"All I've ever wanted was to live a normal, healthy lifestyle and, for me, WW was where that started."
Fast food sector Working for Domino's isn't easy when pizza is one of your favourite foods and you have access to it, for free, all day long. That was definitely part of the reason I found myself standing in my boss's office weighing 30st and struggling to do my job.
But it wasn't the whole story, which began when I was at college. For the first time in my life, I was living alone as well as studying for a HND in computing, and I was struggling with both. The pressures of the course combined with a lack of social confidence meant that I became increasingly isolated. My weight was going up and I was completely oblivious to it. I was grabbing the wrong things and eating them in large quantities. Ever since I was a small child, I've loved my food and found it a real source of comfort. By the time I reached my final year of college, I had sunk into a deep depression. I failed my course, moved back home and had to start again.
That was when I joined Domino's, at first as a delivery driver. I liked the company and the friendly culture, and within a few years I'd worked my way up to be the manager of a store.
The constant access to free food meant I never had to cook. I would have cereal and toast slathered in peanut butter for breakfast. For lunch, I would have a large tandoori hot pizza with extra cheese, and a side of chicken wings and wedges. And in the evening, I would order a Chinese or Indian takeaway or stop off at the local petrol station and get a sandwich, crisps and a cake.
Meal replacement diet That was what led me to that painful conversation in my boss's office. Being a store manager involved a lot of standing and the weight on my knees was making this very difficult, which was affecting my ability to do the job. My boss had had problems with his weight in the past and had tried a meal replacement diet, and he suggested we do it together.
I started losing weight in January 2008 and by the October, I was down to 15st 5lb. But as soon as I started to eat normal food again, I began to regain the weight. I hadn't learned how to eat healthily and the old habits crept back. Within a short time, I was back up to 18st.
By this time, I had met and married my first wife but, from the outset, there were cracks in our relationship. We had a daughter, Bethany, now five, but as it became clear the marriage was over, I started to feel low and withdrawn.
Old colleague, new beginning Around this time, an old colleague and friend of mine, Ruth, returned to the company. She had known me when I was at my biggest and, at first, she was a shoulder to cry on. But over time our relationship developed into more than just friendship and we made the decision to be together as a couple. Our two children, followed soon after. Ruth and I were happy but tired new parents, and would eat whatever we could get our hands on. We did eat more home-cooked food, but we had no sense of a normal portion size and were both gaining weight.
Reality struck In July 2013, I stood in front of my wardrobe trying to find something to wear and realised that none of my clothes fitted me. That was my moment of realisation. I either had to buy a whole new wardrobe or, once and for all, I had to take control of my eating patterns.
Joining a Wellness Workshop My parents had lost weight with WW and were now both at goal so, weighing 23st 11lb, I joined as an online member. I did quite well and managed to lose around 3st, but then the scales stopped moving and I could feel myself losing focus. Ruth stepped in and said that if we were going to do it, we needed to go to a Wellness Workshop. So we both found Wellness Workshops that could fit into our busy lives. Ruth's is close to home and mine is close to work.
The first thing we learned was sensible portion control. We also added fruit and vegetables to every meal to help us feel full and swapped all our snacks for healthier ones. At around this time, a friend of ours gave us a dog and I took him out for a 30-minute walk every day.
Gradually, our walks got faster and longer. Now, they're runs of around 45 minutes every day. Exercise really helped with my weight loss and, motivated by my weigh-in, I started to lose weight every week.
Kitchen makeover Ruth and I have completely transformed the way we eat at home. We rediscovered the kitchen and found that it could be a fun place to be. Most evenings, we find a new recipe from a WW cookbook or the magazine and try it out together. We often cook enough for four people and store some for the kids' tea the next day or freeze extra for the days we don't have time to cook.
We both still love pizza, and treat ourselves around once a month, but now we'll split a medium pizza and eat it with salad. It dawned on me that not everyone who walks into our store for a pizza is 30st, so having treats is something perfectly normal.
Everything in moderation My new philosophy is that everything should be enjoyed in moderation. I am still adapting to my new body. I sometimes squeeze my waist to remind myself that I don't have a tummy any more and I still go to my weekly Wellness Workshop to keep myself in check. Ruth is about 1st from goal now and we continue to support each other.
I don't think depression is something you ever shed entirely. It's been there for a long time and I still do get days when I feel low. The difference now is that I don't find myself going back to food for comfort. I try to remember the simple things like going for a run, knowing that getting the endorphins pumping will help me. All I've ever wanted was to live a normal, healthy lifestyle and, for me, WW was where that started.


Former Bear Dan Hampton joins Pete McMurray and Dave Eanet to discuss the Bears and their upcoming game against the Minnesota Vikings. How good are the Vikings? What does Hamp think of the comparisons between this team and the 1985 team? You can catch Hamp, O'B and Koz on the post game show after every Bears game.


Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Bombing"
What does Supreme Court has ruled against USS Cole bombing victims in their lawsuit against Sudan . mean?
I assume that Sudan bombed the USS Cole and that's why they sued.
New York bombing motive 'unknown'【or motivation?thanks】 does this sound natural?
To me, the motive is the reason why the perpetrators chose to do that specific bomb attack, and the motivation is the deeper reason why they became terrorists/criminals/whatever. I prefer the BBC's choice of the word "motive" to Mayor de Blasio's choice of "motivation".
Japan bore the brunt of North Korea's bombing campaign. does this sound natural?
Sounds perfect. I hope North Korea doesn't ever bomb Japan, though.
Yes, A is going to withdraw from one of his classes. Withdraw means taking off of something, for example you can withdraw from a game. Yes, B is asking if A was bombing the class. Bombing can be used to say that you are going poorly on something. In this case A was going poorly in one of his classes and wanted to withdraw from that class.
What could be "a network" in the text below?
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "brunt"
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "revoke"
Example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "bombear"


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Determinants of enrollment in public incentive programs for forest management and their effect on future programs for woody bioenergy: Evidence from Virginia and Texas
Bernabas Wolde, Pankaj Lal, Jianbang Gan, Janaki Alavalapati, Eric Taylor, Pralhad Burli
Earth and Environmental Studies
Several federal- and state-sponsored programs, including cost-sharing arrangements, tax incentives, and technical assistance programs, are available to forestland owners, aiming to encourage desired forest management practices and outcomes. However, enrollment rates in such programs are low, and trends of forestland parcelization hint at an even smaller enrollment rate in the future. Therefore, it is important to understand how socioeconomic attributes of forestland owners and past experience with such programs affect the likelihood of enrollment in public incentive programs. Among others, this will help us provide tailored information to forestland owners who are less likely to use these opportunities through extension and outreach programs. Towards this end, we conducted a survey of 1800 forestland owners in Virginia and Texas. Our recursive partitioning, logistic regression, and Cochran-Armitage trend test results suggest that forestland owners who are less likely to enroll in such programs have relatively smaller forestland acreage, a lower level of education, and shorter land ownership tenure. We also find that forestland owners with experience in public incentive programs tend to attach higher importance to potential programs, including those that do not directly benefit them. We also identify threshold values for explanatory variables such as acreage and tenure length.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research
https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2015-0335
Published - 15 Mar 2016
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Policy preference
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Recursive partitioning
Woody bioenergy
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Wolde, B., Lal, P., Gan, J., Alavalapati, J., Taylor, E., & Burli, P. (2016). Determinants of enrollment in public incentive programs for forest management and their effect on future programs for woody bioenergy: Evidence from Virginia and Texas. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 46(6), 775-782. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2015-0335
Wolde, Bernabas ; Lal, Pankaj ; Gan, Jianbang ; Alavalapati, Janaki ; Taylor, Eric ; Burli, Pralhad. / Determinants of enrollment in public incentive programs for forest management and their effect on future programs for woody bioenergy : Evidence from Virginia and Texas. In: Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2016 ; Vol. 46, No. 6. pp. 775-782.
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Experience has demonstrated the necessity of maintaining a constant awareness of the hazards attendant to experimental work performed in the study of chemistry. Experience also shows that the best way for a student to protect her/himself and her/his co-workers is to incorporate safety as an integral part of each task and operation.
Those studying chemical engineering, both at the undergraduate and graduate level, are expected to exhibit good judgement based upon their chemical knowledge and upon common sense in preventing hazardous situations. The student is expected to make a careful analysis of each operation for safety. In doing this, he/she collects information pertinent to the job from the literature and her/his associates. On the basis of this information he/she forecasts potential hazards and decides how to circumvent the hazards through the application of safe techniques and the use of protective equipment. Finally, he/she plans a precautionary course of action in the event an accident occurs because of unforeseen factors.
An analysis of many accidents over the years indicates quite clearly that poor house-keeping in the laboratory, poor understanding of the properties of the chemicals used, improper use of tools and equipment, improper selection of clothing, and poor judgement on the part of the student are important contributory factors to laboratory accidents.
To assist you in planning and conducting your experimental work safely, a set of safety rules and a number of safe practices have been compiled in this handbook for your use. It must be remembered that these safe practices have been compiled in this handbook for your use. It must be remembered that these safe practices are not hard and fast rules and that all circumstances are not covered. If under exceptional circumstances good judgement indicates certain of these practices should not be followed, then you should make certain you are not creating a hazard by selecting a different procedure.
After you have read and studied the material in this handbook, please sign the statement and return it to Room 1D25 Engineering. This signed record will assure us that you have received the handbook and that you understand your responsibilities for safety during your tenure in this department.


There is no priority of evangelism. . . .
Many laypersons believe that evangelism is what we pay the 98pastors and staff to do. . . .
Many churches have an excuse mentality. . . .
Too many church members do not connect prayer with evangelism. . . .
Too many Christians fail to be compassionate and Christ-like to others. . . .
Most church ministries are not intentionally evangelistic. . . .
Some church members are concerned that new Christians will change their church too much.
Commonly accepted lies about evangelism are that we evangelize with how we live, and meeting physical needs is evangelism. Biblically, as Rainer rightly points out, "Evangelism always ultimately includes a clear articulation of the gospel." Living moral, ethical lives and serving the needs of others do not constitute evangelism. Many religions advocate or even require such behaviors, and there are multitudinous philanthropic and moral atheists. How we live and meeting social needs do not share the gospel, they affirm the gospel we share.
In addition to the two lies is a common misconception of evangelism. Many Christians believe that personal testimony and evangelism are synonymous. While a testimony can be evangelistic or can lead to evangelism, not all testimonies are evangelism. In order for a testimony to be evangelism it must discuss the core aspects of the gospel presentation: we are sinners, Jesus died to pay for sin, he rose again, all who put their faith in him alone are saved.
This is a bridge between Rainer's sixth factor and the eighth one outlined above. Churches often engage in non-evangelistic ministries (social needs ministries are probably some of the most popular). However, many also falsely believe that what they do is evangelistic despite the lack of any intentional gospel presentation, and as such, they suffer from EDD.
A former professor of mine often reminded his students, "Not all outreach is evangelistic, but all evangelism is outreach." It is possible for a church to do non-evangelistic outreach or ministry. Bellies can be filled, pantries stocked, lives restored, and mourners comforted all without sharing the gospel. Churches often put great effort and resources into promoting the church and its subsequent activities, or in discovering ways to fill the pews and improve attendance (cf. "Churches are Midways, Pastors are Barkers").
Not only are needs-based ministries and church-promotion mistaken as evangelism, I've encountered Southern Baptists who told me that to promote the SBC is to promote Jesus. It is reasoned that if people promote SBC doctrine and values, then Jesus will necessarily be proclaimed. However, while there may be a logic to the argument, there is a flaw in its application. When one promotes a denomination, regardless of what else is said, the audience's received message is "look at our denomination." As a result, Jesus and the gospel drown in the sea of denominational pride. Furthermore, one can easily promote a denomination and fail to share Christ with the lost. To think otherwise is a symptom of EDD.


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Leica Q Snow
J.D. DiGiovanni
Category: Gear
Leica's cameras are particularly well suited for being released in special, limited edition colorways. Their bodies are so spare and clean that they almost look like the platonic ideal of a camera. As a result, it isn't hard to see these classic bodies as a kind of canvas. In fact, just in time for the Olympics, Leica did just that with their limited Q 'Snow'.
Released in collaboration with Louri Podladtchikov, a Swiss Olympic gold medalist and Pyeongchang Olympic competitor (unfortunately he had to withdraw from competition due to an injury) in the men's halfpipe, the entire body of the full-framed camera is made to be stark white with its pale leather body and silver anodized trim. Other than an updated look and a special aluminum shoe, the camera features all the same top-tier specs you'd expect to see from the Q; a 24 megapixel CMOS sensor, an ISO of 50,000, and the ability to record full HD video in 30FPS. Only 300 of these will be made available starting in March of this year.
Purchase: $5,395
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Previously at Järvsö, Märta tried to find a Military job, dated, made friends and partied.
At 43 she becomes promoted to Hall of Famer which was not her LTW. 1p! She still wants to become a General.
It is an unfortunate and probably unforeseen effect of the many expansion packs to the Sims 2, that since many of them contain new careers, the chance of finding a job in one particular career goes down. They really should have added one new job opportunity per day for each expansion pack with new careers. But hey, it is a challenge after all! And there certainly is enough good stuff in the expansions that they are worth it anyway.
Marta is getting close to turning into a elder. Maybe a job will come up and maybe not, but at least she's been successful.
Yes, our happy bachelorette has had a good life full of friends and parties!


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Police: Man attempted to sexually assault woman
An Illinois man has been charged with trying to sexually assault a woman while showing his Iowa City rental apartment...
Police: Man attempted to sexually assault woman An Illinois man has been charged with trying to sexually assault a woman while showing his Iowa City rental apartment... Check out this story on press-citizen.com: http://icp-c.com/1gj0CFE
IOW Published 11:00 p.m. CT March 31, 2014 | Updated 11:12 p.m. CT March 31, 2014
An Illinois man has been charged with trying to sexually assault a woman while showing his Iowa City rental apartment.
Iowa City police say 45-year-old William V. Jorgensen, of Huntley, Ill., was showing a woman his Triple Crown Lane apartment at about 9 p.m. March 16 when he tried to sexually assault her.
After touring the apartment, Jorgensen asked the female victim about her love life and after she stated she was single, Jorgensen allegedly put his hand on her arm while using his other hand to unzip her pants, according to police.
Police say the victim pushed Jorgensen away while saying no and left the apartment.
Jorgensen has been charged with assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, an aggravated misdemeanor.
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TNT Wangs is turning four, and they're inviting some munchie-friendly comics to this year's party. Don't worry, you're invited too.
Tulsa's rolling restaurant scene has grown in recent years. As a higher percentage of our meals get wheels, few (if any) food trucks have integrated themselves into Tulsa's entertainment scene like TNT.
The food truck sits outside Soundpony nearly every day and serves up golden-fried and sincerely-seasoned chicken and seafood. Sides include okra, fries, and their coveted Trak-bread. Trak bread—along with most of their menu—is named after a member of the local entertainment community.
Honoring local figures with a space on their menu is more than a promotion scheme. It's a way of supporting Tulsa artists. The feeling is mutual between Wangs and their Menu Squad. Artists have returned the favor. Local rappers like Keeng Cut, Steph Simon, Pade, Dismond J, AJ Ross, Mike Dee, Surron the Seventh, and many others have paid homage to the food truck in their music. Producer KFive recently released a beat mixtape called 808's and TNT.
As in recent years, Wangs' birthday bash will feature musicians such as these who fly the TNT flag.
"Ninety percent of the people performing this year have mentioned us in their music," Nancy "Sis" Williams said.
Sis is the CWO (Chief Wangs Officer) of Wangs, and—apart from their Bird Man costume—their official mascot.
The biggest change at the party this year will be a new emphasis on stand-up comedy.
Sis asked Hughes to curate a spate of comics for this year's party. He turned up local favorites, out-of-staters, and first-timers—all of whom are TNT fans.
Hughes tapped up-and-comer Buddy Rodriguez as host.
Another newer face to the funny-mic, Big Chico, is a long time member of Wangs' Menu Squad.
Big Chico has never performed comedy, but Hughes recruited him off Chico's Menu Squad status, and his self-described, Facebook-funny persona.
Arkansas comedian Travis Cagle, who frequents Tulsa for shows, is on the bill, and said he makes a point to eat Wangs every time he's in town.
Cagle, who has also been described as "the personality of Matthew McConaughey in the body of Dakota Fanning," is happy to confirm.
"A fun quote that I'm known for saying after a joke goes really good or really bad is 'Sometimes I smoke pot all the time," Cagle said.
Mononymous Tulsa comic Yasamin will also be there. In addition to the comics and aforementioned emcees, there will be dance crews and a freestyle session atop KFive's 808's and TNT beats.
As always, all proceeds will go to the Children's Hospital at Saint Francis, which the Wangs crew frequently visits to cheer up kids.
Sat., June 30, 7 p.m.
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Police arrest man suspected to have set his mother ablaze
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Police in Kisumu have arrested a man suspected to have killed his mother before setting her body ablaze.
27-year-old Jeff Onyango Nyawada is said to have killed his mother, a Deputy Pricipal at Migingo Girls High School.
The suspect allegedly murdered his mother then burnt her body at the school's staff headquarters where they resided.
Onyango is said to have killed his mother then doused her body with paraffin before setting it ablaze in the bathroom.
The body was discovered on Sunday night at around 8pm by the suspect's brother Stephen Allan Nyawada who had gone to visit their mother after failed attempts to get in touch with her through out the day.
"Upon arriving at his mother's doorstep, Stephen the suspect's brother made several frantic attempts to have the door opened, but his knocks went unanswered since it had been locked from inside. A few minutes later, he heard some movements from inside the house and after a while, Onyango opened the door. With apprehension exhibited all over his brother's face, Stephen's intuition told him that something was amiss," said the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
According to the DCI Stephen immediately stepped inside the house looking for his mother in the living room and bedroom to no avail. But on approaching the bathroom, he stumbled on her charred remains.
"Officers from Rabuor Police station were informed of the incident and they responded immediately," said DCI.
They recovered paraffin in a mug and noted that the bathroom's walls had been blackened with smudge soot
"Also recovered from the scene was a kitchen knife besides the woman's body and a lantern lamp with an open knob. All the recovered items have been kept as exhibit," said the DCI.
The body of the deceased has since been moved to a morgue within the county pending autopsy.
"Meanwhile, the suspect is cooling his heels at a police facility as detectives work on legal procedures before his presentation in court," said the DCI.
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Олександр Ладінович Апшев (; 19 грудня 1939, Кизбурн-I, Кабардино-Балкарська АРСР РРФСР — 17 грудня 1991, Нальчик, Кабардино-Балкарська АРСР, РРФСР) — радянський футболіст, який виступав на позиціях захисника і півзахисника, згодом тренер.

Апшев розпочав свою професіональну кар'єру в 1960 році в команді «Спартака» з Нальчика, який виступав на той час у класі «Б» СРСР. Відомий своїми виступами у вищій лізі в складі динамівців Москви і Тбілісі.

Життєпис
Після закінчення школи Олександр поїхав в Середню Азію, де за хорошу роботу по освоєнню цілинних і перелогових земель нагороджений відповідною медаллю. Після чого, в 19 років, приступив до роботи пробщиком на Тирниаузькому комбінаті, звідки був запрошений в команду майстрів класу «Б» нальчикський «Спартак». Апшев помер 17 грудня 1991 року в Нальчику, не доживши до свого 52-го дня народження два дні.

Клубна кар'єра
У складі нальчан Олександр провів понад 45 поєдинків, в яких як мінімум двічі відзначився голами. Після закінчення першого кола першості 1961 року поповнив ряди московського «Динамо». У складі динамівців Олександр провів 22 матчі, але не витримавши конкуренції за місце в складі з Валерієм Короленковим, повернувся в рідний «Спартак», де був обраний капітаном команди. Провівши в команді один сезон, Олександр на запрошення Михайла Якушина перейшов у клуб вищої ліги країни тбіліське «Динамо», де виступав на вістрі атак в парі з Володимиром Баркаєм. У складі «Динамо» Олександр став чемпіоном СРСР, провівши за команду 19 поєдинків та двічі вразив ворота суперників.

У 1965 році в складі нальчикського «Спартака» Олександр став чемпіоном РРФСР. Апшев ще двічі залишав Нальчик — у 1966 році грав за волгоградський «Трактор», а завершив кар'єру гравця Олександр у 1968 році в «Авангарді» з Краматорська. Загалом у складі «Спартака» Олександр провів понад 140 матчів. Вважається одним з найкращих футболістів за всю історію команди.

Апшев зміг послати м'яч з-за бокової лінії у воротарський майданчик або до одинадцятиметрової позначки. Став першим з вихованців Кабардино-Балкарської футболу, який був удостоєний звання майстер спорту СРСР і єдиним чемпіоном СРСР з республіки.

Кар'єра тренера
У 1972 році вперше був запрошений до тренерського штабу рідної команди як помічником, але після закінчення сезону покинув свій пост. У 1974 році, з приходом в команду Анатолія Крутикова, Олександр знову увійшов до тренерського штабу колективу. Після чого Апшев став одним з організаторів і довгий час працював у Нальчицькій дитячо-юнацькій школі олімпійського резерву, яка сьогодні носить його ім'я, а в 1980 році став головним тренером нальчикського «Спартака» після того як цей пост покинув Крутиков. На посту головного тренера колективу Апшев пропрацював три сезони, після чого покинув команду.

Поза футболом
У Олександра залишилася вдова Римма, дочка Фатіма та син Ладин, який як і його батько став футболістом. Протягом десяти років Ладин, будучи нападником, захищав кольори різних клубів республіки, у тому числі й нальчикського «Спартака» в період з 1990 по 1993 роки, а також у 1994, 1995 і 1998 років.

В останні роки в Нальчику щорічно проводиться всеросійський молодіжний турнір з футболу пам'яті Олександра Апшева. На честь футболіста названа одна з дитячо-юнацьких спортивних шкіл Нальчика.

Статистика виступів

Клубна

Примітки: позначкою * помчені колонки, дані в яких неповні в зв'язку з відсутністю протоколів першості СРСР 1961 року, а також кубку СРСР 1959 року.

Джерела:
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 Статистика виступів за московське «Динамо» взята зі спортивного медіа-порталу Fc-dynamo.ru
 Статистика виступів взята зі спортивного медіа-порталу FootballFacts.ru

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Досягнення

Командні
«Динамо» (Тбілісі)
  Чемпіонат СРСР
  Чемпіон (1): 1964

«Спартак» (Нальчик)
  Чемпіонат РРФСР
  Чемпіон (1): 1965

  Клас «Б» чемпіонату СРСР, 4-та зона РРФСР
  Чемпіон (1): 1965

Особисті
 Найкращий бомбардир ФК «Спартак» (Нальчик): 1963.
 Нагороджений медаллю «За освоєння цілинних земель».
 Нагороджений орденом «Знак Пошани».
 Присвоєно звання «Заслужений працівник культури КБАРСР».
 Присвоєно звання і орден «Лицар спорту»: 2014.

Примітки

Посилання

 Профіль гравця  на сайті «Український футбол»
 Профіль гравця  на сайті footbook.ru
 Профіль гравця  на сайті fc-dynamo.ru
 Профіль гравця  на сайті dinamo-tbilisi.ru
 Біографія  на сайті sport-strana.ru

Радянські футболісти
Футболісти «Спартака» (Нальчик)
Футболісти «Динамо» (Москва)
Футболісти «Динамо» (Тбілісі)
Футболісти «Ротора»
Футболісти «Краматорська»
Футбольні тренери СРСР
Тренери ФК «Спартак-Нальчик»

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New York Times Dismantles Its Environment Desk
Times says demise of the nine-person team, created in 2009, won't affect climate coverage.
By Katherine Bagley, InsideClimate News
On Dec. 3, the Times announced that it was offering buyouts to 30 newsroom managers. The decision to dismantle the environment desk wasn't linked to budgetary concerns and no one is expected to lose his or her job. Credit: Scott Beale, flickr
The New York Times will close its environment desk in the next few weeks and assign its seven reporters and two editors to other departments. The positions of environment editor and deputy environment editor are being eliminated. No decision has been made about the fate of the Green Blog, which is edited from the environment desk.
"It wasn't a decision we made lightly," said Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor for news operations. "To both me and Jill [Abramson, executive editor], coverage of the environment is what separates the New York Times from other papers. We devote a lot of resources to it, now more than ever. We have not lost any desire for environmental coverage. This is purely a structural matter."
On Dec. 3 the Times announced that it was offering buyouts to 30 newsroom managers in an effort to reduce newsroom expenses. But Baquet said the decision to dismantle the environment desk wasn't linked to budgetary concerns and that no one is expected to lose his or her job.
Instead, Baquet said the change was prompted by the shifting interdisciplinary landscape of news reporting. When the desk was created in early 2009, the environmental beat was largely seen as "singular and isolated," he said. It was pre-fracking and pre-economic collapse. But today, environmental stories are "partly business, economic, national or local, among other subjects," Baquet said. "They are more complex. We need to have people working on the different desks that can cover different parts of the story."
The environmental reporters were told of the decision on Wednesday. Baquet said he will meet with each of them to discuss their next assignments and the future of their beats. No decision has been made about the fate of the Green Blog, the online site for the Times' daily coverage of energy and environment news.
The paper did a similar restructuring of its education desk a few months ago. Baquet said editors are also considering whether religion reporting could benefit from this type of change.
News that the New York Times is closing its environmental desk comes just a week after The Daily Climate reported that worldwide coverage of climate change continued a three-year slide in 2012—and that among the five largest U.S. dailies, the Times published the most stories and had the biggest increase in coverage. Times assistant managing editor Glenn Kramon told The Daily Climate that "climate change is one of the few subjects so important that we need to be oblivious to cycles and just cover it as hard as we can all the time."
"I ask myself, 'In 20 years, what will we be proudest that we addressed, and where will we scratch our head and say why didn't we focus more on that?'" Kramon said.
On Thursday, Kramon responded to questions from InsideClimate News in an email. "Fortunately, we still have those reporters who cover climate change so well, and we expect to cover the subject just as aggressively going forward," he said.
Beth Parke, executive director of the Society of Environmental Journalists, said that while solid environmental coverage doesn't always require a dedicated team, the Times' decision is "worrying."
"Dedicated teams bring strength and consistency to the task of covering environment-related issues," she said. "It's always a huge loss to see them dismantled ... It's not necessarily a weakening to change organizational structure, but it does seem to be a bad sign. I will be watching closely what happens next."
Dan Fagin, a longtime science journalist and director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University, said the Times' decision was "disappointing." He said the environmental desk "has done a terrific job and produced outstanding work" in large part because its editors and reporters could make covering the environment their sole responsibility.
"The New York Times has too much editorial integrity to abandon its environmental coverage completely," said Fagin, who serves on the InsideClimate News advisory board. "But if you don't have the editorial structure to support the kind of commitment needed to do both daily coverage and deeper investigative and explanatory work, it is hard to imagine that you could keep the same level of intensity."
Baquet said it's up to him to make sure the Times' environmental coverage doesn't falter. "My goal is to make sure we're producing the same level of work," he said. It "is too important of a topic to let it slip."
Bill Keller, the Times' former executive editor, created the environmental desk in 2009 and hired Erica Goode, now a national desk reporter covering criminal justice, as its editor. Sandy Keenan took over in April 2011 and is now being reassigned. Under their leadership, the desk has tackled complex and controversial subjects. In 2012, Justin Gillis won the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism with a 10-part series, "Temperatures Rising," showing the consequences of global warming. A few months before Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of New York City, a story by Mireya Navarro warned that the city was moving too slowly in its preparations for rising seas and increasingly severe storms. After the storm, Gillis and Felicity Barringer wrote a story questioning the wisdom of rebuilding coastal areas that are repeatedly destroyed by natural disasters.
Corrections: An earlier version of this story said that Sandy Keenan was hired as the environmental desk's first editor. Erica Goode, who now covers criminal justice for the Times, held that position. Keenan was appointed in 2011.
Glenn Kramon is an assistant managing editor at the Times, not managing editor.
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Charles "Specs" Wright (* 8. September 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 6. Februar 1963 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Jazz-Schlagzeuger.

Wright spielte bis 1947 in einer Band der US Army. Er war dann Mitglied der Gruppen des Saxophonisten Jimmy Heath und des Trompeters Howard McGhee, bevor er sich 1949 der Dizzy Gillespie Big Band anschloss. Im gleichen Jahr war er auch Schlagzeuger bei John Coltranes ersten kommerziellen Aufnahmen. 1950 nahm er mit dem Sextet von Dizzy Gillespie auf, dem auch Coltrane, Jimmy Heath, Percy Heath und Milt Jackson angehörten.

In den 1950er Jahren arbeitete Wright mit Musikern wie dem Saxophonisten Earl Bostic, dem Pianisten Kenny Drew, Sr., dem Saxophonisten Cannonball Adderley, dem Schlagzeuger Art Blakey (Orgy in Rhythm) und der Sängerin Carmen McRae. 1958 wirkte er an der LP-Reihe Monday Night at Birdland des Septetts von Hank Mobley mit. Zur gleichen Zeit spielte er auch mit dem Saxophonisten Sonny Rollins und der Sängerin Betty Carter.

1959 gehörte er kurze Zeit dem Trio von Red Garland an, das in dieser Zeit mit dem Saxophonisten Coleman Hawkins aufnahm. 1960 und 1961 begleitete er die Vokalgruppe Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.

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Super Brownies | be mindful. be human.
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I think I have to be more mindful next time. I need the right tools to make things like this. I was mindful on the flavors. They tasted great. But, it really took me a while to get this recipe done without the right tools.
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This edition of Research Ethics Roundup covers service dog safety in lab environments, standard of care in a sepsis trial, ethical considerations of cancelling a basic income study, and the resignation of a famed researcher after high-profile retractions.
Are Service Dogs Safe for Vivariums?
Unaddressed in both the Animal Welfare Act and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, there persists some question on whether and how it is safe for service animals such as guide dogs to exist in research laboratories alongside other species.
A large trial of a treatment for sepsis has a range of detractors who say it should be halted immediately. At issue is the standard of care, which study opponents say is not being met for the human subjects.
Politics and research ethics have become entangled as Ontario's early cancellation of a Universal Basic Income trial has prompted an outcry from some in the research ethics community, who claim the study's cancellation unduly burdens subjects who planned their lives in anticipation of the income.
Brian Wansink was responsible for many memorable studies, including iconic research about how the size of a serving vessel impacted food consumption. After a half dozen retractions last week and a recent flurry of media attention, he resigned from his position at Cornell University.


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1983 World Fantasy Award Nominees
Location: World Fantasy Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
Comments: In 1983, the World Fantasy Awards stopped publishing the full slate of candidates nominated for the Lifetime Achievement Award, opting instead to merely announce that Roald Dahl had won. I'm not sure why the World Fantasy Awards made the decision to do this, but it is one of the few times I have seen an Award decide to give out less information about their process. There doesn't seem to have been any scandal or embarrassing result that would have prompted this choice. It just seems that the organizers of the World Fantasy Convention simply decided that they wouldn't bother telling anyone who else they had considered for a Lifetime Achievement Award any more.
Other than this change in reporting, the World Fantasy Awards seem to have been about what one might expect. The people you would expect to be nominated were nominated. The people you would expect to win did win. And women were mostly ignored. For the most part, it was business as usual for the World Fantasy Awards.
Nifft the Lean by Michael Shea
Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
The Nestling by Charles L. Grant
Phantom by by Thomas Tessier
The Sword of the Lictor by Gene Wolfe
(tie) Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner
(tie) Confess the Seasons by Charles L. Grant
The Breathing Method by Stephen King
Horrible Imaginings by Fritz Leiber
Night's Swift Dragons by Charles L. Grant
Best Short Fiction
The Gorgon by Tanith Lee
Deathtracks by Dennis Etchison
Firestorm by Steve Rasnic Tem
The Man Who Met Picasso by Michael Swanwick
Petra by Greg Bear
Best Anthology or Collection
Nightmare Seasons edited by Charles L. Grant
Different Seasons by Stephen King
Hecate's Cauldron edited by Susan M. Shwartz
Perpetual Light edited by Alan Ryan
Shadows 5 edited by Charles L. Grant
Jill Bauman
Tom Canty
R.J. Krupowicz
Special Award, Professional
Donald M. Grant
Lester del Rey
David G. Hartwell
Pat LoBrutto
Douglas E. Winter
Special Award, Non-Professional
Stuart David Schiff
Francesco Cova
W. Paul Ganley
Robert T. Garcia
Stephen Jones and David Sutton
Ken Keller
Special Convention Award
Labels: Book Reviews, Fantasy Fiction Reviews, Short Fiction Reviews, World Fantasy Nominee Reviews, World Fantasy Winner Reviews
1983 Hugo Award Nominees
Location: ConStellation in Baltimore, Maryland.
Comments: 1983 was one of the few times that members of the "Big Three" of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein went head to head in the Hugo Awards, and as far as I know, it was the only time all three were competing against each other in the same category. Sadly, all three were nominated for work that was clearly not up to their best standards, and realistically none of them should have won. In the end, Asimov took home the rocket statue for the decidedly mediocre Foundation's Edge. Asimov's win in the Best Novel category was possibly partially driven by the win for James Gunn's win in the Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work category for his biography of Asimov, Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction.
Jim Henson returned to the Hugo nominating ballot in 1983, this time for the fantasy film The Dark Crystal, which was represented twice in the nominations: once for the film itself in the Best Dramatic Presentation category, and also in the Best Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work category for the book The World of the Dark Crystal by J.J. Llewellyn. It didn't win in either category, losing to James Gunn's aforementioned biography of Isaac Asimov in the Nonfiction, Related, or Reference Work category, and losing the Dramatic Presentation award to the Philip K. Dick inspired movie Blade Runner. 1983 also marks the second time a Star Trek feature length movie had been nominated for a Hugo award, but had lost.
Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke
Courtship Rite by Donald M. Kingsbury
The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
Souls by Joanna Russ
Another Orphan by John Kessel
Brainchild by Joseph H. Delaney
The Postman by David Brin
To Leave a Mark by Kim Stanley Robinson
Unsound Variations by George R.R. Martin
Fire Watch by Connie Willis
Aquila by Somtow Sucharitkul
Nightlife by Phyllis Eisenstein
Pawn's Gambit by Timothy Zahn
Swarm by Bruce Sterling
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever by James Tiptree, Jr.
Ike at the Mike by Howard Waldrop
Spider Rose by Bruce Sterling
Sur by Ursula K. Le Guin
Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction by James E. Gunn
The Engines of the Night by Barry N. Malzberg
Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King edited by Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller
A Reader's Guide to Fantasy by Baird Searles, Beth Meacham, and Michael Franklin
The World of the Dark Crystal by J.J. Llewellyn, illustrated by Brian Froud
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Terry Carr
George Scithers
Frank Kelly Freas
Rowena Morrill
Barclay Shaw
Darrell Sweet
Fantasy Newsletter edited by Robert A. Collins
Science Fiction Chronicle edited by Andrew Porter
Science Fiction Review edited by Richard E. Geis
Richard E. Geis
Arthur Hlavaty
Joan Hanke-Woods
Dan Steffan
Paul O. Williams
Joseph H. Delaney
Lisa Goldstein
Sandra Miesel
Warren G. Norwood
David R. Palmer
Labels: Book Reviews, Hugo Nominee Reviews, Hugo Winner Reviews, Movie Reviews, Science Fiction Reviews, Short Fiction Reviews
1983 Nebula Award Nominees
Location: Statler Hilton, New York City, New York.
Comments: With two Nebula wins in this year, one for Best Short Story and one for Best Novelette, this was definitely Connie Willis' award ceremony. On the other hand, it was clear that there had been a changing of the guard underway, as both Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein were nominated for Nebulas, but neither won.
Despite Connie's double win, gender inequity still seems to have been ascendant in the world of science fiction, as out of the entire field of nominees, only one other woman, Joanna Russ, received any recognition. Granted, that was more nominations for Willis and Russ each than for any individual man, but that means that out of twenty-three total nominations on the final ballot, only four went to works written by women.
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K. Dick
Moon of Ice by Brad Linaweaver
Burning Chrome by William Gibson
The Mystery of the Young Gentleman by Joanna Russ
Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard
Understanding Human Behavior by Thomas M. Disch
A Letter from the Clearys by Connie Willis
Corridors by Barry N. Malzberg
God's Hooks! by Howard Waldrop
High Steel by Jack C. Haldeman II and Jack Dann
The Pope of the Chimps by Robert Silverberg
Labels: Book Reviews, Nebula Nominee Reviews, Nebula Winner Reviews, Science Fiction Reviews, Short Fiction Reviews


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Announcing StoryFutures Heathrow-Costa StoryLab Challenge Winner
StoryFutures Creative Cluster
StoryFutures is delighted to announce Surround Vision, a state-of-the-art Virtual Reality production studio, as the winner of our Heathrow-Costa StoryLab challenge. Check out their showreel below.
Surround Vision will now work with the StoryFutures R&D team, the sustainability team at Heathrow and Costa's store team to produce an immersive story-telling experience in Terminal 5 that exploits the latest Vision and Augmented Reality technologies.
Heathrow, working with Costa Coffee, wants to explore new ways of encouraging the users of the airport to engage with the aims of its broader sustainability mission. The commissioned prototype will encourage passengers at Heathrow to change their behaviour and correctly dispose of take-away coffee cups in specially designed recycling bins.
Ground-breaking Research & Development is at the heart of StoryFutures, with our remit to bring commercial enterprises and cutting-edge university research together to push the boundaries of immersive experiences. Surround Vision, operating from bases in London and Weybridge, is a company that prides itself on crafting VR with passion, delivering impactful and beautiful content for brands, entertainment, sports and immersive experiences.
Richard Stegmann [above, left], Senior Producer at Surround Vision said "We're at a pivotal point in Immersive tech, with camera tracking and machine learning that takes VR out of the headset and into the real world. We're very excited to be partnering with StoryFutures and hope this groundbreaking project will raise the bar for AR development, as well as help promote recycling efforts on a global scale."
Professor James Bennett, Director of StoryFutures, said: "Surround Vision is a great example of the Gateway Cluster's creativity. Their work will be supported by our multi-disciplinary team of leading academics working across narrative, audience insight and business model innovation. We are really excited to be working with them to drive forward this exciting project".
Work on the prototype in response to the StoryLab Heathrow Challenge starts in June and will be installed for a trial period in the Costa Coffee area at Heathrow's Terminal 5 Arrivals Hall in late September 2019. Stay up to date with all of our projects, and check out how we are helping fund innovative R&D projects for creative businesses, at our R&D On Demand page.


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package com.google.errorprone.refaster;

import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
import com.google.errorprone.MatchListener;
import com.google.errorprone.VisitorState;
import com.google.errorprone.matchers.Matcher;

import com.sun.source.tree.ExpressionTree;
import com.sun.source.tree.Tree;
import com.sun.source.tree.TreeVisitor;
import com.sun.source.util.TreePath;
import com.sun.tools.javac.tree.JCTree.JCCompilationUnit;
import com.sun.tools.javac.tree.JCTree.JCExpression;
import com.sun.tools.javac.util.Context;

import javax.annotation.Nullable;

/**
 * {@code UMatches} allows conditionally matching a {@code UExpression} predicated by an
 * error-prone {@code Matcher}.
 */
@AutoValue
abstract class UMatches extends UExpression {
  public static UMatches create(Class<? extends Matcher<? super ExpressionTree>> matcherClass,
      boolean positive, UExpression expression) {
    // Verify that we can instantiate the Matcher
    makeMatcher(matcherClass);

    return new AutoValue_UMatches(positive, matcherClass, expression);
  }

  abstract boolean positive();

  abstract Class<? extends Matcher<? super ExpressionTree>> matcherClass();

  abstract UExpression expression();

  @Override
  @Nullable
  protected Unifier defaultAction(Tree target, @Nullable Unifier unifier) {
    Tree exprTarget = UParens.skipParens(target);
    Unifier success = expression().unify(exprTarget, unifier);
    return (success != null && matches(exprTarget, success) == positive()) ? success : null;
  }

  @Override
  public JCExpression inline(Inliner inliner) throws CouldNotResolveImportException {
    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("@Matches should not appear in an @AfterTemplate");
  }

  @Override
  public <R, D> R accept(TreeVisitor<R, D> visitor, D data) {
    return expression().accept(visitor, data);
  }

  @Override
  public Kind getKind() {
    return Kind.OTHER;
  }

  private transient Matcher<? super ExpressionTree> matcher;

  private boolean matches(Tree target, Unifier unifier) {
    if (matcher == null) {
      matcher = makeMatcher(matcherClass());
    }
    return target instanceof ExpressionTree
        && matcher.matches((ExpressionTree) target, makeVisitorState(target, unifier));
  }

  private static <T> T makeMatcher(Class<T> klass) {
    try {
      return klass.newInstance();
    } catch (IllegalAccessException|InstantiationException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }

  private static VisitorState makeVisitorState(Tree target, Unifier unifier) {
    Context context = unifier.getContext();
    TreePath path = TreePath.getPath(context.get(JCCompilationUnit.class), target);
    return new VisitorState(context, new DummyMatchListener()).withPath(path);
  }

  // TODO(mdempsky): Fix error-prone; this shouldn't be necessary.
  private static class DummyMatchListener implements MatchListener {
    @Override
    public void onMatch(Tree tree) {
    }
  }
}


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require 'rubygems'
require 'sitemap_generator'

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.default_host = 'http://www.descuentosypromociones.com'
SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.create do
  add '/', :changefreq => 'daily', :priority => 1
  add '/nosotros', :changefreq => 'weekly', :priority => 0.9
  add '/contact', :changefreq => 'weekly', :priority => 0.9
  add '/ayuda', :changefreq => 'weekly', :priority => 0.9
  add '/terminos', :changefreq => 'weekly', :priority => 0.9
  add '/todas-las-categorias', :changefreq => 'weekly', :priority => 0.9
  add '/todas-las-tiendas', :changefreq => 'weekly', :priority => 0.9
  @deals = Deal.all
  @deals.each do |content|
    add "/descuentos/"+content.id.to_s+"-"+content.slug.to_s+"", :lastmod => content.updated_at, :priority => 0.8
  end
end
#SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.ping_search_engines # Not needed if you use the rake tasks


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FACILITY SPOTLIGHT: CONVERTING THE CATALOG: CHACE PRODUCTIONS TURNS MONO TRACKS INTO SURROUND
Find a need and fill it. It's a ready-made success formula for just about any business, and it's worked especially well for Chace Productions of Burbank.Last
By Tom Kenny
Find a need and fill it. It's a ready-made success formula for just about any business, and it's worked especially well for Chace Productions of Burbank.
Last year, the company scored a pair of technical coups with the theatrical re- releases-in glorious 5.1-channel sound-of Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. Chace was the company that took the original composite mono tracks and converted them-via a patented process-to the multichannel release format. Before that, the company had gained some notoriety for restoring matrixed soundtrack versions of 4-track stereo, Cinemascope[superscript]TM features. These restorations were required because the original 4-track magnetic masters from the 1950s had been re-used by the studios back in the days when magnetic stock was considered expensive. And before that, the facility had a nice business getting mono movies, including more than 400 titles from the Turner, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox and Disney libraries, ready for stereo television and video cassette. Many of the old movies seen on TV, VHS and laserdisc (and soon, DVD) have had their soundtracks cleaned up and "stereo-ized" at Chace Productions. It's a small company with a big track record.
The late Rick Chace founded the company in 1981. He was a mixer, a designer, a builder, a programmer and a tinkerer, and he had a passion for restoration and preservation. Long before Sonic Solutions came out with NoNoise, Chace had developed a "noise busters" process. Later he developed the Chace Optical Sound Processor, a patented device that used a customized video camera to photograph optical track negatives and clean up distortion and noise. And after that, he came up with Chace Surround Stereo[superscript]TM, a patented processor that unlocked composite mono tracks and output Lt-Rt stereo with surround, with a consistent sound field.
In 1992, just as the company began internal discussions about a mono-to-5.1 processor, and just after they moved into a new building on Victory Boulevard, Chace passed away. Bob Heiber, general manager and colleague, moved up to president of the company and, with the help of the engineering team, completed the mission for discrete multichannel output. The result was another proprietary device, dubbed Chace Digital Stereo[superscript]TM.
"All of this coincided with a drop in the need for stereo programming for television," Heiber explains. "John Blum, Jim Young and a couple of the engineers had already developed a methodology of using three of the stereo processors to output a 6-channel, 5.1 stereo image. Then when we really started tearing into the guts of Rick's designs from the early '80s, we realized that he was inventing stuff that people take for granted now, like MIDI control. Rick essentially created his own version of MIDI, not realizing he could have patented that and made a fortune in the control world."
Today, the glamour part of the facility revolves around the two Chace Digital Stereo rooms-where spatialization artists program the cues in space and time-and the THX-approved Rick Chace Theater. But the company has six divisions, all connected over a network to a central machine room, that do everything from preservation, restoration, transfers to/from any format (there are 48 formats currently in-house), sweetening, Foley, re-synching, audio forensics, you name it. Chace even has one of the few approved nitrate vaults in town. A job such as The Wizard of Oz required roughly 500 hours from the various divisions working in parallel, but only a three-day programming session and three-day mix, which should give some idea of the amount of prep work that goes into such an undertaking.
Essentially, all of these divisions work offline, which helps keep costs down. Before reaching the Lafont Chroma console in the Rick Chace Theater, a film will typically pass through one or all of the three transfer rooms that deal with multisource projects: one of the two Sonic Solutions NoNoise suites; a Sonic Solutions/Soundcraft Ghost-equipped editing room for effects or music rebuilds (from the original tracks, when material is missing); a Neotek Elan/Soundmaster room for sync correction; one of the two sweetening rooms, which include Sony MXP-3000 boards (with PicMix) and CEDAR DC-1 de-clickers; and the Chace Digital Stereo rooms, equipped with the patented processor and M&K 5.1 tripole monitoring system.
There is an incredible assortment of old and new technology, both off-the-shelf and proprietary, all of it kept running by four full-time maintenance techs. While Heiber admits that the processor gives his facility a leg up on the competition, he reserves all praise to his "product specialists," the rather nondescript title the company uses to describe those who excel at sound placement, seamless transitions and true directional stereo.
John Blum, a "product specialist" since 1993, says, "You have to think about what stereo is. It's timing cues, differences in phase from reflections in the hall, and a mono piece of audio will typically have all that folded onto one track. What this system can do is unlock it and put it back in its proper perspective. I'll literally go through each stem [from a mono composite DME] and design, even down to the frame, a stereo sound field and all the movement within that. I can program the box to very realistically and efficiently put in left-right moves, back-to-front movement, surround ambiences, just from a mono effects stem. We often liken it to audio animation. We're not just putting it through a black box; we're dynamically adjusting per sound, and that's where it really excels."
"There's a person making aesthetic decisions all along the way," interjects Jim Young, former "product specialist" and now lead re-recording mixer. "In addition to the directional moves, there's also what we call the width, or depth, of the stereo field, where there's no actual directionality, but you can make elements seem bigger.
"The original process had been an Lt-Rt, and it worked nicely for a Dolby ProLogic decoder," Young continues. "It was completely and wholly collapsible back to mono. When we combined Chace Surround Stereo Lt-Rt back together at equal levels, we got exactly what we started with, which was necessary because while stereo TV was just getting started, most people were watching TV in mono. When it comes to 5.1, it's not so simple. The AC3 downmix doesn't necessarily work that well going from 5.1 to Lt-Rt, and I don't know who's experimenting going 5.1 to mono. But it's not as straightforward. For that reason, most of our clients are distributing their software with a 5.1 mix and Lt-Rt version on it."
All of the engineers at Chace are certainly well aware of the purists' argument, which at times accuses them of doing for audio what colorization did to picture. Their aesthetic, they insist, is to remain conservative, unless the client demands exaggeration, and they rarely add sweeteners; when they do, it is to fill in a hole, and they use material from the existing tracks. The first step in any restoration or stereoization is to clean up the original mono track, which is then stored in the vault. The Wizard of Oz DVD will include both the 5.1 and the mono track, as pristine as it's ever been.
"When you go see Wizard in theaters, there is still some optical noise in there; it still sounds like 1939," Heiber says. "But it's in a contemporary format. The real goal is that it should sound as good as the day the track came off the stage the first time. All the wear and tear, all of the flaws that have crept into the track over time from usage and handling and storage, have been taken care of. The day that engineer pulled it out of the soup and put it up for the first screening-that's our aesthetic here. We don't presume to know what the director's intent was. Michael Friend-Director, Center for Motion Picture Study, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences-phrased it much better. He said, 'The real goal is to preserve the director's achievement.' That's our goal-to preserve the achievement and never presuppose that we know the intent."
The big decision now facing Chace Productions is what to do with the processor. The coming of digital television, multimedia games and music in surround opens up an incredible amount of work updating catalog material. And Heiber doesn't begin to assume that his company can do it all. For that reason, he's exploring the idea of manufacturing and selling units, working on a deal with an overseas company, licensing use of the processor to other facilities, creating a plug-in or any number of similar ideas for different markets. Whatever the outcome, Chace will be sure to play a major role in the preservation and contemporary presentation of our shared heritage.
Classic Tracks: Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The Wolf"
Classic Tracks: Al Stewart, "Year of the Cat"
Classic Tracks: Steve Earle's "This City"
3G Productions Revamps, Restructures, Readies for 2022
Classic Tracks: The Who's "Baba O'Riley"
Master Mix Live Upgrades for Immersive Productions
Classic Tracks: Oingo Boingo's "Just Another Day"
Franco Ambrosetti's 'Nora'—Capturing a Jazz Legacy in Hi-Res, 5.1 Surround


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Q: How to stream results from Hibernate / JPA and release resources as processed? I'm using Spring Data, JPA, and Hibernate to perform a function on each record greater than a given ID.
Here's my DAO:
public interface MyEntityDao extends JpaRepository<MyEntity, Long>, {

    @QueryHints(value = @QueryHint(name = org.hibernate.jpa.QueryHints.HINT_FETCH_SIZE, value = "1000"))
    Stream<MyEntity> findByIdGreaterThanOrderByIdAsc(Long id);
}

The method gets used like this, and it works:
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public void printRecordsGreaterThan(Long lastId) {
    myEntityDao.findByIdGreaterThanOrderByIdAsc(lastId).forEach((entity) -> {
        System.out.println("entity: " entity.getId());
    });
}

The issue is when this operation needs to scan a very large range.  I monitored it with VisualVM and it's keeping all the records in memory (Tens of Gigs worth of RAM).
Is there any way to have this code release the resources once they're processed rather than keep them in memory?
Thanks in advance!
Solution
Thanks to @julodnik in the comments, invoking clear() on the entity manager every so often solved the issue.
@PersistenceContext
private EntityManager em;

@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public void printRecordsGreaterThan(Long lastId) {
    AtomicLong counter = new AtomicLong();
    myEntityDao.findByIdGreaterThanOrderByIdAsc(lastId).forEach((entity) -> {
        long count = counter.getAndIncrement();
        if (count % 1000 == 0) {
            logger.info(String.format("Clearing %s session for result %d",  type.toString(), counter.get()));
            em.clear();
        }
        System.out.println("entity: " entity.getId());
    });
}

A: You can use setFirstResult and setMaxResults to iterate over a large resultset. You can find an example in this related question.
Another issue which comes to my mind is that you might have eager fetch set by default. This means you might be getting all related entities and if they have related entities they will be fetched as well. You should switch on the sql statements in your log file to check if this is happening.
--- EDIT to answer the comment
If the objects are not being referenced in java, then you can clear the first level cache with flush and clear (in entitymanager). That should clear all the loaded objects.

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Filtering by Tag: Hayley MacGregor
Scaling up ART adherence clubs in the public sector health system in the Western Cape, South Africa: a study of the institutionalisation of a pilot innovation
MacGregor H, McKenzie A, Jacobs T and Ullauri A (2018) Scaling up ART adherence clubs in the public sector health system in the Western Cape, South Africa: a study of the institutionalisation of a pilot innovation, Globalization and Health, 14:40, DOI: 10.1186/s12992-018-0351-z
In 2011, a decision was made to scale up a pilot innovation involving 'adherence clubs' as a form of differentiated care for HIV positive people in the public sector antiretroviral therapy programme in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. In 2016 we were involved in the qualitative aspect of an evaluation of the adherence club model, the overall objective of which was to assess the health outcomes for patients accessing clubs through epidemiological analysis, and to conduct a health systems analysis to evaluate how the model of care performed at scale. In this paper we adopt a complex adaptive systems lens to analyse planned organisational change through intervention in a state health system. We explore the challenges associated with taking to scale a pilot that began as a relatively simple innovation by a non-governmental organisation.
categories 2018, Journal Article, Open access
tags Hayley MacGregor, Andrew McKenzie, Tanya Jacobs, Angelica Ullauri
Health Systems Research in a Complex and Rapidly Changing Context: Ethical Implications of Major Health Systems Change at Scale
March 10, 2017 Future Health Systems
MacGregor H and Bloom G (2016) Health Systems Research in a Complex and Rapidly Changing Context: Ethical Implications of Major Health Systems Change at Scale, Developing World Bioethics, 16(3): 158–167, doi:10.1111/dewb.12115
This paper discusses health policy and systems research in complex and rapidly changing contexts. It focuses on ethical issues at stake for researchers working with government policy makers to provide evidence to inform major health systems change at scale, particularly when the dynamic nature of the context and ongoing challenges to the health system can result in unpredictable outcomes.
categories 2016, Ethics, Health systems research, IDS, Journal Article, Open access
tags Hayley MacGregor, Gerald Bloom
Towards the just and sustainable use of antibiotics
Buckland Merrett GL, Bloom G, Wilkinson A and MacGregor H (2016) Towards the just and sustainable use of antibiotics, Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 9:31, DOI: 10.1186/s40545-016-0083-5
The emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant pathogens poses a big challenge to policy-makers, who need to oversee the transformation of health systems that evolved to provide easy access to these drugs into ones that encourage appropriate use of antimicrobials, whilst reducing the risk of resistance. This is a particular challenge for low and middle-income countries with pluralistic health systems where antibiotics are available in a number of different markets. This review paper considers access and use of antibiotics in these countries from a complex adaptive system perspective. It highlights the main areas of intervention that could provide the key to addressing the sustainable long term use and availability of antibiotics.
categories 2016, Drug policy, Health markets, IDS, Informal providers, Journal Article, Open access, Complex adaptive system
tags Gemma Buckland Merrett, Gerald Bloom, Annie Wilkinson, Hayley MacGregor
Strengthening Health Systems for Resilience
In countries with high levels of poverty or instability and with poor health system management and governance, people are highly vulnerable to shocks associated with ill health, including major epidemics. An effective health system can help build their resilience by reducing exposure to infection and minimising the impact of sickness on livelihoods and economic development.
categories 2015, Briefing
tags Gerald Bloom, Hayley MacGregor
WP12: Who Are 'Informal Health Providers' and What Do They Do? Perspectives from Medical Anthropology
This paper explores gaps and limitations in the conceptualisation, methodology and policy implications of debates about informal health care providers by examining a cross section of empirical studies. Drawing on a tradition of critical medical anthropology, we argue that existing debates hinge on a particular understanding of what constitutes appropriate knowledge and on particular expectations of how economic actors in the medical marketplace will behave.
categories 2009, IDS, Working paper
tags Hayley MacGregor, Jamie Cross
Increasing access to quality health care for the poor: Community perceptions on quality care in Uganda
This paper examines the community's perspectives and perceptions on quality of health care delivery in two Uganda districts. The paper addresses community concerns on service quality.
categories 2009, Community, IDS, Journal Article, MakSPH, Uganda
tags Aloysius Mutebi, Elizabeth Ekirapa-Kiracho, George Pariyo, Hayley MacGregor, Julie Kiguli, Olico Okui


Red Rocks in Winter = the perfect location for family portraits.
I haven't been to Four Mile Historic Park in Denver since we photographed a wedding there years ago. Turns out it's also the perfect spot for family photography, especially on a beautiful fall afternoon with these three!


Currently we are looking for an individual ready to take up the challenges Technical Writer.
It will be a six (6) months contract to start with. The client is located in Breda.
Embed the principles of Good Distribution Practices guideline (2013/C 343/01) in the EU Regional Supply Chain network, to ensure that product quality is maintained.
Embed the principles of the Falsified Medicines Directive (2011/62/EU) in the EU Regional Supply Chain network, to ensure that the authenticity of product is maintained.
Incidental travel might be required.
Contribute to continuously improving the level of GDP compliance in the EU regional supply chain network.


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The Dodgers Integrate VR Batting Practice Into Training Curriculum
by Kyle Melnick
Simulating at-bats against professional MLB pitchers using VR.
2019 marks the first season in which the Los Angeles Dodgers are fully integrating VR technology into their official training curriculum, signaling a new era in professional-level athletic training.
The VR training system, developed by immersive training provider WIN Reality, offers professional ballplayers an immersive—yet cost-effective—VR batting practice experience that uses CG images, live-action video, and data-driven models to create a detailed simulation of an opposing pitchers performance down to their release point, velocity, and movement of pitches.
"It just adds to the familiarity [at the plate]," said manager Dave Roberts during an interview with the LA Times. "It's not really taking the swing, it's just more seeing where the ball comes out of, the flight, the lane the ball is getting to home plate."
Image Credit: Mark Potts, Los Angeles Times
Dodgers rookie Matt Beaty used the technology recently in preparation for their match against the New York Mets. After some minor data input and configuration, Beaty was able to train against a near-identical replication of Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard and familiarize himself with the player's specific style.
"Just seeing how his heater moved, obviously that was really hard," said Beaty. "Just picking it up, seeing it [in the VR session beforehand], it was pretty accurate."
After strapping into an HTC Vive Pro headset located in a dedicated 12-by-15 foot VR space inside the Dodgers weight room, players are handed a miniature bat equipped with a small button they can trigger to initiate a swing. The system provides a plethora of information regarding each pitch, including speed, location, and a variety of other critical information that can help players better prepare for specific players.
"The idea that [hitters] can get 10 at-bats against us before they get in the box for the day feels like an advantage for them," added Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling. "It looks like a video game — but a really good video game."
"I don't think there's a right way, an optimized way" to use it, said Chris O'Dowd, co-founder of WIN Reality and former minor league catcher. "It's more about: What is the specific player looking to take away from the experience?"
Since the introduction of the technology several months back, members of the team have shown a varied interest in the bold new training solution. Some players, such as Corey Seager and A.J. Pollock, have fully implemented the system into their training programs, while others have approached the technology on more of a case-by-case basis, with some still preferring old-school video study.
"I like the fact that it can help with your timing and give you a little bit of feedback on what the pitcher's pitches are doing," claims Russell Martin. However, "you're not seeing a real baseball. It's like a dot. I'd really like to see the seams and the rotation of the ball."
Regardless of the current quality of the experience, WIN Reality is steadily gaining the attention of major organizations looking for the next big step in professional athletic training. By offering teams one of the first dedicated—yet entirely portable—VR systems capable of simulating opposing player performances, the company could very well become the go-to provider of immersive batting training.
Featured Image Credit: WIN Reality
HTC Vive Pro The Dodgers VR Batting Practice VR Pitchers VR Training WIN Reality
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Kyle Melnick
Kyle is a writer for VRScout also working in new media production. He's also a part-time bounty hunter.


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Oakamoor är en ort och civil parish i Storbritannien.   Den ligger i grevskapet Staffordshire och riksdelen England, i den södra delen av landet,  km nordväst om huvudstaden London. Oakamoor ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Oakamoor är huvudsakligen platt, men österut är den kuperad. Oakamoor ligger nere i en dal. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km öster om Oakamoor. Runt Oakamoor är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Stoke-on-Trent,  km väster om Oakamoor. Trakten runt Oakamoor består i huvudsak av gräsmarker.

Kustklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är december, med  °C.

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Passwords are an everyday phenomena. We rely on passwords to gain access to many difference systems and resources, from our computers to our coffee shop loyalty cards and everything in between. However, password and PIN codes are not especially secure. They're also easily compromised or forgotten and we have seen an entire cottage industry rapidly based around simplifying how we deal with passwords rapidly maturing. Many of these businesses are component suppliers to handset and tablet manufacturers and some will wind up becoming a part a larger business in due course.
The technologies used to simplify controlling access include biometrics, that is, using a unique and machine recognizable part of our body to verify our identity. This may include fingerprints, retinas, our face and voices. Many companies are working on bringing biometrics further into mainstream markets. The intention behind these devices is to remove the reliance on passwords and we may end up using our bodies as our passwords, just as we have seen in science fiction for decades. However, there are question marks over how secure biometrics really are compared with a traditional password.
By way of an example, we've already seen smartphone and tablets released with a fingerprint scanner. The technology is cute and easier to use than a PIN code. However, the fingerprint may be copied with enough time, effort and technology. Worse is that if a fingerprint is compromised, it is impossible to change: at the present time, fingerprint scanner technology is best used as a second layer of protection at the local side of an arrangement. In other words, it'll unlock actions for that device only, but the information won't be copied back to a broader use account.
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Any change to how we manage our security will take years to arrive and for the time being, it seems that our current password security is going to continue to adopt another layer rather than a radical change. We'll be able to use our fingerprint, voice, retina or heartbeat machine to help aid in our identification, backed up by a password or email link process. We're going to continue to need a way of confirming our identity, which may still rely on having a code mailed to our verified home address. It will likely take some time before behavioral biometric systems provide a viable identification system and until then, our data is just as vulnerable. As consumers, we need to be mindful that the promise of a super-secure device with our fingerprint is glossily painted over the same secondary, back door, security systems.