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Q: create 2D array by replacing * in array values Working on 2D array, have to replace array values with start based on replacement.
My array is [A B C D] and it has to create all possible combination by replacing 1,2,3 and 4 characters with *  in array.
For EG
* B C D
A * C D
A B * D
A B C *  //Replacing 1
* * C D
A * * D
A B * * //Replacing 2
* * * D
A * * *
* B * *
* * C * //Replacing 3
* * * * //Replacing 4

My code written is just changing values diagonally.
for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
            {
                for(int j=0; j<m; j++)
                {
                    // Filling the diagonals with second character
                    //if(i==j || (i+j)==(n-1))
                    if(i==j)
                    A[i][j] = c3;
                    else // Filling all other positions with second character
                        A[i][j] = c1;
                }
            }

            for(int i=0; i<n/2; i++)
            {
                for(int j=i+1; j<m-1-i; j++)
                {
                    // Filling the upper positions.
                    A[i][j] = c1;

                    // Filling the lower positions.
                    A[n-1-i][j] = c1;
                }
            }

            // Printing the Matrix
            System.out.println("\nOutput : \n");
            for(int i=0; i<n; i++)
            {
                for(int j=0; j<m; j++)
                {
                    System.out.print(A[i][j]+" ");
                }
                System.out.println();
            }
        }

any help please?

A: Here is a heavily generalized version:
public static char[][] row2array(char... row)
{
    // row size
    int n = row.length;
    // row count in result
    int m = 1 << n;
    // result two dimensional array
    char[][] result = new char[m][n];
    // outer loop: rows
    for (int i = 0; i < m; ++i) {
        // inner loop: columns
        for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
            // condition: is the bit set?
            if ((i & (1 << j)) > 0) {
                // if yes, then replace with asterisk
                result[i][j] = '*';
            } else {
                // otherwise just add the element from the row
                result[i][j] = row[j];
            }
        }
    }
    // finished
    return result;
}

System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(row2array('A', 'B', 'C', 'D')).replace("],", "],\n"));

This uses the bits of the row index to specify which characters to replace...

A: Here is the working code, Thanks for all your help!!!
public class shiftstar {
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
        char colm[]= {'A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I'};
        int col = colm.length; //Number of Characters as column
        int row = 1 << col;  //Total Number of Rows
        // result two  array
        char[][] result = new char[row][col];
        // outer loop: rows
        for (int i = 0; i < row; ++i) {
            // inner loop: columns
            for (int j = 0; j < col; ++j) {
                // condition: is the bit set?
                if ((i & (1 << j)) > 0) {
                    // if yes, then replace with asterisk
                    result[i][j] = '*';
                } else {
                    // otherwise just add the element from the row

                    result[i][j] = colm[j];
                }
            }
            }
        System.out.println("\nOutput : \n");
        for(int i=0; i<row; i++)
        {
            for(int j=0; j<col; j++)
            {
                System.out.print(result[i][j]+" ");
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
        }

    }


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The castle sat at the centre of medieval social and political order in Western Europe from the eleventh century onwards, and represents perhaps the most recognisable feature of the medieval landscape. The origins of the medieval castle are generally assigned to the ninth and tenth centuries, and the standard story begins with the defensive fortifications established against the Vikings by the Carolingian king Charles the Bald in the 860s. In this paper I argue that there are problems with this story, by re-evaluating some of the key sources and assumptions on which it rests. This argument has broader implications for how we think about the significance of fortifications in the last years of the Carolingian Empire; and the evolution of the castle between the ninth and twelfth centuries.
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Sailors working for Gazprom, the Russian oil giant, used water cannons to remove Greenpeace activists who were protesting their plans to drill in the Arctic. The environmental group took action to signal the potential for a catastrophic environmental disaster as well as the impact on climate change.
Gazprom is drilling in the Prirazlomnoye oil field located in the Pechora Sea off the northwest coast of Russia. It is the first company to attempt commercial extraction of the 526 million barrels of oil that are estimated to be located in the offshore fields. To date it has been impossible to work in the region because it is blocked by thick ice for eight months of the year. The Prirazlomnaya rig, a Russian all weather oil platform, was specially designed at the Severodvinsk shipyard, to overcome the harsh conditions.
Last Friday climbers from the environmental group scaled the Prirazlomnaya rig and spent 15 hours holding up a banner that read "Save the Arctic." On Monday the Greenpeace activists used four speed boats to block the Anna Akhmatova ship from bringing workers to the rig. Sailors turned water cannons on the boats to force them out of the way.
"The force of the water was so intense it knocked my boots
off!" tweeted one Greenpeace activist who attempted to block the Anna Akhmatova. "So much
water, sometimes all you saw is white. Felt like we were in a hurricane,"
tweeted another. (Watch a video of the Greenpeace boat being flipped over)
"We climbed Gazprom's rusting oil platform backed by over a million people who have joined a new movement to protect the Arctic," Kumi Naidoo, the executive director of Greenpeace international, said in a press release. (Naidoo was one of the climbers.) "(I)t's not a question of if an Arctic oil spill will happen, but when. The only way to stop a catastrophic oil spill occurring in this unique region is to permanently ban all drilling now."
Gazprom received a permit to drill for oil in July 2007. The company submitted an official oil spill response plan that expired last month. The original document "shows that the company would be completely unprepared to deal with an accident in the Far North, and would rely on substandard clean-up methods - such as shovels and buckets - that simply do not work in icy conditions," says Greenpeace.
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Greenpeace has received support for its protest from the local indigenous community in the Komi Republic. "The peoples of the north will no longer be bought with dimes and cents to stand silently by while the oil companies destroy our native land," says a support statement issued by the Save the Pechora River committee. "Our culture and history cannot be bought off and replaced with pipelines and drill rigs."
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I recently lost my Grandma to old age. Well that's what the death certificate said. In truth, by the end, she simply gave up. She had been ill which had knocked her off her feet and whilst she'd recovered slightly, she simply decided she'd had enough. She wanted to, and was ready to, join my Grandad, her partner-in-crime, whom she'd lost ten years previously.
It wasn't a shock when I got the phone call, her passing was somewhat expected, but it didn't make it any less painful. My friends were incredibly supportive, but there was little to say, it was just very, very sad. And there is no getting away from that.
Losing someone who has been my life consistently for the whole of my twenty five years is gutting. It took the wind out of me. My brain didn't function properly, I was numb to everything going on around me. It was like I had stopped yet the world continued in a flurry around me. I tried to do the normal, everyday things, to try and keep up but I couldn't. As hard as I tried, I couldn't fight the fact my body and mind were forcing me to stop and absorb and express the sadness I felt.
People say it gets better with time but it doesn't. You just think about it less. It's been four weeks now and I'm beginning to feel 'normal' again. However, this normality is rocked by the simplest of things – a photo, a smell, a phrase, a look – anything can set off an all-encompassing cloak of sadness and it's difficult to deal with.
We're not trained or taught how to deal with sadness. There's a certain attitude of 'bury-your-head-in-the-sand and hope nothing bad happens' around Britain and as such, when our stiff upper lip begins to quiver, we just can't handle it. I'm not sure how well I handled losing my Grandma really… Sadness is not a topic that's ever discussed as no-one ever wants to be sad.
I'm a closed book when it comes to deep emotions, I find it very hard to express myself (great personal asset for a writer, no?). So I didn't. Instead, I surrounded myself with my friends and family who I knew, if and when I wanted to talk, would listen and be supportive. Just having someone there made all the difference to me, and was, in the end how I coped. My friends were brilliant and I will always be grateful to them.
Coping with sadness is a very personal thing. Some people think in silence, others shout and scream, telling everyone who will listen about their problems, some people just cry. However you deal with sadness, the key thing is that you deal with it. Don't bury your feelings within and ignore the sad feelings. Embrace them and accept them, only then will you really be able to move on.
If you're struggling with sadness, grief, mourning I urge you to speak to someone and put yourself in a position where your friends and family can support you. And if it's still getting too much to handle then talk to a professional.
Here's an advice article about how to deal with sadness. The NHS offers services on all forms of stress, grief and mental illness. And if you just want someone to talk to ring the Samaritans on 08457 90 90 90.


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Paving the Way for Buses
The Great GM Streetcar Conspiracy
By Guy Span
(First published in Bay Crossings magazine, April 2003, Volume 4, Number 3)
(Return to Salt Lake City Street Railways Index)
Part I - The Villains
Almost everyone accepts that GM plotted to buy up some transit companies and replace streetcars with new GM buses. This is considered the "Great Transportation Conspiracy" that finally ended up as a subplot in the cartoon hit "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (and the main plot of a PBS docu-fictional entitled "Taken For A Ride"). Did GM actually buy electric traction companies and replace streetcars with buses? You betcha. Was it an illegal conspiracy to destroy streetcars? The United States government said no and acquitted the participants on that charge.
So who were the real heroes and villains in this story? One of the most recent villains is Bradford C. Snell, a researcher whose delusions of paranoia seem nearly limitless (at least in print). His 1974 report to the U.S. government was entitled "American Ground Transport–A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Truck, Bus and Rail Industries." In it, he says his report "... demonstrates ... General Motors to be a sovereign economic state whose common control of auto, truck, bus and locomotive production was a major factor in the displacement of rail and bus transportation with cars and trucks."
Snell's 1974 report goes on to craft a plausible case for a vast conspiracy to destroy clean, economic, and user-friendly streetcars with ugly, smelly, and uneconomic buses so more people would buy cars. But there's more! He also finds GM guilty of building diesel locomotives to eliminate electric freight railways and run up the operating expenses so more railways would either go bankrupt or raise their rates, thus benefiting the truckers (who would buy GM trucks). Snell's report also accuses GM of collaborating with the Nazis during the war, defeating honest research into petroleum alternatives such as steam, steam turbine, and electrics. In fact, according to Snell, transportation in the modern 1970s was in such bad shape and so lacking in alternatives because of the machinations of GM.
To set this piece in its proper time frame, it is necessary to understand that this was an era of oil shortages, big gas guzzling cars, bankruptcy of nearly all the major northeastern railroads, the takeover of long-distance rail passenger services by a quasi-governmental agency (Amtrak in 1971), and a time when only five cities in the country still retained streetcars. Snell set out to connect all the dots with little regard for the facts. It was a good story, so he told it and in turn did a major disservice to the history of transportation in America.
While the breadth of Snell's inaccuracies is too large to deal with here, it must be pointed out that inside each there was usually a kernel of truth. Some were just patently false. For instance: "The New Haven's (railroad) replacement of its electric locomotives with GM diesels generatedhigher operating...expenses and substantial losses in passenger and freight revenues. During 50 years of electrified operation, it had never failed to show an operating profit."
The inconvenient facts: The New Haven was in bankruptcy from 1937 (the last year it could afford to buy newly-built electric locomotives) to 1947. By the time diesels rolled around, the New Haven used them to replace older and less efficient steam engines. Contrary to Snell's implications, it retained electrification of its main line from New Haven, CT, to New York City, and under New York City law, all its passenger trains operated into the city using electricity. The New Haven Railroad reentered bankruptcy in 1961, not because it bought GM's diesels, but because its franchise required operating lots of money-losing commuter and passenger service.
So for Snell, the New Haven was a microcosm of all railway profitability and the cause for it all was GM using its traffic muscle to foist off GM diesels on railroads that might have considered other alternatives. (Snell alleges railroads were forced to buy the diesels or lose GM's significant freight business.) With railroads in trouble financially, they were offering poorer service at higher rates making trucking more successful. And the truckers would buy from GM. In Snell's mind (and no where else), it was all a plot.
The next worst piece of revisionist history that Snell offers up is the motorization of New York City streetcars. Like the New Haven story, we find a gram of truth amid all the outrageously misleading claims. According to Snell, GM's ownership of New York Omnibus in 1926 paved the way for the elimination of the surface transit lines. According to Snell, "At that time, as a result of stock and management interlocks, GM was able to exert substantial influence over (New York) Omnibus. John A. Ritchie, for example, served as chairman of GM's bus division and president of Omnibus from 1926 to well after motorization was completed."
This is all true. But what did it have to do with the "busstitution" of New York's transit lines? As it turns out, nothing. GM was simply moving in on a situation where it could sell some buses. The real villain of this piece was a Tammany Hall hack mayor, John F. Hylan, supported by the Hearst Papers. William Randolph Hearst had been supporting a populist campaign against the so-called "Traction Trusts" for years and his crony was probably just following orders. According to Zachary Schrag, author of "The Bus is Young and Honest," Hylan had been fired from the Kings County Elevated in 1897 (for studying law on the job) and had his own personal animosity toward the transit companies.
At that time, there were a number of independent transit companies operating on the surface streets. By the 1920s, they all had one thing in common–a five-cent fare that didn't pay the bills and the lingering public animosity stirred up by the Hearst paper. And the bills were extraordinary. In a scene soon to be repeated across America, these lines were struggling to pay special franchise taxes, pay for their own snow removal, and pay to repave the street to eight feet outside their tracks–all legacies of the horse car days.
Any appeal to Mayor Hylan was rebuffed. Bankruptcy and receivership didn't help. In 1923, Gerhard Dahl, president of the reorganized B.M.T., published "Transit Truths" to gain some public sympathy. Dahl's words serve to highlight the relationship between transit and Hylan: " ... the B.M.T. has met with the bitter, personal and unfair opposition of Mayor Hylan." And from a letter to Hylan: "For seven years, you have been misleading and fooling the people in this community... For seven years, you have blocked every effort at transit relief. You, and only you, are to blame for the present...deplorable condition of the whole transit situation. You have used the transit situation as a political escalator. You have been willing to sacrifice the comfort, the convenience and even the necessities of the people of this community to your selfish political interests. You are persisting in that course." Unfortunately, this broadside changed nothing.
Finally in 1924, New York Railways gave up and offered to rip up some 46 miles of tracks and substitute busses. NYR was hoping to avoid upcoming paving costs and perhaps get around the 25-year-old nickel fare. Hylan made them eat crow and admit that buses were superior to electric traction. After that, it was just a question of when the buses would arrive.
Note that this all occurred years before GM had any involvement in New York City. So when GM arrived on the scene, a political battle had been fought and lost by electric traction. Since New York was the most modern city in America, this one change would help create the mindset that streetcars and rapid transit were old and inefficient. Certainly GM worked assiduously to support the concept that buses were "modern" and in particular, to control three of the five independent operating companies. In turn, this control would be used to influence the type of buses purchased.
Snell's report completely misses a critical juncture in history. Rather than dreaming up a scheme to replace traction with buses, GM was introduced to such a concept by the arch villains Hylan and Hearst. As a result, by 1933, the first Manhattan line was converted to buses and except for the Third Avenue Railway (which hung on until 1946) the last was converted in 1936. New York City finally achieved its "modern" buses and despite the efforts of the electric traction industry, the rest of the country would soon follow suit.
Snell's report can also be misleading (apparently intentionally so). Snell says, "In 1940, GM, Standard Oil and Firestone assumed an active control in Pacific (City Lines)... That year, PCL began to acquire and scrap portions of the $100 million Pacific Electric System (of Roger Rabbit fame)." This statement implies that PCL was getting control of Pacific Electric, when in reality, all they did was acquire the local streetcar systems of Pacific Electric in Glendale and Pasadena and then convert them to buses. Many superficial readers jump on this statement as proof that GM moved in the Red Cars of the Pacific Electric. The ugly little fact is that PCL never acquired Pacific Electric (it was owned by Southern Pacific Railroad until 1953).
Thanks to the Snell report, we now have the makings of a good controversy. Many researchers blindly quote Snell, passing his paranoid, incorrect, and misleading research off as fact. Penny Mintz, who as a student wrote an article for the New York University Environmental Law Journal (1994), fell into this trap and quoted Bradford C. Snell nine times. On the Web, one can find seventeen papers accusing GM of conspiracy based upon Snell's mendacious imaginings (not including one in Polish and another in French). Interestingly enough, four papers ignore Snell and use other evidence to point to a conspiracy, most notably an excellent article by Al Mankoff. Five others take Snell to task and prove there was no conspiracy, including Professor George Hilton's thoughtful article in Transportation Quarterly 51, No.3. The Snell report is even the basis for the PBS movie "Taken For A Ride," which does indeed live up to its title.
Competent scholars are outraged at the abuses in Snell's report and are happy to expose its nature. Once arguing against Snell, they find themselves firmly in the non-conspiracy camp. Pro-conspiracy theorists rely on Snell and look like idiots. Thus it appears as if Snell's work is more effective at polarizing opinions (generating heat) than it is in adding any light. If someone wants a real conspiracy theory, how about Bradford Snell in the pay of GM to make up preposterous stories so a real conspiracy would be overlooked?
(Part II will look at what GM actually accomplished with National City Lines (and others), examine the handicaps of streetcars, and introduce you to one of the heroes in this story -- Jay Quinby.)
Part II - The Plot Clots
In Part I, we found that General Motors (GM) was introduced to the concept of buying up transit and replacing it with "modern" buses thanks to the animosity towards transit of New York Mayor Hylan and newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst back in the 1920s. In 1974, Bradford C. Snell presented a paper to the Senate Judiciary Committee accusing GM of collaborating with the Nazis, wiping out electric railways, bankrupting the rest (to sell more trucks), buying up streetcars to replace them with smelly buses (that people wouldn't ride so they would buy cars) and in general being completely responsible for the miserable state of modern transportation. Because Snell's charges were so obviously erroneous, respected historians and GM were able to laugh them away. Snell's paper served only to polarize opinions and reliance upon its questionable erudition placed most pro-conspiracy theorists firmly on the lunatic fringe where they could be safely ignored.
So let's set the wayback machine to 1933, just as new GM buses are about to show up on the streets of New York. And when they arrived, the reception was generally favorable as the buses could deposit their riders at the curb and not in the middle of the street (at safety islands, like streetcars). The buses were new, clean, and mostly comfortable (if smaller than the streetcars they replaced). For the operators, they came without the baggage of the past including no franchise taxes, no requirement to pave the center of the street, no requirement to remove snow and thus (in an artificially unfair competition) were cheaper to operate. GM invested in three of the New York City operators and they unsurprisingly then selected GM buses.
The year before buses arrived, GM (significantly) formed a new subsidiary, United Cities Motor Transport (UCMT) and looked around to gobble up transit companies to replace its equipment with GM buses. There were only a few smaller systems for sale so GM did indeed acquire them and substitute buses. With so little on the market, UCMT approached the city of Portland, Oregon, in 1933 to replace its streetcar system with buses. However, the voters in Portland said no and UCMT was censored by the American Transit Association for its obviously self-serving role. UCMT operations soon folded up.
Given the handicaps of streetcars with the onerous paving requirements, special franchise taxes, and other burdens, why were not more for sale? The answer is found in the symbiotic relationship the streetcars had with the companies that owned them --the electrical generating companies and some connecting steam railways. The local power company built many of the early streetcar lines. The local generator then sold bulk electricity to the streetcar company and made a nice profit on that sale. If its subsidiary streetcar company could also make money, so much the better. If not, the losses could be covered through a deduction of the utility's federal, state, and local taxes. In a sense, streetcars, through this arrangement, were subsidized.
So until and unless GM could pry streetcars away from their parent utilities or connecting railroads, very few lines would come up for sale. What happened next is the seminal event, the turning point where electric transit met its Waterloo. GM clearly couldn't force the utilities to sell its transit lines, but the Federal Government sure could. And it did, through the passage of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. This is contained in Title 15 Chapter 2 (c) and it is an incredibly complex law. But it had the suspiciously useful (to GM) effect of stripping transit lines away from their utilities (mandated to be sold by 1938) and forcing them out on their own, to either live or die. And once separated from their subsidies, many died on their own at the end of the depression, without any further assistance from GM.
So for the pro-conspiracy theorists, research into the role played by GM (if any) in the structure of the Utility Act of 1935 would go a long way to show that GM was indeed the "man behind the mirror." In fairness, the utility trusts had cost investors huge sums in the depression era bankruptcies. Indeed, many had perpetuated Enron-type machinations through the complexities of holding companies. The Utility Act would clean up these problems and have the possibly unintended side effect of eliminating rapid rail transit. The government was there to help you and General Motors.
In any event, the Utility Act now put a large number of transit companies on the market. In 1936, GM formed National City Lines and aggressively began to buy transit companies and substitute diesel buses for streetcars. Meanwhile, the transit companies themselves were looking for ways to avoid the extra costs foisted off on them from the days of horse cars. The quickest way was to substitute buses for lighter density lines. Even with the extra costs, high-density lines were still cheaper to operate electrically. Small cities across America began to change to buses. And where GM was not involved, they would buy from Brill, Ford, Mack and even GM.
National City Lines, with partner Firestone Tire and Phillips Petroleum, Atlantic City Lines (with the same) and Pacific City Lines with Standard Oil (replacing Phillips) and Mack Truck added went on to acquire some 62 transit companies and killed streetcars on 23 of them. It also partially eliminated streetcar lines in Baltimore, Los Angeles (city), Oakland, Philadelphia, and St. Louis.
That's the official count of National City Lines and associates. But that is not the full count. Other cities had suspicious investors involved. Most notably, Pacific Electric in the greater Los Angeles basin. PE had been losing money for years and parent Southern Pacific Railroad despaired of ever being able to beg the Public Utilities Commission to let them stop service. The savoir for Southern Pacific was Western Transit Systems, with Jesse Haugh as president.
Haugh was a former official with Pacific City Lines and wandered into town with a $500,000 down payment and $1.8 million in working capital (a considerable sum in those days). But the sale had an interesting structure. Haugh did not buy (he rented) the downtown subway terminal, nor did he buy substations or certain wires or other parts related to electric operations. The rent was not due to start for two years, so he cleverly had a cost structure that forced an apparently reasonable application to the PUC to end rail service. His Metropolitan Coach Company was unabashedly pro-bus. And right away he applied for abandonment of the lines running into the subway terminal.
Haugh apparently had a very friendly relationship with his former employer, Pacific City Lines. Right after his purchase, he needed new buses (to close the Subway Terminal) and the National City Lines subsidiary, Key System, allowed Haugh to purchase its just arrived order (brand new GMs painted for the Key System). These were then sent down to Metropolitan Coach and repainted for service in LA. Given that Haugh had such a cozy relationship with National City Lines, it is fair to say that his financial backers were likely involved with GM (although no one has proven a connection). And Metropolitan Coach bought a lot of buses from GM. It is ironic that one of the frequently misstated "facts" from the Snell Report (Snell implies that Pacific City Lines was buying PE in 1940) may actually have some basis in truth through the affiliation of Haugh.
In 1946 another event occurred which allowed the introduction of one of the few heroes in this story. Meet E. Jay Quinby, a mercurial rail fan, former electric traction employee, retired Lieutenant Commander in the Navy (World War II), and home builder of a battery-powered electric Volkswagen. His contribution to this story was to hand publish and expose the owners of National City Lines (GM, Firestone, and Phillips Petroleum) and he addressed it to "The Mayors; The City Manager; The City Transit Engineer; The members of The Committee on Mass-Transportation and The Tax-Payers and The Riding Citizens of Your Community." In 1946, he sent his 36-page analysis, which began: "This is an urgent warning to each and every one of you that there is a careful, deliberately planned campaign to swindle you out of your most important and valuable public utilities–your Electric Railway System."
Quinby's "manifesto" would go on to link National City Lines (and its subsidiaries) to parent owners Firestone Tires, General Motors, Phillips Petroleum, Standard Oil of California, and Mack Truck. And he delineated how National City Lines bought transit companies and deliberately replaced streetcars and trolley buses with GM diesel buses.
Quinby's arguments went on to detail how and why streetcars and rapid transit were preferable to buses. He pointed out that the supposed advantage of delivering passengers to the curb impeded the flow of traffic (the rear end of the bus stuck out into a traffic lane in practice), eliminated curb parking at the bus stop and that 50% of the passengers would still have to cross the entire street. Streetcars, he noted, behaved predictably and kept to their tracks, letting passengers off at islands and the passengers would only have to cross one-half the street. They used no curb space and carried 60 seated passengers in comfort (with room for 40 more standees) instead of 48 in cramped seats (and standing). Most particularly, he said, they are clean and not emitting poisonous carbon monoxide, which in quantity would render the air unfit to breathe.
Quinby's prophetic words extended to the following: "You will realize too late that the electric railway is unquestionably more comfortable, more reliable, safer and cheaper to use than the bus system. But what can you do about it once you have permitted the tracks to be torn up? Who do you think you can find to finance another deluxe transit system for your city...?"
With almost sixty years of hindsight, we can now answer that question. The taxpayers of the Bay Area funded billions for BART. The Feds (and locals) funded billions and billions for new electric transit systems in San Jose, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Denver, Portland, and others–all cities whose systems had been unwisely removed. Quinby was right. And more than being right, he tried to do something about it and nearly succeeded.
Quinby's charges would finally bestir the government to begin an investigation into National City Lines and its owners and subsidiaries and suddenly the opposition changed their tactics (in a clear admission of guilt). NCL Subsidiary Baltimore Traction Company quickly bought 165 buses from the Brill Company and Los Angeles Railway bought 40 new PCC streetcars (like the "modern" ones on today's F line in San Francisco).
Thanks to Quinby's warning, the Feds eventually took GM to trial and convicted them not for ripping out streetcar lines, but rather for controlling these companies to monopolize sales of its products, a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The participants were each fined $5,000 (plus court costs) and senior executives were each fined $1.00. And that was that. Unfortunately, no one sought an answer to Quinby's most penetrating question (referring to the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act), "WHO IS BEHIND THIS CAMPAIGN TO SEPARATE THE OBVIOUSLY ECONOMICAL COMBINATION OF ELECTRIC RAILWAY AND ITS POWER PLANT?"
National City Lines and Pacific City Lines merged in 1948 and continued their practice of "bustitution." Streetcars continued to suffer under the multiple handicaps of special franchise taxes, property taxes on private right-of-ways, paving charges for the center of streets, private snow removal costs, fixed fares, and bizarre rules where, for example, some companies had to provide city lighting along tracks in the street. There was no question that it was harder to make money as a rail transit provider and the bus could use the city-provided streets literally for free.
Yet even in that environment a study of transit systems between 1935 and 1950 by David J. St. Clair found that buses were indeed superior in operating expenses on lighter density lines. Even then, the comparison was not entirely fair, as the older streetcar company provided free transfers to its buses (from streetcars), paid extraordinary charges, and received a single fare regardless of distance traveled. Substituting buses, the transit operator frequently eliminated transfers and instituted a zone system that charged based upon the distance traveled. St. Clair studied the profitability of each system, not rules they operated under. Interestingly enough, he found that trolley (electric overhead wire) buses were the most profitable on medium density lines and electric railways the best on high-density lines. Yet city transit planners chose buses.
City planning was a relatively new field in the 1930s and few accredited institutions taught the subject. However, one such accredited institution did and it was GMI (General Motors Institution which took over the Flint Institute of Technology in 1926). And you can imagine what the fledgling city planners learned: traffic engineering (buses are good; railways are bad). Each year a new crop was turned loose on an unsuspecting country. And dutiful to the education received, they did indeed select modern buses for their towns. To be fair, other institutions (such as M.I.T.) taught city planning, but GM was the only company to buy such a school.
Where the tactics of buying transit, inserting tame planners, and using trained National City Lines stooges failed, GM would act directly. Reportedly, the outgoing Tampa City Council was bribed with Cadillacs to vote to scrap its municipal transit system. Other times, finance leverage was exerted upon companies. According to Freedom of Information Act (F.O.I.A.) documents, the transit system's bank would get a visit from GM promising deposits if the bank would lean on the transit company to not buy more streetcars. Converting to bus was easy, with the local banks assistance and, of course, easy financing from GMAC (General Motors Acceptance Corporation). GMAC was founded in 1919 to help auto dealers finance the bulk purchase of new cars and its role quickly grew.
Allegedly, it was easy money from GMAC that convinced the gangsters in control at Twin Cities Transit to scrap its modern PCC style streetcars (to pocket the scrap sales) and buy buses. The crooked officers eventually were convicted of swindling and fraud, but by then the modern streetcars in Minneapolis and St. Paul were burned for scrap.
While GM was engaged in what can only be described as an all out attack on transit, our government made no effort to assist traction whatsoever and streetcars began to fade in earnest after the Second World War. In 1946, the government began its Interstate Highway program, with lots of lobbying from GM, arguably the largest public works project in recorded history. In 1956, this was expanded with the National Interstate Highway and Defense Act. Gas tax funds could only be spent on more roads. More cars in service meant more gas taxes to fund more roads. And we got lots of roads.
More and better roads doomed the interurban electric railways and they fell like flies. Outstanding systems like the Chicago North Shore Line (which operated from the northern suburbs into Chicago on the elevated loop until 1962) were allowed to go bankrupt and be scrapped. The Bamburger between Salt Lake City and Ogden failed with its high-speed Brill Cars in 1952. Today, arguably only two of the vast empire of interurban systems survived: The Philadelphia and Western Suburban Railway --aka the Red Arrow Lines (now a part of SEPTA) and the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railway (now state owned). And highways had everything to do with this extinction.
The United States government, state agencies, and local communities allowed these systems to fail. In the District of Columbia, Congress ordered the elimination of streetcars over the strong objections of the local owners and managers. The government was doing its part.
So let's not forget the words of Charlie Wilson when asked if there were a conflict with his former employer (GM) on his possible appointment to Secretary of Defense in 1953. He replied, "I cannot conceive of one because for years, I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa."
Clearly, GM waged a war on electric traction. It was indeed an all out assault, but by no means the single reason for the failure of rapid transit. Also, it is just as clear that actions and inactions by government contributed significantly to the elimination of electric traction. This was good for GM but not particularly good for our country. E. Jay Quinby and the rapid transit companies lost the war when it mattered and now Quinby's 1946 prophetic question has come back to haunt us: "Who will rebuild them for you?"
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Masteria sabrinae est une espèce d'araignées mygalomorphes de la famille des Dipluridae.

Distribution
Cette espèce est endémique de Martinique.

Description
Le mâle holotype mesure  et la femelle paratype .

Étymologie
Cette espèce est nommée en l'honneur de Sabrina de Souza Ferreira.

Publication originale
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A tale of two tissues
An Inaugural Lecture by Professor Craig Sale
In his Inaugural Lecture, Professor Craig Sale will discuss his contributions to work on muscle and bone.
From: Wednesday 28 June 2017, 6 pm
To: Wednesday 28 June 2017, 9 pm
Location: CTL LT2/LT3, Teaching and Learning building, Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Campus, Clifton Lane, Nottingham, NG11 8NS
The human musculoskeletal system is an organ system providing the body with the ability to move; the primary players in this system being the skeletal muscles and bones. The generation of force and power from the muscles and the structural framework provided by the skeleton are critical to our ability to be physically active and perform exercise. This can, however, come at the expense of disruptions to the internal environment of these tissues that can lead to positive adaptations to their structure in the longer term or, alternatively, fatigue and the breakdown of these tissues in the shorter term. Professor Sale has spent the last 20 years investigating the impact of exercise and nutrition on health and performance in humans, with a particular focus on the triggers for adaptations in bone and muscle.
This lecture could more accurately be titled a tale of two tissues (muscle and bone), four cities (Portsmouth, Liverpool, Chichester and Nottingham) and as many mentors! Professor Sale will provide an overview of his contributions to work on muscle (focussing on nutritional supplementation of beta-alanine to reduce muscle fatigue during high-intensity exercise) and bone (focussing on the effects of exercise and nutrition on bone metabolism, mass and strength).
6.00 pm – Drinks and canapés
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Open Dome Event - A charming year with ASTEC
8 pm - 10 pm
Developing detectors for large telescopes and visiting them in remote places on Earth is the dream of many an astronomy student. Our own Eimear Gallagher (NTU) - awarded the Undergraduate Prize 2019 by the Royal Astronomical Society - did just that and will be telling us more about her placement year in her talk "CHARMing" – My year developing an international scientific instrument at RAL Space.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2020/01/open-dome-event-a-charming-year-with-astec
Professor Christine Moffatt CBE Inaugural Lecture
Chronic oedema and wounds: a neglected global scandal and an international response (the LIMPRINT story)
This lecture will give a review of the international research (LIMPRINT) that has been led by Professor Moffatt though a partnership with 9 countries to define the size and impact of people living with chronic oedema, Lymphoedema and un-healing wounds across the world.
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2020/01/professor-christine-moffatt-cbe-inaugural-lecture
Professor Johnnie Johnson Inaugural Lecture
Uncertainty makes the impossible, possible: Reflections on the opportunities that uncertainty offers
In this inaugural lecture, Johnnie will draw on the results of his research to explore three questions: What important mistakes do most of us make when facing uncertainty? How can we better predict an uncertain future? What are the enormous gains we can make by handling uncertainty appropriately?
ntu.ac.uk/about-us/events/events/2020/02/professor-johnnie-johnson-inaugural-lecture
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Q: Matlab : querying all the nitrogen coordinates in pdb file? I was trying to extract Nitrogen coordinates from ubiquitin protein. I have the 1UBQ.pdb file from http://rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do website. I have done the following.
pdb1 ='/home/devanandt/Documents/VMD/1UBQ.pdb';
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'y' variable gives 1x602 struct array with many fields including the co-ordinates X,Y,Z. There are 76 residues in this protein and so 76 nitrogens. How to extract (X,Y,Z) data separately to an array?

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Should return a 1x602 vector of your X coordinates
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A: This is how I achieved it.
pdb1 ='/home/devanandt/Documents/VMD/1UBQ.pdb';
x=pdbread(pdb1);

atom={x.Model.Atom.AtomName};
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Y = [x.Model.Atom.Y];
Z = [x.Model.Atom.Z];

X_n = X(n_i); % X Y Z coordinates of N atoms
Y_n = Y(n_i);
Z_n = Z(n_i);

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The instance The Patient Protection Act of 2000 : hearing before the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, second session, on H.R. 5122, September 20, 2000 represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Electronic.


The Hip Store0113 246 0347work Shop - FashionThe Hip Store is one of the UK's most established independent boutiques, catering for a wide range of customers, both culturally diverse and between the ages of 16-65.
The Hip Store meets the aesthetic and culture desired by the fashionistas, art students, DJ's, designers and musicians, stocking exclusive and desirable brands from across the globe.
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Q: Building QuantLib python bindings on windows 7: 'unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin'' I'm trying to build the QuantLib Python bindings. I managed to build QuantLib using these instructions (I found the libboost_serialization files here). When I try python setup.py build, I get the following error
python setup.py build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building 'QuantLib._QuantLib' extension
C:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -O -Wall -IC:\Python26\include -IC:\Python26\PC -c QuantLib/quantlib_wrap.cpp -o build\temp.win32-2.6\Release\quantlib\quantlib_wrap.o
cc1plus: error: unrecognized command line option '-mno-cygwin'
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

I've heard that the mno-cygwin option is no longer supported and I've seen it removed from numpy distutils, but as far as I can tell this is only using python distutils. Any hints on what I should look at?

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*windows 7

*python 2.6

*numpy 1.5.1

*QuantLib 1.46.1

A: I've done a tutorial that builds Quantlib Python bindings on Windows (Vista and XP). This probably will work with Windows 7 as well and you don't need Visual Studio. here

A: The answer is that Python 2.6 distutils hasn't caught up with MinGW (source). I now get another error, but that's for another question.


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This Is Us has been a gift to us all since the show debuted in the Fall of 2016. In addition to the TV drama single-handedly keeping Kleenex in business week after week, the show has effortlessly covered everything from race relations and mental illness to addiction, body image, and drug abuse in a way that's relatable, tender, and real.
While the NBC show's storylines and performances have made This Is Us a hit with fans — and helped to cement Sterling K. Brown as a crush-worthy breakout star for his portrayal of Randall Pearson — here's why Randall's wife, Beth, played superbly by Susan Kelechi Watson, is the true MVP of the Pearson clan.


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The Ghost Inside Part Ways With Bassist Jim Riley
Bassist Jim Riley has departed The Ghost Inside – read the band's statement
Jonathan Weiner
The Ghost Inside have parted ways with bassist Jim Riley.
The bassist was accused of making racist slurs five years ago, and issued a statement on Twitter yesterday, but has now departed the band.
"The Ghost Inside was born from a scene of forward thinking, understanding and progressiveness," say TGI in a statement on social media. "Our music and message has always been one of hope and finding that light at the end of the tunnel. Racism and bigotry of any kind stifle that journey the light. It closes and locks doors that need to be broken open.
"We have decided to part ways with bassist Jim Riley. While we didn't hear these words spoken directly from his mouth, we did hear mutterings of the incident. At the time we thought this to be just a rumor, but it offended and hurt a community. A community we are meant to bring together.
"We should've spoken up back then and we didn't, we should've dug deeper. We acknowledge that we were silent. We are self educating and growing and learning as individuals. We are here to say that we as a band fully condemn racism and support the black community in the fight against systemic racism."
The allegations were made on social media by Rashod Jackson of the band Bracewar. In a series of tweets, Jim said, "Rashod called me out in 2015. I called him, he put the screws to me. I deserved it, and I apologized to him. He told me that wasn't good enough and he was right.
"Its shameful and fucking embarrassing. I present myself as someone who gives a shit about progressive movements and ideas, and I was not living up to that.
"Because of that conversation I had to take a big fucking look in the mirror and recognize a lot of bullshit that I was selling myself.
"I made too many excuses for being brought up without exposure to the black experience, and I should have been better.
"I make a conscious effort to purge stuff about myself that still sucks when I find it, and to be mindful that I'm just a passenger on someone else's ship in any movement related to black lives.
"I'm sorry. I know that's not enough. I'm going to keep doing the work. That might still not be enough. I'm going to do it anyway."
The departure of Jim comes one day after The Ghost Inside released their fifth studio album. It's the first music from TGI since the devastating bus crash that left two dead and the band seriously injured.
The Big Review: Download Festival 2022
Download Festival is back at full-scale for the first time since 2019! Here's all the action from Donington Park…
"Life can swing hard, but we will swing harder": Remembering The Ghost Inside's emotional 2019 comeback show
As The Ghost Inside unleash their Rise From The Ashes: Live At The Shrine album, we look back at the band's story of pain, resolve, unity and hope…
Updated: A round-up of all tours and events affected by coronavirus in 2021
Stay up-to-date on all cancelled and rescheduled tours, festivals and events this year.
Deftones, Korn, Megadeth and many more announced for Download Festival 2022
Over 70 new bands have been added to next year's Download Festival line-up – including Korn, Deftones, Megadeth, The Pretty Reckless and Rise Against.
Album Review: The Ghost Inside – The Ghost Inside
Hardcore heroes The Ghost Inside return from the very brink
The Ghost Inside's New Album Is So Much More Than Their 'Accident Record'
The Ghost Inside explain how how rekindled self-belief, a renewed sense of brotherhood and fresh perspective on their own inspirational responsibility means they're pushing on from the tragic events of November 2015 with a sensational self-titled release…
Join Our Face-To-Face Zoom Interview With The Ghost Inside
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The Ghost Inside Announce Rescheduled London Show For 2021
The Ghost Inside's huge comeback show at London's O2 Academy Brixton has been pushed back an entire year.


DohaQAR 5,000 - QAR 8,000 a monthHi All,We currently have an opening for the position of Housing Coordinator.Should have a valid Qatar Driving License.
Should have atleast 3+ years of experience in the relevant field.Any Nationality Can apply.Job descriptionProvides tenant services i.
term housing; records allocation data and tracks detailed information in relation to housing and utilities (i.e. electricity and water) by maintaining relevant files and records Arranges for cleaning and maintenance works for all housing units.
Provides the new employees with the necessary documents and accommodation keys. Investigates and attempts to resolve complaints and employee problems Inspects the housing units, determines changes / improvements required, and arranges for cleaning & maintenance work for all units before the enrollment / showing to the new hires.
Maintains database items of the storeroom. Evaluates the condition of any soft pack items and furniture provided. Performs miscellaneous administrative tasks such as preparing agendas and minutes of meetings held with housing landlords / property consultants and other documents as required ensuring that confidentiality is maintained in all transactions Works with the HR Team to anticipate the need for Company accommodation programs Sources new accommodation for current and new staff as per Company policy Ensures that confidentiality is maintained at all times Arranges Welcome packs for new arrivals which include perishable goods.
Adheres to and promotes Company Values Adheres to Company standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies.


From Perry – for various reasons I have stepped down from the best role ever, especially if you want to support Veterans in Texas. Please meet the new director of TexVet, Ms. Carrie Sconza, an exceedingly well-qualified Navy Veteran and national Veteran leader. I'll let her share the bio she wants as you all get to know her, or more likely, get to know her in her new role as director of TexVet.
Now, for the maudlin task of goodbye: There are so many to thank and who are continuing to earn the thanks of Texas veterans and those supporting them every day, but I'll try to mention some here. My apologies to those who I leave off. You are not excluded – I am just forgetful and could never thank everyone that helped me.
Dr. Kotrla, without who any of this (TexVet, MVPN, Veterans Mental Health from HHSC, more) would not exist.; Dr. Leann Ray, without who all this would have ceased to exist.; Jenny Jones, who helped resource and shepherd TexVet through the TAMHSC weeds.
Ted Hughes, who put it all together and champions Veterans mental health as a system still today.
The great folks at CIADM who put up with our bunch of (as Jonathan described us) feral cats trying to do good – Dr. Kerrie DeMarco, Dr. & Col (ret) Gerald Parker, Dan Williams (who still probably wonders where we came from).
David Cantu – who schooled me on CVSOs and that you can care for Veterans, no matter how mean an SOB you are; Olie Pope and Susan Lewis who show you can care for Veterans with grace and class; John Boerstler – the duke of Houston, and someone that exhibits the prime entrepreneurial spirit without taking advantage of others; John Miterko, the ultimate warrior and volunteer in the trenches looking out for all generations of Veterans, ably aided by Jim Brennan, Morgan Little, the two Johns - Spahr and McKinny; also Bob Gear, as much a friend and mentor and personal hero to all; Jim Darwin, happy warrior, keeping Dr. Hupp and her office grounded and effective (and Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp, bringing all manner of folks together). The unforgettable Shandra Sponsler, ultimate example of competence and collaboration, always willing to help and keeping the National Guard family programs on track. Also, her conspirators, Kim Violett and Mike Chaison, working to make a coordinated response to needs near and far. Those at TVC, providing great support each day - Tim Keesling and his team: Tish McCullough (who sold Mistee on Vet support early), Aubrie (with hubby Casey), and the completely selfless Erin, always willing to respond to a justice-involved Vet.
On the I&R side – thanks so much to Judy Fullylove, who brought me into the Texas Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (www.TAIRS.org), and those who led and mentored me and included TexVet into their projects – Janna Shoe, Mary Cooksey, Beth Wick, Cornelius Blackshear, and more.
All the PSCs – I worked closer and longer with some than others – hey, Scott Smith, Chris Araujo, Ginger Simonson, and the example for all Juliane Sanford – but each is a state treasure, underpaid and overworked, and it cannot be overstated how much they do for Veterans or how effective they make a response possible when contacting TexVet. Other locals we called and worked with time after time after time – Wes and Judy from "the example" Veteran One-Stop – Heroes Night Out nand DeLisa Russell, who takes it to a new level (in everything); Pia from CenterPoint, and my buddy Rush Evans from the Veterans Legal Hotline, now supporting Veteran Treatment Courts statewide. The most common thread for us all, in MVPN, is the training led by Mama Maureen Jouett, with BEITZ, inc.; trying to drag Killeen into viable support of vulnerable veterans.
And the tearful part – Betty Sandefur, Micah Burnett, Amy Greisch, and Mr. Jonathan Leistiko… from the days before I even started when Betty had the business cards waiting and they'd just moved everything into that embarrassingly nice office, to Jonathan's graceful stepping up to smooth this transition; there isn't a better or more efficient team that cares and cares and works with so little to do so much. Few will ever know what a deal the state is getting with that team but it goes far beyond dollars or even the skill of any one person.
I think that most anyone (me always anyway) that cares about an organization they leave feels there are things undone. You just wish you could have finished that or have to leave some unfinished work for the next person. I certainly have a long list of stuff that moved from the "Later" or "Too Hard" distribution box to the "New Director" in-box. But, I am confident she has the best team in place to bridge the gap, help her get her feet in the stirrups, and take this great ride. They are each a unicorn – unique, different, beautiful, highly effective.
With that – the earlier managers and committee members that put TexVet together to start with – Michael Duck Lombardo, Tim Stroud, Sean Hanna, Tom Palladino, Kyle Mitchell, and those that moved on – Jared and Brandy and the unforgettable Jonathan Schiffer. The inspiring and patient and fun Kerry Harmon – still leading today.
And as one does with these things, saving my best for last – thank you to my wife and beautiful nurse Mistee. When I was approached about coming to TexVet, while happily working with the Armed Services Blood Program (donate y'all – check out www.militaryblood.dod.mil), she encouraged me to be open about it, helped me to create a vision and decide if there was someplace we thought TexVet could go, and has been our top volunteer and supporter from day one. I never would have and never could have been in position to thank everyone else without her and I thank her now for pushing me into a new role. #NursesRock.
I've got some reading to do, and a lot of studying, but I'll see you just shy of the high ground and we'll watch TexVet go to new heights of supporting Texas Military, Veterans, and families. Later, y'all; time for me to get after something else.


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Roger Sasaki's legacy continues with endowed award for Social Work students
By Darren McDonald on February 12, 2015
Roger Sasaki's family members (Lindsay, inside left, Sandi, inside right, Jeff Wood, back row), gather with David Leis (left) and Sheila Reimer (right) of University Advancement, and UFV president Mark Evered (back row).
Roger Sasaki cared.
Even in the final days of his fight against cancer, the proud husband, father, friend, and social worker still wrote extensively in a journal, where words like 'gratefulness' and 'hope' kept arising despite his grim prognosis. He knew the doctors, nurses, and cleaning staff by name. All his life he was respectful – and respected. He genuinely appreciated everyone he met. He sought those who were alone.
He died three weeks after meeting his latest grandson, born in the hospital they shared and given the same middle name — Koe.
And now his name will live on in another important way, thanks to UFV's recently established Roger Sasaki Memorial Endowment Leadership Award in Social Work.
Roger Sasaki
For Roger's surviving family members, the award made perfect sense.
"At home he stressed the importance of education. Not just to get a job, but to increase the awareness of humanity, to learn about other people and ways of looking at the world around us," says his widow, Sandi.
"This award gives students an opportunity they might not have otherwise. We hope they see his life as an example and inspiration."
The Sasakis' connection to UFV runs deep. Sandi enjoyed a 22-year career at UFV, serving as an instructor in the Office Careers and Applied Business Technology programs before joining faculty in the Computer Information Systems department. Their youngest daughter, Lindsay, worked five years as a coordinator with UFV's Co-operative Education and Career Center. Lindsay's husband, Jeffrey, teaches as a sessional in UFV's School of Social Work after earning his BSW and MSW here. And Roger himself served on the program and advisory council that helped develop UFV's BSW and MWS programs. He was president of the Fraser River branch of the British Columbia Association of Social Workers (BCASW), holding meetings at UFV while encouraging students to bridge the gap between the BCASW and academics.
Though he retired eight years ago, Jeffrey says Roger's professional contribution is still appreciated daily.
"He was someone who recognized the importance of making a genuine personal connection with everyone that he met by making people feel what we all strive to achieve – appreciated as an individual, accepted as part of the community, and valued as a human being. This is the legacy that Roger left with us – and his memory will live on to support UFV Social Work students in continuing on with this message of compassion, empathy, and a commitment to help others."
His award allows future social workers to continue the kind of work that Roger so firmly believed in. After earning his MSW from UBC, Roger began his professional career as a parole officer with Corrections Canada before moving on to the Ministry of Social Services and Housing, working with adolescents. He retired in 2007 after 20 years at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital as a psychiatric social worker then department supervisor. During that time he was seconded for a year to work with Correctional Service Canada at Abbotsford's Regional Health Center as project manager for the reintegration project.
During his 33-year career Roger worked passionately for his clients, always treating them with respect, unconditional service, and loyalty. He lived his entire life with equal commitments.
His family, including other children Kevin and Shaana, started thinking about the student award while writing Roger's obituary for Vancouver's daily newspapers. In the Japanese community, grieving families often receive a financial gift of condolence, called koden. The Sasakis didn't want money for themselves, or flowers; they wanted a bursary or scholarship that would last three years. But once the idea was floated, donations came pouring in. The endowment was born.
More than $10,000 was raised, just shy of the minimum $12,500 required for an endowment. The Sasakis contributed the final amount required to establish the award. Its first installment will be available to the class of 2015 – thanks to immense support from across the country.
The Sasakis were contacted by people who hadn't seen Roger for 40 years – colleagues, clients, friends.
"The word 'mentor' came up a lot. They'd say things like 'you helped me and cared for me and I never forgot it'," recalls Sandi with a smile.
"That's the kind of person Roger was. He lived his life with care, compassion and respect for people."
The source of donations was divided evenly between friends, family, and work associates. Their generosity allowed the Sasakis to grow Roger's award into an annual gift of $500 for a UFV student registered in the Social Work program in good academic standing and demonstrating excellence in community service, student leadership, and volunteerism.
"We feel the award not only respects Roger in a personal way, but also speaks to his commitment to the profession itself. It's designed to bring the community together to continue his belief in caring, compassion, and respect."
Outside of work, Roger enjoyed traveling with Sandi, joining UFV study tours in China and Greece. After retiring, Roger picked up golf … big-time.
Sandi and Roger were regulars at UFV's annual FSA tournament, and Roger would never turn down an invitation to join a foursome. Though living in Abbotsford, he chose a membership at Chilliwack's Meadowlands Golf Club.
"He gave everyone a nickname. He liked being with regular people. He made friends everywhere."
Whether enjoying a dinner party or coaching softball practice, he always sought people who were alone or separated from the group. After her father's passing, childhood friends reached out to Lindsay, telling her how much it meant to them that he took the time to play catch or offer a little extra batting practice even though they were among the team's weaker players.
"His life was so suitable for his field of work," Lindsay says.
"It feels so right to remember him this way."
Donations to the Roger Sasaki Memorial Endowment Leadership Award in Social Work can be made by visiting connect.ufv.ca/giving/donate or by calling Sheila Reimer at 604-854-4513.
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Masterworks 3 Beethoven's Violin Concerto
Students half-price
2hrs 10min
One intermission
Saturday, November 20, 2021 7:30PM — Des Moines Civic Center
Sunday, November 21, 2021 2:30PM — Des Moines Civic Center
Beethoven's Violin Concerto
The noble grandeur of Sibelius 7, plus – Paul Huang joins the Symphony for Beethoven's transcendent Violin Concerto in D Major
Perhaps the first Romantic concerto ever written, Beethoven's transcendent Violin Concerto in D Major pushed the limits of the art form. Paul Huang, recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, is renowned for his intensely expressive music making; hear him play this lyrical work with the Des Moines Symphony in a program which features the noble grandeur and epic journey of Sibelius's Seventh Symphony and Anna Clyne's Masquerade, a rollicking tapestry of sound based on an old English drinking song.
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The Estate of Stanley Richards
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Single tickets are $15-$70 and are available through Des Moines Performing Arts. Ticket prices are subject to a $5 increase on the day of the concert, excluding student rush tickets.
Student tickets are $7.50-$35 and are available through the Civic Center Ticket Office. Student rush tickets, subject to availability, are $5 for junior high and high school students and $10 for all other students the day of the concert through the Civic Center Ticket Office. One ticket sold per valid Student ID.
Streaming tickets are $20 per device. Streaming passes allow you to watch the concert live from the Civic Center during the Saturday night performance, with on-demand viewing for an additional 30 days.
The health and safety of our musicians, audiences, and staff is our top priority.
Beginning September 25 and continuing for the foreseeable future, all guests planning to attend a performance inside the Civic Center must present proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or the results of a negative COVID-19 test.
Additionally, all audience members must wear a mask at all times unless enjoying refreshments within designated areas.
We anticipate that our health and safety protocols will evolve throughout the season as the CDC's guidelines for indoor gatherings are updated.
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Joseph Giunta Conductor
One of America's most distinguished, versatile and dynamic conductors, Joseph Giunta is a musician of international acclaim. He is recognized as an important American conductor for his innovative programming and for his compelling interpretations of traditional and new music. His musical depth combined with his boundless energy and contagious enthusiasm makes him one of the most respected and successful orchestra leaders in the United States.
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Paul Huang Violin
Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered to be one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. The Washington Post proclaimed Mr. Huang as, "an artist with the goods for a significant career," following his recital debut at the Kennedy Center.
Mr. Huang's recent highlights have included an acclaimed debut at Bravo!Vail Music Festival stepping in for violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in Mozart's Violin Concerto No.4 with Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin. Recent and forthcoming engagements include his recital debut at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, the Aspen Music Festival, as well as appearances with the Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev (St. Petersburg's White Nights Festival), Berliner Symphoniker with Lior Shambadal (Philharmonie Berlin debut), Detroit Symphony with Leonard Slatkin, Houston Symphony with Andres Orozco-Estrada, Orchestra of St. Luke's with Carlos Miguel Prieto, Seoul Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony and Grant Park Festival Orchestra with Markus Stenz, North Carolina Symphony and Charlotte Symphony with Gemma New, Buffalo Philharmonic with JoAnn Falletta, Pacific Symphony with Carl St. Clair, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan with ShaoChia Lu and the Taipei Symphony with Jahja Ling (both in Taipei and on a U.S. tour). 2019-20 season will also see Mr. Huang giving the German premiere of Tan Dun's Violin Concerto "Fire Ritual" with the Nuremberg Symphony with Kahchun Wong and appearances in the U.S. with the Tucson Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Long Beach Symphony, Brevard Symphony, and Mobile Symphony.
Recital and chamber music performances this season will include Mr. Huang's recital debut for People's Symphony Concerts in New York, a recital tour across North America and Taiwan with pianist Helen Huang, as well as his debut at the Wolf Trap in Washington D.C. He will also return to Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for three separate tours in the U.S., Europe, and the Far East.
Mr. Huang's recent recital engagements included Lincoln Center's "Great Performers" series and return engagement at the Kennedy Center where he premiered Conrad Tao's "Threads of Contact" for Violin and Piano during his recital evening with pianist Orion Weiss. He also stepped in for Midori with Leonard Slatkin and the Detroit Symphony to critical acclaim. Mr. Huang has also made debuts at the Wigmore Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and the Louvre in Paris.
His first solo CD, Intimate Inspiration, is a collection of favorite virtuoso and romantic encore pieces released on the CHIMEI label. In association with Camerata Pacifica, he recorded "Four Songs of Solitude" for solo violin on their album of John Harbison works. The album was released on the Harmonia Mundi label in fall 2014.
A frequent guest artist at music festivals worldwide, he has performed at the Seattle, Music@Menlo, Caramoor, Bridgehampton, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Moritzburg, Kissinger Sommer, Sion, Orford Musique, and the PyeongChang Music Festival in Korea. His chamber music collaborators have included Gil Shaham, Cho-Liang Lin, Nobuko Imai, Mischa Maisky, Jian Wang, Frans Helmerson, Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, and Marc-Andre Hamelin.
Winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Huang made critically acclaimed recital debuts in New York at Lincoln Center and in Washington, D.C. at the Kennedy Center. Other honors include First Prize at the 2009 Tibor Varga International Violin Competition Sion-Valais in Switzerland, the 2009 Chi-Mei Cultural Foundation Arts Award for Taiwan's Most Promising Young Artists, the 2013 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and the 2014 Classical Recording Foundation Young Artist Award.
Born in Taiwan, Mr. Huang began violin lessons at the age of seven. He is a proud recipient of the inaugural Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School, where he earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees under Hyo Kang and I-Hao Lee. He plays on the legendary 1742 "ex-Wieniawski" Guarneri del Gesù on extended loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.


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Telemedicine: an opportunity for patients
ISICO has longstanding experience in caring for and monitoring young scoliosis patients (children and adolescents) living all over Italy and also abroad. Precisely for this reason, i.e. in order to find a way of allowing farther-flung patients to travel to the centre less often, it has already experimented with various telemedicine tools.
In fact, over the years, ISICO patients, some even living in other continents (such as Australia and the USA), have been able to follow long-term treatment programmes thanks to the availability of online consultations.
Used alongside the traditional services delivered in our clinics across Italy, telemedicine is an additional tool available to our patients that, while saving them time and long journeys, nevertheless guarantees them the same quality of care.
Experiences in this field in recent years, and in particular during the COVID-19 emergency, have made it increasingly clear that, whenever possible, telemedicine should be an integral part of healthcare, on a par with traditional care.
Telemedicine: how it took off during the COVID-19 emergency
Our recourse to online consultations and treatments during the COVID-19 emergency did not constitute a completely new experience, but rather a speeding up of a process that was already under way. Indeed, drawing on the experience it has acquired over the years, ISICO moved its schedule of medical and rehabilitation sessions online, so as to be able to respect the calendar of appointments already arranged with its patients.
Thus, over the two months or so, we delivered thousands of telemedicine services and were pleased to receive positive feedback from our patients, such as: "I appreciated the continuity of care and knowing that I would always be able to count on "seeing" my own doctor and therapist even in emergency situations like the current coronavirus emergency".
Isico has now reported its telemedicine experiences during the COVID-19 emergency, and the relative data, in an article entitled Feasibility and acceptability of telemedicine to substitute outpatient rehabilitation services in the COVID-19 emergency in Italy: an observational everyday clinical-life study, which has been published in Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Although our clinics have now reopened, Isico has continued to offer patients the possibility of consulting specialists online, too, and therefore without having to leave their own homes.
Telemedicine: how it works
"With the help of parents, examinations can be carried out remotely: we send parents tutorials explaining how they should photograph their child. Using these photos, we then take the measurements to assess the state of the scoliosis" explains Prof. Stefano Negrini, medical and scientific director of ISICO – "In addition, parents are taught how to position patients in relation to the video camera for "live" examinations. Alternatively, the examination can be carried out at the patient's nearest ISICO clinic. In this case, the medical specialist, connected via video call, is assisted by a therapist, who takes the patient's measurements".
And how does all this work with exercise-based treatments?
At ISICO we have been using the Scientific Exercises Approach to Scoliosis (Seas) for many years now. In this case, after an initial session, during which the patient is taught exercises specially tailored to his/her needs, he/she carries on doing them independently at home.
Once a certain interval of time has elapsed, the programme of exercises is checked by the physiotherapist, who evaluates whether or not it needs to be updated on the basis of the patient's growth and the evolution of his/her curve, and so on.
This kind of follow-up can easily be carried out online, just like the initial exercise session.
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My Thoughts: I received The Sound of Rain from the publisher in exchange for reviewing it, but of course all opinions are my own. Judd Markley and Larkin Hayward lead such different lives that you can't really see them together at the beginning. I love how the story evolves around them. This is one of those books you'll want to read, especially as a relaxing evening or weekend piece.


I've been there a few times last summer, totally worth it. Among others, I really miss the typical Sardinian seadas...!
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Eric Obie Cates Jr.
Published 11:46 am Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Colonel Eric Obie Cates Jr., 99, died April 7, 2018.
The first-born son of Eric Obie Cates and Vera Harrison Cates was born May 28, 1918.
He was a life-long resident of the Searcy community in north Butler County where he resided on his farm, Persimmon Ridge Farms. He was a graduate of Butler County High School. He was preceded in death by his beautiful wife, Louise Braswell Cates, his parents and his brother, Aubrey Edwin (Tap) Cates.
He was a loving father to four children and their spouses, Linda C. Roquemore (Ted), Jean C. Blackmon (Larry), Ann C. Boutwell (John) and Eric Obie Cates, III (Anne). He was a wonderful grandfather to 11 grandchildren, Kimberly R. Hatchett (Hal), Hunter C. Roquemore, Brian Blackmon (Kellie), Braswell B. Braswell (Alex), Benjamin Blackmon (Misty), Katherine B. Bryant (Kris), Andrew Boutwell (Jane), Thomas Boutwell (Sarah), Eric Obie Cates IV (Melissa), Bailey Cates (Lisa) and Mary Anne Cates. Mr. Cates also had 25 great-grandchildren, Mary Beth and Thomas Jackson Hatchett; Ellery Roquemore, Hannah and Alec Meachin; Cade and Carlyle Blackmon, Deandre Butler; Browder and Sasser Braswell; Elle Caroline, Cates and Mary Beasley Blackmon; Micah and Claire Bryant; Elisha, Anna, Salter and Lucy Boutwell; Lilly Boutwell; Austin, Graham, and Alice Cates; and Olivia and Reid Cates. The seven grandsons will serve as pallbearers and the members of the Downtown Coffee Club will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Mr. Cates was well known for his service to his country, his state and his hometown of Greenville, Alabama.
He was a combat veteran of WWII and the Korean War. He served in the Alabama National Guard from 1940 – 1975, retiring at the rank of Colonel. An ardent supporter of all veterans, he remained active in the American Legion and was recently honored for his 70 years of membership. He was the voice of the veteran at many school and community Veteran Day commemorations.
From 1974 – 1982, he was an Alabama State Representative for House District 84, serving as Chairman of Military Affairs, also as a member of the Banking, Constitution and Elections Committees. He was the Director of public relations for the Alabama Bankers Association from 1983 -1988. Locally, he was a director of the Greenville Bank, a member of the Advisory Board of Peoples Bank, and emeritus member of the Advisory Board of BankTrust and
Trustmark Bank.
Mr. Cates was the retired County Executive Director of the Butler County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service.
A life-long farmer, cattleman, and timber grower, he was an active member of the Butler County Farmers Federation. He served as county President and regional Vice-President of the Alabama Cattleman's Association. In 1984, he was the recipient of the W. Kelly Mosley Environmental Award. He was inducted into the Alabama State Agriculture Hall of Honor in 2015. His Persimmon Ridge Farms was recognized in 2017 as the state's first Alabama Bicentennial Farm
for 200 years of continuous family ownership.
An education advocate, he served for twelve years as a member and President of the Board of Trustees for Greenville High School. He was President of the Parents Association and a Trustee at Marion Military Institute.
A loyal member of the Fort Deposit United Methodist Church, he served as Chairman of the Board, Lay Speaker and taught Sunday School for over thirty years.
Until the end of his life, he continued to be very active in civic affairs of Greenville. While he was a member of many organizations, he was especially proud of his memberships, since 1958, in the Kiwanis Club and the Downtown Coffee Club, where members and friends met to solve the world's problems. He remained a patron of the Searcy Volunteer Fire Department. He was the oldest member of the Butler County Historical and Genealogy Society.
As a living example of America's free enterprise system, at the age of eighty, he created the Cates Development Company, LLC, with all of his children and grandchildren as partners, he built residential neighborhoods in Greenville.
Mr. Cates's life has been an inspiration to many. Exemplified by his keen interest in life, he will be remembered for his enduring attention to his family and friends, his sense of humor and love of a good story, his never wavering faith in God and his allegiance to his country. He will be remembered as a true American citizen, proud of his country and family.
Visitation was held Monday, April 9, 2018 at Dunklin & Daniels Funeral Home from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. The funeral was held Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at the First United Methodist Church of Greenville, Alabama at 2 p.m. with the Reverends Katie Cates Bryant and Dennis Carlson officiating. A graveside service with military honors will follow at Magnolia Cemetery.
The family would like to thank all the residents and staff at Country Place Senior Living for their friendship and attentive care; to caregivers Norma Johnson and Marilyn Peagler, who tenderly cared for him in his final weeks and to Southern Care Hospice for their devoted service to him and his family. A special thank you to all of his dear friends who prayed, called, and visited with him making his life richer by their presence.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Fort Deposit United Methodist Church or to a charity of your choice.
For online condolences, please visit www.dunklinanddanielsfh.com


A seriously ill horse who died in Spain earlier this month after a series of injuries and illnesses is suspected to have been suffering from the rare disease systemic calcinosis, of which only a handful of cases have been reported.
An autopsy has revealed the two-year-old filly named Lily, who was cared for by the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre in Alicante, had hard mineral lumps like stones in her neck, heart and lungs – a sign of systemic calcinosis. Only five cases of the illness have ever been recorded, all in the US in quarter horses and paints.
Gross appearance of pale streaks within the gluteal muscle of a horse suffering from systemic calcinosis.
Veterinarians at the Hospital Veterinario San Vicente, who treated Lily, have preserved the stones in formaldehyde to be sent to the University of Córdoba for further analysis.
"We are obviously devastated to lose this beautiful young member of our rescue centre family, particularly after the loss of her mother only two years ago," said Easy Horse Care co-founder Sue Weeding.
Lily first fell ill in early July, after suffering a fractured neck overnight in her stable – foul play could not be ruled out, as the injury came as the rescue centre suffered a string of break-ins.
Her condition continued to worsen over coming weeks, and Lily was diagnosed with tick fever and then an infection called myonecrosis in her neck muscles caused by the tick fever treatment injections.
Despite treatment, she continued to deteriorate and was rushed to the Hospital Veterinario San Vicente on July 22. There, veterinarians discovered a mysterious lung infection. Cultures were taken but Lily died on August 10 before the results were revealed.
Equine vet Dorothea and EHC co-founder Rod Weeding treating Lily.
"This again highlights that while many of our rescued horses seem to be fine from the outside, they have been exposed to all sorts of unknown circumstances and situations that often leave a devastating mark on the inside. Sometimes it takes years for these effects to become known," Weeding said.
The syndrome in horses closely resembles a rare condition in humans called metastatic calcification or systemic calcinosis, as well as calciphylaxis. Systemic calcinosis is characterized by calcium deposition in the connective tissue of organs, including the lungs, kidneys, stomach, heart, and skin. All five horses studied had evidence of systemic calcinosis; as well as an uncommon feature of systemic calcinosis in humans, which was muscle fiber calcification.
The five horses all presented with malaise, mild fever, stiffness, and loss of muscle mass particularly over the lumbar and gluteal area. Other common features at postmortem examination were dystrophic calcification of cardiac myofibers and renal tubules.
No genetic mutations were found relating to polysaccharide storage myopathy (GYS1) and malignant hyperthermia.
Lily was born at the rescue centre in April 2014 to an emaciated mare named Liberty, one of 14 horses rescued from Callosa de Segura just a month earlier.
Weeding said Lily's death had put the Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre under severe financial strain.
While veterinarians have recognised the centre's charity status and heavily discounted their bill, Lily's treatment costs still came to €2650 – a huge sum for a centre that relies entirely on donations to survive.
"We know we can immediately pay €540 of that, thanks to our wonderful supporters who have already so generously donated to help cover Lily's costs. The rest we will have to pay off gradually in installments as we find the money," Weeding said.
Lily with Rosie, after Lily's mum, Liberty, died.
The situation was further complicated this week as a horse named Bettina – another of the Callosa de Segura 14 – fell seriously ill with colic and was rushed to the Hospital Veterinario San Vicente. She went immediately into surgery to remove a major intestine obstruction but could not be saved.
"This has always been one of our worst fears, that we'd still owe the horse hospital a load of money from one case when another horse becomes seriously ill," Weeding said.
Weeding said the rescue centre would be grateful for any donations to help cover its veterinary bills.


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MILWAUKEE (AP) - Jonathan Isaac scored 17 points and Nikola Vucevic and Terrence Ross each added 15 as the Orlando Magic cruised past Milwaukee 103-83 on Saturday night and snapped the Bucks' six-game winning streak.
Antetokounmpo missed his fourth game this season. "The soreness and the pounding of his body is pretty significant," coach Mike Budenholzer said. "I don't think it's a long-term thing, but I think a back-to-back, and the loads his puts himself through for us, he needs this."


this female figure honers women form Oakland's earliest history to women living today. Twenty brass plaques in the sculpture's base identify these women, including Amy Tan, Ruth Beckford, March Fong Eu, Isadora Duncan, Delilah Beasley and Julia Morgan. Sigamé is composed of 20 individually cast parts.