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Glass Battery Breakthrough? If Proven, This Is A Game-Changer
A 94-year-old professor who pioneered the world-standard lithium ion battery technology has now announced a new glass battery which, he and his team claim, has triple the storage capacity of a lithium ion battery.
John B. Goodenough, an emeritus professor at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin and his team claim the new battery also charges in minutes instead of hours and operates in both frigid and hot weather (from -20 to 60 degrees centigrade).
Early tests suggest the battery is capable of at least 1,200 charge-discharge cycles, significantly more charging cycles than a comparable lithium-ion battery, and best of all, the glass-based electrolyte will not form the dendrites that plague lithium-ion battery technology. The dendrites accumulate as part of the standard charging and recharging cycle and eventually cause a short circuit that often results in a smouldering or burning battery.
Goodenough believes this battery technology could be the breakthrough that brings the electric car into the mainstream.
"Cost, safety, energy density, rates of charge and discharge and cycle life are critical for battery-driven cars to be more widely adopted. We believe our discovery solves many of the problems that are inherent in today's batteries," Goodenough said in a statement published by the University of Texas at Austin. This same battery technology could also be used to store energy in both solar and wind-power systems.
Facial Recognition Systems Used To Vet UK Prison Visitors
Facial recognition and eye scanning have been deployed at British prisons"to prevent drug smuggling".
The Ministry of Justice said the biometric scans for visitors were designed to help staff identify people bringing in contraband.
At one prison, there were more "no shows" from visitors than usual after they learned the scans were being used.
But prison campaigners said if families were deterred from visiting, then it would be "counter-productive". And campaigners for human rights claim that prison visitors should be able to opt out of scanning by FPR systems.
In the trials, facial recognition technology was used at HMP Humber; iris scanners at HMP Lindholme; and identity document verification at HMP Hull.
Ministers considered the pilot programme "successful" and are considering how to roll out the technology more widely in prisons across England and Wales.
Virgin Galactic Flies First Passenger In To Space
Virgin Galactic has returned the Unity spacecraft to the edge of space, two months after its inaugural flight, and this time it carried a test passenger.
Beth Moses, the spaceflight firm's chief astronaut instructor, joined pilots Mike Masucci and Dave Mackay on the flight. "She will provide human validation for the data we collect. Including aspects of the customer cabin and spaceflight environment from the perspective of people in the back," said Virgin Galactic in a tweet. The previous test flight in December was crewed by only pilots.
On this flight, the space plane went three times the speed of sound and reached 89.9 kilometres above Earth at its highest point. The Karman line – the point at which Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins – is about 100 kilometres above the ground, though the US Air Force defines astronauts as people who have travelled beyond the 800-kilometre mark.
Unity is officially called SpaceShipTwo, a space plane that is launched on the underbelly of a larger aircraft.
Drones Useful For Finding Unmarked Graves
Drones could soon help search for murder victims in remote areas. In recent tests, drones equipped with laser scanners identified graves in Australian bushland. Now, the nation's police want to use the technology in an ongoing case.
In the investigation, the police suspect that a missing person is buried in a densely forested area. However, all searches so far have come up empty. By using drones carrying a scanning technology called lidar, they hope to cover a larger area more quickly than they would be able to on foot.
Lidar works by pointing lasers at a target and measuring how much time it takes signals to be reflected back. The laser pulses bounce off the surfaces, such as leaves, they encounter. In this instance, they travel through gaps in the forest canopy to offer a view of the trees as well as anything buried in the soil below them.
Editing Plant Genomes Make Them 40% More Productive
An international team of researchers has, for the first time, demonstrated that by fixing a common glitch in photosynthesis, a crop's yield can be improved by around 40 percent. The landmark study suggests that optimising a plant's photosynthesis by gene editing could significantly increase worldwide food productivity.
Photosynthesis, the process by which a plant converts light energy into chemical energy, is not a wholly efficient process. A key stage in the photosynthesis process involves an enzyme called RuBisCO grabbing carbon dioxide molecules. However, around 25 percent of the time RuBisCO incorrectly collects oxygen molecules instead, creating a plant-toxic byproduct that disrupts the entire photosynthesis process. Photorespiration is the process plants use to remove these problematic by-products.
"Photorespiration is anti-photosynthesis," explains Paul South, lead author on the new research. "It costs the plant precious energy and resources that it could have invested in photosynthesis to produce more growth and yield."
This Toilet Seat Can Check Your Health
MIT researchers have invented a toilet seat which could detect signs of heart failure before symptoms appear.
The gadget fits over the top of a normal seat and contains sensors which can measure the user's heart rate, blood pressure and oxygen levels through their legs.
Its inventors claim the product could save millions of lives and make it easier to monitor at-risk patients with accurate, real-time information.
Currently costing £1,500 each, the toilet seats aren't cheap but they could save hospitals money and improve people's health, the researchers said.
Simple Eye Scan Can Detect Alzheimer's Early
A compelling new study has reported that statistically significant differences can be identified in the retinas of patients with Alzheimer's disease. The finding paves the way for a future where the disease could be diagnosed from a simple eyescan before major symptoms appear.
The Duke University research is centred around a non-invasive imaging technology called optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), which allows clinicians to rapidly examine the blood flow in tiny capillaries at the back of the retina.
Over 200 subjects were examined in the study, all comprehensively imaged using the new OCTA machines. Alongside 133 healthy control subjects, there were 39 Alzheimer's disease subjects and 37 suffering from mild cognitive impairment (MCI). One of the key goals of the study was to identify any retinal degeneration that could be directly associated with Alzheimer's disease, separate from more general age-related mild cognitive decline.
Spaceflight Is A Really Unhealthy Activity
There are certainly a whole host of technological hurdles to overcome before humans successfully travel to Mars, or beyond, but research is also pointing to a growing assortment of fundamental health challengesthat astronauts may face from long stretches of time in space.
A recent NASA-funded study has found dormant viruses can reactivate in the human body during spaceflight, presenting yet another physiological problem for scientists to solve before we journey out into deep space.
"NASA astronauts endure weeks or even months exposed to microgravity and cosmic radiation – not to mention the extreme G forces of take-off and re-entry," says Satish K. Mehta from the Johnson Space Center, and senior author on the new study.
"This physical challenge is compounded by more familiar stressors like social separation, confinement and an altered sleep-wake cycle."
Prior research has revealed prolonged space travel could result in everything from a heightened cancer risk and neurological degeneration to tissue damage in the gastrointestinal tract. It has also been suggested that spaceflight has a detrimental effect on the immune system and it is this process that scientists are hypothesizing allows dormant viruses to reactivate.
Gene-Edited Chinese Twins Were Also "Made Smarter"
New research indicates that the controversial use of CRISPR gene-editing on twin girls in China last year might have inadvertently improved their cognitive capacities, including their ability to learn and form memories, leading to a renewed debate about whether designer babies are going to become a reality in the very near future.
The twin girls, Lulu and Nana, allegedly had their genes modified prior to birth, with the stated goal of making the girls immune to HIV infection.
The gene that was supposedly modified using CRISPR is CCR5, which the HIV virus needs to inject itself into human blood cells. However, it also has well-established links to cognitive abilities in mice and memory formation and also helped the human brain recover after a stroke.
Alcino J. Silva, a neurobiologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, has been studying the links between human cognition, memory formation, and CCR5 for years. In 2016, Silva and Miou Zhou, a professor at the Western University of Health Sciences in California, showed how removing the CCR5 gene from mice provided a significant boost to their memory.
After Flying Cars, Flying Motorbikes Are Here
Jetpack Aviation has leap-frogged its own flying car project with the announcement that it's taking pre-orders now on a self-stabilizing, jet turbine-powered flying motorcycle capable of 150 mph speeds, 20 minute endurance and 15,000 ft altitudes.
The Speeder builds on JPA's jet turbine expertise, developed over the years working on the company's astounding JB-series jetpacks. It uses a cluster of four turbojet engines putting out a combined maximum thrust of 705 lbf – enough to lift the 231-lb (105 kg) airframe and a pilot up to 240 lb (109 kg).
Crucially, they're also rigged up to a fly-by-wire control system that allows the Speeder to self-stabilize in the air, much like a quadcopter drone. Running on kerosene, JetA or diesel, you can get yourself between 10 and 22 minutes in the air, dependent on pilot weight and density altitude.
Volkswagen Plunges Into The Electric Vehicle Future
Volkswagen has announced that it will accelerate development and production of electric vehicles, increasing the German car maker's bet on new technology as profitability in China and at its core Volkswagen-brand unit is slipping.
Other auto makers are making similar strategic moves in the face of ever-tougher emissions regulation and a shift in demand from ownership to car-sharing that is expected to boost demand for electric-vehicle fleets. But the transformation is expensive, forcing many auto makers to cut costs and form partnerships with rivals to shoulder the heavy investment in innovation.
Discussing the company's 2018 earnings with journalists, Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess said the auto maker wouldn't be able to avoid layoffs as it ramps up electrification in coming years. Production of an electric vehicle, he said, required 30% less labour than that of an equivalent combustion model.
WHO Meeting To Decide How To Regulate Human Genome Editing
The World Health Organization (WHO) is meeting to develop global standards of governance for human genome editing. Although the committee has no powers to enforce compliance – it is still a matter for individual nations to decide on regulations, with China reportedly updating its rules earlier this week – the WHO committee's recommendations will be influential and far-reaching in their ambition.
The first issue is safety. It is likely that the WHO meeting will focus on inheritable edits to human embryos, known as germline genome editing (GGE). The issue of GGE was thorny enough even before reports of the birth of twins with edited genomes in China – an intervention widely condemned as clinically unjustified and reckless.
The criticism partly stemmed from numerous mice studies suggesting that we cannot rely on genome-editing tools like CRISPR-Cas9 to make precise and predictable changes to DNA in every embryo. The conclusion is that genome editing cannot yet safely be performed on fertilised eggs for use in assisted human reproduction. But it might be safe at some point. The WHO can define standards for the evaluation of safety and efficacy in preclinical research on GGE.
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Dragons, crisps, school trips: Malorie packs all these great things into one yummy funny story. We can't wait to gobble it up! You lucky little readers. Malorie Blackman, world-famous writer and the new Children's Laureate, has pulled out all the stops just for you. All the giggles, all the surprises and all the excitement you need in a book. Plus the funniest colour pictures. Do you ever think your teacher is a bit odd? Well, Mira has a very unusual teacher who turns into a dragon when she eats crisps. That might seem strange. But it turns out very handy during a school trip to the seaside!
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The former Children's Laureate is the awardwinning author of over 50 books, including the bestselling Noughts and Crosses sequence.
Malorie Blackman's many awards include the Red House and Sheffield Children's Book Prizes for Noughts and Crosses. In 2005 she was awarded the Elearnor Farjeon prize for services to children's literature; an OBE followed in 2008 and from 2013-15 she was the Children's Laureate.

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Kelly Clarkson Double-platinum singer Kelly Clarkson, explores her lineage and uncovers an ancestor deeply rooted in American history. Coming face-to-face with her 3x great grandfather's wartime bravery and sacrifice, she finds a connection deeper than ever imagined. Christina Applegate Actress Christina Applegate investigates her paternal grandmother – a stranger to her and her father. Uncovering dramatic details along the way, Christina gains insight into the life and hardships of the woman she and her father loved, but never knew. Chelsea Handler Media mogul Chelsea Handler confronts a deep family secret: As she dives into her family's struggle to survive in a desperate time, the details uncovered will finally confirm or deny his affiliation to the dark regime. Zooey Deschanel Actress Zooey Deschanel searches for rumored abolitionists in her father's Ouaker family background. Her journey takes her around Pennsylvania where she uncovers, and follows, the story of a remarkable ancestor who sacrificed everything for her beliefs. Chris O'Donnell In memory of his late father, actor Chris O'Donnell investigates the paternal side of his family and finds ancestors on the frontlines of American history.
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DNA sequenced from ancient skeletons dating back to the 17th century was found to match that of the bacteria responsible for the plague, known as Yersinia pestis. The bacteria typically live in fleas found on small animals and rodents, such as rats, which can jump onto humans and bite them to spread the bacteria. They were discovered during the development of the new Elizabeth Line , part of the capital's Crossrail line, due to start running in Within the grounds, the teams soon found a mass grave containing 42 skeletons of people suspected to be victims of the Great Plague of London.
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The doctor says they will be down for her shortly. Landlady Oh is scared, but Husband is brusque and insensitive. Jung Hwan is the one who comforts his mother and walks beside her as she is wheeled to surgery. Jung Hwan says his father was always aloof but he thought it was because he was busy as a reporter. Now he realizes it is just the way his father is. Jung Hwan asks if she can understand a bit how his mother obsesses over him, now that she has seen the family dynamics for herself.
She can to an extent, Hye Young tells him, but understanding is not the same as accepting. Husband shows up after the surgery, distanced from the whole situation.
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The relationship between Dan and Serena , also known as Derena, is the friendship and romantic relationship between Dan Humphrey and Serena van der Woodsen. Contents [ show ] Overview Dan and Serena met at a party thrown by Blair Waldorf that Dan was accidentally invited to. They had a brief conversation that led to Dan having a huge crush on Serena. In Pilot , they accidentally run into each other at the The Palace Hotel and upon returning her cell phone; Serena asks Dan on a date.
They begin dating for the remainder of the first season before breaking up in Much 'I Do' About Nothing. They date briefly twice in the second season and then remain mostly off until season six. Novel Series In the Gossip Girl series of books , Dan and Serena date very briefly but break up due to having nothing in common. Dan initially sees her return and upon learning that she's living at The Palace Hotel with her mother, Lily van der Woodsen , decides to try and run into her there.
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Similarly, a study found that the more differences in MHC genes between a romantic couple, the more likely the female partner was to be sexually satisfied and committed to her existing relationship. So turning DNA information into something that is actually actionable is interesting to me.
Dec 31, · Black Mirror has returned for Season 4, but its six episodes aren't necessarily as strong as what's come before, save one or two. Here's the full ranking order.
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McCowen was 33 years old at the time, and he had just been arrested for the highest-profile case to hit Cape Cod in decades. State police filmed him being led out of the house. Eventually, in a controversial move, investigators asked all of the men in the Truro community to voluntarily submit DNA samples to try to find the killer. McCowen's arrest was surprising not just because he had never been brought out publicly in the investigation before, but also because he happened to be one of the few black men in the community, and Worthington was a wealthy white woman, which ignited controversy and left some questioning to this day whether McCowen received a fair trial.
Christopher McCowen was born in Oklahoma in March His father, Roy McCowen, printed newspapers for a living in Tulsa, while his mother lived in Frederick, Oklahoma, about miles away, tucking just above the Texas state line near the panhandle. The decision brought him closer to his son because he was stationed at an air force base not far from Frederick.
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But despite her protestations of "I am over this," it's clear he knows Hannah better than she knows herself. Our impulsive protagonist barely bats an eye when Fran smartly bolts from their date, and responds with a confused "I don't know" when Adam asks her why she's at the art show.
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10 pro-Iran militias killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria
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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake kills 3, injures 800 in northwestern Iran
Suspected Israeli airstrikes in eastern Syria on Monday killed 10 pro-Iran fighters, most of them Iraqis, a war monitor said.
The raids against militant positions in an area close to the town of Boukamal near the Iraqi border took the lives of eight Iraqi and two Syrian combatants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
It added that the strike is the third this month in eastern Syria's Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the strikes, which also destroyed munition depots and vehicles, were "likely" carried out by Israel.
Israel has stepped up strikes on Syria in recent months in what Western intelligence sources say is a shadow war, approved by Washington, that has undermined Iran's military power in the region without triggering a major increase in hostilities.
Israel views Iran as a regional menace and has vowed to prevent any permanent Iranian military buildup in Syria, particularly near the frontier.
Earlier this month, Israeli airstrikes on eastern Syria killed 16 Iran-backed fighters, hours after Damascus said it intercepted Israeli missiles fired at a central air base. The Israeli army rarely acknowledges individual strikes but did confirm on Aug. 3 that it had used fighter jets, attack helicopters and other aircraft to hit military targets in southern Syria.
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Q: Unsubscribe Pusher channel I'm new to using Pusher with my Rails app.
Everything is working fine and i'm now able to subscribe to channels and receive JSON message.
But i want to make an button where i can unsubscribe from a specific channel.
I have tried this
<button onclick="unsubscribe_channcel('test_channel')">Unsubscribe</button>

<script>
  function unsubscribe_channcel(channelName) {
  var pusher = new Pusher('APP KEY');
  pusher.unsubscribe(channelName);
};
</script>

But it do not work. If i look in the debug console when i press the button all that happens is that it make a new connection and i keep receiving messages from the "test_channel".

A: You need to unsubscribe to the channel on the same instance of the Pusher object that you subscribed to the channel on e.g.
<button onclick="subscribe_channel('test_channel')">Subscribe</button>
<button onclick="unsubscribe_channel('test_channel')">Unsubscribe</button>

<script src="http://js.pusher.com/2.2/pusher.min.js"></script>
<script>
  Pusher.log = function(msg){
    console.log(msg);
  };

  var YOUR_APP_KEY = "1afb3f8f61eb29da86df";
  var pusher = new Pusher(YOUR_APP_KEY);

  function subscribe_channel( channelName ) {
    pusher.subscribe( channelName );
  }

  function unsubscribe_channel(channelName) {
    pusher.unsubscribe(channelName);
  }
</script>

You can find a working example of this code here: http://jsbin.com/camul/1/edit?html,console,output

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When it comes to mobile transactions, the results of Walmart's first quarter earnings results — which were announced Tuesday (May 19) — show why the retail giant is investing more in mobile, but more importantly, why it's investing more in mobile in China.
Walmart has seen significant mobile traffic growth, which was up 100 percent in Q1, when compared with the year prior, and mobile commerce conversions are also up. But when it comes to breaking out how much of its online commerce comes specifically from mobile, executives were mum during the company's prepared remarks about the quarter about just how much that conversion rate was.
At least when it comes to its U.S. business. In China, however, the mobile story for Walmart is a different story. For its eCommerce business Yihaodian, Walmart said its conversion rate improved by 100 basis points, when compared to 2014's Q1, and said that mobile now accounts for more than 40 percent of all online orders. In general, Walmart's worldwide eCommerce sales grew 17 percent in Q1.
That focus on mobile is likely to be through partner Ant Financial, which will bring its Alipay mobile payment option to Walmart's registers. Walmart announced last week (May 14) that is has inked a deal with Alibaba to offer its customers the ability to use the Alipay mobile payment option across 25 of its southern China stores. The race to win over China's mobile payments audience has been a fierce one among retailers, in large part because of the fact that China has high smartphone penetration and a massive population who embraces mobile payments as their preferred payment method.
While that would position Walmart against Apple in China — at least if Apple Pay ever makes its way as a viable mobile payment option in the country — when it comes to stateside competition, Walmart is looking to build its eCommerce presence by rolling out its own loyalty subscription service that undercuts Amazon's model by offering quick shipping at a cheaper rate.
The retailer announced last week (May 13) that it's gearing up to launch its own version of Amazon Prime. Walmart has reportedly codenamed the new service "Tahoe," which is its new shipping subscription service that's in the works ($50 a year).
The service will ship products to shoppers in three days or fewer, and will be available for more than 1 million products. For now, however, Walmart's Tahoe is available by invite only. Reports said that Tahoe was initially poised for launch ahead of last year's gift-giving season, but delays have pushed the full release date to somewhere around early summer this year.
Walmart is also looking to reduce checkout friction on its website, which the company said it's doing with the rollout of a more simplified checkout process — based on the global technology platform known as Pangea.
And that's where mobile will play a bigger role for Walmart's overall commerce strategy, according to Doug McMillon, Walmart Stores' President and CEO. Walmart plans to expand its global technology offerings on a global scale so its eCommerce presence can be seen across more regions.
"As we improve the experience in our stores, we continue to invest to deliver a stronger mobile and eCommerce experience. An important part of [the Pangea] platform is that it delivers a better experience on mobile devices. Mobile is increasingly the driver of our eCommerce business," he said.
Walmart also hopes to expand its mobile shopping figures with its new partnership with Tango and Alibaba with the launch of Tango Shop last week (May 12). This partnership will extend Tango's reach into the mobile shopping side as its 300-some million users can now browse and shop on Walmart.com or AliExpress via the Tango shopping app. This deal not only allows Tango a path into mobile commerce, it allows Walmart and Alibaba a share at another group of active mobile users to boost their mobile commerce.
As Walmart continues to make investments toward its digital, mobile and eCommerce strategies, the retailer announced it plans to continue "moving on a lot of fronts and picking up some speed." While its executive team didn't go into detail about what that specifically entails, the amount of the company's focus during the past few quarters on mobile commerce shows that the company has recognized the value in putting more money toward mobile in a time when storefronts are shrinking, foot traffic is dwindling and sales are struggling to keep up in the competitive retail ecosystem.
And in China, the push is even greater to bring a more seamless mobile solution. But what's unique in China for Walmart is that the retailer plans to focus on its mobile payment experience — but with a bricks-and-mortar focus.
That just might be what the major retailer needs in a time when earnings were down as its revenue dipped .1 percent, year over year, to $114.8 billion. Overall, in the U.S., net sales were up 3.5 percent to $70.2 billion, but operating income dipped by 6.8 percent to $4.6 billion. Internationally, however, Walmart is seeing worse sales, as net sales for the quarter were down 6.6 percent to $30.3 million. And in terms of profit, Walmart saw a 7 percent decrease, to $3.34 billion.


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We've all swooned at the adorable stories of couples who spend their whole lives together, and are just as much in love with each other in old age as they were right at beginning. But what is their secret? How do they manage to maintain, and strengthen, their love through the years?
Well, psychiatrist Mark Goulston has published his advice. Read on to discover his 10 tips for lasting relationships:
1. Go to bed together. This doesn't mean go have $ex every single night, but rather go to bed at the same time. Dr. Goulston reckons that "happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times" even if one gets back up shortly after. There's nothing like a bedtime cuddle!
2. Work out your common interests. It's fine if he loves rugby while you're into painting, and you shouldn't even worry if the thing you find most boring is what really gets him going. But Dr. Goulston reminds us that the initial passion won't last forever, so you need to make sure there's some substance behind your relationship.
"If common interests aren't present, happy couples develop them," he says. "Don't minimize the importance of activities you can do together that you both enjoy. At the same time, be sure to cultivate interests of your own; this will make you more interesting and prevent you from appearing too dependent." Got it.
3. Hold hands. Next time you're out together, make sure you're in sync by holding one another's hand. A public sign of affection, Dr. Goulston advises that it's a sign of real comfort. "It's more important to be with your partner than to see the sights along the way," he tells us.
4. Always trust and try to forgive. Obviously this depends on the severity of your disagreement, but as a general rule Dr. Goulston thinks it's key to make "trusting and forgiving, rather than distrusting and begrudging" your default setting after an argument.
5. Focus on what they do right, not what they do wrong. Positive reinforcement is an age-old concept used with children and even the training of animals. But it's still important for fully grown adults too. So compliment your partner when they deserve it and try not to look for things they do wrong. "You can always find something," Dr. Goulston says.
But that works both ways; "If you look for what he or she does right, you can always find something too. It all depends on what you want to look for. Happy couples accentuate the positive."
6. Don't forget to hug. Dr. Goulston urges us to hug our partner every single day (if circumstance allows). "Our skin has a memory of 'good touch' (loved), 'bad touch' (abused), and 'no touch' (neglected)," he explains. "Couples who say hello with a hug keep their skin bathed in the 'good touch,' which can inoculate your spirit against anonymity in the world."
7. Say "I love you" and "have a good day" every morning. Seems obvious, but it's an important one. Saying something caring like that first thing will set the other up for their day. "It's a great way to buy some patience and tolerance as each partner sets out each day to battle traffic jams, long lines, and other annoyances."
8. Say good night, every night. Regardless of how you feel. Never go to bed on an argument. According to Dr. Goulston, even the gesture of saying good night "tells your partner that, regardless of how upset you are with him or her, you still want to be in the relationship. It says that what you and your partner have is bigger than any single upsetting incident."
9. Check in with them throughout the day. Calling your partner to see how their day is going is "a great way to adjust expectations so that you're more in sync when you connect after work." So if your other half has had a nightmare of a day, you know what to expect. And you can probably get the Ben & Jerry's, in an attempt to cheer them up.
10. Be proud to be seen together. We know there's a line between a sweet show affection and blatant PDA, but Dr. Goulston reminds us that a display of tenderness in public is important. "It's not showing off, but rather just saying that they belong with each other," he tells us. And that's quite nice.
This advice was originally published on Mark Goulston's website.
Source: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a46798/10-secrets-successful-relationship-mark-goulston/
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Tudor dynasty
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Tudor, Alderney overlooked from the Sky.
Tudor is a thirteen-block neighborhood in Alderney. It is located within Southern Alderney, bordered by Hardtack Ave in the north (Acter), Latchkey Ave in the east (Port Tudor), and Plumbbob Ave in the south (Acter Industrial Park).
1 Character
2 Influences
2.1 Landmarks
3.1 Streets
3.2 Highways
4 Points Of Interest
West Tudor is the residential half of Tudor, mainly made up of a mix of housing projects and hise rise apartments, a few small townhouses, and warehouses. East Tudor serves as the industrial half of Tudor, contains small factories, industrial offices, and businesses. The gang presence in Tudor is made up of the Pegorino Family and the Tudor Chapter of the Angels Of Death[1]
Tudor is meant to represent Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Skyway Diner – In reality, it's actually located in Kearny, New Jersey. This diner was made famous from its feature in The Sopranos. In the game, it isn't given a name, but in The Lost and Damned, the diner is a common hangout spot of the Tudor Chapter of the Angels Of Death.
Satin Dolls – Honkers is believed to be a resemblance of Satin Dolls, a strip club located in Lodi, New Jersey that was featured in a number of episodes of The Sopranos.
The list of streets that runs through Tudor are:
Hardtack Ave
Ivy Rd
Tinderbox Ave
Anvil Ave
Phalanax Rd
Emery St
Julin Ave
Argus St
Niblick St
Fulcrum Ave
Mandrel Rd
Barsac Ave
Latchkey Ave
Plumbbob Ave
Plumber's Skyway
Tudor has the most entrances/exits to the Plumbers Skyway than any neighborhood in Alderney. Exiting the skyway in West Tudor will take you to a small road surrounded by high-rise condominiums and housing projects, nearby Tinderbox Ave and Emery St. The skyway can also enter the skyway from here, taking you in the direction of Berchem. Another West Tudor entrance to the skyway can also be accessed from Emery St, which will take you in the direction of Acter Industrial Park. Going in this direction you will start to see the skyway take the natural shape of the Pulaski Skyway. In East Tudor, the Skyway ramp can be used as an entrance and exit. Entering the skyway from here will take you in the direction of Alderney City. Exiting the skyway here bring you to Barsac Ave, between Mandrel Rd and Latchkey Ave in East Tudor, and nearby the neighboring Port Tudor.
North Tudor Medical Center
Tudor Fire Department
Sprunk Factory
Big Paulie's Used Cars
Globe Oil Gas Station & Car Wash
Despite its name, North Tudor Medical Center is actually located within Acter.
The abandoned bridge that ran between Tudor and Acter Industrial Park is based on the Wittpenn Bridge that runs between Jersey City & Kearny, NJ. However, despite it's in game depiction, the bridge is still used heavily in transportation to this day.
↑ . In The Lost and Damned, it was revealed by Jim Fitzgerald in the mission "Liberty City Choppers" that there is a Tudor chapter of the Angels of Death. After getting into the truck with Jim, what he says will either be "Bikes are parked up by the Tudor chapters HQ", "They got these bikes at they're place near Honkers. Drive us, will ya?", or "The bikes are over at the Deadbeat's hangout in Tudor."
Neighborhoods, districts and areas in Alderney
Westdyke • Leftwood • Alderney City • Berchem • Acter • Normandy • Tudor • Port Tudor • Acter Industrial Park
Category: Areas in Alderney
This article uses material from the "Tudor" article on the GTA wiki at Wikia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.


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Angkor Archaeological Park
Angkor was once the seat of the Khmer Empire, which ruled a large portion of Southeast Asia between the ninth and fifteenth centuries A.D. Following its peak in the twelfth century, Angkor began a long decline until only Angkor Wat was still in use by the sixteenth century. The dozens of Hindu-Buddhist temple complexes and hundreds of smaller structures were swallowed by the jungle. Documented beginning in the 1850s by French archaeologists, art historians, and architects, their evocative descriptions and drawings of the buildings they found in the overgrown vegetation brought these temples to international attention and were the inspiration for many over the course of the next century. Since the fall of the Khmer Rouge, Angkor has been a great focal point of the rebuilding efforts in Cambodia. WMF and many international teams have worked closely with Cambodian professionals and the APSARA Authority to document, conserve, and protect these astonishingly beautiful and important buildings. Since 1990, WMF has sustained a comprehensive conservation, training, and education program at Angkor. WMF's program at Angkor is designed to advance the conservation of one of the most important historic monumental complexes in the world, to train Cambodians in the conservation and stewardship of their country's heritage, and to help the governmental organization APSARA build its management capacity.
1996 World Monuments Watch
In 1989, World Monuments Fund sent an initial field mission to Cambodia to survey Angkor and evaluate the damage the archaeological park had suffered after 20 years of civil strife and international isolation. The team discovered that the temples were relatively unaffected by the upheaval that shook Cambodia, although Angkor's caretakers were not so fortunate, as most, along with many other educated Cambodians, died under the Khmer Rouge. In the wake of the Khmer Rouge period, the ancient complex lapsed further into decay among jungle vegetation. Encouraged by the Ministry of Culture, WMF developed a set of recommendations to address fundamental preservation issues at Angkor. In the more than twenty years since, WMF has focused on four key areas at Angkor: the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery within Angkor Wat, the temple's most prominent bas-relief; Phnom Bakheng, Angkor's oldest temple and the place where tourists flock to admire the view at sunset; Preah Khan, an outstanding example of a large linear temple complex in a jungle setting; and Ta Som, a relatively smaller complex that is rich in architectural and sculptural detail. In 1996, WMF also listed Angkor Archaeological Park on the World Monuments Watch, our flagship advocacy program for cultural heritage at risk; a nomination that underscores the value and continued relevance of this spectacular place.
Angkor is as inspiring today as it must have been when it was a thriving city. The conservation work at Angkor that began more than 20 years ago was an extension of the great concern for Cambodia in the wake of the Khmer Rouge period. Angkor Wat, the most famous of the many temples in the archaeological park, is illustrated on the national flag and remains dear to Cambodian citizens. Today Angkor Archaeological Park is the most visited heritage site in the country and hundreds of Cambodians work daily to safeguard this national treasure and World Heritage site. The conservation work is important because of its historic and cultural value, but it also represents a great symbol of the rebirth of the country after a dark period and contributes significantly to the national economy and the lives of Cambodians who work as engineers, architects, archaeologists, conservators, guides, and guards, deriving income from the conservation, training, education, and tourism activities that take place every day for the benefit of the community and visitors.
New support for continued conservation
In February 2019, the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust announced $2 million total in funding to support preservation efforts at five WMF projects, including Angkor Archaeological Park. Funds will advance the restoration of Phnom Bakheng and the creation of a new decorative ceiling for the Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery at Angkor Wat.
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Phnom Bakheng
Phnom Bakheng, the state temple of the first Khmer capital at Angkor, is one of the world's greatest architectural treasures.
Preah Khan Temple
Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap, Cambodia
The Preah Khan temple complex situated at the northern edge of the Angkor Archaeological Park is one of the most significant buildings erected during the ancient Khmer empire.
Ta Som Temple
Angkor, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
The Khmer temple of Ta Som, located at the eastern end of the Northern Baray at Angkor, was built at the end of the twelfth century during the reign of the powerful Buddhist King Jayavarman VII.
Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery Conservation Project
The Churning of the Ocean of Milk Gallery displays a spectacular 49 meters of intricately sculpted bas-reliefs that are part of a larger ensemble of many battle scenes from across the region.
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The star of TV's The Apprentice opened the second day of the National Achievers Congress to an audience of 7500 at London's Excel conference centre. Along with Richard Branson who would speak the following day, Sugar was interviewed by Michael Buerk. It was the first time the two had met and would probably be the last if Sugar's response to Buerk's questions was anything to go by.
Sugar felt a bit affronted by what he considered to be simplistic, inane or irrelevant questions. He correctly surmised that we wanted to know his business thinking, how and why he did what he did. We were less interested his so-called 'rags to riches' backstory (which turns out not to be quite true anyway). When asked what one piece of advice Lord Sugar to give to the audience he refused to answer, saying how could he cater for all the different kinds of people in the audience with one stock answer. This gave us an insight into the real Alan Sugar. And guess what, despite what he says, it's very much the same as the belligerent boss we see on the telly.
The questions I would have loved to know the answer to were things like why did he sell of his manufacturing business when he places such importance on making things? Especially when his definition of a proper business is "you have an idea, you make it and you sell it." He attacked those who made their money on the stock markets, "making money from other people's misfortune" and yet there he is now, effectively a property mogul. Not too dissimilar.
He also critised big internet business such as Facebook, citing it as a waste of time. He couldn't see "where the money is" in such businesses and made reference to ITV losing money of Friends Reunited and the dot.com crash of 2000. Both of those examples are as irrelevant as saying there's no money in computers because Apricot* went bust. Sugar fails to understand what has become known as 'the New Economy'. The 'money' in Facebook is not extracted from traditional methods but from the value in the network and the targeted way people can be reached. Money these days is not made by shouting but by going where the eyeballs go.
Sugar's main belief still does stand true and offers us all a sober lesson. He believes that a business should start from the ground up, work hard and make money and profit. He pointed out that many young people have been given the erroneous impression that it is all too easy and that it is their 'right' to be able to do it and to get loans from banks without taking on board the risk. Sugar had got into trouble at a college, where he was asked to give a talk, for responding in his down to earth way. He critisised a student who thought it was outrageous that the bank wouldn't lend him hundreds of thousands of pounds without putting his house on the line. "You have to show the bank you are willing to take a risk. If you don't, why should they" Sugar said.
He gave a great example of this when he wanted to borrow some money for his fledgling computer business in the early 1980s. The bank asked him what assets he had. He listed the components and half-built computers he had in stock. The bank valued all that at zero. They told him that if he went bust, what would they do with a load of components and screws? This is a good lesson for us to hear as we often think in business that we have value in assets which in fact are liabilities (there may be assets we do have, that we don't value as much as we should, such as intellectual property).
What Sugar was good at, was seeing an opportunity to sell someone something they wanted. His early examples were when he was employed to sell tape recorders. Instead of hauling round every small independent shop that might buy two units, he went to the then new bigger chains such as Currys, Rumbellows, Comet and Dixons and got them to buy hundreds or even thousands.
All his type of innovative ideas take the same kind of route: he modifies something that already exists to make it more attractive. Think about his most famous business, for which he is still known for today, home computers. The market was dominated by the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Acorn BBC. Sugar had previously been making bundled hi-fi equipment. Up to that point, all hi-fi equipment was sold as separate units made by different specialist manufacturers. You bought a record player, a tape player, a radio and an amplifier and you 'stacked' them on top of each other and plugged speakers in. His model was to use cheap Japanese electronics and put the record player, tape cassette player and radio all in the same box. At the time this was a revelation and it opened the way for the stereos and 'ghetto blasters' that defined the 1980s. Lifting the lid of a rival's computer he saw that inside there was no magic, it was just silicone chips, resistors and circuit boards, just as in his hi-fis. He applied the same idea he had done to his hi-fi business. Let's have a closer look.
He built in the datasette (the cassette tape recorder that the computer programs were stored on) into the keyboard.
He bundled a cheap monitor so that the kids wouldn't have to plug their computer into the family television.
He used MSX BASIC as the operating software. This was a new variant of Microsoft's BASIC programming language that was already being used on most of the computers of the time. The difference was that each of the different companies used a different version of BASIC so a program written on one make wouldn't run on another. MSX was a new standard that was being adopted by a host of other computers meaning that software for the new Amstrad computer had more games being written faster.
He made it really cheap, and sold it really cheap.
Many would argue that the Amstrad home computers (as well as his stereos) were cheap, cheerful and lacked style and class. They didn't attract the wider appeal, kudos and cult following of the classic home computers like the ZX81, Spectrum, VIC20, Commodore 64 and BBC B. But they did make Sugar a lot of money.
When the home computer market ran out of steam (the home computer gold rush only lasted from 1980 to 1984) he switched his attention to a computer that would only have one function: a word processor. This is perhaps Sugar's finest hour. He got into that gap in the market at exactly the right time. With subsequent innovations such as his hand-held personal organiser and video phone, he was too early. In fact it seems, with the possible exception of his BSkyB equipment and petrol station advertising screens, that consumer product magical innovation skill has eluded him since the mid 1980s.
But perhaps that too is a lesson for all of us. Our businesses may be lucky enough to make money from something that becomes iconic, or maybe we'll have to be happy with making money from something that goes unseen and unsung by the general public but is successful nonetheless. We need to make sure we are working hard to make profit, not glory as the two seldom go together.
One thing is clear from what Lord Sugar had to say. If you want to start a business and be successful in it you must chose something that you have some knowledge in. It must be something that you have experience in, and it must be something you have a passion for. So many people, he pointed out, have made the mistake of trying to jump on what they think is a get rich quick bandwagon of what appears to be a good idea but is outside those key areas of their knowledge, experience and passion. The secret to a successful business is simple, obviously simple, but it's not easy: hard work, determination, innovation and an eye always open for opportunities.
Just look at what happened in the latest series of the BBC's The Apprentice. Sugar changed the rules. He wasn't looking for another employee this time. He didn't need another salesman. That's why Tom the inventor won. He was really the only suitable candidate. The rest were old school sales employees. Sugar valued the approach and ideas that Tom had and saw the value in his already substantial achievements with his curved nail file invention. Who knows what he'd come up with next.
This shows that Sugar still has some interesting business mileage in him, unlike Donald Trump who's tv series has descended into celebrity game show farce.
Lord Sugar may not be held in the same high esteem as Richard Branson or James Dyson and his companies may not be regarded as cool as Innocent or Apple. he may be out of touch with some of the newer methods of doing business such as the increased emphasis on networking (although he does tweet every day) but his knowledge of the principles of starting, innovating and selling to make a profit are universal and give us sobering lessons we can all apply.
*Apricot was a British PC manufacturer in the 1980s who could have rivaled IBM and Apple, but didn't.
Did you see 'The Apprentice' where twelve hopefuls audition to work for Alan Sugar and a six figure salary? What a highly entertaining and illuminating television programme. I've been watching with a mixture of 'how could they get that so wrong' to 'I'm so glad I'm not there'. The fifth episode brought to a head a subtext that has been bubbling under for the previous four weeks. All of the tasks have demanded a whole manner of skills such as leadership, perseverance, management and negotiation. But in all of the tasks from selling fruit and veg, designing a calendar for Great Ormand Street hospital, getting good deals, running a themed restaurant to producing an advertising campaign, both teams, especially the losing ones, have been let down by a serious lack of creativity.
It was never so obvious than in the fifth episode when Paul's team had booked actors and studio time to film an advert for which they had no idea what it was. They actually spent five hours in the 'Blue Sky Room' at Satchi and Satchi only to come up with nothing.
Interesting then that after they knocked off for the night and went back to the house, Paul was visited by inspiration. It took a change of scenery and a more restful moment of silence and solitude for the idea to come.
A shame it wasn't such a great idea. It was a start, but they didn't have the time or inclination to think of anything else.
How come these so called 'top entrepreneurs' are so lacking in the ability to think of ideas? Creativity seems like an illusive mist to most people who think that having a 'divergent phase' with flip charts is what is needed. One of the reasons is that creativity is not a gift, it is a skill. Like any skill it has methods that need to be mastered. Like any skill the methods need to be practised. Just knowing the lines of a play aren't enough. It's the rehearsal that makes it work.
You can learn how to negotiate, how to project manage and how to sell. There are courses on all of those. You can practice those in your field of work. But as the Apprentice shows, don't leave out creativity from the mix. Learn the techniques and use them to get the ideas to get ahead.
Think new thoughts. Find better ways of doing things. Find better things to do. That's what people overlook. That's what creativity is and that's what Alan Sugar did to get where he is today.


One of two military history authors I enjoy following and purchasing their works, Jonathan Gawne is a writer/historian who has a knack for presenting complicated and obscure information in a concise style. His books are easy to read and often do not delve deeply into minute detail modelers often crave - like the shade of Olive Drab on a piece of equipment. He does provide information this detailed in his books - but with a awareness of when and how it's relevant and supports the information he's presenting.
In Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater 1944-1945, Jonathan Gawne presents quite a bit of coverage and information on previously classified and unreported US Army PSYOP (Psychological Operations) used in Europe in the last months of the Second World War. Though recounting of former soldier's war time experiences are much appreciated by myself in gaining a "feel" for what was happening at that time, Jonathan Gawne presents more of an operational overview, replete with just enough (of what surely was difficult to obtain for printing even today) technical ordnance and photos to whet the US AFV modeler's appetite. As with all great journalism, the writer doesn't tell you what to think - the author presents enough information to cause the reader to think. Jonathan Gawne's reference book hits the target here.
Ghosts of the ETO presents PSYOP unit operations in an easy-to-follow style, supplemented by period photos, charts, rosters, etc to flesh out his coverage of the subject. Much of this book taught me a new perspective on American forces and what was employed during and after the Normandy Invasion - the US 23rd Special Troops (also known as the 23rd Headquarters, Special Troops). The 23rd employed what most modelers would imagine in fake uniforms and the like to spoof the troops, but Jonathan Gawne was able to extract more information from veterans of the unit about their operations.
The 23rd Special Troops not only used dummy guns, inflatable pneumatic decoys like M4 Medium Tanks and smaller vehicles like the Willys Jeep and other common trucks, they mounted large loudspeakers in their modified M3 Half-Tracks (sometimes called Sonic Tracks and shown in eight photographs) as well as an attempt to mount their equipment in a Willys Jeep - shown in two photographs as well. The operations the 23rd undertook are covered in individual chapters, and where available accompanied by photographs of dummy weapons and guns employed to fool the enemy, and charts of the local where action took place.
Organizational Rosters, also where available, are included in the book. Famous Fashion Designer Bill Blass, for example, was a member of the 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion, the largest element of the 23rd. Amongst the six appendices to the book, Jonathan Gawne includes in #5 a treatise on General George S. Patton and his possible use of PSYOP assets in his operations. The 23rd was the tactical deception unit that supported the whole 12th Army Group, and most of the 23rd's operations took place in Third Army territories. Jonathan Gawne pulls together some wartime rumors of Patton's connections to Dudley Clarke, Noel Wild and A-Force, among other small seemingly unconnected episodes during his service in WW II without forcing the reader to a conclusion.
Published in 2002, the 358 pages in Ghosts of the ETO pleased me from beginning to end. It broadened and deepened my knowledge of previously untold US Army operations in Europe. Jonathan Gawne presents a pretty comprehensive history in this format and you feel you get a very good sense of what the 23rd was created to do, what they used, where they used it, and what the results were. So much so that you could confidently model one of their sonic deception vehicles or write a book report like this.
I purchased this book for review from Barnes and Noble Booksellers. It is also available online from Amazon.com. Permission to include page scans from this book was graciously provided by Casemate Publishing.
Jonathan Gawne's engrossing book outlines US Army Psychological Warfare tactics employed to befuddle Germans in World War II.


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Building Active Stewardship in New Orleans (BASIN)
The UC's environmental literacy and stewardship program
The Urban Conservancy partnered with Dibert Community School's third grade teachers and its Edible School Yard staff at the Phillis Wheatley campus.
Building Active Stewardship in New Orleans (BASIN) is the Urban Conservancy's summer program that introduces school-aged children to the vocabulary, concepts, and skills required to promote the wise stewardship of our urban built environment and fully understand and participate in our growing network of green sector professionals.
Education is a critical piece of the growing green sector. Since Hurricane Katrina and subsequent catastrophic and manmade flooding, our growing understanding of subsidence, flooding, aging infrastructure, and coastal erosion compels us to redefine our relationship with water through integrated water management strategies and systems. Residents, starting as children, are going to need a level of "water literacy" to actively participate in civic life. BASIN campers will learn more about how New Orleans is learning to live with the water that surrounds (and often floods) our city, and develop into effective ambassadors, sharing their knowledge about applying the lessons of the wetlands to how we build safer, less flood-prone neighborhoods within New Orleans.
For the past 4 years…
We've hosted BASIN at Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center in the Treme/Lafitte Neighborhood, right on the Lafitte Greenway.
Some of the fun we have:
Introducing kids to real live alligators and green sector professionals like landscape architects
Canoeing on Bayou St. John and Cane Bayou
AND learning all about water! From holding it where it falls to keeping our lake clean and clear of pollution
Campers canoe down Bayou St. John during BASIN 2017.
If you are an educator and are interested in learning more about bringing this program to your school, please contact us at info@urbanconservancy.org with "BASIN" in the subject line, or call us at 504-717-6187.
Despite Hurricane Barry's best efforts, BASIN rolled on schedule July 15-19. Through a variety of hands-on experiences, presentations, and field trips, twenty-four elementary, high school, and college-aged students worked together to learn how they can use their voices, their creative problem-solving skills, and teamwork to lead positive change in their neighborhoods and to promote the wise stewardship of our natural and built environments for a safer, healthier, and less flood-prone city.
Deepest gratitude to our presenters from the Sewerage and Water Board, Dana Brown & Associates, Gibbs and Cox Maritime Solutions, Friends of Lafitte Greenway Ambassador Lichelle Gibson; and to our sponsors: The Edgar "Dooky" Jr. and Leah Chase Family Foundation, The Edward Wisner Donation, and our GiveNOLA Day donors (that's you!).
Check out photos from the camp in our BASIN 2019 album on Facebook!
Our BASIN summer campers took the "Living with Water is fun" message to the evening news, painting rain barrels with Green Light New Orleans.
Watch UC's BASIN summer campers paint rain barrels. This clip accompanied the following story announcing the launch of the Gentilly Community Adaptation Program:
New program to provide grants to Gentilly homeowners for storm water management
The program aims to improve properties to handle storm water.
Author: WWL Staff
Published: 4:02 PM CDT July 17, 2018
Updated: 8:06 PM CDT July 17, 2018
Mayor Cantrell joined New Orleans Redevelopment Authority officials in Gentilly to announce a new program that aims to help low to moderate income homeowners improve their properties to handle storm water.
The new Community Adaptation Program allows the opportunity for Gentilly homeowners to receive grants up to $25,000 to improve their properties in an effort to reduce rainfall runoff. Owners must qualify for the grants based on income, must reside in their home and be insured.
The eligible income levels for CAP participants are as follows:
Family Size: 1
Income: $36,750
Also available through the program are rain barrels and gardens, storm water planter boxes, detention basins, planting trees, reducing the cement coverage on lots and infiltration trenches.
Council member-at-Large Helena Morena and Council member Jared Brossett both believe the CAP program will make a difference.
"We can no longer rely on a pumping system alone to mitigate the effects of rainwater. This Community Adaptation Program is a very welcome initiative. It demonstrates that every single resident should be playing a role in this effort," Morena said.
"With a focus on individual homes, the CAP is a significant project for our city and this great neighborhood. Through its implementation we can create sustainable neighborhoods for generations to come," Brossett said.
CAP is a part of the $141.3 million United States Department of Housing and Urban Development National Disaster Resilience Competition grant.
NORA will hold a free community workshop about CAP on Saturday, July 21 at Dillard University's Georges Auditorium from 10 a.m. to noon. The workshop is open to the public and will provide information about the CAP process and eligibility.
BASIN 2016
This year, BASIN was free for campers; funded by a combination of sources including GiveNola Day and the Harrah's Community Grant Program via Councilmembers Guidry, Williams, and Ramsey. BASIN took place at Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center for 6 weeks from 3:00-5:00PM, in conjunction with a NORDC day-camp.
BASIN hosted 12 green sector speakers and 4 offsite field trips including the Lafitte Greenway, Broad St. pumping station, and the ReFresh Project. The camp maintained a 4:1 or better student to teacher ratio and provided two snacks a day. BASIN culminated in a camper-led final presentation for parents and community members and a canoe trip to Bayou Cane with Canoe & Trail Adventures.
How do you get kids interested in being responsible land and water stewards? Surround them with professionals passionate about their work in environmental science and then let them get dirty. Thank you, Parasol Productions, for documenting our Building Active Stewardship in New Orleans (BASIN) program. See more photos.
The pilot BASIN program with Craig Elementary ended in March of 2014. With a final commencement including a handing of certifications and student presentations, the program went out with a bang. The Urban Conservancy plans to continue BASIN in New Orleans schools during the 2014-2015 school year. Stay tuned for developments on participating schools, program locations and more.
Teach Your Children Well.
BASIN's Creation Story
Craig Elementary students on their field trip to Bayou Cane
In September of 2013, the Urban Conservancy, with support from Mission Continues, began its pilot of a one-of-a-kind environmental literacy program with Craig Elementary School. Craig Elementary School is situated at the corner of St. Philip and Villere Streets, across the street from the back corner of Armstrong Park. While the school is fortunate to be located so close to a public park, it will also soon become one of many schools located on or near the Lafitte Greenway.
Urban Conservancy project manager Keely Hill and Mission Continues Fellow Kendric Perkins developed and incorporated weekly environmental literacy lessons into the science curriculum of one 5th grade class at Craig Elementary starting in mid-September. These lessons varied from activities that allowed observation and questioning of pollution in local water systems to presentations by professional guest speakers working in environmental science fields.
Throughout the 2014-2015 school year, with support from the Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Service Learning program, the Urban Conservancy worked with the 3rd grade teaching team and the Edible School Yard instructors at Dibert Community School at Phillis Wheatley, adapting the curriculum to meet the educational objectives through hands-on learning, field trips, and guest speakers.
Getting Your Hands Dirty: Field Trips in Orleans Parish and Beyond
Students observe water at Armstrong Park.
While the program is adaptable to the needs and ages of participating schools and students, certain elements, like field trips, are essential.
In partnership with Bayou Rebirth, the students at Craig were able to build their own on-campus pond to foster the growth of native wetlands plants for several months.
After several months of care and observation, the students visited the Bonnet Carre Spillway to replant the native California Bull Rushes, Cattails and Oyster Grass along the spillways banks. Additional field trips included a trip led by Bayou Rebirth to Armstrong Park for water quality testing and habitat observation. Students used low-cost tools that can be purchased online or at a local store. Building on previous lessons giving careful instructions on how to properly use the tools and record observations, students led their instructors to answers of the water's pH, dissolved oxygen, nitrates and phosphates and more.
The Dibert program included trips to UNO's Coastal Education and Research Facility (CERF) in Bayou Sauvage for a day of observation and experimentation, and trips to the Lafitte Greenway.
The Craig program concluded with a visit to Fontainebleau State Park on the north shore for a day of hiking and canoeing, led by Canoe and Trail Adventures' Byron Ahlquist (see video above), and the Dibert program culminated in a public service learning project which included a public presentation, bench building, and tree planting project on the Lafitte Greenway.
Guest Speakers: Science is more than a Hobby
Gaylan Williams, Senior Associate with Dana Brown & Associates, talks about being a landscape architect to Dibert third graders.
Another critical component is environmental professional guest speakers. Volunteer guest speakers have included Gaylan Williams (pictured right), Clyde Carlson, local civil and environmental engineer previously employed with the Louisiana DHH/OPH Safe Drinking Water Program Ica Crawford, Executive Director of Our Garden. Ica visited the class with various soils and seeds for a lesson on germination and the need for quality gardening in every urban community.
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Q: How to grant delegated user pemissions to managed-service-identity TL;DR
How can I delegate my user permissions to a service principal in Azure Ad when the usual interactive way (e.g. web app with consent screen popup) is not feasible? This is because I cannot configure the MSI in the Azure Portal properly to work that way.
More detail
I want to grant an application permission to access the Graph API on behalf of a user. Usually, this is a well-documented scenario in which you create an app registration, acquire delegated user permissions by asking permission for the needed scopes, and then use these permissions in the app.
The app that needs Graph access is a background service that is to work on its own without user intervention/activity. For this use case, the common approach is to use application permissions. In my case this is not feasible, because application permissions require admin-consent and are all-or-nothing kind of permissions. There is no way this will be granted for me. Rightfully so, because its overkill.
But on the other hand that's really a pity. A pity, because I've found an example on how to assign Graph API application permissions directly to a Managed Service Identity rather than to a self-registered app. And my service (as an Azure Functions app) already has a MSI assigned to it. So this would be the perfect fit, b then again, there is no way I'll get those application permissions.
So what is the workaround? We have this one user principal which has all the required permissions we need for our background service. What I want to do is to delegate this user's permissions to the Function App/MSI. In order to do this, I used this SPA-template by the MSAL team to have something that will prompt me the permissions popup.
This however failed because the implicit oauth flow was not enabled. To remedy this, you usually need to update the app manifest in the portal. However, since this is a MANAGED service identity, and not a self-registered one, the MSI is not listed in the portal under app registrations. So I cannot set this property to true.
Doing the same via Azure CLI also failed because apparently the MSI is not identified as an app.
az ad app update --oauth2-allow-implicit-flow true --id <appId_of_MSI>

This yields the following error:
ResourceNotFoundError: Resource '<appId_of_MSI>' does not exist or one of its queried reference-property objects are not present.
It shows fine when doing this
az ad sp show --id <appId_of_MSI>

So in summary: I cannot complete the process of delegating that user's permissions interactively. Is there any other way? Maybe via CLI?
The fallback the solution is to create a separate unmanaged/self-registered app identity. But I want to really avoid this because then I would need to manage and rotate client (app) credentials again, which the MSI took care of for me.
Why o why can't I just assign fine-scoped application permissions
Any help on this is greatly appreciated. Cheers.

A: In my experience Managed Identities don't support the scenario you are suggesting.
They do not have an app registration and in that way cannot authenticate users interactively.
I would go with your fallback solution; a normal app registration and use that to access Graph API on behalf of the user.
This is what we do in our projects at least.
App permissions -> Managed Identity if possible. Delegated permissions -> normal app registration + secret/certificate in Key Vault, retrieved with Managed Identity.


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Get your Double Header tickets
After an explosive first six rounds of Suncorp Super Netball, both the NSW Swifts and GIANTS Netball will go into the league BYE weekend sitting in top-four positions.
At the near half-way mark of the 2018 season, GIANTS Netball have a record of four wins, two losses and 12 bonus points to sit in second place on the ladder. Their biggest win came against the Adelaide Thunderbirds at Priceline Stadium, where GIANTS defeated their host 48-71.
Beyond that, the season has been filled with an intense slate of games with close scores, with the GIANTS proving that they are a match for any team in the league – their two losses were exceptionally close, going down by just one goal to NSW Swifts in round three and two goals to West Coast Fever in round six.
GIANTS Netball currently have the best defensive record in the league, conceding on average just 53.2 goals per match. They have the equal fourth best attacking record, shooting an average of 58.4 goals per game.
Like the GIANTS, the NSW Swifts also have four wins and two losses from six games but only secured 10 bonus points meaning they sit fourth on the ladder.
A thrilling come-from-behind win over the Queensland Firebirds in Round 1, a narrow derby win over the GIANTS and a 10-goal thumping of the Magpies have been the highlights so far.
The great team spirit to edge out an inspired Adelaide Thunderbirds in Round 6 showed the Swifts had grit to go with their expansive play, and pushing the Melbourne Vixens to the absolute limit in Victoria proved the team can match it away from home too.
ROUND 7 DOUBLE HEADER
Next up, the NSW Swifts and GIANTS Netball will return to Qudos Bank Arena for the final Double Header of the 2018 season, bringing fans two world-class games of netball!
Sunday, 17 June, Qudos Bank Arena
GIANTS Netball v Collingwood Magpies Netball (1pm)
NSW Swifts v Sunshine Coast Lightning (3pm)
Categories: Suncorp Super Netball


How to leverage user and business insight to create a user experience that meets user needs and delivers a return on investments.
Modern marketing is no longer about just delivering a product. You have to provide the complete experience including support pre and post-purchase.
How are our users interacting with the existing experience?
What is working well for them?
Can be challenging assessing your own work, but it's necessary to improve user experience and ultimately improve your ROI. But how do we do this?
What are the key moments in a users journey that really matter to them?
Competitor/Comparator – How are goggles represented across the category?
How Do You Make the Goggle Category Easier to Shop?
Collaboration across your company is fundamental to delivering a better user experience, from research to creation to analysis. Sharing what you learn and forming strong relationships from working together will deliver results. Here is an example of how user experience is linked to a full range of services.
You can tailor this hypothesis to any project you have so it is bespoke to the way you work. You may work in shorter sprints and therefore shorten the [duration] or change your [audience] to target a different set of customers. It is completely interchangable to your requirments.
The process itself is highlighted in the chart above.
What Did the Final Solution Look Like?
Speedos results showed that by understanding and improving your user experience, you can positively impact your digital growth. The trend between quality UX and ROI is real. Speedo experienced double-digit growth in the goggle category compared to previous years, including a summer peak. Since the implementation of the tool in March, the goggles category saw conversion rates double.


Review: Surprisingly, Space of Variants' latest limited edition CD release doesn't come from boss man Sergey Barkalov (AKA Mr Cloudy), but rather a previously unheard talent. DAS is Andrew Korotkov, a Russian producer from Lipsetsk city. Musically, he inhabits similar sonic waters to Barkalov, delivering long, slowly shifting soundscapes that draw on ambient, drone and dub techno for inspiration. As debut albums go, Transcendental is quietly impressive. Over the course of three long variations, Korktov delivers a meditative experience rich in effects-laden field recordings, slowly shifting chord progressions, gentle beats and, on occasions, decidedly cosmic aural textures.