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The City of Kitchener ( ) is a city in Southern Ontario , Canada . It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census. The metropolitan area, which includes the neighbouring cities of Waterloo and Cambridge, has 451,235 people, making it the eleventh largest Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) in Canada and the fifth largest CMA in Ontario. It is the seat of the Waterloo Regional Municipality, and is adjacent to the smaller cities of Cambridge to the south, and Waterloo to the north. Kitchener and Waterloo are often referred to jointly as "Kitchener-Waterloo" (K-W), although they have separate municipal governments. Including Cambridge, the three cities are known as "the tri-cities".
The City of Kitchener covers an area of 136.86 square kilometres. In 2004, the city celebrated its 150th anniversary.
Kitchener is located in Southwestern Ontario,in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. This geological and climatic region has wet-climate soils and deciduous forests. Located in the Grand River Valley, the area is generally above 300m (1000') in elevation.
Kitchener is the largest city situated within the Grand River watershed. Just to the west of the city is Baden Hill, in Wilmot Township. This glacial kame remnant formation is the highest elevation for many many miles around. The other dominant glacial feature is the Waterloo Moraine, which snakes its way through the region and holds a significant quantity of artesian wells, from which the city derives most of its drinking water. The settlement's first name, Sandhills, is an accurate description of the higher points of the moraine.
In 1784, the land that Kitchener was built upon was an area given to the Six Nations by the British as a gift for their allegiance during the American Revolution; 240,000 hectares of land to be exact. From 1796 and 1798, the Six Nations sold 38,000 hectares of this land to a Loyalist by the name of Colonel Richard Beasley. The portion of land that Beasley had purchased was remote but it was of great interest to German Mennonite farming families from Pennsylvania . They wanted to live in an area that would allow them to practice their beliefs without persecution. Eventually, the Mennonites purchased all of Beasley's unsold land creating 160 farm tracts. By 1800, the first buildings were built, and over the next decade several families made the difficult trip north to what was then known as the Sand Hills. One of these Mennonite families, arriving in 1807, was the Schneiders, whose restored 1816 home (the oldest building in the city) is now a museum located in the heart of Kitchener. Other families whose names can still be found in local place names were the Bechtels, the Ebys, the Erbs, the Weavers (better known today as the Webers) the Cressmans and the Brubachers. In 1816 the Government of Upper Canada designated the settlement the Township of Waterloo.
Much of the land, made up of moraines and swampland interspersed with rivers and streams, was converted to farmland and roads. Wild pigeons, which once swarmed by the tens of thousands, were driven from the area. Apple trees were introduced to the region by John Eby in the 1830s, and several grist- and sawmills (most notably Joseph Schneider's 1816 sawmill, John and Abraham Erb's grist- and sawmills and Eby's cider mill) were erected throughout the area. Schneider built the town's first road, from his home to the corner of King Street and Queen Street (then known as Walper corner). $1000 was raised by the settlers to extend the road from Walper corner to Huether corner, where the Huether Brewery was built and the Huether Hotel now stands; a petition to the government for $100 to assist in completing the project was denied.
Immigration to the town increased considerably from 1816 until the 1870s, many of the newcomers being of German (particularly Mennonite) extraction. In 1833 the town was renamed Berlin, and in 1853 Berlin became the County Seat of the newly created County of Waterloo, elevating it to the status of Village. The extension of the Grand Trunk Railway from Sarnia to Toronto (and hence through Berlin) in July 1856 was a major boon to the community, helping to improve industrialization in the area. On June 9, 1912, Berlin was officially designated a city.
However, with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 came anti-German sentiment and an internal conflict ensued as the city was forced to confront its cultural distinctiveness. There was pressure for the city to change its name from Berlin, and in 1916 following much debate and controversy, the name of the city was changed to Kitchener; named after Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, who died that year, while serving as the Secretary of State for War of the United Kingdom.
On September 17, 1981, the first ever "blue box" recycling program was launched in Kitchener. Today, more than 90% of Ontario households have access to recycling programs and annually they divert more than 650,000 tonnes of secondary resource materials. The blue box program has expanded in various forms throughout Canada and to countries around the world such as the United States , United Kingdom , France and Australia, serving more than 40 million households around the world.
While Waterloo has benefited from the presence of two universities and a number of high tech companies, Kitchener has been a more blue-collar town. The auto-parts manufacturer Budd Canada, now known as Kitchener Frame, continued to employ over 1500 workers until its close in December 2008, due to the ongoing economic crisis. The city is home to four municipal business parks: the Bridgeport Business Park, Grand River West Business Park, Huron Business Park and Lancaster Corporate Centre. The largest, the Huron Business Park, is home to a number of industries, from seat manufacturers to furniture components. A number of the old industrial companies of Kitchener have fallen on harder times: the Kaufman shoe manufacturer closed its factory and companies like Electrohome have ceased local production in favour of licensing or supply agreements with overseas makers. Schneider's Foods (a meat producer) has been bought out by Maple Leaf Consumer Foods, but continues operations in Kitchener. According to the 2006 Census, 24.2% of the labour force is employed in the manufacturing sector.
Kitchener's downtown core, though improved in recent years, has experienced urban decay, thanks largely to the decline of industrial jobs in the city and the growth of its suburbs. Things worsened when urban renewal plans in the 1960s cost the city its neo-classical city hall and did not achieve its goals of redevelopment. In the late 1990s, an arsonist began destroying abandoned and underused buildings in Kitchener's downtown, the issue of downtown renewal and cleanup of the adjoining Victoria Park neighbourhood came to the forefront in municipal elections and has been the focus of city council for the past ten years. Achievements during this period include selling off a dying mall and converting it to office space for Manulife Financial, a major insurance firm, relocating a theatre downtown, known as the King Street Theatre Centre, converting the old Goudies department store to a Children's Museum , and converting vacant industrial space into residential lofts and condominiums.
The city now boasts a new city hall , which opened in September 1993. Your Kitchener Market, the modern incarnation of its historic farmers market, opened in 2004. Other projects include an assortment of lofts, utilizing old factories and other buildings. Various plans for 20 floor condo units have been put in place. And although Waterloo is home to many insurance companies, two universities, and high-tech industries, Kitchener is hoping to increase demand for office space by building office towers and inviting companies from around the golden triangle to move in.
The groundbreaking ceremony for the University of Waterloo school of pharmacy and downtown health sciences campus was officially held on March 15, 2006, and the facility opened in spring 2009. The building is located on King Street near Victoria Street, on the site of the old Epton plant, across the street from the former Kaufman shoe factory (now converted to lofts).
Economic and social impacts from the new health sciences campus that are expected to be felt locally include: the potential for more family doctors and other health professionals practicing in the city and region; significant economic benefits associated with an injection of as many as 1,200 students, faculty and staff to the downtown core each day and spin off business and industry that will diversify the economy and bring additional jobs to the area.
The redevelopment of the 'Centre Block' in downtown Kitchener has its vision set and is planned to start. It will include a 12 story and an 18 story condominium, more retail spaces, the redevelopment of the Mayfair Hotel and a central courtyard.
In spring 2009, work began on a major redevelopment of King Street, which focuses on making the street more pedestrian-friendly with the addition of wide sidewalks and more aesthetically pleasing features such as new planters. Parking on King Street will also be redesigned. The project will extend from Frederick/Benton Streets to Francis Street. Coinciding with the renovation of King Street is the complete overhauling of Speaker's Corner at the corner of King and Benton Streets, and the transformation of a parking lot at the corner of Charles and Benton Streets into a bright, modern, multi-story parking facility to accommodate the influx of vehicles when new businesses open and other parking lots are redeveloped.
The Province of Ontario has committed to building a new provincial courthouse in downtown Kitchener, on the block bordered by Frederick, Duke, Scott and Weber streets. The new courthouse is expected to create new jobs, mainly for the courthouse itself, but also for other businesses, especially law offices. It is expected that the new courthouse construction will begin in 2010.
Canadian 55,465 29.48%
German 47,380 25.18%
English 43,030 22.87%
Irish 29,520 15.69%
Scottish 29,320 15.58%
French 17,620 9.36%
Polish 10,515 5.59%
Dutch 7,240 3.85%
Portuguese 5,350 2.84%
Italian 4,670 2.48%
Source: StatCan (includes multiple responses)
At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, the population of Kitchener was 204,668. By gender, 49.2% of the population was male and 50.8% was female. Children under five accounted for approximately 6.0% of the resident population of Kitchener, compared to 5.5% in Ontario, and 5.3% for Canada overall. Some 11.7% of the resident population in Kitchener was of retirement age, a smaller proportion of the population compared to 13.6% in Ontario, and 13.7% in Canada. The median age was 37 years, younger than the 39 years for Ontario, and 40 years for Canada. In the five years between 2001 and 2006, the population of Kitchener grew by 7.5%, higher than the growth rates for both Ontario (6.6%) and Canada(5.4%). Population density of Kitchener was 1,495 people per square kilometre.
According to the 2006 Census, 15.4 percent of the population claimed to be members of a visible minority. The largest visible minority groups are: Black: 3.2%, South Asian: 3.1%, Latin American: 2.2%, Southeast Asian: 2.0%, Chinese: 1.4%, and Others [13512].
From the 2001 census, 78.85% of the population adhered to various Christian denominations. Due to the higher concentrations of German Canadians, Protestantism has a greater percentage (41.32%), followed by Roman Catholic (32.44%), while the remaining 5.07% follow other Christian groups such as Eastern Orthodox, LDS, Jehovah's Witness, the New Church etc. Other religions include Islam: 2.24%, Hindu: 1.00%, and other including Judaism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.
Kitchener is governed by a council of six councillors, representing wards (ordistricts), and a mayor. Council is responsible for policy and decision making, monitoring the operation and performance of the city, analyzing and approving budgets and determining spending priorities. The residents of each ward vote for one person to be their city councillor; their voice and representative on city council. Kitchener residents also elect four councillors at large to sit with the mayor on the council of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo. The next election is scheduled for 2010, and elections will be held every four years moving forward.
The current mayor of Kitchener is Carl Zehr, who was re-elected to his fourth term in November 2006, after first being elected in 1997 and then re-elected in 2000 and 2003. Before that, he sat as a municipal councillor from 1985-1994. See Kitchener City Council for a complete list of councillors.
In 1976, residents of Kitchener voted almost 2:1 in favour of a ward system. The first municipal election held under the ward system occurred in 1978. The city is currently undergoing a ward boundary review. A consultant is studying boundaries for a 10 ward system for the 2010 municipal election which means that there will potentially be 4 additional councillors/wards depending on his recommendations.
The current Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for Kitchener Centre is John Milloy. Other MPPs include Leeanna Pendergast (Kitchener-Conestoga) and Elizabeth Witmer (Kitchener-Waterloo) who both represent small portions of the city in addition to adjacent areas. The federal and provincial electoral boundaries are now aligned and the federal Members of Parliament (MPs) as follows: Stephen Woodworth (Kitchener Centre), Harold Albrecht (Kitchener-Conestoga) and Peter Braid (Kitchener-Waterloo).
Kitchener has several public high schools, with Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School , founded in 1855, being the oldest. In the 1950s and 1960s several new schools were constructed, including Eastwood Collegiate Institute in the southern part of the city in 1956, Forest Heights Collegiate Institute in the Highland Hills part of the city in 1964, Grand River Collegiate Institute in the northeastern Heritage Park area in 1966, and Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute in the Downtown core in 1967. In 2006, Huron Heights Secondary School opened in southwest Kitchener, which opened with a limited enrollment of only 9th and 10th grade students, and has since expanded to full capacity in the 2008-2009 school year.
The oldest Catholic high school in the city is St. Mary's High School, which opened in 1907. Originally a girls-only Catholic school, it was transformed into a co-ed institution in 1990 after the closure of the neighbouring St. Jerome's High School, which had been a boys-only Catholic school. The same year, a second Catholic high school, Resurrection Catholic Secondary School, opened in the west of the city. In 2002, St. Mary's abandoned its downtown location in favour of a new one in the city's southwest. The former St. Jerome's High School currently houses the Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University . It opened at this location in 2006, bringing 300 faculty, staff and students to downtown Kitchener. The former St. Mary's High School building, meanwhile, has been transformed into both the head office of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board and the Kitchener Downtown Community Centre.
The Doon neighbourhood, formerly a separate village but now part of Kitchener, is home to the primary campus of Conestoga College , one of the foremost non-university educational institutions in the province. For nine consecutive years, Conestoga has earned top overall ranking among Ontario colleges on the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) surveys, which measures graduate employment rates and satisfaction levels, and employer and student satisfaction. It is one of only seven polytechnical institutes in Canada.
The University of Waterloo is proceeding with opening a School of Pharmacy in the downtown area. The City of Kitchener has contributed $30 million from its $110 million Economic Development Investment Fund, established in 2004, to the establishment of the UW Downtown Kitchener School of Pharmacy. Construction began in 2006, and the pharmacy program was launched in January 2008 with 92 students. It is operating out of a temporary location pending the completion of construction on the downtown campus.
The school is expected to graduate about 120 pharmacists annually and will become the home of the Centre for Family Medicine, where new family physicians will be trained, as well as an optometry clinic and the International Pharmacy Graduate Program. Construction on the $147 million facility was largely finished in spring 2009.
The provincial government has also announced that the University of Waterloo's (UW) Downtown Kitchener Health Sciences Campus will be the site of a new satellite campus of McMaster University 's School of Medicine. The Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine is expected to train 15 doctors a year, primarily through distance learning
The training of medical professionals in downtown Kitchener include developments such as:
In 2007, the UW School of Pharmacy began admitting 120 pharmaceutical students each year.
Eventually, the UW School of Pharmacy campus will evolve to become the UW Downtown Kitchener Health Sciences Campus, offering more programs and bringing hundreds of faculty, staff and students to the downtown core
There are plans for an Integrated Primary Health Care Centre on the UW site that will provide as many as 12 more family physicians locally, as well as training for many more medical doctors.
The Centre for Family Medicine, which is already up and running in the former Victoria School Centre in downtown Kitchener, is slated to move to the UW campus sometime after it opens. Currently, there are six practicing family physicians in the Centre and plans are to boost that number to as many as 14 family physicians.
New physicians trained either at the new Integrated Primary Health Care Centre or the Centre for Family Medicine will learn in and create holistic health care models of the future.
In September 2006, the Wilfrid Laurier Faculty of Social Work opened in the former St. Jerome's High School building on Duke Street adding yet another dimension to the "health care" theme in downtown Kitchener.
Health care in Kitchener
Kitchener-Waterloo is served by three hospitals, Grand River Hospital (which is a system of two hospitals), St. Mary's General Hospital , and Cambridge Memorial. Grand River treats patients with a wide range of problems and houses the psychiatric unit, trauma centre, women's and children's services, and the Regional Cancer Care Centre. St Mary's houses the Regional Cardiac Care Centre, serving a population of nearly one million from Waterloo Region, east to Guelph , north to Owen Sound /Tobermory , south to Lake Erie , and west to Ingersoll . It also houses a respiratory centre. Both hospitals have emergency departments and intensive care units. Cambridge Memorial is a general hospital, treating primarily patients from Cambridge and south Kitchener.
Long term rehabilitation and physiotherapy is addressed at the Freeport Health Centre , at the south of the city. Built originally as a tuberculosis sanatorium and home for the terminally ill, its last link with that past is the palliative care unit. It nestles along the banks of the Grand River, and is part of Grand River Hospital.
Family doctors are in short supply in K-W, and a source of great concern among residents. The Chamber of Commerce runs a waiting list for people looking for a doctor, but as of 2006 the wait is over two years. Two urgent care centres cater for much of the routine services for thousands of people without a family doctor, from routine immunisations and health screening, to repeat prescriptions and referral on to specialist services. A third urgent care centre is being added to a renovated supermarket development in the desirable Forest Heights area of the city.
Announced January 2006 was the inauguration of a new School of Medicine attached to the University of Waterloo . From 2007, 15 new family doctors will be trained each year in new premises being constructed in the downtown core on rehabilitated industrial lands along the railway.
In 2009, the mental health unit is slated for relocation from the downtown core to an unused floor at the Freeport site. By this, patients needing mental health care shall gain options for local long term care and monitoring. The current site for the unit is in the basement of the downtown hospital in an area in dire need of renovations and the absence of options for local long-term mental care forces the transfer of such patients to neighbouring London, Ontario .
After renovations, the Child and Adolescent Inpatient Program will be moved from a small 9-bed wing to the downstairs in place of the current adult mental health unit. Once moved in 2009, upwards of 26 beds shall be available to this program.
Kitchener's cultural highlights include CAFKA, The Open Ears Festival, IMPACT theatre festival, the Multicultural Festival, and Blues, Brews & Barbecues and the Expressions of Social Justice Festival, many of which are free to the public. Kitchener is also home to venues such as Homer Watson House & Gallery, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, JM Drama Alumni and The Centre in the Square. Live music by popular artists can be heard at venues such as the Centre in the Square and The Aud. The Kitchener Public Library is another community stalwart.
Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest
Kitchener-Waterloo's Oktoberfest celebration is an annual nine-day event. Based on the original German Oktoberfest , it is billed as Canada's Greatest Bavarian Festival. It is held every October, starting on the Friday before Canadian Thanksgiving and running until the Saturday after. It is the largest Bavarian festival in the world outside of Germany.
While its best-known draws are the beer-based celebrations, other family and cultural events also fill the week. The best-known is the Oktoberfest Thanksgiving Day Parade held on Thanksgiving Day; as it is the only major parade on Canadian Thanksgiving, it is televised nationally.
Another icon of the festival is Miss Oktoberfest. This position was formerly selected in a televised beauty pageant, with the applicants coming from across North America. The position is now selected by a closed committee of judges from a panel of local applicants; community involvement and personal character form the main criteria under the new system. A ribald spin-off of the Miss Oktoberfest pageant is celebrated in some local high schools, in which all participants are male, but dressed as women.
Kitchener's oldest and most important outdoor park is Victoria Park, in the heart of downtown Kitchener. Numerous events and festivities are held in this park.
A cast-bronze statue of Queen Victoria is located in Victoria Park, along with a cannon. The statue was unveiled in May 1911, on Victoria Day (the Queen's birthday) in the tenth year after her death. The Princess of Wales Chapter of the IODE raised the $6,000 needed for the monument.
The city has announced the construction of a new Gaukel Street entrance to Victoria Park. Gaukel Street is to be used as a corridor linking Victoria Park to City Hall . The new entrance will include a complete streetscape upgrade on Gaukel Street with new lighting, stamped concrete, and other features. The new entrance to the park itself will include stone masonry gates, walkways, new lighting, flower gardens, a pond complete with waterfalls, and a sculpture created by artist Ernest Daetwyler.
Another significant beauty spot in the city is Rockway Gardens. Adjacent to the Rockway golf course, the gardens occupy a long narrow strip of land alongside King Street as it rushes down to meet the Conestoga Parkway and become Highway 8. Here there are many fountains and rock grottoes. It is a popular site for wedding photos in the summer months.
Kitchener has an extensive and safe community trail system. The trails, which are controlled and run by the city, are hundreds of kilometres in length. Due to Kitchener's close proximity to the Grand River , several community trails and paths border the river's shores. This convenient access to the Grand River has drawn nature-seeking tourists to the city. However, Kitchener's trails and especially natural areas remain underfunded by city council and as a result, many are not adequately maintained.
A newly constructed bike park located at McLennan park in the city's south end has already been hailed as one of the best city run bike parks in Southern Ontario by BMX and mountain biking enthusiasts. The bike park offers a four-cross section, a pump track section, a jump park, and a free-ride couse.
Highways and expressways
Highway 8 as seen from Franklin Street bridge.
Kitchener was very proactive and visionary about its transportation network in the 1960s, with the province undertaking at that time construction of the Conestoga Parkway from the western boundary (just past Homer Watson Boulevard) across the south side of the city and looping north along the Grand River to Northfield Drive in Waterloo.Subsequent upgrades took the Conestoga west beyond Trussler Road and north towards St Jacobs , with eight lanes through its middle stretch.
The Conestoga Parkway bears the provincial highway designations of Highways 7 and 8. King Street becomes Hwy 8 where it meets the Conestoga in the south and leads down to the 401, but Old King Street survives as the street-route through Freeport to the Preston area of Cambridge . Up until construction of the Conestoga, Highland Road through Baden had been the primary highway to Stratford . Victoria Street was then and remains the primary highway to Guelph but this is slated to be bypassed with an entirely new highway beginning at the Wellington Street exit and running roughly north of and parallel to the old route.
There are two interchanges with Highway 401 on Kitchener's southern border. In addition to the primary link where Hwy 8 merges into the Hwy 401, there is another interchange on the west side with Homer Watson Boulevard.
In order to reduce the congestion on Highway 8, a new interchange has been proposed on Highway 401 at Trussler Road, which would serve the rapidly growing west side of Kitchener. Although this proposal is supported by the Region of Waterloo, the MTO has no plans to date to proceed with an interchange at Trussler Road.
Unlike most southern Ontario cities whose streets follow a strict British grid survey pattern, Kitchener's streets are laid out in a complex radialpattern on the Continental models most familiar to the German settlers.
There is good historical reason for this. Kitchener was one of the few places in Ontario where the settlers arrived in advance of government surveyors. The Mennonites who had banded together as the German Company to purchase the township from Richard Beasley simply divided their vast parcel of land by the number of shareholder households and then drew random lots to confer title on individual farms. There was no grid survey done—no lines, no concessions, no right-of-way corridors for roads. When it came time to punch roads through the wilderness, the farmers modelled the road network on what was familiar to them, which was the pattern of villages in Switzerland and southern Germany.
This is a Continental Radial pattern and the result was major streets extended through diagonals cutting across the grid of smaller streets and converging at multiple-point intersections which, as the communities became more prosperous and if the automobile had not displaced the horse, might someday have become roundabouts decorated with circular gardens, fountains or statuary in the style of European cities. Five-point intersections created by converging diagonals are legion in the older areas.
In 2004, roundabouts were introduced to the Region of Waterloo. Besides improving traffic flow, they will help the region lower pollution from emissions created by idling vehicles. In 2006, the first two were installed along Ira Needles Boulevard in Kitchener. Roundabouts are ideal for intersections in this region because of the aforementioned historical growth along Continental radial patterns versus the British grid systems.
For forty years, there has been a sharply controversial plan to extend River Road through an area known as Hidden Valley, but the pressure of traffic and the absence of any other full east-west arterials between Fairway Road and the Highway 401 is now forcing this development ahead.
Most streets that cross the municipal boundary between Kitchener and Waterloo retain the same street name in both cities. However, several streets which are divided into east and west sections in Kitchener shift to a north-south division in Waterloo. This primarily affects Weber and King Streets and Westmount Road. Since these roads do not actually change their primary directional alignment significantly, the shift in labelling can create confusion, since each of the aforementioned thoroughfares bears the labels north, south, west, and east on certain segments. However, it also reduces the potential confusion that would result from having separate west and east segments of the same street existing simultaneously in both cities.
The problem with giving streets in Waterloo Region compass-based labels, and attempting to divide each of the cities into quadrants comes from the radial layout of the roads, and the historical patterns of development. Waterloo's quadrants, created by the intersection of King and Erb Streets, roughly correspond to compass directions, but Kitchener's quadrants, delineated by King and Queen Streets, do not resemble compass directions whatsoever. A notable case is that of Lancaster Street, which runs almost exactly north-south, but is designated as east-west, since it crosses Queen Street, which divides the "east" and "west" halves of the city, yet follows a northeast-southwest orientation itself.
GRT bus
Since 2000, public transport throughout the Region of Waterloo has been provided by Grand River Transit, which was created by a merger of the former Cambridge Transit and Kitchener Transit. GRT operate a number of bus routes in Kitchener, with many running into Waterloo and two connecting to Cambridge . In September 2005, GRT added an express bus route called iXpress from downtown Cambridge through Kitchener to north Waterloo.
In 2003, Regional Council unanimously adopted the Regional Growth Management Strategy. As a response, proposals were put forth regarding a rapid transit system serving the downtown cores of all three cities. An Environmental Assessment was completed in 2009 which recommended a light rail transit route starting from Conestoga Mall in north Waterloo and ending at the Ainslie Street bus terminal in Cambridge. In June 2009, Regional Council voted nearly unanimously for the recommendations in the EA. Regional staff are currently negotiating funding agreements with the provincial and federal governments, to cover the estimated $790-million cost for the system.
Beginning on October 31, 2009, GO Transit will service Kitchener with regional bus service from Charles Street Terminal to Mississauga, Ontario (Square One Bus Terminal ) on weekdays and weekends.
Passenger rail service has long been a point of frustration for residents of Kitchener and its neighbouring cities. Two main lines come westward out of Toronto and then meet up again in London . The northern line passes through Guelph , Kitchener and Stratford to London. The southern line goes along the heavily-populated lakeshore to Oakville , then Brantford , then Woodstock , and then to London. This southern line is the primary rail corridor for CN, while the northern line through Kitchener is owned by a short-line railway called the Goderich-Exeter Railway (GEXR). The track and signalling conditions on the north and south route are very different which allows trains on the southern route to operate more frequently and more quickly, whereas trains on the northern route take an 1 hour and 40 minutes on average to get from Kitchener to Toronto and with a single track in use often need to pull into sidings to let oncoming trains pass. Consequently, Kitchener, with a regional population base equal to London and situated much closer to metropolitan Toronto, gets less than one third the frequency of passenger rail service.
Passenger service is provided by VIA Rail. Three trains in each direction travelling between Sarnia and Toronto stop at the Kitchener railway station daily. The station is slightly to the northeast of the city's downtown on Weber Street near its intersection with Victoria Street.
GO Transit does not currently serve Kitchener; the nearest GO Train station to Kitchener is Milton station , GO Transit has announced bus service to start in Kitchener on October 31, 2009 connecting to the Milton GO Station and Mississuaga City Centre GO Terminal. City councillors and public petitions have called for the extension of GO Train service to the Region of Waterloo. On September 2008, GO Transit announced a feasibility study into extending GO train service on the Georgetown line through Guelph to Kitchener, with service beginning in 2011 contingent on a source of funding.
Freight trains in Kitchener are operated by the Goderich-Exeter Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway. These railways serve several customers (including ThyssenKrupp Budd), many of which are located in industrial parks in southern Kitchener.
The closest airport to Kitchener is the Region of Waterloo International Airport in nearby Breslau, but while it is a thriving general-aviation field, it is not heavily-served by scheduled airlines. Most air travellers use Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport . Although there are no permanent public transport links from Kitchener to any of these airports, Northwest Airlines has three flights daily to Detroit's Wayne County Metropolitan Airport and Westjet to Calgary respectively. Mesaba Airlines, using Saab 340 twin prop aircraft, is the regional carrier affiliated with Northwest and operates under the name Northwest Airlink. Westjet uses their 737-700 aircraft from their Calgary hub. They started service out of Waterloo International Airport on May 14, 2007 for the summer season and then decided they will fly year-round due to strong passenger demand. Bearskin Airlines started offering service in the fall of 2007 with three flights daily between Kitchener and Ottawa using a Fairchild Turboprop aircraft. Strong demand has resulted in Bearskin Airlines adding a fourth flight on Fridays. During the winter vacation period Dec. 2005 to March 2006, Sunquest Vacations and Signature Vacations started flights to Mexico and the Dominican Republic, using Airbus A320 Aircraft. Both Signature and Sunquest have returned for the 06-07 and 07-08 winter seasons along with the addition of Sunwing with services to Punta Cana and Puerto Plata, DR, and Montego Bay, Jamaica. Recent upgrades to the runways, approach lighting and terminal building are permitting larger aircraft to use this airport. Air Canada has been in talks with the Region with an eye on starting flights to Montreal and WestJet is considering additional destination.
Officially there are 6 wards, and 53 planning communities or neighbourhoods. There are also 30 neighbourhood associations recognized by the city. At the next city council elections, (2010) there will be ten wards, as recently voted at council, in order to better represent the residents of Kitchener. Boundaries are yet to be finalized.
Kitchener-Waterloo has an exceptionally strong real estate market. Housing prices have been rising steadily, and a report released by Re/Max in 2006 predicts that 2007 will see a modest 5% gain in home prices for the Kitchener-Waterloo area. It is expected that Kitchener-Waterloo will lead the country in sales growth for 2008 at 7%, while also seeing the average house increase in value by 5-13% in 2008. Real estate in the Hidden Valley area is the most expensive in Kitchener.
Sports teams and leagues
Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League who play at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
Kitchener Panthers of the Intercounty Baseball League who play at Jack Couch Park
Kitchener Dutchmen of the Ontario Hockey Association who play at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
KW Braves Jr. A Lacrosse of the Ontario Lacrosse Association who play at the Waterloo Rec Centre.
KW Kodiaks Lacrosse of the Major Series Lacrosse who play at the Waterloo Rec Centre.
Kitchener and District Soccer League, a semi-pro men's soccer league with teams from Kitchener and other surrounding cities
Kitchener Fastball League contains 14 teams and plays at Budd Park
Kitchener Minor Hockey Association (KMHA) which helps thousands of children play recreational and house league hockey
Dutch Boy Drum and Bugle Corps division III Drum and Bugle Corps
Tri-City Titans of the NAFL who play at the Centennial Stadium, which is also part of the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex
Tri-City Outlaws of the NFC - Northern Football Conference who play at Rogers Field in Cambridge are made up of players from Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Guelph
Kitchener Waterloo Dragons, Indoor field hockey club
Kitchener-Waterloo Predators Volleyball Club, provides youth volleyball programing within the Ontario Volleyball Association
Notable Kitchener natives and residents
David Forsyth, Royal Commission on industrial training 1910. Principal Berlin High School 1901-1921
James G. Mitchell, computer scientist
Don Awrey, ice hockey player
Don Beaupre, ice hockey player
Vivian Berkeley, World Champion blind Lawn Bowler and 1996 Paralympic silver medalist
Walter Wells Bowman, soccer player
Brian Bradley, ice hockey player
Solomon Brubacher, soccer player
Christopher Chalmers, freestyle swimmer
Gary Cowan, golfer
Gary Dornhoefer, ice hockey player
Woodrow Wilson Clarence "Woody" Dumart, ice hockey player
David Edgar, soccer player
Wayne Erdman, judoka
Alexander Gibson, soccer player
John "Jack" Gibson, Hockey Hall of Fame, soccer player
Grandmaster Pan, Kung-Fu Master
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With an ASIC, it's not possible to incrementally deliver the real thing but there is still value in hardware simulation/co-simulation demos, emulation demos, intermediate size and power calculations, etc. It's not perfect but it's better than going the distance, sharing progress through status reports and hand waiving only to find disappointment when you're done.
With FPGAs and IP it's different. Regularly delivering product to your customer even though it isn't done could end up being an invaluable learning experience. And unlike an ASIC, it's entirely reasonable. Yes it could require major changes to how you develop and package your product but the customer feedback could be worth your while. Even if you only do it once, think of it as working out the kinks so there's a better chance of bug free delivery when you are done.
Better to discover that what you're building isn't quite what your customers need in a month or 2 than funding a massive development effort and finding out months later.
Possible? Not possible? Ridiculous? Let me know what you think!
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Hi Neil. You're absolutely right.
Years ago, I participated in building a video decoder HW/SW co-design. We had nightly builds and regression tests on a prototype board and it worked great.


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Unbagging E-Man #9
January 1, 2023 Jon Maki
E-Man (Charlton Comics)
Release: Jul 1975
Cover: Jul 1975
Charlton Comics
Comic | 32 pages | $ 0.25
Scripter Nicola Cuti
Artist John Byrne | Joe Staton
Colorist Wendy Fiore
Letterer Joe Staton
Cover Artist Joe Staton
Editor George Wildman
Yeah, well, being a lamp post doesn't make you bright, either.
Last week, I did a Mail Call post about rebuilding my long-lost collection of Charlton E-Man comics, so I thought it was worth doing an Unbagging of an issue for good measure. I considered doing an overall retrospective of all ten issues, but ultimately laziness prevailed, and I decided to focus on just one issue.
The question, then, became "Which one?" After some consideration, I decided on #9 for multiple reasons.
It's one of the issues I had a copy of back when I was a kid and got that stack of mostly Charlton comics from my mom, it's one that I remember fairly distinctly, as I must have reread it multiple times before its loss/destruction, it's one of the issues that takes place after E-Man's girlfriend Nova becomes a superhero in her own right, and in a strange way – particularly after my recent viewing of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery – it feels somewhat topical.
This issue is also why I mistakenly thought I had the first issue back when I was a kid, thanks to the recap featured on the first page, which made the origin sequence in the first issue seem familiar.
Our story begins with Nova and Teddy – a koala bear that she and E-Man recently acquired in one of their adventures – enjoying a baseball game. As the game ends with the team Nova and Teddy were rooting for victorious, Nova walks out to the field to give a congratulatory kiss to a player she mistakenly believes to be E-Man.
However, when E-Man told her he would be playing First Base he meant it quite literally:
I always found the random bit with Teddy knocking out the attacking dog to be, well, random.
Later that evening Nova meets up with the big-headed Professor Wright who barely seems to notice her as he rants about some strange dead plants in his greenhouse and someone called "Genius One," who is the only person who knows the formula for keeping those plants alive.
Nova asks him to explain why those plants are so important, but rather than telling her, he shows her.
I sometimes feel like I've gone through this same sort of withdrawal and resultant decrease in…uhh…smarts.
Immediately after this stunning revelation, a flying drone smashes through the window and kills Professor Wright. Nova uses her powers to save herself once the drone turns its attention to her and transforms into her costume.
I should note that I always liked Nova's costume. Yes, in large part because it was sexy, but I also thought it just had the right amount of flair. Honestly, I always liked Nova's overall character design.
Before she can be killed by the drone sneaking up on her she's saved by E-Man, who was disguising himself as a lamp post. It turns out that the case that E-Man was working on with Private Investigator Mike Mauser – a case that Mauser refers to as "Highbrow" – is related to the death of Professor Wright. The late professor is just one of many cranially-embiggened individuals in an important position, each one a genius, and each one, as revealed by a General who is working with Mauser, is a member of a secret organization doing the same thing that a certain pair of lab mice does every night: trying to take over the world.
Wright had been cooperating – to an extent – with the US government, which is why he was cut off from the plant that made him a genius and was eventually killed. E-Man and Nova are recruited to travel to the secret, heavily fortified island that serves as the base of operations for the would-be world leaders.
Despite using their shapeshifting abilities to disguise themselves, E-Man and Nova end up getting caught by the big-headed geniuses on the island, all of whom report to the fabled Genius One, who is kind enough to provide his captives with his origin story.
Basically, he and the late Professor Wright were researchers who grew a new species of plant, the consumption of which caused their brains and intellects to expand. Genius One – formerly Carl Metz – fed the plant to several of their students to build an army of geniuses to aid in his plans of world conquest, and he and Wright parted ways.
When Wright was offered the opportunity to join in the conquest, he refused, so Genius One had him killed.
E-Man and Nova eventually save the day by turning into their energy forms and entering the computers that manage the island's many systems, including the automated feeding of the plants that are required for maintaining the increased intelligence of the island's inhabitants, causing the plants to be killed by overfeeding. When the effects of the plant wear off, the geniuses' IQs actually end up being lower than they were before eating the plants, making clean up a breeze for the military.
Another reason I chose this issue is that it features a back-up story. Specifically, a back-up story featuring Rog-2000, a wisecracking, cab-driving robot. What makes Rog 2000 notable is that the handful of stories that ran as back-ups in E-Man represent some of the earliest professional work of John Byrne, and Rog-2000 himself was Byrne's first professional creation.
The simple story involves Rog-2000 being a good Samaritan and saving an old lady from some muggers.
However, the old lady is much more than she appears to be, as Rog is about to learn.
While he writes off the old lady as a loon, while dropping off the would-be muggers at the local precinct, he discovers to his horror that he's no longer the robot he used to be.
Things go from bad to worse, as it turns out that in his human form Rog-2000 bears an uncanny resemblance to the target of an open mob contract.
Fortunately, he finds the witch and gets transformed back to his old self in the nick of time, and, to the witch's regret, takes advantage of her offer of a wish.
It was just a quick, fun little story, written by Nicola Cuti, who also wrote the main E-Man story, and, again, really only notable for being an example of the early work of an artist who would go on to be a comic book superstar and, to put it very charitably, a temperamental diva.
Anyway, the main event was the E-Man story. Ever since getting those comics all those years ago I've had a fondness for the character. In part because of the art of Joe Staton, with whom I was already familiar, although it was work from several years later at DC, most notably in the Huntress back-up stories in Wonder Woman.
Even though my general preference was – and is, really – for more "realistic" styles, I always appreciated Staton's cartoonish, asymmetrical work. It just has a certain liveliness and character, and something about the curviness of the lines and the way he posed her made Nova seem especially sexy to young Jon.
Beyond the art, I just found E-Man to be fun, similar in many ways to Plastic Man, and to Ambush Bug, another fun character who came along at DC not long after I first encountered E-Man.
Much of the humor in the series comes from puns or silly names, such as Nova Kane and Alec Tronn (the name Nova made up for E-Man), and in this issue, General Dove.
Mike Mauser is also a bit of a jokey name, alluding to the type of gun while also evoking the spirit of the name of some kind of hardboiled detective, but also seemingly some kind of play on Mickey Mouse.
That "seemingly" leads to another point about the series. Even as a kid – I was maybe 9 or 10 when I first read this and the other issues – who often missed certain subtleties, I picked up on the fact that each issue seemed to be engaging in some level of social commentary.
However, it wasn't always clear just what comments were being bade and what they were commenting about. In some cases, it's a bit more apparent – and it's even more so in the Killjoy back-ups, with art by Steve Ditko, that appeared in some of the other issues of the series – but in this issue? Even as an older and ostensibly wiser person I'm hard-pressed to figure out what, if anything, about society is being skewered, at least in terms of that particular moment in history.
For me, today, it stood out based on, as mentioned, Glass Onion, which features an island and a narcissistic genius (who isn't quite the genius he appears to be), and also due to a certain other overhyped "genius" who spends every day being the main character on the social media platform that he apparently bought so that he could spend every being the main character. (And who also provides a lot of inspiration for the character in Glas Onion.)
It just seems to be a bit of a commentary on general technocratic notions and the myth of the great man of history that have been around for a long time, of the Randian ideal, the genius who exists outside the bonds of morality and is destined, entitled, to rule, the kind of geniuses who ultimately aren't nearly as superior as they think they are. And while that feels more relevant now, today, I suppose it was relevant then as well. It's just that I can't pinpoint any specific people or events it might have been a response to.
Of course, unlike most of the "geniuses" we have to hear about these days, these big-headed weirdoes actually were geniuses, as long as they had their plants.
Despite being a Code-approved book, I feel like the audience for E-Man was expected/intended to be a bit older than the typical comic-reader of the day. In part due to the subject matter in terms of the social commentary, which, again, wasn't exactly the most incisive and was far-removed from the kind of thing you'd find in undeground comix, it still very clearly existed, and in Nova's occupation as a burlesque/exotic dancer and some of the outfits she (barely) wore both on and off the stage. Beyond that, however, were the ads. Sure, there were your standard mail-order mysteries and encouragement to sell GRIT in order to earn prizes, but there were also a lot of ads for countercultural shirts and posters, and ads for trade schools.
There's actually a funny contrast between some of the ads for T-shirt iron-ons with vaguely subversive messages and the pro-establishment ads for programs that could lead to a career as a cop.
If nothing else, the comics are a fun artifact of the tumultuous early 1970s just because of the ads.
One other thing I wanted to mention is that it was the letters page for E-Man that sprang to mind whenever I first heard people talking about those fancy, newfangled electronic letters.
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If you mean the Athenian Constitution by Aristotle, it was originally written in Ancient Greek language which differs way too much from the modern Greek which is taught on this website. Learning modern Greek to understand Aristotle is a waste of time.
Ancient Greek language had rather sophisticated grammar and very rich lexicon and it takes some effort to learn to understand it well enough. You need to have strong motivation therefore - it's easier to take an English translation and translate it to Persian rather than spend at least few months studying the Greek grammar just to translate one single text.
I think some people on this site know Ancient Greek and can answer your questions so feel free to ask any specific inquiries you have. But first of all you need to get some textbooks about the language and learn the basics. Unfortunately I can't advise you anything because I studied Ancient Greek using Russian textbooks which likely won't be useful for you. Maybe Greg Brush and other English-speaking members know some good and complete Ancient Greek tutorials in English.
Tehran is a big city so there must be universities where Ancient Greek language is studied and where you can get textbooks in your native language. I think it's worth a try too.
It is a very excellent opportunity for me to know that you have studied Ancient Greek using Russian textbooks, because I have studied Russian before Islamic Revolution and now I work hard to improve my Russian skills. So I beg you to introduce Russian textbooks for learning Ancient Greek.
Of course, I shall look for English and Persian textbooks for this job.
And, as you said, Tehran is a very big city and everything you look for can find it here. But I have decided to learn Greek just this morning and first I called Greek embassy that is closed dawn due to the Nowruz holidays.
Ok, no problem, here's what I have.
Provides rather gentle introduction to the grammar of Ancient Greek language of its classical period (i.e. the language that Aristotle spoke), but also has examples from Biblical Greek which might distract you.
2. Соболевский С. И. Древнегреческий язык.
Very in-depth and complete textbook of Ancient Greek grammar and syntax. Focuses on the Classical period language and has a separate chapter about Homer's language. My favorite book.
Short but rather complete grammar reference.
4. http://gurin.tomsknet.ru/alphaonline.html - online version of Dvoretsky's ancient greek-russian dictionary.
A book of simple ancient greek texts for reading and translating.
May I have your email? I want to correspond whit you about other issues than Greek, if you would like.


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Q: Product of Combinations is Probability? For atomic orbitals:
E2 orb: $\binom{N-n_1}{n_2}$
E2 orb: $\binom{N-n_1-n_2}{n_3}$
E2 orb: $\binom{N-n_1-n_2-n_3}{n_4}$
...
En orb: $\binom{n_i}{n_i}$
now probability function is:
$P= N! \prod^{n}_{n=1}\frac{1}{n_{i}!}$
Why? In general?
[Update]
Every combination is greater than 1. So their product is greater than 1. How on earth can such multiplication lead to a probability function? Is the probability function scaled back to range $[0,1]$?

A: As André Nicolas shows,
$$
\binom{N}{n_1}\binom{N-n_1}{n_2}\dots\binom{N-n_1-n_2-\dots-n_{k-1}}{n_k}=N!\prod_{i=1}^k\frac{1}{n_i!}
$$
This is an integer; it is the number of ways to arrange $N$ distinct things into $k$ bins with $n_i$ things in bin $i$.  If you sum this over all possibilities for the $\{n_i\}$, you get $k^N$ (the number of maps from $N$ things to $k$ bins).  So you would get a probability distribution if you divide by $k^N$.
The multinomial theorem states
$$
\left(\sum_{i=1}^kx_i\right)^N=\sum_{\sum_{i=1}^kn_i=N}N!\prod_{i=1}^k\frac{x_i^{n_i}}{n_i!}
$$
Setting $x_i=1$ for $1\le i\le k$, we get that
$$
k^N=\sum_{\sum_{i=1}^kn_i=N}N!\prod_{i=1}^k\frac{1}{n_i!}
$$

A: As you correctly point out, the terminology on page 10 of the lecture notes you linked to is incorrect: $P$ is the number of microstates making up the given macrostate; it is not a probability, since it typically exceeds one.
However, dividing $P$ by the total number of microstates $n^N$ does give the probability of the given macrostate, under the assumption that all microstates are a priori equally likely.  Since the constant $1/n^N$ is the same for all macrostates of the system, we may safely ignore it, as the author of the lecture notes does, when comparing the probabilities of different macrostates.
(If I were reviewing those notes, I'd also point out that the author seems rather excessively fond of the letter "n".  Having $n$ and $N$ as system parameters is confusing enough, but when he then introduces the macrostate parameters $n_1$, $n_2$ and up to $n_n$...)

A: Before the question is closed, I would like to give you a start.
Suppose $a+b+c+d=N$. Let us look at
$$\binom{N}{a}\binom{N-a}{b}\binom{N-a-b}{c}\binom{N-a-b-c}{d}$$
(the last term is $1$, it is just there to make things look nice.)
Calculate, using the usual formula for $\binom{n}{k}$.
The first term is
$$\frac{N!}{a!(N-a)!}.$$
The second term is
$$\frac{(N-a)!}{b!(N-a-b)!}.$$
The third term is
$$\frac{(N-a-b)!}{c!(N-a-b-c)!}.$$
Note that $N-a-b-c=d$.
Multiply, and observe the very nice cancellations! We get
$$\frac{N!}{a!b!c!d!}.$$
The "general" case solution is basically the same, except that all those subscripts tend to make things less obvious.
Added: By "the usual formula" for $\binom{n}{k}$ I mean
$$\binom{n}{k}=\frac{n!}{k!(n-k)!}.$$
Since the question has not yet been closed, I am adding a link to a Wikipedia entry which I think is quite well written, and which I hope you will give you all of the additional information you may need.

A: The "probability function" in the notes is usually referred to as the number of microstates $\Omega$ (I was taught this way). By the postulate of equal a priori probability, the probability, of a particular macrostate $i$ is $$p_i = \frac{1}{\Omega}$$So the probability function is different from the actual probability, which is probably what caused the confusion.
Hence the $P$ in your notation is the number of ways $N$ particles can be classified into energy levels according to their energies (by the product rule, as your instructor and Andre above has done). Note that the analysis is classical as it assumes the particles filling the energy levels are distinct (come with labels).
You can find the same method in the Wikipedia article on Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution, except that it does not use confusing terminology of "Probability function".
$$\Omega = N!\prod \frac{g_i^{N_i}}{N_i!}$$ Where on your case all $g_i = 1$ as there are no degenerate levels involved. Your instructor derives the MB distribution by trying to maximize the above number (as a system naturally seeks the maximum number of microstates) given the constraints (no exchange of particles or energy of the system with the surroundings) using Lagrange Multipliers.

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Hitman Go review: Ultraviolent console shooter becomes surreally restrained iPad puzzler
By David Price
Square Enix Hitman Go for iPad
Who could possibly have seen this coming? Hitman, the series of violent and visually sumptuous stealth shooting games, has come to iPad in the form of Hitman Go, a mannered, turn-based puzzle board game.
As bizarre as the juxtaposition seems, however, this isn't quite as illogical as it sounds. For one thing, Hitman—despite the kinetic and controversy-baiting adverts and the heavily armed stripper nuns—was always a quieter game than it was given credit for; its big points are generally earned by slipping through a level with barely a ripple, taking down your mark cleanly while leaving the guards not only alive but unalerted.
There's also a precedent for this kind of thing. Several big-name console and PC games have dipped their toes in the iOS waters by applying their core storyline and visual themes to a totally different (and usually far simpler) gameplay experience. Dishonored, another stealth shooter, has appeared on iPad and iPhone in the form of a Fruit Ninja-esque casual game; Rage was cut back to a few levels of on-rails shooting; and the free-roaming Arkham Batman games turned into Infinity Blade-style scripted brawlers for the iPad.
But the thread that unites those three is the choice of a safe genre for the iPad edition. Hitman Go is a turn-based puzzler, and a peculiar one at that.
Agent 47, the guards he must evade or kill, and (if present on the current level) the target are all represented on the game board by small rigid playing pieces sitting at points on a grid. Each turn, you must move your character one space (or through a trapdoor shortcut) and certain guards will then make a predictable move in response. There are various complications—disguises, hiding places, locked doors, distraction tools, and, later on, firearms—but the idea remains simple: to reach the objective or target without being killed by a guard moving on to your space. In pleasing contrast to the original games, death involves merely having your playing piece knocked gently over as if you were playing chess.
Hitman Go's gameplay itself isn't actually board-game-like in any conventional sense, because the movements of the opposition are so mindlessly scripted—build this as an actual physical board game and no one would play the guard role. But its rendition is more evocative of the components of a board game that any of the iOS versions of real-life board games that I've played. (The loading screen after each level depicts an imaginary Hitman Go board game complete with pieces, playing cards and box.) The result is a game that is quietly stunning, and visually unique.
As well as the overarching objective for each level, you'll be offered a couple of additional tasks, usually to complete the level within a certain number of steps and to pick up a briefcase secreted somewhere on the grid, but sometimes involving either killing all of the guards or no guards at all. An immediate frustration is that it's often impossible (as far as I can tell) to accomplish all of them in one go, in a sort of mythic perfect run. Frequently one ends up playing each level through twice, first to get the briefcase and then to keep the number of steps down. Repetition is par for the course for video games, of course, but it's nice to have at least the pretence that if you were on top of your game you could triumph completely on your first try.
More seriously, there's the feeling that the game is too frustrating, initially. Once you've got your head around the mathematical patterns that underpin the game, Hitman Go becomes more of a mechanical exercise where you systematically work your way through the limited range of logical options until you find the answer. (Trial-and-error plays a fair part here, for good or ill.)
The game has little sense of multiple solutions, other than in terms of "the quick route" and "the slightly different route the accomplishes the other objective." It's here, rather than in the presentation, that Hitman Go differs most starkly from its celebrated predecessors. Hitman games are (at least traditionally) rich playgrounds that let you plot your own methodology. When it comes down to it, this is almost as dry and restricted—if also often as cleverly constructed—as a sudoku.
It might seem odd to complain about dryness and rigidity when they're qualities that appear to have been consciously chosen, and even exalted. And the game remains a neatly designed puzzler. Occasionally it drops you into the zen mind-space of the most captivating puzzles, where you feel like you're reading the designers' minds and solutions present themselves organically. The wonderful presentation, too, strives manfully to make up for the limitations of the gameplay. But there are uglier puzzles out there that are a lot more fun.
There's a lot about Hitman Go to adore, from the bold choice of genre to the elegant, restrained presentation. But the puzzles themselves are a touch too dry to really grab the average player. It's disappointing, given my initial surprise and pleasure at its aesthetic choices, that Hitman Go turns out to be a solid puzzle game, rather than a great one.


EU President Donald Tusk suggested that U.S. President Donald Trump was "spreading fake news" by calling Europe a U.S. foe and urged the Trump-Putin summit on Monday to protect the world order.
The U.S. president also renewed accusations that the European Union was taking advantage of the United States in trade.
In the runup to the summit, Tusk delivered a blunt message to Trump to stop criticizing European allies.


Last Game : Round 22, 1974 vs St Kilda, aged 25 years, 254 days.
Recruited by Carlton from Bendigo League club Sandhurst in 1970, Paul Hurst was a pacey, left-footed utility who suffered a debilitating ankle injury just as his career was gathering stride in his debut season. After a lengthy recuperation, he fought his way back into Carlton's senior team as a running defender, and in 1972 enjoyed a stellar year that culminated in one of the Navy Blues' greatest Grand Final victories.
'Hursty' came to Princes Park at an opportune time for an ambitious young footballer from Carlton's fertile recruitment zone in central Victoria. Under coach Ron Barassi, the Blues had contested the 1968 and '69 Grand Finals, and were hell-bent on doing it again. Hurst impressed in the 1970 pre-season trial games, and was selected to make his debut - off the bench - in Carlton's first game of the year against Essendon at Princes Park. Champion forward Alex Jesaulenko made the occasion a special one; kicking nine goals as Carlton downed the Bombers by 49 points.
Only weeks later however, Hurst's promising progress came to a crashing halt in round 9 against Hawthorn at Princes Park. He was tackled in a pack, twisted awkwardly, and badly damaged an ankle. While he underwent a long and frustrating period of repair and recuperation, his team marched on to claim another Premiership that glorious September. Hurst eventually returned to play three matches late in 1971, but he wasn't back to complete fitness until the 1972 season began.
In round two of '72, Carlton met Collingwood at Victoria Park. Blues' captain-coach John Nicholls asked Hurst to play at half-back that afternoon, alongside stalwart Bruce Doull and young veteran Phil Pinnell. The game was a torrid scrap from the first bounce, and ended in a thrilling draw at 75 points each. Every draw brings disappointment, yet one of the real positives to come out of that afternoon was the display by Hurst, whose creativity and accurate disposal was a revelation. He was an instinctive defender who had found his niche in a potentially great team, and he was bound for glory.
Throughout the rest of that gruelling 1972 season, Carlton's defence was remarkably durable. Champions Geoff Southby and Bruce Doull held down the key positions, ably supported by Hurst, Pinnell, John O'Connell and Vin Waite. With Brent Crosswell, Kevin Hall and youngster Rod Austin making cameo appearances in the back half when required, the Blues' 18 wins (as well as that draw with Collingwood) secured the minor premiership – two points ahead of Richmond, who had comfortably beaten the Blues twice during the season.
Although a third Grand Final in a row was looming for the Blues, the enormity of the task became clear after Carlton and Richmond fought out another draw in the second Semi Final. A week later, in the replay, the Tigers came out smoking, thrashed Carlton by 41 points, and took over outright favouritism for the flag – more so after Carlton was forced to pull out all stops to beat an undermanned St Kilda in the Preliminary Final.
'Hursty' pulled on his number 33 guernsey for just his thirtieth senior match on Grand Final day, 1972. More than 112,000 fans crammed into the MCG for an eagerly-awaited clash between traditional rivals, and few who were lucky enough to be there will ever forget it. Knowing that Richmond were confident after three wins and a draw in their last four starts against Carlton, and fresh after a week's rest – the Blues decided on a bold strategy of attack at all costs, banking the class of the team's forwards to out-score the Tigers, whatever the circumstances.
The game plan worked superbly. Carlton stunned the Tigers, and set all sorts of records in claiming the Blues' eleventh Premiership in the highest-scoring Grand Final ever played. The final score was 28.9 (177) to 22.18 (150) with forwards Alex Jesaulenko, Robert Walls and John Nicholls kicking 19 goals between them – but defenders Doull, Southby and Hurst were equally effective in holding the Tiger forwards in check for most of the match.
That fabled September afternoon (and the celebrations afterward) marked the zenith of Paul Hurst's career. Although he continued on at Princes Park for another two years, during which he remained a popular member of the senior squad, he found his opportunities becoming increasingly limited by the maturity of Crosswell, Austin and McKay, and the emergence of another promising youngster in Ray Byrne.
A thigh injury suffered in Carlton's 22-point win over St Kilda at the Moorabbin Oval in round 22, 1974 – on a windy, wet day when Vin Waite kicked seven goals at full-forward - hastened Hurst's decision to seek a fresh start. At the end of that year he requested and was granted a clearance to Melbourne, where he went on to play another 19 games and boot 6 goals in seasons 1975 to 1977. Hurst failed to kick a goal in his 53 games at Princes Park but opened his Melbourne account in his first game. After impressing during his first year Hurst only played three games over the next two seasons before leaving the club.
In 1978 Paul moved on to Coburg in the VFA, and gave the Lions effective service for another two seasons in the twilight of a good career.
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1986 GF - Team List & Selections (pg 2 of 2).


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L'escut i la bandera de Corbera són els símbols representatius tradicionals del municipi valencià de Corbera (la Ribera Baixa).

Escut heràldic
L'escut oficial de Corbera (Ribera Baixa) té el següent blasonament:

Bandera de Corbera

La bandera oficial de Corbera té la següent descripció:

Història
L'escut va ser aprovat per Resolució del 3 de desembre de 1999, del conseller de Justícia i Administracions Públiques. Publicat en el DOGV núm. 3.669, de 19 de gener de 2000.

Aquest és l'escut tradicional de Corbera, emprat des del , amb la representació del castell, conquerit per Jaume I als musulmans el 1248, i els corbs com a senyal parlant al·lusiu al nom de la vila. Els quatre pals recorden la seva condició de vila reial, que el 1418 fou cap de la jurisdicció anomenada Honor de Corbera.

La bandera va ser aprovada per Resolució d'1 de desembre de 2005, del conseller de Justícia, Interior i Administracions Públiques. Publicat en el DOGV núm. 5.170, de 4 de gener de 2006.

Vegeu també
 Escuts i banderes de la Ribera Baixa
 Llista d'escuts del País Valencià

Referències

Corbera
Corbera

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Woodlark is een eiland in Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea. Het is 793 km² groot en het hoogste punt is 410 meter.

Beschrijving
Woodlark (wat boomleeuwerik betekent) is ook bekend als Muyuw of Murua. Het is een van de grotere eilanden van de provincie Milne Bay. Bij het eiland liggen nog wat kleinere eilanden zoals Madau (op de kaart staat abusievelijk Madua). De grote plaatsen op het hoofdeiland heten Kulumadau, Guasopa (met de enige start- en landingsbaan van het eiland) en Kaurai. Men spreekt er Muyuw.

In juni 1943, tijdens de Pacifische oorlog landden de geallieerden op het eiland, versloegen de Japanse bezetters en legden een vliegveld van Guasopa aan.

In 2007 waren er plannen van een Maleisische firma om 70% van het eiland om te zetten in oliepalmplantages. Groot verzet tegen deze plannen had succes: het plan ging niet door.

Fauna
De volgende zoogdieren komen er voor:
 Wild zwijn (Sus scrofa) (geïntroduceerd)
 Polynesische rat (Rattus exulans) (geïntroduceerd)
Phalanger lullulae
Petaurus breviceps
Melomys lutillus
Rattus mordax
Dobsonia pannietensis
Nyctimene major
Pteropus conspicillatus
Pteropus hypomelanus
Syconycteris australis
Emballonura beccarii
Emballonura nigrescens
Aselliscus tricuspidatus
Hipposideros ater
Rhinolophus megaphyllus
Kerivoula agnella
Miniopterus australis
Miniopterus macrocneme
Miniopterus propitristis
Miniopterus schreibersii

Papoea-Nieuw-Guinees eiland


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Q: Data not posting in multipart form data in angular and node js(File uploading with angular and node js) I am fresher to using Angular js and node js. I am doing File Uploading process by angular and node js. I already create directives and services by watching some tutorial. But in services Form data is not posting on NodeJs server. Here is following code file by file:-
Here is my Directive :-
myApp.directive('fileModel', ['$parse', function ($parse) {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            var model = $parse(attrs.fileModel);
            var modelSetter = model.assign;

            element.bind('change', function(){
                scope.$apply(function(){
                    modelSetter(scope, element[0].files[0]);
                });
            });
        }
    };
}]);

Here is service file code :-
myApp.service('multipartForm', ['$http', function($http){
    this.post = function(uploadUrl, data){
        var fd = new FormData();
        for(var key in data)
            fd.append(key,data[key]);

        console.log(fd);
        $http({
            url: uploadUrl,
            method: 'POST',
            headers: { 'Content-Type': undefined },
            transformRequest: angular.identity,
            data: JSON.stringify(fd)
        }).
        success(function(data) {
            console.log('success');
        }).
        error(function(data, response) {
            console.log(response + " " + data);
        });
    };
}]);

This is my angularjs code where i defined all methods :-
var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);

    myApp.controller('saveJsonDemo',['$http','$scope','multipartForm',function($http,$scope,multipartForm){

        $scope.formData = {};
        $scope.saveJson = function() {
        var uploadUrl = '/savedata';
        console.log($scope.formData);
        multipartForm.post(uploadUrl, $scope.formData);
    };

    }]);

When i post data though this service to node js server, and i console.log req.body and rex.files is becomes blank. Where is the problem in my code. Here is my Node js server file (app.js)
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var path = require('path');
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var multer = require('multer');
var done       =       false;

// all environments
app.use(multer({dest: './uploads/'}));
app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));

app.set('port', process.env.PORT || 3000);

app.use(function(err, req, res, next){
    app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: true}));
    app.use(bodyParser.json({limit: '50mb'}));
    console.log(err);
});

app.post('/savedata', function(req,res){
    console.log('Here');
    console.log(req.body);
    var currentTime = Date.now();
    /*fs.writeFile('./json/'+currentTime+'.json', JSON.stringify(req.body), function (err) {
        if (err) return console.log(err);
        else res.send();
    }); */
});

http.createServer(app).listen(app.get('port'), function(){
  console.log('Express server listening on port ' + app.get('port'));
});

On the above /savedata method  req is coming blank. Where is the mistake in my code.

A:

      http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.14/angular.min.js">

  <div ng-controller = "myCtrl">
     <input type = "file" file-model = "myFile"/>
     <button ng-click = "uploadFile()">upload me</button>
  </div>

  <script>
     var myApp = angular.module('myApp', []);

     myApp.directive('fileModel', ['$parse', function ($parse) {
        return {
           restrict: 'A',
           link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
              var model = $parse(attrs.fileModel);
              var modelSetter = model.assign;

              element.bind('change', function(){
                 scope.$apply(function(){
                    modelSetter(scope, element[0].files[0]);
                 });
              });
           }
        };
     }]);

     myApp.service('fileUpload', ['$http', function ($http) {
        this.uploadFileToUrl = function(file, uploadUrl){
           var fd = new FormData();
           fd.append('file', file);

           $http.post(uploadUrl, fd, {
              transformRequest: angular.identity,
              headers: {'Content-Type': undefined}
           })

           .success(function(){
           })

           .error(function(){
           });
        }
     }]);

     myApp.controller('myCtrl', ['$scope', 'fileUpload', function($scope, fileUpload){
        $scope.uploadFile = function(){
           var file = $scope.myFile;

           console.log('file is ' );
           console.dir(file);

           var uploadUrl = "/fileUpload";
           fileUpload.uploadFileToUrl(file, uploadUrl);
        };
     }]);

  </script>

simply copy paste and change your api path in url required for angular service calling from controller then it will work :)


This is part one of a two-part recipe series we'll call "Watch Beau Try to Manage a Food Blog during Finals Week of His Last Semester of Undergrad." I'd like to thank my sponsors - stress and red wine - for making it all possible.
Sidenote: I'm writing this post from my cute little kitchen in San Francisco. We're having an incredible time and I'll be posting pictures... eventually!
I first noticed this trend becoming a thing a few months ago, and apparently I was super late to the game. Hipster bars and gourmet markets have been slathering avocado on toast and charging $10 for a while now. Here's how it works: they toast a piece of bread (!) and then they smash up some avocado (!!) and then they put the avocado on the toast (!!!) and then they ask you for lots of money for it. Look, I'm not saying I totally get it, I'm just saying I've got this great new sandwich idea called a PB&J that I think you all might be interested in, I'll sell the recipe to the highest bidder.
I began researching the origin of avocado toast, because I thought it would be a fun look into how a food becomes a trend. It was a horrible experience. The internet is so dense and scary and to be honest knowing the origin of the avocado toast craze is not worth my sanity. So instead, a recipe. This one's fried because I obviously hate health. Oh and because I saw Joy the Baker frying avocados on Instagram a few weeks ago and I got all kinds of excited. Enjoy!