It seemed as if everything was in place for a Red Sox victory Friday night. Clay Buchholz gave his team a chance to win, holding the Astros to just two earned runs over seven innings of work, while Brock Holt'€™s RBI single in the bottom of the seventh gave Boston a late 3-2 lead. However, both the lead and the game quickly changed course in the top of the eighth, all due to a head-scratching and bizarre series of defensive mistakes. With runners on first and second for Houston with two outs, Astros third baseman Matt Dominguez hit a liner that jumped up in front of Xander Bogaerts. Bogaerts, looking to end the inning, attempted to get the out at second, but Dexter Fowler beat the force out. Dustin Pedroia then immediately threw to home in an attempt to nab Gregorio Petit, who was attempting to score on the play. Christian Vazquez caught the ball and attempted to tag out Petit in a rundown, but took an odd angle that allowed Petit to avoid the tag and sneak past the Sox catcher on the basepaths. "It'€™s a tough play. ... [Pedroia] threw the ball to home plate and I was running to the runner to do a rundown and he came on the other side," Vazquez said. Vazquez then flipped the ball to reliever Burke Bandenhop at home, who fumbled the throw, allowing Petit to score and tie the game at 3 runs apiece. "A strange play with two outs," said Red Sox manager John Farrell after the game. "Fowler, at first base, does a good job of getting to second base in short order, but Dominguez hits a little bit of a humpback liner that Xander'€™s got to lay back on, and if the anticipation might have been where the speed of Fowler doesn'€™t give him a shot at the feed at second base, then does he possibly take the throw across the infield to get Dominguez, who is probably a little bit of a below-average runner." "But then I think [Pedroia] makes a heads-up play, even after the safe sign is called, and Christian'€™s aggressiveness to run him back to third base, his momentum takes him inside the third-base line and gives Petit enough room to elude a tag, and unfortunately that'€™s a tie ballgame in that spot." After the game, both Farrell and Bogaerts admitted that the whole situation could have been avoided if Bogaerts had attempted to get the final out at first base. "€œHe was close at second, but, I mean, I could have thrown to first,"€ Bogaerts said. "If that guy didn'€™t make a great move at the play at home plate, he probably would'€™ve been out." "Again, when he'€™s got to lay back on it, whether or not he'€™s familiar with the running speed of Fowler,"€ Farrell said. "You can say sitting here, in hindsight, '€˜Yeah, take the play across the infield for the putout at first base.' But his instincts were to go the short way with a feed to [Pedroia]." The play ended up being costly for Boston, as the Astros would eventually tack on two more runs in the top of the 10th en route to a 5-3 Houston win. While the 2014 campaign has been filled with its fair share of growing pains for a rookie like Bogaerts, the Sox shortstop admitted that his latest misstep - which played a role in erasing both a 3-2 lead and a four-game winning streak -particularly hurt. "€œWe'€™re playing great baseball,"€ Bogaerts said. "I think we had a four or five-game winning streak, so for us to lose that way, after that go-ahead base hit, after Vazquez saw the ball go off the dirt and went to second base and Brock got that hit. That was pretty frustrating right there."


This is a story about saving something beautiful. Overture celebrates the extraordinary grass-roots effort to help the Kansas City Philharmonic survive during its 1953-1954 season. In 1953, the Kansas City Philharmonic debuted its first opera festival and Jewel Ball, and was striving to become a world-renowned orchestra. At the same time, it was fighting for financial survival. Hundreds of tenacious, music-loving Kansas Citians came to its rescue through numerous curious and creative ways.


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Vaccinated Americans can gather inside without masks or social distancing in certain circumstances, CDC guidelines say
Staff and wire reports
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released guidelines designed to ease restrictions for Americans who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The agency's guidance state those who have received a full course of COVID-19 vaccine may get together with other fully vaccinated individuals in small groups inside their homes without masks or physical distancing. They can also visit people with unvaccinated people from one other household who are at low risk for severe disease.
The guidelines also say fully vaccinated people don't need to quarantine or take a COVID-19 test if they've been exposed, unless they're symptomatic.
Experts say the announcement could have been the agency's attempt to clear up confusion created by some states rolling back coronavirus safety measures despite public warnings from health officials.
Five states – Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Montana and Iowa – have announced plans to rescind mandates on wearing masks. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said it's a "big mistake" for states to lift pandemic restrictions, calling it a result of "Neanderthal thinking."
Whether the guidelines will clear things up is still up for debate, said Dr. Wafaa El-Sadr, professor of epidemiology and medicine at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
The difference in tone from last week's White House briefing, when Walensky urged Americans to keep their guard up on the virus and "not give in to a sense of false security," may only serve to further confuse Americans.
"It's almost two different pathways here," El-Sadr said. "Imploring people to stay with it, continue to be guarded and careful, while at the same time realizing that people are fatigued (and) ease restrictions for this subset of (vaccinated) individuals."
While she recognizes the need for national guidance, El-Sadr said it may be a bit premature to allow people to gather inside without masks as there's still no data on asymptomatic transmission and only about 16% of the U.S. population has been vaccinated, according to CDC data.
Other experts disagree.
"People are tired and there's a lot of pandemic fatigue and it's really important that we don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," said Dr. Carlos del Rio, executive associate dean of Emory University School of Medicine, who authored a viewpoint published in JAMA Network Thursday that said it's "likely safe" to gather with other vaccinated individuals.
"People are going to do things whether we like it or not and it's important to tell people what they can do safely instead of what not to do," he said.
The pace of vaccinations has ramped up so more than two million Americans are getting vaccinated per day.
The Biden administration said Tuesday there will be enough vaccine for every adult in the U.S. by May thanks to a deal brokered between pharmaceutical giants Merck and Johnson & Johnson, but health experts say the U.S. could reach that milestone by mid-April.
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Diamond Talk: Kyle Murphy, OL, University of Rhode Island | Best Pancakes In Rhode Island
I am a big fan of Kyle Murphy from Rhode Island. The kid is a beast on the offensive line and he is one of the most versatile players in college football. He has played all over the offensive line and NFL teams love versatility and smarts. If you add in the fact that he is 6040 and 300 plus pounds and strong as an ox, NFL teams are drooling over him as a prospect.
Before Rhode Island, Murphy was a four year starter at left tackle in high school, but do you know what is more impressive? The kid was a captain of his basketball team, this young man was a B-Baller which means he has good foot work and is nimble, look at his film.
As a true freshman at URI, Murphy appeared in 10 games but started three. His first career start was at left guard against James Madison.
In his second year, he came into his own. He started all 11 games, 6 at left guard and 5 at right tackle. He has also played center a couple games when Dwayne Scott had to leave briefly with injuries. This kid is a freak, and he is going to get a shot from the NFL because he can play all five positions on the offensive line.
When you watch his film above, you see him pancaking his guys. You see him dropping the defensive ends, finishing his blocks and opening holes you can drive a car through. It is real simple, at the end of the day there may not be a more verastile player in the draft on the O-Line. He is the best pancaker in Rhode Island and he will get a shot with an NFL team come April.
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Q: How to add a rounded border on a drawable resource I have an image inside mipmap folder and I am using it as a icon in toolbar . What I need to do is to add a rounded border around that drawable image .
Here is the code for my toolbar
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    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools">
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However I have accomplished that , first I have converted that drawable into a a Bitmap then I added a rounded border around that bitmap and then again I converted that bitmap into drawable  .
I can accomplish that in another way , by using a custom toolbar and then use a circular ImageView . But due to some reason I can't do that for now .
Is there any other way I can accomplish that ?

A: Its simple and easy way is you can use CardView with corner Radius
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前言 公司有好几个项目都有后台管理系统,为了方便开发,所以选择了 vue 中比较火的 后台模板 作为基础模板进行开发。但是,开始用的时候,作者并没有对此进行优化,到项目上线的时候,才发现,打包出来的文件都十分之大,就一个 vendor 就有 770k 的体积(下图是基础模板,什么都没加打包后的文件信息): 通过 webpack-bundle-analyzer 进行分析可得,体积主要来源于 饿了么UI(体积为 500k),因为没对其进行部分引入拆分组件,导致 webpack 把整个组件库都打包进去了。其次就是 vue 本身,体积也达到了 80k 之大。 所以,对其进行打包优化,是一件刻不容缓的事情。 优化 优化主要目的有: 加快资源加载速度,减少用户等待的时间和首页白屏时间,提高用户体验。 加快打包速度,不要将时间浪费在等待打包上。 解决第一个问题,很多人都会想到资源文件放在 CDN 上就好了,没错,这次我们就是通过 CDN 来解决加载问题。 CDN - 提高加载速度 像 vue, element ui 这些比较成熟的框架/组件库,一般都有免费、高速、公共的 cdn 供开发者使用….
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Docker 学习笔记 - Day3 docker-compose Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application's services. Then, with a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration. Docker-compose 是一个定义和运行多容器 Docker 程序的工具。在 compose 中,可以用 YAML 文件来配置程序的服务,然后使用简单的命令即可从配置中创建并启动所有服务。 一个使用Docker容器的应用,通常由多个容器组成。使用Docker Compose,不再需要使用 shell 脚本来启动容器。在配置文件中,所有的容器通过 services 来定义,然后使用 docker-compose 脚本来启动,….
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L'édition 2002 du tournoi de Washington s'est déroulée du 12 au  sur dur.

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 Tournoi de tennis de Washington

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Inclusive education policy and practice : investigating the educational rights and needs of learners and students with visual impairments in South Africa
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Sukhraj-Ely, Praveena.
Focus This thesis investigates inclusive education policy and practice in South Africa. In this context, particular focus is given to the rights and needs of visually impaired learners and students. Background Due to the dual segregated education system, as at 2001, approximately 280 000 disabled children did not have access to education at school. The special schools system fostered inequality and discrimination of disabled learners from an early age. This stood in tension with the South African Constitution and was not in line with international trends. This 'normative tension' and lack of alignment with evolving international practice led to a shift towards an inclusive education system as a policy preference. Policy In 1996 the Constitution and the South African Schools Act prescribed that everyone had the right to basic education and should not be discriminated against on any grounds. Mainstream schools catered for able-bodied learners, and existing legislation did not automatically equip schools and teachers with resources and training to accommodate disabled learners. To enable directives to obtain these objectives, Education White Paper 6 was passed in 2001. This policy documented Government's intent to implement an inclusive education system by 2021. Investigation The educational needs of visually impaired learners were identified and discussed. An analysis of White Paper 6, highlighting its strengths and limitations in light of the identified specialised educational needs, was conducted. Research was undertaken in mainstream schools, special schools and universities to assess the progress of the implementation process. Challenges impeding the process including untrained educators, insufficient funding, and no established provisioning norms were identified. Inclusive education has its foundations within social rights theory. Education, like other basic social rights is a justiciable right which the State must uphold. However, like all normative wish lists of rights, limited resources, competing claimants and policy trade-offs are inevitable, more especially in a developing country. As a result budgets, utilisation of funds and accountability of the Department of Education were also investigated. Conclusion Following an analysis of the contents of the policy and findings on the progress of the implementation process, policy recommendations- informed by the researchwere proposed.
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Geography: Neftekamsk is a city in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located in the northwest of the republic on the Kama River, 220 kilometers (140 mi) from the republic's capital Ufa. It is a large industrial and cultural center of the republic.
Date of foundation: 1957. First mention - 1955. Town status - 1963.
History: Neftekamsk founded on the outskirts of the village of Kasevo, a settlement of the palace peasants, founded in the early 18th century. In 1969 the village of Maryino entered the city. Neftekamsk founded as a urban-settlement of oil workers of management 'Arlanneft'.


I love it when people make their wedding day their own. With a little help from Waterlily Weddings, wedding planners in Ireland, Grace and Lucas from the States choose for a destination wedding in Ireland.
Their Summer Elopement in Ireland.
They celebrated their love with a select group of family and friends in Newton Tower. It is a small authentic venue for wedding ceremonies in the West of Ireland in the centre of the Burren National Park.
And went after the ceremony and photo shoot to the excelent sea food restaurant Monks Ballyvaughan on the Pier.


Our family had to recently make the decision to put our 10 year old golden retriever/lab mix LILY down.
After noticing some inconsistencies and abnormalities for a few weeks my Dad took Lily to the vet only to learn she had multiple tumors inside of her.
This news rocked our family – how could our sweet Lily be sick, there was no way!?
My brother and I both came home that weekend to be by her side and give her lots of loving. It was hard to accept that things were going to happen so quickly, especially because she looked great and was acting so normal. A lot of tears were shed that weekend and Lily received some really great love and attention (as if this wasn't the norm every time we saw her).
As the vet had predicted her health began to quickly decline and on a Saturday her breathing was becoming extremely labored. My parents had to make the tough call, as we had all agreed we didn't want Lily to suffer.
As you can well imagine our whole family took losing Lily very hard. If you've ever had a dog you know they become part of the family. Their unconditional love, excitement when you walk in the door and wet kisses are unmatched.
Lily was a boat dog, we couldn't keep her out of the water, she sensed when we were getting close to throwing in the anchor and got super excited.
She was a city dog, going into Philadelphia often to live with my brother for periods of time and strutting her stuff down the street.
Lily was a vacuum cleaner, helping clean up the floors before, during and after dinner.
She was also quite the doggie athlete. She had the frisbee thing down and could catch just about anything in her mouth (food was her favorite).
But most of all Lily was a lover. There was nothing better than being greeted by Lily at the door. Her excitement was like no other, tail wagging, crying with joy and circling you for love and attention.
Lily had some unique markings on her that I will always remember. The tip of her tail was white, she had a white patch on her forehead and a freckle on her nose (I swear).
My dear sweet Lily, you were such an important part of our family and you will forever be missed. We hope doggie heaven is full of peanut butter, tennis balls, socks and a pool for you to swim in. Thank you for bringing such joy (and wet kisses) to our lives for 10 great years.


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HomeLatest NewsBiden to Introduce New COVID Measures, Issue 'Stark Warning' to Unvaccinated
Biden to Introduce New COVID Measures, Issue 'Stark Warning' to Unvaccinated
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President Joe Biden, who on Thursday promised death and disease this winter for unvaccinated Americans, will address the nation on Tuesday on the omicron variant of the coronavirus.
Omicron, a mild variant of the virus, has hit some parts of the U.S. hard. On Friday, New York recorded its highest number of cases since the start of the pandemic, with 21,027 people testing positive for COVID-19, according to The Washington Post.
On Tuesday, Biden will introduce "additional measures" to address the rise in COVID-19 cases and continue to present the unvaccinated with a future of doom, NBC News reported.
A White House official said Biden will be "issuing a stark warning of what the winter will look like for Americans that choose to remain unvaccinated."
Aides said the president will also explain how his administration is "prepared for the rising case levels" and how it "will respond to this challenge."
On Thursday, Biden offered an update to his plan to combat the coronavirus, focusing on promoting the vaccine and booster shots, according to NBC.
He said he wanted to require insurers to reimburse people for in-home tests.
Can already say this speech will be 180-degrees out of phase with the speech Biden actually needs to deliver, because all the others have been that. https://t.co/l7e7wTIPsM
— Jon Lustig (@jonlustig) December 18, 2021
Biden also promised 50 million at-home tests would be sent to health centers and rural clinics for free distribution.
"I know COVID-19 has been very divisive in this country, has become a political issue, which is a sad, sad commentary. It shouldn't be, but it has been," Biden said Thursday.
"Now, as we move into the winter and face the challenge of this new variant, this is a moment we can put the divisiveness behind us, I hope."
A reminder that the Biden Administration is admitting limitlessly large numbers of unvaccinated, unmasked, untested, unscreened, unvetted, unverified and unknown illegal aliens who have been smuggled in the most unsafe, unsanitary, un-distanced and unhygienic fashion imaginable. https://t.co/UFFTwz0Ucc
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) December 17, 2021
But Biden gave the hard edge of his language to unvaccinated Americans.
"For the unvaccinated, we are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated — for themselves, their families and the hospitals they'll soon overwhelm," he said.
"But there's good news: If you're vaccinated and you had your booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death."
However, the omicron variant has infected the vaccinated and unvaccinated alike.
In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week that 79 percent of omicron cases in the U.S. have occurred in vaccinated individuals.
Via The Western Journal
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This weekend is the annual conference of the Occupational Therapy Association of California (OTAC) and I am having the time of my life. What a privilege to spend a weekend learning more about unique and meaningful applications of occupational therapy from future colleagues, and spending time with my professors and fellow students in a professional setting. This morning was the annual student knowledge bowl, and I'm happy to report USC had a great showing. We took 2nd place overall, from a diversified field of many OT and OTA programs across California, and I'm so proud to have been part of the team. The format of the competition utilized past questions from the NBCOT licensing exam, so in addition to being a lot of fun the session proved to be a valuable learning experience for participants and audience members alike. I want to especially thank Tracy, Jesse, and Joyce for waking up early and representing our school. Fight On!


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Q: Can the intersection of a unitary and an irreducibly represented injective $C^*$-algebra be $\{0\}$? Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an injective $C^*$-algebra irreducibly acting on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, and let $\phi$ be a completely positive idempotent from $\mathbb{B}(\mathcal{H})$ onto $\mathcal{A}$, and let $u\in\mathbb{B}(\mathcal{H})$ be a unitary.

Question: Can we conclude that $\phi(u)\ne0$? If necessary, we can assume that $u$ normalizes $\mathcal{A}$, that is, $u\mathcal{A}u^*=\mathcal{A}$.

The point is the irreducibility, since without it $\phi(u)$ can easily be $0$. The question appears to be easy, but I have been struggling for months, and I have already asked five experts.

A: No. Take any irreducibly represented simple and injective C*-algebra $A\subset B(H)$ and an outer automorphism $\theta$ of period $2$ (which is easy to find when $A$ is the hyperfinite II_1 factor).
Case 1: The representation is covariant, i.e., $\exists u\in{\mathcal U}(H)$ such that $uau^*=\theta(a)$ for $a\in A$. We may assume $u^2=1$ by irreducibility. Since $\theta$ is outer, $A\rtimes_\theta({\mathbb Z}/2{\mathbb Z})$ is simple by Kishimoto's theorem. Hence, $\mathrm{C}^*(A,u)\cong A\rtimes_\theta({\mathbb Z}/2{\mathbb Z})$ and there is a conditional expectation $\phi\colon\mathrm{C}^*(A,u)\ni a+bu\mapsto a\in A$, $a,b\in A$. The map $\phi$ extends on $B(H)$.
Case 2: The representation is not covariant, in which case there is no nonzero $x\in B(H)$ such that $xa=\theta(a)x$ for all $a\in A$, by Schur's lemma.  Consider $A_1:=A\rtimes_\theta({\mathbb Z}/2{\mathbb Z})=\mathrm{C}^*(A,v)$ represented on $H\oplus H$, where $a\in A$ acts by $a\oplus\theta(a)$ and the switching unitary operator $v(\xi\oplus\eta)=\eta\oplus\xi$ implements $\theta$. Now, $A_1$ is injective, irreducibly represented on $H\oplus H$, and the dual automorphism $\hat{\theta}\colon a+bv\mapsto a-bv$ is outer and implemented by the unitary operator $u:=1\oplus-1$ on $H\oplus H$. Hence it reduces to Case 1.


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Q: How do I properly use papi_native_avail to get network performance monitoring events on a BG/Q system? I'm trying to gather network performance counter data on a BG/Q system with a BG Torus interconnect. I'm using PAPI as this seems to be the most recommended way of doing it, with the other option being the bgpm library, which I don't think is installed on this system. (locate bgpm didn't give me anything.)
I'm trying to get the names for all the counters available on the system. so I run papi_native_avail, which returns a bunch of events. For example, here is an excerpt from the net category:
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| net:::ib0:rx:bytes                                                           |
|            ib0 receive bytes                                                 |
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| net:::ib0:rx:packets                                                         |
|            ib0 receive packets                                               |
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| net:::ib0:rx:errors                                                          |
|            ib0 receive errors                                                |
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...

papi_native_avail segfaults but I don't think that is relevant.
So my understanding at this point is that I should be able to use an event name and get an event code from it using PAPI_event_name_to_code(), but this doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing these aren't the event names that that function expects. So can someone explain:

*

*Where can I find all network events for BG/Q?

*How do I get the codes for those events?
For completeness, here is  my code and the output:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <papi.h>

int main(){
  int code = 0;
  int ret = 0;
  PAPI_library_init(PAPI_VER_CURRENT);
  ret = PAPI_event_name_to_code("net:::ib0:tx:fifo", &code);

  if(ret != PAPI_OK){
    printf("Error in getting code\n");
  }
  printf("code: %d\n", code);
}

Output:
Error in getting code
code: 0


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Buslijn 16 was minstens tweemaal een buslijn in de Nederlandse provincie Zuid-Holland in de regio Haaglanden.

1971–1972, Den Haag
In 1971 was er een tekort aan trambestuurders in Den Haag, en daarom werd tramlijn 16 tijdelijk een buslijn. Dit duurde van 19 september 1971 tot 2 april 1971. Er waren buschauffeurs genoeg, maar niet voldoende bussen. Daarom werden er 12 bussen uit Amsterdam geleend.

1990–1998, Zoetermeer
Vanaf 1990 kreeg Zoetermeer stadsbuslijnen; de lijnen 12, 14, 16/17, 18/19, 20/21, en 22/23 hebben een periode bestaan. De meeste waren gekoppelde ringlijnen.
Lijn 16 bediende samen met lijn 17 vanaf station Centrum-west de wijken Meerzicht en Buytenweg, via de Meerzichtlaan & Muzieklaan. Lijn 16 reed linksom, lijn 17 reed rechtsom. In 1998 werd lijn 16 opgeheven. Lijn 17 bleef in dezelfde richting rijden, op de Meerzichtlaan aangevuld door enkele ritten van lijn 174 naar Rijswijk.

Haagse bus
Buslijn in Nederland


Civilisations and modernity would not emerge if not for agriculture. However, because of the expanding human population coupled with environmental hurdles to farming including limited land resources, there is a need to reconsider how the global society produces food for mass consumption.
Vertical farming offers a solution for cultivating agricultural produces without the use of sprawling tracks of lands. This emerging component of modern urban agriculture involves planting and growing plant life within a skyscraper to maximise the use of limited land area.
The concept of vertical farming is hardly new. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, could be considered as a prime example of earlier attempts to cultivate plant life in manmade high structures. Several much modern literatures have also described and documented the proposed use of high-rise buildings for food cultivation. One of these works appeared in Life Magazine as early as 1909. A number of accounts have also described the existence of the first vertical farm based on hydroponicum in Armenia prior to 1951.
Numerous architecture and engineering firms and ecologists are now promoting vertical farming through proposals and reiterations of concepts relating to urban agriculture and sustainability. Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist and ecologist, has received considerable media coverage for his ideas on vertical farming. Beginning 1999, he developed his concept of vertical farming together with graduate students of medical ecology class.
There are varied ways to construct and design a vertical farm. In a journal article, authors Chirantan Banerjee and Lucie Adenauer mentioned the need to utilise an indoor climate control system that would regulate humidity and temperature in order to grow a variety of produce. Accordingly, this system is a major prerequisite in any vertical farms. There is also a need for artificial lighting system, preferably using LED technology for its low level of thermal radiation and longer lifecycle.
A typical vertical farm should also include several sections, each catering to a specific stage of the cultivation process. For example, germination floors would have a specific use for seed generation of varied plant species while the actual plant growth area would transpire in cultivation floors. There should also be separate sections for food processing or packaging, storage and delivery, waste management, and staff and control room. These same design considerations have been proposed by designer Claudio Palavecino Llanos.
Information technology researchers Saraswathi Sivamani, Kyunghun Kwak, and Yongyun Cho highlighted the importance of automation in vertical farming. Because a vertical farm would feature large-scale cultivation and high-volume outputs, automation through information technology and information systems would improve farming operation. For example, automation is helpful for maintaining and adjusting appropriate climate conditions without the need for regular human intervention. IT-related technology will also be helpful for monitoring crops, crop maintenance, recording outputs, and determining demands.
Dependence on electricity is a critical disadvantage of vertical farming. Critics have argued that the costs associated with additional electricity needed to maintain the operation of climate control and lighting systems could outweigh the benefit coming from the supposed cost efficiency of urban agriculture. Furthermore, this same dependence on electricity could mean greater carbon footprint.
However, some proposed vertical farms have taken into consideration the use of renewable energy sources to include wind power and solar power. Equipping vertical farms with the capacity to generate electricity from solar power or other renewable resources would thereby make them self-sufficient while also lessening their respective carbon footprints. It is also worth mentioning that there is an emerging technology that involves generating electricity from plants. If it reached finalisation and commercialisation, this technology would further improve the cost efficiency and sustainability of vertical farming.
It is also important to consider the fact that some proposed vertical farms are designed to function similar to greenhouses. In other words, these vertical farms will use natural light and localized greenhouse effect.
There are many advantages of vertical farming that could overwhelm concerns about electricity dependence and carbon footprint. There is a reason to believe that this modern agricultural practice could reduce hunger and promote food security without compromising the environment. Accordingly, urbanisation will spread across the globe and by 2050, it is possible that 80 percent of the world population would live in urban areas. This urbanisation would certainly mean reduction of farmlands. Through vertical farming, there is no need to convert natural environments into lands for agriculture. Take note that this conversion often leads to deforestation or desertification.
Furthermore, because vertical farming maximises the use of limited land spaces, it could lead to an increase in crop production. There is also a possibility for better agricultural yields. Because vertical farms have built-in climate control systems, crops are spared from weather-related problems. This same automated system could also mean less dependence on pesticides. Vertical farming could support organic farming.
Closer proximity of agriculture hubs could also lessen the price of crops. Take note that in vertical farming, crops would be sold in the same facilities in which they are grown. This would definitely cut costs associated with transportation and intermediaries. In addition, this could also mean less spoilage thereby resulting in better productivity and profitability.
Through careful planning, Designer Llanos believe that vertical farming can provide several benefits centred on environmental conservation by producing food using minimal resources, economic development by profiting from useless lands, and social equity by generating jobs and improving living standards of new urban farmers.
Modern vertical farms exist in Asian countries, especially in Singapore, South Korea, and Japan where crowded urban areas and scarce land areas have compelled urban planners and engineers to come up with novel agricultural solutions and innovations.
The first commercial and fully operational vertical farm emerged in Singapore in 2012. Designed and developed by Sky Greens Farms, a subsidiary of industrial company Sky Urban Solutions Holding Pte. Ltd., the vertical farm emerges as a solution to ensure food supply resilience in Singapore.
South Korea is still on its way of further developing its vertical farms. Currently, the country has a vertical farm located in Gyeonggi Province that features machineries and artificial environment for planting and growing a variety of agricultural produces. The team responsible for this vertical farm has proposed to transport the technology in Qatar.
United States-based company AeroFarms LLC has turned an old 69,000 square-foot steel factory in Newark, New Jersey into an indoor farm that will grow 2 million pounds of pesticide-free produces every year. This targeted output is 75 times more productive than traditional open field farming.
Designer Claudio Palavecino Llanos from Chile has proposed the use of wasted useless urban lands generated by road junctions along urban highways for vertical farming. Doing so would give value to an undefined zone.


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Mission to China
Joseph Hsing-san Shih
Alternative Titles: Li-ma-tou, Limadou
Matteo Ricci, Pinyin Limadou, Wade-Giles romanization Li-ma-tou, (born October 6, 1552, Macerata, Papal States [Italy]—died May 11, 1610, Beijing, China), Italian Jesuit missionary who introduced Christian teaching to the Chinese empire in the 16th century. He lived there for nearly 30 years and was a pioneer in the attempt at mutual comprehension between China and the West. By adopting the language and culture of the country, he gained entrance to the interior of China, which was normally closed to foreigners.
Ricci was from a noble family in Macerata, in central Italy. His father, Giovanni Battista Ricci, a pharmacist by profession, dedicated most of his time to public affairs and for a time served as governor of the city. His mother, Giovanna Angiolelli, was known for her simple piety. Matteo, their oldest child, after preliminary studies at home, entered the school that the Jesuit priests opened in 1561 in Macerata. There he completed his Classical studies, and he set out at age 16 for Rome to study law. While there, he was attracted to the life of the Jesuits, and, on August 15, 1571, he requested permission to join the order.
Approved by the pope in 1540, the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was already well known for its spirit of apostolic initiative. Its members were distinguishing themselves in scientific research as well as in their voyages to new worlds. Stimulated by the examples of his seniors, Ricci dedicated himself to efforts in both fields. Shortly after beginning his study of science under the noted mathematician Christopher Clavius, he volunteered for work overseas in East Asia. In May 1577 he set off for Portugal, where he studied for a short time at the University of Coimbra while waiting for a ship. In the following year, on March 24, he embarked at Lisbon and arrived on September 13 at Goa, the Portuguese outpost on the central west coast of India. Ricci carried on his studies for the priesthood there but was ordained in 1580 at Cochin, on the Malabar Coast, where he had been sent for reasons of health. Returning to Goa, he was ordered, in April 1582, to proceed to China.
With its huge population, China was an area that Christian missionaries, especially the Jesuits, greatly wished to enter. St. Francis Xavier, one of the first companions of St. Ignatius of Loyola, died in 1552 on the tiny island of Shangchuan in sight of the tightly closed mainland. When Ricci arrived, China was still closed to outsiders, but the missionary strategy of the Jesuits had undergone modification. Great stress was put on the importance of learning the Chinese language and of acquiring knowledge of the culture. Previously, missionaries had attempted to impose Western customs and the use of the Latin language in religious rites. The new approach of adaptation to national customs was established by Alessandro Valignano, who had received Ricci into the Jesuits and was at this time visitor of the Jesuit missions in East Asia. (A visitor is the official responsible for making sure the religious and temporal affairs of all the houses of an institute in an area are properly followed.) First Michele Ruggieri and then Ricci were called to the Portuguese province of Macau to prepare to evangelize China. Ruggieri, however, returned to Italy in November 1588, leaving to his younger compatriot the burden and the honour of founding the church in China.
Ricci arrived at Macau, a small peninsula on the east coast of China, in August 1582 and began at once his study of Chinese. The following year he and Ruggieri were given permission to settle in Zhaoqing, then a major city of Guangdong province. In his History of the Introduction of Christianity in China, Ricci described their work as follows:
So as not to occasion any suspicion about their work, the fathers [i.e., the Jesuits] initially did not attempt to speak very clearly about our holy law. In the time that remained to them after visits, they rather tried to learn the language, literature, and etiquette of the Chinese, and to win their hearts and, by the example of their good lives, to move them in a way that they could not otherwise do because of insufficiency in speech and for lack of time.
Despite that caution, Ruggieri published the first Catholic catechism in Chinese, and Ricci produced the first edition of his remarkable map of the world, the "Great Map of Ten Thousand Countries," which showed the Chinese intelligentsia China's geographical relation to the rest of the world.
In 1589 Ricci moved from Zhaoqing to Shaozhou (now Shaoguan), where he became a close friend of the Confucian scholar Qu Taisu. Ricci taught him the rudiments of mathematics, receiving in return an introduction into the circles of the mandarins (high civil or military officials of the Chinese empire) and of the Confucian scholars. Noting that Ricci wore the habit of a Buddhist monk (which he had adopted upon entering China), Qu suggested that it would be better to dress as a Chinese scholar, a suggestion that Ricci followed immediately after leaving Guangdong.
Feeling increasingly at home, Ricci decided to make an attempt to enter the Imperial city of Beijing. His effort in 1595, however, was not successful because a Sino-Japanese conflict in Korea had made all foreigners suspect. He had to leave Beijing and stopped first at Nanchang and then Nanjing. During his stay at Nanchang, from 1595 to 1598, he befriended two princes of the royal blood. At the request of one, he wrote his first book in Chinese, On Friendship. At Nanjing, where he settled in February 1599, he was engaged chiefly in astronomy and geography. In his History, he commented on the effects of this work:
The fathers gave such clear and lucid explanations on all these matters which were so new to the Chinese, that many were unable to deny the truth of all that he said; and, for this reason, the information on this matter quickly spread among all the scholars of China. From this one can understand how much esteem was given to the Jesuits as well as to our land which thenceforth they did not dare to describe as barbarian, a word they were accustomed to use in describing countries other than China.
Encouraged by the reception he received at Nanjing, Ricci made a second attempt to reach Beijing. He entered the city in January 1601, accompanied by a Jesuit colleague, the young Spaniard Diego Pantoja. Although Ricci was not received by the emperor, he was given permission to remain in the capital. From then on, he never left Beijing, and he dedicated the rest of his life to its people, teaching them science and preaching the gospel. His efforts to attract and convert the Chinese intelligentsia brought him into contact with many outstanding personalities, among them Li Zhizao, Xu Guangqi, and Yang Tingyun (who became known as the "Three Pillars of the Early Catholic Church" in China and who assisted the missionaries, especially in their literary efforts) and Feng Yingjing, a scholar and civic official who was imprisoned in Beijing. During his years in Beijing, Ricci wrote several books in Chinese: The Secure Treatise on God (1603), The Twenty-five Words (1605), The First Six Books of Euclid (1607), and The Ten Paradoxes (1608).
The secret of Ricci's success was his ability to go beyond cultural barriers and befriend people of another race and religion. His remark about his friend Feng Yingjing brings out well the spirit of this great missionary: "He treated the affairs of our fathers as if they were his own and our fathers in turn treated his as if they were ours."
Joseph Hsing-san Shih The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
China: Foreign relations
Matteo Ricci was the successful pioneer, beginning his work in 1583 well-trained in the Chinese language and acquainted with Confucian learning. By the time of his death in 1610, despite hostility in some quarters, Jesuit communities were established in many cities of south and central…
Christianity: Roman Catholic mission, 1500–1950
…but the Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) arrived in 1582 and eventually reached the capital. His efforts brought success, and other Jesuits followed. An edict of toleration was proclaimed in 1692. Ricci's conviction that the honouring of ancestors and Confucius was a social rite that could be accommodated within…
Roman Catholicism: The Chinese rites controversy
…centred on the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who worked as a missionary in China in the late 16th and the early 17th century. Decades of scholarly research into Buddhist and Confucian thought had prepared Ricci to attach the Roman Catholic understanding of the Christian faith to the deepest spiritual apprehensions…
Macerata, Italy
The Galileo Project - Biography of Ricci, Matteo
Official Site of Matteo Ricci
The Catholic Encyclopedia - Biography of Matteo Ricci
Matteo Ricci - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)


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User Centered Digital Memory
Posted on December 8, 2019 by tjowens
Digital Preservation, Digital History, & Digital Curation: A 2019 Year in Review
As the end of the year comes to a close, I make time organize and synthesize what I've been up to across different parts of my work each year. You can see my reflections at the end of 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012. I'm a big fan of the value of metacognition, so I tend to feel like I get a lot out of taking a little time to round up, reflect, and try and synthesize things at least once a year.
This year I've organized things into work managing and coaching teams at the Library of Congress, work communicating about digital preservation, and broader engagements in teaching, learning, and scholarship in digital history and digital curation.
From Start-Up to Highly Productive Teams
DCM team members developing shared values. More on this on The Signal.
In 2018, I worked to bring on 10 new staff who joined the Web Archiving Team as part of the newly formed Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress.
This year I was continually impressed by how the team was able to deliver results, continuously improve our approach to planning, tracking, and executing projects, and at the same time have a lot of fun. You can get some sense of the kinds of things folks have been up to on the team through posts from the group on The Signal.
In 2019, the team refined and published a set of values that guide our work, provided a deep dive into how web archives data works and published a series of derivative file datasets from web archives, (images, tabular data, audio, PDFs, PowerPoints). We also were able to complete a multi-year effort to define and publish policy and guidance on managing digital collections in the Digital Collections Management Compendium. We helped advance parts of the Library of Congress Digital Collecting Plan, in areas including acquiring, preserving, and making available open access children's books and open-access Latin American monographs. We were able to make available a corpus of 1.7 million digitized images from more than a hundred years of U.S. Telephone directories. We also had a great time hosting ARL's Digital and Inclusive Excellence Fellows for a day to share information about various areas of work at the Library of Congress. Beyond The Signal, the team also published analysis of file extensions in the Library of Congress digital collections. I should note that the highlight reel from The Signal and our publications is just the tip of the iceberg of the work our section is making happen. Most of our work is inwardly focused and it's only a small portion of the work that we draw attention to online.
As our section moved out from its start-up phase into highly productive teams this year, we also worked through a series of transitions. Over the course of the year, four of the original ten team members that came on board in the beginning 2018 ended up advancing their careers into other roles at the Library of Congress or other libraries. Since then, two new team members have come on to fill their shoes and are already making great contributions to the work, and we are in the process of bringing on additional team members as well. I've been thrilled to see how throughout those transitions the teams have done a great job of prioritizing, rebalancing, shifting, and supporting each other as we review what we are able to pull off. I'm personally very proud of the culture and values we have established which I think is working to ensure that we can respond to change and ramp up and put on hold work as needed.
Continuing to get the word out on Digital Preservation
This year I continued to spread the word about digital preservation and digital collections management. My third book, the Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, came out at the end of 2018. I've been thrilled with the great response it received over the course of 2019. In 2019 the book won two major awards the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services 2019 Outstanding Publication Award and the Society of American Archivists 2019 Waldo Gifford Leland Award. I found it deeply rewarding to win this kind of recognition from both the librarians of the ALA and the archivists of the SAA.
Alongside the awards, in 2019 the book was positively reviewed in at least eight different journals; Archivar, Mid-Atlantic Archivist, Library Resources and Technical Services, the Journal of Archival Organization, Metropolitan Archivist, The Journal of the Archives and Records Association, College and Research Libraries, and Archivaria. Mid way through the year, Johns Hopkins University Press reached out about publishing a second printing. It's rewarding to see such a great response to the book and to hear about how it is helping a range of working librarians, archivists, and curators to advance their craft in ensuring enduring access to digital content.
Presenting on Digital Preservation at the United Nations in Geneva.
Over the course of the year I was gave a series of major talks about digital preservation. I gave opening keynotes on digital preservation at the Federal Depository Libraries Conference, the Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship Symposium, and the Simposio Internacional de la Maestría en Conservación de Acervos Documentales in Mexico City. As an opening keynote for the Project Muse Partner meeting, Sayeed Choudhury interviewed me about key issues for scholarly publishing relating to digital preservation. I also gave invited lectures on digital preservation at the United Nations in Geneva and the Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
Beyond talks specifically drawing from the book, I participated on a panel on preserving eBooks with colleagues from the British Library, Library Archives Canada, and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek at the International Digital Preservation Conference in Amsterdam. I was invited to present as an expert on modeling digital preservation risks to the NIH sponsored National Academy of Sciences workshop on Forecasting Costs for Preserving, Archiving, and Promoting Access to Biomedical Data. At the Digital Library Federation Conference, I was invited alongside Dan Cohen, and Chela Weber to be a respondent to Carol Mandel's recent work exploring the state of digital collecting and preservation. All together it was a great year for continuing to share out about digital preservation.
Ongoing Digital History and Curation Teaching, Scholarship, & Service
Talking about design thinking at the University of Maryland.
Outside my digital preservation work, I continue to be engaged in a range of teaching, scholarship and service relating to digital history and digital curation more broadly.
I wrote a post on this blog asking some questions about the history of using the term archive as a verb. A chapter I wrote on service in archives, Archives as a Service: From Archivist as Producer and Provider to Archivist as Facilitator and Enabler, was published in Archival Values: Essays in Honor of Mark Greene. A review I wrote of Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures was published in American Archivist. I also participated in a really fun panel on Documenting Online Cultures at the American Folklore Society's Annual Meeting. I started working through some new material in an opening keynote I gave on The Centrality of Design Thinking and Scholarship for the Future of Library Practice at the University of Maryland's Libraries Research and Innovative Practice Forum.
In the spring taught my Digital Public History Methods graduate seminar for the 6th time at American University's History Program. In recognition for ongoing work and teaching related to digital history, the program upgraded my title from lecturer to Public Historian in Residence. I continue to be impressed by the creativity and innovative thinking of students in the program.
In the Fall I taught a new course on Digital Curation Policy and Ethics for the University of Maryland's iSchool. This was the first fully online course I've taught, so I was curious to see how it would go. Overall, I was consistently impressed by the quality of work students did. I hope many of those students go on to refine and revise some of the excellent papers they worked on for the course for publication. Students wrote about everything from ethical issues in algorithmic curation of news, to legal issues in digital reproductions of artworks, to ethical issues surrounding labor practices relating to digitization contracts.
Teaching those two courses brings the total number of graduate seminars I've taught since 2011 to ten. I continue to enjoy the way that working in the classroom helps keep me sharp and offers me a chance to stay fresh on some of the fundamentals in both digital history and in digital curation.
Along with teaching and research, I continued to participate as a board member for the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, as a founding board member of Digital Cultural Heritage D.C., as a member of the CLIR Hidden Collections Digitization Program review panel, and as a member of the Digital Library Federation Advisory Committee. In short, I keep busy.
The book wall from readings this year.
I got a lot out of reading this year. I finally made time to read Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences and I can confirm it is indeed an outstanding resource for connecting work in science and technology studies with work on knowledge infrastructure in library and information science. I read both The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Both offer powerful critiques on the effect of philanthropy on society. I'm thinking a lot about The Revolution Will Not be Funded. I think it opens up some really fundamental questions about how non-profits and philanthropy function in society. I got a lot out of readings on stoicism, scrum, and re-reading Getting Things Done, and am still processing some of the ideas from the polemical It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work.
Marjee and me as Kurt and Courtney.
Beyond all these aspects of work, Marjee and I had a lot of fun with other projects, friends, and family. She was the maid of honor and I was the best man at my Mom and Todd's wedding outside Milwaukee. We both caught up with my family at an Owens's family reunion in Holly, Michigan. I had a ton of fun backing up Marjee on two days of shooting footage at the Small Press Expo for what will be an amazing forthcoming documentary film. Last but not least, I think we made a pretty good Kurt and Courtney for Halloween.
Overall, this has been a great year. I very much enjoy the ability to work inside a huge cultural heritage organization and at the same time manage and develop teaching and scholarship along with that work. It seems like I'm hitting a good balance there. As far as goals for next year, the biggest thing I've been trying to focus on is being very deliberate about what kinds of projects I take on. I ultimately aspire to be able to spend more time focusing on fewer things.
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Q: Approaches of detection of custom protocol in chrome and Safari browsers What could be the best way the detecting the custom protocol (like foo://) in Safari and chrome browser. I was looking at the following options:

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*Browser extension which can check the existence of custom protocol invoker software. (Not sure if it is possible and how to do it)

*Browser plugin or java applets( since NPAPI is now going to deprecated so probably this will not be good idea).

*Flash Action script with java script(since Flash is sand boxed then again it seems not good idea to use it)
Can any one suggest any other approach or suggestion? can I go by approach #1.

A: You should be able to detect the custom protocol by relying only on Javascript.
I've found the following project for protocol detection using Javascript, hope it helps:
https://gist.github.com/rajeshsegu/3716941
You can check more information in this related question:
How to detect browser's protocol handlers?


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Reel Culver City
By Donald Norden in Articles, Culver City History May 2, 2020 0 Comment
It was 1974 and I was 14 years old. I was visiting a security guard named Ken Hollywood, at MGM's East Gate. He handed me a pencil and paper, saying "Two fellas will be coming out soon that you will want to meet!" And that was it.
Growing up in Culver City, I spent almost all my time on the back lots, either being chased, or just hanging out, watching as TV shows and movies got filmed. We were sharing stories together at this gate when, lo and behold, a Rolls Royce driven by Fred Astaire slowly rolled to a stop. Ken waved to Fred as we approached him with paper in hand. He graciously signed his name, shook my hand, and drove off.
When I thought things couldn't get better, an old Chevy Impala appeared. I was not even thinking this was a star since his car was no better than my dad's, but I did a double take and couldn't believe my eyes — it was Gene Kelly! He yelled out to me, "Let me pull over so we can talk."
"What was your favorite movie of all time to be part of?" I excitedly asked.
"I'm gonna surprise you," Mr. Kelly responded. "It's not a musical."
After a long pause he said, "The Three Musketeers."
"That's my favorite, too!" I exclaimed.
"All the athletic preparation needed to make it look real was more difficult than almost any of my dance numbers," he added.
"I love that show. You look like you were born with a sword in your hand," I said. "You're very athletic, and I can't help but admire your skill."
He then shared his love of baseball. The Pirates were his team.
I told him, "When it rains we sneak into the backlot and dance on the same cobblestone street where you performed Singing in the Rain. Well, mostly we just splash and sing."
I was probably blushing as I giggled, and then he smiled that wonderful, iconic smile.
Donald blogs at phantomofthebacklots.com.
Spring 2020 President's Message
By Hope Parrish in Articles, President's Message April 16, 2020 0 Comment
Dear Members and Friends:
Spring is on its way! I want to introduce to you our 2020-2022 Board. If you missed the installation, the food was delicious and the evening was outstanding. I can't thank Vice Mayor Göran Eriksson enough for his wonderful words that he spoke while installing us all. Yes, I am here for another two years at which time I must pass the torch, as I will be termed out. Emelie Gerard has moved into a new position. She is now our VP of Development, which involves fundraising, organizing the Founder's Day Picnic, and purchasing new items for our store. I am excited to see what she comes up with.
Dennis Parrish (my amazing Dad) has taken on the position of VP of Programs. Some of you may remember the great programs he presented to us in the past. I cannot wait to see his next Program! Tami Eskridge is BACK…and she will now be our new VP of the Museum and Archives. With the many great donations we have received, I am looking forward to working with her on new exhibits for your enjoyment. Also, Carolyn Wispe-Burns will continue to be our Treasurer. Michelle Bernardin, our immediate Past President, has also been editing this newsletter. Let us know if you'd like to relieve her and join our team!
I can happily report that these dedicated committee chairs will be continuing in their current positions:
Denice Renteria – Costumes Chair
Andrew Weissman – Government Liaison
Julie Lugo Cerra – Historic Sites
Jeanne Conklin – Membership Chair
Michael Laase – Parliamentarian
Kevin Lachoff – Photographer
Mark Morris – Videographer
I cannot thank our Wednesday volunteers enough for their hard work and dedication to get the museum digitized! We continue to make huge gains, and it is through the generous support from you, our members, and the amazing people that I have just mentioned.
Thanks to you all, and I look forward to seeing you at our next General Program to see what Dad has in store for us!
Capturing the History of Our City's Leadership in Images
By Julie Lugo Cerra in Articles, Culver City History, Historic Sites, Notes from your City Historian March 1, 2020 0 Comment
Former Mayor Michael Tellefson (Julie Lugo Cerra)
There is always a story in history! I would like to share one with you and then ask for your help. Many years ago, two city employees rescued some of Culver City's historic assets. Both men worked on the second floor of the previous city hall, which is still remembered by many who walk through the ¾ façade entry on that site today at Culver Boulevard and Duquesne Avenue. While the aforementioned employees, Dale Jones (CAO) and Saverio Cerra (Engineering), were looking through a top floor storage space, they noticed boxes of saved items, including a collection of mounted photos. The images were Culver City's elected officials starting in 1917, the year the city was incorporated. The list began with R.P. Davidson, the first chairman of the Board of Trustees (1917-18), Walter Edwards, V.R. Day, Mrs. V.R. Day (appointed to fill husband's term), etc. Later, the remnants of this collection, which ended in 1960, was given to our Culver City Historical Society for safe keeping.
Over time, the plaques helped to broaden our knowledge of the early City Trustees, now City Councilmembers. With your help, we can update the wall of honor. We are beginning to receive some of the missing portraits. Please help if you can—if you have high-quality portraits or can let relatives or the individuals on this list know! Reach out to us via email or phone call. We have the resources to perma-plaque images to match the original plaques, some of which appear in the Mike Balkman Council Chambers.
From incorporation in 1917 to date, we need images of the following officials:
B.J. Higuera (1917)
Mrs. V.R. Day (1921), who finished her husband's term
Dan F. Coombs (1920-29)
W. S. McNeir (1920)
Earl Bobier (1922-30)
David E. Clark (1926-32)
John F. Lehman (1932-40)
Phillip F. Stephon (1932-40)
Arthur Segrell (1934-38, 1942-6, 1946-50)
R. H. Segrell (1934-42)
Francis Robert Reeves (1938-40)
Ray L. Haskell (1940-44)
Walter H. Hahn (1944-45, recalled)
Robert C. LaComb (1944-45, recalled)
Thomas J. Carroll (1945, 1948-52)
William G. Douglas, Jr. (1946-50)
Edward T. Castle (1950-54)
Harlan J. Thompson (1952-54)
Joseph L. Sullivan (1952-56)
Ed Juline (1952-56)
Robert Unruhe (1956-60)
Raymond O'Neal (1958-62)
Garland F. Garrett (1960-64)
Gerald Margolis (1962-66)
Joe Lawless (1964-68)
Martin A. Lotz (1968-76)
John Carl Brogdon (1970-74)
Richard Pachtman (1970-78)
Dr. James Boulgarides (1972-80, 1988-96)
Richard Alexander (1974-90)
A. Ronald Perkins (1974-86)
Richard Ross Brundo (1976-88)
Paul Jacobs (1976-92)
Jozelle Smith (1986-94)
Steven Gourley (1988-96)
Ian Michael Balkman (1990-98)
Albert Vera (1992-2000, 2002-06)
Edward Wolkowitz (1994-2002)
Sandra Levin (1996-2000)
Richard Marcus (1996-2000)
David Hauptman (1998-2002)
Alan Corlin (2000-08)
Carol Gross (2000-08)
Steven J. Rose (2000-08)
Gary Silbiger (2002-10)
Scott Malsin (2006-10, 2010-11)
Christopher Armenta (2008-12)
Mehaul O'Leary (2008-16)
Andrew Weissman (2008-16)
Jeffrey Cooper (2010-18)
Meghan Sahli-Wells (2012-20)
Jim Clarke (2012-14, 2014-18)
Thomas Aujero Small (2016-20)
Goran Ericsson (2016-20)
Alex Fisch (2018-22)
Thomas Lee (2018-22)
The Rollerdrome Was My Neighbor
By Lydia Spiegelman in Articles, Culver City History February 1, 2020 0 Comment
Lydia, c. 1956 (Lydia Spiegelman)
The Rollerdrome was my love. I lived only four houses from it on Bentley Avenue. I spent many, many hours meeting people and learning to skate. I took lessons every Saturday morning and had races with fellow skaters. My Friday nights were spent at the Rollerdrome with friends, going out afterward for a "Piece O' Pizza" across the street. (Eating pizza at 11:00pm is certainly something I can't do now!) All of my childhood memories are there. Wonderful times spending birthdays, and just going to have fun. I can still remember the Rollerdrome's comforting smell. As I got older, going on dates and skating "couples only" was so fun and special, especially if a good skater asked you to skate. This magical place was my heaven and I loved every moment I spent there. I still have my skates, with the original case and decals on it, and plan to leave them to our Historical Society. Still like new with precision wheels, which was all the rage at that time. It made skating so much smoother.
I remember when they filmed The Fugitive at the Rollerdome. It was very exciting to see a T.V. show being made right in our neighborhood. I was so thrilled to see David Janssen in person. Handsome as ever!
My parents' bedroom was in the front of our house and every summer they opened the windows to let some cool air in because we didn't have air conditioning. I remember my dad used to say, "I can't sleep over that organ!" We lived so close that we could hear the organ playing and could dance to it. It was a wonderful time and I knew it. A very special period in my life, as it was in so many other lives. To this day I love hearing organ music and it reminds me of that magical place. Memories are made of this.
Winter 2020 Message
By Hope Parrish in Articles, President's Message January 16, 2020 0 Comment
As we close 2019, reflecting on the honor it is to volunteer for this society, I want to recognize the many individuals dedicating time to this museum. I need to thank all of you. This society's growth is dependent on its memberships, longtime to our most recent.
Dedicated volunteers, from our board to our youngest docent, you are the backbone of the museum. Since my term began, the Wednesday docents have worked very hard to update our database, allowing for more content description and photos of each item searched. The process of entering the data is very detailed, but our docents have made great progress getting our museum digitized. We have a state-of-the-art microfilm machine gifted to the Society from the Sahli-Wells family. Knowing we will soon be able to access the Star News from 1950-1980 will bring new light to researching.
Hackman Capital Partners helped us preserve four historic film windows
And the acquisitions! Where to begin? Iconic motion picture cast photos, Red Skelton's fan mail, buried items at the Ivy Station dig, Stan Laurel's bow tie, Little League collection and, on loan, the bible used in the 1935 version of Mutiny on the Bounty. Our two biggest donations (literally) were from the Art Directors Guild, four original MGM backdrops, and the 12' x 3' wide stained-glass window from The Magnificent Ambersons. I am grateful to Steve Auer and Hackman Capital Partners for including the Historical Society in the preservation effort of four film historic windows, three from Ambersons and the finale window from Gone with the Wind. Over the past 80 years, The Culver Studios property has had many owners, and housed these beautiful pieces of film history.
I look forward to another two years as President and hope we see you on January 15 for our board installation. Peace, Love, and Preservation!
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The city of Phoenix needs to ensure its park clients know the principles, regardless of whether in a city park or mountain preserve—that the individuals who damage the park might be obstructed from returning to these public spaces.
The Parks and Recreation Department is making a set of accepted rules strategy to administer city parks. The approach will address practices that disregard park principles, and city and state guidelines. The reason for new approach is to guarantee guests have an enjoyable experience.
The Parks and Recreation Board talked about the formation of a set of accepted rules arrangement, and what it should involve, at the Jan. 24 meeting. The draft was created utilizing criticism given by network individuals amid four open gatherings held in January. The draft report was then exhibited to the City Committee Parks, Expressions, Libraries and Training Subcommittee at its Feb. 27 meeting.
The Code of Conduct isn't so much rethinking the wheel, as taking current park rules, city laws, and wrongdoing criminal offenses that will in general happen in park spaces, and putting them under one umbrella. The code tends to a few non-allowed utilizations and practices in both city parks and mountain areas.
Among the new increments to the city park rules are no bathing, storing personal belongings or cleaning clothes in bathrooms or park facilities. Also new is a time limitation on the use of a park ramada to four hours or less every day, for two continuous days. Most ramadas are first-come, first served, yet there have been issues with destitute and other individuals lingering throughout the day, frequently sleeping on the seats in the armadas.
Keeping aware of the present innovation and patterns, the Code of Conduct for mountain preserves also includes a ban on riding electric bicycles or other types of motorized vehicles on trails, denies working a metal indicator and expelling discovered things, and prohibits putting of geocaches in an area inside a recreation center or save without first being checked on and affirmed by park the board.
Other denied practices and activities are straight forward such as manage illicit practices, for example, sedate use or ownership, mishandling or vandalizing park property, and forceful terrorizing or provocation of supporters or city staff.
Those who violate the Code of Conduct will face consequences. Any criminal offenses will be managed by the Phoenix Police Department. They, and any individual who abuses any piece of the Code of Conduct, are liable to being trespassed—at the end of the day, restricted—for periods going from one day to one year, and pertinent to the area where the infringement occurred, or reaching out to all Phoenix parks and facilities.
The main offense in all likelihood will result in only a verbal cautioning with some educational material about the Code of Conduct. However, any provocation of supporters or staff (physical, sexual or verbal), and any infringement of criminal law or state resolution, will result in quick trespass for 60 days or more prominent from all parks and facilities.
Eight additional community meetings were held last month, and open info likewise has been gotten by means of email to the Parks Department office. Department officials would like to have a last form of the Code of Conduct before the Parks and Diversion Board by no later than the finish of May. Network individuals are urged to audit the draft Set of principles Strategy online here. Input can likewise be given to the Parks and Diversion Office by telephone at 602-262-6862 or via e-mail at receptionist.pks@phoenix.gov.


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Top 100 Things to do in Queensland - Queensland100
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26 (22) Ballooning in the Tropics
If you've never been up, up and away in a beautiful balloon then why not do it somewhere, that's, well, beautiful. It's an amazing feeling as the balloon gently lifts off from the ground with only the blast from the burner and rustle of the wind. The top 30 things to do in Queensland is off to an uplifting start.
Ballooning in the Tropics
27 (43) Jet Boating and Jet ski on the Gold Coast
There are a few options. If you haven't done this before, or not for a while, it's well worth it.
Jet Boat Thrill On The Gold Coast
Jet Boat the Gold Coast
Jet boat experience is a thrill like no other, except perhaps, Jet ski.
Guided Jet ski Tour
Heading up the inside of South Stradbroke island meandering through narrow mangrove channels towards Couran Cove and then returning via the impressive multimillion dollar mansions of Sovereign Islands. After your ride you are welcome to relax around the resort swimming pools or enjoy something from the cafe.
Jet Boat and Jet Ski
28 (52) Undara Lava Tubes, west of Cairns
If you are anything like me this will be something you want to do but don't. Either there isn't enough time, not enough cash or both. Do it anyway to experience the interior of Australia. Be one of the few. How many beaches do you really need to see?
Undara Lava Tubes
29 (16) Russell River Sports Rafting South of Cairns
60 short kilometres from Cairns is the adrenalized Russell River for those with a taste for frothy water. With Queensland's tallest mountain Bartle Frere looking down on the action the stage is set for the ride of your life… well holiday anyway. Many a nail has been bitten, many jaws have dropped as enormity of what's lies ahead comes into view but then again far more smiling, ecstatic faces have come out at the other end. Be entranced by the dense rainforest the crystal clear water and marvel at the breath-taking scenery. Soon you'll experience the rush of the exciting rapids of the wild Russell River, the wildest top 30 things to do in Queensland.
Russell River
30 (15) Mossman Gorge
Mossman Gorge is a beautiful spot only 45 minutes from Port Douglas. It is there a good idea to get there early to avoid the influx of tourist buses.
Great Swimming Holes
The Mossman Gorge is set in some of the prettiest rainforest in Queensland. Mossman Gorge has easy walking tracks and great swimming holes. It easily deserves its place in the top 30 things to do in Queensland.
Gorge on the Wildlife
There is abundant wildlife in the Gorge and if you lucky you might even capture a photograph of a Boyd's Rainforest Dragon on a mossy rock.
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Home News	Can Eugene Yu beat Rick Allen? Probably not.
Can Eugene Yu beat Rick Allen? Probably not.
by The Insider February 3, 2016
written by The Insider February 3, 2016
Augusta businessman Eugene Yu is confident, driven and sincere in his belief that he can make a difference in Washington, D.C.
"These career politicians are like bad salesmen," Yu told the Metro Spirit during his 2014 campaign. "They are smooth talking, selling a bad product to folks."
With the 2014 campaign slogan, "A vote for Yu is a vote for you," this Korean-born Republican candidate with deep roots in Augusta wanted voters to know that he is headed to Washington, D.C., to listen to the concerns of his constituents, not lobbyists or career politicians.
But Yu definitely stumbled in 2014.
After Yu had worked so hard running for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga), he suddenly decided to drop out of that race in favor of vying for the 12th District congressional race.
It might have made sense to Yu at the time, considering the U.S. Senate race in 2014 was packed with candidates such as U.S. Reps. Paul Brown of Athens, Phil Gingrey of Marietta, Jack Kingston of Savannah and former Secretary of State Karen Handel and Republican candidate David Perdue.
And that was only the Republican primary. The winner of the Republican primary ended up facing Democrat Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn of Georgia, in the November election.
The Nunn name alone would have been tough for Yu to beat.
But Republican candidate David Perdue ultimately won that race.
Instead of vying for the U.S. Senate seat that year, Yu opted to try to challenge the 12th District congressional seat that was held by Democrat John Barrow.
But Yu didn't even make it past his Republican counterparts.
Then Republican candidate Rick Allen won the primary and ended up beating Barrow in the general election.
So now Yu is determined to challenge Rick Allen for his seat in this year's election.
Yu said he's disappointed with Allen's performance in Washington and it is time for a change.
"When is enough, enough?" Yu recently asked on his Facebook page. "In case you missed it in the Washington Free Beacon, another 41 individuals have been implicated in terrorist plots in the US since 2014. According to their report, this brings the total number of terrorists identified since then to 113, and these are, of course, only the ones that have been identified. Remember that the Boston bomber and the San Bernardino killers were not identified until after they committed their murders. Who knows how many others have been let in under Obama's loose (virtually nonexistent!) screening processes?"
With all of his comments about President Obama, most would have thought that Yu was simply irritated with the Democrats in Washington.
But that is not the case.
"Thanks to Congressmen like Rick Allen we can expect many, many more since he voted to approve and fund Obama's Omnibus Spending Bill that permits about 170,000 more refugee immigrants from Muslim-majority countries to enter the US this year!" Yu wrote. "How any Republican could have supported that bill is beyond me. This must stop, we are beyond enough!"
Yu is definitely running in Georgia with those sentiments about Muslim-majority countries.
Let's just say, if Yu is serious about giving Allen a run for his money, he is going to have to pound the pavement and really work to get out his message.
It will be up to the voters to decide if they support what Yu stands for here in the Peach State.
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US-based General Dynamics subsidiary Electric Boat won a contract for more than $300 million to maintain design and engineering specifications for Virginia Class submarines, the US Department of Defense said in a press release.
"Electric Boat has secured a one-year, $300.6 million contract to provide lead yard services and support development studies and design efforts for the U.S. Navy's Virginia-class submarines," says the release.
The Defense Department said that Electric Boat Corp. will help the military branch maintain and update the design and related drawings and data of each submarine under the Virginia class throughout the construction process and post-shakedown availability period.
DoD added the contract also covers engineering and associated lead yard services for direct maintenance and support of Virginia-class ship specifications.
Work will occur in Connecticut, Virginia and Rhode Island through September 2017.
The Naval Sea Systems Command will obligate $43.3 million at the time of the award from the Navy's fiscal years 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 shipbuilding and conversion funds as well as fiscal years 2015 and 2016 research, development, test and engineering funds.
Virginia-class submarines will serve as the Navy's next-generation attack submarines and will replace retiring Los Angeles-class submarines.


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