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The profession of designing craft for use on or in the water. The high art of ship design, known as naval architecture, emerged during the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. The growth of naval architecture marked a departure from the craft tradition of ship design. It resulted in applying abstract mathematics to ship design, drafting designs on paper, and, overall, taking a more rational approach to design.
From ancient times to the Renaissance, one tradition of ship design existed. In this folk art the master shipwright controlled most of the production process, from selecting the trees for ship timber to launching the completed vessel. Design formed only one of the facets of this craft. It required practical experience, a sense of aesthetics, and an eye for hydrodynamic lines. Some of the earliest ship designers modeled their vessels on seaworthy examples. At first they based their designs on natural forms, such as fish and the underwater lines of waterfowl. The phrase used to describe a ship with a bluff bow and fine stern, "cod's head and mackerel's tail," stems from this design tradition.
As certain wooden ships became known for their seaworthiness, shipwrights copied their lines for new vessels. It is, therefore, not extraordinary that ships from various parts of medieval Europe could fall within general classifications, such as the cog. This craft-based form of ship design prevailed in some countries well into the nineteenth century.
Throughout its history, naval architecture has been closely tied to governmental shipbuilding programs because the development of new design methods and supporting institutions requires a significant financial investment. Venetian shipbuilders were the first to try to replace craft-based design methods with theoretical ones. By the early–fifteenth century, they had elevated galley design to its zenith. To help preserve their superior designs, the Venetians developed a formulaic method requiring only the dimensions of the keel, stem, stern, and midship section. Using this sesto e partixon system, they could extrapolate the rest of the hull lines from these few basic proportions. The Venetians became adept at drawing and preserved some of their designs on paper. They recorded their mathematical methods in the first treatises concerning shipbuilding. Beginning in the mid- to late–fifteenth century, Venetian shipbuilders wrote and reproduced by hand several of these treatises.
Shipbuilders in other seafaring countries began to develop sophisticated methods of their own. In the sixteenth century, Spanish shipbuilder Diego Garcia de Palacio published the book Instrucción náutica para navegar. Palacio's treatise represents the first shipbuilding publication printed in large quantities.
This early European movement to develop theoretical ship design methods and preserve them in books departed from the craft tradition of design. Training new generations of master craftworkers had rested on the foundation of apprenticeship and hands-on experience, not book learning. The Venetians and Spaniards began a process that led to the separation of ship design from ship construction.
By the seventeenth century, France vied with Spain, England, and the Netherlands for control of the seas. King Louis XIV hungered for maritime commerce and naval power, and his finance minister and minister of the navy Jean Baptiste Colbert did his best to satisfy those desires. From 1661 until his death, in 1683, Colbert increased the size and number of French warships, improved training of naval officers, and ordered numerous charts prepared for better navigation. In 1666, he founded the Académie des Sciences, which became a forum for scientific matters, including navigation and ship design. In 1680 Colbert brought together prominent French shipbuilders to determine the best way to maximize speed, maneuverability, and gun positioning on board men-of-war. This group established standard dimensions for each class of warship and eliminated many of the rule-of-thumb methods practiced by private contractors.
During the 1700s Colbert's campaign to promote navigation and shipbuilding bore fruit in the form of design research. French experimenters pioneered the use of model ship basins to test the performance of ship forms. In addition, the Académie awarded prizes for research on ship design subjects, such as the best method for diminishing the rolling and pitching of vessels or propelling a vessel without the use of sails.
French works on naval architecture became recognized as the world's leading ship design treatises. Paul Hoste, a Jesuit professor at the Toulon Naval Academy, wrote Théorie de la construction des vaisseaux in 1697. His treatise laid the foundation for later works on naval architecture by employing the principles of statics and mechanics. In 1746 Pierre Bouguer completed his influential work, Traité du navire. Bouguer devised the trapezoidal rule for the mensuration of areas, which became the basis for many of the hydrostatic calculations that enter into modern naval architecture. In 1752, naval architect and instructor Duhamel du Monceau published Elémens de l'architecture navale. Monceau's book became widely recognized as one of the eighteenth century's best naval architecture treatises and was translated into Dutch, German, and English.
The French were the first to establish educational institutions to support the profession of naval architecture. During his administration, Colbert had founded schools of naval construction at the Brest and Rochefort navy yards. These schools began the process of separating ship designers from shipwrights and transforming naval architecture into a form of engineering. In 1765, the French continued this process by founding the École d'Application du Génie Maritime to train its naval constructors. This school was the first to educate its students in the science of ship design.
British interest in naval architecture lagged behind that of the French. The British always had a reputation as some of the best shipwrights in Europe, and a number of English master builders, such as Phineas Pett and Anthony Deane, distinguished themselves as warship designers. Britain's movement to rationalize the craft of shipbuilding might not have begun, however, had it not been for that nation's dependence on overseas commerce and the influence of the Royal Navy. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Great Britain had to control the ocean lifelines that provided for its economy and support a powerful navy to protect those vital supply lines.
The British began to adopt the methods and institutions of naval architecture during the Napoléonic Wars. Fearing that the superiority of French warship designs might tip the balance of power in favor of their naval rivals, British shipbuilders and naval personnel focused their attention on warship design. Some of Britain's most accomplished mathematicians perfected naval architecture theory beyond the principles advanced by the French. In the 1790s Colonel Mark Beaufoy undertook a five-year study of the resistance of various wooden shapes to water. Beaufoy's tests represented the first serious British attempt to understand the resistance of hydrodynamic forms to water. Beaufoy also took a leading role in forming the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture in 1796. It comprised civilians and naval personnel who supported the study of ship design and construction.
Royal dockyard officials Samuel Bentham and Robert Seppings made their greatest contributions to warship construction methods during this period. One of Bentham's many initiatives led to the founding of dockyard schools for the Royal Navy's shipwrights.
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Ronald W. Botkin
December 7, 1958 - April 20, 2020
Ronald Wayne Botkin, 61, husband of Tammy (Rexrode) Botkin, of Staunton, died Monday, April 20, 2020 at his residence. He was born December 7, 1958 in Staunton, a son of the late Lonnie Summerfield and Carnetha (Earhart) Botkin. Mr. Botkin was employed by Fisher Auto Parts as a computer programmer for 40 years. In addition to his wife of 30 years, family members include a son, David Botkin; a daughter, Courtney Botkin; a brother and sister-in-law, Mike and Kim Botkin; his mother-in-law, Joyce Rexrode; an aunt, Mary Smith; two brothers-in-law, Dan Rexrode and wife, Becki, and Chub Rexrode and wife, Nancy; and nieces and nephews, Bo Botkin, Nathan and Sydney Rexrode, Kristen Rexrode, Matt and Jenifer Rexrode, and Michael Rexrode. Services will be announced at a later date. Henry Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Ronald Wayne Botkin, 61, husband of Tammy (Rexrode) Botkin, of Staunton, died Monday, April 20, 2020 at his residence. He was born December 7, 1958 in Staunton, a son of the late Lonnie Summerfield and Carnetha (Earhart) Botkin. Mr. Botkin... View Obituary & Service Information
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Q: How to access value inside a jquery function to outside angular function? create{
   var view;
   $(".l_item").click(function(){
      view = this.value;
   });
   console.log(this.view);
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This is my jquery function used to get the selected value of the I_item (array of list).after getting this value i need to use this value outside the function
But i get undefined value..so how to achieve this ? any help will be appreciated,

A: Define Your Variable Outside click function then use that variable inside your test() method
$scope.view;
$(".l_item").click(function(){
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Then you can access the view variable outside the click function but it will work
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A: You haven't mentioned here the Angular Version which you are using here. So, I am providing you the logic in context to the angular 2. Please follow below steps:-
1) If the jquery is installed then write following piece of code to access jquery inside the component.
declare var $: any;

2) It is always a good practice to write all the jquery in some external JS file, instead of writing at component level. So I am assuming that you already have an external JS file which has a function test() inside it.
3) Now at component level, in order to access that function you need to write the following line of code
declare var test: any;

4) Now in case you want that test() function should return some value, then inside the JS file you need to return that value as follows:-
test(){
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}

5) You can get the value from jquery function at component with the following line of code :-
var returnValue=test();

6) Do remember that your external js file should load after the main jquery file. You  can add external jquery file to the angular module by declaring it inside angularCLI.json as follows:-
"scripts": [
    "../node_modules/jquery/dist/jquery.js",
    "../src/assets/js/core/testmodule/customtest.js"
  ],

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"This has been an eventful quarter for the Company, as we completed the divestiture of all non-core businesses, and developed additional service tiers and expanded sales channels for Identity Guard ® with Watson™," stated Johan Roets, Chief Executive Officer. "In addition, the cybersecurity incident announced by Equifax Inc. on September 7, 2017, potentially impacting approximately 145 million U.S. consumers, and its subsequent response thereto, have impacted our industry profoundly. Equifax has offered credit locks for life and free credit monitoring for at least twelve months to nearly all U.S. consumers. The fact that such critical data containing social security numbers, driver's license numbers, full names and dates of birth have been exposed - data that will never change during one's lifetime - means that nearly every adult U.S. citizen may now have to deal with the risk of identity misuse and financial crime for an unknown, extended period of time. As a result, we believe that the first significant effects of such criminal activities may not occur until after the Equifax free credit monitoring expires in a year's time. We expect the already complex relationships between the three major U.S. credit reporting agencies and the consumers whose data they collect will become even more problematic as consumers object to their lack of control over how these organizations store, use and share their most personal and sensitive data. We believe that as the largest independent provider of identity theft protection and privacy services to consumers in the U.S., Intersections stands to gain from consumers who want someone other than the credit agencies to protect them.
"As we look ahead to the fourth quarter and 2018, we are optimistic about the Company's future, with a renewed focus, best-in-class products, and strong consumer need for comprehensive identity protection solutions," continued Mr. Roets. "As the Company focuses on growing its business, we continue to successfully build our distribution pipeline through marketing partners and the employee benefit broker channel. We have seen some substantial wins in both channels. Additionally, deals won by Equifax in the employee benefit arena have been re-tendered in the aftermath of their data breach."
The Identity Guard ® with Watson™ technology platform and product suite was launched on June 26, 2017. During the third quarter, development activities expanded the platform to support additional service tiers that will be available by the first quarter of 2018, including both an entry level Value service and a premium service, Premier, to go with our Total service plan. All three tiers of service for Identity Guard ® with Watson™ also include an option for a robust family coverage service. The Company expects the Identity Guard ® with Watson™ product suite to be its primary offering starting in January 2018.
A successful business development campaign began in the third quarter to work with employers and their employee benefits advisors to make Identity Guard ® identity theft protection available to employees across the U.S. Employers responded favorably to our programs and plan to begin covering new employee populations in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The Company completed the divestiture of its Pet Health Monitoring business, known as Voyce, effective July 31, 2017. The Voyce sale, along with the sales of the Company's Bail Bond Industry Solutions business in the first quarter of 2017 and its insurance consulting business in the second quarter of 2017, completes the Company's previously announced program to divest all non-core businesses and focus solely on the personal identity theft protection market for consumers.
The completed divestiture program allows management to exclusively focus on the full market launch of Identity Guard ® with Watson™, executing new partner opportunities, fine-tuning its direct-to-consumer marketing, and continuing its pursuit of cost control through streamlining and optimizing processes.
Identity Guard ® and the Canadian business achieved year over year revenue growth of 0.2% and 7.9%, respectively, compared to the third quarter of 2016.
Consolidated revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $39.2 million, compared to $43.0 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. Loss from continuing operations before income taxes for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $(3.4) million, compared to $(2.2) million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. Consolidated adjusted EBITDA (loss) before share related compensation and non-cash impairment charges ("Adjusted EBITDA") for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $958 thousand, compared to $1.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. Basic and diluted loss from continuing operations per share for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $(0.14), compared to $(0.09) for the quarter ended September 30, 2016.
Consolidated revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $119.6 million, compared to $133.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. Loss from continuing operations before income taxes for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $(13.0) million, compared to $(2.2) million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA (loss) for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $(777) thousand, compared to $8.4 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. Basic and diluted loss from continuing operations per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $(0.55), compared to $(0.09) for the nine months ended September 30, 2016.
Identity Guard ® subscriber revenue of $12.4 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2017, remained consistent with revenue of $12.5 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2017 and revenue of $12.4 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. The Identity Guard ® subscriber base was 338 thousand subscribers as of September 30, 2017, compared to 329 thousand subscribers as of June 30, 2017. Subscriber growth late in the third quarter is expected to have a positive impact on revenue in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Revenue from U.S. financial institution clients was $20.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 compared to revenue of $21.4 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2017. Revenue decreased by 0.9% per month during the third quarter, which the Company believes is representative of normal attrition given the discontinuation of marketing and retention efforts for this population.
Loss from continuing operations before income taxes for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $(3.4) million, compared to $(5.3) million for the quarter ended June 30, 2017, and $(2.2) million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. The improvement in the third quarter results compared to the second quarter 2017 was primarily due to the negative impact in the second quarter of a $1.5 million non-cash loss on extinguishment of debt as a result of the term loan refinancing closed in April 2017, and an increase of $1.0 million in the estimated liability for non-income business taxes.
Adjusted EBITDA (loss) for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $958 thousand, compared to $(735) thousand for the quarter ended June 30, 2017 and $1.8 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2016. The increase compared to the second quarter 2017 was primarily due to the negative impact of a $1.0 million increase in the estimated liability for non-income business taxes in the second quarter.
As of September 30, 2017, the Company had a cash balance of $7.0 million, and an outstanding principal balance of $20.0 million under its new credit agreement, as amended. Cash (used in) operating activities of continuing operations for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 was $(1.8) million. Cash provided by operating activities of continuing operations for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 was $81 thousand.
The Company began expanding its business development capabilities in 2016 to address market channel and distribution opportunities and continued the expansion of this team in the first nine months of 2017. As a result, cash used in operating activities for the nine-month period includes approximately $3.6 million for business development activities, the significant majority of which is personnel cost. The Company expects to continue its spending on business development activities at approximately the same level as the first nine months of 2017 for the remainder of 2017.
Cash used in operating activities included $6.3 million in the nine months ended September 30, 2017 for deferred subscription and solicitation costs related to our direct-to-consumer marketing, including $1.0 million in the third quarter. The Company implemented changes beginning in the second quarter to reduce the cash marketing spending in this channel and expects the use of cash for this purpose to continue to decline for the remainder of 2017.
The Company continued to develop new product features primarily for the Identity Guard ® with Watson ™ platform during the nine-month period ending September 30, 2017. As a result, the Company invested approximately $2.7 million in internally developed capitalized software for the nine-month period. The Company expects to continue its investments in product development at approximately the same level as the first nine months of 2017 for the remainder of 2017.
For additional information, Please see "Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources" in our most recent Form 10-Q.
The Company will hold a conference call to provide a third quarter 2017 business update on Monday, November 13, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Interested parties can access the live webcast on the Investor's page at Intersections Inc.'s website www.intersections.com. The live call can be accessed by dialing the toll free numbers below. Those who wish to participate in the Q&A session must dial in.
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The replay of the webcast will be available November 13, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) through November 19, 2017 at 11:59 PM (Eastern Time). The dial-in for the replay is 888-843-7419 or 630-652-3042 with the replay access code of 7033124#.
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ZEE5 Global makes key appointments in product and tech team
Rahul Vaz and Vinay Patodia have been appointed as product head and technology head respectively
MUMBAI :As it looks to aggressively scale up operations across international markets, ZEE5 Global has made some key appointments strengthening its Product and Tech team. Rahul Vaz has been appointed to head up the Product team. Rahul most recently served as Sr. Product Director –Vootand will be based out of the ZEE5 Global office in Mumbai.
Rahul comes with an extensive experience of over 18 years. Through stints at People Interactive, Hungama Digital and most recently with Viacom's Voot, he has worked with OTT and Video products from the ground up and has a deep understanding of the consumer tech segment.
In his role at ZEE5 Global, Rahul will be responsible fordefining and driving what the user experience of ZEE5 Global should be in global markets and grow out the product division and ensure a seamless entertainment experience on the platform for ZEE5's global audiences.In addition to this he will build efficiencies towards a stronger user interface in terms of design, communication and more, while also looking for constant improvements on the web and app.
Also joining the team asHead of Technology is Vinay Patodia who comes with a strong background of 18+ years in driving technology strategy and operations across companies like Hungama Digital, Onmobile, Torchfi and others. He will lead the engineering team and be responsible for building out an innovative,scalable and customer-centric platform.
"Both Rahul and Vinay come in at a time when we are significantly ramping up across global marketsand ensuring that we have the most robust and scalable product and technology is key to this. Both bring in strong domain expertise and experience and will play a key role as we grow and consolidate our leadership position, " ZEE5 Global chief business officer Archana Anand commented.
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What I'm Reading (and Watching): February 2017
Those of us who once nursed ambitions of reading the whole internet before we died have now had to lay them aside. There is just so much of it! There are so many journalists wanting you to read their opinions. They seem to increase by the day.
Perhaps it is time we set aside our youthful notions of the internet as a place where opinions are read, and thought of it instead as a place where books are recommended. I have read several books in this year of our Lord twenty-seventeen, gentle reader. Today I share them with you.
Wildwood (Colin Meloy)
Are you familiar with The Decemberists? Those acoustic troubadours who specialize in sea shanties and murder ballads about half-starved orphans and treacherous mariners bent on revenge? It may surprise you to learn that band leader Colin Meloy is also a writer, a writer of fictions for children. Even more surprising, his books are every bit as good as his songs. This novel, the first in a series about a girl whose brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows, will delight those who enjoyed The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Lemony Snicket books. If you like novels in which coyotes yip and snarl and wear French military uniforms from the nineteenth century, this is the book for you.
Miss Pym Disposes (Josephine Tey)
I'm almost halfway through this slim novel by one of the acknowledged masters of mid-century murder mysteries. I think there's supposed to be a murder, eventually? So far all the heroine has done is wander quietly around a girl's college, nipping into the village at one point to have tea at noon. When she opens the storage closet, she finds badminton equipment and no bodies. The tea is lukewarm but unpoisoned. Every murder mystery is a delicate balance of coziness and danger; by entirely removing the murder, this one proves cozier than most.
Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)
There are certain times in this strange, mixed-up world of ours, dear reader, when one is seized with an irresistible impulse to run out into the street singing the praises of Charles Dickens. For me those times usually coincide with the reading of one of his novels. They are all so vivid, so colorful, so fanciful, so Gothic; so full of the sort of weird imaginative details that only he seemed to come up with. I'm less than a quarter of the way through this one, but already it has provided enough of those details to delight my heart. An old sailor with a hook for a hand who replaces the hook with a knife when peeling potatoes. A brave and innocent girl who is kidnapped and whose beautiful hair is nearly chopped off by a mad old biddy. A house in Brighton where the soil is chalky and giant snails cling to the windows and doors the way a young man clings to the book he loves.
Our Chemical Hearts (Krystal Sutherland) [mild spoilers ahead]
If you think John Green's books don't have enough manic-pixie dream girls, then here is an ample supply. If you thought Hazel and Augustus making out inside the Anne Frank museum was a model of restraint and sobriety, then you have undoubtedly already read this novel about a girl who wanders the cemetery in her dead boyfriend's musty clothes, occasionally making out with live boys and saying things like, "The best thing the universe ever gave us is that we'll all be forgotten."
… and what I'm watching
This NBC comedy by Michael Schur (Parks & Recreation) was pitched as a comedic version of Lost or The Twilight Zone. It portrays events in the afterlife of Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell) after she's run down and killed while chasing after a bottle of margarita mix in a store parking lot. She finds herself in "The Good Place," a colorful village inhabited by those who led saintly lives on earth. Yet she soon realizes that she doesn't belong here, and that some kind of clerical error has saved her from eternal damnation. I watched the entire first season of this show in a single day (it's currently available for free on NBC's website) and I have no regrets.
Every so often there appears a work so perfect that even to critique it feels like a faintly blasphemous act, an intrusion on the sacred. The four Gospels, for example. The first two Killers albums. And this Inspector Morse prequel set in 1960s Oxford and starring Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, and Anton Lesser. If you like men in fedoras, cleverly orchestrated killings, and sunlight falling on ancient stone streets, then you are obligated to watch this. I formally absolve you from all your professional and family obligations until you have finished it. You have nothing else holding you back. Just watch and enjoy.
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What I'm Into: September 2015
Posted in Art & Entertainment, Books, Movies	by Boze Herrington
This month I came through an existential crisis and reaffirmed my trust in the goodness of life and an ultimate purpose to human existence. I also watched a lot of movies about outer space, because apparently that's what I'm into in September 2015.
A few of the lesser films I saw this month (there were a lot, okay?): Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, The Road Warrior, 2012 (blame this on my brother-in-law), Home, Tom Brown's Schooldays (with Stephen Fry), A Tale of Two Cities (1989), Arabesque (with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren), Week End (Godard's worst movie? hopefully?), Bigger than Life (a fine performance from James Mason), The Haunting (1963), Never Let Me Go.
Now for the better ones:
Kingsman: The Secret Service. Somehow I saw the censored version of this one. A few days later I watched the original cut and walked away with a less positive feeling. The violence is cartoonishly over-the-top, but it features an excellent performance by Colin Firth as a Hagrid-type father-figure shepherding a young man into a secret spy organization. The narrative combines elements of Ender's Game and Harry Potter. ***1/2
Captain Phillips. Based on a true story and powerfully directed by Paul Greengrass (who also directed the second and third Bourne movie), this movie about Somali pirates hijacking a merchant vessel features one of Tom Cruise's best performances in years. ***1/2
Saving Mr. Banks. More fine performances from Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson as Walt Disney and P. L. Travers, the author of the Mary Poppins books, respectively. Colin Farrell appears somewhat randomly in flashbacks. ***1/2
The Theory of Everything. A Stephen Hawking biopic that tells you almost nothing about Hawking's ideas, choosing to focus on his disastrous marital life. Excellent performances by Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne (who won an Oscar for the role).
Westworld (1973). Initially I rated this one only three stars. But then I couldn't stop thinking about it. Or talking about it. Michael Crichton writes and directs this pre-Jurassic Park story about a Wild West theme park staffed with robots who turn and kill the human guests. But the highlight of the movie is Yul Brynner as a gun-toting, slow-walking, murderous robot cowboy—the Terminator in spurs and a Stetson. ***1/2… actually, no, make that **** stars
Stalag 17. One of the classic prisoner-of-war dramas, about a group of men being held prisoner by the Nazis and the one man (William Holden) who is suspected by his fellow soldiers of being an informant. Great script and several unforgettable moments. ****
Inside Llewyn Davis. Come for the folk music, stay for a sweet story about a cat and a vivid evocation of winter 1960 in New York. ***
The Lady from Shanghai (1947). It's no secret that I love everything Orson Welles has ever done. This noir film about a man framed for murder occasionally stretches credulity (how could anyone be so gullible?), but features possibly the first use of a "hall of mirrors" climax in cinema. ***1/2
The Stranger (1945). Another great Welles noir, featuring the first use of concentration camp footage in a motion picture and a dizzying denouement atop a clock tower. ***1/2
Carrie (1976). The movie that helped launch John Travolta and Sissy Spacek into stardom, this is one of those films that everyone knows the plot of, even if they've never seen it. Still, I was surprised by how effectively it made me feel for Carrie in the moments just before she wreaked her unholy vengeance. ***
They Live! John Carpenter's quasi-Gnostic, pre-Matrix parable about a man (Roddy Piper, sporting a mullet and fresh out of bubblegum) who discovers a pair of sunglasses that reveal a hidden alien society all around him. Simple, sometimes troubling, but always engrossing. ***1/2
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (special edition): the highlight of this late western is the Bob Dylan soundtrack. (Dylan himself appears in an understated role as a curly-headed young man). ***1/2
The Secret Garden (1949). Great black-and-white cinematography and set design elevate this story about three children who discover a secret garden. Directed by Fred Wilcox (who would go on to direct Forbidden Planet), this movie is a wonder to look at. ***1/2
Howl's Moving Castle. Stunningly original, visually brilliant, with a story that is convoluted (in the grand tradition of most Miyazaki films) but always compelling. ****
2001: A Space Odyssey. I loved this movie. I don't understand why everyone thinks it's so boring. It's contemplative. It's a prayer. It's humanity in search of the meaning of our own existence. ****
Lawrence of Arabia. Several finely staged setpieces, some unforgettable narrative twists, and the most epic cinematography ever committed to film. Worth it just to see Peter O'Toole and Alec Guinness together on screen.
Before Midnight. The third film in Richard Linklater's Before series deconstructs the romance of the previous movies, showing us a Jesse and Celine who are nine years older and beginning to wonder if their relationship is really worth it. Includes one of the most realistically written and acted arguments in any movie. ****
……....Fanny and Alexander. Bergman released this movie in a theatrical edition and a TV version for Denmark television that was five hours long. I started watching the shorter version and became so engrossed I knew I had to watch all of it. Having now finished part one of the TV series, I can already say it's one of the best films I've ever seen, like a Tolstoy novel on screen.
Black Mirror. A modern-day spin on The Twilight Zone, but focused on the perils of technology. The first, unforgettable episode recently made the news when Lord Ashcroft claimed that David Cameron had had sexual relations with a pig at Oxford, which happens to be almost the exact plot of that episode.
Agatha Christie's Poirot. Continuing my trek through this decades-in-the-making TV series, I finished Season 6 with "Dumb Witness" and began Season 7 with "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd." The series has adapted Christie with admirable consistency (and at this point might be my favorite show, ever).
Veronica Mars. Joss Whedon called this teen mystery drama the TV version of Harry Potter, and it's true. This show is everything I need right now.
Dombey and Son. Almost a hundred pages into this one. It has some of Dickens' best prose, which is both a virtue and a drawback. Dombey has a son (and possibly a daughter?), but apart from that I have no clue what's going on.
Spooky Texas (S. E. Schlosser). Now that I'm home, I have access to several collections of southwestern folklore. This one compiles several of the best-known legends of Texas.
We Were Liars (E. Lockhart, 2014). This is a gorgeous book and everyone must read it.
The Missing Girl (Norma Fox Mazer). I read this book about five girls and the man who decides to kidnap one of them in one sitting.
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (H. G. Bissinger). A powerful and damning indictment of Texas sports culture, and possibly Texas in general.
Jane Austen's England (Roy and Lesley Adkins). A breezy but informative handbook for writers.
The God of Hope and the End of the World (John Polkinghorne). A book that helped me through a profound crisis.
Collected Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor. Flannery! FLANNERY!!!
First Term at Malory Towers (Enid Blyton). The first in a series of books about a girls' boarding school. I LOVE this book. The relationships are all beautifully, convincingly rendered and the girls' mischievous antics are reminiscent of the Weasley twins, among others.
What about you? What did you read or see this month?
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Design and develop software architecture, modeling, timeline estimates, resource requirements, technology roadmap, etc. Must have equivalent to a bachelor degree in information technology plus two years of experience as IT professional in Big Data environment.
In a consulting environment meet with client user management in order to gather and evaluate requirements within the client's existing computer environment with the objective of providing improved big data and JAVA applications. From requirements develop technical specifications and participate in the full application development cycle including analysis, design, development, testing (unit/regression), documentation, implementation and monitoring of Big Data and JAVA applications utilizing HIVE, UNIX, and Java API (these are components required to develop and utilize big data applications). Monitor the development process utilizing Agile methodology.
Requires a Master's Degree in Electronics Engineering and 1 year experience. In lieu of, will accept a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering and 5 years of experience, or any suitable combination of education, training or experience thereof. No less than a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics Engineering and 5 years of experience is acceptable. Experience can be progressive.
Must be willing to travel to various unanticipated job sites within the U.S.
In a consulting environment meet with client user management in order to gather and evaluate requirements within the client's existing computer environment with the objective of providing improved financial technical solutions. From requirements develop technical specifications leading to the Statement of Work (SOW). Direct and participate in the full application development cycle including analysis, design, development, testing, documentation, implementation utilizing object oriented programming languages (PERL, Python, UNIX), Waterfall and Agile (methodologies used to track project progress) and JIRA and Rally (tools used to track project backlogs).
Requires a Master's Degree in Business Administration or Computer Science and 1 year experience.
In a consulting environment meet with client user management in order to gather and evaluate requirements within the client's existing big data environment with the objective of providing improved real time streaming analytics. From requirements develop technical specifications and participate in the full application development cycle including analysis, design, development, testing (unit/regression), documentation, implementation and monitoring of real time Big Data applications utilizing Apache Spark, KAFKA, Elastic Search, and H Base (these are components and technologies required to work on big data applications). Monitor the development process utilizing Agile methodology.
Requires a Master's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and 1 year experience. In lieu of, will accept a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and 5 years of experience, or any suitable combination of education, training or experience thereof. No less than a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and 5 years of experience is acceptable. Experience can be progressive.
Manage complex projects to deliver Big Data engineering solutions. Must have equivalent to a bachelor degree in computer information systems or mechanical engineering plus two years of experience as IT professional in Big Data environment.
In a consulting environment meet with client user management in order to gather and evaluate requirements within the client's existing computer environment with the objective of providing improved big data applications. From requirements develop technical specifications and participate in the full application development cycle including analysis, design, development, testing (unit/regression), documentation, implementation and monitoring of Big Data applications utilizing HIVE, Hadoop, Spark, UNIX, Python and Java API (these are components required to develop and utilize big data applications). Monitor the development process utilizing Agile methodology.
Requires a Master's Degree in Information Technology and 1 year experience. In lieu of, will accept a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and 5 years of experience, or any suitable combination of education, training or experience thereof. No less than a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology and 5 years of experience is acceptable. Experience can be progressive.
In a consulting environment meet with client user management in order to gather and evaluate requirements within the client's existing computer environment with the objective of providing improved big data cloud technologies. From requirements develop technical specifications and participate in the full application development cycle including analysis, design, development, testing (unit/regression), documentation, implementation and monitoring of Big Data applications utilizing HIVE, Hadoop, Spark, UNIX, Python and Scala API (these are components required to develop and utilize big data applications). Monitor the development process utilizing Agile methodology.
Requires a Master's Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering and 1 year experience. In lieu of, will accept a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering and 5 years of experience, or any suitable combination of education, training or experience thereof. No less than a Bachelor's Degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering and 5 years of experience is acceptable. Experience can be progressive.
Design and develop software architecture, modeling, timeline estimates, resource requirements, technology roadmap, etc. Must have equivalent to a bachelor degree in computer science or computer information systems plus two years of experience as IT professional in Big Data environment.
Design and develop software architecture, modeling, timeline estimates, resource requirements, technology roadmap, etc. Must have equivalent to a bachelor degree in computer science or computer applications plus two years of experience as IT professional in Big Data environment.
Design and develop software architecture, modeling, timeline estimates, resource requirements, technology roadmap, etc. Must have equivalent to a bachelor degree in computer science or electrical engineering plus two years of experience as IT professional in Big Data environment.
Design and develop software architecture, modeling, timeline estimates, resource requirements, technology roadmap, etc. Must have equivalent to a bachelor degree in computer science or information technology plus two years of experience as IT professional in Big Data environment.
As a Big Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact, both to our organization and those of our Fortune 500 clients. You will work directly with clients at the intersection of business and technology. You will leverage your experience with Hadoop and software engineering to help our clients use insights gleaned from their data to drive value.
You will also be given substantial opportunities to develop and expand your technical skillset with emerging Big Data technologies so you can continually innovate, learn, and hit the gas pedal on your career.
Designed/ architected and implemented complex projects dealing with the considerable data size (GB/ PB) and with high complexity.
Implemented various Java/ J2EE/ EAI patterns using Open Source products.
Should have experience on working with batch processing/ real-time systems using various Open Source technologies like Solr, Hadoop, NoSQL DB's, Storm, Kafka, etc.
Capable of providing the design and Architecture for the typical business problems, exposure on hadoop distribution used in big data solution.
Exposure and awareness of complete PDLC.
Out of box thinker and not just limited to the work done in the projects.
Capable of working as an individual contributor and within team too.
Good communication, problem solving & interpersonal skills.
Proven experience with Extract, Transform, Load tools – Informatica, SSIS, ODI, Pentaho Data Integration, etc.
Solid understanding of the software development process, including requirement gathering, analysis/design, development tools/technologies, release/version control, contemporary testing methodologies, and deployment management.
Demonstrated ability to prepare complex data models.
Demonstrated experience in data integration and the specification of data services.
Familiar with highly complex logical data design and data mapping or data conversion.
Able to learn effectively and meet deadlines.
Self-motivated and works independently and as part of a team.
Designed/ architected and implemented complex projects dealing with the considerable data size (GB/PB) and with high complexity.
Ability to manage, drive and lead the product and project development engineering teams.
Good communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
Capable of working with different types of customers and should possess good customer handling skills.
Self-starter & resourceful personality with ability to manage pressure situations.
Should have experience in defining the project and delivery plan for each assignment.
Knowledge/ experience in writing M/R (Map Reduce) jobs.
As a member of User Experience (UX) Practice team at Impetus, you will collaborate with clients, internal product teams, UI engineers, and UX/Visual designers to deliver best of class user interfaces for web, mobile and tablets. Our objective is to deliver advanced visualizations using D3.js along with frameworks such as AngularJS or React.js.
The Analytics Engineer will be responsible for modeling and analysis of data for mining of useful patterns used for business and other purposes. He should be able to understand data by performing exploratory data analysis, visualize it, process it using various data mining/machine learning algorithms like classification, clustering, recommendation, extract value from it and communicate it effectively.
Processing of structured and unstructured data.
Thinking about uses of data for various business purposes.
Using various algorithms from statistics, machine learning or pattern recognition to find patterns in the data.
Visualizing and reporting data findings in a variety of formats.
Researching and implementing new algorithms in data analysis.
Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or related technical fields, Master's required.
Strong mathematics and statistics skills.
Ability to use computers to extract value from data.
Exposure in few of R/SAS/MATLAB/Octave/Mahout/Excel/ with proficiency in one. Proficiency in R a big plus.
Coursework or practical experience with data mining/business intelligence/statistics.
Coursework or practical experience with building algorithms.
Strong problem solving and logical skills.
Ability to think creatively and to work well both as part of a team and as an individual contributor.


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Juliette is a lead teacher for the Le Wagon. A few years ago, she dabbled into coding and fell in love with it. Today, she travels the world teaching with Le Wagon.
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What were you doing before Le Wagon?
I worked for the government of Panama as an embassy to the UN in Geneva.
What made you decide to change careers?
I loved the job and learnt a lot as I was the middle point between the national and international political sector. But as time went by I kept on noticing the same patterns. It wasn't that people didn't have the skill, money or will. It was more a problem of processes and that was when I started researching which technologies were out there to optimise those processes and automate them and make them more effective and efficient and eventually that's how I got into technology. Through that research, I quit my job, moved to Berlin and did Le Wagon there and the rest is history.
Why did you choose to do a bootcamp?
I struggled with online coding tutorials and went to a ton of coding workshops and tried to do it on my own until I realised I needed to be in a setting where I can get empowerment and physical help from teachers who knew better than me. I was getting stuck on the same thing over and over. So that's why I took the leap and decided to do Le Wagon there.
Why did you choose Le Wagon?
A big part of it was the time. I wanted to do something short and learn the most amount of things. Also, the great reviews. I kept on seeing organic reviews from hundreds of people who said that the experience changed their lives and it was very empowering and that was the type of people I wanted to be surrounded by.
Were your expectations met during the bootcamp?
I am going to say no. Because they were exceeded. I don't think I was prepared for what I was about to experience. Especially coming from the government sector I was used to following protocal, diplomatic and squared processes and all of a sudden I'm meeting all these people who are so passionate and "geeking" out over code for days and hours. It blew my mind.
What were the top challenges of the bootcamp?
1. The intensity of the program. I wasn't expecting to shut off my entire life while I was there.
2. The change of mindset - coming from a liberal arts background and having to transition into a procerdural process was really hard in the beginning but the curriculum was designed in such a wasy that if you crossed the threshold, the learning curve steepens and that was really powerful for me.
What were your key takeways from Le Wagon?
The community. I joined the program because I wanted to learn how to code but I left it with more friends than I can count and they just keep on growing. The fact that people come from different backgrounds and countries with code layered on top of what they knew before is incredibly powerful and is such a good bonding experience. I've been traveling around with the company for over a year now and for me when I get to a new city, I just hit up the Le Wagon slack and all of a sudden I have people to drink beer with, geek out with, I get jobs and the community is everything. Worth all my money.
How did you feel working with other students in the same position as you?
Very empowering, especially after trying it on my own, it was nice to see that I wasn't the only one. That communication and collaboration can go a long way when you're stuck in a bug that you don't even know where to start debugging. I think that teaching and learning from others is the best way to push yourself forward.
What do you think of the space?
Especially after having done Le Wagon in a sole office and coming to a co-working space like Inspire9, it was really shocking to me. I didn't quite understand how that would work, but after being here for 2 batches now I am amazed at the community that has been built and the networking that is gathered from working with similar people working on different projects. It's incredibly powerful.
What was your experience upon leaving Le Wagon and what are you doing now?
Once I left, I felt scared. I didn't think I would like programming as much as I did. It was a scary experience to rethink my path and what that would look like in the future. That's when I started applying for jobs and realising that I was a lot more prepared than I thought I was. That's when Le Wagon in Berlin offered me a job as a teaching assistant so I started working there, thinking it would be temporary and from there they offered me to do the same in Tel Aviv and then Bali and now Melbourne. Once I've realised I've been traveling the world for a year and right now I am one of the lead teachers for the bootcamp and it's a great job, I can't complain.
How are you applying your skills now?
Today, I work as a lead teacher for the bootcamp and also doing freelance work on the side. So it's a great market to come into because everyone needs a website these days. A lot of students will ask me what's the hardest part of being a freelancer, and it's definitely a lot more admin than it is getting clients.
What would you tell people who are considering Le Wagon?
I was reading this article the other day that said every company in 2019 is a tech company. Although that's not really true, the reality is that if you are not thinking of your company as a tech company, you won't make it. So for anyone who is thinking of joining Le Wagon, I would say that there is nothing more powerful than layering code over your background. It doesn't matter where you want to go, but knowing what's going on behind the scenes of the internet is half of what we do these days. If you are thinking about it, I would say go for it. It's worth a shot.
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From Economist to web developer in 9 weeks
Marcelo Bentivoglio used to worked in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs for 4 years. He decided to learn how to code and after completing Le Wagon, he is now launching his own product: MVP Invest
Gaining the confidence to learn by doing
Richard is a Politics & Economics grad from the UK, where he spent 2 years working at a startup in the north of London in mostly marketing & sales roles. He enrolled in Le Wagon Montréal's Fullstack program in early 2019.
Taking the Leap Into a Developer Role After Years As A Corporate Lawyer
Tair was a corporate lawyer who ditched the legal world to pursue coding. After completing the bootcamp, she is committed to continuous learning and fully transitioning into a developer role.
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package com.witchworks.common.block.natural.fluid;

import com.witchworks.common.lib.LibMod;
import net.minecraft.block.Block;
import net.minecraft.block.material.Material;
import net.minecraft.block.state.IBlockState;
import net.minecraft.entity.Entity;
import net.minecraft.entity.EntityLivingBase;
import net.minecraft.init.MobEffects;
import net.minecraft.init.SoundEvents;
import net.minecraft.potion.PotionEffect;
import net.minecraft.util.ResourceLocation;
import net.minecraft.util.math.BlockPos;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import net.minecraftforge.fluids.Fluid;
import net.minecraftforge.fluids.FluidRegistry;
import net.minecraftforge.fluids.IFluidBlock;

import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.function.Consumer;
import java.util.function.Function;

/**
 * This class was created by Arekkuusu on 03/05/2017.
 * It's distributed as part of Witch Works under
 * the MIT license.
 */
@SuppressWarnings("WeakerAccess")
public final class Fluids {

	public static final Set<IFluidBlock> MOD_FLUID_BLOCKS = new HashSet<>();

	public static final Fluid HONEY = createFluid("for.honey", false
			, fluid -> fluid.setLuminosity(10)
					.setEmptySound(SoundEvents.ITEM_BUCKET_EMPTY_LAVA)
					.setFillSound(SoundEvents.ITEM_BUCKET_FILL_LAVA)
					.setDensity(1500).setViscosity(8000)
			, fluid -> new BlockFluid(fluid, Material.WATER) {
				@Override
				public void onEntityCollidedWithBlock(World worldIn, BlockPos pos, IBlockState state, Entity entityIn) {
					if (entityIn instanceof EntityLivingBase)
						((EntityLivingBase) entityIn).addPotionEffect(new PotionEffect(MobEffects.REGENERATION, 60));
				}
			}, true);

	public static final Fluid MUNDANE_OIL = createFluid("oil_mundane", true
			, fluid -> fluid.setDensity(800).setViscosity(4000)
			, fluid -> new BlockFluid(fluid, Material.WATER), true);

	private Fluids() {
	}

	private static <T extends Block & IFluidBlock> Fluid createFluid(String name, boolean hasFlowIcon, Consumer<Fluid> fluidPropertyApplier, Function<Fluid, T> blockFactory, boolean hasBucket) {
		final ResourceLocation still = new ResourceLocation(LibMod.MOD_ID + ":blocks/fluid/" + name + "_still");
		final ResourceLocation flowing = hasFlowIcon ? new ResourceLocation(LibMod.MOD_ID + ":blocks/fluid/" + name + "_flow") : still;

		Fluid fluid = new Fluid(name, still, flowing);
		final boolean useOwnFluid = FluidRegistry.registerFluid(fluid);

		if (useOwnFluid) {
			fluidPropertyApplier.accept(fluid);
			MOD_FLUID_BLOCKS.add(blockFactory.apply(fluid));
			if (hasBucket)
				FluidRegistry.addBucketForFluid(fluid);
		} else {
			fluid = FluidRegistry.getFluid(name);
		}

		return fluid;
	}
}

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I started offering calligraphy workshops in 2015. As someone who isn't a natural-born public speaker (even if it's a tiny group of 12), I didn't expect to like teaching! I quickly found, however, that workshops are just another platform by which to connect with creative people and get to "geek out" over a shared passion: calligraphy. This year, I'm pleased to offer six beginner's modern calligraphy workshops on various dates sprinkled throughout the spring and summer!
Calligraphy Art Tutorial: How to Make a Flourished … Well, Anything!
For the past week, the focus of this blog has been on Lasso Lettering, which you can create with any pen. Today, I'd like to shift attention back to the dip pen! While any writing utensil is worth the time to get to know, I especially love the dip pen because of its stroke variation. A dip pen can seamlessly transition from making delicate, thin strokes into bold, heavy strokes — which leads to some serious visual appeal!
Introducing the Lasso Lettering Exemplar!
Sometimes, I think that hand-lettering is a little more approachable than calligraphy. Like calligraphy, hand-lettering celebrates the art of letters — but often with more familiar materials! That's not to say that hand-lettering is easy; just that you can usually make it with any pen or pencil. Furthermore, if you can write in everyday life, you can hand-letter! You'll just spend a little more time and concentration on each letter to do so.
When I set out to learn calligraphy, I could not figure out for the life of me how artists achieved opaque metallic lettering! I tried out a few different gold and silver inks, but the metallic particles always sunk to the bottom of the jar, resulting in transparent calligraphy with a couple of glittery spots. It wasn't ideal.


Samantha Dando's love of all things mechanical started with her father.
Dando applied to and was accepted by 15 Midwest schools before deciding upon College of DuPage.
So far she is pleased with her decision and the high quality of the Engineering program, including the faculty.
In addition to her engineering classes, Dando took automotive classes. She has transferred to Bradley University and its Caterpillar College of Engineering, where she is pursuing a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. She is part of the Mortar Board Seniors Honor Society and on the SWE exec board as Activities Chair. In 2016, she landed an internship for John Deere at Waterloo Works, where she worked as a quality engineering intern. In 2017, she returned to John Deere as a manufacturing engineering intern.
It seems fitting that Dando would like to work with industrial/car engines and related equipment. And College of DuPage is helping her reach that goal.


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Hayes Carll On World Cafe : World Cafe Early on Carll focused more on telling other people's stories than his own. Now, he has a sweet collection of new songs called What It Is where he tells his own.
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"American Dream"
"None'Ya"
"Jesus & Elvis"
"I Will Stay"
Hayes Carll has been making music for nearly two decades. Early on, he focused more on telling other people's stories than his own. Now, Carll has a really sweet collection of new songs called What It Is, where the roots rocker from Texas applies his keen eye for detail and humor to tell stories that reflect the world all around him — inside him and beside him.
Carll's partner, musician Allison Moorer, played a big part in the making of the album. She co-wrote several songs and co-produced the record along with Brad Jones. Moorer talks about watching Carll transform as a songwriter, and the two share what it was like to both put out records based on their respective divorces around the same time before they fell in love. Hear it a all in the player.
World Cafe: 6/12/19


Climate change is hastening shoreline erosion in the Arctic, where communities are facing tough decisions about how to stop homes and infrastructure from being washed away.
Darrel Nasogaluak has an unusual problem.
As the mayor of Tuktoyaktuk, a small Inuvialuit hamlet on the coast of the Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories, he has had to watch bits of his community wash away over the years.
Sometimes during a summer storm, he says, up to 4.6m (15ft) of shoreline can disappear in a few days.
It's now gotten to the point where a few homes are so close to the water's edge that they're getting spray on their windows during those storms, he adds.
Coastal erosion is nothing new in the Arctic. But it's gotten faster in recent years, due to climate change. In some regions of the Beaufort Sea, more than 21m (70ft) of coastline are lost each year.
The problem has attracted international attention in Alaska, where several coastal villages are considering relocation to escape the encroaching water.
In the Canadian Arctic, too, communities are facing tough decisions about how to protect homes and infrastructure from washing into the sea.
Nasogaluak says a few buildings have been moved away from the coast in Tuktoyaktuk in recent years, but there are still five occupied houses that are right next to the shoreline, some of which house elders.
But moving them is easier said than done. Nasogaluak said the community is waiting on territorial and federal money to help pay for the relocation and to fortify the receding shoreline around the hamlet.
It's also waiting for gravel to help build up new lots for the houses. But that likely won't come until the summer of 2018, Nasogaluak says, when it can be trucked up the new all-season road under construction from Inuvik, 120km (75 miles) to the south.
In the meantime, the hamlet is working on a new official community plan, which will address the threat of coastal erosion.
Margaret Kralt, a professional planner with Dillon Consulting in Yellowknife, says the plan will zone certain high-risk areas as off-limits to development. Tuktoyaktuk isn't in a position where it needs to consider relocating the entire community at once, she says, but the process is happening gradually.
Arctic coastlines have some of the highest rates of erosion in the world, and those rates are increasing as the climate warms.
That's partly because sea ice is forming later and melting earlier, exposing shorelines to heavy waves for longer. As permafrost melts, coastline that once was rock-solid is now starting to soften and wash away.
Fritz and his colleagues published a paper this month in the journal "Nature Climate Change," calling for more research into the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of Arctic coastal erosion. He believes the issue isn't studied enough because large research vessels avoid the shallow water where coastal erosion is taking place.
"If we don't invest more … we will not be able to create knowledge or to mitigate the very abrupt changes that are happening right now," he says.
Fritz also says erosion research should take into account the traditional knowledge of local people who are witnessing the changes firsthand.
The Canadian government is putting some resources into measuring the rate of coastal erosion in the Arctic. For instance, Dustin Whalen, a physical scientist with Natural Resources Canada, has been using an aerial drone to take photos of the changing Beaufort Sea coastline. The goal is to calculate how much sediment is eroding each year.
"I think what's a great story about this is we're using a very cheap, innovative technology to map one of the most affected coastlines in the world … in ways that we never were before," he says.
But those measurements may not help those who are dealing with the impacts of coastal erosion right now.
On Herschel Island, three of 12 historic buildings that formed a small whaling settlement at the turn of the 20th century were moved back from the water's edge, starting in 2003. Now their foundations have been raised above the water level and there are plans to lift the other buildings, too.
Barb Hogan, the manager of historic sites for the Yukon government, says it's possible the entire settlement could be moved to a new location inland at some point. But that wouldn't be an easy decision.
"There's a lot of things to consider if you move it into another area on the island. You've lost its historic context," she says, explaining that the settlement was built in a protected cove where whaling boats could anchor.
But these are real questions that will have to be answered. In Tuktoyaktuk, Darrel Nasogaluak's concerns stretch beyond the five houses now sitting on the edge of the water.
He worries about the harbor, which is currently protected by a long, skinny island less than 40m (44 yards) wide at its narrowest point. At current rates of erosion, the island could be breached within 20 years, which could allow big waves right into the harbor, threatening Tuktoyaktuk's hopes of becoming a deep-water port.
Bill Beamish says the harbor will also have to be redredged at some point, to remove all the sediment building up in the shallow water.
Still, the situation isn't desperate, says Nasogaluak. That's partly because the community has access to higher ground.
But it's also because the community is used to change, he says. Over the years, the police station and school have been moved inland when they had to be rebuilt.


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Pentagram creates new brand identity for Virgin Money
By Alexander Shapkin	 Nov 24, 2020
Being one of the Virgin Group's numerous ventures, Virgin Money is a financial services brand that covers three independent companies operating in the UK, US and Australia. Widening the range of its services, including savings products, credit cards, insurance, mortgage and banking, the brand felt the need to create a new visual identity that would better reflect its business scale and make it stand out from other financial companies. To reach the goal, Virgin Money cooperated with Pentagram that forged a new brand identity distinguished with original design solutions.
The starting point for the new look of Virgin Money was the company's desire to tell it's not just a part of Virgin, but maintains the basic values of the group and brings them into the financial sphere. Influenced, among other things, by VM's merger with CYBG plc, the new identity includes a logo featuring a custom typeface, the red brand color and icons which will be used on the brand's digital platforms.
The distinctive feature in the Virgin Money logo is the "M" with a loop making, according to the studio, a balance of hard angles and curves. The loop was chosen to be one of the main motifs of the whole brand identity including the Virgin Money Sans custom typface. This is rather an unconventional design element that is intended to express the company's client-oriented policy. Additionally, the brand's belonging to Virgin is reflected with the conglomerate's iconic logo placed inside the "O".
Along with the primary emblem with a mono-linear lettering, Pentagram created another version representing a stacked wordmark which is fit for using on limited surfaces like printed materials or credit cards.
While the new identity has already been rolled out on VM's website, the company is updating the design in its stores which will receive a contemporary and vigorous feel through the extensive patterns as well as the bright and striking color palette.
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