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Can concession prices at the theater go even higher!?!? Read on:
Rising Popcorn Costs Spell Trouble for Movies
Suddenly, in Hollywood and sticky-floored movie theaters across the nation, "corn" really is a four-letter word.
Thanks to the inflating cost of popcorn, the price of movie tickets is expected to skyrocket by as much as 30 percent this year, according to Ricard Gil, a University of Santa Cruz economist who studies the business. "You'e going to see a one- to two-dollar increase in the price of a movie ticket," he said. "And that's being conservative."
According to an Agriculture Department report, next year's corn stocks are expected to plunge to a 13-year low and, as a result, corn-futures contracts have soared to an all-time high. This can be attributed to the demand for ethanol, which will claim 40 percent of next year's corn crop, munching away at the margins of theaters that rely on concession sales for as much as 45 percent of their revenue.
"They're going to lose some of their customers," Mr. Gil said. "Some of them are just not going to go to the movies."
This is terra incognita for the movie-theater business. Ticket sales had been insulated for the past 30 years from both inflation and recession. (Adjusted for inflation, tickets today cost less than they did in 1977, according to the Motion Picture Association of America; the National Association of Theater Owners notes that in five of the past seven recession years, box office and admissions actually increased.)
Subsidizing tickets
That's in part because angst-riddled consumers sought relief from financial woes in the dark of the cinema, but also because roughly 25 percent of the price of admission is subsidized by popcorn, soda and candy sales -- a discovery Mr. Gil published in a landmark joint study with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in February. (Popcorn accounts for an average of 32 percent of concession sales in the theater industry.)
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times in March, Mike Campbell, CEO of Regal Entertainment, the nation's largest theater chain, conceded as much: "If we didn't charge as much for concessions as we did, the tickets to the movies would cost $20." (According to the MPAA, last year's average movie-ticket price was $6.88.)
But while ticket prices have more than quadrupled since 1970, per-capita spending at concessions has only a little more than doubled in the same period.
This year's popcorn crop is down roughly 10 percent, said Larry Etter, chairman of the National Association of Concessionaires. In the past 18 months, the cost of coconut oil used for popping corn has risen 24 percent. And the price of the paper pulp to produce popcorn tubs has jumped 40 percent in the past 36 months, making the tub more expensive than the corn inside it.
The new "ear-conomics," along with a looming and costly changeover to digital projection, also means that for the first time, many independent theater owners may find themselves unable to weather a downturn, as concession sales typically account for 40 percent of smaller movie theaters' revenue. According to Patrick Corcoran, director of media and research at the theater owners' assocation, while top-10 megachains control half the nation's screens, the other half are run by some 500 independent theater companies.
Raising prices at concession stands won't help much, as popcorn and soda are already at an 80 percent markup, said Mr. Etter, who is also VP-theater services for the Malco theater chain. For consumers facing the biggest food-price jump in 18 years and gas prices up 20 percent from April 2007, a $6 bag of popcorn isn't a pleasing proposition. Mr. Gil said higher prices will appear at the box office as more moviegoers pass on the corn.
More reliance on cinema ads is one option. In a 2007 Arbitron study, 63 percent of respondents 12 and older said they "do not mind the ads they put on before the movie begins."
But even its chief proponents say cinema advertising has limited prospects. Lauren Leff, a spokeswoman for National Cinemedia, the largest digital in-theater ad network in North America, said once a theater's ad inventory sells out, the cost per thousand rises substantially. She added that theaters' ad-revenue potential is always constrained by the need to start the next film on time.
MPAA President Bob Pisano calls both scenarios -- higher concession prices or more ads -- "mutually assured destruction" for theaters and movie studios, because both will try moviegoers' patience and may lead them to stay home and rent or, worse, illegally download a film.
Mr. Pisano said ticket prices may start to rise with demand. For example, going to see a blockbuster when it opens Friday night could run you a dollar more than going a week later.
(Source: AdAge.com, 05/19/08)
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A: It seems to be working just fine.
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Regenerating mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) on clearing in Mexico's Maya forest: the effects of clearing method and cleaning on seedling survival and growth
To mimic catastropic disturbances which have favored the establishment of natural stands rich in mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), two 5000 square meter clearings were established in each locations using each of three treatments: complete felling; slash and burn; machine-clearing with uprooted all prior vegetation. One to three months later, and after additional 12 months, twenty 4-month-old mahogany seedlings were planted in the center of each clearing, and nearby, under the forest canopy. Vines and competing vegetation were cleaned from arond the seedlings. Fifty-eight months late, only 5% of mahogany seedlings survived under the canopy, as compared to 32% on felled clearings, and 50% on burned or machine-made clearings. At 58 months uncleaned tress averaged 352 cm in height on burned clearings, 324 cm on machine-made clearings and 195 cm on felled clearings. Surviving seedlings planted under the forest canopy had grown less than 30 cm during the same period. On burned and machine-made clearings the effect of cleaning on growth was not statistically significant, but on felled clearings cleaning increased growth by 120%, to rates similar to those on burned clearings. Attack by the Hypsipyla grandella shootborer was significantly affected by cleaning. After 58 months, only 12% of seedlings on uncleaned plots had been attacked, compared to 44% of seedlings on cleaned plots. Cleaning also significantly increased vines, particularly on seedlings planted the year after clearings were created: 36% of all seedlings on cleaned plots had vines, as compared to 19% of uncleaned seedlings. In summary, planting mahogany seedlings under the forest canopy cannot be expected to regenerate mahogany trees. Mahogany seedlings survive and grow well on clearings, with no subsequent interventions, if planted shortly after these are opened by machine or burning. This approach to regeneration could be expected to yield densities of 100 commercial sized mahogany trees/ha among a matric of 400 naturally regenerated trees/ha of other species. At this rate, regenerating mahogany on clearings equivalent to 3% of the annual cutting area intervened at each harvest, could provide for replacement of mahogany trees harvested from the permanent forest reserves in the region.
Authors: Snook, L.K.; Negreros-Castillo, P.
Topic: fire,forest fires,regeneration,Swietenia macrophylla,seedlings,growth,survival,silviculture,cleaning,clear felling,Hypsipyla,shifting cultivation
Geographic: Mexico
Source: Forest Ecology and Management 189: 143-160
Patch clearcutting to regenerate mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) and sustain forest value in the Mayan ejidos of Mexico [poster]
Regenerating mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) from seed in Quintana Roo, Mexico: the effects of sowing method and clearing treatment
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BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has refused to sign his name on a letter from the National Association of Attorneys General sent to acting U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen on Monday on behalf of a non-partisan coalition of 50 convicting attorneys general deadly riot last week at the US Capitol.
Instead, Landry wrote in his own letter that he was concerned that the attorneys general might send a message that "some violence is acceptable".
In the NAAG letter, the 50 attorneys general stated that they all just had "a very dark day in America" and that the events of January 6th present "a direct physical challenge to the rule of law and our Democratic Republic itself."
In the letter, the 50 attorneys general state:
We are appalled that on January 6, 2021, rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol, defaced the building and committed a variety of criminal acts – including illegal entry, theft, destruction of U.S. government property and assault. Worst of all, the riot resulted in the deaths of people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer, and others who were physically injured. Apart from this damage, the actions of the rioters temporarily disrupted business of the most sacred kind in our system and confirmed the result of a presidential election.
In his own letter about the events in the US Capitol on January 6, Landry writes that he believes in finding common ground on issues and criticizes "political violence in whatever form". He adds that "violence and destruction are all wrong for whatever political reason".
He also says that he and his colleagues "should stand up more than ever and fight for the First Amendment, with the message that violence has no part in our freedom of expression".
Landry writes in his letter that many of his colleagues "quietly or tacitly agreed" about the social justice demonstrations and riots that took place last summer "when a fire was started on the White House grounds and in a nearby church" and when "courthouses and police stations were attacked."
Landry says in his letter:
Over the past summer, when fires were set on the White House grounds and a nearby church, buildings were burned down by hard-working small business owners, windows were smashed in the streets of the city, and widespread looting took place ;; Many of my colleagues, particularly from the other party, sat in silence or tacitly consented to the cremation. All of this violence and criminal activity has been carried out in the name of a political motive – ironically, much in the name of social justice. People were killed, courthouses and police stations were attacked, small business owners and their employees lost their income and some cities were even "occupied" by armed thugs. However, many colleagues were silent.
Landry adds that "now is the time for all of us to come together as one voice and decisively decipher all political violence."
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Geology (2017) 45 (5): 415-418.
The Sierran microplate is a northwest-translating block entrained in distributed motion east of the Pacific plate. To the north, the Oregon coast block (OCB) moves northward within the hanging wall of the Cascadia subduction zone, above the obliquely converging Juan de Fuca plate. Analysis of GPS velocity data indicates that relative motion between the rigid Sierran and OCB microplates is characterized by several millimeters per year of dextral shear directed ∼N70°W, which is distinct from and counterclockwise to macroscopic dextral shear in the Walker Lane east of the Sierran microplate. We present a new analysis of focal mechanisms from small earthquakes in an 80-km-wide zone that spans the geodetically defined Sierran-OCB boundary to evaluate patterns of distributed deformation. We find that the direction of macroscopic dextral shear in this region is parallel to Sierran-OCB motion derived from GPS data. The seismogenic deformation is consistent with postulated dextral shear within an incompletely studied west-northwest–trending zone of faults and lineaments that traverses the northern Sierra Nevada; the faults and lineaments terminate westward against Quaternary folds in the northern Sacramento Valley. Active deformation at the Sierran-OCB boundary accommodates the relative motion of the bounding microplates and probably does not represent discrete transfer of Walker Lane motion to the Cascadia subduction zone in a restraining left step across the northern Sierra and Sacramento Valley.
Large-scale deformation in California and the Pacific Northwest (USA) adjacent to the oceanic plate boundaries is dominated by microplate translation and rotation (Fig. 1). The Sierra Nevada–Central Valley (Sierran) microplate, which comprises much of central California, is bounded on the west by the Pacific plate and moves ∼11–13 mm/yr northwest with respect to stable North America (Argus and Gordon, 1991, 2001). To the north, the Oregon coast block (OCB) is above the Cascadia subduction zone and the obliquely convergent Juan de Fuca plate, and generally is moving north with respect to stable North America (Wells et al., 1998; Wells and McCaffrey, 2013). The Sierran and OCB microplates move approximately subparallel to tractions across their western boundaries imparted by the oceanic plates (McCaffrey et al., 2013; Fig. 2). The motion of the Sierran microplate relative to stable North America (S-NA) is described by counterclockwise rotation about an Euler pole located off the coast of southwestern California (Argus and Gordon, 1991, 2001), whereas OCB–North American motion (OCB-NA) is characterized by clockwise rotation about an Euler pole near the Oregon-Idaho border at lat ∼45°N (McCaffrey et al., 2013) (Fig. 1). The Walker Lane and northern Basin and Range Province are east of these microplates and accommodate additional distributed deformation relative to stable North America (Wells and Simpson, 2001; Hammond and Thatcher, 2007; Fig. 1).
Given that the Sierran microplate and OCB move as rigid blocks, and that their motions relative to North America are described by distinct Euler poles with opposite senses of rotation (Fig. 1), differential motion between the blocks should produce observable deformation. In this paper we analyze earthquake focal mechanisms in northern California to evaluate seismogenic deformation across the geodetically observed Sierran microplate–OCB (S-OCB) boundary and compare it to their predicted relative motion.
The south to north transition from the Sierran microplate to the OCB, and the northeastward extent of related deformation, can be discerned in patterns of crustal motion measured by GPS geodesy. When GPS data are viewed in an oblique Mercator projection about the S-NA Euler pole (Fig. 2), velocities in the Sacramento Valley and northern Sierra are parallel to S-NA motion, indicating that those stations are on the Sierran microplate. To the north, GPS velocities rotate clockwise to more north azimuths near lat 40.5°N (Figs. 1 and 2; also see McCaffrey, 2003). With corrections for elastic strain accumulation along the Cascadia subduction zone, GPS velocities in southwestern Oregon north of this point are described primarily by clockwise rotation about the OCB-NA pole (Hammond and Thatcher, 2005; Williams et al., 2006; McCaffrey et al., 2013). The clockwise rotation of velocities thus marks the transition from S-NA motion to OCB-NA motion in northwestern California, and the kinematic boundary between the two microplates.
The pattern of clockwise rotation away from S-NA-parallel motion continues eastward into the Cordillera approximately along a northeast-trending boundary that extends from near Lassen Peak toward a region where McCaffrey et al. (2013) estimated the OCB-NA Euler pole (or poles, for rotating subblocks in the Pacific Northwest) to be located (Fig. 1). Elastic dislocation modeling suggests that GPS velocities east of the Sierra, and in the backarc region of Oregon, are not significantly affected by the locked Cascadia subduction zone (Lewis et al., 2003,his figure 2; Williams et al., 2006); if this is correct, then the clockwise rotation of velocity azimuths in the backarc region in Figure 2 reflects a kinematic transition from S-NA-parallel motion. The OCB-NA pole in Figure 1 is indicated with a white circle to reflect uncertainty in its precise location, as well as uncertainty about whether the forearc and backarc regions of Oregon and Washington rotate about a single pole or multiple poles (see McCaffrey et al., 2013). Despite this uncertainty, the shift from S-NA-parallel motion across the northeast-trending boundary to clockwise rotation about a proximal pole to the east is relatively well defined by GPS data in northern California and southeastern Oregon. We interpret that the northeast-trending boundary generally represents the northern termination of distributed deformation in the Walker Lane and the northern Basin and Range, and a transition to rigid block rotation to the northwest (Fig. 1). Southeast of this boundary, the Walker Lane and northern Basin and Range open in a fan-like manner approximately about the OCB-NA pole, facilitating strain compatibility east of the microplates.
Although the Sierran and OCB microplates generally move as rigid blocks, they are instantaneously translating in different directions and rates on opposite sides of their shared boundary, and therefore there must be deformation between them to accommodate the differential motion. Using GPS data, R. McCaffrey (2016, personal commun.) derived an S-OCB Euler pole that predicts that the northern Sacramento Valley moves ∼5 mm/yr toward N70°W relative to the southern Klamath Mountains in Oregon (see Fig. DR5 in the GSA Data Repository1). This predicted motion between the microplates is similar to, if slightly clockwise to, dextral shear along the east-west–trending Mendocino fracture zone to the west, consistent with the hypothesis that tractions from the oceanic plates are major drivers of microplate motion.
These observations lead to testable predictions. Deformation in the Walker Lane east of the Sierra Nevada microplate is characterized by distributed northwest-directed transtensional dextral shear that is subparallel to S-NA motion (Fig. 2; Unruh et al., 2003). Within the S-OCB boundary, however, the direction of macroscopic shear should trend approximately west-northwest, parallel to relative S-OCB motion (Fig. 2) and counterclockwise to S-NA-parallel motion in the northern Walker Lane.
We analyzed focal mechanisms from regional seismicity to evaluate distributed brittle deformation across the S-OCB boundary. Earthquakes recorded by the Northern California Seismic Network (NCSN, http://ncedc.org/ncsn/) were relocated using the double-difference methodology of Waldhauser and Ellsworth (2000) and Waldhauser (2001). Region-specific one-dimensional (1-D) velocity models were adapted from the Thurber et al. (2009) 3-D velocity model of northern California (Fig. DR1; see the Data Repository for additional detail). Single-event focal mechanisms for the relocated earthquakes were calculated using the phase polarities from the NCSN catalog and the hypocentral locations and take-off angles were calculated from the double-difference solutions. The focal mechanisms were determined using the program FPFIT (Reasenberg and Oppenheimer, 1985), which determines the best-fit double couple solution to the pattern of radiated seismic energy.
We used a micropolar continuum model for distributed brittle deformation (Twiss et al., 1993; Twiss and Unruh, 1998) as a basis for inverting seismic P and T axes from groups of focal mechanisms to derive a reduced deformation rate tensor. For individual groups of earthquakes and their focal mechanisms, the inversion provides five parameters characterizing the deformation geometry: three Euler angles that define the orientations of the principal strain rates (i.e., d1 > d2 > d3; lengthening reckoned positive); a deformation-rate parameter (D) formed by a ratio of the differences in the principal strain rates that characterizes the shape of the strain rate ellipsoid; and a scalar parameter (W) that characterizes the relative vorticity of rigid, fault-bounded blocks about an axis parallel to the intermediate principal strain rate axis d2. For simplicity of discussion, the strain rates in the micropolar model are herein assumed to be equivalent to incremental strains. An additional scalar parameter V, which characterizes the net vertical deformation, is derived from the components of the reduced strain-rate tensor. Positive values of V indicate net crustal thickening, negative values indicate net crustal thinning, and a value of zero indicates horizontal plane strain (Lewis et al., 2003).
The strain geometry for individual spatial domains is summarized in Figure 3 (detailed inversion results are provided in Table DR1 in the Data Repository). The heterogeneous deformation in the region centered on the northern Sacramento Valley and surrounding parts of the Sierra Nevada and Klamath Mountains generally is characterized by counterclockwise rotation of the principal strains relative to the Walker Lane and backarc region east of Mount Shasta (Fig. 3). This region approximately straddles the S-OCB transition in the velocity field (Fig. 2). To assess systematic variations in deformation kinematics, we derived the plane of maximum dextral shear for domains where the inversion results indicate that the principal extensional and shortening strains are subhorizontal (i.e., the deformation is approximately a horizontal plane strain). As shown in Figure 2, subvertical planes of maximum resolved dextral shear in the northern Sacramento Valley trend approximately WNW–ESE, subparallel to differential S-OCB motion indicated by the GPS data (Fig. DR5) and counterclockwise to northwest dextral shear in the Walker Lane to the southeast (Unruh et al., 2003) and in the backarc region of southern Oregon east of Mount Shasta.
The zone of approximately WNW–ESE dextral shear includes faults of the Sierra-Cascade boundary zone (SCBZ; Figs. 2 and 3; see Sawyer, 2013), and the northeast-trending Inks Creek folds (Harwood and Helley, 1987; Angster et al., 2015). Many of these structures are incompletely studied, and the seismicity inversions provide some insight into their kinematics and possible role in accommodating S-OCB motion. For example, dextral separation on the N70°W-striking faults of the SCBZ, which was interpreted by Sawyer (2013) primarily from reconnaissance geomorphic analysis of river canyons crossed by the structures, is consistent with inversion results from the northern part of the zone (domain SBZ2 in Fig. 3) and would directly accommodate differential S-OCB motion. The SCBZ faults terminate westward against the blind Red Bluff reverse fault and the northeast-trending Inks Creek folds in the northern Sacramento Valley (Figs. 2 and 3). The contractional structures are oriented counterclockwise to the west-northwest direction of macroscopic dextral shear (a restraining geometry), at high angles to the maximum shortening strain, and exhibit a right-stepping pattern consistent with transpression, as indicated by the focal mechanism inversions (Fig. 3; Table DR1).
These relations suggest that the SCBZ faults and Inks Creek folds are major map-scale structures of the S-OCB boundary. The activity of these structures is driven by relative S-OCB motion, which is independent of and distinct from distributed S-NA-parallel motion in the Walker Lane. It was suggested (Unruh et al., 2003) that late Cenozoic shortening in the northern Sacramento Valley might be driven by a left-restraining transfer of some dextral Walker Lane shear to the southern Cascadia subduction zone. Although we cannot preclude this as a possible contributing factor to activity of the Inks Creek structures, the deformation can be explained by differential S-OCB motion, and a discrete stepover from the Walker Lane to Cascadia is not required to account for localized shortening in the northern Sacramento Valley.
GPS geodesy and patterns of seismogenic deformation indicate that the transition from counterclockwise rotation of the Sierran microplate to clockwise rotation of the OCB (relative to North America) occurs in an ∼80-km-wide zone about lat 40.5°N. Differential motion between the microplates is accommodated by distributed west-northwest–directed dextral shear in the northern Sierra Nevada and localized transpression in the northern Sacramento Valley. The S-OCB boundary is spatially associated with the Mendocino triple junction, and the northern termination of the Walker Lane and northern Basin and Range Province. The location and orientation of these boundaries facilitate compatibility with the transition from distributed northwest dextral shear east of the Sierran microplate to clockwise rotation of rigid blocks in the Pacific Northwest.
We are grateful to Robert McCaffrey for sharing results of his detailed global positioning system velocity analysis and modeling, and to William Page and Tom Sawyer for insightful discussions on the tectonics of northeastern California. Initial seismotectonic analysis between Lassen Peak and Mount Shasta was performed for Pacific Gas and Electric Company. William Page, Stephen Angster, William Hammond, Sarah Roeske, Jeffrey Freymueller, and an anonymous reviewer provided constructive criticism that significantly improved the final paper.
1GSA Data Repository item 2017121, supplemental information about earthquake relocation, kinematic inversion results, and differential S-OCB motion from GPS data, is available online at http://www.geosociety.org/datarepository/2017/ or on request from editing@geosociety.org.
Illustration of western United States showing the coastal microplates (S—Sierran microplate; OCB—Oregon Coast block) and distribution of deformation to the east. Blue and red arcs are from small circles projected, respectively, about the S and OCB Euler poles, and show the trajectories of the coastal microplates relative to North America (NA). Deformation in the Walker Lane (WL) and northern Basin and Range is characterized by distributed transtensional dextral shear subparallel to S-NA motion. The OCB and backarc areas of eastern Oregon and Washington (red) primarily rotate clockwise as rigid blocks about a pole or poles near the OCB-NA pole, and ultimately drive shortening in the Yakima fold-thrust belt (YFTB) and Seattle region (Lewis et al., 2003). Unshaded area bordering the northeastern S microplate represents zone of deformation accommodating differential S-OCB motion. CSZ—Cascadia subduction zone; MFZ—Mendocino Fracture Zone; SAF—San Andreas fault; SN—Sierra Nevada; ECSZ—eastern California shear zone; ESRP—eastern Snake River Plain.
Oblique Mercator map of the Pacific Northwest using the Sierran microplate–North America (S-NA) Euler pole of Argus and Gordon (2001) as the basis for projection. Large white arrows show motions of the S, Pacific plate, and Juan de Fuca plate with respect to NA. Select global positioning system data (red, green, and blue arrows) illustrating the velocity field relative to NA were obtained from the U.S. Geological Survey (http://earthquake.usgs.gov/monitoring/gps/NCalifornia/). Green and blue arrows indicate specific stations selected to illustrate S-NA and Oregon coast block (OCB)-NA motion, respectively, in Figure DR5 (see footnote 1). Purple bars indicate orientations of planes of macroscopic dextral shear derived from inversions of earthquake focal mechanisms for strain (see the Data Repository for inversion results). LP—Lassen Peak; MS—Mount Shasta; MTJ—Mendocino triple junction; WL—Walker Lane.
Results of kinematic inversions of focal mechanisms (Table DR1 [see footnote 1]). Colored regions with 4-character labels (identified in Table DR1) encompass the epicenters of earthquakes used in the inversions; colors indicate whether the average deformation is a horizontal plane strain (blue), trantensional (green), or transpressional (pink). Green and red arrows show orientations of the subhorizontal maximum extensional and shortening principal strains, respectively (an arrow is not plotted if one of the principal strains is steeply plunging to vertical). Barbed lines show the orientation of the planes of maximum resolved dextral shear strain; yellow arrows show trend of maximum dextral shear. BCF—Battle Creek fault, HCF— Hat Creek fault, ICFS—Inks Creek fold system, RBF—Red Bluff fault.


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Ornate and beautifully crafted, Oman has some of the most talented silversmiths and jewelry makers whose work has been famous throughout the region. In the past, jewelry worn by the local women were made in silver and necklaces, earrings, pins, and beads can still be found in abundance. It makes the perfect souvenir as each piece is unique and can be used both as decoration or to wear yourselves.
The Sultanate of Oman boasts of a unique culture with rich traditions, and the art of pottery has been an intricate part of the country's identity for over 4,000 years. Even today, clay pots and utensils are extensively used by the locals in their everyday lives. Along with the "natural" light brown or beige unpainted clay things, also found are beautifully coloured decoration pieces that make perfect gifts to take back home.
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This album never seemed to catch on like some of the rest of the Alan Parsons Project discs did. It's quite a good set, though. It's a bit toward R&B in some ways at times, but it also has plenty of trademark Parsons sound in place. I'd say that it's not as strong as some of the rest, but it's still very good.
This rises up very gradually. Church bells are heard over the atmospheric sounds early. Sound effects come across for a time. Then a spoken part, like something from television, perhaps is heard. That takes the extended introduction to the end. From there a gentle melody emerges. The vocals come across the top of that after a time. It works out to some of the powerful symphonic progressive rock for which the Alan Parsons Project is best known. This is one of the most purely prog songs they ever did – and that says a lot. It's great stuff, packed with emotion.
There is a lot of R&B sound in the vocal performance on this cut. It's very much an AOR rocker and not really prog at all. It has a real 1980s sound to it in a lot of ways. This is not one of my favorites on the disc, but it's still pretty good. I do like the tone on the guitar solo quite a bit.
This seems to land somewhere between the first two songs. It does have a bit of an 80s mainstream rock sound, but it's tempered with more progressive rock elements. This is a strong cut.
The bass line on this brings some funk to the table. The cut has hints of things like Wham. Yet, it's also a rocking, proggy, Alan Parsons cut through and through. It's one of the most accessible cuts here.
This is definitely a change. It's a hard rocking, guitar driven number. It has some definite blues in the mix. Still, it's Alan Parsons. It also has some definite nods to the sound of the 80s.
More of a trademark Alan Parsons sound is heard on this. It's definitely progressive rock. It's kind of a power ballad within those two concepts. There is some great acoustic guitar work later in the piece, amidst some bits of spoken dialog and sound effects. The church bells that were heard on the opening number return at the end of this. That said, it's not really the end as it segues into the closing piece.
Continuing from the closing section of the last number, this instrumental shifts towards spacey prog for the introduction. Bits of rock threaten to take control. Eventually, it does get more of a driving rhythm section as some Latin acoustic guitar plays. After that section, symphonic elements and other things merge, creating a definite Alan Parsons sound as electric guitar solos. This is a classy tune and a great way to end it in style.


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Broadway/National: Saturday Night Fever (Cesar), Urban Cowboy (Travis "Trouble"), Movin' Out (performed Tony, Sgt O'Leary), Hot Feet (originated the role of Anthony), In the Heights (Usnavi, Graffiti Pete, Resident Supervisor), West Side Story (Bernardo), Ghost (Willie Lopez). Film/ Television: Across the Universe (Main Drill Sgt.), The Academy Awards (featured Soloist), The View, Regis and Kelly, Good Morning America, U.S. Open, Michael Jackson's "Ghosts", Macy's Day Parade (01', 08', 09').
Artists (choreography or performance): Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Bruno Mars, Sutton Foster, Vanessa Williams, Brian Adams, Mariah Carey, Jay Sean, Kristine W, Brownstone, Jaunes. Michael has taught and/or choreographed in over 60 states and countries on 4 continents over the last 20 yrs. He's proud to have learned his craft by working directly with such greats as Twyla Tharp, Maurice Heins, Alan Johnson, Andy Blankenbuhler, Kevin McCullom, Jeffery Sellers, Julie Taymor, Kevin Clash, Stan Winston, Thomas Kail, Jason Robert Brown, Tom Kitt, and many more.


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Techeetah has "doubled or tripled" resources with DS
Techeetah team boss Mark Preston says his squad's resource-level has "doubled or tripled" since it began working with Formula E manufacturer DS.
After two years as a Renault customer squad, Techeetah will run as DS's works outfit from the start of the 2018-19 season.
As a result, the Chinese team had the benefit of DS's 15 private testing days ahead of season five, as well as access to newly-developed facilities at the PSA Group base in Versailles.
"Last year we were just the race team and the powertrain was just delivered," Preston told Motorsport.com.
"So basically when we worked with the manufacturer it was meetings every so often - completely a customer team.
"Now it's completely integrated so therefore the guys in here can go to the stores and go and see the simulator and ask other departments to help with various bits and pieces.
"So the resource level goes up by an order of magnitude by having access to more. And in motor racing it's a resource game - that's really the trick to it in some ways.
"We've doubled or tripled the amount of resources we had compared to last year, just by being in another place that has access to other equipment and facilities.
"[Say] if we need some composites trimmed, we can go to the composites department and things like that.
"It's all much more integrated so things will not only happen faster, but there's just more we can do."
Preston also explained how the team's new workshop is helping the race team and manufacturer understand the DS E-TENSE FE19 package together.
"We've done 15 days of testing, [the drivers] have had more time in the car, that's the big thing," he said.
"The testing and those kind of things is the big uplift and the integration is quicker, as when we were a customer team you went 'there's the powertrain, there's the instructions and all the bits of information'.
"But here it can be much more 'let me show you how to do it'.
"We're all working together because [of] the common package - we look after the car, DS look after the powertrain - we're getting up to speed with DS on that as well."
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By the end of last season, Jonathan Drouin had shown that he was doing anything but riding shotgun alongside teammate Nathan MacKinnon in Halifax before they became the first and third choices in the NHL draft.
Whether Drouin is with Tampa Bay or Halifax of the junior Quebec league, "mostly we want him playing," general manager Steve Yzerman said. "It's not the end of the world if a player has to go back (to juniors). But we certainly want to give him every opportunity before making that decision."
... The left wing has shown flashes of the puck skills and vision that caused [Tampa Bay coach Jon] Cooper to say "his upside is endless." But there have been growing pains.
It's not a race to see who gets his NHL foothold first. Drouin's gifts are self-evident, but even with two deep playoff runs, a world junior tournament and a Memorial Cup experience on his C.V., he's still played fewer than 135 junior games. That seems rather thin for someone who's ready to play in the NHL. For sake of cherry-picked comparison, Sean Monahan, who's extended his stay with the Calgary Flames, has played more than 210 games as a junior player. Talent, ideally, win out eventuallys. When players are 18 and 19, physical maturity and experience are going to be weighted more heavily.
It basically boils down to whether Tampa Bay believes it has enough basis for a decision after the next two fake games. Drouin has made much more out of smaller windows to impress, like he did last December with Team Canada.
By the way, 'You Drouined My Life' is a great fantasy hockey team name if you still have your draft.


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And That's Why You Don't Drive Your Car Off a Tow Truck
Let's just say...he made a huge mistake.
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If there were an automotive version of the Darwin Awards, this man's attempt to drive his car off a tow truck would, at the very least, be eligible for an honorary mention. Because it's hard to imagine any way this could have potentially worked out well for the man behind the wheel.
Driving a car out of a tow truck's grasp would be a challenge pretty much anywhere on Earth, but it was doubly so for the man in the video, which appears to take place in Great Britain; his car, apparently, had been scooped up not by one of the American-style trucks that grabs the front tires with solid metal bars, but by one of the flatbed rigs so often favored in Europe. In case you've never seen one in action, these trucks use a crane and a quartet of straps to lift an offending car straight off the ground and onto a flat platform several feet off the ground. (If you want to see one in action, check out this video.)
In other words, even if everything had gone according to plan—well, let's not lie, "plan" is probably being generous—this driver would have still have plummeted a good three, four feet from the ass end of the flatbed to the pavement, presumably damaging his aging compact beyond drivability...and thus, ironically, forcing him to require a tow truck.
Of course, things didn't go according to plan. Instead, the driver wound up putting on quite the little show for the assembled crowd of tow truck drivers and general passers-by.


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Бота́й () — село в Айыртауском районе Северо-Казахстанской области Казахстана. Входит в состав Каратальского сельского округа. Код КАТО — 593246200.

Население
В 1999 году население села составляло 151 человек (74 мужчины и 77 женщин). По данным переписи 2009 года в селе проживало 84 человека (45 мужчин и 39 женщин).

Археология
По селу получила название ботайская культура. Поселение Ботай находится недалеко от села Саумалколь и было открыто в 1980 году. Здесь в центральной части степи, в районе так называемого «трёхречья», где максимально приближены друг к другу три реки Тобол, Ишим и Иртыш, происходил свой процесс развития скотоводства, связанный больше всего с лошадьми. Первый самый древний памятник лошади также был обнаружен в этом районе у села Ботай. Уже за 3,5 тыс. лет до нашей эры (около 5,5 тыс. лет назад) люди в этом районе употребляли в пищу кобылье молоко, которое невозможно добыть у дикого животного. Останков каких-либо других животных здесь обнаружено не было. По данным палеогенетиков, лошади, найденные в Ботае и Борли-4, являются предками лошади Пржевальского. Факт одомашнивания лошади жителями Ботая является дискуссионным, ряд научных работ указывает на отсутствие однозначных доказательств именно приручения лошади, а имеющиеся находки вполне объясняются охотой на диких лошадей и содержанием пойманных животных в загонах.

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ArcGIS on AWS Scalable Emergency Response Platform Case Study
One large federal government agency utilizes a system to assess environmental incidents and disasters. The system is a heterogeneous collection of GIS services in support of response operations to major natural disasters in which the environment, originally constructed by Esri as a minimally viable proof-of-concept, consisted of a single EC2 instance running Esri's ArcGIS Server with one Microsoft SQL Server EC2 instance in support. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the system was pressed into service to support emergency disaster operations, and usage immediately exceeded capacity.
eGlobalTech (eGT) was contracted to rapidly improve the existing solution to create a resilient, production-ready platform. Since engaging with this customer, eGT has continued to provide enhancements and operational support for the system.
Specific Business, Organizational, and Technical Challenges
The existing single-node solution had predictable elasticity issues and was not reliable under any significant user load. As a result, it was not compliant with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Specifically, eGT noted the system:
Was unable to handle necessary load during disaster support activities
Had no fault tolerance or any component service in the environment
Had significant scaling and resource locking issues
Did not meet mandatory federal security compliance requirements
Did not implement a sufficiently granular access control model for permissions
Offered users no ability to request help from a service desk, nor was there a ticketing system to track issues
Detailed Technical Design
The most urgent requirement was to provide a more elastic and resilient solution for the ArcGIS Server and supporting services. ArcGIS Server can be configured as a cluster, with multiple nodes accessing a shared configuration store. This became the basis of eGT's approach.
As the proof of concept environment did not fully address federal security requirements, we revised the architecture to incorporate tools and configurations that provided the necessary compliance. To address the specific deficiencies we identified during our initial assessment, we introduced the following technical features:
AutoScaling and Application Load Balancers to increase durability with non-fault tolerant software
Route53 failover for high availability services that cannot use a load balancer
Reserved instances to minimize the cost for high memory EC2 resources
End-to-end automated provisioning and configuration management of resources using AWS Ruby SDK and Chef
Notable technical challenges
In testing with early versions of ArcGIS Server, we determined that horizontal scaling was limited, due to lock contention and performance issues with the software. After a detailed analysis, we determined the optimal configuration was two pairs of server nodes sharing a config store, each pair comprising a different "sub-cluster" (an ArcGIS artifact) within the overall cluster.
Outbound traffic to ports such as TCP 1433 are denied by default for users inside this federal agency's network, requiring specific whitelisting to destination host/port combinations by the agency's networking group. The change control process for managing these whitelist entries is cumbersome, effectively requiring that this and similar services remain on permanent fixed, known IPs.
The environment contains multiple VPCs. One network contains production resources, another development resources. The third, a management VPC, houses eGT's Mu automation platform, security compliance tools, Active Directory infrastructure, and source control services. There is no direct communication between development and production environments. Management services reach into each environment, via VPC peering connections.
eGT's internal cloud deployment and management toolkit, Mu, was in part developed in response to the federal agency's system requirements. Mu supports provisioning of new AWS resources in a repeatable fashion, and host-level configuration with Chef to perform integration with the rest of the environment, security compliance, etc. Mu also automatically enables Nagios monitoring of hosts and services running on those hosts, supplementing CloudWatch. Mu dynamically assigns Route53 DNS to all addressable resources in the environment. Some public-facing resources that require high availability (MSSQL, SFTP), but which could not leverage an ELB or ALB, use Route53 health checks and failover records to maximize resilience.
Most services are implemented with EC2 resources. ArcGIS Server is a heavyweight Windows-based application unsuitable for containerized or serverless models. Most secondary applications were developed with a traditional data center model in mind, and thus were also not candidates for a microservices approach. The vendor-recommended memory configuration for ArcGIS server maps to r4.2xlarge instance types. MSSQL database nodes in production must be similarly sized. These and other resource-heavy instance types dominate the environment, so eGT has leveraged 1-year reservations for most instances, for significant costs savings compared to on-demand instances.
ArcGIS clusters are each fronted by an Application Load Balancer (as of early 2017; original implementation used Classic ELBs), using ArcGIS-native health check URLs. As these health checks are often an inaccurate reflection of overall cluster health – particularly under high load – we altered these checks to verify functionality of a specific application service endpoint instead. ArcGIS Configuration Store nodes act purely as fileservers. In this design they remain a single point-of-failure for each ArcGIS cluster. This design predates the availability of FSx for Windows File Server, which would likely provide a far more durable, less costly solution. Newer iterations of ArcGIS are also fully functional on Linux, which would introduce the option of using EFS or GlusterFS to provide a more durable managed storage solution. Other, non-ArcGIS application services were deployed onto a general-purpose application stack using a standard
three-tier (Autoscaled proxies => Autoscaled application nodes => RDS database) architecture. Each layer of this hosting stack is fronted by an Application Load Balancer.
ArcGIS Config Store nodes use EBS storage for their core data directories. EBS volumes containing this and other critical application components are snapshotted daily with a Python scheduled task on each instance. Additional backups of each ArcGIS config store's data are pushed to S3 nightly, which is accessible to GIS administrators who may not have the AWS expertise needed for working with EBS snapshots.
The original environment included a large, publicly-readable data tree located on a single Windows node running IIS. This service cohabited with the main MSSQL server backing many ArcGIS services, as well as some .NET applications, and the three often contended for resources in the environment's early stages. To keep these services from interfering with one another, we moved the .NET applications to a dedicated application hosting stack. These applications are consumed by in-house ArcGIS services, which could be reconfigured appropriately, and thus did not present a major logistical hurdle to migration.
Next, we migrated the public tree data to more resilient storage. Prior to the general availability of EFS, we constructed a GlusterFS cluster, with storage replicated across four Availability Zones, and migrated the data tree there. The tree was later migrated to EFS, which served as a drop-in replacement for GlusterFS, at a significant savings in management overhead and storage cost. In front of this storage, we built a dedicated group of servers to expose the data in three ways: 1) a publicly browsable HTTP repository, 2) a Samba-shared network service available to internal ArcGIS and application hosting nodes, and 3) an authenticated SFTP service for users with privileges to manage the file repository.
The system's core database services are hosted on its SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn cluster, implemented on EC2. This cluster supports most of the GIS applications in the environment, as well as a small number of specialized .NET applications. The AlwaysOn cluster consists of two nodes, a primary and secondary, using MSSQL's internal failover mechanism in tandem with Route53 health check failover. A third node, the watcher, servers as a tiebreaker in case of split-brain failures, as well as a file repository for synchronization between the two database servers. The databases themselves reside on EBS volumes local to each server.
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The original solution could host a maximum of ~200 live ArcGIS services. The current environment has hosted between 1,100 and1,600 active services at various points.
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Revisiting Commonwealth and Holland Village
Queenstown, where I spent the earliest days of my life, holds many wonderful memories for me. It is a place I enjoy going back to, which I regularly do in my attempts to rediscover memories the town holds of my childhood, discovering more often than not a fascinating side to Singapore's first satellite town I had not known of before.
A window into a world in which one will discover the many layers of a rich and varied history.
A chance to revisit Queenstown and learn more about it came recently when I participated in an introductory My Queenstown heritage tour of Holland Village and Commonwealth. The tour, which started at Chip Bee Gardens, took a path that ended in the unreal world of palatial homes that lies just across the town's fringes at Ridout Road. Intended to provide participants with a glimpse into the area's evolution from its gambier and rubber plantation days to the current mix of residential, commercial and industrial sites we see today, it also provided me an opportunity to revisit the neighbourhood that I had spent my first three years in.
Jalan Merah Saga in Chip Bee Gardens.
Adjacent to an ever-evolving Holland Village, Chip Bee Gardens – the starting point, is known today for its eclectic mix of food and beverage outlets and businesses, housed in a rather quaint looking row at Jalan Merah Saga. Many from my generation will remember it for a crêpe restaurant, Better Betters. In combining French inspired crêpes with helpings of local favourites such as rendang, the restaurant married east and west in a fashion that seemed very much in keeping with the way the neighbourhood was developing.
A view over Chip Bee Gardens.
The shop lots, I was to learn, had rather different beginnings. Converted only in 1978, the lots had prior to the 1971 pull-out of British forces, served as messing facilities for the military personnel the estate had been built to accommodate in the 1950s. The growth of Holland Village into what it is today, is in fact tied to this development. Several businesses still found at Holland Village trace their roots back to this era.
Holland Road Shopping Centre, a familiar landmark in Holland Village.
The Thambi Magazine Store at Lorong Liput is one such business. Having its roots in the 1960s, when the grandfather of its current proprietor, delivered newspapers in the area, the so-called mama-shop, has grown to become a Holland Village institution. It would have been one of two such outlets found along Lorong Liput, previously occupying a space across from its current premises. Its well-stocked magazine racks once drew many from far and wide in search of a hard-to-find weekly and is now the sole survivor in an age where digital media dominates.
Sam, the current proprietor of the Thambi Magazine Store.
Magazine racks outside the store.
Lorong Liput would also have been where many of Holland Village's landmarks of the past were once found. One was the Eng Wah open-air cinema, the site of which the very recently demolished Holland V Shopping Mall with its mock windmill – a more recent icon, had been built on. Lorong Liput was also where the demolished Kampong Holland Mosque once stood at the end of and where the old wet market, since rebuilt, served the area's residents.
The windmill at Lorong Liput, which recently disappeared.
The rebuilt market.
The site of the former Eng Wah open-air cinema and the since demolished Holland V Shopping Mall.
The Eng Wah open-air cinema (source: National Archives online).
From Lorong Liput, a short walk down Holland Avenue and and Holland Close, takes one to the next stop and back more than a century in time. The sight that greets the eye as one approaches the stop, which is just behind Block 32, is one that is rather strange of neatly ordered rows of uniformly sized grave stones of a 1887 Hakka Chinese cemetery, the Shuang Long Shan, set against a backdrop of blocks of HDB flats and industrial buildings. Visually untypical of an old Chinese cemetery – in which the scattering of burial mounds would seem almost random, the neat rows contain reburied remains from graves exhumed from an area twenty times the 4.5 acre plot that the cemetery once occupied.
A view across the grave stones to the roofs of the Shuang Long Shan Wu Shu ancestral hall.
Run by the Ying Fo Fui Kun clan association, Shuang Long Shan was acquired by the HDB in 1962. A concession made to the clan association permitted the current site to be retained on a lease. The site also contains the clan's ancestral hall, the Shuang Long Shan Wu Shu Ancestral Hall and a newer memorial hall. The ancestral hall, which also goes back to 1887, is now the oldest building in Queenstown.
Offerings placed for the Ching Ming festival.
Ancestral tablets inside the hall.
A close-up of the ancestral hall.
My old neighbourhood nearby was up next. Here I discovered how easy it was to be led astray in finding myself popping into Sin Palace – one of the several old shops found in the neighbourhood centre in which time seems to have long stood still. The shops offer a fascinating glimpse of the world four, maybe five decades past, days when I frequented the centre for my favourite bowl of fishball noodles and the frequent visits to the general practitioner the coughs I seemed to catch would have required. The neighbourhood is where a rarity from a perspective of church buildings can be found in the form of the Queenstown Lutheran Church. It is one of few churches from the era that retains much of its original look.
Commonwealth Crescent Neighbourhood Centre and the Lutheran Church as it looked when I lived there (source: My Community).
Inside Sin Palace – an old fashioned barber shop.
Another area familiar to me is the chap lak lau chu (16 storey flats) at Commonwealth Close, which we also visited. A friend of my mother's who we would visit on occasion, lived there at Block 81, a block from which one can look forward to an exhilarating view from its perch atop a hillock. The view was what gave Block 81 the unofficial status of a "VIP block" to which visiting dignitaries would be brought to – much like the block in Toa Payoh to which I moved to. Among the visitors to the block were the likes of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
Also at Commonwealth Close, the space between Blocks 85 and 86 where the iconic photograph of Singapore's first Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew was taken.
Before visiting Block 81, a stop was made at Commonwealth Drive, where the MOE Heritage Centre and Singapore's first flatted factories are found. The flatted factory, an idea borrowed from Hong Kong, allowed space for small manufacturers to be quickly and inexpensively created during the period of rapid industrialisation and the block at Commonwealth Drive (Block 115A) was the first to be constructed by the Economic Development Board (EDB) as part of a pilot programme launched in 1965 (more on the development of flatted factories in Singapore can be found on this post: The Anatomy of an Industrial Estate). Among the first tenants of the block were Roxy Electric Industries Ltd. The company took up 10,000 square metres on the ground floor for the assembly of Sharp television sets under licence.
Block 115 A (right) – the first flatted factory building that was erected by the EDB in 1965/66 as part of a pilot programme.
A resident of Queenstown, Mdm Noorsia Binte Abdul Gani, found work assembling hairdryers at an electrical goods factory, Wing Heng, between 1994 and 2003. Wing Heng was located at Block 115A Commonwealth Drive.
Housed in a school building typical of schools built in the 1960s used previously by Permaisura Primary School, the MOE Heritage Centre was established in 2011. With a total of 15 experiential galleries and heritage and connection zones arranged on the building's three floors, the centre provides visitors with an appreciation of the development of education and schools in Singapore, from the first vernacular and mission schools to where we are today.
The MOE Heritage Centre.
A blast from the past – a schoolbag from days when I started attending school at the MOE Heritage Centre.
Of particular interest to me were the evolution of school architecture over the years and the post-war period in the early 1950s when many new schools and the Teachers' Training College were established. The centre is opened to the public on Fridays during term time and on weekdays during school holidays. More information can be found at http://www.moeheritagecentre.sg/public-walk-ins.html.
Inside the MOE Heritage Centre's New Nation, New Towns & New Schools gallery.
The Ridout Tea Garden lies across Queensway from the Commonwealth Close area. The garden rose out of the ashes of what many would remember as a Japanese styled garden, the Queenstown Japanese Garden. Opened in 1970, a few years before the Seiwaen in Jurong, the garden would have been the first post-independence Japanese styled public garden (the Alkaff Lake Gardens, which opened in 1930 would have been the first). A fire destroyed the garden in 1978 and the HDB redeveloped it as a garden with a teahouse (hence Tea Garden) tow years later. Well visited today for its McDonalds outlet, it was actually a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet that first operated at the tea house.
A brick wall, which once belonged to the Japanese Garden.
The Queenstown Japanese Garden (source: My Community).
The tea garden forms part of the boundary between Queenstown and a world that literally is apart at the Ridout Road/Holland Park conservation area. Home to palatial good class bungalows, 27 of which are conserved, many of the area's houses have features that place them in the 1920s and the 1930s. This was the period which coincided with the expansion of the British military presence on the island, and it was during this time that the nearby Tanglin Barracks was built. Several, especially those in the mock Tudor or "Black and White" style – commonly employed by the Public Works Department, would have served to house senior military officers .
A mock Tudor bungalow at 31 Ridout Road.
Besides the "Black and White" style, another style that is in evidence in the area is that of the Arts and Crafts movement. Several fine examples of such designs exist on the island, two of which are National Monuments. One is the very grand Command House at Kheam Hock Road, designed by Frank W. Brewer. Brewer was also responsible for the lovely house found at 23 Ridout Road. Distinctly a Brewer design, the house had prior to the war, been the residence of L. W. Geddes. A board member of Wearnes Brothers and a Municipal Commissioner, Mr Geddes left Singapore upon his retirement in late 1941. After the war, the house was used as the Dutch Consul-General's and later Ambassador's residence.
Distinctively Frank W. Brewer – an Arts and Crafts design that was once the home of L.W. Geddes at 23 Ridout Road. The house now serves as the residence of the Dutch Ambassador.
A recent addition to the area is the mansion at 2 Peirce Drive. Owned by Dr. Lye Wai Choong, the house is thought to have been modelled after the Soonstead Mansion in Penang. Other notable bungalows in the area include 35 Ridout Road, which sold recently for S$91.69 million and also India House at 2 Peirce Road, thought to have been commissioned by Ong Sam Leong in 1911. Mr Ong, who made his fortune from being the sole supplier of labour to the phosphate mines on Christmas Island, passed away in 1918 and is buried with his wife in the largest grave in Bukit Brown cemetery.
A more recent addition to the area, a mansion owned by Dr. Lye Wai Choong, which is modelled after another one in Penang.
Soonstead Mansion in Penang.
The good-class bungalow at 35 Ridout Road that was sold very recently for S$91.69 million.
A very green Ridout Road.
The Commonwealth and Holland Village heritage tour runs every third Sunday of the month. Those interested can register for the free guided tour at www.queenstown.evenbrite.sg or via myqueenstown@gmail.com. My Community, which runs the tours is also carrying out a volunteer recruitment exercise to run their tours. Workshops are being held on 24 and 30 April 2016 for this and would be volunteers can email volunteer@mycommunity.org.sg to register.
Tags: Arts and Crafts Movement, Black and White Houses, Chip Bee Gardens, Commonwealth Close, Commonwealth Crescent, Commonwealth Drive, First Flatted Factory, Flatted Factories, Frank Brewer, Frank W. Brewer, Hakka Cemetery, Heritage, History, Holland Village, Jalan Merah Saga, Lorong Liput, Mock Tudor, MOE Heritage Centre, My Queenstown Heritage Tour, Ong Sam Leong, Peirce Drive, Peirce Road, Photography, Queenstown, Queenstown Japanese Garden, Ridout Road, Ridout Road/Holland Park Conservation Area, Ridout Tea Garden, Shuang Long Shan, Singapore, Thambi Magazine Store, VIP Block, Ying Fo Fui Kun
Categories : Events, Forgotten Places, Heritage Trails, Photography, Queenstown, Reminders of Yesterday, Singapore


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Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Disease: Churg-Strauss Syndrome
Churg-Strauss syndrome facts
Churg-Strauss syndrome is a disease characterized by inflammation of the blood vessels.
Churg-Strauss syndrome occurs in patients with a history of asthma or allergy.
Symptoms of Churg-Strauss syndrome include fatigue, weight loss, nasal passage inflammation, numbness, and weakness.
The ultimate test for the diagnosis is a biopsy of involved tissue.
Treatment of Churg-Strauss syndrome involves stopping inflammation and suppressing the immune system.
What is Churg-Strauss syndrome?
Churg-Strauss syndrome is one of many forms of vasculitis. Vasculitis diseases are characterized by inflammation of blood vessels. Churg-Strauss syndrome, in particular, occurs in patients with a history of asthma or allergy and features inflammation of blood vessels (also referred to as angiitis) in the lungs, skin, nerves, and abdomen. The blood vessels involved in Churg-Strauss syndrome are small arteries and veins.
What causes Churg-Strauss syndrome?
Churg-Strauss syndrome is rare. The cause of the syndrome is not known, but it involves an abnormal over-activation of the immune system in a person with underlying bronchospastic lung disease (asthma). While Churg-Strauss syndrome has been reported to be associated with certain asthma medications, called leukotriene modifiers, whether they actually cause the disease or whether the patients that take them have more severe asthma that lends a tendency toward the development of Churg-Strauss is not yet clear.
What are symptoms of Churg-Strauss syndrome?
Churg-Strauss syndrome causes fever, weight loss, and sinus or nasal passage inflammation in the patient with asthma. Fatigue is common. Sometimes the asthma actually improves somewhat as the disease intensifies elsewhere. Cough, shortness of breath, and chest pain can occur as the lungs are affected by vasculitis.
Skin lumps, called nodules, can appear on the extremities. Diarrhea and pain in the belly occur due to blood vessel inflammation within the abdomen. The bladder and prostate gland can become inflamed.
Numbness or weakness of the extremities is the result of nerve injury from the vasculitis. If the brain is affected, seizures or confusion can occur.
How is Churg-Strauss syndrome diagnosed?
Churg-Strauss syndrome is suggested when the symptoms described above occur in a patient with a history of asthma.
Abnormalities of the lungs, skin, and nerves might be noted by the doctor during the examination. Blood pressure can be elevated.
Blood examination generally shows elevated levels of an uncommon white blood cell, called an eosinophil, and other white blood cells are also elevated in number. Kidney function blood tests and urinalysis can be abnormal when the kidneys are affected (which is not common).
If the lungs are inflamed, the chest x-ray image or CT scan of the chest can demonstrate areas of inflammation.
The ultimate test for the diagnosis is a biopsy of involved tissue, which demonstrates a characteristic pattern of inflammation visible under a microscope. Eosinophil are also seen accumulated in the abnormal tissue.


Councilman Davis moved to approve the Minutes as submitted. Councilman Loffredo seconded the motion. Councilman Walters requested that the minutes be amended to include his comments regarding parking in the downtown district during the Council's discussion of the proposed revisions to the zoning code. Councilman Davis and Councilman Loffredo accepted the amendment and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion to approve the September 18, 2012 Budget Hearing Minutes as submitted and the Council Meeting minutes as amended.
Prior to proceeding with the Board appointments, the Council asked if there was anyone interested in applying for the Recreation Advisory Board as there were not enough candidates to fill the vacancies. At that time, no one volunteered.
Councilman Loffredo moved to appoint Ms. Alou White, Ms. Borja, Mr. Whittaker and Ms. Wiborg to the Recreation Advisory Board. Councilman Davis seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Misters Bruce, Gonzalez, Kokiel, Reese, Smith and Wolk, as well as Ms. Risher were present and spoke on their own behalf. Mister Wolk withdrew his name from consideration and Mr. Smith indicated that appointment to the P&Z Board was his third choice. A series of votes were taken by paper ballot resulting in Victor Bruce and Sid Reese being appointed to the Planning & Zoning Board.
Ms. Estep explained the reason for the split appointments was to bring the staggered appointment terms in line. Misters Patnik, Perl, Smith, Vickers and Wolk were present and spoke on their own behalf. Council Members first completed paper ballots for the two, three year terms resulting in John Patnik and Robert Vickers being appointed for the three year terms. A series of paper ballots were then voted for the two, one year terms resulting in Barry Perl and Bob Smith being appointed for the two one year terms.
Ms. Estep advised that due to applicant Bob Smith being appointed to the Code Enforcement Board and HPB Board Member, Victor Bruce, being appointed to the Planning & Zoning Board, there are now three vacancies and two applicants. Mr. Marty Mennes, previous HPB Member was in attendance and asked if he would consider serving another term. Mr. Mennes consented. Subsequently, Councilman Loffredo moved to appoint Alain Gonzalez, David Hunter and Marty Mennes to the Historic Preservation Board. Councilman Davis seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Misters D'Alessandro, Mennes and Schultz were present and spoke on their own behalf. Village Council Members voted via paper ballot resulting in John D'Alessandro, Marty Mennes and Michael Schultz being appointed to the Country Club Advisory Board.
Ms. Estep advised that an additional application was received and forwarded to the Council following the deadline and it was up to the Council whether to consider the individual for appointment. It was the consensus of the Council to consider Mr. Davis Leyva for appointment. Ms. Banich, Ms. Haile, Ms. Reyes, Ms. Echeverri-Taddeo and Mr. Stock were present and spoke on their own behalf. Council Members voted by paper ballot resulting in Rosemarie Banich, Maria Echeverri Taddeo and Michael Stock being appointed to the Fine Arts Commission.
Following the Council's actions to appoint various applicants to the Boards, Vice Mayor Davis moved to appoint Bill Wolk to the Recreation Advisory Board. Councilman Loffredo seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
A) APPOINTMENT OF COUNCIL MEMBER TO "GREEN CORRIDOR" BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
Mr. Benton offered background information relating to the PACE project and the Green Corridor Board of Directors. Mr. Benton explained that the Board is comprised of elected officials and his belief that the Village should be represented by an elected official rather than himself. Councilman Loffredo expressed an interest in serving on the Board. Councilman Walters then nominated Councilman Loffredo to represent the Village on the Green Corridor Board of Directors. Councilman Davis seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
A)DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING A RESOLUTION TO HAVE THE VILLAGE PAY THE POSTAGE ON ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN VILLAGE ELECTIONS.
Councilman Loffredo spoke of the County's recent passage of a resolution which calls for the County's election department to pay the cost of return postage for absentee ballot return envelopes. Councilman Loffredo expressed his interest in having the Village adopt a similar resolution. Ms. Estep provided the Council with information regarding absentee ballot procedures and an approximate cost to have the Village pay for return postage on absentee ballots. Councilman Loffredo subsequently moved to have the Village draft a resolution for Council adoption which will provide for paying the postage on absentee ballot return envelopes. Councilman Davis seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Connor & John Barryman The Barryman's spoke about the mail drop box located on N.E. 98th Street.
Al Davis Councilman Davis spoke of the Charter School's Evening in the Courtyard scheduled for November 2nd.
Jesse Walters Councilman Walters stated that he enjoyed seeing so many people attend the meeting and expressed his appreciation for all the applicants. Councilman Walters spoke of the October 13th Street Fair.
Steve Loffredo Councilman Loffredo thanked the applicants for their support and enthusiasm.
Hunt Davis Vice Mayor Davis expressed appreciation to the applicants and encouraged everyone who may not have been appointed to try again.
Jim McCoy Mayor McCoy echoed the comments of his colleagues and spoke of the upcoming Street Fair, North Shore Hospital's new Cardiac Catheterization Lab and of the November 10th Mayor's Gala.
The Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Council Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM.


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La Maserati 6CM est une automobile sportive développée en 1936 par le constructeur automobile italien Maserati.

Destinée à courir en Formule Voiturettes, c'est-à-dire moins de  de cylindrée, la Maserati 6CM et son moteur à 6 cylindres en ligne remplace la Maserati 4CM. Elle est elle-même progressivement remplacée par la Maserati 4CL à l'horizon 1939.

La Maserati 6CM obtient de nombreuses victoires entre 1936 et 1939, notamment aux mains de Carlo Felice Trossi et de Luigi Villoresi.

Notes et références

6CM
Automobile des années 1930
Voiture de course


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