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Coronavirus' Impact on Events
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The Singapore Airshow 2020 at the Changi Exhibition Centre will go on as planned despite the coronavirus, but the outbreak has forced changes for other events in Asia. (Courtesy Singapore Airshow)
As the coronavirus continues to roil global travel and trade, event strategists are delaying, canceling, or soldiering on with their plans. Here's a look at the status of some events.
The Singapore Airshow 2020, scheduled for Feb. 11-16 at the Changi Exhibition Centre (CEC), will go on as planned. Experia Events, organizer of the biennial air show — Asia's largest aerospace and defense event — said in a statement that "enhanced precautionary measures" would be in place to safeguard attendees' well-being and safety. The Straits Times reported that those measures included temperature screening at access points at CEC and Singapore Expo. Experia and various media also reported that some exhibitors and acts have pulled out of the event and that a related aviation conference, which draws 300 government officials, civil aviation authorities, airport operators, and airline executives, has been canceled.
IT&CM China and CTW China, two MICE industry trade shows, have moved from March 24-26 to August 3-5. The co-located events will still be held at the Shanghai Convention & Exhibition Center of International Sourcing, event organizers TTG and CITS MICE said in a statement, which noted that the new dates hinge on the virus being under control.
The International Exhibition Logistics Association (IELA) postponed its Operations Summit 2020, planned for Feb. 13-15 at Bangkok's Mövenpick Hotel Sukhumvit, to later this year, according to an email sent to speakers and delegates by IELA Chairman Vicki Bedi. The biennial event was last held in 2018, drawing 61 delegates from 27 countries. IELA, which is based in Switzerland, provides a forum for people and companies involved in the international transportation of exhibition material.
The National Association of Travel Agents Singapore (NATAS) has rescheduled its conference, originally planned for Feb. 21-23, Singapore's The New Paper reports. The consumer travel fair will now be held May 1-3 at Singapore EXPO. NATAS hosts two events a year, the travel fair in February/March and a holidays fair in August/September. Each event draws about 100,000 people, according to NATAS' website.
Credit Suisse Group AG's annual Asia investment conference — scheduled for March 25-27 in Hong Kong — has been canceled, Bloomberg reports.
TCT Asia, an additive manufacturing event planned for Feb. 19-21 in Shanghai, has been postponed, with a new date expected to be announced soon, organizers announced on the TCT website.
The NYU School of Professional Studies (NYUPS) has postponed its inaugural NYU Hospitality and RealEstate Investment Conference at NYU Shanghai, moving the event from April 2020 to April 2021, the school said in a statement on its website. It added that the 2021 date was dependent upon the coronavirus outbreak being under control. The event, which builds upon the success NYUPS has had at its conferences in New York, is aimed at developing industry leaders in China.
ISPO Beijing, a sports exhibition scheduled for Feb. 12-15 at NCIEC Beijing, has been canceled, according to a statement on the ISPO website. The event, organized by Messe München, moves to Jan. 14-16, 2021.
Health-care industry event CAREhab 2020, planned for 14-15 at MAX Atria at Singapore Expo will move to July 10-11.
The R+T Asia 2020 event planned for Feb. 24-26 in Shanghai, will move to June, according to the m+a UFI Exhibition Newsletter. The event, held at Shanghai New International Expo Center for the sun-shading and door-gate sectors, annually draws about 40,000 attendees and about 650 exhibitors.
The SPS Industrial Automation Fair Guangzhou (SIAF) and the concurrent Asiamold fairs, both of which are organized by Messe Frankfurt, are canceled, according to a statement on the SIAF website. Both were to take place Feb. 26-28 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou and are expected to be rescheduled.
Citibank's annual Asia Pacific Investor Conference scheduled for Feb. 19-20 in Singapore has been canceled, CAN reported. The event, which has not yet been rescheduled, is one of Citibank's largest annual conferences, according to CAN, with more than 1,000 institutional investors, issuers and C-suite financial professionals attending.
What Events Professionals Need to Know About Coronavirus
PCMA has created a Coronavirus web page to help event professionals find reliable information about the outbreak and to share events industry-related resources to ensure they are prepared.


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Q: Meaning of R command system("touch AAA") I am watching a Machine Learning Distributed in R and this lines of code appear:

For what the teacher says, system("touch fin1") will save the document in fin1 when the process has finished.
Does anyone know where I can find documentation about such function?

A: Think of system as an easy way to send commands to a terminal.  The touch command (at least on *unix systems) creates a file.  That's all it does really.
So the individual slave sessions create a file on the system.  Why would they do that? So that the master session can easily detect when the slave sessions have gotten past a certain point in their scripts.  The master session is constantly looping looking to see if all of the slave sessions have successfully gotten past that first actual line in their code.
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A Mexican national would have had to enter the United States illegally to stand trial on a Blaine County felony domestic battery charge on Tuesday.
That was the situation when 28-year-old Pedro Paredes-Gutierrez was a no-show for a jury trial scheduled in 5th District Court. But he wasn't expected anyway, the court having been informed a few weeks ago that Paredes-Gutierrez had been deported to Mexico.
Judge Robert J. Elgee issued an arrest warrant anyway and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Matt Fredback said the charge against Paredes-Gutierrez will not be dismissed regardless of his whereabouts.
"At this point, the case will proceed until the defendant is brought before the court," Fredback said.
In an e-mail to the Idaho Mountain Express, Prosecuting Attorney Jim Thomas stated that the arrest warrant will be entered into a nationwide police database but did not indicate whether he would attempt to have it served in Mexico.
Paredes-Gutierrez might have good reason for coming back to Blaine County. According to court records, he leaves a wife and two young children here and owns a home in Bellevue. Records show that he has lived in Blaine County since at least 2002, having worked most recently as a concrete construction supervisor.
His problems with the law started on June 26 when the Bellevue Marshal's Office investigated a disturbance at the Paredes-Gutierrez home on Seventh Street.
Bellevue Deputy David Aslett alleged in a probable-cause affidavit that Paredes-Gutierrez slammed his wife's head into a door during a domestic dispute. Aslett described the woman's injuries as a "large lump on the left side of her face in the temple and eye area."
Paredes-Gutierrez was arrested and charged with a felony for allegedly inflicting "traumatic injury."
When the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was notified by the Blaine County Sheriff's Office that Paredes-Gutierrez was in custody, it issued an immigration detainer alleging that he was in the United States illegally.
Paredes-Gutierrez remained incarcerated in the Blaine County jail until he posted $2,500 bond on Aug. 16. But because of the detainer, he was not released but was instead turned over to ICE.
Rupert attorney Robert Nielsen, who was hired to represent Paredes-Gutierrez, informed the court on Nov. 1 that his client was being held in a "federal facility in Utah" and he was not sure how to get Paredes-Gutierrez back to Blaine County for court proceedings.
On Nov. 22, Nielsen informed the court that an immigration hearing was held on Nov. 17 and his client was deported.


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Tiling isometric tiles
2019 January 11, 18:50
I recently wrote a library in Rust which generates a random terrain consisting of blocks (think Minecraft or Minetest), and renders it in isometric perspective. It's called cubeglobe , and its source is available on Github. The library was written to be used by a Fediverse bot, which posts these randomly generated landscapes on a relatively regular basis. You can check out the bot's feed if you want some examples of what this looks like.
In the process of writing cubeglobe , I had to figure out how to actually render these images, given an internal representation of the landscape, and a handful of tile sprites corresponding to the different block types that the internal representation can feature. This is not a very unique problem—representing various sorts of maps using isometric tiles is something that video games have been doing for decades. In fact, my problem was somewhat easier, since I did not have to worry about interactivity, while video games generally do. Nevertheless, I did have to figure out how to do it, and these notes detail that.
The 2:1 diametric projection
A common way of doing isometric graphics on a computer, especially when you're doing something on the more pixel art end of the spectrum, is to use the 2:1 pixel ratio. This is technically not an isometric projection, but a diametric one (you can read more about it in an otherwise interesting Wikipedia article). This projection has the benefit of making it easy to draw lines—they go one pixel up, two pixels laterally, hence the 2:1 ratio. Figure 1 illustrates what this looks like.
Figure 1: The axes in a 2:1 projection
The figure also marks the axes in the world coordinates. As with any projection system, it is useful to be able to say when you're referring to screen coordinates, and when you're talking about world coordinates. Screen coordinates are used to refer to individual pixels in your output image, while world coordinates are used to refer to where in your scene a given object is.
Two dimensional tiles
If you draw a flat square in this diametric projection (that is, a square on the x-y world plane), its screen width will be twice its screen height. This makes calculations for tiling such squares somewhat easier: the sprite has a height of n, and a width of 2n. When you offset the sprite to tile it in a grid, you offset it by a multiple of n.
How do we tile these tiles, then? To move by one tile in the world x direction, we move it down by half of the tile's screen height, and to the right by half of the tile's screen width. This comes out to moving it by n/2 in the vertical direction, and n in the horizontal direction. To move one tile in the world y direction, it's the same story, except we move to the left instead of right. To move diagonally, we shift down by a full tile's height, n, in the vertical. Figure 2 shows a simple example.
Figure 2: Tiling in two dimensions.
Applying these principles. We arrive at formulas for getting the screen coordinates from the world coordinates, seen in Listing 1. The assumptions are that the tile dimensions are 1×1 in the world coordinates, and that the 0, 0 tile in world space is also at 0, 0 in screen space.
screen_x = ( world_x - world_y ) × n
screen_y = ( world_x + world_y ) × n/2
Listing 1: The formulas for translating world coordinates to screen coordinates
Of course, the fact that these screen coordinates have the 0, 0 tile as the origin means that we may have to figure out where to place the 0, 0 tile on the screen. The formulas can help here, too: figure out how many tiles we want to the left of the origin tile, and use the formula to figure out how many pixels will be needed to the left of the origin tile to fit everything.
Adding a dimension
cubeglobe maps are three-dimensional—they represent cube blocks, instead of flat tiles. This means that we also need to figure out how to place tiles depending on their z-axis coordinate in the world space.
The easiest way to think of cuboid tile sprites is to think of them as a flat tile with the z-axis component either below it or above it. In other words, take your existing flat tile and draw a cube, either on top of it, or below it. cubeglobe , in particular, aligns tiles by their tops, so that means its tiles are a flat tile with the cube below it.
So, how much do we shift in the screen space to shift by one level in the world coordinates? To figure that out we must know the height of our sprite—let's call this h. Recall that the flat diametric tile has screen space dimensions of 2n by n. This remains true even as we move to representing cubes: the tile on top of the cube is still 2n by n. The pixel height we need to shift by is equal to the height of the sprite that remains after we take away the height of the tile on top: h-n.
Figure 3: The top and sides of a block, and their dimensions.
It's worth pointing out here that while it may be tempting to make the block sprite a square, it does not work very well. If the total height is 2n, then the amount we would shift for a new z-level would be n. We also shift by n for some situations when operating on the same z-level, so we end up with a situation where it is hard to tell if something is above or behind, as seen in Figure 4.
Figure 4: The blocks on the left have a square sprite, and it is difficult to tell what is in front. The blocks on the right are a bit taller, and arranged the same as the ones on the left, but their layout is easier to see
Correctly drawn cubes in this perspective are actually slightly taller than square. While a mathematically accurate projection is not required to make things look like cubes, having the sprite be rectangular does help in differentiating between the background and the foreground, visually.
Blocks upon blocks
cubeglobe renders its landscapes by repeatedly drawing the blocks one-by-one, from the lowest level to the highest. This is obviously not the most efficient way to do this—a large number of blocks are going to be occluded by other blocks, and thus never seen on screen—but it is quite simple.
Each level can be drawn row-first or column-first, starting from the lowest coordinates. The blocks with the lower coordinates are going to be behind the blocks with the higher coordinates, so we can simply draw them in the right order. Each level can then be layered on top of the previous one—the lower level will be occluded by the higher one.
cubeglobe does not employ any concurrency, although it would theoretically be possible to, for example, draw each layer separately and then combine them in order, afterwards. The overhead may not be worth it, though, and it would require some exploration in practice.
I wrote cubeglobe partly because I was wondering how hard it would be to draw isometric graphics like that, given no prior knowledge. Turns out it is not very hard, although it does require figuring out the formulas above. Fortunately, these sorts of graphics have a long history of use in video games, so it is not particularly hard to find useful resources.
Despite a rather inefficient way of drawing things, cubeglobe is not incredibly slow. This was something of a pleasant surprise.
Actually generating landscapes is an entirely separate problem, of course, and not covered here. With block-based landscapes like these, however, the internal representation can be fairly simple, which makes it easy to separate the rendering side from the generating side.
"Isometric Tiles Math" by Clint Bellanger – Probably a far better explanation of how to tile tiles in two dimensions, along with some extra stuff for translating screen coordinates to world coordinates.
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BEREA, Ohio -- Needing a crucial conference win, the Heidelberg University men's soccer team exploded for six goals. The team got what they needed with a resounding 6-2 win at Baldwin Wallace University on Tuesday evening.
Freshman Malachi Alston surely made the most of his first appearance this season, recording a hat trick. Alston is the first Student Prince to score three times in a match since Greg Raimondo accomplished the feat in 2013.
After being shutout in three straight matches, freshman Leo Robles made sure the trend did not continue. Jarod Chavez played a ball into the box for Robles to strike and put past BW keeper Patrick Mehal. The goal was Robles's second of the season.
Midway through the first half, Danny Ruple -- the OAC's leading scorer -- got the Yellow Jackets on the board. Ruple's 17th goal of the season was assisted by Bryce Posner.
Alton's first goal of the evening came just before halftime off a pass from Alex Aviles.
Less than six minutes into the second half, sophomore Rodrigo Meza scored his fourth goal of the season, providing some insurance for the Berg.
HU added three more goals within a 10-minute span, pushing to a commanding five-goal advantage. Two of the goals coming from Alston, combined with a BW own goal. Freshman defender Chase Paulson recorded an assist on Alston's second goal.
A harmless Yellow Jacket goal late in the game did not faze Heidelberg.
Desperate for an OAC win, the Berg improves to 10-2-1, 3-2-1 in the conference. Baldwin Wallace slips to 5-9-2, 1-4-1 in OAC play.
Junior goalkeeper Jake Kress made six saves in the match.
The Berg hits the road again Saturday for a match at Marietta College. Kickoff is slated for 4 p.m.


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Very disappointing to see that Anthony Fox has allowed this. Elain Chao would have had this approved a lot quicker. We now get a Lexus lane, more pollution, and continue hurting neighborhoods.
Every time this plan is referenced in the general media, they tout the benefits of a highway cap, even though it's only over about 1000 feet of highway, while ignoring the negative impacts of more lanes of highway.
Also, in this brand new project that is essentially new from the ground up, there are zero contiguous biking/walking facilities. Seems to me, with a blue sky proposal like this, adding in a MUP from end to end would be easy and low cost. Portland did it decades ago. Where is CDOT?
Say it with me. Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrs. Truuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
A non stop source of pollution and revenue with zero meaningful access for those who don't have an engine between their legs.
The Democrats have really done a number on us. Secretary of Transportation Foxx, Obama, Hancock , Hickenlooper…. Why are we still voting for them?
It is really your experience that Republican-run cities and states build less roads and favor alternative transportation? Because that is certainly not my experience.
My point is that both parties represent the rich and ignore everyone else. Democrats can be worse than Republicans because people tend to trust the Democrats as the "good guys". Not in my memory.
My point is not that either party is helping us. The Democrats have pushed through a killing freeway expansion , I 70. Mayor Hancock and Governor Hickenlooper, both Democrats, are championing this environmental, social and economic injustice .
So what's the difference if the Republicans are at the trough or the Democrats? The results are the same. Corporate control of the the government and the people be damned. I think that is the classic definition of fascism. Trump won't be much different that what we've had in Colorado. A heartless EPA that responds to the wishes of the "elites" who run the show in denver and Colorado.Who will miss them?Communities helpless to protect themselves for the oil and gas profiteers. A City Council that bows to every wish of a Mayor who seems to be run by very few developers. A governor who drinks fracking and mine spill water and works to restrict citizens' access to government. He dooesn't even have a public email address and neither does his staff. Let them eat cake.


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WHO'S AFRAID OF 194?
YNET, March 20, 2007
One advantage of accepting the Saudi peace plan is that it places solving the refugee issue within the larger context of achieving an end to the entire Israeli-Arab conflict. This is essential because it is only with the active cooperation of the Arab states that real solutions to the refugee problem will be found.
While it is understandable that the Israeli government is cautious about accepting an initiative that would use 194 as a basis for negotiations on refugees, Israeli concerns are vastly out of proportion to any real problem that 194 represents. Consider the actual wording. The resolution states:
"the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return."
As with 242, Israelis and Palestinians will disagree about what the text implies. But one can easily imagine what an Israeli negotiator might say:
"First, it should be noticed that there is no mention in 194 of "a right of return." The resolution says that certain refugees "should be permitted to do so" when practicable, but it stops short of any explicit claim that refugees have a right to return.
"Second, the resolution, which was enacted in 1948, is clearly referring to the 1948 refugees. Though Palestinians assume that it must be taken to apply to all descendants of the 1948 refugees, there is no explicit statement of that sort. Indeed, since it was envisioned that action on the refugees would be taken promptly, there was no intended reference, one way or the other, to third and forth generations of the 1948 refugees over a half century later.
"The resolution speaks of a return that would occur at "the earliest practicable date." While there may have well been many points at which a return would have been practicable in the past, after sixty years of continued conflict and with the vast growth of the refugee populations, no significant return is practicable now or in the future.
"Specifically, when mentioning return, the Resolution speaks of a "return to their homes." The resolution is silent about return to anyplace else, whether to lands near their homes, or more generally, to lands within the 1949 Armistice lines. Moreover, given that in almost all cases the refugees' homes no longer exist or have become the homes of successive generations of Israelis, a return to homes, is not practicable at all. In short, the return provision is completely empty—only compensation is relevant.
"The resolution also provides a vital limitation. It never speaks of the 1948 refugees as a group. Rather it speaks of "the refugees wishing to…live at peace with their neighbors." Thus, it proposes a criterion of applicability. The criterion is there because Israel cannot be expected to accept large numbers of refugees who would be a security threat. But under current circumstances, what is the meaningful application of this provision? Clearly, it cannot be understood as providing for unlimited numbers of returning descendents. On any interpretation, several million returning refugees would transform the security situation. But further, the security issue has to be grasped within the context of foreseeable possible political scenarios. It is one thing to live in peace with one's neighbors when there is permanent peace with the Palestinian state and the Arab world. But what if at some future point the peace breaks down? How is Israel to know which refugees would be at peace within a context of war? "
Any one of these interpretations might be challenged by Palestinian negotiators. They might argue that each one of them violates the spirit of the resolution, and they might argue that there are yet other facets of international law to back up their claims. Of course, this is exactly the case with arguments over Resolution 242. Such arguments can go on forever, without either side changing its viewpoint. In the end, however, a peace treaty will be very specific. There will never be agreement on what Resolution 242 really means. Rather there will be an agreed permanent international border and an agreement "that this satisfies 242." Similarly, there will never be agreement on what Resolution 194 requires. Rather there will be a specific treaty that solves the refugee issue and an agreement "that this satisfies 194." If accepting 194 as a basis for negotiations can help get us to that point, it will have played a valuable role.


Supermodel Gisele Bundchen and her New England Patriots quarterback hubby Tom Brady have bought a $14 million nest in the Related Companies and HFZ Capital's One Madison (formerly One Madison Park).
The couple are in contract for a three-bedroom, full-floor condominium on the 47th floor of the East 22nd Street tower, the New York Post reported. The listing touts a stunning view up Madison Avenue, the paper said.
"It will allow Tom Brady to look down on Gotham like Batman," a source quipped to the Post.
The apartment, designed by Danish architect Thomas Juul-Hansen, also sports oak plank floors and oversize doors, as well as a master bathroom with a soaking tub, the Post said.


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Незайманий хлопець Єн таємно закоханий у шкільну подругу Феліцію, але вона сприймає його як друга. У чаті 19-річний Єн знайомиться з дівчиною, яка несподівано запрошує його до себе в Ноксвілл зайнятися сексом. Викравши ключі від автівки старшого брата та взявши із собою друга-бабія Ланса, він вирушає в подорож через пів країни. Коли до них приєднується Філіція, хлопці брешуть про справжню мету поїздки. Подорож виявляється сповнена пригодами та неочікуваними зустрічами.

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Зйомки фільму проходили в Флориді, США.

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 Кінорежисер — Шон Андерс
 Сценаристи — Шон Андерс, Джон Морріс
 Кінопродюсери — Боб Леві, Леслі Моренштейн, Джон Морріс
 Композитор — Стівен Треск
 Кінооператор — Тім Орр
 Кіномонтаж — Джордж Фолсі мол.
 Художник-постановник — Аарон Осборн
 Артдиректор — Ерін Кокран
 Художник-декоратор — Дженніфер М. Джентайл
 Художник з костюмів — Крістін М. Берк, Клів Голл, Томі Екс.
 Підбір акторів — Ліза Біч, Еллен Джакобі, Сара Кацман.

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The mode bits
The special, user, group, and other permissions can be represented in a string of 12 binary bits, as shown in Figure 7-2.
Figure 7-2. Changing permission bits to an octal number
It is common to refer to these bits in four sets of three, translated into four octal (base-8) digits. The first octal digit represents the special permissions SUID, SGID, and sticky. The other three represent the read, write, and execute permissions, respectively, in each of the user, group, and other user classes. Octal notation is used as shorthand for binary strings such as the access mode, and each group of three bits has 23 = 8 possible values, listed in Table 7-3.
The read permission by itself is r--, which can be thought of as binary 100, or octal 4. Adding the write permission yields rw-, or binary 110, which is octal 6. Figure 7-2 shows how to total bit values into the octal equivalents. Memorizing, or even writing, the binary-to-octal equivalents may be easier on the exam than adding bit values. Use the technique that works best for you.
Table 7-3. Octal numbers
Binary equivalent
To turn the mode bits 110111101001 into an octal representation, first separate them into chunks of three bits: 110, 111, 101, and 001. The first group, representing the special permissions, is 110. This can be thought of as 4 + 2 + 0 = 6. The second group, representing ...


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Luigi Ontani
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
LUIGI ONTANI IS THAT RARE BIRD OF ART: an unforgettable face, a world-class dandy, and a redoubtable if lovably eccentric presence on the international art-world circuit. In this first US retrospective of his multifaceted output—painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, ceramics, and fabric pieces—we saw the filmed and photographic image of the artist nude and partially draped, alone and accompanied by younger genii figures (usually boys or men of color), many, many times. Yet something more than narcissism emerges from all this Body Art. Ontani's work makes his own
"Workspheres"
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
OUR HABITAT IS BEING RESTRUCTURED on an order of magnitude beyond ken. What began as a technological revolution is already re-forming our every implement and reorganizing our every social arrangement. The new economy, the super-bull market, global connectivity, cyberlife, and our galaxy of digi-gadgets are just the pretty sparks before the firestorm. And by now, the flux of product extinctions and emergences is so brisk that we no longer even notice the turnovers. Remember life before the computer, the remote, even before the cell? (Cell phone, that is.) How long until we can no longer remember
Richard L. Feigen & Co
THE MONIKER HAS STUCK since Grace Glueck coined it in 1965, but Ray Johnson's days as "New York's most famous unknown artist" are numbered. In the six years since his death, the reclusive collagist has been the subject of a traveling retrospective and featured in two exhibitions devoted to postwar experimentalism, "Beat Culture and the New America" at the Whitney and "Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945" at LA MoCA. This recent show at Feigen presented eighty-eight pieces from Johnson's estate, many never before seen by the public.
The sheer volume of good work is noteworthy. But even more
Gagosian Gallery (21)
SLYLY LOVELY AND PERVERSELY INDIRECT, Ellen Gallagher's work concerns inscription and sign systems and addresses the fragmentations and provocations of racialized identity. She belongs to a generation of young artists who infuse Minimalist form with corporeal, social, and emotive content: The apparent serenity of her large, airy paintings exists in tension with the marginalia yielded by a closer look—snippets of nasty minstrelsy, secret doodles, and ragged grids of grade-school penmanship paper. In these nine canvases, comprising the artist's third exhibition in New York all this and more
Glen Baxter
Lombard-Fried Projects
GLEN BAXTER'S WORK hasn't changed much, happily, since he last showed it in New York, fifteen years ago; he remains one of the few artists who will make you burst out laughing, or at least who will do so on purpose. And his devices to manage this trick haven't changed much either. What I had forgotten, though, after years of seeing his images only in reproduction, was how pretty they are in the flesh.
Baxter grew up in Yorkshire in the '40s and '50s, and his work is suffused with the England of way back when. It is as deeply English as the work of Robert Crumb is deeply American—Crumb being
Barbara Hepworth
Pace Wildenstein
BARBARA HEPWORTH WAS A MASTER OF SUBTLE FORM. Though her abstract works often contain figurative allusions, the sculptures are better understood on a purely formal level: In Two Faces, 1969, for instance, it is the different placement of the holes letting space and light into the dense stones (Hepworth's longtime friend Henry Moore seems an influence) and the polished awkwardness of the asymmetrical pieces, as well as their at-odds position next to each other, that lend the piece its aesthetic credibility.
My favorite work in this miniretrospective of mostly late sculpture was a relatively early
Rachel Harrison
YOU MIGHT HAVE HESITATED at the gallery door, thinking the installation was still in progress, what with all the big folded sheets of brown corrugated cardboard standing there as if they'd just been removed from some large rectangular objects. A few steps in yielded a different impression: These simple configurations were the show, a piece that formed a kind of open labyrinth. But not the whole show: Further progress into the room revealed several framed color photographs on the wall and at least one object, resting on a mirrored pedestal (all works 2001). In fact, there turned out to be numerous
Metro Pictures
HAPPILY FOR HORROR VACUISTS, Jim Shaw's recycling of cultural detritus continues unabated. For six years his increasingly less nocturnal "Dream Project" has functioned as a reservoir of flotsam and jetsam drawn from surrealist installation, comic books, photorealist painting, commercial illustration, and everything in between, as filtered through his unconscious mind. He's not offering an archaeology of trash culture; viewers are meant not to classify but merely to ponder the existence of these images—the tweaked cliché, the stylized art object, the dispossessed icon, the reconstituted
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Deitch Projects
THOSE CRASHING, RHYTHMIC thuds you heard on entering Martin Kersels's latest show were the sounds of a little world being turned upside down. Literally. This world was the nascently putrescent, nascently pubescent milieu of a middle-class American miss—a room full of stuffed animals, boy-band posters, pink things of all sorts—methodically spinning around and around on a circular track like a giant automatic dryer, letting gravity slam its ersatz, picket-fenced-in contents down to earth, again and again, until they were ground to smithereens. Welcome to Tumble Room, 2001.
Kersels is a
Katy Schimert
David Zwirner | 519 West 19th Street
CASTS OF ANTIQUE STATUARY have formed the backbone of artists' education since the late Renaissance. Gathered in laboratory-like settings of ateliers and arts academies across Europe and the Americas, such figurative models demonstrate the standards of excellence according to which generations of artists learn the classical idioms of beauty and perfection. Katy Schimert takes this paradigm as a starting point for her investigations of the classical tradition's pervasive influence on our cultural psyche. For her recent exhibition she sculpted various body parts in clay, cast them in ceramic,
Aaron Cobbett
Debs & Co.
LIKE WARHOL AND JOHNS, Aaron Cobbett started out in the trenches of fashion, dressing windows for Henri Bendel and Bergdorf Goodman. He moved into photography in the late '80s, taking pictures of drag queens and boys downtown and publishing them in magazines like Empire and H/X In the mid-'90s he started exhibiting his work in galleries. For this show he decided to do "something different"—photograph women. But the artist's claim of branching out is a little misleading: Cobbett has turned "ordinary" women into caricatures of glamorized womanhood, who resemble, more than anything else, female
Baumgartner Gallery
FOR THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, Rainer Ganahl has been lurking in the corridors of higher learning, monitoring the often unglamorous sites where knowledge is acquired and transmitted. He's produced long-term projects on the instruction of foreign languages and documented academic conferences and lectures by photographing speakers at the podium. His most recent efforts shed more light on the social spaces in which intellectual discourse is formulated, reworked, and introduced into everyday life.
In 1998, Ganahl formed the first in a series of reading groups focused on the writings of Karl Marx, the
Top Changtrakul
Lance Fung Gallery
NOT LONG AGO, uniformed Thai policemen raided Top Changtrakul's tiny studio in the countryside outside Bangkok, confiscated most of his equipment, and hauled him off to jail. Or did they? A video included as part of this show documents the arrest, but the footage was gleefully melodramatic, and the monitor was displayed sideways, hinting that the incident was something the artist might have dreamed up while lying down. Moreover, it was all too easy to recognize Changtrakul's "studio" as another sort of facility: an outhouse.
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President Biden announces rollout of free at-home Covid tests, more vaccination sites as US fights Omicron
By Reuters on December 22, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday the opening of more federal vaccination and testing sites to tackle a surge in COVID-19 cases sparked by the Omicron variant, and said some 500 million at-home rapid tests will be available to Americans for free starting in January.
Biden offered both a warning to the unvaccinated, who he said have "good reason to be concerned," and reassurance that those who are inoculated can gather for the holidays despite the new variant sweeping the country.
"No this is not March of 2020," Biden told reporters at the White House. "Two hundred million people are fully vaccinated, we're prepared, we know more."
Striking a more dire tone about the risks to the one-in-four American adults who are not fully vaccinated, Biden said those who still have not been vaccinated "have a significantly higher risk of ending up in the hospital or even dying."
The measures announced on Tuesday include activating some 1,000 military medical personnel to support hospitals already being overwhelmed by COVID patients in some areas.
Biden's COVID-19 response has been criticized for focusing on vaccines at the detriment of testing and masking, and for underestimating the impact of the politically motivated anti-vaccine movement in the United States.
The new federal measures will not be fully in place ahead of Christmas on Saturday, leaving many Americans scrambling to find available tests ahead of holiday gatherings and travel – and confused about whether it is safe to press ahead with their plans.
The Omicron variant, first detected last month, is causing infections to double in 1.5 to 3 days, according to the World Health Organization. It is not yet known whether it causes more serious illness than the Delta variant.
See also Former Malian president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita dies aged 76
Omicron now accounts for 73% of all new cases, according to the latest U.S. data, up from less than 1% at the beginning of the month.
The rapid rise of infections is once again disrupting life across the country, canceling events from Broadway shows to professional sports. On Monday, the National Hockey League and its players' union agreed to postpone all games until after Christmas following Tuesday's contests, one of which was postponed earlier on Tuesday due to an outbreak among the Washington Capitals.
In New York, Washington and other U.S. cities there were long lines for COVID-19 tests as people clamored to find out if they were infected before celebrating the holidays.
"If I don't I could take a chance of sending it home to my family, and I'm not trying to do that," said Ronald Tives as he lined up to get tested in Washington's Farragut Square on Tuesday.
The rollout of at-home rapid tests adds to Biden's plan announced earlier this month that called on health insurers to provide test kits at no cost to individuals with coverage, also expected to begin in January.
The administration will open multiple federal testing centers, starting in New York City ahead of Christmas, Biden said.
More federal vaccination and testing sites will be opened across the country in areas of high need and when requested by local and state officials.
Top White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Tuesday the government also is mulling reducing the recommended 10-day quarantine time for people who get infected, to help asymptomatic people return to work or school.
With new infections spiking, local officials are also taking steps to encourage vaccinations, including boosters, and increase testing and mitigation measures.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday a $100 incentive for residents who get a COVID-19 vaccine booster at city-run sites by the end of the year.
Biden noted that the Omicron variant is so contagious that it will infect vaccinated Americans but that they will be far less likely to become seriously ill.
These breakthrough infections are rising among the 61% of the country's fully vaccinated population, including the 30% who have gotten booster shots.
Still, Biden told Americans that those who are vaccinated and follow guidance around using masks, especially while traveling, should feel comfortable celebrating the holidays as planned.
New COVID-19 cases rose 19% in the United States in the past week and are up 72% since the start of December, according to a Reuters tally.
Nearly 283,000 new infections were reported on Monday, the most new cases in a single day since Sept. 3, although some states are reporting multiple days of test results.
The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has increased 27% this month, with hospitals in some areas already strained by the Delta variant that emerged earlier this year.
There have been more than 51 million infections and 810,000 coronavirus-related deaths reported in the United States since the pandemic began, the most of any country.
The former president of Mali Ibrahim.
Thousands detained after Kazakhstan unrest
More than 5,000 people have been.
New COVID-19 variant named 'IHU' discovered in France
A new coronavirus variant called 'IHU'.
Botswana's president in isolation after testing positive for COVID-19
GABORONE (Reuters) – Botswana's President Mokgweetsi.
France 6th country with more than 10 million COVID infections
France reported 219,126 new confirmed coronavirus.
South Africa lifts curfew as it says COVID-19 fourth wave peaks
South Africa has lifted a midnight.
UK Covid case numbers hit all time high at more than 189,000
There was another 189, 213 lab-confirmed Covid-19.
COVID-19 cases surge around world, raising testing and quarantine fears
Daily COVID-19 infections have hit record.
British Airways cancels flights till March 2022 December 7, 2021
UK records 53,945 new covid cases highest daily infections since July December 3, 2021
Three white men found guilty of murdering Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery November 25, 2021
Daughter of Malcolm X found dead at Brooklyn home November 23, 2021
Biden hand power briefly to Kamala Harris during routine colonoscopy November 19, 2021
Trump's lawyer former associate found guilty of illegal campaign financing October 23, 2021
Donald Trump launches social media platform called Truth Social October 21, 2021
Former U.S Secretary of State Colin Powell Dies From COVID October 18, 2021


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Zur Stimmabgabe berechtigt waren österreichische Staatsbürger und nicht-österreichische EU-Bürger, die nicht vom Wahlrecht ausgeschlossen waren, ihren Hauptwohnsitz in der jeweiligen Gemeinde hatten und am Wahltag das 16. Lebensjahr vollendet hatten.

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Passiv wahlberechtigt waren jene Personen, die das aktive Wahlrecht besaßen und spätestens am Wahltag das 18. Lebensjahr vollendet hatten.

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2012 Orange County, CA The 911 is the model that defines the identity of Porsche, and the launch of the all-new 911 in 2012 required an event unlike any other. Além planned every aspect of the six-week program, based in Southern California at the Pelican Hill Resort. The program brought in nine waves of Sales and Service Personnel from Porsche dealerships across the U.S., with 900 total participants. Porsche's heritage is written on the track, so naturally Além created a track environment at the Orange County Great Park in El Toro where attendees could test not only the new 911 but competitive vehicles as well. The set-up at El Toro included a tent village for classrooms, local food trucks that served inspired, creative lunches every day and a garage area for the 70 vehicles. Finally, just as Porsche revamped the 911, Além revamped the traditional model of training, introducing Porsche's first-ever 100% paperless training program, as all training was iPad-based featuring the innovative "iTrainer" application.
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Tapping Beneficial Insects to Combat Pests (Including the Asian Citrus Psyllid)
September 7, 2017 By Linda Richards
Add plant diversity to your gardens. Also make sure you have flowering plants year-round. Those are key recommendations of ecologists for enlisting natural predators to combat pests in our garden and orchards.
These tips can even help ward off pests such as the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP), which is, alarmingly, moving into our citrus trees.
Nicola Irvin, PhD, is a specialist in biological control at UC-Riverside. To describe biological control succinctly, it's using natural enemies to manage pests and their damage. Irvin, a native from New Zealand, began work 15 years ago with the sharpshooter insect that was devastating the grape industry. Not surprising, her research today is focused more on the ACP.
"Hoverflies and lacewing have been identified as the most important predator of ACP nymphs in California." Dr. Nicola Irvin
A hoverfly – Genus: Melangyna – on Brittlebush
Enlisting our natural predators
This article doesn't have room to discuss the many amazing aspects of beneficial insects that not only help in pollination but also kill pests. What's important to know is thousands of overlooked insects native to our locales play vital roles. Some work by parasitizing the pest, that is they lay eggs in them so their hatched larvae then feed on the pest. Others just eat them outright.
Also important in understanding how they work, many beneficial insects and most pests go through many forms or instars (much like the monarch caterpillar). For example, the Asian psyllid goes through five forms, or instars before it's an adult that can carry the bacterium that causes citrus greening disease.
Irvin explained that having an abundance of different types of predators and parasitoids can prevent the pest from achieving its adult size, because these natural enemies will attack them in their various forms.
Tarantula wasps on blooming mulefat
Native flies and wasps are particularly disregarded insects that are receiving more notice these days. For example, many adult female wasps perform double duty. They parasitize the host pest by laying eggs in them, and also kill hosts, such as scales and whiteflies, by feeding on them. It's important to note that none of these native wasps sting people, and they don't build group nests. Some are tiny – the smallest the size of a grain of sand – while medium sized ones such as tachinid flies get mistaken for houseflies.
Dr. Irvin carries out research at UCR investigating the benefit of native flowering plants on the survival of parasitoids of ACP. "When I planted some red California buckwheat in my yard, I also noticed it attracted a lot of hoverflies. Hoverflies eat scales, thrips, aphids, and even the larvae form of ACP. They're generalists, so will eat many soft bodied pests, and are very ravenous," she said.
Our California buckwheat, which flowers much of the year, became a ladybeetle nursery this early spring
While ladybeetles seem to provide the most control of ACP in Florida, this is not mirrored in southern California. "Hoverflies and lacewing have been identified as the most important predator of ACP nymphs in California. Their combined effect can kill 86% of ACP nymphs," Irwin said.
Other natural predators of pests include spiders, beetles, predatory mites, and a group called true bugs. Then there are natural predators such as birds, reptiles and even mammals such as the opossum.
Aphids among the peskiest pests
Irvin views aphids, mites, and caterpillars as the most prevalent pests for backyard gardeners in the inland areas, adding that mites can be particularly problematic in our dusty environments. "However, if you forcefully spray the leaves with water and keep the dust down, that will help reduce mite populations. Be sure to provide adequate irrigation as water-stressed trees and plants are also less tolerant of mite damage," she said.
For cutworms, loopers, and hornworms, three common types of caterpillar, she recommends Bacillus thuringiensis, commonly called Bt, a targeted organic insecticide that only affects caterpillars. Remember, however, that the despised tomato hornworm turns into the beautiful sphinx moth.
Even a small section of native plants ushers in beneficial bugs
Adding diversity and year-round flowering plants
Irvin says the most important thing you can do is add different types of plants to your yard. "Increasing plant diversity in your garden attracts more beneficial insects by providing a wider variety of habitats and alternative foods to predators, parasitoids and pollinators. Introduce lots of native plants if you can, because they are adapted to the environment and require less water. They also attract native birds and insects, like native beeflies and robber flies, that will reduce mosquitos and insect pests."
Also, make sure you have flowering plants year-round to provide them nectar and pollen. Otherwise beneficial bugs will move off. "It's especially good to plant flowering plants that are composites or from the Asteraceae family, which have shallow flowers that most natural enemies can feed from," she said.
The various varieties of California buckwheat, goldfields and tidy tips are good examples of flowering plants to attract beneficial predators. Another Irvin mentioned is California poppies, because this heavy pollen producer attracts ladybugs, lacewings and hoverflies. Plus, they reseed and come back year after year. Sweet alyssum and common buckwheat also work well if you prefer non-native annuals.
She also recommends letting herbs go to flower such as coriander and dill, because they attract a lot of beneficial insects.
Use targeted approaches over general sprays
Ken Kupfer is a popular speaker on using biological controls for pests. His main home is in Florida, where he has personally witnessed the psyllid infestation. As the developer of a targeted bait called KM AntPro for the argentine ant, his work with organic and sustainable growers finds him in California nearly half the year.
Kupfer's work on argentine ants has also made him a strong proponent of natural remedies for pests. "With argentine ants, if you can take their crazy colonies away, then the natural pollinators and predators can come in," Kupfer said. As most people have witnessed, Argentine ants form supercolonies that skillfully forage on the honeydew that is excreted by aphids, scales and mealybugs. They are so protective that they swarm and kill any natural predators in their midst.
Both Kupfer and Irvin explained that if there is overkilling of natural predators that are present in a given environment, whether it's by the argentine ant, or by overuse of insecticide sprays that kill anything it comes in contact with, pest levels stay high or in the case of sprays, actually rebound.
Kupfer is hoping that California can do a more reasoned approach to combatting the psyllid, especially since the psyllid is showing up in public neighborhoods. "In Florida, the use of systemic pesticides and foliar pesticides is mandated for the citrus crops. It's really saturated the environment and it of course kills 99% of other bugs it comes in contact with," he said.
Kupfer says employing the parasitoid wasp, a natural predator for the psyllid overseas, is a good idea, but he cautions that "it is like using a fighter plane in the battle, when we can't forget about all the other predators."
In 2011 Kupfer discovered the psyllid on his Florida property. He began a five-year study using 70 trees in the vicinity and various kinds of flowering plants to introduce large numbers of natural predators. He also knocked down the Argentine ants on his property. His positive results included minimal tree mortality and no need for spraying.
"We need to use the natural predators in Florida or California and feed them into our ecosystems. By taking a small area on your property and having some native plants, whether its native milkweed or buckwheat, that will usher in the assassin bugs and lacewings," Kupfer said.
In addition to adding diversity, both experts said moderation is important in biological control. "First, if you have large diversity in your garden it will recover more easily from pest infestations," said UCR's Irvin. "Second, if I find aphids and kill all the aphids by spraying them, I may have a worse outcome. Instead, get out the water hose and hose off some of the aphids, but you don't have to get rid of them all because you want to keep some of their natural enemies around."
Thanks for the useful information. I am hesitant to attract parasitic wasps, due to an affitinity for nurturing Monarch caterpillars. Ah, but the wasps won anyway, busily checking under milkweed leaves for the yellow-striped Monarch larvae.
I have recently purchased a hand-held magnifying glass to help locate the Monarch caterpillars and rescue them before the predators find them.
Useful website for Monarch info:https://monarchbutterflygarden.net/about/
Hi Kathleen, thanks for writing and for the website link. And yes, I agree, I think the predator wasps we've attracted with our wonderful habitat garden that includes native plants, have taken a toll on our monarch larvae, along with our many lizards that have discovered them. I may be taking more larvae inside next season…..but I also like to keep things natural and not intervene too much.


The dining area comfortably seats up to 12 people, great for entertaining!
This villa is a tropical garden with 4 independent villa suites set on large tropical landscaped gardens with mature trees providing ample shade during the day. It is the ideal holiday domicile for a family with kids or four couples.
All villa suites can be rented independently or in different combinations housing up to 8 adults and children and it is still large enough to offer privacy to everyone. The centerpiece of the villa is a 15 m lap pool surrounded by a generous wooden deck with sunbeds and umbrellas to laze the day away.
At the far end of the garden you will find a lovely Bale Bengong – the perfect place to retreat, relax, have a massage, write a book or just a letter or simply meditate on peace and happiness.
The kitchen dining & lounge area opens up to the pool and the garden and comfortably seats up to 12 adults. The contemporary open-space kitchen is equipped with all modern appliances. There is flat-screen television with satellite channels and a portable music system. Oversize comfortable couches invite you to watch a movie or listen to your favorite music.
The villa is fully staffed with two butlers and a cook on demand if you decide to stay home and enjoy a private lunch or dinner or celebrate a special event with friends and family. A security guard is available from evening to morning hours. If you require babysitting or other services, we are happy to arrange this for you. The villa is equipped with its own power generator.
There are two master suites (40 m 2 each) with elegant timber floors and king-sized beds draped in white voile. One of the suites is part of the main building and faces the pool and wooden deck while the second suite consists of a separate bungalow with a private terrace facing the garden. Large sliding doors open up the rooms and let a cooling breeze sweep through.
Each suite has its own dressing area and en-suite bathrooms with outdoor showers and double sinks. The two queen sized suites (30 m2 each) are housed in a separate building facing the swimming pool and the wooden deck. Both have separate wardrobes for him and her and lovely open-air bathrooms with outdoor showers and white wooden floors.
I came with a group of four and everything was amazing!
The pictures that you see on the web are as it is. Location was quite reachable, the place was great (neat and refreshing), and the staff was very friendly (shout out to Mrs. Wayan the housekeeper!).
The only setback was that the pecalangs won't allow uber or grab to pickup their passangers from around the neighborhood, but worry not, the staff could order up a taxi (with meters) in no time.
Pure luxury. The villa is beautiful in a lovely location. Walkable to Seminyak yet accessed through rice fields. We will definitely be back! The breakfast was wonderful every day and the pool so nice you don't want to leave.
The villa is furnished very well. You even Lo not regret booking here and have a very relaxed and luxurious stay in Bali.
It was my first time in Bali and the Villa was the perfect venue for experiencing the beautiful sides of the whole island.
The reason for my trip was pleasure. The facility is lovely with a mixture of its classy style and Balinese design. The great arrangement of the rooms gives the opportunity to spend quality time with your friends or to have a peaceful time alone. The rooms are big and have a nice interior.
Besides the great outdoor area, I really enjoyed the pool. After a long day exploring the life of Bali, it gave us a great opportunity to relax. Moreover, the Spa is relaxing and tranquil. The staff were not only courteous and but also very helpful.
Not only was there included a breakfast but it was delicious. As well, the fresh and well-prepared food really helped to start the day well and gave me energy for the whole day. In addition, of the possibility to eat at the villa, there is a variety of great restaurants nearby.
Personally, I have to say that the experience I had in Bali and at this Villa was a dream come true. Every day was just breath taking and I would recommend the Villa Liola to everyone who wants to spend an unforgettable holiday.
i stayed for 2 nights at this awesome Villa. For me, Villa Liola is truly great, wonderful architecture with Balinese décor. It does has stylish, yet elegant with warm peaceful surrounding. Its in a good location too as not so far from Kuta and Seminyak. The staffs there are super attentive, friendly and eager to assist. The suits are so spacious and comfortable and I do love their rain shower system in the bathroom. Pool was lovely and yeah it is open for24hrs. The garden outside was just too breathtakingly calm. Everything was perfect, it was a great holidays time spent there.
My Husband and I had the most amazing time staying in this tranquil and exquisite villa. Beautiful, lovely, elegant and graceful ambience. We swam in the beautiful pool, lazed in the sun on the sun loungers, had massages, entertained friends, and would have loved to have stayed longer. The outdoor kitchen living area is perfect, spacious yet cosy, and very comfortable. I have no issues recommending this villa, perfectly located, and to top it, all the staff were fantastic, slice of heaven.
My wife and i stayed at this villa for the last three nights of our holiday,we wish we had discovered it earlier,beautifull rooms,clean spacious and bright.the swimming pool was amazing,lots of outdoor loungers to relax on.
The staff were fantastic,around if you need them,invisible when you didn't .
I couldn't recommend this place highly enough,we hope to come back next year with the whole family.
If you are searching for a place for pure relaxation, best, friendly service, elegant, but cozy ambience: I found it!! The pool with garden is absolutely breathtaking! A nice surprise: it is equipped with massage jets, the shale tiles are glittering in the sun - I felt like a mermaid... Light, pure and calm apartments with the most beautiful and clean open air bathrooms I've ever seen. After three days I felt like having holidays since weeks... warm-hearted staff, most time invisible. This site is a must! Wonderful!!!


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Hornby R40015 OO Gauge Avanti West Coast, Pendolino Pantograph Standard Buffet (PTSRMB) - Era 11
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9.00 (cm)
During the 1970s, British Railways had pursued the concept of tilting train technology for the West Coast Main Line through the Class 370 Advanced Passenger Train concept, allowing for higher speeds to be taken through curves. By minimising lateral forces on the passengers, the tendency to slide sideways was reduced, which allowed passenger comfort levels to be maintained at higher speeds.
Even with the cancellation of the APT project, the idea of train tilt was still being considered in the 1980s for the InterCity 225 project and again during the 1990s for the aborted InterCity 250 concept. In 1997, when Virgin Trains were awarded the franchise to operate the West Coast Main Line following the privatisation of British Rail, it was on the proviso that new rolling stock was to be introduced, replacing the ageing Class 86/87/90 locomotives and Mark 2/3 coaches.
A £500 million order was placed with Alstom/Fiat Ferroviaria to construct fifty-four, eight-car tilting train sets. These later increasing to nine and then eleven car sets. The current Pendolino fleet of 52 sets comprises 31 eleven-car sets and 21 nine-car sets and all have been transferred to Avanti West Coast, the operating name for the new West Coast Partnership between FirstGroup plc and Trenitalia UK that took over the operation of the existing West Coast Main Line services on 8 December 2019, from Virgin Trains.
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1:76 Scale 00 Gauge
Avanti West Coast
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Radius 2
3 Pole Skew wound
Hornby R3952 Avanti West Coast Class 390 Pendolino train pack
Hornby R40017 OO Gauge Avanti West Coast, Pendolino Motor First (MF) - Era 11
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Airfix A05117A 1:48 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XII
Hornby R40016 OO Gauge Avanti West Coast, Pendolino Trailer standard (MF) - Era 11
Hornby R40018 OO Gauge Avanti West Coast, Pendolino Motor Standard (MS) - Era 11