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Olympic Medals: The Real Gold, Silver & Bronze Medal Count
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As Rio 2016 begins, here's the Olympics' real gold, silver and bronze medal count at current prices...
The RIO OLYMPICS are just around the corner and, as we wait to see how our home nations fare in summer 2016, we began thinking about the value of the medals awarded to first, second and third place winners.
It's no surprise that the USA, of all the nations competing in the modern games, has won the greatest number of Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals – a staggering 2,403 medals to date from the summer Olympics.
That's just under 1,000 more than the second placed Russia & USSR combined.
But what is America's pile of gold, silver and bronze medals worth in monetary value? Our latest infographic looks at the bullion value of each nation's summer Olympics medals.
You can't simply count the total, find their weight, and multiply by the current live price however.
Rio 2016's medals, for instance, are the largest ever awarded at the modern games. Measuring 8.5 centimetres in diameter, with an edge 6 millimetres deep rising in a slight dome to 11mm in the middle, the gold would weigh almost 1 kilogram if the Brazilian Mint made it from solid gold, and be worth $39,812 at current bullion prices (£30,161).
But instead, the Casa da Moeda's half-kilo mix of silver (91.4%), copper (7.4%) and a little gold (1.2%, some 6 grams) would set you back $546 (£413) in the wholesale metal markets right now.
Indeed, when it comes to gold medals, only two of the 27 summer sporting events since the ancient Greek games were revived have given each winner a prize of that most precious metal.
The first modern games, held in Athens in 1896, didn't give gold at all to first place, but awarded a silver medal instead (plus an olive wreath), with second-place runners up receiving a copper-based bronze medallion.
The next games, Paris 1900, set the trend for gilding silver with gold to award as first prize. Only the next two games, St.Louis 1904 and London 1908, awarded a true gold medal to Olympic winners.
Since then Olympic gold medals have in fact been mostly silver – gilded with a layer of gold – while silver medals also typically contain a small quantity of copper to help harden them, too. And while the metallic composition has changed a little across the years, the size and shape of Olympic medals has varied widely.
Typically round, medals at Paris 1900 were instead rectangular, and Stockholm 1912 prizes were oval. The thinnest medals were awarded in Stockholm in 1956 (where just the equestrian events took place, while the other games were hosted on the other side of the world in Melbourne), measuring just 2.5 millimetres in depth. The fattest were awarded in Barcelona in 1992, with a depth of almost 1 centimetre.
London has awarded both the largest medals (8.5cm in 2012) and the smallest (3.5cm in 1908) so far. The UK's tight-fistedness of 108 years ago is understandable, as London 1908 was one of only two modern Olympics to award a genuine gold medal to first-place winners. Weighing 72 grams (2.3 Troy ounces) its metal content would be worth $2,947 at 2016 prices (£1,988).
London 2012's super-size medals also made them the heaviest-ever summer Olympic medals prior to Rio 2016. Cast by the Royal Mint, they gave first-place winners 412 grams of gilt silver!
Although Rio 2016's gold medal is heavier at half-a-kilo, that still makes London 2012 the most expensive first place of recent times. Because when it was awarded, both gold and silver bullion were trading higher than they cost today, making the bullion content worth $651 at the time (then £420) – a record in real terms in recent games.
There aren't any reliable, comprehensive data available for the exact metallic composition of more than a handful of the different medals designed, cast and awarded at the 27 games held since the modern Olympics began 120 years ago.
So in BullionVault's infographic below, for each medal haul outside those two solid-gold years of 1904 and 1908, we've applied the composition used for the gold, silver and bronze medals awarded at London 2012.
• Gold medals are 1.34% gold, 92.5% silver, and 6.16% copper;
• Silver medals are 92.5% silver and 7.5% copper;
• Bronze medals are 97% copper, 2.5% zinc and 0.5% tin.
Being far more silver than gold means that overall, the total value of medals awarded in the modern games is still worth a whopping $2,488,801 at current metal prices (£1,675,957). Using the same calculations says the United States has a total medal haul worth $620,588 (£418,201).
Take a look below to see how much your nation has earned on the podium!
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Former nudist resort owner leads screenwriters group
Denise Goolsby
Rancho Mirage resident Ray Lovato is a man of many talents and interests -- a knowledgeable sportsman who played hockey while growing up on the mean streets of Chicago, a hotelier and businessman, a writer and published author.
A friend of mine, he graduated from St. Xavier University in Chicago with a bachelor's of arts degree in English and a minor in film studies, but it's only been in the past few months that the recently-retired Renaissance man has had the opportunity to pursue his passion and work full-time on a fantasy screenplay he conceived a dozen years ago: "The Last Dream Hunter."
Lovato, who doesn't do anything halfway, immediately immersed himself in the local literary community and is now serving as president of the Desert Screenwriters Group -- an organization open to professional and aspiring screenwriters.
On Saturday, the screenwriters' group is hosting a free-to-the-public workshop, "Hollywood Rules. How the System Works. How to Beat it and Sell Your Work in Hollywood." The event will feature DSG's creative director and New York Times bestselling author Andrew Kaplan, who recently moved to Palm Springs.
Kaplan is the author of two bestselling spy thriller book series' "Scorpion" and "Homeland," based on the hit TV series. "Homeland: Saul's Game," won the 2015 Scribe Award for the Best Original Media Tie-In Novel of the Year. The entertainment trade magazine "Variety" asked Kaplan to participate in this year's "Writers on Writers" feature, in which he reviewed Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies."
Kaplan has been kind enough to critique the work of DSG members, including Lovato's, "The Last Dream Hunter."
"Andrew loved the title, and after he read the first 12 pages, he tore me a new (one). He just said, 'What have I been telling you, Ray? Show me what you're doing, don't tell me what you're doing.' I said, 'I've been having problems with this opening for the last 12 years.' He said there's too much exposition – too many talking heads. Within five minutes, he switched it to a camera going around the room showing photos in a guy's office, no dialogue, no sound, did everything that I did in three pages in one paragraph."
Pulp fiction, Doc Atlas
Lovato, who's the author or co-author of seven published books, dove into the pulp fiction genre in 1986 while on a long plane ride. This was where his hero – the altruistic Doc Atlas – a globetrotting soldier of fortune – was conceived.
"I was on an airplane trip from Chicago to St. Maarten. Eight-and-a-half hours nonstop and I could not sleep, I could not get comfortable, so I dragged out my notepad and my pen, because this was pre-computers, and I wrote the entire history of his life, the characters he intermingles with. … I did the entire Bible for Doc Atlas and the history of when he was born – and when he dies. There's a finite date to my hero."
How'd he come up with the name Doc Atlas?
"I've always been enamored with Atlas holding the world on his shoulders. It's homage to Doc Savage, who was a 1930s pulp character.
"Whereas most of your heroes like the Shadow and the Whisperer and the Black Bat were in the 1930s, I moved him back into the '40s and into the early '50s so he could fight the end of the Nazis and the beginning of the Soviets," Lovato said.
His co-writer is childhood friend Michael A. Black of Chicago.
Lovato explained the long-distance writing process.
"I write in red, he writes in blue and then we merge the two together. ... Once he decides he likes it the way it is, he changes the color to black."
"He'll give me a chapter to write, I'll give him a chapter to write and the funny thing is, when we're done and we read it months, years later, we'll congratulate each other – 'I remember that part you wrote in the story, that was so good,' and he said, 'I didn't write that part, you did.' I'm like, 'no, I didn't write that part.' We cannot tell after all these years who wrote what, because I've adapted my style to his."
Meeting Lovato
I first met Lovato in 1997 during a Palm Springs Hotel and Hospitality Association (now Palm Springs Hotel Association) luncheon at the Hilton Palm Springs. Lovato was president of the group – he and his wife Sue were co-owners of the Desert Shadows Inn Resort & Villas, a nudist resort in Palm Springs – and I had just moved to town from the Los Angeles area to run the Bee Charmer Inn, a small, boutique hotel on Palm Canyon Drive.
My partner had passed away in 1996, at the age of 49, after a five-month battle with pancreatic cancer, and I decided to leave another full-time job, make the desert my permanent home and operate the hotel full-time. Lovato quickly befriended me and warmly welcomed this tourism novice to the group. By the end of the year, I was on the board and, two years later, I was president – thanks to Lovato's support, encouragement and faith.
I served on an otherwise all-male board with tourism industry leaders that included Hilton Palm Springs General Manager Aftab Dada. My first meeting was a memorable affair. Just a few minutes into the agenda – the meeting had already gotten a little rowdy – I hauled out my Robert's Rules of Order paperback, pounded it on the table – certainly out of character for me – and firmly stated, "There's too much testosterone in this room!" The guys broke out in laughter and it was (fairly) smooth sailing the rest of my term.
During my years in the tourism world, I attended a few small business lunches at Lovato's resort. The first time I sat down in the restaurant, I wasn't really sure where to look – straight ahead, mostly!
I was the president of the hotel association when Lovato and the other owners of Desert Shadows Inn went before the Palm Springs City Council to request the council's approval of the building of a "naked bridge" – a proposed pedestrian overpass connecting the resort's main property with condominiums across Indian Canyon.
In 2008, after a change of ownership – long after Lavato, Sue and the other co-owners sold Desert Shadows Inn – the destination was renamed, ironically, Desert Sun Resort.
Hollywood Rules. How the System Works. How to Beat it and Sell Your Work to Hollywood
Time: 1 - 4 p.m.
Date: Saturday, Jan. 16
Location: La Quinta Country Club, 77-750 Avenue 50, La Quinta
Cost: The event is free and open to the public
RSVP: Contact Janeil Austin at (760) 861-1134
Join the Desert Screenwriters Group
For more information, call (760) 861-1134, email jka5885966@aol.com or visit desertscreenwritersgroup.com
Doc Atlas
For more information about Ray and Doc Atlas, visit doc-atlas.com

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Plantengemeenschappen
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Droge heide komt overeen met het habitattype droge Europese heide  van de habitatrichtlijn. Wanneer de associatie van struikhei en stekelbrem aanwezig is komt het tevens overeen met het habitattype psammofiele heide met Calluna en Genista en wanneer er kraaihei aanwezig is met het type psammofiele heide met Calluna en Empetrum nigrum.

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This is my second time participating in the game jam, the theme this time was really suitable for the kind of game I enjoy but unfortunately I didn't manage to do everything I had in mind because working on the engine took a lot of the time.
This is an small puzzle/strategy game, the objective in each of the 5 levels is to catch all the floating cubes and bring them back to the glowing "Mother cube".
The units are controlled with the mouse, left click to select and right clicks to give orders, also it is possible to queue actions by holding shift; the camera can be moved with "WASD".
I hope you enjoy this even though it is a bit unfinished right now.
Damn, the anti-cube team was harsh !
Really fun game. Love the graphics.
Control needs refining, innteresting concept though!
Nice concept. Might be good to have fleshed out a bit more.
The controls were a little bit difficult to use, selecting the guys was kind of hard and one of my guys got stuck on a ramp. :0 It was really cool though! I liked the sounds in the game and the graphics looked pretty nice, also making the mother cube grow just felt satisfying. It was fun, great job!
I really like this game! I love 2.5D, RTS-style games. :) I would LOVE to see a bigger version of this game. I'd probably lose hours to it. Good work!
The controls were off, but the concept is nice. The game was a bit tedious, like the first level. It could be a tad shorter. The progressive addition of level feature is good thought. The AI was bugged, the anti-cube guys picked cubes then stoped moving for the rest of the level. You built a nice RTS engine there.
The controls weren't great and the game felt a bit slow, but it was still fairly fun.
Controls could use a bit of work... game feel is a little bit lacking right now (I think it's because of this). All in all a very interesting concept. Well done!
Controls were a bit finicky, not all my move orders seemed to be followed. Levels were probably a bit larger than they needed to be, which made it a bit tedious without any nice sound or other effects to distract me. However the concept is solid, and it was pretty nice overall!
Interesting concept. I liked that it was isometric--don't see many iso games in LD. It has a good progression in terms of difficulty and new mechanics.
It took me a while to get the hang of what I had to do, but I found it quite enjoyable after I did.
The graphics are simple and cute, and the gameplay was quite addicting!
Didn't completely get how is the mother cube growing, but this game looks promising. Too bad you didn't finish it.


On Saturday our main room colors house music and beyond with Hunee and Call Super, two international masters of the craft. They will be backed up by our resident Chris Ferreira, who is performing an extensive warm-up session to set the room to the perfect temperature. We had a chat with Chris about his dj ethics, vinyl records and long preparation sessions at home.


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Omeno W. Suji is the current Managing Partner at Beryl Consult Limited. Mr. Suji holds a Master's of Arts degree in Development Communication and an undergraduate (Bachelor of Science – cum laude) degree in Education and Business Administration. His training and work in business, humanitarian and development environments has equipped him with unrivalled skills for seeing things through different lenses. He is a published expert in the use of participatory impact assessment (PIA) and other participatory methodologies. Suji has extensive experience in institutional strengthening and data collection using these methodologies with Suji has worked in the ASAL counties of Kenya in various capacities for over 10 years – monitoring and implementing humanitarian and development projects in all the ASAL counties. He served as a project implementer under the Refugee Assistance Programme in Dadaab Kenya, and as an evaluation expert under the defunct Regional Learning and Advocacy Project (REGLAP) a position that exposed him to development challenges facing ASAL communities of Horn of Africa region. He has worked with various ASAL institutions and was a member of the team that developed the EDE framework. He also served as a collaborative learning and adaptation expert for the USAID-funded Resilience Learning Project working in the Horn of Africa region providing not just actual learning environments for NGOs and CBOs working in the region but also undertaking various monitoring and evaluation missions in the region. He was part of a team of consultants undertaking a mid-term review of IGAD Drought and Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI). Suji sits in various NGO and community organization boards including being former chairman of Kids Alive Kenya (KAK), former chair of the Global Board of Daystar University Alumni Association, Secretary of the Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative (DLCI) Board, chairman Connecting Business and Marketplace to Christ (CBMC-Kenya), among others. Suji also runs personal businesses in agricultural and livestock production.
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266 YEARS OF ENDURING HISTORY
Since 1755, watchmaking excellence has been a perpetual quest. But beyond this great history, there are many stories that are worth being uncovered and revealed.
THE VERY FIRST MOMENT
24-year-old master watchmaker, Jean-Marc Vacheron, signs on his first apprentice, thus founding a business by making clear his intention to hand down his skills. This contract can therefore be regarded as Vacheron Constantin's birth certificate, making it the oldest watch manufacturer in continuous operation since it was founded.
THE EARLIEST POCKET-WATCH MADE BY JEAN-MARC VACHERON
The pride of Vacheron Constantin's heritage, this silver watch signed J. M: Vacheron A GENEVE on the movement is the only timepiece known that identifies the company's founder by his first name. Fitted with a verge escapement, it features finely crafted hands in gold. The balance cock, the most visible part of the movement, also demonstrates high-grade workmanship in delicate arabesques. This two-fold technical and aesthetic standard was to gradually forge the identity of the Maison.
THE SUCCESSOR: ABRAHAM VACHERON
In 1785, Jean-Marc Vacheron's son, Abraham (1760-1843), takes over the workshops. He managed to keep the enterprise going despite the troubles following the French Revolution and the occupation of Geneva by the troops of the French Directory. Following the lead given by his father, he taught the watchmaker's trade to his son, Jacques Barthélémi Vacheron.
THE NEW ERA OF JEAN-MARC VACHERON'S GRANDSON
Jean-Marc Vacheron's grandson, Jacques Barthélémi Vacheron (1787-1864), assumes the management of the family enterprise.
The company produces more complicated timepieces, such as musical watches with two different tunes. Jacques Barthélémi Vacheron oversees the first exports of his products to France and Italy.
MASTERING COMPLICATIONS EARLY ON
A horological complication is an additional function in a watch aside from the indication of the hours and minutes. This quarter repeater watch with enamel dial, guilloché and engraved case back from the Vacheron Constantin collection is representative of the early watchmaking technical mastering of the Maison.
THE ENCOUNTER WITH FRANÇOIS CONSTANTIN
The partnership between Jacques Barthélémi Vacheron (1787-1864), grandson of the founder, and experienced businessman, François Constantin (1788-1854), gives the company a new name — Vacheron et Constantin.
EARLY WATCHMAKING CRAFTSMANSHIP
This yellow gold pocket watch is subtly decorated with a map of Italy, engraved and enameled using the champlevé technique. Its entirely guilloché silvery dial is decorated with 12 enameled Roman numerals arranged in an hour circle. The small seconds guilloché subdial also features an astonishingly modern checkerboard pattern. The attention to detail and perfection in the craftsmanship are characteristic of the Genevan decorative tradition.
THE ORIGINAL LADY'S WRISTWATCH
This lady's watch is one of the first series-produced wristwatches. Its advent caused quite a stir, because until the early 20th century the pocket-watch had no rivals. The watch is held by a delicately engraved and finely worked mounting on a magnificent bracelet featuring two winged goddesses, while the dial is encircled with a setting of diamonds. Because a winding crown would intrude on the balanced design, the company developed an ingenious device to set the time by turning the bezel.
THE FIRST BOUTIQUE OPENS ITS DOORS
During the first years of the 20th century, Vacheron Constantin was getting orders from the likes of Queen Mary of Romania, the brothers Henry and William James and Prince Napoleon, the grandson of Jerome Bonaparte.
In order to display its luxury watches in appropriate surroundings, Vacheron Constantin inaugurated its first shop on August 1, 1906 on the ground floor of the island building. Clients were previously welcomed in the salons on the upper floors.
THE ROYAL CHRONOMETER POCKET-WATCH
In 1907, the Maison presents its first Royal Chronometer and has the name of the model registered. This pocket-chronometer, which was unlike any other watch produced at that time, soon became an international hit. Its legendary toughness, reliability and accuracy were much appreciated by owners in harsh climates hitherto considered detrimental to the proper functioning of a watch.
THE CREATIVE SPIRIT TO CONQUER THE AMERICAN MARKET
The cushion-shape design has been part of the Vacheron Constantin portfolio since the late 1910s. In the Roaring Twenties, pocket watches were still dominating the trends. Wearing this type of wristwatch was a strong sign of modernity that enjoyed great success among the American clientele. This rare model is made unusual by the position of the crown at 1 o'clock. It was produced for left and right-handed people for a short period of 10 years. The early wristwatch movements were based on pendant watch movement constructions. Referenced under caliber 11''' ART, they were finished using classical pocket watch finishes such as gilt bridges and main plates. Within these calibers, a special finishing was reserved for the American market, which was known for its demanding customers. The variations were caliber 11'''62 and 11'''78, which were equipped with an extra ruby. Their bridges and mainplates were usually made in German Silver alloy, which naturally protected them against corrosion.
THE FIRST WORLD TIME WATCH WITH 31 TIME ZONES
In 1932, Vacheron Constantin's collaboration with Louis Cottier led to the creation of the first watch featuring the Cottier system, the Heure Universelle, reference number 3372. Its unique mechanical movement features 24 time zones by means of a disk that rotates around the central dial and by an outer bezel on which are written the names of 31 major international cities. A new complication that responded perfectly to the evolving means of communication and transport. Ever-present within the Maison's current collections, this complication has undergone multiple developments often linked to the geopolitical situation of different countries.
THE ULTRA-THIN WRISTWATCH
At the occasion of its bicentennial, Vacheron Constantin confirms its commitment to creating the most elegant watches.
The Maison launches the thinnest ever manually wound movement; at 1.64 mm, it is as thin as a Swiss 20 cent coin. The caliber 1003, bearing the Hallmark of Geneva, has become representative of the ultra-thin movements.
THE WRIST CHRONOGRAPH WITH A TACHOMETER SCALE
Featuring magnificent horned lugs, this anti-magnetic and water-resistant case in yellow gold protects a column-wheel chronograph movement with an elapsed-time counter. A shield of soft iron protects the movement from magnetic fields. The dial displays a 30-minute counter at 3 o'clock and small seconds at 9 o'clock. The evolved styling of this watch makes it one of the most handsome chronographs of its era.
THE GREAT ADVENTURE 222
Launched in 1977 as a celebration of the Maison's 222nd anniversary. Its monobloc case on a fitted bracelet features a porthole-style screw-held bezel providing resistance to hard wear in a harsh environment. Thanks to its unique character, this iconic model has become over the past 40 years one of the most recognizable Vacheron Constantin designs, inspiring the other recognizable line, the Overseas collection.
THE SPIRIT OF TRAVEL
1996 marks the birth of the Overseas collection with which Vacheron Constantin embraces the technical and sports side of fine watchmaking. The structural design of this watch with its naturally elegant and clean lines takes up the contemporary theme of travel. The pure styling reflects its mechanical excellence.
THE INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OPEN IN PLAN-LES-OUATES (SWITZERLAND)
On August 9, 2004, Vacheron Constantin takes possession of its new Manufacture in Plan‑les-Ouates.
The contemporary building - designed by the famous architect Bernard Tschumi - in the shape of a stylized Maltese cross cut in half, brings together the management, administration and the workshops under a same roof.
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THE CELEBRATION OF 250 YEARS OF EXCEPTIONAL CRAFTSMANSHIP
To commemorate its quarter millennium, Vacheron Constantin launches a collection of five outstanding creations that pay tribute to all the crafts involved in the Maison art of watchmaking.
At this occasion, the Maison presented a unique mystery clock in a pink-gold sphere engraved by hand which reveals a highly complicated watch and the Tour de l'Île watch, the most complicated watch ever made.
The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève awarded the "Aiguille d'Or" Grand Prize to Vacheron Constantin's Tour de l'Île watch.
THE ULTIMATE REFERENCE 57260 - 260TH ANNIVERSARY
Revealed on September 17th 2015, at the occasion of the 260th anniversary of the Maison, Reference 57260 is the most complicated watch ever made. It was conceived over a period of 8 years and combines a total of 57 complications. Commissioned by a passionate collector, Reference 57260 is part of Les Cabinotiers service, perpetuating our tradition of excellence tailored to individual desires.
The Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Genève awarded the Jury's Prize to Vacheron Constantin's 57260.
THE CELESTIA ASTRONOMICAL GRAND COMPLICATION
Vacheron Constantin introduced Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600, an exceptionally complicated timepiece. Its caliber 3600, a mechanical manual-winding movement comprising 23 complications also includes three distinct times driven by three dedicated gear trains. A three-week power reserve is ensured by six barrels, coupled by threes. A true feat of miniaturisation and engineering, this caliber measuring just 8.7 mm thick includes a total of 514 components. The Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève has awarded the Mechanical Exception Watch Prize to Vacheron Constantin's Les Cabinotiers Celestia Astronomical Grand Complication 3600.
THE RELEASE OF THE FIFTYSIX
Fiftysix, a name and a date evoking an iconic model by Vacheron Constantin dating from 1956. This modern, elegant and relaxed collection with its resolutely cosmopolitan style expresses its personality through the contrast between the classic dial and the daring case. The latter is notably inspired by the Maltese cross-shaped emblem of the Maison that is also picked up on the openworked pink gold oscillating weight.
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Gold's Gym Manifesto: What I Learned in Venice
February 27, 2013 By DH Kiefer 7 Comments
By Monte Spicer
Bodybuilding is dead. The sport is still around, and people still compete, but the atmosphere around the game isn't even close to what it used to be—and it never will be again. When I talk about training atmosphere, my frame of reference from my bodybuilding career is the time I spent at Gold's Gym back in the 1990's when it still really was the Mecca of Bodybuilding. That's where I learned the meaning of good, hard, intelligent training from the absolute best in the business.
Every two weeks or so back then, I'd drive from the San Francisco Bay Area down to Los Angeles to train at Gold's. I'd make the trip south on Friday, train on Saturday and Sunday, go to the Firehouse with the training crowd—and eat a stack of buckwheat pancakes, some yams, and the bodybuilder's breakfast—then drive almost three hours back up north. Sometimes I'd just spend one day there, depending on my schedule. Other times, the crowd would be at Powerhouse in Fullerton—down in Orange County—so I'd go there and we'd do the same things.
The Venice Experience
The first time I ever went to Gold's, the first guy I saw was Vic Richards. If you don't know who he was, search Google for some images. Vic was a giant African guy with 35-inch quads—and I first met him back when guys used to wear tights to the gym. That initial day, he was wearing little white spandex tights, and his legs had veins that looked like water hoses coming right through them.
Training in Venice was like the part of a roller coaster ride where you're still going up, anticipating something amazing. I was excited as hell to be training with the best of the best. Everyone who was anyone in bodybuilding trained there, and this included some all-time greats who, although they weren't competing anymore, still trained hard and dished out advice to anyone who asked.
It's hard to explain the energy level at Gold's to anyone who's never been there. Training next to professionals—and with them—takes everything you do to another level. You'd also see guys who didn't compete at all, but trained harder than the pros, and that would motivate me even more. The best part? People there were friendly. Everyone would leave their ego at the door and put all of their energy into training.
Going into that world brought intensity out of me and made me focus on what was important. That focus came from seeing how the best in the world were training, how they lasered in on what they were doing, and how they prepared to train. These guys didn't talk. They just trained. You could ask them questions, and they'd give you the answers you needed, but training was everything. We had Flex Wheeler, Chris Cormier, and Shawn Ray—and Kevin Levrone would come in from Maryland just to be there. That did nothing but make me work harder.
The overriding factor with these guys was the idea of stimulating muscle to encourage growth—and not just annihilating it. When you train this way, there's no wasted movement. You have to think of your muscles as balloons. With every rep, you're getting oxygen to your muscle fibers and blowing them up. The muscle expands until it feels like it's going to explode. That's how you get your mind and your muscles linked up and in combination.
I learned that you can't accomplish this kind of stimulation just by throwing weights around. Most guys are so concerned about the poundages they're moving that they don't do anything to really encourage the level of stimulation they need. As a result, they never see change, their joints always hurt, and they're always injured. That's the most important thing I learned in Venice—with training, stimulation is everything.
Simulating the Mecca
After spending two days in Venice, the idea was to bring all of this back to the Bay Area with me. It would carry over for a couple of weeks, but I'd eventually have to go back and reharge my batteries at the Mecca. There was no substitute for training alongside the best in the world. The only way I ever came close to reproducing the feel I had in Venice was with the right training partners. You have to have good ones. At Gold's, we used to call them "sparring partners," because that's exactly what a training partner is when you're working hard enough.
To find one of these, you have to hook up with somebody who can push you and motivate you. They have to have something to offer in this regard, because you'll be wasting your time if they don't. They don't necessarily have to compete, either. Some of the best guys I've ever trained with didn't compete, but they had hearts like lions and just loved to train. I trained for years with a national competitor named Raoul Fulcher, and he was the strongest guy I've ever seen in my life. Raoul could squat with five plates on each side for 50 reps—or, he'd lunge with that weight for ten reps, then squat with it for ten, talking shit the entire time he was doing it.
Training with a great partner can't do anything but make you better. Other than Raoul, the only training partner I've ever had who could hang has been my business partner, Tammy Marquez, who's also a successful bodybuilder in her own right. Find the right sparring partner, train in a gym that fits you, and recreate that brand of intensity that's not corporate and watered-down. That's the recipe for success.
Wistful Thinking
I don't really miss competing, but I miss training the way I did in Venice, so that's the environment I've tried to create in my own gym (Kinetic Chain Sport in Pleasanton, CA). I've tried to turn it into a little Venice.
The problem now is that people don't want to train like that anymore. They'll say they do, but they'll go to these commercial gyms just to be seen—that whole, "Look at me! Look what I'm wearing!" culture. Back then, the best guys in the world came to the gym looking like a bag of Skittles. Your clothes didn't even have to match. Now, everybody comes in looking fashionable and smelling good, and they leave looking the same way they did last year. That's not training.
I didn't want to waste my trips down to Venice doing anything stupid, so I'd train the big body parts—my legs and back—while I was there. These workouts were insane—I'm talking about having throw-up buckets and sponges set up next to where we'd lift, because we'd make a point of pushing each other hard enough to need them. One important thing to note is that we usually only trained for 45-60 minutes. That's all you really need, because after that, your intensity and focus will drop.
Going in, we never knew exactly what we'd be doing. We trained instinctively, with the focus on bringing up our weak points and gearing our workouts to our lagging body parts. Most times, we'd figure this out on your own, but occasionally I'd talk to Charles Glass and have him show me how to change my angles and do certain things differently. Charles was a great resource, and he's definitely something very special.
Leg Extensions: 3 sets of 100 reps with 60 pounds.
Prone Hamstring Curls: These were done as a warm-up, just to get some blood into the hamstrings.
Squats: We trained these instinctively, increasing reps and weight to stimulate the muscles for growth.
Close Stance Hack Squats: We did these the same way we did squats—just loading it up and rolling.
The main idea for us here was balance. We wanted a little bit of everything, so no matter what we did, we'd vary the order with every workout. Sometimes we'd start from the top. Other times, we'd start from the bottom and reverse the order, or we'd start in the middle and go down or up.
Pull-ups: Again, we'd be very instinctive here, working all sorts of variations—to the front and back, wide-grip and narrow.
T-Bar Rows: We'd do these for the lower lats, but using quarters, not 45 pound plates. This lets you pull closer to your chest, giving you more of a stretch and more of a squeeze when you come up.
Barbell Bent Rows: Tons of them with various grips.
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BDSM masks in the sex machines museum in Prague. Barbara on Wiki (Creative Commons)
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Sex Machine Museum display. MOs810 on Wiki (Creative Commons)
Antimasturbation Machine MOs810 on Wiki (Creative Commons)
A seesaw-like device in the Sex Machines Museum. David Cadavey on Wiki (Creative Commons)
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An array of genital piercings. David Cadavey on Wiki (Creative Commons)
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Near the Old Town Square, if one is "into" such a thing, there lies a museum full of sexy devices and contraptions all designed to make sexual pleasure a little more mechanical.
Perhaps that description makes the objects displayed in this erotic collection sound a little impersonal, but no worries—if a contraption in the collection is hard to wrap your brain around, the museum has been kind enough to wrap a flexible dummy around it to further demonstrate its use. Opening its doors in 2002 it is, to date, the only museum in the world dedicated to sex machines and sex machines exclusively.
The museum has hundreds of sexytime contraptions, spread out over three floors of space. Alongside the copulation tables, iron corsets and assorted stimulation doodads, you will find a smattering of sex-related artifacts, some dating back as far as the early 16th century. There are also shoes worn by ancient Greek prostitutes, human sexuality photos, an unsettlingly large erotic apparatus from a German women's prison created to placate "fervent feelings" of the inmates, and some of the earliest pornos ever filmed.
The museum was popular from the get-go, but city officials found it "disagreeable." Unsurprisingly, this made it all the more appealing, especially among tourists from more sexually-repressed locations.
The museum is open everyday between 10am to 7pm.
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Prague Astronomical Clock
Prague Meridian
'Il Commendatore' ('Cloak of Conscience')
Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.
The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Paternoster Lift
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Cercado de Lima, Peru
Larco Museum's Erotic Art
The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.
Erotic Heritage Museum
Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.
Barcelona Erotic Museum
An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.
World Erotic Art Museum
12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.
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1. Chemoinformatics and information management Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK
2. Overview • What is chemoinformatics and why is it necessary • Managing structural information • Typical facilities in chemoinformatics software • Examples of current research
3. Drug discovery: I • Drug discovery is a vastly complex, multi-disciplinary task that can extend over two decades • The total cost for the discovery and development of a novel therapeutic agent is now ca. $1.5B • Even so, only about 1 in 3 cover the R&D costs • But when they can do the pay-offs can be massive: Lipitor in 2006 made $12.5B (cf MS Windows and Boeing 747) • Patent cover is 20 years from initial announcement • Time is money so need to find potential drugs (and to reject non- drugs) much faster (and similarly for agrochemicals)
4. Drug discovery: II • Chemoinformatics is one way of increasing the cost effectiveness of drug discovery • Initial work in chemoinformatics as early as the Sixties: current interest because of developments in • Combinatorial chemistry • High throughput screening (HTS) • Change from sequential to massively parallel processing • Resulting explosion in the amounts of data available in drug-discovery programmes, and an increased interest in computational methods • Focus on chemical structure diagram, cf development of other types of -informatics specialisms
5. Definitions • F.K. Brown (1998). Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry, 33, 375-384 • "The use of information technology and management has become a critical part of the drug discovery process. Chemoinformatics is the mixing of those information resources to transform data into information and information into knowledge for the intended purpose of making better decisions faster in the area of drug lead identification and optimization" • G. Paris (August 1999 ACS meeting), quoted by W.A. Warr at http://www.warr.com/warrzone.htm • "Chem(o)informatics is a generic term that encompasses the design, creation, organization, management, retrieval, analysis, dissemination, visualization and use of chemical information" • J. Gasteiger and T. Engels (editors) (2003). Chemoinformatics: a textbook. Wiley-VCH. • "Chemoinformatics is the application of informatics methods to solve chemical problems."
6. Representation of molecules • Need for a machine-readable representation • 1D – computed/experimental global properties • 2D – the chemical structure diagram • 3D – atomic coordinate data • 1D representations handled using conventional DBMS software • Need to manipulate 2D and 3D data
7. Connection tables 9 1 C 2 2 6 1 7 1 O 2 C 1 2 3 1 2 3 C 2 1 4 2 1 3 4 C 3 2 5 1 7 8 5 C 4 1 6 2 4 6 C 1 1 5 2 6 7 C 1 1 8 1 9 2 5 8 C 7 1 9 O 7 2 • An unambiguous representation of a 2D chemical structure diagram • A connection table is a graph, the underlying data structure in chemoinformatics
8. Graph theory and chemistry • Graph theory • Branch of mathematics that describes sets of objects, called nodes and the relationships between them, called edges O • A 2D connection table is a graph: Br • Nodes correspond to atoms • Edges correspond to bonds NH 2 • Graph matching algorithms • Search chemical databases • Generation of other representations
9. Types of search • Exact structure search (hashed connection table with graph isomorphism for collision handling) • Substructure search (subgraph isomorphism) • cf partial or boolean matching in text • Similarity searching (maximal common subgraph isomorphism (or simpler)) • cf best match search or web searching • Graph matching algorithms are effective • But time is factorial with the number of nodes • Need for efficient heuristics
10. Fingerprints C O C C C C C C C • A fingerprint (or fragment bit-string) is a binary vector encoding the presence ("1") or absence ("0") of fragment substructures in a molecule • Each bit in the fingerprint represents one molecular fragment. Typical length is ~1000 bits • An approximate representation, but one that can be processed very efficiently and hence often used as a precursor to graph matching
11. Chemoinformatics facilities • Database searching as described previously • Structure and substructure searching originally • Similarity searching from mid-Eighties • 3D substructure searching from mid-Nineties (first rigid then flexible) • Applications • Database clustering • Molecular diversity analysis • Drug-likeness • Virtual screening Ligand-based Structure-based
12. 3D substructure searching • Generation of pharmacophore patterns • Use of MOGA and hyperstructure approaches O a = 8.62+ 0.58 Angstroms - N O b = 7.08+ 0.56 Angstroms - c a c = 3.35+ 0.65 Angstroms O - O O b N O O O S N O N O O O N O N N O O O N N N O O O O P O O N O N N O N O P O O N O O N N O P O O O O O N O O O O
13. Similarity searching using 2D fingerprints Use of data fusion methods to enhance performance, combining information from multiple searches H N O H H H2N N N OH H N N NH2 N N Q uery N N OH H H2N HO N N H N N N N
14. Molecular modelling and QSAR • Use of computational chemistry to obtain the structures and properties of small molecules • Quantum mechanics • Molecular dynamics • Molecular modelling • Statistical correlation of structure (however described) with physical, chemical and biological properties • Initially biological activity (QSAR) • Now pharmacokinetics and toxicity (ADMET)
15. Integration with database searching • Related, but largely separate, research areas for many years • Simple search operations on very large numbers of molecules • Increasingly complex operations on smaller and smaller (normally homogeneous) datasets • Substructural analysis as an early, notable exception • The future lies in the integration of these two approaches, applying more sophisticated methods on larger datasets • Docking now well established • Property calculations at a database level • ADMET
16. General references J. Gasteiger (ed.), Handbook of Chemoinformatics (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2003). W.L. Chen, Chemoinformatics: past, present and future, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 46 (2006) 2230-2255. D.J. Wild and G.D. Wiggins, Challenges for chemoinformatics education in drug discovery, Drug Discovery Today 11 (2006) 436- 439. A.R. Leach and V.J. Gillet, An Introduction to Chemoinformatics (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2nd sedition, 2007). P. Willett, A bibliometric analysis of chemoinformatics, Aslib Proceedings 60 (2008) 4-17.
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Letter From the CEO Jesse Houston
New Games and Beyond: A Multi-Studio Future for Phoenix Labs
People Are the Ends, Not the Means
Six years ago, we established Phoenix Labs with the goal of bringing players together through our collective passion for games. Today we are 140 developers hailing from a wide range of backgrounds. As we've grown, we've had the opportunity to meet and delight millions of gamers worldwide. I speak for all of us at Phoenix Labs when I say thank you for joining us on this journey.
As I reflect on the last six years, I'm grateful for the opportunities we've had, the foundation we've built, and everything we have achieved together. We aspire to bring joy and delight to players for years to come by providing developers with a long term home to create the world's best gaming experiences. Which is why today we have some very exciting news to share about the future of Phoenix Labs.
We are excited to announce our multi-studio vision for Phoenix Labs. In addition to our studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and San Mateo, California, we have established two new teams in Los Angeles and Montréal.
At Phoenix Labs, we believe that people are the ends, not the means, and that great games come from great teams. A pillar of our R&D strategy is to form, empower, and support these teams as they explore game concepts and embark on the ambitious journey of making new games. I am excited to share that the creative process and prototyping are already underway.
In Vancouver and San Mateo we've assembled new R&D teams, many of which have previously worked together on Dauntless and on games at other studios. We are growing teams at both of these studios to expand our overall capabilities and empower each studio's ability to progress on their game projects.
In Los Angeles and Montréal, we've established new studios, each with an experienced founding team led by strong product and studio leaders. Over the years we've built lasting relationships with some of the most talented developers in the world, and we're excited to bring these people (and many more) into the fold at Phoenix Labs.
While these new studios represent a moment of growth for Phoenix Labs, they also enable us to continue living our philosophy of bringing players together through deep multiplayer games — and expand it to bring new games to life.
New Labs, New Faces
Over 15 years ago I had the opportunity to work with some of Ubisoft's most talented teams on Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell. One of my earliest mentors, André Roy, was leading the live team on both titles, and we quickly formed a lasting bond. Now, over 15 years later, I'm excited to call André a teammate again, as one of the founding members and general manager of our Montréal studio. Andre is joined by Marie-Andreé Lavoie, who is leading talent and culture initiatives, and Guillaume Roy, who is serving as the studio's head of technology.
Jing Wang, who joined Phoenix Labs to head up special projects at the studio last year, has more than lived up to her "Jing of all trades" nickname. She has led a variety of projects across company and game initiatives, operating in product, brand, and experience design roles. Based in Los Angeles, Jing brings deep interdisciplinary experience to our new southern California studio as its general manager. She is joined by product director Omar Kendall, who will lead the studio's R&D efforts on a new game project, alongside an experienced team of developers. Previously, Omar led the League of Legends gameplay initiative as well as new IP projects at Riot Games. Prior to that he was the game director on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, and led game design on a number of titles spanning his time at Superbot, THQ, Neversoft, and Midway.
In northern California, Hunter Howe is leading a growing team in San Mateo on a new project. Hunter has served as Phoenix Labs' design director for over three years, guiding teams in shaping Dauntless' gameplay systems, as well as developing experiences such as Escalation hunts. Before joining us, Hunter was a creative director on The Sims franchise at Electronic Arts, where he developed his passion for building games that embrace player expression and creativity.
Our Vancouver studio will continue to be Phoenix Labs' headquarters. As our largest studio, it's positioned to continue development on Dauntless as well as begin prototyping new game efforts. At the helm of Dauntless is Hans Reifenrath, who has been paramount to defining the Dauntless Reforged vision this year. He brings over 20 years of experience in games and live operations, with a focus on growing great teams in companies ranging from small startups to large corporations. His love of multiplayer gaming has taken him from table top games including Magic: The Gathering and Warhammer 40,000, to video games including Bejeweled Blitz for PopCap, and most recently Ghostly Bear Games.
New Game Prototyping Is Already Underway
Today we are excited to announce that we're already working on several new game prototypes. With these prototypes, we are challenging ourselves creatively — exploring a variety of new genres, platforms, playstyles, and communities.
Our approach to R&D is rooted in our values. We believe in transparency, so we've made the R&D process visible to the entire company. Anyone on the team can submit a game idea and become a champion for their pitch. We've seen pitches from designers, artists, programmers, community managers, and more — everyone at the studio has been involved in the process. We chose this approach because we want each developer to feel empowered to be part of our future games.
As we did with Dauntless, we're taking time to iterate, test ideas, and most importantly playtest. We can't wait to share more about these exciting new projects in the future.
Dauntless: Strength In Numbers
With over 25 million players worldwide, we couldn't be more proud of Dauntless and its vibrant community. I remain endlessly thankful for all the community feedback we get on a daily basis.
We're on the verge of launching the biggest content update ever with Dauntless Reforged. It completely reimagines the core gameplay loop and adds significant progression updates and other features. To support all our gameplay initiatives this year, like Escalation, Hunting Grounds, and the Slayer's Path, we grew the core Dauntless team in Vancouver by double.
Again, thank you for joining us on this journey. From everyone at Phoenix Labs, the best is yet to come.
Jesse "GTez" Houston
CEO and Co-Founder - Phoenix Labs
#letter from the ceo
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When visiting South Padre Island don't forget to spend some time in Port Isabel. Located right across the causeway from South Padre Island, this historic coastal community was once the Port and gateway to South Texas. You can still see reminders of the areas historic past in the local museums and the Port Isabel Lighthouse.
The Treasures of the Gulf Museum showcases artifacts and tells the story of the shipwrecks in the area. The Champion Building Museum tells of the rich historical significance of this part of Texas. Best of all, is the Port Isabel Lighthouse. This remains the only lighthouse in Texas that allows visitors to climb to the top. It is also the smallest state park in Texas.
This area is known as Lighthouse Square. It is easy to pass a day around the square shopping at the boutiques, strolling the Faro Mercado, having an ice cream, enjoying local dining and relaxing in the seaside atmosphere.
Port Isabel is also home to the Black Dragon Pirate Ship, which is a great adventure for young and old. Nearby is the fishing pier, Pirates Landing Restaurant, dolphin and fishing cruises.
The Sea Life Center is open for visitors to see local sea life and even pet some in their touch tanks. This non-profit organization provides a great place to learn about the varied species found in our Laguna Madre Bay and Gulf of Mexico.
Other fascinating Port Isabel destinations include their unique cemetery and the intriguing Port Isabel Yacht Club. This restored restaurant and hotel was built during Prohibition and has some wild historic tales to tell!
No South Padre vacation is complete without a visit to this charming seaside town. Plan to spend a day across the bridge too.
With this posting, the first on our new Padre Getaways Blog, we're announcing the launch of our newly designed web site that is both stunningly beautiful as well as super easy to navigate.
You're going to really like what you see here. We've made it easier than ever to search for the type of property you want with the amenities that matter most to you – and then you can book it online! Instantly!
We'd like to invite you to peruse our new site then come back often to stay in touch with our Padre Getaways Blog and the getaway specials we have on our vacation rentals. We hope to see you soon!


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Building Just, Equitable, and Effective Environmental Governance Under Biden
By EDGI Comms December 15, 2020 September 7, 2021 Blog
Contact: For media inquiries, please contact EDGI communications coordinator Shannan Lenke Stoll, ShannanStoll.edgi@gmail.com
When President elect Joe Biden and Vice-President elect Kamala Harris take office on January 20, 2021, they will need to respond quickly to the compounding disasters of the COVID-19 pandemic and the escalating climate crisis, both of which have had a disproportionate impact on communities of color, especially Black and Indigenous communities. The need for bold climate action and for a federal leadership deeply rooted in justice have never been greater. Both will require more effective environmental data and governance systems that put justice and equity at their center.
Over the past four years, the Trump administration has curtailed public access to climate and environmental information and handicapped the country's lead environmental agency responsible for regulating environmental hazards. Nobody has catalogued these attacks more than the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI). The cross disciplinary and primarily volunteer team at EDGI has assessed the damage in white papers, academic articles, technical reports, public comments, blogs, and editorials. Now with the incoming Biden administration, this work is more vital than ever.
Since holding its first data rescue event on December 17, 2016, EDGI has worked as a watchdog to document and analyze changes to environmental governance under the Trump administration. Under Biden, EDGI's work will provide a detailed accounting of the information and systems most in need of restoration and repair. Moving forward, EDGI plans to track progress made to rebuild and democratize federal environmental agencies and federal environmental information.
Just and equitable governance requires more than restoration of what was lost and damaged under Trump. Throughout their campaign, Biden and Harris promised to Build Back Better, and that's what's needed here, too.
EDGI's work has revealed long-standing inadequacies in federal environmental information policies. Many of these were outdated before Trump took office. New tools and major adaptations to federal environmental data infrastructure are necessary to bring federal environmental monitoring up to a modern standard. EDGI will continue to identify ways data can be made more publicly accessible and useful to the communities that need it.
The failure of U.S. federal environmental regulatory systems to hold industry responsible for the environmental harms inflicted on vulnerable groups also existed before Trump took office. EDGI has pioneered the concept of Environmental Data Justice and pushed to ensure that environmental data is made more public and accessible, that the digital face of environmental agencies is more legible and genuinely informative, and that all these as well as agency regulations and enforcement serve a collective benefit that extends to our society's least advantaged. EDGI will continue this work, and its members look forward to pressing the new administration, Congress, and the larger public on how to advance our nation's environmental data, information, and governance systems in ways that are inclusive, democratic, and just.
Members from EDGI's working groups, on the ongoing work of building just, equitable, and effective environmental governance under Biden:
Faith in federal institutions is failing. The last four years have demonstrated gaping holes in information and oversight policies and practices that have allowed unprecedented politicization of environmental management and protection. Through historical commentary, public comments, op-eds and speech annotations, we hope to help members of the public understand the deeper roots and social implications of forms of environmental damage, environmental policy, and environmental rhetoric.
Emily Pawley, member of EDGI's Environmental History Action Collaborative working group
The people most impacted by environmental pollution and climate disasters, most often communities of color, have been doubly impacted by COVID-19. Our new Environmental Enforcement Watch collaborative develops data tools and public workshops that allow the public to generate report cards on the record of compliance with and enforcement of environmental laws. We hope to draw attention to industries' failure to comply with environmental laws and improve EPA enforcement by making data more accessible to impacted communities, journalists, researchers, and regulators.
Sara Wylie, member of EDGI's Environmental Data Justice working group
Failure to modernize environmental data reporting requirements over the last years leaves the public with few reliable tools for accountability; an administration with an interest in accountability in the environmental sector should audit and update rules and recommendations for emissions reporting in order to produce clarity around what permits are and are not being violated. EDGI's data team has been working closely with EPA's ECHO data and will continue to identify ways—and offer open source tools—to make it more accessible and useful to the communities impacted by environmental hazards as well as the legislators responsible for overseeing environmental laws.
Kelsey Breseman, member of EDGI's Data working group
Biden's climate platform and his record on climate issues don't align, and he faces an Executive Branch sorely hobbled by four years of Trump. EDGI will push for rebuilding, fortifying, and democratizing our environmental agencies, while keeping our eye on internal deliberation, transparency, and pursuit of more effective climate policies. We aim to hold the Biden-Harris administration accountable for addressing the climate crisis head on.
Chris Sellers, member of the EDGI's Policy and Interviewing working group
This is a critical moment in the use of mis- and dis-information, made possible by a lack of broad access to reliable and verifiable data and information. We're developing tools, and providing in-depth analyses, to make federal environmental data, information, and deliberation more accessible. The next administration must be held accountable to better democratic processes in environmental decision-making, which pivots on accessible public information.
Gretchen Gehrke, member of EDGI's Website Monitoring working group
The Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) analyzes federal environmental data, websites, institutions, and policy. We seek to improve environmental data stewardship and to promote environmental health and environmental justice.
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Q: Django delete database record when HTML button is clicked I'm trying to create a button located in an HTML table that when clicked will delete a record (article in this case) from the database.  I pass the articles pk like I've done with other links, but I can't figure out how make the deletion happen.  I've searched online and the help files, but I'm new and really need someone to lay it all out for me. What should the URL and View look?
HTML:

URLS (second url):
urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', views.CompanyList.as_view(), name='company_list'),
    url(r'^company/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/$', views.CompanyDetails.as_view(), name='company_details'),
    url(r'^company/(?P<pk>[0-9]+)/remove$', views.CompanyDetails.delete_article(), name='remove_article'),
    url(r'^company/transcript/(?P<transcript_id>[0-9]+)/$', views.TranscriptList.as_view(), name='transcript_details'),
]

VIEW (for this page):
class CompanyDetails(generic.DetailView):
    model = Company
    template_name = 'company_details.html'
    context_object_name = 'articles'

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Articles.objects.filter(company_id=self.kwargs.get('company_id')).order_by('-date')

    def get_context_data(self, **kwargs):
        pk = self.kwargs.get('pk')
        context = super(CompanyDetails, self).get_context_data(**kwargs)
        context['articles'] = Articles.objects.filter(company_id=pk).order_by('-date')
        context['company'] = Company.objects.filter(id=pk)
        context['transcripts'] = Transcripts.objects.filter(company_id=pk)
        return context

    # Here is where I'm struggling...
    def delete_article():
        article = Articles.objects.get(pk='article_pk')
        article.delete()

A: Django has a built in DeleteView, so probably best to use that. Also, for security reasons, you really should use a form so that you can POST to this view. (Which the linked DeleteView provides an example of.)

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Marguerite de France (1158 – , Acre) est reine associée d'Angleterre de 1172 à 1183, puis reine de Hongrie de 1186 à sa mort.

Biographie
Elle est fille de , roi de France, et de Constance de Castille.

En 1158, à la collégiale Saint-Pierre de Neuf-Marché, elle est fiancée à Henri le Jeune, fils du roi  et d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine. Le jeune Henri est l'héritier présomptif d', roi d'Angleterre, duc de Normandie, comte d'Anjou et du Maine.

Le  au Neubourg, après l'obtention d'une dispense accordée par le pape , le mariage des deux jeunes enfants (elle 2 ans, lui 5 ans) est célébré. Cette union rapide est due à la volonté d' d'entrer en possession de la dot de sa belle-fille, le Vexin normand.

Afin d'assurer sa succession,  (1133-1189) fait couronner le jeune Henri (1155-1183) le  à Cantorbéry. Le , dans la cathédrale de Winchester, a lieu un second couronnement, à la demande de , durant lequel Marguerite est couronnée reine d'Angleterre.

De son union avec son mari naît un seul enfant, Guillaume, né et mort en 1177. Après le décès d'Henri le Jeune en 1183, elle se remarie, en 1186, avec  (1148-1196), roi de Hongrie. Celui-ci s'engage dans la troisième croisade, et ils meurent tous les deux en Terre sainte, ne laissant pas de descendant de leur union. Elle fut inhumée dans la cathédrale de Tyr.

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Voir aussi

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Reine consort d'Angleterre du XIIe siècle
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Here's a few I'd love to have a play with!
First up is actually one for Sam rather than me, the Quinny Longboard Stroller would make his day! He has been caught on camera steering our Xplory whilst on his longboard (I've popped a video at the end of the post!) so something built for the job would be perfect! Check out the review on the Mummy Adventure.
Next up are two buggies that I love the look of for seat comfort as much as anything, the Stokke Trailz and the Egg. They both have really supportive cocoon like seats! I also absolutely love the forest green colour that the Egg comes in (I found this on House of Fraser's pushchair selection) as I don't think I've seen a pram this colour before anywhere!
We don't use a two seater pushchair at all at the moment as I tend to carry Arlo and push Athena for longer journeys, or she uses the buggyboard but for full days out in the warmer months I think it would be great for them both to have somewhere to nap and to give me a bit of a breather too! I love Cosatto's funky designs (check out Arlo's waffle highchair) and a drinks holder is always a winner with me!
They've also just released their brand new Air travel system which looks amazing, the seat glides up and down the frame so you can have the perfect height!
The UppaBaby Vista in double mode is another buggy I've admired from afar, partly because of the lovely range of colours it comes in and partly because the 2nd seat is high up rather than scraping on the floor, and the shopping basket is still huge and very accessible in double mode unlike so many other prams!
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I love the look of the egg too. We've got an Uppababy Vista and it is fab for two kids as well as a single. Gabe still fits in the carrycot at six months but prefers to be in the seat if he's awake so we're just debating whether we should buy the rumble seat or if we'd get away with just getting a buggy board.
I love the look of the Egg pushchair. Hubby likes the look of the Quinny longboard stroller. Stokke has always been one of my favourites but always like to try out new prams and pushchairs. It's a slight addiction of mine!


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A producer we deemed one of 2013's Best New Artists on the strength of his Bones in Motion LP for Leaving/Stones Throw, Andrew Morrison (a.k.a. The Cyclist) will return with a new album in November. Set to arrive via Dublin label All City (who released a 12" from Morrison under his Buz Ludzha alias earlier this year), the upcoming Flourish LP will offer seven new outings from The Cyclist. As Juno Plus reports, the label describes the record as "lo-fi but not cheap, D.I.Y but not primitive, dancey but not clubby, 4-4 but not straight," furthermore stating that the LP "may fit into a lot of genres but doesn't fully belong in any."
The Cyclist's next full-length outing is scheduled to drop on November 7; before then, Flourish's artwork and tracklist have been included below.