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Deli's doors open for first responders, others affected by fire, mudslides
Written By Village Cheese and Wine
By BRETT LEIGH DICKS, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
As Patrick Braid pulls up in front of Village Cheese and Wine Store in Montecito with a carload of supplies, the line inside the shop reaches the door.
There are first responders, members of the Red Cross, and locals who have just returned to their homes. Neighbors and friends embrace as tales of fortune and tragedy abound.
Despite the shelves of the Upper Village deli being almost empty, Mr. Braid and his staff have been making sandwiches for the past two months — neither fire nor flood could stop them.
Apart from closing for a week after the Thomas Fire, Village Cheese and Wine has been a place of refuge during Montecito's recent disasters. During both the Thomas Fire and subsequent mudflow, it served hundreds of sandwiches to first responders without accepting a dime. Even now, as locals return home, the store is not charging for sandwiches; customers simply pay what they can or donate to the store's GoFundMe account (www.gofundme.com/feed-the-firemenfirst-responders).
"We can't charge people; in good conscience we wouldn't," Mr. Braid, 47, told the News-Press during a recent visit to the store. "I'm just following in the footsteps of my father."
Mr. Braid has been running the store since 2016. He took over after the passing of his beloved father, John, who operated the business for more than four decades.
"This place is considered to be an institution in Montecito," Mr. Braid said of the no-frills deli. "My father owned this business for 43 years. When he passed, there was a major outpouring from the community, specifically Montecito Union and its kids. It's a Friday tradition for the sixth-grade graduating class to come here after school. We load them up with candy and they hang out on the grassy knoll."
The elder Mr. Braid immigrated to the United States from New Zealand. The former wine merchant moved to Santa Barbara in 1973 after marrying his wife, Jovita; the couple selected the community as their home because of its beauty. Shortly after arriving, they purchased the Village Cheese and Wine Store.
"When my father passed, I literally had kids rushing to hug me, so I made the commitment that no matter what I would continue the legacy in honor of my father, the community and children," Mr. Braid said.
Part of that legacy has been to help out when things get tough. In 2008, after the Tea Fire destroyed 210 Montecito and Santa Barbara homes, the deli provided free lunches to those who lost their homes.
"I have big shoes to fill and that's what I'm doing now," Mr. Braid said of his determination to keep the store open during the recent tragedies. "Obviously, this is on a much grander scale."
As the wind-driven Thomas Fire raged toward Montecito on Dec. 16, Mr. Braid and his brother, Carl, hunkered down in the store, opening its doors and providing a refuge to first responders and supplying them sandwiches, drinks and other goodies.
"On the Thursday, it looked like everything was under control, but on the Saturday, the winds blew up and it felt like at least 200 to 300 homes were going to be wiped out," Mr. Braid said. "It was miracle it didn't (happen). The fire departments and all the other agencies did a tremendous job protecting the community. Being here to support them was the least we could do."
A little more than three weeks later, on Jan. 9, when a downpour over the charred hills behind Montecito gave rise to the catastrophic mudflows, Mr. Braid was one of the first on scene.
"My brother and I jumped into action because we knew how important supporting the first responders would be," Mr. Braid said. "We came up through Coast Village Road and the Montecito Inn. The catastrophe was so fresh you could still hear the hissing and smell the leaking natural gas.
"We wanted to see if the business was still standing, and, if so, to jump into action. There was no power, but we opened the doors and put up the open sign."
The brothers started hand-carving cold cuts and making sandwiches for first responders.
As exclusion zones were put in place and Montecito was placed on lockdown, Mr. Braid reached out to local authorities about maintaining access to the store. It was the California Highway Patrol that took a leap of faith in Mr. Braid and helped him gain access to the exclusion zone.
"No matter what, we were going to be open to take care of those guys," Mr. Braid said. "I was the only civilian with unfettered access to come in and out of here and have an operating business to support first responders and the locals that stayed."
As well as feeding first responders, the Village Cheese and Wine Store also became an emergency grocer. With the store's bank balance taking a hit from the Thomas Fire, Mr. Braid contacted Home Depot, which donated a generator, while various other local stores, including Smart & Final and Trader Joe's, donated essential grocery items.
"After the Thomas Fire, we were undercapitalized," Mr. Braid said. "I knew I wasn't going to charge people, so I needed help. I called around and every morning would do a supply run. I even picked up people's medicine for them.
"It was such a traumatic situation, so it was critical that we provided support. This became a place of refuge. These people are my friends and family, and during all of this, we lost some of that family. This hit us smack dab in the middle, and when that happens, you have to do something to help."
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To donate to Village Cheese and Wine Store's GoFundMe account, go towww.gofundme.com/feed-the-firemenfirst-responders. Proceeds are being used to help support the shop and its efforts to provide free food and supplies to first responders and others assisting in the Montecito mudslides.
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Baseball Field History,
The Evolution of Our Fields of Dreams
Baseball field history
Carl Bennett here and I am a avid baseball fan who loves the game of baseball. I have loved if for my entire life and suppose it will be part of me forever. The Game of Baseball and is more than what many described as America's game. It is, in my opinion, the Greatest game ever invented.
I am a champion of the growth of the game of Baseball and offer this Blog, "Baseball Field History", as a tribute to the best baseball baseball players who have ever played the game. I challenge any of the best athletics in the world to come play this game and help take it to the Next Level.
My father was born in 1895, at a time when Baseball suffered the painful effects of racial segregation in America. I still remember listening to him talking about wanting to play baseball in the old Negro Leagues.
I am a baseball fan, just like you, who will give you a look at the history of baseball with a view from between the lines.
Starting with the first baseball game played on Elysian Field in 1856 to today's Ultra Modern retractable roof stadiums the history of the Baseball Field is truly magical.
When talking about the game of baseball the story of the Field itself hardly gets center stage but here we take a much deeper look.
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Baseball History Should Be Sacred
When I searched the History of the game of Baseball and the baseball field that I love, I was shocked!
Somebody has change and/or altered the history of my game and that just didn't seem right. We have been given a clinically edited version of baseball history and I had to find out why.
That is what sent me on a quest for the real stories surrounding the game that I love so much. I am not a historian nor am I a replacement for Wikipedia as they are much better in that space.
What I am is a baseball fan, just like you, who will give you a look at the history of baseball with a view taken from between the lines and unfiltered.
Baseball Field History,The Game-The Field
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It is impossible to talk about one without the other. Like a shadow, the field that the game is played on has danced in harmony with the game of baseball itself.
Come celebrate the growth of the Baseball Field and its uncluttered design, a 90ft square tilted on its end. It was a simple, uncomplicated, design waiting for an athlete to give it formal structure.
1. In the Baseball History sections read how the game of Baseball has developed and explore some of the myths surrounding the origins of what we call America's Game.
2. The Wooden Baseball Parks section gives an insightful look at the transformation of the Baseball Diamond in response to the rapidly growing fan base of baseball.
3. Share your favorite baseball field memories with me. I would love to help spread the word with fans like you.
Starting with the formation of the the NABBP (National Association of Base Ball Players) as its governing body, Baseball became a professional sport and the business of baseball needed more space to showcase this new business.
By the end of 1865, almost 100 clubs were members of the organization. By 1867, it had over 400 members, including some clubs from as far away as San Francisco and Louisiana.
Together we will take a journey through some of the most memorable ball fields in American history. We will look at them through a unique prospective. A perspective designed and offer with you in mind. If I haven't said it yet, thank You for coming to visit.
Think You Know The Game?
I'll test your baseball IQ and show how much you Don't know about baseball's Fields of Dreams.
See how baseball history was altered and later rewritten to expose the tinder underbelly of America's Game.
The Boys of Summer
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But even the glorious history of Baseball and its Field would not exist without the Boys & Girls of the Summer. The Athletes that play the game gave Baseball Field History its form and we visit some of the Greatest, many of which are in Cooperstown.
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Moses Fleetwood
Buck Oneal
Bob Feller
Honus Wagner
Effa Manley
Rube Foster
Connie Stone
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Crosley Field was described as an experience that transcended the game. It was home for the Cincinnati Reds for nearly 60 years.
Eastern Park was one of the first sports stadiums built in America and it was built specifically for watching baseball games.
Fenway Park, A Stadium That The Fans Say Is Too Important to Die.
Hilltop Park, Was It Built Too Fast?
Hilltop Park, I need a Big League Ballpark and I need it in 6 weeks! Yea Right, and I've got a Bridge I want to sell you.
Shibe Park, A Place For The Fans.
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WrigleyField, Comes in Second to Wrigley Field?
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Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City's Ageless Baseball Wonder.
Kauffman Stadium, The last of the Modern-baseball-parks built in the major league that, like a fine wine, keeps getting finer with age.
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Modern-Baseball-Parks struggled to gain an identity. Am I a Multi-Purpose Stadium or am I a Baseball Stadium ?
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Braves Field was to be James Gaffney's crowning achievement in baseball field design. It was the last of the first wave of (Jewel-Box) Concrete and Steel Stadiums.
Ebbets Field, a stirring tribute to the Man, The Field and The Borough loved them both.
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Chase Field In Phoenix, Arizona,Too Hot Not To Put A Retractable Roof On It.
Chase Field was the First Retractable Roof Baseball Park in the United States but it was not the first in the MLB.
Minute Maid Park, MLB's Second Retractable-Roof-Ballpark
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Rube Foster, Big, Black And Intimidating.
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NABBP Brings Segregation to Baseball.
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In Ireland, there are strict laws around microchipping of dogs. All dogs must be microchipped and registered to their owners, and it is illegal for a dog – of any age – to change hands unless it has been microchipped. This does not only apply to pedigree dogs; it applies to all dogs, of all types, both those in private ownership and those from rescue centres. If you intend to keep a puppy yourself, you don't need to get it microchipped till it's 12 weeks of age. But if you sell or rehome a puppy at any age, you need to make sure that it's microchipped first. So it is really important that if you get a puppy or an adult dog from a rescue, it should be microchipped already. If it isn't, then both you and the rescue centre are breaking the law.
The pup or dog should be fully vaccinated, and you should have a certificate to this effect, signed by a vet. While some breeders and rescue centre staff do administer vaccines, there is not the same guarantee that the vaccine has been stored correctly (in the fridge) and administered properly. If a vet has not given the vaccines, to be safe an extra vaccination may have to be given by a vet, which will be an extra cost for you.
It's critically important that all puppies and dogs are wormed regularly: they can carry a worm burden that can make them very ill, and there's also a risk of worms being passed on to humans. For this reason, whenever a puppy is rehomed, it's useful for the new owner to be told how many worm doses have already been given. In the absence of any information, it's safest to give a full worming course again, and this carries costs for you.
When many dogs are living close together, as in rescue centers, parasites like fleas can be common. It's important that the rescue centre tells you what they have (or have not) done to treat your new pet for fleas.
The rescue centre should tell you specifically what the pup or dog has been fed on, and preferably they should give you a sample of the food to take away with you. You can then choose to continue with the same diet or you can change gradually to a new one. If you are not given a sample of food, the sudden change to a new diet could cause a gastrointestinal upset to your pet.
Behavioral problems are common, and so the rescue centre should let you know if your new pet has any issues at all on this front. A summary of the dog's personality is the best way: they should know the dog well enough to be able to fill you in on this, preferably in writing. Many centers (eg Dogs Trust, DSPCA) will also offer you training classes or other behavioural assistance if needed.
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"Cyber-criminals have a very easy job because they're just software engineers," he said.
"It's very hard to find them so it's a low-risk business.
According to Scotland Yard, cyber-crime costs the UK economy £27bn per year.
Governments are taking the issue increasingly more seriously.
They are also considering the implications of online weapons being deployed in wars.
For example, electricity grids are often run by computers. So, in theory, one country could disrupt another's power network in a cyber-attack.
Using a cuber-weapon is very dangerous because it's a boomerang which will strike back at you," he said.


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Q: Adding tooltip to line in Dimple.js I have created simplified network-style chart using Dimple's line plot as a basis. Example: http://jsfiddle.net/cc1gpt2o/
  myChart.addCategoryAxis("x", "Entity");
  myChart.addCategoryAxis("y", "Entity").addOrderRule("Keyword");
  var z = myChart.addMeasureAxis("z", "Size");
  z.overrideMin = 0;
  z.overrideMax = 200;
  myChart.addSeries("Keyword", dimple.plot.line);
  myChart.addSeries("Keyword", dimple.plot.bubble);
  myChart.draw();

However, line chart's tooltips only show when hovering over points. Since there are many overlapping points, it is difficult for the user to identify the lines and values. It would be best if the user could see tooltips while hovering over the lines between points.
I found a D3 method that bisects the line to display info about the points, but it seems too complex to apply to the setup I am working with:
 - http://www.d3noob.org/2014/07/my-favourite-tooltip-method-for-line.html
Before I wade too far into that solution, is there a simpler way to do this in Dimple? (--e.g., applying the circles' tooltip function onto paths?)

A: Unfortunately series.addEventHandler('mouseover', handler) only fires when you are over the points of the lines as far as I can tell, so no better than the default functionality. To target the lines themselves you'll have to use regular d3 :
chart.series[0].shapes.on('mouseover', function(e){
   //handle
   // `e` is data from line
   // d3.event has mouse position data
});

You can get information about the line itself (the data tied to that line) in that event object. Unfortunately it's not the same data as the dimple.eventArgs object, so you wouldn't be able to use the dimple._showPointTooltip or other tooltip methods (I don't think that would work anyway).
You can also get information about the x and y mouse positions from d3.event while inside that handler function. Combining the information from those two objects should let you position a custom tooltip at the current mouse position, and you could probably style it to look like the standard dimple tooltip.
What I'm not as sure of is how to then get the original corresponding value for where your mouse is. I believe it should be something like :
chart.series[0].y._scale.invert(d3.event.y);

but in my limited testing I couldn't get that to work correctly. Maybe this will be a helpful start in any case.

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Q: Volume - Integration Question Help So basically, with this question I have answered parts a) and b), but I am stuck in relation to part c). I am not exactly sure what the borders of my integration should be, but I figured with the given condition substitute in and simply. That's pretty much all I got for the last part. Can anyone enlighten me as to how to got about finding the volume of the solid.
**Note: the answer that is expected to be reached is V = (37*R^3)/18 - (5*pi*R^3)/24

A: For what value of $x$ will the points $Q$ and $M$ coincide at point $F$?  This is the lower limit of integration.  Clearly, this occurs if $LQ = LM$; i.e., $$R^2 - x^2 = (R+x)^2 \tan^2 \theta.$$  Solve this equation for $x$, and you will get two solutions, one of which is extraneous since it is negative.
The upper limit of integration is trivial:  it is simply $x = R$, corresponding to the case where point $Q$ coincides with $D$.
Now the volume of the base is simply given by the expression $$\int_{x = \mathcal L}^R \left( 4(R+x)^2 \tan^2 \theta - \pi (R^2 - x^2) \right) \, dx,$$ where $\mathcal L$ is the lower limit of integration you obtained above.

A: To find the lower limit of your integral you need to find the $x$ value for the line EF. The upper limit of your integral is $x=R$.
Let T be the intersection point of EF and OD. Angle EOD = $2 \theta$ by circle theorems.
Distance OT = $x = R cos(2 \theta)$


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South End's Jeremy Blake hopes to become Newark's 'biggest cheerleader'
"I feel like this a way I can make people's lives a little better," the Democratic mayoral candidate said.
South End's Jeremy Blake hopes to become Newark's 'biggest cheerleader' "I feel like this a way I can make people's lives a little better," the Democratic mayoral candidate said. Check out this story on newarkadvocate.com: https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/life/2019/09/22/south-ends-jeremy-blake-hopes-become-newarks-biggest-cheerleader/2366569001/
Abbey Roy, Newark Advocate Published 9:24 a.m. ET Sept. 22, 2019 | Updated 9:18 a.m. ET Sept. 29, 2019
Desirée Blake sits with her son Jeremy Blake and family dog, Midnight, in the living room of her South Newark home. Growing up Jeremy remembers block parties and playing games with friends while living within two blocks of five generations of his family. That sense of community compelled Jeremy to enter the 2019 Newark mayoral race. (Photo: Sara C. Tobias/The Advocate)
Editor's note: This is the first of our profiles of Newark's two mayoral candidates. The story on Mayor Jeff Hall will appear in print and online on Sept. 29.
Back in the day when neighborhoods had block parties and kids played football in their collective front yards until dusk, Jeremy Blake and his friends good-naturedly claimed Newark's South End as their own.
They used it for large-scale rounds of hide-and-seek (reimagined as a game they dubbed "Roundup") and general exploration, hunting for crawdads in the creek and begging for quarters — first from Mom, then from Grandma — to take to the candy store.
When festivals took place downtown, they walked the few blocks it took to get there.
"The downtown has always been our backyard," Blake said.
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In those days, five generations of Blakes lived within two blocks: Among them, Jeremy's grandmother Mattie Blake, who served up crowd-pleasing barbecue ribs and chicken at Mattie's Place, the restaurant-turned-house where Jeremy's mother, Desirée Blake, now lives.
"I love Newark. Newark's my home," Desirée said one late summer afternoon, stationed in an armchair across from her son in her South End home decorated with family history. "My mom's here, my family's here. This is where I grew up.
"Your home is where your heart is," she added. "That's how I feel."
This fall, her son's name will appear on the ballot across from incumbent Jeff Hall's as a candidate for Newark mayor, and she could not be more proud.
Though life has taken Jeremy Blake a number of different places, his heart and home remain in Newark.
Case in point: When the time came for him to buy a home of his own, a brick front porch — one where he could visit with friends and neighbors — was at the top of Blake's "House Must-have" list; a symbol of welcome and conversation.
He found one in the South End. And it's where he's been ever since.
Family photos above the mantel in the Blake family home on Newark's South Side. The home had been a barbecue restaurant known as Mattie's Place run by Jeremy Blake's grandmother, Mattie Blake. (Photo: Sara C. Tobias/The Advocate)
Nerdy kid at Newark High
Following in his mother's footsteps, Blake, 41, became a Newark High School graduate in 1996.
During his time as a Wildcat, the self-dubbed "nerdy kid" passed over athletics. He laughingly recalls giving a live demonstration to the basketball coach to prove it really wasn't his sport. Instead he picked debate team and student government, founding an organization called Students Together Against Racial Tension that educated students about racism and its prevention.
Thanks to strong mentorship by educators and community members such as former Newark mayor Frank Stare, Blake was inspired from an early age to get involved in community service.
After graduation he enrolled at Denison University as a political science major, balancing his classwork with a job as a page at the Ohio Statehouse.
Amid running errands and making copies, Blake inadvertently stumbled into a new career opportunity: Information technology.
"When I started working at the Statehouse, they were going through a big renovation...they didn't have any technology," he said. As ethernet lines were being added and updates installed to the 150-year-old building, the lone information technology officer, Randall, enlisted Blake as his assistant — and then — Democratic minority leader Ben Espy took notice.
"(Espy) was like, 'Oh, Jeremy, I see you hanging out with Randall a lot. How do you like that technology and those computers?'" Blake recalled. "He was like, 'Do you want to do this full time?'"
That was when Blake made a big decision: To leave college for a career.
"I was like, 'Wow, I'm 20 years old they're going to offer me a full-time job,'" he said. "So I took it. It was a great opportunity."
More: Newark Mayor Jeff Hall aims to build a foundation of success for hometown
Seeking office
Though his employment took Blake to Columbus, his heart remained close to home.
The first year his name appeared on a ballot was 1999 when he ran against Bob Diebold for a seat on the Newark City Council. He lost by 50 votes.
"Bob knocked on more doors than I did that year," Blake said.
Unfazed, Blake took a different path, seeking appointment to a vacant seat in the Newark City School board in 2000 followed by a full term on the board that ended in 2005.
Then it was time for another change: After spending a decade in the Ohio Statehouse, Blake decided to pick up where he'd left off — at Denison University.
When a job opened in Denison's Information Technology department, he seized the opportunity, working second shift and taking classes during the day. Thanks to the university's free tuition for employees, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and graduated in 2012, a nontraditional student with a passion for community service.
Around the same time, Blake celebrated another victory: the establishment of the South Newark Civic Association as a 501 (c)(3) organization.
Although the organization, at its roots, had existed long before it had a name, Blake was instrumental in securing its "official" status. From its beginnings as a block watch that expanded to neighborhood picnics and family gatherings and service projects, the group took on momentum as neighbors connected with one another and their community.
"Trying to get people to know who their neighbors are and having those parties that we used to have back in the day — just developing relationship," Blake said of the primary focus of the organization. "Wanting to get the community to know one another once again. That's really the purpose behind the South Newark Civic Association — wanting to bring people together and develop that sense of community."
In 2012, the organization partnered with Denison University on an oral history project that documented the stories of roughly 30 different families with roots in Newark's South End. The project was compiled into a series of posters that were displayed at Denison's William Howard Doane Library the following year; one of the posters now resides in Desirée Blake's living room, a piece of local history of which she is a proud part.
"That was probably one of the most popular projects," Jeremy said, "because people like to talk about their families; they like to talk about living in the community."
That community is what compelled Blake, a Newark City councilman since 2014, to enter the 2019 Newark mayoral race — a race for the job Blake refers to as "the city's biggest cheerleader."
"I think for a long time, just being mentored by Frank Stare and having relationships with local leaders, I knew I was going to run for mayor at some point," he said, "but this seemed to be the year to do it."
His opponent, Republican incumbent Jeff Hall, is seeking his third term as mayor.
Blake's time on the campaign trail has made him a firsthand witness of his community's challenges — homelessness, addiction, infrastructure — and has paved the way for a variety of conversations with concerned residents.
He has knocked on many doors; attended more than 20 church services of various faiths; run into citizens in restaurants and at community events and on the sidewalk.
He's listened to people talk about their family's battle with drug addiction; sought input from frustrated neighbors; given hugs to people who are having a bad day.
"That's been probably the biggest thing that really gets me through the day sometimes, when people just want a big hug," he said. "When people open up to you and tell you what's going on in their family and their lives — that's really where it's like, 'What is it that we can do to make this a better situation for you?'"
The response has been vastly positive and eye-opening, he said.
"The human connection is what I enjoy hearing and talking to people about," he said. "More times than anything, I'll just listen to people."
It's this sort of human connection that Blake hopes will carry him through to the mayor's office, where he aims to "be a mayor for all," he said.
"When I go around door to door, people are like, 'Hey, I know you — I know the things that you've done in the community," he said. "I just feel blessed. I just really do. (I'm) thanking the Lord every day for giving me some ability to give back. I feel like this a way I can make people's lives a little better."
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Q: How to obtain combined convex Hull of multiple separate shapes I have 2 shapes (pic 1) and need to find one convexHull of both of them combined (pic2). More precisely I am interested in obtaining external corners (purple circles pic 2). The shapes are detached. The shape I trace is a square sheet of transparent plastic with two color stripes on the side. Stripes are very easy to trace (inRange).
One quick and dirty method I am thinking is to connect centers of the stripes with a white line and then obtain convexHull. I am also thinking on concatenating lists of vertexes of both shapes and obtain combined convexHull but I am not certain if this method will crash the convexHull function.
Is there any more elegant way to resolve this problem?
Please help
Pic 1

Pic 2

A: Issue resolved.
Works like a charm. Concatenating points of separate shapes don't crash convexHull.
I posted the code on GitHub https://github.com/wojciechkrukar/OpenCV/blob/master/RectangleDetector/RectangleDetector.ipynb
This is the result:

Here is the most important chunk of code:
_ , contours,hier = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_EXTERNAL, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_SIMPLE)
#size of contour points
length = len(contours)
#concatinate poits form all shapes into one array
cont = np.vstack(contours[i] for i in range(length))
hull = cv2.convexHull(cont)
uni_hull = []
uni_hull.append(hull) # <- array as first element of list
cv2.drawContours(image,uni_hull,-1,255,2);

A:
import numpy as np
import cv2

img = cv2.imread('in1.jpg')

gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
(_, thresh) = cv2.threshold(gray, 0, 255, cv2.THRESH_BINARY_INV | cv2.THRESH_OTSU)

thresh = ~thresh

points = np.column_stack(np.where(thresh.transpose() > 0))
hull1 = cv2.convexHull(points)
result1 = cv2.polylines(img.copy(), [hull1], True, (0,0,255), 2)

cv2.imshow('result1', result1)

points2 = np.fliplr(np.transpose(np.nonzero(thresh)))
approx = cv2.convexHull(points2)
result2 = cv2.polylines(img.copy(), [approx], True, (255,255,0), 2)

cv2.imshow('result2', result2)

(contours, _) = cv2.findContours(thresh, cv2.RETR_LIST, cv2.CHAIN_APPROX_NONE)
points3 = [pt[0] for ctr in contours for pt in ctr]
points3 = np.array(points3).reshape((-1,1,2)).astype(np.int32)

hull3 = cv2.convexHull(points3)
result3 = cv2.drawContours(img.copy(), [hull3], -1, (0,255,0), 1, cv2.LINE_AA)

cv2.imshow('result3', result3)

points4 = list(set(zip(*np.where(img >= 128)[1::-1])))
points4 = np.array(points4).reshape((-1,1,2)).astype(np.int32)

hull4 = cv2.convexHull(points4)
result4 = cv2.drawContours(img.copy(), [hull4], -1, (0,255,255), 1, cv2.LINE_AA)

cv2.imshow('result4', result4)

result = np.hstack([result1, result2, result3, result4])

cv2.imwrite('result.jpg', result)


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Moving to Southsea, Hampshire? What you need to know
So you are thinking of moving to Southsea in Hampshire? You've found some estate agents and they have told you what you wanted to hear. You've read some speil by a local councillor who says that Southsea is on the up an up? Now it's time for a bit of reality. Cold hard statistics culled from the Police, the Indices of Deprivation and the latest census. Is Southsea the land of milk and honey or are Gosport, Portchester and Portsmouth a lot better? Time to find out.
Crime in Southsea
Using the latest Police street crime figures for the month of November 2020 we have compiled a table of the most voilent Policing areas in and around Southsea. Naturally the more urban and more central areas will have a higher rate of crime, but often you can be surprised when that is not the case and that is the area you want to move to.
Fratton 395
Portsea Island 363
Portsmouth 363
Landport 325
Baffins 256
Southsea 240
Copnor 200
Portsea 169
Milton 166
Tipner 15
The English Indices of Deprivation also has crime statistics for Southsea. These statitics are published by the government every 2-3 years. They are a measure of how likely you are to be a victim of personal or material crime in an area, such as muggings or burglary. We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Southsea. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst.
Central Southsea (Best) 11320/32845
Milton 13388/32845
Anglesey 20325/32845
Charles Dickens 2409/32845
St Jude 2808/32845
Town 3178/32845
Nelson 3676/32845
Fratton 4108/32845
St Thomas 5421/32845
Eastney and Craneswater (Worst) 7480/32845
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Your Health in Southsea
If you are thinking of moving to Southsea, you want to know if the place is likely to put you on a downward spiral of ill health. We've taken the healh question from the latest census to find out and how Southsea compares to its neighbouring local authorities. People were asked to rate their current health from very bad to very good;
Portsmouth (Southsea) 1.15% 3.9% 12.42% 34.84% 47.69%
Havant 1.31% 4.29% 14.24% 35.86% 44.31%
Fareham 0.9% 3.13% 12.22% 35.21% 48.55%
Gosport 0.99% 3.89% 13.58% 36.21% 45.32%
The English Indices of Deprivation also has health statistics for Southsea. They measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health, lovely! We've collated an average rank for all the Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA) in each ward in and around Southsea. The table below shows ten wards in this area, from the best to the worst;
St Thomas (Best) 13884/32845
St Jude 14666/32845
Central Southsea 15282/32845
Eastney and Craneswater 16888/32845
Fratton (Worst) 9521/32845
Southampton - flawed pearl of the South
Deprivation in Southsea
Using the English Indices of Deprivation statistics, we've collated the average Index of Multiple Deprivation rank of all the LSOAs in the wards in and around Southsea. In layman's terms, this is how rough the ward is based on mutiple measures of deprivation including; employment, income, health, crime, housing and outside space.
St Jude (Best) 12557/32845
St Thomas 12605/32845
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Andover: gulag of Hampshire
Portsmouth and the tale of the pissy burgers
Southampton: how to visit Above Bar Street and still leave with your wallet
Portsmouth: O.M.F.G.
Leigh Park has a long tradition of chavness
Southampton – flawed pearl of the South
Lee-on-Solent is being invaded by the great drinkers of White Lightening
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Did you think it was just all your Facebook friends, or Facebook friends's kids, going and getting themselves engaged? You would be incorrect. George Clooney, America's Least Favorite Batman, has reportedly declared his intentions to wed Amal Alamuddin.
Far be it for me to unravel the motivations of this tall, grey, handsome stranger. Maybe he was all set on the single life until Beyonce surprise-dropped her new album, and he listened to "Drunk in Love" and "Partition" and was like, "Whoa, marriage sounds pretty hot." Maybe he finally got into Friday Night Lights and, like any heart-having human, realized he was searching for the Tami to his Coach. Maybe Matt Damon and Brad Pitt stopped inviting him to stuff because, look, not to be weird or anything, it's just that it's only going to be couples there, and where would George even sit?
In other thrilling marriage-related news: Jay Z and Beyonce are touring together this summer! (I'm on an exclamation-point quota here and I saved it just for this.) Summer dates for the "On the Run" tour are already up at Beyonce's website. Which brings us to the key question: is marriage having a cultural moment? After years of high divorce rates and growing skepticism of institutions, is marriage making a comeback?
Beginning with the basics: Americans are waiting longer to marry than ever before. In 1950, the median age at marriage was 20.5 years old for women and 24 for men. Since then, the marriage age has been steadily rising, more sharply for women than for men, to a record high in 2011 of about 29 years old for men and 27 for women, according to census data.
Why the wait? "People wait until their financial and educational ducks are in a row, and their relationship ducks are in a row," said Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia. "They want to really get to know the other person first." Not to say that people think marriage is an overrated institution in which they'd rather not participate. According to recent Pew Research studies, most Americans still consider it to be either "one of the most important" goals in their lives, or at least that it's "very important." "For most people, [marriage] is a brass ring," said Wilcox.
The number of newlyweds — that's people who get married in a given year, out of all who are eligible to get married that year — isn't that low for Clooney's age range. "I was surprised," said Gretchen Livingston, senior researcher at Pew Research Center. Citing data from 2012, she said, "When you look at people ages 45 to 64, the number of newlyweds in that age range is about 2 percent. Which seems low, but to put it in perspective, but among those ages 35–44, it's about 5 percent…For people ages 25 to 34, the number was about 7.5 percent, and that's kind of prime-marrying age and it's still not super-high." Total number of newlyweds age 45 and older in the U.S.: 700,000.
Though marriage later in life is on trend, remarrying has grown rarer. (Clooney, lest all the youths forget, was married once before: to Talia Balsam, from 1989 to 1993.) According to the 2010 Pew Research Study on love and marriage, only 29 percent of divorced adults say they would like to marry again. Men, however, are more likely to remarry than women. Compare that to the 61 percent of never-married men and women who say they see marriage in their future; only 12 percent of people who have never been married say they never hope to get hitched.
There's less stigma surrounding less traditional living arrangements today than there has been in the past. "Marriage is less of a social necessity than it once was, in terms of having a public, permanent relationship with someone," said Wilcox. "There's a sense in which that's much more acceptable today than 40 or 50 years ago." Due in part to those shifting attitudes, the remarriage rate has been on the decline.
Which I guess just proves what we already knew: Clooney is not your average guy.
Speaking of stigma: Clooney is famous for his singledom, which if he were a woman would make him Jennifer Aniston and the coverage of this event would be something along the lines of "THANK GOD someone put a ring on it before this sad desperate water bottle spokeslady's uterus shriveled up like a raisin in the sun and died with no small human inside it, thus rendering her life meaningless and without worth!" But because it's George, good old "confirmed bachelor" George, everyone is more like: what sorcery is at play to make one of People magazine's only two-time Sexiest Men Alive™ decide now is the time to make an honest gentleman out of him?
Maybe Clooney's late-ish in life remarriage will spark a changing tide, both in how we talk about men (and woman) who take their time with knot-tying and in our attitudes about marriage more generally. So far, there haven't been many studies about how the behavior of celebrities affects the personal and legal choices we make. But if celebrity fashion influences how we dress and movie slang alters how we talk, wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that the behavior of high-profile individuals, especially those as well-liked as Clooney and Beyonce, influence our behavior, too? Stay tuned.


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RSU 3 reports new COVID-19 case
Unity — Another person associated with Regional School Unit 3 has tested positive for COVID-19.
In a Jan. 8 letter to staff, students and parents, RSU 3 Superintendent Charles Brown said the person had no close contacts in any of the district schools or departments.
This is the fifth COVID-19 case associated with RSU 3 since school began in September. Besides this current letter, notices were sent out Oct. 21, Nov. 24, Dec. 18, and Dec. 24 alerting parents of new COVID-19 cases in the district.
Brown encouraged people to monitor themselves along with their students for signs and symptoms, as well as practicing precautions.
Washing hands with soap and water, not touching eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands and avoiding close contact with people who are sick are all recommended by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, he said.
Also, cover coughs or sneezes with a tissue, then throw the tissue away, and clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a regular household cleaning spray or wipe.
Symptoms include fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, body aches, headache, loss of taste or smell, sore throat, sinus congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, and diarrhea. If symptoms appear, he said, call your health care provider.
Brown also encouraged students and staff to be up-to-date on influenza and routine vaccinations.
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The Neshaminy Water Resources Authority has asked the state Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to hear an appeal of a lower court ruling on the Point Pleasant pump project.
In a motion for reconsideration filed this week, the NWRA again asked the court to hear its appeal of a Commonwealth Court decision that ordered the authority to complete construction of the controversial pump project.
The NWRA had appealed the lower court's decision, arguing that the authority's contracts with Philadelphia Electric Co. and Montgomery County to build the $55-million Delaware River water diversion project are unconstitutional and illegal.
Commonwealth Court disagreed with the authority's position and upheld a 1985 ruling by Bucks County President Judge Isaac S. Garb that ordered completion of the pump.
Last week, the Supreme Court said it would not hear the authority's appeal of the Commonwealth Court decision. The Supreme Court has not yet made a decision on a similar appeal by Bucks County.
NWRA Executive Secretary Tracy Carluccio said the authority filed the motion to reconsider because it believes its appeal should be heard along with that of Bucks County.
"There are many issues to this case that should be heard," she said. "We believe that the court should hear both our appeal and the county's appeal if it is to make the best possible decision."


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Tiokasin Ghosthorse welcomes back Chase Huntley from The Wilderness Society. Chase oversees The Wilderness Society's energy and climate change program, which focuses on guiding needed development, protecting wild places and reducing emissions. Prior to The Wilderness Society, he worked at the Government Accountability Office leading teams evaluating energy and climate change programs. Chase has previously worked for an energy subcommittee at the U.S. House of Representatives, in the chief's office at the U.S. Forest Service and for the Great Lakes Commission. He has masters degrees in natural resources and public policy from the University of Michigan and a bachelors degree in government and philosophy from Claremont McKenna College.
In the second half-hour, Dwaine Perry is Chief of the Ramapough-Lunaape Nation. Chief Perry has a long history of advocacy and has sat with elders and Indigenous leaders in the Himalayas, the Andes and throughout North America, seeking and coalescing the seeds of unity and truth remaining in the colonized mind. He champions human rights today, focusing primarily on issues concerning the Ramapough Lunaape Nation and the Indigenous community at-large. Chief Perry was a staunch supporter of the activities at Standing Rock and called for all people in the New Jersey/New York region who could not go personally to Standing Rock to join the Ramapough people in solidarity in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Pilgrim Pipeline that threatens lands in the New York and New Jersey region, and all forms of environmental genocide, greed and avarice.


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"The Loneliest Planet": The backpacker's guide to rocky emotional terrain
If you get up to go to the bathroom at the wrong moment during "The Loneliest Planet," you'll miss everything.
The UW-Cinematheque is hosting the Madison premiere of the film at 7 p.m. Friday at 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Ave. The screening is free, but seating is limited and first-come, first-serve.
Much of Julia Loktev's gorgeous and unsettling film is like a travelogue, with long scenes of the three characters trudging through the vibrant green hills of the Caucacus Mountains in the country of Georgia. It's a vacation for an adventurous engaged couple, Alex (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg), and I'm guessing the title is a play on those "Lonely Planet" guidebooks. There isn't much to do out in these remote hills except hike, but they pass the time playing teasing word games (he's teaching her his native Spanish, verb by verb) and all the other things young couples do when they're in love, and the enormity of the world seems to reside in the other person.
"Planet" requires a bit of patience from the viewer at first; there are a lot of hiking shots, and while undeniably beautiful (this is a movie that demands a theatrical viewing) it can get a little repetitive to see similar shots of the same figures, tiny as ants, moving across an emerald backdrop. (Loktev only uses music during those extreme long shots, quickly cutting it off when the camera narrows in on the couple).
There's a third figure with the couple, a local guide named Dato (Bidzina Gujabidze). He's a somewhat mysterious figure, trying to make jokes in English while the couple nods politely. There's a few moments of uncertainty — at one point, Dato freezes in his tracks as if he hears something, but doesn't say what. We sense something is going to happen to these three, but what?
And then, midway through the film, it finally does. It only lasts a few seconds, but has a profound impact, and we realize we needed all that time spent earlier with the happy couple to see just how profound. The rest of the film is, again, a lot of walking and some talking (although, tellingly, never about the incident). But everything's changed. Alex and Nica are more distant, uncertain how to relate to each other. One of the fascinating aspects of "The Loneliest Planet" is how slight adjustments can completely alter the effect of what is basically the same shot, much as how a small moment can send love that seemed secure tumbling into doubt.
"The Loneliest Planet" is a film about connection, or the attempt at connection; everybody's trying to learn each other's language, both verbal and emotional, but there are limits to what you can understand about another person. It's telling that, in some early scenes, the characters are visually obscured from us — in one local tevern, Alex and Nica sit in semi-darkness, illuminated occasionally by a rotating blue light from the dance floor. Out in the mountains, there's nowhere to hide from the camera, and the couple learns that perhaps it's best not to know exactly what's in the other person's heart, or their own.
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The 2005 season for  began in January at the Tour Down Under.

Three riders announced their retirements from cycling in 2004. Johan Museeuw made 2004 his last year of professional racing after riding for the team for 2003, 2004 and with the team's predecessor  for 6 years. Richard Virenque seven-time winner of the Mountains classification in the Tour de France also retired, he won the last two of his seven victories at Quick-Step. Laurent Dufaux Two-time winner of the Critérium du Dauphiné also retired at the end of 2004 after one year with the team.

2005 roster

Riders who joined the team for the 2005 season

Riders who left the team during or after the 2004 season

One-day races
The one-day race season for QuickStep started at the Doha International GP in January. It wasn't until Gran Premio di Lugano in February where the team would get their first victory. Rik Verbrugghe won the race from a breakaway sprint against Patrice Halgand.

Quick-Step went 1st and 2nd at this years edition of Omloop Het Volk with Nick Nuyens attacking with 15 km to go and holding a 14-second lead to the line. Then Tom Boonen managed to sprint the rest of the peloton to gained 2nd in the race.

Other victories of the season included Pozzato at the Giro del Lazio and Bettini at Züri Metzgete.

Spring classics
The Spring classic started off with Milan–San Remo in March. With 10 km before the start of the final climb Il Poggio Bettini came to the front of the bunch and put in a hard effort to create a gap. This forced  to chase and do the work allowing Boonen to stay tucked out of the wind. Shortly after Kashechkin made it across to Bettini helping him to gain a 15-second advantage on the peloton this soon rose to 30 seconds with only Fassa Bortolo doing any work at the front. As the Duo reached the base of the Poggio their lead was back down to 15 seconds. As the riders climbed attacks were launched and the duo absorbed. With 2 km to go the riders were all back together with Fassa Bortolo driving the pace for Petacchi. Bettini launched his leadout with 600m to go Petacchi took his wheel then sailed past to win by two bike lengths. Boonen ended up with the best result for the team finishing 8th his best result to date.

The second classic of spring was E3 Prijs Vlaanderen. Boonen had won this race in 2004 so he was the faverourite for this edition. The race started with an 11-man break going up the road, Kevin Hulsmans was in the break for the team. This allowed the team to not work so much in the early kilometers. With 64 km to go and with Bramati and Cretskens driving the pace the breakaway had a one-minute advantage. Soon after an attack was launched containing 6 riders including Boonen and Andreas Klier. It didn't take the 6 long to catch the breakaway out in front, due to a train crossing the peloton got within 10 seconds of the now 17 strong breakaway. With 57 km to go and starting to climb the Taaienberg Klier attacked with Boonen sticking right on his wheel. The pair managed to hold the gap to the rest of the breakaway and at 50 km to go they had 30 seconds. On the top of the Knokteberg with 27 km to go the pair now held a 22-second advantage on the remaining 5 riders in the chase group. As the race continued the time gap reduced to 11 seconds with 19 km to go. At the base of the final climb the Tiegemberg, Boonen and Klier had 20 seconds in hand over the chase group. With two kilometers the duo had secured podium places holding 30 seconds over Peter van Petegem and the chase group behind. With Boonen accelerating from behind Klier with 200m to go he secured his second consecutive victory in the race.

The third classic for this season was the Tour of Flanders. The Team took Boonen as their sprinter for the race although the last few editions had been won by a breakaway. The team had planned to bring Bettini but he came down with mononucleosis. It took a while for the first break of the day to form, no riders from the team were present they were going all in to bring Boonen to the sprint. On climb number 10 with the team leading the peloton Ballan launched an attack which Quick-Step tried to cover but Ballan made it across to solo leader Zaballa. By climb 11 the duo had 45s on the Quick-Step led peloton. On climb 14, Boonen, Klier and Van Petegem bridged across to Petito and Zabel, with Ballan still out in front. Those six riders were riding flat out and essentially the race would be decided between them. Discover-Channel tried their best to tow the peloton back up but with Quick-Step, T-Mobile, Fassa Bortolo and Lotto not contributing the peloton had a very slim chance. With 10 km to go the 6 riders were still together, Van Petegem then attacked with Boonen countering. Van Petegem looked back to see if others would chase but they hesitated. No one expected sprinter Boonen to attack, he quickly gained 50 meters. With 5 km to go Boonen held a very slim 10s over the chasers. As Boonen rounded the final corner he had enough time to raise his hands and celebrate his victory.

This years Gent–Wevelgem was 208 km in length, the team bought Boonen with them as their main man. After winning E3 and being the winner last year, Boonen was the faverourite to win. With 85 km to ride a group of 30 went up the road containing: Boonen, Cretskens, Hulsmans and Knaven. As the race continued the group managed to gain 1 minute on the chasers with Boonen driving the pace at the front. With 41 km to go Flecha attacked Boonen was unable to follow but Pozzato was able to. With 25 km to go the Pozzato group had 20s on the Boonen group. Boonen sat up back into the peloton hoping the peloton would catch and he could win the sprint. Meanwhile, Pozzato was looking strong coming into the final 7 km until a crash on a corner took him out of contention. With the peloton not catching the breakaway Boonen finished 26th in the sprint.

The 'Hell of the North' this year would be ridden without 'The Lion of Flanders' who retired at the end of last year. After his impressive Tour of Flanders win Boonen was the faverourite for Paris–Roubaix this year. With 50 km of racking to go an 11-man group had formed at the head of the race with a 2-minute advantage over the peloton. Soon after Cancellara punctured and was forced to drop back, the breakaway kept on riding with Boonen pushing the pace. With just over 10 km to go Boonen increased the pace dropping everyone except George Hincapie and Juan Antonio Flecha. With 5 kilometers to go no one was attacking the chasers were 40s back with the cancellara group 3 minutes down and the peloton a further minute behind. The three-man sprint was launched by Flecha with 250m to go with Boonen coming down the banking to take victory and Hincapie giving it all to take second. This victory means Boonen became the 9th cyclist to win Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix in the same year. With the previous two being Peter Van Petegem in 2003 and Roger De Vlaeminck in 1977.

In the Dutch classic, The Amstel Gold Race, Patrik Sinkewitz managed to stay with the front runners the whole race and ended up sprinting for eighth.

Trying to improve on last years 21st position Sinkewitz lead the team in this years edition of La Flèche Wallonne. With 32 km left to race Rik Verbrugghe attacked hoping to bridge up to the leaders and repeat what he did in 2001 and win the classic. He managed to catch up to one of the riders out in front but the peloton soon caught them both. The peloton was still mostly together by the time the last climb came. Di Luca attacked and managed to win the uphill sprint with Sinkewitz managing 7th just 4 seconds down.

The final Spring Classic of the year was Liège–Bastogne–Liège. The team brought 2003 winner Paolo Bettini hoping for him to repeat the feat. After 171 km of racing the breakaway had 2'40" over the peloton which was splintering due to many attacks by many riders. Bettini was one such rider. He managed to get into a chase group of 11 riders and split away from the peloton. 12 km later the chase group was down to 7 with Bettini still in contention. With 68 km to go the chase had caught the break but the peloton was only 20 seconds behind in the next 14 km many riders would jump across the gap until Rebellin pulled the two groups together making one group of 30. With 52 km to go Voigt attacked and Vinokourov followed these two would not be caught over the rest of the race. Bettini punctured over the top of La Redoute, luckily Sinkewitz was there to tow him back into contention. Cadel Evans attacked with 3 km to go he was soon joined by Bettini and Michael Boogerd, the three rode hard getting to within 40 seconds of the leaders but it was a case of too little too late. Evans attacked on the final climb with Boogerd countering, Boogerd finished third with Bettini managing fourth.

Fall races
The Fall classics started with Paris–Brussels where Pozzato managed an 11th in the sprint. The following month in October Pozzato managed 14th in Paris–Tours. None of the other Fall classics provided great results except for Giro di Lombardia; where Bettini took a sprint victory from companions Gilberto Simoni and Fränk Schleck. This was the first victory of the Team in this race, although it was won in 1998 by the team's predecessor .

Stage races
The Tour Down Under was the first race that Quick-Step raced in 2005. The best result achieved by a rider was Dimitri De Fauw who placed 9th in the first stage in the bunch sprint.

February brought the second stage race of the season for the team the Tour of Qatar. Tom Boonen was the rider Quick-Step were in Qatar to support. He opened his season by taking Stage 1 beating Mario Cipollini and Robbie Hunter to the line. Boonen added to his tally by also taking Stage 2 from a reduced sprint of 18 riders this time beating Fabrizio Guidi and Robbie McEwen. By winning the first two stages and 9th, 2nd and 3rd in the remaining stages Boonen was able to win the Points classification by 50 points to McEwen. He also managed 4th Overall in the race and 2nd in the Youth classification.

Paris–Nice was the first race of the 2005 UCI ProTour. Quick-Step took Boonen for the sprints and World time-trial champion Michael Rogers for the Overall contention. The Tour opened with a 4 kilometer prologue with Rogers finishing 6 seconds down in 10th position. Stage 1 Boonen was considered the absolute favorite based on his results at the Tour of Qatar last month. During stage 1 the peloton suffered a crash which caused a split with 10 kilometers to go resulting in 23 riders being off the front. This bunch was led by Quick-Step who pulled the gap out to 41 seconds by the finish line they also delivered the win to Boonen who out sprinted Luciano André Pagliarini and Jaan Kirsipuu. Stage 2 was shortened to 46.5 kilometers after snow blocked the original route. Boonen too his fourth victor of the season in another bunch sprint. This gave him enough bonus seconds to take the leaders yellow jersey and also the points classification. With Stage 3 having another up hill finish Boonen looked poised to take a third win in a row. However, when it came down to the sprint with 400m to go Boonen was blocked in and couldn't manoeuvre around Jens Voigt so had to settle for 7th on the stage. Guido Trenti was better positioned and managed to finish the stage in 2nd behind Vicente Reynés. Stage 4 had more of a hilly finish so Boonen was not considered a favorite although he did finish in the top 10, 32 seconds behind stage winner and new leader Fabian Cancellara. Stage 7 was quite a tough stage with Boonen, Lotz and Hulsmans all not finishing. Bram Tankink was the best placed rider overall finishing the race in 24th.

At the same time as Paris–Nice, Tirreno–Adriatico was occurring. The team won Stage 5 from a breakaway with Servais Knaven in an edition where Sprinters Petacchi and Óscar Freire took every other stage. In the end the best placed rider was Wilfried Cretskens who finished 61st.

As April came along the third major tour began the Vuelta a Pais Vasco. Rogers was the designated leader for the race. Stage 1 was a hilly stage with puncher Di Luca taking the Stage, Rogers stayed safe and finished at the same time in 10th position. Rogers was able to keep up with the favorites most stages, in the final time-trial he took 6th and this was enough to secure 8th overall in the race.

With the season Boonen has had and the bonus of his home race he was touted as the faverourite for overall contention at the Tour of Belgium. Stage 1 was a sprint stage which Boonen won he won easily where "The only threat... was LPR's Danilo Napolitano...". Boonen also won Stage 2 and finishing 2nd in Stage 3a, it all came down to the final time-trial. Boonen successfully defended his lead by finishing second on the stage winning both the Overall and Points classification.

The first edition of the Eneco Tour of Benelux was good for the team taking the prologue with Verbrugghe and holding on for 6th overall as the tour concluded.

The Deutschland Tour was the final Pro Tour stage race of the season for Quick Step. Leading the team was defending champion Patrik Sinkewitz he would be racing against big names such as Jan Ullrich, Alexandre Vinokourov, Levi Leipheimer and Cadel Evans. Stage 1 was a 170 km hilly stage, after 30 km of racing Bram Tankink, Bernhard Eisel and Juan José Cobo attacked and formed a breakaway. They stayed away from the peloton for the whole stage at one point having a 10-minute advantage. With 16 kilometers to go Tankink attacked his companions and soloed to victory 48 seconds in front of Cobo and 3 minutes in front of the peloton. Stage 2 was a flat stage with two category 2 climbs at the end. These two climbs meant that when the race got to the finish line only 29 riders remained and most of them were climbers. Filippo Pozzato took the reduced bunch sprint only millimeters in front of Jörg Jaksche. Tankink lost just under 3 minutes to Pozzato, this meant that going into stage 3 Tankink held the leaders jersey with 13 seconds back to now second placed Pozzato. 23 seconds down was team leader Sinkewitz sitting at the same time as the other contenders. Stage 3 was a day for the sprinters with a small breakaway going up the road but the team rode on the front the whole stage keeping their leaders out of trouble. With 30 km to go many riders tried to attack and get away from the peoloton but Quick Step slowly wound them back in. With 2 km to go the race was going to end in a bunch sprint  was riding on the front for their sprinter Pagliarini. Lampre's Bennati was able to sprint to victory with Pozzato coming second. Stage 4 was the first Mountain stage of the tour as the riders reached the final climb the pace was too much for Sinkewitz and he struggled to keep up, as did many contenders. He was able to limit his losses and finish 10th on the stage moving him to 9th overall, 3 minutes down on stage winner Leipheimer. On Stage 5 Pozzato placed 9th during the sprint finish. The second Mountain stage, 7, was a tough one for the team with leader Sinkewitz losing 1:48 to Evans, dropping to 11th overall, and Pozzato pulling out. The decisive stage 8 time-trial was won by Ulrich with Sinkewitz finishing in 24th 2:34 down. Although he lost time on the leaders he gained one place on the Overall which he held through stage 9.

The Tour of Britain was a very dominating race for the team, winning 4 of the 6 stages plus the overall. Stage 1 was a day for the sprinters with Nick Nuyens launching at 250m to go and holding on to win by 2 seconds to Michael Blaudzun. Stage 2 was a day for the breakaway with Roger Hammond winning the stage and Mark Cavendish leading the peloton home finishing 3rd with Luca Paolini coming home 4th. Stage 3 brought a second stage win for the team with Paolini winning the sprint from breakaway companions Bram Schmitz and Russell Downing. With breakaway rider Sergei Ivanov taking line honors it was Paolini who led the bunch across the line for stage 4 with Cavendish having to take the runner-up spot. Stage 5 was an all important time-trial Nuyens took his second stage win by an impressive margin of 0.75 seconds to Kurt-Asle Arvesen. This brought his lead to 8 seconds over Blaudzun. The final stage of the tour was a sprint stage and Paolini took his second stage win while Nuyens held on to win overall becoming the second rider in the history of the modern race to lead from start to finish. Paolini also took the win in the Points classification after a very consistent tour.

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia

On 3 May the team announced their line up for the Giro d'Italia. Stage 1 of the Giro was a Flat stage with an up hill finish, Paolo Bettini managed to surprise his rivals with a punchy attack allowing him to take the stage by three seconds this put him into the Maglia rosa for the first time in his career. Bettini lost the leaders jersey on Stage 2 after second placed Robbie McEwen won the stage and took enough time to lead Bettini by eight seconds. During Stage 3 Davide Bramati was assaulted by two spectators who stole his race number. The stage was a hilly stage, race leader McEwen lost 1 minute on a group of 50 riders in which was Bettini this gave Bettini the lead once again. Stage 4 was initially won by Bettini but he was relegated after being deemed to cause the crash of Baden Cooke in the final sprint, Bettini did retain the leaders jersey and now led the points classification. Danilo di Luca of  took his second stage win on stage 5 pushing Bettini into second in both the Points and Overall classifications. In Stage 6 Bettini took a bonus 6 seconds in an intermediate to take the lead of the Giro once again. Stage 7 was another hilly stage this ended with Bettini losing the lead and dropping to 12th overall and 3rd in the points classification. The next sprint stage was stage 9 in which Bettini got pipped on the line by Alessandro Petacchi, still in third on the points classification but now only 1 point behind first position. It was only after McEwen didn't finish the tough mountain stage 13 that Bettini once again was leading the points classification. The Points jersey switched to Di Luca after stage 14 but then back to Bettini the following day after Bettini finished third to Petacchi. Bettini held the points classification all the way to Milan to secure his first Points classification win in the Giro d'Italia. Bettini was the best placed rider overall finishing 38th.

Tour de France

On 30 June the team announced that they would ride the Tour supporting Tom Boonen in the sprints with Patrik Sinkewitz and Michael Rogers aiming for the overall victory. Rogers was a faverourite for the opening time-trial however he "couldn't find the right rhythm" and finished the stage in 45th. Stage 2 was more successful with Boonen taking the sprint in front of Thor Hushovd and Robbie McEwen this put him into the lead of the Points classification. Boonen went two for two also taking victory in the Stage 3 sprint extending his lead in the points classification. Boonen managed second place to McEwen in Stage 5 this helped him hold the Green jersey till the end of Stage 11 where he did not start due to a knee injury. With Boonen now out Guido Trenti led the team for the sprints, he managed a fourth behind McEwen in Stage 13. Rogers and Sinkewitz both lost over 20 minutes on stage 14 thereby ruining any chance they had of a high General classification placing. At the end of the Tour Rogers was the best placed rider at 41st position.

Vuelta a España
The team's Vuelta started off better than any of the previous Grand Tours with Rik Verbrugghe finishing the individual time trial 1 second behind winner Denis Menchov. This result meant that Verbrugghe would wear the Mountain classification jersey in Stage 2. With the dynamic duo of sprinters Tom Boonen and Paolo Bettini the team had a good chance of victory on the flat stages. The first opportunity for this came on Stage 3 where Boonen finished in third behind Alessandro Petacchi. On Stage 6 Juan Miguel Mercado finished in 5th position 49 seconds down on Roberto Heras moving him up to 8th overall. Stage 8 gave Quick-Step the next chance at victory, a flat stage resulting in a sprint finish. However, when it came down to the end Petacchi was too strong and the team managed 3rd with Bettini and 5th with Boonen. Stage 9 was a 48 kilometer time-trial which resulted in Mercado losing 4 places and dropping to 13th Overall. Mercado gained those places back in the following stage by finishing 6 seconds down on race leader Menchov in the hilly finish. Boonen abandoned the race before the start of Stage 14 stating that the following mountain stages wouldn't help his chances of winning the world championships. This left Bettini as the team leader coming into stage 16 where he then beat Petacchi to the line claiming his first Vuelta stage. At the end of the Vuelta Mercado finished the highest place in a grand tour this season that was 10th.

Season victories
Sources:

National, Continental and World champions

References

External links

2005 road cycling season by team
2005
2005 in Belgian sport

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