In the past I've used PCI Geomatica to do something similar using the softwares classification functionality. Are there some tools/tricks in ArcGIS that will partially automate the process. I remember reading somewhere about rasterizing an orthophoto and assigning values to rooftops, which polygons where then created from those values. I can see there being issues in trying to automate the task as there will surely be some inaccuraces do to color, obstructions, image quality, etc.
There are many options for you in ArcGIS, however I would stay open to open-source solutions too. You can purchase an extension for ArcGIS called Feature Analyst, which uses a feature extraction algorithm. Otherwise, try Iso Cluster Unsupervised Classification (Spatial Analyst) on 4-band DOQ's (Earth Explorer). Once you find the right recipe for classifying buildings in your DOQ, try running the product through a raster filter prior to vectorizing the raster with Raster Domain or Raster to Polygon.
For an open-source solution, Orfeo Toolbox has powerful image segmentation, clustering and feature extraction capabilities.
I don't know there is any way to automate such process by using ArcGIS. But I strongly recommend you to check out one software which name is eCognition developed by Trimble.
eCognition is based one the idea of object oriented classification; it builds up a picture iteratively, recognizing groups of pixels as objects. It uses the color, shape, texture and size of objects as well as their context and relationships to draw the same conclusions and inferences that an experienced analyst would draw.
I had tried this software before and I think it extracted roofs and other kind of features (parking lot, street, rivers) very well.
If you're not averse to buying an extension product, you could take a look at Image Analysis for ArcGIS, which may help with this.
"...it enables you to extract up-to-date information from imagery directly into a geodatabase"
Also check out this GEM User guide: Geospatial tools for building footprint and homogeneous zone extraction from imagery.
It provides an in-depth step by step look at how to extract building footprints using both ArcGIS DEsktop and QGIS with plugins Built-up RECognition tool (BREC) and GRASS.
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On paper, it sounded scholarly. But in the hands of music director Louis Langrée and stage director James Darrah, that rarified project has turned out to be a revealing examination of a work that had an impact that went far beyond what anyone might have imagined.
Those 2015 performances of "The Pelléas Trilogy," as the CSO series has become known, focused on Arnold Schoenberg's 1903 tone poem, "Pelleas und Melisande." (The Austrian composer abandoned the accent markings of Maeterlinck's title.) In 2016, the CSO turned to the incidental music that Gabriel Fauré wrote for the play's English premiere.
Debussy's work has always had more than its share of skeptics, who have described it as everything from "creepy" to "strange." Indeed, when Langrée conducted it in London in 2011, the first sound at the end of the performance was a resounding "boo" from an unimpressed audience member.
There may be skeptics here, too. But clearly, Langrée thinks this is a work that audiences must experience first-hand.
Darrah's staging takes a decidedly different tack, as well.
Add to that a tale filled with inexplicable plot twists and an ambiance defined by Adam Larsen's lush and otherworldly projections and you have a presentation that is more about stimulating the audience's senses than it is storytelling in the traditional sense.
Ambiguity like this is unusual dramatic territory for opera, where we love our plots clearly defined and completely resolved by the time that final curtain comes down.
Langrée is, indeed, effusive in his affection for the work. It is his "desert island" piece, he says. But he also understands that it occupies a singular place in the development of concert music. Debussy broke the operatic mold when it premiered in 1902.
The first time Langrée experienced "Pelléas" was when he was 15. It was "a ridiculous production," he says. But nine years later, he saw it again. This time, renowned Belgian bass-baritone José van Dam was singing. It changed everything.
One time, he talked his way into the wings of the stage. He watched another performance from the catwalk high above the stage.
One of the performances of "Pelléas et Mélisande" is part of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's Friday Orange series. The three-concert series is designed to reach younger audiences.
Ticket prices start at $10 for first-time attendees, but these are only available via phone.
Mingle before and after the concert, grab a bite at Food Truck Fridays in Washington Park.
Experience "guest-curated surprises throughout the evening. No two Friday Oranges are the same," according to the CSO's website.
Wear a hint of orange! The CSO will compliment a few orange-wearers each concert with a free drink ticket.


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The Uniform Commercial Code does not require, for a security interest to be perfected, that the security agreement precede the filing of the financing statement, U.C.C. § 9-402, let alone that it be attached to the statement. The Uniform Commercial Code merely states that the secured party who has filed may have a security interest in the collateral described. U.C.C. § 9-402 official comment 2.
Defendant, Bank One, had a security agreement with bankrupt Vic Supply Company, covering all of Vic's assets. Plaintiff, Falconbridge U.S., Inc., sold Vic nickel for resale, acquiring a purchase money security interest covering the proceeds of the resale. The bankruptcy court, seconded by the district court, ruled that Bank One's security interest was prior to Falconbridge's under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. On appeal, Falconbridge argued that its interest was prior because the bank never signed its security agreement with debtor and therefore never accepted the security agreement.
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Ramazan Yildirim (* 7. September 1975 in Peine, Deutschland) ist ein ehemaliger türkischer Fußballspieler und heutiger -trainer. Er spielte auf der rechten Außenbahn bevorzugt im Mittelfeld.

Spielerkarriere
Ramazan Yildirim spielte bereits in der B- und A-Jugend drei Jahre lang bei Eintracht Braunschweig. Nach mehreren Vereinswechseln konnte der Mittelfeldspieler, der auch defensiv eingesetzt wurde, bei Jahn Regensburg und Rot-Weiss Essen mit dem Aufstieg in die Zweite Liga seinen ersten großen Erfolg feiern.

Nach der ersten Zweitligasaison, die für RWE mit dem Abstieg endete, wechselte Yildirim zur Saison 2005/06 zum ehemaligen Ligakonkurrenten Kickers Offenbach, wo er bis Ende der Saison 2006/07 blieb.

Im September 2007 nahm ihn erneut Eintracht Braunschweig als erfahrenen Spieler unter Vertrag. Im Juni 2008 unterschrieb Yıldırım beim damaligen Drittligisten einen neuen Kontrakt bis 2009. Nach Ablauf der Saison begann Ramazan Yildirim bei Eintracht Braunschweig seine Trainertätigkeit direkt im Anschluss seiner Karriere.

Trainerkarriere
Nach seiner Zeit als Aktiver wurde Yıldırım zunächst Co-Trainer der U23 von Eintracht Braunschweig und Co-Trainer der U19, mit der Absicht, den Beruf von Grund auf kennenzulernen. Später übernahm er das Amt des Cheftrainers der U19. Am 6. Juli 2011 wurde Yıldırım Trainer der U23 von Rot-Weiss Essen. Am 12. Dezember 2011 stellte ihn der Nord-Regionalligist VfB Lübeck als neuen Cheftrainer vor. Parallel zum Job in Lübeck schloss er seine Prüfungen zum Fußball-Lehrer mit Bestnoten ab. Am 13. Dezember 2012 musste er aufgrund massiver wirtschaftlicher Probleme (Insolvenz) im Verein freigestellt werden. Zur Saison 2013/14 verpflichtete der West-Regionalligist Sportfreunde Lotte Yıldırım als neuen Trainer. Nach der knapp verpassten Relegation der Sportfreunde in der Saison zuvor konnte er auf Anhieb für einen neuen Rekord des Vereins sorgen. Ihm gelang der beste Start der Vereinsgeschichte. Mit dem 2. Tabellenplatz ging es in die Winterpause. Vor Beginn der Rückrunde trennte man sich aufgrund verschiedener Ansichten.

Yildirim wechselte im Dezember 2014 als Co-Trainer zum türkischen Spitzenclub Fenerbahce Istanbul, feierte dort an der Seite von Ismail Kartal die Vize-Meisterschaft. Aufgrund der Neuausrichtung bei Fener trennten sich die Wege.

Helmut Hack holte Yildirim im Sommer 2015 als Chefscout zur SpVgg Greuther Fürth., ehe er ab Januar 2016 als Sportdirektor fungierte.

Im Dezember 2020 folgte er dem Ruf von Felix Magath zu Flyeralarm Global Soccer. Yildirim war dabei als technischer Direktor für den FC Flyeralarm Admira verantwortlich und es gelang der Klassenerhalt in der 1. Bundesliga.

Seit Sommer 2021 erstellt Yildirim Positionsprofile und eine eigene Struktur zur Spielanalyse für den Spitzenfußball und ergründet einhergehend die Fußballsprache verschiedener Länder für taktische Erkenntnisse.

Erfolge
als Spieler
 Aufstieg in die 2. Bundesliga mit Rot-Weiss Essen
 Aufstieg in die 2. Bundesliga mit Jahn Regensburg
 Pokalsieger Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen

als Trainer
 Pokalsieger Schleswig-Holstein
 Vizemeister mit Fenerbahce Istanbul

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Fußballtrainer (Türkei)
Fußballspieler (TuS Celle FC)
Fußballspieler (Eintracht Braunschweig)
Fußballspieler (Kickers Offenbach)
Fußballspieler (Rot-Weiss Essen)
Fußballspieler (SSV Jahn Regensburg)
Fußballspieler (VfB Lübeck)
Fußballtrainer (Rot-Weiss Essen)
Fußballtrainer (Sportfreunde Lotte)
Fußballtrainer (VfB Lübeck)
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Geboren 1975
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Q: Why can I create new Random without the keyword "new" In my study of Scala I ran into the following snippet:
val r = Random

Now from my understanding from Alvin Alexander's excellent post (How to create Scala object instances without using the "new" keyword (apply) you can create a new Scala object instance without using the new keyword as follows:

*

*Create a companion object for your class, and define an apply method
in the companion object with the desired constructor signature.

*Define your class as a "case class."

However, when I look at the source code for the Random class (Scala 2.12.8) I see that it is not a case class nor does the companion object have the apply method in its companion object.
Could someone please explain to me why it's valid syntax to create a Random as posted above even though it doesn't meet the requirements as described in Alvin Alexander's post?
Thanks!

A: In this context Random is a singleton instance of class Random
object Random extends Random

where
class Random(val self: java.util.Random) extends ... {
  ...
  def this() = this(new java.util.Random())
  ...
}

hence it is already a value. For example consider the following
class Foo(val v: Int)
object Foo extends Foo(42)
Foo.v

which outputs
res0: Int = 42

Note how Foo in Foo.v is already referencing an instance singleton value of class Foo. Hence r in
val r = Random

is simply referencing existing singleton value. It is akin to
val a = 11
val r = a

A: Simply put: you are not creating a new instance of the Random class, you are assigning the existing instance of the Random class which also happens to be called Random to the field r.
It might sound confusing that there is both a class and an object named Random but there actually cannot possibly be any confusion, since in Scala, types and terms live in different "worlds" and their names can never mix.
Note that it is in fact quite common to have a class or trait and an object with the same name, for the following reason:

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*if an object has the same name as a class or trait, and

*that object is defined in the same scope as the class or trait with the same name, and

*that object is defined in the same compilation unit as the class or trait with the same name, then
that object is called a companion module and has privileged access to the internals of the class or trait.

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Aquino govt told: Paris attack no excuse to muzzle APEC protests
Marya Salamat November 16, 2015 #APEC2015, #PHFightAPEC, ISIS, Kurdish National Congress, Lumad
Kurdish Michelle Allison speaks at a press conference of ILPS in Manila, calls ISIS an imperialist creation, and the counter-attacks on ISIS as hitting more the ISIS victims. Kurdish women have joined the fight against ISIS because, among others, it seeks to severely curtail their rights. (Photo by M. Salamat / Bulatlat.com)
"The US, UK, French governments, in their narrow attempt to push regime change, demonize and undermine those they deem as 'unfriendly' regimes and use brutal, armed extremists (like ISIS) who happen to share their opposition to those regimes. But that's like having attack dogs you don't exactly control."
By MARYA SALAMAT
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MANILA – Local and global activists converging in Manila have condemned the terrorist attacks in Paris that targeted and killed innocent civilians. But they warned the Aquino government against using the Paris attacks as "pretext" for further trampling on the democratic rights of the people gathering in the capital to protest the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.
Already, the PNP officials have announced that they will heighten their security measures in the wake of the Paris incident. Teddy Casiño, spokesperson of #PHFightAPEC, said such "security measures," already described as overkill, "should not lead to a ban on protests near or around the venue of the APEC Summit."
"Preventing such atrocities should not be at the expense of the rights of people to assemble and air their legitimate grievances," Casiño said.
The former Bayan Muna lawmaker said the Philippine National Police (PNP) has already set up a virtual blockade at the Baclaran Church, where hundreds of lumad from Mindanao are forced to set up camp after they were driven away from Liwasang Bonifacio.
The lumad are in Manila protesting the militarization and plunder of their communities, which they said resulted from APEC-related policies on liberalizing mining and planting of export crops in agricultural plantations.
A couple of days ago, the police also reportedly prevented a delegation from Southern Tagalog from reaching Manila to participate in various anti-APEC activities.
Casiño said the only threat these progressive groups pose to APEC leaders is the threat of embarrassment – he said these groups bring with them their life stories that exposed the true "disastrous impact of APEC's imperialist globalization."
Jerome Adonis, secretary general of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), called on the workers and peoples of the world to translate grief and solidarity into knowledge of the historical causes of the attacks.
It noted that the ISIS, the extremist group said to be behind the attack, was "a US creation to further its terrorist agenda."
"Let us be critical and not be swayed by the propaganda of imperialists, who have used similar attacks in the past to try to justify terrorism on a greater scale. Let us be very clear: Our grief is not a call for imperialist wars of aggression," said Adonis.
'Terrorists are creations of the imperialists themselves'
Among the delegates of the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) who are now in Manila holding a conference, Kurdish Michelle Allison, a member of Kurdish National Congress, noted one of the unfortunate trends for the people – "the fact that imperialist governments are attacking the same people being attacked by ISIS," for example.
A 41-year old architect, Allison has spent the past two years more on political engagement than designing buildings because of the many tremendous issues they have to face in their country. Reports said that based on the territorial and political gains being made there by ISIS, it seeks to severely curtail the rights of Kurdish people particularly women.
As of this writing, the French government has been making arrests and it has conducted air strikes on what it believed as ISIS sites in Syria, with the US government providing it "intelligence."
Allison told reporters in Manila that historically, the ISIS followed other US military creations which the US had armed and used against regimes they deemed as unfriendly to them. But they later lost control of these armed extremists. Unfortunately, she said, to purportedly neutralize them, "when they lost control of ISIS, they attacked the Islam settlements."
Asked why the US does not seem to learn the lesson about their brutal creations (such as ISIS) turning around and being uncontrollable, Allison said: "I think their gains are more than their losses." Or, the US got hold or control of regimes they had wanted to control in the process.
Carol Pagaduan-Araullo, president of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, speaking at the sidelines of the ILPS conference, summarized the existence of these extremists: "The US, UK, France governments, in their narrow attempt to push regime change, demonize and undermine those they deem as 'unfriendly' regimes and use brutal, armed extremists who happen to share their opposition to those regimes. But that's like having attack dogs you don't exactly control."
ISIS is one of those "attack dogs," and the progressive groups condemn the attacks being prepared purportedly to guard against ISIS but hitting more the people and their democratic rights.
"The imperialist powers will surely use these terrorist attacks as a pretext to intensify wars of aggression outside of their countries and impose fascist measures on the workers and peoples of their countries," Adonis of KMU said. He asked the people to be on guard and to speak up saying "these imperialist will surely use these attacks to further whip up terrorism scare, racism, xenophobia, anti-migrant prejudices and religious bigotry."


The young Hamburg photographer Anja Neudert creates work that goes so far into abstraction – in its verticality and reduction of concrete city structures – that one is left with the impression of stronger emotionality in her pictures. In her city series she allows herself to be inspired by the innumerable colors and forms, as well as the repeated verticality of structures found in national and international metropolises. Emphasized verticality, the reduction of the object in character, and special motifs lead to a fascinating graphic play of color.
The enduring aspiration of a city is emphasized in a special way in her image graphics. We suddenly see the essential, the immanent dynamic of such a city: they want to be higher, broader, bigger... By clearly limiting to graphic, vertical movement, and the consciously set and uniformly maintained blurriness, Neudert achieves city photos resonating with all that is associated with the sounds and movements of urban life.


I've been following the Undoctored protocol since last October. It's allowed me to take myself off of Nexium, three sleep meds, my blood pressure medication and a beta-blocker to reduce elevated heart rate.
I stopped my blood pressure med, Olmesartan, an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) class drug, my last dose was on 14 February 2019. I dropped the beta blocker on 23 January 2019.
Here are the weekly blood pressure and heart rate averages produced by my 1-3x/day checks from two weeks before I stopped Olmesartan and the weeks since.
My blood pressure reading this morning was 135/96 with a heart rate of 96.
I was thrilled that my initial blood pressure remained relatively close the the program goal of < 120/80 but now I'm alarmed at the rising hypertension. In what now looks like premature over-confidence, I got rid of my Olmesartan supply.
I have two questions. What should I do in the short run and what may have caused this quick ramp-up of high BP?
I suspect that my hypertension and rapid heart rate are related to my hypo-thyroid but I don't have evidence.
I'm thinking I should show up at my local pharmacy counter and request a refill of my Olmesartan and also to ask them if they can give the names of local doctors who prescribe natural desiccated thyroid. I just ordered the Stop the Thyroid Madness book to learn more about treating hypothyroid.
I'm hoping that some of you might have some ideas. For more context, see: My six-month status report since starting this heart protocol.


Great Fishing and Back Surgery.
To say it's been an event full few days would be an understatement . To begin with I scheduled a couple of days off work so I could enjoy the absolute best time of year to catch numbers of hard hitting , monster Crappie. As a couple of plans fell through and the scheduled friends that had planned to fish were unable to go I decided to hit the lake with my all time favorite, never fail, never back out fishing buddy Hank. I just say "Hank, you wanna go fishing" and he jumps in the truck ready to go. No asking questions or coming up with excuses like work, family, angry wife etc.
So we hit the water and as I enjoy the solitude of finding my own places to fish and avoid the crowd I look for isolated stake beds and old submerged stump rows. When trying to dissect big stump rows that contain many square feet of eroded root wads I hold a 11′ rear seat jigging rod in each hand with a 3′ slab slayer style bait in different color on each pink jig head. Usually lime/chart or blue /chart is a pretty good bet on Rend. I fish within a foot from the bottom as the monsters live in the root wads waiting for a jig or Thread find Shad to swim by. I fish methodically slow when in a large area of stumps. I know for a fact that the fish will be here its just a matter of locating each fish and convincing them to bite. It's not like a small stake bed where you can pull up fish it for 5 minutes and move on. There are so many places for Crappie to hide in these root wads it defiantly testes ones patience.
After about 15 minutes of wondering if I had picked the right spot I was rewarded with a vicious slam of a 14″ fat, angry and hungry Crappie. As Hank came up front to investigate and climb on my lap (yes, he's a 103 lb lap dog that craves attention) I realized it was going to be a great day.
After many more hard slams and catching and keeping some fish for an upcoming fish fry and even releasing several bigger fish to be caught again when they are over 2 lbs we call it a day.
While on the water I couldn't help but think about how enjoyable and rewarding spending the day on my favorite lake could be. Knowing I had an upcoming back surgery pending I knew not to take any of this for granted . The weather was perfect with highs in the mid 60'seat and light winds. The fish were definitely cooperative and the company was enjoyable .
Now as I write this I am on my couch with a battery pack taped to my side and wire leads ran up my spine sending electrical pulses to my brain. Fun right? My thoughts exactly . Hopefully this will get rid of this nagging , constant low back I've dealt with for a decade. After a couple more days I will know if this trial experience will pay off and decide to move forward with the permanent instalation . I'm keeping fingers crossed, praying and hoping like hell this all works out.
So, I wil, resume working on orders I the next couple of days and try to answer all my emails regarding questions about fishing rods. Did you know you can go insane on your couch watching documentaries? Hopefully my sanity will creep back in as needed to get back to some sort of normalcy . I just realized it's only been one half of a day. I guess knowing the fish are out there wondering where Hank and I are makes this extra sucky. I'm currently watching a documentary on Manatees . I feel like a Manatee.


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The Pagani Huayra's Successor Promises a Next-Gen V-12 and a Manual Transmission
After a decade on the market, the Huayra is finally being retired as something new comes to life
by Robert Moore, on November 23, 2021, 09:00
With the Pagani Huayra being on the market for the better part of a decade – actually it will be a decade as of 2022 – the world has been expecting a successor. Now, we don't exactly have all of the specifics, but a new report quoting none other than Horacio Pagani has shed some light on a few things that we can expect. The most important development is that it will remain true to its internal combustion roots with no hint of electrification in the mix.
2022/01/05 Is this the 2023 Pagani C10?
Pagani is Staying True to Its Roots, But Don't Expect Crazy Amounts of Power
A recent investment in Pagani led us to believe that its electric future could come a lot sooner than previously expected. However, the Pagani Huayra's successor won't venture into electric territory at all. In fact, think of the Huayra's successor as a potential last stand dirty, emissions-burning goodness. In an interview with Quattroruote, Horacio Pagani himself spilled a bit of information, the most important thing being that the car would be powered by a new version of the 6.0-liter AMG-sourced V-12 engine. The engine has, apparently, been under development for six years so, you know, maybe it won't be quite so dirty after all.
Beyond this, the Huayra's successor will be offered with your choice of a six-speed manual or a next-gen sequential gearbox. Yes, in an age where the manual transmission is slowly dying, the Pagani Huayra's successor will be offered with one. The reason actually falls to the Huayra itself.
"There are customers who didn't buy the Huayra because we didn't offer [a manual]. My audience wants to feel emotions when driving: they don't care about pure performance."
With this in mind, don't expect the Huayra's successor to offer a ton of horsepower. Pagani has traditionally been more about being light weight as opposed to adding ridiculous amounts of horsepower, and that's where the Huayra's successor will also live. In fact, don't expect it to exceed 888 horsepower – at least not from the factory anyway. "Look at Gordon Murray's T.50: it sold out even though it has only 650 horsepower. It is very light, has a manual gearbox, and a V-12 that runs very high. You don't need 2,000 horsepower to excite the driver."
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Moreover, the Huayra's successor will not feature any form of electrification. Pagani hasn't even requested special emissions-related treatment like Italy did for Lamborghini and Ferrari. "For the time being, we have not asked for concessions and we hope to continue like this. But, if one day we have to switch to hybrid, we will." I can't say for sure what that means about the Pagani EV that's due in 2024, but that could be the company's next step as the Huayra's successor is expected sometime in 2022 and will only be produced in some 280-300 examples.
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Baja CA 2019: 245 Murders per Month, State Retains 2nd Place in Mexico
Yaqui for Borderland Beat from: Zeta
"The world homicide rate is 6 violent deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, but in Baja California currently they kill 85 people per 100,000 citizens," said Santiago Roel, founder of the Traffic Light.
New Security measures failed Baja California in its first year of implementation. The presence of the National Guard did not contribute to increasing the number of arrests of criminals and the 6,000, 048 million pesos delivered in social programs did not impact security either. 2018 being the record year in violent homicides, 2019 presented a marginal reduction of just 7% in a federative entity where 85 people continue to be riddled for every 100,000 inhabitants.
The first year of the administration of the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, will be remembered as the one with the highest rate of malicious homicides, feminicides, business robberies and/or extortion, human trafficking and drug trafficking, with failures in a security issue in which it prevails with budget cuts in every sector except for the Armed Forces, says Francisco Rivas Rodríguez, director of the National Citizen Observatory Security, Justice and Legality.
"The homicide numbers continue to grow, they talk about a turning point, we run econometric models and what we found is that there was a turning point towards the end of the last six-year period, which was what made the homicide start to grow less. It was not in this six-year term, they are chanting something of Enrique Peña Nieto and they are also giving the false fact that the violence is already contained, when it is not, " emphasized the head of the agency.
This first year was not successful on the issue of security, were that the strategy implemented was not supported, in addition, budget cuts and institutional dismantling were not favorable. On this last point, Rivas said that it is not only a dismantling the disappearance of the Federal Police, but in reference to the low presence and results of the Attorney General's Office (FGR).
Likewise, it defined as "a brutality" the decrease that the Federation applied to states and municipalities, mainly in resources such as the Contribution Fund for the Strengthening of Municipalities (Fortaseg) to 33 %, especially now that the federative entities will have a extra cost with the federal presence, since the Law establishes how much each one must pay to the National Guard.
In Baja California, during the first year of the López Obrador administration, 245 people were murdered per month. Throughout the management of its predecessor, Enrique Peña Nieto, the monthly average was 127 homicides. While with Felipe Calderón Hinojosa the deadly monthly average was 59 victims.
The 3,160 violent deaths recorded in BC during 2018 were reflected as the record number in the official count that has been carried out in the entity for 14 years: 836 murders more than in 2017. Reducing it was the challenge that the AMLO Presidency received.
To combat insecurity and homicidal violence, the first week of February, the morenista government sent 200 elements of the National Guard to Baja California that concentrated on Tijuana.
Subsequently, on November 1, another 200 federal agents commissioned to the State Security and Intelligence Guard (GESI) arrived. And according to what was announced by the only federal delegate Alejando Ruiz Uribe, 504,000,000 pesos were delivered monthly in social programs in Baja California.
As a result, homicides during 2019 have registered a marginal reduction of just 7.6% when compared to last year, from 2, 890 to 2,668 dead (statistics from January 1 to November 30).
"They are still too many dead, in addition, the same number represents an increase of 30% compared to the historical average of the last three years. Therefore, it is the second entity with the highest homicidal incidence in Mexico, just below Colima, " said the analyst.
For his part, the president of the State Council of Public Security of Baja California (CCSP), Juan Manuel Hernández Niebla, considered that speaking of a marginal downward trend, " is merely consequential."
He added: "There really has not been a strategy related to the issue of homicides by the Federation,
and generating 150 or 180 deaths per month is an extremely high incidence, compared to any standard."
Additionally, during this year the wrongful killings in Baja California increased by 20%, from 317 in the first ten months of 2018, to 399 in the same period of 2019.
"Suddenly you increase the guilty homicides, which tend to be very consistent, it does not look natural, it is not explained, because accidents rarely increase or decrease dramatically. This causes suspicion of the existence of a sub-registry, " said Francisco Rivas, of the National Citizen Observatory for Justice and Legal Security.
HIGH Incidence in 3 Municipalities:
To analyze the movement of the municipal incidence, ZETA compared 2018 and 2019 in the period from January 1 to November 30:
* In Tijuana, considered the most violent city in the world last year - according to a study of 50 cities carried out by the Citizen Council of Public Security and Criminal Justice - most crimes continue to be perpetrated in BC. Between 72% and 77% of homicides during 2019, depending on the month.
In this city the murders dropped from 2,296 to 2, 047, that is, 249 fewer deaths, which means a reduction of 11%. Even so, in the municipality they kill 132 people per 100 ,000 inhabitants. While guilty homicides grew 30%, from 114 in 2018, to 164 in 2019.
* In Rosarito increased violent deaths from 113 to 149; those 36 additional bodies meant an increase of 32%, and, due to its lower geographical density, the municipality counts 163 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Wrongful deaths remained stable.
* In Ensenada the homicides grew from 240 to 253 bodies (5%), the guilty of 98 to 111 victims (13%) and recorded a rate of 52 executions per 100,000 thousand inhabitants.
* In Tecate there have been eight deaths less than last year, reducing its incidence by 8% and, given its small population, it records 84 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
* Finally, Mexicali would be the safest city in Baja California, since deaths dropped 10% to 146 to 132 victims, with just 15 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. But in the case of guilty deaths, it has the strangest and greatest increase from year to year: from 41 during 2018, it rose to 74 in 2019, which means 45% more than a sub-registration would mean.
The National Guard and Statistics:
For more than ten months in Baja California they have the first 200 National Guard elements sent by the Federation, the vast majority concentrated in Tijuana, where their presence has only stood out for the intervention to control migrant groups, and sporadically, providing support cordoning off area where other corporations perform operations.
The collaboration in the execution of arrest warrants has been so marginal that the number of orders made did not increase between February and October, but remained between 100 and 120 per month (see graph).
Specifically, Tijuana registered a slight decrease in the first two months of the arrival of these federal forces: from 220 dead in January, it fell to 145 and 152 in February and March, but returned to 217 in June, when the National Guard was occupied with the retention of the caravans of migrants and did not return to have a significant reduction until October, when new security commanders arrived with the municipal governments and added 156 dead.
The homicidal incidence of the other four municipalities was not impacted by the presence of the National Guard. However, they did have slight reductions in homicides, first in October with the change of municipal governments, and then with that of State Government.
In the case of Ensenada, 45 dead in October 2,062 executed in 2019; 213 victims are women
A few weeks after the end of the year, 2 062 homicides have been committed in Tijuana.
According to statistics from the State Attorney General's Office, of the total 213 victims were women. In the first five days of December, 25 executions were registered, five of these against women. For the crime of one murder of a woman was an alleged perpetrator, identified as José Pedro Tadeo Zamora, 37, arrested.
Until the end of this edition, Thursday, December 5, Baja California counted 2,702 wrongful killings during the course of 2019. (That is a week ago already).
The numbers went down to 24 in November; Playas de Rosarito decreased from 24 homicides in August to 11 in October; Tecate recorded six in August and the same amount in November; and Mexicali had 18 in October to go down to seven in November. But deadly statistics in Baja California remain very unstable.
Even without tangible results, on November 14, the governor of Baja California, Jaime Bonilla Valdez, announced that in December more elements of the aforementioned Guard would arrive, and on November 29, the Cabildo de Tijuana approved the divestiture of the land of 10,000 square meters in which the National Guard station will be built in the El Laurel subdivision, in the Presa Este delegation of Tijuana.
Narco Trafficking, Trafficking Routes and Drug Dealing:
The activities of the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) Arellano Félix (CAF) and the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS) cartels have not been reduced by the presence of the National Guard, dedicated in this first phase to socialization and support to other corporations.
Pablo Huerta and Roque García, from CAF; Israel Alejandro Vázquez "Cabo 50" , David López Jiménez "Cabo 20" , Jesús Alfonso Trapero and Alejandro Estrada, of the CJNG; Felipe Eduardo Barajas Lozano "El Omega", Vicente Martínez González "El Güilo", Luis Alfredo Garibay Félix, Víctor Hugo Mejía "El Griego", José Luis Mendoza Mendoza Uriarte "El Güero Chompas", Alfonso and René Arzate, from the CDS, have been identified as operators of organized crime in Baja California at different levels.
The problem is precisely that, like their predecessors, in the first year of the Presidency of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, neither the Federal Government nor the Local government have been able to initiate files. Only the Arzates have arrest warrants against them for drug trafficking ... but in California, in the United States.
"In the murders we are facing the Pareto Law," said Juan Manuel Hernández Niebla, president of the CCS. "20% of criminals generate 80% of crime, we are talking about cartel leaders, who are the ones ordering these killings and practically all related to drug trafficking activities. But as long as there is no intelligence, investigation folders and the consequent arrest warrants of these people, the issue of homicides will be there. "
Santiago Roel, of Criminal Traffic Light, finished:
"In Baja California, Tijuana and throughout the country, homicides are rooted in the Cartel's war over territorial control to sell drugs, ( the Plaza ) drug dealers and drug traffickers. In Baja California municipalities, the situation is exacerbated because the war is also for territorial control of the export market, although the latter is less violent than drug trafficking. The only way (to reduce homicides) is to regulate drugs, as proposed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is in his Peace and Security Plan, but he has not done anything, there is no initiative to regulate cannabis, they should already be regulating that and the poppy cultivation. Although violence would not necessarily lower in Tijuana as elsewhere, because this city has a territorial war for control of trafficking routes for the export market. "
For his part, José Antonio Ortega Sánchez, of the civil association Citizen Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice, argued:
"The policy of ''Hugs, not bullets'' has had no results or a significant impact on homicides, because it is not fighting impunity or contributing to raising the justice rates or outcomes."
"The problem is that this authority continues to think that it is giving results on issues where there is no evidence that it is giving them. We are not sure that this marginal improvement in homicides is sustainable, " emphasized Francisco Rivas, of the National Citizen Observatory.
"The statistics that go up are 73% extortion, 29% drug trafficking. Baja California continues to occupy the first national place in vehicle theft although it has a 13% reduction. In addition, the State is in the top national places for violations, (rapes) and this year the complaints registered an increase of 5%, " said Santiago Roel, of Criminal Traffic Light.
According to Hernández Niebla, homicides are not the subject of preventive police (PEP) , "a more armed strategy is needed, we are talking about prosecutors, the General, if we talk about drug trafficking, and the State dealing with narcomenudeo and homicide; it is very clear that the issue is related to that, and, no matter how many police we have in the State, they will hardly be able to reduce the number of homicides ".
"The social programs that are supposed to be López Obrador's big bet are not useful in reducing incidence, because violence is not correlated with homicidal or drug-related violence. The relationship of violence is with unemployment, when theft increases, nothing more. High impact crimes do not rise. We told 4Q but they don't listen, "said the analyst.
"Poverty must be fought because it is a social issue, but it is not correlated because there are rich and poor states with violence. Or cases like Yucatan, which is located in the middle table of wealth and is quiet. "
Roel claimed the client theme of the programs: "They have a more electoral than social character, because they owe everything to López Obrador, and we don't have accounting or indicators that tell us if they are being applied well or not, and it has not been observed that have some impact on insecurity. "
Insecurity and the Budget :
The analysts and advisors consulted said that the outlook on the issue of insecurity for 2020 is very adverse not only for Baja California, but for the rest of the country, mainly due to budget cuts, which will have a negative effect on the capacity of the states and municipalities to confront drug traffickers and drug dealers.
During 2019, the discharge plan showed a reduction in crime prevention by 27%; in anti-kidnapping issues it was reduced by 33%; in pursuit of justice 17%; people search 50%; and in human rights 10%. In counterpart, who is receiving greater recourse is the Army over the National Guard.
The lack of money is aggravated by the absence of a strategy in the framework of an institutional weakening, with the incipient process of formation of the National Guard, to which they are asking for things that they will not be able to do, because it is not ready.
Juan Manuel Hernández Niebla, of the CCSP, stressed that in Baja California there has been no improvement and, despite the commitment made by Governor Jaime Bonilla, without money nothing can be achieved , ie, funding the programs.
He added that the governing body has already had the opportunity to present its proposals to improve the security conditions in the State to the new president, "we are talking first of a scheme of performance metrics, because of the way of how they are structured right now, they have neither the infrastructure nor material, human or the functionality to be able to accommodate and solve the high numbers of criminal incidence in the State, " said Hernández Niebla.
"The analysis by state prosecutors in the country place Baja California in the last places, the judiciary is not better: it takes judges, courtrooms, public ministries, which can not be obtained without resources."
He explained that when Gov Bonilla heard them, he promised to manage the resources needed to improve services and tie the Prosecutor's Office with the Judiciary to avoid bottlenecks and promote expedited justice.
"But I understand now that budgets are not being given, nor have they been planned. And that is going to be the big problem. The Federation promises us security and we do not see that the money will flow, and the local authorities will not be able to work miracles, " he warned, considering that in the indexes of insecurity, the financial strategy has no logic.
"Between 2018 and 2019, investment in this arena was reduced by 10%, this year even more, and the decreases in priority areas such as the Judiciary and the Attorney General's Office stand out, that explains why Mexico occupies nothing, except worthy of last place among the countries integrated to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, where the average investment is 1.7% of the resource, while in Mexico it is only 0.9%.
Asked about whether the CCSP has expressed its concern to the Federal Government, Juan Manuel Hernández Niebla said:
"It is still very biased, for them, the Federal Gov't , ie, the citizen participation of civil society organizations in any of the issues, is not considered necessary, the gain that has given us has been very little. In particular, I invited delegate Ruiz Uribe twice to explain our opinion of the problem, present our proposal, but he did not even have the courtesy to answer us. Different from the opening meeting with the new governor, who has always received us. "
Between December 18 and 19, the CCSP will present to the state prosecutor, Guillermo Ruiz Hernández, the proposals already delivered to Jaime Bonilla, however, Hernández Niebla said: "But how are we going to succeed, if we are not assigned enough money? The picture is discouraging. " (Uriel Saucedo Ramírez collaborated with information).
Borderland Beat Reporter Yaqui Posted at 4:38 PM
A dubious distinction, 2nd place = first place loser.
No no murders in Mexico, may I offer you some poems, sorry Morales of Bolivia, president for 14 years, was constantly nagging, had to send him out of Mexico.
At least México is good at something
Lawless country, with a President that is enep. I can't believe Mexico voted this idiot in, shows how stupid Mexican people are.


We let our dogs out back and they went straight to the side of our home.
Our dog Lucy kept scratching between the house and the shed.
Our daughter went out to explore and she saw a long tail and said "Get a box. I think it's a Possum. And it's stuck".
The space was so small but she was able to get him into the recycle box.
We then called Animal Control and they picked up the poor Possum.
He wasn't hissing, he just looked cold. She covered him with a towel and he was soooo happy.
Animal control said they would make sure he wasn't injured and would set him free.
A little excitement in Misissauga!


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The Beat of Music City
72 Hours in Nashville
July 10, 2015 Travel and Adventure : 72 Hours By Greg Goldstone
In central Tennessee, there sits a full-scale replica of the Athenian Parthenon. Beyond the nod to the Ancients, there are a lot of things people don't know about the state's capital. Nashville is home to rich history from the 19th century, music of the 20th, and restaurants of the 21st. The city is somehow both vibrant and running at the slow-rolling pace we tend to associate with the South. If you're visiting for a weekend, there are certain things everyone sees, and some of those are worth your while, but often more memorable are the smaller experiences — the hidden gems — and Nashville offers plenty of them.
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Located in the up-and-coming Gulch neighborhood on the southwest fringe of downtown is The 404. It's walking distance from a slew of shops and eateries (of which it has its own in the 404 Kitchen) as well as great live music. The hotel has just five rooms, all decorated with a mix of work by local artists and vintage as well as custom furniture. It all comes together for a modern, underground-luxury experience that they promise will be unique. If you want something a little more traditional, look into the Hermitage Hotel. The downtown home of southern hospitality opened its doors in 1910 and provides comfortable, five-star accommodation in a classic, beaux-art edifice. If you can't get a room at either of those, the classic Union Station Hotel and the modern and popular Hutton Hotel are good options.
Start your day with a coffee from Crema. The fast-growing coffeehouse roasts its own beans and serves up the best brew in town, which is why most of the restaurants in this guide serve it. For a meal in true southern style try Prince's Hot Chicken. The local favorite serves up flaming-hot (as well as still pretty hot, mild) fried chicken sandwiched between slices of wonder bread, until four in the morning, or when they run out. To cool your tongue, the 12 South Taproom is the best beer bar in town. With 28 taps and a whole bunch of bottles, you can have your craft favorite or a local gem like a Yazoo or Jackalope. Lockeland Table serves up delicious American food with a southern twist as well as wood-fired pizzas. The restored storefront gives it a rustic look to match its community vibe. Italy collides with the American south at Rolf and Daughters, which has a trendy, family-style atmosphere and a unique cocktail menu. Then there's The Catbird Seat which situates its kitchen in the center of a three-sided square bar; it's expensive, but worth a try if you can get a reservation. You should get the alcohol and food pairing that they offer at the restaurant, but start with a drink from their neighbors, The Patterson House, who serve up the best cocktails in the city.
Want Sunday brunch? A cocktail? An hour on the lanes? Head over to Pinewood Social for all three. The see-and-be-seen-style club has great coffee (read: Crema) and six pinewood bowling lanes in addition to their dining room, outdoor Airstream bar, pool and karaoke room. To get your bearings and a bit of entertainment on wheels, try the NashTrash Tour; Sheri Lynn and Brenda Kay will give you a raunchy, rowdy, risqué introduction to the different neighborhoods of Nashville as you drive around in their bright pink bus. Keep an eye out for Legends, the most fun of the honky-tonks, and not as crowded as some of the classics, as well as The Station Inn (right next door to the 404 Hotel and Kitchen) which has undoubtedly the best bluegrass in the city, if not the country and world. For a bit of a grungier feel, The Basement has three acts every night and, while you might have to know someone to get a drink at the bar, you'll definitely catch some exciting performances. Finally, two of the best venues in town are the Ryman Auditorium, the original home of the Grand Ole Opry, and the Bluebird Cafe. The two couldn't be more different though, as one is a 2,300-seat brick building that fills a city block and the other is a tiny cafe which is almost impossible to get tickets for, but both host some of the best concerts in the country. Oh, and don't miss the flagship Imogen + Willie shop; they built it by renovating a body shop, and it's worth a visit.
Venture Out
In terms of natural beauty, the real stunners are farther east in Tennessee, but Radnor Lake is a pristine lake just 10 miles south of the city. There are trails all around the surrounding park, including one that follows the perimeter of the lake. If you have time, though, take on the roughly three-hour drive to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (stopping at Burgess Falls on the way). Some of the best sights once you get there are the Alum Cave trail, Mingo Falls and the Road to Nowhere (which actually goes to several worthwhile trailheads). Nashville is also steeped in history, so if Civil War relics are your thing, head 30 minutes or so south down to Franklin where you can see the Carnton Plantation. The mansion was used as a hospital during the war and tour guides will show you the floors still stained with blood from amputations. The nearby Carter House was right in the middle of the Battle of Franklin and has fascinating stories within. Closer to downtown is The Hermitage which was the estate of President Andrew Jackson and includes his mansion, as well as his tomb, on its sprawling grounds.
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The Adirondack features 3 dormers in the front, giving the home a classic log home feel. There is plenty of outside sitting space in front to enjoy an early morning cup of coffee outdoors. This home features 4 bedrooms – perfect for a vacation spot for a family or for entertaining. With main floor laundry, dining room, master bedroom and living space all on the main floor, vacation time is made easy.


We had such fun at our pastel society meeting today. It was a relaxed and fun day for all of us, a pure "play day" and yet we all learned something very useful.
We had a nice turnout of 19 at the meeting in Ponte Vedra, a pretty good showing considering that a number of our really core stalwart members were not with us as they were participating in the Romanza festival in St. Augustine, painting plein air there instead of being with us.
But those of us who attended were greeted with a very interesting table set up by co-President Lyn Asselta at the front of the room.
Our topic today was how to make your own pastels from the leftover dust the little bitty odds and ends of pastels that you manage to collect over time.
Lyn showed us how easy it is to make pastels by taking the dust - as you already have it, or from grinding up odds and ends into a powder - and carefully mixing it with drops of distilled water, being careful not to get too gooey, but just enough for it to hold a shape.
After her demo everyone went back to their own tables to practice making their own homemade pastels.
Some had more chips, chunks, and dust that others and were willing to share.
Dust collected over the months and years tended to be mostly gray, but the chips and chunks could be any color of course.
Folks said that often when you buy a certain set of pastels there may be colors in that set that rarely, if ever, get used.
Lyn's lesson gave us "permission" to be fearless about grinding up those colors we find less than appealing.
By mixing in dust from other colors it's possible to create something new and unique. I was amazed at some of the gorgeous colors people were able to create.
After rolling or shaping the new pastels it's time to lay them on newsprint or paper towels to dry for a couple days, and then have fun using your new colors, and no more wastage.
We have a big month coming up in June with our next juried member show, and the mini-workshop with Karen Margulis. Keep tuned in here for more details.


Cybersecurity specialists are in high demand following major breaches on national and local levels, and BYU is working to prepare women to fill vacancies in the field.
Last year, Forbes reported nearly one million global cybersecurity jobs were left unfilled, with demand expected to grow to six million by 2020. In this period, the cybersecurity market is expected to rise to $170 billion in worth.
"You watch a movie like 'Hidden Figures' — women started out in computer science and founded this career path before it was profitable," said BYU associate professor of information technology Dale Rowe.


The Davenport Station site is for users of Davenport railway station, Stockport, England - and for all the people of Davenport.
These supplementary cyclist's pages are for everyone who enjoy cycling around the south Stockport area, and especially those who attend the Stockport Council Cycle User Group meetings, which are freely open to all. New faces are always welcome.
Note: this is a strictly unofficial site, not connected with or approved by Stockport Council or Northern Rail.
Created and compiled by Charlie Hulme.
Trans-Pennine Trail users from the west keen to visit Stockport Town Centre can now use the whole of the path from Didsbury alongside the river, cross the pedestrianised old bridge and emerge at the Old Woolpack Inn before travel along Chestergate using some new dedicated facilities which have been installed. However, there is an obstacle to cross in the shape of a very busy dual carriageway, as indicated by the sign shown here (which does not mention the town centre).
Unfortunately the crossing is not currently a 'Toucan' one and has to be crossed in two stages, with a small-ish central refuge, just about big enough for two bikes, and perhaps not the safest place to be if the bent barrier is anything to go by. Note that the 'red-green men' do not work together.
Once safely across, cyclists find an unusual choice of options. You can use the wide shared path - which is actually for use in either direction - or choose the one-way cycle lane on the one-way carriageway which tries hard to protect you, at least to start with, with bollards and new-fangled 'armadillo' devices. The shared path, on the other hand, features an entrance from the left with no priority for cyclists, and a bus stop with attendant litter bin. Notice how the cycle lane narrows to pass the bollards but the vehicle lane doesn't.
In the distance, at and beyond the next junction, things get more tricky because planned developments for a second phase await the future (2018?) development of a new bus station, so there is still a messy right turn uphill and left round the back of the bus station into Mersey Square.
This is the first application in Stockport of the 'armadillo' which is supposedly designed to mark a mandatory boundary without creating damage if a car or lorry does hit it. However, these are nor clever rubbery things like the famous 'cats eyes' but are a hard plastic, which experience with Greater Manchester's first application, in Salford, shows can break up if hit by a vehicle. See the Mad Cycle Lanes of Manchester blog for more on this subject.


Bagels -probably better than you've every had before - right from your oven! One of many wonderful bread products made from Poolish.
In many ways, my journey to create excellent bread with home equipment began with bagels. I remember wanting to make bagels when I was in college and being told it was just too difficult. That was in 1969 and it took another 30+ years before I revisited the idea. What I found was that it isn't as simple as a sandwich loaf but it is quite within range of most home cooks.
Bagels at Home was my first DVD and still the most popular. If you've ever tasted a fresh bagel from an east coast bagel shop, but can't find one in your home town this DVD is for you. I've shipped Bagels at Home as far away as Bavaria and Thailand to help Americans who are home sick for that chewy flavorful taste of their youth.


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This is another post in The Skill List Project: an attempt to list all the skills involved in writing and selling fiction, particularly science fiction and fantasy. Last time, I talked about discipline, because I thought we'd finished talking about matters related to story content. However, I forgot about a big topic we haven't touched yet: comedy. So let's deal with that this month.
First of all, let's recognize that different people laugh at different things. This is one of the risks of writing an out-and-out comedy (as opposed to comic moments in an otherwise non-comic story)—you limit your audience to people whose sense of humor matches yours. I love Terry Pratchett's work, and of course, he's enormously popular…but I've read reviews by people who turn up their noses at his books. Obviously, those people don't find the books funny.
So it goes. I don't always laugh at things that other people find uproarious. But the same principle applies to em>any writing. You're never going to please everyone.
So you have to read a whole lot of comedy, and learn from it. You have to learn what works and what doesn't. Even more, you have to learn how it works. I'll wave my hands at some general principles, but you really have to study specifics if you want to understand how to execute comedy.
Learn about set-ups, laying pipe, callbacks, punchlines, timing tricks, and all the other techniques people use in every field of comedy. What's the difference between situation comedy and a comedy of manners? Which gimmicks work on a page of prose, and which require a specific tone of voice and delivery which may only be possible in a live performance? How do you simulate techniques of delivery, to the extent that simulation can be done on the page?
You don't need a clinical understanding of humor (although plenty of comedians have written books attempting to dissect how humor works). But you do need a well-informed grasp of humor's elements and how they go together. You can't write fiction if you can't structure a paragraph; you can't write humor if you can't structure a laugh.
Some years ago, there was an Olympic-level figure skater who was really good at jumps. She'd skate the length of the ice, then do a jump; then skate to the other end and do another jump; then skate to the other end and jump again. None of the other competitors could jump as well as she could…but she never won. She didn't have much of a program; she just jumped. She didn't frame her jumps with other content. She was exceptionally athletic, but not very entertaining.
The same is true in prose fiction: the reader's feelings toward a character affect the response to "funny" things that the character says or does. In comedy, characters often do things that are ill-advised…but a character's personality makes the difference between "lovingly stupid", "annoyingly stupid", or even "exhilaratingly stupid". The success of the humor depends on who's saying or doing it, and what the reader feels about that person.
There's a feedback loop between what a character does and what the reader perceives as that character's personality. If a character usually has witty clever dialogue, we'll perceive that character as clever. When the character says something superficially nonsensical, we'll think, "Oh (s)he's making a joke." We do this all the time in real life; we laugh when our friends appear to misinterpret something straightforward or when they say something "stupid"—we know them and know they don't mean it.
In other words, humor is often dependent on our understanding of someone's personality. In a story, humor contributes to characterization but it also relies on characterization. We don't understand the humor if we don't understand the people involved.
I have a number of friends who write humorous stuff and we all talk about our "commitment to comedy". We care about selling good laughs. We care about doing it right. I haven't said a lot here about how to be funny; my message is to take comedy seriously and to aim for it to arise in a natural way, as opposed to it being something separate from character, plot, etc. In a good story, nothing is separate—it's all a sweet gestalt where the elements are so tightly bound together that any given sentence is doing multiple things simultaneously.
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Another unique thing I found on the website is that the web designer has incorporated the basic design of the website's logo into most of the symbols used on the website. By symbols, I mean things like the Facebook logo, G+, Pinterest, Tweeter, and the rest. With other websites, web designers normally make these symbols or links to social networks as plain as possible. But the web designer of the Ayurveda Clinic Bansko went against that conventional thing and did his or her own thing. The designer could just have done brown circles with the social media symbols in them, but instead, he or she added the star-like effect to the circles to make them echo the website's logo. Creativity!
There is quite a lot of content on the website, but it's not overwhelming. The content is well spaced out and organized. I guess the guys behind Ayurveda Clinic Bansko wanted to provide as much information as possible about the Ayurveda healing technique. I would specifically suggest that you check their blog (click the 'Blog' menu item on the main menu) to learn all that there is to know about Ayurveda. There is more than enough information there about the history of the technique, how it works, what it is, and what you should expect from it.
The website's color scheme is brown. It uses shades of brown to distinguish different items on the web pages. At some points, you'll notice light brown, and at other places, there is brown-orange (a brown that looks like orange; for instance, the 'Requests' and 'Reservations' buttons). The website uses very clear pictures that depict the application of the technique. They do a great job enhancing the content on the website, and they also give you a glimpse of what to expect on the off chance you decide to go for the treatment.
The Ayurveda Clinic Bansko website has quite a lot of content and images, but the web developers of the site saw to it that they don't interfere with the website's performance. The pages of the site load fast. The website is also fully responsive; that means regardless of the screen size of the device being used to access it, one should have a good user experience.
The Ayurveda Clinic Bansko website is well organized, neat, and easy to navigate. It's unique in its own way, and its performance is good. Anyone should have an easy time exploring it and come out informed and healed.


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Offers theater education program for students on the Autism Spectrum and with Aspergers inside of their performing arts studio at PARC-Plymouth Arts and Recreation Complex. Spectra will be offered for students ages 14 and up on Thursdays from 4-4:45…
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Arts for All of Northern Michigan provides art and culture opportunities for people with disabilities and their peers, in Northern MI.
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When dining out at Westmeath you have a wide variety of restaurants to chose from. There is casual dinning, Irish, Modern Irish, Seafood, International and Vegetarian. Just to name a few.
The Irish Grove, in Althone, has a relaxed and modern atmosphere, hot food, excellent service, as the waiting staff are friendly and professional, and a great location, right on the river Shannon and overlooking the Althone castle. It is a great restaurant for the whole family. They have a children's menu, al carte menu or they will arrange a set menu for large groups, if requested. It has a full menu, including steak, chicken, fish, pasta. The sticky toffee pudding is wonderful. There are a large number of sections, so if you want a intimate dinner for two or a large group table this is the place for you.
The Kin Khao, in Althone, specializes in Thia cuisine. The decor is fresh and energetic. The staff are friendly and the food is pleasing. One of the best Asian restaurants in Ireland.
Oscars, in Mullingar, serves European and Irish cuisine. It has a relaxed atmosphere and friendly staff. The food is excellent and caters to various tastes. They have a new early bird menu, for great value. New dishes include chicken volcano and cod chunks in a mango salsa. This is delicious.
The Tyrellspass Castle restaurant, in Tyrellspass, serves Irish cuisine. It has good food and service in a charming setting. Menu includes roast beef, egg may, country vegetable soup, lasagna, and vegetarian lasagna, bread, butter, salads, coleslaw, potato salad, apple crumble, and much more. The restaurant is located in an old castle, very neat environment.
The Motte and Baily restaurant and Egan's Pub, in Moate, is a pub restaurant that has friendly staff and good food. It has a Georgian dining room.


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Traditional Korean Karate, taught by the Philadelphia School of Korean Karate. These two-hour classes include stretching, basic techniques, forms and freestyle sparring. This is a hard-style Korean Martial Art, which utilizes punching, kicking and blocking techniques, designed to enhance self defense, conditioning and self development. For registration information call 610-566-3536. Adults only. Master instructors Walt Beuchner, 6th degree black belt and Andrea Beuchner, 5th degree black belt.


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Engineering > News > Trap and neutralize: A new way to clean contaminated groundwater
Trap and neutralize: A new way to clean contaminated groundwater
Apr 13, 2016• by Erika Ebsworth-Goold
A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis have helped discover a new chemical method to immobilize uranium in contaminated groundwater, which could lead to more precise and successful water remediation efforts at former nuclear sites.
Neutralizing and immobilizing uranium in groundwater is the focus of new research from Washington University in St. Louis.
Researchers in the lab of Daniel Giammar, the Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, ran a series of experiments in a laboratory setting using water containing uranium — present in contaminated groundwater at various sites in the United States as a legacy of Cold War-era processing and waste disposal activities associated with nuclear materials production.
Calcium and phosphate work together chemically to immobilize uranium, which is shown to lead to increased cancer risk and liver damage in humans when ingested. Past field studies, including one at the Hanford Site in the state of Washington, focused on an in situ solution that injected phosphates directly into contaminated groundwater. Remediation efforts were not fully successful, because the scale of overlap for the calcium, uranium and phosphates was limited.
"A challenge with subsurface remediation is finding the right way to bring the necessary ingredients together in a poorly-mixed system," Giammar said. "In the field-scale test, much of the added phosphate never reached the uranium because it precipitated out near the injection well. The solution is to figure out scenarios where it is possible to send the phosphate to where the uranium is, and other scenarios where the phosphate can be added to a location where the natural groundwater flow will bring the uranium into contact with it."
The research was led by Giammar and Vrajesh S. Mehta, who earned his PhD at the School of Engineering & Applied Science. Other co-authors are Zheming Wang, senior researcher at the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory in Richland, Wash.; Jeffrey G. Catalano, associate professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University; and Fabien Maillot, former postdoctoral researcher in Catalano's lab.
In three different types of experiments conducted in Giammar's lab, the researchers first determined the exact level of calcium in the water. They were then able to add specific amounts of phosphate that formed calcium phosphate, chemically neutralizing and structurally incorporating the uranium. The exact combination of calcium and added phosphate rendered the uranium inert and trapped it in the groundwater.
Giammar's lab will continue this research, with the goal of developing a technique to tailor the location of phosphate injection that would be used in conjunction with the groundwater's existing calcium to remediate the uranium also present.
"The results of this work suggest that there will not be a one-size-fits-all approach to using phosphate to remediate uranium-contaminated groundwater," Giammar said. "With knowledge of the location of the uranium contamination and the composition of the groundwater, we can decide whether to inject phosphate directly into a plume of uranium-contaminated groundwater or to inject phosphate downstream of the uranium to form a calcium phosphate barrier."
The research findings were recently published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
The School of Engineering & Applied Science focuses intellectual efforts through a new convergence paradigm and builds on strengths, particularly as applied to medicine and health, energy and environment, entrepreneurship and security. With 88 tenured/tenure-track and 40 additional full-time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, more than 900 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.
Engineering Grand Challenge: Provide Access to Clean Water
"With knowledge of the location of the uranium contamination and the composition of the groundwater, we can decide whether to inject phosphate directly into a plume of uranium-contaminated groundwater or to inject phosphate downstream of the uranium to form a calcium phosphate barrier."
- Dan Giammar
"New Way to Treat Groundwater Contaminated by Nuclear Waste" wateronline.com


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