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The star next door
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The Mansfield swimmer went to Beijing unknown, but came back with two golds, the darling of the entire country. So, have the fame and adulation changed her? Not likely
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The comedian Russell Howard said it best when he summed up what we all love most about Rebecca Adlington. 'She's so normal it's fantastic, she looks like she could work at Greggs! You know, "I've gotta go bloody fast, I've left pasties in the oven!"' As a fan of comedy, no doubt OSM's Sportsperson of the Year would roar her head off at that. It is Adlington's 'Greggs' appeal that the British public relate to; her expression of delight after winning two Olympic gold medals was so human it won over a nation. The unpretentious 19-year-old from Mansfield is instantly likeable.
On the morning of the photoshoot, Adlington arrives straight from the pool wearing a Team GB tracksuit, her hair wet from a 6am training session. She is not precious about her appearance. She slings her coat over her lap, apologises to the stylist about the state of her hair - 'It was in such bad condition after Beijing I couldn't get a brush through it' - and gets down to the nitty-gritty of showbiz gossip from the previous night at the Cosmo awards.
There was Kim Cattrall ('Stunning in real life, not at all wrinkly'); drag queen Jodie Harsh ('At first I thought it was Jodie Marsh!'); and Trinny and Susannah ('They never grabbed my boobs, but I haven't got any anyway'); all were there to collect awards. Adlington's was Ultimate Sports Superhero, which meant having to negotiate the dreaded red carpet.
'I don't know how to pose to save my life,' she says. 'Someone said cross your legs, but my shoes were so high I'd have ended up wobbling and looking like a prat. You know how celebrities do that thing where they keep the same face on every single photograph? They never seem to get the whole... [contorts her face into a series of gurns] whereas I always get that photo where I'm mid-sentence and looking awful.'
As Adlington chats away, the stylist applies the curling tongs and there is a loud sizzle. 'Oh my God, is that my hair? I'm gonna leave with one side bald! Oh well.' Then, spying a large curl in the mirror, she lets out a delighted squeal: 'I feel like Sandy out of Grease!'
Adlington confesses she is a bit nervous about being photographed in a swimsuit. Why? She's an athlete, she's bound to look gorgeous. 'Are you kidding?' she screams, 'I've got massive bingo wings, look. I've got this armpit hanging out which is my pec muscle, it just, like, hangs over because it's so big. I've got man shoulders, I'm not toned at all. And after Beijing I've put on a bit of weight.'
Most people can reel off a list of things they dislike about their appearance, but they're either lying to make you feel better, or they really are unhappy. Adlington is neither, just honest. She yanks up her T-shirt and grabs a handful of her stomach. 'Look, I don't have a flat stomach. I've got the tyre. All the other girls on my swim team are skinny. Like literally nothing rolls over.
'I do get a bit insecure,' she continues, reflecting on all these new demands to be photographed. 'The worst thing is the photographer, because you feel like they must have shot so many gorgeous skinny people and then they've got to work with someone that's not.'
In fact, the resounding verdict around the studio today is, 'My God, hasn't she got great legs?' and 'Doesn't she look gorgeous?' She does. Serene and beautiful, but wonderfully unaffected as, sweating under the hot photographic lamps, she asks for a tissue. 'If you don't want to see something really disgusting, look away now,' she says, wiping the sweat from her underarms with a grin.
Adlington has been famous for only four months, but she has been swimming for 15 years. It started when she dived into a pool on holiday, aged four, and paddled about like a natural. So her parents took her for lessons at the local pool in Mansfield - due to be renamed after Adlington next month - along with her two elder sisters. It was Rebecca who showed the most promise, swimming competitively from the age of nine. By the time she was 12 she had joined her current coach, Bill Furniss, at the Nova swim club in Nottingham, making the 20-mile round trip from Mansfield twice a day.
All those years of dedication and hard work, yet before Beijing you had to scour the internet to find anything written about her. Swimming is rarely big news - even when she won 800metres gold at the world championships in Manchester in April this year, there followed just one national newspaper article. But Olympic medals are different, and after Beijing, with golds in the 400m and 800m freestyle, Adlington was instantly hailed as Britain's most successful swimmer in 100 years. How, then, does she reflect on her achievements?
'You know when I wake up in the morning I think, "Is it 5.20am already?" rather than, "Oh I've won two Olympic gold medals." It's something that will never quite sink in. The weirdest thing is just the fact that you can say, "I've won an Olympic gold medal". That is the scariest thing in the world. I'm just a 19-year-old girl. Everyone keeps saying it's really special, but I don't see myself as being special. It's like how you don't think you're beautiful but someone else thinks you're stunning.'
Adlington says she misses the Olympics, the camaraderie of being in a gang of friends. At times she makes it sound more like a holiday camp than a highly pressured environment for elite athletes.
'I loved it out there. The hardest thing was having to leave after we spent five weeks together. You found yourself picking up people's accents and phrases - you do though! Like if someone's being an idiot the guys called them a tool or a weapon, so when I got back home I start calling everyone a tool. When we got back together for the Olympic parade in London we had such a laugh on that bus, just being back together again was brilliant.'
But when it comes to her own performances, the memories are more sober. 'You know I was so nervous. Especially for the 800m. It is my main event, closest to my heart. Winning the 400m was an unexpected bonus, but to get a medal in the 800m, that was always my goal.
'Before the race I got really emotional. I thought I was going to throw up, then I thought I was going to cry, then I thought I was going to pass out. I had to lie down on the floor. Then I got in the call room 15 minutes before the race and suddenly I was fine. Michael Phelps was racing in the 100 fly and we were all watching it on the TV. It was so close at the finish, everyone was like, "Oh my God!" He won it by 0.01 of a second. I can't even click that fast.'
Wasn't her own 400m final, against the American Katie Hoff, similarly close? 'Oh no,' she says, casually, 'that was 0.07 seconds.'
The battle for the 800m title was more than just a second gold medal for Adlington. Breaking Janet Evans's 19-year-old world record was a physical experience more intense than anything she had ever endured. 'It was the most painful race in my whole entire life,' she says. 'I put every little bit of me into it, mentally and physically. When I finished my body collapsed, probably because I pushed it a little bit too far, but I was so wanting to do it and so up for it that the adrenaline just took over. Afterwards my body hurt, it had never been so sore. And you're drained. It wasn't just the pain, it was the nerves, all week I'd had them. People don't realise how tiring that is. You can't eat properly because you're so nervous. I lost 2kg in two days just from the heats to the 800m final.'
Early in 2005, when Adlington was 15, she had been forced to curtail her swimming when she and her elder sister Laura contracted glandular fever. The disease was not new to the Adlington family: the oldest daughter, Chloe, had gone through it five years before and suffered so badly she had been forced to give up swimming. While Rebecca battled with the disease and its after effects of chronic fatigue syndrome, the virus entered Laura's brain and she lay in intensive care fighting for her life.
'It was a rough time for us. Laura had encephalitis [swelling of the brain], I had my final year of GCSEs and wasn't feeling too hot. My mum was really worried. In those situations family comes first and swimming has to come last. So for a couple of months I focused on my family. My mum and dad were constantly at the hospital, Chloe did everything else - looking after the house and driving me to training, while we kept the rest of the family updated with phone calls. If there was any news, good or bad, or even if Laura just woke up and spoke to us we'd be ringing round to tell everyone.'
Adlington's coach, Furniss, wanted her to keep swimming so, with the agreement of her doctors, he created a pared-down regime. 'You have to keep the feel of the water going otherwise you lose your technique,' Adlington says, 'but every time I got in the pool I felt like I couldn't go anywhere. I felt as though I hadn't slept and yet I was sleeping 12 hours a night. I felt heavy all the time, like I was 40 stone. Bill was extremely good with it all. He never said, "Oh, she's ill, I'll leave her," he took a step back, made me go easy and got me right. It was hard, but I didn't ever complain because I'd seen what both my sisters went through, I was just grateful that I didn't have to give up swimming.'
Everybody agreed that swimming was the best thing for her, but Adlington's parents could not help but worry. 'You have two of your children with a similar type of viral infection,' says her mum Kay. 'You ask yourself all sorts of questions. We monitored Becky's training very carefully: if her appetite waned, if she couldn't sleep, if she was irritable. We didn't want to scare her, though, we didn't want her to feel this was the start of what Laura had. But she must have asked herself the question, "Will it do this to me?" In Laura's case the virus attacked both the front and back of her brain, which made it more complicated to treat. The doctors pumped her full of everything they could. It was up to her then. It was agonising.
'We carried on with as much normality as we could. School allowed Becky to drop one of her lessons so that after morning training she could come home and have a proper breakfast, and dry her hair. Before she was ill she just used to have her cereal in the car and go to school with wet hair. That sounds awful, doesn't it? But we were always on the go.'
Adlington's parents shielded her from the worst of Laura's illness, insisting that the other two daughters didn't visit her in intensive care. 'They didn't want us to see her there with all the tubes,' Adlington says. 'It was a terrifying time. But it was hardest on my parents.' That is not entirely true. Adlington had been tipped as a medal hope for the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, but her illness left her unable to compete, which was a tough disappointment to take.
In true Adlington style it isn't long before she starts cracking a few jokes. 'You know, when Laura started getting better we were a bit nasty,' she says with a smile. 'Where the illness had impacted on her brain she was doing some hilarious things. Like she thought there were little men dancing on the end of her bed, or that the drip in her chest was a baby, or the thing you wee through - the catheter! - she thought she was leaning on a pen and she kept trying to move it. It was funny, but it was also scary.'
Pulling through those events must have made her stronger. 'It did,' she says, 'it definitely made me stronger and I wouldn't be the person I am today without those things happening to me.'
With the final photograph taken, Adlington skips off to get changed back into her tracksuit, but keeps the Fifties-Style make-up on. 'I love it!' she says. 'I definitely want my hair like this for Sports Personality of the Year.' Following on from her OSM accolade, Adlington cannot wait for the BBC awards night in Liverpool on 14 December, at which she is a favourite for the top three. She can barely contain her excitement as she talks about the outfit she plans to wear; it is her effusiveness that makes her such a genuinely appealing candidate. She has already chosen her dress and her shoes: all she needs now is the trophy.
Watch a video of Rebecca Adlington collecting her OSM award.


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Russia: Moscow Press Critical Of NATO Stand
December 09, 1996 00:00 GMT
By Jan de Weydenthal
Prague, 5 December 1996 (RFE/RL) - Russia's forceful restatement of its opposition to NATO's plans for eastward expansion at the recent European security conference in Lisbon has prompted critical comments in the Moscow press.
This criticism has essentially focused on two elements. One is an assertion that the hard-line opposition to NATO plans may bring only limited benefits of short duration, while the solution to the problem could only be found in a compromise.
The other is an observation that Moscow's drive to reject the NATO plans has found little or no support, even among its allies within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). These seemed to have been interested in their own problems, rather than the NATO expansion issue. Only Belarus showed itself supportive of Russia's stand, but this may have proved illusory in itself, considering Belarus' dubious standing in the international community.
Writing yesterday in the Moscow newspaper "Segodnya," military and security commentator Pavel Felgengauer says that Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's address in Lisbon suggested a perceptible toughening of Moscow's policy.
"At present," he says, "the official line of Moscow is that Russia not only declares its full opposition to NATO expansion, but also refuses to bargain on guarantees and compensations that could be given by the West in exchange for Moscow's possible consent."
This tough policy could conceivably bring some Western concessions, particularly through an agreement to revise arms limitation treaties, such as the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE). But these negotiations could go on for a long time, without any significant impact on the NATO issue.
Furthermore, while Moscow's bargaining tactics for these negotiations may enjoy current support of some Western countries, their support appear basically opportunistic and temporary.
In the end, Felgengauer says: "Only compromise with Washington can prevent a long 'cold peace' in Europe." This was an apparent reference to President Boris Yeltsin's warning made two years ago at another OSCE summit that NATO's eastward expansion would usher an era of "cold peace" between the West and Russia.
Also yesterday, the Moscow daily "Kommersant" laments through a story by Georgiy Bovt that CIS leaders all but abandoned Russia in its quest to prevent NATO expansion.
Bovt says that neither Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma, nor Kazakstan's Nursultan Nazarbayev, nor Taijkistan's Imomali Rakhmonov bothered to support Moscow on the issue. They all were preoccupied with their own concerns.
Kuchma was said to have been "philosophical," focusing on the development of all European institutions. And he used the occasion to pique the pride of nationalist groups in Russia by obliquely emphasizing the principle of "inviolability of borders." The Russian nationalists periodically make claims to Ukraine's Crimea.
Nazarbayev was said to push the idea of Euro-asian economic cooperation, while Rakhmonov appeared only interested in talking about the war in Afghanistan.
Bovt goes on to observe that the two other CIS members, Armenia and Azerbaijan, were consumed by their own quarrels, rather than Moscow's policy concerns. And he notes regretfully that "only two CIS countries were mentioned together in the summit lobby, as though separated from all others by an invisible barrier: Russia and Belarus."
This "invisible barrier," he says, was the NATO expansion issue.


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est un jeu vidéo sorti sur NES en 1990. C'est la suite directe de Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode. Le jeu est basé sur le manga Golgo 13.

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Au-dessus de New York, un hélicoptère explose touché par un obus de M16. À bord de l'engin se trouve la dernière arme de guerre biologique qui a été secrètement mise au point par la CIA, Cassandra-G. Un vaccin et des plans ont été volés parmi les fragments de l'épave de l'hélicoptère. La CIA conclut à un acte commis par un sniper professionnel nommé Golgo 13.

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Jeu d'action-aventure
Jeu vidéo sorti en 1990
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Oglebay Festival of Lights Brings Winter Joy
A tunnel of twinkling lights welcomes you to the Oglebay Winter Festival.
Christmas wonder fills the air with a drive through the beautiful Oglebay Winter Festival of Lights in Wheeling, West Virginia. Adults and children alike catch the holiday spirit as they witness six miles of ninety lighted scenes on 300 acres. Here you'll find one of the largest light shows in the nation.
Oglebay's Good Zoo continues to light up for the holidays.
In 1980, Oglebay's Good Zoo staff decided they would decorate the Good Zoo with lights to attract more visitors in the winter months. "The Good Zoo Lights Up for You" began with dazzling lights and a holiday laser music show in the Benedum Planetarium.
The carnival atmosphere helps you enjoy the beautifully lit carousel.
Seeing the success of this project, the commission decided to expand it throughout Wheeling Park. Winter Festival of Lights began in 1985 when it had 125,00 lights placed on trees, buildings, and scenes. Five years later, the size of that show had doubled and continues to have added attractions and improvements each year.
Enjoy the lighted ferris wheel and the strong man ringing a bell.
No one tires of seeing the lights or driving in long lines of traffic to witness them. That just gives more time to enjoy the displays. Plan to spend the evening having a leisurely drive that captures the spirit of Christmas.
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More than one million people enjoy this light display each year. It has become a popular drive-thru for tour buses as well as family cars. The ability to see the displays from a higher view makes tour bus visits extra special. Or you can catch the trolley at Wilson Lodge on a first-come, first-served basis unless you make reservations in advance.
There are still several original displays that are visitors' favorites. These include the Candy Cane Wreath, the Twelve Days of Christmas, a 60′ tall Poinsettia Wreath, and the large Polyhedron Star. Some things never lose their charm.
A new feature this year is a 70′ tall Holiday Tree at The Hilltop
In 2021, a 70′ high Holiday tree is their newest feature. You can find it at The Hilltop. Enjoy thousands of dancing lights that combine color, music, light, and animation into the evening sky.
Santa directs the musical light display at Oglebay Mansion this year.
Sounds of the Season have been added to fourteen scenes so you might sing along as you drive the trail. Stop and watch Santa at the Oglebay Mansion as he conducts the musical synchronized light show there.
Families enjoy a walk through lighted blossoms in Gardens of Light.
They haven't forgotten the reason for the season. Inside the Carriage Glass House, you'll find a life-size nativity scene. It glows with the beauty of the season since the "Christmas Tree Garden" with 30 live decorated trees is nearby. Don't forget to walk through the "Gardens of Light" with lighted hanging baskets and illuminated flowers along the path. It's breathtaking!
Dinosaurs always catch the eye of youngsters.
The Winter Festival of Lights at Oglebay runs from Nov. 4, 2021, to Jan. 9, 2022. That gives you plenty of time to watch the light show after the holiday rush when you have more time to relax. It's a great way to start the new year.
New this year is a Holiday Dinner Show "Jingle This" at the West Virginia Public Theatre in Oglebay. Enjoy a holiday meal, then listen to the music and stories of several talented performers. This happens two weeks in November and three in December from Sunday through Thursday. Check their calendar for dates and reservation information at www.oglebay.com.
Christmas tin soldiers guard the roadway.
The gates open at 5:30 each evening and there may already be a line at that time. They suggest a $25 donation per vehicle to maintain and improve the Festival of Lights. Every $25 donor receives a Festival of Lights Vehicle Pass valid throughout the holiday season as well as an Oglebary Rewards book. However, it is a free show…donations are appreciated but not mandatory since it is a public park.
Don't miss the sights and sounds of Christmas at Oglebay!
Watching the Festival of Lights inspired Bob and Sue Ley to initiate a Christmas holiday tradition in downtown Cambridge. Dickens Victorian Village was created as well as their fantastic Courthouse Holiday Light Show.
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Wheeling Jamboree Celebrates 85th Anniversary – The Country Music Show with Tradition Like No Other
Capitol Theatre in downtown Wheeling, WV will host the 85th Wheeling Jamboree Anniversary.
Wheeling Jamboree lives on! The Historic 85th Anniversary of the Wheeling Jamboree will be held on April 7, 2018 at The Capitol Theatre in downtown Wheeling. Many of the stars will be familiar, and some new, but the country atmosphere will still fill the theater.
The jamboree originated in 1933 on the first Wheeling radio station, a 50,000 watt clear channel station – WWVA. One of its early announcers was Howard Donahoe, who later came to Cambridge to start WILE in 1948.
The late Mel Tillis was beloved by country music fans everywhere.
The working people of the Ohio Valley and the Northeast US have their roots in country music so the words in the songs ring true to their lives. That's why the Jamboree became a popular Saturday evening entertainment.
A unique diversity also appears in Wheeling. The Jamboree and the Wheeling Symphony both take place in Capitol Theatre. So no matter what your musical taste, it can easily be satisfied in Wheeling.
Johnny Cash made an appearance at the Jamboree early in his career.
William Wallace"Bill" Jones and the Sparkling Four was the first hillbilly act on the radio. They took requests over the telephone. Jones received many requests for yodeling songs and you may have heard him called Silver Yodelin' Bill Jones.
Due to the popularity of the Jamboree music shows, it was decided to add a live audience to the Jamboree on Saturday nights. The first stage performance of the World's Original WWVA Jamboree took place at the Capitol Theatre later in 1933 with all local talent, in front of an audience of over 3,000 fans. Then for decades, they broadcast from a different spot each Saturday evening.
Dolly Parton performed at Wheeling Jamboree in 1976.
During WWII, the Jamboree returned to the studio due to the war effort, then began stage performances after the war at Wheeling's Virginia Theater. One of the most popular Jamboree stars at that time was honky-tonk vocalist, Hawkshaw Hawkins. Add to that the Sunshine Boys and "Yodelin' Ranger" Hank Snow and people began looking forward to another evening of the Jamboree. If you were a top artist, you did the Jamboree.
Men would bring their cow bells with them as each bell had a unique sound. That way their family back home would know they were in attendance. Today, you'll still hear the sound of cow bells over the radio on Jamboree nights on WBPS in Cambridge and WWOV in Wheeling.
The cast of the 1945 Wheeling Jamboree gathered on stage.
During the late 1940s, my parents took me on perhaps my first gypsy road trip to Virginia Theater to see the Wheeling Jamboree. Two names stick in my mind from that long ago show – Hawkshaw Hawkins with Dog House Boogie, and Grandpa Jones, who later starred in Hee Haw. At the time, this was quite the adventure from the hills of Indian Camp.
When the Virginia Theater was demolished after 16 years of hosting the Jamboree, their new home became the Rex Theater for four years. Then it was moved to Wheeling Island Exhibition Hall in 1966.
Brad Paisley began playing at the Jamboree when he was ten years old.
Over the years, the Jamboree provided the perfect place for young local talent to get their start. Brad Paisley, from nearby Glen Dale, sang on the Jamboree at the age of 10 and played with their band weekly for eight years before moving on to Nashville.
Ronnie Milsap will be one of the performers at the 85th Anniversary.
The 85th Anniversary will be celebrated with well known country stars including Country Music Hall of Fame Members Ronnie Milsap and Charley McCoy. Add to that Wheeling native Tim O'Brien along with Darnell Milller, Rachel Whitcomb and more surprises. Emcee for the evening will be long-time country music personality, Keith Bilbrey.
Craig Wayne Boyd was a winner on The Voice, but appeared at the Jamboree long before winning.
Today the Wheeling Jamboree broadcasts on WWOV to the air waves of the greater Wheeling area. Dave Heath, president of Wheeling Jamboree, Inc. and WWOV, has been instrumental in keeping this musical program alive.
The interior of the Capitol Theatre has recently had a grand renovation.
Whether you know the Jamboree as the Original WWVA Jamboree, Jamboree USA or The Wheeling Jamboree it remains the 2nd oldest Country Music Radio Broadcast Stage Show in history, behind the Grand Old Opry. Celebrate their 85th Anniversary on April 7 at 7:00 at the Capitol Theatre.
Ticket prices range from $20-$65 and can be purchased online at www.capitoltheatrewheeling.com .You've got me thinkin' that a trip to the Jamboree would be the perfect way to spend an evening.
Capitol Theatre in Wheeling, WV can easily be reached off I-70 at Exit 1A. Take Route 40 straight downtown. The Theatre is on the right hand side at 1015 Main Street.
History, Just for Fun, Music, Uncategorized, West Virginia
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Craig Wayne Boyd
Grandpa Jones
Hawkshaw Hawkins
Silver Yodelin' Bill Jones
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WWVA JAmboree
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The Holiday Elegance of Oglebay Mansion Museum
An ice sculpture of two reindeer pulling a sleigh grace the lawn of historic Oglebay Mansion Museum.
A yuletide dream best describes the Mansion Museum at Oglebay Park in Wheeling, West Virginia during the holiday season. The mansion is dressed luxuriously for the holidays. Its elegant decorations serve as inspiration for ideas to embellish your home.
When arriving at the Mansion Museum on a late November day, the first thing to greet visitors was an ice sculpture of a sleigh pulled by two reindeer. Each year an ice sculpture is placed at the museum and will last as long as the weather stays cool. You can even have your picture taken in the sleigh.
The Oglebay family used this Oval Parlor as their private retreat.
Near the mansion you'll find the magical Christmas Tree Garden, which contains 30 live trees covered with colored lights. In the center of the garden stands a beautiful gazebo with a life size manger display created by a local artist in 1985. Nearly everyone who passes by, pauses to view the real meaning of the season.
The Dining Room is beautifully decorated for Christmas dinner.
The Mansion Museum, which was the summer home of wealthy industrialist Earl Oglebay, began this holiday tradition in 1973. Both professional decorators and amateurs help trim the mansion in period decorations as it would have appeared when it was built by Hanson Chapline back in 1846. Special care is taken not to damage the antiques on display.
"Books of Yesterday" became the theme for the Library where Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are being held by a young lady.
In 1900 Earl W. Oglebay purchased the estate and farm, which he called Waddington Farm. It became the most progressive model farm in the world. When Mr. Oglebay died in 1926, he left his estate to the people of Wheeling to be used as a park and an educational tool. They then turned it into what we know today as Oglebay Park.
The Federal Bedroom features Cinderella's ball gown.
Thirteen Victorian period rooms overflow with Christmas décor to put you in the holiday spirit. "A Storybook Celebration" serves as this year's holiday theme. Each room has been transformed with a touch of magic to fit a particular storybook idea.
Company would be entertained in the Empire Sitting Room decorated as "Deck the Halls" for this holiday season.
From "The Nutcracker" in the Child's Bedroom to "Deck the Halls" in the Empire Sitting Room, you'll find tasteful decorations to make you smile. "Not a Creature Was Stirring" in the Pioneer Kitchen, while they were "Stitching Family Tales" in the Sewing Room.
The Victorian Bedroom would be the perfect place for a bedtime story. "Nana, tell me a story!"
Throughout, there are recordings to tell you about the furnishings, paintings, and life of the family. But the mansion holds the history of the area as well.
Wymer's General Store is part of the Wheeling History Exhibition, which can be seen year round at Oglebay Mansion Museum.
A Pioneering Spirit Exhibit features the history of Wheeling. Included is Sinclair Pharmacy and Wymer General Store with candy case, meat wrapping paper and large thermometer. The store was especially enjoyed since it reminded me of my grandfather's store in Byesville sixty years ago.
Tigger and Winnie the Pooh visit Mr. Oglebay's office for "A Pop Up Christmas".
While you can visit Oglebay Mansion Museum throughout the year, Holidays at the Mansion create memories of days gone by. The Christmas decorations continue until January 8, 2017 so there's still plenty of time to make a trip to Oglebay. While there you will want to stay until dark to view the delightful Winter Festival of Lights at Oglebay Park, where 80 displays line a six mile drive, which covers over 300 acres!
Visit Oglebay Mansion Museum and the Festival of Lights, which inspired Bob and Sue Ley to create Dickens Victorian Village. Maybe you, too, will find inspiration there.
Oglebay Mansion Museum at 1330 Oglebay Drive can be found by following signs to Oglebay Park about four miles off Exit 2A of I-70 on Route 88 North in Wheeling, West Virginia.
History, Museums, Uncategorized, West Virginia
A Storybook Celebration
Christmas Tree Garden
Earl W. Oglebay
Hanson Chapline
Holidays at the Mansion
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Oglebay Park
Waddington Farm
Wymer's General Store
Summer Fun Awaits at Oglebay's Good Zoo
This red-tailed hawk travels as a Good Zoo representative from their Raptor Protection program.
The Red Panda is a zoo favorite.
Children and animals have a special bonding so it becomes only natural that children enjoy visiting the zoo. Oglebay's Good Zoo, a small zoo in Wheeling, West Virginia, gives children opportunity to get some up close and personal contact with many of their animals.The zoo was named in memory of Philip Mayer Good, a seven year old boy who left this world too soon.
In 1977, Philip's parents, Barbara and Larry Good, who managed the family business of L.S. Good in Wheeling, sponsored getting the 30 acres established as a place that all children could enjoy. Thousands of contributions poured in from the community, while school children collected jars of pennies to help the cause.
Originally, the animals at the zoo came from North America, but over the years endangered species have been added to the viewing area. That expanded list now includes: the Red Panda, Grevy's Zebra, African Wild Dogs, and Tamarin Monkeys.
Today the Good Zoo houses over five hundred animals. A walk down the shaded sidewalk fills a child's heart and step with wonder. What animal will they see around the next bend?
C.P. Huntington Train Ride
While the animals are the most important part of the Good Zoo, a ride on the C.P. Huntington Train takes visitors on a mile and a half ride through the edge of the zoo where many animals can be spotted. Everyone enjoys a ride on the open air train while the toot-toot of the whistle brings cheers from those on board.
Walk with the kangaroos.
Two of the newer exhibits are The Outback and Lorikeet Landing. The Outback contains Kangaroo Creek Mining Company, where you can pan for gemstones and fossils. A "G'Day Mates" sign welcomes you to an enclosed area with a sidewalk, permitting guests to walk within a couple feet of the kangaroos. The aviary section at Lorikeet Landing allows feeding the beautiful Rainbow Lorikeets while walking in their midst.
Take a break at the playground.
Let the children run off some of their extra energy at the outstanding playground. Here they can climb up ladders into forts, or crawl through tunnels until they're ready to walk on to the next animal adventure.
Donkeys like toys too. Here they play with a box and roll in the powder at the Red Barn.
The Red Barn has always been a favorite spot where friendly domesticated animals reside. Here you might see donkeys, goats, and llamas. Some you can get close enough to pet.
On the grounds, a Veterinary Hospital provides care for all the animals plus those in Raptor Rehabilitation. This program cares for injured animals found in the area. Owls and vultures had broken wings that needed repaired, while a red-tailed hawk became a permanent resident after the loss of one eye.
Find hands-on learning at the Discovery Center.
But there's more inside! The Good Zoo lists conservation and education as their key features. A hands-on Discovery Center lets students observe small animals such as dart frogs, turtles and tamarin monkeys. The Benedum Theater & Planetarium shares a wide variety of programs about nature and the universe.
Operators ready the O-gauge trains for the summer season.
A special section that entertains children and dads is their train display started in 1981. Here you will find West Virginia's largest public O-gauge model train exhibit with 900′ of track. Detailed buildings located on mountainous terrain combine with Lionel trains to create exciting viewing from every angle.
All through the year, the Good Year has activities which delight youngsters and parents alike. These include fun experiences at an Easter egg hunt, "Boo at the Zoo", and "The Good Zoo Lights Up for You" during the Christmas season.
Sounds like the fun continues all year long at the Good Zoo.
Oglebay's Good Zoo is located just off I-70 near Wheeling, West Virginia. Take Exit 2A and follow Bethany Pike, then make a left on WV-88 North. Signs along the way help greatly with directions.
Uncategorized, West Virginia, Wildlife
Benedum Theater & Planetarium
Boo at the Zoo
Good Zoo
J.P. Huntington Train Ride
Lorikeet Landing
O-gauge model train
Philip Mayer Good
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The Good Zoo Lights Up for You


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Trump's ban on travel from Europe just went into effect – here's what happens now
Published Mar 14th, 2020 1:06AM EDT
Image: STEFANI REYNOLDS/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
The federal government has taken a series of dramatic and sweeping steps to try and get the spread of the coronavirus here under control, and one of them just went into effect at midnight Friday night: A ban on travel from Europe imposed by President Trump.
The ban excludes US citizens but covers 26 European nations and is set to extend for 30 days. Here's what happens next, including what US citizens returning home will face, which includes stepped-up health screenings.
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President Trump's dramatic imposition of a travel ban on foreign nationals coming into the US from Europe just went into effect as of midnight, Friday night — one of several sweeping new measures the federal government has taken to try and bring the spread of the coronavirus under control. And on the same day, no less, that the World Health Organization declared that Europe is now the epicenter of the global outbreak of the virus.
Barring a change in conditions on the ground, Trump announced the ban in a Wednesday night speech televised from the Oval Office, and it's set to extend for 30 days. US citizens can still fly into the country from Europe, and it's not the entirety of Europe that's subject to the ban, so here's what you need to know (as well as what happens now) in light of the ban now being in effect.
First and foremost, US citizens traveling from Europe back here between now and April 13 should know that they'll be funneled into one of 13 airports so that they can be screened. That's according to CNN, which was told by Vice President Pence on Thursday that those Americans and legal residents returning from Europe will then be asked to self-quarantine for a 14-day period.
These are the airports those returning to the US will be filtered through:
California: San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
California: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Florida: Miami International Airport (MIA)
Georgia: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
Hawaii: Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)
Illinois: Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)
Massachusetts: Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
Michigan: Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW)
New Jersey: Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
New York: John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
Virginia: Washington-Dulles International Airport (IAD)
Washington state: Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
Image source: Wilfredo Lee/AP/Shutterstock
As a reminder, the ban affects foreign nationals coming from what's known as the Schengen area of Europe, which includes 26 countries like France, Germany, Norway, and Poland. The ban covers anyone trying to enter the US who's been in any of those countries over the preceding 14 days.
American citizens, as well as some family members and green card holders, are among the exemptions to this ban, but as noted they'll face additional screening measures once they arrive in the US.
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Q: Passing value from another function to another function on PHP I have two class separated on the difference page. What I want to do is to save a value returned from a function and passing it to the another function. I have the code below:
Class publicfunction (on publicfunction.php)
class publicfunction {
  public static function getqs() {
    $qs = array();
    parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $qs);
}}

Class be_mstpublc (on be_mstpublc.php)
class be_mstpublc {
  public static function setmstpublcpgtitle() {
    if(!empty($qs['mst'])) {
        switch($qs['mst']) {
            case 'A':
                $pagetitle = "A";
                break;
}}}}

Then on another page to implement the function above:
call_user_func(array('publicfunction', 'getqs'));
call_user_func(array('be_mstpublc', 'setmstpublcpgtitle'));
echo $pagetitle;

But it doesn't return any value.
Any ideas? Thanks..
-- EDIT --
I have passed a value on the URL, i.e.: localhost/test/index.php?mst=A

A: First, return the value, otherwise it doesn't go anywhere:
public static function getqs() {
    $qs = array();
    parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $qs);

    return $qs;
}

Then, accept it as a parameter:
public static function setmstpublcpgtitle($qs) {
  ...
}

Then, pass it:
$qs = publicfunction::getqs();
be_mstpublc::setmstpublcpgtitle($qs);

A: Your problem is one of variable scope. The method publicfunction::qs() is implicitly declaring a local variable called $qs. It is not accessible outside this method.
Normally, if you put storage in a class, you have multiple methods in the same class for setting and retrieving it. One solution is to put setmstpublcpgtitle into class publicfunction. However, this second method has the same problem. It needs to return $pagetitle, not just set it.

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In the past few years we have seen positive changes in the economic climate across Europe. Many things are beginning to change and one of these areas is the Bank Repossessions and what the banks are doing to clear their inventory.
Previously, most bank repossessions never got anywhere near the public domain with the real bargains being sold to bank contacts or employees and the not-so-desirable properties not being sold to anyone. Banks preferred to keep a property on their books if they felt the price it would sell at wouldn't be sufficient to cover the original loan plus costs and thereby built up a collection of assets with the intention of selling them off later at a price to cover any loss. This was a real financial gamble; not only for prices but they fact they where and still are spending millions on community fees and maintenance just to hold onto what is effectively 'toxic debt'.
Now the banks are having to get their own houses in order and have realised that there is a growing market of buyers out there who are interested in these great bargains. They have been looking for ways to market these opportunities to the general public and can do so with low starting prices and great finance packages. However, they lack the expertise and knowledge to be able to provide clients with the level of service and assistance they need.
Often there is just a local key holder who only speaks Spanish and it can be often very frustrating and a complete waste of time to attempt to do it yourself. We hear stories where 'individuals' want a payment to just put the offer forward the offer to the bank and without expert advice and guidance you may not even be buying it at the best price you can, this is of course why it make sense for us to do it all for you.
We are not talking unwanted properties on unfinished or "ghost" developments, but great value, highly desirable properties on consolidated urbanisations with fully functioning communities of owners. We can help you through all the ins and outs of buying a bank repossessed property as it is quite a different process to a standard property purchase and will work with you to make sure it is exactly the right property for you – as we do with all our buyers.
These repossession opportunities are available in all areas of the Costa Calida, Costa Blanca and Costa Almeria and at all price levels, starting from just €40,000 and with finance of 80-90%, and in some cases even 100% available (subject to status).
How can you take advantage of the amazing bank repossession opportunities out there? Simple, just talk to us.


Add map folder. What means "files:" ?
Within the latest version (3.36.x), is there a way to add an existing folder to the tracks manager. The idea behind is to be able to extend the use of the new powerfull search function to my main gpx backup folder, which was created before Locus pro installation. In my case, this folder is located in the main root of an additional microSD card and contains about 500 files.
Thank's for the answer. Do you think that this will result in a huge slow down of Locus Map due to this large number of files that need to be handled?
No - only if you activated (displayed on map) all those tracks at once.
Ok, I will give it a try immediately.


But seldom has this level of attention from students and employees been so focused on the finances of their own campuses. It coincides with what polls disclose is falling public confidence in higher education. And given the results, it seems likely to create more, not less, mistrust.
Higher education has become a popular public target. Fifty-eight percent of people polled by the think tank New Americasaid colleges and universities put their own interests ahead of those of students. About the same proportion in a Public Agenda survey said colleges care mostly about the bottom line, and 44 percent said they're wasteful and inefficient. And a Gallup poll found that more than half of Americans have only some, or very little, confidence in higher education.
The UN's children's agency, Unicef, has launched a futuristic pilot project to utilise the cryptocurrency Ethereum to raise money for Syrian children.
the "blockchain" technology associated with the cryptocurrency – the world's second largest after the controversial Bitcoin – to revolutionise not only how aid organisations raise money but also to increase transparency in their financial transactions.
Blockchain – which emerged as one of the underpinnings of Bitcoin – is a shared record of transactions maintained by a network of computers. It has become a key technology because of its ability to record and keep track of assets or transactions with no need for middlemen.


Organised classes have resumed for the year, and in the process we've discovered that these are very popular in Perth's homeschool network. It seems every corner of Perth has someone organising a day to a week of activities for homeschoolers- it comes of as very schooly to me- particularly as one friend pointed out, some people do send their kids every day. However this at least isn't usual, surely some of the fun of homeschooling should be having one's kids at home!
Willow and Gabriel both started musicianship at Cottage Children's choir this week. We've decided to leave off the choir this time, and Willow is focusing on musicianship and flute and improving her violin skills. Gabriel has just recently started guitar.
We spent a fortnight at Cottesloe for swimming lessons, and also headed to South Beach, near Fremantle and found another organic shop. It had the best ice-cream we've eaten since Scotland (other than home made) though sadly of course it wasn't Australian- it had come from New Zealand! We've also had Willow's, Damien's and my birthdays, and just have Gabriel's to go next week.
We've all been doing some woodwork the last couple of weeks- gradually getting through carving an egg.
I also finished carving a fish I started over a year ago! Arden is enjoying playing with him.
Willow was busy doing some sewing this week for Damien's birthday, she made him a pocket square. It took a bit of planning- finding some fabric Damien would like, lots of ironing, and pinning but it looked lovely at the end.
Willow's birthday cake, by Willow.
Aesop's Marrakech perfume for me. Got to love the Aesop details- it comes safety-pinned with a button.
Damien's cake with loads of candles (we still had these from my 35th birthday, so Gabriel and I decided lots of candles were in order).


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Senator Beardsley may refer to:

John Beardsley (New York politician) (1783–1857), New York State Senate
Levi Beardsley (1785–1857), New York State Senate
Samuel Beardsley (1790–1860), New York State Senate
William S. Beardsley (1901–1954), Iowa State Senate


"The knowledge and professional experiences I will accumulate during my time at UCI will be essential to my work as a planner."
The Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy's Master of Public Policy program recently hosted the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) California Regional Student Conference at UCI.
Our second-year Master of Urban and Regional Planning students showcased their practice-oriented exit projects at MURP Capstone Day on March 15.
Qi Bing and Kyle Webber, both second-year MURP students, received scholarships from the Orange County Association of Environmental Professionals (OCAEP).
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Q: I want to sent the message to the C# server using android, but give me NULLPointerException Why it gives me  NULLPointerException on this line
outputStream.write(array);

the WHOLE MainActivity
package com.example.phoneclient;

import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.Socket;

import android.R.string;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBarActivity;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Message;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.MenuItem;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.os.Build;

public class MainActivity extends Activity  {
    public Button privateButton;
    public Socket CommandSocket,receivingSocket,sendingSocket;
    public OutputStream outputStream;
    DataOutputStream doDataOutputStream;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        try {
            CommandSocket = new Socket("134.129.125.126",62431);
        receivingSocket = new Socket("134.129.125.126",52341);
        sendingSocket = new Socket("134.129.125.126",42311);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO: handle exception
        }

privateButton = (Button)findViewById(R.id.private_Mode);
privateButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View arg0) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    try {
        outputStream = CommandSocket.getOutputStream();

    } catch (Exception e) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    }
    String command = "1";
    byte[] array = command.getBytes();
    System.out.println("byte: "+ array);
    try {
        outputStream.write(array);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    }
});

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {

        // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
        getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
        // Handle action bar item clicks here. The action bar will
        // automatically handle clicks on the Home/Up button, so long
        // as you specify a parent activity in AndroidManifest.xml.
        int id = item.getItemId();
        if (id == R.id.action_settings) {
            return true;
        }
        return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }

}

I only want to send this "1"  to the server C# by click the button for testing. I don't know why.

A: If you'd logged the Exception and watches the stacktrace, you would have seen a NetworkOnMainThreadException
You can't open network sockets on the UI thread (in onCreate), so you need to create either an AsyncTask or a Service.


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Corporate friendship turned sour?
Vishal Sikka resigns as CEO of Infosys
News - Biz@India
/ By Shalini Dasgupta / Kolkata
Vishal Sikka was known as the CEO who walked barefoot on the grass lawns of the office premises
Vishal Sikka, the CEO and MD of global outsourcing company Infosys has called it quits after his three-year stint at the company starting August, 2014. It is believed strict criticism from Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys and former CEO is the primary reason behind the shocking resignation.
UB Pravin Rao has been named as interim CEO. Sikka will hold office as Executive Vice Chairman on the Board till 2018 or till new management is in place.
The Resignation Letter
Excerpt from Vishal Sikka's mail to his employees read:
"After a lot of reflection, I have resigned from my position as your MD & CEO effective today. A succession process has been initiated, with Pravin serving as interim MD & CEO, and I will work closely with the Board and management team over the next few months to ensure a smooth transition. In addition, I have agreed to serve as Executive Vice Chairman on the Board to further ensure continuity until the new management is in place.
#VishalSikka resignation was much needed in Infosys to reinvent glorious days of Narayan Murthy's as it's CEO #Infosys pic.twitter.com/j7ElR78xMy
— Nation First (@pankajsuper30) August 18, 2017
For days, indeed weeks, this decision has weighed on me. I have wrestled the pros and cons, the issues and the counterbalancing arguments. But now, after much thought, and considering the environment of the last few quarters, I am clear in my decision. It is clear to me that despite our successes over the last three years, and the powerful seeds of innovation that we have sown, I cannot carry out my job as CEO and continue to create value, while also constantly defending against unrelenting, baseless/malicious and increasingly personal attacks."
Bone of contention
"I was, and remain, passionate about the massive transformation opportunity for this company and industry, but we all need to allow the company to move beyond the noise and distractions," Sikka mentioned in his mail to his employees following his resignation as the CEO and MD of Infosys.
The more puns I see on #VishalSikka on Twitter today, the sikka I get! Wish they could coin something better! For a change! #infosys #puns
— Sonal Dabral (@agracadabra) August 18, 2017
Disagreements between Murthy and Sikka began as early in 2016 when the co-founders of Infosys disapproved after the board hiked Sikka's pay by 55 pc upto a whooping $11 million. Sikka was re-appointed as MD and CEO with revised pay after a resolution was passed in his favour. During the same time, the Board approved INR 173.8 million severance pay to ex-CFO, Rajiv Bansal thereby upsetting the co-founders led by Murthy more. Later that year, Infosys stopped payment of severance package to Bansal. In the meanwhile Infosys welcomed DN Prahlad as an independent director at Infosys, who happens to be a relative of co-founder Murthy.
By 2017, the Infosys founder-promoters and Board and Management were at loggerheads over corporate functioning and conflicts despite the success rate proving them (founder-promoters) otherwise. Murthy publicly started criticising the board and management for "lapses in corporate governance."
Sikka's high-salary has always been a primary point for tiffs between Murthy and Sikka. It is believed that at one point, Sikka's salary has been higher than any of his peers at a staggering INR 487.3 million in FY 15-16. Only next to him is TCS CEO, N Chandrasekaran with INR 256.6 million in FY 15-16.
It was until recently that Murthy claimed that three independent directors of Infosys told him that Sikka was more suited as a CTO as opposed to a CEO.
An official communication released by the Bengaluru-based Infosys' board stated, "Mr. Murthy's continuous assault, including this latest letter, is the primary reason that the CEO, Dr. Vishal Sikka, has resigned despite strong Board support."
Where does Infosys stand?
According to Vishal Sikka's mail where he cited Infosys' growth in the recent years, "We have grown our revenues, from $2.13 bn in Q1FY15 to $2.65 bn this past Q1. We did so while keeping a strong focus on margins, closing this past quarter at 24.1 pc operating margin, beating some competitors for the first time in many years, and improving against most in our industry. Perhaps more importantly, our revenue per employee has grown for six quarters in a row. We grew our $100 mn+ clients from 12 when I started, to 19, and increased our large deal wins from ~$1.9 bn in FY15 to ~$3.5 bn this past year. We've done all this while improving our overall utilisation, to a 10-yr high this past quarter, and an all time high including trainees, while improving our cash reserves, rewarding employees with a new equity plan, and returning cash to our stakeholders. And we have done all this while improving our standing with clients to the highest ever in the 12 years since we've done our client satisfaction survey, and a jump of 22 points in CxO satisfaction."
Ravi Seshasayee, who leads Infosys Board states, "There is no dissent among Board members. The board tried its best to address the concerns of the co-founders, but with limited success. There will be no change in buyback plans, none of the projects in motion will be stopped."


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- [Description](#description)
- [Requirements and Dependencies](#requirements-and-dependencies)
- [Installation](#installation)
- [Configuration](#configuration)
- [Usage](#usage)
- [Metrics](#metrics)
- [License](#license)

#### FEATURES

##### Built-in dashboards

- **Docker Hosts**: Overview of all data from Docker hosts.

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- **Docker Host**: Focus on a single Docker host.

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- **Docker Container**: Focus further on a single running Docker container.

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- **Docker Neighbors**: (Optional Dashboard) Container resource allocation metrics.

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### USAGE

Sample of built-in dashboard in SignalFx:

![](././img/dashboard_docker.png)

### LICENSE

This integration is released under the Apache 2.0 license. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE) for more details.

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From "Pacifica Watch" blog:
movie in KPFK's parking lot
Excerpt: "…ch a diminution (by-law Article 17, Section 1(B)(3)(v)). Yes, that again. The right affected is that of voting, by making it more difficult to vote on a by-laws amendment brought by just one of the three possible routes, a members' petition: the threshold has been raised from 1% of members to 5% (so today, from ~435 to ~2 175). How difficult is this? At the last LSB voting round, Aug-Oct2019, a provisional 6 085 voted; given this, it can be said the effective threshold has been raised to something like 35%, a third of typical voters, so beyond the clouds, from 7.1% to 35.7% (435 ÷ 6085, & 2175 ÷ 6085). (The 6 085 is provisional because National Elections Supervisor Renee Penaloza, presumably breaching her contract, still fails to submit her final report!) Silly question I know, but before voting on Th25June did the PNB inform themselves by getting an estimate of the cost of litigation? https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb200625/pnb200625_6541_minutes.pdf (pages 9-11)
on a matter that no-one would deem trivial, & is indeed a test of morality, why were all the directors silent, even those from KPFA? And what about Margy Wilkinson's dad, & the forgotten Smith Act?
(A post will not be made on the unsavory attempt to remove PNB Chair Alex Steinberg (WBAI listener-delegate) & PNB Secretary Grace Aaron (KPFK listener-delegate) from their positions, Th2 & 9July. Pacifica boards are nasty. Toxic. The dynamic brings out the worst in people. It's as if they enjoy their symptom. Here, yet again, the observing ethnographers were able to record a typically sly manoeuvre by Chris 'Cowardly' Cory (KPFA listener-delegate). This time it was a sorry-I-couldn't-get-the-motion-to-you-in-time-for-the-proposed-agenda-as-I-was-still-writing-it (8:56, https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb200702/pnb200702a.mp3 & https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/pnb200702/pnb200702_6464_minutes.pdf). There's a pattern here. His most disingenuous was when he was Chair of the PNB Finance Cttee the day after the WBAI coup, faking amnesia (what-day-is-it?), feigning ignorance, then largely faking empathy, laced with guilt, wrapping his arms around R Paul, WBAI's treasurer, "I-I-I I can't express how much grief I have over this-this last-uh few days […] I don't have words for it […] if it were my place to apologise I would" (0:01, 5:40, 20:37 & 27:46 https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/finance/191008/finance191008a.mp3, & 1:05:41 https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/finance/191008/finance191008b.mp3). Self-denigration is a sorry spectacle. And as mom must have told him, no-one likes a liar.)
why are directors choosing to omit a lil detail in their latest reports to their local station board, that the PNB has rejected an offer to buy WBAI's broadcasting licence? (Note, this was not a proposed signal swap.) …"
https://pacificaradiowatch.home.blog/2020/08/02/shortly-posts-will-be-made-of-completed-june-july-drafts-not-least-about-a-dish-best-served-cold-pacifica-suing-john-carlo-vernile-former-ed/
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Celler de Capçanes, Montsant
Located 100 miles southwest of Barcelona and 20 miles inland from the Mediterranean sea, Capcanes is at the heart of a long wine growing history dating back to the middle ages.
Village of Capcanes
Capçanes, a village hidden away in the Priorato hills inland from Tarragona, is the source of many fine wines today with a long wine growing history. Prior to Phylloxera at the turn of the 19th century the region was very densely planted but after the devastation caused by this insect only about 1/5th of the original vineyards were replanted predominantly with Garnacha, which was the popular grape variety. Some of those vineyards, approaching 100 years old, still exist today and are in production although yields are low.
Terraced stony vineyards
Capçanes has the privilege of the use of a wide range of different soils and altitudes. Calissa (limestone), Licorella (slate), Argilla (clay) and Panal (sand).
Cabrida Vineyards
There are 15 plots of old bush vines that go into the production of Cabrida. These range from 85-105 years old and are planted on slopes and old terraces at 300-500m.
Jürgen Wagner
Jürgen Wagner, having studied at Geisenheim and University of Tarragona, brings his experience to composing and styling the blends.
A little village of 400 people hidden in the hills of Catalan countryside inland from Tarragona exists mostly for its co-operative.
Growing olives, a little cereal but mostly grapes with around 220 hectares of vineyard Capçanes, alone in the Montsant DO almost certainly has more old vine Garnacha than the whole of Priorato. Lauded some years ago by the International Herald Tribune as one of the best co-ops in the world Capçanes was at the forefront of the movement to revitalise the wine production and economy of the Priorato region.
There are around 70 families involved in the co-op and the management take their wellbeing to heart. They have run educational programs to convince the growers to cultivate organically, more to persuade the growers to minimize the risks they run while handling potentially dangerous chemicals as much as to preserve the environment. Nowadays over 50% of the vineyards are organic while around 90 HAs have been certified.
Working with Garnacha predominantly but with vineyards of Samso (Cariñena) Tempranillo, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Pinot Noir, Macabeo and Garnacha Blanca scattered over sites on the hills that rise up around the village giving altitudes ranging from around 250 to 550 metres.
Sense Cap Blanc
Vimblanc Blanc De Noir
Mas Donis Rosat
Mas Donis Negre
Mas Collet
Peraj Petita (Kosher)
Peraj Ha'abib (Kosher)
Pansal del Calàs (50cl.)
www.cellercapcanes.com


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Lisa's other frequently performed roles include the principal female leads from Verdi's Aida, Otello, La Forza del Destino, Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Il Trovatore; Puccini's Tosca; Beethoven's Fidelio; Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, Chrysothemis, Klytamnestra and title role of Electra, both Die Kaiserin and Die Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Salome; Wagner's Lohengrin (Elsa), Der Fliegender Holländer, Tannhäuser (Elizabeth); d'Albert's Tiefland; Gluck's Dido and Aneus; Mozart's Don Giovanni (both Donna Elvira and Donna Anna); Giordano's Andrea Chénier and Bartóks Bluebeard's Castle.
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Although Lisa already had an established career in Australia, in 1991 she came to international attention by winning The Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. She remains the only Australian to have done so.
Lisa has won many awards including the 1992 Advance Australia Award, 3 Helpmann Awards, the 2002 Sidney Meyer Performing Arts Individual Award and the 2003 Bulletin Magazine Smart 100 (Arts Category). She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2006 for her services to the Arts.
Lisa's film appearances include the BBC's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition Past Winners, Australian Opera 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert and the Siegfried Brünnhilde in Stuttgart Opera's Ring Cycle.
Her recordings include Lisa Gasteen "Singer of the World" Walsingham Classics, "Tiefland" by d'Albert on Oehms Classics, "Transcendent Love" on ABC Classics and "The Ring Cycle" live recording on the Melba label.
In 2011 Lisa established The Lisa Gasteen National Opera School, located at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music Griffith University, Brisbane, to help, mentor and develop the skills and progress of Australian operatic singers and répétiteurs.


This is a workflow issue. If I select "rip CDs" and point to a specific destination folder on hard drive, I see that the resulting MP3 files, for successive discs, have duplicate names as far as the first seven characters. E.g., after ripping the first two disks, the names of the first two mp3 files are" 01 - 01_Penguin . . . " and "01 - 01_It happened . . . " The whole names of the chapters are unique, but they cannot be sorted in correct order by any technique. They could be reordered manually, of course, but the workflow would be horrible.
It would be possible, very tediously, to rename all of the 157 tracks after they have been converted to MP3 on the hard drive, so that they would sort correctly, before burning to an optical disk or transferring to an ipod. This would require noting the origical chapter names of all 157 chapters, setting up a renaming scheme that would have to be performed manually.
Or so it seems to me. I may be overlooking some simple process for having the 157 chapters on 12 discs rip in a way that would correctly order them onto the hard drive.?
For a single music CD, the workflow would be manageable,but for 12 discs with 13 "cda" files each, it is too much for me.
Because many people might want to convert a multidisc audio book to a single disc MP3 CD, or an ipod, there may be a simple workflow process already available. But I do not know about it.
All that info and you never mention the application your using?
Have you tried Music and Audio, Batch Convert and Transfer, Roxio Audio Converter?
Can you give another couple examples of the file names after they're ripped? What characters do the second and third tracks start with?
ren "01 - *.*" "02 - *.*"
Which will rename all the files in the folder to start with "02".
I presumed, incorrectly, that the listing of my hardware and software at the bottom of my post would be enough to reveal "NXT Pro" as my version. Actually is it NXT Pro 2. I must have forgotten how to revise that listing, and even though it is off-topic, I could use baby-step instructions on how to do so.
I have begun using "batch convert and save." Probably because the commercial audiobooks place track numbers as part of each track name, as the first three characters -- or at least in the one I am dealing with -- There are still some file name changes I need to make. I have a utility that can batch rename, and it seems that I cannot avoid manual--although batch-- renaming, to allow sorting in correct order.
But because many people would want to achieve converting bunch of audiobook discs to a single MP3 disc, I thought that there would be a really simple workflow.
Perhaps there is a way to inhibit the "01_" and "02_" etc from being placed at the front of each track name for each track file.
I don't think you're missing anything. It looks to me like the file names may be actually in the CD Information on the disc, but I only guess that based on the consistency of the names across discs.
I'm honestly not seeing a really simple way to do what you're wanting to do while ripping them. I figured out how to get the file name to have the disc number in front of it, but Batch Convert and Save doesn't update the track name in the MP3 tag data based on the file name.
I'm a little disappointed with that, but nope... I'm not seeing a way of doing it except by the "post processing" way you're doing.


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Wii Virtual Console games will transfer over and be playable on Wii U. In an interview with ABC News, Nintendo Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing Scott Moffitt revealed that users would be able to transfer over their Wii Virtual Console games. These games would retain their original display resolution, as they do on the original Wii.
Slim details, but good to hear!
I expected this, but it's good to confirm it.
Do you think WiiWare is included in that too?
I never downloaded any VCs to my Wii.
That's probably good, cause I won't be needing to do transfers and stuff.
I'm not planning on getting a Wii U before than 1/5 years from now, so I won't be having problems with eShops and such when I get my hands on one hopefully.
Maybe now is a good time to make a list of virtual console games I wanted in my Wii, so I can get them, in my new console I will get as soon as the right time comes.
"These games would retain their original display resolution, as they do on the original Wii."
I'd have to imagine that the games will transfer over and just work within the confines of whatever the new emulators can do (save states and what have you).
Would REALLY like to get a glimpse at the kind of dashboard that the WiiU will have.
I really doubted they'd do this and was totally prepared for some bullcrap excuse about how the system owned the game and not the owner.
I assumed we we going to have to re-buy all our titles.
I'm curious to see if and how our Club Nintendo accounts will be linked to any future purchases. I guess they'll do it the same way as on the 3DS.
A bit of advice to everyone: Don't go selling your Wii just yet. You'll probably need it to transfer over the games to your Wii U, just like with the DSi and the 3DS.
I've known this all along. I was never worried.
You know what that means? (Or SHOULD mean at least?) VC games on the tablet. Awesome.
Cool. After 3DS, I thought they would be, but it's nice to see it confirmed. So if I keep my Gamecube, do I need a Wii now? Gamecube controller support in Brawl and other such games would be the only reason that I can think of to keep it.
And that would also be cool.
Awesome! I can move the Wii to my bedroom, much to my wife's delight!
It's funny, because it's a feature that I personally "demanded," but I still half-expected them to weasel their way out of it. If they are trying to instill our trust in digital downloads, it's a necessity. We have to feel like we own our games, even if we don't have a physical copy.
Going by the 3DS precedence, I'll say that no, the WiiWare games (i.e. the only transfers that matter) will not be transferred to WiiU. Prove me wrong Nintendo.
Sorry, I confused the DSiWare with the 3DS digital retail downloads which Iwata said would remain tied to a system. My bad.


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Q: If $\lambda$ is an eigenvalue of a nonnegative symmetric matrix with zero diagonal, is $-\lambda$ also an eigenvalue? If $A$ is an $n \times n$ with $n\geq 2$, non-negative (i.e. no negative elements), symmetric matrix with zero diagonal, is it necessarily the case that the set of all eigenvalues of $A$ can be written $L=\{\pm\lambda_0,\pm\lambda_1,\cdots\}$?

A: No. A simple counterexample:
$$
\pmatrix{0&1&1\\ 1&0&1\\ 1&1&0},
$$
whose eigenvalues are $2,-1,-1$.

A: No, take $$A=\begin{bmatrix}0 & 1 & 1\\ 1 & 0 & 1\\ 1 & 1 & 0\end{bmatrix}$$
which has eigenvalues $-1$ and $2$.


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Weekend Preview: Tomahawks Visit Rebels For Marquee Matchup
by Hawks Media
TOMAHAWKS (11-1-1) at REBELS (13-2-0)
Location: IceWorks Skating Complex Aston, Pennsylvania
Faceoff: Tonight (7 p.m.) Saturday (7 p.m.)
THE JOHNSTOWN TOMAHAWKS
The Tomahawks are coming off a two-game sweep of the Northeast Generals which saw Johnstown score a combined 12 goals in two victories. The team has won five consecutive games going into this weekend's series with the Aston Rebels.
Dalton Hunter leads the way for Johnstown. His impressive start, along with linemates Filips Buncis and Donovan Ott, have been key factors into the Tomahawks' 11-1-1 record to begin the season. Hunter, a Greensburg native, has tallied 10 goals and seven assists in 13 games played, including two goals against the Generals last weekend.
The Tomahawks have five players averaging a point per game. Hunter, Buncis, Ott, Hayden Rowan and Samuel Solensky are all point-per-game players.
Speaking of Rowan, the Pemberville, Ohio, native is enjoying a six-game point streak (two goals and eight assists). Rowan was a Tomahawks draft pick in 2016 has proven to be a vital part of the second of the team.
This will be the first meeting of the season between Johnstown and Aston. The Tomahawks have an all-time record of 6-9-1 against the Rebels with the last victory coming on March 25, 2016 ina 4-0 win in Aston.
Donovan Ott is tied for the NAHL lead in power play goals with six on the season.
Ott and Hunter are tied for the league lead in game-winning goals with three a piece.
THE ASTON REBELS
Aston are riding a six-game winning streak and averaged 4 goals per game during that span. Led in scoring by '97-born forward Andrew Bellant with 18 points (11 goals and seven assists), the Rebels raced out of the gate to a league-best 13-2-0 record. The Rebels have the highest goal for in the league (63) and the fewest goals allowed (26).
The Rebels represented the East Division at the 2016 Robertson Cup Tournament in Edina, Minn., but were swept by the eventual champions, the Fairbanks IceDogs.
There are a few returning Rebels that Tomahawks fans will be familiar with including captain Dom Garcia, Latvian defender Gvido Jansons, Russian forward Evgeny Yakovlev and defenseman Brennan Kapcheck to name a few.
Jansons has picked up where he left off last season as he has been an offensive producer for the Rebels back-end with five goals and eight assists. Kapcheck is the second-leading scorer among Rebels defensemen with 13 points (three goals, 10 assists).
Much like the high-scoring Tomahawks, Aston endured some roster turnover after the 2015-16 season. However, several newcomers have been instrumental in the Rebels success including Gianluca Esteves,a Winnipeg native, who is the fourth leading scorer for Aston (five goals, 10 assists) and goaltender Mareks Mitens, who has earned a 9-2-0 record in 11 games played for Aston.
Bellant is the second-leading scorer in the NAHL with 18 points.
The Rebels own the the third-best power play in the league, clicking at 30 percent.
Additionally, Aston's fifth ranked penalty kill is clicking at 86 percent.
How To Watch: HockeyTV
Fans can follow the Tomahawks social media accounts for updated action throughout the weekend.
Tomahawks Sweep Generals with 6-3 Win
Rebels Edge Tomahawks 4-3