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Elland railway station served the town of Elland in West Yorkshire, England until 1962.

History
The station was originally opened on 5 October 1840 by the Manchester and Leeds Railway. It was resited  east on 1 August 1865, by which time the line had become part of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway which had taken over the Manchester and Leeds on 9 July 1847. Upon the grouping in 1923, it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

Elland station closed to passengers on 10 September 1962. Goods facilities were withdrawn on 28 June 1962.

Proposed reopening
Plans to reopen the station in 2000 (at the same time as Brighouse railway station) were cancelled due to lack of funds.

In 2006, Clayton Homes offered to build a station in return for planning permission for residential development. This did not materialise but Calderdale Council continued consulting on possible plans.

Reopening of the station is supported by the Halifax & District Rail Action Group and local campaign group "Give Elland a Rail Station". The New Stations Study undertaken for West Yorkshire Metro in 2014 found that Elland provided the strongest business case of a potential thirteen sites on the Calder Valley line, and was recommended for further study along with stations at Haxby, East Leeds/Thorpe Park, and Cross Hills, with a projected cost of reopening of £6 million.

In June 2017, the West Yorkshire Combined Authority allocated £20 million towards re-opening the station, with an estimated opening date of 2022.
In November 2017, the government announced Elland was one of four new stations proposed in the Government's 'Connecting People: Strategic Vision for Rail'. In 2021, a planning application was submitted for two platforms, lifts, and a 116 space car park.

As of March 2023 the planning application for the new station has been approved and construction is expected to begin in 2024 for a potential opening date of 2025.

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Notes

Sources

External links
Proposed Elland Railway Station Development Brief on the Calderdale Council website
 Elland station, to the right, on navigable 1947 O. S. map

Disused railway stations in Calderdale
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway stations
Proposed railway stations in England
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1962
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1840
Elland

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By party963 | November 22, 2021
Justin Bieber shouts out wife Hailey in tender birthday wish: "I am so blessed to be yours"
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While some people might panic at the idea of celebrating two back-to-back birthdays, Justin Bieber welcomes the opportunity to tell his loved ones just how much they mean to him. A day after setting the bar for big brothers everywhere when celebrating his little brother, Jaxon, turning 12, Justin Bieber penned a swoon-worthy birthday tribute for his wife, Hailey, who turned 25 on Monday.
Again, sharing a collage of cozy-looking photos, Justin took to Instagram and gushed, "To my beloved birthday squish. My heart belongs to you. My eyes belong to you, my lips belong to you. I am yours. I am so blessed to be yours. You are my forever."
"Life has never made more sense until you became my wife," the Grammy winner sweetly said to his bride of three years. "I will never stop loving you, I will never stop holding you, and I will never stop protecting you."
Calling Hailey his "queen," Justin vowed, "I will spend everyday making you feel like the queen that you are."
He ended on an adorable note, by referencing a fond memory of the model's maternal grandmother, Mary Ellen Deodato.
"As your grandma would say in her Portuguese accent 'happy bursday baby,'" he wrote, " I love you until the end of time and then after that."
Among the many never-before-seen photos he shared Monday were snaps of the two relaxing by the beach, enjoying fancy dinners and of her recent birthday bash.
The two tied the knot in September 2018.
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The Willamette Valley, bounded on the west by the Coast Range and on the east by the Cascades, is the largest river valley in Oregon. Part of the Cascades geological province that extends from British Columbia to northern California, the valley is an elongated, relatively flat body of land extending approximately 150 miles from the Columbia River south to the Calapooya Divide. The valley's elevation, approximately ten feet above sea level where the Willamette River joins the Columbia, rises to about 450 feet south of Cottage Grove.
Toward the end of the Pleistocene (approximately 12,000 years ago), a succession of powerful floods—known as the Missoula Floods—washed down the Columbia River, reshaping landforms and topography on their way to the ocean. Those cataclysmic events pushed floodwaters up the Willamette Valley, leaving in their wake anomalies, small buttes in an otherwise flat landscape. Under the warming and drying conditions that followed, lakes and marshes in the valley diminished in size, and grasslands and oaks began to appear. With the establishment of the post-glacial regime, environmental conditions in the Pacific Northwest, including the Willamette Valley, have remained relatively stable for some ten thousand years.
The Willamette Valley is the homeland of numerous Native bands, whose subsistence practices changed little over thousands of years. With the arrival of increasing numbers of EuroAmericans in the 1840s, the landscape began to change, reflecting the newcomers' elimination of Kalapuyan and Chinookan controlled burning and the introduction of cultivated agriculture. As they resettled land that indigenous peoples had shaped through fire and other means, the EuroAmericans "husbanded the familiar," in historian Richard White's words, introducing new plants and animals from the East and Midwest. Their practices succeeded in part because rich deposits of glacial till had created some of the most fertile agricultural land in North America.
Although American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were briefly at the north end of the Willamette Valley in 1806, American and British fur traders were the first nonindigenous people to travel its length. A few of them established farmsteads in the lower valley during the 1820s. Trading company employees and explorers, such as members of Lt. Charles Wilkes's party, wrote narrative accounts of the Willamette Valley that sparkled with possibility—a place of bounty, requiring only the hard work of an enterprising people to make good on its agricultural prospects. In the midst of the newcomers' arrival, a series of malaria outbreaks between 1830 and 1833—spread by mosquito vectors that devastated the Native population in the valley—reduced their numbers by 90 percent.
American missionaries arrived in the Willamette Valley in the 1830s, followed by a tide of white immigrants in the 1840s, most of them from the Mississippi Valley. The new settlers first established Oregon City, followed by Portland downriver and upriver valley communities at strategic vantage points such as Salem, Albany, and Eugene. Beyond those settlements, immigrants traveling to Oregon took out land claims in the Willamette and tributary valleys, where western Oregon's humid climate created an ideal environment for wheat and other grain crops. Oregon City, at Willamette Falls, was the valley's first marketing and processing point for upriver farms and forests. The federal Donation Land Act in 1850—which granted 320 acres of land to adult white males and another 320 acres if they were married—attracted many newcomers.
Following the California gold rush in 1849, merchants took advantage of Portland's location, ten miles from the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, to ship goods downriver to the Pacific and on to San Francisco. The gold rush spurred commercial agriculture in the Willamette Valley and created new markets, as products such as lumber and flour passed through Portland.
Between 1840 and 1846, seven ships sailed into the Willamette's tidewater; in 1849, fifty ships arrived to purchase grain and lumber at any price, a response to the demand in California. The Portland Oregonian, which began publishing in 1850, observed that California gold contributed to "a marked improvement in the manner of living among farmers in Oregon." Portland subsequently became a transshipping point for Willamette Valley wheat transported up the Columbia River to Idaho mining country.
With improvements in river travel, wheat production in the Willamette Valley grew apace. Valley farmers produced 200,000 bushels in 1850, 660,000 in 1860, and more than two million in 1870. The increased production was a result of more acres put to the plow and new technology, including mowers, threshers, and wheat separators. River travel, important to moving wheat to Portland, was improved by removing river obstructions, especially snags above Willamette Falls.
Portland benefited from the increased commercial traffic, supporting a growing number of mercantile houses, sawmills, planing mills, and warehouses. The city's population was 805 in 1850, 2,874 in 1860, and 8,292 in 1870. Portland prospered as a point of exchange among its up-valley hinterland, California markets, and eventually distant oceanic metropolitan centers, including Liverpool, England, beginning in 1869. The annual floods that arrived with seasonal rains occasionally raised havoc with agricultural crops. The largest flood on record occurred in 1861, with one eyewitness reporting that "the whole Willamette Valley was a sheet of water." Other damaging floods occurred in 1890 and 1894.
Although Oregon lacked the financial means to build dams on the flood-prone Willamette River system, developments in the nation's capital during the 1920s lay the groundwork for regional planning, river surveys, and the technical infrastructure and funding for projects that would dramatically reconfigure the valley's landscape. The Great Depression and the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president led to important spending on public projects, including river-basin planning outlined in House Document 308. The plan proposed multipurpose dams in the Columbia and Willamette river systems, with the Willamette contributing about 15 percent of the Columbia's volume. The Army Corps of Engineers designed Willamette River dams to develop the resources of the entire river basin—flood control, recreation, navigation, and water storage for irrigation.
The Corps of Engineers completed its surveys of the Willamette Basin in April 1937. Adopted as House Document 544, the plan proposed seven dams in the Willamette system to control flooding, improve navigation, generate hydropower, provide water for irrigation, and improve river flows in late summer to flush pollutants downriver. With the exception of commercial and sports fishers, most people supported the project, believing it would put people to work, improve Oregon's economy, and end seasonal flooding. Two dams were constructed before World War II: Fern Ridge Dam, west of Eugene, and Cottage Grove Dam, southwest of Cottage Grove. The war suspended all dam-building, and construction of dams in America's river basins would not begin again until 1945.
The Corps completed the last of the thirteen projects, Green Peter Dam northeast of Sweet Home, in 1969. In the end, the Willamette Valley Project dams ended the most destructive flooding along the valley's floodplain. Although heavy rainfall and melting snows caused Willamette system streams to overflow in 1964 and again in 1996, agricultural lands and towns and cities have experienced little damage from seasonal floodwaters since the last dams became operable.
Farmers cleared floodplain woodlands and turned those rich soils to mostly row-crop production. The development of quick-couple aluminum pipes after World War II enabled farmers to irrigate crops from the Willamette River, the flow of which was augmented in the late summer with water released from project reservoirs. The higher late-season flows also help migrating fish and dilute pollution in the Portland Harbor.
Beginning in the 1930s, the valley's prairie lands were turned to growing forage and seed crops, especially common rye grass, which had an international market. With its moist, mild winters and relatively dry summers, the valley provided ideal conditions for seed-grass production. Growers planted approximately 11,000 acres to seed-grass crops in 1940, 100,000 acres in 1950, and more than 300,000 acres in the 1960s. By the early 1980s, seed-grass production covered more than 30 percent of valley cropland, including 56 percent of crops in Benton, Linn, and Lane Counties.
When diseases threatened the purity of the seed crops, growers began burning their fields during the 1940s to protect against contaminants and to control weeds, an inexpensive practice that was immensely successful. When billowing clouds of smoke drifted into Springfield and Eugene in the late 1960s, citizens began to protest the dense autumnal hazes that blanketed their neighborhoods. After automobile accidents in 1988 left seven people dead on Interstate 5 because of smoke from a grass fire, protests opposing field-burning forced the legislature to limit burning to a few hillside acres. The prohibition of burning, however, did not seriously disrupt seed-grass production, with Linn County proudly advertising itself as the seed-grass capital of the world.
For most of Oregon's existence, the majority of its population has lived in the Willamette Valley—the percentage hovering about 70 percent since World War II. The valley's growing population after the war and the sprawling suburbs of metropolitan Portland, Salem, and Eugene threatened valuable farmland and forestland and prompted the legislature—with Governor Tom McCall serving as the Pied Piper—to enact in 1973 the nation's most progressive land-use planning system. Although the legislature's decisions were tested with initiatives and court challenges, lawmakers established urban-growth boundaries to protect farm and forest land and passed other measures to preserve green spaces and keep industrial, commercial, and residential development within growth perimeters. Flying the length of the Willamette Valley today reveals a landscape that is considerably different from that in adjacent states.
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Bowen, William A. The Willamette Valley: Migration and Settlement on the Oregon Frontier. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1978.
Hunn, Eugene S. Nch'i-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.
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Walth, Brent. The Fire at Eden's Gate: Tom McCall and the Oregon Story. Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1994.
Willingham, William F. Army engineers and the Development of Oregon: A History of the Portland District. Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1983.
Anthropogenic (human-caused) fire was a major component of the Native system of land and resource management in what is now Oregon. Of all the techniques used to manage food resources and manipulate food-producing environments, controlled burning was the most widespread and effective in most environments on the West Coast.


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With this issue of "Research Library Issues" ("RLI"), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) (re)turns its collective attention to research data management (RDM), a topic consistently identified as a top priority by ARL library directors, and a topic of several recent ARL publications. This is a pivotal moment for the global research enterprise, in which researchers, institutions, and funders are wrestling with data management and curation in a variety of contexts. Libraries and archives will be vital partners within their institutions, and within the research enterprise, in implementing best practices for research data management by leveraging archival workflows for managing, curating, and preserving ever-evolving forms of content. This issue of "RLI" is an important step in the process of building community across library and archival domains in support of this essential work. Articles include: (1) Why Does Research Data Management Need Radical Collaboration? (Judy Ruttenberg and Elizabeth A. Waraksa); (2) Radical Collaboration and Research Data Management: An Introduction (Nancy Y. McGovern); (3) The Radical Collaboration of RDA and What It Means for Developing Institutional Data Management Services (Amy Nurnberger); (4) Archives and Data Management: The Purdue Story (Carly Dearborn); (5) Barriers to Collaboration: Lessons Learned from the Data Curation Network (Lisa R. Johnston); (6) What is Open Science, and How Can Radical Collaboration Facilitate It? (Megan Potterbusch); (7) Seeking Sustainability and Inclusivity with Transparent Practices for Research Data Management (Heather Soyka); (8) Radical Collaboration: An Archival View (Nancy Y. McGovern); and (9) Forward Together (Nancy Y. McGovern).


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De Zennevallei is een streek in de Belgische provincie Vlaams-Brabant en maakt deel uit van de Groene Gordel. Het is gelegen tussen Brussel en de taalgrens en van de Zenne tot het Zoniënwoud. De streek kenmerkt zich door beboste hellingen en talrijke beekjes.

De streek omvat de gemeentes Beersel, Drogenbos, Halle, Linkebeek, Sint-Genesius-Rode en Sint-Pieters-Leeuw.

In de Zennevallei komt wilde gist voor die wordt gebruikt voor de bereiding van Lambiek, een biersoort uniek voor deze vallei.

Soms is er verwarring tussen wat enerzijds de streek zennevallei is en anderzijds het Pajottenland (ook een streek of Regio) .

De zennevallei is gelegen ten oosten van het Pajottenland met één uitzondering: Sint-Pieters-Leeuw , die gemeente zit zowel in de streek Zennevallei als de streek Pajottenland.

Bezienswaardigheden en Toerisme
Samen met het Pajottenland is de Zennevallei een erkend Regionaal Landschap 'Pajottenland en Zennevallei'. De Zennevallei is ook een onderdeel van de Groene Gordel rond Brussel.

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Serbia's Progressives Cruise to Crushing Victory
The Serbian Progressive Party is heading for a crushing victory in elections. It has won about 50 per cent of votes and, thanks to the electoral system, this will give it enough seats in parliament to rule Serbia on its own.
The country went to the polls on Sunday in snap elections which all opinion polls forecast would give more power to Aleksandar Vucic's Serbian Progressive Party.
According to the first preliminary results based on 62 per cent of votes the Progressives claimed they had 49.3 per cent, the Socialists 13.9 per cent, the New Democratic Party of Boris Tadic 6.1 per cent and the Democratic Party 5.3 per cent.
According to the first preliminary results of the Center for Free Election and Democracy, CeSID, the Progressives have won about 48.8 per cent, the Socialists led coalition of 14 per cent, the Democrats 5.9, and the New Democratic Party 5.7 per cent.
According to these per cents the distribution of seats in the 250 seat parliament would be: Progressives 157 seats, Socialists led coalition would have 45 seats, the Democrats 19 seats, the New Democrats of Boris Tadic 18 seats, Vojvodina Hungarians 7 seats, SDA 3 seats and ethnic Albanian representative one seat.
Marko Blagojevic of CeSID said: "It seems that the Progressives will win an absolute majority of votes."
In his victory speech Aleksandar Vucic thanked the people of Serbia for the "huge support you have given us, the strength you have given us to achieve the best result in 25 years. We will not humiliate anyone because of the results. We want to hear from everyone their ideas, and we are prepared to speak to all relevant parties. But we have confirmed our main partnership which is with the people of Serbia. Serbia has a future in which its children will live much better than they do today."
Vucic continued that it will not be easy to get there but "we have an opportunity to show we can be different, we can work more, we can be more responsible."
"I am sure that Serbia will continue its European path, its struggle against corruption but this government will be mainly dealing with the problem of unemployment and by the middle of our mandate I am certain you will see the results."
Former wartime nationalist turned EU membership advocate Vucic has promised reforms that will help the country join the European club and create prosperity, but could also signal austerity measures and redundancies for workers in the country's huge public sector.
Vucic was the deputy prime minister in the last government coalition but is widely believed to covet the senior role in the next administration.
His party has won public support for its moves against corruption but he has also been accused of seeking to concentrate too much power in his own hands.
The only other parties that have passed the threshold of 5 per cent are the Democratic Party and the New Democratic Party.
It is still not clear whether the right wing movement Dveri is going to pass the threshold.
Turnout at the polls was relatively low compared to the last parliamentary elections, with 50.3 per cent of voters casting their ballots by 7pm, according to the state election commission, a fall of 3.3 per cent on the 2012 vote.
The snap polls, which were called two years early by the outgoing administration led by the Progressives, who were seeking to extend their control of the country, cost an estimated 10 million euro to stage.
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The Camp Curtin Fire Station is a historic fire station located at Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania and named for the Civil War camp of the same name. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, and was decommissioned the year prior because it was no longer large enough to accommodate standard fire trucks.

History
In 1908, after an initial two-year dormancy over funding, the Camp Curtin Fire Company No. 13 was formally activated and $2,000 were allocated by Harrisburg City Council for the purchase of the lot on the corner of Sixth and Ross Streets for a one-story frame building. This was quickly outgrown, and two-story, twin-bay Camp Curtin Fire Station was built in 1910. The rectangular brick building measures  and exhibits Italianate style design elements. It features a square wooden bell tower at the center of the front façade. The tower has a hipped, shingled roof and four stilted segmental arches.

In 1915, residents of Harrisburg's tenth ward petitioned city leaders to fund the purchase of modern fire equipment, including a new chemical engine, citing the lack of sufficient fire protection in their ward and outdated equipment in use at the time by the Camp Curtin Fire Company.

The station was decommissioned in March 1980, with all apparatus being relocated to the Bureau's Station One. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in August 1981.

In 2019, the Historic Harrisburg Association announced that a medical marijuana dispensary would open in the building, and that the owners planned "to preserve much of the historic building's character and charm." It had previously housed a restaurant serving barbecue.

See also
 Camp Curtin: Wikipedia page for the Union Army's American Civil War-era recruitment and training camp
 Camp Curtin, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Wikipedia page for the Camp Curtin neighborhood in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
 Harrisburg School District: Wikipedia page which contains information regarding the Camp Curtin School

References

Fire stations completed in 1910
Defunct fire stations in Pennsylvania
Buildings and structures in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Fire stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania


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With Softbank's Booster Shot, Arm Expands Employee Ranks
James Morra | Aug 15, 2017
Arm added to its engineering ranks in recent months, more than a year after Softbank acquired it for $32 billion. The hires are sure to help Arm's efforts in fields like artificial intelligence and computer vision as well as increase its pace in the Internet of Things market.
The hires also fit the ambitious plans of Softbank's chief executive, Masayoshi Son, who has vowed to financially fuel Arm's move beyond smartphones, where for years it has quashed competition from Intel. It is slowly but surely transitioning into cars and factory equipment as well as supercomputers and corporate data centers.
Last week, Softbank's quarterly results showed that Arm's headcount rose by 330 employees in the three months from May to July. That's an increase of 6.8% over the previous quarter. The company said that the hires were "mainly engineers" and that it had started paying its staff through a new "performance-linked incentive program."
The hires were first reported by Bloomberg.
The changes to headcount and compensation tamped down Arm's earnings. The company reported a loss of $62 million with revenues of $428 million, down from $409 million in the previous quarter. Arm reaped royalties from 4.7 billion chips sold using its technology, 28% more than were sold in last year's first quarter
The results included $120.4 million of operating expenses related to the acquisition, which was the second largest in the chip industry when announced last June. Based in the United Kingdom, Arm typically sells basic blueprints from which suppliers build their own chips. Customers range from giants like Qualcomm to semiconductor start-ups.
Arm is targeting 3,200 employees in the United Kingdom by 2021, twice its headcount in the country at the time of the deal. In February, its chief executive Simon Segars said it had already hired a few hundred. Its headcount was around 1,000 in the United States, where it also aims to grow.
Arm has also likely absorbed staff from recent acquisitions, which have targeted wireless connectivity and security for the Internet of Things. These have been new fields for Arm, which in the first quarter signed 41 new licenses with customers making everything from sensors to machine learning accelerators.
Son has predicted that four out of every five chips sold in the next twenty years would capture, share, process, and make insights about their surroundings using Arm chips. That translates into more than a trillion devices for cars, brain implants, and other gadgets. Arm says that its technology has been shipped in over 100 billion chips since its 1991 founding.
Arm, which has stayed in shadows cast by customers, is new to the limelight. Qualcomm and others have battled with Intel, whose x86 architecture fueled the personal computer revolution. Qualcomm, whose mobile processors are based on Arm's blueprints, reported chip revenue of $4.05 billion in its latest quarterly earnings.
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Description: Retrieves the contents of a url using options from a data container. The data is returned in a data container.
Currently only file, http, and ftp URLs are supported. Internally, libcurl is used.
url_get() caches its results. To invalidate the cache, use a different set of options, e.g. by modifying an unused key with the system time.
If the libcurl integration is not available, the function will exit with an error and the variable will remain undefined. If the libcurl initialization fails, the function will also exit with an error. In every other normal case, the function will return a valid data container. In official CFEngine packages, libcurl integration is always provided.
url.max_content: if present, specifies the maximum number of content bytes to retrieve.
url.max_headers: if present, specifies the maximum number of response headers to retrieve.
returncode: the HTTP response code, e.g. 200.
success: a boolean. When success is false, the result code was not 0 and the request was unsuccessful.
This example retrieves two URLs using one set of options. The options are specified in JSON and parsed into a data container options. That data container is then passed to each invocation of url_get.
History: Introduced in CFEngine 3.8. The collecting function behavior was added in 3.9.
See also: readtcp(), mergedata(), parsejson(), about collecting functions, and data documentation.


Olivia Gates has been a singer, a painter, a women's accessories designer, a wife, a mother � oh, and a doctor, too. She's still all that, even if singing, painting and designing have taken a back seat, while her wife, mother and doctor sides have been pushed to the forefront.
She can see you wondering � uhh, what about writing?
Yes, she's always written, too, admittedly more off than on as she ran around being all of the above. Somehow, she never thought a writing career was an option.
Then with the purchase of her first computer in 2001 (yeah, a bit behind, but she prefers to refer to it as her "millennium upgrade!") and her introduction to cyberspace, she found eHarlequin.com and discovered that the publisher whose books she'd grown up devouring accepted un-agented manuscripts from first-time writers.
A determined spree of submissions (95% of them clueless until she actually learned the real hard business of writing!) and two years later, she sold her first book, Doctors on the Frontline to Harlequin Medical Romance. The day she received a face-to-face call from her editor in her first ever writing conference among her writing friends and idols, the only ones who really understand what this achievement means, retains the place of honor in her life as its most exciting day!
She's written several more books for the Medical line, and also for the Bombshell series, Silhouette's hot, heroine- oriented, action-adventure line!
The funny (and weird) part is that until Olivia had written the book that sold, she'd never thought of writing medical-oriented books. Now all her books have daring, dedicated medical heroes and heroines scorching up the pages in unrelenting, against-all-odds adventures, helping people in need while struggling with the turmoil of their own lives and overriding passions.
Olivia Gates lives with her alpha husband, lovely daughter and their white Angora cat. Her husband is her adviser and, with her incredible mother, her staunchest supporter. Her daughter gives her plot ideas, and they're all along the lines of a doctor trying to reach his patients on a hot rainbow barefoot. With an imagination like that, Olivia's encouraging her to write her own books. Olivia's cat curls up on her lap, cramping her and critically watching the story unfold on the screen, then tries to edit the manuscript to his liking by walking all over the keyboard.


Why mirrorLess is more and DSLR's are dead!
Like rats from a sinking ship, most photographers - including myself - were quick to abandon film to embrace digital. Eventually, even those who scoffed it'd never be good enough finally accepted reality and never looked back. Today, exactly the same story is playing out between DSLRs and mirrorless cameras. Having just made the swap from Canon's top-of-the-line pro DSLR the EOS-1D X Mark II to the Lumix GH5 mirrorless Micro Four Thirds, I'm surprised to find I'm already late to the mirrorless party.
Who wants to peer through a viewfinder at an electronic screen, and how could such tiny sensors and lenses compete with my monstrous pro DSLR setup which draws such universal nods of respect? If you were on a tight budget or couldn't handle the weight of a 'real camera' or didn't need the best clarity then sure, but otherwise, a DSLR – ideally full-frame and either Canon or Nikon – was widely considered to be the only serious option. Well, it turns out that times have changed.
this May 2018, a tech-savvy guest introduced me to the new Panasonic Lumix GH5. Admiring his photos and videos – both in terms of quality and utilization of features unavailable to me – my skepticism faltered. I suggested a rather unfair comparison: His $4,300 AUD, 1.7 Kg mirrorless setup (using a Panasonic Leica 100-400mm f/4-6.3 lens) Vs my $22,000 AUD, 5.2 Kg behemoth (I was using my Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L with inbuilt 1.4x extender) on the same sleeping lion. I was reluctant to believe the results (see images below) until I'd studied the raw files on my laptop that evening, but when I did, there was no denying it – his lightweight mirrorless setup was actually capturing more detail – revealing finer whiskers than my DSLR!
There's of course more to a good camera setup than just the ability to zoom in a long way and capture fine details in good light (mind you, for wildlife photography that is a major factor), so I borrowed his setup for a morning. I was so impressed that by the end of the tour, I'd already bought the Lumix GH5 body and the Panasonic Leica telephoto lens online.
since Australian Geographic bought me my first (film) SLR back in 2002. I was even Canon's Australian Ambassador for 5 years and my company now owns more than $75,000 AUD worth of Canon equipment, so a change like this was a huge decision: Not only from Canon to Lumix and DSLR to mirrorless but also full-frame to crop-sensor. To be sure, I decided to bring both systems to compare during my next 6 months of running small-group, luxury photo tours around the world.
results in Iceland - capturing my best ever puffin photos and videos (check out this puffin shot for detail!), great landscapes, shooting out of helicopters, birds-in-flight etc – that I didn't even touch my DSLR gear in Greenland (despite lugging 8 kgs of it around in my backpack)! Returning home briefly in August, I took the plunge and left my entire DSLR setup behind, padding out my near-empty, delightfully-weightless camera bag with other delicate electronics usually forsaken to check-in luggage: my drone, camera chargers etc - and even a few clothes to fill the gaps.
Alaska allowed me to put the GH5 through its paces with full-on bear-catching-salmon action, boats, hikes, wet weather and so on. Next, the dust and bumpy roads of Kenya for a month with endless wildlife, doors-off plane flights over lakes of flamingos and so on, then above and underwater in the Galapagos, followed by the low-light challenges of hummingbirds in the cloud forests of the Andes (managing some amazing slow-motion hummingbird footage) and lastly in the humid, dark rainforests of the Amazon last week, really pushing it's ISO and stabilization capabilities.
I'm a convert. I'm selling my DSLR gear and swapping to Mirrorless, and am loving the extra advantages from Micro Four Thirds. The blissful portability and extra zoom reach of a sub-frame sensor coupled with the impressive feature benefits of mirrorless has completely re-energised my photography. All these advantages would still be hugely persuasive even if offset by a moderate yet acceptable quality loss (compared to the best full-frame, pro DSLR), but unbelievably, in most situations I find my new mirrorless setup is actually allowing me to capture better photos and videos than I could have before, with less effort and so much more freedom.
I'll discuss some feature comparisons in the dot points below, but besides the obvious game-changers of the mirrorless body and telephoto lens setup being 1/3rd the weight and just 1/5th the cost of my pro DSLR system, the 3.7 megapixel electronic viewfinder is so fine that it essentially looks optical yet allows previously impossible features including as real-time view of exposure (even a live histogram) so you can get exposure perfect before you shoot - which now makes the DSLR technique of 'estimate exposure compensation, take the shot, check your results and adjust if necessary' seem almost as archaic as waiting to develop your film! The viewfinder is also a wonderfully glare-free way to review your photos and allows you to film video while keeping the camera up to your eye - so much steadier and easier to see than holding a DSLR at arms length! The fully-articulated rear LCD screen allows super-convenient shooting from any angle, making it easy to reach up for some extra height, down out of a vehicle for low-angles or tucking the camera through the bushes for previously impossible macro angles all just as fast and natural as if it had been up to my eye. The sensor is stabilized along with the lenses, allowing steady video and ridiculously long hand-held shutter speeds, and as it doesn't have a mirror, even rapid-fire 12 fps continuous shooting can be totally silent. Auto Focus is plenty fast enough, and being digital, can now also take advantage of object tracking technologies. You can film 4K at 60fps, or 180 fps slow-motion at full 1080 HD (not attainable on my pro DSLR), and the standard Micro Four Thirds lens mount generously shares lenses from Panasonic, Olympus, Sigma and more, and last but not least, the 2x-crop factor from the small sensor turns the 100-400mm lens into a 200-800mm, giving astonishing reach to capture more detail than I've been able to before.
clever WB options. Great AF tracks fast subjects well.
but just like it did with the transition from film, it may take a while for everyone to see the light and let go of the now antiquated notion of needing an optical viewfinder rather than a digital one, and accept the host of benefits that brings. The decision then will be full-frame or sub-frame mirrorless. The main advantages of crop-sensors are that the bulk, weight and cost of the body (and even more importantly of the lenses required for these smaller sensors) is significantly reduced, while simultaneously multiplying the effective focal length making telephoto lenses seem even longer. Admittedly simplifying things a little, besides keeping wide-angles wide (but it's way cheaper to by a good extra-wide to still give you a good wide for a crop-sensor than it is to have to buy an extra-long super telephoto for your full-frame to get the same reach as you'd get with a crop sensor!), the only real advantages of full-frame systems are the extra megapixels and their low-light, high-ISO abilities - however these are simply a result of how small (and how noise-free) manufacturers can create the individual sensor pixels, which improves every year. Eventually we'll see sub-frame sensors boasting excessive megapixels and great ISO abilities – rendering the chunky full-frame systems finally redundant too, along with DSLRs.
- how many megapixels and just how much ISO ability do you really need? You might be as surprised as I was to discover that technology has already advanced enough that your requirements can actually be met in a sub-frame setup already. If you still wish for even more megapixels and/or even better ISO (who doesn't), then you must weigh up the significant sub-frame advantages of smaller, lighter, cheaper and effectively longer lenses against any megapixel and/or ISO shortfall. For me - primarily doing wildlife photography and a whole lot of travel – the answer is now clear.
Shutter lag 130 ms with AF, 56ms if pre-focused. 85 ms with AF, 53ms if pre-focused.
Dynamic Rage Approx. 12 stops (?) Approx. 13.5 stops.
The Lumix GH5 body is only ½ the weight and size of the Canon 1D X Mark II. When coupled with perhaps the best wildlife lens available for each (Panasonic Leica 100-400mm f/4-6.3 lens Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L extender 1.4x), the combined setup for the Lumix system is then just 1/3rd the weight, and 1/3rd the size of the Canon system. Not only is my Lumix wildlife setup a whopping 4.8 kgs lighter for me to hand-hold which means fatigue isn't even an issue and I can easily hold up the lens as long as it takes to get the shot, but it also means my camera bag that I perpetually carry around the world with me is blissfully lighter - no more airline carry-on concerns, and plenty of extra space for things like my drone, chargers, flash, filters, etc. The lighter setup also opens up more creative shooting options like reaching up for unique angles or better backgrounds, and simply means I'll bring my camera with me more often, and enjoy a freer shooting experience.
The Lumix GH5 is only about 1/3th the cost of the Canon 1D X Mark II, and when coupled with perhaps the best wildlife lens available for each body (see above), the combined Lumix setup is 1/5th the cost of Canon's - a saving of over $17,500 AUD!
The 2x crop sensor turns the 400mm lens into an epic, hand-holdable 800mm which gives incredible reach meaning less cropping and more detail for wildlife and much closer-up video. Wildlife photography particularly is often all about zooming in as much as possible, so this advantage of a crop-sensor for me well outweighs any ISO improvements and extra megapixels that become possible with full-frame sensors (which then have the significant drawback of requiring full-sized, heavy lenses).
With no mirror banging around, mirrorless cameras are way quieter than any DSLR, which is a valid concern for some wildlife situations as well as overall experience enjoyment. The GH5 even has a totally silent mode just using an electronic shutter which is pretty astonishing to use! Note that occasionally on super-fast moving subjects (like a hummingbird wing), this electronic shutter can sometimes result in weird distortions in the image, a bit like a rolling shutter effect.
allows exposure (and even histogram) preview: I used to hate electronic viewfinders but with it's 3.68 megapixel OLED display the view looks practically optical, yet has the huge advantage of being able to show you in real-time the actual exposure, complete with optional histogram and/or highlight-alert zebra patterning revealing the parts of the shot that will be blown-out. Gone is the need to 'check your shots' after you take them to see if you're over or underexposed – I can now get it perfect before I even take my first shot! I even found myself tweaking my settings to maintain perfect exposure while still trained on a bird waiting for it to fly, as the light intensity varied in and out with clouds passing in front of the sun.
Using the electronic viewfinder to review your photos and videos provides a wonderfully dark, shaded environment without glare, reflections, suncream smears etc. It's hard to imagine how much better this is until you experience it – as one of my guests said "the colours and details are so clear it almost looks 3D in there!". By dialing up the exposure when looking through the viewfinder, you can even make the scene appear brighter than real-life, which has allowed me to see subjects hidden in dark shadows. Electronic viewfinders also allows all kinds of other info and settings to be conveniently displayed inside the viewfinder for your reference – everything from a horizontal level guide, to all the selectable options when you press a button. I love it.
Like the 1D X mark II, the GH5 can film amazing 4K at 60 fps, but is even better at super-slow motion, able to film full HD (1080p) at 180 fps and better yet there is no recording time limit (DSLR's limit to 30min). With the latest firmware upgrades it can even film 6K with anamorphic lenses, and up to 4096x2160 with normal lenses. As 4K video doesn't utilize the full sensor size, you can even choose to have the camera crop in giving even further zoom ability which is great. Another huge benefit of filming with a mirrorless is that due to the electronic viewfinder you can keep the camera up to your eye while filming – easy to see and nice and steady, rather than out at arm's length with a DSLR on 'live view'.
This fold-out, rotatable screen makes it easy to shoot unique angles like reaching up high or closer for a better view or background, holding right down low to the ground, or even reaching into a tight space (like a bush) for previously impossible macro shots where there's no room for your head to look through the viewfinder! I love it.
The GH5 sensor has physical stabilization too, giving the huge advantages of stabilisation even for unstablised lenses. Smoother handheld videos, the ability to hand-hold slower shutter speed photos so you don't have to crank your ISO so high etc. If coupled to a Lumix lens that has in-lens stabilisation too, then both stabilisation systems work together to achieve absolutely uncanny stabilization, well beyond what I've ever experienced - approximately 5 stops of camera shake.
The benefits of having two memory cards in your camera at once are many – being able to record to both simultaneously for redundancy, or to simply have the camera automatically overflow from one into the second without missing a beat. However, I've never understood why some cameras offer two but differing types of card slots – make up your mind - who wants to have to carry multiple types of cards and card readers and have to use both to get the advantages of dual slots? I love that the GH5 uses two regular SD card slots (which are SDHC, SDXC compatible) so unlike some proprietary fancy card system, when you really need to borrow or buy a new card, they're easy to find. I use two 64GB, 90MB/sec Sandisk extreme SD cards which seem perfectly fast enough to record 4K or slow-motion video etc.
I was delighted with how fast the camera (and lens) focused, and it has everything from super-fine magnified single point focus to an expandable region, AF-S or customisable AF-C, touch focus, and even a full on object tracking option which even works during video. While my hit-rate for pin-sharp shots of birds in flight was admittedly a little less than on my 1D X mark II to start with, with practice (and with a firmware upgrade that includes some AF improvements) worth doing) I'm now very happy with the results, able to snap sharp shots of difficult subjects including fast-flying puffins and hummingbirds even in low light. As the AF is assessing a digital image now, cool features like object tracking can be super handy in some situations too.
This is a super handy feature that highlights edges of things that are in sharp focus during MF, making manually pulling the focus past some grass onto a semi-obscured subject easy, and also helps smooth manual focus pulling for action-subjects in video (though the GH5 also has great AF tracking in video too).
I find the various button locations efficient and easy to use, and there's loads of customization available to set the buttons as shortcuts access to your preferred settings.
Dial in how many photos you want to take, after what initial delay and with whatever gap between each photo you wish. This is super handy for doing timelapes and star trails etc, rather than having to remember to bring and plug-in an external timer.
Great for remote control of the camera, as well as transferring photos.
This is a handy feature for essentially shooting a super-rapid 30/sec burst of 6K ie 18 MP (jpg-only) images (or 60/sec at 4K ie 8 MP) to capture a split-second moment impossible to react to yourself. There are a number of these 6K modes but my favorite is the pre-burst mode where the camera is actually continually buffering 1 second worth of these 18 MP images so that when you see the moment happen, you press the shutter button and the camera will save the preceding 30 photos (covering the 1 second before you pressed the button, which you'd normally have missed!) and the next 30 photos (covering 1 second after you pressed the button)! This is super cool for capturing things like lightning strikes or the moment when a bird launches into the air etc!
There are heaps of other cool features of the GH5 that I don't have time to exhaustively explore about here, and there's also many that I am still learning about.
The GH5 has a maximum ISO of 25,600 vs the 1D X mark II's one stop higher at ISO 51,200. However, as the maximum ISO setting on both bodies are (to be honest) basically unusably noisy, it's more relevant to look at the level of ISO noise at high but hopefully usable levels like ISO 2000 for a more practical comparison, where it turns out the GH5 isn't anything like as bad as you might expect.
So while yes the GH5 does exhibit more noise than the incredible ISO abilities of the 1D X mark II, I am still more than happy with it and apparently it is exceptionally good compared to other Micro Four Third sensors. Besides, it's currently an unavoidable tradeoff for the advantages of a smaller sensor.
In fact the GH5 battery is rated to take only about 1/3 the number of shots as the 1 D X mark II, however the GH5's batteries are about half the price and weight, so all in all, it's not bad actually. I usually get a full morning or afternoon's shoot out of a single GH5 battery, and just carry two spares, one of which I've never needed. The 1D X mark II's battery life of around 1,210 photos is legendary though and often lasts for days. For context, a full battery in a Canon 7D mark II DSLR gives about 670 shots.
This is the number of 'stops' between when the camera registers pure white from pure black, translating to the ability to capture high-contrast scenes without blowing out the highlights or loosing the shadows. I haven't tested it but pulling information from online, results vary but it seems the GH5 doesn't do quite as well as the 1DX mark ii in this regard, perhaps 1.5 stops less, but still perfectly reasonable. It is apparently 'excellent' for a Micro Four Thirds sensor, and some reviews claim to measure an impressive 13 stops for the GH5.
Raw files are not images at all until they have been processed, so raw files actually contain a (usually smaller) jpeg/jpg thumbnail embedded within them which is what the camera shows you when you review the image. Usually this thumbnail/preview of the raw is not as high a resolution as the actual raw file, and so when reviewing a photo that was shot in raw-only just on the camera, if you zoom right in, it can look low resolution and appear to have disappointing detail – however rest assured that when you load the raw files onto your computer they will be full-resolution and pin-sharp. I gather that for the GH5, the thumbnail saved inside the raw file is 1920x1440 which (if tou zoom right in) is noticeably less than full-resolution. I hadn't noticed this situation before on my pro Canon cameras as perhaps they save a higher (or even full-res) preview inside the raw files. Not a big deal, but it did worry me at first when looking at my raw images just on the back of the camera. On the computer they are fine, and if you shoot in jpg (or raw + jpg) then they will display in full-resolution when viewed on camera.
Not a biggy, but when I spin the Mode dial around to my 'Bird in flight' custom mode (ie C1), I still have to remember to also rotate the drive mode dial to continuous drive. On the 1D X mark II every setting was just a software-controlled button rather than a multi-position physical switch/dial, so absolutely everything could be saved and recalled via a custom mode.
If using AF on the GH5 there's a 0.13 second delay between when you press the shutter button and when the image is captured, which although imperceptible is actually almost twice as slow as the 1D X mk II. It's still plenty fast enough I find and I haven't noticed it except when reading the specifications. If the subject's already pre-focused, the GH5's shutter lag is then similar to the super-fast 1D X mk II.
12 shots/sec in continuous drive compared to 14 fps. However I find even 10 fps plenty for fast wildlife action, so 12 fps is still awesome and actually blows most other DLSR out of the water, ie Canon 5D Mk 4's 7 fps. If you really want fast shooting, the GH5 can record 6K (18 MP) stills at 30 fps, but only in jpg.
Bit of a shame, but I rarely used it on my DSLR anyway as it tended to drain batteries.
Which is hardly a noticeable difference - both are acceptably fast.
This blog and my decision to swap to Lumix is in no way a dig at Canon who previously supported my photography for many years and to whom I will be forever grateful – my conversion is simply a result of my current assessment of what gear is best for me and for the nature photography I do. I also should point out that in my final weeks of experimenting with my new Lumix gear, Canon released it's flagship mirrorless camera (the EOS R) which I have not tested, however being full-frame (which allows ISO and megapixel advantages) means it forgoes the 2x crop sensor zoom advantage as well as the associated weight savings possible with Micro Four Third lenses. Lumix have also announced a full-frame mirrorless 'S' series of cameras for 2019 for those wanting higher resolution and ISO improvements that are not yet able to be condensed into a sub-frame sensor.
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Q: Postfix sends every mail twice Could someone please tell me, why Postfix sends each message twice?
I noticed that one message is correctly send and the other may (or may not) have a problem with the encoding.
To be honest I did some adjustments for virtual domains, users,.... but I cannot find why these configurations should not work.
I have the slight feeling it has something to do with virtual users, but I could also be wrong!
EDIT added postconf -n results
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
config_directory = /etc/postfix
inet_interfaces = all
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
milter_default_action = accept
milter_protocol = 2
mydestination = reco-server.mydomain, localhost.mydomain,  localhost
myhostname = reco-server.mydomain.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128
myorigin = $mydomain
non_smtpd_milters = inet:localhost:8891
readme_directory = no
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtp_scache
smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, \   reject_invalid_hostname, reject_unknown_client, \   reject_rbl_client sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org , \   smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unknown_address, \   reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_non_fqdn_sender
smtpd_milters = inet:localhost:8891
smtpd_recipient_limit = 250
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated,\    reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_tls_auth_only = no
smtpd_tls_cert_file = /etc/ssl/certs/server.crt
smtpd_tls_key_file = /etc/ssl/private/server.key
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${data_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtpd_use_tls = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
virtual_gid_maps = static:5000
virtual_mailbox_base = /var/mail/vhosts
virtual_mailbox_domains = /etc/postfix/virtual_domains
virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox
virtual_minimum_uid = 100
virtual_transport = dovecot
virtual_uid_maps = static:5000

ALSO: from the log:
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La Copa Verde 2018 fue  la quinta (5º) edición del torneo que reúne equipos de la región norte y la región centro-oeste incluyendo el Estado de Espírito Santo. El torneo es organizado por la Confederación Brasileña de Fútbol, con un formato de disputa de partidos de ida y vuelta pasando solo un equipo a la siguiente fase.

Para esta edición, al igual que la anterior, serán 18 los equipos participantes de esta copa, los cuales clasifican por su desempeño en el respectivo campeonato estatal y su posición en el ranking de la CBF. Mediante el desempeño en el campeonato estatal, clasifican 12 equipos mientras que por su posición en el ranking de la CBF, clasifican los cuatro mejores equipos ubicados.

Sistema de juego

Para esta edición, se mantiene la fase preliminar en la cual se enfrentarán, en dos llaves, dos equipos jugando llaves de ida y vuelta. Los ganadores clasificarán a la fase final del torneo.

Los dos ganadores de esta fase se enfrentarán con un equipo ya establecido en los octavos de final. Luego, se jugarán partidos de ida y vuelta para definir el paso a cuartos de final. Las demás fases (cuartos de final, semifinal y final) se jugarán en partidos de ida y vuelta.

Para este año (al igual que el anterior), no participarán equipos del estado de Goiás. Sin embargo, se reduce un cupo para el estado de Acre y el estado de Tocantins recibirá otro.

Además, con la modificación de los criterios de clasificación a los torneos internacionales, la CBF retiró el cupo que tenía asegurado el campeón de la Copa Verde a la Copa Sudamericana. Sin embargo, el campeón de la Copa Verde entrará directamente a los octavos de final de la Copa de Brasil a partir de la edición del 2018 del torneo que reúne equipos de todos los estados del país.

Criterios de desempate

Los criterios de desempate de la competición son:

 Mayor número de victorias.
 Mayor número de goles marcados.
 Mayor número de goles marcados como visitantes.
 Tiros desde el punto penal.

Equipos participantes

Clasificados por campeonatos estatales

Clasificados por Ranking de la CBF

Cuadro del campeonato

 Toda la organización de los juegos se encuentra en la página de la CBF.

Fase preliminar

 ''En la fase preliminar del campeonato, se enfrentarán Interporto y Princesa do Solimões (Juego 1) en una llave mientras que Corumbaense y Ceilândia (Juego 2) se enfrentarán para definir los clasificados a los octavos de final.

Fase final

 Nota: En cada llave, el equipo ubicado en la primera línea es el que ejerce la localía en el partido de ida.

Semifinales

Final

Goleadores

Véase también
 Campeonato Brasileño de Fútbol Serie A 2018
 Campeonato Brasileño de Fútbol Serie B 2018
 Campeonato Brasileño de Fútbol Serie C 2018
 Campeonato Brasileño de Fútbol Serie D 2018
 Copa de Brasil 2018
 Copa do Nordeste 2018

Referencias

2018
Fútbol en 2018
Deporte en Brasil en 2018


Turkey Day is rapidly approaching, and we can't wait for a day full of great meals and time with those we love most! Save yourself some stress this year and let the Originals take care of your holiday meal — from desserts to sides to turkeys to multi-course meals, several member restaurants are dishin' up great eats for you & yours this Thanksgiving!
Capitol Grille, located in the iconic and historic Hermitage Hotel, is hosting its Thanksgiving Feast again this year! Take a gander at their amazing menu here and be sure to make reservations (valet parking is complimentary).
COPPER KETTLE has a full Thanksgiving PICK-UP MENU, featuring roasted turkey and gravy, pepper jack macaroni and cheese, bread pudding with Jack Daniels sauce and more! The deadline for Thanksgiving orders is Friday, November 18th and pick-up will take place on Wednesday, November 23rd. Learn more & place your orders here!
FLEET STREET PUB in Printer's Alley will be open from 1pm to 11pm on Thanksgiving Day. In addition to serving their full menu of fish and chips, beefsteak and more, the English pub will be adding a savory turkey pie to their meat pie repertoire. Fun fact: The turkey was almost the national bird of the colonies!
MCCABE PUB has the sides covered this year! Their to-go menu features tons of sweet treats, like sour cream coconut cake, Boston cream pie, red velvet cake and many more. They're also selling their delicious squash, sweet potato and broccoli casseroles (one feeds 8-10) along with half or whole gallons of their tea punch! Thanksgiving orders must be placed by Monday, November 21st at 11pm and picked up by Wednesday the23rd at 2pm — check out their menu here & call (615) 269-9406 to place your order.
NOSHVILLE GREEN HILLS will be happy to do the work for you this Thanksgiving –they're offering a variety of traditional favorites! For more information, call (615) 269-3535.
PROVENCE BREADS has an extensive Thanksgiving to-go MENU, complete with everything from breakfast to dinner and desserts. For more information, call (615) 386-0363. The deadline to place an order is November 22 at 9am.
PUCKETT'S GRO. & RESTAURANT may already be booked up for Thanksgiving day, but you can still order their tasty turkeys, sides and desserts from their full pick-up menu (thank goodness)! To place your order now, use their ONLINE ORDER FORM or call them at (615) 794-5527.
PUCKETT'S 5TH AND CHURCH is offering all of your favorite fixins this holiday season—join them for a Thanksgiving Day buffet from 11am to 3pm (call for reservations) OR you can use their ordering form to quickly place your pick-up order online. You can also place orders by telephone at (615) 770-2772.
PUCKETT'S BOAT HOUSE is adding a little seaside flair to your Thanksgiving! They'll be featuring a delicious buffet with coastal influences — like their oyster dressing — from 11am to 3pm on Turkey Day. Limited spots remain, so call (615) 790-2309 to make your reservation!
HARVEST AT HOMESTEAD will be offering a three-course meal on Thanksgiving Day beginning at 11am! They are almost completely booked, but you can reserve your spot by calling (615) 538-6113.
Scout's Pub has crafted a creative menu for their guests this Thanksgiving! How do rosemary & garlic prime rib, stuffed turkey breast with sage & sausage filling + topped with gravy, garlic herb au gratin potatoes, and apple cake with spiced rum caramel topping sound? Check out the rest of their menu here and call (615)-721-5993 to make a reservation!
SOUTH STREET is once again having its Thanksgiving Day buffet from 11am to 3pm. Give them a call & skip out on the cooking this year!


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Villa Park city manager resigns
Villa Park City Manager Lori Sassoon is resigning to become a deputy city manager in Rancho Cucamonga.
By Eugene W. Fields | Orange County Register
VILLA PARK – City Manager Lori Sassoon announced Tuesday that she is resigning to become the deputy city manager for the city of Rancho Cucamonga. Her last day is Thursday, March 8.
Sassoon, who was hired in 2009, will supervise administrative services for Rancho Cucamonga and earn $145,800. She currently earns $132,000 as the top executive in Villa Park.
Sassoon cited the daily commute from her home in Claremont to Orange County as a reason for resigning.
"It's been more than I have bargained for," Sassoon said. "It's been a tough decision because I really do love my job."
Before she came to Villa Park, Sassoon was the assistant city manager in San Bernardino.
"We have appreciated all of Lori's contributions to the city of Villa Park, and we are sorry to see her go," Mayor Brad Reese said in a statement. "This new position lets her work much closer to home, and sounds like it is a great opportunity for her."
Contact the writer: 714-704-3704 or efields@ocregister.com
Eugene W. Fields


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Every once in awhile, you get to be a witness to a wicked transformation right before your eyes. A few months ago, a homely-looking couple at work began a weight loss program. Now, they're both miniature replicas of their previous selves. Or should I say, better-dressed, taller-standing miniature versions of themselves. Suddenly, with their new haircuts and much brighter and closer-fitting clothing, they've become our stylish idols of change here at work. The swagger in both of their steps and the brighter smiles on their faces are highly motivating. It's as though one positive change begins a snowball effect after with which confidence, style, poise and grace follow.
It's just like when a girl gets a good haircut and style and thinks of all the places she needs to go that day just to get the most out of the great hair day and have it noticed by the most possible people. She suddenly injects a little swagger into her stride and perhaps stops off at the store to grab a bottle of potion to make her face look brighter within three days and a pair of sunglasses that perfectly frame her face. The effects of one positive change can be far-reaching.
These complete stunning changes only happen every once in a long while, so you just can't help but stare.


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UNDYNE
* Undyne is a fish-like monster that leads the Royal Guard. Clad in her full suit of armor, she pursued the protagonist through the entirety of Waterfall before befriending them (with Papyrus' insistence help).
* Hot headed and passionate, she is the most determined monster of the Underground. SHE NEVER GIVES UP... Except if she is suffering from a heat stroke in the middle of Hotland.
* She conceded in training Papyrus to become a royal guard, even if, deep down, she wishes him to give up on his project. She can tell he is too innocent to fit the armor and secretly tries to reorient him by teaching him how to cook.
* Doing so, she bonded with the skeleton and now sees him as her best friend. She often sleeps at his place.
* She is very protective of all monsters and especially kids. She feels them all vibrating in her heart, which gives her strength and determination. This trait makes her also loved and admired by many.
* At first annoyed by Frisk's attitude, she learns to see their good sides and become their friend, despite not carrying a big torch for the human kind. She however admires their culture and giant weapons, through Alphys' readings, after being (wrongly) told by her those were real history, while being instead anime and manga.
* She was trained since childhood by King Asgore, after she failed in attacking him. Overtime, the mentor became her friend and the latest often comes to her house to share a cup of tea. However, sometimes before becoming the Head of the Royal Guard, she has done some community services, probably as a result of her hot temper and habits in beating up people, like the mailman.
* Undyne is secretive about her personal feelings, but with the support and openness of Papyrus, she decides to come out and confess her love to doctor Alphys, Asgore's royal scientist. Feelings that were happily and eagerly returned.
* She never properly met Toriel until everybody is reunited in front of the Great East Door, when Frisk finally breaks the barrier. From there, she learns to get along with her, but still sides with Asgore, no matter what.
* Despite being slender, Undyne is really, really strong. She doesn't approve of lies but respect people that show passions, even toward topics that she doesn't like. She is explosive in her habits and attitude, which makes her a very likable and exiting person to be around. She is missing an eye but doesn't seem to be very bother by it. She hates sweet and cold food, monologues, puzzles, laziness, lack of motivation, extreme cold, Hotland, and that her guests don't let her be a host and serve them properly, going up to throw spears at them if so. She is very, very uptight in making them feel "welcome"!
* Rather concerned in how people sees her but being oblivious of her popularity, she estimates that you shouldn't be liked because of your fame but because of your good doing. So despite being very straightforward and big mouthed, she is loyal and upright.
Race: Monster
Kind: Fish
Birth: ????
HP: 1500 LV: 1
AT: 50 DF: 20
Ability:
- Fire magic
- Green magic
- Magic arrow
(yellow, blue, white)
Alphys (lover to be)
Papyrus (trainee/bff)
Frisk (friend)
Asgore (mentor)
Toriel (queen)
Sans (that lazy a**)
Unaltered Reset is a story created by Armel Oenn based on the video game ®Undertale by ©Toby Fox - In respect of the creator's fair use policy chart.


The world of this teenager, Hanna, is different from her counterparts — she's being raised and trained by her dad, an ex CIA official, to be the perfect assassin. But her perfection is put to test only when she is sent on a real assignment into the real world…. Check out the cinematography brought out through a wide range of opposites — from woody forests to the dry deserts, from city skyscrapers to snow covered valleys. Of course, adding life to all this is Hanna with many a foe and one friend, many a question on the human psychology/motif (since she has never met anyone before other than her dad) and a series of fast changing emotions…. Hanna is an enjoyable affair.


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NEC Daily Ball Screen: 12/24/21
Around our parts, the big news yesterday was not Wagner winning at Fairfield (though that was big, as Bashir Mason got career win #150). It was the announcement that the NEC approved a one-time expansion of the 2022 NEC Men's and Women's Tournament fields to include all nine eligible teams (Merrimack remains ineligible as it transitions to D1), while also maintaining the league's cancellation and forfeit policy. Here's the release.
As far as the forfeiture rule goes, I get it. Yesterday I questioned how fair it is to punish a team for having to go on a covid-related pause despite being 100% vaccinated, and I stand by that. However, given that every team will be able to participate in the NEC Tournament, that argument is partially moot. Plus, last season there were rumors of teams, across the country and locally, pausing when they maybe did not have to, but because it was convenient; losing your best player or two, avoiding a difficult match-up, or not wanting to risk losing out on a high conference tournament seed. The forfeiture rule effectively eliminates that; if your choice is to play with a limited roster or just take an L, that's an easy one
Of course, no decision will be perfect during this Stupid Pandemic, and the unintended consequences remain a concern; imagine being a team like, say, St. Francis (PA), having a really good season and earning the #3 seed, but having to host, say, Bryant, which was one of the best teams in the league but forfeited a handful of games because of a shut-down, in the quarterfinals instead of a lesser opponent? That's a hypothetical I hope does not happen, but it certainly is a possibility.
The only fair thing to do, then, was to allow every team into the conference tournament. Now you avoid a team like, say, CCSU (which is scheduled to play Bryant and St. Francis-Brooklyn next week, both of which are currently paused) finishing ahead of a clearly better team just because it was "lucky" enough to get more wins via forfeit than another team. I'm just glad it's settled prior to the NEC schedule kicking off.
My question; what will the expansion look like? The NEC season is scheduled to wrap-up on Saturday, 2/26, with NEC Quarterfinals scheduled for Wednesday, 3/2. I'm assuming there will be an 8/9 matchup, with the winner playing at the #1 seed. The dates of the quarterfinals and semifinals (3/5) are probably fluid, but the NEC Championship game scheduled for 3/8 on ESPN2 is likely set in stone. So my suggestion; either push the quarters and semis back, with #9 playing at #8 on that Tuesday 3/1, then heading to play the top seed on 3/3, or have those teams play at the site of the #1 seed on 3/1, with the winner playing the next night.
I'm sure that will get ironed out soon enough. Until then; good job, NEC administrators.
Wagner 63, Fairfield 50
The Seahawks outscored the Stags 24-11 over the game's final 10 minutes, securing a hard-fought road win despite making just 1 three-pointer (out of 7 attempts). The win was Bashir Mason's 150th of his career. That's a lot of wins for a guy who has been a head coach for just 10 seasons, and is only 37 years old!
The fact that Wagner was able to win despite getting next to nothing from the perimeter tells you how well-rounded this roster is; not only can they score, but they defend. Even though Fairfield had a size advantage, the Stags attempted just 11 field goals at the rim (making 5), and instead lived in the mid-range, going 5 of 16. Supreme Cook, FU's talented 6'9" sophomore big, was just 1 for 5 from the field, though backup big Chris Maidoh did have some success (4 for 5 for 10 points).
Ultimately, Wagner won this one by defending and making free throws; they were 24 of 31 from the charity stripe, while the Stags were just 12 of 21. Alex Morales scored 9 of his 15 at the free throw line (in 9 attempts), and also added 6 rebounds and 2 assists. Boogie Ford was 6 of 10 from the field, including this pretty move:
My favorite part of this is obviously the spin and finish; how many NEC players can make that play on a 6'9" opponent? And if you're Zach Chrisler and you read the scouting report, you know Ford likes to go left on a drive (over 70% of the time). Just a great read by Ford, especially with the better rim protector (Chris Maidoh) on the left side. Perhaps Chrisler should have allowed Ford to go left with Maidoh there? What I also love is how Alex Morales, who is posting up on the right block, sees Ford sizing up Chrisler, so he pops out to the corner, dragging his defender with him giving Boogie the space to make that move. That's what happens when you've played together for three seasons.
I was also impressed with Wagner's Raekwon Rogers; despite giving up a few inches to the Stags' front-line, he defended well and also scored 11 points and grabbed 5 boards. Plus, he can do this:
Last season, Wagner did not have a post-up option; according to Shot Quality, Alex Morales was the only Seahawk to have more than 6 field goal attempts out of a post-up (15). This season, in just 8 games, Rogers already has 16 post-ups FGAs, and he's averaging 1.02ppp on those opportunities. What's more; he's been above 0.90ppp whether he's posting-up on the right or left block. In 2020-21 teams could get away without having a defensive post-presence. Not this season.
Will Martinez added 10 points, 4 boards, and 3 assists, while neither Nigel Jackson (2nd game in a row) nor Jahbril Price-Noel got into the game. DeLonnie Hunt scored just 1 point after netting 17 in the win over Delaware St.
For Fairfield, Caleb Green led the way with 10 points (2 of 5 from downtown), while Taj Benning had 9 points and 9 rebounds.
And with that, I wish those who celebrate a Merry Christmas, and a happy holiday(s) to those who celebrate something else. I'll be back early next week with a rather robust "NEC Reset", where I'll update my rankings prior to the conference season and hand out some non-conference awards.


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Q: Convert a Filepath string into a Filepath/Directory in Bash I'm trying to make a simple script that creates files from some plain/text templates.
In detail, the script parses and replaces the content of some files using sed and takes the filepath where the generated file should be written, from the template itself using awk.
Unfortunately, the filepath taken with awk is a string, so when I use the redirection operator ">" to write the sed output to the filepath variable, the shell gives me this error:
./script.sh: line 45: ~/path/to/file/generatedFile: No such file or directory

Some script code
// CSDdir:~/path/to/file/generatedFile

* {
    margin:                     0;
    spacing:                    0;
    border:                     0;
    text-color:                 <fg>;
    background-color:           transparent;
    border-color:               <bg>;
...

first lines of a template.

...

# Dirs
CUR_DIR=$( dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")" )
TEMPLATES_DIR="$CUR_DIR/templates"

...

tempDir=$( awk -F':' '$1 == "// CSDdir" { print $2; exit }' "$TEMPLATES_DIR/templateFile" )

cat "$TEMPLATES_DIR/templateFile" | sed \ # this is line 45
-e "s/<font>/$font/g" \
-e "s/<fg>/$foreground/g" \
-e "s/<bg>/$background/g" \
-e "s/<color0>/$color0/g" \
-e "s/<color8>/$color8/g" \
-e "s/<color1>/$color1/g" \
-e "s/<color9>/$color9/g" \
-e "s/<color2>/$color2/g" \
-e "s/<color10>/$color10/g" \
-e "s/<color3>/$color3/g" \
-e "s/<color11>/$color11/g" \
-e "s/<color4>/$color4/g" \
-e "s/<color12>/$color12/g" \
-e "s/<color5>/$color5/g" \
-e "s/<color13>/$color13/g" \
-e "s/<color6>/$color6/g" \
-e "s/<color14>/$color14/g" \
-e "s/<color7>/$color7/g" \
-e "s/<color15>/$color15/g" \
> $tempDir

awk takes the filepath from templateFile and put it in tempDir.
sed substitute "tags" with values and write the output in tempDir filepath, but it gives me the error mentioned before.
Is there a way to convert the content of tempDir into a filepath / directory?
or, is there a way to do the same thing but with other methods?

A: The issue is as chepner suggested, the ~ is not being expanded.
This is the problem:
// CSDdir:~/.scripts/templates/generatedFile

Consider writing it this way:
// CSDdir:/absolute-path-to-home/.scripts/templates/generatedFile

That said, if you want a more general solution, you'll have to tell your bash script to expand the variable.  This can be done (dangerously) with eval.  You can also perform tilde expansion using the python function os.path.expanduser.
Consider replacing the last line as follows:
>$(python -c "import os.path ; print  os.path.expanduser('$tempdir') ")

The line above assumes python2.
If you trust the author of the CSDir comment, you can just use an eval like this:
> $( eval "echo $tempdir" )

A: Thanks to @chepner, I found a solution by myself.
The problem was the ~ character that when taken by awk, it doesn't "expand" to home directory.
The cleaner way to solve that is to replace the ~ (if it's present) in tempDir with $HOME value and \ character:
home=$( echo $HOME | sed 's/\//\\\//g')
tempDir=$( awk -F':' '$1 == "// CSDdir" { print $2; exit }' "$TEMPLATES_DIR/rofiConfig" | sed -e "s/~/$home/g" )

Now, all perfectly works.