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Webinar: What Do We Know About Location Affordability in U.S. Shrinking Cities?
Thursday, November 9, 2017, 10:00am to 11:00am PST
Joanna Ganning, Cleveland State University
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Traditionally the discussion about affordability has focused on housing, but HUD's Location Affordability Index (LAI), released in 2012, helped to elevate the conversation by expanding the focus to include households' transportation costs. In the first part of this webinar, Dr. Ganning will provide an overview of the LAI, discuss its technical limitations, and provide recommendations for future research. The second portion of the webinar will present the results of a household survey of housing and transportation costs, conducted in Cleveland, Ohio. The household survey supports and extends the conclusions of the first part of the webinar, adding information regarding transportation cost estimates, and a perspective on the burden placed on households by unaffordable costs.
The LAI appears to overestimate housing cost and cost burden by 10-20%, depending on tenure and urban/rural location. The transportation costs estimated by the LAI cannot be reproduced, and partially depend on data that is either not publicly available or has unacceptably large margins of error. Survey results indicate the LAI over-estimates transportation costs by as much as 100%.
Regardless, households struggle with unaffordable costs in shrinking cities, often giving up necessities or under-paying or not paying bills to pay for transportation and housing.
Transit agencies in shrinking cities face a difficult challenge in connecting workers to jobs in a region with a stable or declining population and persistently suburbanizing jobs, pushing the transit service area farther from the core. Some strategies are offered.
Joanna Ganning
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Joanna Ganning is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Economic Development in the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. She holds a PhD in Regional Planning from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She previously served as Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Metropolitan Research Center at the University of Utah. Dr. Ganning's research focuses on urban and regional economic development. Her interests in transportation center on the role transportation plays in altering regional population settlement patterns, and in impacting household budgetary decisions.
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Pad Thai is one of Thailand's most famous dishes. This version is a mixture Thai noodles, egg, tofu, bean sprout and spring onions with a side garnish of crushed peanuts & dried chilli. This dish comes with either chicken or prawn.
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Construction to shut down 183rd Street until late October
Work started this week on the 183rd Street improvement project, which will reconstruct the roadway with the addition of a 10-foot sidewalk. The construction is expected to be completed by late October. 183rd Street is closed to through traffic in the meantime. Staff photo by Mark Taylor
Construction work started this week on 183rd Street between Moonlight Road and Center Streets.
The work – which is expected to take about two months to complete – will replace pavement and add a 10-foot wide sidewalk along a section of the north side of 183rd Street.
Mark Pottinger, engineering technician for the Gardner Public Works Department, said residents in subdivisions along 183rd Street will have back-road access to their neighborhoods and a few landlocked property owners will receive special accommodations to access 183rd Street during the construction process.
For example, the Gardner Post Office's 183rd Street access has been closed and access is available from Center Street.
"Really, everybody that lives out there is going to have a different way (to access their neighborhoods," Pottinger said.
Detour signs will also direct east-west motorists to use Main Street for the duration of the construction.
The project consists of full depth pavement reconstruction, a 2-inch asphalt overlay from Mulberry Street to Moonlight Road, and a 10-foot wide concrete sidewalk along 183rd Street between Center and Mulberry Streets.
Pottinger said the new sidewalk will tie into the existing recreational trail that runs along the east side of Center Street.
The city contracted O'Donnell and Sons Construction for the $562,203 project.
The city will cover $235,536 of the total project cost from the Special Highway Fund.
Remaining costs will be funded with a $45,565 Community Development Block Grant and $281,101 from the Johnson County CARS Program.
Work started on Aug. 22, and is expected to be completed by the end of October.
For more information, call Pottinger at (913) 856-0918.
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Ледник расположен в истоках реки Акалаха. Длина его составляет 4,2 км, площадь — 7 км². Из ледника берёт начало река Укок, левый приток Акалахи.

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ProClinical is advertising a vacancy for a Manufacturing Scientist P1 position with a global pharmaceutical company. The organisation works to improve the health of animals by using innovative products, expertise, and service, along with solution that empower clients to advance a vision of food and companionship-enriching life. Based in Liverpool, this position offers an exciting opportunity to join an internationally acclaimed organisation that is committed to developing high-quality medicine to meet real world problems.
Improving the productivity of commercial products and introducing new products.
Assisting with process improvements and development.
Interacting daily with all levels, including lead scientist and presentations at a corporate level.
Designing, guiding, and outlining the experiments for the company's process technicians to carry out, based over the 201 reactors in the area.
Experience or at least a strong interest in fermentation.
A sound scientific understanding of working with and presenting data.


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Exit Index Due Out October 20 via Western Vinyl
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Brooklyn trio Grooms are releasing a new album, Exit Index, on October 20 via Western Vinyl. Previously they shared the album's first single, "Turn Your Body." Now here's another song from the album, the shoegaze-y "Magistrate Seeks Romance." Listen below, followed by "Turn Your Body."
Grooms (singer/guitarist Travis Johnson, drummer Steve Levine, and bassist Jay Heiselmann) recorded Exit Index at the famed New York recording studio The Magic Shop, which has hosted sessions with David Bowie and Lou Reed, among many others, and they were the last band to record there before it closed down last year. Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen, Lana Del Rey) mixed the album. A press release describes the album as such: "On Exit Index the band combines the abandon of pop with the unease of American life in 2017, cloaking its hooks in a clamor of samples and distortion, its agitation expressed in its dream-poetry lyrics."


Dallas ISD Pre-K is free to students who meet certain eligibility requirements. But now even those who do not meet those requirements can attend, thanks to our new tuition-based program.
Learn more about how Dallas ISD now offers both free and tuition-based Pre-K below.
Studies show that kids who attend Pre-K are more likely to succeed in school, more likely to graduate, and more likely to go to college.
Dallas ISD offers both free and tuition-based Pre-K programs. For both programs, a child must be three- or four-years-old on or before September 1st to be eligible.
Three- or four-year-old students who are not eligible for free Pre-K can enroll in tuition-based Pre-K at select schools.
The child is a dependent of a recipient of the Star of Texas Award.
Again, your child only has to meet ONE of these requirements to qualify for free Pre-K. If you do not qualify for free Pre-K, you can still enroll your child in the tuition-based Pre-K program.
PreK Registration is open for the current school year. Please visit your local campus and bring the required documents listed below.
Parent Portal account access will be provided along with information on how to complete the online enrollment.
Registration is first come, first served, and seats are limited. Enroll TODAY!
Visit your local campus during school hours for assistance. Once you have obtained Unified Classroom - Parent Portal access information, parents can complete and submit the online enrollment forms.
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To practice hiking or trekking in Peru is to travel through beautiful Andean landscapes with fantastic views of snow-capped mountains and lagoons. It is to cross the Qhapaq Ñan, the network of roads that united the Inca Empire; know the culture of the communities; Cross the Cordillera Blanca and Huayhuash in Ancash or find more than one route to Machu Picchu in Cusco.
Virtually the entire mountain range, including valleys, plateaus and mountain ranges, hosts hiking or trekking circuits of varying degrees of difficulty. Only some of the circuits have been "discovered" as commercial trekking routes. The rest remains unexplored. Andes possess an extraordinary network of pre-Columbian trails and its more than 12,000 lagoons, with the deepest canyons on Earth, glaciers and snow-capped peaks, forests and waterfalls, beautiful villages and, above all, very hospitable people. There are roads so steep that they are lost in abysses, other zigzags that move along the mountain ranges; flat and extensive that seem to get lost in the immensity of the desert; Hidden and imperceptible among the thick vegetation of the Amazonian forests.
On the way from the Machu Picchu trail, there are camp areas, duly marked, coded, indicated and delimited.
The Travel Agencies, can not build their camps, in places NOT signposted, it would not be safe, for the group and the place would be preyed upon. On the way, there are basic hygienic services, for public use and are duly marked. The portable, biodegradable bathrooms that agency offers, can only be used in those places where there are no hygienic facilities.
In the camps you can find basic hygiene services. And in the last camp you can find basic showers. The agency during the trip will provide you with the facilities of the case, for your personal hygiene.
In the camp areas, you do not have electricity or a cellular network, so it is recommended that you take the necessary precautions. Bring a personal flashlight, charge your batteries in advance and be ready, to enjoy a starry sky and depending on the day will have the light of the full moon.
The camp areas, are permanently protected by the guards, you will be safe, without annoying noises. The surveillance personnel will be in charge of controlling any risk that may arise.
In the camps, remember, there should be no trace of your step, do not leave traces of your stay, all garbage should be delivered to the staff of the agency, have your own bag of garbage and at the end of the walk, deliver it; the support staff will be responsible for selecting the solid waste in organic and inorganic waste and removing it from the Inca Trail.
Do not step on mosses, die quickly, do not start flowers, leaves, branches, etc. If you visit an animal, do not approach it, do not disturb it, observe from a distance and thank you, good luck to see it.
Do not leave food waste, scattered, on the floor, apart from dirtying the camping site, you can alter the natural feeding of wildlife. If any waste is found, that has been left by another person, please pick it up and hand it over to the agency staff, it will be an action, that all the walkers will thank you, because it will be collaborating, with the maintenance of the Peru Machu Picchu hike, will be an activist to avoid, the environmental impact, in this natural and historical cultural attraction.
This exciting expedition takes guests along an ancient road called "Salkantay Trekking", going from camp to camp among the spectacular Vilcabamba mountain range. The route crosses the magnificent Salkantay Valley, passing many splendid peaks and crossing lush tropical vegetation on the way to the legendary ruins of Machu Picchu.
This exciting expedition takes guests along an ancient road called "Salkantay Trekking". You will cross the rugged and rocky terrain of the Vilcabamba Mountain Range, crossing the magnificent Salkantay Valley Pass, and traversing lush tropical vegetation on the way to the legendary ruins of Machu Picchu. Previous hiking experience is recommended. This hike is differentiated by the camps along the way, which make up a well deserved resting place after a day surrounded by the beauty of nature. All the camps were designed in such a way as to help them integrate with Andean landscapes and make conscious efforts to minimize their impact on the ecosystems that surround them.
These mountain hotels enjoy an excellent location with panoramic views of the Andes mountains. The Salkantay lodge combine comfort and adventure with a lot of style to create a very comfortable walking experience and a well deserved rest after each day of walking.
The four camps were designed and built incorporating traditional construction techniques, concepts of Inca architecture (and their interaction with the landscape) and respect for the environment.
The base camp is located in the Andean high valley of Soraypampa at 3,800 meters (12,467 feet) above sea level. The camp is named after the summit of Salkantay, which with its 6,271 meters (20,574 feet) is the highest in the region.
Apart from offering the "Andean Energy Kitchen", which consists of regional organic food designed especially for guests, the camp has a bathroom and dining room.
The snow of Ausangate is one of the highest peaks of Peru located in the Vilcanota mountain range at 130 kilometers from Cusco and reaches an altitude of (6,372 m / 20,905 ft) has several lagoons of a bright green / blue color, presents a landscape natural of great beauty. The Ausangate trek Peru is an indescribable adventure, and it is impossible not to be impressed by the enormous beauty of eternal snow. The Ausangate hike is one of the attractions of Cusco.
To this chain of mountains covered with perpetual snow several walks are made one of them the fervent pilgrimage to the snow of Ocongate that is made only once a year, it is located the Lord of Qoyllur Rity (snowy snow) that attracts every year to thousands of pilgrims, but to the Ausangate Rainbow Mountains you can visit frequently by all those who love adventure and like to be in contact with pure nature.
The establishment is located in Ocognate and offers comfortable rooms with free Wi-Fi. They feature a cozy living room with fireplace and a restaurant serving regional cuisine.
The Ausangate Lodges are located in a valley and have rooms decorated in a regional style and equipped with a TV and garden views. All have a private bathroom with a shower. The Ausangate is 20 km from the Lord of Qoylloritty Sanctuary. The property also has a tour desk.
The Manu National Park has 80% primary forest and the rest is mature forest with beautiful cocoa trees, coffee, avocados, exotic fruits of the Peru Jungle and a hundred flowers that attracts several species of birds and fascinating hummingbirds. This is a very rich place with different types of forest and excellent trail system.
The lodges in Manu are located in the heart of the Manu National Park. The tourist activity in the Amazon contributes to maintain the cultural identity of these communities and to preserve the natural resources of the Park. Each lodge offers all visitors the privilege of staying in one of the largest and most important Natural Parks in Peru, where the greatest biodiversity of Amazonian flora and fauna is found.
The hostel has rooms classified in single, double and triple rooms with private bathrooms and covered with their respective mosquito nets.
These ecological lodges were created to provide people living in Manu with a way to participate in ecotourism in the area, as well as a means to strengthen their culture.
The lodge has a large dining room and kitchen, perfectly covered with mosquito netting. It has bungalows; each one has double rooms, each bed has sheets, covers, pillows, mosquito nets and towels.
The best way to book a night in these lodges is by booking a tour in the Manu Peru Amazon. The service starts in the city of Cusco or Puerto Maldonado. We will pick you up at the airport in our private vehicle and transfer to the Port of Colorado. It is there where we will board our motorized boat that will take us to our Manu Lodge known as the wildlife paradise.
Do not miss the opportunity to stay at a lodge in the Peru Rainforest, in the heart of the Manu biosphere. This is the starting point of our excursions through the Manu National Park. It is a spectacular place with large lakes where you can see giant otter families and huge black caimans, visit the large collpa de Guacamayos, Tapir, peresoso bear, capivaras and a variety of monkeys and toucans. The excursions are oriented to explore and spot the great Jaguar cat (Panthera onca).


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Actors: April Barnett, Carrie Armstrong, Chloë Grace Moretz, Conrad Bachmann, Daphnée Duplaix Samuel, David Kelsey, Katelin Chesna, Priscilla Barnes, Sarah Brown
Directors: Ken Tipton
Based on the true story of a family who opened the first videocassette rental stores in St. Louis in 1980. The family was ruined by a corrupt prosecutor who had been blackmailed by a religious group because the family refused to remove Martin Scorsese's controversial film, "The Last Temptation of Christ", from their stores.
Keywords: April Barnett, Carrie Armstrong, Conrad Bachmann, Heart of the Beholder, Ken Tipton, Priscilla Barnes, Sarah Brown
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Banks County Chamber of Commerce director Tara Fulcher is no longer with the chamber.
Chamber president Chuck Ansley declined to release any information on Fulcher's departure when contacted on Monday.
Ansley stated the chamber board does intend to fill Fulcher's open position.
The fate of the Banks County Family Connection Collaborative Networking Group is still unknown as local leaders await state funding news.
Director Robin Trotter reported at Thursday's monthly meeting that a fiscal year 2012 budget recommendation by Gov. Nathan Deal consolidates and transfers the Georgia Family Connection (GaFCP) appropriation from the Department of Human Services (DHS) to the Governor's Office for Children and Families (GOCF).
Following a 17-minute closed session Wednesday morning, the Banks County Development Authority released the names of the three finalists for the newly-created Banks County Community Developer position.
The three finalists are Dan Gasaway, Homer, Gerard "Pepe" Cummings, Jefferson, and Bradley Day, Dawsonville.
No time frame was given on when a final decision would be made. A salary range also has not been released.
The Development Authority and board of commissioners have held several recent closed meetings to discuss personnel with this issue apparently being a topic of discussion. Monday morning, the two boards met in closed session for approximately one-and-one-half hour meeting to discuss personnel, as well as land acquisition. When the meeting was re-opened to the public BOC, chairman Milton Dalton stated there was no action to report. The development authority did not have a quorum for that meeting.
Baldwin city administrator Jerry Presley has resigned following a month of closed door meetings and an effort by the mayor and some council members to get rid of him.
After meeting in closed session for approximately two hours and 15 minutes on Monday night, the Baldwin City Council unanimously accepted the resignation of Presley, effective Monday night.
Following the closed session, Mayor Jerry Neace called for a motion to enter into a "mutual separation agreement" with Presley. The motion to accept the agreement was approved unanimously. Council member Rodney King was absent from Tuesday's meeting due to an illness.
A Booster Club has been formed to support the county's recreation department.
The Banks County Board of Commissioners agreed to a request Tuesday night from recreation director Joe Gailey for a Booster Club to formed. Funds will be raised through yearly dues ($5 for individuals and $10 for families) and fundraisers, including sponsorship banners and barbecues. The funds raised will go to the recreation department for equipment, costs related to hosting district tourneys, upgrading All Star uniforms and other needs.
The Maysville City Council and Maysville fire chief James Lyle are at odds over the town's funding for fire services.
At the council meeting Monday night, the council approved a $1.2 million budget that includes $11,500 for fire protection for Banks County residents who live in the city limits. The fire department had given the council a $23,000 fee for providing these fire services.
Council member Lynn Villyard made a motion to postpone action on the fire protection agreement until the March council meeting and set up a meeting with fire officials to go over this and come up with a fee structure for fire protection.
In a 3-2 vote at the called Baldwin City Council meeting on Tuesday night, the motion to fire city administrator Jerry Presley failed.
Twice, Mayor Jerry Neace called for a motion to terminate Presley after reporting that the city administrator had failed to communicate the city's financial situation to the council.
Recent concerns about roadside solicitors through the county were raised by commissioner Ernest Rogers during the special called meeting of the Banks County BOC Thursday morning.
The matter of soliciting in the county was placed on the agenda as an add-on prior to the approval of the agenda, which had only listed possible discussion of personnel and land acquisition.
Rogers stated that in his opinion, one of the groups which has been seen recently claiming to be representing a charity from Kentucky "might not be legal." Rogers proposed the county place a six-month moratorium on all soliciting along all roads in the county and at the shopping centers.
A job description for the new county position to oversee economic development was approved by the Banks County Board of Commissioners Thursday.
The job has been named "community developer" and it will include economic duties, as well as planning work.
The vote to approve the job description was unanimous but commissioner Danny Maxwell spoke on his concerns about including the planning job duties.
The Banks County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to not reinstate a business license for a Banks Crossing business after "fake pot" was found at the convenience store.
Kevin Tallent, the attorney for the business owner (Junaid "J.D." Hameed), said a store clerk removed the K-2 from the counter after being informed it was illegal and had planned to return it to the vendor. The attorney also said the business owner had a letter from the vendor stating that the items sold did not contain illegal substances.
"If my client did anything wrong, he didn't do it intentionally," Tallent said.
Commissioner Charles Turk questioned why the business owner never tested the items to find out if the items contained illegal substances instead of only relying on the vendor.
"If I had the slightest idea any of this was illegal, I would not have carried it," J.D. said.
The attorney added that J.D's intent was not to break the law.
"He knows now he can't trust all of his suppliers," Tallent said.
Banks County Sheriff's Office investigator Brian Lord testified about the items removed from the store after a search warrant was executed following a tip.
Some of the items, which were labeled as incense, were removed from behind the counter and others were removed from a back office and storage area in the store. The K-2 was found in the back office and not behind the counter.
Adam Rudolph, a forensic chemist with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, spoke on the items he tested and listed which ones contained illegal substances.


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Le Centre de recherche et d'expérimentation maritimes (CMRE), ancien Centre de recherche sous-marine de l'OTAN (NURC),  est une organisation de recherche et d'expérimentation scientifique de l'OTAN. Fondé en 1959, il organise et conduit des recherches scientifiques (théoriques et appliquées) et soutient le développement de technologies centrées sur le domaine maritime, dans les domaines de la défense et la sécurité, en favorisant la coopération entre les pays de l'OTAN, pour les besoins de l'Alliance.

Le CMRE se considère comme un des leader mondiaux en océanographie, contre-mesures antimines, autonomie subaquatique, traitement du signal acoustique et reconnaissance automatique de cibles.

Domaines de recherche
Avec l'Agence d'information et de communication de l'OTAN (NCIA), le CMRE est à OTAN l'une des sources d'innovation notamment en termes de technologies émergentes et de technologies de rupture, conformément à une feuille de route pour la mise en œuvre des technologies émergentes et des technologies de rupture adoptée en décembre 2019 par les dirigeants des pays de l'OTAN. Ainsi l'intelligence artificielle, les armes autonomes, le big data, les biotechnologies, les nanotechnologies, le technologies quantiques, la cybersécurité, etc. mobilisent l'attention de l'OTAN et en juillet 2020, l'OTAN s'est dotée d'un groupe consultatif sur les technologies émergentes et de rupture (EDT, regroupant 12 experts venus du secteur privé et du monde universitaire).

Le CMRE conduit notamment des projets de recherche dans les domaines suivants :
 Renseignement en mer, surveillance et reconnaissance du littoral
 Surveillance autonome ;
 Protection des ports et des navires ;
 Conscience de la situation maritime ;
 robots et drones subaquatiques (le centre accueille depuis 2010 à La Spezia, en Italie, la compétition SAUC-E depuis 2010, ce challenge européen met des équipes d'étudiants en compétition sur le thème des robots sous-marins autonomes (SAUC-E) ;
 préparation intelligente de l'espace de combat ;
 mitigation active des risques induits par le sonar
 détection et traitement de munitions immergées et autres déchets de guerre en mer

Organisation
Le CMRE est un organe exécutif de l'Organisation pour la science et la technologie (STO) de l'OTAN, mais il se dit impartial et parfois .

Sa directrice (2019) du CRME est la Dr Catherine Warner, de l'armée américaine.
Le CRME dispose d'un personnel scientifique et technique de soutien. Ce personnel vient des États membres de l'OTAN. Les scientifiques travaillent au centre selon une base contractuelle avec une durée fixe (généralement trois ans avec une extension possible de deux ans).

Le centre peut organiser des partenariats public-privé (PPP), travailler avec le secteur privé, des universitaires et la société civile.

Un "scientifique en chef" pilote tout le programme scientifique (poste parfois inoccupé).

Installations

Deux navires
Le CMRE dispose de deux petits navires militaires transformés en navire de recherches pour l' OTAN :
 le NATO Research Vessel (NRV) Alliance ;
 le Coastal Research Vessel (CRV) Leonardo Le NRV Alliance est un navire de 93 mètres mis en service en 1988. Sa double coque et son système de propulsion en font l'un des navires de recherche les plus silencieux au monde. Le plus petit CRV Leonardo, commandé en 2002, a été conçu pour mener des expériences dans des eaux moins profondes.
Outre leur mission scientifique du NURC, ces deux navires peuvent être affrétés pour des organisations commerciales ou gouvernementales au sein des pays de l'OTAN.

Installations et équipements spécialisés de recherche
Ils incluent  :
 une flotte d'AUV et d'autres véhicules et instruments sans pilote ;
 des installations d'assemblage de réseaux linéaires ;
 un laboratoire d'étalonnage océanographique, qui fournit l'étalonnage des instruments conformément à la norme World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) ;
 un site-laboratoire et banc d'essai sous-marin d'UXO situé à La Spezia en Italie, au Centre de recherche sous-marine du SACLANT (dit SACLANTCEN, SACLANT étant l'acronyme de l'ancien Commandement allié Atlantique), permettant de travailler in situ sur le problème des munitions immergées et de leurs conséquences en termes de danger et pollution.  Des expérimentations de plusieurs semaines peuvent y être conduites, avec l'appui, l'expérience et l'ingénierie, des espaces de laboratoire, des ateliers de mécanique et un soutien au déploiement de CRME. Ces services seront ouverts aux participants externes et aux utilisateurs finaux en encourageant la collaboration internationale. Ce centre de recherche militaire, piloté par Stefano Biagini en 2019, offre la possibilité  d'y comparer divers systèmes robotisés et d'algorithmes, en environnement connu. Ces interventions robotisées visent notamment à protéger les plongeurs en milieu potentiellement dangereux ou contaminé. Le CMRE dit vouloir construire à La Spezia un  et . Il dit (en 2021), préparer un atelier sur les premiers retours d'expérience de l'utilisation du banc de test CMRE UXO ; puis une conférence sur la détection, classification et identification des UXO. Mais le CMRE annonce ne diffuser les actes qu'au sein de l'OTAN et de la communauté militaire.

Galerie d'images

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Agence d'information et de communication de l'OTAN

Liens externes
 Site Web du Centre de recherche et d'expérimentation maritimes (CMRE)
 Histoire du Centre 1959-2009
 SACLANTCEN Réalisations 1975-1989
 Réalisations du Centre de recherche SACLANT ASW 1959-1979
 Organisation OTAN pour la science et la technologie

Bibliographie

Organe de l'OTAN
Organisme fondé en 1959


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Q: Connect ColdFusion 11 to Remote Solr I am having trouble "connecting" my stand-alone Solr server to my ColdFusion 11 Enterprise server. It seems that I have the basic Solr server information correct in the CFIDE Admin, but ColdFusion isn't listing any collections/cores which exist on the Solr server. Also, I cannot create new collections/cores using the ColdFusion admin gui.
In CFIDE Admin I have set the Solr server information as follows:

Solr Host Name: 172.xx.xxx.xx
  Solr Home: /opt/bitnami/apache-solr/solr
  Solr Admin Port: 8983
  Solr Webapp: solr
  Solr Buffer Limit: 40
  User name: [blank]
  Password: [blank]
  Solr Connection: [ ] Use HTTPS connection (not checked)
  Solr Admin HTTPS Port: 0 (not using HTTPS at this time)

Here is what I see in the CFIDE Admin when I try and create a new collection:

Unable to create collection test-collection.
  Unable to create Solr collection test-collection.
  An error occurred while creating the collection: org.apache.solr.common.SolrException. Check the Solr logs for more detail.

And this is what I see from the same action in the Solr logs:

CoreContainer
  Error creating core [test-collection]: Could not load conf for core test-collection: Error loading solr config from /opt/bitnami/apache-solr/solr/test-collection/conf/solrconfig.xml
  SolrCore
  org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: Error CREATEing SolrCore 'test-collection': Unable to create core [test-collection] Caused by: Can't find resource 'solrconfig.xml' in classpath or '/opt/bitnami/apache-solr/solr/test-collection/conf'

I've searched for quite a while and haven't found anything that helps me connect ColdFusion 11 to a remote Solr server. I much appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you in advance.

A: I contacted Adobe and (surprisingly) received some help. They said non-ColdFusion Solr servers are officially not supported by ColdFusion.
In the end we just installed the ColdFusion-included Solr server (by re-installing ColdFusion, of course).
Also, they said the Solr server included with ColdFusion is the 3.4.x release. The ColdFusion Stand-alone Solr server is the same version. We probably could have installed the CF stand-alone server, but opted for the local server for simplicity (after all the trouble we had gone through already).
As a side note, it would be possible to use a different Solr server with ColdFusion, but you'd have to manage that server independently from ColdFusion. You could then query the server using <cfhttp>.

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The coming 30 days I will follow the rules of the Paleo diet to a T. My goal is to get stronger, lose some fat, have more energy and give my body a reset. In this blog I will share my experiences.
People often ask me questions about diets they heard about in the media, like: the Dutch Dr. Frank-diet, the food-hourglass (voedselzandloper), Sportfasting (off course!), Wheat belly, and sometimes people ask me about a Dutch weight loss guru from a few years back called Sonja Bakker. This month actually, I expect a lot of questions about a diet that is now being promoted on TV: lose weight with chocolate and wine. That will get those people with New Year resolutions running to the bookstore. I haven't read up on that one yet, but it might be possible. But the devil is usually in the portion size, and that is most times not the strong point of chocoholics and wine drinkers.
Sometimes I will research a method by actually doing it. And this time, it's paleo. A way of eating that is promoted by Crossfit(ters). The shortest way to explain it is: eat like a caveman. I will do just that the coming 30 days. And I will be strict!
Paleo is about eating pure food. I'm staying as far away from processed as I can. If I have to buy anything that is in a can/bottle/container/carton, the ingredients will list: *product*, water, salt. If there is anything unpronounceable in the list, I am not buying it.
And then there is a list of products that are forbidden in paleo, which will make it a bit difficult in the beginning. No dairy. No legumes. No grains. No soy. No sugar. No honey. No sweeteners. No alcohol.
The founders of paleo say these are foods that don't belong in the human diet, that it is bad for digestion and that they cause allergies, inflammations and medical problems. That's why the recommendation is that the first 30 days of paleo, you follow the rules very strictly. It will reset your body. And afterwards you can experiment with inserting a few of those things back into your diet. One at a time, so you can feel how your body reacts to that food.
Eliminating dairy will be hard for me: I eat whey protein with yoghurt cheese for breakfast, I have whey protein shakes post work out and I love my cappuccino! Won't have any of that this month. What I can eat is meat, lots of it! All kinds as long as it's free range, grass fed and preferably biological. I can also eat fish, eggs, poultry, nuts, seeds, fruit and veggies. And I am so glad the sweet potato is considered a vegetable. Would not want to go without!
By eating paleo style, I hope to get more energy, I hope to become stronger and loose some body fat. As a trainer I want to explore if this is something I would recommend to my clients and people who do Sportfasting with me.
One of the cornerstones of the paleo diets is a kind of meat I haven't been eating for years, because of the fat content: bacon!
At home it will be an interesting 30 days, because my wife Brenda is a vegetarian. Just about everything I can eat, she can't... and the other way around. She will help me, because she is a better cook then I am. She was also the one who went out to source for all these paleo-proof groceries: the ecological supermarket and the free range butcher. She spelled the lists of ingredients, because even in the ecological shops, a lot of stuff is processed. Like chicken stock. All of them contained corn or wheat starch, and that is not paleo. So now we are making our own, with the leg of a free range chicken, like a caveman would do: on the kitchen gas stove!
Even though paleo is about a lot of meat, Brenda sees similarities with vegetarianism. Especially in interpreting the rules. Strict paleo eaters are like raw food vegans, she says. But you have heaps of people who are less strict in paleo and that can be compared with the lacto-ovo-vegetarian lifestyle she has (eating eggs and dairy).
Today was my first day eating paleo and it started early. I trained with my first client at 7 am. So at 6am I was in the kitchen, frying eggs. A 3 egg omelet. Half I ate before training with some cinnamon and the other half after training with some pumpkin for carbs. I snacked on some almonds and black coffee, the bacon lunch I already mentioned. Experimenting with an almond milk cappuccino was the only downer on this successful day: very bitter... Will try again tomorrow, if I feel the same I will stick to black, no sugar. Tonight I'll have chicken with roasted root vegetables.
My plan is to write a blog once a week about my experiences with paleo and you can follow me on Facebook, where I will post a lot of pictures of my food creations. Prepare to see a lot of bacon!


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Mercedes would support engine freeze
Toto Wolff says Mercedes would support a freeze on engine development if it allows Red Bull to continue with Honda engines.
Despite buying Honda's IP being the only real option for Red Bull as it recovers from the shock news that the Japanese manufacturer is to quit the sport at the end of next season, team boss, Christian Horner and team consultant, Helmut Marko have both made clear that this would be dependent on there being a freeze on engine development.
"The more we look, there really only is one option that works," Horner told Sky Sports this weekend. "And that would be to try and agree something with Honda where we could take on the IP for the Honda engine, but of course that would have to be dependent on the regulations.
"It would only make sense for an independent engine supplier, as Red Bull would effectively be, if there was a freeze," he admitted. "It would be impossible to fund the kind of development spend that currently goes on with these engines."
"We would favour, provided the talks with Honda are positive, that we take over the IP rights and everything that is necessary, to then prepare and deploy the engines ourselves in Milton Keynes," Marko told Germany's Sport1 a week earlier.
"But this is only possible on condition that the engines are frozen by the first race in 2022 at the latest," he added. "We cannot afford further development, neither technically nor financially. That is a prerequisite."
While Mercedes has said that it does not have the capacity to provide Red Bull, Toto Wolff has offered hope to his Austrian rivals by saying he is in favour of such a freeze.
"I think Formula 1 is in a good state with three engine suppliers," he said. "I totally understand where Red Bull is coming from.
"They don't want to go back to a customer status," he continued. "They want to be a works team and they have the capability of tweaking it and maybe optimising it, and maybe there are a few things in the pipeline from Honda that are giving them confidence that there is more performance in the engine.
"I think we should be doing everything to give Red Bull that opportunity."
Referring to Horner and Marko's comments, he said: "I understand that they don't want to go into a spending war with all the other OEMs on developing engines. It's a sensible proposal. I'd like to support it.
"I think Red Bull is a tremendously important brand for Formula 1," he continued, "and we should do everything to keep the two teams in Formula 1 and help them with the option of having basically works status."
Asked if he thought Red Bull might have an ulterior motive in seeking the freeze, such as holding back the opposition, he said: "I think in Formula 1, everybody is trying to get the best deal, the best financial deal and best performance deal. This is the current position and I can live with either.
"I can live with them taking a customer engine or help to fund the Honda development programme or do it on their own," he added. "I am easy with either decision."
The F1 Commission meets on Monday, when it is expected that the freeze will be one of the issues up for discussion.


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US Signs Cybersecurity Agreements with Singapore
The United States and Singapore have agreed to cooperate on cybersecurity and climate change issues.
On August 23, Singapore's prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced that three cybersecurity agreements had been signed by the cyber, defense, and finance agencies of both countries.
The announcement was made during a visit to Singapore by US vice president Kamala Harris. On Monday, Loong and Harris spent 90 minutes together in a meeting that Harris described as "productive."
Speaking at a joint press conference on Tuesday, Harris said: "Today, we are in Singapore to stress and reaffirm our enduring relationship to this country and in this region, and to reinforce a shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific region, and to reaffirm our mutual interests in peace and stability in Southeast Asia."
Loong said that the agreements would deepen collaboration between the two countries on critical technology, data security, the sharing of best practices, and infrastructure defense.
The first agreement is a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the US Treasury and the Monetary Authority of Singapore that aims to help both financial sectors share information on cyber-threats to financial markets and be more prepared for and resilient to cyber-threats.
A second MOU was signed between the US Defense Department and the Singapore Ministry of Defense. The White House said the agreement "will support broad defense cooperation to advance cybersecurity information sharing, exchange of threat indicators, combined cyber training and exercises, and other forms of military-to-military cooperation on cyber issues."
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) signed the third MOU in a bid to improve the exchange of intelligence on cyber-threats and defensive measures, increase coordination for cyber-incident response, and enable cybersecurity capacity building across Southeast Asia.
The two countries further agreed to start a new Climate Partnership oriented toward green solutions around goods, services and technology, and carbon credits.
Harris began a three-day visit to Singapore on August 22 by meeting with Singapore's president, Halimah Yacob. The meeting took place at the Istana, where a new orchid hybrid – the Papilionanda Kamala Harris – had been named in the vice president's honor.
Time to Fix High Severity Apps Increases by Ten Days
FBI Issues Ransomware Group Flash Alert


A judge has thrown out a case against QUT students Alex Wood, Jackson Powell and Calum Thwaites, accused of racial vilification under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act over facebook posts made about Indigenous administrator Cynthia Prior. The case may lead to a change in Australian freedom of speech laws, with Some Liberal MPs now seeking a review of the wording of 18C.
Traditional unis significantly outspend non-sandstone rivals on papers and books authored by their academics, Griffith University researcher Dr Nick March has found.
The Go8 occupy eight of the 10 most expensive spots (from UNSW at 64,200 to Monash's 82,400 per publication) while the average spend is $57,200.
University of Notre Dame Australia is the most cost-effective at $13,100 and Charles Darwin University chart-tops with $139,300 per publication.
USYD scholars are urging a review of thinking around pre-term baby deliveries after a study of 153,000 Australian children showed those born through planned births before 39 weeks' gestation carried a heightened risk of poor development at school age.
"The timing of planned birth is potentially modifiable, and the benefits of waiting should be communicated to clinicians, mothers and families," said study co-author Dr Jonathan Morris.
Meanwhile, University of Adelaide researchers have successfully tested a drug which may prevent pre-term births.
Researchers used pregnant mice to test plus-naloxone, a drug known for its ability to switch off pro-inflammatory pathways, and found pre-term birth was entirely prevented and infant fatalities significantly reduced.
Pre-term births account for 1.1 million child deaths annually - 12% of all births worldwide.


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SAH Awarded for Championing Organ and Tissue Donation
Sault Area Hospital (SAH) was recognized by Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN), Ontario's organ and tissue donation and transplantation agency, for its outstanding efforts to integrate organ and tissue donation into quality end-of-life care.
SAH was presented with the Provincial Conversion Rate Award for meeting or exceeding the target of a 58 percent conversion rate set by TGLN. Organ donation is a complex process and the conversion rate reflects how well TGLN and SAH work together to save live lives. This is SAH's second year receiving this award. "We are pleased to once again, receive this wonderful recognition by TGLN of the excellent work that our health care team is doing to help save lives," says Sue Roger, Senior Director of Clinical Programs at SAH. "It is a true testament of our team's commitment to offering families the opportunity to make a lifesaving choice."
SAH is one of 24 hospitals and partners to be awarded a 2017/18 Trillium Gift of Life Network Hospital Award. "We are proud to acknowledge the important contributions of our hospital partners because the success of organ and tissue donation in Ontario relies on their hard work and dedication," says Ronnie Gavsie President and CEO, Trillium Gift of Life Network. "This award reflects the continued commitment of Sault Area Hospital to implement donation best practices and offer families the opportunity to make a lifesaving choice."
Today, more than 1,500 people in Ontario are on the waitlist for a lifesaving organ transplant, and every three days someone will die without one. While the majority of Canadians support donation, only 33 percent of Ontarians have formally registered their consent for organ and tissue donation.
Some people believe that their age or medical condition prevents them from being a donor. In actuality, age does not preclude someone from becoming a donor, and each potential donor is assessed at the time of death for medical suitability. Others may not have registered under the misguided assumption that doctors won't work hard to save a life if that patient is a registered donor, but in fact, the first priority is always to save a life. Donation is only considered after all life-saving efforts are exhausted, there is no chance of recovery, and the family accepts the diagnosis of death.
SAH exceeds the provincial average with a registration rate of 46 percent, ranking 60 out of 170 communities in Ontario. Visit www.beadonor.ca to register or find out more.


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Q: How to quickly & transparently re-mount NFS share? I have 3 nodes running NFS servers all serving the same underlying storage:

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*Node1 10.9.0.1

*Node2 10.9.0.2

*Node3 10.9.0.3
In addition, I also have a load balancer proxy on 10.9.0.10 which simply routes all traffic to one of the currently healthy nodes.
On a client machine (say 10.9.1.1) I'm mounting an NFS share like this:
mount -t nfs 10.9.0.10:/share /nfs.
When I do this the client will connect to one of the nodes via the load balancer and mount the share. At this point if that nodes dies, the mountpoint will become unresponsive for about a minute.
After that 1 minute the original node is usually back. Now, I don't know if after this minute timeout the client will reconnect to the same node, or to the proxy, but the real question is, how can I force the client to re-connect quickly after losing connection?
See, the proxy knows that the node is dead almost instantly, so if the client simply reconnects to the proxy, it will get rerouted to a healthy node. This would allow for client operations to experience a mere 1-2 seconds of delay, instead of that 1 minute.
Is there a mount.nfs option I could use to tweak this?
P.S. I tried the timeo setting, however, it either doesn't work, or the client tries to reconnect to the dead node over and over until it's back, instead of trying the proxy. Although, I have no idea how the client would even know about the node, it should only know about the proxy's IP and nothing else.


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Moers (hol. Meurs) – miasto w Niemczech leżące w kraju związkowym Nadrenia Północna-Westfalia, w rejencji Düsseldorf, w powiecie Wesel. 31 grudnia 2010 roku obszar miasta liczący 67,69 km² zamieszkiwało 105 506 osób.

Geografia

Położenie geograficzne
Miasto leży w dolinie dolnego Renu między Renem i szeregiem moren. Moers jest położone na południe od Wesel, 7 km na zachód od ujścia Ruhry w Duisburgu i 13 km na północ od Krefeld.

Geologia
Pod miastem Moers znajdują się nośne warstwy węgla obecne na głębokości od 600 do 800 metrów z końca górnego karbonu. Powyżej są głównie warstwy piasków i żwirów z okresu od dewonu do trzeciorzędu, a teren został objęty przez morze. Z plejstocenu pochodzą głazy polodowcowych, które lądolód przypchał przed sobą ze Skandynawii pchnął przed nimi, tworząc także okoliczne moreny wytworzonych z gliny, mułu i piasku. Warstwy dolne wykonane są do 20 metrów z grubego żwiru i osadów plejstoceńskich piasków.

W nocy z 24 na 25 lipca 2009 roku w regionie Moers, Kamp-Lintfort i Neukirchen miało miejsce trzęsienie ziemi o natężeniu 3,3 w skali Richtera. Według stacji sejsmologicznej Bensberg epicentrum znajdowało się w dzielnicy Moers – Repelen i było największym trzęsieniem ziemi w regionie od rozpoczęcia pomiarów w 1955 roku. Było ono prawdopodobnie spowodowane wydobyciem węgla kamiennego w regionie.

Klimat
W Moers występuje klimat umiarkowany. Roczne opady wynoszą około 740 mm, a miesięczne wartości różnią się pomiędzy 46 mm w lutym i 81 mm w czerwcu. Usłonecznienie wynosi około 1500 godzin w ciągu roku. Najmniejsza jego wartość jest w styczniu (45 godzin), a największa w sierpniu (195 godzin). Średnie temperatury wynoszą od 3 °C w styczniu do 19 °C w lipcu, ze średnią roczną temperaturą 11 °C.

Powierzchnia
Miasto ma powierzchnię równą 68 km². Teren miasta rozciąga się z północy na południe na długość 14,9 km, a z zachodu na wschód na 7,7 km.

Najwyższe wzniesienia w mieście znajduje się na Halde Rheinpreußen i wynosi 103,5 m n.p.m. Drugim co do wysokości wzniesieniem jest Pattberg z wysokością 85 m n.p.m. Natomiast najniżej położony punkt znajduje się na wysokości 24 m n.p.m.

Dzielnice
Miasto podzielone jest na trzy główne dzielnice, które z kolei dzielą się na mniejsze jednostki:
 Moers: Moers-Mitte, Asberg, Scherpenberg, Hülsdonk, Hochstraß, Schwafheim, Vinn, Meerbeck
 Kapellen: Kapellen Mitte, Achterathsfeld, Achterathsheide, Bettenkamp, Holderberg, Vennikel, Hülshorst
 Rheinkamp: Siedlung Utfort, Repelen, Baerler Busch, Genend, Bornheim, Eick-West, Eick-Ost, Eicker-Wiesen, Ring, Meerfeld, Muspasch, Rheim, Kohlenhuck, Dong, Eurotec, Tervoort

Sąsiedztwo
Położone na zachodnim krańcu Zagłębia Ruhry Moers posiada dogodną lokalizację pomiędzy Holandią a Zagłębiem Ruhry. W pobliżu miasta znajduje się port lotniczy Düsseldorf oraz port rzeczny Duisburg-Ruhrort. Na północ i zachód sąsiaduje z miastami Rheinberg, Kamp-Lintfort i Neukirchen. Od południa i wschodu Moers przylega do dwóch dużych miast – Krefeld na południu i Duisburg na wschodzie. Oba te miasta posiadają bogatą ofertę w zakresie kultury, rekreacji i edukacji udostępnionej także dla obywateli Moers.

Gospodarka
W mieście rozwinął się przemysł petrochemiczny, materiałów budowlanych, metalowy, papierniczy, włókienniczy oraz spożywczy.

Historia

Starożytność
Znaleziska archeologiczne pokazują oznaki pierwszego osadnictwa około 2500 r. p.n.e. w Hülsdonk (obecnie dzielnica Moers). W czasach rzymskich, w latach 12–11 p.n.e. na terenie dzisiejszej dzielnicy Asberg została wzniesiona castra Asciburgium, będąca częścią umocnień w ramach Limesu Górnogermańsko-Retyckiego. Przebywał w niej Druzus podczas kampanii wojennych w Germanii. W 69 r. n.e. założono tu obóz Juliusza Cywilisa, jednak został on spalony. Próbowano go później przebudować, lecz w 85 roku ostatecznie został opuszczony.

Średniowiecze
Z IX wieku pochodzą pierwsze wzmianki o Murse w związku ze wzniesieniem klasztoru w tym miejscu. Nazwa miasta prawdopodobnie pochodzi od bagien i mokradeł, ze względu na fakt, że meandrujący Ren stworzył tutaj duże obszary bagienne, w którym ludzie osiedlili się w wyższych miejscach. W związku ze swoim położeniem Moers często nawiedzały powodzie aż do XVIII wieku.

Z 1160 roku pochodzą pierwsze wzmianki o hrabstwie Moers. Najstarsze części zamku w Moers pochodzą z przełomu XII i XIII wieku.

W dniu 20 lipca 1300 roku miasto otrzymało prawa miejskie od króla Alberta I. Następnie otoczono miasto murami i fosą. W 1373 Moers otrzymało prawo do bicia monet. W 1448 został zbudowany klasztor Karmelitów.

Reformacja i wojny religijne
W 1560 r. odbyła się reformacja za panowania hrabiego Hermanna von Neuenahr i Moers (1520-78).

Podczas wojny osiemdziesięcioletniej hrabstwo Moers było zajmowane na przemian przez wojska hiszpańskie i holenderskie, ponieważ graniczyło z Księstwem Geldrii. W 1578 r. hrabią Moers został Adolf von Neuenahr. Namawiał on arcybiskupa Kolonii, Gebharda Truchsess von Waldburg, aby ten zachował swoją kontrolę nad elektoratem Kolonii poprzez ślub z Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben przy jednoczesnym przejściu na kalwinizm. W 1583 roku papież Grzegorz XIII ekskomunikował Gebharda i do kapituły wybrał Ernesta Wittelsbach jako nowego elektora. Wybuchła wojna pomiędzy dwoma rywalami znana jako wojna kolońska. Gebhard poparł Adolfa von Neuenahr i rebeliantów holenderskich. Ernesta poparli jego brat Wilhelm V, książę Bawarii oraz ostatecznie Hiszpanie. Adolf von Neuenahr przegrał ten spór i w efekcie stracił swoje wszystkie posiadłości w Niemczech, a więc także hrabstwo Moers. Wyjechał on do Holandii pozostawiając w Moers swoją żonę, Annę Waldburg, która zmarła w tym mieście w 1600 roku. W 1597 roku Moers oblegał Maurycy Orański, jednak przejął je bez walk. W tym czasie zaczęto budować struktury miejskiej twierdzy w modelu holenderskim, Już w 1609 roku miasto zostało otoczone pierścieniami murów obronnych, szeroką fosą i fortyfikacjami. W wyniku wojny osiemdziesięcioletniej hrabstwo nie staje się częścią Republiki Zjednoczonych Prowincji, lecz dostaje się pod zależność od Górnej Geldrii należącej do Hiszpanów. Stało się tak, mimo iż w Moers cały czas stacjonowały wojska holenderskie.

Wielki pożar w 1605 roku zniszczył znaczną część miasta. Z kolei w 1623 roku dżuma pochłonęła 900 osób. W następnych dziesięcioleciach miasto przeżywało rozkwit dzięki niderlandzkim wpływom. Przede wszystkim udało się pod ochroną Holendrów uniknąć zamieszania i zgiełku wojny trzydziestoletniej w jej czasie pozostając neutralnym terytorium.  Flamandzka tradycja opowiadała się za ustanowieniem klubów strzeleckich, co zwiększyło liczbę etatowych żołnierzy do ochrony miasta.

Administracja pruska
W 1702 roku miasto, a w 1706 roku całe hrabstwo dostało się pod panowanie Królestwa Prus. Mieszkańcy Moers nie byli początkowo entuzjastycznie nastawieni do nowych władz. Poprzez tajne nocne działania w 1712 roku doszło do bezkrwawego zamachu stanu. Holendrzy byli wówczas wypędzeni z miasta na zlecenie króla Fryderyka I. W 1723 roku powstała w Moers oddzielna agencja rządowa. Podczas wojny siedmioletniej Moers było krótko zajęte przez wojska francuskie. W 1794 roku miasto znalazło się ponownie pod panowaniem francuskim i od 1798 roku należało do departamentu Roer. Ustalenia Kongresu Wiedeńskiego w 1815 roku sprawiły, że Moers powróciło do Królestwa Prus. Podczas panowania francuskiego siedziba władz i administracji podatkowej została przeniesiona do pobliskiego Krefeld. Ku zaskoczeniu mieszkańców Moers nie zostało to zmienione, gdy miasto powróciło do Prus.

23 kwietnia 1816 roku przeprowadzono reformę administracyjną, w wyniku której Moers znalazło się w okręgu Rheinberg, jednym z 40 okręgów pruskiej prowincji Jülich-Kleve-Berg, później przemianowanej na Nadrenię. W XIX wieku Moers uchodziło za cichą i spokojną okolicę.

W 1857 roku przeniesiono siedzibę okręgu z Rheinbergu do Moers. W tym samym czasie wprowadzono miejską konstytucję, jak i wybrano pierwszego burmistrza. Od 1873 roku zaczęto zasilać gazem uliczne oświetlenie. W 1882 roku miasto połączono linią kolejową z Krefeld. W 1894 roku w mieście powstała gazownia zarządzana przez Rheinische Energie AG. W 1901 roku rozpoczęto budowę sieci wodociągowej z regulowaną wieżą ciśnień. W 1902 roku, w 200-lecie przynależności do Prus, miał miejsce przyjazd cesarza Wilhelma II. Z tej okazji wzniesiono pomnik na Starym Rynku.

Na początku XX wieku w Moers rozwinęła się branża górnicza. 15 września 1900 uruchomiono pierwszą kopalnię w mieście. Od 1904 do 1913 roku do miasta przybyło około 10 000 imigrantów. Powstała dla nich osada robotnicza Meerbeck-Hochstrass.

W tak silnie rozwijającym się mieście potrzebna była poprawa transportu. W 1903 roku zainicjowano połączenie kolejowe z Duisburga przez Moers do Kleve. W 1908 roku rozpoczęto także budowę pierwszej linii tramwajowej w mieście.

Po I wojnie światowej
Po I wojnie światowej Moers było zajęte przez żołnierzy belgijskich. W mieście występowało duże bezrobocie. Dodatkowo w 1923 roku mieszkańcy miasta cierpieli także na skutek hiperinflacji. W 1924 roku utworzone nowe podmiejskie połączenia autobusowe. W styczniu 1926 roku rozpoczęła się faza konsolidacji. Kontynuowano rozwój górnictwa. W 1936 roku w zakładach chemicznych odzyskano syntetyczną benzynę z węgla.

W 1925 roku Joseph Goebbels był prelegentem w Moers należąc do ugrupowania NSDAP, którego kapituła powstała w mieście w 1926 roku. W wyborach w 1928 roku NSDAP uzyskała zaledwie 1,7% głosów w Moers. W wyborach komunalnych w 1929 roku osiągnęła tylko dwa mandaty. Za to zupełnie inna była sytuacja w 1930 roku. W ówczesnych wyborach NSDAP uzyskała aż 28,2% głosów stając się tym samym jedną z silniejszych partii. W 1930 roku założono Hitlerjugend. W 1933 roku partia liczyła już około 3000 członków w Moers. W tym samym czasie miał miejsce kryzys gospodarczy, który spowodował masowe zwolnienia w górnictwie od 1930 roku. Liczba bezrobotnych niemal podwoiła się do 1932 roku.

III Rzesza
Po mianowaniu Hitlera kanclerzem 30 stycznia 1933 roku, jego celem było przejęcie władzy w całych Niemczech. Już następnego dnia doszło do incydentu. W następnych dniach zamieszki się nasilały, a spotkania KPD i SPD zostały zakazane. Po pożarze Reichstagu 27 lutego 1933 roku rozpoczęły się aresztowania przywódców KPD i 28 marca 1933 roku zostało zatrzymanych 137 osób w powiecie Moers. W najbliższych latach przywódcy partii komunistycznej, a także SPD byli systematycznie prześladowani.

W 1928 roku w Moers mieszkało zaledwie 230 Żydów, czyli stanowili tylko 1% populacji. Byli oni w pełni ze sobą zintegrowani i byli przeważnie kupcami i rzemieślnikami. Od 28 marca 1933 roku nawoływano do bojkotu żydowskich przedsiębiorstw. W rezultacie wielu Żydów straciło swoje źródło utrzymania, więc sprzedali swój majątek i opuścili miasto. Szkoła żydowska wielokrotnie zmieniała swoją siedzibę, dopóki nie została zamknięta w 1939 roku. Wówczas Moers zamieszkiwało około 60 Żydów. 1 października 1941 roku emigracja została formalnie zabroniona. Wyznawcy judaizmu zostali stłoczeni w pięciu tak zwanych domach żydowskich. Pierwsza ewakuacja miała miejsce 13 grudnia 1941 roku i obejmowała 40 osób. Po dwóch kolejnych wysyłkach w kwietniu i lipcu 1942 roku naziści byli w stanie ustalić, że Moers jest "wolne od Żydów". Jak się okazało, hitlerowcy przeoczyli jedną rodzinę.

Zaczęto także sprowadzać jeńców wojennych, których deportowano z Rosji, Polski i Ukrainy. W 1940 roku było ich w Moers około 1000, natomiast w 1942 roku było to już 3000 więźniów skupionych w 23 obozach. Oprócz rekrutacji do górnictwa, wielu z nich wykorzystywano na farmach, w przemyśle i w budownictwie. Warunki życia były okrutne i nieludzkie. Wielu zmarło z niedożywienia i głodu, a także ze skutków przemocy. Szacuje się, że w samym Moers zginęło 200 przymusowych robotników. Dla okręgu Moers jest udokumentowanych 558 ofiar.

Podczas wojny ucierpiało także samo miasto. W wyniku bombardowań prawie wszystkie 3000 domów zostało uszkodzonych, w tym 1000 niemal całkowicie zniszczonych.

Po II wojnie światowej
Miasto zostało zajęte w dniu 4 marca 1945 przez wojska amerykańskie.

W 1952 roku linie tramwajowe zostały zamknięte i ich działanie zmienione na linie autobusowe. Cały obszar między Rheinberg, Kamp-Lintfort, Neukirchen, Rheinhausen i portem Duisburg Ruhrort został zelektryfikowany na dystansie 55 km. W 1968 roku usunięto jedną z największych w Niemczech sieci trolejbusowych. W odpowiedzi na pojawiający się od końca lat 60. XX wieku kryzys w górnictwie, rozpoczęto otwieranie nowych parków przemysłowych w dzielnicy Moers-Hülsdonk. Od 1980 roku w ciągu 15 lat większość kopalni przeszła gruntowną renowację. W 1990 i 1993 roku zamknięto 2 kopalnie – Rheinpreußen i Pattberg. Miasto opowiedziało się za rozwojem parków technologicznych Eurotec. Od 1997 roku rozpoczęto rozbudowę parku przemysłowego Grafschafter Genend w ramach wspólnego projektu z miastami Kamp-Lintfort, Neukirchen, Rheinberg i Moers. W 1998 roku całkowicie przeprojektowano ulicę Homberger. W 2000 roku miasto obchodziło 700-lecie istnienia.

Burmistrzowie
 1815-1820: Wilhelm Urbach
 1822-1830: von Nievenheim
 1830-1850: Friedrich Adolf Vinmann
 1850-1859: Karl von Strampff
 1860-1864: Gottlieb Meumann
 1864-1897: Gustav Kautz
 1898-1910: August Craemer
 1910-1915: Dr Richard Glum
 1917-1937: Dr Fritz Eckert
 1937-1941: Fritz Grüttgen
 1943-1945: Peter Linden
 1945-1946: Dr Otto Maiweg
 1946: Karl Peschken
 1946-1952: Wilhelm Müller
 1952-1977: Albin Neuse (SPD)
 1977-1999: Wilhelm Brunswick (SPD)
 1999-2004: Rafael Hofmann (CDU)
 Od 2004: Norbert Ballhaus (SPD)

Współpraca
Miejscowości partnerskie:
  Bapaume, Francja
  Knowsley, Wielka Brytania
  Maisons-Alfort, Francja
  Ramla, Izrael
  La Trinidad, Nikaragua
  Seelow, Brandenburgia

Sport
 Moerser SC – klub piłki siatkowej mężczyzn

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 oficjalna strona miasta Moers

Powiat Wesel
Miasta w Nadrenii Północnej-Westfalii


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Kenya augments COVID-19 restrictions in parts of the country following a surge in infections
KENYA – Kenya's Ministry of Health has announced stringent measures to help curb the spread of coronavirus in 13 counties located in the western parts of the country that have been designated as the new virus hotspots.
Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health said that among the revised measures to halt the spread of the virus in the 13 counties includes extended night curfew, ban on public gatherings and in-person worship.
"Except for essential and emergency services, movement between the hotspot zones and the rest of the country is strongly discouraged," Kagwe said in a statement released in Nairobi.
Night curfews in the 13 counties that currently account for 60 percent of the national COVID-19 caseload will be observed from 7:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. local time.
Proximity to the Ugandan border could be fueling the infections in Western Kenyan counties requiring all cross-border cargo drivers to be in possession of a valid certificate indicating a negative COVID-19 test when coming into the country.
Bulk cargo trucks will be occupied by only two persons while non-food and livestock open-air markets in the hotspot zone had been suspended for 30 days.
"All public gatherings and in-person meetings of whatever nature are prohibited within the hotspot zone, including house parties and sporting activities," said Kagwe.
All funerals and interment ceremonies in the hotspot zone shall be conducted within 72 hours upon confirmation of death and mourners will not exceed 50 persons.
Hospitals in the hotspot zone will be required to allow only one visitor per admitted patient.
Kagwe advised all employers including the public and private sector, government offices, businesses and companies in the hotspot zone to allow employees to work from home, with the exception of employees working in critical or essential services.
The East African nation's COVID-19 caseload has risen to 177,282 after 660 out of a sample size of 6,176 tested positive to the virus on Thursday, while total recoveries stood at 122,018.
The national fatality toll caused by the pandemic reached 3,434 after six patients succumbed to the virus, one in the last 24 hours and five were late deaths reported after audits were conducted in health facilities.
The health ministry said a total of 1,059 patients are said to be currently admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 4,812 patients are under the Home-Based Isolation and Care program.
Meanwhile, Kenya had administered 1.16 million COVID-19 vaccines as of Thursday including 992,418 first doses and 171,743 second doses.
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The dining room lit up for service. All photos courtesy of Excelsior Hote Gallia.
All eyes are on the business capital of Italy as EXPO Milano 2015 opens for its six-month run. The city has been abuzz with openings and preparations in the lead-up to the festival, including new hotels like the recently renovated Excelsior Hotel Gallia. Contributing editor Erica Firpo checks in and finds Gatsby-esque splendor.
"...and to this conception, he was faithful to the end." The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
MILAN – I will admit it. I am a Gatsby, a wide-eyed dreamer with ideas of skyscrapers and all-night parties, luscious marble, loose morals, endless cocktails, and theatrical architecture. Milan is the perfect setting for a Fitzgerald rhapsody, from its Art Nouveau buildings with gorgeous moldings and its sharp Art Deco palazzi to its modern, shiny new towers. The city has the uncanny ability to transform itself from quiet and reserved to decadent, bombastic, and monumental. And lately, I've noticed that Milan architecture is living up to the most fundamental of Gatsby creed: If you want to woo a Daisy Buchanan, you have to bring the best to West Egg.
Case in point: Excelsior Hotel Gallia, a Luxury Collection Hotel, one of the latest openings in Milan.
For years, I've had my eye on the Hotel Gallia. Every time I walked around Stazione Central (Milan's central train station, located directly in front of the hotel), I studied the Gallia's Art Nouveau/Art Deco façade wondering what was going on inside. Would it be left to the vultures of railway hotels? Would it subdivided into offices? Would it become an H&M?
While I thought the Gallia was hibernating, architect Marco Piva was renovating, gutting the 1932 historic hotel to its marble lobby and columns and rebuilding it into a modern luxury hotel that maintained the Art Nouveau/Art Deco style using only the very best materials.
A peak at the lobby.
Gallia is all marble, light, and lines. When I visited recently, I bumped into Piva in the orange-blossom scented lobby and had the pleasure of talking with him about flow, furniture, and font.
Piva was inspired by Art Deco and incorporates its elements throughout the hotel. He avoided creating a period piece by decorating with 21st-century design and furniture. He worked with Poltrona Frau, Flos, Fendi Casa, and Cassina to create unique pieces that show off the very best of Italian design. He had his eye and finger on every color and material (marbles, metal, leather, and woods) used throughout the hotel.
Pops of color in the Art Suite.
The seven-floor hotel is lush and luminous. The sprawling ground floor area is a 21st-century Gatsby hangout area of high ceilings and marble, with a lounge, well-stocked library, cigar bar, restaurant, and cocktail bar accented by light hues, warm fabrics, and Poltrona Frau furniture.
From floors two to seven, its 235 rooms are beautiful and smart, with technology and style. I loved the outlets, nightlights, Trussardi amenities, Marvis mouthwash, Domori chocolate bars, the marble and glass bathroom, and, of course, the view of Stazione Centrale, my favorite train station in the world. I even loved the "lobbies" on every floor for their fluorescent yellow accents and Barbarella-reminicent sofas.
The suites were delicious. I toured the penthouse Katari suite before it was decorated and it already looked amazing. My favorite is in the Art Suite which swims in light and has butter-colored quilted leather accents. Piva's love for architecture and design is most obvious in the five suites he dedicated to Italian architects Gio Ponti, Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, and Franco Albini. In Piva style, he incorporates elements from each architect into the suites.
When I visited early on, the spa and palestra (gym) were completed but not yet open. The sixth floor is all about the body: a Shiseido spa, a state-of-the art gym, and a virtual golf course. The 7th floor will soon be home to a rooftop restaurant and bar that will stakes their claim in the city's no-bar-and-restaurant scene in splendid futurist Art Deco style. The restaurant was almost complete, though chef has yet to be announced.
This post was originally posted on Erica's blog and is reprinted here with permission.


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natasha, pierre, and the great comet of 1812
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tea with alice
santastic!
only in theaters plus conversation with greg laemmle
sing-alongs and quote-alongs
youth programs ages 5-7
student programs ages 8-12
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covid questions
tix & schedule
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WITH GEORGE
Previews 11/17 & 11/18
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Michael Starobin
San Jose Playhouse Celebrates Local Artists!
Many will be familiar with 19th century artist Georges Seurat and his quintessential impressionistic painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, but some may not know there is an award-winning, highly celebrated musical by Stephen Sondheim called SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE that features the painting as the centerpiece of the story.
San Jose Playhouse is presenting the musical SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE and wants to do for local artists what the musical does for Seurat: celebrate and showcase local painters, sculptors, and other artists by showcasing the art of a different local artist at each of the 18 performances AND accepting donations for the artists or the art-centric beneficiary of their choice.
You Can Celebrate Local Artists By Attending Our Production
San Jose Playhouse celebrates Mr. Sondheim!
Inspired by George Seurat's famous painting, this poetic masterpiece explores the challenges in understanding life and art. Postponed a year, due to the pandemic, we celebrate Sondheim with this new production of one of the greatest-ever works of musical theater.
Sunday In The Park With George remains one of Stephen Sondheim's most celebrated musicals. Its stunningly original concept inhabits both Georges Seurat's famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte and details the parallel artistic endeavours of Seurat's great-grandson a century later.
The Pulitzer Prize–winning musical that revolutionized musical theatre
Inspired by the painting, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's stunning masterpiece merges past and present into beautiful, poignant truths about life, love and the creation of art. One of the most acclaimed musicals of our time, this moving study of the enigmatic painter won a Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for an astounding ten Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The second of two Sondheim pieces in our season celebrating Sondheim, Sunday In The Park With George lives on as a musical that has unanimously thrilled critics and audiences alike.
The production follows the relationship between Georges Seurat and his muse, Dot, and movingly tells of the struggle between art and passion while the painter's vision is stunningly brought to life in front of the audience's eyes using state-of-the-art live projection. As the story's second act moves into the 20th century, the story focuses on the younger Seurat and his grandmother, Marie, the daughter of Georges and Dot. Seurat's descendant – named George and also an artist – finds himself burnt out and in search of what artistic path to follow, but he finds the answer to his future in the past.
This brilliant new production brings a fresh and inventive take on the musical that has unanimously thrilled critics and audiences alike. A talented team has brought the 35-year-old musical magically into the 21st Century with breath-taking animated design and a richly intimate production. The best in singing artists at SJ Playhouse perform this challenging and heartbreaking work about our need to connect to the past, present and future.
Age Guide
$50 Students, seniors, educators, and military
$45 Youth
$25 for Previews
Group Discounts and Fundraising Opportunities available | Learn more
Thursdays at 7:30pm
Fridays at 7:30pm
Saturdays at 2:30pm and 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:30
No Saturday matinee on November 19
No performance Thursday, November 24th at 7:30
Post-show Talk-backs: Saturday, November 19 & Thursday December 8
Sunday in the Park with George is a full length musical presented in two acts
Running time is 2 hours and 35 minutes including one 15 minute intermission
In June 1982, Sondheim began a tentative collaboration with James Lapine, a young Off-Broadway playwright. In search of a subject, they began rifling through photographs and paintings, one of which was Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
The 1884 painting looked like a stage set, Lapine observed, but was missing the main character. "Who?" asked Sondheim. "The artist," said Lapine. He laid tracing paper over La Grande Jatte and drew a constellation of arrows, each one pointing to an anonymous figure on the riverbank. "Mother?" he wrote. "Mistress? Butler?" It was like an existential game of Clue, a whodunit in which the answer was Georges Seurat.
But who was Seurat? In their research, Sondheim and Lapine were able to gather a few crumbs about the notoriously secretive painter: Seurat worked at night, kept mum unless asked about his experiments with color, and had apparently gone to great lengths to prevent his mother from learning of the existence of his mistress Madeleine Knobloch, a model who appears in Seurat's Young Woman Powdering Herself and bore him two children (both died in infancy). "When you have a character like that," said Sondheim, "you can fill him out in any way you want."
Sunday in the Park with George is recommended for guests age 10 and up
Produced and Directed by Scott Evan Guggenheim
Musical Direction by Stephen Guggenheim
Costume and Set Design by Julie Engelbrecht
Lighting Design by Jon Gourdine
Technical Direction by Jeff Christensen
Stephen Guggenheim*
Georges Seurat / George
Julia Wade*
Dot / Marie
Krista Wigle*
Yvonne / Mrs. / Harriet Pawling
Jackson Davis*
Jules / Bob Greenberg
Susan Gundunas*
Old Lady / Blair Daniels
Katya Roemer
Nurse / Billy Webster
Jim Ambler*
Franz / Mr. / Dennis
MaryTheresa Capriles
Celeste #1 / Frieda / Betty / Elaine
F. James Raasch
The Soldier / The Boatman/ Alex
Osher Fine
Celeste #2 / Louise / Naomi Eisen
Scott Aaron Jackson
Louis / Charles Redmond
Julie Engelbrecht
Set and Costumes Designer
Jon Gourdine
Lighting and Projection Designer
Phil Lowery*
Juan Richardson
Assistant Stage Manager
*Member, Actors' Equity Association
Sunday in the Park with George is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
With minimal commitment and obligation, Ushers attend productions without paying for admission!
This production is available for weekday matinees: subsidized tickets plus a complimentary ticket for the group leader.
Enjoy a post-performance chat with the cast, crew, and audience at the end of select Thursday performances.
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Team Behind Children's Hospital Spin Off into Netflix's Medical Police
David Wain and his regular collaborators that appear in Netflix's "Medical Police" have a distinct comedy style with a rhythm that's easy to identify. Anyone who's seen the film or TV versions of "Wet Hot American Summer," "They Came Together," or especially "Children's Hospital" will recognize this brand of humor, one that verges on the surreal and lives in the long spaces in which jokes feel just about to get stale before moving on to something else. It's not quite parody but it's also nowhere near meant to be taken straight, and it's essentially a platform for great comedic talents to show off their skills. "Medical Police" is sort of a spoof of mystery/medical shows like "Chicago Med" but it's also sort of its own weird creation, one that satisfies as a pleasant diversion but lacks the jokes-per-minute to stand up with the best of the Wain Universe projects.
Technically, "Medical Police" is a spin-off of "Children's Hospital," a show that started life as webisodes in 2008 before moving to Adult Swim. That show was a spoof of medical dramas about the staff of a children's hospital in Brazil led by Rob Corddry, who also co-created, and co-starring Lake Bell, Ken Marino, Malin Akerman, Henry Winkler, Erinn Hayes, and Rob Huebel, who all return for at least some of "Medical Police." Hayes and Huebel reprise their roles as Dr. Lola Spratt and Dr. Owen Maestro, who stumble onto a virus that's threatening to destroy the world. Like a spoof of films like "Outbreak" or "Contagion," Spratt and Maestro travel the world to try to find a cure, eventually returning to Children's Hospital, allowing for meatier scenes for some of this troupe's best performers like Marino and Bell. Guest stars like Jason Schwartzman, Randall Park, Craig Robinson, and Joel McHale add some flavor.
"Children's Hospital" worked in quick, comedic bursts. The first episodes ran five minutes and later ones only about 10-11. It's a ridiculous sense of humor that just works better in smaller doses. Episodes of "Medical Police" all feel a bit too long, even just at 24 minutes or so. The rhythm is ever so slightly off as if some episodes have been stretched to meet a running time. Worse than that, there are long sections of the show that just aren't as funny as typical Wain material. It's a show that is often at its best when it's truly surreal—one of my favorite bits being when they sing "Rock a Bye Baby" to put an armed enemy to sleep—but it's also surprisingly plot-heavy. The show regularly feels like an actual, literal medical mystery show, as if we're supposed to feel tension as to whether or not Maestro and Spratt will save the world. I get that the best parodies also have to play the genre straight to work, but the balance here is slightly off. To be blunt, I wanted "Medical Police" to be funnier. And while Huebel and Hayes are both likable comedians, they're not quite the best of this group, and they absolutely dominate plot and screen time here. Every time someone like Bell or Marino is given a chance to shine, you realize how dry a lot of "Medical Police" is for the majority of its arc.
My suggestion for those of you who watch "Medical Police" is to space it out like "Children's Hospital." Cut the ten episodes in half. Watch it in bursts, ten minutes at a time. You'll get at least a couple laughs in each burst and won't notice the sag as much as you undeniably will if you watch ten full episodes in a row. I still love Wain and his friends and their commitment to the brand of comedy, and perhaps it's because of how much I've enjoyed previous projects of theirs that makes me harder on this one, but I just didn't laugh nearly as much as I expected. Maybe I need to see a doctor.
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Brian Tallerico is the Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association.


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Ghana Medical Journal
Adverse drug reaction reporting by doctors in a developing country: A case study from Ghana
GT Sabblah
P Akweongo
D Darko
ANO Dodoo
AM Sulley
DOI: 10.4314/gmj.v48i4.4
Keywords: Spontaneous reporting, adverse drug reaction, underreporting, doctors, Ghana
Background: Spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting is the most widely used and cost effective method of monitoring the safety of drugs. This method is heavily afflicted by underreporting by healthcare professionals. The study aims at assessing adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting rate by doctors, knowledge of the reporting system and attitudes to SADR in the Greater Accra region.
Methods: This was a cross sectional survey of 259 doctors randomly selected from 23 hospitals classified as government 199 (76.8%), quasi-governmental 43(16.6%) and private 17 (6.6%) hospitals in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. Data collection was by self-administered questionnaire from May 5, 2012- July 6, 2012. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the background characteristics of the doctors and the outcome measures like training and reasons for ADR reporting were summarized as frequencies and percentages.
Results: One-third (27.4%) of doctors surveyed had received previous training on drug safety monitoring and ADR reporting; training and knowledge of the reporting system was found to improve reporting. More
than half 154 (59.5%) of the doctors had seen a patient with suspected ADR in the past one year although only 31 (20%) had reported it by completing the SADR reporting form. Doctors working in government hospitals were about 5 times more likely to report than those in private hospitals [OR=4.94, 95%CI (1.55-15.69)].
Conclusion: Training and knowledge of the ADR reporting system were found to be associated with the likelihood of reporting an ADR. Most of the doctors had not previously received training on ADR reporting.
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Onboarding is defined by Merriam-Webster as "the act or process of orienting and training a new employee." Of course, you have the mandatory items that need completed right away to do this, I-9, W-4, et cetera. Create a plan for these immediate aspects of onboarding and keep it consistent among all new hires. After you've done that, there is no right or wrong, or proven method and length of time for employee onboarding. However, I can share some tips that have served me well over the years.
From what I have discovered, the first 90 days are the most critical. During this time, the employee is getting to know the company's values, it's employees, and his or her own job. By providing a structured onboarding process to train the new employee, you are showing them you want them to be successful. For example, have them sit with a more seasoned employee, giving them a mentor, and allowing them to make a connection. A piece of caution is to make sure the seasoned employee has the time to train and mentor, so they don't feel overwhelmed.
During the onboarding process, show the new hire the ropes, train on technology needed to successfully do their job, show them around the facility and introduce them to people. Try not to rush this process since, as we all know, starting a new job is stressful. Providing employees with a copy of the policies and a short video or presentation about the company is great, but it shouldn't stop there. Let new hires know what the company's expectations are and what they will be evaluated on.
Providing an open dialogue between new employees and senior leadership sets a standard early on. Allowing a new employee to make new working relationships with various levels of employees helps to make them feel welcomed. Also, check in with them! Receiving feedback from a new employee on what they are learning and how they feel helps to build a positive culture. As we all know, positive cultures lead to better retention rates and a more productive staff.
There is an array of technology for employee orientations and onboarding processes, which is great for streamlining process and keeping things consistent. You can show a PowerPoint presentation to introduce the company, provide employee portals to communicate with staff, and offer online learning tools. Onboarding technology can also help you to stay focused and provide checklists. While these options can be very helpful, don't forget to put the human interactions in as well. As an example, instead of sending an email to check-in with the new hire, make an appointment with them and have a conversation.
As stated previously, there is no perfect way to conduct an employee onboarding, though hopefully these tips will help. The important thing is to do one.


If you only bring a roller board bag or hiking backpack, you're limited to that amount of space. That's it. Don't give yourself or your teenaged fashionista an out. Look for the most light-weight durable option that you can find. For our around-the-world trip, I carried an ultralight Osprey Exos 58 which only weighed a little under 3 pounds.
Invest in a super small daypack. I use the Sea to Summit Ultra-Sil Day Pack. Weighing only 2.4 ounces, it rolls up into it's own storage bag that's only the size of your fist. It doesn't have the most comfortable shoulder straps, but it's not like my kids are using it to haul their books back and forth to school. It serves its purpose.
Rolling your clothing actually does save space. As an added bonus, your clothes are less likely to get wrinkled. Admittedly, the rolling technique is a harder sell for my boys. They're perfectly content shoving their clothes into a backpack or throwing them unfolded into a suitcase. But I guarantee that I'll hear, "I cant find…" at least a dozen times on the trip!
Again, perhaps more difficult for your teenaged daughter to understand, but you don't need to look like a fashion model while traveling, meaning pack sparingly. Cross-purpose clothing, like convertible pants that zip off to shorts or closed-toe sandals for hiking and the beach are ideal.
You can really cut down on the number of garments that you'll need by sticking to one color scheme. In order words, choose clothes in the same color family and then just mix and match. So don't pack the skirt that only goes with that one blouse.
Only bring those items that you can't leave without or those brands that may be difficult to find. For the rest, if you run short, it's easy enough to pick something up at a local drug store. The one thing that I always pack: facial wipes, because I find that some international hotels do not provide washcloths.
If you're camping, staying at a youth hostel, or staying somewhere else that won't have a towel, pack a light-weight, quick-drying one. You also can use the towel for the pool or beach. You'll find these kinds of towels where camping goods are sold. No, they're not plush, but it's just for short-term use.
If you're going for an extended vacation and think that you may need to launder your clothes, bring some detergent packs. It's easy enough to do small amounts of laundry in a bathroom sink or tub. Alternatively, if you're traveling internationally, you'll find laundry services readily available either at your hotel or outside your hotel (much cheaper).
Editor Shellie Bailey-Shah travels with her husband and two sons. When she travels, she always wears pants with cargo-style pockets.
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Home Showbiz Box Office Box Office: 'Daas Dev' to get wider theatrical release
Box Office: 'Daas Dev' to get wider theatrical release
Sudhir Mishra's upcoming directorial venture, 'Daas Dev' now has a new opening date and will release on 20th April 2018. In the interest of better distribution and marketing efforts, Shringar Films Pvt Ltd has been roped in to handle the PAN India distribution mandate of the film.
'Daas Dev' is a modern day adaptation of the epic romantic drama 'Devdas', and has a background of rising power and politics touched down by love.
Talking about the change of release date, the critically acclaimed director Sudhir Mishra said, "I have shaped the story the way I envisaged it. My part as a director is to put all my energies into the creative process of making the movie and doing justice to the script. As far as business decisions, strategies and release dates are concerned, Shringar Films have a bigger vision for the movie and we know we are in great hands. We are excited to bring Daas Dev to a larger audience"
Directed by Sudhir Mishra, Daas Dev is a romantic political thriller. It stars Rahul Bhat, Richa Chadha, Aditi Rao Hydari, Saurabh Shukla, Dalip Tahil, Anil George, Deepraj Rana, Saurabh Tyagi, Anurag Kashyap and Vineet Kumar Singh in powerful roles. The film is produced by Saptarishi Cinevision, helmed by Mr. Sanjeev Kumar and presented by Gaurav Sharma, Storm Pictures.
Daas Dev
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Film/TV Jun 17, 2015
Inside Out Is the Pixar Movie Adults Have Been Waiting For
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Inside Out or, Feelings, the Movie.
Are you the type of barren, childless adult who feels weird going to Pixar movies by yourself? Well... maybe you should. BUT! I strongly advise you to put those feelings aside (or rent a kid from your neighbors or the Duggar family) and see Inside Out, Pixar's latest kids' movie that's actually for adults.
If you've seen the trailers, then the basic plot may remind you of that early '90s Fox sitcom Herman's Head, in which four little characters—representing Herman's psyche—controlled his actions from inside his brain. Inside Out is almost exactly like that... except 50,000 times smarter, funnier, and more heartfelt.
Eleven-year-old Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Dias) has experienced a seemingly perfect childhood... until her father is forced to uproot the family and move them to San Francisco. (It's important to note that Inside Out's version of San Francisco is unlike any romantic, cinematic representation of the city you've ever seen. Here it looks more like Detroit. Circa 1985. Not good.) The little characters controlling Riley's emotions from inside her head are voiced by a laundry list of comedians (most of whom were graciously provided by NBC sitcoms): Amy Poehler represents Joy, a perky sprite who spins every potentially bad memory into something positive, while Phyllis Smith is Sadness, who's basically a genetic mutation of Debbie Downer and Velma from Scooby-Doo. The remaining emotions include Mindy Kaling as the sarcastically vain Disgust, Bill Hader as the jittery Fear, and comedian Lewis Black basically playing himself as the hotheaded Anger.
Inside Out explains the inner workings of the brain in a fun, fantastical way: The memories in Riley's head roll around like marbles, matching the color of the emotion they hold—joy is gold, sadness is blue, etc. These marbles fuel floating islands that represent various aspects of Riley's personality (goofiness, family bonds), while other memories are filed away in deep storage or forgotten, disappearing into a dark, bottomless pit from which they never return. Inside Out's central conflict is between Joy, who wants all of Riley's memories to be happy, and Sadness, who is mysteriously driven, despite herself, to infect Riley's recollections with melancholy.
Much of the film's humor—and there's a LOT of it—centers around this colorful world's explanation of how the brain works... and while some of the Psych 101 stuff may fly over the head of the kid sitting a couple of aisles up, Inside Out contains some of the smartest one-liners you'll hear all year. But at its heart, the movie is a poignant look at that tender moment in time when a child makes the difficult transition into pubescence—when they first discover that uncomfortable juncture between happiness and sadness, which adults call "bittersweet."
Inside Out, for all its crazy fun house style, also makes a rather profound case for the importance of all emotions—how each one has a necessary function to produce well-rounded humans, and why trying to bury any one of them is never a good idea.
If you have a 10- or 11-year-old, take 'em. They'll easily recognize themselves in Riley and spend the last reel of the film sobbing uncontrollably. But rest assured, that mist will definitely find its way into adult eyes as well, in between waves of thoughtfulness, laughter, and recognition.
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Pete Docter, PG, 2015
Toy Story 3 Is Anti-Socialist Propaganda
by Lindy West
Laughter and Screams
Buy Toy Story 3 for Your Anti-Socialist Children
by Charles Mudede