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Literary Spotlight with Sue Burge. Featuring Jean Atkin
Posted bydarcie friesen hossack December 15, 2021 January 12, 2022 Posted inUncategorized
JEAN ATKIN – THE UNCHAINED POET
This month I'm very excited to catch up (at a run!) with Jean Atkin, a poet I've always admired for her energy, optimism and unique way of looking at the world. For Jean, writing is not about sitting at a desk, it's about engagement with the external environment in profound and far-reaching ways. Jean lives in a beautiful area of the UK and our conversation brought me a welcome breath of different country air (I live on the opposite side of the UK) in these locked down times where travel has become taboo.
Jean, I always associate you with quite quirky projects! I remember at a conference doing a falconry handling session followed by a poetry workshop on the experience with you. What is the most unusual workshop you have run to date?
I do love a bit of quirk, and I definitely remember the falconry experience! Nothing is quite like the thump of an owl landing on your writing arm. In the past, I've run a workshop on a beach and learned from some kids there how to creep up on a limpet; made and performed site-specific poetry to particular Shropshire trees; and made poems with a village community high on their local Iron Age hillfort. One of the weirdest and most curious was a series of public workshops I led in Ludlow Museum Resources Centre. I called it 'Writing in the Museum Vaults' and it involved unlocking, then exploring, the catalogued, bottled, and taxidermied past, all housed in padlocked basement climate-controlled stores. Perhaps the strangest and most downright unnerving was writing in the eerie Fluids Room, where pale creatures float in alcohol in glass jars in the half-light.
One of your recent roles was Troubadour of the Hills, a Poet-in-Residence role. Could you talk a bit more about what the role entailed and what kind of writing it led to? I believe you've had quite a few residencies over the years. What were the highlights for you and do you have any tips for writers on how to secure interesting residencies? Residencies are very much two-way processes, aren't they? Do you have any thoughts on their mutual benefits?
Troubadour of the Hills was a really exciting residence for me. It was a project for Ledbury Poetry Festival and Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and aspired to bring the whole Malverns AONB to the attention of poets both young and old. So I ran workshops for local primary schools as well as for adults. We climbed up the Malvern Hills to write, but also had access to less-travelled places, so we workshopped under a vast cloud hedge in the grounds of a tucked-away Georgian mansion, and inside the floury clatter of a restored and working water mill. Part of the residency was a commission to write a poem for the project, and I tackled this by going for a walk – a long walk below and then up and along the high ridge of the Malverns. The resulting poem is 'One uncertain history of the Malverns' – you can read it here. And then a chance meeting led to this poem featuring on BBC Radio 4's Ramblings with Clare Balding – 'Walking a Poem on the Malverns'. So I got to meet Clare, and her lovely producer Karen Gregor, and managed to lose them both (just slightly) on a very cold January day in the woods below Raggedstone Hill. This residency also gave me the chance to work closely with Ledbury Poetry Festival, who were immensely supportive and inventive, so I found myself much involved with the Festival too. My Malverns poem is published in my second collection, 'How Time is in Fields' (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2019).
I've been lucky enough to undertake several residencies, and yes, I agree they really are two-way processes. I've learned to think clearly about what the collaborating site/organisation needs from a residency, as well as what I might hope to gain from it. Fortunately, I think these things usually overlap creatively. So I've made lots of poems with visitors, to help them to engage with places. I've found ways to display their work, for example on a Poet Tree at Logan Botanic Gardens in Scotland, and on a Poetry Fence at Acton Scott Historic Farm Museum. I've listened to lots of stories, helped people to write about them, and drawn my own inspirations from those experiences. A lot of it is finding ways to talk to people and give them confidence in their voice. Poetry is about joy, and finding it again even among sadness.
Finding residences is an imprecise art: I've applied for some (and not always successfully), and approached agencies with an idea for others, and then applied for the funding. This can be a very time-consuming process! But a residency can be a wonderful way of concentrating on work in a particular place, and growing new poetry – your own and other people's.
Your latest project is #lastcall which celebrates the run-down and abandoned red phone boxes which were once such a key part of our lives in the UK. Could you explain how you created this project and what the outcome will be? I've noticed lots of people posting photos of these phone-boxes on your Facebook feed with stories of what they have become (a toilet, a tiramisu vending machine, the smallest bookshop/bookswap).
For many years I've been photographing red phone boxes – in varying states of decay or resurrection. I happened to meet with Estelle Van Warmelo, director at Feral Productions in Herefordshire, and somehow regaled her with my red phone box obsession, and the belief that there had to be a project in there somewhere. And then Estelle, who is quite brilliant, managed to find a way to make it happen. We've both been scouting for the right phone boxes (all in Herefordshire) and now I'm writing nine poems, one for each. So I visited each box, tugged open its door and struggled in (through the ivy in some cases). Then I wrote inside each box. I've also asked for stories and we've had a wonderful response. The poems attempt to put much of this richness together. Next, sound-artist Sophie Cooper will work on the poems and the boxes to create unique soundscapes (I have even been recording dialling tones for her on my phone). And finally, by this summer, Estelle will create micro-theatre productions for each box, which will be performed on site, to whatever audience happens along. Finally, these will be filmed and shared online too. So you can see the main thing is our devotion to the idea of a very particular, site-specific, cross-arts project!
#LastCall is all about the human need to communicate, and the distance between us. It's about the last voice on the line in a rusting rural phone box before disconnection. It turns out to have a lot of resonance in this awful, distanced year. We've found so much affection for the iconic red phone box, beautiful when freshly painted, still beautiful in dereliction.
Just possibly, by July, we may manage to invite a real (socially distanced, masked and more or less vaccinated) audience out to hear poems, watch films, eat cake and generally revel in Britain's red phone boxes!
I know you often work on collaborative projects. What has been your favourite to date and what kind of work did it inspire?
Over the last year, I've been working on a personal project inspired by a rare and strange book, 'The Shropshire Word Book', published in 1879 and only available in an obscure facsimile edition. It's packed with dialect words and phrases collected in Shropshire in the 1870s. I love words. I took a selection of them and wrote a dozen poems, and as they came together, I realised this was a pamphlet that needed a really excellent Shropshire-based artist too. So I've been collaborating with Katy Alston, whose illustrations perfectly capture another century, its folklore and its common experiences. Her work has helped bring the world of words like 'mommets', 'buts and feerings', 'shalligonaked' and 'fan-peckled' to life. Truly, we've had an absolute ball.
The pamphlet 'Fan-peckled', is published by Shropshire-based Fair Acre Press on 2 April 2021.
'Fan-peckled' is truly gorgeous, my copy has just arrived and I'm revelling in it!
Jean, when I read your work, I tend to think of you as a nature poet, would you think of yourself in this way? How has your poetry changed over the years?
Well, I can see why you think of me as a nature poet: much of my work is set in the natural world, or draws on it. It's what I know best – I grew up in rural south Cumbria, and have mostly lived in rural places since. However, I think I'm rather more a poet of place, because what really draws me is the sense of connection we have to places, across time and sometimes, across species. So I find I'm excited to write about the residues of other lives in place, and perceived/found/imagined fragments of other thoughts and emotions. I've written about farms, factories, paths, patios and badger setts. And I write about people too, their stories, the decisions they make. What is real to us, and what's not. And at the moment I'm writing about those red phone boxes! I'm intrigued by how we, now, make contact with the past and its people and places. It's about listening, and empathy, and imagination. I think it's important, because place, and the past, is where we've all come from, and if we know that, and have a feel for it, we can change the future. Change is very interesting in poetry, and poetry can be a voice for change.
I think that when I'm writing now, I'm quicker to discard things than I was fifteen years ago. Just occasionally, I manage to recycle good bits into something else – but I've made my peace with sometimes just abandoning something which is rather good, but not useful where it is. And I think my pleasure in rhyme is increasing, and becoming more subtle, as time goes on.
That's interesting, I really like your thoughts on what it means to be a poet of place.
I've so enjoyed this conversation, Jean! To conclude, what advice would you give to poets who want to celebrate their local environment? How can they give their poetry a different spin?
Get out there and explore it! Be obsessed. Take a little notebook and pencil and write down without judgement whatever occurs to you at the time. Also, listen to people, seek out stories, do some research. Find old photographs. Read novels. Read poems. Draw maps. Draw. Find something that fascinates you and focus on it.
I think I like little projects that end in a pamphlet best. Imagine new ways to lead the reader into your project and your environment – words, maps, paths, tales. Consider collaborating with someone – a photographer, an artist, another writer. Enjoy yourself.
That's brilliant advice Jean, thank you! What's next for you in terms of books and projects?
I have a busy year ahead, with 'Fan-peckled' coming out from Fair Acre Press in April, and then later on, in September, another pamphlet which will be published by Indigo Dreams. This one is 'The Bicycles of Ice and Salt', and tells of long journeys I made by bicycle in winter, nearly 40 years ago.
Beyond those, I'm working towards my third collection. I'm also mentoring emerging poets, and leading online poetry courses on The Poetry Wire, which I created so course participants can share their work and responses with me and each other.
Jean Atkin's latest book is 'Fan-peckled', a collaborative pamphlet with artist/illustrator Katy Alston, published by Fair Acre Press. 'Fan-peckled' is based on the lost old words of Shropshire. Jean's 2019 collection 'How Time is in Fields' (IDP) has been widely and warmly reviewed. Also in 2019 she was Troubadour of the Hills for Ledbury Poetry Festival, and BBC National Poetry Day Poet for Shropshire. Her poetry has featured on BBC Radio 4, and recent work in Agenda, The Moth and The Rialto. Another pamphlet 'The Bicycles of Ice and Salt' is forthcoming from Indigo Dreams Publishing in late 2021. www.jeanatkin.com
Sue Burge
Sue Burge is a poet and freelance creative writing and film studies lecturer based in North Norfolk in the UK. She worked for over twenty years at the University of East Anglia in Norwich teaching English, cultural studies, film and creative writing and was an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing with the Open University. Sue is an experienced workshop leader and has facilitated sessions all over the world, working with a wide range of people – international students, academics, retired professionals from all walks of life, recovering addicts, teenagers and refugees. She has travelled extensively for work and pleasure and spent 2016 blogging as The Peripatetic Poet. She now blogs as Poet by the Sea. In 2016 Sue received an Arts Council (UK) grant which enabled her to write a body of poetry in response to the cinematic and literary legacy of Paris. This became her debut pamphlet, Lumière, published in 2018 by Hedgehog Poetry Press. Her first full collection, In the Kingdom of Shadows, was published in the same year by Live Canon. Sue's poems have appeared in a wide range of publications including The North, Mslexia, Magma, French Literary Review, Under the Radar, Strix, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter's House, The Ekphrastic Review, Lighthouse and Poetry News. She has featured in themed anthologies with poems on science fiction, modern Gothic, illness, Britishness, endangered birds, WWI and the current pandemic. Her latest pamphlet, The Saltwater Diaries, was published this Autumn (2020) by Hedgehog Poetry Press. More information at www.sueburge.uk
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I could use some help, as I am stuck. I have made it down to the basement and cleared all the rooms I could get to. (all southern rooms). There are still three doors on the northern wall I can not open, pick or blow open. I have also pressed in a switch in one central room. The far right northern locked door is in the middle of the area, next to the bathrooms, the middle locked door is in a room with a vat, and the far left locked door is against the nothtern wall again in a far left hallway. I have searched for a key and also tried my key cards. NO LUCK here.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I hear tons of noises coming from the other side.
You need to have Trevor or somone really high in lockpicking AND electonics. Then you need the best lockpicking equipment (Grumm eletronics store, make sure you don't steal anything).
thanks for the fast help. I need to clarify a bit. I have been using Nails for locking picking the whole game and he is up to just a point or so below Trevor's stats, but I am not sure what you mean by strong in electronics as well as mechanical/dexterity. What skill would electroinics be? Also, the electronics shop in Grumm fixes electroinc things, but does not sell anything. All I have for lockpicking is a lockpicking kit. Have I missed something better?
He is saying the merc needs to have electronics as a specialty , mercs i know that have that are Trevor , Lynx , Gumpy and maybe Red . Nails just has lockpicking as a specialty afaik . Those doors in the basement are electronic therefore they require an electronics specialist . The specialist will need high mech to pick the lock , therefore hire Trvor if you really want that door open . As far as equipment , you just need the lockpicks .
Thanx for clarifying that for me as its been a while since I last was in Orta! Will have to dust off JA2 again when I get a new pair of HD's as my Raid is on its way out!
There are keycards in the security center (the middle room containing 2 or 3 elites) or possibly on the elites themselves. However, there is a locked door on the far left side that is very difficult to open.
Normally you get the scientist in the basement to open the locked door on the left side. You can do this by threatening him a lot with a high level merc.
Barry has lockpicking/electronics skills so he is just as good as Trevor (if you train him up that is) but is a lot cheaper.
I've heard it said that you can kick in the unpickable doors if you have the patience of Job. Just keep kicking, rotating your mercs when they get winded, until the door opens. I've tried this on other doors (it works) but not on that Orta door.
Somebody claimed that you can use a LAW to blast your way in. The trick is to aim at the wall beside the door rather than the door itself. I think I tried that but it didn't work for me.
I'll dig up this old thread. I'm just playing (the mod) Night Ops and am in Orta. Already upstairs was frustrating, because two opponents were hidden behind unopenable doors so I needed all my explosives to get to them (and the basement). Because you can't talk to the guy whom you have to bribe for him to open the doors while opponents are still alive.
In the basement I have the same problem - at least one opponent is hidden behind that unopenable door, hence I can't threaten the other scientist either. Barry is there (dex 91/mec 91) but can't lockpick the door. Having run out of explosives I placed a mortar shell, a couple of 40 mm grenades, a couple of RPG grenades and everything else explosive right in front/next to the door and it blows up nicely, doesn't leave a scratch, though. Do I just forget about it?
Found one keycard but that didn't work either.
I am not super sure but I don't think any of the Orta keycards (or keys) help with the door, I believe the old guy at the junk yard in Estoni may have the right keycard.
I usually just annoy the scientist, he will eventually open the door to shut me up, it works every time.
I heard that the lock is special, un-pick-able. I tried picking it but never succeeded, not even with mechanical at 99 and electronics.
Yeah, I know about the guy in Estoni. Though I think his card is only good for opening the door on the ground floor, not for the basement.
Anyway, I solved it! I had one last hope - going back upstairs and then downstairs again and the guy appears somewhere else. And he did, I killed him and then bullied the scientist into opening that final door. It appears that the door cannot be opened any other way.
And all you get is a bunch of rocket rifles with no fingerprint IDs and some ammo for them. Usually my guys are running around with rifle lam attachments on their sniper rifles and ARs by that time, bummer.
Next Topic: Is there a complete weapon list available?


To dream of a backpack represents self-sufficiency. An area of your life where you are doing something on your own. It may also reflect problems that you have to deal with all by yourself. Doing your own thing.
A backpack may also represent hopes, desires, and secrets that you don't wish to tell anyone about.
Example: A woman dreamed of hiding a laptop in her backpack. In real life she was making plans to see a concert that her boyfriend didn't want to see. The backpack reflects her willingness to "go it alone" and make plans for the concert anyway.


The 2018 IPA International Publishers Congress in New Delhi was a resounding success. Below you can see blog posts, articles, press releases and videos from the three-day congress.
Can awards, such as the IPA's Prix Voltaire, make a difference to the situation of Freedom to Publish defenders? How can we tackle self-censorship? The sessions answering those questions and the Prix Voltaire award ceremony took congress delegates on an emotional rollercoaster.
Intellectual Property was a central feature of the programme at the 2018 IPA International Publishers Congress in New Delhi, including two fascinating sessions: Shaping the Future of Intellectual Property in Publishing and Responding to Copyright Challenges.
The 32nd International Publishers Congress opens on 10th February with over 300 delegates expected from India and across the world. The Congress includes the award ceremony for the 2018 IPA Prix Voltaire and will feature a full programme of sessions covering burning issues affecting publishers and the publishing sector.
IPA President, Michiel Kolman, spoke to the Copyright Clearance Center's Chris Kennealy in the run up to this year's International Publishers Congress.
Two of the world's foremost influencers in the intellectual property (IP) sphere will trade views on how publishers can plan for the future of copyright during a headline debate at the 32nd International Publishers Congress, in New Delhi, in February 2018.
On 10–14 February 2018, publishing stakeholders from the four corners of the globe will come together for the 32nd International Publishers Congress, at the Taj Palace Palace hotel, in New Delhi, under the theme Shaping the future: innovation meets experience.


As a kid, Nate Magnusson always wanted to be an architect.
Growing up in Tempe, Arizona, Magnusson was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, and had opportunities to explore several of his commercial, institutional and residential projects.
"Those early experiences helped sharpen my vision for design," he said.
Although he still has a love for architecture, Magnusson appreciates being a landscape architect.
"Now, working on projects from all shapes and sizes, I'm able to see the communities who benefit from our hard work and dedication to elevate the public and private spaces throughout San Diego and Southern California," he said.
As one of the younger presidents of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), San Diego chapter, Magnusson has brought passionate energy to the 40-year-old chapter and is helping to formulate its reputation as one of the most active of the organization's 50 chapters in the country.
Magnusson first joined ASLA in 2011, serving as vice president of community outreach. This year he has been serving as president and when his term ends, he will continue on as immediate past-president and said he'll still be heavily involved in the chapter's future.
As president, Magnusson co-chaired the ASLA 38th annual golf tournament on Sept. 11. In addition to raising $5,000 for their community grant, he challenged the members to raise an additional $3,000 for the 9/11 Memorial in New York City, which they did.
Following Magnusson's encouragement for the ASLA to collaborate with San Diego's American Institute of Architects (AIA), the two associations are doing a joint holiday meeting/gala in December for the first time.
Magnusson is a senior project manager at Schmidt Design Group (with headquarters on Sixth Avenue in Downtown San Diego), where he's worked for the past 11 years.
Notable projects he has managed include Stone Brewery World Bistro and Gardens in Escondido, which won the 2007 Orchid, and ASLA San Diego President's 2009 awards; Stone Brewery World Bistro and Gardens at Liberty Station, San Diego, which won the People's Choice Orchid Award 2013; Civita Park, Mission Valley, San Diego; Lake Skinner Recreation Area, Winchester, California; Vive on the Park, San Diego, and Lux Art Institute, Encinitas.
Magnusson lives in La Mesa with his wife, Tatum, owner and jewelry designer of Love Tatum Jewelry, and their French bulldog, Dumpling. In his spare time, he enjoys surfing, drawing, painting, and experiencing new and delicious food.
Once his term is over, Magnusson plans to continue his involvement in shaping the future of the local ASLA chapter, along with shaping the future of his brand-new baby girl, Ever Aila Magnusson.
— Delle Willett has been a marketing and public relations professional for over 30 years, with an emphasis on conservation of the environment. She can be reached at dellewillett@gmail.com.


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You could literally spend days exploring the old city, with or without a camera. Besides the main streets there are miles of "callejones," winding and pedestrian-only alleyways that lead up Guanajuato's steep hillsides.
While most of Guanajuato's houses cling to the hills, much of its vehicular traffic is funneled under the old city in a unique network of tunnels.
The first of these tunnels was dug to channel the river underground after a calamitous flood in the early 20th century.
Emerging for the first time from one of these tunnels into the old city — via taxi from nearby León-Guanajuato airport or from the bus station — is like going back in time.
Among the hundreds of prominent historic buildings are the Mexican Baroque-style Guanajuato Basilica, which dates from 1671, and the imposing neoclassical Alhóndiga de Granaditas, built circa 1800.
Over the years the fortress-like Alhóndiga has functioned as a granary, a prison and, since the late 1950s, a museum. Today it houses a notable collection of pre-Columbian artifacts, murals by Jose Chavez Morado, and exhibits honoring heroes of Mexico's independence.
In 1810, aided by a brave miner known as "El Pípila," rebels led by Father Miguel Hidalgo won an initial victory against the Spanish holed up in the Alhóndiga de Granaditas. Hidalgo and other independence leaders were later hunted down, executed and, in a grisly warning to other revolutionaries, their heads dangled from the four corners of the building.
While in Guanajuato try to take in a performance at the Teatro Juárez, the cultural heart of the city. The theater features a mix of architectural styles — from its neoclassical facade topped by bronze statues of eight of the Greek muses to its Moorish inspired main hall. It attracts top Mexican performing artists such as Grammy Award-winning pop singer Natalia Lafourcade.
The Teatro Juárez is also ground zero for Guanajuato's international arts festival, held every October, to honor the legacy of Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixote" and regarded as the Spanish-speaking world's William Shakespeare.
The theater had a starring role in director Peter Greenaway's 2015 art house film "Eisenstein in Guanajuato." Watch the trailer on YouTube. Speaking of movies, the Pixar's Oscar-winning animated film "Coco" was reportedly partly inspired by the look and landmarks of Guanajuato.
Guanajuato boasts a fine symphony orchestra, affiliated with the University of Guanajuato, which plays Friday evenings at the Teatro Juárez, the nearby Teatro Principal and at other venues.
Music is everywhere in Guanajuato. The pavilion in the Jardin de la Unión near the Teatro Juárez hosts weekly concerts by a booming brass band. The restaurants that line the triangular square attract dueling mariachi groups. Buskers work the main streets and sometimes drop in at restaurants and cafes.
Near the Teatro Juarez youthful singers and musicians dressed in 15th century costumes play period instruments, dance, tell jokes and stories before taking groups of visitors on nightly singing tours of the city's "callejones." These groups are a spinoff of the nearly 50-year-old Festival Internacional Cervantino.
Nearby there's a statue to native son Jorge Negrete, the beloved Mexican singer and movie star.
Guanajuato was also the birthplace of muralist Diego Rivera, husband of artist Frida Kahlo. Rivera's family home has been preserved as a museum and there's a life-size statue of him on a sidewalk nearby.
The city's central market, the Mercado Hidalgo, built in 1910, is worth a visit. Browse its produce and meat sections, haggle over souvenirs and order a bargain-price meal at one of its many food stalls.
Just to the north of the old city you can don a hard hat and descend into the Valenciana mine. The steep, uneven stairs and humid, claustrophobic tunnels will make you feel for the plight of the miners who extracted those mineral riches (for a time in the 18th century Guanajuato was the world's leading producer of silver). At the nearby Valenciana Church the enormous Baroque altar is gilded with gold.
To get a glimpse of how the "1 percent" lived when Spain controlled Guanajuato and the rest of Mexico visit the Ex-Hacienda San Gabriel de Barrera with its grand adobe house and themed gardens. It's a short taxi ride from the old city.
There are several places near Guanajuato worthy of day trips.
León, Mexico's "leather capital," is less than an hour away and the sprawling leather market (great bargains on shoes, purses and jackets) is right next to the bus station.
San Miguel de Allende, 90 minutes by car or bus, is known for its food and art scene. American author Tony Cohan wrote his popular memoir, "On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel," about restoring a 250-year-old hacienda in the 16th century hill town. Cohan now lives in Guanajuato.
Guanajuato has restaurants ranging from humble houses to fancy three-star establishments with attentive service. You can find everything from street tacos to nouvelle Mexican cuisine — not to mention pizza, sushi and hamburgers.
Daughter with order of marlin tacos with blue corn tortillas and her first Michelada, a spicy combo of beer, lime, and tomato juice.
Like Mexico City, Guanajuato supports a vibrant street food scene. It's worth hitting the cobblestones and sampling the tamales, gorditas, ice cream, horchata and grilled ears of corn slathered in mayonnaise and dusted with chili powder. Try it, you'll probably like it. Unlike a trip to Cabo or Cancun you probably won't come home with a suntan (or a sunburn!) after a stay in Guanajuato. But you will return with pictures and memories of a place that truly evokes romantic southern Europe — and you can get there and back without the jet lag and for a lot less than you'd spend on a trip to Spain or Italy.


On our 400 m² EGGER booth at the BAU fair 2017 in Munich, distributors, joiners and architects were introduced to our innovations from the Furniture and Interior Design, Flooring, and Wood Construction divisions.
The highlight was definitely the launch of the new EGGER Decorative Collection 2017-2019. It includes decor and surface innovations as well as an expanded product and services offer for retail, handcraft, and architecture. With 300 decors, a service-oriented product offering, and a set of matching decors and materials, we provide a concept for a quick, reliable and successful system.
Next to the popular EGGER Laminate Flooring and Cork+ Flooring we introduced the new flooring category EGGER Design+ Flooring. The floor's cover layer is made of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU). With a material thickness of only 5 mm, authentic decors, high resistance, high shape stability and the SelfRepair effect, this type of flooring is particularly well-suited for public and commercial use.
The Ergo Board expands EGGER's building products offer. The versatile, ergonomic construction board only weighs eleven kilograms and was developed especially for indoor dry construction. In addition, we showed a terrace decking board called EGGER Thermodecking made of domestic pine. Thermal treatment reduces its susceptibility to insects and fungi. This means that the durability of the boards reaches an impressive 15-25 years.
Immerse yourself in the fair topics again and enjoy our short movie and pictures from the EGGER booth.


San Diego's Comic Con brought us some of the most highly-anticipated trailers and announcements. One of the most captivating trailers was that of Season 9 of The Walking Dead, treating viewers to an almost six-minute preview filled with clues.
One of the most revealing moments shows Michonne picking up Grimes' bloodied bat after an intense fight, most likely hinting at the moment of his death. We're anxiously awaiting the upcoming season's October 7 premiere.


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New Flexible Ultrathin Organic Solar Cell Is Both Highly Efficient and Durable
By Crystal Jones on March 9, 2020
Stock photo depicting a flexible solar cell.
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science have succeeded, in collaboration with international partners, in creating an ultrathin organic solar cell that is both highly efficient and durable. Using a simple post-annealing process, they created a flexible organic cell that degrades by less than 5 percent over 3,000 hours in atmospheric conditions and that simultaneously has an energy conversion ratio — a key indicator of solar cell performance — of 13 percent.
Organic photovoltaics are considered to be a promising alternative to silicon-based conventional films, being more environmentally friendly and cheap to produce. Ultrathin flexible solar cells are particularly attractive, as they could provide large power per weight and be used in a variety of useful applications such as powering wearable electronics and as sensors and actuators in soft robotics. However, ultrathin organic films tend to be relatively efficient, typically having an energy conversion ratio of around 10 to 12 percent, significantly lower than the ratio in silicon cells, which can be as high as 25 percent, or of rigid organic cells, which can be up to around 17 percent. Ultrathin films also tend to degrade rapidly under the influence of sunlight, heat, and oxygen. Researchers are trying to create ultrathin films that are both energy efficient and durable, but it is often a difficult tradeoff.
In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the group succeeded in showing that an ultrathin cell can be both durable and efficient. The group began with a semiconductor polymer for the donor layer, developed by Toray Industries, Inc., and experimented with a new idea, of using a non-fullerene acceptor, increasing the thermal stability. On top of this, they experimented with a simple post-annealing process, where the material was heated to 150 degrees Celsius after an initial annealing at 90 degrees. This step proved to be critical in increasing the durability of device by creating a stable interface between the layers.
According to Kenjiro Fukuda, one of the authors of the study, "By combining a new power generation layer with a simple post-annealing treatment, we have achieved both high energy conversion efficiency and long-term storage stability in ultra-thin organic solar cells. Our research shows that ultra-thin organic solar cells can be used to supply high power in a stable way over long periods of time, and can be used even under severe conditions such as high temperature and humidity. I very much hope that this research will contribute to the development of long-term stable power supply devices that can be used in wearable electronics such as sensors attached to clothes."
Reference: 9 March 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919769117
The research was led by RIKEN researchers and done in collaboration with researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of California at Santa Barbara, and Monash University.
Source: SciTechDaily
Published in energy, RIKEN, Solar Cells and Technology
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She stood in front of the abandoned house with chipped paint, broken windows and ghosts of her past. A stone lay at her feet and she longed to pick it up and hurl it at the house where she had spent some of the most miserable and lonely years of her life. The day she had left the orphanage her foster parents had promised her that she would never return. Yet twenty years later by a twist of fate, she had turned up at the very same house.
Arriana's parents died in a car accident when she had only been seven years old. She had memories of her mother's laughter and her father's soothing voice which would come alive in her dreams at night. Every morning she would wake up with tears in her eyes; every day she'd pray that her parents would magically return but they never did. Her only living relative was her father's brother who didn't even turn up for the funeral. Subsequently, Arriana was shifted to the orphanage and told that this was her new home.
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Her new home was shared by fifty other children and five stern matrons who never hesitated to use their firm hand on any child who misbehaved in their dictionary. Meals were provided sparingly and tasted edible only in conditions of starvation. One day after Ariana accidentally broke a vase she was told that her parents had left her because she had been a disobedient and a naughty child. That night she was deprived of dinner, so she went to bed and cried herself to sleep with an empty stomach and a heavy heart.
Three forlorn years went by in which Arriana learnt to keep her spirits up despite the gloominess that was a perpetual part of the orphanage. Finally, one day, as if by magic a couple came who decided to adopt Arriana. They had kind eyes that reminded Arriana of her parents. From that day onwards her nightmare ended and she learnt to put the past behind her. Twenty years later Arriana chanced upon the now abandoned building while driving in a distant part of town. She stood before it for a few moments and said a silent prayer for both her real parents and her foster parents. Then she turned to go, shoving the memories of the orphanage into oblivion where they belonged.
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Don't ask British blues guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor what it's like to be a female guitarist. She does not believe that it requires special equipment. "My ovaries don't affect my guitar playing," she said.
Indeed, not. The 33-year old has been called the "new face of the blues;" the woman with the big voice from the Black Country of England has been rocking since she was a teen. Her debut album, White Sugar, released in 2009, and her sophomore album, Diamonds in the Dirt, from 2010, each went to No. 8 on the Billboard Top Blues Album charts. She has twice been named Best Female Vocalist at the British Blues Awards and was also named Songwriter of the Year there.
Taylor's father was a guitar player who loved country-style blues. Her older brother was into rock and metal. Taylor played acoustic guitar and was trained in the classical style, performing with the Birmingham Youth Ensemble. That changed when she was 12 or 13. "The electric guitar seems far sexier than the classical world," she said.
Taylor also discovered the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan. "I come from the disciplined classical world," she said "Stevie Ray Vaughan was technically brilliant, but he was able to inject so much of himself. He was the gateway artist for a lot of players of my generation. He had huge, four-minute songs and a smooth, lovely voice with well-played guitar."
Taylor left school at 15 to pursue a career in music. She met Dave Stewart of the Eurhythmics that year and he became a mentor. "He was the first person to encourage me to sing and write songs," she said. "He saw me as more than an artist at that age, which was really big and added to my self-belief."
Stewart also set her on the path to songwriting that has stood her in such good stead. "He sent me a list of song titles," she said. "He'd tell me to send the lyrics. Up until then, I was trying to write the verse as one thing and the chorus off on a tangent. The song title gives me a framework. It's an early habit that stuck with me."
Another great influence was Joe Bonamassa, the legendary American blues guitarist, who also began his career at an early age. He has described Taylor as a "superstar in waiting." "He's like a big brother," Taylor said. "I met him when I released my first album. I'd ask questions about day-to-day things and he made it a lot easier. You get thrown into (the business) and nobody tells you. I left school at 15 and had no idea how to book gigs and do contracts. I have really supportive parents, but without Dave and Joe, I would be a very different artist."
Taylor's latest album, Reckless Heart, is a follow-up to her Top 20 hit, "Wild." She's in great form in what amounts to an album of firsts: first album made in her adopted hometown of Detroit, first produced by her close friend, Al Sutton, the first largely recorded live and the first to feature an unplugged solo performance and, by chance, a passing train. It's also an album that pulls the past into the present, with vintage British blues-rock given a modern makeover, while her most powerful vocals take their cue from the gritty soul greats, Aretha, Tina and Mavis Staples, she was raised on. Reckless Heart was nominated as Best Blues Rock Album for the 2020 Blues Music Award.
"Al's always said he wanted to make more of a live album with me," Taylor said. "Why? Because that's how he likes me, as a raw, aggressive guitarist." They began working on the album at Sutton's Rust Belt Studios. No guitar pedals were used in the making of Reckless Heart: they went straight to amps for a simple, raw sound that encouraged Taylor to be more open in her songwriting. She evoked Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart, as well as the soul singers her mother introduced her to.
"A big difference with 'Reckless Heart' is that I'm revealing more of my soul influences," Taylor said. "I'm a blues guitarist, but I've always considered myself a soul singer. Growing up, I listened to a lot of blues guitarists - all of them men. When I decided to sing as well as play, I knew I'd never sound like them, so it was Aretha and Tina I turned to. This is easily my most soulful album, and that's definitely to do with getting older - listen to me, I'm only 33! Also, quitting smoking, which I did last year, has changed my voice. The better singer I am, the more capable I am of doing different styles of songs."
For her Lyric show, Taylor said she'll have her three-piece band and play a mix of her albums. "There will be blues, with plenty of guitar solos and a bizarre British accent," she said.
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What's stopping us building schools using off-site techniques?
Anyone with an interest in the education sector couldn't have missed Scape's recent report warning that we need 2,122 new schools by 2020. With this equating to us building two new schools a day, it's no surprise the report has put the industry in panic mode.
With funding unlikely to rise significantly, it's clear that for speed, cost and quality reasons we need to build using off-site techniques - or to use the received term: modular.
While public opinion has gone through the wringer on modular school buildings, recently a much more positive outlook has taken hold. Schools like Lime Tree Primary Academy have shown us that modular schools can be bespoke, look beautiful, and have an incredible impact on the students and teachers who use them.
So what's stopping us from building 2,122 new modular schools in the next four years? For me there are three things getting in the way.
First, the key to making modular build efficient is volume. We need to start looking at schools as regional programmes of work. When schools are bundled together we can better manage how resources are used, components are replicated, and implement lessons learned.
The second issue is finding the land to build all these new schools. It's not that the land to build doesn't exist. Loads of organisations are actively looking to sell off underused land, from TfL and Network Rail to the MoD. What's missing is our ability to identify where these parcels of land are and where they're best placed to deliver a new school(s). And then once they're identified, working quickly to get the land ready to be built on.
Finally, the flipside of building larger volumes of modular schools is our capacity to do so. Does the UK market really have the capacity to deliver two new schools a day? Honestly, I don't know if we do. But we have to remember, we're not the only country doing modular build. There are factories overseas capable of producing modular components in much larger quantities than we can in the UK. And what's more there may be investors out there willing to fund the delivery of these schools, so that we pay them off over time and don't fall over the hurdle of funding over 2,000 new schools ourselves on a diminishing short-term budget.
So if we want to make sure the 729,000 additional pupils local authorities estimate we'll have in education by 2020 have somewhere to learn, we shouldn't scratch our heads for new ways of doing things. We just need to look at a delivery model that is already working - modular build - and find ways of refining quality and scaling-up capacity.


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Q: My android's files don't show on the computer I am making an app that stores a WAV file.  It makes a folder in external storage on my phone and then stores it.  It does this successfully.  However when I plug in my phone to the computer via USB on MTP, the folder and any files made by my application don't show.  What should I do?
I cannot use the following code because my API min cannot support DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS.  Is the trick to making them viewable on the computer just changing the filepath?  If so, what should I enter for the file path? :
protected String mDir = Environment.DIRECTORY_DOCUMENTS;
protected File mPath = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(mDir);

protected void writeLogFile(String filename) {
    File f = new File(mPath, filename + ".txt");
    f.getParentFile().mkdirs();
    try (BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(f, false))) {

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    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return;
    }
    makeText("Wrote " + f.getAbsolutePath());
}

A: Clear the media storage cache from settings and then restart your phone . It occurs frequently over USB connection as the database has not been refreshed .

A: All I needed to do was restart my phone and re-plug it in.

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Take a look at the news on SOA in 2011and get a forecast on application development for 2012.
SearchSOA.com has taken a look back on the application development industry in 2011 and what our related stories have indicated for the market in 2012. Some key topics include ESBs and integration, cloud computing, application modernization, DevOps and the still very much alive SOA.
As we come to a new year, we come to budgeting and portfolio analysis time for many IT leaders. It is time for a look at mainframe legacy issues that are usually overlooked in the day-to-day running of a technology portfolio. In the coming year the tenor of application modernization efforts may change, as overall business transformation takes on greater importance. There is little question that the on-going ''Webification'' of business is a factor to consider when reviewing your software assets.
While replacing skilled Cobol team members is an issue, it is no longer the most striking issue for the legacy app today. The bigger problem is that, in relation to new Web applications, the legacy platform seems rigid and hard to change. Here are some tips from the pages of SearchSOA.com. Read more.
The enterprise service bus (ESB) is something that has clearly 'arrived.' The trend has been afoot for awhile, and shows few signs of slowing. According to IDC analyst Maureen Fleming, enterprise spending on ESBs grew 17% in 2010. That is "robust compared with almost all other classes of enterprise software," she said.
Although many implementations are tactical and used to connect applications, the use of Web services with ESBs is also very common, according to Fleming. 2011 was also a year of growth and development for the ESB, as open source versions came more into play, vendors added features including improved data integration capabilities and people used ESBs more as a part of REST and mobile deployments. Read more.
Improving the hand-off of work from development to operations is an age-old goal. It came into new focus in 2011 under the banner of "DevOps." It has always been the case that packaging and scripting software to run on hardware has consumed lots of project time. That time looks out of balance as other parts of the cycle shrink.
It has often been the case that developers ''throw it over the wall'' – delivering software that runs on their machines but fails in the data center. As the push to quickly launch Web applications accelerates, the undue time it takes to get new applications and integrations running right begins to grate on all the parties involved. So the problem gets a new name – ''DevOps'' – and, in the year just passed, new attention. Read more.
This past year saw SOA application gateways adding functionality just as they have over the past few years. As SOA becomes a mainstream trend and Web applications grow, SOA application gateway use and expansion continues. As we enter a new year, there is a ''broader way of thinking" about these gateways, said Randy Heffner, principal analyst, Forrester.
The overlapping functionality of SOA application gateways presents difficulties for those trying to draw clear boundaries between appliances, according to Heffner. Gateways now typically provide a targeted subset of integration functionality for security, acceleration and attack protection. Heffner said the SOA application gateway is now providing a focused, policy-based SOA control point. Read more.


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#Japan's LINE to Launch #BITBOX Exchange, South Korea Publishes New Regulations, #Huobi Expands to London and #Binance Opening in Uganda
Japan's LINE to Launch BITBOX Exchange, South Korea Publishes New Regulations, Huobi Expands to London and Binance Opening in Uganda
Japanese messaging app, LINE, announced today plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange called BITBOX. The exchange is set to launch in July 2018 and will be available internationally except in Japan and the U.S. The announcement boasts that BITBOX will offer "at least 30 different cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC)" and "15 languages except Japanese".
South Korea's top financial regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has published a new set of guidelines as a regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges. Focusing on anti-money laundering (AML), the guidelines highlight the principles of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) and Enhanced CDD (EDD).
The financial company should confirm the identity information such as the real name of the counterparty of the financial transaction (confirmation of the customer), and if the customer is concerned about the money laundering activity, the transaction purpose and fund source should be additionally confirmed Confirmed customer)
Chinese crypto exchange giant Huobi will be expanding to London and has confirmed over-the-counter (OTC) trading to start in Q3 of this year, according to a report on Cointelegraph. Following the lead of exchanges like Binance, Huobi has made expansion into Europe one of its top priorities.
"London was selected as the first office in Europe, due to its preeminence as a global financial center and the largest cryptocurrency trading centre in the region with an active blockchain community and fast developing market," the exchange wrote in praise of the local UK landscape.
In another exclusive with Cointelegraph, Changpeng Zhao, CEO and founder of Binance, has announced that the exchange giant will be expanding to Uganda. Zhao indicated the state of Ugandans relationship with banking and how it may be ideal for crypto adoption.
"Uganda [is a] really interesting situation, only 11 percent of the population has bank accounts. It's both a challenge and an opportunity. So it may be easier to adopt cryptocurrency as a form of currency instead of trying to push for bank adoption. It's an interesting experiment - Africa's a big market, that's why we're there."


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In cases such as a crack down the middle of your dentures or broken in two pieces down the middle of your dentures can usually be fixed in approximately 1 hour to 1 ½ hours.
In cases such as a tooth has fallen out of a denture, we can repair this for you in approximately 1 hour.
In cases such as a broken clasp on a partial denture (a clasp can usually be "hand- bent" to replace a clasp that has broken), this procedure normally takes roughly 2 hours.
It's always best to give a call to let us know you'll be coming in so that we can ensure we can provide accurate timelines for assistance.
Remember: Please do not attempt to do "at home" repairs. Glue between two pieces of a denture can alter the fit entirely making the denture repair much more expensive or almost impossible.
Assessment of what is fractured.
Mould/impression taken if necessary (if it is not a clean break, or if there is a piece of the appliance missing).
The patient is wearing a partial and has lost an additional natural tooth or needs clasp added.
Morning visit, assessment of natural dentition and partial denture, impression taken with denture in place. If soldering of mental retention is needed to hold additional tooth, the case is sent to a secondary laboratory. If not, we will complete lab work in our on-site laboratory.
Visit our F.A.Q's page for answers to our frequently asked questions.
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We Just Got Another Look at Princess Eugenie's Second Wedding Dress
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Posen's latest photo shows the princess in profile — but also shows off his dress's dramatic train. And in his Stories, he also showed a few more details, including the white rose embroidery that appeared on the dress's shoulders and train. The white rose is a symbol of Eugenie's family, the royal House of York.
"Happiest 2nd Anniversary dear Princess Eugenie & Jack! It was so special creating this gown for this wonderful moment in your life, being with you and the family on the magnificent magical day, I will remember forever," Posen wrote. "Wishing you both continued love and happiness always with your new baby angel on the way."
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Insider producer Celia Skvaril video chatted with Dr. Sanda Lee, aka Dr. Pimple Popper, to get her professional advice on how to pop a pimple at home. While Lee doesn't recommend that people pop their own pimples, pimple popping is a habit that many struggle to quit. With much of the world staying at home, people aren't seeing their dermatologists and estheticians regularly and may be fighting a higher-than-usual urge to pick at their skin. Lee offered her tips on how to best minimize the risk of scarring and further infection when popping your own pimples, like attempting to pop only superficial whiteheads and properly sterilizing the pimple and tools both before and after popping. Following Lee's tips, Celia attempted to pop her own whitehead at home. For more from Dr. Pimple Popper, visit: https://slmdskincare.com/ https://www.instagram.com/drpimplepopper/
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Posen previously shared a snapshot of the dress in progress, giving fans a behind-the-scenes look at how it all came together.
To commemorate the anniversary, Eugenie shared a sweet video montage to celebrate the anniversary, writing, "Been the best 2 years married to you and 10 years with you in total.. happy memories always my dear Jack."
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Merwin H. McConnell
Merwin Hoyt McConnell, age 86, passed peacefully on Thursday, Dec. 25th, 2014. In loving faith, he has now been reunited with his wife of 61 years, Janilyn whom he has missed so much since her passing in 2013. Merwin was born on March 9th, 1928. He excelled in athletics and earned a degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He joined the Air Force in 1948 and was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi. As Lieutenant Merwin H. McConnell, he married Janilyn S. Webber on July 5th,1952. He worked for Phillips Petroleum for nearly 40 years in Bartlesville, Oklahoma and Odessa, Texas before they moved overseas; first to London, England where he was a vice-president of the company. In 1980 Merwin and Janilyn moved to Stavanger, Norway for 12 years where he served as President and Managing Director of Phillips Petroleum Company Norway until his retirement. Moving back to the U.S., they settled in a home on Torch Lake where friends and family often gathered (Kewadin, near Traverse City, Michigan), and wintered in central Texas. They travelled extensively all over the world. Merwin and Janilyn were always active in the United Methodist Church and most recently were members of Kewadin United Methodist Church where Janilyn served as Deacon and Musical Director. Merwin always enjoyed singing, games of all types and especially outdoor pursuits such as golf, gardening, fishing, camping and boating. Merwin was known as a man of integrity, kindness, generosity and humility. He was deeply committed to his family and will be lovingly remembered by: his children Paul (Heather) McConnell, Richard McConnell, Cheryl (Clive) Gissing and his grandchildren Chad McConnell, Dillon McConnell, Joshua (Clare) Gissing, Christian Gissing and his great-grandchildren Tabitha Gissing and Casper Gissing. He is also survived by his three siblings: Margaret (Jere) Sutton, Janice Gore and John (Carol) McConnell, as well as Janilyn's sister and her husband, Beverly and Ed Moses. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Please feel free to share your memories with Merwin's family at www.reynolds-jonkoff.com The family is being served by Reynolds-Jonkoff Funeral home and Cremation Services. Merwin "Mac" McConnell 1928-2014
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Taco Festival takes over Frawley Stadium on Saturday
Delawareans looking to satisfy their Mexican cuisine cravings are in luck, as the inaugural Delaware Taco Festival kicks off Saturday morning at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington.
Taco Festival takes over Frawley Stadium on Saturday Delawareans looking to satisfy their Mexican cuisine cravings are in luck, as the inaugural Delaware Taco Festival kicks off Saturday morning at Frawley Stadium in Wilmington. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/28PoVi8
Jordan L. McBride, The News Journal Published 12:34 p.m. ET June 23, 2016
Saturday is your chance to do a taco tour of the area's restaurants.(Photo: Fudio, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
More than 30 vendors representing some of the area's most popular restaurants will have a presence at the family-friendly festival, which will run from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Ice cream, cotton candy, funnel cake and nachos will also be sold, as well as alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages.
After grubbing on tacos, attendees will be able to wash it all down at the festival's margarita bar and tequila tasting tent, which will feature over 40 different types of tequila sold either al a carte or in flights.
Festivalgoers who need a break from eating and drinking can relax listening to live music from a mariachi band and local act Chorduroy. Old-school arcade games and a mechanical bull will also be featured at the festival, but overly stuffed attendees should probably think twice before taking a spin on the bull.
A hot chili pepper eating contest will also take place during the festival, where pre-registered contestants will down as many peppers as they can in the hopes of winning over $300 in cash and prizes.
With everything that the festival has to offer, combined with the weekend's projected good weather, turnout is expected to be high. Over 3,300 people are expected to attend, according to Robert Brazas, marketing director at Flight Entertainment, one of the companies responsible for organizing the event. Tickets are still being sold online, and a limited amount will be sold at the door, but since festival attendance will be capped at 5,000 Brazas advises purchasing tickets sooner than later.
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Among the local restaurants participating in the event are El Toro, Jalapeno Grill, Mexican Post and Anejo Mexico Grill & Tequila Bar. Although Delaware may not be widely known for its tacos, Brazas said that there are plenty of restaurants across the state producing quality versions.
"Delaware currently has some of the area's best taco restaurants," he said, "and a lot of them pride themselves on having old-fashioned, authentic cooking, and that's what we would like to showcase."
Stefano Bono, the manager at Anejo, said that the Trolley Square eatery will be bringing two of their most popular tacos with them to the festival; a slow roasted pork taco paired with queso fresco and salsa verde, and a blackened shrimp taco topped with their house-made pineapple salsa.
Bono said that the taco festival is the perfect opportunity for Anejo to prove their legitimacy to the community.
"We're really excited to prove that we're not just a bar in Trolley Square," he said, adding that all of Anejo's dishes are made from scratch.
Another Wilmington restaurant making an appearance at the festival is 8th & Union Kitchen in Little Italy, who will bring tacos al pastor, said chef/owner Brian Ashby. Al pastor refers to pork cooked in dried chilies, spices and pineapple, and Ashby referred to combination as being both spicy and sweet.
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Brazas is confident the first-time festival will be a big crowd-pleaser.
"It's going to be 86 degrees, sunny, 3,000 happy people in one place," he said. "You really can't beat that."
Tickets to the festival are $40 for regular admission, which includes six full-size tacos, a free beverage, access to the hot chili pepper eating contest and a grab bag with over $100 in coupons and gift certificates. VIP tickets cost $60, and include everything that regular admission tickets get you, plus an additional hour of taco eating time, an extra two full-size tacos and a T-shirt. Children 12 years old and younger can attend for free.
Tickets can be purchased at http://www.delawaretacofest.com.
Contact Jordan McBride at (302) 324-2812, on Twitter @JordanLMcBride or jmcbride@delawareonline.com.
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So you've just built a new deck. What a wonderful extension to put on your home. Entertaining becomes an outdoor experience, you can have your morning coffee outside, barbecue and grill your dinners, and lounge in nature. A new deck is just like adding a room to your home, and should be treated as a new room.
But why should you put a fence around your deck? Well, most decks are raised off the ground. Even if they are just a step down, you or a guest could trip and get hurt. Putting a fence around your new deck is just good common sense. It is really a safety issue and should not be ignored just because you want a certain look to this new outdoor space.
There is also another reason to put a fence around your deck, and it is completely cosmetic. A deck doesn't really have a finished look without one. A fence is what defines the space of this new "room," and makes it look complete.
Also fences can be as elaborate or simple as you want them to be. They can give your new deck either a casual or more elegant feel. Think of the fence as a piece of jewelry, a kind of trimming, or an accessory, something that tops off the appearance of your new deck. It works to give the space a certain atmosphere, and can be an extension of the inside of your home's decor, or be something new, different and a little out of the box.
Putting a fence around your deck is not only good for safety's sake, but also good for making your new deck feel complete and finished. A fence's style says a lot about you, and the fence is really the thing that defines your style.


The new year brings a new opportunity to define and execute the best digital and ERP software strategy for your organization. Wherever you might be in your ERP implementation lifecycle or digital transformation journey, there are always better ways to mitigate risk and increase the likelihood of success.
As we pointed out in our recent blog post with our top predictions for the ERP software industry in 2018, there are a number of trends to be aware of as you navigate the challenges of your transformation. In addition, there are several resolutions that will ensure your initiative is successful in the new year.
The most dangerous implementations are led by those that aren't well educated on the risks, challenges, and best practices associated with an ERP implementation. Fortunately, there are a number of free resources to help educate you on digital and ERP best practices. For example, our weekly ERP webinar series provides hour-long training sessions on topics ranging from digital strategy to implementation to organizational change management. Our three-day Digital and ERP Boot Camps – hosted several times per year in different parts of the globe – are an excellent way to receive the training you need to succeed.
There is often a push to "get something done" on projects of this magnitude. I get it. But it's more important to make sure you have a solid plan in place, the right resources, clearly defined project controls, and other critical success factors. Believe it or not, going at a slow (but not too slow) and steady pace will actually save you time and money in the long-term. So even though ERP software vendors are incentivized to push you to purchase their software and start implementing right away, it is important to recognize that this is your project and that you control the tempo of the transformation.
What is the #1 cause of digital transformation and ERP software failures? Hint: it's not technology – it's people. Despite the importance of organizational change management, not a lot of people understand what the term means or how to implement it effectively in their organizations. Companies that invest in an effective organizational change strategy are much more likely to succeed than those that don't. Even though a solid change strategy includes training, communications, change impact, organizational readiness, and a host of other change tactics that you may be overlooking, it doesn't need to be expensive. In the long-run, it will cost you less to invest in this critical success factor than if you don't.
Messaging from ERP vendors, sales reps, and analysts – all with biases based on economic incentives – would lead us to believe that on premise solutions are dead, ERP systems are a silver bullet for a company's problems, and that their solutions can be implemented without much time, risk, or effort. None of this is true. So, be sure to recognize that most of the industry is biased and that their inputs should be taken with a grain of salt.
One of the best ways to accomplish resolution #4 is to hire unbiased, independent ERP consultants, such as those at Panorama. Whether you are about to define a strategy, evaluate potential systems, implement a system you've already chosen, or need help cleaning up an implementation mess, you need someone that is protecting your interests – not those of your ERP vendor or sales rep.
By accomplishing these five resolutions, you'll be in a much better position to succeed in the new year. Learn more by attending our weekly webinar Top 10 Predictions for the ERP Software Industry in 2018, or watch it on demand here.


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Q: Springboot profiles This is my jenkins file where I am building the Spring boot application. How do I pass my spring boot profile like application-dev.properties in the below code. So it can pick up the profile and build the jar.
Please help. Thanks in advance.
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Cop Sentenced To 11 Years
Former police officer from Texas, Aaron Dean, has been convicted and sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for the death of Atatiana Jefferson in her own home. Dean has been given more than 11 years for the killing of Atatiana, who was fatally shot with a gun. The ex-cop from Fort Worth was given nearly 12 years for the manslaughter of Jefferson.
Former Texas officer sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson in her home
Ex-officer Aaron Dean sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in the death of Atatiana Jefferson
Aaron Dean sentenced to 11 years for manslaughter in fatal shooting of Atatiana Jefferson
Ex-Fort Worth cop sentenced to nearly 12 years for manslaughter of Atatiana Jefferson


Following the success of their UK tours in the last three years, the Reduced Shakespeare Company are pleased to announce a further 19 dates this summer by popular demand.
This time, they will be going back to where it all began with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).
And it will be calling at Nottingham's Lakeside Arts Centre on 16th June.
An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard's plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) was London's longest-running comedy having clocked a very palpable nine years in London's West End at the Criterion Theatre.
Join these madcap men in tights as they weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies in one wild and hilarious ride.


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Latest Holidays News
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ATLANTA (AP) — A day before the U.S. Senate was expected to take up significant legislation on voting rights that is looking likely to fail, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s eldest son condemned federal lawmakers over their inaction. Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Monday, Martin Luther...
Cities across Florida celebrate MLK Day with parades, events
MIAMI (AP) — Parades and celebrations were held across Florida on Monday to honor the 93rd birthday of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Many of last year's celebrations were muted because of the coronavirus pandemic. But on Monday, cities and communities held celebrations honoring...
Timeline of NBA in 1980s as league celebrates 75th season
Timeline of the National Basketball Association during the 1980s. The timeline includes milestone moments in the league's history and key moments off the court as the NBA celebrates its 75th season: Feb. 22, 1980: The U.S. men's ice hockey team beats the Soviet Union 4-3 in the...
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After Biden's first year, the virus and disunity rage on
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Savannah postpones its MLK Day parade, citing omicron threat
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Adam Krysa (ur. 21 sierpnia 1991) - polski brydżysta, Mistrz Międzynarodowy, wychowanek klubu MPEC TABU Tarnów. Przez kilka lat  zawodnik pierwszoligowej drużyny MTS Piast-CKiS Skawina. Obecnie reprezentuje barwy ekstraklasowego Skobudu Tarnobrzeg. Mistrz Polski (2017) na zapis średni w parze z Jarosławem Jurkiewiczem. Drużynowy Mistrz Polski BaM na zapis maksymalny (2019).

Wyniki brydżowe

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W światowych zawodach zdobył następujące lokaty:

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Q: Current state of LaTeX on iPad? I most recently got an iPad and since I have a oldish, heavy laptop, I'd much rather only carry around my iPad instead of my laptop (I'm a student). I do need to create and compile TeX files though and I don't want to rely on having a working internet connection.
I have googled a bit and also stumbled upon questions on this TeX.SE site. The two most commonly applications being brought up were TexPad and TeX Writer. However, most reviews seem to be rather old (2-3 years) and a lot can change in that time.
I work with varying types of documents, small and large ones, some with pictures and some without any, and sometimes I also need the TikZ package (for example). I think the latter might be a restriction, but am not sure. Other than that, I don't think that I do anything extraordinary when working with TeXnicCenter on my laptop.
Q1: Are there any other applications I might want to consider?
Q2: What are the current main differences between TexPad and TeX Writer?

A: Disclaimer: I use Texpad.
Texpad

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*UTF-8 XeLaTeX Support
See TexPad and fontspec package

*Smart Keyboard: allows much quicker cursor navigation and selection.

*Useful autocompletion

*Not easy to select first or second line of a file with cursor (keeps jumping around)

*File Overview (supports master files and other files + Organizer (albeit confusing)

*Offer most packages but without clear listing of what is inside each "Bundle"

Tex Writer

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*No UTF-8 XeLaTeX

*WebDav

Both support local and cloud compiling.
What would be cool?

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*Interface for other apps like iTransmit for SSH

*Samba

*Version Control System support (like Subversion and Git)

*ability to view aux and other files

*ability to edit document in another app and save into Texpad.


Duarte is a very nice community in the San Gabriel Valley to the East of Los Angeles. Called the city of Health due to it being home of the City of Hope Cancer center. The city is filled with many parks and recreational trails for walking, biking and more. Mission statement: With integrity and transparency, the City of Duarte provides exemplary public services in a caring and fiscally responsible manner with a commitment to our community's future.


Chalet Hotels' Rs 1,641-crore IPO opens today; should you subscribe?
Chalet Hotels' Rs 1,641-crore IPO opens today; should you subscribe?
The initial public offering (IPO) of Chalet Hotels, the hospitality business of K Raheja Corp, will open on January 29 and close on January 31. The company intends to raise up to Rs 1,629-1,641 crore.
The IPO consists of a primary issue of Rs 950 crore and an offer-for-sale of up to 24,685,000 equity shares amounting to approximately Rs 691 crore. The price band for the offer is from Rs 275 to Rs 280 per equity share.
The company intends to utilise proceeds to pay off debt of up to Rs 720 crore. This would improve net debt to Ebitda ratio, going forward.
IPO-bound Chalet Hotels — which owns, develops and manages high-end hotels in major metro cities — has allotted 1,75,84,071 equity shares in the upper band of Rs 280 per unit, aggregating to Rs 492.35 crore, as part of the anchor investor allotment.
Among 27 anchor investors, SBI Small Cap Fund has been allotted 17,85,729 equity shares, while Fidelity Funds – India Focus Fund and Goldman Sachs India have been allotted 14,28,615 equity shares each.
The company operates five hotels, including a hotel with a co-located serviced residence, located in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Hyderabad, and Bengaluru, representing 2,328 keys, as of March 31, 2018.
Most experts feel that the IPO is a 'subscribe' but with a cautious rating. Chalet Hotels scores slightly above its peers in terms of valuations.
"The valuation is in-line with one of the strongest player, IHCL in the industry, and perhaps discounts the large part of the expected re-rating from the sharp reduction in debt/equity ratio from 5.5x (pre-IPO) to around 1x (post – IPO proceeds used to repay its debt)," it said.
Chalet Hotels (CH) is best placed in the premium segment given its presence in strategic and demand-dense locations, tie-ups with marquee brands and superior scale. The hotel industry is asset heavy industry, and as hotel assets mature over the period, its value also appreciates.
The right valuation methodology to evaluate the hotel industry would be the cash profit or EV/EBITDA. Over FY14-18, Chalet has reported negative cash profit in FY15 and FY16, else for the other years, it reported positive cash profit.
"On the valuation front, at higher price band, the company is demanding a cash P/E valuation of 38.7x (to its restated cash EPS of Rs. 7.2), which is at a premium to the peer average of 27.8x. Moreover, on EV/EBITDA front, it is demanding a valuation of 25.4x as compared to peers average of 27.5x," Choice Broking said in a note.
"Thus, the issue seems to be fairly priced, leaving limited room for share price appreciation. However, considering the future industry outlook, relatively lower room rates as compared to historical peak, efficient operations and industry-leading operating margin, we assign a "Subscribe with Caution" rating to the issue," it said.
Investors will also take comfort in the strong promoter group which makes it a suitable bet for long term investors, suggest experts. The company is part of K. Raheja Corp group which is a leading business group in India and company derive significant benefit from the confidence that consumers, lenders, commercial partners, vendors, and others place in the group.
The K. Raheja Companies have extensive experience in developing large scale real estate and commercial projects resulting in a strong understanding of industry and market trends, which company leverage to identify suitable locations and opportunities.
"The company is bringing the issue at P/E multiple of approx. 180x on FY18 basis at price band of Rs 275-280/share. Although, the issue seems fully priced at current level leaving little room for upside but strong promoter backing coupled with the company's branding with top global brands & active asset management model indicates strong fundamentals of the company. Hence, we recommend investors to Subscribe for the Long term on the issue," Hem Securities said in a note.