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Africa Development Bank Offers $150 Million To Help West Africa Handle Ebola
The African Development Bank (AfDB) told West African countries hardest hit by an Ebola epidemic they were willing to give $150 million to help balance their public finances, but they must first show they are doing everything possible to improve their health systems.
Economic growth in Liberia and Sierra Leone could decline by almost 3.5 percentage points and Guinea 1 percentage point, exposing financing gaps totalling $100 million to $130 million in each of the three countries, the IMF said on Thursday.
Efforts to stem the spread of Ebola have disrupted regional trade and transport and domestic commerce in several states.
"The urgency is to stabilise public finances," AfDB chief Donald Kaberuka told Le Monde newspaper in remarks published on Saturday. "The bank is ready to unblock $150 million to help Liberia, Sierra Leone
and Guinea to consolidate their budgets and their currencies." "But it will depend on extra effort that they improve their health systems and food safety," he said.
AfDB announced in August it would donate $60 million to help train medical workers and purchase supplies to fight the Ebola outbreak.
The death toll has risen to more than 2,400 people out of 4,784 cases with the number of new Ebola cases in West Africa growing faster than authorities can manage them, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday. Kaberuka,
who predicted a drop in growth of 2
percent to 2.5 percent for the three countries, said the bank would soon discuss how to divide up the $150 million.
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As for Mexico, James McDonald, President of Kootenay Silver, in an exclusive preview of Mexico Mining Review 2019, gives his opinion on Mexico's attractiveness.
In an exclusive preview of the 2019 Mexico Mining Review's edition James McDonald, President & CEO of Kootenay Silver, discusses Mexico's mining outlook, the exploration landscape and the main achievements the company made in its drilling program this year.
Candidates' Sparring Provides Hints for Mining Industry, the second Mexican presidential debate.
Sinaloa wants to create its own mining cluster. The state's Minister of Economy, Javier Lizágarra, announced the creation of the cluster in a move to promote the mining industry.
EY Canadian Mining Eye Index reports an 8 percent drop in performance during 1Q18 compared to 4Q17. Forecasts indicate a lower production for most Canadian gold mining companies.
Caution is the lesson learned by abandoned towns in Chile after the rise and sudden fall of nitrate prices. Could lithium be next?
Peru keeps its hopes pinned on mining. The industry accounted for 10 percent of the country's GDP and 62 percent of its exports in FY17, reports the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM).
The BlackRock World Mining Trust is recovering from the downturn. The net asset value of its underlying portfolio (NAV) has doubled since 2015 but remains low compared to the last peak's value in 2010.
President Julius Maada Bio calls for an immediate review of Sierra Leone's Mines and Mineral Acts. With the industry accounting for 80 percent of the country's exports, its new ruler wants to make mining more profitable and transparent.
The citizen initiative Responsible Mining in Baja California Sur denies allegations of financing Morena's political campaigns. Miguel Luna, President of the promotion committee, argues a lack of proof.


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Fan-Cast: Samurai Jack
If you grew up in the early 2000s, chances are the name Samurai Jack will ring a bell to you, as it was one of the most popular and advanced cartoons of its time. But like many cartoons, the show didn't get to complete the narrative it wanted to tell, and that has led to a lot of speculation about the show either returning or getting a feature length film in theaters. Given how amazing the story told in the show is, I personally think it'd be great to see it adapted into live action. So below I've put together some of my own suggestions for a big screen adaption of the Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack.
Joe Taslim (Raid Redemption) as Samurai Jack
The Raid Redemption film,showcased a number of actors that can handle a series of physically demanding and coordinated moves. Joe Taslim would be perfect to handle the physical roles of Jack, and with a battle between him and Aku, Taslim would definitely be able to portray a huge battle between Jack and Aku.
George Takei as Aku
George Takei could give us the slightly menacing and comical Aku in a live action Samurai Jack film. Aku isn't necessarily sinister, but more of a powerful figure in which acknowledges the fact that he has power and feels as though no one has the potential to beat him....except Jack.
Christoph Waltz (Django: Unchained) as The Scotsman
First coming in contact with Jack on the Bridge the Scotsman is a comical figure that could be considered a bad mother shut your mouth. Christoph waltz could portray the Scotsman perfectly. A runner up for the role suggested by Mr. Doughnut (a fancast genius) is Gerard Butler, yet his comedic aspect seems to lack in some areas and he isn't the A-list actor you want portraying a figure in your film all the time.
Will Yun Lee (The Wolverine) as Shinobi Shadow Warrior
Only reason why he wasn't chosen as Jack was because the story almost demands for a younger more believable Jack.. Only thing that Joes Taslim really has on Will Yun Lee is the age factor, but Lee is still a great figure to have within the movie.
Mark Luu, Lance Luu, Charles Luu (Pacific Rim) as the Three Blind Archers
Another artistic piece from the Samurai Jack run is the three blind archers. Being that they are a play on with the three blind mice. Each one lacks vision, but there acute sense of hearing can pin point any form of movement. Being that it is rare to find triplet acotrs Mark, Lance, and Charles are perfect for the roles .
Directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid Redemption)
Gareth Evans is by far one of my favorite directors. Not only is he young but he can let his action sequences do the talking for him. Being that Samurai Jack is a artistic form and aims primarily to give you that dose of action that you rarely see on the big screen, Gareth Evans is probably the top choice to take on this film
Cinematography by Larry Fong (Watchmen)
300, Watchmen, Sucker Punch, I mean he is a amazing visual aspect of the film world. Taking on the Batman Vs. Superman project can be a way to show you how big he is starting to become in the industry. He would be perfect as a director of photography.
Music by Pharrell Williams (Despicable Me) and Daft Punk (Tron: Legacy)
Samurai Jack depends heavily on a variety of music ranging from traditional Japanese all the way to upbeat techno. Daft Punk is legendary in the music world and they literally transformed the perception of Tron: Legacy with the soundtrack. This musical combination for Samurai Jack could be the next best thing since peanut butter and Jelly.
So how do you feel about this Samurai Jack fancast? Do you feel like someone should be added to the cast that hasn't already been mentioned? Leave your Comments Below!


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Alonso López González – pilota motociclistico spagnolo
 Franklin Ulises López González – calciatore nicaraguense

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The 2019 conference will be held at the Three Rivers Convention Center in Kennewick, Washington on March 13, 14 & 15. More information will be available in the coming weeks. Have a great day!
I believe that we all are more alike that we are different. I ran for President of WACA on the concept of six degrees of separation. I'm a small-town girl, graduating from high school in 1981 along with 28 other people. I went to a small junior college in Coeur d'Alene Idaho, North Idaho College, where I played basketball. I transferred to Whitworth and graduated in 1985 with a degree in Music Education and a minor in PE. Two months later I got married to the love of my life. I first taught and coached for two years in the Wishkah Valley and Cashmere High School has been my place, my spot, my home ever since. I have been the Leadership teacher at CHS for the past 22 years. My husband and I have three grown children, Gary 27, who has taught me to be the very best person to others. He has high functioning autism. Rudy my 25 year old, has just come home from five years in the Marine Corps. And my daughter Karley 24, who studied at North Idaho College to become a Pharmacy Tech. All my children live and work in the Wenatchee Valley. I'm 55 years old and for the past three years, my husband and I have lived with my mom on the beautiful shores of Lake Chelan. I have quite the commute but we live in a beautiful place.
Now after all that let's get back to WACA. Did any of that short bio resonate with you? I have the greatest job, the best friends, and the most spectacular life I could have ever imagined. My job at school is to create fun, enthusiasm, and togetherness for my school. I love elephants, they are majestic, beautiful, and commanding. Right before I came to WACA last year and ran for President, I went to see "The Greatest Showman". The lightbulb turned on. That is why this year's theme is "The Greatest Show on Earth". Through the craziness of Leadership we put on a show. There is often chaos behind the scenes, some drama in the set up and practice, and when the show (or assembly) goes on, it comes out wonderfully with a lot of hard work and effort on everybody's part. I love this message and that I could find a way to incorporate my beloved elephants in the theme. I hope you will enjoy this year's WACA conference and learn, rejuvenate, and find some wonderful morsels of encouragement to take back with you to your school.
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Q: Gmail body returning null with document.getElementById("") I have been tyring to open Gmail Compose and populate the "To", "Subject" and "Body". All goes well except the body shows null. Could someone take a look at this and see where I went wrong? The following is below the table/form
function sendMail() {

var recipient = 'edb@ufec.com',
 subject = 'Typing Evaluation',
 message = document.getElementById('tStat');

window.open ('http://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1'+
            '&to=' + recipient +
            '&su=' + subject +
            '&body=' + message +
            '&ui=2');

and the table/form I am getting the information from which is first after the

<input disabled="" id="printB" onclick="sendMail(); return false"
   type="button" value="Email Results" name="printB"
   style="float: right; font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial" />
<input type="button" value="New Test" onclick="location.reload(true);" />
    United Fire Typing Evaulation System

 second time limit press the "End Test" button above. If you would like to re-evaluate,                     press the "New Test" button at the top of the page.

v1.0

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    wrap="on" onfocus="deterCPProtect();"
    style="width: 100%; border: 1px solid #344270; padding: 2px;
           font-family:Arial; font-size:9pt">
    Click on the button below to start the typing test.
    What you will be expected to type will appear here.
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    value=">> Start Typing Test <<" name="start"
    onclick="beginTest()"
    style="display:block; border-left:1px solid #293358; border-right:2px
       solid #293358; border-top:1px solid #293358; border-bottom:2px solid #293358;
       width: 100%; background-color: #9BB892; color:#FFFFFF;
       background-image:url('Images/Green_Back.gif')" />

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   value=">> End Typing Test <<"
   name="stop" onclick="endTest()"
   style="display:none; border-left:1px solid #293358; border-right:2px
            solid #293358; border-top:1px solid #293358; border-bottom:2px
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            color:#FFFFFF; background-image:url('Images/Red_Back.gif')" />

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             font-size:9pt"></textarea>

A: You probably want something like
document.getElementById('tStat').innerHTML
                                ^^^^^^^^^^

...otherwise you're referencing an element, not its text.  That said, I don't see any elements with that id in your HTML.

A: First of all, I checked, and the URL you are using for gmail is sound.
After a quick look, your message variable cannot be returning a value. You can do a quick check by using the script and checking the final URL in gmail (see if there is anything within the 'body' variable).
First of all, you need your message variable to get the value of your body textarea (or whichever html tag it's in, you have a lot of html in your question and I couldn't see which tag contains your message after a quick scan). So change:
message = document.getElementById('tStat');

to either
message = document.getElementById('tStat').innerHTML;

or
message = document.getElementById('tStat').value;

Depending on which type of html tag it is in.
I hope this helps.

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Cree, which supplies residential LED lightbulbs exclusively to The Home Depot, this week launched a 75-watt equivalent LED bulb. Based on the technology of its successful 60- and 40-watt replacements released earlier this year, this offering consumes just 13.5 watts while pumping out 1100 lumens of soft white light. That's an efficacy of 81.5 lumens per watt, which means it's about 82 percent more efficient than the equivalent incandescent.
Cree's family of LED lightbulbs is growing just in time for the death knell of the old incandescent. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandated a phaseout of 75-watt incandescents at the beginning of 2013. On January 1, 2014, 60- and 40-watt incandescents will join them, effectively ending their reign as the residential lightbulb of choice.
Standard 40- and 60-watt lightbulbs make up around 80 percent of the residential market. But with its 75-watt replacement, Cree, which began life primarily manufacturing LEDs for other companies, continues its push for complete adoption of LED lightbulbs by the residential market.
"We want to replace all the bulbs in the house," says Mike Watson, Cree's vice president of corporate marketing. "With this bulb, we were able to utilize all the advantages that Cree has being a vertically integrated company."
Those advantages include the fact that Cree's 75-watt replacement part uses the same "Filament Tower" as the 60-watt counterpart. The tower acts as both a heat sink and an array of 10 LED bulbs that provide omnidirectional light similar to that of an incandescent. To get the extra lumens, Cree simply drove all the bulb's components a little harder. "We were able to tweak everything that goes into the bulb to make it work—the LEDs, the chips, the semiconductors," Watson says.
The extra power creates more heat that needs to be dissipated, so the 75-watt replacement has a larger heat sink than its 60-watt sibling. However, it retains the standard A19 bulb shape, whereas other 75-watt replacements have larger A21 profiles.
Cree's 75-watt replacement is available in a color temperature of 2700K, roughly equivalent to a typical "warm white" incandescent. It's completely dimmable with compatible switches, and comes with Cree's standard 10-year warranty, though its life expectancy is more than twice that.
Of course, the upfront cost of LED technology continues to hinder its widespread adoption. Cree's 75-watt replacement currently retails at $23, though Watson expects it to receive the same Energy Star certification the Cree 60-watt has earned. If that happens, it will qualify for the same utility rebates that drove the price of Cree's other bulbs down to around $10—and even less in some regions. And the long-term savings are real: This bulb could save you $170 in energy costs over its 23-year lifetime.
Philips' 80-Story LED Lamp: Could This Bulb Change the Way Buildings Are Lit?


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Q: get text inside list item jquery not working on chrome & ie i have this simple html markup i am trying to create custom select dropdown from

    Accounts
    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="acc_reports" readonly placeholder="select an account">

one

two

three

four

i am trying to get the text inside the clicked list item and put it as a value for the input field through this javascript code
var options = $('.select>ul>li');
options.click(function() {
 var value = $(this).text();
 var optClass = $(this).parent().attr('class');
 var select = $('#' + optClass);
 select.attr('value', value);
});

it is working fine on firefox but not working on chrome and ie, working on some list items and not working on others .i am not getting any errors
EDIT:
i am running another js code on the input it self to trigger the list , i tried to create a fiddle but somehow it is not working on the fiddle , but this block of code working fine on all browsers . but i updated the question because it may have something to do with my problem.
input = $('.select>input');

input.focusin(function() {
inputIdIn = $(this).attr('id');
CstSelectIn(inputIdIn);

});

input.focusout(function() {
inputIdOut = $(this).attr('id');
CstSelectOut(inputIdOut);

});

function CstSelectIn (inputIdIn) {
dropdownIn = $('.' + inputIdIn);
ddHeightIn = dropdownIn.height() + 'px';
    dropdownIn.css({
    height: '0',
    display: 'block'
    }).animate({
        height: ddHeightIn
    }, 400, 'easeOutExpo');
};
function CstSelectOut (inputIdOut) {
dropdownOut = $('.' + inputIdOut);
dropdownOut.animate({
    height: '0'
}, 400, 'easeOutExpo', function() {
    dropdownOut.css({
        display: 'none',
        height: 'auto'
    });
});
};

EDIT2: i commented out the focusIn() and focusOut() functions and it worked , i have been trying to debug the issue but still can not figure it out . there is some kind of conflict these functions making on chrome and ie stopping the select from working

A: Chrome seems to take the readonly of the input field to mean "don't let it be updated via script either". (IE I couln't test right now, but I'd assume it fails in there for the same reason.)
Solution: Remove readonly temporarily (by setting it to false), set the new value, and make it readonly again:
select.attr('readonly', false).attr('value', value).attr('readonly', true);

http://jsfiddle.net/ae9bmw0z/

A: i tried another approach for this custom select menu , by using .click() not focus functions and it worked , looks like there is some confusion in chrome and ie on applying the focusout function and running the select function maybe this conflict coming from setting the list to display: none; on the focusout function.


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Digital Collections: Welcome
Instructions for submitting ETDs
The digital collections at Regis University contain a wide variety of open access, digital information in either born digital or digitized formats, including scholarly work by students and faculty of the university, as well as unique, digitized archival materials and institutional records from the Dayton Memorial Library's Archives and Special Collections.
The collections reside in two web-based repositories:
ePublications at Regis University
Scholarly works and journals authored by the Regis community
Digitized archival materials and institutional records
Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant Society
This is a collection of the Society's newsletters from 1977 - present.
Multiple digitized collections from the library's archives.
Armand William Forstall, S.J. Collection
Digitized images from a series of glass negatives and lantern slides. The digitized glass negatives include scenes of Regis University in the 1890s; the digitized lantern slides were teaching aids and focus on people collecting specimens at geological sites.
Charles Roitz Photography Collection
The Charles Roitz Photography Collection was donated by the Roitz family in 2013. The collection consists of approximately 350 original prints from two limited edition retrospective folios and nine specific project compilations.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Conference
Past programs from Regis University's Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Conference, an annual gathering celebrating the life and work of this English poet and Jesuit priest.
Regis University's student-written newspaper.
Noam Chomsky and Family Collection
The Noam Chomsky and Family Collection features interviews with Noam and Aviva Chomsky on the topics of social movements, labor history, propaganda, immigration, and environmentalism.
Regis University Presidential Archive
This on-going collection documents the public communiqués of Fr. Fitzgibbons as President of Regis University, Denver, Colorado from 2012 on.
Richard H. Truly U.S. Space Program Collection - Papers
Scans of prints and documents from the Truly papers, including photos of the Art and Artifacts and scans of slides donated by Truly to the Library.
Richard H. Truly U.S. Space Program Collection - Photographs and Videos
Santo, translated literally from Spanish, means saint, although this collection also features other Roman Catholic holy persons and devotional objects.
Regis University Theses, Capstones, and Final Projects
Organized by college and degree program.
Regis University Yearbooks
Regis University Yearbooks from 1920s on.
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A peer-reviewed journal focused on promoting insights of diverse cultural-contextual perspectives to stretch the range of information available for the practice of counseling and systemic psychotherapy.
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal (JHE)
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Central London is one of the busiest areas in London and the place is filled with great shopping areas, classy restaurants and some of the world-renowned monuments. Travelling between railway stations in Central London may not be an easy task especially during the peak hours. Read on to find out about the different ways of travelling from Paddington station to Euston station in London.
Euston is owned and operated by Network Rail and is one of the popular stations in the city. Located very close to St. Pancras International station and Kings Cross Station is the Euston and is busy throughout the day. Additionally it is also home to the Eurostar services that take you to France and Belgium. The station is well equipped with all basic amenities such as restrooms, payphones, cafes and easy access to taxi ranking.
One of the busiest and most popular stations in Central London, Paddington is also owned and maintained by Network Rail. It is the terminus for Heathrow Express as well as for train lines to West England. It is surrounded by interesting shopping areas of Marylebone, Bayswater and Westbourne Grove and must-see tourist attractions such as Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park and the Regent's Canal.
Distance between the two stations is only 2 miles and they are connected by a single roadway. Taxis and buses run between the two places and consume very little time to cover the distance. However there are no direct train or tube links between the stations. Bus 205 takes passengers from outside Paddington and the journey duration to Euston takes about 20 minutes. If you wish to take the Tube, then you must take the Bakerloo line from Paddington to Oxford Circus and thereafter take the Victoria line to Euston Station.
The best choice of all these options is to take a taxi from Paddington to Euston, as it is prompt, comfortable and swift. Taxi from Paddington to Euston Station can be availed 24/7, throughout the year with ease. Taxis can accommodate passengers and their heavy luggage with no hassle and offers a picturesque ride across the city.


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Ahmedabad University breaks into Times Higher Education Impact Rankings
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AHMEDABAD: Ahmedabad University has been ranked among the top 10 universities in India and the top 20 in South Asia in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking 2021 for Climate Action.
THE Impact Rankings evaluate universities on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Development Programme. Ahmedabad University's ranking was a reflection of its focused impact in SDG 13 on Climate Action.
The THE Impact Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Times Higher Education (THE).
The rankings assess universities against the UN's SDGs. The THE uses indicators to provide comprehensive comparison across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach and teaching.
The 2021 Impact Rankings is the third edition and the overall ranking includes 1,117 universities from 94 countries/regions. The THE rankings' table on SDG 13 measures universities' research on climate change, their use of energy and their preparations for dealing with the consequences of climate change.
Ahmedabad University has been ranked globally in the band of 301-400. Overall, it is ranked eighth among Universities in India and 19th in South Asia.
Founded in 2009, Ahmedabad University offers liberal arts education within a research university. Interdisciplinary curriculum, experiential learning environment, and research thinking has defined education at Ahmedabad University. Sustainability and climate implications form an important focus in all of its programmes – teaching and research.
Ahmedabad University signs MoU with Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
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Learning management system that delivers any online course, and includes everything your need to create your own in minutes. No new software to learn - convert from Word or Powerpoint files.


For jaw dropping glimpses of real gators, visit Alligator Adventure!
Family Kingdom is a fun spirited, exciting amusement park with a bordering waterpark for your entertainment. This attraction features rides and funnel cakes!
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FIT-WebMES combines the information from the technical level (CAD/CAM/PLM) with that from the commercial world (PPS/ERP) in a single solution with an interface for workplaces, machines and operators in production.
Thanks to its scalability, FIT-WebMES offers the possibility of beginning with operating data collection and then, step by step, building a comprehensive MES solution with production control (FIT-CapaTool), machine data collection including alarms (FIT-WebMDE), the DNC extension FIT-WebDNC as well as the key figure solution FIT-AnalyseTool. It is supported by FIT-Additional Modules, with which you can connect ERP systems (FIT-ERPConnect) and automatically store data from the CAM system (FIT-CAMIntegrator) or obtain an online overview of the workplaces in production (FIT-HI-WebMenu-InfoCenter).
The operator in production has one user interface optimised for his area of work via which he can access and visualise the relevant order and part information and report activities and information about the individual work processes for the production orders. This simplifies thing for the production worker since he no longer needs to interact with different user interfaces and can focus on what's important.
Thanks to state-of-the-art development technologies, the user interface is completely independent from the operating system and the hardware. This means that FIT WebMES can be operated using standard PCs, IPCs (Industry PC), panel PCs, tablets or smartphones. The sole requirement is a browser on the device. This solution offers the basis for low-paper productions.
Like all solutions, FIT WebMES is based on a database (Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle) to professionally manage data and information. The available standard interface to connect to external CAM systems allows the data and information created there to be stored automatically.
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David Quesnel, at left, with students in one of his senior design teams.
When David Quesnel taught senior design, he did it in a big way.
Instead of splitting the class into small teams of three to four students, with each team doing its own project, the professor of mechanical engineering would sometimes involve the entire class in a single, industrial scale project.
In 1997, for example, his 30 design students built a 15-foot-long injection molding system that converted chips of recycled plastic yogurt containers into yo-yos.
Two years later Quesnel's class completed a 3,000-pound ultrasonic welding machine for a real Rochester company to make polypropylene cardholders and passport sleeves.
Another year, he split his class into three competing companies, each working independently on pneumatic power systems to replace electric motors in factories.
Quesnel believed that was the most realistic way to prepare students for the workplace – and to build their confidence.
Quesnel relished challenges, according to the testimony of friends, family members, and colleagues at a recent memorial service in Rush Rhees Library. And it was typical of him to tackle those challenges with an "unbounded curiosity" and an ability to focus rigorously on the task at hand.
That was how Quesnel taught himself to sail on Seneca Lake and, in his 40s and 50s, to windsurf on Lake Ontario. That was how he completed numerous home remodeling projects. How he created a device—that filled a third of his garage—to pull tree roots. And how he reconstructed accidents as an expert witness.
Born in Keesville, New York, Quesnel took construction and roofing jobs during the summers to help pay his way through SUNY Stony Brook as an engineering undergraduate.
"I think this gave Dave an appreciation of physical labor" so that, even when his research delved into abstract theory, "most of his ideas tended toward practical applications," says John Michejda, Quesnel's roommate at SUNY Stony Brook and a lifelong friend.
Metal fatigue—what happens, for example, when you bend a paper clip over and over until it breaks—continued to be Quesnel's research focus when he joined the University of Rochester later that year as an assistant professor in what was then called the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Sciences.
One practical application was a simple tool Quesnel devised with Eric Stromswold, one of his PhD students. Similar to a torque wrench, it could test how well a metal would resist the growth of a crack within it. The device sold at a mere fraction of the $50,000 price range of other testing devices then on the market, wrote Bob Reeg of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
However, in his research, as in his hobbies, Quesnel continually found new areas to explore.
For example, Quesnel later studied the adhesion of particles to surfaces, coauthoring a textbook on the subject.
And then, at a point in his career when some faculty members might start slowing down, Quesnel began to explore a topic that had always interested him: corrosion, an electrochemical reaction that may significantly compromise the strength of aluminum used for ships. He became expert in the way corrosion is exacerbated in the confined areas where two different materials come in contact, and developed a numerical model to predict corrosion under those conditions.
"For the last 15 years, his research underwent a renaissance," Lambropoulos says. Previously, Quesnel's research had been "comfortably" supported by the National Science Foundation and Sandia Laboratory. More recently, the Office of Naval Research became the primary funding source, awarding Quesnel grants totaling nearly $3 million between 2003 and 2012 for research involving both corrosion and piezoelectric materials.
And then, when it became apparent there were "many more jobs for my students in the area of energy storage," Quesnel wrote, his lab again shifted focus, to exploring ways to build better batteries.
During a research career spanning four decades, Quesnel wrote or co-authored more than 120 papers, and was awarded 13 US and European patents. He advised 20 PhD students and 18 masters students. At one time or another, he taught two thirds of the department's undergraduate courses, Lambropoulos says.
A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow as a student, Quesnel later received a Humboldt fellowship for a year-long sabbatical at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg. He was recipient of the Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers, and twice received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Undergrad Engineering Council in 1989 and 1991.
Which brings us back to that yo-yo machine.
The students had to start from scratch. First they had to learn how to use the CAD design software that was just then coming on the scene. Quesnel arranged for the students to visit local companies to learn about different plastics. Then they spent long nights in the computer lab and the machine shop—on weekends, and even into the last week before graduation, when other students were partying and getting ready to leave.
"It was phenomenal," says Lambropoulos. "Everything was machined by the students; no purchased equipment. The start of the course was early in January, and by graduation day, the machine was set up in the Hopeman (Hall) conference room and actually spitting out yo-yos.
"The funniest thing is, and I remember like it happened yesterday, the first yo-yos that came out were really misshapen," Lambropoulos says.
But the students made last-minute adjustments, and then "we brought all the parents of all the seniors into the conference room to see it," Lambropoulos says.
Each graduating student left that day with a diploma – and a blue yo-yo as a memento.
Below, Jill Morris with some of the blue yo-yos she discovered in a drawer.


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Live in Studio C
Live in Studio C: Timbre Cierpke
By Nina Cardona • Dec 5, 2017
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Timbre Cierpke grew up in Nashville in a very musical family (her name is a musical term, even) and she's carrying on the family tradition as a very active harpist and vocalist.
Each year she organizes a Christmas concert with her band and the acapella choir Sonus; this year that performance is at 7:00 pm Friday, December 8 at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Brentwood. For her performance in Studio C, Cieprke brought her own arrangements of holiday music to perform with cellist Lindsey Smith-Trostie.
Live in Studio C: Matt Davich and Friends
By Nina Cardona • Nov 22, 2017
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Matt Davich usually brings his saxophone to performances in Studio C, but this time we got to hear him playing the instrument that was his focus in music school: the clarinet. Davich brought along two other great woodwind players, oboist Stephanie Bettig and Andy Witherington on bassoon. The trio played a handful of rather contemporary pieces that often take a playful approach to chamber music.
Nashville Symphony's Sonja Winkler Named an Emerging Leader by The League of American Orchestras
By Kara McLeland • Nov 30, 2017
Image courtesy the Nashville Symphony
Nashville Symphony's Senior Director of Operations and Orchestra Manager, Sonja Winkler, has been chosen to participate in the 2017-2018 The League of American Orchestras' Emerging Leaders Program. After a competitive application process, Winkler was one of only 12 applicants recognized for their potential to "make significant contributions to their orchestra and to the field as a whole," as stated on the League of American Orchestras website.
Live in Studio C: Wonkak Kim and the Parker String Quartet
Former Tennessee Tech professor Wonkak Kim is back in Middle Tennessee for a visit, so of course we made sure to have him swing through our studios for a performance. Kim, a clarinetist, brought with him the Parker String Quartet. The ensemble is currently on tour and is serving a residency at Harvard.
Live in Studio C: Vanderbilt Opera Theater
Mozart wrote his opera, The Marriage of Figaro, in the late 18th century, long before reality television. However, a new production featuring Blair School of Music students highlights the similarities between the over-the-top antics and scheming of the classical-era plot and modern-day shows like Big Brother and The Bachelor. Ahead of their very contemporary production, singers from the Vanderbilt Opera Theater came to sing highlights from the show.


It's no secret, I love wooden toys. They just have a certain feel to them that makes playtime seem so much more satisfying. What is a secret, however, is that IKEA has some classic wooden toys at their typical unbelievable prices. Their MULA stacking rings are probably my favorite. The colors are deep and bright and the rings are cut to be just difficult enough to teach kids hand-eye coordination and mechanics.
Available from IKEA for $6.
Hear, hear! Killian went straight to playing with this as soon as he started noticing stackers. It was much more engaging and challenging to him than the cheapo plastic ones since the fit of the rings on the rod is tight, I'd guess about a millimeter or two.


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Q: Creating JSON with iOS 5 - issues I'm trying to create a JSON object that looks like this:
  { "request_type":"send_string" "security_level":0 "device_type":"ios" "blob":{"string":"blah"}"}

Here's my attempt:
NSDictionary *blobData = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                          sendString,@"string",
                          nil];
NSString *blobString = [[NSString alloc]
                        initWithData:[NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:blobData options:kNilOptions error:&error]
                        encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"Blob Created: %@", blobString);
NSDictionary *requestData = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                             @"send_string",@"request_type",
                             0,@"security_level",
                             @"ios",@"device_type",
                             //No Email Provided, This is just for testing
                             blobString,@"blob",
                             nil];

NSData *JSONRequestData = NULL;
if ([NSJSONSerialization isValidJSONObject:requestData]) {
    NSLog(@"Proper JSON Object");
    JSONRequestData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:requestData options:kNilOptions error:&error];
}
else {
    NSLog(@"requestData was not a proper JSON object");
    return FALSE;
}
NSLog(@"%@",[[error userInfo] objectForKey:@"NSDebugDescription"]);
NSLog(@"%@",[[NSString alloc] initWithData:JSONRequestData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);

The problem is, that last NSLog tells me all I've created is something like this:
{"request_type":"send_string"}

So when I go and try to write this to the server with
[NSJSONSerialization writeJSONObject:JSONRequestData toStream:outputStream options:0 error:&error];

I get this error from the console:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** +[NSJSONSerialization writeJSONObject:toStream:options:error:]: Invalid top-level type in JSON write'

A: Replace this line
0,@"security_level"

with
[NSNumber numberWithInt:0],@"security_level"


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Buffalo Township is an inactive township in Pike County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

Buffalo Township was erected in 1819, taking its name from Buffalo Creek.

References

Townships in Missouri
Townships in Pike County, Missouri


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namespace Plottable {

export namespace TimeInterval {
  export var second = "second";
  export var minute = "minute";
  export var hour = "hour";
  export var day = "day";
  export var week = "week";
  export var month = "month";
  export var year = "year";
};

}

namespace Plottable.Axes {
  /**
   * Defines a configuration for a Time Axis tier.
   * For details on how ticks are generated see: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Time-Scales#ticks
   * interval - A time unit associated with this configuration (seconds, minutes, hours, etc).
   * step - number of intervals between each tick.
   * formatter - formatter used to format tick labels.
   */
  export type TimeAxisTierConfiguration = {
    interval: string;
    step: number;
    formatter: Formatter;
  };

  /**
   * An array of linked TimeAxisTierConfigurations.
   * Each configuration will be shown on a different tier.
   * Currently, up to two tiers are supported.
   */
  export type TimeAxisConfiguration = TimeAxisTierConfiguration[];

  export class Time extends Axis<Date> {
    /**
     * The CSS class applied to each Time Axis tier
     */
    public static TIME_AXIS_TIER_CLASS = "time-axis-tier";

    private static _DEFAULT_TIME_AXIS_CONFIGURATIONS: TimeAxisConfiguration[] = [
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.second, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M:%S %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.second, step: 5, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M:%S %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.second, step: 10, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M:%S %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.second, step: 15, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M:%S %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.second, step: 30, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M:%S %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.minute, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.minute, step: 5, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.minute, step: 10, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.minute, step: 15, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.minute, step: 30, formatter: Formatters.time("%I:%M %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.hour, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%I %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.hour, step: 3, formatter: Formatters.time("%I %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.hour, step: 6, formatter: Formatters.time("%I %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.hour, step: 12, formatter: Formatters.time("%I %p")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %e, %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%a %e")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.month, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.day, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%e")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.month, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B %Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.month, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%B")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.month, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%b")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.month, step: 3, formatter: Formatters.time("%b")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.month, step: 6, formatter: Formatters.time("%b")},
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1, formatter: Formatters.time("%y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 5, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 25, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 50, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 100, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 200, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 500, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
      [
        {interval: TimeInterval.year, step: 1000, formatter: Formatters.time("%Y")},
      ],
    ];

    private _tierLabelContainers: d3.Selection<void>[];
    private _tierMarkContainers: d3.Selection<void>[];
    private _tierBaselines: d3.Selection<void>[];
    private _tierHeights: number[];
    private _possibleTimeAxisConfigurations: TimeAxisConfiguration[];
    private _numTiers: number;
    private _measurer: SVGTypewriter.Measurers.Measurer;

    private _mostPreciseConfigIndex: number;

    private _tierLabelPositions: string[] = [];

    private static _LONG_DATE = new Date(9999, 8, 29, 12, 59, 9999);

    /**
     * Constructs a Time Axis.
     *
     * A Time Axis is a visual representation of a Time Scale.
     *
     * @constructor
     * @param {Scales.Time} scale
     * @param {string} orientation One of "top"/"bottom".
     */
    constructor(scale: Scales.Time, orientation: string) {
      super(scale, orientation);
      this.addClass("time-axis");
      this.tickLabelPadding(5);
      this.axisConfigurations(Time._DEFAULT_TIME_AXIS_CONFIGURATIONS);
      this.annotationFormatter(Plottable.Formatters.time("%a %b %d, %Y"));
    }

    /**
     * Gets the label positions for each tier.
     */
    public tierLabelPositions(): string[];
    /**
     * Sets the label positions for each tier.
     *
     * @param {string[]} newPositions The positions for each tier. "bottom" and "center" are the only supported values.
     * @returns {Axes.Time} The calling Time Axis.
     */
    public tierLabelPositions(newPositions: string[]): this;
    public tierLabelPositions(newPositions?: string[]): any {
      if (newPositions == null) {
        return this._tierLabelPositions;
      } else {
        if (!newPositions.every((pos: string) => pos.toLowerCase() === "between" || pos.toLowerCase() === "center")) {
          throw new Error("Unsupported position for tier labels");
        }
        this._tierLabelPositions = newPositions;
        this.redraw();
        return this;
      }
    }

    /**
     * Gets the possible TimeAxisConfigurations.
     */
    public axisConfigurations(): TimeAxisConfiguration[];
    /**
     * Sets the possible TimeAxisConfigurations.
     * The Time Axis will choose the most precise configuration that will display in the available space.
     *
     * @param {TimeAxisConfiguration[]} configurations
     * @returns {Axes.Time} The calling Time Axis.
     */
    public axisConfigurations(configurations: TimeAxisConfiguration[]): this;
    public axisConfigurations(configurations?: any): any {
      if (configurations == null) {
        return this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations;
      }
      this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations = configurations;
      this._numTiers = Utils.Math.max(this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations.map((config: TimeAxisConfiguration) => config.length), 0);

      if (this._isAnchored) {
        this._setupDomElements();
      }

      let oldLabelPositions: string[] = this.tierLabelPositions();
      let newLabelPositions: string[] = [];
      for (let i = 0; i < this._numTiers; i++) {
        newLabelPositions.push(oldLabelPositions[i] || "between");
      }
      this.tierLabelPositions(newLabelPositions);

      this.redraw();
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the index of the most precise TimeAxisConfiguration that will fit in the current width.
     */
    private _getMostPreciseConfigurationIndex(): number {
      let mostPreciseIndex = this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations.length;
      this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations.forEach((interval: TimeAxisConfiguration, index: number) => {
        if (index < mostPreciseIndex && interval.every((tier: TimeAxisTierConfiguration) =>
          this._checkTimeAxisTierConfigurationWidth(tier))) {
          mostPreciseIndex = index;
        }
      });

      if (mostPreciseIndex === this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations.length) {
        Utils.Window.warn("zoomed out too far: could not find suitable interval to display labels");
        --mostPreciseIndex;
      }

      return mostPreciseIndex;
    }

    public orientation(): string;
    public orientation(orientation: string): this;
    public orientation(orientation?: string): any {
      if (orientation && (orientation.toLowerCase() === "right" || orientation.toLowerCase() === "left")) {
        throw new Error(orientation + " is not a supported orientation for TimeAxis - only horizontal orientations are supported");
      }
      return super.orientation(orientation); // maintains getter-setter functionality
    }

    protected _computeHeight() {
      let textHeight = this._measurer.measure().height;

      this._tierHeights = [];
      for (let i = 0; i < this._numTiers; i++) {
        this._tierHeights.push(textHeight + this.tickLabelPadding() +
                              ((this._tierLabelPositions[i]) === "between" ? 0 : this._maxLabelTickLength()));
      }

      return d3.sum(this._tierHeights);
    }

    private _getIntervalLength(config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration) {
      let startDate = this._scale.domain()[0];
      let d3Interval = Scales.Time.timeIntervalToD3Time(config.interval);
      let endDate = d3Interval.offset(startDate, config.step);
      if (endDate > this._scale.domain()[1]) {
        // this offset is too large, so just return available width
        return this.width();
      }
      // measure how much space one date can get
      let stepLength = Math.abs(this._scale.scale(endDate) - this._scale.scale(startDate));
      return stepLength;
    }

    private _maxWidthForInterval(config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration): number {
      return this._measurer.measure(config.formatter(Time._LONG_DATE)).width;
    }

    /**
     * Check if tier configuration fits in the current width.
     */
    private _checkTimeAxisTierConfigurationWidth(config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration): boolean {
      let worstWidth = this._maxWidthForInterval(config) + 2 * this.tickLabelPadding();
      return Math.min(this._getIntervalLength(config), this.width()) >= worstWidth;
    }

    protected _sizeFromOffer(availableWidth: number, availableHeight: number) {
      // Makes sure that the size it requires is a multiple of tier sizes, such that
      // we have no leftover tiers

      let size = super._sizeFromOffer(availableWidth, availableHeight);
      let tierHeights = this._tierHeights.reduce((prevValue, currValue, index, arr) => {
        return (prevValue + currValue > size.height) ? prevValue : (prevValue + currValue);
      });
      let nonCoreHeight = this.margin() + (this.annotationsEnabled() ? this.annotationTierCount() * this._annotationTierHeight() : 0);
      size.height = Math.min(size.height, tierHeights + nonCoreHeight);
      return size;
    }

    protected _setup() {
      super._setup();
      this._setupDomElements();
    }

    private _setupDomElements() {
      this.content().selectAll("." + Time.TIME_AXIS_TIER_CLASS).remove();

      this._tierLabelContainers = [];
      this._tierMarkContainers = [];
      this._tierBaselines = [];
      this._tickLabelContainer.remove();
      this._baseline.remove();

      for (let i = 0; i < this._numTiers; ++i) {
        let tierContainer = this.content().append("g").classed(Time.TIME_AXIS_TIER_CLASS, true);
        this._tierLabelContainers.push(tierContainer.append("g").classed(Axis.TICK_LABEL_CLASS + "-container", true));
        this._tierMarkContainers.push(tierContainer.append("g").classed(Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS + "-container", true));
        this._tierBaselines.push(tierContainer.append("line").classed("baseline", true));
      }

      this._measurer = new SVGTypewriter.Measurers.Measurer(this._tierLabelContainers[0]);
    }

    private _getTickIntervalValues(config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration): any[] {
      return (<Scales.Time> this._scale).tickInterval(config.interval, config.step);
    }

    protected _getTickValues() {
      return this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations[this._mostPreciseConfigIndex].reduce(
          (ticks: any[], config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration) => ticks.concat(this._getTickIntervalValues(config)),
          []
        );
    }

    private _cleanTiers() {
      for (let index = 0; index < this._tierLabelContainers.length; index++) {
        this._tierLabelContainers[index].selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_LABEL_CLASS).remove();
        this._tierMarkContainers[index].selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS).remove();
        this._tierBaselines[index].style("visibility", "hidden");
      }
    }

    private _getTickValuesForConfiguration(config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration) {
      let tickPos = (<Scales.Time> this._scale).tickInterval(config.interval, config.step);
      let domain = this._scale.domain();
      let tickPosValues = tickPos.map((d: Date) => d.valueOf()); // can't indexOf with objects
      if (tickPosValues.indexOf(domain[0].valueOf()) === -1) {
        tickPos.unshift(domain[0]);
      }
      if (tickPosValues.indexOf(domain[1].valueOf()) === -1) {
        tickPos.push(domain[1]);
      }
      return tickPos;
    }

    private _renderTierLabels(container: d3.Selection<void>, config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration, index: number) {
      let tickPos = this._getTickValuesForConfiguration(config);
      let labelPos: Date[] = [];
      if (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "between" && config.step === 1) {
        tickPos.map((datum: any, i: any) => {
          if (i + 1 >= tickPos.length) {
            return;
          }
          labelPos.push(new Date((tickPos[i + 1].valueOf() - tickPos[i].valueOf()) / 2 + tickPos[i].valueOf()));
        });
      } else {
        labelPos = tickPos;
      }

      let tickLabels = container.selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_LABEL_CLASS).data(labelPos, (d) => String(d.valueOf()));
      let tickLabelsEnter = tickLabels.enter().append("g").classed(Axis.TICK_LABEL_CLASS, true);
      tickLabelsEnter.append("text");
      let xTranslate = (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center" || config.step === 1) ? 0 : this.tickLabelPadding();
      let yTranslate: number;
      if (this.orientation() === "bottom") {
        yTranslate = d3.sum(this._tierHeights.slice(0, index + 1)) - this.tickLabelPadding();
      } else {
        if (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center") {
          yTranslate = this.height() - d3.sum(this._tierHeights.slice(0, index)) - this.tickLabelPadding() - this._maxLabelTickLength();
        } else {
          yTranslate = this.height() - d3.sum(this._tierHeights.slice(0, index)) - this.tickLabelPadding();
        }
      }

      let textSelection = tickLabels.selectAll("text");
      if (textSelection.size() > 0) {
        Utils.DOM.translate(textSelection, xTranslate, yTranslate);
      }
      tickLabels.exit().remove();
      tickLabels.attr("transform", (d: any) => "translate(" + this._scale.scale(d) + ",0)");
      let anchor = (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center" || config.step === 1) ? "middle" : "start";
      tickLabels.selectAll("text").text(config.formatter).style("text-anchor", anchor);
    }

    private _renderTickMarks(tickValues: Date[], index: number) {
      let tickMarks = this._tierMarkContainers[index].selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS).data(tickValues);
      tickMarks.enter().append("line").classed(Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS, true);
      let attr = this._generateTickMarkAttrHash();
      let offset = this._tierHeights.slice(0, index).reduce((translate: number, height: number) => translate + height, 0);
      if (this.orientation() === "bottom") {
        attr["y1"] = offset;
        attr["y2"] = offset + (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center" ? this.innerTickLength() : this._tierHeights[index]);
      } else {
        attr["y1"] = this.height() - offset;
        attr["y2"] = this.height() - (offset + (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center" ?
                                                  this.innerTickLength() : this._tierHeights[index]));
      }
      tickMarks.attr(attr);
      if (this.orientation() === "bottom") {
        attr["y1"] = offset;
        attr["y2"] = offset + (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center" ? this.endTickLength() : this._tierHeights[index]);
      } else {
        attr["y1"] = this.height() - offset;
        attr["y2"] = this.height() - (offset + (this._tierLabelPositions[index] === "center" ?
                                                  this.endTickLength() : this._tierHeights[index]));
      }
      d3.select(tickMarks[0][0]).attr(attr);
      d3.select(tickMarks[0][tickMarks.size() - 1]).attr(attr);

      // Add end-tick classes to first and last tick for CSS customization purposes
      d3.select(tickMarks[0][0]).classed(Axis.END_TICK_MARK_CLASS, true);
      d3.select(tickMarks[0][tickMarks.size() - 1]).classed(Axis.END_TICK_MARK_CLASS, true);

      tickMarks.exit().remove();
    }

    private _renderLabellessTickMarks(tickValues: Date[]) {
      let tickMarks = this._tickMarkContainer.selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS).data(tickValues);
      tickMarks.enter().append("line").classed(Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS, true);
      let attr = this._generateTickMarkAttrHash();
      attr["y2"] = (this.orientation() === "bottom") ? this.tickLabelPadding() : this.height() - this.tickLabelPadding();
      tickMarks.attr(attr);
      tickMarks.exit().remove();
    }

    private _generateLabellessTicks() {
      if (this._mostPreciseConfigIndex < 1) {
        return [];
      }

      return this._getTickIntervalValues(this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations[this._mostPreciseConfigIndex - 1][0]);
    }

    public renderImmediately() {
      this._mostPreciseConfigIndex = this._getMostPreciseConfigurationIndex();
      let tierConfigs = this._possibleTimeAxisConfigurations[this._mostPreciseConfigIndex];

      this._cleanTiers();

      tierConfigs.forEach((config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration, i: number) =>
        this._renderTierLabels(this._tierLabelContainers[i], config, i)
      );
      let tierTicks = tierConfigs.map((config: TimeAxisTierConfiguration, i: number) =>
        this._getTickValuesForConfiguration(config)
      );

      let baselineOffset = 0;
      for (let i = 0; i < Math.max(tierConfigs.length, 1); ++i) {
        let attr = this._generateBaselineAttrHash();
        attr["y1"] += (this.orientation() === "bottom") ? baselineOffset : -baselineOffset;
        attr["y2"] = attr["y1"];
        this._tierBaselines[i].attr(attr).style("visibility", "inherit");
        baselineOffset += this._tierHeights[i];
      }

      let labelLessTicks: Date[] = [];
      let domain = this._scale.domain();
      let totalLength = this._scale.scale(domain[1]) - this._scale.scale(domain[0]);
      if (this._getIntervalLength(tierConfigs[0]) * 1.5 >= totalLength) {
        labelLessTicks = this._generateLabellessTicks();
      }

      this._renderLabellessTickMarks(labelLessTicks);

      this._hideOverflowingTiers();
      for (let i = 0; i < tierConfigs.length; ++i) {
        this._renderTickMarks(tierTicks[i], i);
        this._hideOverlappingAndCutOffLabels(i);
      }

      if (this.annotationsEnabled()) {
        this._drawAnnotations();
      } else {
        this._removeAnnotations();
      }

      return this;
    }

    private _hideOverflowingTiers() {
      let availableHeight = this.height();
      let usedHeight = 0;

      this.content()
        .selectAll("." + Time.TIME_AXIS_TIER_CLASS)
        .attr("visibility", (d: any, i: number) => {
          usedHeight += this._tierHeights[i];
          return usedHeight <= availableHeight ? "inherit" : "hidden";
        });
    }

    private _hideOverlappingAndCutOffLabels(index: number) {
      let boundingBox = (<Element> this._boundingBox.node()).getBoundingClientRect();

      let isInsideBBox = (tickBox: ClientRect) => {
        return (
          Math.floor(boundingBox.left) <= Math.ceil(tickBox.left) &&
          Math.floor(boundingBox.top) <= Math.ceil(tickBox.top) &&
          Math.floor(tickBox.right) <= Math.ceil(boundingBox.left + this.width()) &&
          Math.floor(tickBox.bottom) <= Math.ceil(boundingBox.top + this.height())
        );
      };

      let visibleTickMarks = this._tierMarkContainers[index]
                                    .selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_MARK_CLASS)
                                    .filter(function(d: Element, i: number) {
                                      let visibility = d3.select(this).style("visibility");
                                      return visibility === "visible" || visibility === "inherit";
                                    });

      // We use the ClientRects because x1/x2 attributes are not comparable to ClientRects of labels
      let visibleTickMarkRects = visibleTickMarks[0].map((mark: Element) => mark.getBoundingClientRect() );

      let visibleTickLabels = this._tierLabelContainers[index]
                                    .selectAll("." + Axis.TICK_LABEL_CLASS)
                                    .filter(function(d: Element, i: number) {
                                      let visibility = d3.select(this).style("visibility");
                                      return visibility === "visible" || visibility === "inherit";
                                    });
      let lastLabelClientRect: ClientRect;

      visibleTickLabels.each(function (d: Element, i: number) {
        let clientRect = this.getBoundingClientRect();
        let tickLabel = d3.select(this);
        let leadingTickMark = visibleTickMarkRects[i];
        let trailingTickMark = visibleTickMarkRects[i + 1];

        let isOverlappingLastLabel = (lastLabelClientRect != null && Utils.DOM.clientRectsOverlap(clientRect, lastLabelClientRect));
        let isOverlappingLeadingTickMark = (leadingTickMark != null && Utils.DOM.clientRectsOverlap(clientRect, leadingTickMark));
        let isOverlappingTrailingTickMark = (trailingTickMark != null && Utils.DOM.clientRectsOverlap(clientRect, trailingTickMark));

        if (!isInsideBBox(clientRect) || isOverlappingLastLabel || isOverlappingLeadingTickMark || isOverlappingTrailingTickMark) {
          tickLabel.style("visibility", "hidden");
        } else {
          lastLabelClientRect = clientRect;
          tickLabel.style("visibility", "inherit");
        }
      });
    }

  }
}


The Steigerwald Nature Park offers wonderful walks through forests, meadows and vineyards in villages with prestigious histories and tempting traditional specialities. The Steigerwald Panorama Trail, which has been awarded the "Walkable Germany" quality seal, takes visitors through the region's most beautiful sights.
In the picturesque southern spa resort of Bad Windsheim, the mountainous landscape of the Steigerwald is formed from a multitude of individual peaks that are separated from one another by valley meadows. Here hikers can find a wide variety of rare to exceptionally rare plants and animals such as orchids and endangered butterfly species.
Further north, an almost uninterrupted crest of mountains extends from the town of Iphofen that lies in the shadow of Schwanberg Mountain all the way to Zabelstein Mountain. Here observation points offer visitors a breathtaking view over the mountains that reaches far into Franconia. The secluded mountain landscape is characterised by many small ponds and is truly a dream destination for lovers or bird life and dragonflies.
Vast beech forests, some of the most beautiful in Germany, separate Zabelstein Mountain from the market community of Ebrach. Their mighty trunks tower into the sky like the arches and columns of a Gothic cathedral, obscuring the view with their interweaving canopies that blaze gold in May and regain their colour later into the year.
Of the region's many pleasant, friendly places, it is Ebrach that really stands out: the Cistercian abbey that was founded here in 1127 is home to artistic treasures of national significance. The mighty Schwarzenberg Castle that dominates the landscape above the town of Scheinfeld is just one of the many important attractions to be found within the nature park.


The IT environment must constantly evolve in order to adapt to the business' transformation and enable the company to improve its performance. The times call for resource hybridization, between dedicated infrastructures and public clouds, and for bringing together development and operations stakeholders. In order to help its customers to better evolve, EBRC has added to its service portfolio by implementing more flexible platforms making it possible to migrate between environments, thereby providing its customers with increased agility.
"For many organisations, one of the current challenges with regard to providing support in the context of the business' digital transformation lies in strengthening their ability to deploy services in a more agile and secure way, said Yuri Colombi, Head of Solutions & Innovation at EBRC. This requires them to be able to rely on a more scalable IT environment also offering guarantees in terms of resilience, business continuity and data protection." To this end, EBRC has developed a digital transformation support offering to help organisations to more easily migrate to the hybrid cloud and implement DevOps initiatives based on robust governance.
Today, EBRC positions itself as a full-fledged cloud stakeholder by providing its customers with access to the environments most suited to their needs, whether they are dedicated or widely shared environments. "We provide them with support in analysing opportunities linked to the evolution of their environment. Contrary to popular belief, using the public cloud is not necessarily the most affordable solution. An analysis of needs must be conducted. With a good understanding of the issues, we can better guide organisations on the path towards the hybrid cloud", said Yuri Colombi.
With this in mind, EBRC facilitates the industrialisation of deployment from a platform designed specifically for the purpose. "We provide support to our customers with regard to the operational management of the platform that we make available to them which is based on a multi-cloud environment, explained Yuri Colombi. The platform, through which containers can be easily orchestrated, makes it much easier to implement a DevOps approach. Through the platform, our customers gain access to a range of certified deployment tools and a wide range of data analytics solutions." The entire package is designed to improve organisations' autonomy, make them less dependent on technical resources and enable them to easily deploy services and micro-services based on their current needs. "This makes it possible to considerably reduce the time-to-market", confirmed Gérard Miceli.
Object storage facilitates migration to and integration with the public cloud in the context of system hybridization. The technology integrates the major standards of the market and in particular the API used by the giants of the cloud. Customers enjoy high reversibility and can therefore easily migrate between environments while guaranteeing the integrity of their data.


I never started John Chow dot Com to make money. This was just a place for me to post my miscellaneous ramblings about whatever was on my mind. While I cover a number of topics, from car to fine dining, the main focus of this blog is about making money on the Internet.
Back in September of last year, I began a case study to see if money can be made from a blog. Starting with just Google AdSense, John Chow dot Com made $352.94 in its first month as a monetized blog. The next month, revenue jumped to $1,361.64 as I added more revenue sources. And it continued to go up: $2,139.93 in November, $2,790.05 in December, and a record $3,440.66 last month.
With only 28 days, February is the shortest month of the year. However, that did not stop this blog from posting its biggest income figure ever.
In just six months, I have taken this blog from zero to well beyond what many people would consider a good full time income. How did I do this? We'll begin by breaking down the February earnings so you can see where the income came from.
Blog traffic for February was 266,641 page views from 127,614 unique visitors, according to Google Analytics. That's an 11,067 page view increase from January (which had three more days) but still well off the 229,853 unique visitors and 360,967 page views posted back in October.
Blog expenses for the month was $418.94 in Google "IM" Ads to Darren Rowse and other bloggers. If you take the blog income and divide it by the page views, you get a site wide eCPM of $26.30. That is approaching NYTimes.com territory. Most blogs are happy making a buck or two per 1000 page views. How much would your blog make if you can get $26.30 per 1000 page views? Here is how I did it.
ReviewMe (aff) has gone from last place to first place as the blog's biggest moneymaker. Thanks to some great advertisers' testimonials (here, here, here, and here, just to list a few), and a 50% ReviewMe coupon for February, this blog had it best ReviewMe month ever – over $1,000 of reviews orders came in on the last day.
The other big moneymakers were Text Link Ads (aff), affiliates sales and, everybody's favorite, Google AdSense. Direct sales has gone down because I don't really do it. All my direct advertisers came to me; I didn't go out looking for them. As stated in my Vancouver Sun interview, I rather produce content and let the ad networks handle the ad sales. However, if an advertiser wishes to come to me directly, I'm happy to work with them.
Making money from a blog is all about experimenting and finding what revenue sources work best. You have to be constantly mixing and remixing the revenue mix to find the balance between maximum blog income and a good user experience.
As your blog traffic increases, you can ask for a better deal from your ad networks. Just because the network say they'll give you 50% or 60% doesn't mean you have to accept it. I was able to get an increased revenue share from a few advertising networks that I deal with.
This is one of the advantage of building a big site – they get special deals that smaller site cannot get. In almost everything else, when you start producing huge numbers, the unit price gets smaller (that's why a Ferrari cost more than a Honda). In web publishing, the higher your numbers, the higher your unit price. Read Big Sites Rules, Small Sites Drool for more information.
If you're a new blogger wondering where to go after reading all this, I recommend you read all the old posts from the Making Money From a Blog series. This way you can see step-by-step, how I got this blog from zero to hero. You should also check out the Top Posts. This is where I link to some of my best work with many articles talking about making money on the Internet.
I also recommend you read the comments left on this blog. John Chow dot Com has a very vibrant community of users with great ideas to share. Please consider joining it.
I held a little contest yesterday asking readers to guess my February income level. There were over 200 entries. The winner had to come closest to the actual income figure without going over.
The winner is Matt608 from Successful Online Money Making. Matt's guess of $6,829.00 came the closest. It was good to see that I beat nearly everyone's guess. What was your guess and how much did I beat you by?


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Phase one of US Middle East peace plan greeted with scepticism
No Israelis or Palestinians present for launch of plan that shreds decades of diplomacy
Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent
Tue 25 Jun 2019 13.25 EDT Last modified on Tue 25 Jun 2019 15.05 EDT
Palestinians burn a poster of Donald Trump during a protest in Gaza against the conference discussing the Trump administration's peace plan. Photograph: APAImages/Rex/Shutterstock
The first phase of the Trump administration's long-awaited peace plan for Israel and Palestine has been rolled out to scepticism, anger and outright derision.
A conference hall of regional officials – with no Israelis or Palestinians present – was the first to hear details of the US-brokered deal, an economic blueprint that shreds decades of diplomacy and which even its mooted financial backers seemed reluctant to embrace.
The centrepiece appears to be a call for donors to contribute $50bn to kickstart the Palestinian economy and win the buy-in of neighbouring Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, which would eventually open direct trade links with the West Bank and Gaza.
There has been no sign of a political dimension to the proposal, hailed as the brainchild of Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner. Critics across the region suggested the US was replacing the long-agreed "land for peace" formula with a blunt new "money for peace" that attempted to buy off the Palestinian cause.
Kushner said his plan was "the opportunity of the century" for the Palestinians but their acceptance was a precondition for peace.
"Agreeing on an economic pathway forward is a necessary precondition to resolving the previously unsolvable political issues," he said. "To be clear, economic growth and prosperity for the Palestinian people are not possible without an enduring and fair political solution to the conflict – one that guarantees Israel's security and respects the dignity of the Palestinian people."
Acknowledging the scepticism about his father-in-law's policy in the region, he said: "My direct message to the Palestinian people is that despite what those who have let you down in the past say, President Trump and America have not given up on you."
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, centre, arrives at the 'Peace to Prosperity' conference in Manama, Bahrain. Photograph: Matt Spetalnick/Reuters
Nancy Okail, the executive director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, said: "The Palestinian issue is primarily political, and pouring money into it won't solve it. Kushner's plan is indicative of his lack of understanding of the history and dynamics in the region, offering a simplistic and unviable, immoral non-solution to a longstanding, complex issue."
Hours before the official "Peace to Prosperity" conference dinner in the Bahraini capital, Manama, on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia released a statement reiterating its support for the two-state solution. This has been the bedrock of past discussions between Israelis and Palestinians, underwritten by successive administrations in Riyadh and Washington.
Saudi Arabia is an ally of the Trump administration and a nominal supporter of the conference. Its crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, had forged a close understanding with Kushner in the months before the conference; both are understood to see the 71-year-old conflict through a similar lens.
During Kushner's time as Trump's Middle East envoy, core demands of the Israeli rightwing have been implemented. US aid to Palestine has been slashed, the bitterly contested city of Jerusalem declared as Israel's capital, Palestinian diplomatic missions closed in Washington and US missions closed in the West Bank and Gaza.
"We've gone from a 'land for peace' formula addressing a decades-old occupation and siege to a 'money for peace' recipe for disaster," said HA Hellyer, a senior associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute and the Atlantic Council.
"The needs and rights of the Palestinians – the occupied – are now openly and explicitly disregarded by the Trump administration with such transparency that such a 'money for peace' recipe for disaster [to them] is a logical conclusion," Hellyer said.
"There are precious few in the Arab world who are willing to invest much political capital to address and solve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but that doesn't translate to support for this. If that were the case, we would see high-level delegations, for example, going to the Bahraini workshop. Instead, Arab states are trying to send as low-level diplomats as possible."
Sir John Jenkins, a former Middle East director for the Foreign Office, said torpor across Palestinian politics had contributed to a loss of faith in the existing peace model.
He said Palestine's political structure had collapsed and there was "no Palestinian national narrative any more", pointing to the "bureaucratisation and demoralisation of Fatah", the "futilely belligerent" Hamas in charge of Gaza, and the fact that the Palestinian Authority that runs parts of the West Bank was "widely distrusted and despised as corrupt by many Palestinians".
Jenkins said: "Add to this the failure of the Arab uprisings, the consequent discrediting of political Islamism, the collapse of Arab nationalism and the rise of securitised authoritarianism, and the old context within which the Palestinian national cause sat has also vanished. No one has replaced it with anything satisfactory. This is a failure of the political imagination."
He said this vacuum had been filled with "the promise of economic development, as if that will make the unorganised but still widespread and powerful Palestinian yearning for a state, or at least a political community, go away. I think that's a misreading. Economic development gets you so far – but then what?"
He added of mooted Arab benefactors: "I can't see them simply signing on the dotted line unless there is some sort of political horizon. The Palestinian issue retains a distinctive power to mobilise many Arabs emotionally. It's hard to see why the Kurds and others are allowed to realise national aspirations but not the Palestinians. And Iran would accuse them of selling out the instant they signed. Why give them the satisfaction?"
Hellyer said a two-state solution, already diluted, may become even less viable in the absence of meaningful political engagement. "If the Israelis continue along this present course of action, they make the alternative of a one-state solution more and more inevitable, where the Palestinian struggle for national self-determination in a state is transformed into a civil rights struggle in a single state alongside Israelis."
Jared Kushner casts doubt on Palestinian ability to self-govern
White House adviser says freedom from Israeli military interference is a 'high bar'
Political chaos in Israel deals blow to Jared Kushner's peace plan
Snap polls threaten Trump's 'ultimate deal' as Netanyahu reveals gift of map from his son-in-law during visit
Donald Trump's peace conference will fail, Palestinians say
'Ultimate deal' will begin with economic workshop that does not address core disputes
German parliament declares Israel boycott campaign antisemitic
Israeli academics warn of conflating Palestinian BDS movement with antisemitism
Israeli soldiers kill teenage Palestinian medic near Bethlehem
UK will change tack on UN motions criticising Israel, says Jeremy Hunt
Palestinian attacker kills Israeli soldier and rabbi in West Bank
Gaza's generation blockade: young lives in the 'world's largest prison'


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Emergency Quick Reference Sheet
Brightpoint has created a quick reference guide that you may download and print. The In Case of Emergency Quick Reference Sheet includes important phone numbers and basic emergency information.
Each year, the college creates an Annual Security Report for Clery Act Compliance.
Safety and Security Resources


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The Waianae High class of '74 alumni are listed below. These are former students from Waianae HS in Waianae, HI who graduated in 1974. Alumni listings below have either been searched for or they registered as members of this directory.