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Список наград канадской рок-певицы Аврил Лавин включает в себя премии и номинации, полученные певицей с момента начала её музыкальной карьеры в 2002 году. Дебютный альбом Аврил Лавин Let Go, изданный в 2002 году, разошёлся в количестве 16 млн экземпляров и стал шестикратно платиновым в США. Другие три альбома — Under My Skin (2004), The Best Damn Thing (2007) и Goodbye Lullaby (2011) — также были отмечены музыкальными наградами в различных странах; по всему миру было продано более 30 млн копий её альбомов. Пять синглов певицы — «Complicated», «Sk8er Boi», «I'm with You», «My Happy Ending» и «Girlfriend» — занимали первые места в мировых хит-парадах. Журнал Billboard дал Аврил Лавин 10-е место в списке популярных артистов 2000-х, а также поместил её на 28-ю позицию по критерию общего коммерческого успеха деятельности.

Аврил Лавин является обладательницей восьми номинаций на премию «Грэмми», четыре из которых относятся к альбому Let Go. В 2003 году она получила 11 номинаций на канадскую премию «Джуно». С 2003 года по настоящее время Аврил Лавин стала обладателем шести наград World Music Awards, а также нескольких наград MTV в различных странах, включая Россию в категории «Лучший зарубежный артист». Помимо музыки, Аврил Лавин занимается созданием парфюмерной продукции, за свои первые духи Black Star она получила премию Cosmetic Executive Women в категории «Лучший аромат»; этот и следующий аромат, Forbidden Rose, были номинированы на премию FiFi Awards.

Грэмми
«Грэмми» считается наиболее важной музыкальной наградой и вручается ежегодно Национальной академией искусства и науки звукозаписи. Аврил Лавин ни разу не становилась лауреатом «Грэмми», но была номинирована в различных категориях восемь раз.

Премии MTV

Награды телеканала MTV вручаются в различных странах; основной премией является MTV Video Music Awards. Аврил Лавин стала лауреатом премий MTV во многих странах, включая Россию.

ECHO Awards
ECHO Awards — ежегодная музыкальная премия, организованная европейским отделом MTV.

TRL Awards
TRL Awards — музыкальная награда итальянского MTV.

World Music Awards
World Music Awards — ежегодная премия, вручаемая с 1989 года деятелям музыкальной индустрии на основе продаж релизов, которые учитываются Международной федерацией производителей фонограмм

Основные канадские премии

Juno Awards
Juno Awards — основная музыкальная премия Канады, ежегодно вручаемая с 1970 года. Аврил Лавин получила 7 премий из 18 номинаций.

MuchMusic Video Awards

 — канадская ежегодная премия, вручаемая за достижения в сферах музыки, искусства, кино и телевидения, созданная компанией Canadian network.

Canadian Radio Music Awards
Canadian Radio Music Awards — одна из основных музыкальных наград Канады, вручаемая с 1991 года.

Chart Attack

Основные американские премии

American Music Award
American Music Award (AMA) — одна из основных американских наград под эгидой Американского общества композиторов, авторов и издателей.

ASCAP Awards
Премия Американского общества композиторов, авторов и издателей вручается состоящим в нём музыкантам за достижения в различных сферах.

BMI Awards
Премия Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) — американская музыкальная награда, вручаемая Американским обществом композиторов, авторов и издателей и SESAC на основе количества продаж релизов.

Satellite Awards
Satellite Awards (прежнее название — Golden Satellite Awards) — ежегодная награда, вручаемая Международной академией прессы в области киноиндустрии.

Billboard Music Awards

Billboard Music Awards — ежегодная американская музыкальная премия журнала Billboard.

People's Choice Awards
Награда People's Choice Awards вручается на основе мнений посетителей сайта peopleschoice.com.

Teen Choice Award

Teen Choice Awards вручается за достижения в музыке, кино и телевидении на основе мнения подростковой аудитории.

Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
Премия Kids' Choice Awards детского телеканала Nickelodeon ежегодно вручается за достижения в сферах музыки, кино и телевидения.

Common Sense Media Awards
Common Sense Media — независимая премия, вручаемая музыкантам.

Основные европейские премии

BRIT Awards

BRIT Awards  — ежегодная церемония вручения музыкальных наград Великобритании в области поп-музыки, основана Британской ассоциацией производителей фонограмм.

Ivor Novello Awards
Ivor Novello Awards — музыкальная премия, учреждённая в 1955 году Британской академией композиторов и авторов и названная в честь композитора первой половины XX века Айвора Новелло.

Danish Music Awards
Danish Music Awards — датская премия, вручаемая IFPI с 1989 года

Imperio Music Awards

Основные азиатские премии

Japan Gold Disc Awards
Japan Gold Disc Awards — одна из основных музыкальных наград Японии, вручаемая с 1987 года Ассоциацией звукозаписывающих компаний Японии.

Hong Kong Gold Disc Awards

Planeta Awards
Planeta Awards — премия, вручаемая от имени сайта planetradiocity.com.

Paja Awards

Billboard Japan Music Awards

Основные бразильские премии

Brasil Music Awards

Meus Prêmios Nick
Meus Prêmios Nick — бразильский аналог премии Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, созданный телеканалом Nickelodeon Brasil; в голосовании за победителей участвуют более 15 тысяч детей.

Capricho Awards
Capricho Awards — ежегодная премия бразильского журнала .

Премии в области парфюмерии

FiFi Awards
FiFi Awards — ежегодная премия, вручаемая организацией The Fragrance Foundation за достижения в области парфюмерии, считающаяся своеобразным парфюмерным аналогом «Оскара».

Cosmetic Executive Women
Премия Cosmetic Executive Women вручается с 1954 года за вклад в индустрию косметики и парфюмерии для женщин.

Другие премии

Примечания

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On our way to explore the Dome Plateau off road trail outside of Moab, Utah we saw this old, substantially destroyed bridge and decided to go take a look.
We drove to both ends of the bridge and explored a bit. The south side of the bridge is accessed by turning right off the highway and onto the dirt road immediately before you cross the modern bridge while the north side can be accessed turning right off the highway and onto the dirt road immediately after you cross the modern bridge. Easy. We eventually found a plaque at the south end informing us that this is/was the Old Dewey Bridge.
Built by the Midland Bridge Company of Kansas City, Missouri the plaque told of some design criteria and milestones in the bridge's history. It was originally designed to support the total weight of 6 horses, 3 wagons and an additional 9000 pounds of freight. It was the only Colorado River crossing on Route 128 until the new bridge was built a mere couple hundred feet to the west in 1988.
The plaque leaves out the sad detail that on April 6th, 2008 an unsupervised young boy playing with matches at the nearby Dewey Bridge campground started a brush fire which spread to the bridge (and substantially farther) destroying the planks of the recently refurbished bridge.
This little side trip took all of 30 minutes and was well worth it. Interesting site and structure from both a historical and structural aspect.
Seek and you shall find. Explore and you shall learn.


I was taught to BELIEVE by one of the strongest people I know. Even when I had difficulties believing in myself. I am proud to dedicate this song to my mother on her birthday this year. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
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Michigan's Fictitious Budget Surplus, Our Roads, What to do with a so-called $1.3 Billion Surplus?
The projected multi-year $1.3 billion dollar surplus will give lawmakers something to ponder. While the governor has proposed yet again taxing the citizenry, us common folks for the $1.2 Billion he says are needed for our roads.
The legislature, bless the hearts was so kind in allocating a paltry $215 Million out of this $1.3 Billion so-called budget surplus (Taxpayer Money) to repair the potholes that quit frankly are beyond repair. So I guess that is to tide over the problem till after the elections so they can pass a gas tax and vehicle registration fee increase without immediate election year repercussions!
So while Governor Snyder and the Republican controlled legislature gave Big Business a huge tax break and balancing that loss of revenue on the backs of we lowly citizens we can look forward to these proposed tax increases that will be coming shortly after the 2014 elections.Vote wisely my friends!
As I have reported earlier that Senate Majority leader Randy Richardville told the Monroe Chamber that there will be some sort of re-alignment but not until after the elections!
Now this reported in the Detroit News, some Republicans in the House's majority party say any long-term road funding fix may have to wait until after the November election during the lame-duck session when term-limited lawmakers may feel more comfortable voting for a tax increase.
Now I have a novel idea how about we make sure they lose and don't get the reward for raising our taxes yet again! If we don't the message will be heard loud and clear in Lansing that it's OK to keep raising our taxes instead of cutting the size and scope of an over bloated government.
While raising my family in Allen Park I watched as my neighboring city Lincoln Park that tried unsuccessfully for several years in a row to get its citizens to pass a tax for their piss poor roads. Every year the citizens said hell no cut government until they let the roads get so deteriorated they finally gave in.
But guess what, they used the money for other purposes instead of fixing the roads and the roads continued to deteriorate. This is exactly what Lansing has been doing for years with our road fund monies transferring that money for other unspecified spending purposes.
Now that the road fund has been run dry they have the audacity to come to us taxpayers as to replenish that fund. If we allow them to levy us with yet more taxes in this regard we are complete and total fools.
Patrick A Heller breaks down the "truth" about this "Fictitious Michigan Budget Surplus" in the three minute audio/video.
Republican Governor Rick Snyder's stern austerity policies, which include replacing "a business tax with a corporate income tax that is expected to save businesses $1.5 billion a year," according to the same Times article.
"To make up lost dollars, lawmakers agreed to tax public workers' pension, reduce the state's Earned-Income Tax Credit for the working poor, and remove or reduce other tax exemptions and deductions." Those on fixed incomes such as seniors, retirees and the working class poor are now feeling the repercussions of Governor Snyder and the Republican controlled legislature's tax policies that they have been implemented.
I've mentioned this on another post, but for a guy who prides himself as a "numbers guy", his ability to flim-flam people with hard numbers that actually work is way up there with Pres. B.O.'s.
Michigan would not have any budget problems if Lansing would just stick to what state government is supposed to do.
For those who are a little clueless on this (read: Michigan republicans), this will get you back on the right track.
If legislators were required to cite the relevant section in the Michigan Constitution for all of the appropriations that they promote, Lansing would be flush with cash without any need for new taxes/fees.
But, instead of showing any integrity, they would much rather bribe voters with other people's money and hope that the producing class doesn't eventually catch on.


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Waymo's self-driving Chrysler Pacifica begins testing in San Francisco
Waymo is bringing its self-driving cars back to San Francisco streets for testing. TechCrunch has obtained pictures of the Waymo Chrysler Pacifica autonomous test vehicle on SF city roads, and Waymo confirmed that it is indeed bringing test vehicles back to one of the first spots where it ever tested AVs in the first place.
A Waymo spokesperson provided the following statement about its latest-generation test vehicle arriving in San Francisco:
San Francisco was one of the first cities where we tested our self-driving cars, dating back to 2009 when we traveled everything from Lombard Street to the Golden Gate Bridge. Now that we have the world's first fleet of fully self-driving cars running in Arizona, the hilly and foggy streets of San Francisco will give our cars even more practice in different terrains and environments.
Waymo has one of the most extensive testing programs of anyone in the industry, in geographic terms; the former Google self-driving car company has now tested its autonomous vehicles in 24 cities across the U.S. Its goal with these tests is to expose its fleet to a wide variety of road and weather conditions, as well as to variances in local traffic patterns and human driving habits.
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In San Francisco, it'll have the chance to deal with fog, of course, and with roads with steep inclines, as well as fairly dense peak traffic, ample bike, scooter and pedestrian activity, frequent ongoing road work and a lot more.
Waymo revealed last year that its test fleet in Arizona now includes fully driverless vehicles, with no safety driver behind the wheel at all (the cars in San Francisco will have safety drivers, by the way). The cars there can range across the entire area Waymo has set up around Chandler, Arizona for picking up and dropping off members of its pilot program of its forthcoming fully autonomous ride-hailing service.


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'The Mindy Project' Concludes on Hulu
Hulu Debuts Action-Comedy 'Future Man'
by Marc Berman November 14, 2017, 6:03 am 7 Comments
8:00 p.m. "The Middle"
8:30 p.m. "Fresh Off the Boat"
9:00 p.m. "black-ish"
9:30 p.m. "The Mayor"
10:00 p.m. "Kevin (Probably) Saves the World"
8:00 p.m. "NCIS"
9:00 p.m. "Bull"
10:00 p.m. "NCIS: New Orleans"
8:00 p.m. "The Voice"
9:00 p.m. "This Is Us"
10:00 p.m. "Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Brothers" (season finale)
8:00 p.m. "Lethal Weapon"
9:00 p.m. "The Mick:
9:30 p.m. "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
8:00 p.m. "The Flash"
9:00 p.m. "D.C.'s Legends of Tomorrow"
8:00 p.m. "Finding Your Roots"
9:00 p.m. "The Vietnam War" (R, two hours)
Of Note on Cable or Digital:
-"Future Man" (Hulu, 3:01 a.m. ET): first season available for streaming
-"The Mindy Project" (Hulu, 3:01 a.m. ET): series finale
-"Grave Secrets" (ID, 9 p.m. ET): season premiere
-"Moonshiners" (Discovery. 9 p.m. ET): season premiere
-"Hunt for the Zodiac Killer" (History, 10 p.m. ET): series premiere
-"Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath" (A&E, 10 p.m. ET): season finale
-"Weediquette" (Viceland, 10 p.m. ET): season finale
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Welcome! I have no plans to accept students Fall 2019. The following is intended to offer you insight into whether my lab is a good fit for you, your research interests, and career goals. Read the information below and contact me in early fall to discuss potential opportunities.
If you are interested in our lab please first read some of our papers. I suggest Stier et al. 2017 (Conservation Letters; PDF), Stier et al. 2014 (Nature Communications; PDF), and Stier et al. 2013 (Ecology; PDF) to get a better understanding of the questions I ask, the methods I use, and my research philosophy. Much of my previous work has focused on coral reefs and the population and community ecology of Pacific Herring; however, I am particularly excited to recruit new students who are interested in nearshore ecology of coastal California where the EEMB and MSI group at USCSB are woven together with the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER.
If you are still interested in joining the lab after reading through this information, please e-mail me (astier@ucsb.edu) to introducing yourself and attach (1) a CV (including GPA and GRE scores) with names and contact information of three references and (2) a written statement (< 1 page) that details the following: (a) current research experience and interests/ideas (be specific and tell me what type of questions excite you, what research you've conducted, and publications you have published), (b) your idealized goal after completing a graduate degree, and (c) why you want to work with me.
A dedicated graduate mentor can make an enormous difference in the PhD experience. I take the role of graduate mentorship seriously and acceptance into the lab is an implicit contract. I will offer a realistic amount of my time to help guide you as you learn key skills of a successful scientist including: the scientific method, experimental design, field ecology, critical thinking, reading, writing, mentoring, and public speaking. In exchange, my expectation is that you will bring independence, a steadfast work ethic, fortitude in the face of failure and adversity, insatiable curiosity for the way the world works, creativity, collegiality, and an ability to have fun.
Graduate school is a period of growth, and as a student grows, their mentors must also adapt by in their mentoring style. To promote this growth, my approach is to work closely with a student early on and collaborate on an initial project where we will together take a study from the conception of an idea to the publication of a paper. This project is meant to foster a sense of familiarity with the scientific process and currency (publications). After this initial year, I expect students to gradually become more independent over the next few years, such that they are fully prepared for their career. While I expect students will likely be interested in similar questions as the lab, students in the lab will never be "given" a project for their PhD. Instead i will offer an environment where they can independently develop their ideas and succeed as creative scientists.
Lastly, I expect my students to value constructive criticism and seek diverse scientific input. My approach to science is highly collaborative, and I expect my students to share a spirit for interaction in the lab and at department/lab socials. I expect students to attend departmental seminars, other seminars, and reading groups. My emphasis is not on grades, but in learning the trade. In particular I encourage students to combine multiple methods including field, lab, observational, statistical, and analytical/mathematical approaches to answer key ecological questions.
Students at UCSB can be supported from a variety of sources including university fellowships, teaching assistantships, their own grants/fellowships, and my research grants. The EEMB department at UCSB works closely with our graduate students to make sure they have adequate funding. As a part of this approach, the policy for my lab is that applying students must also strongly consider submitting a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship application, a proposal to the Nancy Foster Scholarship, and/or an National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship. These applications offer students the opportunity to hone potential research ideas, ensure applications to the UCSB graduate program are clear and concise, and demonstrate a true interest in joining the lab. Additional details on the application process in the Ecology Evolution, and Marine Biology Department can be found here.
After we have a discussion over video chat (Zoom), if we hit it off we'd be happy to host you to visit. We are located at the University of California Santa Barbara in the Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology Department (EEMB). UC Santa Barbara is among the leading institutions of higher learning in the United States. Our department is among the most productive in the country and is a member of UC Santa Barbara, which ranks among higher-education leaders in the United States and Canada as one of only 63 research-intensive institutions elected to membership in the prestigious Association of American Universities.


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New members inducted into Psi Chi
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Five quotes from the Fast 6 at Long Beach Grand Prix
The IndyCar drivers who qualified first through sixth at Long Beach on Saturday — Alexander Rossi, Scott Dixon, Will Power, Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Graham Rahal — held a smile-filled news conference after the session, cracking jokes and laughing through several exchanges.
Here are five of the best quotes from the Fast 6:
Josef Newgarden, on how impossibly close to the wall the drivers get at Long Beach:
"It's kind of like when you're pulling out of a parking spot and it's tight on both sides and you back up and you start to turn and you're like, 'Man, am I going to miss that car in front of me?' And your nose is like right there.
"Like 50 percent of the time, I'm just like, 'Well, I think I'm going to make it. If I don't, I hit him.' (Shrugs)
"That's kind of what it feels like. All the time on every lap, you're just like, 'Argh, I could hit — or maybe not.' Most of the time you don't. That's what it's like for me. It's kind of fun."
Graham Rahal and Simon Pagenaud on starting alongside each other Sunday despite their incident at the start of last year's Long Beach Grand Prix:
Rahal: "(Last year) was like a very minor love tap."
Pagenaud: (Scoffs in disagreement.)
Rahal: "It's going to be a lot harder to hit him when he's next to me. So if I'm going to do it again, I'm going to try really hard to do it.'
Pagenaud: "I think you were next to me…"
Rahal: "No, I was behind you and…"
Alexander Rossi: "It was like a torpedo."
Pagenaud: "Yeah, a torpedo!"
Rahal: "That's Power's issue now, right?"
Will Power: "You behind me?"
Rahal: "Yeah."
Power: "The difference is I'm from Toowoomba, see, and we fight."
Rahal: "I'm really not worried about you. I've got like 50 pounds on you."
Pagenaud: "I might not brake in Turn 1 just to make sure I don't get hit."
Rahal: "Actually, I would be perfectly fine with that. If you want to do that, that would help. You could like take out everybody and I'll be good."
Simon Pagenaud, off to a poor start this season, on proclaiming he was "never gone" after he made the final round of qualifying:
Pagenaud (deadpan): "It's just my ego coming out. I'm a pretentious person, so I just said these things. Why not say it, right?"
Reporter: "I was wondering if you're feeling unloved or ignored or if there's something going on…"
Will Power, his teammate: "I have been ignoring him a little bit."
Pagenaud: "Actually I have plenty of love, mostly from Will, a lot from Josef (Newgarden), too much sometimes. But no, I feel confident, so I think ego comes out when you're confident. I think that's what's going on maybe."
Reporter: "Do you have a chip on your shoulder?"
Pagenaud: "A chip? Chips are for dogs, I think. So I don't have a chip, no. It's all good. I'm pretty focused, 100 percent. Yeah, might have shown some aggressiveness, fire — and that's not a bad thing."
Alexander Rossi, responding to a reporter who said it was tough to pass at Long Beach:
"I don't know how true that is. I don't think it's that hard to pass."
Graham Rahal on why the drivers seemed so happy after making the Fast Six (final round of qualifying) but not winning the pole:
Rahal: "It's not even the top six anymore. You feel like if you're in the top 10, you've been solid. Didn't used to be that way. Obviously, we'd all like to be on pole. It would be even better. But I think you really have to feel a sense of like accomplishment as a team. You can see it across all our mechanics, too; everybody is happy. You make it to the Fast Six, you've really done something.
"In my first years in this, if you made it to the Fast Six then you were like decent. And nowadays it's just like the gap — like this morning, 1.1 seconds across from 1st to 25th over a street course this long (almost two miles) with all the bumps and curves and this and that — nowhere else in the world will you find racing that competitive, period. So I think you should feel proud if you had a good day."
12 Questions with Will Power (2018)
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The series of 12 Questions driver interviews continues this week with Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power, who drives for Team Penske.
I do definitely have dreams about racing. I'm trying to think of the last one I had. I've had dreams about winning races and that sort of thing. Winning the championship, I think that was my last dream, actually.
2. If you get into someone during a race — intentional or not — does it matter if you apologize? And I guess in IndyCar, you would never mean to do that.
Yeah, I'm sure it does. It's good when you hear from someone if they took you out. If they don't say anything, it's kind of rude, I suppose. If you take someone out and it's your mistake, you should talk about it and apologize.
Am I correct in thinking there's no intentional wrecking in IndyCar?
There isn't. Guys at the end of the year take more of a risk when you're in certain situations and you have to beat someone. But you just can't intentionally wreck someone in this series. It's too dangerous.
I think the biggest compliment is that you're a clean, good, fast racer and a good guy off the track.
4. IndyCar comes to you and says they're bringing a celebrity to the track and they want you to host them. Who is a celebrity you'd be excited to host?
Dave Grohl. That'd be pretty cool to have him. I don't know if we'd put him in the Penske corporate (suite) — he needs to be in a Snake Pit type scenario. But that would be a celebrity I'd love to host.
5. In an effort to show this is a health conscious sport, IndyCar decides to offer the No. 1 pit stall for an upcoming race to the first driver willing to go vegan for one month. Would you do it?
Yes I would. For a pit spot? No. 1? Absolutely.
Have you ever tried going vegan before?
But you're a healthy eater, I understand.
I am, yes. But I do eat a lot of protein — meat. But I'd do it because I'd like to try it anyway. And if you get Pit Out, it's worth it.
6. It's time for the Random Race Challenge. I've picked a random race from your career and you have to tell me where you finished. This is the 2014 race at Barber Motorsports Park. Do you remember this race at all?
(Thinks deeply) Did I win that one?
No, I didn't want to make it too easy.
Yeah. OK. Let's say fourth place and I was saving a lot of fuel.
You were fifth. I don't know what the fuel situation was. But you led 15 laps and ultimately Ryan Hunter-Reay won.
I think that might have been that race.
Are you good at remembering races in general?
Not anymore. There's just so many. Earlier in your career, you could remember every race you've done. Now it's so hard to recall, I couldn't even remember all my wins.
Alive? I'm into 90s rap, so Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre. Tupac is obviously gone. Biggie is gone.
Definitely not Jay-Z.
Oh! Not a Jay-Z guy, huh?
Nah. I'm not a big Jay-Z guy. He's not bad. But I listen to NWA and Public Enemy — No. 1.
I don't know who it is, but I'd say Snoop Dogg. He's kind of the guy who comes to mind now. There's so many good 90s rappers, man. Pete Rock and CL Smooth. Tribe Called Quest.
8. Who has the most punchable face in IndyCar?
Most punchable face. That's an interesting one. Who would I like most to punch in the head in IndyCar? I don't know. Let's go through the field. (Thinks for a moment.)
I don't know that anyone has a punchable face. That would be very, very mean to punch someone in the face. It happens. I've punched people in the face and been punched in the face in my life, but it's just not a good thing.
Let's just pick a random person. No. There's no one there who I'd like to punch in the face.
9. IndyCar enlists three famous Americans to be involved with your team for one race as part of a publicity push: Taylor Swift, LeBron James and Tom Hanks. Choose one to be your chief strategist, one to be your spotter and one to be your motorhome driver.
I'd have Tom Hanks on strategy. He's probably a pretty cluey guy in that respect, having to learn lines and memorize well. (Editor's note: "Cluey" is Australian slang for wise or knowledgeable.)
LeBron would be very good at spotting. He's always looking to understand what's going on on the court.
And Taylor Swift is always on a bus traveling, so she'd have some sort of idea of how a motorhome is run.
Actually, I usually scope it out beforehand. The best ones are when it's a port-o-potty right on pit lane there. Indianapolis is the worst, like the Indy road course. You have to go searching into a room and try to find one.
11. IndyCar decides they would like the highlight reel value brought by the former Carl Edwards backflips and want their own version. How much money would they have to offer for you to backflip off your car following your next win?
What, do they have an unlimited budget? You'd take big money, as much as you could go. A million bucks. You could make money off it if they said they'd give anything. Then you'd learn and do the backflip.
Or you don't learn at all. What is it? If they say, "We'll give you a million bucks if you backflip," can you go off and learn? Or do you have to turn up without learning and they'll say, "Bang?"
You can have time to learn.
OK. Well then the highest amount of money you can get. It's business.
12. Each week, I ask a driver to give me a question for the next interview. Last week was with Daniel Suarez. His question for you was: How much do you enjoy road course racing versus oval racing, and would you like to try one of those in NASCAR one day?
I would love to try an oval in NASCAR. And a road course, actually. For me, I really enjoy oval racing a lot more than earlier in my career. It's almost to the point where I'd much rather do ovals each week. But you've got to have both in IndyCar. They're just such different disciplines for us. Really enjoy ovals though. Really, really enjoy understanding how to get the car working and where to run and running in traffic. It's just a lot of fun.
Do you have a question I might be able to ask for the next interview? It's with Rico Abreu, the sprint car driver.
Yeah, I think I would ask him: Would he like to try an IndyCar out on an oval or a road course? That would be interesting to see what he thought.
A NASCAR fan guide to the IndyCar championship race
Guess what race is on Sunday right after the Chicagoland race on the same channel (NBCSN)?
Yep, it's the Verizon IndyCar Series season finale — a race which will decide the championship from among six eligible drivers.
I'm here at Sonoma and am going to be blowing your timelines up about the race, so you might as well watch with me. If you haven't followed IndyCar much this year or are just a casual fan, here's a quick guide to the race to get you caught up:
Sonoma Raceway is the 17th and final race of the IndyCar season, and six drivers can still win the title. They are the four Team Penske drivers — rising star Josef Newgarden, defending series champ Simon Pagenaud and veterans Will Power and Helio Castroneves — plus four-time series champion Scott Dixon and 2016 Indy 500 winner Alexander Rossi.
Who has the advantage?
Before answering that, let's take a look at the current driver point standings.
Josef Newgarden –Leader–
Scott Dixon -4
Helio Castroneves -23
Simon Pagenaud -35
Will Power -69
Alexander Rossi -85
Those have been updated after Saturday's qualifying session, because IndyCar awards one bonus point to the pole winner — and Newgarden put down a monster, track-record lap to start from P1.
Still, it's tough to say who has the edge right now. In Friday's two practice sessions, Newgarden had the quickest overall time. But in Saturday's practice, Pagenaud, Dixon and Power all went even faster.
Plus, top five drivers in the point standings were also the top five drivers in final practice (just in a different order). Since they were only separated by 0.44 second, it really could be anyone's race among the contenders.
So how does the championship race work?
Sonoma is a double points event — one of only two on the schedule, along with the Indy 500. That twist could play a massive role in the outcome of the championship, because the points are soooo close.
At a typical IndyCar race, first place is worth 50 points and second place gets 40. But at Sonoma, it's 100 for first place and only 80 for second — a 20-point gap between first and second!
That means Newgarden, Dixon and likely Castroneves (depending on bonus points) are all in situations where a Sonoma victory will mean the championship (which has happened the last two years).
And really, Pagenaud isn't in a bad spot, either (though he could use some help from his competition finishing off the podium). Power and Rossi are much bigger longshots at this point, even if they win.
How did they get to this point?
Newgarden has a series-leading four wins and eight podium finishes this season, but his lead is only four points thanks to a gaffe in the most recent race at Watkins Glen.
After entering the Glen with a 31-point lead over Dixon — thanks to winning three of four races — Newgarden locked up his tires in the pits while avoiding teammate Will Power and slid into the guardrail. That cost him 28 points of his lead, which was whittled to just four.
Dixon has just one win but has made finished on the podium seven times — second in the series. And he's going up against the entire Penske team, which has been the most consistent this season.
— Newgarden, who was totally fired up after his track-record lap to get the pole — his first since 2015 — is going into the race with a nothing-to-lose attitude.
"If I drop the ball and totally ball it up this weekend, I'm still going to be pretty happy with this year," the 26-year-old American said. "That's not to say I'm going to settle for that or that I'm looking to settle for something like that.
"But the only way I think you can approach this and get the most out of it and try and treat it like any other weekend. The moment you think, 'Hey, this is championship week — you mess it up, you're not the champion,' then I think that can put you in a wrong place mentally."
— Power, who qualified second, has a fast car but needs some help to pull off his second championship.
"It's absolutely possible," he said. "I mean, if Scott and Josef have a bad day, I can be right there. Yeah, see how it all plays out."
— Pagenaud, who won this race en route to the championship last season, is feeling confident after qualifying third.
"Quite satisfied," he said after his lap. "Overall it's awesome for Team Penske, 1-2-3-4 once again here. A testament to the team doing such a good job. Nothing's lost. Tomorrow is a long race. Lots of tire wear. I'm hoping for a really strong showing."
— Speculation about Castrovenes' future has been swirling lately, but it would certainly be nice for him to pull off an improbable title at age 42. He's in a virtual win-and-clinch situation since there it's a double points race.
"We wanted this championship as bad as anybody," he said after qualifying fourth. "We do have a chance. We're going to obviously try to execute. That's our goal."
— Dixon, the best driver of his generation, knows he has his work cut out for him. But it's not like anyone can dismiss his chances.
"Sixth position, you can definitely make lots happen from there," he said. "I think in '15 we started ninth when we won that race. Definitely you'd want to be a little further up. But that's the way it goes."


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Three weeks ago today, I penned a post on how to recognize a crisis…before it mushrooms into a full blown corporate meltdown. The news hook for the post involved a seemingly isolated explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers, but had yet to assume the catastrophic environmental and reputation-ruining proportions that it has today.
Did you see 60 Minutes' double segment Sunday in which one of the surviving workers on the rig recounted those harrowing moments? This man was forced to jump ten stories into the fuel and fire-laden waters below after the lifeboats abandoned him.
Furthermore, he used his CBS News appearance to painstakingly and very credibly outline the corporate malfeasance that likely led to the systemic failures aboard that oil rig and the environmental disaster they wrought. (I'm still not sure why relatively few mainstream media picked up on his allegations.)
On Monday, I posed the following question to a fellow PR blogger: would the tenor of the CBS segment have changed much if BP had agreed to avail its CEO Tony Hayward (pictured above) for an on-camera interview? Could BP's relatively youthful CEO have withstood the acerbic probes of CBS News' Scott Pelley (and his producer) or would he have morphed before our very eyes into the Jack Nicholson character from "A Few Good Men?"
In my opinion, not even the most charismatic, cogent and convincing executive could have countered the poignant and measured "testimony" from that senior oil rig worker. Hence, it seems BP and its PR consiglieres did the right thing by not subjecting the company's CEO to public denigration, let alone the possibility of exacerbating countless legal challenges.
Watching this segment and the sudden disintegration of BP's carefully and expensively honed reputation made me a bit melancholy. I had played a supporting role in the earliest days of the company's often case-studied brand transformation. It was 1997, and I took a call from an agency counterpart in the UK. My British colleague's client was about to make a big announcement. Hmmm.
Apparently, British Petroleum's then CEO Sir John Browne (at left) intended to announce that global warming was a problem, and could I help get the word out in the U.S. media?
My first thought was like, duh, this is not news. Who doesn't know that global warming poses a problem? My colleague quickly explained that Browne would be the first and only major oil company executive to publicly (and I came to believe) earnestly acknowledge it.
This was not spin or an attempt to mask over the company's environmental transgressions. Browne would not only break with the entire industry, but he put some money behind his talk by investing in a solar plant in northern CA. Al Gore joined him at a news conference to make that latter announcement, which we also supported.
So armed with this germ of a story idea, I picked up the phone and called Bill Stevens, The New York Times's environmental reporter and resident expert on the subject. Stevens was sufficiently intrigued. He agree to a meet-up with Browne at an industry conference both had planned to attend in a few weeks time. Shortly thereafter, the first substantive piece broke (above the fold) anointing British Petroleum and its Stanford-educated chairman as leading a sea change in an industry steadfastly resistant to such change. Stevens wrote on August 5, 1997:
In what may be the most telling change, British Petroleum, the world's third-largest oil company, broke ranks with other fossil fuel producers recently and announced that it believes that there is now enough scientific evidence to warrant concern about whether human activity — primarily the burning of fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas — is changing Earth's climate.
The time to contemplate action "is not when the link between greenhouse gases and climate change is conclusively proven, but when the possibility cannot be discounted and is taken seriously," John Browne, the company's chairman, said in a recent speech. British Petroleum, he said, "has reached that point."
Many today have tagged BP as an environmental pariah, but I can honestly say that this wasn't always the case. Ten years after setting BP on an admirable path, Lord Browne resigned abruptly. Since then, I believe the company has lost its way down the road Browne had paved.
This saddens me. Who ever would have imagined back then that the sea change Browne put into motion would literally end up as a ten-mile long and five-mile-wide plume of oil?
Published May 18, 2010 By Peter Himler
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Koh Tao is another main island in the Gulf of Thailand approximately 70 kilometers off the mainland between Surat Thani and Chumphon. The origin of which is debated, means " the island of the tortoise ". According to some it is due to the profile of the island, according to others, to the presence of numerous tortoises coming to reproduce on its beaches. The population of Koh Tao is estimated to be 1 500 people in 2011.
Koh Tao was initially an uninhabited island, only some occasional fishermen of islands surrounding it came to find refuge there in bad weather or to rest before continuing their journey.
According to old maps and various descriptions, it seems that the island was known by the cartographers and the European sailors under the name of "Pulo Bardia". Old maps also show a series of 3 north-south aligned islands and extending over the coast is of the Malay Peninsula. The smallest and most northerly of these islands is named "Pulo Bardia", the name stayed the same untill the beginning of 1900s. The best example of maps and that of John Thornton, in the book dating 1701, "The English Pilot, the Third Book ", but the map of the Gulf of Thailand is dated on about 1677. With the modern standards of precision, islands are in the time geolocation-based in a very archaic way.
From 1933, the island was used as political prison. The sea was used as a rampart against the escapes.
In 1947, Khuang Abhaiwongse, first one-Secretary of time, begged and received the Royal pardon for all the prisoners of the island. Everyone was brought to the coast of Surat Thani and the island of the tortoise has ceased to be a prison. The abandonment is short-lived, because in the same year, Khun Ueam and his twin brother Khun Oh reached Koh Tao by the nearby island of Koh Phangan by trying their traditional sailboat, through a long and dangerous crossing. Lands were "lent" to families coming mostly from Chumphon and thousands of coconut palms were planted. The present families on the island stopped from now on exploiting the coconut in a industrial way and those who benefited from an opening on the sea began to welcome tourists.
Koh Tao is the world Mecca of scuba diving today. The clarity of the seawater and abundance of fish plus low-priced diving, attracts tourists from all over the World.


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Q: How can I call a method in one file that uses a data structure that has been changed by another file? I wanted to call a method in one file that picks a random number from a list of numbers with a length defined by another file.
Here's what I currently have:
#file1
import file2

class Creator(object):
    def make_shape():
        return Shape(len(file2.sideList)) #takes a parameter of sides

shape = Creator.make_shape() #gets called after sideList is given a certain sequence

#file2
import random

sideList = []

for i in range(1, random.randint(1, 10)):
    sideList.append(i)

The obvious problem with the code above is that when file2 is imported, sideList is imported as [] instead of [1, 2, 3, etc]. So when the make_shape() method is called, the shape returned would be a shape with 0 sides.
So how could I "update" sideList in file2 so that I could call the make_shape() method using an "updated" version of file2.sideList?

A: Could you create a function in file 2 that accommodates your needs?
#file1.py
import file2

class Creator(object):
    def make_shape():
        return Shape(len(file2.sideList())) #takes a parameter of sides

shape = Creator.make_shape() #gets called after sideList is given a certain sequence

#file2.py
import random

def sideList():
    ret = []
    for i in range(1, random.randint(1, 10)):
        ret.append(i)
    return(ret)

Edit:
 #file2.py
 import random

 def sideList():
     dataTarget = "__Data__.csv"
     if os.path.isfile(dataTarget):
          fh = open(dataTarget)
          ret = fh.read().split("\n")
     else:
          ret = []
          for i in range(1, random.randint(1, 10)):
              ret.append(i)
          fh = open(dataTarget)
          fh.write(ret.join(\n))
     fh.close()
     return(ret)

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Two Fadama youth groups clash; one person killed
BY: Enoch Darfah Frimpong
A clash between two youth groups at Fadama in Accra has resulted in the death of one person.
It is unclear what caused the clash but the Okaikoi North Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Boye Laryea has confirmed the incident.
The Okaikoi North Municipal Council has consequently gone ahead to suspend the 62nd Independence Day Celebrations in the municipality which was scheduled to take place at the Fadama Cluster of Schools, which is near the place where the incident happened.
In a statement, the Municipal Chief Executive explained that the suspension of the indece celebrations had become necessary due to the "simmering tensions between two youth factions which has already resulted in the death of one person."
One faction said to be angry about the killing of their colleague stormed the area Tuesday evening apparently to revenge, and ended up destroying properties in the area.
The one who died was said to have been stabbed on Monday and later died on Tuesday whilst receiving medical attention.
Friends of the deceased after the burial reportedly stormed the area Tuesday evening to avenge the death.
The rampaging youth according to reports forced many businesses in the area to close abruptly as well as forced other residents to stay indoors following the violent clash.
They reportedly arrived in the area with motorcycles, held sticks, cutlasses and guns and whipped people they came across in the streets and vandalised some shops.
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Came to light new details of the relations Spartaka Mishulina and Tatiana Eremeeva
Classmate mistress of the actor spoke about their feelings. Faith Osberg flew in from Europe to share their memories. According to Tatiana Eremeeva, she's not serious about the affair with Spartak Mishulin, but because she never thought to marry him.
For six months of tense discussion, the illegitimate son of the famous actor Spartaka Mishulina Timur Eremeeva. Examination laboratory, which chose the legitimate daughter of the artist Karina, gave a positive answer to the question of the relationship of the two men. However, the heir to the stars of the film "White sun of the desert" insists that the study was conducted with violations, and even suggests that the falsification of results. Now all the participants waiting for the new analysis, which will be held in one of the clinics of Europe.
For several programs, speak with experts and Studio guests discuss the situation. But Karina doesn't appear on a talk show.
Earlier, the widow of Spartak Vasilyevich Valentina Konstantinovna has ruled out the possibility of romance on the side. According to the mother of Timur Eremeeva Tatiana, the famous actor met with her when she was still a schoolgirl. Family Mishulina did not believe the stories of women. However, today in Studio "Let speak" there was a witness to their relationship.
"I remember now. Tatyana, beautiful girl, white teeth, beautiful smile. And coming to us Spartacus and says, "Girls, what grade are you in?" We say: "We are in the 10th" – "where are You going to do?" I remember when I so boldly replied, "I want to go to MEPhI". And Tatiana said, "In the theatre." Started a conversation about something they talked about some plays. Tatiana said that she knows some of the premiere, which I don't know," the classmate told mom Timur Faith Osberg.
According to women, Spartak Vasilyevich struck by the fact that the girl is genuinely interested in theatre. Faith answered on exciting many question, do not seem to them strange that a grown man starts a conversation with Schoolgirls. However, a classmate Tatiana said that at that time was not considered suspicious, when on the street to make conversation with strangers.
Osberg admitted that he had seen a pair, even when I moved to another city.
"It all happened in front of my eyes. When Tatiana went to Vologda, I moved to Leningrad, they, by the way, came to Spartak, and I have met them. The hotel "Oktyabrskaya" is what I remember. But Tatiana was then 20 years old. Is the man who is monogamous, that's it. All my life loved a man," recalled the woman.
However, Tatiana was not told about his feelings to her friends. Moreover, it is not as serious about the feelings of Spartak Vasilyevich.
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Q: Error converting ajax request into Ruby (Incoming message has an unexpected format 'Raw') I'm in the process of converting an ajax request into Ruby using RestClient
Functions in Javascript
var dispatchWebAPIEndpointURL = 'http://dispatchweb.eureka-technology.fr/webmanager/WCFDispatchAPI.svc/REST/';
function APICallPOST(Method, Data, OnSucces, OnError) {
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                url: dispatchWebAPIEndpointURL + 'json/' + Method,
                type: 'POST',
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                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
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                success: OnSucces,
                failure: OnError
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    AuthentificationRequest.Credential.EMail = null;
    AuthentificationRequest.Credential.Language = 'fr-FR';

    APICallPOST('Authentify', JSON.stringify(AuthentificationRequest), function (response) {
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            alert('Authentification success');
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            alert(response.Errors[0]);
        }
    },
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    });

}

Functions in Ruby using RestClient
url = 'http://dispatchweb.eureka-technology.fr/webmanager/WCFDispatchAPI.svc/REST/';
credential = {
      "Credential" => {
        "License"   => "License",
        "Login"     => "Login",
        "Password"  => "Password",
        "EMail"     => nil,
        "Language"  => "en-EN"
      }
    }
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    headers = {
      contentType: "application/json",
      dataType: "json"
    }
    RestClient.post(request_url, credential.to_json, headers) {|response, request, result, &block|
      case response.code
      when 200
        p "It worked !"
        response
      when 423
        raise SomeCustomExceptionIfYouWant
      else
        p "you messed up"
        response.return!(request, result, &block)
      end
    }

The javascript functions work fine, and I get a response for success. The ruby version keeps giving me the 500 error along with the message

"Exception caught at WCFDispatchWebAPIErrorHandler & # xD; \ nMethod:
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I'm wondering if I actually pass in the credential in a correct way.
Any thought would be appreciated! Thanks!
Solved
So it turns out
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should be
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module Knife
  module Chop
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    lines   = File.readlines(file)
    version = lines[0]
    VERSION = version
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  end
end

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Above, Tania Nesterow-Boyer (left) reads the ingredients of a baked offering while Ida Giannelli looks on. Human Resources staff peddled baked goods in the GM lobby on May 7 in support of the Montreal Children's Hospital. The initiative was part of a larger annual fundraising campaign held by the hospital's foundation called Pedal for Kids. The campaign sees teams of employees raise funds for the hospital. HR's goal is $700 per team member, or $14 700 (above the $10 000 expected for first-year teams).
On June 9 at 3 p.m., the HR team will ride the Mighty Bike, a custom-made bicycle built for 30 people, throughout the streets of Montreal. The hour-long ride involves a massive sound system, cheering bystanders and a police escort. Beginning at Roddick Gates of McGill, the Mighty Bike will pass Concordia along De Maisonneuve Blvd., continue to Atwater Ave., where they'll turn around and return to Roddick Gates along Ste. Catherine St.
Giannelli, team captain, had been looking for a way to give back to the community. She had seen the Mighty Bikes driving past Concordia and wondered what the noisy vehicles were doing. When she found out, she was driven to participate and to put together a team of fundraisers.
She felt the Children's Hospital was a good choice of charity to support: "It's got a special place in everybody's heart." When Giannelli contacted the organizers, she was told she would be starting the first group from Concordia.
The bake sale raised close to $500. See the website to donate and get more details on the event. Tax receipts are offered for donations over $15.
Page Title: Human Resources peddles, and pedals, for kids - Concordia University - Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Page URL:http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20090521/human_resources_peddles_and_..._kids.php


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