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Meghan Markle's feelings for Queen 'exposed by simple gesture'
Catherine Arthur
MEGHAN Markle's subtle hand gestures at an event revealed the Duchess's true feelings for Queen, according to a body language expert. Prince Harry, 37, and Meghan Markle, 40, stepped back from royal duties in 2020 and moved to the US to pursue a financially independent life away from the Firm. Now, the couple reside in Montecito with their two children Archie, two, and Lilibet, who turns one in June.
At the time of announcing their intention to step away, the Queen released a statement acknowledging their departure from the Firm. The 95-year-old monarch and said that the Sussexes would remain "much loved" members of her family. She thanked the couple for their "dedicated work" and wished them a "happy and peaceful new life".
Her Majesty also touchingly expressed how proud she was of Meghan, who had "so quickly become one of the family."Prior to their step away though, Meghan was given the rare honour of carrying out a day of engagements with the Queen.
In June 2018, the pair travelled to Chester together and made a number of visits and appearances including attending a lunch at Chester Town Hall. For the occasion, Meghan and the Queen made their way to the northwest of England on the Royal Train and one stop on their itinerary saw them attending the opening of the Mersey Gateway Bridge.
Photographs from the day show the women in good spirits as they laughed and smile together. It marked the first time the Duchess attended an event with the Queen without her husband Harry. The Queen sported a vibrant green outfit complete with a matching hat, while Meghan wore a cream dress and carried a black clutch bag.
Body language expert Judi James analysed the images at the time and claims Meghan made several subtle hand gestures that revealed her true feelings towards the monarch. She claims that at times Meghan appeared "rather nervous", evidenced through "self-comforting self-touch". Ms James said: "It was clear from the Queen's congruent and very spontaneous-looking smiles that she was delighted to have her new granddaughter-in-law beside her on this visit.
"Meghan did appear rather nervous initially though, emerging coyly from the train and using some more tentative gesticulation than usual. "Without new husband Prince Harry beside her to touch and hug her, there was a noticeable increase in Meghan's self-comforting self-touch and checking rituals, suggesting she is still quite in awe of her doting grandmother-in-law."
Despite stepping away from duties, Harry and Meghan continue to praise Her Majesty and in June, they paid tribute to her by naming their daughter Lilibet, a nickname used by the monarch. Royal author Omid Scobie told Good Morning America last summer: "When it comes to that relationship with the Queen, it is as strong as ever."
Since moving to the US, the Sussexes have yet to return to UK soil as a family of four meaning the monarch has yet to meet her namesake in person. Prince Harry has made two solo visits back to the UK since departing from duties.
He attended the funeral of Prince Philip in April last year, and also joined his brother Prince William in July to reveal a statue of their late mother Princess Diana.
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Just a quick update on recent changes to OSHA regulations. Late last week. OSHA announced it will delay the implementation of certain provisions of the newly prolumgaed rules regarding the reporting and record keeping regulations nearly all industries must comply with.
From the date of publication, a lot of controversy has surrounded the anti-retaliation provisions of the new rule. It seems pretty straight forward that you cannot retaliate against an employee for reporting an injury or work related illness but what OSHA considers retaliation may not be all that straight forward.


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Q: Adding touchListener to path object I have an canvas over which i set a path
Path path = new Path();
path.moveTo(1, 1);
path.lineTo(90, 1);
path.lineTo(90, 60);
path.lineTo(1, 60);

canvas.drawPath(path,p);

Now i want to implment a touch listener to this path object.
I have implemented zooming option on a custom ImageView and drawing this lines over a canvas in the onDraw method of this custom ImageView. So i cant do it by checking the coordinates where user have touched.
I know that the the path object is not a child of View Class and hence i cannot implement a touchListner in it. But the thing the that i exactly need is something like
path.setOnTouchListener(myTouchListner);

Does anyone have any idea about how to implement it? Any help is appreciated.

A: Can u over ride the onTouchEvent().
Find the coordinates you have touched, check if the coordinate matches with your path., if it does trigger your function..
Please check below for detail
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A: There's no such thing.
The Path is only a data structure, how you use it (draw, clip, ...) has nothing to do with it. And so are touch events.
You just need to do some math with the touching coordinates. It's a 2D transformation using a matrix. You can read about this on wikipedia.
First you should map the touch point to the zoomed / panned coordinates, have a look here, here and here.
I didn't tested but if you have an ImageView this method should do:
final float[] getPointerCoords(ImageView view, MotionEvent e)
{
    final int index = e.getActionIndex();
    final float[] coords = new float[] { e.getX(index), e.getY(index) };
    Matrix matrix = new Matrix();
    // invert compute the inverse transformation matrix
    view.getImageMatrix().invert(matrix);
    // this adjust the panning
    matrix.postTranslate(view.getScrollX(), view.getScrollY());
    // this apply the inverse transformation to your touch points
    // which should give you the coordinates on your imageview
    matrix.mapPoints(coords);
    return coords;
}

I can't tell you if this will work out of the box for you because I do not know what use of the Path you have, I can only assume you use it to draw on top of your image. If you apply any other transformation before drawing the path you should use the transformation applied to the path instead.
If you do those transformation on your canvas you can extract the matrix like this:
Matrix matrix = canvas.getMatrix()

Another route is to extract the matrix values into an array and do the computation yourself:
// Get the values of the matrix
// create this array in a field an reuse it for performances
float[] values = new float[9];
matrix.getValues(values);

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*values[2] and values[5] are the x,y coordinates of the top left corner of the transformed element, regardless of the zoom factor

*values[0] and values[4] are the zoom factors for the transformed element's width and height respectively. If you zoom at the same factor, these should both be the same value.

When you finally converted your touch point into the Path coordinate system you can check if it's inside the Path using this method someone else already suggested in the comments of your question.
if (path.contains(coordX, coordY)) {
  // inside
} else {
  // outside
}

You are the only one knowing the code you are working with and thus how the Path coordinate system is transformed in your view and thus the only one who can know how to properly convert it back. So don't think of this answer as a drop-in code. I just pointed you in the direction. Might be helpful to print some log of the touch coordinate / conversion to debug it while you develop.
Good Luck.

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Q: OLTP to OLAP with CQRS or SSIS Background Information
Our application reads/writes from 3 components:

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*ASP.NET MVC 3 customer front end website (write actions)

*Winform verification tool at stores (write actions)

*Silverlight Dashboard for tenant (95% aggregate reads 5% write actions)

(3) is the only piece that can use some performance improvements.
Our storage is Sql Server Standard OLTP database that has stored procedures that aggregate data consumed by the silverlight app.
When using database tuning advisor or execution plan we don't see any critical indexes missing and we rebuild indexes with sql agent job.
Most of the widgets are sparklines

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*x = time selected by interval (day, week, month, year)

*y = aggregate (sum,avg,ect)

currently we return about 14 - 20 points per widget. Our dashboard opens with 10 widgets initially.
Our dimensions would be: tenant, store, (day,week,month,year)
Our facts: completed, incomplete, redeemed, score ...
I know a denormalized table will remove needing sql server from recalculating for
store managers, franchise owners, corporate viewing the data ~50 (simultaneous users)
each time
I'll be honest if we go with OLAP it will be my first hands on experience with it.
Questions
What is the long term solution for a rich reporting dashboard?
I would assume OLAP.  If so, how would you keep it up to date to be near realtime dashboard that we have today?
Putting a maintenance page while OLAP rebuilds itself is not an option.
Ideally, we would want to do this incrementally and see Nservicebus (which we use today already) as a great bridge to update these
denormalized views.   Do we put these denormalized views in oltp as just another table or is there a way to incrementally update OLAP datasource?
References
http://www.udidahan.com/2009/12/09/clarified-cqrs/
http://www.udidahan.com/2011/10/02/why-you-should-be-using-cqrs-almost-everywhere%E2%80%A6/

A: "Putting a maintenance page while OLAP rebuilds itself is not an option."

Why would you say that? The OLAP cube is available while it's rebuilding.
There are several ways you can configure how the refresh works, ROLAP, HOLAP and MOLAP. You can have automatically refreshes at X hours or even make the data available in real-time. Try reading about proactive caching on SSAS, it may give you some ideas.


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Celebrating our fantastic volunteers for National Volunteering Week 2016
As National Volunteers Week (1st-10th June) comes to an end, we celebrate some of the volunteer stories we've been sharing over the week - come meet just a glimpse of the volunteers that help keep our organisation running!
Did you know that we have 180 volunteers across Henshaws? We chat to just some of them about how they got involved and what volunteering means to them.
"Working with Henshaws has taught me to expect the unexpected"
Rob, volunteers at the Manchester Community Hub for our Hiking Group and Wednesday Group. Recently Rob even ran the marathon for Team Henshaws – his 13th marathon ever no less! – and he shares his experience of volunteering:
"Working with Henshaws has taught me to expect the unexpected. Since applying for an IT buddy role there has been no more discussion about it!! Instead I have been encouraged to take on leader roles in the two groups I work with. Both roles continue to be very rewarding and they have given me insights into just how incredible people can be. I am amazed by how people in both groups just get on with things. My advice to others thinking of volunteering with Henshaws is – just do it! The more enthusiasm you have the more you will get out of it. As a bonus you will get to meet some really great and interesting people too."
"The thing I enjoy most about volunteering at Henshaws is getting to know new people"
Rachel has been a volunteer at our Arts & Crafts Centre in Knaresborough for 8 years now! Rachel has a learning disability and supports other people with disabilities to take part in our paper, beauty and wellbeing and multi-sensory workshops. She says:
"My support worker told me about Henshaws and helped me to find out how to become a volunteer. I came into the Arts & Crafts Centre and had a meeting with the volunteer coordinator. I really enjoyed having a tour of the centre with one of the tour guides. This is something that I now do for other visitors.
Over the last year I have also been able to join the Henshaws Triathalon team and compete in Skipton, swimming 16 lengths, which was brilliant. In November I applied to be a contestant for Henshaws Got Talent and got through to the final round.
The thing I enjoy most about volunteering at Henshaws is getting to know new people and being able to help them. Without Henshaws I would be sitting at home with nothing to do and I wouldn't have all the friends I have met over the last 8 years."
"There are many successes to celebrate, large and small, which make me feel very proud."
Our information desk at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital is run by volunteers, who are pivotal in being the first point of call for people who have just been diagnosed with sight loss. One of our volunteers Helen Brazier says about her experience, "Back in 2014, I had some free time and wanted to do something different. I discovered that Henshaws were looking for volunteers to help at the hospital and I have been part of Henshaws' volunteer team at the hospital ever since.
Through volunteering, I found out about and participated in various other activities, gradually getting to know more about the organisation and ending up as a Trustee. There are many successes to celebrate, large and small, which make me feel very proud. I am deeply struck by the practical support that Henshaws offers and the warm relationships that are formed with and between service users. At College I was impressed with the facilities and the infectious energy of the students, while the friendliness and creativity at Arts & Crafts Centre was a revelation. Community Services has a huge reach across the north of England and changes the lives of thousands of people for the better every day."
"You really gain far more than you give. It's a win–win situation"
Susan runs our monthly Luncheon Club, a social club where members meet up once a month to chat and enjoy a meal made by Trafford College's hospitality students. She shares her experience:
"I'd always known of Henshaws as the old school building at White City was a well know landmark on the trip into Manchester. My time working at Henshaws enabled me to see the very important work the charity did for visually impaired people of all ages.
My involvement with the Luncheon Club has given me the satisfaction of knowing that I am helping three lots of people – the people that Henshaws supports by raising money for them; the lovely people who come each month to the club, enjoy a good meal, have a chat with old and new friends and also helps the students at Trafford College with their training. I can say I've gained so much and made a lot of new friends. It's definitely not a decision I've regretted.
I would say to anyone thinking of volunteering with Henshaws to firstly not be frightened by thinking you can't do it. You really gain far more than you give. It's a win – win situation."
"The thing I enjoy most about volunteering at Henshaws is the interaction I have with the Art Makers"
Fiona Odle is an artist/illustrator based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Fiona most recently has illustrated a series of children's books written by her mum.
Fiona has volunteered with us for 9 months in both the jewellery and art studio, working with mosaics, painting and 3D model making. She has been offering support to Wesley, one of our Art Makers, working with him to develop his project based around anything 'minion' related. They have nearly finished this and are now slowly progressing to the next project which is themed around Shrek!
Fiona heard about Henshaws many years ago as she has always been a supporter of the arts locally and has taken part in art workshops at the centre over the year. She recently volunteered for feva festival and decided she would like to give more time to engaging with our Art Makers within a workshop setting.
Fiona said: "The thing I enjoy most about volunteering at Henshaws is the interaction I have with the Art Makers. They are the only people in the whole world that think I'm funny! We all have a lot of fun in the art studio and I enjoy the feeling of fulfillment I get from this."
Thank you to all our brilliant volunteers for giving up their time so generously to Henshaws – we wouldn't be able to do it without you! If you know a volunteer you'd like to celebrate or have a story of your own, please share them with us at stories@henshaws.org.uk. Or if you're interested in volunteering, please visit our volunteers web page to find out more.
We can't do it without you
Henshaws rely on voluntary donations; our work just wouldn't be possible without people like you. Your support empowers local people living with sight loss and a range of other disabilities to increase their independence, achieve their dreams, and go beyond expectations.
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A web security firm recently uncovered and made public the fact that they were able to gain access to the Google Wallet application by decrypting the hashed PIN.
Being the first commercially viable mobile wallet in the United States Google Wallet is under a lot of scrutiny while many competitors, white hat and black hat hackers try to find security weaknesses. Security firm Zvelo called attention to a glitch in which they were able to obtain the PIN protecting access to the Google Wallet app. First, the mobile device must be "rooted," meaning the user has access to change any files on the system. Then by using a specially designed mobile app the Google Wallet PIN for that rooted mobile device can be deciphered. Once a fraudster has the PIN they can easily use the mobile wallet to make fraudulent purchases.
When it comes to NFC mobile contactless payments the mobile wallet accesses payment information that is stored and encrypted in what is known as the Secure Element. The Secure Element is separate from the device's internal memory and is designed to be tamper-proof. The PIN that authenticates access to the mobile wallet, while encrypted, is not stored in the Secure Element. This means that with rooted phones a mobile app can be designed to access and attempt to decrypt the hashed PIN, which is exactly what Zvelo set to prove.
Google acknowledged the security concerns suggesting that Android users with rooted phones not use Google Wallet on these devices and to set a screen lock for added protection. It should be noted that if a hacker or thief were to obtain a mobile device they could root, or jailbreak, the device themselves, but Google states that when a phone is rooted the Google Wallet data is cleared.


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Aradia is also known as the daughter of Lucifer. Aradia is a name you will often hear in neo-pagan stories; she is described as the queen of witches and moon goddess in some Wiccan narrations. She started off as an important personality in American writer Charles Godfrey Leland's work that dates back to the late 1890s; Aradia is said to be a witch-Messiah meant to teach witchcraft to poor people so that they could find liberation from the rich and the Roman Catholic Church.
According to Leland's version, Aradia was the daughter of a deity called Diana who was considered a force of good as the Roman goddess of the moon. However, Aradia's father was the chief of the devils, Lucifer.
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Upcoming Artists at Pine Needles events
A closing reception for a show of river-inspired work will take place in St. Croix Falls, and artist-in-residence Ryan Rodgers will give a talk in Marine on St. Croix Oct. 10.
By St. Croix Watershed Research Station | October 3, 2012 | 1 minute read
Inspired by the River: Reception
Saturday, October 6 — 3 to 5 p.m.
Visitor Center—St. Croix National Scenic Riverway
401 N. Hamilton Street, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Join us for a casual reception and see the collection of artwork created by participants in the Artists at Pine Needles residency program.
Glimpses through the Trees –A Photographic Search for the St. Croix
Photo by Ryan Rodgers
An informal talk from 2012 Artist at Pine Needles Ryan Rodgers
Wednesday, October 10 — 7 p.m.
Marine Village Hall — in cooperation with the Marine Community Library
Since moving to the St. Croix River Valley in 2010, Ryan Rodgers has spent nearly 300 days in the watershed, paddling, walking, skiing and lugging an "obnoxiously chunky" digital camera.
His talk will explore the character of the river through anecdotes, slides and perspectives gathered from slow and repeated movement through the watershed in pursuit of images.
Ryan's photographs have appeared in regional and national publications. He is currently finishing his master of fine arts degree in writing at Hamline University. He lives near the river in Osceola with his wife and baby daughter.
See Ryan's recent post about a "day-in-the-life" of a Pine Needles artist-in-residence.
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Am looking forward to the talk tomorrow evening, and encourage anyone with even the slightest interest to come on down to the ole Marine Hall.


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Q: In aggregated query without GROUP BY, expression #2 of SELECT list contains nonaggregated column select users.name,users.user_id,COUNT(subscribers.user_id)
from users
LEFT JOIN subscribers
  ON subscribers.to_id = users.user_id;

It gives the error In aggregated query without GROUP BY, expression #2 of SELECT list contains nonaggregated column users.name; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by
I have two possible solutions

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*If i do GROUP BY users.user_id,users.name its fixed; but since i
wrote my application in mysql < 5.7 i have to change lots of
queries( its a nightmare).

*I can turn off sql_mode=only_full_group_by.
But i dont know if it is a bad practice ? does it has any pro cons of turning offonly_full_group_by. ? performance wise which is better ?

A: From my point of view it would be better address problems and solve them .. ie correct the improper query present in your application .. because these queries improper provide for all columns are not properly included in the group by the unpredictable values .. (essentially random .. . the first who encounters) .. certainly also the size of the application has an important role and therefore the amount of queries to be corrected .. this may result in a proper scheduling of tasks .. and then for a controlled period you can opt for the exchange the sql_mode .. for the checks that I made no appreciable impact on performance


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The Birds and the Bs: Boston Symphony performs Ogonek, Bernstein and Shostakovich
Jennifer Koh and the Boston Symphony
© Aram Boghosian
Linus Schafer, Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony
By Kevin Wells, 10 October 2022
During the first half of the season, the Boston Symphony is repeating the pieces given their world premieres at Tanglewood this summer. Not only does this provide the opportunity for a second hearing, it provides the added boon of the Symphony Hall acoustics. In the case of Elizabeth Ogonek's Starling Variations, the repeat was revelatory. The La Mer-like flow, noticeable before, was even clearer as the flock of orchestral sections executed the intertwining, overlapping and contrasting murmurations of harmony, rhythm, shape and color. Textures were more clearly defined with Ogonek's unusual combinations of instruments and tendency to have them play in an unaccustomed part of their range much more conspicuous. The humor of the murmuration with all the string sections chattering at each other pizzicato was a particular revelation in this respect. The orchestra obviously benefited from the repeat as well, playing with the ease of familiarity and with unbridled verve, reveling in this kaleidoscopic score's hairpin turns.
The two compositions by Leonard Bernstein bridged the decade between the mid-50s and mid-60s. The Serenade is Bernstein's musical evocation of one of history's most famous dinner parties: the Agathon's symposium as recounted by Plato. Bernstein embraces that theatrical aspect of the dinner, casting the Serenade as a mini-drama where the solo violin gives voice to six interlocutors and the disruptive intruder, Alcibiades, backed by a string orchestra and percussion.
Jennifer Koh made an indelible BSO debut substituting for an indisposed Janine Jansen. Her vigorous attacks and high octane virtuosity were punctuated by a bobbing and diving Louise Brooks helmet of hot pink hair. She limned the various characters with color, clarity and spontaneity. Her portrayal of the motor-mouthed chatterbox, Eryximachus, provided the comic relief, not Aristophanes whose quiet account of the mythological story of Eros was captivating. The three-part song which is Agathon's praise of Eros in all its manifestations was a lyrical highpoint along with Koh's rapturous duet with principal cellist, Blaise Déjardin, in the closing movement.
When the Dean of Chichester Cathedral proposed a commission and mentioned that "many of us would be very delighted if there were a hint of West Side Story about the music," he ended up with more than he bargained for. Not only were there direct quotes from the musical in Chichester Psalms, Bernstein also recycled material from an abandoned version of The Skin of Our Teeth. The score looks back to Candide, but also forward to Mass, especially in the first group of psalm settings. After an unabashedly joyous opening, chorus and orchestra attacked the drama and turbulence of the juxtaposition of Psalms 23 and 2. The tension between the serenity and transcendence of Linus Schafer-Goulthorpe's boy soprano supported by the female voices and the aggressive, violent eruption of the male voices played out with intensity. Despite the return of the boy soprano and female voices, the violent undercurrent had to wait for the comfort and consolation of the final settings to dissipate with the chorus giving thanks for peace and harmony a cappella.
In this context, Shostakovich's Third Symphony could have seemed even less significant and B-list than it is. Though a sincere celebration of the optimism imbuing the first decade of the USSR, its sentiments would soon sour thanks to Stalin's increasing paranoia. Nelsons decided to make no apologies for the symphony and let it blare, blaze and bloviate as written, creating a sense of occasion which could well have approximated that of its first performances. No one may have left the Hall marching towards a brilliant, Socialist future, but the choral finale was still curiously uplifting. Yet, as Shostakovich himself could attest, no matter how patriotic and genuine the sentiment, there is always a potential tyrant poised to co-opt and exploit it.
"Koh... limned the various characters with color, clarity and spontaneity"
Reviewed at Symphony Hall, Boston on 6 October 2022
Ogonek, Starling Variations (World premiere)
Bernstein, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", for solo violin, strings, harp, and percussion
Bernstein, Chichester Psalms
Shostakovich, Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "The First of May", Op.20
Jennifer Koh, Violin
Linus Schafer-Goulthorpe, Boy soprano
Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Andris Nelsons, Conductor
James Burton, Conductor
A Polish primer from Canellakis, Benedetti and the BSO
Kevin Wells, 24th January
Virtuosity infused with a tension which became almost unbearable
Spring and storm clouds from Alan Gilbert and the Boston Symphony
Alan Gilbert turns the usual concert format on its head, ending his program with Dvořák's Carnival Overture to follow a trio of works new to the orchestra.
An Alpine journey for Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony in Tokyo
Nahoko Gotoh, 22nd November
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony's three-concert residency at Tokyo's Suntory Hall culminates in a brilliantly evocative performance of Strauss' Alpine Symphony.
Mahler under Shostakovich's shadow: Nelsons conducts the Sixth
Kevin Wells, 25th October
Dramatic, poignant and emotionally draining, this proves a benchmark performance of Mahler's Sixth Symphony.
A lyrical, introspective Ninth from Michael Tilson Thomas and the BSO
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Buster Crabbe (actor)
Buster Crabbe was the king of Saturday morning. He started out in serials, and when TV came along, he was a success in that, too. If you wanted live-action adventure on Saturday mornings, odds were you saw Buster Crabbe.
Crabbe grew up in Hawaii, where he became a swimming champion, winning a bronze medal in 1928 and a gold in 1932. The latter was held in Los Angeles, so it was natural that he follow in the footsteps of and earlier swimming medalist, Johnny Weissmuller.* After a few bit parts, he followed in Weissmuller's footsteps in another way: he played Tarzan in the serial Tarzan the Fearless.
The role didn't lead to much for several years, until in 1936, when he was cast in the part that he became fully identified with: Flash Gordon.
Crabbe's serial became the definitive version of the character, as he faced off against the peril of Charles Middleton's Ming the Merciless. The special effect were crude, even by the standards of the time.**
The serial was a sensation. A sequel, Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars was released in 1938, and Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe came on in 1940.In between, he portrayed the other big name of pulp SF, Buck Rogers.
The serials are dated, but you can still see why they were popular and still relatively entertaining.***
Crabbe continued in serials, mostly westerns (including some programmers where he portrayed Billy the Kid as a hero). And when TV came along, he created the role of Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion.
As the title indicated, Captain Gallant was a commander of a foreign legion fort in Morocco. His son, Cullen Crabbe costarred as the legion's mascot. The first season was actually shot on location in Morocco with some real legionnaires in bit parts. Gallant would deal with various local villains and uprisings. I remember watching reruns of it on Saturday mornings, long before I had seen the Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers serials.
After Captain Gallant, Crabbe was semiretired, appearing in various guest shots, including playing "Brigadier Gordon" in the TV version of Buck Rogers.
Crabbe died in 1983, leaving behind memories of adventures in young people's minds.
*Weissmuller's Tarzan career overshadows the fact that he was a dominant freestyle swimmer, with five gold medals and a bronze.
**Though I must admit I was fascinated by the spaceships – hanging in the air giving off sparks and a strange buzzing sound. Many of the sets were recycled from earlier productions, as was the music.
***Buck Rogers isn't quite as good, partly because it had an inferior villain, Killer Kane. I found it hard to take him seriously, since we used to sell a dandelion killer by that name – a cane filled with weed killer.
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Fun Fact } The futuristic looking shirt that Buster dons for Flash Gordon would later reappear on television in the 50s.
Robert Rockwell portraying Krypton scientist Jor-El wears the same shirt in the first episode("Superman on Earth")in the Adventures of Superman TV series.
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The use of bitcoin continues to grow. Recent years have seen a strong increase in the number of transactions in this virtual currency, even though it is only used to a limited extent for the sale and purchase of goods. We maintain our warning that the use of virtual currencies still entails due risks. Banks and payment institutions that use virtual currencies face integrity risks, as purchasers and sellers cannot be identified. Banks and payment institutions should therefore take appropriate measures to ensure sound and ethical business operations if they do wish to offer services involving virtual currencies.
As opposed to the bitcoin itself, the distributed ledger technology underlying it has great potential. Distributed ledger technology is a way of accounting for transactions and balances digitally in a network. In traditional accounting, a central party keeps a ledger, whereas with distributed ledger technology, all participants keep a common ledger in their own decentralised computers. This effectively creates a shared, decentralised ledger (a distributed ledger), allowing transactions to be conducted directly between the originator and the recipient, without intermediaries and in principle at low cost. The technology is potentially fast and always available. Possible applications for consumers and businesses include more efficient and less expensive international money transfers. The data involved are also reliable, because all transactions are decentrally verified. Distributed ledger technology allows consumers themselves to check the ownership of anything from music to diamonds to houses.
With efficiency gains in mind, many banks and other financial institutions are looking into how they can harness this technology for a variety of purposes: a uniform infrastructure and decentralised storage of data requires fewer intermediaries, processes are more streamlined and communication between market participants is easier. The appearance of this technology in the financial sector will also require central banks and supervisory authorities to adjust their approach, whether this involves them using the technology themselves, or its use by financial market operators. We are prepared for these eventualities. If a financial enterprise can demonstrate that it is able, with the help of blockchain technology, to comply with the underlying objective of ensuring sound and ethical business operations, then it can qualify for the regulatory sandbox. This allows us to as far as possible accommodate innovation that contributes to supervisory objectives.
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Molia Tuia serves up trouble for Citrus Hill.
Being at the top of your game means staying on top of your game. The West Valley High School volleyball girls had to keep this in mind on Friday, Oct. 5, for two reasons: 1) It was their senior night in the Mustang gym. 2) The Citrus Hill Hawks were in town for a game. One can safely assume you don't need any further reasons.
The Hawks served first this evening but the Mustangs quickly drew first blood, scoring the first five points in the first set. They would maintain an early lead before the Hawks narrowed the gap. This momentary loss of face didn't faze the Mustangs, as they held off this bird strike to win set one 25-17. The Mustangs continued their winning ways in set two, taking a commanding lead over Citrus Hill. The Hawks tried to dig themselves out of a double-digit deficit and made some headway on several Mustang errors, but their efforts were too little too late. West Valley squeezed set two out of Citrus Hill, 25-13.
With the tally 2-nil West Valley, it was do-or-die for the Hawks. But somewhere in the thought process, the Hawks encountered "bird-brain" and continued to struggle against the Mustangs. In the end, the Mustangs took set three 25-7 to shut out Citrus Hill and secure their spot in the CIF playoffs.
Topping the ACE charts this game was Aubrie Fleming with seven aces, while Molia Tuia killed it in the kills department with 13.
Coach Shaun Pulsipher is definitely proud of his Mustangs today: "We knew it was a huge game for us; As you could tell by the girls chanting, this was a CIF clenching game, we haven't been there for three years. My girls came excited, they were prepared and they showed they wanted it."
Assistant Coach Jamie Palmer is also hopeful for their CIF prospects: "I think we're gonna have a great run this CIF, it's gonna be awesome!"
This being senior night, Pulsipher having moved it up per parental requests, friends and family celebrated these outgoing teammates: Molia Tuia, Carly Alderson, Allie Beckers, Alyssa Chapparosa, Paige Pierce, Noelia Ruiz, Aubrie Fleming and Jordan Hubbell.
Right now, the Lady Mustangs are 6-2 in league and 19-5 overall and are tied for second place in league with Beaumont. But the season's not over yet! The Mustangs still have one more game to go, tomorrow at 4:30 against the Hemet Bulldogs who are 7-nil and 22-7. This could get messy.
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Physicists in Geneva working with the large Hadron Collider recently announced further studies of the elusive Higgs boson "God Particle" showed that when in motion from point A to B the particles seemed to actually arrive at their destination BEFORE they leave, opening up the tantalizing possibility of time travel or perhaps, a 5th dimension. Eight hours into a turbulent flight en route to Bangkok, every molecule in my body is heartily wishing to be a "God Particle" so this pesky 24 hours of travel to Cambodia can be over before it has even begun.
Unfortunately, I still have to live within Einstein's boring old theory of relativity. And in this universe, some things are absolutely constant. For example: all sauces served with my airline meals inevitably wind up on my shirt.
The journey to Cambodia always starts and ends with a very long day. I have made this trip so often, that I take comfort and mark the passage of that day with familiar routines. One of which is still Thai Air's inexplicit need to provide a virtual arsenal of stainless flatware with each meal. Since I don't use three knives, three forks and two spoons on the ground, I've never seen the need to start 30,000 feet in the air. Unless of course, class warfare breaks out out between Economy and Business. In that case, I've got plenty of weapons to defend my turf in 20C. I'm not giving up that fully reclining seat for anything.
The day doesn't get any shorter once I arrive in Bangkok and discover my flight to Cambodia is delayed by 2 hours. I'm irritated at the delay because at the end of the day, there is something important I have to do.
As the afternoon light began to wan, a filthy young beggar holding tight to his baby sister's badly scarred hand became our last interview. I had no idea my life was about to change. In those moments, they were just a story for the camera. An accidental one since I wasn't even suppose to be in that part of town. A 12 year old beggar who cared for his 3 year old sister, whom he had helped deliver when she was born on the sidewalk. She had scars from being dragged by a car the previous spring.
At the end of the day, we followed them "home" to a pallet outside a broken pagoda gate on the filthy sidewalks of Phnom Penh. There was something about these two children that captivated me. The boy's name was Charam. He had never been to school but took great pride in being able to support and care for Lina, his baby sister. He wanted me to know he was not a thief. I wanted to tell their story and had no idea in that moment that their lives would weave themselves into the very fabric of my own. I promised to return the next day.
It is a promise I have continued to keep for 6 years.
I watched as Charam was accepted into an NGO school where he was finally safe and given the chance for something more. I also watched Lina grow up as a beggar on the streets on Phnom Penh. Every time I returned to Cambodia, the first thing I would do once I arrived at the end of the day was search for her, my rootless child of the streets. Anxiety filled escapades that did not always end successfully. However, she always had faith I would return and find her. Time was relative to her. Each time she was located and in my arms, I felt it was a promise fulfilled. Finally, when she was 7 years old, I found an NGO willing to take a chance on her and she began her own journey towards a better future. I also began another journey which tied me even closer to Cambodia when the life and death of another 3 year old named Sum Namg changed my life profoundly once again and inspired the Safe Haven Outreach program for kids with disabilities and medical needs.
Now my life in Cambodia is split in two and like an atom, it causes me to expend a LOT of energy between Phnom Penh, where the Small Voices documentary began and Siem Reap, where Safe Haven Outreach program ended up. As my plane finally descends into Phnom Penh, four months removed from my previous trip, my anxiety is back. Each trip is predictable in its unpredictability. It seems hard to believe I could top the car wreck, motto fires, surgery complications and human trafficking crisis from August but I've learned at the end of the day in Cambodia, anything is possible.
But right now, I have a promise to keep. I dump my stuff into my hotel room at The Quay, ring up my loyal driver Vantha and stagger with sheer exhaustion into his tuk tuk for the drive across town. Luckily, Vantha knows exactly where I need to be so I let me head loll back and try not to drool on the seats. In short order, we've pulled up near the crumbling gates of a sprawling, run down complex that houses a pagoda and school. I hop out of the tuk tuk. Exhaustion falls away and my old friend anxiety worms its way subtly into my stomach. Hundreds of kids mill about as the final bell rings. I'm concerned with finding only one.
Lina happily greets me with a hug and a kiss and taking my hand, she rambles on about her day at school as we walk towards Aziza's Place where she now lives. She doesn't miss a beat, simply taking it in stride that I was waiting for her after school, as if there wasn't a four month hiatus since I last was waiting in the school yard. For Lina, a child of the streets who rarely sees her parents, let alone her Mak Tor, on a regular basis, time is relative. I promised I would be back. I was there.


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Tracked 107mm Mortar Carrier Vehicle
The M106 Mortar Carrier vehicle was an offshoot of the storied M113 APC line - incorporating a powerful 107mm field mortar.
Authored By: Staff Writer | Edited: 4/17/2019
Credit: Historical image from the U.S. Army archives; Public Domain.
Manufacturer(s): FMC Corporation - USA
Production: 2,176
Capabilities: Fire Support/Assault/Breaching; Support/Special Purpose;
Length: 16.08 ft (4.9 m)
Width: 8.86 ft (2.7 m)
Height: 7.22 ft (2.2 m)
Weight: 15 tons (13,500 kg); 29,762 lb
Power: M106A1: 1 x Detroit Diesel 6V53T diesel-fueled engine developing 210 horsepower and driving conventional track-and-wheel arrangement.
Speed: 42 mph (68 kph)
Range: 289 miles (465 km)
Operators: Argentina; Greece; Peru; Thailand; United States (retired)
The M106 was a Cold War-era (1947-1991) dedicated mortar carrier of the United States Army before being supplanted by the more modern M1064 series in same battlefield role. The type was built upon the existing - and proven - framework of the classic M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC), a ubiquitous tracked system seeing service all over the globe primarily with American allies. The M106, for its part in military history, was featured in the fire-support role, capable of lobbing various 107mm projectiles through Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) fire in support of infantry and mechanized ground actions.
The M106 conversion was handled by FMC Corporation of the United States. The vehicles saw combat service in the Vietnam War (1955-1975).
The variant was born through the developmental-minded "XM106" form and entered service as the "M106". The primary change to the M113 was the introduction of a rounded, two-piece roof hatch which sat over the 107mm (4.2") M30 (or Soltam M-65) heavy field mortar at the rear of the vehicle. The mortar sat atop a 90-degree (right and left of centerline) traversing turntable (rear-facing fire) and could be dismounted for use as a standard mortar weapon system as needed. The vehicle's exterior port side hull wall was used to carry the baseplate and bipod support structure for this feature.
Up to 88 x 107mm projectiles could be carried on board the vehicle and this collection amounted to a mix of High-Explosive (HE) shells along with illumination and White Phosphorous (WP) types.
Beyond the 107mm mortar weapon was a single, optional 12.7mm Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) installed at the commander's cupola over the center of the hull roof. This gave the operator complete 360-degree coverage around the vehicle to counter both aerial and lightly-armored threats (as well as infantry). Vision blocks were embedded into the cupola for situational awareness when "buttoned down". Armor protection was of aluminum, suitable against only small arms fire. The vehicle's overall weight reached nearly 13 tons and dimensions included an overall length of 16.2 feet, a width of 9 feet, and a height of 7.3 feet.
Internally, drive power came from the M113's Chrysler gas-powered engine but this changed to a Detroit Diesel 6V53T diesel-fueled engine of 210 horsepower to drive the conventional track-and-wheel arrangement once the M113 line switched to the diesel units. This change then gave rise to the "M106A1" variant in turn. The M106A1's powertrain included the Allison X200-4 series transmission.
All told, the vehicle could range out (on roads) to nearly 290 miles. The track-and-wheel running gear gave it a good steady pace to keep up with accompanying mechanized forces.
M106 total production reached 860 units of which the United States Army procured 589 and 271 being shipped to foreign allies (the series was not widely exported, ending up in the inventories of just Argentina, Greece, and Peru). The follow-up M106A1 was built to the tune of 1,316 units with the U.S. Army taking into inventory 982 and the remaining 334 shipped overseas.
With the M113A2 APC's introduction into service, the M106 line was, again upgraded in turn resulting in the "M106A2" carrying the same improvements and capabilities as the APC form.
The United States no longer operates the M106. The replacement M1064 vehicles entered service in 1990 and have only seen export to ally Lithuania.
1 x 107mm M30 OR Soltam M-65 heavy field mortar.
1 x 12.7mm Browning M2 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG) at commander's cupola.
Ammunition:
88 x 107mm mortar projectiles.
500 x 12.7mm ammunition (estimated).
Variants / Models
• M106 - Base Series Designation; initial service form with Chrysler gas engines; 860 units completed.
• XM106 - Developmental model designation.
• M106A1 - Detroit Diesel engines introduced with M113A1 production series; 982 built for U.S. service and further 334 shipped overseas.
• M106A2 - Improved form based in the M113A2 production series.


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One of the high horizontal beams connecting two of the columns, however, offered the perfect sightline for those wanting to watch a game or movie from the opposite kitchen island or outdoor furniture grouping.
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Richard Hudson remembers his introduction as a boy to the family auto care business: "I was small enough – and car hoods were strong enough – that the other attendants would boost me up on the hood to clean the windshields."
Menlo Park was still a bit of a country town when Richard's dad, Raymond Hudson, decided to start his business at the fabled crossroad of Middle and El Camino in Menlo Park in 1955. "El Camino was a two-lane road," says Richard. "There were orange groves all around and a big cement plant on Ravenswood."
Richard, 48, chose to follow in his Dad's footsteps when he graduated from St. Francis High School, working his way up from windshield cleaner to proprietor. "Dad understood that this is a business based on trust, and I'm proud to say that we are still serving families that were my Dad's customers – in some cases we are seeing the fourth generation."
Richard has seen big changes in the nature of auto care since he started working at his dad's two-pump, two-bay Shell franchise. "With credit cards at the pump, we don't really have a relationship with gas customers the way we once did." Accordingly, when Shell approached Hudson to purchase the family's gas and snack shop operations, he accepted the offer, freeing him to focus on maintaining his customers' cars in a gleaming, modern, 4-bay facility featuring the latest in computerized auto diagnostics.
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Did YouGov Get Their Labour Leadership Poll Wrong?
In 2015 pollsters, including YouGov called the General Election wrong. At 10pm on May 5th the broadcasters delivered a huge shock to Ed Miliband --and the rest of us. If Reg Race is right, Jeremy Corbyn is destined to get a similar shock at around 10am on September 24th.
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05/09/2016 04:19am BST | Updated September 5, 2017
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As you may have noticed, Ed Miliband is still MP for Doncaster North. He won with a majority over 10,000 in May 2015 - six months after a sensational constituency poll by Lord Ashcroft suggested he could lose the seat.
Ashcroft did, of course, quickly disown his poll and apologise to the then Labour leader after some forensic psephology by YouGov's eagle-eyed number cruncher Anthony Wells, who spotted flaws in the way Ashcroft's team had weighted their data.
It is now YouGov who are under the forensic microscope. Saving Labour's number cruncher Reg Race thinks there are serious flaws in their methodology for the Labour leadership poll.
Race was startled by last week's poll for the Times pointing to a Jeremy Corbyn landslide bigger than last year's. This contrasted with a projection he had produced for Saving Labour supporters showing Owen Smith with a narrow lead.
What particularly surprised Race was YouGov's findings that Corbyn was ahead among trade union affiliates by 62% to 38% and among those who had paid £25 to become registered supporters by an extraordinary 74% to 26%.
How could this be right, pondered Race, when Saving Labour had recruited 120,000 new anti-Corbyn voters in these categories? The new recruits had been digitally tracked from Saving Labour to the Labour party website. At that end party officials could see where new recruits had come from. Party sources confirmed to Race that Saving Labour were comfortably ahead.
As a veteran of 30 years of polling experience he concluded there was something wrong with YouGov's methodology. He contacted YouGov with detailed questions about how they had constructed their panel.
He acknowledges that "YouGov is highly professional and has a good track record in polling the general public and in previous Labour elections." He expresses sympathy with them in the uniquely difficult task of polling the complexities of the Labour selectorate
He stresses that "unlike in public elections pollsters do not have access to the Labour party's lists of members and supporters, and can therefore not construct an accurate sample."
For their part YouGov say their result is robust but "obviously, polling of this nature is incredibly complex and any poll is just a snapshot of opinion at that time. Each poll comes with a margin of error and there is far more room for error with research of this type."
Race's contention is that because YouGov has no direct access to the 120,000 new voters they failed to capture a highly significant in the selectorate. "They simply do not know who these voters are", he says. "They are very different in composition and political views from previous groups that have been polled. The electorate has been significantly changed."
A key fact that emerged during his discussions with YouGov was that just 50 of the respondents in the Times poll had joined the YouGov panel since the referendum on June 23rd. "This is precisely the period in which Saving Labour was active", says Race. We recruited 120,000 people in a brief period in July and early August. Almost all of these would NOT have been on YOUGOV's panel. It seems certain therefore that their panel of registered supporters is highly unrepresentative."
The crucial point about registered supporters is that those who paid £3 to vote in 2015 lost their right to vote unless they had become full members or paid £25 to re-register in a narrow window between 18th and 20th July.
It emerged that YouGov revised their methodology following the publications of the Saving Labour projection of the result. Race says, however, "we believe they action they took made their problem worse not better."
What YouGov did was to identify people in their existing panel who said that they had been registered supporters last year and who had been Party members in the group struck off by the Appeal Court decision and added them to the registered supporter group. But these two groups are known to be heavily pro-Corbyn. The effect says Race, was that YouGov "compounded their sampling problem rather than solving it." He reaffirms his view that "The election is too close to call."
Don Brind is a former former BBC political correspondent and Labour Press officer. He is a supporter of Saving Labour.
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