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Mr P J A Wallington and Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd
30th October 1970, Page 25
Page 25, 30th October 1970 — Mr P J A Wallington and Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd
Keywords : Bell, St Mary-le-bow, Law / Crime
• We recently reported that in the course of the hearing of an application for an operator's licence on behalf of Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd, made before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr D. I. R. Muir, on July 31, 1970, statements were made on behalf of Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd and were confirmed in evidence by Mr Frank Davis, managing director of Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd and of Bow Bells Transport Ltd, that convictions against Bow Bells Transport Ltd in respect of plating and testing offences were the responsibility of Mr P. J. A. Wallington who was employed
as chief engineer of Bow Bells Transport Ltd at the relevant time. It was also reported that Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd had found that Mr Wallington "was not satisfactory by any means." Mr Wallington, who is an Associate of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers and a Student of the Society of Engineers and who is now employed as fleet engineer by E. F. Phillips and Sons Ltd of Mannings Heath Road. Parkstone, Dorset, vigorously denies these allegations and has issued legal proceedings for damages for defamation against Mr F. Davis and Bow Bells Deliveries Ltd.
Organisations: Institute of Road Transport Engineers and a Student, Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Society of Engineers
People: J. A. Wallington, Frank Davis, F. Davis

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require "test_helper"

class DataHygiene::PublishingApiDocumentRepublisherTest < ActiveSupport::TestCase
  test "republishes a model to the Publishing API" do
    case_study = create(:published_case_study)
    presenter  = PublishingApiPresenters.presenter_for(case_study, update_type: "republish")
    WebMock.reset!

    expected_requests = [
      stub_publishing_api_put_content(presenter.content_id, presenter.content.merge(bulk_publishing: true)),
      stub_publishing_api_patch_links(presenter.content_id, links: presenter.links, bulk_publishing: true),
      stub_publishing_api_publish(presenter.content_id, locale: "en", update_type: nil),
    ]

    Sidekiq::Testing.inline! do
      DataHygiene::PublishingApiDocumentRepublisher.new(CaseStudy, NullLogger.instance).perform
    end

    assert_all_requested(expected_requests)
  end

  test "rejects a scope if passed in" do
    assert_raise ArgumentError do
      DataHygiene::PublishingApiDocumentRepublisher.new(CaseStudy.all)
    end
  end

  test "rejects a class that isn't a subclass of Edition" do
    assert_raise ArgumentError do
      DataHygiene::PublishingApiDocumentRepublisher.new(Organisation)
    end
  end

  test "unpublishes if the document is unpublished" do
    document = create(:document, content_id: SecureRandom.uuid)
    edition = create(:unpublished_edition, title: "Unpublished edition", document:)
    unpublishing = edition.unpublishing

    PublishingApiUnpublishingWorker.expects(:new).returns(worker = mock)
    worker.expects(:perform).with(unpublishing.id, true)

    Sidekiq::Testing.inline! do
      DataHygiene::PublishingApiDocumentRepublisher.new(edition.class, NullLogger.instance).perform
    end
  end
end

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On Friday 29 & Saturday 30 September and Sunday October 1, the Institute du Monde Arabe is celebrating 30 years since its opening. And they're hosting quite the party. It's free entry all weekend; the museum and all exhibitions, guided visits, concerts, workshops, Arabic lessons for beginners...plus a huge electro party on the Friday night.
Over the last three decades, the Institut has hosted several major, crowd-pleasing exhibitions, as well as attracting some of the biggest names in the world of Arab music to perform in its plush auditorium. In addition to restaurants, film projections, concerts and language lessons, there's an excellent Middle East bookshop on the ground floor, and the views from the roof terrace (to which access is free) are fabulous.
For the first time, the building's mythical Moucharabieh tiles, installed by architect Jean Nouvel, will be brought to life thanks by light expert Pissenem and the team at Sound System Arabic with Arabian electronic music. Lighting up the entire facade, the IMA will transform into a giant screen - vibrating with colour and sound on each night.
On Saturday 30 September, at 8pm, 8.30pm and 9pm, there'll be 2-hour guided tours to parts of the museum which aren't usually open to the public.
If you've never been, this the best opportunity to go!


Tidywire has just finished a 7 hectare installation job in Langhorne Creek SA. See how Tidywire has adjusted to the aged bow of the vine trunk, whilst keep the foliage wire up off the ground and retained to the vine trellis, thus making midrow management a lot easier for the growing season.
Tidywire™ has just completed an 8 week trial examining the effects 'sheep in the vineyard' have on installed Tidywires. The trial showed zero damage to the installed Tidywires by the sheep as they roamed the vineyard for 2 months feeding on the grass in the midrows.


Carrier, the Dodos' fifth album, is both a reckoning and fresh start. Singer-songwriter Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber have primarily functioned as a duo since 2005, but for an all-too-brief moment the Dodos were a trio. It's in this vibrant, sorrowful, powerfully spare new album that we're afforded a glimpse of what that could have/should have looked like.
After acting as the band's touring guitarist in 2011, Calgary-based musician Chris Reimer (Women) was invited to become the third member of the Dodos. On Feb. 21, 2012, Reimer, who was just 26, died in his sleep. Carrier is both a celebration and tribute to Reimer's life and his musical influence, as well as the sound of a band finding its way out of the darkness. Our full interview with Meric Long will be published on Thursday.
We're streaming Carrier for our Canadian audience a week before its release via Dine Alone Records. The album is available for pre-order on iTunes.
Go to CBCMusic.ca to listen.
Following the dissolution of Women and prior to his tragic death in 2012, guitarist Christopher Reimer quietly joined Dodos– which seemed like an odd, if not impossible, fit. Dodos were a known quantity as an acoustic-and-drums (and loops) two-piece, proving effusive, melodic and spirited in a live setting. Conversely, Women's turbulent post-punk hovered like a cloud bearing acid rain, as Reimer would often stand completely motionless on stage.
Frontman Meric Long claims that Reimer was a huge influence on Dodos' new LP, Carrier, and lead single "Confidence" is proof enough. Rather than Long's typical brassy, open-tuned acoustics, "Confidence" is built on the kind of small, wiry guitar curlicues Reimer would lend to Women's output. It's still every bit a Dodos song in the ways that matter the most, though; the melodies are warm and pleasantly rumpled, drummer Logan Kroeber forgoes mundane timekeeping to push and prod Long and in the second half, the two ditch the relative minimalism to hurtle through a breakneck jam of harmonized guitar leads that can be heard as a tribute to a man whose short time with Dodos truly moved them.
Listen to the track on SoundCloud. Pre-order Carrier (out 8/27/13 [our late grandfather's birthday] on PolyVinyl).
I am looking forward to seeing and hearing Meric and Logan at Sled Island next week, though it will be bittersweet for me. Chris asked me to come to Sled with him the first couple of years of the festival; I never did. Thought I was too busy at work and thought I couldn't afford the plane ticket. This year I've bought a Festival Discovery Plus Pass. Gonna cram in as much Sled as I can. With/without him.
I am sad to hear of Calgary guitarist Chris Reimer's passing. We just shared a stage on the 8th of February this year where he saved my opening set that night lending me a missing power supply and cable, reassuring me that he was, "happy to help". He performed solo electric guitar which shined with beauty; I remember feeling like I was in church or in a spiritual ritual hearing bells of cosmic light that filled my soul. Reimer will probably be best remembered as guitarist for the Calgary band Women but I think this set in particular deserves some introspection and meditation – it shines with beauty.


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Journal Contents: Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship (JMME)
View the Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship (JMME) home page for complete details.
Socially-Responsible Marketing Communications: Concerns, Strategies, and Initiatives (pages 1-17)
Pratap Chandra Mandal (Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, India)
Print Media Management and Ethical Advertising Under Recession: A Content Analysis of Advertising in Two Daily Newspapers in Nigeria (pages 1-11)
Udo Usiere Akpan (Heritage Polytechnic, Nigeria)
Social Media Competitive Analysis and Text Mining: A Facebook Case Study in a Local Television Market (pages 1-17)
Miao Guo (University of Connecticut, USA)
The Impact of e-Supply Chain Management Systems on Procurement Operations and Cost Reduction in the Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry (pages 1-27)
Sherif Barrad (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA), Raul Valverde (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada)
Strategic Business Models in Times of Transformational Change and Crisis: A New Typology for Sustainable Media (pages 28-41)
Nikos Leandros (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece), Lambrini Papadopoulou (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece)
The Development of an Enterprise Realignment Framework for Firms Entering Emerging Markets (pages 42-54)
Rebecca De Coster (Brunel University London, London, UK)
Digital Leadership: A Framework for Successful Leadership in the Digital Age (pages 55-69)
Simon Hensellek (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany)
Entrepreneurship in South Africa: An Empirical Analysis of the Perceived Global, Individual, and Financial Success as an Entrepreneur (pages 70-85)
Graham Bernard Ward (Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa), Chris Adendorff (Alfresco Graphics, Port Elizabeth, South Africa)
Mobile Media Usability: Evaluation of Methods for Adaptation and User Engagement (pages 86-107)
Christian Sonnenberg (Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, USA)
The Video-on-Demand Market in Germany: Dynamics, Market Structure and the (Special) Role of YouTube (pages 108-123)
Nadine Lindstädt-Dreusicke (Pforzheim University, Pforzheim, Germany), Oliver Budzinski (Ilmenau University of Technology, Ilmenau, Germany)
Value Proposition Through Knowledge Sharing and Crowdsourcing: Engaging Users of Social Networking (pages 124-138)
Dimitrios Siakas (Citec, Vaasa, Finland), Kerstin Viola Siakas (International Hellenic University, Thermi, Greece & University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland)
Social Media Influencers' Effect on Chinese Gen Z Consumers: Management and Use of Video Content Platforms (pages 1-18)
Rob Kim Marjerison (Wenzhou-Kean University, China), Songcheng Gan (Wenzhou-Kean University, China)
Hiring the Best Job Applicants?: The Effects of Social Media as an Innovative E-Entrepreneurship Recruitment Method (pages 19-37)
Anthony Lewis (University of South Wales, UK), Brychan Celfyn Thomas (University of South Wales, UK)
Female Entrepreneurship in Business Artisanal SMEs: How Does Neuroeconomics Explain Women's Decision-Making? (pages 38-53)
Jovanna Nathalie Cervantes-Guzmán (Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)
Aristotle's Rhetorical Triangle in Advertising: Its influence to Saudi Arabian Consumers' Behavior (pages 54-71)
Gilbert Macalanda Talaue (Jubail University College, Saudi Arabia)
Social Media Marketing in Trinidad and Tobago: The SME Context (pages 72-83)
Natasha Ramkissoon-Babwah (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago), Shevaughn Darion Racha (The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago)
Inaugural Issue of Journal of Media Management and Entrepreneurship
Editorial Preface
Datis Khajeheian (Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran)
Strategic Media Entrepreneurship: Theory Development and Problematization (pages 1-26)
Sven-Ove Horst (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Paul Clemens Murschetz (Berlin University of Digital Sciences, Berlin, Germany)
Political Economy of Media Entrepreneurship: Commercialization and Commodification in a Digital News Media Enterprise (pages 27-39)
Sreekala Girija (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India)
Media Entrepreneurs and Market Dynamics: Case of Russian Media Markets (pages 40-56)
Dinara Tokbaeva (University of Westminster, London, UK)
Collaborative Social Networks: Effect of User Motivation, Cognition, and Behavior on User Participation (pages 57-72)
Yulin Chen (Tamkang University, New Taipei City, Taiwan)
Social Networking and Its Role in Media Entrepreneurship: Evaluating the Use of Mobile Phones in the Context of Online Shopping – A Review (pages 73-86)
Syed Far Abid Hossain (School of Management, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China)
Communicating With Customers Using Artificial Intelligence: Enhancing the Digital Experience – An Industry Report (pages 87-89)
Aldo van Weezel (Easybots, Santiago, Chile)
Media Corporate Entrepreneurship: Theories and Cases
Weijia Li (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Government Regulation on the Flourishing Network Audio-Visual Entrepreneurship: Experience From the Administration in Beijing (pages 1-13)
Wenqian Xu (Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden), Hongchao Hu (Renmin University of China, Beijing, China)
Online Interactivity and Achieving Business Value Through Digital Media Entrepreneurship (pages 14-30)
James P. Gleason (Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, USA), Paul Clemens Murschetz (Berlin University of Digital Sciences, Berlin, Germany)
Legitimacy of Crowdfunding: How Legitimacy Influences Performance of Crowdfunding Campaigns for Video Games (pages 31-47)
Jiyoung Cha (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA)
An Integrative Perspective of Mobile Advertising for SMEs (pages 48-61)
Hanna Komulainen (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland), Annu Perttunen (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland), Pauliina Ulkuniemi (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland)
How Datafication Drives Legacy Newspapers to Change Their Advertising Model for Business Survival: The Case of elmundo.es (pages 62-74)
Luis Sangil (University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain)


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The connection of twin children often turns out to be something inexplicable. Sisters Gina and Leni have always been together, but the events of the recent past forced them to disperse to different cities. One day, Gina finds out that Leni got lost near the farm where she has to work with horses. Feeling the need to look for her sister, Gina returns to the places of her childhood…
Netflix seems to have a unique intuition for high-rated films, but in the case of the mystery thriller "Echoes", something didn't work out. Critics were unflattering about the season 1, giving low ratings to the script as a whole. Will the producers of the project take risks by planning the continuation of the TV show?
At the moment, there is no information about the work on new episodes, but no one has officially announced the closure of the project either. We continue to follow the news.
Although there was a mental connection between the twin girls, they were completely different people. The militant Gina often brought discord into the family, was ready for adventures and never listened to the opinions of her elders. Leni was simpler — she did not need everyone's attention, because she was calm, creative and needed privacy.
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The girls grew up on a farm for a long time, looked after horses and helped their father build a business. They lost their mother early — an incurable disease took her away. But they had plenty of memories of the days spent with her. They both clearly remembered how mother spoke about their special relationship, which would be incomprehensible to others.
Currently, Gina lives in a luxurious mansion with her lover. She decides to leave after Leni does not get in touch for three days. This is getting weird as even her husband Jack is not answering his calls. It soon turns out that Leni disappeared in broad daylight. The police begin searching for her.
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Gina could not stay away and therefore went to the farm where her relatives lived. After her long departure, her niece, father, older sister and many other people close to her heart remained there. At first, she tries to find out about what happened from the family. It turns out that they didn't know Leni very well — they don't even have an idea where she could have disappeared.
Jack is acting strange, refuting everything she said to her sister in her last video calls. The father and older sister are reluctant to contact Gina. In the past, she did a lot of trouble here, and relatives still hold a grudge against her. The police are disgustingly searching for the girl, and only after a series of threats from her relatives do the detectives find out that Leni is still alive.
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But bad luck — the two closest people to each other start a confrontation. Gina is not ready to make concessions to Leni, and she, in turn, refuses a similar request to her sister. Dozens of people are watching their struggle, but where is the truth? It's all their fault, echoes. Echoes of the things the twins did before Gina left…
Leni — loves horses and caring for them; a few days before her disappearance, she told her sister in a video message that she worked a lot and therefore could not communicate with her often; married to Jack, has a daughter who adores her aunt; Leni shows up a few days later and starts an open feud with his sister — Michelle Monaghan.
Gina — gave her family nothing but trouble, eventually ran away from the farm, got married, built a career in the city; comes to find her sister and at first does not realize what an unpleasant surprise awaits her, because her sister lied to her for a long time; frequently visits the site where Leni posts information about horses — Michelle Monaghan.
Jack — the husband of Leni, the object of constant disputes between the sisters; after the strange behavior of his wife, he took a young governess into the house, which caused indignation among the arrived Gina; does not give details of the disappearance of his wife, although he knows more than the rest — Matt Bomer.
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Matt Bomer is currently at the peak of popularity. This is because he recently came out and spoke about a long-term relationship with his partner Simon Halls, with whom they are raising three children together. The public supported him, and film investors decided to take advantage of the actor's fame.
The showrunner of the TV show "Echoes" was Thomas Glinkowski, creator of the TV series "13 Reasons Why". Together with fellow screenwriters Quinton Peeples and Brian Yorkey, they have been working together on various TV shows since 2016.
One of Michelle Monaghan's most notable performances is Maggie Hart in the TV detective series "True Detective", which earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Echoes Season 2: release date
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It begins with a crush that turns into a romance between a physicist and a third year university student after they met because of a misunderstanding.
Mu Chenghe (Zhang Chao) is getting his PhD in physics at Donghu College. When he was suddenly tasked with proctoring a college-level examination, he mistakenly accuses third-year student Xue Tong (Li Tingting) of cheating. Despite getting on each other's nerves at first, their interactions blossom into a schoolgirl's crush and a mutual attraction.
During her college days, Xue Tong meets three roommates - the icy beauty Zhao Xiaotang (Sun Jialing), the bubbly Bai Lin (Zhang Zhang) and the gentle Song Qiqi (Deng Xin). The four girls with different personalities become lifelong friends. Over the years, there are people that are gone forever and things that can no longer be changed and these days become an exclusive memory.
Filming lasted four months beginning on May 10, 2018 and ending on September 7, 2018.
Filming took place in Wuhan, Beijing, Malaysia and Russia.
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Flying Monsters comes to life
After movies and live sports, documentary programming is getting the 3D treatment. To help finance the uplift in 3D production producers are looking to cinema and IMAX outlets as well as to the small screen, presenting unique challenges on location. Adrian Pennington reports.
Atlantic Productions' Flying Monsters, commissioned by Sky to be a flagship documentary on its 3D channel last Christmas, bagged a number of production firsts. It is claimed as the first film intended for exhibition on an array of formats spanning IMAX 2D and 3D, IMAX Dome; 2D and 3D cinema release and TV. It is the first time an IMAX film has had an on-screen presenter (Sir David Attenborough) and it is the first 3D documentary intended for general cinema release.
The nature of its subject, prehistoric pterosaurs, leant heavily on CGI. Of the 340 shots in the hour long piece, 140 were either CG, stills or post converted elements which needed integrating into live action backgrounds shot in New Mexico, France, Germany, Lyme Regis and the Eden Project.
The multiple deliverables presented the production with some huge challenges, not least having to frame each shot and design the 3D so it worked on both a 100ft IMAX screen and a domestic TV – without the luxury of multiple takes. To cope with the different formats, a pair of Red Mysterium-X cameras were selected, shooting at 4k 16×9. These, along with a digital imaging technician and Element Technica Quasar rig, were supplied by On Sight. The Red RAW data was recorded to cards and checked by the DIT for data integrity
The resolution was of sufficient quality for the largest screens while enabling post production to punch in for a slightly tighter framing for the smaller ones. In addition to the usual 2D crew, two additional people were needed for the 3D – the rig tech to look after the sophisticated 3D hardware and the stereographer who was responsible for designing the stereo.
Ultra prime fixed-length lenses (no zoom) were used to maximise image quality but lens changes required precise realignment taking up to 20 minutes – although this was somewhat ameliorated by needing less cuts in 3D because of the extra information that it conveys. In preparation for this, the script was broken down and storyboarded, specifying every shot size and angle.
"Because wider angle lenses give the best and most engaging 3D we used those even on close-ups rather than switching to longer focal lengths," explains project stereographer and Vision3 founding partner, Chris Parks. "Being forced to work in a more considered way did constrain shooting a little but it actually worked well since we were trying to achieve a focus on the information and the narration rather than on lots of cuts."
Capturing to IMAX dome was particularly extreme with DP Tim Cragg mindful that the image 'loses' the corners of the frame on projection. "Also, if you frame a standard full shot for TV it's likely that the presenter's head will be behind you when projected on IMAX Dome," explains Parks. "To compensate you need to keep the primary subject framed a third to a half way up the screen and take close-ups much wider than you would normally for TV.
"The broad approach was to keep the 3D pretty relaxed when Sir David was on screen in a similar way to how you might use softer lighting when shooting a portrait," he adds. "Sir David was placed slightly further back in the shot than we might otherwise have done so that the audience is concentrating on what he is saying, rather than the stereo effect. For close-up shots of the fossils, we made strong use of the depth to help explain an otherwise relatively flat subject.
"For the CGI, where we had close control over the depth, we pulled more out into theatre space to make the audience feel like they were flying with the 50 million-year-old pterosaurs."
The rushes were prepared in 2D and offlined at Atlantic on Avid. A sequence of 2D selects were delivered back to Onsight where they were prepped into side by side DNxHD 36 files for review on an LG stereo monitor.
With the picture locked, the piece was conformed with the original Red footage in Mistika at On Sight and the final list of CGI instructions handed to Molinare, Zoo, Fido (in Stockholm) and CVFX by VFX supervisor Robin Aristorenas.
Most of the shots were built in full stereo 3D CGI environments but around 20 were post converted by Chris Panton on Shake at Dimenxion in North London. Some were stock footage landscapes to help with the scale of the CG build of the creatures. Others were built from stills provided as additional narrative elements and some were to correct the stereo original, which wasn't useable.
"The 3D went through various technical stages to ensure that the geometry and colour between left and right eye matched," explains post stereographer and co-founder Vision3 Angus Cameron. "It went through a preliminary camera match pass to make sure both 'eyes' looked the same before grading in 2D. We then tested to DCP and reviewed the results from the point of view of a 3D grade. We next performed a 3D ripple grade in which we apply adjustments to the 2D grade particularly adjusting for light loss when projected on a big screen."
Nuke's colour matching tools were used to align both channels before any visual anomolies, such as occasional polarisation, were finessed out. The final stage was the depth grade, a process of adjusting the depth of objects in relation to the screen plane and how that shot relates in terms of continuity and flow to the next.
"Since IMAX audiences are less aware of the edge of the frame than TV viewers we have the ability to push more towards the audience," explains Cameron, who supervised a separate depth grade, and shorter version, for the format. "Because we had a tight turnaround for delivery and were getting VFX quite late in the process it was important in terms of post to be able to jump between grade, conform and stereo fix within the same Mistika system," says Cameron.
The production was also mindful of creating a programme that would stand the test of time. "Currently the quality threshold for 3DTV stereo is generally low," he says. "Audiences aren't used to seeing 3D so they accept this but if they look back on it in 10 years time the effect could look awfully dated and the errors really standout. Since a Sir David Attenborough documentary is timeless we wanted to create a high quality product that you could replay in a decade and not notice the joins."
This month Atlantic begins production in South Georgia on a new documentary about the life of penguins for Sky. Again shot on Reds with Vision3 stereo supervising, the Sir David Attenborough-narrated Penguin Island 3D will be more of a conventional natural history which means that planning can never be perfect.
"With Flying Monsters we had a narrative arc with which we could plan the 3D in advance but with penguins we will have to be flexible to their behaviour," says Parks. "3D should work well with this subject since we can get up close and in amongst them."
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Get the Werewolf Me app and transform yourself into a werewolf!
The game is called Werewolf, and is available at the itunes sore as an app. This game is similar to the game of Werewolf where each player passes the (iphone) around in a circle.
Werewolf, Vampires, and overlords! An online fantasy strategy game.
On the official website for the movie there are a few free werewolf games to play.
Werewolf books: Find out about some books on werewolves! There are a few werewolf books available to buy, which ones are they?
werewolf action figure: This is the werewolf action figure or werewolf toy from the movie The Wolfman.
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Belém is the most Westerly part of Lisbon's riverfront and from here you will see the River Tejo opening up to the ocean. Portuguese set sail from Belém's Padrão dos Descobrimentos in the 15th century on their historical voyages which have come to represent what is known as the Golden Age of Portuguese Discovery. Many buildings are a homage to the river and its blessings to the Portuguese history. Old and new live harmoniously in Belém, with a unique cultural offer in the city. Magnificent Monastery of Jerónimos, the fairytale Tower of Belém, the minimalistic Centro Cultural de Belém, elegant Presidential Palace, are just some finest examples of Belém's architectural masterpieces. The references are also unique in terms of flavor, with the mythic Pasteis de Belém, the oldest factory of this traditional Portuguese custard tarts and a great choice for quality gastronomy such as Portuguese, Japanese of French cuisine.
Originally inhabited by many fisherman and families related to the discoveries endeavour, Belém's population was transformed, through generations, by middle- and upper-class families that choose to live in a more tranquil part of Lisbon. In Belém sits the history of a country that once chose to draw new commercial routes to the world and today a population which enjoys a very good quality of life.


The adsorption of chromium (VI) ions from aqueous solutions has been investigated on crude tamarind fruit shell, HCl treated and Oxalic acid treated shells at room temperatures. The biosorbents are characterized by FT-IR, EDXRF and porosimetry. The biosorption experiments are conducted through batch system. The influence of different experimental parameters such as pH, effect of initial metal ion concentration and effect of dosage of adsorbent on biosorption are evaluated. The adsorption followed first order kinetics. The data are fitted well to Langmuir and Freundlich isotherm models. A comparison is drawn on the extent of biosorption between untreated and treated forms of the tamarind shells. Due to their outstanding adsorption capacities, tamarind shells are excellent sorbents for the removal of chromium ions.


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FCID investigates financial fraud at SLC
The Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) of the Police has commenced investigations against seven individuals over financial fraud said to have taken place at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) since 2010.
The accused include former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage
Filing a fact report before Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris, the FCID informed Court that they had recorded statements from two officials including the financial head of the SLC, in this regard.
Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and JVP Parliamentarian Sunil Handunnetti had earlier lodged a complaint against former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage, former SLC chairman Nishantha Ranatunga and former SLC interim committee members D.S. de Silva, Sujeewa Rajapaksha, Kalinga Indatissa, Asantha Chandana Seneviratne and Prabath Fonseka.
In his complaint, Hadunnetti said COPE had initiated an investigation in this regard and found several financial irregularities, which include the sale of tickets during the 20/20 Word Cup Cricket Tournament in 2012, paying salaries and allowances to the former Sports Minister's private secretary and an allocation of Rs. 20 million to cricket clubs by the former SLC secretary.
Hadunnetti urged the police to investigate the reports that the former SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga had engaged in 17 foreign tours while holding position of secretary of the SLC.
The Additional Magistrate directed the FCID to conduct further investigations into the matter and report to Court on September 26.


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Nigeria: The Dark Side Is Winning
November 2,2008: While northern Somalia is the site of much pirate activity, Nigeria has also suffered a growing number of attacks on its fishing fleet that, so far this year, 64 Nigerian coastal fishing boats have been attacked by pirates. Currently, eight of these fishing boats are being held for ransom. Unlike the oil companies, the fishing boats cannot afford to hire armed guards, and a very vulnerable to attack by seagoing bandits. The dozens of ships that service the offshore oil facilities now have armed guards most of the time. So the pirates go looking for less dangerous prey.
The legislature has established a committee to investigate what happened to the $42 billion that has been spent, in the Niger River delta oil region, over the last eight years, on development projects. Nothing appears to have been developed, and the money is unaccounted for (and presumed embezzled or otherwise diverted.) The usual routine with this sort of thing is for the corrupt officials who stole the money, to use some of it to bribe whoever needs bribing to make sure the investigation goes nowhere.
Corrupt officials have used their power and influence (especially bribes) to largely cripple anti-corruption efforts. Officials who have clearly stolen large amounts of government money are avoiding prosecution. Those that do get convicted, serve only a few years, and some that are getting out, are successfully suing to get some of their seized money (stolen from the government) and property (bought with stolen funds) back. The good government crowd is losing ground. Much of the best political talent in the country goes over to the Dark Side, and uses their skills to steal government money, and hold on to it.
October 29, 2008: The president fired twenty ministers, in an attempt to find officials who could get things done. Most ministries are inefficient, or prone to inaction. Corruption is widespread, and any officials who try to clean things up, is overwhelmed by the larger number of officials who like things as they are.
October 26, 2008: In the Niger delta, navy patrol boats encountered three speedboats full of gunmen. Shooting broke out, and five of the gunmen, who belonged to one of the many gangs in the region, were killed. The police and military armed boat patrols are forcing the gangs to be more cautious, but that's it.
October 25, 2008: Gunmen boarded an oil company support boat, robbed the 17 crew members, and took whatever loot they could carry, and left. A second oil company boat was also attacked, but managed to speed up and escape with only a few bullet holes.
October 24, 2008: In the Niger delta, the government of Rivers state has offered amnesty to several of the larger and better organized of the rebel groups. The rebels responded with a demand that the security forces withdraw from the rural areas the gangs claim as their own, before the amnesty offer will be considered. Thus the amnesty effort appears headed nowhere.
October 20, 2008: Cameroon is sending more soldiers and police to defend its 1,700 kilometer frontier with Nigeria. This is in response to attacks by Nigerian gangs, including one (the NDDSC, or Niger Delta Defense and Security Council) that claims to represent the interests of the 200,000 Nigerians who are being forced to leave the Bakassi peninsula. Cameroon is installing radar along the coast near Nigeria and increasing naval patrols. The new violence comes in the wake of Cameroonian troops moving into the Bakassi peninsula. This is the final part of a two year process of turning Bakassi over to Cameroon. This oil rich area was long controlled by Nigeria, but an international court awarded it to Cameroon. Nigeria began handing it over two years ago, but some Nigerian groups have continued to fight for a return to Nigerian rule. The Nigerian gangs are taking advantage of the less well armed and numerous Cameroon security forces. Most of the inhabitants of Bakassi do not want to become Cameroon citizens and must move to Nigeria. Some of the gangsters from this population of over 200,000 people. Gunmen in speedboats have been clashing regularly with Cameroonian security forces.
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Sony's W570 compact camera is a small and slender point-and-shoot model. The emphasis is on simplicity for those looking for an attractive and easy-to-use model that won't cost them the Earth.
At the Sony Cyber-shot W570's heart is a 16.1-megapixel sensor, supported by a 5x optical zoom that ranges from a 25mm wideangle through to a mid-zoom 125mm equivalent. It's got all the range you'll need for group shots, portraits and zooming in that little further for subjects a little farther away.
A 2.7in LCD screen on the rear shows compositions in real time, including focus area information, and can be used to playback and review still shots and videos captured with the camera. Video files are high definition 720p and captured at 30fps.
iAuto is the W570's main operating mode which is designed to take control of everything including exposure, focus and all other settings. There is little in the way of intervening with taking a shot except for some flash control – the W570's ethos is very much point, compose and shoot.
As with the majority of current Sony cameras there's also a Sweep Panorama mode that can be used to capture panoramas by moving the camera in real time – the camera then stitches together all the shots into one seamless, elongated panoramic image. It's an effective feature that works well.
The Sony Cyber-shot W570 is a slim, attractive compact. At just under 2cms deep it's easy to slip in a pocket or bag and take with you anywhere. When switched off the lens sits in the camera's body to maintain the elegant design.
Controls are set up with simplicity in mind: on the back there's a three-point switch that can select between Auto, Sweep Panorama and Movie shooting. It's as simple as that – click it into place and fire away. There is also a d-pad to control flash, display, self-timer and face detection and a main menu for more 'behind the scenes' set up and formatting.
Often compact cameras have their zoom switch or toggle on the top of the camera as it sits well against the hand. This isn't so with the Sony W570 – instead the camera opts for a rear-mounted wide-to-tele zoom switch that's not always ideal in use. It's not hard to use but could have been better placed. Keeping the majority of controls on the back does maintain the W570's clean design, a crucial feature for such a camera to appeal.
With only a few shooting options any performance issues would feel amplified, but the Sony W570 is swift and smooth in use. Powering up takes no time at all and you're up and ready to shoot in a flash.
Autofocus is a multi-area (nine zones) system that automates where focus is selected. This is fed-back to the user on the screen by showing green focus boxes to confirm the subject focus. It's quick and reliable, and Face Detection works well too, though the camera's decision is final – there's no fine tuning, AF point adjustment or manual focusing.
For close-up subjects the W570 can get as near as 5cms from subject when at its widest-angle 25mm setting. This bodes well for macro shots.
Should you want to take a little more control, such as setting the ISO sensitivity, then the W570's main menu does offer a Programme mode. Switch into this and the likes of ISO and White Balance control open up to you. The more novice user will be happy with the iAuto mode's auto-selection of settings, though there are also 10 specific Scene modes to choose from. Scene options such as Twilight shoot a series of images in quick succession and combine them in camera for a sharper, better exposed shoot when shooting in low-light or nighttime conditions.
The W570's rear 2.7in LCD does a fine job of playing images back when viewed straight on, but steeper angles can cause viewing issues. Furthermore there can be the occasional 'flickering' in fine detail areas due to the low 230k-dot resolution. It's not the end of the world but can mess with your eyes from time to time.
Cramming 16.1-megapixels onto a small compact sensor doesn't help image quality compared to a lower resolution equivalent, indeed it's likely to hinder the camera's ability to resolve sharp images and increases the presence of image noise. Indeed a 16MP image is far larger than you're likely to need, plus it increases file sizes.
Fortunately the W570's final image quality qualifies well for its target audience. At full size there are issues with sharpness and finer detail lacks, but for day-to-day shots of friends and family printed on a smaller scale or viewed on screen this isn't a particular issue.
Auto ISO selection produced results that were reasonable up as far as ISO 800 – certainly not bad for a compact camera. Above this and the higher settings break down available detail yet more, rendering them of lesser use.
Exposure is generally good, though a blue shadow-like effect (known as chromatic aberration) can often be seen around back-lit subject edges, particularly towards the edges of the frame. This is a common lens-related issue for many cameras, though it's subtle in the W570's instance.


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It was founded in 2012 and established to offer quality entertainment to those who enjoy gambling. It main aim was to give opportunity to enjoy themselves in online gaming. The lenience number of this game is, 000-039335-R-319313- 008 given by the gambling commission.
Its appearance is really tasty animated touches such as a cobweb beside an imprint where a black widow spider crawls around and slides up and down on his web. The breads awful constituents include Eyeballs, Hearts, Rats, bugs.
As seen in the constituents it may not be tasteful but when the right ingredients are matched it may result to tasty pay-offs. The eyeball in particular, is much desired after smoothness. If you much three ingredients, you win a prize of 10,000 multiplied by you bet. For you to earn as bigger and serious dough you have to team up with the zombies and when that doesn't happen you will have to look for the golden Ghouls.
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When the war on marijuana came sweeping through his New York City housing project decades ago, Roland Conner found himself going in and out of jail. It's a time he'd rather not talk about.
Now, at age 50, he has opened the state's first legal cannabis dispensary to be run by someone previously punished under New York's old, prohibitionist drug laws.
The shop in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, called "Smacked," opened to the public Tuesday with the state's support. It is New York's second legal place to buy recreational marijuana, but the first to benefit from a program that set aside dispensary licenses for people with pot-related criminal convictions.
Conner is also receiving support from a $200 million public-private fund to aid "social equity" applicants for the state's tightly controlled supply of dispensary licenses. The money is intended to help redress the ravages of the war on drugs, especially in communities of color.
"When people come together passionately to fix something, they can actually make things happen. And I'm a living example of that now," said Conner as he prepared for the store's opening.
New York legalized the recreational use of marijuana in March 2021 but the state-sanctioned marketplace for the drug has had a slow roll-out. The first 36 licenses were awarded in November. State officials have reserved 150 dispensary licenses in the initial wave of applicants for people with past convictions for marijuana offenses.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, hopes Conner's venture will serve as a model for other would-be entrepreneurs.
"This dispensary is the latest example of our efforts to build the most equitable and inclusive cannabis industry in the nation," Hochul said in a statement last week. "As we continue to work toward righting wrongs of the past, I look forward to new dispensaries — owned by those most impacted by the over policing of cannabis prohibition — opening soon."
Like many others, Conner was locked up for relatively minor offenses in his youth. A conviction in 1991 sent him away for months. Talking about it now, he said, only brings back trauma.
For the past 15 years, he has operated a property management business and he is currently managing a transitional housing facility in the Bronx. That's given him the business experience required to qualify for a dispensary license.
Smacked is opening as a pop-up dispensary while work is being completed at the storefront. His wife, Patricia, and his son, Darius, will be operating the store with him.
They will have to compete with the scores of illicit dispensaries in New York that have long been in operation. When he opened his store, Conner was mindful that another unlicensed shop would soon be opening nearby.
Conner recalls his younger days, when marijuana was part of daily life. He grew up in the projects, in a poverty-stricken area of New York called the Far Rockaways, where some young men whiled away time getting high.
"We were basically poor. Like any other New York City housing project, it was just riddled with poverty and drugs," he said. "We went hungry a lot, but my mother did her best to make sure that we were always fed."
Police patrolled the projects constantly, he recalled. "Sometimes they would come up and down the block and we would see them come in or they would just come out of nowhere," he said. "They'll just come out of nowhere and search us. And if they found some type of drugs on you, they would just lock you up."
"Back in 1991, that's when I started getting locked up for cannabis and just getting sucked into the streets at that point. It was so long ago," he said.
Years later, when his son began selling marijuana to help support his family, Conner grew alarmed.
"When I saw my son going down this path," he said, "I didn't want him to start going down that particular road and jam himself up."
With the state opening up a legal marketplace, Conner and his family decided to take a chance and apply for a dispensary license.
"I had to step back and just listen to my dad and figure out a way," said his son, Darius.
"He said there's a legal way to go about doing what I'm doing now," Darius Conner said. "At the end of the day, I really want to go into the right way of doing it."
Officials said Conner received support from the Bronx Cannabis Hub, which was founded by the Bronx Defenders and the Bronx Community Foundation to support individuals applying for the first round of licenses.
Federal data shows similar percentages of white and Black people use marijuana, but the arrest rate for Black people is much higher, according to reports by the American Civil Liberties Union and others.
"When people are in poverty, they do certain things that they wouldn't normally do," Conner said. "And so if you don't speak to poverty and you only speak to harsh law enforcement without speaking to the reason why people do the things that they do — it's problematic."
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Boris Johnson seeks DUP backing in race against time over Brexit deal
Tory Eurosceptics on board and EU leaders ready to approve agreement
Boris Johnson is in a race against time to secure the Democratic Unionist party's backing for his newly negotiated Brexit deal as EU leaders said they were ready to approve the agreement on Thursday if the prime minister succeeds.
Plans to publish a full legal text ahead of the leaders' summit had to be put on hold to the frustration of EU officials after the DUP raised a series of objections to the tentative agreement.
With time short, Johnson told a meeting of Conservative MPs he was hopeful of a deal but it felt like he was on the Hillary Step of Mount Everest while the summit was "shrouded in mist".
The prime minister appeared to have the party's hardline Eurosceptics onboard, including Steve Baker, who said Johnson had briefed them that the whole of the UK was leaving the customs union. But they also added a note of caution that they could not vote for any Brexit deal without seeing a legal text. The 21 former Tory MPs who have recently lost their whip could also rebel.
An issue over VAT was said by Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, to be a last-minute obstacle in the negotiations when he briefed European ambassadors on Wednesday night. But the British objection was described by EU diplomats as a "British smokescreen" to give Downing Street more time to win over the DUP's leader, Arlene Foster.
EU officials think Johnson could make a sudden move to seal the deal on Thursday morning. Earlier in the day, Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, had said the "foundations" of a Brexit deal were in place and it was only last-minute "doubts" in London that stood in the way.
Under the agreement, Barnier told ambassadors that a regulatory and customs border would be drawn in the Irish Sea.
Northern Ireland would legally be in the UK's customs territory to allow the prime minister to boast that the country "whole and entire" has left the EU.
But it will follow EU rules on tariffs and quotas with exceptions for people moving personal goods, such as furniture, between Great Britain and Northern Ireland and an undefined category of other goods that cannot be processed and shipped into the EU. These goods will be agreed by a joint committee of UK and EU officials in the future, giving the EU control over the list.
Barnier further explained that four years after the end of the transition period, the Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont would be able to give its continued consent to continuing the arrangements. The assembly would have to decide whether to vote by a simple majority or under a vote in which 40% of both nationalist and unionist assembly members would be required to give their assent. A 60% threshold of all members would need to be passed in that case. If Stormont is not sitting, the status quo would continue.
There would be another opportunity a further four years later to give consent if they voted by simple majority, and eight years later if they took the cross-party route. A two-year notice period would be granted if Northern Ireland exited the special relationship with the EU to allow alternative arrangements to be put in place.
Johnson has also made a major concession to secure a free-trade agreement with the EU. The prime minister had previously signalled he wanted to abandon a pledge to align to EU standards on the environment, workers' rights and tax, fuelling Brussels' fears of a regulatory race to the bottom and the creation of "Singapore on the Thames".
Barnier told EU ambassadors he now had secured a basis for fair competition, as Johnson had agreed that the quid pro quo for any free-trade agreement would be signing up to the EU's "level-playing field" provisions, meaning a promise not to ditch EU standards.
EU negotiators have long said these promises are vital, because of the UK's economic weight and geographical proximity.
Barnier told the EU ambassadors the British cabinet had backed the agreement, but stressed huge uncertainty that parliament would give its approval. Several ambassadors voiced concern about the limited time, but there was no discussion of extension.
During a joint appearance with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, told reporters: "I think that a deal is just being finalised and we're going to be able to work on that tomorrow."
Tusk had said that he had hoped that a deal would have been ready by Wednesday morning but that agreement was still possible. "Yesterday evening I was ready to bet that it's all set and agreed, today there are certain doubts on the British side," he said. "Everything is going in the right direction, but you will have noticed yourselves that with Brexit and above all with our British partners anything is possible."
"We are still waiting for a signal from across the Channel," said one EU diplomat. "A lot of things are happening between the cabinet, DUP and the hardest Brexiters."
Despite the prospect of a deal being struck in Brussels, EU sources said the prime minister's pledge to leave the EU on 31 October, "do or die", remained in doubt even if an agreement was secured.
EU diplomats said the last-minute nature of the talks meant that time would be required after the summit for governments and parliaments to scrutinise the legal text of the deal.
As a result, the EU's leaders will only give their political rather than full formal agreement to the deal when they meet on Thursday and Friday.
The EU27 will then want the Commons, in its "super Saturday" session, to give its assent to the revised withdrawal agreement and political declaration.
Final EU agreement would be given at a later date, likely at a second summit on 29 October, once the member states had time to work through the legal text. Sources in Berlin have suggested that process could take as long as two months.
"It is clear that there can only be a political agreement tomorrow or Friday because we cannot see any text. We cannot say 'yes' without legal scrubbing," a diplomat said. "We need much more time."
The diplomat added that the leaders would require "clarity from the House of Commons on Saturday because we've had three deals before".
"This is the fourth time they want clarity from the UK side," the diplomat added. "We won't continue with legal scrubbing and translations to end up with something that is going to be voted down. There is a clear desire for an outcome in London that shows support."
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which book this maxim occurs, as a work of that poet.
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the smelting and tempering of iron in Crete.
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Mahomes gives Reid best hope to win that elusive Super Bowl
By ROB MAADDI - Jan. 20, 2020 02:10 AM EST
Kansas City Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes celebrates with the Lamar Hunt Trophy after the NFL AFC Championship football game against the Tennessee Titans Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Kansas City, MO. The Chiefs won 35-24 to advance to Super Bowl 54. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
Andy Reid revitalized the Kansas City Chiefs the same way he did with the Philadelphia Eagles.
He's one win away from finishing the job.
The only thing missing from Reid's impressive resume is a Super Bowl title. He is seventh on the career wins list and every coach ahead of him has a championship.
Thanks to Patrick Mahomes, Reid gets another shot when the Chiefs (14-4) play the San Francisco 49ers (15-3) in Miami on Feb. 2.
Mahomes did it all in Kansas City's 35-24 victory over Tennessee in the AFC championship game Sunday. He threw for 294 yards and three touchdowns and led the team with 53 yards rushing, including a nifty 27-yard score.
Reid, the quarterback guru who helped develop Brett Favre and Donovan McNabb, saw tremendous potential in Mahomes when he traded up to the No. 10 spot in the 2017 NFL draft to grab the former Texas Tech star. It was the same foresight he had in 1999 when, as a rookie head coach in Philadelphia, Reid selected McNabb with the No. 2 overall pick even though the city wanted Ricky Williams.
Reid was patient with McNabb, holding him out of the starting lineup until Week 10 while veteran and longtime backup quarterback Doug Pederson groomed the rookie. Once McNabb took over, the Eagles were on their way. In 2000, Reid and McNabb led Philadelphia to the first of five straight playoff appearances. They went to four consecutive NFC title games, losing the first three, including two at home.
The Eagles got past that hurdle after the 2004 season, advancing to the Super Bowl only to lose 24-21 to the New England Patriots.
Reid led them to the brink one more time four years later as a No. 6 seed before they lost to Arizona as a road favorite in the NFC championship game.
The Eagles won their last division title under Reid with Michael Vick at quarterback in 2010. Vick revived his career in Philadelphia after missing two seasons while serving a prison sentence. He had his best all-around season with Reid.
In 14 seasons in Philadelphia, Reid led the Eagles to six NFC East titles, nine playoff appearances and five conference championship games. He won more games than any coach in franchise history but couldn't win the only one that mattered to Eagles fans.
Still, he played a role in helping Philadelphia get its first Super Bowl title because Pederson, Reid's protege, was the coach who guided the Eagles to that elusive championship two years ago, with backup quarterback Nick Foles beating the Patriots. Reid drafted Foles in the third round in his final season in Philadelphia and persuaded him not to retire in 2016 when he brought him to Kansas City to back up Alex Smith.
Reid was fired by the Eagles after a 4-12 season in 2012, the year his oldest son, Garrett, died from a drug overdose at training camp.
He quickly landed in Kansas City, taking over a 2-14 team, and turned the Chiefs into a winner even faster than he did the Eagles. The Chiefs went 11-5 in Reid's first year.
But Reid was 1-4 in the playoffs with Smith at quarterback in his first five seasons in Kansas City. He drafted Mahomes to take the team to the next level. After making him sit behind Smith for a season, just like McNabb waited in Philadelphia, Reid took a risk. He traded Smith away following consecutive division titles and handed the offense to Mahomes.
All Mahomes did was win the NFL MVP award in his first year as the starter in 2018. The Chiefs fell short at home against New England in the AFC title game last season, dropping Reid to 1-5 in conference championships.
They couldn't be stopped this time.
Led by the dynamic Mahomes, Reid's offense has scored 86 points in two playoff games. The NFL's No. 2 defense awaits. The 49ers allowed 281.8 yards per game in the regular season, second only to the Patriots. They held Minnesota to 10 points last week and Aaron Rodgers and the Packers to 20 points after taking a 27-0 halftime lead.
Reid is 22-5 in his career when he has two weeks to prepare for an opponent, so it'll be an interesting chess match against San Francisco defensive coordinator Robert Saleh.
The only coach who waited longer than Reid for a return trip to the Super Bowl was his friend and former Eagles coach Dick Vermeil. After Philadelphia lost to Oakland in the 1981 Super Bowl, Vermeil led the St. Louis Rams to victory over Tennessee following the 1999 season.
It's Big Red's turn to win the big game.
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IQRF és un protocol de comunicacions sense cables via ràdio-freqüència (xarxa sense fil) de tipus propietari (no obert). Està dirigit al sector domèstic (domòtica), edificis terciaris (immòtica), a ciutats (urbòtica: xarxa d'àrea metropolitana) i sector industrial. IQRF és un protocol propietari i destinat a crear xarxes d'àrea personal de baixa potència i baixa velocitat de transmissió de dades. IQRF està de senvolupat per l'empresa IQRF i potenciat per l'organització IQRF Alliance que assegura la interoperativitat. Aquest protocol pot ésser emprat en la Internet de les coses.

Prestacions
 IQRF és una tecnologia sense fil orientada a commutació de paquets (paquets sincronitzats en el temps similar a la tecnologia de xarxes cel·lulars).
 Utilitza una banda sense llicència ISM: 433 MHz, 868 MHz, 916 MHz.
 Empra una topologia de Xarxa en Malla per a aconseguir un major abast. (hop).
 Baixa potència d'emissió segons normativa del Institut Europeu de Normes de Telecomunicació ETSI 300 220.
 Velocitat de transmissió 19.836 kbit/s.
 Modulació GFSK.
 Fins a 65 000 dispositius amb el sistema operatiu intern, o fins a 240 dispositius amb el programari DPA.
 Potència de sortida fins a 12.5 mW.
 Fins a 240 salts (hops) per paquet.
 Funcionalitat OTA múltiple.
 Disponibilitats de circuits basades en microcontroladors de la casa Microchip. IC emissor-receptor de la casa ST.
 Entorn de desenvolupament IDE programat en llenguatge C.

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Emissors-receptors a data d'octubre del 2017 :

Referències
Comunicacions sense fil
Protocols de xarxa

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Altres tecnologies per la IoT (internet de les coses):
 De banda ISM lliures: ZigBee, Thread, Z-Wave, 6LowPAN, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, Xarxa en malla Bluetooth
 De Banda Estreta: SigFox, NB-IoT
 De Banda Ampla: LoRaWAN, RPMA

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In the year 325 A.D., St. Helena, mother of Constantine and a devout Christian, travelled to the Holy Land. Her son had just recently stopped the persecution of Christians throughout the Roman Empire and now Helena wanted to begin preserving those artifacts which were a part of the life of Jesus and which meant so much to the early Christians.
Her two biggest accomplishments were building great churches over the place where Jesus was born in Bethlehem and over Calvary and the site of the Resurrection outside of Jerusalem. These two Churches, the Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, are a place for worshippers to visit to this day. On a somewhat lesser scale, Helena located the Praetorium, seat of power of the Roman Empire in Jerusalem, and from the Praetorium had shipped back to Rome the stone stairs which Jesus would have climbed for his final judgement by Pilate and which he descended to begin his Way of the Cross.
These stairs, La Scala Sancta, are still preserved in a handsome building just to the side of Rome's Cathedral, St. John in the Lateran.
In March, 2016 a group of 80 members of the Fairfield University Glee Club along with 30 parents, various relatives and school administrators visited Rome. The Glee Club sang at Mass at St. Peter's Basilica and would later sing at the Church of St. Ignatius, The Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi and at the University of Florence.
One of the highlights of the trip for five of us was visiting the Scala Sancta late in the afternoon of a perfect Roman March day. The truly pious ascend the 28 steps on their knees. One of our students – somewhat more agile than I – did so. The rest of us watched and prayed.
The death and resurrection of Jesus seems to have happened so many centuries ago and so many miles away. Standing at the bottom of the Scala Sancta and imagining Christ ascending and descending these steps brings home just how close we still are to the saving events of Holy Week.
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Q: How do I remove header view? Or fix this exception: "Cannot add header view to list - setAdapter has already been called" I am making a search app where you enter a term, and a list (ListView) of results comes up, with a header that labels the list. You can do another search and get a different set of results. Or you can select one of the results and it takes you to another Activity with a ListView of details for that selection. This all works fine.
But when you go back from the details Activity to the search Activity and type in another search term, I getting the following error.
Cannot add header view to list -- setAdapter has already been called.

Both of my Activity classes have a line like
adapter.setAdapter(results);

and to my understanding, that is not allowed. My approach to fixing this would be to remove/clear the offending data (would that be the view? list? adapter?) in the onDestroy() of the details activity. But I don't know how to go about doing that, or if that's even the right solution.

A: As the exception clearly states, you had already set the adapter for the ListView, and now trying to add a header view to the ListView.
As I understand, you need to add the header view only once, but change only the text/data displayed by the header view for each search result (by changing the data in the adapter). You can reframe your code accordingly.

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Q: difference between drain, release,dealloc and retain in Objective-C/ Hi i want to know the difference between drain, release,dealloc and retain in Objective-C.

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*retain increase the reference count on an object

*release decreases the reference on an object

*drain is used in place of release on ONLY for NSAutoreleasePool objects due to some arcana related to the Objective C garbage collection

*dealloc is called by the system once the retainCount of an object hits 0. It is where you clean up various things your object has (like a deconstructor or finalizer). You should NEVER call it directly, except for calling [super dealloc] at the end of your dealloc routines.

You really should just read through Apple's memory management documentation.