- Robert Bob McCrea, 2 Melvin Court, Kinlough, Co. Leitrim.
The sudden death has occurred at her home of Violet Lindsay, 1A William Street, Raphoe and formerly of Ballindrait.
Remains reposing at Rodney Bogle's home, 18 Meadow Hill, Raphoe today, Saturday 8th July from 6p.m.
Funeral leaving 18 Meadow Hill on Monday 10th July at 10.15a.m. for Requiem Mass in Eunan's Church, Raphoe at 11a.m.
Interment afterwards in Murlog Cemetery, Lifford.
The death has taken place of John (Hughie) Friel, Ballure, Araheera, Fanad.
Removal at 12.15pm on Sunday, July 9th, from his late residence in Ballure, Fanad going to St. Mary's Church for 1pm funeral Mass with burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
The death has taken place of Ronnie Miller, Drimgorman, Mountcharles.
Removal from the residence of his sister Georgina Armstrong, at Meenawillaghan, Inver on Saturday, July 8th, to St. John's Church, Inver for service at 2pm followed by burial immediately afterwards in the adjoining churchyard. Family flowers only.
A one-way system will operate at the wake, entry on the Ardaghey/Ardara Road at Keelogs and exit at Altcor.
The death has taken place of Vasile Ciobanu, Letterkenny and formerly Romania.
Reposing at the Eternal Chapel of Rest, Letterkenny.
A funeral service will be held at 12 noon at the Eternal Chapel of Rest on Saturday, July 8th, followed by burial in Gortlee Cemetery.
The death has taken place of Greg (Greggy) Innes, 23 Drumacrin Avenue, East End, Bundoran.
Reposing at the residence of his sister Amanda, 41 Silverhill, West End, Bundoran. Removal from there at 10.30am on Saturday morning, July 8th, to arrive at the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Bundoran, for Mass of the Resurrection at 11am. Burial afterwards in St. Ninnidh's Cemetery, Newtown, Bundoran.
House private to family and close friends, please. Any further enquiries to Conlan and Breslin funeral directors on 086 249 2036.
The death has taken place at North West Hospice, Sligo, of Rudolf Melch, late of Garvanagh, Ballyshannon.
Reposing at John Magee and Sons Funeral Home, Belleek road, Ballyshannon, on Sunday from 3pm. Funeral service at the funeral home at 3pm also.
Cremation to take place in the Lakeland Crematorium, Cavan, at 10.30am on Monday. No flowers on request.
Donations, if desired, to the North West Hospice c/o John Magee and Sons Funeral Directors, Ballyshannon, or any family member. House private please.
The death has taken place at Letterkenny University Hospital of Tony McGill, late of Maghereagh, Castlefin.
Reposing at his home from 7.30pm today, Thursday, July 6th.
Funeral leaving from his home on Saturday, July 8th, at 10.25am for Requiem Mass in St Mary's Church, Castlefin at 11am with interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
The death has occurred at Mayo University Hospital, Castlebar of Mary Fritz, Bolling Brook Drive, Swinford, Co. Mayo and formerly of Toome, Lettermacward.
Removal today, Saturday 7th July at 5pm going to Our Lady Help of Christian's Church, Swinford arriving at 5.30pm.
Funeral mass on Sunday 8th July at 4pm in St Bridget's Church, Lettermacward followed by burial in St Bridgets Cemetery.
The death has occurred in Letterkenny University Hospital of Tom Murray, retired Garda Sergeant, Strand Road, Falcarragh and formerly of Ballina, Co Mayo.
Removal from the family home at Strand Road today, Saturday 8th July at 6pm going to St Finnian's Church, Falcarragh to repose overnight.
Funeral mass on Sunday 9th July at 11am. Burial afterwards in the adjoining cemetery. House private from 10pm until 11am.
Enquiries to John Ferry, Funeral Directors, Falcarragh.
The death has occurred at the North West Hospice in Sligo of Robert Bob McCrea, 2 Melvin Court, Kinlough, Co. Leitrim. Remains reposing at John McGee and Sons Funeral Home, Belleek Road, Ballyshannon today, Saturday from 6pm to 10pm with removal to the Church of Ireland, Ballintra on Sunday for 2pm funeral service with cremation to follow at Lakeland Crematorium Cavan for private cremation on Sunday at 5pm.
House Private please. No flowers on request. Donations if desired to the North West Hospice Sligo c/o John McGee, Funeral Director, Ballyshannon.
The death has occurred of Edward John Griffin, Legan, Inver.
Remains will be reposing at his late residence in Legan, today, Saturday from 4pm with rosary at 10pm. Removal from there on Sunday morning going to St. Naul's Church, Ardaghey, for 11.30am funeral mass with burial afterwards in the local cemetery.
Family flowers only, donations in lieu if so desired to Donegal Community Hospital, Donegal Town, c/o Gallagher Funeral Directors, Mountcharles, or any family member.
A one way system will operate at the wake, entry at the bottom of Castleogeary Hill and exit on the Drumfin or Keelogs road.


Every time Shelby Meyers imagines her future, all she sees is her grandparents' struggling apple orchard on the bluffs overlooking Lake Superior. As their likely heir, Shelby is destined to inherit the family trees. But everything changes when Ryan Chambers, the heir to a media conglomerate fortune, escapes the limelight and his family politics with a spontaneous visit to Shelby's small town.
Sure, there is some initial friction. After all, what does a farm girl have in common with a renowned city boy? But it doesn't take long for Shelby and Ryan to dare to imagine a future beyond the bounds of their family expectations. Unfortunately, not everyone is on board with their plans.
A tabloid reporter, an estranged mother, an outraged father, and a jealous suitor descend on the lakeside town to try to get between Shelby and Ryan. Even Mother Nature tries to drive them apart. The reality of their obligations crashes in with as much destructive force as the deadly winter storm that rages on the lake.
When the storm subsides, Shelby and Ryan are left to sort through the debris to find what remains of the family trees – and their dreams.


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People with visual impairments are often shut out from hot careers in STEM fields, including analytics and data science. Why? Because the technology is not accessible. That is changing, thanks to SAS® Graphics Accelerator. The software provides unparalleled access to data visualization and data science for people with visual impairments.
Until today, students and professionals with visual impairments have suffered from digital data visualization famine. No surprise, since most charts and graphs are created exclusively for visual consumption. SAS Graphics Accelerator dynamically generates alternative presentations of SAS data visualizations, including verbal descriptions, tabular data and interactive sonification.
Sonification uses non-speech audio to convey details about the graph. Users can explore bar charts, time series plots, heat maps, line charts, scatter plots and histograms interactively, relying on sound instead of sight. Take, for instance, a sonic representation of an entire bar graph, which incorporates both location and pitch. As the sound moves from the listener's left to right ear, indicating movement along the x-axis, the heights of the bars are represented by pitch. A high pitch indicates a higher value.
Ed Summers, Senior Manager of Accessibility and Applied Assistive Technology at SAS, believes SAS Graphics Accelerator will transform how people with visual impairments understand data.
"I'm using it daily to do data science at SAS, and run our accessibility program," says Summers, who is himself blind. "It's thrilling to have access to data again that I haven't had for 13 years. I can 'see' the data with my ears just as effectively as my sighted colleague can with their eyes."
SAS Graphics Accelerator compliments SAS University Edition – a free product that allows students and educators to access the same statistical analysis software that is used at more than 83,000 customer sites globally. In addition, the SAS University Edition Quick Start Guide for Students With Visual Impairments helps students get up and running quickly.
Empowering teachers
In K-12, teachers of the visually impaired help general education teachers provide materials in accessible formats to students with visual impairments. By using SAS Graphics Accelerator and SAS University Edition, teachers create accessible data visualizations for those students and engage learners as never before, for free.
"The inaccessibility of online graphs is a huge barrier for students who are blind or visually impaired," says Sarah McManus, Director of Digital Learning for the Deaf and Blind at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. "The ability to interact with and understand data has the potential to increase these students' problem-solving skills exponentially and open up new opportunities, especially in STEM education."
Emphasizing inclusion and diversity
According to the World Health Organization, about 285 million people have visual impairments. But while many countries have passed legislation to prevent discrimination against people with disabilities, equal access to quantitative information remains a persistent barrier for professionals with visual impairments.
Amy Bower, a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, served as a beta tester for the new technology. "As a legally blind research scientist, I am ecstatic about SAS Graphics Accelerator," says Bower. "I have been waiting for just such a tool for many years."
SAS Graphics Accelerator seamlessly integrates accessibility into charts and graphs created at SAS customer sites around the world. As a result, the technology facilitates collaboration between sighted and blind professionals that was impossible until now.
"I will be able to participate more fully in scientific discussions with colleagues, since I'll have access to the same graphs and plots they're looking at," says Bower. "I don't need to wait for an assistant to describe the data to me. With SAS, I can stay at the forefront of my field of oceanography despite declining vision,"
Making a splash at the premier accessibility conference
SAS Graphics Accelerator will be officially unveiled at the 32nd International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (known as CSUN) in San Diego. On March 2, SAS will host a data science lab where attendees can try out SAS Graphics Accelerator and SAS University Edition. Interested attendees should email accessibility@sas.com to register for the SAS Data Science Lab.
SAS South Africa
Wendy Parker +27 11 713-3400
With SAS Graphics Accelerator, sonification is used to present a histogram to the visually impaired.

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Author: Carol Schaal '91M.A.
Published: Autumn 2014
After the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team's 2-1 win over Ghana in its first match of the 2014 World Cup in June, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon introduced Americans to the team's key players. First up was Matt Besler '09, the boyish anchor of the USA defense, whose only weakness, Fallon said, was "hitting puberty in the middle of the game." Besler's performance in Brazil as the first ND alumnus to represent the United States on international soccer's biggest stage was credited as a key to the team's early success. Several European club teams tried to lure Besler abroad, but the former first-team All-American and academic All-American at Notre Dame opted for a contract extension with his hometown Major League Soccer club, Sporting Kansas City. . . . He's been coaching for 60 years, and Richard Tighe '52 of Webster City, Iowa, thinks he might hold the winningest football record of any ND graduate. Since he has 413 wins, it's tough to argue with that claim. Still coaching at Saint Edmond Catholic School in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the 83-year-old began his coaching career in Hamilton, Ontario. After seven years in Canada, he returned to his home state of Iowa, where he coached at a variety of schools and also taught phys ed and social studies. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, his overall 413-155-8 record puts him at eighth among the nation's winningest high school coaches. . . . Grisel Ruiz '05, an attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in the San Francisco Bay area, was named one of 2014's "Fun, Fearless Latinas" in the spring issue of Cosmopolitan for Latinas. The designation highlights "Latinos making a difference in our communities." . . . When Rick Hilton '74 retired in June after 15 years as headmaster of the Lyndon Institute in Lyndon Center, Vermont, the school named a dormitory in his honor. Hilton Hall is home to 22 students and two faculty families. In 2003 Hilton revived the dormitory program the school had closed 16 years earlier, enhancing Lyndon's cultural diversity and global reach. The private secondary school enrolls 600 students from 16 countries and operates three campuses in China. When he learned that the dormitory would bear his name, Hilton said, "Had I known they were naming the new dorm for me, I would have built it in stone, not clapboard." . . . Monnie Kane likes to brag about her husband of 52 years, former high school principal George Kane '61. Since 2010 he's been a man about town — as a Hugh Hefner lookalike, that is. The Florida resident won the Sunburst Convention Mirror Image Award in 2011 for his resemblance to the Playboy Enterprises founder, and as a celebrity impersonator his appearances this year have included the Stars Car Show in Las Vegas, the International Bikini Model Search in Cancun, Mexico, and the Cleveland International Film Festival. . . . 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She also has a good story to tell about her appearances in early June on the popular quiz show; the pediatric nurse practitioner student from Nashville, Tennessee, was a four-day champion, winning $55,300. . . . They were the 10th seed in The Basketball Tournament, a 32-team, single-elimination contest that started play in Philadelphia and ended at Boston University on June 28. No matter; the Notre Dame Fighting Alumni, led by 19 points from Tyrone Nash '11, grabbed a winner-take-all check for $500,000 by beating Barstool Sports in the final game. Coached by Jordan Cornette '05, managed by Kieran Piller '07, '10J.D. and cheered on by ND basketball coach Mike Brey, most of the squad consisted of former Irish players from the past decade. "We felt like we were back in college," Ryan Ayers '09 said. Also on the team were Chris Thomas '05, Tory Jackson '10, Torin Francis '06, Russell Carter '07, Rob Kurz '08, Colin Falls '07 and Zachary Hillesland '09. . . . 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Abstract: We present the powerful module-intersection integration-by-parts (IBP) method, suitable for multi-loop and multi-scale Feynman integral reduction. Utilizing modern computational algebraic geometry techniques, this new method successfully trims traditional IBP systems dramatically to much simpler integral-relation systems on unitarity cuts. The cutting-edge IBP computation of non-planar 2-loop 5-point computation is presented.


ROSH PINNA, Israel, March 22, 2017 – On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) (NASDAQ:OTIV), a global provider of near field communication (NFC) and cashless payment solutions, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2016.
Great promise and progress in Japan. Following the execution of a letter of intent announced in Q4 2016 for 10,000 otiMetry systems during the coming three years, a formal purchase order was received in early 2017.
Growth in the deployment of our otiMetry solutions, which generate recurring revenue in addition to associated product sales.
Total quarterly revenue of $5.6 million, a year-over-year increase of 3%.
Operating expenses decreased 10% to $3.4 million from $3.7 million in the same year-ago period.
Cash and cash equivalents, and short-term investments at December 31, 2016 totaled $11.5 million, which was up 6% from the end of the prior year.
Revenue increased 11% to $20.6 million from $18.5 million in 2015.
Gross profit increased 10% to $10.2 million compared to $9.3 million in 2015.
Operating expenses decreased $4.0 million or 25% to $12.1 million from $16.1 million last year.
Net loss from continuing operations totaled $2.4 million or $(0.06) per share, a 68% improvement from a net loss from continuing operations of $7.5 million or $(0.18) per share in 2015.
Adjusted EBITDA loss from continuing operations improved 93% to $241,000 from a loss of $3.4 million in 2015.
OTI will hold a conference call on Wednesday, March 22nd at 9:00 AM EDT to discuss results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2016. Financial results will be issued in a press release prior to the call.
This press release contains certain non-GAAP measures, namely, adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations, or adjusted earnings from continuing operations before interest, income tax, depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations represents earnings before interest or financing expenses, income tax, depreciation and amortization, and further eliminates the effect of stock based compensation expense, patent litigation and maintenance expenses and other expenses. OTI believes that adjusted EBITDA from continuing operations should be considered in evaluating the company's operations since it provides a clearer indication of OTI's operating results. This measure should be considered in addition to results prepared in accordance with US GAAP, but should not be considered a substitute for the US GAAP results. The non-GAAP measures included in this press release have been reconciled to the US GAAP results in the tables below.
On Track Innovations Ltd. (OTI) is a leader in contactless and NFC applications based on its extensive patent and IP portfolio. OTI's field-proven innovations have been deployed around the world to address NFC and other cashless payment solutions, petroleum payment and management and mass transit ticketing. OTI markets and supports its solutions through a global network of regional offices and alliances. For more information, visit www.otiglobal.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and other Federal securities laws. Whenever words such as "think", "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "plan," "estimate" or similar expressions are used, we are making forward-looking statements. For example, forward-looking statements include statements regarding our expected Adjusted EBITDA for 2017, our expectations regarding the pipeline and opportunities in Japan, Europe and North America, and growth opportunities for new and existing products and verticals. Because such statements deal with future events and is based on OTI's current expectations, they are subject to various risks and uncertainties and actual results, performance or achievements of OTI could differ materially from those described in or implied by the statements in this press release. Forward-looking statements could be impacted by the effects of the protracted evaluation and validation periods in the U.S. and other markets for contactless payment cards, as well as OTI's new and existing products and our ability to execute production on orders, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including those discussed in the "Risk Factors" section and elsewhere in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, and in subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can provide no assurance that expectations will be achieved. Except as otherwise required by law, OTI disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof, whether as a result of new information, future events or circumstances or otherwise.
* Reclassified to conform with the current period presentation.
** Less than $0.01 per ordinary share.


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Latvia central bank boss under investigation for corruption
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Latvia's central bank governor Ilmars Rimsevics has been detained by the country's anti-corruption agency.
In a statement to the Reuters news agency, Latvia's Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis did not say why Rimsevics, a member of the European Central Bank's Governing Council, had been detained or what he was being investigated for.
However, he attempted to reassure people that the economy was stable.
"There are no indications that would suggest threats to the financial system of Latvia," Kucinskis said in an emailed statement.
As reported by Reuters, Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola said Rimsevics should step aside for the time being to protect the Baltic country's reputation.
"Given that the governor of the central bank is a symbol for every country, I think that it would be sensible at this moment that Mr. Rimsevics, at least during the investigation, steps down," Reizniece-Ozola told a news conference."
"Under the current circumstances… every day that Mr. Rimsevics remains in the post of governor of the central bank, the situation [for the reputation of Latvia's financial system] substantially worsens," she said.
According to Rimsevics' lawyer, however, the detention was unlawful. "A complaint is being prepared at the moment," the lawyer, Saulvedis Varpins, told news agency LETA without elaborating.
In a separate report, Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster, Rimsevics has headed the central bank since 2001 and has been a member of the European Central Bank's governing council since Latvia joined the eurozone in 2014.
According to the BBC, the Bank of Latvia stressed it has "zero tolerance policy in respect of corruption and other illicit activities".
It also said the bank's operations were unaffected by the investigation, and that it would open on February 19 as usual.
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The waves crashing into the rugged shoreline of Newfoundland and Labrador this week led to waves of a different kind.
The squiggly black lines produced by a Natural Resources Canada seismometer show the seismic activity of a vicious windstorm that whipped across the province on Wednesday and Thursday.
The wind and waves were so strong, the island was shaking.
"What we saw over the past 48 hours was quite a dramatic change in [activity]," said John Cassidy, an earthquake seismologist with Natural Resources Canada.
"It was very noticeable and in our seismic data, our plots, it just jumped off the page. You could just see that shaking."
The federal government has seismometers - tools that measure earth movements - all across the country.
Cassidy said each year, a handful of storms will produce winds and waves strong enough to record seismic activity on the east and west coast.
With winds gusting between 100 and 140 km/h, the conditions were just right to get the Rock rocking.
"It's that combination of the wind, that incredible wind, and the waves that were hitting the island," Cassidy said.
"Both of those, the waves and the wind, gets trees shaking, rocks shaking ... And all of that can be recorded by our seismometers on the island."
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Comment: The windstorm that struck Newfoundland and Labrador was the "most intense storm" on the planet, according to a meteorologist in Gander. Wild, whipping winds gusting upwards of 130 km/h caused huge waves, delays, cancellations and closures across the province reports CBC.


On a recent post published by Banyan Publishing, Ted Bauman writes a damning article on bitcoin's capabilities of being used as currency if some fundamental changes are not effected on its underlying technology.
Basically explained, Bitcoin is an encrypted form of digital currency that only exists within a given network of computers. This computer network is decentralized; meaning it exists on computers all around the world. That decentralized approach is basically what makes bitcoin a currency that is private, secure and above all free from manipulation from governmental agencies like central banks.
Ted goes further to compare how bitcoin fairs with other transaction processing methods such as credit cards. Visa for instance currently processes up to 1,700 transactions per second with capabilities to do upwards of 24,000 transactions per second while bitcoin currently does 6.5 transactions per second. With more users joining bitcoin, this is expected to even go lower.
Ted Bauman currently works with Banyan Hill Publishing as the editorial director. He is also the editor of Plan B Club, The Bauman Letter, and Alpha Stock Alert newsletters. He has vast experience and knowledge in asset protection, contemporary privacy matters, international migration and low-risk investment. Ted has been heavily involved in helping people get whatever resources they need to help them live a comfortable life, free from corporate greed and oversight from governmental.
Ted was born in Washington, D. C. but bred and raised in Maryland. As a kid, Ted flew to South Africa where he spent most of his childhood to early adulthood. He later joined the University of Cape Town from where he graduated with postgraduate degrees in both Economics and History. In South Africa, Ted built a successful career of more than 25 years serving in important positions of a number of reputable organizations predominantly as a fund manager for affordable housing projects mostly in the nonprofit sector. One of the projects Ted was involved in starting is the Slum Dwellers Internationals which has been credited with helping over 14 million individuals from around the world by providing them with decent low-cost housing.


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University of Arizona, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Progress Report No. 1
Braham, Roscoe R., Jr.; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Arizona (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1954-10-01)
Kassander, A. Richard, Jr.; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Arizona (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1957-06-15)
Variability of Precipitation in an Arid Region: A Survey of Characteristics for Arizona
McDonald, James E.; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Arizona (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1956-12-31)
A number of statistical and meteorological aspects of the temporal and spatial variability of precipitation in Arizona have been examined in terms of their bearing on the water resources of the arid southwestern United States. Most of the work summerized has been of the nature of initial exploratory investigations made in order to lay the foundation for the much more extensive studies that will shortly be begun as part of the University of Arizona-U.S. Weather Bureau Cooperative Punchcard Climatological program. A selected sample of long-record Weather Bureau precipitation stations in Arizona were analyzed for their historic variability properties, a number of statistical and calculational techniques were tested, and a general plan has been developed for the next phases of the Institute's variability program. It is believed that these findings will be of interest not only to investigators in arid regions themselves but also to investigators chiefly concerned with more humid areas; for, in many respects, the statistical characteristics of arid-lands precipitation pose the most stringent of all requirements on statistical methodology. In that sense, the quantitative results of the present report may serve as useful indicators of upper bounds on the effects of non-normality, skewness, and heteroscedasticity of precipitation frequency distributions for North America in general.
Wind Gradients and Variance of Doppler Spectra
Battan, Louis J.; Theiss, John B.; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, The University of Arizona (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 1971-12-15)
An X-band pulsed-Doppler radar having its beam fixed at an elevation angle of 3 deg, was used to measure radial velocity spectra in a light shower. Observations were made at intervals of 152 m between radar ranges of 7 and 18 km. It was found that the mean Doppler velocity, variance of the Doppler spectrum and radar reflectivity varied markedly over distances of the order of 100 m. The observed variance was below about 1 m2 sec-2 in 80 percent of the observations, but in about 4 percent of the cases, it exceeded 3m2 sec-2. An analysis of ~V/~r, the radial gradient of the mean Doppler velocity yielded a nearly Gaussian curve having a mean of 0.2 x 10-3 sec-1 and a standard deviation of 5.9 x 10-3 sec-1. The largest value observed was 3 X 10- 2 sec-1. The effects of the radial gradient of the radial wind apparently can explain about 25 percent of the observed variance of the Doppler spectrum.


Unai Emery has not given up on hope on Danny Welbeck making an unlikely return to action for Arsenal this season.
Welbeck has been sidelined since early November after breaking his ankle in a Europa League tie with Sporting but in recent weeks he has returned to training on an individual basis and travelled with the Arsenal squad for a training camp in Dubai during the international break.
The 28-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season and, although a final decision has not yet been made, Arsenal are not expected to offer Welbeck an extension to his current terms.
Though that means that Welbeck, who has been linked with Crystal Palace and West Ham, is unlikely to add to the 126 appearances he has made during an injury-plagued five seasons and Arsenal there remains a possibility that the England international could be available for the final days of the season.
"He's progressing very well, he's working and starting to touch the ball, working on the pitch," Emery said. "His progress with a big injury is going very well.
Danny Welbeck with strength and conditioning coach Barry Solan.
"It's difficult [for him] to play matches in this season but now he's progressing very well and maybe the doctor says he can train or play with us in the last weeks of the season.
"His individual [contract] is to [be decided] with the club."
With Welbeck and Rob Holding sidelined through long-term injury, Arsenal were the only top six team without a single representative in Gareth Southgate's initial England squad for the Euro 2020 qualifiers earlier this month.
Indeed not since Kieran Gibbs has an Arsenal academy product gone on to win a debut England cap, with the likes of Welbeck, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott having been developed at other clubs before making the move to Arsenal.
There is a clutch of promising youngsters making a name for themselves in the England youth setup - including Reiss Nelson, Emile Smith Rowe, Xavier Amaechi and Bukayo Saka - but Emery is eager to see Arsenal players don the Three Lions shirt at the top level again.
"I think every team needs English players," he said. "Danny Welbeck is injured now but he was with the national team and we were very happy for him and England.
"Are there players to help England in the future? Of course. They are doing it in U18, U19, U21.
"We have a lot of young players to win with us and the national team in the future."


Had a facility for drawing women that quickly caught the eye of both agents and clients, so the man who had aspired to be a technical illustrator, by the outbreak of World War II became Great Britain's foremost pin-up artist. His pictures of beautiful women came to be called â"lovelies" and were an immensely popular feature of. He later became highly sought after fashion illustrator and then comic artist........................... Wright's brilliance at drawing and storytelling art permeates every frame of Carol Day, his comic strip masterpiece featured in. Which he worked on until his passing in 1967.
He would pencil just enough to establish the positions of his characters, then go directly into the art with a #2 sable brush. When this was finished, he would begin the process of building the complex and varied layers of ink textures and cross hatching that described the final image in a sort of visual tone feast. Prior to the last 2 years of the strip, he eschewed the American comics method of glued down zipatone in favor of hand creating these rich surface textures. This is one of the earliest Carol Days I've ever seen offered.
This is a daily from the beginning of the very first tale--the. Carol Day began as a feature on September 10, 1956, so this daily is 2 weeks from the start on September 26. The panels features Carol, Uncle Marcus, Vernon Flowers and Cousin Hugo. An interesting aspect of the very earliest Carols is that David Wright added a tracing paper overlay with the dialog for the word balloons. After the first 3 weeks of Carol Day, Wright stopped doing this, so later originals do not have this extra. So this daily is one of the very few that still has the overlay. As with all Carol Days, this art is drawn on illustration board.
Both the image and board are in excellent condition. There are minor impact dents in the lower left and right and upper left corners and very minor smudging and white out use (see scans).
But other than that the art is in top shape.......................... My apologies for the high price for Global Priority, but costs have risen significantly over the past months. And I've gotten a lot of good feedback about packaging. The item "2nd Week Carol Day Art #14 September 1956 David Wright" is in sale since Thursday, December 22, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Comics\Original Comic Art\Comic Strip Art".
The seller is "art_gurufunkel" and is located in Putney, Vermont. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, to all countries in Europe, to all countries in continental Asia.


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Q: Minio with the iOS AWS S3 SDK SignatureDoesNotMatch I have an iOS app that uploads / downloads to / from Amazon's S3.  I'd like to replace Amazon's S3 with my own Minio cloud.
I followed the quick tutorial here https://github.com/minio/minio and I have Minio running on my localhost and I can put files using s3cmd (https://docs.minio.io/docs/s3cmd-with-minio).
Unfortunately I can't manage to get it to work from within my iOS app.
I'm using the AWS SDK v2.4.16 so I can change the endpoint and I made it my localhost (http://my-imac.local:9000) and I updated my access and secret keys but I get a SignatureDoesNotMatch error: "The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your key and signing method.".
Pointing to my local server:
AWSEndpoint *minioEndpoint = [[AWSEndpoint alloc] initWithURLString:@"http://my-imac.local:9000"];
AWSServiceConfiguration *configuration = [[AWSServiceConfiguration alloc] initWithRegion:region
        endpoint:minioEndpoint
        credentialsProvider:credentialProvider];
[AWSS3 registerS3WithConfiguration:configuration forKey:s3RegionString];

Here's what I get on my localhost:

time="2017-04-10T23:36:21Z" level=error
  msg="{\"method\":\"PUT\",\"path\":\"/mybucket/28AB7D6DCFC44102955EBC0AEFF6E4E2-20170407161228839-0700/foo_28AB7D6DCFC44102955EBC0AEFF6E4E2-20170407161228839-0700_v2.json_bin\",\"query\":\"\",\"header\":{\"Accept\":[\"/\"],\"Accept-Encoding\":[\"gzip,
  deflate\"],\"Accept-Language\":[\"en-us\"],\"Authorization\":[\"AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
  Credential=LNTXV0YMMZ9SY7MD0ACZ/20170410/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request,
  SignedHeaders=content-length;content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date,
  Signature=7b2f4172dd926ba84c7edba5170028e0f9361bd8a656ad8f01c7e232f585ab31\"],\"Connection\":[\"keep-alive\"],\"Content-Length\":[\"282416\"],\"Content-Type\":[\"application/octet-stream\"],\"Host\":[\"my-imac.local\"],\"User-Agent\":[\"aws-sdk-iOS/2.4.16
  iPhone-OS/9.1 en_US\"],\"X-Amz-Date\":[\"20170410T233620Z\"]}}"
  cause="Signature does not match"
  source="[object-handlers.go:472:objectAPIHandlers.PutObjectHandler()]"

On the iOS side:
The request headers are:
{
    Authorization = "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=LNTXV0YMMZ9SY7MD0ACZ/20170410/us-east-1/s3/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-length;content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date, Signature=454c8bad35bdd3a15a08c9bf555fc69f1d5c0dabad78a474eabd4d844ca69aef";
    "Content-Length" = 282416;
    "Content-Type" = "application/octet-stream";
    Host = "my-imac.local";
    "User-Agent" = "aws-sdk-iOS/2.4.16 iPhone-OS/9.1 en_US";
    "X-Amz-Date" = 20170410T233622Z;
}

The response:
2017-04-10 16:36:22.507 demo[7969:4711709] AWSiOSSDK v2.4.16 [Debug] AWSURLSessionManager.m line:566 | -[AWSURLSessionManager printHTTPHeadersForResponse:] | Response headers:
{
    "Accept-Ranges" = bytes;
    Connection = close;
    "Content-Type" = "application/xml";
    Date = "Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:36:22 GMT";
    Server = "Minio/RELEASE.2017-03-16T21-50-32Z (linux; amd64)";
    "Transfer-Encoding" = Identity;
    Vary = Origin;
    "X-Amz-Request-Id" = 14B42D7AE5B09A2B;
}

A: Please replace accessKey, secretKey, and url, change the region base on what you need, service must set to .S3
(AWSS3 will auto remove port number if you type xxxx:9000 in url, currently it only support full url without port, so please make sure you have a domain map to port 9000, you may need refer to this Setup Nginx proxy with Minio Server)
let accessKey = "XXXXXXX"
let secretKey = "XXXXXXX"

let credentialsProvider = AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(accessKey: accessKey, secretKey: secretKey)
let configuration = AWSServiceConfiguration(region: .USEast1, endpoint: AWSEndpoint(region: .USEast1, service: .S3, url: URL(string:"XXXXXX")),credentialsProvider: credentialsProvider)

AWSServiceManager.default().defaultServiceConfiguration = configuration

let S3BucketName = "images"
let remoteName = "test.jpg"
let fileURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: NSTemporaryDirectory()).appendingPathComponent(remoteName)
let image = UIImage(named: "test")
let data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(image!, 0.9)
do {
    try data?.write(to: fileURL)
}
catch {}

let uploadRequest = AWSS3TransferManagerUploadRequest()!
uploadRequest.body = fileURL
uploadRequest.key = remoteName
uploadRequest.bucket = S3BucketName
uploadRequest.contentType = "image/jpeg"
uploadRequest.acl = .publicRead

let transferManager = AWSS3TransferManager.default()

transferManager.upload(uploadRequest).continueWith { (task: AWSTask<AnyObject>) -> Any? in
  ...
}

Full example project here
NOTE you need to apply the following change as well to make it fully work https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ios/pull/638

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Galapagos sea lions are the most playful animals in the Archipelago, and we'd like to think they know it! Here, they are just simply posing for the camera.
This Island has a rich human history in the Galapagos. It has been visited by explorers, whalers, pirates, and of course the most famous Galapagos visitor, Charles Darwin. Due to so many visitations, the introduction of non-native animals to the island has had quite an impact on the ecosystem, often influencing the surroundings in a negative way.
Today we had the opportunity to see the amazing restoration work carried out by the Charles Darwin Station and the Galapagos National Park Service.


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Q: Reading an Excel file with C# causes OleDbException to be thrown The message says

The Microsoft Access database engine could not find the object
  'Sheet1$'. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and
  the path name correctly. If 'Sheet1$' is not a local object, check
  your network connection or contact the server administrator.

The name of the sheet in the Worksheet is "Sheet1"
        string connectionString = String.Format(@"Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source={0};Extended Properties=""Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=YES"";", fileName);
        string query = String.Format("SELECT [columnName1],[columnName2],[columnName3] from [{0}]", "Sheet1$");
        OleDbDataAdapter dataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(query, connectionString);
        DataSet dataSet = new DataSet();
        dataAdapter.Fill(dataSet);
        DataTable YourTable = dataSet.Tables[0];
        listBox1.DataSource = YourTable.Columns["ColumnName1"];

A: This works for me:
string filename = @"C:\Book1.xlsm";

        string connectionString = String.Format("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source={0};Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=YES\";", filename);
        string query = String.Format("SELECT * from [{0}$]", "Sheet1");
        OleDbDataAdapter dataAdapter = new OleDbDataAdapter(query, connectionString);
        DataSet dataSet = new DataSet();
        dataAdapter.Fill(dataSet);
        DataTable YourTable = dataSet.Tables[0];

*NOTE: * If your data does not have headers to make HDR=NO
Also noticed that in your question you used
[columnName1],[columnName2],[columnName3]

for your columns to select. Please remember these should be the value(s) of the first cell in the column(s) that you would like to grab.
To get column E Use:
        string connectionString = String.Format("Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source={0};Extended Properties=\"Excel 8.0;HDR=NO\";", filename);
        string query = String.Format("SELECT [F5] from [{0}$]", "Sheet1");

Replace 5 With any other column number you need so
F1 = A
F2 = B
F3 = C

and so on.
The Error you are getting could be because you have the file open and active.
OR you are pointing at the wrong file (Remember you have to include full file path in the filename string. and make sure the sheet is correct. Alos take notice to the fact the i include the $ in my string not in my parameter so rememer to only put just the name of the sheet you are trying to get. If you are still having trouble supply me with the FULL file name for the worksheet you are using i.e. C:\Book1.xlsm and the sheet you are trying to get data from.

A: Please put square brackets around Sheet1.
So your query is: select * from [Sheet1$]


Final Girl: Gallery o' Slasher Movie Title Screens, Part Two!
Here we go, more slasher movie title screens! Now, if you may reaaaallll close attention to detail, you may notice a trend amongst these.
Clearly Carpenter's Halloween title was massively influential. It's the class of yesterday's. That said, the glowing-orange-on-black titles makes a heck of a lot less sense on a bunch of these than on one with a jack-o'-lantern.
Beautiful stuff. Tourist Trap was the first DVD I bought. I love how off-kilter that movie is.
I myself am a big fan of the dripping blood letters which I saw for the first time in H.G. Lewis' Blood Feast (1963).


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Will our people accept the Covid-19 vaccine?
A few days back I read an article in the New York Times about what would happen if half of the U.S. population refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19 (whenever a vaccine is developed). I found there is a very vocal anti-vaccine movement in the United States (despite its literacy rate being much higher than that of Pakistan). It is very likely that a great number of Americans (probably more than a quarter of the population) would reject the vaccine, risking thousands of lives beside their own.
So I got to wondering what would be the reaction of our people to a vaccine for COVID-19. Our experience so far tells us that many (if not most) Pakistanis would be skeptical and refuse to get themselves or their children vaccinated. We have seen how our illiterate preachers have brainwashed their followers into believing that the polio vaccine is a tool to reduce the population of Muslims. That is why Pakistan is now only one of two countries (along with Afghanistan) where polio has not been eradicated (Nigeria, which was also polio-affected, has not had a case since 2016). Our vaccination teams are routinely attacked and both male and female health workers shot dead in many areas of the country. So how can we expect the COVID-19 vaccine to be welcomed in Pakistan?
"None of my relatives or friends have died of this virus, and I have never met anyone who knows anyone who has this virus, this Corona thing is a hoax", said the manager of a store in DHA where I buy all my groceries and medicines.
"It's all a drama", said a vegetable seller. "They want to reduce the population of Muslims, like they did with the polio vaccine".
"You can see it's meant to cause friction within Muslims", said a PTI loyalist. "When they said people should stay six feet away from each other, my wife left me to live with her parents. Thank God we have Skype, otherwise I'd have forgotten what she looks like by now".
"Only a thousand deaths in Pakistan in three months", says the imam of the mosque near my house, "We don't need a vaccine, it's not a serious disease".
"This sanitizer is made from alcohol, before long our bodies will crave it so much that we'll be forced to drink it to be able to survive", says a deeply religious man I've known for many years
A neighbor of mine said, "It's always the same, I have never come across anyone whose near relatives have succumbed to this so-called disease". Why "so-called"? I asked. "It's a conspiracy, this Covid-19 thing," he said. "It's meant for the government to make common people like us contribute to their funds so that our leaders can enrich themselves. This vaccine will make some people very wealthy".
Then there is this viral message on WhatsApp: "Do you think coronavirus is as dangerous as projected by media? Or is the purpose of the media campaign to create panic so that Pharma companies can sell their products like sanitizer, masks, medicine etc? Or is it Bill Gates and his masters who want to sell their vaccines, install chips and control world population to launch their world government?"
It's evident that the vast majority of our people believe that coronavirus is not real, it's a conspiracy hatched by enemies of Muslims to prevent them from practicing Islam. Even though people in Saudi Arabia were told to pray at homes instead of going to mosques they still believe it's a plot to change Muslims into atheists. And as this was repeated thousands of times, it was only natural that our people should flout all government directives to wear masks and observe social distancing when the lockdown was relaxed. Saudi Arabia has ordered a curfew during all four days of the Eid holidays next week. Do you think our people would passively remain at home if a curfew is ordered in Pakistan during Eid holidays? I would bet that all of them would openly defy it, even if it meant getting shot and losing their lives. So why should we expect them to accept a vaccine, whenever it is available?
It seems Bill Gates is the new villain in Pakistan. In a viral video, a man is heard saying that the vaccine being developed by Bill Gates would turn Muslims away from Islam (without of course turning Christians and Hindus turn away from their religions). How would the vaccine do it? How would Bill Gates ensure that only Muslims would be affected? But then, our people are simpletons, and they easily believe in conspiracies, perhaps because they have very little knowledge of science. And for this we have only ourselves to blame, as we elect ignorant and corrupt politicians to our assemblies.
The writer is an engineer, a former visiting lecturer at NED Engineering College, an industrialist, and has been associated with the petroleum, chemical industries for many years. He tweets @shakirlakhani
https://dailytimes.com.pk/617514/will-our-people-accept-the-covid-19-vaccine/


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Twenty years ago, I was an avid fan of the cult TV programme Robot Wars. Teams of contestants would design and nurture their metal offspring, and then set them to fight. The goal of these remote-controlled battles was to cripple the enemy robot, or eject it from the arena. They sliced, bashed, torched, shoved and flipped each other, and much of the fun lay in trying to guess which technique would triumph.
A clash of contrasting styles clearly holds some visceral appeal. Mongoose or cobra? The shackled bear, or the snapping bulldogs? Bearbaiting is consigned to history, but there is an ongoing online dogfight between two of the top chess engines, Stockfish and Leela Chess Zero. Stockfish, an open-source chess engine, is freely available and very powerful. It is a 'brute force' engine, in the same tradition as IBM's famous 'Deep Blue' which defeated Garry Kasparov. Leela (sometimes known as Lc0) is the young upstart, a 'neural net' engine, which is based upon DeepMind's famous AlphaZero, which caused such excitement when its games were first published a couple of years ago. (Game Changer, written by Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan, is an excellent guide).
You can't run AlphaZero on your own computer, but the revolutionary artificial intelligence algorithms which underpin it were described in detail by DeepMind. They provided a blueprint for Leela, a program which can be run at home, thanks to a distributed online development effort.
'TCEC' (Top Computer Engine Championship) (tcec-chess.com) is a regular competition for the world's best engines, in which Stockfish and Leela have consistently risen to the top. Season 17 ended in April with a narrow 52.5-47.5 victory for Leela over Stockfish in the final. The differing design of these engines leads to some incredible battles.
Leela and its ilk show a heartening appetite for long-term sacrifices, exemplified in the following game. The opening phase wouldn't look out of place next to the romantic games of the 19th century, but the unhurried follow-up is the real marvel, particularly between moves 10-15 and 20-30. Traditional engines like Stockfish are tenacious defenders, but that doesn't always suffice.
Leela Chess Zero–Stockfish
ECO MegaMatch II, chess.com
1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 Bc5 4 c3 Bb6 5 d4 exd4 6 cxd4 Nce7 7 O-O c6 8 d5! Extraordinary. Sacrificing a whole bishop to drive a pawn wedge through the centre of the board. 8…cxb5 9 d6 Nc6 10 e5 Kf8 11 Nc3 Qe8 12 Re1 h6 13 Nd5 Bd8 14 b4 Simply mobilising all the pieces. Black's passive pieces, particularly the Bc8 and Ra8, have little say. 14…a6 15 Be3 h5 16 Bb6 Nxb4 (see diagram) 17 Nf6! gxf6 18 exf6 Qxe1+ 19 Qxe1 Bxf6 20 Qxb4! The knight would have plugged a lot of holes on c6, hence this bold exchange sacrifice. 20…Bxa1 21 Ng5 h4 22 Qb3 Nh6 23 Qd1 Bg7 24 Qe2 Bf6 25 Ne4 Ba1 26 Qe1 Bg7 27 Qe3 Ng8 28 Qg5 f6 29 Qg6 Rh6 30 Qf5 Kf7 31 Ng5+ Kf8 32 Nf3 Stockfish still has ample material for the queen, but there is almost nothing to do with it. 32…h3 33 g4 Bh8 34 g5 Rh5 35 Be3 b6 36 Ne5 Rb8 37 Kf1 b4 38 Qg6 Finally cashing in. 38…fxe5 39 Qxh5 Bb7 39…Bg7 40 Qf3+ Ke8 41 Qd5 Kf8 42 g6 does the trick. 40 Qxh8 Bg2+ 41 Ke1 Be4 42 g6 Bxg6 43 Qxh3 Nf6 44 Qh8+ Kf7 45 Qxb8 With queen for knight and pawn, mopping up was just a matter of time. White won.
Chess players on ice
When Garry met Fabi
Ding's wings
A multitude of contests
A question of motivation


Many CIOs look to the fast-moving retail tech markets for insights into the future of technology.
Here's a cautionary tale. For over two centuries, the Encyclopedia Britannica was the world's preeminent reference source. It epitomized a culture of rule by experts—a central authority determined the priorities, the work was conducted by a cadre of prequalified experts, the findings were centrally controlled, and a finished product was distributed to the masses.
In 2001, Wikipedia was born, using a revolutionary technology platform to create a completely different cultural model. Priorities and work assignments were generated by popular consensus. Work was distributed across tens of thousands of end-users. Most significantly though, Wikipedia instilled a culture of trust—end-users were trusted and empowered to create the content, to maintain quality control, and to adhere to minimal, but strict, standards set forth by management.
In 2012, after nearly 250 years in operation, the Encyclopedia Britannica shut down its print publications following a plunge in sales and lack of interest by its former customers.
The lesson for the CIO and the enterprise? Digital transformation is not just about devices and hardware. It must be accompanied by a shift in culture—one that trusts its workers, that empowers them with technology and that enables users to become the creators. This is a change in the equilibrium between the worker and management—a transition that the now marginalized Encyclopedia Britannica failed to make.
This article, which is supported by data from a Forbes Insights/VMware survey of more than 2,000 CIOs and end-users worldwide, highlights the changes that are driving today's new "digital culture" within companies, and how CIOs can create an environment that allows employees to innovate and thrive in their digital workspace.


Finish stressful activities as early as you can. If you keep until bedtime, your mind will still be racing when you're trying to sleep. When a bit of late-night work is necessary, take time to wind down before crawling into bed, says Neil Kline, DO, board-certified internist and sleep disorder physician. "Instead of doing bills before bedtime or rehashing the day's events, have a soothing ritual," he says. Try taking a hot shower, meditating, or listening to relaxing music, suggests Dr. Kline.
Your body has a circadian rhythm that determines when to sleep and wake up. The cycle naturally lasts about 24 hours, and the brain uses light to figure out whether you should be awake. "Bright light is used as a very powerful time cue to influence the brain into believing it's a certain time of day," says Dr. Kline. Low light after sundown signals the body to produce sleep-inducing melatonin. But your brain doesn't know the difference between sunlight and light from your phone, TV, and even lamps, so you might stay wired if you use that technology close to bedtime, says Dr. Kline. Experts recommend turning electronics off two hours before bed, but if that's not realistic, try cutting down where you can, says Dr. Winter. For instance, watch TV in a dark living room rather than streaming Netflix from your laptop in bed, he suggests. The light isn't the only problem though. Here's why social media is ruining your sleep.
Don't be surprised if you have trouble nodding off, even after you've tried winding down with a book. Doing activities like reading or watching TV in bed can keep your body from realizing it's time for sleep. "You don't want to associate the bed with activities associated with wakefulness," says Dr. Kline. Using an eReader is a double whammy, says Dr. Winter. Like a phone screen, the light from an eReader can trick your body into thinking it's still daytime, so use a real book instead. Attach a lamp to the wall or bed behind you so the light is indirect on the pages and not shining up at your face, says Dr. Winter. Try these sleep-inducing products to help you fall asleep faster.
We've all been there: You can barely keep your eyes open on the couch, so you get ready for bed. But by the time you've brushed your teeth, you have a second wind. What gives? For one thing, those bright bathroom lights that are great for doing makeup can signal your brain to wake up. Plus, the energizing taste of peppermint could also rev you up. That's no excuse to skip brushing your teeth at night though. "If you're struggling with this, try brushing your teeth early," says Dr. Winter. Brush your teeth during a commercial break instead of after your show, he suggests. You could also swap out that zingy peppermint toothpaste for a milder one at night (though that minty one could help wake you up again in the morning), says Dr. Winter. Still awake? Find out what your sleep habits might be trying to tell you.
Light isn't the only thing signaling your body that it's time for bed. "Our bodies have a rhythm to body and brain temperature," says Dr. Kline. Your body cools down at night, so keeping your bedroom toasty can confuse it into thinking it's still early. Most experts recommend keeping your bedroom around 65°F, according to the National Sleep Foundation. That temperature might not work for everyone, but in general, opt for a cooler temperature over warm when you're trying to sleep, says Dr. Kline. Here's what happens to your body when you take melatonin.
These 10 serious conditions are linked to poor sleep.
It's no surprise that pain can make it harder to sleep, but address the pain instead of just trying to sleep it off. "It surprises me how many people don't recognize that," says Dr. Winter. "They focus on the sleep problem and don't focus on the pain problem." Even though they have a sedative effect, some pain pills can actually lead to worse sleep quality, he says. Invest in a new mattress instead. A memory foam or adjustable mattress, for instance, could support your body better and ease your pain.
Physical activity can help you sleep better at night—if you time it right. Even though exercise generally helps promotes deep sleep, hitting the gym right before hitting the hay can keep you awake. "Vigorous exercise before bedtime can be counterproductive because those endorphins can remain in the system," says Dr. Kline. If possible, try working out in the morning or afternoon. If your schedule only allows for an evening exercise routine, though, it's better to work out later than not at all, says Dr. Winter.
You'd never chug a cup of coffee before bed, but caffeine—including from tea and soda—stays in your system for longer than you'd think. Even drinking it within four hours of bedtime could keep you awake at night, says Dr. Winter. A cup of coffee with dessert might not bother everyone, but some people's bodies metabolize the caffeine more slowly, he says. "One study says some people feel the effects way beyond four hours," says Dr. Winter. Cut the caffeine off after lunchtime to be safe, he recommends. Read up on whether a sleep aid is right for you.
Sure, that glass of red wine will knock you out fast, but that sleep won't be good quality. "There's a difference between sedation and sleep," says Dr. Winter. Alcohol suppresses deep REM sleep, the dreaming period when your body restores itself. As the alcohol leaves your system, dreams come rushing in, making your sleep feel fragmented, he says. If you're worried that alcohol could be cutting into your sleep quality, avoid drinking within five hours of bedtime, recommends Dr. Kline. Here's what sleep doctors wish you knew about snoring.
Going to bed with an empty stomach could make it hard to fall asleep, but avoid eating heavy food before bed. "If you have food in your gut, you're putting more energy into digestion than into sound sleep," says Dr. Winter. Plus, late-night eating could lead to weight gain. Settle a rumbly tummy with a sleep-promoting snack like cereal or a handful of nuts, he says. If you have the munchies but aren't actually hungry, sip some calming chamomile tea to satisfy your craving. Be sure to avoid these 13 other strange things you probably didn't know were ruining your sleep.


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posted Friday, August 10 2012 - Volume 40 Issue 32
New Pride Foundation ad focused on love and commitment
by Christina Rocks - Special to the SGN
The Rev. Gib Rossing of Olympia and his wife, Beth, who have been married for 52 years, talk about the importance of marriage for their four children, including their Gay son and his partner, in a new TV ad by the Pride Foundation.
This is the second statewide ad released by the nonprofit Seattle-based community foundation, which has led the ongoing public education campaign on the freedom to marry.
The ad focuses on the Rossings' son Jonathan and their hopes for him to be able to marry his long-term partner, Ryan. It emphasizes that all loving and committed couples, both Gay and straight, hope to marry for the same reasons - to make a lifetime promise to another person and to share the joys and challenges that life brings.
'We believe this spot will resonate with so many families in Washington who don't distinguish between one child or another, and simply want the very best for all their children, including being able to one day marry the person they love,' said Kris Hermanns, executive director of Pride Foundation. 'Reverend and Mrs. Rossing speak for so many parents and will help expand our conversations with Washingtonians about the importance of marriage for all loving and committed couples.'
The Rossing ad follows another that debuted during the telecast of the Olympics opening ceremonies and features Cheryl Pflug, a Republican former Washington state senator.
The ad campaign is an extension of Pride Foundation's effort to reach and educate the public on the impact that the freedom to marry will have on real Washingtonians' lives. Pride Foundation has done comparable education efforts for years in Washington and across the Northwest on critical issues facing the LGBTQ community.
You can watch the ad at http://whymarriagematterswashington.org/journey.
Pride Foundation is a donor-supported community foundation providing grants, scholarships, and community leadership in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. As a catalyst for change, Pride Foundation supports transformative philanthropy, programs, and individuals who advance equality for the LGBTQ community.
Christina Rocks is the Pride Foundation's communications manager.
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1) the Red Mount Chapel, King's Lynn.
The walk from the Theodesian walls to the First Hill, past collapsing churches, mosques as plain as they are grand, territories third-world/chic-and-Bohemian/Heavily Islamic. How many cities can they get into this place?
4) Smeathe's Ridge/the old Marlborough Road.
5) West Kennet Long barrow – at night.
6) Martinsell Hill – at night.
Liekwise, but in the summer; if the open air, with the wide Vale of Pewsey gaping beneath like a quiet yawn, could be cosy — well, this was cosy. And for an hour at 2am the moon revealed its cloudy mysteries, and the stars were bright as pins.
This masterpiece of Cornish Gothic — a ruined medieval hermitage atop a ridiculous, wouldn't-believe-it-if-it-was-CGI outcrop of granite — is all the better for being set in a shattered post-industrial wasteland. Landscape as EMO.
8) Salisbury Plain from the air.
Another crypt, quietly satisfying; and a church above as open and empty as a swimming pool, with jewel-sharp fourteenth-century kings clinging to the golden limbs of Jesse's tree in the windows: you can almost touch them.
Orange, empty, at once wiped clean by its own history and full of quiet poetry.
Cistercian fragment, elegant as a whisper, given a heartbreaking twist by hyperactive additions of the C17: tempus fugit, so fugit I'm standing still.
Unlovely, but the unfolding story of British Sea Power is here made into stone.
The top end of the Kintyre peninsula, with rocky peninsulas and Celtic stones enough to make it a world apart.
18) La Hougue Bie, Jersey.
Enormous Neolithic passage tomb? Check. Evocative/mysterious medieval chapel? Check. Nazi command bunker? Check. Three-in-one, then.
I know, I know… but it was dawn, and clear and cold (always the best days — you may have noticed). And an hour later I was turning over leaves of C8 parchment.
A top 20 of sorts, then. Some already familiar; the big moments where Red Mount, Hagia Sophia, Abbey Dore, cycling in the snow, sleeping in the open.
At times like these, when the sun has deserted half the planet, and a thousand carbon-guzzling engines are doing their best to cast their frantic discs of electric light onto rain-loaded strips of tarmac, strips which seem to stretch away in every direction, enribboning and enwrappening the landscape in infinite linear horror, and a million people sit within their hurtling metal boxes, scurrying before winter storms, pouring particulate-heavy vapours into the rain-soaked atmosphere, each encaged and enraged by their own desperate velocity, it seems even comfort can be made a kind of hell. Or even, particularly comfort can be made a kind of hell.
Yet as I heave my fossil-fuelled way north and west, the downpour eases; high, hard hills fringe the emerging far western skyline, and as if driven away by the warming breath of the coming sun, the thick, wet clouds disappear behind me, revealing in their high-up stead something high, hard, blue and fresh, and beneath its gaze a hard-eyed landscape of reflective liquid mirrors, lapping at the hedgerows and lying in undefeated glazes over the road; and the lanes themselves narrow and quieten, the houses increase in age and decrease in moneyed spruceness, and as I finally round a corner something ancient and perfect faces me across a low curve of field: a rounded apse, the twin gables of nave and choir, rising small and poised from the rise of earth. Kilpeck.
What does sacred mean? Something unutterably important. My family is sacred to me. But if it meant only that, the word would not need to exist (except, perhaps, in that it is shorter than 'something unutterably important'). The word's raison d'etre includes some concept of the divine; more than that, an idea that there are gradations of experience between being and not-being in its presence; a concept that on articulation is rather odd, and odder still if one is not even certain if one accepts a fixed or even necessary meaning for the word 'divine' itself.
And it is word with many faces. It is easy to attach to things one loves: a mountain range, one's children; or to articles of faith: the words of a Holy book, the name of a Prophet. Yet in many traditions it has more challenging attributes. Some places have been too sacred to enter; and to the face of the sacred, less wholesome attributes – terror, jealousy, judgement, violence – have been connected. Perhaps, even, we cannot really consider the meaning of the word 'sacred' without admitting something of this; perhaps without it the very idea is neutered, tamed, a roaring beast enkittened.
Contact with the natural world in its true power can involve real terror, real violence, real powerlessness; and these are not emotions we should try to imitate just because we have a romantic sense that our perception of the sacred is a little dried-out, a little empty of true content. To rejoin our connection to the natural, to replace the sublime (which is on the way to it but not quite it, too knowing, too indulged-in), is to encounter something we may not really want to have to get to know; and the people struggling to put their lives together up in Cumbria would be right to laugh in your face at the suggestion that at least they have touched some experience that bears on the divine. These reflecting fields beside the road may engulf us all.
So is Kilpeck sacred? It's certainly perfect. The way it sits on its abandoned hill. The castle tump behind, fresh-deluges filling its empty moat-sockets; the well-trampled earthen paths leading to its peak the deep soft brown of Marcher sandstones. The extraordinary smooth inventiveness, at once fiercely local and giddyingly cosmpolitan, of the corbel-table, tympanum, attached columns of the church beneath it, at 8am on a hard and brilliant November morning.
There's not much to add about such a well-known place, but there are things to remark on here. The tension between scale and quality: tiny, yet perfect, and so richly elaborated. The question of location: does this count as incipient-settlement-church or exclusive-castle-bailey church? Or is there even much difference, at this date? In other words, who was expected to use it, in the C12, when it was built? Castle Acre, Devizes, Old Sarum, these were much bigger places, yet where still basically castles with a huddle of houses outside one gate: a nodal point in a network of power, for certain; and one that is not uninterested in having a small gathering of people living just beyond its gates, but nothing we would recognise as 'town'. The idea of the 'bailey church' needs unpacking; compare the grandeur of St John's over the 'people's church' of St Mary's, Devizes; the levels of customisaton and experimentation that might be associated with an exclusive, aristocratic churches: episocopal Melbourne and Hereford; knightly round churches within Ludlow and at Orphir, on Orkney's Mainland, and even Cambridge?
This much I know: but the next destination, I did not.
It sits in a broad valley, with empty mountainsides a shadow hoveing on the edge-of-eye, and great long low hills like the scars of nearby mountainbuilding, reaching like pine-fringed fingers in to the valley d'ore. The abbey Dore, with its strange cut-in-half-then-recooked profile and its village a reconfigured city of refuge, a Sinai of the Marches.
Now this place, which was a Cistercian monastery, and then a near-ruin, and was then reinvented in the Laudian era as a parish church, has a quality rarely encountered. Inglesham has it, has it enough to make one weep; and it is indeed more common in such intimate and accidental places. Indeed I don't think I know another building on such a grand scale that has it, and to experience it in a once-where so grand is somewhat overwhelming. And there is something to unpack in the way that layered acts of violence and re-sanctification seems to result in it: as long as those acts are visible. Terror visible but neutered; change left unpretended; palimpsests of trauma with which to approach the S-word, Sacredness. And perhaps this collision goes beyond the obvious contrast of pre-and post-Reformation, iconoclastic violence, and the reinvention of iconography, and then the melding of both in years of neglect. For there is something remarkable about a place being made by the fierce spiritual warriors of the C12, and then remade for ordinary farmers and their labourers in the C17; about the resulting collision of charged, exploratory early Gothic and potty, licentious post-Renaissance. A chemical reaction between two related and yet utterly contrasting visions of aesthetics, community and Church.
Anyway, whatever It is, It's dripping from this place. And art-historically, it's remarkable too. Those Laudian roofs are not just full of the fractured, scrapbook oddness of Jacobethan taste; they are positively pornographic, born up by tiny C17 Katy Prices, without the plastic skin; their silicon breasts of oak poking out above the springers of lost vaults. And this remaking is everywhere, filling choir, making screen, backing chancel with artisan oak; layering the plastered walls with black letter homilies.
Likewise, those early gothic-going-on-Early English arches in the retroquire, a kind of mini, box-sized chapel of many altars, on which all this lies are perfect exemplars of a perfect moment, and in many ways a more interesting expression of the Cistercian ideal than the more straightforward sparseness of earlier Pontigny or Fontenay. Like Wells, this is a model of the new architecture, or rather a model of the church in which the new architecture is one tool in a quest for a way of building which can eschew richly-carved articulation – no Cluniac excrescences here – without sacrificing decorousness, the quiet ravishing heaven-evoking realms of rib and shaft, of space re-shaped. And unlike (secular) Wells – or (secular) Salisbury – or even its closer cousin, the (Augustinian) retroquire, perhaps a decade newer, at St Mary Ouvery, this space on edge of the Walha fully understands the Ile-de-France realisation that the architecture of the pointed arch can fulfil all of these things without recourse to bangs and whistles; with a ravishing purity of form and the quietly elaborated articulation of same.
Is this the oldest building in the country to do such a thing? And what does it tell us of an invisible voice within certain trend within the church, a voice perhaps strongest among the inheritors of St Bernard, that might (if more such structures survived) have in fact spread this potential more widely, explaining its more corporate, sober, collegial counterpart at the above buildings, indeed of the 'Episcopal style' as a whole, reaching its highest expression a few decades later in the east end of London's Temple.
But it's the combination of the two: these pre-stiff leaf frondlets (and note that what we would call mature stiff leaf is plainly visible in the Wells transepts and St Hugh's choir around 1190; so is this alternative a reaction to the emerging orthodoxy? Or is Abbey Dore earlier than Pevsner thought?); those post-Reformation indecencies – which is extraordinary. That, and the invisible qualities ramified into this space by the way the eastern chapels today are populated by a lapidarum: violently beautiful clusters of bosses, mouldings, finessed aticulations of some (forgotten?) shrine; and little laminated notes are blutacced over the plaster and the faded layers of polychomy; and the barn-spaces surround and enclose us; and the hard soft sunlight; the silence, the emptiness, the dust, the cold. And from every unexpected corner, the brushstrokes on fresh plaster of five hundred years later remind us, as he flies with his hourglass through the bare transept, clothed as ever as Death, that tempus must ever fugit.
This was sacred. I don't know what it is, but I know this is it.
Madley has none of this, but it has a fascinating, not to say thrilling, story. This great space, the structural history of which Pevsner (drawing on RCHME?) nails so well, is an expansion on enormous scale – twice or three times previous size – of a plain-and-Kilpeck sized building, that is an ordinary parish church of the late C11-to-mid-C12, resulting in the earlier C13, in something already enormous: a frank and sober and thought-through west tower, and a clerestoried nave, the broken walls of its predecessor plainly caught up within it; a vaulted chancel (even).
The next transformation was less dramatic in scale but more interesting, and was taking place in 1318, when we know there was an image of the Virgin here and a brief but ferocious charismatic cult sweeping the see of Hereford via the unlikely St Cantilupe. The C13 expansion is interesting enough; perhaps one can link it to other regularising and expanding liturgy-parish churches such as West Walton or Potterne. But what of the later, more interesting motivation?
In terms of scale, it is merely the rebuilding of chancel, with the vault taken down, and the creation of an extra aisle on the S side of the building.
But what's interesting is the overall design. In some ways, this is a simple matter: the Marian apse could be out-of-Lichfield, which fits its dating well; though the way in which greater width is engineered is ingenious: by building outside the walls of the C13 predecessor and forming a slight octagon at the W as well as E end, connecting the chancel to the narrower nave and creating space in for two newel stairs. The stretched-Octagon plan that results may indicate knowledge of Wells, or may not, as it appears to be motivated by local, practical requirements (enlarge the chancel, create newel stairs) and moreover is not made a design feature, one does not perceive the space as octagonal; and indeed Wells is probably 1320s and so very tight date wise.
Anyway, neither of these buildings has a crypt. Madley has. The model for what happens below the floor of this apsed, almost-octagonal space, is nearer at hand and more obvious: it is the crypt to the Lady chapel at Hereford (was there then a C13 crypt at Madley? And do both, even, refer to Anglo-Saxon predecessors?); the function of the latter has been linked to the cult of St Ethelbert, to a cathedral parish altar, and to pre-1107 precedents variously.
This crypt is an interestingly detailed space. Look at those thought-through-yet-plain responds, subtley more elaborate round the apse than they are at the west end; the giant-spider vault to the capless column, making sense on the apsed east side, but rising off a flat west wall like some invader from Mars, and inscribing on its western wall the section of a hall church – lancet aisles, wide 'nave'. Clever stuff. And look at those methods of entry and egress (blissfully left open to the modern church-crawler, as if health and safety has yet to reach the Marches), which explain the importance of the newel stairs above: two long, low well-made stepped passages, leading from either side of the chancel arch, and running slowly downwards to turn into this low-down space. Reminiscent in its way of the ancient cult-crypts of Northumbria; but more so of certain works of cult architecture. The Booth porch at Hereford has side ways in to facilitate the experience of the image of the Virgin at Hereford (and let's not forget that mere access to a stone newel stair would have suggested privileged levels of access to the average peasant); the outer north porch at St Mary Redcliffe, by which the Booth porch is inspired, has a directly comparable arrangement; one might also compare the Red Mount chapel at King's Lynn (in its original form). Even closer at hand – close enough to be intriguing in its own right – and not associated with any known cult, is the lost Lady chapel at Great Malvern priory, with an early C13 crypt that was accessed from a narrow door in at least one of the east aisle chapels. This NB is all rather different from the access arrangements at Hereford, where there is a single big entrance from the Lady chapel steps and an even grander external porch. Here at Madley, too there is a third door; a priest has his own way in to the e (and there is barely space for an altar…, a problem at ONP and, a little less problematically, in the Booth porch, too).
Anyway, it's fascinating as another one for my collection of cult-related structures; and for apsed gothic buildings with crypts: indeed Westbury may be the only other non-great church example in the country; and for the not un-related iconography that at King's Lynn and Westbury uses crypts to make us think of Holy Sepulchres and at King's Lynn and Hereford devotes the more richly-articulated space above to the Virgin.
All this, and you can climb behind the high altar and put your cheek inches from the flailing glazed red-and-green richness of a Prophetic Regal Descnedant of Christ, sitting encurled in a top-notch C14 Jesse Tree.
Madley, by the Lugg, is plain after this, nothing but a simpler-still apsed C14 Herefs chancel and a featureless Boring Dec chancel arch, over-restored arcades (late C12/couple of decades later… how many of these things *are* there?) … but this is, in a very minor way, another building with a cult dimension. Apparently there's a well within the building, and the church itself is certainly located irrationally, with the floodplain lapping almost to the south aisle, and Ethelbert's head bobs by.


A partial view of the New Orleans skyline from I-10 WB coming towards the CBD.
This was the old MacFrugals warehouse that partially burned down in 1995 or whereabouts (thanks to Justin Priola for the info) along I-10 in East New Orleans.
Left Photo: This was a housing project at one point. It was torn down due to a cancer scare due to it previous occupation here.
Right Photo: Someone's idea of protesting traffic near Pump Station #7.
I guess morning rush hour was pretty bad in East New Orleans.
Here's a different variation of suffix routes. These hyphenated routes are very short and found in urban regions. When I first asked about these back in 1999, I was told that Louisiana was doing away with these (giving them back to local control). Alas since I moved here in 2004, I still see these hyphenated routes near Baton Rouge. So much for these going away. This particular photo was taken along Jefferson Hwy in St. Charles Parish back in June, 1999.
The second level of flood protection for New Orleans, the Bonnet Carre Spillway. Constructed in the 1930s it allows the swollen Mississippi to release its water to Lake Pontchatrain. Unfortunately, it is not design to work in reverse.
Ok this sign has as much to do with New Orleans as Baton Rouge does (both are roughly the same distance from the French Quarter). Unlike BR though, I don't have any other outlet for this photo so here it sets. However I don't believe Venice/Tidewater is the southern most point of Louisiana you can reach by means other than boat. Of course if you were able to go to the mouth of the Mississippi River, then you are at the southern most point of Louisiana.


I guess very good things truly do take practice. Taste Tester admitted that in the past, he was "being nice" about my pizzas, and they were alright, but this night and this pizza finally blew him away.
The toppings are red sauce, a little mozz, prosciutto, fresh green onions, mushrooms marinated in balsamic vinegar, and a topper of goat and feta cheese.
It only rose twice, and my new wooden peel helped. But the water ratio seemed to be the key. Taste Tester also moved the stone down a rack, and we had a metal pan on the rack above the stone, which seemed to protect the top of the pizza from burning while also distributing the oven's gas heat evenly.
My outer crust was bubbled and the crumb full of nooks and crannies, and the bottom crust was caramel perfect crisp. It was truly an awesome pizza.


Length of Blade (inches) 9"
Over All Length (inches) 15"
Captain Cook used carbon steel knives on the Endeavour during his voyages to New Zealand, and for the next 150 years the most favoured knives were fashioned from carbon steel.
But in 1913 Harry Brearley, a metallurgist of Sheffield, England, invented stainless steel. He was dubbed "the inventor of knives than won't cut".
Ever since, fishermen, outdoorsmen and chefs have had to put up with stainless knives that are simple and cheap to make - but don't cut and are difficult to sharpen.
At Svord Knives, Bryan Baker insists on using old-fashioned high-carbon steel in the manufacture of all his knives including his new Kiwi Fish Fillet Knife.
Bryan states that "once a fisherman uses a carbon steel knife he would treasure that knife because of its ease of sharpening and its ability to cut clean fillets from school fish including snapper through to larger game fish such as kingfish and marlin."
The question most commonly asked by fishermen is "how do I stop the knife from rusting?" The answer is simple: keep the knife coated with fish oil such as cod liver oil, or vegetable oil such as olive oil, soya oil or even Vaseline or CRC tackleguard.
Bryan says "in Captain Cook's day, fishermen would keep a wooden pail of sawdust nailed to the ship's deck. The sawdust was saturated with fish oil or even whale oil. Into this fishermen pushed their knives after use."


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What Ofsted said about 16 Watford schools inspected in 2022
Fintan McGuinness
Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery was found 'outstanding' last year (Image: Google Street View/PA)
These 16 Watford primary and secondary schools had Ofsted reports published in 2022, with 13 rated 'good' or 'outstanding'.
'Outstanding'
Alban Wood Primary School and Nursery was the only school with a Watford address to be found 'outstanding' last year.
Subject leaders were knowledgeable, adults regularly check pupils' learning in lessons, and all pupils make good progress and achieve well.
'Requires improvement'
Stanborough Primary School had the worst possible Ofsted rating for three years prior to an inspection last year.
It shook off its 'inadequate' tag but still 'requires improvement', inspectors concluded.
Head teacher Tiann Madden said "our journey is only just beginning and we are excited to implement further changes".
Watford Observer: Stanborough Primary School
Stanborough Primary School (Image: Google Street View)
Ofsted found a "significant proportion" of pupils' behaviour at Future Academies Watford is "unacceptable".
Principal Deborah Warwick responded that improvements have already been made and upon reinspection inspectors will see "the fantastic school with amazing young people and staff".
'Good'
Special School Garston Manor School continues to be 'good' after a report published on December 13. The report said pupils "love" their school and the opportunities it offers them.
Two secondary schools were found to be good.
Croxley Danes School opened in 2017 and after nearly five years the school was finally inspected by Ofsted last year and told "the work has paid off".
In 2022, 11 primary schools were given a 'good' rating, below are some of the comments Ofsted inspectors made about them.
"Being thoughtful and kind to everyone they meet is a noticeable feature of the pupils" at Watford Field School.
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Parents were "overwhelmingly positive" at Beechfield School and Woodhall Primary School, and at Bromet Primary School they "appreciate the school's caring ethos".
Formerly 'inadequate' Gurukula, the Hare Krishna Primary School, and formerly 'requires improvement' Greenfields Primary School turned themselves around under new management.
Ofsted thought Warren Dell Primary School could be judged 'outstanding' at its next inspection.
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Greenfields Primary School (Image: Greenfields Primary School)
Cherry Tree Primary School pupils "are proud of their school environment" and at The Orchard Primary School they "can be themselves".
Pupils at Kingsway Junior School were praised for their respect, kindness, and empathy, and at Oxhey Wood Primary School inspectors noticed how they listen and enjoy their work.
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Nadhim Zahawi's failure to disclose that he was in discussions with HMRC over his taxes was a "serious failure to meet" ministerial standards, a damning report into the affair has found. Sir Laurie Magnus, who carried out the investigation as the prime minister's new ethics adviser, said the former chancellor "should have understood" from the outset that he was under investigation by HMRC and that it was a "serious matter".
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Flybe is a smaller, less significant business than when it collapsed for the first time in March 2020, but a second failure in three years raises questions not just for prospective owners, but the connectivity of the UK. Three years ago the failure of what was then Europe's largest regional airline was blamed on the advancing pandemic, but in truth the company had been in trouble for years. A government-brokered deal two months earlier with shareholders, including Virgin and the US hedge fund Cyrus Capital, kept planes in the air, but ultimately they couldn't defy economic gravity.


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Longboat Key Monday, Apr. 8, 2019 3 months ago
Restaurant planned for former Longboat gas station
Whitney's restaurant is hoped to be complete in the fall at intersection of Gulf of Mexico Drive and Broadway Street.
by: Brynn Mechem Staff Writer
After multiple owners and several years of debate, the former gas station at the intersection of Gulf of Mexico Drive and Broadway Street will soon be transformed into a casual restaurant.
The 2,128-square-foot restaurant, dubbed Whitney's in honor of Gordon and Laura Whitney and Whitney Plaza, will be a place where beachgoers can grab a bite in a more casual setting, said site developer James Brearley.
"There are a lot of great restaurants that are institutions on Longboat. They are sit-down and have a higher check average," Brearley said. "They are an amazing part of this island, but I personally don't want that for every meal. I think there is room on the island for a more casual concept."
With its planned outdoor showers and walk-up counter, Whitney's, as proposes, will be just that. The menu will feature salads, bowls, sandwiches and tacos, while a limited coffee and breakfast menu also is planned.
The canopy over the pumps of the former gas station at Gulf of Mexico Drive and Broadway Street was demolished in March.
Additionally, a small amount of convenience items such as sunscreen and bottles of water will be on sale. Popular beach access sites are nearby.
"There aren't too many informal meeting places on the island," Brearley said. "The most important thing for us is we want the whole community to feel like this is their place to relax and get some great food."
With design team Studio Tack from Brooklyn, N.Y., and local architect Robert Rokop working on the project, Brearley said Whitney's will be modern while keeping its Longboat roots.
The old gas station canopy has been demolished, with a new one planned to replace it. Brearley said the design concept — leisure combined with American utility — is meant to beautify the north entrance to Longboat. The former gas station's roll-up garage bay door has been incorporated into the design.
With completion scheduled for the fall, the project is running full steam ahead. Once complete, Brearley hopes Whitney's will serve as a stopping point when traffic makes leaving the island difficult.
Brearley previously tried to build a hotel on the former gas station lot, but that proposal was rejected by voters in 2016. He also worked on projects such as the Oxford Exchange in Tampa and Buddy Brew Coffee in Tampa and Sarasota and hopes to bring the success those businesses have seen to Longboat.
"We really want the aesthetics and operation to be something that people are proud to have on the island," Brearley said."
The plans for the restaurant, which will be submitted to the town within the next 30 days, accommodate for the planned roundabout at the intersection of Broadway Street and Gulf of Mexico Drive. There is no current timeline for the roundabout, but Brearley said he wanted to have a plan in place, should it happen. The town has set aside $150,000 to study its feasibility.
Besides the Floridays Development Co.'s previous plan for a boutique hotel on the spot, the former gas station had been looked at by developers before. Most recently, there was a proposal to reopen the site as its original use, a gas station, which fell apart over the summer.
Property records show the site was sold to The Whitney LBK LLC Oct. 19 for $550,000. Brearley confirmed he has acquired the site, which was listed for $545,000. The previous owner was Tampa-based J.H. Williams Oil Co., which bought the site in August 2005 for $512,100.
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Driving: Take Exit 14B on The New Jersey Turnpike.
DOWNTOWN. Sometimes referred to as part of America's Historic Trilogy (along with Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty), Liberty State Park offers an array of activities and facilities, such as the Liberty Science Center, an Interpretive Center, and the restored historic railroad terminal. Visitors may enjoy picnicking, fishing & crabbing, and strolling along the Liberty Walk. The park also features a boat ramp, large vessel marina, pool and tennis courts. This is a good place to catch the Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty ferry.
We may rent a bus to depart from China Town if we have enough requests.
因为需要准备,请各位校友预先报名。参加活动可自行开车或在纽约曼哈顿唐人街搭乘校友会租赁的巴士. 乘坐巴士的校友每人付乘费 $10, 租赁巴士的费用余额由校友会付清. 乘车地点和时间另行通知.需要搭乘巴士的校友报名截止日期是8月23日, 自行开车校友的报名截止日期是8月25日.


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