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Sophisticated Monitoring for SHEP
Ensuring healthy water quality is an essential part of environmental monitoring for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is partnering with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to monitor water quality in the estuary using a sophisticated network of continuous monitoring stations.
The monitoring network allows the Corps to assess river conditions using real-time data, which will be used to monitor the estuary during construction and determine whether any adaptive management may be needed.
"After years of field studies by a diverse group of federal, state, and local stakeholders, we worked with the Corps to develop a comprehensive monitoring network to ensure the SHEP functions as intended," said Brian McCallum, assistant director with the USGS Georgia Water Science Center.
The USGS is responsible for installing and maintaining the network of surface-water sites, which will be the primary indicators of change in the estuary. The network provides reliable data and capitalizes on many years of USGS expertise in hydrologic monitoring.
"The water quality monitoring is the backbone of 95 percent of the environmental monitoring that the Corps will perform to monitor the SHEP," said William Bailey, chief of planning for the Corps' Savannah District. "We are very glad to have the USGS working with us on this critical mission."
Completed in November 2013, the USGS deployed five new stations and upgraded eight existing stations throughout the estuary. Three of the new stations were designed to assess water quality near the City of Savannah's industrial and domestic water intake in the upper estuary, including Abercorn Creek. Two stations were sited at locations identified by the State of South Carolina. Each station includes water-quality instruments that measure tidal discharge, conductance, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and more.
Harbor deepening will allow additional saltwater to enter the harbor and travel further upstream. The Corps worked with other state and federal agencies to develop an extensive mitigation plan that avoids, minimizes and compensates for environmental impacts expected from the deepening.
One of the mitigation features is the installation of a dissolved oxygen (DO) system in the estuary. The system will mix river water with oxygen and then disperse it back into the river. The system will add oxygen to the estuary in three locations: one in the front river across from International Paper; another in the back river upstream of the old railroad bridge; and the third in the front river just downstream from Georgia-Pacific. The technology set up at each location will inject super-oxygenated water into the river during the hot, dry months, when oxygen levels typically drop.
The Corps of Engineers performed hydrologic modeling that indicated oxygen levels would be impacted by the harbor deepening; but that same modeling also indicated that DO levels would exceed the existing conditions in more than 90 percent of the estuary once the DO system is in place. The water quality data collected by the USGS gages will measure dissolved oxygen across the estuary to help the Corps assess the performance of the DO system.
The gages will also monitor salinity levels. Salinity data will provide a basis for measuring the extent of change in the estuary between salt marsh, brackish marsh and freshwater marsh.
"The estuary's tidal wetlands provide many valuable functions and services, including fishery and wildlife habitats," said Bryan Robinson, Corps' civil engineer. "Those functions can differ depending on salinity levels. While the harbor deepening is expected to shift some marsh from one type to another, the salinity data would be able to show a trend change in salinity, as compared to model-predicted values."
The water quality monitoring will take place during all three phases of the harbor deepening: pre-construction, during construction, and post-construction. The post-construction monitoring will span 10 consecutive years.
Additionally, a subset of the monitoring stations will continue collecting data well beyond the post-construction phase.
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RAWALPINDI: A citizen got injured as Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing in Khuiratta sector along Line of Control (LoC), said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday.
As per press release issued by the Army's military wing, the Indian forces targeted civil population which resulted in injuries to a resident of Tain village, identified as, Muhammad Mushtaq.
The injured was shifted to a nearby medical facility, while Pakistan Army gave befitting response to the Indian aggression.
Earlier on January 7, the firing by the Indian troops in Bagsar sector of the LoC, left a 26-year- old citizen, Azeem, dead, while a woman got injured.
The Pakistan Army aggressively responded to the Indian mischief, the media wing of the military said, adding that the ceasefire violations along LoC by the neighboring state was on the increase yet again.


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Introduction: a Guide to Reading this Textbook
About the Authors & Review Team
I. Intellectual Property
1. Copyright Basics
Carla Myers
2. Copyright and Libraries: Fair Use
Sandra Enimil
3. Copyright and Libraries: Resource Sharing
Cindy Kristof and Collette Mak
4. Copyright and Libraries: Georgia State Copyright Lawsuit
Laura Burtle
5. Copyright and Digitization
Kate Dickson
6. Copyright and Education: Classroom Exemption and the TEACH Act
Lisa A. Macklin
7. Trademark and Patent Law
Agnes Gambill West
II. Contracts and Licensing
8. Contract Law Basics
9. Licensing Electronic Resources
Sunshine Carter and Ruth Dukelow
III. State and Federal Statutes
10. Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA)
Anne Seurynck
11. Open Meetings Acts
Lance Werner
12. Bonds and Millages
Cynthia B. Faulhaber and Thomas D. Colis
13. Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)
14. Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA)
Legal Issues in Libraries and Archives
IRAC Method of Briefing a Case
Legal Issues in Libraries and Archives is an open educational resource for library and information science courses. Chapters in this textbook are organized: (1) statutory and case law, (2) commentary, (3) discussion scenarios, (4) works consulted, and (5) author information.
This open textbook is designed to acquaint library and information science students with legal issues they are likely to encounter in their professional careers. Each chapter begins with the text of a legal opinion or statute, followed by a brief commentary to introduce the students to the legal concepts. Chapters contains two or more scenarios to spur classroom discussion or written assignments and conclude with a list of works consulted and author information.
Most of the chapters begin with the text of a court opinion. [Note that for brevity in this textbook, we have excerpted some sections of the opinions (indicated by …) and have deleted concurring and dissenting opinions. To find the full text of the original opinions, we recommend Cornell Law's LII Legal Information Institute or Google Scholar's Case Law.]
(see also Case Briefing Resources below for further examples of the IRAC/FIRAC method)
When you read a chapter in preparation for class, we recommend that you read and "brief" the initial court opinion using the IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis, and Conclusion) method of briefing a case. After you have read through the opinion, write a "brief" or summary of the case, using the following outline:
Facts and Procedural History: Write a brief summary of the facts, including the names of the parties (plaintiff/appellant and defendant/respondent), court proceedings (which court issued the opinion and the disposition of the case in the lower courts), and a description of the relevant facts that led up to this case.
Issue: Explain the question that the parties have asked the court to decide.
Rule: Define the rule(s) of law that the court applied to make its decision.
Analysis: Discuss the arguments made by both parties and explain the court's interpretation of the facts and the court's application of the rule of law to those facts. What was the court's rationale for its decision?
Conclusion: State the court's decision in the case.
Relevance to libraries: Professor Cross, who teaches the Legal Issues for Librarians course at the University of North Carolina School of Information and Library Science, suggests that students write an additional outline section "detailing their personal impressions of the case and their understanding of how the case might impact librarianship" (Cross, "A Five-Year Review" 164).
Cross, Will. "A Five-Year Review of a 'Legal Issues for Librarians' Course." Coaching Copyright, edited by Kevin L. Smith and Erin L. Ellis, ALA Editions, 2020, pp. 163-178.
Cross, William M. and Phillip M. Edwards. "Preservice Legal Education for Academic Librarians within ALA-Accredited Degree Programs." portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 11, no. 1, Jan. 2011, pp. 533-550.
Kerr, Orin S., "How to read a Legal Opinion: a Guide for New Law Students," The Green Bag 2d, vol. 11, no. 1, Autumn 2007, pp. 51-83, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1160925.
Case Briefing Resources
Baez, Beau, "FIRAC Case Briefing Method," Learn Law Better, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BhYlLMQ7XU.
"How to Brief a Case Using the 'IRAC' Method," www.csun.edu/~kkd61657/brief.pdf.
"How to Raise Your Law School Exam Grades by Using the IRAC Method the Right Way," www.jdadvising.com/raise-law-school-exam-grade-using-the-irac-method-right-way/.
Milbrandt, Jay, "How to IRAC a law case," www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuX_xQRdhGk.
Cornell Law School, LII Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu/lii/get_the_law.
Google Scholar, Case Law, scholar.google.com/scholar_courts.
Next: About the Authors & Review Team
Legal Issues in Libraries and Archives by Ruth Dukelow and Michael Robak is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, which is used to set up and tear down most of the world's public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone calls.wikipedia
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It also performs number translation, local number portability, prepaid billing, Short Message Service (SMS), and other mass market services.
The Mobile Application Part (MAP) of the SS7 protocol included support for the transport of Short Messages through the Core Network from its inception.
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Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, which is used to set up and tear down most of the world's public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone calls.
Out-of-band signaling has been used since Signaling System No. 6 (SS6) was introduced in the 1970s, and also in Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) in 1980 which became the standard for signaling among exchanges ever since.
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SIGTRAN
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined the SIGTRAN protocol suite that implements levels 2, 3, and 4 protocols compatible with SS7.
SIGTRAN is the name, derived from signaling transport, of the former Internet Task Force (I) working group that produced specifications for a family of protocols that provide reliable datagram service and user layer adaptations for Signaling System and ISDN communications protocols.
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Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, which is used to set up and tear down most of the world's public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone calls. The Telephone User Part (TUP) was adopted in Europe and the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) adapted for public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls was adopted in North America.
Later, more sophisticated address signaling, including multi-frequency signaling methods, enabled direct-dialed long distance calls by subscribers, culminating in the Signalling System 7 (SS7) network that controlled calls between most exchanges by the end of the 20th century.
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It also performs number translation, local number portability, prepaid billing, Short Message Service (SMS), and other mass market services. Other examples include Intelligent Network and local number portability databases.
Providers use SS7 to route calls throughout the US/Canada network.
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it is layered on the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) transport mechanism.
The designers of SCTP originally intended it for the transport of telephony (Signaling System 7) over Internet Protocol, with the goal of duplicating some of the reliability attributes of the SS7 signaling network in IP. This IETF effort is known as SIGTRAN.
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The Telephone User Part (TUP) was adopted in Europe and the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) adapted for public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls was adopted in North America. OSI layers 1 to 3 are provided by the Message Transfer Part (MTP) and the Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP) of the SS7 protocol (together referred to as the Network Service Part (NSP)); for circuit related signaling, such as the BT IUP, Telephone User Part (TUP), or the ISDN User Part (ISUP), the User Part provides layer 7.
The ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) User Part or ISUP is part of Signaling System No. 7 (SS7), which is used to set up telephone calls in the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
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As the bearer channel was directly accessible by users, it was exploited with devices such as the blue box, which played the tones required for call control and routing.
The death of blue boxing came in the mid-to-late 1990s when telephone companies, becoming aware of the problem, eventually moved to out-of-band signaling systems with separate data and signalling channels (such as CCIS and SS7).
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When operating in the quasi-associated mode, SS7 signaling progresses from the originating switch to the terminating switch, following a path through a separate SS7 signaling network composed of signal transfer points. The network can be made up of several link types (A, B, C, D, E, and F) and three signaling nodes – Service Switching Points (SSPs), Signal Transfer Points (STPs), and Service Control Points (SCPs).
A Signal Transfer Point (STP) is a router that relays SS7 messages between signaling end-points (SEPs) and other signaling transfer points (STPs).
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This is the case for earlier analogue trunks, multi-frequency (MF) and R2 digital trunks, and DSS1/DASS PBX trunks.
For the option to call from IP network to the circuit-switched PSTN (SS7/ISUP), the hosted solutions include interconnecting media gateways.
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The only international SS7 protocol is defined by ITU-T's Q.700-series recommendations in 1988.
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Integrated Services Digital Network
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The Telephone User Part (TUP) was adopted in Europe and the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) User Part (ISUP) adapted for public switched telephone network (PSTN) calls was adopted in North America.
Between telephone company switches, the signaling is performed via SS7.
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This is the case for earlier analogue trunks, multi-frequency (MF) and R2 digital trunks, and DSS1/DASS PBX trunks. SS5 and earlier systems used in-band signaling, in which the call-setup information was sent by playing special multi-frequency tones into the telephone lines, known as bearer channels.
MF and other in-band signaling systems differ from Signaling System 7 (SS7) in that the routing digits are out-pulsed in MF format in the same voiceband channel used for voice.
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The network can be made up of several link types (A, B, C, D, E, and F) and three signaling nodes – Service Switching Points (SSPs), Signal Transfer Points (STPs), and Service Control Points (SCPs).
Standard SCPs in the telecom industry today are deployed using SS7, SIGTRAN or SIP technologies.
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Other examples include Intelligent Network and local number portability databases.
IN is supported by the Signaling System #7 (SS7) protocol between network switching centers and other network nodes owned by network operators.
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OSI layers 1 to 3 are provided by the Message Transfer Part (MTP) and the Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP) of the SS7 protocol (together referred to as the Network Service Part (NSP)); for circuit related signaling, such as the BT IUP, Telephone User Part (TUP), or the ISDN User Part (ISUP), the User Part provides layer 7.
The Message Transfer Part (MTP) is part of the Signaling System 7 (SS7) used for communication in Public Switched Telephone Networks.
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When operating in the quasi-associated mode, SS7 signaling progresses from the originating switch to the terminating switch, following a path through a separate SS7 signaling network composed of signal transfer points. Due to its richness and the need for an out-of-band channel for its operation, SS7 is mostly used for signaling between telephone switches and not for signaling between local exchanges and customer-premises equipment.
Before Signalling System 7, Bell System electromechanical switches in the United States communicated with one another over trunks using a variety of DC voltages and signaling tones.
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Common-channel signaling
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SS6 and SS7 are referred to as common-channel signaling (CCS) protocols, or Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (CCIS) systems.
The most common CCS signaling methods in use today are Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and Signalling System No. 7 (SS7).
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DS0A
In Europe they are usually one (64 kbit/s) or all (1,984 kbit/s) timeslots (DS0s) within an E1 facility; in North America one (56 or 64 kbit/s) or all (1,536 kbit/s) timeslots (DS0As or DS0s) within a T1 facility.
DS0A is the interface most commonly used for SS7 networks in the US. It is a 56/64kbit/s channel typically located in a DS1 or larger facility.
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Mobile Application Part
TCAP provides transaction capabilities to its Users (TC-Users), such as the Mobile Application Part, the Intelligent Network Application Part and the CAMEL Application Part.
The Mobile Application Part (MAP) is an SS7 protocol that provides an application layer for the various nodes in GSM and UMTS mobile core networks and GPRS core networks to communicate with each other in order to provide services to users.
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Signaling System No. 5
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SS5 and earlier systems used in-band signaling, in which the call-setup information was sent by playing special multi-frequency tones into the telephone lines, known as bearer channels.
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Service switching point
MSSP(SSPs)Service Switching Points
The service switching point uses the Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) protocols which are responsible for the call setup, management, and termination with other service switching points.
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Some of the first such services were call management related, call forwarding (busy and no answer), voice mail, call waiting, conference calling, calling name and number display, call screening, malicious caller identification, busy callback.
A SS7 (or Signalling System 7) TCAP query may be launched by the called party's central office, in order to retrieve the information for Calling Name delivery to the caller ID equipment at the consumer's location, if the caller's name has not already been associated with the calling party's line at the originating central office.
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Signalling Connection Control Part
SCCPNSP
The Signalling Connection Control Part (SCCP) is a network layer protocol that provides extended routing, flow control, segmentation, connection-orientation, and error correction facilities in Signaling System 7 telecommunications networks.
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Technology: Research
Question for Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
UIN 73872, tabled on 12 November 2021
Margaret Ferrier
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he is taking steps to contribute to the (a) development and (b) validation of human-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip technologies.
George Freeman
The Government actively supports and funds the development and dissemination of techniques that replace, reduce, and refine the use of animals in research (the 3Rs).  This is achieved primarily through funding for the National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs), which works nationally and internationally to drive the uptake of 3Rs technologies and ensure that advances in the 3Rs are reflected in policy, practice, and regulations on animal research.
The NC3Rs receives its core funding from UK Research and Innovation's (UKRI) Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Since the NC3Rs was launched in 2004, it has committed £100 million in research to develop 3Rs technologies.
In addition to funding the NC3Rs, UKRI also funds a portfolio of research projects involving humans, human materials, animal models, and non-animal technologies. UKRI also encourages grant applicants, including those whose research does not involve animals but could contribute to greater reduction and replacement, to consider further opportunities to advance the 3Rs.
Between 2015-2019, the BBSRC spent over £7 million on research grants aimed at developing and applying innovative methodologies to studying human and animal physiology, including in silico approaches, organ-on-a-chip, organoid and other advanced cell culture systems.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy


Aoife May Soden was born in Ireland and has lived in Australia and Papua New Guinea – subjects from which she now draws inspiration in her artwork.
An accomplished glass worker, Aoife creates by blowing and sculpting hot glass to explore artistic ideas in collections that span intricate fine art objects to functional design pieces.
Her fine art is designed to encourage discussion around the topics of mental health and the human body, exploring the human condition and the effects of stress and anxiety.
Joanna Jensen is a Danish artist who has been painting and creating from a young age. She is inspired to transfer feelings and emotional states of minds into visual images that evoke dream-like explorations and surreal cosmic-scapes.
KIRSE is an attitude driven couture house with extreme attention to detail. Signature elements include bespoke hand embroidery and embellishment, typography, emotional and visual juxtaposition and experimental set design.
Katri explores crossing media for research and development which results in unique one-off artworks — illustrating ways of manipulating material and surface and often creating new inspiration points for future work.
Born in Riga, Latvia - based in Aarhus.
Leanne Marie Kolpin is an American artist that began her career as a metalsmith and sculptor while living in the United States. After moving to Denmark, she shifted her focus to painting and drawing.
Her work often plays with fields of opposing colour gradients and textures against strict hard edges – a technique that began as an exploration of her synesthesia and has since moved to experimentation using colour, texture, and shape to evoke an emotional response from the viewer.
Working from her studio in Aarhus, she draws inspiration from post-war abstract expressionism, metal and glass, and various sources of colour and light.
Mariana Gil is a Brazilian photographer and visual artist based in Aarhus. She is particularly interested in how the aesthetics and formal aspects of an image can elicit a certain mood on the viewer.
Mariana's aim is to create images that can go beyond the surface level, creations that stand out from the images we are bombarded with every day because they have something to offer.
She often draws inspiration from the twilight, using artificial city lights to enhance a certain mood in her photos.
Nicoline Karlsen has a background in graphic design and has been involved in the arts throughout her life.
Three years ago, she began to develop and nurture an interest in photography. This has formed the basis of her work ever since, driven by a motivation to try new things and challenge herself creatively.
Nicoline's latest project is inspired by people who have overcome challenges to pursue their life's goals. It depicts wild motivation and willpower through several portraits that project parts of the human body.
Sophie Munch is a Danish artist who developed her passion for art in school and continued creating whilst living and travelling in France.
At Art Décalé, Sophie's artworks are inspired by the idea of showing different angles and perspectives on the world, through the tension between the orderly and the skewed.
The motivation behind her drawings is to trigger the imagination of the viewer, challenging them to see the world from another perspective – to see and experience something other than their own reality.
Thomas Herman Søgaard is a Danish artist creating paintings, drawings and art dolls.
He draws inspiration from inside himself, from stories and tales he hears, or from his own life experiences.
Studio Herman, located in downtown Aarhus, is his studio space and workshop where he experiments and works with paint, pen, pencil, pastel, clay and watercolour to create his highly original pieces.
His work incorporates elements of pop culture collage with bold strokes of acrylic paints and a distinct urban art influence with his use of spray paints and stencils.


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Q: Piping events from ScrollContainer I'm trying to pipe mouse clicks from ScrollContainer encapsulated in a view, but somehow nothing's happening. I've just started playing with Famo.us so maybe I'm missing something obvious here. I can pipe directly from surfaces contained within ScrollContainer but I'm not sure if that's the way to do it. Any ideas ?
Link to runnable jsFiddle demo :
http://jsfiddle.net/nqxz596f/
And the code itself :
define('main', function (require, exports, module) {
    var Engine          = require('famous/core/Engine');
    var Surface         = require('famous/core/Surface');
    var Transform       = require('famous/core/Transform');
    var View            = require('famous/core/View');
    var Scrollview      = require('famous/views/ScrollContainer');

    var context = Engine.createContext();
    var mainview = new View({
        size: [500, 500]
    });
    var scrollview = new Scrollview({
        scrollview: {direction:0, size: [undefined, 300]}
    });
    var surfaces = [];

    scrollview.sequenceFrom(surfaces);

    for (var i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
        var surface = new Surface({
             content: "Surface: " + (i + 1),
             size: [undefined, 200],
             properties: {
                 backgroundColor: "hsl(" + (i * 360 / 40) + ", 100%, 50%)",
                 lineHeight: "200px",
                 textAlign: "center"
             }
        });

        surface.pipe(scrollview);
        surfaces.push(surface);
    }

    mainview._eventInput.on('click', function(){
        console.log('click');
    });

    scrollview.pipe(mainview);
    mainview.add(scrollview);

    context.add(mainview);
});

A: As of this writing, the ScrollContainer does not have it's own EventHandlers. It uses the event handlers from the ScrollView that it contains (scrollcontainer.scrollview). The ScrollContainer has a ContainerSurface that subscribes from the events of the scrollcontainer.scrollview and is the DOM element to hide the overflow of the scrollview.
The below code in a new jsFiddle shows the correct way to setup the ContainerSurface.  You do not need the mainview to pipe your events.
You have a couple options:

*

*Pipe the surface events to the scrollview event output (as below) and listen on the scrollview for the events

*or Pipe the surface events to the container surface.pipe(scrollcontainer.container); and listen to the events from the container scrollcontainer.container.on('click', ...
Corrected Code:

define('main', function (require, exports, module) {
    var Engine = require('famous/core/Engine');
    var Surface = require('famous/core/Surface');
    var Transform = require('famous/core/Transform');
    var View = require('famous/core/View');
    var ScrollContainer = require('famous/views/ScrollContainer');
    var Scrollview = require('famous/views/Scrollview');
    var Utility = require('famous/utilities/Utility');

    var context = Engine.createContext();

    var scrollcontainer = new ScrollContainer({

        scrollview: {
            direction: Utility.Direction.Y
        }
    });
    scrollcontainer.container.setSize([500, 500]);

    var surfaces = [];

    for (var i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
        var surface = new Surface({
            content: "Surface: " + (i + 1),
            size: [undefined, 200],
            properties: {
                backgroundColor: "hsl(" + (i * 360 / 40) + ", 100%, 50%)",
                lineHeight: "200px",
                textAlign: "center"
            }
        });

        surface.pipe(scrollcontainer.scrollview._eventOutput);
        surfaces.push(surface);
    }

    scrollcontainer.scrollview.on('click', function (e) {
        console.log('click ' + e.target.innerText);
    });

    scrollcontainer.sequenceFrom(surfaces);

    context.add(scrollcontainer);
});

Alternative Option:

    for (var i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
        var surface = new Surface({
            content: "Surface: " + (i + 1),
            size: [undefined, 200],
            properties: {
                backgroundColor: "hsl(" + (i * 360 / 40) + ", 100%, 50%)",
                lineHeight: "200px",
                textAlign: "center"
            }
        });

        surface.pipe(scrollcontainer.container);
        surfaces.push(surface);
    }

    scrollcontainer.container.on('click', function (e) {
        console.log('click ' + e.target.innerText);
    });

jsFiddle to show event pipe to a View

for (var i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
    var surface = new Surface({
        content: "Surface: " + (i + 1),
        size: [undefined, 200],
        properties: {
            backgroundColor: "hsl(" + (i * 360 / 40) + ", 100%, 50%)",
            lineHeight: "200px",
            textAlign: "center"
        }
    });

    surface.pipe(scrollcontainer.container);
    surfaces.push(surface);
}

var mainview = new View({size: [500, 500]});

mainview.on('click', function (e) {
    console.log('click ' + e.target.innerText);
});

scrollcontainer.sequenceFrom(surfaces);

scrollcontainer.container.pipe(mainview._eventOutput);

context.add(scrollcontainer).add(mainview);


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4:03 PM PDT 5/6/2008 by Staff report , AP
To oversee theatrical and DVD marketing and publicity
Regent Releasing has promoted Jonathon Aubry to vp, theatrical marketing, reporting to Mark Reinhart, the company's west coast general manager and executive vp of distribution and acquisitions. Aubry is the former director of marketing and communications at Regent.
In his new position, he will oversee theatrical and DVD marketing and publicity for the gay and lesbian label, here! Films, as well as the indie features and specialized released for Regent.
Aubry joined here!/Regent in 2005 after working as director of development for Outfest.


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Personnel Moves at Takasago
Takasago has added new operational, technical and marketing experts.
KEYWORDS graphic design / personnel
Rockleigh, N.J./Press Release -- Brian Buck, senior vice president and general manager, Takasago International Corp. (USA) Flavor Division, announced that Takasago Flavors continues to expand its resources through the addition of new operational, technical and marketing experts.
Joseph P. Leone was named director, Flavor Manufacturing for Takasago's Flavor Division. Prior to joining Takasago, he held key operations, supply chain and procurement roles with Bontoux, Dale and Thomas Popcorn, Kerry Ingredients, J. Manheimer and Givaudan. He holds a Master of Business Administration from St. John's University, Queens, New York, and is a member of the IFT and the American Production and Inventory Control Society. Leone will be reporting to Takasago's vice president of Operations, Bill Bushman.
Craig Kostick joins Takasago USA as a sensory analyst. He becomes part of Takasago's global sensory group, which applies sensory techniques and insights to support its innovative product development and will be reporting to Teresa Pendergast, manager of Sensory Evaluations. Kostick holds a Master of Science Degree in Food Science from Drexel University and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Delaware Valley College.
Sarah McCabe joins Takasago USA as a senior flavorist. She brings more than 12 years of experience to Takasago from Dragoco and Symrise, where she developed a track record of creating winning flavors for sweet and beverage applications. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from Rutgers University. In her new position at Takasago, she reports to Amby Mankoo, vice president, Flavor Division.
Takasago USA has also expanded its marketing department. Carolyn Chen has joined the company as senior marketing coordinator, with responsibilities that include fulfillment of product requests from Takasago affiliates, assisting the marketing team with data collection and conducting trend research. Jean Merrill comes to Takasago as a senior graphic design specialist, and works on customer presentations and handouts, promotional marketing materials and displays for events.
In making the announcements, Buck said, "We've very pleased to add these professionals to our Takasago team. We anticipate notable contributions from them in advancing our growth and we welcome the opportunity to wish them well."
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Lizards and mussels and butterflies … oh my! Texas has a variety of rare plant and animal species. Yet the federal government's primary tool for protecting such species, the Endangered Species Act (ESA), is often seen as an inflexible and costly law that can affect an area's agriculture, real estate development, construction and energy production.
Photo courtesy of Michael O'Brien.
In Texas, however, an effort is under way to assist landowners, communities and businesses in working effectively with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the federal agency that administers all ESA actions other than those concerning marine life. This science-based process, led by the Comptroller's office, includes state agencies, universities, community groups and private landowners, guided by a common dedication to the preservation of Texas' natural resources and the state's economic health.
A major focus of the work is adding to the pool of knowledge about species under consideration for ESA protection. Often, relatively little is known about the population, range, habitat and needs of such species, providing a poor basis for decisions that can have major economic consequences.
Since 2013, the Legislature has appropriated $10 million to the Comptroller's office for high-quality research on species under review for endangered species listing. At this writing, about $9 million has been expended to support research on these species (Exhibit 1). An additional $5 million has been approved for the 2018-19 biennium.
In addition to funding research, the Comptroller serves as presiding officer of the Interagency Task Force on Economic Growth and Endangered Species. Created by the Legislature in 2009, the task force is a group of state agencies that assists landowners, businesses and communities in working with endangered species issues and assessing their economic impact.
Soon after taking office in January 2015, Comptroller Glenn Hegar centralized and focused the agency's ESA responsibilities by creating the Economic Growth and Endangered Species Management Division and recruiting Dr. Robert Gulley as its director.
In many ways, Gulley's work for the Comptroller's office marks the culmination of his professional experience. His résumé includes a doctorate in anatomy and neurobiology, with research at universities and the National Institutes of Health that resulted in 36 scientific publications. In addition, Gulley has more than a quarter-century of experience as an environmental attorney, including seven years with ESA cases as a senior trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice.
In particular, Gulley's success in helping to quell a 50-year-old fight concerning the Edwards Aquifer made him especially well-suited to head the new agency division.
As program manager for the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program, and then as executive director of the Habitat Conservation Program at the Edwards Aquifer Authority, Gulley helped a diverse array of stakeholders reach a consensus in a decades-old battle between users of the aquifer's waters and conservationists. The agreement meets the water needs of a growing economy while protecting eight species listed under the ESA.
Gulley says Hegar was very specific in his direction to provide "good science" for Texas stakeholders, as well as transparent information for the public at large.
"We're committed to providing information and assistance to potentially affected stakeholders, and to supporting good science, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service can make an informed decision as to whether a species needs the protection of the Endangered Species Act," Gulley says.
Gulley's division comprises just six people including himself, but makes up for its small size with dedication and tenacity. In addition to Gulley, three staff members have scientific backgrounds. And the entire group is involved in the research supported by the Comptroller, taking courses in topics such as mussel identification, environmental modeling and riparian restoration. They also observe researchers' field activities to better understand their work.
Yet as Gulley explains, "It's important to remember that it's not our jobs to be scientists. We work with scientists. It's our job to understand the Endangered Species Act and the science that's required for it, and the species themselves, and to be able to communicate effectively with researchers so we can make sure their work is useful to FWS in its decisions with respect to species at risk."
ESA requirements involve uncertainties that can be problematic for landowners and businesses.
"When a species is listed as endangered, or is a candidate for listing, the biggest consequence can be the lack of certainty for businesses and local governments that are trying to plan their activities," Gulley says. "You have private landowners and industries that want to use the land, and they'll do the work needed to take care of the species — they just want to know what the work is, so they can plan for it and keep their costs down.
"Again, our primary role is providing information," he says. "FWS may see a species that could be listed. Maybe we can come up with voluntary conservation measures that will allow us to do what we need to do to protect that species, and see that we keep the commitments we make to FWS."
Soon after becoming division director, Gulley began identifying "game-changing" species that, if listed as endangered, could involve significant economic impacts within an area.
The monarch butterfly qualifies, as its annual migration pattern covers Texas, as does the Sprague's pipit, a tiny bird that winters in Texas. Both are affected by disappearing grassland habitat and food sources. Yet another is the spot-tailed earless lizard, whose territory lies in the middle of the energy-rich Eagle Ford shale.
But perhaps the biggest immediate project facing the Economic Growth and Endangered Species Management Division involves Texas' freshwater mussels. The Comptroller's office has allocated more than $3.6 million for research on 12 different Texas river mussel species under consideration for ESA listing. The money has been put to use in a variety of projects designed to understand potential threats to the mussels.
"Species in the Brazos, Colorado and Guadalupe rivers affect a big swath of the state's economy, and you can transfer that knowledge to East Texas mussels in the Sabine and Trinity rivers," Gulley says.
An early success for the Comptroller's ESA effort concerned the dunes sagebrush lizard (DSL). The little reptile's range extends from New Mexico to West Texas' Permian Basin, the location of Texas' most productive oil and gas fields, providing tens of thousands of jobs.
In 2010, FWS was considering listing the DSL under the Endangered Species Act. As leader of the Interagency Task Force, then-Comptroller Susan Combs facilitated the development of the Texas Conservation Plan (TCP), which FWS approved in February 2012 — and cited as a key factor in its decision not to list the lizard as endangered.
Under the TCP, stakeholders such as energy companies and landowners who voluntarily participate in the plan may continue their operations while avoiding unnecessary disturbances to habitat, minimizing disturbances that cannot be avoided and mitigating habitat loss. The TCP satisfies benchmarks set by FWS and has passed federal court scrutiny. Monthly reports of day-to-day compliance efforts are provided on the Comptroller's website.
The Comptroller's office holds the federal permit for the TCP and is responsible for its implementation. The agency has contracted with multiple researchers to conduct in-depth research on the lizard's population, habitat, movements and reproductive patterns.
In the first four years of the TCP's implementation, fewer than 300 acres of 200,000 acres of DSL habitat in Texas have been disturbed by program participants. These stakeholders have voluntarily rerouted pipelines, changed drilling locations and removed hundreds of acres of invasive mesquite that could affect habitat.
FWS follows a complex, multi-step process to determine whether a species deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) follows a complex, multi-step process to determine whether a species deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act.
Once a petition for listing is received, it undergoes a "service review" for up to 90 days. If FWS decides a listing may be warranted, it moves to a 12-month status review period for information gathering and public comment.
At this point, FWS may decide that the data do not support a need to list the species; that the data do support the need to list the species, but other species are of a higher priority, in which case the species will be placed on a candidate list and reevaluated annually; or that listing is warranted.
If FWS concludes that listing is warranted, it will publish a proposed rule in the Federal Register. At this point, a period for public and written comment begins. This period may include public hearings. FWS will also seek the expert opinion of three appropriate and independent species experts, as well as input from the public, the scientific community and federal and state agencies.
If FWS decides to list the species, it will publish a final rule in the Federal Register. The species is added to the endangered species list 30 days after the announcement in the Federal Register.
Any person or entity can take legal action to challenge the listing in federal court. The service's decision can be set aside only if the court determines that the service's actions were arbitrary, capricious, and abuse of discretion or not otherwise in accordance with law.
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Program, "The Petition Process," September 2001.
Because the Comptroller's research funding is offered via contracts with hard deadlines rather than grants, the information produced can be shared with other universities, FWS, state agencies such as Texas Parks and Wildlife and concerned communities and landowners much more quickly. Information and reports are shared through meetings open to the public.
An interagency work group from the Comptroller's office, FWS, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas State University and others participate in a field exercise.
"This has never happened before," says fisheries expert Dr. Timothy H. Bonner with Texas State University. "We've never had this amount of discussion and people talking with one another and sharing data. The comptroller has done a good job of keeping everyone informed."
Dr. Kenneth G. Ostrand, director of FWS' San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, says his agency appreciates the information provided by the Comptroller's office.
"We're getting in early with these species, and typically our job is to catch up," Ostrand says. "With these animals, we're at the beginning of the listing process, and actually have the luxury, for once, to approach this in a calm and logical way. Hopefully, it will result in a much greater success in the end, and eliminate the need for [endangered species] listing. It sounds strange, but we're trying to put ourselves out of business."
Ostrand says he finds the inclusion of the public as well as the research community in the process refreshing. Public meetings allow stakeholders who might be affected by an endangered species listing to ask questions and voice concerns. And informal working groups meet throughout the year to gather information from experts and input from stakeholders. All meetings are open to the public and announced on the Comptroller's website as soon as they're scheduled.
Comptroller analyst Kimberly Horndeski consults with Dr. Kenneth Ostrand, director of the FWS San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, on the progress of the center's mussel propagation study.
"The Comptroller's office has a plan and a vision for the future of Texas, particularly from an economic perspective," Ostrand says. "They understand the link between the species, the environment and economic success."
Josh Able of the San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center demonstrates a feeding system designed to support freshwater mussels as part of a study commissioned by the Comptroller's office.
Gulley understands his position within the Comptroller's office is unusual.
"There's hardly a time I speak at a conference that I'm not asked, 'Why is the Comptroller's office involved with endangered species?'" says Gulley. "And the answer is we're trying to assist state and local agencies, industry and the citizens of Texas.
Learn more about the work of the Economic Growth and Endangered Species Management Division.


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Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'?
Written by Andrea Lo, CNN
With majestic glaciers, fjords and mountains, Norway is famous for its dramatic natural landscape.
Its rugged terrain does not make traveling easy, however. More than 1,000 fjords line the Scandinavian country's west coast, which is home to a third of the country's population of 5.3 million. To make the 1,100 kilometer journey between the southern city of Kristiansand and Trondheim in the north via the west coast, for example, currently takes 21 hours, and requires seven ferry crossings.
The Norwegian government plans to cut that time by half with a groundbreaking $40 billion infrastructure project to make the route "ferry-free."
The plan includes bridges and the world's deepest and longest rock tunnel — drilled through bedrock under the seabed — measuring 392 meters (1,286 feet) deep and 27 kilometers (17 miles) long.
But the most ambitious aspect is the development of submerged floating tunnels that sit around 30 meters (100 feet) under the surface of the water.
A rendering of the tunnel's interiors. Credit: NPRA
If successful, Norway could win a global race against countries including China, South Korea and Italy, which are researching similar projects.
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA), the governmental body responsible for the project, aims to complete construction by 2050.
Why build a floating tunnel?
The journey between Kristiansand and Trondheim is part of the E39, which is a "key route for Norway," explains Kjersti Kvalheim Dunham, a project manager at NPRA.
A combination of motorways, roads and ferry rides, E39 runs along the southwestern Norwegian coast. More than 50% of export goods in Norway originate from this area, she adds — yet the route "has a very low standard for a European road." Crossing the fjords via ferry, while a popular transport method, can be time-consuming.
The government intends to improve transport "for commercial purposes (and) also for the welfare of the local population," Dunham says.
Three suspension bridges and five floating bridges will be built. Floating bridges — structures that are supported by pontoons — have been built in Norway and the US, among other countries.
When a fjord is deeper than 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) or wider than 5 kilometers (3 miles), however, existing engineering solutions are not going to cut it. The seabed would be too deep to be drilled through for a rock tunnel or for a suspension bridge's foundations to be laid.
Floating bridges do not work in all cases because they are susceptible to harsh weather conditions such as strong waves and currents.
This is where the floating tunnels come in.
The anatomy of a floating tunnel
The idea for a submerged floating tunnel is not new. In 1882, British naval architect Edward Reed proposed a floating tunnel across the English Channel — an idea that was vetoed.
The term "floating" is perhaps misleading. The tunnels are fixed in position with cables — either anchored to the seabed or tethered to pontoons which are spaced far enough apart to allow boats to pass through. Made of concrete, they would function like conventional tunnels, transporting vehicles from one end of a fjord to another.
A rendering that shows the floating tunnel anchored to the seabed via cables. Credit: NPRA
Waves and currents at 100 feet below sea level are less powerful than those at the surface, explains NPRA's chief engineer Arianna Minoretti.
In addition, a floating tunnel minimizes the impact on the landscape since most of the infrastructure is out of sight. It also creates less noise than traffic on a bridge would. "That would be an advantage … (for) people living in the area," Minoretti says.
Ambitious project
The biggest risks in the project are explosions, fire and overloading, says Minoretti — and so extensive testing is essential.
NPRA is working with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Center for Advanced Structural Analysis (CASA), using live explosives to "investigate how tubular concrete structures behave when subjected to internal blast loads," says CASA researcher Martin Kristoffersen.
The tests will help the team to understand what would happen to the tunnel's structure if, for example, a truck carrying dangerous goods exploded inside.
Results so far indicate that the constant water pressure that surrounds the floating tunnels reduces the damage caused by explosions.
A rendering of a submerged floating tunnel under the surface of the water. Credit: NPRA
Working with the Norwegian navy, the NPRA team is also investigating how the tunnels would fare if submarines crashed into them.
While locations for the submerged floating tunnels have not yet been pinned down, Minoretti says the project will be completed in just over 30 years' time.
The improved E39 will open up more of the west coast to tourism, while the tunnels may become attractions in their own right — especially if they are a world first.
"As a bridge engineer working on this amazing project," says Minoretti, "one can only hope."
Can Norway win the global race to build a 'floating tunnel'? - CNNDesign


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Donald Trump; alleged victims of the chemical attack
Remarkable reversal of Trump's Syria policy
Trump's strong views on US Syria policy under former President Obama dates back to 2013 when he began repeatedly criticising the potential for American involvement. Thus the decision to use military force against Syria is a remarkable reversal for Trump.
Published: April 7, 2017, 11:08 am
Aid worker Hatune Dogan: 'ISIS is getting help from the West'
'We sent you St Paul and you sent us terrorists'
'There are a lot of lies being told about situation in Syria'
'Putin and Assad saved my life'
Before he was president, Donald Trump tweeted continually that the US should not bomb Syria. From 2013 to 2014 Trump warned against military action in Syria, including a tweet that called for Obama administration to "stay the hell out of Syria".
Trump was still opposed to aggressive military involvement in Syria after becoming the Republican nominee during the 2016 presidential election campaign. He insisted that the Obama administration was letting its commitment to political correctness get in the way of the fight against terrorism.
In an interview just weeks out from election day, he said his opponent's policies on Syria, which included the establishment of a no-fly zone, would lead to a world war.
"What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict?" Trump responded in one tweet. "Obama needs Congressional approval."
He also tweeted: "What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focusing on Syria."
As the White House ordered strikes on Syria late Thursday, several of those old anti-war tweets were recirculating on Twitter, especially two in which Trump had called for congressional approval before launching any military actions against Syria.
There is still no proof that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's used chemical weapons on his own people, killing more than 80, but Trump nevertheless announced Thursday's attack in an official statement.
Trump now says because he is a "flexible person", he has changed his mind on Syria. "That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me. Big impact," he said. "My attitude to Syria and Assad has changed very much."
Just over a month ago, Trump wanted to bar entry of all Syrian refugees into the United States, including children.
"Years of previous attempts at changing Assad's behavior have all failed and failed very dramatically. As a result, the refugee crisis continues to deepen and the region continues to destabilize, threatening the United States and its allies."
Trump ended his announcement of Thursday's strike with the grand goal of ending "terrorism of all kinds and all types".
But the rapid shift in the administration's response to the Syrian conflict already became clear when US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley started accusing the Syrian government of the chemical attack without presenting any evidence.
Last week, Nikki Haley, Trump's UN ambassador, said of Assad: "Do we think he's a hindrance? Yes. Are we going to sit there and focus on getting him out? No."
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday: "We have a very high level of confidence" the strikes Tuesday were "carried out by aircraft of the Bashar al-Assad regime" and a high degree of confidence it was "sarin nerve gas".
Multiple witnesses reported a "rotten smell" and greenish colour. Both Sarin and Soman are in pure form colourless, tasteless and odourless.
'The first thing that hits you is the smell' – covering suspect #chemical attack in #syria @AFPblogs @omarhajkadour https://t.co/Gw2rtZZ9ne pic.twitter.com/1qFMgZLQbd
— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) April 4, 2017
Jihadists on Friday welcomed a US strike on a government airbase, and urged additional action, with one powerful faction saying a single strike was "not enough", AFP reports.
"Hitting one airbase is not enough, there are 26 airbases that target civilians," a key figure in the Army of Islam faction, Mohamed Alloush, tweeted.
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Residents in Hartlepool are being invited to find out more about work to help protect homes from flooding.
Northumbrian Water is to invest £1 million to upgrade the sewer network in the Albion Terrace area. The scheme, which will begin week commencing Monday November 19 2012 and take up to six months to complete, will help to reduce the flood risk to 13 properties.
Residents are invited to find out more about the work at a customer event Northumbrian Water is holding on Thursday November 8 2012 at The Hartlepool Borough Hall, Middlegate, Headland, Hartlepool, TS24 0JD between 2.00pm and 7.00pm.
The water company's project manager, Ian Davison, said: "We will be installing 200 metres of new sewer pipe along sections of South Crescent and will also construct a storage tank on the Lower Promenade. This tank will store up to 135,000 litres of waste water in times of heavy rainfall.
It will be necessary for Northumbrian Water to close sections of South Crescent during the course of the work. Pedestrian access will be maintained at all times, although there may be parking restrictions for short periods.
Construction traffic will need access to working sites and to the site compound, which will be located in land off Sunniside, Kafiga Landings, Port of Hartlepool. Anyone with special requirements or queries, should contact Northumbrian Water's customer centre on 0845 717 1100.


Entrepreneur turned director (a leading designer of promotional campaigns) Siddharth Chandrasekhar's debut Tamil film Bale Pandiya is releasing on Friday.
How did you get your first film as a designer?
I was doing the advertising campaign for Qwikys Coffee at that time. Some people saw that and liked it. They approached me for Priyadarshan's Lisa. One thing led to another and now I have done more than 100 movies.
What other campaigns have you done apart from designing films?
I have done major campaigns for Renault, children's books, Java green, Skycell to name a few.
From designing to advertising to directing, how has the journey been so far?
Basically I tend to take the path untravelled. So I have had to face the good and the bad. I have gone ahead by instinct alone. Without any experience, I started designing. I dreamt of designing posters for Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan and Suriya and it happened. Now after 100 films, I have made my own space. I am recognized.
I dreamt about advertising and it happened. Then I dreamt about directing a movie and that too happened. I spoke to other directors before starting my film. They all encouraged me. Then it clicked and Bale Pandiya happened.
How was the experience of working with Kalpathi S Aghoram as producer?
It has been a fantastic experience. This is a very competitive field. I think he liked me because I was fresh. I was very lucky that he gave me a break. He was very supportive throughout the making of the film. He used to guide me. He often said, "You will become a great director."
Now that the movie is ready, are you happy with your choice of Vishnu as hero? Did you ever feel you could have chosen an established star?
I am very happy. He is perfect for this story. In fact I saw his first movie -- Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu -- only after narrating this story to him.
Most Tamil movies are male dominated. What about Piaa Bajpai's role in Bale Pandiya?
She plays a significant role.
Are you satisfied with the end product? Has it come out the way you visualised it?
A creative mind can never be quenched. It was a different experience. I feel I have created something big. It is very close to my heart. I am happy with 99 per cent of it. Maybe I would re-do one per cent of the film.
The film was shot both indoors and outdoors. We shot in Phuket, Pondicherry and Chennai.
How important is music in your film? You have a new music director/singer Devan Ekambaran.
Music is the soul of my film. Music is food for my soul. It can make me cry and laugh too.
Your film releases on Friday. Are you excited or nervous?
What is the most memorable moment of shooting Bale Pandiya?
Shooting the song, Happy. It has 20 singers singing the song and also acting in the song. They sang in Acapella (without instruments).
What was the most difficult scene you shot?
I have a few ideas ready. I will look at all the options and decide at the right time.
How is Ananya (his school for dyslexic children) doing?
Ananya is doing extremely well. We are starting a new center on September 3. We will look for other talents in these kids. They may be talented in music, painting and in many other fields.
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Email: joseph.rodriguez@sjsu.edu
Office: Engr 164B
Joseph Rodriguez has been drawn to the spread of knowledge, consistently taking positions that required him to intake complex, detailed information and distribute it effectively to a wide range of learners. From OSHA regulations to the aerodynamic forces experienced by amateur model rockets, he has been instructing for the last 14 years in various capacities. Joseph began his academic career after the housing crash in 2008, first starting at West Valley Community College where he earned associates degrees in Mathematics, Physics, Liberal Arts, and Engineering. Transferring to San Jose State University, he was accepted into the Aerospace Engineering Department where he earned a BSAE in Spring of 2017. He then enrolled in the Masters program at SJSU where he then became a faculty member, teaching AE166-Rocketry to undergraduate students in the spring of 2018. Now in his final year, Joseph's MSAE project is focused on Engineering Education through demonstrations and he is researching human-in-the-loop autonomous vehicles for SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers).
M. S. Aerospace Engineering (with focus on systems and engineering education), San Jose State University, Expected May 2020
B. S. Aerospace Engineering (with focus on spacecraft systems), San Jose State University, 2017
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Signore dell'Olimpo - Zeus (Master of Olympus - Zeus in lingua inglese) è un videogioco gestionale strategico in tempo reale (RTS) sviluppato dalla Impressions Games e pubblicato dalla Sierra On-Line nel 2000. Il videogioco fa parte della serie di Caesar e ne rappresenta una variante in quanto bisogna controllare e gestire la Grecia antica. Il motore grafico è una versione migliorata di quello utilizzato in Caesar III, videogioco prodotto nel 1998.

Modalità di gioco

Essendo il gioco ambientato in una versione mitica dell'antica Grecia, con tanto di dei del suo pantheon e dei leggendari mostri della sua mitologia, esso è poco storicamente accurato. Come sovrano di una città stato greca (come era effettivamente composta l'antica Grecia), il giocatore deve gestirla come meglio può, oltre che a condurre un atteggiamento diplomatico (che sia pacifico o aggressivo) con le altre città stato. La città stato sarà puntualmente attaccata dai disastri naturali che si presentano sotto forma di mostri, i quali andranno affrontati dagli eroi messi a disposizione. Ovviamente, sarà anche importante venerare come si deve gli dei dell'Olimpo, i quali, oltre a richiedere le loro attenzioni come nel classico Caesar III, affideranno al giocatore anche delle imprese, ognuna delle quali andrà compiuta all'eroe ad essa tradizionalmente collegata. Ognuna delle 14 divinità (Zeus, Poseidone, Ade, Demetra, Atena, Artemide, Apollo, Ares, Efesto, Afrodite, Ermes e Dioniso) può dare al giocatore una tra le sue due imprese: ad esempio, Ade può chiedere a Perseo di recuperare il suo Elmo dell'Invisibilità, o a Teseo di rubare l'Ambrosia.

Il gioco è formato da una serie di avventure a episodi basate sulla storia, formate da obiettivi specifici, e da una modalità Sandbox, una partita aperta nella quale non ci sono obiettivi veri e propri e divisa in Economica, Libera e Militare. Le campagne sono Zeus ed Europa, Perseo e Medusa, Atene nei Secoli, I viaggi di Giasone, Le Fatiche di Ercole, La guerra del Peloponneso e La guerra di Troia, alle quali si aggiunse poi L'Odissea (parte dellEnhancement Pack, che poteva essere scaricato gratuitamente dal sito ufficiale).

Gli eroi sono necessari per distruggere un mostro che sta attaccando la città, ma anche per completare un'impresa. Per evocarne uno, è necessario soddisfare alcuni prerequisiti. Gli eroi sono Achille, Eracle, Giasone, Odisseo, Perseo e Teseo. I mostri presenti (ognuno associato a una divinità e ad un eroe) sono il ciclope, il kraken, Cerbero, Medusa, l'Idra di Lerna, il cinghiale calidonio, Scilla, il drago, Talo, Ettore, il Minotauro e le Menadi.

Doppiaggio

La voce narrante è doppiata da Riccardo Lombardo, mentre il resto dei personaggi è doppiato da Marco Balbi, Silvano Piccardi, Luca Sandri, Giorgio Melazzi e Jasmine Laurenti.

Accoglienza

Il gioco ha avuto un'accoglienza molto positiva. Jason Samuel della rivista Next Generation gli ha assegnato quattro stelle su cinque, dichiarando: "è generalmente semplice, dal gameplay messo al posto giusto e, soprattutto, divertente. Da non perdere." IGN reviewer Stephen Butts del sito web IGN ha dichiarato: "ho dovuto staccarmi dal gioco per scrivere la recensione" Il gioco ha però ricevuto critiche sulle meccaniche di combattimento e di guerra.

Nel maggio del 2012, il gioco è stato ripubblicato su GOG.com insieme al pacchetto di espansione Signore di Atlantide - Poseidon, con entrambe le versioni riunite nel pacchetto Acropolis.

Nel 2018, Alice Bell di Rock, Paper, Shotgun ha incluso il gioco nella serie "Have You Played" del sito, descrivendolo come "il perfetto equilibrio tra bellezza, difficoltà, dettagli e battute."

 Signore di Atlantide - Poseidon Signore di Atlantide - Poseidon (Master of Atlantis - Poseidon in lingua inglese) è l'espansione ufficiale del gioco pubblicata nel 2001.

L'aggiunta principale dell'espansione è l'inserimento delle divinità di Atlantide, delle sue avventure scritte da Platone e delle sue tipiche costruzioni: mentre i greci avevano teatri e luoghi simili la civiltà di Atlantide risulta concentrata sullo sviluppo tecnologico, le nuove costruzioni includono i musei, le biblioteche, le piramidi in onore degli dei e gli osservatori astronomici. Tra le novità rispetto al gioco base troviamo le divinità Era e Atlante, i due nuovi eroi Atalanta e Bellerofonte, nuovi mostri (la Chimera, la Sfinge, Echidna e le Arpie), nuovi nemici invasori (Egiziani, Maya, Fenici, Oceanidi e Atlantidei) varie nuove avventure (La nascita di Atlantide, L'Illuminismo in Occidente, La vita nel Mediterraneo, La rinascita di Atlantide, Preto e Bellerofonte e Lo scontro fra due mondi, alle quali si aggiunse poi  Rich Man's Blues, scaricabile gratuitamente dal sito ufficiale) e anche un editor di mappe, seppur già disponibile gratuitamente sul sito di Impressions (era presente nellEnhancement Pack assieme a L'Odissea).

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Videogiochi su Atlantide
Zeus
Videogiochi basati sulla mitologia greca
Videogiochi distribuiti da GOG.com

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WarSpell Space Race – Snippet 01
by Drak Bibliophile | Nov 2, 2020 | Gorg & Paula Snippets, Snippets
WarSpell: Space Race
By Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett
Chapter 1–The Starting Gun
The Merge decade was characterized by frenetic activity in a number of fields including space exploration, as the magic of the game worlds and technology were combined . . .
Location: Apartment of Jerry Garman, Houston, Texas
Time: December 30, As the Merge reaches Houston
Jerry Garman set the coffee cup down and began to type. "By changing the aerodynamic loading we can the spell is left overstressed." What the hell? Freedric the Incompetent was also writing an analysis when the Merge hit. He was doing it with a quill pen, but his thoughts tripped off of Jerry's fingers before Jerry became aware of the Merge.
Between one breath and the next, Jerry gained the memories of the fourth-level book-wizard, Freedric the Incompetent. If he were asked, merging with a fourth-level book-wizard would not have been his first choice, but he doubted that merging with him would have been Freedric's first choice, either. The more he considered it, the more he knew it wouldn't have been.
Freedric was twenty-four, less than a year from the mage academy in Callbrige City in the Kingdom Iles. Freedric wasn't truly incompetent. It was a handle he got stuck with early in his training.
Jerry stretched and reveled in the feeling of movement. He seemed to have Freedric's energy and physical well-being. Which Jerry's experience let him appreciate in a way the twenty-four-year-old Freedric couldn't have. He looked down at himself the pot belly was still there. Exercise might help with that. Well, I seem to have Freedric's memories and physical well being I wonder if I can do magic.
Jerry/Freedric closed his eyes and went through the routine that allowed a non-magically gifted person to sense magic. It was a spell like any other. But, unlike most, this spell was used so often that most competent book-wizards could do it in their sleep. Freedric didn't have more innate magical talent than Jerry, but more study and practice. Plus a special tattoo the prospective wizard received in his second year. With the completion of the routine, Jerry could sense the flow of magic fields.
Jerry got up and went to the mirror in his bathroom. He opened his shirt and there it was, a multicolored complex of lines and symbols over his heart, mostly covered by his chest hair, but still visible.
Where the tattoo was placed was up to the wizard. Some flaunted it, placing it on their hands or face for all the world to see, others placed it somewhere private like their inner thigh. Somewhere where it would never be seen save by their intimates. Freedric, like most, chose a middle course. The thing that freaked Jerry out a little was that in all the games of WarSpell Jerry played, never–not once–had the wizard's tattoo been so much as mentioned.
He slowly constructed a minor spell. A concept, a gesture, a shape, hold that there. Another gesture, a visualization. Combine the two and gently place them in the tattoo. It was like trying to tie a bow tie with his toes. At the same time, it was something he remembered doing hundreds of times before, as natural as tying his shoes. Having spent several minutes putting the small spell together from memory, he cast it and looked at the gentle glow on his hand. It was red-gold in color and about as bright as a candle, barely visible in his well-lit living room.
Jerry played with it for a few minutes, turning off the lights to see it more clearly, thinking about what he knew about light, which was more from Jerry's college physics than from Freedric's early-Renaissance worldview.
As a further check of his sanity, Jerry turned on the TV news only to see reports of dragons and people flying without benefit of aircraft. The Freedric part of him was shocked by the TV and even more shocked by Jerry's knowledge of how it worked. It was apparent that whatever happened to Jerry happened to others around the nation . . . and was spreading around the world.
Then Jerry started making phone calls. For once, he thought, he'd get in on the ground floor of something.
Tim Walters grinned as he pulled his cell phone from his pocket. He saw Jerry's name and his grin widened. Tim was on his way to an all-night pawn shop to buy a guitar. He got the memories of a character from WarSpell a little less than thirty minutes ago and guessed that Jerry did too. Jerry was an old buddy who left NASA about the same time Tim did.
"Tim, you watching the news?" Jerry asked.
"No. I'm on my way to the pawn shop," Tim said. "Did it happen to you too?"
"Yes! Why are you going to a pawn shop in the middle of the night?"
"To buy a guitar. I bet you got old Freedric, didn't you? I always said you'd regret inventing him." They were new at NASA when a friend in their department introduced them to WarSpell. They played a few games for laughs and it was kind of fun. But neither one of them played long enough to advance past fifth level. Tim didn't remember for sure but he thought Freedric was fourth level.
Jerry and Tim both left NASA in disgust when the robot boys won the bureaucratic battles and everything but a token manned presence in space was effectively given up on. Naturally, that decision wasn't made public.
When people go into space, people die. Not all of them, but enough. That makes for bad press. Bad press meant you were required to go over everything you did again and again and again. Consequently, the cost went through the roof, not that the costs weren't steep to begin with.
"Smart ass," Jerry said. "Okay, I got Freedric. Who did you get?"
"I got Alvin. Hence the guitar." Tim couldn't help but smile. He was never particularly good at small talk or social niceties. The classic geek, Tim was almost blind to social clues and always terrified of putting his foot in his mouth. Alvin the Bard was his fantasy self, the person who always knew the right thing to say. So smooth he didn't seem practiced. With the Merge, Tim remembered what it was like to be Alvin and understood that it wasn't that Alvin knew what to say, but that he was good at understanding what others wanted or needed from him. It was empathy. There was calculation in it, but also a sort of confidence that Tim never felt in any social situation.
"Alvin, the bard. The guy who specialized in persuasion."
"Yep, and let me tell you the secret, though you won't believe me any more than I would have. It's paying attention to the people around you, like you would an airframe design. Like realizing that you didn't only call to see if I got the memories too. What have you got in mind?"
"Okay, Alvin," Jerry said. "Do you realize what this means? Space is possible, man. Genuinely possible. Not at a cost of billions per space shot, but at a cost of millions. Maybe hundreds of thousands, if you go with a reusable spacecraft. We can do it. We can get enough capital for that and we can win the Orbit Prize. We have the credentials." The Orbit Prize was a prize offered to the first group to use the same spaceship to reach orbit three times in a sixty-day period and carry supplies to the international space station at least once.
"Maybe," Tim agreed. "We need to talk to The Artful Dodger. And maybe Steve Lock, over at Boeing. And I think you need to let me do a lot of the talking. Alvin's abilities can be a real asset now." Artemius Dujarié (the Artful Dodger) was a tech billionaire with a great interest in space.
"Tim, I honestly never cared for Alvin. He was too studied."


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