In case your part of the world is also still quite frosty, why not make a fun and summery ice cream van? You don't need to be an expert in paper illustration, you just need a bit of patience and paper! I created this little paper sculpture last year as a test model for my new jewellery range. In the end I didn't really use it, but I had tons of fun making it.
With this simple tutorial, your colourful home entertainment is guarantied. So why not get out your scalpel, hunt for a bit of foamboard (3mm thick) and a treat yourself to a nice bit of mountboard. So let's get started!
1. Cut out the basic shape from foarmboard.
2. Create the main part of the chassis.
2.1. Cover all window openings with small stripes of paper and glue a small piece of blue paper over the smallest window in the side wall.
2.2. Cover the inside of all 4 walls, and the outside of both side walls with pale paper.
2.3. Glue all sides together, as shown in the picture above.
2.4 Cut a piece of foamboard for the base of the vehicle, cover with pale paper and glue in place.
You need: A 'cool' box to store the ice lollies (made of blue paper).
A red bench for the front seats (2 pieces of mountboard with rounded corners, covered with red paper).
A blue steering wheel (made of a ring of paper with small strips of paper glued onto one side, see picture).
A dashboard (made of a folded piece of cream paper).
4. Glue the interior in place and create the wheels.
The seat bench is first glued onto a piece of foamboard and then onto the vehicle floor (to create a bit of space, where the legs of the driver could go). A toothpick pushed into the dashboard, supports the stirring wheel.
For the wheels, you need 4 circles of foamboard covered with brown paper. I also added a ring of white paper, as I love the look of old-fashioned white sidewall tyres.
5. Cover the chassis with a strip of paper.
5.1 Cut a strip of paper as wide as your van and long enough to cover it from front to back. Measure the position of the windows and cut holes for the windows into your strip of paper. I also cut a further hole for a roof window.
5.2 Glue 2 'lights' (white paper circles) and an air inlet grill below the windscreen. The grill is just a piece of paper in shape of a trapezium with rounded corners. Glue the strip of paper in place.
6. Just a bit more decorating fun and you are done!
6.1 Cut a pieces of pale paper in the shape shown above and glue on strips of green paper to create the stripey patter. Make another one in the reverse shape for the other side of your van. For the fenders cut a ring of mountboard in half and cover both sides with green paper.
6.2 Create 2 over-sized ice cream cones, that will go on the front and the back of the van.
7. Add the final details.
7.1. A green piece of paper finishes the air inlet grill.
7.2. Fold a small sheet of paper and partly cover the roof window.
7.3. Add a number plate and glue your ice cream cones in place.
7.4. Add a few signs, to the car. Here a computer comes in handy, to neatly print of some font.
7.5. Glue a bumper bar and some lights onto the back. Finish the side windows by adding a strip of paper, cut it straight of with a fancy wave pattern.
Finished is your ice cream van!
I always love to hear your feedback and comments. It would be splendid to see if you created an ice cream van of your very own. Why not post your picture on my Facebook wall. Happy crafting!
Do you think that this model is suitable for a school project? It is very simple to make… instead of farmboard can I make 3-D shapes out of cardboard or paper??
Hi Krysty, What a splendid idea! Cardboard should work just as well. You may want to simplify the ice cream van a little bit, as the kids may loose patience if they have too much to cut and glue and stick in place… Or it could be a project for a few sessions. It would be lovely to see the result. If you really give it a go, I'd love to see some pictures! Maybe you could post them on my facebook wall? :o) Good luck!


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    if( waitmode == GLFW_WAIT )
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I have created an GPK package that results in a raster. I'm using SubmitJob to run it and GPResultImagelayer to add the geoprocessing result to the map. But it fails at map.Layers.Add(gpResultLayer) with the error shown in attached picture.
When testing gpResultLayer.ServiceUri in a browser, I can fetch the tif-image and it looks okey.
I'm not sure if I provided information enough, but I give it a try.
Thanks for the reproducer. In your code you need to change the result request to use "GetResultMapServiceLayer(JobID)" instead of the result image layer request. However, when doing so in your example it still failed to create the layer. I re-confirmed that this workflow is ok by using the WPF 10.2.5 sample for Spatial Analyst Contours which uses the "Contour.gpk" file.
I notice in your GPK there's a Python script. This in itself is ok, but it does require some care to get everything lined up correctly since the Analyzers which run in ArcMap and the packaging magic which happens behind the scenes to wire everything up may not be able handle the complexity of the Python script.
... I just noticed on disk I have C:\outraster\... - I think that's the culprit. Try to use ScratchWorkspace or the in_memory workspace which facilitate all the packaging magic.
Please can you supply the full code - including the section where you create and start the local GP service?
If you're able to supply the project and GPK that would help significantly.
I have attached codebehind, xaml and the GPK.
The GPK is making a raster from a Kernel Density calculation.
I see now that the title of my thread is misleading; the layer IS added but it gives System.Exception and is not visible.
I followed your advice to use GetResultMapServiceLayer instead. And I replaced my Pythonscript to the origin Kernel Density tool, to make things easier. It now works as I want. Thank you so much for showing me the right way to do it.


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Heads of Major U.S. Jewish Organizations Beg Netanyahu Not to Deport Asylum Seekers
More than two dozen North American groups ask prime minister to reverse plan to forcibly deport tens of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese migrants
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Asylum seekers demonstrating in Jerusalem against their forced deportation from Israel, January 2017.Credit: Emil Salman
Leaders of more than two dozen North American Jewish organizations sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, pleading with him not to deport thousands of African asylum seekers from Israel.
I'm Running Out of Ways to Defend Today's Israel
Israel Must Disclose Its Deals to Expel Refugees
Israel Demands That Asylum Seekers Leave by April
"We are concerned that if you move forward with these plans, the lives of thousands of individuals will be put in jeopardy, and the name of the Jewish State and the Jewish People will be irreparably stained," they wrote.
"As a people who were once refugees, and were once strangers in a strange land, we believe we have a special obligation toward refugees, whatever their religion or race."
The signatories included the heads of HIAS, the National Council of Jewish Women, J Street, the New Israel Fund, JSpaceCanada, T'ruah, Hashomer Hatzair, ARZA, Ameinu, several organizations that advocate for asylum seekers in Israel, as well as rabbis from across the denominational spectrum.
Last week, Netanyahu instructed National Security Adviser Meir Ben Shabbat to draft a plan for the nonvoluntary expulsion of thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers.
In their letter, the Jewish heads noted that in other Western countries, between 56 percent and 84 percent of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers are ultimately awarded refugee status, whereas in Israel fewer than 1 percent are.
They also expressed concerns over reports that many asylum seekers who were persuaded to leave Israel voluntarily have suffered terribly in the countries where they ended up – whether it was their place of birth, Rwanda and Uganda (which reportedly have a financial arrangement with Israel to accept deported asylum seekers, though they deny it). "We know that many such individuals are no longer among the living," they wrote.
Promising to extend help to Israel if it reverses its decision, the signatories urged Netanyahu "to respect the rights of asylum seekers and refugees as enshrined in the International Refugee Convention and in Jewish law and values, and to allow those asylum seekers already residing in Israel to live in dignity until it is truly safe for them to return."
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Q: How to input large data into python pandas using looping or parallel computing? I have a csv file of 8gb and I am not able to run the code as it shows memory error.
file = "./data.csv"
df = pd.read_csv(file, sep="/", header=0, dtype=str)

I would like to split the files into 8 small files ("sorted by id") using python. And fianlly,have a loop so that the output file will have the output of all 8 files.
Or I would like to try parallel computing. Main goal is to process 8gb data in python pandas.  Thank you.
My csv file contains numerous data with '/' as the comma separator,
id    venue           time             code    value ......
AAA   Paris      28/05/2016 09:10      PAR      45   ......
111   Budapest   14/08/2016 19:00      BUD      62   ......
AAA   Tokyo      05/11/2016 23:20      TYO      56   ......
111   LA         12/12/2016 05:55      LAX      05   ......
111   New York   08/01/2016 04:25      NYC      14   ......
AAA   Sydney     04/05/2016 21:40      SYD      2    ......
ABX   HongKong   28/03/2016 17:10      HKG      5    ......
ABX   London     25/07/2016 13:02      LON      22   ......
AAA   Dubai      01/04/2016 18:45      DXB      19   ......
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A: import numpy as np
from multiprocessing import Pool

def processor(df):

    # Some work

    df.sort_values('id', inplace=True)
    return df

size = 8
df_split = np.array_split(df, size)

cores = 8
pool = Pool(cores)
for n, frame in enumerate(pool.imap(processor, df_split), start=1):
    frame.to_csv('{}'.format(n))
pool.close()
pool.join()

A: Use the chunksize parameter to read one chunk at the time and save the files to disk. This will split the original file in equal parts by 100000 rows each:
file = "./data.csv"
chunks = pd.read_csv(file, sep="/", header=0, dtype=str, chunksize = 100000)

for it, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
    chunk.to_csv('chunk_{}.csv'.format(it), sep="/")

If you know the number of rows of the original file you can calculate the exact chunksize to split the file in 8 equal parts (nrows/8).

A: pandas read_csv has two argument options that you could use to do what you want to do:
nrows : to specify the number of rows you want to read
skiprows : to specify the first row you want to read

Refer to documentation at: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_csv.html

A: You also might want to use the das framework and it's built in dask.dataframe. Essentially, the csv file is transformed into multiple pandas dataframes, each read in when necessary. However, not every pandas command is avaialble within dask.

A: If you don't need all columns you may also use usecols parameter:
https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/generated/pandas.read_csv.html
usecols : array-like or callable, default None

Return a subset of the columns. [...]
Using this parameter results in much faster parsing time and lower memory usage.

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This year I will have to compile my first tax return. I have received the equivalent of 5,000 GBP in restricted stock of the Company I work for. I have already sold these shares and I know that I have to put this 5,000 GBP in my tax return but I have no idea how this has to be done and cannot find clear example on HMRC website. Do you have any document that can clarify to me how the tax return has to be filled in case an employee receive a bonus in terms of equity?
I have been granted a number of restricted shares of the company I work for over the past few years and these have become vested and I was able to sell these stocks for an amount of about 5,000 GBP. The account where those shares have been credited has given me the opportunity to pay tax by using part of the shares. In particular, the responsible for the payroll in my company has told me that they withhold a marginal tax rate of 47%. So what I was able to send to my personal bank account after those shares have been sold, was the net after the 47% was retained. My total income is slightly above 100,000 GBP so I pay 40% marginal tax (plus 2% national insurance), but I also get a reduction of the non-taxable amount given I am above 100,000. Anyway, the payslip that I received after the selling of my shares showed some adjustment that I guess was processed by my company to refund me for the taxes I overpaid given they withhold 47%. It looks like I have paid the taxes on my shares bonus but I am pretty sure I still have to report this to HMRC in this year tax return. Hence the question.
There are two kinds of tax employee share awards might be subject to.
Firstly you might owe normal income tax (and also national insurance), unless the scheme is HMRC approved which would require it to fall under certain limits and sometimes have minimum holding periods. It's quite common for schemes not to be approved.
Income tax is based on the value of the shares when they vest/become unconditionally available to you. If you are liable to income tax, then your company will probably have put the value of the shares through PAYE and perhaps sold some of them immediately to pay the income tax - you should either see more income and more tax paid than normal in the pay period in question or perhaps an extra payslip just for the share delivery.
Assuming that's the case, there's nothing special you need to do for income tax when filling in your tax return: the total value of the shares will be included in your year-end P60, you'll already have paid roughly the right amount of tax, and any adjustments will be calculated on your tax return when you copy the values from the P60 into your tax return.
Secondly, there's capital gains tax. However, that only applies on any change in the value of the shares between the time you received them and the time you sell them, as the actual initial value of the shares has already been taxed as income. There's also an annual allowance that's £11,300 for the 2017-18 tax year.
So unless you have any other capital gains, you won't have any extra tax to pay as any gain would be tiny compared to the allowance. You don't even have to fill anything in on your tax return unless your gains exceed the allowance or you disposed of assets worth more than £45,200.
So in summary, double-check that the shares were taxed through PAYE when you received them, but otherwise it's unlikely you need to do anything special when filling in your tax return.
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Want to refresh your urban warfare skills? Go laser tagging ! I went tonight with some cadets and it was a blast.
The Air Force kicked all opposition with a score of 81673 to 65915 and they had more players!
Total personal score of 10003!
Who was your opposition, may I ask?
Haha..Oddjob was the best b/c he was the smallest character. Were you playing at Lazerzone and did you run into the famous NATAS?
If you have less people, wouldn't it be easier to rack up the score? You have more targets and the other team has less targets. I'm just going from Halo experience.
No, the side with the most fire power has an advantage.
The more firepower (i.e. more people) is only an advantage if you're dead when you're shot and can't respawn or if if there isn't much opportunity to snipe. I've never gone laser-tagging, so I assume there isn't much sniping.


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mulah for a cat3 team?
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Appropriate Gearing for a Midwest Boy in the Mountains?
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DNF or Finish last ?
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Considering a first race this weekend. Advice?
Do you practice your two-handed salute?
I got beat in a hill climb race......by a guy on a recumbent.
Leipheimer and Contador to Astana?
Rock & Republic - train wreck coming?
Focus for the winter training period?
Anybody else roll your own 40k TT?
when was the last time someone won a "big" race on a steel-framed bike?
join large race team vs small any preference?
It's been a while since we had a thread with graphs. Power Chart.
To TT, or not to TT, that is the question.
What (or where) is the difference between Cat 2 and Cat 1?
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1913-2013: 100 Years of Protecting the Past.
This year, the centenary of the 1913 Ancient Monuments Act, will culminate in the opening of English Heritage's new Stonehenge exhibition galleries and visitor centre on 18th December.
2013 is the centenary of a landmark moment for England's heritage.
The passing of the Ancient Monuments Consolidation and Amendment Act in 1913 recognised for the first time that there are physical remains of the nation's history which are so special and so significant that the state has a duty to ensure their continued survival.
Best known for its myths and legends, Wiltshire offers the setting for a perfect break – a mixture of ancient history and outdoor pursuits. It is home to Stonehenge and Avebury, two breathtaking sites erected more than 4,000 years ago. But mysterious artefacts aside, you can also cycle, skydive, canoe, golf and horse-ride your way around this part of the world.
Speculation on the reason Stonehenge was built ranges from human sacrifice to astronomy, and the world heritage site is a must-see. Unless you visit on the summer or winter solstice there's a charge to walk around the magnificent stones. However you can visit the world's largest stone circle at Avebury for free. If you want to see Stonehenge from a unique vantage point, Heritage Cycle Tours' accompanied ride from Salisbury arrives over the crest of a hill, for a stunning view of the stones, before passing through the iron age settlement of Old Sarum.
For an even bigger thrill, see Stonehenge from 3,500ft with Skydive Netheravon, located between Salisbury and Marlborough. Beginners can experience freefall in tandem, jump with an automatic parachute or take a learners' skydive course.
You don't have to head skywards to experience Wiltshire in a special way. Situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty, Pewsey Vale Riding Centre provides a horse ride to remember. And at Peddles and Paddles you can hire kayaks or Canadian canoes to travel down the canal to Devizes Wharf, where you'll find the Kennet & Avon Canal Trust Museum.
Alternatively, experience this fine region at a slower pace. Climb the 332 steps to the base of Britain's tallest spire at the gothic Salisbury Cathedral. You'll be treated to views of the medieval scaffold of the spire and across the Wiltshire countryside. Don't leave without visiting the cathedral's Chapter House: it's home to one of the four original Magna Cartas.
And if you judge an area by its golfing opportunities, Wiltshire may be your dream destination: Cumberwell Park Golf Club offers rolling countryside, lakes and woodland; North Wilts Golf Club encourages players of all abilities with no tee booking required; and Tidworth Garrison Golf Club, a tree-lined, downland course for private members, was described by golfing legend Peter Alliss as "a gem of a course on the edge of Salisbury Plain".
So whether you spend your Wiltshire trip investigating the ancient past, or trying an exciting activity or two, a break in this outstanding part of the country will make an unforgettable impression.
Eat: The Harrow at Little Bedwyn boasts accolades including AA Restaurant of the Year (2011) and a Michelin star. The focus is on food from artisan growers, fishermen and farmers.
Drink: Savour a pint in atmospheric surroundings at the charming Cloisters, an "olde worlde" pub minutes from Salisbury Cathedral. Or, for a more rural experience, head to the village of Market Lavington for a real ale at the Green Dragon.
Sleep: Extend your Stonehenge experience by spending the night in a luxurious "glamping pod" at Stonehenge Campsite in Salisbury (and enjoy eight real ale and foodie pubs within a four mile radius), or chill out at Whatley Manor, a beautifully restored Cotswold manor house hotel and lavish spa.
A TWO-man Avebury stone circle research team say the site should capitalise on a World Heritage boost.
The Which? Travel magazine hailed Avebury as the second greatest World Heritage site, behind only the ancient Mexican city of Monte Alban and ahead of attractions including the Great Pyramid and the Taj Mahal.
This was music to the ears of author Eric M Crook and artist Maurice Giraffe from Swindon, who have spent decades investigating not just Avebury but other ancient sites such as Stonehenge and Silbury Hill.
Mr Crook, 88, is the author of a study called Wiltshire: A Journey-man's Tale. Many of the book's illustrations are the work of Mr Giraffe, 55, who combines artistic and technical drawing skills to plot the relative positions of stones.
Mr Giraffe added: "I too am very, very pleased that Avebury has been nominated within the top 10.
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The two also suggest night time tours and regular grass cutting, as well as restricting access by grazing sheep.
The researchers believe the archaeological establishment has missed clues about ceremonial and navigational uses for such prehistoric places.
They say their research indicates that the surviving Avebury stones were once part of a vast amphitheatre featuring many thousands of carved human and animal faces, and these faces would have appeared to come to life in flickering firelight.
The researchers say remnants of these carvings can still be seen in fragments hacked from the stones down the years, whether for recycling or because the early Christian church objected to the old religions.
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Relations Politiques de la France et de l'Espagne avec l'Écosse au XVIe Siècle, Alexandre Teulet
For historians of 16th century Scotland, France, Spain and England, and the complex dynastic, political and religious intrigues which dominated the period, Teulet's Papiers d'État sur le relations politiques de la France avec L'Écosse au XVIe siècle, or State Papers Relating to France and Scotland in the 16th Century is a key resource of essential documents.
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Political Relations of France and Spain with Scotland in the 16th Century. French Correspondence: Henri III - Mary Queen of Scots, James VI, volume 3 (1576-1585), 385pp
Political Relations of France and Spain with Scotland in the 16th Century. French Correspondence: Henri III, Henri IV - Mary Queen of Scots, James VI, volume 4 (1585-1603), 399pp
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But it can be overwhelming when a problem is detected. Action News Anchor Margot Kim looks into how a special program at Children's Hospital Central California that is helping both moms and babies, beat the odds.
Norma Vail is excited about adding to her family.
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Le Luigi Torelli (numéro de fanion " TI ") est un sous-marin de la classe Marconi en service dans la Regia Marina pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Le navire a opéré dans l'Atlantique de  jusqu'à la mi-1943, puis a été envoyé en Extrême-Orient. Après la reddition de l'Italie en 1943, le Torelli a été repris par la Kriegsmarine de l'Allemagne nazie, puis, dans les mois qui ont suivi la fin de la guerre, par la marine impériale japonaise. C'était l'un des deux seuls navires à servir dans les trois grandes marines de l'Axe, l'autre étant le sous-marin italien Comandante Cappellini.

Caractéristiques
Les sous-marins de la classe Marconi déplaçaient 1 195 tonnes en surface et 1 490 tonnes en immersion. Les sous-marins mesuraient 76,5 mètres de long, 6,81 mètres de large et 4,72 mètres de tirant d'eau. Ils avaient une profondeur de plongée opérationnelle de 90 mètres (275 pieds). Leur équipage comptait 57 officiers et hommes.

Pour la navigation de surface, les sous-marins étaient propulsés par deux moteurs diesel CRDA de 1 800 chevaux-vapeur (1 325 kW), chacun entraînant un arbre d'hélice. En immersion, chaque hélice était entraînée par un moteur électrique Marelli de 750 chevaux-vapeur (550 kW). Ils pouvaient atteindre 17,8 nœuds (33 km/h) en surface et 8,2 nœuds (15,2 km/h) sous l'eau. En surface, la classe Marconi avait une autonomie de 10 500 milles nautiques (19 500 km) à 8 noeuds (14,8 km/h), en immersion, elle avait une autonomie de 110 milles nautiques (203 km) à 3 noeuds (5,6 km/h) .

Les sous-marins étaient armés de 8 tubes lance-torpilles internes de 533 millimètres (4 à l'avant et 4 à l'arrière) pour lesquels ils transportaient 16 torpilles. Ils étaient également armés de 1 canon de pont de 100 mm calibre 47 Modèle 1938 pour le combat en surface. Leur armement anti-aérien consistait en 2 mitrailleuses doubles Breda Model 1931 de 13,2 mm.

Construction et mise en service
Le Luigi Torelli est construit par le chantier naval Odero-Terni-Orlando (OTO) de La Spezia en Italie, et mis sur cale le . Il est lancé le  et est achevé et mis en service le . Il est commissionné le même jour dans la Regia Marina.

Historique
Le , dès son entrée en service, le Luigi Torelli est affecté au II groupe de sous-marins à Naples, mais en réalité il ne quitte La Spezia que le , date à laquelle, sous le commandement du capitaine de frégate Aldo Cocchia, il part pour l'Atlantique. Le , il franchit le détroit de Gibraltar puis se met en embuscade près des Açores, menant quelques attaques infructueuses. Il se dirige ensuite vers Bordeaux, où se trouve la base italienne de Betasom, où il arrive le .

Il embarque ensuite le capitaine de frégate Primo Longobardo comme nouveau commandant et, du 12 au , il effectue une seconde mission infructueuse dans les eaux irlandaises, devant retourner à sa base pour cause de panne de moteur.

Le , le Luigi Torelli part pour une nouvelle mission dans laquelle il remporte un succès remarquable. Le , il coule le navire à vapeur grec Nemea (5 101 tonneaux de jauge brute), , et le norvégien Brask (4 079 tonneaux), à la position géographique de  (le Nemea) et  (le Brask) . Le Nemea n'a pas coulé immédiatement et l'équipage est remonté à bord avec les survivants du Brask, sauf qu'il a dû abandonner le navire qui a coulé avec 17 hommes de son équipage. Le lendemain, le vapeur Nikolaos Filinis (3 111 tonneaux), également grec, a été coulé en position à la position géographique approximative de , avec la mort de trois membres de l'équipage, et le , le Torelli a rencontré le vapeur anglais Urla (5 198 tonneaux), une unité isolée du convoi HX 102. Le navire a coulé à la position géographique de  et tout l'équipage a ensuite été secouru. Attaqué par trois destroyers, le Torelli rentre à sa base le ..

Par la suite, la tourelle volumineuse, qui rendait le sous-marin plus facile à repérer que les modèles de U-Boote allemand, a été réduite (une mesure adoptée pour de nombreux sous-marins italiens).

Entre avril et mai, il opère dans l'Atlantique Nord, revenant à sa base sans succès.

Le commandement a ensuite été transmis au lieutenant de vaisseau Antonio De Giacomo (plus tard promu au grade de capitaine de corvette). En juillet, il est envoyé à l'ouest de Gibraltar et le 21 du mois, il rencontre et coule, à la à la position géographique de  (pour d'autres sources ) le pétrolier norvégien Ida Knudsen (8 913 tonneaux), en route vers Gibraltar-Trinité avec 13 000 tonnes de fioul, pour lesquelles il a fallu lancer au total quatre torpilles (deux n'ont pas touché). Tout l'équipage a été sauvé sur des canots de sauvetage, à l'exception de cinq hommes.

Lors d'une mission ultérieure, le , alors qu'il tentait d'attaquer le convoi HG 73, il a été gravement endommagé par la chasse anti-sous-marine menée par le destroyer HMS Vimy (D33) et un destroyer sous-marin, devant retourner à Bordeaux (on rapporte égalerment que dans l'action du Vimy, un des navires-jumeaux (sister ship) du Torelli, l'Alessandro Malaspina, a été coulé).

En décembre, le Torelli participe, avec les sous-marins italiens Pietro Calvi, Giuseppe Finzi ed Enrico Tazzoli et les sous-marins allemands U-126 et U-38, au sauvetage des survivants du croiseur auxiliaire allemand Atlantis et du navire ravitailleur Phyton.

Le , il s'embarque pour une nouvelle zone d'opération, entre la Floride et les Bahamas. Dix-neuf jours plus tard, il torpille et coule, à la position géographique de  (à l'est de la Barbade) le navire à vapeur Scottish Star (7 224 tonneaux), unité isolée du convoi ONS 64, naviguant de Londres à Buenos Aires avec une cargaison d'environ 2 000 tonnes de matériaux divers (dont du whisky). Parmi l'équipage, il y a 5 victimes et 68 survivants. Le , il torpille le grand pétrolier Esso Copenhagen (9 245 tonneaux), qui coule par l'avant le lendemain, à la position géographique de  (tout l'équipage, sauf un homme, réussit à se sauver). Le , le sous-marin a tenté de frapper avec une torpille un autre pétrolier britannique, le Dran, mais la torpille manque la cible. À son retour de mission, le commandant De Giacomo s'est vu décerner par l'amiral Karl Dönitz (commandant de la flotte sous-marine allemande) la Croix de Fer de première classe.

Il s'ensuit une période pendant laquelle le Torelli reste dans le chantier naval pour son entretien, après quoi, le , avec le lieutenantde vaisseau Augusto Migliorini comme nouveau commandant, il part pour atteindre la zone d'embuscade, entre les Bahamas et Porto Rico. Dans la nuit du 3 au , cependant, il est repéré par un Vickers Wellington du 172 groupe (Squadron 172), sous le commandement du chef d'escadron Greswell, alors qu'il naviguet en surface à environ soixante-dix milles nautiques au nord de la côte espagnole. A cette occasion, cet avion utilise pour la première fois l'appareil "Leigh Light", consistant en un puissant projecteur monté sous son fuselage: cet appareil a permis aux éclaireurs alliés d'éliminer le problème qui se posait la nuit à la dernière minute du survol d'un sous-marin, c'est-à-dire sa disparition de l'écran radar. Après avoir survolé le sous-marin pour la première fois, l'appareil est revenu à la verticale, a allumé le projecteur et largué quatre bombes qui ont explosé sur les flancs du Torelli, lui causant de graves dommages. Après les premières réparations pour le remettre en marche, le sous-marin s'est dirigé vers la côte espagnole mais s'est échoué sur quelques rochers. Il peut se dégager et atteint le port espagnol d'Aviles, où il s'échoue sur un fond marin peu profond. Le lendemain, il part car les autorités locales ont informé le commandant qu'il serait sinon interné, mais le , il est mitraillé et bombardé de huit grenades sous-marines par un hydravion Short Sunderland du 10 groupe australien. Il fait état de divers dégâts et de quelques blessés mais il continue, endommageant également l'avion attaquant.

Peu de temps après, il est mitraillé et bombardé par un autre Sunderland et subit de très graves dommages: canon et mitrailleuses inutilisables, voies d'eau à l'arrière, coulant et gisant sur bâbord; une dizaine d'hommes sont jetés à l'eau par les explosions. Le sergent Fiovo Pallucchini est tué. Le Torelli a péniblement repris sa navigation et atteint Santander, où il est réparé (jusqu'au ) mais il est interné. Le , cependant, dès sa sortie de la cale sèche, il part à toute vitesse, se libérant des câbles qui le relient à deux remorqueurs et, après avoir dépassé la canonnière San Martin, qui est chargée de sa surveillance, il atteint le large d'où il poursuit sa route vers Bordeaux, où il arrive le lendemain.

Le , il est à nouveau endommagé par une attaque aérienne, avec plusieurs blessés (dont le commandant et quelques officiers) et une victime (le sous-chef Francesco Lubrano) parmi l'équipage.

Il est alors décidé de convertir le sous-marin pour des missions de transport vers l'Extrême-Orient. Les travaux sont effectués en mars-avril et consistent à éliminer le canon, les tubes lance-torpilles et une partie des éléments de batterie, ainsi qu'à procéder à diverses modifications internes; le Torelli a également reçu le nom d'Aquila VI.

Le sous-marin part le , avec à son bord du mercure, de l'acier, 800 canons aéronautiques Mauser MG 151/20, une bombe SG 500, des torpilles, deux jeux de radars Würzburg (130 tonnes de matériel en tout) et sept passagers (le colonel japonais Satake Kinjo, l'ingénieur allemand Heinrich Foders - chargé d'expliquer aux Japonais le fonctionnement du radar -, deux mécaniciens civils et trois techniciens allemands); le commandant est le lieutenant de vaisseau Enrico Gropalli. Il échappe à une attaque de navires et d'avions près de Sainte-Hélène, et le , il doit se ravitailler en carburant à partir de l'U-178 dans l'océan Indien, pour finalement atteindre Sabang (Sumatra) deux semaines plus tard. Le 29, le Torelli se déplace à Penang (Malaisie) et deux jours plus tard à Singapour.

Jusqu'à l'armistice italienne, le Torelli avait effectué un total de 14 missions (deux en Méditerranée et 12 dans l'Atlantique), couvrant un total de 61 563 milles nautiques (114 000 km) en surface et 3 176 milles nautiques (5 800 km) sous l'eau.

L'armistice du 8 septembre et le service dans la Kriegsmarine
Le , à l'annonce de l'armistice italienne, le sous-marin est capturé par les Japonais; deux jours plus tard, il est cédé à la Kriegsmarine où il est incorporé sous le nom de UIT-25, avec un équipage mixte germano-italien et le commandement est transféré à l'Oberleutnant zur See Werner Striegler, qui prend le commandement le , tandis que l'équipage italien est envoyé dans un camp de concentration, même si de nombreux marins préfèrent continuer à se battre aux côtés des anciens Alliés. Werner Striegler quitte le commandement le  pour prendre celui de l'UIT-23, ancien Reginaldo Giuliani italien, mais revenu aux commandes du UIT-25 le lendemain seulement, lUIT-23 ayant été coulé par le sous-marin ). Le Torelli, rebaptisé UIT-25, continue à opérer sous le drapeau allemand jusqu'au , deux jours après la capitulation allemande. Pendant cette période, le bateau a été affecté à la 12. Unterseebootsflottille,  puis 33. Unterseebootsflottille.

Le sous-marin est utilisé pour transporter des fournitures entre Penang, Surabaya, Java et Kōbe. En , l'Oberleutnant zur See Herbert Schrein remplaça Werner Striegler, et en , il est remplacé parAlfred Meier jusqu'en , date à laquelle il est transféré à Batavia ; en , il fut transféré à Kobe, où le , lors d'un raid de bombardement américain, il eut une victime parmi l'équipage.

Service dans la marine impériale japonaise
Le , avec la reddition de l'Allemagne, le Torelli est capturé par les Japonais et est incorporé dans la marine impériale japonaise sous le nom de I-504, et le , le lieutenant Hirota Hideo en devint le commandant et le Torelli continue à combattre avec un équipage mixte italo-japonais.

Le , il abat un bombardier américain North American B-25 Mitchell avec ses canons antiaériens. Le même jour, il se rend aux Alliés dans le port de Kōbe

Désarmé le , il est coulé le  par les Américains dans le canal Kii (entre Honshū et Shikoku).

Le Torelli et un autre sous-marin italien, le  Comandante Cappellini, sont les seules unités navales à avoir servir sous les trois marines de l'Axe.

Navires coulés
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| align="left"  |Cargo; 14 survivants d'un équipage de 31 personnes
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| align="left"  |Brask
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| align="right" |4 079
| align="left"  |Cargo; 20 survivants d'un équipage de 32
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| align="center"|3
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| align="left"  |Nicolas Filinis
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| align="right" |3 111
| align="left"  |Cargo; 26 survivants sur un équipage de 29
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| align="right" |
| align="left"  |Urla
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| align="right" |5 198
| align="left"  |Cargo; pas de victimes
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| align="left"  |'Ida Knudsen| align="left"  |
| align="right" |8 913
| align="left"  |Navire-citerne; 5 morts
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| align="left"  |Scottish Star| align="left"  |
| align="right" |7 224
| align="left"  |Cargo; 4 tués parmi un équipage de 73
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| align="left"  |Esso Copenhagen| align="left"  |
| align="right" |9 245
| align="left"  |Navire-citerne; 1 mort parmi un équipage de 39
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 Notes et références

 Voir aussi
 Bibliographie
  Erminio Bagnasco, Submarines of World War Two, Cassell & Co, London. 1977
  Blair, Clay, Hitler's U-boat War: The Hunters, 1939-1942. Random House 1996.
  Roger Chesneau, Robert Gardiner: Conway's All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1922-1946 (1980).
  Paul Kemp : Underwater Warriors (1997)
  Giorgerini, Giorgio : Uomini sul fondo. Storia del sommergibilismo italiano dalle origini a oggi'', Mondadori, 2002, .

Liens internes
 Liste des sous-marins de l'Italie

Liens externes
 Le Luigi Torelli sur le site xmasgrupsom.com
 Le Luigi Torelli/I-504 sur le site combinedfleet.com

Nom de bateau
Sous-marin de la Regia Marina
Sous-marin italien de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Navire construit à Monfalcone
Classe Marconi
Bateau lancé en 1938
Navire coulé en 1944
Épave de l'océan Atlantique

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Episodes

Guest sharks this season include Emma Grede, CEO and co-founder of Good American and founding partner of Skims; Gwyneth Paltrow, actress and founder of goop; Peter Jones, dragon on Dragons' Den; Daniel Lubetzky, founder and executive chairman of Kind; Kendra Scott, founder and CEO of Kendra Scott LLC; and Tony Xu, CEO and co-founder of DoorDash.

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External links
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They coax these intimate and laid-back performances from a range of folks, and then share the resulting songs with us. I could not help but smile for this whole bouncy, swirling, impressionistic serenade from The Shins as they walked the streets of the Montmartre district of Paris with their acoustic guitars, like the best kind of strolling troubadours. Sheer brilliance.
Tagged with blogotheque, the shins.
i love the way they shoot those. the arcade fire one on blogothequet was tres cool, too.
Thanks for this. There's nothing like hearing stripped-down versions of your favorite songs.
Surprisingly, the Paris crowds didn't seem to recognize them like you think they would.
Cool video. I notice the use of an Epiphone Aj-500r guitar by the Shins. That's a $650 NEW. One of the new all solid wood masterbilt series. Interesting he's using that when he can afford anything he wants. It is accompanes by a $2000 epi Mcartney Texan. I actually own a masterbilt aj like this one, glad to see I have similar tastes the Shins.


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It was such a pleasant surprise to see the #Track Trucks line return to retail as this line had primarily been released internationally upon its debut in 2015. Two years later, the line that featured the a Custom Volkswagen Hauler — reminiscent of the #Volkswagen Drag Bus — and a double-rear-axled, #Convoy Custom, hit the big box stores stateside and collectors left and right were now buying releases from these seemingly idle, "deluxe" Hot Wheels lines.
The only difference between the 2015 and 2017 releases of this double-rear-axled #Convoy Custom #Semi Truck is the card. You can check out HobbyDB if you're a card collector to see the difference. This brand-new casting (in 2015) was named #Fuel & Fire for the large, liquid storage container this vehicle hauls. As you can imagine, these #Track Trucks are #Great for Gravity/Downhill Tracks, and with that, the trailers on all of these semi trucks need to be flexible, yet securely fastened to the truck part of the casting. This was achieved by use of a ball joint which allows for the trailer to go pretty much anywhere the truck goes.
There are those who kind of wish the #Fuel & Fire came with more of a traditional trailer versus the tanker trailer, but you have to admit that this release looks too good from its side profile, not to buy.
As you can see, a lot of engineering went into place to get this, and the other #Track Trucks, ready for the orange track — so who can blame the designer for starting with a couple existing #Semi Truck castings. As mentioned earlier, the #Fuel & Fire (truck part) is essentially a modified #Convoy Custom casting. While the double-rear-axle is certainly the most obvious difference between the two castings, I took the side-by-side shots to illustrate the others.
Despite the #Fuel & Fire sure looking longer than the #Convoy Custom with that added axle, a quick base comparison clearly shows that length-wise, nothing was changed. But with adding an axle, and the casting not being any longer than the casting it was based off of, scale had to come into play as it is evident that the Fuel & Fire truck is not as large as the Convoy Custom.
So far, the Hot Wheels #Fuel & Fire only had the red and the yellow variants from 2015, plus this additional packaging variant of the red one for 2017. Its anybody's guess if the #Track Trucks will continue to be released, but if Hot Wheels does release more that are based off of popular Hot Wheels #Semi Truck castings — or any other popular casting for that matter — you can bet that the collector support will follow just like it did for the Custom Volkswagen Hauler and the Fuel & Fire.
RELEASE DETAILS: Red Truck (plastic) and Chrome Trailer (plastic). Yellow-Tinted Windows. Unpainted Metal Base. Made in Malaysia. Toy# BFM76. Released in 2017 as part of the Track Trucks line.
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Q: Is it possible to have a non mathematical explanation of the dependence of Pair Production cross section with energy? Cross section of pair production with interaction of photon increases with energy. But why does that happen? I want a non mathematical answer on this.

A: A photon, no matter how much energy it has, will not turn into a pair of particles because of conservation of momentum  and energy. The photon does not have a center of mass because it has no rest frame . Any pair of particle-antiparticle will have a rest frame, so there is a reductio ad absurdium.
In order for a pair to appear there must exist a  target nucleus which will interact with the gamma and together with the pair obey energy and momentum conservation, the nucleus taking up momentum and energy.
So any cross section will depend on the nucleus, i.e. the target, that the gamma hits. There are tables on this, depending on the nucleus.
This is a simple Feynman diagram that also shows pictorially  what is necessary to get a cross section to first order:

Feynman Diagram of electron-positron pair production. One can calculate multiple diagrams to get the cross section

Thus the cross section will depend on the field of the particular nucleus. For example this plot (fig 2.2) has the cross sections calculated for pair production in carbon, for the specific needs of an experiment:

The cross section rises with energy because  the higher the energy of the gamma, the more it  penetrates the nucleus, where the electric fields are stronger,(1/r^2). Higher frequencies probe smaller distances, and the probability of interacting with the electric field larger. There is a saturation when the gamma energy is high enough, it will  scatter with the quarks which exist in the nuclei, and create jets. The specific pair production crossection reaches a plateau.  Also as the energy rises, more pair production channels will open .
This is about non mathematical as I can get.


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PROGRESSIVE COMMUNIST DEMOCRATS TARGETING NATURAL GAS
In their struggle to destroy America from within, the progressive communist democrats will do everything in their power to cripple the American economy by eliminating access to abundant, cost-effective, clean-burning natural gas in favor of costly, unreliable, and unsustainable "green power."
Another fear-driven campaign based on trace amounts of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine particulate matter.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to open public comment on the dangers of gas stoves sometime this winter. The commission could set standards on emissions from the gas stoves, or even look to ban the manufacture or import of the appliances, commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News.
[OCS: Trumka Sr, was the corrupt communist thuggish leader of the AFL-CIO and bound to the hip of progressive communist democrats. It appears that the son has taken up the mantle.]
"This is a hidden hazard," Trumka told the outlet. "Any option is on the table. Products that can't be made safe can be banned." <Source>
The push to restrict natural gas is driven by the progressive communist democrats in Congress, notably U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA). And co-signed by the usual suspects, the progressive communist democrats who have authored much of the absurdly restrictive legislation designed to advance the progressive communist democrat's agenda at the expense of ordinary Americans: Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Patty Murray (D-WA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), and co-signed by Representatives Jared Huffman (D-CA), Shontel M. Brown (D-OH), Mark Takano (D-CA), Alan S. Lowenthal (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), André Carson (D-IN), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Gwen S. Moore (D-WI), Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA), and Katie Porter (D-CA). <Source>
Of course, their justification is "the science," which they tweak to favor their cause while ignoring the basic facts that all cooking, no matter what the heating method, releases pollutants of varying degrees into the air and that the real issue is adequate ventilation, not restrictions on natural gas. The full text of the Congressional letter calling for restrictions on natural gas can be found here.
Meanwhile, Americans are being punished by exorbitantly high gas prices…
SoCal Gas warns customers to expect 'shockingly high' bills this month: Here's why
A lot of natural gas bills in Southern California are suddenly getting more expensive.
SoCal Gas has already warned customers: "January bills are likely to be shockingly high,"
Lauren Davis is among those shocked customers.
When she opened her family's gas bill this month, she found it was nearly 25% higher than expected.
"I opened the bill and it was $330 and the first thing was, 'What's the temperature in our house?'" Davis said.
After taking a closer look, Davis found out she actually used less gas this year compared to the same time period last year.
But the cost of natural gas supplies nearly doubled, leading to more money out of her pocket.
"For a colder house, less gas used and it's insane," Davis said.
When SoCal Gas warned customers of the expected increase on a website message in late December, the company said natural gas market prices in the West more than doubled between December and January.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the reasons behind the price hike of natural gas included the following factors:
Widespread, below-normal temperatures
High natural gas consumption
Reduced natural gas flows
Pipeline constraints, including maintenance in West Texas
Low natural gas storage levels in the Pacific region
SoCalGas announced that it contributed $1 million toward its gas assistance fund, which gives one-time, $100 grants to qualifying applicants. <Source>
Our bill tracker notification system shows a projected next bill of over $330.00. Here is a convenient chart of what we paid and the average temperature for the billing period.
The progressive communist democrats need to cripple our economy using environmental regulations, including climate change and dumping billions of gallons of water into the ocean, purportedly to save a worthless fish known as the Delta Smelt, before they move on to their next targets.
WARNING: THE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNIST DEMOCRATS ARE PLANTING TIME BOMBS IN AMERICA


I have been looking on the Google Play Store on and off for the past few months but had no luck. My budget is $5 or less per app (I am willing to go over if the app is really great, such as it making me coffee first thing in the morning).
This one is easy to describe but I had been having trouble finding one. Basically I am looking for an app to record phone conversations. For saving voicemails I use a male to male headphone cord and record them to my laptop but in the case of a live call that will not work.
My smartphone came with a sound recording app but when I lock the screen (to save my battery life) the app stops recording. Several of my professors for my university lectures allow us to record their lectures if we so desire but having my screen on for 3 hours is a non-starter. I could look around for my micro-cassette recorder (assuming I could find new micro-cassettes) but serious this is 2013 and there has to be a better solution.
Hopefully you find a recording app that meets your needs. Regarding the screen lock, try adjusting the screen timeout and screen lock as needed. You should be able to adjust screen off without the phone locking.
Please keep in mind that recording calls in the US without the other party's consent is completely illegal in many states, and of questionable legality in other states.
I am looking for the same app, I currently use a digital recorder and put the phone on speaker when I need to record the call, but it would be nice to have one that does it internally. I have even used a basic voice recorder app and simply turned it on, then turn on the speaker phone.
That is why every call to a business says "this call is recorded for quality purposes" at the beginning of the conversation. Of course it's not just for quality purposes, but it meets a legal definition of "informing the caller they are being recorded". Where you get into trouble is recording a conversation you are not part of. If in a two party state that gives you a recording saying this call is recorded, I simply reply Ditto.
In addition to federal law, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have adopted "one-party consent" laws and permit individuals to record phone calls and conversations to which they are a party or when one party to the communication consents. See the State Law: Recording section of this legal guide for information on state wiretapping laws. Many people do this by either puting the phone on speaker and using a digital recorder you can get at any office depot or best buy. I do it when I am dealing with companies that may later try to say "I didn't agree to that, or if I simply need to take down information faster than I can write it. Some have a poor memory, recording important calls can improve your memory.
Twelve states require the consent of every party to a phone call or conversation in order to make the recording lawful. These "two-party consent" laws have been adopted in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington (Hawai'i is also in general a one-party state, but requires two-party consent if the recording device is installed in a private place). Although they are referred to as "two-party consent" laws, consent must be obtained from every party to a phone call or conversation if it involves more than two people. In some of these states, it might be enough if all parties to the call or conversation know that you are recording and proceed with the communication anyway, even if they do not voice explicit consent. See the State Law: Recording section of this legal guide for information on specific states' wiretapping laws.


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Klotjevac is a small village situated on the Drina River, directly south of Srebrenica.In the early years of the war, the village suffered shelling and gunfire from across the river in Serbia. Over one hundred homes, the local mosque and the nearby elementary school and post office were destroyed. In addition, villagers were killed by the shells and sniper fire. Later, the Klotjevac residents fled to the UN designated safe area of Srebrenica, where the fate of July 1995 awaited them.
Before the war there were approximately 300 residents. Now, as a result of the genocidal war, only about 10 residents have been able to return to the village.
Special thanks to my friend Omer Sulejmanović for all his help in the preparation of this information. Omer was born in Klotjevac.
Special thanks to Hariz Halilovich and Ron Adams for their permission to post this extract from a longer work.


Golden Corral Buffet & Grill is a family restaurant that features grilled food, such as steaks, and a large buffet.
Their delicious buffet contains an array of food choices including hot meat options, pasta, pizza, fresh vegetables, salad bar and a selection of carved meats (their Carving Station is a would-be chef's delight) at dinner and on Sundays.
During breakfast service, choices range from traditional breakfast items, like omelets made-to-order, scrambled eggs (usually egg product), bacon, and biscuits and gravy; to childhood favorites, like chocolate chip pancakes and French toast with powdered sugar.
Other items include rotisserie chicken, made from scratch mashed potatoes, Bourbon Street chicken, grilled sirloin steak, their popular home-style yeast rolls, fried chicken, their signature "Awesome" pot roast, meatloaf, pizza, seafood salad, and carrot cake.
Restaurant & Institution Magazine's Consumers' Choice in Chains Awards recognizes Golden Corral for Best Buffet Restaurant in Customer Satisfaction.
The restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, is famous for its three-year "Frying Pan Man" advertising campaign in which a person is hit on the head with a frying pan resulting in a craving to go to the restaurant.
Golden Corral Buffet & Grill's most recent restaurant concept, called "Strata," was rolled out during the early 2000's in an effort to bring more of the food preparation into view of the guests.
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You're looking for some great romantic dinner recipes to sweep that special guy or girl off his or her feet.
3 hard boiled eggs, chopped.
Mix all ingredients. Refrigerate for about an hour to allow flavors to blend. Serve either a salad, on lettuce, or on split croissants.
Mix all the marinade ingredients and pour over chicken pieces in a bowl.
Cover and refrigerate (stirring often) for several hours (best overnight).
Bake chicken at 350 for one hour in a single layer, basting every 10 minutes. Remove chicken. Scrape pan juices with all the brown bits into a frying pan.
Heat, and add 2 Tbs. white wine. Stir and add chicken. Cook for 1 minute and serve.
2 tablespoons Melted butter or margarine -- for brushing rolls.
Add sugar, the 1/4 cup butter or margarine and salt to hot milk and stir until the sugar dissolves and butter or margarine is melted. Cool mixture to 105 to 115 degrees.
Add milk mixture to yeast, then beat in egg. Beat in 4 cups of the flour, 1 cup at a time, to form a soft dough. Use some of the remaining 1/2 cup of the flour to dust a pastry cloth.
Knead the dough lightly for 5 minutes, working in the remaining flour (use it for flouring the pastry cloth and your hands). Place dough in a warm buttered bowl; turn greased side up.
Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. Punch dough down and knead 4 to 5 minutes on a lightly floured pastry cloth.
Dough will be sticky, but use as little flour as possible for flouring your hands and the pastry cloth, otherwise the rolls will not be as feathery light as they should be.
Pinch off small chunks of dough and shape into round rolls about 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 inches in diameter. Place in neat rows, not quite touching, in a well-buttered 13 x 9 x 2 inch pan.
Cover rolls and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, 30 to 40 minutes. Brush tops of rolls with melted butter or margarine, then bake in a 375 degree oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until nicely browned.
Serve warm with plenty of butter. This recipe yields about 2 dozen rolls.
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North Macedonia government contemplates prompt coal exit
Feb 24, 2020 2 min read Industrial Sustainability
The government has approved a national energy strategy that makes it the first country in the Western Balkans to consider a coal phase-out before 2030.
Two of the strategy's [1] scenarios entail a coal exit by 2025, with the third delaying the closure of the Bitola lignite power plant until 2040. A final decision on which pathway to take will be made later in the year. Lignite has been responsible for around half of the country's electricity generation in recent years, contributing to the Western Balkans' chronic air pollution problems [2]. The energy strategy now plans to significantly ramp up solar and wind power. A total of 120 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity is planned on the defunct open-cast lignite mine at Oslomej, where an obsolete power plant will soon be closed. The solar plant's operators plan to use the same infrastructure and employees as the power plant. 10 MW is already under construction, and a tender has been launched for an additional 100 MW [3]. Civil society groups welcomed the adoption of the strategy as a decisive first step towards sustainable decarbonisation. Kathrin Gutmann, campaign director for Europe Beyond Coal, said, "The North Macedonian government clearly understands that the end of coal is looming and has taken the initiative to protect the health of its people, its economy, and our climate. The fact that two out of three scenarios stipulate an exit from coal by 2025 as the least cost option shows just how much of a liability coal has become. North Macedonia's Balkan neighbours need to pay close attention, as this is the future of Europe: a rapid coal phase-out." Nevena Smilevska, programme coordinator for climate at Eko-svest, said, "The government took a bold step by giving CSOs the opportunity to be included from the early stages of the preparation of the strategy. This, in turn, resulted in a strategy that provides a clear roadmap towards a coal phase-out, brings great opportunities for investments in renewables, but also responsibility to both national and local authorities. It is crucial that they now work with local communities to plan for the just transition of the Oslomej and Bitola coal regions, to make sure no-one is left behind.". Davor Pehchevski, coal campaigner with CEE Bankwatch Network, said, "A coal exit is a great step forward, but we also need to rethink the country's entire energy mix, including its gasification policy. The need to preserve both our climate and ecosystems also means that renewable energy must be sustainable energy. This calls for a more cautious approach to hydropower plans."
Contacts Nevena Smilevska, Eko-svest, nevena@ekosvest.com.mk, tel: +389 71 400 720 Davor Pehchevski, CEE Bankwatch Network, davor@bankwatch.org, tel: +389 71 264 087 Alastair Clewer, communications officer, Europe Beyond Coal, alastair@beyond-coal.eu +49 176 433 07 185
Notes for editors [1] The adopted strategy is available in English here: http://www.economy.gov.mk/Upload/Documents/Adopted%20Energy%20Development%20Strategy_EN.pdf [2] For more information see HEAL et al: Chronic Coal Pollution, February 2019: https://www.env-health.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Chronic-Coal-Pollution-report.pdf [3] https://energy-community.org/news/Energy-Community-News/2020/02/18.html


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People naturally experienced terror as they rushed to shelter or to be with their loved ones. It is a wonder no one was hurt or killed during the ensuing panic, which lasted 38 minutes. Of course, we all know the rest of the story at this point: The alert was a false alarm.
The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is responsible for issuing alerts for disaster events, such as tsunamis, volcanos, earthquakes, and lately (due to tensions with North Korea) for nuclear attack. Drills for a potential nuclear attack had taken place at least twice since the Fall of 2017.
The day-shift supervisor was aware of the drill, but thought it was intended to test the night-shift workers and was therefore not prepared to actually play a supervisory role in the drill.
The day-shift Warning Officer heard most of the recording, but did not hear the "Exercise, exercise, exercise" part at the beginning of the warning. Therefore he thought the warning was real and proceeded to issue the statewide alert. The Warning Officer is able to do this on his/her own without input from anyone else.
The mistake was realized very quickly after the alert went out. However there an update was not issued for 38 minutes because there was no system in place to manage a false alarm. An approved message needed to be crafted and permission from FEMA had to be obtained prior to sending the update. An interim plan for the Governor of Hawaii to issue a correction via Twitter was delayed when he could not remember his password.
Hawaii authorities to require additional approvals before alerts and tests are transmitted.
The state suspended emergency alert drills after the false alarm and will provide more warning before drills.
Officials in Hawaii now require a second person to confirm sending out alerts.
The FCC issued new requirements to enhance the geo-targeting of cellphone alerts.
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Local time: 19:45 S.DARIUS AND S.GIRENAS SPORT CENTER
Zalgiris topped visiting Asseco Prokom 74-68
Zalgiris held on for a 74-68 victory over Asseco Prokom Gdynia to improve to 2-1 and move into a tie for the top spot in Group A. Despite blowing a 17-point second-quarter lead and a 10-point edge with six minutes to go, Zalgiris was stronger in the extra period to secure a hard-fought victory. Tomas Delininkaitis's triple with 27.3 seconds left in regulation tied the game at 61-61 and Dan Ewing missed a potential game winner in the closing seconds. In the overtime, Marty Pocius scored 5 and dished a key assist as Zalgiris took control and held on to win. Pocius led the hosts with 18 points, Delininkaitis scored 16 and Mirza Begic added 11. Zalgiris, one of four teams tied for first in its group, travels to face co-leader Caja Laboral next week. Prokom meanwhile dropped to 0-3 and hosts Partizan next week. Ewing led Prokom with 14 points, Ratko Varda had 12 and J.R. Giddens and Mike Wilks scored 11 each.
Things went the hosts' way in the early minutes as Arturas Milaknis scored the games opening points and Travis Watson added to the Zalgiris lead on the offensive glass. Dainius Salenga made it 6-1, however Giddens struck from downtown and midway through the quarter Filip Videnov did the same to give the visitors their first lead. Wilks capped a 0-8 burst with a layup on the break. Tadas Klimavicvius answered with Zalgiris's first triple to tie the score. The pace picked up with Giddens attacking the basket first and then Pocius and Delininkaitis both hitting from behind the arc t make it 17-12 and causing Prokom head coach Tomas Pacesas to call timeout. Paulius Jankunas extended the Zalgiris lead with an open layup. Pocius drilled an open three from the corner to cap an 11-0 run and give the hosts their first double-digit lead. Prokom focused on Varda inside and came away with 2 points from the line the first chance, but traveling the second. A brilliant pass from Mantas Kalnietis set up Jankunas for a basket-plus-foul to give Zalgiris a 27-14 lead after 10 minutes.
Ewing made a jumper to open the second quarter and soon added another basket, but Delininkaitis kept Zalgiris in control. De Juan Collins stretched the Zalgiris advantage to 35-18 and then rose to block Adam Lapeta's shot at the other end. Bobby Brown got on the scoreboard with a three-pointer, but Milaknis matched him. Giddens also hit from outside and Wilks penetrated for a layup to keep Prokom alive. Ewing drilled a pull-up jumper to make it 39-30, but Pocius responded with 2 from the line and Zalgiris took a 41-30 cushion into the locker room at halftime.
Ewing sank a three with confidence in the opening minute of the second half, but did not build on that and Pocius soon had the hosts back up by 10. However Zalgiris also went cold. At first Zalgiris missed some good shots, but as the drought progressed, the shots got wilder. In the meantime, Giddens converted a three-point play and Wilks tore through the Zalgiris defense for a layup to bring the visitors within 5. Then Jan Jagla sank a fadeaway jumper to make it 43-40. Collins got to the line for 2 points, but Prokom continued to charge and after a Brown slam and a Jagla three, the visitors had a 45-47 lead. Collins added a free throw to make it 46-47 heading into the fourth quarter.
Begic made 1 free throw to tie the score at the start of the deciding quarter and soon Delininkaitis made 1 of 2 as well from the line to put the hosts back ahead. Jankunas finally ended a 17-minute field goal drought – going all the way back to a Milaknis triple with three-and-a-half minutes left in the second quarter – to relieve the pressure on the hosts. Prokom meanwhile hit a dry spell of its own, while Begic pushed the hosts lead up to 5. Kalnietis and Pocius struck soon with back-to-back triple to cap an 11-0 burst that made it a 10-point game. Prokom used a timeout and made one last run. Videnov finally got Prokom's first points of the quarter and then Varda made it 57-51 with just under four minutes remaining. Ewing and Varda each scored again to get the visitors within 2. Zalgiris struggled to extend the lead from the line and Ewing completed Prokom's comeback with a triple with just over a minute remaining. Pocius missed twice from the line with 55 seconds remaining and Varda went inside for a big basket and a 58-61 Prokom edge. After a timeout, Delininkaitis came off a curl and swished a triple from the top of the key to tie the game with 27.3 seconds left. Ewing missed a potential game-winning jumper on Prokom's final possession and Kalnietis's wild prayer at the buzzer bounced out, sending the game to an extra five minutes.
Varda scored for Prokom to open the overtime session. Pocius put his free throw woes behind him and tied the game before Delininkaitis's jumper put the hosts on top. Jagla became the first player to foul out and Delininkaitis made it 67-64 with 2:40 to play. Prokom committed a 24-second violation and a Pocius free throw made it a two-possession game. Travis Watson became Zalgiris's first player to sit with 5 fouls and Brown converted the resulting free throws. Pocius fed Begic for a slam and then he got to the line and stretched the lead to 72-66 with 53 seconds left. Brown missed a pull-up three and Jankunas sealed the Zalgiris win with a follow-up basket.
Referees: MARTIN, JOSE; DOZAI, SRDAN; CONDE, ANTONIO
Zalgiris Kaunas 27 14 5 15 13
Asseco Prokom Gdynia 14 16 17 14 7
Zalgiris Kaunas 27 41 46 61 74
Asseco Prokom Gdynia 14 30 47 61 68
6 CAPIN, ALEKSANDAR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 POCIUS, MARTYNAS 27:49 18 0/4 3/7 9/14 1 5 6 1 3 1 7 15
9 KALNIETIS, MANTAS 29:57 3 1/4 0/2 1/2 5 5 1 1 4
10 DELININKAITIS, TOMAS 24:29 16 3/3 2/5 4/6 4 4 3 1 1 1 5 22
12 KLIMAVICIUS, TADAS 12:34 3 0/1 1/2 1 3 4 1 1 5
13 JANKUNAS, PAULIUS 32:26 9 4/6 0/2 1/1 4 5 9 5 2 4 11
15 BEGIC, MIRZA 21:20 11 3/6 5/6 3 3 1 3 1 4 4 13
19 KUZMINSKAS, MINDAUGAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 SALENGA, DAINIUS 17:11 2 0/5 0/1 2/2 1 1 -4
21 MILAKNIS, ARTURAS 20:31 5 1/1 1/4 1 1 1 1 2 3 1 1
35 WATSON, TRAVIS 23:40 2 1/2 2 1 3 1 1 3 5 -2
41 COLLINS, DeJUAN 15:03 5 0/1 0/3 5/6 3 3 2 1 2 1 3 4 6
Totals 225:00 74 13/33 7/26 27/37 9 32 41 10 4 18 5 1 21 27 72
Head coach: PETROVIC, ACO
Asseco Prokom Gdynia
4 GIDDENS, JR 37:53 11 2/6 2/3 1/1 1 8 9 1 4 2 12
5 EWING, DANIEL 33:58 14 4/8 2/4 2 2 2 1 5 3 1 6
8 VIDENOV, FILIP 16:32 5 1/2 1/3 3 3 1 1 3 4
10 WILKS, MIKE 20:35 11 5/6 1/2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 11
11 BROWN, BOBBY 22:40 9 2/8 1/4 2/2 1 1 2 2 1 1 4 3
14 JAGLA, JAN 32:14 6 1/3 1/5 1/2 1 4 5 2 4 5 1 -2
16 LAPETA, ADAM 12:40 0/1 0/2 2 3 5 1 1 2 3 1
18 WITKA, ROBERT DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
20 SZCZOTKA, PIOTR 4:31 1 1 2 -1
21 VARDA, RATKO 29:51 12 3/8 6/8 1 2 3 3 1 2 4 8 8
30 BURRELL, RONNIE 11:43 0/4 2 1 3 1 1 -3
34 HRYCANIUK, ADAM 2:23 0/1 2 2 1
Totals 225:00 68 18/47 7/19 11/17 10 29 39 5 5 19 1 5 27 21 41
Head coach: PACESAS, TOMAS
PETROVIC, ACO
"I want to congratulate my players, who showed great character today. There aren't easy games in the Euroleague or weak teams that you can beat with one hand. We have a tough group and this victory is really important, but we have to look further and prepare for the next game. We started the game really well, but Asseco Prokom made good corrections after the halftime and managed to take initiative to their hands. They could have won and they can call the last shot by Delininkaitis a lucky shot, but we worked for such play a lot in the practice and it paid off today. Delininkaitis was focused and made the most important shot, which forced overtime. And now after all is over we can say with a smile that it was even better to play it, because we won the game by 6 points and not by 1 or 2."
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Dr. Michelle Izmaylov is a physician at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She is an author of four novels and more recently a writer of creative nonfiction which explores narrative medicine. She received first place in the 2016 national Gold-Hope Tang, MD Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest for her essay "Your Soul is Not Concrete." Her medical essays have been published widely in journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and Journal of General Internal Medicine.
Two weeks before graduation, a high school class gathers to celebrate a far more momentous occasion: one of their very own, Grace Tod, has donated her soul. Most applaud her sacrifice; after all, a finite number of souls exist in their world, and without a soul donation no new children can be born. But Leah knows "soul donation" is just sugar-coating suicide, and Tally is terrified her best friend Hannah may decide to make a donation next. Concern also grows in pockets among the adult world. Dr. Lira, a physician who runs one of the soul recycling clinics, risks his life and career to try talking his patients out of soul donation—until he's caught for nearly deterring a patient from making a donation. The recycling clinics have quotas to meet, after all.
In this interwoven story told from many voices and perspectives, each person must confront the societal laws that decide humanity's fate. Some choose to stand up to the authorities against their own family and friends. Others say this is just the way of the world. And still others hide themselves away in distractions or cloak their discomfort in caring for those around them. Yet all ultimately arrive at the same final door.


Matthew Krohn and Tara Walker won a favorable defense verdict in Ty Golden v. Michael Overton et al. Krohn and Walker represented Defendants Brad Burns and Wayne Burns. Krohn and Walker had the unenviable position of representing the only defendant without insurance coverage and the only defendant for which punitive damages were sought, Brad Burns.
On May 14, 2004, the Plaintiff, Ty Golden, was hosting an underage drinking party at his residence located on Joel Drive at the Brookfield Country Club in St. Catharine Missouri. Joel Drive is a narrow one-lane road owned by the Country Club. Plaintiff's friends parked along both sides of the road narrowing the road even further. At around 11:00 PM that evening Defendants Michael Overton, Wayne Burns, and Brad Burns who were in a brand new Ford F-250 King Cab pickup truck took Joel Drive en route to another friend's home located a couple of blocks from Plaintiff's home. When Defendants reached the section of the road in front of Plaintiff's home there was a van parked in the middle of the road blocking their passage.
Although the parties' version of events differs it was uncontroverted that Defendants asked that Plaintiff get someone to move the van and the van never moved. After some jaw jacking between the parties Plaintiff called his friend, a former MU defensive end, over to the truck. Plaintiff's friend pointed at Defendant Wayne Burns and said "I've got Grandpa" in a threatening manner. Wayne exited and met Plaintiff's friend at the back of the truck and fighting ensued. Defendants Brad Burns and Michael Overton then exited the truck to help Wayne. During the course of the fighting Michael and Ty both went through a bay window in the kitchen of Plaintiff's home. Michael's nose was cut almost completely off and Ty's forearm was severely lacerated.
Plaintiff sued under theories of conspiracy to trespass, conspiracy to commit a battery, and conspiracy to commit negligence. At the close of Plaintiff's evidence Defendants won a partial directed verdict. The Court threw out the conspiracy claims and directed a verdict in favor of Wayne Burns on the battery claim. Defense won another major victory at the close of their evidence when they successfully argued that Plaintiff could not submit negligence and intentional tort claims to the jury together.
Plaintiff elected to submit on battery and trespass claims against Michael Overton, on a battery claim against Brad Burns, and on a negligence claim against Wayne Burns. After a week-long trial the jury deliberated for only 2 hours and returned a very favorable verdict. The Jury found in favor of Michael Overton on both counts. The jury found against Brad Burns on the battery claim but awarded no damages including punitive damages. The jury found against Wayne Burns apportioning his fault at 75% and awarded a total amount of $25,000 in damages. However, after comparative fault and credit for a set off, the net verdict to the plaintiff was only $8,750.
Plaintiff's final pretrial demand was $275,000 and during the trial Plaintiff asked the jury for $373,000 plus punitive damages against Brad Burns.


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