Triumph's Tiger name has been a staple of the British manufacturer's line-up for years and the latest version of the historic name is one of the best yet.
It's taken the good things from its predecessor, the fact that it's something of an all-rounder, add added a few more premium features to come up with the XR and XC models.
The XR is another Tiger adventure bike while the XC is an off-road capable model.
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Two Matrons at Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust and their teams coordinated and guided improvements in physical healthcare on inpatient mental health wards to improve outcomes, experiences and use of resources across the Trust.
Improving life expectancy for people living with mental health conditions is a national priority as described in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. This report recommends a focus on supporting people living with severe mental health problems to have their physical health needs met. They should be offered screening and secondary prevention, reflecting their higher risk of poor physical health.
Within Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the Matrons identified that the clinical teams on mental health wards needed to be supported, empowered and trained to address patients' physical healthcare needs as well as mental health needs appropriately. Unwarranted variation was observed in the physical health support available for the increasing number of patients being admitted to the wards with additional chronic health conditions and comorbidities.
Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust offers a wide range of services. These services include services for children, young people, adults of working age and older adults supporting their physical and mental health needs, as well as providing services for those with an intellectual disability. Delivered from over 140 different sites, many of the Trust's services are community based.
A review of current practice identified that the mental health teams needed support (and training) to meet the physical healthcare needs of their patients, for example pressure ulcer management or diabetes care.
Feedback from staff highlighted that they recognised there was an opportunity to improve practice and were keen to develop their skills and knowledge in the provision of physical healthcare. To support this, a designated team member was appointed 'Physical Health Matron' (PHM), who would coordinate and guide improvements by raising the profile of physical healthcare on the inpatient wards, as well as educating and upskilling staff to provide holistic care to patients on the wards.
A pilot was conducted on two inpatient mental health wards, led by ward managers, inpatient matrons and the wider multidisciplinary team collaboratively. The PHM spent time on the ward getting to know the staff, patients and general day to day routine and through MDT meetings, the PHM developed an enhanced understanding of the challenges of the ward. This combined knowledge supported the overarching provision of physical care input and advice for patients.
Performing a range of physical health tasks/procedures on a day to day basis.
Responses to the questionnaires were analysed and bespoke training and teaching packages were developed and rolled out for staff. The main areas of training needs were pressure area care and diabetes care.
The PHM worked alongside ward staff to support the implementation of enhanced knowledge. Building on the training was a prompt guide for general physical healthcare observations, such as measuring a lying and standing blood pressure or blood glucose testing. The prompt guide has been attached to the blood pressure trolleys on both wards and is easily accessible for staff and students.
The PHM has also supported development of ward discharge pathways for patients and has made links with local community integrated care teams to see what physical health services are available locally for patients. For example, referring to community diabetes nurses to monitor patients in their own home and optimise treatment options. Patients that now require these services are referred prior to discharge.
As part of this programme and pathway refresh, the PHM has reviewed clinical pathways and proformas across the wards and has updated these to reflect current guidelines and align them more with current practice in community services.
Integrated care and onward referrals to Integrated Community teams.
Patients are now routinely followed up and monitored by a range of community services at discharge to promote and maintain truly holistic care.
"The PHM has brought their vast knowledge of community services to the MDT which has helped us to maintain the patient's healthcare the highest standard even after discharge back into the community".
Patients, their families and carers have also responded well to the new approach to physical care provision across the mental health wards.
Better use of resources – Mental and physical health services working in closer alignment with one another has helped to reduce duplication, through shared learning and experiences. Proactive monitoring of a patient at discharge, from both a physical and mental health perspective, is supporting an ongoing reduction in (re-)admission. Equipment already provided by the Trust is being utilised in everyday practice and staff feel confident and competent in using it.
Physical and mental health services can work in synergy together to be responsive to patient need. This is also true for multidisciplinary working.
Change can be slow and it takes time to embed new working practices, however don't forget to reflect on how much you have achieved along the way.
Be determined and clear about what changes you want to influence / change in practice. There will be difficult times during the change process, but keep focused and positive.
Utilising the resources already available, such as the Trust's Physical Health Care team, is positive e.g. in supporting the delivery of training.


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IISC stands out as only Indian university to feature in top 100 university THE Rankings
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the only academic institution from India to feature in Times Higher Education (THE) Global Ranking.
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TED NewsDesk, New Delhi: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020 includes almost 1,400 universities across 92 countries, standing as the largest and most diverse university rankings ever to date. The table is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution's performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. In the most recent edition of the rankings, Stanford University topped the charts within the Arts and Humanities stream. A total of six universities from the US featured in the top 10 list, following which were United Kingdom-based. From India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the University of Delhi secured featured within a list of 501.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the only academic institution from India to feature in Times Higher Education (THE) Global Ranking. IISC received 94th position in the engineering and technology stream and secured 96th position in the computer science category. The Times Higher Education (THE) Ranking list features as many as 1,512 universities and evaluates 11 subject areas. The rankings displayed that US-based universities dominate the chart. In as many as nine subjects, US-based universities secured the top spots.
In the Business and Economics stream, Stanford University stood out from the lot as the top academic institution yet again. Out of the top 10, seven universities are from the US, and three belong to the United Kingdom. From India, Jamia Millia Islamia featured in 401-500 followed by Amity University, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, University of Calcutta, University of Delhi, University of Mumbai, Pondicherry University. In the Clinical and Health stream, the University of Oxford ranked 1.
Out of the top 10, four are from the United Kingdom and as many as from the US. From India, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Banaras Hindu University, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Panjab University, and Jamia Hamdard University featured in the top 600. Within Computer Science, the University of Oxford ranked number 1, followed by Stanford University. From India, IISC ranked 96th followed by IIT-Indore (251-300), Thapar University (251-300). IIT-Delhi, Jamia Milia Islamia, and JNU ranked between 401-500.
Within the streams of Engineering and Technology, Harvard University ranked number 1, followed by the University of Oxford. From IISC ranks 94, IIT-Indore 301-400, and Jamia Millia University at 401-500.
Focusing on the top Indian universities that ranked in the most recent THE Rankings, one can observe that they do not hold the top spots in large numbers.
India is currently heading towards a new era in education, and emphasising on digital learning. While it treads towards this new path and incorporates changes into the system, bridging the gap between the top-ranked universities in the world and Indian Institutes can significantly help. Infrastructure, accessibility and most importantly, a system that matches international standards is what's much needed to see Indian universities lead the charts shortly.
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October 23, 2018 – Two people were injured after being struck by a trolley at the intersection of 24th and Commercial streets Tuesday evening.
According to ABC News, a man and a woman were riding Bird scooters in the area around 6:30 p.m. For reasons still under investigation, a trolley came up behind the pair, and they bumped into the side of one of the trolley cars.
The collision resulted in injuries to both scooter riders, who were reportedly rushed to separate hospitals. Primary reports indicated the woman was taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital for treatment of what appeared to be minor injuries.
In addition, the male victim was transported to UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest. Officials believed the man suffered more serious injuries in the accident.
No information has been yet disclosed on the trolley operator involved. The precise circumstances that led to the crash are still being investigated.
Based on the details provided so far from the report, there are still many unanswered questions. Under California law, drivers who are approaching a pedestrian are required to exercise due care and reduce their speed for the safety of the pedestrian. A forensic examination of both the trolley and the victims, as well as photos that were taken of the scene, will help investigators determine what transpired. This will help investigators determine which party ultimately caused the accident. Other factors to consider, was the driver distracted, operating the vehicle recklessly, or traveling over the speed limit prior to impact? Police will ultimately determine fault for this accident and issue a report.
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Study on Performance of New Refrigerant R450A Used in Jet Refrigeration Cycle
Date:Dec 25, 2019
[China Refrigeration Network] The new refrigerant R450A is a substitute for R134a. It is environment-friendly and reliable. Currently, there is little research on it. The limited research mainly focuses on simple vapor compression refrigeration cycle. A mathematical model of ejector was established to compare and analyze the refrigeration performance of R450A under different ejector characteristics and operating conditions in a new type of ejector refrigeration cycle. It is found that in the ejector refrigeration cycle, the pressure drop of ejector fluid, the mixing area ratio of working fluid to ejector fluid and the cycle COP, the refrigerating capacity per unit volume and the ejector compression efficiency show parabolic changes. There are optimal pressure drop of ejector fluid of 10 kPa and mixing area ratio of working fluid to ejector fluid of 7, and the optimal pressure drop of ejector fluid and mixing area ratio of working fluid to ejector fluid increase with the increase of condensation temperature. In addition, compared with the traditional vapor compression refrigeration cycle, the COP and refrigerating capacity per unit volume of R450A in the new injection refrigeration cycle are increased by 14.6%~20.6% and 21.1%~21.7%, respectively, and the system performance is significantly improved. At the same time, the efficiency of injector nozzle and diffuser has a significant impact on the system performance, and the efficiency of diffuser has a stronger impact.
Since 1990s, R134a has been widely used for its excellent refrigeration capacity and zero ODP (ozone destruction index). However, with the in-depth study of global climate change, R134a is recognized as a greenhouse gas due to its high GWP (greenhouse effect impact index) value, ranking third among the substances causing global warming. In order to meet the requirements of Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement, it is of great significance to find a substitute refrigerant for R134a.
At present, the research on R134a substitution mainly includes natural working medium and artificial synthesis. For natural refrigerants, Ma Yitai and Liu Shengchun have studied the transcritical cycle of CO 2 and its performance comparison with Freon refrigeration cycle. In artificial synthesis, R1234yf and R1234ze(E) are the most representative studies. Wu et al., Brown et al., Dong et al. and Qi Chen et al. have conducted very sufficient experimental studies on the thermophysical properties and transport properties of these working fluids. The new refrigerant R450A is composed of R1234ze(E) and R134a with mass fractions of 58% and 42% respectively. It is not easy to burn and GWP value is 58% lower than R134a. It can be used for medium and low temperature equipment such as heat pumps, air-cooled water cooling units, automatic beverage vending machines, etc. It is one of R134a substitutes with better performance and was listed in SNAP (New Refrigerant Substitution Plan) project of the National Environmental Protection Agency in October 2014.
At present, domestic research on R450A is still relatively lacking, and foreign research mainly focuses on the basic cycle performance test comparison of R450A. Mota-Babiloni et al. measured the refrigeration system with intermediate regenerator, and compared the refrigeration capacity, COP, exhaust temperature of R450A under different working conditions and the influence of intermediate heat exchanger on the compressor efficiency. It was found that the refrigeration capacity of R450A was lower than R134a 6%, and the COP was about 1%. Mendoza-Miranda et al. [Propose a compressor prediction model. The measurement results in the basic vapor compression refrigeration system show that the refrigerating capacity and COP of R450A are slightly lower than R134a.
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Q: UIScrollView not scrolling horizontally despite setting contentSize I have a simple app with multiple UITableViews, all of whom redirect to a single ViewController, with 2 items: a Label, and an ImageView embedded into a scrollview.
The problem is, the image, even though resized to exceed the screen size, does not scroll horizontally. It only scrolls vertically.
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IBOutlet UIScrollView *testScroll;

GammaViewController.m :
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
self.title = @"Gamma View";
finalLabel.text= _selectedData;

[testScroll setScrollEnabled:YES];
[testScroll setContentSize:CGSizeMake(600,800)];
}

The ImageView has been assigned an image from the Attributes inspector, and has been resized to the scrollview contentSize i.e. (600,800).

A: May be a silly mistake that content size and frame may be same.
Try this
[testScroll setFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,320,400)];

[testScroll setContentSize:CGSizeMake(600,800)];

May this code help you.

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In 2017, data breach mitigation costs fell year-on year; however, that appears to be a blip. The 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study conducted by the Ponemon Institute (on behalf of IBM Security) has revealed data breach mitigation costs have risen once again.
The Ponemon Institute conducts the Cost of a Data Breach Study every year. For the 2018 study, the Ponemon Institute conducted interviews with 2,200 IT, data security, and compliance professionals from 477 companies in 15 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Brazil, Japan and Australia. The companies represented in the study came from a wide range of industry sectors. Each of those companies had experienced a data breach in the past 12 months.
Naturally, the larger the breach, the higher the cost of mitigation is likely to be. Breaches involving millions of records would naturally cost more to resolve than breaches of 50,000 records. Catastrophic data breaches – those involving millions of records – are not normally included in the study. This year was the first time that mega data breaches – those involving more than 1,000,000 records – were included, although they were treated separately.
The analysis of the main part of the study involved breaches ranging from 2,500 records to a little over 100,000 records. The average breach size was 24,615 records globally, 31,465 records in the United States, 22,800 records in the UK, and 19,200 records in Japan.
The costs associated with those data breaches was analyzed using the activity-based costing (ABC) methodology. The ABC methodology identified four process-related activities and assigned costs based on actual use. Those activities were Detection and Escalation, Post Data Breach Response, Breach Notifications, and Lost Business Cost. The analysis identified the average total cost of a data breach taking all four activity areas into account.
The study also revealed measures taken prior to the breach, during, and after, that can limit losses or increase data breach mitigation costs.
A data breach now costs an average of $3.86 million to revolve. Last year, the average cost of a data breach was $3.62 million. Data breach costs have therefore increased by 6.4% in the space of a year.
On average, per capita data breach mitigation costs rose by 4.8%, with a data breach costing, on average, $148 per record. Last year, the global average was $141 per record.
In addition to the rising cost, the severity of the breaches also increased, with the data breaches in this year's sample impacting 2.2% more individuals on average.
Data breaches cost more to resolve in the United States than any other country. The average data breach mitigation costs in the United States is $7.91 million per breach. The lowest costs were in India, where the average breach cost was $1.77 million. The highest per capita costs were also in the United States at £233 per record.
Hackers and malicious insiders caused the most breaches and they were also the costliest to resolve at $157 per record. System glitches cost an average of £131 per record and breaches caused by human error cost the least at $128 per record.
Data breach costs varied considerably by industry sector, with healthcare data breach mitigation costs the highest by some distance at an average of $408 per record, followed by financial services breaches at $206 per record, services at $181 per record, and pharmaceutical industry breaches at $174 per record. Breaches in the education sector cost an average of $166 per record, retail industry breaches were $116 per record, and the lowest data breach mitigation costs were in the public sector at $75 per record.
The study of mega data breaches revealed a breach of 1 million records costs an estimated $39.49 million to resolve, while a breach of 50 million records costs an estimated $350 million. Since there were only 11 breaches of more than 1 million records in the sample it was not possible to accurately calculate the average cost of these breaches.
What Factors Affect Data Breach Mitigation Costs the Most?
For the study, 22 different factors were assessed to determine how they affected data breach mitigation costs. The most important cost saving measures that can be taken to reduce the cost of a data breach are having an incident response team ($14 less per record), widespread use of encryption ($13.1 less per record), BCM involvement ($9.3 less per record), employee training ($9.3 less per record), participation in threat sharing ($8.7 less per record) and use of an artificial intelligence platform ($8.2 less per record).
The main factors that increased data breach mitigation costs were third party involvement ($13.4 more per record), extensive cloud migration at the time of the breach ($11.9 more per record), compliance failures ($11.9 more per record), extensive use of mobile platforms ($10.0 more per record), lost or stolen devices ($6.5 more per record), and extensive use of IoT devices ($5.4 more per record).
With the cost of data breaches rising, more cyberattacks being conducted, and the likelihood of a breach being experienced now higher, it is essential not only for companies to implement layered security defenses, but also to make sure they are prepared for the worst.
Companies need to assume a breach will be experienced and policies and procedures need to be developed to deal with the breach when it happens. An incident response team should be prepared to spring into action to ensure everyone known what needs to be done when disaster strikes. The sooner a breach is identified and mitigated, the lower the breach mitigation costs will be.


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It didn't do so well, detecting just 59 percent of my assorted threats. It's true that Windows malware can't hurt your Mac, but eliminating it ensures that your Mac won't be a carrier bringing infection to other devices on your network. In theory, once you've installed your antivirus and completed a full scan, real-time protection should handle any new infestations that crop up. Symantec votes with the majority, letting you schedule a weekly scan on the day and time of your choice.
You can also choose whether to run a full system scan, a scan of all user folders, or a scan of just the startup disk. Phishing is the term we use for websites that masquerade as financial sites or other sensitive sites, hoping to steal login credentials from unwary victims. Unlike malware, which generally must be tuned to a specific operating platform, phishing works on any platform and any browser. All it requires for success is an inattentive user.
In the past, I used Norton as a touchstone for phishing protection, reporting each product's score based on how much it diverged from Norton's detection rate. Earlier this year, though, I found that Norton was no longer consistently achieving detection in the high end of the 90 percent range, so I switched to simply reporting each product's raw detection rate. I do still report the difference between the product's detection rate and that of the phishing protection built into Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.
Given that both products implement Norton Safe Web protection as a browser extension, I am not surprised to see the same results on both platforms. What is surprising is the low, low detection rate, just 40 percent. That's the lowest score among Mac antivirus products that include phishing protection. All three browsers fared substantially better than Norton just using their built-in phishing protection. Among macOS-oriented products, McAfee earned the best score, beating out all three browsers and achieving percent protection.
Tested on Windows, Kaspersky did the same, but only managed 84 percent detection in the latest macOS test. Avast Security for Mac holds second place in Mac antiphishing, with 90 percent detection.
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It warns when you're connected to an insecure network, and automatically configures protection when you return to a trusted network. By default, it allows all outgoing network connections and blocks unsolicited incoming connections. Going beyond the other firewalls, Norton includes active protection against exploit attacks on vulnerabilities in the operating system and popular applications.
You can view the impressive list of attacks blocked, and even dig in for an online page describing each. A feature called DeepSight blocks contact coming from a constantly updated list of known attackers.
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Application blocking, disabled by default, prevents unauthorized programs from using your network and internet connections. If you turn it on, you get a pop-up query each time Norton sees a new program attempting a connection. When I turned it on for testing, it didn't generate as many popups as when I last evaluated the program. I did have to give permission for Chrome to access the internet, but that was about it. Norton's Windows firewall is vastly more sophisticated. To start, it automatically configures permissions for a huge collection of known and trusted programs.
The Mac edition clearly doesn't; it asked me whether to allow Chrome to go online. When the Windows version doesn't recognize a program, it monitors that program closely for suspect behavior and cuts the network connection if it detects abuse. Even though it doesn't come up to the level of the Windows firewall, the firewall in Norton's Mac edition does more than most. If you enable application control, be prepared for an initial flurry of pop-ups.
Once those are past, it should be smooth sailing. In my review of Symantec Norton Password Manager , the successor to Norton Identity Safe, I point out that the documentation and features aren't entirely synced up across platforms. For example, the documentation clearly states that macOS is not supported. And yet, you'll find that on the Mac Norton offers to install the password manager along with Norton Safe Web.
Given that the password manager functions as a browser extension, it makes perfect sense that it would work on a Mac just the same as on Windows. The addition of the password manager isn't precisely a bonus, since you can get Norton Password Manager for free, but it's a nice addition.
Read my review for full details. Briefly, Norton Password Manager handles basic password manager tasks such as password capture, password replay, and filling web forms, and it can sync your data across all your Windows, Android, iOS devices, and macOS devices. It now includes an actionable password strength report with automatic password updates for popular sites. However, it lacks advanced features, among them secure password sharing, digital inheritance, and two-factor authentication.
New with this edition, Norton Clean aims to regain some disk space for you by eliminating files you don't need. It can remove duplicate files, including duplicate photos and duplicates in your iTunes account. There's also an option to identify similar files and let you remove any that aren't necessary, for example p and p versions of the same movie. Finally, it gets rid of junk files left by applications and other temporary files.
On my test system it quickly found many files to sweep away. I let it eliminate the junk and temporary files, but I wasn't so sure about the handful duplicates in iTunes and Photos.
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And when I checked its list of similar files, I found many that most definitely shouldn't be deleted. For example, it found a set of files created around the same time, with filenames differing only in a digit at the end—these were notes on a day's worth of talks at Black Hat, and all different. To be fair, on a Mac that someone actually uses for day-to-day work, Norton would very likely find many more actual duplicates and junk files.
Norton Clean is definitely a welcome addition to this suite. In addition, you get a lot more when you use one of your licenses to install protection on a Windows box, or even an Android device. While Norton is excellent, there are even better choices—especially if you have a Mac-centric household. Kaspersky Internet Security for Mac is also a suite, though with a different feature set from Norton, and it's priced the same as many standalone Mac antivirus utilities.
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The #1105 (1968-1971) Straight Hair TNT version wore a striped suit. It came in 3 versions. The very hard to find pin-striped version is from the first issued dolls. The wider striped version came out late in 1968. Then a even darker version came out after that. The later dolls were "Made in Taiwan" and the earlier dolls were "Made in Japan"
The Straight-hair TNT Skipper are often found with light color faces.
The vinyl is prone to fading over the years.
The box includes #1030 Bend-leg Skipper dressed in her blue swim-suit, red flat shoes, brass headband, with white plastic brush & comb, black or gold wire stand, and booklet. #1105 TNT Skipper comes dressed in a one-piece turquoise & pink swimsuit, turquoise headband with plastic X stand, and booklet. Sausage curl wears a orange colored swim-suit.


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Q: In holoviews, how to share only the x-axis between a Curve and a Quadmesh? Thanks to this post, I am able to share only the x-axis between two curves in holoviews:
t = np.arange(100)
data1 = np.random.rand(100)
data2 = np.random.rand(100) + 100

curve1 = hv.Curve((t, data1), 'time', 'y1')
curve2 = hv.Curve((t, data2), 'time', 'y2')

hv.Layout(curve1 + curve2)

Now I am trying to do the same between a curve and a quadmesh, but without success... I have seen Share x-axis between Bokeh plots but it uses only the bokeh api and I would like to use holoviews.
The code without the x-axis shared would be the following:
t = np.arange(100)
data1 = np.random.rand(100)
data_mesh = np.random.rand(10, 100)

curve1 = hv.Curve((t, data1), 'time', 'y1')
curve2 = hv.QuadMesh((t, np.arange(10), data_mesh)) # What should I add here ?

hv.Layout(curve1 + curve2)

I tried some options, such as relabel the x-axis but without success. How should I do ?
Any help would be very appreciated ! Thanks

A: In HoloViews, axes are shared if they are considered to have the same Dimension. Dimensions are considered the same if they have the same name and (optional) label, so simply changing the label is not enough to make it match a Dimension on another plot with a different name. See
the user guide for the details, but here you can change the QuadMesh to declare that its x dimension is the same as the one from the Curve.
import numpy as np, holoviews as hv
hv.extension("bokeh")

t = np.arange(100)
data1 = np.random.rand(100)
data_mesh = np.random.rand(10, 100)

curve1 = hv.Curve((t, data1), 'time', 'y1')
curve2 = hv.QuadMesh((t, np.arange(10), data_mesh)).redim(x='time')

curve1 + curve2


Notes: Very interesting interview Dave did for 'Wreckage' Magazine. I got it dated June 28, 1986 but first of all Dave says why he considers Mike Albert better than Chris Poland + saying 'this is 'Killing for a Living Tour', so this means it's 100% year of '85. Now about month - i'm almost sure it's June cause Dave talks aboiut new forthcoming album and it's tour so i think the month is right but the band played in Baltimore on June 26, so i guess the correct date is June 26, 1985.
Wreckage: Will any of your older songs be recorded on the new album?
Dave: The new album is gonna feature 'Black Friday', 'Bad Omen', it's going to have 'Next Victim' which has been retitled 'My Last Words', it's also going to have 'Burnt Offerings', it's going to has 'Conjure me'(?), 'Hook in Mouth'. It's gonna have…one or two which are the new numbers, a new number called 'Mary Jane Tuiligar'(?) and a new number called 'Death or Victory' and other than that right now I'm just blanking on it but there's some new numbers that we do have going right now.


Discoloration in a white hair can give a bad look for anyone and there are special techniques that can be followed to treat them. There are hair products that have been specially made for hair discoloration, but you must select the right one. The white hair will start to turn yellow in color due to various reasons, but they all can be treated with these following steps. The most common reason that can cause hair discoloration is washing the hair in a swimming pool and water that contains copper also can cause this problem.
The first method for treating the hair discoloration is by using products such as no deposit shampoo because they can take the buildup caused by various reasons. There are also hair styling products that can remove the color tones caused in your hair. You can also use blue rinse on your hair to make the silver hair bright by removing the brassiness. The hair can also be damaged after the perming due to the chemical used in this process. You can treat this problem by mixing vinegar along with tartar cream and leave it on the hair for minimum of ten minutes before rinsing it using cold water. Another option is using lemon juice on the hair and leaving it on for fifteen minutes before getting the hair rinsed. Try mixing the normal shampoo with baking soda before washing the hair and then use a proper hair conditioner.


I guess their secondary finally got exposed... and it could get an "X" rating exposure today... a blowout like the Michigan game was expected, although I thought it'd be Calvin Johnson not Mario Manningham… a team finally threw deep and often against the Domers suspect corners and it turned into instant rout… Now the luster and mystique is gone and they face an "Air Coryell" team, a team that beat them last year in South Bend by scoring 40+… as good as Quinn is, he showed signs of stress and became average when he was under any sort of pressure... do you think NFL scouts were watching???
Where did they go last week???


In 2018 we posed for more portraits for an updated calendar featuring our members and events.
In 2010 the choir used another donation from Bendigo Bank at Marcoola to produce a calendar for its members, featuring photos from events and performances during the past year.
Our fabulous choir members love creating amazingly luscious sounds when they join together in song each week, and get a buzz from sharing their wonderful harmonies with others whenever they can. But they also enjoy whipping up a delectable storm whenever they gather together in the kitchen. Proceeds from this cookbook went towards Christmas hampers for local Coolum families and residents.
In 2009 the Bendigo Bank at Marcoola donated $1000 to Cool Harmonies in recognition of their community participation. The choir used this money to produce a biographical booklet of its members and a locally produced CD Waves of Harmony. Cover photo by Jill E Photography.
Cool Harmonies share a passion for singing, and like all community choirs, we love coming together each week to experience the simple joy of creating harmony.
We have a community chest that sits at the front door. Each week the chest is filled with donations from choir members, their friends and family, members of the public, local businesses and paid performances.
The money raised through this community chest, along with money we make at fundraising events throughout the year, allows us to donate to a variety of community projects, both locally and further afield.
It is a beautiful circle of harmony. We all feel lucky to be a part of it and make a difference in the community.
Many of our fundraising activities are made possible through sponsorship donations from Marcoola Community Bank Branch of the Bendigo Bank.
We build up our community chest through fundraising events, members selling cookbooks, plants, lemons, and donations (including spare coins in our community chest each week, which make up about $800 each year).
St Vincent de Paul - 6 baskets of Christmas hampers, plus $250 of Coles gift vouchers donated by Copper Creations.
Coolum State School - $750 towards the school's music program to buy loan instruments for students.
Coolum HeARTs - $250 for Christmas Day lunch.
Orange Sky Australia mobile laundry service - $3256 from morning tea fundraiser.
Murris on the Move - $650 towards the driving lesson program for Indigenous people and new migrant women.
The Big Sing - $350 towards sponsoring an Indigenous singer to attend.
Coolum HeARTs Morning Tea - $1770.
Music Therapy program at local nursing homes - $3615 from Vocal Nosh and Bash night.
African Children's Choir - $21,256.29 raised through ticket sales from concerts/workshops, donations and raffles.
Coolum HeARTs Project - $2026 from the Biggest Morning Tea event.
Coolum Beach Quilters - $100 donated towards the group's cancer fundraising event.
Coolum Men's Shed - $3360 raised through our Crazy Musical Capers night in October.
The Big Sing - $250 towards sponsoring an Indigenous singer to attend the workshop.
Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea - $1,870.
African Children's Choir - $15,424 raised through ticket sales from concerts/workshops, donations and raffles.
Childhood Cancer Support - $174.50 from Talk Like a Pirate Day in September.
Alex Young Dekens Trust - $200 towards supporting Alex and her family.
Salvation Army - $1,000 towards Christmas hampers for members of our local community.
Choir members raised $9,078.70 through various fundraising activities.
Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea - $950.30. Funds will help towards cancer research, prevention, early detection and support services.
African Children's Choir (ACC) - $6,373.40 towards KwaYa projects in Ugandan schools and slum areas, specifically for the ACC Tour 2013.
Pyjama Foundation - $105.00. Helping to transform the lives of children in foster care through literacy and mentoring programs.
Variety - $150 to provide equipment and support for children with special needs.
Family hampers - $1500 towards providing food, toys and wish list gift cards for disadvantaged families and individuals in Coolum.


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Australia ninth member State to sign Facility Agreement
Australia ninth member State
to sign Facility Agreement
A Facility Arrangement was signed on 13 March 2000 by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, Alexander Downer, and the Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Wolfgang Hoffmann. Australia is the ninth member State to have signed such an agreement. Mr. Downer signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) on behalf of Australia on 24 September 1996, the day it was opened for signature, and the instruments of ratification were deposited on 9 July 1998. The purpose of the Facility Arrangement is to grant the legal authority to the Preparatory Commission to undertake work on Australian territory to establish or upgrade the 21 monitoring facilities (20 stations and one laboratory) that Australia is hosting as part of the International Monitoring System to verify compliance with the CTBT. These facilities span the length and breadth of Australian territory, from the remote Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean to metropolitan Melbourne. Australia is also responsible for three stations in Antarctica. Currently four Australian primary seismological stations, two auxiliary seismological stations and one infrasound station are contributing data to the IDC, including the primary seismological station at Mawson in Antarctica. The array at Warramunga (near Tennant Creek) - operated by the Research School of Earth Sciences at the Australian National University - is a particularly important component of the global monitoring network because it detects more seismic events than any other station on earth. Having been upgraded to meet IMS standards, Warramunga is now the most advanced seismological station in the southern hemisphere and was the first station on which the Preparatory Commission began work. A data authentication system is currently being installed at Warramunga and afterwards the station will be ready for certification. In operation since 1965, the Warramunga station has been contributing its research data on seismic discrimination for over 30 years to international efforts. As for the Australian hydroacoustic station at Cape Leeuwin, a site survey has been completed to prepare for the installation of a hydrophone station. Hydrophones can pick up acoustic waves from underwater events occurring thousands of kilometres away, on the other side of the world, through the propagation of sound in the deep-water SOFAR channel. At Cape Leeuwin, three hydrophones, or underwater microphones, will be located 115 kilometres offshore at a depth of one kilometre. An underwater cable on the sea floor will connect them to a land facility where the data they generate will be transmitted to the International Data Centre at Vienna. The Commission has recently awarded a contract of about 10 million Australian dollars for the design, construction and installation of the station. Work on three of the five infrasound array stations for which Australia is responsible is now under way. Infrasound from nuclear explosions propagates over distances of many thousands of kilometres and can be easily detected using ultra-sensitive microbarometers. Nuclear explosions in the atmosphere can therefore be detected and accurately located using a global network of infrasound array stations. The site surveys for the infrasound stations at Warramunga, Narrogin in Western Australia and Hobart in Tasmania have been carried out. Equipment for the new infrasound array station at Warramunga will be installed within the next few weeks and it is expected that this station will be in operation and certified by the end of this year. The final detective work in the case of a potentially clandestine test is carried out by the network´s radionuclide facilities because they can detect the tell-tale traces of radioactivity through the presence of fission products. During the negotiations, Australia provided valuable expertise in radionuclide technology and is still involved in supervising the implementation of the radionuclide monitoring network. For instance, staff at the radionuclide stations in Melbourne and Perth are cooperating with the Commission in developing software for coordinating the operations and output of the station that might be used at other radionuclide stations in the network A satellite connection has been installed at the Melbourne and Perth stations. The Melbourne station is co-located with the laboratory of the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency. This laboratory, along with the 15 other laboratories specified in the Treaty, will be assisting the Commission on request to analyse filters from the stations and, if required, samples taken by inspectors in the event of an on-site inspection.
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Like most Singaporeans, I was surprised to learn that Irfan Fandi had rejected a contract offer from Portuguese Primeira Liga outfit Sporting Braga.
After all, it was a fantastic opportunity for one of Singapore's brightest young talents – and the son of Fandi Ahmad, no less – to hone his skills and further develop as a player.
Playing in a more competitive environment with much better players – the Portuguese league was where the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo and Pepe first cut their teeth in top-flight football – would have helped Irfan improve tremendously.
His development, in turn, would have benefited the Singapore national team. Goodness knows, the Lions could do with an improvement in their playing ranks.
The fact that Irfan was offered a "two plus two"-year contract – this meant he would play for Braga for an initial two years, with the club then having the option of extending his contract by a further two years if they so desired – after just a two-week trial stint also indicated that Braga had seen his potential, and believed they could take him to the next level.
All in, it seemed like a no-brainer for Irfan to join Braga.
Nobody could have predicted that the 21-year-old would turn down the club's offer.
In subsequent interviews, Irfan cited "loneliness", as well as disagreements with Braga over the terms of his contract as the two main reasons for rejecting the club.
The main sticking point for the latter reason centred on a clause in his contract which stated that he would have to pay a €15 million (S$23.5 million) penalty, should he decide to leave the club before completing the initial two years of his contract.
Predictably, netizens came out in force to criticise Irfan for rejecting Braga.
Some labelled him "unambitious", while many others called into question the 1.88m-tall defender's mental strength.
Even Singaporean businessman Peter Lim, who owns Spanish club Valencia CF, expressed his displeasure with Irfan's decision. Lim had played a role in helping Irfan secure the initial two-week trial with Braga.
A spokesman from Lim's office told The Straits Times: "We have been helping local footballers like Irfan look for such rare opportunities to play in Europe. However, we find that our footballers are mentally not ready for the challenge.
But, why should Irfan be vilified for rejecting Braga?
Of course, I would have liked for Irfan to join Braga – playing in Portugal would have been an invaluable experience for him, and I believe his subsequent development as a player would have helped improve the standard of the Singapore national team.
What we want, however, is completely different from what Irfan wants. And therein lies the crux of the matter.
This is Irfan's career. Not ours.
And ultimately, in the cold light of day, all Irfan did was to reject a job offer that he felt wasn't right for him. Now, how many of us have done that before?
Sure, he was probably offered a higher pay with better terms, and would have had better career prospects had he joined.
But, he would have had to relocate more than 11,000km away – a 14-hour flight – from his friends and family.
He would have been alone in a foreign land, in a quiet, serene city famous for its cathedrals and museums. He would have to adapt to a different culture, a different lifestyle, and even different cuisines. Essentially, he would be living in extremely different conditions from what he is used to in Singapore.
Irfan explained that with the majority of his team-mates at Braga being Portuguese, they would usually "be off with their families" after training, and as a result, he was left "really bored a lot of the time" during his trial.
Is it any wonder that Irfan felt homesick?
Yes, there are those out there who would have no qualms leaving their home country for a lucrative job overseas. But their priorities in life are perhaps different from Irfan, who appears to place a great emphasis on his family.
And, unlike Irfan, they would likely not need to pay S$23.5 million should they quit before the end of their contract, meaning they can leave the company any time they wanted. Can you imagine how it must feel to have the spectre of such a substantial penalty hanging over your head for two whole years?
In addition, the demands of top-flight football are brutal and unforgiving. Factors like injuries, poor form, and demanding fans can take a psychological toll on a player. Without a proper support system, off the pitch – which can be provided by their friends and family – it can be hard for players to perform to the best of their abilities, be it in training or during matches.
It is therefore hard to envisage Irfan fulfilling his full potential at Braga if he was perpetually unsettled and unhappy.
Irfan is also not the first professional footballer to feel unsettled in a different country. Some of the world's top players, from Argentinian star and English Premier League winner Carlos Tevez, to former Manchester City winger Jesus Navas, to even Liverpool legend Ian Rush, have felt homesick while playing in a foreign land.
All three players eventually returned to play in their home country.
So, far from having a weak will and being a "mummy's boy", I daresay Irfan made a mature decision in rejecting Braga. It must have been hard for him to say no to such a tempting offer, but because he knew what exactly he was looking for in his life, and what was best for his career, he decided to take the unpopular choice.
Rejecting Braga does not mean the door to playing top-level football is completely closed off to Irfan. He says he already has two other offers from clubs in Chile – a country where he and his younger brother, Ikhsan, had previously trained and played in for close to three years – as well as several from the Asian region.
Irfan can also take heart from the example set by his national team-mate Hariss Harun, who, in 2013, turned down a move to another Portuguese outfit, Rio Ave, because he did not agree with certain terms being offered to him.
Hariss eventually joined Malaysian side Johor Darul Takzim, and has since gone on to win five consecutive league titles, as well as the prestigious AFC Cup in 2015.
Remember, Irfan is still only 21 years old. He is extremely young in footballing terms, and there will undoubtedly be more opportunities for him to play overseas in one of the top leagues one day.
But – and this is key – that day will only come when he is ready.
For now, let us, as Singapore football fans, continue to show our support for Irfan instead of berating him.
Irfan may have rejected Braga, but when it comes to his life and career, the ball remains firmly in his control.


As I tend to have two to three lots of pancakes on this day (I'm a little obsessed), including the traditional kind with butter, lemon and sugar, I decided to make my first round a little more wholesome.
I made these from all natural, unrefined ingredients…and they were so good! They were light and fluffy, and tasted just like a blueberry muffin. Suitable for vegans too!
Mix all the pancake ingredients in a blender, apart from the frozen blueberries. Add these in last.
Stack up on a plate and add your fresh fruit.
Heat 1-2 tsp of honey with ½ tsp of coconut oil and some cinnamon in a pan until runny. Drizzle over the top of your pancakes.


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Deeplinks Blog by Marta Belcher | January 19, 2021
On Thursday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency finalized its Fair Access to Financial Services rule, which will prevent banks from refusing to serve entire classes of customers that they find politically or morally unsavory. The rule is a huge win for civil liberties, and for the...
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The rollout of fiber broadband will never make it to many communities in the US. That's because large, national ISPs are currently laying fiber primarily focused on high-income users to the detriment of the rest of their users. The absence of regulators has created a situation where wealthy end users...
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Why Oprah, Mark Cuban, and Sheryl Sandberg Won't Run for President
By Bradley Tusk • 01/17/18 12:15pm
Oprah Winfrey at The 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards on January 7, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Say you're Oprah, Sheryl Sandberg, Mark Cuban, or anyone else who people keep urging to run for president. "You're the only one who can stop Trump and save us all," everyone around you implores. You've got a big ego—you wouldn't have achieved this much without it—so the notion of saving the world is appealing. But you also understand risk tolerance and return on investment, so you start doing the math.
Between career politicians, ideologues and outsiders like you, about 20 people are rumored to be seriously eyeing the Democratic nomination for president. Trump will surely face a primary too. So, if there are about 25 candidates total, you have roughly a 4 percent chance of winning.
But not all candidates are created equal and you're you, so let's triple your odds, making them 12 percent. Now start doing the math on the other side of the equation. The odds that you'll be viciously attacked? 100 percent. The odds that your competitors will dig through every minute of your past and mischaracterize what you've done? 100 percent (and you didn't get this far without burying a few bodies along the way). The odds that you'll have to debase yourself and beg donors for money? 100 percent. The odds that you'll say something embarrassing that becomes the one thing most people know about you? At least 80 percent, but probably more like 90 percent.
Once outsider candidates finish doing this math, they won't run. That leaves Democrats with two groups of candidates: moderate career politicians and ideologues. Personally, I would prefer a centrist like Joe Biden, Cory Booker or Andrew Cuomo over a left-wing hero like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, but I prefer any candidate to Donald Trump.
We know what happens when the Democratic Party nominates career politicians: they lose, just like Al Gore, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton did. On top of that, Democrats are overestimating the impact of the anti-Trump echo chamber and underestimating the importance of a good economy to most voters. In other words, 2020 will be harder than they think.
The insecurity and messiah complex of Oprah, Sheryl Sandberg or Mark Cuban might be so great that they ignore the odds and run anyway. That's what happened with Trump. Pundits like me want them to run because they are a rational version of Trump—a moral, non-politician who can win. But rationality is the problem. It's why they'll do the math, discount the advice of everyone around them telling them to run, and bow out. It's why the American people will end up having to choose between moderate career politicians who can't win or left-wing ideologues who are unfit for the job compared to everyone but the incumbent.
I don't like the thought of President Sanders or President Warren, but they're less likely to inadvertently kill us all in a pissing contest with North Korea. As the last successful, moderate Democratic career politician turned president used to say, you can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Following that centrist advice may mean picking someone we can't stand in order to get rid of someone we can't survive.
Bradley Tusk is the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, the parent company of Tusk Strategies, Tusk Ventures, Kronos Archives, the Ivory Gaming Group and Tusk Montgomery Philanthropies. Read his full bio here.
Filed Under: Politics, National Politics, Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren
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Gypsum was known in Old English as spærstān, "spear stone", referring to its crystalline projections. (Thus, the word spar in mineralogy is by way of comparison to gypsum, referring to any non-ore mineral or crystal that forms in spearlike projections). In the mid-18th century, the German clergyman and agriculturalist Johann Friderich Mayer investigated and publicized gypsum's use as a fertilizer. Gypsum may act as a source of sulfur for plant growth, and in the early 19th century, it was regarded as an almost miraculous fertilizer. American farmers were so anxious to acquire it that a lively smuggling trade with Nova Scotia evolved, resulting in the so-called "Plaster War" of 1820. In the 19th century, it was also known as lime sulfate or sulfate of lime.
Gypsum is moderately water-soluble (~2.0–2.5 g/l at 25 °C) and, in contrast to most other salts, it exhibits retrograde solubility, becoming less soluble at higher temperatures. When gypsum is heated in air it loses water and converts first to calcium sulfate hemihydrate, (bassanite, often simply called "plaster") and, if heated further, to anhydrous calcium sulfate (anhydrite). As for anhydrite, its solubility in saline solutions and in brines is also strongly dependent on NaCl (common table salt) concentration.
Gypsum is a common mineral, with thick and extensive evaporite beds in association with sedimentary rocks. Deposits are known to occur in strata from as far back as the Archaean eon. Gypsum is deposited from lake and sea water, as well as in hot springs, from volcanic vapors, and sulfate solutions in veins. Hydrothermal anhydrite in veins is commonly hydrated to gypsum by groundwater in near-surface exposures. It is often associated with the minerals halite and sulfur. Gypsum is the most common sulfate mineral. Pure gypsum is white, but other substances found as impurities may give a wide range of colors to local deposits.
Crystals in the Cave of the Crystals in Mexico. Note person (lower right) for scale.
Crystals that formed as the water evaporated in Lake Lucero, White Sands National Monument.
Veins in the silts/marls of the Tea Green and Grey Marls, Blue Anchor, Somerset, United Kingdom.
Veins in Caprock Canyons State Park and Trailway, Texas.
transformation of bassanite into gypsum.
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Like many a field trip, this one started with the phrase, "well, there's a coupon," this one for something called TrawlerFest, to be held down at the Inner Harbor on a late September weekend. I'm pretty much game for anything with "fest" in the title, especially if said fest is half price, so I handed over my credit card number and did a Googleysearch to figure out what a trawler is and why it might need its own festival. It turns out a trawler is a boat built for commercial fishing and capable of long naval voyages, so when I hopped on my bike to head down to the harbor that Friday afternoon I fully expected to see stuff related to fishing. Yeah, no. Turns out this festival was celebrating the third Wikipedia definition of a trawler: "a pleasure boat built trawler style." Yep, I was at a fancy yacht show, and I was totally wearing the wrong shoes for the thing.
I was there on a Friday afternoon, so I wasn't surprised when I got down to the harbor and found I was practically alone. Normal people work during the day, so it was just me and some older folks and a few people with kids wandering amongst the sprawling display of tents that stretched from the other side of the aquarium all the way over past Rash Field, but not a yacht or even a pair of boat shoes in sight. Oh wait—this was the Baltimore Book Festival. Admission was free, and I was totally dressed for it—a bicycle, walking shoes, a practical skirt with pockets, my Baltimore Bike Party t-shirt, and glasses that make me look smart. The trawlers were all on the far side, parked in front of the Ritz-Carlton Residences—totally appropriate. Leave the riff raff to the tacky SeaDog boat pier and fatty custards, amirite?
Thing is, I'm more a book person than a yacht person, so I was happy to get to walk through this other festival on my way to the boats. I wandered past table after table of cheap books, rare books, new books, cookbooks, history books, Maryland books, kids' books, library books, and then made that long walk through the Authors' Tent, past the writers with their individual books, waiting for us to wander up and chat about what was certainly an intense labor, getting that book finished. And the bravery that must be needed to sit there and say, "Hey, of all the books out there, this is the one you should read, the one I wrote." I read a lot, but I still only read a book every month or two (please write shorter books, people), and by my (very generous, I'm-going-to-live-forever) calculations, I've got time to read maybe 550 more books. That only sounds like a lot until you consider there were that many books in maybe 100 yards of Inner Harbor space. Maybe the book festival wasn't for me.
The pressure building, I worked it off with a fast walk to TrawlerFest, eyes on the prize. I stopped by the Book Fest's portable toilets so I could be among the first to use them—when does that chance come along? It was pristine and had that spicy scent that would be expected to cut a whole lot of odor I was happy to beat to the punch. I stepped out and said my how-you-doin' to the bike cop milling around outside. He noticed my t-shirt, I noticed his bike, and 20 minutes later we had confirmed that bikes are awesome, riding while drunk feels fun but is unsafe, and that even if we don't go to the Bike Party, we're glad it's there. I asked him where TrawlerFest was, and he pointed the way. A couple minutes later I was in new territory.
The promenade on this side of things always feels a little uncomfortable, public space that feels private. The Ritz-Carlton doesn't own this stretch anymore than I own the sidewalk in my neighborhood of Waverly, but the looming buildings make it feel like if you don't live there, you don't belong. Part of it is the locked gates along Fort Avenue that make it hard to get onto the Promenade if you don't live there and are on foot. Like the long curb without a break along the west side of Greenmount Avenue that physically separates Guilford from Waverly, the Ritz-Carlton Residences and their promenade separate this part of what should be our shared waterway from the rest of the city.
But I was there, and then I was trading my coupon for a wristband into TrawlerFest, walking out on a pier, past booths selling leather recliners for the boat captain and special kinds of rope that won't weigh you down and financing for your next yacht, because as I was soon to discover, it turns out yachts are really expensive. Like, over-a-million-dollars expensive, especially if you want one of those at the end of the pier that you can also live in. This is Baltimore, and I can find a pretty nice place to live in for a tenth of that price, and I won't have to live on a boat. I toured a couple of them—I didn't know you have to take your shoes off before going inside, but I promptly learned that lesson—and decided that this was not the world for me, having so much extra cash that I could throw it away on something that, by the looks of things, is indeed mostly for the looks, not some vital transoceanic journey. That some could have so much that there's an entire industry to give them another trash can to throw their money into while others have little, well, let's just say it was time to head back to the book fair. As I skipped down the stairs by the Science Center and back toward the water, Kevin from Station North Arts Café jumped out of his Book Fest booth by the cooking stage and gave me that giant hug anyone who frequents his restaurants knows well. We chatted excitedly about all the books and the weather and how perfect Baltimore is in fall. Yes, this is better, I thought, the people on Baltimore's dry land.