Andy is a software developer working at Lindorff Oy, helping provide their online payment solution. He likes talking about Strong Typing, EventSourcing, Continuous Delivery, Architecture, and Immutable Infrastructure. He particularly enjoys making other developers lives easier and automates pretty much anything he touches. He blogs at https://andydote.co.uk, and sometimes streams software development on https://twitch.tv/pondidum.
Feature toggles are a great asset to your development workflow – they make experimentation and incremental changes easier, and help push features through faster. But there are potential problems: old flags, unused flags, or worse, re-used flags can come and bite you when you are least expecting it.
This talk will cover how to use feature toggles effectively, cover some of the horror stories, how the horrors can be avoided, and how to deal with them if they do occur. Examples in C#, but applicable everywhere.


Proving that "cloud rap" is not a fad, Main Attrakionz slide through with even more free music by way of the cLOUDLIFE EP. This time, Squadda B and Mondre M.A.N. team up with producers Jel and Zachg to create a sound that varies only slightly from past material. At only 20 minutes or so, this is a quick listen for any of you out there that are struggling to keep up with Main Attrakionz's already vast catalog. Head over to Spin to stream the EP.
Zachg raps on here too.


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Express Employment Professionals Expands Franchising into Australia/New Zealand
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Franchise Ownership Opportunities Now Available
December 21, 2020 // Franchising.com // OKLAHOMA CITY - After acquiring direct hire staffing firm Frontline Recruitment Group earlier this year, Express Employment Professionals is expanding globally once again to offer franchise ownership opportunities in Australia and New Zealand.
The nearly 40-year old staffing company currently has more than 830 franchise locations across the United States, Canada and South Africa and was recently named one of the Top 10 Largest Global Staffing Firms by Staffing Industry Analysts. In 2020, Express was also designated as the Top Global Franchised Staffing Company by Entrepreneur and Franchise Direct.
Express specializes in providing a full range of employment solutions for every industry, including skilled trades, light industrial, office services and professional.
"In a season when many businesses have been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Express is proud to mark another exciting milestone in our history, which allows those with dreams of business ownership to take the next step on their journey," Express CEO Bill Stoller said. "We are excited to hit the ground running to connect qualified job seekers with reputable companies in this new venture in Australia and New Zealand."
The staffing industry generated $498 billion of revenue in 2019 and Express has seen a quick rebound in labor demand since businesses were allowed to resume operations after initial COVID-19 shutdowns in early 2020. Notably, open job orders across the company currently exceed that of pre-pandemic levels.
"Franchise ownership in our industry has generated a lot of buzz this year because of the recession-resilient nature of the business model," said Vinny Provenzano, Express vice president of franchising. "We are honored to bring the lessons of the past nearly 40 years to this new region and ultimately, hope through employment."
Express Employment Professionals is the No. 1 flexible staffing franchise for people, communities and businesses. The company works with job seekers to help them find the right job for their skills and experience, and annually employs over 552,000 people across more than 830 franchise locations worldwide. Express has been recognized as the staffing category leader on Entrepreneur magazine's prestigious and highly competitive Franchise 500 ranking of the top franchise opportunities for nine consecutive years and its franchisees have average annual sales per territory of over $6 million in the U.S.
Express's long-term goal is at the heart of its company's vision: to help as many people as possible find good jobs by helping as many clients as possible find good people. The brand is actively seeking qualified candidates to help grow its brand footprint throughout the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. To learn more about franchise opportunities with Express Employment Professionals, contact Vinny Provenzano, Vice President of Franchising, at Vinny.Provenzano@ExpressPros.com or visit www.ExpressFranchising.com.
About Bill Stoller
William H. "Bill" Stoller is chairman and chief executive officer of Express Employment Professionals. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the international staffing company has more than 830 franchises in the U.S., Canada and South Africa, and beginning in 2020 will expand to Australia and New Zealand. Since its inception, Express has put more than 8 million people to work worldwide.
About Express Employment Professionals
At Express Employment Professionals, we're in the business of people. From job seekers to client companies, Express helps people thrive and businesses grow. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, OK, our international network of franchises offer localized staffing solutions to the communities they serve, employing 552,000 people across North America in 2019. For more information, visit www.ExpressPros.com.
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Express Employment Professionals ranks as the largest franchised staffing company and second largest privately held staffing company in the United States.

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Join REAL on the Actions REALized Tour for a very special Tommy Guerrero x Refuge Skateshop board release party. June 21st at 3pm.
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Football: Former Malaysia safeguard and savant Shebby Singh passes on from coronary failure
SINGAPORE – Former Malaysia footballer and notable intellectual Serbegeth Singh, also called Shebby Singh, passed on Wednesday (Jan 12) in Johor Baru. He was 61.
As per Iskandar Puteri locale police boss Dzulkhairi Mukhtar, it is accepted Shebby passed on from a coronary failure while out cycling. He leaves behind two youngsters, Natassha Kaur and Sonuljit Singh.
The previous safeguard had a renowned lifetime for club and nation, featuring for his home territory of Johor in 1978, preceding he continued on to Kuala Lumpur where he won the M-League two times and Malaysia Cup threefold from 1984 to 1990.
He made his global presentation in 1982 and assisted Malaysia with winning gold at the South-east Asian Games in 1989.
He proceeded to acquire 61 covers and played his last counterpart for the Harimau Malaya in an amicable at Stadium Merdeka in 1991.
Shebby additionally played for Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and Perak before he hung up his boots in 1996.
Singapore football legend Fandi Ahmad, who was his colleague at KL and Pahang, was "exceptionally pitiful to know about the stunning news".
The 59-year-old said: "Shebby was an old buddy. He was agreeable and joyful, and truly adept at spurring others. He was a decent player and a decent talker who gave clear directions on the field."
His endowment of the talk drove him to turn into an unmistakable football intellectual on TV, working with Astro SuperSport, Fox Sports and ESPN Asia for the beyond 24 years.
In June 2012, Shebby was designated worldwide guide for English Championship side Blackburn Rovers.
Previous S-League footballer Rhysh Roshan Rai, who turned into a football moderator and worked with Shebby at Fox Sports, said: "Shebby thought often profoundly about football and his punditry work. He was not reluctant to impart his insight and hold fast.
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"He was loads of enjoyable to be with on TV, yet in addition a hero to converse with off-screen too. I truly delighted in working with him and liked the guidance he gave.
"He was likewise extremely enthusiastic with regards to his two youngsters in the caring manner he talked with regards to them. We some of the time consider these individuals to be VIPs and fail to remember they are individuals above all else, and Shebby was an incredible individual."
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Le doyenné du Pays du Bessin est une subdivision du diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux. Il regroupe  réparties en six paroisses.

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Notre-Dame-des-Flots

Notre-Dame du Bessin

Saint-Benoît de l'Aure

Saint-Exupère en Bessin

Saint-Hubert des Biards

Saint-Martin de la Seulles

Notes et références

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Article connexe
 Diocèse de Bayeux et Lisieux

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 Site de la paroisse de Notre Dame du Bessin
 Site de la paroisse de Saint Exupère en Bessin
 Site de la paroisse de Saint Hubert des Biards
 Site de la paroisse de Saint Martin de la Seulles

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Les technologies de l'information renforceront-elles le pouvoir des multinationales au détriment des libertés individuelles ? Quelles voies s'ouvrent devant les biotechnologies : le transhumanisme, l'accès universel à la santé ? Les neurotechnologies engendreront-elles une humanité augmentée, mais finalement déshumanisée ? Les développements de la robotique sont-ils les prémices de la guerre de l'homme contre la machine ? Les agro-industries permettront-elles de relancer les capacités de production de la planète malgré le réchauffement climatique ? La conquête spatiale va-t-elle ouvrir une nouvelle ère de colonisation pour l'humanité ? Tous les contributeurs de cette anthologie, nouvellistes de science-fiction ou chercheurs es sciences, nous invitent à nous poser ces questions afin d'anticiper le monde que les technosciences mettront en place pour les générations futures.
Rapport LAAS N°18375, Novembre 2018, 5p.
Acoustic flat lensing is achieved here by tuning a phononic array to have indefinite medium behaviour in a narrow frequency spectral region along the acoustic branch in the irreducible Brillouin zone (IBZ). This is confirmed by the occurrence of a flat band along an unusual path in the IBZ and by interpreting the intersection point of isofrequency contours on the corresponding isofrequency surface; coherent directive beams are formed whose reflection from the array surfaces create lensing. Theoretical predictions using a mass-spring lattice approximation of the phononic crystal (PC) are corroborated by time-domain experiments, airborne acoustic waves generated by a source with a frequency centered about 10.6 kHz, placed at three different distances from one side of a finite PC slab, constructed from polymeric spheres, yield distinctive focal spots on the other side. These experiments evaluate the pressure field using optical feedback interferometry and demonstrate precise control of the three-dimensional wave trajectory through a sonic crystal.
Laser feedback-based self-mixing interferometry (SMI) has been demonstrated for diverse metric sensing applications. Typically, SMI sensors are based on such laser diodes (LDs) which provide mono-modal emission resulting in SMI signals in which each interferometric fringe occurs due to change in optical path length of λ/2, where λ is emission wavelength. However, in case multiple laser modes undergo SMI, then each mode contributes its own set of fringes. As LDs can emit multiple modes under variable operating conditions, so, non-detection of multiple SMI modes can cause drastic increase in measurement error due to wrong interpretation of fringes. Previously, the detection of multiple laser modes undergoing SMI was achieved by adding spectroscopic instruments to the SMI set-up. This, however, compromises the inherent simplicity of SMI sensing. In this paper, an automatic SMI-based multi-modality detection method is proposed which is able to detect if multiple modes of deployed LD are undergoing SMI and are contributing additional fringes within the SMI signal under variable sensing conditions. Such detection enables correct interpretation of SMI fringe count and can be used to signal occurrence of mode-hopping or secondary mode excitation. The method uses an artificial neural network, able to automatically identify uni-, bi-, or tri-modal SMI signals. Two different LDs (emitting at 637 and 650 nm) were used to acquire 131 experimental uni-, bi-, and tri-modal SMI signals for variable operating conditions and target vibration amplitude. The proposed system has achieved modality detection accuracy of 98.57% on 70 unseen experimental SMI signals.
Over the past years, cutting-edge advances in electronics and microfabrication have allowed the integration of multiple sensors within integrated analog and digital circuits to design Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS). The multiple sensor integration or sensor fusion, enables both cost and surface reduction, while maintaining high performances. This paper presents a new control system for an underdamped three-axis accelerometer, which allows the co-integration in the same cavity with a three-axis Coriolis gyroscope, to design a Six Degrees of Freedom (DoF) combo sensor. The accelerometer Analog Front End (AFE) consumes from a. power supply and is able to reach its steady state in compared to a open-loop and no damping configuration. The transducer control is implemented using a simultaneous multirate electrostatic damping method. To conclude on the closed loop system stability, an innovative approach, based on the multirate signal processing, theory has been developed.
Low-power analog front-end circuits for channeltron detectors (or Channel Electron Multiplier: CEMs) have been fabricated in 0.35-μm CMOS technology to characterize low energy solar wind particles. They have been designed to readout signals for incident charges ranging from 50 fC to 20 pC. Each front end circuit consists of a charge preamplifier, an amplifier, a discriminator, a monostable circuit and a LVDS. Requirement on the complete front end is to consume less than 6.5 mW/channel for a maximum event detecting rate of 40 MHz.
This paper presents an experimental technique for two-dimensional imaging of dynamic acoustic pressure changes that is applied to visualize a stationary acoustic wave. This technique uses the optical feedback interferometry sensing scheme with a near-infrared laser diode and a two-axis scanning system. The stationary acoustic wave is generated by using a 40 kHz piezoelectric transducer pointing toward a concave acoustic reflector. The acoustic pressure dynamic changes are measured due to its impact on the propagating medium refractive index, which variation is integrated along the laser optical path from the laser diode to a distant mirror and back. The imaging system records a 100×50 pixels image of the acoustic pressure in 66 min.
Optical feedback interferometry (OFI) based flowmetry enables simple, robust, self-aligned and low cost systems to measure the fluid flow velocity with reasonable accuracy. The particle concentration in the fluid causes significant changes in the signal of OFI sensors. While the spectral analysis of the particle induced Doppler shift remains as the most usual approach to determine the flow properties, different processing algorithms have been proposed in order to evaluate the average flow velocity within the measurement volume. In this paper, the validity of the commonly used methods with regards to particle concentrations and flow rates is verified.


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Elevator accident building cited for safety violations 26 times
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Premises Liability on Wednesday, August 28, 2019.
Elevator riders in West Virginia and around the country are protected by a variety of sophisticated safety devices, but accidents can and do still happen. One such accident claimed the life of a 30-year-old New York man on Aug. 22. The man died after becoming trapped between the elevator cab and the shaft wall. He was exiting the elevator at approximately 8:30 a.m. when the cab began to move. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
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What drivers and motorcyclists can do to keep each other safe
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Motorcycle Accidents on Monday, August 26, 2019.
Throughout May, which is National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, the National Safety Council reminded both drivers and motorcyclists of their responsibility toward one another. Motorcyclists composed 14% of all traffic fatalities in West Virginia and across the U.S. in 2017 even though motorcycles make up only 3% of all registered vehicles on the road.
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Drawing blood the best way to measure CO2 in pediatric TBI cases
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Brain Injury on Wednesday, August 21, 2019.
When a child incurs head trauma, doctors measure and regulate the child's level of carbon dioxide to ensure that enough blood oxygen reaches the brain. If too much carbon dioxide is allowed into the brain, it puts pressure in the skull, yet if too little passes through, it weakens blood circulation in the brain. West Virginia residents should know that there are two main ways of measuring carbon dioxide, one non-invasive and the other invasive.
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Outbreak at Georgia hotel confirmed to be Legionnaire's disease
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Premises Liability on Monday, August 19, 2019.
West Virginia residents may be aware that an Atlanta area hotel was evacuated on July 15 when guests started getting sick. It was quickly determined that the guests were suffering from an extreme form of pneumonia known as Legionnaire's disease, and the Georgia Department of Public Health eliminated any remaining doubt when it found Legionella bacteria in water samples collected from the hotel's cooling tower and an ornamental fountain in its lobby. A 49-year-old woman died after contracting the disease at the hotel, and the GDPH has positively identified at least 13 other cases.
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Wayne Newton sued by mother of victim in pet monkey attack
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Premises Liability on Thursday, August 15, 2019.
Entertainer Wayne Newton is now facing a lawsuit because his pet monkey allegedly bit a girl who was touring his former estate. Residents of West Virginia should know that this Las Vegas estate, called the Casa de Shenandoah, is a 40-acre mansion with stables, gardens and exotic animals. It had been sold to investors in 2010 and is now a museum and tourist attraction.
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When efforts to avoid a weaving truck result in a rollover
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC on Thursday, August 15, 2019.
A vehicle rollover is among the most frightening accidents anyone can have and one that often results in devastating injuries and death.
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The Safe Roads Act would make automatic truck brakes mandatory
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Truck Accidents on Tuesday, August 13, 2019.
Automatic emergency braking systems would become mandatory safety equipment on all heavy commercial vehicles in West Virginia and around the country if a bill currently being considered by the House Highways and Transit Subcommittee is signed into law. Road safety groups, like the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety and the Truck Safety Coalition, say the passage of the Safe Roads Act would prevent deadly truck crashes caused by impaired, distracted or fatigued truck drivers. However, some organizations that lobby for the logistics industry oppose the legislation.
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What to do immediately after a motorcycle accident
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Motorcycle Accidents on Thursday, August 8, 2019.
Motorcyclists in West Virginia should know that certain steps must be taken in the wake of an accident with someone else. Staying calm, as difficult as it may be, is generally the best policy. If a motorcyclist can fulfill the following steps smoothly and with an attention to detail, it will be a lot easier for them when they file their claim with their insurance company.
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Ways drivers can reduce distractions while driving
On behalf of Farmer, Cline & Campbell, PLLC posted in Car Accidents on Tuesday, August 6, 2019.
West Virginia drivers may be interested to learn that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 3,166 people died in fatal car accidents in 2017. A significant number of the fatal accidents involved distracted driving, which is often caused by smartphone use, using navigation/infotainment systems and eating while driving. However, there are ways that drivers can make the roads safe for everyone.
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Criterion Confessions
A survey of the Criterion Collection on DVD by Jamie S. Rich.
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT - #943
A masterwork of Cuban cinema recently restored, 1968's Memories of Underdevelopment is a revelatory effort, fully formed, unique in voice, marrying the virtuosity of Mikhail Kalatzov's I am Cuba [review] with the freestyle experimentation of the Nouvelle Vague to bring to life the literary style of Latin American fiction. Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, working from a novel by Edmundo Desnoes (who also contributed the screenplay), Memories of Underdevelopment is a challenging examination of a country in flux, as well as a dissection of its central character, whom we can take as representative of a certain apathetic class of Cuban citizen. Memories of Underdevelopment manages to be both political and subversive, using its lead as a way to never take a side, and thus leaving you to wonder if Gutiérrez Alea is for or against the revolution; perhaps neither.
Sergio Corrieri stars as Sergio, an intellectual idling away his days, nursing a novel we know he'll never finish writing, while quietly judging those around him. The narrative of Memories of Underdevelopment nestles between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, at a time when many were getting out of Cuba before the political tide turned against them. Sergio has decided to stay, even as his wife and family immigrate to the United States without him. Much like the film itself, Sergio is of no particular stripe. He professes disdain for his fellow bourgeoisie, but also has no affinity or understanding for the proletariat. When his maid (Eslinda Núñez), who has gone unnoticed by her employer for a good amount of time, her subservience initially overshadowing her beauty and total identity to a selfish man, tells him about her Christian baptism, Sergio imagines it as an orgiastic escapade; later, when she shows him photos of the event, he is surprised to realize that not only was it a completely chaste affair, it was a public one. Sergio rarely considers there are other people, and that they are connected to one another in ways he mostly avoids.
After a fashion, Sergio is the classic professorial type, living an impotent life of the mind while chasing a potent physical one. At one point, he picks up a copy of Nabokov's Lolita, and indeed, there is a bit of Humbert Humbert in Sergio, from his false sense of superiority to his predilection for young women. Sergio's central relationship in the present is with Elena (Daisy Granados), a teenager whose mercurial nature infuriates him as much as it draws him in. The dalliance with Elena fits the pattern of his other relationships, including the selfish games he played that drove his wife away. Perhaps more telling, though, is how Sergio pines for his first love, a European transplant who was still in school when they met, and whose parents whisked her away to New York before they could be married. Pretentious gentlemen, it seems, prefer young blondes; her youth and color are both symbols of innocence.
This sexual peccadillo gives an added meaning to the title Memories of Underdevelopment, though not necessarily a meaning Sergio sees. The word "underdevelopment" has many applications in Gutiérrez Alea's film. Sergio applies the term to both the nation of Cuba and its people, seeing them both as un-evolved and lacking in culture. He complains regularly of a lack of consistency, while he remains rigid, ironically failing to evolve himself. He is a man in the middle of a social revolution who continually alienates himself from society. When his friend Pablo (Omar Valdés) is leaving for America, Sergio's voiceover tells us how glad he is to be rid of the man, but his face suggests a loneliness he doesn't care to admit.
Gutiérrez Alea has a lot of fun juxtaposing word and image throughout Memories of Underdevelopment. Even as Sergio denigrates his countrymen, we see a vibrant fellowship of man going on all around him. The director and his editor, Nelson Rodríguez, compose a complex mis en scene, weaving documentary footage in with their fictional narrative, going so far as to insert Sergio in real-life events, including a scholarly roundtable that the stuffy Sergio dismisses as being all about words, and no action--making it all the more ridiculous that he also dismisses Hemingway from moving in the opposite direction, leaving the words and taking his own life. Gutiérrez Alea even puts a self-reflexive joke into the movie, showing us a collection of quick scenes censored from movies by the previous regime. Because everyone knows that cinema is a source of moral decay.
Image and sound actually end up being very important to Sergio's romantic failings. He more than once replays an audio tape on which he and his wife argue about the very fact that he's recording her. And when Sergio's stinkin' thinkin' undoes his affections, Gutiérrez Alea illustrates this through montages of still images, shown in reverse. For instance, when Sergio has had enough of Elena, he plays back their time together, starting with the most recent coupling and working back to when he first ran into her on the street. He mentally regresses, undoing any emotional connection they've otherwise nurtured. In one way, this is an exercise in memory, but then, so is all of Memories of Underdevelopment, its disjointed structure mimicking the choppy nature of its narrator's remembrances.
Naturally, Sergio can't make it all the way through the movie without getting some kind of comeuppance, and it's fitting that it comes from Elena, the strongest personality next to his own. (Daisy Granados is remarkable, and could have just as easily been transplanted into one of Jean-Luc Godard's peppier '60s efforts.) Symbolically, though, Elena and her family coming for Sergio is representative of the proletariat lashing back at the bourgeoisie, and the fact that he gets away with his bad deeds shows how little has been done to topple his kind from positions of privilege. Then again, given that they manage to dismantle his confidence and shake his moral belief, perhaps it's more fitting. He is a man who should be taken down through ideas rather than more punitive measures. While the rest of the country must deal with the very real threat of potential nuclear destruction, Sergio is faced with a more existential crisis. Knowing that he probably deserved to be punished for his behavior, he becomes paralyzed by his own thoughts. Again, this makes his dismissal of Hemingway all the more ironic, because Sergio is too crippled by his own ideas to pursue a solution. Sergio noted that Hemingway conquered the fear of death, it was just the fear of time and life he could not handle, and as Memories of Underdevelopment ends, time and life seem to be all Sergio actually has.
The cover and interior illustrations for this edition of Memories of Underdevelopment are by comic book artist Danijel Zezelj, known for his work with Brian Wood on books like DMZ, The Massive, and Starve. His style is unique in comics, combining street art and European propaganda design with graphic narrative for something altogether his own. He is currently drawing Days of Hate for Image Comics, and he previously contributed art to Criterion's release of Francesco Rosi's Hands Over the City.
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Labels: Criterion Art, francesco rosi, godard, kalatozov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Author of prose novels and comic books like Cut My Hair, It Girl & the Atomics, You Have Killed Me, and 12 Reasons Why I Love Her. Jamie's most recent novel is the serialized book Bobby Pins and Mary Janes, and his most recent graphic novels are the sci-fi romance A Boy and a Girl with Natalie Nourigat; Madame Frankenstein with Megan Levens; and the weird crime comic Archer Coe & the Thousand Natural Shocks with Dan Christensen. He also co-created Lady Killer with Joëlle Jones.
In addition to writing here, Jamie has reviewed movies for DVDTalk.com and The Oregonian.
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Jamie currently is Group Editor at DC Comics. His opinions are his own and not that of any of his employers.
VERNON, FLORIDA - #752
DOV'E LA LIBERTA...? - FILMSTRUCK
A RAISIN IN THE SUN - #945
THE TREE OF LIFE (Extended Version) - #942
THE TREE OF LIFE (Theatrical Cut) - #942
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'Granny Flats' Are Destroying San Diego Neighborhoods
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Increases in population density must also consider infrastructure, such as sewer limitations, traffic conditions and water supply.
By Annalisa Berta / San Diego Union-Tribune OpEd / Aug. 31, 2021
Single-family zoning — made popular more than 100 years ago — is challenging, and few would dispute that a thriving city must address the housing needs of all of its residents. Yet cities differ demographically and in how they approach building homes. Like many cities in California, San Diego has a housing shortage that has contributed to skyrocketing rents and home prices. But its response is making matters worse.
At issue is San Diego's adoption of its accessory dwelling unit (ADU) ordinance in October, purportedly to help the housing crisis by changing zoning in transit priority areas (TPAs) and allowing the construction of unlimited multiple ADUs or backyard "granny flats" — more like "granny towers" — if the property is within a half mile of a TPA. For reference, 60 percent of San Diego residents live in a TPA.
Since 2016, approvals of ADU construction in San Diego have increased at an alarming rate of more than 965 percent, with little concern for their long-term effects on neighborhoods. Among the zoning giveaways for these backyard "granny towers" are no setbacks on side and rear yards, no parking required and green space replaced with concrete. The "towers" can be 30 feet high (two-to-three stories) and house up to six families crammed next to mostly single-story family homes.
The new zoning policy is destroying our neighborhoods. Increased density comes with limitations on the "carrying capacity" of the land. Existing zoning policies that allow housing at any cost are not the solution. Increases in population density must also consider existing infrastructure, such as sewer limitations, traffic conditions and water supply. Moreover, the loss of open green spaces in neighborhoods already lacking parks adds to greenhouse gas buildup.
City planners hope that local zoning regulations in San Diego will result in more residents biking, walking or using public transportation to get to work. But this is an aspirational goal, rather than a realistic one. Most San Diego residents own at least one car and drive to work. According to 2016 data, only 6 percent of residents lack a vehicle. And even before the pandemic sharply reduced ridership on public transportation, it decreased by nearly 5 percent in San Diego from 2000 to 2016. Rather than assume increased population density in TPAs is the solution, we should acknowledge that public transportation is not a better choice for various reasons, including lack of express trains, slow travel speeds, etc.
San Diego leaders also hope that the current zoning policy will result in an increase in the housing supply, thereby decreasing housing prices and increasing affordability. But is this true? The experiences of other cities that have tried this suggest that neighborhood multistory units become investor-owned properties that are, in fact, not more affordable and are not homeowner projects. Nor are developers invested in the community. In addition, with average rents in San Diego exceeding $2,300 a month, these multistory ADUs do not help our "affordable housing crisis." Assuming average housing costs of 30 percent of family income, even area median income families in San Diego making $95,100 a year would have their household budgets stretched to afford to live in these ADUs.
Bottom line: Yes, these ADUs provide more housing, but not "affordable housing." There is a housing shortage in San Diego but not at the income level that these ADUs will supply. Instead, proposed market-rate ADUs will add surplus housing units to the moderate income category, not to the income levels where there is a housing shortage.
As a Mid-City resident, I am aware of numerous available commercial land parcels and vacant lots on El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue much closer to public transit than residential single-family neighborhoods. Why not build multistory units on this land first before permanently altering single-family neighborhoods?
Along with creative approaches to the housing crisis, we also need city leaders willing to work with residents to provide details on their intentions, and assurances that their policies will produce their intended outcomes. More distressing than the current local zoning policy is Senate Bill 9, written by Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, that has passed both the Senate and Assembly and now goes to the Senate for concurrence and then onto Gov. Gavin Newsom for signature into law. Senate Bill 9 is the next step in the agenda of moving all city zoning and planning decisions to Sacramento, allowing existing single-family parcels to be divided and then filled with multiple housing units on each new parcel.
Clearly, we need fairness and equity in housing while maintaining our excellent parks, schools and neighborhoods. San Diego's housing crisis is an opportunity for innovative thinking and communication between both residents and policy makers to develop thoughtful solutions to this complex issue.
The creation of sustainable housing — while maintaining the surrounding natural environment — is a worthy goal that must be incorporated into our urban planning process. The urgency of the housing crisis requires careful planning and citizen participation in the process, not housing decisions pushed on us!
Annalisa Berta is a professor emerita of biology at San Diego State University, lives in Talmadge and is a proponent for Neighbors for a Better San Diego.
Paul Webb September 8, 2021 at 10:37 am
This writer gets two things exactly right.
First, transit ridership was declining in California cities even before the pandemic. Both LA and the bay area have been experiencing a decline in transit trips for years. And now, in post pandemic America, who really wants to get on a crowded bus, trolley of other transit vehicle?
Second building more housing is not going to solve the affordability crisis, it is only going to result in more housing. When you look at the cost of constructing housing, it is clear that any kind of market rate housing will not be affordable to persons of low and moderate income. A mini-loft (called a "sit-up" loft, meaning, I guess that you cannot stand up in the loft portion of the apartment) in the new Haven development on W. Point Loma rents for $1,475 per month. The HUD guidelines for affordability mean that the renter of this apartment would have to make about $4,900 per month, or about $58K per year. I haven't done an exhaustive survey or new rental properties, but I doubt that there is anyone building market rate housing in this area for any less than the Haven is charging. Now, granted, this is Point Loma, which is going to rent for a premium compared to less desirable neighborhoods, but it is one of the areas targeted for a radical increase in density. Again, who is building for the minimum wage worker, even if we get to $15/ hour, who could afford about half what the Haven is charging? My guess is nobody.
Tessa September 8, 2021 at 3:54 pm
One way to achieve affordable housing is to take it off the commercial market. Unlike public housing, co-op housing can achieve this goal. Check out The Sustainable Economies Law Project in Oakland in this regard. It takes determination and a mayor who is willing to look "outside the box" and beyond commercial developers to accomplish. Will Mayor Gloria be such a one?
Basic September 8, 2021 at 9:28 pm
I disagree on a few things:
– The graph is way too complicated and I can't figure out what it is telling me.
– If we have increased demand with no increase in supply the price will increase. By adding more supply with same demand we should see a decrease in price. Right?
– I don't think the multi-story unit on El Cajon Blvd. concept is enough to handle San Diego County demand and the law really is trying to support all communities.
– Living in a TPA for the last 24 years I appreciate the new rules as a resident and future builder. I like trying to reward a builder for providing living space instead of parking a hunk of metal. It's innovative and will press public/private transport supply.
What this graph is telling you is that there are shortages of rental housing appropriate for some income levels but surpluses in others. There are shortages in the extremely low income household and above moderate income household categories, but a surplus rental housing in the low to moderate income household categories. The other thing is purports to tell you is that the optimum return on investment for money spent on the construction of ADUs is in the housing for persons of moderate income, which, I have to admit, does not make a lot of sense to me. I'd need to get into the housing commission's assumptions and methodology to figure out how they come to this conclusion. Maybe I'll get off my lazy butt and do that, but no promises.
The take-away message that I get from this is that the greatest need for housing is in housing appropriate for very low income households. I know this from anecdotal experience when a family member relocated to Banning (not a great place to live) because she could no longer afford to rent in San Diego on her limited income.
So, if we have a real problem, how do we solve it? Allowing private development of ADUs is not going to satisfy the unmet demand for very low income households, as it is going to rented at market rates, which the very low income households cannot afford to pay. If we believe in smart investors and efficient markets, we're going to build for the moderate income households, because that is where the greatest return on investment will be. Eventually we can hope that market forces might (stress on might) result in some housing trickling down to the lower income households, whose housing might trickle down to very low income households, but I have always believed the hope is not a good strategy.
Your final point has to do with TPAs. Remember, about 60% of San Diegans live in TPAs, and I don't see many of us giving up our cars for transit and bikes. Also, remember most of us own those hunks of metal, and we will still need to have a place to put them.
My general feeling about transit is that everybody really wants to have good transit. The two problems are that (1) nobody wants to pay for it and (2) they want somebody other than themselves to ride it.
Basic September 14, 2021 at 9:14 pm
Thank you Paul.
Paul September 9, 2021 at 9:12 am
"Put all new Mid-City housing on just two streets" is unrealistic when Regional Housing Needs Assessment calls for thousands of new units here.
We need to use any and every tool to increase housing supply, including multi-story buildings on transit corridors. But these are more expensive to build per unit than ADUs due to their height, and then you have housing opponents demand *all* units be affordable (see Bay Park residents re: trolley station housing), and have expensive off-street parking. The net result, which we've seen over the past decades, is that little to nothing gets built. This nitpicking is a key reason we're in a housing crisis in the first place.
We've seen less than 200 new units on the north side of El Cajon Boulevard in the past 20 years, and even those were opposed for insufficient parking – and demanded the city widen a deadly Vision Zero corridor. https://www.kpbs.org/news/2021/sep/07/san-diego-pledged-shift-cars-widening-roads/
I'm referring to the north side of El Cajon Boulevard in Mid-City above. We have seen more construction on ECB to the west, fortunately. But even there it's still too small of an area to make a significant impact, which is why North Park's Community Plan Update allows for multi-story housing one or two blocks deep from ECB.
KenTal Planning group opposes that approach north of ECB.
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The Kerala journalist, booked under UAPA & other charges, for alleged links with Popular Front of India, has approached SC. The bail plea hearing will take place on 9 September.
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Uttar Pradesh: The Uttar Pradesh government has opposed the bail plea filed by Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan in the Supreme Court.
Kappan was booked by the Uttar Pradesh government under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), saying he has close links with extremist organisation Popular Front of India (PFI).
Kappan has "deep links" with terror funding/ planning organisations like PFI and its student wing, Campus Front of India (CFI). These organizations have allegedly been found to have connections with Al Qaeda-linked organisations like IHH in Turkey, the Uttar Pradesh government has said in its affidavit.
It stated, "The investigation of the case has revealed that the Petitioner has a deep nexus with the extremist PFI and its chapters including CFI, and its top leadership, in particular P Koya, ex-SIMI member, PFI Executive member, and Editor in Chief of Thejas. P Koya, along with EM Abdul Rahman, has connections and interactions with Al Qaeda linked organization IHH in Turkey."
Kappan approached the top court against the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on August 2 that had rejected his bail application saying "the use of tainted money cannot be ruled out".
Earlier, the apex court sought the Uttar Pradesh government's response to Kappan's bail plea.
Kappan was booked under UAPA and other charges in the alleged Hathras conspiracy case.
The hearing in the bail plea will take place on September 9.
Filing its response, the government further stated that Kappan was actually part of the PFI/CFI delegation to meet the family of the Hathras victim and foment discord and spread terror.
"Investigation has revealed that the said delegation was sent to Hathras on the directions of co-accused Rauf Sharif (National General Secretary, CFI, prime fundraiser and financial transaction handler for PFI/CFI), who had also provided finances for the trip," it added.
"The investigation has revealed that the Petitioner is part of the larger conspiracy with the co-accused (including the financial launderer of CFI, Rauf Sharif) to foment religious discord and spread terror in the country, especially in the wake of anti-CAA protests and violence, the Babri Masjid decision of this Court and the Hathras incident," the affidavit further stated.
The appeal filed by Kappan against the High Court order said that the "present petition raises seminal questions pertaining to the right to liberty, as well as the freedom of expression and speech vested in independent media under the aegis of the Constitution."
The plea before the apex court has said that the High Court has "grossly overlooked the well-established principles regarding the grant of bail, and without affording any cogent reasons, has mechanically dismissed Kappan's bail application".
The High Court has not taken into account the fact that Kappan is an established journalist with over 12 years of experience, and that he is a member of both the Delhi press club and the Kerala Union of Working Journalists, said the appeal, adding that both outfits have issued certificates authenticating Kappan's credentials as a journalist.
The Uttar Pradesh Police arrested Kappan and three others on October 5, 2020, from the Mant area of Mathura. Police had claimed that the accused were travelling to Hathras to disturb peace and harmony in the area.
The police had said it has arrested four people having links with the PFI in Mathura and identified the arrested persons as Siddique from Malappuram, Atiq-ur Rehman from Muzaffarnagar, Masood Ahmed from Bahraich, and Alam from Rampur.
However, Kappan, a reporter for Malayalam news portal Azhimukham and secretary of the Delhi unit of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ), has maintained that he was going there to report on the gang-rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl.
April this year, the UP Police's Special Task Force (STF) charge-sheeted him and seven others under the stringent UAPA and sections of the Information Technology Act. (ANI)
Also read: Allahabad HC denies bail to Kerala journalist Siddique Kappan — read the full text of judgment
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Informação: Regional Government opens applications under Incentive System for Development of Handicrafts
The Vice-Presidency of the Government, through the Regional Centre for Handicrafts (CRAA) opened today the application period for this year's edition of SIDART - Incentive System for the Development of Azores Handicrafts, which runs until March 29. The support comprises projects ranging from training and qualification, innovation, marketing and promotion of products to investments in production s... Mais >>
Informação: Viola da Terra certified as "Azores Handicrafts" brand product
The Vice-Presidency of the Government has approved the certification of Viola da Terra (traditional Azorean guitar) as "Azores Handicrafts" brand product. Currently, there are 21 certified products and over 90 handicraft production units (UPA) distinguished with the "Azores Handicraft" certification seal. An ordinance published today in the Official Journal recognises the Viola da Terra, also kno... Mais >>
Informação: Regional Government opens applications for handicraft support amounting to 270 thousand Euros
The Regional Government, through the Vice-Presidency, will open the period for submission of applications under the Incentive System for the Development of the Azores Handicrafts (SIDART) between February 11 and March 29. Applications must be made exclusively online on the Regional Centre for Handicrafts (CRAA) page at the address www.artesanato.azores.gov.pt. "The order published in the Officia... Mais >>
Informação: Nova de Gaia City Council visited the Region to learn about the Azores Brand project
A delegation from Vila Nova de Gaia City Council visited the Region with the aim of knowing on the spot the success of the Azores Brand strategy, implemented by the Regional Government, both in its institutional and business components. In this context, the representatives of that municipality from Northern Portugal, accompanied by SDEA - Society for Business Development of the Azores, the brand ... Mais >>
Informação: Regional Government challenges entrepreneurs to take advantage of European agreements to promote internationalisation of economy
The Regional Assistant Secretary of the Presidency for External Relations highlighted in Ponta Delgada the importance of taking advantage of European trade agreements for the "internationalisation of Azorean economy". "The trade agreement between the European Union and Canada is bringing new prospects for exports and the internationalisation of the Azores, especially in dairy products, but also i... Mais >>
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The success of the "Azores Brand" strategy as a new territorial brand designed to increase business opportunities for Azorean companies and promote regional goods and services among buyers and consumers nationwide is achieving national recognition. In the context, a delegation from the Intermunicipal Community of Trás-Os-Montes (CITTM) visits the Region between September 26 and 28. It is comp... Mais >>
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Under the partnership with SIC Internacional, established since 2015, the Vice-Presidency of the Government, through SDEA - Society for Business Development of the Azores, promotes the airing of the first season of "Azores Brand World" from Monday, September 17, joining the celebrations of the 21st anniversary of this television station. After being featured in "Alô Portugal" and being shot ... Mais >>
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Trick or treat: Browns' Garrett having fun with Halloween
By BRIAN DULIK - Oct. 15, 2021 06:14 PM EDT
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins (8) is sacked by Cleveland Browns cornerback Denzel Ward (21) and defensive end Myles Garrett (95) during the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett is tackling quarterbacks on the field and burying them in his front yard.
The NFL sacks leader has decorated the lawn of his suburban home with mock gravestones of seven opposing quarterbacks, including Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger, Baltimore's Lamar Jackson and Cincinnati's Joe Burrow.
Garrett, a self-professed Halloween fanatic, also has a two-story skeleton and numerous pumpkins as part of his themed display.
"People in my house like to have fun," a smirking Garrett said following practice Friday. "I've always done stuff for Halloween since I was little. My family and my friends thought it would be something cool to do. It's still fun."
Arizona's Kyler Murray, Chicago's Justin Fields, New England's Mac Jones and the Chargers' Justin Herbert also are part of the display at Garrett's home.
Garrett, who has seven sacks in the first five games, set a franchise record with 4 1/2 against Fields on Sept. 26. He took down Herbert once last week and faces Murray on Sunday at FirstEnergy Stadium.
The two-time Pro Bowl selection said he is surprised at the amount of traffic his display has brought into the neighborhood, but has no plans to take it down before Oct. 31.
"I can't say no to kids, so I'll definitely be there handing out candy on Halloween," Garrett said. "But grown men and women, please don't. Hopefully, they can leave me be because that's my place of refuge and residence."


I gotta confess! It's gotten to the point, where a lot of us no longer watch the evening news broadcast. OMG! It's not that we're ignorant or unconcerned, but because there's so much wrong going on in the world we live in! Some of us have come to the realization that rather than walking around in a constant state of fear, anxiety and depression, we'd prefer to take the unabating deluge of daily news in small doses! Truthfully, yall know, terror and trauma sells, right? And quite honestly, since the dubiousness of #45's texts and fake news, most of what we get is a little too copious for the intellectual palate to absorb! #ijs So generally, the most you can get out of a 30 minute time-frame is a 15 second spot of so called 'good news'!
However, there is Hope that's expands far beyond this world! Every born-again, Blood-washed, Holy Ghost sanctified Believer has the assurance that regardless what they say, our Hope rests confidently upon Truth! Truth emphatically declares that the good news is that the bad news is not the final WORD FOR US! Therefore, we who are not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, are fully persuaded that it is still the Power of God to save, heal and deliver us out of any of life's maladies!
While our personal relationship with The Heavenly Father does not exempt us from the impact of this desperately-wicked-fallen world, we are yet able to rejoice in faith, assured that we are not alone, not abandoned nor forsaken! How? Because our Redeemer yet reigns and has no intention of RELINQUISHING HIS POWER NOR AUTHORITY TO ANY ONE OR THING!
The ol' skool church Mothers used to say, "He may not come when you want HIM, but He'll Be There right on time"!
As our knowledge of God increases so does HIS GRACE empowering us to trust him, even when we can't trace him! REST ASSURED! God is near to all who confidently trust in Him and wait obediently and patiently for His appearance. Now that's Good News, huh?
Trouble in your way today? Don't give in to the pressures of contradictory circumstances and don't even try to figure it out! Just hide yourself in HIS LOVE, grab hold to The Living Word, as if your very life depended upon because it surely does!!
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DC vs SRH: Delhi Capitals take a giant leap in IPL 2022 points table by defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad by 21 runs
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DC vs SRH IPL 2022: Rishabh Pant-led Delhi Capitals beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 21 runs in the 50th match of IPL 2022. With this stunning victory, Delhi's team has reached the 5th position in the points table. This is DC's 5th win in the 10th match. At the same time, the team of Hyderabad, who scored a hat-trick of defeat, are present with the same number of points below Delhi. Let us tell you, Delhi had set a target of 208 runs in front of Hyderabad on the basis of half-centuries of David Warner and Rovman Powell, in front of this score, Hyderabad could score only 186 runs in 20 overs. Warner was awarded the Man of the Match award for his unbeaten 92 runs.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bowl first. Hyderabad came on the field with three and Delhi with four changes. Warner came out to bat with Mandeep Singh in the absence of Shaw today. In the very first over of Mandeep, Bhuvi showed the way to the pavilion on the score of zero. After this Mitchell Marsh returned to the pavilion after scoring 10 and Pant 26. Delhi had lost their three wickets for 85 runs by the 9th over.
DC vs SRH: David Warner played a brilliant innings of 92 * against former team Sunrisers Hyderabad, due to this he missed a century
Warner broke Gayle's record, became the first batsman to do so
Because of this David Warner could not score a century against Hyderabad
Giants rained down on Kohli – cannot be run out in the affair of singles or doubles
Umran Malik bowled the second fastest ball in the history of IPL
After this, Rovman Powell, who came to bat, played an unbeaten innings of 67 runs in 35 balls with the help of 3 fours and 6 sixes. During this, he made an unbroken partnership of 122 runs with David Warner. Warner hit 12 fours and three sixes during his innings of 92 runs. In the last over of Delhi's innings, Umran Malik also bowled the second fastest ball (157 kmph) in the history of IPL.
Chasing the target, the start of Hyderabad was not good. Abhishek Sharma 7 and captain Kane Williamson returned to the pavilion after scoring 4. Aidan Markram made 42 and Nicholas Pooran played an innings of 62 runs and tried to bring the team closer to the target, but he could not get the team to win. Khaleel Ahmed took the highest three wickets for Delhi.
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Quick Answer: Are There Medications To Treat COVID-19?
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For COVID-19, data to date suggest that 80% of infections are mild or asymptomatic, 15% are severe infection, requiring oxygen and 5% are critical infections, requiring ventilation.
COVID-19 is caused by a virus, and therefore antibiotics should not be used for prevention or treatment.
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Jerusalem Time Elevator (Voyage Terminal)
Alrov Mamilla Avenue, 6 Yitzhak Kariv St, Jerusalem
from $13 / person
Time Elevator in Jerusalem invites you to take fantastic kind of trips: An unforgettable journey to the mysterious secrets of Jerusalem. A unique window to watch a fascinating past, precious present and unbelievable future of the capital of Israel.
TIME ELEVATOR JERUSALEM- 2D
The Time Elevator Jerusalem is a time-travel experience spiraling over 3,000 years of history. The actor Chaim Topol who is known for his role in "Fiddler on the Roof" represents the character who leads us through an unforgettable path over Jerusalem's historical turning points. The effect is achieved through crashing ceilings technology. The story begins ins the City of David and ends in the 1967 Six-Day War.
The experience is laced together through cinema and mobile platforms, lasting 30 breathtaking minutes during which the dramatic moments of Jerusalem come to life with an original script created in cooperation of leading archeologists and historians. The spectators will see Prophet Jeremiah confronts with King Zedekiah and witness the destruction of both the First and Second Temples. Next, the Roman Conquest, the birth of Christianity, the emergence of Islam with its centuries of long rule over the Holy Land and the drama of the establishment of Israel will be all represented in an engaging, cinematic way.
Thanks to the combination of motion while seated and the giant screens, the visitors will experience the thrill of watching the movie as an active participant, rather than just a spectator. The surround sound headsets provide the show with proper representation in English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin and Hebrew.
I AM JERUSALEM- 2D
"I am Jerusalem" is an innovative and international artistic performance created on a multimedia platform, taking the spectator to multi-sensory time-travel to explore the many facets of Jerusalem.
It is a cinematic projection with dimensions, changing throughout the show. Here you will go on an electrifying journey of sights, sounds, people and scents, to the Jerusalem past, current and future ones.
The Jerusalem from the above and from below.
The show is for ages from 5 and up to 99. Everyone will find their unique tie to the city and of what is " I am Jerusalem" for them.
Experience the unique emotions brought to you by "I am Jerusalem." Your perception of the city will change forever.
Language options: English, Hebrew
Sunday through Thursday: 10:00 am-5:00pm
It is better to check opening hours in advance.
Please arrive 15 minutes earlier to watch an introduction regarding safety instructions.
Reservations must be made in advance
Minimum age is 5+
Entrance from the indoor mall inside Mamilla Mall, floor -1.
Please be safe! – Time Elevator offers six seats out of our total of 104, suitable for sensitive people, i.e., pregnant women, those who suffer from back pains, severe motion sickness, dizziness and heart problems.
Purchase tickets in box office: 54 ILS
Purchase tickets online: 46 ILS
"A waste of time and money"
Reviewed 4 days agoBy 71omrim
All is terrible: the sound, the picture quality, and the contents. Even the usher fell asleep during the screening (the seat movement seem to have no purpose other than to keep you awake). Avoid at all costs.
"Poor and oldish experience "
Reviewed 4 days agoBy Eli221Tel Aviv, Israel
Visited with teenagers and we were all amazed and disappointed from the poor tech, low resolution,very bad sound and extremely bad storyline... We did not enjoy the activity. 😥
"Dishonest, disorganized and disappointing"
Reviewed on May 15, 2019By Sheila VBangkok, Thailand
I purchased tickets to experience the Time Elevator for myself and my three children. We arrived at the venue well in advance of the screening time. Unfortunately, we were forced to wait a considerable amount of time before being told that the show would be delayed by an unspecified period of time....
I purchased tickets to experience the Time Elevator for myself and my three children. We arrived at the venue well in advance of the screening time. Unfortunately, we were forced to wait a considerable amount of time before being told that the show would be delayed by an unspecified period of time. When I enquired about having my tickets exchanged, we were met with unhelpful and rude staff. We ultimately decided to exchange our tickets and return to see the show the next day. The following day when we arrived, we explicitly asked whether the show would be in English. We were not told that the show was entirely in Hebrew, nor were we given headsets (which apparently were to be provided to English speakers). Needless to say, we spent a considerable amount of money to watch a film that we could not understand. Notwithstanding our bad experience, which could have simply been a case of unfortunate luck, the show itself was mediocre at best. The film itself felt cheap and the overall experience was tedious. Overall, the Time Elevator was GROSSLY OVERPRICED to the point where it was almost a scam. I would STRONG advise that you avoid this attraction, and instead spend the money and time appreciating the history of Jerusalem first hand.
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Autostrade Tech, IBM and Fincantieri NexTech Deploy a New Artificial Intelligence and IoT-based System for Monitoring Autostrade per l'Italia Civil Infrastructure
- Autostrade per l'Italia has invested 60 million euros into improving its systems for monitoring and securing its civil infrastructure. IBM will provide advanced AI for data processing and Fincantieri NexTech supplies technologies and solutions for high-availability monitoring.
- The solution combines drones, 3D modeling tools and cognitive data analysis to help make controls more efficient, transparent, and traceable. The system, managed by Autostrade Tech, is already integrated with the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transportation's Public Civil Infrastructure Database.
- The collaboration expects to make the new platform for the management of civil infrastructure, based on IBM Maximo, available to the market.
ROME, Nov. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- A new phase in the field of road network security and infrastructure monitoring is starting. ASPI Tech, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Fincantieri NexTech announce that the new digital system for civil infrastructure monitoring, based on IBM Maximo, is now in operation. The system has been developed by Autostrade Tech, the technology-focused subsidiary of Autostrade per l'Italia Group, together with IBM and Fincantieri NexTech.
This is a very important stage for the digital strategic development of Autostrade per l'Italia as an integrated mobility manager. It represents a significant investment in the digitization of assets and procedures, sustainable mobility, management and the provisioning of innovative services for civil infrastructure, road networks and beyond.
The new monitoring platform will use IBM Artificial Intelligence, drones, IoT (Internet of Things) and Fincantieri NexTech 3D digital modeling to deliver innovation in the surveillance and monitoring activities of the more than 4,500 structures managed by ASPI including bridges, viaducts, flyovers and tunnels, obtaining improved efficiency and transparency in these processes.
The collaboration signed between Autostrade Tech, IBM and Fincantieri NexTech is expected to be made available to the market both as a service and through on premises models.
The new system is intended to improve the process of conducting civil infrastructure inspections in a number of core ways. Civil engineers will be able to carry out inspections on the condition of each structure and access key information in the field via a mobile device that is updated in near real time, including calculations and drawings of the original project and subsequent interventions; scheduled checks and maintenance; investigations and tests on materials; and the results and details of previous inspections. This information is maintained in a digital repository, which collects information classified by type and can be consulted through an app for adequate usability in the field. Through the same mobile device, the inspector can include details and photos from an inspection, making them immediately available to the rest of organization.
The new software also traces and manages the various steps necessary for the care of each structure, from conducting inspections, to the planning and implementation of maintenance or activities according to the priority criteria developed with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation (MIT). The system also introduces Fincantieri NexTech advanced technologies never used before on Italian road networks, i.e. the ability to analyze a structure through three-dimensional "digital twins." These digital twins reproduce a structure's features through the use of drones equipped with topographic laser-scanners and high-resolution cameras, which can then be analyzed by AI to assist in the detection of imperfections. This visual defect detection model was specifically developed to support technicians in the recognition and classification of defects and in the planning of maintenance activities.
The use of Digital Twins will help enable the implementation of an innovative instrumental monitoring model, which utilizes Fincantieri NexTech Industrial IoT sensors and latest generation technological solutions and will allow analysis of the trends of the static and dynamic structural engineering parameters, as well as the development of algorithms to evaluate a structure in use and during maintenance activities. By 2021, a new dynamic weighing system is expected to be introduced to monitor the authorized weight limits for the road system as well as the near real time behavior of infrastructure being used by heavy vehicles.
The platform is in use today on 430 structures located on the two trunk roads of Cassino and Bari in Italy and is expected to be further extended by the end of the year to all 1,943 bridges and 2,000 overpasses across the Autostrade per l'Italia network. Over the course of 2021, these capabilities are expected to be extended to all bridges, overpasses, and to all 587 tunnels in the network throughout the country.
The technologies put in place by Autostrade Tech, IBM and Fincantieri NexTech will also allow experimentation at a scientific level, which will further the development of new models, algorithms and parameters for infrastructure security. To support this ongoing effort, Autostrade Tech has set up a Technical-Scientific Committee, with the participation of the Polytechnic Universities of Trento, Turin, Rome, Naples and Milan, with the task of coordinating these experimental activities, and defining new operational procedures that will be later agreed upon with the Ministry of Italian Transportation. The first research project will be dedicated to the use of modern sensors in monitoring of infrastructure's behavior under certain conditions.
The total investment for the new system is more than 60 million euros, provided by Autostrade per l'Italia.
"We are working hard and passionately to implement a radical transformation at Autostrade per l'Italia that includes technological innovation, infrastructure digitalization, the enhancement of environmental sustainability and mobility services. By connecting our networks territory-wide in compliance with local guidelines we continue to advance our vision of becoming an integrated mobility operator at the European level. The safety of the infrastructure we manage continues to be our first and fundamental objective. I would like to thank the Autostrade Tech team for their work and IBM and Fincantieri for the support they have given us. Together we expect to make the new platform available to European and international markets," said Roberto Tomasi, CEO of Autostrade per l'Italia.
"Technologies such as artificial intelligence, together with renowned civil engineering expertise can help us face most of the challenges we encounter during this transformation, assisting operators in more efficient management of our civil infrastructure. In particular, the project with Autostrade Tech and Fincantieri NexTech aims to support operators and professionals in making better, more effective and efficient decisions. This innovation, based on IBM Maximo Application Suite, will bring real benefits which the country needs today. We will continue to work with IBM Research as well as strategic partners who specialize in civil infrastructure engineering and assessment on advancements to our tools. These civil engineering tools will continue to become more and more powerful in the detection of faults and helping to assess risk. We expect to deliver additional advanced AI enhancements in the middle of 2021 and will continue to enhance them over time," said Enrico Cereda, President and CEO of IBM Italy.
Fincantieri's CEO Giuseppe Bono commented: "This agreement confirms Fincantieri's strategy of expanding our competencies, a path that over time has allowed us to strengthen the Group, and to always work together with leading partners, like Autostrade and IBM. We have an extraordinary wealth of know-how in many areas, gained through the management of very complex processes and projects and we are therefore proud, through the high technological level we express, to contribute to the goal of increasingly secure networks." Bono concluded, "In this action we acknowledge the great attention of the Government, specifically the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, which follows very closely our action and at the service of which we can achieve very important objectives for the growth of the country."
About IBM Maximo
Powered by IBM's investments in artificial intelligence, fueled by IoT data, and built for hybrid cloud, The IBM Maximo Application Suite is extending its leadership as one of the most trusted enterprise asset management systems on the planet. And with new investments in remote monitoring, computer vision and AI-powered anomaly detection, it is poised to remain a leading solution for tomorrow's asset management challenges, empowering Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) leaders with a comprehensive view into asset performance. For more information please visit: www.ibm.com/products/maximo.
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Genes in Space: 17-Year-Old Winner's Experiment Sent to ISS
Experiment looks at impact of space environment on DNA.
April 13, 2016 in Space
While the world looks to deep space as the next frontier, one young woman from Bedford, New York has designed an experiment to help determine what astronauts need to survive the journey and stay healthy once they arrive. 17-year-old Anna-Sophia Boguraev won the inaugural Genes in Space competition in 2015.
Boguraev's experiment assesses if changes in DNA can be detected aboard the International Space Station. The experiment launched to the ISS aboard a rocket on April 8, 2016, and arrived April 10. Boguraev is working to determine if the environment astronauts live in, with micro-gravity and cosmic radiation, adversely affects their immune system.
Check out the video above for more on Anna-Sophia's story.
Thanks to Boeing's support, Boguraev transformed her experiment from scientific theory into reality, making it an experiment that is now aboard the ISS.
A miniPCR machine is responsible for isolating a specific piece of DNA and replicating it for analysis. It's the primary tool in the first stage of Boguraev's experiment. The miniPCR DNA analysis technology used in this experiment will remain onboard ISS as part of the Boeing Science Enrichment & Engagement Kit for future research projects.
Genes in Space works to inspire and motivate the next generation of engineers, scientists and astronauts by providing research access to the space station. The competition challenges students in grades 7- 12 to design an experiment that can solve a space exploration problem through DNA analysis.
Genes in Space partners include Boeing, miniPCR, Math for America (MƒA), the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), and New England Biolabs®, Inc. (NEB®).
To learn more or to take part in the 2016 contest, visit: http://www.genesinspace.org/
Boeing has been part of the ISS since its beginning. As ISS main contractor, Boeing has helped build and integrate the space station's many system modules, and Boeing employees will continue to support the station in the coming decades.
Boeing supports a variety of capability enhancements that will enable the continued use of the ISS well into the next decade, including a communications system for visiting spacecraft, a NASA docking system, and lithium-ion batteries that store power generated from the solar arrays.
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Boguraev traveled to Cape Canaveral to witness the launch of a rocket with her experiment on board, April 8, 2016. The experiment, along with other supplies, arrived safely at the International Space Station, April 12, 2016.
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Loran Smith: Billy Hale's latest book is a treasure
Have you paid attention to the nonagenarians who remain energetically in circulation? That is part of the problem - there's not an abundance of folks who live to be 90 years old; however, they are all around you. You just have to probe a little.
Getting to octogenarian status is a challenge for many. However, if you take inventory, there are more than a handful of octogenarians and nonagenarians moving about. Nonagenarians usually have several things in common. They are active mentally and physically. Their waist lines don't bulge. They have never been users of tobacco products, they consume alcohol in moderation and, typically, they are more interested in books than the "vast wasteland" that is television.
I have several nonagenarian friends who are always inspiring to interact with; one is Bill Hale, who became an author late in his octogenarian years and is having the time of his life.
Several years ago, Hale began chronicling his memories for his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. That led to a book, much of it about his mill village life, growing up in Greenville, S.C. It was an austere life, which spawned a creativeand inventive bent, which led to a career in education, which segued into a speaking career, which put him in touch with a world that he only dreamed about growing up on "Mill Hill."
His first book, "The Village and Beyond," was so much fun and such a success that he recently came out with another, "There Is a Story Everywhere" - which has led to a newspaper column that has him eager to start every new day in his life.
Most of his friends know him as Dr. William H. Hale, a distinguished educator, but his book is by Billy Hale, the mill village kid blessed with imagination, curiosity and creative thought.
Dr. Hale couldn't write, "There Is a Story Everywhere," but Billy Hale could. What we have here, with his reflective and reminiscing insightfulness, is an everyday manuscript that sings to our souls and illuminates and connects our mind's eye with the past. Billy Hale is a latent author who is making us want more.
He "never really thought" about publishing a book until he began compiling personal vignettes for his family, he said. This book was in his head, however, when he was hanging out with his boyhood friends R.W., Stein, Wayne and Lard. Now, his musings are documented for us all to enjoy, because so many of us have been there.
Billy Hale often flopped down in the branches of a chinaberry tree, where he daydreamed about exploring the world we live in - one he never thought he would be introduced to. He asked questions, read books and appreciated the doctrine of faith, hope and charity - the only thing in the mill village which was not in short supply.
He enjoyed a better life than his parents did, much of that owing to his ambition and inventiveness, but he can't get the mill village out of his head.
Sometimes austerity leads to opportunity. It can often lead to greed, but Billy Hale only wanted money to sustain himself and his family. He has always been generous with his ideas and his thoughts. The best of Billy Hale, he is willing to give away.
This bit of wisdom fits him perfectly: "You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I, you can never be. I had a mother who read to me."
Billy Hale's mother was widowed at an early age, but her expansive love and spirit of make-do were central to her son's emotional and creative thinking - don't be reluctant or embarrassed to question. This curiosity of spirit has made him a sagacious and penetrating author at an age when many of his friends have crossed the mystic river or are dying on the vine without a clue as how to enjoy life.
"Villa Rica and Other Stories" is a sub title that makes you aware that ordinary people have lasting value, that the abandoned box in the corner of the basement or a conversation with Mildred at the Waffle House can translate into meaningful and enlightening stories. Only the curious, like Billy Hale, ever consider looking into that box or striking up a conversation with Mildred.
Loran Smith is a contributing columnist to the Athens Banner-Herald.