Although there are only a handful of abortion survivors who publicly share of their survival through ministry and often through pro-life advocacy, the reality is that many more survivors exist in our world. Whenever abortion survivors speak at events or participate in media interviews, we often meet and hear from other survivors, many of whom always thought they were "the only one." Here are the stories of many of those survivors. Some wish to remain anonymous, while others share more, in the hopes to give a name to children who are rendered nameless, faceless, and voiceless in our world–the preborn, who are victims of abortion.
If you wish to share your own personal story as a survivor, or would like to be connected to other survivors, please send an email to: info@theabortionsurvivors.com.
I grew up in a stable relatively loving home along with my four brothers (one of them being born ten years after I was). I always felt cared for and wanted. One day at the age of 22, all that changed when my mother told me that she had tried to abort me herself. She said she used a coat hanger and that I should have had two other siblings who she was able to abort them through that means.
I know that as immigrants from Denmark, and also having three children in three years, things were very difficult when she got pregnant with me, so a part of me understood from a logical point of view.
As time went on after the revelation, I came to understand that my mother had lived with guilt all that time and had to tell me to help her deal with with her inner turmoil. I was able to tell her I understood, and that painful truth was not discussed again for many years.
The pain of having my mom try to end my life would well up in me from time to time. At the age of 32, I was having a very difficult time with the situation. I had become a Christian and was praying with some friends. One of them said she felt there was something dark in me that needed to be dealt with. I blurted out that my mom had tried to abort me (the first time i had told anyone) and they prayed for me. That night, in a dream, I saw myself being born, with Jesus standing by my Mom, saying you are loved. There was a tremendous healing that came over me, and I was able to tell my Mom that I forgave her. Later, just before she died, she said she now knew God had forgiven her as well.
Since that dream I have known that God has a purpose for me and has directed me in what that is, including the adoption of our four children, who are such a blessing. I am unable to have biological children, which my mom wrongly believed was caused by the abortion attempt (despite the doctor telling her that was not the case). Another source of guilt for her, until I was able to convince her she was wrong.
I am now 64 and He is calling me to work with Abortion Free New Mexico in Albequerque and to connect with abortion survivors, so that His purpose of protecting life and bringing healing can be accomplished.
I have decided to share my story because it is a story of hope and love.
I have been given the gift of life.
remember feeling that my heart was aching for someone to be close to, someone who could understand me and the way I felt or understand the way that I thought. I knew I was missing something. The feeling I have is very deep inside and confusing.
It is difficult to put words to these emotions. The closest that I can come to explaining to someone who does not know this feeling is a longing to fill a void that once was full. I have always had the sense that when I am leaving a room, or the house that I am forgetting something. I will look over the things that I am carrying a few times until I realize I have everything I need for where I am going and what I will be doing.
It is more than a forgotten item it is a deep sense of missing something. This has been as long as I can remember.
before that, when my mother had an abortion.
From what I understand, I was not discovered until my mother noticed me moving around inside of her. She had thought she was no longer pregnant. She had no idea I was living inside of her.
My mother rushed to the doctor to see what was wrong. The doctor discovered that my mother was still pregnant and was carrying twins at the time of the abortion.
The doctors delivered me by emergency c-section. I was born at 29 weeks, and weighing only 2lbs. and 1oz. They described me as a healthy, vigorous baby.
I was blessed to come through all of that, and to come through so well. I grew, gained weight, had a strong heart, and no problems all throughout childhood and to the present.
All of the glory and honor goes to our Lord. He chose me. He saved me. He has given me life, so I can share it with others.
I will never be able to change the past, to go back in time and allow the doctors to see my brother or sister.
look like, if they were a boy or a girl. I picture us being so close, and having a bond that is unbreakable. I feel like I miss him, or her in a most interesting and spiritual way. It seems though, at times that we are in connected forever in my heart, in my soul and in my life.
Those bonds were not broken by the strings of real or tangible "life" as we call it.
Because of a choice that was made, I will never have the privilege of meeting someone that was so close to my heart for such a short time.
They will never get to experience life.
My heart aches though at the thought that my twin brother or sister did not have a choice regarding their life.
The choice, their life was chosen for them.
I allow myself to grieve, and reflect on the undeniable facts that surround the truth. I embrace what their life has given me.
I believe that even though this situation could be viewed as tragic or sad, that God has worked this out for good. He has allowed me to live, so I can share my story with others.
It is not about me, my twin or my mother. It is about sharing what I have learned to glorify God.
What happened to me in my early life was only the beginning of the other many challenging things that I would face.
find any worth or value in myself, which I am still working on to this day.
The last few years, after having the Lord in my life, I have been able to appreciate more what I have been given.
I do now. I am learning to love myself and trust the people in my life who are in my life now.
My value and worth does not come from what others say about me, or the way in which I came into this world.
I have a beautiful life. I have children of my own, who are all sweet, intelligent, giving and kind. I also have the greatest husband, who is also my best friend. Our boxer, Missy is also a part of our family and she gives us great joy.
I am loved! I have hope! I have a future!
No matter what you go through, you can choose to live free, joyous, and peaceful. You can choose to forgive others, and have compassion.
Thank you for allowing me to have life, to be a mother, wife and beautiful woman that you created me to be.
I'm 17-years-old and I've never been more thankful for my life. I'm a survivor!
When my birthmom was pregnant with me, she realized that she was not able to care for a 6th child. She was single, her fiancé left her after hearing about her pregnancy, and she had no money or home.
She thought that abortion was the only option.
She ran to her sister who tried to talk her out of abortion, but with everything else going on in her life, she (my birthmother) thought an abortion is what had to happen.
I shouldn't have survived the saline abortion, but I did!
God was with me from the very beginning!
His love is so powerful, and his plan is so much bigger than we could ever imagine!
After hearing the abortion had failed, my birthmother continued with the pregnancy and eventually placed me for adoption. I was planned to be adopted right at birth, but because of the abortion attempt, and my premature birth at 32 weeks (weighing 4 lbs. 3 oz), I was cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit before I went home to my parents.
I've grown up with hypoglycemia, ADD, dyslexia and fainting spells. I was slow to grow and develop like other children my age.
The first miracle I can remember happening in my life, besides the abortion failing, of course, occurred one day in my church's youth group. We were going around the room reading chapters in the Bible, and I always used to ask my youth pastor to skip me because of how poorly I was able to read. At this point, I was a freshman in high school and I had never read out loud for other people. Even the thought of reading out loud seemed impossible. But one day, while going around the circle, my youth pastor encouraged me to give reading a try. The verses I had to read were (Romans 8:10-13 NIV). I read through those verses like a champ! It was all God's power completely healing me! I read all of it with no stutter and no trouble at all! It was totally amazing and I couldn't believe what had happened.
Those were the very first words I had ever read out lout and I couldn't be happier.
Ever since I've started youth group, and attending church as a high school freshman, I've learned we can have a relationship with the creator of the universe, and He heals! And I've been so blessed with people there to help me through anything. I've made the best friends of my life at my church, they're the family that accepted me when I felt so abandoned by my biological family. Even though I once felt abandoned by them, I do still keep in contact with my birth mom, and some of my siblings.
I am so grateful for every single miracle as well as obstacle that has been placed in my life. It was God's plan all along. I still have a long journey ahead, but I can do anything now, I'm totally and completely unstoppable knowing God is always by my side.
Dawn Milberger has been called to speak publically about her personal testimony of survival of several attempts to abort her through induced miscarriage, the beautiful dynamics of adoption discussed and lived out in her forever (adoptive) family, and the journey of forgiveness offered to her birthparents along with learning to understand and accept the powerful forgiveness from our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ for her own participation in an abortion, having driven a college friend to an abortion clinic.
When Dawn met both of her birthparents in 1986, she was stunned and shocked with the information that was shared. One of the very first things that her birthmother said to her was, "I need to ask for your forgiveness because I tried to get rid of you…..twice." Her birthmother confessed that a friend of hers, a nurse, gave her injections on two occasions (of a substance that Dawn is not aware of the specifics of), in an attempt to induce miscarriage.
To this day, Dawn considers both of her birthparents very brave and somewhat heroic. They didn't have to share their actions but needed to confess these actions to her, risking any kind of emotional rejection and repercussions from her. Their years of self-torment taught Dawn that abortion whether successful or not does affect everyone involved. Their genuine humility in seeking forgiveness from Dawn taught her application how to reach out to seek forgiveness in her own life's situations regardless of the possible outcome.
Dawn's entire testimony is not only compelling but full of proof of the unmerited grace and providence of our Lord. Her incredible testimony targeted toward adoption will not only cause you to reconsider your original view of adoption but will encourage you to view it in an entirely new light.
She's been led to create a ministry named Gotcha Ministries of Central Texas. Should you be interested in having Dawn speak at your event please contact GMOCT at gotchaforever2014@yahoo.com or visit them on their Facebook page.
I grew up in a very violent environment, a very dangerous city in a Latin American country and in a very violent family. Fights were almost daily between my parents; I was the third child after many years of age difference between my older sister and brother. My childhood was very rough, lots of physical and mental abuse from my mother. I don't blame her at all, she was very strict, living a very unhappy marriage from the mid-1960's, very traditional and conservative, where couples were married forever no matter what.
Each child for her was one more obstacle between a bad marriage and her freedom. When she got pregnant after seven years from the last child (my sister), she didn't know what to do. Lack of money for the whole family, lots of necessity for the current family members; I was not welcome at all and both of my parents made the decision to abort me. I don't know what type of abortion it was. All I know is that after the procedure, she got very ill, almost to the point that she thought was going to die. Weeks later, she realized she was still pregnant.
I always knew that she was hiding something from me, something I must know to fix our bad relationship. I didn't have any respect for her when I was a kid. I hated her for long time. It was a painful and horrible childhood. Until one day, around my early thirties, I finally got her to tell me what the issue was between us, but what I found out was far from any wild thought I had considered.
Since then, all of the pieces have automatically fallen into place. That was my last piece to understand our bad relationship, to never judge her. I now actually understood her behavior over all those years. In the following years we became really good friends, to the point that I wanted to help her to get a divorce and move in with me or pay for her to have a new place to live. That day finally came, so I called her right away to let her know that I was financially ready to help her. She was so happy! Sadly, the next day she passed away.
For a long time, I thought I was the only one survivor, now I'm glad you all exist, you all made it as well.
When my mom was pregnant with me, my dad was in prison for polygamy. My mom did not know what to do. She went to the doctors office. He told her I was just a blob and gave her something to take that would cause her body to abort me. Well, it did not work. I came into being. Later, someone who prayed for me, said that she had a vision that Gods hands were on my moms stomach, keeping me from coming out. God saved me that day, and has been setting me free ever since. This has had a very big impact on my life. Praise God He is Big, and has been with me my whole life.
"When I went to meet my birthmother when I was twenty-one, she told me that before making an adoption plan for me, she first tried to abort me. Unbelievably to me, I had survived a partial birth abortion." Anonymous Male, Canada.
"I never thought it was a big deal until now," remarked a woman in her early adulthood, about knowing through her parents own admissions that they had tried to abort her. "They showed such remorse over what they had done and they've shown me love throughout my life, so I never have asked them what, exactly, the abortion involved." Anonymous Female, originally from Nigeria, now living in the U.S.
"I grew up knowing that my parents had tried to abort me. I never asked what, exactly, had happened, because my parents were abusive to me throughout my childhood, but they told me time and time again that they had tried to abort me, and they wished that it would have worked like it was supposed to." Anonymous Adolescent Female, originally from Central America, now living in Canada.
"I survived a partially botched abortion involving twins, with myself being the surviving half, and my sister not so much. I'm 58 years old now, and still trying to come to terms with what has happened to me. I am determined, however, to continue forward in my life"—Anonymous Male, United States.
Melody A Olson is an abortion survivor from Prior Lake Minnesota. Her story started with the deathbed confession of her grandmother whispering…"you were never wanted".
The revelation of this long lived secret could have led her down a path of hatred and strife, but instead Melody chose to Speak Life & Live (www.melodyaolson.com). She chose to forgive fully and completely. She even found the courage to remove the masks that held her imprisoned by the guilt, shame and condemnation of her own secrets….


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Title: An Elementary-age Origami and Pop-up Paper Engineering Curriculum to Promote the 3-D Spatial Thinking and Reasoning Underlying STEM Education
Center: NCER Year: 2014
Principal Investigator: Taylor, Holly Awardee: Tufts University
Program: Cognition and Student Learning [Program Details]
Award Period: 3 years (8/1/2014-7/31/2017) Award Amount: $1,250,884
Type: Development and Innovation Award Number: R305A140151
Co-Principal Investigator: Allyson Hutton (Think3D)
Purpose: Visuospatial thinking relates to success in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education (e.g., topographic map interpretation, molecular structure understanding), so it is important that children practice fundamental visuospatial skills at an early age. The purpose of this project is to develop and pilot test an elementary-aged curriculum that will promote the development of and practice with visuospatial thinking integral to STEM disciplines. The curriculum will teach visuospatial thinking through 2-D to 3-D transformation challenges of origami and pop-up paper engineering.
Project Activities: The curriculum will be developed in four iterative development phases during Years 1 and 2, incorporating feedback from children and teachers provided during instruction, free-time exploration, and debriefing. One module will be developed for each grade between 3rd-6th grade. The goal of Phase 1 is to determine what activities are developmentally appropriate for each grade. The goal of Phase 2 is to test the feasibility of including 12 sessions for each module. The goal of Phase 3 is to implement shortened versions of the modules to see if the activities meet the developmental needs of the targeted grade. The goal of Phase 4 is to implement the 12-session versions of all modules to allow for final modifications prior to the pilot study. The research team will also develop assessments for the pilot study and teacher instructional materials. In Year 3, the research team will conduct a pilot study to assess the curriculum's effectiveness for improving students' visuospatial thinking and STEM performance.
Products: At the conclusion of this project, the team will have fully developed an elementary-aged curriculum designed to promote the development of and practice with visuospatial thinking. Evidence of promise of the curriculum at meeting those goals will also be collected. Peer reviewed publications will also be produced.
Setting: In this study, the participating elementary schools are located in rural areas in New Hampshire and Vermont.
Sample: For iterative development of the curriculum, participants will include approximately 200 3rd through 6th grade students from rural elementary schools. For the pilot study, participants will be approximately 800 3rd through 6th grade students (200 students per grade from approximately 12 classrooms) from rural elementary schools.
Intervention: The research team will use the curriculum to teach visuospatial thinking through 2-D to 3-D transformation challenges of origami and pop-up paper engineering. Visuospatial thinking challenges will build as the curriculum progresses from teaching the fundamentals of folds and the single cuts needed in pop-up paper engineering to explorations of the folds' and cuts' emergent properties, and then to intentional uses of folds and cuts to create specific 3-D objects. The fully developed curriculum will include four modules, targeting 3rd through 6th grade. Each module will have 12 sessions, 4 each for origami, single-sheet paper engineering and applied paper engineering. The modules will be delivered across the academic year. Each module will draw on students' experience with previous modules.
Research Design and Methods: The iterative development process will include development and implementation of the curriculum. During iterative development, students and their teachers will try components of the curriculum and will provide feedback during three parts of a session: instruction, exploration, and debriefing. Qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and used to inform future development. The pilot study will be an underpowered efficacy study. Half of the approximately 12 participating classrooms will be randomly assigned to the intervention condition, and the other half will participate as an active control group. The intervention classrooms will implement the full curriculum throughout the year while the control group participates in a filler task. Prior to the start of the study, students will complete baseline assessments of spatial thinking and STEM performance. Students in both the intervention and control classrooms will complete assessments throughout the year in addition to completing final assessments at the end of the study.
Control Condition: For the pilot study, same-grade classrooms from the same or matched schools will participate as the control group. Students from these classrooms will engage in a small-group spelling challenge game and complete test measures at the same times as the intervention classes.
Key Measures: For both iterative development implementation and the pilot study, researchers will assess student performance in three key areas: 1) curriculum-specific visuospatial thinking, 2) general visuospatial thinking, and 3) STEM understanding and engagement. Curriculum-specific visuospatial thinking will be assessed with the mental paper folding task and an origami fold matching task which were previously developed by the research team. General visuospatial thinking will be assessed with the Purdue spatial visualizations of rotation test and the Imagine-a-Die task (previously developed by the research team). STEM performance will be assessed with STEM worksheets developed by the research team. These worksheets will include math items drawn from grade-level national and international standardized assessment tests and are intended as the primary pre- and post-test measure of students' STEM performance. STEM performance will also be assessed with teacher reports of students' understanding and the results from the math and science portions of the state standardized test, the New England Common Assessment Program (NECAP). In addition the research team will collect measures of curriculum engagement (e.g., number of models attempted, number of children doing curriculum related activities during choice times), responses from students during curriculum discussions, responses during teacher discussions, and measures of fidelity of implementation.
Data Analytic Strategy: Data analyses will focus on changes in both spatial thinking and STEM performance over time, between-group differences in performance between the control and intervention classrooms, and the relationship between spatial thinking and STEM performance. To determine how students' performance in the intervention classrooms changes over time relative to students' performance in the control classrooms, researchers will analyze data using repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance. To determine how spatial training impacts both spatial thinking and STEM performance, researchers will analyze the data using factor analysis and meditational analysis.
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Burte, H., Gardony, A.L., Hutton, A., and Taylor, H.A. (2017). Think3d!: Improving Mathematics Learning through Embodied Spatial Training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2(13).

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WASP-41 — звезда в созвездии Центавра на расстоянии приблизительно 587 световых лет от нас. Вокруг звезды обращается, как минимум, одна планета.

Характеристики
WASP-41 была открыта с помощью орбитальной обсерватории Hipparcos в ходе проекта Tycho. Официальное открытие звезды было совершено 1997 году в рамках публикации каталога Tycho. Наименование звезды в этом каталоге — TYC 7247-587-1. В настоящий момент более распространено наименование WASP-41, данное командой исследователей из проекта SuperWASP.

По своим характеристикам звезда напоминает наше Солнце: это такой же жёлтый карлик главной последовательности, имеющий массу и радиус, равные 0,95 и 1,01 солнечных соответственно. Температура поверхности составляет приблизительно 5450 кельвинов.

Планетная система
В 2011 году группой астрономов, работающих в рамках программы SuperWASP, было объявлено об открытии планеты WASP-41 b в системе. Это типичный горячий юпитер, обращающийся на расстоянии 0,04 а.е. от родительской звезды. Открытие планеты было совершено транзитным методом.

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Video Games Are Preparing Our Next Workforce for Global Leadership
In the last post—the first installment to this series—I talk about how video games have the power to bring people together. They disregard distance. And because of that, video games are also able to bridge the gap between cultural differences large and small, creating truly global communities. What's more, the collaborative nature of video game production ensures endless teachable moments and exposure to diverse perspectives beyond the bounds of the game. Playing video games and developing them can help students learn about themselves and others while picking up skills that will prepare them for a career in any field they pursue.
The global impact of video games on under-resourced students
This past April, Rochester Institute of Technology's international game prototyping course gave students the chance to collaborate in a virtual cultural exchange program and establish commonalities despite cultural differences. In that same month, the U.S. Department of State announced the conception of a video game diplomacy program, which seeks to connect almost 3,000 students from the US, Bahrain, Israel, and the United Arab Emirates. The exchange program will bring under-resourced teens from Detroit, Atlanta, and New York City into partnership with Middle Eastern students for the united purpose of developing social impact games. In a conversation with The Washington Post about the program, Marie Royce, who has served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs since 2018, says that "young people have something in common[:] … They play video games. … It's important to have initiatives around gaming [because] it's an opportunity to give everybody a chance to have an exchange."
These recent efforts to utilize the universal medium of games build upon previous initiatives like Digital Play for Global Citizens, a publication from Sesame Workshop and the Center for Global Education at Asia Society. Digital Play for Global Citizens introduces a "vast landscape of digital resources … and suggests some innovative ways to nurture our young learners into macro-minded citizens." In this increasingly connected world, our up-and-coming workforce must be prepared to answer questions and resolve issues that span the globe, and video games have proven to be effective tools for teaching students collaborative and inclusive practices.
Game development promotes skills development
Cultural exchange projects help to promote peace, growth, and understanding, and through the State Department's Game Exchange program (in partnership with the nonprofit Games for Change), Royce hopes to foster diplomacy while also building essential skills in students here at home, no matter their income level or personal identity. She addresses the future of Gen Z, stating, "In creating video games, people develop tremendous skills…. [They're] able to think critically [and] develop STEM skills and … leadership skills." Collaboration, communication, and compromise are essential to video game production, as creators must work together to realize a cohesive vision, but those soft skills aren't all that young leaders can grow. Like Royce says, game development gives students the chance to practice math, art, logic, storytelling, coding, and more, because it's a cross-section of so many different disciplines—disciplines that are needed in the wider world right now.
Gen Z has entered the game, championing diversity and inclusion
In order for the U.S. to ensure the success of our next generation of leaders, workers, and creators, we need to advocate for inclusivity and big-picture thinking alongside the hard skills that get so much attention in schools. Video games—as illustrated by the RIT virtual exchange course, the U.S. State Department's Game Exchange diplomacy program, and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center's Digital Play for Global Citizens—can "promote global citizenship," let us explore new "boundaries, borders, and geography," and help us all develop "empathy and understanding of diversity." Game development encourages cooperation with others near and far at the same time it teaches critical skills.
As the president of Games for Change, Susanna Pollack, explains to The Washington Post, video games can transcend mere entertainment and "be significant drivers of social impact," because they are not confined within any one nation for any one kind of person. "Like other forms of media," Pollack continues, "games can address important social topics and meet people where they are"—whether that's in a high school in the USA or one in the UAE. By bringing together people across the globe and empowering students with new skills and knowledge, video game diplomacy programs are achieving a unique blend of civic engagement and practical application that illustrates the versatility of games and their positive impacts around the world.
What talents would you like to see more of in the workforce right now? Collaboration, inclusion, STEM skills, global citizenship…?
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Sony will soon start selling a small GPS (global positioning system) unit that can be used to add location information to digital pictures, the company announced today.
The 9cm long GPS-CS1 unit is intended to be attached to a belt and worn throughout the day as pictures are being taken. Every 15 seconds it records the current location and the time thus building up a record of exactly where the user has been during the day. Later that data can be matched with the time stamp on the digital images to work out where the picture was taken.
Sony supplies an application called GPS Image Tracker to handle this data matching and it's recorded in the meta data stored in the JPEG file. A new version of Sony's Motion Picture Browser software now allows users to browse pictures by location and not just by date. Existing users will be able to upgrade their software.
While Sony will only guarantee the GPS system works with its digital still cameras it should be compatible with any digital camera that produces JPEG images compatible with the EXIF 2.1 standard, said Masayo Endo, a spokeswoman for the company in Tokyo.
The GPS unit will run for about ten hours on a AA cell and the unit's internal 31MB memory can store about 15 days straight worth of GPS data. The triangular unit measures 9cm long by 4cm wide and weighs 55g.
The GPS-CS1 will be launched in September in the US and Japan and will cost around $150. Details on a European launch have not yet been announced.
Sony also announced its DSC-T10 digital still camera. The 7.2-megapixel camera boasts as its key features a high sensitivity of ISO1000 and optical image stabilisation. Both features can minimise blur on shots, particularly in low light conditions, said Sony.
Other features include a 2.5in LCD (liquid crystal display) screen and 3X optical zoom lens. It also has 56MB of internal memory so you can still take pictures even if you forget a Memory Stick card.
The DSC-T10 is 2.1cm thick and measures 9cm wide and 5.5cm tall. It weighs 165g with battery and memory card. It will be available this month in the US and Japan for about $400.


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local utilities = {}

local bit32 = require("bit32-compat")

function utilities.required(t, name, context)
  if not t[name] then utilities.error(context.." needs a "..name.." parameter") end
  return t[name]
end

function utilities.error(message,bug)
  if(SILE.currentCommand and type(SILE.currentCommand) == "table") then
    print("\n! "..message.. " at "..SILE.currentlyProcessingFile.." l."..(SILE.currentCommand.line)..", col."..(SILE.currentCommand.col))
  else
    print("\n! "..message.. " at "..SILE.currentlyProcessingFile)
  end
  if bug then print(debug.traceback()) end
  SILE.outputter:finish()
  os.exit(1)
end

function utilities.warn(message)
  print("\n! "..message)
  --print(debug.traceback())
  --os.exit(1)
end

function utilities.debugging(category)
  return SILE.debugFlags.all or SILE.debugFlags[category]
end

function utilities.gtoke(string, pattern)
  string = string and tostring(string) or ''
  pattern = pattern and tostring(pattern) or "%s+"
  local length = #string
  return coroutine.wrap(function()
    local index = 1
    repeat
      local first, last = string:find(pattern, index)
      if last then
        if index < first then coroutine.yield({ string = string:sub(index, first - 1) }) end
        coroutine.yield({ separator = string:sub(first, last) })
        index = last + 1
      else
        if index <= length then
          coroutine.yield({ string = string:sub(index) })
        end
        break
      end
    until index > length
  end)
end

function utilities.debug(category, messages)
  if utilities.debugging(category) then
    print("["..category.."]", messages)
  end
end

function utilities.concat(array, c)
  return table.concat(utilities.map(tostring, array), c)
end

function utilities.inherit(orig, spec)
  local new = std.tree.clone(orig)
  if spec then
    for k,v in pairs(spec) do new[k] = v end
  end
  if new.init then new:init() end
  return new
end

function utilities.map(func, array)
  local new_array = {}
  local last = #array
  for i = 1, last do
    new_array[i] = func(array[i])
  end
  return new_array
end

function utilities.splice(array, start, stop, replacement)
  local ptr = start
  local room = stop - start + 1
  local last = replacement and #replacement or 0
  for i = 1, last do
    if room > 0 then
      room = room - 1
      array[ptr] = replacement[i]
    else
      table.insert(array, ptr, replacement[i])
    end
    ptr = ptr + 1
  end

  for i = 1, room do
      table.remove(array, ptr)
  end
  return array
end

function utilities.sum(array)
  local t = 0
  local last = #array
  for i = 1, last do
    t = t + array[i]
  end
  return t
end

function utilities.allCombinations(options)
  local count = 1
  for i=1,#options do count = count * options[i] end
  return coroutine.wrap(function()
    for i=0,count-1 do
      local this = i
      local rv = {}
      for j = 1,#options do
        local base = options[j]
        rv[#rv+1] = this % base + 1
        this = (this - this % base )/ base
      end
      coroutine.yield(rv)
    end
  end)
end

-- Unicode-related utilities
pcall(function() utf8 = require("utf8") end)
if not utf8 then utf8 = {} end

utilities.utf8char = utf8.char or function (c)
    if     c < 128 then
        return string.char(c)
    elseif c < 2048 then
        return string.char(192 + c/64, 128 + c%64)
    elseif c < 55296 or 57343 < c and c < 65536 then
        return  string.char(224 + c/4096, 128 + c/64%64, 128 + c%64)
    elseif c < 1114112 then
        return string.char(240 + c/262144, 128 + c/4096%64, 128 + c/64%64, 128 + c%64)
    end
end

-- Obviously it would be better to use the utf8 library here but
-- I found strange "out of range" Heisenbugs with ordinary pieces of
-- text, like newlines.
utilities.codepoint = utf8.xxxcodepoint or function (uchar)
  local seq = 0
  local val = -1
  for i = 1, #uchar do
    local c = string.byte(uchar, i)
    if seq == 0 then
      if val > -1 then return val end
      seq = c < 0x80 and 1 or c < 0xE0 and 2 or c < 0xF0 and 3 or
            c < 0xF8 and 4 or --c < 0xFC and 5 or c < 0xFE and 6 or
          error("invalid UTF-8 character sequence")
      val = bit32.band(c, 2^(8-seq) - 1)
    else
      val = bit32.bor(bit32.lshift(val, 6), bit32.band(c, 0x3F))
    end
    seq = seq - 1
  end
  return val
end

utilities.utf8codes = utf8.codes or function (ustr)
  local pos = 1
  return function()
    if pos > #ustr then
      return nil
    else
      local c, ucv = 0, 0
      local nbytes = 0
      c = string.byte(ustr, pos)
      pos = pos + 1
      if c < 0x80 then
        ucv    = c
        nbytes = 0
      elseif c >= 0xc0 and c < 0xe0 then -- 110x xxxx
        ucv    = c - 0xc0
        nbytes = 1
      elseif c >= 0xe0 and c < 0xf0 then -- 1110 xxxx
        ucv    = c - 0xe0
        nbytes = 2
      elseif c >= 0xf0 and c < 0xf8 then -- 1111 0xxx
        ucv    = c - 0xf0
        nbytes = 3
      elseif c >= 0xf8 and c < 0xfc then -- 1111 10xx
        ucv    = c - 0xf8
        nbytes = 4
      elseif c >= 0xfc and c < 0xfe then -- 1111 110x
        ucv    = c - 0xfc
        nbytes = 5
      else -- Invalid
        return nil
      end
      if pos + nbytes > #ustr + 1 then -- Invalid
        return nil
      end
      while nbytes > 0 do
        nbytes = nbytes - 1
        c = string.byte(ustr, pos)
        pos = pos + 1
        if c < 0x80 or c >= 0xc0 then -- Invalid
          return nil
        else
          ucv = ucv * 64 + (c - 0x80);
        end
      end
      return ucv
    end
  end
end

function utilities.splitUtf8(s) -- Return an array of UTF8 strings each representing a Unicode char
  local seq = 0
  local rv = {}
  local val = -1
  local this = ""
  for i = 1, #s do
    local c = string.byte(s, i)
    if seq == 0 then
      if val > -1 then
        rv[1+#rv] = this
        this = ""
      end
      seq = c < 0x80 and 1 or c < 0xE0 and 2 or c < 0xF0 and 3 or
            c < 0xF8 and 4 or --c < 0xFC and 5 or c < 0xFE and 6 or
          error("invalid UTF-8 character sequence")
      val = bit32.band(c, 2^(8-seq) - 1)
      this = this .. s[i]
    else
      val = bit32.bor(bit32.lshift(val, 6), bit32.band(c, 0x3F))
      this = this .. s[i]
    end
    seq = seq - 1
  end
  rv[1+#rv] = this
  return rv
end

function utilities.utf8_to_utf16be(str)
  local ustr = string.format("%04x", 0xfeff) -- BOM
  for uchr in utilities.utf8codes(str) do
    if (uchr < 0x10000) then
      ustr = ustr..string.format("%04x", uchr)
    else -- Surrogate pair
      local sur_hi = (uchr - 0x10000) / 0x400 + 0xd800
      local sur_lo = (uchr - 0x10000) % 0x400 + 0xdc00
      ustr = ustr..string.format("%04x%04x", sur_hi, sur_lo)
    end
  end
  return ustr
end

return utilities

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LONDON – 6 March 2012 - INTERXION HOLDING NV (NYSE:INXN, news), a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, today announced that dedicated fibre infrastructure provider, Geo Networks Ltd (Geo) has become part of the Content Hub community in Interxion's City of London data centre . A long-standing Interxion partner, Geo has expanded its footprint in Interxion's data centre in order to better serve the needs of the digital media community.
The explosion of online content and technologies such as social computing have led to impressive growth in the UK's digital economy, and these digital businesses have a particular requirement for reliable, low-latency, high-bandwidth connections.
Geo's dedicated fibre services give customers, such as toptable.com and bet365 the ability to flex their network up to terabit capacity, quickly and efficiently. This scalable infrastructure is critical to any web-based business, to enable it to fight DDoS attacks whilst leaving sufficient bandwidth to continue day-to-day operations, essential for running uninterrupted online services. By combining this with the secure and scalable co-location services offered by Interxion, digital businesses can deliver an excellent experience to their end-users.
Interxion's Content Hubs provide the ideal environment for effective content aggregation, exchange, storage, management and distribution. They also enable customers to interconnect with a large and growing digital media community, helping to optimise European distribution and to minimise costs.
Interxion (NYSE: INXN) is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,200 customers through 28 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion's uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications. With connectivity provided by more than 400 carriers and ISPs and 18 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created content and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest. For more information, please visit www.interxion.com .
Geo is the only company in the UK solely focused on the designing and building of bespoke dedicated fibre network solutions. Geo's revolutionary and flexible approach means that for the first time, organisations can own and control their networks, ensuring that security, high bandwidth and resilience are guaranteed. By allowing its customers to directly own and control the underlying optical fibre that is at the heart of their data network, Geo is the only truly open access network provider in the UK. It provides an extensive range of solutions including fully managed networks, dark fibre and co-location services. Geo enables network solutions throughout the UK and in the London area. Customers include mobile operators, service providers, major banks and the public sector. Geo is a finalist in the 2011 UK Customer Experience Awards, listed as the UK's 3rd fastest growing telecoms & networking company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for 2010 and Geo was also shortlisted for the 2010 Sunday Times Tech Track 100: Barclays Corporate Performance Excellence Award. Visit www.geo-uk.net for more information.


Associated Students Incorporated, Disabled Student Services and the Student Health Services will purchase six motorized scooters for students with temporary mobility disabilities.
Students who have temporary mobility issues at California State University, Long Beach will be able to rent a motorized scooter, starting fall 2015.
"These scooters will help assist students [access] lower and upper campus," Director of DSS David Sanfilippo said.
The Associated Students, Inc. Senate passed a resolution last semester to allow students the option to rent a motorized scooter when needed to get from class to class.
ASI Sen. Marvin Flores spearheaded the idea of the resolution after he tore his ACL and was on crutches for four months.
Flores said that he tried to find help on campus so he could get to his classes on time but there was no program at CSULB to help students with temporary disabilities.
"I just wanted to make it better for students to move around on campus," Flores said.
ASI, DSS and Student Health Services each will purchase two scooters, each scooter will costing $1,300.
The scooter rental program for temporary disabled students is the only program of its kind in all of the California State University system.
The scooters will be stored in two different locations on campus: one will be at SHS and five will be in a storage room located near the Chartroom, a restaurant on campus.
DSS is cleaning out the storage room in multiple stages this semester to make room for the scooters. They have removed much of the larger items and have tagged what remains to be removed.
"We need to clean this out, fix and check the power," Sanfilippo said.
The storage room is currently filled with materials used for the Kaleidoscope Festival that used to be held here at CSULB every April.
Students who would like to use the scooters will need to place a $50 deposit and have a reference of proof they need to use the scooter.
The scooter will be available to the student for the duration of their injury. Each scooter will be numbered, and when a student is not using the scooter they will be expected to place it in the storage room, Sanfilippo said. Only students who are renting the scooters will have access to that room.
Sanfilippo said that the ASI senators are following through with their resolutions after they are passed.


hue – a local design agency based in Ketton and have created a very special connection with New College Stamford.
From Founder and Creative Director Mark Buttress to newly recruited Junior Designer Claire Hayes-Bowlzer, almost the entire team have learnt their craft and completed their professional qualifications at New College Stamford!
The agency have recently re-branded and in an interesting juxtaposition found themselves using their old College to work on their new launch. Former students Mark, Jodie, Paige and Claire joined Web Developer Pete in the College's photo studio where photography student Leah Brown carried out a photo shoot of the team for their new website.
This was a brilliant opportunity for our students to get out into the real working world and see exactly what it's like taking a project from a client, and coordinating it from start to finish. The finished pictures can be seen on their website https://wearehue.co.uk/ and when you hover over the images of the team, they change to a different picture of them holding or doing something funny, adding fun personality and a comedic touch.
The students took all this information on board in the brief and really worked hard to achieve such a polished creative and fun piece. As can be seen from the pictures below, the level of work is great and hue themselves commended the students on their hard work and the level of the finished work.
Our students at New College Stamford get opportunities like this all the time, not just in design either, in all areas of employment. We champion work experience because we as an education provider know how vital work experience is in getting out students into the next phases of their lives whether that be employment or via university.
We thank hue for giving this amazing experience to our students and really helping them get the hands on real life work briefs which are so good for helping students develop and become even better practitioners of their crafts. We look forward to continuing our relationship with this amazing company and hope to work with them again on future projects.
If you want to find out more about hue or see their website for yourself, the link is wearehue.co.uk and they can also be found on Facebook, Linkedin, twitter and Instagram at @hellowearehue.


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Jaroslav Hellebrand (born 30 December 1945) is a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1968 Summer Olympics, in the 1972 Summer Olympics, and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Prague.

In 1968 he and his partner Petr Krátký finished twelfth in the double sculls event.

Four years later he finished twelfth in the single sculls competition.

At the 1976 Games he was part of the Czechoslovak boat which won the bronze medal in the quadruple sculls contest.

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1945 births
Living people
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Czechoslovak male rowers
Olympic rowers of Czechoslovakia
Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia
Olympic medalists in rowing
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World Rowing Championships medalists for Czechoslovakia
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Rocket League's New Cross-Play Feature Won't Arrive Until 2019, Developers Say
Ethan Gach
Oct 18, 2018, 8:00pm
Screenshot: Psyonix, Rocket League
Rocket League, everyone's favourite car soccer game, has been at the forefront of discussions around online cross-play for several years now. Long before Sony agreed to play nice with the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One when it came to Fortnite, Rocket League studio Psyonix has been working to create unified player accounts across the different versions of the game. In a announcement today, the studio said that feature has once again been delayed.
"While our goal was to release RocketID before the end of 2018, we've made the difficult decision to push its release into early 2019," the studio said in today's announcement, referencing Rocket League's proposed system for allowing friends to play together across platforms.
"The good news is that with Sony's recent announcements regarding full cross-platform functionality, we can now make additional changes to prepare RocketID for ALL platforms should we receive permission to do so!"
While the delay isn't because Sony hasn't given Psyonix the greenlight to add PS4 to the game's existing cross-play capabilities, one upshot to the longer wait could be that RocketIDs come to the PS4 version of Rocket League alongside the other versions of the game.
Psyonix first mentioned RocketIDs in a post from last May outlining its plans for the game going into the summer. The studio said it was planning to introduce a new ID system over the summer so players could easily create parties with friends from other consoles.
While Rocket League already has cross-play between Xbox One, PC, and Switch, it's not possible to group up with friends between those platforms. The cross-play matchmaking is automatic and random. RocketIDs are a big deal because they'd offer a way around that.
In early August, Psyonix said the cross-platform party feature had been pushed back to September because it wasn't up to the studio's standards. By the end of the month the studio said it was still on track, but subsequent updates started describing the release date as "later this year."
In mid-September Psyonix said RocketIDs would be delayed until a later update. That it's now been pushed all the way back to next year suggests the feature was more difficult to pin down technically than the studio originally thought.
Whether Rocket League will ever get cross-play on PS4 also remains a mystery. When Sony first announced it would begin allowing cross-play in Fortnite on PS4 last month, Kotaku reached out to other studios to see if their games would be joining Epic's massively popular battle royale.
At the time, Psyonix said it was up to Sony and hadn't heard anything new on the matter. While Fortnite might have been big enough to force the issue, so far it's proven to be the lone exception. Blizzard's Diablo III releases on Switch next month, and while a spokesperson for the company told Business Insider last week that cross-play for the game was "a question of when, not if," the company has since walked that back, saying it's not currently in the works.
While Fortnite cross-play on PS4 appeared at the time to auger a full reversal of Sony's existing policy on multi-platform multiplayer, the dam hasn't fully broken, at least for now.


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Q: I'm getting error "LinearLayout cannot be resolved to a type" also the note stated "Mulitple marker at this line" I'm new to Android and I'm trying out the Pinch to Zoom code.  I get an error  "LinearLayout cannot be resolved to a type" at this line. mainView =(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayout);
Here is the code below can you help me resolve this issue. Thank you for your help.
package com.zoomlayout;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.graphics.PointF;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;

public class ZoomLayout extends Activity {
 View mainView = null;

 @Override
 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_zoom_layout);
  mainView =(LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayout); //got the error here

  Button buttonZoomOut = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonZoomOut);
  Button buttonNormal = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonNormal);
  Button buttonZoomIn = (Button)findViewById(R.id.buttonZoomIn);

  buttonZoomOut.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
    zoom(0.5f,0.5f,new PointF(0,0));
   }
  });
  buttonNormal.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
    zoom(1f,1f,new PointF(0,0));
   }
  });
  buttonZoomIn.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

   @Override
   public void onClick(View v) {
    zoom(2f,2f,new PointF(0,0));
   }
  });
 }

 /** zooming is done from here */
 public void zoom(Float scaleX,Float scaleY,PointF pivot){
  mainView.setPivotX(pivot.x);
  mainView.setPivotY(pivot.y);
  mainView.setScaleX(scaleX);
  mainView.setScaleY(scaleY);
 }
}

A: You need to import android.widget.LinearLayout.

A: In Eclipse just do CTRL + SHIFT + O and it will automatically fix your imports, whether adding needed ones or removing unnecessary ones.

A: import android.widget.LinearLayout;
protected void onCreate(......
mainView = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.LinearLayout1);
//Change the UI layout as `Linear-layout` and name it (my layout name is "LinearLayout1"

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Women Foreign Ministers pledge to work together for more democracy, equality, peace and security
EU High Representative Mogherini and Canadian Foreign Minister Freeland conclude a two-day meeting with women foreign ministers from around the world with pledge to work closer together on shared challenges and to advance shared values. They will also work to build a network of governments and civil society to advance women's rights and gender equality.
"When Chrystia and I had this idea, it was first and foremost because we realised, through our daily work, what a special contribution women bring to foreign policy, to peace negotiations, to national reconciliation processes. For this reason, during Montreal's meeting we discussed the main international crises, from Syria to Ukraine, not only among Foreign Ministers but inviting other women who work to solve conflicts: we want to support them in their difficult – yet vital – work," wrote Federica Mogherini on her blog following the meeting.
"But we also decided to hold this meeting to tell our stories to girls and women all around the world: we wanted to show that there are no jobs "for men only", and that every girl has the right to do anything she wants with her life. We will continue to work together, in the coming weeks and with a new meeting next year."
High Representative Mogherini reiterated this desire to showcase the role and perspectives of women in her remarks following the meeting:
"The reason why, with Chrystia Freeland, we have convened this first meeting of women Foreign Ministers is because women are generally perceived as victims: victims of conflict, victims of violence. And, indeed, they are in many parts of the world - everywhere the world. But they are also key players in society, in the economy, in institutions, in foreign policy, in defence and many other issues. So we wanted to start showing the "new normal": many women in power, taking responsibility for decisions.
"While representing diverse societies and perspectives, we all agreed that women's political and economic empowerment is critical to building a more prosperous, inclusive and safer world," the High Representative said.
Together, High Representative/Vice President Mogherini and Minister Freeland co-chaired the meeting of foreign ministers in Montréal on September 21 and 22 to identify innovative ways to jointly address crucial foreign policy challenges and to enhance dialogue and cooperation in support of democracy, human rights and global peace and security.
Women foreign ministers highlighted the benefits that come from integrating a gender perspective in approaches to foreign and security policies, and from their shared desire to promote the meaningful participation of women at all levels of decision making and leadership. Women foreign ministers pledged to continue to leverage their formal positions as foreign ministers, and their visibility, to expand the global commitment to gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
They discussed how everyone, regardless of their gender, must be able to contribute to and benefit equally from political, economic, social and cultural life. The foreign ministers demonstrated a commitment to take an active approach to advancing this shared vision, and discussed a number of strategies they are already pursuing to advance these objectives.
A recurrent theme was their strong commitment to collaboratively reinforce and reform the rules-based international order so that it can best respond to the multiple challenges their countries and citizens face and effectively advance democracy, human rights, peace and human development around the world. Their discussions were enhanced by the diversity of perspectives that were brought to bear.
Women foreign ministers pledged to work together to reiterate their common position and shared values, and to advocate together for the consolidation of strong democracies, which are indispensable in order to ensure peace, security, more resilient societies and sustainable development. They also pledged to continue to work with their colleagues to build a network of governments and civil society organizations to advance gender equality and women's rights, and to work toward implementing existing commitments.
Video, Opening speech, HRVP Mogherini, Women Foreign Ministers' Meeting (21/09/2018)
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Women in peace operations and peace processes: EU and UN together to promote women's meaningful participationThe EU and the UN are increasing cooperation to promote women's meaningful participation in all roles and areas of expertise (civilian, military, police) at all levels in UN peacekeeping and EU crisis management missions and operations, as well as in peace processes.
On International Human Rights Day, The Dubai Foundation for Women and Children Was Awarded the 2019 Chaillot Prize for the Promotion of Human Rights in the GCC RegionThe Delegation of the European Union to the United Arab Emirates in cooperation with Delegation of the European Union in Riyadh (responsible for relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of Bahrain, Sultanate of Oman and the State of Qatar), the Delegation of the European Union in Kuwait,
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It was my first Int'l trip alone. From the day I started dreaming, I dreamt of traveling. Around the world in 80 days, Journey to the mysterious island, Journey to the center of the earth and the other tv series about the travels became my favorite. When I was in 12th grade, the time when Internet and Facebook were getting popular among the teens I made my parents take the internet connection at home just to watch a travel series telecasted in the local channel online.
Traveling around the world and seeing all the wonders that have been created by God before I lose my vision became my greatest wish. But I neither had the guts to travel alone nor had enough money.
But then when the circumstances changed I decided to follow my dream and overcome my worries traveling.
For it was my first trip alone I did the homework for almost 6 months because I couldn't let anything go wrong on my first trip.
I checked the weather cycle for the last 2 years before traveling to Bali.
Lying just 8o south of the Equator, Bali can boast a tropical climate with just two seasons a year. A dry season and wet season with an average temperature of around 28o Celsius. High season is during the months of July and August, during Easter Holidays, and Christmas / New Year (December till 1st week of January). This is the time Bali is the busiest. However, for many reasons, the best time to go to Bali is April, May, June and September, just before and just after high season. And I decided to go Bali in an offseason, during the first week of November, right before the wet season and when the sun is getting weaker.
Booking your rooms at the right location.
Book your rooms via Airbnb or bookings.com.
Make sure you pre-check with the hostel/hotel/ resort about your booking before landing Bali and confirm your check-in time. There are cases when the bookings made through the apps get overlapped and the first one to check-in gets the room and the other end up on the streets.
Easiest mode of transportation in Bali are two-wheelers. And most of the adventure activities in Bali are accident prone. Hospitals in Bali will definitely break the bank. So it's wise to have a travel Insurance.
Decide on what you want to do in Bali.
Make yourself familiar with the place names and attractions in Bali.


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The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F/A-18 Hornet is a supersonic twin engine all-weather
night fighter and attack aircraft. The F/A-18s first flew in November 1978 and the first
production flight on April 12, 1980. The first 380 aircraft were F/A-18As and in September
1987 production switched to the F/A-18C. Variants A and C are single-seat aircraft while B
and D are tandem-seats. The Hornet can operate from either aircraft carriers or land bases
The latest home base for Fliegerstaffel 11 (Fighter Squadron 11) (Tigers) is Meiringen AB.
Although Switzerland isn't a member of NATO Fliegerstaffel 11 is a member of the NATO
Tiger Association and takes part in their Tiger Meets. Fliegerstaffel 11 became a full member
in 1991. In 2004 a decision was made to give an F/A -18C a permanent special tiger scheme
with the honor going to J-5011. During normal operation J-5011 is flown by the squadron
commander and if the Solo Display aircraft is from Fliegerstaffel 11 the aircraft will be J-5011.
Specifications for the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C/D Hornet
Role - supersonic twin engine all-weather night fighter and attack aircraft
Crew – 1 x F/A-18C, 2 x F/A-18D (Pilot and Weapons Systems Officer – WSO)
Length – 56 ft (17.1 m)
With AAMs – 40 ft 5 in (12.31 m)
Folded – 27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Height – 15 ft 4 in (4.7 m)
Empty – 23,000 lb (10,400 kg)
Loaded – 36,970 lb (16,770 kg)
Maximum Take off – 51,900 lb (23,500 kg)
Powerplants – 2 x General Electric F404-GE-402 turbofan
Dry Thrust – 11,000 lbf (48.9 kN) per engine
After Burner Thrust – 17,750 lbf (79.2 kN) per engine
Maximum Speed – Mack 1.8 (1,190 mph) (1,915 km/h) @ 40,000 ft (12,190 m)
Range – 1,089 nmi (1,250 miles) (2,000 km) with 2 x AIM-9s
Combat Radius – 400 nmi (460 miles) (740 km) air-to-air missions
Ferry Range – 1,800 nmi (2,070 miles) (3,330 km)
Service Ceiling – 50,000 ft (15,240 m)
Rate of Climb – 50,000 ft/min (254 m/s)
1 x 20 mm M61 Vulcan cannon mounted in nose with 578 rounds
9 x Hardpoints - a capacity of 13,700 lb (6,215 kg) with external fuel tanks and ordnance
2 x wingtip missile launch rails
4 x under-wing
3 x under-fuselage
2.75 inch (70 mm) Hydra 70 rockets
5 inch (127 mm) Zuni rockets
4 x AIM-9 Sidewinders
4 x AIM-132 ASRAAM
4 x IRIS-T or 4 x AIM-120 AMRAAM and 2 x AIM-7 Sparrow
Additional - 2 x AIM-120 AMRAAM
Air-To-Surface
AGM-65 Maverick
Standoff Land Attack Missiles (SLAM-ER)
AGM-88 HARM Anti-radiation Missile (ARM)
AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)
Taurus Missile (Cruise Missile)
Anti-ship
AGM-84 Harpoon
JDAM Precision-Guided Munition (PGM)
Paveway series of Laser-guided bombs
Mk. 80 series of unguided iron bombs
CBU-87 cluster bombs
CBU-89 gator mine
CBU-97
Mk. 20 Rockeye II
B61/Mk. 57 nuclear bombs
SUU-42A Flares/Infrared decoys dispenser pod and chaff pod
Electronic countermeasures (ECM) pod
AN/AAS-38 Nite Hawk targeting pod (USN only) to be replaced by AN/ASQ-228 ATFLIR
LITENING targeting pod (only used by USMC, Royal Australian Air Force, Spanish Air Force
and Finnish Air Force)
Up to 3 x 330 US gallons (270 imp gallons / 1,200 liters) Sargent Fletcher drop tanks for
ferry flight Or Extended range/loitering time
Hughes APG-73 radar
ROVER (Remotely Operated Video Enhanced Receiver) antenna for use by USN F/A-18C
strike fighter squadrons
Inertial Navigation System (INS)
2 x mission computers
HUD (Head Up Display) cockpit display
Very High Frequency (VHF) omni-directional landing system
Multiple-functioning Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display
Hobby Master 1/72 Air Power Series
F/A-18C Hornet
J-5011, Staffel 11, Swiss Air Force, 2020
True 1/72 scale
Professionally painted
All markings are Tampoed (pad applied)
Option to display the model on a stand that is provided
Model can be shown with the landing gear in the down or up positions
Canopy can be displayed open or closed
Extremely heavy metal with a minimum of plastic
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Melbourne Chamber Music Society: Modigliani String Quartet Concert
Melbourne Chamber Music Society presents…
The Paris based Modigliani Quartet, founded in 2003, is a regular guest of the world's top venues and finest string quartet and chamber music series. It consists of Amaury Coeytaux and Loic Rio, violins, Laurent Marfaing, viola, and Francois Kieffer, cello. The Quartet regularly performs at major venues in Europe, Asia, and North America. The Quartet records for the Mirare Label and has released 10 award-winning CDs since 2008. In 2021 the Modigliani Quartet recorded all of Schubert's String Quartets; the release date is scheduled for January, 2022.
Through the support of generous sponsors, the Modigliani Quartet has the privilege of playing four magnificent Italiqn instruments. Amaury Coeytaux plays a 1773 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Loïc Rio plays a 1780 violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Laurent Marfaing plays a 1660 viola by Luigi Mariani, and François Kieffer plays a 1706 cello by Matteo Goffriller.
Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Beethoven: Quartet in D Major, Op. 18 No. 3
Schubert: Quartet in d minor, D. 819, "Death and the Maiden"
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St. Mark's United Methodist Church
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Opportunities to join our regional advisory boards
The main purpose of our regional advisory board is to connect people and communities with the local canals and rivers here in the Yorkshire and North East region.
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Opportunity to join our Yorkshire and North East Regional Advisory Board
Do you want a voice on our local advisory board? Click here to find out more
Our boards give local people:
a voice in developing and improving their waterways
a chance to connect with their waterside communities
an opportunity to help guide our decisions and strategies
the ability to support and champion the waterways in this region
Find out about opportunities to join the Yorkshire and North East advisory board
Meet our regional advisory board members
Chair - currently vacant
Hilary Brooke
Hilary is passionate about the countryside, walking and the waterway corridors. She spent 30 years working in regeneration, involving local communities and the public and private sectors in co-operative decision-making and delivery of programmes. She has spent the past six years as a member of the Trust's North East Waterways Partnership and has promoted Partnership working, Community engagement, Volunteering and Business support. Hilary would like to see the Trust becoming more open to ideas from the outside world and recognising the skills and aspirations of others to build a great future for our waterways.
Adrian Curtis
Having trained as a public sector accountant and worked for two innovative local authorities, Adrian took the opportunity to join Groundwork - the national environmental and social regeneration charity - in 1996. Adrian has worked with many hundreds of committed and passionate colleagues, organisations and partners in the public and private sector. Groundwork has always worked in areas of greatest deprivation in the country. He has lived and worked in West Yorkshire for most of his life and lives within walking distance of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. He has witnessed how part of his local route has been transformed over the past few years for waterway users and local communities and is keen to contribute to the future of the region and the nations waterways.
Trevor Roberts
Trevor is a retired police inspector with over 40 years experience. He is chair of the National Community Boats Association and has set up a Social Enterprise. Trevor is also involved in a range of shared learning projects that have waterways and the engagement of the harder to reach communities as their central focus.
Robin Stonebridge
Robin is the chair of the Chesterfield Canal Trust and has wide experience of working on Boards at local, regional and national level. His doctoral research explored social constructions of virtual working environments. He lives in Anston, South Yorkshire.
Caroline Thorogood
Following childhood holidays exploring the British countryside, Caroline developed a passion for our wildlife and wild places. She now works as a Director of Operations for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and brings to the Board over a decade of experience in species and habitat management as well as a desire to promote the value of green and blue spaces for people's health and wellbeing. Caroline lives in York, enjoying its rivers and waterways for running and dog walking in her spare time.
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financial services update 26 Apr 2021
ASIC invites industry feedback on breach reporting reforms
Consultation Paper 340, Draft Regulatory Guide 78 and Draft Information Sheet released
ASIC has released draft guidance regarding the breach reporting reforms introduced by the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Act 2020 (Cth): Consultation Paper 340, draft Regulatory Guide 78and a draft Information Sheet.
The draft guidance summarises the substance of the breach reporting reforms and includes information on how ASIC expects the new regime to operate in practice.
The draft guidance indicates the types of information that will need to be provided for each report will be consistent with what has been required through ASIC's Regulatory Portal since March 2020.
The draft guidance is only an indication of the approach ASIC might take and does not address all the practical and legal implications and uncertainties that may arise in the new regime. ASIC has invited stakeholder feedback in relation to the draft Regulatory Guide and Information Sheet. An updated Regulatory Guide and Information Sheet are due to be released in Q3 of 2021.
What you need to do
It is very important to appreciate that the new breach reporting regime will be significantly different from what is currently in place.
Familiarise yourself with the draft guidance and make any submissions to ASIC in response to Consultation Paper 340 by 3 June 2021, including seeking clarification from or engagement with ASIC on the issues and uncertainties not covered by the draft guidance.
Prepare for the new breach reporting regime which takes effect on 1 October 2021 by reviewing business and compliance frameworks and practices to ensure you have processes and controls in place to allow you to meet the legislative requirements and that they are consistent with ASIC's expectations in the draft guidance.
Consider how the requirements of the new breach reporting regime interact with RG 271 relating to internal dispute resolution, given that complaints and IDR may lead to the identification of reportable situations.
Breach reporting reforms and Consultation Paper 340
In December 2020, the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Act 2020 (Cth) (Amending Act) was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament, introducing significant changes to breach reporting for Australian financial services and credit licensees. Key changes under the new regime include:
extension of breach reporting to credit licensees;
expansion of the significance test so that a large number of breaches will be deemed significant;
licensees will need to lodge reports with ASIC within 30 calendar days of knowing of, or being reckless as to, the existence of reasonable grounds to believe that a reportable situation has arisen or is likely to arise;
investigations into reportable situations that are ongoing for more than 30 days, and the outcome of such investigations, must be reported to ASIC; and
introduction of obligations to investigate, notify and remediate affected customers of reportable situations that involve personal advice to retail clients or credit assistance by mortgage brokers.
In advance of the new breach reporting regime commencing on 1 October 2021, ASIC has released Consultation Paper 340, setting out and seeking feedback on the regulatory guidance it proposes to provide to industry in updated Regulatory Guide 78 and in the Information Sheet.
The draft Information Sheet provides what ASIC considers to be a practical overview of how licensees can comply with the new obligations for investigating, notifying and remediating customers affected by reportable situations where personal advice or credit assistance has been provided.
Draft Regulatory Guide 78
Drawing closely on the Explanatory Memorandum to the Amending Act and using examples and case study scenarios, draft Regulatory Guide 78 addresses a number of key practical topics, including:
The transitional arrangements in relation to the commencement of the new regime on 1 October 2021.
How licensees should approach the question of "significance" under the new law, particularly in light of the provisions that will now deem many breaches to be significant without the need for further assessment by licensees.
When a licensee will have "reasonable grounds to believe" that a reportable situation has arisen or is likely to arise.
Whose knowledge counts as the licensee's knowledge for the purpose of triggering the 30 day reporting requirement.
When an "investigation" begins and ASIC's expectations for how these will be expeditiously progressed by licensees so as not to delay reporting to ASIC.
How the obligation to notify ASIC of reportable situations in respect of other licensees (financial advisers and mortgage brokers) should operate in practice.
What information will be required in the prescribed breach reporting form. The type of information that will need to be provided for each report is consistent with what has been required through ASIC's Regulatory Portal. We have previously provided an update regarding ASIC's move to require breach reporting through the Portal.
The draft guidance also sets out a number of ASIC's key expectations regarding licensees' compliance systems for breach reporting and examples of "good practice".
ASIC seeks feedback on the draft guidance generally and raises a number of specific topics in Consultation Paper 340.
The draft guidance is only an indication of the approach ASIC might take and does not address all the practical and legal implications and uncertainties that may arise in the new regime. For example, in some cases, the examples given to assist licensees seem to be relatively extreme scenarios and therefore leave uncertainty about how ASIC will approach more typical cases. Stakeholders may provide feedback to ASIC on areas that require further guidance.
Licensees should give careful consideration to the draft guidance as they work on developing internal processes and procedures to respond to the new breach reporting regime, and consider engagement with ASIC on areas which are not covered in the guidance or where the guidance does not deal with particular scenarios or uncertainties.
Submissions are due by 3 June 2021.
Authors: Lucinda Hill, Partner; Mark Bradley, Partner; Emma Della Posta, Lawyer; and Justin Browne, Lawyer.
Lucinda Hill
lucinda.hill@ashurst.com
Ian Bolster
ian.bolster@ashurst.com
jonathan.gordon@ashurst.com
Corey McHattan
corey.mchattan@ashurst.com
The information provided is not intended to be a comprehensive review of all developments in the law and practice, or to cover all aspects of those referred to.
Readers should take legal advice before applying it to specific issues or transactions.


Josh Hart scored six points on 2-of-7 shooting (including two threes) with five rebounds and one block in 24 minutes off the bench on Wednesday against the Blazers.
Hart has been too good for owners to get worried about a bad game here or there. If he gets close to the cut line we'll let you know but it won't be anytime real soon.


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This Select & Better 5" Walnut flooring is a premium hardwood featuring clear grain and rich, dark color that is exactly what a Walnut floor is expected to offer.
Each solid hardwood plank is 3/4 inch thick and features Tongue & Groove milling on all 4 sides. This is random length flooring that ranges from 1 to 7 feet in length. Made from kiln-dried American Black Walnut hardwood, this plank flooring is professionally made to last a lifetime.
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I've got a 2014 RT Limited that is NOT under any warranty. I've confirmed this with BRP. I also know that to get the B.E.S.T Extended Service Plan, I have to be under a current B.E.S.T plan or factory warranty. Since my Spyder is not under any warranty, the B.E.S.T Extended Service Plan is not an option. I've contacted my local dealer at the suggestion of BRP to discuss warranty options. What can I expect at the dealer? What warranty options are available for a Spyder not currently covered with an extended warranty?
I was just told at a dealer last Friday that my BEST warranty is up at the end of the month. He quoted me $690 for a 2 year extension on it. I suppose it's worth it, especially if something major happens.
If you're not a gambling man it might be wise to rat hole some dough each month.
Zurich makes a warranty you can add to your Spyder, I put a 2 year one on my Spyder but I don't remember the cost. I think I motorsports sells them.
Don't bother with any of the aftermarket extended service contracts. None of them are worth the paper written on. Too many hoops, too many weasel words. Very little if any payback or real coverage. Long history of being useless. ALL of them.
My experience has been exactly the opposite. The Zurich on my Spyder more then paid for itself during the time I had it. Maybe I was lucky I don't know, but they list what they will cover and if its there they pay minus $50.00 deductible.
I've had the Spyder roughly 2 months. I picked it up with 13100 miles on it. I've already put about 200 on it. No problems with it so far but I've read lots of stories on this forum regarding the Spyder's possibility for issues and the expense to repair/maintain. Based on what you're saying it may be more cost effective and less hassle to create a repair fund and regularly contribute to it. Definitely worth considering.
What is motorsports? I googled that but didn't come up with anything useful.
If I went with a Zurich warranty, would they need to verify the condition of the Spyder somehow? When you used your Zurich warranty, what was the process?
...Based on what you're saying it may be more cost effective and less hassle to create a repair fund and regularly contribute to it. Definitely worth considering.
My B.E.S.T. extended warranty will expire in Oct,this year, after a total of five years of factory, two yr, and B.E.S.T. extended, 3 yr. I see no justifiable reason to purchase any additional warranty protection but will sock away X $$ each month to cover whatever may arise beyond normal service costs. Based on the performance of my '14RT-S to date, turned 52K today, it has been very reliable. I hope its reliability continues and that my rat hole stash will become a party slush fund for me and my bride.
1 think he meant imotorsports.com.
they didn't on mine. It was a 2012 that I bought in 2015. BTW the company is Imotorsports. They are a sponsor here I think.
Glad to know SOMEONE got some coverage. I and friends and customers have been shafted by all of them, including Zurich. Text of the plan means nothing. At least not what you think it does.
Has anyone had trouble getting warranty work at their dealer, after buying the extended warranty at Sierra Cycles or somewhere else?
At one time BRP was a bit slow getting the extended warranty cars to owners, like a couple of months or more; don't know if they're faster now and, of course, it wouldn't matter if the Spyder was still under factory warranty. I have not heard a single case of a BRP dealer declining to honor a B.E.S.T. extended warranty. The rub comes when an owner expects a wear item, like brake pads, clutch discs, etc., to be replaced under warranty. As usual, read the fine print.
Does anyone have any experience third party Western Service Contract?
Let The Buyer Beware! There are many bad customer reviews, that would scare me away from Western.
Western has gone out of business several times. Each time coming back under a slightly different name. Each time they file bankruptcy, the policies are worthless. I bought one years ago. They continue to play this con game selling policies and honoring claims until the ponzie scheme is bust. File bankruptcy and start over.


There are a lot of misconceptions and myths surrounding wood flooring that may put you in a bind if you care to believe in them. However, you need to take things easy and carefully weigh in all the pros and cons before you finally select a flooring option that's right for you, while understanding the myths in question.
Contrary to the common belief, hardwood floors are actually a wonderful choice for kitchens, adding to the elegance and comfort in one of the most important rooms in your home. If the right types of woods are chosen and are installed and treated in a proper manner, hardwood can withstand the conditions and traffic of a kitchen for a long period of time. Hardwood also perfectly complements any shape, color, layout and design chosen for a kitchen.
There are types of woods that are a lot more durable as compared to the rest. For those who have either kids or pets at home, a harder wood that is more durable is the best choice.
Wood floors can withstand any type of lifestyle.
A proper finish of the wood flooring can minimize its wear and tear. The market is full of quality finish products that are sturdy enough for standing up to a very busy family life.
Almost all flooring options show some amount of wear over a period of time: however, wood flooring is the only option available whose wear can be repaired to give a brand new look.
Wood flooring scratches occur only in the finish and the wood itself, which is reparable with a maintenance coat. This process involves the wood flooring finish is slightly abraded and a fresh, new coat of the finish is applied.
In case of scratches occurring in the wood, i.e. deeper down, the flooring needs to be sanded and then refinished. For scratches that are deeper and in the wood, the flooring can be sanded and refinished. A well-trained wood flooring professional having the right equipment normally just removes a bit of the flooring material for making such repairs. Once the scratches are removed, a fresh coat of the finish is applied, and the floor is restored to its original luster.
High heel shoes are actually damaging to hardwood flooring as they strike the floor with a lot of force. High heels or spiked heels that are in a state of disrepair are quite harmful to the wood flooring especially.
There is an awareness and concern among the people regarding mass deforestation. There are many non-profit organizations that are doing laudable work of supervising responsible treatment of forests. Floor manufacturers that are accredited to these organizations have to maintain certain standards, showing that they haven't harmed forests and wildlife present therein in any negative way. A forest that has been responsible managed could actually be growing in size due to the planting of new trees, thus ensuring that it becomes a sustainable resource.
All responsible hardwood flooring companies only buy their lumber from those areas that are designated specifically to grow trees for lumber. This ensures that no new areas are deforested, as trees are grown only in the designated tree farms. Also, the trees are grown based on a rotation schedule to ensure that the soil is not damaged. This makes sure that the trees are razed in an environmentally-friendly, self-contained manner.
While hardwood flooring does require maintenance, the same goes true for any type of flooring.
As compared to the other types of flooring, dry mopping on a regular basis with an occasional once-over by applying a conditioner will ensure that the hardwood floors won't require any major maintenance or refinishing for at least 10-15 years and still keep looking amazing. Regular dry mopping for the removal of particles and dust from the floors that can reduce the luster of the flooring over a period of time and prompt cleaning up of liquid spills is all that is required to keep hardwood floors looking beautiful.
While the initial cost of wood flooring installation is actually more, in the long-term, it is one of the most cost-effective flooring option available. If wood flooring has been installed and maintained properly, it can last for centuries. In contrast, the other flooring options normally have a service life of not more than 20 years, which means that they will need to be replaced far more frequently.
Wood floors can be refinished by sanding many times during their service lives for restoration of their luster and beauty. Wood flooring is also adaptable to style and décor changes with passage of time and thus don't get outdated, unlike other flooring options.
All these factors make wood flooring a wonderful long-term investment option and also the least expensive, when you consider their total service life.


Madrid is a very beautiful place and people who are vacationing here could easily fall head over heels in love with everything that the place gives. And one of the many things that tourists as well as the locals love is The Penthouse.
This rooftop bar is a very good place to end the day. People can see the breathtaking view of central Madrid from the terrace and fall in love with the place all over again. People can also choose to stay outside, and sit or lie down on one of the beds and just enjoy star gazing.
This entry was posted in Madrid, Spain on October 20, 2013 by Christin Croftsberg.
Madrid is not just one of the most beautiful tourist destinations in the world but it is also full of wonderful surprises and the Skynight Bar is one of them.
The Skynight Bar is a rooftop bar atop a 5-star hotel, where people can have the perfect seat and enjoy the stunning view of the surrounding. People would also love the overall design of the place and marvel at the amount of love and passion dedicated to create such a wonderful place.
The Skynight bar is also a perfect date place due to the ambiance and the cool music that they play.
El Viajero in English is "The Traveler", but that does not mean that this place is only for tourists, everybody who finds a seat is welcome. This place can be pretty crowded, especially during lunchtime. And when a restaurant or a bar is packed with a lot of people then there is only one thing for sure – the food is great. And this is true for El Viajero, people remember Madrid in so many ways but food is one thing that would really leave a special mark in their hearts and in their minds.
This rooftop bar, aside from the mouthwatering foods, has a very beautiful view of the old Madrid.