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Tenure track assistant/associate professor in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology Wageningen University, Bioinformatics Group United Kingdom
Are you an independent researcher in bioinformatics, turning your enthusiasm and creativity into high-level science, engaging education and societally relevant innovations? Are you collaborative and well organized? Are you ready to grow in a tenure track career path and would you like to work in a diverse and supportive group? Then this may be the right position for you.
We are looking for a highly motivated assistant / associate professor in bioinformatics or computational biology. You have a good scientific track record and a drive to develop your own research line. You can attract funding to build and support a group and you are able to set up a strong academic and industrial network. Your research should connect method development to application, be relevant for plant, animal or microbial biotechnology, and complement the current expertise in the group. Relevant areas include (but are not limited to) metagenomics, metabolomics, proteomics and phenomics. You strive to become an enthusiastic and knowledgeable teacher and supervisor in bioinformatics, offering high-quality education to BSc, MSc and PhD students in topics ranging from data analysis and computation to (molecular) biology. Finally, you are a collaborative team member, contributing to the organization of our group, the university and the scientific community at large. You will spend approximately 40% of your time on research, 40% on education and 20% on organization.
We ask
You should have some years of experience in academia after obtaining a PhD degree, with relevant background to build on. A successfully completed academic study (MSc level, recognized in the Netherlands) and a PhD in bioinformatics, computational biology or a comparable discipline are required. Direct experience with research in plants, animals and/or microbes and with applications in food and agriculture is not needed, but you should be willing to focus your work on these domains and have a vision on how your research and teaching will contribute. You should also demonstrate knowledge of and expertise in programming, software engineering and bioinformatics algorithm development.
We will evaluate your application on several criteria:
research quality and output;
experience in (efforts toward) acquiring external research funding;
international (research) experience;
teaching qualifications and experience;
education innovation and curriculum development;
BSc/MSc thesis and PhD dissertation supervision;
activity in the scientific community;
(international) collaboration with academia and industry;
management of (interdisciplinary) research projects.
The position may be filled as assistant or associate professor, depending on merits and career stage.
This position requires an excellent English language proficiency (a mininum of CEFR C2 level). For more information about this proficiency level, please visit our special language page.
The Bioinformatics Group offers an excellent, collaborative working environment. We have a young, dedicated staff with expertise in a number of areas, particularly in genomics. We maintain extensive computational resources and have access to the university's high-performance computer systems. As a group, we value (inter)national collaboration and strive for excellence in education and research. Our teaching portfolio covers (advanced) MSc courses and thesis projects in the Master's Programme in Bioinformatics, introductory courses in a bioinformatics minor, and data science courses at various levels. Our group is strongly embedded in the Plant Sciences Group, collaborates intensively with Wageningen Research and is involved in the efforts of Wageningen University & Research to promote the use and development of data science in its research areas.
You will work within the Wageningen tenure-track system, which provides an excellent opportunity for academic development. It offers support for personal growth in research, acquisition, education (University Teaching Qualification), and leadership. If you fulfil the requirements, you will get tenured as an associate professor after six years of tenure track as an assistant professor. However, you can continue to grow into the role of personal professor. As the development of a research and education vision and an independent research line are important in this process, you will receive extensive coaching during. If you want to read more on the Wageningen UR tenure track, please see https://www.wur.nl/en/Jobs/Why-choose-Wageningen-University-Research/Your-development-in-focus/Tenure-Track.htm
We offer a meaningful job with, depending on your experience, a competitive salary from a minimum of € 3.637 to a maximum of € 6.738 for a full working week of 38 hours, in accordance with the Collective Labor Agreement. The contract will be for 32-40 hours per week and will initially be temporary, leading to a permanent employment contract if you meet the tenure track criteria.
In addition we offer:
an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% fixed-year allowance;
an excellent pension scheme;
excellent training opportunities and secondary working conditions;
flexible working hours and vacations (in consultation with colleagues) to optimally balance work and personal life;
232 holiday hours, the ability to trade salary for additional holiday hours;
good supplementary leave arrangements and an individualized model to compose part of your working conditions, including a bicycle plan;
use of the sports facilities available on campus against a reduced fee.
Wageningen University & Research stimulates internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment.
If you are a talented researcher and have the ambition to make scientific and societal impactful contributions to bioinformatics, then please respond to this vacancy through our website: https://www.wur.nl/en/Jobs/Vacancies.htm.
You can learn more about the position by contacting prof. Dick de Ridder (dick.deridder@wur.nl) and about the procedure by contacting psg.vacaturemeldingen@wur.nl. For more information on the Bioinformatics Group, see http://www.bif.wur.nl/
For further information about working at Wageningen University & Research, take a look at: https://www.wur.nl/en/Jobs.htm
Please apply via the 'Apply now' button on this page. This vacancy is open until September 8, 2019.
The mission of Wageningen University & Research is "To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life". Within Wageningen University & Research, nine specialised research institutes from the Wageningen Research Foundation and Wageningen University have joined forces to help answer the most important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.
With approximately 30 locations, 5,000 employees, and 10,000 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain worldwide. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of the unique approach of Wageningen.
For further information about working at Wageningen University & Research, take a look at the special career site.
The Bioinformatics Group develops novel computational methods for the representation, analysis and integration of biological data, to understand how the interplay of genomes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites results in the phenotypic complexity observed in living systems. We seek to be recognized (inter)nationally for our expertise in three main research areas: reconstruction and analysis of complex genomes, mining specialized metabolism in (meta)genomes, and predicting phenotype from genotype and vice versa. In each of these research lines, we work at three levels: development of fundamental algorithms, dissemination in the form of computational tools and databases, and application on relevant biological problems. We also educate new generations of biologists and bioinformaticians, providing them with the knowledge and skills required to not only tackle the problems of today, but to master the technologies and meet the challenges of tomorrow.
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Lamppost. Steam and hissing. Ringing in my ears. One eye bathed in red, I lift my head. Nausea tumbles down from my brain, bouncing off the inside of my ear and stumbling drunkenly against the side of my throat until it falls ungraciously into my stomach like a loose rattle.
The world is rotating, pirouettes on broken heels.
The car door opens, groaning metal beneath my fuzzy hand. Legs don't seem to work. Knee and asphalt. Not good.
I crawl a couple of metres. Gravel remnants stab my palms. I roll over, back to the tarmac. Hissing. Hissing. What's hissing? The car.
Bent lamppost. Disorientation crackles through my head. I'm not totally sure what has happened. The tie around my neck feels too tight. Late for dinner again. A blur of fur and eyes. I can just remember a blur of fur and eyes.
Heavy head. The world is dizzy and I am too still. Attempts to get to my feet are useless. Shoes slip on mini rocks. The side of my face hurts, clagged in stickiness and iron taste.
The floor is warm and cold and slick and sweat. My cheek feels grazed compared to the silk smooth road. I listen to the ground, running beats and vibrations. Something shrill that hasn't petered out yet. Maybe I burst my eardrum.
The car is at an odd angle. I don't remember the swerve. I remember the wheel and the terror and the staring. A blur of fur.
There are so many blurs right now and so many lights. It's bright and sharp and out of focus. I close my eyes, but the sensations simply continue. The fusty smell of wet hair and heavy heat of breath. I loll.
I am a child's broken doll after the carnage of play time, cracked and leaking. Bristles tickle my chin but I do not open my eyes. Blood pounds my head, kneading reality in with vicious uncertainty.
A low growl wakes me a little more.
I should be running. I should be scrabbling from this carnivorous beast, but I just lie, prone, too lethargic to even care about life. It licks away life force. It's probably readying for the kill. Scavenging.
Her eyes follow mine with luminous intensity. I realise she's naked but I'm still not sure why. Naked in the road, side crushed into the asphalt beside mine.


Our client is an integrated facilities management services who provide the solutions, support, and facilities management services. They are currently looking for a Food Services Assistant to start on the 1st April until the 1st July in Portsmouth.
To provide a friendly catering service, performing a variety of manual tasks associated with food production and service.


Scaraffia told the AP that the decision was taken after the new editor of L'Osservatore, Andrea Monda, told her earlier this year he would take over as editor.
She said he reconsidered after the editorial board threatened to resign and the Catholic weeklies that distribute translations of "Women Church World" in France, Spain and Latin America, told her they would stop distributing.
Scaraffia launched the monthly insert in 2012 and oversaw its growth into a stand-alone Vatican magazine as a voice for women, by women and about issues of interest to the entire Catholic Church.
"Women Church World" had enjoyed editorial independence from L'Osservatore, even while being published under its auspices.
The departures are the latest upheaval in the Vatican's communications operations, following the abrupt Dec. 31 resignations of the Vatican spokesman and his deputy over strategic differences with Paolo Ruffini, prefect of the dicastry for communications.
Scaraffia, a history professor and journalist, was perhaps the most high-profile woman at the Vatican, an avowed feminist who nevertheless toed the line on official doctrine.
That doesn't mean she didn't ruffle feathers with her frequent lament that half of humanity — and the half most responsible for transmitting the faith to future generations — simply is invisible to the men in charge of the Catholic Church.


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The Accounting System of the United States from 1789 to 1910
By United States. Department of the Treasury. Committee on Auditing
merely contingent or additional duty, which indeed had been superadded to the duties of the commissioner of internal revenue duties and direct taxes, with which it had not the remotest connection or affinity, confer on the Fifth Auditor's Office the additional incongruous title of "Acting Commissioner of the Revenue," though in fact he has nothing to do with the collection of the balances outstanding of the old internal revenue? Yet such is the light in which that assignment of lighthouse affairs is viewed by the Auditor, who accordingly adopts the additional title of "Acting Commissioner of the Revenue" in his printed list of lighthouses of the United States. Wherefore, it would appear that the officer enjoys three titles, viz, "Fifth Auditor," : "Acting Commissioner of the Revenue," and "Superintendent of Lighthouses," etc., the two latter emanating from one and the same function. There might also be included in this enumeration of titles that of "Agent (or law officer) of the Treasury," for the prosecution of claims in behalf of the United States, which office was transferred from the First Comptroller to the Fifth Auditor by direction of the President in July, 1820, shortly after it was created, and which the Auditor exercised until the act of 30th May, 1830, created the office of Solicitor of the Treasury, to whom the duties exercised by the agent of the Treasury were then transferred by said act.
So far as the Treasury accounting system is concerned, the act of 1825 simply directed that the Postmaster-General "shall once in three months render to the Secretary of the Treasury a quarterly account of all receipts and expenditures in the said department, to be adjusted and settled as other public accounts." A process of adjusting the Postmaster General's accounts was established in the Post Office Department under section 31 of the act.
The Sixth Auditor of the Treasury was created by the act approved July 2, 1836. Its origin is thus sketched by a former Auditor:
Prior to that year (1836) the Postmaster General had unlimited jurisdiction over all financial as well as administrative functions of his department. The revenues had, as a rule, exceeded the expenditures, and cash balances were deposited at irregular intervals in the United States Treasury. So many complications ensued from this system that an investigation was instituted by the Senate Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. The chairman of this committee, Senator Ewing, submitted a report ascribing the derangement of affairs in the department "to the uncontrolled discretion exercised by its officers over its contracts and funds." President Andrew Jackson, in his annual message of 1834, adopted the suggestion of the committee and recommended that the Post Office Department be so reorganized that the final adjustment of accounts and disbursements be confined to officers appointed by the President and affiliated with the Treasury Department, so as to be entirely independent of the department whose transactions they were called upon to consider. The Senate committee, after further investigation, made a final report January 27, 1835. This report vividly portrayed the abuse which had grown up under the current system and urgently recommended such change in the organization of the department as would place the collection and disbursement of its funds under the control of officers entirely independent of each other. Hon. Amos Kendall, who had meantime become Postmaster General, in his annual report of December 4, 1835, strongly urged the proposed reorganization. He expressed his belief in the soundness of the principle that public officers who have an agency in originating accounts should have none in their settlement. He desired that the system of his office should conform to that already existing in the War and Navy Departments, which were organized upon that principle, He said: "The most important improvement required is to separate the settlement of accounts entirely from the Post Office Department and vest it in an Auditor appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate." In pursuance of the
foregoing recommendations the act of July 2, 1836, entitled "An act to change the organization of the Post Office Department and to provide more effectually for the settlement of the accounts thereof,'' was passed. That act provided a separate Auditor for that department, who was authorized to settle all accounts accruing therein, subject to an appeal by either the Postmaster General or the claimant to the First Comptroller, whose decision was to be final.
Notwithstanding the said authority all accounts accruing in the Post Office Department were not settled by the Sixth Auditor. The accounts for salaries and incidental expenses were settled by the Fifth Auditor.
The Sixth Auditor's Office has also enjoyed a plethora of titles. It has been known as the Sixth Auditor's Office, the Office of the Auditor of the Treasury for the Post Office Department, and the Office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department.
The duties of the Sixth Auditor are thus defined by the statutes mentioned:
To receive all accounts arising in the said department or relative thereto, to audit and settle the same and certify their balances to the Postmaster General, provided that if either the Postmaster General or any person whose account shall be settled be dissatisfied therewith he may within 12 months appeal to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, whose decision shall be final and conclusive. The said Auditor shall report to the Postmaster General when required the official forms of papers to be used by postmasters and other officers or agents of the department concerned in its receipts and payments and the manner and form of keeping and stating its accounts. He shall keep and preserve all accounts with the vouchers after settlement. He shall promptly report to the Postmaster General all delinquencies of postmasters in paying over the proceeds of their offices. He shall close the accounts of the department quarterly and transmit to the Secretary of the Treasury quarterly statements of its receipts and expenditures. He shall register, charge, and countersign all warrants upon the Treasury for receipts and payments issued by the Postmaster General when warranted by law. He shall perform such other duties in relation to the financial concerns of the department as shall be assigned to him by the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall make to them, respectively, such reports as either of them may require respecting the same.
To the said Auditor was also assigned by law the performance of certain duties, such as authentication of papers, collection of debts, etc., which had been a part of the Postmaster General's work.
There was a marked difference between the first five auditors and the Sixth Auditor. The Auditors created by the act of 1817 received and examined their respective accounts, certified the balances, and transmitted the accounts, vouchers, and certificates to either the First or the Second Comptroller.
The Sixth Auditor was constituted along different lines. He received and examined the accounts of the Post Office Department, certified the balances to the Postmaster General, and preserved the accounts and vouchers after settlement. The First Comptroller's jurisdiction over the accounts of the postal service was appellate only. If dissatisfied with the Auditor's action, the Postmaster General or
the claimant had the right of appeal to the said Comptroller at any time within a year. The Sixth Auditor, it has been said officially, was both an Auditor and a Comptroller. It was decided that he was an officer of the Treasury Department and independent of the Post Office Department, but in an opinion of the Attorney General, rendered in 1855, it was held that the Sixth Auditor was an officer of both the Treasury and Post Office Departments, having privity of official relation with both.
The arrangement of the accounting branch of the Treasury Department, in 1837, may be summarized thus:
The First Comptroller was not only an accounting officer, examining 'the settlements of the First and Fifth Auditors and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, but he superintended the customs.
The Second Comptroller was engaged upon duties appertaining to an accounting officer, examining settlements made by the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors.
The Commissioner of the Land Office managed the public lands and adjusted the accounts of the receivers of public moneys who sold the lands.
The Fifth Auditor, besides adjusting the accounts mentioned, superintended the Lighthouse Establishment.
The Fourth and Sixth Auditors were exclusively confined to the naval and postal departments.
The Second and Third Auditors adjusted the accounts of the War Department.
The First Auditor divided the Treasury accounts with the Commis-. sioner of the Land Office and the Fifth Auditor, while the latter audited the accounts of the State Department.
This system was defective in that it required the First Comptroller and Fifth Auditor to perform administrative work. The defect was remedied in 1849 and 1852 by creating the office of the Commissioner of Customs and the Lighthouse Board. The Commissioner of Customs was the "Third Comptroller" in the matter of accounts relating to customs.
A committee of retrenchment, appointed by Congress in 1842, was much impressed with the prompt settlements made by the Sixth Auditor. In its report the committee said that one auditor could adjust all claims of a department and that such arrangement was desirable because of the facility and method that would follow in the transaction of business. Fifty-two years later the suggestion was put into actual practice.
The only important change to be noted between 1849–1852 and the act of July 31, 1894, is the introduction of administrative exam-ination of public accounts. It is said by one authority that such examinations of accounts were gradually practiced by the depart
to the Secretary of the Treasury, in the warrant division of whose office it is then filed as a basis for drawing a warrant.
When the expenditure has been incurred in the Treasury Department, the Register transmits to the Secretary of the Treasury copies of the certificates of balances adjusted * * * and they are sent to the warrant division, and warrants issue, and other proceedings are had precisely as in accounts which pass the Second Comptroller, as before explained.
There are kept in the warrant division of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury and in the offices of the Register and First Comptroller separate appropriation accounts, in which are credited the amounts appropriated by Congress to each specific object, the Secretary issuing appropriation warrants to the Register and Comptroller therefor. These accounts, in each of those three offices, are charged with all warrants from time to time drawn against them respectively. * * * And the Second, Third, and Fourth Auditors, performing the duties of register for the War, Navy, and the Interior Departments, in whole or in part, also keep like appropriation accounts for those departments. * * * Thus the different officers of the Treasury Department have checks upon each other in the drawing of money from the public funds.
The Post Office Department accounts are kept, audited, controlled, and paid in an anomalous manner, as compared with all other Government accounts. All the revenues deposited in the Treasury on account of that department stand to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States for the service of the Post Office Department, and there is no comptroller of accounts as a separate officer. * * * Accounts are examined by the Sixth Auditor, who performs not only the duties ordinarily belonging to an auditor, but also those of a register and a comptroller. * * * When he certifies a balance due, a warrant therefor is drawn on the Treasurer for the amount, signed by the Postmaster General and countersigned by the Sixth Auditor. It is then transmitted to the Treasurer, who records the same, directs, by an order on the face thereof, its payment out of the Treasury, and returns to the Postmaster General.
This is not only a warrant, but is a draft also, payable to the order of the creditor, and is delivered to him for collection, and upon that warrant and draft payment is made, the funds of that department not being subject to the warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury, as are other public moneys in the Treasury. * *
If the Postmaster General, or any person whose account has been settled by the Sixth Auditor, is dissatisfied with the settlement, he may, within 12 months, appeal to the First Comptroller, whose decision shall be conclusive. * * *
Such is the method of the final settlement of all accounts in the Treasury, omitting much detail which occurs in carrying on the general course of business.
The Joint Commission of Congress, appointed in 1893 to inquire into and examine the laws organizing the executive departments and to report whether greater efficiency and economy could be secured, said:
From the original status, with one auditor and one comptroller, the system had developed into a system of five auditors, acting under three independent comptrollers, one great department bureau (the General Land Office) settling its own accounts directly with a comptroller without the intervention of an auditor; and a Sixth Auditor who acted independently of a comptroller, except upon appeal. * * *
The delays resulting from a triplicate system of examination were so great that the auditors became practically "dead letters" in the administration of the accounting branch, and the Government was of necessity compelled to rely largely upon the administrative departments to exercise oversight and secure a proper expenditure of the public money.
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The commission's investigation and report culminated in the present system of accounting, consisting of one Comptroller and six Auditors, the name of each auditor indicating the class of accounts under his jurisdiction.
In contemplation of law the Auditors receive claims and accounts through the administrative officers. The latter approve or disapprove in whole or in part and add evidence or comment thereon for the information of the Auditors.
The Auditors receive and examine the accounts and vouchers and certify their findings, which certificates are final and conclusive on the executive departments, subject, however, to appeals to the Comptroller of the Treasury by the claimant, the heads of the departments or other establishments not under a department, and subject further to the power of the Secretary of the Treasury to direct a reexamination of the accounts. Says one authority: · The Auditor audits the account. It then passes from the hands of the bookkeeping division to the Secretary of the Treasury, and through the Comptroller's Office to the Treasurer, and then comes back to the Auditor with the amount and date of payment noted.
In the main, the procedure is comparable to the procedure of the judicial branch of the Government. The Auditors acting as courts of general jurisdiction pass judgments upon the accounts and claims before them. The Comptroller is the court of appeals to which the Auditors' decisions may be carried at any time within a year. The decision of the Comptroller is final and conclusive upon the executive departments.
This a very general outline of the scope of the accounting system. There are one or two innovations to be noted.
The first five Auditors certify their findings to the division of bookkeeping and warrants. The Auditor for the Post Office Department certifies his findings to the Postmaster General for accounts of the postal revenue and expenditures therefrom, and to the Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants for other accounts. Again, the law requires postmasters to send their money-order accounts direct to the Auditor for the Post Office Department, thus preventing any administrative examination. There are other duties required of the Auditor for the Post Office Department which are not required of the other Auditors. Those duties will be referred to later.
The intent of the act of July 31, 1894, was to lessen the number of accounting officers, to place greater responsibility upon the Auditors, and to hold them responsible for the settlement of accounts and claims and for the advances of money to disbursing officers and others.
The main duty of the Comptroller is to determine finally the construction of statutes.

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Listen: Andy Partridge, San Francisco, Todd Rundgren discussed on Our Favorite Albums
"Prince. He was the drummer for a group called the tubes cube that he actually recorded all his parts were overdubbed. After the after everything was recorded in he was in san francisco and just all recorded at utopia studios in woodstock new york insane. Did that say right just crazy. Yeah hey i think that speaks a lot to collins base plane that he laid down these tracks without thinking about where the rest of the other half of the rhythm section was going to come from and of course he's bay. Styling is more along the lines of somebody. Like getty lee from rush. Who kinda tends to not necessarily play in the pocket with the drummer. But kind of play their own thing. Yeah definitely very riff oriented very melodic in not necessarily A drawback back and play with the drummer guy so it makes more sense. They still hard to imagine. I mean you play bass. Yeah plan without i mean trying to do it without the drummer would be difficult. The rhythm section is the drummer in the bass player. You know i if you're a marching band. The rhythm section is going to be your base horns and drums centric. You've got to have that all the way through. And the basis of part of that. And that's what anchors everything down. So yeah they recorded this without not to belabor the point but it just baffles me that they recorded this album without such those like. They built the house without foundation and done. Everyone plays to a metronome right The these guys recorded an album without a beat and just insane but that also goes to the kind of the insane levels of production that todd rundgren was able to bring to this. And so let's talk about that. So andy partridge has suggested that. He is potentially autistic on the autism spectrum. He suffers from tinnitus which is ringing ears. Yeah to the point. Where i think. He has at least one suicide attempt because he just couldn't take ringing This guy who again had valium as an addiction has suffered from depression man. He's got some purchasers that yet and as we get into this album the way that this is constructed some of these songs you can feel the anger in frustration with just kind of with life in general. It's like this weird existential like a little bit mostly in the lyrics because most of the music is generally british pop. It isn't that interesting is it's really weird. Yeah and once again that takes them the takes them listening to figure that out at the Their record label was virgin records. I it was distributed in the united states by geffen records okay They signed with virgin records in the seventies they had a hit with waiting for nigel and then version was just kind of sitting around waiting for the next hit and they just pro which didn't show up didn't produce anything that they were transitioning between Between punk and this new do wave in and they didn't have a drummer in so finally virgin says in nineteen eighty-five you have to sell seventy thousand records. Otherwise we're dropping you now seventy thousands not a lot of records but they were so flummoxed so frustrated with this group that they thought had so much potential. But we're just so hard to get along with that they gave them a quota of seventy thousand records otherwise they were dropping well. Let's put that in perspective though because you're right to a to a recording act to establish recording act. Seventy thousand records shouldn't be a big deal especially not in the time period when record sales were an actual thing as opposed to streaming now But if you haven't done anything in a while and you're coming out basically coming from nowhere. Seventy thousand records. A lot of records could be if if you're unknown i mean. Sec has they basically been silent now for a little while had been touring which is the foundation of any rock and roll band. So that's that's a lot would be a big uphill battle to climb thank. They were kinda short haircut. He's bald now but he had like a really short short haircut. Which you know that did that didn't fit into the access eighties. Everyone has been call. Molding had this great big weird mullet thing. New wave alternative punk pop band or you guys. Yeah seems like a banker. Did what's going on singing these like songs in the round where they talking about children's nursery rhymes here just like where do these guys fit in. So the record company gives them a mandate. You've got to sell seventy thousand records. And so they give them a list of producers they say you have to choose one of these producers the new producer new everything choose one of these producers and the band sits down which is basically entered partridge sitting down with gregory data colin moulding and telling them the only name that i recognize on this list. That virgin records gave us. Is todd rundgren. So that's literally why they picked him because he was the only name the record the only name that they recognize. That's hilarious now. So they called todd rendering and they said to him. Are you interested in doing this album for ecstasy. And he said you know what. I actually saw them lie time. So he'd seen them in nineteen eighty and like their music Listen to some of their other stuff. It was like. Wow this is really out there like this is the stuff that he could do something with this. This is out there. In so the record company gives him a mandate. You gotta control. Andy partridge he's gonna try to take over. He's gonna try to ruin everything for you. You've got to keep him on task and you can't go over budget because these guys aren't making us any money and we would really like to make some money. Yeah todd rundgren was known as a bit of a kind of a stern okay. I fist when he needed to be had so he says you got it so they signed the guy and now he has to produce an album. So i think that the way this works it may have been through a letter. It may have been through a phone call. I'm not really sure they were in the uk he was in his studios in woodstock new york called utopia studios. They get in contact and he says okay. So what do you have in mind. And they kinda him on like you know. Because they know that they're under the mandate and you take someone who's already upset and someone who's really hard to deal with. Anyway you give him a mandate and suddenly you have someone who just petulant and now you give them a new boss who's going to enforce the mandate and this is a recipe for badness. So he didn't. They didn't have any ideas. I had no idea what they wanna do. They didn't have a name. They just had a bunch of demo tapes. Okay so he says. Send me the demo tapes. He listens to them and he says there's a concept here he starts arranging these songs and listens to them and says you guys have a brilliant concept album here and they didn't get it. They didn't get it at all. They wrote the songs. Colin moulding actually has five songs on the album which is which was different That's more than he had contributed in the past right and in everyone including colin moulding. And andy partridge and rendered will all say we reason he had that many was because todd rundgren absolutely force it through 'cause run like the songs he one of those on the concept. Yeah he he does songs were part those demos part of his vision. They had some songs that were childlike and innocent in an belied this eggs intial crisis with anger in an ended up with this song called dear god. That is one of the most forcibly forceful strong. I don't know how you even characterized the song as much as it is someone who so so angry at religion that You know to put these these songs down in other words down into the songs is just like my goodness. I mean that is so strong. And."
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Prince. He was the drummer for a group called the tubes cube that he actually recorded all his parts were overdubbed. After the after everything was recorded in he was in san francisco and just all recorded at utopia studios in woodstock new york insane. Did that say right just crazy. Yeah hey i think that speaks a lot to collins base plane that he laid down these tracks without thinking about where the rest of the other half of the rhythm section was going to come from and of course he's bay. Styling is more along the lines of somebody. Like getty lee from rush. Who kinda tends to not necessarily play in the pocket with the drummer. But kind of play their own thing. Yeah definitely very riff oriented very melodic in not necessarily A drawback back and play with the drummer guy so it makes more sense. They still hard to imagine. I mean you play bass. Yeah plan without i mean trying to do it without the drummer would be difficult. The rhythm section is the drummer in the bass player. You know i if you're a marching band. The rhythm section is going to be your base horns and drums centric. You've got to have that all the way through. And the basis of part of that. And that's what anchors everything down. So yeah they recorded this without not to belabor the point but it just baffles me that they recorded this album without such those like. They built the house without foundation and done. Everyone plays to a metronome right The these guys recorded an album without a beat and just insane but that also goes to the kind of the insane levels of production that todd rundgren was able to bring to this. And so let's talk about that. So andy partridge has suggested that. He is potentially autistic on the autism spectrum. He suffers from tinnitus which is ringing ears. Yeah to the point. Where i think. He has at least one suicide attempt because he just couldn't take ringing This guy who again had valium as an addiction has suffered from depression man. He's got some purchasers that yet and as we get into this album the way that this is constructed some of these songs you can feel the anger in frustration with just kind of with life in general. It's like this weird existential like a little bit mostly in the lyrics because most of the music is generally british pop. It isn't that interesting is it's really weird. Yeah and once again that takes them the takes them listening to figure that out at the Their record label was virgin records. I it was distributed in the united states by geffen records okay They signed with virgin records in the seventies they had a hit with waiting for nigel and then version was just kind of sitting around waiting for the next hit and they just pro which didn't show up didn't produce anything that they were transitioning between Between punk and this new do wave in and they didn't have a drummer in so finally virgin says in nineteen eighty-five you have to sell seventy thousand records. Otherwise we're dropping you now seventy thousands not a lot of records but they were so flummoxed so frustrated with this group that they thought had so much potential. But we're just so hard to get along with that they gave them a quota of seventy thousand records otherwise they were dropping well. Let's put that in perspective though because you're right to a to a recording act to establish recording act. Seventy thousand records shouldn't be a big deal especially not in the time period when record sales were an actual thing as opposed to streaming now But if you haven't done anything in a while and you're coming out basically coming from nowhere. Seventy thousand records. A lot of records could be if if you're unknown i mean. Sec has they basically been silent now for a little while had been touring which is the foundation of any rock and roll band. So that's that's a lot would be a big uphill battle to climb thank. They were kinda short haircut. He's bald now but he had like a really short short haircut. Which you know that did that didn't fit into the access eighties. Everyone has been call. Molding had this great big weird mullet thing. New wave alternative punk pop band or you guys. Yeah seems like a banker. Did what's going on singing these like songs in the round where they talking about children's nursery rhymes here just like where do these guys fit in. So the record company gives them a mandate. You've got to sell seventy thousand records. And so they give them a list of producers they say you have to choose one of these producers the new producer new everything choose one of these producers and the band sits down which is basically entered partridge sitting down with gregory data colin moulding and telling them the only name that i recognize on this list. That virgin records gave us. Is todd rundgren. So that's literally why they picked him because he was the only name the record the only name that they recognize. That's hilarious now. So they called todd rendering and they said to him. Are you interested in doing this album for ecstasy. And he said you know what. I actually saw them lie time. So he'd seen them in nineteen eighty and like their music Listen to some of their other stuff. It was like. Wow this is really out there like this is the stuff that he could do something with this. This is out there. In so the record company gives him a mandate. You gotta control. Andy partridge he's gonna try to take over. He's gonna try to ruin everything for you. You've got to keep him on task and you can't go over budget because these guys aren't making us any money and we would really like to make some money. Yeah todd rundgren was known as a bit of a kind of a stern okay. I fist when he needed to be had so he says you got it so they signed the guy and now he has to produce an album. So i think that the way this works it may have been through a letter. It may have been through a phone call. I'm not really sure they were in the uk he was in his studios in woodstock new york called utopia studios. They get in contact and he says okay. So what do you have in mind. And they kinda him on like you know. Because they know that they're under the mandate and you take someone who's already upset and someone who's really hard to deal with. Anyway you give him a mandate and suddenly you have someone who just petulant and now you give them a new boss who's going to enforce the mandate and this is a recipe for badness. So he didn't. They didn't have any ideas. I had no idea what they wanna do. They didn't have a name. They just had a bunch of demo tapes. Okay so he says. Send me the demo tapes. He listens to them and he says there's a concept here he starts arranging these songs and listens to them and says you guys have a brilliant concept album here and they didn't get it. They didn't get it at all. They wrote the songs. Colin moulding actually has five songs on the album which is which was different That's more than he had contributed in the past right and in everyone including colin moulding. And andy partridge and rendered will all say we reason he had that many was because todd rundgren absolutely force it through 'cause run like the songs he one of those on the concept. Yeah he he does songs were part those demos part of his vision. They had some songs that were childlike and innocent in an belied this eggs intial crisis with anger in an ended up with this song called dear god. That is one of the most forcibly forceful strong. I don't know how you even characterized the song as much as it is someone who so so angry at religion that You know to put these these songs down in other words down into the songs is just like my goodness. I mean that is so strong. And.


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The Challenge: Population status information is required for management of migratory bird populations, and structured decision making and adaptive management place additional emphasis on the need for rigorous survey designs and robust estimation methods. The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and Christmas Bird Count (CBC) provide continent-scale information on breeding and wintering populations of >450 species of North American birds, and for many species these two surveys are our only data source for population status and trend information. Appropriate analyses of these important surveys require sophisticated methods to accommodate variation in survey efficiency over the large areas covered by the surveys and to control for factors that influence detection of birds. Factors such as observer quality and effort, if not appropriately controlled for in the analysis, can lead to biased estimates of population change.
The Science: We are developing and implementing hierarchical log-linear models for analysis of BBS and CBC data. These models control for observer differences in counting along BBS routes by treating observers as random effects and including a start-up effect that models lower counts for the first year an observer surveys a route. Effort effects in CBC data are controlled for by including a 2-parameter model component, that allows the effort adjustment to vary by species or region. For both of these surveys, hierarchical components control for regional differences in survey quality, allowing for estimation of composite population indices at the continental scale.
The Future: Hierarchical models have been fit to BBS and CBC data, and comprehensive analyses of BBS data are updated yearly and provided to scientists and the public.. These analyses provide a reasonable means of summarizing these complicated data sets. Ongoing studies involve implementing analyses using alternative models that expand the scope of the survey, incorporation of spatial effects, covariates, integrating multiple surveys to extend scope of inference, and modeling complex dynamical features. Hierarchical model results for BBS and CBC are featured in State of the Birds reports (http://www.stateofthebirds.org).


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5 Bands That Shaped UK Punk
Depending on which side of the Atlantic you live, the term 'punk' conjures up different things. In the US, the punk movement incorporated a lot of different bands from rock to the art pop movement. A punk could be almost anyone with a non-conformist look. For the UK, a punk was a different animal. It went beyond non-conformist to outrageous. The more unacceptable the attire the better, which went for the height and colour of the hair and the prodigious use of safety pins. British punk had one clear aim: to offend and shock as many people as possible. It was excessive, aggressive and frustrated. At its height in the late 70s, punk was the antidote to disco. Here are five bands that epitomise what punk really meant in Great Britain.
Depending on which side of the Atlantic you live, the term 'punk' conjures up different things. In the US, the punk movement incorporated a lot of different bands from rock to the art pop movement. A punk could be almost anyone with a non-conformist look. For the UK, a punk was a different animal. It went beyond non-conformist to outrageous. The more unacceptable the attire the better, which went for the height and colour of the hair and the prodigious use of safety pins.
British punk had one clear aim: to offend and shock as many people as possible. It was excessive, aggressive and frustrated. At its height in the late 70s, punk was the antidote to disco. Here are five bands that epitomise what punk really meant in Great Britain.
Sham 69 – Formed in Hersham in 1976, Sham 69 was perhaps one of the few punk bands that actually had foundations in the working classes. The band's songs revolved around the most ordinary lives in the UK's towns. The band's most enduring song, 'Hurry Up Harry', is an anthem for that great British pastime: 'We're going down the pub!' Sham 69 is most notable for carrying their punk sound past punk's golden year of 1978, as one of the foundations of the Oi! Movement.
U.K. Subs – Originally called The Subversives, the U.K. Subs were a London based band that made their name on the pub rock circuit. U.K. Subs also managed to have comparable success with a few singles entering the UK Top 40 chart, something rare for the genre at the time. As the 70s reached their inevitable end, the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal began to emerge, which gave U.K. Subs a way of adapting their sound as punk waned.
Buzzcocks – Excited by a review of a Sex Pistols gig in NME, Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto (real names Peter McNeish and Howard Trafford respectively) hopped on a bus from Bolton to London. Impressed and influenced by the Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks were spurred on, and were soon part of the punk scene. Their song 'Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)' remains a popular number today, and has been covered by Pete Yorn, Fine Young Cannibals, Kim Wilde and The Noisettes.
Angelic Upstarts – British punk was a movement that acted as a mouthpiece for the disillusioned youth. Many bands would voice their political agendas from pubs, to student bars and clubs. One such band was the Angelic Upstarts. From 1977, the Angelic Upstarts wrote songs with a socialist, anti-fascist edge. Perversely, their 'Oi!' image was often used by neo-nazi skinheads, which is a clever move if you're trying to educate those with a different agenda.
Sex Pistols – Without a doubt, the Sex Pistols are the most famous British punk band that ever existed. Originally formed by Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Wally Nightingale, playing instruments they's stolen, the band went through various line up changes, including guitarist Glen Matlock. With the influence of impresario Malcolm McLaren they changed their name to the Sex Pistols, taking on John Lydon, later to become Johnny Rotten, so called by Jones because of his dental hygiene. Eventually, Matlock was let go for "liking The Beatles" as legend has it, although Matlock struggled with the content of songs such as 'God Save The Queen'. Johnny Rotten's friend and Inventor of the Pogo Dance, Sid Vicious took over and the rest is history.
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The tabloid-inspired story of a half-bat, half-human creature trying to fit in with civilized life (set to a beat-driven rock-music score), "Bat Boy: The Musical," presented by the Los Altos Stage Company, opens this week and continues through June 25. Performances take place Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. at Sundays at 3 p.m. (no show May 29) at the Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos. Tickets are $18 for students, $30 for adults. Go to Los Altos Stage Company.


This is a list of sponsors who have been generous enough and have believed enough in this pursuit to have sponsored me. Each of these companies have given so that I might be able to successfully complete the entire PCT. Not only their equipment, but their belief in what I'm doing, will be helping me walk each mile on the trail north. My deep appreciation goes out to each sponsor!
Just wanted to add: The Jacks' just recently sent me a really nice care package with a few goodies inside, including a really cool Jacks'R'Better cap, mini caribiners, as well as a card wishing me luck along the trail and to have fun preparing for the thru-hike. Just talking with these guys, they are a class act all the way, and their gear is top notch. Thanks again, Jack & Jack.
Joe at Z-Packs Ultralight Backpacking Gear has been gracious in his willingness to support my hike. He has donated a large cuben fiber food bag to store food in, a cuben fiber shoulder pouch and two smaller pouches to store my camera and my iPod Touch. (All these items are made with cuben fiber, the lightest and toughest material for its weight that's made today). In fact, the iPod Touche dimensions were just a little larger than his pouches were made for, so he custom made a pouch for me…amazing. Not to mention, each of these items are very important and had been things I needed. As you follow along on my hike, you will undoubtedly see his handiwork in some of the pictures. Many many thanks to Joe & the Z-Packs gang. For more info on Z-Packs and their products, click here to check out their website.
Many thanks to Rod Java, maker of the StickPic. He reached out unprompted to give become a sponsor for my hike.
His product, the "StickPic," is a great device intended to make taking pictures and video in the great outdoors easier. Made to fit on the end of a trekking pole, the head swivels and ultimately attaches to the hole on the bottom of your camera that is intended for a tripod fixture. Standing still taking a picture on top of a magnificent pass, or shooting video while capturing a 360 degree spinning panorama on top of Mt. Whitney, it helps you capture those moments that you might not otherwise be able to, in a way that creates beautiful images and breathtaking video. It comes in different sizes to match just about any size trekking pole, and is the size of a ring you'd wear on your finger.
To read more on the StickPic, here's a review from Backpacker Magazine from July, 2010.
Thanks to Dexter Holland (of "The Offspring" fame) and the gang over at Gringo Bandito Hot Sauce for their willingness to jump into the world of thru-hiking sponsorship with both feet. As I wrote on the home page, I plan on using some Gringo Bandito hot sauce liberally while dehydrating some specific trail snacks, so that when I rehydrate them on the trail they will extra flavor. I'll be hiking with a bottle of Gringo Bandito the entire PCT. I'm not even going to repackage it. I'll be the first to ever do so! Gringo Bandito will make my camping food pretty fly for a hiker guy.
For a little more on Dexter Holland's foray into the world of hot sauce, read on in this article. He uses fresh ingredients, and it shows. It's really very, very good.
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For those who have made your mind to refurbish your office, buying new furniture is most likely advisable. But make sure you don't spend too much on it. Whilst buying new furniture is pricey, you can still avoid wasting cash by continuing to keep some things in your mind. What exactly are they? Continue reading.
Shop around. Purchasing office furniture you won't need is not a good idea. This is exactly why go to both online and physical stores and look for each new and used office furniture. Perhaps you'll find top quality used office furniture this will cost you about 40 to 60% less than new furnishings.
Shop around. Purchasing business furniture you will not require is not a good idea. That's why go to both online and bodily stores and check out both used and new business furniture. Maybe you'll find good quality used office furniture this can cost you about 40 to 60Percent under new furniture.
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Attempt to get extra discount rates. Some companies offer flat special discounts others are willing to reduce their prices additional upon request from customers. Requesting more low cost won't cost you a dime. You will get mass discount rates if you purchase several products at the same time.
You shouldn't be too happy when you flourish in obtaining a large discount on your furnishings buy. You still have to do the mathematics. This is because there's an additional expense included: shipping charges. Add the complete shipping charges to the actual furnishings cost after which determine whether the total expenses are sensible. If they are, make the furniture to your office. But do that once you make sure the furniture is the way you like and reasonable.
Finally, don't forget to appraise the design of your workplace floor. Come up with a comprehensive plan and make contact with a great inside designer. The custom will help you determine where each furnishings item should be positioned. That is essential because putting furnishings in some places in an workplace is not recommended. It should be placed properly so technology-not only effortlessly. Furniture placed without any order will appear weird and make it harder that you should function.
So, if you're on a tight budget or want to avoid wasting money on your furniture purchase, maintaining these tips in your mind is surely a wise decision. Adhere to these 5 basic, easy suggestions when you are find great furniture for the workplace requirements. Hope this helps.
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ISG system has a standard Mechanical Oil Pump(MOP) linked to the input shaft to generates oil pressure when input shaft rotates. ISG system also has an Electric Oil Pump(EOP). Because the ISG features Auto-Stop which starts and stops the engine as needed. The Auto-Stop feature prevents the Mechanical Oil Pump(MOP) from operating and building enough pressure for the transaxle to operate. When the vehicle comes to a stop with the engine off, Mechanical Oil Pump(MOP) cannot generate sufficient oilpressure during the initial startup (below 5 KPH) or during low speed driving.
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The Netherlands Van der Ven Autorecycling – offering self-service and more
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Van der Ven Autorecycling B.V., a market leader in car recycling within the Benelux based in The Netherlands, establishes its newest division 'Venyard', a unique auto parts self-service concept.
Van der Ven Autorecycling B.V., was founded in December of 1979. The company is based in Roosendaal in The Netherlands, on a 23-acre site.
Van der Ven employs over 135 employees who are responsible for processing more than 35,000 cars each year. In addition to their recycling company, Van der Ven also has a car company which focuses on buying and selling used cars of various price ranges.
The organisation buys all vehicles, regardless of their condition. And as an extra service to customers which have sold their car, the company facilitates free transport of the sold vehicles. The transport fleet consists of 35 trucks and lorries which are driven by one of their (over) 35 qualified drivers.
The Van der Ven headquarters is located in the south of the Netherlands with another location in Nijkerk, which is in the middle of the country and which allows the company to collect vehicles quicker and more efficiently, providing a better service for its customers.
As mentioned previously, Van der Ven recycles more than 35,000 cars annually. Before each vehicle is sent to the recycling department, a selection of vehicles is made which will be dismantled for parts using the company's several car bridges in its workshop. The result is a stock of 70,000 used car parts, ready for immediate shipping. All parts are tested in the workshop and come with a 12- month guarantee.
Cars classified as non-profitable for dismantling will be placed on the newest division of Van der Ven Autorecycling: 'Venyard'.
Venyard is setting a new standard within the auto recycling 'world' with its unique auto parts self-service concept in The Netherlands, where customers can dismantle car parts they desire and check out at the cash register. They also developed their own software, mobile app and online services.
Venyard offers low prices, a clean environment, refreshments and bathroom facilities on-site, and even the option to listen to tunes through their outdoor speakers whilst customers are at work. If customers do not have the correct tool for the job, or if they forget to bring them, it is possible to rent them on site. Customers can even take a shopping trolley, just like visiting IKEA!
The company doesn't stop at self-service; right next to the car recycling company, sits Van der Ven Auto's B.V, which is a separate company focused solely on buying and selling used cars, of which, the company usually has around 300 used cars in stock.
To sell all car parts throughout Europe, Van der Ven has seven different webshops, all targeting other countries, including The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Spain, all of which are represented on venauto.nl. In addition to their own webshops, Van der Ven also uses marketplaces like eBay and marktplaats. The latter focusses solely on the Dutch market.
Going further afield, Van der Ven exports parts to different countries. These parts are stored in a separate export warehouse where more than 7500 engines and gearboxes are waiting to be shipped.
And finally, for now, anyway, is the most recent development within the business, the expansion of a new property and a lot of outside space for their used cars department. With this addition, they hope to turn their stock of 150-300 used cars into a stock of 600 used cars.
To find out more about the company, email t.vanderwoude@venauto.nl or visit www.venauto.nl
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 History of the Salinas Brewery and the Monterey Brewing Co.
The Salinas Brewing Company and its successors, the Salinas Brewing and Ice Co., and Monterey Brewing Co. were all evolutions of Salinas' first brewing enterprise established in 1874. The "Salinas Brewery" was started by Lurz & Hagner, and had an initial output of about 240 barrels annually. The brewery was located on Castroville St., and operated under their management for three years, when in 1877 Hagner's half share was bought out by German immigrant, John H. Menke.
Henry Lurz, a native of Bavaria, and John H. Menke of Hanover, continued to build the business, and by 1891 production had increased to 2,000 barrels/year. However, Henry did not live to see them break the 2,000 barrel mark. Their partnership ended with the death of Henry Lurz in 1889.
"The Salinas Brewery, owned by our enterprising citizen Mr. J. H. Menke, is situated about half a mile from Salinas City. It was erected in 1892 and the plant is one of the most complete on the Coast. The output is about 8000 barrels a year and the brewery, besides supplying Salinas City, also ships as far as Paso Robles and Santa Margarita.
The building is a substantial three-story frame structure and is fitted with the latest machinery for the brewing of steam beer.
On the ground floor is a 20-horse power steam engine, kettle and malt kiln, wash house, malt floor and filter room. On the first floor is the fermenting room, store-room, mash-tub and dryer, and on the top floor is the hot water tank, cooler and barley store-room. The output of the brewery can be increased to 9000 barrels in order to keep up with the rapidly increasing population of Salinas City. Mr. Menke, the genial and ever enterprising proprietor is one of the leading men of the city and was recently elected a member of the City Council."
The firm was now doing business as the Salinas Brewing Co. In addition to draught beer for the saloon trade, beer was now available in bottles to include home trade. (embossed bottle at right). Their brands included "Salinas Steam Beer" (label above), "Salinas Lager," and "Salinas Beer" - and all carried their California Bear logo.
The lower hook on the opener (below) is usually assumed to be a cap lifter for crown top bottles. However, it was actually used to flip up the wire bale that secured the porcelain stoppers on the blob top bottles. The square hole in the opener was used as a wrench to open gas valves of carbide head-lamps found on early automobiles. The round hole allowed the device to be attached to a key ring - thus the name "church-key."
Menke operated the plant for thirteen more years, and on 24 August, 1904, he formed a stock company to raise capital for improvements. J. H. Menke was the president of the company, principal stock holder and Chairman of the corporation, with William F. Voss, as Secretary and manager of the brewery. There were seven members on the corporation's board of directors: J. H. Menke, Wm. Voss, Lawrence Martella, John Breschini, Henry H. Hollenstein, Fred W. Schroeder, and Fred W. Jansen. However, Menke removed himself from the day-to-day operations of the brewery, choosing instead to oversee the First National Bank of Salinas, which he had established in 1892.
By 1905 the brewery's production had doubled to 4,000 barrels/year. Steam beer was still being produced, and a Lager "Made in the Good Old German Way" - called "Schloss Braü" (i.e. Castle Brew) was added to their product line. However, they had outgrown the old frame building and had plans to build a new plant.
On 3 December 1907, the corporation increased the capital stock to $100,000 for their new brewery, which included a 30 ton ice machine and a bottling shop that could handle the new crown top bottles. By the spring of '08 the production resumed in a five story, brick structure located in central Salinas at 347 No. Main Street.
The imposing new brewery towered over the other buildings of the city, and remained the tallest structure in Salinas until well into the '40s. They were now bottling their Salinas Lager, and Salinas Steam Beer in crown top bottles.
J. H. Menke remained president & chairman, and Voss remained as secretary. The board of directors now consisted of the following: J. H. Menke, Nelson G. Christensen, F. W. Jansen, L. Martella, Frank Kopman, and H. H. Holenstein.
Their brewmaster was John Bauer, but he was succeeded by Joseph A. Eckhart of Vallejo, who bought out Bauer's interest. Eckhart received his Master Brewer certification from the Whal-Henius Institute on 1 July, 1910.
"The Salinas Brewery has a force of 16 or 17 highly skilled employees and has a capacity of 25,000 barrels annually. Today the Salinas Brewing Company is shipping its celebrated "Schloss Braü" over a wide territory, extending to San Mateo on the north to Santa Barbara on the south."
In January of 1920, when the brewing of alcoholic beverages was terminated by national Prohibition, the firm remained open by producing soft drinks. The company also took up the ice & cold storage business, with William Voss still managing the plant. He maintained an interest in the Brewery, and was a vice president in the firm for a period in the late 30's. About that time, Voss also became a principal in the La Colma Wine Company of Salinas.
Considering the popularity, and profitability of "near-beer," the principals of the Salinas Brewing Co. decided to engage in the production of this cereal beverage. To that end, the Salinas Brewing & Ice Company was incorporated in Nevada on 30 December 1926. Having earlier returned to Germany for brewery training, William Voss assumed the duties of Brewmaster.
Salinas Brg. and Ice Co.
With the end of Prohibition in April of 1933, many trained brewers were anxious to return to their trade. Anticipating Repeal, many took a proactive approach. One such brewer was JP Rettenmayer, past president and brewmaster of San Francisco's Acme Brewing Company. JP had attempted to establish a new brewery in Oakland, called the Samarkand Brewing Co. He was supported by previous investors in the Olympia and Acme breweries, and as brewmaster and plant supervisor, he enlisted the aid of his old superintendent from the Minneapolis Brewing Co., Armin L. Neubert , as technical advisor. However, JP could not raise the necessary financing and the project failed.
Meanwhile, other entrepreneurs were seeking opportunities to enter the brewing business. George Silver and Max Bayha, both with ties to the Nehi Corporation, raised the necessary investment capital to purchase the old Salinas Brewery in Monterey County, CA, but needed someone who new the brewing business.
Armin L. Neubert was now a 70 year old, retired brewing engineer living in nearby Santa Cruz, but he had the necessary credentials. The group of investors persuaded Armin and his son to get involved. Armin was to receive equity in the new company as payment for his engineering work, and his son, Armin K., who had an engineering degree, was included in the venture.
After the major improvements the plant reopened in March of 1934 with a annual capacity of 30,000 barrels. The Salinas Brewing & Ice Company was soon gaining recognition for its excellent beer. Armin, Sr. was the plant's brewmaster and chief engineer, and Armin, Jr. was the treasurer of the firm.
The Brewery's flagship brands were "Monterey Beer" (light & dark), "Monterey Ale," "Monterey Bock" and "Rodeo Beer" (pronounced ruh-DAY-oh by locals).
They also did a few contract brews such as: a "Surfside Lager," a "Cypress Beer" for the Wing Chong Co. of Monterey, "Mac's Special Lager" for Mac's Cafe of Salinas, and "Salute Lager Beer" for Terminal Liquors of San Francisco.
The label here is the earliest example from Salinas Brewing & Ice Co., ca.1934.
The "Monterey Beer" label below was one of the designs adopted the following year. They all display Permit No. CAL U-1129. U-Permit numbers were not required after 1935.
Thanks to JP, they also offered "Remar Beer" (with an art-deco label - below), which was actually a popular brand of bread introduced by JP's Oakland bakery in 1922. These 1935 labels, along with new packaging and color schemes were thanks to JP's wife, Philippine Schmidt Rettenmayer. Assisting JP with the San Francisco based, Monterey Sales Co., she assumed the task of updating the image of the Brewing Company with colors and designs to appeal to the modern women, who made most of the beer purchases in the grocery stores.
After JP's death, Armin Louis Neubert's son, Armin Karl, assumed the position of company president. William Voss, who had been a principal investor, and manager since 1904, was vice-pres. of the brewery, with Armin Karl's brother-in-law, George H. Ziegler, serving as brewmaster, and William L. Higdon, secretary/treasurer.
Nine months following the death of Rettenmayer, a freak automobile accident took the life of Dr. William E. Fehliman. As well as a noted Santa Cruz surgeon, Dr. Fehliman was also a prime stockholder and director of the brewery. He was also an old time friend of Armin, Sr., from his days of running the Black Hills Brewery. With the loss of two of its major principals controlling the brewery's interests and their ongoing financial difficulties, on 5 April, 1937 the company filed for bankruptcy.
By early 1938, the Neubert family had assumed total control and restructured the business. The "new" enterprise was named the Monterey Brewing Company - named for their most successful brand of beer. The newly reorganized company continued to market their most profitable brands: "Old Monterey Ale," "Old Monterey Bock," and "Rodeo Beer." They also added "Gold Age Beer" and "Butz Beer." Plus, they updated the Remar label; and added "Certified" to their flagship brand, "Monterey Beer."
An interesting gimmick was the "Rodeo Beer label" (below) with a tear-away cowboy hat. On the back side of the hat was the calendar for local rodeo dates. The rear of the label also carried the slogan: "Don't Gamble - Drink Rodeo Beer."
Additionally, each label carried one of 1,000 different poker hands, which was often used to decide who bought the round of beers, or who won a cash pot. Also, one in every 1,000 was a label with a Royal Flush. This "winning" hand could be redeemed at the Brewery for a case of "Rodeo Beer" or "Monterey Beer."
The addition of the slogan, "Don't Gamble" wasn't enough to appease the Alcohol & Tax unit of the IRS who decided it promoted just the opposite. So the labels had to be withdrawn, and new labels (above) were printed without the "tear off hat" poker hands. It's unlikely that many examples of the poker hand label have survived intact, since by design the labels were meant to be torn open.
on the blue version of the can (at right).
The new "Remar Beer" label (above) is surprisingly similar to this Grain Belt Beer label (left), from the Minneapolis Brewing Company.
No doubt Armin, Sr. was paying a tribute to his (and Rettenmayer's) previous employer. However, in Minneapolis they were probably unaware of this dubious "compliment" coming from a small brewery 1600 miles away, in Salinas.
In spite of the Neubert family's best efforts, the brewing industry itself was beset with difficulties due to shortages and rationing of raw materials for the war effort. They did land a contract to supply nearby Ft. Ord in early 1942, but it was too little, too late. After four lean years the family ceased production, and in late '42 they converted the brewery into a cold storage operation - the Salinas Freezer-Storage Co.
Armin L. Neubert died four years later on 3 July, 1946. He was regarded as one of the last pioneers of the brewing industry. See Armin Neubert's biography.
Armin's son-in-law, George H. Ziegler, became an associate brewmaster at the Lucky Lager brewery in San Francisco in 1941, and in 1956 became supervising brewmaster for Lucky.


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import boofcv.alg.feature.describe.DescribePointPixelRegion;
import boofcv.misc.BoofMiscOps;
import boofcv.struct.feature.TupleDesc_U8;
import boofcv.struct.image.GrayU8;

import java.util.Arrays;

/**
 * Implementation of {@link boofcv.alg.feature.describe.DescribePointPixelRegion}.
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 * @author Peter Abeles
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public class ImplDescribePointPixelRegion_U8 extends DescribePointPixelRegion<GrayU8,TupleDesc_U8> {

	public ImplDescribePointPixelRegion_U8(int regionWidth, int regionHeight) {
		super(regionWidth, regionHeight);
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Allocco, Katherine: "Could Guinevere ever be a superhero? Depictions of a warrior queen in Camelot 3000 (1982–1985)." In: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 9.1 (2018), S. 75–92.
Added by: joachim (07 May 2018 10:49:00 Europe/Berlin)	Last edited by: joachim (07 May 2018 12:38:40 Europe/Berlin)
DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2017.1299022
BibTeX citation key: Allocco2018
Keywords: "Camelot 3000", Gender, Mittelalter
Creators: Allocco
Collection: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Views: 4/74
Camelot 3000, one of Arthuriana's most influential comic series, has reimagined Queen Guinevere as a heroic warrior who attempts to atone for previous transgressions by slipping on a minidress, picking up a futuristic gun and battling invading aliens. In this book, Guinevere has transcended medieval and modern assumptions of women by occupying a traditionally male sphere and being able to fight with the Knights. She has not, however, been able to transcend medieval and modern assumptions about women's bodies and sexuality, which remain overly emphasised throughout her storylines, most of which revolve around her emotional and sexual turmoil. The need to sexualise Guinevere, position her as a damsel in distress and perpetuate literary traditions, found especially in Malory, hobbles her transformation into a hero and exemplifies the difficulties that medieval female characters often face when they enter the pages of comic books as warriors.


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Appliance of science helps force convict mother of baby's 'squeeze' death
April 5, 2019 in Police Oracle Features
3D images that are thousands of times more enhanced than hospital CT scans reveal microscopic fractures to the girl's rib cage.
Baby killer: Abigail Palmer convicted of manslaughter
Date - 5th April 2019
A force has become the first in the UK to use space-age science to support an investigation that proved a mother squeezed her baby to death.
Detectives embraced futuristic 3D-scan technology to help win a conviction that yesterday saw killer Abigail Palmer begin a 13-and-a-half year prison term for the manslaughter of her daughter.
Palmer crushed nine-week-old Teri-Rae – causing a total of 10 rib fractures – in what officers suspected was a violent response to her daughter's cries for attention.
West Midlands Police called in the cutting-edge WMG research centre at Warwick University to use its technology to identify microscopic fractures to the tragic tot.
The 3D images that are thousands of times more enhanced than hospital CT scans revealed tiny hairline cracks to the girl's ribcage.
The force, which has developed a pioneering partnership with the university, said in a statement: "The technology has been used for some time in industries like aerospace and automotive – where atomic material failures can have catastrophic consequences – but we are the first UK force to embrace the science to support investigations."
Initially, the baby's death was not thought to be suspicious.
There were no signs of injury and Palmer claimed she awoke on the settee by her baby on January 2, 2017 to find her "blue and lifeless".
But an investigation was launched days later after a skeletal examination showed three healing rib fractures.
Later, a forensic post-mortem confirmed the baby did not die suddenly but over a period of up to three hours when her brain was starved of oxygen.
The force called in micro-CT scanning experts at the university to get more detailed images of the child's injuries.
The injuries would have shallowed Teri-Rae's breathing due to the pain and slowly she would have suffocated, medical experts concluded.
Palmer was charged with manslaughter and on Thursday jailed at Birmingham Crown Court after she was found guilty by a jury.
Sergeant Mick Byron, from the force's child abuse investigation team, said: "We were able to show that Teri-Rae suffered 10 rib fractures over a four to 12-hour period.
"Palmer had been at a pub for six hours on New Year's Day but claimed to have drank mainly squash, not alcohol, as that would have breached a condition of the child protection plan she was bound by.
"We didn't believe her… and neither did the jury. We suspect she came home drunk, was awoken by her baby in the night and inflicted these terrible injuries in response to Teri-Rae's crying.
"Palmer admitted the baby was never out of her sight and never mishandled by anyone else; she offered no plausible accidental explanation for her daughter's injuries.
"There was no indication Teri-Rai suffered a bone fragility condition and she was not independently mobile enough to have injured herself.
"Significant force is required to cause rib fractures in a baby… the presence of rib fractures in a baby of this age is indicative of abusive, deliberately inflicted, injury.
"This was a truly heart-breaking case to investigate, that a little baby's life was taken by the one person who should have been protecting her."
Professor Mark Williams, of the University of Warwick added: "State-of-the-art 3D scanning technology allowed us to identify multiple fractures to Teri-Rae's ribs that had occurred over an extended period of time.
"The ability to produce highly detailed 3D images of these shocking injuries helped establish the truth and show what had happened."


No one should be surprised that Terry Eagleton has written yet another book about the excesses of academic postmodernism. Railing against the pretensions and deceptions and phony jargon of postmodernism has been a favourite sport of his for more than twenty years. In this latest book, Culture, his specific target is that sinister creeping project, cultural studies, a conceptual field which currently dominates the humanities and social sciences and which Eagleton claims is a crucial obstacle to the ultimate overthrow of capitalism.
Like King Canute, Eagleton sets up his armchair on a shingle beach (Morecambe Beach if we're within spitting distance of his professorial home at Lancaster University) and orders back the tide. Culture, he says, needs to be put back in its place: not everything is cultural, and culture should not be a site for analysing all the world's problems. Instead, he proposes a return to a more modest concept of culture. For Terry Eagleton, it is much handier if culture is understood as a combination of shared habits of mind, patterns of behaviour, and emotional disposition. Culture is what gives life meaning, although it is not to be equated with life. Eagleton imagines culture as a kind of social unconscious or communality of the psyche. His central idea is that we can only completely understand political and economic systems – and ultimately revolutionise them – if we first cotton-on to the shared psychology that underlies them and gives them significance.


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HA1508: Modern Art
HA1508: MODERN ART (2020-2021)
Last modified: 08 Sep 2020 11:20
This course discusses key works and movements in the history of art from c. 1800 to today. It serves as an introduction to one of the most dynamic and multifaceted chapters in art history. Topics to be discussed may range from the Pre-Raphaelites and the rise of abstraction to contemporary performance art. The course will also consider the global intersections of Western art, aiming to de-centre our understanding of what counts as 'modern'
30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Dr Hans Hönes
HA1506 Modern and Contemporary Art (Passed)
HA1507 Modern and Contemporary Art (Distance) (Studied)
This course discusses key works and tendencies in the history of art from c. 1800 to today. It serves as an introduction to one of the most dynamic and multifaceted chapters in art history: over the last 200 years, countless movements and artist groups introduced new forms, media and subject matter, fundamentally challenging our notion of 'art'.
Topics to be discussed may range from the Pre-Raphaelites and the rise of abstraction to contemporary performance art. The course will also consider the global intersections of Western art by spotlighting developments all around the global. While serving as an introduction to key movements of recent art, the course's aim also is to de-centre our understanding of what counts as 'modern'.
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1800 word portfolio 50%
Resit; 2000 words essay 100%
Factual Remember To gain foundational knowledge about key works and tendencies in European art since 1800 and to situate them in an international context.
Conceptual Understand Develop and demonstrate skills of visual analysis and synthesis through preparation for, and participation in, tutorial classes and course assessments.
Conceptual Understand Demonstrate the ability to identify, contextualise and interpret material appropriate to the course, with regard to social and cultural contexts.


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New 3D nanoprinting strategy opens door to revolution in medicine, robotics
UMD engineers demonstrate their approach by printing the smallest-known 3D microfluidic circuit element
Credit: DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36727-z
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created the first 3D-printed fluid circuit element so tiny that 10 could rest on the width of a human hair. The diode ensures fluids move in only a single direction–a critical feature for products like implantable devices that release therapies directly into the body.
The microfluidic diode also represents the first use of a 3D nanoprinting strategy that breaks through previous cost and complexity barriers hindering advancements in areas from personalized medicine to drug delivery.
"Just as shrinking electric circuits revolutionized the field of electronics, the ability to dramatically reduce the size of 3D printed microfluidic circuitry sets the stage for a new era in fields like pharmaceutical screening, medical diagnostics, and microrobotics," said Ryan Sochol, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering and bioengineering at UMD's A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Sochol, along with graduate students Andrew Lamont and Abdullah Alsharhan, outlined their new strategy in a paper published today in the open-access journal Scientific Reports.
Scientists have in recent years tapped into the emerging technology of 3D nanoprinting to build medical devices and create "organ-on-a-chip" systems. But the complexity of pushing pharmaceuticals, nutrients, and other fluids into such small environments without leakage–and the costs of overcoming those complexities–made the technology impractical for most applications requiring precise fluid control.
Instead, researchers were limited to additive manufacturing technologies that print features significantly larger than the new UMD fluid diode.
"This really put a limit on how small your device could be," said Lamont, a bioengineering student who developed the approach and led the tests as part of his doctoral research. "After all, the microfluidic circuitry in your microrobot can't be larger than the robot itself."
What sets the Clark School team's strategy apart is its use of a process known as sol-gel, which allowed them to anchor their diode to the walls of a microscale channel printed with a common polymer. The diode's minute architecture was then printed directly inside of the channel–layer-by-layer, from the top of the channel down.
The result is a fully sealed, 3D microfluidic diode created at a fraction of the cost and in less time than previous approaches.
The strong seal they achieved, which will protect the circuit from contamination and ensure any fluid pushed through the diode isn't released at the wrong time or place, was further strengthened by a reshaping of the microchannel walls.
"Where previous methods required researchers to sacrifice time and cost to build similar components, our approach allows us to essentially have our cake and eat it too," Sochol said. "Now, researchers can 3D nanoprint complex fluidic systems faster, cheaper, and with less labor than ever before."
Melissa L. Andreychek
https://eng.umd.edu/release/new-3d-nanoprinting-strategy-opens-door-to-revolution-in-medicine-robotics
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36727-z
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