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Wandering in Europe What good is livin' a life you've been given if all you do is stand in one place? -Lord Huron
There is so much to love about Reykjavik it's difficult to have only stayed there two days this trip. Most of our time was spent either drinking in Prikið or drinking in Hemma og Valda. With dusk starting around 1am and dawn right on it's heels at 3am we exhausted ourselves on these last few days of our trip making use of all the light we could. There are very few things better than midnight in Reykjavik in May.
South Iceland
South Iceland is unbelievable. The light, the hills, the colour… there is almost nothing that looks real in this area. The land feels mystical, living and breathing. Here it is easy to believe in Iceland's Huldufólk (hidden people). Check out more about them in this landscape here: Huldufólk
Vik (South Iceland)
Vik is one of the best things about Iceland. Small town tucked between icelandic foothills/mountains, basalt columns towering over black pebble beaches, rock formations jutting from the sea, lush green lava fields as far as the eye can see….. what's not to love about Vik?!
We spent almost two days here enjoying the scenery: napping on lava, breakfasting on the beach, video chatting home above a crashing ocean, drinking in the best/only little pub in town and swimming in the oldest pool in Iceland. If you go to Iceland…. go to Vik.
Jökulsárlón (South Iceland)
Jökulsárlón is one of the most iconic places in Iceland. It's name literally means 'glacial river lagoon' and it's pretty incredible. Basically there is a river/lake that runs from the Vatnajökull glacier to the sea on the south side of Iceland by Vatnajökull National Park and giant chunks of glacier are just making their way out to the ocean. It's difficult to see just how big some of these pieces are in these photos because there is often nothing to give it context, but some of them were the size of a house. The main highway goes right by this area so it's super accessible to anyone traveling through the south. You can see that even though it was pouring rain while we were here, the colours of the glacier pieces and the water is insanely blue. My favourite part about this place though is where the ice feeds out into the ocean and gets beaten so violently by the sea. Growing up in a landlocked place, I never really understood the power of the sea but it only takes a minute or two of watching these icebergs getting pulverized by the tide to learn respect for it.
Drying Fish in East Iceland
After driving for hours seeing significantly more reindeer than vehicles, we happened upon these racks of drying fish along the coast. It was almost eerie the way these thousands of fish in hung there swinging in the wind. You can't hear it great on the video but they sounded a little like a very strange kind of wind chime.
We weren't there more than 10 minutes when another car drove up. The couple inside got out and wouldn't you know… they were from Brighton, Ontario (not far from Patrick's hometown). What made this meeting memorable though wasn't our common citizenship, or the fact that they were the first people we saw that day, it was the fact that the man was dressed ENTIRELY as Santa Claus.
We didn't ask.
Djúpivogur (East Iceland)
Halfway through our trip around Iceland, we ended up in a beauty of a little town: Djúpivogur. With a population of just over 350, it's one of the larger towns in the east fjords and is famous for it's birds. It was also very near Djúpivogur where we happened upon a rack of drying fish (thousands of them) and a man from Ontario dressed as Santa, but that's another whole story.
Norwegian Sea & the North Atlantic (East Iceland)
The sea in east Iceland is incredible. It's here that the Norwegian Sea collides with the North Atlantic, where the towering mountains of the fjords run down into the lava fields of the south. The water is cold, dark and frightening but with beaches full of colour and life. When the tide goes out it leaves behind it a sheet of mud that looks like glass, pitted in patterns of bird tracks and a perfect reflection of the sky.
East Iceland
Five years ago Jamie and I skipped over most of the east in favour of exploring the west fjords. This time around, Patrick and I decided we were going to check out the east fjords. Turns out that the weather had different plans but we still were able to spend some time skirting along the south east coast. It was amazing: mountains being cut off by the sea, tides that leave mud like mirrors behind them, colours that will blow your mind and birds… so many birds.
Námafjall (North Iceland)
The steaming acidic mudpots of Námafjall in the Mývatn valley. The smell of sulphur here is so overwhelming that people have been known to faint from it.
Mývatn Valley (North Iceland)
In the Mývatn region stands the Krafla volcano and below in it's valley is Námafjall, a geothermal area with boiling mudpots and hissing fumaroles. With dusk coming on the horizon, Patrick and I rolled into this valley to check it out for ourselves. The air was thick with sulphur and dense steam. The sounds, the colours, the smells all make this area seem completely surreal.
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16 Sales Podcasts to Help You Level Up Your Skills
Learn new strategies from the best reps out there.
Brian Nordli
The podcast boom has been good to sales reps. Not only is the medium great for digesting sales tips, but it also brings some of the best sales reps in the field to your earbuds.
In recent years, sales trainers and experts have flocked to the medium, providing an abundance of content for reps to choose from. There are shows dedicated to women in sales, shows that dig into the nitty-gritty of prospecting and those that feature inspiring tales from the leading minds in tech sales.
To help you get started in navigating the landscape, we've highlighted some of the top sales podcasts around. Whether you're a sales manager, an entry-level SDR looking for new ways to spice up your cold emails or a veteran account executive trying to improve your relationships with buyers, this list should have something for you:
Top Sales Podcasts
The Advanced Selling Podcast
Blissful Prospecting
Conversation With Women in Sales
Make It Happen Mondays
The Official SaaStr Podcast
The Other Side of Sales
Reveal: The Revenue Intelligence Podcast
Revenue Revolutionaries
Sales Enablement with Andy Paul
The Sales Evangelist
Sales Success Stories
Sell or Die
For Sales Strategy and Tips
Looking for bite-size sales insights and a wealth of episodes to choose from? This is the show for you. The Advanced Selling Podcast claims to be the longest-running sales podcast around, clocking in at 14 years (and counting) and more than 700 episodes. In each episode, hosts Bill Caskey and Bryan Neale draw on their wealth of experience as sales trainers to dig into topics like buyer resistance, sales forecasting and managing sales teams. Episodes average around 20 minutes in length, so it's easy to squeeze one in during lunch or while taking a walk.
Listen: Apple | Spotify
More on SalesWhat Makes a Good Salesperson?
Cold calls, outreach sequencing and discovery calls are just a few of the topics covered in this prospecting podcast. Hosted by sales trainer Jason Bay, this show digs into the nitty-gritty of prospecting strategy to help reps think beyond the script and land more meetings. Each episode features an interview with a noted sales expert or a high-performing rep and ends with an actionable tip, making it a practical resource for anyone in sales.
Listen: Apple | Stitcher
Conversations With Women in Sales
Created to be a resource for women sales professionals first and foremost, this podcast puts women sales leaders front and center to talk about their careers and offer practical sales tips. Social sales expert Barbara Giamanco launched the show in 2018 as a direct response to the lack of women in sales roles and on panels. Episodes touch on topics like how to avoid imposter syndrome, ways to build a sales funnel and how to advance and succeed in tech sales. Sadly, Giamanco passed away in 2020. However, Women Sales Pros founder Lori Richardson has taken up the torch to continue the podcast.
In recent years, John Barrows has made a name for himself as a leading B2B sales trainer through his company JBarrows Sales Training. It was only a matter of time before he brought his sales insights to the podcast realm. Launched this year, Make It Happen Mondays features weekly conversations with Barrows and another sales expert. With episodes on personalizing your prospecting at scale, transitioning into an AE role and using humor in sales, the show is perfect for any entry-level sales rep looking to get an edge on the sales floor.
Listen: Apple | Spotify | JBarrows
While tech sales has made some strides in diversity and inclusion, it still remains predominantly white and male. The Other Side of Sales is a podcast focused on highlighting the experiences of sales reps from underrepresented groups and building a more supportive sales culture. Ashleigh Early and Kasey Jones host the show, which includes a mix of interviews, panels and discussions drawing on their own expertise in sales. Episodes sit at the intersection of sales culture and practical tips, touching on topics like selling while Black, disclosing mental-health struggles and how to call someone out for unacceptable behavior.
Listen: Apple | Spotify | Stitcher
Situated at the cross-section of psychology and sales, this podcast digs into the role emotions, body language and motivation play in a sale. Host Will Baron draws on insights from experts both in sales and outside of it to provide actionable tips for reps. In one episode, he features a forensics expert who shares how disciplined listening and forensics investigation strategies can be applied to sales. Other interviewees include sales leaders, psychologists, motivational speakers and body language experts.
If you're a rep looking for meaty discussions on sales strategy, this is a show for you. Formerly called Accelerate!, Sales Enablement With Andy Paul includes interviews with some of the leading minds in tech sales on topics like solution selling, aligning buyer expectations and building a high-velocity inside sales team. Clocking in at about 50 minutes in length, each episode takes the time to delve into the nitty-gritty of sales strategy and even touches on relevant culture issues. That makes it a useful resource for reps just starting out and those leading teams.
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This show features sales strategy insights from sales leaders and entrepreneurs to help reps become top performers. Sales trainer Donald Kelly started the podcast after founding his training firm The Sales Evangelist. The episodes are bite-sized at about 30 minutes and include useful tips for anyone starting a sales career. Topics include how to convert prospects with text messages, strategies for maintaining sales productivity and how to talk sales to clients during a pandemic.
One of the best strategies for succeeding in sales is to learn from the top performers on your team and do what they do. This podcast seeks to replicate that experience. The show brings on top individual performers in the sales profession and has them deconstruct the habits, books and tips that helped them to achieve success. Designed with the individual contributor in mind, there are takeaways from people across the selling spectrum — including SDRs, AEs, account managers and more.
It's often said that sales is an art and a science. This show encapsulates that maxim, providing insights on both the hard and soft skills necessary to succeed in sales. Hosted by Jeffrey Gitomer, who's the author of many best-selling sales books, and sales expert Jennifer Gluckow, each episode tackles either a hard skill or a soft skill in a swift 20 minutes. Topics include building a 90-day sales plan, the element of fear in sales outcomes and active listening tips.
For Sales Leaders
Reveal: The Revenue Intelligence Podcast by Gong
Thanks to the rise of sales technology, sales leaders now have more data than ever before about their customers. Making sense of that information and putting it to work in a sales strategy, however, can still be tricky. Enter Reveal, the revenue intelligence platform Gong's new podcast. The show covers the myriad ways that data can be used to power sales teams. Each episode features an interview with a sales leader sharing their experience applying revenue intelligence to their sales strategy and ends with an actionable takeaway.
Revenue Revolutionaries is a new podcast that launched in 2020 to provide insights for RevOps leaders. Each episode features an interview with a CRO, a COO or a chief customer officer, and touches on different parts of the customer journey. Topics include how to create a customer-centric culture, coaching team members and customers, and building authentic relationships.
Since Sales Hacker launched as a blog and community website in 2014, it has been a go-to resource for sales reps looking for the latest insights and trends in the industry. The podcast is a natural extension of the website, offering a wide array of tips and insights for reps at all experience levels. Revenue Collective Founder Sam Jacobs hosts the show, which features interviews with B2B sales leaders on topics like lead generation, enablement tips and tech.
For Motivation and General Interest
The Art of Charm is a motivational podcast that delves into human behavior to help listeners bring out the best in themselves. Hosts AJ Harbinger and Jordan Dzubik are most known for their bootcamp of the same name that helps people master the art of conversation and build better relationships. In the podcast, they interview psychologists, company executives and authors about human behavior and the habits that can bring out the best in a person. While it's not a sales podcast per se, there's plenty of motivational material for any sales rep looking to grow in their career.
Interested in keeping up with the latest in tech or growing a sales team? The Official SaaStr Podcast has you covered. The podcast draws on insights from investors and revenue leaders to provide tips on scaling businesses, growing revenue and managing a successful team.
Sales is all about bouncing back from failure and learning from it, which is what makes Without Fail a perfect listen for any rep looking for motivation. In this podcast, host and Gimlet Media Founder Alex Blumberg interviews people who have taken huge risks in their lives and discusses what went well, what didn't and how they bounced back. Guests include Groupon Founder Andrew Mason, NBA player Andre Iguodola and Girlboss Founder Sophia Amoruso, among others.
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The combination of declining physician engagement and increasing burnout has contributed to higher physician turnover, adding even more strain to an already shrinking workforce. The key to retaining the brightest and most engaged physicians is creating an attractive work environment for physician entrepreneurs, according to Arlen Meyers, MD, president and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs.
Most of the best ideas come from the front lines. Whether they are related to process improvement, refining best practices or inventing new devices, physicians' ideas are typically derived from areas of their work that are in need of some innovation. Providing them the means to carry out these innovative ideas and encouraging a culture of innovation is not only important for retention, it can also improve care delivery and open new revenue streams.
However, many organizations are not conducive to physicians' desires to be "intrapreneurs," or those who want to generate new lines within the existing business model. The most common reasons include lack of a sense that the organization values and rewards innovation, lack of support from the leadership and no forum for sharing ideas.
"Unfortunately, many of the top physician performers — those who are going to help you move the needle as an organization — quit," Dr. Meyers said at the AMN Healthcare 2016 Workforce Summit in San Diego.
Organizations that seek to hire physician intrapreneurs and encourage innovation should take these seven steps, according to Dr. Meyers.
1. Provide physicians with the resources, networks, mentors and experiential learning they need to succeed. "Often times doctors have good ideas and then they just don't know what to do with them," said Dr. Meyers. Whether their ideas are good or bad — and many will be bad — it is imperative to have a structure in place to listen to and vet physicians' ideas. From there, the organization should provide the physician the necessary educational tools and resources to help their idea become a reality.
2. Create a transparent system of leadership for innovation. What begins as a hopeful idea often transforms into a frustrating game of telephone for physician intrapreneurs. "Doctors have no idea who to talk to," said Dr. Meyers. "They are sent from their manager to the vice president of finance to the chief innovation officer and beyond." If a hospital has the resources, Dr. Meyers recommends creating an innovation center to make the process more streamlined.
3. Encourage team-building. Team-building is not a core skill most physicians possess, according to Dr. Meyers. The autonomous nature of their work often makes collaboration and incorporating criticism challenging, especially when the subject is their own invention. However, being able to work effectively in a team is a critical success factor of innovation efforts.
4. Set strategy, define vision and get out of the way. Not every idea that surfaces will be a fit for an organization. It's imperative to clearly communicate the strategy and needs of the organization and help steer innovation efforts in the right direction. However, once a good idea is identified, it's important to get out of the way and let the intraprenuers get to work.
5. Let physician intrapreneurs fail without calling them "disruptors." Physicians who rally for change are often given the negative label of a disruptor. However, disruption is the very goal of innovation — organizations that seek to bolster this trait among its clinicians should not punish those who demonstrate it.
7. Identify a range of effective motivators. Not all physicians are motivated by the same things, so it is important to customize incentives.


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Takaka Hill, SH60 – Urgent work progressing to re-establish road access, Sunday convoys for essential trips pending final checks at daybreak Sunday morning
23 February 2018 6:28 pm | NZ Transport Agency
The NZ Transport Agency says while a complete rebuild of at least one section of SH60 between Riwaka and Takaka will be required following the significant damage wrought by Cyclone Gita, the immediate focus is on re-establishing single-lane access as soon as possible.
Transport Agency System Manager Frank Porter says the Transport Agency is aiming to provide restricted single-lane access for essential vehicles through the route from this Sunday (25 February).
Travel will be one-way, under escort in guided convoys, with strict safety controls in place from 9 am to 5 pm.
Mr Porter says the convoys will be allowed to proceed pending final checks at daybreak from geotechnical and safety engineers on Sunday morning, that escorted travel can be carried out safely.
The Transport Agency will update its Facebook and Twitter accounts regularly as this event progresses and also update the wait times on each side so people are informed as to how long they may have to wait. People need to be prepared to wait in the parking areas.
"We understand how vital this road is as a lifeline for people in Golden Bay. We are doing everything possible to re-establish access as soon as possible, but the road has been severely damaged, and we must be certain that people can get through safely before we can re-open."
Mr Porter says crews have made great progress clearing debris from more than a dozen large slips this week, but the hillside has completely collapsed at a site approximately 1.5km west of Riwaka, taking most of the road with it.
"Our work crews are working urgently to make this site stable enough to safely open up a single-lane track."
Mr Porter stressed that on Sunday, priority will be given to essential vehicles and those most urgently needing to get in and out of the region.
"We're urging people who don't absolutely need to travel immediately to allow us to give priority to those who do. The most pressing need is getting fuel, feed for stock and essential freight into Golden Bay, and getting milk and other freight, tourists and people who need to attend medical appointments to the Nelson side of the hill.
Mr Porter says even when the slip site has stabilised enough to allow less restricted travel, a regular schedule of full road closures will be necessary in order to allow construction crews access to rebuild the road.
"We've lost both lanes of some parts of the highway at this site, and the road will need to be completely rebuilt from the ground up. This is a narrow and confined site, and much of the work needed to rebuild the road won't be able to be carried out while traffic is flowing through.
"We'll need to balance the need to keep the road open as much as possible with the need to fully rebuild it as quickly as possible. It's too early to say exactly what work will be required, but it's a big job which is likely to take several months to complete."
All but the largest of the slips have now been cleared or partially cleared, enabling crews and geotechnical specialists to access the worst affected site where the road has been washed away.
State Highway 60 is currently open on the Nelson side to the Marahau turn off (Riwaka/ Sandy Bay Rd), and on the Takaka side is closed from Upper Takaka except for local residents.
Pending the final checks on Sunday morning, from 9am to 5pm Sunday 25 February, the road will be open to traffic in one direction under escorted convoy.
Not all vehicles can go over the hill as part of these convoys:
The following vehicles are not permitted to travel on Sunday, given the road conditions:
Cyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, caravans and trailers, truck and trailer units, overdimension (OD) vehicles, any vehicles needing a permit.
"We have to restrict the number and types of vehicles and only allow people through who have to travel because of the challenges of getting vehicles over the hill and the need to ensure people's safety," says Mr Porter. "As the day progresses, we may have to close the road. People will only be going over if it is safe."
Parking and waiting areas on both sides
There will be waiting areas on both the Takaka and Riwaka sides of the hill. Crews will be checking the types of vehicles and people's need to travel. Vehicles that are able to travel in a convoy will be directed to a waiting area and those unable to travel over the hill will be redirected to a safe location to turn around.
"We ask that people be patient as the wait could be several hours and if we are to provide travel on Sunday, please don't take your frustrations out on the crews working on site."
More information and updates on work to repair Takaka Hill Road.
How to stay up to date:
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www.facebook.com/nztasouthisland(external link)
Transport Agency Twitter page https://twitter.com/nztatots(external link)
The key traffic and travel source which provides up-to-date information on weather and road conditions is www.nzta.govt.nz/traffic
For more Transport Agency Twitter and Facebook accounts:https://www.nzta.govt.nz/contact-us/connect-with-us/
The NZ Transport Agency works to create transport solutions for all New Zealanders – from helping new drivers earn their licences, to leading safety campaigns to investing in public transport, state highways and local roads.


ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Thousands of mourners braved South Africa's summer rain as they packed the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg for a national memorial for Nelson Mandela on Tuesday (December 10). Despite pouring rains, the atmosphere inside the stadium was celebratory, with people in colorful wear dancing, blowing "vuvuzelas" - plastic horns - and singing songs from the country's anti-apartheid struggle. It was in the same stadium where Mandela faced crowds when he was released from prison 23 years ago. The memorial event will pay tribute to a life of imprisonment and political struggle that ended in triumph and consecrated Mandela as a global symbol of integrity and forgiveness. The fact that the visiting leaders - more than 90 are expected - include some from nations still locked in antagonism, such as Cuba and the United States, adds resonance to the homage being held at the gigantic bowl-shaped stadium, the venue of the 2010 World Cup final.


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Hrachov je vesnice spadající pod obec Svatý Jan. Nachází se přibližně 60 km jižně od Prahy, v okrese Příbram ve Středočeském kraji. V roce 2011 zde trvale žilo 211 obyvatel.

Hrachov je také název katastrálního území o rozloze 6,25 km². V katastrálním území Hrachov leží i vrchy Šibenný a Na stakři, samoty či osady U Vondráčků, Hodíkov, Zrůbek (pouze část na levém břehu Brziny), Přívozec a severní část Roviště.

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První písemná zmínka o vesnici pochází z roku 1409.

V současnosti v Hrachově žije přibližně 300 obyvatel v 58 staveních a 40 bytových jednotkách. Ve vsi se nachází knihovna, sbor dobrovolných hasičů, hospoda a obchod. Dále se v obci nachází útulek Domov Fauny. V minulosti zde fungovalo několik dětských táborů, z nichž jsou v současnosti v provozu již jen dva.

V nedaleké osadě Zrůbek se nachází sezónní restaurace a půjčovna loděk. Dále také přístaviště pro sezónní plavby výletních lodí, v nedaleké osadě Roviště se nalézá kemp, chatová oblast, několik sezónních pohostinských zařízení a přístaviště.

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The Wisconsin Senate has approved Gov. Scott Walker's appointment of a high-powered attorney to serve on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.
Walker selected Scott Beightol to serve until May 2023. He replaces Republican Bryan Steil, who resigned last week to focus on his first term in Congress.
Beightol is a partner in the Michael Best and Friedrich law firm, which helped Republicans redraw legislative boundaries in 2011. Democrats allege the maps are unconstitutional. According to MBF's website, Beightol focuses on employment discrimination, labor arbitrations and trade secrets.
The Senate also confirmed Walker's pick of Torrey Tiedeman as the non-traditional student regent until May 2020. Tiedeman replaces Lisa Erickson, who graduated and resigned last December.
The moves prevent Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers from filling the spots with his people.
Editor's note: This story was updated at 4:11 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018.


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Kids on Their Own and in Danger - Welcome to 'Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous'
For producer Scott Kreamer, Steven Spielberg's iconic franchise has always been about kids, but in the new Netflix and DreamWorks Animation series, this time, they're all alone with no adults around to save them.
By Victoria Davis | Friday, September 18, 2020 at 11:41am
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Isla Nublar has more stories to tell and Steven Spielberg is back in the prehistoric saddle, welcoming more young visitors on another big-toothed, big-clawed adventure. But, this time, no adults are coming to the rescue.
Premiering on today on Netflix, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, the new animated series from DreamWorks Animation, is the latest installment in Spielberg's over-20-year-long Jurassic Park and Jurassic World saga. The eight-episode series takes place at the same time as Universal's 2015 film, Jurassic World, but on the other side of the island, where a group of six teenagers are testers for a new Jurassic World adventure camp. Like with all great Jurassic Park films, it's all fun and games until dinosaurs are released and begin to run wild across the island. With failed communication systems and no hope of adult assistance, these six strangers must rely on each other to survive.
While children have always been at the heart of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World films--the entire park being created by character John Hammond to bring children's wildest imaginations to life--adults have always been the featured stars, always managing to rescue the imperiled kids in the nick of time. Camp Cretaceous takes a different approach, making youth more than just the spirit of Jurassic World; kids are dropped right into the center of the story, where they alone can save themselves.
Though the show is as thrilling and terrifying as ever, one of the producers, Scott Kreamer, hopes that telling the story of Camp Cretaceous through animation--without blood and gore--helps introduce the Jurassic universe to a younger generation of fans. We recently spoke with Kreamer about what it was like to work with Spielberg again after 20 years, the effort that went into keeping this thrilling adventure accurate and fresh, and the fact that this was not the first attempt at making an animated Jurassic Park.
Victoria Davis: So, this is not your first time working on a DreamWorks TV series. You've also worked on the Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Cleopatra in Space. Is that how you got involved with this project? What attracted you to Camp Cretaceous?
Scott Kreamer: I was actually at Nickelodeon for around 13 years, and I came over to DreamWorks at the beginning of 2018 after finishing Pinky Malinky, to work on Cleopatra in Space with my friend Doug Langdale. The plan was I was going to do that for 2018 and, in 2019, I would be looking for something else. And then about four months in, DreamWorks called me and asked if I'd be interested in taking on this project, Camp Cretaceous. After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I said, "When do we start?"
VD: Getting to work with Steven Spielberg and be a part of this famous Jurassic Park and Jurassic World franchise is almost a once in a lifetime opportunity. But this is actually not the first time you've worked with Spielberg?
SK: I had worked with Steven before, 20 years ago, when my career really got going at DreamWorks in the late 90s. I was story editing a show called Toonsylvania, which was DreamWorks' first animation, executive produced by Steven. I had a couple of very short meetings with him, which I've been excited about and telling people about for 20 years now. When I got onto this show, I asked him if he had told everyone for 20 years that he had two meetings with me. He had not. But it was still pretty exciting, getting to spend time with him again.
VD: Other than getting to work with one of Hollywood's most famous filmmakers, were there others reasons you were drawn to this show? Especially as a seasoned writer and producer in animation.
SK: I've always wanted to tell a serialized story, something that had more adult themes. We tell stories on this show that you don't normally get to tell in kids' animation, like the fact that not everybody survives, and I was excited to get a chance to do that. And then, of course, you throw on top of that the title of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, it really doesn't get any better than that.
We also get to introduce a whole new generation to this world. This is a scary show, but younger kids can watch this with their parents as a family. There are some real issues, there are some real scares, but we don't show any blood on screen—we do draw the line there—and there's more humor involved as well.
VD: The events in Camp Cretaceous take place on the other side of the island, but at the same time as the 2015 Jurassic World film. Can you unpack that a little bit?
SK: We start the series at the same time the film starts, when the kids are on the north side of the island and they're going to be the first to try out this amazing adventure camp. So, when the Indominus Rex breaks out, and the island goes crazy, our kids are right in the middle of it. It was really exciting to pour over the movie and make sense of where our kids could and could not be during the timeline of the film. We also did our best to intersect events either just before or just after they take place in the film, weaving our kids into the narrative without breaking the continuity of Jurassic World.
VD: Was it difficult trying to make sure all the events correlated correctly to what would have been going on in the 2015 film?
SK: It was a challenge, but it was fun too. It was like a puzzle to figure out, how to tell this story, this narrative, in a way that makes sense while also giving the thrills and the excitement from the Jurassic franchise. We had maps of the island with different events all over the writers' room, and we watched the movie over and over again trying to figure out what the paths of escape would be. Anytime you get to watch Jurassic World for work, that's fun. We also spent a lot of time figuring out what familiar parts of the island we could show and what new parts we could explore that we hadn't seen in the films before.
VD: All previous Jurassic franchise productions have followed a similar format—everyone goes to this island starry-eyed and in awe of everything, then suddenly the dinosaurs escape and cause chaos and everyone comes to the same conclusion that they should never do this again, yet they always still do. How did you guys keep this storyline fresh for the show?
SK: The idea in most of these films is you have your kid characters who are your side characters who need to be rescued by an adult, whether it's Alan Grant or Ian Malcolm or Owen Grady. Our idea was, let's put kids in the middle of it. Let's make the kids the protagonists and not have adults be able to help them. Let's really empower these kids, who didn't know each other before getting to the island, and have no one to count on but each other, and put them in the center of it. When Zack Stentz pitched the idea to DreamWorks, that was really the central concept, to put the kids front and center of their own story and see what happens.
VD: This is not the first time an animation for Jurassic Park has been attempted. There was actually a Jurassic Park animated series back in the 90s that was pitched and eventually scrapped. What made the time right to re-approach that idea?
SK: I have heard about that. Part of it is you have a platform like Netflix now, where you can tell a more adult version of the story. Steven's marching orders, when he signed off on the concept for the series, was "Just don't do the kiddy version." So, we really tried not to.
Also, the technology has caught up and you can see there is more detail in these dinosaurs than there would have been back in the 90s. They are animated, obviously, but they look really real. I've been doing this a long time, animation, and I've never seen anything on a television screen that looks like our show. We really tried to lean in and get as close to making it look like a feature as possible. Plus, it's a nice time to be telling a story about kids from different backgrounds and how none of that matters. In order to get through trying times, they need to stick together.
VD: Was it also exciting getting to animate things like the gyrospheres and the dinosaurs, all original parts of Spielberg's vision, and bring them to life in a different way?
SK: It was super cool. We were able to get a lot of models for the original set, like the dinosaurs and the gyrospheres, from the feature. And obviously, we had to simplify those to use them in a television pipeline, but to start from that, and continue the story so it feels part of this one universe that we're right in the middle of, it's fantastic and a lot of responsibility. One we take seriously.
VD: What do you hope this series does for Jurassic film fans as well as the franchise?
SK: At the end of the day, we want fans to feel like we've done the name Jurassic Park and Jurassic World justice, that we appreciate how strongly many people feel about it. We don't want to mess that up. But we also want to tell this story about these kids sticking together in really dire circumstances. So, hopefully, people like it. I've already seen stuff online where people are like, "Oh, it's going to be the kiddy version." And I can't wait for those folks to see what we've done and blow their minds. That's the hope and the dream.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous premieres today on Netflix. It features the voices of Paul-Mikél Williams (Westworld, Sydney to the Max) as Darius; Jenna Ortega (Elena of Avalor, Big City Greens) as Brooklynn; Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6: The Series, Titans) as Kenji; Raini Rodriguez (Trish, Austin & Ally) as Sammy; Sean Giambrone (Solar Opposites, Ralph Breaks the Internet) as Ben; Kausar Mohammed (Silicon Valley, Great Pretender) as Yaz; Jameela Jamil (The Good Place, How to Build a Girl) as Roxie; and Glen Powell (Robot Chicken, Hidden Figures) as Dave.
The series is executive produced by Spielberg, Kreamer, Colin Trevorrow, Frank Marshall, Aaron Hammersley, and Lane Lueras. Kreamer and Hammersley also serve as showrunners.
Victoria Davis is a full-time, freelance journalist and part-time Otaku with an affinity for all things anime. She's reported on numerous stories from activist news to entertainment. Find more about her work at victoriadavisdepiction.com.
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Tale of Dickens' fight to save Shakespeare house retold in exhibition
Events in which novelist helped save bard's birthplace from clutches of US showman PT Barnum will be celebrated in Stratford
Maev Kennedy
Mon 3 Apr 2017 02.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 05.37 EDT
PT Barnum hoped to buy Shakespeare's birthplace, ship it to the US and make it the star attraction in his museum of curiosities. Photograph: ImageBroker/Rex/Shutterstock
The story of how Charles Dickens helped save the house where William Shakespeare was born from the dastardly clutches of PT Barnum, the American showman who modestly billed his circus "the greatest show on earth", will be celebrated in an exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon this year.
The auction of the Tudor house was held in London on Thursday 16 September 1847, advertised by a poster announcing the sale of "the truly heart-stirring relic of a most glorious period and of ENGLAND'S IMMORTAL BARD ... the most honoured monument of the greatest genius that ever lived".
Dickens first visited the house in 1838 when it was a private museum, signed the visitors' book, and poured his love of the stage and Shakespeare into his account of the Crummles theatrical company in Nicholas Nickleby, which he began publishing as a serial later that year.
The poster advertising the sale of the house where Shakespeare was born. Photograph: The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Barnum visited six years later, and in 1846 when it was announced that the house would be sold, conceived a cunning plan: he would buy it anonymously, ship every brick and timber to the US, and reconstruct it as the star attraction of his museum of curiosities.
"I soon despatched a trusty agent to Stratford-on-Avon armed with cash and full powers to buy the Shakespeare house, if possible, and have it carefully taken down, packed in boxes and shipped to New York. He was cautioned not to mention my name, and to give no hint that the building was ever to leave England," Barnum recalled in his autobiography.
But word of his plans got out. "British pride was touched and several English gentlemen interfered and purchased the premises for a Shakespeare Association," he said. The birthplace would have been as great a sensation, Barnum reflected sadly, as when he snapped up Jumbo, the giant African elephant, from London zoo.
One of the interfering gentlemen was Dickens. Paul Edmondson, the head of research at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which now owns the house in Warwickshire and a string of other properties associated with the bard, has traced the story of the sale through the archives, and found that despite ardent fundraising in London and Stratford-upon-Avon they were far short of their target with the sale fast approaching. Dickens threw himself into the campaign, organising readings and benefit performances of Shakespeare works, and almost doubled the fund.
It must have been a heart-stopping moment for the committee when bidding at the auction opened at 1,500 guineas, up to 2,000 in the next bid. The auctioneer was then informed that the committee could offer £3,000, the underbidder dropped out, and the house was saved.
The auction scene will be recreated at the house on the anniversary date next September, and a temporary exhibition will tell the story of Dickens and the sale which launched the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. The trust's five properties had a record year in 2016, the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, attracting 825,000 visitors.
If Barnum had managed to acquire the house, it would have been destroyed in 1868 when his museum burned to the ground. He incorporated many of its stars into a touring show which became the Barnum & Bailey circus: he died in 1891, and allegedly his last words were an inquiry about the previous night's box office takings.


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El cantón de Esternay era una división administrativa francesa, que estaba situada en el departamento de Marne y la región de Champaña-Ardenas.

Composición
El cantón estaba formado por veintiún comunas:
 Bethon
 Bouchy-Saint-Genest
 Champguyon
 Chantemerle
 Châtillon-sur-Morin
 Courgivaux
 Escardes
 Esternay
 Joiselle
 La Forestière
 La Noue
 Le Meix-Saint-Epoing
 Les Essarts-lès-Sézanne
 Les Essarts-le-Vicomte
 Montgenost
 Nesle-la-Reposte
 Neuvy
 Potangis
 Réveillon
 Saint-Bon
 Villeneuve-la-Lionne

Supresión del cantón de Esternay

En aplicación del Decreto nº 2014-208 de 21 de febrero de 2014, el cantón de Esternay fue suprimido el 22 de marzo de 2015 y sus 21 comunas pasaron a formar parte; veinte del nuevo cantón de Sézanne-Brie y Champaña y una del nuevo cantón de Vertus-Llanura de Champaña.

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Q: Java clone() inquiry Having written the code below, I was wondering why clone() doesn't return the same hashcode for each additional instance. Am I doing something wrong?
public class Accessor implements Cloneable {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

    Accessor one = new Accessor();
    Accessor two = one.clone();

    System.out.println("one hahcod  " + one.hashCode()
    +"\ntwo hashcode " + two.hashCode());

    }

    public Accessor clone(){

        try{

            return (Accessor)super.clone();

        }
        catch (CloneNotSupportedException err){

            throw new Error("Error!!!");

        }
    }

}

A: Since Accessor does not override hashCode, you will get the default implementation of Object.hashCode. This has implementation-defined semantics but will basically cast the address of the object to an integer, such that distinct object instances will have different hashCodes.
See What is the default implementation of `hashCode`? for more information on the above.
Note that if you are going to implement hashCode, you should also implement equals. For a good reference on equals and hashCode, read Joshua Bloch's Effective Java (or see Best implementation for hashCode method)

A: Because it is a different object. You are invoking the cloning inherited from Object in this case. For each new object you will have a different dashcode. If you open the source code of Object in java what you will find there is the following:
 public native int hashCode();

public boolean More ...equals(Object obj) {
        return (this == obj);
    }

The key point here is that once you clone an object A clone of B A==B will always return false.
Then if you read the hashcode documentation it states the following :

If two
  objects are equal according to the equals(Object) method, then calling
  the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same
  integer result. It is not required that if two objects are unequal
  according to the equals(java.lang.Object) method, then calling the
  hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct
  integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that
  producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the
  performance of hashtables.

A: The clone method creates a shallow copy of your first object but your Accessor class has no instance field and does not override hashCode method, as a consequence the instances of this class get the default behaviour from Object class for hashCode. This behaviour is similar as calling System#identityHashCode with your object as parameter.


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Baltic Sea Properties AS
Tomo Street Guest House
Baltic Catering Services
Baltic Venture Capital
Previous investments
Radviliskis Shopping Center
Office building Sąvanorių 18
Valdeka Shopping Centre
Baltic Sea Properties AS (BSP) is a Norwegian public listed company investing in commercial real estate in the Baltics. The company is an award winning and leading developer of Logistics and Industrial projects, committed to best ESG principles and with a focus on building long term partnerships with it's clients. BSP currently owns and manages a portfolio of over 100 000 square meters in the Logistics, Industrial, Retail sectors and holds a large development land bank.
Baltic Equity Group is the largest and lead shareholder of Baltic Sea Properties AS.
www.balticsea.no
Tomo street guest house is a new development in the old town of Klaipeda, Lithuania. The project consists of commercial premises on the ground floor and apartments for rent on other floors.
Tomo street guest house (UAB BCO) is a subsidiary of Baltic Equity Group.
Baltic Catering services is an operator of Enter Cafe, that provides catering services in Klaipėda Free Economic zone. Breakfast, business lunches and deli bar are available for KVP tenants and other companies. A separate conference hall, attached to the cafe is equipped for business meetings, seminars and other events.
Baltic Catering Services is a subsidiary of Baltic Equity Group.
Baltic Venture Capital is a private equity investor, which invests in companies at start-up and growth stages. Baltic Venture Capital is open to all industry sector investments; however specifically targets investments in agri/food, manufacturing and service companies in Lithuania.
Baltic Venture Capital is a subsidiary of Baltic Equity Group.
Radviliskis Shopping Center is the largest shopping center in Radviliskis region in northern Lithuania. The center is 3200m2.
Radviliskis Shopping Center was sold in 2019.
Office Building "Savanorių 18"
"Savanorių 18" consists of 4000 sq. m. of office space over 10 floors, plus 2 floors of underground parking.
The property is in a strategic location: rapidly growing area on main Savanorių Avenue, 3 km from Vilnius old-town.
The building is leased to "Cognizant Technology Solutions Lithuania", which is part of Cognizant Ltd, a global leader in business and technology services. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 2000 and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.
Savanorių 18 was successfully upgraded and sold in June 2017.
Valdeka Shopping Centre is the largest shopping centre in Jelgava region in Latvia. The centre comprises over 14,000m2 of shopping space on a large land plot with further development potential.
Baltic Equity Group strategically divested the Valdeka Shopping Centre in the middle of 2007 concluding a successful investment project.
Baltic Equity Group Pramones str. 8a, Klaipeda, LT-94102, Lithuania, Phone: +370 46 300164, Fax: +370 46 210357, E-mail: info@balticquitygroup.lt


Q: My father in law is very ill since the past 6 months. We have a joint family system where my mother in law, sister in law, brother in law, his wife and kids all live together. I, along with my husband want to go for Hajj this year. Is it permissible for us to go? Or should we delay our plans of performing this life time obligation keeping in view the condition of my father in law?
Q: I'm a married women who has worked and saved some money. I have two brothers and a sister. My parents are elderly now and they have never travelled anywhere. My father has some debt. Can I take them with my money for hajj?
1. In India, most of the ladies have a lot of gold with them, will it be fardh on them to do Hajj if their husbands or other mehrams don't have that much of money to go for hajj. In this case what needs to be done by a woman and her mehram?
2. Many people in India invest money in buying lands and buildings apart from living. So what is the ruling for them regarding Hajj. Since the land comes under exceptional category, what is the ruling make hajj obligatory on them?
Q: I am a 31 year old married woman. I want to perform hajj. My husband is not capable at present. I am asking him to arrange money for his hajj expenses only, and I am planning to sell my gold for my hajj expenses. Is it right to rush for the hajj even if we are not capable or should we wait for the time when we have enough. Please advise.
Does Hajj become compulsory through performing umrah in the months of Hajj?
Q: If one performs Umrah in the month of Shawwaal or anytime thereafter during the months of Hajj (i.e. from the beginning of Shawwaal till the 10th of Zul Hijjah), will Hajj become fardh upon him?
Read more about Does Hajj become compulsory through performing umrah in the months of Hajj?
Q: Last year I had gone for hajj with my family (mother and wife). Before leaving for hajj (during it's preparation) I had made my wife owner of the amount which was to be spent on her for hajj (Rs.2.5 lakh). During the journey I instructed her to make niyat for Fardh Hajj as she was made owner of money. But by mistake she made niyat for Nafl Hajj and completed the Hajj journey. I would like to ask whether the Hajj she did would be counted as Fardh or Nafl. If Nafl, does she have to do Fardh Hajj now again. At present neither me nor she has any money. She has only her jewellery. If ruling is for Fardh Hajj and either me or she dies before doing it, then what happens. I would like to make it clear it was 1st Hajj for myself and wife.
Q: If a husband has already performed Hajj, is it compulsory for him to send his wife for Hajj as well? Under what condition Hajj becomes compulsory for the wife?
Q: Can one perform hajj if he has taken a loan but as Qarz e husana?
Q: My question is at what age can a boy go for hajj for it to be accepted?
Q: I have taken my parents for Umrah with me at my expense. They have no source of incomes and I fully support them. I will Insha Allah take them for Hajj when I can afford it. Is Hajj compulsory on them?


That map is identical to my prediction today, except I predicted Romney will get Florida on Tuesday, as well as predicting Romney getting Iowa.
This concludes my series of presidential elections predictions. I will not comment on politics again until after the presidential election is decided.


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Gulf of Mexico 2012
The Macondo Well and Deep-water Hard-ground Communities
By Chuck Fisher, Professor of Biology - Penn State University
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, determining the types and extents of damage to the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico is a high priority. In most cases, starting the assessment of shallow and land-based areas was relatively straightforward as substantive baseline information about many of these areas and the areas are fairly accessible. However, the deep-water coral ecosystems we study were – and continue to be – neither well known nor accessible.
Deep-sea corals flourish in the dark depths of the Gulf of Mexico, providing foundations that attract lush communities of other animals, including brittle stars, anemones, crabs, and fish. This diversity of life on the seafloor may be out of sight, but it is has been squarely on the minds of scientists seeking to determine the short- and long-term ecological impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEM. Download image (jpg, 155 KB).
Most of the deep Gulf seafloor is mud; however, scattered patchily throughout the northern deep Gulf of Mexico are hard-grounds produced by biogeochemical activity associated with old or current natural oil and gas seep sites. Some of these hard-grounds host ecosystems structured by colonies of deep-water corals.
In 2010, cameras on the Jason ROV captured images of a seafloor site about seven miles downstream from a plume of hydrocarbons flowing from the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo well. Scientists found deep-sea corals showing signs of recent and severe impact. Image courtesy of Lophelia II 2010 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEM. Download image (jpg, 98 KB).
We are learning that these communities are found over a wide depth range in most areas of the northern Gulf of Mexico. However, we have only identified a relatively small number of these communities in the vast unexplored deep Gulf of Mexico.
Several of the new targets we plan to explore during Leg II of the Gulf of Mexico expedition were identified during Deepwater Horizon response cruises. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Sentry AUV is one of the platforms used extensively in the Gulf since the event. Image courtesy of Ken Kostel, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Download image (jpg, 75 KB).
Before the oil spill, we knew of only one hard-ground hosting corals about 11 miles to the north-northwest of the Macondo well and several more 25 to 30 miles away to the north. We did not know of any other coral communities closer than these. We also did not know of any communities to the southwest where a deep-water plume from the well had been documented.
So, in this case, before we could investigate potential damage to deep-water hard-ground communities, we had to discover them. During a joint Bureau of Ocean Energy Management/NOAA Ocean Exploration and Research cruise in October 2010, we did exactly that. Unfortunately, we discovered a coral community about seven miles to the southwest of Macondo that included many colonies showing obvious signs of a recent and severe impact.
Over the next year and five cruises, we continued to explore and discovered more previously unknown coral and seep communities in the vicinity of the Macondo well. We also revisited the first site to explore in the time domain and begin to understand the longer-term impacts to these corals.
During the Leg II of this Okeanos Explorer expedition, we plan to continue our exploration around the Macondo well and revisit some of the impacted and potentially impacted communities we have discovered. We will be looking for signs of recovery or perhaps delayed impact.
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WWE Rumors: Major Star Making WWE Return On 'SmackDown Live' Soon
After leaving the company disgruntled, a big name could be returning to WWE under the SmackDown brand.
Will McCormick
With WrestleMania 34 coming up and major names like Bill Goldberg and Batista being rumored to make their returns to WWE television, the expectation is Raw will be getting more star power, especially with the 25th-anniversary show coming up in January. However, another huge star could be making their return to WWE programming before the end of 2017 after leaving the company disgruntled roughly two months ago.
Former WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville walked away from WWE and asked for his release from the company. There have been rumors about him working out a return to television with WWE officials, but he hasn't made his return to Monday Night Raw or 205 Live for the past two months. It's been reported that a new round of talks have also fallen through between the two sides, but his return plans have been revealed.
It's now being reported that WWE officials are hoping to bring Neville to SmackDown Live instead of back to 205 Live or Raw because they want to separate him from the Cruiserweight division entirely. On paper, "The Man That Gravity Forgot" on Raw would be too familiar since the cruiserweights still have a couple of matches on the show every week. 205 Live does air after SmackDown Live, but it's a better spot for Neville.
If Neville and WWE officials can eventually work out a deal to get him back on WWE television, he should be featured on SmackDown Live. Unfortunately, there is no confirmation that Neville is prepared to return to the company. The former "King of the Cruiserweights" will have more opportunities if he returns, but his character was a full-blown heel when he walked out. On paper, he could be featured as a babyface or a heel.
His character gained a ton of momentum as a heel in the Cruiserweight division and he could continue that run on SmackDown Live, especially against the current WWE Champion AJ Styles. WWE officials may not be willing to give him such a huge push upon returning since he did walk out on the company. For Neville, the matter at hand is for him to wait for his WWE deal to expire or to return to SmackDown Live and finish his run with the company on much better terms. How Neville chooses to end his WWE career is up to him.


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ROAR: Medvedev, Putin continue to "drop hints" to public
Published time: 4 Dec, 2009 10:52 Edited time: 14 Apr, 2011 18:43
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The president and the prime minister have left the question of the 2012 elections unanswered, preferring to solve the current issues the country is facing, the media say.
Observers have commented on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's words about his plans not to quit politics. During his televised phone-in question and answer session, Putin also said he would consider running for the presidency in 2012, only later. "I think – there is still plenty of time," he stressed. Most analysts believe the possibility of Putin's running is high.
At the same time, President Dmitry Medvedev, who was on a visit to Italy, said at a news conference that he also didn't rule out running in the next elections. But he added: "We will be able to come to an understanding on how not to elbow each other out of the way, but make the reasonable decision for our country."
RBC daily said that, during his televised "conversation with the people", Putin had to answer again the "eternal questions" of Russian citizens, including those about his political future and relations with the president.
Putin described the relations in the tandem as "good," but "he left, in fact, unanswered the question about the Kremlin's official candidate for the 2012 elections," the daily said. The final decision will depend on the socio-economic situation in the country, and Putin made it clear that now it is too early to speak about it, the paper added.
"The biggest mistake would be to devote the time needed to solve current problems to the interests of the future election campaigns," Putin said, in response to a question.
Dmitry Orlov, director of the Agency of Political and Economic Communications, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily that Putin had mentioned his "horizon of planning" in terms of political future.
The prime minister's answers show that this horizon is "wider than simply solving any current issues," the analyst said. "His choice of topics and search for answers to the challenges that the country is facing characterize Putin as a politician with long-term perspectives," he added.
At the same time, both Medvedev and Putin stress that they will decide together who will run in 2012, observers note. Medvedev's comments were "predictable," Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily said. It added that during a Valdai International Discussion Club meeting in September, the president was no more concrete when he said the decision would be made if both leaders "had any chance of being elected."
One should not compare the prime minister's questions and answers session with the president's address to the parliament, believes Boris Makarenko of the Center for Political Technologies. "Medvedev's line of modernization is another genre," he told Vremya Novostey daily.
The prime minister's "promise" to think about running for the presidency was "milder than his answer to the Valdai Club," Makarenko noted. Then Putin said that Medvedev and he were "of the same blood."
It is impossible, in fact, to wait for a different answer from the prime minister, Makarenko said. "The laws of the genre are such that any answer to the question about the elections that is read as 'no' turns any of the two leaders into a lame duck," he said. Thus, no one will say that he has no intentions to run, the analyst said.
Iosif Diskin, co-chairman of the Council on National Strategy has another explanation. Medevedev has taken risks upon himself connected with the modernization project, Diskin told the daily. It is clear that Putin "will help the state if the project starts to fail," he said.
Both Medvedev's address to the parliament and Putin's conversation with the people showed that "the law is not merely empty words" for them, Diskin said. Putin as the prime minister now "executes the main lines of economic and external policy, determined by the president."
Mikhail Vinogradov of the Petersburg Politics foundation also noted that the latest statements of the both leaders have demonstrated once again a clear division of responsibilities.
"Medvedev speaks more about political problems and Putin about social issues," he told Vremya Novostey. The president addresses "the active part of the population," and the prime minister talks "to the social base of the power, the senior generation, pensioners," the analyst stressed.
Meanwhile, the two leaders continue to drop "hints" to the public, Vinogradov said. Medvedev speaks about the possibility of strengthening the role of other political parties in addition to United Russia, and Putin leaves the question about 2012 unanswered.
It is senseless to analyze Putin's signals because he "is trying to disorientate the Russian political elite and reduce the independence of every player, showing that the issue of power will be decided later," the analyst said.
However, Mikhail Afanasyev, of the Niccolo M center of political consulting, told Gazeta.ru website that the statements that Putin and Medvedev made on December 3 were "the beginning of primaries."
Until 2012, the tandem will not only have to fulfill strategic tasks, but also to solve everyday problems of Russians, as Putin did during the question and answer session.
The large amount of questions to one of the leaders with "minor issues that should be solved by regional authorities" clearly demonstrates "the absence of normal connection channels between society and the authorities," Vedomosti daily said.
"In this situation, a direct address to the country's leaders on air or online has become almost the only means for some citizens to solve their everyday issues," the paper added.
"But the most important thing is that there are two leaders in Russia now," the daily stressed. The appearance of Medvedev and Putin on TV air and online "redouble the chances of ordinary Russians to speak about their problems to the leadership," the paper said.
Regular direct communication of the president and the prime minister with the people "generates a competition of promises," the paper said, adding that both of them will try to solve a particular problem "quicker and more effectively."
Sergey Borisov, RT
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The Leica Fieldsports Photographer of the Year competition has once again unearthed some incredible talent. Despite being in only its second year, from the moment we called for entries in the February/March issue of Fieldsports, we were positively overwhelmed, both in terms of the number and quality of images submitted.
With in excess of 750 photographs received across all five categories – Game shooting, Stalking, Fly fishing, Gundogs and Other – it was obvious from the outset that our judges were going to have a real challenge on their hands. Although there were strong entries across the board, there were two categories that really stood out this year: 'Gundogs' and 'Other', both of which received more than 250 submissions each. From the latter, the hunting images were particularly impressive.
Over and above the criterion of capturing the magic and allure of the respective sport or subject portrayed, the judges were also looking for photographs that exhibited great technical skill and ability with a camera, a natural eye for composition and aesthetics, and attention to detail in the processing of the digital file.
"I have enjoyed hunting for many years – both mounted and now as a foot follower – armed with my camera, following Chiddingfold, Leconfield and Cowdray hounds every hunting day. This image was taken on February 18, 2015, and is of the hounds being led by huntsman Adrian 'Sage' Thompson, trotting down a farm track following a meet at Rotherbridge, near Petworth, West Sussex. My grandson, Jacob, who is three years old, has been out hunting several times with me, and absolutely loves it. We had walked from the meet listening for hounds and stopped at the edge of the track. Jacob was very excited and danced around as he heard them coming. As Sage approached us, he held up his hand and asked Jacob if he was having fun. The image illustrates the very special rapport that Sage has with all the young followers, both the mounted and tiniest 'footies', encouraging them to enjoy the hounds as he is conscious that they are the future of hunting. The photo was taken at the beginning of the day following the first trail and we went on to have a really great scenting day with lots of fun for everyone, great hound work and some wonderful countryside for the field to follow over. After the horses and hounds were boxed up, as is usual for our hunt, we all enjoyed tea and cakes and then my usually quite shy grandson gave Sage an enormous hug and thanked him for "the best day".
"A technically brilliant image – and very, very difficult to achieve," commented judge Tarquin Millington-Drake. Although this was unquestionably one of the most technically impressive and difficult to achieve photographs submitted this year – and it deserves the highest recognition for these reasons – all three judges felt that in the all-important criterion of conveying the magic and allure of game shooting, it fell short. But only just.


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El AGM-88 HARM (siglas de High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile) es un misil táctico aire-superficie diseñado contra transmisiones electrónicas asociadas con sistemas de radar de misiles superficie-aire. El misil fue originalmente desarrollado por Texas Instruments (TI) como sustituto de los sistemas AGM-45 Shrike y AGM-78 Standard ARM. La producción fue posteriormente tomada por Raytheon Corporation (RAYCO) cuando la compañía de defensa TI fue adquirida por RAYCO.

Descripción

El AGM-88 puede detectar, atacar y destruir una antena de radar o transmisor con una mínima entrada de tripulación. El sistema de guía proporcional que se enfoca en las emisiones del radar enemigo tiene una antena fija y una cabeza de buscador en la nariz del misil. Un motor de cohete propulsor sólido y sin humo impulsa el misil a velocidades superiores a Mach 2.0. El misil HARM era un programa liderado por la Marina de los Estados Unidos, y fue llevado primero por los aviones A-6E, A-7 y F/A-18A/B, y luego equipó el avión EA-6B. Se inició un programa de investigación, desarrollo, pruebas e ingeniería (RDT & E) para su uso en el avión F-14, pero no se completó. La Fuerza Aérea de EE. UU. (USAF) colocó el HARM en el avión F-4G Wild Weasel, y más tarde en los F-16 especializados equipados con el Sistema de selección de objetivos HARM (HTS). El pod HTS, utilizado solo por la USAF, permite al F-16 detectar y apuntar automáticamente a los radares con HARM en lugar de depender solo de los sensores del misil.

Versiones de los HARM

AGM-88E AARGM
La actualización más reciente, el misil guiado antirradiación avanzada (AARGM) AGM-88E, presenta el último software, capacidades mejoradas para contrarrestar el apagado del radar enemigo y el radar pasivo que usa un buscador activo de ondas milimétricas adicional. Fue lanzado en noviembre de 2010 y es una empresa conjunta entre el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos y el Ministerio de Defensa italiano, producido por Orbital ATK.

En noviembre de 2005, el Ministerio de Defensa italiano y el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos firmaron un Memorando de Acuerdo sobre el desarrollo conjunto del misil AGM-88E AARGM. Italia estaba proporcionando $ 20 millones en fondos para el desarrollo, así como varios millones de dólares en materiales, equipos y servicios relacionados. Se esperaba que la Fuerza Aérea Italiana comprara hasta 250 misiles para su aeronave Tornado ECR. Se estableció un programa de prueba de vuelo para integrar el AARGM en el sistema de armas de Tornado ECR.

La Marina de los Estados Unidos demostró la capacidad de AARGM durante la Prueba y evaluación operativas iniciales (IOT & E) en la primavera de 2012 con el lanzamiento en vivo de 12 misiles. La capacitación de tripulación y mantenimiento con misiles en vivo se completó en junio.

La Armada autorizó la Producción a plena velocidad (FRP) del AARGM en agosto de 2012, con 72 misiles para la Armada y nueve para la Fuerza Aérea Italiana que se entregarán en 2013. Un escuadrón de F/A-18 Hornet del Cuerpo de Marines de los EE. UU. será el Primera unidad desplegada hacia adelante con el AGM-88E.

En septiembre de 2013, ATK entregó el 100 ° AARGM a la Marina de los Estados Unidos. El programa AGM-88E está programado y dentro del presupuesto, con capacidad operativa plena (FOC) prevista para septiembre de 2014. El AGM-88E se diseñó para mejorar la efectividad de las variantes de HARM heredadas contra los sitios de comunicaciones y radares fijos y reubicables, particularmente aquellos que se apagaría para lanzar misiles antirradiación, agregando un nuevo buscador al motor de cohete y sección de ojiva con capacidad Mach 2 existente, agregando un receptor pasivo antirradiación, un sistema de navegación por satélite e inercial, un radar de onda milimétrica para guía de terminales, y la capacidad de transmitir imágenes del objetivo a través de un enlace satelital solo unos segundos antes del impacto.

Este modelo de HARM se integrará en los aviones F/A-18C/D Hornet, F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, EA-18G Growler y Tornado ECR, y más adelante en el F-35.

En septiembre de 2015, el AGM-88E golpeó con éxito a un objetivo de un barco móvil en una prueba de fuego real, demostrando la capacidad del misil para usar el rumbo antirradiación y el radar de onda milimétrica para detectar, identificar, localizar y activar objetivos en movimiento.

AARGM-ER
El presupuesto de la Marina para el año fiscal 2016 incluyó fondos para un AARGM-ER de rango extendido que utiliza el sistema de guía y la ojiva existentes del AGM-88E con un cohete-cohete integrado sólido para doblar el rango. La financiación para el desarrollo durará hasta 2020. En septiembre de 2016, Orbital ATK presentó su AARGM-ER de rango extendido, que incorpora una sección de control rediseñada y un motor de cohete de 11.5 pulg. (290 mm) para el doble del alcance y el carro interno del Lockheed Martin. F-35 Lightning II. La Marina de los EE. UU. Otorgó a Orbital ATK un contrato para el desarrollo de AARGM-ER en enero de 2018.

El AARGM-ER serviría como base para el Stand In Attack Weapon (SiAW) de ataque terrestre.

AGM-88F HCSM
Aunque EE. UU. Eligió el AGM-88E producido por Orbital ATK, Raytheon creó su propia versión del AARGM llamada Modificación de la Sección de Control del HARM AGM-88F (HCSM), una que incorpora características de actualización similares, que podrían permitirle a la compañía ofrecer sus misiles, para exportación.

Uso en combate
El misil HARM fue aprobado para su producción total en marzo de 1983, obtuvo la capacidad operativa inicial (IOC) en el A-7E Corsair II a fines de 1983 y luego se desplegó a fines de 1985 con VA-46 a bordo del portaaviones USS America. En 1986, el VAQ-131 realizó el primer disparo exitoso del HARM desde un EA-6B. Pronto se usó en combate: en marzo de 1986 contra un sitio libio S-200 en el Golfo de Sidra, y luego durante la Operación El dorado Canyon en abril. HARM fue utilizado ampliamente por la Armada, el Cuerpo de Marines y la Fuerza Aérea en la Operación Tormenta del Desierto durante la Guerra del Golfo Pérsico de 1991.

Durante la guerra del Golfo el HARM estuvo involucrado en un incidente de fuego amigo cuando el piloto de un F-4G Wild Weasel, escoltando un B-52 confundió el radar de cola del arma defensiva con un emplazamiento AAA iraquí, (esto fue después de que el artillero de cola del B-52 hubiera dirigido el radar contra el F-4G, confundiéndolo con un MiG iraquí). El piloto lanzó el misil y vio que el objetivo era el B-52, que fue impactado. Sobrevivió con daños de metralla en la cola y no hubo víctimas. El B-52 fue posteriormente renombrado en el camino del HARM (In HARM's Way).

"Magnum" se habla por la radio para anunciar el lanzamiento de un AGM-88. Durante la Guerra del Golfo, si un avión estaba iluminado por un radar enemigo, una llamada falsa "Magnum" en la radio a menudo era suficiente para convencer a los operadores de que se apagaran. Esta técnica también se emplearía en Serbia durante las operaciones aéreas en 1999.

En 2013, el presidente Obama ofreció la AGM-88 a Israel por primera vez.

Véase también

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 AGM-88 data sheet (PDF format) from Raytheon
 Information on AGM-88 HARM from Federation of American Scientists
 AGM-88 HARM information by Globalsecurity.org
 AGM-88@Designation-Systems
 AGM-88 HARM by Carlo Kopp

Misiles antirradiación de Estados Unidos


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EPISTOLÊ
"Theology is poetry concerning God." ~Petrarch
The Meaning of Aristotle's τἀγαθόν: The Benefit of a Humanist Ethos
Admin	Ancient Philosophers, Anthropology, Aristotle, Ethics, History, Linguistics, Medieval Authors, Nature/Supernatural, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Philosophy/Theology, Reformed Scholastics, Thomas Aquinas	 March 26, 2009 March 26, 2009 6 Minutes
During the time of the Renaissance there was a debate between humanist moral theologians and those who followed the via antiqua. The former thought moral theology could not be properly utilized by the laity and should therefore be confined to the universities. The latter considered the practical science apt for the virtuous rhetor to use in discourse and civic instruction on the nature of human behavior. Thus, one can see a disagreement between those who considered the science more speculative and those who considered it more practical. The University of Padua adopted the Florentinian humanistic concept of the science of morals but later confined the discipline to the clerics.
According to David Lines, many books were used during the Renaissance as sources for the study of morals, including Thomas Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum (i.e., his commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics).
In fourteenth century Italy, most interpreters of the Ethics [Aristotle's] drew heavily on Thomas's own commentary. Acciaiuoli's commentary was admired partly for its faithfulness to the Dominican friar. Even Ottaviano Ferrari (1518-86), a pugnacious scholar who lectured on the Ethics in the Collegio Canobiano of Milan, could oppose but not ignore the saint from Aquino. The effects were even clearer on the members of the Dominican and Jesuit orders. Around 1490 two near contemporary Dominicans, Ludovico Valenza da Ferrara and Girolamo Savonarola, produced compendia of moral philosophy. Tellingly, these works are not digests of Aristotle's works, but of Thomas's Summa IIa IIae, even though they cover topics in ethics, oeconomics, and politics. (Lines, "Humanistic and Scholastic Ethics," Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy [CCRP], 310.)
The Paduan trained Peter Martyr Vermigli carried on the tradition of lecturing on moral theology that saw the value of the science for the civic sphere, as he lectured at the Academy of Strasbourg. Vermigli was trained in the via Thomae and most likely knew the humanist poet Flaminio of Serraville, but the extent of his humanism lies in a literary technique and linguistic capacity that was typical of the ad fontes approach of the age. An example of this can be seen in his translation of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics from Erasmus's 1531 Greek edition, rather than relying on a Latin text. Particularly, Vermigli follows a humanist interpretation of one of Aristotle's key phrases.
J. Argyropoulos
He comments on Aristotle's statement τἀγαθόν οὗ πάντ᾽ ἐφίεται (the good is that at which all things aim), saying even though τἀγαθόν is definitive (as opposed to ἀγαθόν) it does not refer to something supreme, as the "summum bonum" (supreme good) or "God" and especially not "The Holy Trinity." He notes that the Greek article does not always denote something particular: "Another function of the article is to indicate the reason and form without any particular conditions, in which several individuals are united; for example, as when we say ho anthropos logikos, 'man is rational,' we do not mean a specific individual, but rather we define the common nature and form that are shared by various individuals like Socrates and Plato." (Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, 21.) Contrary to those who see the phrase as a reference to the Trinity, Vermigli believes that τἀγαθόν refers to the "good itself" or the common good, which is the common form of the many naturally desired goods. A horse seeks after its own good, a dog its own good, and a human aims at its own good, but all things seek the good in general. If all things aimed at God or the supreme good there would be no natural end or reason for which each species was created, as if nature does not aim at its own preservation and perfection. Vermigli recounts the interpretation of Leonardo Aretino (a.k.a Bruni; d. 1444) and George of Trabizond (d. 1486), who were led by the Greek article preceding the noun to interpret the phrase as a reference to the Trinity. Instead, Vermigli follows the exegesis of Johannes Cardinal Bessarion (d. 1472). "Bessarion, Nicene cardinal and the most learned man among the Greeks of the modern era, refuted this opinion, saying that Trapezuntius [Trabizond] should have been aware that in Greek when an article precedes a word it has a triple function." (ibid, 22, 23) Vermigli then adopts as his own the translation of the humanist Johannes Argyropoulos (d. 1487) who rendered τἀγαθόν as "the good itself." (ibid)
The translation of τἀγαθόν posed a problem for other theologians during the time of the Renaissance. David Lines affirms that one issue of debate in this period was the notion of the goal of all things:
which Aristotle described at the beginning of the Ethics as tagathón ("the good"). Bruni's [Leonardo Aretino] translation of this expression as summum bonum … was often followed well into the sixteenth century. But it also raised questions and objections. After all, if moral philosophy really deals with the supreme good, how does it differ from metaphysics and theology? And to what extent could one really expect a pagan such as Aristotle to be cognizant of Christian truth?
Vermigli seems to tie his interpretation of τἀγαθόν as the "good itself," as opposed to summum bonum, to his belief that the pagan philosopher does not know the good as God per se in his search for the good as his final end. In other words, his translation is not abstracted from a real doctrinal issue. He notes: "The difference between us and pagan philosophers is that they suggest the ultimate end should be achieved by one's own virtue and zeal, whereas we say on the basis of divine scripture that the supreme good [summum bonum] cannot be obtained unless we are assisted by the spirit and grace of Christ." (ibid, 41.) In this passage Vermigli appears to limit the translation summum bonum to that particular end which may only be realized through the assistance of Christ. Thus, Vermigli distinguishes summum bonum from "the good itself" in order to clearly differentiate between the final end as understood by the pagan philosophers and the final end as it is revealed in the scriptures, an idea that he sees exemplified by the rules of Greek grammar.
Moerbeke's Translation of book 7 of Aristotle's Metaphysics
Thomas Aquinas's exegesis of Aristotle's τἀγαθόν is similar; although, he was unfamiliar with the Greek text and depended upon a Latin translation that rendered the term summum bonum. Instead of the humanist ethos that provoked study of the original languages Thomas did not have a functioning knowledge of Greek and relied on William of Moerbeke's Latin translation of Aristotle's Ethics. Like Vermigli, Thomas also makes a distinction between the different desires of particular beings, and, although beasts lack the type of desire that comes with knowledge, they also tend toward the good via the guiding knowledge of the "divine intellect." (Commentary on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, I.1.11) Aristotle's summum bonum does not imply a single good that all things desire but refers to the good in general. However, Thomas's interpretation falls into the realm of Vermigli's critique in his statement, "because nothing is good except insofar as it is a likeness and participation of the highest good [summum bonum], the highest good itself is in some way desired in every particular good." (ibid) However, this evidence does not demonstrate a substantial theological difference between Thomas and Vermigli, because Thomas's method of commenting on Aristotle primarily consists of finding the truth for the instruction of the theologian and only secondarily consists of determining authorial intent. In fact, "Thomas places himself explicitly in the Christian perspective and arranges things so as to have the Philosopher speak of the contemplative faculty in which Thomas himself sees the happiness of beatitude." (Jean-Pierre Torrell, St. Thomas Aquinas, Vol. 1, 228) Also, Thomas's assertion that the summum bonum is desired in every particular good "in some way" is ambiguous and does not appear to differ per se from Vermigli's statement that the pagan philosopher seeks God per accidens, not per se, in seeking the common good.
In conclusion, one can see the benefits of a new age and development of scholarship that was the Renaissance. Vermigli remained a follower of the via antiqua, but his acceptance of certain humanistic principles and alacrity to follow the interpretation of humanist philosophers rendered him more capable to determine the proper relationship between philosophy and theology.
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Ministry of Propaganda - 25/Oct/2003: "Off to Westonbirt, probably"
It is *bleep* freezing outside, but apart from the temperature the weather looks quite promising. Unless the weather changes I will be off to Westonbirt Arboretum later this morning. Meaning: Everyone else who was planning to go there please stay away. Don't want you running in front of my lense when I try to take pictures of the autumn colours.
Apparently interest rates are likely to rise. Well, not really. Only for borrowing probably. Somehow I have my doubts the banks would pass any interest rate rises on to savers as well.
How would you like your car to smell, Sir?
When writing this entry the weather was: As I said, *bleep* freezing. But sunny.


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Evidence testing delays capital murder trial
Pending test results are delaying the capital murder trial for a man accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death, lawyers said in court Thursday.
Evidence testing delays capital murder trial Pending test results are delaying the capital murder trial for a man accused of beating his pregnant girlfriend to death, lawyers said in court Thursday. Check out this story on caller.com: http://www.caller.com/story/news/crime/2016/09/01/evidence-testing-delays-capital-murder-trial/91563888/
Corpus Christi Caller-Times Published 9:21 a.m. CT Sept. 1, 2016
Arturo Garza
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Arturo Garza, 31, has been in the Nueces County Jail more than a year since the May 29, 2015, death of Susanna Eguia. Eguia, 27, was seven months pregnant.
Department of Public Safety officials responsible for testing evidence in the case told prosecutors to expect the results in December, Prosecutor Kelli Palmarozzi said.
State District Judge David Stith scheduled a status hearing for Dec. 15 and said he wanted the trial slated for the beginning of January. If convicted, Garza faces life in prison or the death penalty.
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