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TAMPA, Fla. – Bruce Smith, Rod Woodson and Derrick Thomas, all witnesses for the defense. All Pro Football Hall of Famers.
The three were elected Saturday along with longtime Buffalo Bills owner Ralph Wilson, 90, who will be the oldest person ever inducted; former Minnesota guard Randall McDaniel; and the late Bob Hayes, a standout wide receiver for Dallas and the 1964 Olympic 100 meters gold medalist.
Inductions will be Aug. 8 in Canton, Ohio.
The only candidate among the seven finalists who didn't get in was former Falcons and Eagles defensive end Claude Humphrey. Former commissioner Paul Tagliabue was denied entry for the third consecutive year.
"I am overjoyed," said Smith, the career sacks leader who spent most of his career with the Bills.
"It's a great honor, a great feat," said Woodson, the former defensive back who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, among other teams. "I'm still pinching myself a little bit, thinking it's surreal."
The moist poignant moment, however, came when Hayes' sister, Lucille Hester, read from a thank-you letter Hayes left in case he made the hall. He died in 2002. "It didn't matter how long it took. … The day is here, and it is historic," she said.
A defensive end, Smith retired five years ago with 200 sacks and made two all-decade teams. Drafted No. 1 overall in 1985, Smith had the most seasons with double-digit sacks (13) and the most postseason sacks (141/2). He earned defensive player of the year honors in 1990 and 1996 with Buffalo and concluded his 19-season career with four seasons in Washington.
Wilson has steadfastly kept his team in a small market while other owners bolted for the bright lights and big bucks of mega stadiums. He drew the biggest ovation at the announcement and mentioned that he'd seen every hall enshrinee perform at some point.
"Pro football to me is not about making money. It's a matter of competition, the flow of the game," he said. "People in the community become attached to a team. It gives them a quality of life."
Woodson, the 1993 defensive player of the year, also made the 1990s all-decade team. He led the NFL in interceptions in 1999 with Baltimore and 2002 with Oakland, and in kickoff returns (27.3-yard average) in 1989 with Pittsburgh.
Thomas, who died nine years ago after an auto accident while still an active player, also was on the 1990s all-decade team and was the 1989 defensive rookie of the year. He is 11th in career sacks with 1261/2 .
McDaniel was that rare guard as effective in pass protection as run blocking and could handle even the best defensive linemen singlehandedly. He missed only two games in his 14-season career.
Hayes was the most dangerous deep threat in pro football from 1965 to 1975. Nicknamed "Bullet Bob," he twice led the NFL in touchdown catches and in average yards per reception. He also was a brilliant kick returner.
Addition of Ducks' Trevor Zegras could enliven All-Star Weekend

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FRANCIS DANBY autograph Letter Signed.
Irish painter. A member of the 'Bristol School' and with John Martin and J.M.W. Turner one of the leading artists of the Romantic Period.
ALS. 1p. Exmouth. September 7th 1855. To T[homas] Miller.
"On the 4th instant I received the picture by railway from Birmingham. It was perfectly safe and uninjured, but on seeing it, in its frame in my painting room I felt very desirous of making some slight alterations, before sending it to you. The frame always enables me to be a better judge and having also seen it in the Exhibition, my impressions there were confirmed. If you will have the goodness to allow me to detain it for a few days for this purpose I shall be much obliged and I am convinced the picture will be the better. I remain dear Sir, yours most faithfully, Francis Danby."
8vo. 18 x 11.5 cms (7 x 4.5 inches). Very slightly trimmed at left margin without loss of text, lacking blank leaf of bifolium. Browning spots and mounting traces to blank verso. Good.
Francis Danby was a painter of large, highly dramatic canvases and is known for such paintings as 'The Deluge' and 'The Shipwreck'. His style, which is probably influenced by William Blake, is similar to that of John Martin and they both belong to the same group of English painters as J.M.W. Turner.
Provenance: From the 19th century album of Emma Marshall of Penwortham Lodge, Preston. Emma was the daughter of William Marshall, landowner and cotton manufacturer, and was related by marriage to the Miller family of Baronets, MPs and landowners. Thomas Miller was a noted art collector and was the purchaser of Millais' 'The Peace Concluded' and other significant works.


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The gift of a scholarship from Lecturer Sheldon Richman and the Deloitte Foundation will fund scholarships for entering pre-business freshmen.
Mr. Richman was the recipient of a Regents scholarship when he attended the University of California at Los Angeles as an undergraduate. The four year continuing support for him as a student made a significant impact on his university experience. Mr. Richman has remained involved in the education community having served as a lecturer in taxation here at UC Riverside and at Cal State University Fullerton. He has seen first hand the financial challenges our students face in meeting the raising costs of a higher education. It is through this gift that he and his wife want to help provide a level of on-going support for an accounting student throughout his/her four years.
The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management has received substantial gifts from Lecturer of Accounting Sheldon Richman. The Deloitte Foundation matched these gifts. The gift will be used to fund a four-year commitment to an entering freshman in pre-business each year starting in the fall of 2008. Award recipients will receive $1,000 every year over their four years at UCR, as long as they maintain their grades and continue progress towards a degree in business with an emphasis in accounting. The balance of the funds will be used to build an endowment to continue this program in perpetuity. This is the first time AGSM has had a four-year award to offer, and the scholarship will be used as a recruiting tool for prospective high-achieving freshmen.
"Shel Richman's gift for scholarships is a generous investment in the future," AGSM Dean David W. Stewart said. "AGSM and UCR cannot realize their mission of developing the next generation of educated leaders for business and for society without the support of individuals like Shel. This gift is a wonderful example for the community of what we must all do to assure our future success as a society."
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From the moment you hold your baby in your arms, you will never be the same. You might long for the person you were before, When you had freedom and time, And nothing in particular to worry about. You will know tiredness like you never knew it before, And days will run into days that are exactly the same, Full of feedings and burping, Nappy changes and crying, Whining and fighting, Naps or a lack of naps, It might seem like a never-ending cycle.
There is a last time for everything. There will come a time when you will feed your baby for the very last time.
They will fall asleep on you after a long day And it will be the last time you ever hold your sleeping child. One day you will carry them on your hip then set them down, And never pick them up that way again.
You will scrub their hair in the bath one night And from that day on they will want to bathe alone. They will hold your hand to cross the road, Then never reach for it again.
They will creep into your room at midnight for cuddles, And it will be the last night you ever wake to this. One afternoon you will sing "the wheels on the bus" and do all the actions, Then never sing them that song again.
They will kiss you goodbye at the school gate, The next day they will ask to walk to the gate alone. You will read a final bedtime story and wipe your last dirty face. They will run to you with arms raised for the very last time.
The thing is, you won't even know it's the last time Until there are no more times. And even then, it will take you a while to realize.
So while you are living in these times, remember there are only so many of them and when they are gone, you will yearn for just one more day of them. For one last time.


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On September 20, 2012, Dr. Wardynski announced that with the board's unanimous approval of the Human Resources report, Mr. Frank Spinelli had resigned as the CSFO for the district. He would be leaving the district immediately due to family situations in New York City. There was some speculation, much of it started by Dr. Wardynski himself, about why Mr. Spinelli would resign after just 13 months on the job. Now we know.
Mr. Spinelli resigned on September 20th, at least in part so that his company, Cadre Consulting, Inc., could be hired on September 21, 2012. Assuming that Mr. Spinelli is the one offering the consulting to the system, he could earn up to $175.00 per hour offering advice to Mr. Jason Taylor, the district's Finance Director and acting CSFO upon Mr. Spinelli's departure on the 20th. That hourly rate represents a 180% raise over his hourly rate of $62.5 while he was the district's number three employee in terms of salary.
Here's a copy of page two of the Temporary Agreements that were unanimously approved on September 20th, by the board without discussion.
As you can see, line 13 shows that a consulting service, here spelled, Cadri Consultant would "provide consulting services to the Chief School Financial Officer beginning on September 21st and running for the next four years. These services would be paid for out of the General Fund at a rate of up to $175.00 per hour, and this company would report to the Superintendent.
At first, this seems innocuous enough. Just one more consultant group hired by the Superintendent to do the work of district employees. It seemed fairly typical until I reviewed what Dr. Wardynski had to say about Mr. Spinelli when he was praising his incredibly short tenure as CSFO.
When I arrived in this school system, we were 19 million dollars in deficit. And uh, today we are 9 million dollars in surplus. The majority of that distance that has been covered is due to our chief financial officer Mr. Frank Spinelli. Uh, tonight the board as accepted his resignation. Uh, in June, Mr. Spinelli notified me that he would need to be spending a considerable amount of time away from Huntsville City Schools due to situations involving family members in situations in New York. And I asked him to help us get through the remainder of the summer. And to bring on a new leader, which is here before me, Jason Taylor, whose run finances, uh chief of finances since June. Frank, uh, spent several days each month back here helping us. Burned up a lot of leave and came back and helped us, uh, get the folks trained, to do the budget, and get ready for end of year. And so Frank will be missed as well. He'll be at Mr. Taylor's disposal going forward. So as of yesterday we announced the position of Chief Financial Officer. And in the interim, Mr. Taylor will be our chief of finance. Of course if he seeks to stay in that position he'll be chief of finance if he seeks to compete for chief financial officer, uh, he's welcome to do that as well. So two losses to our district. Two people who made us stronger, but two people who importantly laid a foundation. And when you're a leader, you see yourself as a transitory person. And your job is to prepare the way for the next set of leaders. And both of these individuals have done that. So they've laid a foundation so that we don't go back. We build on that, and we go forward.
Two points caught my attention in Dr. Wardynski's comments: first, he claimed that Mr. Spinelli "burned up" a lot of leave from June until September traveling back and forth between Huntsville and New York City.
Assuming that his leave package is similar to other education administrators in the state, at the most he would have earned approximately one day a month of sick leave and up to five days per year of personal leave. Thus he shouldn't have had more than 13-18 days of sick leave (5 days of personal leave would have converted to sick leave on his anniversary, and an additional 5 days of personal leave. Being out regularly from June to September would have burnt through a lot of leave considering he would have likely accumulated just 23 days in the 13 months he was employed. But the second point was more interesting.
But when I saw the Temporary Agreements report from that night, and noticed the four-year contract offered for Consulting Services for the CSFO, I began to wonder.
Here's a screen capture of Mr. Spinelli's LinkedIn Wall from October 2nd. As you can see, he's recently updated his employment information to show that he was previously employed by Huntsville City Schools, and that he is currently employed by Cadre Consulting, and (interestingly enough) United Cerebral Palsy of Huntsville & Tennessee Valley, Inc.
UPDATE: For the record, he is listed as a Board Member for UCP of Huntsville rather than an employee as it is listed on his LinkedIn page.
Mr. Frank Spinelli was an unpaid, volunteer member of the Board of Directors for United Cerebral Palsy (UCP) of Huntsville & Tennessee Valley, Inc. Mr. Spinelli requested a temporary hiatus from his board duties in June for personal reasons and, as a result, became a non-voting member and was not required to attend bi-monthly board meetings. Mr. Spinelli submitted his official resignation from the board in early September, which was reviewed and approved by the UCP Board of Directors at the Sept. 24 meeting.
I wish to clearly state that it was my intention to neither be critical of UCP or Mr. Spinelli for his involvement in UCP. I was merely pointing out that according to his LinkedIn page he was still affiliated with this local organization. As that has been shown to be incorrect, I will remove any reference to his being currently affiliated with UCP of Huntsville from the post. I believe that Dr. Wardynski's statement that he would be available to the future CSFO is sufficient to demonstrate that he is the representative of Cadre Consulting for the district at a rate ranging from $85-$175/hour in either case.
That's strange. Mr. Spinelli, who needed to "burn through his leave time" traveling to New York City over the summer to handle a "family situation" was evidently going to have enough time to continue his work as a board member with the HCP of Huntsville & Tennessee Valley.
Cadri Consultant/Cadre Consulting: Separated At Birth?
Mr. Spinelli is a "Consultant" with Cadre Consulting, and for some unusual reason he has been since 2009 – Present (3 years).
Really, you've got to wait a second. I thought that Mr. Spinelli was an employee of Huntsville City Schools for at least 13 months of those three years? Was he moonlighting? Did he have the Superintendent's permission to continue his employment with an outside consulting firm while working for the district?
And what about that name? Cadre Consulting is remarkably similar to Cadri Consultant, isn't it? And since Dr. Wardynski clearly stated during his remarks on the 20th that Mr. Spinelli would be at Mr. Taylor's "disposal going forward," and since Mr. Spinelli is still on a board of directors here in Huntsville, well then it seems reasonable to assume that the spelling issue on the Temporary Agreements for September 20th is just a typo, right?
Surely that wasn't an attempt to hide the fact that Mr. Spinelli is still being paid by the district despite his resignation, and not only still being paid, but at a minimum he (or someone in his company) is receiving a 36% increase in hourly salary. At the most, that hourly salary increase jumps to 180%.
And it would further seem that the "going forward" part of that deal is expected to last for four years.
Oh yeah, Mr. Spinelli's original contract with the district was for three years. In other words, not only is he receiving a raise, but he's also receiving a two-year contract extension.
So now our district, which supposedly cannot afford to even consider reinstating our teachers' STEP raises that have been frozen since 2011, can suddenly afford not one but two CSFOs.
It truly is good to be friends with Dr. Wardynski, isn't it. He's quite generous with taxpayer monies where his friends and supporters are concerned.
It's a shame that he doesn't consider teachers and students who are struggling in ever increasing class sizes because "we just cannot afford to pay for teachers" to be his friends.
Please keep this in mind the next time someone tells you that we just simply cannot afford to give our teachers even a 1% raise every four years. Our district can certainly afford to give raises; they're just picky about who they give them to.
I wonder if Spinelli went ahead and factored his new raise into the district's 2013 budget that the board approved on September 4th? I wouldn't bet against it.
There's lots of smoke here and a lot of insinuations, but I would like to see some more meat on this story before I get my blood pressure up about it.
As for Spinelli's "raise," consultants regularly charge high hourly fees because they (or the consulting firm they work for) have to cover the costs of their benefits. If you add in the cost of Spinelli's benefits package with HCS — health insurance, personal & sick leave, etc. — it is likely that his net pay as a consultant will be no higher than what he was making as a direct employee.
The question then becomes: How many hours will he be putting in for HCS once the new CFO is hired? If Spinelli is essentially working fulltime for HCS while the system is also paying a salary for a CFO, that is a legitimate problem. Why would we pay for two CFOs? If, on the other hand, his advice is only occasionally needed for specific issues, that's not such a big deal. Defense contractors do this all the time: A top engineer retires, goes to work as a consultant, and is brought in by his old company from time to time to work on specific technical issues.
Again, I want to know more about this before I get worked-up about it.
Thanks Ben. If you don't think there's a problem and if you don't wish to get worked up over this, that's fine. I'm a firm believer that everyone should make up their own minds about a subject.
Yes, consultants make more than employees. Yes, defense contractors do this all the time. Yes, the number of hours that the consultant works will matter. I have no problem granting any of that to you.
But for me, this still smells (and I think it smells when defense contractors do it, too, but that's not my issue). And so I wrote about it.
If it doesn't smell to you, you're more than welcome to disagree with me.
I want to know more too. I believe that more will come to light over time.
I didn't say it doesn't smell, only that there isn't enough known yet for me to come to that conclusion. I would prefer to reserve my outrage for known issues, not just suspected ones. One very reasonable possible explanation for most of the facts you have reported is that Spinelli has legit family issues in New York he needs to attend to, but the school system didn't want to lose his expertise and institutional knowledge (as in my defense contractor example). So HCS gives him a consulting contract to ensure the system can call on him when required to ensure a seamless transition to the new CFO. Makes sense to me, if that is what is actually going on.
I'm quite sure you will be on top of this issue and will dig deeper to get more info. If and when you come up with evidence that something underhanded is going on, then I'll react accordingly.
This is why there is a lot of "smoke and insinuations". This is what happens when there is no transparency and taxpayers have to depend on non paid bloggers for information.
Russell, thanks for all of your hardwork in bringing forth the truth and uncovering smoke screens. YOU are appreciated!
Oh, and one more thing: Thank you for digging into this. Holding public officials accountable is a good thing, and goodness knows the local media isn't interested in reporting this stuff. I do wish you would dial the outrage meter back a bit so that you could be more effective, but that's your business. Regardless, I appreciate the fact that you are bringing this stuff to light. Even if it turns out to be nothing, at least Wardynski will know that someone is looking over his shoulder.
I really do appreciate your point of view on this. Yes, it could easily be nothing. I don't think so, but it could be. And that needed to be said.
I'll see what I can do about the outrage Ben.
I do try to incorporate a little sarcasm occasionally . . . and I did take out the "What the F.O.C?" line concerning Friends of Casey . . .
Thank you for this information and for your work in our community.
Most citizens know most nonprofit board appointments are non-paid positions with the appointees' goal of working to help obtain donations for the organization. With that said we should be mindful of our appointee we select to serve. There are many upstanding persons that are grounded in this communtiy willing to serve and not serve themselves. While setting the record straight understand there are donors and potential donors on this page and it is donation season.
At least someone in the media is reading this blog!
Unpaid Bloggers are doing the media's job.
Kudos to Mr. Kulbreath, who is doing his job even before he takes office.
He blew the whistle on the Spinelli scam. Frank even did some work for free.
I couldn't believe that McCaulley had then nerve to claim that others on the board had questions about the deal.
There was not one single question raised publicly about this four year contract when they voted on it. Not one.
It would be truly wonderful to have a board filled with people who actually ask questions rather than claim that they ask them after the fact.
Look at those last two sentences. Is she REALLY saying that once Culbreath becomes a board member he WON'T have the RIGHT to consult the Ethics Commission??????
So the questions are, did they sever all ties then give him a contract, or, did they give him a contract then sever all ties? Either way sounds fishy to me.


I'm frequently asked advice on Marketing strategies and what is the key element to a successful campaign, and there is no real answer other than Businesses with a clear purpose perform better and are more likely to succeed. Knowing your own products/companies direction is key, but making sure you're customers are understanding that direction is what helps a business even during the most frustrating of times. The most effective way to convey your product direction is thru Press Releases, social media and blogs, Keep your customers updated on what you're up too and they will too. This is why today we are taking a closer look at MyPRGenie.com who says to have just that as a one stop shop.
While the site touts tons of features for each, the main differences aren't that difficult to spot.
The cheapest of all being the free version gets one of your releases a month distributed to your own network, which you are required to upload following their format. Nothing to wow about this, but at least it lets you send out a press release without worrying about your email getting flagged as Spam.
– One SEO Online Newsroom: Here media can sign up to follow your releases at the same time it's a great tool to introduce yourself to new media who haven't heard of you.
– You also get Unlimited Release distribution, to your own list ofcourse.
– Gives you more Social media support allowing you to not only post directly to your own accounts but also allows you to post on to MyPRGenie's Twitter and Facebook feeds.
This option is great for business who have their own media list, and want an easy effective way to distribute their PR to their list as well as social media channels with one single click. Similar offerings tend to cost anywhere from $80 – $400 a month .
This option is actually pretty interesting and my thoughts where this is specifically geared to those companies who manage several brands. The reason I say that is that there is only one difference between Basic and Pro being that it allows you to create multiple Newsrooms. This tool is a great tool not only for companies wanting to distribute PR for multiple brands all thru one account, but also for agencies who manage multiple brands and need an effective way to manage all the releases efficiently and effectively.
The "Premium" package, in my experience, is often the most misunderstood. MyPRGenie, along with every other known press release site, has long been treated differently by Google. The links from within your press release, with or without anchor text are not going to give you much (if any) "inbound link value" in the eyes of Google. The Premium option comes with everything included in the Basic and Pro options as well as distribution to an additional regional or vertical media list which MyPRGenie, allows you to create your distribution lists from, including premium vertical publishers (like PCWorld.com or even Gartner) and the ability to embed an image within your release.
In addition to that increased distribution, you also get a powerful real time analytic /stats allowing you to view how many people and exactly who viewed your content. Info includes first name, last name, outlet, circulation, phone number and email.
MyPRGenie makes it incredibly easy to get your release in front of the right people (your release will need to do the rest) but it does have a few caveats you should be aware of.
Links, even with the Pro package are limited to 2 per release (Premium has no limit). MyPRGenie's reasoning is probably that Google News seems to prefer this ratio and anything above it risks the release not being included in Google News. Since press releases traditionally are supposed to be short and to the point, you might find you quickly run out of links and are then editing your release to bulk it up to get another link or two in. However, note that if you contact MyPRGenie and explain you'll take the risk of not being included in Google news, they will allow your release to go through providing the number of links isn't excessive (aka obvious spam).
Well I've been using MyPRGenie with success for a few years now. Our releases are well written (in house) and I admit that up until this review I didn't realize how powerful and how many useful tools the Premium package came with. We used the Pro Package for a couple years, and I don't think we can ever go back.
MyPRGenie.com is an easy to manage, affordable and efficient service which offers its users a variety of packages to submit/distribute press releases. In particular the ability to manage your own blog, Images, videos, and. All of this means that readers can quickly scan through a release and get a good idea of its contents, perhaps choosing to look at it in more detail thereafter. You can also schedule your releases so that they come out the next day, in a week's time or a year from now, which means you can make sure your release receives a constant stream of viewers and doesn't simply fade away after a couple of days.


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French strikes to cause more travel chaos
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June 27 2015, 1:01am, The Times
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Holidaymakers and businesses are facing travel chaos next week amid warnings of a twin strike aimed at French aviation and ports.
French air traffic controllers have announced plans to walk out over four days next week – from Tuesday to Friday – in a move that is likely to lead to thousands of flights being grounded. Airlines have been told to cut 40 per cent of flights.
Ryanair, the budget airline, warned that the move would see "millions of customers" having their holiday plans cancelled or disrupted.
French ferry workers have also threatened a repeat of this week's strike action in Calais, which led to gridlock on both sides of the Channel. The protest over the loss of 400 jobs at MyFerryLink led to the…


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Missing your anniversary celebrations because you're in the middle of the North American leg of a world tour seems a fairly reasonable excuse. And Adele's partner, Simon Konecki, appears to be not only an understanding fellow, but also a dab hand at epic anniversary surprises.
During the singer's tour stop in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, Simon made the sweetest gesture and publicly professed his love by replacing the singer's signature concert confetti with handwritten lyrics, with his own handwritten love notes, according to the Daily Mail.
Adele, who was wearing the custom-made Burberry floor-skimming gown that she's been rocking throughout the tour, added further joy to the unexpected proceedings, by revealing to the crowd that she plans to try for a second baby. 'My womb is starting to ache a little bit. It's like, "Baby, baby, baby. Need a baby, need a baby",' though she confirmed that she's not pregnant yet by adding 'I'm not pregnant. I won't get pregnant until the end of the tour.' Her 107-date world tour is due to finish in November.
With such an amazing, iconic mum and a thoughtful, supportive dad, Angelo's future brother or sister will be in very good hands indeed.


Factors surrounding the removal of suspended solids from the boiler, including valves, piping and blowdown vessels, with calculations.
Suspended solids can be kept in suspension as long as the boiler water is agitated, but as soon as the agitation stops, they will fall to the bottom of the boiler. If they are not removed, they will accumulate and, given time, will inhibit heat transfer from the boiler fire tubes, which will overheat and may even fail.
The recommended method of removing this sludge is via short, sharp blasts using a relatively large valve at the bottom of the boiler. The objective is to allow the sludge time to redistribute itself so that more can be removed on the next blowdown.
For this reason, a single four-second blowdown every eight hours is much more effective than one, twelve-second blowdown in the first eight hour shift period, and then nothing for the rest of the day.
Blowdown water will either pass into a brick-lined blowdown pit encased below ground, or a metal blowdown vessel situated above ground. The size of the vessel is determined by the flowrate of blowdown water and flash steam that enters the vessel when the blowdown valve is opened.
The size of the blowdown line.
The length of the blowdown line between the boiler and the blowdown vessel.
In practice, a reasonable minimum length of blowdown line is 7.5 m, and most blowdown vessels are sized on this basis. Blowdown lines will contain bends, check valves and the blowdown valve itself; and these fittings will increase the pressure drop along the blowdown line. They may be thought of in terms of an 'equivalent straight length of pipe', and can be added to the pipe length to give an overall equivalent length. Table 3.14.1 gives equivalent lengths of various valves and fittings.
In the unlikely event that the total equivalent length is less than 7.5 m, the vessel should be sized on a higher flowrate. In these cases, multiply the boiler pressure by 1.15 to calculate the blowdown rate from Figure 3.14.1. Blowdown lines over 7.5 m can be read straight from this graph.
Example 3.14.1: For a boiler pressure of 10 bar g, an equivalent 40 mm blowdown line length is calculated to be 10 m, consequently, the blowdown rate is 6.2 kg/s (see Figure 3.14.1).
From flash steam calculations, 16% of water at 10 bar g saturation temperature will flash to steam when the pressure is reduced to atmospheric. Steam at atmospheric pressure has a significantly greater volume than water and each kilogram occupies 1.673 m3 of space.
The very high energy flowrate, and huge change in volume between the upstream and downstream sides of the blowdown valve, mean that substantial reactionary forces are developed, and that boiler blowdown must be handled in a safe manner.
In the UK, due to the forces involved, and the potential for injury to personnel and the environment, boiler blowdown is covered in a number of statutes and Guidance Notes from the Health & Safety Executive.
Health and Safety at Work Act (1974).
Health and Safety Guidance Notes PM60, BG01 and INDG436.
Pressure Systems and Transportable Gas Containers Regulations (1989).
The European Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), (2002).
Compliance may or may not be mandatory, but an incident on the plant or injury to personnel will certainly involve factory inspectors and possible litigation.
Please note: The illustrations within this Module are schematic and some essential boiler fittings, for example, gauge glasses have been omitted for clarity.
Good engineering and installation practice.
In all cases, it is important to ensure adequate isolation for maintenance purposes and the prevention of reverse flow. The installation of TDS control equipment on multi-boiler plants should include a non-return valve and an isolation valve to prevent pressure/flow from one boiler being imposed on another. This is particularly important when a boiler is shut down, as the TDS control valve may not be designed to seal against pressure on the downstream side. Good engineering practice will always consider what would happen if the control valve were passing water or steam. At worst, the absence of a non-return valve and isolation valve may endanger personnel working on, or in, the shut down boiler.
All valves or taps controlling entry of steam or water are closed and securely locked. Where there is a common blowdown pipe or vessel, the blowdown valve is constructed so that it can only be opened by a key which cannot be removed until the blowdown valve is closed; and that this is the only key in use in the boiler house.
It is now possible to automate the bottom blowdown valve using a proprietary timer linked to a pneumatically operated ball valve.
The timer should be capable of opening the valve at a specific time, and holding it open for a set number of seconds.
The use of automatic bottom blowdown ensures that this important action is carried out regularly and releases the boiler attendant for other duties.
With multi-boiler installations, it is necessary to interlock the valves so that not more than one can be open at any one time, as this would overload the blowdown vessel. This can be done most simply by staggering the setting times of the individual blowdown timers, or by setting the individual blowdown times in sequence.
Traditionally, blowdown vessels have had tangential inlets. However, this has meant that the vessels have been structurally weak at the point where the inlet enters.
A preferred alternative is to bring the blowdown line in radially, giving a structurally superior vessel, and then fitting a diffuser inside the vessel. This arrangement also reduces the erosion which could occur inside a vessel with a tangential inlet.
The vessel will need to conform to the European Pressure Equipment Directive (2002) for Group 2 gases. This directive instructs the manufacturer to conform to design and manufacturing standards. As this is a pressure vessel specification, the vessel also needs provision for inspection including an access door and a drain.
The blowdown vessel design pressure should be at least 25% of the boiler maximum working pressure and the design temperature should be greater than or equal to the saturation temperature for the vessel design pressure.
The vent should be large enough, that pressure within the vessel does not exceed 0.35 bar g.
The volume of standing water must ensure that the overflowing water temperature does not exceed 43°C.
The vessel should operate with a quantity of standing water, and the water quantity should be at least twice the quantity of blowdown water. Approximately half of the tank's volume should be occupied by standing water and the remainder as air space.
The vent should ensure that flash steam is vented safely and there is no significant carryover of water at the exit to the vent pipe. The vent should be as straight as possible and ideally terminated with a vent head.
The vessel must have a tapping for a pressure gauge, as the vessel is manufactured to a pressure vessel specification and regular testing and inspection are required.
A cooling device should be fitted to the vessel if the hot water temperature causes the outlet temperature at blowdown to exceed the permissible limit. The most cost-effective choice for this application is a self-acting control valve. If the temperature exceeds the set temperature, the valve will open and allow cold mains water into the vessel.
Only one boiler can be blown down at any one time. In fact, sizing of the blowdown vessel will be based on the highest pressure boiler with the biggest blowdown line size. Reference is also made to the UK Factories Act (1961) which states the same thing.
Figure 3.14.5 shows the recommended layout for multiple boiler installations where the bottom and TDS blowdown lines are taken back separately to the blowdown vessel. Manifolding should be at the vessel and not at the boiler. Separate connections are required on the vessel for bottom blowdown and for TDS blowdown return lines.
A third connection is also needed on the vessel to comply with UK Guidance Notes (BG01 and INDG436) regarding water level control in boilers. This requires a connection for the blowdown from control chambers and level gauge glasses.
Where blowdown lines connect into an inlet manifold on the vessel, each must be fitted with either a screw down non-return valve or, a non-return valve and an isolating valve. This is to prevent the possibility of steam and pressurised hot water being blown from one working boiler into another (inside which personnel may be working) during maintenance.
The preference is for two separate valves. The check valve will have to work regularly, hence wear on the seat is inevitable.


Where does the creation for an MC come from? Is it someone you know? Bits and pieces of several people you know? Is there some you in there? Your mother? Sister? Brother? Your alcoholic cousin? Your ex-best friend? Is it someone you knew when you were young or an ideal view of a person you wish you knew? How do writers manage to come with the personality/traits/qualities/looks of their MCs?
As I was listening to this particular song in the car, it suddenly dawned on me that Fiona Apple's music was a huge influence in the creation of the MC in my current WIP. My MC, Sam is hard, tough, angry, sarcastic and doesn't easily trust...on the outside. On the inside, she is desperate, sad, vulnerable, hurt and trying to cope with who she is, what she is and things that have happened in her life.
I've known since I started writing that music can influence certain scenes I write in my works, but I never realized how music actually formed the basis of the main character in my novel. It was totally subconscious, but now that I've made the connection, I think it is pretty darn cool and I have Fiona Apple and her music genius to thank for that.
Forgot to comment on this one. I love that you know where your character comes from. I have no idea where I dug up mine. Some are mish mashes of the person I am and the person I want to be and sometimes they're nothing like me at all and just something that popped into my head. Sometimes the things that pop into my head are scary... you dont' want to know.
I actually think we cannot help using some form of outside influences in our MCs. I know I am in at least one character in each of my novels. Even if it's just a small piece of me, I'm still there. It's how I relate to them, feel for them and fight for them.
I do the same thing with music. Characters aren't always formed from a song, but by the end of a novel, I know which songs best fit them.
I think how we work as writers when it comes to our MCs is what really makes a solid character. It helps the readers relate and fall for them. To cheer them on during those harrowing moments and to cry for them when something goes wrong.


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I listened to the speech that Trump delivered last night from his Doral Resort in Miami.
There is no question that Trump is tenacious in the current views he is presenting as a 2016 presidential candidate. He is unafraid of political correctness and he has a sense of humour– but there's one aspect of his personality that moves me: his respect and passion for great military strength and discipline– and how he is looking for "his" General MacArthur and "his" General Patton, the latter being one of my favorite military heroes of all time. MacArthur and Patton represented military courage, which is a cornerstone of Western Civilization.
We have lost the sense of glory and respect that comes from winning great battles against evil. For God's sake, we have generals chatting like mademoiselles in distress in front of TV cameras. What an embarrassment!
We have not had a great victory since WWII. We're demoralized against evil, which has overtaken us.
During my campaign for the United States Senate (Republican-2012 FL on the ballot) I always stated that there is an "impossible coexistence" between our tradition of military strength and socialist pacifism.
But where is the new General MacArthur? Where is the new General Patton?
Mr. Trump–and Americans in general, need to carefully consider that in this country millions of children have been exterminated through abortion. So many, in fact, that in the United States the number of abortions now exceeds the population of the United Kingdom. Among them surely died many Generals, like MacArthur, like Patton.
I have said before and will say again that this monumental loss of human potential is our greatest enemy.
General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Occupation Forces refused Margaret Sanger permission to enter the country, despite the fact that Sanger had been asked to visit postwar Japan by that nation's most prominent birth control advocate, Baroness Shidzue Ishimoto (Kato). Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood.
To ignore the urgent need for the defense of innocent human life is to deny the value of our own existence. If we want to survive as a civilized society, we must begin by defending our future Generals in the womb.
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All Mercy knows is that she is an angel, exiled from heaven for a crime she can't remember committing. So when she 'wakes' inside the body and life of eighteen-year-old Lela Neill, Mercy has only limited recall of her past life. Her strongest memories are of Ryan, the mortal boy who'd begun to fall for her - and she for him. Lela's life is divided between caring for her terminally ill mother and her work as a waitress at the Green Lantern, a busy city cafe frequented by suits, cab drivers, strippers, backpackers and the homeless, and Mercy quickly falls into the rhythm of this new life. But when Mercy's beloved, Luc, reappears in her dreams, she begins to awaken to glimpses of her true nature and her true feelings for Ryan. How can she know that her attempts to contact Ryan will have explosive consequences? Meanwhile, 'the Eight' - responsible for her banishment - hover near, determined to keep Mercy and Luc apart, forever...
'The book has a gripping start and by the end, you can't help but wonder who this angel of Mercy will become next' Sunday Herald Sun.
Rebecca Lim was born in Singapore and grew up in Australia. She studied Law and Commerce at the University of Melbourne, and had a successful career as a commercial lawyer before turning to writing. Apart from the Mercy series, Rebecca is the author of ten books for children and young adults, four of which have been translated into French and one into Turkish.
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Many Republicans Don't Believe in Climate Change. Or Do They?
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress say they're not so sure about the science of climate change, even though the vast majority of scientists agree: we're warming the planet and if we don't stop, it'll have big consequences for us.
A recent Pew study found that these lawmakers reflect the attitude of many of the constituents they represent. Only 11 percent of conservative Republicans say climate scientists understand the causes of climate change very well.
So, can anything change their minds? One conservative says 'yes'.
Bob Inglis is a former South Carolina Republican congressman who now heads a group called republicEN.org which aims to promote 'free market' solutions to climate change.
Inglis said when he first started serving in Congress in the 1990s, he didn't believe in climate change. But then in 2004, something changed his mind.
So what is the conservative solution to climate change? Inglis argues that the simplest solution is a carbon tax.
At the end of that pipeline, Inglis says the carbon tax means the price of gasoline goes up by 25 cents a gallon and the price of electricity goes up one to two cents per kilowatt hour, depending on where you live.
"So in other words it's not a catastrophic change or lives," he says.
Under this plan, the money raised from the tax would be recycled back to the taxpayer either by cutting taxes somewhere else or paying dividends.
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Q: Lookup CSS dropdown-alignment implementation in lightning-datatable I'm currently having some issues with the lookup implementation that is being used within a lightning-datatable implementation.

The lookup bar is being cutoff, and instead pushes the entire table segment down and makes it scrollable within the container causing this.

Which would be fine except for the fact that it's not immediately obvious it's happening unless the container itself is being scrolled down.
On the other hand, using the lightning-combobox with the dropdown-alignment='auto' gives me what I wanted.
I've been working off of the Lightning Design Systems to create a lookup class - https://www.lightningdesignsystem.com/components/lookups/, so I'm not sure how to properly implement this so that the dropdown from the lookup aligns properly

A: Since I wasn't able to find any build in salesforce method to do this, I resolved this by changing the listbox to a fixed position and calculating the position of the input within the window and set the style with that.
It's a bit hacky, but this is what I did to set the style
    setDropdownStyle() {
        let style = "position:fixed; z-index:10000;";
        if (this.template.querySelector("[data-id='lookup-combobox']")) {
            let boundingBox = this.template.querySelector("[data-id='lookup-combobox']").getBoundingClientRect();
            style += `top: ${boundingBox.top+30}px; left: 150px`;
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Trump Rounds Up Allies To Aggressively Push China On Stealing US Technology
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Chris White Tech Reporter
December 20, 2018 8:00 PM ET
The United States and a score of other western allies joined together Thursday to blame China for a more than decade-long effort to gobble up trade secrets and technology from a dozen countries.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin blocked a proposal to impose sanctions on Chinese agents implicated in hackings, The Washington Post reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. Mnuchin blocked the measure out of fear it would interfere with U.S.-China trade talks.
Thursday's accusations came as the Department of Justice unveiled indictments against two Chinese hackers, who it said acted "in association with" the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Two members of a hacking squad known as "Advanced Persistent Threat 10" were accused of conspiracy to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud, the indictment said.
They allegedly presided over a Chinese-government-backed campaign of cyber theft targeting advanced technologies with commercial and military applications. Hackers also went after companies widely considered gatekeepers to computer networks serving scores of corporate clients.
Government officials believe the hackers were acting on behalf of China as the communist nation works to supplant the U.S. as a global power.
"China's goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. as the world's leading superpower, and they're using illegal methods to get there," FBI Director Christopher Wray told reporters.
Chinese President Xi Jinping drops his ballot, during a vote on a constitutional amendment lifting presidential term limits March 11, 2018.
More than 90 percent of cases alleging economic espionage involved China as did more than two-thirds of trade secret theft prosecutions, according to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Most of China's actions came over the past seven years — and there is some evidence some of U.S.' biggest allies are taking the hackings seriously.
"This demonstrates there's a strong well of international support the United States can tap … Countries are fed up," Ely Ratner, executive vice president of the Center for a New American Security, told reporters.
Officials from London, Canberra, Ottawa and Wellington knocked China for violating previously pledges to avoid hacking for commercial gain.
Some analysts are skeptical the indictments and alliance will have any effect.
"Just as when the Obama administration did it, indicting a handful of Chinese agents out of the tens of thousands involved in economic espionage is necessary but not important," Derek Scissors, a China analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, told reporters.
The U.S.' move comes amid President Donald Trump's tariff war against China. The president reached a major agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a Dec. 2 meeting ahead of a G-20 summit. The meeting temporarily staved off an escalating trade battle between the world's two biggest economies. (RELATED: No New Tariffs: Trump Wins Trade Battle With China)
There's also fear China is using American automakers and Silicon Valley companies to expand its tech dominance. Tesla and General Motors are among 200 companies transmitting position information and other data to government-backed monitoring centers in China. The information is regularly cobbled and delivered without citizens' knowledge.
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Kanye West Breaks Down at Paris Concert
VIDEO: The rapper is consoled onstage just a week after his mother's death
By Peter Mikelbank
Only a week after his mother's death, Kanye West returned to the concert stage Saturday night in Paris, only to dramatically break down in tears, audience members tell PEOPLE.
Nearing the end of the more than 60-minute performance, with the riff of "Hey Mama" beginning, West attempted to introduce the tribute to a sold-out crowd at Le Zénith in Paris, saying "this song is for my mother…." and could get no further. (See the YouTube video.)
"He just cracked," one attendee tells PEOPLE, "He was at the end of his concert and had just started to dedicate the song and then he just lost it completely."
"He said the word, 'Mother' and just couldn't go any further," Le Parisien journalist Meddy Magloire said. "A back-up singer, the DJ and a guitar player came over to console him. It looked like he might collapse. He just couldn't continue. He just stood there in a spotlight, crying while the band continued playing."
After a few moments of stunned silence, Magloire says, the audience of 5,000 reacted by offering calls of encouragement, which grew into applause.
The band restarted the song, but West left the stage, returning after 10-15 minutes to conclude the concert with a rousing performance of "Stronger."
"He was very nervous, seemed to have gathered himself up, and had a lot of energy," Magloire says. "He kept shouting out to the audience, 'I need you… I need you right now.' and the public was screaming back. It was magic."
West had been reclusive since death of his mother. He canceled a Victoria's Secrets performance on Thursday and was not at the memorial for her in Chicago on Friday.
His arrival in Paris at the Hotel Le Meurice on Friday, accompanied by fiancée Alexis Phifer and her son, was unexpected, coming just hours after another scheduled concert set for Monday in Amsterdam was officially canceled.
West is scheduled to perform in Brussels on Sunday night. It's now expected he will return to the United States for his mother's funeral in Oklahoma City on Tuesday afternoon before returning to Europe to perform in London on Thursday.
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The XC60 scored a near-perfect 98 per cent in the Adult Occupant category, and in its Large Off-Road class showed a clear advantage in the Safety Assist category with a score of 95 per cent – 20 percentage points higher than the nearest Large Off-Road competitor – underlining Volvo Cars' position as a leader in automotive safety.
The Euro NCAP award for the XC60 follows in the tracks of Volvo Cars' XC90, which in 2015 was also named the best performing large off-roader, and the car with the best overall performance that year. The Volvo V40 is another previous Euro NCAP winner, in the Small Family class.
The all-new Volvo XC60 will make its debut in South Africa in the third quarter of 2018.
Each year, Euro NCAP publishes a 'Best in Class' list to indicate which vehicles have performed better than their competitors launched in the same calendar year, using a weighted sum of scores for accurate comparison in each class, across four areas of assessment: adult occupant, child occupant, pedestrian and safety assist.


5. Roll dough into balls and flatten very slightly. Place them on a plate and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least two hours, up to 2 days.
6. Remove dough out of refrigerator when you are ready to bake them.
7. Preheat oven to 350° line a cookie sheet with Silpat Mat or parchment paper.
8. Bake cookies for 12 minutes.
9. Let cookie is cool for about 10 minutes before serving.
10. Cookies will keep at room temperature in an airtight container for up to one week, or in the freezer for up to six months.
Our cookies were gone within the FIRST night we made them. So just FYI they are DANGEROUS!
I've got a son away at college who loves peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Can't wait to make a batch to send him. Thanks!
I'm so glad to hear!!! I hope both of you enjoy them!
I love the look of your cookies as prepared on the show. I see you call for 1 packet of instant Vanilla Pudding Mix on the blog. I had to go back and look at the video because I now see the packet sitting on the counter where you were making the dough but I never saw when or where you added it to the ingredients in the bowl.
I've been making cookies for 35 years and have never seen pudding mix used in making cookies. I am not against it. I will in fact try it. It was just a surprise ingredient for me.
So can the dry pudding mix then be added to the four and added to the bowl at the same time? Any information you can provide me will greatly appreciated.
I am so glad I was home to watch this episode today. You are a pleasant. lovely and professional baker. I can see why people love you and love to work with you.
Yes, the vanilla pudding mix was mixed in with the flour mixture. So it is just one 3.5 oz packet. I've found it helps with the denseness of the cookies. I just experimented with it once with my chocolate chip cookies once because I do it with all of my cakes, and loved it ever since. So I never stopped.


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There's Nothing Out There Blu-ray Review
There's Nothing Out There isn't great B-movie horror or anything yet there is a fun element to these independently made films where there is a lot of passion both in front of and behind the camera.
There's Nothing Out There
Genre(s): Horror, Comedy
Vinegar Syndrome | NR – 91 min. – $34.98 | January 29, 2019
Date Published: 02/26/2019 | Author: The Movieman
Directed by: Rolfe Kanefsky
Writer(s): Rolfe Kanefsky (written by)
Cast: Craig Peck, Wendy Bednarz, Mark Collver, Bonnie Bowers
Features: Commentaries, Interviews, Short Films, Music Video, Gallery, Trailer
Slip Cover: Yes
Digital Copy: No
Formats Included: Blu-ray, DVD
Subtitles: English SDH
Disc Size: 47.50 GB
Total Bitrate: 41.03 Mbps
Codecs: MPEG-4 AVC
Vinegar Syndrome provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this Blog Post.
The opinions I share are my own.
Mike (CRAIG PECK) is always getting in the way of fun. His obsession with horror movies and their rules dictates that no matter where he goes, he can't help but expect to find a monster lurking around every corner. But this time, his paranoia might be justified…
After being invited to a remote lodge, along with some friends (WENDY BEDNARZ, MARK COLLVER, BONNIE BOWERS, JOHN CARHART III), Mike immediately begins to sense that something isn't right, but none of his friends believe him. Unfortunately, they're dead wrong, and a slimy alien frog monster has indeed landed in the nearby woods and set out to fulfill its mission of killing all human makes and mating with females. Can Mike convince his friends that there is something out there, before the men have their brains sucked out and the women are carrying green mutant fetuses?
SPECIAL FEATURES – 4.5/5
This release comes with a slip cover and the inside artwork is reversible. Vinegar Syndrome has packed with plenty of features.
Audio Commentaries:
Director Rolfe Kanefsky and Filmmakers Joe Lynch & Jeff Reddick (NEW)
Director Rolfe Kanefsky ("20th Anniversary")
Director Rolfe Kanefsky, Producer Victor Kanefsky, Actors Craig Peck, Mark Collver and others.
The Hysteria Continues! (NEW)
With four commentary tracks, you get a wide variety of information, especially from Rolfe Kanefsky doing three of them at various stages in his life while the fourth is the guys at The Hysteria Continues podcast team discussing their thoughts on the film, with two of them seeing the film for the first time.
Interviews:
There's a Movie Out There (52:27) is a new interview with Writer-Director Rolfe Kanefsky and Producer-Editor Victor Kanefsky. Pretty lengthy, the pair discuss the origins of the movie as well as Rolfe Kanefsky talking about how he became a filmmaker.
40 Years of Cutting (30:59) is a new interview with Victor Kanefsky talking about his own career and his work on There's Nothing Out There with moderator Author/Screenwriter C. Courtney Joyner.
Interview with Craig Peck (18:24) has the actor recalling his time working on the film.
Archival Interview with Rolfe Kanefsky (35:56) looks like it's from the early 2000s and shot on a video camcorder.
Copycat (10:30) – A short film about copying nothing.
Murder in Winter (1:50:30) – An early feature film by Rolfe Kanefsky. Includes new intro.
Just Listen (14:37) – An early short film by Rolfe Kanefsky. Includes intro from circa 2011.
Mood Boobs (19:37) – Another short film by Kanefsky. Includes intro from circa 2011.
Behind the Scenes of Mood Boobs (16:08) is some rough home video footage on location with Kanefsky.
Theatrical Trailer (2:16) with an optional commentary track.
Additional Extras (except for the music video, all have optional commentaries): There's Nothing Out There Music Video (5:15), Production Stills Gallery (4:17), Behind the Scenes Rehearsal Footage (10:38), Pre-Production Footage and Video Storyboards (7:11), Original Cast Auditions (11:59), Animation Test Footage and Deleted Shots (3:26).
VIDEO – 4.0/5
There's Nothing Out There arrives on Blu-ray through Vinegar Syndrome where the film received a new 1080p high-definition transfer taken from a 2K scan of the original 35mm interpositive which had been restored. While there were a few minor dust marks and specs, this was a good looking picture, colors appear natural looking without seeming oversaturated and detail was relatively sharp with minimal softness in some respects.
The included DTS-HD Master Audio Stereo track is better than I expected from a low budget film from the early 90s. While the sound design is hardly fantastic, it still was fairly impressive showing off good dialogue levels and some okay depth during the creature attack scenes.
OVERALL – 3.25/5
Overall, There's Nothing Out There isn't great B-movie horror or anything yet there is a fun element to these independently made films where there is a lot of passion both in front of and behind the camera. This new Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome offers up impressive video/audio transfers and a good array of bonus features.
Check out some more 1080p screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers.
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 World Championship season consists of a series of races, known as , held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. Drivers are awarded points based on their position at the end of each race, and the driver who accumulates the most points over each calendar year is crowned that year's World Champion. At each Grand Prix, the driver who completes the quickest lap of the circuit is said to have completed the fastest lap. The driver who set the fastest lap in a Grand Prix was awarded a point from the 1950 season to 1959. This was reintroduced in the 2019 season. As of the , 136 different drivers have set a fastest lap in a Formula One Grand Prix.

Michael Schumacher holds the record for the highest total of fastest laps with 77. Lewis Hamilton is second with , while Kimi Räikkönen is third with 46. Gerhard Berger has the most fastest laps among non-world champions, with 21. Alberto Ascari holds the record for the most consecutive fastest laps, with seven from the  to the . Schumacher and Räikkönen hold the record for the most fastest laps in one season with 10. Schumacher achieved this during the 2004 season, Räikkönen matched this in the 2005 and 2008 seasons.

The first fastest lap, at the , was set by Giuseppe Farina. The most recent driver to set their first fastest lap is Zhou Guanyu, who achieved this at the . Max Verstappen is the youngest driver to set a fastest lap; he was 19 years and 44 days old when he set the fastest lap at the . Juan Manuel Fangio was the oldest driver to set a fastest lap; he was 46 years old when he set the fastest lap at the . No fastest lap was officially classified for the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Since 2007, the driver with the most fastest laps in a season is awarded the DHL Fastest Lap Award. The inaugural award was won by Räikkönen.

By driver

By nationality

Most fastest laps per season

 Season still in progress.

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links
 Formula One official website
 FIA official website
 StatsF1 – Formula 1 statistics

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Q: Bliffoscope Data Analysis solution using javascript I want to solve Bliffoscope Data Analysis Problem using javascript. I have following question.
This is SlimeTorpedo
       +
       +
      +++
    +++++++
    ++   ++
   ++  +  ++
   ++ +++ ++
   ++  +  ++
    ++   ++
    +++++++
      +++

This is TestData
              + +    +              ++           +       +++    +     +
 +  ++     +   + ++++    + +       +         +          +  +   +++     +++ +
     +            + +   ++      ++  ++    + ++       +     +      +  +   +
+   ++      +  ++       +          + +       ++        ++  +           +
 ++++++ + +    +   ++  +  +   +   +  ++      +         +                     +
  + +   +      +               +      ++     +  ++            +   +    + +
+++   + ++   +  +            +  +++       + +       ++                     +
  +++++  +      +                            +  + +            +   +  +
 +   +   +              +    +      +            +  +   +      +    +     +
 ++    +              +     +       ++   +          +       +           ++

There is one question already similar to this but in Java. This question is asked here.
How can I solve this in JavaScript.
UPDATE
I tried following solution.
    const fs = require('fs');

    let torpedo = [], starship = [], testData = [];
        // counter = -1;

    function getTorpedoData(fileName, type) {
        let counter = -1;

        return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
            fs.readFile(fileName,'utf8', (err, data) => {

                if (err) {
                    reject();
                } else {
                    for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                        if (data[i] == '\n' || counter === -1) {
                            torpedo.push([]);
                            counter++;
                        } else {
                            torpedo[counter].push(data[i]);
                        }
                    }
                }

                console.log(data);

                resolve();
            });
        });
    }

    function getTestData(fileName, type) {
        let counter = -1;

        return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
            fs.readFile(fileName,'utf8', (err, data) => {

                if (err) {
                    reject();
                } else {
                    for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
                        if (data[i] == '\n' || counter === -1) {
                            testData.push([]);
                            counter++;
                        } else {
                            testData[counter].push(data[i]);
                        }
                    }
                }

                console.log(data);

                resolve();
            });
        });
    }

    let score = 0;

    getTorpedoData('./SlimeTorpedo.blf', 'torpedo').then((data) => {
        getTestData('./TestData.blf', 'testData').then(() => {
            torpedo.forEach((torpedoArray, torpedoIndex) => {
                torpedoArray.filter((contents) => {
                    if (contents === '+') {
                        testData.forEach((testDataArray) => {
                            testDataArray.filter((dataContents, dataIndex) => {
                                // console.log(dataContents);
                                if (dataContents === '+') {
                                    if (torpedoIndex === dataIndex) {
                                        score++;
                                    }
    //                              console.log(score);
                                }
                            });
                        });
                    }
                });
            });
        });
    });

I creating 3 arrays torpedo, starship and testData. I read all these files and put them in multidimensional array(above). Then I am trying to find compare the indexes if torpedo array in testData array. However, there is something I am doing wrong. How can I fix it?
[Edit by Spektre]
Test results for test data (both this and the one from @greybeard link):

Red mean mismatch and Yellow mean match. Score is incremented for match and decremented for mismatch. x counts from zero to rightwards and y counts from zero downwards but your data was enlarged by empty line so you can count from 1 instead ...

A: Are you looking for something like this (Fiddle)?

    // Create our images: torpedo (object) and background (context)

var object = "    +\n    +\n   +++\n +++++++\n ++   ++\n++  +  ++\n++ +++ ++\n++  +  ++\n ++   ++\n +++++++\n   +++",
    context = "              + +    +              ++           +       +++    +     +\n +  ++     +   + ++++    + +       +         +          +  +   +++     +++ +\n     +            + +   ++      ++  ++    + ++       +     +      +  +   +\n+   ++      +  ++       +          + +       ++        ++  +           +\n ++++++ + +    +   ++  +  +   +   +  ++      +         +                     +\n  + +   +      +               +      ++     +  ++            +   +    + +\n+++   + ++   +  +            +  +++       + +       ++                     +\n  +++++  +      +                            +  + +            +   +  +\n +   +   +              +    +      +            +  +   +      +    +     +\n ++    +              +     +       ++   +          +       +           ++ ";

    var c = document.getElementById("test_canvas"),
        ctx = c.getContext("2d"),
        scale = 10;

// Draw a pixel on canvas
function draw_pixel(x, y, fill_style) {
    ctx.fillStyle = fill_style;
    ctx.fillRect(x * scale, y * scale, scale, scale);
}

// Receive an array of coordinates, draw pixels
function draw_image(serialized_image, fill_style) {
    for (var i = 0, len = serialized_image.length; i < len; i++) {
        draw_pixel(serialized_image[i][0], serialized_image[i][1], fill_style);
    }
}

// Receive a text string, turn it into an array of coordinates of filled in pixels
function serialize_map(char_map) {
    var x = 0,
        y = 0,
        c,
        map = [];
    for (var i = 0, len = char_map.length; i < len; i++) {
        c = char_map[i];
        if (c == '+') {
            map.push([x, y])
        }
        x += 1;
        if (c == '\n') {
            x = 0;
            y += 1;
        }
    }
    return map;
}

// Find number of intersections between two images
function array_intersect() {
    var a, d, b, e, h = [],
        f = {},
        g;
    g = arguments.length - 1;
    b = arguments[0].length;
    for (a = d = 0; a <= g; a++) {
        e = arguments[a].length, e < b && (d = a, b = e);
    }
    for (a = 0; a <= g; a++) {
        e = a === d ? 0 : a || d;
        b = arguments[e].length;
        for (var l = 0; l < b; l++) {
            var k = arguments[e][l];
            f[k] === a - 1 ? a === g ? (h.push(k), f[k] = 0) : f[k] = a : 0 === a && (f[k] = 0);
        }
    }
    return h;
}

// Translate the coordinates of a serialized image
function translate(coords, ix, iy) {
    return [coords[0] + ix, coords[1] + iy];
}

// Find in which position the object has more intersections with the background
function get_best_position(context, object) {

    // Calculate image dimensions
    context_width = context.sort(function(a, b) {
        return b[0] - a[0];
    })[0][0];
    context_height = context.sort(function(a, b) {
        return b[1] - a[1];
    })[0][1];
    object_width = object.sort(function(a, b) {
        return b[0] - a[0];
    })[0][0];
    object_height = object.sort(function(a, b) {
        return b[1] - a[1];
    })[0][1];

    // Swipe context, store amount of matches for each patch position
    similaritudes = [];
    for (var cx = 0; cx < context_width; cx++) {
        for (var cy = 0; cy < context_height; cy++) {
            translated_object = object.map(function(coords) {
                return translate(coords, cx, cy);
            })
            intersection = array_intersect(context, translated_object);
            // console.log(translated_object);
            similaritudes[intersection.length] = [cx, cy];

        }
    }
    // Return position for which number of matches was greater
    return similaritudes.slice(-1)[0];
}

// Parse our images from the text strings
var serialized_context = serialize_map(context);
var serialized_object = serialize_map(object);

// Find best position for our torpedo
var best_position = get_best_position(serialized_context, serialized_object);

// Translate torpedo to best position
positioned_object = serialized_object.map(function(coords) {
    return translate(coords, best_position[0], best_position[1]);
});

// Draw background and torpedo
draw_image(serialized_context, "gray");
draw_image(positioned_object, "rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.5)");
<canvas id="test_canvas" width="800" height="120" style="border:1px solid #000000;">
</canvas>


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