
 Кевлы — деревня.
 Константиново — деревня.
 Кочережино — деревня.
 Крумплево — деревня.
 Куликово — деревня.
 Кушлики — агрогородок.
 Матейково — деревня.
 Матюши — деревня.
 Метлы — деревня.
 Микулино — деревня.
 Новинье — деревня.
 Новые Замшаны — деревня.
 Парфеновцы — деревня.
 Перхальщина — деревня.
 Плиговки — деревня.
 Подозерцы — деревня.
 Райково — деревня.
 Рябиновка — деревня.
 Струбки — деревня.
 Тересполье — деревня.
 Федорово — деревня.
 Якубенки — деревня.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Полоцкий райисполком

Упразднённые сельсоветы Полоцкого района
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A pharmaceutical campaign is now casting lead roles in London.
Casting directors are now casting talent to work on a pharmaceutical campaign. Casting directors are looking for talent to work on scenes filming on Wednesday, January 30th, 31st, and February 1st in Central London. Producers are looking for people to play lead roles including patients, caregivers, and colleagues.
CASTING CALL ?? Stills and video campaign for a pharmaceutical campaign. Well paid.
? Casting: Wednesday 30th & Thursday 31st January and Friday 1st February 2019 at Newman Street Studios.
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? Fee: Well paid! Rates based on role.
??Requirements: All actors must be able to act! You will be asked to perform in the casting.
We have 12 main roles + extras. We will be only casting for the extras that are in the restaurant scene, the other extras we will cast by cards.
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Q: HttpException on OutputStream. How to correctly send file I use code below to send file from ASP.NET Rest Api to client. Sometimes I see error logs "The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x800703E3." Is this correct method to send stream response?
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A: This this:
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A: If you have the data in a file, it is much better to use Response.TransmitFile than Response.OutputStream.Write since TransmitFile will not buffer the file data in memory.
As for the error message that you are receiving, this is perfectly normal. If the user disconnects from the network, cancels the download, or shuts down their browser while the file is being transmitted, this error message will be raised to let you know that the transfer was not completed.

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88th LegislatureEducationHealthcareLocal NewsTaxes & SpendingBroadband, Education, and Gun Control: Big City Mayors Announce Legislative Priorities
Mayors of the biggest cities in Texas want the state to fund multiple programs while still allowing cities to maintain local control.
Kim RobertsJanuary 16, 2023
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Austin, TX, January 16, 2023 — Mayors of Texas' largest cities announced their legislative priorities last week. The group plans to urge hundreds of millions in funding from the state for multiple programs like mental health services and broadband expansion while emphasizing their desire for local control.
Big City Mayors (BCM) describes itself as a "bipartisan coalition of mayors from Texas' most populous cities, representing nearly one third of the state's residents," but mayoral races in Texas are nonpartisan.
It includes mayors of the 18 largest cities in Texas. Nine of those were part of the legislative agenda press conference on Friday, January 13.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg chairs the coalition. He began the press conference by emphasizing the priority of local control saying, "We undoubtedly will be opposing legislation that would erode that local authority."
Mayor George Fuller of McKinney argued that the last few legislative sessions have "seen a degradation in the working relationship between the state and cities."
Hinting at Gov. Greg Abbott's declarations that prohibited local governments from imposing certain COVID-19 restrictions like mask mandates, Brownsville Mayor Trey Mendez also emphasized his desire for local control. "The City of Brownsville struggled with some of the decisions that were being made and the inability for us to make our own decisions during COVID."
Abbott's declarations never forbade any individual from wearing a mask for his or her own protection.
Arlington Mayor Jim Ross urged the state to adopt gun control. "We need to have legitimate gun control enacted in this state," he said, citing his concern that Arlington's entertainment district might fall victim to a mass shooting as happened in Las Vegas in 2017.
Nirenberg pointed to a letter issued by BCM last summer after the tragic shooting in Uvalde that advocated for measures like "red flag" laws, universal background checks, and increasing the age to purchase an assault weapon.
Several of the mayors advocated for state grants for broadband funding along with increased education funding, including early childhood.
Sylvester Turner, who served as a Democrat in the Texas Legislature before being elected as Houston's mayor, urged the Legislature to make a "transformative investment in mental health services," clarifying that he means hundreds of millions of dollars.
Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker acknowledged her idea to be provocative, but said, "I want Texas to be known as a state that takes care of families — women and children in particular — first. What if we piloted the first paid family leave program in Texas?"
Several mayors advocated for increased state funding for education, including in the early childhood years.
Amarillo's mayor, Ginger Nelson, emphasized the mayors' desire to see the continuation of Local 380 incentive agreements that she said are critical to attracting businesses to Texas cities. This might be of particular concern due to the expiration of Chapter 313 property tax abatement agreements at the end of 2022.
None of the mayors mentioned border security issues, including Mendez, who governs Brownsville, the southernmost city in Texas and a border city to Mexico.
Members of BCM claim to represent their communities and want to "improve the lives of all Texans." Cities often pay lobbyists to advocate for their legislative priorities. For instance, the city of Houston has paid over $1.3 million for lobbyists' efforts on its behalf in Austin, according to Transparency USA.
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Amir Abedzadeh (; born 26 April 1993), known as Amir, is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Segunda División club Ponferradina and the Iran national team.

Club career

Youth teams
Abedzadeh was a member of the Persepolis Youth Academy from 2006 to 2007, having previously trained under his father since he was 7. He moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 15, and after spending two months with the third-tier outfit of Brentford and taking part in a trial with Arsenal, he joined Tottenham Hotspur's academy team in 2009. Abezadeh left Tottenham in the same year, following their signing of Italian goalkeeper Mirko Ranieri.

During his time in the UK, Abedzadeh also played for amateur youth teams Dinamo Dorigo, London Tigers, and Persian FC, the latter of the G.E. Roberts Enfield Football Alliance League.

United States
Abedzadeh was unable to obtain a work permit in UK and after briefly returning to Iran and training with Iran Pro League side Steel Azin, where his father was a coach, to keep himself on form, he moved to the United States in 2011, and signed for the Los Angeles Blues in the USL Championship, where his father was an assistant coach. He made his debut on 7 June 2011, playing for Los Angeles Blues U-23 (LA Blues' reserve team) in a USL Premier Development League game against Orange County Blue Star. He made eight saves but conceded five goals, and was also shown a yellow card.
In 2012, he had the option to join Chivas USA of Major League Soccer, but he decided to extend his contract with the Blues.

Persepolis
Abedzadeh signed a three-year contract with Persepolis on 15 July 2012. He played for Persepolis U21 in AFC Vision Asia U-21 Tehran Premier League. He scored a goal for Persepolis U21 in game with Niroye Zamini U21. Abedzadeh left the Persepolis in 2014 and without playing a single game for the club.

Rah Ahan
On 3 July 2014, Abedzadeh joined Rah Ahan with signing a four-year contract. He worked under the supervision of his father, Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh who also worked at Rah Ahan as goalkeeping coach. He played his first professional match on 19 September 2014 against his former team Persepolis, where he came in as a substitute of injured Igor Nenezić in 34th minute. He was released by Rah Ahan at the end of the 2014–15 season.

Marítimo
Abedzadeh signed with Portuguese Primeira Liga club Marítimo on 23 January 2017 after good performances with Barreirense  in the Campeonato de Portugal. He became the second Iranian goalkeeper to sign for the club after Alireza Haghighi who played for the club in 2016. He made his first appearance in September 2017 in a Portuguese League Cup match.

He made his debut in the Taça de Portugal on 14 October 2017 in a third round match against GDU Torcatense. Abedzadeh kept a clean sheet and was named man of the match, as Marítimo won the match 1–0.

During his career in Portugal, he was selected as the best goal keeper of Primeira Liga in many occasions.

Ponferradina
Abedzadeh joined SD Ponferradina on 7 July 2021 making him the first Iranian to play for the club.

International career

Abedzadeh was once called up to Iran national under-17 football team's camp for 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Kish Island, but never invited again.

About his playing probability in Iran national under-23 football team, Abedzadeh said:
"Again, they told me that they wanted to take the players who have been together for a long time and know each other well... They also explained that if we should qualify, they are going to call in and examine new players . So hopefully they can beat Iraq and qualify for the Olympics, and hopefully I'll get my chance then. I think the problem is that I was in England for the past four years and that they weren't able to watch me play as much as the local players. That has been pretty disappointing for me."

Abedzadeh was part of Iran's team for in 2014 AFC U-22 Championship, but he did not play any match. In 2015, he was invited to Olympic team for 2016 AFC U-23 Championship qualification.

Senior

On 5 November 2017, Abedzadeh was called into the Iran national team for the first time for friendlies against Panama and Venezuela. In June 2018, he was named in Iran's final squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
He made his debut against Uzbekistan on 19 May 2018.

Personal life
He is the son of former Iranian national team legendary goalkeeper Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh.

Career statistics

Club

International
Statistics accurate as of match played 23 September 2022 .

Honours
Persepolis
Iran Pro League: runner-up 2013–14
Hazfi Cup: runner-up 2012–13
Iran U-23
WAFF U-23 Championship: 2015

References

External links

1993 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Tehran
Iranian footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Orange County SC players
OC Pateadores Blues players
Persepolis F.C. players
Rah Ahan players
F.C. Barreirense players
C.S. Marítimo players
SD Ponferradina players
USL League Two players
USL Championship players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Campeonato de Portugal (league) players
Primeira Liga players
Segunda División players
Iran international footballers
2018 FIFA World Cup players
2019 AFC Asian Cup players
2022 FIFA World Cup players
Iranian expatriate footballers
Iranian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
Expatriate footballers in Portugal
Expatriate footballers in Spain