For as long as I can remember I have had a love affair with orangutans. so a trip to Borneo has long been on my bucket list. I felt the urgent need to do this visit sooner rather than later because of the threat to primary rain forests from the ravages of the timber trade (50% of tropical timber procurement comes from Borneo) and the rapid growth of palm oil plantations, with large tracts of rain forest are being cleared for palm planting.
Borneo is third biggest island in the world, and is divided by three political jurisdictions: Malaysia (about 26% of the land mass), Indonesia (73%) and the independent state of Brunei (1%). The island sits approximately 50% in the northern and southern hemispheres. Around 21 million people call Borneo home.
It is is difficult to describe how excited I was when we landed in Sandakan, which is located in the North East of the Malaysian part of Borneo, in the region of Sabah. The airport is tiny with just a few flights a day, but nonetheless took an age for our bags to appear at baggage collection. I think things get complicated as our flight came from Kuala Lumpur and the flight was full of local people who had visited or were visiting – so they had bought back with them boxes of stuff – from paper to ceiling fans!
From the airport we transferred to our base for the next couple of days the Sepilok Nature Resort (you can also book this through online booking companies such as hotels.co), which is located right next door to the Orangutan sanctuary. We would strongly recommend this place if you are looking spend a few days in Sepilok to see the orangutans.
As we checked in we were offered the chance to go on a night time walk through the jungle – without hesitation we signed up. We had just about had enough time to settle into our room before heading out on the jungle walk.
The walk itself started close the main lodge. Being in a rain forest means that the area gets more than its fair share of rain, so they have wellington boots you can borrow (I am a US size 13 … which proved to be challenging) as well as some very poor flashlights (or torches as our fellow Brits would say). As we waited for our group to gather we had a very unexpected treat, a young orangutan decided to build it's next in the tree right above our heads. We were told the attraction of this particular tree was it's fruits, which were now fully ripe. It is obvious that orangutans don't have any natural threats (apart from man) as they make one hell of a racket whilst building their bed for the night.
By the time we set-off it was pitch black. The dense jungle means that there is no natural light so having flashlights with you is pretty much essential. The thing that really hits you the most is not the darkness but how really noisy the jungle is at night – there is a true cacophony of sounds emanating from all directions. If you are a light sleeper forget getting a good nights rest! During the tour we got to see insects (pill millipedes and stick insects), invertebrates (leeches!), frogs and some small roosting tailorbirds.
At the end of the tour we did a leech check, and much to her horror Karen has two latched to her. One was on her jacket and other had manged to work its way on to her cleavage – I thought this was hilarious … she didn't quite see the funny side.
In the morning, still suffering from the effects, we were awake at the crack of dawn so we got up and headed out hoping to see the orangutan who had nested by close by. Sadly he or she had left already, so we instead explored the boardwalks around the resort. At this early hour there is a changing of the guard from the nocturnal night shift and day time crew. The variety of bird life was incredible even in the narrow confines of the resort.
After breakfast we were heading back to our room we had one of the staff waving their hands wildly at us to follow her. We were just in time to see an orangutan wandering calmly along the boardwalk before disappearing into the jungle. As we walked back Karen got talking to one of the other guests and apparently she had seen this orangutan on the deck of her chalet get frustrated whilst trying on her husband's t-shirt. When the orangutan saw her they bared their teeth which not surprisingly spooked her.
Our first visit of the day was to the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. These beautiful creatures spend most of their time swinging high up in the canopy of the rain forest. As they get older they become less mobile and will be found wandering around the floor of the jungle. The word orangutan means "man of the forest" and it is believed this name resulted from the indigenous people seeing the older, large apes lumbering around the forest.
The Centre was founded in 1964, to rehabilitate orphan orangutans. The site is 43 sq km of protected land at the edge of Kabili Sepilok Forest Reserve. Today around 60 to 80 orangutans are living free in the reserve. They claim to have had 740 orangutans through their doors many of which have been returned to the wild throughout Sabah. Most the rescued apes are found orphaned in the jungle, their parents killed by hunters or more often than not farmers or loggers. These orphans are trained over several years to fend for themselves and are hopefully returned to the wild, either in the reserve around Sepilok or further afield in other parts of Sabah. The Centre is officially administered by the Sabah Wildlife Department, who provide limited funding, the large balance of financial support comes from the fees from visitors and also a considerable amount of support comes from the Orangutan Appeal UK.
The Rehabilitation Centre is open all year around. The peak visitor times are during the feeding times at the platforms at 10 a.m and 3 p.m. There are two feeding platforms; one is in the nursery observation area where some of the younger orangutans are bought out. The second feeding station is further out in the reserve and is visited by apes who have been released as well as some other local primates, such as pig-tailed and long-tailed macaque monkeys.
It was wonderful to see the orangutans close-up, and especially to see them swinging carefree through the trees around the reserves. Truly and awe inspiring experience!


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Fancy spending the day with Michael Bublé as he does his favourite things? Of course you do!
International superstar Michael Bublé gives a unique and very personal insight into his life as he takes a day off in his hometown of Vancouver to spend time with his family and friends before he finally heads off unannounced to his 20th High School Reunion.
Michael's all-time favourite movie is 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and ahead of his upcoming world tour Michael decides to spend a day hanging out doing his favourite things.
He drops by to have a coffee with his 86-year-old grandpa and his friends at the local McDonalds. Grandpa goes there every day as they get free Senior Citizen refills on their cups of coffee. Having got Grandpa and his pals their coffee Michael then shows them all the latest ultrasound photo of his baby son which is due to be born this summer.
It's then time to help prepare lunch with his younger sisters Brandee and Crystal and they swap stories and memories, some of which Michael had conveniently forgotten! Proof that talent runs in the family, they are joined in the kitchen by his 8-year-old niece Jayde who showcases her vocal talents.
Michael then drives to the boatyard where as a young boy he spent many summers helping his father Lewis who used to be captain of a fishing boat. Michael and Lewis go out on his father's boat and they reminisce about days and nights spent out at sea. Lewis also gives Michael some advice on fatherhood.
Finally Michael heads off to his best friend's house as they prepare to go to their 20th High School Reunion. As they flick through their High School Year Books, Michael's friends tease him about his ever-changing hairstyles and they remember some of their favourite teenage pranks. A nervous Michael then heads off unannounced to the reunion. Will it be a night to remember for one and all?
During the show Michael also gives exclusive performances of classics such as 'World On A String', 'Come Dance With Me' and 'Young At Heart', plus one of his greatest hits appropriately entitled 'Home'.
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The world is changing faster than any of us realize, and you have to look at a 28-year-old as being your target market. When we're recruiting new agents or even agents who've been in the market for a few years, they're using tool sets that we have to remember to use and be heavily involved in. So my word of advice is to get involved in Web 2.0 tools. Get involved in blogs, YouTube, MySpace, and Facebook. Bring all those tool sets into your business because it absolutely helps your image, communication level, and collaboration level with outside clients. But most importantly in attracting those new great agents who are coming into the market, they're used to this stuff.


This chapter considers the role of lawmakers and regulators in managing legal risk. It argues that English law must be able to cope with the changing nature of market transactions as well as ensure that the regulatory framework keeps pace with changing risk profiles. Steps must be taken to prevent a mismatch between the expectation of the law and modern commercial reality. The lawmaker's job is never finished or complete since the sections of society principally affected by what we loosely call 'financial law' are in a state of virtually constant change and so the demands of the legal system are also constantly changing. Regulators also develop enforceable rules and standards despite the probability that any financial misdemeanour by a regulated body will be blamed on the regulator.


Inn Bracciano Suite is an apartment situated in a unique building designed by the architect Paolo Portoghese, inspired by Odescalchi Castle. The building is the nucleus of a small residential neighborhood. The location is ideal for travelers who wish to have a comfortable base for day trips and not worry about maneuvering out of the tiny streets of a town center and about parking afterward. The neighborhood is only 2 km from Lake Bracciano and 1,5 km from the historic city center of Bracciano. Otherwise, it is within easy driving proximity to the other two ancient lake towns, and Rome and the Mediterranean are within 40 minute drives.
Rome is a 40-minute drive from the property in case you are interested in a stay in Rome city center are part of the same chain Casa Mia Vaticano & Casa Tua Vaticano . Bracciano Train Station and the historic centre are a 25-minute walk away.


A new year is upon us! This year is just packed with great movies. Below is a list of my 10 most anticipated movies of 2015 but before we go over that let's talk about my honorable mentions. These movies definitely sparked some interest from me but didn't fit into the top 10 list. The movies are Pan, The Peanuts Movie, and Project Almanac.
Now onto my 10 most anticipated movies of 2015!
Here is a continued story from the past. George Miller is back to tell another story with the battle scarred Mad Max. It looks like a great update to the previous movies. They've added Tom Hardy to replace Mel Gibson and included Charlize Theron into the mix. This should be a good outing to the theaters.
Mad Max comes out May 15th.
Pixar is making a movie about your feelings. Need I say more?
Inside Out comes out June 19th.
There's not much to go by when you watch the trailer but it's fairly interesting when watching the special effects. This different dimension will bring a lot of curiosity to this movie plus you can't go wrong with having George Clooney as your narrator.
Tomorrowland comes out May 22nd.
Just look at the movie poster and tell me this movie doesn't catch your attention. The trailers bring you in even more to wonder what is up with this robot. Chappie makes you think about the evolution of robots and computers. You can have them try to find their own place in the world without falling into the norms.
Chappie comes out March 6th.
The minions was the bright point of the Despicable Me movie and I'm glad to see they're getting a standalone movie. The trailers so far look entertaining and the minions seem like they're capable of holding down their own movie. This looks like a movie to carry the family and enjoy. There's a big history to the minions and I can't wait to see it.
Minions comes out July 10th.
Ant-Man is finally coming to the big screen! He was one of the missing avengers and now he's finally coming out to play. There's a lot of great things that came come about with this complex character. You have the old Ant-Man, Hank Pym, teaching the future hero, Scott Lang, the ways of saving the world.
Ant-Man comes out July 17th.
No synopsis is currently available.
Tom Cruise is returning back to the Mission Impossible franchise. These sets of movies just keep on getting better. Ghost Protocol was such a good movie and showed Cruise's ability to bring out great work. I can't wait to revisit the missions from Ethan Hunt.
Mission Impossible 5 comes out December 25th.
Taking the bronze is Furious 7. Each installment of the Fast and Furious franchise takes it up a notch. This time they have to deal with Jason Statham as their villain. I expect to see cool races and awesome stunts from the crew. You know this movie will call for more action than the rest. R.I.P. Paul Walker.
Furious 7 comes out April 3rd.
A continuation of the saga, set thirty years after Episode VI.
Everyone is excited for this movie and so am I. You're returning to the world of Star Wars, what more can I say? It will be interesting to see the vision of J.J. Abrams when given this property and other things he can bring to the table with this space odyssey. This movie didn't snag the number 1 spot because of little information being shared about the movie. Maybe in the coming months the excitement will build and take the top spot but for now it will do well with the silver.
Star Wars: Episode VII comes out December 18th.
Coming in at the gold spot is Avengers: Age of Ultron. Joss Whedon is back to helm the next installment of the Avengers. Ultron is the main baddie for the Avengers and he means business. There is no doubt that this movie will be epic. The most dangerous bad guy is the one who thinks they're doing the right thing which makes for an interesting scenario. Don't forget you're throwing Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into the pot to increase the level of intrigue and just overall craziness that the age of Ultron brings.
Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out May 1st.
Do you agree with this list? What are your 10 most anticipated movies for this year?


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Q: WebComponentsJS with IE10 I am trying to use webcomponentsjs from http://webcomponents.org/.  Unfortunately, information on this topic and this website is extremely messy and difficult to ascertain.  The browser support matrix on the website says no IE support.  However the matrix on the GitHub says it has IE support, but two of the four categories are "flaky" (and they don't mention what that means): https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs
The bower version of this library doesn't work at all for me in any browser due to a reported bug (https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs/issues/180).  The issue was fixed, but it didn't seem to have made it into the new release.  So I just used the webcomponents.js file from the master branch and it now works in modern web browsers such as Chrome and Firefox.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work at all for IE10 (simply renders nothing, but there are no errors).  I then tried the example web component (http://webcomponents.org/hello-world-element/), and that also does not render in IE.
Looking at the GitHub page, it seems to indicate that this might, at least partially, work in IE10.  My point is, the wording across this project is extremely vague and contradictory.
That leads me to my question:  Do web components, with the webcomponents.js polyfill, work in IE10?  Specifically, what doesn't work in IE10?  I know that some things do, but as made evident by the hell-world app, not everything does.

A: Webcomponents on its vainilla form are really tricky, specially if you want to run them on environments such as IE 10. What I would try (and has been the solution for me, although, a few months back, don't know if it is still viable) is to install a prior version of the webcomponents.js script, for example:
bower install --save webcomponents/webcomponentsjs#^0.7.0
webcomponents.js just released its 2.1.2 version. Its goal is no longer to support IE10, but to ensure a fast and reliable experience to all major, modern browsers. At some point in the way, though, its goal was indeed, to support IE10. So, installing an older version, might do the trick.
Just keep in mind: that would be a downgrade to the entire script.
If you are new to webcomponents world, I get that you want to run a vainilla component before experimenting with a library such as Polymer, for example. But what you are doing here is an overcomplication: Choose between running a vainilla component, or running a component in IE10. But also, the most important thing about learning a new technology is to be able to use it and create products with it. So maybe using Polymer to create some apps until you are comfortable writing web components would be great, after than, then lets dive into edge cases and vainilla stuff.
If you are experienced with webcomponents and you are just running into this problem, I hope the approach of an older script version helps you.

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The mere prospect of Hillary Rodham Clinton running for president again is evidently provoking outrage among old adversaries -- from Rush Limbaugh and Fox News to Maureen Dowd -- whose appetite for bogus "Clinton scandals" will never be sated. With the fizzling of Benghazi after an official State Department probe found no wrongdoing by the former Secretary of State, her critics have moved on, casting a gimlet eye on the charitable foundation built by her husband, the former president, over the past decade. Although Hillary has mostly been very busy elsewhere, the foundation provides an ample target for speculation and spite -- so long as critics ignore what it actually does for people around the world.
When The New York Times assigned two reporters to examine the finances and administration of the Clinton Foundation, which recently added the names of Hillary and daughter Chelsea to its official title, the results were all too predictable: a front-page article ominous in tone, rife with insinuations and gossip and distorted by major errors. Such is the habit of the newspaper of record, where the phony Whitewater "scandal" originated in a similarly flawed story more than two decades ago. That journalistic disgrace, spurred forward by dozens of Times editorials and op-ed columns, distracted the nation for years, harmed many innocent people besides the Clintons and cost the Treasury more than $50 million -- a troubling episode for a great newspaper.
Now the Times is suggesting that the Clinton Foundation, a charitable organization responsible for saving and improving millions of lives every year, has been financially mismanaged and misused for personal enrichment, among other problems. And those accusations have been amplified not only by the Clintons' traditional enemies on the Republican right, who mortally fear a Hillary 2016 electoral juggernaut, but in a rather deranged column by Dowd, as well.
The article that the Times published on Aug. 13 jumbled together a string of alleged concerns and anonymous accusations, largely lacking in substance. The story indicated, for example, that Douglas J. Band, former counselor to President Clinton who has since left the foundation to build a consulting firm, is guilty of serious conflicts of interest -- without specifying a single actual conflict.
A number of companies impressed by Band's creation and management of the Clinton Global Initiative -- one of the premier venues for corporate social responsibility on the planet today -- have hired his firm to advise them. He has also apparently persuaded companies to support CGI with money and other commitments. Exactly how did such activities compromise CGI or the Clinton Foundation, or harm anyone at all? Readers would find no clear answer in the Times. Instead, its reporters dished out unflattering, largely irrelevant anecdotes about Band and Ira Magaziner, whose work at the Clinton Health Access Initiative has provided vital drugs, tests and medical services to millions of patients across Africa and around the world.
Worse than the reliance on backstairs gossip, however, were the factual errors featured in the Times story, particularly concerning the Clinton Foundation's finances. As President Clinton himself noted in an open letter posted on the foundation website, the article incorrectly described the foundation's financial condition and history -- because the reporters didn't understand how nonprofits are required to report their cash flows on IRS document. In his letter, which will interest anyone who wants to understand what he has been doing for the past decade, the former president explained: When someone makes a multi-year commitment to the Foundation, we have to report it all in the year it was made. In 2005 and 2006 as a result of multi-year commitments, the Foundation reported a surplus of $102,800,000 though we collected nowhere near that. In later years, as the money came in to cover our budgets, we were required to report the spending but not the cash inflow. Also, if someone makes a commitment that he or she later has to withdraw we are required to report that as a loss, though we never had the money in the first place and didn't need it to meet our budget.
So the foundation budget deficits reported by the Times in 2007 and 2008 were at least partially offset by earlier commitments. Moreover, as President Clinton also notes, he had set aside substantial cash reserves which hedged against the financial crash and recession -- leaving him able to maintain the foundation's service to HIV/AIDS patients, mothers and children and other vulnerable groups despite an economic slowdown that proved devastating to many charities and businesses.
Such facts scarcely concern Dowd, whose habitual tic is to exaggerate any canard against the Clintons. Inspired by the Times probe, her latest column spilled forth one bizarre assertion after another. "If Americans are worried about money in politics, there is no larger concern than the Clintons," she wrote, as if entirely ignorant of the Koch brothers, the Karl Rove dark-money machine and Sheldon Adelson's outpourings of casino cash. Band's firm is "an egregious nest of conflicts," she exclaimed excitedly, without naming any actual conflict. "We are supposed to believe that every dollar given to a Clinton is a dollar that improves the world," she sneered.
That they never bother to do so, because reporting those stories would ruin their preferred narrative, tells but everything we need to know -- not about the Clintons, of course, but about themselves.


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NAY PYI TAW, MYANMAR (2 January 2019) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed an agreement on 21 December 2018 to provide a $10 million equity investment to Ascent Myanmar Growth Fund I LP (AMGF), a Myanmar-focused private equity fund, to provide much-needed capital investment for the growth and expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the Southeast Asian country.
AMGF, managed by Ascent Capital Partners Pte Ltd (Ascent Capital), a Singapore registered fund manager, will focus on middle-market companies and SMEs that operate in the consumer, education, financial services, health care, as well as technology, media, and telecommunications sectors.
Ascent Capital is founded by two partners, Mr. Lim Chong Chong and Mr. Pneh Tee Keong, both with decades of collective experience in private equity, corporate finance, consulting, and senior corporate executive positions in Myanmar, People's Republic of China, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Apart from helping to deepen capital markets in Myanmar and boost growth prospects, ADB's assistance will involve gender equality components by ensuring support for women entrepreneurs.
ADB's investment in AMGF is expected to encourage international investment and the introduction of governance best practices in the fund's investee companies, which could potentially scale-up small and medium-sized local businesses. The investment may also catalyze private sector investment in Myanmar by demonstrating the viability of private equity as a financing option in the country.
AMGF, a private equity fund with a target capitalization of $100 million, intends to make 10 to 15 investments of $5 million to $10 million each in these fast-growing companies operating in Myanmar.


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The development of a LEA Plan, in collaboration with staff and parents, is a requirement for receiving federal funding. The LEA Plan outlines the educational goals and actions that the Westminster School District will take to increase student achievement. In addition, it includes descriptions of academic services, how those services are coordinated, and how the District will ensure that state and federal programmatic requirements will be met.
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Title I is the single largest federal program in California schools. The purpose of Title I is to ensure that all children have a fair and equal opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on the state content standards and assessments. The intent of this funding is to meet the educational needs of low-achieving students enrolled in the highest poverty schools.
In WSD, Title I funding provides for Title I educational assistants, additional tutoring, staff development for staff, supplementary instructional materials and parent education/involvement activities.
All Title I funded schools and local educational agencies (LEAs) that do not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) are identified for Program Improvement (PI) under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Parents are notified yearly of their child's school PI status.
Westminster School District will not be offering "School of Choice" for newly enrolled students.
For the 16/17 school year... SES will remain the same for middle school students by using outside vendors to provide tutoring outside of the regular school day. Elementary students will recieve additional support within the school day.
Due to new legislation under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the SES program will be revised for the 17/18 school year to align with the Every Student Suceeds Act (ESSA). The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) provides an opportunity for eligible students to receive, at no cost to parents, academic support, formerly known as Supplemental Educational Services.
Who is Eligible for "academic supports" under the ESSA?
Program Improvement schools Year 2 and beyond must offer academic intervention support to their low performing students.
Academic support will be offered to students who are performing below grade level in English language arts, mathematics, or science.
Academic supports is offered outside of the regular school day (after school, in the evening, or on weekends) by organizations and agencies approved by the California State Board of Education. Academic supports must be high quality, research based, and specifically designed to increase student academic achievement. The district and your child's school are committed to improving acheivement for all students. Our goal is to close the acheivement gap and provide all students with an opportunity to improve their academic achievement.
Wesminster School District has developed a plan, under the new guidance, to provide academic support to our lowest performing students. Information regarding academic intervention support services will be available in October, 2016.
The DAC is a group of parents that meet quarterly with the Executive Director, Office of Accountability & Assessments. The DELAC is a group of parents of English learners that meet quarerly with the Executive Director, Office of Language Acquisition. Both groups meet together in a communications forum to receive current information regarding programs, new initiatives, and other current issues of importance to the education of all students. It is intended that the information discussed, and reports provided, are then shared back at each school site at the respecitive School Site Council (SSC) meetings.
If you are interested in school policy or budgets, you might enjoy serving on your school's site council.
The ELAC is responsible for advising the principal and staff on programs and services for English learners and the School Site Council on the development of the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA or School Plan).
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The purpose of Title II, Part A, is to increase the academic achievement of all students by helping school districts improve teacher and principal quality and ensure that all teachers are highly qualified. Some of the allowable activities include: increasing the subject matter knowledge of teachers; mentoring for new teachers; and assisting teachers in how to use assessment data to guide instructional decisions.
Title III authorizes funding for supplementary programs and services for English learners.
The purpose of the subgrant is to assist English learner students to acquire English and achieve grade-level and graduation standards.
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Adding elements of outdoor lighting to your backyard can create an inviting ambiance and transform your outdoor living space during evening hours. Modern lighting can provide serene qualities to any outdoor setting. Upgrade your deck illumination while also adding style to the space.
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During the company's annual meeting, an attendee asked why Munoz made that call at the risk of alienating many potential customers, according to a May 23 Bloomberg article. "Congratulations on your liberal virtue-signaling," the person said.
"Sir, it wasn't political," Munoz responded, according to the article. "It was personal with regard to my family at United." One of the victims was the teenage daughter of a United captain.
United was one of many companies to break with NRA after the shooting. Others include Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Symantec and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
This trend comes as a DirectTV study found that when people must choose between moral or unethical options in business, the split was about 50/50, according to a Forbes article. The study was part of an advertising campaign for the show "Billions," a Showtime drama about a battle between a hedge fund billionaire and a U.S. attorney who take every opportunity to gain the upper hand.
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No charges filed against Greeley Mayor Ed Clark
By David Young |
PUBLISHED: July 18, 2008 at 2:00 a.m. | UPDATED: May 13, 2020 at 8:52 a.m.
No charges will be filed against Greeley's mayor related to an incident last month when he had an altercation with a 15-year-old boy.
The Larimer County District Attorney's office completed its special investigation into the case Thursday and reported Friday it will not file charges against Ed Clark or the mother of the teen.
Larimer District Attorney Larry Abrahamson said it would not be possible to prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.
"Our decision not to file charges on Ed Clark or the mother of the juvenile was based on the principles we are ethically required to apply in every criminal case," Abrahamson said in a prepared statement. "Given the facts in this case, as revealed by the investigation and applicable statutes, the people cannot meet that burden and charges are not appropriate."
The boy's mother faced possible charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for his driving offenses that night, Abrahamson said.
Clark said the DA's decision was the right one, and that it validates his actions.
"I have received overwhelming support for the actions I took that night," said Clark, who added citizens should take action if they see unlawful activity.
On June 23, Remington Stitt said Clark picked him up off his motorbike and slammed him to the ground when he refused to get off the bike. Stitt was riding the bike in the west Greeley neighborhood around Clark's home, where Stitt lives with his mother. Police ticketed Stitt for driving a motor vehicle without a license and operating an off-road vehicle on the street.
Clark denied the boy's accusations and said he stopped the boy for his own safety and didn't hurt him.
The Larimer DA's office declined to release the police reports related to the investigation, because the case against Remington Stitt is still pending.Remington Stitt's father, Tim Stitt, called the decision a miscarriage of justice and said any average citizen would have been arrested for such actions.
"This is total injustice. Obviously the good ol' boy network is at work here," Tim Stitt said. "This is a blatant disregard for my son's civil rights."
Stitt said Clark, a former Greeley police officer, received preferential treatment and that the Larimer DA's Office didn't do a proper investigation.
On June 23, Weld District Attorney Ken Buck asked Abrahamson's office to take over the investigation because Clark worked for the Weld District Attorney's Office as a special investigator at that time.
Abrahamson said the investigation involved reviewing police reports, photos and looking at the law.
"I felt the investigation was fair and unbiased," Abrahamson said. "It was conducted very openly and candidly. … Everything done very professionally."
Abrahamson said he felt the fact that the Greeley police department investigated the initial incident had no bearing on the outcome. He also noted his findings bear no opinion as to whether the actions of either party were right or wrong.
A restraining order against Clark was awarded to Stitt and his father the day after the incident. A hearing to determine if the restraining order should be made permanent was postponed until July 28. Stitt said he plans to pursue the permanent restraining order against Clark.
Clark had no comment regarding the restraining order.
In light of the investigation, Clark resigned from his position with the Weld DA's office as a special investigator. Clark had been working for the DA's office since the beginning of June for $15 per hour. His role was an investigator examining juror summons issues.
Clark said he resigned from that position for personal reasons and to spend more time with his family.


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Exclusive: Hal Lindsey warns of Islamic fanatics taking control of nation, its nukes
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Hal Lindsey is the best-selling non-fiction writer alive today. Among his 20 books are "Late Great Planet Earth," his follow-up on that explosive best-seller, "Planet Earth: The Final Chapter" and "Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad."
So far, the United States has given the government of Pakistan more than $12.3 billion in military and economic aid. Vice President Joe Biden proposed last summer that we throw another $7.5 billion in non-military aid Pakistan's way over the next five years.
But that isn't enough to keep Pakistan from failing as a state, says the Atlantic Council. The Atlantic Council describes itself at its website as "promot[ing] constructive U.S. leadership and engagement in international affairs based on the central role of the Atlantic community in meeting the international challenges of the 21st century."
The Council is chaired by former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., is honorary chairman.
The Council's report says that "we (presumably America) are running out of time to help Pakistan change its present course toward increasing economic and political instability, and even ultimate failure."
The Council is concerned that Pakistan is unable to curtail al-Qaida, which operates openly in many parts of Pakistan, and the Taliban, which recently took over Swat, a region the size of Delaware. About 3,000 Taliban managed to fight off 12,000 Pakistani troops, forcing Islamabad into a truce.
The Pakistani government agreed to a very dangerous compromise that allows the region to be governed according to Shariah law. In effect, this was a capitulation to the Taliban that greatly increased their stature among the militant tribes along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border. This now puts the U.S. military at greater risk along their vulnerable eastern flank and endangers their supply route that must go through part of that territory from the Khyber Pass. It has also left a safe haven for the leaders of al-Qaida.
The Taliban is now free to keep order in the region by using such barbaric punishments as floggings, stonings, beheadings, burning of schools and execution of women for infractions in the Western view are minor. These are things that supposedly the U.S. went to war to correct.
Under the terms of the accord, the chief minister of the province, Amir Haider Khan Hoti, said that Pakistani troops would now go on "reactive mode" and fight only in retaliation for an attack. In effect, these regions are now mini-states controlled by al-Qaida and the Taliban.
All of the above issues pale into insignificance compared to the danger of Pakistan's government failing and being taken over by the large number of Islamic Fundamentalists there.
If these Islamic fanatics take control of Pakistan's nuclear missiles, it will immediately be a much greater threat to the world than that posed by Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq put together.
Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is estimated to contain as many as 100 warheads. They have intermediate-range ballistic missiles to deliver them. They have also acquired the lethal nuclear-capable Babur cruise missiles. This year, Pakistan commissioned its first nuclear-missile capable submarine, the PNS Hamza. The Hamza can also fire Babur cruise missiles mounted with nuclear warheads.
So, what does it all mean? The big fear is that Pakistan's government will fall and be taken over by forces loyal to the Taliban and al-Qaida. Can you imagine what it would mean should Pakistan's considerable nuclear arsenal fall into the hands of al-Qaida?
I have always felt that we should have done everything possible to keep Gen. Musharraf in power. As one president rightly said, "He may be a S.O.B., but he is our S.O.B." He kept the Islamic militants at bay – something that the leaders the misinformed "human rights" activists pushed into power cannot do, no matter how much money we give them.


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Q: How to interpret phase diagrams? I find quite difficult to interpret phase diagrams in general, for example I see people discuss them along the following lines:

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*Here we see the coexistence line between liquid-solid phases..

*a tricritical point..

*this section describes the stable solid phase..

*in between these lines we have the metastable zone..

In other words, these diagrams seem to be telling us everything about a given system in a very compact way.
As an example, let us take the following phase diagram [source] shown in terms of temperature vs density for a Lennard-Jones fluid in three dimensions:

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*How does one interpret such a diagram in terms of the drawn curves and the outlined regions? Do all the points along the drawn lines correspond to phase transition points for different $T,\rho?$

*Is the region between the two near-vertical lines depicting a coexistence region? That is, any point would correspond to a Lennard-Jones fluid in a coexistence phase comprised of solid and liquid.

*What about the stable regions? For example, how can one know which sets of density values (and temperatures) correspond to stable solid phase of the fluid?

*I admit these are rather naive questions, but I really don't have a good grip on how to read such diagrams which are oh so important. Additionally, if you happen to know of good lecture notes teaching how to understand these diagrams together with explanations of the different kinds of points (tricritical, bicritical...), it would be very helpful.

Source: Mastny, Ethan A., and Juan J. de Pablo. "Melting line of the Lennard-Jones system, infinite size, and full potential." The Journal of chemical physics 127.10 (2007): 104504.

A: I agree with the commenters that this is a very broad question, and that you should start with some background reading, e.g. a textbook. Many standard Physical Chemistry texts give a good introduction to the phase diagrams of simple substances, and the Lennard-Jones system (although an idealized model) is fairly typical. The links provided by Jon Custer may also be helpful, but they are mainly concerned with systems of more than one component, so I would recommend starting with the simpler, one-component, case first.
I think that there's some value in doing what you wanted, and using the very specific example you have picked out from a simulation paper, to answer your questions. That paper is looking at the solid-liquid coexistence line: the "melting line". Plotted as a function of $T$ and $P$, it would indeed be a line (not, in general, a straight line, but a curve): along that line, the chemical potentials $\mu$ of the two phases would be equal, and the equation $\mu_\text{solid}(P,T)=\mu_\text{liquid}(P,T)$ will define a line in $P$-$T$ space. As you cross such a line, properties such as density $\rho$ change discontinuously (it's a first-order transition). Think of the lines in the $P$-$T$ diagram as marking these discontinuities. Like a crude topographical map, except that we don't mark out the contours of height, just the locations of cliff edges. A typical phase diagram in $P$-$T$ variables (but plotted, as is most common, with the temperature along the horizontal axis) can be found on the Wikipedia page.
If the phase diagram is plotted in temperature-density variables, the melting "line" becomes a coexistence region. In your picture, you'll see the dots on the two near-vertical lines come in pairs, which could be connected by horizontal lines. These are called "tie lines". They will be horizontal because the temperatures of the coexisting phases must be equal. The densities corresponding to the dots at the end of each tie line are those satisfying $\mu_\text{solid}(\rho_\text{solid},T)=\mu_\text{liquid}(\rho_\text{liquid},T)$. The general rule is, any state point $(\rho,T)$ in the two-phase region does not correspond to a stable phase, but to a mixture of the two phases $(\rho_\text{solid},T)$ and $(\rho_\text{liquid},T)$ , whose densities can be read off from the points at either end of the tie line. When plotted in other variables, in more complicated situations, it may be that the tie lines are not horizontal, and are actually drawn on the phase diagram, to help people make this construction.
The line going from $(\rho,T)\approx(0.84,0.694)$ up to $\approx(0.6,1.15)$ is the right hand boundary of the liquid-gas two phase region. If we extended the plot to lower density, the curve would continue to rise up to the critical point, at about $T=1.3$, and would then come down again, reaching $T=0.694$ at a very low density. There should be tie lines drawn horizontally across this region as well, corresponding to the coexistence densities of liquid and gas.
You'll see the horizontal dashed line at $T_\text{tp}=0.694$. This is the triple point, at which liquid, gas, and solid are all in equilibrium. Nothing much is shown below that temperature (this is not the interest of the authors of that paper). In fact, there will be yet another two phase region: solid-gas. This extends from a near-vertical line at very low density ($\rho_\text{gas}$) across to a near-vertical line extending downwards from roughly $\rho=0.96$ ($\rho_\text{solid}$). To the right of that region would be solid (one phase); to the left of that region would be gas (one phase).
The one-phase regions in the diagram are labelled "solid" and "liquid". The combinations $(\rho,T)$ of points in these regions correspond to a single stable phase. In the "liquid" region, for any temperatures higher than about $1.3$, it would be better to refer to the phase as a "supercritical fluid", since we do not distinguish between liquid and gas above the critical point.
I think there's not much more to be said about that particular diagram, but hopefully it has clarified things a bit. There is no tricritical point (you should not worry about those, until you've studied phase transitions more deeply) and in most circumstances phase diagrams show equilibrium phase boundaries rather than "metastable zones", so I would suggest putting those on the back burner too.


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Assistance setting up specific playback queue re: features and short films
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Long story made short I am working on a project for a potential future (personal) event and trying to nail down some of the final functional details involving CV. Mostly everything seems pretty straightforward. Been watching progress of CV off and on and really like what I see and the progress being made.
1) Is there an easy way for specific movie titles in my library to run two of them back to back with no intermission or bumpers in between and after those are done continue on as normal, potentially rolling through additional bumpers and intermissions and into other features? Reason for this is a few features in my library have some associated short film content (completely separate from CV's 'short films', these are currently acting as their own separate features in my movie library) that I'd like to run straight after those movies with no interruptions. Muxing/merging into a single video file is not an option due to differing audio codecs.
2) I have some short films I'd like to run as intermission videos but I'd like to run them in sequence if at all possible. They are episodic and named as such so I have 'Episode 01', 'Episode 02' and so on in those files. So after the first movie run Episode 1, then after the second movie and next intermission do Episode 2, etc..
Along the lines of those two, if it helps I'd also be perfectly willing to 'pre-build' my own playlist of all the segments CV would run through and specify which content to run for features/bumpers/short films but don't see an easy way to do so. About the only thing that would need to be left to CV's own functionality is the Trivia portion obviously.
On a side-but-unrelated note, I am also curious what people have come up with regarding cheap/inexpensive dimmable lighting that can be controlled through CV? Seems there's been a lot of cheap smart bulbs coming on the market lately but either proprietary software support or a proprietary wireless protocol necessitating their own hubs. One set of bulbs I have right now is the Sengled Element bulbs. Pretty cheap at $9 a pop for the basic 60W warm white dimmable versions. $40 gets you their hub and 2 of the mentioned bulbs. But sadly no third party software support other than Alexa/Google Home integration (is there any way to take advantage of this?). It does appear to be standard Zigbee but the cheapest option to integrate it into any third party software like OpenHAB appears to be a $50 Zigbee USB dongle on Amazon.
On 3/18/2018 at 1:25 PM, cr08 said:
Thanks for the kind words! We're actively working on the 2.0 release which includes a total face-lift with some new interface customization options, and a ton of new of new features and optimizations.
You're the first person to come to us with this use case, but it's certainly possible. While you won't be able to do what you want with the current Features Module (it doesn't allow you to specify your feature because we expected to play items from your queue to make your Sequence dynamic), you can use the Video Bumpers module to play your two movies back-to-back and then fill out the rest of your Sequence accordingly.
Your other option is to use the Conditional Sequences feature to tag the main Feature, and use that tag to trigger a custom Sequence with the associated short film content and any other content you want to use all built in.
You can do that with the Video Bumpers module. What you'll want to do is put the related intermission videos in their own directory, edit the settings of your Video Bumpers module, set Type to Directory, set Random to No, and set Count to the number of videos you want to play back-to-back.
We don't have full support for playlists built in, though that is coming.
CinemaVision can control anything that has an API that you can trigger. OpenHAB is a good example of that integration, and we have a guide for how to integrate CV and OpenHAB all ready for you. Actions are pretty easy to use, and can control things using scripts, web APIs, executables and a host of other ways. I've not seen anyone using Alexa or Google Home with CinemaVision, though I would imagine it's possible. My suggestion is to look for API documentation for the solution you're buying, and post it here for us to take a look at. We should be able to tell you if it will or won't work.


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Would electric vehicles solve LA's smog problem?
A few years ago we discussed the idea that V8 engines should be outlawed. Of course that never happened, and the idea itself is just a symbol of the direction the auto industry could go.
However, that 2009 article foreshadowed the rise of turbocharged engines and the declining need for a V8. Why get a fuel-thirsty 8-cylinder when a boosted V6 can provide better fuel economy and similar hauling capability?
The idea of outright banning V8 motors is ridiculous. It is possible that the market will slowly erode demand for the V8, but certain groups of buyers will always keep at least a small demand going.
Even the most fuel-efficient gas motors cause pollution, though, and at least one decision-maker in an influential state wants to push things even further.
You may not know the name Mary Nichols, but the head of the California Air Resources Board could have a major impact on what kind of cars are sold in the state. Nichols is a huge advocate for electric cars and fully supports President Obama's mandate to double average fuel economy to 55 miles per gallon by 2025.
She's pushing for regulations that could completely banish the internal combustion engine from California's famous highways.
Regulations already require that 2.7 percent of new cars sold in California this year be battery-only, plug-in hybrids, or fuel-cell cars. The quota rises every year starting in 2018 and reaches 22 percent in 2025. Nichols wants 100 percent of the new vehicles sold to be zero emissions by 2030.
That's only 15 years from now. Fifteen years to convince every new car buyer in the state of California to give up conventional fuel and stop buying cars powered by gas or diesel.
If the infrastructure is in place, prices are affordable, and there's ample inventory, Nichols's vision could come true. She certainly has the power to make it happen, but that doesn't mean the citizens of California would happily accept it.
Should gas engines eventually be outlawed?
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Marel donates poultry processing system to Auburn's Miller Center
By Jamie Creamer / Aug 2, 2019 8:51:30 AM
AUBURN, Ala.—A gift to Auburn University's College of Agriculture from the world's leading provider of innovative poultry processing systems will significantly advance teaching, research and outreach capabilities at the new Charles C. Miller Jr. Poultry Research and Education Center, located on Auburn Lakes Road north of the main campus.
Marel Poultry will install a modular evisceration system in the processing plant now under construction at the Miller Center. Mitchell Pate, Miller Center director, said the system offers the highest level of technology.
"This equipment is essential to poultry processing," Pate said. "With it, we'll be able to simulate a commercial processing plant, and that will allow us to provide our students with real-world learning experience and facilitate our research in the areas of processing efficiency, animal welfare, food safety and quality and value-added product development."
Randy Wilson, Georgia-based territory sales manager for Marel Poultry, said the gift reflects the company's vision of a world where safe, quality food is produced sustainably and affordably.
"Marel felt it was important to equip the processing plant with modern, state-of-the-art technology that could help in research and teaching in such an important complex as the Miller Poultry Research and Education Center," Wilson said.
The poultry processing plant, on track for completion in August 2020, represents the sixth and final phase of the Miller Center construction project. The project began in 2016 as an initiative to replace the existing Poultry Research Farm Unit, which opened off South College Street in Auburn in the 1970s.
Already complete on the 30-acre Miller Center site are the National Poultry Technology Center's testing facility, the Administration and Education Building, two floor pen facilities for replicated poultry nutrition and management research, and the Poultry and Animal Nutrition Center and Alabama Poultry and Egg Association Feed Mill that opened in 2012. The South College farm will be demolished once the new complex is complete.
Marel Poultry is the leading global supplier of advanced inline poultry processing equipment for broilers, turkeys and ducks, providing solutions for all processing stages and all capacity levels. Its products range from top-quality equipment for live bird handling to software solutions and service contracts.
In the U.S., Marel has operations in Gainesville, Georgia; Lenexa, Kansas; Des Moines, Iowa; and Seattle, Washington.
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Fear of wrong maintains right.
Fear of sickness encourages hygiene.
Fear of misery makes you righteous.
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By Lisa M. Schaffer, Esq. on November 30, 2018 | Last updated on March 21, 2019
I read Playboy for the articles.
We've all heard that one before, but this time, it may be legit! Donald Nixon, who is legally blind, filed a lawsuit against Playboy for violating the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). He claims that the Playboy website is not compatible with his screen reading software, which allows users to read the text with a speech synthesizer or Braille display. He also claims he can't enjoy the centerfolds because the website lacks "a text equivalent for every non-text element." This also means that he can't purchase online Playboy branded "hoodies (and) jogger pants".
Playboy Does Have Excellent Articles
All joking aside about choosing Marilyn Monroe's voice for the synthesizer, or wondering if the Braille also applied to the nude photos, Nixon does have a point. Playboy has been known to publish some excellent fiction and non-fiction articles. In fact, in 1965, Martin Luther King granted his longest ever interview to Playboy. Roald Dahl, the famous author behind such great youth fiction novels as James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, wrote a short story for Playboy about a character known as as Uncle Oswald, "the greatest fornicator of all time." The story was later morphed into My Uncle Oswald.
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Q: Laravel Query Builder with MySQL date in between I need to inject one WHERE clause into my existing query builder. The new WHERE condition makes me stuck on how to integrate with my existing query model.
AND (rpt_content_main.dt_added BETWEEN CURDATE() - INTERVAL $duration DAY AND CURDATE())

The existing query model
$report_items = RptContentMain::with(['UsrStudentMain'])
        ->select('rpt_content_main.*','rpt_content_type.type_name')
        ->whereIn('rpt_content_main.status_action',$pzaction)
        ->where('rpt_content_main.content_type',RPT_CONTENT_TYPE_ID_FEEDBACK)
        ->where('qst_master_main.published_status',QUESTION_STATUS_PUBLISHED)
        ->leftJoin('rpt_content_type', 'rpt_content_type.type_id', '=', 'rpt_content_main.report_type_id')
        ->leftJoin('qst_master_main','qst_master_main.question_id','=','rpt_content_main.content_id')
        ->orderBy('rpt_content_main.admin_reported','asc')
        ->orderBy('rpt_content_main.report_id','desc')
        ->paginate($per_page)
        ->appends(array(
            'q' => \Request::get('q'),
            't'   => \Request::get('t'),
            'pzaction'   => \Request::get('pzaction'),
            'duration'   => \Request::get('duration'),
        ))
    ;

How I can achieve this without break my existing query model?

A: Have you tried using SelectRaw?
For BETWEEN you can use whereBetween but the arithmetic operation, you might need to change it to raw expression
https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/queries#raw-expressions


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Il reddito globale è il risultato economico conseguito da un'impresa mediante la gestione svolta nell'intero arco della sua esistenza(dalla costituzione alla cessazione).

Calcolo
Il reddito globale si determina per differenza tra tutti i ricavi e tutti i costi, realizzati e sostenuti nell'arco dell'intera vita dell'impresa.

Il reddito globale è positivo (UTILE) se il totale dei ricavi supera il totale dei costi; è negativo (PERDITA) se il totale dei ricavi è inferiore al totale dei costi.
Nelle imprese che sono state ben gestite i ricavi conseguiti dalla costituzione alla cessazione sono superiori nel loro insieme al totale dei costi; la differenza costituisce l'utile che remunera il capitale proprio conferito dall'imprenditore individuale o dai soci.

Utilizzo del concetto
L'estrema variabilità dei mercati e la necessità di essere competitivi impone agli imprenditori di conoscere prontamente i risultati delle gestione, in modo da mettere in atto tempestivamente i risultati della stessa in tempi brevi, per valutare quanto sia conveniente mantenere l'investimento e adottare gli opportuni provvedimenti correttivi; intendono infine poter riscuotere i proventi periodicamente per proprie esigenze personali o per effettuare altri investimenti.
Il reddito globale, quindi, oltre a essere un risultato puramente nominale in quanto il potere d'acquisto della moneta varia nel tempo a causa dell'inflazione, è un concetto prettamente teorico e di scarsa utilità pratica.

Note

Diritto societario

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Perhaps the most famous horror film and the most famous sci-fi flick at the same time, Alien is less a movie and more a national treasure. Imagine if it was eliminated from the cinematic vaults, if it had never existed, if it hadn't laid the groundwork for all future space adventure films. Now, that's not to dismiss those that came previously, those classic films and those b-movies that went where no man had gone before and on which much of Alien is based. But Ridley Scott was able to make a near-perfect horror drama after drawing on those inspirations, and unknowingly start an action franchise that would last 40 years, so far. Think of all the genres this film touches, think of all the stories that have followed in its wake, and think of how it will still be remembered in another half a century.
The crew of the Nostromo, a commercial spaceship bringing ore back from the far reaches, is awoken from their collective cryogenic sleep when the computer picks up a distress call from a nearby planet. With orders to investigate, three of the crew, led by Dallas, walk the surface of the stormy planet to an abandoned craft. There they find their doom, it just takes a little time to kill them. When Kane is attacked by a parasitic space bug, he's brought on board the Nostromo with the thing attached to his face. Two factions form: one against the breaking of quarantine, led by Ripley, and one for the scientific study of the creature, led by Ash. Ripley's fears are soon realized as the alien thing does its work, endangers the entire crew, and seems indestructible, putting the lives of every human in the galaxy at fantastic risk.
I read once that modern films are simply doing too much, that Alien is one of the best movies ever made and literally only four things happen. That made me laugh, but it's also basically true. Find a creature, attacked by the creature, and fight the creature, with one stellar curveball thrown in to ignite the imaginations of generations, which led to a franchise that is still alive & well. The beginning of the film pulls from 2001: A Space Odyssey quite a lot, but in homage, not in theft. Then, when things go downhill for our heroes, the story is pure horror, with the alien roaming the ship and hunting around every corner. It's such a simple and scary concept, one fueled by a quality cast and a good script, nothing else fancy required. Sure, it may be Weaver's only good performance other than Aliens and Finding Dory, but she and the rest of the team are enough to help make this movie a classic that will live forever, and deservedly so.


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Q: DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072030) when trying to access active directory I'm trying to access AD data via ldap with the connection like:
LDAP://dc1.corp:port/OU=Users,DC=domain,DC=com
Then using the directorySearcher.FindOne().GetDirectoryEntry();
This 100% works on my machine, but when I do this on the server it throws DirectoryServicesCOMException (0x80072030) There is no such object on the server.
I found the similar question on so, but it doesn't help. Currently I'm looking for the way to at least understand why there is a difference for ldap access on my local PC and on the server.

A: For me the problem was in permissions under which the application pool was running. What I did to investigate was 1 console app and 1 web app. And I noticed, that when I ran the console app it got the data from AD immediately. And web app always throw that COM exception. I'm not 100% sure what exact permissions are needed to give web app the access to the AD( I dont know the exact difference between the local system account and my domain user account that matters) but hope this will help someone to solve the similar problem.


This year's visit of the Tour de France to Cambridge in July will be marked by an innovative and inspiring major new piece of work entitled The Cycle of Songs. Devised by the acclaimed Yorkshire theatre company Pilot Theatre with the Cambridge based Historyworks the project will feature new compositions performed by Cambridge's choirs by leading musicians, writers, poets and composers including Michael Berkeley, Karen Wimhurst, Michael Rosen, Kirtsty Martin and Andrea Cockerton.
Commissioned by Cambridge City Council and funded by the Arts Council of England, The Cycle of Songs will be performed by local people, musicians and community choirs from Cambridge, inspired by iconic locations along the route of the race drawing on the city's rich choral traditions and history.
The works will tell largely untold hidden stories from Cambridge's history, and will be performed by choirs from the city in a series of live events and in a new geo-located app as part of the lead up to the celebrations for Stage 3 on the 7 July.
The Cycle of Songs project will also see the creation of a new app; a development that brings together Cambridge's rich cultural and cycling heritage with the technology that is so important to the City today. Available at the launch of the Big Weekend on the 5th of July, the geo-located app will allow people to listen to the Cycle of Songs as they follow the Tour's route through Cambridge.
All the stories have been researched and developed by Historyworks and presented to the project's writers, rappers and poets who include Michael Rosen, Horrible Histories composer Dave Cohen, rapper Inja, and poet and spoken word artist Hollie McNish. Each writer has further developed a researched story and created the librettos that have been given to the project's composers and arrangers.
All of the nine songs featured in the project are based on stories inspired by iconic locations which the Tour de France will cycle past on the 7th July. These include the song "Freedom" which tells the story of Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson, two of the most prominent campaigners against the Transatlantic Slave Trade, who are both associated with St John's College; "Unsung Women" (which will be performed by the Women of Note choir), a song about the struggle for women to be accepted at Cambridge University in the late 19th and early 20th century; and "Hooray for Hobson", the story of the Cambridge Philanthropist Thomas Hobson whose Horse rental policy inspired the phrase 'Hobson's Choice'.
The Composers are wide ranging both culturally and stylistically, including elders from the British tradition, such as Michael Berkeley, and young musicians exploring sound technologies, such as Peter Gregson; composers adept at creating community choir anthems such as Karen Wimhurst, Rowena Whitehead, and Kirsty Martin; and finally young artists from the Aldeburgh Young Musicians programme(AYM), such as Alex Cook who has composed for Hannah Brock, a fellow AYM, who will be performing the traditional Chinese instrument – a Guz-heng, a cross between a harp and a Zither, for which Alex Crook has underscored the vocals.
Leading up to the visit of the Tour de France there will be a series of Cycle of Songs events around Cambridge including on Saturday 21st June a Pop-up Choir event, where many of choirs that feature in the Cycle of Songs project, including the community formed Cycle of Songs choir, will be performing in the city's Guildhall, and on Saturday 5th July hundreds of singers, including the acclaimed Dowsing Sound Collective, will feature on the main stage at the city's Big Weekend event. The Cycle of Songs app will also be publicly launched at the event too, in a special marquee.
Cambridge is regarded as one of the UK's leading cities for cycling with an incredible 43% of the city's population travelling to work by bike more than three times a week. The city boasts over 80 miles of cycle lanes & routes offering a quick & easy way to travel throughout the city, whilst cutting down on the population's carbon footprint.
If you would like a complete press release you can download a PDF here.


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Murano possibly? thanks for looking.
Re: Sommerso teardrop vase Murano?
Caithness? How big is it?
It's 9.5" did consider Caithness the Oban glass ones before posting but never seen one this size and it does seem a little different they seem to be more hambone shaped at the base and this as a rim along the edge which I didn't think the Oban ones have? though I been wrong before.
The base if it helps.
definitely Caithness Oban. The shape of the top doesn't show too well in the pics in Marks book, but I have several identical ones.
And definitely not sommerso. The colour was actually glass strips.
Clever that Christine, not you the technique should have known really with the purple?
Mmm, I get the impression that Christine is quite clever.
No, Christine read the Caithness book!


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