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Adrian Borza (n. 19 ianuarie 1967, Turda) este un compozitor român de muzică vocală, instrumentală și electroacustică, regizor de sunet, programator, cercetător și profesor în cadrul Academiei de muzică Gheorghe Dima, unde a elaborat și coordonat cursul de Muzică electronică între 1995 și 2001. O premieră pentru România a fost introducerea disciplinei Sisteme muzicale interactive (programare în limbajul MAX) în curricula Facultății Teoretice, în anul 2008. Este Doctor în muzică, cu teza Tehnici de compoziție pe calculator în lucrări proprii, sub coordonarea lui Cornel Țăranu. A înființat și condus, între anii 2000 și 2004, studioul CMP/Computer Music Production, cu obiectivul principal de a produce muzică contemporană. În România, a inițiat și coordonat Elektro Arts, un apel internațional de lucrări de muzică electroacustică și un spectacol audio-video, organizate pentru Festivalul internațional Toamna muzicală clujeană, în perioada aprilie - octombrie 2013. În anul 2013 a fost distins cu Premiul George Enescu al Academiei Române pentru lucrarea If pentru oboi și calculator interactiv, compusă în 2011. Desfășoară și activitate publicistică, fiind autorul a numeroase cărți și articole legate de muzica electroacustică. Din 2017 este Director artistic al Festivalului internațional de arte digitale Elektro Arts.

Premii
 Premiul George Enescu al Academiei Române pe anul 2011
 Premiul Uniunii Compozitorilor și Muzicologilor din România pe anul 2012
Premiul Uniunii Compozitorilor și Muzicologilor din România pe anul 2018

Muzică electroacustică
Lucrări de muzică acusmatică și muzică instrumentală cu Live Electronic
 RX-1100, muzică pentru trompetă și live electronic (1993)
 Désintégration pentru flaut, fluiere și bandă (1994)
 Trois études acousmatiques (2004)
 Cinq minutes cinéma pour l'oreille (2005)
 Relocation pentru saxofoane și electronics (2007)
 S.O.U.N.D. – Sound Objects Uttered Nearly Dreaming (2008)
 Une minute cinéma pour l'oreille (2008)
 Fragile pentru saxofon, violă și electronics (2008)

Seria The Sound of Image
 Traveler by Tram (1999)
 Fractus I pentru live electronic (1999)
 Fractus II pentru live electronic (1999)
 Fractus III pentru percuție și live electronic (2001)
 Increat (2003)
 Increat II (2007)
 Dusk (2007)
 Fractus IV (2007)
 Fractus VI (2008)
Fractus VIII, muzică pentru terapie (2012)

Lucrări de muzică interactivă și muzică algoritmică realizate cu propriile programe de calculator
 Akedia pentru oboi, nanoKontrol și iFPH (2011)
 If pentru oboi și calculator interactiv (2011)
 Drones II pentru vioară, nanoKontrol și iFPH (2012)
Here and Now, muzică pentru dans tehnologic (2015)

Muzică de cameră
 Dialogos pentru flaut și violă (1989)
 Turca-n pod. Suită pentru pian (1992)
 Patru coruri pentru cor mixt a cappella (1996)
 akSax pentru cvartet de saxofoane (1997, 1998)
 Chaconne pentru chitară solo (1999)
 Suită transilvană pentru flauto dolce, flauto traverso, violoncel și clavecin (2003)

Studii și cărți
 Muzică și calculator, Editura Muzicală, București, România, 2008, ISBN 978-973-42-0490-8
 MIDI Scripts, Lucian Badian Edition, Ottawa, Canada, 2008, ISBN 978-2-921944-48-9
 IAC: An Interactive Music System, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Musica, LIV, 1, 2009, pag. 123-128, ediție în engleză, ISSN 1844-4369
 Prolegomena to Interactive Music Systems, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Musica, LV, 1, 2010, pag. 49-58, ediție în engleză, ISSN 1844-4369
 Self-similarity in Pitch Organization, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Musica, LVI, 1, 2011, pag. 99-108, ediție în engleză, ISSN 1844-4369
 Chopin Interactive, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Musica, LVI, 2, 2011, pag. 43-50, ediție în engleză, ISsN 1844-4369
 iFPH: Wireless Control of Sound, Proceedings of the Virtual International Conference on Advanced Research in Scientific Fields, EDIS, Žilina, Slovacia, 2012, pag. 1926-1930, ediție în engleză, ISBN 978-80-554-0606-0 / ISSN 1338-9831
 Aspecte morfo-sintactice în muzica interactivă, Editura MediaMusica, 2015, pag. 5-18, ediție în română și engleză, ISBN 978-606-645-052-2 / ISMN 979-0-9009867-2-6
 The Sound of Image Morphogenesis, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Musica, LX, 1, 2015, p. 119-128, ediție în engleză, ISSN 1844-4369
Interactive Sound Tools and Engines, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai, Musica, LXIII, 2, 2018, p. 9-20, ediție în engleză, ISSN 1844-4369
Computer Music Performance through Non-tactile Gestures, Tehnologii informatice și de comunicații în domeniul muzical, IX, 2, 2018, p. 81-88, ediție în română și engleză, ISSN 2067-9408
Sisteme Muzicale Interactive: Inițiere în Arta Algoritmică, Editura Muzicală, București, România, 2019, ISBN 978-973-42-1048-0

Discografie
 Désintégration, Hungaroton Classic, 1994 CD - Hungaroton #31572
 Fragile, Nova musica NMCD 5122, 2008 Echo memo
 Suită transilvană, ABT2, 2008 Baroccoco
Drones II, UCMR / SSR, CD 49 Muzică electroacustică, 2017 Antologia muzicii românești

Programe de calculator
 Hot Hand Player (2015). Program pentru procesarea sunetului prin gest și mișcare
 VJ Vee-Jay Music Visualizer (2013). Program pentru grafică 2D sincronizată cu muzică
 iFPH Interactive Freezer Player Processor Harmonizer (2011). Program pentru compoziție și interpretare de muzică interactivă
Chopin Interactive (2010). Program pentru interpretarea interactivă cu calculatorul a Preludiului op. 27 de Fr. Chopin
 Video Tracking/Real-time Audio Processing (2006). Program pentru captarea mișcării și prelucrarea sunetului
 Interactive Algorithmic Composition (2004). Program pentru compoziție algoritmică

Referințe

Legături externe

 "Muzicieni români contemporani"
 "Curriculum vitae"
 "Lumea cărții"
 "Google Scholars"
 "Elektro Arts"

Nașteri în 1967
Nașteri pe 19 ianuarie
Turdeni
Muzicieni români în viață
Muzicieni români din secolul al XX-lea
Muzicieni români din secolul al XXI-lea
Compozitori români
Compozitori români de muzică contemporană
Compozitori români de muzică cultă


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Q: Xcode IB: Inexplicable area? I was wondering if anyone knew why IB has inexplicable high lighted areas on the odd nib here and there..
Below is an example:

What I mean is that light area within the area I marked out in red...
There's no views below the split view, there's no bounds which correspond to it and so far there's nothing complaining about "misplaced views" etc... What is it?
update: recently I worked out when it last happened that that weird "area" is always the same size as the rightmost NSView (whether its embedded in a NSSplitView or just 2 NSViews side by side.
Many thanks
Adrian S

A: It's due to a bug in XCode Interface Builder. And in my experiments it's been predictable according to the following explanation:
The lighter colored area is intended to highlight the container view of the current selection.  So it you have an NSTextField within an NSBox, and you select the text field, the box will be highlighted. It's purpose is to dim out everything outside the scope that you can currently make constraints in.
You can see that it's a dimming down of everything outside the box, as if nothing is selected, the whole IB view port is displayed in the lighter shade.
The bug is that when you make a selection, IB clips the area of the container view to what's currently visible, and then adds this highlight as a rounded box 8 pixels larger. But when you scroll or resize the IB viewport, this clipped area isn't updated. So the rounded highlight box is seen to not cover the whole of the container view, just a clipped part (plus 8 pixels) of it.

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Bonhams' Jack Vettriano sale to take place on March 31
Bonhams is to hold a major sale of work by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano in Edinburgh on March 31, with the 12-piece collection valued at up to $1.2m.
It will include some of his most famous works, such as The Road to Nowhere - which is valued at £150,000-200,000 ($230,000-300,000).
Jack Vettriano's work is hugely popular with the British public
Waltzers, another major painting, is estimated at £200,000-300,000 ($300,500-450,000).
Chris Brickley, head of Scottish art at Bonhams, commented: "This is one of the most comprehensive collections of Vettriano's work ever assembled, covering all the major periods of the artist's career and giving a vivid insight into his artistic development.
"It is a private Scottish collection, and the most significant sale of Vettriano's works for about 10 years.
"It's a really extensive and impressive survey of the artist's work��?and, because Jack's work is so famous in reproduction, I think people really do enjoy seeing them in the flesh. We are expecting it to be a popular sale."
Vettriano's work is hugely popular with the British public, but less so with critics and is often derided as lacking in substance.
His auction record stands at £744,800 ($1.1m) - set for The Singing Butler, which is among the most reproduced prints in the UK.

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A former Chief Minister is throwing his support behind changes to the Montserrat Constitution.
Dr. Lowel Lewis believes the order should be amended to change the voting system, reintroduce constituencies, and introduce at large representation.
He is also calling for the removal of the right of non elected Members to vote in Parliament, the establishment of postal ballots and a revision of requirement for nomination of election candidates.
In his submission to the Foreign Affairs Committee Inquiry Dr. Lewis is arguing for election candidates to be granted compulsory leave, without the risk of losing their jobs.
The former Chief Minister also supports changes to the governance structure with emphasis on transparency, which according to him is the hallmark of good government.
He posits that the enactment of Legislation for Integrity in Public Office and a Freedom of Information Act should be a priority.
Dr. Lewis says Montserrat does not have to look for to find a model relationship with the United Kingdom.
The FAC inquiry is wide ranging and will cover issues such as the governance of the OTs, including their adherence to human rights frameworks; the benefits to the UK and the OTs of the relationship between them; the financing of the OTs.
Representation of the OTs in the UK, and assets and liabilities including but not limited to ecological richness and the effects of extreme weather, and natural resources such as minerals and fish is also under consideration.


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How to Tan a Deer Hide
By Andrea Valdez
According to an old wives' tale, every animal has enough brain matter to tan its own hide. While the amateur tanner may not embrace that technique, rest assured there's more than one way to tan a deer, so to speak. "Professionals often use harsh chemicals and acids," says Durango-based master taxidermist Clay Wagner, who has been working with skins for 26 years. "But there is a simple and safe way to tan a hide using household items like salt, baking soda, and vinegar." Once the hide has been removed from the animal, it's ready for processing, but be sure to keep the skin in a cool, dry place while working with it.
1. Cut away all the excess meat and fat from the skin with a sharp knife. Then use the serrated edge of a butter knife to scrape the hide. "This part is time-consuming," Wagner says. But it is integral to the process.
2. Spread the skin out, fur side down, on a flat surface. Completely cover the fleshy surface with salt (not rock salt). "You cannot use too much," Wagner says. Leave overnight. The next day soak the salted skin in clean water for up to two hours, or until the skin is soft.
3. "Pickling the skin helps prepare it for tanning and sets the hair," Wagner says. Make a pickle bath in a plastic tub using equal parts distilled white vinegar and water plus two pounds of salt per gallon of solution (a typical deer hide requires about four gallons). Immerse the skin and leave for up to three days, stirring several times per day. Then neutralize the skin by soaking it in a solution made from four gallons of water mixed with two cups of baking soda for up to forty minutes. Rinse in clean water and towel dry.
4. Oil the skin to prevent it from cracking or drying out. Using a tanning oil solution, which can be purchased online, evenly coat the flesh side. Fold in half, with the fur side facing out, and let it sit overnight.
5. Hang the skin up until it is nearly dry, then work the flesh side over a table edge or wooden sawhorse until the skin is pliable. "The more you work it, the softer it becomes," Wagner says.
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Report by a government commissioned consultancy in Scotland into the impact of short term letting on Scottish housing supply and economy. According to the authors, the results suggest that "government intervention is required in areas of high tourist demand".
An ongoing research project emerging from the University of Siena into the Airification of cities. Among the many interesting findings emerging from this project, they've found that the benefits of AirBnB largely go to a "disproportionately small number of users".
A report prepared by the French government on the short term rental industry, and its most important player AirBnB, in France. It argues that up to 80% of AirBnB's revenue in France could come from commercial operators, rather than true home sharers (in French).
The original study into racial discrimination in the sharing economy, finding that African-American AirBnB users are more likely to be rejected by hosts - which would be illegal in a normal hotel. Many other studies have replicated these findings.
The Financial Times - "Airbnb's edge on room prices comes from tax advantages"


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2 CD | LDV 64.5 | total duration: 108'32 | release date: 29/11/2019
BRAHMS // Trios Nos 1-3 for piano, violin and cello // Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Amaury Coeytaux, Geoffroy Couteau, Nicolas Baldeyrou, Raphaël Perraud,
Amaury Coeytaux, Raphaël Perraud and Geoffroy Couteau are stars in the current firmament of French musicians, linked by a longstanding musical and human rapport. Here they pay tribute to the most universal of Romantic composers.
SKU: LDV 64.5
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Tags:2019, Amaury Coeytaux, Brahms, Cello, Clarinet, Geoffroy Couteau, Piano, Raphaël Perraud, Violin
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Their complete set of the piano trios of Johannes Brahms is an exceptional achievement, the tribute of three proudly independent musicians to a composer who consistently rejected social conventions. Their keen advocacy for Brahms's masterpieces throughout this programme gives these artists ample opportunity to display their high musical standards. Written in 1891 for the famous clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld, the Clarinet Trio marked a new turning in the final creative period of Brahms, who had recently decided to abandon composition. This work, which ranks among his finest chamber compositions, is raised to the sublime by the talents of Nicolas Baldeyrou.
CD 1 - Piano Trio No.1 in B Major, Op.8
Allegro con brio 15'05
Scherzo. Allegro molto 6'19
CD 1 – Piano Trio No.3 in C Minor, Op.101
Allegro energico 7'15
Presto non assai 3'16
Andante gracioso 4'34
CD 2 - Piano Trio No.2 In C, Op.87
Andante con moto 8'12
Scherzo. Presto 4'25
Finale : Allegro giocoso 5'57
CD 2 - Trio for clarinet, cello and piano in A minor op.114
Allegro alla breve 7'06
Andantino grazioso 4'11
Finale : Allegro 4'12
Amaury Coetaux
Hailed by The Strad as an 'exceptionally sensitive and poetic' musician, the French violinist Amaury Coeytaux has won universal praise for his profound interpretations filled with artistic grace and sensibility. An established soloist and chamber musician, he has carved out a unique niche as one of the most multi-talented and versatile artists across the globe.
Alongside his career as a soloist, Amaury Coeytaux was leader of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France from 2012 to 2017, having occupied the same post with the Orchestre d'Auvergne from 2008 to 2012. The dual role of concertmaster and soloist has led him to direct many concerts from the leader's desk, and he continues to combine conducting and performing in his current engagements.
In 2016 he joined the Quatuor Modigliani as first violin. The quartet's established career on the international scene has led to invitations to perform in some of the foremost concert venues around the world. He performs on a 1773 Guadagnini violin.
Brahms has always fascinated Geoffroy Couteau. After winning First Prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition in 2005, he went on to record the composer's complete solo piano works for La Dolce Volta. The specialist press unanimously acknowledged this extraordinary discographical venture by categorising it among the finest recordings of the year 2016.
Geoffroy Couteau has appeared in some of the world's most prestigious venues, including the Main Auditorium of the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Cidade das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, the Auditorium of the Musée d'Orsay, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Maison de Radio France, the Salle Gaveau and the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux.
He is a regular guest at such festivals as Piano aux Jacobins, Menton, Saintes, Radio France-Montpellier, Lille Piano Festival, L'Esprit du Piano in Bordeaux, the Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Piano en Valois, the Chopin festivals of Nohant and Bagatelle, the Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, and the Eygalières Festival.
Geoffroy Couteau had a dazzlingly successful career at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where he studied with Michel Béroff.
He is now artist in residence at L'Arsenal de Metz, a fertile collaboration that showcases his musical qualities.
Nicolas Baldeyrou
Nicolas Baldeyrou is one of the most talented clarinettists of his generation. Successively principal clarinet of the European Union Youth Orchestra, where he played under Bernard Haitink, Carlo Maria Giulini and Sir Colin Davis, Claudio Abbado's Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestre National de France conducted by Kurt Masur, he now dedicates himself to a triple career as soloist, teacher and orchestral musician – in 2011 he was appointed principal clarinet with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (principal conductor Myung-Whun Chung, now Mikko Franck). He has also taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Lyon since 2006.
Nicolas Baldeyrou is actively involved in the music of his time. Moreover, his passion for exploring new repertories and his concern for authenticity in his interpretations have naturally led him to take an interest in historical clarinets.
Since 2004, he has also been a tester for the wind instrument manufacturer Buffet-Crampon, thereby contributing to the development of the instrument and the influence of the French school throughout the world.
Raphaël Perraud
Already the winner of several international competitions, Raphaël Perraud won the Prague Spring Competition in 1994 as well as three special prizes: the prize for the interpretation of the contemporary work, the prize of the Prague Spring Foundation and the gift of a cello. In the same year, Marek Janowski recruited him as second principal cello of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.
Since then, he has performed as a soloist with prestigious orchestras, including the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse and the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra.
An excellent chamber musician, he participates in numerous festivals with such artists as Nicolas Dautricourt, Lise Berthaud, Svetlin Roussev, Deborah Nemtanu, Régis Pasquier, Éric Le Sage, Elena Rozanova, Daishin Kashimoto and Georges Pludermacher.
In 2005, under the principal conductorship of Kurt Masur, he was appointed principal cello of the Orchestre National de France.
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BACH // The Well-Tempered Clavier (complete)
BEETHOVEN – LISZT // Symphony n°9
Philippe Cassard, Cédric Pescia,
BRAHMS // Piano Quartets nos. 1-3
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Beth Hart – Doris Dawn – Mature Model.
New post by Ruddy Adam.
Thank you all so much for the many positive comments about Beth. She is good—real good!! She's also multi-talented beyond belief. The girl plays, writes, and sings. I like her because you can't pin her down, because she has several different singing methods—and does them all well.
You see rock, you see blues, you see soul, you see alternative, you see metal. I see and hear Tori Amos, Bonnie Tyler, and as noted earlier, Janis Joplin, her musical idol, whom she says she pays tribute to with at least a line or two in every song (the way she sings and phrases them). Having been a junk head herself, I'm sure she relates at that level.
"Hello, hello, are you in there, child? Leave that party dress and your suicidal smile." Each of her songs has the type of lines that just tear at you, because you know this is where this child has been—and at times, still is. Her lyrics take you right down into the depth of Beth's soul. There won't be many covers of her songs. Beth leaves little to mystery; she opens herself like she's peeling a peach. You just don't hear this type of lines much, and never have. Please, do yourself a favor, and take note of them as you listen. They are well worth it!
Here is a varied selection of her songs, so you can see her many talents. In "Monkey Back," she speaks of being clean. She was a heroin addict. In all the songs we are putting out, however, she is clean (I think!), though there are a couple of wild ones out there where she is clearly zonked.
People, people, so many millions are runners who just can't face the world. Well, drugs are not the answer, but who can tell these speedy runners anything? You can't tell somebody something worthwhile when they think you're a fool and won't listen to a word you say. So then, there it is.
Having beaten heroin, she's got to be one helluva woman, especially having to get around junk in the world she travels in. God bless the child!
This is an excellent song, in my view.
"Monkey Back" Beth Hart (4:40) Upfront & Live!
"Broken and Ugly" Beth Hart (4:50) Hot & Live!
"You Belong to Me" Beth Hart (7:00) Live & Raw!
"I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" Beth Hart with Joe Bonamassa (7:50) Live & Raw!
The passion comes out in this one, along with that beautiful sultry voice.
"World Without You" Beth Hart singing and playing the piano. (5:00) Live & Sultry!
Another one that grabs your heart and squeezes it to death.
"Over You" Beth Hart (4:34) Live & Beautiful!
"Setting Me Free" Beth Hart (4:25) Live & Heart-wrenching!
"Mama" Beth Hart (4:35) Live & Love Driven!!


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namespace Oro\Bundle\UserBundle\Tests\Behat\Element;

use Behat\Mink\Element\NodeElement;
use Oro\Bundle\TestFrameworkBundle\Behat\Element\Form;

class UserRoleForm extends Form
{
    /**
     * @param string $entity Entity name e.g. Account, Business Customer, Comment etc.
     * @param string $action e.g. Create, Delete, Edit, View etc.
     * @param string $accessLevel e.g. System, None, User etc.
     */
    public function setPermission($entity, $action, $accessLevel)
    {
        $entityRow = $this->getEntityRow($entity);
        $actionRow = $this->getActionRow($entityRow, $action);
        $this->getDriver()->waitForAjax();
        $levels = $actionRow->findAll('css', 'ul.dropdown-menu-collection__list li a');
        $availableLevels = [];

        /** @var NodeElement $level */
        foreach ($levels as $level) {
            $availableLevel = $level->getText();
            $availableLevels[] = $availableLevel;

            if (preg_match(sprintf('/%s/i', $accessLevel), $level->getText())) {
                $level->mouseOver();
                $level->click();
                return;
            }
        }

        self::fail(sprintf(
            'Entity "%s" has no "%s" access level to choose. Available levels "%s"',
            $entity,
            $accessLevel,
            implode(',', $availableLevels)
        ));
    }

    /**
     * Checks capability permission checkbox
     *
     * @param $name
     */
    public function setCheckBoxPermission($name)
    {
        $this->findLabel($name)->find('css', 'input')->check();
    }

    /**
     * @param NodeElement $entityRow
     * @param string $action
     * @return NodeElement
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    protected function getActionRow(NodeElement $entityRow, $action)
    {
        /** @var NodeElement $label */
        foreach ($entityRow->findAll('css', 'span.action-permissions__label') as $label) {
            if (preg_match(sprintf('/%s/i', $action), $label->getText())) {
                $label->click();

                return $label->getParent()->getParent()->find('css', 'div.dropdown-menu');
            }
        }

        self::fail(sprintf('There is no "%s" action', $action));
    }

    /**
     * @param string $entity
     * @return NodeElement
     */
    protected function getEntityRow($entity)
    {
        $entityTrs = $this->findAll('css', 'div[id^=grid-role-permission-grid] table.grid tbody tr');
        self::assertNotCount(0, $entityTrs, 'Can\'t find table with permissions on the page');

        /** @var NodeElement $entityTr */
        foreach ($entityTrs as $entityTr) {
            if (false !== strpos($entityTr->find('css', 'td div.entity-name')->getText(), $entity)) {
                return $entityTr;
            }
        }

        self::fail(sprintf('There is no "%s" entity row', $entity));
    }
}

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Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way
by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter, Marissa Afton, Moses Mohan,
Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way ^ 10467
Rasmus Hougaard
Moses Mohan
Hardcover/Hardcopy
Mindfulness,Trustworthiness,Emotional intelligence,Leadership styles,Leadership qualities,Leadership development,Leadership
Leadership is hard. How can you balance compassion for your people with effectiveness in getting the job done? A global pandemic, economic volatility, natural disasters, civil and political unrest. From New York to Barcelona to Hong Kong, it can feel as if the world as we know it is coming apart. Through it all, our human spirit is being tested. Now more than ever, it's imperative for leaders to demonstrate compassion. But in hard times like these, leaders need to make hard decisions--deliver negative feedback, make difficult choices that disappoint people, and in some cases lay people off. How do you do the hard things that come with the responsibility of leadership while remaining a good human being and bringing out the best in others? Most people think we have to make a binary choice between being a good human being and being a tough, effective leader. But this is a false dichotomy. Being human and doing what needs to be done are not mutually exclusive. In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions is often the most compassionate thing to do. As founder and CEO of Potential Project, Rasmus Hougaard and his longtime coauthor, Jacqueline Carter, show in this powerful, practical book, you must always balance caring for your people with leadership wisdom and effectiveness. Using data from thousands of leaders, employees, and companies in nearly a hundred countries, the authors find that when leaders bring the right balance of compassion and wisdom to the job, they foster much higher levels of employee engagement, performance, loyalty, and well-being in their people. With rich examples from Netflix, IKEA, Unilever, and many other global companies, as well as practical tools and advice for leaders and managers at any level, "Compassionate Leadership" is your indispensable guide to doing the hard work of leadership in a human way.
Product #: 10467
Related Topics: Mindfulness, Trustworthiness, Emotional intelligence, Leadership styles, Leadership qualities, Leadership development, Leadership,
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Timothy Power
A tiny pearl that tells a much bigger story about our ancestors 8,000 years ago
The pearl is just one of a number of significant finds on Marawah Island that have helped build a picture of how people lived and survived in the emirates
The oldest natural pearl in the world is less than a centimetre long. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi
The tiny speck of light currently on display in Louvre Abu Dhabi, part of a recently opened exhibition called 10,000 Years of Luxury, represents the oldest known pearl in the world. This 8,000-year-old pearl was unearthed on Marawah Island about 170 kilometres west of Abu Dhabi and still has its natural lustre.
As small as it is, tells a remarkable story, stretching back to the dawn of civilisation when the Neolithic way of life was taking root in the lands of the Emirates. Together with the sherds of pottery, bones and shells found by archaeologists at sites across the region, it has helped build a picture of what life might have looked like in the Emirates thousands of years ago.
The Neolithic revolution was set in motion by the end of the last Ice Age. It began in the Fertile Crescent – the river-valleys of Iraq and Egypt connected by the Levant – about 14,000 years ago. Primordial hunter-gatherer societies slowly gave way to settled farming or nomadic herding communities. Land ownership guaranteed by new weapon types and religious ideologies forever transformed human societies.
By about 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution was beginning to reach the emirates. Flint arrowheads found at Jebel Faya in Sharjah belong to a Neolithic toolkit imported from the Fertile Crescent. It seems that groups of nomadic pastoralists were moving southwards from Syria-Palestine, possibly driven on by population growth triggered by the Neolithic way of life. This Holocene, or post-Ice Age, repopulation of Arabia likely provided the baseline gene pool of the Emirati people.
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Ancient fish bones shed new light on life in UAE's first villages
A pioneering Neolithic village was established on the island of Marawah in the emirate of Abu Dhabi about 8,000 years ago. Three structures have so far been located. They were built of local limestone and one has an oblong plan. The upper sections of the walls and roofs were probably made of palm fronds. Similar structures have been found at the contemporary site of Al Sabiyah in Kuwait.
These stone-built houses can be contrasted with palm-frond roundhouses at Delma Island in Abu Dhabi and Suwayah in Oman. Analogous palm-frond structures have been found at the settlement at Akab in Umm Al Quwain. Differences in domestic architecture could be indicative of the co-existence of distinct cultural groups in the emirates at the time.
The Marawah pearl dates from 5,800 to 5,600BC. It therefore predates the previous oldest pearl in the world by several centuries, found in Al Sabiyah and dating to 5,300BC. Prior to the discovery of the Marawah pearl, the oldest found in the Emirates was at the settlement of Akab, which flourished between 4,750 and 3,900BC.
Pearls are not infrequently found at Neolithic coastal settlements in the Emirates, which include Yarmouk in Sharjah and the archaeological site of UAQ2 in Umm Al Quwain. The largest number of pearls ever found at a prehistoric site actually come from the interior, from the cemetery of Jebel Al Buhais in Sharjah, where 62 pearls dating from around 5,000 to 4,500BC were discovered.
Many more pre-modern shell middens, or archaeological mounds, dot the coastal landscape of the Gulf. Some of these date to the Neolithic period and are broadly contemporary with the Marawah pearl. One of the largest – a three-metre-high mound densely packed with shell fragments – was found at Dosariyah in Saudi Arabia. The number and size of these middens give some indication of the potential scale of pearl fishing in the Neolithic period.
One of the artefacts found at Marawah Island during an excavation in April. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi
Mohamed Al Mubarak, chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi, inspects the new discoveries on Marawah Island. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi
A hypothetical computer reconstruction of Marawah 8,000 years ago. Courtesy Image Nation - Abu Dhabi
Abdulla Al Kaabi, a coastal heritage archaeologist at the Department of Culture and Tourism, on a previous dig on Marawah Island. Major excavations have been under way for the past few years. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi
An aerial view of the Marawah Island archaeological site. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi
Marawah Island Archaeological Site. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi
The oldest natural pearl in the world. Courtesy Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi
No evidence has yet been unearthed, however, for Neolithic methods of pearl fishing. It is certainly possible that boats were already being used to transport divers to the pearl beds and that the divers were using weights to sink rapidly to the bottom of the sea, as was the case in later periods. Alternatively, oysters could have been collected by wading from the shore at low tide, a practice which continued into living memory in the Emirates.
Oysters and other shellfish were an important source of food for coastal communities. It is unclear to what extent oysters were fished specifically for their pearls. Certainly some of the pearls from Neolithic sites around the Gulf were pierced and turned into jewellery, as was the case with the Al Sabiyah pearl and those found adorning the dead at Jebel Al Buhais.
It has often been supposed, largely on the basis of analogies with better-known historic periods, that the pearls were traded beyond the Gulf. However, no pearls have yet been found in Mesopotamia – the region of southern Iraq where complex urban civilisation first emerged – prior to the Bronze Age in the third millennium BC.
Pottery provides the best evidence for trade with Mesopotamia. The Neolithic communities of the Emirates had no knowledge of ceramic production and imported fine-bodied decorated pots made in and around the site of Tell Al Ubaid in southern Iraq. One of the most celebrated examples is the Marawah vase, now in Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Sherds of Ubaid pottery are found all along the coast of eastern Arabia. It is possible these were traded directly or, perhaps more likely, via one or more middlemen. By the Bronze Age, Bahrain had emerged as a commercial hub of Gulf trade: the legendary land of Dilmun. This trade constitutes one of the earliest maritime networks in world history.
Evidence for early seafaring has been found at Al Sabiyah. Fragments of bitumen bearing the impression of reeds on one side, with barnacles adhered to the surface of the other, suggest that Neolithic boats were made of reed bundles coated with bitumen. A small clay model of a boat from the site gives an impression of how these vessels might have looked.
Trade was nevertheless only a part of the Neolithic way of life. It is possible that palms were already being grown, as suggested by two carbonised date stones found at Delma Island. Dates may alternatively have been imported from Mesopotamia, as indeed they were until recent times. Farming does not appear to have become significant in the emirates until the Bronze Age Umm Al Nar culture beginning around the mid-third millennium BC.
Over 90 per cent of the bones found at butchery sites at Jebel Al Buhais are from domesticated sheep, goat and cattle, indicating the declining importance of hunting. Most of the sheep and goat were elderly females, suggesting that they had been kept for their milk. The picture emerges of a nomadic herding community moving to Buhais for the lambing season in the spring and spending the summers fishing on coastal and island settlements like Akab and Delma.
It is Jebel Al Buhais too that provides the most complete picture of Neolithic life in the emirates. About 500 individuals were found buried in the cemetery. A study of the human remains revealed that the average life expectancy for women was 33, compared to 40 for the men. More women than men died in their teens and twenties, owing to the dangers of childbearing, while the skeletons of the men displayed a greater occurrence of near or before-death trauma associated with a violent death.
Many of the individuals buried in the Buhais cemetery wore pearls and it is possible that the Marawah pearl was somehow lost before it could be pierced and worn. Alternatively, it was lost before it could be shipped to Mesopotamia in exchange for manufactured goods and agricultural surplus. In either case, the pearl opens a fascinating window on life in the emirates during the Neolithic period.
Timothy Power is an archaeologist, historian and author of A History of the Emirati People, to be published in 2021
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Super Bowl XLVII: Which will you wear? Er… root for?
New Orleans will host this year's Super Bowl. My family and I will spend our time watching at some friends' house. And by "watching," I mean "eating" our way through four quarters of football.
I do love football, but I have to say I'm more excited about the party and wearing team colors!
I was raised on the San Francisco 49'ers and my husband and I lived in the Bay Area for five years… so it's only natural that we would be rooting for maroon and gold.
On the flip side, I adore the Ravens colors and have far more in my wardrobe to cheer them on. Is that reason enough to change teams?


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Q: Parse unique filenames better in python/Snakemake I have a series of samples that will be names unique header. For instance the sample could be labeled (SC892138_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG or SC892138_unisample)_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam. Or(SC892155_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG or SC892155_unisample)_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam. Or some other number after SC. I can parse out SC###### value for each sample, but I want to get to this:SC892155_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG. How do I parse this out?
import os
import glob
import itertools
import pandas
from collections import defaultdict

workdir: os.environ['PWD']

## ---- The parser may have to be customized for each run ---- ##
def parse_sampleID(filename):
    return filename.split('/')[-1].split('_')[0]

fastqs = glob.glob('/P/A/T/H/S/*star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam')

d = defaultdict(list)
for key, value in itertools.groupby(fastqs, parse_sampleID):
    d[key] += list(value)

# Need to modify sampleIDs to bams not R1/R2 files
sampleIDs = d.keys()

A: Maybe you aren't sharing enough examples to illustrate the problem adequately?
Option #1 based on provided information:
paths_n_fns = [
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892138_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam",
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892138_unisample_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam",
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892155_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam",
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892155_unisample_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam"
]

def parse_sampleID(path_n_filename):
    if "unisample" in path_n_filename:
        return path_n_filename.split('/')[-1].split('_')[0]
    return path_n_filename.split('/')[-1].split('_L')[0]

sample_ids = []
for paths_n_fn in paths_n_fns:
    sample_ids.append(parse_sampleID(paths_n_fn))
sample_ids

Output from option #1
['SC892138_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG',
 'SC892138',
 'SC892155_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG',
 'SC892155']

Option #2 based on provided information:
paths_n_fns = [
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892138_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam",
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892138_unisample_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam",
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892155_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam",
    "/P/A/T/H/S/SC892155_unisample_L001_001.star_rg_added.sorted.dmark.bam"
]

def parse_sampleID(path_n_filename):
    if "unisample" in path_n_filename:
        return path_n_filename.split('/')[-1].split('_')[0]
    parts = path_n_filename.split('/')[-1].split('_',2)
    return "_".join([parts[0],parts[1]])

sample_ids = []
for paths_n_fn in paths_n_fns:
    sample_ids.append(parse_sampleID(paths_n_fn))
sample_ids

Output from option #2
['SC892138_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG',
 'SC892138',
 'SC892155_CTGAAGCT-ACTCTGAG',
 'SC892155']


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In January, members of the original Howard Fishman Quartet reunited for a one-off at Joe's Pub in NYC to celebrate the release of "THE HOWARD FISHMAN QUARTET VOL.2." Performing together for the first time in over five years, Howard and former band mates Russell Farhang, Andrew Hall and legendary cornetist Peter Ecklund played to a sold out audience who clamored for more. An encore performance was hastily arranged 10 days later at MO PITKINS HOUSE OF SATISFACTION. Sold out again. It appears there are still people who want to hear the old band play the old stuff. 'Nuff said! Two more shows have been added (see below). So as to avoid confusion, the old configuration playing the old material will be billed for now as the EARLY BAND.


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This Slice Shop Is Low-Key Milling Its Own Grains
There's pét-nat on the drinks menu and a grain mill in the basement.
By Priya Krishna
Photo by Emma Fishman
The first time I visit Scarr's Pizza, I almost walk right past it. From the outside, it could be any of the thousands of old-school slice joints that dot the city, complete with the classic red-and-blue bubble-lettered sign capped with a phone number, the neon beer sign, and the dark, wood-paneled walls and stained glass light fixtures visible through the window. As I go inside, certain details become clearer: the pizza boxes made of recycled material, the impressive board of organic wines on offer, and the sheer number of Opening Ceremony-clad models packed into the booths.
Then the pizza arrives. At first glance, it could be just another New York slice: thin, wide-brimmed, with a rippled coating of cheese hiding a schmear of tomato sauce. But I quickly realize it's much more special: the complex texture, the light-as-air crust, the weirdly wholesome feeling I have even after eating an entire personal pie. This close-to-perfect pizza, as I found out, is the result of what happens downstairs in the tiny, all-white basement: Owner Scarr Pimentel mills his own grains. Every. Single. Day.
Owner Scarr Pimentel standing next to his basement grain mill.
Pimentel is not your typical pizzaiolo—he's neither the wizened Italian dude of the old guard nor a lanky, tattooed young gun. He's a 38-year-old Dominican-American guy dressed in a black hoodie and Champion sweatpants who loves to complain about mediocre pizza places (of which, he says, there are many). He has just returned from a trip to Los Angeles, for example, where he claims he had "the worst pizza of my life—even the places that were hyped and expensive were terrible."
He is a die-hard New Yorker, having lived here most of his life and seen the city through much of its ever-evolving pizza scene. He cut his teeth at many of the pizza greats: Joe's, Artichoke, GG's, Lombardi. "Back then," he says, "every pizza by the slice place was good to amazing. Now, it's not like that." He claims that about a decade ago, a lot of the old-school spots started cutting corners, hoping customers wouldn't notice. They added sugar to their tomato sauce, sourced meats from questionable origins, and committed the most cardinal sin of all in Pimentel's mind: using flour laced with chemicals that improved its yield. Even worse, they stopped fermenting their dough—the process that allows the glutens in the flour to activate, yielding a light crust. "Why does pizza have to be considered a bad food?" he says. "Why do you have to use garbage ingredients?" And yet, he adds, incredulously, people still flocked to these heritage joints. "Nothing against these old spots, but they suck," he deadpans. "You're gonna wait three hours for that? I just didn't understand the culture of pizza."
Meanwhile, Pimentel was reading up on people like Chad Robertson from Tartine and Chris Bianco of Pizzeria Bianco who were taking the time to use the best ingredients and make pizzas and breads that were carefully plotted at every point.
So, when it came time to open his own pizza joint, he decided he was going to go a step further than all the other New York slice joints. "I wanted to future proof this method, and get ahead of the class," he says. Not only was he going to source good ingredients, he was going to mill his own flour.
Here's why: Wheat is packed with nutrients, but those nutrients start dying when exposed to oxygen. By milling wheat berries fresh, he's preserving those nutrients in the pizza, making it more airy and digestible.
The outside of Scarr's Pizza
At first, the pizza dough at Scarr's was made entirely with those milled wheat berries, a process Pimentel completed himself in a large, dusty, white miller each day. "And then we got busy," he says, which prompted him to find a less time-consuming compromise. He now buys flour from a farm in upstate New York (he won't tell me which one for fear of copy cats) that grows heritage, organic, non-GMO wheat and combines that with the flour he mills himself. The process is hilariously old-school: Pimentel adds the berries to the miller, turns on a rusty switch dangling from the wall, and after they have been finely ground, adds the flour from the farm and lets it all sift through an extremely fine sieve. Flour spills all over Pimentel's black sweatshirt as he reaches into the mill and pulls out the freshly sifted grains, which feel like silk. The flour gets mixed with water and fermented for a few days, then it's ready to be baked.
The result of this time-consuming process is a more nutrient-dense pizza that, Pimentel claims, even gluten-free folk can eat. "There is this perception that wheat is bad for you," he says. "But the reason we have gluten intolerances is because we've been eating Wonder Bread with chemical flour our whole lives." This is probably why the models are flocking to Scarr's, he explains. "Because you can eat a slice here and not feel like shit."
I ask Pimentel why he hasn't advertised the milling practices at Scarr's. He seems to revel in having people come in with lowered expectations because of how the place looks on the outside. "People assume that we will be a shitty slice spot," he says. "They don't see a ninety-year-old man making pizza. They see a Dominican man and they're like 'What do you know about pizza?'"
And then they taste the grandma pie, whose crust brims with air bubbles and shatters like glass, with their pet nat in hand, NBA memorabilia surrounding them, as Usher blares on the speakers. And they get it.
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Drag Race was nominated for Outstanding Reality-Competition Series, but lost out to NBC's The Voice.


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Nigel Whitehead: Leading the way on engineering inclusion
Posted by QEPrize Admin
Nigel Whitehead is the Group Managing Director for Programmes and Support at BAE Systems, one of the world's largest defence companies, developing the most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions on offer. The multinational organisation employs over 83,000 people in more than 40 countries and works alongside customers and local partners around the world.
We spoke to Nigel to hear his thoughts on the challenges of diversity in engineering and the role big businesses can play in bringing about change.
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Quinta Studio 1/48 Mi-24V/VP Crocodile Interior 3D Decal Set Review
Mi-24V/VP Crocodile Interior 3D Decal Set
QD48026
Resin-Printed Decal
Sharp 3D-printed details
Nothing noted
$29.95 w/free shipping in the USA
I recently became aware of a new hobby company in Russia called Quinta Studio and they are showing off the future of scale modeling with a series of detail parts that are high-resolution 3D-color printed. We recently examined the 3D-printed knobs and switches produced by Anyz in Germany which showcases the impact of 3D printing on our hobby. What's different here is that these are 3D-printed decals that are sized for specific subjects and provide three-dimensional surfaces that cannot be rendered with photo-etched products. Let's take a closer look:.
We recently looked at Zvezda's 1/48 Mi-24V/VP Hind helicopter kit and the lack of surface details inside the cockpit. When I acquired the kit, I saw that Eduard had released a range of detail sets for this kit including color-printed cockpit details. If you are a regular modeler of Soviet/Russian aviation, you'll know that the colors used in Eduard's color-printing process are rarely close to matching the cockpit's colors, whether the turquoise of the Mi-24 (or modern MiGs for that matter), the blue-gray of late Sukhoi cockpits, or even the standard FS 36231 used in modern US cockpits. Yahu produces some magnificent instrument panels complete with shiny instrument glass surfaces where appropriate, but their processes are still mostly two-dimensional. Look at the crispness of the colors and the raised details on these decals!
So how do these work? They are waterslide decals and all you need to do is cut out the part you want to apply before dropping it into water. Quinta Studio advises that these are best applied to pre-painted surfaces for better adhesion, and in this set, most of the decals go onto flat surfaces, so there shouldn't be a problem. They also advise NOT to use decal-setting or softening solution with these detail sets as the chemicals will damage the resin-printed materials. For the more complex surfaces like getting the pilot restraints onto the seats, they advise using a gloss clear like Future or Tamiya X22 on the surface of the parts to act as a supplemental adhesive. You can also use a drop of cyano instead, but that's something I'll have to try myself to be sure.
The printing on these decals is extremely sharp, I can even read the time (12:10). The only other panels I've seen with this degree of clarity are from Yahu, but those are still two-dimensional in surface details and they don't have an Mi-24 set.
You can see in these images the Quinta Studio sheet with the instrument panel decals from Zvezda. When putting those kit decals onto a flat surface, you have all of the detail suitable for a 1/144 scale cockpit, but not for a 1/48 scale cockpit like this one. I pulled out my copy of the Zvezda Hind and pre-painted the cockpit interior with Akan cockpit turquoise. Let's see how these decals/details perform!
Quinta Studio is correct - there is no carrier film extending from the sides of these decals. I cut out the left-sidewall panel for the pilot's cockpit and the decal was ready to go in seconds after immersion into water. I maneuvered the decal into place with a brush and then pushed out the water and absorbed it with a cotton swab. The fit is perfect! You can see in these images that the cockpit turquoise has a bluer tint to it than the Akan paint, but I'm sure there are closer matches out there. The surface details really stand out in three dimensions. I continued adding more decals into the front and rear cockpits until all of the relevant surfaces had their intended parts. I had read in the instructions that these decals prefer a clear coat like Tamiya gloss clear or Future to act as a supplemental adhesive. The main switch panel in the left-rear of the pilot's cockpit had a bend that the decal didn't want to conform to, but I dabbed a bit of Future between that part of the decal and the wall, then pressed the decal into place. It works perfectly. I painted the edges of the other decals with Future and that seems to seal the edges nicely.
Moving to the front and rear instrument panels, I added the two panels to the gunner's console by brushing Future onto the surface before applying the decals. This seemed to work so I repeated the process on the pilot's panel with each of the three subpanels and once again for the moving map overlay.
Note: As I mention above, the instructions say to use Tamiya Gloss Clear or Future under the decals and now I understand why. The decal adhesive might be strong enough for normal decals, but these resin-printed details need a supplemental adhesive. When I repainted the plastic with another coat of turquoise mixed with Flanker light blue to match these parts, one of the panels popped off its location and it was one that I had applied directly and then brushed the edges with Future. I simply hand-brushed Future in the panels location and while still very wet, reapplied the panel. When you apply these parts, the wet Future acts as an adhesive, just like laminating photo-etched parts to a flat surface using Future.
This cockpit detail set (which is hard to say for a set of decals) really does add realism to the model, and considering that the Zvezda cockpits have baby-butt smooth surfaces, this set is the perfect remedy. The only thing I wish Quinta Studio would do is recommend a specific brand and color of hobby paint that matches the turquoise they used in their printing processes. Otherwise this is by far the easiest time I've had detailing a complex cockpit like that of the Mi-24. This set also includes crew restraints as well, so when the seats get painted, that's another enhancement that won't have to compromise with photo-etch.
I am going to be doing more projects with these details (decals) as I'm hooked!
The good news is that HobbyZone USA stocks this set.
My sincere thanks to Quinta Studio for this review sample!


Read the title of the book and the name of the author and illustrator each time you read a book to your children. The first time you read a book with your children, ask them if they can guess what it might be about from listening to the title and looking at the illustration on the cover.
Read aloud for your children until they feel they want to try reading books on their own. When you read aloud for them, you are their reading role model, teaching them invaluable knowledge about how we read books.
Being able to guess what comes next as you are read is a skill competent readers use all the time. As you read a story with your children, develop these prediction skills by asking 'What do you think will happen next?' at different points in the story.
Deepen your children's understanding of the stories you read by asking other questions too. You might want to ask some of these questions as you read a story, while other questions can be discussed after you have finished reading. Questions like 'What does that remind you of?', 'Why do you think he did that?' and 'What would you have done?' help children to explore books. Talking about stories in these ways helps children to understand how stories work – another essential literacy skill!
Introduce your children to as wide a variety of books as possible. Share books by the authors that they most enjoy, but introduce them to new authors too. Click here for more information on how to choose books to read with your children and some of the books that your children might enjoy.
Repeat children's favourite stories as often as they ask for them! As they get to know the stories better, invite them to read along with you. Suggest that they 'read' (recite) the repeated phrases and sentences like I'll huff and I'll puff and blow your house down'or 'Trip, trap, trip trap'.
Set aside a special time each day when you can enjoy books together. Choose books that you like as well as ones you think will be of special interest to your children. And, of course, also make time to read the stories that your children choose themselves.


In July, cryptocurrency wallet Bitfi boasted of its tight security and even went as far as daring security experts to try their hand at taking down the supposedly "unhackable" wallet. More than a month and several hacks later, the startup has come out to admit defeat.
On Twitter, Bitfi announced that it has officially closed its bounty program following the fiasco that found the company dealing with at least two bounties in less than a month after it launched its "unhackable" product.
The company also agreed to remove the "unhackable" claim from the wallet's features and marketing materials. After a series of allegations about the wallet being hacked, the company admitted that the wallet has vulnerabilities, although the statement left out reports of Bitfi security being compromised.
"While our intention has always been to unite the community and accelerate the adoption of digital assets worldwide, we realize that some of our actions have been counterproductive to that goal," according to Bitfi.
The statement also revealed that the company had hired the service of security managers who confirmed the vulnerability of the wallet. The statement went further to state the official closure of the bounty program.
It is worth mentioning that Bitfi has been a project that once prided itself with a supposed unhackable prowess. In July, John McAfee, after claiming the wallet was unhackable, posted a challenge to hack the wallet. According to him, Bitfi is "the world's first unhackable device." He took his bet to the next level by offering $100,000 to security experts who could breach the security of the wallet.
Security experts took up the challenge: The first group exploited loopholes to play video game DOOM on Bitfi wallet servers. Then another group of cybersecurity researchers managed to send signed transactions, in spite of so-called 'security' measures designed to prevent these types of exploits.
It's safe to say that McAfee lost his bet, although it is still not clear whether he kept his word and paid the promised $100,000.


A second major shelter has opened in Houston following Harvey's landfall and it's welcoming the first of up to 10,000 evacuees.
At least 10 buses pulled up to the NRG Center on the south side of the city just before midnight Tuesday. Those in wheelchairs entered first, followed by the first of what officials said could be up to 2,000 people by sunrise Wednesday at the conference hall adjacent to the decommissioned Astrodome and the city's NFL stadium.
The George R. Brown Convention Center downtown has filled to nearly double its originally announced capacity of 5,000 in the five days since the storm first made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane.
The evacuees brought to NRG Center came from other parts of the metro area.
Photos with pleas for help in finding the missing from Tropical Storm Harvey are being posted and retweeted by the thousands as desperate family members seek loved ones who they fear might be dead, but may only have a dead phone.
No official number of missing has been released Tuesday night, but dozens of missing-person photos are circulating on social media. Some are getting results, though not always positive ones.
The family of Ruben Jordan, a 58-year-old retired football and track coach from a Houston-area high school, spread pleas on Twitter and Facebook for 48 hours before they were told he was found dead Tuesday.
The mother of baby Paige Booth was frantic for four hours after she handed off her baby to a police officer amid chest-high water then couldn't find her.
After a series of posts, she got a call from a family of strangers that had her baby, and the two were soon reunited.
The Rockport-Fulton Fighting Pirates won't take the field Friday for their season opener, but some of their players took to the field Tuesday to help clean it up.
Winds from Harvey last week sheared the uprights from both goal posts, stripped most of the metal from the stadium scoreboards, scattered sheet metal through the stands and destroyed the gymnasium where the girls' volleyball team plays.
By word of mouth, some football and volleyball players met Monday afternoon to begin the cleanup. Even more players showed up Tuesday.
Athletic director Jay Seibert said that after three weeks of practice and a scrimmage, his players are now scattered all over the state after evacuating the coastal town near Corpus Christi and that the Pirates will not be able to play this week.
Right guard Angelo Trevino said that returning to the field will help the community recovery effort.
Harvey made landfall near Rockport last Friday as a Category 4 hurricane.
Officials say they have received disturbing reports of people impersonating Homeland Security special agents and telling residents to evacuate in order to rob their homes.
The city of Houston says people should ask anyone knocking on their doors for official badges and credentials with their name and organization. The city's statement also notes that during Harvey relief efforts, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not conducting immigration enforcement operations in the area.
The city also says in a tweet in both English and Spanish that it is not checking the immigration status of anyone coming into shelters.
The death toll from Harvey has risen to at least 18 as three more fatalities have been confirmed in the Houston area.
The Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences updated its storm-related deaths Tuesday night to include an 89-year-old woman, Agnes Stanley, who was found floating in 4 feet (1.2 meters) of floodwater in a home. A 76-year-old woman was found floating in floodwater near a vehicle. Her name was not released. A 45-year-old man, Travis Lynn Callihan, left his vehicle and fell into floodwaters. He was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday.
Family members and authorities have reported at least 18 deaths although the bodies of some victims apparently swept away in the floodwaters have not been found.
Singapore's defense ministry says as many as four of its military helicopters will start assisting in Tropical Storm Harvey relief efforts Wednesday.
The CH-47 Chinook helicopters are stationed in Grand Prairie, Texas, as part of a decades-long partnership between the Republic of Singapore Air Force and Texas National Guard. Singaporean airmen who train there learn how to face large-scale emergencies.
The ministry says the helicopters will be able to airlift troops, evacuees and supplies in the relief effort.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong made the offer in a call with President Donald Trump late Tuesday. Both leaders are set to meet at the White House in October.
Singapore made a similar offer after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Houston officials are opening a major shelter at NRG Park that can accommodate up to 10,000 evacuees from Harvey.
Darian Ward, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said the convention center adjacent to the city's NFL stadium and the Astrodome will open at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
The new shelter will provide the city with additional capacity because the number of evacuees at the George R. Brown Convention Center is approaching 10,000, double its original capacity.
Just 500 cots are being added to the floor of the Toyota Center, as the nearby downtown convention center will remain the primary major shelter for evacuees of Tropical Storm Harvey.
Tom McCasland, Houston's housing and community development director, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the Toyota Center— where the NBA's Houston Rockets play — will serve as an overflow center for people still arriving Tuesday night and early Wednesday. It will only serve families with children that don't have pressing medical needs.
The George R. Brown Convention Center has an estimated 9,000 people seeking shelter. McCasland says more cots are on the way for thousands of people who didn't have one Monday night. Some people slept on towels or strips of cardboard.
Federal and local agencies say they have rescued more than 13,000 people in the Houston area as well as in surrounding cities and counties in Southeast Texas since Tropical Storm Harvey inundated the area with torrential rain.
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday his agency has rescued about 4,100 people.
Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says his agency has rescued more than 3,000.
Parisa Safarzadeh, a spokeswoman for the Harris County Sheriff's Office says her agency has rescued more than 3,000 people. Houston is located in Harris County.
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Mike Hart says his agency has rescued more than 3,000 individuals. Hart says the Coast Guard total includes rescues in Houston, but also in outlying cities and subdivisions outside of Houston, as well as in surrounding counties, including Brazoria, Galveston and Matagorda.
Beaumont police say a woman has died after she and her young daughter were swept into a rain-swollen drainage canal while trying to escape their stalled vehicle.
A police statement said the woman pulled her vehicle into an office park's flooded parking lot about 3:35 p.m. Tuesday, where it became stalled by high water. The woman then took her daughter, exited the car and was swept about a half-mile away.
Two Beaumont police officers and two fire-rescue divers in a rubber boat spotted the mother floating with the child, who was holding onto her mother. Officers pulled the child and the mother into the boat. The child was responsive but suffering from hypothermia; the mother was unresponsive and efforts to revive her failed. The child is hospitalized in stable condition.
Authorities and family members have so far reported more than a dozen deaths from Harvey.
This item corrects the location of the parking lot.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has amended his curfew order to run from midnight to 5 a.m., instead of beginning at 10 p.m.
Turner announced the change on Twitter Tuesday evening, about an hour after initially imposing the curfew.
Police Chief Art Acevedo said at an earlier news conference that curfew violators will be stopped, questioned, searched and arrested.
There have been scattered reports of looting during the flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says that the Toyota Center — home of the NBA's Rockets — has been opened as a shelter for people displaced by flooding from Tropical Storm Harvey.
Turner announced during a news conference Tuesday evening that the downtown basketball arena will be used to help reduce overflow at the nearby George R. Brown Convention Center, which is now sheltering 10,000 people. Officials had initially planned to have 5,000 individuals at the convention center.
Turner says people will still have to go to the convention center first before going into the Toyota Center.
Turner thanked Rockets owner Les Alexander for letting the city use the basketball arena as a shelter and also thanked him for his donation of $10 million for Harvey relief efforts.
Turner says because Houston police have been spread thin due to ongoing water rescues and other efforts, 50 Texas National Guard members will be stationed at the convention center to provide security.
Officials say they have evacuated homes northeast of Houston after a chemical company said there is a risk of an explosion at its flooded plant.
The Harris County Fire Marshal's office said in a tweet Tuesday that homes within 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) of the Arkema plant in Crosby have been evacuated out of precaution.
Arkema says in a news release that it manufactures organic peroxides in Crosby, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Houston. The company says the chemical compounds must be stored at low temperatures, but it lost refrigerated storage after power went out and backup generators were inundated.
Harris County has confirmed the storm-related death of 64-year-old Alexander Kwoksum Sung, who drowned at a clock repair business Sunday in Houston. He was found in more than a foot of debris on Monday.
Authorities and family members have so far reported more than 10 deaths from Harvey.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner says he is imposing a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in order to ensure public safety.
Turner says at a news conference Tuesday that there is no reason for people to be on the streets during those hours.
Police Chief Art Acevedo said violators will be stopped, questioned, searched and arrested.
Authorities at a small city near Houston say a boater who was helping rescue people from the Harvey floodwaters has located a deceased man.
Friendswood Police spokeswoman Lisa Price said Tuesday authorities are not exactly sure how the man died and they haven't been able to confirm his identity.
Price says officers are still on the scene and the body has been taken to a funeral home.
Authorities earlier had confirmed five deaths that are believed to be related to Harvey. Another six people are missing and presumed dead after a van fell into a bayou.
One of the nation's busiest trauma centers has abandoned evacuation plans and will discharge patients more quickly as it prepares for an expected surge of new patients with injuries related to Harvey.
Spokesman Bryan McLeod said Tuesday that Ben Taub Hospital's case management workers will help patients who "no longer require hospitalization" get back home or to shelters if their homes are flooded or inaccessible.
Ben Taub is Houston's main public hospital of last resort, and many patients are poor and uninsured.
Building repairs continue on a burst sewage pipe and leaks that damaged the basement of the hospital's main building and affected pharmacy, food service and other key operations.
McLeod said the hospital has enough food to last until Thursday, when all hospital staff and administrators will be expected back at work.
Authorities say an 81-year-old woman has died after her vehicle was caught in floodwaters caused by Tropical Storm Harvey in Walker County, north of Houston.
Officials with the Texas Department of Public safety say a state trooper out checking the road conditions early Tuesday morning came across Ola Winfrey Crooks' vehicle. Sgt. Richard Standifer with the Texas Department of Public Safety tells The Associated Press that the trooper contacted the swift water rescue team, which recovered the body.
Sgt. Steven McNeil with the Texas Department of Public Safety tells the Huntsville Item newspaper that a preliminary investigation indicates Crooks drowned when her car was swept off a farm-to-market road at the San Jacinto River near her home. McNeil says it appears Crooks was trying to cross the bridge and the swift water carried her vehicle off the road and into the flood waters.
This item corrects the woman's age from 83 to 81 and her middle name from Mae to Winfrey, according to Sgt. Richard Standifer.
Hundreds of people are waiting in line at the George R. Brown Convention Center to register with the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster assistance.
Many evacuees arrived with what was in their pockets and nothing else.
John Boyce lived in a west Houston apartment and had to be pulled out by boat. He was initially taken to a local hospital and was given paper scrubs to wear before being taken to the convention center, because his clothes were wet and soaked in sewage.
His two possessions are a cell phone and a wallet. He dried the cards inside the wallet on a piece of cardboard, and his cellphone worked after he held the battery under a bathroom hair dryer.
He took his first shower Tuesday in a mobile unit brought in by the Red Cross.
FEMA is expected to provide assistance to people left homeless in Harvey.
For the drenched Houston region, an end to the rain and a sunny day are almost in sight. But that's only because meteorologists forecast Harvey to come inland Wednesday, then slog through Louisiana and take its downpours north. Arkansas, Tennessee, parts of Missouri and southern Illinois are on alert for Harvey flooding in a couple days.
Harvey is forecast to return inland around the Texas-Louisiana line and close to Beaumont, Texas, early Wednesday morning or late Tuesday night with 45 mph (72 kph) winds and heavy rains, spending much of Wednesday in Louisiana. Along the Gulf Coast, rain is expected to continue Wednesday but taper off.
But Feltgen cautioned that this doesn't mean Harvey is ending.
Flash flood watches are already posted for parts of Tennessee, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri.
Those areas and Arkansas could get six or seven inches of rain, but it won't be anything like what southeast Texas got.
In far North Dallas, hundreds of volunteers are handling a steady stream of cars, trucks and trailers loaded with water, diapers and other goods for hurricane relief.
The drop-off point announced by the city of Dallas is managed by the nonprofit Trusted World, which also has other drop off points in office buildings and other public locations.
The volunteers say they have seen thousands of vehicles loaded Tuesday with items to donate for hurricane relief. The volume of vehicles loaded with items to donate extended out onto and down the northbound frontage road of the Dallas North Tollway. One 34-foot trailer belonging to a cabinet maker was filled with bottled water and other items. The drop-off point was open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Harvey has gained a bit of strength but stayed a tropical storm. Its winds increased from 45 mph (72 kph) to 50 mph (80 kph).
But the National Hurricane Center says that reading Tuesday afternoon may be unusual because it was from a low flying hurricane hunter airplane.
Forecasters say heavy rains are continuing to spread over southeastern Texas and southern Louisiana.
The rains in Cedar Bayou, near Mont Belvieu, Texas, reached 51.88 inches (132 centimeters) as of 3:30 p.m. CDT. That's a record for both Texas and the continental United States but it doesn't quite pass the 52 inches (133 centimeters) from tropical cyclone Hiki in Kauai, Hawaii, in 1950 (before Hawaii became a state).
An official says that a levee protecting a subdivision of homes in a county south of Houston has been fortified after being breached but warns the threat is far from over.
She says that some water did get through but it wasn't substantial. She warns that authorities don't know how long the fortification will hold. She also notes the breach happened due to rainwater but that the nearby Brazos River continues to spill out of its banks.
Trower says that the mandatory evacuation ordered Sunday morning still stands and notes that most of the residents in the area have left.
Brazoria County Judge Matt Sebesta has said that there are hundreds of homes in the tree-lined subdivision situated around a golf course.
Federal regulators say dozens of offshore oil-and-gas platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have been evacuated as Tropical Storm Harvey continues to dump heavy rainfall on the region.
The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said in a statement Tuesday that workers were evacuated from 102 production platforms, which is nearly 14 percent of the 737 manned platforms in the Gulf.
Five of the 10 drilling rigs currently operating in the Gulf also had been evacuated as of noon Tuesday. The bureau estimated that approximately 19 percent of the Gulf's oil and natural gas production was "shut-in," or temporarily halted, as of midday Tuesday. Offshore facilities will be inspected once the storm has passed.
The Texas Gulf is a key area for U.S. oil refineries and oil and gas production.
Facebook and Google are matching donations to people affected by Hurricane Harvey, the tech giants announced on Tuesday. Facebook says it will match every dollar raised through its platform, up to $1 million, for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's Hurricane Harvey Recovery Fund. The money will support local recovery and rebuilding efforts. U.S. Facebook users are getting a message at the top of their news feed on how to donate.
Google says it is matching $1 million in donations to the American Red Cross. To donate, go to https://www.google.org/harvey-relief/ . The company also matched donations from employees, and said Tuesday it donated $750,000 between its nonprofit arm, Google.org, and employee contributions to organizations such as the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity and Save the Children.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner confirmed that police Sgt. Steve Perez has died after he became trapped in his patrol car as he was driving to work.
The Houston Chronicle has reported that the 30-year officer was heading to work Sunday when he became trapped in high water on Interstate 45 in north Harris County and then couldn't get himself out of his car.
NAACP interim President Derrick Johnson says his organization will carefully monitor government assistance in Houston and other areas to ensure minority neighborhoods get adequate resources following Harvey's destruction on the Gulf Coast.
Johnson told the National Press Club Tuesday that he met with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency earlier in the day. He says the NAACP has a responsibility to make sure "equity is at the table" during recovery efforts, noting that minority neighborhoods suffered disproportionately during Hurricane Katrina.
Gov. John Bel Edwards says Louisiana is offering to shelter storm victims from Texas while the state also helps its own residents who were rescued from Harvey's floodwaters overnight.
Edwards said at a news conference Tuesday in Baton Rouge that he expects Texas officials to decide within 48 hours whether to accept the offer and transport flood victims to Louisiana shelters.
Approximately 500 people were evacuated Monday night and early Tuesday from flooded neighborhoods in southwest Louisiana. Edwards says about 200 of them spent the night in area shelters.
Edwards says more than 600 members of the Louisiana National Guard are on storm-related duty. Many are assisting with rescue efforts.
Edwards says Tropical Storm Harvey was strengthening slightly after moving back into the Gulf of Mexico but wasn't expected to become a hurricane again before its predicted Wednesday landfall in Louisiana.
Volunteers and donors are lining up outside of the Toyota Center, the downtown arena that's home to the Houston Rockets, in anticipation that it will open as a shelter for Harvey evacuees.
City officials and Red Cross spokesmen have not confirmed that the arena will open to shelter evacuees. But several people who went to the George R. Brown Convention Center to volunteer or drop off clothes were told that the Toyota Center would open Tuesday afternoon. Around 30 people are waiting outside an arena entrance.
The convention center has nearly doubled its original 5,000-person capacity, and Mayor Sylvester Turner says the city may open multiple major shelters to accommodate the thousands of people still seeking shelter.
Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña says his agency has responded to more than 1,000 calls for service — including 400 water rescues — since Harvey inundated much of the city.
Peña says some fire department crews have been working for three days straight, without a break, and he has implemented procedures to ensure firefighters get the nourishment and rest they need.
Peña says the fire department is managing the resources it has on hand and will rotate in fresh firefighter crews as it is able to do so.
The University of Tampa has fired a visiting assistant professor who suggested in a tweet that Harvey's destruction is "instant karma" for Texas because it voted Republican.
Officials said another sociology professor will take over Storey's classes.
Weather forecasters expect Tropical Storm Harvey to come ashore somewhere near Louisiana's southwestern corner, following its trip through Texas and return to the Gulf.
National Weather Service meteorologist Roger Erickson said Tuesday that officials project a landfall in Cameron Parish around midday Wednesday. Erickson says another 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) of rain is likely across southwest Louisiana.
Forecasters also project heavy rain running east from New Orleans to Pensacola along the Gulf Coast.
Harvey is expected to bring gusts up to 45 mph (70 kph) in coastal areas and gusts of up to 35 mph (55 kph) in Lake Charles and along the Interstate 10 corridor.
Erickson warns that some coastal rivers won't be able to drain rains effectively because Harvey's winds are pushing storm surge into coastal waters, aggravating flooding in places that have already received more than 20 inches of rain.
The Salvation Army says it has provided more than 5,000 meals in the Houston area since Harvey swamped parts of the city.
A Salvation Army statement Tuesday said the charitable group has deployed 42 mobile units that each can provide up to 1,500 meals per day. The group also sent two field kitchens, which can each serve up to 15,000 meals per day, to emergency personnel and flood survivors.
The Salvation Army says multiple staging areas are being set up across Texas to coordinate relief efforts as Harvey impacts more people. Those sites include Houston, San Antonio, Victoria and Arlington.
Lt. Col. Ron Busroe says donations from the public will help provide food, shelter and other valuable resources to people in Houston.
There was no escaping Harvey for members of one Southeast Texas family who found themselves on an extended stay at a New Orleans bed-and-breakfast — where sandbags are in place to guard against possible Harvey-related floods.
The Auld Sweet Olive Bed and Breakfast is the new, temporary home for Joe Aldape (ahl-DAH'-pey), his sister Cynthia, his son Joseph and other family members from the League City, Texas, area.
They had forged ahead with New Orleans vacation plans as Harvey developed. As of Tuesday, they had no way to return to their flooded homes. Meanwhile, bands of rain from Harvey prompted flash flood watches in New Orleans.
Bed-and-breakfast owner Nancy Gunn said her business took on water during Aug. 5 flash floods, but that it has not flooded so far during Harvey's rains.
A South Texas ferry system operated by the state is closed to the public until further notice after at least two vessels were damaged during Hurricane Harvey.
A Texas Department of Transportation spokesman said Tuesday that all seven boats in the Port Aransas (uh-RAN'-suhs) Ferry System are being assessed. Rickey Dailey says the ferries must pass Coast Guard inspection before returning to service.
The ferry system provides free transportation connecting travelers between Aransas Pass on the mainland and Port Aransas on Mustang Island. It's a quarter-mile trip.
The ferries, each capable of transporting at least 20 vehicles, were taken out of service Friday morning as Harvey approached Port Aransas, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) northeast of Corpus Christi. The area is where Harvey made landfall Friday night.
Dailey says all seven ferries were docked on the Port Aransas side when the storm hit.
Kim Kardashian West and her famous siblings are donating $500,000 to help victims of Hurricane Harvey.
A spokeswoman for the reality star says she and her mother and sisters have given $250,000 to the Red Cross and $250,000 to the Salvation Army on Tuesday.
Kardashian West announced the donation on Twitter Tuesday, saying: "Houston we are praying for you." She used the hashtag #HoustonStrong.
They are among several stars who've said publicly they are helping hurricane victims. Kevin Hart on Monday announced a $25,000 donation to the Red Cross for storm victims and called on other celebrities to do the same.
Houston plans to open up at least two more big shelters to house people trying to escape Harvey's floodwaters.
Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a news conference Tuesday that more than 9,000 people are now staying at George R. Brown Convention Center — the largest shelter that has so far been opened. The capacity at the convention center was supposed to be 5,000 people.
Turner says Houston will open up two new big shelters, and possibly a third. He didn't identify where the shelters would be. More details are expected later Tuesday.
Turner says the number of people at the convention center has continued to grow because the facility is housing not only Houston residents but people from surrounding communities outside the city limits who are in need of shelter.
The mayor of Galveston is asking residents to stay put and off flooded roads as the city anticipates more rain from Harvey.
Mayor Jim Yarbrough says the city of about 50,000 could get up to 4 more inches (10 centimeters) of rain by Wednesday. The mayor says he wants Galveston residents to stay off the roads until conditions improve. Public transportation is not in service in Galveston. The city is 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Houston.
The Port of Galveston remains closed.
Houston's top law officer is warning would-be looters amid flooding from Harvey.
Police Chief Art Acevedo said during a news conference Tuesday that armed robbers were apprehended overnight and a "handful" of looters were also taken into custody. He didn't say just how many have been arrested on charges related to looting.
Acevedo says he's spoken with the Harris County district attorney's office to ensure anyone suspected of looting is prosecuted. He also says he'll lobby judges and prosecutors to secure the most severe punishment Texas law allows.