You do realize the MAX8 was to be given a different type rating but MCAS was the solution to allow Boeing and the carriers to get around that so no new type rating was required for their pilots. Only a couple hours training on the new systems.
The MAX8 flew significantly enough different it was going to be a different type until MCAS was added to make it behave the same. This saved a ton of training and certification costs.
The problem is when in a problem situation and MCAS is disabled the pilots are for all intents and purposes now flying a type they have not been trained on.
If you don't believe me just open your eyes... Many many many pilots are reporting these issues. The FAA anonymous reporting system is full of such complaints.
This was a boondoggle from Boeings and the FAA's side.
Rather important is that it was in fact considered to have substantially different enough behavior to warrant a required type rating for pilots, obviated due to the software abstraction provided by MCAS. However, this abstraction is effectively disabled when setting stabilizer trim to cutoff which is one of the later steps in the normal troubleshooting sequence. OK? So the airplane is in an emergency situation, with a flight characteristic normalizing software routine disabled, thereby making it possible for the airplane to exhibit the very behavior that pilots were never informed of, never trained for, and not required to have a type rating for, that MCAS existed for in the first place.
I think that's quite a lot more relevant than airline safety records. Ethiopian Airlines has a good recent safety record anyway. And the outcry, upon MCAS being publicly revealed, among the U.S. pilot community I also think demonstrates important relative concern.
And, quite a concerning story about U.S. 737 MAX pilots using the anonymous aviation safety reporting system to communicate their concerns, whether instead of or because of the normal channels for doing so.
Published about 04:00 UCT 13/03/2019 i.e. after EU has banned aircraft.
Horrific Sub-Tabloid quality article in the Financial Times.
Reads like an advert for Boeing but confuses fly by wire and autopilot and computerised flight assistance systems and says in essence "nothing to see here - pay your money, have a stiff drink and get on that 737 Max 8 it won't kill you".
It incorrectly implies that 737 Max 8 is a fly by wire aircraft and is therefore safer than a traditional aircraft.
it takes a brave or calmly logical person to climb on board. But that is how passengers should treat the Boeing 737 Max 8.
The main contributor to this advance is technology, especially fly-by-wire software that responds to the pilots' touch on the controls by adjusting the thrust, flaps and other surfaces to produce the desired outcome.
The 737 Max 8 crashes will turn out to have been avoidable if the fly-by-wire software contributed to losses of control."
LONDON: When two aircraft of a new model crash shortly after take-off within months of each other, killing all the passengers on board, and airline regulators in several countries respond by grounding or blocking the jet, it takes a brave or calmly logical person to climb on board.
But that is how passengers should treat the Boeing 737 MAX 8.
You could wait until next month, when the software fix to the aircraft's occasional tendency to override the pilots' instructions and push the nose down after taking off has been fully rolled out.
But the era of "fly-by-wire" being an experimental technology is in the past and the data is clear — the more that aircraft rely on onboard computers to assist pilots, the safer they have generally become.
The fatal crash of an Ethiopian Airlines aircraft leaving Addis Ababa on Sunday (Mar 10), with the loss of 157 lives, follows a downing of a Lion Air flight off Indonesia in October, with 189 lives lost.
Pilots of the Lion Air flight apparently failed to stop the aircraft repeatedly overriding them when a sensor wrongly signalled to the flight control system that it was in danger of stalling.
It is unclear yet what happened to the Ethiopian Airlines flight but its unsteady rate of climb suggests a similarity to the Lion Air accident.
That was enough for China to ground the 96 new model Boeing 737s in service in the country, followed by similar decisions in Australia, Singapore and the UK. The US Federal Aviation Authority has become unusually isolated in declaring the aircraft airworthy.
Grounding a model of aircraft even temporarily is rare — the last time this occurred was six years ago when Boeing 787s were stopped from flying for several months while it developed a fix for onboard batteries.
This is a full-blown crisis for Boeing in its rivalry with Airbus in commercial aerospace; single aisle 737s and A320s are the low-cost workhorses for many airlines.
But Boeing and US regulators are right — to the extent that the aircraft is flawed, the 737 MAX 8 can be fixed with new software, better sensors and some pilot training.
There is no need to turn off computers and return to humans taking full charge of the controls. Software has proved its value since the 1988 launch of the A320, the first "fourth-generation" fly-by-wire aircraft.
It is a familiar fact, but worth repeating, that flying is far less dangerous than it was decades ago — the 11 fatal accidents per million flights in 1960 fell to around 0.1 in 2017, with only six fatal crashes and 19 deaths.
The number of accidental deaths increased last year to 523, partly due to the Lion Air crash, but safety keeps on advancing.
This includes "flight envelope protection", which means that if a pilot tries to turn the jet too sharply, or push up the nose and risk a catastrophic stall, the software can disobey in some modes.
As fly-by-wire aircraft have superseded earlier generations of autopilot, the number of crashes caused by pilot error (which is responsible for more than half of accidents) has fallen. Nearly half the commercial aircraft in service are now fourth-generation jets, which have reduced "loss of control in flight" crashes such as the Lion Air case by 75 per cent, according to Airbus.
Technology has its drawbacks — the spread of fly-by-wire and use of autopilot means that some of the biggest dangers lie on the border between human and computer control. Pilots usually switch on autopilot shortly after take-off and do not fly manually until landing (the FAA estimates that autopilot is used for 90 per cent of flying time), which limits their experience.
The best known recent case of pilots being unable to cope without technology was the Air France flight 447 crash of an Airbus 330 over the Atlantic in 2009.
Its autopilot disengaged in a storm because airspeed sensors were blocked and an inexperienced co-pilot put it into too steep a climb. While the control system warned loudly of the danger, it stalled and fell out of the sky.
The 737 MAX 8 may have suffered the opposite problem — the pilots were flying both jets manually but part of the flight software is designed to override the aircraft's tendency to pitch its nose up when climbing and turning.
In the Lion Air case, a faulty sensor reading could have made the computers respond as if it was breaching its flight envelope, although it was not.
The 737 MAX 8 crashes will turn out to have been avoidable if the fly-by-wire software contributed to losses of control. But Boeing need not redesign its aircraft entirely, and curbing the involvement of computers in flight systems more generally makes little sense.
The moral is that pilots should be sufficiently trained and practised to fly manually if required.
Given the choice of flying on an aircraft with pilots who are wholly in charge of the trip, or one on which software is able to countermand them if it senses an error, I would pick the latter.
The 737 MAX 8 accidents, tragic though they are, do not alter that.
Because they can't certify the aircraft without MCAS. At high AOA the engines (being MUCH bigger and WAY further forward) provide too much aerodynamic lift ahead of the CG, pushing the nose up even further. MCAS adds AND trim in this scenario. Just compare the B737-100 with the B737-MAX and you see why they needed to add electronic band-aids to keep it legal.
No one here believes them. See TWA 800 crash due to fuel tank explosion. The similarities to the Lion air incident are dominating everyones' analysis except for those of Boeing and the FAA. This might all change once the recorders are read.
and much speculation that the reported streak of light was a missile that had struck TWA 800"
There was no missile. A number of witnesses 'saw' a missile.
It isn't true. The MCAS system exists simply to aid with nose down trim in high angle of attack, close to a stall recovery because the new MAX has a greater pitch up tendency when pilots apply maximum thrust (in the recovery from a near stall) and regulators saw pilots sometimes didn't add enough forward control force when faced with an unexpected pitch up in those critical situations. The MCAS system likely will never be seen operating by a 737 MAX pilot in their entire aviation career so it isn't like it is making the plane fly the same on a daily basis for type rating purposes or something.
The MAX would not meet the applicable requirement in "Part 25" for control force/command per AoA ( several reputable references). The controls got "lighter" at high AoA whether banking or not. Whether the plane would have kept increasing AoA all by itself without moving the yoke, we'd have to ask one of the cert test pilots or evaluators.
No, only the MAX 10 will have a modified Main Landing Gear. However all MAXes have a lengthened Nose Landing Gear (12 inches IIRC) which makes for the strange stance of the airplane on ground.
Thanks, you're right of course.
Interestingly, looking at the ground clearances in Boeing's Technical Characteristics docs, the forward door sill height on the Max 8/9 can vary by up to 11-12" depending on aircraft loading state, whereas the NG door sill height only varies by about 6".
This describes normal operation of MCAS at lower airspeeds ~ Flap0, min manoeuvring speed; 10 secs of trim (or less ?) provides sufficient change in stick force to meet stability requirements.
However, with erroneous trim input due to AoA failure, MCAS can repeatedly apply 10sec inputs, furthermore this is not limited to lower airspeeds (not discussing Mach restrictions here).
Thus the increased stick force due to 10 sec of trim at ~ 250 kts could be considerable, repeatedly additive, and potentially even higher forces as speed increases - due to nose down pitch change.
The drill assumes that the crew will deduce 'abnormal' operation, but this might only be possible after noting trim activity in excess of what might be judged a normal input; so the decision process starts after 10 sec, with further nose down trim input.
Whilst we don't know if the 737 Max suffers trim 'jack stall' as in previous models, but even if not, the control forces could demand great piloting effort.
If these concerns apply to the Max, then system modifications must ensure failure resistance over the complete speed range.
This brings me onto point 2).- "Sanity" Displays.
Each aircraft has 1-3 INS systems. They look at 6 DOF (six degrees of freedom, P,Y,R, and Surge Heave and Sway as Noah would say) and they are fully capable of measurements to high orders of angular and rate accuracy. They know exactly what the "vectorial" behaviour of the airframe is at any instant. The strapped down INS actually contains low-drift North-seeking Ring [email protected] gyroscopes, and 6 very sensitive accelerometers, probably all Honeywell types same as used in TLAAMs. The basic function of it can act as a really high-accuracy vertical reference unit. (remember those?). It can output the true measured "3D" motions of the a/c its - accelerations, pitch angles, rates and an earth-centred attitude reference. Remember - half the battle of flying is defying gravity. So as an engineer, my question is - why rely wholly on attitude sensors that Noah used to trim his boat in a gale? They are subject to bugs (insects), cleaners, de-icers, icing, birdstrikes, electronic failures, corrosion, static from lightning, poor calibration etc etc. The real method of display of an aircraft's true attitude should, in my opinion, be derived from the "VRU" aspects of the INS and combined/checked against any external physical sensors. A failure warning "disagree" page should be available on the glass display, warning the pilot (by red/green overlaid lines etc) that what's being "dealt with" is NOT the true attitude of the a/c in motion or its approach to/from instability. Just a thought. I've banned my whole family and staff from ever flying on the MAXes for the foreseeable future and I extend my heartfelt sympathies to those affected by this, IMHO, totally avoidable "modern" tragedy.
USA grounds all B737-8 and 9 MAX as per now, 1130 PT.
Not a distinction that Noah had to worry about.
Nail, head, hit. Stakes can't be higher, with the order book hanging in the balance.
Will the MCAS-Gate affect Boeing the same way Dieselgate affected Volkswagen?
And the 707-320 was 152ft 11in long.
Both Canadian transportation minister and FAA statement refer to "new information."
Anyone have knowledge of what, specifically, we know today that we didn't yesterday?
The Canadians referred to new "satellite tracking data", which may just be a roundabout way of saying more granular ADS-B data hoovered up by satellite.
Possibly, and this time the Europe-US dynamic will be across the Atlantic in the other direction.
A stitch up between Boeing and the FAA may not be enough for other regulators around the world. It is unlikely but not impossible that to continue selling around the world, the MAX may have to be completely re-certified as a new aircraft.
It is unlikely but not impossible that to continue selling around the world, the MAX may have to be completely re-certified as a new aircraft.
On the contrary, it is indeed impossible.
The Max could not be certificated today under existing standards. That's why it's grandfathered onto the original 737 Type Certificate.


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Night of the Chainsaws -When This Boat Sinks There Will be No Survivors
Aarey: Judiciary must get off the fence
If you're still wondering why India ranks at 177 out of 180 countries in the World Environment Performance Index ( we were at 141 in 2016), you need look no further than what happened in Mumbai's Aarey forest last week.
Every concerned institution and civil society were complicit in the massacre of thousands of trees, a deed which, befitting a dastardly crime, was performed in the dark of the night- the political executive, the administration, the judiciary, civil society( barring a few hundred brave souls).
The whole process, clothed in frayed legal garb, was a travesty of the legal process, something which is recurring with greater frequency these days as the courts appear to be wary of rubbing the government the wrong way.
No reasonable person would hold that 2600 trees do not constitute a forest, and yet the Mumbai High Court did precisely that, on the basis of a technicality and perhaps missing out on an order of the Supreme Court itself.
The Forest Conservation Act 1980 does not define a "forest" but the Supreme Court did, in the 1996 Godavarman case: it ruled that the dictionary meaning of the word would apply, regardless of the title of the land or its categorisation in forest or revenue records. The Oxford Dictionary defines a forest as " a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth."
The court asked all states to notify forests as per this definition, and further stipulated that no non-forestry activity would be permissible in these areas without a strict process of approval. Some states complied; for example in Himachal any area of 5 hectares or more with a canopy density of 40%, by itself or in contiguity with a wooded area, would be deemed to be a forest, in Gujarat it is 2.5 hectares.
Unfortunately most states have not done so, including Maharashtra, even 24 years down the line. Their nefarious motive is clear: by not defining forest areas they can continue to divert valuable forest land for mining, industry, dams, real estate development etc. without seeking environmental approvals that forests would attract. Rent seeking would continue to flourish while the environment would continue to be devastated. It's happening in the Aravallis, in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, in the Western Ghats.
Aarey is the last remaining green lung of Mumbai and covers an area of 1287 hectares, with an estimated 500,000 trees on it., abutting the Sanjay Gandhi national park and the Mithi river. It is home to Adivasis and is rich in wildlife. However, it remains an undefined area, but the government's deliberate and venal lethargy in defining it does not make it any less of a forest.
The metro car washing shed proposed on it is in the Red category of industries- that is, most polluting- and the millions of liters of toxic water from the washing activity ( mixed with oil, grease and sludge) is bound to leach into the soil of the forest and also the river. The project should never have been allowed in the middle of Aarey.
In fact there were eight other alternative sites the BMC or the MMRCL could have chosen from, including the Backbay Reclamation area and the Kanjurmarg marshes, but they opted for Aarey because it was the "cheapest" as no price is ever attached to the natural environment in India: trees are only priced at their current wood value, not for the far more important ecological services they provide, and that too for a life span of 50 to 80 years. If these values were also factored into the project cost then perhaps forest areas would not be the first choice for industrial projects.
It boggles the mind that the High Court did not consider these aspects but chose to resort to the technicality that since Aarey had not been categorised as a forest by the state govt. it did not merit any protection. In effect, it rewarded the state government for not doing something it was directed by the Supreme Court to do in 1996 vis define what constitutes a forest as per the court's "dictionary meaning" interpretation.
The High Court further concerned itself with the procedural aspects rather than the merits of the petition, loftily noting that the petitioners " had lost touch with the procedures to be followed": since the issue of declaring Aarey as a forest/ eco-sensitive area was pending before the SC and the NGT, therefore the petitioners should seek relief there- " sink or swim" there, I believe were the exact unguent words.
This raises two points. One, if the matter was still pending a judicial determination then why was MMRLC allowed to go ahead with the cutting of the trees on the next two nights? Surely the correct course would have been to stay the fellings till the higher courts decided the matter?
And secondly, my lordships, it is not just the petitioners who will "sink" if Mumbai's last remaining green tract is destroyed, it will be the whole city, including the High Court.
The Supreme Court has of course stayed the felling of trees now, in an intervention which must be appreciated. But the order is practically meaningless and without any significance as the trees have already been slaughtered. The government counsel in the SC triumphantly stated( crowed?) that 2141 of the required 2185 trees had already been cut, they did not need to cut any more, and now the construction work on the shed will begin. As has become almost the rule now, the government has presented the court with a fait accompli which it will be happy to accept. Don't rock the boat( or the bench) appears to be the current motto.
It is not just a question of the 2141 trees that have been massacred in the night of the chainsaws. The court should have recognised the govt's intentions for what they really are- salami tactics, chipping away at the forest a few hectares at a time. Aarey has already lost a large part of its priceless greenery to the Aarey Milk Colony and the Filmcity ( 600 acres); it was time now to draw a red line. For the plain truth is that India has never had a government so unmindful of the natural environment, willing to sacrifice it all for a blind pursuit of the GDP gods.
There is enough testimony to this in the almost total dismantling of the environmental approvals regime, felling of trees in Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Aravallis etc. for mining, unnecessary highways, real estate development, dams, failure to declare the ESZ ( Environmentally Sensitive Zones) in the Western Ghats as recommended by the Gadgil and Kasturirangan Committees, ramming roads through tiger reserves, denotifying sanctuaries for the Ganga Waterway, and so on. All this is hidden under the bluster of grandiloquent announcements and fudged statistics which the world is now beginning to see through.
Given the collapse of all other forms of opposition and checks to the state it is now only the judiciary that can act as a brake. It has had many opportunities to do so but has not seized them, including the 53000 mangroves being slaughtered for the Bullet train, the 40000 deodars for the Char Dham highway, the desecration of the Yamuna flood plains for the Art of Living jamboree.
It does great dis-service to the ecology by laying more store on procedures, technicalities, choosing to believe the assurances of the government. As Aarey shows, the government deals with a marked deck and speaks with a forked tongue.
The time for sitting on the fence is now over. The judiciary needs to be more proactive in saving the environment, it cannot continue to look at its wanton destruction through the prism of legal technicalities and procedures. It needs to dispel a worrying perception that it is reluctant to take on the government of the day in such matters. After all, judges too reside on the same planet as the petitioners. In any struggle between right and wrong, professing neutrality means siding with the wrong.
In the final analysis the majesty of the law is but a legal fiction and is as nothing before the majesty of Nature, which is the reality. In matters of the natural environment there is no place for the dictum- "Nemo judex in causa sua" ( nobody should be a judge in his own cause)- for when this boat sinks there will be no survivors.

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Star Trek: Discovery – Desperate Hours (2017) – David Mack
Posted by TD Rideout on December 1, 2021 November 27, 2021
Back in 2017, Star Trek launched it's first live action series since the finale of Enterprise in 2005. As always there have been tie-in books allowing various authors to explore the universe depicted on big and small screens, as well as the variety of characters inhabiting it. Some to a more successful degree than others.
With the launch of Discovery, and something that I noted in the Picard series of novels, the authors, Paramount, and the publishing company for the novels Simon & Schuster, through their Gallery imprint, have wanted them to be a little closer to canon than some of the early editions back on the Pocket Books imprint (which are still enjoyable, but readers are aware that they are necessarily to be considered as canon).
Still, being the first to dip your foot in the pool has to be tough, especially when creating character stories, that could later be contradicted by on-screen depictions. Happily, David Mack's first foray into the Discovery universe fares pretty well, with only a few deviations from now established canon, though they can easily be glossed over and resolved.
Set in the year 2255, one year after the U.S.S. Enterprise's mission to Talos IV ('The Cage'), and one year before the Discovery episode, Battle At The Binary Stars, the U.S.S. Shenzhou, captained by Philippa Georgiou is assigned to respond to a distress signal; a colony is under attack by an unknown craft.
Aboard the Shenzhou there are new assignments for some of the crew, Lieutenants Michael Burnham and the Kelpien Saru are settling into their new roles of First Officer, and Second Officer, respectively, while still trying to figure out how to work with one another.
The distress call is precipitated by a drilling rig striking an anomaly under the surface of a planet, and rousing an ancient spacecraft which then launches a devastating attack on the colony. As the Shenzhou races to their aid, the legalities of the colony's claim on the planet are also explored – it seems someone covered up the data depicting the existence of an ancient, now extinct, culture on the planet and they seem to have a connection with this strange craft.
Seeing the lethality of the attacks, Starfleet assigns another ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise, captained by Christopher Pike to join the Shenzhou in stopping the attacking craft, and prevent it from getting off the planet and laying a swath of destruction across the galaxy – even if that means the colony is expendable.
Burnham finds a way to explore the giant craft, joined by one of the Enterprise crew, the one she knows the best, and one she's not sure she can work with, Lt. Spock.
While the two work together to figure out the craft's ultimate goals, the Enterprise and Shenzhou captains need to find a way to work together to stop the ship, or will have to carry out their orders and destroy the planet and everything on it.
It's a fairly fast-moving story, and it's telling its tale on three fronts, the Burnham/Spock angle, the colony's, and the Georgiou/Pike front. The continuity errors don't really affect any of these, as said they are only minor things – Michael doesn't quite sound like Michael yet (nor does Spock), and some of her behavior seems a little off, though that is touched on a bit by the story's end, so we can go with the belief that Mack was using that as a character arc, there's the mistake of calling Saru's home planet Kelpia rather than Kaminar (though that hadn't been established yet), and there's some issue with Pike and Georgiou as we later learn that they were at the Academy together, and while their behavior in this story doesn't preclude that, that knowledge makes you see things in a bit of a different way.
I found Desperate Hours a very fun read that gives us a look at not only the Shenzou but also the way its crew interacted with one another before we were introduced to them in the episode 'Vulcan Hello.'
Continuity has proven very important for Star Trek series over the years and everything in this seems to be mindful of this while still telling us a fun tale that lets us see the characters in a different light. Not bad for the first novel in the series, and a long way from stories like Spock Must Die! and The Prometheus Design.
I can't wait to see where the human adventure takes me next as I continue to boldly go…!
Check out this Discovery novel, and other great Star Trek titles (every live action series has their own line – though having typed that, I would love an official Lower Decks graphic novel, and maybe a series of Prodigy young adult books) available now from Simon & Schuster. Let's fly!!
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Lazio Region and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia will meet school managers and music teachers of Latina district to communicate Music Up Close Network Project and to engage students of Lazio.
The event will be hold in G.B. Grassi high school of Latina on Monday November 26th 2018, – Via Padre Sant'Agostino, 8.


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标题:Again and Supplementarily Concerning Marulić's translation of Petrarch's Canzone
摘要:Marulić's Latin version of Petrarch's canzone Vergine bella (created about 1510-1511, printed in the Evangelistary of 1516) is important as a testimony to Marulić's knowledge of his great poetic model and his skill in turning his celebrated poem into the eminent medium of the Latin elegiac couplet. In addition to this, it is to this poem that the short but very interesting dedication to Jerolim Papalić is appended; in this Marulić puts forward his views about translation. A detailed comparison of the translated version and the original has already been made by Francesco Lo Parco, long ago in 1931; attention was paid in this work to Marulić's poetic sources. Since that time, practically nothing has been written about this important document of the Croatian reception of Petrarch. Nevertheless, the importance of this poetic encounter and the richness of the translation or version do suggest the need for further interpretation. Although Marulić's way of translating can hardly be reconciled with our current concept of transmission of material from one language to another, the contemporary reader cannot, in spite of all Marul's amplifications and deviations, refrain from admit-ting that Petrarch's canzone and Marulić's translation are the encounter of two geniuses, and that the Latin version is in many respects quite up to the original: those areas in which it deviates do not diminish the value of Marulić's work; on the contrary, taken as a whole, the translation does honour to Marulić and the Croatian tradition of Latinism.


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Home » Data Analytics & Visualization » Staff » Gunther H. Weber
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Gunther H. Weber received a Ph.D. in computer science, with a focus on computer graphics and visualization, from the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany in 2003. He is currently a Staff Scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he serves as Deputy Group Lead of the Data Analysis and Visualization Group in the Data Science and Technology Department. Gunther Weber is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Davis. His research interests include computer graphics, scientific visualization, data analysis with using topological methods, parallel and distributed computing for visualization and data analysis applications, hierarchical data representation methods, and bioinformatics. He has extensive experience in working with researchers from diverse science and engineering fields, including applied numerical computing, combustion simulation, gene expression, medicine, civil engineering, cosmology, climate and particle accelerator modeling. Dr. Weber has authored or co-authored over 80 publications, five of which won best paper awards. He has served as principal investigator (PI) or Co-PI on several Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) projects. He is a reviewer for major funding agencies (DOE, NSF), conference proceedings and journals. Dr. Weber served as co-organizer, co-chair and program committee member of more than 40 internationally recognized conferences.
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Tendril not only looks super different, but when you use it you get the vine animation and finally there is Tooth Pick that is just a great overall pickaxe.
Fortnite is a fairly new game, but already there is a huge following. Fortnite was created in 2017, by Epic Games, and released with different software packages which have different game modes. But all of them share the same general game play and game engine. The skins used in Fortnite are some of the best in the gaming world. Fortnite is consistently releasing new skins, and some of them are for a limited time only. Right lets get to the Fortnite Twitch, Starter and Founder's Skins List now.
Now that you have finished the Rare Skins Gliders and Pickaxes List, don't stop there, maybe you will find you next skin in our Fortnite Uncommon Skins List.


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Q: How do you create a single robots.txt file for all sites on an IIS instance I want to create a single robots.txt file and have it served for all sites on my IIS (7 in this case) instance.
I do not want to have to configure anything on any individual site.
How can I do this?

A: An alternative to the robots.txt file is the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, as detailed here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/robots-exclusion-protocol-now-with-even.html
Which can be applied server-wide on IIS by adding a custom HTTP Header
IIS 6: right-click on the "Web Sites" folder > Properties > HTTP Headers
IIS 7: on the server home screen, click on HTTP Request Headers, choose "add"
Unlike robots.txt, this appears to be proprietary to Google and like robots.txt it is only useful against "compliant" search engine indexers.

A: It can be done using the Url Rewrite module for IIS.
Create these folders:
\Inetpub\wwwroot\allsites
\Inetpub\wwwroot\site1
\Inetpub\wwwroot\site2

Create 2 websites using the path of site# above.  Inside each website, create a virtual directory called allsites pointing to \Inetpub\wwwroot\allsites
Next, create these files. Each should have unique content to verify this is working during testing:
\Inetpub\wwwroot\allsites\robots.txt
\Inetpub\wwwroot\site2\robots.txt

Install the Url Rewrite module for IIS if you have not done so already.
Place this in the web.config of each website:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <clear />
                <rule name="Rewrite robots.txt">
                    <match url="^(robots.txt)$" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="/allsites/robots.txt" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
        <directoryBrowse enabled="true" />
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

What this rule does is matches a url such as http://mysite/robots.txt, and rewrite it to request http://mysite/allsites/robots.txt instead.  However, it will ONLY do this if the robots.txt file doesn't exist on the filesystem at that location.
So you can put a common robots.txt in allsites, but override it any site you want by placing a custom robots.txt in the website root.
This is a not a redirect.  The remote web crawler will have no idea that IIS is doing this behind the scenes.
Update:
I haven't done this on my configuration, but the Url Rewrite module does support global rules which can be defined at the server level.  So you would not need to define this for each site.
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-the-url-rewrite-module/

"Global and distributed rewrite rules.
  URL Rewrite uses global rules to
  define server-wide URL rewriting
  logic. These rules are defined within
  the applicationHost.config file, and
  they supercede rules configured at
  lower levels in the configuration
  hierarchy. The module also uses
  distributed rules to define URL
  rewrite logic specific to a particular
  configuration scope. This type of rule
  can be defined on any configuration
  level by using Web.config files."

A: Can you use symbolic links? Would that work?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/

A: Unfortunately, because the robots.txt file must be in the root of the site, there's no simple way that I can think of doing what you want. If it was something that was one directory down then you could configure a virtual directory in each site, but that's just not applicable for the robots.txt file.
Therefore, short of writing an app/service that would xcopy a robots.txt file into each site on a periodic basis, you could possibly configure up a rewrite rule in each site that would rewrite (not redirect) the ~/robots.txt request to serve up a file from a virtual directory, or possibly a different URL altogether.

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Cleanup debris four months after 2004 fire on lower Major St. Photo by Margaret Procter.
Burnt-out house on Ulster Street, 2016. Photo by Richard Longley.
In 2004 a fire on lower Major Street became more serious than it might have been otherwise because of unseparated attic spaces.
Two years later, another serious fire on lower Robert Street spread in a matter of minutes to five houses, also through their unseparated attics. After this fire, there was an outpouring of public concern about the terrible consequences for our neighbours. Money was collected and donated to HVRA — to see either to the welfare of the victims of the fire, or to promote fire safety.
As almost all the victims of the fire were covered by their own insurance, HVRA decided to put the money gathered toward the general purpose of fire prevention in old houses such as those in Harbord Village.
Board Member Colin Furness took charge of the research that produced a four-page leaflet distributed to all houses in the neighbourhood; Gus Sinclair oversaw the layout (thanks to Donna Endicott Layout Services) and printing (by Skylar Printing). The leaflet was distributed to all houses in Harbord Village in 2009, and is available here as a PDF file.
Just before the final printing in 2009, a third fire broke out on lower Major Street, and again spread because of no attic fire separations between living quarters. As this website was being prepared in 2016, three more fires struck: one on Ulster near Bathurst, one on Lippincott near Bathurst, and the other once again on lower Major, where a deck fire spread quickly to neighbouring roofs.
So our 2009 leaflet is still relevant: Fire Safety is a Serious Matter. If you live in Harbord Village, or in any of Toronto's Victorian neighbourhoods… please read this leaflet with deep care and attention.


NEW DELHI: As much as 16 per cent of the railway network carries 60 per cent of the traffic, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
He said a signalling system of a "very high value" is being prepared so that trains can run properly.
Responding to a query as to why Rajdhani and Duronto trains are getting delayed, Prabhu said a major reason for train delays is heavy congestion as there has been a significant increase in traffic compared to the railway infrastructure.
Assuring that work is being done to address the issues, he said punctuality is being handled every day.
"Some networks are operating at 160 per cent to 170 per cent of the capacity," he said, adding that doubling and tripling of 16,500 kilometres of rail network has been sanctioned.
"Age-old problems with which the railway was suffering and which have caused serious challenge to run the trains on time today will be properly addressed," he said during Question Hour.
The minister said the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail project has been sanctioned for implementation with technical and financial assistance of the Japanese government.
"Procurement of high speed rolling stock is an integral part of the project that envisages promoting 'Make-in-India' of high speed rolling stock in a phased manner," he added.
Around 85 per cent of the funding for the project would come from the Japanese and that too on "very soft terms".
"This is the best soft term under the Overseas Development Assistance," he added.


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CTC Boss Receives Royal Blessing
The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area, Mrs Daisy Tamunoene has received the royal blessing of the Amanyanabo of Ogu Kingdom, His Majesty, King Nicholas Dickson Ibiebele Nimenibo, Loko IX.
Tamunoene got the royal blessing when she led her committee members and principal officers on a solidarity visit to the Ogu Monarch in his Palace last Friday.
Speaking during the visit, she congratulated the king for the raising of the stool to a first class institution and thanked God and the Governor of the state, Chief Nyesom Wike for the good work well done, and that they were prepared to work with him and get his fatherly advice and goodwill.
According to her, "Ogu/Bolo is the most peaceful Local Government Area in Rivers State and we are ready to work with you and the security agents to maintain that peace and ensure that there is no problem during the tenure.
She also requested for a piece of land for the council to build a permanent site so that as soon as fund is made available, the project could commence.
Tamunoene reiterated that there is need for all to support each other to succeed and to ensure the prevailing peace continues, promising that together, they could bring the people of the area as people of the same family, and prayed God for a successful and peaceful reign.
Earlier, the Amanyanabo of Ogu, King Nimenibo, said the visit shows the council boss's respect for traditional institution, promising to give her peace and direction.
He stressed that her leadership and foresight was ordained by God because, "When the righteous rule the people rejoice".
King Nimenibo Loko IX further noted that for the visit, God had also blessed her and assured her of his co-operation to take Ogu Kingdom, the entire Ogu/Bolo Local Government Area and Okrika ethnic nationality to the next level.
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'APC, Dead, Buried In Rivers'
Council Chairman Reassures of Security In Communities
The Chairman of Oyigbo Local Government Area in Rivers State, Hon. Akara Okechukwu, has expressed confidence that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the forthcoming Governorship election in the area, not leaving out other positions down to the last councillor.
He stated that the foundation of victory has been laid by the Governor of the State, Chief Nyesom Wike, following his infrastructural development in the State.
Hon. Okechukwu said this while reacting after the State PDP campaign team visited his area on Saturday, saying that the people of Oyigbo were ready to reciprocate what the present administration had done for the LGA in every aspect.
" I have no fear and I am convinced that the Governorship candidate of PDP Siminialayi Fubara, and other State candidates of the PDP, will win.
"The people of Oyigbo have vowed to vote massively for PDP because that is the only way to pay back Governor Wike for his good works, mostly in Oyigbo.
"As I speak, 95 percent of people living in the area have their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs) and this indicates sure victory for our great party. I thank the people for coming out en masse for the campaign. I am really happy," Hon. Okechukwu said.
Also speaking, Chairman Revenue Committee of the LGA, Senibo Daniel Chijindu, described the massive turn out as historic, saying that it was an indication of total victory.
" I will say that the massive turn out of people is historic because this is the first time people came out en masse for campaign. Honestly, this is an indication that Oyigbo is Simplified and totally PDP.
"Governor Wike has given Rivers State a facelift in all ramifications. That is why Oyigbo people said they are for PDP in totality," he said.
The revenue boss advised those who registered for PVCs to go and collect their cards because that is only way to sustain the good governance of PDP.
In his own remarks, former Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in the state and a stakeholder of PDP in Oyigbo, Hon. Nancy Nwankwo, said adequate sensitisation had been done.
According to her , women in Oyigbo were already prepared to celebrate the victory of Siminialayi Fubara come May this year, saying they will come in their numbers to vote for PDP.
" I am convinced that Sim Fubara will do better hence he was a civil servant. He has proven his intellectual capacity faithful and truthful to replace Governor Wike," she said.
No fewer than 26 suspects have been arrested over the recent killings and arsons that took place in Ekoli Edda Community, in the Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Among those arrested were the state Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Stanley Okoro-Emegha, and a former chairman of the Afikpo South LGA and Federal House of Representatives candidate for Afikpo North/South Constituency in the 2023 general election, Eni Chima.
The police claimed they (the suspects) were responsible for the killings and arson that pervaded the area on December 26, 2022. In the incident, two persons including a Police Inspector, were killed, while two houses were torched.
The Ebonyi State Police Command, during a press conference, stated this in Abakaliki on Monday.
The command, which spoke through its spokesperson, SP Chris Anyanwu, accused the suspects of being behind the dastardly acts, vowing to arraign them in court soonest.
Aside from murder, the command also accused the suspects of arson, conspiracy, armed robbery and illegal possession of firearms.
According to the police, the suspects must face the wrath of the law, in spite of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry set up by Governor David Umahi.
SP Anyanwu said, "The key actors among the suspects arrested, volunteered useful 'confessional statements' that exposed the aggregate of overwhelming findings hereunder outlined:
"The fracas that engulfed Ekoli-Edda on 26/12/2022 ignited at about 1600 hours during a face-off between the security aides of Hon Stanley Okoro Emegha versus a faction of Ekoli-Edda youth believed to be loyalists of Hon Eni Uduma Chima.
"The protracted political rivalry/supremacy struggle between the duo, is the cause of the showdown that took place. Interestingly, the two political stalwarts hail from same community, belong to same political party and even live in close proximity.
"The visit of the APC chairman to his village on the fateful day, with his aides, infuriated the fragment of the youths in the area who are purportedly adherents of Eni Uduma Chima, hence the showdown that ensued.
"The war songs chanted by Egwu Famous Chinedu, the town crier, amidst hitting/blowing of his gong/trumpet, respectively, galvanised the youth into further action, hence, the rampage and escalation of the brouhaha."
He added, "The investigation further revealed that an attempt to arrest one Aruah said to be the leader of the Ekoli-Edda youth warriors, brought in the warriors who were reserved for the purpose of fighting in the boundary dispute between them and a neighbouring community in Cross River State. The said warriors wielded sophisticated prohibited firearms and their actions further degenerated the situation."
The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has accused the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, of hoarding permanent voter's cards, PVCs, with the intent to favour a particular political party at the polls.
ADC alleged that the only explanation for the inability of some persons to get their PVCs despite the Commission's promises and show of force was its deliberate strategy to disenfranchise some voters.
The party made its position on the PVC collection known in a statement by Mabel Oboh, the National Diversity and Inclusion Director, and the National Representative of the party in Lagos Campaign Council.
According to the party, "in Lagos for instance, non-indigenes are greatly affected by this deliberate act of disenfranchisement, based on feedback from our supporters."
ADC noted that, "It is becoming more evident that INEC is not prepared to conduct a free and fair election come February, as a good number of registered voters have not been able to collect their PVCs.
"This is a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise willing, but already fed up Nigerians from voting across the country.
"INEC had enough time to prepare for elections but it has shown itself to be partisan by denying people in the stronghold of the opposition their PVCs.
"We consider this action as rigging before elections. This perpetual act should not be condoned by Nigerians
"ADC also urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure all eligible voters collect their Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs.
"Our democratic systems and processes must be respected for the betterment of all, especially now that the country needs good leadership.
"As a third-force political party, ADC has worked very hard to ensure that we win a lot of seats and we are not going to fold our arms and watch our hard work go up in flames.
"We are also advising all those that have not got their voter's card to continue to raise alarm.
"This time around, the people should not allow their mandate to be stolen from them."
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LOVING: Dom being off work. It's been almost a month and I am so absolutely, completely not ready for him to go back. He made a comment the other day about how he could be off for six years and I would still complain that he was going back too early. Fact. Other things I'm loving include watching Isla love on Leo, thinking up/Pinteresting Valentine's Day crafts for Isla to make, and all of our recent house projects.
READING: Nothing but blogs at the moment, but that's due to having a new baby. I did finish my first book edit of the year about a week ago and am starting on my second, but for pleasure reading I plan to reread Bread & Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table. One of my favorites and a friend who borrowed it recently sent it back, so it's time to finally make those recipes (from the book) that I've been delaying.
WATCHING: We just started the Dexter series over and we are loving it. We hadn't seen the first episode (or any, really) in years, so we started it over since we spend a lot of our time in front of the TV with a new baby. We've almost blown through the entire first season in just three or four days.
ANTICIPATING: March! I recently joined the new Pure Barre studio in Fayetteville that opens in March, pretty much just in time for me to start working out again. So excited! In honor of working out again after waaaay too long, the gym bag below was purchased (but excuse the not-so-great photo).
LISTENING TO: We've been keeping the top country hits playlist on repeat because I could listen to Die A Happy Man by Thomas Rhett over and over again for days, but at the moment I'm listening to Taylor Swift's Red album on iTunes.
WORKING ON: Finishing up our West Elm inspired coffee table. I freaking love it and can't wait until it's finished. It's going to be a big statement piece in the living room and it's coming together well! Pictures will be up soon.
WEARING: Well, there's nothing exciting here in terms of clothes, but I'm obsessed with the Elizabeth & James Nirvana Black perfume I got for Christmas and I wear that any time I shower and make myself presentable.
WISHING: paternity leave lasted forever. A thousand more weeks, please?


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A New Spider-Man Movie Trilogy Is Coming With Tom Holland Set To Return
Holland will play Spider-Man at least three more times, it appears.
Following a period of uncertainty, producer Amy Pascal has now officially confirmed that Tom Holland will continue to play Spider-Man in additional films to come.
Speaking to Fandango, Pascal confirmed Sony's partnership with Marvel will continue beyond No Way Home in December. In fact, a new trilogy is coming, she said.
"This is not the last movie that we are going to make with Marvel--[this is not] the last Spider-Man movie," Pascal said. "We are getting ready to make the next Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland and Marvel. We're thinking of this as three films, and now we're going to go onto the next three. This is not the last of our MCU movies."
Separately, Deadline's sources said no deal has been made for a new Spider-Man trilogy. The report added that the film studios would need to make new deals with Holland, Zendaya, and director Jon Watts for any further movies.
No Way Home wraps up the trilogy that began with 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. A sequel, Far From Home, was released in 2019, and No Way Home finishes the trilogy when it arrives on December 17. Tickets are now on sale.
Sony owns the rights to Spider-Man's theatrical appearances. There was a period of time when Sony and Marvel hit an impasse over Spider-Man's existence in the MCU, but the two eventually agreed to terms.
Given Pascal's comments, it seems that deal will extend long into the future with at least three more Spider-Man films produced jointly by Sony and Marvel. As of yet, there is no word on when the next Spider-Man trilogy will begin or what the storylines might be. We also don't know if Holland's Spider-Man might appear in other MCU films going forward.
In other news, Spider-Man is coming to the Marvel's Avengers game, but there won't be any story missions, unfortunately.


Hearing is one of the first senses affected by the aging processes, and often makes communication more difficult, causing older adults to withdraw socially. Many older adults simply give up and tell themselves that it does not matter if they cannot hear what others are saying. They may view it as too much work (or too embarrassing) to constantly ask people to repeat themselves.
These disruptions of daily life may seem small or insignificant to a person with intact hearing, but for a person who is hard of hearing or deaf, difficult listening situations are a way of life, all day long, every day.
Here are some tips to help you communicate with someone with hearing loss or language comprehension problems.
Speak louder, but do not shout.
Shouting distorts speech and makes it more difficult to understand.
Speak slowly, giving the person more time to understand you.
But do not make speech unnatural.
Provide more information if the person does not understand.
Make sure the person is paying attention to you and knows that you are speaking.
Attract attention by placing your face in their line of sight and/or by touching the person.
Turn off the TV or go into a quiet room.
Make sure your mouth is visible.
If the person depends on visual input such as lip reading, make sure your mouth is not hidden. Do not chew gum!
Make sure you are face to face before you begin.
Do not call out or try to have a conversation from another room.
Give the person cues about the topic of conversation.
This post was adapted from Environment & Communication Assessment Toolkit (ECAT™) for Dementia Care by Jennifer Brush, Margaret Calkins, Carrie Bruce, and Jon Sanford, Copyright © 2012 by I.D.E.A.S., Inc. All rights reserved.
By Jennifer Brush, M.A., CCC-SLP, Margaret Calkins, Ph.D., CAPS, EDAC, Carrie Bruce, M.A., CCC-SLP, ATP, and Jon Sanford, M.Arch.
Copyright © 2012 by I.D.E.A.S., Inc.
With this innovative toolkit, identify simple changes you can make in the care environment to drastically improve everyday functioning of people with dementia—light and sound meters included!
Vergleichsrechner on Q&A with Stephen Golant, Ph.D.
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Obasanjo, Buhari to honour Bolanle Awe at book launch, Sept. 29
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs. Aishat Buhari, are among guests expected at the launch of a book on women challenges and achievements written by renowned Professor of History, Bolanle Awe.
The launch of the book, entitled Nigerian Women Pioneers and Icons, is slated for 11am on Thursday, September 29, 2016 at the Muson Centre, Lagos, and is expected to attract distinguished guests across the spectrum of society.
According to the book's publisher, Mr. Tokunbo Ajasin of Childsplay Books Ltd, other dignitaries expected at the launch include the Sultan of Sokoto, governors of Oyo, Ondo, Ogun, Lagos, Ekiti, Sokoto, Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Imo, Cross River states; women members of the National Assembly, women rights groups, family members of living female icons profiled in the book, as well as representatives of some of the deceased icons.
While the Deputy Governor of Osun State, Mrs. Titilayo Tomori, is expected to be the Chairman of the event, Mr. Modupe Alakija of Famfa Oil is the Chief Launcher, and the former Secretary to the Niger State Government, Professor M. K. Yahaya, will be the book reviewer.
In her initial reaction to the publication of the book, Mrs. Buhari, through her Special Assistant, Mrs. Hajo Sani, had commended the publication, centered on Nigerian women, as "beautiful and a useful resource", promising to attend the event after her arrival from the United Nations General Assembly event.
In his own comment on the book, Chief Obasanjo commended it as a "laudable effort" which he said will "complement her (Awe's) seminal work on the contributions of women, both to the political and economic history of Nigeria."
"I have no doubt in my mind that the book will be a great asset to the nation and a source of inspiration to many of us, young and old. Indeed, the proposed public presentation of the book could not have come at a better time as I am sure the content will offer direction and guidance to the generality of Nigerians," Obasanjo said.
The book, Nigerian Women Pioneers and Icons is a chronicle of 33 Nigerian women whose lives and achievements distinguished as outstanding, and who made notable contributions to the development of Nigeria and attained leadership positions in their chosen fields as pioneers, in spite of male gender roadblocks, eventually becoming potential role models for young Nigerian women in a male-dominated Nigerian society.
These include Nana Asmau, the legendary poet; Hajiya Fatima Lolo, pioneer female musician; Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti; Wuraola Adepeju Esan, educationist/politician; Lady Kofoworola Aina Ademola, foremost Oxford graduate; Margaret John Ekpo, foremost politician and pioneer parliamentarian; Irene Modupelola Thomas, renowned medical practitioner; and Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo, First Lady Permanent Secretary.
Also, Ladi Kwali, world acclaimed potter; Adetowun Ogunsheye, pacesetter in education; Mabel Segun; Flora Nwapa Nwakuche; Folake Solanke, first lady Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN); Grace Alele Williams, scholar; Bolanle Awe; Gambo Sawaba; Francesca Yetunde Emmanuel; Oyinade Olurin; and Batile Alake, pioneer and Queen of Waka music.
Others comprise Bola Kuforiji-Olubi; Oluwatoyin Olusola Olakunrin; Jadesola Akande; Aisha Bridget Lemu; Aderonke Kale, first Lady Army General; Aloma Mariam Mukhtar; Joy Ogwu; Hansine Napwanijo Donli; Zaynab Alkali, novelist and feminist; Folorunso Alakija; Onyeka Onwenu; Bilikisu Yusuf, first woman newspaper editor; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Chioma Ajunwa and Chimamanda Adichie.
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SUPPLIER of excavator undercarriage parts Astrak UK is looking forward to touching base with customers old and new at ScotPlant while showing off the breadth of its product range.
The Kirkcaldy-headquartered firm, which is part of the Europe-wide Astrak Group, is exhibiting at the event for the fourth time.
Edward said the firm was keen on giving its customers a greater understanding of the Astrak product range. "One of the challenges we have is a lot of our customers don't realise the breadth of our product range so it's going to be about consolidating and showing what we're about and what we actually have to offer across a wide range of products – from rubber tracks for small machines to undercarriages for bulldozers.
Edward added, "Some shows you go to, the ground conditions are dreadful but I would say the Ingliston Showground always works well for us in terms of location and physical conditions are normally pretty good.