Ant-Man and the Wasp created a whole lot of buzz, thanks to some incredible trailers. The film has hit the screens today and let us check whether the movie lives up to the humongous expectations laid upon it.
Scott Lang(Paul Rudd) is a struggling father who finds it tough to cope up with his parental duties as he is paying the price for his deeds in the past(Misusing the Ant-Man suit). To his surprise, he is approached by Hope Van Dyne(Evangeline Lilly) and Hank Pym(The creator of the Ant-man suit) who are on a mission of finding their beloved family member. Scott sees this as a perfect opportunity to make amends for his wrongdoings. Little does he know that he is putting himself in immense danger. What is that mission? What are the hurdles Scott has to overcome? What is the mind-boggling twist that opens the lid to a wide range of speculations regarding Avengers 4? Catch the movie on big screens to know the answer.
The inclusion of Wasp in this Ant-Man outing adds a lot of punch to the core plot. The director creates a perfect fusion of emotions and fun between Ant-Man and Wasp, enhancing the chemistry between the lead pair.
The theory of quantum realm is used extensively and this field of physical science plays a key role in the plot. The writers did a great job in keeping things simple and came up with instantaneous explanations(Conversations between characters) that clear the doubts on the minds of the viewers.
Paul Rudd proves that he is the right actor to fill in the shoes of Ant-Man. His comedy timing is on point and he is near-to-perfect in the role of a superhero(or a miniature hero in this case) who knows very little about what is happening around him.
Here comes the most awaiting part. As revealed earlier, the sequence that runs after the post-credits offers a massive twist in the tale for the audience who have watched Avengers Infinity War.
Similar to the first part, Ant-Man and Wasp is stuffed with comedy and emotions that could, at times, supersede the core plot. The movie takes its own sweet time to get into the storyline and that may put off a section of the audience.
For the most part, the director keeps giving indications that the climax will be filled with drama. However, things come to an end on a dull note and the viewers can easily predict what is about to happen for the last half an hour or so. This will surely disappoint many viewers who expect some engaging action, owing to the buildup sequences that are shown in the first half.
During the climax episode, things get slightly engaging, but the time-lapse sequence that runs on the lead cast affects the flow of the film. Also, the pre-climax episodes look a bit rushed and the uneven screenplay is to be blamed here.
The director, Peyton Reed manages to keep this movie as a fun ride and that will go well with a younger section of the audience. However, one may expect more drama from a Marvel outing, but that is not the case with this movie.
The music department has done a commendable job as the sound that has been used during scenes relating to quantum physics create an authentic vibe. The movie has a fair share of action sequences, but the short and crisp approach towards these episodes will work in its favor.
On the whole, Ant-Man the Wasp is a fun ride that runs high on comedy and emotions. The mind-boggling twist that is unleashed after the post-credits is one to watch out for all the followers of Avengers franchise. This outing from Marvel will fill your cravings for action but falls short on drama. Barring this flaw, Ant-Man will surely keep you entertained for 2 hours and that is enough for you to go and watch the film.


Never a place to rest on its laurels or leave its stage dark for too long, the Bay Theatre Players has begun work on its second production for the year, Shakespeare's Macbeth which will be onstage in July/August and follows on from the very successful A Midsummer Night's Dream. Whilst Dags was in its final weeks of rehearsal the directorial team of Sam Lloyd, Kath Joyce and Jack Helmore held an information session and auditions for Macbeth. As a voluntary organisation it is desirable to include everyone who wishes to be a part of a show, though this is not always possible given the constraints of the number of characters in each production. Macbeth is a production with many characters and this has allowed us to include everyone who wanted to be involved. So the cast of 26 people has been finalised with a number of actors having multiple roles. There were also numerous folk interested in being involved backstage or in the technical areas. Lighting and sound designer Martyn Lloyd is excited to have some experienced assistance to create the atmospheric environment needed for the various scenes - from a supernatural heath, a castle and cavern to the final big battle between Macbeth and Macduff. The cast and crew came together for the first time last weekend to read through the script, to begin working on the set and costumes and to have a theatre working bee. It was the first time they have come together as a group and they worked hard together throughout the day. There is no doubt that over the course of the production new friendships will be formed. It is never too late to get involved with the theatre and to put your hand up to help out. Whilst the cast is complete we will always welcome more people to assist with set building and painting, costume making, backstage, props, dressers or tea and cake making. If you are interested please contact Sam Lloyd on 0410 525 705 or sam@webnall.com. Don't forget the next play study Thornton Wilder's Our Town will be held at 7pm on Tuesday, April 16, at the Bay Theatre Playhouse, 33 Gregory Road, Batemans Bay.
Never a place to rest on its laurels or leave its stage dark for too long, the Bay Theatre Players has begun work on its second production for the year, Shakespeare's Macbeth which will be onstage in July/August and follows on from the very successful A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Bonding over Shakespeare: Cindy Reed and Narell Murdoch at the first get-together of the cast for Bay Theatre Players' production of Macbeth.
Whilst Dags was in its final weeks of rehearsal the directorial team of Sam Lloyd, Kath Joyce and Jack Helmore held an information session and auditions for Macbeth.
As a voluntary organisation it is desirable to include everyone who wishes to be a part of a show, though this is not always possible given the constraints of the number of characters in each production.
Macbeth is a production with many characters and this has allowed us to include everyone who wanted to be involved.
So the cast of 26 people has been finalised with a number of actors having multiple roles.
There were also numerous folk interested in being involved backstage or in the technical areas.
Lighting and sound designer Martyn Lloyd is excited to have some experienced assistance to create the atmospheric environment needed for the various scenes - from a supernatural heath, a castle and cavern to the final big battle between Macbeth and Macduff.
The cast and crew came together for the first time last weekend to read through the script, to begin working on the set and costumes and to have a theatre working bee.
It was the first time they have come together as a group and they worked hard together throughout the day.
It was the first time they have come together as a group and they worked hard.
There is no doubt that over the course of the production new friendships will be formed.
It is never too late to get involved with the theatre and to put your hand up to help out.
Whilst the cast is complete we will always welcome more people to assist with set building and painting, costume making, backstage, props, dressers or tea and cake making.
If you are interested please contact Sam Lloyd on 0410 525 705 or sam@webnall.com.
Set design team: Ruth Henderson, Bill Douglas, Paul Perkins and Jon Benn sorting out the materials in the shed to be used in the construction of the Macbeth set.
Don't forget the next play study Thornton Wilder's Our Town will be held at 7pm on Tuesday, April 16, at the Bay Theatre Playhouse, 33 Gregory Road, Batemans Bay.


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The Army's New Rifle Comes With Facial Recognition
The U.S. Army's New Rifle Comes With Tech Found in Tanks and iPhones
The Next Generation Squad Weapons have a built-in ballistics computer, facial recognition, and hydrophobic glass.
By Kyle Mizokami Published: Jun 3, 2019
U.S. Army photo by Capt. Daniel Parker/DVIDS
The U.S. Army's next generation rifle and machine gun will have a number of features borrowed from other products, whether computers that used to fit inside tanks to cameras that come with high-end smartphones.
The Next Generation Squad Weapon, which will arm infantry and other ground troops, will incorporate new technologies never brought to the field of small arms before, including target tracking, facial recognition, and hydrophobic coatings for lenses.
According to Military.com, the Army's new solicitation for the Next Generation Squad Weapons series of infantry weapons lays out what the service wants from industry. NGSW is an effort to design a new infantry rifle or carbine to replace the M4A1 carbine and a new squad automatic weapon to replace the M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. The M4A1 is an updated, refined version of the M16 first adopted by the Army in 1965, while the M249 was first brought into service in the late 1980s.
M249 Squad Automatic Weapon during a live fire exercise.
U.S. Army Photo by Sgt. Eben Boothby/DVIDS
Warfare has changed a lot since then, and the Army feels it has catching up to do. One of the chief requirements for both guns is a ballistic computer capable of projecting, the exact impact point of a bullet on on a pair of goggles, monocular eyepiece, or weapon-mounted optic.
Although modern infantry bullets travel at speeds of up to 3,000 feet per second, gravity inexorably takes a toll. Gravity gradually slows down bullets, pulling them close to the earth, to the point where a modern 5.56 bullet will drop 3.08 inches at 200 yards, and 59 inches at 500 yards. If the rifle barrel is 59 inches above the ground, this is the point where the bullet strikes the earth. Wind will also shift bullets in the direction of travel depending on wind speed and the velocity of the bullet.
In the 1970s main battle tanks began receiving ballistic computers that could estimate the point of impact of tank guns under almost every firing scenario, from shooting on the move to high winds. That's the sort of tech that makes the M1A2 Abrams' M256 main gun capable of ninety percent accuracy at 2,000 meters (1.2 miles). Thanks to Moore's Law, the tech shrank dramatically in the last four decades, to the point where that sort of aiming assistance can now fit on the top of an infantryman's rifle.
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Other features the Army wants in the fire control system include target tracking, facial recognition, wireless connectivity, and a one-second boot time. The rifle optic will also feature scratch-proof lenses that repel water.
Next Generation Squad Weapons will also incorporate key changes into the weapons themselves. The guns will use a new 6.8-millimeter round more capable of punching through body armor at longer ranges. To offset the heavier round, the Army also wants the new round to weigh twenty percent less than conventional brass casing rounds, which will probably necessitate new technology such as polymer casings, caseless rounds, or case-telescoped bullets.
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When we listen to the sound of our own recorded voices, most of us have no trouble recognizing ourselves. We usually think that we don't really sound like that, but we almost always recognize ourselves.
The qualities that make your voice sound like you are almost completely lost when you learn to speak a foreign language. I am a native speaker of English, and I have listened to enough recordings of myself to have a very good idea of what I sound like; but a couple of days ago I found some test recordings of German numbers on this web site, and I had no idea who had recorded them. After a lot of wondering, I finally figured out that I had recorded them. I was unable to recognize my own voice when I was speaking German!
People often don't sound the same in their first language as they do in their second language. I've met people who had professional, radio-quality voices in one language but who sounded very rough in another language that they spoke very well.
This is good news for language learners. First of all, it's fun to have an entirely different "you" that you can switch to by speaking a foreign language. Second, most people can learn to sound much better in their second language than they do in their first language.
If you don't sound good in your first language, it may be that your mother had a raspy voice and you learned to talk like her. But that's no reason for you not to sound good in your second language.
Imagine for a minute that you were adopted as a small child (not yet talking) by the American actor James Earl Jones, who has one of the best voices in show business. Don't you think you would sound better today if he had been the one to teach you to talk? Of course you would.
Most people can learn to sound better in their second language than they do in their first language. Relax when you are learning the new words, and try to copy the teachers exactly. Remember to say the words out loud, first after the teacher and then at the same time as the teacher. Saying the words at the same time as the teacher will help you get the speed, the stress, and the accent just right.
No matter whether you sound better in your second language or not, I can guarantee that you will sound like a totally different person!
It's one more great reason to learn a foreign language.
or copy and paste it into an e-mail to your friends.


The Government, Political Parties and The People are all entitled to nominate candidates, that would be elected by the people of their state or territory.
The final selection of a HOS would be made by the politicians from the representatives that the people of the states and territories have elected.
To allow the States a direct say in the selection of the HOS, a candidate known as the "Primary Candidate" is selected by each State as well as the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.
Whether the choose to use both Houses of Parliament, or just the Lower House is a decision for the individual state. However a 67% vote for the candidate will be required to be the successful nominee.
If the State or Territory is unable to ratify a primary Candidate, they will not field a Primary Candidate in the First Position.
As can be seen later, this will have important ramifications on the ballot paper.
This will require the Government and others to work together to field a Primary Candidate that is respected by the Government and non government MPs.
If the Primary Candidate is a sitting politician, the nominee must eventually resign to become the State or Territory's Candidate. In keeping with Federal by election laws, the representative could serve as a MP or Senator up to 33 days from the election. If the Primary Candidate is a State representative, then a by-election for that seat will be held on the same day of the Federal election. Should the nominee fail to resign by the 33rd day the nominee may not be included in the ballot.
Each party with more than 50,000 members per state may nominate a single candidate who may not hold a seat in either House. A Member of Parliament must resign to become their Party's nomination. In keeping with Federal by election laws, the representative could serve as a MP or Senator up to 33 days from the election. If the Party Candidate is a State representative, then a by-election for that seat will be held on the same day of the Federal election. Should the nominee fail to resign by the 33rd day the nominee may not be included in the ballot.
How the party would make their selection; by appointment, or by election, or another fashion, would be their choice.
The Candidate would be known on the ballot paper as the "Nominated Candidate of "THE PARTY".
The people may have as many candidates as they nominate, (providing the candidates fulfill the AEC Guidelines) and have a minimum number of supporters who are registered voters. It is suggested that 50,000 voters be required to receive selection on the Ballot Paper.
However, unlike the party system, individuals can receive a 'signature of support' from any registered voter living in any state or territory of Australia. This would include any ex-pat Australian living overseas — provided that are enrolled to vote. However, having supported that individual, they may not necessarily be able to vote for that person if they are from a different state.
A person can support multiple candidates.
If a Member of Parliament or a Senator is voted as a People Choice candidate, the Member of Parliament must resign to become the nominee. In keeping with Federal by election laws, the representative could serve as a MP or Senator up to 33 days from the election. If the Candidate is a State representative, then a by-election for that seat will be held on the same day of the Federal election. Should the nominee fail to resign by the 33rd day the nominee may not be included in the ballot.
As well as having the minimum number of signatures, the AEC requires a deposit from political candidates. According to the AEC, a deposit of $2000 is required for each Senate candidate and $1000 for each House of Representatives candidate.
It is suggested that when standing as an HOS candidate, a deposit of $5000 be required.
So that no Australian is denied the opportunity to become the Head of State of Australia, each territory with more than 200,000 residents would receive the same rights as a state and be included on a individual Territory Ballot paper. As such, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory would each have a separate ballot paper.
These two territories would have a Primary Candidate nominated by their respective Legislative Assembly, Political Parties, electors and residents providing the same criteria is met for the states, effectively a two third majority from their lower House or a state party membership of 50,000 votes or electoral support of 50,000 nominations from any elected voter within Australia.
The residents of the external territories would also be able to stand for the Head of State. Each person would also need to qualify in the same manner as the states and mainland territories, ie, 50,000 signatures to field a candidate. The nominations can come from any registered voter within Australia. As for their small size of under 200,000 citizens they may only be nominated as individuals and must disclose political party interests. There are no Political Party or Primary Candidate nominations.
Most of the External Territories nominations would be included on the ACT Ballot paper.
The exceptions would be The Cocos Islands and Christmas Island which are currently recorded on the Northern Territory ballot.
There would be an acknowledgement from the Territory they have come from.
as I suspect many people around the world know of Sydney and its famous bridge.
Hi julian, thanks for your input. The Rocks is where the European Settlement of N.S.W began in 1788.


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Q: Useful folder structure for Project-Euler (Make/Source)? I'm currently trying to come up with a reliable folder structure for Project-Euler.
My current idea is this structure:
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└── project-euler/
    ├── resources
    │   ├── primes.h
    │   ├── primes.c
    │   ├── factors.h
    │   ├── factors.c
    │   └── ...
    ├── 001_name_of_procect_one.c
    ├── 001_name_of_project_one.o
    ├── 002_name_of_project_two.c
    ├── 002_name_of_project_two.o
    └── ...

My problem with this structure is that I have all the projects in one folder and I don't know how to write Makefiles for this kind of structure.
I could create a separate directory for every project, but then I would have to write something like #include "../resources/primes.h" and I somehow don't like this approach.
What is the typical project structure to use in such a case? How would I be able to write a Makefile for all the small projects while still keeping them in the same directory?
EDIT: I use clang by the way.

A: If you keep utility files in the resources subdirectory, you can create individual solution files in the main directory that include the necessary header files at the top with eg:
#include "resources/primes.h"

And include the actual code at the bottom with
#include "resources/primes.c"

This way, you do not even need a Makefile as the default rules will allow you to make each target from the corresponding source file directly:
make 002_name_of_project_two

make will not even produce the object file, just the executable.
I personally name prefer shorter names for the project files, such as p42.c
The Makefile is still useful to hit just make or the build button of your IDE.  A one liner will suffice:
all: p42

But you might want to add some dependencies so your target recompiles when you only change the utility sources.  Add these lines: (with a TAB at the beginning of the second line)
%: %.c $(wildcard resources/*)
    clang $(CFLAGS) $(LFLAGS) -o $@ $<

You still should add the proper options to your CFLAGS environment variable to take advantage of the compilers ability to catch silly mistakes: -Wall -Wextra -Werror for gcc, and -Weverything for clang.

A: If your using g++ you declare an include directory with:
g++ -I../resources #rest of command line

A: This extended comment about libraries will be a Philistine answer contrary to usual thinking. In earlier years I spent countless hours maintaining my lovely library, but there are problems involved with the nice idea. Such a library is always a work in progress, but when a project is signed off and delivered, you dare not change the library for fear of breaking previous project(s), so it has to be frozen. You'll then have several versions of your library around. Now, suppose mods are required to an old project, that requires altering a library function? You still cannot use the current version, because you'll have to go through the previous product testing and assurance all over again. Another objection was that some of my supposedly good library functions were never quite what I wanted in the next project. The whole thing became a maintenance nightmare and I abandonded it. What I find now, is that in a Project Euler problem I might need a factorial function. In one case, a simple unsigned function will be good. In another case, I'll need uint64_t to be in range. In yet another, that will be either unsigned or uint64_t modulo some constant. The variations are endless, and a general one-function-fits-all approach is inappropriate when the function might need calling millions of times. So I just use a copy/paste solution picking bits I need from other problems.

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Project acronym LArcHer
Project Breaking barriers between Science and Heritage approaches to Levantine Rock Art through Archaeology, Heritage Science and IT
Researcher (PI) Ines DOMINGO SANZ
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), SH6, ERC-2018-COG
Summary LArcHer project aims at pioneering a new and more comprehensive way of understanding one of Europe's most extraordinary bodies of prehistoric art, awarded Unesco World Heritage status in 1998: Levantine rock art (LRA). The ground-breaking nature of the project relies on combining a multidisciplinary (Archaeology, Heritage Science and IT) and multiscale approach (from microanalysis to landscape perspectives) to gain a holistic view of this art. It also aims at closing existing gaps between science and heritage mainstreams, to better understand the values and threats affecting this tradition and bring about a change in the way we understand, care, use and manage this millenary legacy. LArcHer aims are: a) Use cross-disciplinary knowledge and methods to redefine LRA (i.e. new dating techniques to refine chronology, new analytical methods to understand the creative process); b) Use LRA as a proxy to raise new questions of global interest on the evolution of creative thinking and human cognition (i.e. the timing and driving forces behind the birth of anthropocentrism and visual narratives in the history of prehistoric art); c) Develop new research agendas to set off complementary goals between science and heritage and define best practices for open air rock art conservation and management. Spread across Mediterranean Iberia, LRA is the only European body of figurative art dominated by humans engaged in dynamic narratives of hunting, violence, warfare, dances and so forth. These scenes are unique to explore past social dynamics, human behaviour and cultural practices. As such, it is the only body of European rock art with potential to answer some of the new questions raised by LArcHer. Key to LArcHer are the systematic recording and analysis of the art through 3D Digital technologies, management and data storage systems, GIS, physicochemical analysis of pigments and bedrock and comparative analysis with other major bodies of art with equivalent developments.
LArcHer project aims at pioneering a new and more comprehensive way of understanding one of Europe's most extraordinary bodies of prehistoric art, awarded Unesco World Heritage status in 1998: Levantine rock art (LRA). The ground-breaking nature of the project relies on combining a multidisciplinary (Archaeology, Heritage Science and IT) and multiscale approach (from microanalysis to landscape perspectives) to gain a holistic view of this art. It also aims at closing existing gaps between science and heritage mainstreams, to better understand the values and threats affecting this tradition and bring about a change in the way we understand, care, use and manage this millenary legacy. LArcHer aims are: a) Use cross-disciplinary knowledge and methods to redefine LRA (i.e. new dating techniques to refine chronology, new analytical methods to understand the creative process); b) Use LRA as a proxy to raise new questions of global interest on the evolution of creative thinking and human cognition (i.e. the timing and driving forces behind the birth of anthropocentrism and visual narratives in the history of prehistoric art); c) Develop new research agendas to set off complementary goals between science and heritage and define best practices for open air rock art conservation and management. Spread across Mediterranean Iberia, LRA is the only European body of figurative art dominated by humans engaged in dynamic narratives of hunting, violence, warfare, dances and so forth. These scenes are unique to explore past social dynamics, human behaviour and cultural practices. As such, it is the only body of European rock art with potential to answer some of the new questions raised by LArcHer. Key to LArcHer are the systematic recording and analysis of the art through 3D Digital technologies, management and data storage systems, GIS, physicochemical analysis of pigments and bedrock and comparative analysis with other major bodies of art with equivalent developments.
Max ERC Funding
Start date: 2019-10-01, End date: 2024-09-30
Project acronym MAGNESIA
Project The impact of highly magnetic neutron stars in the explosive and transient Universe
Researcher (PI) Nanda Rea
Host Institution (HI) AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DEINVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Call Details Consolidator Grant (CoG), PE9, ERC-2018-COG
Summary The gravitational wave window is now open. It is then imperative to build quantitative models of neutron stars that use all the available tracers to constrain fundamental physics at the highest densities and magnetic fields. The most magnetic neutron stars, the magnetars, have been recently suggested to be powering a large variety of explosive and transient events. The enormous rotational power at birth, and the magnetic energy they can release via large flares, put the magnetars in the (yet) hand-wavy interpretations of gamma-ray bursts, the early phases of double neutron star mergers, super-luminous supernovae, hypernovae, fast radio bursts, and ultra-luminous X-ray sources. However, despite knowing about 30 magnetars, we are lacking a census of how many we expect within the pulsar population, nor we have robust constraints on their flaring rates. The recent discovery of transient magnetars, of magnetar-like flares from sources with measured low dipolar magnetic fields and from typical radio pulsars, clearly showed that the magnetar census in our Galaxy is largely under-estimated. This hampers our understanding not only of the pulsar and magnetar populations, but also of them as possibly related to many of Universe's explosive events. MAGNESIA will infer a sound Magnetar Census via an innovative approach that will build the first Pulsar Population Synthesis model able to cope with constraints/limits from multi-band observations, and taking into account 3D magnetic field evolution models and flaring rates for neutron stars. Combining expertise in multi-band observations, numerical modeling, nuclear physics, and computation, MAGNESIA will solve the physics, the observational systematic errors, and the computational challenges that inhibited previous works, to finally constrain the spin period and magnetic field distribution at birth of the neutron star population.
The gravitational wave window is now open. It is then imperative to build quantitative models of neutron stars that use all the available tracers to constrain fundamental physics at the highest densities and magnetic fields. The most magnetic neutron stars, the magnetars, have been recently suggested to be powering a large variety of explosive and transient events. The enormous rotational power at birth, and the magnetic energy they can release via large flares, put the magnetars in the (yet) hand-wavy interpretations of gamma-ray bursts, the early phases of double neutron star mergers, super-luminous supernovae, hypernovae, fast radio bursts, and ultra-luminous X-ray sources. However, despite knowing about 30 magnetars, we are lacking a census of how many we expect within the pulsar population, nor we have robust constraints on their flaring rates. The recent discovery of transient magnetars, of magnetar-like flares from sources with measured low dipolar magnetic fields and from typical radio pulsars, clearly showed that the magnetar census in our Galaxy is largely under-estimated. This hampers our understanding not only of the pulsar and magnetar populations, but also of them as possibly related to many of Universe's explosive events. MAGNESIA will infer a sound Magnetar Census via an innovative approach that will build the first Pulsar Population Synthesis model able to cope with constraints/limits from multi-band observations, and taking into account 3D magnetic field evolution models and flaring rates for neutron stars. Combining expertise in multi-band observations, numerical modeling, nuclear physics, and computation, MAGNESIA will solve the physics, the observational systematic errors, and the computational challenges that inhibited previous works, to finally constrain the spin period and magnetic field distribution at birth of the neutron star population.
Project acronym MarsFirstWater
Project The physicochemical nature of water on early Mars
Researcher (PI) Alberto Gonzalez Fairen
Summary Concepts of large bodies of glacial ice and liquid standing water, a robust hydrological cycle, and a rich Martian history of climate change are part of the current consensus model for early Mars. However, questions still poorly constrained include: a precise understanding of the inventory of water during the first billion years of Mars history and its early evolution on both global and local scales; whether liquid or solid H2O dominated, for what duration of time and where the water resided; what were the host-rock weathering rates and patterns and the physicochemical parameters defining such interactions; what specific landforms and mineralogies were generated during those periods; and what implications all these processes had on the possible inception of life on Mars. These fundamental questions represent large uncertainties and knowledge gaps. Therefore, a quantitative understanding of the basic characteristics of water on early Mars is very much needed and is the focus of this proposal. This application outlines a plan for my research in the next five years, and explains how I propose to fully characterize the aqueous environments of early Mars through a quantitative and truly interdisciplinary investigation. Spacecraft mission-derived datasets will be consistently used to test hypotheses through paleogeomorphological reconstructions, geochemical modeling, mineralogical studies, and astrobiological investigations. The derived results will produce hard constraints on the physical evolution, chemical alteration and habitability of surface and near-surface aqueous environments on early Mars. The planned investigations will benefit from the combination of working with first-hand data from ongoing Mars missions and with the state-of-the-art laboratory tools at the host institution. The final expected result will be a complete understanding of the physicochemical nature of water on early Mars, also opening new paths for the astrobiological exploration of the planet.
Concepts of large bodies of glacial ice and liquid standing water, a robust hydrological cycle, and a rich Martian history of climate change are part of the current consensus model for early Mars. However, questions still poorly constrained include: a precise understanding of the inventory of water during the first billion years of Mars history and its early evolution on both global and local scales; whether liquid or solid H2O dominated, for what duration of time and where the water resided; what were the host-rock weathering rates and patterns and the physicochemical parameters defining such interactions; what specific landforms and mineralogies were generated during those periods; and what implications all these processes had on the possible inception of life on Mars. These fundamental questions represent large uncertainties and knowledge gaps. Therefore, a quantitative understanding of the basic characteristics of water on early Mars is very much needed and is the focus of this proposal. This application outlines a plan for my research in the next five years, and explains how I propose to fully characterize the aqueous environments of early Mars through a quantitative and truly interdisciplinary investigation. Spacecraft mission-derived datasets will be consistently used to test hypotheses through paleogeomorphological reconstructions, geochemical modeling, mineralogical studies, and astrobiological investigations. The derived results will produce hard constraints on the physical evolution, chemical alteration and habitability of surface and near-surface aqueous environments on early Mars. The planned investigations will benefit from the combination of working with first-hand data from ongoing Mars missions and with the state-of-the-art laboratory tools at the host institution. The final expected result will be a complete understanding of the physicochemical nature of water on early Mars, also opening new paths for the astrobiological exploration of the planet.
Project acronym SUBSILIENCE
Project Subsistence and human resilience to sudden climatic events in Europe during MIS3
Researcher (PI) ANA B. MARIN-ARROYO
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
Summary Climate has long been proposed as a possible trigger-factor for the extinction of Neanderthals and the rapid colonization of Europe by Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH). Abrupt and acute oscillations of climate, as recorded from polar ice sheets, are particularly threatening as they can push ecosystems towards catastrophic outcomes. Under these conditions, the survival of a species critically depends on their adaptive skills. Understanding the exact role that these episodes could have had in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is then essential to unravel the real causes of Neanderthal demise and AMH success. To do this, SUBSILIENCE will identify the subsistence strategies adopted by both human species in response to those climatic changes at 20 key archaeological sites located across southern European peninsulas. By applying zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses, the behavioural flexibility and resilience of each human species will be assessed. In addition, to enable effective testing, local terrestrial climatic and environmental conditions will be accurately reconstructed using stable isotopes from animals consumed, producing a unique, continuous and properly-dated general environmental framework, improving existing knowledge. Finally, to further explore the problem, an innovative procedure to estimate prey abundance, ecology and human behaviour, involving the estimation of the ecosystem carrying capacity, will be developed. This multidisciplinary and novel approach will provide, for the first time, accurate answers to questions concerning a) which particular subsistence patterns (if any) favoured AMH over Neanderthals while coping with the changing environment and b) the extent to which climatic oscillations affected Neanderthal extinction. In this, it will be of relevance to the study of Prehistory on a pan-European scale.
Climate has long been proposed as a possible trigger-factor for the extinction of Neanderthals and the rapid colonization of Europe by Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH). Abrupt and acute oscillations of climate, as recorded from polar ice sheets, are particularly threatening as they can push ecosystems towards catastrophic outcomes. Under these conditions, the survival of a species critically depends on their adaptive skills. Understanding the exact role that these episodes could have had in the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is then essential to unravel the real causes of Neanderthal demise and AMH success. To do this, SUBSILIENCE will identify the subsistence strategies adopted by both human species in response to those climatic changes at 20 key archaeological sites located across southern European peninsulas. By applying zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses, the behavioural flexibility and resilience of each human species will be assessed. In addition, to enable effective testing, local terrestrial climatic and environmental conditions will be accurately reconstructed using stable isotopes from animals consumed, producing a unique, continuous and properly-dated general environmental framework, improving existing knowledge. Finally, to further explore the problem, an innovative procedure to estimate prey abundance, ecology and human behaviour, involving the estimation of the ecosystem carrying capacity, will be developed. This multidisciplinary and novel approach will provide, for the first time, accurate answers to questions concerning a) which particular subsistence patterns (if any) favoured AMH over Neanderthals while coping with the changing environment and b) the extent to which climatic oscillations affected Neanderthal extinction. In this, it will be of relevance to the study of Prehistory on a pan-European scale.
Project acronym TRADITION
Project Long-term coastal adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation in Latin America
Researcher (PI) Andre Carlo COLONESE
Host Institution (HI) UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Summary TRADITION aims to understand the long-term trajectory of human interaction with coastal resources and its legacy to present day small-scale fisheries in Latin America. Founded on traditional knowledge rooted in the past, small-scale fisheries are a crucial source of food and livelihood for millions of people worldwide, and play a pivotal role in poverty eradication in developing countries. A thorough recognition of the cultural and socio-economic significance of Latin American fisheries requires a temporal component that only archaeology and history can provide. TRADITION will investigate a 4000-year record of coastal exploitation in one of the world's most threatened tropical environments: the Atlantic forest of Brazil. We will draw together archaeological, palaeoecological, historical and ethnographic records to address fundamental questions that impinge upon our current understanding of the development of small-scale fisheries in this region. How did coastal economies adapt to the spread of agriculture? What was the impact of past climate and environmental changes on coastal populations? What was the impact of European colonisation of the Americas on the development of small-scale fisheries? What was the role of historical institutions and regulations in the negotiation between traditional and modern practices in small-scale fisheries? How have the historical practices and events shaped current small-scale coastal communities, and can this knowledge benefit current management strategies. The answers will help us understand how coastal economies responded to unprecedented societal and environmental changes by adapting their subsistence practices, technology and culture, while contributing to the foundation of coastal societies in Latin America.
TRADITION aims to understand the long-term trajectory of human interaction with coastal resources and its legacy to present day small-scale fisheries in Latin America. Founded on traditional knowledge rooted in the past, small-scale fisheries are a crucial source of food and livelihood for millions of people worldwide, and play a pivotal role in poverty eradication in developing countries. A thorough recognition of the cultural and socio-economic significance of Latin American fisheries requires a temporal component that only archaeology and history can provide. TRADITION will investigate a 4000-year record of coastal exploitation in one of the world's most threatened tropical environments: the Atlantic forest of Brazil. We will draw together archaeological, palaeoecological, historical and ethnographic records to address fundamental questions that impinge upon our current understanding of the development of small-scale fisheries in this region. How did coastal economies adapt to the spread of agriculture? What was the impact of past climate and environmental changes on coastal populations? What was the impact of European colonisation of the Americas on the development of small-scale fisheries? What was the role of historical institutions and regulations in the negotiation between traditional and modern practices in small-scale fisheries? How have the historical practices and events shaped current small-scale coastal communities, and can this knowledge benefit current management strategies. The answers will help us understand how coastal economies responded to unprecedented societal and environmental changes by adapting their subsistence practices, technology and culture, while contributing to the foundation of coastal societies in Latin America.
Project acronym URBAG
Project Integrated System Analysis of Urban Vegetation and Agriculture
Researcher (PI) Gara Villalba Mendez
Summary This research aims to find out how urban green infrastructures can be most efficient in contributing to urban sustainability. This will evaluate which combinations of urban, peri-urban agriculture and green spaces result in the best performance in terms of local and global environmental impact. For this purpose, I will use novel and comprehensive analysis that will integrate the life cycle impacts of the resources required for green infrastructures with the understanding of how green infrastructures impact the urban atmosphere interaction. This comprehensive approach allows to capture the urban metabolism to optimize the food-energy-water nexus. In previous works, the impacts had been only studied individually. The analysis will consist of 1) A geo-referenced land-use model to optimize urban and peri-urban food production in terms of nutrients, water, and energy, considering urban morphology and determining life cycle impacts 2) A spatially-temporally resolved framework for quantitative analysis and simulation of green infrastructures to determine the direct and indirect effects on the urban and regional atmosphere. The research will be implemented in two selected cities with different profiles, Barcelona and Oslo. The study ambitions to gather substantial quantitative evidence in green infrastructures and sustainability, contributing to cover the existing gap in previous works. This project and the envisaged: Green infrastructures - A Guide for city planners and policy makers, are timely and urgent. Many cities are implementing green infrastructures despite having little quantitative and comprehensive knowledge as to which infrastructure strategies are more effective in promoting food production, air quality and temperature while reducing environmental impact. This intended Guide will contain evidence-based guidance and tools to create green infrastructure strategies; to help to meet sustainability targets, and promote wider and diffused social benefits.
This research aims to find out how urban green infrastructures can be most efficient in contributing to urban sustainability. This will evaluate which combinations of urban, peri-urban agriculture and green spaces result in the best performance in terms of local and global environmental impact. For this purpose, I will use novel and comprehensive analysis that will integrate the life cycle impacts of the resources required for green infrastructures with the understanding of how green infrastructures impact the urban atmosphere interaction. This comprehensive approach allows to capture the urban metabolism to optimize the food-energy-water nexus. In previous works, the impacts had been only studied individually. The analysis will consist of 1) A geo-referenced land-use model to optimize urban and peri-urban food production in terms of nutrients, water, and energy, considering urban morphology and determining life cycle impacts 2) A spatially-temporally resolved framework for quantitative analysis and simulation of green infrastructures to determine the direct and indirect effects on the urban and regional atmosphere. The research will be implemented in two selected cities with different profiles, Barcelona and Oslo. The study ambitions to gather substantial quantitative evidence in green infrastructures and sustainability, contributing to cover the existing gap in previous works. This project and the envisaged: Green infrastructures - A Guide for city planners and policy makers, are timely and urgent. Many cities are implementing green infrastructures despite having little quantitative and comprehensive knowledge as to which infrastructure strategies are more effective in promoting food production, air quality and temperature while reducing environmental impact. This intended Guide will contain evidence-based guidance and tools to create green infrastructure strategies; to help to meet sustainability targets, and promote wider and diffused social benefits.


I was back in LA this month to speak at a conference and meet with a few clients. Since most of my work was downtown, I opted to rent an AirBnB in that neighborhood for most of the trip. But for the last day, I switched over to a cute hotel in North Hollywood called The Garland.
Combining an AirBnB with a hotel is actually one of my favorite travel tips for longer stays. Apartment rentals are amazing because they are generally more affordable and give you access to things like kitchens and other home-like amenities, which are particularly useful during longer stays or work trips.
This is why I like to switch over to a hotel for the last day. It allows me to be a little more relaxed and secure in the knowledge that my bags will be safe. This way I also have access to things like bathrooms for changing, showers, pool or fitness center, etc. which I can use until I'm ready to head to the airport.
My last day in LA was spent at The Garland, a retro-style hotel resort located near Universal Studios (and the Brady Bunch house!). An absolutely gorgeous space with that super cool classic Hollywood glamour vibe. I kept saying it felt like the sort of place where Don Draper would bring one of his mistresses for a weekend rendezvous.
Pops of orange fill the space from the hotel lobby to the rooms. There is a gorgeous pool (with a bar, obviously), a garden space, a fitness center, and a beautiful outdoor restaurant.
A complimentary trolley shuttles guests back and forth between the hotel and nearby attractions, and the staff are absolutely lovely. Throughout the day, staff would come around with little complementary treats like cold cucumber slices for your eyes, free ice pops for kids AND grown-ups, and small cups of frozen fruit.
They also have outdoor movie screenings and daily events like local walking tours, patio games, and yoga classes. Check out the schedule for their options at check-in.
The room rates are affordable (I snagged a deal at around $200 a night), as are the menu items. There were no additional resort fees or charges for internet which I especially appreciated.
The hotel was a little more family-friendly than I anticipated, which you may love or not. There were a lot of kids splashing around in the pool later in the afternoon/evening, though it was quieter during the day when the families were off at the nearby theme parks. I was a little annoyed by the splashing kids, but I know that if I were a parent (or a kid!) I would have loved it.
A daily happy hour knocks the price of house wine and beer options to about $4 or $5 a glass, which is a fabulous deal.


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Covercraft has acquired Lloyd Mats, a manufacturer of custom-fit carpeted floor and cargo mats for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs and RVs.
Covercraft has acquired Lloyd Mats, a manufacturer of custom-fit carpeted floor and cargo mats for cars, trucks, vans, SUVs and RVs, the company announced.
Since 1978, Lloyd Mats has developed a comprehensive library of vehicle application-specific patterns in the custom floor mat category. The company offers multiple branded, licensed and personalized versions of its floor mats across a variety of colors and carpet styles, the company said.
"As a premier source of carpeted floor mats, we are excited to have Lloyd Mats join the Covercraft family," said Covercraft's CEO, Matt Jordan. "We see strong alignment in terms of quality, values and service levels that we believe makes this acquisition a mutually complementary fit, not just for the companies but also for our customers seeking to protect the things that are important to them."
Brendan Dooley, President of Lloyd Mats, said, "The merger with Covercraft brings additional resources and growth opportunities for Lloyd Mats and preserves our focus on building the highest quality products in the market and providing fast, effective service. Lloyd's management team looks forward to working with the Covercraft team to build together what we feel could become the most comprehensive vehicle protection company in the industry."
This acquisition is the first completed under Covercraft's new ownership, Audax Private Equity. "Covercraft introduced the first custom fit car cover more than 55 years ago and is a long-standing leader in the vehicle protection accessories market," said Jason Ellis, managing director at Audax. "This is an exciting first step on the path to expanding the markets we serve, bringing in new skills and knowledge, and leveraging Covercraft's skills in driving growth and efficiency."


Stefan Glasauer, one of MSNE's most iconic Professors, will take some distance from the program at the end of this semester as he is starting a new research group at the TU Cottbus. Fortunately for future generations of MSNE students, Prof. Glasauer will still visit us in Munich from time to time to give his beloved lectures.
We did not want to let him go without a proper farewell, so on Monday the 6th of August many of us students gathered with him in the Hofbräukeller Biergarten to have dinner together. It was a perfect Summer evening where we spent a wonderful time outside the classroom.
In this opportunity we thanked him and his PhD student and teaching assistant Alex Knorr for everything they did for the program and its students. Of course, he was presented with our already classic MSNE hoodie as a token of gratitude.
We wish him the very best in his future endeavors!


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Q: How do I leave a message after success to register, and then wait 2 minutes to redirect page? I'm trying to build the register page (still in the beginning), and if everything will be ok, I want the client to get a message which shows success, but only after 2 seconds to move to another page. My code sends the success div but doesn't send hi to the client after 2 seconds. What is the problem?
exports.register = (req, res) => {

  const { name, email, username, password, passwordConfirm} = req.body;

  if (name === '' || email === '' || username === '' || password === '' || passwordConfirm === '') {
    return res.render('register', {
      failMessage: 'One of the fields or more is empty. Please try again.'
    })
  } else {
    res.render('register', {
      successMessage: 'User registered successfully.'
    });
    return setTimeout( () => {
      res.send('hi');
    }, 2000 );
  }
};

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router.post('/register', authController.register);


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How ubiquitination regulates the TGF-β signalling pathway: New insights and new players
SM Soond, A Chantry
Cells and Tissues
Ubiquitination of protein species in regulating signal transduction pathways is universally accepted as of fundamental importance for normal development, and defects in this process have been implicated in the progression of many human diseases. One pathway that has received much attention in this context is transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-ß) signalling, particularly during the regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and tumour progression. While E3-ubiquitin ligases offer themselves as potential therapeutic targets, much remains to be unveiled regarding mechanisms that culminate in their regulation. With this in mind, the focus of this review highlights the regulation of the ubiquitination pathway and the significance of a recently described group of NEDD4 E3-ubiquitin ligase isoforms in the context of TGF-ß pathway regulation. Moreover, we now broaden these observations to incorporate a growing number of protein isoforms within the ubiquitin ligase superfamily as a whole, and discuss their relevance in defining a new 'iso-ubiquitinome'.
BioEssays
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3 month old Slurry - too old?
Re: 3 month old Slurry - too old?
What's the longest amount of time anyone here has gone with freezing and had acceptable results?
You can freeze your yeast solid, but I think you are better off using enough glycerol to get it to freezer temps without freezing. That way the cells are as cold as you can get them, but it avoids a lot of the problems that freezing causes. For home, I think it is a good way to go. But even in the fridge it can last a long time. Rinse it a couple of times with distilled water and store it with distilled water and it should last you 6 months easily.
Rinse it a couple of times with distilled water and store it with distilled water and it should last you 6 months easily.
I've gone years with excellent results. But mine are at -80C.
Crap. My freezer only goes down to -70.
Crap. My fridge only goes down to -70.
If you can really get them that cold then they will be fine for many years in a 20% glycerol solution.
I think he was being sarcastic... -70 to -80 the yeast will be shivering so still that they won't notice the 10 degree difference.
Great stuff! I'm going to try this glycerol mix.


Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan is the showcase of different cultural dances within Mindanao, whole Mindanao is invited to join the competition prepared for them to show their talents and skills in term of choreography and dances.
Art out of scrapt Computer parts..
Two Moons On 27th August!
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15 Spicy Hooters Girls The World Needs To See
Michael Llewellyn Sep 10, 2017 Career, World
Hooters America now owns 160 restaurants and franchises over 430 establishments. The company's biggest selling point is the waitresses who became known as the Hooters Girls who became recognizable by their uniforms of tight vests and orange shorts. It's hardly a surprise that the Hooters brand has come under fire for its use of sex appeal to sell a product, and many believe that it's a concept that belongs in the 80s and 90s.
Nevertheless, many waitresses who have worked there have achieved huge success through the company's yearly bikini pageants and famous calendars which are published for charity. The majority of the women who have achieved the most success from working at the company are often intelligent and hard-working individuals that used the brand to push their careers in other endeavours.
Whatever you feel about the Hooters brand it is hard to deny its impact, and the potential for building a huge fan base for the waitresses. Such a fan base creates opportunities for them use the company as stepping stone into the entertainment industry or as a way to fund studies in university. With that in mind, let's take a look at 15 of the hottest and most successful Hooters Girls, that have appeared in the calendars, on television, other publications or simply became a success in another industry altogether.
15. Victoria Rachoza
Via: imgrab
Victoria Rachoza is a glamour model from the North Tampa Florida Bay area. She was featured in the 2016 Hooters calendar and was one of the top competitors for the Hooters 20th Annual International Swimsuit Pageant, which took place at the Pearl Theater, at the Palms in Las Vegas.
Nowadays, according to her Linkedin profile, instead of working as a Hooters waitress, in the same year that she was featured in the calendar, Victoria became a marketing consultant for a cyber security firm. It's her job to liaise with clients and assess their specific and individual security needs.
14. Amanda Steinbecker
Via: Mulpix
Amanda Steinbecker is originally a farm girl from Fairview Heights, Illinois and has recently obtained a degree in medical biology and chemistry. In addition, she has ambitions to pursue a career in medical sales.
Amanda worked as a waitress for Hooters and was 2017 Hooters International Pageant Top 10 finalist. She has also won her place as a Hooters Calendar Girl in 2015, 2016, and is currently Miss December 2017.
Currently, Amanda is a volunteer for the Humane Society, and at the time of writing is currently ranked 7th on the Maxim's Finest fan voted competition to win a $25,000 and a featured spread in their magazine.
13. Casey Luckey
Via: Pinterest
Casey Luckey that was selected as one of 200 girls a 2016 and 2017 Hooters Calendar girl from the Miami Fort Lauderdale Area, She was a Miss Hooters International Top Ten entrant. Casey has dreams of running her own fitness company one day and is a volunteer for Canine Companions for Independence.
Casey has since become a spokesperson for VPX Sports, a model for Bang Energy drinks and her most notable achievement so far is featuring with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in the 2014 film Blended. Casey continues to work as a model, so she can fund her studies and go back to school and further her career in the industry of her choice.
12. Holly Madison
Via Hooters
Holly Madison was born in Astoria, Oregon and was once a waitress and a bikini contestant for Hooters. Her appearances at the restaurant and the Hawaiian Tropic contests led to High Hefner's physician inviting Holly to a party at the Playboy Mansion, where she would eventually move in and officially become one Hefner's girlfriends.
Living at the mansion, gave her the opportunity to become a television personality starring in the E! Network's The Girls Nextdoor reality series. After her split with Hefner in 2008, Holly continued with her television career in addition to becoming an actress, a model, and a New York Times best-selling author. She has made appearances in films like The House Bunny, Scary Movie 4, and Sharknado 3.
11. Lydia Hipkiss
In 2015 Lydia Hipkiss from Nottingham (the last remaining Hooters restaurant in the UK), was the first Hooters contestant from the UK to make it into the Hooters Calendar. She made her first appearance in the Hooters calendar for 2016 and 2017 and was crowned Hooters Miss World in 2015.
She became a waitress at the famous establishment, so she could fund her studies and obtain a degree in maths. In addition to her degree she also has a pilots license, but in an interview with FEMAIL, she said she plans to continue to work at the establishment until she finds a job in her chosen career path.
10. Jordyn Chessmore
Jordyn Chessmore is from the Greater Los Angeles area, she's a Miss Boise Hooters 2015, Miss Idaho USA 2015, and Miss California USA 2016. She has featured in the Hooters calendar on several occasions with her most recent appearance being in the 2016 calendar.
Jordyn went to Boise State University and studied Communication and Media Studies, and her ambition is to work in the media industry. According to her LinkedIn profile she currently works as a Coordinator at Safety Child, a company that creates ID cards, bracelets and Lost and Found Apps for parents to locate and keep tabs on their children.
9. Megan Pugh
Megan Pugh is a third-year environmental student from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and she won the 20th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant for the Miss World title in 2016. Prior to this, she won Miss Hooters Western Canada 2016, and Miss Dallas Tropic Beauty. As a result, she was featured in the 2017 Hooters Calendar and received $50,000 in prize money and two guaranteed shoots for the company.
According to her LinkedIn profile she still works as a waitress at Hooters, she has a large following on social media, and at the time writing she is currently 12th in Maxim Magazines Finest fan voted competition.
8. Rachel Holtgrave
Raechel Holtgrave from Columbia, Missouri, had only graduated from the University of Missouri with majors in mathematics and actuarial science when she beat 132 other contestants to be with $50,000 and the title of Miss Hooters International back in 2009. She was then featured in the 2009 and 2011 editions of the Hooters Calendar.
Raechel currently resides in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, where she continued to improve herself. She still features on Modeling sites as available for shoots, but it looks like she's putting her qualifications to good use. According to her LinkedIn profile, she currently has a career as an investment analyst for Atrium Investment Management in Australia
7. Brooke Adams
Via: Hooters/Wrestlezone
Brooke Adams is women's wrestler that has previously worked for the WWE and eventually became the women's singles champion, and tag team champion in their rival brand TNA. Prior to this, she worked as a Hooters Girl in Kirby, Texas, so she could afford to get her family an apartment – they were living out of her mother's Daytona Hatchback.
She was a contestant in the Miss Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant in 2011 and 2012 and competed in the Miss Hawaiian Tropic bikini, and Miss USA contests. Brooke also featured in Playboy's 2008 edition of Women of Hooters.
She became interested in wrestling because her agent told her she was "too ripped" to competing in bikini contests. After a brief stint on the independent wrestling circuit, Brooke returned to TNA in January 2017.
6. Janet Layug
A native of Lakeland, Florida Janet Layug was a Hooters Girl for over seven years. She featured in several Hooters magazines and was featured in the Hooters Calendar from 2009 to 2011. She was a top five competitor in the 2011 Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant and third place runner-up in 2013. Janet eventually placed first in the same competition in 2014.
Janet would eventually become a five-time IFBB professional fitness champion, and an official sponsored athlete for GAT — a sports supplement company. She now runs her own website called BikiniJanet.com providing expert fitness, diet, and training programs for those who want to get in shape.
5. Jena Frumes
Via Hooters/Listal
Residing in Los Angeles, California, Jena Frumes is a former Hooters Girl that competed in the 2014 Hooters Miss International Pageant when she represented her home town of Atlanta, Georgia. Jena has since become a fitness model and an actress. She has a background in gymnastics, and track and field sports.
Instead of competing at Hooters events she now represents the Stay Blessed clothing brand at fitness and bodybuilding expo events. She has also become a social media star with over 2 million followers on Instagram, she even has her own brand of clothing which is sold at Smokshi.
4. Jessica Serrano
Jessica Serrano is a Hooters Girl that started working for the restaurant chain from the age of 18. She's from Houston, Texas and quickly embarked on a successful modeling career which got her featured in the 2014 Hooters and the 2014 Bikini USA Calendars. She competed in bikini contest Miss Hooters Spring Texas in 2013 and is a full-time lingerie and promotional model.
Jessica has since been published in Maxim magazine for their Home Town Girls feature. In addition, she appeared in Playboy magazine in 2016 and continues to be a hit on social media with over 200,000 followers, promoting her modeling career.
3. Haven Gaston
Haven Gaston is Long Beach California and is a Hooters Girl that gained popularity with fans in the late nineties. She is still considered to be one of the most memorable faces of the Hooters brand and was the second ever competitor to win the Miss Hooters Swimsuit Pageant in 1998, after placing runner-up in the first in 1997. She was also the Hooters calendar cover girl two years running.
Haven's other accomplishments include Miss Venus Swimwear in 1999, she was published in two special editions of Playboy magazine (Hardbodies and Natural Beauties). Additionally, Haven appeared in two mainstream films, Tigerland in 2000 and Adam Sandler's The Waterboy in 1998.
2. Jesse Jane
Via Hooters/Pinterest
Adult film star Jesse Jane got her start in the glamour modeling industry after becoming a Hooters Girl. She competed in the Hawaiian Tropic bikini contests and was a regional training coordinator for Hooters, which meant she trained new Hooters girls from four different states.
Jesse eventually went on to be a performer and contract girl for Digital Playground and was quickly considered one of the most popular performers in the adult industry. She made the crossover into mainstream several times with an appearance Entourage in 2005, and Middle Men in 2009. After a career in adult movies that has lasted nearly fifteen years, Jesse Jane announced her retirement in 2017 stating that the 2017 AVN awards would be her last.
1. Beverly Mullins
Beverly Mullins is a former wrestler and valet for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as Courtney Tayler and Daisy until 2010. Prior to her wrestling career, she was a Hooters Girl, that appeared in the 2006 edition of the Hooters Calendar and, made several appearances in Playboy magazine in their special Women of Hooters issue in 2008.
It was through competing in the Hooters bikini pageants, that Beverly met a road agent for the WWE, who also happened to be one of the judges on the panel, and it was him that introduced her to the world of professional wrestling.
Her accomplishments led to her induction in the Hooters Hall of Fame in 2008. Beverly is now enjoying and living her life in privacy and is a full-time mother and wife living Westchase, Tampa, Florida.
Sources: Hooters, LinkedIn
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These are some of the main character for the Guardians video game we are developing, click on one to see them in full image view.
Character names from Top-left to Bottom-right: Laira, Zach, Quickshot, Carrie, Lincoln and his dragon Aero, Seraph, Randy, and Bruce.
the evil Lord General Rysidious, and Shadow Laira.
New Concept Art! We now have the witch that haunts Randy's world, Veron the centaur, our main character Ranger and his nine forms he can take in the game.
Now when you click on the pictures to see the characters in full view you can scroll down to see a caption description of the characters.


"Is there something better to do on a Sunday in the middle of April?" asks event organizer Milton Houle, of the 11th annual Trappers Exhibition held in Cloyne this past Sunday. Judging by the string of cars that lined both sides of highway 41 for most of the day, there wasn't. Emma, Krystal, Kayla and Emma from the Cloyne Brownies & Girl Guides sold cookies and promoted their organization at the exhibition.


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0086Caldera
A caldera is a volcanic crater formed after an eruption of magma; a scar left on the earth after one of the planet's most dramatic natural processes. It's a bold title to give any artistic project, and German producer Malte Schumann has certainly risen to the challenge. He counts the likes of Jan Jelinek, Martyn and Flying Lotus as influences, crafting an expansive discography of everything from the ethereal, slow-motion dub-house he has released with labels like Sonic Moiré, through to the skippy, UK bass tinged work he has put out with labels like Edinburgh's Cut Music.
Last year Schumann released the '134% OK' EP on WNCL Recordings, an oddball fusion of unhinged avant-house and discordant, lo-fi melodics. Asked about his developing relationship with the label, he reveals his first introduction to the South London label: "I bought my first WNCL record in 2013 - the 'Krenshaw' 12" by Bobby Champs. What grabbed my attention was the interesting drum work and sound design. It was at a time where I was starting to get more into techno, house and UK bass after a few years of playing drum and bass and dubstep." Schumann contacted the label's founder Bob Bhamra a few years later to share some of his own music and discuss the label. "I don't really send out many demos and even though these initial tracks didn't make a release on his label, I was impressed with how dedicated his feedback was. You could really tell that he took his time to listen and respond. I think everyone knows how much that's worth as a small artist, and how frustrating it can be to send out demos. We kept in touch and at some point randomly met in person at the counter of Rye Wax in Peckham. He's the nicest guy in South London! I'm sure people who've met him will agree, plus his organisational skills are 134% on point. I think it's important to know the people you're releasing with and be able to relate to them… It gets a bit lonely in this internet music world sometimes!"
Originally from Duisburg, Germany, Schumann moved to Brighton in 2015, having seen the opportunity to finish a vocational training course in childcare he was undertaking. The UK music scene was an additional pull, playing an important role in his decision. He has stayed in Brighton since, but that's not say there weren't any cultural shocks to be had along the way. "I have to admit that I was a bit confused when I went out in Brighton for the first time and everyone was already drunk by about 8.00pm", Malte comments when asked about the difference between the two countries in terms of club culture. "Maybe that's more of a Brighton thing because of the big student population. What I miss most are clubs with more than just one or two floors - more than just a space to dance. An event can be such an important hub for community and creativity – I think the strict regulations in the UK make it difficult to cultivate that kind of vibe. In general though, I've never heard so much good music and met so many gifted musicians as in the UK."
Malte's mix for us is comprised exclusively of material from Brighton-based producers. "I wanted a snapshot of the current state of the music scene and the people that surround me", he says when asked about the mix. "It contains mostly friends of mine and people who are involved in the local electronic music scene here. During my first week living here I attended an event called 'Wax Work' which was about hanging out and playing short vinyl sets in a club or bar during the week. I met so many great people through that and it was a great hub for the local community. It still has a positive impact even though it's not happening anymore. A lot of these connections are maintained through 'Patterns', where Charles Green, Circa 2000 and I all have residencies."
"I've also included some people that I haven't met before – or only briefly – like Etch, Medrea, Jaime Read and Four Heads. Jaime Read has been producing house since the '90s, Etch is one of Brighton's (or even the UK's?) finest break-slicers and Medrea is an amazing up-and-coming producer. Four Heads are involved in Brighton's experimental/ambient/noise improv scene, which is actually surprisingly big. There is a monthly event called 'Splitting the Atom' with musicians performing experimental music all day at the Green Door Store. I always enjoy going there for a pint. There's a visible community spirit."
QGB - And Then They Burst The Bubble [Unreleased]
Caldera - Untitled [Unreleased]
Charles Green - Gamma Rays [Four Triangles]
Metrist - Nos Ossos [Neighbourhood]
Etch - Synapse Cluster [Gully]
Four Heads - In The Tunnels (Onemancrimewave Mix) [Spirit of Gravity]
Circa 2000 - She Made Me Wait (Computer Club)
SDXN - Turtle Dove (Thru With Love) [Quietly Making Noise]
Medrea - Untitled 02 [Hokkaido Dance Club]
QGB - Morph Impossible [Forthcoming Present Tense]
Charles Green - RDT #2 [Four Triangles]
Jaime Read - Da breaks [Fragmented Records]
Medrea - Untitled [Hokkaido Dance Club]
QGB - Quivering Grumbling Braying [Forthcoming Present Tense]
Nightwaif - Xmas1 (Version) [Unreleased]
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X Factor's Frankie Cocozza: I Binged on Cocaine for Almost a Week
By Toyin Owoseje
November 11, 2011 17:05 GMT
The wannabe rocker ITV
Wannabe rocker Frankie Cocozza has revealed that he binged on cocaine for six days straight, but claims that he is not an addict.
The former X Factor contestant, who was sensationally booted off the talent show this week following allegations that he had boasted about using cocaine, came clean about the extent of his drug use during an interview with The Sun newspaper.
He revealed that he taken cocaine six times and said he will regret his action for the 'rest of his life.'
His hedonistic night of passion and partying fuelled with drugs and alcohol last Saturday was the last straw for show bosses who claimed that he had broken 'the golden rule'.
The 18-year-old Brighton bad boy opened up for the first time since being axed and sent packing by show bosses but branded himself a 'idiot' rather than a 'drug addict'.
Cocozza admitted in today's Sun that it was his own wild behaviour and bad decisions that led to him being booted off the ITV talent show.
He told the newspaper: 'I feel bad about letting the fans down and I'd like to apologise to the people who voted for me,' he said. 'I'm really, really sorry.'
However, despite admitting that he had cost him his chances on the X Factor, the teenager shockingly confessed that he couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't use drugs in the future.
'I can't see into the future so I can't say that I'll never do coke again.'


The day began with an overview of the WHO patient Safety Challenge. Delegates then shared their good practice on the three early priority areas.
Implementation of Carter 2 was the second theme and this included good practice sessions from organisations that were part of the Carter cohort and preliminary ideas for the national "do once" organisational medicines governance system.
NHS England updated us on the work of the Hospital to Home team and the REACH project.
Digital solutions that impact on both themes were also explored.
The presentations can be found below.


The Sellars story is a great Southern story to tell.
It's primarily about quality mare Leyava who left a host of cup class horses and a second branch of the family that did just as well.
The tail begins in the early 40's in Seaward Downs Southland.
"They had a rabbit board that came around fumigating rabbits. It was a unit drawn by a horse. My father asked the rabbiters what the horse was. They told him it was a good racehorse and that Davie Todd trained it. Dad thought he would check this out so he rang Davie with the name Fortune's Favourite and said did you train it. He said yes but it was no bloody good but it was a good family so Dad ended up paying 25 pounds for her," said Andrew Sellars.
The family who were relative newcomers to the breeding of Standardbreds had lengthy discussions before deciding to send her to Indianapolis the winner of the New Zealand Cup 1934, 1935 and 1936.
From that mating Pollyapolis arrived in 1946.
Once her racing days were over Jack Sellers started breeding from her and bred a number a nice horses including Trigside (Flying Song) which won a Gore Cup (1963) and Va Vite which won ten races.
Jack Sellars didn't want to get too involved in breeding but bought off George Youngson Rustic Maid who was the dam of twelve winners including 1950 New Zealand Cup winner Chamfer and 1946 New Zealand Derby winner Free Flight.
At that stage Andrew was working for at W George and Sons near the Post Office in Invercargill. The store was run by Jim Dynes in menswear. The Dynes name was very prominent in the province back then.
The Sellers at that point were living at Roslyn Road – They have reside there for 49 years this year.
Leyava was raced in partnership of Jack and Andrew Sellars.
The name is a combination off Andrew's his wife Shirley and daughter Avalon but the breeding destiny nearly wasn't.
Her first foal was Sassenach by Young Charles.
He soon showed Winter that he had ability and had his first start on Cup Day in the Riccarton Stakes and finished third when driven by Doug Watts. He won four races as a three year old including the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Clubs Three Year Old Championship.
Bob Young at that point had taken over the driving.
One thing that Sellers did insist on was that the horse was to run in the 1971 Interdominions at Addington.
The final was won by Junior's Image who was later disqualified after returning a positive swab. The promoted winner was Stella Frost.
As a five year old Sassenach returned to racing at Ashburton in October before progressing to the Cup meeting in Christchurch raced then over four days.
He came out on the last night of what was a four day cup carnival and won the Olivier Handicap against the cup horses.
He then travelled north for the Auckland Cup and ran fifth on a wet track showing signs of soreness.
Bob McArdle approached Sellars and the horse was sold to America.
His New Zealand record was 34 starts for 8 wins. He won a Canterbury Free For All.
Shavande was Leyava's next foal. He was by Hundred Proof and was trained by Andrew.
After being nursed back from this major setback in won a double at Wyndham.
But tragedy struck again when he ran into a sharp branch on the farm. It pieced a hole just below his shoulder.
The next foal from the mare was Hi Lo's Forbes colt Stylist.
Lumber Dream was the next port of call for Leyava and that mating produced and another colt named Profiteer.
He was trained initially by Sellars. He recorded his first race at Wyndham in November 1977 winning by three lengths running the 2400 metres in 3-08.
A year later although still racing well Profiteer was starting to win the battle of the wills in the south so it was decided to send the colt north for Gavin Hampton to train. Sellars had become friends with the Canterbury horseman after he drove Sassenach at Hutt Park a few years earlier.
Sellars had to reinvent the horses training regime and it was a combination of walking the horse for an hour or light jogging.
At this point Sellers had three of Leyava's progeny in work with Allan Devery training Zabadak and Stampede. All three horses travelled north together raced that night. It was Derby night at Addington which saw Hilarious Guest beat Portfolio and Mel's Boy. The previous filly to win the Derby was Bellajily in 1963. Hilarious Guest is he the last filly to win the Derby.
Zabadak finished seventh while Stampede fared better running second.
Profiteer finished his career in March 1982 and commence a short career in the stallion barn.
He sired 35 live foals and left three winners Auburn Profit (6 wins), He's A Gun (5 wins) and The Developer (2 wins).
Socialite (Armbro Del) was the mare's next foal. She was unraced.
Zabadak (Nevele Bigshot) was next. He qualified and raced from the Henry Skinner stable.
He won five races for Skinner including an impressive double at Wyndham in March 1981 culminating in the 3200 metre Wyndham Cup.
At the end of that season Henry Skinner decided that he wasn't going to carry on training.
It was the start of a very fruitful relationship between owner and trainer.
One race that remains in Sellars memory was the day Zabadak won at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club meeting in January 1983.
He finished his career in 1985 with a record of eleven wins from 64 starts banking $53,325 in stakes. His most important wins were in the Firestone Cavillino Stakes. He ran second in a qualifying heat of the Interdominions, second in The Radio 3ZB FFA, and the Group Two White Heron Travel Lodge FFA.
This younger brother Stampede had also finished his racing career at that point and had embarked on a career as a stallion.
His career record also included eleven wins and he won $55,665. He won a Group Two First Pace Consolation and finished second in the Kaikoura Cup and third in a Easter Cup.
He fashioned a moderate record as a stallion helped by two quality well performed horses in Defoe and Stands To Reason.
Defoe (1-53 TT AUS) the winner of eleven races including the 1990 Lion Red Mile in Auckland. He ran second in the NZ Messenger, second in a Interdominion Heat in Auckland in 1991, third in the 1990 Fosters Australian Pacing Championships, third in the 1990 Miracle Mile, second in the 1991 Miracle Mile third in the $100,000 Italian Cup behind Westburn Grant and Thorate.
Stands To Reason recorded six wins.
Post Stampede Leyava had he last two foals both fillies Saligna (Lumber Dream) and Sakina (Son Of Afella) and that's where the relationship with Brian West began.
Sakina trained by Ron and Charlie MacDonald recording two second and 1 third from seven starts.
One of the mare West took over from Sellars was Lady Megan (Lordship - Socialite).
She left Full Strength (1-57.9) and At Your Service (1-52.0 USA).
In February 1986 Sellers received one of the biggest offers for any of his horses and both were unraced Saligna and Sapele.
Although the breed has faded there are still a small number of the bloodlines active.
Brian West is breeding from a Mach Three daughter of Susan Who (Butler BG – Socialite)named Titled and has a qualified two year old called His Royal Harness who is trained by Chris McDowell and a Stunin Cullen yearling filly out of Titled.
Flashbang (McArdle- Susan Who) was the winner of two races in New Zealand and two in Australia has a Courage Under Fire two year old filly, a Changeover yearling filly and a filly foal by Auckland Reactor.
Also being breed from Famous Lover (Dream Ahead – Susan Who) who has left Call Me Your (Santanna Blue Chip) the winner of nine races in Australia.
That's the Leyava story and that's only half of the tail because of course Pollyapolis's other filly Va Vite (by Young Bob) has also plenty of upside to her stud career.
She left Largs (Lordship) the dam of Glen Moria (10 wins). She also left handy performers Carlton Hill (Smooth Hanover) 5 wins and his full sister Churnside also 5 wins.
But that another story for another day perhaps.


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text: Immediately after taking a break from (which shortly became exiting) grad school at the University of Houston I shifted from making painting based on a drawing system (to which I've returned in the last three years) towards generating very tight, plastic, optically intense hard edge paintings like below. I wrote (at the time) these were partly the result of the influence of first generation video games and the pop and palette of the cellular animation in Saturday morning cartoons, and also that "post painterly abstractions are not only icons of high of high art but also of lounge aesthetic; while such a view romanticizes bourgeoise escapist tendencies, I've already also confessed a love of video games."


Secondary students at Hope International School (HIS) will be returning this fall not just to a new school year, but to a brand new building. The 1700 sqm development is next to the main campus on Crab Island, Chaoyang, and includes a new gym, new classrooms, a cafeteria, and a new library.
Pianist Yuja Wang has returned to her hometown for a residency at the National Center for the Performing Arts. Wang, born in Beijing in 1987, started playing piano at six, and studied at the city's Central Conservatory of Music. At the age of 20 her big break came when she replaced the legendary Martha Argerich at short notice for a series of concerts, and wowed the audience with her performances. Wang is now one of the world's leading classical musicians, described by the San Francisco Chronicle as "quite simply, the most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today". She will be performing a series of concerts and recitals at the "Egg" throughout the 2016/7 season.
Seen those red circles on the skin of athletes at the Rio Olympics? They're caused by "cupping", an ancient Chinese therapy enjoying a new surge in popularity thanks to Michael Phelps and others. A glass cup is placed on the skin, and a vacuum created, either by the traditional method of heating and cooling the air, or simply with a vacuum pump. This draws the skin into the cup, causing the characteristic red marks. Supporters of the practice claim that it draws out toxins and improves the flow of qi. Others though are more skeptical. Critics point to the limited scientific evidence for its effectiveness, and the risks if carried out by untrained practitioners. In June a Chengdu man was left with festering holes on his back after cupping therapy went horribly wrong. As always, we advise that you talk to a qualified medical professional before undergoing any sort of treatment.


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Anodonthyla pollicaris es una especie  de anfibios de la familia Microhylidae.

Distribución geográfica
Es  endémica del este de Madagascar. Sobre todo en el parque nacional de Andasibe-Mantadia.

Morfología
Miden alrededor de 20 mm.

Referencias

 Boettger, 1913: Reptilien und Amphibien von Madagascar, den Inseln und dem Festland Ostafrikas. in Voeltzkow, Reise in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Mitteln der Hermann und Elise geb. Heckmann-Wentzel-Stiftung. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Systematischen Arbeiten. vol. 3, n. 4, p.|269-376.

Enlaces externos

pollicaris
Anfibios de Madagascar

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28 November -16 final year students attended this presentation entitled "The Effect of Jaw Problems on the Rest of the Body". The first section covered were Airway, Sleep Disorders, Posture, Temporo-Mandibular Joint Dysfunction, Movement Disorders. Te second dealt with Early Diagnosis of Unfavourable Facial Development, Types of Malocclusion and Treatment Options. A table demonstration was also given. The question sessions were lively and showed a real interest in subjects that had not been covered in their course.


L. Fergus is a Wattpad featured author of science fiction, including The Fallen Angel Saga, which has more than two hundred thousand reads. The books Birthright and Rebirth have won over ten awards, including Best Overall.
Like L. Fergus' main character Kita, L. Fergus fosters teenage girls to give them a supportive place to grow up and thrive. L. Fergus lives with three dogs: Rust, Moxy, and storm, and four cats: Nova, Jupiter, Crater, and Forest Fire.


This Catana 471 welcomes up to 8 passengers on board to explore the Mauritius. This catamaran can reach a speed of 12 knots. This Catana 471 available for yacht charter in Mauritius, is fully equipped with equipped galley, solar panels, watermaker and also CD for leisure.