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2020 Presidential Election Polling Thread
By TripItUp,
August 17, 2020 in The Politics Forum
sho nuff 16,560
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32 minutes ago, stlrams said:
Please provide link that supports polls didn't suppress votes.
Seems more like its up to you to prove an assertion rather than prove a negative. My proof would be the record turnout.
caustic 202 posts
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Juxtatarot 104 posts
Gr00vus 93 posts
Jackstraw
He refuses to comply with the legitimate oversight powers of congress tipping the balance of checks and balances. He appoints "acting" department heads and other key positions that are supposed to be
I appreciate all the kind posts, really enjoyed the Poll Chat in here. Let's do it again in 2022. In what is probably our final poll of the cycle, we have a survey of Pinellas county, FL. Pinella
Redwes25
@caustic Want to thank you for keeping this thread so updated and useful. Now it is time to watch the only poll that really matters.
The Commish 13,382
Location:Debary, Florida
12 hours ago, stlrams said:
Is inaccurate polling a form of voter suppression?
Polling is only as good as the data provided and the algorithm used to analyze it. If one can show evidence that the algorithms are written in an intentionally incorrect way, there MIGHT be a discussion to be had. However, in that discussion you have to somehow dismiss away the obvious problem of "garbage in, garbage out" on the data side of the equation that is claimed by many via the "shy voter" or "lying to the polls" groups that supposedly exist. I have no idea how you'd weed through any of that. I'm pretty inclined to continue to believe that the polls are only as good as the data provided to them unless there was evidence of deliberate manipulation. Then we might be able to discuss your question in a genuine way.
Thunderlips 5,216
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So the crux of the argument is that polls suppress the very same people who are giving false information that form the basis of the poll information?
I'm generalizing here (and not calling any singular person stupid)......but if you're dumb enough to lie about something and then fall for your own lie..... well, I might be able to put you into contact with a friend of mine from college (he was an African exchange student who claimed that he was somehow connected to royalty in a country over there) who has been e-mailing me about making some good money in a side hustle.
5 minutes ago, Thunderlips said:
I think it's more akin to a teacher being dumbfounded that a kid answers 2+2=10 after having taught the kid that 2+2=10 for an entire grading period. None of this really makes any sense to me, so that might be too simplistic and there may be nuance I am missing. If that's the case, I'd love to be educated on the talking point to understand it even if I don't agree with it....who knows, I might agree with it if it could be articulated a bit more clearly.
1 hour ago, The Commish said:
I think it's more akin to a teacher being dumbfounded that a kid answers 2+2=10 after having taught the kid that 2+2=10 for an entire grading period.
(2+2 does equal 10 ... in base 4 )
THERE'S ALWAYS ONE!!!!
TripItUp 3,942
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The liberal media polling has been outed as a clear voter suppression strategy after completely missing the mark for the second consecutive election.
Sad what most pollsters have become.
The Z Machine 4,735
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15 minutes ago, TripItUp said:
Was there some non liberal media polling that didn't miss the mark?
Can you do some side by side comparison in say PA and FL?
AAABatteries 24,346
AAABatteries
Do you feel the same way about conservative polls? This seems like a repeat of media orgs people trust and don't trust (like CNN vs. Fox).
As for voter suppression - I'll care about that once we resolve all real voter suppression. Nobody should decide whether to vote or not based on a poll.
BoltBacker 1,497
BoltBacker
It's just sad that one side is so ashamed of the person that they are voting for they can't even say it out loud to a complete stranger.
2 hours ago, TripItUp said:
Do you have a link showing anything remotely supporting that it is clear voter suppression...or what pollsters have become?
You seem to be insinuating that they are purposefully manipulating polling in a direction in order to suppress votes...that is a pretty dangerous and big assertion to be making with nothing to actually back you up.
Rich Conway 3,575
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This new "polls are voter suppression" strategy baffles me, as the claims are from the same people telling us "shy Trump voters lie to pollsters". They are literally claiming that "Trump voters are suppressing Trump votes".
General Malaise 26,348
General Malaise
Poop Lord
4 hours ago, Rich Conway said:
And again, the polls whiffed bigly in 2016, predicting an easy Hillary victory. Was that voter suppression even though Trump won? I'm so confused over this argument.
Edited November 11, 2020 by General Malaise
I think what they are saying is that some polls over-sampled Democrats on purpose to make it look like Biden was winning by a large enough margin that would convince Trump voters to stay home. I don't buy it bot a second, especially when you consider the record number of votes, but I think that's the gist of it.
Bamboo Bill 351
Bamboo Bill
Location:The Jungle
This is what we call in marketing...."throwing everything up against the wall and see if anything sticks."
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jm192
6 hours ago, AAABatteries said:
I don't know if that's the strategy--and if it is, it's an insanely stupid one. Why intentionally be bad at what you do? It's bad bad bad business.
I have heard in some cases a lot of polls had oversampled Democrats. I think it was Lindsey Graham talking about the SC polls saying they were doing 50% Dems and 50% GOP even though the state wasn't a 50/50 split. And maybe that's not the issue that's led to so much getting it wrong. But it's food for thought.
Chicago Hooligan 868
Chicago Hooligan
wasn't this thread started because someone thought a CNN article was good for impeached loser of the election Trump
trying to recall who that was
9 hours ago, jm192 said:
I don't believe the voter suppression conspiracy, just explaining it. And my understanding is pills adjust for that over sampling. My assumption is you have to oversample based on location.
On 11/11/2020 at 6:33 AM, TripItUp said:
On 11/10/2020 at 9:26 AM, The Commish said:
Can't have it both ways
I know you want to, but you can't.
caustic 3,717
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I can tell you that GOP internal pollsters are definitely not in the business of suppressing Republican votes, yet they were showing virtually the same thing as the public pollsters. That's why the Republican Senate Leadership fund spent $16 million on the South Carolina Senate race, which wasn't even close, while ignoring races in Minnesota and New Mexico which turned out to be much tighter. It's also why the Trump campaign was taking down ads in Wisconsin during the final weeks, thinking the state was out of reach, when it actually turned out to be a tossup.
Sea Duck 1,002
Sea Duck
On 11/11/2020 at 3:50 AM, The Z Machine said:
The Fox polls were even more skewed towards Biden than the liberal pollsters, IIRC.
Trafalgar had Trump +2 in PA (oops), +3 in AZ (oof), and +3 in MI (oooof). They did correctly pick Trump to win Ohio but their polling was off by 4 points which makes that poll even less accurate than their polls in PA or AZ.
22 minutes ago, Sea Duck said:
So what you're saying is that no one pollster did really well this term across multiple states, and that even pollsters that aren't "liberal" also did poorly. Also the people that "unskewed" the data coming from pollsters also did poorly.
It's almost like doing accurate polling these days is hard... but it doesn't sound like there was a nefarious plot to try and convince Trump voters to stay home.
Is anyone else completely shocked that the GOP hasn't come out and tried to pin this discrepancy between Trump vote and the success of GOPers further down the ticket on a foreign actor like Russia? It's been a pleasant surprise NOT to have to deal with that kind of nonsense. I haven't even seen an attempt to make that argument on facebook.
1 minute ago, The Commish said:
I think the talking points just came out on that, seeing as it's just recently been alluded to here on these forums. Oh, and not Russia, but China. Chinese agents gained physical access to hundreds of Dominion voting machines across the country and secretly replaced the ROM chips with Folgers crystals.
35 minutes ago, Rich Conway said:
It has? I missed it. Folgers crystals
Gr00vus 11,814
Gr00vus
Has there been a postmortem on this yet? Seems like 538 didn't do a bad job probability wise. I wonder which actual polling out fit (not an aggregator) did best.


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Virtual slime mould models can be translated into practical public transit applications. CORINNE LANGMUIR/THE VARSITY
What slime mould can teach us about optimizing the TTC
Biological computers have millions of years of network building experience
By Angel Hsieh — Published March 13, 2022
The TTC subway system is notoriously inefficient — but solving that is a no-brainer for the brainless slime mould P. polycephalum.
This may seem unlikely — what do these primitive, blob-like creatures know about urban design? It turns out that the types of networks that P. polycephalum have developed naturally over the course of their evolutionary history are surprisingly similar to the kinds of networks that humans are interested in replicating.
Raphael Kay, a graduate student in materials science and engineering at U of T, was one of the lead authors of a study recently published in Scientific Reports that investigated this connection in more detail. In a conversation with The Varsity, Kay talked about the study's discoveries and how to translate virtual slime mould models into practical public transit applications.
The complexity of a single-celled blob
These blob-shaped protists have the marvellous ability to form beautifully intricate networks without any kind of recognizable brains — which makes them a promising inspiration for computational models.
To maintain the integrity of their body's fluid network, each of these organisms are required to make a series of decisions about how to navigate their environment. Scientists are interested in investigating the underlying mechanisms that equip them with the ability to perform multi-step computations, even in the absence of a refined neural circuit.
What is significant about these blobs is the particular way that they attempt to optimize their use of exhaustible resources such as food. Humans are not as good at optimizing resources as these simple-minded creatures — but the blobs' biological approach to resource management does show similarities to ways that we design our cities and roadways.
In an attempt to improve the future of urban networks, Kay and his colleagues at U of T's Functional and Adaptive Surfaces Group created digital simulation models to replicate the protist's optimization processes.
All about the right balance
Kay and his colleagues chose three parameters to optimize network efficiency: cost, travel time, and vulnerability. The behaviour of slime moulds offers insights into how researchers can maintain a balance between these network parameters. This is a difficult problem: for example, a transport system design that focuses primarily on lessening travel time may end up becoming an overly sophisticated network that is incomprehensible to passengers.
But how do blob simulations improve network design about the TTC's costs and travel times?
These results are actually an example of the power of the virtual blob model at its finest. The answers to network optimization questions rely on the concepts of 'resiliency' and 'vulnerability.' In simple terms, Kay explained, the vulnerability of a network refers to how much longer it would take to move from one station to another if one link were removed from the network as a whole. In this scenario, resiliency is simply the inverse of vulnerability — a network's resiliency refers to its ability to recover from the removal of one of its links.
The networks generated using the slime mould model are projected to be about 40 per cent less vulnerable than the current real-life networks designed for similar transportation problems. This result is only possible because of the dynamics between resilience and vulnerability.
From blob to urban network blueprint
Kay explained that their results were a practical translation of what the slime moulds came up with. Kay drew inspiration from the blob's interest in connecting food sources and translated this idea to connecting people in an urban transportation network — although unlike the blob protists, commuters are more concerned about efficiency of the TTC subway system as a whole than about finding the most effortless way to navigate from an eatery to the nearest café.
The most updated version of the virtual slime mould model is developed based on how the blobs act in response to "attractiveness" of food sources. The object of attraction, in the blob's case, is always food. Not only do the blobs navigate toward their intended food sources, but they also avoid unwanted harmful substances by circumventing contaminated parts of their petri dishes. The researchers created a visual manifestation based on this kind of movement, Kay added, which offered them a unique perspective on "[making] a more dynamic knob for tuning how the model behaves [in real-world situations]."
Kay recalled the research team's first attempt to transfer the computational slime mould model into practice. The team compared their virtual slime model to the arrangement of sidewalks in Canada's Wonderland to figure out the most efficient walkways to go from ride to ride, with seemingly successful results.
Their experiment in the amusement park led Kay to compare his slime mould model to the TTC subway. This time around, the researchers overlaid the 'ideal' network they generated via the simulation model on top of the actual TTC map for spatial analysis, which showed quantitative differences between the two overlapping network designs.
This line of work produced objective quantitative data that could serve as a guideline for future retrofitting projects of the TTC. Kay's effort to implement his research in tangible and relevant contexts is a fine example of real-world research applications, and can serve as encouragement to students who are looking to contribute to the world beyond academia.
More often than not, people believe that models inspired by biology must be the gold standard, and that they're suitable to resolve issues for a wide variety of situations. In reality, though, the urban design ideas generated by this virtual model can only serve as a reference for engineers working to optimize the efficiency of public transport and similarly structured networks.
When asked about plans for future studies, Kay expressed wishes for his model to be able to assist in improving urban infrastructure in highly urbanized areas, or to potentially design a first pass for engineers who are developing a transport network from scratch. Kay is excited to use his model to evaluate the weaknesses of existing systems and generate tangible suggestions for retrofitting urban networks.
In his undergraduate studies in John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Kay appreciated the opportunity to learn from world-renowned architects who were much older than him. In Kay's opinion, this directly connects to his current research, as well. Thinking about the experience and knowledge he got from older human architects made him wonder what would happen if he pushed the idea further — "Why not go all out to ask [these ancient] architects to design a city?"
Editor's note (27 March): A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the paper was published in the journal Nature. In fact, it was published in the journal Scientific Reports.
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Here's a snapshot from the report on how climate change could alter the spread of diseases in Australia.
1. Mosquito-borne diseases like dengue fever are likely to spread to new areas where they aren't currently found.
Mosquito breeding is likely to change as the ecosystem changes and this will increase Australia's susceptibility to outbreaks of "vector-borne diseases", which are diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks and fleas. On top of this the area where these diseases occur is predicted expand, putting more people in different areas risk.
Doctors warn that rising temperatures, changes to water supply and extreme weather events are all likely to increase the incidence of food-borne diseases like Salmonella.
3. As temperatures rise, so to will instances of water-borne diseases like Giardia and Cholera.
Changes to water availability and higher temperatures will likely increase the prevalence of water-borne diseases, while replication rates of bacteria will increase as temperatures rise, reaching higher densities and posing greater risk to more people.
4. Respiratory diseases like influenza and whooping cough will become bigger health problems.
As temperatures rise more people will spend time indoors to avoid the extreme heat, increasing the risk they will pass on respiratory diseases. This problem will be exacerbated by changes in seasons, extension of peak transmission periods, and rises in human population density due to population growth.
Diseases that spread between animals and humans are called Zoonotic diseases, and include big ones like Swine Flu, Bird flu, and in Australia diseases like the Hendra virus that spreads through contact with horses. Climate change will alter the density and movement of both wild animals and livestock in Australia and affect human–animal contact patterns. This could promote transmission of existing zoonotic disease or increase the risk of novel diseases emerging.


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A petition for certiorari was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Shurtleff v. City of Boston, in which the First Circuit upheld Boston's refusal to allow an organization to raise its "Christian flag" on one of the City Hall Plaza flag poles at an event that would feature short speeches by local clergy.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 525, which prohibits the state from restricting activities of religious organizations during a state of emergency.
Suit was filed in a Mississippi federal district court by atheist and secular humanist plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of the Mississippi state seal and standard license plate, which carry the motto, "In God We Trust."
A complaint was filed with the EEOC on behalf of two employees at Stanford University's Counseling & Psychological Services division charging that a hostile work environment has been created for Jewish employees.
President Emmanuel Macron submitted a bill to Parliament, called the Law Reinforcing Respect of the Principles of the Republic, that would empower the government to permanently close houses of worship and dissolve religious organizations, without a court order, if it finds that any of their members are provoking violence or inciting hatred.
A British High Court Family Division Judge refused the request by Muslim parents for an order to require their son's guardians to have their 21-month old son circumcised.
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For interested readers, I have an essay at First Things today on the Supreme Court's decision last week in the Catholic adoption services case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. I argue that the decision represents a victory for religious freedom–though how much of a victory depends on how the Court interprets the case in the future. Here's an excerpt:
Fulton is surely a victory for religious freedom. In fact, if the Court means what it says, the case is a major victory. True, the chief justice's opinion avoids a definitive resolution of the conflict between LGBT rights and religious freedom—which probably explains how the chief captured the votes of the Court's progressives, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. And true, Smith remains on the books, a result that Justice Alito, joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch, lamented in a separate concurrence.
But if it is true, as Fulton suggests, that even a theoretical possibility of an exception triggers strict scrutiny, Smith does not pose much of a limitation. Moreover, if the Court is serious about strict scrutiny—that the mere possibility of an exception means that the state lacks a compelling interest in applying its rule to any particular litigant—it is hard to envision a religious claimant ever losing one of these cases in future.
Nonetheless, it would be wise for religiously affiliated adoption agencies and other potential claimants to wait and see what develops before celebrating. The Court's religion clause jurisprudence is notoriously unpredictable, and the justices may not stick to Fulton's reasoning in the future. Moreover, the fact-specific nature of the ruling means that the Court can easily distinguish Fulton in subsequent litigation if it wishes to do so.
You can read the whole essay here.
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Abstract submissions due by July 30, 2021. For more information and to submit an abstract, visit this link.
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Living near nature improves well-being, says report
People who live in areas with trees, parks and green spaces were found to have improved mental and physical health, a new environmental study has found.
By Daniel Graham
March 22nd, 2017 at 11:57 am
Nature plays a crucial role in physical and mental health, and early contact with the natural environment can help diminish problems with well-being later in life, according to the European study.
Researchers found that pregnant women with poor access to green spaces have higher blood pressure than those who don't, while children who interact frequently with the natural environment are less likely to develop allergies. Childhood hyperactivity, obesity, relationship problems and emotional stress are proven to fall with an increase in interaction with nature.
The elderly also benefit, the paper suggests, with access to nature lowering mortality rates, in addition to helping improve the well-being of socio-economically disadvantaged and vulnerable groups.
Conducted by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) for Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE), the report states that people living in areas of deprivation are less likely to have access to green spaces, impacting on their quality of life.
"Deprived communities are routinely cut off from nature in their surroundings and it's suffocating for their well-being," says Robbie Blake, nature campaigner for FoEE.
Minorities, socially excluded groups and young people are under-represented in protected areas. Just over a quarter of England's black and minority ethnic population visit natural areas three times a year or less, a figure that is considerably smaller (15%) among the rest of the population.
According to IEEP, closer proximity to natural areas drastically reduces health inequalities related to income, in turn offsetting the effects of deprivation. In deprived Scottish towns with significant green space, the death rate of Scottish middle-aged men was found to be 16% lower than those lacking access to nature.
"Giving communities an active right to nature will improve health, social integration and be a major step to reducing social and health inequalities," says Patrick Ten Brink, Director at IEEP.
"Cities like Oslo and Victoria-Gasteiz are making nature accessible to all their citizens." says Brink. "We should be inspired by this and work together so that all Europeans have nature within 300 metres of their homes in the next ten years.
Nature-based solutions for mental and physical health problems should be considered by care professionals, concludes the report, which calls for increased access to natural areas.
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Founded on July 9, 2010 Jaipur Photographers' Club (JPC) is a Group of Photography enthusiasts in Jaipur. The Club is open for all those who have inclination towards photography. The Club conducts Photo Walks, Workshops, Exhibitions, Photo Contests and covers relevant events and helps in social causes. The club was founded by Anil Khubani who belongs to Jaipur and is a Professional Photographer & a Film Maker.
The Purpose of the club is to give an Organised platform to all the photographers.
In a short span of 11 years the club has established itself as one of the pioneer club which promotes photography and photographers per se. The club has been conducting regular activities since last 11 years. As of today the club has more than 500 active members and a social media presence of at least 25000.
Just a brief of some of the activities conducted by the Club in the last 11 years
9 Annual Photo Exhibitions displaying more than 150 Photographs in each form across India as well as overseas conducted successfully in the years 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022.
JPC also launched its Annual Desktop Calendar in print in the year 2015 and since then it has been an annual feature. 8 Annual Desktop Calendars have been published for the years 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022.
Every year more than 500 copies of calendars are distributed across India and some have gone overseas also.
JPC Awards were introduced in 2015 . More than 50 Awards were given in different categories for which the photo competitions were organised. The awards were also given to the persons promoting photography. Awards were also given to Photo Journalists for their contribution in the field of photography. The Awards also witnessed some cultural performances from the members of the club itself. JPC Awards functions have been successfully organised in the years 2015, 2016 & 2017, 2018, 2019 & 2022.
JPC Learning Centre was established in the year 2015 with an idea to share photography knowledge and skills with the young and upcoming photographers in Jaipur. Learning Sessions are conducted once a month at the Learning Centre.
JPC's Shooting Star Coffee Table Book Concept was launched in the year 2013, wherein the photographers are free to choose any of the subject and work on the same for a few months and than publish a Joint as well as Individual Coffee Table Book. Shooting Stars Coffee Table Books have been launched in the year 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019. Till now almost 25 different photographers with different themes have participated and completed the projects.
Since it's inception JPC has conducted more than 150 Photo Walks in Jaipur as well as outside Jaipur as well. At least 15-20 Members are present in each walk. More than 50 Photo Contests and more than 25 Photo Workshops have been conducted in the last 11 years. The Club has a huge base with more than 10000 fans on its facebook page and more than 8000 members in the facebook group.
The club has receives excellent media coverage of all the events conducted.


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Le Pride of Burgundy est un ferry trans-manche sur la ligne Calais-Douvres. Il opère pour P&O Ferries depuis 1993. Son port d'attache est Douvres.

L'histoire
Le Pride of Burgundy était l'un des quatre navires de fret "European Class", seul navire de fret pour être nommé "European Causeway" pour P&O European Ferries pour la ligne Dover à Zeebrugge. En raison de la demande sur la ligne Douvres - Calais, le navire a été converti en ferry multi-usage (passagers et fret) avant l'achèvement avec l'ajout de la superstructure. Il est souvent mentionné dans les ferries, les publications et le site web qu'à l'origine le choix du nom du navire a été la Pride of Lille. Par la capacité, il est l'un des plus petits ferries de Douvres – Calais, en prenant seulement 1 200 passagers et 600 voitures.

Le , le Pride of Burgundy, est entré en collision avec le navire MS Berlioz de la compagnie MyFerryLink en raison des vents violents. Le Pride of Burgundy a subi des dommages à son aile droite du pont, mais le problème a été résolu en 2 heures. Le MS Berlioz a reçu des dommages à ses canots de sauvetage qui sont maintenant hors service.

Début 2019, le Pride of Burgundy, comme tous les navires de la P&O sur la route Calais-Douvres, ont reçu le pavillon chypriote, une mesure expliquée par la compagnie due à des taxes moins élevées en vue du Brexit. Le navire est maintenant enregistré à Limassol.

Le 24 Septembre 2019, P&O Ferries annonce deux nouveaux super ferrys (nom du projet : Dover super-ferries) pour la ligne Calais - Douvres en 2023 afin de remplacer sa flotte dont le Pride of Burgundy.

Le 4 Avril 2020, le Pride of Burgundy accompagné du Pride of Canterbury sont mis hors-service momentanément et quittent le port Douvres en direction du port de Leith où ils y attendent depuis. Cela est dû aux mesures prises par la compagnie à la suite de la Covid-19 où le nombre de traversées ont été drastiquement réduites.

Le , il quitte le port de Calais pour Douvres, puis le même jour, il prend la route pour Falmouth, afin de remonter la rivière Fal pour se mettre en attente de son avenir. Pendant son attente, il serra rejoint quelque temps par l'European Seaway avant sa vente à Sea Lines.

Le , il quitte Falmouth pour Douvres où il y arrive le lendemain.

Le , il reprend du service sur la ligne Calais - Douvres, mais uniquement comme fréteur.

Le , il arrête son service entre Calais - Douvres et part le  pour se mettre en attente au port de Tilbury.

Le , il quitte Tilbury pour Douvres ou il remplacera le Pride of Canterbury qui, quelques jours plus tôt, c'est échoué dans le port de Calais et qui se trouve pendant cette période au chantier maritime Arno de Dunkerque. Le même jour, il arrive à Calais et reprend du service le .

Le , il quitte Calais pour Douvres, puis prend la route en direction du port de Dunkerque-Est ou il y est toujours.

Aménagements
Le Pride of Burgundy est le plus petit bateau pour faire fonctionner un service fréquent sur P&O Ferries de Douvres à Calais. Il a 9 ponts, avec des véhicules sur les ponts 3 et 5. Les passagers en zone de loisirs sont sur les ponts 7 et 8. La terrasse est à l'arrière du pont 9. Fumeurs et non-fumeurs sont séparés par le pont ouvert.

Navire jumeaux
Le Pride of Burgundy n'a pas de "sœur" identique en raison de sa conversion en navire multi-usages à passagers en cours de construction. Elle partage la mécanique, la disposition et les caractéristiques visuelles avec les autres navires "de la Classe européenne" dans la P&O de la flotte :
 MS European Seaway
 MS Pride of Canterbury (conversion à partir de l'European Pathway)
 MS Pride of Kent (conversion à partir de l'European Highway)
Contrairement à la conversion du Pride of Canterbury et du Pride of Kent, le Pride of Burgundy conserve un certain nombre de cabines sur le pont 7. Ce ne sont pas des cabines passagers.

Notes et références

Bateau lancé en 1992

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Q: How do you know what's passed into the callbacks in Facebook's Javascript API? This is a general question on how to read Facebook's Javascript API documentation. How can I get a complete description on the objects that are passed into my callback functions? Take for example FB.Login's sparse documentation:
Name  |  Type      | Description
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cb    |  Function  | The callback function.

It does not state what is passed into this callback. I've been using Firebug to inspect the object that is passed back and making guesses on what each property means. My reverse engineering, along with reading of sample code, is not an efficient way to program. I would like to know where I can find the complete Facebook documentation.

A: For the FB.Login() call you asked about, there is this code example:
FB.login(function(response) {
   if (response.authResponse) {
     console.log('Welcome!  Fetching your information.... ');
     FB.api('/me', function(response) {
       console.log('Good to see you, ' + response.name + '.');
     });
   } else {
     console.log('User cancelled login or did not fully authorize.');
   }
 });

That shows that the callback takes one argument and it's the login response.  The login response appears to be discussed here in the doc for FB.getLoginStatus().
{
    status: 'connected',
    authResponse: {
        accessToken: '...',
        expiresIn:'...',
        signedRequest:'...',
        userID:'...'
    }
}

I would agree that the FB doc doesn't make it clear where to find things like the response object format.
In answer to your general question, it appears you look for a piece of sample code to see how the callback function is declared and then poke around in related methods until you find the doc for the arguments themselves.

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Choristoneura est un genre de lépidoptères (papillons) de la famille des Tortricidae, c'est-à-dire des « tordeuses ».

Au Canada
Au Canada, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens), désigne la tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette. Très dévastatrice, on la retrouve dans toutes les provinces canadiennes.  La tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette a comme principaux hôtes l'épinette blanche, l'épinette rouge, l'épinette noire et le sapin baumier, qui est de loin son essence préférée. En période épidémique, on peut aussi la rencontrer sur d'autres essences résineuses.

Espèces rencontrées en Europe
 Choristoneura albaniana (Walker 1863)
 Choristoneura bracatana (Rebel 1894)
 Choristoneura diversana (Hübner 1817)
 Choristoneura hebenstreitella (Müller 1764)
 Choristoneura lafauryana (Ragonot 1875)
 Choristoneura murinana (Hübner 1799)
 Choristoneura simonyi (Rebel 1892)

Notes et références

Annexes

Article connexe
 Tortricidae

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Genre de Lépidoptères (nom scientifique)
Tortricidae


My forthcoming book — Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments — is now in production with the good people at Princeton Architectural Press. It will be out in about six months. Subnature examines those forms of nature that architects, architectural theorists and historians have imagined in potential conflict with the ideas, forms, and inhabitants of architecture. In this book I examine this idea of subnature from early modernity (1700s) to the most contemporary work. The image on the cover (above) is by Jorge Otero Pailos. It's his preservation of the polluted dust in a factory in Balzano, Italy. It's a great image for the cover, as the book contains many projects by contemporary architects, experimental historians (including some material from this site) and experimental preservationists, such as Jorge. Not only does the book feature contemporary work that has never been published before, but I also had a few images from theory books (Cesariano, et. al.) re-photographed for the first time in many years. You are going to see some things that will surprise you and make you think about nature in architecture in new ways.
Although I do not write about this in the book, I always thought of this book as partially related to Mark Wigley's concepts of deconstruction in architecture. When Wigley developed his concept of architectural deconstruction he positioned it against Le Corbusier's notion that architecture was "the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of forms under the light." Wigley attacked all of the assumptions within Le Corbusier's use of the term "form." In counterpoint, Wigley advanced a concept of corruption to reconceptualize architectural form-making. I attack the latter part of Corbusier's definition — its emphasis on the stable, non-human, and external nature ("the light") — that we understand as a given natural arena for architecture. However, my concept of subnature is not about "corrupting" external nature. Things are a bit more messy now, and perhaps a bit less dialectical.
With a title like "Subnature," the book features some work you might expect (eg. the disturbing nature visions of R&Sie), but the book is not simply about advancing an "abject" concept of nature. Rather, it examines forms of nature within architecture that are explicitly produced through social and historical processes (and that cannot easily be re-absorbed into those processes). Many of the works in the book happen to be frightening, but others simply operate against any normative concept of nature, and many appropriate various denigrated notions of nature to develop liberatory positions for architecture. Very soon you will be able to pre-order the book from Amazon, and I hope you will.


Have you always had a dream of owning an animal, but the circumstances were never right? Do you think you've finally reached a point in your life where you have the time and energy to give to something else? This is the perfect time to consider adding a pet to your life. However, after this first decision, another complicated possibility arises: what pet to get. If you are unsure if a dog or cat is best for you, there are some factors you can take into consideration to help you decide.
Evaluate how busy you are. If you aren't home very often and are often busy with work, a cat might be a better option for you. Most cats don't depend on you that much for companionship and are fine with alone time. Plus, they use a litter box, which means you don't have to worry about them messing up the house when you aren't at home.
Dogs require more time. Dogs need 30 to 60 minutes of exercise daily. If not, they will learn bad habits such as excessive barking, destructive tendencies, hyperactivity, scratching, or biting. They also need to be taken out a few times a day.
This doesn't mean that you should get a cat if you are at home only to sleep. This would be cruel for your cat, who will need some interaction and care from you, such as fresh water daily and nail and fur care. They are just more low maintenance on a daily basis than dogs.
Think about your free time. If you have a lot of free time and want to spend it with an animal, a dog is a better option. In fact, most dogs crave attention and don't like being left alone for too long. If you want a pet that you can go outside and run with, go swimming with, or just one that is more adventurous, get a dog.
If you prefer a more sedentary lifestyle, think about a small lap dog who is less prone to excessive exercise. This kind of lifestyle is also good for a cat.
If you travel from home a lot, you will need to arrange for pet care. If you leave your dog at home, she will need a pet watcher to come to your home at least twice a day to let her out and feed her. However, a cat can go for a day or two without being checked on as long as he has enough food and water available to him.
Look at your finances. Dogs and cats are not cheap. Both pets need basic things, such as food, water, and consistent veterinary care. Cats need litter, a litter box, scratching posts, and toys to remain happy, healthy pets. Dogs need more food, toys, and carriers for traveling. It is generally easier to take a cat with you or find a cat sitter, but often dogs have to be kenneled, which is an extra expense.
Some cats, especially those with long or thick fur, will need regular grooming or a daily brushing. You may pay to have this done, or you may have to take time to do it yourself.
The average cat costs $1035 the first year to own. For dogs, a small dog averages $1314 in the first year and a large dog averages $1843. This includes daily care as well as vaccinations and neuter or spaying. This doesn't take into account any emergency care.
Consider the size of your home. Where you live can also impact which animal you have. Cats do fine in most environments, whether you live in a small house or a mansion with a huge yard. Dogs, depending on how large they are, require more space. It also helps to have a yard if you have a dog, which means you can just let her out to play and do her business in the back yard sometimes.
If you live in an apartment, think about a small dog or a cat. In these cases, many landlords will demand an extra deposit to cover any potential damage done to their property by your pet.
Think about those who live with you. When deciding if you want a pet, you have to think about the people who live with you. If the people are your family or your significant other, the decision to have a pet will likely be one you make together. You have to figure out everyone's preferences and what they feel about the different kinds of cats and dogs.
If you live with a roommate, you will need to take into consideration their needs and desires about getting a pet. Can they handle a rambunctious puppy, a roaming cat, or a large dog in your home? You have to consider their quality of life when deciding to get a pet.
You also need to establish whether the people in your house are willing to help take care of the animal while you are away at work, school, or traveling.
Look for allergies. Before you get a pet, you have to check to see if your family members or roommates have cat or dog allergies. You don't want a roommate or family member to be miserable or to get attached to a pet you can't keep. To check before getting a pet, visit friends or family that have cats and dogs separately, so you can decide which one a person might be allergic to.
If you don't have friends with pets, visit the humane society to play with their animals.
Nothing is more heartbreaking than having to give up a loved pet because someone in the family has allergies, so always be sure before adopting or buying a pet.
Research different breeds. Before you can get a pet, you need to find the right breed of animal for you. Think about the kinds of breeds you think you'd like and then research them. You can do this online, through your vet, or by talking to knowledgeable people.
This applies to both species. Some cats need more attention than others. Some dogs are more vocal than others. Some breeds tend to have worse tempers than others. All these details are important if you want to find a pet that will suit you.
If you aren't sure, try the American Kennel Club's online dog breed selector program or the American Humane Society's online checklist on cat breed selection.
Check the temperament. The kind of animal you want may depend on their temperament or physical capabilities. You might want a rambunctious puppy that will turn into a big dog in need of a lot of exercise, especially if you are a very active person. If you are more a walk in the park kind of person, consider a small dog breed that enjoys slower activity.
Cat's can be very temperamental. If you want a pet to hold, pet, and snuggle with all the time whenever you want, you may need to get a small dog. If you want an animal that will snuggle with you and love on you when he wants but not all the time, a cat might work better for you.
Get a pet. Once you have examined all the factors and know you can handle a pet, live in the right place for a pet, and know which kind you want, you need to choose a pet. Spend time searching for the perfect pet for you. Search the internet or classified sections to find pets for sell. This is a good method if you want a particular purebred animal. Also visit your local humane or rescue society to consider adopting a fine, healthy pet.
If you find one you like, contact the owner or shelter people to let them know you're interested in the animal. Then, return to the place every day for a few days to spend time with the animal. This will help you both adapt before you take her home.
Some shelters and owners will let you take the animal as a foster pet for a while until you become familiar with what she is like and decide you want to keep her.
Pippa Elliott, a licensed veterinarian, advises: "Cats have a much more independent nature which some 'dog people' find unrewarding. If you are considering a cat over a dog because of time constraints, be aware that cats are not small dogs but have a character all of their own."
What happens I have school 7 hours? Should I own a cat?
If there is nobody else home to care for the pet while you're at school, a cat would be a better idea. Cats are very independent. Dogs need a lot of attention.
Can I get a cat if I'm going on a trip for a month?
You should wait until after your trip to get a pet. Cats are very stressed in a new home, and will be even more so traveling or with a petsitter.
If I'm looking for a pet to accompany my dog, should I get a cat or another dog?
I would get another dog. Two dogs are most likely to be similar in personality compared to a dog and a cat, so there's a better chance of your dog being happy about its new playmate.
Spend your time thinking through your decision to adopt a pet. This is long time, lifelong for the animal, commitment. Do not take the decision lightly or go off on a whim.
If you can't afford a pet, volunteer at your local animal rescue or humane society to get be around animals. Plus, you are doing a valuable service for those pets without owners.
Purebred animals have a higher potential of health problems than a mutt. Do your research on any potential health problems for the breed you choose.
If you're trying to choose between a cat and a dog as a pet, consider your lifestyle. A cat may be best if you're busy or away from home often, since they require less companionship and attention. If you have lots of free time and crave constant companionship, a dog is a great option. Cats and small dogs are typically less expensive and do well in most environments. Large dogs need more space and its best if you have a yard or outdoor area for them. For tips from our Veterinary co-author on how to evaluate breed and temperament, read on!
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Fosta Judecătorie de plasă (în ) este o clădire administrativă ridicată în 1905 în stil secession pentru Judecătoria districtului Miercurea Nirajului din comitatul Mureș-Turda, care se află pe lista monumentelor istorice sub codul .

Descriere
Clădirea se află pe artera centrală a orașului Miercurea Nirajului (strada Trandafirilor, nr. 79) vis-a-vis de o casă monument istoric construită tot în stil secession cu trei ani mai târziu. Construcția, cu regim de înălțime parter și etaj, are o aripă lungă cu fațada și intrarea principală orientată spre strada Trandafirilor. Fosta judecătorie are o volumetrie impunătoare având fațade decorate cu porțiuni de cărămidă aparentă, iar intrarea principală este evidențiată printr-un ancadrament de piatră cu bosaje. Edificiul are un acoperiș înalt, în două ape, realizat pe structură de lemn.

Cea mai reprezentativă încăpere din interior este casa scării având parapet din fier forjat decorat cu elemente seccesioniste.

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Legături externe

Monumente istorice din județul Mureș
Miercurea Nirajului


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Requiem for the Living Mall
by Joshua Samuel Brownon 2020-04-21 2020-04-20
Core Pacific City, AKA the Living Mall, was notable for its striking dome-shaped exterior. Its construction encountered several issues that may have doomed it from the beginning. Photo: Tobie Openshaw
Core Pacific City was an architectural oddity, tucked into an unfashionable part of Taipei. Still, the shopping center – now being razed – always had its admirers.
The year of the rat is off to a rough start, throwing so much news of earth-shaking proportions at the public that less-significant stories get lost amid a maelstrom of genuine concerns. One such item of lesser import is the impending demolition of one of Taiwan's strangest architectural landmarks, Core Pacific City (AKA the Living Mall).
It's easy to understand why news of the Living Mall's demise has met with a communal meh from Taiwan's generally overburdened collective consciousness. The nation's hangover from the most important presidential election in Taiwan's history had yet to fade when the region was hit with impending peril yet again from another looming catastrophe in the form of the coronavirus.
This new existential crisis has stretched the nation's overwhelmed attention span far past the point where many tears could be shed for a bizarre structure that had squatted quietly on the periphery of Taipei's skyline for close to two decades.
Few were surprised by last year's announcement of the Living Mall's closure. Core Pacific City had been hemorrhaging money for years, according to most sources (including, most notably, its owners). In recent years, the Living Mall had become an ideal place to take the grandchildren, thanks to its low traffic (ironically one of the factors leading to its closing) and businesses catering to children. But outside of regular customers on the far ends of the demographic scale, Core Pacific City had mostly die-hard enthusiasts enjoying the unquestionably unique, largely right-angle-free interior space.
The mall's interior, which resembled something out of an old sci-fi movie. Photo: Joshua Samuel Brown
I counted myself among these enthusiasts, at least for the last few years of the Living Mall's life, and news of the impending demise of this strange architectural behemoth brings me great sadness. At the risk of sounding self-centered, I should explain that Core Pacific City's life is deeply intertwined with my own Taiwan story.
The year was 1997, and Taiwan had just recently gone through its most important election in history, the one cementing Lee Tung-hui as the first truly democratically elected president of the Republic of China. Economic sentiment was bullish, and Taiwan's strategy of cornering the market in the semiconductor and computer-hardware sectors then driving a global high-tech economic boom was paying rich dividends.
I was a fresh-faced young expat with a degree in English and zero experience in either the financial or tech sectors. Despite this, I'd just been hired by a company called Core Pacific Securities. Flush with cash and expanding quickly, the company had just branched out into early childhood education, opening up a nursery school/kindergarten for their employees' kids just a few blocks from its headquarters on Dunhua Road. Little Lion King Kindergarten was billed as a fully immersive English environment, and I'd been hired to teach from 8 a.m. until noon.
But Taiwan's labor laws were (then as now) inscrutable. Unable to hire a foreigner legally as a kindergarten teacher, Core Pacific brought me on board as an "English Language Financial Specialist," meaning each day after lunch with the kiddies and a power nap in the ball pit, I donned office jacket and tie and headed to company HQ. There, I'd spend the next five hours sitting at a desk reading newspapers, studying Chinese, and occasionally going to the library to use their computer to log into a novelty called "the World Wide Web."
Very infrequently, I'd be assigned some minor task.
One of these rare sojourns into productivity involved editing a document created to pitch a building project to foreign investors. At first, I thought it was a joke. The proposal's prose was weird and flowery, describing a building designed by an avant-garde American architect named Jon Jerde, who'd also drawn renditions of his proposed vision from various angles. It was a remarkably strange ball-shaped building that looked like the set from a cheesy retro sci-fi flick set in some far-off futuristic dystopia.
The colleague who'd given me the assignment was very excited. "If this moves forward, this building will really be a landmark," he said. I agreed with him, of course, all the while thinking it highly unlikely that a project this strange would ever be green-lit, let alone funded.
But Core Pacific Securities hadn't hired me for my financial acumen, and Taiwan in the late 20th century was a wild place, fertile and optimistic. More importantly, the Taiwan business community was swimming in cash and in a gambling mood. Within the next 18 months, ground on the corner lot at Bade and Dongning Roads was being broken for the construction of what was now dubbed Core Pacific City: The Living Mall.
Inauspicious beginnings
Core Pacific City: The Living Mall opened in November 2001, by which time I'd long since hung up my kindergarten cap and Core Pacific tie. Still, I had a small sense of personal investment in the project, and was saddened by the news of the Living Mall's inauspicious grand opening. The long escalator meant to bring the first batch of VIP visitors from ground level into the Mall's futuristic interior failed to operate. That these VIPs included then-President Chen Shui-bian – who'd been elected the year before in what many called "the most important election in Taiwanese history" and invited to cut the ribbon – was only one bad omen among many.
Core Pacific City's problems ran deeper than a mere inauspicious opening day. The Mall was under a cloud, owing largely to issues involving licenses and safety violations. That the project had gone vastly over budget did not help matters, especially since the bullish financial era in which the project was conceived had given way to the deeply bearish days following the bursting of the first dot-com bubble.
As if all this wasn't bad enough, Core Pacific City opened just a couple of months after September 11, 2001, a time of financial uncertainty and general global pessimism.
I visited the Mall just a few weeks after its grand opening, hoping very much to fall in love with the weird place. But immersed in the gloomy zeitgeist along with everyone else, I found the experience surreal and underwhelming. I wrote of my first experience at the place in less-than flattering-terms in an article entitled "A Late Night Visit to the Great Mall":
"Getting from the street level to The Living Mall's interior lobby requires a lengthy escalator ride through a neon tunnel. Keep reminding yourself that you are going shopping, and not being taken via conveyor belt deep into the heart of an alien hive. Do not panic. The colored lights along the ceiling are there to soothe. They are not obscuring wall-mounted nozzles waiting to disinfect you for your visit with the alien hive queen. Soon enough, you will be inside the structure itself, refreshed and ready for some serious shopping.
But shopping for what? There's the rub. After the lengthy trip up the mystery chute, the rapt shopper expects to be greeted by some sort of futuristic smorgasbord of capitalistic delights – shops selling space-age go-go boots, beauty salons offering Jetson-esque haircuts, a few snack bars hawking Soylent Green. But there isn't any of that. After a few loops around the mall's ever-curving interior, it dawns on the shopper that The Living Mall offers nothing that can't be found elsewhere in Taipei city."
I didn't return to the Living Mall for several years. Apparently, I was not alone. After an early flush of curious visitors, attendance dwindled. My one-time employers and their various investors had gambled that their unquestionably unique shopping and lifestyle venue would become an anchor point, transforming an unfashionable part of Taipei into a center of shopping, leisure, and recreation. Instead, the opposite happened: the neighborhood remained unfashionable and – equally important in a city of a million conveniences – desperately under-served by the city's growing MRT system.
In what must have seemed to the once-optimistic developers at Core Pacific the unkindest cut of all, Taipei 101 opened its doors to the world in late 2004 with the sort of fanfare and patriotic pride generally reserved for moon launches and Olympic hosting. With the opening of Taipei 101, the Xinyi district cemented its position as Taipei's prime shopping district. Taipei 101 (and the luxury mall in its lower floors) would cast permanent shade on Core Pacific City, which was relegated to the unenviable position of White Elephant of Taipei City's shopping scene.
As the decade wore on and the bold era of Chen Shui-bian gave way to the more cautious days of Ma Ying-jeou, the Living Mall stayed alive. And while it never quite thrived, Core Pacific City continued to hold the dubious honor of being at once the most written about, yet least profitable, shopping mall in Taiwan (and perhaps all of Asia).
In spite of my own initial impression and snarky first article, by 2010 I'd joined the ranks of writers singing the place's praises, calling it – in the numerous articles and guidebooks I was writing at the time – a must-see spot for anyone visiting Taipei. Perhaps this change of heart reflected maturity, my taste in art and architecture having expanded through extensive travel through Pearl River Delta cities like Shenzhen, whose unabashed embrace of experimental architecture had apparently widened my horizons.
The time-honored crankiness of middle age (something we inevitably try to pass off as nostalgia) may have played a role as well. As Taipei's top-tier shopping venues continued to stay on the bleeding edges of fashion and technology, there was something comforting about visiting a mall whose surrealistic design was belied by the unfashionable, almost frumpy, shopping choices within.
As the 2010s dawned, the Living Mall's interior became my comfortable time capsule of a future that might have been. The food court offered little in the way of outstanding fare, but I ate there anyway just for the chance to dine beneath the sphere itself and gaze upwards into its interior lights.
The only practical area where Core Pacific City punched within its weight class was its movie theater, which remained among the best in the city and was my go-to spot for thrice-yearly Marvel blockbuster pilgrimages. But aside from the theater, the mall was usually uncrowded (and unprofitable).
Though the writing had long been on the wall by 2017, that didn't stop me from continuing a career-long tradition of inaccurate prognostication by declaring the place to be "on an upswing" in a 2017 blog post written while doing research for a book.
Even after the lights-out ceremony for Core Pacific City (where visibly saddened Core Pacific Group Chairman Shen Ching-ching said the mall's closing "symbolizes the disillusion of a dream of mine") was held last November, I still held hope that the building might be saved. I was planning to end this article on a hopeful note, speculating that President Tsai might use a bit of her post-election political clout to grant the structure landmark status.
Never one to leave a half-baked idea half-baked, I'd even come up with a few suggestions about how the government might go about re-purposing the building. The options included turning it into a velodrome, cat sanctuary, or annex for the National Palace Museum (or perhaps all three at once, zoning laws permitting).
But scarcely had I begun the final paragraph when a series of photos and a video posted by a friend confirmed that the deconstruction crew had already begun its work, dashing my hopes for a reprieve. The deconstruction will need to be done delicately to preserve the foundation and sub-levels for incorporation into the office complex slated to replace the Living Mall by 2022.
Soon enough, the physical embodiment of Jon Jerde's vision and Shen Ching-ching's dream will exist only in the memories of the millions who visited it over the years, and in the thousands of articles written about the mall by journalists, travel writers, and bloggers impressed enough by its short, audacious existence.
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Nathaniel H Dahl says:
Thanks for this well-told story of the Living Mall's auspicious (yet, even from the start, wobbly) beginnings, struggle to find an identity, and ultimate demise. You tell it sort of as an allegory of the financial largesse and profligacy of Taiwan in the 1990's, and how that created the conditions for such an indulgent, ill-conceived project as this, going in the short span of 20 years from grand showcase to a pox on the landscape. I've been there several times and, early on, I was struck by the contrast between the impressive look of the exterior and the rather awkward, odd interior. My last visit was in 2017, when I had the feeling I was in a K-Mart (complete with kids game arcade and fire-sale mattress shop).
Bjorn Sorensen says:
Yeah – roller derby tracks anyone? Alternative or space living experimental communities? It looks quite fun inside. So curious that the creativity needed to build this didn't carry on over the years with new ideas to revitalize.
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After returning from deployment in Operation Desert Storm, Cedric Halyard found himself struggling with homelessness and addictions. His experience overcoming those challenges has helped him help more than 1,000 other Veterans and their family members who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. As Veteran Outreach Director for Carrfour Supportive Housing's Operation Sacred Trust program, an initiative funded by a Department of Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veteran Families, SSVF, grant, Halyard serves on the frontline of the battle to end homelessness for America's Veteran families.
OST Veteran Outreach Director Cedric Halyard understands firsthand the challenges Veterans face after returning from deployment. His personal experience overcoming homelessness and addictions after returning from Desert Storm has helped him touch the lives of more than 1,000 others.
There was no Operation Sacred Trust when I returned from Desert Storm. It was long after my return before I truly understood what I was going through. Like others, I chose what made sense to me to deal with the feelings I was experiencing as I struggled with the transition to civilian life. Before I knew it, I had lost everything, including myself. Now I know it didn't have to be that way. We can help Veterans transition back into the community and their families in ways that help them protect themselves and their families. No Veteran has to be homeless in America. I'm committed to finding every one of the homeless Veterans in South Florida to help them access the services and resources they've earned. When they see how much they're respected, despite the situations they've often gotten into, they are open to learning. The work we do to boost resiliency helps them think more clearly and make better decisions. Our Case Managers then work with each Veteran family to understand their personal situation, resources, and how we can best make sure they never face or experience homelessness again. I know I can't change the past, but for the thousands of Veterans struggling on the streets of our community or trying to save their homes and families, we can change the future.
What is a story serving a Veteran that stands out for you?
Every story stands out. What means the most for me is when we can help a Veteran that was feeling hopeless move into a new home or apartment, knowing they have the support they need to make the transition and resources to sustain themselves. I'm proud to have been part of doing that hundreds of times in the past year. It's especially meaningful to help the female Veterans in our community and the Veterans with young children, so many of whom are single mothers or fathers. It's not so much the stories that stand out as the images. Images of men and women accepting the keys to their new home. Snapshots forever in my heart of children seeing their room for the first time. And so many memories of people who continue to come back to me asking what they can do to help others now that their own lives are back on track. That's something that really stands out about our Veterans; how much they continue to want to serve others.
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Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
Education: B. Sc. and M. Sc. Biology, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Spain). Ph. D. in Science, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Non-scientific Interests: Reading, cinema, scuba diving, and traveling.
Brief bio: My path to Plant Biology took off very early, when I was an undergraduate student. By the time I started my PhD in Dr. Salinas Lab (INIA, Spain), I already knew that I will dedicate my career to increasing our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying plant adaptation to environmental stress. After my PhD, I joined Prof. Chua Lab (The Rockefeller Univ. US) where I not only unveiled that the SUMOylation pathway positively regulates Arabidopsis tolerance to drought, I also developed a sense of compromise between basic knowledge and applied science. With this idea, I came back to Spain and, while continuing to study the role of protein stability in plant adaptation to abiotic stress, I also participated in the development of several patented methods to increase crop tolerance to abiotic stress. Recently, my interest has centered in the analysis of the mechanisms controlling RNA metabolism. I found that Arabidopsis seems to be an ideal model to study the function and regulation of eukaryotic spliceosome, so identifying and characterizing the molecular determinants underlying this regulation is my main objective for the near future.


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Renga Funsai Yuugi Download (2001 Arcade action Game)
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Renga Funsai Yuugi is a novel combination of vertical shooter and Breakout: your spaceship is equipped with flippers, which you use to bounce the ball back to destroy the blocks on the top of the screen. The graphics are excellent, and the gameplay very smooth. There is plenty of power-ups to collect and bonus blocks that will boost your score. The huge ball makes the game less challenging than, say, DX-Ball series, and the shooter element is somewhat distracting from the main action. If you like Breakout/Arkanoid clones in general, though, give this old game a try.
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Two day jazz improvisation workshop – 15th / 16th June 2019.
In partnership with the University of Chichester, Mike's second JazzSmart workshop for 2019 will be at the University of Chichester in West Sussex. Fantastic facilities in the recently renovated music block, this workshop is for you if you want to improve your jazz playing regardless of level! Price: £135 for two days.
For our Chichester workshop, we can offer single bed accommodation with en-suite bathroom at an additional cost. The University have accommodation available for either £60 for the Friday night, or £120 for two nights including breakfast (Friday and Saturday night). It will be on the main campus with parking included. Please contact us if you have further questions about this, and it can be booked via ticketsource.


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Through Cheryl Cole's eyes
Her book is packed full of unseen pics and secret goss
Cheryl Colehas revealed that she will be releasing her first book on September 30th entitled Through My Eyes which details her private life and there is speculation it will include goss on her time with ex-husband Ashley Cole. The book is being officially signed off by the singer as "an intimate glimpse behind the scenes of her busy and fascinating life."
"Sometimes I find things happen so quickly, it's possible to forget all those personal moments that make up the amazing experiences I've had over the last year," said Cheryl. "This book is filled with pictures that capture those moments, my memories and the people I'm closest to. I'm thrilled to see it all together for the first time."
In a statement released on Cheryl's Facebook page her reps say that the book will be "packed full of previously unseen photographs from Cheryl's own personal collection of favourites, together with dozens of stunning and exclusive new images, this lavishly illustrated account of her remarkable year will be a must-have for her millions of devoted fans."
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Encoding. Use the UTF-8 (Unicode) character encoding for content, databases, etc. Always declare the encoding.
Escapes. Use characters rather than escapes (e.g. á á or á) whenever you can.
Language. Declare the language of documents and indicate internal language changes.
Presentation vs. content. Use style sheets for presentational information. Restrict markup to semantics.
Images, animations & examples. Check for translatability and inappropriate cultural bias.
Forms. Use UTF-8 on both form and server. Support local formats of names/addresses, times/dates, etc.
Text authoring. Use simple, concise text. Use care when composing sentences from multiple strings.
Navigation. On each page include clearly visible navigation to localized pages or sites, using the target language.
Right-to-left text. For HTML, add dir="rtl" to the html tag. Only re-use it to change the base direction.
Intended audience: anyone who is new to internationalization and needs guidance on topics to consider and ways to get into the material on the site.
The following 'Quick Tips' summarize key concepts of international Web design. These tips are not complete guidelines, they are only a handful of concepts described at the W3C's Internationalization Activity subsite.
This page lists the tips in very terse statements that also appear on the business-card size reference cards, followed by text that provides more detail and explanations. Then we link to information on the W3C Internationalization subsite, when available, where you can read further.
This page will be updated from time to time.
The character encoding you choose determines how bytes are mapped to characters in your text.
Normally character encodings limit you to a particular script or set of languages. Unicode allows you to deal simply with almost all scripts and languages in use around the world. In this way Unicode simplifies the handling of content in multiple languages, whether within a single page or across one or more sites. Unicode is particularly useful when used in forms, scripts and databases, where you often need to support multiple languages. Unicode also makes it very straightforward to add new languages to your content.
Unless you appropriately declare which character encoding you are using your users may be unable to read your content. This is because incorrect assumptions may be made by the application interpreting your text about how the bytes map to characters.
Character encodings for beginners explains some of the basic concepts about character encodings, and why you should care. Introducing Character sets and Encodings gives an gentle introduction to various aspects of the topic. Character encodings: Essential concepts introduces you to key terms related to encodings and characters.
Escapes such as Numeric Character References (NCRs), and entities are ways of representing any Unicode character in markup using only ASCII characters. For example, you can represent the character á in HTML as á or á or á.
Such escapes are useful for clearly representing ambiguous or invisible characters, and to prevent problems with syntax characters such as ampersands and angle brackets. They may also be useful on occasion to represent characters not supported by your character encoding or unavailable from your keyboard. Otherwise you should always use characters rather than escapes.
Using character escapes in markup and CSS provides additional information about the use of escapes in markup languages. In particular, note that entities (such as á) should be used with caution.
Information about the (human) language of content is already important for accessibility, styling, searching, editing, and other reasons. As more and more content is tagged and tagged correctly, applications that can detect language information will become more and more useful and pervasive.
When declaring language, you may need to express information about a specific range of content in a different way from metadata about the document as a whole. It is important to understand this distinction.
Language on the Web gives an gentle introduction to various aspects of the topic.
It is an important principle of Web design to keep the way content is styled or presented separate from the actual text itself. This makes it simple to apply alternative styling for the same text, for example in order to display the same content on both a conventional browser and a small hand-held device.
This principle is particularly useful for localization, since different scripts have different typographic needs. For example, due to the complexity of Japanese characters, it may be preferable to show emphasis in Japanese HTML pages in other ways than bolding or italicisation. It is much easier to apply such changes if the presentation is described using CSS, and markup is much cleaner and more manageable if text is correctly and unambiguously labelled as 'emphasized' rather than just 'bold'.
It can save considerable time and effort during localization to work with CSS files rather than have to change the markup, because any needed changes can be made in a single location for all pages, and the translator can focus on the content rather than the presentation.
Read the talks slides from the 2007 @media conference presentation "Designing for International Users: Practical Tips".
If you want your content to really communicate with people, you need to speak their language, not only through the text, but also through local imagery, color, objects and preoccupations. It is easy to overlook the culture-specific nature of symbolism, behaviour, concepts, body language, humor, etc. You should get feedback on the suitability and relevance of your images, video-clips, and examples from in-country users.
You should also take care when incorporating text in graphics when content is translated. Text on complex backgrounds or in restricted spaces can cause considerable trouble for the translator. You should provide graphics to the localization group that have text on a separate layer, and you should bear in mind that text in languages such as English and Chinese will almost certainly expand in translation.
The encoding used for an HTML page that contains a form should support all the characters needed to enter data into that form. This is particularly important if users are likely to enter information in multiple languages.
Databases and scripts that receive data from forms on pages in multiple languages must also be able to support the characters for all those languages simultaneously.
The simplest way to enable this is to use the Unicode character encoding UTF-8 for both pages containing forms and all back-end processing and storage. In such a scenario the user can fill in data in whatever language and script they need to.
You should also try to avoid making assumptions that things such as the user's name and address will follow the same formatting rules as your own. Ask yourself how much detail you really need to break out into separate fields for things such as addresses. Bear in mind that in some cultures there are no street names, in others the house number follows the street name, some people need more than one line for the part of the address that precedes the town or city name, etc. In fact in some places an address runs top down from the general to the specific, which implies a very different layout strategy. Be very careful about building into validation routines incorrect assumptions about area codes or telephone number lengths. Recognize that careful labelling is required for how to enter numeric dates, since there are different conventions for ordering of day, month and year.
If you are gathering information from people in more than one country, it is important to develop a strategy for addressing the different formats people will expect to be able to use. Not only is this important for the design of the forms you create, but it also has an impact on how you will store such information in databases.
Simple, concise text is easier to translate. It is also easier for people to read if the text they are reading is not in their first language.
You should take considerable care when composing messages from multiple substrings, or when inserting variable text into strings. For example, suppose your site uses PHP scripting, and you decide to compose certain messages on the fly. You may create messages by concatenating separate substrings, such as 'Only' or 'Don't', ' return results in ', and 'any format' or 'HTML'. Because the order of text in sentences of other languages can be very different, translating this may present major difficulties.
Similarly, it is important to avoid fixing the positions of variables in text such as "Page 1 of 10". The syntax of other languages may require the numbers to be reversed to make sense. If you use PHP, this would mean using a formatting string such as "Page %1\$d of %2\$d.", rather than the more simple "Page %d of %d.". The latter is untranslatable in some languages.
Where you have versions of a page or site in a different language, or for a different country or region, you should provide a way for the user to view the version they prefer. This should be available from any page on your site where an alternative exists.
When providing links to pages in other languages, use the name of the target language in the native language and script. Don't assume that the user can read English. For example, in a link to a French page, 'French' would be written 'français'. This also applies if you are guiding the user to a country- or region-specific page or site, eg. 'Germany' would be 'Deutschland'.
Text in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu is read from right to left. This reading order typically leads to right-aligned text and mirror-imaging of things like page and table layout. You can set the default alignment and ordering of page content to right to left by simply including dir="rtl" in the html tag.
The direction set in the html tag sets a base direction for the document which cascades down through all the elements on the page. It is not necessary to repeat the attribute on lower level elements unless you want to explicitly change the directional flow.
Embedded text in, for example, Latin script still runs left to right within the overall right to left flow. So do numbers. If you are working with right to left languages, you should become familiar with the basics of the Unicode bidirectional algorithm. This algorithm takes care of much of this bidirectional text without the need for intervention from the author. There are some circumstances, however, where markup or Unicode control characters are needed to ensure the correct effect.
Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm basics provides a gentle introduction to the basics of how the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm works, and where it needs help from markup.
Creating HTML Pages in Arabic, Hebrew and Other Right-to-left Scripts provides a gentle introduction to the basics of handling right-to-left text in HTML. The principles are similar for other markup languages.
Inline markup and bidirectional text in HTML provides another gentle introduction, this time to the basics of handling inline bidirectional text.
Try the W3C Internationalization Checker.
There is a Getting Started page to help you find information on the site. The Getting Started page points to articles that provide newcomers with a gentle introduction to key internationalization topics and point to basic information on the site to get you going.


Wabaunsee Sr High School is a public high school of the Mill Creek Valley School District located in Alma, KS. It has 141 students in grades 9th through 12th. Wabaunsee Sr High School is the 232nd largest public high school in Kansas and the 18,959th largest nationally. It has a student teacher ratio of 7.7 to 1.
You can also use the form below to search for alumni info and Wabaunsee Sr High School students.
Wabaunsee Sr High School is ranked 270th out of 354 ranked schools in Kansas, for total students on lunch assistance.
The percentage of Wabaunsee Sr High School students on free and reduced lunch assistance (32.6%) is lower than the state average of 43.1%. This may indicate that the area has a lower level of poverty than the state average.


...but we gotta do it....lest we pay an exuberant amount in marina fees.
You see, anchoring our boat is free whereas a marina can charge up to $3 (or more) per foot. Carry the two...and it's not hard to calculate the cost savings. They are significant.
So we are anchoring (or mooring) a lot more these days.
And let me tell you, it is a DIRTY job.
We have a 45 pound CQR (which is honking for our size boat) and 270 ft. of chain (5/16 BBB, if you cruisers are wondering). This is great for peace of mind - because the one thing you do NOT want to happen at anchor is to drag. The more beefy your ground tackle, the better and more secure you are.
Chain is great for added 'beef' and strength - partly because on it's own it is very heavy and actually lays along the sea floor, adding more strength to your hold.
Operative words being, "along the sea floor".
When we pull up our chain with it come GOBS and GOBS and GOBS of mud. Gunky, slimy, "what is that smell?!"* kind of mud. And it gets everywhere.
This morning I looked like Pig Pen from the Peanuts cartoons. Mud all over me. My jacket. My pants. My boots. Everywhere.
It took 12 buckets of seawater to flush down the boat and get her respectable again.
Necessity is the mother of invention and I am now determined to find a way to do this without looking like I was mud wrestling. I'll keep you posted.
*Perhaps the fact we were anchored next to some sort of natural gas facility was the reason for the stench? It was foul.
Aaaak! Just sent you an email - there's a solution!
Anchor washdown - a necessary accessory in the Chesapeake.
I loooooove our saltwater washdown pump, of which I was skeptical in the beginning. We spray the crap outta the anchor chain before it ever comes on board.
Saltwater washdown pump, oh yes. You don't want that gunk IN your anchor locker. yuck.
Sound advice regarding an anchor wash-down pump. The good news is that as you head further south, I suspect you will encounter more sand bottoms! It's great to hear about your new experiences as your cruising time grows.
Anchor washdown pump...I like the sound of that!!
I pull the anchor off the seabed and slowly reverse and "drag" the chain and anchor thru the water. As the chain is hauled up with the windlass the current over the chain and the anchor become clean. Once the anchor is close to the surface I use a pole to clean off the rest. spotless.
We never saw the benefit of the pump- one more power draw, one more system to break etc etc etc. Just used the ol' bucket- Sandy bottoms will be more frequent as you get out of the rivers where the bottoms tend to be stinky mud. To avoid it getting on me- I usually stood with one foot on the cap-rail and one on the pulpit (we had a handheld remote for the windlass). Plus, filling a bucket while the boat is cruising along is good for your arm muscles, just be sure to tie it on somewhere so you don't lost it!