Experience early 20th century charm in the super-stylish art deco surroundings of Leverhulme Hotel. This historic Grade 11 listed building was originally the Cottage Hospital for Port Sunlight Village, and is now an elegantly luxurious four-star hotel, with 23 individually designed bedrooms and 3 rosette cuisine in the Riviera Restaurant.
Individual nights are available to book in a classic room on a bed and breakfast basis for Thursday 4th October at £155, Friday 5th October at £180, Saturday 6th October at £260, and Sunday 7th October at £175. Anyone booking for these dates will receive a 20% discount from their food bill in our Riviera restaurant. Room upgrades will be available from £15. (enquire on booking).
After their two previous successful visits to Liverpool, the world's leading street theatre company, Royal De Luxe are putting on an unmissable and jaw dropping visual feast with their very special Giants performance, entitled 'Liverpool's Dream'.
For the first time however, the Giants are coming to Wirral! They are set to wake up at 11.15 am on Friday 5th October at Fort Perch Rock in New Brighton and will walk along Marine Promenade onto Coastal Drive towards Kings Parade to have a siesta. They wake up again at 3pm at the Dips, head along King's Parade and Marine Promenade, Tower Promenade and Magazine Promenade. You can then see them again in Liverpool on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th. (all timings approximate).
Leverhulme Hotel is ideally located for easy access to both New Brighton and Liverpool. Our professional and helpful staff will have all the latest travel information to get you to your preferred location.


The solution? An innovative wine dispenser, named Edgar. The result of 3 years of research and development within MYWAH. «Edgar is able to serve three different wines at their right temperature, immediately and continuously», says Sophie Blum. No more glass bottles: the wine is packaged in a Bag Innov® that preserves the qualities of the product. Light, reliable, unbreakable, easy to carry, the Bag Innov®, once empty, takes up less space than a school notebook. Bag Innov® will soon be fully recyclable: much more eco friendly than the traditional glass bottle.
«Edgar is shifting the service of wine by the glass in the world of the twenty-first century», says the president of MYWAH. Allowing professionals such as cafés/bars, hotels, restaurants ("CHR") to increase their turnover. Edgar keeps them informed, in real time, of the sales and the state of the stock. It's time-saving with no need to manage a refrigerated cellar, and no need to open bottles. «When a Bag Innov is empty, the device automatically sends an alert, via its display or a smartphone, and you just replace it in the blink of an eye».
Edgar can be used by service staff as well as self-service by the customer, through a contactless payment system. «Hotels are interested in our wine bar because customers have the opportunity to pour a drink in the lobby without the intervention of a bartender», says Sophie Blum. «Edgar is also an excellent solution for catering business during events».
Of course, Edgar will not replace a sommelier in a starred restaurant. «It's not our ambition. Our objective is not to become a new wine supplier in the CHR market neither. The objective is to modernize the wine by the glass service», insists the president of MYWAH.


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By Jonathan Pereira	 On Jun 26, 2013 Last updated Jun 26, 2013
It's been quite some time that we have heard rumors about Sony working on its own camera phone to compete with the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. While we have a rough idea about the specs, now we have the press renders of the device and it does look impressive.
The new render of the Sony show an Xperia like design with more focus on the camera. The back of the phone shows the G Lens along with dual LED flash. The phone is rumoured to have a 5 inch display with 1080 x 1920 pixels resolution. The device is said to be powered by the superfast Snapdragon 800 processor.
Importantly, the Sony i1 Honami will feature a 20/13 MP camera with the Exmor RS sensor with G Lens, Cybershot, dual LED and Xenon flash. It also rumoured to have interchangeable lens. For now the device is expected to launch in the last quarter of the year.
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Cameron Beaubier showed the Superbike field how it's done at the opening race of the Sonoma MotoAmerica round, proving unbeatable as he went on to win by 7.2 seconds.
Beaubier battled with Josh Herrin for a lap before getting in front and staying there. After five laps, Beaubier led by a tick over five seconds and he stretched that to eight seconds before easing off and maintaining a seven-second gap to the end of the 22-lap race.
The battle for second went to Herrin, the Georgian besting Toni Elias by just over a second with those two running in formation for the duration. Elias will continue to make changes to the Suzuki in an effort to be closer tomorrow, he said. Adding that he'd also made a bad tire choice.
Fourth place went to Garrett Gerloff, the Superbike rookie keeping Herrin and Elias honest for most of the race before finishing 6.8 seconds behind on his Yamaha Factory Racing YZF-R1.
Jake Lewis finished fifth for a seventh time on the season, the Kentuckian chasing Cameron Petersen when the South African pulled into the pits with a foot injury. That left Lewis to a lonely fifth.
Cameron Beaubier showed today that he really is unbeatable at Sonoma Raceway, the rider sweeping to his second Motul Superbike win of the Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma and running his win streak in Northern California's wine country to four in a row.
Since MotoAmerica brought AMA Superbike racing back to Sonoma Raceway last year, Beaubier is unbeaten, going a perfect four-for-four with another runaway victory on a sunny Sunday Sonoma day.
The win was the seventh of the year for Beaubier and the 31st of his AMA Superbike career. He won by 6.5 seconds after leading by 1.1 seconds after one lap, 4.3 seconds after three laps and 6.4 seconds after five laps. The lead would continue to grow to over 10 seconds before the two-time MotoAmerica Superbike Champion slowed his pace.
Toni Elias and Josh Herrin again fought to see who was second best to Beaubier and today that was Elias, the Spaniard turning the tables on Herrin after the Georgian beat him for the spot on Saturday. Herrin fought to the end, running off in the chicane with just a few laps to go.
Garrett Gerloff again finished fourth on the second factory Yamaha, the Texan in the mix for second early on but eventually finishing some four seconds behind the Elias/Herrin battle. He in turn was 2.7 seconds ahead of Mathew Scholtz, the South African barely beating Jake Lewis for fifth place.
Roger Hayden finished a lonely seventh, well behind his Kentucky neighbor Lewis but well ahead of Danny Eslick, the Oklahoman barely beating Kyle Wyman. Just .230 of a second separated Eslick and Wyman in the battle for eighth.
With seven of 10 rounds complete in the 2018 MotoAmerica Motul Superbike Championship, Beaubier leads Elias by 63 points, 298-235. Herrin is third with 187 points, 24 ahead of Scholtz. Gerloff rounds out the top five with 157 points, six behind Scholtz.
In Saturday's Supersport race, championship leader JD Beach launched his Yamaha YZF-R6 from third position on the starting grid, got the holeshot, and looked to have the measure of the field.
Polesitter Valentin Debise, along with Hayden Gillim hung tough through the majority of the race. Gillim and Beach battled it out for several laps with Gillim making it past Beach, if only for a short time.
Beach moved back into the front, and Debise eventually got past Gillim. The trio took the checkers in that same order with Beach the winner, Debise about two and a half seconds back in second place, and Gillim completing the podium in third. Beach now leads the Supersport Championship by a gaudy 91 points.
In Sunday's Supersport race,JD Beach used his flat-track-perfected starting skills to get a perfect jump off the line and immediately into the lead, which he never relinquished for 19 laps all the way to the checkered flag.
It was the ninth race win of the year for Beach, and the most victories in a single season for the Kentuckian, who now holds a triple-digit lead in the championship with a 100-point advantage.
Valentin Debise finished second on Sunday, just as he did on Saturday, and Hayden Gillim also repeated his result from Saturday with another third-place finish on Sunday.
Sonoma Raceway is a technical track, with lots of turns, changes in elevation, and tight corners. It's a rider's road course that challenges even the best racers, including racers who are local to the area.
That situation factored into the outcome of Saturday's Liqui Moly Junior Cup race as championship-leader Alex Dumas crashed out of the lead aboard his RC390R, and local rider Cory Ventura, aboard his YZF-R3 and in second place right behind Dumas, also crashed in the same corner.
This flung the door wide open for polesitter Ashton Yates, who put his Kawasaki Ninja 400 into the lead and took the win in the 12-lap event. Yamaha R3 rider Jay Newton finished second, and Jackson Blackmon was third, putting a second Yamaha R3 on the podium.
Local rider Cory Ventura showcased the skills he worked on at the recent Yamaha VR46 Master Camp that he attended, as he won Sunday's Liqui Moly Junior Cup race for his first victory of the season and the first win of the year for the Yamaha YZF-R3.
Second place went to Alex Dumas, the current points leader who came back on Sunday from crashing out of Saturday's race. Ashton Yates raced his Kawasaki Ninja 400 to third place, completing a balanced podium with three different makes of motorcycles in the top three.
In Twins Cup, a class that has proven to be a showcase for fast club racers from near each of the venues that the MotoAmerica series visits, Jeffrey Tigert, who has raced a lot of laps around Sonoma Raceway, won by a little more than three and a half seconds over second-place finisher Chris Parrish, who extended his championship lead to 34 points.
Third place went to Darren James, the Canadian traveling south from his home in Vancouver to race at Sonoma.
Local-rider race wins was a common theme of the Cycle Gear Championship of Sonoma as Andrew Lee joined Cameron Beaubier and Cory Ventura in notching victories at their home track. Lee's win came in the weekend-concluding Stock 1000 race aboard his RiderzLaw Racing Kawasaki.
The Clovis, California, rider, fresh off his podium finish in the Suzuka 8-Hours endurance race, took the checkers by more than 11 seconds over Chad Lewin aboard a Yamaha. Travis Wyman finished third.


Donald Byrd, one of the most well-known jazz trumpeters of the 1950s, died Feb. 4 at a hospital in Delaware, The Washington Post reports. He was 80.
A spokeswoman for Haley Funeral Directors in Southfield, Mich., confirmed the death, but no cause was given. Reports of Byrd's death had been circulating on the Internet for the last week. Alex Bugnon, a jazz musician close to Byrd's family wrote, "I have no more patience for this unnecessary shroud of secrecy placed over his death by certain members of his immediate family," in a Facebook entry not long after Byrd's passing.
Born in Detroit in 1932, Byrd quickly became one of the signature instrumental voices of the hard-bop jazz movement with the release of his first album in 1955. He quickly became in demand, and appeared on 36 recordings in 1957 alone.
After recording with the likes of John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk, Byrd began teaching at Howard University in 1968, where he led the university's jazz band and developed a program of black music studies. He went on to teach at many other colleges including Rutgers University, Delaware State University and the University of Delaware.
During the late 1960s, Byrd also branched out from acoustic jazz to explore the more amplified styles of funk and R&B music. In 1973, his album Black Byrd sold more than one million copies and he also enjoyed several top 20 R&B hits with his jazz-funk group, the Blackbyrds.
During the 1980s and 1990s, Byrd delved into rap music, and his trumpets solos were featured on songs by Public Enemy, Nas and Erykah Badu. In 2000, he was named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the country's highest honor for jazz musicians and he continued to perform into his late 70s.


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It is crucial to have the right clothing on when working in cold stores due to the risks involved of being improperly covered, or even in some cases, being too insulated. Prolonged exposure is known to lead to various harmful effects to your body ranging from decreased physical performance to frost bite. Given that most cold store workers are likely to be working over shifts of many hours, investing in appropriate cold store clothing is the very first thing you need to do.
If you're having trouble deciding what kind of cold store clothing you need to get, read through our list of frequently asked questions to learn more.
What is cold store clothing?
Cold store clothing is workwear designed to offer protection from the cold and any other hazards that are present in cold stores. Because regular workwear simply doesn't offer enough insulation to keep you warm, cold store clothing is designed to offer the optimum protection and keep your body temperature steady.
What items of cold store clothing are available?
While the first cold store workwear items that come to mind are are jackets, gloves and trousers, it is important to wear the correct boots, thermal baselayers and headwear too, in order keep your entire body warm.
Is all cold store clothing the same?
Cold store clothing can be designed with different levels of insulation as not all cold stores are set at the same temperature, and not all activity levels are the same between workers.
How do I know which cold store workwear to get?
The appropriate workwear to invest in is heavily dependent on what exactly your role is in the cold store. Those who are engaging in high-activity work where you are on your feet or doing a lot of lifting will manage to keep somewhat warm naturally due to physical activity. However, a low-activity job will mean your body generates less heat due to inactivity, which can then necessitate workwear with higher insulation.
How long can I wear cold store clothing for?
Because of the differences in physical activity between jobs, recommended wearing times can vary from person to person. FlexiTog have an excellent feature next to all of our items online which shows you the recommended usage for the clothing you are looking at.
What else can help keep me warm?
Breathability is an important feature in thermal workwear. This essentially controls the airflow underneath your clothing which plays a key role in keeping you warm. High-activity usage such as lifting or being on your foot a lot tends to demand a lot more breathability, while stationary roles such as forklift driving won't need so much breathability as the body will remain at a relatively stable temperature. If you are a picker, we would recommend a lighter weight garment with performance insulation such as an Endurance Active garment. A driver would require a garment with more warmth, therefore something that is highly rated for this kind of activity such as the Endurance Drive collection would be more suited.


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Connecticut Sports Betting: Best CT Betting Sites – January 2022
By Nancy P. Nelson	 Last updated Jan 4, 2022
Find out everything you need to know about sports betting in Connecticut. Mandatory Credit: Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports
Online sports betting in Connecticut has been legal since October 2021, so with that in mind, we've listed the best betting sites and apps to use for betting on sports in CT.
Connecticut's Best Sports Betting Sites
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100% match up to $ 250 Claim this offer Claim your qualifying bonus from the account after logging in as per the promotion instructions. Either way, get a 100% match up to $ 250 on your first deposit. Only one code can be used. The first deposit bonus can only be claimed once per person. Must be 21 and over. NJ, CT only. Full terms and conditions apply.
Sports betting in Connecticut
Online and retail sports betting is now online and legal in CT. Retail operations began accepting bets in September, while the state's top three online betting sites went live on Tuesday, October 19, after a successful smooth launch the week before.
It happened after Governor Ned Lamont enacted HB6451 in May 2021, a bill that allowed retail and online sports betting to become legal in the state.
DraftKings and FanDuel are the two retail sports betting to have launched in the state so far, with these retail sports betting launching at Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun respectively, and more are expected to follow as CT opens up to the idea of sports betting.
FanDuel's betting site is also now open for business in Connecticut, with Play SugarHouse. Other new sites are expected to follow. Learn more about the best CT betting sites below.
Connecticut Sports Betting FAQs
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Is Sports Betting Legal In Connecticut?
Sports betting is fully legal and licensed in the state of Connecticut, with retail sports betting launching in September 2021 and online launch in October 2021.
This became the case after the enactment of Law HB6451 in May 2021, with Connecticut only taking a few months to launch both retail and online sales in the state following this.
Who governs sports betting in Connecticut?
The Department of Consumer Protection's gaming division regulates all forms of legalized gambling in Connecticut, since sports betting was legalized in CT in May 2021.
Where can I bet on sports in Connecticut?
There are currently a handful of retail sportsbooks available throughout Connecticut, with these located in select casinos.
In addition, you can also bet on online sports in CT, with a number of online sportsbooks available to bet for those in the constitutional state.
How old do you have to be to bet in Connecticut?
To bet on sports in Connecticut, you must be at least 21 years old, and you must also be within CT state limits in order to place bets and collect your winnings.
What sports can I bet on in Connecticut?
When it comes to sports betting on CT, you can bet on a wide variety of different sports, from soccer and hockey to tennis and boxing, as well as a number of other popular and niche sports.
However, it's important to note that those at CT cannot bet on college games involving college teams from Connecticut, so you'll have to look elsewhere if you want to bet on the UConn Huskies this season.
Online sports betting Legal Connecticut
Despite the launch of sports betting just a few days ago, CT already has a handful of sportsbooks ready and available in time for the remainder of the NFL season and the start of the NBA and NHL seasons. .
With that in mind, we've reviewed and ranked the sportsbooks currently online in the state, offering our analysis on what makes them worth a try.
Our favorite CT sports betting sites
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From their live streaming services to their great options and odds in the sports market, Connecticut residents couldn't have wished for better sportsbooks than SugarHouse to launch first in the state.
With a solid signup offering and an easy account creation process to get started, SugarHouse is easily one of the best sportsbook around.
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While providing great deals and promotions for new and existing customers and a wide range of parlay betting markets, FanDuel also has one of the best Daily Fantasy Sports betting sections in the country.
With an excellent live streaming service and a range of sports markets on offer as well, FanDuel has one of the most comprehensive sports betting on the market.
Connecticut Retail Sportbooks
After going live in September 2021, you might not be surprised to learn that there are currently only a handful of retail sportsbooks available in Connecticut, with these sportsbooks listed below. below.
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DraftKings Foxwoods Resort and Casino
FanDuel Mohegan Sun Casino
Latest Connecticut Sports Betting News
With online sports betting now launched in Connecticut, forecasters expect the industry to bring in about $ 40 million to the state in tax revenue in the first two years of trading, with that number set to increase. as more and more bookies are opening their doors in the state. .
The handful of sports betting ended up grossing $ 54.7 million in the first 20 days of legal online sports betting in CT, with residents of the state clearly appreciating the fact that they can now legally bet on one. multitude of kinds.
A new permanent retail bookie FanDuel is slated to open this winter in CT, with this set to be placed where the Mohegan Sun Race Book previously stood.
Connecticut Sports Betting History
The conversation regarding the legalization of sports betting began in March 2020 after Governor Ned Lamont made known his support for the legalization of sports betting.
This conversation lasted for several months until January 2021, a month that saw CT lawmakers introduce a bill that would allow two tribes to offer sports betting within their casinos.
The next big step came in May 2021, when the Connecticut Lottery asked four sportsbook to apply to become its official online betting partner, with Bill HB6451 passed by the Senate and later enacted in the month.
On September 30, 2021, residents of CT were then able to bet on the sport for the first time, as DraftKings and FanDuel opened to the public at two casinos.
October 7 then saw the launch of online sports betting in CT, with a number of sports betting launching their online platforms on that date, signaling the full introduction of sports betting into the constitutional state.
Connecticut sports teams to bet on
Despite being home to cities like Hartford and Stanford, Connecticut unfortunately doesn't have any major league sports teams to bet your money on.
They have a number of varsity teams, but the ones at CT can't bet on varsity teams from Connecticut like the UConn Huskies for example, so we picked some of the bigger teams from neighboring states that those from CT came in. to support over the years.
The Patriots have been one of the most recognizable teams in the NFL for quite some time now, which is mainly because Tom Brady guided them to their six Super Bowl wins, the best of any team in the league. .
With the 2021 NFL season well under way, you can bet on every Patriots game for the regular season, as well as New England to make the playoffs, win the AFC East and win the Super Bowl.
The Red Sox have won nine World Series titles in their history, only two most successful teams in league history, with their most recent victory coming in 2018.
You can bet on all of their remaining matches for the current season, as well as whether or not you think Boston will win the World Series.
The Celtics have won 17 NBA titles in their history, the most common with the LA Lakers, with Boston's last title being over a decade ago in 2008.
You can bet on every Celtics game this season, as well as Boston to make the playoffs, win the Eastern Conference and the NBA title.
The Bruins have reached 20 Stanley Cup Finals in their history, winning just six, their most recent victory coming in the 2011 season, with Boston having reached and lost the final twice since then.
Markets such as Boston to win the Stanley Cup, make the playoffs, and win the Atlantic Division are all available to bet, as are all of the Bruins' games for the current season.
The Revolution has made the MLS Cup final five times, but despite that, they have yet to get their hands on the trophy, losing all of their appearances in the final, including her most recent appearance in 2014.
All New England games for the current season can be bet, as well as markets such as New England to win the MLS Cup, win the Eastern Conference and advance to the playoffs.
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The staging required that the dancers move through and around the musicians, and this intertwining gave the piece a coherent visual identity and a flowing energy.
I've never seen an audience enjoy another Nutcracker production as much as this one.
Dancers tip-toed in stately procession, while alternately molding into aggressive gnarled warriors, images familiar from amphorae; they presage a clash of forces of destruction, the unfolding of a love story, and a sorcerer's ravenous desire for control.
The Mark Morris Dance Group delights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The shining music of Handel and Mozart in the world premiere of Mark Morris's latest springtime ballet, Acis and Galatea, at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley.
The Mark Morris Dance Company at Sadler's Wells: Greek Tragedies and other visual counterpoints with plenty of references to dance history, all served with a delicate ironic touch.
Rachel Rizzuto reviews Mark Morris' L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato at Lincoln Center, as part of the White Lights Festival.
The Teatro Real de Madrid has finished 2012 and welcomed 2013 with an excellent dance company. Mark Morris Dance Group has come to the Spanish capital to offer only six performances of its internationally acclaimed Mozart Dances.
Even Mikhail Baryshnikov was curious to stop by the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) on Thursday March 1st to the witness the world premiere of Mark Morris' A Choral Fantasy. The work sets movement to the score of Beethoven's Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80.


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As the weather warms up, you may find yourself dreaming about wind your hair and sunshine on your back. What better way to achieve just that than going for a good old-fashioned road trip… on a motorcycle!
Whether you're an experienced motorcycle rider or a newbie on the road, take a look at some of the best tips for your road trip.
You'd be surprised how cold you can get when you're riding a motorcycle for an extended period of time, even if it's warm. Having to drive feeling less than comfortable isn't anyone's idea of an ideal road trip.
In addition to the right gear providing comfort, you're not as well protected if you're not covered up. You should wear thick leather and denim which covers your arms and legs. These thick materials will protect you from road burn should to get into an accident.
Your shoes are also a crucial factor for reasons which have nothing to do with fashion. The right shoes will determine how safe your overall ride will be. Avoid shoes which expose your feet and opt for a solid boot.
No matter how hot it is outside, a seasoned rider knows the vital role that boots play in providing stability on your bike. You can forget about sandals or flip-flops on a Harley.
If you're cruising the back roads of the desert, it's not likely that you're going to get hit with a torrential downpour. However, you may find yourself in rain or snow at some point whether you like it or not. It's important to know how to drive in challenging conditions when you're only depending on two wheels.
It's ideal to check the weather report every day before you ride so that you have an idea of what to anticipate. Although a weather report is never entirely accurate, you can get a general idea. If you get hit with unexpected weather out of nowhere, you should pull over and wait it out to be on the safe side.
You're going to be riding for days on end, so it goes without saying that you should ride a bike which provides maximum comfort. There are so many bikes to choose from, so don't limit your options.
If you're a newer rider, you're going to want to choose something easy to control with a straightforward design. Skip the bells and whistles until you have a grip on what you're doing.
That last thing you need is to feel overpowered by your bike, rather than you being in control of your vehicle. So choose a bike that you know you can count on for the entirety of your trip.


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Sonos debuts speaker that self-EQs based on the room it's in	September 29, 2015 at 11:00 am
Sonos, the venerable multi-room audio company, has just unveiled the Play:5, which unlike most speakers will configure its sound profile to match the room its in automatically.


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Q: Join php object key-value I have this object:
stdClass Object
(
    [transaction] => sale
    [type] => apartment
    [city] => washington
    [rooms] => 1
)

I want to join keys and values to get a string:
transaction-sale/type-apartment/city-washington/rooms-1
I managed to do it with a foreach() and a empty var:
$data = "";
foreach($obj as $key => $o):
    $data = $data."/$key-$o";
endforeach;

But this seems ugly, did I miss any core PHP function that can easy do this?

A: Not the purpose of this function, but this also has the side benefit of URL encoding the variables and values for use in a URL:
$data = str_replace('=', '-', http_build_query($object, null, '/'));

To add a second approach, though this does not URL encode:
$data = implode('/', array_map(function($k, $v){
                                   return "$k-$v";
                               },
                               array_keys((array)$object), (array)$object));

A: You might not want the first or last /, perhaps its better like this.
foreach($o as $k => $v){
  $a[] = "$k-$v";
}

echo implode('/', $a);

function foo($obj){
  foreach($o as $k => $v){ // this will fail if there are any more -public- variables declared in the class.
    $a[] = "$k-$v";
  }

  return implode('/', $a);
}

echo foo($yourobject);

class foo{
  $transaction = 'sale';
  $type = 'apartment';
  $city = 'washington';
  $rooms = 1;

  function __tostring(){ // or a normal method name.
    foreach($self as $key => $value){ // this will fail if there are more variables declared in this class.
      $a[] = "$key-$value";
    }

    return implode('/', $a);
  }

  function bar(){ // will always work.
    return "transaction-{$self->transaction}/type-{$self->type}/city-{$self->city}/rooms-$self->rooms";
  }
}

echo $myobj;
echo $myobj->bar();

Or like this (or any above variation of it):
$s = "" // must be done to avoid PHP strict errors, code will function anyways.
foreach($o as $k => $v){
  $s .= "$k-$v/";
}
echo substr($s, 0, -1);

Overall, I prefer the first method but since you have an object it might be useful to actually do something with it.

A: First of all : http://php.net/manual/en/function.get-object-vars.php
Gets you the object's members as an associative array, then : http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-walk.php
That would give :
php > $o = new stdClass();
php > $o->transaction = "buy";
php > $o->type="house";
php > $o->city="Paris";
php > $o->rooms=2;
php > $a = get_object_vars($o);

Then I'd use http://php.net/manual/en/function.array-walk.php :
php > function walk(&$value, $key) {
php { $value = "$key-$value";
php { }
php > array_walk($a, 'walk');
php > var_export(array_values($a));
array (
  0 => 'transaction-buy',
  1 => 'type-house',
  2 => 'city-Paris',
  3 => 'rooms-2',
)

EDIT :
thanks for the comment :
php > echo implode("/", array_values($a));
transaction-buy/type-house/city-Paris/rooms-2

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Kent State University College of Nursing Students Receive $30,000 from Akron Children's Hospital
Students will work as interns at Akron Children's Hospital as part of the ASCEND program, which focuses on traditionally underrepresented groups in the nursing profession
Six nursing students enter ASCEND nursing diversity program
This summer, six students from Kent State University's College of Nursing will work as full-time interns at Akron Children's Hospital as part of the "Assuring Success with a Commitment to Enhance Nurse Diversity," or ASCEND program. The ASCEND program, which is in its initial year, focuses on traditionally underrepresented groups in the nursing profession. Development of the program began two years ago as a way to increase diversity in the registered nursing (RN) workforce at Akron Children's Hospital.
A total of 20 students from regional colleges and universities were selected for the program. Among the criteria for selection, students must have completed their junior year, be in good standing in an accredited Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program and have completed at least one clinical rotation in medical surgical nursing and pediatric nursing.
Kent State nursing juniors and seniors Brittany McIntyre, Christopher Lyons, Luke Sutton, Jiahui Wang, Jamie Burchett and Kimberly Armentrout will each work at the hospital 40 hours per week for 10 weeks and be paid a $5,000 stipend. During this time, they will receive hands-on training in professional development and nursing skills, with the potential opportunity for a future nursing position in a pediatric hospital setting. As students who complete the program graduate and nursing positions become available, the hospital hopes ASCEND interns will be interested in applying for these jobs.
ASCEND interns will work with a mentor on up to two different pediatric units for a total of 312 hours and perform nurse-related duties. Areas of career development such as professionalism, priority setting, teamwork, delegation, use of clinical practice policies, family-centered care delivery model, nursing- sensitive indicators, cultural competence, case study discussions, simulation opportunities, interviewing skills and résumé development make up the additional 88 hours of the program.
"This kind of clinical experience is such an advantage for our nursing students," said Barbara Broome, dean of Kent State's College of Nursing. "We greatly appreciate our partnership with Akron Children's Hospital and the development of this much-needed program to help increase diversity in the nursing profession."
The ASCEND program is sponsored by Akron Children's Hospital Center of Nursing Professional Practice.
About Kent State University's College of Nursing
In existence for nearly 50 years, the College of Nursing at Kent State University is one of the largest and most comprehensive nursing programs in the nation. As part of Kent State's eight-campus system, the college provides more than 2,000 nursing students courses of study at the baccalaureate, master's and doctoral levels. To learn more about nursing programs at Kent State, please visit www.kent.edu/nursing.
Barbara Broome (front row, fourth from left), dean of Kent State University's College of Nursing, and Lisa Aurilio (second from left), vice president of Patient Services and chief nursing officer at Akron Children's Hospital, met with the first 20 nursing students chosen to enter the ASCEND program. Six of these students are in the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at Kent State. (Photo courtesy of Nancy Mosca, Akron Children's Hospital)
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My all time favorite is still the "I am rich" app, a glowing ruby with no functions whatsoever but showing off what you can afford. 8 people bought it at a cost of a $1,000. I still don't get why Apple banned it from its store.
Facebook to sell your pictures to advertisers?


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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume X, Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975
Document 292
292. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in Thailand 1
Washington, May 13, 1975, 1754Z.
111025. Subject: Measures to Obtain Release of the Mayaguez. Ref: Bangkok 8690.2
You are correct in what you have told Prime Minister Khukrit that aircraft launched from Thai bases thus far have been for surveillance purposes only. We understand fully sensitivity of issue, but it is our judgment that if we begin to supply the Thais with advance information they would have no alternative but to pose strong objection.
Regarding decisions taken but as a matter of overall strategy you should understand that we will be required to utilize U-Tapao as may be necessary in order to secure promptly the release of the vessel and Americans. You are already aware, as indicated in JCS 131610Z,3 of certain steps being taken. You should not rpt not give any advance indication to the Thais. We realize that there may be costs with the Thais but the balance of interests requires that we be willing to take whatever risks may be involved in our relations with Thais.
Source: Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC East Asian and Pacific Affairs Staff Files, Box 29, Department of State, Telegrams and Cables. Secret; Nodis; Flash. Drafted by Sisco; approved by Sisco, Johnson, and Eagleburger.↩
Document 289.↩
In JCS 131610Z to CINCPAC, the JCS ordered certain U.S. forces in Thailand to position themselves for action at U-Tapao. (Ford Library, National Security Adviser, NSC East Asian and Pacific Affairs Staff Files Box 28, Department of Defense, CINCPAC, 1)↩
Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975
Note on U.S. Covert Actions
Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975 (Documents 1-301)
The SS Mayaguez Incident, May 12–15, 1975 (Documents 284-301)
Eagleburger, Lawrence S.Ford, Gerald R.Ingersoll, Robert S.Sisco, Joseph J.
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NSW government launches IDCare Identity Recovery Service
IDCare Identity Recovery Service available for 500 NSW government customers whose identities become compromised from a 'cyber incident'.
By Asha Barbaschow | July 18, 2019 -- 04:07 GMT (21:07 PDT) | Topic: Security
The New South Wales government's Cyber Security NSW arm has established an identity recovery service for state government customers whose identities become compromised as a result of a "cyber incident".
The Identity Recovery Service will allow for 500 individual referrals to IDCare to be used by NSW government departments and agencies as required.
IDCare is touted by the government as Australia and New Zealand's national identity and cyber support service, providing an "informed and comprehensive response to any compromise of an individual's identity information".
Read also: How to improve cybersecurity for your business: 6 tips (TechRepublic)
Cyber Security NSW was stood up in May by the government in a bid to consolidate and lift the cyber capability of state entities.
The initiative aims to "cement the leadership and coordination role needed to enhance cybersecurity and related decision-making across the NSW government".
Led by chief cybersecurity officer Tony Chapman, who will perform the functions previously undertaken by the NSW government chief information security officer, Cyber Security NSW sits within the Department of Customer Service.
"For customers of the NSW government this arrangement means a more direct connection between residents of NSW and the specialist support available via IDCare," Chapman said of the new service.
"As around one in three clients of IDCare reside in NSW, our arrangement is a very practical and meaningful way the NSW government can support customers impacted by scams, identity crimes, and cybercrimes."
The establishment of the IDCare Identity Recovery Service was promised under the NSW government's cybersecurity strategy.
Released in September, the strategy takes a whole-of-government view on how to manage risk, borrowing the framework laid out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
See also: Essential reading for IT leaders: 10 books on cybersecurity (free PDF) (TechRepublic)
In addition to the IDCare solution, the strategy points to the creation of a mandatory cyber incident reporting scheme, inter-agency information-sharing, and cybersecurity-focused training for public servants.
The strategy followed the NSW Auditor-General in March 2018 asking the state to create a whole-of-government capability that encourages the sharing of cybersecurity and threat information.
During the Auditor-General's probe, it was revealed that out of the 10 agencies investigated, two have good detection and response processes, four had a medium capability to detect and respond to incidents in a timely manner, and the remaining four had a low capability.
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BRYCE MENZIES, No. 70 (First in class and first overall four-wheel vehicle.) — We started second and we were just kind of cruising and not taking it that fast and somehow we came up with a flat in Uruapan. (Jason) Voss got by and then we had another problem on the beach and Luke McMillin got by us. We kept charging and didn't give up and we passed Voss (when he had) a flat. We passed Robby (Gordon) coming down Mike's Sky Ranch. Once we were there we knew we were in clean air and we needed to play it smooth. Something was going wrong with my truck near the finish. The brakes were out so I had to really cruise the last seven miles. I love being down here and this is my favorite race of the year. On the beach section the weather was cool and everything was running really cool. We knew it was going to get hot when we got to San Felipe and it got really hot. It was probably over 100 degrees down there but the weather was perfect and the wind was moving just enough that we could run up on guys and pass them. I wish we didn't have all the problems that we did but we are standing here first across the line. I think the reason I like the SCORE Baja 500 so much is because it is an endurance race but it is also a sprint race. You have the longevity but you've got to go fast as well. You get every type of terrain. You get roads, mountains, silt, rocks and that's what draws me to the 500. You go from the coast all the way over to the mountain and back.
JASON VOSS, No. 35 (Second in class and second overall four-wheel vehicle.) — The race unfolded as we planned and we just stuck with Bryce Menzies and Robby Gordon in front of us. We wanted to stay close enough that if they made a mistake we could capitalize on it. Bryce pulled over with a problem and we passed him. Robby was setting a slow pace and we were stuck in his dust and tried to make a run on him out on the coast. We got up and showed him our bumper and we crisscrossed lines a little bit but we weren't able to get him. We chased him all across Rancho El Coyote and Mike's Sky Ranch and ended up pulling over with a flat tire and Bryce got me back. We went another 10 miles and Robby was pulled over and we both went by him. Bryce got the jump on me after one of our pit stops and I just couldn't catch him after that.
JESSE JONES, No. 76 (Third in class and third overall four-wheel vehicle.) — We started 16th and had to fight our way through and halfway through the race we started looking like we were in the lead. At mile 400 we started losing power steering belts and we had to stop and put them back on. We did it five times and it took us 10 minutes. We felt good about the possibility of a win.
B.J. BALDWIN, No. 1 (Fourth in class and fourth overall four-wheel vehicle.) — I had a couple of flats and I'm not sure what happened. I also had some transmission trouble that set us back quite a bit. Overall these guys, Bryce (Menzies) and Robby (Gordon) were running a great race. I don't know what happened to Jesse Jones but he was leading for the last 100 miles and he was beating everyone. I saw him pulled over twice with some trouble but he ran a great race. This is my favorite race. I've been second for like four years in a row and I've led the race for so many years but I just can't catch a break here. I've always had bad luck at the very end of the day. It is what it is, but at the end of the day I've gotten to race a SCORE Trophy Truck with some of the best drivers in the world. I'm looking forward to having a three-peat of the SCORE Baja 1000 so that's what I'm really focused on. Right now I'm going to get on a plane and go to X-Games and race an SST truck, which is something I've always wanted to do.
ROB MacCACHREN, No. 11, (Fifth in class and fifth overall four-wheel vehicle.) We were leading the points going into this event and Tavo Vildosola was second (in points.) When we were in San Matias, where the race course goes both ways on the highway, we were at race mile 320 and he was still at race mile 262 so I know we finished pretty far ahead of him. I'm sure we still have him on points and we will keep working at it. Everything was going really well until race mile 110 when we lost a rear brake line so we lost six or seven spots there. Track position is critical and we were trying to get by guys along the beach and we ended up clipping a rock and getting a right rear flat and we lost a few more spots. From that point we were chasing people in the dust and trying to get track position back. When you're not running up with the leaders the pace is different. You have to stay in the top pack to be running that pace. Typically the top guys aren't having problems and if you are in the back running in the dust you are losing seconds every mile.
LUKE McMILLIN, No. 83 (Sixth in class and sixth overall four-wheel vehicle.) — We started off strong and stayed right behind the two guys in front of us until we got a well-deserved flat tire trying to make up time. I went into some sharp rocks pretty hard. Nobody's fault but mine. The flat wrapped the wheel around the caliper and it took 10 minutes to get it off. The jack wasn't working right because we were on the Mike's loop on our side. Later we hit a water crossing really hard and went sideways up on the bank and messed up the steering. It is hard to steer left now and I don't know why. We had a clean day the rest of the race but we had to cruise it a few times because we had a converter overheating.
MARK WEYRICH, No. 9 (Seventh in class and seventh overall four-wheel vehicle.) — We lost a header outside of Ojos Negros but it (the truck) sounds a lot worse than it is. We didn't have any issues today except that we qualified 22nd. We were just trying to close that gap and couldn't quite do it. I slid it into a tree sideways about two miles from the finish line and got flats.
GARY WEYHRICH, No. 98 (Eighth in class and eighth overall four-wheel vehicle.) — We had a good run going and passed a lot of cars. Going up toward Mike's Sky Ranch, Cameron Steele was high centered in the road with a flat. It is all cliffs up there and there is no way around. He (Steele) tried to point me to a way around him and then we were stuck with him, so it was even worse of a mess. We got ourselves unstuck but we overheated the motor and pumped out all of the coolant. We had to stop at the bottom of the hill and put coolant in it and three trucks went by us. All the work in that first 260 miles was gone and we knew we couldn't win the race.
JUAN C. LOPEZ, No. 18 (Ninth in class and ninth overall four-wheel vehicle.) — It was a tough race but we knew that going in. We had some brake problems at point on the course where we most needed them.
KYLE JERGENSEN, No. 44 — We had a clogged air filter and almost ran out of fuel but that was about it. These guys outdrove me for sure. This is my first SCORE Baja 500 and my dad (Todd Jergensen) just told me to be smart and keep it calm. That's exactly what we did. We kept the wheels on it and kept moving forward. I've raced a lot in the United States but Mexico is so much harder. The track is 100 percent harder.
CODY PARKHOUSE, No. 100 (Parkhouse started and drove to race mile 310 and Brian Parkhouse drove to the finish.) — CO-DRIVER BRIAN PARKHOUSE said: We've got a coil pack that we think is shorting out and we really don't have full power. It comes back at higher RPMs but it has been a battle all day. We started in first and we've been in front all day. We got it done and that's great. This car can go 165 miles on a load of fuel so we can do it with two fuel stops when a lot of people had to do three or four.
BRIAN WILSON, No. 138 (Wilson shared driving duties with Rick Wilson and Randy Wilson.) — CO-DRIVER RANDY WILSON said: We had a power steering pump go out and we had to change that. It put us down a while and made us drive into the night more than we wanted to do. We just really didn't have our lights set up the way we should have to drive at night.
SHELBY REID, No. 168 (Reid shared driving duties with Darren Ebberts.) — Darren got stuck for a little bit and that put us down about 15 minutes. Other than that we had a great driver change and I just kept on motoring. When it got dark I struggled a little bit because, in the dust, the bumper lights were pointed up and it made it worse.
RONNY WILSON, No. 153 (Wilson shared driving duties with John Herder.) — CO-RIDER JONATHAN LINTON said: We had a tire come apart and we stopped at a BF Goodrich pit and they changed it for us. We got stuck once and we had a brake balance beam in the pedal come apart so we had to stop and take one off of a pre-runner.
LYLE BASK, No. 114 (Bask shared driving duties with Mike Ferguson.) — It is a long race and a long day so we make up our day and race our own race and see where we are at the end. The day went pretty well really. We had a flat and the silt beds are pretty tough. CO-RIDER KENNY EVANS said: (On his first time as a co-rider in a desert race) There are hardly words that can describe what goes on. The diversity of the country and the fans makes Mexico amazing. I'm blown away. It is far more than I expected and it is beyond belief. I've had five days of explosive, energy-infused life.
JOSE DAVID RUVALCABA, No. 1609 (Ruvalcaba shared driving duties with Esteban Cruz.) — CO-DRIVER ESTEBAN CRUZ said: Jose had a flawless ride from the start. We started in the seventh position and he was able to pick up all of the racers. By the time I got in the car he was in the lead by 12 minutes. I got in at race mile 265 all the way to the finish. I had a flawless ride with no issues at all. I just maintained to come in for the win. We took a lot of time pre-running the course and we knew the problematic areas and what to expect so we were prepared. The team was focused.
RAMIRO ESCOBEDO, No. 1631 (Escobedo shared driving duties with Misael Armambula and Ricardo Escobedo.) — CO-DRIVER RICARDO ESCOBEDO said: It was a very complicated race because there were a lot of bottlenecks. There was a lot of dust and silt and with a few breaks we could have finished first. We will be back for the SCORE Baja 1000.
EDSON CRUZ, No. 1685 (Cruz shared driving duties with Hiram Montano and Manuel Cruz.) — We were really hurt by the bottleneck and we had a flat tire which cost us the lead.
WENDY BELK, No. 511 (Belk shared driving duties with Mike Belk and Dave Bonner.) — My brother Mike started the race and got caught up in a couple of massive logjams with 25 other cars. We had an oil leak that turned into a massive oil spill and 16 quarts of later we are here. We went slowly through the dust and just tried to get it home.
PETE SOHREN, No. 722 (Sohren shared driving duties with Jayson McNeal.) — CO-RIDER T.K. McNEAL said: We passed the two guys in front of us by race mile six and we didn't have any problems until a bottleneck with a bunch of people stuck after Ojos Negros. We were there for about a half-hour. Right after Mike's Sky Ranch there was another bottleneck that lasted 15 minutes. We broke a sway bar but we just left it broken.
RICK SANCHEZ, No. 808, (Sanchez shared driving duties with Humberto Arce and Miguel Padilla.) — This is my fourth SCORE Baja 500 in Class 8 and in almost every race I was leading but something happened to the truck. In two races I was close but about 50 miles from the finish I broke down. After persevering it is nice to get this one.
MIKE JOHNSON, No. 1031 (Johnson shared driving duties with Mike Majesky.) — My day was pretty easy because Mike Majesky gave us a really nice lead in the beginning. Mike ran a really good race up front and I just put it on autopilot and kept it. He handed me a 25-minute lead and luckily we had good space. The hard part was picking through the slow SCORE Trophy Trucks and Class 1 cars just because they create so much dust. There wasn't a lot of room to move around Mike's Sky Ranch so that was a little bit tricky. We stopped one time to tighten the steering rack up a bit but other than that it was pretty much business as usual.
CODY REID, No. 1068 (Reid shared driving duties with Cory Goin.) — Early on we got stuck in a small bottleneck. After that we just tried to run a clean and smooth race to make time where we could. When I got the car I just tried to push it for the last 250 or so miles hoping to make ground. The car ran flawlessly all day and we didn't lose any parts. At the halfway point we had to change a few tires that still had air in them but we didn't want to risk it.
JEREMIAH WATSON, No. 1021 (Watson shared driving duties with Hiram Duran.) — We had a good run. We were really picking cars off and just being patient. We got caught in a bottleneck in Uruapan and we couldn't get through it. There were probably 10 to 12 Class 10 cars lined up behind the first place. He got through and everybody else was stuck for another 10 minutes. It was an adventure out there today. It was a lot of fun and one of the most enjoyable races I've ever done. It is the first SCORE race I've ever done.
PATRICK DAILEY, No. 1045 (Dailey shared driving duties with Travis Clarke.) — CO-DRIVER TRAVIS CLARKE said: Patrick started the race and worked his way through chaos and carnage in the silt beds with trucks stuck everywhere. He made it through and gave me the car in fifth or sixth spot and we picked our way through and had a great day. We never stopped and kept moving. It was a great course and a lot of fun. It's rewarding to finish.
MIKE LAWRENCE, No. 1006 (Lawrence drove the entire race.) — Right off the start we had to change a power steering servo at race mile five and we were down for an hour. Every Class 10 car passed us and by the time I got to the beach we were physically in third place. I made up an hour of time but coming into Ojos Negros my brakes were shot so I had to stay in first or second gear.
CHELSEA MAGNESS, No. 1350 (Magness shared driving duties with Steve Knudson and Todd Burt.) – CO-DRIVER STEVE KNUDSON said: On a scale of one to 10 this course was about an eight. It was tough. It was really technical with a lot of switchbacks and tight turns. There were not a lot of high-speed sections and we are built more for speed than we are for the tight turns. The nemesis of everybody is silt and we didn't see much, which was a good thing because it is no fun getting stuck. You want to race and not dig.
JONATHAN BRENTHEL, No. 872 (Brenthel drove the entire race.) — Our day was pretty rough. I got stuck behind about 10 guys on an uphill silt and after that I rolled the truck at race mile 100. We lost a lot of time early on in the silt beds.
MARC BURNETT, No. 1905 (Burnett drove the whole race.) — I lost my GPS in the middle of the course around race mile 100 where the silt beds were. It was just brutal. I couldn't see and I was just going by Braille. We had a belt break on the car and 12 miles before the finish the transmission was about to give and I barely made it here. I had to milk it in at 30 miles per hours.
BRANDEN SIMS, No. 1913 (Sims shared driving duties with Jacob Carver and Justin Krause.) — We started in the back of our class and had to work our way through the field. There were a lot of traffic jams out there and we had to tow the bigger trucks out of our way because they were stuck in the silt. There were times that we would be sitting there for 15 to 30 minutes. We were passing everybody in the silt. We passed a lot of big cars that should be faster.
RICKY BRABEC, No. 4x (First in class and first overall motorcycle to finish. Brabec shared riding duties with David Pearson and Max Eddy Jr.) — I started first off the line and rode to Uruapan and David Pearson got on and rode it to Camalu to give the bike back to me. He had a little bobble and the Honda bike (1x Colton Udall) got around us. When I got back on I got around the Honda and we had the lead since Camalu. It wasn't an easy race and we were both pinning it the entire way. You can't give up just because you're in second place so we kept pushing and here we are at the finish line. If you just ride the race as clean as you can and keep the bike on two wheels that seems to be the best strategy here in Baja. I liked running the course backwards and going to the coast first. I think it is cool that Roger Norman changed it up.
COLTON UDALL, No. 1x (Second in class and second overall motorcycle to finish. Mark Samuels rode the start to Santo Tomas, Ian Young rode to Mike's Sky Ranch and Samuels rode to the finish.) — CO-RIDER MARK SAMUELS said: We definitely had a shot today. Ian (Young) passed for the lead at one point and we had a pipe go out and a rear wheel. We had to replace another rear wheel at the end of the dry lake bed. That set us back pretty far. It was kind of crazy riding some of the sections the other way as it was so much different going backwards. It was cool and a new experience.
RICKY DE LA PENA, No. 113x (De La Pena shared riding duties with Paul Lopez, Rene Magana and Austin Miller.) — CO-RIDER AUSTIN MILLER said: Our stabilizer broke and we had to deal with a slipping clutch but we managed to work our way back home. I really liked the course this year. It was really fast and sandy but there were still technical spots so it gave you spots to rest and spots to push when you wanted to.
FRANCISCO ARREDONDO No. 349x (First in class and third overall motorcycle to finish. Arredondo shared riding duties with Scott Myers, Shane Esposito and Ryan Dudek.) CO-RIDER SCOTT MYERS said: We won a few Class 40 championships and I've been on six Class 30 championship teams but for some reason most of the guys I ride with and hang out with are in their 30s. I'm 15 years past that point (of being thirty and eligible to compete in Class 30) and I've been racing down here for 16 years. It is fun to ride in Class 30 and there isn't so much pressure. Of course we want to win our class and we want to get up there and compete with the big boys (in Open M/C) and show them what we've got but we do it without so much stress and pressure. The bike ran well and we didn't have a hiccup all day. Not a single scratch and nobody laid it down so it was just a perfect day.
JOE LEAL, No. 440x (Leal shared riding duties with David Hammers, Mario Acosta, Jesus Rios and Jose Manuel Ochoa.) — CO-RIDER DAVID HAMMERS said: We pick a section and pre-run it the best we can. We plan pretty methodically up front so there is not a lot of mission communications. We know where we need to be and when we need to be there. It seems to have paid off.
TONY GERA, No. 702x (Gera finished first in class.) — I had an air box issue after I ripped apart the back fender and it wouldn't let the bike rev all the way. I had to ride for a while until we could change out the air filter. For the most part, the day went well and I didn't have any issues. I've done the whole season as an Ironman and I'm looking forward to the SCORE Baja 1000. I don't really have a pace and I just go as fast as I can until I get tired and peter off a little bit. Then I come back as strong as I can.
ADOLFO ARELLANO, No. 1a (First in class and fourth overall motorcycle to finish. Arellano shared riding duties with Travis Dillon and Christian Vera.) — We started first and stayed there all day and never looked back. It was a great battle with the 10a (Javier Robles Jr.) We prepared well and didn't have any problems today. Everything went as well as we could expect.
JAVIER ROBLES JR., No. 10a (Second in class and fifth overall motorcycle to finish. Robles shared riding duties with Felipe Velez, Jorie Williams and Mike Cafro.) — CO-RIDER JORIE WILLIAMS said: We were down about 10 minutes in the first 80 miles and we were clipping away (at the lead) all day. The dust off the start was a factor for us.


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Goodbye blizzards, "Brrs" and blankets.
Hello breezes, birds and banquets.
Goodbye storms, snow and soups.
Hello sun showers, slickers and ice cream scoops.
Nothing says winter is over like that first sunny day and a heaping scoop of ice cream. While we're lucky to have our favorite flavors all year long in the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, there are a few notable events that announce the change of season.
Each April, students flock to downtown Saratoga Springs for Ben & Jerry's annual Free Cone Day. If you time your visit just right, you may be one of the lucky few served a special cone by a celebrity guest scooper, our very own President Philip A. Glotzbach.
President Glotzbach serves ice cream at Ben & Jerry's on Free Cone Day.
The Dairy Haus, proclaimed as "the best homemade ice cream in Saratoga Springs," is a local landmark only a short ride from campus. Closed for the winter, its springtime opening is often a surprise date that's a secret until the very first scoop is served. You'll know spring is here when you see Skidmore students making the pilgrimage for their double scoops of Dairy Haus desserts.
Ice cream cone portraits by @isabellesplate.
From grabbing those first ice cream cones of the season to running errands, traveling to downtown internships or taking a leisurely ride— as soon as the sun comes out, BikeMore bikes are all around town.
The popular bike-share program is sponsored by the Sustainability Office and is free and open to anyone with a Skidmore ID.
Used for hundreds of rides per year, BikeMore has helped offset more than 1,000 pounds of green house gas emissions.
With 1,000 acres of beautiful campus, there's always plenty of natural landscape to enjoy at Skidmore. But when the temperature hits 60 degrees, suddenly it seems as if all 2,500 students have ended their hibernation to soak up their share of Vitamin D.
Whether it's a quiet study spot by Haupt Pond, live music on the green or a hike in the North Woods, almost everyone finds their way outside.
Gadria Conlan '21 (center) and Grace Mendola '21 study by Haupt Pond.
Colin Mahoney '21 serenades friends with his guitar on a sunny spring day.
Michael Arnush, associate professor of classics, holds class outside.
Josh Wagner '17 hikes the trails in Skidmore's North Woods.
As nature wakes up from its long winter nap, so does our appreciation for our planet. One of the ways Skidmore students kick off the spring season is by giving back and digging in to celebrate Earth Day.
While Earth Day is more like "earth week," at Skidmore, with events happening all over and all week, one of the favorites is the Earth Day Fair. A perfect mix of sustainability awareness and lighthearted community bonding, the fair invites everyone outside to enjoy music, games, food and more.
Ian Daly '18 (left) and Eli Hersch '20 participate in an Earth Day project, planting fruit trees at the Skidmore Community Garden.
You know spring is here when the campus life calendar is bursting with presentations, performances and more. As the semester winds down, the events ramp up and there's no time of year quite so full of creative expression and curriculum.
Hallie Echelman '17 shares her research during Academic Fest, a campuswide celebration of student achievements and intellect.
Students dance in "Vive la Danse! Swan Lake Act II" at the Zankel Music Center.
As preparations begin for some of the biggest celebrations of the year, you know the final signs of spring are here.
Let loose in whimsical style at Fun Day, Skidmore's annual all-out-music-fest-meets-last-hoorah-of-the-semester. Then, come together as a community to celebrate the accomplishments of our graduating seniors at perhaps the most important celebration of all, Commencement.
Skidmore students pause for a photo during Fun Day festivities.
New Skidmore alumni capture a memory at their Commencement.


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Q: Why is tuner.get_best_model() show on .summary original default architecture but predicts differently? When after many trials of using Keras tuner I have been saving the best model. Upon inspection of the saved best model, it has the original before trials architecture, Keras tuner prints the stats of the current trial so i can see it trying different combinations.
I use the following to build a tuner for grid search
dropout = .3
inputNs = 377
mid1Ns = 233
mid2Ns = 144
mid3Ns = 89
learning_rate = .01

model = tf.keras.Sequential([
                             tf.keras.layers.LSTM(inputNs, input_shape=[31,1], activation='elu'),
                             tf.keras.layers.Dense(mid1Ns, activation='elu'),
                             tf.keras.layers.Dropout(dropout),
                             tf.keras.layers.Dense(mid2Ns, activation='elu'),
                             tf.keras.layers.Dropout(dropout),
                             tf.keras.layers.Dense(mid3Ns, activation='elu'),
                             tf.keras.layers.Dense(1)
])

dropout_values = [.2,.3,.4,.5,.6]
inputN_values = [55, 89, 144, 233, 377]
mid1N_values = [34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377]
mid2N_values = [34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377]
mid3N_values = [34, 55, 89, 144, 233]
learning_rate_min = .1
learning_rate_max = 1e-6

def grid_search(hp):
  learning_rate = .01

  if hp:
    dropout = hp.Choice('dropout', dropout_values)
    learning_rate = hp.Float('learning_rate', min_value=learning_rate_min, max_value=learning_rate_max)
    inputNs = hp.Choice('inputN_values', inputN_values)
    mid1Ns = hp.Choice('mid1Ns', mid1N_values)
    mid2Ns = hp.Choice('mid2Ns', mid2N_values)
    mid3Ns = hp.Choice('mid3Ns', mid3N_values)

  model.compile(loss=tf.keras.losses.MeanAbsoluteError(), #tf.keras.metrics.Accuracy()
               optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adadelta(learning_rate=learning_rate, rho=0.995, epsilon=1e-07),
               metrics=['acc'])
  return model

class CustomerTuner(kerastuner.tuners.BayesianOptimization):
  def run_train(self, trial, *args, **kwargs):
    kwargs['batch_size'] = trial.hyperparameters.Int('batch_size',600,1000,step=100)
    super(CustomerTuner, self).run_trial(trial, *args, **kwargs)

trials = 27
epochs = 200

tuner = CustomerTuner(
    grid_search,
    objective='val_loss',
    max_trials=trials,
    directory='logs',
    project_name='upro_eco_trading',
    overwrite=True
)

std_scaler = StandardScaler().fit(df_final[features_final2_gradient][13:])
X = std_scaler.transform(df_final[features_final2_gradient][13:])
y = df_final2[target_final][13:]

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=.2)

tuner.search(X_train, y_train,
             validation_data=(X_test, y_test),
             epochs=epochs, verbose=True
             )

and here is how i get the best model
model = tuner.get_best_models(num_models=1)[0]
model.summary()

This shows the architecture from the first build, as in equal to the first variables inputNs,  and mid-layers equal to mid1Ns, etc.  Am I saving the best model with the code because I do get a different prediction but not sure if that means it's saving the best model.
I need to under if I am saving the best model and why, looking at each layer with .layers confirms that the original build architecture is active still.


This is part of a series of blogs exploring participation and community engagement. You can read about the Science Museum Group's approach and future blogs will draw out the specific research agenda relating to participation and community engagement for the Bradford's National Museum research project.
The literature on participation and community engagement in museums can be thought about via three strands: Power, Purpose and Practices.
How are these questions connected?
While these three strands to the debate are never treated entirely separate, there is a real benefit in seeing these questions as fundamentally conceptually and practically connected. I will explain why via an insight made by Tony Bennett's in his foundational, The Birth of the Museum (1995).
While Bennett made this observation in the context of 19th-century museums, these demands are immediately recognisable to contemporary museum practice and the debate concerned with power noted above. Crucially Bennett argues that these dynamics are 'insatiable', in that the claim to represent all and be accessible to all can never be fully or finally achieved. Museums are animated by this sense of 'never enough'.
Public rights demands are produced and sustained by the dissonance between, on one hand, the democratic rhetoric governing the conception of public museums as vehicles for popular education and, on the other hand, their actual functioning as instruments for the reform of public manners. (Bennett, 1995: 90).
'Public manners' could be read, in the terms I set up above, as questions of purpose. If read also through the lens of 21st-century policy debates, 'public manners' could be understood in terms of well-being, human rights and citizenship (the apogee of this tendency today is the Museum Association's 'Museum Change Live' campaign). Bennett's contribution to museum practice today is to help us see that museums are always caught up in various governmental and policy aims. As a result the call for greater public access and representation needs to be understood in the context of the ongoing expectation that museums play a role in public reform.
To Bennett's analysis we then also need to add the way in which museums are also produced through a second constitutive tension: to make things accessible to everyone now and preserve them for the future. So the call for greater access is always in the context of the aim to sustain material culture for future generations.
Bennett's purpose in pointing to this insatiable dynamic is to show that calls for the museum to be more representative and more accessible are built in to museum work. It is not insurgency to call for this. Rather both political calls are structurally expected. Moreover it is the irreconcilability of these calls (e.g. the public calls for museum to reform are linked to the role of the museum in public reform; there can never be enough access and, due to questions of preservation, there is always a danger of there being too much access) which could be said to create the distinctive, restless role of the museum worker in two ways.
Firstly the call – the public rights demands – can be seen as part of a governmental programme where it is precisely through people's freedom to call for greater representation and access that the museum draws it purpose. So the rights demands – far from being a challenge to the museum – are the very mechanism by which museums secure a role in reforming (in various ways) the public and public sphere. The invitation to 'Tell Your Story' could be read here as equally a response to the call for greater representation and as the means by which museums demonstrate how they can help cultivate a subject position considered desirable for liberal democratic participation.
Secondly, the call for both greater access now and preservation for future generations can be understood as one that produces the responsibility of the museum worker and museum governance to act as decision-maker in order to mediate these conflicting ambitions. The political ambitions of museums in representation, access, reform and preservation therefore produce a particular set of roles for the museum worker: steward, expert, responder, facilitator, mediator.
Back to power: A tyranny or an opportunity for tinkering?
Some have seen the ambivalent nature of this institutional participation – always caught in complex power dynamics – as a 'new tyranny' (Cooke and Kothari 2001), a manipulation of people through their own freedoms and desires, including the freedom to call for their lives to be represented. Some have seen the claim to be stewards and holding people today at armslength in favour of the those not yet born, as a power grab (Smith and Waterton, 2009).
Yet I would suggest that once museum work recognises this complex and implicated positionality, more productive everyday activity becomes possible. Indeed, Bennett's answer to the insatiability was to draw attention to practices; to, what he calls, 'tinkering with practical arrangements' (2006: 195). While it is possible that the use of term 'tinkering' is calculated to annoy those museum workers keen to see their work as fighting injustice, there is a lot to this. All forms of living together are made, and fail, in their everyday practical arrangements. Everyday practices are about how we make and re-make the world through forming relationships between things and people.
Working with constitutive tensions: What does this mean for Bradford's National Museum project?
If looked at one way the Bradford's National Museum project is very much caught in the insatiable dynamic described above. It inevitably is – as all museums that claim to be public and national are and especially research projects which are seeking to explore representational and access as ours is.
What this points to is the necessity of taking the insatiable dynamic of museums to be the starting point for our research design on participation and community engagement, rather than the end point. We need to start knowing that the calls for representation and access will always come and yet are always embroiled in reform and policy and that there is some kind of constitutive tension between access and preservation.
We need to conceptually grapple with the fundamental political logics of museums (power; purpose) and experiment with what museum work can be through everyday activity (practices), with both strands aiding and informing the other.
A question then arises: how can we tinker the big conceptual challenges of museums as a political form (representing all, accessible to all, on behalf of future generations; for the public good) – and do this through the everyday practices and everyday relationships that produce museum work?
Tony Bennett (1995) The Birth of the Museum. London: Routledge.
Tony Bennett, Culture: A Reformer's Science (London: Sage, 1998).
Graham Black (2011) Transforming Museums for the 21st Century. London: Routledge.
Bill Cooke and Uma Kothari (Eds.) (2001). Participation: The New Tyranny? New York: Zed Books.
Bernadette Lynch and Sam Alberti (2010) 'Legacies of prejudice: racism, co-production and radical trust in the museum', Museum Management and Curatorship 25: 13-15.
Laurajane Smith (2006) The Uses of Heritage. London: Routledge.
Richard Sandell (2017) Museums, Moralities and Human Rights. London: Routledge.


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About our Candidate
Vimy Oaks Ceremony
Good morning. It is an honour to be here on behalf of the Honourable Erin O'Toole, Minister of Veterans Affairs.
Nice to see such a great turnout on a chilly Saturday morning!
This special project is a unique and fitting way to honour and remember Canada's heroes—Veterans and their comrades—who made the ultimate sacrifice . . . your enthusiasm for it is an inspiration to us all.
Projects like the Vimy Oaks promote and preserve the memory of all those who have served Canada.
Individuals such as Monty McDonald, Ron Ayling, Dave Lemkay, Ed Lawrence, Tony DiGiovanni and Patricia Sinclair play a leadership role in keeping remembrance alive in our communities.
They are following in the footsteps of another resident of our community who was a leader in remembrance.
Leslie Miller served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the battle of Vimy Ridge, in France, on April 9, 1917.
Upon returning home, Miller had a vision of how he wanted to honour his comrades.
When most of us think about honouring the fallen, certainly monuments, cenotaphs and even buildings are the first things that come to mind.
But Leslie Miller wanted more than that . . . he wanted a living legacy . . . something that would resonate with the community . . . growing and evolving as the community grew and evolved. It was—and is—a generous gesture of humanity.
Remembrance, honour and respect take many forms . . . as I said . . . years ago we built monuments and cenotaphs.
But often Canadians want to demonstrate—in their own unique way—how they value Canada's military and Veterans.
Canada's troops forged this country's identity generations ago . . . on distant battlefields in areas of conflict across the globe.
Today, communities like Scarborough and the citizens who live here, help ensure the Veterans in our community are honoured and recognized in ways that are meaningful and important to them.
By gathering up a handful of acorns following that pivotal battle at Vimy Ridge and bringing them home Leslie Miller linked the past to the present.
He linked those distant battlefields—and those who fought on them—with our growing and vibrant community and those who live here today.
By taking these cuttings from these nearly century-old living monuments, the Vimy Oaks Team is linking the present to the future . . . a future where our Veterans feel valued by Canada . . . feel valued by Canadians.
I look forward to seeing these oak saplings take root in Vimy, France. I look forward to seeing them grow and becoming living legacies to the fallen of Scarborough and the fallen of Canada.
On behalf of future generations of Canadians, I thank you.
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Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh has announced to open Government Degree Colleges at Diggal in Solan district. He said that the work on new block of Arki hospital would also be started soon. He was addressing a public meeting at Arki on the occasion of inauguration of two day long 'Sayar Utsav'.
Virbhadra Singh said that with the opening of college at Diggal the students of the area would be able to get their higher studies near their homes. He also announced to provide Rs. five crore for construction of building of Dharampur Government College. He said that previous BJP Government announced various colleges without making any budgetary provisions and creation of proper infrastructure for sake of political benefit. Dharampur College in Solan district was one of them which was started in the office of Block Primary Education Officer. The State Government would construct new college building besides creating educational infrastructure in this college.
He visited the FRU Civil Hospital Arki. He said that a new hospital block having capacity of 50 beds would be constructed adjacent to the present hospital thereby increasing the bed capacity to 75. He directed to revise the estimate and start the construction work.
He said that education and health were the top priorities of the State Government and paucity of funds would not come in the way of these vital sectors. Similarly, construction of roads was another priority of the Government as roads were the life line for the development of the State.
Chief Minister said that strong winds had caused heavy losses to the maize crops on Sunday night in the State. He directed the revenue authorities to make assessment of the losses so that affected farmers could be compensated suitably. He said that Himachal Pradesh suffered excessive damages during this monsoon season and State Government had maintained the roads, power supply water supply from its own resources to bring back normalcy.
Virbhadra Singh urged the people to come forward in providing land voluntarily for the construction of roads under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna as lot of roads projects were pending due to non availability of land. This would go a long way in development and would also increase their land values.
He gave a clarion call to the educated youth of the State to make maximum benefits of Skill Development Allowance Scheme of the Government. He said that Government had changed the age limit and educational eligibility criteria with a view to bring more and more youth under its ambit. He said that youth should enhance their skills so that they could adopt self employment avenues instead of running after white collar jobs.
Chief Minister said that Himachal Pradesh had made tremendous progress in every field of developmental sphere for which credit goes Congress Governments who ruled the State for maximum times.
Virbhadra Singh greeted the people on 'Sayar Utsav' and wished them prosperity. He said that these fairs were the integral part of our culture and we should strive for preserving our rich traditions and culture.
Chief Minister also laid foundation stones of ITI, Arki to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 8.63 crore and Ayurvedic Dispensary to be constructed at a cost of Rs. 20 lakh. He also inaugurated the Examination Hall of GSSS, Arki constructed at a cost of Rs. 95 lakh.
He also released the souvenir brought out on the occasion of 'Sayar Utsav'. He also announced Rs. 50,000 to students of various schools of the area who performed cultural programmes on the occasion. He announced Rs. 10,000 to Shri Birbal Sharma, the folk Singer from Chopal area.
Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Dr. (Col.) Dhani Ram Shandil said on the occasion that social welfare was being given added priority by the Government. The social security pension had been enhanced from Rs. 450 to Rs. 500 and pensioners aged above 80 years were getting Rs. 1000 per month. He said that Rs. 1375 crore were being spent on social welfare activities which was 34 percent of the total plan. He urged the Chief Minister to convert Arki Hospital into 100 bedded hospital.
Vice Chairman, State Small Saving Advisory Board Prakash Karad thanked the Chief Minister for announcing College at Diggal. Local MLA Govind Ram, District Solan Congress Committee President Rahul Thakur, Block Congress Committee, Arki President Sanjay Awasthi also spoke on the occasion. Nagar Panchayat President and Chairperson, Mela Committee Smt. Seema Sharma welcomed the Chief Minister while Satish Kashyap, Member, RTA, Solan proposed vote of thanks.
Chairman, Himachal Pradesh Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board, Shri Hardeep Singh Bawa, President Marketing Committee, Solan Ramesh Thakur, Director, BoD, HPTDC Surender Sethi, Member, PCC, Shri Ramesh Chauhan, General Secretary, District Congress Committee, Pratap Thakur, General Secretary, H.P. Mahila Congress, Janeb Chandel, Deputy Commissioner Madan Chauhan, S.P. Ramesh Chhajta and other prominent persons were present on the occasion among others.


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