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Summer of Drought
Posted on 2012, August 7 by EarthNow Team
Several parts of the world have recently been experiencing drought conditions, the worst of which has been for much of the United States. Abnormally high temperatures this summer for most of the West and Central U.S. are indicative of an upper-level, high pressure system (ridge), which has been prevailing over a great part of the US throughout the summer. Further, the economic and societal implications that stem from these ongoing drought conditions are rather significant, with over 60% of the contiguous U.S. experiencing moderate to severe drought, and monsoonal rains in India being elusive, both negatively affecting crop yields. Through this post, we'll explore recent drought conditions, the seasonal drought outlook, and societal impacts.
Global Drought Risk (NDVI) • Animation not work? Click here • Still Map Image
Global Drought Risk
This real-time dataset should already be updating weekly on your Science On a Sphere (SOS) systems.
This global drought risk composite is derived from the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) datasets developed by NOAA. By monitoring vegetation health, moisture and thermal conditions, scientists are able to identify areas that are considered to be vegetatively stressed due to drought. An important note is that the drought imagery is based solely on the analysis of vegetation health and stress, not soil moisture conditions. But this index serves as a reliable proxy measurement for drought worldwide. For more information about this dataset, visit the SOS site.
The color scheme represents areas ranging from moderate to severe drought.
As heat and a lack of rainfall has parched many of the most important commodity crops (wheat, soybeans, corn), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on July 11 that more than 1,000 counties in 26 states qualified as natural disaster areas—the largest total area ever declared a disaster zone by the agency. Furthermore, wildfires in states such as Montana, Idaho and Nevada have turned grazing lands into blackened ground, significantly impacting cattle production and farming activities. Overall, the dry spell in the U.S. is now considered the worst since the 1950s.
Millions of farmers in India are also experiencing losses due to drought conditions, due to elusive monsoonal rains. Right now, farmers can't plant their rice patties because the soil to too dry and hard. India's meteorological department has said that the June-August 1 rains have been about 19% below normal, and expects rainfall through September to be be about 10% below normal. Earlier this summer, La Niña gave way to neutral conditions, but many meteorologists expect an El Niño to develop was the northern hemisphere moves into Autumn, which could further exacerbate the drought conditions in India.
Brazil has also experienced its worst drought in nearly 50 years.
I also recommend taking a look at the Agricultural Intensity: Cropland dataset developed by the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment, in conjunction with the Science Museum of Minnesota.
U.S. Drought Outlook (August-October, 2012) • Animation not work? Click here. • Still Map Image
U.S. Drought Outlook
With so much of the country experiencing drought conditions, and with the potential for severe social and economic impacts, it's important to provide some insight into the seasonal drought outlook for the United States.
This dataset shows the NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) U.S. drought outlook for August – October 2012. Note: Because this graphic is based on data only in the U.S., the SOS dataset shows the U.S. on three sides of the sphere.
Much of the central and western parts of the U.S. are expected to have drought conditions persist or even intensify. Unfortunately, these are the areas with the most agricultural interest.
With monsoonal moisture, some improvement is expected in the desert southwest. Thunderstorm clusters and tropical moisture may provide some spotty drought relief in parts of the east and southeast.
Southern Texas and the northern plains are likely to see some drought development.
So, that's what's happened and what may happen. Some of you, however, may want to know why the drought is so severe in the first place.
Some research suggests that it may be due to decreased snowfall and precipitation in the spring, which allows the Sun's energy to more efficiently dry out the soil. After the soil is dry, the energy can then more efficiently heat the air as well. Then, we get into a positive feedback mechanism in which the hot air leads to higher pressure, which then leads to no rainfall.
Warm surface temperature anomalies, dominating most of the West and Central US are reflective of an upper-level, high pressure system (ridge), which has been prevailing over a great part of the US throughout June and part of July, 2012. Upper-ridge induced subsidence (downward, vertical air motion caused by upper-level convergence) has contributed to a suppression of convection and hence rainfall over most areas, such as the Southern Plains, parts of the Southeastern US, the Midwest and parts of the Pacific Northwest, as well as over the West coast and over several states in the Northeast. Clear skies and dry conditions have led to significant, positive surface temperature anomalies and low soil moisture conditions in these regions, resulting in the reinforcement of the upper level ridge and providing, thus, a positive (land-surface) feedback mechanism which in return contributes to augmented drying, well above-normal temperature anomalies and reduced soil moisture.
For more information, take a look at this article.
Well, that's all for now! The next big set of posts will be the July Climate Digest.
First, check your SOS system to make sure they are not already in the EarthNow category. There is also an earthnow.sos playlist file that includes a playlist with all of these datasets.
If not, you can download the datasets and playlist files from this FTP Site.
NOAA Climate Prediction Center, Seasonal Drought Outlook, http://go.wisc.edu/3zdhpc
NOAA National Climatic Data Center, State of the Climate: Drought for June 2012, published online July 2012, retrieved on August 2, 2012 from http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/drought/2012/6.
Science Daily, Soil Moisture and Hot Days Examined Globally, http://go.wisc.edu/2z6rsg
U.S. Drought Monitor, http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Writers: Patrick Rowley (CIMSS/SSEC, UW-Madison), Argie Kavvada (CICS/ESSIC, University of Maryland – College Park)
Visualization: NOAA, CIMSS
Data: NOAA
NASA Earth Observatory, Drought Grips the United States, http://go.wisc.edu/w6158a
Politico, Feeding the World in Face of Drought, http://politi.co/OHrjYo
Providence Journal, Scarce rain in India hits farmers, power supply, http://go.wisc.edu/uq8121
Category: Hydrology
Tags: Climate, Drought, Dry


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Operational View (OV) is one of the basic views defined in the enterprise architecture (EA) of the Department of Defense Architecture Framework V1.5 (DoDAF) and is related with concept of operations. Under DODAF 2, which became operational in 2009, the collections of views are now termed 'viewpoints' and no longer views.

Other enterprise architecture frameworks may or do have operational views. For example, the MODAF has an Operational Viewpoint and the NATO Architecture Framework has an Operational View (collection of subviews). This article will further explain the construction of the Operational View of the DoDAF V1.5.

Overview
The "Operational View" (OV) in the DoDAF Enterprise architecture framework (version 1/1.5) ('Operational Viewpoint' in DODAF 2) describes the tasks and activities, operational elements, and information exchanges required to conduct operations. A pure Operational View is material independent. However, operations and their relationships may be influenced by new technologies such as collaboration technology, where process improvements are in practice before policy can reflect the new procedures.

The operational viewpoint provides a means to describe what is needed in a solution-free or implementation-free way. There may be some cases, however, in which it is necessary to document the way processes are performed given the restrictions of current systems, in order to examine ways in which new systems could facilitate streamlining the processes. In such cases, an Operational View may have material constraints and requirements that must be addressed. For this reason, it may be necessary to include some high-level Systems View (SV) architecture data as overlays or augmenting information onto the Operational View products.

Operational View topics

DoDAF
The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) defines a standard way to organize a systems architecture into complementary and consistent views. It is especially suited to large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges, and is apparently unique in its use of "operational views" detailing the external customer's operating domain in which the developing system will operate.

The DoDAF defines a set of products that act as mechanisms for visualizing, understanding,
and assimilating the broad scope and complexities of an architecture description through graphic,
tabular, or textual means. These products are organized under four views:
 Overarching All View (AV),
 Operational View (OV),
 Systems View (SV), and the
 Technical Standards View (TV).
Each view depicts certain perspectives of an architecture as described below. Only a subset of the full DoDAF viewset is usually created for each system development. The figure represents the information that links the operational view, systems and services view, and technical standards view. The three views and their interrelationships driven – by common architecture data elements – provide the basis for
deriving measures such as interoperability or performance, and for measuring the impact of the values of these metrics on operational mission and task effectiveness.

OV products
The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) has defined a series of seven different types of Operational View products.
There are seven OV products described in this section:
 High-Level Operational Concept Graphic (OV-1)
 Operational Node Connectivity (Resource Flow) Description (OV-2)
 Operational Information Exchange (Resource Flow) Matrix (OV-3)
 Organizational Relationships Chart (OV-4)
 Operational Activity Model (OV-5)
 Operational Rules Model, State Transition Description, and Event-Trace Description (OV-6a, 6b, and 6c)
 Logical Data Model (OV-7)

High-Level Operational Concept Graphic

 High-Level Operational Concept Graphic (OV-1) : High level graphical and textual description of operational concept (high level organizations, missions, geographic configuration, connectivity, etc.).

Operational Node Connectivity Description

 Operational Node Connectivity Description (OV-2) : Operational nodes, activities performed at each node, and connectivites and information flow between nodes.

Operational Information Exchange Matrix

 Operational Information Exchange Matrix (OV-3) : Information exchanged between nodes and the relevant attributes of that exchange such as media, quality, quantity, and the level of interoperability required.

Organizational Relationships Chart

 Organizational Relationships Chart (OV-4) : Command, control, coordination, and other relationships among organizations.

Operational Activity Model

 Operational Activity Model (OV-5) : Activities, relationships among activities, inputs and outputs. In addition, overlays can show cost, performing nodes, or other pertinent information.

Other OV products
 Operational Rules Model, State Transition Description, and Event-Trace Description (OV-6a, 6b, and 6c)
 Operational Rules Model (OV-6a) : One of the three products used to describe operational activity sequence and timing that identifies the business rules that constrain the operation.
 Operational State Transition Description (OV-6b) : One of the three products used to describe operational activity sequence and timing that identifies responses of a business process to events.
  Operational Event-Trace Description (OV-6c) : One of the three products used to describe operational activity sequence and timing that traces the actions in a scenario or critical sequence of events.
 Logical Data Model (OV-7) : Documentation of the data requirements and structural business process rules of the Operational View.

Executable Operational Architecture

In addition to examining behavior over time, one can also assess an overall dynamic mission cost over time in terms of human and system/network resource dollar costs and their processes dollar costs. Analysis of dollar costs in executable architectures is a first step in an architecture based investment strategy, where we eventually need to align architectures to funding decisions to ensure that investment decisions are directly linked to mission objectives and their outcomes. The figure on the right illustrates the anatomy of one such dynamic model.

State transitions in executable operational architectural models provide for descriptions of conditions that control the behavior of process events in responding to inputs and in producing outputs. A state specifies the response of a process to events. The response may vary depending on the current state and the rule set or conditions. Distribution settings determine process time executions. Examples of distribution strategies include: constant values, event list, constant interval spacing, normal distribution, exponential distribution, and so forth. Priority determines the processing strategy if two inputs reach a process at the same time. Higher priority inputs are usually processed before lower priority inputs.

Processes receiving multiple inputs need to define how to respond. Examples of responses include: process each input in the order of arrival independent of each other, process only when all inputs are available, or process as soon as any input is detected. Processes producing multiple outputs can include probabilities (totaling 100 percent), under which each output would be produced. Histograms are examples of generated timing descriptions. They are graphic representations of processes, human and system resources, and their used capacity over time during a simulation run. These histograms are used to perform dynamic impact analysis of the behavior of the executable architecture. Figure 4-23 is an example showing the results of a simulation run of human resource capacity.

See also

 Capability (systems engineering)
 Executable Architecture
 Concept of operations

References

Enterprise architecture
Systems engineering
Military acquisition
Military simulation

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Q: Confusing dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy I have a VBA script that opens up a bunch of CSV files, and compiles them into one summary report.
However, I'm having a problem where it reads in UK style dates (dd/mm/yyyy), then interprets them as US-style dates when it makes the copy, before display them as UK-style dates again!
So 4th of July in original sheet becomes 7th of April in the summary sheet - verified by changing cell format to display month name.
This is odd, as when you open up the CSV file in Excel, it correctly interprets the UK style date.
Copy is made using code like this
SummarySheet.Cells(Y,X).value = CSVSheet.Cells(W,Z).value

What is going on here?

A: You could use .Text (text displayed in Excel cell) or .Value2 (value without formatting) instead of .Value (value with formatting).
But I strongly suggest that you set the format of the cells that you use to what you expect to have at the end with .NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy"
Or you could use CDate function :
SummarySheet.Cells(Y,X).value = CDate(CSVSheet.Cells(W,Z).value)

Or use an UDF with DateSerial :
Sub test_CMaster()
MsgBox ParseDate("4/7/15") & vbCrLf & CDate("4/7/15")
End Sub

Function ParseDate(ByVal DateInCell As String, Optional Separator As String = "/") As Date
Dim D() As String
D = Split(DateInCell, Separator)
    ParseDate = DateSerial(D(UBound(D)), D(1), D(0))
End Function

A: You did not post the code as to how you are opening your CSV files -- that is the critical area. The dates need to be parsed properly BEFORE being entered on the worksheet.  The following code will selects and then opens a file that has UK style dates in a single column, and properly parse them.  You will need to adapt it to your particular requirements.
The FieldInfo argument is what does the work.  The formatting of the Excel worksheet is "for show" so you can see an unambiguous date.
Option Explicit
Sub OpenUKcsv()
    Dim sFile As String
    Dim WB As Workbook
    Dim WS As Worksheet

sFile = Application.GetOpenFilename()

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=sFile, DataType:=xlDelimited, comma:=True, other:=False, _
                    fieldinfo:=Array(1, 4)

Set WB = ActiveWorkbook
Set WS = ActiveSheet

With WS.Columns(1)
    .NumberFormat = "dd-mmm-yyyy"
    .EntireColumn.AutoFit
End With

End Sub

A: Try using the Workbooks.OpenText() method instead and set the Local flag to True
Set csvWB = Workbooks.OpenText(Filename:=myCSVfile, Local:=True)

Here is the MSDN article on this method which says for the Local setting:

Specify True if regional settings of the machine should be used for separators, numbers and data formatting.

A: Maybe you can convert the CSV files to show dates as numbers, ie. 10th Nov 15 will show as 42318. Or add a separate column where B1 is =DATEVALUE(A1) and work with that.
When you create the summary report, import the numbers and convert them to date using CDate and Format. Something like this:
Sub test()
    Range("A2:A4").NumberFormat = "m/d/yyyy"
    Range("A2").Value = Format(CDate(Range("A1").Value), "dd.mm.yyyy")
    Range("A3").Value = Format(CDate(Range("A1").Value), "mm.dd.yyyy")
    Range("A4").Value = Format(CDate(Range("A1").Value), "Long Date")
End Sub

EDIT:
For better formatting (no need for NumberFormat, I think it will use your regional settings right away) and auto-setting the cell format to date-type, use this:
Sub test()
    Dim sDate As Date
    sDate = CDate(Range("A1").Value)
    Range("A2").Value = DateSerial(Year(sDate), Month(sDate), Day(sDate))
End Sub

Result:

References:
http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/format_date.php
http://www.techonthenet.com/excel/formulas/cdate.php

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Shop Front For NI Food & Drink Companies In Republic
The Crème de la Crème of Northern Ireland's food and drink industry reported brisk trade at the recent SHOP Exhibition, Ireland's most comprehensive retail, food and drink event, in the RDS in Dublin.
Irwins Bakery, Willowbrook Foods, Linwoods, Fivemiletown Creamery, Barefruit and Around Noon Sandwiches were amongst over twenty Northern Ireland companies promoting their products and services at Ireland's biggest international retail, food and drink event.
Commenting on the success of the show, Maynard Mawhinney, Director of Food at Invest NI, said: "The southern market place has many opportunities for food and drinks companies that can produce innovative, well-differentiated products that will meet the needs of today's demanding consumer.
"Northern Ireland agri-food companies are producing very high quality products that are meeting the demands of emerging niche markets such as speciality and functional foods and the SHOP exhibition was an excellent opportunity for Northern Ireland companies to gain a foothold in, or strengthen their market presence in, the Republic of Ireland."
Amongst the participating Northern Ireland companies was Dundonald based, Barefruit, producers of the "Puro" range of whole fresh fruit smoothies. Established only seven months ago, Barefruit has secured listings with Sainsbury's to supply stores throughout Northern Ireland. From October, 10 Tesco outlets across the province will stock 250ml bottles in three flavours. At SHOP, Barefruit's key aim, according to managing director, Rosemary Cowan, included attempting to establish a market presence in the Republic of Ireland by intensely targeting key buyers from Tesco Ireland and Superquinn.
Fresh from tantalizing the tastebuds of the world's golfing elite at the recent Ryder Cup in the K Club, Newry based company Around Noon Sandwiches, which currently employs 20 staff, chose SHOP as a platform for trialing an innovative gourmet layered sandwich made from Bengal flat bread.
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In addition to promoting its popular range of Rankin Selection Breads and Howell House traditional quality cakes and biscuits, Co. Armagh-based, Irwin's Bakery exhibited a revolutionary new Low GI white bread at SHOP. Available now for the first time in the Republic of Ireland in Dunnes and SuperValu and Centra stores, Irwin's Low GI White is the first white low GI bread to be developed in Ireland and the UK, offering GI ratings significantly lower than any other white bread on the market and many wholemeal breads also.
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RecommendsWhat Are You Playing This Weekend?
Sea Of Solitude is an Attack Of The 50-Foot Metaphor
Alex McLevy
Screenshot: Jo-Mei Games
Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off our weekly open thread for the discussion of gaming plans and recent gaming glories, but of course, the real action is down in the comments, where we invite you to answer our eternal question: What Are You Playing This Weekend?
Depression is no fun. As anyone who has struggled with it can attest, the effect is not just bleak, but numbing and exhausting. So it's to the credit of indie game developers—like Jo-Mei Games' Connie Geppert, whose company just released Sea Of Solitude—that there are ongoing efforts to address loneliness, depression, and the darker aspects of the human condition in an artistically meaningful way. But it's also a symptom of the degree to which gaming is still in its infancy that these attempts so often generate a disjuncture between ideas and delivery.
Sea Of Solitude is quite lovely, even striking at times. You're Kay, a young woman whose initial vague rumblings of sadness are replaced by her sudden arrival in a mysterious half-drowned city, unaware of how she got there or what's happening. She quickly meets a glowing light of a girl whose bubbly persona leads Kay on an epic journey through the ruins, with each step on the quest unlocking new and painful memories of the past, as Kay learns not only how her past selfishness has hurt others, but also the causes of the isolation and loneliness that apparently dominated the first two decades of her life.
When it focuses on being an actual game, Sea has some great ideas. The sources of depression—and even the other people in her life—are represented by massive black monsters, meaning Kay has to find ways around them, usually by leaping from building to building, trying to stay out of the murky depths of the water where the beasts swim. (There's a lot of hurry-up-and-wait, as Kay spends roughly half of her journey keeping an eye trained on the paths of the beasts, waiting for them to be far enough away that they won't swim back in time to swallow her up during her aquatic leaps.) The aesthetic is old school but lush, evoking memories of Shadow Of The Colossus or Uncharted as Kay pokes her way around the abandoned sites of her memories while towering beasts loom in the background. It's all surface-level design—you won't be entering any of these buildings or picking up any of the detritus—but it's a good-looking surface. And when you're leaping across crumbling pylons hundreds of feet in the air or using bursts of light to dodge malevolent shadows of evil and transform them into cheery blue-light outlines of kids, it's a blast.
But the integration of a deeply personal story of loneliness and depression struggles to be integrated in a meaningful way. The way the story asks you to remove black clouds from around imprisoned individuals is beyond beginner-simple, and the narrative stops dead in its tracks in ways too abrupt and inexplicable to really land with much emotion. Suddenly informing Kay that she was a pretty shitty older sister to her bullied younger brother isn't moving, because we had no idea about any of it until the story informs us of it. "Oh, ok" is the general reaction, because you're not really primed as a character to absorb this stuff, thanks to the choice to stick her with amnesia about everything. By the time two giant creatures representing her mother and father divorcing literally strands you in a small circle of land, running in circles while they bicker and snipe at one another, the effect is more numbing than enervating.
In other words, Sea Of Solitude would be a better game if it wasn't trying so hard to be a more psychologically engaging game. I enjoyed playing, but trying to be better makes it worse, is what I'm driving at. If there had been a lighter touch with all the heavy-handed interpersonal drama, keeping a more abstract distance from the details, it would actually have the inverse effect of being far more moving, in part because you wouldn't be pulled out of the game every time it wants to say something profound. I've noticed this is a common issue plaguing indie games. They'd be a lot more fun if they didn't actively fight that impulse.
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Флойд Патерсън (на английски език: Floyd Patterson) е американски боксьор, двукратен световен шампион за професионалисти в лека-тежка и тежка категория, Олимпийски шампион от Летните олимпийски игри в Хелзинки, Финландия през 1952 година в категория средна.

Патерсън е най-младият боксьор, станал шампион при най-тежките.

Кратка биография
Роден в бедно семейство в Уако, Северна Каролина, Патерсън е най-малкото от единадесет деца. Семейство се преселва в Бруклин, Ню Йорк, където Флойд бяга от училище и се занимава с дребни кражби. На 10-годишна възраст той е изпратен в училище за момчета "Уилтуик" (), щат Ню Йорк. Престоява там почти 2 години, след което е изпратен в училище "600" за проблемни младежи..

Начало на боксова кариера

Аматьорски бокс
На 14-годишна възраст започва да тренира бокс, като негов треньор е Кюс Дамато, в боксовия салон "Gramercy". Когато е на 17 години, Патерсън става част от олимпийския тим по бокс на САЩ, за Олимпийските игри в Хелзинки 1952 годна, като спечелва златен медал в средна категория.

1952 г. е много успешна година за него, като в допълнение към олимпийското злато, Патерсън печели "Националния шампионат за аматьори" в средна категория, и спечелва една от най-престижни награди за аматьори – "Златните ръкавици". До края 50-те години на ХХ век Патерсън живее в "Роквил Център", Ню Йорк.

Професионален бокс
Патерсън преминава при професионалистите и стабилно започва да напредва в ранглистата в категория лека-тежка. В началото претърпява поражение в осемрундов мач, от бившия шампион в тази категория Джоуи Максим, на 7 юни 1954 година, в "Паркуей Арена", Бруклин, Ню Йорк.

Скоро след това неговият мениджър Дамато решава Флойд да премине в тежка категория. Дамато прави тези планове, като същата година той обявява на пресконференция, че Патерсън се стреми към участие в тежка категория.

Когато световният шампион в тежка категория Роки Марчиано обявява своето оттегляне, непобеден, и овакантява шампионската титла на 27 април 1956 година, Патерсън е класиран от списание "Ring" като претендент за титлата. В изявление Джим Норис от "Международния Боксов Клуб" заявява, че Патерсън е един от шестимата боксьори, които ще вземат участие в турнир с директни елиминации, за короната на наследник на великия Марчиано. "Ring" поставя Патерсън на 5-о място в тежката категория.

След победа над Томи "Урагана" Джаксън в елиминациите, Патерсън се изправя срещу шампиона в лека-тежка категория Арчи Мур, на 30 ноември 1956 година, в мач за Световната титла в тежка категория. Той побеждава Мур с нокаут в петия рунд, и става най-младият световен шампион в историята на тежка категория, когато е само на 21 години и 10 месеца. Той е и първият олимпийски шампион, който спечелва титлата при професионалистите в тежка категория.

След поредица от защити на световната си титла, Патерсън се среща с шведския боксьор Ингемар Йохансон, в първия от три мача. Йохансон триумфира над Патерсън на 26 юни 1959 година, когато реферът Руби Голдщайн спира мача в третия рунд, след като шведът изпраща Патерсън седем пъти в нокдаун. Така Йохансон става първият швед, световен шампион в тежка категория, като по този начин става национален герой на Швеция, и е първият европеец, победил американец за титлата от 1933 година, когато титлата печели легендарният германски боксьор Макс Шмелинг.

Патерсън се изправя отново срещу шведа на 20 юни 1960 година в мач-реванш, като успява да нокаутира Йохансон в петия рунд, с което става първият боксьор, който успява да си върне титлата при най-тежките. В резултат на тежкия нокаут Йохансон лежи с отворени очи и трептящ ляв крак и в безсъзнание повече от пет минути, преди целият, облян в кръв, да го поставят да седне на столчето в неговия ъгъл.

Според правилата е насрочен трети мач за титлата, който е определен да бъде на 13 март 1961 година, като Патерсън запазва титлата си, изпращайки отново в нокаут Йохансон в шестия рунд.

В последвали мачове Патерсън успешно се справя с няколко по-неизвестни боксьори, включително олимпийския шампион от 1956 година Пийт Рейдмахер, в първия му професионален мач.

През 1962 година шампионът се изправя срещу претендента за титлата Сони Листън. В мач между двамата, игран на 25 септември 1962 година, Патерсън губи титлата с нокаут от Листън в първия рунд. Десет месеца по-късно, на 22 юли 1963 година, Патерсън се опитва да стане първият боксьор, който може да стене носител на титлата три пъти, но Листън отново го нокаутира в първия рунд.

След тези загуби Патерсън преминава през тежка депресия. Въпреки това той се възстановена и започва пак да се бие и да печели мачове, включително над Еди Майчън и Джордж Чувало. Патерсън става претендент номер едно за титлата, която вече е спечелена от Мохамед Али. На 22 ноември 1965 година, в пореден опит да бъде шампион при най-тежките, Патерсън губи с технически нокаут в края на 12-и рунд от Али.

Въпреки тази загуба, Патерсън все още е законен претендент за титлата. През 1966 година той пътува до Англия, където се изправя с британския боксьор Хенри Купър, като го нокаутира в четвъртия рунд в мач, игран на стадион "Уембли". В сравнение, Мохамед Али не успява да нокаутира Купър в двете си битки с англичанина.

През септември 1969 година Патерсън се развежда с първата си съпруга Сандра Патерсън. Тя иска той да спре с бокса, но Флойд не е готов да напусна още, знаейки, че може да получи още един шанс за титлата.

Когато Световната боксова асоциация (WBA), организира турнир на елиминации от осем боксьори, които да определят наследника на Мохамед Али, Патерсън остава на 12 място, което не му дава възможност да се бие за трита титла.

Въпреки това Флойд се среща отново с Мохамед Али, на 20 септември 1972 година, като отново губи, което го кара да прекрати своята състезателна кариера на 37-годишна възраст.

След кариерата
След оттеглянето си Флойд и неговият бивш опонент Йохансон стават близки приятели, които поне веднъж в годината прелитат Атлантическия океан, за да се видят. Патерсън става член на Нюйоркската атлетическа комисия и е приет в "Международната боксова зала на славата".

През 1982 и 1983 г. той бяга в ежегодния маратон в Стокхолм заедно с Ингемар Йохансон.

Патерсън живее в Ню Палтц, Ню Йорк, в продължение на дълги години, и е познат като истински джентълмен сред своите съграждани. Става част от Католическата общност и член на "Рицарите на Колумб".

Неговият доведен син, Трейси Харис Патерсън, става също боксьор и е световен шампион в категория "супер петел" през 90-те години, като е трениран от Флойд през част от кариерата си.

През 1985 година новият стадион в Ню Палтц е кръстен "Флойд Патерсън Фийлд" в негова чест.

Смърт

В късните години от живота си Флойд Патерсън страда от болестта на Алцхаймер и рак на простатата. Една седмица преди смъртта си е хоспитализиран, но умира на 11 май 2006 година, на 71-годишна възраст.

Той е погребан в местните гробища в Ню Палтц.

Източници

Външни препратки
 Флойд Патерсън в BoxRec
 Флойд Патерсън в Спортната енциклопедия
 Флойд Патерсън на сайта Findagrave.com
 Списание "SPORT", ноември 1960

Американски боксьори
Американски олимпийски шампиони
Световни шампиони в тежка категория
Световни шампиони в лека-тежка категория
Американски професионални боксьори
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9th Litvak Days – "Embracing its Jewish Legacy: Has Lithuania reached a milestone?"
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On the 28th of May 2020, Rosie Goldsmith chaired an invigorating webinar "Embracing its Jewish Legacy: Has Lithuania reached a milestone?" This discussion was part of the 9th Litvak Days organized by the Lithuanian Embassy in the UK.
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of the Vilna Gaon – the 18th century sage who contributed immensely to the formation of Litvak Judaism and brought the city of Vilnius fame as the Jerusalem of the North. Lithuania has dedicated 2020 to the commemoration of this anniversary, as an opportunity to discover and to promote the long and vibrant history of Lithuanian Jews. The 300th anniversary also provides us all with renewed inspiration and impetus to reflect on the importance and complexity of the Jewish legacy in Lithuanian history, culture and identity.
Over the past few years, a growing interest in the lost world of Jewish Lithuania and a determination to grasp the significance of this loss could be felt across the country. Confronting this painful issue is driving Lithuanian society to deeply reconsider the past and how it relates to core issues of the present. Today, Jewish culture exists in fragments of spiritual and material heritage, as seen in literature, architecture, music and the sciences. Despite the appalling destruction of Jewish life and heritage, what remains provides a crucial foundation for the on-going process of rediscovery.
This major online panel event opens with a keynote address. Entitled Restoring the Collage of the Jewish Vilna, it is delivered by Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture of Lithuania, who is also a literary scholar and translator of numerous Yiddish texts into Lithuanian. In the panel discussion following his address, five distinguished speakers engage in a collective inquiry into issues such as how the culture of embracing Jewish heritage has evolved over the past three decades of independent Lithuania, along with the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.
The five panellists are: Lara Lempertienė, a specialist in Jewish cultural history and the head of the Judaica Research Centre at the National Library of Lithuania; Kamilė Rupeikaitė, the director of the Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History and a specialist in Jewish musical heritage; Violeta Davoliūtė, professor at Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science; Michael Berkowitz, professor of modern Jewish history at UCL, and Jon Seligman, an archaeologist and the Director of the Excavations of the Great Synagogue of Vilna, one of the most prominent landmarks of Vilnius. A special guest – Antony Barry Polonsky, emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeys University, joins in for the closing remarks. Prof Polonsky was a founder in 1984, and is now Vice-President, of the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. He also founded and continues to be the general editor of Polin. A Journal of Polish-Jewish Studies.
More information about the webinar can be found here.
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This Week on the 'Objections' Podcast: Even After Derek Chauvin's Murder Convictions, the Lawsuit Against His Medical Expert Lives On
Adam KlasfeldApr 20th, 2021, 6:01 pm
Dr. David Fowler (left) was never grilled about a lawsuit against him alleging he covered up a "chillingly" similar similar case as George Floyd's. Law&Crime Daily host Brian Buckmire (right) analyzes why that may have happened on the "Objections" podcast.
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The man who went on to become Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's key medical witness in his murder trial was hit with a lawsuit late last year accusing him of a cover up in a case filed by the family of a 19-year-old Black man who died in a "chillingly similar manner" to George Floyd.
Though the similarities between the two incidents have received widespread press attention, Chauvin's jury never heard of the allegations against his main medical expert: Dr. David Fowler, the former chief medical examiner for the state of Maryland.
Jurors quickly rejected Fowler's testimony anyway, convicting Chauvin some 10 hours into their deliberations of murder in the second degree, murder in the third degree and second-degree manslaughter.
In the latest episode of the Law&Crime podcast "Objections," Law&Crime Daily host Brian Buckmire—who is also a public defender—reflects on the trial that captivated the country and probes why prosecutors never questioned Fowler about the allegations.
That lawsuit the deliberating jurors never heard is the case of the late Anton Black, a teenager whose family—represented by the American Civil Liberties Union—sued Fowler in a federal court in Maryland last December.
The family's complaint contains wrenching details that paralleled those of the Chauvin case.
"Even after Anton was handcuffed, the officers ignored the danger they were causing and kept Anton in a prone restraint for approximately six minutes as he struggled to breathe, lost consciousness and suffered cardiac arrest," the 64-page complaint states. "Anton, 19, while handcuffed and terrified, died from positional asphyxia as a direct and proximate result of the officers' excessive force and racial bias."
Accusing Fowler of violating "well-established principles of forensic pathology," the Black family's docket remained active by the time he was on the witness stand in the Floyd case, but it was absent from the courtroom.
Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill did not appear to bar mention of this as impermissible impeachment during the trial, and no such ruling appears on the docket. It is unclear whether prosecutors made a strategic reason not to mention it or the government simply missed it.
"So the jaded public defender in me wants to say it's very possible that the someone in the government could mess that up, because we already saw that happened once in this case," Buckmire said on the podcast, referring to a moment when the defense criticized authorities for supposedly failing to perform a carbon monoxide test on Floyd.
But as Buckmire noted, authorities had performed that test, and prosecutors discovered that fact via their expert, Dr. Andrew Baker, too late to admit the evidence.
"Dr. Baker was listening to the testimony of Dr. Fowler saying, 'Well, they should have done this test,' and Dr. Baker out of nowhere finds that test that would have been able to slap down that argument from Dr. Fowler," Buckmire said on the podcast. "But because of rules of evidence, you cannot spring new information on a defendant."
Whatever the reason, the jury ultimately returned a speedy verdict: guilty on all charges. Law&Crime's "Objections" reached out to the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office, a Hennepin County Court representative, and Chauvin's attorney Eric Nelson. Nobody provided an answer to those questions before this episode aired, but the court has not released any public ruling suggesting the prosecution was prohibited from mentioning it.
In an interview recorded after the defense and prosecution rested their case, Buckmire analyzed the prosecution's burden of proof, parsed strategies in the battle of the experts, and reflected upon how history will record the trial watched across the world.
"I think this is going to be a part of our history in the same way people talk about the O.J. trial, the Rodney King riots," Buckmire said. "I think George Floyd is going to be added to that conversation."
When the episode aired, jurors had been midway through their first full day of deliberations. They threw the book at Chauvin hours later.
(Screenshots from Law&Crime coverage of Dr. Fowler's testimony and the network's host, Brian Buckmire)
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Andrus stars as Rangers down Tigers
Arlington, TX – Elvis Andrus had a career-high five hits to go with three runs scored and two RBI as the Texas Rangers downed the Detroit Tigers, 7-2, at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Saturday.
"He had a good night tonight," praised Rangers manager Ron Washington. "He stayed up in the big part of the field. We certainly needed that."
Andrus had a double, triple and also stole two bags as Texas won for the fourth time in its last five contests to up its record to a major league-best 28-15. Lance Berkman went 2-for-4 with two RBI while Mitch Moreland hit his 10th home run of the season in the triumph.
Justin Grimm (3-3) matched a career-high with 105 pitches and snapped a three-game losing skid by tossing 6 2/3 innings of seven-hit, two-run baseball.
"Early in the game he was getting behind hitters, but once he went out there in the fourth inning he started attacking the zone," said Washington. "He used all his pitches and started moving the ball around. He did an outstanding job."
Anibal Sanchez (4-4) took the loss after Texas produced nine hits and six runs -- five earned -- in just 2 2/3 innings off the Tigers' starter.
Andrus, who had been 0-for-7 lifetime against Sanchez entering the game, put Texas up 1-0 early when he singled and scored in the first inning. Andrus stole second and advanced to third base on Alex Avila's throwing error and scored when Avila allowed a passed ball one batter later.
The Rangers shortstop then tripled to right-center, plating Leonys Martin to start a three-run second frame. Andrus scored his second run in as many innings when Sanchez's throw to first base on a David Murphy grounder was off the mark. Berkman singled home Murphy on the very next pitch, and Texas had a 4-0 edge after two. Sanchez needed 64 pitches to get through the first two frames.
Both teams put two across in the third inning. Torii Hunter drove in a run with a double to right and scored on Prince Fielder's RBI single for Detroit's lone runs.
Moreland led off the bottom half of the third with a homer to left-center and Andrus brought Robinson Chirinos home with a single to center with two outs.
Andrus played a part in the Rangers final run when he led off the sixth with a double down the left-field line. Murphy grounded out to second, allowing Andrus to take third base, and Berkman brought him home with a double to left- center.
Texas has taken two of three from Detroit in this four-game series.
"We're down 2-1. If we could finish with a split, we wish we could do more, but we'll be happy with that," said Hunter.
Texas hit 4-for-17 with runners in scoring position and left nine men on base ... Rangers pitchers surrendered just one walk ... Hunter had two hits ... The Tigers have lost three of four.


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Madie Mathews
Alta High School
Parents are Matt and Marcie Lyons
Has nine siblings
Grandpa Marc Lyons played on BYU's football team
Played on the BYU women's soccer team from 2014-2017
7.85 60m 2018 BYU Indoor Invitational
12.01 100m 2018 Robison Invitational
24.06 200m 2018 BYU Cougar Invitational
1:00.54 400m 2018 Utah Spring Classic
Sophmore Year
Began BYU track career taking sixth in the 60m dash finals (7.90) at the Cougar Indoor Invitational
Started the season placing eighth in the 4X100m relay (47.05), 12th in the 100m (12.41) and 21st in the 200m (25.21)
Competed at the Utah Spring Classic where she ran a career-best time of 1:00.54 in the 400m and placed third in the 100m (12.20)
Placed first in both the 100m (12.23) and 200m (24.18) at the Mark Faldmo Invitational
Ran a career-best time of 24.11 in the 200m and 12.01 in the 100m
Finished first in the 4X100m relay with a time of 45.61 and third in the 200m with a time of 24.43 at the Sacramento State Open
Finished the season at the BYU Cougar Invitational where she placed first in the 200m with a career-best time of 24.06, first in the 4X100m relay (45.28) and first in the 4X400m relay (3:53.82)


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Bose is shutting down all of its 119 retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia
Affected employees will be offered outplacement assistance and company severance
By Humza Aamir on January 16, 2020, 7:12 8 comments
What just happened? Audio company Bose has announced that it's closing all of its brick-and-mortar retail stores across several global markets over the coming months, due to an increasing number of consumers choosing to shop online instead of physically checking out or buying their products in shops.
Getting hands-on experience with a gadget in-store has its own charm, where the excitement only increases upon observing other neatly arranged products that are yours to try. However, it makes little business sense to keep the shops open and employees on the clock when customers are increasingly shopping online, given the convenience it brings, among other benefits.
Bose, which sells premium audio equipment, has also been affected by this trend and, as a result, will soon be closing all of its retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia, citing "the dramatic shift to online shopping" in these markets.
"Originally, our retail stores gave people a way to experience, test, and talk to us about multi-component, CD and DVD-based home entertainment systems," said Colette Burke, Bose's vice president of global sales. "At the time, it was a radical idea, but we focused on what our customers needed, and where they needed it – and we're doing the same thing now," she added.
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The closure across these regions mean hundreds of layoffs for Bose's store teams, who Burke says have "set the standard for customer service" over the years. The company isn't revealing the number of employees affected, but it will be offering them "outplacement assistance and severance."
In countries including China and the United Arab Emirates, Bose still has around 130 retail stores, which the company says will continue to operate, alongside additional locations in India, Southeast Asia, and South Korea.
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This 3 bedroom home is super clean and move-in ready! It features an open floorpan with spacious living room and kitchen loaded with ample cabinetry and updated paint, vinyl flooring and appliances. A wall air conditioner is installed in the living room and central air will be installed for the buyer in the spring.
There are 2 very spacious bedrooms with ample closet space and one smaller bedroom off of the hallway. The bath room has a good-sized walk-in shower and the newer washer and dryer are in the bathroom which is conveniently close to the master bedroom.
The exterior has been updated with vinyl siding. The furnace was cleaned and inspected in November 2018. There is a double driveway, garden spot and a 10x12 entryway plus a yard shed for added storage space. This home is close to schools and shopping in south Bismarck and is priced to sell quickly!


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package io.musician101.musicianlibrary.java.minecraft.spigot.region;

import io.musician101.musicianlibrary.java.minecraft.common.region.AbstractRegion;
import java.util.Map;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import org.apache.commons.lang.Validate;
import org.bukkit.Bukkit;
import org.bukkit.Location;
import org.bukkit.World;
import org.bukkit.util.Vector;

public class SpigotRegion extends AbstractRegion<Vector, World> {

    private SpigotRegion(@Nonnull Vector position, @Nonnull World world) {
        this(position, position, world);
    }

    private SpigotRegion(@Nonnull Vector location, @Nonnull Vector location2, @Nonnull World world) {
        super(world, Math.min((int) location.getX(), (int) location2.getX()), Math.max((int) location.getX(), (int) location2.getX()), Math.min((int) location.getY(), (int) location2.getY()), Math.max((int) location.getY(), (int) location2.getY()), Math.min((int) location.getZ(), (int) location2.getZ()), Math.max((int) location.getZ(), (int) location2.getZ()));
    }

    public SpigotRegion(@Nonnull Map<String, Object> map) {
        super(getWorld(map.get("world")), map.containsKey("min_x") ? (Integer) map.get("min_x") : 0, map.containsKey("max_x") ? (Integer) map.get("max_x") : 0, map.containsKey("min_y") ? (Integer) map.get("min_y") : 0, map.containsKey("max_y") ? (Integer) map.get("max_y") : 0, map.containsKey("min_z") ? (Integer) map.get("min_z") : 0, map.containsKey("max_z") ? (Integer) map.get("max_z") : 0);
    }

    public static SpigotRegion createFromLocationRadius(Location location, double radius) {
        return createFromLocationRadius(location, radius, radius, radius);
    }

    //Location#getWorld() shouldn't be @Nullable because it throws an error if it returns a NULL world.
    @SuppressWarnings("ConstantConditions")
    public static SpigotRegion createFromLocationRadius(Location location, double xRadius, double yRadius, double zRadius) {
        Validate.notNull(location);
        if (xRadius < 0 || yRadius < 0 || zRadius < 0) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("The radius cannot be negative!");
        }

        return xRadius > 0 || yRadius > 0 || zRadius > 0 ? new SpigotRegion(location.clone().subtract(xRadius, yRadius, zRadius).toVector(), location.clone().add(xRadius, yRadius, zRadius).toVector(), location.getWorld()) : new SpigotRegion(location.toVector(), location.getWorld());
    }

    @Nonnull
    private static World getWorld(@Nullable Object worldName) {
        if (worldName == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("World name not set.");
        }

        World world = Bukkit.getWorld(worldName.toString());
        if (world == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(worldName.toString() + " does not exist.");
        }

        return world;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isInRegion(Vector position, World world) {
        return world.getUID().equals(getWorld().getUID()) && position.getX() > getMinX() && position.getX() < getMaxX() && position.getZ() > getMinZ() && position.getZ() < getMaxZ();
    }

    @Override
    public Map<String, Object> serialize() {
        Map<String, Object> map = super.serialize();
        map.put("world", getWorld().getName());
        return map;
    }
}

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Джерела
 Villa Viçosa

Посилання

 Португальські герби
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Through strong alliances with several of the world's leading telecommunications manufacturers and network providers, such as Siemens, Avaya Communication, BT and Opal, DV-IP has established a portfolio of products to satisfy the requirements of the vast majority of organisations.
DV-ip has built a loyal customer base due to the high levels of customer service and support offered to our clients.
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