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Dominic Thiem blasts Austria's military service: I did not like it
Tennis Interviews
Dominic Thiem believes that the military service he joined at the end of 2014 in Austria did not help him at all. Instead, the Austrian tennis player was affected by it as he started 2015 season later than usual. As quoted by Sky Sports, Thiem said: 'I'm not a big fan of the military service.
It was a pain in the a** these three, four weeks, seriously. I was privileged on this one because I'm an athlete. I only had to do four weeks, and the others have to stay six months there. But still it was not helpful for my start of the next tennis season.
In general, I didn't like it.' Explaining his two losses against Roger Federer and Kei Nishikori in London this month, Thiem said: 'I don't think it comes from fatigue. One tricky part of tennis is that every week it's different conditions.
It's never the same. We always have to get used to different court, to different balls. Kei, for example, he was playing amazing in Vienna and in Paris. Now this week obviously he's not playing that well. For me is similar.
We cannot play well every week. In general, I think players have some troubles here to play because I didn't see a really good match yet. But, well, we all have to fight through this.' ALSO READ: Rafael Nadal: Worse players than David Ferrer won a Grand Slam title


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Neighbours save Arima grandmother, children from burning house
2 weeks ago ·2 min read
A 64-year-old Arima woman is thanking God and her neighbours for their swift response in pulling her and her two grandchildren out of their burning house at Faith Avenue, Maturita, on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking with Newsday at her home on Thursday, Gregoria Edwards said it was shouts from her neighbours that woke her from an afternoon nap after smoke began to pour from the windows of the house.
Edwards, who is the main guardian of her grandchildren, ten-year-old Sydney Duke and Sergio Duke, eight, said she barely had time to understand what was going on before neighbours took her and the children out of the house.
"I was sound asleep, because I wasn't feeling well, when all of a sudden I heard someone shouting, 'Miss Gloria, your house on fire!' so I was still dazed and half-asleep…
"When I looked at the top of a nearby wall I just saw flames. I was dazed. I didn't know what to do.
The remains of the portion of a house lived in by Gregoria Edwards and her grandchildren on Faith Avenue, Maturita, Arima, that was damaged by fire on Thursday. – ROGER JACOB
"One of my neighbours came and grabbed me. I told them I couldn't leave, because my house was burning down, but they still grabbed me and the children and took me outside."
Edwards, who is a diabetic and suffers from spinal and hip pain, said she could barely walk when neighbours helped her out of the house .
She said she was still shaken and stressed after the experience, but was heartened by their willingness to help, even though she did not even know some of them personally.
"Right next door is a playing field. I remember seeing a lot of people running through the field to my house.
"Some of these people I didn't even know, but yet they seemed to know me, because they were calling me by name. So I was really happy and grateful to see people willing to lend assistance."
Edwards said thanks to the quick work of neighbours who formed a bucket brigade, the fire was confined to the back of the house so the kitchen, living room and one of the bedrooms are still habitable.
She added that even the fire officers commended the neighbours for their response.
"The fire officers got here quick enough, but by the time they reached here, everything was more or less over, thanks to the neighbours. One of the fire officers told me himself that I was lucky to have such good neighbours, because this could have been much worse.
"I'm thankful for all of my neighbours, because if it weren't for them I wouldn't be sitting down here speaking with you here today, because when I saw flames through the holes in the blocks, I just stood there with my hands on my head."
Edwards suspects the fire may have begun with a lit cockset in one of the back rooms.
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Newsday spoke with one of Edwards' neighbours, who said they did not have time to think about their own safety and acted on instinct when they helped the family out of the house.
"All the neghbours from every direction just jumped their fence and began throwing water. It was in the heat of the moment – we didn't have time to think about much else besides getting the family out.
"I told them to stay in the garage by us while we took action and extinguished the blaze.
"It was really nice for us to come together and do this, because this is a small community, but we look out for each other."
When Newsday visited, several neighbours came to see Edwards and her grandchildren to offer sympathy and help, as a pastor assisted in clearing out burnt appliances and furniture.
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Marc Allard: From the Top
Marc Allard mallard@norwichbulletin.com, (860) 425-4212 mallardnb
Jan 9, 2016 at 9:35 PM Jan 9, 2016 at 9:35 PM
In a little more than a month, baseball camps open in Florida and Arizona. The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox both have pitchers and catchers reporting to spring training on Feb. 18.
Before that, some of those players and coaches will make a stop at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center for the 13th annual Mohegan Sun World Baseball Coaches' Convention.
The convention is scheduled for Jan. 21-23 with more than 30 baseball managers, coaches, players and performance specialists lending their expertise to convention goers on specific topics.
Among those scheduled to be on hand are Blue Jays pitcher Marcus Stroman and outfielder Chris Colabello and Arizona shortstop Nick Ahmed.
Toronto coaches, Pete Walker and Tim Leiper, also will be present as will the head coach of Boston's Class A affiliate, Greenville, Darren Fenster.
College coaches scheduled to present include Jake Boss Jr. (Michigan State), Scott Stricklin (Georgia), Jim Penders (UConn), Justin Blood (Hartford), Steve Trimper (Maine) and Joe Brown from Division III champ SUNY-Cortland.
Also scheduled to appear are Houston Astros' strength and conditioning coach Rachel Balkovic, and Bobby Tewksbary, founder of the Tewksbury hitting school as well as ESPN baseball analyst Jessica Mendoza.
The Mohegan Sun World Baseball Coaches' Convention pre-registration is $159 per coach ($189 at the door), which includes a gift bag for all registrants. Pre-registration for students or players (14-18 years old) is $79.
Registration information, including a complete event schedule, is available at BaseballCoachesClinic.com or by calling the event office at (860) 674-1500.
Windham High graduate Kristen Hurley made her World Cup Bobsled debut at Lake Placid on Friday.
Hurley and her driver, Nicole Vogt of Dallas, finished eighth in the competition with a combined time of 1 minute, 55.84 seconds.
The duo's first run took 57.56 seconds with the second clocking in at 58.28.
"It was really fun," Vogt said in a press release on the USA Bobsled & Skeleton website. "I was just trying to take in everything and enjoy the journey and not make too big of a deal out of it. It was just a normal race. It was really fun to be on home ice and really get to experience this, be with all of the familiar faces on the track. The track workers, the truck drivers, and everyone is really excited for us, so it's just been a fun experience."
Right behind them were Brittany Reinbolt and Bonnie Kilis in ninth place. Kilis is a native of Marlborough.
Cates returns
Chaplin driver Danny Cates plans to return to the SK Modified ranks at Stafford Motor Speedway this season.
Cates last ran regularly at Stafford in 2013 and finished ninth in points.
"I'm wicked excited about coming back," said Cates in a press release. "Last year was the first year I've had off from racing since I was about 8 or 9 years old. I had a fun year helping Timmy Solomito out on the (Whelen Modified) Tour and my wife and I had our first child and it's been a blast with our daughter. I was looking all last year for a way to get back into it without going full bore and buying everything myself like I was doing before."
So, Cates posted a note on Facebook that he had a motor if someone had a car. Lo and behold his longtime crew chief, Steve McCarthy, was interested.
McCarthy went out and purchased Joey Cipriano's No. 84 car at the end of last year. Cates will run with his traditional No. 26 emblazoned on the car this season.
"There's no reason why we can't be competitive right off the bat. I'm used to driving Troyer cars, but I'm looking forward to trying a Chassis Dynamics car out since they seem to get around Stafford pretty good and I've never run a CD car at Stafford before. Joey always had that car running good so I don't think there should be much of a curve to get the car back up to speed," Cates said.
Sports Editor Marc Allard can be reached at mallard@norwichbulletin.com or at (860) 425-4212.


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News > Nation/World
One side effect of cruise covid rules: Norovirus has plummeted
Aug. 22, 2022 Updated Mon., Aug. 22, 2022 at 9:01 p.m.
By Hannah Sampson Washington Post
One apparent result of the measures cruise lines have taken against covid-19: Outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness have been far lower than in pre-pandemic years.
So far this year, cruise lines have reported two outbreaks of vomiting and diarrhea to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that affected 3% or more of passengers or crew. That's part of the outbreak threshold that determines whether the agency discloses episodes to the public. Ships must have a foreign itinerary with U.S. ports and need to be carrying at least 100 people.
The two outbreaks, affecting a total of 113 people, took place on a Carnival Cruise Line ship in late May and a luxury Seabourn voyage from late April through May. Norovirus was the cause of the Carnival illnesses, the CDC said on its site dedicated to updates about gastrointestinal illness on cruise ships; the Seabourn cause was unknown.
Last year, when cruise lines gradually started sailing again after a pause of more than a year, only one outbreak was reported. That one, caused by Vibrio and E. coli bacteria, hit 120 people on a Viking Ocean ship. Operators didn't report any cases in 2020; the industry voluntary shut down in March of that year.
Three outbreaks in the course of more than a year is much lower than pre-pandemic numbers. In an email, the CDC said the decrease in the number of acute gastroenteritis outbreaks could "most likely be attributed" to the combination of fewer passengers on ships during that time and "nonpharmaceutical interventions used by cruise ships to mitigate COVID-19 transmission, such as increased cleaning and disinfection, increase in the number of hand sanitizer stations, crew served buffets, and physical distancing."
Norovirus cases on land are also lower than normal. According to the CDC, the number of outbreaks reported by states during the 2021-2022 seasonal year (August to July) is lower than the range reported during the same time over the eight previous years.
The CDC's Vessel Sanitation Program has worked with the industry to monitor gastrointestinal illness since 1975, after "an excessive number" of outbreaks. While incidence rates of stomach illness on cruise ships dropped between 2006 and 2019, according to the CDC, pre-pandemic numbers were closer to 10 or 11 outbreaks a year. Between 2017 and 2019, cruise lines reported a total of 32 outbreaks that sickened 3,359 people. Norovirus - which the CDC says "can spread quickly in closed and semi-enclosed environments such as cruise ships" - was found to be a cause in 22 of those episodes.
That's a small fraction of the number of cruise passengers during those years: More than 13.7 million cruise passengers took cruises from U.S. ports in 2019, according to the Cruise Lines International Association.
William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, said that the reduced number of cruises as the industry restarted and the lower concentration of passengers - at least on many lines - would be likely factors in the lower number of outbreaks. But he said covid-19 precautions are "undoubtedly useful" to combating the spread of norovirus, as well.
"The more rigorous we are with all of these hygienic measures, there's spillover to other infectious agents," he said.
Norovirus, he said, is "extraordinarily" contagious. Schaffner praised cruise lines for their disinfection practices even before the coronavirus emerged.
"Before that happened, the cruise industry under the guidance of the CDC put into place many infection-control activities that they really implemented rigorously," he said.
Cruise lines have touted enhanced cleaning and sanitation protocols since the pandemic began. Royal Caribbean International, for example, says on its website that while hand-sanitizing stations have always been on board, the line has increased the number by 75%.
"And we're placing them anywhere you're most likely to use them, near elevators and at exits and entrances to all venues, plus anywhere onboard that doesn't have handwashing stations or restroom sinks in the immediate area," the site says.
The company said it had enhanced its cleaning protocols, noting that areas that get high traffic such as elevators, stairways, escalators and promenades get cleaned every two hours, and gangway rails are cleaned every 20 to 30 minutes when the vicinity is busy.
Norwegian Cruise Line said it had implemented "comprehensive enhanced cleaning and sanitation protocols," and had a dedicated public health officer on all ships to "oversee the day-to-day sanitation and cleanliness of all public areas and accommodations."
At least temporarily, some cruise lines got rid of self-service buffets in favor of having staff serve passengers at the food stations - though the old style has widely returned, according to the cruise news site Cruise Critic.
The CDC says that norovirus is spread by direct contact, or sharing food or utensils with someone who is infected. Outbreaks can also result from food, water or surfaces that have been contaminated. Common settings include health-care facilities, restaurants, schools or child-care facilities, and cruise ships, the agency says, though it notes that ships account for only 1% of all norovirus outbreaks.
The virus can last on surfaces for days or weeks, according to the CDC.
"Norovirus can be especially challenging to control on cruise ships because of the close living quarters, shared dining areas, and rapid turnover of passengers," the CDC says on its website. "When the ship docks, norovirus can be brought on board in contaminated food or water or by passengers who were infected while ashore."
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Emergency services have been called to deal with a collision involving a car and bus on the outskirts of Reading this evening. Police ,Fire and paramedics...
Three men charged over Thames Valley Police officer murder
Three more men have been charged in relation to the investigation into PC Andrew Harper's death. Chief Crown Prosecutor Jaswant Narwal, said: "As the...
Man charged over police officers death
A man has been charged with murder of PC Andrew Harper in West Berkshire Chief Crown Prosecutor Jaswant Narwal, said: "Following the death of PC Harper in...
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Reading. Further updates will follow when available. At 11.19am on Thursday, 1 August, Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue received reports of a collapsed...
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A man has been charged with burglary and fraud in Cholsey following a Thames Valley Police investigation. Carl Hunter, aged 36, of The Meadway, Tilehurst, was...
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Two Officers from Thames Valley Police remain in Hospital this evening. Following a head on crash with a tree on the Bath Road A4 Reading Berkshire. Paramedics...
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GRAND ISLAND – Fifteen Fremont High School students competed at the Nebraska State SkillsUSA Leadership Conference in Grand Island, NE last weekend. The FHS SkillsUSA chapter returned to Fremont with 3 State Champions and a state runner-up.
By becoming champions in National qualifying events, Ivan Esparza (Welding), Jack Norris (Masonry), and Eric Romero (Plumbing) will be invited to represent the chapter, FHS, and the State of Nebraska as State Champions at the National SkillsUSA Leadership Conference. This conference, featuring champions from the other States and Territories, will take place in Louisville, KY in June.
Devin Roschewski (Precision Machining) competed in a State Only competition, and took home 2nd place.
SkillsUSA is a countrywide career and technical student organization, serving more than 395,000 students from middle school through college who are enrolled in training programs for trade, technical and skilled service occupations.


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Svrluga: John Shuster was leveled by the sport he loved. Then he got back up and won gold.
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United States's skip John Shuster reacts during the men's final curling match against Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018.
By Barry Svrluga | The Washington Post
PUBLISHED: February 25, 2018 at 3:17 pm | UPDATED: February 25, 2018 at 3:51 pm
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — This wasn't supposed to be the scene on the third Saturday of the Olympics, when as many people have gone home as remain behind. And just because the team of curlers for the United States blew up their sport's orb over the previous 48 hours, we can't pretend — most of us, at least — that we suddenly know the terminology and strategy of this mesmerizing sport: "end" and "stone" and "house" and the like.
But man, wasn't that an absolute blast? Saturday evening, a team — sorry, a "rink" — led by a man who had essentially been fired by his sport's national governing body, followed one of the Pyeongchang Olympics' greatest upsets with another of the Pyeongchang Olympics' greatest upsets, this time for gold. If there's a cover-of-the-magazine image, it's of John Shuster — formerly banished, now embraced — pumping his right fist as the eighth end concluded, because he blasted open the game by delivering the stone that provided a 10-7 victory over heavily favored Sweden.
"I can't tell you how un-nervous I was," Shuster said. It seems like an unremarkable utterance. But that feeling in that moment, it represents the complete transformation of a man and a team and, they hope, a sport in the U.S.
Let's not pretend this was the "Miracle on Ice" from 1980 in Lake Placid, and it's not even as significant as the American gold in women's hockey from two days earlier. All this happened in the middle of the night back home, and we can't just declare, in one evening, that curling somehow unified a broken country.
But it can't hurt, either.
"Curling really embodies what I think all of us hope that humanity can be," Shuster said. "And that's honestly caring for each other and really being compassionate to the people around you."
Yep, it's hyperbolic and hokey. But Shuster's eyes were red when he said it. Who's to strip a man of his genuine emotions?
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So put aside the jokes about how many beers must be stashed at the end of each sheet of ice, and embrace Shuster's story, a very Olympic story. The redemption he felt — and that's what it was, not a stretch in any way — was pure and hard-earned. The Americans ended this Olympic tournament with five straight victories, and along the way became cult heroes. Mr. T, of all people, fired them up on Twitter. Dan Jansen, the American speedskater whose own story of redemption forever will rank among the best the Olympics can provide, added his support.
There was an edge to all of it, like maybe it bordered on mockery, particularly when you factor in big Matt Hamilton, the mustachioed face of Shuster's rink.
"They have a lot of fun," Swedish skip Niklas Edin said. "They take it easy, so to speak. They have a lot of spirit."
What's important to note, too: They care. Man, do they care.
Shuster's journey, by this point, is well documented. A bronze medalist at the Turin Games in 2006, he was the face of the Americans' failures at the next two Olympics, when they finished 10th and ninth, respectively. The people who make weighty curling decisions in the U.S. thus decided they had to overhaul the entire system. They wanted more athletic athletes. They wanted curlers who understood sports psychology. They couldn't keep doing the same thing. And so it was assumed they couldn't keep sending the same guy.
But a funny thing happened: Shuster assembled a squad, complied with all of USA Curling's wishes, and earned his way here.
"We never had conversations about 2014, 2010," vice skip Tyler George said. "It was always this team, now. What are our goals? What are we capable of? … When something you love so much brings you pain, it's hard to rationalize why you continue to do it."
That might have been the thinking over the past couple of years. But then Shuster's rink dropped four of its first six games here. The Americans were well on their way to feeling transformed as athletes but delivering the same crushing result.
The night he lost to Norway to fall to 2-4 in this Olympic tournament, Shuster walked his wife and two young sons to a far door at the Gangneung Curling Centre. She tried to "talk me off the ledge." Distraught, he barely could thank her. He left his family and headed outside to sit on a knoll by himself. He looked at the curling venue.
"This is silly," he said he thought to himself. "I'm getting my heart broken, I feel like, by this sport. Seriously, this is silly."
United States's skip John Shuster holds his gold medal after winning the men's final curling match against Sweden at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2018.
He thought about Jansen, the skater from Wisconsin who, as a heavy favorite in two events in the 1988 Olympics, fell twice, burdened by the death of his sister. Four years later, he finished both races but gained no medals. Finally, in 1994: gold in the 1,000 meters.
"He got back up, and he wrote his story," Shuster said. "And he's an Olympic champion."
So Shuster and his guys got back up. They reeled off victories over Canada, Switzerland and Great Britain to reach the semifinals. There, they stunned Canada again, exacerbating a curling crisis in a country that understands this sport deeply. And in the gold medal match, they hung with Sweden through those first seven ends, when it was 5-5.
The key delivery belonged to Shuster in the eighth end — which, for those not well versed in curling (points to self) is the same as an inning in baseball, except there's 10 of them in a standard match. (If you're not familiar with an inning in baseball, well, sorry. Can't help you.) The Americans held the hammer, the final stone. Sweden had two stones in the house. (Again, a translation: the bull's eye-looking thing at each end of the ice.)
But Edin made an error when he narrowly missed his final shot of the end. The Swedes were exposed. Shuster threaded his final stone past two helpless Swedish stones that sat short of the house, then into the house. There, it clanged into one Swedish stone — knocking it toward the other. Both were expelled from the house. The Americans had — count 'em up — one, two, three, four … five stones — a fiver that turned a tie game into a 10-5 U.S. advantage, a blowout.
"We knew we were going to lose," Edin said.
Which meant the Americans knew they were going to win. What a thing. Ivanka Trump watched from the stands and even picked up Shuster's 4-year-old son Luke at one point. The chants of "USA! USA!" rang from the flag-waving American throng, and when Hamilton heard someone yell out, "I love your mustache!" he turned and gave an enthusiastic thumbs up.
This sport, with the sliding shoes and the brooms and the stones, can feel frivolous. Tell that to these guys who created that scene Saturday evening.
AND THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE!@TeamShuster doubles their score on one throw in End 8! 😱 https://t.co/crSmtNeRXW pic.twitter.com/D6s4z1cMAl
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 24, 2018
"I never will stop thanking these guys," Shuster said, and he looked down at George and Hamilton and John Landsteiner and Joe Polo, the alternate.
At the end of the evening, those five carried out that most triumphant of Olympic duties: climbing to the highest level of a stand, slightly above the Swedes, even another notch above the Swiss, who took bronze. They couldn't have looked more stunned when asked to bend at the waist so a medal, a gold medal, could be draped around their necks. Each of them exhaled, trying to slow their heart rates. How could that work?
And when "The Star-Spangled Banner" played, they sang, and their faces grew red, and when it concluded, they wiped the tears from their eyes. In such a scene, it doesn't really matter the sport or your evaluation of it. What matters is the road it took to get there, the passion of the characters involved, and that moment on the medal stand on the final Saturday of the Olympics.
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F-16s from the 176th FS on a routine training mission in the skies over Wisconsin[1]
1950–1952, 1952–1958, 1961–present
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Truax Field Air National Guard Base, Madison, Wisconsin
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
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The 115th Fighter Wing is a unit of the Wisconsin Air National Guard, which is stationed at Truax Field Air National Guard Base, Madison, Wisconsin. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command.
As an Air National Guard unit, it is normally under the command of the Governor, but has a federal role as well. Currently the wing has personnel and/or aircraft assigned to Operation Noble Eagle, Operation Jump Start and regularly serves with the Air Expeditionary Force in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2.1 Air defense
2.1.1 Forward air control
2.1.2 Close air support
2.1.3 Current mission
3.4 Aircraft
Units[edit]
The 115th Fighter Wing consists of the following units:
115th Operations Group
115th Mission Support Group
115th Maintenance Group
115th Medical Group
The wing was first activated as the 128th Fighter Wing in November 1950, when the Air National Guard converted its units to the Wing Base organization, which placed operational and support units under a single wing. Four months later, the wing was federalized in the second wave of Air National Guard callups for the Korean War, and assigned to Air Defense Command.[2] It moved to Truax Field near Madison, Wisconsin where both the 126th and 176th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron flew air defense training missions until being inactivated in February 1952. The wing returned to Wisconsin state control and to its station near Milwaukee in November.
Air defense[edit]
The wing trained for its air defense mission until 1958. It was again activated in April 1961, remaining in the air defense mission, although its original group at the same station assumed the air refueling mission. In June 1971, the squadron again moved from General Mitchel Field to Truax Field, where the 115th Fighter-Interceptor Group was located.
In September 1972, the wing's 176th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron won the "William Tell Competition" in the F-102 category. The event, held at Tyndall Air Force Base, included top Air National Guard, Canadian Air Force and active US Air Force units worldwide. The competition included 12 teams of 48 aircraft, each team scored on aerial marksmanship, weapons control, weapons loading and maintenance.
Forward air control[edit]
In November 1974, the wing's gaining command changed from Air Defense Command to Tactical Air Command and its designation changed to the 128th Tactical Air Support Wing. With the realignment to TAC, in December 1974, the unit's F-102s were replaced by the Cessna O-2A Skymaster Forward Air Control (FAC) aircraft. The O-2 was the military version of the Cessna 337 Skymaster, a high wing, twin-boom aircraft with a unique centerline pusher/tractor twin engine configuration. The O-2A version was used in forward air control missions, often in conjunction with a ground forward air controller and a radio operator, maintenance, and driver (ROMAD) team.
In November 1979, the O-2s were replaced by the Cessna OA-37B Dragonfly forward air control aircraft. It was developed from the A-37 light attack plane which was used extensively in the Vietnam War as a counter-insurgency aircraft, with the surviving planes either being sold to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force or returned to the United States. The OA-37s were received from ANG units in Maryland and New York.
With most of the pilots and maintenance crews having prior jet aircraft experience with the F-102s, the unit was able to transition the OA-37 to C-1 status, (full combat ready), in less than six months. Awards during the OA-37 era included an overall rating of "Excellent" in the unit's Operational Readiness Inspection, the Distinguished Flying Award and its first Air Force Outstanding Unit Award.
Close air support[edit]
On 1 October 1981, the group was redesignated the 128th Tactical Fighter Wing. Along with the mission change came a new aircraft, the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, nicknamed the "Warthog". The OA-37s were sent to other ANG units; survivability made the A-10 an excellent weapons delivery system for ground targets. The A-10's most dominant feature is its seven-barrel GAU-8/A 30 mm cannon, capable of firing at up to 70 "tank busting" rounds per second.
During the A-10 era, the unit received two Outstanding Unit Awards, three Air Force Flight Safety Awards, and in 1991 an "Outstanding" in its Unit Effectiveness Inspection. Deployments with the A-10 included Operation Coronet Cove to Panama, and "Checkered Flag" missions to NATO bases in West Germany and England.
Current mission[edit]
USAF F-16C block 30 #87-0278 from the 176th FS sits on the runway in Madison on 28 June 2008 during the Rhythm and Booms Fireworks display. Note the 60th Anniversary paint scheme on the tail
With the end of the Cold War, the early 1990s marked several changes. On 16 March 1992, the wing became the '128th Fighter Wing and shortly thereafter changed its mobilization command change from Tactical Air Command to the newly created Air Combat Command.
In 1993, the wing began transitioning from the A-10A to the F-16C/D block 30 Fighting Falcon airframes with the enlarged inlet, the A-10s were transferred to other ANG units. The first F-16s arrived at Truax ANGB on 1 April 1993. The current role of the 176th FS is air-interdiction and close air support (CAS). This was the same task as when they flew the A-10, although the transition to the F-16 meant a huge change in the overall execution of this mission when comparing the A-10 with the F-16.
On 11 October 1995, the 128th Fighter Wing was renamed the 115th Fighter Wing and converted to the Objective Wing organization with its operational squadron assigned to the 115th Operations Group. The 128th designation duplicated that of the 128th Air Refueling Wing at General Mitchell Air National Guard Base]], another Wisconsin Air National Guard unit, which upgraded from group status.
Operations participated in by the 115th Fighter Wing include: Operation Coronet Chariot, Karup AS, Denmark 1994, Operation Northern Watch, Incirlik AB, Turkey 1997, Operation Southern Watch, Al Jaber AB, Kuwait 1997-98, Operation Southern Watch, Prince Sultan AB, Saudi Arabia 1999, Operation Coronet Nighthawk, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles 2001, Operation Enduring Freedom, Al Udeid AB, Qatar 2004–05, Balad AB, Iraq, 2006, 08, & 09, Africa, 2013 and Operation Noble Eagle, from 11 September 2001 to the present.
In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, the DoD recommended to close Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. As a result, three of the 27th Fighter Wing's F-16s were to be distributed to the 115th Fighter Wing amongst other aircraft moves.
The 176th Fighter Squadron celebrated its 60th anniversary in October 2008.
Today the wing is capable of air-to-air, close air support and precision guided bombing missions. The wing operates the latest generation of munitions such as the JDAM series bombs and the AIM-9X air-to-air missile.[citation needed]
In December 2017, the Air Force announced that the 115th was one of two Air National Guard wings selected for equipping with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. The conversion to the fifth-generation jet fighter is scheduled for 2023.[3]
Lineage[edit]
Established as the 128th Fighter Wing on 25 October 1950 and allotted to the Air National Guard
Activated on 1 November 1950 and given federal recognition
Federalized and called to active duty on 1 February 1951
Redesignated 128th Fighter-Interceptor Wing on 10 February 1951[2]
Inactivated on 6 February 1952[2]
Released from active duty, returned to Wisconsin state control and activated on 1 November 1952
Redesignated 128th Air Defense Wing on 15 April 1956
Inactivated on 10 March 1958
Activated on 1 August 1961
Redesignated 128th Fighter-Interceptor Wing on 1 June 1972
Redesignated 128th Tactical Air Support Wing on 9 November 1974
Redesignated 128th Tactical Fighter Wing on 15 November 1981
Redesignated 128th Fighter Wing on 15 March 1992
Redesignated 115th Fighter Wing on 11 October 1995
Assignments[edit]
Wisconsin Air National Guard, 1 November 1950
Tenth Air Force, 1 February 1951
Eastern Air Defense Force, 10 February 1951[2]
Central Air Defense Force, 20 May 1951 - 6 February 1952[2]
Wisconsin Air National Guard, 1 November 1952 - 10 March 1958
Wisconsin Air National Guard, 1 April 1961 – present
Gaining commands[4]
Air Defense Command, 1 November 1952 - 19 March 1958
Air Defense Command, 1 April 1961
Tactical Air Command, 9 November 1974
Air Combat Command, 1 June 1992 - present
Components[edit]
103d Tactical Fighter Group, 16 March 1992 - 11 October 1995
105th Tactical Air Support Group, 1 July 1979 - 1 May 1984
110th Tactical Air Support Group (later 110th Fighter Group), c. 1 June 1975 - 1983, c. 16 October 1991 - 11 October 1995
111th Tactical Air Support Group (later 111th Fighter Group), c. 1 June 1975 - 1983, 31 March 1992 - 11 October 1995
115th Fighter-Interceptor Group (later 115th Tactical Air Support Group, 115th Operations Group, 15 April 1956 - 10 May 1958, 1 June 1972 - 1 January 1979, 1 October 1994 - present
119th Fighter Group, 1 April 1961 - c. 1 June 1965
125th Fighter-Interceptor Group, c. 1 June 1972 - c. 1 October 1974
128th Fighter Group (later 128th Fighter-Interceptor Group, 128th Fighter Group), 1 November 1950 - 6 February 1952,[2] 1 November 1952 - 10 March 1958
148th Fighter Group, 1 April 1961 - c. 1 January 1969
163d Tactical Air Support Group, 8 March 1975 - c. 1 October 1982
169th Fighter-Interceptor Group, 1 June 1972 - 5 April 1975
182d Tactical Air Support Group (later 182d Fighter Group), 1975 - 1 April 1995
Operational Squadron
176th Tactical Air Support Squadron (later 176th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 176th Fighter Squadron), 1 January 1979 - 1 October 1994
Stations[edit]
Billy Mitchell Field, 1 November 1950
Truax Field, Wisconsin, 16 February 1951 - 6 February 1952
Billy Mitchell Field, 1 November 1952 - 10 March 1958
Billy Mitchell Field, 1 April 1961
Truax Field (later Truax Field Air National Guard Base, 1 June 1972 – present
Aircraft[edit]
F-89C Scorpion, 1956-1957
F-89D Scorpion, 1957-1959
F-89H Scorpion, 1959-1960
F-89J Scorpion, 1960-1966
F-102A Delta Dagger, 1966-1974
O-2 Skymaster, 1974-1979
OA-37B Dragonfly, 1979-1981
A-10 Thunderbolt II, 1981-1993
F-16 Fighting Falcon, 1993–present
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.
^ Aircraft are F-16C block 30s serials 87-349, #87-261 and #87-262. Taken on 16 October 2008
^ a b c d e f Cornett & Johnson, p. 63
^ Staff writer, no byline (21 December 2017). "AF selects locations for next two Air National Guard F-35 bases". Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
^ The command to which the wing would be assigned in a general mobilization
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Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).
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Q: Unable to annotate Arabic text with StanfordCoreNLP and CoreNLP server So I want to return the pos_tag of an Arabic sentence using StanfordCoreNLP like the following:
from stanfordcorenlp import StanfordCoreNLP

nlp = StanfordCoreNLP('http://localhost', port=9000, lang='ar')
sentence = 'قفز الثعلب البني السريع فوق الكلب الكسول.'

print(str(sentence))
print(nlp.word_tokenize(sentence))
print(nlp.pos_tag(sentence))

nlp.close()

However, the following error gets raised:
File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\stanfordcorenlp\corenlp.py", line 239, in _request
    r_dict = json.loads(r.text)
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\__init__.py", line 346, in loads
    return _default_decoder.decode(s)
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 337, in decode
    obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
  File "C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode
    raise JSONDecodeError("Expecting value", s, err.value) from None
json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

Meanwhile, on the command prompt where the server is running it seems the sentence wasn't sent to the server, but instead the following error occured:
Caused by: class java.lang.RuntimeException: unable to find words/tokens in: ??? ?????? ????? ?????? ??? ????? ??????.
  edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.POSTaggerAnnotator.annotate(POSTaggerAnnotator.java:114)
  edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.AnnotationPipeline.annotate(AnnotationPipeline.java:76)
  edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.StanfordCoreNLP.annotate(StanfordCoreNLP.java:680)
  edu.stanford.nlp.pipeline.StanfordCoreNLPServer$CoreNLPHandler.lambda$handle$0(StanfordCoreNLPServer.java:927)
  java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
  java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
  java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Also, the CoreNLP server is running on http://localhost:9000/ and the stanford-corenlp-4.4.0-models-arabic is in the /stanford-corenlp-4.4.0 directory.
Any ideas on how to solve this?

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I am so fucking excited about SwiftUI.
I had strong suspicions that Apple was working on something like this, but what we've seen this week goes way beyond any of my expectations. My thoughts have now turned to how important this development will be for the future of all user interaction.
It all started while sitting at this year's edition of The Talk Show and hearing about one of its sponsors: OmniFocus for the Web.
I've been good friends with the mad scientists at the Omni Group for a long time: we all have the gray hairs to prove it.
When you hear that they made a server with a macOS app that renders content for web, it sounds strange at first, but then makes a lot of sense when you consider how much code sharing you get. They're not fools.
Then, while watching the SwiftUI Essentials talk, it occurred to me that the new domain specific language (DSL) looked like a HTML, CSS, and JavaScript hierarchy.
When you connect these two dots, you see a pretty exciting future for your code.
Apple has talked a lot about SwiftUI this week, but one thing has been conspicuous in its absence: implementation details. Some folks have discovered that there is some underlying UIKit code, but looking at this is a distraction.
The most important part of this announcement is the abstraction they're working with, not the view surface being used for rendering.
This view abstraction is important for our apps: you don't need to care how a button is rendered on tvOS, or macOS, or iOS. You don't need to worry about which interactions are available on each platform, other than to provide alternatives when things like a digital crown aren't available.
Interactions Above All
Earlier this week, I was talking to my friend Soroush Khanlou about the announcements. He expressed surprise that so many long-time developers who were vocal about Swift's deficiencies were suddenly excited about SwiftUI.
There's a simple explanation for this: we value great interaction, both at the user level and API level.
To me, it always felt like there was a parity mismatch between Swift and the existing UI frameworks. Sure, you can put a Ferrari engine in a Ford pickup and get it to move, but it's not going to be a great experience. Awkward to build, awkward to drive around in.
The Web, Too
So my observation about the SwiftUI DSL and OmniFocus show us something important: a web browser is just another surface to render your views and respond to user actions or external events.
And it will be a way where interactions can be adapted for the platform being targeted.
Think about all the work that Apple has put into making iWork apps run in a web browser. Would they be looking for ways to make this easier? Yep.
I also think we'll see the Swift community pick up on this DSL. Initially, it rubbed me the wrong way that Apple was using "Swift" in a framework that targeted platforms using proprietary features like Core Animation.
But again, when you look at the abstraction, you see the greatest value in how the DSL is processed, not in how it makes it into a CALayer. Could some enterprising group of developers take the SwiftUI DSL and produce something that worked on Android or Playdate? Certainly.
And what about compiling Swift code and running it directly in a web browser? You can do it right now.
The Most Capable Environment
While commenting about this on Twitter, Steve Streza made an important observation: SwiftUI is like a "reverse React".
But I think there's something important to add to his note: the SwiftUI DSL describes the most capable environment. It's the maximum interaction surface: platforms will render and react to a subset of what's declared.
Some devices, like a watch, will be capable of handling a physical rotation from a dial. Your only concern on other platforms, like iOS, are alternate interactions. When you target Playdate with your app's SwiftUI DSL, you won't be surprised to see the crank do the right thing.
I didn't realize it at the time, but John Gruber's quip at the beginning of The Talk Show hinted at our future:
For all of the consternation we have for developers who have web apps and put it in a shell and call it their Mac app, [laughter] the Omni Group has done the right thing and took their Mac app, and now it's on the web.
It was certainly a funny moment, but it also gets directly to the point of working from a more-capable to a less-capable environment. And also how we're at a point where our apps will head in directions that we can't even begin to predict. I find that tremendously exciting.
In summary, I think that SwiftUI is an absolutely fundamental change that we'll be living with for decades. You can certainly dismiss it, but doing so will be at your own peril.
Written on June 7th, 2019 for Design, Development


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The Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) is a professional and scientific membership society. The mission of the organization is to foster the science and art of natural resource management for sustainability. The society was formed in 1945 and changed its name from the Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) to the Soil and Water Conservation Society in 1987. The SWCS publishes the bimonthly peer-reviewed Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

History
The Soil Conservation Society of America (SCSA) was formed in 1943, "...founded by a small group of soil conservation leaders ... they set about the task of creating an association through which conservationists could increase their efficiency and effectiveness as leaders, improve their vocational competencies, and utilize their combined talents and influence in solving the problems facing conservation programs." The professional and scientific membership society changed its name to the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) in 1987. The mission of the organization is to foster the science and art of natural resource management for sustainability.

The history of SWCS was first recorded in the minutes on February 16, 1943, during a meeting held in Washington D.C. Individuals present included: H.H. Bennett, R.H. Musser, A.E. McClymonds, J.H. Christ, J.C. Dykes, A.L. Patrick, Glenn Rule, M.L. Nichols, L.P. Merrill, C.E. Luker, T.S. Buie, and A.E. Jones. [Previously, a meeting had been held in Chicago on November 11, 1941, where Bennett, Musser, McClymonds, and Christ, the "original four," proposed the organization.

On January 1, 1952, SWCS opened its first national office with a full-time staff.

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External links
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ROCKY HARBOUR, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 1, 2005) - The Honourable Stephane Dion, Minister of Environment and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, is pleased to announce the inclusion of Gros Morne National Park under the Canada National Parks Act (CNPA). As of Oct. 1, the cultural and natural resources of Gros Morne National Park will enjoy a level of protection that is consistent with all other national parks in the country.
"As a result of this action another significant step has also been taken in completing the national park system. It is an important accomplishment that we are proud to celebrate with all Canadians," said Minister Dion. "Bringing Gros Morne under the authority of the CNPA was a commitment the Government of Canada made in the 1973 Federal/Provincial Agreement that established the park."
"Over the years, we have watched Gros Morne become an internationally recognized tourism destination - one that is promoted as a significant icon in the provincial tourism industry," said the Honourable Gerry Byrne, M.P. for Humber-St.Barbe-Baie Verte. "The high standards of protection afforded by the CNPA will help the national park to sustain its success as an important regional economic generator."
In the past, Gros Morne National Park's resources were protected using a variety of applicable federal and provincial legislation. It is therefore expected that applying the consolidated regulations of the CNPA will serve to simplify the management of the national park.
The Parks Canada Agency's goal has always been to ensure a smooth transition to the CNPA. Visitors will notice very little difference, and residents should find that the new regulations closely mirror those they have been used to all along.
Commitments outlined under the Federal-Provincial Park Establishment Agreement that permit eligible residents to engage in the domestic harvesting of timber and snowshoe hare, and to snowmobile, will continue to be recognized.
Parks Canada has worked closely with the park users and residents to address any changes. During public consultations held on fishing regulations in January 2004, for example, the Agency highlighted that recreational fishing would now fall under national park regulations and that permits will be necessary to fish for both trout and salmon on scheduled waters.
Working with a community committee, Parks Canada is planning a series of celebrations with local residents to mark the introduction of the CNPA. Evening events are being planned in three locations of the national park region in late October.
The spirit of the Act will provide greater protection for Gros Morne National Park for generations to come. The CNPA, assented in 2000, states "The national parks of Canada are hereby dedicated to the people of Canada for their benefit, education and enjoyment, subject to this Act and the regulations, and the parks shall be maintained and made use of so as to leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations..."


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