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Mayfair (neighborhood)
Lat: 51 30 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 51.5000 decimal degrees
Long: 000 09 00 W degrees minutes Long: -0.1500 decimal degrees
Note: Bounded by Oxford Street on N, Regent Street on E, Picadilly on W & Park Lane on S.
Mayfair (preferred,C,V,English,U)
.... Europe (continent) (P)
........ United Kingdom (nation) (P)
............ England (country) (P)
................ Greater London (metropolitan area) (P)
.................... London (inhabited place) (P)
........................ City of Westminster (borough) (P)
............................ Mayfair (neighborhood) (P)
neighborhood (preferred, C)
Mayfair.......... [BHA, VP Preferred]
................. A-Z: London Street Atlas (1990) 145
................. Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
................. Blue Guide: London (1978) 105
................. Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987) 494
................. London Encyclopaedia (1986) 503-504
................. NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject: ..... [BHA, VP]
.................. A-Z: London Street Atlas (1990) 145
.................. Bartholomew Gazetteer of Britain (1986)
.................. Blue Guide: London (1978) 105
.................. Gazetteer of Great Britain (1987) 494
.................. London Encyclopaedia (1986) 503-504


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[FORUM]Signs and portents
Do you ever wonder about the people of the past? If so, try walking down old streets. The signs on these streets will give you an answer. You will be able to return to the past, and confirm how different today is. If signs from way back are still in their places, you can ride a time machine and embark on a journey back to the happy past. If you see a new sign standing in front of you, you can take a deep breath and promise yourself a new start. If by any chance the street has grown old with you, you will be able to see your life in a panoramic vision.
Jongno is such a street for me. From cram schools I entered in preparation for college entrance exams, to beer houses and coffee shops I went to with close friends, to silk shops I visited to prepare for marriage, and even cinemas I used to frequent with younger friends, Jongno contains parts of my life from my teens to my forties. The transfer of the administrative capital is spurring heated debates. The supportive opinions that claim it is the best solution to check unbalanced development between Seoul and provinces clashes with the critical view that sees the transfer as an irresponsible desk theory playing with the formation of a city. The two sides are getting out their calculators and arguing, one saying that we cannot afford to spend the astronomical sums that will go into this plan, and the other that it costs as much to support annual 400,000 incoming residents to Seoul.
Getting caught up in this myself, I thought about the meaning of Seoul and started to wonder about the people of the past. I went to Jongno, but it was hard to even take a stroll because of the street traders, people with loudspeakers petitioning for something and jumpy uneven sidewalks. From Jongno 2-ga to 4-ga, there was no room to look at the signs on the streets. The sidewalk was too narrow to avoid bumping into people's shoulders. The sidewalk of Jongno is less than one-third of the width of the Champs-Elysee in Paris, but it grunts as it holds three times as much in street facilities. The principal problems are the street stalls and subway ventilation openings. The entrance of Tapgol Park, the site of the March 1 independence movement, and the front of Jongmyo, which is designated as a world cultural legacy for its ancestral tablets of the Joseon kings, is also far from nice. In fact, these areas are more of a mess than they were before. The sight of these places at night covered with tent bars was even somewhat bitter for me.
I went down the 2.8-kilometer street and looked around for places of memories here and there, as if walking over stepping stones. The small buildings on the northern part of Jongno are still almost the same. What was different was only numerous big signs put up in front of them vertically and horizontally as if shouting out "Look at me!"
Seoul has invested 20 billion won ($173 million) into a renovation project, saying that it will turn Jongno into a street where people want to walk. I hope that there will be more old signs on this historical street to help us go back in time. Signs that allow us to go on a joyful journey into the past whenever we feel tired from everyday life.
by Hong Eun-hee

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A cane can be a vital defensive tool where traditional weapons are prohibited. The black powder coated 0.100-thick 5052-H32 aluminum self-defense cane has a 1.0" diameter, measures 39" and can be cut shorter for fit. Weight is approximately 2.15 lb. Wall thickness is 0.125".
An absolute necessity for modern day city living. Dual-purpose items are the only safe alternatives to a concealed carry permit. Mag-lites, this cane, a nice folder...and you're all set! Quality is 100% and I love the extra height on it which most canes don't have. But it and you won't be sorry.
I've had this cane for over a year and I love it. It's super strong and SOLID. The grips aren't very useful to me, they're in the wrong place and very abrasive out of the box. Also, you'll want spare tips- the tip it comes with doesn't last long. If you have weak wrists you may want a wooden cane, this one is quite heavy. I like the longer length, it's great for descending stairs. I have done a lot of full power striking on wooden crates and heavy punching bags, and it hasn't bent at all. I'd recommend the cane DVD's from either Jim Keating or Kelly Worden to go with it.
I have had my cane a year or two and carry it every place I go, except airplanes. I'm afraid I'll lose it to the screeners tho I'm told I can get a letter from a local supervisor that it's ok. I just don't trust the people at the other end to honor the letter. My wife gave me a second one for Christmas so I have one to practice my tai chi form in the house with. The other stays in the car so I don't end up leaving without it. I have my name and phone stamped into it and a name tape since that doesn't get noticed. I'll engrave this one. I have left it in big box store shopping carts but got it back. The neck sized hook helps a lot with not having to put it down for wallet stuff and such. The tubing seems hard enough, but when I drop it on asphalt or gravel, I get deep dings in the hook because of the soft aluminum. I've stopped trying to cover them up, just get rid of the burrs and figure they add character. I love my Ka-Bar and brag about it all the time. And I took the label off it in case I need to use it. I don't want them saying "how come it says Ka-Bar?" if I have to hurt somebody. And it would take a lot for me to use the point on the hook cause I'm pretty sure it'll puncture more than just the skin. I carry it cause in was told "if you use a cane all the time you will need a cane all the time." But if I did use it all the time I hear Walmart floor protectors make tips that work just fine. To sum it up, I love my Ka-Bar fighting cane!
This is a magnificent self defense tool as well as the strongest orthopedic cane I have found. My interest in using canes for self defense started when I needed a cane after knee replacement surgery and felt a bit vulnerable during recovery. I now take a cane with me whenever I take a hike or a long walk. The TDI cane is a serious piece of defensive hardware, thick walled aluminum, 1.5" diameter, with a pointed horn and knurled upper and lower grips. A strike from this cane applied through application of any of the many stick or cane fighting disciplines can only be described as devastating. One of the best, if not the best, fighting canes available anywhere for any price.
Great Cane that is for all purposes indestructible... Only two things to keep in mind for some: 1. This cane may be a little heavy. 2. The angle of cut on the handle might cause issues should it penetrate the opponent's skin. Remember that the liberal (Oh, the poor bad person) might try to paint you as someone who was looking for a fight to use the handle end as described on someone. Just think about any possible legalities before you do anything. Remember that this is a fighting cane in most respects that is designed as such. The lower key you keep it, the better off you are.
I've had my cane for more than a few years now and love it,ive never had to use it thankfully,but sure is nice to have if needed,you can learn lots of self defense moves w/this cane that require little mobility.i dont find it heavy at all after trimming it is probably just under 2 pounds of very stable mass,you may ding this cane from dropping it but you will never break it,i had mine painted to match my Corvette,so that makes it even more discrete.This cane will deffo give you an extra piece of mind,and should you ever need it it wont let you down.Thank you KaBar for making such a useful quality cane for us that need 1.
I'm 6'2, 210#, love the mini TDI, find the regular TDIs too large for a secure grip -- and this cane just melts into my hand. It's massive yet not at all unwieldy; surprisingly thick gauge, perfectly placed knurled grips; the point on the hook isn't sharp yet not remotely dull; the flattened end begs to smash something, the cane fits well around my neck and over my shoulder -- this is everything you hope it is, so just do it. I waited until one of my discs went away before buying this -- don't make my mistake, pull out one of your least favorite discs yourself and buy this now.
I love this cane! Very comfortable in the hand, very supportive for daily use while walking.


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Petrol (95 ULP & LRP) and diesel prices will increase by 82 cents a litre for all grades and diesel by 85 and 87 cents a litre for the for the two grades (0.05% and 0.005% sulphur) respectively.
This means the 95 ULP petrol will reach a record high of R15.79 a litre and R15.20 a litre for the inland and the coastal areas respectively. The two grades of diesel will cost R14.19/ l and R13.70/ l respectively at wholesale level for the inland and the coastal areas.
It is estimated that a R1/ litre increase in fuel costs equates to a R1 billion-rand increase in input costs per year to the agriculture sector. These costs manifest differently across the various industries from planting, harvesting, distribution and packaging.
The higher crude oil price is a double whammy due to the direct influence on the fuel price and the indirect influence on oil derivatives such as fertilizer, pesticides and herbicides all of which are inputs in crop farming. The summer crop season has ended, and harvesting is in full swing with a total of 3.85 million hectares and an additional 500,500 hectares of wheat is currently being planted in the Western Cape.
This could easily translate into additional cost of over R153 million rand. Bear in mind that the distribution of agricultural produce is dominated by road transport, so the net effect of fuel increases is reduced profit margins for producers. Logistics companies in the agriculture value chain will also be hard hit, for example, over 80% of grain is transported by road. These costs will eventually be passed on to the consumer up the value chain.
For low income households, transport costs account for a large portion of household expenditure and the consequence of a sustained fuel price increases will further erode disposable income and cause financial stress. This will force a change in spending patterns with a cut in spending on luxury items and frequency of visits to eateries. As businesses face additional costs in in transport, packaging and distribution, they eventually pass on to the consumer which ultimately feeds into rising inflation.
Although slightly up from 3.8% in March to 4.5% year-on-year (y/y) in April 2018, the CPI has been relatively low and comfortably within the SARB's target range of between 3% to 6%. The SARB has kept rates unchanged at 6.5% with prime remaining at 10% in its May 2018 meeting and all indications are that there will be no reprieve for the consumer for the remainder of the year if the current developments are sustained in a low growth environment.
Nonetheless, we still expect the robust agriculture output for the 2017/18 season coupled with huge carryover grain stocks to continue to provide some cushion for consumers in the short to medium term. Reports that major crude oil producers such as Saudi Arabia and Russia will boost output should help exert downward pressure on oil prices and possibly halt further increases at the pump.


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/**
 * This file originally came from the wtfo project on sourceforge.net. It has been modified
 * to be the workout manager.
 *
 * wtfo project - https://sourceforge.net/projects/wtfo/
 */
include ("./requires.inc.php");
include ('./header.inc.php');
?>

<?php
$dao = new ExerciseDAO();
$workoutDao = new WorkoutDAO();
$userDao = new UserDAO();
$allExercises = $dao->getAllExercises(ExerciseDAO::BY_NAME);
?>

One repetition maximum (1RM) in weight training is the maximum amount of weight one can lift in a single repetition for a given exercise. One repetition maximum can be used for determining an individual's maximum strength and is the method for determining the winner in events such as powerlifting and weightlifting competitions. One repetition maximum can also be used as an upper limit, in order to determine the desired "load" for an exercise (as a percentage of the 1RM).

<form method="post" action="1rm.php">

			    <select name="exercise">
<?php
                    foreach ($allExercises as $exercise) {
                        $selected = "";
                        if ($_POST["exercise"] == $exercise->id) {
                            $selected = "SELECTED";
                        }
?>
                        <option value="<?=$exercise->id?>" <?=$selected?>><?=$exercise->name?></option>
<?php
                    }
?>
    			</select>

			    <input type="submit" value="Calc 1RM" />

</form>

<?php
if ( isset($_POST["exercise"]) && is_numeric($_POST["exercise"]) ) {
    $workouts = $workoutDao->getUserWorkoutsByExercise($_SESSION["userid"], $_POST["exercise"]);
	if (count($workouts) > 0) {
        $weight = $userDao->getLatestWeight($_SESSION["userid"]);
?>

				    Body Weight Last 10 lifts:<?=$weight?>

				Set
				1RM
				90%
				80%
				70%
				60%
				50%

<?php
			foreach ($workouts as $workout) {
?>

					<?=$workout->reps?> @ <?=$workout->weight?>
<?php
					$repmax = round($workout->weight / (1.0278 - (.0278 * $workout->reps)),2);
					for ($i = 1; $i >= 0.50; $i -= 0.10) {
?>

					    <?=number_format(round($repmax * $i,2),2)?>

					        R: <?=number_format(round(($repmax*$i)/$weight,2),2)?>

<?php
				    }
?>

<?php
		    }
?>

R = Lift : Body Weight

<?php
	} else {
?>

No Data

<?php
	}
}
?>

Brzycki's equation to determine Max load. The Brzycki equation is as
follows: Weight / ( 1.0278 - ( 0.0278 * Number of repetitions ) )

Some years back, the NSCA also published some sets of 1RM estimation
	coefficients. They took it a step further, however, and determined
	different coefficients for different lifts. Here are their coefficients
	for the Squat, Bench Press and Deadlift.

				reps performed
				squat coefficient
				bench coefficient
				deadlift coefficient

				1
				1.000
				1.000
				1.000

				2
				1.0475
				1.035
				1.065

				3
				1.13
				1.08
				1.13

				4
				1.1575
				1.115
				1.147

				5
				1.2
				1.15
				1.164

				6
				1.242
				1.18
				1.181

				7
				1.284
				1.22
				1.198

				8
				1.326
				1.255
				1.22

				9
				1.368
				1.29
				1.232

				10
				1.41
				1.325
				1.24

Delorme Method of Strengthening:
10 reps @ 50% of 10RM
10 reps @ 75% of 10RM
10 reps @ 100% of 10RM

Oxford Technique of Strengthening:
10 reps @ 100% of 10RM
10 reps @ 75% of 10RM
10 reps @ 50% of 10RM

PYRAMID TRAINING / TRIANGLE PROGRAM TRAINING

Pyramid programs or also known as Triangle training and have been
	used by many power lifters and weight trainers. A complete pyramid or
	triangle program starts with a set of 10-12 repetitions with a light
	resistance. The resistance is then increased over several sets so that
	fewer and fewer repetitions can be performed, until only a 1 RM is
	performed. Then the same sets and resistance are performed in reverse
	order, with the last set consisting of 10 to 12 reps.

This system is also used to develop maximum strength, whereby the
	trainee works up the pyramid only. This is a very strenuous and
	advanced form of training and should only be used once a strength
	foundation has been achieved. It is generally based around the
	establishment of a 1RM (maximum weight a trainee is able to lift once
	only) or a 3RM which should only be attempted when technical expertise
	has been developed and after a suitable period of warming up. The
	number of sets in a 'Pyramid' can vary but the guiding principle
	remains the same. For example:

Chest Press (assuming 1RM was 100 kg)

Set 1    10 reps at 55% of 1RM = 10 x 55kg
Set 2      6 reps at 65% of 1RM =   6 x 65kg
Set 3      3 reps at 80% of 1RM =   3 x 80kg
Set 4      1 rep at 100% of 1RM =  1x100kg

Recovery Periods for pyramid training will be dependant on the level of intensity related to the workout and can vary from 30 secs up to 3-5mins per set.

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Irene Giner-Reichl has been a member of the Austrian Diplomatic Service since 1982. Her main area of expertise is economic and social development, women's rights' issues, environment, energy, and development cooperation. She has held numerous international bureau functions. From 1995 to 1998 she was the director of the international department of the Austrian Ministry for the Environment.
From 1998 to 2001 she was Austria's Permanent Representative to the UN, IAEA, UNIDO and CTBTO in Vienna. From 2001 to 2004 she headed the UNIDO Office in New York in the rank of an Assistant Director General. From 2005 to 2012 she was in charge of Austria's development policy and cooperation as Director General in the Ministry for European and International Affairs. Between 2012 and 2017 she was the Austrian Ambassador to the People's Republic of China and Mongolia, since July 2017 she is the Austrian Ambassador to Brazil and Suriname.
Irene Giner-Reichl founded the Global Forum on Sustainable Energy (GFSE) in 1999 as a multi-stake-holder platform for dialogues on energy in the service of sustainable development and acted as Convenor for the GFSE's global and regional meetings (www.gfse.at). Since 2013 she is Vice-President of REN 21 (www.ren21.net) and since May 2017 Founding Member of GWNET, the Global Women's Network for the Energy Transition.


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Maxine Waters' Net Worth May Surprise You
By Adam England/July 6, 2021 1:05 am EST
Maxine Waters has been in politics for a long time. She has served as the U.S. representative for California's 43rd district since 1991, and before that, was a member of the California State Assembly since 1976 (via Congress.gov). Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee and even one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2018, Waters is a real senior figure in Congress, and even at the age of 83 is showing no signs of slowing down.
Waters was born in Missouri in 1938, and she moved to California in 1961. Once in the Golden State, she worked various jobs, including being a telephone operator and an assistant teacher, before enrolling at Los Angeles State College — now California State University — and getting her bachelor's degree in sociology in 1971. Her political career would get off the ground a couple of years after that (via The Guardian).
The octogenarian congresswoman has been able to fit a lot into her life, but how much money has she amassed over the years? Here's Maxine Waters' net worth; it might surprise you.
Maxine Waters is a millionaire
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According to Celebrity Net Worth, Rep. Maxine Waters is worth $2 million. The site claims that on her latest wealth disclosure, Waters listed $1.5 million worth of assets and $1.4 million worth of liabilities, with her home being valued between $1 and $4 million, depending on the current real estate market.
Waters, whom President Joe Biden recently appeared to suggest should run for the Senate (via Fox News), kickstarted her political career back in 1973, when she began working as chief deputy to David S. Cunningham Jr. (who was on the Los Angeles City Council), before being elected to the California State Assembly herself in 1976 (via the Los Angeles Times). Waters became known for her opposition to apartheid in South Africa, and has also been a critic of the Iraq War, as well as several former presidents, including George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump (via Politico).


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No, Retin-A and retinol are not the same. Retin-A (tretinoin) is a prescription-strength, topical form of vitamin A that is used to treat acne and reduce the appearance of fine wrinkles and age spots. It is available in a cream or gel form and is applied directly to the skin.
Retinol, on the other hand, is a weaker, over-the-counter form of vitamin A that is found in many skincare products. It is also used to improve the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, but it is less potent than Retin-A. Retinol is also considered less irritating to the skin than Retin-A. It's important to note that retinol takes time to convert to retinoic acid, the active form of vitamin A that is used in Retin-A.
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Texas running back Tre Watson knew he wanted to return for one final year of college football. He just needed to relearn how to walk first.
It all happened before Watson arrived on the 40 Acres as a graduate transfer. Last year, he entered his senior campaign at Cal-Berkeley. He was placed on award watch lists for the nation's best running back, and with three years of college experience under his belt, he was ready for his best year yet.
Then, in the second game of the 2017 season, Watson took a hit to his right knee.
It was his ACL and MCL — both were torn. His senior season was over.
However, Watson was still eligible for one more season as a graduate. All he needed to do was get into graduate school. There was one issue, though: Watson said he was unable to get into any of the graduate programs at Cal. In January, Watson announced his intention to transfer as a graduate student and opened up his recruitment.
Unable to benefit from the luxury of rehabbing at a university after undergoing surgery, Watson headed back to his hometown of Corona, California –– a city nearly 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles –– for physical therapy.
Watson continued to train with the same person he's gone to since he was in high school: Eliseo Cabildo at Winner Circle Athletics in Corona. Eliseo said Watson never missed a day and exhibited an incredible work ethic. But he still suffered from a torn ACL and MCL, and needed time to recover from surgery.
After months of therapy and college visits, Watson announced he was taking his talents to Texas just one week before he graduated with a degree in sociology. It didn't take long for Texas fans to get a feel for the confidence Watson exudes.
In May, he told The Athletic, "I think I'm the best (running back) in the country. I just need the opportunity to show it.
Texas gave him a shot, now he has the opportunity to "show it," and he is so far. Not even a year after his injury, Watson reported to preseason camp and checked out as the starting running back. And he is leading in more ways than one.
Watson hasn't had much time to develop much chemistry with the guys on the roster, but it appears his teammates are already fully aware of his personality and the level of his confidence.
As for Watson's opportunity, he'll get that on Saturday against a familiar foe. Growing up in Southern California, Watson was like most kids, watching the USC Trojans.
Tre said he was rooting for USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl, but that he's experienced a change of heart these past few years. In his four seasons at Cal, Watson's Golden Bears went 0–4 against USC. Now, his opportunities at beating USC have dwindled down to one last shot: Saturday night.
Watson has come a long way from rehabbing in Corona and an even longer way from cheering on USC in the 2006 national title. Now, the 22-year-old is claiming the starting running back title for one of the biggest games of the season. And he isn't taking it for granted.


The Educational Access Network, spearheaded by Northern Michigan University, is providing Internet service as part of an educational initiative.
After the Chicago and North Western Railway came through Rock at the end of the Civil War, the workers did not leave much behind.
The unincorporated community along M-35, about 15 miles northwest of Gladstone and 45 miles southeast of Ishpeming, is the government seat of Maple Ridge Township in Delta County.
Rock has town offices, a manufacturing firm, a credit union, a post office, a few churches, a couple of bars and not many homes.
It has one traffic light, a blinking caution.
No market research is necessary to know it is not an optimal market for businesses desiring population density, like the providers of internet and cable services.
"The (internet) company that I used to have would not go down a road because there were not 11 people who could tap into their service," said Maple Ridge Township Supervisor Judy Trudell, taking a break from applying for a municipal grant on her desktop computer. "And their lines were right there!
They have it now, however.
Through the Educational Access Network, Northern Michigan University is providing high-speed internet service to many unserved and under-served areas of the Upper Peninsula.
About 14 million people who live in rural areas of the United States still lack access to the main thoroughfare of cyberspace.
EAN is closing the gap in the U.P.
"I certainly understand companies needing population density," said NMU President Fritz Erickson. "They operate under a different model than we do.
The university is also interested in education — of its students, prospective students and the population at large — and mindful of how learning in the 21st century is hampered without internet access.
In a federal study, according to the university, 70 percent of U.S. teachers assign homework online.
By deploying wireless, LTE broadband, NMU is reducing the digital divide.
"We figured out how to do this for our own students, within a 25-mile radius of campus, and we heard from so many people in the community that a son or daughter cannot get on the computer at the house to do homework and other stories," Erickson said.
To launch the Educational Access Network in 2008, NMU had to receive approval from the Federal Communications Commission, including authorization to tap into the FCC-licensed Educational Broadband Service spectrum in the U.P.
Then the university worked with municipalities and schools, trading use of its wireless network for space on existing public infrastructure, including affordable, readily available LTE equipment. That kept things affordable and compatible with existing computer equipment owned by the public.
Residents and officials say the network established by Northern Michigan provides a faster, more functional service in remote areas.
"The reason that is important is because many web services, educational services, need high-speed internet in order to work efficiently and effectively," said Eric Smith, the director of broadcasting and audio-visual services at NMU.
"The most common challenge with slow internet service is you sit there and wait," Smith said. "You issue a command, and you wait and wait and wait and finally something appears on the screen.
Half of the 90 required transmitters to extend service to all of the U.P. have been commissioned.
More than 50 communities have broadband internet, and 3,300 families are enrolled, with new users signing up at a rate of about 150 per month, as additional transmitters go online.
When fully constructed, the network will provide educational broadband to 21,000 miles of rural communities, 100,000 students and lifelong learners and six Native American communities, according to the university.
"They've got cable internet at school," said Kyle Bell, who teaches industrial arts at the Negaunee Middle School and High School, about four miles east of Ishpeming. "But if students live in town, people can get the EAN and it's a lot more affordable."
Monthly service ranges from $19.95 to $34.95; installation is free, according to the university.
"I am three miles from getting cable internet at home. I asked a company to do an analysis and they said, 'for $700,000, we'll run it out there,'" Bell said. "This thing from Northern has been really fast, and there's no limits on it, no data caps. So my kids are able to watch stuff on their devices. They're able to get their homework done.
Trudell says her access to the network can mean the difference between striking "Enter" on her keyboard and driving 120 miles round-trip to submit a grant request.
"The grant I'm working on now is to help the Rock Lions Club for repairs to their center," she said. "And then, I'm going to be work on one for the township, the community center. After this winter, we need some insulation.
"It used to be all on paper. And after you did the paper, you needed to make nine copies of the application and either put it in the mail, or deliver it, which was a 60-mile drive. I'd rather deliver it, because then I know it made it there, on time.


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Disc Release Date: 17 March 2020
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Huclier est une commune française située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais en région Hauts-de-France.

La commune fait partie de la communauté de communes du Ternois qui regroupe  communes et compte  en .

Géographie

Communes limitrophes

Urbanisme

Typologie
Huclier 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 Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de moins de .

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 (100 % en 2018), une proportion identique à celle de 1990 (100 %). La répartition détaillée en 2018 est la suivante :
terres arables (78,7 %), prairies (13,2 %), zones agricoles hétérogènes (8,1 %).

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).

Toponymie
Le nom de la localité est attesté sous les formesNuclearium en 1101 (cart. de Saint-Georges, f° 11 r°), Huclers en 1136 (cart. de Watten, f° 196 v°), Hucliers en 1193 (cart. de Watten, f° 161 r°), Hucliers-en-Ternois en 1516 (Arch. nat., J. 1005, n° 3), Huquelier-lez-Saint-Pol en 1739 (Maillart, p. 36), Huquelier en 1793.

D'un nom de personne germanique Hugo suivi du germanique laar « clairière ».

Histoire
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, des troupes françaises stationnent sur Huclier, située en arrière du front de l'Artois, par exemple en avril 1915.

Politique et administration

Découpage territorial

La commune se trouve dans l'arrondissement d'Arras du département du Pas-de-Calais.

Commune et intercommunalités

La commune faisait partie de la petite communauté de communes du Pernois créée fin 1993.

Dans le cadre de la réforme des collectivités territoriales françaises, par la loi de réforme des collectivités territoriales du  (dite loi RCT)  destinée à permettre notamment l'intégration de la totalité des communes dans un EPCI à fiscalité propre, la suppression des enclaves et discontinuités territoriales et les modalités de rationalisation des périmètres des établissements publics de coopération intercommunale et des syndicats mixtes existants, cette intercommunalité fusionne avec sa voisine, la communauté de communes du pays d'Heuchin, formant le  la communauté de communes des Vertes Collines du Saint-Polois.

Un nouveau mouvement de regroupement intercommunal intervient dans le cadre des dispositions de la loi portant nouvelle organisation territoriale de la République (Loi NOTRe) du , qui prévoit que les établissements publics de coopération intercommunale (EPCI) à fiscalité propre doivent avoir un minimum de  habitants. À l'initiative des intercommunalités concernées, la Commission départementale de coopération intercommunale (CDCI) adopte le  le principe de la fusion de :
- la communauté de communes de l'Auxillois, regroupant 16 communes dont une de la Somme et  ;
- la communauté de communes de la région de Frévent, regroupant 12 communes et  ;
- de la communauté de communes des Vertes Collines du Saint-Polois, regroupant 58 communes et
- de la communauté de communes du Pernois, regroupant 18 communes et . Le Schéma départemental de coopération intercommunale (SDCI), intégrant notamment cette évolution, est approuvé par un arrêté préfectoral du .

La communauté de communes du Ternois, qui résulte de cette fusion et dont la commune fait désormais partie, est créée par un arrêté préfectoral qui a pris effet le .

Circonscriptions administratives

La commune faisait partie depuis 1801 du canton d'Heuchin. Dans le cadre du redécoupage cantonal de 2014 en France, la commune est intégrée au canton de Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise.

Circonscriptions électorales

Pour l'élection des députés, la commune fait partie de la sixième circonscription du Pas-de-Calais.

Élections municipales et communautaires

Liste des maires

Population et société

Démographie

Évolution démographique

Pyramide des âges

En 2018, le taux de personnes d'un âge inférieur à  s'élève à 43,8 %, soit au-dessus de la moyenne départementale (36,7 %). À l'inverse, le taux de personnes d'âge supérieur à  est de 9,1 % la même année, alors qu'il est de 24,9 % au niveau départemental.

En 2018, la commune comptait  pour , soit un taux de 54,29 % d'hommes, largement supérieur au taux départemental (48,50 %).

Les pyramides des âges de la commune et du département s'établissent comme suit.

Enseignement
L'école de la commune a fermé en 1965, et les enfants sont scolarisés à Conteville.

Équipements communaux
La commune se dote en 2016 d'une salle des fêtes de  qui lui faisait défaut et nécessitait d'utiliser les équipements comparables des villages proches de Valhuon, Tangry ou Brias.

Elle est construite à l'emplacement de l'ancienne salle de classe, fermée en 1964.

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

 L'église Notre-Dame.
 Le monument aux morts.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Héraldique

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes du Pas-de-Calais

Liens externes

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Commune dans le Pas-de-Calais

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Q: How to properly transform UIView's scale on UIScrollView movement To have a similar effect to Snapchat's HUD movement, I have created a movement of the HUD elements based on UIScollView's contentOffset. Edit: Link to the Github project.
func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    self.view.layoutIfNeeded()

    let factor = scrollView.contentOffset.y / self.view.frame.height

    self.transformElements(self.playButton,
                           0.45 + 0.55 * factor, // 0.45 = desired scale + 0.55 = 1.0 == original scale
                           Roots.screenSize.height - 280, // 280 == original Y
                           Roots.screenSize.height - 84, // 84 == minimum desired Y
                           factor)
}

func transformElements(_ element: UIView?,
                       _ scale: CGFloat,
                       _ originY: CGFloat,
                       _ desiredY: CGFloat,
                       _ factor: CGFloat) {
    if let e = element {
        e.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: scale, y: scale) // this line lagging

        let resultY = desiredY + (originY - desiredY) * factor
        var frame = e.frame
        frame.origin.y = resultY
        e.frame = frame
    }
}

With this code implemented the scroll as well as the transition appeared to be "laggy"/not smooth. (Physical iPhone 6S+ and 7+).
Deleting the following line: e.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: scale, y: scale) erased the issue. The scroll as well as the Y-movement of the UIView object is smooth again.
What's the best approach to transform the scale of an object?

There are no Layout Constraints.
func setupPlayButton() {
        let rect = CGRect(x: Roots.screenSize.width / 2 - 60,
                          y: Roots.screenSize.height - 280,
                          width: 120,
                          height: 120)
        self.playButton = UIButton(frame: rect)
        self.playButton.setImage(UIImage(named: "playBtn")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate), for: .normal)
        self.playButton.tintColor = #colorLiteral(red: 1, green: 1, blue: 1, alpha: 1)
        self.view.addSubview(playButton)
}

A: You can make these kinds of animation smoother by creating an animation then setting the speed of the layer to 0 and then changing the timeOffset of the layer.
first add the animation in the setupPlayButton method
let animation = CABasicAnimation.init(keyPath: "transform.scale")
animation.fromValue = 1.0
animation.toValue = 0.45
animation.duration = 1.0
//Set the speed of the layer to 0 so it doesn't animate until we tell it to
self.playButton.layer.speed = 0.0;
self.playButton.layer.add(animation, forKey: "transform");

next in the scrollViewDidScroll change the timeOffset of the layer and move the center of the button.
if let btn =  self.playButton{
    var factor:CGFloat = 1.0
    if isVertically {
        factor = scrollView.contentOffset.y / self.view.frame.height
    } else {
        factor = scrollView.contentOffset.x / Roots.screenSize.width
        var transformedFractionalPage: CGFloat = 0

        if factor > 1 {
           transformedFractionalPage = 2 - factor
        } else {
            transformedFractionalPage = factor
        }
        factor = transformedFractionalPage;
    }
    //This will change the size
    let timeOffset = CFTimeInterval(1-factor)
    btn.layer.timeOffset = timeOffset

    //now change the positions.  only use center - not frame - so you don't mess up the animation.  These numbers aren't right I don't know why
    let desiredY = Roots.screenSize.height - (280-60);
    let originY = Roots.screenSize.height - (84-60);
    let resultY = desiredY + (originY - desiredY) * (1-factor)
    btn.center = CGPoint.init(x: btn.center.x, y: resultY);
}

I couldn't quite get the position of the button correct - so something is wrong with my math there, but I trust you can fix it.
If you want  more info about this technique see here: http://ronnqvi.st/controlling-animation-timing/

A: This is happening because you are applying both: transform and frame. It will be smoother, if you apply only transform. Update your transformElements function as below:
    func transformElements(_ element: UIView?,
                       _ scale: CGFloat,
                       _ originY: CGFloat,
                       _ desiredY: CGFloat,
                       _ factor: CGFloat) {
    if let e = element {
        e.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: scale, y: scale).translatedBy(x: 0, y: desiredY * (1 - factor))

    }
}

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April was a month full of season finales and the final build-up to upcoming season finales. There were a lot of funny, sad, heartfelt, emotional, all-encompassing performances in April. Performers were delivering unbelievable performances with so much brilliance that it will be hard to narrow it down to a small group of ten to compete for the April title of SpoilerTV's Reader's Choice Most Outstanding Performer of April. But, alas, we must partake in this tough task, so be sure to place your nominations. It should be very interesting to see who gets nominated and who ultimately wins this month.
Take note that because two performers have already won for Grey's Anatomy this year the other performers on the show are ineligible for the rest of the year.They will all become eligible again at the start of the 2019 cycle of POTM.
Nominations will run until May 7th at 6 pm ET. The poll will post on May 8th at 6 pm ET.


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The research produced by a group of F&ES students yielded the framework for the stormwater management component of Yale University's new sustainability plan, which was officially released this week.
F&ES students on the green roof of Philadelphia's PECO Building.
Earlier this year, as students across New Haven escaped campus for a few sun-soaked days in tropical climes, eleven F&ES students packed into rented cars for a six-day trek down the I-95 corridor. Stops included Baltimore and Philadelphia.
So what lures a group to spend its spring break in some of the nation's grittier towns during the grey days of March? In this case it was stormwater.
Over the course of six days, the students learned first-hand how four major cities —also including New York and Washington, D.C. — are tackling the challenges of storm water runoff, including innovative "green infrastructure" projects that mimic natural systems to improve water quality in urban areas.
For the class, it was a valuable opportunity to explore the latest developments in this emerging field. But for Yale University, it might be even more valuable. The research produced by the students — in the classroom and during the trip — yielded the framework for the stormwater management component of the new Yale Sustainability Strategic Plan 2013-2016, which was officially launched this week.
Ultimately, their findings could transform the way Yale — and, for that matter, New Haven — manage the expensive problem of stormwater runoff.
"Stormwater is a kind of underappreciated issue, even though cities are spending tens of billions of dollars on it," said Ryan Withall, a second-year student who helped organize the trip. "So these people were really happy to have a group of interested individuals who were knowledgeable and asking questions.
The connection between the F&ES curriculum and Yale's overall sustainability plan was actually borne out of work done by the previous year's Payments for Ecosystem Services class (F&ES 963), which is taught by Professors Brad Gentry and Mark Ashton.
Students explore the green roof on the PECO Building in Philadelphia.
During the spring of 2011, that group spent several weeks learning how other universities were using ecosystem services to improve campus performance on climate, water, aesthetics, and biodiversity issues. They spent the second half of the semester studying how those lessons might be applied on the Yale campus.
In the end, they identified stormwater management as an area with particular potential for improvement.
"I really loved the fact that we can be practical enough to help the Facilities Department deal with a real problem they have, but do so in a way that allows us to easily connect with the more theoretical discussions about where the modeling is going," said Gentry, a professor at F&ES and co-director of the Center for Business & the Environment at Yale (CBEY).
Before they even arrived on campus in the fall of 2012, Withall and Caitlin Feehan, another second-year F&ES student, had contacted Gentry to express their interest in green infrastructure issues.
Before long, Gentry asked Withall and Feehan to help develop the new iteration of the ecosystems services class — taught last spring by Gentry, Ashton, and PhD student Jenn Hoyle — and put the new students in touch with Yale's facilities department, where they were hired to help coordinate the stormwater plan.
The class's 13 students helped organize the four-city tour which highlighted concepts that they would bring back to Yale. In New York, they noticed an emphasis on implementing data-based projects ("very Bloombergian," Withall said.); In Philadelphia, they learned the importance of follow-up analysis to assess system performance. And in Baltimore, they saw the value of collaboration.
Back in New Haven, the students identified an obvious area where Yale could improve its own runoff performance: storm drains. Specifically, they noticed that numerous buildings had storm drains that dumped water directly into sewers. It's a common enough feature that can produce flooding during heavy rain events, and send wastewater into public water supplies and natural ecosystems.
As part of the stormwater management plan, the students recommended that the university conduct an assessment of drainage systems campus-wide, which is now nearing completion. Eventually, the findings could yield new drainage designs — such as ones that divert rainwater from sewers toward rain gardens that absorb the water into the soil — or the planting of more water-tolerant vegetation.
In Philadelphia, the class toured infrastructure sites with Gerald Bright, an environmental program scientist with the Philadelphia Water Department and F&ES alum.
As part of the stormwater plan, the students also developed a computer model that calculates how much water can be saved in the future, and calls for the collection of real data that will assess the accuracy of those models.
According to Virginia Chapman, director of facilities sustainable initiatives, having such data will enable Yale to set reasonable targets for improved stormwater management.
The student input will help the university explore solutions that it might not otherwise have explored, Chapman said.
Early in the project, Enright-Kato recalls, some of the F&ES students were almost skeptical that they were qualified to make recommendations for such a critical issue.
"I told them, 'You guys really are the experts. Trust me! You may know more than the [sustainability] staff even knows. So consider yourself the consultants. You are the person bringing it to the table, and your recommendations are the recommendations,'" she recalled.


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By George Wilson
Lima, January 16, 2022Updated on 01/16/2022 02:57 pm
After an auspicious debut in the 2022 Summer Tournament against the University of Chile, Colo Colo is getting ready to face his second match of the contest, which will be against Boca Juniors. In this he knows the possible formation of the 'Cacique' with the presence of the Peruvian Gabriel Costa.
After staying with the Chilean Superclásico against the 'U', Colo Colo faces his next challenge with optimism in the friendly contest that has been taking place in Argentina. Along these lines, coach Gustavo Quinteros plans (if possible) to repeat the eleven he held last Friday in the city of La Plata.
Possible formation of Colo Colo
Brayan Cortes; Óscar Opazo, César Fuentes, Maximiliano Falcón, Gabriel Suazo; Vicente Pizarro, Esteban Pavez; Gabriel Costa; Marcos Bolados, Juan Manuel Lucero and Pablo Solari would be the 11 players who would come out from minute one to face the 'Xeneizes'.
Of course, it will be waited until the last moment due to the situation of Emiliano Amor.
When does Colo Colo play vs. Boca Juniors?
The match is scheduled for this Monday, January 17, from 7:00 p.m. (local time) and 9:00 p.m. (Chilean and Argentine time). The transmission of it will be in charge of the Fox Sports Premium signal and live streaming by Star Plus.
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Synchronous Fireflies: Mother Nature's Beautiful Smoky Mountains Display
Traneah Ford
May.31.2019
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Remember the summer nights outside when all of the fireflies would come out, blinking randomly and creating an unpatterned array of lights around you? Well, imagine a bunch of those same fireflies all blinking at the same time! This actually happens at Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee.
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Mating In The Mountains
Synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) are one of the 19 firefly species that live in the Great Smoky Mountains, and they are the only ones that can synchronize their flashing lights. Their light patterns are connected to their mating signals. Each species has its own flash pattern that helps the males and females recognize each other. The males fly around flashing and searching for the perfect lady firefly, while the females respond with a stationary flash. How is that for a laugh? The boy chases the girl in the firefly world, too!
How To See The Lights
It's that time of the year, and the synchronous fireflies are back. For two weeks every year during the mating season (the dates depend on the temperature and soil moisture), a few fireflies start flashing; a flashing frenzy soon commences as more fireflies join in. Once the majority of the insects are lighting up each night, the peak of the mating season has been reached, and the number of flashes begins to decline. The quality of the nightly displays depends on various environmental factors, including the moon's phase, the temperature, and the amount of rainfall. This year's show is set to take place between May 30 and June 6.
Parking passes for the event are limited and must be purchased from the Sugarlands Visitor Center. Shuttles transport visitors from the designated parking area to the Elkmont viewing area where the firefly show takes place. The park holds a lottery for parking passes and viewing supplies; it costs $1 to enter, but unfortunately, the lottery for this year has closed. It was held from April 26 to April 29, and the results were announced on May 10. Regular parking passes cost $24 per vehicle.
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Before attending the event, be sure to head over to the website to learn more about light show etiquette. Flashlights disrupt the fireflies and can annoy those around you; it's important to use them properly and to make sure you aren't harming the fireflies.
Soon the fireflies will make their grand entrance. Worried that you'll miss this year's show? Be sure to bookmark this page for next summer's adventures. Keep an eye on the website for information about next year's lottery, when to purchase parking passes, and when the synchronous fireflies will make their next appearance.
Another Chance To View Synchronous Fireflies
If you missed the fireflies in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you can witness them at Molly Branch Fireflies in Corryton, Tennessee. Snappy syncs (Photinus frontalis) are the synchronous fireflies that flash here once a year, usually during June. This year's viewings will take place between June 3 and June 17 from 9:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. each evening. Tickets can be purchased online; they cost $10 for adults and $5 for children, and infants can enter for free. Tickets are also available for purchase at the gate; they cost $15 for adults and $8 for children. Check the homepage for updates on display nights.
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Come and enjoy a wonderful menu and authentic desserts made from Victorian recipes. Guest speakers will tell us about Queen Victoria and the wonderful marriage she shared with Prince Albert. The setting for the tea is in a Queen Anne mansion built within the Victorian era. It's a delightful way to spend a Sunday afternoon in spring.


We tried to give the front garden a 'country cottage' look with red and yellow rambling roses around the front porch, intertwined with two contracting clematis, the pink Nelly Moser and the more popular pale pink Montana, all of which offer a colourful and eye-catching combination when all are in bloom. Opposite a climbing cotoneaster bears white flowers in summer followed by vibrant berries in autumn and winter.
Ground cover is provided by rampant purple Vinca, while the pink hydrangea by the bay window has its pink blooms echoed by a clump of flock and clusters of wild geraniums. Yellow verbascums and foxgloves offer further contrasts, and a favourite sage bush, with its spectacular blue flowers and grey-green foliage, sits just inside the font railings, alongside the striking spear-like leaves of the red 'burning bush'. Clumps of large white Shasta daises and Crocosmia lucifer border along the left hand side of the garden, further adding to the 'cottage' look.


Conspicuous consumption of products is problematic for the development of a sustainable relationship to cultural and natural resources. Drawing on an emotional design approach, this study explores emotional conditions involved in the buying phase of socially visible products used in a typically expressive consumption activity. Through an extreme character approach, impulsive and compulsive buying is explored to expose principal and generic emotional conditions in the drive for new design products. The study demonstrates a range of primary negative emotional conditions or emotional fluctuations related to anxiety, mood, and self-esteem in the buying of appearance-related products. In conclusion, to achieve a more sustainable consumer relationship with fashion-conditioned material goods, the study reveals a need for unemotional design to acquire emotional detachment, rather than design to acquire emotional attachment.


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Germany's new Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Tony Blair
Germany's new Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday for a meeting that could set a new tone ahead of talks on some of the most pressing budget and economic issues facing Europe.In keeping with Germany's close ties to France, Merkel's first visit as chancellor was to French President Jacques Chirac but she has given clear signals in the past that her instincts are closer to the market-friendly ideas of Blair.
Merkel has been at pains to stress continuity in foreign policy and no-one is expecting any radical change of stance ahead of next month's European Union summit at which the British presidency is desperately seeking a deal over the EU budget.
But after his sometimes difficult relations with Merkel's predecessor Gerhard Schroeder, Blair will be hoping for a more conciliatory approach from the new chancellor.
"In concrete policy terms, there's not likely to be much change -- that's partly due to the nature of the EU itself," said Canan Atilgan, a specialist in European issues at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, a think tank linked to Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU). "But in her way of going about things, in communication and negotiations, there may be quite a noticeable change."
Merkel and Blair are due to meet only briefly on Thursday evening but officials say the two have substantial issues to discuss ranging from the EU budget to plans to open up service industries and reform in the sugar and chemicals sectors.
On the budget issue -- where agreement over EU finances for 2007-13 has been held up by disputes over a rebate enjoyed by Britain and agriculture subsidies that benefit France -- Merkel appears to be sticking with Schroeder's support for France.
But British officials will be watching carefully for any change in tone after what London felt was an excessively confrontational position by Schroeder, who roundly condemned the rebate claimed by Blair.
While Britain's rebate has been condemned as unfair, London has argued EU farm spending, which largely benefits France, is wasteful and outdated and prevents more profitable investment in research and economic reform, themes dear to Merkel.
Speaking after talks in Paris and Brussels on Wednesday, Merkel refused to be drawn on whether she expected to play a mediating role between Chirac and Blair.But she avoided painting Blair into a corner on the British rebate, saying it was only one of several elements at issue.
"On the financial perspective, we have to look at all the issues, those of the net contributors as well as beneficiaries and we can't reduce it to one point," she said in Brussels after a meeting with EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
With the EU still reeling from the rejection of a planned constitution by French and Dutch voters earlier this year, any advance would be welcome to Blair, whose presidency risks ending in failure in December if no budget deal is reached.
Schroeder's close relationship with Chirac, forged during their opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, set Germany clearly at odds with Britain, Washington's main ally in the war.ut the two leaders were also both sceptical about the "Anglo-Saxon" reform agenda associated with Blair, which they saw as a threat to Europe's traditionally strong welfare state, reports Reuters. I.L.
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Engineers model mutations causing drug resistance
IMAGE: (Left) A schematic of drug resistance across a population of patients. Patients with initially sensitive disease (blue) are treated with a drug. Different genetic mutations cause different resistance mutations (red,... view more
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Whether it is a drug-resistant strain of bacteria, or cancer cells that no longer react to the drugs intended to kill them, diverse mutations make cells resistant to chemicals, and "second generation" approaches are needed. Now, a team of Penn State engineers may have a way to predict which mutations will occur in people, creating an easier path to create effective pharmaceuticals.
"Structure-based drug design works very well," said Justin Pritchard, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and holder of the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Early Career Entrepreneurial Professorship. "It is an amazing ecosystem of technology, but you still have to point it at a set of resistance mutations."
Standard practice to develop drugs is to model the structure of chemicals and their cellular targets to kill specific pathogens or cancer cells. Once mutations begin to change the cells, treatment requires new drugs. However, a variety of mutations may occur and drug developers need to target the appropriate mutation to kill the pathogen or the cancer cells.
The researchers wanted to discover what drives which mutations to grow out in the real world so that they could choose the most effective mutations to target. They report today (Mar. 24) in Cell Reports that they found that the most drug-resistant mutation was not necessarily the mutation that dominated. "Survival of the fittest" did not always hold and targeting should aim at the most probable mutation rather than the most resistant, at least for some cancers.
"We need to not just understand the biophysics," said Pritchard. "We also need to understand the evolutionary dynamics."
Drug resistance is a problem when treating diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and cancers, but the researchers chose to investigate mutations in cancers because understanding mutations in cancer cells is simpler. Mutations in bacteria and virus have two components -- what happens within the cells and what happens when the bacteria or viruses spread from host to host. Because cancer is not, in humans, contagious, working with cancer cells removes a portion of the potential source of mutations.
"If we take out the community aspect of transmission, we can study just the de novo, or 'from nothing,' generation of mutations," said Pritchard.
The researchers looked at existing data for leukemia and three other types of cancer. The leukemia database was the largest and most complete. They used algorithms similar to those used in modeling how chemical reactions in chemical physics take place. In this case, they used the simulations to model how evolution works.
"We are trying to create a generalized approach to getting the numbers that we use in the models," said Pritchard. "To do this we did not 'fit' the model, but used data obtained from experiments and scaling."
Creating a way to obtain data for generalized cases rather than individuals would increase the possibility of using this method for a variety of pathogens.
"We ran the model and it matched clinical data to a degree much better than I ever expected," said Pritchard. "We did this from first principles (basic assumptions)."
As cancer cells divide, errors that are made in the copying of DNA result in mutations. One letter of DNA might be mistakenly replaced with another, but these mistakes are not completely random. Some letters are more easily substituted for others, and so these mutations happen more often. This creates a mutation bias -- some substitutions are more likely. Thus the likeliness of a mistake, and not the reduction in sensitivity to drugs, can predict the resistance mutations that real patients develop.
"We shouldn't always focus on the strongest resistance mutation because there are other evolutionary forces that dictate what happens in the real world," said Pritchard. "Sometimes drug resistance relies on biased random events."
The researchers found that biased random mutations played a big part in the evolution of resistance in leukemia. They found similar results with breast, prostate and stomach cancers, although the effect size was not as large.
"The data are not quite as strong in the prostate and breast cancer setting," said Pritchard. "In non-small cell lung cancer we didn't see this effect at all."
According to the researchers, there are lots of places where evolutionary bias creates an abundance of mutations that are not the most resistant strains, but it is a spectrum with leukemias on one end; breast, prostate and stomach cancers in the middle; and non-small cell lung cancer on the other end.
"Our analysis establishes a principle for rational drug design: When evolution favors the most probable mutant, so should drug design," the researchers said.
Also leading on this project were Scott M. Leighow, doctoral student and Chuan Liu, a visiting scientist now returned to medical practice in Shanghai; and co-authors Haider Inam, doctoral student, and Boyang Zhao, visiting professional data scientist; all at Penn State.
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering supported this research.
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Wisbech man charged with burglary and theft after he was tracked down by police helicopter
Published: 9:42 AM October 26, 2009 Updated: 6:14 AM November 4, 2020
THE police helicopter helped track down a Wisbech man who was hiding in bushes after a burglary in a Cambridgeshire village. Police were called to a burglary in progress in Over Road, Longstanton, at 9.05pm Friday and saw a man running across fields away
THE police helicopter helped track down a Wisbech man who was hiding in bushes after a burglary in a Cambridgeshire village.
Police were called to a burglary in progress in Over Road, Longstanton, at 9.05pm Friday and saw a man running across fields away from the premises.
The force helicopter was scrambled from police headquarters in Huntingdon and within four minutes was on the scene. It spotted the man hiding in bushes.
Officers on the ground were directed to the man and arrested him.
The 51-year-old man from Wisbech has been charged with theft and burglary.
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Before Nicolette Mason became a popular blogger and fashion entrepreneur, she frequented punk rock shows in Los Angeles. Her beauty choices back then certainly reflected her passion for the vibrant punk scene.
She has since traded in her pots of Electric Eel for a regimen focused on amazing skincare and a foundation that may just be her desert island product.
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Measure and Unmeasured : these two opposite can qualify what happen to Syrian children since 2011.
Assad, with his shelling ,arrests, sieges, deprived Syrian children of what is considered as a normal childhood; their suffering is without measure, even if media are not aware of it. They are a lost generation, by the unmeasured things they lived : a normal (measured) education , an access to basic medicines, a normal food, all these things by which we measure childhood, they were deprived of.
Sieges made them suffer of starvation , and the lack of medicines impeached the vaccines : for children, it is unmeasured. Assad, in his massacres of civilians, made no difference between adults and kids: shelling were without measure, but the worse was with the use of chemicals.
On civilians, it constitutes a war crimes, under all international laws; on his own people, a genocide. And a genocide, the extermination of a whole people, is incomplete without children . The future of Syria has been equally exterminated, and no measure is known by the responsible for these acts.
Now, alerts are created on the future of these kids, especially on Twitter : they deserve a normal childhood, they who never knew anything else that the war.
"Measure" is a word they ignore the meaning of, as "peace". They know their contraries, "unmeasured" , because they lived in a disproportional massacre, a trauma, and "war". Only teenagers, born before 2011, have known a life without war, but it was under a dictatorship: where is measure, in all cases?
And now, with the awful measures taken both by Assad and ISIS, teens are old enough to make warriors , or rescuers, in the aim to protect Syria. They can join the FSA, the White Helmets, or stay with their bombed family, and try to feed them, in the measure they can.
Europe has taken all the possible political measures to close its borders, and refugees who think of building a peaceful and measured life in Europe die in the seas between Turkey and Greece.
What can establish measure, peace, and democracy in Syria? In 2011, they wanted to topple Assad and the Baath to build a democracy.
In 2017, they still want to write their own Constitution, with dignity, freedom, social justice.
Unlike the dictatorship of Assad and the terror spread by ISIS, this is measure.


HAN LOKE KWANG OF HYLA ARCHITECTS DISCUSSES HOW HIS SINGULAR APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE CONSISTS OF BALANCING STRONG FORMS WITH DYNAMIC SPACES.
"There wasn't any grand objective to change the world or do something to make a statement," says Han Loke Kwang, Principal Architect of HYLA Architects, on the founding of the practice. "I have always believed that architecture is a personal expression. That has always been a driving force in what I do," he adds.
To observers of modern architecture and its lineage of influencers, most famously including Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright with their visions of citywide transformation, Han's statement is strikingly modest. Sporting round black-rimmed glasses and a quiet demeanour, he veers away from grandiose projections and prefers to allow his work to speak for itself.
While HYLA Architects' body of work includes some commercial projects, the portfolio gravitates heavily towards residential architecture, which, Han believes, allows more room for expression. He founded the studio (with Yip Yuen Hong and Vincent Lee, both of whom have since moved on with their own pursuits) in 1993. The moment, says Han, that he found his voice in architecture was upon the completion of additions to a corner terrace house at Capricorn Drive in 2003.
A bold timber-clad volume cantilevers over a steep eight-metre slope, the strong trapezoidal form and clean lines of the timber-screen facade reflecting the approach that he has consistently employed for his subsequent works. "One thing I value in architecture is simplicity. I keep the forms very simple, usually with only one recognisable profile… The second thing I value is clarity – to make it very clear what the building is meant to do," Han offers.
This singular approach of refining forms to achieve clarity has threaded through all of HYLA's work. Thoughtful detailing is integral to this process of distillation. "I think it is important to have details that disappear and don't call attention to themselves. It's not about how clever the architect is. If details are done wrong, they are glaring. But it is not easy to design details that are subsumed into the overall concept so you don't even notice them," he says. What observers may notice about HYLA's work, however, is the resonant consistency and the clean, modern aesthetic that encapsulates it.
The shophouse project at Lorong 24A Geylang was awarded an Architectural Heritage Award in 2011 by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and also clinched the Singapore Institute of Architects Design Award (Conservation Category) in 2012. Other projects including the Belimbing Avenue inter-terrace, Jalan Angin Laut bungalow, Faber Avenue corner terrace and Toh Crescent cluster housing have been showcased frequently in design magazines.
Notably, all of HYLA's projects seek a balance in the interplay of exterior forms and fluid interior experiences. "When I say I try to make the forms simple, I mean that I try to make the external form stable and powerful; but my spaces tend to be very dynamic," Han muses. "I think it is important for spaces to flow and not be static – [they should hint at] where to go next, where light is coming from," he says as he sketches a section of one of the houses.
HYLA's houses are essentially treated as spaces of private retreat. While fluid and availing movement, the spaces also possess an introspective quality. Within the Belimbing Avenue dwelling, privacy is carved out through the allocation of separate zones for each occupant. "We arranged it such that everyone has their own space; the child is in the front volume, separated from the master bedroom by a family room and bridge," Han notes. Care was also taken to retain the privacy of the abode through the calibration of views towards the exterior. Instead of large window openings, interior courtyards or skylights are preferred elements to let light and breezes in.
The bungalow at Jalan Angin Laut blurs the transition between exterior and interior through a surprising twist. One pushes past the front doors and the calm facade to find a pool that is partially open to the sky. A glass bridge hovers above the water and connects one to the living and dining spaces at the rear of the site. Han suggests that the pool was used help insulate against noise from nearby train tracks. Openings in the side walls are cut at 1.8 metres in height to reveal lush planting along the perimeter boundary walls. The result is an intimate swimming pool surrounded by greenery and offering views of the sky, set within the heart of the abode.
The blurring of boundaries ties in with another key aspect of HYLA's work: an exploration of 'tropical Asian living'. This is especially evident in the studio's recent works. "In the genre of housing in Singapore, the urban environment is very compact and high in density. We explore the different typologies that can be applied here in the moderation of weather between indoors and outdoors." Han informs. Some of these involve the integration of automated systems such as a proprietary motorised screen in the Lorong J Telok Kurau corner terrace. Other typologies of modulation inform integral aspects of the design, such as the use of a reflective pool on the ground floor of Belimbing Avenue which helps to passively cool the house. The gently lilting timber pergola above the staircase shades the interior courtyard, and demonstrates an ingeniously simple resolution of details.
Without the use of any screws, the timber struts are strung on cables and separated by copper pipe spacers. "Typically people use metal-framed timber pergolas, but we always try to think of different ways to do things. At Belimbing Avenue, there is a heaviness to the off-form concrete, so I wanted a way to lighten it up slightly." Han enthuses. The idea of omitting nails was extended to all timber screens within the house, with timber screen panels slotted in with spacers and held in place by metal frames. The lightweight staircase meets the ground with an intricate feature wall, which cleverly conceals the staircase supports while providing a viewing aperture for the living room. The space under the staircase is a pool washed with natural light due to the openness of the treads above. Indeed, the experience of moving through HYLA's houses involves delightful transitions between indoors and outdoors, always within the private sanctuary.
On a larger scale, HYLA's cluster residential project at Toh Crescent possesses a similar quality of quiet introspection, which offers a refreshing measure of privacy within a typically dense setting. Han observed that privacy is the main issue with most cluster housing projects, and sought to find a solution in HYLA's first attempt at the cluster housing typology. "Many cluster housing developments have glass facades that look into the pool area. If everyone can see what I'm doing in the living room, it's too intrusive. I felt that the concept of all residents looking into a pool was a Californian typology, and not a very Asian thing to do. So I was very interested in how to layer the private and public spaces by turning all the living spaces away from the pool," Han explains. An internal street was created instead, featuring a central court with three cascading pools, flanked by monolithic grey walls with seemingly random openings. The street feels like a Chinese walled courtyard, crafted at an intimate pedestrian scale.
When asked where he finds his inspiration, Han reveals that his chief influence is an interest in art. "I don't look much at modern architecture. Art is a key passion for me, from the Italian Renaissance to the modern American Abstract Expressionists. I'm attracted to art that is similar to what I try to do: powerful, but very controlled." The selftermed audiophile confesses that he stumbled into architecture based on the university prospectus – "the architecture course was the only one with pictures of students in studio or at site… I chose it on the basis that it was the most interesting thing to study. Good thing it turned out okay in the end," he quips.


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Happy holidays from "SEAL Team" on CBS, and its tale of two Virginia Beaches
By Larry Bonko
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David Boreanaz, Neil Brown Jr., and Max Thieriot in SEAL Team (2017). (CBS)
Thank you, David Boreanaz, for thinking of us here in Hampton Roads as we prepare to rejoice in Christmas 2018.
Boreanaz, who stars as Master Chief Jason Hayes in the gritty CBS drama, "SEAL Team," recently sent this thoughtful Tweet our way: "Wishing you and yours all the best this holiday season from everyone at 'SEAL Team.' We truly love making this show and look forward to more shows to come. It's been a great season."
If Boreanaz feels a connection to this area, it's because the Navy SEALs on the CBS series are based in Virginia Beach. In real life, SEAL teams 2, 4, 8 and 10 of Naval Special Warfare Group 2 call the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek/Fort Story their home.
The "SEAL Team" series is a tale of two cities – the Virginia Beach created by the show's producers and the real Virginia Beach.
The fictitious Virginia Beach has a large bustling airport, bright green bins to collect recyclables and an elevated overlook with trees and bushes from which the residents at night look down on sparkling city lights. A fantastic view.
"It was your mother's favorite place," Boreanaz tells his two children, played by Kerri Medders and Ammon Jacob Ford. "From here she could see all the way to tomorrow."
The real Virginia Beach has none of that.
If there is a large bustling airport around here, it's the one in Norfolk. The bins used for recycling in Virginia Beach are blue not green, and as far as finding a spot from way up high to see the city lights, you'll have to settle for trudging up Mt. Trashmore to reach an elevation of 68 feet.
With all that said, we accept the TV version of Virginia Beach and get a kick out of hearing familiar names on network television. Teresa Diaz, a public relations specialist with the Virginia Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau, said she gets all "tingly" when hearing Boreanaz and others on CBS say Virginia Beach street names and locations.
Anything to raise the awareness of Virginia Beach is a good thing, she said. The city averages something like 6.4 million visitors a year who stay overnight. Tourism here is a $1.4 billion business. It doesn't hurt to have a resort the size of Virginia Beach mentioned on CBS every Wednesday.
When "SEAL Team" aired its fall finale on Wednesday, it concluded a run of shows in which Virginia Beach's name popped up quite often. One of the themes in the early episodes involved the Boreanaz character mourning the death of his wife, Alana, played by Michaela McManus, in an automobile accident at the corner of Dam Neck and Holland roads.
"This is where it happened," he tells a comrade. "This is where my wife's car was hit. The accident happened just a mile from our home. In my job, I trudge through some of the most dangerous places in the world. My wife always worried about me getting killed in the line of duty.
"I'm still alive and now she's dead. It makes no sense."
In two hours, he counted 1,142 vehicles passing through the intersection. One glitch: a street sign identified the street as "Holland Avenue." Oops!
How do the people who work on "SEAL Team" know so much about Virginia Beach when they work in California?
"Many people on our staff have been to Virginia Beach," said executive producer Christopher Chulack. "We have writers, technical consultants and producers who were stationed there. They are an integral, permanent part of our show."
The presence of the rather famous SEAL Team 6, based at the Dam Neck Annex, Oceana, is one reason why Chulack and his colleagues chose Virginia Beach as home base for their TV SEALs.
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As this season's early story line unfolded we saw a lot of Boreanaz in Virginia Beach tending to the needs of his children and contemplating his future. Should he leave Bravo Team and give up his career as a fearless SEAL leader? Or should he ask the children's grandmother to look after them as he returns to active duty.
While choosing the latter, and embarking on a mission to Mexico to hunt down the leader of a drug cartel, Boreanaz finds that his thoughts are with the children he left behind in Virginia.
Boreanaz eventually decides to dive back into danger. "SEAL Team" returns on Jan. 2 with new episodes.
In a recent episode, a SEAL played by Max Thieriot was knocked down by a blast during a skirmish. Was he hurt bad? Knocked senseless? Did he know where he was? When asked if he were back home in Virginia Beach, Thieriot said no way. He was in combat and knew it.
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