Jack Kramer was more than a tennis player-he was a visionary of the modern game.
John Albert Kramer, better known as Jack Kramer, did more than play a mean game of tennis.
He initiated a style of play more reminiscent of the serve and volley of John McEnroe than of Pete Sampras––though both games reflect the prowess of Kramer on court.
Off court, Kramer forced the evolution of the structure of modern tennis. He drove the bus that finally arrived in 1968 when amateur and professional tennis blended into one tour, finally allowing players to gain control over their own careers.
"Jack" Kramer was born on August 1, 1921 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and died September 12, 2009 at the age of 88. His father worked for the Union Pacific railroad. Naturally, the family never accumulated the finer things of life as resources were always lacking.
Shortly after Jack was born, the family moved to the Los Angeles area. But young Kramer had natural athletic ability. He soon found his way into tennis after the family moved to the San Bernardino area, where Kramer was privileged to watch a match played by the great Ellsworth Vines. He became inspired by the brilliant play of Vines and dedicated himself to playing tennis.
There are names so ingrained into the tennis consciousness that one feels they're still to be found gracing the Royal Box on Wimbledon's Centre Court. The commentary team helpfully points out the faces to match the names. Rod Laver, Margaret Court, Ilie Nastase, Billie Jean King: They have become like family, like old friends.
Such is the case with Don Budge. A Grand Slam will not pass, nor a reference to "the greats of tennis" be made without his name being mentioned. And just lately, promoted by Roger Federer's record-breaking feats, his name has appeared with ever greater frequency, bracketed alongside potential contenders for the "greatest ever" crown.
There is good reason for Budge to be one of those constants in the game. He was born way back in the Great War, achieved the first ever Grand Slam just as World War 2 was fermenting (and Rod Laver just a month old), and spanned the amateur and the professional age.
He played against the icons of tennis—Fred Perry, Bill Tilden, Frank Sedgman—and against modern greats such as Pancho Gonzalez.
As recently as 1973, aged 58, he teamed up with Sedgman to win the Veteran's Doubles title at Wimbledon, so would have shared the locker room with men's seeds such as Jimmy Connors and Bjorn Borg.
He lived—just—into the 21st century. Yet to modern fans, he is little more than a name. It's time to put that right.
Budge came from good stock, from a bold father who upped sticks from Scotland at the turn of the 20th century for a healthier life in the warm climate of California.
Donald was born in 1915 and inherited his father's sporty genes. Budge senior had played reserve for Rangers football team before he left for the New World.
Don was also bright—he went to the University of California at 18—and he was over 6'1" tall. He was, in fact, the perfect package for tennis.
His road to tennis was a familiar one. Budge tried, and was good at, many other sports, and excelled at baseball. It was his elder brother, Lloyd, who was the tennis player, and who persuaded Don to apply his fearsome bat-swinging prowess to a tennis racket.
He learned his trade quickly on the public hard courts of the West Coast and at just under 15, he won the California U15s Championships. That was his incentive to give up baseball.
By 18, he had won the National Junior Championships by beating the top contender Gene Mako, from a two set deficit.
Big Bill Tilden was Americas first great champion.
Like many tragic sports figures, "the fault lay not in the stars but in himself" for tennis legend William "Bill" Tilden.
Loving the limelight, the footlights and the spotlight, Tilden shunned real life for the artificial, constructing a world he could not inhabit. No one could. Born into wealth and privilege, pampered by an over-protective mother, and held at arm's length by a grief-stricken father, Tilden was forced into tennis at his father's insistence.
Tilden showed promise at an early age, but he did not care for the game. Later on he avoided life by playing tennis, finding the soothing rhythm of its point, counter-point a barrier against outside emotional distress.
A new series for a new year. In a companion series to 'Queens of the Court,' 'Great Men of Tennis' takes a look at the men who have left an indelible mark on tennis. The series begins among the foundations of our modern game, with the man who invented aspects of the serve, and set the stage for Davis Cup competition: Dwight Davis.
In honor of Dwight Davis, this article is posted on the 110th anniversary of the first Davis Cup – held Feb 9, 1900.
The Davis Cup has been an important part of tennis history for 110 years.
Let's see, Secretary of War? Or famous tennis star? Hmmm … Which career path to choose? How about both?!
Not many tennis stars go to college. John McEnroe, who is famously known for attending Stanford, really only attended the university for a single semester. John Isner, a current tennis star, is the only one in the top 50 to obtain a degree (at the University of Georgia) before starting his ATP career this year.
Like John Isner, Dwight Davis was a collegiate tennis singles champion. He played for Harvard University in 1899. The closest he came to a singles title was runner up in the US Championships in 1898. A lefty, Davis made a name for himself in doubles. While at Harvard he also went out for baseball and played on the sophomore football team.
Quite a few US politicians were collegiate, or even professional athletes, before embarking on a life of public service, among them: President Gerald R. Ford, and Senator Jack Kemp. Dwight Davis can be counted among these public figures. Davis would serve the U.S. as secretary of war from 1925-1929 under President Calvin Coolidge.
In spite of his dearth of singles titles, Davis serves as a keystone for our 'Great Man of Tennis,' because Davis, like Frenchman Rene LaCoste 30 years later, was not only a winner but also a technical innovator, and became a key mover and creator in the sport.


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MaxPreps ranks Buffanblu behind Crusaders
By Nick Abramo on October 3, 2016 | Football, Punahou football, Saint Louis football
Despite a 33-20 victory over Saint Louis last Thursday, Punahou remained behind the Crusaders in the CBS MaxPreps national rankings.
The Buffanblu (5-1, 4-1 Interscholastic League of Honolulu) moved up 52 spots past Kahuku (7-1, 7-0 Oahu Interscholastic Association) to No. 74.
Saint Louis (5-1, 4-1 ILH), which beat Punahou 66-44 on Sept. 9, is just two spots above Punahou — at No. 72.
The Red Raiders, who cruised to a 56-6 win over Kaiser on Friday, dropped 39 places to No. 115.
In the Honolulu Star-Advertiser's latest Top 10 released Monday, Kahuku is No. 1, Punahou is No. 2 and Saint Louis is No. 3.
Red Raider 4 Life October 4, 2016 3:36 am
Oh boy, these are fun. Nice to see the max prep guys giving "Props" to Red Raider Football lol. Thank goodness for the HSA and USA Today, at least they don't have their head in the sand.
Just let the season play out and let the chips fall where they at.
Northshore October 4, 2016 5:49 am
The SA Hawaii high school football ranking is bogus and bias especially when two voters gave Punahou first place votes. There's two issues that should be considered in the voting process. Personal and sometimes unreasoned judgement. Are these voters bias against Kahuku for giving first place votes to (1 previous) St Louis or (2) Punahou? The fact is, whoever starts at number one, should be voted number one until defeated by another team in the ranking. Why is Kapaa in the rankings? Who have they played? Playing two teams three times on Kauai doesn't justify them in the ranking just because they're undefeated. Nothing against Kapaa for being undefeated but have they been tested against other ranking teams? The ranking cannot have two different divisions combined and call it Hawaii high school ranking, it's bogus and unrealistic.
hwnstyll October 4, 2016 8:22 am
I love reading these articles, always amazed at how upset fans of a voted and ranked first place team complains about everything. a team got 2 votes out of what 15 and you are still not happy? I guess you live in an all or nothing world.
RELAX rankings mean nothing.
anywaaaays!! October 4, 2016 12:57 pm
Maxpreps is bias toward catholic private schools, similar to University of Notre Dame ranked as a preseason Top 5 every year even though they fall out of the top 25 at the end of the season. I guess thats the brotherhood at work, cant win on the field but can win on paper.
TopDoggs October 4, 2016 1:52 pm
Let it play out on the field, I have a feeling that these Maxprep guys are correct in that the ILH will finish 1 & 2 at the end of the season and we can finally say that there is a TRUE state champ.
Pick Six October 4, 2016 6:32 pm
Why will ILH finish 1 – 2? Because they play pass happy offenses and no defense.
IRT: hwnstyll: Just was making a point about how these people vote. It's not about receiving all the first place votes and the fact of the matter is, I could careless if Kahuku wasn't ranked at all in this bogus ranking. Whoopee, just because Punahou beat St Louis caused these two voters to give Punahou 2 first place votes? It really doesn't matter whose ranked number 1 and until that number 1 team is beaten, voters should leave personal and unreasoned judgement out of their decision making. Than again, a select few of the ILH voters will favor the ILH and OIA voters will favor the OIA. Didn't mean to ruffle your feathers and hope you understand how and why these voters should vote, not because their favorite team just beat St Louis.
731grown October 5, 2016 8:52 am
So what happens when kahuku beats ilh 1 and 2 week after week in the playoffs…will the ilh try and make another change up in the playoffs next year…and plus without any outter island teams playing in the open this isnt a state championship..only the D1 and 2 playoffs is state tournaments.th e open division playoffs is an oahu championship.
hwnstyll October 5, 2016 11:33 am
you need to be honest with yourself, if Kahuku was ranked #3 you would have a cow. You care how many votes a second place team gets already. Last year Mililani and St louis was ranked higher than Kahuku and your north shore brethren didnt say that Mililani should be #1 until they are beaten, they said they should be #1. It is just funny to me that's all. BTW when was the last time Kahuku beat Punahou anyway? Last year, nope- year before, nope, year before that, nope.
Seems to me you are tired of losing to Punahou and that's why you complain about them?
Education First October 5, 2016 12:05 pm
731grown October 5, 2016 at 8:52 am
Do you have any evidence that the ILH made this change? Didn't the previous articles say that neighbor island leagues declined to play in the Open Tourney. Didn't the OIA vote for this change?
So if these reports are accurate, how could the money the ILH "allegedly" threw around cause change? And how could change be caused from the ILH when the OIA voted to accept the changes?
I love how people just throw out accusations without any shred of evidence.
iLh October 5, 2016 7:13 pm
The max prep ranks takes into consideration the schools facilities, the money it spends on the football team, the financial backers and if it's a private institute. So yes, Hawaii public schools would lack, buuutttt,,,,the abnormal thing is the public school football teams are winning the States football championships, oh well.
Northshore October 5, 2016 10:13 pm
hwnstyll: Com-on man, you missed the whole point by not comprehending the point I was making. You're taking words out of context and making it sound as if I'm against Punahou. First of all, this ranking is bogus so I wouldn't have a cow if Kahuku wasn't ranked and it has nothing to do with when Punahou beat Kahuku and we're not afraid to play Punahou and I hope that happens this year. Let me repeat, so that you won't have a cow and say things that would mock my statement. The issue is, how the heck do these 2 people give a team a number 1 ranking to a team that was never ranked 1st, has one loss, and just because they beat St Louis they receive 2 number 1 votes and yet Kahuku started at number 1 and has never lost a game to any Hawaii team this year. Maybe you're one of these voters that vote for the ILH teams. I question the criteria these voters are using before they submit their votes, that's all. Has nothing to do with Punahou, St Louis or Kapaa.
phILHarmonic October 6, 2016 8:22 am
Strength of Schedule??
NS Maybe they think Punahou is a better team? Maybe they see beating St louis as a reason?
It is america and people can have difference of opinions, something you might struggle with.
It is a ranking and nobody cares as much as the North shore about these rankings.
I do not see St louis complaining because they beat Punahou but are now 3rd, I dont see Punahou complaing even though after the preseason scrimmage it looked to everyone that Punahou got the better of the two. Lets just wait to see how the season turns out, there is still alot of football to be played.
Education First October 6, 2016 9:31 am
Northshore October 5, 2016 at 10:13 pm
The issue is, how the heck do these 2 people give a team a number 1 ranking to a team that was never ranked 1st, has one loss, and just because they beat St Louis they receive 2 number 1 votes and yet Kahuku started at number 1 and has never lost a game to any Hawaii team this year.
Here are some reasons:
1) Two voters feel the OIA is very weak, so while Punahou has 1 loss, that one loss to STL is more impressive than the wins accumulated in the OIA by Kahuku.
2) You do not need to be ranked number 1 at all during a season to receive first place votes.
Obviously some voters feel there are only 3 good team in Hawaii (Kahuku, STL, and Punahou). Therefore, a few voters are rewarding Punahou and STL for beating each other while Kahuku hasn't played a Hawaii team up to this standard.
Regardless of what you think, this isn't ridiculous.
For example, if Alabama and Ohio State played each other two times and both had impressive wins against each other (they each have 1 loss each), and then another really good team such as Clemson is undefeated but hasn't been beating any top teams in the voters eyes, some voters may view the team with 1 loss being the better team.
There are so many variables to account for (strength of schedule, margin of victory, strength of league, the team that is trending upwards, injuries, etc.). It is nearly impossible to get it right nor keep everyone happy.
Some voters will look at Kahuku and view them as a team who won 8 titles over so many year. Other voters will look at Kahuku and view them as what have they done this year ONLY. Neither are incorrect and each voters has that luxury to view it the way they want since there was probably no grading or voting criteria given.
You guys are making like Waialua or Damien got 2 votes. Punahou, while losing 1 game earlier, held a top 3 team in check and the Alabama bound QB didn't do anything in the last game offensively.
To some voters that is more impressive than beating Kaiser, Radford, and Moanalua by 80 -100 points a game.
But to make like an injustice was done or some travesty has occurred is shortsighted.
You could make an argument why either Kahuku, Punahou, or STL should be ranked #1. None of them would be 100% correct.
al October 6, 2016 5:55 pm
"hwnstyll October 4, 2016 at 8:22 am
it boils down to this: butthurt kahuku fans.
Education First October 7, 2016 10:18 am
@Al, they are that way since they live in a black and white world. They think everything is linear (although they don't know the definition of that word).
Polls are subjective so they will never be correct. But you have to understand, when your community is only known for doing one thing well (not counting the Spicy Ahi Poke at the Kahuku Superette, Food at Tita's, or Pulehu Ribs at Papa Ole's) you will get very defensive and sensitive when you feel it being threatened.
If they start losing at football then what will they be known for? Poor grades? Poverty? high Drug Use? Low Test Scores? Throwing coaches under the bus?
Let's be supportive and pat them on the back for a job well done!

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For the first time in the company's history, Nintendo is offering a pre-order incentive for everyone who decides to buy Hyrule Warriors early. If you live in Europe or UK, you'll be receiving a real-life replica of Link's knitted scarf, while if you live in US you'll get just a bunch of in-game costumes from previous Zelda Games.
On top of this, Club Nintendo owners who buy the game in the first four weeks after the launch will get a set of Ganondorf costumes. In order to get this incentive, you'll have to register the game online.
I don't know about you, but the scarf looks a lot more interesting to me compared to some in-game costumes. Go ahead and pre-order your copy before it's too late!


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Errol Damelin
Errol, New Hampshire
Magical creatures in Harry Potter
Errol Damelin (born 23 August 1969) is a South African born, Israeli/British entrepreneur and early stage technology investor. He was the founder and CEO and later Chairman of Wonga, a high profile British financial technology company that processed the worlds first straight through and fully automated consumer loans - and went on to processed over 15 million loans while Damelin was CEO. Today he's a highly regarded early stage investor and mentor to technology start-ups around the world. He's said to be working on a stealth health technology venture but this is unconfirmed.
Errol Damelin grew up in a Jewish family in Klerksdorp, a small town in rural South Africa, where his father was a country doctor who later specialised as an anaesthesiologist. He went on to attend the University of Cape Town where he studied Business Science and Law and took up numerous leadership positions, including winning election to the UCT Students Representative Council in 1991. He was politically active and associated with the left leaning non-racial and anti-apartheid NUSAS students grouping during the years immediately preceding the end of apartheid in South Africa and was detained at least once while a student for protesting against the apartheid government policy of detention without trial.
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Errol is an English male given name that is synonymous to Earl.
Errol Barnett (born 1983), anchor and correspondent for CNN International
Errol Barrow (1920-1987), first Prime Minister of Barbados
Errol Étienne (born 1941), prominent Scottish artist
Errol Flynn (1909–1959), film actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s
"Errol" (song), a 1981 song in honour of Flynn, on rock band Australian Crawl's album Sirocco
Errol Morris (born 1948), Academy Award-winning documentary film director
Errol Brown (born 1948), Jamaican singer and songwriter
Errol Mann (1941–2013), former American NFL placekicker, 1968-1978
Errol Zimmerman (born 1986), Surinamese-Curaçaoan kickboxer
Errol (Harry Potter), the Weasley family's owl in the fictional Harry Potter series
Errol, a swamp dragon in the Discworld novel Guards! Guards!
Errol, a character in the film Snatch
Errol, a weasel and the main antagonist of the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode, Love is a Many Splintered Thing.
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Errol is a town in Coos County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 291 at the 2010 census. It is located north of the White Mountains along Route 16 at the intersection of Route 26. It has a municipal airport with a single, unpaved runway (airport code ERR).
Errol is part of the Berlin, NH–VT micropolitan statistical area.
Errol was granted by Governor John Wentworth to Timothy Ruggles and others in 1774, the name taken from Scotland's James Hay, 15th Earl of Erroll. In 1789, proprietors of the Errol grant petitioned the General Court that towns between Conway and Errol be required to pay for "a good connecting road." The legislature approved the measure in 1781, mandating what is today Route 16. A winter trade route to Andover, Maine was built in 1804, connecting Errol to Portland by what is now Route 26. The first settlers arrived at Errol in 1806, and by 1820 the population was 36. It was incorporated in 1836.
Although the soil was considered generally poor, it was suitable for hay, oats and potatoes. With vast forests, the town's chief occupation was lumbering. By 1859, when the population was 130, the town had two sawmills, one gristmill and one clapboard machine.
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Magical creatures are a colourful aspect of the fictional "wizarding world" contained in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. Throughout the seven books of the series, Harry and his friends come across many of these creatures on their adventures, as well as in the Care of Magical Creatures class at Hogwarts. Rowling has also written Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a guide to the magical beasts found in the series. Many of these are derived from folklore, primarily Greek mythology, but also British and Scandinavian folklore. Many of the legends surrounding mythical creatures are also incorporated in the books. "Children ... know that I didn't invent unicorns, but I've had to explain frequently that I didn't actually invent hippogriffs," Rowling told Stephen Fry in an interview for BBC Radio 4. "When I do use a creature that I know is a mythological entity, I like to find out as much as I can about it. I might not use it, but to make it as consistent as I feel is good for my plot."
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ERROL DUNKLEY
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Errol Louis
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Errol Morris
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Errol Webber
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Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad — No More Taking Sides
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(Ch. 8, WFRP 4E) See no Errol, Hear no Errol, Speak no Errol
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[Unedited] Robi Damelin and Ali Abu Awwad with Krista Tippett
Episode 148: Errol Morris
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Planning and Leadership with Errol Doebler
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DR ERROL SWEENEY
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Tribeca 2008: Errol Morris
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Dr. Errol Gluck
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Errol Flynn and the Boys
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2008: Errol Morris
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Mojo, a men's sexual health startup that's pushing therapy not pills, gets $4.4M seed
Crunch 22 Sep 2021
Companies like Numan and Roman ... UK-based startup Mojo has been taking a different tack ... Angel investors in the round include some familiar names in the European startup world, including Tom Blomfield (Monzo), Julien Callede (Made.com), Ian Hogarth (SongKick), Freddy Macnamara (Cuvva), Alex Rose (Let's Do This) and Errol Damelin (Wonga) ... .
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Preeminent provider of wearable devices-derived health data & insights draws global investment—leading movement toward greater health and wellness around the world ... LifeQ has also drawn the backing of experienced entrepreneurs and family offices such as Rachel Diamond, Halls Investments, Bremer Investments, Errol Damelin, Dietco, among others.
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as its largest market, has raised $44 million in Series B funding ... They join much earlier investors such as Entrepreneur First, Taavet Hinrikus, Matt Robinson, Errol Damelin, Niklas Zennstrom, Alex Chesterman, and Ian Hogarth — all well-known names in London's tech investment community ... — the first part appears to be panning out ... .
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Alongside Episode 1, which led Feedr's £1.5 million pre-Series A funding in 2018, other investors include Founders Factory, and angel investors Errol Damelin (Wonga founder and renowned fintech investor), Richard Glynn (former Ladbrokes CEO and founder of Alinsky Partners) and David Pritchard (founder of OpenTable Europe) ... .
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users to date. The U.S ... Meanwhile, alongside Triplepoint, Cleo is backed by some of the biggest VC names in the London tech scene — including Balderton Capital, Entrepreneur First, Moonfruit co-founders Wendy Tan White and Joe White, Skype founder Niklas Zennström, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus and LocalGlobe. .
Fitness startup Eastnine picks up £2M from LocalGlobe, Cherry Ventures, Niklas Zennström and others
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Also participating is former Spotify CMO and now Atomico Partner Sophia Bendz, Supercell founder Ilkka Paananen, Moo co-founder Richard Moross, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, and Climate Corp co-founder and Atomico Partner Siraj Khaliq, amongst others ... Prior to Atomico, he was founder and CEO of product design agency Albion, which was acquired by KBS.
'Cloud canteen' startup Feedr raises £1.5M to provide office workers with a healthier lunch
Crunch 20 Nov 2018
The round is led by London early-stage venture capital firm Episode 1. Also participating is Brent Hoberman's Founders Factory, and angel investors Errol Damelin (Wonga founder and renowned fintech investor), Richard Glynn (former Ladbrokes CEO and Founder of Alinsky Partners), and David Pritchard (founder of OpenTable Europe) ... .
Cleo, the 'digital assistant' that replaces your banking apps, picks up $10M Series A led ...
Already backed by some of the biggest VC names in the London tech scene — including Entrepreneur First, Moonfruit founder Wendy Tan White, Skype founder Niklas Zennström, Wonga founder Errol Damelin, TransferWise founder Taavet Hinrikus and LocalGlobe — Cleo is adding Balderton Capital to the list ... .
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The demand for Wonga-like payday lenders is only going to rise and rise. Blame the digital age and its emphasis on speed and flexibility in all things ... By 2014, things were going wrong. The company was forced to write off £220m of loans and explain why founder Errol Damelin had quietly sold £17m worth of shares before quitting ... .
Not a shred of shame from the man who launched Wonga: The collapsed payday loan firm was a byword for exploitation, but its founder has offered no words of contrition after taking £17million out of the company
This is Money 01 Sep 2018
When filthy-rich men like Errol Damelin need ready cash, they steer well clear of payday loan sharks, with their crippling interest rates, dodgy business practices and punitive late payment fee. When filthy-rich men like Errol Damelin need ready cash, they steer well clear of ...
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New figures have shown that credit unions, long touted as offering a vital alternative to payday lenders, are on the rise ... Read more ... in 2013 he told Wonga's then boss Errol Damelin that the Church of England wanted to "compete" it out of existence as part of its plans to expand credit unions ... ....
UK's payday lender Wonga collapses with 'few tears shed'
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London — Wonga, which became Britain's biggest payday lender but faced accusations of targeting vulnerable customers, has collapsed into administration ... Business Day reported in June that Wonga's South African founder, Errol Damelin, quit its board in 2014, amid intense scrutiny of the UK's payday lending industry. AFP .
Britain's biggest payday lender Wonga collapses
The National 31 Aug 2018
_______________. Read more.. Britain's biggest payday lender Wonga halts new loan applications. _______________ ... Wonga, founded by South African entrepreneur Errol Damelin, also ran into trouble because of its debt collection practices, including sending customers fake legal letters, which were exposed by Britain's consumer watchdog ... .
Where did it all go wrong for Wonga?
The emergency fundraising is the latest episode in Wonga's rapid rise and fall ... Chief executive and co-founder Errol Damelin quit in November 2013 and left the company seven months later ... Twitter ... Damelin has moved on to become one of the UK's leading investors in technology startups, including Purple Bricks, the online estate agent ... ....


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Images from Final 5.2 at the Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands, Sunday 31.3.19
Photo: Ian Charles Ice Rink Thialf FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles World Champion elect Danil Ivanov checks his phone before the meeting FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles (l-r) Former 8 times World Champion Nikolai Krasnikov, Dinal Valeev and Niclas Svensson share a joke about the programme FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov (333) leads Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dinar Valeev (114) leads Max Niedermaier (88) and Johann Weber (33) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dinar Valeev (114) in action FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Johann Weber (33) in action FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) leads Martin Haarahiltunen (199) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Jasper Iwema (800) in action FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Ove Ledström (97) in action FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Ove Ledström (97) leads Jimmy Tuinstra (273) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Niclas Svensson (192) passes Ove Ledström (97) on the outside FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov (333) leads Jasper Iwema (800), Ove Ledström (97) and Tomi Tani (72) down the back straight FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Ove Ledstrom falls FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov (333) leads Tomi Tani (72) and Niek Schaap (18) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Jasper Iwema (800) acknowledges the crowd FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dinar Valeev (114) leads Martin Haarahiltunen (199) and Stefan Svensson (58) down the back straight FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) leads Johann Weber (33) Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) and Niclas Svensson (192) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) leads the heat as Johann Weber (33) falls at the rear FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) leads Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) passes Dmitri Koltakov (106) on the inside FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) leads Dmitri Koltakov (106) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) passes Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) on the inside FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Max Niedermaier (88) leads Jimmy Tuinstra (273) and Simon Reitsma (17) (Red) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Niclas Svensson (192) leads Charly Ebner (665) and Tomi Tani (72) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) leads Stefan Svensson (58) Max Niedermaier (88) and Jasper Iwema (800) (Blue) into the first turn FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) in action FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Johann Weber (33) leads Martin Haarahiltunen (199) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Martin Haarahiltunen (199) leads Johann Weber (33) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov (333) leads Stefan Svensson (58) and Charly Ebner (665) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) leads Max Niedermaier (88) Bart Schaap (16) and Simon Reitsma (17) (Blue) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) leads Martin Haarahiltunen (199) and Jimmy Tuinstra (273) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dinar Valeev (114) leads Jasper Iwema (800) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Jasper Iwema (800) inside Bart Schaap (16) and Jimmy Tuinstra (273) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Bart Schaap (16) gives friend and fellow dutch rider Jimmy Tuinstra (273) a lift back to the pits after his fall FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) inside Dinar Valeev (114) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Niclas Svensson (192) leads Danil Ivanov (333) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov Celebrates his win in the World Championship FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov (333) does a wheelie to celebrate FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Race Director Phil Morris congratulates Danil Ivanov after his win FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Start Girls FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles The old Harley Davidson makes an appearance - this was the original track preparation vehicle in the early days of Ice Speedway in Holland FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles The dash to the first turn in Semi Final 1: (l-r) Jasper Iwema (800) (Yellow), Niclas Svensson (192) (White), Dinar Valeev (114) (Blue) and Danil Ivanov (333) (Red) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov (333)inside Dinar Valeev (114) (Blue) and Jasper Iwema (800) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Following his win, Danil Ivanov is congratulated by his engine tuner Mikhail Bogdanov FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Semi Final 2: Dmitri Koltakov (106) inside Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) (Blue) Martin Haarahiltunen (199) (White) and Stefan Svensson (58) (Yellow) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) leads Dmitri Koltakov (106) in semi final 2 FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Dmitri Koltakov (106) and Dmitri Khomitsevich (919) battle it out FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Swedes Niclas Svensson (left) and Martin Haarahiltunen wait to watch the final FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Sunday winner Dmitri Koltakov (106) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles The Top 3 on Sunday : (l-r) Dinar Valeev (2nd), Dmitri Koltakov (1st), Danil Ivanov (3rd) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles The Top 3 Overall: (l-r) Dmitri Koltakov (Silver), Danil Ivanov (Gold), Dinar Valeev (Bronze) FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov - 2019 World Ice Speedway Champion FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
Photo: Ian Charles Danil Ivanov with his brother Ivan (left) and his Tuner Mikhail Bogdanov FIM Ice Speedway Gladiators World Championship, Event 5.2, Ice Rink Thialf, Heerenveen, Netherlands Sunday 31 March 2019
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Q: How do I load a file in Spring Boot MVC? All the examples I've found use XML configuration file. I tried the following:
    IdSClientConfigurationImpl config = new IdSClientConfigurationImpl("idsclient.properties");
    config.load();

And it gave an exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException: idsclient.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_152]
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(FileInputStream.java:195) ~[na:1.8.0_152]
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:138) ~[na:1.8.0_152]
        at com.cisco.ccbu.common.ids.client.impl.IdSClientConfigurationImpl.load(IdSClientConfigurationImpl.java:82) ~[idsclientlib-11.6.1.jar:na]

I placed the file in the same location as application.properties.
$ find src -name idsclient\*
src/main/resources/idsclient.properties

It's being copied to the classes folder during mvn spring-boot:run
$ find target -name idsclient\*
target/classes/idsclient.properties

So what is the real path to the file in the context of a Spring Boot app?
I also tried
IdSClientConfigurationImpl config = new IdSClientConfigurationImpl("classpath:/idsclient.properties");

But it gave

java.io.FileNotFoundException: classpath:\idsclient.properties (The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect)

A: You can use Spring Resources (ClassPathResource)
   //either autowire
   @Value("classpath:idsclient.properties")
   private Resource idsclientResource;

   //or construct manually
   ClassPathResource idsclientResource = new ClassPathResource("idsclient.properties");

   ...

   IdSClientConfigurationImpl config = new IdSClientConfigurationImpl(idsclientResource.getFile().getPath());

A: To use your custom properties files, you can simply annotate a configuration class with @PropertySource. Here is an example for the AWS S3 client factory class of some of my own project:
@PropertySource("classpath:aws.properties")
@Service
public class AmazonS3ClientFactory implements FactoryBean<AmazonS3> {

    @Value("${aws.access-key}")
    private String accessKey;

    @Value("${aws.pass}")
    private String pass;

    @NotNull
    @Override
    public AmazonS3 getObject() throws Exception {
        return  AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard()
                .withRegion(Regions.EU_WEST_3)
                .withCredentials(
                        new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(
                                new BasicAWSCredentials(accessKey, pass)
                        )
                )
                .build();
    }

    @NotNull
    @Override
    public Class<?> getObjectType() {
        return AmazonS3.class;
    }

}

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Inside Social Apps 2010, our first conference on the future of monetization on social platforms, is now only a few days away – and almost sold out, so we encourage you to register now to reserve your spot. On April 20th in San Francisco, one day before Facebook's official "f8" event, many of the leading developers from around the world will be gathering to discuss the future of monetization inside social apps and games on Facebook and beyond.
At Inside Social Apps 2010, executives and experts from leading social game and app developers, payment services, advertising providers, and investors will be discussing the future of virtual goods monetization in social apps and games from a global perspective. The event will be held at the Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, located at 1675 Owens St in San Francisco (map). The full agenda for the day is available here.
Finally, the last set of "general admission" tickets is now available through Friday at a price of $429. This price will change after Friday, and space is very limited and nearly sold out, so we encourage you to register now.
Three years after the Facebook Platform launched in 2007, what started out as sheep throwing and vampire biting has quickly become a profitable billion-dollar industry. Today, social games monetizing through virtual goods have quickly become one of the hottest sectors of technology and entertainment, both in the US and around the world. Where are social apps going, and who is leading the way?
This will be an in-depth one day event geared toward developers on Facebook, MySpace, and the iPhone, senior executives, and investors. At Inside Social Apps 2010, founders and CEOs of the top social gaming, mobile social gaming, payments, and virtual goods infrastructure companies will be tackling the key issues facing the industry. We're hosting it one day before Facebook's "f8″ event in San Francisco, so this will be an excellent opportunity to learn about the key issues facing the future of the Facebook Platform and beyond before Facebook's official event.


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ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN REPTILES OF MEDITERRANEAN ISLANDS: A BIOGEOGRAPHIC, GENETIC AND ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
Events - Seminars in Biodiversity & Evolution
15 Oct 2018 - Iolanda Silva Rocha, CIBIO-InBIO/UP | October 19, 2018 - 15h15 | CIBIO-InBIO's Auditorium, Campus de Vairão
STUDENT SEMINAR IN BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION
The movement of species across suitable areas occur naturally according to species' dispersal abilities, but since humans started to explore the world, they also started to translocate species to a place where they could not arrive by their own means, thus reshaping the world's biota. The Mediterranean basin is the result of a complex history encompassing profound geological processes, climatic shifts, and biogeographical interchanges harbouring one of the world's biodiversity hotpots. It has been also a meeting point of several civilizations, with a long history of human-biota interaction which makes it a good model to study different layers of biological invasions phenomena. The main aim of this thesis is to determine the patterns and to infer the main drivers of biological invasions on reptiles' of Mediterranean Islands at different levels, using a combination of biogeographic, ecologic and genetic tools. First, we focused on the broad Mediterranean basin; we combined genetic, distribution and biological data on Mediterranean reptiles together with island information, to identify the factors promoting the presence of alien reptiles on islands, considering human-related, geographic and species traits. Second, we narrowed the study scale to one 'paradigmatic' archipelago, the Balearic Islands: here alien reptiles exceed the number of native reptile species and mutliple alien snake species have been recently introduced, endangering the few native species present. We used phylogenetic approaches combined with other information sources (literature and direct observations) to identify the origin and introduction pathways of the four introduced snake species (Hemorrhois hippocrepis, Malpolon monspessulanus, Macroprotodon mauritanicus and Rhinechis scalaris). Third, we focused on the Italian Wall lizard, Podarcis sicula, introduced in several places in the world, from the Mediterranean region to North America, where is frequently invasive and so a good model to understand the history and traits that make a reptile succeed in different systems. Overall, these results provide multiple layers of knowledge about biological invasions on the Mediterranean Islands. All the layers have in common the complexity of the phenomena on this region, by a combination of signals related to a deep human role and the natural adaptation or plasticity of species to the new environments. The integration of several tools to understand different stages of the process allowed a clear but complex picture. The Mediterranean Islands harbour systems with hidden complexity of alien reptiles, which are able to take advantage of their inherited traits and also of the human help, to succeed and expand. Such complexity brought additional questions providing directions for further studies.
Iolanda Silva Rocha holds a MSc in Biodiversity, Genetics and Evolution from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. Iolanda is currently in the end of her fourth year of the BIODIV PhD Program, working under the supervision of Dr. Miguel A. Carretero (CIBIO-InBIO), Francesco Ficetola (University of Milan) and Daniele Salvi (CIBIO-InBIO) and is part of the Functional Biodiversity (FBIO) group at CIBIO-InBIO. This seminar will be the final presentation of the thesis.
[Host: Miguel A. Carretero, Functional Biodiversity]
Image credits: Iolanda Silva Rocha


As small, family farms continue to disappear, and large, mechanized farms dominate American agriculture, a new kind of farmer is sprouting up across the land: women. Although women have always been involved in farming, it has long been thought of as a "man's job." Traditionally, farm women have often identified themselves as something other than the "farmer." That's all changing. According to the USDA, between 2002 and 2007, the number of women who identified themselves as farmers increased by 19 percent, and the number of women "principal operators" increased by 30 percent.
Today, there are about one million women farmers in the U.S. - 30 percent of the total. Women are a fast-growing demographic in American agriculture, and they are doing things differently. While the average farm size in the U.S. has grown dramatically over the last 50 years, women tend to run smaller operations. Many choose organic and natural methods.


My monthly column in The Bookseller is now available online. This time around, I contrast the American multi-platform strategy of Barnes & Noble (stores, bn.com, Nook) with the less three-dimensional approach to eBooks that WH Smith/Kobo are pursuing in the UK.
My friends at Kingston University, where I am a member of the Publishers' Advisory Board (Publishing MA) have very kindly splashed me on their blog, following yesterday's rhetorical burst the the Tools of Change Conference here at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
You can read their comments, with links to The Bookseller, here.


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Hokkien mee, literally "Fujian noodles", is a series of related Southeast Asian dishes that have their origins in the cuisine of China's Fujian (Hokkien) province.

Types
Hokkien mee can refer to four distinct dishes, with each being ubiquitous in specific localities in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.  The dishes are all indigenous to the region and not known in Fujian itself, although they are all thought to have descended from lor mee (卤面), a staple of Fujianese cooking.

Hokkien mee

In Singapore, Hokkien mee () refers to a dish of egg noodles and rice noodles stir-fried with egg, slices of pork, prawns and squid. The key to the dish is copious quantities of an aromatic broth made from prawns and pork bones, slowly simmered for many hours.  Sambal chilli and calamansi limes are served on the side for the diner to blend in, giving it an extra zing and tanginess. Traditionally, small cubes of fried lard are added, and some stalls also serve the dish on an opeh leaf (soft areca palm bark), which enhances the fragrance of the dish.

The Singaporean version of Hokkien mee was created after World War II by Chinese sailors from Fujian (Hokkien) province in southern China. After working in the factories, they would congregate along Rochor Road and fry excess noodles from the noodle factories over a charcoal stove. The dish is considered a classic of Singaporean cuisine and several hawker stalls selling it have been recognized by the Michelin Guide.

The dish is also known as "fried Hokkien noodles" (炒福建面), "Hokkien fried prawn noodles" (福建炒虾面), and particularly in Malaysia, "sotong mee" (squid noodles) to differentiate it from other types of Hokkien mee.

In Indonesia, Mie Hokkien is associated particularly with the city of Medan on Sumatra.  While the ingredients resemble the Singaporean version, instead of being stir-fried together, the ingredients are typically cooked separately and simply tossed together before serving.

Penang hae mee (noodle soup)

The Penang variant can be easily distinguished from the other variants by its characteristic spicy prawn broth. It primarily consists of rice vermicelli and thicker yellow egg noodles, while the broth is made with prawn heads and shells, and pork ribs. Sliced prawns are also added into the dish, along with pork slices, hard boiled eggs, kangkung (Ipomoea aquatica), bean sprouts, fried shallots, lard and sambal. In Penang, pig skin, an ingredient rarely served in Kuala Lumpur, is a common topping as well.

Egg noodles are served in richly flavoured dark soup stock with prawns, pork slices, fish cake slices and bean sprouts, topped with fried shallots and scallion. The stock is made using dried shrimp, plucked heads of prawns, white pepper, garlic and other spices. Traditionally, lard is added to the soup, but this is now less common due to health concerns. A "dry" (without soup) version is also available; this version usually involves flavouring the noodles and toppings with vinegar, soy sauce, oil and chili, if desired. The dish is also usually served with freshly cut red chili slices in light soy sauce and lime juice.

Singaporean hae mee

Another version also called "prawn noodles" in Singapore is similar to the Penang variation of Hokkien mee. Egg noodles and rice noodles are served in richly flavoured dark soup stock with prawns, pork slices, fish cake slices, and bean sprouts topped with fried shallots and spring onion. The stock is made using dried shrimps, prawn heads, white pepper, garlic and other spices.

Hokkien char mee

Hokkien char mee (Hokkien fried noodles; ) is served in Kuala Lumpur and the surrounding region. It is a dish of thick yellow noodles braised in thick dark soy sauce with pork, squid, fish cake and cabbage as the main ingredients and cubes of pork fat fried until crispy (sometimes pork liver is included). The best examples are usually cooked over a raging charcoal fire. This dish originated from a hawker stall chef, Ong Kim Lian, at Petaling Street in 1927. Unlike the other variants of Hokkien mee, this dish does not incorporate prawns.

See also

 Malaysian cuisine
 Singaporean cuisine
 List of noodle dishes
 Rice noodles

References

Further reading

Chinese noodle dishes
Fried noodles
Malaysian noodle dishes
Noodle soups
Singaporean noodle dishes

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This post is late. So so so so very late and for that i apologise. I have been a bad bad blogger but i love blogging too much to put it off any longer (have i said blog too much, it doesn't feel like a word anymore?!). At the beginning of December i was invited along to The City Girls event in Sheffield at none other than the amazing space that is the Virgin Money Lounge. OH THE INTERIOR OF THIS BANK IS EVERYTHING I DREAM OF. That is all.
On arrival we were greeted by the ladies with a lovely glass of Bucks Fizz and were given a run down of the event. There were a few different things to do and lots of amazing food on offer too - lots of hummus. I feel like hummus doesn't get enough credit. It's bloody amazing.
A couple of the lovely ladies from The Body Shop were there to show us some of the goodies they have in store - including MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE HAND CREAM even though i've only had it for a month but you know - All. Time. Favourite = The spiced apple hand cream. It makes my hand smell like christmas and i love it. They did make overs as well as showcasing some amazing things you could pick up as gifts (for yourself obviously - treat yo self). I had a lovely time talking to these ladies and discussing all things Body Shop!
There were some lovely ladies from Harrison Camera shop in Sheffield also who were showcasing some of their tripods and lights and showing you how it can improve your photography. I left knowing that i absolutely need some artificial light in my life because my flat doesn't have very many windows which let in light and these dark evenings are the worst!
There was also a cupcake decorating and gift tag making master class by Rebecca from LovefromRebecca. I loved using the piping bags to decorate cupcakes and i feel like i am going to have to give this another go in the future. I usually stick to rocky road but i feel like i'm confident enough to branch out into cupcakes now. I also used the gift tags i made on my christmas presents and i learnt that making your own gift tags is both more affordable and a massive amount of fun. I loved being creative at things i felt good at!
There was also some wax melts provided by the Sheffield Candle Company and i must say, my christmas smelling wax melts have stolen my heart. Wax melts are now my life. I'd also bought some of their candles earlier in the day as gifts.
At the end of the event there was a raffle and i won a little eyebrow kit by Benefit but all the raffles prizes were so good i would have been happy with anything! I really really loved this event and i'm super excited to attend more in the future!
We all got a lovely goodie bag to head home with filled with tea, bath melts and body lotion! A big thank you to Tarnya, Aimee, Lucy and Becki for putting the event on and for inviting me!


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Thoughts on the Leaving Cert from a Sheffield United Fan
Posted on May 9, 2020 by simon
Football is not a matter of life and death; it's much more important than that. If you were to listen to the news yesterday, you could replace the word "football" with "The Leaving Cert," and no one would have disagreed. The Minister for Education announced another change to, what many take as a sadistic rite of passage at the end of secondary education, due to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Instead of the exam being delayed by 6 weeks or so, and despite the Taoiseach's assurances that the exam would go ahead by "hook or by crook," the Minister announced that the results of the Leaving Cert would now be given by predicted grades.
I'm a primary school teacher so why on earth would I have a valid opinion on this. Furthermore this web site focuses on my poetry work, so why would I be wasting precious internet bandwidth on something that almost finished off any love I might have had for poetry? Worse, I am a Sheffield United supporter, so you couldn't trust my judgment on anything anyway.
I was a Sheffield United fan when I did my Leaving Cert in 1997. It was a particularly painful year. We were in the old First Division (now the much better sounding Championship) and although we came 5th in the league, we reached the Play Off Final against Crystal Palace, where at the very last kick of the game, a guy called David Hopkins, scored the goal to prevent a return to the Premier League. Despite years of pain and hardship, I remain a Blades fan and this season has been a joy. That was, of course, until this pandemic hit.
We have a decent shot at qualifying for European competitions next season. We're only a couple of points from the Champions' League. Realistically, most people predict we'll get into the Europa League, given all the variables.
However, if you cast your mind back to August 2019, almost nobody would have predicted this. Almost every single football journalist, when predicting Sheffield United's finish in the Premier League for this year, had us rooted to the bottom of the table. Left to simulators and experts, we were to be condemned back to the Championship by Christmas.
You might claim now that this is a barely disguised and a weak metaphor for my opinion on the idea of predicted grades for the Leaving Cert; you'd be correct. At the beginning of 6th year, of school, anything can happen. From Sheffield United's perspective, they worked their asses off and they had loads of time to prove everyone wrong.
Tell that to Norwich City now.
Norwich City sit in the position where the experts had put Sheffield United, rooted to the bottom of the table. There isn't a football analyst out there that would predict Norwich will end up anywhere else but in 20th place. However, you speak to any Norwich City player, they know that if they really put in enough effort and up their game a little bit, they could escape relegation. They know that they're not going to win the league but the likelihood is they'll put in a huge amount of effort to not get relegated.
West Brom were one such club that by Christmas of 2004, were dead and buried, rooted to the bottom of the Premier League. However, once they started playing in a different way, slowly but surely they managed to start pulling some results together and on the last day of the season, they did just enough to stay up, with, I believe the lowest ever number of points to survive the league. It's known as the Premier League's Greatest Escape.
The Leaving Cert being moved to predicted grades is going to suit the Liverpools of the education system – the ones that have been regularly churning out the results, consistently. Maybe, that's how it should be done. Maybe, the students that have been consistently working the hardest should be rewarded with higher results. However, that isn't how the Leaving Cert has been measured up until now. It has judged people on their performance at the end of the year.
If you were a Norwich City Leaving Cert candidate, because you haven't being doing well up until now, it's unlikely that you'll do extremely well, but there is more than enough time to knuckle down to do a little better than where you're at right now. Perhaps, a 17th place finish?
The change on doing the Leaving Cert on the 29th July and switching to a completely different system of assessment will benefit the majority of students. They'll likely end up with enough to get on to their courses. However, there's the procrastinators, the ones that get a kick up the arse when they see their Mock results, the ones who perform well on the day, that will end up in trouble.
While I believe this is definitely a better way to assess students' progress, the time to introduce it was not now. The season had already begun and everyone knew the rules when they started. For those that start playing later in the season, it's going to be a disaster.
If this year's Premier League was decided on predictive grades, according to some of the experts, Sheffield United would fall to a very average 9th place. Other models put them anywhere up to 7th which is grand. The most mathematical model does just that. However, down the other end of the table is what matters. When the season stopped, three clubs were tied for 18th place (one of the relegation places) – Bournemouth, Watford and West Ham. The predicted tables have condemned Bournemouth to the relegation zone. As a Sheffield United fan, still scarred by the Tevez affair, that's not the club I want to see in the bottom three from those options.
Today the media are focusing on all the reasons why this change could have all sorts of problems from teacher bias (I'd relegate West Ham) to parental pressure on schools to potential legal action if a student's predicted results weren't enough for the course they wanted. In my opinion, once you set the rules of a game, you can't just change them without it being fair to everyone. The Leaving Cert is a cruel game – it always has – and it definitely needs to be reviewed. However, this is not the time to do it.
The exams could be held on July 29th. There's always a way of doing things. Primary schools and community halls could have been set up as exam centres. However, to use a couple of footballing clichés, at the end of the day, the ref's decision is final. As a Sheffield United fan, I know more than others, it can be a cruel game.
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Dads who are looking for an enjoyable way to use their parenting skills to boost kids' chances at success need only pick up a book.
A large body of research suggests fathers and mothers who read aloud with their little ones can nurture a lifelong interest in books as well as improving their academic performance.
Reading is also a great way to spend quality time together, whether you are single parenting or sharing the responsibility. Most kids love the opportunity to curl up with dad and hear one of their favorite stories read aloud.
According to nonprofit literacy organization Reading is Fundamental, there are a number of parenting skills that can be employed to help encourage children to read.
For example, seeking material closely aligned with your kids' interests can be a good motivator. In other words, if your daughter is obsessed with dinosaurs or your son with pirates, make sure you choose books on these subjects when it comes time for your nightly bedtime story.
The group also suggests using movies as a way to pique children's interest in a particular book. For instance, you may have already noticed that kids who love Harry Potter are eager to read, see or listen to anything related to the boy wizard.
The library can be a great reinforcement for your parenting skills when it comes to igniting children's love of the written word. The majority of libraries offer story times on a weekly or biweekly basis – this could provide the ideal opportunity for a father-child bonding activity on a weekend afternoon.
According to a recent study by Hooked on Phonics, 82 percent of parents with kids under 9 say they read a book out loud to their children on a daily basis. If you are not already among this group, you could be missing a priceless opportunity.


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Q: Regression analysis in MySQL Introduction
in my project I'm saving FacebookPages and their like count, as well as the like count per country. I have a table for the FacebookPages, one for the languages, one for the correlation between the facebook page and the language (and counting the likes) and one table which saves this data as a history. What I want to do, is to get the page with the strongest increase in likes over a specific time period.
Data to work with
I'm stripping the non relevant information from the create queries.
Table containing all facebook pages
CREATE TABLE `pages` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `facebook_id` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `facebook_name` varchar(255) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  `facebook_likes` int(11) NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Example data:
INSERT INTO `facebook_pages` (`id`, `facebook_id`, `facebook_name`, `facebook_likes`)
VALUES
    (1, '552825254796051', 'Mesut Özil', 28593755),
    (2, '134904013188254', 'Borussia Dortmund', 13213354),
    (3, '310111039010406', 'Marco Reus', 12799627);

Table containing all languages
CREATE TABLE `languages` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `language` varchar(5) COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Example data
INSERT INTO `languages` (`id`, `language`)
VALUES
    (1, 'ID'),
    (2, 'TR'),
    (3, 'BR');

Table containing the correlation
CREATE TABLE `language_page_likes` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `language_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `facebook_page_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `likes` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  // Foreign key stuff
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Example data
INSERT INTO `language_page_likes` (`id`, `language_id`, `facebook_page_id`)
VALUES
    (1, 1, 1),
    (2, 2, 1),
    (3, 3, 1),
    (47, 3, 2),
    (51, 1, 2),
    (53, 2, 2),
    (92, 3, 3),
    (95, 2, 3),
    (97, 1, 3);

Table containing the history
CREATE TABLE `language_page_likes_history` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `language_page_likes_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `likes` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `created_at` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  // Foreign key stuff
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 COLLATE=utf8_unicode_ci;

Example data
INSERT INTO `language_page_likes_history` (`id`, `language_page_likes_id`, `likes`, `created_at`)
VALUES
    (1, 1, 3272484, '2015-09-11 08:40:23'),
    (132014, 1, 3272827, '2015-09-14 08:31:00'),
    (2, 2, 1581361, '2015-09-11 08:40:23'),
    (132015, 2, 1580392, '2015-09-14 08:31:00'),
    (3, 3, 1467090, '2015-09-11 08:40:23'),
    (132016, 3, 1467329, '2015-09-14 08:31:00'),
    (47, 47, 828736, '2015-09-11 08:40:23'),
    (132060, 47, 828971, '2015-09-14 08:31:00'),
    (51, 51, 602747, '2015-09-11 08:40:23'),
    (132064, 51, 603071, '2015-09-14 08:31:00'),
    (53, 53, 545484, '2015-09-11 08:40:23'),
    (132066, 53, 545092, '2015-09-14 08:31:00'),
    (92, 92, 916570, '2015-09-11 08:40:24'),
    (132105, 92, 917032, '2015-09-14 08:31:01'),
    (95, 95, 537382, '2015-09-11 08:40:24'),
    (132108, 95, 537395, '2015-09-14 08:31:01'),
    (97, 97, 419175, '2015-09-11 08:40:24'),
    (132110, 97, 419484, '2015-09-14 08:31:01');

As you can see, I got data for the 14th and 11th September. Now I want to get the site, with the biggest increase in likes. Before I have done it with a column called last_like_count, but the problem is, that I can't be dynamic in the date range. With a "normal" regression function I could be dynamic for every date range.
Solution finding
What I already managed to do, was to build all the relationships that are present
SELECT p.id, p.facebook_name, plh.likes, l.language FROM facebook_pages p
INNER JOIN language_page_likes pl ON pl.facebook_page_id = p.id
INNER JOIN language_page_likes_history plh ON plh.language_page_likes_id = pl.id
INNER JOIN languages l ON l.id = pl.language_id
WHERE pl.language_id = 5 OR pl.language_id = 46 OR pl.language_id = 68

With that query I'm getting every likecount in the history of the system for specific languages. But, how would I build regression analysis into that part?
I already found this link here
Identifying trend with SQL query
but my math and MySQL skills aren't high enough to translate the SQL into MySQL. Any help?

A: This might be, what you are looking for:
SELECT SUM((X-AVG_X)*(Y-AVG_Y)) / SUM((X-AVG_X)*(X-AVG_X)) AS Slope,
       PageId, LanguageId
FROM
(
SELECT Q0.Y,
       Q0.X,
       Q1.AVG_Y,
       Q1.AVG_X,
       Q1.PageId,
       Q1.LanguageId
FROM   (SELECT T0.likes AS Y,
               UNIX_TIMESTAMP(T0.created_at) AS X,
               T1.facebook_page_id AS PageId,
               T1.language_id AS LanguageId
        FROM   language_page_likes_history T0 INNER JOIN
               language_page_likes T1 ON
               (T0.language_page_likes_id = T1.id)
        WHERE  T0.created_at > '2015-09-11 00:00:00' AND
               T0.created_at < '2015-09-15 00:00:00') Q0 INNER JOIN
       (SELECT AVG(T2.likes) AS AVG_Y,
               AVG(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(T2.created_at)) AS AVG_X,
               T3.facebook_page_id AS PageId,
               T3.language_id AS LanguageId
        FROM   language_page_likes_history T2 INNER JOIN
               language_page_likes T3 ON
               (T2.language_page_likes_id = T3.id)
        WHERE  T2.created_at > '2015-09-11 00:00:00' AND
               T2.created_at < '2015-09-15 00:00:00'
        GROUP BY T3.facebook_page_id, T3.language_id) Q1
        ON (Q0.PageId = Q1.PageId) AND (Q0.LanguageId = Q1.LanguageId)
) Q2
GROUP BY PageId, LanguageId
ORDER BY Slope DESC

It returns the slope of the linear regression per Page and Language. The column Slope represents the number of likes per second. In your sample data the amount of likes decreases for two cases. I don't know why. The output should look like this. The SQL statement is tested and I checked two row calculations manually for correct output.
|           Slope | PageId | LanguageId |
|-----------------|--------|------------|
|  0.001786287345 |      3 |          3 |
|  0.001326183029 |      1 |          1 |
|  0.001252720995 |      2 |          1 |
|  0.001194724653 |      3 |          1 |
|  0.000924075055 |      1 |          3 |
|  0.000908609364 |      2 |          3 |
|  0.000050263497 |      3 |          2 |
| -0.001515637747 |      2 |          2 |
| -0.003746563717 |      1 |          2 |

There might be a problem, if there is no data in the tables. So maybe ISNULL-checks have to be added.

When you only want to know the absolute values it is simpler. You can take following statement:
SELECT PageId, LanguageId,
       (likes_last_in_period - likes_before_period) AS Likes
FROM
(SELECT T1.facebook_page_id AS PageId,
       T1.language_id AS LanguageId,
       (SELECT likes
        FROM   language_page_likes_history
        WHERE  created_at < '2015-09-12 00:00:00' AND
               language_page_likes_id = T1.id
        ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) likes_before_period,
       (SELECT likes
        FROM   language_page_likes_history
        WHERE  created_at >= '2015-09-12 00:00:00' AND
               language_page_likes_id = T1.id
        ORDER BY created_at ASC LIMIT 1) likes_first_in_period,
       (SELECT likes
        FROM   language_page_likes_history
        WHERE  created_at <= '2015-09-15 00:00:00' AND
               language_page_likes_id = T1.id
        ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1) likes_last_in_period,
       (SELECT likes
        FROM   language_page_likes_history
        WHERE  created_at > '2015-09-15 00:00:00' AND
               language_page_likes_id = T1.id
        ORDER BY created_at ASC LIMIT 1) likes_after_period

        FROM   language_page_likes T1) Q0
ORDER BY Likes DESC

which has 4 sub-queries. Only two are needed which you have to choose. I have choosen to use the number of likes just before the period and the last number of likes which is in the period to calculate the difference. The result looks like this:
| PageId | LanguageId | Likes |
|--------|------------|-------|
|      3 |          3 |   462 |
|      1 |          1 |   343 |
|      2 |          1 |   324 |
|      3 |          1 |   309 |
|      1 |          3 |   239 |
|      2 |          3 |   235 |
|      3 |          2 |    13 |
|      2 |          2 |  -392 |
|      1 |          2 |  -969 |

A: This was what I could came up with right now. I can't properly test this query, because now I don't have the time to create these table structures in one of the web's sql test pages. But I think even if it doesn't work initially it can point you in the right direction.
select
    id,
    new_date,
    max(increase)
from (
select
    dg.id,
    dg.date new_date,
    dg.sum - (select sum from dg where dg.date = date_format((date_sub(str_to_date(new_date, '%Y-%m-%d') 1 DAY), '%Y-%m-%d') increase
from (
select
    language_pages_likes_id id,
    date_format(created_at, '%Y%-m$-%d') date,
    sum(likes) likes_sum
from
    language_page_likes_history lplh
group by
    language_page_likes_id,
    date_format(created_at, '%Y%-m$-%d')
) day_grouping dg
) calculate_increases

Hope it helps. Later, when I can I will further test and improve this query.


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Once Upon A Time is a game in which the players create a story together, using cards that show typical elements from fairy tales. One player is the Storyteller and creates a story using the ingredients on their cards. They try to guide the plot towards their own ending. The other players try to use cards to interrupt the Storyteller and become the new Storyteller. The winner is the first player to play out all their cards and end with their Happy Ever After card.
The second edition, published in 1995, features an expanded card set.
The third edition, published in 2012, features multiple changes, including new artwork by Omar Rayyan, a new card set, and a simplified rulesheet.
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The components of the VISCOFLUX lite drum emptying system are the FLUX eccentric worm-drive pump with motor, the pump centring plate and the follower plate with process seal. The follower plate is put directly onto the media in the drum. The pump centring plate is fixed above it on the edge of the drum. The pump is then routed through the opening of the pump centring plate and the follower plate guide down to the bottom of the drum.
The eccentric worm-drive pump creates a vacuum, so the follower plate goes down. The flexible process seal of the follower plate makes sure that almost no material remains on the drum wall. The material transferred is hermetically sealed in. In this way, the VISCOFLUX lite empties drums to less than 1 % residue. After the transfer of the medium, the follower plate is released from the bottom of the drum by means of compressed air.
The VISCOFLUX drum emptying system is mounted on the drum with a clamping ring – so that the system and drum form a secure unit. When the material is pumped by the eccentric-worm drive pump, a partial vacuum is created below the follower plate. This vacuum automatically pulls down the plate.
The follower plate therefore hermetically seals the pumped material. In addition, its flexible sealing lip ensures that virtually no pumped material remains attached to the drum wall. In this way the VISCOFLUX system achieves emptying with a residual quantity of less than 1 %. This saves time and costs: There is no need for time-consuming subsequent cleaning of the drum by hand. Another advantage of this drum emptying system is that different drive motors and eccentric-worm drive pumps can be combined so that the system can be optimally designed for the material to be pumped.
VISCOFLUX mobile is a stand-alone system consisting of a process device and a pump unit comprising of a motor, pump and follower plate which is individually designed for each application. Steerable rear wheels on the trolley make it easy to move the system to the drum. During transfer of the material, the pump unit is lowered by means of a rechargeable battery drive until the follower plate touches the material.
Then the integrated freewheel automatically disengages the moving sledge with the pump system from the lifting sledge, and the lifting sledge is lowered further independent of the pump system. The self-priming eccentric-worm drive pump creates a vacuum below the follower plate which causes the follower plate to lower. This guarantees especially gentle transport of the medium. The flexible process seal adjusts even to beads and tapered constrictions, leaving almost no material on the drum wall. In this way, VISCOFLUX mobile achieves residual quantities of less than 1 % in the drum and less than 2 % if aseptic bags are used.


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"Who here has been in a kayak before?," our leader asked. When only one of the fellow bloggers in my group raised their hand, our leader moved swiftly. "Tandem kayaks would probably be better," she told the rest of us, as with two people the chances of you flipping the kayak are much smaller. I […]
Moose, Ho! Ontario's Algonquin Park by Canoe
"I'll drive ahead and keep an eye peeled for moose," we were told. Moose? How exciting! I mean, what could be more Canadian than that? How about the fact that we were venturing right into Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario's Explorers' Edge region to partake in the premiere activity that the park is known for… Canoeing! […]
#PedestrianSunday: Party at Toronto's Kensignton Market
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It began with a giant game of Scrabble set up in the middle of the street that Lorenzo of Belize Adventure had just led me down. As I stared in awe of the folks standing in the middle of a road playing with oversized letters, Lorenzo just chuckled. "That's Kensington Market for you! Just wait…" […]
Standing Up on a Paddle Board (SUP) in Ontario's Explorer's Edge
"Just stand up," our guide told us. "Stand up?" I thought, "That's crazy!" The chorus of that song from South Pacific came on inside my head…"Sit down, you're rocking the boat!" But in this case, that "boat" was essentially a modified surfboard that was floating on the Muskoka River in northern Ontario's Explorer's Edge Region. I'm […]
Unexpected Toronto: Urban Renewal with a Green Eye
"What have I gotten myself into," I thought? Here I was, walking towards the end of Toronto and right into Lake Ontario! Smokestacks of factories were off in the distance as I walked down Leslie Street, finally coming upon a sign indicating Tommy Thompson Park, as well as another one stating that there was no […]
Escaping Reality to Tofino
It was a divine June day as the cold sea wind shocked some life into me. After all, it was not yet dawn and I was envisioning being in a warm bed, still staring at the inside of my eyelids. But instead, here I was, up at this ungodly hour, making my way to a […]
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Seattle is a depressing city, my fingers typed as I lay in a firm, yet thin hostel bed in the center of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was 3:00am and this was not bound to be a piece about hating Seattle, but rather a homework assignment. Wait…homework? Haven't I been done with school for a while […]
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"Vancouver Canucks fans riot in the streets after Stanley Cup loss" screamed the headlines, as a mob of fans smashed and burned cars and looted stores. To myself and others who had recently been in Vancouver for the TBEX conference of Travel Bloggers, this was quite a shock. After all, we had all witnessed the […]
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Maintaining, improving or expanding the physical infrastructure of freight transportation systems forms the basis of all activities in freight management. Recent interviews with trucking, rail, and shipping industry identified many deficiencies in infrastructure throughout our national highway network. Specific identified infrastructure improvements or conditions included: pavement conditions, deteriorating highway bridges, rail and rail bridges that cannot carry industry standard weights at reasonable speeds, and waterways that are losing market share due to inefficient lock and dam systems. The objective for development work in this area is not only to sustain existing freight movement, but to improve facilities for future freight demands. The activities in this signature area will focus on highways, railways, bridges, harbor facilities, and intermodal combinations. Topics in this area include: sustainable construction methods, durability, rapid construction or repair, security, construction productivity and contracting methods, and impact of increasing freight loads on facilities.


Amy Chrzanowski, Mental Health Nurse, and Connor Bannister, a kick-boxer from Cardiff give a talk on mental health for Movember.
This November we are supporting the Movember Foundation in a bid to raise awareness and raise funds for men's mental health, namely prostate cancer, testicular cancer and ill mental health. We lose 60 men to suicide each hour, every hour and the Movember Foundation provide vital funds to help give support to those who are suffering.
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