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Judge orders developer to stabilize Mount Adams landslide
The company responsible for building the collapsing retaining wall in Mount Adams has been court-ordered to stabilize the slipping land.
Judge orders developer to stabilize Mount Adams landslide The company responsible for building the collapsing retaining wall in Mount Adams has been court-ordered to stabilize the slipping land. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/2pDkLlW
Cameron Knight and Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati Published 6:19 p.m. ET May 11, 2017 | Updated 9:18 p.m. ET May 12, 2017
Mount Adams through the years
A retaining wall collapsed early Wednesday morning causing a landslide to damage two Mount Adams homes on Baum Street. The Enquirer/Cameron Knight
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1946: Mount Adams incline. The journey aboard a platform took 2 1/2 minutes. For 72 years, ample numbers of tourists and locals alike went up the hill to see the sights. The last street car made the grade on July 25, 1947. Even after buses replaced the streetcars, the Mount Adams Incline averaged 5,000 weekday passengers, 8,000 on Sundays. File
July 17, 1981: Crane dominates work site at foot of Mount Adams as seem from Baum Street. Ten months after a dramatic Mount Adams hillide caused buildings to crack and officials to order emergency evacuations, engineers say land movement is minimal and stablization work is two-thirds finished. File
August 31, 1973: Ricardo Williams uses the old reservoir in Eden Park as his artist's studio Thursday to paint the Mount Adams skyline. File
Mount Adams incline. The journey aboard a platform took 2 1/2 minutes. For 72 years, ample numbers of tourists and locals alike went up the hill to see the sights. The last street car made the grade on July 25, 1947. Even after buses replaced the streetcars, the Mount Adams Incline averaged 5,000 weekday passengers, 8,000 on Sundays. File
May 5, 2013: An aerial view Mount Adams looking north from above the Ohio River. File
1972: Mt. Adams incline, Cincinnati Ohio. Opened 1874 - Closed 1948. Drawing by Geneva South File
This image from 1947 shows a streetcar on Route 49 up the Mt. Adams inclines. This car also stopped at the zoo and Eden Park. File
A retaining wall collapsed early Wednesday morning causing a landslide to damage two Mount Adams homes on Baum Street.(Photo: The Enquirer/Cameron Knight)Buy Photo
Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Tom Heekin granted an emergency injunction requested by Cincinnati's office of Buildings and Inspections.
"An immediate danger of irreparable harm exists," the order read. Metropolitan Design & Development (MD&D) must take measures in "all due haste" to make the hillside safe.
Heekin also ordered the developer to hand over financial and insurance records to the court Monday to determine if they could pay for the project.
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Marion Haynes, chief counsel for law use and planning, said if MD&D does not move immediately to stabilize the landslide, the company runs the risk of being held in contempt of court.
Haynes said if MD&D cannot pay, the judge may turn to homeowners to help finance the repairs. He said that the City of Cincinnati does not intend to pay for project, but if the judge orders it to, that officials will work to insure those funds are reimbursed or otherwise secured.
After two homes were damaged, the May 3 landslide was connected to the excavation of 406 Baum Street, where MD&D was building a retaining wall prior to constructing a home, Director of Buildings and Inspections Art Dahlberg said. The wall collapsed on the back of the homes and smaller fissures continue to form on Baum Street, officials said.
Dahlberg said he attempted to work with MD&D on a voluntary basis, but the company chose not to.
An emergency order was issued Thursday, which gave the developer until noon on Friday to respond with an action plan and a contract, but the plan submitted by MD&D did not assume any liability. City officials decided Friday to take the matter to court.
"I spoke to the homeowner in 400 (Baum) last night and my advice was you need to start looking at where you could relocate if it comes to that and look at possessions that you want to make sure you want to get secured and get things off that rear wall," Dahlberg said.
Dahlberg said the developer created an unstable environment while excavating for the retaining wall, which led to its collapse. Contributing factors include doing a "nearly vertical" excavation in the rainy season and not providing temporary support for the hillside.
"Sometimes luck is on your side and you can get away with it, sometimes luck isn't. They ran out of luck," Dahlberg said.
Unlike incidents where major infrastructure could be damaged, like Riverside Drive, Dahlberg echoed Hanyes statement: the city will not step in to fix the issues.
Representatives for Metropolitan Design & Development declined to comment Friday.
A history of slides
In the past, Mount Adams landslides have been costly to fix and Baum street has a history of trying to slip away. Movement on the hill was so bad in the late 1970s and early 1980s it took a $22 million project to "fix" it. At the time it was the most expensive landslide mitigation retention wall project in the country.
In 1974, one slide forced the evacuation of nine homes. Later that year, residents in seven Baum Street homes were given eviction notices.
In 1980, another landslide forced 40 families to evacuate apartment buildings and homes on Baum Street and the U.S. Geological Survey determined Hamilton County had the highest per capita landslide damage costs in the nation.
People have been living on the southwestern face of Mount Adams since before the Civil War. The Mount Adams Incline, which passed through Baum Street, was built in 1872. Baum Street itself was home to Mount St. Joseph School of Reform of the Good Shepherd, an orphanage, for many years. What remained of that building was heavily damaged by landslides and by 1983 had been demolished.
While the challenges of hill-living were ever present, the construction of Interstate 471, which began in 1973, was blamed for destabilizing the land by city officials and engineers.
The land started moving in January 1974. The city ordered several homes to be vacated, but initially, the order was met with resistance.
"They can get a police order if they want to and this thing will land in court, which is where it really belongs," then-Baum Street resident Robb Pogue told The Enquirer at the time.
However, the many residents eventually moved or were bought out by the city. By 1983, the city owned about half the buildings in the areas impacted by the landslides.
Plans were proposed to shore up the hill. The city chose to build the huge cylinder pile wall that remains today. The wall is tied to a system of tunnels deep below the ground where everything is anchored firmly to the bedrock.
Construction on the wall began in 1979, more landslides and displacements took place in 1980. It cost $22 million when it was said and done.
It was the subject of countless debates at city hall. The project was in the news and in the imaginations of some residents, so often, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History hosted field trips in 1981 for people to "learn about the causes and mechanics of landslides in Mount Adams."
The wall mitigated much of the major land movement on the hill, and some structures building before 1900 even remain on Baum Street, but weather and new construction continue to change the landscape.
But it seems that nothing will stop people from seeking out the sweeping views of Downtown.
The two homes damaged recently are both recent additions to the street, which in the 1970s still housed some of the oldest commercial buildings in the city. One of the modern glass-fronted homes, Hamilton County Auditor records show, was completed in 2015 and sold for $1.4 million.
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And so where are we on all this?
It's a good question because the perception (that EMIR is pretty much done) most definitely out-trumps the reality (that it's not).
From where I sit, all that's really in place and actually up and running is 'Risk Mitigation Techniques for OTC derivative contracts not cleared by a CCP' (that's Part 23 for all you Dodd Frank-ers!) and of course Trade Reporting (again, Parts 43, 45 and 46).
As I continue to track progress and work through all of this, what really stands out to me is the number of compliance dates that are still around the corner and I wonder how many Clients are genuinely focused and on top of these?
Or if they've even started at all!
What really bothers me is the complexity of what's left in store, relative to what's been done, and how much work will be needed to get through this.
When I think about Risk Mitigation Techniques, I can't help thinking that as game-changing as it may be that we are now 'sending confirmations' and 'valuing OTC derivatives' on a daily basis, was this really that difficult? And when I think about Trade Reporting, given that it's being all but rewritten, I'd feel compelled to put it back in the queue!
For anyone out there that isn't convinced that we've really only just scratched the surface, I've put together a high-level road map that you can pin to your wall and plot progress against. Click on the image to download the PDF.
When asked what I would be focusing on, Phase 3 of EMIR Trade Reporting (have you done your gap analysis yet?!), risk-based (HVaR/ES) margining methodologies for calculating initial margin (both cleared and non-cleared), connectivity to electronic trading venues (process engineering) and the substantial revision of the original MiFID transaction reporting regime and subsequent extension to OTC derivatives would definitely be at the top of my list.
And that was pretty much how I left it in the pub.
Does EMIR look finished to you?


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City Council Member Rory Lancman wants to make it more difficult for NYPD to charge drivers who injure and kill people when, in his words, "accidents are caused by poor road conditions, bad weather and scofflaw pedestrians." But if anything, NYPD has been exceedingly cautious in applying the Right of Way Law when there's a chance the victim was not in a crosswalk.
If there's even a speck of doubt about whether the victim had the right of way, NYPD isn't filing charges against the driver.
The above photo was taken by a reader after an SUV driver fatally struck 89-year-old John Torson as he was walking across E. 61st Street at First Avenue. As we reported last Friday, the day after the crash, an NYPD spokesperson told Streetsblog that, according to the Collision Investigation Squad, Torson was "outside of the marked crosswalk" when he was hit. You can see from the photo that, if Torson was not in the crosswalk, he was at most no more than one car length away. You can't rule out the possibility that Torson was struck in the crosswalk and propelled forward by the force of impact.
As of today, police had filed no charges against the driver.
The Right of Way Law took effect last August. Between last September and March 2015, the latest month for which NYPD crash data is available, city motorists injured or killed over 8,000 pedestrians and cyclists. As of April, NYPD had applied the Right of Way Law just 22 times. NYPD is training beat cops to use the law, but as of now virtually all cases resulting in Right of Way Law charges are investigated by the Collision Investigation Squad — a small unit of detectives who are trained to process crash scenes, and whose work is relied upon to convict motorists on serious charges, like homicide.
With an application rate of one-quarter of one percent, and investigators declining to prosecute drivers whose victims were said to be just outside the crosswalk, it's clear that NYPD is being very conservative with the Right of Way Law. Lancman's proposed Right of Way Law amendment — which would absolve drivers who harm people when the weather is bad — would lead police to apply the law even less frequently.
Thanks to the voters who elect people like Rory Lancman, and then re-elect and re-elect them again. Good job. Keep New York awful.
So if a pedestrian puts a foot out of the crosswalk they're a scofflaw and their very life is forfeit, but people are still getting away with hitting pedestrians on the sidewalk? Lancman is more dangerous than the hammer man.
a call for political reform!
Oh, it's worse than that. The pedestrian is deemed outside the crosswalk if his body is dragged or bounced outside the crosswalk. The only way a pedestrian can remain in the crosswalk, when struck by a car, would be for his body (typically weighing less than 200 pounds) to resist the oncoming force of the car (typically weighing multiple tons). The laws of physics make this impossible.
Worth repeating: in 8 months (Sept. 2014 – March 2015) drivers killed or injured 8,000 vulnerable road users – pedestrians and bicyclists. In only one quarter of 1% of the cases, so only 0.25% of the time, is the Right of Way law being applied.
It is only being applied right now in cases that are investigated by the Collision Investigation Squad, which only investigates collisions where the pedestrian/cyclist was killed or was severely injured and is likely to die. This means the few drivers being charged have ended someone's life or have severely injured someone to the extreme that that person will likely die from his/her injuries. Facing a misdemeanor charge is very mild compared to what they have inflicted on someone's family and on society due to their driving.
Everyone cross the street "upstream" from the crosswalk so if you get hit your body lands in the crosswalk.
I do that. I actually legitimately do that and the picture above is exactly the reason.
Unlike Lancman and the NYPD, I actually understand physics, and when a multi-ton machine meets a human, that human is going in the direction of the machine, no matter what. So if crossing in the crosswalk and ending up just outside it after being hit by a car makes me a "scofflaw" then I guess I'm forced to cross outside it just to be considered a law-abiding citizen.
I joined in a conversation with Rory Lancman today on Twitter about this. He says he hasn't said cops are arresting people who've hit jaywalking pedestrians. He says he's just floating that as a point of concern and the big problem is I'm a nasty, distorting liar for suggesting he's making out that drivers are getting arrested for hitting jaywalking pedestrians. I asked him how long he thought it was legitimate for New York's annual road death toll to be twice that of slightly more populous London. He didn't have a straightforward answer on that. It was all rather extraordinary.
Lancman knows that exempting TWU drivers, which he supports thanks to campaign donations I suppose, is never going to fly. There's no rational explanation for why one type of driver should be excused over another. So the only other option is to tie NYPD's hands so tightly that almost no driver can be charged anywhere. Seems pretty simple and craven.
Four wheels good, two legs bad!
But the act of doing that would probably greatly damage the sweet grill job on the vehicle, making it also a property crime.
Also, don't even go outside in the event of drizzle, light snow, slight wind, sunlight, night, dusk, dawn, overcast, or ever. All of these things prevent smooth operation of a vehicle, thus, any actions that occur are not the fault of the driver.
It's even worse than that. Rory wants the police to consider "road design," which seems to mean that, if the DOT has created a driver-pedestrian/cyclist conflict that puts the pedestrian or cyclist in unreasonable danger, then the driver is off the hook, as long as they're behaving in the way designed.
So, imagine: a fast veer through a left turn across a crosswalk where the pedestrians have the ROW. Or a cyclist crushed in one of those "mixing zones" that punctuate a protected bikeway.
Or a sharrow! The cyclist was controlling the lane, and I tried to pass! How was I supposed to know that would be dangerous, when the sharrow's on the far left/right of the lane?
The bottom line of all this is that the people who have to take extraordinary care are pedestrians and cyclists – those who have the least control over driver behavior, and are most vulnerable to driver carelessness. I have no idea whether a driver's going to try to squeeze through a stale green light, whether they're prepared to stop in the rain, or whether they can see me. But if I don't guess correctly, I'm dead, and the driver's off the hook.
It's more John Bunyan than George Orwell. Four wheels of Goodwill, two legs of Baal Zevuv.
This is insane. AFAIK, the way crosswalks are striped seem pretty arbitrary. A few feet narrower, a few feet wider. Thin stripes. Zebra stripes. Do a walking person's rights to walk and to live truly end where the paint stops, or does the law apply a "reasonable person" approach: If a person is crossing in the vicinity of the crosswalk, s/he has ROW?
The collision occurred at an intersection where DOT allows people to park their cars to the edge of crosswalks, which hinders visibility and safety.


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In case you're wondering what the new banner on this blog is a photo of, it's Muji's London In A Box, which was a housewarming present from Alice and Matt.
Isn't it adorable? You can buy it here.
I know it's for kids, but it also makes a great piece of interior decoration for adults. I love the fact that we can see so many of the buildings featured (such as the BT Tower and Gherkin) on the skyline outside our apartment window.
For NYC transplants (ahem, Ruth and Suzy!), they also have New York In A Box - and for Francophiles, Paris In a Box.
I kind of wish they would make Seattle In A Box, though I suppose the only structure that's familiar enough to stand-out would be the Space Needle.
Any other cities you think they should add?


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Seeking truth about possible transit cuts
Minnesota House Rep. Mike Beard (R-Shakopee) has proposed reshuffling funds for Twin Cities transit services, taking $69 million from the Counties Transit Improvement Board (the CTIB, funded by a 0.25% metro-area sales tax) for the next two-year biennium and forcing it to be used for existing transit instead of for future lines. The Metropolitan Council has said that this would effectively end up being a cost of $120 million over the biennium. They laid out two scenarios about how such a cut would affect transit in the Twin Cities:
If transit systems must recover the funds through fare increases, the cost of a ride could go up by $4.00, resulting in fares of $7.00 in some cases, and losing 60% of ridership (a loss of 40 to 48 million riders annually, or around 150,000 per day).
Alternately (and more likely), 45% of regular-route services would be cut, 550 people would be fired, fares would rise $0.25, and 22 million rides per year would be lost (around 70,000 per day).
I'm frustrated that I'm getting different sets of numbers from each side. I am disinclined to believe the numbers from Rep. Beard, particularly since I agree with the assessment that this is a raid on funds that the state has no right to take away—an allegation he denies. Yes, Mr. Beard, the CTIB is a creation of the state legislature, but that's simply because city and county governments in Minnesota are not allowed to enact local sales taxes without the legislature's approval. It's also a regional entity covering more than one county. Of course the state had its hand in the CTIB's creation—it's a requirement under the circumstances! By no means does that make it appropriate for the state to take away the funding, even if it has supposedly been backfilled with $51 million from the general fund (which comes with restrictions preventing them from being used on new rail transit projects).
It seems at first blush that the Metropolitan Council's response has been alarmist, but how does that hold up to further scrutiny? Conveniently, the revenues for metro-area transit systems add up to just over $100 million per year, so an annual extra cost of $35 million would require a fare increase of at least 35%, and an annual extra cost of $60 million would require at least a 60% fare increase. That doesn't factor in losses in ridership due to the increased cost—apparently there's a rule of thumb in the industry that a 10% increase in fares translates to 3% fewer riders, meaning that a 10% increase only translates to 6 or 7% more revenue. Of course, the amount of revenue you can generate is a curve—at some point, increasing fare costs drive ridership down so much that revenue begins to fall.
The Twin Cities transit system might be able to absorb a $35 million hit through fare increases alone, though the increases would need to be very large—perhaps more than 55%. Using the really dumb model of a 3% loss for every 10% increase in fare cost, it would not be possible to cover a $60 million gap, no matter what you charged for the fare. My curve started declining when the fare hit 210% of current costs (current fare plus 110%), and peaked at about $41 million in additional revenue.
An actual economist could give you better numbers, but this exercise lends a fair amount of credence to the idea of a $4 fare increase. It could be that the Met Council's models also maxed out before they could find $60 million in additional revenue, and they just picked a big, round number.
It would clearly be insane for the Metropolitan Council to attempt to retain the same level of service when faced with a $60 million shortfall, so let's take a closer look at their alternative scenario: 22 million riders lost. What might that mean? Well, as I said, it seems to translate into roughly 70,000 riders per day, or more than twice the daily ridership on the Hiawatha Line. If those riders each got a car, it would require a decently-sized highway—at least two lanes in each direction. Many riders would have little choice but to buy a new car—if 30,000 people bought cars, that would have serious consequences. Clearly, many people who ride the bus can't afford cars in the first place, so the personal outcomes would be dire, and it would add up to some huge amounts of money in the aggregate.
Even the American Automobile Association says it costs $9,519 per year to own a car. 30,000 new cars at $9,500 a pop? How does $286 million per year sound? Some of that money would stay in the local economy from cars being locally serviced, but a lot of it would flow away to pay for cars, parts, fuel, insurance, and corporate profits on the cost of service in general.
Okay, that's likely an overestimate on how much it would cost, but a cut of $60 million per year would clearly lead to an economic hit that is significantly larger than $60 million. Many people won't buy cars, but tens to hundreds of millions of dollars will get redirected. Some riders own cars already and will simply start paying more for fuel, maintenance, and parking. Some riders will shift to carpools, while others will bike or walk. Some people will move closer to work, probably paying more money in the process. Others will move away from the Twin Cities entirely, reducing the tax base. Some will lose their jobs and become dependent on their state and local governments for support. People who are unable to drive may have to turn to Metro Mobility or other dial-a-ride services, which are also very expensive and heavily subsidized.
The tremendous cost of automotive "rolling stock" is a major factor that usually gets left out of conversations about public transit. When investments can be made into transit, cycling, and walking infrastructure to allow more people to live car-free, it leads to more money in the pocketbook, which collectively provides a significant economic boost to a region.
You scarcely need to get rid of 100 cars to add up to $1 million per year. That's well within the scope of what can be done in a neighborhood or small town through proper planning. Saving $9,519 per year for 10 or 20 years also adds up to a huge amount that can be invested in better housing or better education. This is why it's good to design walkable, bikeable environments everywhere, and build for transit whenever possible.
Instead of cutting funding to transit, we should be funding it more. The Twin Cities is under-served by Metro Transit and other providers, and we have more people here who would get rid of their cars if service was improved, which would have a big impact on pocketbooks around the region and could make the economy significantly more robust. We remain behind other comparable regions when it comes to building high-quality bus and rail transitways, and we need to catch up. Cutting funding will only work to slow us down further.
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The 2016 AFC Champions League was the 35th edition of Asia's premier club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 14th under the current AFC Champions League title.

Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors defeated Al-Ain in the final to win their second AFC Champions League title, and qualified as the AFC representative at the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, their second appearance in the FIFA Club World Cup. Guangzhou Evergrande were the defending champions, but were eliminated in the group stage.

Association team allocation
The AFC Competitions Committee proposed a revamp of the AFC club competitions on 25 January 2014, which was ratified by the AFC Executive Committee on 16 April 2014. The 46 AFC member associations (excluding the associate member Northern Mariana Islands) are ranked based on their national team's and clubs' performance over the last four years in AFC competitions, with the allocation of slots for the 2015 and 2016 editions of the AFC club competitions determined by the 2014 rankings:
The associations are split into West Zone and East Zone, with 23 associations in each zone:
West Zone consists of the associations from West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, except India and Maldives
East Zone consists of the associations from ASEAN and East Asia, plus India and Maldives
In each zone, there are a total of 12 direct slots in the group stage, with the 4 remaining slots filled through play-offs.
The top 12 associations in each zone as per the AFC rankings are eligible to enter the AFC Champions League, as long as they fulfill the AFC Champions League criteria.
The top six associations in each zone get at least one direct slot in the group stage, while the remaining associations get only play-off slots:
The associations ranked 1st and 2nd each get three direct slots and one play-off slot (in play-off round).
The associations ranked 3rd and 4th each get two direct slots and two play-off slots (one in play-off round, one in preliminary round 2).
The associations ranked 5th each get one direct slot and two play-off slots (both in preliminary round 2).
The associations ranked 6th each get one direct slot and one play-off slot (in preliminary round 2).
The associations ranked 7th to 12th each get one play-off slot (in preliminary round 1).
The maximum number of slots for each association is one-third of the total number of clubs in the top division (e.g., Australia can only get a maximum of three total slots as there are only nine Australia-based clubs in the A-League).

The AFC Competitions Committee finalised the slot allocation for the 2015 and 2016 editions of the AFC Champions League based on the criteria, including the AFC rankings and the implementation of club licensing regulations, on 28 November 2014.

The following table shows the slot allocation for the 2016 AFC Champions League, which are adjusted accordingly since some of the slots are unused.

Notes

Teams
The following 45 teams from 17 associations entered the competition.

In the following table, the number of appearances and last appearance count only those since the 2002–03 season (including qualifying rounds), when the competition was rebranded as the AFC Champions League. TH means title holders.

Notes

Schedule
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).

Qualifying play-off

Preliminary round 1

Preliminary round 2

Play-off round

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Knockout stage

Bracket

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Notes

Semi-finals

Final

Awards

Main awards

All-Star Squad
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Opta Best XI
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Top scorers

Controversies

On 25 January 2016, the AFC announced changes to the group stage schedule due to Saudi Arabia's refusal to play in Iran. After the changes, all matches between teams from Iran and Saudi Arabia (including possible play-off winners) were rescheduled to be played on matchdays 5 and 6 (19–20 April and 3–4 May). The venues of these matches would be decided after an evaluation deadline of 15 March 2016. As there had not been a return to normal relations between the two countries by then with Saudi Arabia refusing to lift their travel restrictions to Iran, the AFC accepted the Saudi Arabian Football Federation's proposal of playing all matches between teams from Iran and Saudi Arabia in neutral venues. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation supports its clubs who refuse to travel to Iran. The Iranian Football Federation has stated that it could withdraw from the AFC Champions League due to the venue changes.

See also
2016 AFC Cup
2016 FIFA Club World Cup

References

External links
AFC Champions League, the-AFC.com

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Math and science have complicated relationships with many people. Generally, though, the experts agree – early exposure may foster a lifelong love of these two subjects! Indeed, author Chris Ferrie believes that there may be no age too young to learn. He's written a series of math and science books aimed at infants based on subjects most would associate with high school.
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Many parents might double-take at your series of science books for babies! Why were you inspired to bring concepts like quantum physics and probability to such a young audience instead of an older one?
I certainly would not have written a children's book had I not had children of my own. Being a scientist myself, I was always on the lookout for science books to read to my young children. When I saw that someone else had written some maths books for children and that they had self-published them, I started to think about writing about my area of expertise. The self-publishing option was key because this needed to be a hobby that would allow me to still focus on growing my academic career.
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Electro-Hydrostatic actuators (EHAs), replace hydraulic systems with self-contained actuators operated solely by electrical power. EHAs eliminate the need for separate hydraulic pumps and tubing, because they include their own pump, simplifying system architectures and improving safety and reliability. This technology originally was developed for the aerospace industry but has since expanded into many other industries where hydraulic power is commonly used.

Conventional designs
Aircraft were originally controlled by small aerodynamic surfaces operated by cables, attached to levers that magnified the pilot's input, using mechanical advantage. As aircraft grew in size and performance, the aerodynamic forces on these surfaces grew to the point where it was no longer possible for the pilot to manually control them across a wide range of speeds - controls with enough advantage to control the aircraft at high speed left the aircraft with significant overcontrol at lower speeds when the aerodynamic forces were reduced. Numerous aircraft in the early stages of World War II suffered from these problems, notably the Mitsubishi Zero and P-38 Lightning.

Starting in the 1940s, hydraulics were introduced to address these problems. In their early incarnations, hydraulic pumps attached to the engines fed high-pressure oil through tubes to the various control surfaces. Here, small valves were attached to the original control cables, controlling the flow of oil into an associated actuator connected to the control surface. One of the earliest fittings of a hydraulic boost system was to ailerons on late-war models of the P-38L, removing the need for great human strength to achieve a higher rate of roll.

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Some of the earliest use was on the Avro Vulcan bomber and the Vickers VC10 airliner known as the Powered
Flight Control Units.

EHAs
The primary development that lead to the possibility of EHAs was the precision feedback controlled conventional motor, or high-power stepper motor. Stepper motors are designed to move through a fixed angle with every pulse of current and do so repeatedly in an extremely precise fashion. Both types of motor drives have been in use for years, powering the controls on motion control rigs and numeric control machine tools for instance.

With an EHA, high-power versions of these motors are used to drive a reversible pump, which is tied to a hydraulic cylinder. The pump pressurizes a working fluid, typically hydraulic oil, directly raising the pressure in the cylinder, and causing it to move. The entire system, consisting of the pump, the cylinder and a reservoir of hydraulic fluid, is packaged into a single self-contained unit.

Instead of the energy needed to move the controls being supplied by an external hydraulic supply, it is supplied over normal electrical wiring, albeit larger wiring than what would be found in a fly-by-wire system. The speed of the motion is controlled through the use of pulse-code modulation. The result is a "power-by-wire" system, where both the control and energy are sent through a single set of wires.

Redundancy can thus be provided by using two such units per surface, and two sets of electrical wires. This is far simpler than the corresponding systems using an external hydraulic supply. Additionally, the EHA has the advantage that it only draws power when it is being moved, the pressure is maintained internally when the motor stops. This can reduce power use on the aircraft by eliminating the constant draw of the hydraulic pumps. EHAs also reduce weight, allow better streamlining due to reduced internal routing of piping, and lower overall weight of the control system.

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Robert Navarro, "Performance of an Electro-Hydrostatic Actuator on the F-18 Systems Research Aircraft", NANASA/TM-97-206224, October 1997
Stefan Frischemeir, "Electrohydrostatic Actuators for Aircraft Primary Flight Control", Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
 Charlotte Adams, "A380: 'More Electric' Aircraft", Avionics, 1 October 2001

External links
 Electrohydrostatic actuation, Young & Franklin
 Electrohydrostatic actuation, Parker

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by The Washington Post November 29, 2018
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein speaks Wednesday during a news conference announcing the indictment against international computer hacking at the Department of Justice in Washington. Credit: Jose Luis Magana | AP
President Donald Trump on Wednesday sharply criticized Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, hours after retweeting an image showing Rosenstein and several other current and former officials locked in a prison cell.
Trump has long vented about Rosenstein, who appointed Robert Mueller to oversee the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign. The president has repeatedly sought to discredit the investigation as a "witch hunt."
Asked in an interview with the New York Post why he believes Rosenstein belongs behind bars, Trump replied, "He should have never picked a special counsel."
Trump declined to answer a follow-up question on whether he intends to fire Rosenstein.
Earlier Wednesday, Trump railed against the Mueller probe and retweeted several tweets in the morning from the Trump Train, a fan account.
One of them showed 10 current and former government officials behind bars and asked: "Now that Russia collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials for treason begin?"
Among those depicted is Rosenstein, who was appointed to his position by Trump and until recently directly oversaw Mueller's work. Others depicted include former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired last year.
In Wednesday's wide-ranging interview with the New York Post, Trump also said he plans to return to New York City when his time in the White House is up.
He claimed that he would be denied a Nobel Peace Prize in the same way that his TV show, "The Apprentice," was denied an Emmy award in 2004 and 2005.
"'Amazing Race' got it because 'Amazing Race' was the establishment," Trump said.
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"I'd love to run against Little Michael," Trump said of Bloomberg.
He falsely claimed that while Booker was mayor of Newark, he had "decided not to live there, which was illegal."
In 2013, Booker provided property records and documentation to BuzzFeed News showing that he did in fact live in Newark, after the Daily Caller published a piece quoting residents who said they had never seen him at his property.
Of Gillibrand, Trump noted that he "supported her early on" but that she's "not going to make it," citing her position on gun control.
The president last year prompted criticism with a tweet describing Gillibrand as someone who had previously come to him "begging" for donations and "would do anything for them." He stopped short of using that language on Wednesday but once again brought up the topic.
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The Stand: Captain Trips #3
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Aguirre-Sacasa has captured this quality extremely well in this series, and if it succeeds at nothing else, it reminds us what a fantastic character King created in Nick Andros, the deaf mute with a heart of gold. Frannie Goldsmith also has a great scene with her family in this issue, another very successful translation. (That only underscores how much time the comic is taking to tell the story, when you remember what critical character to Frannie's story has yet to be introduced.)
The comic does put a little extra weight on the government cover-up aspect of the story, which seems like a bit of a waste of space, considering how things end up for everyone. I suppose it's purpose is to add a little extra tension to Stu Redman's scene ("He. . . could be next! To die!") But really, Mike Perkins drawing an assault rifle wrapped in plastic tells you everything you need to know about the perilous state of things.
Perkins, by the way, is really doing a great job on this book. Way more effectively than that hoary old TV mini-series, he's brought to life every one of my favorite characters introduced so far. The aforementioned Nick Andros, the Fightin' Goldsmiths, they've all got new avatars in my mind the next time I decide to read the novel. Perkins has nailed them all.
"The Stand: Captain Trips" is a pretty bold comic to be publishing. It's making no excuses for its pacing and, for those with the patience to stick with it, it's all the better read for it. There's barely any action, some flashes of violence putting at risk no one of any import, just over sixty pages now of the most basic of stage setting. But like Stephen King's best work, it's features an illuminating and authentic study of characters, living lives in the shadow of a coming storm.
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By James Tichborne on 21st May 2017 in Music
SUNDAY 28th of May brings first instalment of the exciting new experimental and avante garde gigs being promoted by Victoria Warehouse; Transformer to Manchester.
Named after the album by the late, great Lou Reed the all day event is designed to bring together a collection of great bands that represent Reed's vision for experimentation that punters might not otherwise get the chance to see. Some of these bands are reuniting, some are rare to see live, and some are just classic, unmissable acts.
Headlining are the illustrious Swans, one of the most provocative and daring bands in the world. It is the both the first and ffinal Manchester show for this incarnation of their ever-evolving lineup, and is sure to be a killer show. After starting way back in 1982, they consistently been producing violent and sparse music that ranges from post-punk to drone to pure avant garde. This is sure to be an incredible performance, especially based on the frontman Michael Gira's bizarre stage presence.
Second on the bill are one of Manchester's greatest exports, The Fall. They started back in 1976 and with a combination of their incredibly regular and consistent discography (30 albums…), and their eclectic frontman Mark E. Smith, they've become cult heroes over the years. It would be a travesty not to catch them.
Also playing are This Is Not This Heat; a revamp of the 1970s experimental rock group This Heat.
This new version of the iconic band are playing expanded and enhanced versions of the DIY rock that they began over 40 years ago. It features founding members Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward.The band is named This Is Not This Heat out of respect for original member Gareth Williams who died in 2001.
Also on the bill is Royal Trux, an American alternative rock band who release a dozen or so albums in the 80s and 90s. Transformer is set to be this is going to be their first show in the UK since 2001.
As well as this, on the line-up are Argentinian duo Mueran Humans (consisting of Carmen Burguess and Tomas Nochteff) and Loop, an English trance rock group grabbing sounds from the likes of The Stooges and Can.
Every band on the line-up has a lot of promise to make this an exceptional day, so don't forget to check out some of the other bands playing too, like Little Annie, Suuns and Sex Swing.
The event capacity will be 2,500 allowing an intimate experience of some of the best alternative acts in the world. The venue will be complete with the usual food stalls and bars, along with a record fair and film screenings throughout the day.
The Transformer event will be held on Sunday 28th May at Victoria Warehouse. Final release tickets are £24.
To win tickets to Transformer fest, email the answer to the following question to editor@quaysnews.net
What year did Swans form?
Competition closes Wednesday at 11:59PM.
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Written by James Tichborne


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A Message from ProDims About the COVID - 19
Good Afternoon, As we continue to monitor the evolving COVID-19 situation, we are making tough decisions around work and travel to do our part in minimizing the spread of the virus. The health of our staff, clients and community are at the forefront of our minds as we respond to the developing COVID-19 Pandemic. We wanted to take a moment to update you on the actions we are taking to ensure the safety while we work together on our projects. With this in mind, we are taking the followings actions:
1. Travel: Effective immediately, we have stopped all non-essential travel.
2. Telecommuting: We are encouraging staff in both of our offices to telecommute. We continue our focus of serving your project needs during this time. We have extensive remote work experience, and technology in place, to ensure that our work together can proceeds smoothly.
3. Physical Offices: All offices remain open to provide support for employees who need it. We ask that everyone who is healthy and visits our offices follow the CDC Health Guidelines to Prevent Illness: Clean your hands often, avoid close contact, cover coughs and sneezes, and avoid touching your face.
4. In-Person Meetings: We are limiting in-person meeting and encouraging our staff to transition meetings to an online platform. Many of our meetings lately have been call in or just directly calling each other, so this should not be a change has how we have been working with you.
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we work through this.
Regards, Duane Mask, President
ProDims LLC New Office
New Phoenix Office Address: 4530, Shea Boulevard #103 Phoenix, AZ 85028
ProDims LLC is proud to announce its expansion into the beautiful state of Arizona, Our Phoenix office will hold the same standards and values as our Washington branch. Our project types and services will stay exactly the same, if you have any questions about our Phoenix Office or any of the new careers opportunity's please contact us.
ProDims LLC New Hire
KariAnne Gow, Accounting Manager
ProDims LLC has hired KariAnne Gow as Account Manager. KariAnne has over 20 years of experience as an Account Manager, Administrator and Specialist for accounting operations.
Ken Burkhart, Cost Estimator
ProDims welcomes Ken Burkhart to our Kirkland, Washington office. Ken has 30 years of experience in estimating, management, and construction with twenty years of experience in estimating for all divisions for nuclear, government, heavy industrial and commercial projects. His expertise spans all phases estimating including conceptual, preliminary, and definitive estimates for Domestic and International projects. His project estimates ranged from less than $1 Million to over $5 Billion.
WSDOT picks Imco to build $48M Mukilteo ferry building, promenade
By BENJAMIN MINNICK, Daily Journal of Commerce Construction Editor
Crews from Imco General Construction will return next spring to Mukilteo, where the state Department of Transportation is building a $167 million replacement ferry terminal. Imco recently was awarded a $47.95 million contract to build the upland elements that include the passenger building, promenade and toll plaza. The Ferndale-based contractor last year was awarded a $2.26 million contract to install a deep water outfall for stormwater that it finished over the summer. On the latest contract, Imco beat Interwest Construction of Burlington ($51.52 million) and Contrack Watts Construction of Gig Harbor ($60.64 million). The engineer's estimate was $42.18 million, according to DJC records.
WSDOT broke the contract into two parts — separating upland elements from remaining marine structures — after rejecting five bids this summer that were substantially above the estimates. The engineer's estimate then was $56.98 million and Imco was the low bidder at $69.8 million for the base project. WSDOT expects to seek bids for the remaining marine structures early next year. That will include items such as an overhead pedestrian walkway, vehicle transfer span and dolphins.
A WSDOT spokeswoman said the agency has about $20 million left over from the contract split, and will seek more funding from the Legislature, though the amount has not been determined. The new terminal will be near Mukilteo Sounder Station, about one third of a mile east of the old ferry dock. There will be four toll booths, a transit center, and space for passengers, maintenance crews and supervisors. Separate loading systems for pedestrians and vehicles are planned.
LMN Architects designed the two-story passenger building, which will have elements of a longhouse in a 30-by-100-foot footprint. The exterior will be cedar. LMN worked with the Coast Salish tribes on the design, as well as energy and water conservation measures. The roof will be covered with solar panels that will power the terminal for six months of the year. Cross-laminated timber will be used for the roof canopy. Other green elements include natural ventilation, rainwater harvesting and stormwater treatment through previous concrete in the vehicle holding area.
Orion Marine Construction over the summer finished the terminal's $4.65 million trestle and foundation, which will support the passenger building, vehicle loading ramp and overhead pedestrian loading facilities. Crews installed nearly 200 in-water piles to strengthen the soil for earthquakes; about 55 piles support the passenger building foundation. Imco's new contract includes demolishing the 60-year-old existing terminal, which has outdated components and a poor layout that leads to conflicts between cars and passengers.
WSDOT will open the new terminal in fall 2020 and then remove the old terminal. In April, the DJC reported the team as: KPFF Consulting Engineers, prime consultant and designer for the building structure and the site's stormwater system; FSi Consulting Engineers, mechanical and plumbing; Jacobs, civil and electrical; Dark Light Design, lighting; HBB Landscape Architecture, landscape; Ergosynch, systems integration; ProDims LLC, cost estimate; Tiscareno Associates, architecture support; The Greenbusch Group, vertical transportation; CM Design Group, stormwater; and Hart Crowser, geotechnical.
Allen Wycoff, PE, CCM, LEED AP
ProDims welcomes Project Manager Allen Wycoff to our Kirkland, Washington office. Allen has over 25 years of experience in the Pacific Northwest as an owner, construction manager consultant and estimator for public agencies. Allen is a licensed Civil PE, Certified Construction Manager and LEED-AP Certified.
WSDOT to seek bids on Mukilteo terminal
Next week WSDOT expects to advertise a contract for the cornerstone piece of the new $167 million ferry terminal in Mukilteo: the main terminal, which is estimated to cost up to $60 million. The ad is slated for Monday, and bids could be opened about six weeks later. WSDOT issued an advance notice of the project that ran April 13 in the DJC. The 525-day contract includes demolition of the old terminal as well as buildings, steel pilings, concrete work, retaining walls and paving. A pre-bid meeting and walk-through will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the project engineer's office in Everett.
The new terminal will be near the Mukilteo Sounder Station, about one third of a mile east of the old ferry dock. There will be four toll booths, a transit center, and space for passengers, maintenance crews and supervisors. Separate loading systems for pedestrians and vehicles are planned.
Orion Marine Construction last year won a $4.65 million contract to build the terminal's trestle and bridge seat. Crews installed nearly 200 in-water piles during a six-month fish window that ended on Feb. 15. Most of those piles will strengthen the soil during earthquakes; 55 will support the new two-story passenger terminal.
Next, Orion will pour the concrete bridge seat, and should be finished with all of its work in August. Another contract, for about $2.26 million, was issued last year to Imco Construction to install a deep outfall for stormwater. Imco should finish its work in June. WSDOT recently received another $7.9 million from the Legislature following design completion. That money covers additional solar panels and higher construction costs. Original plans called for putting solar panels on about 25 percent of the roof. Now the roof will be completely covered, creating enough energy to power the terminal for six months of the year.
The terminal is expected to open in spring 2020 — a delay from the original date of December 2019. A WSDOT Ferries Division spokesperson said the upcoming main terminal contract was delayed primarily for "internal approvals" and for the Legislature to approve the additional funding.
LMN Architects designed the main terminal, which is 100 by 30 feet. LMN's website says the architect worked with the Coast Salish tribes on energy and water conservation measures as well as the design, which includes elements of a longhouse and a large gathering room for passengers.
KPFF Consulting Engineers is the prime consultant, and is designing the building's structure and the site's stormwater system.
Here's the rest of the team: FSi Consulting Engineers, mechanical and plumbing; Jacobs, civil and electrical; dark|light design, lighting; HBB Landscape Architecture, landscape; Ergosynch, systems; ProDims LLC, cost estimate; Tiscareno Associates, architecture support; The Greenbusch Group, vertical transportation; CM Design Group, stormwater; and Hart Crowser, geotechnical.
Washington State Ferries says the Mukilteo-Clinton run carries about 2 million vehicles and 4 million passengers yearly, making it one of the busiest in the system.
Gina Bryan, Business Development and Marketing Manager
ProDims welcomes Gina Bryan as Business Development and Marketing Manager to our Kirkland, Washington office. Gina has over 17 years in A/E/C marketing on the West Coast. Gina will work to help expand Prodims with her marketing expertise.
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ProDims of Kirkland has been federally certified as a small business enterprise through the state Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises. SBE firms can participate in transportation-specific federal projects such as rails, roads, bridges, airports and seaports. ProDims is a project/construction management and cost estimating firm.
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Q: iWebkit CSS for IE 9 and older iWebkit is written primarily to work with Chrome and Safari as far as I know. Now I am using the iwebkit in a website (for desktop screens), and I want it to be compatible with both Firefox and IE 9 (and older).
Now I found the webkit stylesheet for firefox, but I cannot get one for IE, and since IE CSS styling differs a lot from chrome and firefox, editing the firefox stylesheet for IE might just take a lot of time and effort( and also, there are some styles in the firefox webkit css file that are not supported by IE, such as border-image), so it is not that I'm just lazy.
So I would basically like to know if there is such a stylesheet for IE, and if not, customizing each of the firefox/chrome/safari css properties and styles for IE might be a very painstaking task, since those properties differ a lot between IE and firefox, chrome/safari.
Any suggestions on what I should do to get this iWebkit stylesheet working on IE6-10?
Here is the link to the Firefox iWebkit stylesheet I was talking about: http://svn.trynull.com/iwebkitmozilla/tags/

A: You can go to http://colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/, and just plug in the iWebkit or Mozilla styles into the editor and it will spit out the IE equivalent. As for other styles such as -webkit-border-image, you can just w3school search them and see if an IE equivalent exists. (border-image would be the equiv in this case...)
An example from
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A: You could probably use a Chrome Frame. https://developers.google.com/chrome/chrome-frame/
Beyond that, iWebKit works on chrome and safari because they are WebKit based browsers. (Thus the name) The CSS uses a lot of vendor specific prefixes.
Things like this:
#leftnav a
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    -webkit-border-image:url("../images/navlinkleft.png") 0 5px 0 13px;
    z-index:3;
    margin-left:-4px;
    padding-right:4px;
    -webkit-border-top-left-radius:16px;
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    float:left;
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will not ever run natively on IE. You could significantly rewrite the code (not even just the css, again, browser specific features), but why would you want an iOS interface in IE to begin with?


Jeremy & Ashley were married on a beautiful August Saturday at the Monte Villa Farmhouse. The rain held off, the sun came out and love & style showed up in droves.
I could spend hours waxing poetic about the way that Jeremy looked at Ashley every time she smiled at him, about how the world faded away when they finally had a moment to themselves. I could write pages on how much each of them were torn between careful details that described them perfectly and simply wanting to hold each other's hands.
The day was bursting with hot pink, fragrant flowers, personal touches, perfect friends and even a three-tiered, homemade cheesecake. In the midst of sunshine and stargazer lilies the lovebirds vowed to cherish each other equally, romance each other daily and give of themselves selflessly. It ended with dancing, champagne and much laughter. It began at the CarolannJoy Salon, where Ashley works as a hair artist.
So settle in, grab some coffee, maybe some tissues because this is a long post dedicated to love, genuinely fabulous love.
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William Smith Rockstro (5 January 1823 – 1 July 1895) was an English musicologist, teacher, pianist and composer.  He is best remembered for his books, including music textbooks, music history and biographies of famous musicians.

Life and career
Rockstro was born William Smyth Rackstraw in North Cheam, Surrey. (He adopted an older form of his family name from 1846).  He studied composition and piano with  William Sterndale Bennett,  and from 1845 to 1846 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under Felix Mendelssohn (composition and piano). His contemporaries there included Joseph Joachim and Otto Goldschmidt. After his studies in Leipzig, Rockstro established himself as a teacher of piano and singing in London, and he secured a regular appointment as an accompanist at a recital series. In the early 1860s he moved to the West Country, where he lived for nearly 30 years.

Rockstro was an enthusiast for early music. In 1885 he conducted a concert of sacred music of the 16th and 17th centuries at the Royal Albert Hall.  His own compositions, conservative in style, include operatic fantasias, short piano pieces, and songs. In 1886, he conducted his oratorio The Good Shepherd at the Three Choirs Festival, though it was not considered a success. The Times praised its obvious sincerity but complained of its conspicuous debt to Mendelssohn and its lack of good tunes.

Together with his former pupil J A Fuller Maitland, Rockstro collaborated on a collection, English Carols of the 15th Century (1891). As an editor of music of earlier centuries he was far from scholarly in his changes: The Times commented that his edition of the St Matthew Passion "introduced marks of expression in a wholesale fashion not likely to meet with the approval of purists". In 1891 he moved from the West Country back to London, where he taught both privately and at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

Rockstro's later years were marred by ill health, but his death at the age of 72 was nonetheless sudden and unexpected.

Publications
Rockstro is best known for his books. Books about musical practice were A Key to Practical Harmony (1881), Practical Harmony: a Manual for the Use of Young Students (1881), and The Rules of Counterpoint Systematically Arranged for the Use of Young Students (1882). His books on musical history were A History of Music for the Use of Young Students (1879)  and A General History of Music from the Infancy of the Greek Drama to the Present Period (1886). He published biographical studies of Handel (1883) and Mendelssohn (1884) and two books about Jenny Lind, Memoir of Madame Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt: her Early Art-Life and Dramatic Career, 1820–1851 (with H.S. Holland, 1891) and Jenny Lind, her Vocal Art and Culture (1894).

In the original Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Rockstro contributed 240 articles, including those on "Mass", "Monteverdi", "Motet", "Opera", "Oratorio", "Orchestra" and "Plainsong". Two articles by Rockstro remained, with revisions, in the online edition of Grove at May 2012: those on "Cadence" and "Aevia" (a technical word used in mediaeval service books).

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Latest MLB News
Anibal Sanchez re-signs with Tigers, report says
About 16 hours after Anibal Sanchez was said to be signing with the Cubs, he appears to be headed back to Detroit for five years
By Kurt Mensching@KurtJustKurt Dec 14, 2012, 10:18am EST
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Anibal Sanchez has decided to stay with the Tigers, USA Today's Bob Nightengale reports this morning on Twitter.
Of course, around 6 p.m. Thursday Nightengale reported on Twitter that Sanchez was a Cub. So, well, Twitter reporting.
The deal is said to be worth $80 million across five years. It gives the Tigers a strong top-four in the rotation, with left-hander Drew Smyly and right-hander Rick Porcello waiting in the wings. Porcello might end up traded. We'll explore that possibility later.
Sanchez had a 4-6 record and 3.74 ERA with the Tigers after arriving in July following a deal with the Marlins. Until the middle of August, it appeared to be one of the worst trades of GM Dave Dombrowski's Tigers career. A fix in Sanchez's mechanics seemed to do the trick, however, because he had a 2.15 ERA in his final eight regular-season games of the season. He went 1-2 with a 1.77 ERA in the postseason for Detroit.
We will, of course, be hitting this story from several angles throughout the day.
So long as it's true, anyway.
Detroit Tigers Hot Stove: Tracking all the moves of the 2012-13 offseason
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Provocative British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has died at the age of 81.
Vivienne Westwood, the provocative British fashion designer who endured more than half a century as a style icon and environmental activist, dressing the punk movement before dressing supermodels on the runways of Paris and Milan in the 1970s, died on December 29 in Clapham, southwest London. She was 81 years old.
It was her death announced The fashion house of her name did not mention the reason.
Ms. Westwood rose from toddler to grande dame of the fashion world, bursting onto the London scene in the 1970s wearing punk rockers like sex guns in leather jackets, ripped shirts and safety pins. She later moved into couture design, creating clothes that can be seen in museums around the world, experimenting with elegant pirate shirts and petticoats, tweed corsets and pinstripe tailoring.
She has linked fashion to politics throughout her career, famously promoting environmental issues, nuclear disarmament, vegetarianism and efforts to combat climate change. She emblazons her shirts, jackets and skirts with activist slogans — "Politicians Are Criminals" and "We're Not Throwaways" — and urges her audience to buy less, not more, in hopes that both men and women can do so by launching a unisex line in 2017. Share similar clothing, including caps and overalls.
"Unisex may sound like a joke, but, really, it's all about dressing up and being able to dress however you want," she told The New York Times at a London Fashion Week event that year. "Swapping clothes with your partner means you can buy less, choose better and of course make it last."
Ms Westwood was originally known for running a boutique on London's King's Road with Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. "I was a messiah about punk, seeing if one could speak through the system," she later recalled.
In 1989, when she graced the cover of Tatler magazine wearing an aquascutum outfit she said was meant for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, she stayed with that anarchic vibe long after she was embraced by the establishment. Three years later, when Queen Elizabeth II gave her an Order of the British Empire, Mrs Westwood – later named a Dame Commander – shocked photographers by twisting to reveal her dress, but she was wearing tights and a dress. No underwear.
"I have a built-in perversion," she said in an interview for John Savage's book "The English Dream," "a built-in watch."
Vivien Isabelle Swire was born in Glossop, an English town east of Manchester, on April 8, 1941. Her mother, a seamstress who made her own clothes, chose regular fare for her three children. Ms Westwood said she started drawing in fashion when her mother allowed her to choose her own clothes. She chose a tight dress and heels.
Mrs Westwood briefly attended Harrow Art School and went on to teacher training college, where she got a job as a school teacher. Her marriage to dance hall manager Derek Westwood ended in divorce, and in the mid-1960s she began an affair with McLaren, whom she had collaborated with as a designer.
In the 1950s, the "Teddy Boys" sneered together at the thin-gelled-hair fashion style, conjuring images of biker culture and sadomasochism. Under the motto "Clothes for Heroes," they designed leather and zippered dresses and "slave" shirts with rolled-up sleeves like a thin jacket. One T-shirt showed Queen Elizabeth II piercing her lip with a safety pin.
Their shop has cycled under various names, including Too Young to Die and Too Fast to Live, but it's the sex that has caught the crowd's attention. The name appeared in pink letters above the door.
In the year In 1981, they launched their first runway collection: gender-neutral clothes inspired by pirate images and 19th-century fashion. This style became part of the post-punk New Wave scene after it was adopted by pop stars Adam Ant and Boy George.
Ms Westwood soon dissolved her partnership with McLaren, and the Mini-Crini, a short version of the Victorian crinoline and a lightweight corset designed to be worn outside the dress, helped it to break out. 90s trend as outerwear to underwear. In recent decades, she has used her name for several retail partnerships, including tea sets, hats, jewelry, and perfumes.
In 2011, she opened her first American boutique in Los Angeles.
Survivors include her husband of 30 years, Austrian designer Andreas Kronthal; a son from his first marriage, sex photographer Ben Westwood; and McLaren's son, Joseph Corre, who co-founded underwear brand Agent Provocateur. Additional details about the survivors were not immediately available.
In the year In 2008, Westwood's wedding dress became the centerpiece of the movie "Sex and the City," when Sarah Jessica Parker's character Carrie Bradshaw decided on a Vera Wang gown in favor of Mrs. Westwood's billowing silk-and-taffeta. Ms Westwood was not impressed with the rest of the costumes in the film, later saying: "I went to the premiere and left 10 minutes later".
When it comes to her image, she often opts for relatively uncomplicated outfits with her distinctive bright orange hair. In the year "My fashion advice is to have a beautiful mirror and forget about it," she told The Times in 2009.
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With his twin brother Julian on the verge of announcing a presidential campaign run in 2020, Rep. Joaquin Castro (D) is also climbing the political rungs of success. Castro has announced that he will replace Rep. Lujan-Grisham as head the Hispanic Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Castro tweeted that the caucus would "speak up against any mischaracterization of the Latino community" during his term. The House Hispanic Caucus was at the center of controversy the past couple of years, as the all-Hispanic group denied membership to Cuban-American Congressman Carlos Curbelo (R) because of his support of Republican legislation that did not conform with the caucus.
Thank you to my colleagues for electing me as @HispanicCaucus Chairman. Thanks also to @RepLujanGrisham for her strong leadership over the past 2 yrs. Our Caucus will work to create opportunity for all Americans & speak up against any mischaracterization of the Latino community.