Sue Spengler has lived in the neighborhood just east of Cheyenne Canyon for three years. She's an avid hiker and loves to explore the nearby trails, but it wasn't until last summer that she first stumbled across the quiet little hiking area known as Strawberry Hill, or Strawberry Fields.
"I discovered it like a lot of people do, sort of accidentally," Spengler explains, "walking up South Cheyenne Canyon area going, 'Hmm... I wonder where this trail leads.'"
Following the unmarked social trails through the woods south of the entrance to Cheyenne Canyon, she eventually found herself in a lush meadow.
"I came out of the little stand of trees into this meadow and the grass was probably 3 or 4 feet high and I felt like I had walked into little Austria or little Switzerland or something and I felt like doing a little Julie Andrews 360 up in the hills," says Spengler.
Since she first discovered it, Spengler says she's taken to hiking Strawberry Hill a few times a month. She likes that it's a little quieter and less developed than other places the area. But she worries that that's all about to change.
This meadow is part of a roughly 190-acre parcel that the Broadmoor would receive from the city in the proposed land exchange. The hotel hopes to build a private "boutique" riding stable and picnic pavilion for its guests on a 7-9 acre section of the property. The meadow is the most likely location.
Spengler, for one, opposes the plan. She believes that the proposed development will "change the very nature of the experience" in the park. And she's not alone. To date, more than 3200 people have signed a petition opposing the exchange.
The forest at Strawberry Hill.
On the rest of the 190 acres—most of which is steep and forested—the Broadmoor plans to develop trails that would be open and accessible to the public.
For some proponents of the deal, this is a major selling point. At a recent community meeting hosted by City Councilman Keith King, Colorado Springs resident Lee Wolf detailed his frustration with the way that the city has managed Strawberry Hill.
"I'm here to point out the obvious fact that the city doesn't have any money to take care of parks," Wolf explained. Wolf argued in support of the deal, saying that he thinks "the Broadmoor will do a better job of taking care of... Strawberry Hill Fields."
Director of the Colorado Springs Parks Department, Karen Palus, doesn't disagree. "I think our team does a phenomenal job," she says. "Are they spending their time and their resources in the more populated, more used area? Most definitely."
Palus also sees the deal as an opportunity to achieve some of the goals set out in the Parks Department's recent Master Plan. According to Palus, in the deal, the public will retain access to all but 7-9 acres of the Strawberry Hill area, while also gaining, "key connections throughout our overall trail system."
A map of the properties included in the proposed swap.
If the deal goes through, the city would receive 370 acres in exchange for Strawberry Hill. This would include parts of the Barr Trail and Manitou Incline that the city is already responsible for maintaining. The deal would also provide easements for the Chamberlain Trail—a proposed trail running from Garden of the Gods to Cheyenne Mountain State park which has been in the works for decades.
For Susan Davies, head of the Trails and Open Space Coalition, the exchange is a pragmatic way to advance the agenda of a Parks Department with limited resources.
"We're underfunded," says Davies, "so I think wherever we can find opportunities to make our dollars go further or to enter sometimes into a private-public partnership that serves the community and serves the system, I think we're very short-sighted if we don't take a hard look at it."
The Trails and Open Space Coalition supports the deal, provided that the Broadmoor guarantees public access to Strawberry Hill and agrees to a perpetual conservation easement on the property. So far, the Broadmoor has accepted these conditions.
But for many critics of the deal, no amount of concessions from the Broadmoor would be enough to convince them to give up this piece of public land. For Sue Spengler, it's a matter of principle.
"It's a philosophical question about inclusion vs exclusion," explains Spengler. "It goes deeper than conservation easements and deeds and trusts and land, it comes down to what kind of experience do you want the public to be able to have, and our tourists… our tourists who are not staying at the Broadmoor."
A view of the Broadmoor looking southeast from a ridge above the meadow at Strawberry Hill.
Spengler and many others have suggested that the city put the issue to a vote. They have also asked that the city look into buying the land that it hopes to acquire using money from the voter approved TOPS fund. Parks Director Karen Palus says, so far, neither of these suggestions have proven feasible for the city, but adds that the parks department has been working hard to incorporate citizen feedback into the plan.
The next public meeting on the land exchange will take place Wednesday, March 30th, from 6-8pm at Gold Camp Elementary School. At this meeting, the city plans to present the appraisals of the the properties included in the deal, and the Broadmoor will provide new details on its building plans for the 7-9 acre stable and pavilion area at Strawberry Hill. A final City Council vote on the proposal is expected later this spring. In the meantime, the Parks Department is encouraging the public to submit comments about the deal on a website devoted to the deal.
A bill that would allow people to collect rain that falls from their rooftops remains hung up in the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee after the chair said he wasn't comfortable with the measure. It's not clear when the committee will vote on it.
The same thing happened last year when the rain barrel bill vote was delayed. And while the bill eventually cleared the Senate Agriculture Committee over the objections of the Republican chair, it failed on the final day of the 2015 legislative session when time ran out.


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The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540–1770
Part of New Approaches to European History
Author: R. Po-Chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University
Date Published: May 2005
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The second edition of The World of Catholic Renewal offers an updated synthesis of the vast scholarship on the history of Catholicism from the Council of Trent in the middle of the sixteenth century to the suppression of the Society of Jesus in the eighteenth century. Professor Hsia discusses the doctrinal and ecclesiastical renewal after Trent and the progress of Catholic reconquest in various lands. He analyses the social composition of the Tridentine clergy and the papal curia and studies the making of early modern sainthood and the enclosure of religious women. Encompassing art and architecture, Ronnie Hsia attempts to understand Catholic renewal as a vast historical development that shaped European civilization and also explores its expansion and encounter with non-Christian cultures in America, Africa, and Asia. The new edition of this acclaimed textbook offers an additional chapter on The Catholic Book as well as an updated bibliography.
Was the first synthesis of the vast scholarship on Catholic renewal in Europe
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7. Bishops and priests
8. Counter-reformation saints
9. Holy women, beatas, demoniacs
10. Art and architecture
11. The Catholic book
12. The Iberian church and empires
13. The Catholic mission in Asia
14. From triumph to crisis.
R. Po-Chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University
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C-DramaRights licenses and distributes Chinese film rights to many TV stations and new media platforms. Here you will find out various genres of Chinese films, such as romance, fantasy, comedy, action, etc.
749To Live and Die in Mongkok
To Live and Die in Mongkok
Set within Mongkok, Hong Kong, an area known as the most crowded in the world, a schizophrenic ex-con views his Mongkok surroundings as a prison he can't get out of after he is released from a 30 years jail sentence.
567Bullet and Brain
Bullet and Brain
The Hong Kong action-packed picture centers on the last mission of two gangsters before they quit the sinister gang. They need to protect the granddaughter of the gang leader.
535Wo Hu
Wo Hu
Police Chief Wai dedicates himself to combating the triads. However, finding evidence to prove the triad leaders' crime is no easy task, and sending undercover cops does not help much. While triads get the news about the massive undercover activity, triad leaders Jim, Walter, and Tommy, each running a certain business for the low-profile triad head, do not quite believe it as a threat. But when Tommy almost gets caught, the triad leaders, including the rising Fei, start to worry about their own established interests. Wai is indeed quietly observing their internal conflicts and planning to strike back.
631I Corrupt All Cops
I Corrupt All Cops
During the time Hong Kong was under British rule, there was a dark age when corruption and bribery were the order of the day. Chinese Chief Inspector Lak together with his gang, Unicorn, Gale and Gold laundered massive sums thereby making Hong Kong an empire of graft. Whenever they failed to apprehend the felons, Unicorn would get innocent victims, like Bong, to admit to the crimes.
507Night and Fog
Night and Fog
Ann Hui's darkly realistic Night and Fog starts at the end of the story: a man murders his wife and, based on statements by unreliable witnesses, the film goes on to investigate how things could have got this far and what kind of man was able to kill his family.
685The Way We Are
The Way We Are
A widowed mother and her teenage son lives in Tin Shui Wai. She works in a supermarket, and helps a colleague get into her new job. The child, in the middle of each and every way, approaches adolescence, hesitantly. We find that the mother has made great sacrifices for her family, and now she gives it and puts everything first for another person who needs her more. The way they are, the way we live, an ode to the salt of the earth.
409Foster Father
Foster Father
Yueyue and her adoptive father Li Qingshan live happily but poor in a small quiet village. One day, Yang Xiuying, her wealthy biological mother, came to take Yueyue into town. Yueyue decides to stay with her adoptive father.Widow Wang Xiuzhi is the lover of Li Qingshan, Li Qingshan also loves her son Babao very much. Wang Xiuzhi intends to take Babao to marry with Li Qingshan and having a baby...
727Twin Bliss
Twin Bliss
It tells the story of Li Dalong and Liu Xiufeng are retired Peking Opera performers. When they are young, two people cooperate last time "Dragon and Phoenix" because of a trifle and enmity, also because of their child Li Cheng and Ji Xiang are a couple, the contradiction is getting more heavy. Li Cheng and Ji Xiang ask uncle Liu Dong to come up with all sorts of methods to dissolve bilateral enmity.......
721From Nobody to Somebody
From Nobody to Somebody
This tells the story of upright and honest Jiang Dali, in a repair shop because of his personality. Fellow Erhu his fiancee Yingzi takes him in. As long as he sees people in need of help, Jiang Dali steps forward to help other people, as time passed, the "Factual Report" host Lin Yun pays attention to the modern Lei Feng...
369He is My Dad
He is My Dad
It tells the story of Gao Dalin as a crew member in a foreign ship, because the work needs, after many time applications he returned to the home after five years. But at this moment, Dalin's wife, son are indifferent to his enthusiasm, especially his 6-year-old son Gao Xiaosong has no impression to him. When his wife Zhang Yue is on a business trip, to make up for the relationship with the son, Dalin try to take the responsibility that should bear as a father...
453Blind Date
Everyone in the small county is getting excited, when the county's most promissing guy Haisheng, come back after college in the city, but busy with career and ignore the marriage and family. With the help of Grandad Yu, a vigorous blind dating event is getting launched.
770The Dream of Car
The Dream of Car
It tells the story of the car shop worker Pillar wants to own a car. He really likes manager Liu Feng's car, often cleans the car and talks to car. For some reasons, after several hands, Pillar and the car finally forges an indissoluble bond, which also complets his wishes.
652A Night Surprise
A Night Surprise
It tells a story Chen Mujian after serving his sentence and wants to start a new life, because of his criminal record and disability to find a job everywhere, he finally finds a ceramic workshop. After meeting Li Chunmei, the two fall in love. Li Chunmei later gives a birth to a son, Chen Shilang, and leaves Chen Mujian. The father and son live a very difficult day. Because of an accident, Chen Shilang is kidnapped,in order to save the son, Chen Mujian kneels down to the kidnapper,this scene is seen by Li Chunmei. Li Chunmei gives up her glory and wealth, returning to Chen mujian and her son, and the family finally reunits.
599Start, Pause
Start, Pause
Fatty who just gets his driver's license buys a second hand car. He feels happy that having a car would make life more convenient and beautiful. As the beginning that car life, Fatty discovers car gradually is not so omnipotent, but brings a lot of trouble to the life instead...
548The Bus Adventure
The Bus Adventure
Taxi driver Xiao Dong, naturally lazy, loves gambling. Wu Risheng just gets fired by boss, then steals Xiao Dong's car. A woman with heavy make-up insists on Wu Risheng to accompany her to a fancy restaurant to goad her unfaithful husband. Wu Risheng is kicked out of the hotel, reluctantly back to the taxi. Suddenly, a strange man with a bag of money jumps into his taxi. He said he is being chased. Sure enough, an evil man is chasing him...
454All of A Sudden
A year ago the host of a mansion missing caused the mutual suspicion of everyone inside the mansion, a series of odd matters that happen afterwards. In their minds, everyone wonders why, and fights over the legacy of their mistress, including her priceless diamond necklace. However new member, new story is happening ceaselessly because of the diamond necklace.
791The Love Affair in Hong Kong
The Love Affair in Hong Kong
It tells the story of Ruolan in Hong Kong for traveling. She meets a woman suffering from gastroenteritis, asking Ruolan to help her to find a friend. Kind Ruolan doesn't hesitate to help, but never think this woman is a liar, she steals Ruolan's wallet, mobile phone after an excuse to leave... When Ruolan discovered all of this, she realizes that she is in a strange place... She runs at a loss, but hit on Huang Fei...... After that, a series of funny things happen...
677Paper Camera
Paper Camera
It is the first time Zhang xiaoshi sees a photographer taking pictures of people in the village, and the boxy camera attracts him deeply. Summer vacation, his cousin is back home with a camera, so that Zhang Xiaoshi has the opportunity to own photography, unexpectedly, he takes the photos are published, which makes him have the idea of getting a real camera. For this goal, he keeps trying to get a camera on his own. Zhang Xiaoshi accidentally sees a news that the governor donates to others, he writes a letter to the governor with excitement and pure idea, but an unexpected thing happenes...
502Women in Persimmon Town
Women in Persimmon Town
Persimmon Town is a quiet and beautiful village, these years in the reform and opening up to the rich. But women here all get annoyed by the careless men in the village. Furious women under the leadership of the party secretary, established an anti-gambling detachment, after several contests, men still doing nothing. To set up a cultural squad, the organization of karaoke is setting up...
511Beyond My Touch
Beyond My Touch
At the age of five, Nini's mother left her to go to France, she and father Cheng Ji live together. Chen Ji met Qingqing, who runs a clothing store by chance. One day, Qingqing meets fashionable Nini on the street, and show her how adoreable she is...
587Urban Shepherd's Song
Urban Shepherd's Song
It tells the story of Fu, a young man living in the mountains since childhood, who was taken to the big city to work and inherit his father's business after his father Duan Long, the chairman of the board, found him. Because he knows nothing about life in the big city, Fu made a lot of jokes... Colleague Ling like Fu's innocence, often helps Fu in the work, gradually Fu adapt to the life of the city, two people have feelings. After the cousin Duan Tianming knew the origin of Fu's life history, to win the uncle's business, trying to frame him up. Finally, with the help of Fu's father and Ling, Fu got rid of the dilemma.
577Swordsman
Li Fei - kung fu mater, lonely person, accompany him all day is those inseparable flying knife, for him flying knife is more important than life, flying knife can behead evil, more can let him experience flying knife into the bad man's body burst out blood pleasure......
Hong Kong businessmen chooses Chen Jianming and give him $200000 to kill Chen Jincai, but Li Fei finds that Chen Jincai is not only his rescuer Liu Chunlian's husband but also Chen Jianming's brother. The reason is that Chen Jianming wants that 200 million multivariate inheritance...
674New Summer Start
New Summer Start
It tells the story of the protagonist Fan in the Red Star cinema for decades, because the cinema and an entertainment company merges, which makes Fan retired in advance. The old fan after retirement because entertainment company buys cinema residential building to transform need period of time, this makes his son Xiaojie to spend summer vacation to live in the old house. In old house they met Lv Yan and her daughter, a serie of things happens...
545Searching
The story revolves around a hotel lobby bar, interesting things happened in this bar of three male protagonists, although they do not know each other, but interweaves three sections of hilarious story.
455Snow in June
Snow in June
It tells the story of a kind and pure Lehua who come to the city from the countryside in order to find four good friends who grow up together in the orphanage in his childhood and accept his mother's inheritance. The five people who grow up have their own lives. Baohua runs a shop in the city and took care of it with his good friend Ake. But suddenly a misunderstanding makes Yue Hua and a few other friends estranges, Yue Hua decides to return to the orphanage to live a peaceful life, doesn't think of Ake would finally find her. The two people tightly hold together, as if the snow falls in June.
505Five Generations Under A Roof
Five Generations Under A Roof
During Ming Dynasty, the Ximen family is ruled by two widows, Ximensha I and Ximensha II. Ximensha Jing, the only male, is ready to get married. The two widows put his marriage on the agenda for fear of losing his family name. Ximen Jing is born white and beautiful, and loves music and paint. His grandmother, who advocates free love, encourages Ximen Jing to participate in social activities and increase the chance to know beautiful girls. Ximen Qing goes to the mix-gender academy, got acquainted with the daughter of Hong's family. They two fall in love with each other.
679Legend of Zhu Yeqing
Legend of Zhu Yeqing
Lin Chengliang is kind-hearted and honest. He lives with his daughter Lin Bixiang and is the founder of Zhuye Green wine. Evil Fei Kui peep Lin Bixiang's beauty, and want to take Lin Chengliang's brewing secret recipe for his own, but evil has evil retribution, he was eventually shut into prison.
497A Diary of Love
A Diary of Love
Xuan fell in love with Su Ke of freshman party. In order to get close to Su Ke, Xuan calls him up every morning for class. Four years without a break. Suke was moved by the phone girl's persistence and wanted to know her name before graduation. Xuan's roommate Mengmeng and Su Ke's best friend Xu Chen are in a relationship for a long time, this makes Xuan always have an opportunity to be close to Su Ke, but she is carefully guarding her secret not discovering by Su Ke. Mengmeng accidently finds Xuan's diary, know Xuan secretly love Su Ke. Xuan come back to see, she sadly ran into the rain crying. Mengmeng felt sorry and promised to keep the secret forever.
715Installment
It tells the story of the staff Tianzhi always yearn for a better life, but there is no great ambition. Because the salary is not high, Tianzhi disregarded the girl friend's objection, go to imitate others to buy a house and all sorts of things by instalment, but go bankrupt because of all sorts of expenses that do not return installment finally...
497Love in Taxi
Love in Taxi
Two families live in the courtyard of No. 58 xianyu Hutong in Beijing's inner city. In the east lived Old Li and his grandson Li Chaoyang, in the west lived Uncle Li and Tongtong's father and herself. Li Chaoyang was a taxi driver in Beijing; Uncle Li opposite is a hotel chef, daughter tongtong born as a beauty. The two families have lived like this for more than ten years. Li Chaoyang and Tongtong, who grew up together since childhood, are gradually having an magic chemistry between each other...


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Sierra Sentinel News- Serving The Sierra Nevada Communities: Tofanelli goes to CLOSED SESSION for Cannabis/??
Public comments ended and staff answered the questions posed to them. Then suddenly the new Chair who voted himself in, called for a CLOSED SESSION.
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Williams helps No. 18 Tennessee outlast South Carolina 70-67
Williams scores 22 points as No. 18 Tennessee bounces back with 70-67 victory over South Carolina
Williams helps No. 18 Tennessee outlast South Carolina 70-67 Williams scores 22 points as No. 18 Tennessee bounces back with 70-67 victory over South Carolina Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2HaAZwS
AP Published 11:27 p.m. ET Feb. 13, 2018 | Updated 12:49 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2018
The ball gets away from South Carolina guard Wesley Myers (15) as he is defended by Tennessee guard James Daniel III (3) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Crystal LoGiudice)(Photo: The Associated Press)
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — South Carolina coach Frank Martin couldn't help but see the similarities between the team he faced Tuesday and the Final Four squad he coached last season.
"(Tennessee) reminds me a lot of my team last year, just a team that's tied at the hip and relentless on both ends of the floor," Martin said after the Gamecocks lost 70-67 to the 18th-ranked Volunteers.
Tennessee was just good enough Tuesday to get its NCAA Tournament drive back on track while continuing South Carolina's slide.
Grant Williams scored 22 points and made a big basket in the closing seconds as the Vols handed the Gamecocks their sixth consecutive loss.
Tennessee (19-6, 9-4 SEC) has won seven of eight and 10 of 12 overall. This latest victory served as a nice recovery three nights after Tennessee lost 78-50 at Alabama for its most lopsided defeat of the season.
"Defensively we were a much better team tonight than we were at Alabama," coach Rick Barnes said.
South Carolina (13-13, 4-9) continued to fade from postseason contention one season after its Final Four run. But the Gamecocks made this one interesting.
After trailing 68-59 with 2 1/2 minutes left, South Carolina scored eight straight points and pulled within one on Frank Booker's driving basket with 36 seconds remaining.
Tennessee answered on its next possession, with Williams scoring with 11 seconds left to make it a three-point game.
"The theme with our basketball team is it came down to one stop," Martin said. "The defensive assignment that we laid out wasn't executed. Listening has been a weakness for this team the whole year."
South Carolina spent the final seconds trying to get a potential tying 3-pointer. Barnes wanted the Vols to foul before the Gamecocks could get a shot off.
Barnes didn't get his foul, but the Gamecocks didn't get the look they wanted, either. Justin Minaya's 3-point attempt fell short of the front rim as the buzzer sounded.
"We were just being aggressive and understanding they were going to make a run," Williams said. "They'd been doing it most of the game, where they'd get it to two and we'd get it back to six or seven. It never really was a blowout of a game. You knew it was going to be competitive. They don't really quit."
Booker scored 19 points for South Carolina, and Chris Silva and Hassani Gravett added 12 points apiece. Jordan Bowden scored 14 and Admiral Schofield added 13 for Tennessee.
South Carolina: Although the Gamecocks lost again, they deserve credit for staying close most of the way despite dealing with foul trouble. South Carolina had lost by an average margin of 21 points in the three games leading up to this one. The Gamecocks were much more competitive this time, though occasional scoring lulls proved costly and enabled Tennessee to build a 14-point lead after South Carolina had tied it early in the second half.
Tennessee: While the Vols did a nice job of recovering from their poor performance at Alabama, their inability to put away an inferior opponent at home offers some cause for concern. Tennessee had 15 turnovers and 12 assists for its third straight game with a negative assist-turnover ratio.
PHYSICAL CONTEST
The teams combined for more fouls (25) than baskets in the first half (21). All those fouls forced the Gamecocks into some unusual substitutions.
Maik Kotsar and Felipe Haase already had picked up three fouls each by halftime. Kotsar ended up playing just 10 minutes, well below his season average of 27. Jason Cudd ended up playing 14 minutes, more than twice his season average.
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Tennessee had fallen from No. 15 to No. 18 after the loss to Alabama. The Vols could move back into the top 15 if they win at Georgia on Saturday.
South Carolina hosts No. 10 Auburn on Saturday.
Tennessee is at Georgia on Saturday.
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This version corrects to Frank Booker instead of Chris Booker for South Carolina.


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Current: It's pure rubbish to claim a low tax, low regulation Britain would be a disaster
It's pure rubbish to claim a low tax, low regulation Britain would be a disaster
Dame Minouche Shafik, deputy governor of the Bank of England, is leaving to become director of the London School of Economics. Last weekend, she gave her final interview wearing her Bank hat, reports City AM.
Shafik issued what was described in the media as a "thinly-veiled warning" to the chancellor Philip Hammond. She stated that it was an "illusion" to believe that transforming the UK into a low tax, low regulation economy would give it a competitive advantage. Indeed, Shafik went further and offered the opinion that such policies risked "hugely disastrous consequences for the economy".
We have heard such prognostications before. In the run up to Brexit, the Treasury claimed that unemployment would rise by 500,000 by the end of 2016 in the event of a Leave vote. It actually fell. The Bank signalled a similar opinion, that Brexit would be bad. Doom and gloom was prophesied by the OECD and the IMF.
These institutions seem permeated by what we might call "Davos liberalism", the sorts of opinions which would be congenial to George Clooney. Of course clever, well-meaning people can design policies and regulations which will benefit ordinary folk, who after all cannot be expected to understand these things and might hold incorrect views!
Shafik claimed that the UK economy has lost 16 per cent of GDP relative to trend because of the financial crisis. Looser regulation would run the risk of an even bigger loss in future. But the French economy is much more highly regulated than that of the UK. It has lost at least 20 per cent of GDP relative to trend, some £80bn more than Britain. And France has at least 1m more people who are unemployed.
Shortly after the Shafik statement, the government announced a major review of how the UK can become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. We can take with a pinch of salt the unnervingly precise estimate that £654bn can be added to the British economy by 2035 if the growth potential of AI is achieved. But we are clearly already a world leader in this area and, equally clearly, if we succeed in capitalising on this, GDP will be boosted by a very big number.
An essential ingredient for success is to attract the innovative thinkers who will push out the frontiers of science, and the entrepreneurs who will help turn the ideas into practical tools. It is of course possible that a system of high personal and corporate tax rates could succeed in attracting such people. But it seems plausible that low tax rates are more likely to do the trick.
The high taxes imposed by President Hollande in France illustrate the point. Young French people have flocked to the UK. London is now the sixth largest French city in the world in terms of the population of native French speakers.
Our borders need to remain open to highly skilled individuals. But we need policies which continue to attract them rather than drive them away.
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What King v. Burwell Means For Environmental Law
Bruce Huber
Ok, I confess that the title to this post is a bit grandiose. At a minimum, we'll have much more material on which to base our prognostications about the legality of the Clean Power Plan after Michigan v. EPA is decided on Friday or Monday. But I can't resist accepting Chris Walker's invitation to think for just a moment about whether today's opinion in King v. Burwell signals something about the way this Court might deal with the Clean Power Plan.
The issue, as Chris has put it, is whether the application of the "amplified major questions doctrine" in King portends even further application of that doctrine in the future, and a concomitant decline in the importance of traditional Chevron analysis. In particular, it is all but inevitable that the Court will soon find on its docket an opportunity to review the EPA's massive Clean Power Plan, an initiative that—love it or hate it—dramatically expands, in range and in scope, the EPA's regulation of electric utilities. The statutory basis for EPA's plan is debatable, not entirely unlike the statutory basis for the extension of tax credits to participants in federal health care exchanges. Might the Court decline to extend any Chevron deference at all to EPA on this matter, as in King? It's an interesting question, and one made all the more so because Justice Scalia, who will likely write the decision in Michigan v. EPA, not only did not sign today's majority opinion but strenuously rejected it, failing even to mention Chevron in the process. Nonetheless, Scalia has in the past expressed an unwillingness to defer to agencies when they implement major changes in policy without a word from Congress. In similar fashion, Scalia suggested in oral argument in Michigan that the EPA could not evade a consideration of regulatory costs, on the basis of statutory silence, if those costs were extreme. If today's majority in King was charting a course for administrative law doctrine, then perhaps it is a course that will harmonize well with Scalia's concerns, and not so well, of course, with the Clean Power Plan. As Justin Pidot (Denver) put it in a recent note to the primary environmental law listserv (copied here with permission):
On the other hand, there is Massachusetts v. EPA. Some saw in that decision the death knell for the major questions doctrine; at a minimum it demonstrates the, er, flexibility of principles of deference on matters of great policy import.
As I said, though, there will be more fodder for discussion when Michigan comes down. In the meantime, what I really find myself wondering about after today's opinion is how scholars will describe Chief Justice Roberts' legacy fifty or a hundred years from now. Many conservatives, on the basis of his decisions in momentous cases like Sebelius and King, have depicted the Chief as a deep disappointment, on a par with David Souter. Perhaps Roberts will be remembered as a moderate jurist, or a conservative with an overstrong tendency to "step into role" as defender of the institution. But I think it's also possible that Roberts is playing the long game. If by upholding the ACA Roberts has lured the Court's liberals into paring back both the Commerce Power and the Chevron doctrine, those doctrinal victories may ultimately matter to his legacy as much as, or even more than, the change in health care policy that Sebelius and King have all but cemented.
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Q: UISearchBar custom corners I'm trying to create a search bar like this:

But I'm noticing that I'm probably going to have to replace the search bar with my own image because the search bar corners comes out wrong when I set:
self.searchController.searchBar.layer.cornerRadius = 50 // I've tried other numbers besides this too with no luck
self.searchController.searchBar.clipsToBounds = true

If I set this:
self.searchController.searchBar.layer.cornerRadius = self.searchController.searchBar.bounds.height/2

The search bar comes out like this:

Which still isn't exact like in the image.
Is there a way to replace the left and right side of the textfield with an image that way I can use the rounded corners from my custom search bar?

A: The issue here is you are setting the corner radius on the UISearchBar, not the UITextField inside it. You can do some sort of hack to get the UITextField, but that's not really recommended.
As you mentioned in your question, you'll need to use custom images and the methods shown here: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UISearchBar_Class/#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40007529-CH3-SW40

A: This IS working for me in swift 3 iOS 10:
    searchController.searchBar.layer.cornerRadius = 20
    searchController.searchBar.clipsToBounds = true

A: I am using this code UISearchBar but you can use this code with UISearchController.
    let searchBar = UISearchBar()
                searchBar.sizeToFit()
                searchBar.placeholder = "Search"
                navigationItem.titleView = searchBar

                if let textfield = searchBar.value(forKey: "searchField") as? UITextField {
                    textfield.textColor = UIColor.blue
                    if let backgroundview = textfield.subviews.first {
                        // Background color
                        backgroundview.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
                        // Rounded corner
                        backgroundview.layer.cornerRadius = 14;
                        backgroundview.clipsToBounds = true;
                    }
                }

A: You should change the radius of searchTextField inside UISearchBar .
you can do that like this :
searchBar.searchTextField.layer.cornerRadius = 20
searchBar.searchTextField.layer.masksToBounds = true

* searchBar is an outlet of UISearchBar from storyBoard

A:
ez way for searchbarview

for subview & POPUPs [Swift 5]
override func layoutSublayers(of layer: CALayer) {
    searchBarPopup.clipsToBounds = true
    searchBarPopup.layer.cornerRadius = 10
    searchBarPopup.layer.maskedCorners = [ .layerMaxXMinYCorner, .layerMinXMinYCorner]
}


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employment and wages
Nearly a quarter of working Brits considering retirement due to pandemic stresses
Almost a quarter of working Brits are considering retirement as a result of the pandemic, while seven out of 10 would be fine with less social interaction. The toll of restrictions on people's wellbeing is causing thousands to reconsider career paths in a bid to reduce stress and anxiety. A monthly mental health index published [...]
Number of Brits in jobs up by 275,000 people to record 29.7m
The number of UK workers on payrolls rose by 275,000 between January and February to a record 29.7 million, the Office for National Statistics said this morning. Grant Fitzner, chief economist at the Office for National Statistics, said: "The labour market continues to recover from the effects of the pandemic, with the number of unemployed [...]
Four in ten Brits consider job change to counter higher cost of living and rising inflation
Almost forty per cent of people polled this week have considered changing jobs to counter rising inflation and costs of living. Pressures are showing on people's wages and mental health, with leading employment board Totaljobs urging employers to support their workers through difficult financial times. In a survey published this week, 37 per cent of [...]
One-in-four UK workers plan a 'hybrid holiday' this year, to make the most of remote working
More than a quarter of UK workers are planning to take a remote working holiday this year, according to a poll of 2,000 office workers. Workers from across the UK said they plan to take advantage of their employer's work-from-home policy by going on a 'hybrid working holiday' – with a view to going abroad [...]
Raising pension age led to record rates of over-65s employment
The government's decision to up the state pension age from 65 to 66 has seen higher number of 65-year-olds staying in work than at any point since at least the 1970s. However, poorer people with less education were significantly more likely to stay in work than richer people with university degrees. Becky O'Connor, Head of [...]
Tech Special: The jobs, sectors and countries most at risk of automation and robotics in 2022
Digital change and automation are driving enormous productivity gains in the world of work. However, the rapid changes mean many individuals, businesses and even entire nations will be hugely impacted by automation and tech, with some roles and jobs to be replaced by robots altogether. Many of the industries that are most at risk of [...]
Poverty looms for millions of UK families as energy bills climb by £1200, inflation rises and taxes jump 1.25 per cent in 2022
Soaring energy bills, inflation and rising taxes are likely to lead to a 'cost of living catastrophe' for millions of UK families, an economic think tank warned this morning. The Resolution Foundation (RF) said from next April families would typically face a £1,200-a-year hit to their incomes as the energy price cap is raised and [...]
Pandemic kills off entrepreneurial opportunities as army of self-employed in UK drops by shocking 700,000
The UK has nearly 700,000 less self-employed people two years into the pandemic, according to new figures published this morning. The self-employed workforce fell from a peak of nearly 5m in 2019 to to 4.3m this year, according to analysis by Rest Less, which offers advice to older people. As well as the impact of [...]
Two thirds businesses call for higher sick pay rate amid growing Omicron fears
Nearly two thirds of employers have called for a rise in statutory sick pay (SSP) in the UK, according to a new report. The professional body for human resources behind the report, urged for major reforms to statuary sick pay after finding that 62 per cent of employers in the country think the rate, currently [...]
UK tech vacancies easier to fill than any other European country
New analysis by the world's largest job site Indeed has shown that the number of UK tech sector vacancies posted on the platform doubled (up by 101 per cent) between October 2020 and October 2021.


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The investment landscape for media tech firms
By Ambrose McNevin2018-02-16T10:57:00+00:00
In 2018 in western economies there is an estimated $1 trillion of private funds looking for a home, and much of that money is looking for a berth in media technology companies.
Start up and scale up firms with technology at their core are attracting a lot of attention and these companies are potentially seeing an uptick in valuation multiples.
The media tech world is buoyant, and investors are looking positively at companies with strong core technologies, says Paul Russell, a leader of tech and media M&A at accountancy and advisory giant BDO.
"Tech is seen as a good hedge and with its disruptive high growth potential is hence very attractive for private equity (PE)," he says.
"In a low interest world, people want a return on their money and PE is returning low double digits," he says.
Mr Russell says in media and tech much of the investment activity at the lower end and in the mid-market is being driven by events right up at the top end.
Here, mega scale deals such as the proposed mergers between AT&T and Time Warner as well as the proposed takeover by Disney of Fox can have greater impact on the investment scene than is first apparent.
Read more Analysis: Why Disney wants to buy Fox
Russell told IBC365: "Mega deals at the top of a sector tend to create activity at a vertical level that then filters down to the mid-market. The biggest players in a market deploying capital to acquire provide the confidence to smaller players getting funding that there will likely be an exit.
"They also leave gaps where they were operating as two businesses that the next tier down rush to fill via funding or acquisition. You also tend to get chunks that come off a mega deal and then form themselves into interesting new businesses that increase the number of active market participants."
Emerging sectors
One area seeing activity in 2018 is an emerging sector called RegTech. But is this simply a response to the looming GDPR laws that come into effect in May this year or does the investment opportunity exist because the digital world is becoming more regulated? Does it represent a real investment trend?
Says Russell: "It's big new laws like GDPR which create a requirement for companies to prepare for the changes and hence a market opportunity for the providers.
"But, in addition, there is a general increase in the level of regulation particularly in certain verticals. Sanctions for regulatory breaches are increasing hence scrutiny of companies on their procedures and systems. So suddenly companies providing online training, or the ability to store/retrieve critical compliance data etc are springing up."
Alongside RegTech, other sectors attracting attention and looking set to grow include software publishing, programming, data and information management services, digital advertising and TV and film post production.
Tech areas such as AI, blockchain and consumer IoT are expected to attract a lot of PE attention in 2018.
Read more Bowie, blockchain and the future of media distribution
"All these new technologies will attract attention and I'm sure there will be some more by the end of the year that we are not talking about yet," says Russell.
One artificial intelligence firm that worked with BDO is VAIX.
VAIX applies AI and deep learning to firms in areas such as gaming, which VAIX CEO John O'Malia describes as "a great lab for developing certain types of products, especially relating to CRM and customer loyalty."
"Because it's so data rich, you can very quickly validate theses about what's going to be effective," he says.
"We are going to take those insights about communicating with players and making deeper connections with players and push those algorithms and insights out to other industries."
Applying new technologies to media is a booming sector and in parallel the app economy continues to surge.
George O'Connor
According to George O'Connor, analyst at brokers Stifel, it is a $86bn global market following robust growth in 2017.
Indeed, App Annie's 2017 Retrospective Report that the app-economy enjoyed a monumental 2017, headlining with (i) 60% growth in the number of global app downloads, (ii) 30% spike in time spent on apps, and (iii) consumer spending on mobile apps doubling to US$86bn from 2015. The results indicate a very buoyant, growth app-economy – trends which should continue for 2018, Stifel reported.
An example of one company which achieved IPO in the UK is a firm called appScatter.
The software as a service firm distributes and tracks apps across hundreds of platforms and across the major app stores. It IPO'd last year on the AIM market in London.
Outlook for 2018
There may be challenges ahead on the macro stage. Brexit uncertainty could re-emerge and cause investor uncertainty and stifle activity. But the outlook for transaction numbers is good and exit multiples have risen for tech start-ups.
Regarding the question as to whether M&A valuations have peaked in the tech and media sector, Mr Russell says, "Prices are driven by capital seeking a return and it is hard to see what would unwind that capital."
While it is the firms with a unique technology at their core that are attracting the attention of PE money there are times when it can be no longer just enough to have a great technology, or even a stand out technology and steady revenues.
For those seeking investors he says "whatever they are selling, before talking to us the thing a company probably has is rapid top line growth and [increasingly] a path to profitability. They will probably not be profitable, but investors are looking for businesses to turn a profit within a couple of years."
This wasn't always the case four or five years ago when growth and sales spurred much investment in tech. But while some investor appetite for financing losses over the medium to long term may be waning there are always exceptions.
Not every investment is driven by finding the next WhatsApp but companies such as google, Apple and Facebook and the internet native giants have deep pockets and are always looking to invest and acquire tech and media companies before their valuation skyrockets or simply in order to snap up opportunities ahead of their rivals.
Read more Assessing broadcast in 2018: Monetisation and market opportunity
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An efficient media supply chain remains a top priority for content owners that want to remain competitive, says Ooyala director of global product marketing Bea Alonso.
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Limo operator avoids prison time in 2018 crash that killed 20 people
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press
Mhm. Yeah. Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah. Mhm. Yeah.
The operator of a limousine company was spared prison time Thursday in a 2018 crash that killed 20 people when catastrophic brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in upstate New York.Loved ones of the dead excoriated Nauman Hussain, 31, as he sat quietly at the defense table during a hearing that was held in a high school gymnasium to provide for social distancing among the many relatives, friends and media members attending.Hussain, who operated Prestige Limousine, had originally been charged with 20 counts each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in what was the deadliest U.S. transportation disaster in a decade. But under an agreement for Hussain to plead guilty only to the homicide counts and spare families the uncertainties and emotional toll of a trial, he faces five years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service. His case had been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.As Judge George Bartlett III prepared to accept the agreement, loved ones of the victims took turns talking of lives cut short, the holes left in their own and their frustration that the operator would avoid time behind bars."Every day I try to wrap my head around this impossible situation," said Sheila McGarvey, whose 30-year-old son Shane McGowan and his wife, Erin, were passengers. "I hate every day without him."She wished, she said, that a fraction of any money Hussain spent on lawyers would have been spent to fix the limo's brakes.Hussain was accused of putting the victims in a death trap."My son, my baby boy, was killed in a limo while trying to be safe," said Beth Muldoon, the mother of Adam Jackson, 34, who was killed along with his wife, Abigail King Jackson.The couple, who with the others had rented the limo to avoid drinking and driving, had two small children. Muldoon lamented the holidays and life milestones the parents will miss.One spectator left the hearing, cursing and shouting, "He killed 20 people," before apologizing to the judge on her way out.Hussain sat quietly as parents talked about their smothering grief and anger. Defense attorney Joseph Tacopina said his client accepts responsibility for his actions and cried as the relatives spoke. Hussain did not answer reporters' questions after the court proceeding.Under the deal, Hussain will be formally sentenced after an interim probation of two years. The judge noted that Hussain's guilty plea could be used to buoy any lawsuits.On Oct. 6, 2018, Axel Steenburg of Amsterdam, 30 miles west of Albany, rented the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine for the 30th birthday of his new wife, Amy. The party group, ranging in age from 24 to 34, included Axel's brother, Amy's three sisters and two of their husbands, and close friends.En route to Brewery Ommegang, south of Cooperstown, the limo's brakes failed on a downhill stretch of state Route 30 in Schoharie, west of Albany. The vehicle blew through a stop sign at a T-intersection at over 100 mph and crashed into a small ravine near a popular country store.Seventeen family members and friends were killed, along with the driver and two bystanders outside the store.Schoharie County District Attorney Susan Mallery's office has said Hussain allowed passengers to ride in the limo despite having received "multiple notices of violations" from the state and having been told repairs were inadequate. State police said the vehicle should have been taken out of service because of brake problems identified in an inspection a month before the crash.But complications were highlighted in the plea agreement. In a separate report last fall, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that while the crash was likely caused by Prestige Limousine's "egregious disregard for safety" that resulted in brake failure, ineffective state oversight contributed. Prosecutors and Hussain's lawyers said the plea agreement assured a resolution in a case that would have faced an uncertain outcome if presented to a jury.Lee Kindlon, an attorney for Hussain, has said his client tried to maintain the limousine and relied on what he was told by state officials and a repair shop that inspected it.According to the plea agreement, Hussain had the 2001 vehicle serviced at a Mavis Discount Tire store multiple times in the two years before the crash, including twice for brake repairs. The same shop also inspected the limousine, rather than the state Department of Transportation as required, the document said. A telephone message left with Mavis Discount Tires' corporate headquarters in Millwood, New York, was not immediately returned.Prestige repeatedly changed the listed number of seats and took other steps to skirt safety regulations, according to documents released by the NTSB.The safety board said last fall that the state Department of Transportation knew of Prestige's out-of-service violations and lack of operating authority and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to properly register the limousine, allowing Prestige to circumvent safety regulations and inspection requirements.In February 2020, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed limousine safety bills inspired by the upstate crash and one in 2015 on Long Island that killed four women.One law requires safety belts, and another requires drivers of limos carrying nine or more passengers to have a passenger-endorsed commercial driver's license.__Associated Press writer Carolyn Thompson contributed from Buffalo, N.Y.
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. —
The operator of a limousine company was spared prison time Thursday in a 2018 crash that killed 20 people when catastrophic brake failure sent a stretch limo full of birthday revelers hurtling down a hill in upstate New York.
Loved ones of the dead excoriated Nauman Hussain, 31, as he sat quietly at the defense table during a hearing that was held in a high school gymnasium to provide for social distancing among the many relatives, friends and media members attending.
Hussain, who operated Prestige Limousine, had originally been charged with 20 counts each of criminally negligent homicide and second-degree manslaughter in what was the deadliest U.S. transportation disaster in a decade.
But under an agreement for Hussain to plead guilty only to the homicide counts and spare families the uncertainties and emotional toll of a trial, he faces five years of probation and 1,000 hours of community service. His case had been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
As Judge George Bartlett III prepared to accept the agreement, loved ones of the victims took turns talking of lives cut short, the holes left in their own and their frustration that the operator would avoid time behind bars.
"Every day I try to wrap my head around this impossible situation," said Sheila McGarvey, whose 30-year-old son Shane McGowan and his wife, Erin, were passengers. "I hate every day without him."
She wished, she said, that a fraction of any money Hussain spent on lawyers would have been spent to fix the limo's brakes.
Hans Pennink / AP Photo
Nauman Hussain, who is charged with 20 counts of second degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in a 2018 limousine crash, walks into a makeshift courtroom to accommodate more people at the Schoharie High School gymnasium Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021, in Schoharie, N.Y.
Hussain was accused of putting the victims in a death trap.
"My son, my baby boy, was killed in a limo while trying to be safe," said Beth Muldoon, the mother of Adam Jackson, 34, who was killed along with his wife, Abigail King Jackson.
The couple, who with the others had rented the limo to avoid drinking and driving, had two small children. Muldoon lamented the holidays and life milestones the parents will miss.
One spectator left the hearing, cursing and shouting, "He killed 20 people," before apologizing to the judge on her way out.
Hussain sat quietly as parents talked about their smothering grief and anger. Defense attorney Joseph Tacopina said his client accepts responsibility for his actions and cried as the relatives spoke.
Hussain did not answer reporters' questions after the court proceeding.
Under the deal, Hussain will be formally sentenced after an interim probation of two years. The judge noted that Hussain's guilty plea could be used to buoy any lawsuits.
On Oct. 6, 2018, Axel Steenburg of Amsterdam, 30 miles west of Albany, rented the 2001 Ford Excursion limousine for the 30th birthday of his new wife, Amy. The party group, ranging in age from 24 to 34, included Axel's brother, Amy's three sisters and two of their husbands, and close friends.
En route to Brewery Ommegang, south of Cooperstown, the limo's brakes failed on a downhill stretch of state Route 30 in Schoharie, west of Albany. The vehicle blew through a stop sign at a T-intersection at over 100 mph and crashed into a small ravine near a popular country store.
'God made a mistake:' Family remembers brothers lost in horrific limo crash
Seventeen family members and friends were killed, along with the driver and two bystanders outside the store.
Schoharie County District Attorney Susan Mallery's office has said Hussain allowed passengers to ride in the limo despite having received "multiple notices of violations" from the state and having been told repairs were inadequate. State police said the vehicle should have been taken out of service because of brake problems identified in an inspection a month before the crash.
But complications were highlighted in the plea agreement.
In a separate report last fall, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that while the crash was likely caused by Prestige Limousine's "egregious disregard for safety" that resulted in brake failure, ineffective state oversight contributed.
Prosecutors and Hussain's lawyers said the plea agreement assured a resolution in a case that would have faced an uncertain outcome if presented to a jury.
Lee Kindlon, an attorney for Hussain, has said his client tried to maintain the limousine and relied on what he was told by state officials and a repair shop that inspected it.
According to the plea agreement, Hussain had the 2001 vehicle serviced at a Mavis Discount Tire store multiple times in the two years before the crash, including twice for brake repairs. The same shop also inspected the limousine, rather than the state Department of Transportation as required, the document said.
'Layers of tragedy': Four sisters, two newlywed couples among 20 dead in limo crash
A telephone message left with Mavis Discount Tires' corporate headquarters in Millwood, New York, was not immediately returned.
Prestige repeatedly changed the listed number of seats and took other steps to skirt safety regulations, according to documents released by the NTSB.
The safety board said last fall that the state Department of Transportation knew of Prestige's out-of-service violations and lack of operating authority and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles failed to properly register the limousine, allowing Prestige to circumvent safety regulations and inspection requirements.
In February 2020, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed limousine safety bills inspired by the upstate crash and one in 2015 on Long Island that killed four women.
One law requires safety belts, and another requires drivers of limos carrying nine or more passengers to have a passenger-endorsed commercial driver's license.
Associated Press writer Carolyn Thompson contributed from Buffalo, N.Y.


Over 20 years ago, our Father & Cousin, Andrew Sorrentino, opened a pizzeria in Lake George, NY. This humble start marks the beginning of a journey that led our family to where we are today.
Moving forward, Andrew opened a variety of restaurants. Spending his time behind the line as head Chef, he pioneered the legacy we continue to carry. Andrew's first venture into family-style Italian cuisine was Matteos. After building then selling the business, Andrew looked to his sons Salvatore & Matthew along with their cousin Peter to found something new.
Andrew passed away in October of 2009. In his honor, Salvatore, Matthew, and Peter came together and founded Andrea's 25 of Commack. Soon after, in response to much success, Andrea's 25 expanded to a second location in Woodbury, NY with the addition of owner John Naccarelli and Chef William Turcios.
Andrea's 25 North is the newest addition to the family. With restaurateur William Vitale spearheading the operation, we are confident that our family will continue to grow.
Come by and continue to make our dreams reality in honor of our Father & Cousin, Andrew Sorrentino.


This 3D software tutorial shows how one can start to use Rhino's implicit history tool for parametric design. The commands used in Rhino are Loft, and FlowAlongSurface. Using the implicit history tool in Rhino 4 allows you to update models by changing earlier steps or parts of the model and having those changes follow through to the end result. This procedural approach to modeling in Rhino means you can make changes quickly without starting over.


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Singapore Premier League • May 29, 2014
Stewart Takes Blame For Trouncing By Geylang
Written By: Kenneth Ho
Woodlands Wellington were dispatched 5-1 by a clinical Geylang on Tuesday evening but the Rams' coach Darren Stewart conceded the Eagles deserved their victory.
Calling the result disappointing, Stewart took the blame for the loss as he felt that he had given the wrong team talk to his lads at half-time and caused them to be complacent against Geylang.
"Congratulations to Geylang on their second performance half they deserved to win," Stewart said.
"I was pleased with the first half performance, and thought we played well and were unlucky to be down àt half time. But at the second everything we did seem to went against us, every time we went forward we lost it and they looked like scoring on the counter," he added.
"It's a cup game, and we were trying to get a goal early and pushed too many bodies forward and forget that we still had 45 minutes to play."
Geylang coach Jorg Steinebrunner was visibly pleased with the result, especially after losing three S.League matches in the row.
"I mean the important thing is that we have done the same things in the last three games we lost, only today we were more clinical. We looked defensively decisive, and we took our chances," Steinebrunner said.
"On the football-wise, we have carried on like what we have played in the last few months; we have played good football possession and had some good counter today."
Despite the huge margin they won by, Steinebrunner insisted the game was not as easy the score line suggested.
"To come here to the Woodlands Stadium is never easy, Darren Stewart always prepare his team very well and it was definitely not a walk in the park," the German shared.
"They competed with us today and kept plugging away today but I think we made it easy for ourselves because for 90 we never took things for granted."


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A Closer Look: Arrow – "A Matter Of Trust"
The Insightful Panda / October 20, 2016
Arrow was back this week… AND SO WAS SUMMER SLAM 2016!!!!!!!! I'm sorry, that might have gone over your head. Let me explain. Earlier this year there was a heated back and forth between Stephen Amell and wrestler Cody Rhodes aka Stardust that ended with them fighting at Summer Slam. Now of course this was for show and the two are actually friends – or at least don't want to slam a chair in the other's face anymore.
So from the name of the new street drug – Stardust – to Cody himself appearing as the super-powered villain, this episode was a tremendous homage to that whole event. Though this episode wasn't just a fan service but actually a very well-knit episode that showed the themes of "Brotherhood" and trust through every moment. Throw in a surprise familiar face and you have the best episode yet this season.
So let's step back into the ring and take a Closer Look at Arrow "A Matter Of Trust"
Living For & Trusting Your "Brothers" – Flashbacks, Team Arrow, Diggle's Demons & More:
As I've said in the prior Closer Looks this season, the flashbacks lately have been spot on in terms of bringing the series full circle to Season 1 as well as setting up parallels and episodic themes – and this one was the biggest yet as the item for discussion was "trusting your brothers". Sure the episode title told us right off the bat that this was going to be about "trust" – when is it not – but watching this episode really shows how brotherhood is a major part of that.
In the flashbacks, we see Oliver's initiation into the Bratva, which not only explains his trust issues but also shaped the way he trains his new recruits. There the primary ideal is that you all form a brotherhood. When one fails, they all fail. When one falls, the others take up their revenge. When one succeeds, they all succeed. Team Arrow might function a lot kinder than the Bratva, but it's still a brotherhood and like back then, Oliver has to learn to trust his team. Last episode was all about his team trusting him, but now it's about proving that the trust is worth it.
This was no easy task and blame again felt on both parties; but in the end Oliver and his team come to a deeper understanding of each other and all of them are able to take down 'Super Stardust' and his army. In the field, each has the others back and for the first time they act like a cohesive unit. Though these feelings didn't end here. Rory learned a dark truth at episode's end and his trust in them is about to be called into question – but I'll deal with that a little later. Additionally, on the mayoral front Oliver had to deal with the public's trust in his campaign. And much like the flashback and present, Oliver shows his trust and support of his political team.
Though Oliver wasn't the only one dealing with the idea of "brotherhood" this episode as Diggle found himself in similar shoes – but sadly, it was on the opposite end. We knew something wasn't sitting right with Diggle ever since last season and it's the fact that he still hasn't forgiven himself for killing his brother Andy. If you saw last night's episode of The Flash, Wells characters Barry as someone who isn't good enough at forgiving himself. Well relax Barry because no one is worse at it than Diggle. As we saw last season, Andy was an awful human being who not only betrayed his brother's trust but also threatened to hunt down Diggle's family and – then – daughter. Unless Flashpoint changed more than just the age and gender of Diggle's child, Diggle's guilt is hard to grasp but is understandable. His story was always avenging his brother, which is why it was so important for Deadshot to be featured in this episode. It's the man who Diggle thought killed his brother facing the man who actually killed his brother. Diggle feels that with him in prison, the killer is finally being brought to justice – and he's going to need his wife and Oliver to slap some sense into him… or at least put an arrow in his leg. Oliver seems to be doing that last one at lot lately….
Rapid Fire – Easter Eggs, Quotes & Other Notables:
Favorite Quotes: Winner – Felicity
"Always assume that the target is armed. Always assume that they're dangerous…" – Felicity
"He did not kick Oliver's ass and can you please not say things like that when Oliver can enter in at any second… like now… see" – Felicity
"Green Arrow Brooding… because I have experience at that" – Feliicty
"Just because you can't feel your tendons being sliced, doesn't mean you don't need them" – DAMN Oliver…. chill
If you don't watch The Flash – you really should – then you probably don't understand what "Flashpoint" is. Well Barry went back in time to save his mother's life and created an entirely new timeline. He then realized his mistake and reset everything, but there were still some difference – ie: Diggle's daughter Sara is now his son John Jr.
The next few episodes will see where Rory/ Ragman stands with Team Arrow. At episode start we saw him concerned about Oliver's training/ interrogation methods; and by episode's end he learned the truth about the death of his hometown. As Curtis pointed out, we've seen keeping secrets end horribly in the past 4 seasons, so hopefully that's true and this one actually works out.
Continuing from above, Felicity and Curtis perfectly explored the struggle going through in Rory's mind right now. On one hand, Darhk sent the missle. But on the other hand, she is the one who redirected it. BUT on the first hand, she saved millions of lives. BUT BUT his parents are dead because of her choice. He is definitely going to need time. Anyone would.
How did Billy Malone – Felicity's new boyfriend – know about Prometheus? Did Church report the attack himself? Or is he actually Prometheus? Then again, that DA doesn't seem too trustworthy either…
Curtis finally suited up as Mr Terrific! Well, technically he's 'Mr Fair Play' right now, but we did learn that a wrestler named Mr Terrific was his idol. This will of course become his nickname, but it's nice to get the origin all the same.
What was that deal between Thea and the reporter? Will we see more of this come to fruition or is this just to signify Thea's returning fire in general?
As one of my regular Insightful readers (Himanshu) pointed out on Facebook, I missed another moment of fan service this episode. While in the elevator, Oliver defends Wilddog's hockey mask with "I like it". Sure Wild Dog in the comics has a hockey mask, but Amell saying he likes it can be taken as a nod to his role as Casey Jones in the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie where his identity concealment is – you guessed it – a hockey mask.
This week saw a crack form in the new Team Arrow as Feliicty admitted to Rory about her role in the destruction of his hometown. And next week might see another crack form as Lyla has come to Oliver to aid in breaking Diggle out of prison. Will Oliver's new team side with him or will his stubbornness and desire to reclaim the original team cause further strife? We'll have to find out next week, so stay tuned to The CW and here for another Closer Look.
October 20, 2016 in Arrow. Tags: Arrow, Arrow-verse, CW, Green Arrow, Ragman, Stardust, The CW
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Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Slager's 2016 premiere Meditations uses light and movement to contemplate experience and perspective.
Ripple Effect is an intensely physical and emotional work by Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Slager that uses movement to explore and reflect the reality of words: they may seem very small, but their impact echoes.
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Germany and France agree to work together on solution to eurozone crisis
Finance ministers announce working group to integrate policies as German business confidence falls to lowest level since 2010
Germany and France have moved to bury months of squabbling over how to resolve the euro crisis by agreeing to form a joint policymaking body to create a more integrated economic and fiscal policy in the eurozone and structure a new banking supervision regime.
The announcement of the accord in Berlin came as Germany's leading business confidence index showed a greater than expected dip due to fears of the impact of the euro's travails on German exports. It is the fourth month in a row that German business confidence has fallen.
The German and French finance ministers, Wolfgang Schäuble and Pierre Moscovici, said the aim of the new working group was to produce common policies on how to deal with Greece, Spain, and Italy as well as mapping out longer-term strategies. The Germans hope this will conclude in a full-scale political union within the eurozone.
"We want to take joint decisions," said Schäuble, a Christian Democrat of the German chancellor Angela Merkel's party. Moscovici, a French Socialist, said the countries needed to "deepen our consultations".
The eurozone's two biggest economies have been at odds since the election of François Hollande as French president in May. He has sought a policy shift geared to growth and jobs, while Berlin, dominating the EU response to the crisis for almost three years, has emphasised austerity, savage spending cuts, and debt reduction. Monday's announcement was an acknowledgment that eurozone crisis management will be paralysed if the two biggest players remain at loggerheads.
The announcement came as the German headline Ifo index of business sentiment fell in August to its lowest level since March 2010, dropping to 102.3 from 103.3 in July. However, the current assessment component of the index dropped by less than expected, from 111.6 to 111.2.
The Berlin talks kicked off what promises to be a fraught and frantic few weeks in crisis management after the August holiday lull. Policymakers at the European Central Bank (ECB) are to meet next week amid expectations that their president, Mario Draghi, could unveil plans to intervene in the bond markets to try to cap Spain's and Italy's borrowing costs. The following week the European Commission is to reveal new proposals for bank regulation and supervision, likely handing vast new powers to the ECB.
The Franco-German accord came as Spain revealed its ailing economy did worse than thought over the past two years. The country's statistics office said its economy grew by just 0.4%, rather than 0.7%. It also said a recession the previous year shrank the economy by 0.3% rather than 0.1%, meaning Spain's economy has declined by around 4.5% in the four years since a housing bubble burst and the credit crunch hit in 2008.
With economists seeing a further 2% fall in GDP over the next two years, predictions that Spain is in the middle of a lost decade now look to be accurate. The economy will not return to its 2007 size until the second half of this decade.
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German lawmakers say 'Grexit' not just economic risk
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France's Hollande: Greece Must Take Measures and Show Credibility
PARIS--French president Francois Hollande said that while Greece must show its credibility by implementing austerity measures and reforms, Europe must also recognize efforts it has already made and help the country with growth. "Greece must demonstrate ...
Berlin and Paris forge union over crisis
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Greek government exits the jet set
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Greece mulls T-bills to bridge extension funding gap-officials
ATHENS Aug 27 (Reuters) - Greece estimates that a two-year extension on its bailout would create a financing gap of less than 18 billion euros, which it could cover by issuing short-term debt rather than pleading for more money from lenders, government ...
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Despite Austerity, The Greek Government Is Still Terrified Of Slashing The ...
Greece is implementing tougher austerity measures than anyone else in the eurozone as they attempt to meet fiscal targets set by international creditors in order to trigger the disbursement of additional bailout funds they need to pay the bills ...
How Is Samaras Doing? So Far, the Euro Zone Likes the New Greek Leader
There is a lot of hardship ahead but so far Merkel and the Germans like what they hear from the Greek Prime Minister. Will the honeymoon last?
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Greek exit idea sparks German row
German centre-right politicians criticise a leading conservative partner for suggesting that Greece will have to leave the eurozone.
Greek Parliament to Vote on Measures by Oct. 8, Imerisia Says
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Poll: Obama, Romney neck-and-neck ahead of party conventions
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Merkel Cautions on Criticism of Greece
Merkel warned senior officials in her ruling coalition to tone down their comments about Greece and the ECB or risk hurting efforts to contain the euro-zone debt crisis.
Samaras plea for more time rejected
Germany's Economy Minister Philipp Rösler rejected calls yesterday for Greece to get more time to implement economic reforms.
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Dutch Premier Rutte Defends Austerity, Says No to More Greek Aid
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Austria says Greece could get 2-3 extra years
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The German people will decide Europe's fate | Hans Kundnani
Starkly divided opinion in the EU's biggest economy could be as big a threat to the euro as Greek debt
As speculation about a Greek exit from the eurozone continues, Germany is pushing ahead with plans for a new treaty that will transform the European Union.
According to this week's Spiegel, Angela Merkel wants European leaders to agree by the end of the year to hold a constitutional convention in order to fashion a new legal basis for the EU – even though most other member states are opposed to the idea of another tortuous and risky treaty negotiation so soon after the failed European constitution and the Lisbon treaty. The plan could dramatically reshape the EU in Germany's image – or lead to it falling apart.
On Friday Merkel rejected Greece's plea for more time to implement austerity measures while affirming that she still wanted it to remain in the euro. There had been some signs that German anger about Greece had dissipated – Bild published a surprisingly positive interview with the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, last week – but at the same time confidence is growing that a Greek exit from the euro could be contained. Figures such as Volker Kauder, the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democrats, and Philipp Rösler, vice-chancellor and leader of the Free Democrats, the junior partner in Merkel's coalition government, have said they no longer fear a Greek exit.
However, the debate in Germany is now moving beyond Greece towards the question of political union. During the two and a half years since the euro crisis began, Germany's approach has been to seek to impose its own economic preferences on the eurozone. It insisted that all eurozone countries agree to enact an equivalent of the constitutional amendment it passed in 2009, which required it to maintain balanced budgets. Many, including Guardian leader writers, have seen in Germany's approach a kind of economic imperialism. But Germany seems to be coming to the conclusion that it is no longer enough to try to remake the eurozone in Germany's image in economic terms; it must do so in political terms as well.
Although Germany has often been accused of doing too little too late for the eurozone periphery, many Germans think they have already done too much too soon. They perceive a creeping mutualisation of debt, in which they are assuming liability without control – in other words, throwing astronomical sums of money into a bottomless pit without being able to enforce austerity measures or to stop eurozone leaders such as François Hollande from taking steps to change the retirement age, for instance, from 62 to 60. As a result, there has been increasing anger in Germany at the bailouts. (The German constitutional court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone's €500bn rescue fund, on 12 September.)
Many Germans see the idea of a more extensive and permanent form of debt mutualisation – for instance in the form of eurobonds – as the creation of a "debt union" in which they and other surplus countries would assume unlimited liability for deficit countries' debt while giving up what leverage they have to enforce structural reform. Germany's constitutional court has already ruled that open-ended debt mutualisation of this kind would violate the Basic Law – the federal republic's constitution.
The European summit in June, at which Hollande, along with Italian and Spanish prime ministers Mario Monti and Mariano Rajoy, forced Merkel to allow the ESM to directly bail out troubled eurozone banks, was a turning point in German attitudes to the euro crisis.
In much of the rest of the eurozone – and the world – it was seen as a breakthrough. The summit was, as one economist put it, "the first to agree measures that address the core of the crisis: inflated government borrowing costs that weaken public finances and ultimately make sovereign insolvency self-fulfilling; and a vicious cycle in which worries about bank and sovereign solvency feed on and amplify each other".
In Germany, however, the summit – which took place on the day that Italy knocked Germany out of Euro 2012 – was widely seen as a defeat. From a German perspective, Merkel had given in to demands from the eurozone periphery for even more of their money while weakening the strict conditionality on which Germany had always insisted. It was, according to the Spiegel, "the night Merkel lost". Against this background, there are now calls for a referendum – the buzzword of the summer in Germany – to replace the Basic Law with a new constitution.
Supporters of "more Europe", such as Jürgen Habermas, would use the process to argue for changes that could overcome the limitations set by the courts on debt mutualisation. Their opponents would see it as a chance to block further European integration.
Even with Merkel's plan to accelerate the timetable for a new treaty, there is a big question mark over whether an as yet undefined form of political union can be agreed quickly enough to save the euro. Just as Germany has sought to impose its economic preferences on the rest of the eurozone, it is now also likely to seek to impose its political preferences, based on the lessons it has drawn from its own history. In other words, it will seek to reshape Europe as a larger version of its own federal system, which has a relatively weak executive constrained by strict rules and a strong parliament and judiciary.
However, even if it is successful in doing this, it is by no means clear that the German people would vote in favour of accepting full liability for eurozone debt. Influential figures such as economist Otmar Issing are opposed to political union, and some polls suggest a majority of Germans are opposed to further integration and even want Germany to leave the euro altogether.
What some in Germany see as a way to enable "more Europe" may turn out to be the catalyst for the disintegration of the EU.
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Thomas Arnold (1734 - August 14, 1828) was an American silversmith, active in Newport, Rhode Island.

Arnold was born in Newport and married Eliphal Wyatt on September 16, 1757 in Bristol, Rhode Island. He worked as a silversmith from 1760 until either 1796 or 1817 (dates vary), serving as master to William Stoddard Nichols circa 1798. According to the Newport Mercury of September 12, 1774, he received a master's degree from college in Providence, where he was later elected a member of faculty and in 1800 chosen as a trustee. As a prominent citizen of Newport, in 1774 he served as a delegate to conventions in Philadelphia, in 1789 was appointed Justice of Peace, and in 1817 was appointed Inspector of Customs for the Port of East Greenwich.

Arnold's work is collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Yale University, as well as the United Congregational Church in Newport.

References

 American Silversmiths and Their Marks: The Definitive (1948) Edition, Stephen Guernsey, Cook Ensko, Courier Corporation, 1983. .
 Online Encyclopedia of Silver Marks, Hallmarks & Makers' Marks
 American Silversmiths entry
 Find-a-Grave entry

American silversmiths
People from Newport, Rhode Island
1739 births
1828 deaths

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Ligia Lewis: Water Will (in Melody). 2.12.18, HAU 2, Berlin.
As we are sitting there in the dark we are taken on a journey to a dreamy performative world that challenges the established conventions and mechanisms of Western black box theatre. Lights, stage design, costume, the separation between stage and tribune/performers and spectators, sound, music, voice, speech, movement: all aspects are put under scrutiny, emphasized, parodied, dismantled and re-agenced. Not everything is given to see or hear at all times in this work: for example the performers repeatedly disappear in darkness or behind curtains while they perform, hence challenging the usual ideas around visibility on stage and asking: who in our societies gets to be seen and heard?
The relation between speech and hearing particularly caught my interest, as most of the text being spoken through audio recordings or live by the performers was either too low or blurry to be heard, or too scattered to be understood, therefore efficiently questioning the role of speech and language in the human expression of thoughts and emotions, in particular in a theatre context.


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Wake Technical Community College is privileged to host the 115th annual NCAS Conference. NCAS promotes public appreciation of science, science education, scientific research, and a meaningful role for science in public policy.
Since this is the first time a community college is hosting this event, our theme focuses on the importance of scientific communication outside of traditional academia. Our goal is to encourage collaborative research within the scientific profession that is translated in a meaningful and relevant way to the general public, allowing scientists and laymen to actively contribute to the communities in which they live. There is an ever increasing need to bridge the wide gap between the scientific community and the general public, and as scientists we need to take responsibility for how information is disseminated. Our challenge is to transcend the boundaries of academia and actively pursue ways that our research can contribute to and engage with local communities.
Students are encouraged to submit abstracts for poster and oral presentations. The NCAS annual meeting is the ideal platform for budding scientists to disseminate their research findings, as it is an inviting, supportive environment with numerous awards presented to the poster and oral presenters.
Faculty are encouraged to attend the meeting to support student presenters and to attend the afternoon workshops. We will offer panel discussions focused on the theme of Collaborate, Communicate, Contribute, as well as a discussion of ongoing undergraduate research projects at community colleges.