This is still a beta site and both websites will be running for a period with all products produced as normal but current site will be eventually be replaced by this new site.
New iOS and android app will be released probably around the changeover too.
This site is still under some development.
There's an issue with radar length and meteogram times at the moment, possibly due to UTC times so bear with us today!
Last edited by MetEireann; 26-03-2018 at 13:09.
The old site is way better. The graphics are not very good on the new site. The rainfall radar is much better though. The way the site is organised on mobile isn't great. This is only on mobile, I'll have a look on my laptop later.
Looks great. Having the radar on the home page is a welcome change, as well as the updated interval and graphics. It has a nice flow, well done.
I like it, having the rainfall radar on the homepage is a welcome change.
Just a minor bugbear, when you're trying to scroll down on the main page using desktop version it zooms out of the rainfall radar if the cursor is placed over it.
I absolutely love it, especially how the Ireland extreme records page now has the location and year the record was recorded. I always found it frustrating and tedious to find out when they were recorded before on the old site.
Huge well done on the site, I also like the appearance of it.
When trying to scroll down the page, it just keeps zooming in to the map.
Delighted to see the progress.
I first looked for a speed setting on the radar/forecast loops - hopefully this can be implemented.
The BBC weather site has recently changed to show graphics more like on their TV output on a timeline slider and I really like it.
I would love if Met Eireann adopted something like that.
On a laptop anyway its good.
Would love to see dew points added to the latest reports section.
I really like it, the radar map could be a touch smaller on the desktop screen, I love the chronological layout lower down, its similar to windguru adn yr.no, this is especially useful for people working on the sea, a sudden wind change at 3pm from SW to SE is apparent there for a location whereas on the old version it wouldnt be, well done!
Like the layout, a big improvement, love it!
So far so good, liking the layout of it on my laptop! I find it easier to navigate then the previous one . The rainfall radar is now in a great position.
Great to finally get a preview of this, long overdue.
First impressions on the map, the rainfall radar is a massive improvement, zoomable, 5 minute frequency, easily distinguishable colours and most importantly it seems to be using the Belfast radar so I finally won't have to rely on UK sites when I'm in Donegal. A minor improvement that'd be nice is having the radar update when you drag the time-interval bar, similar to netweathers radar app.
The new forecasting tools are also excellent (is that using Harmonie?), particularly for rainfall. The temperature colour progression is the only issue I'd have there, a lot of the colours are too similar so even checking the legend its hard to know what you're looking at. Having a few isotherms on the map might be better and I'm not sure what the W's and C's refer to?
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The Political Problem Pool Gets Even Deeper
Kathy Lien, Technical Strategist
While the Syria conflict has the market's full attention, the potential removal of Silvio Berlusconi from his Senate position could collapse Italy's government and send the entire Eurozone into a tailspin.
The euro (EUR) traded sharply higher against the US dollar (USD) today, ignoring the risks of renewed political troubles in Italy. This week, an Italian Senate subcommittee will debate whether former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi should be stripped of his Senate seat.
The reason why this issue is being so closely watched that it was discussed at the G20 summit is because Italy is the third-largest economy in the Eurozone, and if a tiny country like Cyprus can threaten the region's stability, then Italy is a much bigger potential problem.
Berlusconi has threatened to withdraw his party's support for the current government if he is pushed out of the Senate, and unfortunately, his People of Freedom Party is a critical link in Prime Minister Enrico Letta's coalition government.
An expulsion could collapse the less-than-one-year-old government, forcing snap elections and destabilizing the economy. Political uncertainty is never good for a country, and in the case of Italy, a fresh political crisis could drive Italian bond yields sharply higher and the euro lower.
Under Italian law, a public official cannot serve in the government if he or she has been convicted of a crime carrying a sentence of two years or more. Berlusconi was sentenced to a four-year prison term on tax fraud, but it has been reduced to a single year because of prison overcrowding, and he is being given the choice to serve the time in jail, under house arrest, or through community service.
The former Prime Minister doesn't want to serve any sentence at all and wants to remain in the government because he would otherwise lose certain legal protections. The Italian Senate is now faced with a very tough choice that could pose a major risk to the fragile Eurozone recovery.
Fresh signs of weakness in Germany should also raise concerns about the economic outlook, and as a result, we look at the euro's recent recovery with caution, especially against the crosses since the EURUSD itself is rallying because of dollar weakness.
Expect Additional Pressure on EUR/GBP
After experiencing steep losses last week, the British pound (GBP) continues to trade near six-month highs against the euro and US dollar. While no UK economic reports were released overnight, the recent pickup in manufacturing, service, and construction sector activity bolstered the outlook for the economy as well as demand for sterling.
Employment numbers are scheduled for release on Wednesday, and we expect the currency to remain bid between now and then, especially considering the political risks in the Eurozone. From both an economic and political perspective, the UK should be a more attractive investment than the Eurozone in the near term, which we feel should be negative for EURGBP. With this in mind, 0.8400 is a significant support level for EURGBP that needs to be broken for an additional push down to 0.82.
The RICS house price index is scheduled for release this evening, and it is expected to hit a new multi-year high as government initiatives continue to bolster property demand. Good UK data could extend recent GBP gains.
By Kathy Lien of BK Asset Management
USD/HKD: Hong Kong Currency Crisis Looms if Trade Tensions Rise
China's Market News: Energy Firms Start to Default on Debt
PBOC Governor Says Monetary Policy Will Be Flexible and Loose
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Have you ever noticed that no one in an art museum ever seems to be having fun? This is particularly true of the men. They always look like people dragooned into attending the funeral of someone they didn't even like.
They stand there, glum and gloomy, surrounded by Raphaels, Bronzinos and Goyas, staring morosely at the carpet or up at the ceiling, trying to pay attention to the preening weenie on the art phone. They can't wait for the tour guide to say that it's time to get back on the bus.
Art phones have turned museum-going into a dreary chore. It's like being back in high school, where you're expected to memorize everything. Everyone is afraid that there's going to be a test and they'll need to know that Pablo Picasso's father bore a strong resemblance to Edgar Degas, that Nicolas Poussin despised Caravaggio, that the third centurion to the left in the Rembrandt crucifixion scene was a dead ringer for Ignaas van der Hoeven, a baker who once stiffed the artist out of 50 guilder.
1. Refuse to rent the art phone or read any sort of manual. You're not going to remember any of this stuff anyway. It doesn't matter that Michelangelo got his nose broken by Torrigiano, or that Paul Gauguin was a pig. Just look at the paintings and relax. Or go to the restaurant and have a beer. But do not let the pontificating twit yammering away on the art phone turn your museum visit into drudgery. You don't need to know how a Lamborghini got built to enjoy the ride. Why should a Leonardo be any different?
2. Never take a tour with a docent. Docents are all blathering idiots who think they missed their calling as stand-ups. They're the most excruciating human beings on the face of the earth. They're living proof that people should not be allowed to retire, because in retirement, the pathologically garrulous cease to be merely annoying and become truly dangerous. If I had my druthers, NATO would send in warplanes to take out every one of these knuckleheads.
3. Don't be afraid to laugh at the art. And not just modern art. François Boucher's 3-year-old hunters and sculptors and mathematicians (you can see them at New York's beloved Frick Collection) are meant to be laughed at. Babies aren't supposed to load muskets. Infants aren't supposed to devise complex mathematical proofs. Boucher knew this. He knew that his work was over-the-top, comical, just plain nuts.
But I visit the Boucher room at the Frick every week and never see anyone laughing. That's because the art-phone autocrats have brainwashed people into believing that art museums are meant to be deadly serious. They are not. If an art museum is clicking on all cylinders, you shouldn't be able to get out of there without doubling over in laughter at least three times.
For additional chuckles in the wide world of art, take a gander at J.M.W. Turner's amateurish drawings of human figures (they look like stick men), Edward Burne-Jones's foppish knights, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's waterlogged maidens and any painting with a Sphinx, a Viking or Medusa in it. Late 19th-century French painters like William-Adolphe Bouguereau were also very good at painting daft shepherdesses and emaciated waifs, often fetching water or rounding up wayward farm animals. You can't keep a straight face looking at this stuff.
In other words: Don't worry; be happy. If you can't laugh at Anthony van Dyck's boozed-up cavaliers, Thomas Gainsborough's cadaverous, blue-faced debutantes or Damien Hirst's 13-foot shark in a few thousand gallons of formaldehyde, you're really missing out on some great fun.
So my advice on your next trip to the museum is to kick back, have a couple of stiff ones, lock the docent in the broom closet and treat yourself to a few guffaws. Art is meant to lift your spirits. Don't let the people who run museums ruin it.


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Fraser Nelson: The British Public Are Fighting Back Against The Digital Mob
Fraser Nelson, The Daily Telegraph
There is much to learn from last month's extraordinary general election. But one of the forces that took Johnson to No 10 is the backlash against cancel culture and those who seek to destroy others for jokes they make.
At the time of his death, Sir Roger Scruton was celebrated not just as one of the greatest philosophers of his lifetime but as someone who was able to defy – and expose – the mob. A Twitterstorm had erupted over words of his that had been maliciously twisted, and within hours he had been fired from his role chairing a government commission. But his treatment led to uproar, and his eventual reinstatement. Yet again, he made history: for once, the mob did not get its man.
Now we have Alastair Stewart, dropped by ITN for making what it called "errors of judgement" on social media. He had been quoting Shakespeare, citing lines from Measure for Measure that included the words "angry ape". The person he had been debating with was black, and a daft row ensued. It ought to have ended, at most, in an apology – where Stewart would have made the obvious point that no offence was intended. Instead, it ended his 40-year career.
Over the years, we have seen the rise of what Americans call "woke capitalism", where private companies are infected by the madness that started taking hold in university campuses some time ago. Typically, there will be a zealous Human Resources department that decides to become a cultural police force. Employees might be issued with rainbow-striped lanyards to celebrate Pride, or be invited to Black History Month. And if you hate identity politics, best keep quiet. You risk being painted as a bigot and, in the era of moral panic, to be accused is to be guilty.
Marketeers, too, panic. Last year, Nike dropped a line of trainers after complaints that the design – an early flag of the United States – had been adopted by white supremacists. A shopping centre in Reading evicted Chick-fil-A, an American fast food chain, after complaints that it was somehow homophobic. Among the supposed evidence that it donated to the Salvation Army.
The common theme, from Nike to the newsroom, is a complete failure to argue the case or to defend the truth. Does Nike regard the old Betsy Ross flag as a symbol of racism? Does anyone at ITN believe that Stewart is, in the slightest way, racist?
But when moral panic takes over, truth never matters – and social media trolls take control. You can see them on Twitter picking targets all day, seeking companies gullible enough to respond to digital pressure.
Sir Roger Scruton managed to fight back against the mob – and win CREDIT: DAVID ROSE
For example: "Acme Inc, are you okay with supporting the work of a bigot like Alastair Stewart?" The idea is to terrify Acme Inc into pulling their advertising. Or have them waver long enough to persuade the employer that the journalist is too much of a risk to have around, and ought to be let go. Or, in the parlance, "cancelled".
Throughout the election campaign, there were attempts to "cancel" Boris Johnson. The Spectator's online archives were deluged by Corbynites trawling 25-year-old articles for a quote here or there that could be taken out of context. Not so long ago, he was investigated by the Conservative Party itself on charges of Islamophobia after a joke he made in these pages about the niqab: a garment banned in several Muslim countries. But, again, facts didn't matter. His critics just wanted to smear and destroy him.
It doesn't seem to have done him much harm. Indeed, an important part of his support will be from those who admire how he speaks freely, how he is unafraid to make jokes and use satire. And that he doesn't apologise, or run scared of any digital mob.
Of course, a politician who restricts his opinions and language to the rigorously-policed parameters of social media will never speak to the country. Failure to recognise this led Labour down a digital rabbit hole (along with much of the media) while the Tories won a historic majority.
This is politics, of a new and potent kind. There are a great many voters who might not care about Brexit but who do care that the jokes they crack might be used to destroy them, or those they love. That without voting for it, we have somehow entered a world where everyone is one off‑colour joke away from career death. This matters more than a marginal tax rate or the fate of HS2. It's a force against which targets have no defence: to be accused is to be guilty. And victims are everywhere.
It can happen to Tim Hunt, the Nobel laureate forced to resign for an offhand remark about working with women. Or it could be Brian Leach, fired from Asda last year for sharing a Billy Connolly video which a colleague thought was Islamophobic. An American racing car driver recently had his sponsorship pulled because of remarks that had been uncovered from the early Eighties – but made by his father, not even by him.
The irony is that this time, there was no army of social media trolls demanding Alastair Stewart's head. His Shakespeare quote generated a bit of fuss, but not much. Perhaps ITN overreacted to a handful of complaints. In any event, it was a calamitous misjudgment because the fury is now directed at them – and the way one of their longest-serving journalists has been treated.
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Category: Etgar Keret
Kirkus Reviews, 1933-2009
December 10, 2009 March 28, 2013 by Mark Athitakis, posted in Clifford Chase, Etgar Keret, Hans Fallada, James P. Othmer, Lionel Shriver, Michael Thomas
Update, March 28, 2013: This post was written when it appeared that Kirkus would be shuttered for good. Happily, that hasn't happened. But out of respect for the publication's policy of keeping the identity of a book's reviewer anonymous, I've edited this post to remove references to specific books I've reviewed for the publication.
This one hurts: Kirkus Reviews has been shuttered. I regularly reviewed books for the publication for most of the past five years—mostly fiction, though I recently had more nonfiction assignments. Why the shift? Beats the heck out of me—in all the time I wrote for Kirkus , I never got a clear idea of the publication's inner workings. The books arrived. I reviewed them. More books arrived.
I understand why some people felt that reviewing for Kirkus was a grind. The format had a Tayloristic rigidity—short summary sentence, review graf, pithy final-assessment sentence, all of it clocking in at 350 words, tops. Though the editors there knew my general interests, I didn't get a vote on what was sent to me to review. In short, it wasn't a job for reviewers who cared only about books they felt pretty certain they'd like. Which speaks to the most contentious and, I think, admirable aspect of the magazine—that Kirkus' reviews were more negative than positive. Conventional wisdom argues that this is because the reviews were written by large passels of smug know-nothings who used their anonymity as a blunt instrument. I prefer to think Kirkus served an uncomfortable truth—most books are mediocre. For my part, I can say that I never wrote a negative review that I wouldn't feel comfortable putting my name on, and that only rarely did I feel compelled to fire both barrels.
Did all those negative reviews have any kind of impact? On authors' emotions, sure: A few have taken the news of the publication's closing to register their unhappiness with it. If nothing else, Kirkus may have been the most powerful and fearsome hurt-feelings generator in the history of publishing. But my lukewarm review of what would become a New York Times best book of the year sure didn't influence much. And, contrary to Kirkus hate-everything reputation, I never received a directive about what tone to take, and I did write my fair share of positive, even starred reviews. In my more self-congratulatory moments, I like to imagine that I did a little something for a debut novel that seemed to get a goodly amount of attention following my rave, and one book-review editor at a national newspaper has told me he decided to cover another novel largely on the strength of my Kirkus endorsement.
But I didn't keep reviewing for Kirkus because I was hoping to have some kind of effect on book sales. I kept writing because, for one thing, adhering to those strict demands required a certain skill—writing short while fitting everything you want to say is tough, and I enjoyed honing that craft. (It wasn't bad training for blogging.) But I mostly kept doing it, and kept loving doing it despite all those crummy books, because it built an element of surprise into my reading habit. I blog about American fiction because it's the category I love best and the one I figure I can blog about most consistently without feeling like I want to shove my head in a blender. But I don't feel obligated to stay in that category, and Kirkus assignments forced me out of my comfort zone. I think every critic could stand to pick out a book at random every so often, just to test one's prejudices; it's a time-consuming exercise, but it helps give you clearer sense of your likes and dislikes. If I can't have that experience as a reviewer, I'll pursue it as a reader.
My wife once asked me if it ever felt like a burden, getting all of those books in the mail—nearly all of them falling short of what I'd consider very good. I replied by saying that I always had high hopes that the next batch of books might contain one I'd really, really like. You have to allow yourself to be pleasantly surprised every so often. When getting that package of books in the mail stopped feeling at least a little bit like Christmas, I'd know it was time to get out of the book-review racket. In all the time I reviewed for Kirkus, I never lost that feeling.
Saunders vs. Keret
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Israeli author Etgar Keret is one of my favorite short-story writers; I enthused about him at length for the Rake a while back. He's smart, irreverent, quick-hit–in other words, the kind of writer who pairs up nicely with somebody like George Saunders. They talk together in Pen America 8, the latest issue of PEN America's journal. Its blog has an excerpt.


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– The Middle East's largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center in Israel, just launched a breakthrough rapid COVID-19 detection test pilot program that enhances virus detection spectral technology and adapts it into rapid coronavirus testing.
– The innovative process uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to separate the profile of a person infected with a specific virus, from someone else who has a different virus or that of another healthy person.
Israel's Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer, the largest hospital in the Middle East, announces the launch of a pilot program for breakthrough rapid COVID-19 detection tests conceived by Newsight Imaging, an Israeli startup.
Rapid COVID-19 Detection Tests Pilot Program Overview
Sheba's pilot program will conduct tests using Newsight's revolutionary spectral device based on its developed Spectrometer-on-Chip. The device, which is about the size of a computer mouse, can identify and classify evidence of a virus in the body in less than one second, using a sample of fluid (blood serum or saliva sample) inserted into a disposable test cuvette.
This spectral technology for virus detection itself is not the actual innovation, however. The new technological advance is Newsight's ability to bring an expensive device that typically costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to be implemented in a single cost-effective chip, using an AI algorithm to separate the profile of a human infected with a specific virus, from a human infected with a different virus or from a healthy human.
Newsight's device simultaneously checks 1024 spectral channels, currently in the visible light spectrum of 400-700 nm. During the next few months, the company plans to present a device that will be capable of examining a spectral profile in wavelengths of up to 1100 nm.
Medical experts in the infectious and tropical disease departments at Sheba Medical Center are already working with Newsight. Initial feasibility studies of the device have shown an ability to separate between alpha-coronaviruses (Alpha-CoV) and beta-coronaviruses (Beta-CoV), with an accuracy close to 100 percent, in addition to feasibility studies conducted on blood serum samples of people infected with the Dengue virus, which were found to be extremely accurate.
Newsight and Sheba's ARC Innovation Center headed by Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, Chief Medical and Innovation Center at Sheba Medical Center, are planning to establish a joint company that will make these solutions commercially available to the medical community worldwide. Newsight Imaging's previous machine vision chips are already integrated in dozens of different devices and solutions in the automotive, robotics, and advanced industrial manufacturing fields.
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Footballers' Analysis » Manchester City: How Different is Paul Pogba from Manchester United's Angel Di Maria?
Manchester City: How Different is Paul Pogba from Manchester United's Angel Di Maria?
Posted on June 29, 2015 by wpadmin
Manchester City's pursuit of Paul Pogba, you would think, has begun, after Mirror reported on Saturday that the Etihad officials have held talks with Juventus, and are willing to meet the £70.92m transfer fee for the 22-year old box-to-box midfielder.
City's director of football, Txiki Begiristain, is also reported to have spoken with the player's agent, Mino Raiola, who wants a 10% commission of his client's transfer fee. Also, if the Frenchman makes the switch from Juventus Stadium, he will be paid a colossal £240,000/week basic wages along with bonuses. The 2013/14 English Champions, however, have yet to make a bid for the player, as they are awaiting on an approval from the former Red Devil, before going ahead and making that all-important first bid.
The addition of Pogba to the existent City squad would not only elevate the club's status but also give them the edge in the UEFA Champions League, a competition in which they yearn to go toe-to-toe with the major European outfits and soon be fighting for that prestigious crown.
Now, talking about Pogba's transfer fee, the former United man will be the fifth most expensive player of all time if he completes the move to the Etihad stadium. Less than a year ago, Manchester United and Louis van Gaal brought in Angel Di Maria, a Champions League winner with Real Madrid in the season before. They paid a whopping £59.7m to secure the Argentine, who, however, did not enjoy a good first season, and his poor performances led to speculation that he may soon be on the move to Paris St. Germain.
From City's point of view, should they fear the worst with Pogba's signing? £70.92m is a lot of money, but will they not regret spending so much, only months after UEFA lifted the Financial Fair Play (FFP) sanctions that were imposed on them last season? And, finally, does the Frenchman have the stuff of a 70 million-pound signing?
Read on… as we analyse these two World-class players and how the would-be City man is different from United's Di Maria.
Paul Pogba v Angel di Maria
Starting with Di Maria, he thrives on his direct style of play: taking defenders on; attempting shots from long range; consistently crossing the ball from the flanks when playing as a winger and, importantly, comes up with an end-product more often than not. With Pogba, you have a midfielder, who is strongly built and attack-minded: he, like the Argentine, likes to run at people and, more so than the former Los Blancos' player, is lethal when it comes to striking the ball.
To put their styles of play into perspective, we shall have a look at their stats from the last two seasons. Both of them were injured for large chunks of last season, which didn't allow them to play freely and to their full potential. The United midfielder missed 11 league games last season, and it was after suffering a hamstring injury in November, that his form waned away and he couldn't recover it before the end of the season. The Argentine created 31 chances in his first 11 games for his new club, averaging just shy of 3 chances/game; however, after returning to action in the New Year, he created only 20 chances in 15 league games, though we need to acknowledge that van Gaal didn't start him in many games towards the end of the season. The Juventus man, on the other hand, missed 12 league and 3 Champions League games, managing a mere two goals and two assists in his final 9 games, as compared to 8 goals and 5 assists in 32 previous games in the season.
Di Maria enjoyed a dream last season for Real, as he registered a whopping 22 assists across the Spanish La Liga and Champions League, while scoring 7 goals, as well, in both the competitions. United have lacked speed in their build-up play over the last couple of seasons, and Di Maria's arrival from Madrid was expected to significantly quicken the pace at which they played. But United's new signing could not exhibit his full potential in his first season at Old Trafford, the reason for which will be revealed later on in the article.
Shifting focus to Pogba, the Frenchman made 50 appearances for the Old Lady in the 2013/14 season, scoring 8 goals to go with creating 60 chances in what turned out to be a good season for the then Antonio Conte's side that won the Italian Serie A and made it to the Europa League semifinals, losing 1-2 to Benfica on aggregate.
From the aforementioned stats, it is clear that Di Maria is a player who creates chances – and plenty of them – which was also evident during his early United career. Do not forget that he ended the last season with 10 league assists – third only to Cesc Fabregas' 18 and Santiago Cazorla's 11 – to his name, and that tally is not bad for a player who suffered a couple of injuries and had his house targeted by burglars. Pogba, on the other hand, is also someone who creates chances, but maybe not as much as Di Maria; where he differs from the Argentine is with his providing of goals (18 goals in 85 appearances over the last two seasons, compared to Di Maria's 15 in the same number of games).
Despite being crucial central midfielders for their respective sides, both Di Maria and Pogba are not the greatest of passers in the modern game. Di Maria, in fact, hardly ever passes and that is why he often gets called a 'midfield runner', someone who picks up the ball deep in his own half and runs 60-70 yards before he makes a decision whether to shoot or play a short pass to another player. In his last two seasons, the Argentine has only completed 82% and 78%, respectively, of his passes. Pogba doesn't rely on dribbling as much as Di Maria, but over the last two seasons, he has completed only 84% of his attempted passes. Playing alongside Andrea Pirlo, though, could be a staunch reason for him not really excelling in this key aspect of any midfielder's game.
Moving on to the physical sides of this duo's game, you probably should know which player has the edge over the other. Di Maria is not keen at contesting aerial duels, or lunging into tackles. Over the last two seasons, the Argentine has attempted 129 tackles (in the league alone), but been successful only on 47 occasions. His aerial prowess is not great either, failing to win even one of his 11 tussles in the air. What it tells you is that tackling and winning balls in the air, are not an integral part of Di Maria's repertoire. Pogba, on the other hand, excels in these aspects of the game, too, substantiating the reason for City's desperation to bring him to the Etihad. Over the last two seasons in the Italian Serie A, the Frenchman has attempted 251 tackles, and won 108 (43% success rate) of them; his aerial prowess is much better than his tackling', winning 114 of the 192 (59.4% success rate) aerial duels involving him.
At the very top of this article, we also spoke about Di Maria's directness and his penchant for taking on defenders, however, it is Pogba who comfortably overpowers the Argentine in that area of the game, too: the former United midfielder completed an ultra-impressive 75 of the 100 attempted take-ons in 26 league outings last season, while Di Maria attempted 109 take-ons, completing only 45 (41.2%) of them.
Pogba is way better than Di Maria when it comes to the physical side of the game, and there is no smidgen doubt that he will beef up City's engine room if he makes the switch from Turin.
Why Di Maria didn't enjoy a good first season at Old Trafford?
As promised mid-way through the article, we shall now investigate the reason for Di Maria not playing to potential in his first season at United. There are multiple ways by which you can describe Di Maria: midfielder, No.10, winger, or even striker. Simply put, he is a versatile footballer who most managers covet.
In his final season at the Santiago Bernabeu, Carlo Ancelotti utilised him in one of the two advanced midfield positions in 4-3-3, harnessing the Argentine's speed and ability to beat defenders, while also making space for the likes of Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo to weave their magic in.
Van Gaal, however, wanted to use Di Maria's versatility, which was the reason for him deploying the 27-year old in a variety of positions. While the constant tweaking in playing positions didn't help Di Maria thrive, Barclays Premier League outfits knew that stopping the Argentine will significantly alleviate United's threat as a unit, and the lack of an equally good player at Old Trafford didn't help Di Maria's cause.
What can we expect from Pogba?
The deal is far from complete, and it would be a monumental achievement for City if they secure the Frenchman's signing. That needs to happen first.
Even at just 22, you can safely say that he boasts of a complete game – score goals (headed, and on both foot), win defensive duels and pass accurately, too – the Sky Blues will benefit from. I did an article last week, saying that Pogba's inclusion will see Manuel Pellegrini switch to a 4-3-3, with Yaya Toure playing alongside a player who, in most ways, is a carbon copy of him. If that prospect materialises, City's engine room in itself will look irrepressible for most Premier League outfits, and a good number of European opponents, too.
Having only played and excelled in Serie A before, though, Pogba may take time to settle into the English game. Period. His lack of versatility, unlike Di Maria, could actually work in his favour, as he will only play as a No. 6 or No. 8 and after a few games, could work out the style that best suits the Premier League.
Paul Pogba's game promises a lot of positives for City, and very few, it at all, negatives. He has the attributes that make him comparable to Di Maria, but there are also other aspects of his game, in which he dwarfs the Argentine comfortably.
It is good to see City entering the negotiations with Juventus, exuding confidence in bagging the player who is also coveted by Barcelona and Real Madrid. They must be aware of Pogba's repertoire, and for a player who is only 22, even paying £80m is definitely a risk worth taking. Di Maria doesn't become a bad player after one 'decent' season at Old Trafford. Now, imagine a similar player with more power, aggression and better goal scoring output and that is what you will get with Pogba.
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A very enjoyable indoor and outdoor museum. Amazingly few visitors on the day we visited. It would help with a bit more English.


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The re-invention of Microsoft
By Liquid Logic	February 27, 2015 June 20th, 2016 Social, Technology
Back in April 2012, when Tim Cook was asked if Apple was planning to merge its tablet and laptop products, much as Microsoft is proceeding with Windows 8, Cook responded with a quip: "You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those aren't going to be pleasing to the user."
He then elaborated that converging the iPad with a laptop would result in tradeoffs, ones Apple isn't willing to make. "We are not going to that party, but others might from a defensive point of view."
In addition, Cook emphasised that Apple has clear direction and clear vision regarding their product lines. "The tablet market is going to be huge… As the ecosystem gets better and better and we continue to double down on making great products, I think the limit here is nowhere in sight," Cook said.
"I also believe there is a good market for the Macbook Air and we continue to innovate in that product. I think it appeals to someone who has different requirements. You wouldn't want to put these things together."
With that in mind, and with the rise of 2-in-1s such as the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro and Microsoft Surface line, one has to wonder whether this time, Apple may have been shortsighted. But was Microsoft ahead of its time? We will know when Windows 10 is released later this year. One platform for desktops, tablets and mobiles. Ambitious? Yes. Effective? Let's wait and see.
Meanwhile, this article on Forbes is a great insight into Microsoft. As Gordon Kelly wrote:
A year is a long time in technology, but the past 12 months has seen one of the most surprising and exciting shake-ups in recent history: Microsoft and Google have swapped places.
In my opinion this is the current situation. In 2015 Satya Nadella led Microsoft has become a progressive, open, web services company. By contrast Google grasps at ageing revenue pillars and neglects the present to concentrate on scattergun projects which overpromise and underdeliver.
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Q: Is it possible to define custom color palettes for re-use in Cytoscape There are many great color palettes built-in but I would like to be able to define my own palettes to keep a consistent look across various different sessions and graphs over time.
Re-defining the RGB color codes gets a bit tedious over time. I would think that it would be possible to define and save a color palette rather than styles? (I commonly use different styles for different visualizations but would ideally like to be able to use the same colors)

A: Great idea!! At this point, there is no capability to create custom palettes.  It would be relatively straightforward to write an app to do so, however, since the palette mechanism is extensible.  If you know somebody with Java expertise, I would be happy to get them started.  Probably no more than a 1-2 week effort, depending on how fancy you wanted to make the UI.  You might also submit this as a feature request and we'll put it on next year's Google Summer of Code list...
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Held in association with the Planning and Environment Bar Association, the Garner Lecture is one of the UK's leading environmental law events.
Kevin Kerrigan, Executive Dean of the Law School at Northumbria University, said: "We are delighted to be hosting a live screening of such a prestigious event in the environmental law calendar, especially as this year will be the 25th anniversary of the Garner Lecture. As a professional Law School, we train the lawyers of the future and we are excited to be able to offer our students, UKELA members and members of the public with an interest in the environmental this unique opportunity to attend what promises to be a highly illuminating and stimulating event.
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Q: Supermartingale with vanishing drift Is a continuous supermartingale with vanishing drift already a martingale? In my concrete problem, I have a continuous nonnegative local martingale $ (X_t) $ on $ \left[0, T\right] $ which is bounded from below by 0 (and hence a supermartingale) and which in addition satisfies
$ sup_{t \in \left[0,T\right]} \mathbb{E} \left[ X_t^p \right] < + \infty$, for some $p > 1$. When I apply Ito, I find
$dX_t = 0 dt + H dW_t$,
where W is a Brownian motion and H is some predictable process. Now, I am wondering if
$(X_t)$ is in fact a true martingale (the reason is that I would like to apply the Doob inequality for martingales in $L^p$).
Thanks a lot for your help!
Simon

A: Take $dX_t= f(t)dt+ dW_t$ such that :
-$F(t)=\int_0^t f(s)ds$ is strictly decreasing (determisitic)
-$f(t)\to 0$ as $t\to \infty$
Then $X_t= F(t)+ W_t$ and as the sum of a martingale term (the Brownian motion) plus a deterministic supermartingale $F(t)$, $X$ it is a supermaringale with a drift term that goes to 0, and $X$ is not be a martingale (unless F is null).
For example $f(t)=-\frac{1}{(1+t)^2}$ gives $F(t)=\frac{1}{1+t}-1$ seems to work fine.
Best regards


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Q: How can I create a group with my project on GitHub and the FrontEnd and BackEnd associated to be repos of this group(project)? I'm building a web-app and I want to make a group with the name of the app to contain the two major part of a web site, the Frontend and Backend. How can I do this? Or maybe some suggestions !
I have read other question on this topic but neither explained in detail. Maybe we can find a more complete answer to help people that aren't familiar with GitHub.

A: Its not that much of a problem, you can do it in two ways. Either use:
1.GitHub (User Interface).
or
2.git bash (Command Line) (Preferred)
Firstly create a new repository and name it without spaces (use _ for a better naming)
Then You will have to add folders and files to it using GitHub.
link
Or you can make this empty repos and dont add any readme, gitignore or license, just create and follow these instructions:
GIT CLI TO ADD PROJECT FOLDERS
then, invite your group memebers as contributors to the project by clicking on settings in your repo, then click manage access. and invite contributors. this will send them an email to accept the invitation.


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Fire in Gujarat hospital: Children shifted, no injuries reported
PTI Sep 11, 2019
Forty-five patients, including 35 children, were shifted safely to other wards after a fire broke out in the paediatric unit of state-run SSG Hospital in Gujarat's Vadodara late 10th September afternoon, an official said.
Hospital Superintendent Dr Deveshwar Pandey said the fire started in the second floor of the three-storeyed paediatric unit, adding that the damage was restricted to an air-conditioning unit and window panes, and all medical records were safe. "No one was injured in the incident. We shifted 35 children and 10 adult patients to other wards. The fire seems to have started in an air-conditioning unit as thick black smoke was coming out of it. The fire brigade doused it quickly," he said.


Although 3.0.1 will only be a patch-set with bug fixes rather than any major changes we are proposing to inject a few small and non-disruptive UI changes into the release. These are in response to requests from a couple of different users and were simple and quick to do.
Most obvious is the new Powered By banner at the foot of the page. Just some improved branding for the project really.
Next there is what I've termed the Privacy Message. In this case you can see it in the page footer containing the text "Confidential, Internal Use Only". Many large organizations using Hudson have asked for this. On internal commercial systems there are often requirements to badge screens with privacy or confidentiality statements (or even copyright). This is a new configuration option is accessible through the Manage Hudson > Configure System screen and basically provides you with a place similar to the System Message, where you can place whatever text you like, including markup. So you don't have to talk about "evil" things in the Privacy Message, you can put and create links to whatever you like and it will be printed at the base of each page. I've seen several systems where the System Message is being used for information links and similar which would be better consigned to the bottom of the page, now you can do that.
Finally the new Instance Tag feature. Again, just set through the Configure System screen, the instance tag is an arbitrary name or tag that you can associate with an install. It's function is to help overworked sysadmins who have many Hudson instances to manage and want to know at a glance which system they are currently working with without having to look at and mentally decode the URL. To help them, the Instance Tag is printed in the Page Header, Footer and on the browser tab/window label. In my example here the Tag is set to "DEV_CI_I". As I said though, the actual string is is arbitrary and optional. Unlike the Privacy Message, markup is ignored in this value.
Both Instance Tag and Privacy Message are optional and if you don't define them then your UI will remain as it is today in Hudson 3.0.0 except for the new banner.
Note that the Instance Tag and the Privacy Message have not been exposed through the REST API yet. It probably makes sense to do so at some point if there is interest.
Any feedback on this new feature? Just post on the forum or mail the Dev list quoting this article.


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Three things: Dublin is cool, icons are fun, and working full time in a graphic design company is a curious experience.
A few weeks ago, I was offered the opportunity to go on work experience in Huguenot. The people there were brilliant! I was given a project brief on the first day which I worked on for the two weeks; to design a set of icons and posters for a management training event. I've never explored icon design before, and I had only used illustrator once or twice in the past, so everything was pretty much new to me. So I learned a lot from it!
The first few days were spent researching and sketching. I was gathering thoughts and developing ideas on the ten titles I was turning into icons, while keeping a consistent style in mind as well. Then, using Adobe Illustrator, I started to draw up the final designs, tweaking and changing them as I went through each one. Once I was happy with the icons themselves, I started thinking about poster designs, colours, and typefaces. I did more research, explored various colour schemes, studied typography and went through a range of layouts, forming a clear, concise overall image.
I'm pretty happy with the final result. And I'm very grateful for the opportunity too!


Press potatoes onto bottoma nd sides of a pie plate, drizzle with melted butter and bake at 425 for 25 mins. remove from over when potatoes are crisp and brown. put meat and vegt mixture on potatoes sprinkle with half of cheese. Scramble eggs with milk and pour over top. Sprinkle with cheese and bake at 350 for 25 mins.
this recipe is so easy to make for a crowd. I never have made it this small int he pie plate just adjsut ingred to size casserole you want to make. Also, after bakingthe hash browns and filling with meat, veggies and cheese this can be refrigerated over night or until you are ready to top siwth eggs and bake. I usually make ahead the night before feeding a crowd, (esp Easter brunch) and then in teh morning top with egg mixture and bake.. So simple and yet soooo good... Enjoy!!
Definitely a good recipe :bigthumb: I tried this already and it's great !!


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HUDDERSFIELD WINTER LEAGUE
The Crown Green Bowling League for men and women aged over-60
Notes of June Management Committee meeting
The June Management Committee meeting was once again held by a Telephone Conference Call service with 11 members phoning in.
Members discussed the ongoing situation as regards the coronavirus and how clubs were reacting to it. Most clubs are now open for limited social bowling but reports were of little take-up of these opportunities. Some clubs have sounded out their team bowlers and reports were of around 50% of team bowlers not inclined to bowl in League matches this year. The results of the website survey on bowler's thoughts on bowling this year also indicated a growing reluctance to put families and households at risk of infection by returning to full bowling in the short-term.
All this coupled with the timescales now passing and little flexibility in the Government's approach to social distancing and clubs opening of their premises leads members to believe that there is very little chance of any competitive team bowling this season. It was agreed that the Management Committee should be in a position to make a decision about the current season at its next meeting on 13 July. That, in turn, will lead to a clearer picture around finances and to a decision being taken about club fees for 2020.
The one area where there may be a chance of some competitive bowling would be in individual competitions where it is the choice of an individual whether they take up the opportunity or not. In particular, the League would like to stage the 50th consecutive running of the Examiner Rose Bowl if at all possible.
The Treasurer reported on current financial activity which invited the question about the renewal or not of the bond currently held by HDVBA with £2,256 in it and a mature date in September. Once the full financial picture is known then decisions about renewing this or not can be made.
The Treasurer also reported on grants provided to local clubs from the Sport England Emergency Fund. In total he informed members that 15 clubs had received over £36,000 in total to date. These details are available on the Sport England website if you dig deep enough. It was decided that this detailed information would not be posted on the HDVBA website but links could be provided to the Sport England details. Grants for local clubs ranged from £300 to £10,000.
It was agreed that the Rules Sub-Committee would meet on Monday 15 June to consider any rule changes for the 2021 season and then make any recommendations to the July meeting of the full Management Committee. With no League action this year there are not expected to be any major overhaul of the rules but following club reaction at the AGM the rules around Starred Bowlers will be reviewed.
Work has restarted on preparing for the start of the new Winter League and the 10 clubs that have expressed an interest in joining this League will be meeting shortly to progress this work. One major decision to be taken will be who will oversee the running of this League with four options on the table. It could be the HDVBA, the host club, the teams themselves or an individual. Each member was asked where they saw this responsibility laying and almost all thought that it should be the HDVBA.
Pink footer mats and 12noon start this week
Denby Dale team and action photos
COVID-19 Incident leaves bowlers in a quandry
© 2020 Jeff Jacklin


The Primetime Emmy awards will be televised live on NBC 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17.
Last year, the Emmys expanded the number of nominees. Instead of five "outstanding" ("best") shows in a category like drama, there were seven or eight nominated shows. Nominees in an acting category went from five up to eight.
This "nominee inflation" helps explain why last year l had a larger than usual list of Jewish Emmy nominees. It also partially explains why relatively few Jewish nominees won last year — they had more competition. Here's hoping that "the tribe" brings home more statues this year.
Here are the Jewish nominees in the categories that will be presented at the primetime Emmy Awards.
ACTING CATEGORIES. Lead Actor, comedy series: Larry David, 71, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Lead Actress, comedy series: Pamela Adlon, 52, Better Things, and Tracee Ellis Ross, 45, Black-ish; Lead Actress, drama series: Evan Rachel Wood, 30, Westworld; Supporting Actor, comedy series: Henry Winkler, 72, Barry; Supporting Actress, comedy series: Alex Borstein, 47, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; Supporting Actor, drama series: Mandy Patinkin, 65, Homeland; Supporting Actor, limited series/TV movie: Michael Stuhlbarg, 50, The Looming Tower; Supporting Actress, limited series/movie: Judith Light, 69, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.
About half these nominees have already won an Emmy Award. Those still looking for their first win are Ellis, Wood, Borstein and Stuhlbarg.
Borstein, whose mother is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor, had some bad luck in 2000 when she was unable (due to a prior commitment) to take a starring role in Gilmore Girls. The role she had to pass on launched the career of actress Melissa McCarthy. However, the creator of Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palldino, 52, liked Borstein and, after the first season of Gilmore, gave her small guest roles on the show. She thought of Borstein when she created Mrs. Maisel and gave her a juicy supporting part. Well, against all odds, this comedy about a "very" Jewish woman and her family has become the surprise hit of 2018 and Borstein is, as they say, sitting pretty.
It's ironic that Michael Stuhlbarg is nominated for playing a real non-Jewish character (Richard Clarke, a top George W. Bush security official). In the last decade, he has played a raft of fictional and real-life Jews without getting an Emmy or Oscar nomination (the real-life ones are gangster Arnold Rothstein, producer Lew Wasserman and New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal).
Also nominated are non-Jewish thespians Tony Shalhoub (Best Supporting Actor, comedy) and Rachel Brosnahan (Best Lead Actress, comedy). Brosnahan plays the title role in Mrs. Maisel. She explains that she could play a Jewish woman so authentically because she grew up in a heavily Jewish Chicago suburb and went to a "hundred bar/bat mitzvahs." Shalhoub plays Abraham Weissman, Mrs. Maisel's Jewish father. Shalhoub, who grew up in Green Bay, is of Lebanese Christian background, and this isn't his first Jewish role. Lebanese/Syrian Christian actors, like (non-Jewish) Italian actors, seem to play Jews pretty well (I am thinking of Lebanese Christian Danny Thomas in the first remake of The Jazz Singer and Syrian Christian/Italian actor F. Murray Abraham in several Jewish roles).
DIRECTING AND WRITING CATEGORIES: (Note: The writing and directing awards cite a specific episode, which I have omitted.) Director, comedy series: Jesse Peretz, 50, Glow, and Amy Sherman-Palladino, 52, Mrs. Maisel (she also created this series); Director, drama series: Jeremy Podewska, 55, Game of Thrones, and Daniel Sackheim, 60ish, Ozark; Director, variety special: Glenn Weiss, 60ish, The Oscars; Director, limited series/TV movie: Scott Frank, 58, Godless (he also wrote the series), Craig Zisk, 68, The Looming Tower, and Barry Levinson, 76, Paterno.
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown was nominated for Best Informational Series.
Peretz, as noted in a recent column, is the director of Juliet, Naked, a film now in local theaters. Also, as I've noted before, Frank had a pastor character recite what seemed to be a prayer in the last scene of the Western series Godless (the pastor was honoring people who died fighting for a righteous cause). Actually, the prayer was a poem ("Tis a Fearful Thing") by Judah Ha-Levi (1075-1141), the famous Spanish Jewish physician, poet and philosopher.
Writing, comedy series: Sherman-Palladinio, Mrs. Maisel; Writing, drama series: Joe Weisberg, 57, The Americans, Peter Morgan, 55, The Crown, and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, both 47, Game of Thrones; Writing, limited series/TV movie: Scott Frank, Godless.
This is a tough category to handicap. Game of Thrones is such a worldwide mega-hit that it is hard to see how Benioff and Weiss will be denied the Emmy. But Mrs. Maisel emerged from the relative obscurity of being on the Amazon streaming service via great writing and acting. Maisel had nothing like the budget of Thrones and no dragons. It's a real Cinderella story. Still, I think Thrones will win.
OUTSTANDING SERIES CATEGORIES: The Outstanding (or "best") series awards go to the series' principal producers, of whom there are many. My practice is to list the "best of" series that have a Jewish creator or co-creator (who is usually a producer, too).
Outstanding Comedy Series: Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Mrs. Maisel, and John Altschuler, 55, with Dave Krinsky, 55, Silicon Valley. Outstanding Drama Series: Joe Weisberg, The Americans, Peter Morgan, The Crown, David Benioff with D.B. Weiss, Game of Thrones and Dan Fogelman, 39, This is Us. Outstanding Variety Sketch Series: Sarah Silverman, 47, I Love You America with Sarah Silverman, Carrie Brownstein, 43, Portlandia, and Lorne Michaels, 73, Saturday Night Live. Outstanding Limited Series: Noah Pink, 35ish, Genius: Picasso, and Scott Frank, Godless.
The number of Emmy categories has grown so much that some categories formerly presented in "prime time" have been moved to the Creative Arts ceremony (which also includes technical categories.) The "Creatives" will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on cable station FXX on Sept. 15. Here are some of the notable Jewish "Creative" nominees.
Outstanding TV movie: Jennifer Fox, 59 (writer), The Tale, and Debora Cahn, 47, (writer) Paterno. Outstanding Informational Series: the late Anthony Bourdain (whose mother was Jewish), Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown; Outstanding Documentary: Bryan Fogel, 50ish, Icarus, and Judd Apatow, 50, The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling. Outstanding Guest Actress, comedy series: Tiffany Haddish, 38, Saturday Night Live and Maya Rudolph, 46, The Good Place. Outstanding Narrator: Carl Reiner, 96, If You're Not in the Obits, Eat Breakfast, and Liev Schreiber, 50, 24/7.


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The Icelandic Horse Farm people are Robyn Hood, Phil Pretty, Mandy Pretty, Walt Woodhead and Christine Schwartz. Robyn and Phil became involved with Icelandic Horses in 1976. Christine joined us, from Germany, in 1979. Mandy arrived in 1982 and brought her husband, Walt Woodhead, into the mix in 2007.
Over the years we have sold hundreds of horses. Our horses have spread across much of North America with others in Portugal, Germany, Sweden and Australia.
The Icelandic Horse Farm has been breeding, promoting, importing and selling Icelandic Horses since 1976. The farm is located on a picturesque 65 acre bench just outside Vernon, BC overlooking the Coldstream and Whitevale valleys. Many of the horses spend the warmer months in additional summer pasture in close proximity to the farm. A Cover-All arena allows horses to be trained year round.
View videos from the farm as well as horses for sale.
Our business and life revolves around these amazing horses on 65 picturesque acres just outside of Vernon, BC. Service is the cornerstone of our business, and we are here for you both before and after horses are purchased from us. We extend a suitability guarantee for trained horses to ensure satisfaction to new owners and horses alike. (Consignment horses by private agreement.) Both domestic and imported horses of all ages are for sale; mares, geldings, and young horses.
We'll keep you informed about events and horses for sale.
Tellington TTouch Method is the training method we use. Invented by Robyn's sister Linda Tellington-Jones, it is Tellington TTouch is a training approach that encourages optimal performance and well-being. The Canadian Headquarters is at the farm.
We also offer numerous clinics on riding, starting young horses, and TTouch. Our online shop offers saddles, tack, and apparel, as well as many books and DVDs. Please make yourself at home, and have a look around!
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Guernsey History
Guernsey History – February
Batterie Dollmann's namesake was born in 1882
Jethou tenant Sir Charles Hayward died
St Martin's parish church was consecrated
Guernsey suffered its worst storms in 25 years
Plans for the power station at St Sampson were approved
A fugitive murderer committed suicide in St Peter Port
Aurigny Air Services was founded by Derrick Bailey
HMS Guernsey was launched in Aberdeen
A mail ship was wrecked on Black Rock
The Orion oil rig got wedged at Grandes Rocques
A Guernsey watchmaker helped hunt for the Stone of Scone
The Guernsey Language Commission was formed
Queen Mary was beheaded while wearing Guernsey stockings
Guernsey's first postbox was installed in Union Street
The Guernsey Society celebrated its 70th anniversary
John Tapner was the last man to be hanged on Guernsey
The team behind GUNS was intercepted by the Germans
Alderney's first full-time radio station took to the air
Guernsey's last duel was fought at dawn in Cambridge Park
Specsavers founder Mary Perkins was born
The airline Rockhopper became Blue Islands
Guernsey got its own flag and unique identity
Typewriter artist Dom Sylvester Houedard was born
Guernsey's first Methodist minister arrived
Guernsey Railway Company ran its first services
The Channel Islands were cut off from the outside world
Saint Sampson was ordained a bishop
Guernsey-born military architect Thomas de Havilland died
Occupation resister Marie Ozanne died in the Vale
Guernsey's first banker, Thomas Priaulx, died
Reverend Harry Samuel was released from prison
A bomb left over from the war was detonated
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Numerical modelling, including process-based modelling and flume tank studies, has been used extensively over the last decades to study sediment movement, depositional processes and resulting (ancient) stratal architectures. These approaches have traditionally been challenged by our ability to integrate modelling results with reality, temporal and spatial scaling issues, subsurface data conditioning as well as our ability to extract quantitative data from these numerical models. However, the development of more mature 3D numerical models and the advance of larger computers have overcome some of the disadvantages.


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Home ABC US News Matthew McConaughey talks losing 'Titanic' role to Leonardo DiCaprio: "I wanted that"
Matthew McConaughey talks losing 'Titanic' role to Leonardo DiCaprio: "I wanted that"
ABC/Nicole Wilder(LOS ANGELES) -- For Matthew McConaughey, Titanic was the role that got away.
The actor tells The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast that he auditioned for the role of Jack in the 1997 blockbuster, which Leonardo DiCaprio went on to play.
"I went and auditioned," he says. "I wanted that. I auditioned with Kate Winslet. Had a good audition. Walked away from there pretty confident that I had it. I didn't get it. I never got offered that."
McConaughey adds that he hopes his agent at the time didn't withhold the offer from him.
"And as I've said before, not even half-jokingly to be true, if that was an offer and it didn't come to me, I've got to go back and go, 'I need to meet in an alley with that agent,'" he says.
Last year on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Winslet also spoke about auditioning with McConaughey.
"I auditioned with Matthew, isn't that weird?" she said. "Never said that in public before. I auditioned with Matthew, which was completely fantastic. It just wouldn't have been the whole 'Jack and Rose, Kate and Leo' thing."
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Ireland celebrates Eurovision Song Contest final return after five years
Both the UK and Ireland face competition from the bookies' favourite, Israel's "Bjork on steroids" - and her chicken noises.
Wednesday 9 May 2018 10:43, UK
Image: Ryan O'Shaughnessy has ended a five-year wait for Ireland to qualify
Ireland is competing in the final of Eurovision Song Contest for the first time since 2013.
Ryan O'Shaughnessy secured their place after singing his ballad Together in the first semi-final in Lisbon.
The UK, as one of the "Big Five" countries, automatically qualified for the grand final on Saturday.
O'Shaughnessy's ballad was accompanied by two male dancers acting out the romantic story of a couple, which got a huge cheer from the audience.
The moment Ireland qualified #Eurovision pic.twitter.com/9sDI6a1fBN
— BBC Eurovision🇬🇧 (@bbceurovision) May 8, 2018
With seven victories, Ireland is the most successful country at the contest, but finished in last place at the final in 2013 and hasn't competed since.
If there was a prize for most eccentric performance, it would have to go to Israel - whose singer clucked like a chicken on stage.
Netta Barzilai, who performed her song Toy, has been the favourite with bookmakers to win this year's competition.
More from Eurovision
UK's Eurovision entry gets points knocked off
Eurovision: Who is Michael Rice - the UK's act?
Madonna's performance at Eurovision Song Contest in doubt, say organisers
'Boycotting Eurovision in Israel is not the answer,' say stars such as Stephen Fry and Sharon Osborne
Eurovision: Which song gets your vote to represent UK?
'Fake news' row hits Eurovision ahead of final
She has been dubbed "Bjork on steroids" for her energetic performance.
Image: Israel's Netta could be the most eccentric performer this year
The first of the two semi-finals - with the second to air on Thursday - also saw former X Factor contestant Saara Aalto make it through to Saturday night, representing Finland.
The UK will be hoping for its first Eurovision win in more than two decades.
Singer-songwriter SuRie is representing the UK with the song Storm.
Here are the first 10 countries to qualify: Ireland, Austria, Estonia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Israel, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Finland.
Performers from Greece, Switzerland, Armenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Belarus, Belgium, Iceland and Azerbaijan went home.
Portugal is hosting the annual event this year after its contestant Salvador Sobral won last year's show in Ukraine.
The Eurovision Song Contest final will feature 26 contestants and airs on Saturday at 8pm on BBC One.