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Boogie-Woogie String Along for Real is het laatste album van de Amerikaanse jazzmusicus Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Alle muziek werd in 1977 opgenomen in de Regent Sound Studios in New York. Kirk was in 1975 gedeeltelijk verlamd geraakt door een beroerte en kreeg vóór de opnamen een tweede beroerte. Hij bespeelde zijn instrumenten toen met één hand. Het album werd kort na zijn overlijden door Warner Bros. Records uitgebracht.

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Dauðans óvissi tími ('Death's uncertain hour') is a 2004 novel by Þráinn Bertelsson, first published in Reykjavík by JPV Útgáfa. The title alludes to the seventeenth-century poem 'Um dauðans óvissa tíma' ('On death's uncertain hour') by Hallgrímur Pétursson. It is a darkly comical crime novel, but also to a significant extent a Roman à clef about the business activities of Björgólfur Guðmundsson during the 1990s and early 2000s, addressing a range of political, economic, and cultural questions of Iceland of its time, and has been characterised as 'eitt af brautryðjandi verkum á sviði íslenskra hrunbókmennta' ('one of the path-breaking works of Icelandic financial-crisis fiction'). It is the first in a series of books, the second being Valkyrjur (Reykjavík: JPV, 2005).

Style
The novel is told in the third person through an omniscient narrator. Particularly in §I, events are often related out of chronological order, with clear date markers in chapter headings. The reader is frequently in possession of more information about events than the protagonists themselves.

The work is rich in metatextual literary allusions. For example, the banker Haraldur Rúriksson (himself a cipher for the real-life Björgólfur Guðmundsson), takes his patronym from the legendary viking founder of Kievan Rus'; the novel features a newspaper editor called Tómas Davíðsson, which name Þráinn himself used as a pen-name in his 1987 Tungumál fuglanna; and the bank robbers Þorgeir and Þormóður are based on the eponymous foster-brothers of the medieval Icelandic Fóstbræðra saga. The book states that the troubling Russian connections of Haraldur Rúriksson can be read about in the journal EuroCapital, in a transparent allusion to an article in Euromoney.

In the estimation of Hlynur Páll Pálsson, the novel also stands out for its 'choice gallery of characters. A great many characters are introduced into the story without confusing the reader, because behind each stands characterisation and wry stories which make each one unique'.

Summary
The novel is divided into three sections:

 I Vegur óttans ('the road of fear') (pp. 13–90, chs 1-20)
 II Vegur dauðans ('the road of death') (pp. 91–358, chs 21-82)
 III Vegur dyggðarinnar ('the road of virtue') (359-71, chs 83-85)

§I focuses on recounting the career of Haraldur Rúriksson from 1986 to 2004. In a story paralleling the real-life Hafskip-affair, Haraldur attempts to establish a shipping company, Farskip, to compete with the dominant company, Gufuskipafélagið (a cipher for Eimskip), but is bankrupted by the dubious actions of his competitors. He takes up the invitation of a one-time employee, Magnús Valgarðsson, and an associate of his, Cameron Stout, to go into the alcopop business in post-communist St Petersburg. Rumours are reported that Haraldur defrauded his associates of their shares in the business just before it became enormously profitable and he successfully sells it to a major European brewery. This story parallels Björgólfur Guðmundsson's role in establishing Bravo Brewery and later selling it to Heineken. By 2004, through the privatisation of Iceland's banking system, Haraldur has been able to buy his old creditor, the Þjóðbankinn (a cipher for Landsbanki), and avenge past shame by buying the Gufuskipafélagið, via his holding company JOB Global Holdings (an allusion to the real-life Björgólfur's Samson ehf.).

§I also introduces us to Haraldur's best friend, Rúnar; two boys in a violent foster-home, Þorgeirr and Þórmóður; a would-be priest turned detective, Víkingur; and two eastern European psychopaths, the Czech Petra Vlkova and the Russian Vasilí Basmanov, who become a couple and begin working for St Petersburg's pre-eminent oligarch, Mikhail Moisejevitsj Levítan (founding, it later emerges, a security company-cum-protection racket called Opritsjnina Group).

§II comprises the bulk of the novel, intertwining accounts of two murder investigations headed by Víkingur.

 Þorgeir has convinced Þormóður to join him in robbing a branch of the Þjóðbanki. Characteristically of these rather comical characters, the robbery goes badly, and Þorgeir kills a passerby and his dog with his sawn-off shotgun, and accidentally injures Þormóður in the process. The two flee to Þorgeir's house, but a neighbour recognises that Þorgeir may be one of the robbers and informs the police. Þorgeir takes Þormóður to hospital in Selfoss, where Þormóður receives treatment and pretends to have been on a several-week alcoholic bender and to remember nothing about the cause of his injury. Back at home, Þorgeir is ambushed by Víkingur and the Víkingasveitin, opens fire, and is killed. It emerges that had Þorgeir sold either his Cadillac or his shotgun, he could have gained legally more money that he even dreamed of winning through the bank robbery. By the end of the novel, it does not appear that the police have enough evidence to charge Þormóður.
 Shortly after the foster brothers' robbery, the body of Haraldur's best friend Rúnar is discovered in Rúnar's home. Rúnar's dog has also been killed, and its head placed on Rúnar's decapitated body, with the letter O written in blood above Rúnar's corpse. His head is missing. The police have little evidence to go on, but suspect Eastern European organised crime, linking the handling of Rúnar's body with the Oprichnina. A nightwatchman at the Þjóðbanki headquarters later finds the head in Haraldur's private freezer there. Haraldur eventually explains that he found it placed in his car, presumably as a threat. The reader is privy to a meeting between Mikhail Moisejevitsj Levítan and Haraldur in which it becomes clear that Mikhail directed Petra and Vasilí to kill Rúnar in order to cow Haraldur into acceding to his wishes. Haraldur tips off the police that Petra and Vasilí are the killers and that they are in Iceland. The reader also learns that Petra lost a lot of money when shares in a DNA research company VikingDNA (a cipher for deCODE genetics) collapsed and has decided to seek recompense from the director, Lárus Jóhannsson (corresponding to Kári Stefánsson). Víkingur and the Víkingasveitin make a helicopter raid on the island where Petra and Vasilí have met Lárus. The criminals are killed in a gunfight and the news successfully covered up.

§III is a coda in which Haraldur's old business associate Magnús Valgarðsson, dying of cancer, confidentially confesses to Víkingur that he was the indirect cause of Rúnar's death. Lacking the resources to prosecute Haraldur for defrauding him but still seeking some kind of justice, he had the idea of transferring his ownership of the shares in the old alcopop company to Mikhail Moisejevitsj Levítan, in the knowledge that Mikhail would not fail to do what was necessary to win for himself the billions owed to Magnús. Mikhail had, however, gone further than Magnús had reckoned on.

Reviews
 Úlfhildur Dagsdóttir. "Dauðans óvissi tími." Bókmenntir.is November 2014.
 Hlynur Páll Pálsson. "Samtíminn er lyginni líkastur." Fréttablaðið, 4 December 2004, p. 92.
 Steinunn Inga Óttarsdóttir. "Fjörug fóstbræðrasaga." Morgunblaðið, 4 December 2004, p. 13.
 "Ný bók Þráins hjá lögfræðingi." Fréttablaðið, 5 September 2004, p. 46.
 Illugi Jökulsson. "Rússneska mafían kemur til íslands." DV, 15 November 2004, p. 25.
 Ágúst Borgþórs. "Slarkfær reyfari." Kistan.is, November 2004.

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2004 novels
Icelandic novels
Novels set in Iceland
Icelandic-language novels

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Obituary of Thomas J. Hillis
Tom Hillis, 81, passed away at Hilton Head Regional Hospital, January 7, 2022, from a heart attack suffered the day before. Tom was born in Savannah, Ga. to Vivian and Thomas Hillis, Sr. As a boy, he hunted and fished with his father and played baseball. He was bright and skipped two grades in school. After an early high school graduation, he used his piano playing skills to join a band, the Savanna-based Five Sparks. They played in local venues, made a few recordings, and eventually traveled with Jerry Lee Lewis as an opening band. After a few years on the road, Tom decided to get serious about his education and attended Armstrong State Junior College and Georgia Southern, graduating with a degree in accounting. He was also a member of the Georgia National Guard.
After passing his C.P.A. exam Tom was recruited by the Charlotte, N.C. office of Arthur Andersen & Company. One of their clients was the developing Sea Pines Company in Hilton Head Island, SC. During the 1960s, Tom traveled the back roads several times a year to do the Sea Pines audit. Meantime, back in Charlotte, Tom and Judy dated for several years and then married on June 20, 1970. Just two weeks later, Tom was offered a job on Hilton Head with Graves Construction Co. which he accepted and they immediately moved to the Island. Those were wonderful years in the Island's early development. Hilton Head was small enough where everyone knew everyone else and most young couples were involved in home building and related industries or real estate. Many lived with their children in North Forest Beach and there were dances and parties on a regular basis. The home of John and Frances Tilton on Dove Street was a popular place to gather and friends were amazed when Tom, who was normally soft-spoken and reserved, would break into a rollicking version of Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire on the Tilton upright.
Hilton Head was a wonderful place for him to enjoy his life-long love of fishing. One year he won the award for the largest flounder caught in Beaufort County. Tom, Judy, and their daughter Roseann also lived in Port Royal Plantation for 15 years. Later, Tom and Judy moved to Mariner's Cove Club on the intercoastal waterway where Tom could enjoy his boat, the sunsets and shorebirds, and even fish from the backyard. The family enjoyed the delicious fried fish dinners he would prepare from his catch.
During his working years, Tom worked with Robert Graves, John Tilton Construction Company, and Bill Jones Realty as their financial officer. He also had his own C.P.A. private practice for many years. Tom went into semi-retirement 15 years ago, but he continued to do part-time accounting work for Robert Graves and his son, Ling Graves.
In the last few years, Tom had declining health but he was still an avid Georgia Bulldogs fan. He would keep up with team news and the individual players on a daily basis. He was so looking forward to the SEC Championship game and missed it by just a few days.
Tom was somewhat reserved, except when he was performing. He was intelligent, loyal, steadfast, and responsible. He will be missed by Judy, his loving wife of 51 years, and his daughter Roseann Connolly, her husband Steve, and granddaughter, Lottie all of Nashville. Also, his brother-in-law Bob Morrison and his wife Nancy of Tampa. He is also survived by a niece Angie and nephews Ronnie and Craig of Georgia. He was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Vivian, his brother Ronald, and stepson Kenneth.
Tom's cremated remains will be interred in the columbarium of First Presbyterian Church, Hilton Head Island, where he was a member. In consideration of Covid, services will be private. Island Funeral Home is assisting with the arrangements.


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Lady Rams Pass, Set, Spike to Victory
Cassidy Wright, Reporter
After weeks of repetitive drills, conditioning, and practicing up to seven hours a week, the Lady Rams were ready to take on, in their first match of the regular season, the Pearl City Chargers at Pearl City's home.
In the first match of the night, the Lady Rams of Blue Varsity fell behind in the beginning of the first set, but the girls pulled ahead nine consecutive serves later.
With six points behind the Rams, the team kept the lead and closed out the first set with a win. The Blue Varsity team went on to win the second set, resulting in their first win of the regular season.
"It was a good game," said senior Selena Aina, who had the nine consecutive serves in the first set. "Our team was positive and encouraging."
In contrast, in the second match of the afternoon, the junior varsity team kept the points close with the Chargers in the first set. However, they fell in two sets and lost the match.
In reference to the game, Junior Varsity assistant coach Christine Bette said, "We learned a lot from this match and the experience will make us a stronger team for the rest of our season."
Freshman Kiara Nelson-Brown, who plays libero on the Junior Varsity, said, "I feel like my team could've been better if we were more motivated."
Varsity Lady Rams won their first set of the season but the Pearl City Chargers proved to be too much for them in the second set coming back to win. However, the match was not over since the third set was still to be played. Although the Lady Rams stayed close in the beginning of the third set, the girls lost their first match of the season.
"It was a good game, but we just had a lot of small errors," said junior Megan Malepeai.
Malepeai and her teammates showed positive moods after the match, despite the lost.
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In On Desire, William B. Irvine takes us on a wide-ranging travel of our impulses, desires, and wishes, displaying us the place those emotions come from and the way we will try and rein them in. Spicing his account with enticing observations through writers like Seneca, Tolstoy, and Freud, Irvine considers the lessons of Buddhists, Hindus, the Amish, Shakers, and Catholic saints, in addition to these of historic Greek and Roman and sleek ecu philosophers. Irvine additionally seems at what sleek technology can let us know approximately desire--such as what occurs within the mind after we wish anything and the way animals advanced specific desires--and he advances a brand new idea approximately how wish itself advanced. Irvine additionally means that while that we received the facility to hope, we have been "programmed" to discover a few issues superior than others. Irvine concludes that easy methods to reach lasting happiness isn't to alter the realm round us or our position in it, yet to alter ourselves. If we will persuade ourselves to need what we have already got, we will be able to dramatically improve our happiness.
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Governor's Slightly Revised Tunnel Plan Hasn't Changed Sacramento County Supervisors' Thinking
They Say Plan Continues to Push State and Federal Delta Policies in Wrong Direction
SACRAMENTO, CA October 27, 2015 – Sacramento County's elected county supervisors, today, raised strong objections over the direction of the Brown Administration's policies to build two 40-foot in diameter tunnels, affecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta as embodied in the re-circulated environmental documents branded as the "California WaterFix."
"It's really a misnomer to call this a California WaterFix because it doesn't fix the water challenges facing California, nor does it provide any new water...it creates more problems if anything. If this comes to fruition, the people of the Delta region lose, not just now, but for generations to come," said Supervisor Don Nottoli.
"The new proposal is flat out deceptive," said Supervisor Susan Peters. "I'm so disappointed in what the state has put out. Beyond disappointed – angry."
"The logic behind the state's latest approach is baffling to me," commented Supervisor Patrick Kennedy. "There's not a drop of new water created here and they've eliminated the best parts of the environmental restoration efforts that have been put forward during this nine-year process."
"It's incredibly disingenuous for the state to suggest that the WaterFix proposal will do anything but adversely affect the people and environment of Sacramento County," added Phil Serna, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. "Our Board remains united in our opposition to any plan that hurts the people and place we represent."
"The BDCP/WaterFix does not provide the necessary assurances and protections for the Delta," said Supervisor Roberta McGlashan. "It is a flawed approach for managing our precious water resources."
The re-branded approach by the State has bifurcated the former BDCP into two components: The California WaterFix (the twin-tunnel project) and EcoRestore (collection of separate Delta habitat restoration projects/programs). The WaterFix carves out the twin tunnel project from the larger habitat restoration/mitigation measures of the BDCP and is being pursued under a separate permit solely for the construction of the tunnels. EcoRestore will pursue habitat creation/restoration on a different process and timeline than the WaterFix. The twin-tunnel project no longer has a direct dependence on the success of the broader habitat restoration measures of the former BDCP.
The recirculated environmental document prepared for the "WaterFix" essentially describes a massive public works water supply project benefitting a limited portion of the state. Revisions to the project, primarily moving the pumps to the downstream end of the tunnels, do little to alleviate the County's long list of concerns about the resulting irreversible impacts to the entire Delta region.
Sacramento County is concerned with impacts to the Delta's thriving agriculture industry, infrastructure (road and utilities), water supply, flood protection and socioeconomics as the approval of the project could result in the destruction of the Delta as we know it today.
Among Sacramento County's chief concerns with the WaterFix are the following points:
It proposes to irreversibly change, and in many instances permanently destroy, the generations-old socioeconomic fabric and physical landscape of the Delta.
It will not produce a single drop of more water, but will leave a legacy of negative impacts on the Delta, its economy, and its people.
The tunnels have a 10-12 year construction period and will result in major negative impacts to the lives of Delta residents, the local and regional economy, and its irreplaceable natural resources.
It neither solves California's water management problems nor helps to address the Delta's degrading ecosystem.
Water modeling continues to show the Folsom Reservoir likely going to "dead pool" approximately once every 10 years, severely impacting access to surface water (the primary source of water) for significant urban populations in Sacramento, Placer, and El Dorado counties. This would severely impact the region's larger economy, property values, and livability.
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A growing urgency to support 3D model mashups in AEC and GIS fields is bringing a Swiss software company to the foreground to solve those issues.
Software developers for iOS and Android now have access to HOOPS Exchange in the latest version, enabling robust support for mobile app creation that supports demanding 3D CAD model data in various native industry standard formats, including IFC for the AEC BIM market.
Does Vectorworks Architect 2017 match up to the tremendous volume of new innovations in last year's upgrade? In this in-depth product review, architect John Helm takes a look at all the new features and improvements.
OrthoGraph Ltd., has come to an agreement with Graphisoft Italy, which became an official OrthoGraph distributor in Italy.


An unlikely company has suddenly catapulted to the top of the fashion world: Amazon.
Amazon is now the biggest seller of clothes online in the US, with its apparel sales totaling $16.3 billion last year, Bloomberg reports.
That's more than the combined online sales of Macy's, Nordstrom, Kohl's, Gap, and Victoria's Secret parent L Brands in the same period, according to Bloomberg.
Amazon is now second only to Walmart in terms of overall apparel market share, according to Morgan Stanley analysts.
The company's rise as a leader in apparel sales has been swift and relatively quiet.
Amazon made one of its first major pushes into the category 10 years ago with the purchase of the clothing website ShopBop. Three years later, Amazon bought the online shoe retailer Zappos for $850 million.
Over the past couple of years, Amazon has ramped up its investment in fashion by launching its own private-label clothing brands and sponsoring the first New York Men's Fashion Week.
The company has also hired executives from luxury fashion companies, such as Julie Gilhart, the Barneys New York fashion director whom Amazon reportedly hired as a consultant, and vogue editor Caroline Palmer.
Also in the past few years, Amazon has started to shift its fashion strategy toward offering more high-end designer names, such as Zac Posen and Stuart Weitzman.
That shift has had some industry experts scratching their heads. Luxury fashion websites are typically well-merchandised and highly curated — not things for which Amazon is necessarily known.
But Amazon's strategy appears to be working.
Morgan Stanley analysts estimate that Amazon's apparel sales grew by $1.1 billion in the most recent quarter, while the department stores Nordstrom, Sears, Macy's, Kohl's, JCPenney, and Dillard's collectively lost $225 million in apparel sales in the same period.
Department-store executives have blamed declining apparel sales on the weather and on consumers' changing shopping habits, which in recent years have gravitated more toward big-ticket items like televisions and vacations over clothing.
The apparel market has only grown 1% annually in the past 15 years, according to Morgan Stanley.
But department stores' loss so far has been Amazon's gain, according to Morgan Stanley analysts.
"We expect online (primarily Amazon) will continue to take share from department stores, but at an accelerating pace over the next five years given new evidence that Amazon is gaining traction in fashion," the analysts wrote in a recent note.
In a 2012 interview with The New York Times, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos gave a simple reason that Amazon was investing in fashion: "Gross profit dollars per unit will be much higher on a fashion item," than with cheaper products, he said.


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Defensive end Calais Campbell discusses the offseason program, mandatory minicamp and the upcoming dead zone on Jaguars.com Live.
John Oehser, Ashlyn Sullivan and Brian Sexton offer news and insights during a busy third week of OTAs at TIAA Bank Field plus the Jaguars Foundation Golf Classic.
Jaguars rookie safety Ronnie Harrison recaps the first days of OTAs on Jaguars.com Live.
Jaguars wide receiver Donte Moncrief discusses his first few weeks with the organization, plus linebacker Myles Jack makes a surprise appearance on Jaguars.com Live.
NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah recaps the Jaguars' haul in the 2018 NFL Draft on Jaguars.com Live.
First-round draft pick defensive lineman Taven Bryan visits with J.P. Shadrick and Ashlyn Sullivan and answers social media questions on Jaguars.com Live.
A preview of the 2018 NFL Draft including a live report from Dallas with Brian Sexton and long-time Cowboys executive Gil Brandt on Jaguars.com Live.
Jaguars wide receiver Jaydon Mickens joins Jaguars.com Live in the US Assure Club East a day ahead of the 2018 State of the Franchise.
Draftanalyst.com publisher Tony Pauline takes a look at the upcoming NFL Draft, plus a look at the top tweets from the week on Jaguars.com Live.
Dane Brugler of NFLDraftScout.com previews prospects for the 2017 NFL Draft, plus a recap of Calais Campbell's visit to EverBank Field earlier in the week on Jaguars.com Live.
A look back at the 2018 NFL Annual Meeting, plus a look at the Top Tweets of the week on Jaguars.com Live.
ESPN senior writer Mike Sando visits with John Oehser at the NFL Annual Meeting in Orlando.
NFL Network reporter Steve Wyche visits with John Oehser at the NFL Annual Meeting in Orlando.
Peter King of TheMMQB.com visits with John Oehser at the NFL Annual Meeting in Orlando.
Reaction to the release of Marcedes Lewis and Allen Hurns, plus Chris Trapasso of CBS Sports takes a look at the Jaguars in the 2018 NFL Draft on Jaguars.com Live.
A look at news and notes from the free agency negotiation period, plus top memories from the Jaguars career of linebacker Paul Posluszny on Jaguars.com Live.
SiriusXM NFL insider Adam Caplan previews free agency with J.P. Shadrick, John Oehser and Brian Sexton, and Ashlyn Sullivan checks in with left tackle Cam Robinson on Jaguars.com Live.
ESPN.com senior writer John Clayton visits with John Oehser and J.P. Shadrick at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
SiriusXM NFL Radio host and Sporting News NFL Columnist Alex Marvez visits with John Oehser at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
Jaguars General Manager Dave Caldwell visits with John Oehser and J.P. Shadrick at the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
Bleacher Report NFL Draft lead writer Matt Miller previews the NFL Scouting Combine, plus a look exercised options for 2018 on Jaguars.com Live.


Though a strapless neckline admittedly conjures thoughts of prom, we looked to the streets for inspiration on how to make the silhouette feel relevant again—and we found it. If you're slipping into a strapless dress or jumpsuit, make sure the length is midi, and to keep it sporty and stylish, tie a pullover sweater around your waist and accessorize with a pair of white sneakers.
Would you wear a strapless neckline this way? Tell us in the comments!


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Oil spill in Gulf of Mexico in maps and graphics
A massive operation is under way in and around the Gulf of Mexico to halt a leak from a blown-out oil well and prevent the spread of the slick.
The graphic above shows the scene 1,524m (5,000 feet) beneath the waves where oil is leaking out of the damaged remnants of the oil well apparatus.
Below we explain the various attempts to stem the leak from the damaged oil lines on the sea bed.
Underwater efforts to cap oil leak
Initially, BP tried to lower a 125-tonne, 18-metre (59 feet) high container dome over the main leak on the sea floor. However, this failed when gas leaking from the pipe mixed with water to form hydrates, ice-like crystals, that blocked up the steel canopy.
Instead, engineers have lowered a smaller device onto the site. Dubbed the Top hat, it will sit over the tear in the pipe and partially stop the leak. To prevent the build up of hydrates, methanol is pumped into the top hat to disperse the water and gas.
The top hat is 1.5m (5 feet) high and 1.2m in diameter. Two special side lines are used to pump methanol into the top hat to displace water and gas leaking from the broken oil pipe. This should prevent the build-up of hydrates. Once in place, oil can be pumped up to the surface.
BP plan to lower the original subsea containment dome over the top hat to provide a better seal over the leaking site and pump oil up to the surface. This time, it will be attached to a pipe that can pump warm water into the dome to prevent the build-up of hydrates.
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Meanwhile, four robotic submersibles have been trying to activate the blow-out preventer, a set of huge valves designed to seal the well.
Experts believe the blow-out preventer (BOP) must have partially triggered otherwise the flow of oil to the surface would be more extreme than it is.
In an unusual move, BP, the British oil giant which contracted another company to drill the well, has also started using dispersant chemicals down at the leak site as well as on the surface.
A long-term solution is also in progress - drilling a relief well which can tap into the leaking well and take the pressure off the broken well. However, it could be three months before this is operational.
Up to five thousand barrels a day are thought to be leaking from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig which sank on 22 April after an explosion in which 11 workers lost their lives.
The delicate eco-system of the gulf coastline is rich in wildlife including the brown pelican, many species of duck, turtles, and whales.
There are fears that the disaster could reach the scale of the 11m gallon Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska in 1989.
How the oil has spread
Approximate oil locations 22 April - 15 May
TACKLING THE OIL SLICK
Emergency teams are using several methods in attempts to deal with the oil at the surface, which has created a slick covering about 2,000 sq miles (5,200 sq km).
More than 275 vessels, including skimmers, tugs, barges and recovery vessels, are being used.
Skimmers, which skate over the water, brushing up the oil are also being employed and more than 90,000 barrels of oil-water mix have been removed.
Around 190 miles of floating boom are being used as part of the efforts to stop oil reaching the coast. A US charity is even making booms out of nylon tights, animal fur and human hair. Hair donations have been sent from around the world to help make the special booms, which will be laid on beaches to soak up any oil that washes ashore.
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The Mueller report into Russian election meddling is scheduled to be released in all its redacted glory Thursday morning. It will be a lot of new information to quickly take in and assess for everyone involved. Everyone, that is, except for the Trump legal team, which, the New York Times reports, has already had multiple conversations with officials at the Department of Justice about the Mueller report's conclusions. Wait, what? That's right, the principle subject of the investigation, the president and his team, has already been briefed on the probe's findings by the very department overseeing the inquiry, the Justice Department. Let's not forget that congressional investigations into the president remain unresolved, making this very much an active legal matter.
Perhaps most important to Trump is the coming skirmish over public opinion and the shaping of public perception surrounding the findings. The tipping off of the president's lawyers would certainly give Trump a leg up on crafting the narrative. The president now has the ability to get out ahead of what's coming, much of which will likely be deeply unflattering to Trump irrespective of the conduct in question's literal legality. If all of that seems a bit off to you, you're obviously not the attorney general of the United States, or the president for that matter.
The contacts between the Justice Department and the White House have raised concerns about whether newly installed Attorney General Bill Barr is acting based on his allegiance to the president or his legal assessment of the information in Robert Mueller's report. The fact that, according to the Times' reporting, these consultations with the White House did not appear to include simply handing over a copy of the report for the Trump legal team to prep shows the underlying belief that giving unique, early access to the person being investigated—even the president—would be improper. Multiple people who were briefed on the plan told the Times that while "[t]he president's aides have devised a strategy where numerous lawyers and political aides will quickly read different parts of the document to develop a rebuttal strategy" the DOJ discussions "have aided the president's legal team as it prepares a rebuttal to the report and strategizes for the coming public war over its findings."
I'm deeply troubled by reports that the WH is being briefed on the Mueller report AHEAD of its release. Now, DOJ is informing us we will not receive the report until around 11/12 tomorrow afternoon — AFTER Barr's press conference. This is wrong. #ReleaseTheReport https://t.co/bR50HhGJ0i
— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) April 17, 2019
The comments to the Times indicate that the White House hasn't already seen the entirety of the report, but it will be interesting to see the speed and level of specificity of the Trump legal team's response to the report's release. An immediate turnaround of highly detailed, footnoted rebuttals of the most damning accusations, for instance, would strongly hint that individuals within the Justice Department tipped the White House off, and substantially so. Further questions have been raised about why Barr is planning to hold a press conference Thursday morning before the actual release of the Mueller report that essentially no one else in the world has read. Given the attorney general's Trump-friendly initial reading when releasing his summary of Mueller's conclusions last month, which Trump picked up on and has hammered home day after day as "total exoneration," the press conference looks like an opportunity for Barr to again steer the debate by lobbing yet another alley-oop to the president.
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Elliot Hannon is a Slate staff writer.


When T. Dan Smith took over the reigns as head of Newcastle City Council in 1959 he became one of the first local leaders in the United Kingdom to recognise the importance of urban planning in coping with the bundle of problems faced by cities and towns all around the country. Smith wasted little time and soon after his appointment named Wilfred Burns as the city's Planning Officer. Burns came with considerable pedigree, having been involved in the reconstruction of Coventry after large parts of the city were leveled in aerial bombing raids during the Second World War..
By 1963 Burns and his small team had published the infamous Development Plan Review which proposed a wholesale redevelopment of Newcastle's city centre. The audacity and ambition of the plan thrust Smith into the national spotlight, and in professing his desire to transform the city into the 'Brasilia of the North' Newcastle soon became synonymous with a strain of planning that would later become one of the most publicly-reviled in history.
T. Dan Smith. © Amber Online, 1987.
Part of the impetus for wholesale change in British city centres in the 1950s was the increasing number of cars on the road. Automobiles—although still a mark of affluence—were becoming more widely available to the public following the end of the war. Towns which had been built to Victorian—or even medieval—blueprints were sagging under the weight of city centre traffic problems. Alleviating city centre traffic became one of the central concerns of 1960s planners, and in Newcastle Wilfred Burns sought to strike a balance between pedestrian and vehicular accessibility in his proposed urban designs.
His solution was segregation. Pedestrians and traffic would occupy discrete zones in an ideal Newcastle, with neither having to interact with the other.
To achieve this segregation it was necessary to consider whether the vehicles should be dropped to a basement level, whether the pedestrian should be lifted up to a new ground level or whether vehicles should be on top of the pedestrians.
Burns settled on a mixture the first two, believing that elevating pedestrians above road traffic would create the most vibrant and enjoyable city centre experience. This amounted to creating a dense network pedestrian decks and walkways that traversed the whole city centre all the way from the top of Northumberland Street rolling down to the banks of the River Tyne. In theory a pedestrian would be able to walk the length of the entire city centre without having to cross a single road.
The effect of this scheme is, therefore, to secure segregation of pedestrians and vehicles in the vertical plane, provide for easy servicing to all the shops and to provide car parking facilities with access to cars at the road level but egress by pedestrians on to the shopping deck.
Proposed elevated shopping area. © Wilfred Burns.
Proposal for re-development of Newcastle city centre including elevated precincts and walkways. View from the top of Nortumberland Street. © Wilfred Burns.
Model of proposed changes to Newcastle city centre. © Wilfred Burns.
As the mockups and models show, Burns was zealous in his application of this theory. The topography of the city is significantly altered and if it had been carried through to the end, the city would look entirely different today.
Although Burns's Newcastle masterplan enjoys a certain auspicious position in planning lore (more for its novelty than its dexterity), the majority of his ideas were never realised. Any hope of a cohesive implementation were dashed by a mixture of public dissatisfaction and financial constraints. Some elements of the city centre scheme did see the light of day but progress was glacial and granular. Both the Central Motorway system and Eldon Square were born out of the pair's plan, although they were both long gone from Newcastle City Council before the projects were completed.
Other developments were more fragmentary. Smith succeeded in attracting some noted architects to the project, most notably Basil Spence (Central Library, 1968) and Arne Jacobsen (unrealised Hotel plans, 1967) and his commissions fueled the ascendancy of the industrious Ryder & Yates (various projects, notably in Killingworth).
These projects represent the most enduring facets of T. Dan Smith and Wilfred Burns's legacy but there are other fragmentary, ghostly remains of their utopian dream hidden in the city's built environment. Chief among them are the vestigial remnants of the grand elevated pedestrian walkway system. Some of them are tucked away in largely unvisited parts of central Newcastle while others are used with relative frequency.
A small network of skywalks built to carry pedestrians from Basil Spence's central library over the Central Motorway and into the East End of the city is the most prominent remaining example.
While this section is fairly complete, other parts of the skywalk network were built speculatively with the obvious assumption that they would be completed one day. The most startling example of this is an unfinished elevated walkway to nowhere that runs under the Tyne Bridge.
Unfinished walkway under the Tyne Bridge.
Plans to create skywalks over Northumberland Street were never realised, but they were fully anticipated by the developers of what is now Primark's building. If you look closely at the side of the building, you can see blocks poking out of the the walls running in a line all the way along. Far from being architectural flourishes, these anachronisms are structural ledges which were originally intended to support a skywalk. They are also in evidence on the back of the neighboring old Mcdonalds and old HMV buildings.
Unused skywalk supports along the side of Primark on Northumberland Street.
Further unused skywalk supports on the back of the McDonalds and old HMV buildings.
Another skywalk which was built is an offshoot of the library walkway network stretching down past Manors car park into the run down East Pilgrim Street area. This one allows egress to the car park itself, which was one of the primary functions of the walkways. There's a fenced-off stub of walkway which was presumably meant to connect to an elevated walkway along the side of Bank House, which is now demolished.
The Manors elevated walkway and stub viewed from the derelict base of the former Bank House building.
Manors skywalk stub overhanging on the left – presumably intended to connect to an elevated walkway on the side of Bank House. The concrete structure pictured was the base of Bank House and presumably survived demolition because a structural support for Swan House is built into it.
If Burns's plans for a city of elevated pedestrian walkways were ambitious, Ryder & Yates's proposal for the regeneration of the Quayside area was audacious. As the hub of Newcastle's industry, the Quayside enjoyed over a century of prosperity but by the time T. Dan Smith was in office it was deeply derelict and left reeling from years of post-war deindustrialisation and neglect. Smith turned to the trusted Ryder & Yates to figure out how to revitalise the area and—possibly inspired by Wilfred Burns's love of pedestrian decks—came up with the Tyne Deck plan.
Ryder & Yates proposed decking over the River Tyne, from one side to the other, and building a sprawling conference centre complex on top. Few can deny the sheer audacity of this plan. It's doubtful whether even the most radical members of Burns's planning team would have countenanced the idea, but its very conception captures the utopian mood of the 1960s planning scene in Newcastle.
The proposed Tyne Deck © Ryder & Yates, 1969.
The development in visual terms of the monumental building complex in an area of historical development representing continuity of major achievements and thus unifying the aspirations of the Region… The destruction of a boundary and the formation of a new City of Tyneside … The transformation of an area potentially the most vital on the Tyne, from dereliction to the centre of public activity, a symbol of re-birth… The upper Tyne transformed into a linear lake with all the advantages to be derived from the constant water level with its banks not exposed disfigured and eroded by an ebbing tide… A reservoir beneficial to the Water Company particularly on the completion of the Solway barrage for retaining water from the Lake District.
The deck would have contained in its structure sluice gates to control upstream water levels, locks to allow small craft through, and a salmon leap. "The principal function of the deck is to create an acceptable site for the erection of important public buildings that will be related to the new administrative boundaries, and to the Region. Acceptable in the sense that the Deck being part of the river is the common inheritence of Tyneside, reaching beyond reactionary parochial attitudes and, in terms of precise location, the historic centre of the people of the Tyne.
— Ryder & Yates Architects, 1969.
 Wilfred Burns, A study in Re-planning at Newcastle Upon Tyne (1967): 27.
 Ryder & Yates, 'Tyne Deck' in Northern Architect – Journal of the Northern Architectural Association (May 1969), extract posted on Skyscrapercity.
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Thanks for this excellent post I am visiting Newcastle tomorrow for 3 days and I am going to use this information to go a walk of all the unbuilt and amazingly utopian areas!
There were similar plans for Leeds, and similarly some sections were built. Most of it was demolished in the 1990s / early 2000s but there are still a few fragments here and there, including some "vestigial" sections created on buildings constructed when the plans were still in place, but that were never linked to the "live" sections. Probably the largest remaining section is one of these "never linked" ones on the former Bank of England regional office where the "inverted ziggurat" form of the overall building is disturbed by sections of walkway built onto two of the sides. There were other buildings, now gone, which never had walkways but had incongruous entrances built into them, stranded high up a wall, such as the Millgarth Police station (now demolished).


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Your Sister's Sister begins with an intervention. It's a year after the death of Tom, brother of Jack (Mark Duplass) and ex-boyfriend of Iris (Emily Blunt). Some friends get together to remember him and Jack ends up drunkenly yelling at the one making a heartfelt speech. Iris decides it is time to step in and help him get his life together, sending him off to her father's house on a secluded island for some much-needed alone time.
When Jack arrives, though, he finds he has company for his solo soul-searching. Iris' sister Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) has sought refuge there also, recovering from a breakup with her girlfriend of seven years. Hannah and Jack hit the tequila, and before long, end up in bed together. The next morning, Iris shows up. From here on in, things get incredibly messy.
The best part of this film is undoubtedly Emily Blunt. She does down-to-earth very well, and she is as endearing as ever as Iris. DeWitt is very likeable also, and the two work well together as sisters. These two amazing female leads make sure that a story that only really has three characters is captivating enough to hold your attention until the end. They also make up for the fact that Duplass as Jack is, at times, not entirely likeable— this is probably intentional as his character is meant to be at his lowest point.
Despite having the high-profile Blunt as a lead, this is one of those low-key, indie films that try to be as realistic as possible. The style is instantly noticeable. Mostly, it works, because the characters' conversations and the emotions they are experiencing are so interesting— and yes, fairly realistic. It does mean that there are some parts that drag on though, as in parts without dialogue that don't have the trappings of a shiny Hollywood film (ie: shiny pop songs with lyrics that tell you how the silent character is feeling), things can become a bit bland.
The secluded setting is more beautiful than bland, though, and creates the sense that this is very much a personal story, a simple tale of three interconnected people who are trying to sort out their lives and emotions. The film is fairly short also, making it seem like a snapshot of real life rather than an epic love story. With a clever ending that doesn't quite tie up loose ends, Your Sister's Sister is unconventional, intelligent and an enjoyable watch.
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It's big news when the second largest bookseller – Borders – gives up and decides to close their doors. Their remaining 399 stores will be gone by the end of September along with 10,700 jobs. And there's a lesson here for every business owner who thinks exceptional service is enough. It isn't.
We'll take a look at how some ordinary businesses can go beyond exceptional service into the realms of experience and relationship.
And a once reliable source for information has definitely bitten the credibility bullet. eMarketer ran two stories – a week apart – that directly contradict each other. Did they think no one would notice? Well, I did. After I paste them across the wall, we'll take their bonehead reporting and show you how to do good things in your business, and for your customers.
Then there's Carri Bugbee. A marketing professional who dove into social media and bumped her head.
Her original article claims 7 ways to integrate social media on your site, but 2 of them were so bad I just dropped them completely. Listen to hear what the others are, which ones are good, and which ones you should "run screaming away from." And we have a little fun in the process.


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Corning Watch: Glass museum tells story of Corning Inc.
Corning Museum of Glass expansion will open March 20.
Pyrex exhibit will open June 6 at the museum.
New wing at museum will have 26,000-foot gallery to display contemporary glass.
Wing is being built on the site that previously was home to Steuben art glass.
Next year will bring a rare convergence of major public events at Corning Inc. and the Corning Museum of Glass.
On March 20, the two organizations will open the new, $64 million North Wing at the museum.
Then on June 6, the museum's Rakow Research Library will launch an exhibit called "America's Favorite Dish: Celebrating a Century of Pyrex."
The two events are important to an understanding of how the Twin Tiers' largest employer grew in the past 100 years and where it's headed in the future.
Pyrex, of course, is the "accidental" product that launched Corning Inc.'s consumer housewares business in 1915.
The 100th anniversary next year is a milestone not just because it became one of the most beloved bakeware products in America. The discovery also led Corning Inc. — then known as Corning Glass Works — into the lucrative fields of scientific and medical glass. In fact, one of the largest pieces of Pyrex ever made — the failed casting of the 200-inch disc for the Hale Telescope at Mt. Palomar, Calif. — remains a centerpiece of the museum today.
If you want a sneak peek at the the Pyrex products that won the hearts of American cooks, drop in at Donna's Restaurant, 48 E. Market St., Corning.
There, Donna Robbins, who will celebrate her 30th year as owner next April 1, has lined the walls with shelves crammed full of one of the best local private collections of Pyrex.
She would probably be willing to tell you about it even if you didn't buy a cup of coffee and a piece of her homemade and self-named nutter butter peanut butter chocolate ribbon pie.
Across the Chemung River, at the north end of the museum, the new North Wing is taking shape. It replaces the former factory where Corning's renowned Steuben art glass was made by hand. Corning Inc. sold Steuben in 2008 and it later went out of business.
The 100,000-square-foot North Wing will have a 26,000-square-foot gallery to display contemporary art glass.
The wing will also contain one of the world's largest facilities for glassblowing demonstrations and live glass-design sessions. There will be seating for 500 and a surrounding balcony at the gallery level.
Even though Corning Inc. no longer makes Pyrex or owns the name, the two events are appropriate for a museum that itself was part of an anniversary celebration when it opened in 1951. It commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Houghton's family's entry into the glass business in 1851.


Badie was born in New Orleans in 1925, and no doubt caught the music bug from his father who played saxophone with several local bands. After a stint in the Navy, Badie used the G.I. Bill to pay his way through the Grunewald School of Music, graduating in 1949. He joined the Buccaneers, a band that played joints around New Orleans, including the celebrated Dew Drop Inn, where he had the chance to meet singer Roy Brown. Brown had scored major R&B hits with "Good Rockin' Tonight" in 1948 and "Rockin' at Midnite" in '49, and in 1951 he was looking to put together a new band. Badie got hired and toured with Brown for about a year, recording the sides "Rock a Bye Baby" and "Answer to Big Town" in Cincinnati. On "Rock a Bye," Badie can be heard swinging his way through the blues progression with a stout and punchy acoustic bass tone, though on "Answer" he seems barely present in the mix. In 1952, Badie found himself back in the Crescent City, playing with Paul Gayten's group, and applying his skills to a new instrument: the Fender Precision Bass. A fill-in gig with bandleader Dave Bartholomew, opening up for famed jazz artist Lionel Hampton, led to a stint with Hamp from 1953–56. An interesting footnote: Hampton was one of the earliest supporters of the electric bass; in fact, he bought a P-Bass in 1951 for his band and made his bassists play the newfangled thing on the road. Badie's predecessor Monk Montgomery (brother of jazz guitar legend Wes) is credited as being perhaps the first ever to record with the Fender bass, and certainly the first to do so in jazz. Badie toured Europe extensively with Hamp and recorded several sides, including Apollo Hall Concert 1954 and Live in Vienna. When his father became ill in 1956, Badie came home again and worked locally, including gigs with Ellis Marsalis' American Jazz Quintet.
In 1960, Badie was playing at the Dew Drop Inn again when he was approached by legendary producer/arranger/pianist/artist Allen Toussaint to do session work for Minit and Instant Records, two labels that produced many of the classic New Orleans R&B hits. It should be noted that despite his ability on electric bass, Badie recorded most of his tracks on upright bass. Several of these tunes fall into a category I refer to as "New Orleans Twist grooves," a beat somewhat similar to "The Twist" (examined in April '16), as performed by Hank Ballard and Chubby Checker. Where the latter Twist featured steady quarter-note bass lines, the New Orleans version finds the bass playing more of a two-beat feel with funky embellishments, leaving space in the groove for the snare drum. A classic example of this is Barbara George's 1961 hit "I Know You Don't Love Me No More," recorded for AFO (All For One), the city's first all-blackowned record label—a collective in which Badie was a partner. Example 1 is similar to Badie's line on the intro, which establishes the basic groove for the track, and features the ubiquitous I–IV–I–V cadence in bars 3 and 4, played with a syncopated rhythm that has become a signature of the genre.
Another classic track Badie anchored is a Carnival favorite, 1960's "Ooo Poo Pa Doo" by Jessie Hill. This 12-bar N.O. Twist in E creates a nonstop party whenever it gets played, and I have personally performed this song for over 30 minutes while backing the late, great New Orleans singing star Johnny Adams. While Badie alters his line throughout the track, Ex. 2 is a good representation of his sparser approach. In 1962, Badie played on Benny Spellman's "Lipstick Traces," a song that peaked at #28 on Billboard's R&B charts, but has become one of the genre's defining tunes. Example 3 shows how Badie locks in with Toussaint's left hand to play a parade-style rhythm that hits three strong downbeats followed by a funky syncopation that propels the groove forward.
While best known for Otis Redding's raved-up version, the song "Land of 1,000 Dances" was written and recorded first by Chris Kenner, a New Orleans longshoreman who had several influential hits in the early '60s. Kenner's version features a slow, funky, tango-like beat under a one-chord vamp that finds Badie playing roots and 5ths to establish the groove, then adding a variety of rhythms to end the two-bar phrase. Listening with modern ears, it's easy to miss the innovativeness of this groove, but in '62 this stuff was as fresh as it gets. Example 4 shows a few variations that Badie employed through the track.
In 1961, Ernie K-Doe's "Mother in Law" hit #1 on both the Billboard Top 100 and R&B charts, and this Toussaint composition and production got the whole world grooving to the New Orleans beat, with Chuck Badie supplying the thump. Example 5 shows how he funks up the basic pulse with syncopated rhythms. By the way, that's Benny Spellman singing the lowpitched "mother-in-law" that became the vocal hook for the tune, and Jessie Hill is heard answering the phrase in a higher register.
Badie's catalog of classic New Orleans tracks also includes Irma Thomas' "It's Raining" and Chris Kenner's "Something You Got," but in 1963, Badie moved his family to Los Angeles in hope of greater financial opportunities. While the move did not prove permanent, he managed to connect with R&B/soul star Sam Cooke for a ten-month stint that found the bassist playing on and contributing the intro to Cooke's masterpiece civil rights anthem, "A Change Is Gonna Come." With Cooke's untimely death, Badie moved home and continued playing. Now 91 years old, Badie is retired and still living in New Orleans.
One of the things I love most about writing this column is discovering who played on songs that have been a part of my own musical development. As a long-time fan, student, and performer of classic R&B, it's exciting to learn about the heroes behind the scenes, and it's an honor to share their stories. Although I knew his work intimately, Peter "Chuck" Badie was one of those players whose name was a mystery—until I started digging for R&B Gold.


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Our Chef, Jeff Lavia-Garcia has been a regular on the local cooking show "Community Cooking" for a little over 10 years. His very first show was recorded back in 2008 where he met and filmed with for the first time, hostess with the mostest, Maria Prekeges. Jeff made an Italian Grilled Steak and a Panzanilla Salad. Jeff and Maria had an instant connection and chemistry onscreen and have become friends over the years. Together they have filmed well over 20 episodes together. Jeff has also filmed with a couple of the other hosts as well adding up to more episodes than he can remember.
When Jeff first started filming Community Cooking, it was filmed in a local elementary school home economics classroom. He has seen the show grow over the years to, where now, the show has it's own set in the studios of Torrance Citi Cable. The show, Community Cooking, focuses on the Torrance Farmer's Market and all of the delicious fresh produce. Guest chefs from the local community are featured on the show providing recipes and ideas that are inspired by this farmer's market.
A little known fact about our Chef Jeff is that early in his career as a private chef he received a lot of media attention. In 2008, he was interviewed and featured in a front page article in the LA Times Business Section Sunday Edition. He was also featured in local magazines like Long Beach Magazine, and a few of his recipes have been published in national newspapers as well as cookbooks like Orange County Fare. His first national award was given to him in 2008 by a national network of private chefs as a Pacesetter in his industry. Since this time he has been interviewed and featured in various blogs as well as winning the Long Beach Press Telegram's 2015 People's Choice Award for Best Chef in Long Beach.
Community Cooking is filmed in Torrance and produced by Jin Chun.
"It's always so much fun to film episodes of Community Cooking. I always look forward to seeing Jin, Maria and the whole crew," says Lavia-Garcia.
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Q: "Class 'HTML' not found" in Laravel I'm using Laravel 5.6 for my project. The problem is I got an error message "Class 'HTML' not found" when I include this tag in my form.
{{ HTML::ul($errors->all()) }}

I already included the "laravelcollective/html": "^5.4.0" in my composer, config/app.php and my controller.

A: Define Alias in app.php
 'aliases' => [
// ...
  'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
  'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
// ...],

And use Html not HTML

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Stations and Apparatus
Station 1, 186 NH Rt. 49 (Central)
This is the Main Station which Campton-Thornton Fire Rescue operates from and is staffed with 2 Full-Time Firefighter/EMTs, 7 days a week from 6 a.m to 6 p.m. This station houses Ambulance 1, Engine 1 and 3, Rescue 1, Forestry 2, Car 2, and Utility 1, along with both our snowmobile and Special Operations trailers.
35 Car 1
This is a Ford F-150. This unit is assigned to the Fire Chief and is used for quick response, ahead of other apparatus. It carries basic equipment for EMS, Fire, Motor Vehicle Accidents and Technical/ Water Rescue. The Rear of the unit has 2 mobile radios and can be used for incident command and accountability at large incidents. You can see that this truck has a cap on the back so the Chief can keep his gear out of the cab of the vehicle. This is important so that carcinogens (the main cause of cancer to firefighters) are out of the vehicle.
35 Ambulance 1
35 Ambulance 1- 2019 Chevrolet/ Arrow which is equipped to the Paramedic level of care.
35 Engine 1
2007 Rosenbauer/ Spartan, which holds 2500 gallons of water and is used primarily for hauling water to fire scenes.
2012 Ford E-450 / Road Rescue which is equipped to the Paramedic level of care.
35 Rescue 1
2017 E-One. This truck carries technical rescue equipment for High/Low Angle and Water Rescue. It also has a cascade system for refilling SCBA bottles, as well as equipment for Haz-Mat and lifting.
2005 HME/ Central States which carries 1500 gallons of water and equipment for Fires, Haz-Mat and Motor Vehicle Accidents. This unit is our primary response unit for all fire related emergencies.
35 Snowmobile 1
2010 Ski-Doo Skandic Snowmobile which is housed in a 2- place snowmobile trailer outside of Station 1. It tows a Rescue Toboggan that is capable of transporting a patient from the scene of an accident to an awaiting ambulance. The Toboggan was donated by the Central NH Snowmobile Club, which maintains approximately 65 miles of trails in the three towns.
35 Utility 1
2013 Chevy Silverado which is used for transporting hose and other equipment after fires, transporting personnel to calls and towing our Special Operations Trailer.
2010 Chevy Tahoe, which is used to transport personnel to calls in place of larger apparatus, as well as transportation to training's and towing the snowmobile trailer.
35 ATV 1
2005 Polaris Ranger 500, which is used for search and rescue, forestry fires, and other special assignments. The tracks were purchased through an Assistance to Firefighters Grant in 2008, at no cost to taxpayers.
Station 2 (Thornton Station)
This station houses Engine 4
This station is located on Merrill Access Road, adjacent to the Thornton Town Hall.
2001 Freightliner/ Central States which carries 1500 gallons of water and other firefighting and Haz-Mat equipment. It also carries and AED.
Station 3 (Blair Station)
This station is located at 428 NH Route 175 in Campton. This station houses Engine 2 and the Forestry during the winter months and the snowmobile during the summer.
1999 Freightliner/ Central States which carries 1500 gallons of water and other firefighting and Haz-Mat equipment. This unit also carries an AED.
35 Forestry 2
2004 Ford F-450 which is housed at Station 3 during the Winter months and at Station 1 during the Summer. The Forestry carries 250 gallons of water, 30 gallons of foam and several thousand feet of forestry hose. It also carries a wide variety of tools and other equipment for fighting forest fires. This unit was purchased with Funding from the 2004 Assistance to Firefighter Grant, at minimal cost to our residents. Much of the equipment on this unit was purchased through grant money from NH Forests and Lands at minimal cost to our residents.
In case you were wondering, 35 Forestry 1 was retired many years ago and not replaced.
Retired Apparatus
1999 F-550/ Central States. This truck is now retired and was traded in during the purchase of the new Rescue 1.
Our former 1991 Mack/ Central States, Engine 5 was retired and sold at the time of the purchase of the new Rescue 1. This truck will be dearly missed by many.
This is the former Car 2, a 2004 Chevy Tahoe, this has been since replaced with a new vehicle.
Original 35 Ambulance 1
35 Ambulance 1- 2007 Ford/ Horton which was traded in during the purchase of the 2019 Ambulance 1.
Copyright © 2019 Campton-Thornton Fire Rescue


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Q: Determining if Cancel Button pressed where InputBox variable declared as Double I have my variable declared as a double so I can perform mathematical operations on it.
I am trying to determine when the cancel button is pressed.
Dim thckmax As Double

thckmax = InputBox("What is the maximum nominal thickness?", "Enter Max Nominal Thickness Measurement")
If thckmax = 0 Then
     GoTo Line3
End If

thckmin = InputBox("What is the minimum nominal thickness?", "Enter Min Nominal Thickness Measurement")
If thckmin = 0 Then
     GoTo Line3
End If
thcknom = (thckmax + thckmin) / 2
Worksheets(1).Range("C" & cols + 2).Value = thcknom
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.
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Line3: ...

I know I used GoTo. It was a quick and easy fix to get the code up and running.
I get Run-Time error 13 type mismatch. I have also tried CDbl(...),StrPtr(...),IsEmpty(...) and instead of setting them equal to zero I have also tried
If thckmax = "" Then
    GoTo Line3
End If`

I cannot get anything to work as far as determining if cancel was pressed and going to Line3:.
All posts I found indicate the declared variable as a string, mine is a double.

A: You could try something like this to test whether or not the input box was canceled and if it is numeric.
Dim thckmaxTest As String
Dim thckmax As Double

thckmaxTest = InputBox("What is the maximum nominal thickness?", "Enter Max Nominal Thickness Measurement")
If thckmaxTest <> vbNullString and IsNumeric(thckmaxTest) then thckmax = CDbl(thckmaxTest)
If thckmax = 0 Then
     GoTo Line3
End If

Dim thckminTest As String
Dim thckmin As Double

thckminTest = InputBox("What is the minimum nominal thickness?", "Enter Min Nominal Thickness Measurement")
If thckminTest <> vbNullString and IsNumeric(thckmibTest) then thckmin = CDbl(thckminTest)
If thckmin = 0 Then
     GoTo Line3
End If
thcknom = (thckmax + thckmin) / 2
Worksheets(1).Range("C" & cols + 2).Value = thcknom

A: As is noted in Microsoft's documentation, the InputBox function returns a string.
How then, you may ask, can you sometimes store the return value from an InputBox to an integer value? Because of implicit coercion. Basically, if you try to store a value in an incompatible variable, VBA attempts to coerce the value to the right data type. If you try to store a string value into a Double variable, VBA attempts to coerce the string into the right data type. This occurs whether you use InputBox or a hard-coded string. For example, the following snippets are equivalent:
Dim x as Double
x = "5"
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Dim x As Double
x = InputBox("Enter a number")
' user enters 5

When using InputBox, you of course have no control over whether the user enters valid input. Which is why (as @Dude_Scott mentions), you should store user input into a string, and then make sure you have the right value.
If the user clicks Cancel in the inputbox, the empty string is returned (as per documentation above). Since the empty string can't be implicitly coerced to a double, an error is generated. It's the same thing that would happen if the user entered "apples" in the InputBox.
As @Dude_Scott notes, you should use IsNumeric (or something similar) to make sure that the user input is what you need. However, you don't need to include a check for a null or empty string (since IsNumeric returns False for those values). So you really just need something like this:
Public Sub foo()
    Dim xDouble As Double, xString As String

    xString = InputBox("Enter a number")

    If IsNumeric(xString) Then
        xDouble = CDbl(xString)
        MsgBox xDouble
    Else
        MsgBox "Invalid number"
    End If
End Sub

For more information about coercion, see the following Microsoft articles:

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*Conversions Between Strings and Other Types

*Implicit and Explicit Conversions

A:
All others I have found indicate the declared variable as a string, mine is a DOUBLE

You can't have a Double. The function returns a String, and you can't change that. Using a Double to capture the result will cause problems sooner or later.
What I was trying to explain in a comment box earlier, is that there's a possibility that 0 might be a valid input, so immediately converting the input into a Double is preventing you from being able to tell cancellation from a legit 0 - regardless of the type mismatch error that's guaranteed to happen whenever the resut isn't numeric.
As other answers show, this involves quite a bit of plumbing: enough to warrant being pulled into its own dedicated wrapper function.
The problem is that functions return one value, so you can return a Double and pick a specific "magic value" to mean "input was cancelled", but that's a poor practice.
A better way is to make the wrapper function return a Boolean, and leverage a ByRef parameter to return the result - a function like this returns False if the user cancels the prompt, True if the prompt was not cancelled, and outResult will be either 0 for a non-numeric input, or the input converted to a Double:
Public Function TryGetDoubleInput( _
    ByVal prompt As String, _
    ByVal title As String, _
    ByVal default As String, _
    ByRef outResult As Double) _
As Boolean
    Dim result As String
    result = VBA.Interaction.InputBox(prompt, title, default)
    TryGetDoubleInput = StrPtr(result) <> 0 'return false if cancelled
    If IsNumeric(result) Then outResult = CDbl(result)
End Function

Can be used like this:
Dim value As Double
If TryGetDoubleInput("Enter a numeric value:", "Prompt", "0.00", value) Then
    If value = 0 Then
        MsgBox "You entered either 0 or a non-numeric value"
    Else
        MsgBox "You entered " & CStr(value) ' note the irony
    End If
Else
    MsgBox "You cancelled the prompt"
End If

Now if you need to treat invalid values differently than 0 (i.e. if 0 is a legit input), consider throwing an error:
Public Function TryGetDoubleInput( _
    ByVal prompt As String, _
    ByVal title As String, _
    ByVal default As String, _
    ByRef outResult As Double) _
As Boolean
    Dim result As String
    result = VBA.Interaction.InputBox(prompt, title, default)
    If StrPtr(result) = 0 Then Exit Function 'return false if cancelled

    If IsNumeric(result) Then
        outResult = CDbl(result)
        TryGetDoubleInput = True
    Else
        Err.Raise 555, "TryGetDoubleInput", "Non-numeric input is invalid."
    End If
End Function

And now you can use error handling to handle invalid inputs, and you can now tell a legit 0 from a cancelled inputbox from an arbitrary invalid input:
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
Dim value As Double
If TryGetDoubleInput("Enter a numeric value:", "Prompt", "0.00", value) Then
    MsgBox "You entered " & CStr(value) ' note the irony
Else
    MsgBox "You cancelled the prompt"
End If

Exit Sub
ErrHandler:
    MsgBox Err.Description ' "Non-numeric input is invalid."