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Tribune Obituaries
Obituaries | November 18, 2005
Raymond Theodore "Ray" Abernethy, 99, of Lincoln died there Saturday, Nov. 5.
He was born Oct. 27, 1906, in Ord, Neb., to Jason and Mabel (Anderson) Abernethy.
On May 8, 1934, he married Jennie Lind in Lincoln. They celebrated 70 years of marriage in 2004. Mrs. Abernethy died Jan. 30, 2005.
Mr. Abernethy retired from the Army at the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 2005, he received the Minute Man Award for 50 years in the Reserve Officers Association. He was a Member Post No. 3 of the American Legion and was an admiral in the Nebraska Navy.
A registered professional engineer in Nebraska and Oklahoma, Mr. Abernethy retired from Western Electric and was a member of several professional organizations. Before working for AT&T, he was a foreman and lieutenant in the Civilian Conservation Corps and a project engineer for the Rural Electric Association.
Mr. Abernethy was a five-gallon Red Cross blood donor and a member of many social organizations. He was a member of North Star Masonic Lodge No. 227, Capstone No. 64, Mt. Moriah Command No. 4 and Hiram Club. An ardent tennis player, he was a member of Lincoln Tennis Association and American Tennis Association. An insatiable stamp collector, he belonged to the Lincoln Stamp Club and the American Philatelic Society.
Survivors are a son, R. Bruce Abernethy of Lincoln; two daughters and their husbands, Laurie and Bob Guthmann of Greeley and Janice and Rodger Pereyra of Cottage Grove, Minn.; six grandchildren and their spouses, Scott Guthmann of Denver, Todd and Susan Guthmann of Greeley, Lisa Youngwirth of Ault, Kristi Pereyra and Christopher Viaggi of Mountain View, Calif., Amy and Pat Magras of Burnsville, Minn., and Alicia Pereyra of Pacific Grove, Calif.; and seven great-grandchildren.
Besides his wife, two sisters, Evelyn Howard and Wilma Faria, preceded him in death.
Memorial services were Nov. 14 at Christ United Methodist Church in Lincoln. Preceding the memorial service, interment with full military honors was at Wyuka Cemetery, Lincoln.
Memorial gifts may be made to Christ United Methodist Church, 4530 A St., Lincoln, NE 68510-4818.
Jacob "Jake" Bechthold, 93, of Windsor died Wednesday, Nov. 16, at the Bee Hive Home in Windsor.
He was born Feb. 14, 1912, in Denhoff, Russia, to George and Katrina (Fein) Bechthold.
On Oct. 29, 1937, he married Marie Breitenfeld in Oberbauerschaft, Germany.
Mr. Bechthold immigrated from Germany to Windsor with his wife and three children in 1952. He was proud to become a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1959. Since his retirement in 1977, he enjoyed fishing, traveling and volunteering with activities at the Windsor Senior Center.
He was a member of Faith United Church of Christ, formerly Zion Lutheran Church, since 1952.
Survivors are his wife, Marie Bechthold of Windsor; two daughters and their husbands, Lore and Howard Starck of Saratoga, Wyo., and Edeltraut "Ethel" and Bill Condon of Greeley; a son and his wife, Bruno and Marietta Bechthold of Oak Harbor, Wash.; four grandchildren, Brian Starck, Marvin Starck, Karl Bechthold and Ann-Marion Bechthold; five great-grandchildren, Brad, Taylor, Brooke, his namesake Jake and Lindon Starck; and several nieces and nephews in the United States and Germany.
His parents and five siblings preceded him in death.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Faith United Church of Christ, Windsor. Interment will be in Lakeview Cemetery, Windsor.
Friends may visit from 4-8 p.m. Monday at Adamson Windsor Memorial Chapel.
Instead of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Red Cross and/or Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado in care of Adamson, 429 Main St., Windsor, CO 80550.
Condolences may be sent to the family at http://www.adamson chapels.com.
Berwin Eikenberg, 75, of Weldona died Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Valley View Villa in Fort Morgan.
He was born Jan. 9, 1930, in Otis to Albert and Emily Eikenberg.
Mr. Eikenberg served in the Army during the Korean War. He worked for the Morgan County Road and Bridge Department for 33 years and retired in 1992. He enjoyed fishing, gardening and spending time with his family and friends.
Survivors are his five sons, Brian Eikenberg and Randy Eikenberg, both of Greeley, Jeff Eikenberg of Pierce, Michael Porter of Weldona and Cory Eikenberg of Wiggins, and nine grandchildren.
His parents, a brother, Delmer, and a grandson preceded him in death.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Heer and Jolliffe Mortuary Chapel in Fort Morgan. Interment will be in the Memory Gardens Cemetery.
Memorial gifts may be made to the Morgan County Hospice in care of Heer & Jolliffe Mortuary, 225 E. Platte Ave., Fort Morgan, CO 80701.
Theodore L. "Ted" Gallegos, 62, of Greeley died Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado inpatient unit in Greeley.
He was born Oct. 18, 1943, in Las Vegas, N.M., to Macedonio and Erma (Stroke) Gallegos.
In 1991, he married Linda Oder in Greeley. They later divorced.
Mr. Gallegos attended school in Denver. He enjoyed fishing. He was a kind hearted person and a single father. He loved his son very much. He was a loving husband and father and was very outgoing.
Survivors are a daughter, Evelyn Gallegos of Denver; a son, Theodore Gallegos Jr. of Greeley; two sisters, Betty Garcia and husband Jesus of Evans and Anna Chavez of Greeley; three brothers, Carlos Chavez, Clyde Chavez and Henry Chavez, all of Greeley; and five grandchildren.
His parents and a brother George Chavez are deceased.
Recitation of the rosary will be at 7 p.m. Monday at Stoddard Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church, 1311 3rd St., Greeley. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Greeley.
Friends may visit from 1-4 p.m. today and 5-7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
An online memorial is at http://www.mem.com.
Joseph Rocco Malpiede, 85, of Lakewood died Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Denver.
He was born Nov. 6, 1920, in Denver to Rocco and Josephine Malpiede of Potenza, Italy.
He and his wife, Mary (Teti) Malpiede were married June 9, 1946, in Welby and were married 59 years.
Mr. Malpiede worked as a carpenter, a sewing machine mechanic and an upholsterer. He was a member of Sons of Italy Lodge in Denver and the Lakewood Elks Lodge.
Survivors are his wife, Mary; a daughter, Donna McNulty and husband Brian of Littleton; two sons, Dan Malpiede and wife Pat of Kersey and Dr. Ron Malpiede of Littleton; nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
His parents, three sisters and five brothers are deceased.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 3549 Navajo St., Denver. Following services, interment will be in Crown Hill Cemetery, 28th and Wadsworth, Denver.
Contributions may be made to the Joe Malpiede Memorial Fund to the account name filed under Mary Malpiede at any Wells Fargo Bank.
Bernard G. "Beans" Mathis, 84, of Sterling died Wednesday, Nov. 16, at a care facility in Fort Collins. He had been a patient at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley for several months before moving to Fort Collins.
He was born March 4, 1921, in Carpenter, Wyo., to Gene and Grace (Shepard) Mathis.
Mr. Mathis graduated from Willard High School in 1939. On Jan. 31, 1943, he married Velma J. Husom. She died May 4, 2004.
Survivors are a daughter, Judy Snyder and husband Sam of Roanoke, Texas; a son, Bernie and wife Melverie of Sterling; four grandchildren, Gwen Snyder of Roanoke, Sam Snyder of Providence, Texas, Stephanie Wright and husband Kevin of Sterling and Jaci Mathis of Sterling; and three great-grandchildren, Joseph Snyder of Roanoke, Carter Wright and Andrew Wright of Sterling.
Also surviving are four sisters-in-law, Phyllis Walter of Aurora, Doris White of Arena, Wis., Martha Husom of Ridgeway, Wis., and Judy Husom of Dodgeville, Wis.; and many nieces and nephews.
In addition to his wife, his parents and five siblings and their spouses, Violet and Marvin Walter, Joseph and Carla Mathis, Victor and Billye Mathis, Pete and Maxine Mathis and Yvonne Mathis, preceded him in death.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the First English Lutheran Church in Sterling. Interment will be in Riverside Cemetery, Sterling.
Friends may visit from 2-7 p.m. Sunday at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home, Sterling.
Memorial gifts may be made to the First English Lutheran Church in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 1046, 443 S. 2nd St., Sterling, CO 80751.
Robert D. Miller, 70, of Dayton, Ohio, formerly of Eaton and Windsor, died Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Heartland of Centerville in Ohio.
He was born Nov. 24, 1934, in Eaton to Robert N. and Dorothy (Stow) Miller.
Mr. Miller served in the Air Force. He lived in Windsor and retired from Windsor Packing Plant and HEB Super Markets Inc. in Abilene, Texas, after many years of service. He attended Living Word Church in Vandalia, Ohio.
Survivors are a son, Alan Miller and wife Julie; three grandchildren, Janice Delker and husband Brandon, Marcus Miller and wife Jennifer and Nicole Miller; three great-grandchildren, Dakota, Bailey and Isabella Delker; his extended family, Carol Sweat, Tamera and Steve Grenata and Jan Sweat; and many other relatives and friends.
His wife, JoAnn Miller; a daughter, Diana Miller; his parents; and a brother, Doug Miller, preceded him in death.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Newcomer Funeral Home, 4104 Needmore Road, Dayton. Family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until time of services. To leave a message for the family, go to http://www.newcomerfamily.com.
Eliazar Miramontes Granillo, 76, of Gilcrest died Thursday, Nov. 17, at the Hospice and Palliative Care of Northern Colorado inpatient unit in Greeley.
He was born June 1, 1929, in La Concepcion Gran Morelos, Chihuahua, Mexico, to Cayetano Miramontes and Ramona Granillo.
He married Severa Hernandez in Chihuahua, and they had been married for 54 years.
Mr. Granillo loved listening to music and watching TV. He enjoyed horse racing, galloping and working with horses. He was a great father and grandfather.
Survivors are his wife, Severa Hernandez of Gilcrest; four daughters and their husbands, Aurelia and Arturo Chavez, Gregoria and Porfirio Chavez and Arminda and Reyes Romero, all of Gilcrest, and Guadalupe Miramontes and Pedro Gutierrez of Chihuahua; five sons and their wives, Rito Miramontes and Perfecta Chavez and Edubijes and Jamie Miramontes, all of Chihuahua, Perfecto and Martina Miramontes of Pueblo, Selso and Laura Miramontes of Albuquerque, N.M., and Fidel and Juana Miramontes of Demin, N.M.; a sister and five brothers; 21 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a granddaughter, and two brothers.
Recitation of the rosary will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at Stoddard Funeral Home in Greeley. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Nicholas Catholic Church in Platteville. Interment will be in Mizpah Cemetery, Platteville.
Friends may visit from 1-4 p.m. today and 4-7 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Obituary for Ralph Green


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Artie Boucher, 80, died Thursday in a local hospital.
Church and interment will be in Highland Cemetery.
attended the Fort Benton Schools.
June 19, 1925 she was married in Havre to Hector Boucher.
For 10 years she worked at the Elks lodge.
Henderson, Fort Benton; Floyd Dedman and Herbert Dedman, Big Fork; Earl H.
Teske, Havre; three sons, Floyd Dedman and Herbert Dedman, Bigfork, and Earl H.
Church Monday Morning with the Rev. Caley Nichols officiating.
Jonathan Elenburg sang "Just As I Am" and "I'll Fly Away."
Ruth Carlson was the organist.
to Havre in 1918 and her husband died in 1924.
since. She was employed ant the Havre Elks Club for 10 years.


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logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class TestOpenssl:

    def test_pkcs12_from_crypto(self, private_key: rsa.RSAPrivateKeyWithSerialization, certificate: x509.Certificate):
        pkcs12_data = openssl.create_pkcs12(private_key, certificate)

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Fusing the swing of classic rockabilly with the hot-wired energy and ghoulish imagery of the Misfits, Detroit's the Koffin Kats prove that high-octane psychobilly is still alive and kicking in the American Midwest. The Koffin Kats were formed in 2003 by lead singer and upright bassist Vic Victor and guitarist/vocalist Tommy Koffin, who had been part of the Motor City punk scene for some time before trying their hands at the doom-struck twang of their punk-rockabilly fusion. The band has had a number of drummers come and go over the years, with Damian Detroit having the longest run (from 2003 to 2005); E-Ball Walls, who played with the Kats for a spell in 2003, rejoined the lineup in 2007. The trio released their first album, simply titled The Koffin Kats, in 2004, and hit the road in support of the record. Since then, the Koffin Kats have maintained a busy tour schedule, frequently gigging on the West Coast as well as closer to home, and have released two more long-players, 2005's Inhumane and 2006's Straying from the Pack. (Source)
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Majid Sarvi: AIMES for the future
Smart Mobility Expert
Majid Sarvi: AIMES for the…
Majid Sarvi is the chair in Transport Engineering, the professor in Transport for Smart Cities and the program director of the "Transport Technologies" at the University of Melbourne. He is the founder and the director of the world-leading transport testbed, the Australian Integrated Multimodal EcoSystem (AIMES).
How did you arrive in smart mobility, Majid? What path did you take in study and was it an interest pre-study?
My undergraduate degree is in civil engineering. Transportation traditionally started in civil engineering, simply because the majority of it involved a relationship with infrastructure.
Next, I was at Tokyo University for almost three years, doing my post-grad and PhD in intelligent transport systems. Then I worked in industry for a while, including NEC and some start-ups in intelligent transport systems. The more I progressed, the more the topics in and around smart cities were at the top of my agenda.
When was it that you were doing your post-grad and work with NEC?
I finished my PhD around 2001, and then I worked for NEC and a few other companies in Japan, through to probably 2005. Since then I've held various positions at various universities in transportation systems.
Where did you obtain your undergraduate degree?
I studied at Tehran University, which is the oldest university in Iran, I think it's about 120 years old. It was a civil engineering degree, with some basic subjects in transportation. It was a style of program that I think still runs in most universities around the world.
When you graduate from undergraduate study in civil engineering, probably, you know about a couple of subjects in transportation, but in my PhD I was totally focussed on intelligent transport systems.
So you didn't, during your undergraduate degree, decide that ITS was the way to go, that was later?
Yes, I was very interested in transportation systems but my idea of that area was not very clear. But then I moved to Japan and started my postgrad at Tokyo University, where and when there was a lot of discussion about intelligent transport systems, it was a very hot topic then, as it is today. Japan was the perfect place, because you could see a lot of intelligent transportation systems in operation, even back then.
If it wasn't Intelligent Transport Systems for you what might it have been?
I was also very interested in earthquake engineering. But probably …. maybe I would have become a structural engineer, or something along those lines.
I ask this question of people, because some people's university bios contain a list of areas of interest that incredibly long and varied. What would you list as your various general and specific areas of interest in ITS?
From my PhD all the way through my career in industry, and then back to university, I've worked in only two areas. The first one is connected multi-modal transport systems, and the second one is pedestrian crowd dynamics. That's the two areas I work on and that's it.
Okay, hypothetical time. If you had an unlimited budget a not unreasonable time to carry out the work, what do you think would have the most impact on a problem we have in transport?
This won't surprise people, as I always advocate this. To me, the key technology, and the key sort of measure that can pretty much tackle the majority of the issues we have in transport systems, as well as basically the availability of that technology today, is connectivity. I would make the transport system, I'm talking about the whole transport system, connected and integrated, and act as one system in a multi-modal way.
That would be, to me, the most important aspect of transportation systems that is missing, and have the most desired results, with appreciable impact.
To run such a connected, integrated smart city transport system, is there available today a management interface that could handle all of that work?
I don't think it exists, but I also don't think it would be difficult to build it. The problem is that to build such a system you need to have the right data. To get that kind of data you need to start connecting and integrating transport systems.
Then once data starts coming, I don't think that building the methodology to allow you to run multimodal management is that difficult. There is some good research happening in my group, and indeed other groups around the world, that if they have the real raw data at hand they can make just such a management tool happen.
Okay, similar hypothetical, but this time except you're under pressure. You're on a tight budget and you need to act reasonably quickly, what transport problem would you attack?
I think if you look at Australian cities, they're struggling with congestion and safety. Let us talk about safety, I think, including everybody in transport systems, so I will probably start with this too.
Again I start with connectivity! Unlimited budget, limited budget, it's all the same to me. Connectivity is the only way you can fix these difficult issues.
Would you phase this work, rather than fix it all in one fell swoop, with a possibly large cost and large inconvenience?
Yes, I think you could do it in a staged way, but the beauty of this is that it doesn't really require a lot of funding. If you look at what we're doing for example now in Melbourne or in Sydney, we're spending over $50-60 billion dollars.
To make a connected transport system, the cost would probably be less than $500-600 million dollars. If you look at the scale of that amount of money, compared to what they're spending in expanding current systems, it is paying a lot less for a system that would be much better.
Is that figure per city? Or overall?
I think this is the figure that I can see for Melbourne, but probably the same amount for Sydney. I think I'm even overestimating what is needed, but the value of that system is going to be very important.
Alright, and I think I know the answer to this, but I'm going to ask it anyway, and see where you go with it. What work have you done so far that you are most proud of?
I think academically and professionally, I'm very proud of what we created in Melbourne, with the AIMES test bed. Because it has allowed us to tap into areas that would have been otherwise difficult to work on. Also, I am very excited about all the collaboration that's happening across the world between industry and government. I think that's very important.
As we all know, there are a lot of verticals in transport systems, and unless you're able to connect them together, basically being able to work with companies that provide communication, that provide services such as buses, trams, and so on, you cannot really obtain an optimum important outcome for the end users.
I think AIMES is an example of the cooperation we need in transport. Even though AIMES is new, and with a lot more development needed, it is a good step forward.
I know AIMES is a long-term project, and it is early days for it, but at what point do you think you'll start to make – for want of a better word – a meaningful assessment and be able to use it to optimise transport?
I think the good thing about the AIMES project is we set it up in gradual way. From the first day it started to give us insight and provide useful information to universities, to partners, and to government.
For example, when we started to look at the installation of devices in the system we very quickly realised that, for example, it is vital to understand what is the structure of the data structure that you need to underpin the system. There is a massive number of off-the-shelf applications out there, they weren't suitable for transport, and that was a crucial thing to learn.
Initially we thought we could go to this company, or that company, and very quickly buy the service we needed, but very quickly we realised that no, that's not going to happen. We need to have a very good understanding of specific data that comes from different parts of the transport system, and to manage it the way it is needed.
Of course this shouldn't be seen as negative. And to be fair to us, at the start of a massive project such as AIMES, these are things you come to learn, rather than foresee.
Also I know, for example, when we've had government work with us, it very quickly becomes aware of gaps in the system, both in policy and in terms of getting its taskforce ready for future implementation. So there has been a lot of learning, even in the very short two-year life of AIMES. We've already had some great outcomes, and that's one of the reasons we have so much interest so quickly from our partners.
And as AIMES gets better, and becomes more operational in different types of projects, we will see more and more good outcomes.
Do you think projects like AIMES are helping us to (again) think in the longer term?
Yes because I think that's a very important aspect of smart cities. Just giving you one example, Melbourne city has free wi-fi, right? But it was predominantly designed for tourism, for people to browse the internet on their smartphone, or check their emails. But we never really thought, or perhaps even now think, 'This could be a fantastic platform for IoT. If we have sensors that would like to communicate, we could use that wi-fi system!' But the answer to the question is 'Is that wi-fi system designed for that?', is most probably, no.
This is the kind of long-term thinking that you need to have when you're designing applications for smart cities and again, I think projects like AIMES allow us to start thinking, and also to highlight the issues. I think that is hugely important.
Installing and analysing data from sensors … you cannot fix a problem unless you know what it is, and its extent, repercussions, and so on.
Yes, absolutely. Some of the problems are so multidisciplinary and it doesn't matter how many resources you have at your disposal, or how big your company is, you cannot tackle them unless you collaborate across the board. Or unless you really understand the issue first-hand.
I think we all know many transport systems have congestion problems. At the same time we have a lot of people living in cities, which is great, but we have more people living around transit stops, and at the same time a lot of people are using bicycles and walking. We've created a lot of conflicts that could result in accidents, or people get hurt. We need to look at all of the usage. We cannot really tackle or have a solution for part of the transport system, we must have a holistic view.
Alright, if we were to tear you away from AIMES, what would you like to get your teeth into next? Or given that you're so busy, should there be two of you? What else would you like to do?
That's a very good question. I think what I would like to see happening, what I am very keen to do, is basically to scale-up AIMES. Right now we're looking at a big chunk of the city and we're able to provide particular outcomes. That's great, but we're also going to be putting pressure on the system that we're developing.
But if you really have a larger scale city operating in a way that you would like it to do so, would it be able to survive? Can you handle thousands of sensors and get the data moving around and make decisions at a fraction of a second? Can you really do it? Understanding that first-hand I think is going to be a very valuable. I would like to get to that stage.
Basically AIMES plus.
Yes, absolutely because at the moment we're talking about certain applications, with a limited scope, but if we could ramp-up AIMES, then we could really tackle, for example, Mobility as a Service (MaaS).
A lot of people talk about it but I really find it very funny when people say we have a MaaS application ready to use now. But those apps in their current form, that's the easy, easy part, the top layer. But there are a hundred steps before you get to what that application does.
I'm very interested to see how this is going to work. Can you come and build up a MaaS system for me that provides values and people will start using? Building a complete system is going to put a lot of pressure on companies, government, and also entrepreneurs. Positive pressure, to be honest, to allow them to show the technology they are developing is useful, and could work in the real world.
So you think that MaaS is pretty much still conceptual?
Yes, I think it's still conceptual, and neither is it a new concept. It's a fancy name we put around it, but again, if we don't have data you cannot provide that service and if you have the data building that application I think that's the easiest part. That's my understanding of MaaS.
It comes back to how you're going to integrate it, because we have private entities such as bus operators, private operators of freeways, and all of them they need to somehow come together to provide that background you need for MaaS.
It's not just about, "I have an app, you can pay for it!", that's the easiest part. I think to get all of these operators and operations happening seamlessly, and also being able to create performance and efficiency through the system, is important because then the government will come. That's crucial, because at the moment basically public agencies are running the transport systems.
This is all going to have an impact, because when people travel from A to B they're going to go through all these steps, so how do we ensure provision of a good system, good efficiency, for people? And again, are we going to link all of this together and have a transport-integrated smart city? We can talk now about autonomous, on-demand mobility, and more, which would definitely help. But before we get there, there is going to be a lot of hype, so we need to wait and see.
I gather that you wouldn't put a date on when a city could truly be considered 'smart' ?
I think in a transportation sense we could move very quickly. We are getting close to that critical moment, and also that critical mass. We need to really go and revolutionise our cities from their existing transport systems to a smart transport system, and again if we go back to connectivity it's already here. If we can deploy properly you're going to massively enhance the transport system, and fix current congestion and safety issues.
But we need to, and we can do this, make decisions. Now. A lot of people are basically distracting this very important possibility by talking about ,'Okay, maybe this technology is not right yet, maybe we should wait for 5G, or 6G, or 7G.' I think all of this is a distraction, because those technologies are simply the last layer.
You need to have a policy and start with a good understanding of processes that you need to put in place. From a technical level, all the way up to an operational level. If you delay that, you're going to delay the benefit that comes to the people. So we need to start that yesterday, and move toward it, and whenever we have a new technology we can just throw it in.
This is, again, the core attractiveness and value of AIMES. From the beginning we said we're going to be technology-agnostic. Whatever is available today we are going to use it, and when the new technology comes in we're going to throw it in. But we don't wait, we don't wait for that second, third, fourth, fifth, better technology that will come along eventually, because there is no ending to that. Technology comes and goes. The problems need attention now.
That makes sense, treating technology as evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
Absolutely. What is the value of saving people's lives? I mean we're spending money by the way already, it's not that we're doing nothing. We're spending money but it's all about 'Can you spend that money in a better way? Is there a better way to try it?' There's a lot of evidence now that shows the existing technology can save lives. It could improve the traffic efficiency, it could create that multi-modal system that everyone talks about. So why are waiting? We need to invest in it, we need to be brave enough, as I said, if we're already spending $60-70 billion dollars in Victoria or New South Wales.
We can afford to have a fraction of that going to the efficiency of systems, to smart roads or intelligent transport systems. For example Melbourne has put work into ramp metering, and obtained a significant benefit from it. That's a very good example of success, which should not have stopped, we need to get going with that again.
I think VicRoads is talking about local road efficiency because Melbourne's system is similar to Sydney. It doesn't have lots of freeways, instead it has lots of arterials, that we see carrying a significant amount of traffic. How we could get them to become intelligent and smart? I think, again, this connectivity can help a lot because it's not just for basic traffic efficiency, it can work for safety, and it can work for releasing the capacity that system has in terms of handling different types of information. You can provide information to end users that everybody is asking for these days, so it could work in different ways.
As is sometimes said, the future is now. Let's not wait, let's do it.
Yes! I think with transport we are in a very exciting time. I think autonomous vehicles and automated systems are going to help a lot, but I don't have a crystal ball for when it's all going to be here.
But we need to create a system ready for those technologies. And when they come, if we have a good understanding of what we need, we can use those technologies to complement, basically, the performance of a system. Because at the end of the day a transport system is not about autonomous things moving, it's about people and goods getting from A to B in the most efficient, safe way. That's the outcome we need to keep front-of-mind.
If you'd like to read more about Majid's work and activities, try these:
AIMES website
Majid's official website
Majid Sarvi – Google Scholar citations
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Campus bike theft doubled in last year
Some students prefer to bike to school, but with campus bike theft on the rise, they may choose to reconsider parking their bikes at places like the David O. McKay library. There has been a 460 percent increase in bike theft since 2009. JORDAN HINCKLEY | Scroll Photography
Bicycle theft on BYU-Idaho campus has doubled in the last year according to BYU-Idaho Security & Safety.
Garth Gunderson, Security & Safety Director for BYU-I said that, as of Nov. 9, there have been 14 bicycle thefts this year, from seven thefts in 2011.
Gunderson said that this fall, there was a bicycle stolen almost every week on campus.
To report a stolen bike, a student needs to provide the make and serial number of the bike.
Bicycle permits help the police locate a stolen bike more quickly, because they can enter the bike's information into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.
According to the FBI's website, www.fbi.gov, The NCIC has access to a database that contains more than 15 million active records about stolen property, missing persons and other criminal activities.
Among those files is information about stolen bikes.
When a police officer needs to know if a bicycle has been stolen, information such as a serial number or a license plate number is entered into the database to learn if it has been reported as stolen.
The system responds instantly, according to the FBI's website.
Students can discourage bicycle theft by locking bicycles when they're not using them.
Gunderson said many students think that a lower crime rate in Rexburg means they can leave their doors unlocked.
In correlation to this, many students don't lock their bikes either.
"Our biggest problem with crime prevention is the false sense of security," Gunderson said.
It is considered petty theft, which is a misdemeanor, to steal a bike. If the bike is worth more than $1,000 it is grand theft, which is a felony.
It's important students realize this, Gunderson said, because many bikes on campus are valuable enough that stealing them would be considered grand theft.
The Safety & Security office is located in Kimball 150.
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I force a laugh despite the younger one's sardonic humour. at my expense. They both look at one another, neither laugh.
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"You don't get very far in this world by being otherwise," the elder one says. They both smile at me and I hope they're joking, but what if they're not? I sense then that the job is mine if I want it. I wanted it—the corporate life, the big dollars. That is success, right? Perhaps they're right—you've got to be heartless.
"I need a little time," I say when the offer is made.
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Casual Connect Keynote Address Redefines Games Industry
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Press Release – Paul Thelen, founder and chief strategy officer of Big Fish Games™, the world's largest casual games distributor, today revealed new research that challenges the conventional thinking about audience profiles in the video game industry. The results of a recent study show gamers can no longer be classified into the traditional archetypes of core and casual fans due to the rapid diversification of the demographics, game styles, business models and platforms in the U.S. games market.
In partnership with NPD Group, Big Fish Games surveyed nearly 3,000 U.S. individuals who play games, and matched the results across demographics, game mechanics, and psychographics. The study identified 14 distinct segments of gamers within 39 genres of games. The casual market was segmented into 10 distinct groups, while four segments were identified within the traditional core market. However, the segmentation calls into question the relevancy of the terms casual and core, due to a great deal of overlap and similarity between various casual and core segments once thought to be disparate.
Conventional strategies have normally classified gamers into one of two main groups, core and casual, and by association to their device – consoles for core players, and downloadable or online PC games for casual play. The new study shows that these lines of differentiation are very blurry at best.
Conventional wisdom previously held that core and casual gamers rarely play games outside of their favored game style. While the study reinforced the fact that most gamers have favorite genres, it also showed there is tremendous crossover and broad usage across many game genres by all segments. Core gamers engage with casual genres as much or more than core gamers engage with other core genres, and vice versa. The study showed that the "Heavy Action" gamer segment (young males that had a preference for shooters, racing, driving mayhem, fighting, realistic sports, and heavy role playing games) were also most likely to play games in the "Nancy Drew" segment (games typically preferred by older females such as match 3, brain teaser, mahjong, word, hidden object, jigsaw, trivia and puzzle adventure games).
Additionally, the study revealed new insights into the level of time commitment displayed by casual gamers versus core gamers. While "Slow Strategists" (fans of turn-based strategy role playing games) and "Fantasy Worlds" (participants in online fantasy MMORPGs) spent the most hours playing per week, some casual segments such as "Tycoons" (simple simulation and tycoon games) and "Clickers" (time management, marble popper and brick buster games) spent more hours gaming per week than the largest of the core gamer segments, Heavy Action.
"These results imply that continuing to categorize a gamer as only a core or casual player is limiting in its ability to fully describe the gamer," said Paul Thelen, founder and chief strategy officer of Big Fish Games, during his keynote speech at the Casual Connect gaming conference in Seattle, Wash. "The ability to break apart the industry into a wide variety of segments provides the ability for companies to focus on the emerging opportunities that are masked by broad generalizations." Thelen continued, "Saying 'We are in the casual games business,' could mean up to a dozen things and without additional specificity it is not much more useful than simply saying, 'We are in the games business.'
The study further revealed the market opportunity in several casual game segments continues to approach those of core game segments. This is due to the large population of self-identified casual gamers relative to core. Gamers in the largest casual segment, labeled as Nancy Drews, spend less per year than the Heavy Action gamer segment, but there are almost 40 percent more customers in the Nancy Drew segment. Additionally, some casual segments like "Frenetics" (platform jumping and rhythm games) and "Dancers" spend more per year than the Heavy Action gamers.
"The gaming industry is far too large and too diverse to be all things to all people on all platforms in all areas of the world. For companies to be truly successful, they need to focus on an audience, a business model and a platform," stated Thelen in his keynote address. "Going after the casual or core audience lacks the specificity to have any real meaning and will not help define your vision enough to be successful." He continued, "Big Fish Games focuses on partnering with the top game developers in a few specific, but extremely popular game segments, which has allowed us to emerge as the world's largest online distributor of games."
The NPD Group will be publishing a report detailing the survey and its findings.
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Relativity theory radically changes our notions of space and time. There is no unique notion of "now" and "elsewhere in time" is analogous to "elsewhere in space". This is known as the block universe view. Our other fundamental theory of physics, quantum theory, employs a conventional notion of time, wherein systems evolve in a background time from past to future. There are many obstacles to achieving a proper understanding of quantum theory, e.g. it seems to entail faster-than-light influences, even though these cannot be used to send a message. Perhaps these obstacles arise from using a conventional approach to time, rather than incorporating the revisions implied by relativity theory. In this project, I will develop block universe accounts of quantum theory in which elementary observable events are pieced together in spacetime like a jigsaw puzzle. Placing a jigsaw piece somewhere on a table puts constraints on which other pieces can be added on either side of it. In a similar way, our choices can place constraints on what happens in the apparent past to the same extent that they do for the future. This can resolve the quantum paradoxes, by allowing apparently nonlocal influences to travel locally via the past.
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Relativity suggests that the universe is made of events, laid out in an unchanging four-dimensional block. In contrast, quantum theory involves change in time, such as unitary evolution and the abrupt change of state upon measurement. There are well-known obstacles to constructing a viable realist approach to quantum theory, such as Bell's theorem and the Kochen-Specker theorem. Perhaps these obstacles arise from the fact that we are trying to construct a future-directed account of quantum theory, rather than a block universe account, which would treat future and past on an equal footing, with no privileged direction of causality imposed a priori. This opens up the possibility of retrocausality -- that future choices might affect the past. The goal of this project is to construct a rigorous framework for theories of this type, to investigate whether they can evade the no-go theorems, and to construct concrete models for important subtheories of quantum mechanics. The framework works by connecting discrete elements together in spacetime, subject to local constraints, just like a jigsaw puzzle. Because these constraints are not functions from future to past, they allow for retrocausality to operate in a local and constrained way.
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For March's National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month and World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, we highlight Ray Hardy. He stands as a true testament that adults with Down Syndrome and other developmental challenges can lead meaningful and fulfilled lives that make an impact.
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Then they would match the previous best of winning the title with five games to spare achieved by Torino in 1947-1948, Fiorentina in 1955-1956 and Roberto Mancini's Inter Milan in 2006-2007. He added: 'We all draw from old experiences. "We will make changes but with the aim of putting out a competitive team". "Tomorrow we have to write our own destiny and so do Manchester United". He played for around 70 minutes the other day and played well.
"Every team will try to play their game based on the players they have, and we will try to play our game".
"Of course we always want to win, but there were some exceptional circumstances for us here", Valverde told his postmatch news conference.
Valverde confirmed Lionel Messi is fit to play against United on Tuesday, despite being given a bloody nose in a clash with Chris Smalling during the first leg. "I don't know to what extent because he has been out for four weeks", Valverde said. He made an immediate impact, helping the club sweep the league, Copa del Rey and Champions League, scoring seven goals in Europe.
Thousands of protesters have been gathered outside the Army General Command for more than a week. Burhan declared an end to night-time curfews and ordered the release of all detained protesters.
Johnson says the woman was screaming that her child was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Bloomington, Minnesota, mall. Potts says officers gave first aid but the 5-year-old child suffered "significant injuries" and had been taken to a hospital.
This is the first commercial launch of the "Heavy" which is boosting the Arabsat 6 Satellite. This telecommunications satellite will service areas of Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.
New York City declares a state of public health emergency in Brooklyn as the measles outbreak has reached at least 285 cases. Many studies have proven vaccines do not cause autism, and the majority of rabbis say vaccinations are healthy and kosher.
The win comes 22 years after his first win at Augusta in 1997, and 14 his since his previous triumph on the course in 2005. The victory also marked the first time Woods had reached the winner's circle at major without leading after 54 holes.


*Alexandra Burke will perform the role of 'Rachel Marron' at all evening performances only. Alexandra Burke is not scheduled to perform Thurs 20th, Weds 26th and Thurs 27th December 7.30pm.
This tour of The Bodyguard is a complete spectacle with fantastic songs and a skilled cast. It's a guaranteed great night out that will almost certainly have the audience on their feet by the end!


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Q: No funciona ngbDropdown en Angular 13 dentro de tabla Tengo el siguiente componente en mi proyecto angular:
<div ngbDropdown>
 <button class="btn btn-secondary" id="dropdownBasic1" ngbDropdownToggle >CRUD</button>
 <div ngbDropdownMenu aria-labelledby="dropdownBasic1">
  <button ngbDropdownItem>Visualizar</button>
  <button ngbDropdownItem>Editar</button>
  <button ngbDropdownItem>Borar</button>
 </div>
</div>

Y el module más cercano es este:
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { ShippersComponent } from './shippers.component';
import { DropdownCrudComponent } from './dropdown-crud/dropdown-crud.component';

import { NgbModule } from '@ng-bootstrap/ng-bootstrap';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { FeatherIconModule } from 'src/app/core/feather-icon/feather-icon.module';

const routes: Routes = [
  {
    path: '',
    component: ShippersComponent
  }
]

@NgModule({
  declarations: [ShippersComponent, DropdownCrudComponent],
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    RouterModule.forChild(routes),
    NgbModule,
    FeatherIconModule,
    FormsModule,
  ]
})
export class ShippersModule { }

Como ven estoy importando NgbModule y aún así no me funciona, se queda siempre abierto, se ve así:

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Q: Activate a button Process via custom KeyPress Basically in a C# Windows Form Application I am working on I have 2 buttons I press button1 and button2.
How do I make it when I press 2 custom keys simultaneously(eg. CTRL+L) the program does the steps coded for button1? Keeping in mind that the window might not be active.
I have looked at this: Keypress To Simulate A Button Click in C# but I don't think this would work if the window isn't active, and its also only one button pressed not two.

A: In Form KeyUp Event and the Properties is KeyPressPreview = true you can achieve this task.
   private void Form_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
   {
       if (e.KeyCode == Keys.L && e.Control)
       {
                yourButton.PerformClick();
                e.Handled = true;
        }
    }

or
if you want in Keypress Event
private void Form_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Control && e.KeyCode == Keys.L)
    {
            yourButton.PerformClick();
            e.Handled = true;
    }
}

EDIT:
I realized that the OP want to the keypress Event from his statement "but I don't think this would work if the window isn't active"
You probably must check this
How to set a Windows hook in Visual C# .NET

A: If you precede any character in the button text with &, and keep UseMnemonic to true,. the alt+character will serve as shortcut key.
For example, in your case change the text of the buttons to button&1 and button&2 respectively. Keep UserMnemonic = true. Now if you press alt+1 then button1 will be pressed and if you press alt+2, button2 will be pressed.
Also 1 and 2 respectively will be underlined.
Hope that helps.


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The new sector paradigm requires a greater focus on the management of healthcare services. The relationship and interaction between doctors, nurses, hospital pharmacists and points of sale represents a critical factor for the differential placement of our medicine in comparison to other competitors.
Understand and cover the needs of each part to achieve maximum added value.
Coordinate different organizational departments and levels to convey the proposal of value in an accurate manner.
Homogenize operations globally in order to ensure the success of the proposal of value in its different scopes of action.
Design and implement a precise model for action to differentiate our competitive edge.


In its first year DemocraSeed had the pleasure to work with three different youth councils in the state of Arizona. Through the mentorship and training of ASU Volunteers, the Entrepreneurship + Innovation team at ASU, and the Center for the Future of Arizona, these high schools students identified a civic issue in their communities and used design thinking to propose and implement a solution.
The students from the Lake Havasu Youth Council won DemocraSeed's first place prize in 2016, identifying teacher retention as a civic issue that was afflicting the students and citizens of Lake Havasu City. After reaching out to members of their community, both inside and outside of the education community, they concluded that one of the primary reasons for which teachers were leaving stemmed from a lack of connection between teachers and the greater Lake Havasu community.
Back Row: Hayden Lintz, Jerri Bracamonte (HYAC Coordinator), Ella Wofford, Garrett McNerney. Front Row: Tatum Bracamonte, Stephanie Nelson, Carla Betancourt, Jersey Orias, and Cheyenne Halfacre-Buie.
After identifying and researching the issue, the high school students of the Lake Havasu Youth Council used the design thinking and entrepreneurial skills that they had been taught through DemocraSeed to put a plan into action, ultimately creating Project: We OutCare. Through this project, these high school students united teachers and Lake Havasu citizens through a community based intervention. By leveraging relationships with community members, they raised awareness of the teacher retention issue and sought out school supply donations for their teachers. Their work not only educated the community and made them stakeholders on this issue, but also showed the Lake Havasu teachers that their community cares for them and their success.
But Project: We OutCare did not end with the DemocraSeed. The Lake Havasu Youth Council continues to expand and foster their impactful civic intervention today! They recently created and launched a website that not only tells their story and educates the public on the issue of teacher retention, but is also a virtual call to action that connects teachers and the community. On their website, you can get to know new teachers through their biographies, as well as purchase school supplies for their classroom with just the click of a button.
The amazing students of the Lake Havasu Youth Council truly exemplify the type of civic engagement and action that DemocraSeed seeks to foster.


For some decades, many Khamer-style art works of doubtful origin have appeared on the market, most of which were made in Southeast Asia with materials identical to the original. We believe that some of these counterfeits may be revealed by a comparative study of their styles and of the iconography, which professor Jean Boisslier has so excellently described in his work La Statuaire Khmere et son evolution. In spite of this source, some assessments of the authenticity of objects are still difficult to make. For instance, how can counterfeits be identified when the sculptures are of provincial style, or in the case of images of divinities whose apparel and ornaments bear no resemblance with anything known or are stylistically very puzzling. To confirm or dissipate doubts as to the authenticity of sculpture of this type. It seemed to us necessary torpedoes an analytical test for the stone on the basis of the specimens we had available.
This analysis was conducted by Mr. Bertrand Duboscq at the Micro-Analysis Research and Studies Laboratory in Pessac, using as our standard for authenticity stone samples that had become detached naturally form the Angkor temples. Our results allow us to draw some conclusion about counterfeits, and we also provide information about how artificial patinas are produced by counterfeiters. Furthermore, our results lead us to comment on cleaning processes and thei8r consequences for stone at Angkor. Naturally, our work is of modest proportions, but we hope to provide inspiration to researchers with considerable more means than our own.
One of the constituent rocks of the statuary and temples of Angkor, arkoses, have a particularly marked alteration fancies, as reflected in the reddish brown patina that is formed on the surface of the rock and which penetrates some millimeters in depth, together with a slight, rounded effect on the sculpted surface. The material's outer features do indeed contribute to assessing the authenticity of objects that are isolated form their context. However, similar features have been found on pieces that have been unquestionably identified as being counterfeits.
The purpose of this study is first to describe the major alteration facies of the arkoses of the Angkor temples by examination of sculpture in the J.M. Beurdeley collection and fragments that naturally detached themselves form the temple facades chosen on the basis of their patina or encrustation. Secondly, we study the "patina" appearing on a counterfeit sculpture.
1) An analysis with a polarizing microscope on thin section specimens. The purpose of this analysis is (a) to characterize the rock in petrographic terms (major and accessory minerals, mineralogical phase alteration) and (b) to understand the process of patina formation. Patina formation was observed on the surface of the rock by the nature of the deposits reflected in altered surface color, by their distribution on the rock, and by the various mineral phases as compared with the internal areas with no patina.
2) An analysis with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) for the purpose of (a) visualizing the types of mineralogical phase alterations and specifying the nature of the deposits forming the patina and (b) studying the distribution of certain minerals inside the rock, from the patina down to the "sound' area. Our procedure was to produce "X-ray images" which map the distribution of elements such as iron, manganese, calcium, etc. each white dot of the X-ray images represents the presence of the element. Consequently, a cluster of dots indicates a concentration of the element in that spot.
The arkoses used for building the temples of Angkor, and for the statuary, associate quartzes with alkaline and plagioclase feldspars and white and black micas. The rock shows undulatory extinction of the quartzes and feldspars. In addition to these major minerals, there are many accessory minerals too (in order of their significance: epidote, barite, zircon, sphene). The various minerals are cemented by clays (kaolinite, chlorite) and late-formed quartzes, associated with iron oxides and titanium. Calcite sometimes appears as filler in the interstices.
In all cases, alterations of varying degrees may be observed deeper inside the rock, in the plagioclase feldspars (damouritization, kaloinization) and micas (chloritization). These alteration processes are sometimes concurrent with individualization of iron oxides, which can cause the intergranular cement to become ferruginous. Many of these alterations can be attributed to ancient processes that occurred before the rock was quarried and sculpted.
The patina is the result of the combination of physico-chemical and biological processes.
The physico-chemical processes produce an accumulation of iron oxides and manganese oxides on the surface of the rock, sometimes as two superposed strata (1) an inner black layer of manganese oxide forming a border with the "sound" rock. The invasion of the surface of the rock partly arises when the clay phases of the intergranular cement become ferruginous and partly through the accumulation of iron oxides and hydroxides and of manganese oxides in the int4erstices, which in some cases they fill up completely.
For these two phenomena to occur, accumulation and ferruginization, the products of alteration of the minerals deep inside the rock must be drained out to the surface by water circulating through the rock. A phase during which these products are recrystalized is also necessary in connection with the cycles of moisture and drying on the outer surfaces of the sculptures and walls.
In the top layer, the more fragile mineral phases (the feldspars) have undergone more pronounced alteration together with the formation of iron and manganese oxides and hydroxides deriving no doubt from more active drainage at the surface due to rainwater. This activity eliminates the most altered phases producing the rounded, spotted appearance of the surface.
The role of living organisms (moss, fungi,algae, lichen, bacteria0 in the breakdown of mineral phases is extremely important. They are active in chemical processes that dissolve the mineral phases and in mechanical processes. The specimens examined showed the extent of the mechanical alteration, whereby plant material gradually penetrates between the rock crystals into the mineral phases progressively causing them to crack.
Two cases observed were of particular interest. In one case, the plant phases are closely associated with the iron oxides in the outermost part of the patina. These oxides appear to hinder the penetration of the plant filaments. Intergranular cracking is observed and the infrequent porosity in the patina are filled with plant material. In the other case, the absence of iron oxide deposits on the surface allows biological degradation processes to occur unhindered causing significant intergranular cracking that lays bare the mineralogical phases down through a few tenths of a millimeter. The plant material can also form "encrustation" of layered organic material.
To sum up, the natural patina formed on the arkoses used for the statuary and construction of the temples of Angkor is the result of a dual, antagonistic process of induration and erosion of the rock surfaces. The induration is a physical-chemical process whereby the iron and manganese oxides accumulate on the surface layer of the rock. It produces the reddish brown color of the patina typical of the roofs of the Angkor galleries. Surface erosion arises from a series of factors, physico-chemical ones (more intense alteration of the mineral phases on the surface), mechanical ones (ablation of the mineral phases weathered by surface water) and biological ones (intergranular cracking and mineral phase breakdown). This produces the rounded, spotted effect on the surface.
Counterfeit patinas are generally obtained by the application of colored mineral (clays) or organic substances (dyes, resins) to the rock surface. In many cases, the color and the rounded effect on the surface are not obtained concurrently and coloring is highly superficial.
We observed a case of a more complex counterfeit patina that was acceptable on both of the above counts and penetrated to an appreciable depth (around one millimeter) as exhibited on a fracture. The specimen studied was the head of a statue acquired in Southeast Asia form a counterfeiter sculpted in an arkose whose general petrography characteristics were the same as those of the sculpture and fragments considered ancient previously examined. Examination of a section of the rock used for making the stature reveals a red "patina" of variable thickness (1 to 3 mm) but with a very straight boundary as opposed to other patinas. A slightly discolored area approximately 2 mm thick appears beneath the outer red layer. The "sound" rock is grayish brown reflecting slight intergranular coloration by iron oxides.
Thin section examination of the "patina" area shows up a diffuse impregnation of the mineral grains and the intergranular cement by iron oxides that do not from clearly defined masses. In the discolored area, almost no iron oxides are found. Examination of the area with no "patina" reveals the presence of iron oxides and hydroxides in the form of intergranular deposits associated with the clays that constitute the rock cement and also in the form of peripheral deposits of intergranular calcite that is particularly abundant in the arkose.
The X-ray images of the distribution of chemical elements confirm this observation as to the distribution of iron. It also shows up the absence of calcium in the patina area and the discolored area immediately beneath it, which in petrography terms indicates that the intergranular calcite has disappeared.
The relationship between the artificial patina and the disappearance of calcite prompts us to hypothesize that the "patina" is the result of an acid attack on the surface of the rock, which selectively breaks down the calcium carbonates while releasing the iron oxides. Acid treatment of this type leads to: (1) increased porosity in the rock which can produce an irregular surface with a more granular surface and (2) uniform coloring of the first, few millimeters subjected to the acid attack which is the result firstly of iron oxide breakdown over a few millimeters in depth (the discolored area beneath the red layer) and then of recrystallization in the external part when the rock surface dries (outer red layer).
To verify this hypothesis a drop of dilute hydrochloric acid was deposited on a fragment of "sound" rock and kept in a hot, humid atmosphere for a few hours. When dried, a red "patina" similar to that observed on the head examined had formed. This process for producing a counterfeit patina has been successfully tested on several fragments sampled form other sculptures. Naturally, the result is variable in terms of coloring depending on the iron oxide and hydroxide content of the "sound" rock and in all cases is fairly superficial. However, if the material is highly sensitive to acid attack due to the presence of significant amounts of calcium carbonate, as was the case with the specimen studied, the counterfeit patina penetrates deeply and is well developed.
The arkoses in the temples and statuary of Angkor present a number of mineralogical features that sometimes give rise to a characteristic, reddish-brown ferruginous patina. In this study, we describe a technique for producing a counterfeit patina which makes use of these petrographic features of arkoses: (1) presence of iron oxides in the "sound" rock that can be caused to migrate under the effects of acids and (2) presence in some cases, no doubt the most favorable for producing counterfeits, of intergranular calcite.
(1) The ferruginous film constituting the patina appears to play a significant role in protecting the rocks from biological alteration processes. In the absence of patina, the development of these processes is spectacular. Hence, when cleaning the surface of the stone, it would seem necessary to try and preserve this natural protective coating as much a possible.
(2) The existence of arkoses containing intergranular calcite may explain the major stratified fractures in temples, attributed by J>Pochon, et al. To the development of expansive calcium sulfate. Calcium sulfate forms from the calcium carbonate present in the rock and the organic sulfur in humus and animal excreta (bats, birds). It would be of great interest to verify that there is actually a correlation between these areas with major fractures and the presence of arkoses containing intergranular calcite. If the correlation exists detailed petrographic identification would perhaps be a means for staking out the areas where there is a major risk of alteration that might require specific restoration treatment.


Sir John Boehner Of Ohio Knighted By Barack Obama. Thank You, Mr. President.
Well, it's taken a while for our own home-grown, corn-fed Ohioan, John Boehner to get some Lamestream Media coverage, but President Obama has catapulted "our" John to the stage of national attention, mentioning him by name at least eight times in a Cleveland speech last week.
Representative and Republican Minority Whip (And, I do mean "whip") Boehner was also diginified in that POTUS was only making a spontaneous speech at a Cleveland University, where local students had to be begged to attend, reportedly, because John Boehner had recently been in Ohio whipping up the masses against Obama's Recovery Summer and planned tax increases, ie., cancellation of Bush's tax cuts.
John Boehner is no new, well tanned face in American politics.
Joining the Congress in 1990 from the Cincinnati, Ohio area, John B. was part of the historical Republican Gang Of Seven which, in the early 90's, uncovered the infamous House Banking Scandal that indicted more Democrats than Republicans for overdrawing their Congressional checkbooks - kinda what the President is doing today in order to float all that stimulus money, which no one can totally account for.
John Boehner and fellow Young Turk, Newt Gingrich, went on to devise the Contract With America which swept Dems out of office during Clinton's administration, and setup the first Republican majority in the House of Representatives in 40 years.
How important is John Boehner? He is so important that the only way Face The Nation's Bob Schieffer could rag on Boehner was by intimidating him for smoking cigarettes. See the unbelievable exhange here. Would never hear of Schieffer ambushing Prez Obama on that one , would you? Yes, that's the same Bob Schieffer, news guy, who did not know about the Philadelphia Black Panther voter intimidation crime which Eric Holder also ignored .
The Gang of One, John Boehner, is ready to take back the House. Let's help him.


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http://www.ghananewsagency.org/
President Akufo-Addo condemns killing of journalist
By Ken Sackey, GNA
Accra, Jan. 17, GNA - President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday condemned the killing of an undercover journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, in Accra last Wednesday night.
"I condemn the act unreservedly and extend my condolence to his family," President Akufo-Addo said in a statement on learning of the demise of the journalist.
Mr Hussein-Suale, an affiliate of Investigative Journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas' Tiger Eye PI Team, was gunned down at Madina, a suburb of Accra, whilst driving home by unknown assailants on a motorcycle.
The deceased was part of the team of the Tiger Eye Private Investigations that carried out the expose on the rot associated with football administration in Ghana, in conjunction with the British Broadcasting Corporation last year.
"I expect the Police to bring to book, as soon as possible, the perpetrators of this heinous crime," the President said.
Source: GNA Story (http://www.ghananewsagency.org/politics/president-akufo-addo-condemns-killing-of-journalist-144169)
© Ghana News Agency


text:
/**
 *
 */
package com.sikulix.guide;

import com.sikulix.api.Element;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.geom.GeneralPath;

public class SxFlag extends Visual {

   // which direction this element is pointing
   public final static int DIRECTION_EAST = 1;
   public final static int DIRECTION_WEST = 2;
   public final static int DIRECTION_SOUTH = 3;
   public final static int DIRECTION_NORTH = 4;

   JLabel label;
   Rectangle textBox;
   Rectangle triangle;
   FontMetrics fm;
   String defFont = "sansserif";
   Font font;
   int defFontSize = 16;
   int direction;
   Dimension canonicalSize;
   GeneralPath flagShape;

   public SxFlag(String text){
      super();
      init(text);
   }

   private void init(String text){
      this.text = text;
      setForeground(colorText);
      setBackground(colorFront);
      textBox = new Rectangle();
      triangle = new Rectangle();
      font = new Font(defFont, Font.BOLD, defFontSize);
   }

   @Override
   public void updateComponent() {
      fm = getFontMetrics(font);
      textBox.setSize(fm.stringWidth(text),fm.getHeight());
      textBox.grow(PADDING_X, PADDING_Y);
      setLocationRelativeToRegion(getTarget(), layout);
   }

   @Override
   public Visual setText(String text){
      this.text = text;
      return this;
   }

   @Override
   public Visual setFont(String fontName, int fsize) {
     font = new Font(fontName, Font.BOLD, fsize>0 ? fsize : fontSize);
     return this;
   }

   @Override
   public Visual setLocationRelativeToRegion(Element region, Layout side) {
      if (side == Layout.TOP){
         setDirection(DIRECTION_SOUTH);
      } else if (side == Layout.BOTTOM){
         setDirection(DIRECTION_NORTH);
      } else if (side == Layout.LEFT){
         setDirection(DIRECTION_EAST);
      } else if (side == Layout.RIGHT){
         setDirection(DIRECTION_WEST);
      }
      return super.setLocationRelativeToRegion(region,side);
   }

   public void setDirection(int direction){
      this.direction = direction;
      if (direction == DIRECTION_EAST || direction == DIRECTION_WEST){
         triangle.setSize(10,textBox.height);
         canonicalSize = new Dimension(textBox.width + triangle.width, textBox.height);
      }else{
         triangle.setSize(20, 10);
         setActualSize(textBox.width, textBox.height + triangle.height);
         canonicalSize = new Dimension(textBox.width,  textBox.height + triangle.height);
      }
      setActualSize(canonicalSize);
      if (direction == DIRECTION_EAST){
         textBox.setLocation(0, 0);
      } else if (direction == DIRECTION_WEST){
         textBox.setLocation(triangle.width, 0);
      } else if (direction == DIRECTION_SOUTH){
         textBox.setLocation(0, 0);
      } else if (direction == DIRECTION_NORTH){
         textBox.setLocation(0, triangle.height);
      }
      flagShape = new GeneralPath();
      if (direction == DIRECTION_WEST || direction == DIRECTION_EAST) {
         flagShape.moveTo(0,0);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width,0);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width+triangle.width, textBox.height/2);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width, textBox.height);
         flagShape.lineTo(0,textBox.height);
         flagShape.closePath();
      }else{
         flagShape.moveTo(0,0);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width,0);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width, textBox.height);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width/2+8, textBox.height);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width/2,textBox.height+triangle.height);
         flagShape.lineTo(textBox.width/2-8, textBox.height);
         flagShape.lineTo(0,textBox.height);
         flagShape.closePath();
      }
      if (direction == DIRECTION_WEST){
         AffineTransform rat = new AffineTransform();
         rat.setToTranslation(textBox.width + triangle.width, textBox.height);
         rat.rotate(Math.PI);
         flagShape.transform(rat);
      }else if (direction == DIRECTION_NORTH){
         AffineTransform rat = new AffineTransform();
         rat.setToTranslation(textBox.width, textBox.height+triangle.height);
         rat.rotate(Math.PI);
         flagShape.transform(rat);
      }
   }

   @Override
   public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
      Dimension d = new Dimension(textBox.width + triangle.width, textBox.height);
      Dimension originalSize = canonicalSize;
      Dimension actualSize = getActualSize();
      float scalex = 1f * actualSize.width / originalSize.width;
      float scaley = 1f * actualSize.height / originalSize.height;
      ((Graphics2D) g).scale(scalex, scaley);
      super.paintComponent(g);
      Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
      g2d.setFont(font);
      g2d.setRenderingHints(new RenderingHints(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
            RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON));
      g2d.setColor(colorFront);
      g2d.fill(flagShape);
      // draw outline
      Stroke pen = new BasicStroke(1.0F);
      g2d.setStroke(pen);
      g2d.setColor(colorFrame);
      g2d.draw(flagShape);
      g2d.setColor(colorText);
      g2d.drawString(text, textBox.x + PADDING_X,
            textBox.y +  textBox.height - fm.getDescent() - PADDING_Y);
   }
}