The Ohio State University's Columbus campus is one of America's largest and most comprehensive. More than 55,000 students select from 14 colleges, 175 undergraduate majors, and 240 master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs.
As Ohio's best and one of the nation's top-20 public universities, Ohio State is further recognized by a top-rated academic medical center and a premier cancer hospital and research center. The university's innovative prowess attains world-class status, particularly in critical areas such as global climate change, cancer, infectious disease, advanced materials, and ag-bio products that feed and fuel the world.
An additional 8,200 students attend Ohio State's regional campuses in Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark, and the Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster. Founded as a federal land-grant institution in 1870, the university has awarded 622,368 degrees since 1878. Its legacy extends to more than 465,000 living alumni.
Students at the Moritz College of Law have many opportunities to meet other students on campus pursuing advanced degrees. Nearly 15,000 students are enrolled in master's, doctoral, and professional programs on campus.
The Inter-Professional Council is the governing body for the 3,000 students at the colleges of law, dentistry, medicine, optometry, pharmacy, and veterinary medicine. The group plans a variety of social, professional outreach, and community service events, in addition to weighing in on university policies in academic affairs, student affairs, and more.
The Ohio Union Activities Board also plans more than 50 events each year for professional students, ranging from cooking classes to speed dating to family-friendly films and workshops on writing outstanding cover letters.
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An Interview With Shorebreak
by Amanda Meyeron July 11, 2016 November 24, 2017 Leave a Comment on An Interview With Shorebreak
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Shorebreak is an up-and-coming pop punk/emo band from Long Island. The band consists of Mike Scarola (vocals), Mike Cowdell (guitars/vocals), Nick Montanino (bass), Tom Vecerina (guitar) and Joe Stewart (drums/vocals). The band started in 2011 in East Islip and has played all over the tri-state area. They started off playing at their homes, and eventually moved on to playing shows with artists such as State Champs, Real Friends, Stickup Kid and many more.
What artists have influenced the band?
Blink 182, 311, The Starting Line, Backtrack and Senses Fail have all influenced our sound.
What was the inspiration behind the Shorebreak name?
We just thought it sounded cool!
What's your writing process like?
Typically, our singer Mike will lay out the foundation of a song, then we'll go and add drums and change it around, and then bass and change it around, and then guitars and change it around again. Basically we write simple songs, and then we change them a billion times until they're spicy. If they don't get us stoked, we recreate them until they do.
What are your favorite songs to play live?
Probably 'Paper' based on crowd response.
What are your go-to cover songs?
It used to be 'Buried A Lie' by Senses Fail, or 'I'm Not Okay' by My Chemical Romance.
What do you feel is your biggest accomplishment within the band thus far?
Our biggest accomplishment is probably performing at Today's Mixtape Festival in 2015. That meant a lot to us!
Which artists have you been jamming to a lot lately?
To be honest, we all jam to different stuff.
What would your dream collaboration be?
Our dream collaboration would probably be a tour with Stickup Kid!
Fast forward to five years from now. Where will the band be?
We hope to be playing as many shows as possible, traveling and putting out records.
What's next for Shorebreak? Any upcoming endeavors?
We're playing Susiepalooza (https://www.facebook.com/SusiepaloozaLI) on July 23rd, doing a short tour with Young Culture (check them out), and playing The Beaten Path Fest August 5th at East Islip Lanes. We're writing new music too!
You can find more information about Shorebreak at:
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https://www.instagram.com/shorebreakny/
http://shorebreakny.tumblr.com
http://shorebreakny.bandcamp.com
http://shorebreakny.bigcartel.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/ShorebreakNY
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Back in Ye Olde Times (ie, the 20th century), knitting instructions were available in books or from other knitters. Which was fine, to a point. But if you're like me - impatient, but I like to say driven - and you get to an unknown abbreviation or instruction (remember the first time you saw sl1wyif or yo?) you want answers now. You've got a row to finish.
So on Tricksy Knitter, I'm starting to compile some knitting instructions or links to sites with good knitting instructions.
In the Knitting for Beginners section, you'll find instructions for casting on, basic stitches, and casting off (binding off).
The type of knitting instruction I most often have to look up is for finishing. Finishing is a crucial part of a knitting project, especially for sweaters where there is a lot of visible finishing, but patterns provide minimal instruction. All knitted sweater patterns use at least one of these: blocking, side seams, shoulder seams, picking up stitches, weaving in ends, sewing on buttons. So I'm starting to collect some useful information on finishing in the Finishing: The Details section.
And I'm also keeping a list of knitting abbreviations.


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Not only is it really important to non-profit organizations to be able to include a donation on the registration form - but it is really important to be able to include it as an open-ended amount. I have had several conversations with people at Constant Contact about this since 2012 and this still hasn't been able to happen. It can't be that hard! Whatever amount is filled in can simply get added to the grand total at the end, and can be paid via the same means. How can you ask people to click on a separate PayPal button to donate (and thus navigate away from their registration form) when they're in the middle of registering for an event with a fee that will be paid via PayPal! And yet that's the only kind of "solution" that PayPal offers for this. The one work-around that I have found (clumsy and awkward as it is) is to include contributions in the "Additional Items" category, set a unit "price" for contributions, and then instruct people via text on the registration form to select the desired MULTIPLE from the drop down to reach the amount they want to give. For example, set "Contribution" as an item at $10.00 "each", then they can select multiples of $10 from the drop down (i.e., 1, 2, 3, etc). Although that line still reads "$10" and has no subtotal, the correct total contribution amounts ($10, $20, $30, etc.) WILL display down at the bottom of the form on a line labeled Contribution. There is another place where an open-ended field is needed -- actually -- even in the FEE area - when you want to offer admission on a "Pay what you wish" basis to an event. Currently this is not possible. Please make this a priority in the New Year (2014) and SOLVE IT! Thanks! ... View more
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Vijay Kumar of Image Boxing Club prevailed over Punit Kumar of SAK to enter the final of the men's senior heavyweight category in the State Boxing Championship here at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium on Tuesday.
In a keenly contested last-four clash, both the boxers started on a defensive note in the first round. Vijay sprung into action in the second round to produce few solid punches that shook the rhythm of his opponent. Vijay continued his confident show in the third round and sealed the match in his favour.
In the final on Wednesday, Vijay will take on Amit Kumar of MEG, who eased past M Karthik of SBC in the other semifinal.
Much of the drama unfolded in the super heavyweight category, where Ramanna Boxing Club's Uma Shankar knocked down his opponent Vivek Simon of SBC in the first round.
Senior: Light flyweight: Prabhu (YSC) bt Manivelu (SAK); PL Prasad (BSC) bt Gokul (MEG). Flyweight: Ramana (MEG) bt Nitesh Rathore (MLIRC); Sridhar (SAK) w.o Sooraj (MLIRC). Bantamweight: Prince Sanga (SAK) bt Joice (YSC); Silambarasan (MEG) bt Balaji (KARBC). Lightweight: Khaleem Khan (RBC) bt Mahesh Pingle (MLIRC); Rakesh (KARBC) bt Vasanth Kumar (Ravi BC). Light welter: Virender (MEG) bt Vishnu (Shine); Sanjay Patil (MLIRC) bt Prabhu (MBC). Welter: Md Ali (MEG) bt Sanjay (IBC); Prince (RBC) bt Bopinder Singh (SBC). Light heavyweight: Durga Prasad (MEG) bt Dhanraj (Shine); Amaram (RBC) bt Nutha Reddy (IBC). Heavyweight: Vijay Kumar (IBC) bt Punit Kumar (SAK); Amit Kumar (MEG) bt M Kartik (SBC). Super heavyweight: Prabhu (IBC) bt Akash (MBC); Uma Shankar (RBC) bt Vivek Simon (SBC).
John (Raj BC) bt Ajit Kumar (KARBC); Miraj Manjri (MEG) bt Shushank (RBC). Flyweight: Shanmuga P (MEG) bt Mallya Arjuna (SBC). Bantamweight: Lenin Patrik (KARBC) bt Devendra Singh Negi (GCE); Deepak Kumar (MEG) bt Vimal Venkatesh (RBC). Lightweight: S Kartik (MEG) bt G Devaraj (KARBC); M Srinivas (MEG) bt Vijay (RBC). Welter: Sahil (MEG) bt Suman (CBC); Md Dhanush (Raj BC) bt Murali Babu (Shine).
Group A (U-16): Deepak (IBC) bt Sachin (Kodagu); Siva Kumar bt Mithun HG (Kodagu); Niroop (RBC) bt Somaiah KB (Kodagu); Amit Kumar (SAK) bt B Narendra (BSC, MEG); Revanth (RBC) bt Madan Thapa (SAK); S Vinay Kumar (KARBC) bt C Vivan Kumar (Shine); PH Britteor (BSC, MEG) bt CH Willson (Shine); Mahender bt Anil Patil (SBC).
Group B (U-15): Ponnanna (Kodagu) bt Chetan BK (KARBC); Ezikal (IBC) bt Shreejesh (Udupi); Akash Kumar (MEG, BSC) bt Dhanush (RBC); D Dinesh (KARBC) bt Roopesh (Kodagu).
Group C (U-14): Nemul (IBC) bt Dharshan.
Group D (U-13): Vaishak Venkatesh (RBC) bt Mohan Bhatt (Udupi); Md Rayyan (SAK) bt Vinay M (Udupi); D Vishal (KARBC) bt Kanishak Kapil (SAK).
Girls: Junior: Bantamweight: Shriya Moses (KARBC) bt B Abhinaya (SAK).


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Lady Gaga, the acclaimed music artist, posted on social media a photograph of herself praying with the rosary. Along with the photo was an explanation of why her tour, scheduled to happen this fall, has been canceled. The photo reminded its audience that the singer was raised Catholic.
Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, was brought up in a Catholic household. She attended an all-girls Catholic education institution all through high school. Even though her music is regarded to be as far away from her Catholic faith as possible, it remains unclear whether she considers himself as a Catholic at this point of time.
In her social media post, the singer wrote that she has always been honest about her mental and physical health struggles. She was trying to solve them for many years now. She admitted that it is complicated and even difficult to explain her predicament. The singer said she will tell story in a more detailed manner when she gets stronger and when she feels she is ready to do so.
Lady Gaga continued on to say in her social media post that she will speak on her suffering so that awareness can be raised of her condition. She wants research to be done on the subject and wants to make a difference. She said that she used the word 'suffer' in her writing not to gather pity or even attention. She was surprised and pained to be accused of being dramatic or making up her sickness. The singer said she is not faking her symptoms to escape from the rigors of touring. In fact, she reiterated that those who know her understand such insinuations to be clearly false.
Lady Gaga wrote that she was a fighter. She said that she used the word 'suffer' not only as chronic pain and trauma have irrevocably changed her life, they have stopped her from enjoying a normal lifestyle. The constant pain has stopped her from doing what she loves most in her life-performing for the people who made her what she is-her fans. She concluded by saying that she looks forward to tour again. However, she reminded her fans she is under medication and must listen to her doctors.
Lady Gaga has postponed her European Joanne tour scheduled to start from September 21 and continue until October 28. The tour will tentatively begin from early 2018.
Lady Gaga was a Roman Catholic schoolgirl at the Convent of the Sacred Heart all-girls school in Manhattan before she became a pop megastar.


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Q: Avoid using CountDownLatch to wait for many threads before sending the callback So I have a list of Track Ids that for each track Id I need to execute a network request to get the track details,  I am using a for loop to launch all the  requests and a latch to wait for all the requests to be completed. After they are completed then the callback is sent with the List of Tracks that have already populated.
I would like to know if there is any better way to do this, maybe with RxJava ?
I am using Retrofit 2.0 in Android.
    public IBaseRequest batchTracksById(final TrackIdList trackIdListPayload, final IRequestListener<TracksList> listener) {
    final TracksList tracks = new TracksList();
    final Track[] trackArray = newrack[trackIdListPayload.getTrackIds().length];
    tracks.setTrack(trackArray);

    final CountDownLatch latch = new CountDownLatch(trackArray.length);

    Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                latch.await();
                handler.post(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        listener.onRequestUpdate(null, tracks, null, true);
                    }
                });

            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    });
    t.start();

    for (String id : trackIdListPayload.getTrackIds()) {
        getTrackById(id, new IRequestListener<Track>() {
            @Override
            public void onRequestFailure(IBaseRequest request, Exception exception) {
                latch.countDown();
            }

            @Override
            public void onRequestUpdate(IBaseRequest request, Track track, RequestState state, boolean requestComplete) {
                //iterate through the tracks and update the ones in the thing

                int i = 0;
                for (String s : trackIdListPayload.getTrackIds()) {
                    if (s.equals(track.getTrackId())) {
                        trackArray[i] = track;
                        // don't break here, as we may have a case where we have multiple instances of the same trackId (although
                        // at the moment a request will be made for each anyway...
                    }
                    i++;
                }

                latch.countDown();
            }
        });
    }

    return null;
}

A: If I understand correctly, you have a list of tracks as input and you want a list of webservice results.  Here's a simple way to do that with RxJava if you can make your network call synchronous (rxjava will handle the background processing for you).
 Observable.from(trackList)
                    .map(new Func1<Track, Response>() {
                        @Override
                        public Response call(Track track) {
                            return makeRequestSynchronously(track.id());
                        }
                    })
                    .toList()
                    .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
                    .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
                    .subscribe(new Subscriber<List<Response>>() {

                        @Override
                        public void onCompleted() {

                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onError(Throwable e) {

                        }

                        @Override
                        public void onNext(List<Response> responses) {

                        }
                    });

Edit:  You can change Retrofit to return observables from webservice, if you do that you will need to change map to the following
 .flatMap(new Func1<Track, Observable<Response>>() {
                    @Override
                    public Observable<Response> call(Track track) {
                        return makeRequestThatReturnsObservable(track.id());
                    }
                })

A: If you want to make all the requests asynchronously and wait for them to return you can do this (lambdas for brevity and readability):
tracks.flatMap(track -> getTrackDetails(track.id)
                          .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io()))
      .toList()
      .doOnNext(list -> processTrackList())
      ...

If you require that the results are returned in the order of tracks but are still requested asynchronously then in soon to be released rxjava 1.0.15 you will be able to do this
tracks.concatMapEager(track -> getTrackDetails(track.id)
                          .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
      .toList()
      .doOnNext(list -> processTrackList())
      ...

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Research article | 23 Nov 2017
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) cycling across contrasting biological hotspots of the New Zealand subtropical front
Martine Lizotte1, Maurice Levasseur1, Cliff S. Law2,3, Carolyn F. Walker2, Karl A. Safi4, Andrew Marriner2, and Ronald P. Kiene5 Martine Lizotte et al. Martine Lizotte1, Maurice Levasseur1, Cliff S. Law2,3, Carolyn F. Walker2, Karl A. Safi4, Andrew Marriner2, and Ronald P. Kiene5
1Université Laval, Department of biology (Québec-Océan), Québec City, Québec, Canada
2National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
3University of Otago, Department of Chemistry, Dunedin, New Zealand
4National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton, New Zealand
5University of South Alabama, Department of Marine Sciences, Mobile, AL, USA
Received: 02 May 2017 – Discussion started: 17 May 2017 – Revised: 25 Sep 2017 – Accepted: 16 Oct 2017 – Published: 23 Nov 2017
Abstract. The oceanic frontal region above the Chatham Rise east of New Zealand was investigated during the late austral summer season in February and March 2012. Despite its potential importance as a source of marine-originating and climate-relevant compounds, such as dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and its algal precursor dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), little is known of the processes fuelling the reservoirs of these sulfur (S) compounds in the water masses bordering the subtropical front (STF). This study focused on two opposing short-term fates of DMSP-S following its uptake by microbial organisms (either its conversion into DMS or its assimilation into bacterial biomass) and has not considered dissolved non-volatile degradation products. Sampling took place in three phytoplankton blooms (B1, B2, and B3) with B1 and B3 occurring in relatively nitrate-rich, dinoflagellate-dominated subantarctic waters, and B2 occurring in nitrate-poor subtropical waters dominated by coccolithophores. Concentrations of total DMSP (DMSPt) and DMS were high across the region, up to 160 and 14.5 nmolL−1, respectively. Pools of DMSPt showed a strong association with overall phytoplankton biomass proxied by chlorophyll a (rs = 0.83) likely because of the persistent dominance of dinoflagellates and coccolithophores, both DMSP-rich taxa. Heterotrophic microbes displayed low S assimilation from DMSP (less than 5%) likely because their S requirements were fulfilled by high DMSP availability. Rates of bacterial protein synthesis were significantly correlated with concentrations of dissolved DMSP (DMSPd, rs = 0.86) as well as with the microbial conversion efficiency of DMSPd into DMS (DMS yield, rs = 0.84). Estimates of the potential contribution of microbially mediated rates of DMS production (0.1–27nmolL−1day−1) to the near-surface concentrations of DMS suggest that bacteria alone could not have sustained DMS pools at most stations, indicating an important role for phytoplankton-mediated DMS production. The findings from this study provide crucial information on the distribution and cycling of DMS and DMSP in a critically under-sampled area of the global ocean, and they highlight the importance of oceanic fronts as hotspots of the production of marine biogenic S compounds.
How to cite: Lizotte, M., Levasseur, M., Law, C. S., Walker, C. F., Safi, K. A., Marriner, A., and Kiene, R. P.: Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethyl sulfide (DMS) cycling across contrasting biological hotspots of the New Zealand subtropical front, Ocean Sci., 13, 961-982, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-961-2017, 2017.
Surface Ocean Aerosol Production (SOAP) (ACP/OS inter-journal...
During a 4-week oceanographic cruise in 2012, we investigated the water masses bordering the subtropical front near New Zealand as sources of the biogenic gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS). DMS oxidation products may influence the atmospheric radiative budget of the Earth. Concentrations of DMS were high in the study region and DMS's precursor, dimethylsulfoniopropionate, showed a strong association with phytoplankton biomass in relation to the persistent dominance of dinoflagellates/coccolithophores.
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Reading's IDR and other bizarre road systems that would even terrify Lewis Hamilton
From the IDR to Caversham Bridge, these roads are enough to horrify even the most experienced of drivers
Our dear friend, the IDR (Image: BerkshireLive)
Driving around Reading can be something of a testing experience.
"Slow" would be one word used to describe the process.
Sadly, it seems traffic levels are returning to the way they were before the pandemic, providing both a headache for anyone trying to get anywhere, and Reading Borough Council, which is in charge of trying to sort out a problem that has been going on for many, many years.
READ MORE: The island that became Reading by the Sea
As well as the general issue of too many vehicles, there is another major issue with some of the designs of the roads around Reading.
Another issue, which is very much not unique to Reading, is that any roadworks anywhere around the town centre cause utter chaos on all the surrounding roads.
And anyone who has had the misfortune of being in Reading when the M4 is closed will also know of the misery of getting precisely nowhere.
Drivers in Reading are adept at dealing with the traffic chaos and eccentric systems, but it's well-known the roads can bewilder, and sometimes terrify, outsiders who come into town.
In particular...
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The IDR
The IDR being built in 1969 - little did they know (Image: BerkshireLive)
Everyone remembers the council's infamous plan to make the IDR one-way.
What is less know is that a team of experts who came to look at the road were scared witless by having to drive on it.
Sir Brian Briscoe revealed he had a "frightening experience" coming into town.
He was chairman of the Independent Traffic Commission and was alarmed by the road Reading drivers breeze on and off with no problems, despite its chaotic "criss-cross" design.
Caversham Bridge
A strangely traffic free Caversham Bridge (Image: BerkshireLive)
Caversham Bridge is a grand old bridge providing a vital Thames Crossing.
What it's not, sadly, is great for driving over.
You see, cars have got bigger, and the lanes over Caversham Bridge have stayed the same.
Add buses into the mix and you have a situation where cars can't get past the buses coming in the other direction, causing queues in both directions.
The same situation exists where people park in the parking bays in Caversham Road and everyone gets uncomfortably close to each other.
Of course, the council could look to either widen or replace the bridge but are perhaps put off at the massive cost and probably years of roadworks over one of the town's busiest roads.
The A4074
Time your overtake wrong and you could end up in that lovely vegetation (Image: Google Maps)
Only a small part of this road is actually in Reading, but a great many people in the town will have used it.
And if you have no doubt you will have seen some of the worst overtaking decisions you're ever likely to come across.
It's long, winding, and slow, and some people just can't accept that.
If you're really lucky, you might get stuck behind the Woodcote Steam Rally as an endless succession of traction engines all leave at once and crawl up the hill at around 12mph.
Reading Driving Test Centre
Reading Driving Test Centre - hard to get out of (Image: Google)
The test centre in Reading could be turned into housing and we sincerely doubt anyone will miss the place, despite the life-changing moments experienced there.
Whoever designed it must have either not known it would end up as a driving test centre or been something of a sadist.
The car park is very tight indeed, so you're instantly under pressure on one of the most stressful experiences of your life.
Then once you've carried out that operation it's time for the big stop sign - right at the entrance.
This provides not one but two opportunities for you to fail your test before getting on to an actual road.
This is before the parallel parking, three-point turns and whatever else the modern test requires.
The Oxford Road maze
Once you get, you may never come out (Image: Google Maps)
Legend has it there are still people driving around the web of tiny roads off Oxford Road years after they first made the mistake of entering.
Once you've made the mistake of trying to find places like Connaught Road you're already doomed.
The main things you'll encounter are left turns, taking you further and further away from the place you want to go to.
Patience, good fortune and a good amount of fuel are essential if you find yourself in this part of town.
Junction 11 roundabout
Junction 11 - confusing. (Image: Get Reading)
This sprawling roundabout near the Madejski Stadium is new enough to still be utterly confusing, even for locals.
You'll be happily going along and then suddenly realise you're about to go on to the M4 towards London when that's the last place you want to be going. A dramatic swerve is needed.
There are so many lanes and so many cars cutting in right and left you really have to keep your wits about you.
Watch out if you're going along there at about 5.30pm when Reading FC are playing a team from the north when those fans suddenly all realise they're about to go in completely the wrong direction.
The A4 at Sulhamstead
The Google car clearly arrived at a good time (Image: Google Maps)
You occasionally see learner drivers at this junction, usually white as a sheet as they wobble backwards and forwards looking for a gap in between the high-speed traffic coming in both directions.
It combines a hill start, very limited chances, cars waiting behind you and a real chance of a very nasty crash indeed if you get it wrong.
It's fair to point this is in West Berkshire rather than Reading itself and some efforts have been made to make it slightly easier, but there's not that much you can do about a horrible right turn on a hill.
The mysterious pink strip
The "pink strip" in Bath Road (Image: Google Maps)
If you were to conduct a straw poll of how the pink strip on Castle Hill operates we'd wager most people, local or otherwise, wouldn't be able to tell you.
People know it goes in one direction at one time of day, and the other at another time of day.
But specifics? Forget it.
It's clearly signposted and there haven't been too many crashes there over the years, but we wouldn't be confident people really know what they are doing.
Getting out of this garage
The BP garage at Calcot (Image: Google Maps)
Out to West Berkshire again for this one.
The expansion of the A4 around the Ikea in Calcot was much needed, although people around there still think not enough was done. And the issues seen in the store's car park could support that.
However, the work has made one particular operation very tricky indeed: getting out of the BP garage next to the road, which now has four lanes of traffic.
Going left is fairly straightforward. But right? Well, that is very much a different kettle of fish.
Any manoeuvre that involves crossing four lanes of traffic is daunting and this one particularly so. A pedestrian crossing down the road helps, but it still isn't easy.
What are the worst roads in Reading to drive down? Leave a comment below
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EducationReading Girls School was given a special measures order in 2016 following an 'Inadequate' inspection by Ofsted, but in its most recent inspection, it was awarded a 'Good' rating after the school had made significant improvements.


A while back now we featured the work of English artist and photographer Rich McCor and his brilliant series in which he travels to some of the world's most popular tourist destinations and uses his tiny creative card cut-outs to transform them into fun silhouette doodles using some clever perspectives.
Going by the playful name of Paperboyo McCor continues to his now 250k followers over on Instagram with his creative cut-outs that are first doodled in a sketchbook using photos he's collected prior to visiting so that when he arrives, he already knows exactly where to shoot.
Gao Youjun, aka Tango, is a popular Shanghai cartoonist on the Chinese social network Weibo. The artist draws brilliantly witty cartoons that are made all the more clever because of their incredible simplicity. By looking at the world in a different way, Tango's work also encourages us, the audience, to look at things with a fresh perspective.
You can follow more of Loli's work on Instagram or Facebook, and she sells prints and other things in her shop.
« I'm Eugenia. I'm a filmmaker, illustrator, and a modern vintage collage artist. Before art took over my life, I was in the technology sector. I'm originally from Greece, but for many years now I live in California. It's important for me to "say" something with my artwork, so for the vast majority of my work there's a meaning behind them. I usually do this via presenting a "narrative" scene in my collages, like there's something bigger going on than what's merely depicted. Sometimes the scene is witty or sarcastic, some times it's horrific with a sense of danger or urgency, some times it's chill. I leave it to the viewer's imagination to fill-in the blanks of the story plot ».
The Paris-born artist works in Toulouse as a freelance illustrator and has been creating these imaginative sculptures on the side for over 10 years. Fortunately for us, Legrand regularly exhibits his works in art centres across France, so don't miss it when you go there!
Recalling Magritte works, photographs Rodney Smith bewitch us in his surreal universe. As if he was staring at the time, the artist manages to subjugate us with strange and poetic shots.
The people in Mr. Smith's photographs carry umbrellas and wear hats, often bowlers. Some peer into binoculars as if they can see into the future. Others lean into space at odd angles, Buster Keaton-like, or are poised to leap from a building ledge or airplane wing. A few have their faces obscured by hats, boxes and lampshades.
Fly Art, it its own words, is « the best marriage on the Internet: Art and hip hop according to Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano, » two women from the Philippines who are making me realize all over again why there was a time when paintings caused as much controversy as rap albums.
They probably said they were going to teach both to their children but did not know how to do it! Gisella Velasco and Toni Potenciano have thus amused themselves to reconcile what they describe as the « two most beautiful things in life » art and hip hop on the project Fly Art.
These fun and provocative mash ups do not leave indifferent.
Terry Border's irreverent sense of humor is immediately clear upon viewing his series Bent Objects. The ongoing project features Terry's takes on everyday situations and items, with the help of some bent paper clips and other metal scraps.
more visit his blog, follow the project on Facebook, or take a look at his books and calenders on Amazon.
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Despite Biden's Climate Pledge, Drilling Licenses In The United States Are Increasing
BILLINGS, Mont. — Approvals for companies to drill for oil and gas on public lands in the United States are on track to reach their highest level since George W. Bush was president this year, underscoring President Joe Biden's reluctance to act more forcefully against petroleum production in the face of the industry and Republican opposition.
According to an Associated Press examination of government statistics, the Interior Department issued roughly 2,500 licenses to drill on public and tribal lands in the first six months of the year. Since Biden assumed office on January 20, he has approved almost 2,100 drilling permits.
The states with the most approvals were New Mexico and Wyoming. Hundreds of people were killed in Montana, Colorado, and Utah.
Last year, Biden ran on promises to halt new drilling on federal lands in order to reduce climate-changing emissions. While in Congress, his nominee to manage such areas, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, was a staunch opponent of drilling on federal lands and a co-sponsor of the liberal Green New Deal.
However, the administration's actions on fossil fuels so far have been modest, including a judge-ordered temporary halt to new oil and gas leases on federal lands, a ban on petroleum sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), and the cancellation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
Because enormous fossil fuel deposits are already leased, these measures had little effect on the drilling on public lands and waterways, which account for roughly a quarter of US oil output.
The recent spike in fuel costs to $3 a gallon ($0.79 a liter) or more in many parts of the country has complicated Biden's climate agenda even more. Any move to curtail petroleum output may drive up fuel costs more, jeopardizing the pandemic's economic recovery.
"He's on a tightrope," said S&P Global Platts energy analyst Parker Fawcett, noting that the Keystone and ANWR pipelines did not come with high political costs because they were aimed at future projects.
"Those simple wins today don't always have enormous market impacts," Fawcett added. "He's taking a step back from executing a risky move that may destabilize the market…." What you'll see is that oil output in the United States will continue to rise."
Republican concerns about future restrictions on the sector have been addressed by Haaland. Last month, she told the House Natural Resources Committee that there was no "strategy right now for a permanent ban."
Haaland told Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn, "Gas and oil production will continue long into the future, and we think that is the reality of our economy and the society we live in."
Interior officials declined to comment further on the permits issued during Biden's tenure.
The Interior Department shortened the time it takes to examine drilling applications from a year or more in certain situations to just a few months under previous President Donald Trump, a fervent industry advocate.
Before the new administration took office, companies scrambled to secure drilling rights. In December, Trump's final full month in office, agency officials authorized over 800 permits, considerably higher than in any other month of his presidency.
Under a temporary order that escalated permit evaluations to top administration officials when Biden first entered office, the pace slowed. Since then, approvals have risen to a pace that exceeds monthly figures recorded during Trump's administration.
Because of delays in sending data from Interior field offices to headquarters, the data received by AP from a government database is susceptible to change.
The Interior Department may issue close to 6,000 permits by the end of the year if current patterns continue. The last time this many were issued was in the fiscal year 2008 when crude prices soared to an all-time high of $140 a barrel in June.
According to Fawcett, the industry analyst, around 4,700 drilling applications were still outstanding as of June 1, implying that approvals will continue at a rapid pace while authorities work through a backlog left over from the Trump administration.
Environmentalists who support the administration's climate aims are becoming increasingly frustrated as prospects for a drilling moratorium dwindle. They claim that the administration could take administrative action to prohibit new permits from being issued, but that it has bowed to Republican pressure.
Mitch Jones, policy director for the environmental nonprofit Food & Water Watch, said, "Every indication is they have no intentions to really deliver their campaign promise." "As a result, fossil fuel extraction on public lands will continue and expand, resulting in further climate change."
Economists and other professionals have expressed reservations about the implications of a permission restriction. Companies may easily move their drilling operations to private and state properties, according to University of Chicago assistant dean Ryan Kellogg.
Defenders of the administration argue that it is being realistic in the face of a 50-50 split in the Senate and doubts about whether the government can legally prohibit drilling on leases that have already been leased to corporations.
That means abandoning a drilling moratorium in the hopes of gaining bipartisan support for a massive infrastructure package that includes renewable energy subsidies and other climate-related measures.
"It's a lengthy game," says the narrator. "You've got to placate some of those oil and gas state senators," said Jim Lyons, an environmental consultant who served as deputy assistant secretary of the Interior under Barack Obama. "It means thousands of people will be able to return home to work. You can't merely turn out the light."


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Lac-Mégantic settlement only a fraction of what's needed, town says
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Montreal Gazette | January 12, 2015 | Canadian Press Column
The funds earmarked for those affected by the Lac-Mégantic train disaster represent just a fraction of what's needed, a town official says.
A US$200-million settlement was announced last week, with more than one-half of the money going to various levels of government.
As it stands, about $50 million is destined for relatives of the 47 people who died in the July 2013 disaster, although the amount could rise.
Given the magnitude of the tragedy, which also left the community's downtown core a fire-ravaged mess, the town's deputy mayor says what seems like a large sum of money isn't very much.
"Two hundred million can seem like a lot of money but in my opinion, it's very little," Richard Michaud said in a phone interview Monday.
"Much more than $200 million has been injected by the federal and provincial government to decontaminate the devastated territory alone, and we're not even talking about reconstruction."
A runaway train hauling tanker cars loaded with volatile crude oil broke loose and barrelled into the town in the early morning hours of July 6, 2013, before derailing and exploding.
The families of the victims will share in the settlement money, which is "very little considering there are more than 20 orphans who must rebuild their lives," Michaud said.
"It will help the families and the governments — but it's not an astronomical sum."
The settlement involves the Montreal Maine and Atlantic Canada Co., its insurance carrier, rail-car manufacturers and some oil producers. Three major companies have declined to participate — World Fuel Services, Canadian Pacific Railway and Irving Oil.
U.S. bankruptcy trustee Robert Keach is hoping the $200 million amount rises considerably before final approval of the plan in U.S. and Canadian courts.
Keach, a court-appointed trustee in the defunct railroad's bankruptcy case in Maine, said the draft sets aside about $50 million of the $200 million pool for wrongful death claims, which could increase through a reallocation of the federal government's share to as much as $57 million.
Up to $29 million could go to property damage, while another $19 million could go to bodily injury and moral damage claims, Keach said.
Those amounts reflect a possible reallocation of the federal government's take.
As it currently stands, more than 52 per cent of the overall funds would go to provincial, federal and municipal governments. The formulas could change if the amount goes up.
"This is only a draft, so there are separate but parallel processes on both sides of the border," Keach said. "The hope is we'll have all the approval orders in place in early to mid-April so we could have a distribution in place by June or July.
"We are hoping (the final amount) grows between now and then, but the deadline for it growing is going to be those final hearings," he added.
The case was put off on Monday until mid-May by a judge in Sherbrooke.
Yannick Gagné, owner of the Musi-Café, a business that was destroyed and where the majority of the victims died, said money won't bring back the lives lost but could help with the relaunch of the downtown.
Plenty more money will be required, however, to rebuild the town centre essentially from scratch, he said in an interview.
Reconstruction costs are significant and Gagné himself has taken out loans, used insurance money and paid out of pocket. He also spent seven months out of work.
"For many people, it was a difficult time financially," said Gagné, whose café quietly reopened on Dec. 15. "The mayor said it best — that $200 million is not sufficient.
"We are a long way from what we need. And it's not up to the population to pay for this tragedy."
Lac-Mégantic Mayor Colette Roy Laroche said on the weekend the estimated cost of rebuilding the town is about $2 billion.
http://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/lac-megantic-settlement-only-a-fraction-of-whats-needed-town-says


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Q: JavaFX: ScrollPane method getChildren() is not visible I have created a Stage from an AnchorPane and some children elements (the AnchorPane and its children have been created in Java Scene Builder) and the hierarchy is shown below:

The stage and the scene are of course created programmatically at program initialization.
I want to also add programmatically a GridPane as a child of the ScrollPane shown in the image.
In my program (the controller of the specific window) I can get a reference to the ScrollPane:
@FXML
private ScrollPane srcPaneUsers;

(the id srcPaneUsers has been given through the respective field of the properties windows of Scene Builder)
HOWEVER!!: When I try to add programmatically a new GridPane created at run-time through the following lines of the initialize method of the controller:
public void initialize(URL location, ResourceBundle resources) {
    myGridPane = new GridPane();
    srcPaneUsers.getChildren().add(myGridPane);
}

I get a compile time error that says
"The method getChildren() from the type Parent is not visible."
And so I cannot add my GridPane at run time.
Any ideas?

A: You are calling the wrong method. You need
srcPaneUsers.setContent(myGridPane);

The getChildren() method defined in Parent is a protected method. It is overridden in Pane to be a public method, so for layout panes (GridPane, BorderPane, etc) you can directly manipulate the list of child nodes.
ScrollPane's hierarchy is ScrollPane extends Control extends Region extends Parent, so it inherits the protected getChildren() method. And this actually makes sense: the child nodes of a ScrollPane are things like the viewport (which clips the view of the content) and scrollbars: you don't really want the user to be manipulating those, otherwise what you end up with is likely not to function correctly any more. ScrollPanes really only have one node that is configurable: the node of which the ScrollPane is providing a view: this is referred to as its content and accessed via the contentProperty(), getContent(), and setContent() methods.
Other "container-like controls" work similarly. The TabPane class exposes a getTabs() method that returns an ObservableList<Tab>; and the Tab class in turn exposes a contentProperty() so you can access the content of each individual tab. The SplitPane tab exposes a getItems() method returning an ObservableList<Node> for the nodes displayed in the pane. In the case of a SplitPane its child nodes are more than the items: they include the visual components representing the dividers, etc. In both these cases, the getChildren() method is a protected method (inherited from Parent).
Note that Parent also defines a public getChildrenUnmodifiable() method, which returns an unmodifiable view of the list of child nodes. You can use this to examine the node hierarchy of any parent, but not modify it. (For debugging purposes, however, especially for working with CSS, I recommend using ScenicView.)


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Marshall vs Cassville (3/20/92 at UW Field House, Madison, Wis.)
Marshall vs Cassville
3/20/92 9:35 a.m. at UW Field House, Madison, Wis.
VISITORS: Marshall 23-3
33 Matt Krueger........ f  2-7    0-0    0-0    2  4  6   4   4  0  0  0  0   0
31 Chris Huff.......... c  7-12   0-0    7-10   3  7 10   3  21  0  0  0  0   0
21 Greg Motl........... g  3-4    0-1    1-3    2  4  6   5   7  0  0  0  0   0
23 Chad Peterson....... g 10-16   8-9    0-0    2  3  5   4  28  0  0  0  0   0
25 Troy Cramblit....... g  1-3    1-3    0-0    0  0  0   1   3  0  0  0  0   0
13 Jason Killerlain....    3-4    1-1    1-1    1  1  2   1   8  0  0  0  0   0
45 Bobby Smith.........    0-0    0-0    0-0    1  1  2   0   0  0  0  0  0   0
51 Corey Tremaine......    0-1    0-0    0-0    1  1  2   1   0  0  0  0  0   0
Totals..............   26-47  10-14   9-14  13 23 36  19  71  0  0  0  0   0
3-Pt. FG% 1st Half:  0-0   0.0%   2nd Half: 10-14 71.4%   Game: 71.4%   REBS
F Throw % 1st Half:  0-0   0.0%   2nd Half:  9-14 64.3%   Game: 64.3%    2
HOME TEAM: Cassville 19-6
22 Stan Schauff........ f  2-6    2-5    0-0    1  3  4   4   6  0  0  0  0   0
44 Brian Koopman....... f  8-18   0-0    3-4    2  4  6   4  19  0  0  0  0   0
34 Sam Okey............ c  8-16   1-1   11-13   6  8 14   4  28  0  0  0  0   0
24 Cory Sauser......... g  1-7    0-2    1-2    0  1  1   1   3  0  0  0  0   0
30 Chad Infield........ g  5-10   1-4    3-4    0  1  1   1  14  0  0  0  0   0
20 Don Adams...........    0-3    0-0    0-0    0  1  1   0   0  0  0  0  0   0
32 Jim Fishneck........    1-4    0-0    0-0    0  1  1   2   2  0  0  0  0   0
Totals..............   25-64   4-12  18-23  13 19 32  16  72  0  0  0  0   0
F Throw % 1st Half:  0-0   0.0%   2nd Half: 18-23 78.3%   Game: 78.3%    0
Officials: Patrick Colgrove, Robert Frenchick
Technical fouls: Marshall-None. Cassville-None.
Marshall......................   18   17   18   18  -   71
Cassville.....................   11   18   11   32  -   72
Division 4 Semifinal: Marshall sets Division 4 record for 3-pt. field goals
made in a game with 10 on 14 tries, which also sets a record for accuracy
(.714)...Marshall's Chad Peterson sets Div. 4 record for a tourney game with
8 3-pointers made on 9 attempts, which sets the mark for accuracy too (.889).


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The beauty about Badaga community is not only the unique customs specific to the community but the steadfast belief with which atleast some of them are followed by Badagas with fervour. One of them is the loud chanting of 'Athikkodhu – saaying of EAY AH HOW – on certain but specific occasions. It is said that in earlier days [hundred of years back], when the Badaga villages [hattis] were separated by thick jungle forests , 'athikkindu Hoppadhu ' – traversing the forest with loud athikkodhu chant – kept the wild animals away.
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