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Souda Refugee Camp, Greece, Part 2: The Tiny Woman and New Lives
If you are joining my Souda posts for the first time here, please see Souda Refugee Camp Part 1 for an introduction to this series ... to Souda camp, what it is and what I'm doing there.
Today I will select three things to share:
(1) A refugee from Syria with a bullet that's been lodged in his leg for five months, it recently moved under his skin and was causing him such pain that he couldn't walk; he'd been lying in his tent for the last five days without moving. A volunteer, Jan, discovered this situation and brought it to the attention of one of the camp doctors who said he needed to go to hospital but because it wasn't a life-threatening (??) emergency, the doctor wouldn't call an ambulance for him, said he could just take the bus. The bus? Seriously? When you cannot walk? Jan, pretty beside himself with anger, ordered a taxi with his own money, found a translator for the man and took him to the hospital himself.
(2) We were just closing down the women's clothing "store" (same as the kid's clothes store the other day -- 3 items per woman, not to be stingy but to ensure enough for everybody) and preparing to serve lunch when she materialized at the fence. She was tiny, almost child-sized. She wore jet-black pants underneath a long, dark-blue form-fitted coat that came down to her calves, with striking gold buttons and gold trim on the cuffs and seams, up to a high collar. It was a style I'd seen commonly when I was a tourist in Iran. Her delicate head was swabbed in a simple white hijab, but it was striking against the blue high collar. Dainty shoes cradled her dainty feet.
I accompanied the tiny woman in at the last minute. She had arrived on the island a couple days earlier, new to the store situation, and I'm pretty sure I didn't get through to her that she could take three items of clothing between the tops and bottoms. We left out the crates with size small clothing in them for her, and while she perused the clothes that once belonged to someone else, with me at her side, the other volunteers were already re-positioning the fencing around the tables to start arranging and preparing for lunch distribution. The tiny woman rifled through the pants and shirts, picking one or two out and holding them up, and putting them back. I watched her rather intently behind my mirrored sunglasses as a range of expressions crossed her face.
Her face told me that when she heard from other women in camp there were new clothes available, that she could go pick something out, she envisioned a selection as stylish as the clothes she wore. Rifling through the crates, a reality began to set in on her that these weren't new clothes, they were cast-offs. She dug almost frantically to the bottom of the crates. Her movements were not frantic, no. It was only because I was focusing on her face that I could see her composed movements straining against her dignity like a horse ready to break out of its gate. In her homeland, if she saw this crate at a bazaar she'd want to toss the clothing to the ground and demand, "What the hell?" She looked desperate ... Is this really all there is to choose from? Finally she selected only one item -- a shirt, the cutest one, which is the one I would have chosen for myself. It must take awhile for a woman to let go of her pride in her appearance, her individual sense of fashion, to be able to pick out clothes that simply fit reasonably to supply a rotation so that clothes can be washed from time to time.
I could see the first light of the enormity of her change of situation dawning on the tiny woman as she walked away from the crate clutching the one shirt. By now the fencing had been put together to close off the tables completely in anticipation of the food trucks arriving. I had to open a slot for her to step through the fencing. It was strangely one of the hardest things I've had to do yet. She walked back toward the tents, the epitome of aloneness, confusion, vulnerability, abrupt change. I couldn't take her by the hand and flee with her to my rental car, drive her to my hotel room and subsequently take her home to a new life in my luggage. I understood with more clarity my own situation then as a volunteer: that I needed to *act* with compassion but *observe* with dispassion. Otherwise I'd be crushed.
(3) Today at lunch was the most crowded I have ever seen the food line and we ran completely out of food before anyone from the Vial (military-run) camp got a single meal, though they waited in line, some for almost two hours. All accounts I've heard of the meals at Vial include words such as or similar to "gruel," and inevitably, "maggots." The U.N. runs a bus service during the daytime between Vial and Souda, and many Vial refugees come here hoping for a better meal. But they are only allowed a meal if there is food leftover after Souda residents have been given a window of about 1.5 to 2 hour to fill their cards.
These fellows below often came -- the man on the right was Syrian, with a degree in architecture and specialized in "green" architecture, designing solar and energy-efficient buildings. He spoke good English and had a very good humor. I first met him when I was manning the women's food line, which was often empty while the men's was full, and he came into it not realizing the distinction of this line. This was not uncommon to happen and, always presuming people did not speak English until they proved otherwise, I "explained" this was the women's line by charading with my hands along my own body a woman's figure with long hair and womanly curves. Once he realized his mistake, we had a very good laugh and then we began speaking.
This day, even people with Souda camp meal cards who came up near the end of the distribution period, as if it's not demoralizing enough handing over a card telling the purple-rubber-gloved stranger how much food they're allowed, when they're capable of earning their own and would love to be in their homeland doing so, were met with purple-gloved strangers shrugging their shoulders and saying, "Sorry."
Maybe they know enough English to understand the word, maybe they only understand the gesture – the hands held out uselessly at the end of the shrugging shoulders. Most of the regulars from both Souda and Vial that I've seen get turned away at the end of a distribution period are gracious, and some even say "thank you" to the purple gloves turning them away. They can plainly see we have no food left, but if I were in their shoes, I'm not sure how gracious I'd be.
Yet, in spite of all that, the tiny woman new to the island clutching her one shirt in her hand as she stepped through the gap in the fence still haunts me most.
Today … of course several notable things happened. But here's what's standing out foremost in my mind as I'm settling down toward bedtime with a glass of mastiha liquor -- made from the sap of a tree that grows only here on Chios and nowhere else -- and a bag of stale popcorn. There are two Greek twin brothers who show up in camp daily and help out with the refugee efforts. One of them rides this insanely artistically duded-up Harley motorcycle. The other rides a scooter. So funny. But the brothers both look like pirates.
Erik and I were standing next to the motorcycle in the parking lot outside the camp waiting for another volunteer to whom we were going to give a lift. An Afghani refugee and Erik struck up a conversation about the motorcycle, and Erik mentioned the motorcycles that we have (so I was soon included in the conversation).
The Afghani said he has three, named them each. I first thought to myself, how does he have three motorcycles here? I quickly then figured he meant that he *had* in the past three motorcycles. But then he clarified in the course of conversation that his three bikes were still in a garage at his mother's house in Afghanistan. His younger brother (17 years old) was tasked with keeping them safe in the garage and his mother had the keys so that his brother wouldn't be tempted to ride them.
He went on and on about how nobody at all was allowed to touch them. The whole time in the back of my mind I'm wondering what the point is, but eventually he revealed that he hoped (I believe secretly *presumed*) that in "maybe ten years or so" he can return home and be reunited with not only his human family but his beloved motorcycles. It was a stab in the heart to realize the hopes that keep people going. Ten years ago it surely seemed reasonable to presume that by 2017 things would be at relative peace; this young man would have been but a teenager, surely never guessing he'd be here separated from his family in a refugee camp. Is it reasonable to presume that in 2027 relative peace will have arrived and he can be reunited with his home? I'm skeptical. But all he has is hope.
There are several pregnant women in camp. I feel almost physically ill to think that they may birth those babies in this camp -- where people are crammed in so tightly together, with nothing resembling adequate sanitation, and plagued by rats (people in the tents say they run over their pillows at night). And even more ill to realize this is a place so much better than the one they came from.
We volunteers must leave the camp as soon as we've finished handing out dinner portions, which is typically by 8:15 pm. (because we were specifically invited to the wedding in Part 1, three of us stayed in later that one night) But we hear from *every*body that every night there are fights in the camp and on the U.N. bus back to Vial, down south. It's so hard to figure because men seem quite well-behaved here (except in the tea line they can get unruly). Everyone says it's the Afghanis who are aggressive and start the fights. I also had in the back of my mind the whole time talking with this motorcycle enthusiast, is he one of the fighters?
I'm so surprised that everyone here doesn't get along in a spirit of solidarity. But there you go -- there it is right there, the senseless inanity of ethnic, religious, political, tribal, etc. conflict. The refugees are ultimately in the same damn boat and still have to fight within it. For the most part I feel sad for the people here, but there are times when I feel angry with them -- even while they're telling me their futile hopes, even while they stand humbly in line with a piece of paper that tells them how many plastic cups of yogurt, how many tomatoes and pieces of pita bread they're entitled to have me plop in a bag with my purple rubber-gloved hands.
This morning the tiny, slight woman who touched my sad heart at the clothing "store" the other day was in the breakfast line; it would appear she is indeed all alone, as she presented only one camp card allotting her only one portion of food. Please don't turn me into the authorities when I kidnap her and bring her home in my suitcase. The odds of being granted asylum in Greece seem heart-breakingly slim, but I don't know the actual percentage who receive it, could be greater than I perceive. Though we did see our favorite teenage boy approved and sent off to Athens yesterday. It was a wee bit sad for us, he being one of our favorites here, such a nice, friendly kid, maybe 14 years old.
Why does it say "not Ali Baba" on his arm? Well, Erik wrote it there as a joke. This phrase circulates around the camp constantly, that someone is or is not an Ali Baba ... in reference to the Arabian Nights folktale of Ali Baba, who steals a bag of coins. So in other words, Ali Baba is their synonym for "thief." Most of the time this was used in a playful manner ... there were several types of jokes and practical jokes that just never seemed to cease amusing the male refugees. Ali Baba references as one example.
The two practical jokes that apparently never got old to them were (1) to come up behind a person, put their arm around behind their back and tap them on the shoulder opposite of the one they stood beside, causing the "victim" to look to the left, say, only to find nobody there and then look to the right to find the jokester laughing; (2) to point to the "victim's" chest, causing them to look down (for me, it would be people pointing to my necklace) and then the jokester flips his finger up to flick the victim's nose. I seriously can't guess at the number of times these pranks were played on me and all the volunteers (or at least the female ones). Yes, of course I got wise to it after awhile, but they derived such amusement from me falling victim that more often than not I pretended to fall for it anyway.
Yesterday one of the Drops coordinators visited a Syrian refugee who is here with her infant child, she's trying to get asylum in Europe so that she can send for her son who is still in Syria and desperately needs an operation beyond the hospital's capability in her home city. If she is denied asylum, she will go home to watch her son die. She was rejected in her first interview today; she will appeal.
There was a sweet gray kitty wandering near the food tent today. Far skinnier than ones who hang out in village centers, but not emaciated. I picked him up to pet and noticed he had numerous ticks on his face. He purred and purred as I and another volunteer petted him; he crawled into her lap, and amazingly, he stayed still for me to pull out all the ticks I could see on his face (they hadn't burrowed too deeply yet).
A refugee saw us with the cat, came up and told us he "knows all about animals," picked up Little Gray and basically gave him an annual exam (minus the temperature-taking) -- checking his tummy, internal organs, fur, teeth, ears, etc. (and discovered and removed a couple more ticks inside the ears). He clearly is a veterinarian or vet tech or something. He had snatched the kitty away from me with a certain relish, almost glee, in getting to use his skills for a moment. I try to imagine Mister and Trixy's vet sleeping in a tent, cold in winter, hot in summer, no animals to poke and prod and say how pretty they are.
A couple days ago, Erik and I got a treat (surely because we have a car and can drive to the other camp). We were told to go help another NGO up at Vial who had arranged a soccer tournament. Our coordinator said, "just do whatever they tell you they need help with." All we did was keep score. Which of course everyone already knew, haha. So basically we got to watch a bunch of soccer matches.
It was only a tiny field, but this NGO, Samaritan's Purse, had found some used astroturf, put it on an otherwise unused patch of dirt, acquired goal nets and even poured concrete for a small grandstand complete with a tin metal roof. All things considered, it was a pretty cool addition to the camp. But the coolest thing, one of the SP people told us, is that the teams (only three people plus goalie because of the small field) were composed of people of different nationalities and ethnicity playing together on a team. So this was cool and encouraging.
Then we came back to Souda and watched a fight break out between two refugees. It happened right near the food tent and the NRC and Drops evacuated all of us volunteers back to the parking lot until things simmered down. We tried to ascertain what sparked the blows, but nobody could or would say, just that "they would be friends later."
Every day is a spectrum of events and emotions.
At Souda. If only these tents represented vacation -- camping and leisure activities -- rather than uprooted and displaced lives, the totality of peoples' homes, it would be a rather lovely scene. The blue sky and the blue water and the flowers coming into bountiful bloom. The ancient city walls. It would be pretty if it wasn't hell. When I was a kid, I liked to pretend I lived in a camping tent and that all my belongings fit in there. It seemed fun to be so minimalist, to imagine everything I owned fitting into that one-room space (I think it was a 4-man tent). Now I see this thrust upon people as their reality, not a pretend game, people who once had so much more.
The weather changed from winter to summer pretty much overnight. Our first days here were cold and windy, now it's hot and sunny. The first few days, I wore every layer of clothing I had, plus some of Erik's; the last couple days I've been sweating it out in a tee-shirt. As the weather warmed, men began jumping into the ocean to cool off.
The Drops also have a small kit of fishing gear -- a couple poles, fishing line and spinners and hooks. Any day that someone wanted to fish, they could use the supplies at the end of the pier. But it was up to them to find bait for the hooks. One day when Erik and I were on fishing duty, there was no bait available for a man who wanted to fish. He thought maybe we could use crabs from the beach as bait. So we went on a crab hunt along the rocks at the sea's edge. I requisitioned a discarded coffee cup to store them in as they were caught. It was fun looking for the crabs, then watching the guy try to catch the zippy little boogers once we spotted one. It gave me a mild case of heebie-jeebies, though, to be holding this cup of hyperactive crabs who I occasionally had to push back down into the cup with a stick to prevent escapism. But it was a new way to pass the time for awhile. The number one complaint of the primary refugee demographic -- single males (whether they are actually single or traveling without their family) -- isn't the shitty food or the crappy crowded tents or the weather, cold or hot, it's boredom. They're bored out of their skulls waiting for bureaucracy to process them. Waiting for bureaucracy to even notice them.
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Host and resident bacteria join forces to control fungi in plant roots
Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research
In nature, the roots of healthy plants are colonized by complex microbial communities of bacteria and filamentous eukaryotes (i.e., fungi and oomycetes), the composition of which profoundly influences plant health. Maintaining a microbial equilibrium in their roots is very important for plants to remain healthy, however, the means by which this is achieved by plants is still largely unknown. Now, in a new study published in PNAS, Stéphane Hacquard and his colleagues from the Department of Plant-Microbe Interactions at the MPIPZ in Cologne, Germany, shed light on the host and microbial factors that are required to maintain a beneficial relationship between plant roots and their diverse microbial partners.
To tackle this research question, the first author of the study Katarzyna W. Wolinska used a complex microbial community comprising 183 bacteria (B), 25 fungi (F), and 6 oomycetes (O) that were isolated from roots of healthy Arabidopsis thaliana (Thale Cress) plants. She observed that this complex BFO community was beneficial for plant growth compared to sterile control plants grown in the absence of microbes. The authors then hypothesized that inactivation of specific components of the plant innate immune system — the system responsible for tackling pathogen infection — would result in an altered microbial equilibrium in roots, thereby affecting plant health. Consistent with this hypothesis, the beneficial BFO community was no longer beneficial in several of the immunocompromised mutant plants. In particular, inactivation of two plant host genes involved in tryptophan-derived specialized antimicrobials was sufficient to turn the beneficial BFO community into a detrimental community that negatively affected plant performance. The scientists then examined the presence of abnormal microbial signatures in the roots of these immunocompromised plants and found that the major factor that could explain growth differences across plants was the fungal load in their roots. This observation led to the conclusion that the fungal burden observed in the plant roots, in the absence of an intact immune system, was likely the primary cause explaining the shift from a healthy to an unhealthy state.
To further explore whether the presence of fungi in the plant root microbial community was indeed the direct cause of disease observed in the plants, K. W. Wolinska used the B, F, and O communities separately or in various combinations (BO, FO, BF, BFO) and observed that the presence of the fungi was indeed necessary to induce the unhealthy state of the plants. These results indicate that the production of specialized anti-fungal molecules from the host plant during tryptophan metabolism is key to maintain a healthy fungal equilibrium in plant roots. Interestingly, these anti-fungal molecules appeared to be insufficient in fully protecting plants from fungi in the absence of bacteria, even in the presence of a fully intact immune system.
According to the head of the study, Stéphane Hacquard, "Our results illustrate how host- and bacterium-encoded functions act in concert to maintain fungi in check in Arabidopsis roots, thereby promoting plant health and maintaining growth-promoting activities of multi-kingdom microbial communities. The observation that the protective activity of the bacterial community is as important as the host innate immune branch involving tryptophan-derived specialized metabolites for controlling fungi is remarkable. It indicates that the plant immune system is insufficient to fully protect plants from fungal burden, and that bacterial partners residing in roots provide an additional layer of protection, which is needed for plant survival."
These findings have important applications for promoting plant health and turning potentially harmful fungi into beneficial isolates. By applying the knowledge gained in this study it would now be conceivable to design mixed bacterial-fungal synthetic communities that are expected to provide great fitness benefits to the host.
Katarzyna W. Wolinska, Nathan Vannier, Thorsten Thiergart, Brigitte Pickel, Sjoerd Gremmen, Anna Piasecka, Mariola Piślewska-Bednarek, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, Youssef Belkhadir, Paweł Bednarek, Stéphane Hacquard. Tryptophan metabolism and bacterial commensals prevent fungal dysbiosis in Arabidopsis roots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021; 118 (49): e2111521118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111521118
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A board-certified pediatrician, Dr. Pai is a Fellow of the the American Academy of Pediatrics and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In 2015, he was the first-ever recipient of the Community Education Network Outstanding Preceptor Award at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh.
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Q: Is this design over-engineering? Would you consider using an interface and polymorphism to extend this design to be over-engineering?
Pros

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*Extensible

*Encapsulated

*Auto-magical

Cons

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*Lots more code

*A little bulky to use (you have to use a different type name to get the different behaviour)

*May be less efficient to use due to virtual function calls.

My instinct is that, for this particular case, a single if statement and a boolean flag is the superior option, but not everybody has agreed with me.
What do you think?

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// Connects to a local pipe, and naturally
// owns that connection
struct CommandWriter
{
   CommandWriter() {
       fd = open("/path/to/fifo", O_WRONLY);
       if (fd == -1)
           throw std::runtime_error("Could not establish connection to FIFO");
   };

   ~CommandWriter() {
       close(fd);
   };

   // (Has useful member functions here)

   private:
      CommandWriter(CommandWriter const&); // Not relevant to question

      int fd;
};

Extended with a boolean flag
// Adds a constructor where an FD can be specified
// from the call site, and no ownership is taken
struct CommandWriter
{
   CommandWriter() : owns_fd(true) {
       fd = open("/path/to/fifo", O_WRONLY);
       if (fd == -1)
           throw std::runtime_error("Could not establish connection to FIFO");
   };

   CommandWriter(int fd) : fd(fd), owns_fd(false) {};

   ~CommandWriter() {
       if (owns_fd)
          close(fd);
   };

   // (Has useful member functions here)

   private:
      CommandWriter(CommandWriter const&); // Not relevant to question

      int  fd;
      bool owns_fd;
};

Extended with polymorphism
// Sorry for the poor type names!
struct ICommandWriter
{
   virtual ICommandWriter() {}

   // (Has useful member functions here)

   private:
      ICommandWriter(ICommandWriter const&); // Not relevant to question
};

struct CommandWriter_Connects : ICommandWriter
{
   CommandWriter_Connects() {
       fd = open("/path/to/fifo", O_WRONLY);
       if (fd == -1)
           throw std::runtime_error("Could not establish connection to FIFO");
   };

   ~CommandWriter_Connects() {
       close(fd);
   };

   // (Has useful member functions here)

   private:
      int fd;
};

struct CommandWriter_Uses : ICommandWriter
{
   CommandWriter_Uses(int fd) : fd(fd) {};

   ~CommandWriter_Uses() {};

   // (Has useful member functions here)

   private:
      int fd;
};

A: It depends on what you will use it for.  If you have a big project and will use variants of the class many times then certainly it makes sense to make it flexible.
A rule of thumb:

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*Use it once - just keep it simple.

*Use it twice - Keep it simple and make a copy and change as needed

*Three or more - Generalise it and make it work for all cases.

Of course there are many exceptions, but that is a starting point.

A: Why don't you just duplicate file descriptor? That way, when object is destroyed, you can just close() it and let the operating system take care of the rest:
CommandWriter::CommandWriter (int _fd) : fd (dup (_fd)) {};

Adding a boolean flag for this is inventing a wheel. And using polymorphism is building a frigging helicopter.

A: I would agree with you, that the boolean solution is appropriate here, if you do not expect to add further features in the future.
An alternative solution would be to use the Strategy Pattern. This is similar to the custom deleters for Boost's smart-pointers.

A: I'd consider that over-engineering. The second code snippet is much more concise and it's use is straightforward. Using flags to denote ownership over objects is not totally idiomatic, but it can be seen quite often so I think most people will understand the intent quickly.
Keep it Simple and Stupid.
(I would prefer the polymorphic solution if it is certain that further code paths need to be added in future).

A: I would prefer the Interface. The reason is, that it is clear to the user of the interface, that there can be various implementations. Maybe in a month you need to implement a CommandWriter that writes to a db instead of a file (sure you could even subclass the boolean version, but it's not that obvious to the user as an interface).
Also for unit testing i would say the Interface is the cleaner approach because you can implement a stub for the classes you want to test and which use ICommandWriter.
But as mentioned above, if you intend to use it only once, just take the version with the boolean flag.

A: In the polymorphism code:
// (Has useful member functions here)

Does it, though? If there are a lot of member functions in all three places (base class and two derived classes), then an owning and a non-owning writer are really quite different beasts. It probably is best then to separate them into different classes, rather than having a class that behaves very differently according to a boolean flag set in it according to which constructor was called.
I suspect though that all the useful member functions are in the base class, and all the derived classes do is change construction and destruction. In that case, I would want a smart_fd class that holds an fd and knows how to dispose of it (you need two cases - call close or do nothing. shared_ptr allows an arbitrary destructing function, but you probably don't need that here).
Then have one of those in your CommandWriter, and initialize that differently according to which constructor of CommandWriter is called.
Rule of thumb: classes that manage resources should do nothing else.

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Museum of Flight adds P-2V to fleet
July 5, 2017 Greybull Standard Featured, News Comments Off on Museum of Flight adds P-2V to fleet
Nearly 1,400 people have passed through the gates of the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting since it opened for the season five weeks ago at the Greybull airport, including a season-high daily total of 75 on Saturday, July 1.
"It's not too common to find places like this, where you can go right up the planes," said museum employee Vanessa Simoneau while helping a tourist who was perusing T-shirt and book offerings. "Everybody seems to enjoy it."
The museum has been a work in progress since it opened in 2014. The Greybull Area Chamber of Commerce played a key role in that, but the most significant contributors since day one have been Bob and Becky Hawkins.
For them, it's a labor of love. So it was with great excitement earlier this season that they rolled out the newest addition to the museum's fleet of aircraft. No museum of aerial firefighting can be complete without a Neptune P-2V. Now it has one, thanks to a donation from Richard Camp of Lewes, Del.
"We had two (P-2Vs) that we used for firefighting, but when H&P went away, those two went in the sale to Neptune Aviation in Montana," said Hawkins.
The P-2V that is now at the museum was never used for firefighting by H&P. When Camp bought it, his intent was to restore the craft and make it air-worthy, but that didn't work out. So, after talking with John Olin about it, Camp decided to donate it to the museum.
The history of the P-2V is outlined in a brochure distributed out at the museum. It was "a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft" that was developed for the United States Navy by Lockheed.
"The concept began early in World War II, but was considered a low priority compared to other aircraft. The first Neptune aircraft was accepted into military service in 1947. The Neptune was designed to be land-based and never made a carrier landing. The military retired the P-2V in 1984.
"The P-2V has been used by several civilian firefighting operators and is used today as an air tanker. This year, 2017, is to be the last year the United States Forest Service will use the Neptune for firefighting."
Hawkins said that with the Forest Service making the switch to turbine- or jet-propelled craft this year, it's a good time to celebrate old planes like the P-2V. "This type of aircraft has played a big role in the history of firefighting."
Hawkins said that even though the museum now has one, he will continue to search for a P-2V that was actually used for firefighting. "We might have an opportunity to do that within the next year," he hinted.
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Getting one million random Twitter followers won't do the job. Getting 1000 raving, engaged Twitter followers who can't wait for your next tweet to be the first to comment and share it, is a completely different story.
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Auburn University at Montgomery claims status as top university in the River Region and as one of the top public regional universities in the state.
Auburn University at Montgomery | Montgomery, Ala., Sep. 13, 2018 – U.S. News & World Report recognized Auburn University at Montgomery among its top regional universities in the South in its annual survey of the nation's best educational institutions.
Among regional universities in the South, AUM ranked 22nd for the quality of its undergraduate teaching program and 38th among public institutions. AUM's College of Business also ranked among the business schools nationally. U.S. News & World Report based its 2019 rankings on surveys of higher education peers and high school counselors, as well as data detailing faculty resources, student retention and graduation rates and admission selectivity.
AUM's retention and graduate rates have been strengthened by new scholarship programs that ease costs of attendance, as well as through resources like the Warhawk Academic Success Center. In academic year 2017-18, AUM awarded $6.3 million in scholarships.
Earning a place among the top 25 regional universities in the South for putting a particular focus on undergraduate teaching highlights AUM's strides in the area, such as the university's Virtual Avatar Laboratory (VAL), the state's only virtual-human hybrid learning and teaching environment, and its National Science Foundation-funded Logan Project, dedicated to mathematics learning and evaluation processes for learners with severe vision and mobility limitations.
In its assessment of regional universities, U.S. News & World Report weighed such factors as class sizes, student-to-faculty ratios and average starting salaries for graduates. Nearly 50 percent of AUM's classes include fewer than 20 students, with the university boasting a 16:1 student-to-faculty ratio. The median starting salary for alumni included in the publication's 2019 survey was $44,100.
The U.S. News & World Report ranking adds to a list of accolades that includes recognition from The Princeton Review as one of the best colleges in the Southeast.
Established in 1967, Auburn University at Montgomery is a four-year regional institution accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Offering more than 90 undergraduate and graduate degree programs and certifications, AUM is ranked among the South's top universities by U.S. News and World Report and was named one of the best colleges in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. Consistently chosen as the best university in the area, Auburn Montgomery provides students with detailed knowledge and hands-on, practical experience, often from professionals in the field. Classes are offered in person on our verdant campus in Alabama's vibrant state capital or online.


Donald J. Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to comment on the news that a cousin of Dwyane Wade, the N.B.A. star, had been shot and killed in Chicago, linking the death to his effort to win support from African-American voters.
Mr. Trump, who initially did not express sympathy for the family of the slain woman, Nykea Aldridge, later in the day posted a Twitter message offering his condolences.
His case to black voters is that minority communities have suffered because of failed Democratic policies, and that they should support his candidacy.
"What the hell do you have to lose?" he has said frequently over the past week in a rhetorical question aimed at African-Americans.
He has paid particular attention to Chicago, a city plagued by a seemingly endless spate of shootings and gun violence.
His comments regarding the Wade family drew near instant condemnation on social media, though the Wade family had not released a statement in response to Mr. Trump's message.


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I've had the pleasure of photographing the Gansens since the fall of 2011. I've been able to watch these kiddos grow into the most handsome young men and beautiful, respectable young ladies! You would think with 9 kids, that they would be accompanied by pure chaos, but that is so far from the truth! These kids are so incredibly well-behaved and they love and respect each other so much! Molly and Chris are super laid back and have very calming personalities that just put you right at ease. I always have so much fun with these guys and look forward to more time with them in the future!
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In this paper, linear-elastic Rayleigh beams with a periodic structure are considered. Dynamics of such beams is described by partial differential equations with non-continuous highly oscillating coefficients. The analysis of dynamic problems using the aforementioned equations is very often problematic to perform. Thus, other simplified models of Rayleigh beams are proposed. Some of these models are based on the concept of the effective stiffness. Among them, one can distinguish the theory of asymptotic homogenization. However, in these models, the size of the mesostructure parameter (the size of a periodicity cell) is often neglected. Therefore, a non-asymptotic averaged model of the periodic beam is introduced, called the tolerance model, which is derived by applying the tolerance averaging technique (TA). The obtained tolerance model equations have constant coefficients, and in contrast to other averaged models, some of them depend on the size of the periodicity cell.
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China has surged past the UK on a list of the most attractive countries for investment in renewable energy.
It is the first time China has made the top five in the five-year history of the Ernst & Young Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices.
The latest figures, which track and score global investment in renewable energy in the first six months of 2008, show the UK has dropped from fourth to sixth place in the all renewables index, with China taking fourth place instead.
The US has kept the top spot on the all renewable index, followed by Germany and India. Spain is in fifth place.
The UK has also fallen from second to fifth place in the long-term wind index.
Ernst & Young said the Chinese success story is partly a result of the government's renewable energy policy, which aims to generate 15% of the country's energy from non-carbon sources by 2020.
The UK's ranking has also dropped as a result of delays to the Energy Bill, which is still going through Parliament.
"China's stellar growth in renewable can also be attributed to the speed at which it has built up its supply chain capability, to the point where it is likely to have nine gigawatts of manufacturing capacity in a few years," said Jonathan Johns, head of renewable energy at Ernst & Young.
"China is also likely to become a significant exporter of wind turbine equipment in a few years, adding to its already strong presence in the solar industry."
The indices follow a report published by The Climate Group this summer that said China has become the world's leading renewable energy producer.
Mr Johns said a further consultation on the UK's Energy Bill could lead to up to two years of relative inactivity, leaving just 10 years to meet the country's target of generating 15% of energy from renewables by 2020.
Germany, meanwhile, has responded much faster to the EU's Renewables Directive. It achieved 72.7 terawatt-hours of renewable energy production in 2006 while the UK managed just 18.1.


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Thews ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Gerhard Thews (1926–2003), deutscher Physiologe und Hochschullehrer (Kiel und Mainz)
 Günter Thews (1945–1993), deutscher Kabarettist, Mitglied der 3 Tornados (1977–1989)
 Holger Thews (* 1973), deutscher Schauspieler sowie Sänger, Musiker und Komponist
 Michael Thews (* 1964), deutscher Politiker (SPD)
 Wilhelm Thews (1910–1943), deutscher antifaschistischer Widerstandskämpfer

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Walter Riml, né le  à Innsbruck (alors en Autriche-Hongrie) et mort le  à Steinach am Brenner (Autriche), est un cadreur et acteur autrichien de cinéma.

Liminaire
Hans Schneeberger, Sepp Allgeier, Albert Benitz, Walter Riml et Richard Angst sont des cinéastes, pionniers de la prise de vue en montagne, qui firent partie de la Freiburger Berg-und Sportfilm GmbH, une société de production cinématographique spécialisée dans le tournage de films de montagne et de sports, fondée le  par Arnold Fanck et  à Fribourg-en-Brisgau.

Biographie
Walter Riml est le photographe du fameux portrait de Leni Riefenstahl pris lors du tournage de son premier film La Lumière bleue (1932) où elle interprétait Junte. Riml travaillait sur ce film en tant que deuxième cameraman.

Il vit à Berlin depuis le début des années 1930 et ce jusqu'à la fin de la guerre. Il est l'un des cadreurs d'Arnold Fanck, le pionnier du film de montagne allemand. Riml a joué comme acteur dans plusieurs comédies de ski comme L'Ivresse blanche et SOS Iceberg (tourné en grande partie au Groenland). Au Japon, il filme en 1937 La Fille du samouraï.

En 1962, il est engagé par John Sturges dans la deuxième unité d'opérateurs de prise de vue pour La Grande Évasion (The Great Escape) et, en 1969, pour Au service secret de Sa Majesté dans l'unité de tournage en montagne en Suisse).

Comme cadreur, il a œuvré dans plus de cent films.

Filmographie

En tant que cadreur
 1932 : La Lumière bleue (deuxième cadreur - photographe)
 1935 : Le Triomphe de la volonté
 1938 : Le Défi
 1943 : Josef Thorak, Werkstatt und Werk
 1944 : Arno Breker

En tant qu'acteur
 1931 : L'Ivresse blanche : Walter
 1933 : SOS Iceberg

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
  Helma Türk ; Christian Riml, Filmland Tirol! : Eine Reise durch Tirols Filmgeschichte, Innsbruck ; Bad Reichenhall : Selbstverlag, 2007
   Helma Türk ; Christian Riml, The Great Escape - Gesprengte Ketten, Behind the Scenes - Photographs of cameraman Walter Riml, Innsbruck ; Bad Reichenhall : House Publication, 2013

Liens externes

  Tiroler Filmarchiv
 Infos of the shooting TGE and about the new Photo Book The Great Escape
  Filmmuseum Thiersee

Naissance en septembre 1905
Naissance à Innsbruck
Décès en juin 1994
Décès au Tyrol
Acteur autrichien
Décès à 88 ans
Naissance en Autriche-Hongrie


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Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter (né le  à Saint-Louis (Missouri) et décédé le  à New York) est un officier supérieur de la Marine américaine, l'US Navy. Il fut le premier directeur de la CIA.

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Après de nombreuses missions en France, il est l'officier responsable du renseignement, sous les ordres du commandant en chef de la zone de l'océan Pacifique, l'amiral Nimitz. Contre-amiral en , Harry Truman en fait le premier directeur de la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), poste qu'il occupe du  au .

Il quitte l'US Navy en 1957, pour devenir un membre actif du NICAP, association ufologique fondée par d'anciens officiers, et dont il est membre du conseil d'administration. Selon Pierre Guérin, ce n'est que pour être l'informateur du pouvoir concernant les investigations des enquêteurs-ufologues

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Naissance à Saint-Louis (Missouri)
Naissance en mai 1897
Décès en juin 1982
Décès à Manhattan
Décès à 85 ans
Directeur de la CIA
Vice admiral de l'United States Navy
Ufologue américain
Élève de l'Académie navale d'Annapolis
Personnalité inhumée au cimetière national d'Arlington


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Parliamentary elections were held in Cameroon on 28 May 1978. The country was a one-party state at the time, with the Cameroonian National Union as the sole legal party. 2,618 candidates ran for a place on the CNU list, with 120 eventually winning a place on it, equal to the number seats available in the National Assembly, winning all of them with a 98.0% turnout.

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Welcome to the Upper Tooting First Class Learning Centre, where children learn to succeed. The centre is run by Neela Patel and Jitu Patel in Tooting and Mitcham.
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The Gradual Awakening
By Tobiccini (self media writer) | 2 years ago
Nigerian graduates, especially those with Science and Engineering backgrounds, have often been ridiculed to the extent of being called useless because they have been unable to provide the necessary technological innovations needed to drive the country forward.
Moreover, with the recent Coronavirus pandemic, they have even become the butt of joke of a lot of people - with more flak going the way of Microbiological Students/Graduates as having let down Nigerians when they are most needed. Social Media users have teased them by saying they are busying working as Tellers in banks when they should in the Laboratory looking for a viable cure to the Covid-19 virus.
However, it seems things are gradually changing as a 12-man team from the University of Benin constructed a ventilator. The team was made up of a Professor of Anaesthesiology, lecturers from the Mechanical and Chemical Engineering Department, etc.
But why would a 12-member team be needed to construct a ventilator? It seems the ventilator can run on a battery for at least one hour; and it can also be powered by Solar Energy. This is really cool considering the challenges synonymous with power supply in the country. Interestingly, the ventilator can also be powered by the cigarette lighter port of a Car.
We hope the Government will support more innovators and inventors, so that we won't always have to go cap-in-hand to the west for aid in times of emergency, but would rather rely on indigenous technology and innovations to meet our needs.
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Sara Jeannette Duncan: "This Leaf Was Blown Far"
A collection of various resources related to the life and writings of Sara Jeannette Duncan.
This annotated version of Duncan's "To See the Taj-Mahal" offers a scholarly analysis of the text through a racial-imperial lens.
A photo of Duncan's article "To See the Taj-Mahal" as originally published in the Montreal Daily Star.
A set of visualizations produced in Juxta of portions of Sara Jeannette Duncan's novel Hilda, and the subsequent edition, Path of a Star, with accompanying analysis.


This is probably the least enjoyable first person shooter i've played since Halo. Which isn't something I would have expected coming from a studio like Gearbox Software; although they were involved in the PC version of Halo. However their Half-Life expansion packs were both excellent.
I'm probably biased, because what I really want is one-man-army style gameplay. I don't really want to have to use strategic war tactics with my teammates in order to defeat the enemy.
The idea in BIA is to have one team firing on the enemy while you (and another team) flank them to catch them off guard. This gets boring pretty quick, and in the end I just got tired of having to use these tactics. Unfortunately if you don't, it's a very difficult game. Even on easy skill setting you can't play the entire game as you would any other first person shooter. The enemy will mow you down with bullets in no time.
The other problem is that there's no quicksave. Now a few checkpoints per level aren't too bad in some shooters. But when you have a realistic shooter where a few shots could kill you and there's no way to replenish your health, it's very frustrating to have to go back several minutes to a previous checkpoint. What's worse is your health meter is useless. Eventually after a certain amount of shots it'll go red, then after a certain amount more you'll die. It should have been an exact progressive meter, not an inconsistent colour change.
To add to the frustration your teammates are quite useless. On a few levels they managed to get themselves killed by mortar attacks within minutes of the level starting. If I didn't micro-manage them, they'd walk directly into a machine gun and be dead in seconds.
Gearbox made the weapons more realistic than standard shooters. That means you can be standing point-blank in front of your enemy and still somehow miss them. The aiming is designed to be imperfect. I simply found it frustrating rather than a good realistic feature.
And finally we come to the level design and graphics which, again, are a big let down. The levels are all very flat, decorated with bland buildings/houses and fields. The textures are all uninspiring and drab. The only memorable parts of the game were defending a couple of good looking churches.
Overall, the design is not up to the standards of Call of Duty or Medal of Honor, while the gameplay was a nice try for something different, but for me it got frustrating by the end.
Just a quick extra review of the sequel, Earned In Blood. Released just six months later, this really should have been as a cheaper addon pack or downloadable content. There is nothing new, no upgrades to design or gameplay.
Some of the levels are perhaps slightly better looking, but they're still the same bland, horizontal designs from part one. The gameplay, unfortunately, is much harder this time around.
Again with no way to regenerate your health or quicksave, the only way to play this game is meticulously, slowly and reloading from checkpoints a lot. It's very difficult even when you use the flanking idea behind the game because unfortunately your teammates' AI is hopeless a lot of the time. The weapons are all still just as inaccurate as part one, adding to the frustration.
Below average graphics and gameplay that's unbalanced make this a very skippable game.


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La Directiva marco del agua (DMA) es una norma del Parlamento Europeo y del Consejo de la Unión Europea por la que se establece un marco de actuación comunitario en el ámbito de la política de aguas. Nace con la vocación de garantizar la protección de las aguas y promover un uso sostenible que garantice la disponibilidad del recurso natural a largo plazo.

Con la DMA (Directiva 2000/60/CE del 23 de octubre de 2000.) el agua pasa de ser considerada en la Unión Europea (UE) de un simple recurso a contemplarse como el factor clave para la conservación de los sistemas vivos asociados al mismo.

Objetivos

El objeto de dicha Directiva es establecer un marco para la protección de las aguas continentales, las aguas de transición, las aguas costeras y las aguas subterráneas con los objetivos siguientes:

 La prevención del deterioro adicional y la protección y mejora de los ecosistemas acuáticos, así como de los ecosistemas terrestres dependientes.
 La promoción de los usos sostenibles del agua.
 La protección y mejora del medio acuático.
 La reducción de la contaminación de las aguas subterráneas.
 La paliación de los efectos de inundaciones y sequías.
 Garantiza el suministro suficiente de agua superficial o subterránea en buen estado

En este sentido la propia Directiva establece un propósito ambiental claro: para el año 2015 debía haberse alcanzado el buen estado de los ecosistemas acuáticos de todos los países de la Unión, siendo preciso haber desarrollado y aplicado planes de gestión para garantizar este objetivo.

Características

La aplicación práctica de la DMA supone un reto para los estados miembros de la Unión Europea y resulta necesario una aplicación homogénea y lo más coordinada posible, de forma que los estados miembros y la propia Comisión Europea interpreten de la misma forma sus preceptos. El mecanismo mediante el que se intenta dar respuesta a estas necesidades mediante un procedimiento no vinculante es la Estrategia Común de Implantación.

La Estrategia Común de Implantación, se centra en cuatro actividades:

 Intercambio de información.
 Desarrollo de guías técnicas.
 Información y gestión de datos.
 Aplicación, ensayo y validación.

Cabe indicar que la DMA establece la "demarcación hidrográfica" como unidad principal a efectos de gestión, definida como la zona marítima y terrestre compuesta por una o varias cuencas hidrográficas así como las aguas subterráneas y costeras asociadas.

Esta directiva surge de una nueva manera de entender el agua, que pasa de ser considerada un simple recurso a contemplarse como el factor clave para la conservación de los sistemas vivos asociados a la misma, y en consecuencia, un elemento esencial para el mantenimiento de la calidad de vida.

Implicaciones de la DMA en España
En España la DMA fue transpuesta al marco legislativo estatal a través del artículo 129 de la Ley 62/2003, de 30 de diciembre de 2003, de Medidas Fiscales, Administrativas y del Orden Social, que modificó el Texto Refundido de la Ley de Aguas. El 4 de octubre de 2012  la Comisión Europea solicita al Tribunal de Justicia que declare que, al no haber adoptado ni notificado a la Comisión y a los demás Estados miembros interesados los planes hidrológicos de cuenca y al no haber tomado determinadas medidas de información y consulta públicas, el Reino de España ha incumplido las obligaciones que le incumben […] salvo en el caso del Distrito de la Cuenca Fluvial de Cataluña.

Véase también
Aglomeraciones urbanas en la Unión Europea
Entorno natural de la Unión Europea

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Directiva marco sobre el agua
Ministerio de Medio Ambiente
Confederaciones Hidrográficas
Hispagua

Directivas de la Unión Europea
Salud en la Unión Europea
Unión Europea en 2000


I am asked all the time why and how my family uses collagen in our day-to-day life! Here, is my tell-all about our journey to using collagen along with a stinking delicious muffin recipe that not only brings veggies to the breakfast table...but collagen too!
Grain-Free Carrot Apple Breakfast Cookies are tasty, healthy and a wonderful way to serve up veggies for breakfast ...whether at home or on the go. Super kid-friendly plus they're naturally gluten-free, dairy-free and naturally sweetened.
Simple + delicious + hearty + classic is exactly what this Healthy One-Skillet Teriyaki Chicken & Veggie Stir Fry is. Paleo, Whole30 compliant, and easy peasy...it sure to become a regular in my house and your's too, I'm guessing!


Roddy is Rising 4, a Steel Grey Connemara Gelding cross TBxID with a Super Kind Temperament.
Roddy's Dam also has a super temperament and has currently gained 39 dressage points. She always comes home winning or getting places.
Her owner prefers dressage, but Kissy is also eventing and jumps whatever she is asked. As you can see by the photo of her jumping up the bank.
Roddy is a lovely Connemara gelding but isn't the most beautiful horse, however he will improve as he matures. We believe he takes after his mother who was also a late developer.
Roddy is broken and he is schooling very nicely in the arena.
He has hacked out alone, in company, going in front and behind.
In northern Ireland Roddy jumped ditches, trays, logs ect. We have jumped him over apprx 90cm which he found easier than very small jumps.
This very genuine Connemara Gelding cross is now ready for a new home and to start jumping novice courses cross country and showjump.
We are also sure he will do a very nice dressage test.
Asking a very reasonable sold for this genuine Connemara gelding cross.
I managed to find a few photo's of Kiz although they were taken a while ago not much has changed she's just got better!
Kizzy was foaled in 2005 and was a late starter to the world of work.
Kizzy has lovely manners and the best temperament you could ask for. She is great to take out to shows etc and is very well behaved both in the stable and travelling. She never kicks or threatens and will always do as she's asked!
She's a very honest horse when it comes to jumping – keep her straight and she'll go over it. To date she has done a couple of One Day Events at 75cm and one at 85cm although my preference is dressage. She currently has 39 dressage points and we're working towards Novice level for the Spring leaque. We're placed every time we go out which is always nice!


We arrived back on the first day of Term Four and started making our garden show exhibits. Thanks to all the parents for helping the children bring the materials needed. Also, much appreciated Melissa baking cupcakes for the whole school to decorate.
Below are their creative efforts.
It was a great conclusion to our sustainability topic having AG Day. The children made a great effort in caring for their animal. They had great fun showing them off on AG Day.
Halloween was a lot of fun. Thanks PTA for organizing it. Here are some pictures from the night.
Thanks Liza for the amazing Transition Playcentre Activities. The 20th November we made Bath Salts in our Play Based Learning.
We continued our Maori Lessons with Matua Grant and in the last few weeks of December we sang Maori Christmas songs and danced.
Lots of fun activities: Play based learning with the playcentre, chicks from Amy Sutton to mind, a conservation trip to Sanctuary Mountain and lots of Phys Ed skills.
On the last day of Term Three we all dressed up as our favourite book characters.
Tom at Sanctuary Mountain telling us about the Native Birds on the mountain and how the pests destroy our Native Birds.
Above- Wow look at us at the viewing tower on the top of the canopy of trees. We climbed many steps to get to this amazing place.
Also there is a picture of the tuatara we all saw at Sanctuary Mountain..
Play based Learning with the Playcentre on Tuesdays are a lot of fun. Megan bought a lamb for a visit, we've completed a speech to an audience in the hall and we have had Cricket lessons making this a very busy term. Also, we had a fun massage circle from Marcus and Emily's reading book.
We've started the term with fun activities in Go For It which are revising the motor skills we need for a variety of sports with our new Sports Bay of Plenty Educator Dan.
In Week Three the whole school had an enjoyable and successful trip into the Museum. This related to our previous Topic of Cultural Diversity. Instructed by the educators there, the children had a learning journey about the history of the first hei-tikis. After learning about the Pink and White Terraces we put gloves on and were able to hold some precious hei-tikis. After that we looked at various art creations depicting hei-tikis. At each opportunity there were chances for discussion from their observations. Our visit concluded with the children having a hands on experience and creating their own hei-tikis, which was a lot of fun. Thanks to Sue and Ngati Whakaue for making this possible.
A great start to this term. We welcomed Zoe, Kaelyn, Mila and now Thea to our awesome class. Anzac Periscopes, Cooking Anzac Biscuits, Play based learning with the Playcentre, Autumn leaf rubbings and poetry, a Cultural Diversity Topic, Aborigine Art and Maths with Room Two have been a lot of fun. We were delighted to have guest speakers from Zimbabwe, England, The Phillipines, South Africa and Sweden. We learnt lots of information about these countries and ate their special foods and played games from the adult's childhood.
Welcome at the end of the term to George whose attitude and effort are enhancing our room already. Happy Learning Days at Ngakuru School.
We had a lot of fun with a Cultural Festival on the last week of term. Here are pictures of the kites we all made to celebrate Matariki. The groups were in mixed ages and all children worked hard on this technology challenge in Room One. Awesome senior children for the support of the juniors in your group.
Look at the Puppets in the above picture made from Play based learning with the Ngakuru Playcentre.
A great start to Term One. Welcome Harriet you are a pleasure to have in our room. Everyone else is enjoying their first week back. Here are some pictures of our first week Swimming, Art Activities, Go Noodle Activities and our first Playcentre Visit for 2018.
We had fun on Friday sharing together various collage items to create a self portrait of ourselves.
Liza brought over the older Playcentre children as part of our Transition School Partnership Visits to Room One. We enjoyed creating our own decorated face to eat later as a delicious treat. This is interrelated to our Citizenship Topic about ourselves. Thanks Liza for your support. Much appreciated.
Liza brought over the older Playcentre children to continue our transition partnership. we had fun making a bubble picture together.
The Life Education Van with Bernie and Harold came to school. We learnt about what we need, to live a healthy life and how we can be a good friend. We sang a song and did actions for Harold in the masks we made. We loved their visit.
Room One got ready for Easter with a lot of fun activities including decorating marshmallows, an Easter Egg Hunt and the creation of their own Bunny Ears.


Don't wait to divide your assets according to your will—act now to evaluate your current assets and devise a strategy to transfer certain assets during your lifetime directly to family members or in trust. Make the current tax law and cases work for you instead of against you. Devising a wealth transfer (estate) plan is an ongoing, evolving process and should not be left to simply writing a will and dividing up the property. We will work with your advisors—legal counsel, personal CFO, brokers and others—to create a plan that helps you control the disposition of your wealth.


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Dr. Ron Nutt - CEO - CTI Molecular Imaging
"When Rob told me what he could do with our team, I thought, either this guy is crazy or he is going to do what he says he will. The results were obvious. As the roadmap started every aspect of our business began to change. I spent twenty years of my career leading our company and had never seen it come to life like when we worked with Rob. I referred to his art as, 'the sophistication of simplicity.' He and I had a dream of being able to run the whole global company on a single spreadsheet. We almost did it." - CTI is now fully owned by Siemens.
Upon winning the Time Magazine Innovation of the Year Award, demand for their products went way up. The problem was, the company wasn't designed to deliver products at such a pace. The teams were working seven days a week and falling further behind. Dr. Nutt and his staff knew they needed help and that they had to change. From the beginning, he admitted that he was the number one person that had to change and he was up to the challenge. He was so committed to being an example during the transformation effort, he personally lost 30 pounds.
The success we had, was rooted in several key factors. The operations used for delivering PET/CT scanners with thousands of components was rather complex. Every process from materials management, work flow, production planning, product design, supplier integration, quality improvement, demand planning, ERP integration and others had to be radically simplified. The other contributions were, critical simplification of distribution and sales agreements and through the new level of teamwork, the ability to introduce 4X the number of new products. With over 800 employees, there were roughly 25 key leaders that drove the effort.
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A lot of cloud phone service providers promote virtual telephone numbers as a part of their feature platform. Whilst we all are familiar with telephone numbers and the way they work. Some might not have an idea what actually a virtual phone number is?
Virtual telephone numbers are just like regular telephone numbers which are not connected to any phone line or device. Formerly, a telephone number was provision to work through a dedicated line and that phone line was connected physically to the telephone company to the destination by wires. Any incoming calls to that number could be sent only to that particular destination. Furthermore, in the case of business phone numbers, the business would have a telephone hardware system in the workplace to configure call routing rules, voicemail, and extensions etc.
Virtual phone numbers for business remove the physical limitations which were formerly tied down with telephone numbers and it allows businesses to have better flexibility and control in the way they receive calls. When virtual phone numbers are used with cloud phone system they can be purchased directly from the service provider and can be managed through the admin portal. Virtual phone numbers for business also allows you to set the destination of the number and then modify it in real-time without waiting for the provider to get around the task.
What can businesses do with virtual phone numbers?
With Virtual phone numbers for business, you can unite support or sales departments which are scattered over different states or cities. If your business has multiple office branches, then a virtual phone number can seamlessly unite your scattered workforce. Rather than the incoming calls ringing telephone in just one office, a virtual phone number can have the incoming call ring phones across separate officers.
How? If you have a sales representative in different cities, then you can make the destination of the virtual phone number be a call queue or a ring group. All the incoming calls to that virtual phone number will then ring all your representatives' phones, who are in the group or queue at the same time or successively. Depending on the ring strategy which you choose or setup, any representative can then answer the call regardless of the location they are in.
If your business has a lot of customers located in different states or cities, then you can let them call you by just by dialling a local phone number. Virtual phone numbers for business can help you in establishing a presence in that area where you are not located whilst also decreasing the cost of all your incoming calls. You just have to buy the virtual phone number from your service provider and set the destination to the phones in your offices, even if your workplace is not in the area which is serviced by the numbers area code.
You can use virtual phone numbers for geography flexibility and remote working. Virtual numbers can be useful if you want to be reachable on your cell phone while you are away from the office. However if you do not want to reveal your personal number to the whole company, through virtual phone number you can set your destination to your cell phone then all of the employees can reach you just by dialling that virtual phone number.
If you are running sales and Advertising campaigns, then it is important that you evaluate all the overall success and health of these efforts. Instead of funnelling all the calls through main line of your business, you can allocate a different virtual number to every campaign which you are running. This way you will know whenever a call is coming for a particular campaign just by the phone number they have dialled. For future, when the campaign is over you can download and review all your businesses reports of past calls to know the exact number of calls that have come through to a specific virtual phone number, it could be one of the data points will help you in evaluating the success of your efforts.
From uniting your distributed workforce to providing new ways for your business to answer incoming calls a virtual phone number can allow your business to meet the requirements of your employees while remaining available to customers.


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LOS ANGELES CHAPTER CHAPTER - Nov 14, 2019
Acquiring the Space Enterprise Architecture
The chapter held a luncheon panel in November with Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) leadership to discuss the opportunities and challenges of acquiring the future space enterprise. Panel members included Col.Tom Rock, USAF, senior materiel leader for the Range and Network Division, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base; Col. Dennis Byethewood, USAF, program executive officer for space development, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base; and Col. Steven Purdy, USAF, director, special programs. The panel moderator was Col. Jeff Stutz, USAF (Ret).
The chapter's luncheon panelists (l-r) Col. Jeff Stutz, USAF (Ret.) moderator; Col. Dennis Bythewood, USAF, program executive officer for space development, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base; Col. Steven Purdy, USAF, director, special programs; and Col.Tom Rock, USAF, senior materiel leader for the Range and Network Division, Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, discuss future space enterprise at the November meeting.


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Q: Matplotlib: Colorize grayscale image using another image I have a black and white spectrum that I want to colorize

using this colorize image.

Adapting the method given here:
Applying different color map to mask,
I obtain a final colorized image, but it lacks the features of the spectrum (see comments in code for a link to the picture finalimage).
My code is given here (with the hosted images in the comments since I cannot display all of them here):
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pyfits

wavemap = "FITS/wavemap.fits.gz"
spectrum = "FITS/phxspectra.fits.gz"

image = pyfits.getdata(spectrum)
colors = pyfits.getdata(wavemap)
mask = colors > 0
colors_ma = np.ma.array(colors, mask=~mask)

kwargs = {'interpolation': 'none', 'vmin': colors[mask].min(), 'vmax': colors.max(), 'origin': 'lower', 'alpha' : 0.5}

plt.imshow(image, cmap=plt.cm.Greys_r, interpolation='none', origin='lower')
plt.imshow(colors_ma, cmap=plt.cm.jet, **kwargs)

plt.show()

#![spectrum](http://i.imgur.com/nQpzvUo.png)
#![spectrumfeatures](http://i.imgur.com/MTQ9yMl.png)
#![colorize](http://i.imgur.com/v27kjsY.png?1)
#![finalimage](http://i.imgur.com/MmnM9qK)
#![finalimagefeatures](http://i.imgur.com/t5PoJiE.png)

If I lower the alpha value, the features of the spectrum show better, but the colors are very dim.
If I increase the alpha value, then the colors show much better, but the features of the spectrum do not show.
How can I get the features of the spectrum AND the colors from the colorize image without trading off one for the other?

A: One way would be to create an RGBA array, where the RGB values represent the spectral data, and the A values represent the intensity. Alternatively you could use a HSV colormap, and represent spectral and intensity values using hue and brightness/saturation respectively.
import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as pp
from scipy.misc import lena

# some 'intensity' data, normalized between 0 and 1
intensity = lena().astype(np.float32)
intensity = (intensity - intensity.min()) / (intensity.max() - intensity.min())

# some 'spectrum' data, normalized between 0 and 1
x,y = np.mgrid[-1:1:intensity.shape[0]*1j,-1:1:intensity.shape[1]*1j]
spectrum = 0.5*(np.sin(20*(x**2 + y**2)) + 1)

# look up RGB values from the 'jet' colormap
RGBA = pp.cm.jet(spectrum)
# fill the A(lpha) channel with the array of intensity data
RGBA[...,3] = intensity

# another way to represent spectral and intensity data is using a 2D
# HSV color space
HSV = np.ones(intensity.shape + (3,))

# we represent the spectral information using hue...
HSV[...,0] = spectrum
# ... and the intensity data as brightness and saturation
HSV[...,1] = intensity
HSV[...,2] = intensity
# convert back into rgb color space
HSV = matplotlib.colors.hsv_to_rgb(HSV)

# plotting
fig, ax = pp.subplots(2, 2, figsize=(10,10), sharex=True, sharey=True)
ax[0,0].imshow(intensity, cmap=pp.cm.gray)
ax[0,0].set_title('Intensity data', fontsize=14)
ax[0,1].imshow(spectrum, cmap=pp.cm.gray)
ax[0,1].set_title('Spectral data', fontsize=14)
ax[1,0].imshow(RGBA)
ax[1,0].set_title('Jet with varying alpha', fontsize=14)
ax[1,1].imshow(HSV)
ax[1,1].set_title('HSV', fontsize=14)
for aa in ax.flat:
    aa.set_axis_bgcolor((0,0,0,1))
    aa.xaxis.set_visible(False)
    aa.yaxis.set_visible(False)
fig.tight_layout()

pp.show()


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De 28e editie van de wielerwedstrijd Ronde van Poitou-Charentes (Frans: Tour du Poitou-Charentes 2014) werd gehouden van 26 tot en met 29 augustus 2014 in Poitou-Charentes, Frankrijk. De meerdaagse wielerkoers maakte deel uit van de UCI Europe Tour 2014. Titelverdediger was de Fransman Thomas Voeckler; de overwinning ging dit jaar naar zijn landgenoot Sylvain Chavanel.

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