We are currently on our summer break!
We look forward to welcoming you to our wonderful ceramic studio a The Clay Station very soon.
Hi im interested in doing one of your workshops can you please let me know price and dates.
I'm sure you will love Clay Station-we are a very friendly and supportive group and new members are always welcome. If you would like to visit and have a chat you are very welcome to do so.
We offer one off taster sessions, courses, or membership to The Clay Station.
If you have experience of ceramics you can apply to become a member and come along to the studio when it suits you-Our opening times at the moment are Tuesdays 4-8pm and Fridays 11am-3pm and some Saturdays times vary.As a new member you would have an induction session to introduce you to the studio and how Clay Station operates. We will go through the basics with you, maybe a useful reminder of techniques, and show you where everything is in the studio. Membership fees and details can be found on the website.
A one off taster session costs £10. It will give you a feel of the studio and a chance to come along and do some work for a few hours! We will of course be on hand to help and get you started!
You are very welcome to come and visit us to have a look at our wonderful studio and have a chat during any of the sessions.
As you may have seen on the website we are a HEY CLAY! venue and are taking bookings for free sessions 4th -6th December. This is a good opportunity to check us out for free!!!!
Please let me know if you would like to come along. We have 4 wheels and are already getting fairly booked up. If you would like me to reserve a time I will reserve a wheel for you-Sunday is pretty full so Friday or Saturday would be better. Please let me know as soon as possible.
We look forward to seeing you at the Clay Station.
All the courses coming up for early next year are now on the website along with the prices.
On 4th-6th of December The Clay Station will be open for people to come along and have a go for free. No need to book unless you want to have a go on the wheels. We have a few spaces left but they are going fast. If you would like to book a wheel let us know and we can reserve one for you.
We can also show you around the studio and give you more information about courses and The Clay Station.
I see that your beginners course starting in February is now fully booked. Could you please tell me when the next one is running?
Dear Beth-There are spaces on the sculpture head course which is a really good course run by a great tutor. It will not cover throwing on the wheel but is suitable for beginners and will be looking at hand building methods mainly coiling with the aim of creating a large piece. The tutor, Michelle' work can be seen on the website and she is very good at guiding people to create similar pieces step by step. Let me know if this is of interest.
We will be putting another program of courses together shortly which will be advertised on the website and our fb page.
You are very welcome to visit the studio and have a look around and we also offer taster sessions every week which may also be of interest. Drop us an email at clay.station@mail.com to book.
Please could you add me to an email list about courses – I would like to come and do a beginners throwing and turning course this summer. Please let me know dates. Thank you.
There will be new courses advertised on the website and on our Facebook page very soon.
All courses offered at the moment are fully booked but new dates will be advertised soon. We run both throwing and general courses-for throwing I tend to organise for a three day course-day 1 we throw, day 2 we turn (finishing off the pots especially the bottoms) and day 3 about a week later we glaze. This seems to work well and you can expect to make about 6 pots-its all about doing and practice so you will be free to make as many as you like. They are usually at weekends so hope that is convenient for you.
If you would like to visit the studio please let me know-it would be a pleasure to show you around.
Next week we will be there Monday 2-6pm Tuesday 4-8pm Thursday 12-4pm and Friday 11am-3pm. Hope one of those times will be convenient for you and that we see you soon.
Please could I book in for the head sculpture course from January please.
Ginny, apologies that I didn't make the tile making. I can't find your email but hope you get this. I will be there on 17 September to help at gallery.
We are setting up the exhibition on the 12th and 13th if you are about.
Hi, can I please book in for the August 6th/7th/28th (Saturday, Sunday,Sunday) course.
Hi Ginny, the 13/14 will be fine. Please reserve my place, thank you, Cheryl.
My sister-in-law and I would like to try our hands at pottery and using a potters wheel. Neither of us have ever done it before and we would like to give it a shot.
Would you please let me know, whether it is possible and how much it would cost? Also, would we be able to take the work back home?
We run throwing courses from time to time. It is usually 3 days over 2 weekends and the cost is £120 per person which includes 3 sessions lasting 4 hours each, clay, firing and glazing. Day 1 we throw, day 2 we turn (heated the pot) and day 3 we glaze.
Im sure you and your sister in law will love it. Many people come back for 2nd or even 3rd/4th courses!
At the moment we are coming up to a major exhibition at aspex which you are very welcome to come along to. It will be opened by the BBC Great Pottery Throw Down judge Keith Brymer Jones and will be a great event. Due touch a busy time to get everything ready we have no courses planned at the moment but please keep an eye on the website and Facebook page as all courses will be advertised there.
Hello, are you still running courses please?
Hey, I'm looking to have a go at the taster session with a friend. When are these available?
Hi Lyndsey-We can provide taster sessions for experienced potters who are thinking of becoming members-We also do short courses and will be advertising these once dates are confirmed next week. All details will be put on the website and our FB page.
Hi. I am looking for a workshop/ taster session over the October half term. Wondered if you had anything on?
I recently enquirer about your. Egimners course but haven't heard anything? Could you let me know if there are any spaces still please?


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International student tuition is $338 per credit hour.
All students pay a $50 technology fee per semester. This fee provides opportunities to enhance student learning by further integrating technology into the classroom, helping to ensure that the college can incorporate the latest technology into academic programs and can provide continuous improvements to all student technology resources and learning management systems.
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KV53 es una tumba egipcia del Valle de los Reyes, necrópolis situada en la orilla oeste del Nilo, a la altura de la moderna ciudad de Luxor. Es uno de los sepulcros peor conocidos y más imprecisamente datados de toda la necrópolis tebana.

Situación

Actualmente, se desconoce el lugar exacto donde fue excavada KV53, aunque es de suponer que se halle en el ramal oeste del wadi central, en una zona próxima a las otras pequeñas tumbas que fueron descubiertas en su misma época. Situada inmediatamente al este de KV49, muy próxima al camino que nos conduce a la zona sur del Valle. Por tanto, no está tan cerca de algunas tumbas de características similares como KV48 o KV51, pero se sigue estimando que pertenece al ramal que dirige a KV35, la tumba de Amenhotep II.

Por las informaciones que nos han llegado de su descubrimiento, no hay nada excepcional en el diseño y la forma de KV53. Como la inmensa mayoría de las tumbas de nobles, ésta consta tan sólo de un pozo funerario (A) de menos de dos metros y una única sala (B) que haría las veces de cripta, y que por lo visto se hallaba muy toscamente excavada y era de grandes dimensiones. Lógicamente, sus paredes se encuentran desprovistas de decoración, principal causa de que sea imposible en muchos casos determinar quién fue el noble propietario de una tumba en el Valle de los Reyes.

Excavación

KV53 fue descubierta en el invierno de 1905-1906 por Edward R. Ayrton, al servicio de Theodore Davis, junto con el resto de sepulcros de la misma zona que aún permanecían ocultos. Ante tal marea de hallazgos, todos ellos carentes del interés despertado por las tumbas mayores, provocó que cayeran en el olvido y su situación exacta acabara por perderse. Al no volver a ser visitada ni convenientemente resguardada, KV53 ha vuelto a desaparecer en una montaña de escombros, como la mayoría de sus vecinas.

El único hallazgo notable que vio la luz en este lugar fue un pequeño ostrakon, una lasca de piedra en la que se haya inscrito el nombre de Hori, escriba principal del Lugar de la Verdad, que viene a certificar la presencia del representante administrativo del  pueblo de los constructores de tumbas, el Lugar de la Verdad (Deir el-Medina) en KV53, cosa que no nos debe extrañar, ya que una de sus funciones era inventariar todos los objetos del lugar. Por tanto, las posibilidades de que KV53 fuera la tumba de Hori son ciertamente escasas, impropias de un hombre de sus funciones.

Lo más posible es que la tumba fuera destinada a un noble que vivió durante el reinado de Amenhotep II. Como sabemos, este faraón, al igual que su padre y su hijo, otorgó numerosos sepulcros a los más selectos miembros de la nobleza, e incluso a algunas de sus mascotas. La cercanía de la tumba de este rey con KV53 podría ser una pista que revele la época en la que fue excavada, aunque ciertamente no se puede asegurar nada, y quizás pertenezca a alguna de las dinastías posteriores. La falta de hallazgos y ahora de medios para volver a desescombrarla impide que se puedan hallar más datos sobre este emplazamiento tan poco conocido del Valle de los Reyes.

Referencias

Valle de los Reyes
Tumbas egipcias

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Song 3 from the "Panorama" EP by Tara Rice.
Blue Moon (Ukulele Cover) by Tara Rice - Duration: 2 minutes, 51 seconds.
'Suddenly Mortality' by Tara Rice - Duration: 5 minutes, 52 seconds.
The Hippity-Hop Screen Printing Shoppe - Duration: 66 seconds.
Lotus Flower (Radiohead Ukulele Cover) by Tara Rice - Duration: 4 minutes, 15 seconds.
9 Second Session - Duration: 10 seconds.
Space Oddity Ukulele Cover (David Bowie) - Duration: 2 minutes, 9 seconds.
Tara Rice - 'Secret' Ukulele Cover (The Pierces) - Duration: 3 minutes, 7 seconds.
Tara Rice - Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You - Ukulele Cover - Duration: 2 minutes, 57 seconds.
Tara Rice 'Over the Rainbow' in Bogota - Duration: 114 seconds.
Tara Rice - 'The Wolf, the Owl and the Bee' live at Kaleidoscope - Duration: 5 minutes, 9 seconds.
Tara Rice - The Emerald Horizon - Rehearsing Outside - Duration: 3 minutes, 5 seconds.
Tara Rice V-Log 01 - Star Date 06/10/15 - Duration: 3 minutes, 39 seconds.


Danny Cheng: "Yeh, can cook eggs without hot boiling water!"
The ultra-portable Heater Egg Card utilizes a wire-web and thin skin that envelops the egg to reduce heating time. The casing can then be "smooshed" together to make it as thin as a credit card. Small enough to take anywhere in your wallet, purse, or other compact carrier.
Danny Cheng: "Yes, this should installed in all apt @Hong Kong"
So, you and the family is going on this big vacation and just as you finish locking up everything and shut the main door, your wife calls out – hon, did you check the gas and switch-off all the lights? Sounds familiar? How about if you had the 'Off' installed! It is a door handle with connections to your mains like gas supply and electricity. Simply switch off both or either one of the services by rotating the dial and flip it back to activate it all. Super cool and innovative I tell ya!
Off is a 2011 red dot design concept winner.
Danny Cheng: "Would like to see this hotel in Hong Kong, London, Seoul and Toyko :)"
The Urban Hotel is a very well thought-out solar-powered 'green' hotel. It features rainwater recycling system and a bicycle in each room, to help visitors explore the city. Now the cool thing here is that there is a specific slot in the room to place the bike and you can use it as an exercise cycle. Stored kinetic energy from it gets converted to electricity and helps power small gadgets and lights. If you get enthusiastic enough, for all you know, you could end up renting the room for free! Apparently all your pedaled miles get converted to energy savings and can be redeemed against the room rent. Sweet!
Danny Cheng: "YES, GPS are really important!"
One of the biggest fears while evacuating a sinking ship is the possibility of survivors being carried away by the tide, and people getting lost at sea. The Network Tube is a rescue tube with magnetic properties and aims to form a floating cluster, bringing people together via GPS. When people huddle together, they not only boost each other's morale, but they also increase their chances of survival.
Network Tube is a 2011 Spark Awards entry.
As expected this evening here in Singapore has turned out to be magical! I know most of you are curious to know which designs bagged the Best of Best honors. So before I sign out for tonight, here are my pick of 20 Best of Best red dot award : design concept 2011. Congratulations winners!
The perfect companion for your iPad 2. The Logitech Keyboard Case by ZAGG for the iPad 2 has a thin, eye-catching design that gives your device durable protection, added functionality and style. You'll wonder how you ever used your iPad 2 without one.
The Logitech Keyboard Case by ZAGG for iPad 2 is made from aluminum with a high-grade finish, matching the design, look and feel of today's hottest tablets. Its simple yet innovative hinge provides multiple angles for viewing and typing in both portrait and landscape mode. A built-in physical keyboard allows for fast, responsive typing.
Sleek and stylish design with unique and useful features makes the Logitech Keyboard Case by ZAGG the essential accessory to buy for your iPad 2.
Probably the only time you're going to get to screw Mickey is when you get this adorable light bulb. Simply called the Mickey Mouse Bulb Concept, this is a mouse that I want to bring home! Sign me up for three Mr. Lee!
Although we are heading towards winter, let's not forget the folks from Down Under who are gearing up for their summers. I think escape from heat and reality should be more than just Kool Aid and popsicles; it should be funky like the Water Wave Air Conditioner. It features ambient lighting with moods like stars and water, matching sound effects and cool breezy air to lower your temperature. Now that's what soothing summers should be like!


Summer is coming! The time for singing birds and stinging bees is upon us. These last few week have seen some of the hottest temperatures recorded in the UK for 2018 and boy was it hot! When summer approaches, so do some rather tragic summer styles. That's why I consider it my duty to deliver summer style trends to avoid for 2018.
Brits especially have a tendency to dress badly during summer. Probably because we're not familiar with a nice summer and don't trust the skies to deliver one. I kid you not you will see some Big Shaq wannabe in their puffy jacket when it's 25°C because they're just not used to hot weather.
First on our list of summer style trends to avoid are the persistent cargo pants. For some reason guys believe it to be cool and macho to wear pants, or even shorts, with an inexcusable number of pockets surrounding every inch of fabric as if you're about to store your whole toolkit in your pants ready to DIY like batman.
As looks go, cargo pants are unappealing given the sheer number of pockets stitched on. Possibly fashions greatest mistake and definitely one of the summer style trends to avoid.
Now before anyone gets offended, I love sunglasses. They add a cool, often exclusive touch to your style and can be great for summer. However, details are details and only sunglasses that match your face shape and size will look good. Far too often guys don't consider whether a particular pair of sunglasses will actually suit their face and end up with sunglasses disproportionate to their face.
I mentioned once previously how a watch should be the right size for your wrist. It's the same when trying out sunglasses. I personally would recommend aviators or clubmaster sunglasses for a retro stylish look.
This wouldn't have made the list had I not on numerous occasions seen people wearing quite thick jackets on some fairly hot days. It gives off a suffocated appearance and I'll be honest I wouldn't want to get too close to anyone wearing thick clothing in the blistering heat.
Instead of wearing a jacket try the denim shirt layering technique. Not only will the shirt be thinner giving you more comfort, it bodes for a great summer look.
How 3/4 shorts seem to creep up on us every summer is a mystery to me. It is simply an outdated style trend trying it's hardest to stay relevant.
Stick to shorts around knee length for a great summer look.
Keep to a modest crew neck or something similar.
We have discussed shorts that are far too long to even be shorts. Let's move on to shorts far too short to be shorts.
The long and short of it is, if they are not knee length then avoid the embarrassment of wearing them.


The Center for Women's Health offers a broad range of quality services dedicated to women's health, for women of reproductive age through menopause.
The center provides preliminary diagnosis and consulting, and serves as referral center for physicians and patients throughout the area, including referrals for surgical procedures and follow-up after surgery. The center's senior specialty physicians provide expert care across women's health disciplines.
In addition to medical services, the center provides essential multi-disciplinary care that integrates with primary services, including nursing care, nutrition, and social work. Health professionals work together to collaborate, consult and recommend the best possible care for each patient and situation.
Patients seeking treatment at the Center for Women's Health should bring the appropriate approval forms (e.g., Form 17) from their health maintenance organization (HMO) and appropriate payment.


Existential risks are the biggest threat to UK defined benefit pension schemes investment returns, a leading economist has warned.
Speaking at the annual Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Investment Conference yesterday, 6 March, PGIM Fixed Income chief economist, Nathan Sheets, said that volatile tail risks from Brexit and global trade wars will be very difficult for pension funds to hedge going forward.
Delivering a speech on the impact of trade wars on the financial markets, the former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs added that, for the moment, it was not clear how investors can protect themselves against volatile markets.
"It feels as though it's a lot of idiosyncratic existential risk which is really hard to hedge. Maybe there are certain ways to protect against sharp movements because I think that is the biggest risk," Sheets said.
According to Sheets, investment has been slow since the global financial crisis, which has led to a fragmentation of the global trade markets.
He added that many of the risks come from not knowing whether President Trump will escalate the trade war with China, and also whether he will turn his attention to the to the European Union automotive sector.
The two scenarios, while they are a considerable risk, Sheets believes are unlikely to happen.
According to Sheets, while negotiating with China, the US has also been doing its own research on how it can claw back some of the $200bn deficit in auto production, a majority of which is with the European Union.
Continuing the theme of uncertainty, Institute for Fiscal Studies director, Paul Johnson, warned that the Office for Budget Responsibility is unable to develop a model on a no-deal Brexit, meaning that we simply "don't know" what effect it will have on the economy.


If ever there was an example of landowners and government agencies taking a negative situation and turning into a positive, a decades-long effort to restore the health of the Poplar River that flows in Lake Superior is a shining example.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced on Oct. 11 that the Poplar River was being removed from its Impaired Waters List, where it had been placed for reasons of sedimentation, or cloudy water.
In this segment of the "Lake Superior Project," WTIP's Joe Friedrichs speaks with Tom Rider, the co-owner of Lutsen Mountains and president of the Poplar River Management Board, Ilena Hansel and Phil Larson from the Cook County Soil and Water Conservation District staff, as well as Karen Evans from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.


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Airport information and maps for Kitadaito Airport:
KTD Airport Information:
IATA / ICAO Codes: KTD / RORK
Kitadaito Airport
北大東空港
Kitadaitō Kūkō
Location: Kitadaito, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
GPS Coordinates: 25°56'40"N by 131°19'36"E
Operator/Owner: Okinawa Prefecture
Airport Type: Public
Elevation: 71 feet (22 meters)
View all routes: Routes from KTD
Facts about KTD
Map of Nearest Airports to KTD
List of Nearest Airports to KTD
Map of Furthest Airports from KTD
List of Furthest Airports from KTD
Facts about Kitadaito Airport (KTD):
The furthest airport from Kitadaito Airport (KTD) is Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI), which is nearly antipodal to Kitadaito Airport (meaning Kitadaito Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport), and is located 12,416 miles (19,982 kilometers) away in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Kitadaito Airport (KTD) currently has only 1 runway.
Kitadaitō Airport ) is located on the island of Kitadaitōjima in the village of Kitadaitō, Shimajiri District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Because of Kitadaito Airport's relatively low elevation of 71 feet, planes can take off or land at Kitadaito Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
The closest airport to Kitadaito Airport (KTD) is Minami-Daito Airport (MMD), which is located only 8 miles (13 kilometers) SSW of KTD.
In addition to being known as "Kitadaito Airport", other names for KTD include "北大東空港" and "Kitadaitō Kūkō".
Map of Nearest Airports from Kitadaito Airport:
List of Nearest Airports from Kitadaito Airport:
1 7.84 miles (12.61 km) SSW Minami-Daito Airport (MMD) Minami Daito, Okinawa, Japan
2 185.37 miles (298.33 km) NNW Kikai Airport (KKX) Kikaiga Shima, Kikai-Shima Island, Japan
3 198.36 miles (319.24 km) NNW Amami Airport (ASJ) Amami Island, Japan
4 222.42 miles (357.95 km) W Kadena Air Base 嘉手納飛行場 Kadena Hikōjō (DNA) Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
5 225.69 miles (363.21 km) WNW Iejima Airport (IEJ) Iejima, Japan
6 229.11 miles (368.72 km) W Naha Airport (OKA) Okinawa, Japan
7 250.84 miles (403.68 km) W Kerama Airport (KJP) Kerama Islands, Okinawa, Japan
8 257.12 miles (413.79 km) W Aguni Airport (AGJ) Aguni, Japan
9 309.51 miles (498.11 km) N Yakushima Airport (KUM) Yakushima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
10 385.01 miles (619.62 km) W Miyako Airport (MMY) Miyakojima, Okinawa, Japan
11 393.52 miles (633.30 km) W Shimojishima Airport (SHI) Shimojishima, Japan
12 406.47 miles (654.14 km) N Kagoshima Airport (KOJ) Kagoshima, Japan
13 409.96 miles (659.77 km) N Miyazaki Airport (KMI) Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan
14 459.98 miles (740.27 km) WSW Ishigaki Airport (ISG) Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
15 477.07 miles (767.77 km) N Kumamoto Airport (KMJ) Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
Map of Furthest Airports from Kitadaito Airport:
List of Furthest Airports from Kitadaito Airport:
1 12,416.07 miles (19,981.69 km) SSE Joinville-Lauro Carneiro de Loyola Airport (JOI) Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil
2 12,394.43 miles (19,946.86 km) SE Afonso Pena International Airport (CWB) Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
3 12,385.63 miles (19,932.70 km) SE Bacacheri Airport (BFH) Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
4 12,372.26 miles (19,911.17 km) S Navegantes Airport (NVT) Navegantes, Santa Catarina, Brazil
5 12,317.34 miles (19,822.79 km) S Florianópolis-Hercílio Luz International Airport (FLN) Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil
6 12,291.66 miles (19,781.45 km) SSE Avelino Vieira Airport (AAG) Arapoti, Paraná, Brazil
7 12,286.81 miles (19,773.66 km) E José Cleto Airport (QVB) União da Vitória, Paraná, Brazil
8 12,284.84 miles (19,770.48 km) ESE Carlos Alberto da Costa Neves Airport (CFC) Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil
9 12,275.72 miles (19,755.80 km) SE Antônio Correia Pinto de Macedo Airport (LAJ) Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil
10 12,266.72 miles (19,741.33 km) ESE Ângelo Ponzoni Municipal Airport (VIA) Videira, Santa Catarina, Brazil
11 12,255.28 miles (19,722.91 km) ESE Tancredo Thomas de Faria Airport (GPB) Guarapuava, Paraná, Brazil
12 12,251.12 miles (19,716.23 km) SSW Bertram Luiz Leupolz State Airport (SOD) Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil
13 12,239.70 miles (19,697.84 km) ESE Santa Terezinha Municipal Airport (JCB) Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
14 12,239.32 miles (19,697.23 km) SSE Diomício Freitas/Forquilhinha Airport (CCM) Criciúma, Santa Catarina, Brazil
15 12,232.68 miles (19,686.54 km) SW São Paulo/Congonhas Airport (CGH) São Paulo, Brazil

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Q: Pattern constraints for a list of strings I have a List<String> that contains a list of emails, something like
{"email1@gmail.com", "email2@gmail.com"}
The problem is I don't really know how to create a @Pattern, and I want to put the condition that the pattern should only allow emails from list that ends with @gmail.com. I used
@Pattern(regexp = "^(.+)@(.+)$")

for the case when I had a String, not a List.

A: You may need to refer to the documentation of Container element constraints.
List<@Pattern(regexp = "^(.+)@(gmail.com)$") String> mails;

Reference: https://beanvalidation.org/2.0/spec/#constraintdeclarationvalidationprocess-containerelementconstraints

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ENWIS BI / Portal – Predefined cubes (Waste, Sales, and Finance) allows customers the ability to get and roll out information faster. Fully integrated with NAV ENWIS customers can query on data across the application and auto distribute reports based on schedules. Self-service functionality allows customer and users to have access to their information when they need it and where they needed it. Available to be viewed through a web browser or client customer can access their information on any device.
Targit is our Microsoft partner for unsurpassed Business Intelligence & Analytical software tools who we are certified for and ITA Dynamics wrote a portion of their "Microsoft Dynamics" code specific for Waste & Recycling companies.


Significant developments in aviation occurred across Europe and North America during the First World War. Having entered combat nearly three years before the U.S. Congress's declaration of war in April 1917, researchers and engineers in France and Germany, especially, created important developments that transformed a fledgling industry into an important component of military operations.
Developments in aviation in the United States lagged far behind those in Europe. A battle over patent infringement between Orville Wright (and his brother Wilbur, before his death in 1912) and Glenn Curtiss, especially, held back technological development in the United States, as did a limited market for airplanes. Often costing between $5,000 and $10,000 apiece (between roughly $87,000 and $173,000 in 2015 dollars) and requiring extensive space for takeoffs and landings, only the rich and governments could afford to purchase a piece of an invention just over a decade old. Government – and specifically military – support was vital to the development of aviation throughout the world, and the course of the First World War in Europe demonstrated this. Though they began 1914 with small air forces poorly integrated with existing branches of the military, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom were among the countries where air corps grew rapidly after Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination in Sarajevo. As the war developed, European militaries called for increasingly specialized airplanes that could scout enemy positions, pursue enemy fighters, and bomb enemy positions, types of airplanes that did not exist before the war.
When the war began in Europe, the United States military had very few airplanes – only six airplanes, and fourteen trained pilots, were available for use. Conversely, France's military had 260 airplanes and 171 pilots, Germany 46 airplanes and 52 pilots, and the U.K. 29 airplanes and 88 pilots. Congressional appropriations for aviation were also much lower than government appropriations in other countries. While the French parliament provided the equivalent of $7,400,000 in 1913, and the German Reichstag $5,000,000, the U.S. Congress provided a mere $125,000, less even than the $400,000 that Mexico devoted to aviation.1 While the administration of President Woodrow Wilson tried to maintain strict neutrality as Europe fought, as the war moved into 1915 and 1916 and as pilots demonstrated that aviation was an important component of modern military tactics, it realized that it needed to strengthen, and strengthen quickly, the position of military aviation in the United States.
When the United States entered the war in April of 1917, the Aviation Section of the U.S. Army's Signal Corps paled in size and in equipment to its allies and enemies in Europe. It had about 200 airplanes, which a contemporary described as mostly training aircraft that were "nearly all obsolescent," and very few pilots or mechanics.2 Meanwhile, French forces lost nearly 300 airplanes to combat and accidents in April 1917 alone.3 With U.S. entry into the war, the French government, realizing that its new ally could provide a significant boost to the war-wearied Allied air corps, proposed that the United States expand its air force to 4,500 airplanes by 1918 and be able to replace or reinforce that corps at a rate of 2,000 airplanes per month.4 The French proposal became the basis for the American military aviation program. The U.S. government quickly ended the ongoing patent battle between the Wright and Curtiss corporate interests, creating a patent pool that licensed existing patents to manufacturers and allocated royalties to patent owners according to a set percentage. It also established the Aircraft Production Board (later the Aircraft Board) to provide advice to the Signal Corps on aviation development and production.
First detachment of American flying cadets in England, marching to their billets, 1917.
With little debate, Congress quickly passed a law in May 1917 making one of the largest appropriations in U.S. history to that point in time, $640 million, to develop that program. But the American aviation industry of early 1917 was not equipped to supply thousands of airplanes to the U.S. military; it had not adopted mass production, and as a result, many orders went to large companies with roots in the automobile industry. The military spread its orders across these various builders, though even they found production to be challenging.5 The largest U.S. airplane manufacturer of the pre-war period, the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, received an order to build 2,000 copies of the British Bristol fighter, powered by the U.S.-designed Liberty engine), but the original British design used a smaller, lighter engine than the Liberty that the U.S. preferred, which required that the Bristol be extensively redesigned. And there was little clarity from Washington. In September 1917 the U.S. Army also asked Curtiss to build 3,000 copies of the single-seat French SPAD fighter, quickly cancelled the order, and then ordered 1,000 copies of a British SPAD variant the next April, only seven months before the armistice. No U.S.-built copies of the Bristol or the SPAD ever reached Europe, and all of the fighter planes flown by U.S. pilots in American service were of European – and principally French – design and build.6 Many other Americans flew as part of the British or French air corps, including the famed Lafayette Escadrille, especially before the United States entered the war itself; the German air corps did not generally allow foreigners to serve in its ranks.
In addition to ordering fighter airplanes that never reached the battlefield, the U.S. military also ordered 4,000 copies of an already-obsolete observation airplane, the British DH-4 (which the Royal Flying Corps was replacing with the DH-9), for its arsenal. In Dayton, Ohio, several industrialists with close connections with the military, including Charles Kettering and Edward Deeds (who the Army commissioned as a colonel and put in charge of the Signal Corps' equipment division, placing him in control of Army production of airplanes, before ousting and investigating him for a potential court martial for corruption), created the Dayton-Wright Airplane Company to receive federal contracts and build these aircraft, making sure that the Wrights' hometown remained involved in aeronautics. Though he lent his name to the company and appeared on its organizational chart, Orville Wright had no ownership interest in Dayton-Wright and little involvement in the company's operations. While Dayton-Wright's engineers successfully adapted the DH-4's design to fit the Liberty engine, mounting U.S. machine guns and other accessories proved challenging, as synchronizing the firing of the guns with the airplane's propeller was difficult. Problems such as this delayed the commencement of mass production of the DH-4 and its arrival in Europe. With workspace at a premium in the greater Dayton area, Dayton-Wright used the empty former factory buildings of Wilbur and Orville Wright's Wright Company of 1909-1916 as one of its plants (though nearby Miamisburg and Moraine hosted larger Dayton-Wright factories).
While not the force that it became in later twentieth century wars, aviation was not without consequence in Europe during the First World War. Aerial observation and artillery spotting became common uses for airplanes; commanders incorporated information acquired by pilots and observers into battle plans. Airplanes – more than 1,400 flown by the Allied air corps – proved particularly significant in providing cover during the Allied victory at Saint-Mihiel in France in September of 1918. Aviators also demonstrated that countries such as Great Britain that had previously considered themselves isolated and difficult to attack due to geography could, in fact, easily be attacked from the air. There was a loss of innocence amongst civilian populations as people realized the devastating potential of an air attack on a city far from a war's front lines, and air forces used strategic bombing extensively and controversially during later wars. The various ways in which militaries used airplanes during the war also caused many governments to begin the process of making their air forces more independent of traditional armies, a process that ended in the United States only with the establishment of the United States Air Force as an independent armed service in 1947. The First World War was one of the earliest wars to incorporate powered flight, but it was not the last.
1I.B. Holley, Jr., Ideas and Weapons (1953; Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1997), 29.
3John H. Morrow, Jr., The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993), 199.
5Linda R. Robertson, The Dream of Civilized Warfare: World War I Flying Aces and the American Imagination (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 15-19.
7Theodore M. Knappen, Wings of War: An Account of the Important Contributions of the United States to Aircraft Engineering, Development, and Production During the World War (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), 151.
8Mauer Mauer, The U.S. Air Service in World War I, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1978), 25.
9Adrian O. van Weyn, Naval Aviation in World War I (Washington, D.C.: Chief of Naval Operations, 1969), 6.
10Van Weyn, 89-90; Morrow, 343.


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The Mona Leia? Jabba the Godfather?! Must-See Star Wars Art Clones
Tim Maly
So let's say you're big into Star Wars -- like, really big into Star Wars -- and you've amassed a vast collection of toys and figures. You could leave all that stuff in a box in the hope of maintaining its resale value. Or, you could make art with it. Teacher David Eger chose art.
This was the first cloned photo that Eger took. It may be the best.This was the first cloned photo that Eger took. It may be the best.
His 52 Weeks of Star Wars project, is a playful series of figurine photos based on iconic images -- from da Vinci's Mona Lisa to the Godfather movie poster. He calls the pictures "Cloned Photos."
The Mona Leia. Missing the smile. Still enigmatic.The Mona Leia. Missing the smile. Still enigmatic.
Eger teaches photography and non-traditional visual arts. Inspired by students who'd started a daily photo project, Eger took his first shot of some of his clone troopers holding an iPod on New Year's Day, 2011. He never imagined it would turn into a year-long project, but took a "just in case shot" on January 2 at 11:45 p.m. "As it turns out, that was a great decision."
The 365 days of images, updated weekly, run the gamut of photo tricks. In some, the Clone Troopers encounter an oversized real world, in others, Eger creates special effects. His favorites, he says, are ones where he recreates iconic photos, like Joe Rosenthal's classic "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima." He posted it on the anniversary of the day the photo was taken.
The Death Star Streaker. Eger says he's benefitted from the increased poseability of new figures.The Death Star Streaker. Eger says he's benefitted from the increased poseability of new figures.
Eger uses recently released figures, saying it would have been impossible to do the project with the original stiff plastic figures of the 1970s. "Today, they can have upward of 20 articulation points," he says, "this definitely allows me to pose my figures in almost any position I can think of."
"Almost any position" isn't the same as "any position," and Eger says that it's much more difficult that one might think to recreate photos from historical events. It's the difference between someone snapping an image in a moment of chaos and a carefully planned studio creation.
"The classic photographs are always much trickier to recreate, as I want to get the angles, perspective, and focus perfect," he says.
The Original Godfather. Are you listening Lucas Arts? This movie needs to happen.The Original Godfather. Are you listening LucasArts? This movie needs to happen.
Images courtesy of Dave Eger. There are many more on his site.
Tim Maly is fascinated by cyborgs, architects, and our weird future.
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After photographing a number of weddings and engagement ceremonies this year, we've developed a sort of sixth sense when it comes to organizing a wedding day timeline. Of course we come from a biased perspective. We are photographers and storytellers. And we love to photograph EVERY. SINGLE. DETAIL and RAW EMOTIONS. From the rhinestones on your new shoes, those reflective moments putting on your specially chosen earrings, to the beautiful centrepieces that you spent hours in designing and creating (trust us, we've been there!), to the flowing tears of seeing your husband/wife-to-be in their wedding garb for the first time. We can't help but feel compelled to document these significant moments as they happen right in front of us. Because that's all that will remain from the most important day of your life. Memories that evoke those same feelings of love, happiness and splendour that you felt on your wedding day.
But it doesn't happen from thin air. It takes some pre-planning with your photographer to ensure that these elements are factored into the wedding day timeline. So we've got some great tips for you on what to consider when planning your wedding day timeline as it relates to ensuring the most beautiful photos are captured.
Your makeup is on fresh, you're glowing with excitement, and you want to remember every single moment of this day. Having the opportunity to see one another before the main events can be just the perfect dose of magic and anxiety-relief! You'll be with one another alone (well, with us quietly documenting your love in the background. We promise you won't even notice us!) and you'll be able to truly appreciate those precious moments that will stay with you forever. Most of the time, the rest of the day remains a blur, but these private moments are never forgotten. Plus, you'll be able to finish your portrait sessions ahead so that you'll have more time enjoying the rest of the day with your family and friends. Double Whammy!
We are documentary-style photographers which means that we capture moments as they happen when they happen. This does not mean that we don't provide direction to you and your family during portraits. We do! But sometimes family formals (depending on the size of the family and various combinations) take a long long time to complete, is the least fun and the most exhausting for the bride and groom. You know, after waiting for uncle John (or 5 uncles!) to be found after he wandered off. A huge time saver and a headache preventer is to ensure that a list of 'must have' photos with specific family members are provided to the photographer and that a 'helper' from both sides of the family is assigned to collect family members during family formals. Ali and I send our clients a template to fill out of the 'essential' photos, their various combinations and a point of contact from each family member a month ahead of the wedding to ensure that everyone is captured in the most efficient way without causing blood pressures to rise.
We hope that these tips will help you in planning the overall wedding day timeline!


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Coming up we have a lightweight MMA rules bout between Gene Sarazen and Jack Hanma. Hanma is bobbing his head along to his entrance song: Sadie - Burst Zero. These two fighters really are very evenly matched on the feet - it will be fascinating to see who can assert themselves in that aspect of the fight.
With a record of 19 wins, 15 losses and 1 draws, fighting out of Amsterdam, Gene Sarazen!
With a record of 9 wins, 8 losses and 1 draws, fighting out of London, Jack Hanma!
The judges for this bout are Ren Mimura, Shigeki Sano and Kenichi Hosakawa.
Sarazen looks to land a combination but Hanma avoids it well.
Hanma lands a slapping body shot.
Hanma wants to slow Sarazen down by chopping away at his legs.
enabling Sarazen to counter with a crisp jab.
We've been informed that Hanma has been sparring a lot of Muay Thai in the buildup to this fight so let's see if that has an impact on the result.
Sarazen uses good head movement to avoid the hook from Hanma.
Hanma clinches with his opponent.
Hanma lands with a left to the head.
Sarazen misses with some punches.
Sarazen tried to land a shot to the body but connects with Hanma's elbow.
Sarazen prevents a body shot from Hanma.
Sarazen goes for a body shot but it's blocked.
Hanma swings wildly with an uppercut but Sarazen uses good head movement to avoid it.
Sarazen lands a short shot on the inside that snaps the head of Hanma backwards.
Hanma throws an elbow that misses.
Sarazen struggles to land a body shot inside as Hanma controls his hands.
Hanma doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
Sarazen lands a body shot.
Hanma throws a knee to the head but misses.
Hanma working some nice short punches in the clinch.
Sarazen tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Hanma blocks a punch to the side of the head.
Hanma fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Sarazen misses with a hook from the clinch.
Hanma misses with a knee to the head.
Hanma makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Hanma cracks Sarazen with a nice body shot.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Sarazen.
With the fighters clinched against the cage, Sarazen creates a bit of distance for himself and scores with a nice uppercut.
Hanma throws a punch but it's blocked by Sarazen.
Sarazen can't find room to land a body shot as Hanma controls the action.
A quick uppercut on the inside from Hanma.
Hanma can't find room to land a body shot as Sarazen controls the action.
Sarazen lands with a quick shot inside that doesn't really do much damage.
Sarazen lands a body punch - he's looking to wear down Hanma.
Hanma lands a nice looking hook to the body, against the cage.
Hanma misses with a short punch on the inside.
Sarazen throws a punch but it's blocked by Hanma.
Sarazen misses with a shot to the kidneys.
Hanma missing with knees to the body.
Hanma tries a knee to the head but he's missed.
Sarazen blocks a knee to the body. He'll have a nicely bruised forearm in the morning.
Sarazen misses with a short punch on the inside.
Hanma tries a shoulder strike but it doesn't do any damage.
Hanma swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Hanma lands with a light punch inside.
A head punch on the inside from Sarazen fails to land.
Sarazen misses with a hook to the ribs.
Still in the clinch, Hanma scores with a nice short uppercut.
A short right from Sarazen on the inside.
An uppercut on the inside fails to land for Hanma.
Hanma is looking to score with knees to the body. Maybe he'll change it up and go body then head. Sarazen is defending well for now.
Sarazen managing to block the knees to the body from Hanma.
A nice left hand lands by Sarazen.
Hanma with the Thai clinch. He's looking to land a big knee but he's not managed it this time.
Sarazen throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Sarazen lands with a light punch inside.
Hanma breaks from the clinch.
Hanma is looking to clinch.
Sarazen blocks the body kick.
Sarazen tries to clinch but Hanma is having none of it.
Sarazen walks into a jab.
Sarazen is looking to clinch but Hanma is avoiding it.
Sarazen misses with an uppercut. Hanma saw that one coming.
Sarazen misses with a straight left.
Hanma swings for the body but Sarazen moves out of range.
Hanma takes a punch right to his stomach. That took the wind out of him momentarily.
Hanma works Sarazen's body with a nice hook.
Sarazen connects with a looping left hand that seems like it dazed Hanma momentarily.
Sarazen throws a head kick that misses and slips in the process. He scrambles back to his feet and the fighters circle.
and Sarazen counters with a good right hand that lands right on the jaw.
Hanma connects with a slap. Keep your fist closed son.
Sarazen throws a sloppy head kick and Hanma moves out of range easily.
Hanma fakes high and swings low for a body shot but Sarazen manages to avoid it.
Jack Hanma dominated that round.
Sarazen has his front leg slapped to the side - a nice low kick landing there from Hanma.
Hanma takes one on the chin but keeps coming.
Hanma throws a leg kick but Sarazen checks it.
Sarazen misses with a straight right.
Hanma closes the distance and clinches.
Sarazen misses with a punch on the inside.
Sarazen lands with a short shot to the head.
Sarazen lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Hanma throws a hook to the body. More of an arm punch but it's all scoring with the judges.
Good standup being displayed there by Hanma as he connects with a hook.
Sarazen throws a hard body shot but it just misses.
Hanma paws at his opponent with the jab and then lunges in with a straight, right on the button.
Sarazen thows a left - swing and a miss!
Jack Hanma seems to be the more aggressive standup fighter in this bout.
Hanma misses with a looping left.
Sarazen wants to clinch up but Hanma keeps it at a distance.
Hanma tries to clinch but Sarazen is having none of it.
Hanma misses with a looping right.
Sarazen moves out of range as Hanma strikes.
Sarazen tries to check a leg kick but that clearly hurt him.
Sarazen misses with a looping right.
and Sarazen counters with a stiff right hand.
Hanma lands a jab to the nose.
Hanma checks a leg kick.
Sarazen walks straight into an uppercut. Luckily it didn't land flush.
Hanma throws a jab when Sarazen was well out of range.
Sarazen keeping at a good range here, avoiding a leg kick.
Sarazen tries a switch kick but it misses it's target.
Hanma tries to counter by closing the distance.
Hanma shoots in for a takedown but Sarazen shows good takedown defense.
Nice uppercut there from Hanma.
and Sarazen counters with a two punch combo.
Hanma throws a hook to the side of Sarazen's head but Sarazen sees it coming and ducks under it beautifully.
and Sarazen counters with a kick to the head that grazes his opponent. Hanma is lucky that one didn't land flush.
Sarazen misses with a head kick.
Hanma scores with a leg kick.
Hanma cracks the inside of Sarazen's front leg.
Sarazen clinches up with Hanma and pushes him back against the cage.
Sarazen lands a right hand.
Hanma tries to work over Sarazen's body with a swooping hook but it only glances the target.
Sarazen throws a head punch that misses.
A nice left hand lands by Hanma.
Nice body punch from Sarazen.
An uppercut to the body lands inside from Sarazen.
Hanma's head jolts backwards as he takes an uppercut right on the button!
Hanma stays in close to his opponent and throws a right hand to the body.
Hanma working on landing some head shots here - that one got through nicely.
A head punch on the inside from Hanma fails to land.
Hanma prevents a body shot from Sarazen.
A short right hand to the side of the head by Hanma.
A short uppercut from Sarazen.
Hanma looking to throw knees to the head but Sarazen is blocking nicely.
A head punch blocked on the inside by Hanma.
Sarazen has a couple of punches blocked by Hanma.
Hanma misses with some punches.
Sarazen swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Sarazen misses with the head strike.
Sarazen softening up his opponent with strikes, against the cage.
A hook to the body from Hanma.
A nice right hand lands inside from Hanma.
Sarazen fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Hanma lands with a good tight uppercut to the head.
Hanma lands a hook to the side of the head.
Sarazen misses with a body punch.
Hanma throws a nice elbow but it doesn't land.
Hanma trying to land knees to the body.
That was a close second round but I would say that Gene Sarazen will probably get the nod.
Hanma throws a body shot but no joy.
Hanma waving his hands out in front of him, looking to distract Sarazen.
Sarazen throws a jab but it's blocked by Hanma.
Hanma scores with a jab to the head.
Hanma feints with a shoulder and throws a nice leg kick to Sarazen's calf.
Hanma tries to land with a swinging hook to the body but Sarazen was well out of range. Poor timing from Hanma.
Sarazen is really head hunting here, hardly looking to strike to the body at all.
Hanma fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Sarazen looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Hanma throws a good cross that connects.
Sarazen moves in looking to clinch but Hanma pushes him off.
The fighters circling - Sarazen throws out the jab but it was never going to land.
Sarazen cracks Hanma with a good shot that sees him stumbling back into the cage.
and Sarazen counters with a quick right hand to the jaw.
Sarazen fakes and then throws a beautiful body shot. Hanma looks a bit winded and takes a step backwards to take a breath.
Hanma fakes a jab and scores with a low kick.
Jack Hanma seems to be getting the better of the standup.
Hanma avoids the head kick by Sarazen.
Hanma let fly with a counter punch to the body but it didn't land.
Hanma tries to clinch there but Sarazen circles away.
Hanma uses decent footwork to sidestep a right hand from Sarazen.
Hanma misses with a straight left.
Sarazen lifts his leg as if looking to counter with a high kick.
Hanma throws a monster uppercut resembling something out of street fighter but it doesn't land.
Hanma lands a jab to Sarazen's midsection.
Hanma moves out of range as Sarazen strikes.
and Hanma counters with a leg kick.
Excellent takedown into side control there by Hanma.
Hanma wants to lay and pray for a moment but Sarazen keeps working.
The referee asks Hanma politely if he wouldn't mind getting on with it and actually doing something. Hanma prefers to stall for the moment though.
Sarazen wants to get back to his feet but Hanma is dominant here and he's now got Sarazen's back!
Sarazen is trying to get back to his feet but he's not managed it yet.
Hanma lands strikes to the head.
Hanma lands with a couple of good shots - one to the side of the head and one questionable shot that could be viewed as to the back of the head but the referee lets it go.
Hanma has the superior BJJ but he's also working some ground strikes into his gameplan.
Hanma doesn't have the hooks in and Sarazen manages to turn into his guard.
Sarazen looking to pass the guard.
Hanma trying to punch from his back but it's not doing any damage.
Sarazen tries to free his leg and advance position but Hanma is retaining full guard.
Hanma manages to sweep nicely, so he's now on top. Sarazen manages to get himself to full guard.
Sarazen avoiding any damage from the ground and pound.
Sarazen wants to get back to his feet but Hanma is in a dominant position and won't allow it.
Hanma landing with the ground and pound.
Hanma wants to pass the guard but Sarazen is keeping the position.
Hanma trying to control the position from guard on top but Sarazen is wriggling around, looking for whatever he can.
Hanma advances to half guard.
Sarazen wants to control but Hanma passes into side.
Hanma grinds an elbow into Sarazen's temple.
Sarazen tries to work a leg under to get back to half guard but Hanma wriggles his own leg back out and remains in side control.
Sarazen is trying to stand back up. He's worked his way up against the cage but Hanma has just dragged him back down to the mat.
Hanma working the body and head with strikes.
Sarazen tries to escape but Hanma is in control.
Sarazen is not content to let Hanma control the position.
Hanma is in a good position here but he's just trying to control... And he's not even managing to do that successfully.
Sarazen is looking for a sweep.
Jack Hanma comfortably won the final round on my scorecard.
Well Hanma has outworked and out performed his opponent in all aspects of the game today. He was simply too good and the decision should be no more than a formality. Over to the ring announcer for the scorecards.
In favor of your winner, by unanimous decision... Jack Hanma!
Jack Hanma tried to hype himself up post fight but didn't word it too well and it ended up with him sounding like a bit of a tool.


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MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and -1B, Version 3
This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, consists of 6-day and 12-day 50 m resolution image mosaics of the Greenland coastline and ice sheet periphery. The mosaics are derived from C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (C-SAR) acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-1A and -1B imaging satellites starting in January 2015.
Changes to this version include:
- Data were reprocessed with upgraded software and a revised DEM
- The spatial resolution of the uncalibrated product was improved from 50 to 25 meters
- Two new parameters: (1) a calibrated sigma0 radar backscatter product with a 50 m spatial resolution; and (2) a calibrated and radiometrically terrain-corrected gamma0 radar backscatter product, also at 50 m resolution
- The products have been simplified, with the mosaics merged into a single cloud-optimized GeoTIFF and thus replacing the multiple .tif, .vrt, and .ovr files included in Version 2.
- The temporal coverage was expanded
RADAR > RADAR BACKSCATTER
Platform(s): SENTINEL-1A, SENTINEL-1B
50 m x 50 m
Sensor(s): C-SAR
Temporal Resolution 6 days to 12 days Metadata XML: View Metadata Record
Joughin, I. 2020. MEaSUREs Greenland Image Mosaics from Sentinel-1A and -1B, Version 3. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/J9PKP1B9HX6F. [Date Accessed].
Joughin, I., B. Smith, I. Howat, T. Moon, and T. Scambos. 2016. A SAR record of early 21st century change in Greenland, Journal of Glaciology. 62. 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2016.10


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Ассега́й (также ассагай) — название разновидности копья, применявшегося у народов Южной и Юго-Восточной Африки.

Название
Слово «ассегай» пришло из португальского языка (), в который, в свою очередь, попало из арабского (аз-загай — копьё). При этом у народов, использовавших ассегай, это слово не применялось. В частности, у зулусов подобное оружие носило название иклва (iklwa).

Устройство
Обычная длина ассегая — около 2 м. Длинный, до 30 см, наконечник делался из кованого железа и, как правило, был листовидным; другие формы использовались редко. Наконечник присоединялся к древку черешковым способом, то есть втыкался в древко специально выкованным с одного конца лезвия тонким черешком. Конец древка обматывался полосой из сырой коровьей кожи, чтобы предотвратить расщепление. В ряде случаев лезвие ассегая было настолько длинным, что африканцы использовали его в качестве ножа, например при разделке туш скота. Известны ассегаи с зазубренным краем лезвия, хотя они не были широко распространены.

Для изготовления древка выбиралась прочная древесина. Чаще всего для этой цели служило дерево , которое поэтому получило название «ассегайного дерева». Его древесина была упругой, но эластичной и даже после обработки огнём была склонна к изгибанию. Поэтому воин непосредственно перед метанием ассегая обычно выпрямлял его.

Применение

Ассегай был распространен у бантуязычных народов Южной и Юго-Восточной Африки, которых европейцы в прошлом собирательно называли кафрами. Он стал особенно широко известен после столкновений европейских колонизаторов с зулусами. Ассегай использовался преимущественно как метательное оружие. Европейцев поражала дальнобойность и меткость зулусских копьеметателей. Не последнюю роль в искусном владении этим оружием играла сноровка, вырабатывавшаяся с раннего детства. Обычным приёмом копьеметателей было бросание ассегаев не прямо перед собой, а слегка влево или вправо поочерёдно — это мешало противнику уворачиваться от них или прикрываться щитом.

Построившиеся для боя воины, держа ассегай за середину, многократно сжимали его особым движением пальцев, что заставляло гибкое древко вибрировать, производя характерный громкий треск. Этот приём использовался для устрашения противника и, по отзывам европейцев, производил сильное моральное воздействие. Нередко воины надпиливали древко у наконечника — в случае промаха ассегай ломался при ударе о землю, лишая врага возможности использовать его против прежних хозяев. Кроме того, это имело важное значение при попадании ассегая в щит. Извлечь отломившийся наконечник было непросто, поэтому врагу приходилось бросать щит и продолжать бой незащищённым (в этом отношении ассегай был полным аналогом древнеримского дротика-пилума).

В первой трети XIX века, когда зулусский король-реформатор Чака при реорганизации армии унифицировал вооружение воинов, ассегай строго определённого образца был принят как обязательное штатное оружие. Чака также ввёл укороченную, с увеличенным лезвием модификацию ассегая, применявшуюся не для метания, а для рукопашного боя, которая называлась и́клва (это слово было подражанием звуку, который раздавался, когда длинное лезвие выдёргивалось из тела врага). Как правило, зулусы брали в бой два или три ассегая, а часто больше, даже восемь или девять. Истратив все метательные ассегаи, воин шёл в бой с иклва. Использование иклва дало зулусской армии значительное преимущество в сражениях с соседними народами. Первоначально зулусские вожди планировали вовсе отказаться от метательных ассегаев, оставив воинам только ударное оружие, но после того, как война зулусов с бурами показала бесполезность иклва в стычках с кавалеристами, отменили такое решение.

В случаях, если обычай (например, правила придворного этикета) не позволял в какой-то момент носить оружие, зулус мог брать с собой миниатюрный ассегай, полную копию боевого, и, таким образом, формально не расставался с копьём, как полагалось настоящему воину. Такие мини-ассегаи обычно были украшены резьбой. Существовали также особые «детские» ассегаи уменьшенных размеров, для обучения детей обращению с оружием.

Ассегай в культуре
Ассегаи многократно упоминаются в приключенческих произведениях авторов, писавших об Африке. Например, в романе Томаса Майн Рида «Юные охотники» описано, как зулус с помощью ассегаев убил львицу. Техника метания ассегая изложена автором весьма обстоятельно:

Среди произведений современного южноафриканского писателя Уилбура Смита есть роман «Ассегай».

См. также
 Древковое оружие
 Дротик
 Зулусская армия
 Англо-зулусская война

Примечания

Оружие по алфавиту
Метательное оружие по алфавиту
Метательные копья


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Justin Effron – Co-founder and CEO of ALICE
Mario Schulzke • December 15, 2019 December 2, 2015
The most important thing I've learned is to prioritize my to-do list and focus on just getting the top five things done.
Justin Effron is co-founder and CEO of ALICE, a mobile-first hospitality operations platform. Prior to co-founding ALICE, Justin was an analyst on the Equity Portfolio Trading Desk at Citigroup. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 with a B.A. in History, showing skeptics everywhere you can do something with that degree. Follow him on Twitter at @JNEffron and follow ALICE at @aliceapp.
Where did the idea for ALICE come from?
One of my co-founders (Alex Shashou) and I were travelling around South East Asia and came upon the same customer service-related frustrations at every hotel we visited. No matter how simple the request, we encountered the same belabored process at the hotel – long wait times, a complete lack of transparency as to how the request was being handled, and quite often requests that were misplaced or lost altogether. When we got back to the U.S. we spent 9 months researching hotel operations and talking to as many people as we could find in the industry. We soon learned the inefficiencies on the guest side at hotels stem from inefficiencies in the hotels' back-end technology. So, we teamed up with our third co-founder (Dmitry Koltunov) and decided to fix that.
What does your typical day look like and how do you make it productive?
I've learned that keeping a tight schedule makes me most productive and efficient with my time. At ALICE, we used to schedule meetings for an hour and then find ourselves wondering where the days went. More recently we've shifted to keeping all meetings to under 30 minutes and only go over for larger projects.
I'd say my typical day is 50% meetings/phone calls for sales and business development, 20% company strategy, 20% general company managing and 10% hiring.
How do you bring ideas to life?
We've assembled a really strong team at ALICE that can take ideas about how ALICE should work and bring them to life. Our team is distributed but works together really well. The diversity of backgrounds and cultures helps us design a product and provide a solution to problems of operations that are global and universal.
What's one trend that really excites you?
I'm particularly interested in artificial intelligence, and how quickly it's growing.
One application of AI that really excites me is natural language processing. We recently released a real-time language translation feature within ALICE that can take what a hotel guest types within the ALICE application and translate it instantaneously to a language preferred by the staff and vice versa. Instead of doing this on a word by word basis – which is what tools like Google Translate do, and which often results in confusing, if not hilarious translations – we do it on a sentence by sentence basis, which requires a robust implementation of machine learning. It's a feature that gets smarter by the day and we're really proud of it and excited to make hotel communications work a lot better because of it.
What is one habit of yours that makes you more productive as an entrepreneur?
Staying focused as a founder is one of the hardest things to do. At every stage of the company's growth, there's a million things to do at all times. The most important thing I've learned is to prioritize my to-do list and focus on just getting the top five things done. Having a great team also helps me delegate. Establishing daily routines has also been essential in keeping me productive.
What was the worst job you ever had and what did you learn from it?
The only other job I had before this one lasted all of seven months, so there aren't many jobs to choose from. So since this has been my only long term job I guess that makes my options limited! I've been lucky to love what I do from an early age, but ask me again in a few years and we will see where things stand!
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Tulane University School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa School of Public Health and The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Performance Monitoring and Accountability 2020 (PMA2020) Household and Female Survey Round 4, PMA2016/DRC-R4-HQFQ. 2016. DRC and Baltimore, Maryland, USA. https://doi.org/10.34976/r4kf-k046
Tulane University School of Public Health, University of Kinshasa School of Public Health; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Democratic Republic of Congo (Kinshasa) Round 4 Household and Female (HQFQ) survey included a sample of 58 enumeration areas (EA) was drawn (PPS) in Kinshasa. Each EA was listed and mapped; 30 households were randomly selected. Occupants in selected households were enumerated and eligible females of reproductive age (15-49) were contacted and consented for interview. The final sample included 1,774 completed households, and 2,756 completed female surveys. Data collection was conducted between October, 2015 and January, 2016.
Democratic Republic of Congo (Kongo Central) Round 4 Household and Female (HQFQ) survey included a sample of 52 enumeration areas (EA) was drawn (PPS) in Kongo Central. Each EA was listed and mapped; 30 households were randomly selected. Occupants in selected households were enumerated and eligible females of reproductive age (15-49) were contacted and consented for interview. The final sample included 1,625 completed households, and 1,578 completed female surveys. Data collection was conducted between October, 2015 and January, 2016.
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Трудовий потенціал — це сукупна суспільна здібність до праці, потенційна дієздатність суспільства, його ресурси праці.

Науковим вивченням трудового потенціалу займалося багато вчених. Але єдиного трактування поняття "трудовий потенціал" досі не існує. Наслідком цього явища є те, що різні вчені підходили до визначення цього поняття з різних позицій.

Фактори трудового потенціалу

Існують численні фактори, що визначають формування трудового потенціалу.

Кількісні фактори  включають:
 чисельність працездатного населення;
 кількість робочого часу, відпрацьованого працездатним населенням, або такого часу, який може бути відпрацьований;
 чисельність безробітних;
 чисельність і структуру зайнятого населення;
 статево-вікову структуру населення;
 рівень народжуваності.
Якісні фактори включають:
 психофізіологічну працездатність;
 загальноосвітній та професійно-кваліфікаційний рівень;
 рівень культури;
 моральну зрілість;
 схильність працездатних осіб до мобільності;
 трудову міграцію;
 трудову (економічну) активність.

Трудовий потенціал як категорія
Трудовий потенціал може розглядатися, як соціально-економічна, так і обліково-статистична категорія. Глибина структуризації трудового потенціалу дає змогу розглядати його, як параметр, що обумовлюється безупинними змінами в складі самих працівників, технології та засобів виробництва, а також у співвідношенні джерел екстенсивного та інтенсивного зростання трудового потенціалу.

Література
* Акулов М.Г., Драбаніч А.В., Євась Т.В.
Економіка праці та соціально-трудові відносини. Навч. посіб. - К.:Центр учбової літератури, 2012. - 328 с.

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