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Adelaide Wednesday January 15, 2020
Digital platform gives Riverland vineyards an irrigation edge
Software and sensors to help grapegrowers optimise irrigation use will be the first application of a new digital platform being developed in South Australia.
Andrew Spence
Picture courtesy of Riverland Wine.
The VitiVisor platform will use lean manufacturing and Industry 4.0 principles to collect information direct from the vineyard via cameras and sensors and analyse the data to assess vineyard performance.
For the first time, the software will also offer coordinated advice on management practices such as irrigation, pruning, fertiliser, fungicide and pesticide applications.
Riverland Wine has partnered with the University of Adelaide and Wine Australia with support from UniSA and Primary Industries and Regions SA (PIRSA) on the $5 million project.
The digital system aims to help growers understand precisely what is going on in their vineyard so they can more accurately predict yields while maximising efficiency.
VitiVisor brings together researchers in viticulture, engineering, remote sensing, farm economics, water accounting, artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics, with grapegrowers possessing deep knowledge of vineyard production and processes from the Riverland wine region.
Using artificial intelligence to detect grape bunches and predict yield is being developed as part of the project.
The project was initiated in 2018 under the leadership of Riverland Wine Executive Chair Chris Byrne who gathered motivated growers from the region and University of Adelaide researchers to find ways to reduce vineyard production costs. A six-month trial followed last year ahead of the project's expansion.
Devices such as moisture monitors and evaporation sensors have been used in vineyards for some time but adapting others to the industry and integrating them through a single platform has not been done previously.
Byrne said other technologies linked to the platform could include hyper-spectral imaging, canopy temperature sensors, digital weather stations and devices for predicting the likelihood of a downy or powdery mildew outbreak.
"As Australia's largest wine-growing region, we have unique needs because of the scale of our operations and market position," he said of the Riverland.
"The pilot project conducted last season indicates there is great potential to provide growers with simplified advice on management practices to bring significant improvements to the bottom line.
"This project is a key element of Riverland Wine's strategic plan, to transition our industry to the new wine era through building members' knowledge, rebuilding the brand and influencing industry decisions. This technology will empower and enable growers to achieve excellence in all aspects of their wine growing and winemaking."
In the vineyard, cameras and sensors will collect data and analyse its performance through indicators such as canopy growth, fruit production, sap flow and soil moisture.
This will allow growers to track and predict how key management actions such as application of water, fertiliser and herbicides and various canopy management strategies relate to vineyard outcomes such as fruit yield and quality.
The information will be displayed as a dashboard, giving growers a quick snapshot of what is happening in their vineyards. They will be able to simply and easily share information about their vineyard performance with their advisors.
Importantly, the vineyard level information will be combined with market and farm cost information to provide guidance on making the best decisions to maximise farm returns.
Sectioning vineyards into measurable slices is among the techniques used to gauge production efficiency.
University of Adelaide Project Supervisor Professor Andy Lowe said the university had key strategic priorities in agrifood and wine and had deliberately aligned itself with the needs of industry and South Australia.
"By bringing together experts from a range of disciplines across the university with industry expertise and leadership from within the Riverland region, we will help improve resource use and vineyard performance and, therefore, returns for growers," he said.
The project is being led by the University of Adelaide in partnership with Riverland growers but the end product will be open to all growers. VitiVisor will also be an open source platform, expandable over time, allowing anyone to add new applications.
The Riverland, in the east of South Australia near the banks of the River Murray, is the nation's largest grape producing region contributing about a quarter of Australia's annual crush.
Wine Australia Chief Executive Officer Andreas Clark said the project was an exciting collaborative effort that could have enduring benefits for the grape and wine community across Australia.
"Technology in viticulture has been evolving at a rapid pace and it's exciting to see an integrated approach to developing a single, open-source system that will combine many of these advances to help support decision making for grapegrowers all around Australia," he said.
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Willam James Lombardy (The Bronx, 4 december 1937 – Martinez (Californië), 13 oktober 2017) was een Amerikaanse schaakgrootmeester en uitgetreden priester. Hij was ook auteur, schaakdocent en theoloog.

Biografie
Lombardy was de zoon van een Pools-Amerikaanse moeder (Stella) en een Italiaans-Amerikaanse vader (Raymond). Op de La Salle Academy in New York nam hij schaken op als belangrijkste tijdverdrijf en groeide daarin uit tot een van de jongste grootmeesters ooit. Hij behaalde de Junior Wereldtitel in 1957 met een perfecte 11–0-score, een prestatie die tot nu (2012) niemand evenaarde. Daarmee werd hij de eerste Amerikaan die een schaakwereldtitel bemachtigde.

In 1960 maakte Lombardy deel uit van het Amerikaanse team dat in de Sovjet-Unie de wereldtitel voor studententeams veroverde. Ook was dit de eerste titel voor de VS. Lombardy won in dat toernooi van de latere wereldkampioen Boris Spasski.

Tijdens het wereldkampioenschap van 1972 was Lombardy secondant van Bobby Fischer. Dit wereldkampioenschap groeide uit tot een van de meest besproken schaakwedstrijden ooit. In deze tweekamp tussen Bobby Fischer en Boris Spasski op het hoogtepunt van de Koude Oorlog versloeg Fischer na een 2–0-achterstand (waarvan de tweede wedstrijd reglementair werd verloren doordat Fischer niet kwam opdagen wegens een conflict over draaiende camera's) Spasski met 12½–8½. De wedstrijd vond plaats in Reykjavik, IJsland. Dit omdat het land het meest geld bood om de wedstrijd te mogen organiseren.

Lombardy kwam regelmatig in Nederland. Hij deed onder meer mee aan het Hoogovens Schaaktoernooi 1969 en aan het IBM International Chess Tournament in 1974. Begin jaren 80 ontmoette Lombardy tijdens het Interpolis schaaktoernooi in Tilburg de Nederlandse Louise van Valen. Zij trouwden in New York en kregen op 20 oktober 1984 een zoon: Raymond, vernoemd naar William Lombardy's vader. Begin jaren 90 scheidde het stel en gingen moeder en zoon terug naar Nederland.

Anno 2009 was Lombardy gepensioneerd en woonde hij in New York, waar hij (online) schaaklessen gaf.
Hij overleed in 2017 op 79-jarige leeftijd in Californië.

Publicaties
 William Lombardy: Understanding chess. My system, My games, My life. Millford, CT, Russell, 2012. ISBN 978-1-936490-22-6
 William Lombardy: 6e Interpolis schaaktoernooi 1982. Vert. door Rob Verhoeven. Tilburg, Interpolis, 1983. Geen ISBN

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Remember our cells need right nutrition and oxygen to produce energy which we use to maintain body temperature and body function. Right nutrition comes from live foods, good digestion and absorption.
Undigested food particles are the root cause for many autoimmune diseases and bad intestinal environments. So to be healthy you should digest fully what you eat.
This is the basic law of healthy body as there is a saying <You are what you eat>.
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Line up multiple blocks of mtext in AutoCAD, all in one step.
This routine from Matt Sibum will allow you to align multiple blocks of mtext in AutoCAD — horizontally or vertically — all in one step. Load the LISP file, then use the command TX to align the mtext blocks vertically along the same x axis. Use the command TY to align the mtext blocks horizontally along the y axis. With both routines you first select a point, then select the mtext objects. This routine works by changing the x or y coordinate (depending on which command you run) of each mtext object to match the x or y of the selected point. Note that the justification of each mtext object is not altered; only the location of the insertion point is altered. The LISP code itself is well commented if you want to inspect how this is done.


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Fundraising site shuts down page set up by sacked rugby player Israel Folau
By Digital Desk staff
Monday, June 24, 2019 - 11:48 AM
A fundraising page set up by sacked Australian rugby union player Israel Folau has been shut down.
His contracts with Rugby Australia were terminated last month when he posted homophobic comments on social media saying that "hell awaits" gay people in April.
They had terminated his contract for breaching behaviour standards "including respectful use of social media" with his anti-gay posts.
Folau began asking for public donations to help him with a legal fight against Rugby Australia, arguing he had been dismissed unlawfully.
Website Gofundme.com said the page he set up violated its rules. All donations will be refunded.
The site's spokeswoman, Nicola Britton, said: "As a company, we are absolutely committed to the fight for equality for LGBTIQ+ people and fostering an environment of inclusivity.
"While we welcome GoFundMe's engaging in diverse civil debate, we do not tolerate the promotion of discrimination or exclusion."
According to Australian media Folau, who is a Christian and argues his contract termination was an act of religious discrimination, around A$760,000 (€466,000) had been donated since the page was set up last week.
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BMC Researcher Notes' latest editorial titles A call for BMC Research Notes contributions promoting best practice in data standardization, sharing and publication. It announces a new initiative aiming at promoting best practice in sharing and publishing data, with a focus on standardized, re-useable formats. Thus, data from original research project described by precised Data Notes will be made publicly accessible and, along with, an example dataset will be included.
This great initiative is a new step towards open data and research reproducibility!
Read the original announcement from BMC.


Next door to Florida, for example, Republican Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey last year signed a law that should allow more people with criminal records to take part in elections. Under the previous Jim Crow-era system, individual county registrars could block anyone convicted of anything they deemed a "crime of moral turpitude" from voting. Now, only people who have committed one of 47 specific felonies — out of more than 500 — can be denied the vote, and even they can apply to the state's Board of Pardons and Paroles to get it back.
That has meant the new law remains confusing to many Alabamans, including county registrars themselves. False information about certain ex-offenders having to pay fines and fees before getting to vote — what some activists have called a new "poll tax" — also circulated for months.
In Florida, it's an open question whether — if the constitutional amendment passes — state officials will help educate former inmates about voting. In the same election, a new governor will be chosen, and he or she would decide how to put the new law into practice.
Sean Champagne and Ellen Boettcher, Alabama Voting Rights Project fellows, canvassing in Montgomery in August 2018. They told residents about the change in the Alabama law that allows many people with convictions who previously could not vote to get registered.
Voting rights activists in Alabama tried last year to force the secretary of state's office to educate the public about the new law but lost the case in federal court. Instead, they have taken to grassroots canvassing to get the word out to former prisoners. Earlier this summer, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog, and the Southern Poverty Law Center launched the Alabama Voting Rights Project, with organizers in Mobile, Montgomery and Birmingham knocking on doors, running events at churches and libraries, and passing out information in jails. (Even incarcerated people can now register to vote if they didn't commit one of the 47 felonies.
Robert Barnes, 64, of Citronelle, Ala., was incarcerated in 2000 on a probation violation for criminal mischief and possession of a controlled substance. After he got out, he said, the state continued to block him from voting.


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"American Idol" Saves Michael Lynche as Rihanna Teaches "Rockstar 101″
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If the introductory rules of rock stardom are "teach thyself to pick slide," "tight clothes" and "pyro!" then Rihanna has been paying attention in her "Rockstar 101″ classes after all. The singer showcased nimble touring guitarist Nuno Bettencourt while debuting her latest single on American Idol (and promoting her upcoming Last Girl on Earth tour) last night, following Jason Derulo's athletic performance of "In My Head" and David Archuleta's stirring reprise of John Lennon's "Imagine," one of the songs that propelled him to the top of Season Seven's Idol class.
Lennon/McCartney week proved more successful for the lady hopefuls, and the bottom three was revealed to include Michael Lynche, Aaron Kelly and Andrew Garcia — meaning yes, Tim Urban will get to meet Adam Lambert next week as a member of the Top Eight (for the record, Sanjaya made it to the Top Seven during Season Six — the clock is ticking, Tim!). So will the struggling Garcia, who has failed to translate his off-camera personality into his dull performances. Since the show has so clearly been pulling for Lynche, a likable personal trainer from Queens, New York, whose wife gave birth during auditions, it seemed extremely likely that the "shocking" results (Ryan Seacrest's usual hyperbole) would end in the use of the one-time-only-before-the-top-five Judges' Save.
Lynche was indeed saved, throwing the Idol auditorium into a warm pandemonium — many of the contestants seemed visibly relieved, too, especially Crystal Bowersox who glared when Seacrest revealed the bottom three. But the judges' deserved some ire too, for praising Lynche's interpretation of "Eleanor Rigby" Tuesday night — it was indeed one of the few original ...
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Can you attach these to chairs?
This is excellent and this price is a steal.
Now I've got the flipping music from it stuck in head again, thought I'd got rid of it after 3 years...still good price, heat added.
Does it speak English or American?
Getting this for work & going to put it on the table during boriing meetings!!!! good post OP, thanks!!
I believe it is Genuine. It is written in Chinese (both Simplified and Traditional) that the toy is bilingual. But the English doesn't say it's bilingual. I tested it in store, it plays in mandarin Chinese then English. Which i would guess its a selling point in the chinese market.
I only remember the design of the box and looked the same, but I have not noticed the Chinese writing. I think perhaps they did these for the Chinese market, probably too expensive for Chinese to buy and B&M bought the whole lot at a fraction of the price.
I've got this one but I do not know where from. Mine only plays in English:) but is Fisher and looks identical. The package was identical too. Very strange about yours, perhaps Fisher was asked to do equal opportunities, lots of Chinese in the UK:). It seems you're specialised on baby toys now, I wonder why:)). Voted hot anyway!
Thanks! I'll check out my local big Boots.
This is still showing as $15 on the website. Does anyone know if this is national?
For £5, a decent deal. For full price - what a plastic tat rip off! You can get better, traditional wooden push-alongs for a tenner.
I can't see any T&Cs that says that?
Just bought, baby is not due until June! but thought I can put it away for 1st birthday.
Sainsbury's Braehead had quite a few of these for sale at £17.50. It was part of their baby event so should be a national deal.
My son got this for Christmas, he's now 8 months and absolutely loves it. It sings, dances, lights up and has different settings / voices speaking numbers, songs etc. really good.
My little boy (1yo) has one of these and it's his absolute favourite. It's a real bargain at this price.
Found in-store in Tesco Swindon. There were a Few left on the shelf.


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The United Republic of Tanzania
Agricultural Sector Development Programme-ASDP II
About ASDP-II
Programme Objectives
Coordination Mechanism
Agricultural Agencies
Privates Sectors
Agricultural sector is the main stay of the Tanzanian economy, currently contributing about 29.1% of the GDP, 65.5% of employment, 65% of raw materials to the industrial sector and 30% of export earnings. The sector development is very crucial in the growth of the national economy and development of industrial sector also important for the provision of adequate food and guarantees nutrition security to the Tanzania population.
On 4th June 2018, The President of the United Republic of Tanzania, His Excellency Dr. John Pombe Magufuli launched the second phase of Agricultural Sector Development Programme (ASDP II) to guide the implementation of four prioritized interventions of the programme which are:
Sustainable Water and Land use Management, including mainstreaming resilience of sustainable and smart farming systems;
Enhanced Agricultural Productivity and Profitability by sustainable technology generation, promotion/use, food security and nutrition;
Commercialization and Value Addition to build competitive Commodity Value Chains (CVCs); and
Strengthening Agricultural Sector Enablers, including policy framework, institutional capacity and coordination, and sector-wide Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E). The ASDP II implementation involves all stakeholders from public, private, development partners, financial institutions and non-state actors under coordination of Prime Minister Office (PMO).
The Agriculture Sector Development Programme Phase Two (ASDP II) is therefore, a ten-years programme implementable in two phases, each divided into five-years implementation period. The First Phase of five years covers a period from 2018/2019– 2023/2024 and the second phase of another five years will be from2024/2025-2028/2029. ASDP II is a follow up to the ASDP I implemented from 2006/2007 to 2013/2014. The program has been designed based on the several lessons learnt and experiences drawn from the implementation of ASDP I that:
The Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) in agriculture is possible when there is sufficient leadership, commitment and well-resourced decentralization of agricultural development planning and implementation;
Need for improved farmer empowerment and organization;
Need for program focus and prioritization on high impact areas, which beyond productivity also strengthen upstream levels of targeted value chains;
Need for good governance, management, coordination, and harmonized monitoring and evaluation of the program;
Need for improved sector enablers; and
Need more investments in agricultural sector (the government, private sector and development partners and other stakeholders' involvement in the agricultural sector.
Therefore, there was a need for harmonization and coordination on how the public sector should facilitate and enhance private sector participation; development partners and other stakeholders' involvement in the agricultural sector.
The Preparation of the ASDP II has gone through a comprehensive consultative and stakeholder engagement at all levels, hence, is a result of the views, comments and wishes of the various stakeholders including private sector, development partners, farmer organizations and non-governmental organizations and the public sector.
Programme (ASDP II) components:
To achieve the Programme Development Objective, the ASDP II has four interlinked Programme components:
Sustainable Water and Land Use Management-aims at expanding sustainable water and land use management for crops, livestock and fisheries;
Enhanced Agricultural Productivity and Profitability which focuses on increasing productivity, for some priority commodities;
Commercialization and Value Addition which focuses on improved and expanded marketing, value addition promoted by a thriving competitive private sector and effective farmer organizations; and
Sector Enablers, Coordination and Monitoring & Evaluation aiming at strengthening institutions, creating enabling conditions and providing coordination framework.
Programme Beneficiaries
The targeted beneficiaries of ASDP II comprise both direct and indirect. Direct beneficiaries include smallholder crop, livestock and fish farmers/fisher folk and their organizations and agribusiness stakeholders (value adding and marketing) that form joint ventures in selected value chains, with special attention to women and youth engaged in the targeted priority Commodity Value Chains (CVCs). Indirect beneficiaries include labourers and consumers from smallholder farm households not directly supported by the project, input suppliers, traders, transporters, processors and consumers. The expected benefits from the programme include increased and sustainable productivity, production of food and non-food agricultural commodities to improve Tanzanians livelihoods, ensuring national level food security, and provide raw materials for the industrial sector. Such anticipated benefits of the programme are assumed to be achieved through efficient programme coordination and implementation of its activities.
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2 Railway Street, P. O. Box 980, 40480 Dodoma.
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By Jeremy Millsop on Apr 9, 2019 at 5:00 a.m.
For 23 years, Chris Foley has made golf's version of a pilgrimage to Augusta National for The Masters.
The PGA golf professional, located at Cragun's Legacy Courses, spends a good amount of time interacting with the professionals he knows, but more so with his fellow golf teachers.
Foley and his wife, Amy, have passed on the golf passion to their sons Michael, who is now a golf professional himself, and Joe, who is playing golf at Gustavus, and to their daughter Kaite, a freshman playing on the Warriors girls golf team.
Here's hoping his insight into the sacred ground Bobby Jones built inspires you.
Q: While The Masters starts Thursday, April 11, and runs through Sunday, what's the best day to go to Augusta National as a fan and why?
Chris Foley: I used to be a big fan of practice rounds, but over the years have come to love the tournament rounds. Thursday is my No. 1 day. I love being there Sunday morning until the leaders tee off and then going back to the house we rent and watching it on TV.
If you have never been to the tournament, Wednesday is a very fun and exciting day with the Par 3 tournament. The electricity of Thursday is hard to beat. There are no bad days at The Masters.
Q: First, I'll have you describe Augusta National and the golf course itself?
CF: It is magical. The course is not a huge property. TV does not show any of the elevation change or slope of the greens. The elevation change from the club house to the 12th green is 175 feet. The course is relatively wide, although not as wide as it was when Bobby Jones and Alastair McKenzie designed it. Hitting to the right angles and the right side of the hole is a huge advantage. The combination of the slope of the greens and the speed makes putting extremely challenging. It is one of the best spectating courses in golf.
Q: Everyone talks about Amen Corner, which is holes 11, 12 and 13, but what are some of the other good spots on that course?
CF: Like I said, it is one of the best spectating courses. There are so many good spots. Amen Corner is great because you can see 11 green, 12 tee and green and 13 tee is in the far distance. I like watching golf from "down the line" so I tend to stand behind tee boxes and like to get right at the ropes. Seven tee box is great because not many people walk back there. Number 11 and 15 tee boxes are also great spots. You can see the whole landing area and where the ball lands. All of the par 3s are great viewing.
The other great spot is next to 3 green. You can see the approach shots and putt and then see the tee shots on 4.
I tend to walk and follow groups more than sitting in one place. You get a much better feel for the play and the course.
Q: Is it really that well manicured or does television do a good job of hiding the not-so-well maintained spots of the property?
CF: There is no such thing as a spot not well manicured. It is the most over-maintained course in the world.
Q: Everyone I know who has gone said they can't believe how hilly it is. What are some other things about the property television viewers might not be able to tell about the course?
CF: The undulations of the greens. The respect and golf IQ of the patrons. The incredible flowers. How clean the restrooms are. There is no sporting event in the world that is managed better.
Q: Are there really that many birds chirping during the tournament?
CF: No. I think that is piped in for TV.
Q: Let's talk about the tournament now, and how much electricity is running through the patrons compared to other PGA events you've been to?
CF: All of the majors are a totally different level than a regular tour event. There is nothing like the Ryder Cup, but The Masters is just a notch below. The roars on Sunday are incredible.
Q: I understand the food and beverages are pretty inexpensive there. Is that true and just talk about the hospitality of the event?
CF: Concessions are ridiculously inexpensive. Sodas are $1.50, beer $2.50, sandwiches $2. Plus, everything tastes better at The Masters.
Q: Pimento cheese sandwiches are the local tradition for this event. Have you had one and are they any good?
CF: If I have been to the Masters 22 years, I probably have had 250-plus pimento cheese sandwiches. They are very good. Pimento cheese is big in the south.
Q: There's so many memories and special moments that have happened at that event and they do a great job of preserving those memories. Is it like walking in a history book there?
CF: If you know golf history and Masters' history, it is definitely like walking in a history book. They have done an incredible job the last few years of having more pictures and memorabilia in some of the new buildings like the Pro Shop. Part of the great history is that the tournament is played there every year, so it is easy to remember great shots and great tournaments.
Q: What's your fondest memory about being at Augusta National and why?
CF: There are so many incredible memories that I have from The Masters. Getting to take my boys Michael and Joe to a practice round is a great one. Having breakfast with my son Michael in the clubhouse last year and spending time with him walking around the clubhouse ranks right up there. Getting to follow one of my great friends and students, 2013 United States Mid-Amateur Champion Mike McCoy, at the 2014 tournament was an incredible experience.
Q: How about a favorite memory of the tournament whether you were there or not and why?
CF: When Jack Nicklaus won the 1986 Masters I was a freshman in college. I remember watching it with all of my college teammates and the drama was incredible. When Tiger won in 2001, it was the first time I had been at the tournament on Sunday. The energy level that day was unmatched. In 1996 I wasn't at the tournament, but seeing Greg Norman implode on Sunday with Nick Faldo winning was like watching a train wreck. It was absolutely the most painful sporting event I have ever seen.
Q: While you're a PGA member you get special privileges, but for someone interested in going to The Masters what would be some tips you would have for them? Where and what to eat? Where to stay? The must sees and the don't waste your time sort of things?
CF: The Masters is one of the hardest tickets in all of sports. I would recommend registering in the lottery every year following the tournament. Tickets are available, they are just hard to come by and expensive. Many residents of Augusta rent their houses out Masters week. That is a great way to go. You have to really plan and make dinner reservations a long time in advance, but there are a lot of great restaurants. Aiken, S.C., and Columbia, S.C., are also great places to stay Masters week and out of the hustle and bustle. Everything around the Masters is done so well that the only downside is you can't do it all.
Q: The PGA Tour is finally coming to Minnesota on a regular basis with the 3M Open July 4-7 at the TPC Twin Cities in Blaine, how do think that tournament will go?
CF: To have the PGA Tour back in Minnesota on an annual basis is going to be fantastic. The players love playing in Minnesota and Hollis Cavner, whose company manages some of the best events on the Champions Tour and PGA Tour, will make it extremely fan friendly and entertaining.
My only apprehension is the dates. There aren't many places in the U.S. better than Brainerd Fourth of July week.
Q: And this summer will be the second big event for a group trying to land a Web.com Tour Event in the lakes area. What are your thoughts about this endeavor and if it happens, how well do you think it will be received?
CF: Last summer's event was a huge success. The plans for this year's are very ambitious and we have a great team in place to make it happen. The PGA Tour has taken notice and will be watching closely to see how this summer goes. Since there has never been any event like the Web in the lakes area, it will be very well received. The level of play on the Web is incredibly high. Any given week on the Web, the winner could be winning on the PGA Tour.
Q: Last year's inaugural event was a big success. Your home course, Cragun's Legacy Courses, did a great job of hosting it. Are the courses in the lakes good enough to host a big event like that?
CF: The quality of courses in the lakes area are as good as anywhere in the U.S. The Legacy is on the short side compared to many of the venues that are played on the Web, but it doesn't have the width of a lot of courses. Creating a resistance to scoring, if that is a goal, can easily be achieved with green speed and high rough.


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My next stop was very familiar – a huge (60-square mile) lake of eerie natural beauty about 30 miles farther south. Mono Lake is a mecca for amateur photographers and I'd come there with a tripod more than once. But this time, in pursuit of adventure, I stripped down to my bathing suit, stepped through the three-foot ring of black flies that buzzed the sides of the lake, walked on the famous tufa formations that look like miniature drip castles, and plunged into the water, which was full of trillions of tiny, red brine shrimp floating in the cool, blue water. As I swam away from shore I noticed that my feet were splashing more than usual -- they were out of the water somehow. And so was my head. For a moment it seemed that my sense of balance had gone awry, but then I remembered the salt. Like the Great Salt Lake, Mono has no outlet and is two-and-a-half times as salty as the ocean. I tried exhaling to see if I could sink, but I couldn't.
A road has to go somewhere, I figured, so the next day I took an unmarked one just south of Mammoth Mountain (the largest ski area in California) and headed east, directly across the desert. It took me to what looked like an environmental sculpture created by Mad Max: a two-story-high heap of rusted metal that turned out to be the Mono County dump. Jerry Butler, an Irishman in his late 60s, greeted me. He ran the place and lived there alone in a trailer when he wasn't with his woman, a Paiute Indian. From the chair where he sat for most of the day, he had a view so awesome I expected to see a herd of yaks.
Jerry invited me inside his trailer, where we drank beer and talked for a while beneath a wall covered with pin-ups of naked women. The next day I ended up spending several hours with him, from 3 o'clock in the afternoon to sundown at 8:30. We drove at least 50 miles of dirt roads, Jerry waving his arms and pointing at things and talking about "light" and "colors" and me stopping the car to get out and climb on rocks and generally lurch about like a 2-year-old. We went to a narrow-walled red-rock canyon full of snakes and shadows where he once ran out of gas and had to hike, in the moonlight, 17 miles to the nearest ranch. He showed me an old 19th-century mine shaft and a rock where a miner had sculpted a life-size image of himself, including hat and pickax.
"Look what the bastards done," Jerry said. The miner's head and chest were pock-marked with bullet holes.
He took me to rattlesnake den where he used to catch snakes every spring and sell them to brokers from San Francisco, and we spent about an hour at some Indian petroglyphs in the middle of nowhere – four-and-six-and-eight-legged creatures dancing in the twilight as the sun turned the Great Basin fiery red. In the lingering light we drove on dirt roads to visit a friend of his, one of the Basque shepherds in the Basin who work the sheep ranches for five-year stints. But his camp was deserted – just a large flat circle in the scrub and a trash-filled fire pit. "He must just have moved," Jerry said. "If he'd been here we would have had all the food we could eat. I've never known a Basque who didn't make his own wine, cheese and bread."
Finally, I turned on my headlights and we headed home, toward the highway in the growing darkness. "I just love showing you all this," Jerry said. "I love it sooooooo much. Do you know I'm getting such a pleasure being here talking with you? Do you know that?"
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MIT pushed to address traffic in Kendall Square
By Andrew Joseph Sept. 23, 2015
Jim Carey (left) and Rachel Carey (right) kiss during a presentation on research on how kissing affects the immune system at the Ig Nobel awards, which honor goofy scientific research, at MIT in Cambridge. Justin Saglio for the Boston Globe
Cambridge officials are pressing MIT to fund transit improvements in Kendall Square as the university moves ahead with a massive redevelopment project that would bring thousands more commuters into an area that's already widely viewed as a bottleneck.
MIT's proposed redevelopment promises to transform stale parking lots along Main Street into six buildings full of office, retail, research, and living space, with a lively streetscape below. But the project would also generate more than 5,800 vehicle trips and 7,500 transit trips each day, according to a 200-plus-page transportation study commissioned by MIT. That could put more pressure on roadways, trains, and buses.
The university has made "no substantial commitments" to ease the burden of that growth, even though the project "will create significant new demands on the local and regional transportation networks," Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department staff wrote in a memo to the Planning Board this month.
The memo raised specific concerns about the project's effect on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line and the 85 and CT2 bus lines. It also questioned MIT's net creation of more than 1,000 parking spaces at a time when the city is trying to discourage driving. (The project includes spots for more than 1,000 bicycles, as well.)
Michael Owu, chairman of MIT's transportation and parking committee, said the university will work closely with the city to mitigate traffic problems. He said the redevelopment wouldn't be an overall burden on transit.
The broad challenges of getting in, around, and out of the area led to the creation in the past year of the Kendall Square Mobility Task Force, consisting of state and city officials and business and civic leaders. The group will hold a public meeting Oct. 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Kennedy-Longfellow School on Spring Street.
Despite their concerns about traffic, city officials generally support MIT's expansion, its support for more housing in the area, and its goal of injecting more vibrant street life into Kendall Square.
"With the right set of incentives, and right set of facilities, we can keep up that growth without it becoming unmanageable," said Joseph Barr, director of Cambridge's traffic department.
But other major projects, including the redevelopment of the Volpe center, are coming — and could bring their own sets of transit and traffic challenges.
Speaking of parking …
Cambridge is home to a plethora of companies and research institutions that push the boundaries of science and technology. Yet drivers in the city can't use a smartphone app to pay for street parking — a tool rolled out in both Boston and Somerville months ago.
Barr, the Cambridge traffic guru, said city officials are working on an app-based payment system, but don't have an expected date of arrival. So keep scrounging for those quarters.
Disaster zone
Kendall Square startups interviewing chief executive candidates just might want to inquire about their childhood histories with natural disasters.
Suffering through or witnessing horrors during a disaster can trigger risk aversion in future chief executives, according to a new study. But those who skate through disasters with no personal impact?
"They behave a lot more aggressively when they become CEOs," Gennaro Bernile, an assistant professor of finance at Singapore Management University, told a packed lecture hall at MIT last weekend.
Those traits can matter to a company's financial direction, Bernile argued. After all, a chief executive's assertiveness will shape how much cash his company keeps on hand and its acquisition strategy.
Bernile won one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor research that makes "people laugh, and then think." The recipients presented their findings Saturday.
Jim Carey (left) and Rachel Carey (right) kiss during a presentation on research on how kissing affects the immune system at the Ig Nobel awards, which honor goofy scientific research, at MIT in Cambridge.
Other Ig Nobel winners this year included researchers who found that most land mammals empty their bladders in roughly the same amount of time; that the nostril and upper lip are the most painful places to be stung by a bee, followed by the penis shaft; and that kissing a partner for 30 minutes can soothe certain allergic reactions.
After Japanese researcher Hajime Kimata detailed his findings that kissing a romantic partner for a half hour can ease symptoms of eczema and hay fever, a couple in the audience stood up and did an experiment of their own, smooching passionately as the crowd whistled and whooped — although just for a few seconds, not 30 minutes. No word on if the kiss eased their allergies.
A young man in the audience then asked Kimata a more practical question: "How often do I have to kiss to not have allergies again?"
MIT students in demand
MIT students — they and we are often told — go on to start companies that change the world or create therapies that save countless lives. But students recently heard a pitch to try a different career path: Go work for the government.
"You don't have to come forever, but take a year or two and help us out," Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research.
The government, Pritzker said, needs people like MIT students who understand technology and a changing economy. They can apply those skills through public service to affect the entire country, she said.
In her speech last Friday, Pritzker mentioned MIT alumni such as Robert Noyce, who helped found Intel Corp., and Amar Bose, founder of Bose Corp. But she also name-dropped Alan Davidson, an MIT graduate and onetime Google executive who joined the Commerce Department this year as director of digital economy, working on issues such as online privacy.
Government work, Pritzker said, is "consequential."
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Majdouline Cherni (born 21 February 1981) is a Tunisian architect and politician who was Minister of Youth and Sports from 2016 to 2018.

Early life and education

Cherni was born on 21 February 1981 in Menzel Bourguiba in the Bizerte Governorate. She studied architecture in El Kef.

Career
Cherni worked in vocational training centres and architectural design offices before becoming chair of the Chamber of Businesswoman of Kef and appointed as a delegate to the Manouba Governorate. She was a candidate for the Free Patriotic Union for Kef in the 2011 election.

On 23 January 2015, Cherni was appointed Secretary of State in charge of the Dossier of the Martyrs and Wounded of the Revolution in the cabinet of Habib Essid. Her role included providing "moral and material assistance" to families. On 20 August 2016, she was appointed Minister of Youth and Sports in the cabinet of Youssef Chahed. She has been responsible for organising youth forums to seek to restore the confidence of young people in Tunisia's state institutions. In late 2016, several photos posted on the minister's Facebook page were digitally altered to cover her knees.

She was replaced as Minister of Youth and Sports by  in the cabinet reshuffle of November 2018.

Personal life
Cherni's brother Socrate was a lieutenant in the Tunisian National Guard who was killed in the battle of Sidi Ali Ben Aoun on 23 October 2013.

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Bruno Mars To Donate $1 Million To Help Flint Residents
Mars will redirect funds from his tour to a Flint community organization.
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Singer Bruno Mars will donate $1 million to the city of Flint, Michigan.
The Grammy-award-winning singer says he wants to help out with the water crisis that is plaguing the city. On Saturday night, Mars announced to the Auburn Hills concert audience that he would be donating.
In a statement, Mars wrote:
"Ongoing challenges remain years later for Flint residents, and it's important that we don't forget our brothers and sisters affected by this disaster. As people, especially as Americans, we need to stand together to make sure something like this never happens in any community ever again."
People reports that Mars and Live Nation will redirect funds from the 24K Magic Tour Detroit show to The Community Foundation of Greater Flint. The people of Flint are still fighting for justice, as the city has warned residents that they could lose their homes if they don't pay outstanding water bills, even though lead-contaminated pipes that spurred the water crisis have only relatively recently begun to be replaced.
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The world's largest game creation event returns to Wrexham Glyndwr University this weekend.
Global Game Jam (GGJ) runs over three days from Friday January 26, when experienced and wannabe developers will descend on the Centre for the Creative Industries to attempt to design and build video games within a strict 48 hour period.
GGJ is the world's largest game jam event (for game creation) taking place around the world simultaneously at physical locations that include the US, Japan, Australia, Sweden, Italy, Germany and Hawaii.
Rich Hebblewhite, senior lecturer in Computing and organiser of the popular programme, says it is one of the top events in the calendar at Wrexham Glyndwr University, giving students, professionals and general enthusiasts from across the country the opportunity to come together and solve problems creatively.
"Global Game Jam is effectively a time constrained 'hackathon' focused on game development," said Rich.
"We've been participating here at Wrexham Glyndwr since 2011 and they've always been popular, with people travelling from all over the country to join us.
"It's a challenge as well as being a lot of fun, as you're against the clock and it can certainly be very tiring given the event is non-stop, but that's a major part of its appeal."
Rich added that the GGJ philosophy is the growth of an idea that in today's heavily connected world, people can come together, be creative, share experiences and express themselves in a multitude of ways using game technology.
The first annual Global Game Jam was held in 2009 to much critical acclaim and success, with more than 1600 participants in 23 countries producing 370 games in total. From there, GGJ has expanded greatly, going on to break several consecutive world records.
"We have been registered with the GGJ as an official event site since 2011 as part of extra-curricular activities within the games development course," said Rich.
"In doing so, we became the first and only Welsh representative, and that would continue to be the case for a number of years.
"It has continued to grow each year, and at our location in 2017 a team of 63 participants were able to design and develop 14 individual games within the 48 hour period. Across the world there were more than 36,000 participants from 96 different countries which was a phenomenal achievement."
He added: "As always, we aim to attract as diverse a group of participants as possible, so we can work on everything from boards games and physical arcade machines to traditional digital products.
"Game jams are a great way of refining your design and development skills along with learning to work with new people on a complex problem over a very short period of time. No experience is necessary, which makes the event open to absolutely anyone with an interest in games, board gaming or just general creative fun!"
A panel of games jam veterans and game development experts will be on hand to judge all of the games produced over the course of the weekend, with a view to selecting up to three of them for publication.
Keynote speaker for 2018 is Chris Payne, Managing Director of Quantum Soup; A North Wales based game studio composed of former AAA game developers. Chris is a veteran of the games industry and is the former Lead Game Mechanics Programmer at Travellers' Tales Games (famous for the LEGO computer games franchise).
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In 2012, market downturn of cement plant directly result in the lower market share of cement crushing equipment in market so that machinery enterprises are highly implicated; however, Zhengzhou Hongxing stably stayed in the market, it mainly due to Zhengzhou Hongxing has always insisted on the mode of host, parts and sand and gravel production line mutual development.
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Cryptocurrency startup 21 Inc. unveiled its latest project, a bitcoin computer that went on sale Monday and will ship in November. The computer, which sells for $400, is able to mine a constant stream of bitcoins and allows users to buy and sell "anything to anyone." The computer is the first of its kind, and though 21 Inc. says it represents a unique opportunity for bitcoin enthusiasts, the firm is hoping that the machine will pave the way for more of its kind and eventually rework the way people use the Internet.


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Le Danemark a participé au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1958, alors appelé le Grand prix Eurovision de la chanson européenne 1958, à Hilversum, aux Pays-Bas. C'est la  participation danoise au Concours Eurovision de la chanson.

Le pays est représenté par Raquel Rastenni et la chanson Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog, sélectionnées par la Statsradiofonien.

Sélection

Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 1958
Le radiodiffuseur danois, la Statsradiofonien , organise l'édition 1958 du Melodi Grand Prix pour sélectionner l'artiste et la chanson représentant le Danemark au Concours Eurovision de la chanson 1958.

Le Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 1958, présenté par , a eu lieu le 16 février 1958 à la Maison de la Radio à Copenhague. Les participants à cette finale nationale Birthe Wilke et Gustav Winckler ont déjà représenté le Danemark l'année précédente, Birthe Wilke également seule lors de l'Eurovision 1959, l'année suivante.

Lors de cette sélection, c'est Raquel Rastenni et la chanson Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog qui furent choisies.

Finale

À l'Eurovision
Chaque pays avait un jury de dix personnes. Chaque membre du jury pouvait donner un point à sa chanson préférée.

Points attribués par le Danemark

Points attribués au Danemark

Raquel Rastenni interprète Jeg rev et blad ud af min dagbog en  position, après la Suède et avant la Belgique. Au terme du vote final, l'Danemark termine  sur 10 pays avec 3 points.

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Transferring AUD to GBP at a fast, secure and affordable manner to the UK from Australia has multiple transfer options. You can send money to the UK from money transfer companies such as WorldRemit, CurrencyFair, TransferWise, InstaReM. You can also send money through the wire transfers provided by banks or can do bank account to a bank account transfer, which is a "cheapest way to send money to UK". Besides this, you can also global ACH payments in Australia to transfer money to UK.
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Q: Splitting string for LatLng object I am stuck on a very annoying problem. Here is what I am trying to achieve. I read the latitude and longitude in two text boxes and then split each of the pair on a comma as that is what they are separated by. Then I need to parse them and create a LatLng object to create a Google marker. My problem for some reason is splitting the string. I know that all I need to do is use String.split() method to achieve it. Here is what I do:
 Lets say the value in text box is 26.2338, 81.2336

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Now I am unable to understand as to why newString[0] just gives me 2 while it should give 26.2338. Similarly, newString[1] gives 6 instead of 81.2336. What am I doing wrong?? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Statistics are an integral part of any service we use regularly. How many followers did we gain today? How many people liked our album? How many e-mails Use Gmail Meter To Gain Interesting Insights About Your E-mail Habits Use Gmail Meter To Gain Interesting Insights About Your E-mail Habits It makes sense to analyze our emailing habits and try to learn something from them, and indeed, a number of Gmail analysis tools have recently popped up. We've seen Google's Activity Report tool that offers... Read More passed through our inbox? Around every popular service we use, stats services sprout like mushrooms after the rain. And things are no different with the latest in social networking – Pinterest.
Pinterest is a service with a strong need for some stats. It's easy to see how many people liked or re-pinned a single pin, but how many actually clicked through? And how does the amount of re-pins relate to the time of day? This is especially important for brands, blogs and websites who use Pinterest to promote their main website. Pinerly is a stats and management service for Pinterest, where you can create Pinterest "campaigns" and follow up on clicks, likes, repins and reach.
Pinerly is currently in closed beta, but we have 200 invites to give away to our awesome readers. Read on to find out how you can get your hands on one!
There are two ways to get started with Pinerly. You can grab one of the early invites below, or if you missed out on those, you can register and start sharing Pinerly with friends to get ahead in line. Either way, once you're in, it's very easy to get started.
When you first sign up, don't forget to use the same username you have on Pinterest. This is crucial for the service to work. You will also have to be logged into this same Pinterest account for quick pinning.
If you feel confused, you can take the Pinerly tour to get your bearings before creating a campaign. When you're ready, click on the Campaign tab.
So what is a "campaign"? A campaign is just a good old Pinterest pin when it's done through Pinerly. You can still pin stuff to Pinterest as usual, but when you do so through Pinerly, you'll get to enjoy Pinerly's stats and tips.
As on Pinterest, you can choose to upload a local file or find an image online. When you enter a URL, Pinerly will scout the page for media, and you'll be able to choose the image you want to pin. This is where you can modify the source link and enter a description.
From here you can also enable "Click-through tracking". This is something you'd want to give some thought to. If you choose to enable this option, Pinerly will track the total number of clicks on your pin to your final destination URL, which can be your website, blog, etc. In order to do this, Pinerly currently routes traffic through the Pinerly servers, and for that reason, all your pins will appear as "from pinerly.com".
Clicking the image or the link will lead the users to the correct source website, but this can still be a bit confusing. If you don't care about click-through tracking, you'd be better off disabling this option.
Now it's time to click "Pinerly It". Pinerly will lead you to Pinterest, where you can pin the image as usual. When you're done, let Pinerly know you've pinned it on Pinterest.
This is the heart of Pinerly, and where you'll find all the juicy details about your Pinterest activity. First off, you can look at an overview of the past month or week, see how many followers and pins each of your boards have, and how many campaigns, clicks, likes, etc. you have in total.
When you click the "Pinalytics" tab, you'll find a weekly graph where you can see the number of clicks, likes and repins you had each day.
Scroll down to take a look at each campaign individually. You can sort this list by chronological order or by number of clicks. Here you can easily see how each campaign did, how many people it reached, and correlate this with the day and time of the pin, etc.
If you feel like a campaign didn't do very well, you can choose to either repost it or delete it. Pinerly can help you figure out when are the best times to post things on Pinterest.
Pinerly is not all about stats and account management. Under the "Suggested" tab you'll find interesting pins you might like. You can browse these for fun, discover people to follow, and, of course, pin some interesting images onto your own account.
The follow tab can help you find pinners to follow as well. You can browse accounts according to 19 different categories, including photography, fitness, DIY and more. I couldn't help but notice that there is no "tech" category. An oversight that will hopefully be fixed soon!
If loading Pinerly every time you want to pin seems like a hassle, there's a handy bookmarklet you can use to speed things up. Simply drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar, and use it whenever you want to pin something. Pinerly will scan through the website you're on and let you choose which image you want to pin.
Pinerly shows great promise just as it is, and exciting things such as scheduling pins and Pinerly for multiple Pinterest accounts are planned for the future.
As mentioned, Pinerly is still in closed beta, but the team was kind enough to offer 200 invites exclusively to MakeUseOf readers. If you'd like to try this innovative service, follow this link [No Longer Available] to register. The first 200 to do so will gain immediate access to Pinerly.
Don't forget that this is still a work in progress. If you get stuck, you can visit the help page, or contact the Pinerly team, who would love get constructive feedback about the service.
Did you manage to get an invite? What do you think of Pinerly? Know of any similar services for Pinterest? Let us know in the comments!
I'd love an Invite! Been waiting, and waiting, and waiting. If you have anymore, could you please send me an invite?
Since it's been a while, I'm not sure there any left, be there were 200 to begin with which is very generous, so there may be some left.
All you have to do is follow the link mentioned in the post under "How Do I Get In". If there are invited left, it will let you register for one.
Cool, just got an invite, thanks makeuseof!
This is amazing for Pinterest, especially for someone like me who loves to keep track of everything I do! I already got this started and it's awesome!
Thanks I got one. I was waiting to get an invite directly from Pinerly but never got. Today I got it through MUO.
Hey - I would LOVE an invite.


Rubber Room Ramblings: MORE FLOWER SHOP!
Here is another one of Terri's wonderful creations for our New Catalog Swap.
I love the purple on this card with the Old Olive. It makes me feel better just to see it!


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Adam Erne - Comparables
By Scott Reynolds Jun 13, 2013, 6:30am MDT
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After a short run of defensemen, Adam Erne comes in at #13 in the consensus rankings and begins a run of eight forwards over the next nine slots. Erne just turned 18 in April, but he's already playing at over two hundred pounds, which makes him very difficult to handle at the junior level, especially since scouts seem to agree that skating is one of his best attributes. According to Corey Pronman, Erne has been able to translate those skills into scoring chances on a regular basis in the QMJHL, but according to his boxcar numbers, Erne has had a more difficult time translating those scoring chances into actual goals.
A quick look at Erne's comparables tells the story. In this case a comparable player was someone who played his draft year in the CHL, had an adjusted goals per game rate between 0.37 and 0.45, an adjusted points per game rate between 0.92 and 1.13 (90% to 110% of Erne's production), and was selected somewhere between 8th and 18th overall.
There are a lot of young players on this list who have lots of story still to be written, but four of the five players we know more about don't suggest Erne should be expected to be a scorer at the NHL level. In the chart below, I've listed each player's number of regular season games and his career points per game.
Adam Deadmarsh was an excellent player, but the rest of the group ranges from useful third line piece to complete bust. Even among the players drafted in 2009 or later, there's no single prospect that I look at and think he's likely to be a top line talent. The fact that Erne didn't improve all that much from his 2011-12 season (his adjusted offense increased by 31%) further suggests that this is his actual level of ability and that a huge step forward is unlikely.
So what is there for hope? Well, the actual skill set that Erne has seems to lend itself well to a physical third line forward, so you can at least see him filling the role well. It's not the kind of projection I'd be excited about with a top-twenty pick, but if Erne falls into the last third of the first round, I think he's probably a decent bet.
Next up this afternoon: Josh Morrissey
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1 - Nathan MacKinnon (Comparables)
2 - Jonathan Drouin (Comparables)
3 - Seth Jones (Comparables)
4 - Aleksander Barkov (Comparables)
5 - Elias Lindholm (Comparables)
6 - Valeri Nichushkin (Comparables)
7 - Sean Monahan (Comparables)
8 - Rasmus Ristolainen (Comparables)
9 - Darnell Nurse (Comparables)
10 - Hunter Shinkaruk (Comparables)
11 - Ryan Pulock (Comparables)
12 - Nikita Zadorov (Comparables)
13 - Adam Erne
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In addition to the above, Overseas Business Operations (International marketing) is another Independent Business Unit (profit centre) to take care of export and International Marketing operations.
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I'm not able to make an A/P Goods Return after Making a Credit Memo.
Because as I have the Credit Memo as a Financial Document, also I want to have a Goods Return as an Inventory Document.
Credit memo is nothing but reversal of total INVOICE.
2) If you are using QM integration for GRN , system will generate an inspection lot for GRN.So now you need to reverse this inspection lot, so that stock will update in QUALITY STOCK.
3) Assign the material code in P.O and activate check box as "RETURNS ITEM" and save.
4) Then do GRN using transaction MIGO for this return material.
Kindly check posting dates also for the inventory changes.
You cannot use goods return once GRPO status is closed.
A/P credit memo solve purpose of inventory and vendor balance.
Else you can create credit note without quantity and create separate goods issue for quantity purpose.
But that document not link with each other.


Ulco, I might be completely wrong, but to me the land shapes are too clean. There should be more cuts and scattered pieces of rocks (due to erosion). Nature rarely gives you neat lines. But what do I know?
Thanks for thinking along. The underlying ground is not rocky, but consists mainly of of sand, clay, some sandstone banks higher up and silex/flint (the fake stone accumulations). So quite soft, and I think the water may erode it quite smoothly. I did use a little smallscale warp on the maps though to give it some more 'erosion'. We'll have to see what the experts (University profs) have to say.
The last ones are already looking very good!
At first glue I would have said the same like otakar but fortunately I saw some documentaries on TV last weekend. They showed some aerial photography eg. of the amazonas. So I know now that you're close to the reality.
Thanks Nils. I consider this my final concept to send in, and await their remarks. I hope it's anywhere near what they need.
Been watching this as well. Wondered what latitude this area represents. At first I thought your lighter color was snow, but it is sandlike? My area, central USA is full of large field stone, so I am assuming this is more like Florida or South America? Very interesting representation!
It's the latitude of Belgium/Southern Netherlands. It's sand indeed and some silex rocks (small, perhaps up to 30-40cm max). I don't know yet about the colors, might need more grey. That's for them to decide.
This is really a hard to do scene because of the lack of kinda hero landscape features.
I think you made it look very nice Ulco. But as an animation it would look even better probably.
I think there will be no animation?
No tracks in the sand? That's a fairly large herd, you'd expect some visible 'trail', no?
There's a slight wind blowing, so any tracks are immediately filled up with sand (eolic processes) Anyway, I doubt if that would be visible from so high.
@Kadri: no animation, it's for a 'coffeetable' book. And yes, these kind of commissions always give me the creeps, as there's no nice depth to be had and it's merely about processes that have to be shown. So I made a detailed look somewhere in them hills in B&W (they didn't have color film back then) I might give them something like this as a bonus for the book (if they treat me well).
Looks fantastic Ulco! No crits from me!
As much as i like this render,....when I first saw the left Neanderthal, I thought perhaps he was a demon god....then I saw the caribou, reindeer? so..............maybe shift em a little And more to the point...are these the guys who thought of painting cave walls, haha...early film?


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Maria Johannes Gerardus van Wou (Nijmegen, ca. 1450 - Kampen, 1527) wordt beschouwd als de belangrijkste luidklokkengieter die Europa gekend heeft.

Van Wou was de zoon van een klokkengieter. Hij werd in 1474 als poorter van 's-Hertogenbosch ingeschreven. In 1477 ging hij een samenwerkingsverband aan met de Bossche gieter Gobel Moer, met wie hij een klok voor de Sint-Eusebiuskerk in Arnhem goot. Het lijkt erop dat Van Wou daarna zelfstandig is gaan werken. Zo goot hij in 1479 een voorslag voor de Domtoren van Utrecht. Een jaar later vestigde hij zich in Kampen.

Van Wou dankt zijn reputatie vooral aan zijn zware geluien, die hij veelal goot voor steden in Duitsland, zoals Hamburg, Osnabrück (verloren), Recklinghausen (drie klokken, 1500), Braunschweig (drie klokken, 1502) en Erfurt. Voor Erfurt maakte hij in 1497 de E klok Gloriosa met een gewicht van ongeveer 11.400 kg. Nadat deze klok in 1984 scheurde in de slagrand, werd deze in 2004 gelast. Het gelui van de Domtoren te Utrecht uit 1505 bestaat uit dertien klokken waarvan de zwaarste 8100 kg weegt (de zeven kleinste zijn in 1664 omgesmolten ten behoeve van een nieuwe beiaard en in 1982 gereconstrueerd). Desondanks moest hij na voltooiing van de opdracht kritiek van het Domkapittel ondergaan, wellicht omdat de klank door een gewijzigd profiel anders was dan die van eerdere klokken van Van Wou.

Na 1507 werd hij minder actief en goot hij zijn klokken vaak in samenwerking met Johannes Schonenborch. Dat geldt voor onder meer het gelui voor Lübeck uit 1507. De klokken uit de periode 1523 tot 1527, gesigneerd Geert van Wou, zijn waarschijnlijk van de hand van zijn gelijknamige zoon of neef.

In totaal zijn er ongeveer 140 klokken van Van Wou bewaard gebleven.

Naast klokken goot Van Wou ook geschut.

Varia
Bij de aanleg van Amsterdam-Zuid werd in 1880 een straat parallel aan de Amstel naar hem vernoemd, de Van Woustraat.

Van Wou komt voor in het boek Hasse Simonsdochter van schrijfster Thea Beckman.

De trappen tussen het Stevenskerkhof en de Stikke Hezelstraat in Nijmegen kregen in 2017 de naam Geert van Woutrappen.

Literatuur
 Dr. André Lehr - Geert van Wou - Een uitzonderlijk klokkengieter PDF (gearchiveerd)
 C.N. Fehrmann, De Kamper Klokgieters, hun naaste verwanten en leerlingen. Kok Kampen 1967 een uitgave van de Nederlandse Klokkenspel Vereniging. (geen ISBN)

Video's
 Reparatie en takelen van Gloriosa Glocke Erfurt (annimatie)
 Gloriosa in het nieuws
 Van Wou klok in Oldenzaal gerestaureerde ophanging

Referenties

Nederlands klokkengieter
Persoon in de Nederlanden in de 15e eeuw
Persoon in de Nederlanden in de 16e eeuw


Small quilted wall hanging featuring pieced cedar trees alternating with Nine Patch squares. Three strips of solid fabrics form the borders. Dark green binding. Backing of pink sprigged fabric. Hand-quilted and machine-stitched. This small quilted wall hanging was made by Arlene Anderson and auctioned off on Apr. 30, 1988 for the benefit of the Kansas Quilt Project (KQP). Founded in 1986, the KQP's mission was to collect quilt histories and establish a repository for the resulting data at the Kansas Historical Society. The donor/quilter was married to John Anderson, Jr., Governor of Kansas from 1961-1965. The Andersons were the first governor's family to occupy the executive residence known as Cedar Crest, so named because of its location on the crest of a hill overlooking the cedar-lined Kansas River valley.


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Visayas Teams Advance to NASA Space Apps Global Challenge
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Internet connectivity for far-flung coastal areas, sound to energy for communities with no access to electricity and a mobile application that measures individual carbon footprints emerged as top ideas during the NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Iloilo last week.
The NASA International Space Apps Challenge bring together individuals interested in space science and exploration, creative, and want to solve problems. Over 29,000 people from 80 countries and in more than 200 cities around the world are participating in the 2019 International Space Apps Challenge.
Participants of the NASA Space Apps Challenge at the American Corner of the Central Philippine University in Iloilo
Space Apps global hackathon aims to build connections across borders, sectors, and cultures to bring about paradigm-shifting innovation. Space Apps introduces problem-solvers worldwide to NASA's free and open data. NASA missions to Earth, our Sun and solar system, and out into the universe – all gather data in pursuit of new knowledge, to expand our understanding through new scientific discoveries, and to help us to improve life on Earth. By using NASA data to solve each year's challenges, Space Apps teams learn about NASA's data, and share in the creation and application of the knowledge that results.
Space Apps inspires collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking, fosters interest in Earth and space science and exploration, and encourages the growth and diversity of the next generation of scientists, technologists, designers and engineers. Space Apps is managed by the Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. and organized in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub and SecondMuse.
Lawyer and ICT Advocate Jocelle Batapa-Sigue Receives Ceritificate of Appreciation from the US Embassy and American Spaces as Chief Judge for the NASA Space Apps Challenge
The Space Apps hackathon this year was set up in three locations – Manila, Davao City and Iloilo City on October 18-20 in collaboration with American Corners in Ateneo de Davao University and the Central Philippine University in Iloilo. There where nine teams which pitched to a panel of jurors from various disciplines. Lawyer, digital advocate and former local legislator Jocelle Batapa-Sigue served as chair of the board of judges.
Panel of Judges at the NASA Space Apps
Two teams, Techno PH and Voltage 5, were nominated to the global challenge and a third team, Chill Heat was cited another promising idea.
As an archipelago, sixty two percent of the population in the Philippines live in the coastal zone where Internet access is a challenge. Techno PN uses technology of software and hardware devices that aims to bring internet access to far-flung areas of the Philippines using the VHF spectrum. Inclusive growth will now become a reality even to coastal dwellers who will gain access to necessary services from government, education and private or business sectors.
Techno PH Team members Rotherford Marmibe, Nico Guarnes and Giovanni Gerard Araque
Team Techno PH's out-of-the-box approach is to utilize the Very High Frequency (VHF) spectrum (i.e. 30 to 300 megahertz) because it has lesser usage at the moment. The lessening is attributed to the on-going migration of television broadcast from analog to digital (ISDB-T) in the Philippines. The team introduces WISH (Wonderful Internet Service is Here) – a technology that is intended for the coastal communities in dire need of data connectivity. Here is the link to their site: https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/earths-oceans/internet-ocean/teams/techno-ph/project
Voltage 5 Team composed of Nico Andrei Serrato, Frelean Faith Engallado, Joecile Faith Monana, Raphael Francis Dequilla and Kirsten Dianne Delmo
Voltage 5 project is called Sound to Light or S-LIGHT: CONVERTING NOISE TO ELECTRICAL ENERGY aims to make use of noise as it is a byproduct of human activities that is not utilized as a form of energy. S-light can give ample and consistent supply of electricity to families in rural areas with inadequate access to this resource. Here is the link to their site: https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/living-our-world/smash-your-sdgs/teams/voltage-5/project
Members of Voltage 5 receiving their ticket vouchers from Kurt Cabillon of Cebu Pacific
S-LIGHT was also awarded by Cebu Pacific as outstanding idea which won for the team roun-trip tickets to Hanoi, Vietnam and potential collaboration with Cebu Pacific for their technology.
The third team which ws cited as "People's Choice" is Chill Heat and there project is "Chill Trip" – a mobile app designed to provide users, specifically those with private vehicles that has no pre-determined route, with the possible options that utilize the lowest carbon emission per individual. It helps users realize the amount of carbon emission that would be emitted during their transportation. The app is anchored with a map, presenting different route options, in consideration to real-time traffic situation, with computed carbon emission emission for each. In addition, this app enables you to record your data and provide statistics of your daily transport. Your data can be shared on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms to entice others to sign-up and join the movement. Chill Heat is composed of Shaira June Gadot, Florey Anne Palabrica, Menalyn Tanque, Jerian Dale Figueroa, and Riz Angele Mirabel Villanueva Panopio. Here is the link to their site: –https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/living-our-world/warming-planet-cool-ideas/teams/chill-heat/project
Overall, the teams were judged based on these criteria:
Impact: How much impact (quality and quantity) can this project have? Does it solve a big problem or a little problem? Will it inspire or help many, or a few?
Creativity: How creative/innovative is the approach? Is the project novel and something that hasn't been attempted before, or is it an incremental improvement on something that already exists?
Validity: Is the solution scientifically valid? Will it do what it sets out to do? Can it work in the real world?
Relevance: Is this project responsive to the challenge for which it was submitted? Is it a complete solution or does it have a long way to go? Is it technically feasible? How usable or user friendly is the solution?
Presentation:** How well did the team communicate their project? Were they effective in telling the story of the project: the challenge, the solution, and why is it important?
Winners of the Visayas Leg with organizers with Atty. Jocelle Batapa Sigue, Chief Judge, Mylyn Garcia, Program Coordinator, American Center Manila, American Spaces Philippines, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy in the Philippines and Dr. Irving Domingo Rio, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Central Philippine University
All the nominees around the world can be found in this link: https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/awards/global-nominees
Approximately, 30 projects shall be recognized by December as the "Global Finalists," and are presented as candidates for one of six global awards. There are approximately five projects nominated for each global award, though NASA reserves the right to change the total number of finalists per category. The 2019 award categories are: Best Use of Data, Best Use of Hardware, Galactic Impact, Most Inspirational, Best Mission Concept and Best Use of Science.
The Global Finalist projects are evaluated by an entirely new panel of executive judges at NASA. These judges are leaders and executives at the agency with a variety of subject matter expertise. Each Global Finalist project is evaluated by each executive judge, and the top six projects are announced in January 2020.
The Space Apps universe produced 3,381 projects this year. They will be competing to be selected as global nominees. The award categories can be viewed here https://2019.spaceappschallenge.org/awards/
← The Policy Work of Jocelle Batapa-Sigue → The Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service (TOWNS) Awardees for 2019


The satisfying smack of palm against palm. The universal sign of "way-to-go." Really, who doesn't love a good high five?
This was my mindset when I created my positive reinforcement system. I used to always go around high-fiving students for awesome things in the classroom: good discussion contributions, A+ on tests, enthusiastic attitudes, getting rid of spiders… I decided to translate this into something tangible that the students could bring home to get their parents involved.
I created a set of High-Five slips with clever memes depicting everything from a grizzly bear high-fiving a shark to Dora the Explorer. I also created a station to display all of the High-Fives earned by my students each quarter. This part is key – having a visual reminder of positive classroom behaviors helps motivate students.
At the beginning of the school year I explain to my students the concept. For anything I see that I deem going above and beyond, I will award students a High Five. I stress that this can go beyond simple academic successes. For example, the other day I had a student connect a new vocabulary word to a short story we had read a month earlier and I awarded her a high five for making a connection in her education. Next, I explain to students that they need to bring the High Five home and brag to their parents about how awesome they are, get their parents to sign it, and then bring it back into the classroom. When they bring it back signed, they hang it on the board and earn a piece of candy.
Like I said earlier, having a visual display helps keep students motivated. Also, I try to make a show of awarding high-fives. I will stop a discussion to grab one from my desk, causing students to start whispering that "so-and-so just earned a High Five!" When I hand them out, I always write the student's name on the high five so I can keep track of who earned it. I also like to write personal messages, besides just listing what they earned it for. My favorite part of this system is the connection to home. I have parents who write back besides a simple signature – some add smiley faces or congratulations messages of their own.
I have tried numerous other things, from tickets to check-marks to online systems. However, this has been the most successful in my classroom. The students respond positively to it, the parents love seeing the acknowledgment of their child's success, and it requires very little outside work on my end!
What do you do to for positive reinforcement?


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Q: Integral of a hypergeometric function Does anyone know if there is a closed form expression for
$I(a,v,\tau_2) = \int_{-1/2}^{1/2}d\tau_1 \;{_2}F_1(a,a;1;q^v)$
where $q=e^{2\pi i \tau}$ and $\tau=\tau_1+i\tau_2$? Also $a$ is some real number probably $\leq 1$ and $v\in[0,1]$.

A: I'll assume $v \in (0, 1)$. If $z = e^{2 \pi i v \tau_1}$, then
$$I = \frac 1 {2 \pi i v} \int_{|z| = 1 \land \left| \arg z \right| < \pi v}
 \frac {{_2 F_1}(a, a; 1; \omega z)} z dz,$$
where $\omega = e^{-2 \pi v \tau_2}$. An antiderivative of the integrand is
$$F(z) = a^2 \omega z \,{_4 F_3}(1, 1, a + 1, a + 1; 2, 2, 2; \omega z) + \ln z.$$
Assume also that the branch cuts of the hypergeometric functions are along $[1, \infty)$ and that $\ln z$ is the principal branch of the logarithm. If $\tau_2 > 0$, then $\omega z$ is inside the unit circle and $F$ is continuous on the integration contour. If $\tau_2 < 0$, then there is a discontinuity at $z = 1$. Therefore
$$I = \frac 1 {2 \pi i v} \cases {
 F(e^{\pi i v}) - F(e^{-\pi i v}) & $\tau_2 > 0$ \\
 F(e^{\pi i v}) - F(1 + i0) + F(1 - i0) - F(e^{-\pi i v}) & $\tau_2 < 0$}.$$


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Vinny Arora was born on 28 June 1991 in India. She made her first television appearance at age 17. She made her debut on the Indian series Kasturi. From 2008 to 2009, she starred on the show Aathvaan Vachan. She next joined the main cast of the serial Maat Pitaah Ke Charnon Mein Swarg, which she starred in from 2009 to 2010.
In the 2010s, she made appearances on the television shows Main Lakshmi Tere Aangan Ki, Fear Files, Shubh Vivah, Do Dil Ek Jaan, Yeh Hai Aashiqui, and Saraswatichandra. From 2014 to 2015, she starred on the show Hum Hain Na. Her next television credit was on Itna Karo Na Mujhe Pyaar. Her most recent work was in Udaan.