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Southside With You: An insufferable account of the Obamas' first date
By Matthew MacEgan
Written and directed by Richard Tanne
Southside With You is a fictionalized account of the first date between Barack and Michelle Obama in Chicago in 1989. The film features a racialized view of society where white and black people do not get along nor can they even understand one another. It is also an attempt to humanize and legitimize an individual identified with the massive bailout of Wall Street, drone strikes and "kill lists," and unprecedented social inequality.
In Richard Tanne's film, Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) is a Harvard law student spending his summer working for a law firm in Chicago. Michelle Robinson (Tike Sumpter) works in the same firm, as his supervisor, and the two have plans to attend a community meeting in an impoverished neighborhood on what Robinson insists is not a "date."
During the first portion of the film, Robinson repeatedly confronts Obama about his intentions, insisting that their outing cannot be a date because that would undermine her position in the law firm, where she already struggles as a black woman. Obama reveals that he tricked Robinson into coming with him several hours early and has made plans for them to attend an art gallery and eat lunch together. Robinson hesitantly agrees, but only if he agrees to be strictly "professional."
The two eventually make it to the meeting. Robinson is embarrassed when the attendees, with whom Obama has previously worked, refer to her as his "woman." She overcomes her annoyance, however, after Obama demonstrates his oratorical skills. He gives a rousing speech and helps the assembled overcome their discouragement following the city's rejection of their proposal to build a community center.
Robinson agrees to accompany Obama to the movies. They watch Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing no less! Unfortunately, after exiting the theater, the couple cross paths with one of the law firm's partners, who tells Robinson to "take good care of" Obama. While she is initially appalled and tells Obama she does not ever want to go out with him again, she changes her mind after he buys her favorite kind of ice cream. She rewards him with a kiss. The two return to their respective homes and grin complacently to themselves until the credits roll.
The film is as dreadful as it sounds. First of all, a backward, racialized view of social life is present throughout Southside with You. When Obama tells his grandmother over the phone that he is going on a date, she asks whether his date is black. When he answers affirmatively, she answers, "Good." When the couple arrive at the community meeting, the participants are excited that Obama is dating a "sister" this time. When the pair meet their law firm's partner outside the movie theater, the white man is hopelessly inept when it comes to interpreting Lee's film, and Obama comforts him by offering his insight as a young black man. (Of course, Obama is as much white as he is black.)
The foulest expression of this outlook finds expression during dinner when Robinson asks Obama whether he prefers white or black women. Obama explains that he once dated a white girl for two years—someone who offered him great comfort when he was lonely—but once he met her family and saw all of the family pictures on their walls with only white faces in them, he felt the need to leave, despite their generosity and kindness towards him. "I felt like such an outsider," he complains.
The script for Southside with You was based on those details about the 1989 date that are publicly known, combined with the imaginings of writer-director Richard Tanne. Tanne prepared himself for writing and directing a film about the most powerful political figure in the world by acting in such works as 2001 Maniacs, Swamp Shark and Mischief Night and producing and writing Worst Friends.
The result is a 90-minute dialogue between two human beings competing to see who can give the most mind-numbingly predictable advice to the other. Obama attempts to psychoanalyze Robinson by probing why she has joined a firm that goes against her ethics, and Robinson in turn chastises Obama for his outburst of hostility when she asks about his father. When he finally explains that his father's life was incomplete, she tells him that "every father's life is incomplete. That's why they have sons—to finish what they started."
The exercise in banality peaks during Obama's speech at the community meeting, where he tells his downtrodden audience that they only need to understand other people better and turn self-interest into "shared" interest. He reminisces about how exciting it was when Chicago elected its first black mayor, Harold Washington. He further tells them that it is not easy to get things done. "'No' is just a word," he claims at one point, "but it means something else when you spell it backwards: 'on.' We need to carry on!" This is followed by ritualized chanting of the phrase "carry on." This is a pathetic effort to maintain illusions in the present system.
Tanne's aim was clearly to provide the future residents of the White House with human characteristics, but the couple's existence throughout Southside with You is often far removed from the people around them. The discussions frequently turn to the motives behind their respective decisions to pursue law careers. Both express a desire to help the less fortunate, but they have both joined the firm hoping to make a good living and have somehow lost their way. Obama vaguely (and ominously) states that he "just want[s] to do more," but adds there is also nothing wrong with enjoying life in the meantime.
The audience in the community center are depicted as simple people who are easily swayed by Obama's inspirational rhetoric. This initially angry group swallows his patronizing platitudes without question.
Southside with You has been well-received by the popular media, which has labeled it a "feel-good" movie that could serve well on a "date night" for couples. The fact that such a stupid, flattering film could be made about the instigator of bloody neo-colonial wars and defender of the plutocracy speaks volumes about the current film industry. Tanne manages to present Obama, who has overseen the greatest transfer of wealth in history to the upper 10 percent of society, as an activist for the impoverished—a courageous man who just wants to do good in the world.
A final note: we have another "biopic" about Obama, Barry, directed by Vikram Gandhi coming out soon, to look forward to.
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Rhoads and Hackenberry Receive Founder's Award
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Port Royal, Pa — Monaken Lodge announced Bob Rhoads and Bailey Hackenberry as receipients of the 2018 Founder's Award at the Family Banquet on November 11, 2018 in Port Royal.
Bailey Hackenberry started in scouting in 2010, joining Troop 124 based out of Licking Creek, Pa. During his time in the scouting program he quickly rose through the ranks until, in 2016, he earned the rank of Eagle. Today, Hackenberry is still active within the troop, where he currently serves as an Assistant Scoutmaster.
In the Order of the Arrow, Hackenberry became a member of the Order of the Arrow in 2013 and became a Brotherhood Honor member a year later. In 2016, Hackenberry was chosen by his fellow Arrowmen to receive the Vigil Honor. Hackenberry has been very active within both Shawnee Chapter and the lodge. Within Shawnee Chapter, he served as a two-term Chapter Vice Chief. In the lodge, he served as a vice chief when Monaken Lodge hosted the 2015 Conclave, served as Conclave Chair and in 2016, he was elected as the Lodge's 2nd Vice Chief.
Bob Rhoads began his scouting career in 1943 where he joined Cub Scout Pack 20 based in Centre Hall. Shortly after, Rhoads became a Boy Scout and earned the rank of Eagle in 1952. After serving in the Air Force for 7 years, Rhoads rejoined the scouting program with Troop 45 in Milesburg where he served as both Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster. Currently, he serves as the Chartered Organization Representative for the Troop.
In the Order of the Arrow, Rhoads became a member in 1949 and became a Brotherhood Honor member in 1951. Rhoads was selected for the Vigil Honor in 1971. At OA weekends today, you are sure to find Rhoads working hard in the kitchen, preparing meals for all those in attendance.
The Founder's Award was created to honor and recognize those Arrowmen who have given outstanding service to their lodge. Those Arrowmen who demonstrates to fellow Arrowmen that he or she memorializes in his or her everyday life the spirit of achievement as described by founder E. Urner Goodman and co-founder Carroll A. Edson.
The award is a bronze medallion bearing the images of founder E. Urner Goodman, and co-founder Carroll A. Edson. The reverse of the medallion reads "For he who serves his fellows, is of all his fellows, greatest," which was Goodman's prime reason for starting the Order of the Arrow.
Monaken Lodge awards no more than two Founder's Awards each year. One to a youth member and the other to an adult member.
See the complete list of Founder's Award recipients here.
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Paul Silas, 2-time Charlotte NBA coach, dies at 79
He won three NBA titles as a player
December 11, 2022 The Associated Press Article, NBA, Sports
Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan, left, laughs as Rod Higgins, president of basketball operations, listen to head coach Paul Silas, right, make a point just before helping to distribute food to the needy in 2012 in Charlotte. Silas died Saturday at age 79. (AP Photo/Bob Leverone)
Basketball taught Paul Silas how to be patient.
As a player, he waited 10 years before winning his first championship. As a coach, he waited 15 years for a second chance at running a team. As a father, he waited 20 years before seeing his son get a chance to lead a franchise.
"I always tried to remain positive," Silas said in 2013, "and I think it usually worked out."
Silas — who touched the game as a player, coach and president of the National Basketball Players Association — died, his family announced Sunday. Silas, whose son, Stephen Silas, is coach of the Houston Rockets, was 79.
"He combined the knowledge developed over nearly 40 years as an NBA player and coach with an innate understanding of how to mix discipline with his never-ending positivity," Charlotte Hornets chairman Michael Jordan said. "On or off the court, Paul's enthusiastic and engaging personality was accompanied by an anecdote for every occasion. He was one of the all-time great people in our game, and he will be missed."
Silas' daughter, Paula Silas-Guy, told The New York Times that her father died Saturday night of cardiac arrest. The Boston Globe first reported Silas' death.
"We mourn the passing of former NBA All-Star and head coach Paul Silas," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. "Paul's lasting contributions to the game are seen through the many players and coaches he inspired, including his son, Rockets head coach Stephen Silas. We send our deepest condolences to Paul's family."
Tributes began arriving quickly. Pregame moments of silence were held in New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York and Houston among other places, and Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams and Charlotte coach Steve Clifford were among those who spoke at length about Silas' role on their careers.
"For my family, he's a god. He's larger than life," Clifford said.
Paul Silas began his career as a head coach with a three-year stint leading the then-San Diego Clippers starting in 1980. After spending more than a decade as an assistant, he returned to being a head coach and spent time with the Charlotte Hornets, the New Orleans Hornets, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Charlotte Bobcats.
He took four of those teams to the playoffs, winning exactly 400 games — 387 in the regular season, 13 more in the postseason.
"Probably one of the greatest human beings I've ever been around," LeBron James told Spectrum SportsNet after he and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated Detroit on Sunday night. "The start of my journey in this league started with him. His command, his principles, his attention to detail, his love for family … to hear that news was very sad."
The Rockets played host to Milwaukee on Sunday night, winning 97-92. It was not immediately clear how long Stephen Silas would be away from the team; the Rockets are having assistant coach John Lucas lead the team on an interim basis while the Silas family grieves.
"His engaging presence and huge personality inspired legions of NBA players and coaches," the Cavaliers said of Paul Silas in a team-released statement. "We send our deepest condolences to the Silas family and everyone that loved him. Rest in power Coach!"
Stephen Silas got into the NBA world when his father was coaching in Charlotte, starting as an advance scout and eventually serving as an assistant on his father's staff with the Hornets in 2000. It took Stephen Silas two decades to get a chance to be a head coach, that coming when Houston hired him in 2020.
"My dad, obviously, he was my No. 1 mentor, someone who I could lean on, ask questions and he asked questions of me," Stephen Silas said in a 2021 documentary produced by the Rockets about his coaching journey. "He really valued my opinion, which was kind of weird to me, me being so young and not having much experience."
Stephen Silas persevered for a long time before getting his big chance. He saw his father wait a long time for the job he wanted as well. Paul Silas was fired by the San Diego Clippers in 1983 and wouldn't have a head coaching opportunity again until 1999 — coming when Dave Cowens, for whom Paul Silas was an assistant, stepped down in Charlotte after a 4-11 start to the shortened 1998-99 season.
"I stayed positive. I had a positive attitude," Paul Silas told the Rotary Club of Charlotte while giving a speech there in 2013. "Even though I couldn't get the job, I said, 'No, I'm not going to be negative. I'm going to be positive.'"
Eventually, Silas would take over in Cleveland. He got there in 2003, the same year the Cavaliers drafted James.
"I coached LeBron for two years, his first two years, and LeBron was unbelievable," Paul Silas said. "At 18 years old, he knew about Bill Russell, he knew about a lot of players who came through that most players his age don't even know. And he understood the game."
In time, James would become a champion. It took Paul Silas a few years to get to that level as a player as well.
He was a five-time All-Defensive team selection who averaged 9.4 points and 9.9 rebounds in 16 seasons with the St. Louis and Atlanta Hawks, Phoenix, Boston, Denver and Seattle. Silas won two titles with the Celtics — the first coming in his 10th season as a player — and claimed a third with the SuperSonics. At 36, he was then the NBA's oldest player when he retired. And as the union president, Silas oversaw a time where rosters grew, salaries rose and benefits improved.
"Respected by all those who encountered him throughout the NBA, we are grateful for his contributions to the game across a lifetime in basketball," the Suns said Sunday.
Paul Silas played his college basketball at Creighton, averaging 20.5 points and 21.6 rebounds in three seasons. He was voted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.
Said Bluejays coach Greg McDermott: "His illustrious career as a player and coach will be matched by few."
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Faculty professional service/outreach won't get the respect and reward accorded other forms of scholarship until it can be documented and subjected to peer review. This companion volume to Lynton's Making the Case for Professional Service delivers specifics for developing such a review process. The protocol calls for teams of faculty and administrators to reach consensus on goals, definitions, and logistics through guided reflection and discussion of prototype portfolios. Sixteen prototypes are included in the volume, the product of a three-year Kellogg-funded project.


It's been a month already, and TechArk has done it again. June was a whirlwind of informative meetings, innovative hard work, and of course, delicious lunches. In between bites at our monthly team meeting we discussed our goals, challenges, and victories over an assortment of sandwiches from Taste (you should probably be jealous).
Check out our June victories, and celebrate with us!
One of those rare projects that everyone on the team seems to touch, a cheer went up around the office when Prosper Insurance launched their beautiful new website.
We tried something different with this one, creating one dynamic and responsive homepage that acts as an entire website.
We ran through several responsive website design iterations with Stone4Kitchen, in order to capture the beauty and luxury of their gorgeous stone countertops.
We think we nailed it with this cool, clean, modern design, tricked out with accents of marble and built in WordPress to be user-friendly.
An oceanfront classic, the Alamar Resort Inn needed a website to bring them out of the dark days of Flash, and we were all too happy to help!
Now Alamar Resort Inn can showcase their photo gallery of rooms and amenities.
A unique little boutique with an uplifting message, Positive Grounds sells socks covered from calf to toe in motivational words, phrases, and images.
To take it a step further (see what we did there?) every sock is manufactured with reinforced fibers, arch support, and cushioned heels & toes.
This South Carolina collision repair center just launched their very first website, after working closely with TechArk on a tight timeline.
We delivered on-time, with a beautiful design, responsive functionality, WordPress CMS, and a nifty little featured called "Find a Performance Location," which helps users get the best service, fast!
There you have it, a month in the life of TechArk. Our designers, developers, project managers, and digital marketing team are already hard at work on July's to do list, so stay tuned.
P.S. We're getting closer and closer to completing our super-secret-extra-special-big-deal project, to be launched in mid-July! Check back with us soon for some big changes!


Mark Dudley graduated from Clemson University on a Friday and went straight to work as a park ranger at Lee State Park that following Monday. Though it may sound like a quick turn-around, Mark had plenty of time to decide whether the park service was the career for him.
Originally from Orangeburg, Mark spent six summers working at Santee State Park doing everything from cutting the grass to cleaning the bathrooms. The whole experience of working at a park and interacting with visitors appealed to Mark, which lead him to take a full-time ranger position at Lee State Park and, just three months later, to take the Parks Management Assistant position at Hickory Knob State Park. For four years he worked in various aspects of managing the large resort park including the front desk, supervising housekeeping staff, and operating the tackle and pro shops (not to mention meeting his wife there as well!).
A business manager position took Mark back to his hometown near Santee State Park, where he was responsible for all retail-related tasks. After 12 years at the place where he grew up spending summers, Mark exchanged his office view of the park grounds for PRT's central office in Columbia to serve first as an Operations Specialist. He has held his current Chief of Operations position for five years.
Even though Mark now manages operations of the entire state park service, he doesn't consider it as far cry from where he started.
Customer service is a huge part of working for SCPRT, and this has proven true time and time again throughout the 27 years Mark has been with the agency. From Hurricane Hugo and accidental deaths, to budget challenges and minor complaints…Mark has seen it all. But one positive remark from a visitor can make it all worth the challenge. To him, it's all about putting in the effort so that patrons have the best possible experience at state parks.


My sister Cherise lives in Texas.
My brother, Eric, lives in New York.
The answer: they are BOTH correct. Because I have one brother and five sisters.
And how about these—hyphen or no hyphen?
She had on a pair of ripped-up jeans.
Her jeans were all ripped up.
Also both correct. Because compound adjectives are usually hyphenated before nouns but not after.
Weird, right? English is so weird!
Why is it so weird, you ask? Well, I'm no linguist, but from what I remember of my college English classes (and the fascinating book The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that way by Bill Bryson), it has something to do with the fact that English is a Germanic language that got "French Fried" as a result of some invasion in 1066. Possibly it had to do with William the Conqueror. Or Charles Martel. And the Franks/Gauls/Angles/Saxons/Celts history, before the big 1066 invasion by the Normans. But anyway, being a Germanic language with influences from like 60 different languages (I may be exaggerating), its spelling is ridiculous and it tries to follow both Germanic and Latin sets of rules, like a poor little confused poodle with at least two masters.
Don't quote me on any of that. I'm useless with history.
Anyway, back to the number of siblings I have affecting my comma usage.
An appositive is a word or phrase that renames a noun. When it's necessary, it doesn't need commas around it. When it's extra information, it does need them. So I can write that my brother lives in New York without adding his name to clarify, because he's the only brother I could be talking about. But I can't just say that my sister lives in Texas. Because my sister lives in Utah. My sister lives in Idaho. Those are also true. (Actually, three of them live in Utah. I just don't want to be misleading here.) I need to add the name for clarity, so it's not extra information. No extra information, no extra commas.
So if you're not sure if you should say "My friend Becky" or "My friend, Becky," think of the commas as parentheses. They're kind of saying "In case you didn't know the name of my friend," and could be taken to mean she's the only friend I have, unless we've already been talking about my friend and I'm just throwing in her name to clarify. So in general, you'd want to say "My friend Becky will be there," since you have so many friends there's no way the reader would know which one you're talking about otherwise. It's essential (also called restrictive) information. On the other hand, since I only have one set of parents, I could say "My parents are coming to visit" without saying their names, so if I add them, I need the commas for my nonrestrictive appositive. "My parents, Don and Karen, are coming to visit." So now you can address them by name. Convenient!
I'm not planning on going into great grammatical detail on this blog, just to give you a general idea for some of the issues that mess up so many of us. So if you want to learn more about appositives—nonrestrictive, restrictive, starting with appositives, etc., go study up and report back to me what you learn.
So how about those ripped-up jeans we were talking about earlier?
So those are some of the ways you can deal with this weird English language. Stay tuned for episode 2 of English is Weird, which will deal with me, myself, and I, or possibly apostrophe usage. You just never know what crazy thing I'll talk about next.


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Ельвіра Іванівна Титаренко ( 7 лютого 1936, Мічурінськ) — українська художниця тканин; член Київської організації Спілки радянських художників України з 1970 року.

Біографія
Народилася 7 лютого 1936 року в місті Мічурінську (нині Тамбовська область, Росія). 1959 року закінчила Київське державне училище прикладного мистецтва, де її викладачами були зокрема М. Садов, Ніна Ган, Сергій Нечипоренко, Петро Скрябін.

Жила у Києві, в будинку на Коломийському провулку, № 14, квартира № 34, в будинку на вулиці Євгенії Бош, № 1, квартира № 12 та в будинку на Коломийському провулку, № 9, квартира № 28.

Творчість
Працювала в галузі декоративного мистецтва (промисловий текстиль). Серед робіт:
 декоративні тканини «Софія Київська» (1967, парча, вибійка, ручний розпис), «Ноктюрн» (1970);
 платтяні тканини «Мальви» (1965), «Літо» (1966), «Наспів» (1967);
 декоративні панно «Соняшники» (1970), «Сутінки» (1979), «Щедрівки» (1983).
Брала участь у республіканських виставках з 1967 року, всесоюзних — з 1968 року, зарубіжних — з 1965 року.

Примітки

Література
 Титаренко Ельвіра Іванівна // ;
 Титаренко Ельвіра Іванівна //

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Художники тканин
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Члени Національної спілки художників України

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This is a question every new mum and dad will be asking themselves with a newborn baby. When should you start introducing solids?
For the first four to six months breast milk or formula provides all the nutrition your baby needs. After this, it's time to start introducing solids to provide the extra vitamins and nutrients your baby needs to grow big and strong. Ideally your baby should be able to sit up almost without help and should be showing an interest in food. These are signs that your baby is ready for you to start introducing solids.
What types of food should I give my baby?
It's very important that you continue to breast or formula feed while in the process of introducing solids and continue to do so until your baby is at least 12 months old. Solid food should be introduced slowly, one food type at a time. Start with baby cereal which is rich in iron and important for your child's growth. Progress to pureed fruit and cooked, mashed vegetables like pumpkin, sweet potato or zucchini. Remember to make the purees as smooth as possible to start, you can gradually introduce different textures at a later stage. If you don't have time to make your own purees then on occasion, consider buying purpose made baby food. Remember to keep it simple and don't add salt, sugar or any other strong flavours.
Should I do baby-led weaning or start with purees?
Baby-led weaning is a relatively new concept which means skipping the more traditional spoon feeding by parents. Babies are introduced to soft foods they can grab and feed themselves. There is no scientific proof or study which says either method is better. Baby-led weaning works for some parents and babies but not for others. Do what works for you and your baby.
How much solid food should my baby be having?
Introducing solids will vary from baby to baby. Start by giving a couple of spoonfuls of solid food after breast or bottle feeding. Once your baby has accepted these one or two spoons then slowly increase to three or four. When they are happily eating you can start introducing solids at a separate time to breast milk or formula. Remember your baby is a little human being and they will eat as much as they want to!
When should I increase to two meals per day?
How many times a day are you breast or bottle feeding your baby? Introducing solids should happen when your baby is around six months old. When you breast or bottle feed, introduce solids with one or two spoons of baby cereal or puree. Your baby will let you know if he or she is hungry or not.
How do I know if they have an allergy/intolerance to foods I am giving them?
A young baby's diet is a balancing act between providing breast milk and introducing solids. Breast milk or formula is still needed for the first 12 months to help build up your baby's immune system and prevent allergies. However, introducing solids at the right time also plays a part in providing the extra nutrients your baby needs to grow and to prevent food allergies in later life. Keeping things simple and only introducing one food type at a time will give you a good idea of any baby food allergy or intolerance. Make sure you allow three days apart before trying new food types.
The transition of your baby moving from breast milk or formula to solids is an important developmental step, but most of all it should be fun too!
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Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. In a medium-sized saucepan, melt butter over medium heat for approx. 1 – 2 min. Remove from heat.
Add brown sugar and eggs to saucepan and stir until well combined.
Next, add the cocoa, baking powder, flour, and salt and stir until well combined.
Add chocolate chips to pan and stir to evenly combine.
Form one tbsp dough into golf ball-sized shapes and then flatten into cookies. Place some hazelnut spread and a caramel candy into each cookie and seal edges. Place cookies on a lined baking sheet, sprinkle with fleur de sel, and bake in preheated oven at 180°C/350°F for approx. 8 – 12 min.
After taking cookies out of the oven, set aside to cool down for approx. 10 min. Enjoy!


Sao Luis is a municipality in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo in Brazil. It is the capital of Maranhão and is the latest town to be listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Beaches surround the town, such as those at Calhau, Ponta D'Areia and São Marcos, where there are the ruins of the eighteenth century São Marcos Fort. It has a well-preserved historic center with cobblestone streets and over 3,500 colonial buildings featuring beautiful azulejo (tiles) walls.
São Luís is known as "capital of reggae" in Brazil. In no other Brazilian city is this Jamaican rythm so commonly found; many bars and dance clubs play reggae.
Transport Links – The bus station is some 8 km southeast of the center, close to the airport in Avenida dos Franceses 5073 - right north of the intersection with Rua Tres. The bus takes you straight to/from the waterfront of the Old Town.
There are train services three times a week to Parauapebas via Santa Inês, Açailândia, Marabá and others. The train station is located in a street named: Companhia Vale do Rio Doce - next to Avenida dos Portugueses - some kilometers south west of the center. Companhia Vale do Rio Doce is the name of the company that operates the train.
The Airport is some 13 km from the centre. Domestic flights by Gol, TAM, Oceanair, TAF (also flies to French Guiana) and Litorânea. The bus 901 São Cristovão / Alemanha leaves from right outside the terminal (follow the signs) every 25 minutes or so, and takes about 45 minutes to reach Praça Deodouro in the city center (where you can hop on to get to the airport). Get off one stop after, on Rua do Passeio and walk down the pedestrian Rua Grande for 10 minutes to get to the eastern edge of Old Town.


Microscope slides-- These slides are hung on a line attached to the Dock at the upper end and held down by a weight at the lower end. The slides have small notches cut into the edge by a small file, and thin copper wire warped around the slide, using the notches to keep the wire from slipping off the slide. You can hang several slides on one line and retrieve them at different times. However, that confounds time with depth, so it would be better to hang several lines. You can also use other materials, e.g. slate, lucite, metal.
Focal planes-- The diagram above shows a series of images acquired at different focal distances (the red lines). The camera is moved down (or up) in a sequence, and an image is acquired at each position. Each image is then examined by a computer program which identifies areas that have sharp edges, and therefor must be in focus. The "in focus" areas are then merged to produce a composite "in focus" image. Sometimes this process can remove portions of the image where the animal was moving and replace with a section of another image where this part of the animal was still. The amazing thing (to me) is how well it often works! Of course it can't always produce the image you hoped for.
Beyond focal planes-- Top panel: a conventional camera with light rays from an object (the arrow) focused at one plane (the focal plane). Bottom panel: the field sensor collects data on both intensities and directions of light. After computer processing an image is obtained with objects in focus at a user defined focal plane.
The big picture-- Acquire multiple images, stich them together, and then look at the detail at your leisure.
This essay is a bit of a grab-bag, but the sections all have something to do with getting good images of Life on the Dock.
In "Life on the Dock", Chapter 10, page 68 I show a microscope slide that had been suspended into the water for about a month. A Botrylloides tadpole had attached and by that time had grown into a colony. Since the slide is transparent, I could illuminate from below and reveal some of the internal structure of the colony.
In Chapter 13, page 100 I describe the use of microscope slides to study the events that must have occurred when the Dock was new. Again the slides were suspended in the water and after a few weeks were colonized by amphipods. In this case we could view the amphipod burrows from the underside, and see the inhabitants move around.
Quite aside from the optical properties of glass slides, they provide a way to examine populations of relatively young animals and plants. The population on the Dock is generally old. Many have been there a year or more, and even the younger ones are growing on and under old individuals, which are often dead. Thus I urge you to look at slides suspended in the water to see the young. It also enables you to see the changes in colonizing organisms as the year progresses, and the varied zoo which attaches to glass at different locations among your docks.
In producing dramatic images of marine life the number of pixels in the camera is usually not the limiting factor. More important is the the lighting and quality of focus. Good lighting produces good contrast, and contrast is what enables us to see the subject. Lighting depends so much on the particular object and your access to it that I can't make a good general recommendation, you just have to experiment.
It is easier to make some general comments on focus. There are two barriers. First, the focal plane of the camera may not be exactly the focal plane of the eyepiece objective. Good, i.e. expensive, microscopes are usually close to par-focal: the camera and the eyepiece have the same focal plane. But you may not have the best equipment, and even the best can easily get out of adjustment.
Second, a given lens combination has a depth of fiel; a range of distances which are in focus. The depth of field is a little subjective, how sharp does the image need be to still be described as "in focus". A solution to both of these problems is acquiring a series of images at slightly different focal settings, and then selecting the one that is the best. However, this isn't effective if the object is large (thick) enough so there is no single position for which all the object is in focus.
Both of these problems can be solved by acquiring a focal series, and using image software to merge regions of the series that are in focus. HelocionSoft sells just such software at a modest price. I have tried it and it does work! You can generate the series of images by manually increasing or decreasing the position of the objectives as you take a series of images. Some cameras have electrically controlled focus, and the Helicon software will create a regular series with no manual intervention. Cognisys-inc....... sells a computer controlled platform that carries a camera. It can be programed to acquire a set of images in which the camera has been moved a set distance between each image.
As computers becomes smaller and cheaper a variety of innovations become possible. In the previous section I described selective merging of images by a desktop computer after they had been acquired by a camera, but what could you do with a computer in the camera itself? Actually all digital cameras already contain a powerful computer. Images are captured in raw format (a two dimensional array of intensities), but cameras can convert images to JPEG format, which takes up much less space in the memory chip, but contains most of the image detail. Conversion of raw to JPEG requires a lot of calculations!
Capabilities that are available today are acquiring rapid sequential images, at reduced resolution, to produce a video. Another use of sequential images is to acquire just the right image in a very dynamic scene: you want an image of the soccer player as he kicks the ball, so you depress the shutter a second before that happens, the camera starts to acquire images for the next two seconds, and later you select the perfect one. Many scenes have regions of very bright and very dim light. HDR (high dynamic range) cameras rapidly acquires several images with different "exposure settings", then merge them to produce a single image, (look up HDR in Wikipedia).
A more radical approach is now under commercial development by Lytro, Inc, in Mountain View, CA. They replace the traditional lens-sensor system that produces an image on a flat focal plane with a an array of micro-lenses that records the "light-field". The light-field is the intensity of light rays plus their directions, and thus contains far more information than just the light intensities at one focal plane. The data acquired makes it possible to produce an image in focus at a distance that is defined after the data has been acquired. Both HDR and light-fields are described in The Economist, pg....... 3-4, Sept 3-9, 2011.
There are situations in which a good strategy is to acquire multiple overlapping images and analyze them later. You could call this the shotgun approach. It was effective in the Mars lander expeditions, where it wasn't time effective for the rover to take one image and wait days for the scientists on earth to determine if it was useful to zoom in on one region or move on the the next viewpoint. Rather, the camera collected a panorama automatically, which was examined in detail later. GigaPan sells a mechanical device which turns the camera in a precise sequence of angles to acquire a panorama. This is then stitched into a single image [Science 5 Nov 2010, vol 330, page 748]. I haven't tried this, but I think it would be great to acquire a giant panorama of a small area of the Dock, and then examine it to see all the inhabitants.
Disclosure: I have no interest or investment in any company mentioned in this article.


One Month founded by Mattan Griffel created is online educational tool that teaches individual various avenues of web development. Some of the courses that they offer range from building an E-Commerce using Stripe to incorporating security features on a web application. In their courses the objective is to complete one tutorial video a day for 30 days and at the end of the month produce a fully functional web application.
One of the courses that One Month offers is creating an application similar to Pinterest using Ruby on Rails. It first walks through the basics of setting up the environment locally on the computer,go over the architecture of the Rails framework and finally cover in detail the many capabilities that this framework is able to provide. At the end there should be a fully functional application hosted on Heroku with the code saved on the popular Version Control Management, Github and images saved on Amazon Web Services.
The key goal at the end of this project was to learn how to setup user login/authentication, give users the ability to create, show, edit and destroy pins, and host the application on Heroku. The key components that I was completely new to were navigating through command prompt, understanding the concept of Model-View-Controller, troubleshooting using outside sources such as Stacks Overflow or Github, hosting an application on to Heroku and integrating cloud services such as Amazon Web Service. The key aspect that stood out to me in completing this project was powerful usage of Gems and how integrate them into my application. The many gems that were used were Devise, Papercil, AWS3, Bootstrap and JQuery Masonry.


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Vajzat me kordele të kuqe (en albanès, Noies amb llaços vermells) és una pel·lícula albanesa del 1978 dirigida per Gëzim Erebara.

Descripció de la trama
La pel·lícula està ambientada durant la Segona Guerra Mundial. Els alumnes de l'escola de noies estan actius a la resistència i formen un grup actiu de joves antifeixistes. Durant les vacances, els professors feixistes intenten obligar els alumnes a cantar l'himne feixista. Els estudiants es neguen ostentosament, i la notícia de la seva acció es va estendre ràpidament per Tirana.

Repartiment

 Shpresa Bërdëllima com a Gajtani
 Vangjel Heba com a director
 Marieta Ilo com a Jeta Duro
 Anisa Markarian com a Dhurata
 Drita Pelingu com a senyora Cavallero
 Tinka Kurti com a Seniorina Mancini
 Sandër pregunta com a Safet
 Zhani Ziçishti com a Resul
 Llambi Kaçani com a oficial ecònom
 Vangjel Toçe com a oficial
 Edmond Budina com a Andrea
 Marta Burda com a mare de Jeta
 Agim Shuke com a professor d'història
 Arben Imami com a Sandri
 Marika Kallamata com a Xhemilja
 Teuta Keçi com a Ela
 Rudina Kovaçi com a Bahrije
 Dhimitra Plasari
 Edita Shkreta
 Eva Pellumbi
 Vegim Xhani

Referències

Bibliografia
 Abaz Hoxha: Enciklopedia e kinematografise shqiptare. Autore & vepra. Tirana: Toena, 2002. ISBN 99927-1-555-3.

Enllaços externs

Pel·lícules d'Albània
Pel·lícules del 1978
Pel·lícules dramàtiques
Pel·lícules sobre la Segona Guerra Mundial


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Q: How can I add Vue.js search filter I try to learn Vue.js and have now tried to solve a filter search of my array savedMembers. But I can not make it work.
Array name: savedMembers
variables in array, firstName, lastName and email
search field: search

*

*How can I add responsive search?

*How can I update view with saved members?

*I would like a filter function to filter all values of array. But it´s okey if I only can filter by firstname.

This is my index.html

  <meta charset="UTF-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
  <title>Team Page</title>

    <team-page></team-page>

This is my main.js
  template: `

Team

      <form action="" @submit.prevent="onSubmit">
        First name

        <input type="text" v-model="firstName" name="firstName">

        Last name

        <input type="text" v-model="lastName" name="lastName">

        Email

        <input type="text" v-model="email" name="email">

        <input class="addMemberBtn" type="submit" value="Submit">
      </form>

        Please correct the following error(s):

{{ error }}

Team

            <input class="search" type="text" placeholder="Search" v-model="search">

            <button>Add New Team Member</button>

              Name
              Status

              {{ member.firstName }} {{ member.lastName }}
              {{ member.email }}

  `,
  data() {
    return {
      search: null,
      firstName: null,
      lastName: null,
      email: null,
      errors: [],
      savedMembers: [],
    };
  },
  methods: {
    addNewTeamMember(newTeamMember) {
      this.savedMembers.push(newTeamMember);
    },
    onSubmit() {
      if (this.firstName && this.lastName && this.email) {
        let newTeamMember = {
          firstName: this.firstName,
          lastName: this.lastName,
          email: this.email,
        };
        this.addNewTeamMember(newTeamMember);
        //this.$emit('members-submitted', newTeamMember)
        this.firstName = null;
        this.lastName = null;
        this.email = null;
      } else {
        if (!this.firstName) this.errors.push("First name required");
        if (!this.lastName) this.errors.push("Last name required");
        if (!this.email) this.errors.push("Email required");
      }
    },
  },
  computed: {
    /*filteredList() {
      return this.savedMembers.filter((member) => {
        return member.firstName
          .toLowerCase()
          .includes(this.search.toLowerCase());
      });
    },*/
  },
});

var app = new Vue({
  el: "#app",
  data: {},
});

A: According to this part of the documentation:
"Computed properties are cached based on their reactive dependencies. A computed property will only re-evaluate when some of its reactive dependencies have changed."
Which means that, in your case, the filteredList would only change if the this.savedMembers array change.
So, the correct way would be that:

*

*Create another array, let's assume filteredSavedMembers

*You create a method to react whenever the search changes ( i.e <input @change="onSearchChange".../>

*In this method, you will assign your filtering to the filteredSavedMembers

*And that's it, now you only have to show your filterd list in the template.

*Obs: to filter by multiple values, you can use the or (||) operator, like this:
const search = this.search.toLowerCase()
this.filteredSavedMembers = this.savedMembers
  .filter(({ firstName, lastName, email }) =>
    firstName.toLowerCase().includes(search) ||
    lastName.toLowerCase().includes(search) ||
    email.toLowerCase().includes(search)
  )

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Tag Archives: SA-204
27 January 1967, 23:31:04.7 UTC
January 27, 2020 Space FlightApollo 1, Apollo Program, Apollo/Saturn IB, AS-204, Astronauts, Command Module, Command Module 012, Edward Higgins White II, Gus Grissom, Manned Space Flight, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Roger Bruce Chaffee, SA-204, Saturn IB SA-204, Spacecraft Accident, Virgil Ivan GrissomBryan Swopes
The crew of Apollo 1. Left to right, Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. Grissom, United States Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. White II, United States Air Force, and Lieutenant Commander Roger B. Chaffee, United States Navy. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
27 January 1967: During a "plugs out" test of the Apollo 1 Command Module, two weeks ahead of the scheduled launch of the Apollo/Saturn 1B AS-204—the first manned Apollo Program space flight—a fire broke out in the pressurized pure oxygen environment of the capsule and rapidly involved the entire interior.
The pressure rapidly built to 29 pounds per square inch (200 kPa) and 17 seconds later, at 23:31:19.4 UTC, the capsule ruptured.
The three astronauts, Lieutenant Colonel Virgil I. Grissom, United States Air Force, Lieutenant Colonel Edward H. White II, United States Air Force, and Lieutenant Commander Roger B. Chaffee, United States Navy, were killed.
NASA has a detailed summary of the accident and investigation at:
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_01a_Summary.htm
22 January 1968, 22:48:08.86 UTC, T + 00:00:00.86
January 22, 2020 Space FlightApollo 5, Apollo LM-1, Apollo Program, AS-204, Chrysler Corporation Space Division, Douglas Aircraft Company, Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Launch Complex 37B, Lunar Module, Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation Inc., Rocketdyne H-1, Rocketdyne J-2, S-IB-4, SA-204, Saturn IBBryan Swopes
Apollo 5 Saturn IB (AS-204) lifts off with LM-1 at Launch Complex 37B, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 22:48:09 UTC, 22 January 1968. (NASA)
22 January 1968: At 22:48:00.86 UTC (5:48:08 a.m., Eastern Standard Time) a Saturn IB rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Cape Kennedy, Florida, carrying LM-1, an unmanned Apollo Program lunar lander, into a low-Earth orbit.
AS-204 reached Mach 1 at T + 0:59.8, passing 24,574 feet (7,490.16 meters). First stage separation occurred at T + 02:23.6, at an altitude of 194,228 feet (59,201 meters), with the vehicle accelerating through 7,563 feet per second (2,305 meters per second).
The AS-204 S-IVB engine cut off occurred at T + 09:53 at 536,166 feet (163,423 meters) with the vehicle travelling 25,659 feet per second (7,820 meters per second). Orbital insertion occurred at T + 00:10:03 at an altitude of 88 nautical miles (163 kilometers) with a velocity of 25,684 feet per second (7,828 meters per second). The orbit was elliptical with an apogee of 120 nautical miles (222 kilometers) and perigee of 88 nautical miles (163 kilometers). The orbital period was 88.39 minutes.
Apollo 5 lefts off from Launch Complex (NASA)
The Lunar Module separated from the S-IVB stage at T + 00:53:55.24. It was the allowed to cold-soak for about 3 hours. At T + 03:59.46, the LM's descent engine was fired but aborted by the guidance computer after 4.0 seconds. A little over 3 hours later, at T + 06:10:42, the descent engine was fired a second time, and burned until T + 06:13:14.7.
The ascent engine fired at 06:12:14.7 while the descent and ascent stages were still joined. The engine burned 60.0 seconds. It was fired a second time at T + 07:44:13.
With the tests completed, the orbits of the separated LM stages were allowed to decay. LM-1 quickly re-entered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
The purpose of the Apollo 5 mission was to test the Grumman-built Lunar Module in actual spaceflight conditions. Engines for both the descent and ascent stages had to be started in space, and be capable of restarts. Although the mission had some difficulties as a result of programming errors, it was successful and a second test flight with LM-2 determined to be unnecessary and was cancelled.
Apollo 5/Saturn IB (AS-204) clears the tower at Launch Complex 37B, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Cape Canaveral, Florida, 22:48 UTC, 22 January 1968. (NASA)
SA-204 ¹ had originally been the scheduled launch vehicle for the Apollo 1 manned orbital flight.
When a fire in the command module killed astronauts Virgil I. ("Gus") Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee, 27 January 1967, the rocket was undamaged. It was moved from Launch Complex 39 and reassembled at LC 37B for use as the launch vehicle for Apollo 5.
Apollo 5 Saturn IB AS-204 at Launch Complex 37B, 22 January 1968. (NASA)
The Saturn IB was a two-stage, liquid-fueled, heavy launch vehicle. It consisted of a S-IB first stage and S-IVB second stage. The total height of AS-204 was 181 feet, 0.355 inches (55.17782 meters). The Saturn IB rocket stood 141 feet, 8.644 inches (43.19636 meters), without payload. It had a maximum diameter of 22.8 feet (6.949 meters), and the span across the first stage guide fins was 40.7 feet (12.405 meters). Its empty weight was 159,000 pounds (72,122 kilograms) and at liftoff, it weighed 1,296,000 pounds (587,856 kilograms). It was capable of launching a 46,000 pound (20,865 kilogram) payload to Earth orbit.
The S-IB first stage was built by the Chrysler Corporation Space Division at the Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana. The first stage was 80 feet, 4.089 inches (24.4878606 meters) long, with a maximum diameter of 21 feet, 8.0 inches (6.604 meters) (21 feet, 5.0 inches across the Redstone tanks). The stage was powered by eight Rocketdyne H-1 engines, burning RP-1 and liquid oxygen. Eight Redstone rocket fuel tanks, with four containing the RP-1 fuel, and four filled with liquid oxygen, surrounded a Jupiter rocket fuel tank containing liquid oxygen. Total thrust of the S-IB stage was 1,666,460 pounds (7,417.783 kilonewtons) and it carried sufficient propellant for a maximum 4 minutes, 22.57 seconds of burn. The first stage of AS-204 was S-IB-4.
Saturn S-IB first stages in final assembly at Michoud, 1967. (NASA GPN-2000-000043)
The McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company S-IVB stage was built at Huntington Beach, California. The stage was 61 feet, 4.555 inches (18.708497 meters) long, with a maximum diameter of 21 feet, 8.0 inches (6.604 meters). It was powered by a single Rocketdyne J-2 engine, fueled by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The J-2 produced 229,714 pounds of thrust (1,021.819 kilonewtons), at high thrust, and 198,047 pounds (880.957 kilonewtons) at low thrust). The second stage carried enough fuel for 7 minutes, 49.50 seconds burn at high thrust.
Three-view drawing of the Lunar Module with dimensions. (NASA)
The Lunar Module was a two-stage vehicle designed to transport two astronauts from Lunar Orbit to the surface of the Moon, provide shelter and a base of operations while on the Moon, and then return the astronauts to lunar orbit, rendezvousing with the Apollo Command and Service Module. It was designed and built by the Grumman Aerospace Corporation at Bethpage, Long Island, New York.
The Descent Stage incorporated extendable landing gear, a hypergolic-fueled rocket engine to brake from orbital speed, establish a landing trajectory, and then decelerate for landing. The TRW Space Technology Laboratories Lunar Module Descent Engine (LMDE) produced a maximum of 10,500 pounds of thrust (46.706 kilonewtons), and could be throttled from 10–100% thrust. The stage also carried support equipment, oxygen, water, etc., needed by the astronauts, and equipment for use during surface activities.
To return to Lunar Orbit, the Descent Stage was left behind, and the Bell Aerosystems Lunar Module Ascent Engine (LMAE) was fired. This engine also used hypergolic fuel and produced 3,500 pounds of thrust (15.569 kilonewtons).
Apollo Lunar Module LM-1 being assembled with upper stage. (NASA)
¹ The Apollo Program Saturn rockets were designated as both AS-xxx and SA-xxx. The AS-xxx designation was applied to the complete vehicle, or "full stack," while the SA-xxx designation applied to only the multi-stage rocket assembly.


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Whenever I'm out eating at an Italian restaurant and am craving pasta, I tend to steer towards the penne alla vodka. Regardless of how many good choices there are on the menu I know later on I'll regret not sinking my teeth into the rich, creamy dish. It's always my first choice. I love the combination of a flavorful red tomato sauce with a comforting rich cream. Top the dish with parmesan and basil and I am in heaven!
If I'm entertaining or having friends over, I like to keep the menu easy so that I can spend time actually entertaining and not just in the kitchen. I put my own spin on the traditional penne alla vodka recipe and stepped it up a notch with Mrs. T's pierogies! The soft, pillowy potato morsels are excellently paired with the creamy, rich vodka sauce. Now that I have a garden, I can also step right outside and pluck off a few fresh sprigs of basil which really helps elevate the dish.
The pierogies are cooked in a matter of minutes and the sauce is also fairly simple with only a few ingredients. Plus, if you're really in a pinch, you can make the sauce ahead and just heat it up!
Head on down below for the full recipe and your friends will be thanking you later :D.
Bring a medium pot of water to a boil. Place pierogies in boiling water and boil for 7 minutes. Remove from heat, drain, set aside.
Make the sauce. In a large sauce pan, add garlic, onion, and olive oil. Stir over medium heat until the onion begins to soften and turn translucent. Add in oregano and parsley and cook for 1 minute until herbs become fragrant. Turn heat to low, add in vodka and tomato puree. Simmer for 10 minutes or until the liquid has cooked down slightly. Stir in the heavy cream and salt and pepper to taste. Remove from heat.
Place the pierogies in a large bowl and top with sauce. Sprinkle on fresh basil leaves, crushed red pepper, and parmesan cheese if desired. Serve and enjoy!


Carola Dunn, Author Bibliography: Mysteries, Suspense Novels, Thrillers, Crime Fiction.
Author's website: None. Carola Dunn is also the author of a large number of non-mystery novels (not listed here).
(1) The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple (later Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher) is a journalist in 1920s England.
(2) The Cornish mysteries feature charity shop owner Eleanor Trewyn and her niece, Megan Pencarrow, a detective sergeant with the Cornish police.


We provide an inclusive environment where difference is celebrated and pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), Gifted and Talented (G&T) pupils and those learning English as an Additional Language (EAL) are supported, extended and challenged to achieve the best they can.
The Extended Learning Provision Department ensures that all pupils at Willington have access to our broad and balanced curriculum and achieve their full potential. We support a small number of pupils with mild to moderate learning differences in their mainstream classes. Where necessary, one-to-one lessons outside the classroom can be arranged for pupils with assessed needs. We appreciate that all pupils have individual needs and we put personalised learning at the centre of our teaching. By closely monitoring our pupils' achievements throughout their education at Willington, we can ensure that adjustments are made and support is given to those pupils who may find some academic demands challenging due to specific learning difficulties, absence, illness or disability.
We establish close working relationships with parents and carers, our pastoral team and external professionals, in order to support pupils socially and emotionally, as well as academically.
We set high expectations for all our pupils and a variety of enrichment opportunities are provided across the School. We appreciate that there are a number of areas in which pupils can excel, and they may do so at different times in their academic careers. We endeavour to identify those who are gifted and/or talented and encourage them to embrace the range of challenges provided, both within the classroom and through our diverse extra-curricular programme.
At Willington School, we appreciate the international diversity of our pupils. Pupils learning English as an Additional Language are supported by the pastoral team and teachers to feel at ease and to access the curriculum at their intellectual level as soon as possible.


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Join Charis for a literary celebration of Atlanta's underbelly with authors Jennifer Harlow, Sheri Joseph, Alesia Parker, and Gillian Royes. Each will read a selction from her story and chat with the audience about how they framed their takes on the shadow side of the "new south." This is a Charis Circle From Margin to Center Literary Event. The suggested donation is $5.
Jennifer Harlow earned a BA in psychology from the University of Virginia. She has worked as a bookseller, radio deejay, lab assistant, and government investigator. She is the author of the F.R.E.A.K.S. Squad Investigation series, the Galilee Falls Trilogy, and the Iris Ballard series. She lives in Atlanta and is hard at work on her next book.
Alesia Parker, a native Atlantan, is a happy chemist by day and closeted writer by night. She has honed her craft through various writing workshops in the Atlanta area over the past decade. Her story in this volume, "Ma'am," is excerpted from her manuscript-in-progress, Always Watching. This is her first published story.
Gillian Royes was born in Jamaica and furthered her education in the United States, completing a doctorate in communications at Emory University, where she initiated her love affair with Atlanta. She is the author of the cozy mystery novels in the Shadrack Myers series published by Simon & Schuster, and her film script Preciosa was recently shot in St. Croix. She is currently working on a film adaptation of her novel The Man Who Turned Both Cheeks.
Sheri Joseph is the author of two novels, Where You Can Find Me and Stray, and a cycle of stories, Bear Me Safely Over. She has been awarded an NEA fellowship and the Grub Street National Book Prize in fiction, as well as numerous residency fellowships including MacDowell and Yaddo. She lives in Atlanta, where she teaches in the creative writing program at Georgia State University and serves as fiction editor of Five Points.


Vehicle transportation companies assist with shipping your vehicle to any city in the country or even overseas, but the way this is done is based on the offered procedures and methods that the company has to offer.
While the majority of companies use a vehicle multi-carrier or trailer, you have to choose between going for open or closed transportation based on your preferences and requirements. Both methods are going to use a truck for the transport but they have certain differences. However, if the length of your journey is short, your carrier might be smaller and handle up to 6 vehicles. Of course, you can also see a single vehicle carrier.
When you are told that the company will go for an open-air trailer, you can expect for the process to be rather regular. This type of carrier or trailer is between 70 and 85 feet in length and it's going to haul a trailer with two-level for two rows of cars on top and on the bottom. You will find that there is no sides and roof of the carrier which makes the vehicles exposed to the winds and weather throughout the journey.
Benefits and disadvantages of Open Auto Shipping.
Cons – your vehicle is going to be exposed to the weather conditions and there is little to no protection against debris which makes it less secure.
Pros – it's by far the least expensive option and it provides better visibility which allows the driver to easily inspect the cars. Furthermore, this particular type of trailer is also lighter and it's going to use a lesser amount of fuel.
The trucks for enclosed transportation have an enclosed trailer with 4 sides and a roof which provides extreme protection throughout the transportation. If you have a highly prized car which is a luxury, expensive or a sports car, you might want to go for this type of transportation as it's going to provide you tremendous amounts of security as well as protection from debris and from the elements as well.
The downside is that it doesn't provide the driver a chance to do regularly inspect the vehicle. Furthermore, it's going to use a lot more fuel than an open-air transport carrier making it a lot more expensive as well.
In order to be able to properly pick the right method of shipping, you need to consider the amount of security that you are going to need for the vehicle. If you want to ship a collector's vehicle or an antique one, you might want to go for a fully enclosed car carrier. However, if you have a regular old model you are probably better off with an open-air trailer. Of course, you want to get as many quotes as you can in order to be sure that you aren't being ripped off.
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Hi Lovelies. Happy pre-4th of July. We are getting ready to head to Yosemite for the holiday and I can't wait. I would love any recommendations that you all may have on things to do and see in Yosemite and Mammoth. Two weeks ago I shared my 3 tips for wearing overalls. This is my final look with a t-shirt and overalls.
These overall shorts are from H&M and are perfect match for the denim and t-shirt look. I paired them with these new blush sneakers I love. These sneakers were purchased for a wardrobe styling job and I just had to buy a pair for myself. I wore this look for a casual shopping day for work. We were shopping all the antique stores and it was so nice to be comfortable in this white shirt and overalls with comfy sneakers.
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Is nuclear power industry poised to repeat 'managerial disaster'?
What if the Fukushima nuclear fallout crisis had happened here?
A future severe nuclear accident at a U.S. nuclear power plant is a real possibility. In 2011 five nuclear power plants in the United States lost primary power due to earthquake or extreme weather events, including tornados, hurricanes, and flooding.


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Newsday Quotes Napoli Shkolnik On Bethpage & Grumman
Source: New York Newsday
More than 80 current and former residents of Bethpage or their estates have filed a new lawsuit against Northrop Grumman alleging that contaminants from the company's former site have lead to specific medical injuries and death,according to court records.
That action seeks $500 million in damages for residents' past and continued exposure to the contaminants. It was filed on behalf of "everyone in the area we believe was exposed" to contaminants at the site, said Lilia Factor, an attorney for the plaintiffs.
The new suit is a personal injury case filed on behalf of 83 individuals "with specific injuries," including some who have since died, Factor said. "Most of them are still alive but suffering from different medical conditions linked to the toxic contaminants," she said. "Everyone one of them has suffered currently with an injury or has deceased."
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Fentanyl Billionaire Denies Paying Kickbacks
Opioid multimillionaire John Kapoor pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud, and wire fraud in an Arizona federal court; prosecutors claim that Mr. Kapoor's company — Insys Therapeutics — gave doctors millions of dollars in kickbacks if they prescribed one of the company's prescription pain pills. Mr. Kapoor became a billionaire in…Read the article
Napoli Shkolnik Wins Big Legal Battle in NC Uber Case
As The New York Times recently reported, Uber drivers have won a tentative victory in their on-going legal battle to be classified as employees as opposed to independent contractors. Due to a North Carolina federal court granting conditional certification to a class-action lawsuit that was filed on behalf of several Uber drivers under the Fair…Read the article
Crumple Zones Decrease Injuries From Collisions
Thanks to car safety innovations throughout the last fifty years, there has been a major increase in vehicular transportation, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. In terms of fatalities per miles driven, we have gone from 5.39 deaths per 100 million miles (1964) to 1.10 deaths per 100 million miles driven in 2013.…Read the article


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Orpheus & Euridice: Press-Telegram
Anyone walking by the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool Sunday night would have been amazed at the transformation.
Home twenty-four years ago to Los Angeles Olympic competition and since then plenty of national swimming events, the place was eerily lit in blue, the dressy sold-out crowd on the bleachers (grateful for the cushions) gathered not for athletics but music.
It was opening night of Long Beach Opera's three-evening presentation of a new version of composer Ricky Ian Gordon's wonderfully evocative, subtle and moving "Orpheus & Euridice," a theatrical, performance version of what originated as a work for just clarinet, piano and soprano.
That's right, in the pool. Anyone who knows Long Beach Opera's reputation for innovation and even oddity will not be surprised that the company's Artistic Director Andreas Mitisek chose to stage this version in the pool, the waters of which stand in for the River Styx, which, in the opera, Orpheus must cross to rescue his love Euridice from death.
There is much to say about the setting, but first the music. There is pleasure in imaging opera in the water, pleasure in the strangeness of chlorine smells and shared discomfort (those bleachers, even with cushions!) But it needs to be said, clearly, that "Orpheus & Euridice" is not a theatrical trick, not a show that needs any production excuses. Gordon's music is plaintive, delightful, deeply moving. Performed here by Todd Palmer, the clarinetist who commissioned the work and soprano Elizabeth Futral, who has performed Euridice in the work's world premiers as both concert production and staged work, with pianist Michelle Schumann and the Denali String Quartet, violinists Kevin Kumar and Joel Pargman, violist Alma Fernandez, cellist Timothy Loo and bass Nick Recuber, the work is richly rewarding without adding water.
Composer/lyricist Gordon has already made a name for himself in the world of opera. His "Grapes of Wrath" premiered last year in Minnesota and has already been scheduled for productions elsewhere, notably at Opera Pacific in Costa Mesa next season. His music is lyrical, singable, mixing the modern idiom with a human passion that is deeply felt. "Orpheus & Euridice," with its story of love lost and longed for, has a personal side for the composer, who lost his long-time partner Jeffrey Grossi to illness during the period the work was germinating.
To realize his concept of opera at the Olympic Plaza, a barn-like building with acoustics to match (it has the echo of a cathedral, or an airplane hangar) Mitisek brought Set Designer Alan E. Muraoka on board. He added statues and video monitors on the bleachers across the pool from the opera audience, photo projections on the huge walls, pool-side deck chairs and one simple boat in the pool for Orpheus and Euridice, powered by swimmers, floating on a blue pool, with Dan Weingarten's movable lighting highlighting the performance. Choreographer Ken Roht created a picture of delicate movement, using Dylan Kenin and Lauren Mace as Orpheus and Euridice as well, their acting and movement mixed with Futral and Palmer's performance. Marcy Froelich uses simple modern beach wear as effective costumes.
Gordon's poetic story, projected with only partial success on a hanging across from the audience, tells the story of Orpheus, the gifted musician whose music is transformed when he meets and falls in love with Euridice. When she dies, he follows her across the Styx to Hades and, using his music, brings her back towards the real world, only to lose her again when he looks back to see if she is following. His music becomes unbearably sad and he is destroyed by those who come to hate it.
Futral, dressed in bright yellow, is the vocal embodiment of Euridice, telling the story in Gordon's words. Palmer, dressed in swimming trunks and a beach shirt, is Orpheus. Futral sings with clarity and passion and deep emotion, her voice an instrument of power and passion, matched by Palmer's deeply moving clarinet, which can be plaintive, joyous, and screamingly painful. They manage to climb into and out of the boat while performing (Palmer even hitches a ride on piggyback across the Styx) without injury and (mostly) without evoking panic in the otherwise rapt audience.
Acoustics in a hall designed for swimming are a problem. The small string and piano band are near the audience, and the performers are usually close, too, but amplification is necessary and sometimes a little disorienting. The echo is sometimes a wonderful sonic effect, accompanying singer and clarinetist, but sometimes a distraction.
Mace makes a beautiful and affecting second Euridice and Kenin is moving as the duetero-Orpheus. Shannon Ggem (CQ) Roht, Mark Bringelson and Kendra Ware add to the performance as players and as the motive forces in the pool. Mitisek directs the production with simplicity and allows the setting, and Gordon's music, to tell the tragic, very-human myth. This production will be one to talk about in years to come, and on performance tonight is still available.\John Farrell is a Long Beach freelance writer.
– John Farrell, Press-Telegram


David Stern, "The Jewish Bible: A Material History" (University of Washington Press, 2017), 106–107.
Christian M. M. Brady, "The Proselyte and the Prophet: Character Development in Targum Ruth" (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, "Les Manuscrits hébreux Dans L'Angleterre médiévale: étude Historique Et paléographique" (Leuven: Peeters, 2003), 121–125, 238–242.
Bernard Grossfeld, "The Targum Sheni to the Book of Esther: A Critical Edition Based on MS. Sassoon 282 with Critical Apparatus" (Brooklyn: Sepher-Hermon Press, 1994).
Brad Sabin Hill, "Hebraica: Manuscripts and Early Printed Books from the Library of the Valmadonna Trust: An Exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library" (New York: Valmadonna Trust Library, 1989).
Benjamin Richler, "The Hebrew Manuscripts in the Valmadonna Trust Library" (London: Valmadonna Trust, 1998), 2–4.
Malachi Beit-Arié, Menahem Banitt, and Zefirah Entin Rokéah, "The Only Dated Medieval Hebrew Manuscript Written in England (1189 CE) and the Problem of Pre-Expulsion Anglo-Hebrew Manuscripts" (London: Valmadonna Trust Library, 1985).
David S. Sassoon, "Ohel Dawid: Descriptive Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan Manuscripts in the Sassoon Library" (London: Oxford University Press, 1932), 16–18.


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New financial issues in 2015 range from stock scams and data breaches to a tricky IRA law.
The new year will bring a host of financial threats. Consumers should know what to do following data breaches and be aware of IRA-rollover penalties and topical stock-scam alerts.
Consumers should be ready to implement basic account defenses if an entity they deal with has been hacked. These involve better passwords, account monitoring and other practices.
Owners of Individual Retirement Accounts could lose up to 60 percent of their IRA's assets if they're not vigilant about a new rule that prevents them from making more than one IRA rollover per year.
Last year was a busy time for computer hackers and data breaches, and that's not likely to change in 2015. People dealing with retail companies, non-profits, government agencies and other entities could see their names, addresses, credit-card numbers and other personal information spill out.
How to respond to a data breach is one of several general financial tips worth heeding in the new year. Financial analysts also raise issues involving a treacherous new tax rule on Individual Retirement Accounts, along with investor alerts regarding e-cigarettes and precious metals.
You can't completely defend against identity theft, but several simple steps can reduce your vulnerability after a data breach. One involves getting into the habit of checking banking, credit-card and other accounts regularly and looking for unauthorized transactions — preferably once a day, suggests Credit.com. While you're at it, sign up for free alerts that notify you when certain transactions happen. Also, order your free credit reports on a regular basis through annualcreditreport.com, with the emphasis again on spotting unauthorized activity.
Another smart practice is to change your passwords after a breach and to use strong passwords — lengthy ones involving a mix of letters, numbers and special characters. Sign up for "two-factor authentication" on banking and other accounts, if offered. This involves not just logging in with a password but answering a security question or providing other secret information. "That way, it doesn't matter (as much) if someone steals your password ... because it's much less likely they'll be able to log into the account," according to Credit.com.
If you're highly concerned, you also might decide to freeze your credit by placing a fraud alert through one or more of the major credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
The new year brings a tax-law change of which IRA investors should be wary. I recently wrote about a new danger involving rollovers of IRA funds between financial firms, where an investor takes possession of his or her money for up to 60 days. IRA owners long have had the option to do this without incurring taxes or an early withdrawal penalty, but the new rule allows only one rollover on an annual basis, even for people owning multiple IRAs. Jason Washo, a certified public accountant in Scottsdale, says investors need to be aware of how big a mistake this could be.
As before, investors can take temporary access of their money and roll it into a new IRA with another financial firm within 60 days, without financial consequence. Previously, the IRS treated rollovers for separate IRAs as separate transactions, with each account being allowed one rollover. Now, one rollover is allowed for all accounts combined.
"This means a person who has IRA accounts at multiple banks or brokerages ... could inadvertently blow up their IRA," Washo said. A potential 10 percent early withdrawal penalty, on top of a top tax rate of 39.6 percent, pushes the combined federal levy to 49.6 percent. Arizona income taxes also would apply. So might a 6 percent federal "excess contribution" penalty if the disallowed funds remain in the account. Add it all up, and the total bite could approximate 60 percent of the amount withdrawn, he said.
People sometimes do 60-day rollovers if they need a short-term loan. Some just want to switch financial companies. But the new rule makes it much more treacherous. Movements of money directly between IRA custodial firms, known as transfers, aren't affected because investors don't take even temporary possession of their money.
Stock tips up in smoke.
Financial regulators issued some late-year investor alerts that remain relevant heading into 2015. One caution from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, warns investors to be wary about e-cigarette stocks. It followed a move by the Securities and Exchange Commission to suspend trading for two weeks in a Las Vegas-based e-cigarette company, American Heritage International, over "potentially manipulative activity" in its shares.
Regulators are concerned about promoters who hype these stocks, often causing a short but unsustainable jump in the share price that can snare unwary investors. Red flags include spam e-mails or other unsolicited messages touting a stock, recent changes to a company's name or business, low share prices that can bounce around rapidly and even prior convictions of top company officials.
"The popularity of e-cigarettes has grown rapidly over the last several years, and the e-cigarette and 'vape' markets have been the subject of considerable media attention," said Gerri Walsh, a FINRA senior vice president, in a statement explaining why this has become an issue for investors.
Unsavory stock promoters often jump on current news items to lure potential investors, as with e-cigarettes. But another late-2014 FINRA alert cautions investors about buying precious metals including silver, gold and platinum. This alert came despite a year when precious metals stayed largely out of the headlines amid lackluster prices. Gold prices, measured in dollars, lost about 1 percent of their value in 2014.
FINRA warned that customers could face high commissions and fees and might not receive delivery of coins or bullion as promised. The regulatory group suggests that potential buyers investigate a salesperson's background before investing, remain skeptical of "low risk" claims, inquire about fees and steer clear of risky transactions that involve borrowed money or leverage. FINRA cited an enforcement action against a Florida company, International Monetary Metals, that regulators charged with engaging in illegal, leveraged trades with retail investors.
The biggest category of consumer financial complaints involves debt-collection practices, and unpaid medical bills represent the main type of disputed debt. So it helps to review smart strategies for tackling this financial issue.
Among the tips suggested by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one is to carefully review billing statements and request a breakdown of itemized services if not provided. Also, get into the habit of keeping organized records of bills, and quickly act to resolve disputes rather than let them linger. If you delay paying and an unpaid balance winds up in collection, it can damage your credit score.
If you can't pay immediately, try to negotiate the balance. Some hospitals will do this, and some offer financial assistance through "charity care" plans. Also, make sure your health-insurance information is correct. Small errors on policies can lead to bigger bills for procedures that should have been covered, the protection bureau said.


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QUENCH THE FIRE! CHILL THE FURY!!
ARE WE NEARING A NUCLEAR WAR?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Public Remembrance and Peace Vigil will commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945 and Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. We will call on all nations to work together toward an abolition of nuclear weapons worldwide, as supported by the United Nations. We will light 72 candles forming a peace symbol around the 26-foot tall nuclear mushroom cloud-shaped monument.
The peace event is free to the public and is being sponsored by Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles, Pax Christi of Southern California, Solartopia, International Health and Epidemiology Research Center, and Friends of Chain Reaction.
To Prevent New Nuclear Wars, Election Theft, Planetary Destruction, etc., we will commemorate the 1974 resignation of Richard Nixon & demand Trump do same.
Trump was not legitimately elected. He presents a clear and present danger by inciting a new nuclear war. Then-Pentagon advisor Daniel Ellsberg says Nixon wanted to use nukes in Vietnam, but was stopped by the anti-war movement. A similar message must be sent to Trump.
Contact Harvey Wasserman via: www.solartopia.org .


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"deft lyrics and beautiful sound"
"Hands down the best songwriter in the genre."
"Roberts continues to craft masterpieces in miniature, equivalent to A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh."
"Some of the most inspired and intelligent kids lyrics ever."
"On your feet fun and laugh-out-loud funny."
"He has a remarkable ability to see through a child's eyes… the Judy Blume of kiddie rock"
"The lyrics will break your heart with their poignancy and the music will make you celebrate that there are such exceptional artists making songs for children these days. A Grade"
Four time GRAMMY Nominee
#1 Children's CD of the Year –
Fids and Kamily Poll
in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2013
Winner of TEN
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TEN Parents' Choice
Not Naptime for Parents' Choice
25 Best Children's CDs
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Four-time GRAMMY Nominee Justin Roberts is truly one of the "all-stars" of the indie family music scene. For nearly 20 years, Roberts has been creating the soundtrack to families' lives, helping kids navigate the joys and sorrows of growing up while allowing parents to remember their own childhoods. Along with his band, The Not Ready for Naptime Players, Justin has travelled the globe, from Hong Kong to New York, and Miami to Seattle.
His latest GRAMMY® Nominated album, Wild Life, is his 14th album for families and his most personal project yet. Joined by an eclectic group of instrumentalists including pianist Lisa Kaplan (Eighth Blackbird) baroque cellist Anna Steinhoff, percussionist Gerald Dowd (Robbie Fulks), and vocalist Nora O'Connor (Flat Five, the Decemberists), Wild Life was inspired by the birth of Roberts' first child. It includes songs about anticipation, uncertainty, unconditional love and advice for a life well-lived. The lyrics are honest and fresh with a hint of darkness that speaks not only to the journey of parenthood but the vast gamut of the human experience. The sounds range from finger-plucked ukulele to pulsing flutes and moving bass lines with ethereal touches of piano. His wife Anna Steinhoff's pizzicato cello is used in lieu of bass at most opportunities. This album evokes the wonder of what poet Mary Oliver called this "one wild and precious life."
The final track, "Wild Life," is written by Justin's longtime friend Craig Wright; a playwright, screenwriter and producer. Wright is known most widely his work on Six Feet Under, Lost and more recently as creator and executive producer of Greenleaf on the OWN Network.
Roberts began his musical career in the 1990s, performing in the Minneapolis-based indie-rock band Pimentos for Gus. He decided to "moonlight" as a Montessori preschool teacher, and it wasn't long before Justin started writing and singing songs for a new generation of fans: his students. The kids immediately responded and inspired Justin to record some of his new songs and send them out to a few friends for Christmas. One of the gift recipients was Liam Davis, a college pal and music producer, who suggested that they record the songs professionally.
In 1997, Justin released his first album for families, Great Big Sun, and the critics took note. Justin's music was soon being compared to everyone from Elvis Costello and Fountains of Wayne to Paul Simon, ELO and Nick Lowe. So, Justin hit the road full time to do what he loves most: playing music for appreciative crowds. Kiddie mosh pits broke out, word spread and shows started selling out.
Justin has performed in front of millions of people on The Today Show, he's been featured on Nick Jr. TV, and his song "Get Me Some Glasses" was on a World Series broadcast. He's received four GRAMMY nominations, for Jungle Gym in 2010, Recess in 2013, and Lemonade in 2017, and Wild Life in 2020.
Recent appearances include performances at NYC's New Victory Theater, DC's Wolf Trap, LA's Getty Museum, Seattle's Moore Theater, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Chicago's Ravinia.
Roberts has also had success in the musical theater world. In 2014, Roberts wrote a musical based on Hansel and Gretel with Ernie Nolan for Emerald City Theater (Chicago) which was restaged by the Soraya Performing Arts Center (Los Angeles) and toured across the US in 2018. Roberts co-produced a cast recording of that show.
Roberts also created a musical for the New Victory Theater in NYC entitled the "Mysterious Hat" that featured his band, the Not Ready for Naptime Players, puppets and songs from his catalog. Roberts is currently working on a new musical with Ernie Nolan for Nashville Children's Theater.
In 2020, Roberts was a visiting artist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and helped create an end-of-the-school year video performance of his song "School's Out (Tall Buildings)" and an excerpt from Beethoven's 6th Symphony with members of the CSO and singers Meagan McNeal (The Voice), and Leah Dexter. Roberts wrote the script and did scoring and sound design for the video.
Roberts is also an accomplished picture book author for Putnam Press. The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade (illustrated by Christian Robinson) received the Horace Mann Upstander Award and was a finalist for the E.B. White Read-A-Loud Award. His second book, The Great Henry Hopendower (illustrated by Deborah Hocking) was released in 2017 and two more books are on their way.
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Hyundai has unveiled the new i40 saloon which is set to go on sale in the UK this autumn. We've already seen - and been very impressed by - the Hyundai i40 Tourer which was officially unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show. And now the brand has followed that up with the equally attractive four-door saloon.
It certainly looks the part and is far more stylish than many traditional saloons in this market. Hyundai said the new i40 saloon was benchmarked against the Volkswagen Passat CC in terms of looks which explains the coupe-like profile. We think it has enough to make it stand out and be distinctive which will help with Hyundai's image in this class. It's last attempt was the dull Sonata.
Hyundai has long been known for making cars that were affordable and reliable. And it's now adding stylish with a quality feel to that list. Although it's a pre-production car there's no doubting the high-class feel to the interior which is further step up from the already impressive ix35. Hyundai says the i40 will have class leading front head room, shoulder room and legroom. The boot has a wide opening with a useful 503 litres of space inside - more than other saloons like the Honda Accord or the Citroen C5.
Although the more practical Tourer will actually be the bigger seller, the i40 saloon is still an important car for Hyundai, especially as it looks to make a bigger impact with company car drivers. So it's no surprise to see some very efficient engines in the line-up. The best is the 1.7-litre diesel which is available in two outputs of either 115bhp or 136bhp and although the more powerful version is predicted to be the most popular, it's the 115bhp model which is the economy star - it emits just 113g/km of CO2 and can average a claimed 65.7mpg.
The 136bhp version isn't far behind though and returns a claimed 62.7mpg with CO2 emissions of 119g/km.These impressive figures are helped by Hyundai's Intelligent Stop & Go (ISG) engine system (that cuts the engine when the car is in stationary traffic), low rolling-resistance tyres and an alternator management system.
The petrol line up is made up of a 1.6-litre with 135bhp and a new 2.0-litre unit with 177bhp.The latter is the quickest i40 in terms of 0-62mph times, taking 9.7 seconds but still returns a healthy 41.5mpg according to the claimed figures. The standard gearbox is a six-speed manual while a six-speed automatic is available on the 2.0-litre petrol and the 1.7-litre diesel with 136bhp.
Prices will be announced on 1 June 2011 but Hyundai is hinting that the i40 will cost between 3% and 5% less than similar cars in the class. It will also come well equipped, making it good value for money. High-tech features include smart-parking assist, a lane departure warning system, Bluetooth with voice recognition and full map satellite navigation with a rear view camera. The i40 will also be available with an electric parking brake, heated and reclining rear seats and even a heated steering wheel.
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