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Ouarville est une commune française située dans le département d'Eure-et-Loir en région Centre-Val de Loire.

Géographie

Situation
Ouarville est un village beauceron, situé à 14 km au nord-est de Voves, 12 km au sud d'Auneau et environ  m de l'ancienne voie romaine de Chartres à Sens dite Chemin de Saint-Mathurin.

La route nationale 154 passe à 8 km du village et la ligne chemin de fer Paris - Tours via Châteaudun et Vendôme à 5 km au nord-ouest.

Communes limitrophes

Climat
Le climat qui caractérise la commune est qualifié, en 2010, de « climat océanique dégradé des plaines du Centre et du Nord », selon la typologie des climats de la France qui compte alors huit grands types de climats en métropole. En 2020, la commune ressort du type « climat océanique altéré » dans la classification établie par Météo-France, qui ne compte désormais, en première approche, que cinq grands types de climats en métropole. Il s'agit d'une zone de transition entre le climat océanique, le climat de montagne et le climat semi-continental. Les écarts de température entre hiver et été augmentent avec l'éloignement de la mer. La pluviométrie est plus faible qu'en bord de mer, sauf aux abords des reliefs.

Les paramètres climatiques qui ont permis d'établir la typologie de 2010 comportent six variables pour les températures et huit pour les précipitations, dont les valeurs correspondent aux données mensuelles sur la normale 1971-2000. Les sept principales variables caractérisant la commune sont présentées dans l'encadré ci-après.

Avec le changement climatique, ces variables ont évolué. Une étude réalisée en 2014 par la Direction générale de l'Énergie et du Climat complétée par des études régionales prévoit en effet que la  température moyenne devrait croître et la pluviométrie moyenne baisser, avec toutefois de fortes variations régionales. Ces changements peuvent être constatés sur la station météorologique de Météo-France la plus proche, « Louville », sur la commune de Louville-la-Chenard, mise en service en 1995 et qui se trouve à  à vol d'oiseau, où la température moyenne annuelle est de  et la hauteur de précipitations de  pour la période 1981-2010.
Sur la station météorologique historique la plus proche, « Chartres », sur la commune de Champhol, mise en service en 1923 et à , la température moyenne annuelle évolue de  pour la période 1971-2000 à  pour 1981-2010, puis à  pour 1991-2020.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Ouarville est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Paris, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire regroupe .

Occupation des sols

L'occupation des sols de la commune, telle qu'elle ressort de la base de données européenne d'occupation biophysique des sols Corine Land Cover (CLC), est marquée par l'importance des territoires agricoles (97,2 % en 2018), une proportion sensiblement équivalente à celle de 1990 (97,6 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (97,2 %), zones urbanisées (1,6 %), forêts (1,1 %).

L'IGN met par ailleurs à disposition un outil en ligne permettant de comparer l'évolution dans le temps de l'occupation des sols de la commune (ou de territoires à des échelles différentes). Plusieurs époques sont accessibles sous forme de cartes ou photos aériennes : la carte de Cassini (), la carte d'état-major (1820-1866) et la période actuelle (1950 à aujourd'hui).

Risques majeurs
Le territoire de la commune d'Ouarville est vulnérable à différents aléas naturels : météorologiques (tempête, orage, neige, grand froid, canicule ou sécheresse), inondations, mouvements de terrains et séisme (sismicité très faible). Il est également exposé à un risque technologique, le transport de matières dangereuses. Un site publié par le BRGM permet d'évaluer simplement et rapidement les risques d'un bien localisé soit par son adresse soit par le numéro de sa parcelle.

Risques naturels
Certaines parties du territoire communal sont susceptibles d'être affectées par le risque d'inondation par débordement de cours d'eau, notamment la Vallée du Bois des Vaux. La commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par les inondations et coulées de boue survenues en 1999.

Les mouvements de terrains susceptibles de se produire sur la commune sont des affaissements et effondrements liés aux cavités souterraines. L'inventaire national des cavités souterraines permet de localiser celles situées sur la commune.

Le retrait-gonflement des sols argileux est susceptible d'engendrer des dommages importants aux bâtiments en cas d'alternance de périodes de sécheresse et de pluie. 3,1 % de la superficie communale est en aléa moyen ou fort (52,8 % au niveau départemental et 48,5 % au niveau national). Sur les  dénombrés sur la commune en 2019, 0 sont en en aléa moyen ou fort, soit 0 %, à comparer aux 70 % au niveau départemental et 54 % au niveau national. Une cartographie de l'exposition du territoire national au retrait gonflement des sols argileux est disponible sur le site du BRGM.

Concernant les mouvements de terrains, la commune a été reconnue en état de catastrophe naturelle au titre des dommages causés par des mouvements de terrain en 1999.

Risques technologiques
Le risque de transport de matières dangereuses sur la commune est lié à sa traversée par des infrastructures routières ou ferroviaires importantes ou la présence d'une canalisation de transport d'hydrocarbures. Un accident se produisant sur de telles infrastructures est en effet susceptible d'avoir des effets graves au bâti ou aux personnes jusqu'à , selon la nature du matériau transporté. Des dispositions d'urbanisme peuvent être préconisées en conséquence.

Toponymie

Le nom de la localité est attesté sous les formes Orrivilla vers 1120, Horrevilla en 1168, Horreivilla en 1193, Oirrevilla en 1195, Oerrevilla en 1229, Orreinvilla vers 1320, Oirville en 1382, Quarreville en 1404.

Histoire

Révolution française et Empire
Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville (1754-1793), révolutionnaire français, chef de file des Girondins pendant la Révolution française.

Dans ses Mémoires, Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville écrit : "Né le second de mes frères, je portais, pour être distingué d'eux, suivant l'usage de la Beauce, le nom d'un village où j'avais été mis en nourrice et où mon père possédait quelques terres. Ce village s'appelait Ouarville, et Ouarville fut le nom sous lequel j'ai été constamment connu dans mon pays ; ainsi mon troisième frère fut appelé Thivars."

La mère de Jacques Pierre Brissot, Marie Louise Legrand, décédée en 1800 à Chartres, possédait bien des terres à Ouarville. Ces terres furent attribuées à concurrence d'un quart aux trois fils de Jacques Pierre Brissot, suivant acte reçu par Maître Chevard, notaire à Chartres, le  ; puis suivant acte reçu par Maître Letartre, notaire à Chartres, le , les deux fils de Jacques Pierre Brissot, ayant hérité entre-temps de leur frère décédé en 1802 à Saint-Domingue, rachetèrent les trois-quarts desdites terres aux autres propriétaires indivis. Enfin, les deux frères se partagèrent les terres suivant avec reçu par Maître Peluche, notaire à Chartres, le .
Le , suivant acte reçu par Maître Peluche, notaire à Chartres, Jacques Jérôme Anacharsis Brissot de Warville (1791-1860), fils de Jacques Pierre Brissot, devenu seul propriétaire, vendit à Louis-François Chauveau (1757-1843), professeur de mathématiques à Chartres, 6 hectares 78 ares et 15 centiares de terres situées à Ouarville, alors louées à Louis Hélye, cultivateur et aubergiste à Ouarville, au prix de 5.000 francs.

Il existe toutefois une controverse, il pourrait en réalité avoir été placé en nourrice à Ouarville, hameau de Lèves, et non dans la commune d'Ouarville.

Politique et administration

Liste des maires

Politique environnementale

Population et société

Démographie

Enseignement
En , Ouarville compte cinq classes d'enseignement maternel et primaire accueillant 98 élèves, dont les enfants des villages voisins de Louville-la-Chenard et Réclainville, y compris ceux du hameau de Villeneuve-Languedoc à partir de la rentrée 2018.

En 2019, une fermeture de classe a été opérée avec un effectif de 108 élèves en 2019-2020.

Une nouvelle école primaire (incluant la cantine) est en cours de construction afin d'y accueillir les 4 classes avec une extension possible à 5.

Manifestations culturelles et festivités

Économie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Le Grand Moulin
Le Grand Moulin est situé entre Chartres et Angerville, à proximité d'Ouarville. Visible de la route, il se visite de Pâques à la Toussaint, le dimanche de 14 h 30 à 18 h et en semaine sur rendez-vous. C'est un moulin à pivot aux ailes à 10 planches (système Berton). Il a été classé monument historique en 1941. Le dernier meunier en fut Robert Ferron décédé en 1973 à l'âge de 73 ans. Il fut démonté en , restauré en , inauguré en . Le bail emphytéotique (bail de longue durée - 60 ans) a été passé entre la commune et la famille propriétaire le . Dans le cadre de la Route du Blé, il y a une année sur deux une animation à la fin du mois de juin avec visite gratuite.

Église Saint-Martin
Chœur et nef (1519), lambris, voûte d'ogives, chapelles latérales (1694 et 1711), retable, autel surélevé avec tabernacle du , banc d'œuvre avec dais sculpté, toiles du , peinture murale du  au-dessus du retable sous la verrière du chevet.

Personnalités liées à la commune
 Jean-Charles Poncelin de La Roche-Tilhac (1746-1828), imprimeur-libraire et commissionnaire en librairie. Il quitte Paris en 1811 et se retire dans sa maison de campagne d'Ouarville, où il meurt.
 Jean Renard dit « Poulailler », chef pendant deux ans des chauffeurs d'Orgères, est né à Ouarville.
 Walery Wroblewski (1836-1908), personnalité militaire de la Commune de Paris est mort à Ouarville.

Héraldique

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des monuments historiques d'Eure-et-Loir
 Liste des communes d'Eure-et-Loir

Liens externes

 Ouarville sur le site de l'Institut géographique national

Notes et références

Notes et cartes

Notes

Cartes

Références

Ouarville
Ancien chef-lieu de canton en Eure-et-Loir
Aire urbaine de Paris
Commune dans le canton de Voves
Commune dans la 4e circonscription d'Eure-et-Loir
Commune dans l'arrondissement de Chartres


Political unrest in the Middle East continues to dominate the news headlines amid recent protests in countries such as Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen.
Earlier today credit ratings agency Moody's Investors Service Inc. downgraded Egypt's government bond ratings and changed its outlook to negative from stable.
Moody's said the decision was prompted by the increased political event risk and concern that the policy response could undermine Egypt's already weak public finances.
Meanwhile, a number of international businesses have started to suspend operations in the country due to the volatile situation.
Just last week Aon warned that the level of political risk is rising in more countries than it is declining this year, leading to a greater need for political risk insurance cover.
A total of 19 countries were downgraded in Aon's 2011 political risk map, while 11 countries were upgraded.
Political risk will continue to be a major influencer for businesses transacting in emerging markets in 2011, according to Aon.
The map measures the political risk of 211 countries and territories based on the level of risks such as currency inconvertibility and exchange transfer; strikes, riots and civil commotion; war; civil war; sovereign non-payment; political interference; supply chain disruption and legal and regulatory risk.
The Haiti earthquake and the Russian summer heat wave made 2010 one of the deadliest years for natural disasters in more than two decades, but future years could be worse, a United Nations agency has warned.
More than 296,800 people were killed in 373 natural disasters last year, which affected nearly 208 million others and cost nearly $110 billion in overall losses, according to annual data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
The Haiti earthquake was the deadliest event in 2010, resulting in more than 222,500 fatalities, while the Russian heat wave caused about 56,000 fatalities, according to CRED.
For the first time, the Americas became the world's worst affected continent in terms of fatalities, with 74 percent of total deaths caused by the Haiti earthquake.
Even though Asia experienced fewer disaster-related deaths than the Americas or Europe, it remained the region most prone to natural disasters.
Some 89 percent of the total number of people affected by natural disasters in 2010 lived in Asia, according to CRED.
Five of the 10 most deadly disasters occurred in China, Pakistan, and Indonesia. However, the costliest event in 2010 was the earthquake in Chile, with overall damages valued at $30 billion.
As the recovery effort continues in the wake of the Queensland floods, a fierce debate is raging over exactly how to finance what has been described by some as the biggest natural disaster in Australia's history.
According to reports, some politicians are proposing introducing a flood levy across Australia to help cover the costs of flood damage. Another idea on the table is the establishment of a special fund, similar to the one set up in New Zealand following last year's Christchurch earthquake.
Australia's debate about the role of the private and public sectors in the wake of disaster comes as the United States looks at ways to reform its National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), including privatizing part or the entire 40-year old program.
Two key concerns surrounding the NFIP are that its rates that do not accurately reflect the cost of risk and many do not purchase the coverage.
If the proposed levy were to be applied to insurance policies, it would not only add to the cost of premiums but unfairly punish existing policyholders.
Whelan goes on to note that the insurance market in Australia is competitive, and that if insurers are provided with the necessary data the industry will respond by developing new and innovative flood products.
Countries around the world have taken varied approaches in their provision of flood coverage. The Queensland floods underscore the point that there are different points of view, even among insurers themselves, on how to handle the flood peril.
As forecasters warn that the year 2011 is poised to be the year of the flood, it will be interesting to see how recent high-impact events influence the debate on flood insurance.
Current estimates from the ICA put the cost of insurance payouts in Queensland alone at $1.2 billion due to the recent floods. Some estimates have put the insurance bill as high as $6 billion.
The ICA estimate does not include industrial or mining claims, nor claims as a result of ongoing flooding in the state of Victoria.
Check out a series of briefings on the impact of the Australian floods from law firm Norton Rose.
Insurers continued to pursue market share keeping pricing competitive in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to the latest Commercial P/C Market Index survey from the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB).
One piece of good news is that demand for insurance appears to be picking up. Some 47 percent of brokers responding to the CIAB survey said they saw an increase in demand, compared with 34 percent last quarter and only 24 percent a year ago.
The Council's analysis comes after online insurance exchange MarketScout recently predicted that the soft market will come to a close by year end 2011.
In its Q4 survey the CIAB said pricing remained soft across business lines and the rate of decline for commercial renewal pricing for small, medium and large business accounts remained roughly the same in the fourth quarter as in the third quarter.
Many brokers reported that carriers tried to hold pricing at renewal or introduce a small increase, but increases didn't hold where competition was strong.
The size of the top 10 jury awards rose for a third consecutive year in 2010, according to the latest report from Lawyers USA.
The 10 largest jury verdicts in 2010 totaled $1.6 billion, a slight increase of 4 percent from $1.5 billion in 2009. Between 2008 and 2009, the sum of the top 10 jury awards had increased by 12 percent after more than doubling between 2007 and 2008.
Lawyers USA observed that the average award for 2010 increased less than in 2009, rising to just under $157 million, from nearly $145 million the prior year.
While the top award was significantly higher in 2010 – $505 million versus $370 million – there was then a sharp drop to the second-ranked award at $208.8 million and the third-ranked award at $152 million.
In contrast, 2009 saw three awards in the $300 million range.
Still, we note that you have to go back to 2005 to find a verdict in excess of $500 million.
In the year's top verdict – a products liability case – a Nevada jury ordered Teva Pharmaceuticals and Baxter Healthcare to pay $500 million in punitive damages in addition to $5.1 million in compensatory damages to a man who developed Hepatitis C several weeks after undergoing a routine colonoscopy where he was anesthetized with propofol.
Another takeaway: three tobacco awards made this year's top 10.
Today we take to the high seas to bring you latest reports of a surge in world piracy attacks and the resulting cost to the economy.
The number of people taken hostage at sea and the number of vessels taken in 2010 rose to record levels, according to annual data from the ICC International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre (IMB).
Pirates captured 1,181 seafarers in 2010, up 12.5 percent from 1,050 in 2009, while a total of 53 ships were hijacked in 2010, of which all but four occurred off the coast of Somalia. Eight crewmembers died in these incidents.
Overall, ships reported 445 pirate attacks in 2010, up 10 percent from 2009, the IMB said.
Hijackings off the coast of Somalia accounted for 92 percent of all ship seizures last year, with 49 vessels hijacked and 1,016 crew members taken hostage. A total of 28 vessels and 638 hostages were still being held for ransom by Somali pirates as of 31 December 2010.
While attacks off the coast of Somalia remain high, the good news is that the number of incidents in the Gulf of Aden more than halved last year, with 53 attacks in 2010 down from 117 in 2009.
The IMB attributed the reduction to the deterrence work of naval forces that have been patrolling the area since 2008 and to ships' application of self-protection measures.
An article in the Washington Post has more on this story. Follow the IMB record of piracy and armed robbery incidents on Twitter and view latest attacks on the IMB Live Piracy Map.
Meanwhile, Insurance Journal reports that a new study from think tank One Earth Future (OEF), estimates that maritime piracy cost the international economy between $7 billion and $12 billion in 2010.
OEF's calculation includes costs related to ransoms, insurance premiums, re-routing ships, security equipment, naval forces, prosecutions, anti-piracy organizations, and cost to regional economies. OEF noted that the numbers could change substantially as the economy rebounds from the current economic recession.
Covered For Employment Practices Liability?
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has just reported that job bias charges hit a record high of 100,000 in fiscal year 2010.
The EEOC stats show that 99,922 workplace discrimination charges were filed with the EEOC during fiscal year 2010 – an unprecedented level – and monetary relief obtained for victims totaled over $404 million.
All major categories of charge filings increased and for the first time ever, retaliation under all statutes (36,258) surpassed race (35,890) as the most frequently filed charge, the EEOC said. Race had been the most frequently filed charge since the EEOC became operational in 1965.
Another key takeaway: the number of charges alleging discrimination based on disability rose by 17 percent to 25,165, up from 21,451 in FY 2009.
Most media reports attribute the rise in job bias charges to the difficult economy and high unemployment.
But as businesses recover from the economic downturn and start to add jobs, this can also increase their exposure to liability claims and lawsuits, according to the findings of a recent survey by Chubb.
The 2010 Chubb Private Company Risk Survey found that nearly one-half of firms plan to add employees by year-end.
At the same time nearly one in five (16 percent) of survey respondents anticipated an EPL charge would be lodged against their firm in the next 12 months.
Sounds like a good time for businesses to make sure they have adequate employment practices liability (EPL) insurance in place.
The D&O Diary blog has more on the EEOC findings. Check out I.I.I. information on EPL insurance.


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Il Club Sportiv Concordia Chiajna è una società calcistica rumena con sede nella città di Chiajna, nel distretto di Ilfov, facente parte della polisportiva omonima, fondata nel 1957. Milita nella Liga II, la seconda divisione del campionato rumeno di calcio.

Storia
La polisportiva Concordia Chiajna è stata fondata nel 1957 e la prima sezione attivata è stata quella calcistica. Fino alla stagione 2005-2006 (anno in cui è stata promossa in Divizia C) ha sempre giocato nei gironi provinciali.

Dopo un solo anno nella terza serie viene promossa in Liga II. Nella seconda serie disputa quattro campionati terminati sempre nella parte centro-alta della classifica. Il campionato 2010-2011, terminato il girone al secondo posto, vede per la prima volta il Concordia promosso nella massima serie calcistica rumena.

Nomi ufficiali del club
Durante la sua storia il club ha assunto i seguenti nomi ufficiali:
GAC Chiajna
AS Chiajna
ILF Militari

Cronistoria

Stadio
Il club gioca le partite interne nello stadionul Concordia, impianto dotato di 4.500 posti a sedere e ristrutturato nel 2010

Palmarès

Competizioni nazionali

2006-2007

Altri piazzamenti

Finalista: 2015-2016

Secondo posto: 2010-2011 (Serie I)

Organico

Rosa 2020-2021

Rosa 2018-2019

Rosa 2017-2018

Rosa 2016-2017

Rosa 2015-2016

Rosa 2014-2015

Rosa 2012-2013

Note

Voci correlate
Club Sportiv Concordia Chiajna (calcio a 5)

Collegamenti esterni

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Last Saturday's issue is just a few hours old and I've started this week's issue. That's because this is the Easter issue.
For most of us, the Easter holiday is a celebration of Jesus Christ's rise from the dead after being crucified on Good Friday (the day I happen to be writing this passage). It is the recognition of a sacrifice and a promise. Now, I'm going to get a little preachy here, but bear with me, it won't be that bad.
Nature, in the persona of God our Heavenly Father, requires that in order for us to be welcomed into the afterlife, Paradise, we must be sin free. The problem is, that as Earthly Children, we are not, and can not be sin free. All of us sin against God in one form or another.
As a result of our sins, a punishment or accounting must take place.
Sadly, there is not enough we can do on our own to compensate God for our sins.
A story is told of a soldier during the Civil War who had several brothers, all of which were killed in one battle or another. This soldier was the last surviving son in his family.
One night, this soldier had guard duty and fell asleep, which allowed the enemy to enter the camp and kill many of the other soldiers who were there asleep. This soldier fell asleep while on duty, the penalty, since it cost so many of his brothers in arms death, was to be put to death himself.
His mother approached then President Lincoln and beseeched him to not kill her last son. She said that she knew he was wrong and deserved the punishment that was to be meted out. She pointed out that he was indeed sorry for his crimes and was willing to face his punishment that he knew he deserved.
But, she begged Lincoln and told him, that it would not be for him to be forgiven but for her. Not for him but for her, his mother, for her last surviving son. She had already lost so much, sacrificed so much, losing all her other sons that she just couldn't bear to lost the last one, so not for his sake, but for hers, for her sacrifice could President Lincoln please find it in his heart to forgive him.
Jesus Christ did basically the same thing for us. He told his father that he would assume the responsibility for all of humanities sins, past, present and future and he would take the penalty for all of it. He would suffer through the retribution required for all of us. And he told his Father, not for their sake, but for mine. For the payment I will make in their name, they deserve forgiveness.
So, it is only because of Jesus's supreme sacrifice and our accepting of His sacrifice and the welcoming of Him into our hearts and our striving to the best of our abilities to being worthy of His sacrifice that we have a pathway to Heaven, to Paradise.
By His Resurrection on Easter Morning, we are assured that his pain and suffering has paved the path for us to follow. That by his rising we are assured that we, too, have the opportunity to also rise.
Tomorrow, when we are celebrating Easter Sunday, we are truly saying thank you for Jesus's accepted sacrifice in our name.
Preaching over. That wasn't so bad, now was it?
Now, it is here that I would normally say something to the affect of that this is my opinion, but I can't really do that. Because it's not my opinion. It is my faith based knowledge that this is indeed true and that Jesus did indeed endure the incredible suffering for the forgiveness of my sins. And it will be not for MY sake but for HIS sake that I have the opportunity for eternal happiness in Paradise.
So, let's move on to the fun stuff of both Easter and the normal Dragon Laffs issue. But, before we get to the fun stuff, here is a submission, given to me by our own Lethal Leprechaun.
This is not the Hallelujah that you may be used to, it's a special edition for Easter by Kelley Mooney and it is glorious!
Okay, we might as well jump right into it this morning. The following is a mini-rant sent to me by Jeannie aka Gracie.
–Go fishing, collect rain water, use a transportation vehicle, build a home or renovate it.
–You didn't have to pay tax upon tax upon tax with already taxed money.
–You didn't have to ask permission and pay to be married, obtain licenses, certifications or permits to hunt, own a weapon become a carpenter or any trade or profession.
–You didn't have to ask permission to protest or redress the government, or sell a product.
You can virtually do NOTHING without being extorted by government and obtaining their permission first. If you still think you're FREE, you're deluding yourself. You live in a very large open air prison as free range humans, thoroughly manipulated and controlled by the illusion of a free society.
There is an awful lot of truth in this rant. We didn't give up our freedoms overnight, they were taken from us "for the greater good" a little at a time. Like putting a live lobster in a pan of cold water, it doesn't really it's getting boiled alive because the temperature goes up slowly, a little at a time, but the end result is still the same.
I know five people who are clinically insane…and I'm two of them.
Trust the Kiwis to come up with something like this, What great friends this guy has.
I cannot imagine the time these guys spent planning all of this let alone the time to set it into place.
This is one of the best pranks I've seen, what a lot of work.
Not normally a topic I would put to music, but hey, to each their own.
This is one of the greatest pranks I've ever seen! Alien Life? Or a Magician's trick?
There are many, many more videos by this guy and you can get caught in a time warp continuum and many hours will suddenly disappear. I personally lost more than two days. I actually had to go into my own personal Tardis to get back in time to go to work.
"Liberal Bias in Media" How we can make it work for you!
You know how I like to exhort you all to Live, Love and Laugh, well Ginny's minions say that if that doesn't work then try Load, Aim and Fire.
I can get behind that too.
Yeah, well, you try finding a fantasy picture with an Easter theme!
Well, it's no wonder they are they way they are. And we thought ours was special. Well, he is quite special and we already know that many other, more junior leprechauns look up to him and try to emulate him, but this cartoon does answer an awful lot of questions.
And we've been using it and abusing it for a long time around here. It's a requirement for the job. It's on the application!
Nothing says Easter more than a dragon dressed up in a bunny suit.
And these next two go so delightfully with each other….
Distraction or old age? Yes.
Okay, so that last one was more of a Groaner than a funny, but it's still good.
So, this ezine is beginning to bog down and I think it's because it's so damn big. So, I'm going to try and wrap this up soon. Let's try a couple of more things and go into our Last Word.
Just had a great idea! I'm going to start meetings at my lair for people who have OCD. I don't have it myself, I'm just hoping that they'll take one look around and start cleaning.
I'm having so many problems in my life right now, that if a new one comes along today, it will be at least two weeks before I'll be able to worry about it.
And I don't know what can be better for the Last Word before Easter, but a really nice feel good story.
VANCOUVER, Wash. — A grieving woman went out for a cup of coffee over the weekend but ended up with so much more.
Evan Freeman was working the window at the Dutch Bros. drive-thru Saturday when he noticed that the woman placing her order was struggling to fight back tears, according to KPTV News. When Freeman asked her if she was OK, she fell apart — explaining that her 37-year-old husband had passed away the night before.
Freeman offered the woman a free cup of coffee, then gathered several of his coworkers and reached out for her hand as the group prayed together, Seattle's Q13 News reports.
Barbara Danner — who happened to be behind the woman in line — snapped a photo of the moving encounter and posted it to the Dutch Bros. Facebook page. It's since been shared more than 115,000 times.
Snapped this picture while waiting in line at the Dutch Bros on 138th Avenue today. Turns out the young lady in line ahead of us lost her 37-year-old husband last night. When the DB guys & gals noticed she was falling apart, they stopped everything and prayed with her for several minutes, invited her to come back for prayer and support, as well as anything else that she might need. Prayers for the young family, and you know where to stop for coffee!
"When the (Dutch Bros) guys and gals noticed she was falling apart, they stopped everything and prayed with her for several minutes, invited her to come back for prayer and support as well as anything else that she might need," Danner wrote in her post.
Freeman's boss, Jessica Chudek, noticed the photo on social media and was shocked when she realized her employees were responsible for the act of kindness.
"It just brought me to tears right then," she told KPTV.
Pierce Dunn, Freeman's co-worker, said he wasn't expecting their experience to be shared by so many people. He told KPTV he hopes it will inspire others to look for opportunities to help where they can.
"If every single person did an act of kindness or just had a smile on their face, the world would be a completely different place," he said.
And with that I'll be wishing all of you're a very Happy and safe Easter.
I always look forward to the next issue of DragonLaffs. Thank you so much for the humor.
Oh, thank you so much for the Hallelujah video! It has given my Easter celebration greater meaning.
I started doing the specials as a favor to you because you never seemed to have time to do more than a regular issue come holiday so that we might step our game up, get more followers and then one day when we were old and senile (like say next week) we might be able to do this full time and get paid like some of the other blogs.
Well most of that didn't even come close to happening but now our holiday issues have a certain reputation, especially our Memorial and Veteran's Day issues and you still rarely have time to do the extra work to make a truly special holiday issue. I dumped Easter on you because I wasn't physically or mentallity in a place where I could or wanted to even deal with it, much less had the time. Besides, parked hip to hip with your Satuday Issue seemed stupid for me to be doing one on Wednesday and made you look good.
However if the reader's consensus is that your holiday issues are so much better than mine, I'll be happy to turn them all over to you but for St Partick's Day, Memorial and Veteran's Day.
You are welcome to Easter, Independance Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. I'm confident I can find something enjoyable to do with all the extra time.Or if not enjoyable at least paying.
What say you reader's are there other of you who think Impish does a better job.at special issues? I was about to start the Memorial Day one (no joke this is how far out I start) but maybe you'd all prefer if I left it to him? Speak up and speak out please!
Bad news Impish- this was so good you are on perminant Easter Issue duty from now on!
Thanks Brother. Happy Easter back at you. Love and blessings sent from the Dragon Lair to the Leprechaun towers.
a lot of work…but so worth it. Michael Carbonaro first appeared on Jay Leno's show…he is the best I have ever seen. I really enjoyed everything and wish you and you family a blessed Easter.
Yes, her version of Hallelujah was amazing! Sent shivers up my spine every time I listened. Extra special thanks to Lethal for sending it my way so that everyone could enjoy it.
And a truly blessed Easter to you and yours as well my dear, dear friend.


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Q: jquery form submition to a servlet I am using jquery form submission to a servlet. .I am sending value of xyz to servlet,when i alert xyz it shows the correct value but in the callback function data alert shows as null .
here is my script

here is my jsp

<select name="country_id" id="country_id">
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<option value="1" id="blabbb">1</option>
<option value="2" id="blabbb">2</option>
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String countryref= request.getParameter("countryREF");
String sql1 = "SELECT * FROM state WHERE country_ref="+countryref+" ";
PreparedStatement pst1 = db.getConnection().prepareStatement(sql1);
 ResultSet j = pst1.executeQuery();
while (j.next()) {
                        String state_id = j.getString(1);
                        state = j.getString(2);
                        country_ref = j.getString(3);
                        location.setState(state);
                        location.setState_id(state_id);
                        location.setcountry_ref(country_ref);
                    }
pw.println(countryref);

What am i doing wrong?

A: Your server-side code is expecting countryREF (case-sensitive) in the request data so you probably just need to change your data passed in your $.get() to { countryREF: xyz }:

A: From the jQuery documentation, can you try this format of $.get:
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#country_id").change(function () {
        var xyz = $("option:selected").val();
        $.get("../Retrive_country?stateadd_1=none", {
            countryref: xyz
        })
            .done(function (data) {
            alert("Data Loaded: " + data);
        });
    });
});

OR:
$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#country_id").change(function () {
        var xyz = $("option:selected").val();
        $.get("../Retrive_country?stateadd_1=none&countryref=" + xyz, function (data) {
            alert("Data Loaded: " + data);

        });
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Review: 'Sunshine Superman' soars to great documentary heights Special
By Sarah Gopaul Jun 8, 2015 in Entertainment
'Sunshine Superman' is an excitement-filled documentary about the "crazy" man who pioneered BASE jumping in the '70s by leaping off a cliff at Yosemite National Park.
While extreme sports are regularly being taken to new levels, the actual practice of pushing the limits and testing boundaries has existed for several decades. And it generally starts with someone asking, "What else could we do?" Sunshine Superman chronicles the life of a man who asked that question in the '70s after regular skydiving became too humdrum.
Carl Boenish had two passions in life: parachuting and filmmaking. So even though he had a solid career as an engineer, he decided to turn his hobbies into a full-time job in his late 30's. He generated some really stunning movies shot in midair with other skydivers, but after several hundred jumps he began to wonder what else his otherwise impractical skills could conquer. So in 1978, he and a group of fellow enthusiasts were the first to leap off Yosemite National Park's El Capitan using ram-air parachutes. From there, they ascended antenna towers, skyscrapers and anything else deemed tall enough, launching an organization known as "B.A.S.E. Jumping," which stood for building, antenna, span, and Earth (cliff). Carl and his equally keen wife Jean turned BASE jumping into a career, until his untimely death in 1984.
Thanks to Carl's fondness of recording as much as possible, director Marah Strauch is able to interweave people's accounts of events with actual images from the same experience. Not only that, he consistently shot from multiple angles to achieve his goal of illustrating what jumping was really like for the inexperienced; therefore, these sequences of archival footage are impressive documentaries in themselves. In fact, they make the act so tangible that the squeamish will squirm and the adventurous will itch for the real thing as they watch these people leap and soar in the air.
Decades later, the speakers still radiate a fervour as they talk about the period in which they and Carl pioneered the sport. Each is labelled with their name and membership number, indicating when they completed the four jumps required for admission to B.A.S.E. They recall evading the police when illegally trespassing on private property, the careful planning that went into each attempt (challenging the perception they're just "crazy"), and the camaraderie and purpose they found in each other. It's easy to get caught up in their excitement as they put words to their memories.
Since Carl spearheaded this movement, he was also it's spokesperson in many ways. Therefore even though he was mostly behind the camera in much of his own footage, filmmakers are able to incorporate news interviews he did around various controversial or remarkable feats. Everyone involved understood there could be legal consequences for their actions, but considered the thrill worth the risk; Carl even had a lawyer friend who was at the ready if required.
It's clear everyone involved in the project, including a Yosemite park ranger, has a great respect for Carl and his dedication to living on the edge. The mood noticeably darkens as the event leading to his death is approached and it raises questions that will never be answered; but filmmakers do an excellent job of reconstructing the occurrence from as many angles as are still available to provide as complete a perspective as possible.
Director: Marah Strauch
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"As part of our optimization work, we have added Vulkan support to the game. We have been able to do this not only for Beyond, but for the current live version of the game. As such, we wanted to release this to you as soon as possible.
Note: this is live with the Experimental Branch only! Read this before trying.
More so than normal it's important that you update your video card drivers.
Note that we don't anticipate any issues here. However, performing your own backups could mean the difference between resuming play immediately, or waiting for the next patch.
If you decide to opt out of experimental and return to the main branch, we strongly recommend resuming from a backed-up save from the main branch, rather than taking an experimental branch save back to main, which may cause unexpected behavior.
Feedback and reports of new bugs/issues being found on Experimental are welcome, so please reply to this thread or submit a ticket to https://hellogames.zendesk.com/ with the phrase "Steam Experimental Vulkan" in the ticket title. If you are running any mods for the game, please list them along with your bug report.
To play in Experimental, right-click on No Man's Sky from the Steam library page and select "Properties". Among the available tabs will be the "BETAS" tab. Enter "3xperimental" in the textbox and click "Check Code". "experimental - Experimental" will now be available in the dropdown menu under "Select the beta you would like to opt into".
Nice to see some more Vulcan support being added to games! Think I'll just wait for the official release though.
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I played it for a few hours last night. It is INCREDIBLY faster than the crap base client. I could actually have fun playing because it wasn't a slide show!
The loading screen went from what felt like 3 - 5 minutes loading textures to 30 - 45 seconds?
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Wow, and I just imagine you have a beast of a system (i could be wrong, the beast could be a dog) so that really says something.
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Awesome. Now I need to see if I can get my friends back into the game. A couple of them had severe performance related issues using the 20X0 Nvidia cards and I am hoping this will solve it.
This game got some not-so-enthralled reviews when it first launched. Has anything changed since then? Is it actually fun?
Yeah but does it still use 14GB of system RAM??
I jumped on it when there was a Steam sale back when the game was about a year old. I should have read the reviews because for the most part the game was unplayable on AMD cards. That was the ONLY game I ever went back to Steam and got my money back. That was a big disappointment because it looked like loads of fun.
Each time I come back to this i binge for like a week straight then just not touch it until the next big update. Might give it another go.
In three years? Yes, it's changed dramatically. It does play sort of like a sandbox, where there's an overarching "goal" that's not particularly important. The exploration part is pretty good, at least until the randomization kinda runs out of ideas. Acquiring ships is kinda cool. Building a base can be fun. There is multiplayer but it's still pretty primitive. There's an update coming this year that's supposed to enhance that significantly (aka "have it actually work like one would expect").
I got it for $30 on Steam and for that price it's a good way to burn a bunch of hours.
This game bored me to bits, mind numbingly repetitive.
Anything that goes Vulkan gets my respect.
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I actually enjoyed the launch game as it was everything I expected (avoided the hype train and carefully read the interviews).
Now it's almost unrecognizable, everything has been polished, think an actually finished Star Citizen without the FPS in ships (yet - I bet it's coming) and a little less complexity..
My only complaint is that the older versions were easier to casually play as there was less to do.. I just love exploring and unwinding with it every few months.
Wow, maybe I should give it another shot. I maybe had an hour of play time that was nothing but constant no texture glitches and crashes then I gave up completely.
Yeah, give it a try, the stability and framerate are much better (can't speak to AMD cards), and the updates have really added tons of new stuff to the game. It's certainly not for everyone, but if it clicks for you it will have more gameplay than you can shake a stick at.
I got it like a year ago when they did the last big update and it was on sale for $10. Played for an hour or two then got bored. It's.... I don't know what it is. But it doesn't feel like a game. It feels like an easter egg hunt on Mars.
Running a Vega 64 and its night and day! As others have mentioned its actually playable now. 90+ FPS at 1440p with minimal drops. The game is absolutely rinse and repeat but I find it relaxing. Put some tunes on, pour a drink and zip around the galaxy for a bit. I also picked it up for 24.99 and at 30 or less its totally worth a look IMO.
A gfx card usually works.


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Lindsay Hunt
fresh from the press
"The King is Pissed" (Kings are human too)
"Rocket goes Nuts"
Shaazam
Lindsay Hunt is a contemporary Australian artist, trained in his home city of Sydney and in London at the Royal College of Art. He has resided in the Lismore region for the past several years.
Lindsay produces his work in a number of media including oil, acrylic, ink, pastel, charcoal and pencil, as well as using a number of print techniques including woodcut and drypoint etching. The content of Lindsay's work is varied with themes drawn from his personal experience and perceptions of the world - and often strongly expressed in work that is satirical and darkly poetic.
Lindsay has taught extensively in the disciplines of Art and Design at a number of Australian tertiary institutions and has exhibited extensively in well-known galleries in Sydney, regional NSW, Brisbane and Melbourne, starting in 1990. His work is held in private and corporate collections in Australia and private collections in London.
"And always the same... Levering massive yellow bulldozers into the abyss... An unruly misbehaving Komatsu ... This making Art….", Lindsay Hunt.


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Q: How to Style Home Controller Title in xCode using Swift Forgive my lack of proper terminology here:
When my app loads there is a thick grey bar at the top of the screen. It was not there before I added the navigation controller - which I need. I want to remove the HEAD or make it much thinner.
Is there anyway to style the title/head of the "Home" ViewController?
If not, what other options do I have whether programatic or other.
If this is in the Apple docs, I'd be happy to be shown where...
Can anyone please enlighten me... + thanks again SO!

A: For any newbies like myself: Here is what I found and it works:
    navigationController?.navigationBarHidden = true


Discussion in 'Sick Plants and Problems' started by jay t bell, Mar 17, 2004.
ive got this 1 plant and it doesnt look right.all the info i can find points to one thing but it doesnt make sense wont tell you what i came up with yet just wont to see if you come up with the same idea.
hope this pic is clear enough to make it out.
it was growing at the same speed as this 1 but slowed down then the leaves changed slightly.
I am leaning towords two.....either this plant is a different strain or you had some sort of a nutrient lockup due to overwatering. That's what it looks like to me. Just back off on the water a little and you may see an improvement. But it could be a different phenotype also...one that just appears lighter in colour.....Remember...all kids even though they come from the same parents are not the same. That could be it....but I am leaning towords the nute lockup theory.....let your soil dry out a little and perhaps you will see an improvement. Peace!!!
Yep i agree it looks like overwatering to me, be sure not to overwater it kills as quick as underwatering.
And.top left is the 1 in Q.
Ive already been there and the only pick that looks similar to mine is a shortage of zink which doesnt make sense cause i would have thought all of the plants would show this sign.
ive been trying to look on the edge but it seems to be down at the mo.oh well doesnt look life threatening yet.
What is it its problem?


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Home Science And Technology Lawrence Livermore Lab Uses Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers in Global Fight Against...
Lawrence Livermore Lab Uses Artificial Intelligence and Supercomputers in Global Fight Against COVID-19
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining artificial intelligence/machine learning, bioinformatics, and supercomputing to help discover candidates for new antibodies and pharmaceutical drugs to combat the disease.
Backed by five high performance computing (HPC) clusters and years of expertise in vaccine and countermeasure development, a COVID-19 response team of LLNL researchers from various disciplines has used modeling and simulation, along with machine learning, to identify about 20 initial, yet promising, antibody designs from a nearly infinite set of potentials and to examine millions of small molecules that could have anti-viral properties. The candidates will need to be synthesized and experimentally tested — which Lab researchers cautioned could take time — but progress is being made.
"For several decades, the Laboratory has been at the forefront of protecting the country against biological threats of any type," said Senior Science Adviser Dave Rakestraw, who formerly ran LLNL's biodefense programs and is coordinating the Lab's COVID-19 technical response. "We've been putting a large amount of focus for the last six years on using the computational resources at LLNL to try to accelerate the timescales for developing a response to an emerging biological threat. We've done that, that by using our extensive computational capabilities (staff and computer infrastructure) and developing partnerships with universities, drug companies and tech companies. That effort has put us in a position where we have tools now that are applicable to helping with the current response."
When the COVID-19 outbreak began, LLNL's Adam Zemla developed and published a predicted 3D protein structure of the virus, which was downloaded and used by more than a dozen outside research groups. Since then, the actual crystal structure of the key protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been determined, which closely matched the team's predictions, researchers said.
Armed with the virus' predicted 3D structure and a few antibodies known to bind and neutralize SARS, an LLNL team led by Daniel Faissol and Thomas Desautels used two HPC clusters to perform AI-driven virtual screening of antibodies capable of binding to SARS-CoV-2, generating high-fidelity simulations to test the molecular interactions for efficacy. The modeling platform, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and internal Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) funding, is the first of its kind in integrating experimental data, structural biology, bioinformatic modeling and molecular simulations — driven by a machine learning algorithm — to design antibody candidates, This platform was used to identify potential high value modifications to the SARS antibodies so that it binds to SARS-CoV-2.
"Our approach, while still being developed, is aimed at designing high-quality antibody therapeutics or vaccines in extremely rapid timescales for scenarios in which waiting for many rounds of time-consuming experimental steps is not an option," Faissol said. "Experimental data and structural bioinformatics are important components to enable high-quality predictions, but integrating machine learning and molecular simulations on HPC are key to enabling the speed and scalability we need to search and evaluate huge numbers of possible antibody designs."
The approach has not only sped up the process considerably over selection guided solely by human intuition — narrowing down the number of antibody candidates from 1039 possibilities to a handful in a matter of weeks — but has focused on areas where scientists may not have otherwise looked.
"Now, we're not just searching blindly. We're actually creating structures that we think are in the proper part of the design space, then we do our evaluations on those," said Jim Brase, the Laboratory's deputy associate director for Data Science. "We'll get novelty, and — we hope — a higher percentage of real validated answers out of this approach at the end."
Researchers said they are just beginning to look at the data and are currently working to arrange synthesis, as well as set up testing and evaluation of the designs, through both internal efforts and targeted external collaborations.
Antiviral drug design
Another component of the multi-pronged response involves antiviral drug design. A group of Lab scientists led by Felice Lightstone and Jonathan Allen recently used dedicated access time on the entire Quartz supercomputing cluster to perform virtual screening of small molecules against two COVID-19 proteins. Using LLNL-customized software, created by Lab scientist Xiaohua Zhang, the LLNL team has performed a large-scale computational run to screen 26 million molecules against four protein sites (totaling more than 100 million docking calculations) to identify compounds that possibly could prevent infection or treat COVID-19.
"Using the computational tools and data that we created from our American Heart Association's Center for Accelerated Drug Discovery, we were able to computationally screen these molecules so quickly and at such a large scale," Lightstone said. "This is the first step toward finding a new antiviral. We developed a whole pipeline for drug design and plan to continue in the coming weeks, ending with experimental testing of the predicted molecules. This should speed up the drug design process."
Some models being used to determine the molecules' safety are derived from the system developed through the multi-institutional ATOM (Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine) consortium, a project aimed at speeding up cancer drug discovery. That work has helped the Lab evaluate molecules in a timely manner and produce models useful for any outbreak, researchers said.
Need for DOE lab capabilities
LLNL scientists called the COVID-19 pandemic a "wake-up call" signifying the need for a longer-term investment and sustained government-wide effort, particularly in applying high performance computing to personalized medicine.
"It has clarified the need for and value of leadership Department of Energy capabilities," said Shankar Sundaram, director of LLNL's Center for Bioengineering. "The Laboratory anticipated this kind of situation in pursuing a predictive biology initiative. The reason we were able to jump onto this quickly was not just because we had the capabilities, but because we've been thinking about these scenarios for a long time."
LLNL also is adapting its portable, rapid PCR-based molecular diagnostics platform (Bio ID) developed by LLNL biomedical scientist Larry Dugan, as a potential tool to quickly diagnose COVID-19.
The overall COVID-19 response effort involves all 17 DOE national laboratories. LLNL's response team includes scientists and engineers from the Lab' Center for Bioengineering, Forensic Science Center and Biodefense Knowledge Center (BKC), Biosciences and Biotechnology Division and the HPC capabilities of cluster systems Quartz, Lassen, Corona, Pascal and Catalyst.
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If you've been managing your blog for some time, chances are you're looking for ways to improve it. Whether content development commitment, credibility or reader, improvement opportunities are endless. To help you along your way, here are 15 great ways any owner of a blog can enhance your publication.
Here are Top 15 tips you can apply on your blog and get huge visitors for your blog.
If your post do nothing but market your business, products or services, then you should not have a blog. Readers not interested in writers who do nothing more than promote themselves selfishly. Time is money, and do not want to waste reading about their latest achievements.
Readers need to know why they should respect your opinion and appreciate the information you provide. For example, when I write guest articles to my colleagues, I always explain my credentials on the line. If an article is about what bonds are, professional writing or online marketing, always sure that readers respect my authority.
You can not get people to engage with your blog if the holders do not entice them to read your content. As time goes on, writing headlines probably occupies less and less of their time. You are the editor of your blog, so you should spend a lot of time in the legitimate development of attention-grabbing headlines.
Even if you already use the photos, it is likely that some of them have little to do with the content that accompanies it. Make sure each photo or graphic provides a visual context that improves the post.
Although simple, asking your readers your thoughts is an effective way to increase participation in your blog.
Your readers probably interact more in social media platforms in their own blog, so take your information to them. Get information on your blog by follow-up questions on Facebook, Twitter and other similar sites.
Instead of just releasing their views on a topic, add credibility to your blog citing information that supports their claims. Contains information on relevant resources. Readers appreciate your content more when you have made the effort to give factual information rather than vague opinions.
How to present the information to their readers in ways that differ from other bloggers? Tighten your writing voice means that your readers will be able to recognize the unique way you communicate with them.
A lot of bloggers out there manage their sites as a hobby or personal leave, which means you can not have a background in writing. If you are a blogger, you will benefit from reading about different writing formulas that could enhance the content you write.
Invite your colleagues to write guest posts on offer. If you can build strong relationships, interviewing actors is another great way to improve the credibility of your blog. This mechanism provides readers with the variety and also shows that you value the views of others.
Do not just regurgitate the same information and opinions of others and to share online. Read what your competitors are writing and consider how you might add to the conversation. Make sure your readers benefit from reading your take on a topic.
Even if you are a naturally gifted writer, you should know by now that everyone makes mistakes, either typographical errors or word usage. Buy the Style of Associated Press and other grammatical texts to verify that you are communicating your message in the most effective and concise.
If you get your blog for a few years, it is likely that your older posts could use some cleaning. Categorizing logic and reread for clarity and grammatical errors. When writing new posts, not old more accessible by linking to them whenever appropriate.
If not using a blog on a regular schedule, how will you know when your readers to check your blog for new information? Associate professionals online publications constantly update their sites to your readers know when to expect information.
If you feel writers block coming on, you leave your blog and go read some blogs that you personally find interesting and informative. Take note of what keeps you coming back to publications like it, and consider how you can apply these strategies to your blog.
When it comes to writing, we all move. Nobody is perfect, so we must strive to improve ourselves and improve the way we communicate with each other. Providing more credible, compelling content on our blog individually, we can ensure that our readers spend your time wisely choosing to spend time with our products.


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Félifax est un personnage de fiction créé par Paul Féval fils dont les aventures littéraires furent publiées dans deux volumes parus en 1929 et 1930. Issu d'une expérience génétique, cet homme-tigre a acquis la force et la souplesse du félin.

Personnage oublié pendant 70 ans, il connaît de nouvelles aventures dans la série anthologique Les Compagnons de l'Ombre dirigée par Jean-Marc Lofficier, puis dans la série de bande dessinée de Serge Lehman La Brigade chimérique.

Présentation du personnage
En Inde, dans la ville de Bénarès, deux individus aux motivations différentes s'allient pour créer un hybride homme-tigre. Tandis que le chirurgien anglais Edmund Sexton est obsédé par les greffes, le brahmane Sourina cherche, quant à lui, à créer un surhomme devant mener le peuple à se rebeller contre la domination britannique.

Pour atteindre le but fixé, Sexton procède à l'insémination artificielle d'une jeune hindoue par un tigre. Bien que l'accouplement échoue, la jeune femme remariée à un hindou, donne finalement bien naissance à un enfant possédant les caractéristiques d'un tigre. Doué d'une autorité naturelle sur les fauves, il a également une souplesse et une force hors du commun. Enfin, lorsqu'il se met en colère, ses yeux changent pour devenir ceux des félins, sur son corps apparaissent les zébrures caractéristiques des tigres et il dégage une odeur de fauve. Néanmoins, au cours de Londres en folie, il parvient à trouver un sérum qui neutralise son odeur féline.

Devenu adulte, Félifax cherche à se venger de ceux qui sont à l'origine de son existence.

Œuvres faisant intervenir Félifax

Par Paul Féval fils
Les aventures originales de Félifax s'étalent sur deux romans. Cependant, compte tenu de la fin brusque, soit le deuxième volume est inachevé, soit Paul Féval fils avait prévu une suite qu'il ne publia pas.
 Félifax, l'homme-tigre (1929)
 Londres en folie (1930)

Par d'autres auteurs
Félifax eut droit à de nouvelles aventures dans la série anthologique Les Compagnons de l'Ombre, dirigée par Jean-Marc Lofficier, où il côtoie d'autres personnages de fiction tels que Mowgli, Harry Dickson ou encore Sâr Dubnotal.

Par ailleurs, il apparaît en 2009 dans la série de bandes-dessinées La Brigade chimérique de Serge Lehman et Gess, aux côtés de nombreux héros de fiction de la première moitié du .

En 2022, Serge Lehman offre de nouvelles aventures à Félifax, dont l'action est situé au début du . Cependant, le héros « tigre » est à présent incarné par Béatrice Ortega, une néo-féministe au langage fleuri.

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Home > Massachusetts > Hampshire County
20 Florence Street
Leeds, MA 01053
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Leeds serves 293 students in grades Prekindergarten-5.
Leeds placed in the bottom 50% of all schools in Massachusetts for overall test scores (math proficiency is bottom 50%, and reading proficiency is bottom 50%) for the 2018-19 school year.
The percentage of students achieving proficiency in math is 35-39% (which is approximately equal to the Massachusetts state average of 37%) for the 2020-21 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in reading/language arts is 60-64% (which is higher than the Massachusetts state average of 49%) for the 2020-21 school year.
The student:teacher ratio of 10:1 is lower than the Massachusetts state level of 12:1.
Minority enrollment is 30% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is lower than the Massachusetts state average of 43% (majority Hispanic).
Grades: Prekindergarten-5
: Bottom 50% in MA
: 35-39% (Btm 50%)
Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), MA Dept. of Education
Leeds's student population of 293 students has declined by 13% over five school years.
The teacher population of 30 teachers has grown by 11% over five school years.
Leeds is ranked within the bottom 50% of all 1,667 schools in Massachusetts (based off of combined math and reading proficiency testing data) for the 2018-19 school year.
The diversity score of Leeds is 0.48, which is less than the diversity score at state average of 0.62. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
State Level (MA)
Participates in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
Northampton School District
Source: 2020-2021 (latest school year available) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), MA Dept. of Education
What schools are Leeds often compared to?
Leedsis often viewed alongside schools like Jackson Street by visitors of our site.
35-39% of students have achieved math proficiency (compared to the 37% MA state average), while 60-64% of students have achieved reading proficiency (compared to the 49% MA state average).
How many students attend Leeds?
293 students attend Leeds.
70% of Leeds students are White, 17% of students are Hispanic, 9% of students are Two or more races, 2% of students are Asian, and 2% of students are Black.
What is the student:teacher ratio of Leeds?
Leeds has a student ration of 10:1, which is lower than the Massachusetts state average of 12:1.
What grades does Leeds offer ?
Leeds offers enrollment in grades Prekindergarten-5 (offers virtual instruction).
What school district is Leeds part of?
Leeds is part of Northampton School District.
Popular comparisons: Leeds vs. Jackson Street
The nearest high school to Leeds is Smith Vocational And Agricultural High School (2.6 miles away)
The nearest middle school and elementary school is John F Kennedy Middle School (1.2 miles away)
John F Kennedy Middle School
Grades: 6-8 | 623 students 1.2 miles 100 Bridge Rd
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Grades: K-8 | 218 students 1.7 miles 1 Industrial Parkway
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Grades: K-5 | 234 students 2.4 miles 498 Ryan Road
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Grades: 9-12 | 528 students 2.6 miles 80 Locust Street
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My daughter transferred from another school in the area. She is more confident in her learning since her transition. I asked my child what makes this school different from the other, she said "I don't feel like I am bothering my teacher when I ask questions." shes more inspired to read and has a healthy group of friends that embrace her individuality. Thanks Ms. Pelis
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The teachers here are absolutely amazing! My son has already learned so much in the year he has attended.
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Chinese Space Station Returns
As the world watched, Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1 reentered Earth's atmosphere on April 1, 2018 at 5:16pm PST. Most of the space station burned up upon reentry with any remaining space debris falling into the South Pacific Ocean.
Ever since March 16, 2016 when China first reported to the United Nations that their space station, Tiangong-1 "ceased functioning," the world has been waiting, watching and wondering where on Earth any of its remnants would land. For Tiangong-1's reentry to Earth's atmosphere, China's original plan was to control its descent using thruster burn. At some point near the end of the space station's mission, China somehow lost control of Tiangong-1 leaving it poised to make an uncontrolled reentry.
Finally, after months of speculations as to when and where, on April 1, 2018 at 5:16pm Pacific Time, Tiangong-1 officially made its fiery reentry back to Earth. If all of this sounds vaguely familiar, this is not the first time the exploits of a falling Tiangong-1 has appeared in the media. In the 2013 Academy Award-winning film "Gravity," Sandra Bullock plays an astronaut who uses the deorbiting Tiangong-1 as a return vehicle to Earth after her space shuttle is damaged by space debris.
The Tiangong-1 Space Station is the approximate size of a school bus.
What is Tiangong-1?
Sent into orbit on September 30, 2011, Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace 1," is China's first space lab, the prototype for China's ambitious space program to launch a permanent, 20-ton space station in 2023. Tiangong-1 weighed 8.5 tons, measured 34 feet by 11 feet, and was the approximate size of a school bus. The space station's initial launch was unmanned, but it had a habitable experimental module to house astronauts. Its primary mission was to perform docking and orbital experiments. Over a five-year period, two successful manned missions by taikonauts (Chinese astronauts) took place, which included China's first female astronauts, Liu Yang and Wang Yaping.
How did Aerospace Know Tiangong-1's Time of Reentry?
While there were no movie stars or astronauts aboard the real-life Tiangong-1, its homecoming was nonetheless still of supreme interest to the space industry and the public. The space station kept aerospace agencies and companies worldwide busy trying to estimate the date and time of its return. Tiangong-1's reentry was being closely monitored by The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Orbital and Debris Reentry Studies (CORDS). Established in 1997, CORDS advises government and commercial businesses about space debris and collision avoidance. The organization also monitors the reentry and breakup of space hardware.
It is not easy to predict when an object will return from space due to multiple factors, including an object's orientation, location, physical properties, speed, space weather, and the density of the upper atmosphere to consider. "We monitored data closely and performed reentry calculations on a regular basis to keep track of any changes in the space station's orbit or decay rate," said Andrew Abraham, a member of Aerospace's Department of Mission Analysis and Operations team, which tracked Tiangong-1's journey back to Earth. If bets had been taken on Tiangong-1's time of reentry, Aerospace would have been a winner since the company estimated that reentry would take place on April 1, 2018, give or take 36 hours.
Was Tiangong-1 a Danger?
Tiangong-1 was never a danger to anyone or anything on Earth despite the fact it was on a decaying orbit which means its altitude was slowly decreasing as its falling speed toward Earth rapidly increased. When it reached Earth's upper atmosphere, the space station made its uncontrolled reentry. However, upon reentry, most of Tiangong-1 burned up due to extreme heat and violent forces. Objects compress air beneath them as they reenter Earth's atmosphere, producing intense heat. These high temperatures and pressure cause objects to break, melt, and vaporize, so there was little left of Tiangong-1 besides fragments to actually land on Earth.
Large space station parts, especially those that are thermally protected like fuel, oxygen, and water containers sometimes survive, but the odds that they will hurt anyone is extremely slim. In fact, Aerospace calculates the odds of space debris hitting a person to be less than one in 1 trillion; you have a better chance of being struck by lightning.
Did Tiangong-1 Space Debris Land Anywhere?
If it did, it landed in the South Pacific Ocean. Timing dictates the location of an object's reentry, so predicting exactly where it will fall is difficult. Calculations suggested Tiangong-1 would reenter somewhere between the latitudes of 43 degrees north and 43 degrees south. Original estimations of exactly where encompassed a widespread portion of Earth, including the northern U.S., the Middle East, northern Spain, parts of France, Portugal, Greece, central Italy, parts of Chile and Argentina, New Zealand, Tasmania, southern Africa, and northern China. Aerospace predicted that any surviving pieces from Tiangong-1 would fall within a 200-mile radius and be centered along a point on Earth that it was passing over. And since Earth is mostly covered by water, it was very likely that any space debris from Tiangong-1 would probably fall into a body of water which is exactly what happened.
Tiangong-1
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BOFH: WHERE did this 'fax-enabled' printer UPGRADE come from?
Don't worry about that cable, it's part of the config
Simon Travaglia Sat 22 Nov 2014 // 08:00 UTC
"This is exactly what I'm talking about!" I snap at the PFY. "Specifications created by people with absolutely no knowledge of what they need so they specify the absolute top-end kit just in case!"
"What's that, then?" the PFY asks, looking up from his game disinterestedly.
"The bloody new photocopier/printer spec!" I seethe. "They've asked for Cat 7 cabling!"
"What for?" he chips back. "It'd max out at 20 Meg anyway - or in reality, 10."
"AND they've specified it for the bloody fax line circuit as well!"
"Just use the Cat-6!" the PFY says, going back to his game.
"I COULD use Cat-6," I reply, "but I know they're going to say they need Cat-7 and if they don't get it they can't guarantee colour registration or some other rubbish."
"Just use a purple patch lead or something - they won't know the difference!"
A couple of days later the printer guy wheels in a monstrosity, which is about twice the size and weight of our existing printer - which is being replaced for no other reason than they earn more per-page revenue off this one because the head Beancounter is no good at contract maths.
"This is it," he says proudly. "The 8790J. It's got the lot. Pantone Colour verification..."
"Yeah we mostly do black and white," the PFY chips in
"Automatic stapling..."
"One or two pages mostly..."
"Wireless Printing."
"Which could actually be useful," the PFY says, "we get a few laptops in occasionally..."
"... over infra-red."
"Ah, so we can print from our TV remote controls?"
"Automatic fax redirection."
"For the three faxes we now get a year..."
"Facility for large paper bin to hold 10 reams."
"Well THAT will be useful."
"Oh, it's just a facility - you'd need to get an upgrade to get the bin installed."
"Of course we would, how silly."
"Remote Administration and Print Accounting - an upgrade from the last version."
"THANK F***!" the PFY snaps. "That last printer had the sh***est interface I've ever used."
"Sorry, the interface is the same, but the accounting has been upgraded - you can have up to 64 boxes now."
"We had 99 boxes before!"
"Yes, but you can put names on the boxes instead of numbers."
"And doing that comes with a 35-box penalty?"
"Oh, I'm not sure about the ins and outs of it."
"What about duplexing speed?" the PFY asks.
"Duplexing speed is 48 pages per minute, and if you want a duplexer we can install one within 10 working days."
"What do you mean IF WE WANT ONE. WE ALREADY HAVE ONE!"
"Well yes, but this is an upgrade, and not everyone wants duplexers so they were left out of the quote."
"So let me get this straight, you're giving us a printer with a bunch of features we're unlikely to use, a web interface which was probably developed as a prop for Blake's 7, which, if you go back in ANY submenu immediately logs out AND has a hierarchical menu organisation which was probably designed by a dyslexic moron with Alzheimer's, you've dumbed down the user accounting AND IT DOESN'T EVEN DO DUPLEXING!?"
"Well, it was in the contract. We worked out the per page printing costs based on the contract."
"You can take it back!" the PFY snaps. "We don't want it!"
"I can't take it back," he sniffs."It's been delivered to site. I've filled in the delivery complete form."
"Unfill it in..." the PFY suggests
"I can't, I did it online."
"If that interface is as crap as the one on the printer you've probably just ordered a pizza and joined an online discussion site on yak herding! So take it back."
"Even I could, I couldn't, because your old printer will shut down soon."
"Why?"
"Well when I send the delivery complete form in, it connects to the printer remotely and deletes all the users. So that you don't get charged when we install it in another site."
"Another site... that needs 99 users and duplexing?" the PFY asks. "Another site that perhaps wanted to offload their crap printers on someone?"
"Uh..." he responds, getting the guilty hunted look that you usually only see in post-sales support people.
"Okay, we'll deal with that later. Meantime, plug the new one in before we start getting support calls."
"Sure. Now do you have a list of all your old users and their PIN numbers and account codes?"
"Don't you have that? Remotely?"
"Not after I fill out the delivery complete form."
"So we'll have to make up new ones and enter them by hand - on a touchscreen with a keyboard that's half the size of the last one?"
"There's a removable keyboard too."
"Oh good."
"But that's an upgrade. We can probably get one in five working days though."
"OK, get a move on, we'll do it by hand!"
"I..."
"I what?" I ask.
"Is that a Cat-7 cable?"
"Yes," I lie.
"It doesn't look like a Cat-7 cable."
"It's Cat-7 – see, it's purple."
"Well I'm just warning you, if it's not Cat-7 the automatic feed probably won't work and you'll have to feed all your pages manually."
"So that other site was having paper feed problems as well?" the PFY asks quietly
"And anyway, apparently he couldn't wait for the freight elevator and decided to take the new machine down the stairs to get the paper feed looked at," the PFY says, directing the Boss's attention to a long red smear down the wall of the stairwell...


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Recreo es un barrio residencial de la Comuna de Viña del Mar, Región de Valparaíso, Chile, ubicado entre el cerro Esperanza de la Ciudad Puerto y el de Agua Santa. Fue uno de los primeros barrios de Viña y testigo de la primera gran oleada migratoria desde el Puerto a la ciudad jardín.

El barrio tiene su origen en 1885, cuando Teodoro Lowey Quartier (1/1/1846, Rindern, Alemania -10/9/1923, Viña del Mar, Chile)  y Andrés Keating compraron a José Francisco Vergara los terrenos ubicados entre Miramar y el Matadero de Portales, en Valparaíso. En 1888 Teodoro Lowey se convirtió en el único propietario de los terrenos, que fueron finalmente hipotecados el 21 de julio de 1906.

La urbanización del barrio comenzó entre los años 1906 y 1909 en el sector de la pendiente que enfrenta al mar. Luego de la habilitación de la avenida España, comenzó la segunda intervención urbana en el sector más cercano al puerto, que terminó en 1930. A partir de 1931 se comenzó a urbanizar el sector aledaño a Caleta Abarca.

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4.  Teodoro Lowey Quartier. Archivo Histórico Patrimonial de Viña del Mar. https://sites.google.com/site/archivohistoricopatrimonial/fondo-teodoro-lowey Consultado el 30 de mayo de 2022.
Barrios de Viña del Mar


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The new 6.2-liter V8 that will be offered in GM's 2014 full-size truck line will be SAE rated at 420 horsepower at 5,600 rpm with peak torque of 460 lb-ft coming in at 4,100 rpm.
GM made the announcement today and said the engine, code named L86, is the most powerful of any light-duty pickup. The 6.2-liter V8 will be available in the Silverado LTZ and High Country trim levels as well as the GMC Sierra SLT and Denali models. When equipped with the optional Max Trailering Package, the trucks will boast a 12,000-pound tow capacity.
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The Chevy Corvette is the only other Gen V-equipped vehicle at this time with a 6.2-liter LT1 V8 rated at 460 horsepower at 6,000 rpm with optional exhaust system (465 lb-ft torque). Standard rating is 455 horsepower with 460 lb-ft torque. See our comparison of the Corvette and truck engines here.
All Gen V engines feature direct injection, Active Fuel Management (AFM) and continuously variable valve timing. And like traditional small-block engines that have been around since 1955, the Gen V small-blocks are single-cam, overhead-valve design and feature a 4.400-inch bore center.
When properly equipped, GM trucks with the 6.2-liter engine will have a 12,000-pound max towing capacity.