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Not Just Retail—It's a Whole New Bloc
By Patricia Kirk
The Bloc sits atop the Seventh Street/Metro Center Station, a transfer facility serving the L.A. Metro system's Red, Blue, and Purple lines. It is the busiest light-rail transit facility in the city. (The Ratkovich Company)
Designers of the Bloc, a 1.8 million-square-foot (167,000 sq m) mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles, are creating a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The centerpiece of this $421 million project is an upscale 400,000-square-foot (37,000 sq m) outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment district fashioned out of Macy's Plaza, a brick-clad, fortresslike indoor mall that was erected in 1973.
While many people may have considered Macy's Plaza the worst structure in downtown L.A., the building's bones provided an opportunity to create something unique that would have been impossible to replicate in a ground-up project, says Alan Pullman, senior principal at Long Beach, California–based Studio One Eleven, who designed the retail component and serves as the architect of record for the entire development.
The concrete-and-steel framework beneath the structure's "modern brutalist" facade is being used to activate the space and give the overall project architectural interest, Pullman notes. "We stripped it down [and] peeled away the brick and finishes to find a very interesting skeleton underneath—an authentic framework of the building that gives the project an edgy feel," he says.
The exterior of the old brick-clad Macy's Plaza. (The Ratkovich Company)
"There's lots of interest by retailers in honesty or authenticity, like at the Gansevoort Market, [a warehouse district] in New York City," adds Nord Eriksson, a partner and principal at EPT Design in Pasadena, California, which is handling landscape and hardscape design for the overall project. "We're trying to create an L.A. version of that—something that's timeless."
Scheduled for completion during the third quarter of this year, the Bloc—so named because it occupies an entire city block in Los Angeles's financial district—will include a 32-story, 750,000-square-foot (70,000 sq m) office tower being converted into creative office space. Creative office space offers occupants a flexible, open environment—sometimes structural authenticity like in old industrial buildings and warehouses—to encourage creativity and collaboration. The developers are also giving facelifts to the 40-year-old Sheraton Hotel and to the 240,000-square-foot (22,000 sq m) Macy's department store on the site.
This is southern California's largest single-asset, mixed-use development—it is considered a single asset because the retail center, office building, and hotel are all owned by one developer/owner and are three components of one large mixed-use project—and it provides a core focus for the downtown community and region, "much like Rockefeller Center is to New York City," suggests project developer Wayne Ratkovich, president and chief executive officer of the Ratkovich Company.
The Macy's Plaza reconfiguration provides storefront access along Flower and Seventh streets, with two levels of retail space integrated into the Sheraton Hotel. (The Ratkovich Company)
Noting that the mall structure currently faces away from street activity, Pullman says, "We're repositioning the retail component as a 'gallery with interest' concept, where storefronts, art, lobbies, and other public spaces become the heroes of the space, making it more relevant to the downtown community and travelers.
"We're removing the glass roof over the atrium and reconfiguring exterior walls to open up the interior to the sky," he says, explaining that this arrangement allows for the creation of storefronts and restaurants accessible from the street and gives architectural movement and expression to activities within. In addition, two custom murals by San Francisco artist Chris Lux and the Sumi Ink Club—a collective, participatory artist project established in 2005 by Los Angeles artists Luke Fischbeck and Sarah Rara—will permanently adorn the mall's new facade along Eighth Street.
The design's infrastructure accommodates foot traffic and cyclists as well as motorists. The project incorporates midblock passageways into the mall interior from Flower, Hope, and Seventh streets, providing welcoming entries for pedestrians. Bike parking is being installed along Seventh Street, at the Seventh Street/Metro Center transit station, and in the parking garage. The parking facility has 1,500 spaces and is expandable to 2,000 spaces, according to Ratkovich, who notes that parking will be available for a nominal fee, regardless of whether visitors shop at the Bloc. People can park there and go somewhere else in downtown, he says. The L.A. Live entertainment complex and Staples Center sports arena are just three blocks away.
The retail component is situated atop the Seventh Street/Metro Center Station, the city's busiest light-rail transit facility, a transfer point for the Red, Blue, and Purple lines. Eriksson notes that when the station was built, the city installed a knockout panel to provide access to the Metro station from Macy's Plaza, but the previous owner did not use it. The Bloc, however, will connect the entire complex directly to this light-rail station via an underground corridor.
An empty outdoor structure on the first floor of the Bloc's Sheraton hotel was transformed into a deck with a reflecting pool and cabanas. (The Ratkovich Company)
Ease of Reconfiguration
Considering that retail concepts continue to evolve, Pullman says that the central public space—a large, sunlit plaza on the lower level of the project—is an open, informal place. All amenities, including planters and furniture, are movable so that the space can be reconfigured as needed for different events.
Eriksson is developing an environment in the central plaza that will make it a focal point for the entire project. The goal is to create a flexible gathering space and destination for downtown residents, workers, and visitors. "The retail plaza is highly programmable," he says. "We did away with all things immovable that get in the way of 'morphability.' Retail concepts come and go, so we designed it with a flexibility that 'allows life to happen' for years to come."
Known for approaching projects by interconnecting the site with local history, architecture, and art, Eriksson looked at neighborhoods within a one-mile (1.6 km) radius and created a microcosm of that on the retail plaza. He used different colors of concrete and mixed various types of pebbles, rocks, and sand into the concrete, grinding it down to expose the different textures. The different colors differentiate various districts within the retail complex.
San Francisco artist Chris Lux poses with his mural, which will permanently adorn the Bloc's new retail facade along Eighth Street. (The Ratkovich Company)
Urban Theater
Eriksson notes, however, that the biggest challenge "was how to add stuff to make it interesting within limited budget constraints." His solution was to create an urban-theater concept throughout. "We're creating places where people can stop, land, hang out; places people can inhabit and celebrate living and working in downtown L.A. and our wonderful climate," he explains. The retail component has a variety of "places to be and look down on," Eriksson says. "We're creating a unique view [for visitors to] experience on this site," he continues, noting that curated experiences are being created throughout the project. In addition, retailers are allowed to bring their own facades. "The idea is to create visual freedom so they can marry up [with the urban-theater concept]."
The design team is highly collaborative, according to Eriksson. "We've been in each other's business in a positive way," he says. For example, Colum McCartan, principal at McCARTAN, an architecture firm with offices in New York City as well as Belfast, Northern Ireland, that specializes in hospitality design, created a staircase descending into the main level and restaurant underneath the hotel that serves as a stage for people-watching.
McCartan carried out the edgy feel of the retail sector, using raw walls, exposed ducts, and the concrete floor in the hotel's restaurant and bar, which connects to the retail plaza.
He also transformed an empty outdoor structure on the first floor into a luxurious deck big enough to host special events. The space was leveled and a 500-square-foot (47 sq m) reflection pool, lounge furniture, cabanas, and planters were added to provide a comfortable atmosphere for hotel guests to relax and socialize. On the third floor, a large terrace adjacent to meeting space and guest rooms with private terraces allow visitors to look down upon the deck and reflecting pool.
This is Sheraton's new national flagship hotel, says McCartan, noting that he used the brand's classic design elements—patterns, marble, and polished bronze—but is giving the look a twist, with multifaceted layers of patterns, imagery, and shiny and embossed metal.
"We're modernists, inspired by the art deco nature of downtown L.A.'s architecture," he says. "Ours is a very modern interpretation of patterns, new marble and brass, and walnut wood furniture. These are classic elements, but definitely a new look for Sheraton hotels.
"The lobby, for instance, has the feel of a really cool coffeehouse," says McCartan, noting that a bar dovetails with a 22-foot-high (7 m) walnut cabinet wall in the lobby, which has a sliding ladder that gives it the feel of a library. "Visitors can find a corner with a visible social connection [to the surrounding environment] and be alone without feeling lonely. Interactive worktables offer an invitation to come in—even off the street—to sit down and work," he says, noting that there are entrances to the lobby from the retail area and from Hope Street.
His firm also custom-designed furniture, lighting fixtures, and other elements in new guest rooms, two floors of which incorporate Delos Living's Stay Well program requirements that were developed in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic and Deepak Chopra.
The overall complex is pursuing both WELL Building certification and a Gold rating from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program of the U.S. Green Building Council. WELL Building certification requires a series of technologies that enhance the health and well-being of occupants and a passing grade on performance-based measures across seven categories, including air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind. The Bloc would be the first WELL-certified mixed-use project in Los Angeles.
Design concepts incorporated throughout the complex will help to meet both WELL and LEED certification requirements. The retail project, for example, has attractive stairs designed to encourage fitness by enticing people to take the stairs instead of the elevator. Air quality at the retail project was improved by removing the roof, and other buildings have ventilation and filtration systems that expel toxins and particulates from indoor air and occupant-controlled HVAC systems.
In leasing restaurant space, top consideration is being given to tenants that offer healthy menus. An urban garden on the office tower's roof meets both LEED's green-roof criteria and WELL's nourishment and mind categories, as it provides space for chefs throughout the Bloc to grow organic vegetables and herbs, as well as provides a space for office workers to relax, socialize, and relieve stress. This space also features a work-desk area surrounded by planters to create an appealing space that encourages people to work outdoors.
"There's a big push for 'emotional space,' " says David Galullo, a principal at RAPT Studio, based in San Francisco. The firm is transforming the office tower into creative space. He notes that the design "reimagines" public spaces throughout the office project, providing office occupants with places to congregate and a sense of community. "People want to have a connection to other people working in the building, so they feel like they're part of something bigger," he says. "We're trying to give them that."
"Businesses today must look at office space as key to attracting the most desirable employees."—Wayne Ratkovich
Lobby Hangout
"Our piece redefines office lobby space to make it a destination for office workers," says Galullo. "We've taken lobby seating outside so people can connect to outdoor space and congregate at the mall level," he continues, explaining that the lobby extends onto a balcony that connects to the retail space next door.
The management office on the 26th floor features a gathering space for building occupants, with comfortable seating, including restaurant-style booths, and a bar with a beer keg and coffee. "It's meant to be the heart of the building, more like a community center or concierge area in a hotel," says Galullo.
"We're trying to break from the rules of what kind of space you're going to get in downtown L.A.," he says, noting that all tenants looking for creative office space want the authenticity of a warehouse. "We're showing them that a high-rise office building offers the best of both worlds when [it is] well planned: great light, incredible views, and open spaces with raw, edgy authenticity." Offices are fronted with glass, there are no ceilings, there is less personal space than in traditional design—and there is a lot of open space to give as much light and views to as many people as possible.
Citing downtown Los Angeles's remarkable comeback, Ratkovich notes that there is no shortage of consumers, as more than 50,000 people now live downtown, and the daytime population exceeds 1 million. Besides Macy's, the Bloc has already signed up Wingtip, a San Francisco–based men's fashion emporium, and Alamo Drafthouse, which offers moviegoers food and beer. A coffee operator and a large fitness facility were recently in lease negotiations.
The office project is also actively signing up tenants, using its own office on the 26th floor as a showcase.
"We are very pleasantly surprised at the interest in our office building," Ratkovich says. "We thought it would take a lot of time to find tenants, because people are reducing the size of their spaces. But we've had remarkable response to our marketing efforts and are far ahead of our leasing goal.
"Businesses today must look at office space as key to attracting the most desirable employees," Ratkovich continues. "They have to be in an environment where millennials want to be, and that's the type of experience we offer here."
Ratkovich says this was a financially driven project. Considering its size and location atop a major transit station, at the heart of downtown's core, and close to the entertainment district, the purchase price of $241 million, or $150 per rentable square foot ($1,614 per rentable sq m), was a bargain. "We felt we could spend an equal amount and still be under replacement cost," he says, noting that renovation of the entire complex will cost $180 million.
Another incentive to take on this development was that construction could begin immediately, because rehabbing existing buildings eliminates the entitlement process and California Environmental Quality Act requirements.
Summing up how the Bloc's design concepts and curated experiences may affect visitors, Eriksson concludes, "People won't know why this is a great place, they'll just know it is, and that will be a reason to come back."
PATRICIA KIRK is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles.
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Locals Only is back! We he a new look and some great new bands, but look forward to the same great time. If you don't know about our little serires: each event features four exciting local bands and before, during and after the show, we will party in the lobby, listen to local music and drink some local beers (some treats from Half Pints Brewing Company will be on special).
Our line-up on December 10th includes ATLAAS, Adam Hanney & Co, Micah Visser, & Brady Allard.
ATLAAS: Winnipeg Vibes describes their music as a combination of "beautiful vocals, poppy drums, hooks all over the place". CBC Music says it's "like Bjork grew up on the prairies listening to Kraftwerk and Motown." It's the eclectic mix of Heather Thomas' soaring, dreamy vocals and Ricardo Lopez-Aguilar's sizzling guitar riffs – combining electro-pop, soul and indie-rock – that draws people in to ATLAAS.
Adam Hanney & Co.: Indie rock meets a contemporary singer-songwriter. Electric guitars, drums, synthesizers, samplers, in tandem to narrate memories of sentiment & regret.
Micah Visser: Sleepy music from a sleepy city.
Brady Allard: Brady's kinda doing the rock and roll thing now. He used to be an ambient electronic musician, now he's whatever this is.


MONDAY, Feb. 11, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Men and women alike want defined abs. But you don't have to achieve a "six-pack" -- the nickname for the three most visible pairs of abdominal muscles -- to get the benefits of a stronger middle, needed to support your back.
For a study sponsored by the American Council on Exercise (ACE), scientists from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, evaluated popular ab exercises to determine the best ones.
Of all these, the winner was the classic crunch. And it makes no difference whether you do crunches with arms folded across the chest or hands behind the head, researchers found. What does matter is using proper form.
Lie on your back, knees bent, feet flat on the floor between 12 and 18 inches from your rear. Press your elbows back to bring shoulder blades together without arching your lower back. Keep elbows in this position and keep your feet, tailbone and lower back in contact with the floor throughout the entire exercise.
Exhale and engage your ab muscles. Tilt your chin up slightly as you slowly curl head, shoulders and upper back off the floor. (Try not to tense your shoulders and neck as you bring your rib cage and pelvis together -- the abs connect these two body parts, so focus on them.) Hold briefly, then inhale and, with control, slowly lower to starting position.
Once you've mastered the crunch, add exercises that work other core muscles. For instance, the decline bench curl-up and captain's chair crunch engage muscles on the sides of the waist, while the plank works the muscle that helps stabilize the spine.
The American Council on Exercise has a detailed ab workout designed to strengthen the entire core.
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Cinema
 Lui (Él) – film del 1953 diretto da Luis Buñuel

Codici
 LUI – codice aeroportuale IATA dell'aeroporto civile di La Unión (Honduras)
 lui – codice ISO 639-2 alpha-3 della lingua luisena

Geografia
 Lui – fiume dell'Angola
 Lui – comune dello Zambia nel distretto di Kaoma
 Lui – comune dello Zambia nel distretto di Mongu

Altro
 Lui – modello di scooter presentato dalla Innocenti nel 1968
 Lui – rivista francese
 Luì – genere di uccelli passeriformi

Persone
 Frank Lui – politico niueano
 George Lui – calciatore salomonese
 Mr. Lui – pseudonimo di Marco Lui – mimo, comico e regista italiano
 Tunoa Lui – allenatore di calcio samoano americano

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Common feed 21 May 2014 at 08:50pmThe common feed displays chronologically all the artworks added by the artists.
Aleksandar Budjevac Thank you very much guys, Antonie, Bruno, Egon, Yusel...many thx..
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The island paradise of Trinidad boasts three bands of mountains running east to west. From south to north, these imaginitively named geological features increase in width, breadth, and height from the punty Southern Range to the moderate Central Range to the mighty Northern Range. The Northern Range serves to stabilize the country's freshwater supply and shelters a terrific diversity of both Caribbean and South American flora and fauna. The latter reason explains why I joined a group of North American birders in an early morning assault on the birds of the Northern Range.
A trip into the Northern Range in the area of Blanchissuese is a staple of Trinidadian birding trips, which means that our excellent local guides and our gracious hosts, Larry and Mark of Caligo Ventures, knew exactly what we were looking for. This meant that, despite inconvenient bursts of rain and gloom, we were able to pick out all kinds of gorgeous birds amidst the lush foliage.
The array of thrushes, swallows, swifts, and flycatchers we encountered at these high altitudes wasn't much different from the ones we saw everywhere else. But Blue-headed Parrots were certainly special, as were raptors like Short-tailed Hawk and Common Black-hawk among the endless vultures. Tanagers in Trinidad are a real treat, especially when crackers like Turquoise, Speckled, Bay-headed, and Swallow turn up with the usual Palm, Blue-gray, and White-lined. I found the Swallow Tanager particularly pulchritudinous and felt lucky that we found it so close and confiding, even though the weather precluded pictures. This bird was almost the best bird of the morning.
But a pleasant morning of birding became unforgettable once a bird we gave up on seeing turned up on the scene. I blame Larry, who took pains to prepare us to not see Trinidad's only non-motmot endemic. The Trinidad Piping Guan (Pipile pipile), also known as the Pawi, is a big, beautiful cracid. Dark as night with attractive white markings and an electric blue face and wattle, this charismatic tree turkey is close to extinction in Trinidad. As a result, visitors wishing to spy this special bird have to make a special pilgrimage to a rather inconvenient location at an even more inconvenient time of day. Suffice to say, our whirlwind tour didn't permit a go at the guan.
Pawi conservation is somewhat contentious in Trinidad!
But Lady Luck smiled unexpectedly on us that morning, as she seemed to do for the full week in T&T. We were about to leave the area when a guide from another Caligo Ventures tour ran towards our group, shouting "Pawi!" A jolt of adrenaline coursed through our congregation as everyone snapped into action. Now let me tell you, friends: I rarely run for birds. But when it comes to guans, I'm prepared to do all sorts of strenuous and ridiculous things. Consequently, I was well-positioned when THE TRINIDAD PIPING GUAN FLEW RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY FACE!
A brush that close with a bird so big and so rare has to be one of the highlights of a trip studded with spectacular moments. The Pawi didn't stick around to sign autographs but instead dove into the dense undergrowth of the slope. Fortunately, we all got good looks through scopes along with merely adequate record shots.
I always get my guan!
My week-long trip to Trinidad & Tobago was a familiarity trip organized by my friends Larry Lebowitz and Mark Hedden at Caligo Ventures. I will always be grateful to Caligo Ventures for showing me just how phenomenal T&T is!
What an amazing adventure! I appreciated your use of "pulchritudinous" to describe a bird, and googled the Swallow Tanager. I hope to see one myself one day!
Wow! Nice one to see indeed!
What a fantastic thing to happen, Mike! I'm considering going on one of the Caligo Tours, please tell them to arrange for a PAWI to show up without the 3am wake-up call.


The end of year crunch equals too much work, not enough time, and can be most stressful than all other months combined. At work, we are racing to complete our annual goals and make plans for the upcoming year. At school, we are preparing for finals exams and finishing projects. At home, we try to organize holiday family gatherings by cooking, gift shopping, and so on. Don Braun, a registered psychologist, discusses the following strategies to make the last weeks of the year more manageable – and maybe even enjoyable!
Stress can be thought of as a glass of water. It is normal to experience stress, and much like taking a sip of water, we can often roll with what comes our way without too many difficulties. Problems tend to arise when the amount of stress outstrips our ability to cope. Imagine yourself as very thirsty and sipping the water from that glass until it is dangerously close to the bottom.
We can do two things to address the dilemma of stress. The first is to reduce the stressors in our life, where we can. Think of this like decreasing the number of sips from the cup. Some stress, like the pressure of work or school, may be unchangeable in the short-term. Other stressors, perhaps, excessive pressure on ourselves, too much time online, or engaging in toxic relationships may be more possible to change. The other thing we can do is to increase the experiences that fill our cup with fresh water. What fills us up with the mental energy to deal with stress is different for each person.
To help with my year-end stress, I am trying to schedule my calendar with a few more gaps for downtime and I am practicing patience and self-kindness amidst the deadlines. I am also making sure to engage with friends and family, even when there is work to do because I know this fills my cup!
It is time to consider seeing a therapist when your cup is near, or at the bottom. Signs that you have reached this place can include negative moods that remain and leave you feeling stuck, frequent irritability, anxiety that is affecting your ability to function, difficulty bouncing back from setbacks, and a loss of hope for good things. It is also important to watch out for changes in the way you sleep and eat. A common sign that your cup is getting near the bottom is when you find yourself impatient and angry while driving your car.
We all tend to know intuitively that talking to someone often helps us cope with stress, but we may not know why this is the case. We are relational animals and our brains are hard-wired to seek and experience connectedness with others. Talking to a supportive person helps tell our brain that things will be okay, we are not alone, and this helps structures in our brain associated with stress to settle down. Also, talking to someone can be like giving a boost to the stress-coping systems in our brain which sometimes become out of sorts when stress is too high.
There is a certain amount of stress that is healthy and we are well able to cope. In fact, some stress is needed to keep us motivated toward action in our lives. Sticking to the cup of water analogy, the problem with long-term stress sets in when our cup is empty for a long time, and our relationships, work, and our body begins to suffer. In 1993, McEwen and Stellar coined the term, allostatic load, to describe the amount of stress experienced. Allostatic-overload refers to the situation when our stress experience outstrips our coping resources (think about the empty cup). Researchers have found that allostatic overload actually makes us more susceptible to illness and disease.
-I would like to credit Dr. Stuart Shanker with helping to shape my thinking on stress.


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Fun Faith Fact!: Blake Shelton released his first Christian song to radio titled "Savior's Shadow" in 2016.
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CBS Daytime delivered during February Sweeps where it counted most, in the Nielsen ratings. The Bold and the Beautiful boasted its largest audience since 2007 for the week ending Feb. 22.
Roughly 4.18 million tuned in for the half-hour sudser the week in question. B&B was up 10 percent over last year and was up 13 percent among women 25-54.
Approximately 5.58 million people tuned in to watch The Young and the Restless the week ending Feb. 22. The multiple Prattastrophes gave the sudser its best audience since Jan. 31, 2014 and a 7 percent increase over last year.
Y&R climbed by 5 percent among W25-54. The sudser was up 15 percent among W18-49 and 17 percent among W18-34.
Like Y&R, The Talk was up 7 percent over the same time last year. A little over 3 million people watched the gabfest.
The second half hour of Let's Make a Deal netted its largest audience ever. An estimated 4.25 million people tuned in for the second half of the Wayne Brady vehicle that week. Hour 1 averaged 3.66 million.
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The Playgoer: And the Tony goes to...the British taxpayer!
And the Tony goes to...the British taxpayer!
These trophy magnets share a few obvious traits, the most important of which is that all three began life in London - specifically, at the National Theatre. I've long admired Nicholas Hytner's savvy leadership of the institution, and cravenly envied his revenues. Around 40% of the NT's budget comes from Arts Council grants, a number that strikes New Yorkers as completely preposterous. (By contrast, our three biggest nonprofit theaters - Lincoln Center, the Roundabout and Manhattan Theater Club - derive 0.5-1.2% of their budgets from government sources.) Thanks to plays such as this trio from the National, and Frost/Nixon from the Donmar Warehouse (which doesn't get as much support as the NT, but would still be the envy of many an American producer), a direct line runs from your wallet to award podiums all over Manhattan.
One hates to get nationalistic about such things as artistic quality. And I admit to being as big a theatrical anglophile as any of our enablers here. But what are awards good for if not celebrating the contributions of your own artistic community?
It's often said that Arts Council support gives British playwrights the right to fail. That's true, but what really counts is that it gives them the right to fail spectacularly. Budget-conscious Americans, largely in thrall to stories about family squabbles, rarely attempt this kind of expansive public-minded play. Coram Boy and The Coast of Utopia have larger casts (40 and 44 actors, respectively) than every other straight play on Broadway combined (39) - if you don't count Inherit the Wind.


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Vardy dropped from starting line-up for the visit of West Ham
Jamie Vardy dropped from Leicester's starting line-up for the visit of West Ham despite saying he has recovered from a stomach problem
Jamie Vardy has been dropped by Leicester City manager Claude Puel
The striker has been taken out of the team for the visit of West Ham on Saturday
He has insisted that he has recovered from a stomach problem but is still out
Jamie Vardy has been dropped from Leicester's starting line-up by Claude Puel for the visit of West Ham, despite insisting he has recovered from a stomach problem.
The move is sure to spark claims Puel is strengthening his position amid tensions on the training ground.
Sportsmail has reported how doubts continue to persist over Puel's style and the Frenchman has now made a decision that will not go down well with the club's major star.
Jamie Vardy has been dropped from the Leicester City starting line-up by Claude Puel
In August, Vardy signed a new four-year contract that will keep him at Leicester until 2022, when he is 35.
Puel's call comes in the week Vardy's wife Becky, who was a contestant on last year's 'I'm a Celebrity…', liked tweets complaining about Puel.
One read: 'Another wasted game thanks to the #pueleffect'. Another post suggested Vardy's effectiveness was being undermined by Puel's possession-based football.
It has come in the same week Vardy's wife liked negative tweets about Puel's tactics and style
Vardy had to leave the pitch early during the Monday night loss to Arsenal at the Emirates due to a stomach issue and missed a training session.
But the former England international has been back in full training this week and posted a positive prognosis on Friday. 'Ready for the game tomorrow. Back to full strength,' he wrote on Instagram.
Puel wants to start with players who have trained all week however.
Vardy has found the net three times this season – last season he finished with 20 goals
Puel tried to play down talk of a rift during his Thursday press conference.. 'He finished with 20 goals last season and it was normal,' Puel said. 'He is getting more shots statistically. Recently he is also getting big chances.
'He has good things around him, with good service from James Maddison or Shinji Okazaki or Kelechi Iheanacho. It is just about finding good confidence and a good run and stability and consistency in his play.
'He is a player who needs to fight in his play with good aggressiveness and good pressing and he will find good confidence again.'
United players to be fined after refusing to attend sponsorship event
Jose Mourinho backed for Real Madrid return by former president Ramon Calderon


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05/20/17 11:08:30 29.9535 -86.8327 200 Hz tones?
05/20/17 14:08:30 29.9529 -86.8375 Regular LF downsweeps.
05/20/17 15:23:30 29.9497 -86.8364 Possible LF downsweeps?
05/20/17 16:23:30 29.9562 -86.8371 Regular LF downsweeps.
05/20/17 17:08:30 29.9566 -86.8367 Regular LF sounds, some downsweeps, some look like tones.
05/20/17 18:23:30 29.9537 -86.8358 More regular downsweeps here, but fairly faint.
05/20/17 20:08:30 29.9531 -86.8298 What is noise in p4?
05/20/17 20:23:30 29.9525 -86.8296 Faint regular LF downsweeps in p8-10.


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Pope cries as he discusses Ukrainians' plight during traditional prayer
Pope Francis broke down and cried on Thursday as he mentioned the suffering of Ukrainians during a traditional prayer at Rome's Spanish Steps.
The pope's voice began to tremble as he mentioned the Ukrainians and he had to stop, unable to speak, for about 30 seconds while his head trembled. When he resumed the prayer, his voice was cracking.
In a sign that Russia maintains lines of communication with the West despite the war in Ukraine, Washington said Moscow had freed US basketball player Brittney Griner in return for the release of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.
"She's safe, she's on a plane, she's on her way home," President Joe Biden said from the White House, where he was accompanied by Griner's wife, Cherelle, and administration officials.
Russia confirmed that Bout had been exchanged for the 32-year-old Griner, who was detained in a Cold-War style standoff between Moscow and Washington over Russia's war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia will continue to strike Ukraine's energy infrastructure, after successive waves of missile strikes have left swathes of the country without clean water and electricity.
During a ceremony at the Kremlin, Putin described the attacks on Ukraine's vital infrastructure as a response to the October blast that struck a bridge linking Russia to the Crimean peninsula and which Moscow blames on Ukraine.
Source: France 24
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By Kristina Thu 5th Dec
Panto this weekend – The big focus this weekend for the club is our pantomime in St. Joseph's Hall from Friday through Sunday. Evening shows start at 7.30pm with one public matinee on Saturday at 2pm. Admission is payable at the door and guests are advised to arrive early to guarantee a seat. Good luck to all the cast and crew who have been putting in great work over the past few months.
AGM – The club's Annual General Meeting will be held in the clubrooms next Tuesday at 8pm sharp. All paid-up members for 2013 are invited to attend.
Mass for Deceased members – The AGM will be preceded by the annual Mass for deceased members at 7.30pm sharp. Guests are advised to be present from 7.15pm.
Scór success – Last weekend was another glorious time for our young Scór participants with the club picking up four Tyrone titles at the Scór na Óg finals in Coalisland. There were wins for our Ceili and Set Dancing teams while our Ballad and Novelty acts also came away with a Tyrone medal. Commiserations to our other six acts who also turned in great performances. The four winners will now turn their attention to the Ulster semi-finals in Killeshandra, Co. Cavan, on Saturday 14th December. Anyone who would like to travel on the club bus should contact Catherine Simmonds on 07808049108 by this Friday.
Season ends – Indoor camogie and hurling coaching has now finished for the season and will resume shortly after Christmas. A big thank-you to everyone who attended over the past few weeks.
Gaelic Start – This Saturday will be the last formal session for Gaelic Start in the CBS before Christmas and the following Saturday (14th Dec) will be the popular Christmas party for all our Gaelic Start children. Make sure to keep the date free.
Youth AGM – The club's Youth AGM will be held Sunday 12th January, 2014 but applications from club members who are interested in taking up a coaching/management role with any of our youth teams in 2014 are now being received by the club secretary. The club fielded 21 teams in 2013 across all codes, football (boys and girls), hurling and camogie. Anyone who has an interest in taking a team next year must in the first instance send their request in to secretary.omaghstendas.tyrone@gaa.ie for consideration.
Big Bingo night – Keep free next Thursday 12th Dec for our pre-Christmas Big Bingo night where up to £6,000 in prizes are up for grabs. Top individual prizes on the night are 2 x £1,000 jackpots. £20 for a single book, £25 for a double book. Please pass the word.
Club kits – Christmas orders for club kit are now being taken by Vicky O'Hagan (07725 356876). Order forms can be downloaded from club website.


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package com.lotaris.maven.plugin.glassfish.macro;

import com.lotaris.maven.plugin.glassfish.model.Configuration;

import static com.lotaris.maven.plugin.glassfish.command.CommandFactory.*;

/**
 * The start domain macro organize the different commands to run depending the situation
 * of the domain to start (is it created, is it existed, ...) and the configuration of the
 * plugin.
 *
 * @author Laurent Prevost, laurent.prevost@lotaris.com
 */
public class StartDomainMacro extends AbstractMacro {
	/**
	 * Constructor
	 *
	 * @param configuration The configuration
	 */
	public StartDomainMacro(Configuration configuration) {
		super(configuration);

		if (isLocalDomain()) {
			throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Starting a domain on a remote host is not supported yet.");
		}

		// Check if the domain exists
		if (!configuration.getDomain().exists()) {
			// Check if the domain can be created automatically
			if (configuration.getGlassfish().isAutoCreate()) {
				registerCommand(new MacroCommand(buildCreateDomainCommand(configuration), "Domain does not exist. Creating it for you."));
			}

			// Conflict in the configuration
			else {
				throw new IllegalStateException("Domain does not exist and [autoCreate] is [false]. Try 'mvn glassfish:createDomain' first.");
			}
		}

		registerCommand(new MacroCommand(buildStartDomainCommand(configuration), "Starting the domain."));
  }
}

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interest, as it is the only purely insular and tropical station at which anemographic data are recorded in India. The position of the station is well described, and the records are said to represent correctly the winds of the surrounding portion of the Bay of Bengal. At Port Blair winds from north-easterly directions predominate from November to March, or for five months of the year, and winds from southwesterly directions predominate during the five months from May to September. In the transition months of April and October, between the monsoons, winds are very variable. The discussion of the anemograph observations recorded at Dhubri is for seven years to May, 1896. The situation of the station is given in detail, and the anemograph was mounted on a tower, 45 ft. above the ground; its exposure is said to have been excellent. The height of the instrument above the tower is not given. The predominant winds at Dhubri are said to be those up and down the Assam Valley. During November, December, and May down valley winds very largely prevail, but up valley winds are more numerous than down valley winds in February, March, July, and August. Seasonal and diurnal movements of the air are given in tabular form for both stations.
A COPY of the annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, "showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution" for the year ending June 30, 1913, has been received from Washington. The volume runs to 804 pages, of which 140 are concerned with reports and proceedings. The bulk of the book consists of the general appendix which furnishes a miscellaneous selection of scientific papers, some of them original, embracing a considerable range of scientific investigation and discussion. Many of the papers are translations of contributions by distinguished foreign men of science. Among these translations may be mentioned: The reaction of the planets upon the sun, by M. P. Puiseux, astronomer at the Paris Observatory; modern ideas on the end of the world, by Prof. G. Jaumann, professor of physics at the Technical High School at Brünn; recent developments in electromagnetism, by Prof. Eugene Bloch, of the Lycée Saint Louis; oil films on water and on mercury, by Prof. H. Devaux, of Bordeaux; ripple marks, by M. Ch. Epry; the development of orchid cultivation and its bearing upon evolutionary theories, by M. J. Costantin; the problems of heredity, by Dr. E. Apert, principal at Andral Hospital, Paris; the whale fisheries of the world, by M. Charles Rabot; the earliest forms of human habitation and their relation to the general development of civilisation, by Prof. M. Hoernes; feudalism in Persia: its origin, development, and present condition, by M. J. de Morgan, of Paris; shintoism and its significance, by Mr. K. Kanokogi, of Tokyo, in Zeitschrift für Religionspsychologie; the economic and social rôle of fashion, by M. Pierre Clerget, of Lyons; and the work of J. H. Van't Hoff, by Prof. G. Bruni, of the University of Padua. has been the case in former years, many of the articles in the appendix are illustrated by numerous beautifully executed plates.
MESSRS. JOHN WHELDON AND Co., 38 Great Queen Street, Kingsway, London, W.C., have issued a catalogue of books and papers on economic botany which they have for sale. The list, which is conveniently classified, contains particulars of books on commercial plants, tropical agriculture, food plants, and many other branches of economic botany.
THE following forthcoming books of science are announced by Messrs. Constable and Co., Ltd. :"Textbook on Motor-car Engineering," by A. G. Clarke, vol. ii., Design; "Telegraph Engineering," by Dr. E. Hausmann; a new edition of "Wood Pulp," by C. F. Cross, E. J. Bevan, and R. W. Sindall. Mr. John Murray will shortly publish Evolution and the War," by Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell.
The comet lies towards the southern portion of the constellation of Aquila, in the neighbourhood of the stars 1, 2, and 3 Aquilæ.
The only information to hand regarding the observed return of Winnecke's comet is that mentioned in the Morning Post of April 15. It is stated that Dr. Thiele, of the Bergedorf Observatory, Hamburg, recorded its position on a photograph, the object being of the 16th magnitude. This comet has a period of about 5-8 years, and was first discovered in 1858. At the present return perihelion will not be reached until September, so that later the comet may be a good telescopic object.
Prof. E. C. Pickering, in Harvard Circular, No. 187, gives some early positions of comet 1914e (Campbell). This comet, as the circular states, appears to have been first seen on Thursday, September 17 (astronomical date), at one o'clock in the morning, by Mr. Leon Campbell, at the Arequipa Station of the Harvard Observatory. The comet was then visible to the naked eye. It was discovered independently a few hours later by Dr. Lunt, at the Cape Observatory, and by Mr. Westland, in New Zealand. Six photographs taken by Mr. Campbell were sent to Cambridge, and the positions have been measured and are here recorded.
THE ROTATION OF THE SOLAR CORONA.-M. J. Bosler, in the Comptes rendus for April 6 (vol. clx., No. 14, p. 434), describes the result he has obtained in an investigation on the velocity of rotation of the solar corona. The experiment was made during the solar eclipse of last August, and the apparatus provided the means of photographing the whole spectrum of the corona. It was thought that the green radiation at A 5303 would prove the most satisfactory line for measurement, but its absence rendered this impossible. However, the new red ray (A6374-3) provided the oppor
tunity for the determination, and the result obtained is here described. The photograph secured showed two strips of spectra of the corona at the east and west limbs, and, as comparison spectra, three other strips of spectra of diffused sky light were secured symmetrically on the same plate ten minutes after the eclipse. The resulting wave-lengths of the coronal line for the east and west limbs were found to be as follows, each wave-length being the mean of five complete series of measures entirely distinct :
East 6374-43 (Rowland) West A 6374.59
Diff. 0.16
This difference corresponds to a velocity of 3.7 kilometres, and, making a correction for the inclination of the slit to the solar equator, gives an equatorial velocity of about 3.9 kilometres per second, a value correct to about 25 to 30 per cent. In the eclipse of 1898 Prof. Campbell, using the green radiation, deduced a tangential velocity of 3.1 kilometres a second (±2 km. nearly), the diffuse nature of the radiation preventing further accuracy. M. Bosler points out that the corona moves in the same direction as the surface of the sun, and appears to rotate more quickly. The higher levels of the chromosphere show a similar tendency only to a less degree. An apparent increase in velocity with the elevation is thus proved.
THE ANNUAL OF THE BUREAU DES LONGITUDES, 1915. -The very useful annual for the current year published by the Bureau des Longitudes is as compact as ever, and contains a mine of valuable information very handy for reference. Besides the usual numerous tables useful to the astronomer, several new communications are included. Thus M. G. Bigourdan writes on the subject of the constellations, and after a brief historical sketch gives the co-ordinates of the principal stars and star charts down to 50° S. latitude. Quite a long article, devoted to stellar spectra and their classification, is written by M. A. de Gramont. The author describes Secchi's classification with illustrations of the type spectra, and then refers to more recent classifications, giving a table showing the correspondence with each other. Sir Norman Lockyer's classification is dealt with in a separate section of the article, and is compared with the Harvard College Observatory classification. A very valuable article, covering 162 pages, is that on "Methods of Examination of Mirrors and Objectives," contributed by M. Bigourdan. The article is illustrated by a large number of very useful figures, which will considerably help the reader. The preliminary chapter includes numerous historical references, and this is followed by chapters on general methods of examination, their application to all reflecting surfaces, the examination of mirrors mounted in telescopes, and, finally, a very complete account of the examination and testing of objectives.
CHINESE RECORDS OF ECLIPSES.-In the Proceedings of the Tôkyô Mathematico-Physical Society (January, 1915, vol. viii., No. 1) Messrs. Kiyotugu Hirayama and Sinkiti Ogura discuss the interesting records of early Chinese eclipses. Their working list extends from the earliest solar eclipses to those recorded in the Ch'un Ch'iu. In the case of the latter, the calculations are in progress, and are expected to be soon finished. In the present communication the general plan of the calculations consists in determining the central line and the limiting lines for each eclipse. The eclipses of Shu Ching and Shih Ching are dealt with, and diagrams are given showing some of the limits of visibility.
NO. 2373, VOL. 95]
TEACHING OF ENGINEERING IN
EVENING TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
THE "Memorandum on the Teaching of Engineer894), recently issued by the Board of Education, is a ing in Evening Technical Schools" (Circular very welcome manual of suggestions to teachers and organisers of schools which provide evening classes in mechanical and electrical engineering.
This Memorandum fills nearly sixty foolscap pages, and is divided into nine sections. An introductory section points out the limitations of part-time courses -courses intended for students whose ordinary employment occupies the greater part of their timewhen compared with full-time day courses. The second section, after referring to the fact that some of the serious disadvantages which characterise parttime courses conducted in the evening may be avoided by the growing practice of holding such courses during the day (the junior employees being allowed "time off" in order to attend them), proposes to classify "a complete curriculum of evening instruction" into three stages: the junior course (fourteen to sixteen); the senior course (sixteen to eighteen or nineteen), and the advanced course (eighteen or nineteen to twenty, twenty-one, or twenty-two). Senior courses are to be of two kinds: a minor course, complete in itself, for apprentices to engineering trades; and a major course, incomplete unless it also includes an advanced course, for technical men. The third section of the Memorandum gives outlines of typical major (senior and advanced) courses in mechanical and electrical engineering, and of minor (senior only) courses in some engineering trades. After making, in the next section, some valuable suggestions upon laboratory and class instruction for adolescent evening students, the Memorandum proceeds, in the following four sections, to consider in more detail the teaching of the various subjects which constitute these outline courses. The accommodation and equipment required for the various classes of work already discussed are considered in the ninth and final section.
The Memorandum is thus concerned with all kinds of evening classes intended for persons employed in engineering work, from the apprentice who is beginning to learn a trade to the designer or manager who attends a course of evening lectures delivered by a university professor. By concentrating attention upon evening classes as such, and especially upon those classes which are primarily intended for boys and young men between sixteen and twenty-two years of age, the Board's inspectors have succeeded in producing a document which cannot fail "to assist teachers and organisers to mark out for themselves the schemes of instruction best suited to the conditions of their classes." But this very concentration, to which the Memorandum owes much of its usefulness, will disappoint education committees or directors of education who look to find in it some treatment of the ing training, such as the following:-The selection, wider educational and economic problems of engineeron democratic lines, of the most suitable boys for each different type of training which should be provided for the different positions in engineering industry; the respective parts to be played, in the preparatory (fulltime) training of engineers, by the elementary school and the junior technical school, the lower secondary school and the senior technical school, and the higher secondary school and the university or technical college; the point at which works training should begin ; the co-ordination of practical experience in the shops with instruction in classes inside the works and with outside schools and colleges; and, more generally, the effective co-operation between engineering firms and
education authorities in establishing and administering schemes for the advancement of apprentices. Perhaps the most important feature of the Memorandum is the distinction which it draws between the major and the minor course. Industrial training has suffered hitherto from a lack of proper appreciation of the differences between the training required by the future artisan (or "tradesman ") on the one hand, and the future "technical" man (whether designer, manager, or commercial representative) on the other. The distinction now drawn does not, however, go deep enough. The Memorandum does not sufficiently discourage the prevailing notion that the ideal evening student first enters evening classes at fourteen, and continues to attend such classes for seven years. Thus, instead of insisting that the technical student should remain at a secondary school until he is at least sixteen, and then, perhaps, enter his major (senior) course when he enters works, the Memorandum contemplates that the technical student and the trade student shall both follow the same junior (evening) course from fourteen to sixteen. It would surely be better that the trade student's own minor course should begin at fourteen instead of at sixteen, and attract him, by its special adaptation to the circumstances of his particular trade, from the moment when he leaves his day school. Moreover, since the trade student will as a rule have less opportunity for general reading in later life, his minor course might well include some "citizenship" subjects, such as industrial history considered at first from the point of view of his particular trade.
More than half of the Memorandum is devoted to "outlines of work" for various recommended courses. This portion is full of most useful suggestions. Some, however, are open to objection, or, at least, to criticism. Thus there is a curious confusion between weight and mass on page 20 ("gx force mass x linear acceleration," which would make g a pure number, independent of the system of units employed). It is also doubtful whether the conception of "work" is really so difficult as to justify the suggested postponement of its introduction until the second year of the senior course. Again, the four years' (major) course in mathematics outlined in the Memorandum might with advantage be less "practical" in its first two years, during which some time might well be found for geometry.
ENGLISH MATHEMATICS.
THE HE Mathematical Gazette has recently published a translation of an address delivered by Prof. Gino Loria to the International Congress of Historical Studies. This is a well-proportioned and detached estimate of the main contributions of England to the body of mathematical science, from the earliest available records to the present time. An important suggestion is made that it may be possible to find in some of our libraries manuscript works by some of those early writers who, unlike ourselves, did not hasten to publish their discoveries, and were often surprised by death. In this connection the names of Bradwardine, Richard of Wallingford, John Maudith, and Tonstall are mentioned. Another note is that James Gregory made lengthy stays in Italy, and was therefore probably acquainted with the work of Galileo; so the question arises how far Newton may have been influenced by the achievements of the great Italian philosopher. Prof. Loria suggests inquiry about this as an important piece of research.
Prof. Loria emphasises, with justice, the fact that the renascence of English mathematics in the nineteenth century coincided with a better knowledge and
appreciation of work being done abroad. The greatness of Newton, like that of Euclid and Archimedes, had a sort of benumbing effect upon his successors, and even contemporaries; although, of course, there are exceptions, like Maclaurin and Brook Taylor and Waring. It is also pointed out that even now there are certain branches of mathematics which Englishmen persistently ignore, or else treat by obsolete and clumsy methods. The example given is descriptive geometry; and it is noted that Brook Taylor laid down the principles of this subject in a way perfectly analogous to that adopted long afterwards, and independently, by Fiedler. It is not stated by Prof. Loria, but it is a fact that most of our text-books on descriptive geometry are simply contemptible, from a scientific point of view, and not to be compared with Fiedler's treatise, or the classic work of Monge, which does in the main follow the lines of what we call descriptive geometry, in the restricted sense of orthogonal projection.
Even able students who use these books, and attain great practical efficiency, have no conception at all of the subject as a whole, and are baffled by the simplest problems about traces of lines and planes. So far as we know, there is only one good treatise on descriptive geometry in the English language, and that is in the "Penny Cyclopædia," where so many other treasures have been buried and forgotten. This leads to the remark that Prof. Loria has a proper appreciation of the works of De Morgan, and laments that they are so inaccessible; with this sentiment we cordially agree.
An Italian is as likely as anyone to sympathise with English modes of thought; so any conclusion drawn from this address is likely to be flattering rather than the reverse. We must remember, too, that, when we speak of English mathematicians, we are apt to include such men as Maclaurin, Rowan Hamilton, and Sylvester, who were not Englishmen at all. But even in this inclusive sense of the term "English" one cannot but feel that Continental opinion about English mathematics is almost bound to be analogous to that about English literature in general. Newton is English, and, like Shakespeare, ar Dante, or Goethe, incomparable; but we have lesser men, of a more distinctly national type, who may, perhaps, be more justly appreciated at home than abroad. As an example, we may instance W. H. Fox Talbot, now only vaguely remembered in connection with photography. As a mathematician he is, of course, not to be compared with Abel; nevertheless he did investigate some cases of Abel's theorem in a very instructive and fundamental way, implicitly showing that the theorem is really a deduction from the known facts about symmetric functions of the roots of an equation, and the elementary theory of partial fractions. We are inclined to believe that the simplest proof of Abel's theorem will ultimately follow the lines that Talbot has indicated.
There are many points in the address to which we cannot refer; but one that deserves mention is that Newton is reported to have said that the style of the ancient geometers is the only one appropriate to any mathematical treatise worthy of the name. Judging by the Principia," it is probable that this story is authentic. G. B. M.
PUBLIC HEALTH. THE HE Medical Officer's Supplement to the fortythird Annual Report of the Local Government Board for 1913-14 (Cd. 7612, price 1s. 11d.), while it deals mainly with matters primarily of medical interest, of necessity includes within its scope much that is of value to all scientific minds.
The question of infant mortality occupies a pro.
minent place, and one notes with satisfaction that the general trend of the curve continues in a downward direction. Greater provision is likely to be made in the near future for the care of expectant mothers, and the official recognition of an ante-natal state, though somewhat belated, is none the less welcome. Much good work has been done by voluntary agencies in the past, and the linking up of this with the various organisations dealing with child welfare must inevitably tend to a healthier future race.
Some interesting figures are given regarding vaccination returns. It appears that in England and Wales as a whole one-half of the children whose births were registered in 1912 have been vaccinated, and nearly one-third have been exempted from vaccination by statutory declaration of conscientious objection. When compared with the returns for 1911, these figures show a percentage reduction of 52.3 to 50-1 in the proportion of children born who are vaccinated. The percentage of children born who were exempted under certificate of conscientious objection increased from 28.5 to 32.1.
Inquiries have been made regarding certain outbreaks of enteric fever supposedly due to the conIsumption of infected shell-fish. The medical officer of health of a seaport town has repeatedly referred to the danger incurred by persons in collecting shellfish of all sorts from areas obviously contaminated with sewage. While it is difficult in most cases to prove conclusively that an epidemic owes its origin to such a practice, yet, when local authorities have acted as if such were undoubtedly the case, the wisdom of such action has been abundantly shown by the nonrecurrence of the disease.
Progress is constantly being made towards securing purer and more wholesome food for consumption in this country. A careful watch has to be kept at the various ports of entry to prevent so far as possible the import of unsound and even poisonous material. As an instance of what is continually happening it will suffice to quote the following occurrence. During the unloading of a cargo of sugar in the Port of London it was noticed that some of the bags containing the sugar were covered with borax, which had been carried in the same hold and had become loose
during the voyage. Samples of this powder were taken, and analysis showed them to contain arsenic in considerable quantities. The whole of the sugar was rebagged, and that portion of it that had already been sent out was recalled for suitable treatment under supervision.
The effect of certain types of waters on lead has again been brought into prominence by an outbreak, extensive though mild, of lead poisoning in an urban district in Yorkshire. The waters most liable to act in this way are acid, peaty supplies, and it is even asserted as conceivable that the treatment applied with a view of destroying the plumbo-solvent properties of the water may tend in some way to increase the ability of the water to erode the lead. At all events, further investigation is being made, as the case in point has proved a very difficult one to deal with.
More research has been conducted on the subject of ferro-silicon with special reference to possible danger arising from its transport and storage.
This sub
stance, of certain percentage compositions, is liable to disintegration in the presence of moisture, and poisonous gases are given off in quantity sufficient to produce fatal results in human beings. It is suggested that liability to spontaneous disintegration with evolution of poisonous gases may be related to the amount of aluminium present in the ferro-silicon. Further reports are now issued on ferro-chrome and other
ferro-alloys, with special reference to aluminium
The work of Prof. Leonard Hill on the effect of open-air and wind in the metabolism of man is referred to. He points out that the physical qualities of the air-heat, moisture, and movement-are of paramount importance to health. The stimulating effect of cool and variable breezes acting on the skin leads to improved health, while a stagnant, windless, over-warm atmosphere tends to depression and diminished vitality. Two new instruments are described-the kata-thermometer and the caleometer-which enable the rate of cooling of the body and the variability of the rate to be measured (see p. 205 of this issue of NATURE). Prof. Hill's researches on the physical condition of the atmosphere have done much to elucidate the problem of stuffiness," to which so many ailments are undoubtedly due.
THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. HE Carnegie Institution of Washington was founded by Mr. Carnegie in 1902, when he gave to a board of trustees an endowment of 2,000,000l., to which he added 400,000l. in 1907, and a further 2,000,000l. in 1911. The articles of incorporation of the institution declare "that the objects of the corporation shall be to encourage, in the broadest and most liberal manner, investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge to the improvement of mankind," and already, as the annual reports of the president and the directors of the various departments show, the objects of the institution are being fulfilled admirably.
The trustees have inaugurated and developed three principal agencies to forward the aims of the institution. In the first place, the departments of research attack problems requiring the collaboration of several investigators, special equipment, and continuous effort. A second agency provides means to enable individuals to complete investigations requiring less collaboration and simpler apparatus; while a third division deals with the publication of the results obtained as the result of the work of the first two agencies.
The reports by the president, the directors of the various departments of research, and the executive committee, contained in the 1914 Year Book, recently received, give full particulars of the financial resources of the institution, and of the activities of its different departments, during the year under review. The Year Book provides convincing evidence of the success of the trustees of the institution in their endeavours to encourage and advance scientific research.
The following table shows the amounts of the grants made by the trustees for the current year, and the purposes to which they are being devoted ::
Division of Publications
Departments of Research
Minor Grants
Index Medicus
Insurance Fund
Reserve Fund
The next table shows the departments of scientific investigation to which the larger grants were made for the financial year 1913-14, and the amounts of these grants :
The following extracts from the résumé of the investigations of the year included in the report of the president, Dr. R. S. Woodward, will serve to indicate the nature and extent of the scientific work accomplished during the year.
Although the greater part of the work of the Department of Botanical Research is carried on at its principal laboratory at Tucson, Arizona, it is essential to a comprehensive study of desert plant life to explore distant as well as adjacent arid regions. Thus, having published during the past year the results of an elaborate investigation of the region of the Salton Sea, the department is now turning attention to similar desert basins, of which there are several in the Western States that have been studied hitherto in their geological rather than botanical aspects. These researches are entailing also many applications of the allied physical sciences not heretofore invoked to any marked extent in aid of botanical science. Hence there results properly a diversity of work quite beyond the implications of botany in the earlier, but now quite too narrow, sense of the word. The facilities of the Desert Laboratory have been enlarged during the year by the completion and equipment of a specially designed small building for studies in phyto-chemistry, which has been proved to play a highly significant
rôle in desert life.
The observational, statistical, and physical methods applied by the Department of Experimental Evolution are constantly adding to the sum of facts and of inductions essential to advances in biological knowledge. The range of application extends from the lowest organisms, like fungi, up to the highest, as typified in the race to which the investigators themselves belong. Thus, during the past year, observations and experiments have been made on mucors, plants, pigeons, poultry, and seeds, while the director has continued his fruitful statistical studies in the relatively new field of departures from normality in mankind. The variety of agencies employed in this wide range of inquiry now includes a permanent staff of about twenty members and a physical equipment enlarged during the year by the completion of an additional laboratory and a power-house. Early in the year the facilities of the department were increased by the successful transfer, from Chicago to Cold Spring Harbour, of the remarkable collection of pedigree pigeons recently acquired by the institution from the estate of Prof. C. O. Whitman.
An instructive example of the favourable progress, which may be confidently expected in any field of research when entered by an adequately manned and equipped department devoted solely thereto, is afforded by the experience of the Geophysical Laboratory. In less than a decade this establishment has not only accomplished the formidable task of constructing the necessary apparatus and of preparing many of the pure minerals concerned, but has already begun the processes of analysis and synthesis which are leading
to extensive additions to our knowledge of rock and mineral formations found in the earth's crust. Among the problems under investigation, one of immediate economic as well as of great theoretical interest may be cited here by reason especially of the fact that funds for its execution have been supplied by industrial sources; this is the problem of the "secondary enrichment of copper ores," and the success attained in its treatment demonstrates the practicability of advantageous co-operation between the laboratory and industrial organisations without restriction to scientific procedure and publicity. The section of the director's report devoted to this subject should be of special interest to geologists and to mining engineers as well as to copper-mining industries. A more comprehensive idea of the productive activities of the laboratory may be gained from its publications, which embrace forty-nine titles of papers which have appeared in current journals or are in the press, many of them having been published in German as well as in English.
In accordance with plans recommended by the director of the Department of Marine Biology and approved by the trustees in 1912, an expedition to Torres Straits, Australia, was undertaken in the latter part of the preceding year. Early in September, 1913, the director and six collaborators arrived at Thursday Island in the Straits, expecting to use this relatively accessible island as a base of explorations; but it was soon found advantageous to proceed to Maër Island, one of the Murray group, about 120 miles east-northeast, and near to the outer limit of the Great Barrier Reef. Here a temporary laboratory was set up in the local courthouse and jail, generously placed at Dr. Mayer's disposal by the British authorities. The region proved to be one rich in coral reefs and in marine fauna for the work contemplated. Observations and experiments securing gratifying results were carried out during the months of September and October, 1913. In addition to the critical data secured by Dr. Mayer with respect to the corals about Maër Island, for comparison especially with corresponding data from the corals of Florida waters, observations and materials for important contributions to zoology were collected by each of his collaborators. On returning to America from the southern hemisphere, the director was engaged, during April and May, in two minor expeditions with the departmental vessel Anton Dohrn. The first of these was in aid of the researches of Dr. Paul Bartsch, on cerions, and required a cruise along the Florida Keys from Miami to Tortugas and return. The second expedition was in aid especially of Dr. T. W. Vaughan, long associated with the department in studies of corals and related deposits, and required a cruise from Miami, Florida, to the Bahamas and return. It appears that during its first decade forty-nine investigators have made use of the Tortugas Laboratory, twenty-eight of these having returned two or more times, making a total of 108 visits to this relatively inaccessible centre of research. Of the publications emanating from the department, sixty have been published by the institution, while upwards of forty have been published under other auspices.
The activities of the Department of Meridian Astrometry are concentrated on the derivation of stellar positions for the comprehensive catalogue in preparation, on supplementary measurements of stellar coordinates with the meridian circle of the Dudley Observatory, and on investigations of residual stellar motions. The latter have now become the most important element in the definition of stellar positions by reason of the extraordinary recent progress in sidereal astronomy, to which the department has contributed in large degree. Thus, along with the form


In Windows Server 2012, the Server Manager has been redesigned to make it easier to manage multiple remote servers from a single admin console. Thankfully Windows Server 2012 servers are configured to allow for remote management by default, requiring less configuration upfront to make it work.
There is a new dashboard that provides you with very "glanceable" information, including alerts to issues that require your attention. The dashboard updates every 10 minutes, so don't be alarmed if a user brings up an issue before the dashboard provides you with the corresponding alert.
It's now easier to deploy roles and features to remote servers using the Add Roles And Features Wizard, as this wizard lets you select a server from your server pool, or even an offline VM, as the destination server.
Overall, the look and feel is more user friendly, while still retaining all of the power that system administrators expect. In fact, SysAdmins have greater power and flexibility now, paired with easier server, and Active Directory administration. Microsoft's really taken the refinement approach to Server Manager.
That's all the information I want to share about this topic. I know this was a short one, but next time we'll be covering BranchCache and Branch Office Direct Printing. That entry will actually be focused on distributed organizations, and anyone reading this from a branch office perspective. Keep checking back for the final two instalments on how Windows Server 2012 can benefit your small business.


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Le récepteur X de rétinoïdes (RXR, retinoid X receptor) est une protéine de la famille des récepteurs nucléaires dépendant de ligand et activé par son association avec le récepteur de l'acide rétinoïque (ou vitamine A).

Structure
Il s'agit d'un récepteur homodimère.

Mécanisme d'action
Le RXR agit sous forme d'hétérodimères avec le récepteur de l'acide rétinoïque (RAR), le récepteur de la vitamine D (VDR), le récepteur des hormones thyroïdiennes ou les récepteurs de prolifération des peroxysomes  (PPAR).

Fonctions
RXR se comporte comme un facteur de transcription pour certains gènes après fixation sur leur promoteur notamment dans le cas de la synthèse d'ostéopontine (rôle dans fixation du calcium sur les os).

Physiopathologie

Notes et références

Récepteur nucléaire


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Wife of deported Michigan man: 'I'm trying to be strong' but we are 'devastated'
By Brandon Carter - 01/16/18 03:22 PM EST
"I love you and we're going to miss you, and we're going to bring you back as soon as we can" - Cindy Garcia reveals the last words she shared with her husband prior to his deportation to Mexico https://t.co/2b6HYY65Cr https://t.co/BNs6T2qyvG
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) January 16, 2018
The wife of a Michigan man deported after 30 years in the U.S. spoke out on Tuesday, saying her family was "devastated" by his deportation to Mexico.
"I'm trying to be strong. I just want to get my story out there," Cindy Garcia said on CNN's "Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin." "As depressed as I am — and I just want to scream and cry and lay in bed and not move — I know that I have to come forward for the people who cannot, and tell our story. And how devastated we are that our case should have been looked at as an individual case and not as a whole because my husband is not a criminal."
Her husband, 39-year-old Jorge Garcia, was deported to Mexico on Monday after living in the U.S. for 30 years. He was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10 by a family member who was also here illegally, according to the Detroit Free Press, and had been working since 2005 to obtain lawful residence.
Cindy Garcia told CNN she has struggled to explain to her two children, ages 15 and 12, what happened to their father.
"It's very hard because he [the 12-year-old] doesn't grasp what the government did and he doesn't understand why they took him either, because he's not a criminal," she said. "That's why we're trying to justify it with him. And it is very, very hard."
In November, Jorge Garcia, who was too old to qualify for protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, was ordered to return to Mexico by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after receiving extensions of his removal since 2009 under the Obama administration.
"It was this year, Nov. 20 was our annual visit with them," Cindy Garcia told CNN. "We went and they told us they were going to detain him. Our faces turned white. We panicked. We didn't know what to do."
Cindy Garcia said an ICE officer reviewed Jorge's case before granting him another extension to stay until Jan. 15.
"It was very sad, knowing that we had to face this head-on and there was no more extensions that were coming," she said.
Video of the family saying their goodbyes and crying at Detroit Metropolitan Airport went viral on Monday. When asked about their last words, Cindy Garcia told CNN that she told her husband they would see him soon.
"I love you and we're going to miss you. And we're going to bring you back as soon as we can," she said.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamKyrsten Sinema's courage, Washington hypocrisy and the politics of rage Hillicon Valley: Amazon's Alabama union fight — take two McConnell will run for another term as leader despite Trump's attacks MORE (R-S.C.) said Garcia's case is "something we need to look at."
"Sen. Grassley asked me about deporting people who are criminals. Fine. I think we're doing that as we speak. That's something to consider," Graham said. "Now, the young man who got deported yesterday, 39 years old, apparently, is something we need to look at."
Jorge Garcia's deportation comes as lawmakers are attempting to negotiate with President Trump Donald TrumpWendy Sherman takes leading role as Biden's 'hard-nosed' Russia negotiator Senate needs to confirm Deborah Lipstadt as antisemitism envoy — Now Former acting Defense secretary under Trump met with Jan. 6 committee: report MORE's White House on a fix for DACA.
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Q: Flutter : The getter was called on null (JSON API call) I've a problem where I know where something went wrong but I can't figure how to solve it.
I'm new to the Flutter developpement and I'm trying to create an application.
For this application, I need to call an API that return data, but based on what I ask i can have different returns.
Here are two examples :
{
  "name": "Luken",
  "race": "Blood Elf",
  "class": "Death Knight",
  "active_spec_name": "Blood",
  "active_spec_role": "TANK",
  "gender": "male",
  "faction": "horde",
  "achievement_points": 5145,
  "honorable_kills": 0,
  "thumbnail_url": "https://render-eu.worldofwarcraft.com/character/ysondre/200/100426440-avatar.jpg?alt=wow/static/images/2d/avatar/10-0.jpg",
  "region": "eu",
  "realm": "Ysondre",
  "profile_url": "https://raider.io/characters/eu/ysondre/Luken",
  "profile_banner": "hordebanner1",
  "guild": null
}

Second API return :
{
  "name": "Rakhalar",
  "race": "Zandalari Troll",
  "class": "Druid",
  "active_spec_name": "Guardian",
  "active_spec_role": "TANK",
  "gender": "male",
  "faction": "horde",
  "achievement_points": 5525,
  "honorable_kills": 0,
  "thumbnail_url": "https://render-eu.worldofwarcraft.com/character/illidan/213/142815957-avatar.jpg?alt=wow/static/images/2d/avatar/31-0.jpg",
  "region": "eu",
  "realm": "Illidan",
  "profile_url": "https://raider.io/characters/eu/illidan/Rakhalar",
  "profile_banner": "hordebanner1",
  "guild": {
    "name": "Gueule de Bois",
    "realm": "Illidan"
  }

The main difference between the two returns is the guild key : It can be null.
I don't know how to handle it, as it result an error when I'm trying to call for the name or realm value when the character (it's basically information for WoW characters that return the API).
The Class i'm using to serialize the JSON is the following :
class Guild {
  String name;
  String realm;

  Guild({
    this.name,
    this.realm,
  });

  factory Guild.fromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) => Guild(
        name: json["name"] == null ? null : json["name"],
        realm: json["realm"] == null ? null : json["realm"],
      );

  Map<String, dynamic> toJson() => {
        "name": name == null ? null : name,
        "realm": realm == null ? null : realm,
      };
}

And there's the UI part (in case it's something to do in the view side, but I really don't think so.)
class CharacterDetailPage extends StatelessWidget {
  final CharacterDetailArguments args;

  CharacterDetailPage({this.args});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext ctxt) {
    return new Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        title: Text("Detail page for ${args.name}"),
      ),
      body: FutureBuilder<CharacterDetailApi>(
          future: getCharacterDetails(args.name, args.realm, args.region),
          builder: (context, snapshot) {
            return snapshot.hasData
                ? Container(
                        child:
                          Container(
                            height: 125,
                            child: Column(
                              children: <Widget>[
                                Text(snapshot.data.name, ),
                                Text("<" + snapshot.data.guild.name + ">",),
                                Text(snapshot.data.guild.realm,),
                              ],
                            ),
                          ),
                  )
          }),
    );
  }
}

I'm sure it's a basic issue but I didn't find any relevant information for it yet :(
Edit : There's the code that work, using anonymous function :
Column(
  children: <Widget>[
    Text(snapshot.data.name,),
    if (snapshot.data.guild != null)
      Text("<" + snapshot.data.guild.name +">",),
    if (snapshot.data.guild != null)
      Text(snapshot.data.guild.realm,),
  ],
),

A: change this code
Text("<" + snapshot.data.guild.name + ">",),
Text(snapshot.data.guild.realm,),

to this :
if (snapshot.data.guild != null) {
   Text("<" + snapshot.data.guild.name + ">"),
   Text(snapshot.data.guild.realm),
}

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The tranquil setting at this National Historic Landmark makes it an unforgettable choice for meetings or retreats. Meals are served in the Trustee's Office Dining Room or may be catered in the meeting spaces. Three historic buildings can accommodate meetings and weddings, ranging from 30-200 guests.
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Gat Foods, a subsidiary of Central Bottling Company Group, Ltd. (CBC Israel), has unveiled a line of real fruit-based ingredients.
The Fruitlift range delivers a mild sweetness to food products. Made from 90% fruit components – fruit concentrates, fruit purée, and in the citrus offering, fruit fibres – the range is available in a variety of fruit bases, including apple, banana, mango, citrus fruits, and pineapple.
"The ingredient may contribute a fruity taste, or could be neutral in taste, and combined with the manufacturer's desired signature flavour," international marketing director Michal Katzir Emek told FoodNavigator.
On the cereal box, this will be presented as a fruit component in the ingredients list, "without the need to state sugar, as there is no refined sugar in Gat Foods ingredients", she continued.
Gat Foods' innovation aims to reduce the amount of refined sugar in breakfast cereals, particularly in those aimed at children.
Pressure from governments and not-for-profits to reduce the amount of added sugar in finished food products has been observed across the food and beverage industry.
This has seen certain Member States implement sugar taxes for sweetened beverages, and Public Health England – the body that advises the British government on public health policy for all of the UK – implement a sugar reduction strategy in processed food and drinks.
"Refined sugars can make up anywhere from 15% to a whopping 40% of a typical box of cereals," she said.
While Fruitlift may help food manufacturers reduce total sugar content, as the amount can be adjusted according to the desired level of sweetness, Katzir Emek told this publication the focus is on reducing refined sugars specifically.
Fruitlift, which is proudly fructose-free, will also help food brands cater to the increasingly health-conscious shopper.
"Consumers' reluctance to give up the convenience of ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereals are voicing a desire to see more healthful attributes attached to these products to fit their busy lifestyles," stated Gat Foods' international brand manager, Hila Bentman.
As refined sugar is regarded to be the cheapest sweetener on the market, it is likely Fruitlift will appeal to brands targeting the higher end of the cereal market. "Gat Foods is indeed targeting premium cereal brands and health-conscious consumer brands," Emek confirmed.
On a technical level, Gat Foods says its solution overcomes the challenge of integrating a wet solution into a spray product.
Fruitlift is a liquid base that can be injected into any flour mixture in the extrusion line. Alternatively, it can be applied via the coating drum in the production of cereals.
"Moreover, anti-caking agents are not necessary. Gat Foods applies a built-to-fit approach, allowing the fruit base to be customised to fit any type of manufacturing or extrusion procedure. The right solution can be formulated to fit any type of flour mixture," said the firm.


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