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Naples, FL (Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr)
Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr
About Naples, FL (Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr)
Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr median real estate price is $1,701,447, which is more expensive than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in Florida and 97.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr is currently $3,017, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in Florida.
Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr is an urban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Naples, Florida. This is a coastal neighborhood (i.e., is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet).
Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr real estate is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) apartment complexes/high-rise apartments and townhomes. Most of the residential real estate is owner occupied. Many of the residences in the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood are established but not old, having been built between 1970 and 1999. A number of residences were also built between 2000 and the present.
Vacant apartments or homes are a major fact of life in Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr. The current real estate vacancy rate here is 58.1%. This is higher than the rate of vacancies in 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. A relatively large percentage of housing here is seasonally occupied (51.9%). This can occur in vacation areas, and occasionally it is also found in neighborhoods that are primarily filled with college students, as some apartments could be vacant when school is not in session. If you live here year round, you may find that a number of buildings in your neighborhood are actually empty.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Naples, the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
In addition, one of the really unique and interesting things about the look and setting of the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood is that it is almost entirely dominated by large apartment buildings, such as apartment complexes or high-rise apartments. 96.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as such. This puts this neighborhood on the map as having a higher proportion of large apartment buildings than 99.4% of all neighborhoods in America.
Furthermore, real estate in the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood. Vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 58.1% of the residential real estate vacant, the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Also of note, most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 91.5% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
If you come to know the people here, you will recognize that you're in the company of one of the wealthiest communities in the nation. In fact, a mere 3.4% of America's neighborhoods are wealthier than the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood. Real estate here is exceedingly well-maintained, and similarly, tends to maintain its value over time. The cars driven are mostly luxury brands like Mercedes, Audi, BMW, and Lexus. If the public schools aren't up to snuff, the residents of this neighborhood preferentially send their children to private preparatory schools. Vacation to Disney? Yes, but equally popular are summers in Europe. As one would expect in a considerably wealthy neighborhood such as this, Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr also has one of the lowest ratings of child poverty in the nation.
In addition, think about the people you know personally. How many of them would purchase box seats to opening night at the symphony? How many of them regularly attend gallery openings, or are the first to reserve tickets to opening night at the ballet? If they're like most of us, they don't do any of these things. But if you're among an exclusive crowd of wealthy and refined patrons of the arts, then you'll feel right at home in the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood: a neighborhood in which more "urban sophisticates" live than 97.3% of neighborhoods across the U.S. Here, your neighbors are defined as having urbane tastes in literature, music, live theatre and the arts. They are wealthy, educated, travel in style, and live a big city lifestyle whether or not they live in or near a big city. In addition to being an excellent choice for urban sophisticates, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees and highly educated executives.
A unique way of commuting is simply not to. And in the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood, analysis shows that 26.0% of the residents work from home, avoiding a commute altogether. This may not seem like a large number, but it is a higher proportion of people working from home than is found in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States. One thing NeighborhoodScout's research reveals is that the wealthier and/or more isolated the neighborhood, the greater the proportion of residents who choose to work from home.
Did you know that the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood has more Greek and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 5.1% have Swedish ancestry.
Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood in Naples are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood, 55.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 36.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (6.1%), and 2.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (4.5%).
In the Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood in Naples, FL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (25.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Italian roots (11.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (7.6%), among others. In addition, 12.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in Gulf Shore Blvd N / Park Shore Dr neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
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Q: netcdf4-python can't run in celery/django It works well as normal function(run in shell mode not django), But when I run the netcdf in celery task/django,It can't work,and show me this error:
File "...", line 53, in ...
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  File "netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx", line 2291, in netCDF4._netCDF4.Dataset.__init__
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OSError: [Errno -101] NetCDF: HDF error: b'/my/nc/path'

I checked the source code, May be the question is at the 2232 line in file netCDF4/_netCDF4.pyx:
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But I don't know what's wrong with this code,and what is the different between use django and no django.

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Jeffrey Peterson (nascido a , em Santa Bárbara, Califórnia) é um milionário e empresário de tecnologia do Arizona que é considerado o pioneiro da Internet Hispânica nos Estados Unidos. Conhecido tanto pela seu conhecimento tecnológico como de negócios, é mais conhecido como o fundador da Quepasa, uma das comunidades online mais populares da América Latina.

Vida

Peterson cresceu em Santa Barbara, na Califórnia. Filho de uma mãe Inglesa e pai Americano, os seus antepassados paternos emigraram de Espanha para Santa Barbara. Peterson foi educado em escolas públicas na área de Santa Barbara, Califórnia. De acordo com um artigo publicado pelo Arizona Republic, Peterson cresceu sendo vizinho do director do laboratório de informática da Universidade da Califórnia em Santa Bárbara, que o introduziu à programação de computadores desde tenra idade em 1978.

Conectado remotamente ao computador mainframe da UCSB através de um terminal burro por horas a fio, Peterson gastou as mais significantes horas de sua infância. O jovem guru rapidamente aprendeu como criar o seu próprio Unix e aplicações baseadas em VMS nos sistemas PDP-11 e DEC VAX do campus. Nos primórdios da computação, a ciência altamente técnica dos sistemas programação era um passatempo tomado apenas por professores universitários e engenheiros. Para se enquadrar, Peterson mantinha alegadamente uma identidade secreta e logava no PDP-10 do laboratório de Inteligência artificial do MIT, onde era conhecido pelos seus colegas como "Dr. Jeffrey Peterson", quando tinha apenas onze anos de idade.

Em 1981, Peterson conseguiu seu primeiro emprego, como depurador para uma empresa de software focada em computadores Commodore. Em 1983, trabalhou como certificador de produtos para o fabricante de hardware LOBO Systems. Em meados dos anos 1980, Peterson concentrou-se no desenvolvimento de softwares de distribuição gratuita para Bulletin Board System e aplicações de jogos multi-usuário (Multi-User Dungeon). Ficou conhecido entre seus colegas como um expert em implementar soluções customizadas em sistemas multi-tarefa baseados em kernel, que sempre excediam os limites de hardware atuais. Peterson, na sua adolescência, já programava em Assembler e linguagem C, contribuiu fortemente para o surgimento das comunidades de desenvolvimento de Software livre e código aberto nos anos 1980. Publicou inúmeros textos, incluindo artigos sobre multiprocessamento, métodos Quasi-empíricos e Inteligência artificial.

Peterson foi ridicularizado por seus primeiros anos de programação em um artigo satírico publicado no TheStreet.com em 2004. O artigo, que destacava a biografia pública de Peterson conforme constava numa declaração aos accionistas da Quepasa em 23 de abril de 2004, questiona: "é suposto acreditarmos que o rapaz programava computadores quando tinha 10 anos de idade?" No entanto, Peterson aparece nesta idade como um dos contribuintes na contra-capa do livro mais vendido sobre softwares de computador em 1983.

Muito familiarizado com o ambiente universitário devido aos seus primeiros anos de programação na faculdade, Peterson trabalhou como disc jockey na estação de rádio universitária KCSB-FM da Universidade da Califórnia em Santa Bárbara entre 1986 e 1990.  Durante o final da década de 80, Peterson assumiu o cargo de "Traffic Manager" entre os dezesseis membros do comité executivo da rádio universitária KCSB-FM que deu a Jim Rome e Sean Hannity seus primeiros empregos em transmissões de rádio.

Peterson saiu da escola em 1988 então com 16 anos, para alcançar o que se tornaria uma carreira de sucesso em investimentos na Wall Street. Deu continuidade aos estudos nas áreas de Direito.

Realizações

Os anos em Wall Street

Em 1989, Peterson obteve um emprego no departamento de operações da corretora Lehman Brothers, onde rapidamente aprendeu sobre a bolsa de valores. Mais tarde, viria a passar os exames da indústria e a tornar-se um Corretor da Bolsa com dezanove anos. Depois de trabalhar para diversas corretoras, fixou-se no campo do Investimento Bancário, onde ganhou experiência em Finanças Empresariais. Peterson continuaria a trabalhar com grupos de investimento que financiaram centenas de empresas primariamente através de transacções de Ofertas Públicas Iniciais (IPO) durante as fortes condições da bolsa de valores do início dos anos 90.

Quepasa.com

Em 1997 Jeffrey criou o Quepasa.com.  O site foi a primeira comunidade online focada em internautas americanos de origem hispânica. Um ano depois, ele conseguiu convencer o magnata dos esportes Jerry Colangelo a ajudar a levantar mais de 20 milhões de dólares de capital para o lançamento da empresa. O astro Jason Kidd do Phoenix Suns ajudou como investidor. John Elway, ex-quarterback do Denver Broncos, investiu $500,000.

Poucos meses depois, o Presidente da Costa Rica Jose Maria Figueres passou a fazer parte do Conselho de Administração da Quepasa. Peterson passou a vender uma participaçao do site de língua espanhola a Sony Pictures Entertainment e Telemundo LLC. O diretor de negócios, comentarista e ex-presidente da FDIC L. William Seidman juntou-se ao Conselho de Administração da Quepasa.Após reunir-se com Peterson durante uma entrevista online na sede do Miami Herald, Gloria Estefan passou a ser porta-voz oficial da Quepasa e de seus investidores. Outdoors da Quepasa , frequentemente vistos em cidades hispânicas nos Estados Unidos, encorajavam latinos a juntarem-se ao "El Mundo Nuevo" (o Novo Mundo) online. Milhões deles o fizeram.

Em 24 de Junho de 1999, a Quepasa entrou na Bolsa de Valores de Nasdaq. No final do dia, a Quepasa valia 272 milhões de dólares. O orgulhoso jovem fundador da empresa foi apresentado ao vivo em entrevistas na CNN e CNBC.  Aos 26 anos, Peterson viu seu património líquido crescer em 36 milhões de dólares.

Um ano mais tarde, a Quepasa foi nomeada o destino online mais popular para os Hispânicos dos Estados Unidos, à frente de concorrentes como Starmedia e Yahoo! Español.

Controvérsia na Gestão da Quepasa

Pouco depois da entrada da Quepasa na Bolsa de Valores, Peterson foi expulso da empresa por Gary Trujillo, o novo CEO que Peterson tinha contratado 60 dias antes para gerir a Quepasa. Ao falar sobre golpe administrativo surpresa ao Arizona Republic, Peterson afirmou, "Ele (Trujillo) quebrou cada grão de confiança que coloquei nas mãos dele".

Numa acção judicial interposta no Tribunal Superior do Condado de Maricopa, Peterson foi acusado de competir com a Quepasa. A acção judicial resolveu-se 90 dias mais tarde, com a Quepasa a pagar 2,4 milhões de dólares a Peterson. Trujillo reconheceu mais tarde que foi um "problema de personalidade".

Posteriormente, Peterson renunciou ao Conselho de Administração, embora tenha continuado a ser o maior accionista da Quepasa. A sua saída da Quepasa viria a "deixar a empresa nas mãos de um CEO e conselho de administração inexperientes, tanto na área da Internet como na tecnologia que a operava".

Vayala Corporation

Em Julho de 2001, Peterson fundou a empresa de pesquisas na Internet, Vayala Corporation, com Brian Long Lu, filho de um magnata asiático da tecnologia Hong Liang Lu, e Mike Marriott. A Vayala, responsável pelo desenvolvimento de tecnologias de pesquisa dinâmicas de grande escala, teve sucesso ao assegurar financiamento de capital de risco com os executivos da Softbank Corp. Em 2002, a Vayala foi adquirida pela Quepasa.

Durante este tempo, The Arizona Republic exibiu uma fotografia de Peterson na capa da edição de Domingo, num artigo de três páginas sobre a sua carreira. A série foi exibida nos dias 9, 10 e 11 de Setembro de 2001, dia dos infames ataques ao World Trade Center.

Aquisição e Ressurreição da Quepasa

Em 2002, as acções da Quepasa tinha diminuído o seu valor sob a liderança do CEO Trujillo até valerem praticamente nada. Nos relatórios da comunicação social, Trujillo culpou o declínio do valor de mercado da Quepasa nas condições desfavoráveis do mercado e na "bolha ponto-com". O Chicago Tribune escreveu: "Mesmo com o Inverno da Internet soprando ventos frios pela paisagem digital, muitos especialistas ficaram surpreendidos ao saber da morte daquele que tinha sido em tempos um website super bem sucedido centrado no Hispânicos, o Quepasa.com".

Mais tarde nesse ano, Peterson conduziu um grupo de investidores através de uma bem sucedida guerra por procuração e aquisição hostil da Quepasa, alegadamente investindo milhões do seu próprio dinheiro. Pouco depois da aquisição, Peterson foi outra vez nomeado Presidente e Director Executivo da Quepasa.

Em Janeiro de 2004, o Business Journal of Phoenix relatou que a Quepasa estava "no meio de uma reforma dirigida pelo seu criador, Jeffrey Petterson". Em 2006, as acções da Quepasa ascenderam o seu valor em 150 milhões de dólares.

No dia 5 de Novembro de 2006, Peterson abandonou novamente a empresa, depois de vender 30% da Quepasa a um investidor bilionário chamado Richard Scott.

Actividade Política

Peterson, um Democrata, esteve envolvido em círculos políticos. As suas afiliações políticas estiveram frequentemente relacionadas com interesses Hispânicos.
Em 2003, Peterson foi nomeado para a Comissão Arizona-México pelo então Governador do Arizona, Janet Napolitano. Em 2005, foi nomeado para o Comité Executivo.
Em 2005, Peterson foi nomeado para o comité de transacções transfronteiriças do Departamento de Bens Imobiliários do Arizona. O comité concentra-se nas transacções internacionais de bens imóveis entre residentes do Arizona e México.
Em 2005, Peterson foi nomeado Presidente do Subcomité de Tecnologia do Comité Executivo de Títulos 2006, por Phil Gordon, Mayor de Phoenix. A iniciativa de títulos no valor de 850 milhões de euros foi aprovada pelos votantes em Março de 2006.
Peterson suportou financeiramente as marchas de reforma pelos [Imigração|Imigrantes] em 25 de Março de 2006 e 10 de Abril de 2006.
Peterson foi um co-anfitrião na angariação de fundos a 1 de Junho de 2006 para o Candidato ao Senador do Arizona Jim Pederson, com destaque para o ex-Presidente Bill Clinton.
Relatou-se que Peterson organizou uma angariação de fundos na sua residência para Barack Obama, com destaque para o Presidente do Comité Democrático Nacional Howard Dean e para a actriz Scarlett Johansson, que ocorreu no dia 21 de Agosto de 2008.
De acordo com os registos de propriedade do Condado de Maricopa, Arizona, a residência de Peterson está listada no mesmo endereço que a do Senador do Arizona John McCain.

Laços com Hollywood

Por razões desconhecidas, soube-se que Peterson manteve laços com personalidades significantes da indústria do entretenimento. Por exemplo, Peterson designou Gloria Estefan como investidora e porta-voz da Quepasa em 1999. O produtor cinematográfico Paul Mazursky foi um investidor no início de Peterson, Vayala Corp.. O co-fundador da banda rock Dishwalla está listado como um membro do Conselho de Administração numa das primeiras Declarações de Registo da Quepasa. Peterson é um amigo de infância do produtor de música Rap, Damizza. Em Setembro de 2005, a Quepasa anunciou uma campanha de marketing com Jennifer Lopez. Até Sammy Hagar, que comercializa [Tequila] mexicana, criou alegadamente laços com a Quepasa.

Actividades Actuais

Peterson está considerado entre as principais autoridades da Internet Hispânica nos Estados Unidos. Mantém um número de papéis de consultoria na indústria das Tecnologias da Informação. Peterson está ao serviço do comité Hispânico da Interactive Advertising Bureau em Nova Iorque. De acordo com a sua biografia pública, actua como um consultor de tecnologia para o Governo do México.

A 20 de Julho de 2009, Peterson vendeu o nome de domínio demand.com à Demand Media Inc., uma empresa controlada pelo ex-Presidente do MySpace Richard Rosenblatt, de acordo com múltiplas notícias.

Ver também

Ligações externas

 "How Do You Say Internet in Spanish?", by Joe Hagan, Smartmoney.com, 30 de Março de 1999.

 "Quepasa.com, refugio de los internautas hispanos", by Micaela de la Maza, Baquia.com (Spanish language), 24 de Dezembro de 1999.

 "Quepasa Announces Relationship With The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)", 12 de Junho de 2003.

 Forbes.comPerfil de Jeffrey Peterson

 quepasa.com

 Jeffrey Peterson's LinkedIn profile

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Brogdon hit tying and go-ahead 3-pointers in the final 67 seconds and the Bucks held on to beat Toronto Raptors 104-99 on Sunday night.
Brogdon scored eight of his 18 points in the fourth quarter, Giannis Antetokounmpo had 19 points and matched a season high with 19 rebounds, and Brook Lopez had 19 points for the Bucks, the first team to beat Toronto twice this season.
"In terms of having a full game, playing hard on both ends and executing at a high level on both ends, executing the game plan, and then finishing strong down the stretch, that is definitely the top game for us," Brogdon said.
The Bucks (17-8) bounced back from Friday's loss to Golden State and have yet to lose consecutive games this season.
"That's how special this team is," Antetokounmpo said.
Serge Ibaka scored 22 points and Kawhi Leonard had 20 for the Raptors, who have lost two straight, the second time this season they've suffered consecutive defeats. Toronto, which lost 106-105 at Brooklyn on Friday, dropped three straight from Nov. 12 to 16, losing at home to New Orleans and Detroit before an overtime defeat at Boston.
Fred VanVleet scored a season-high 19 points and Pascal Siakam had 17 for the Raptors, whose 21-7 record is best in the NBA.
Neither Leonard (rest) nor Antetokounmpo (concussion protocol) played when the Raptors lost 124-109 at Milwaukee on Oct. 29, Toronto's first defeat following a 6-0 start.
Toronto's Kyle Lowry shot 0 for 5 and didn't score for the first time since March 17, 2013 against Miami. Lowry led the Raptors with seven assists.
"Just couldn't find the open ones tonight," Lowry said. All of his misses Sunday were from 3-point range.
Milwaukee led 79-74 heading to the fourth and pushed its lead to 85-74.
Toronto battled back to lead 97-94 on a 3 by Leonard at 2:07, but Brogdon hit the tying 3 at 1:07 and followed with a go-ahead jumper with 40 seconds left.
"We did a great job trusting one another and moving the ball," Antetokounmpo said. "Malcolm hit some huge shots."
Middleton assisted on both of Brogdon's key baskets and finished with five assists.
"I'm going to get the glory for the shots but Khris is the one who sacrificed and made the extra pass to get it to me," Brogdon said.
VanVleet answered with a layup, but Antetokounmpo restored the 3-point cushion with a driving dunk.
Leonard hit the rim with a potential tying 3 and Ersan Ilyasova was fouled as he grabbed the rebound. Ilyasova sealed it by making both free throws with seven seconds remaining, and Toronto did not attempt another shot.
Milwaukee led 51-49 at halftime.
Bucks: Newly acquired G George Hill and C Jason Smith were active but did not play. ... Antetokounmpo led the Bucks with six assists. ... Milwaukee has won its past three against the Raptors, including two straight in Toronto, its first road winning streak in the series since a five-game run from January 2011 to January 2013. ... G Eric Bledsoe celebrated his 29th birthday. He had nine points and five assists.
Raptors: Toronto missed 10 consecutive field goal attempts in the first half, including eight straight to begin the second quarter. The Raptors responded by making five of their next 10. ... Ibaka had a career-high 11 3-point attempts and made a season-high four.
Toronto failed to score 100 or more for the second time this season. The Raptors won the other such game, beating Orlando 93-91 on Nov. 20 thanks to a last-second basket by Danny Green.
Lowry has failed to score at least 10 points in each of his past five-games.
Bucks: Host Cleveland on Monday night.
Raptors: Visit Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night.
Myers: We didn't sign Russell with intention to trade him
Warriors general manager Bob Myers addresses the reports that D'Angelo Russell won't fit into the team's long-term plans.
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TOR wins series 4-2
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2018-2019 Central Standings
Milwaukee 60 22 .732 0 L1
Indiana 48 34 .585 12 W1
Detroit 41 41 .500 19 W2
Chicago 22 60 .268 38 L3
Cleveland 19 63 .232 41 L10
2018-2019 Atlantic Standings
Toronto 58 24 .707 0 W2
Philadelphia 51 31 .622 7 W1
Boston 49 33 .598 9 W1
Brooklyn 42 40 .512 16 W3
New York 17 65 .207 41 L1

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Support of OEMs is a crucial part of our maintenance support and requires a high degree of interaction between M&E, our clients and our candidates.
M&E continue to provide Stryker Brigade support in Germany and for a period of nine years we provided support and operational maintenance whilst they were at their home base when deployed on operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maintenance functions include Reset, Retrofit, battle damage repair, modification and upgrade (including up-armouring) and equipment training support.
All levels of maintenance to ensure Fully Mission Capable (FMC) status.
Reset and retrofit of equipment.
Application of modifications and upgrades.
User maintenance training and support to pre-deployment training exercises.
Care of supplies in storage (Left behind equipment).
Receiving, inventory and distribution of upgrade kits, stock items, supplies & consumables.
Reporting production progress and ensuring appropriate availability of supplies.
Our contract workers were deployed to forward operating bases (FOB) in Iraq to maintain the brigade's equipment for the duration of their combat mission. Facilities in Iraq were taken over, modified to meet specific client requirements and then operated for 18 months under operational conditions.
We contactors were deployed to Kuwait where we established temporary facilities, trained locals and fitted and removed the additional exterior slatted armour and under vehicle up-armour and conducted technical inspections to all of the Stryker variants prior to entry to Iraq and upon exit.
M&E provided Heavy Wheel Mechanics and Welders to at the Battle Damage Repair Facility in Qatar. Task required complete rebuild of each vehicle. 502 vehicles (422 battle damaged, 80 reset).
Deployed personnel to conduct RESET of 1/25 SCR Stryker Brigade and support across all levels of maintenance.
For five years, we supported over 500 US Marine Corps RG31 MRAP vehicles in Kuwait.
Installed and commissioned workshop equipment.
Where necessary sourced and procured equipment locally.
Established and proved the operating process.
Conducted the incoming inspection on receipt of the vehicle and produced work order relevant to that specific vehicle to enable upgrade.
Stripped Vehicle down to the Hull and assemblies.
Removed, inspected and repaired/replaced of all major assemblies and components retained for rebuild.
Inspected and repaired vehicle hulls and chassis (including certified welding).
Applied modification work orders / upgrades process (providing Team Leads).
Conducted final Quality Assurance Quality Control.
Deployed 93 technical specialists to Kuwait via the IRDO Pre-deployment centre in the US with the first deployment of fully processed staff after only 21 days - all roles filled within 5 weeks. All personnel deployed through the CRC at Camp Atterbury.
Successful development and delivery of a deployment, execution and support plan by a dedicated M&E Project Manager who was deployed one month prior to the commencement of contract start.
The establishment of a fully functional workshop within 2 months of contract commencement.
Delivery of quality and efficiency through the development, testing and proving of the process and procedures by M&E experts and Team leaders with specific expertise of working on heavy military vehicles in similar austere circumstances.
Rapid achievement of high quality output demonstrated by delivery of three zero-defect vehicles 4 months after programme start.
Performance targets for quality were regularly beaten and the contract to upgrade 507 vehicles completed ahead of time.


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Kwesi Appiah (born 12 August 1990) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Colchester United, on loan from  side Crawley Town and the Ghana national team.

Club career

Ebbsfleet United
Appiah was born in Camberwell, Greater London, to a Ghanaian father and an English mother. He is a product of the Ebbsfleet United PASE youth system, and graduated to the first team in August 2008. He scored his first goal for the club with his first touch after coming on as a substitute against Woking on 20 September 2008. Appiah missed training in October and after leaving the ground, he failed to report back to the club.

Peterborough United
His disappearance was explained in October, when League One team Peterborough United announced the signing of Appiah, on a three and a half-year deal. The matter was reported to The Football Association, as it was reported in breach of regulations. On 15 December it was reported that the FA had decided that the approach made for Appiah by Peterborough was "not proven" and so no ruling could be made.

Appiah was loaned out back to the Conference with Weymouth in February 2009 and made his debut in a 2–0 defeat to York City. He suffered from an ankle ligament injury that ruled him out of a game against Altrincham, but returned for the 5–0 defeat to Burton Albion. He returned to Peterborough on 20 March. He spent time at Northern Premier League Premier Division side King's Lynn in 2009, where he played 10 games scoring 9 goals, including a hat-trick against Durham City in an 11–0 win. Appiah's loan spell came to an abrupt end when the club was wound up in late-November 2009; this meant their record for 2009–10 was expunged. On 19 January 2010, he joined Kettering Town on a month-long loan.

Return to Non-League
Appiah joined Southern Football League Premier Division side Brackley Town for the 2010–11 season. Appiah then signed a two-year deal with Isthmian League Premier Division side Margate on 25 July 2011. After his great run of form this attracted a number of professional clubs and on 16 January 2012, he was linked with a move to Blackpool, when he claimed Margate had agreed a deal with the Seasiders and stated that he was due to travel to Blackpool for talks with manager, but he later rejected the move as he preferred to move to London. Appiah left Margate having scored 35 goals in 34 games for the club.

Crystal Palace
On 31 January 2012, he agreed his second professional deal to play for Crystal Palace. On 28 January 2013, Appiah joined Football League One side Yeovil Town on a month's loan deal. He made his first appearance for Yeovil in the 2–1 win over MK Dons, coming on in the second half as a substitute for Matthew Dolan.

Appiah returned to the Conference Premier on 13 September 2013 when he signed on a one-month loan deal for the then league leaders Cambridge United. Appiah scored his first Cambridge goal in a 3–0 win over Nuneaton Town on 24 September and followed it with the equaliser in a 1–1 draw away at Wrexham and the winner against Hereford United in the next two games. Having missed a penalty in a 0–0 stalemate against Chester, he atoned with both goals in the 2–0 win over Salisbury City that maintained Cambridge's six-point lead at the top of the Conference Premier on 19 October. Appiah had earlier confirmed the loan deal had been extended by a further month via his Twitter account. Appiah scored further goals against Aldershot Town, Barnet (2) and Macclesfield Town (2) in November, leading Cambridge manager Richard Money to express his eagerness to re-sign Appiah on loan in the January transfer window.

On 21 January 2014, Appiah joined Notts County on a one-month emergency loan.

On 27 March 2014, Appiah joined League Two side AFC Wimbledon on loan for the remainder of the 2013–14 season. He scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw with Newport County.

On 9 July 2014, Appiah rejoined Cambridge United on a six-month loan. Since his last stint at Cambridge, the club had regained their place in the Football League. He scored six league goals in nineteen league appearances but also scored the winner in the first round of the FA Cup against League One Fleetwood Town and a late equaliser against Mansfield Town in the second round – playing a large role in maintaining a run to the fourth round and two lucrative ties against Manchester United.

On 26 March 2015, Appiah joined Reading on loan until the end of the 2014–15 season. Appiah then injured his anterior cruciate ligament on 7 June 2015, while training for the Ghana national side  As of 26 January 2016, it was reported that he had made enough progress to soon restart light training.

On 29 March 2017, it was announced that Appiah had joined Norwegian Eliteserien club Viking on loan until the end of June.

AFC Wimbledon
He re-signed for League One side  AFC Wimbledon, this time on a permanent basis, on 31 May 2017. He scored his first goal for Wimbledon in a 2–0 win against Doncaster Rovers on 26 August 2017. He was released by AFC Wimbledon when his contract expired in June 2020.

NorthEast United
On 14 October 2020, Appiah joined Indian Super League club NorthEast United FC on a one-year deal.

Crawley Town
On 16 August 2021, Appiah joined EFL League Two club Crawley Town on a one-year deal with the option for a second.

On 1 September 2022, Appiah joined Colchester United on loan until the end of the 2022–23 season.

International career
Appiah was eligible to represent both Ghana and England. On 24 December 2014 he was called into the 31-man provisional squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations by Ghana. He made his debut in Ghana's 2–1 win over South Africa on 27 January 2015 and scored his first international goal in the quarter-final victory over Guinea.

Career statistics

Club

International

Scores and results list Ghana's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Appiah goal.

Honours
Ghana
Africa Cup of Nations runner-up: 2015

References

External links

Profile at the AFC Wimbledon website

1990 births
Living people
Footballers from Camberwell
English footballers
Citizens of Ghana through descent
Ghanaian footballers
Ghana international footballers
Association football forwards
Ebbsfleet United F.C. players
Peterborough United F.C. players
Weymouth F.C. players
King's Lynn F.C. players
Kettering Town F.C. players
Brackley Town F.C. players
Thurrock F.C. players
Margate F.C. players
Crystal Palace F.C. players
Aldershot Town F.C. players
Yeovil Town F.C. players
Cambridge United F.C. players
Notts County F.C. players
AFC Wimbledon players
Reading F.C. players
NorthEast United FC players
Crawley Town F.C. players
National League (English football) players
Isthmian League players
English Football League players
Indian Super League players
2015 Africa Cup of Nations players
English expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Norway
English expatriate sportspeople in Norway
Expatriate footballers in India
English expatriate sportspeople in India
Black British sportsmen
English sportspeople of Ghanaian descent


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D. Michael Wilson Resigns as CEO of Ingevity; Chairman Richard Kelson Appointed Interim CEO
Company Reaffirms Fiscal Year 2020 Guidance and Updates on Coronavirus Impacts
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – February 20, 2020 – Ingevity Corporation (NYSE: NGVT) today announced that Ingevity's board of directors and D. Michael Wilson agreed that he would resign as president, CEO, and a director, effective immediately. The board has appointed Ingevity chairman Richard ("Rick") Kelson as interim president and CEO. The board has established a CEO Search Committee, led by Michael Fitzpatrick, chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, to identify and select a permanent president and CEO.
Wilson's resignation is unrelated to the company's financial reporting and business performance and is the result of matters relating to his personal conduct.
"Ingevity has a bright future, a deep bench of talent, and a strong leadership team," said Kelson. "We are confident that the company will continue to execute its strategy, meet and exceed our customers' expectations, and deliver value to shareholders. I look forward to working with the team as interim president and CEO while a search for the next leader of Ingevity is underway."
Kelson was named chairman of Ingevity's board of directors in 2016 and has served as chairman, president and CEO of ServCo, a strategic sourcing business, since 2009. Kelson served as CFO and executive vice president at Alcoa, Inc., for nearly a decade before retiring in 2006. He also served as a member of the board of directors of MeadWestvaco Corporation, and its predecessor, Westvaco, from 2001 to 2015. Kelson currently serves as a director of Commercial Metals Company and served as lead director from 2014 to 2019.
The company reaffirms its fiscal year 2020 guidance announced on February 3, 2020, but is providing an update on the potential impacts of the coronavirus. Ingevity estimates that first quarter 2020 financial results are expected to be impacted by $20 million to $30 million in revenue, and $10 million to $15 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation (EBITDA). "We believe we will recover some or all of the impacts of the coronavirus over the course of the year," said John Fortson, Ingevity's executive vice president, CFO and treasurer. "These estimates assume a slowdown of the coronavirus public health crisis by the end of the first quarter — however, this is a very fluid situation that we are monitoring closely."
About Ingevity
Ingevity provides specialty chemicals, high-performance carbon materials and engineered polymers that purify, protect, and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, Ingevity develops, manufactures, and brings to market products and processes that help customers solve complex problems. These products are used in a variety of demanding applications, including asphalt paving, oil exploration and production, agrochemicals, adhesives, lubricants, publication inks, coatings, elastomers, bioplastics and automotive components that reduce gasoline vapor emissions. Headquartered in North Charleston, South Carolina, Ingevity operates from 25 locations around the world and employs approximately 1,850 people. The company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: NGVT). For more information visit www.ingevity.com.
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Before you write off carbohydrates, learn how to tell the good carbohydrates from the bad.
It was Yogi Berra who said that "When you get to the fork in the road, take it!" Well, it's not just about taking the fork, it's also about using it to eat.
Remember that wellness is a pyramid with three major pillars: eating patterns, activity patterns, and rest and relaxation patterns. Focusing now on eating patterns, I'd like to share some thoughts on how to differentiate between nutritious carbohydrates and all the rest. Making change starts with understanding what your choices really look like.
You've probably heard people talk about eating a "low-carb" diet, and maybe you've even tried one yourself. When people eat a low-carb diet, they usually cut out bread and bagels, muffins, cookies, cake, rice, potatoes and so on. Some people describe it as cutting out all the white stuff, especially white flour and sugar. While it's true that all grains are carbohydrates, all carbohydrates are not grains.
To better tell the difference between nutritious carbs and all the rest, you need to divide carbohydrates into two major categories: intact and stripped. Intact carbs have an intact fiber matrix, which is how they grow. There are four different kinds of intact carbs, and they constitute some of the most nutritious items in our diets: fruits, vegetables, beans, and (whole) grains.
Now let's go back, and take a careful look at that bolded list above. You will notice something very important: it's not simply a list of carbohydrates. In fact, except for the potatoes, it is actually a list of items made from grain. And in these United States that usually means "stripped" grains, which means that the fiber matrix has been completely stripped away. So folks who say they're eating a low-carb diet aren't really eating a diet low in carbohydrates. They are actually eating a diet low in stripped grains.
Stripped carbs constitute an enormous proportion of the standard American diet but, nutritionally, they pale when compared to intact carbs. Stripped carbs include white flour, white rice, sugar, corn starch and corn syrup. Stripped carbs require enrichment and fortification because their mass consumption results, otherwise, in serious nutritional deficiencies.
So if stripped carbs aren't nutritious food, then what are they? My friend Mel says to think of them as entertainment. You know, it's fun to go to the movies, but you wouldn't want to live in a movie theatre.
All popular diets cut the stripped carbs from your plate. From Atkins to Zone, plant-based to Paleo, all successful diets cut stripped carbs. No matter what else they recommend, that's an essential part of why they work. You don't need to go on a special diet, though. Just start reducing the amount of stripped carbs in your diet.
Dr. Roxanne B Sukol is committed to teaching you how to tell the difference between real food and manufactured calories! Blogging since 2009 at "Your Health is on Your Plate," she shares her passion for prevention, translating complex information into readable content that inspires you to take the reins to improve your own health. Dr. Sukol is board certified in Internal Medicine. Her work in preventive medicine is greatly enriched by the 7 years she spent in environmental consulting prior to attending medical school. She keeps a coop with 8 beautiful chickens in her backyard in Northeast Ohio.


Before we answer the question in the title above, I'm first going to ask and answer a different question: how do you measure the temperature of a glass of water?
I'm guessing that most people will answer the question with some variation of "use a thermometer." Stick a digital or glass thermometer into the cup, measure the digital reading or look at the colored bar inside the glass, and write down the number. Done, right?
We didn't measure the temperature of the cup of water at all. We measured the temperature of the water that was next to the thermometer at a time just before we looked at the thermometer. But when we put the thermometer into the water, that act changed the temperature slightly as energy flowed between the thermometer and the water.
We can try again, of course. Let's put the thermometer into the water again and let it sit for a little while, until we think that the probe and the temperature of the water have equalized, write down the number, and we've got it, right?
Nope, I'm afraid not. We're still only measuring the temperature of the water that's next to the thermometer.
We can add more thermometers, or we can stir the water, or we can even buy an expensive infrared camera, but it won't matter – we'll never actually measure the temperature of the whole cup of water.
The reason is that the cup of water isn't the exact same temperature everywhere. Heat doesn't flow through water perfectly, and so heat builds up in some places, resulting in warmer and cooler spots in the cup.
Let's assume that the cup of water is standard tap water, at room temperature, sitting on a table, as shown in Figure 2 at right.
In this case, the top surface of the water is in contact with the air. Since water evaporates, and evaporation takes a lot of energy, the top surface is going to be slightly cooler than the rest of the cup of water. If we rest our hand on the table next to the glass, then the water in the bottom of the cup will get slightly warmer as heat is conducted from our hand, through the table to the cup, through the glass base of the cup, and into the water. We can make these effects small, at least for a little while, by stirring up the water some, but we can never get rid of them completely.
And as I mentioned above, adding a thermometer to the water changes the temperature of the water that's around the thermometer. The thermometer absorbs a small amount of energy from (or gives a small amount of energy to) the water. If it didn't, the thermometer wouldn't work in the first place. And thermometers aren't perfectly accurate either. Commercial digital thermometers can be accurate to 0.1 degrees Fahrenheit or so.
So if we can't perfectly measure the temperature of a cup of water, we have to ask – do we really care? For most things, the effects I described above are so small that we don't care, and so we can say that we measured the temperature of the water in the cup even though we know only got close. In those very strange cases where we might care about how the temperature of the water differs, we can use complicated computer models to model evaporation, conduction of heat from the table through the cup's bottom into the water, convection of lower density warm water up to the surface where it cools, increases density, and falls again, and so on.
Let's talk first about the global surface temperature, which is the temperature that most people think about when they're talking about global warming (we're not albatross or naked mole rats, which live most of their lives in the air or underground, respectively). For the global surface temperature, scientists generally use thermometers. There are literally thousands of very accurate thermometers scattered around the world. As you can probably imagine, most of them are on land, but there's a lot of floating buoys and ships traveling the oceans that also have thermometers and measure the temperature at various heights above the surface of the ocean. Scientists combine the measurements and correct them for known errors using mathematics, and from that they can calculate the temperature of the Earth's surface1. That data is available from sites like these: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences (GISS), NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (formerly the National Climatic Data Center, or NCDC), and the UK Hadley Center.
Of course, it take a long time to gather the data and do the calculations, so scientists don't know what the global surface temperature is, only what it was several days or weeks ago. Thankfully, for the purpose of determining whether global warming (aka climate change or industrial climate disruption2), changes in daily and even monthly temperatures don't matter much, while the changes in temperature over the course years and decades matters a lot. And while microclimates (small pockets of warmer or colder temperatures, often due to local terrain) aren't usually captured in the thermometer data, it's pretty rare to have a situation where that much detail is needed. Just like it's pretty rare to need to know how the temperature changes within a cup of water sitting on a table.
One issue of potential concern is this phrase that I used: "correct them for known errors." Some of the known errors that can affect temperature records include changes in the time of day that measurements are taken, the movement of a thermometer from one place to another, the addition (or subtraction) of nearby buildings or streets, urbanization around the thermometer, and changing the type of thermometer from glass to digital. Generally speaking, scientists are aware of how these errors affect the global surface temperature data, and so scientists corrected for them. In fact, failing to correct the data for known errors would generally be considered scientifically irresponsible.
A second way to measure the surface temperature of the earth is from a satellite using what's called an "advanced microwave sounding unit," or AMSU. An AMSU looks at the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and measures how many microwaves are being emitted by oxygen molecules, which vary with altitude and temperature. These microwave measurements are then fed into a computer program that does the math required to correct for known errors and to come up with an estimate of the global temperature of part of the Earth's atmosphere. That data is available from sites like Remote Sensing Systems and the University of Alabama-Huntsville, among others.
One of the problems with this method is that the broad swaths of atmosphere that the AMSU measures overlap, as shown in Figure 4. A few channels do reach all the way down to the Earth's surface, but even the lowest-reaching (TLT) AMSU channel peaks at about 2-3 km above the Earth's surface and is somewhat affected by temperatures as high as 10 km (for reference, Mount Everest is almost 9 km tall), an altitude at which people die from lack of oxygen. This makes the AMSU data less than ideal for measuring the lower parts of the atmosphere (or the surface temperature).
Another problem is that the satellite that the AMSU is on, the Aqua satellite, has what's known as a "return period" of 233 orbits, or about 16 days. That means that the satellite can indirectly measure the entire Earth's temperature only once every 16 days. Most months that will be twice in a month, but some months it'll be only once. Again, though, measurements used for the purpose of monitoring global warming wouldn't be affected by this.
One more problem is that satellites drift over time, moving earlier or later in the day, and gradually lower in altitude. These drifts result in errors in the calculated temperature that can vary in a complication fashion as the orbit of a satellite changes.
And a final problem is that each satellite has only a limited life in orbit. Since the first MSU was launched in 1978, there have been 14 different satellites that have carried an MSU or an AMSU. The different satellites didn't always overlap with each other, and they suffered different types of errors, all of which have to be corrected in order to create a single, continuous dataset from 1978 through to the present.
There's a third way to measure the Earth's temperature – weather balloons carrying instruments known as "radiosondes." Balloon-borne radiosondes are released twice daily from hundreds of locations around the world and they measure their position, altitude, air temperature, humidity, etc. as they rise through the atmosphere. Eventually the balloon pops and the radiosonde falls, but the data is radioed down to the ground or a satellite before that happens. The measurements give scientists direct thermometer data for the temperature of the atmosphere as they rise to altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet (or over 30 km). Again, scientists take the measurements and apply corrections for known sources of error and then generate temperatures for the various altitudes in the atmosphere. Some sources of radiosonde data are the NOAA ROAB and RATPAC datasets.
Of course, there are problems with radiosondes as well. Radiosondes are released every day, so there's good coverage of the Earth's temperature with respect to time. But they're released from a relatively small number of locations on the Earth, and nearly always from land, so the coverage of the Earth's surface isn't as good as, for example, satellites can provide. And they're carried by the wind as they rise through the atmosphere, so it's impossible to guarantee that you're getting good, repeatable data from the same locations each time we launch a radiosonde.
Of course, this makes radiosondes ideal for studying wind, so what might be a "bug" for one scientist may be a "feature" for another.
So which way is the best way to measure the Earth's temperature? The one that makes the most sense for a scientist's research. If a scientist is interested in the temperature of the Earth's surface, either the thermometer or the satellite records would work. If the scientist is interested in the temperature of the atmosphere, then either the satellite or the radiosonde measurements are probably the best.
Generally speaking, though, if what you're interested in is the places on Earth where people live, where crops are grown, where livestock are raised, where we catch fish, then I'd recommend using the thermometer record. It goes back to the 1880s across most of the Earth (and back to the 1860s in a few places). The various types of thermometers that have been used over the years are understood well enough that scientists can correct for the differences across types. The effects of urbanization, of moving monitoring stations, and of changing the time of day that measurements were taken are all well understood, and thus the errors they each add can be corrected. And scientists have repeatedly analyzed the difference between corrected and uncorrected temperatures and found that the difference is small since about 1900.
Scientists actually discovered something interesting when they first did this. The discovered that thermometers that were close together tended to go up and down together. For the purpose of measuring global warming, the temperature difference from one year to the next is what's important. So if two thermometers go up and down the same amount from one year to the next, then we don't really need both thermometers to measure the change – one will do. When scientists analyzed this, they found that stations within about 1000 km of each other tended to change together, meaning that we could theoretically measure the Earth's surface temperature with a relatively small number of ideally-placed thermometers. Doing some quick calculations and I estimate that, if we could place the thermometer's ideally, we could monitor the surface temperature of the entire Earth with as few as 1000 thermometers. Scientists are presently using 1219 land-based stations plus hundreds of ship and buoy-based thermometers as well.
Industrial climate disruption is scientific is defined as the consensus position is that the climate is changing, that the emission of greenhouse gases by human industry is the dominant driver of those changes, and that the changes will almost certainly be disruptive to human society and global ecology.
About 200 thermometers, well spread over the Earth, would theoretically already be enough. However, that nearby stations measure about the same climate also means that we can compare stations with each other and detect and remove artificial changes in the observations. For example because on the stations changed their thermometer or because there was building activity near the station. Thus we need more stations than 200 for *reliable* data.
Furthermore, we would like to know a lot more than just the global mean temperature. That gets most attention in the public debate, but the spatial map of the warming is scientifically very important for understanding the reasons for the warming. More stations are also necessary to understand regional climatic variations.
It can for example help to answer the question how many thermometers are needed to get reliable measurements?
Thanks, Brain. This is fantastic. I'll be showing this to the kids in my science class about precise and accurate measurements in science. And thanks for the link, Baerbel.


We are happy to have released our first major patch, including a brand-new feature perfect for intricate simulation fans or those who want to let their creative streak out – Landscaping!
Farming Simulator 19 responds to massive player demand with huge first patch, including brand new Landscaping feature!
Check out this new feature in our latest featurette.
The new Landscaping feature allows you to modify the ground itself, controlling shape and color to give you even more ways to build the farm of your dreams. Accessible at all times but costing money to use, Landscaping can be used for anything from moving mountains to touching up the areas around your horse paddock.
As shown in the preview video, there are 16 varieties of ground that can be laid down, each with its own color and texture. Realistic paths, mud, and more can be chosen and placed by you to bring that extra token of personalization to your farm.
Also in this patch are new economic difficulty modes, changing how easy it is to make money via trading goods and selling items - get much more buck for your beasts on easy, or scrape out a living on hard, the choice is yours. There's also a large round of bug fixes which should make your time with Farming Simulator 19 smoother than ever before.
If your game is updated to 1.2.0, you will only see multiplayer games that are also in 1.2.0.
Thus, you won't be able to connect to dedicated servers still in 1.1.0.
Farming Simulator 19 is out now for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC/Mac. The Landscaping Update is available now on Consoles and PC/Mac.
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Welcome back to our devblog series where we unveil a wealth of details about the making of A Plague Tale: Innocence, Asobo Studio's upcoming adventure game coming 2019 to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. Today, we're excited to share more info about a "protagonist" that you can't miss in our game: the rats!
Let's welcome game director Kevin Choteau who will cover the creation of the rats in A Plague Tale: Innocence, as well as the many challenges the team had to face during development.
The rats stemmed from our will to tell a story about two children facing the cruelty of the world. We looked for a setting that offered the best possible frame and context for a story about fragility and innocence.
The Middle Ages (1348) was perfect for what we were looking for. This is the time of the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, the Inquisition, the "routiers" (mercenary soldiers terrorising the French countryside) and other dark events.
The Black Death was the most interesting element to explore, as a common belief is that it was spread largely by rats. Using the rats is a great way to give a body to an immaterial, invisible disease, and to create gameplay mechanics around it.
Rats eat everything. It's a notion that players get pretty quickly. Rats trigger common and old fears, they hide in the dark and move in massive hordes. It's the quantity that makes the threat tangible.
It's also the credibility of their behaviour that gives this effect. They're always aggressive towards the characters and the scale between rats and children reinforces the idea of powerlessness - even the adults run away.
We slowly introduce the rats to the player, building a legend around them and making the first encounter even more memorable. We've worked a lot on the staging and directing of this scene throughout the development process to strongly mark players with it. Various moments further in the game maintain the threat at its maximum.
Near the start of A Plague Tale: Innocence, the rats are a constant direct threat our heroes have to face. Later, Amicia will learn to use them at her advantage to escape from other threats. This was planned from the beginning, and is the basis of our triptych between light, humans and rats, as well as the interaction between these three elements.
We really struggled to find interesting source materials for the rats. We've watched a lot of wildlife documentary about their life and how they react when they're flushed out.
Rats are a very smart species with fascinating and cruel organisational systems. It's pretty unique, and often used to convey an image of parasite over brute strength.
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ICJL report 'Justice for Sale' shows trial lawyer contributions topped $35 million in 15 years
By Ann Maher | Sep 6, 2016
A new study published by the Illinois Civil Justice League shows that campaign contributions from trial lawyers to Illinois politicians and judges topped $35.25 million during the past 15 years.
Madison and St. Clair county courts, which along with Cook County host the state's highest concentrations of civil litigation, factor prominently in "Justice for Sale III," a report analyzing campaign contributions made by the plaintiffs' bar and the profound impact they have in state, county and local governance and in keeping the judiciary in Democratic control.
The ICJL released its findings at a press conference in Chicago this morning in conjunction with Illinois Lawsuit Abuse Watch (ILAW) and the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA).
Results of the study show that in addition to the $6 million contributed through the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) legislative political action committee (PAC), the top 25 plaintiffs' firms and their lawyers and family members collectively invested another $29 million in the campaigns of Illinois office seekers from January 2001 through March 2016.
The campaign contributions have gone to legislators, constitutional officers, judges, state's attorneys, county board chairmen, circuit clerks, county party chairmen, mayors, union leaders and politically allied special interests.
Locally, attorneys and firms that litigate asbestos, medical malpractice and other mass torts, including Simmons of Alton, Korein Tillery of St. Louis and Keefe of Belleville, are among the most prolific campaign contributors in Illinois politics.
John Pastuovic, president of ICJL, called the flow of lawyer contributions "truly staggering," estimating that the $35 million spent in the last 15 years equates roughly to $264 spent every hour in that span of time.
Justice for Sale III also shows that more than 98 percent of trial lawyers' donations were directed to "the most powerful incumbent politicians in Springfield and other Democrats," according to Pastuovic.
Members of House and Senate Judiciary committees - which determine what legislative proposals related to civil litigation will advance in their respective chambers - also are targeted by the plaintiffs' bar with heavy contributions, according to the report.
State Rep. Jay Hoffman (D-Belleville), who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, is 12th on a list of the top 15 legislators and leaders who have received contributions from the ITLA PAC.
During the peak of Madison County's status as the nation's class action capital, Hoffman had served as of counsel with the Lakin Law firm, which was responsible for filing the most class actions in the local court system.
"While ITLA's PAC and plaintiffs' firms donated millions, policymakers they supported made Illinois' tort laws even more to the trial lawyers' liking," Pastuovic stated. "During the study period, Madison County set an infamous national record for the most new class-action filings in a year, and a statewide medical liability crisis threatened critical care for Illinois patients."
Because of its national asbestos docket - the busiest in the country - the ICJL report ranks Madison County as having the highest litigation index in the state with 8.255 lawsuits filed per 1,000 residents. Cook County's index is 4.014 lawsuits per 1,000 residents and St. Clair County is 2.416 per 1,000 residents.
By comparison, the litigation index for the 35 other southern Illinois counties in the Fifth Judicial District, where Madison and St. Clair County are situated, is 1.413 lawsuits per 1,000 residents. In the state's other 64 counties, the litigation index is 1.239 per 1,000 residents.
Other findings in Justice for Sale III show that in counties such as Madison, St. Clair and Cook, dollars-per-capita judicial campaign spending equaled between $3 and $5 per resident. But in areas outside of these counties, judicial campaign spending amounted to less than a dime-per-resident over the same 15-year study period.
"Interesting if not surprising is the fact that the biggest trial lawyer donations supported campaigns in Cook, Madison and St. Clair counties – each widely known as once and future Judicial Hellholes," Pastuovic stated. "And when one considers that these counties also host the state's highest concentrations of lawsuits, it's fair to ask: Is justice for sale in Illinois?"
Also noted in the study is the influence of trial lawyer donations to campaigns for mayor and municipal offices, including more than $500,000 to local Illinois mayoral campaigns and nearly $250,000 for other municipal races. Some of these donations flowed into local municipalities: Alton, Belleville, Cahokia, Caseyville, Centreville, Collinsville, East Alton, East St. Louis, Edwardsville, Godfrey, Granite City and Wood River.
The report further shows that top trial lawyer donations also extend to elections involving county chairmen, auditors, board of review members, states attorneys, treasurers and sheriffs in 17 Illinois counties, with more than $1.8 million donated to Democratic officials, $55,200 donated to Republican officials and $500 to independent campaign in Cook County.
Donations were heaviest in Madison, St. Clair and Cook counties. For instance, sizable donations were made mostly to incumbent county officials in Cook ($1,270,948), Madison ($421,264) and St. Clair ($99,691) counties.
The report says that these three counties account for 95 percent of the total trial lawyer donations to county candidates. The other 14 counties represented in the donations account for the other five percent.
In response to the report, ITLA president Christopher Hurley issued a statement saying that lawyer contributions are "dwarfed by the tens of millions spent by big businesses that want to change Illinois' laws so they avoid accountability when they hurt workers and prey on consumers."
Hurley also took aim at the agenda of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.
"Even if trial lawyers contributed what the Illinois Civil Justice League claims – a point that cannot be taken for granted given the questionable source and possibly suspect methodology – it pales in comparison to what one man, Bruce Rauner has spent on his own campaign and supporting candidates who subscribe to his dangerous agenda of reducing benefits for injured workers and shielding corporations from justice when their actions hurt others or pollute the environment," Hurley stated.
Special 'Hellhole' report
The release of Justice for Sale III prompted ATRA to issue a "special" Judicial Hellholes, an annual rating of what the group considers to be the most unfair civil court jurisdictions in the country.
"Madison, St. Clair and Cook counties have been featured regularly in the American Tort Reform Association' extensively documented reporting on some the nation's most unfair civil court jurisdictions," stated ATRA president Tiger Joyce. "So the findings of Justice for Sale, quantifying as they do a disturbing level of influence exerted by the plaintiffs' bar on the judges in these counties and lawmakers in Springfield, are particularly troubling to us."
"As more jobs- and tax revenue-providing businesses are targeted by often speculative and sometimes fraudulent litigation in the state's Judicial Hellholes," Joyce continued, "it will become that much harder for Illinois to solve its mounting debt problems. So we would encourage leaders in Illinois to begin taking meaningful steps to address imbalances throughout the state's civil justice system."
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La collégiale Sainte-Madeleine de Vitré était située à Vitré en Bretagne (France). La collégiale fut détruite en 1860 pour être remplacée par une école communale de garçons. Arthur de La Borderie était alors conservateur de la ville de Vitré.

Histoire
La collégiale fut fondée en 1209 par André II de Vitré avec douze chanoines, dans la basse-cour du château de Vitré.

Trésoriers
(liste non exhaustive)
 François de Laval
 Charles-François Billon (1667-1736), nommé Trésorier le .

Notes et références
 Fondation de l'église collégiale de la Magdeleine de Vitré, avec des remarques sur les endroits les plus notables et l'ordre de la même église, tiré des statuts dressés en 1479 en 1570. Vitré, Vve Antignac, 1841. Consultable sur la bibliothèque numérique de l'Université Rennes 2.

Voir aussi
 Pierre Le Baud
 Liste de collégiales de France

Vitré
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The meat-free category of major UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's has witnessed rapid growth, with a 20 percent weekly increase in the sale of plant-based products.
James Hamilton, a meat-free and readymade meal buyer for the chain, recently revealed the news to UK food and drink industry media outlet Food Manufacture. He also noted that the grocer intends to meet increased demand by working to introduce new products.
"We're always exploring new ways to offer even greater choice, quality, and value," Hamilton said, highlighting the recent addition of vegan meats from Denmark-based food manufacturer Naturli' Foods. The brand's mushroom burger, which "bleeds" thanks to the addition of beets, recently made its market debut. By the end of the month, Sainsbury's plans to introduce Naturli' vegan mince in 400 stores. Like the vegan Beyond Burger in the U.S., which has outsold beef in the meat case at some supermarkets, both the burger patties and the mince will be marketed in the chiller aisle next to meat products.
"These are our most authentic meat products yet and, for this reason, we plan to stock them with [Sainsbury's] mince and burgers," Hamilton added.
Naturli' Foods CEO Henrik Lund expressed enthusiasm over the marketing strategy and credited the company's rate of success to the realistic flavor and texture of its offerings."We are experiencing overwhelming demand because this is indeed a food innovation. This is the first time consumers can buy a 100 percent plant-based mince that looks and tastes like minced beef, can replace minced beef in all recipes, and can be found in the cold counter next to traditional meat, " he explained.
Sainsbury's isn't the only UK supermarket to see an increase in sales of plant-based products. In April, Bloomberg reported that Tesco, the country's largest supermarket chain, has seen a surge in sales over the past year. The boost in revenue was credited to the launch of Wicked Kitchen, a range of vegan readymade meals. Following this success, Tesco later announced plans to expand the range with new lunch options. More recently, the supermarket giant added plant-based steaks from Netherlands-based vegan food company Vivera. Just days after the launch, the brand reported that it had sold nearly 40,000 vegan steaks in one week.


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CITYLIFE / Eating Out
Literary menu with a dash of romance
(shanghaidaily.com)
Cuisine has always been considered a cornerstone of art, rising above and beyond the need for sustenance. This month, the Westin Bund Center Shanghai is crossing the boundaries and fusing food and literature at Asian dining outlet EEST, Crystal Garden.
"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the Chinese equivalent of Tolstoy's "War and Peace." Epic in scale and written in classical Chinese, the tome is considered one of the four great Chinese novels. The historical tale recounts the turbulent years near the end of the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD) and spans the hundred of years leading up to unification under the Jin Dynasty (265AD-420AD).
The promotion comes after last year's successful "Dream of Red Chamber" special, where 12 courses were prepared reflecting each major character's story. This time, the task has been difficult and the culinary team at EEST has had to double their efforts in conjuring masterpieces while staying true to the text.
The result is impressive. While such promotions (they are popular outside the Chinese mainland in cities like Hong Kong) have the frightening potential to be cheesy, what was served at the Westin managed to impress with its creativity.
A problem the outlet faces, however, is explaining the dishes to English-speaking guests. While a prior reading of the book is not absolutely necessary, a basic grasp of the characters and events add volumes to the enjoyment. Many of the puns employed are lost in translation, however, so diners will have to take the word of this reviewer that they are funny.
An example would be the Three Angers of Zhou Yu (188 yuan/US$26.50), a trio of cod, preserved vegetables and egg, all steamed. As the story goes, the famed strategist was out-witted by his opposite counterpart, Zhuge Liang three times and the resulting pent-up frustration supposedly led sickness and death. The same Chinese character is used for anger and for gas (qi), thus the dish is steamed by Zhou's rage.
If this link seems a little tedious, then the taste more than placated any fury. The cod was perfectly cooked and well-balanced by the egg and vegetables.
Another playful pun is Zhao Zhilong's Solo Rescue (98 yuan). The courageous warrior's name includes the character for dragon (long), which in turn lends itself to lobster (long xia, or dragon prawn). In the novel, Zhao rides solo to rescue his king, Liu Bei's son, who was born in captivity. Longevity noodles are a traditional staple during birthday celebrations, even though the ingredient itself is far from luxurious. To highlight the heroic nature of the rescue and the Liu heir's destiny for greatness, the dish was covered in a rich, tangy sauce simmered for more than 10 hours. Rich but fresh, it made the humble pasta a mere delivery device for the sensational sauce.
Thankfully not every dish resorted to word play. The Three Ambushes of Gratitude (88 yuan) relied on presentation to illustrate a key scene in the novel. The invading armies are once again outwitted by Zhuge Liang, this time with three concealed assaults. The line of steamed high-quality slightly-sweetened bean curd made with minced pork and mushrooms resembled the winding Huarong road Cao had to embark on, and the bacon-wrapped crabsticks suggested the danger he faced.
The most amusing, however, had to be the Great Debate (68 yuan). Basically a representation of a few scholars talking shop, the boiled glutinous rice balls were meant to be the participating orators, the pumpkin it came served in signified the pavilion they met in and the rice wine was meant to indicate a lot of spittle was sputtered during the heated discussion. Charming.
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