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Master of Science - This concentration is designed for students interested in topics that intersect forestry and wildlife science as an interdisciplinary approach to attaining sustainability of both forest and wildlife resources. Additional coursework in forestry, statistics, spatial analysis, and/or the biological sciences may be suggested.
Doctorate in Philosophy- This concentration is designed for students interested in topics that intersect forestry and wildlife science as an interdisciplinary approach to attaining sustainability of both forest and wildlife resources as well as entire ecosystems. Additional coursework in forestry, statistics, spatial analysis, and/or the biological sciences may be suggested.
Current Graduate Students:
Christopher Wolf, PhD Student. Globally, a significant number of mammalian species are endangered.
My research involves using statistical and macroecological tools to better understand the drivers of species endangerment. I am particularly interested in the relationships between life history traits and extinction risk. This research could have policy implications for biodiversity conservation. I am also interested in the ecological effects of predators, especially wolves and other large carnivores, and the unique challenges associated with their conservation.
Previous Graduate Students:
Jonathan Batchelor (MS). Restoration of Riparian Areas Following the Removal of Cattle in the Northwestern Great Basin.
We assessed the effects of the elimination of livestock in riparian systems at Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge in southeastern Oregon, 23 years after the removal of cattle grazing, using 64 photos taken before grazing was removed compared with later retake photos. Two methods were used for this assessment: (1) a qualitative visual method comparing seven cover types and processes and (2) a new quantitative method of inserting digital line transects into photos. Results indicated that channel widths and eroding banks decreased in 64 and 73 % of sites, respectively. We found a 90 % decrease in the amount of bare soil (P\0.001) and a 63 % decrease in exposed channel (P\0.001) as well as a significant increase in the cover of grasses/sedges/forbs (15 % increase, P = 0.037), rushes (389 % increase, P = 0.014), and willow (388 % increase, P\0.001). We also assessed the accuracy of the new method of inserting digital line transects into photo pairs. An overall accuracy of 91 % (kappa 83 %) suggests that digital line transects can be a useful tool for quantifying vegetation cover from photos.
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Batchelor, Jonathan L., William J. Ripple, Todd M. Wilson, and Luke E. Painter. "Restoration of Riparian Areas Following the Removal of Cattle in the Northwestern Great Basin." Environmental Management, February 19, 2015, 1-13. doi:10.1007/s00267-014-0436-2.
Luke Painter (PhD) Trophic cascades in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem: ecological interactions of wolves, elk, bison and woody browse plants
Woody plants that are eaten by elk (Cervus elaphus) were suppressed by intensive browsing in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) and the surrounding area during the period of wolf (Canis lupus) absence in the 20th Century. Following the return of wolves to the Yellowstone area in 1995 and 1996, wolves flourished and elk population density declined on the northern winter ungulate range. Elk distribution and use of habitat also changed. As part of the trophic cascades program at OSU, I investigated the possibility that a trophic cascade from wolves to elk to plants has produced significant changes in rates of browsing by elk of aspen (Populus tremuloides), willow (Salix spp.), and cottonwood (Populus balsamifera and P. angustifolia), resulting in increased height of young plants and increased recruitment to heights above the reach of elk. I also hypothesized that increased bison (Bison bison) population density in northern YNP since the return of wolves has resulted in high browsing rates of these same plant species by bison. I carried out a three-part research plan to investigate these hypotheses.
Part 1. Effects of bison on willow and cottonwood in northern Yellowstone National Park
In the summer of 2010, I measured the effects of bison browsing on willow and cottonwood in the Lamar Valley area of Yellowstone National Park. I used the season and height of browsing to distinguish the effects of bison from those of elk, and showed that bison had a biologically significant effect on the growth of these plant species. This study also provided evidence for a trophic cascade from wolves to elk to browse plants, by showing that elk browsing has declined and plant growth increased where bison were not a confounding factor. I published a paper presenting this research, the first published research on the effects of bison browsing on woody plants in YNP
Part 2. Aspen, elk, wolves and trophic cascades in a multiple-use landscape
The second phase of my research was an analysis of change over time in aspen stands in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, repeating measurements made by OSU PhD student Eric Larsen in 1997 and 1998. Larsen's work provided a baseline for aspen conditions shortly after wolf reintroduction. In the summer of 2011 I revisited aspen stands sampled by Larsen in the Sunlight Creek and Crandall Creek valleys in the Shoshone National Forest adjacent to YNP, and collected data on browsing intensity and height of young aspen. If browse rates have declined and aspen have increased in height, this would provide evidence of a trophic cascade from wolves to elk to aspen. If these changes occurred while elk density has remained stable, this would point to a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade, where aspen have benefited from changes in elk habitat use and foraging behavior, rather than changes overall elk density. Results show evidence of a trophic cascade, with increased height of young aspen related to lower rates of browsing. Cattle were an important factor increasing the rate of browsing on aspen. This research may be the first to show a trophic cascade from wolves on a multiple use landscape, outside of a national park. A paper written from this research is now in review.
Part 3. Aspen, elk, wolves and trophic cascades in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem
In the summer of 2012 I will continue the study of aspen regeneration and trophic cascades, using the same methods as my 2011 study in the Shoshone National Forest. I will compare measurements between 1998 and 2012 in stands previously measured by Eric Larsen inside Yellowstone National Park. This study has distinct advantages over some previous studies of trophic cascades in the park, including a larger number of stands randomly selected across a wider area, the ability to compare across a span of time against a baseline measured shortly after wolf reintroduction, and the perspective provided by the continuing development of the wolf-elk-aspen relationship over time. Results from my 2011 work in the Shoshone National Forest showed an additional impact on aspen from browsing by livestock, and I will see if a similar effect is discernible in the park from bison. Research showing a trophic cascade from wolves to elk to aspen in YNP has been controversial. This new study will shed new light on the unfolding story of the ecological effects of wolves in the Rocky Mountains.
Painter, LE, and WJ Ripple. in review. Aspen, elk, wolves and trophic cascades in a multiple-use landscape.
Painter, LE, and WJ Ripple. 2012. Effects of bison on willow and cottonwood in northern Yellowstone National Park. Forest Ecology and Management 264: 150-158.
Ripple, WJ, LE Painter, RL Beschta, and CC Gates. 2010. Wolves, elk, bison, and secondary trophic cascades in Yellowstone National Park. Open Ecology Journal 3: 31-37.
Josh Halofsky (PhD) Trophic cascades and aspen recruitment in the Gallatin range of Southwest Montana
The study examined the relationship between wolf, elk, and aspen within the framework of trophic cascades inside and outside of the Gallatin elk winter range. The overall goal of this study was to determine if an association exists between current aspen recruitment and historic and current elk browsing activities as affected by the absence or presence of wolf predation. This study also examined if environmental factors (climate, conifer invasion) may have had a role in aspen recruitment. Through the examination of current and historic elk browsing levels, current and historic browsing effects on aspen recruitment can be addressed. Historic browsing levels will be determined through tree ring analyses and aspen age structures. Current browsing levels will be assessed based on elk pellet counts and plant architecture methods. Current browsing will be assessed based on predation risk and viewshed using a digital elevation model.
Jeff Hollenbeck (PhD) Multi-scale bird-aspen habitat relationships in the Northern Yellowstone Ecosystem
I conducted an investigation of the relationships between birds and aspen habitat in the northern Yellowstone Ecosystem with an emphasis on migratory bird species. The highly researched aspen of the northern ungulate range provide a rich context in which to understand how birds use and distribute themselves among aspen patches at multiple scales (patch, landscape, and regional). Specific questions include: (1) Do avian species diversity vary as a function of conifer presence in aspen habitat? (2) Do aspen patches intercept migratory birds during northward migration? and (3) How do birds respond to differences in aspen patch structure resulting from differing land management approaches in the northern Yellowstone Ecosystem?
Andrea Laliberte (PhD, June 2003) Human Influences on Historical and Current Wildlife Distributions from Lewis & Clark to Today
Although it is well known that humans are strong modifiers of their environment, there is a need for greater understanding of human-wildlife interactions, both historically as well as currently. Historical journals can help shed light on early human-wildlife interactions, and the Lewis & Clark journals contain some of the earliest and detailed written descriptions of a large part of the United States before Euro-American settlement. I used the journal entries to assess the influence of humans on wildlife distribution and abundance. Areas with denser human population, the Columbia Basin and the Pacific Coast, had lower species diversity and abundance of large mammals. The opposite was observed on the Plains. Overhunting before Euro-American contact accentuated by the introduction of the horse may have been major contributors responsible for the historic absence of some species that are present in the archaeological record. The information gained from the Lewis & Clark journals shows the considerable human influence on wildlife under relatively low human population densities. This has major implications for conservation biology and ecological restoration, since human influence is often underestimated when considering the pre-settlement condition.
Species ranges are dynamic and change greatly over time. In order to identify large-scale patterns in range contractions and/or expansions, I compared historic and current geographical ranges of 43 North American carnivores and ungulates. Seventeen of the species had undergone range contractions over >20% of their historic range. In areas of higher human influence, species were more likely to contract and less likely to persist. Species richness declined considerably since historic times, and the temperate grasslands and temperate broadleaf/mixed forest biomes lost the highest average number of species, while the boreal forest and tundra showed fewer numbers of species lost. The study of species range changes contributed new quantitative information about human influences on range contractions in North America. The results can be used to improve our knowledge of historical reference conditions, for the creation of wildlife reserves, and for wildlife re-introductions.
Eric J. Larsen (PhD, July 2001) Aspen Age Structure and Stand Conditions on Elk Winter Range in the Northern Yellowstone Ecosystem
Aerial photographs and field sampling were used to compare aspen (Populus tremuloides) age structure and stand conditions on elk winter range in the northern Yellowstone ecosystem. The elk winter ranges studied were the northern range in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) and the Gallatin National Forest, and the Sunlight/Crandall elk winter range in the Shoshone National Forest. I found significant differences when comparing aspen stands inside and outside of YNP borders. The aspen stands in the Gallatin and Sunlight/Crandall areas had a greater incidence of tall aspen suckers and stems in the 1-4, 5-9, and 10-19 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) classes. Aspen stems within YNP had a significantly higher percentage of stems with high levels of bark damage (>66% of bark surface damaged on the lowest 3 m of stem) than aspen stems in the Gallatin or Sunlight/Crandall.
An aspen age structure was developed using 598 increment cores. The aspen age structure in YNP was significantly different than the age structures of the Gallatin and Sunlight/Crandall elk winter ranges. The Gallatin and Sunlight/Crandall areas did not have significant differences in their age structures. The greatest differences between YNP and the National Forest areas was in the younger age classes, measured as aspen stems originating between 1920-1989.
Aspen stands have successfully recruited new stems into their overstories in all habitat types from 1880-1989 on the Sunlight/Crandall elk winter range and the Gallatin's portion of the northern range. Within YNP, aspen stands successfully recruited new overstory stems between 1860-1929 in all habitat types. Since 1930, YNP aspen have successfully recruited overstory stems only in scree habitat type stands and other areas protected from browsing. I discussed several potential ecological factors impacting aspen overstory recruitment and conclude that changes in ungulate browsing patterns best explains the spatial and temporal patterns observed
Tad Larsen (MS, July 2004) Modeling Gray Wolf Habitat in Oregon Using a Geographic Information System
Gray Wolves (Canis lupus) were once found throughout North America including Oregon. Wolves were extirpated from Oregon due to heavy hunting pressure in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and have been absent for over 50 years. Successful reintroduction efforts in Idaho and the greater Yellowstone area have caused wolf populations in the Rocky Mountain region to rise dramatically, giving way to wolf dispersal into Oregon. This research used logistic regression and a Geographic Information System (GIS) to model and assess potential wolf habitat in Oregon. Models based on previous research were analyzed to find the best approximating wolf habitat model. These a priori models were formulated under the hypotheses that wolf habitat (1) will include relatively high densities of prey, (2) will be limited by human influence, (3) will include favorable landscape characteristics (e.g. forest cover, public ownership), and (4) may be influenced by some combination of these factors. The final model was tested and validated with wolf pack data from the Rocky Mountain region. The results show that a habitat model including variables of forest cover and public land can successfully predict wolf habitat in the study area. These results may assist natural resource managers in developing and implementing of a wolf management plan in Oregon.
Amie Shovlain (MS) Oregon Spotted Frog Habitat Use and the Effects of Grazing
Limited information on grazing impacts on amphibians in the US northwest is available. I am studying the effects of livestock grazing on amphibian behaviour by assessing Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) microhabitat preference in grazed and ungrazed treatments on Jack Creek, Fremont-Winema National Forest, Oregon. The Oregon spotted frog was an ideal species to address this issue due to its rarity and potential vulnerability to disturbance. Secondary objectives of this study are to identify frog overwintering sites and migration routes, to provide a more complete understanding seasonal habit use.


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Remote Workplace Comedy In Works At CBS All Access From 'The Office' EPs Ben Silverman & Paul Lieberstein
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EXCLUSIVE: CBS All Access has landed for development Remote, a remote workplace comedy from Ben Silverman, Paul Lieberstein and Big Breakfast, I have learned.
Remote was one of the first COVID-relayed TV projects to emerge just a couple weeks into the initial safer-at-home orders in mid-March that saw offices around the country close and employees switch to working from home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
By end of March, Lieberstein and Silverman, former executive producers of one of the most popular workplace comedies ever, The Office, had started work on Remote with Big Breakfast, a comedy banner under Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate Content. I hear the project was recently taken put, landing at CBS All Access and CBS TV Studios. The streamer and studio declined comment.
"So many of us are jumping on daily Zoom meetings — for work and beyond," Silverman told Deadline back in April. "We are in a new normal and are personally navigating ways to remain connected and productive at work and in our home lives. With the brilliant Paul Lieberstein at the helm, we think we have a series that not only brings humor and comfort during this troubling time but will also be an inventive and enduring workplace comedy for years to come."
Created by Lieberstein and the Propagate/Big Breakfast team, Remote is set around a wunderkind boss who, in an effort to ensure his staff's connectedness and productivity, asks them all to virtually interact and work face-to-face all day.
"Start with the office comedy, lose the office and you're just left with comedy. The math works," Lieberstein quipped when the project was first announced..
Lieberstein executive produces along with Silverman and Owens. Big Breakfast's Luke Kelly-Clyne and Kevin Healey and Propagate's Rodney Ferrell also serve as executive producers.
Lieberstein and Silverman shared in The Office's 2006 Emmy win for best comedy series. Lieberstein went on to serve as executive producer on two other workplace comedy series, The Newsroom and Ghosted.
Propagate's Hillary documentary on Hulu, which premiered at Sundance and Berlin, just received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction series. The company's scripted slate includes Blood and Treasure on CBS, Charmed on the CW and Emma and Wireless on Quibi. Silverman and Propagate have a longstanding relationship with CBS TV Studios, which has yielded a number of series, including Jane the Virgin, Charmed, Blood and Treasure and Broke.
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Keeping the faith in museums – a rich but difficult task
By Nat Edwards, Museum Consultant.
As we approach Easter, Nat Edwards ponders religion's place in museums and finds that presented well, faith can speak of universal truths but that museums can sometimes struggle with its representation
'If you're not going to believe in God, then believe in Something,' wrote my village priest on the flyleaf of a book he gave me after a particularly earnest heart-to-heart.
The book was Michael Pearson's The Sealed Train, a novelised account of Lenin's race across Europe to lead the Soviet Revolution. I was 15 and, with a teenager's clarity, took the vicar's intent to be that anyone with the slightest doubt about Christian dogma should fall back on the far more solid ground of Revolutionary Marxism. On reflection, I'm not quite sure what it was from our weekly discussions of Malcolm Muggeridge's radio show that led him to that precise recommendation, but a week or two later the Chairman of the Parish Council dropped off a tape-cassette of songs and poems by Irish Republican Hunger Strikers. It's a funny old place, Kent.
Since that conversation, I stopped going to church. I put aside any regular space in my life for the Sublime and set off in search of a world that could be hammered into some sort of new and immediate symmetry. Like many, I suppose, who, whether through atheism, agnosticism or poor time management avoided places of worship and the company of the religious, the one place where I could habitually encounter faith was in museums. There, I might glimpse the invisible world, leaping riotously into view in the paintings of Breughel or Bosch; share a moment of serenity with a 14th century Nottingham alabaster saint or stand at the shoulder of Dali's Christ of St John on the Cross. I might have dumped God, but I was still keeping an eye on his Facebook page.
In museums too, I could see how faith interwove through human life, across time, cultures and continents. Stories I had imagined to be uniquely Christian were manifest in Egyptian statues of Isis and Horus or written on Mithraic altars. From the high hill of the museum, the horizon stretched far enough to see Greek gods rubbing shoulders with bodhisattvas in Gandhara schist and to see Gupta sensuality and mudras make a return journey through Epstein's Lucifer. In museums, faith seemed to speak in terms of shared human truths: universal, complex and breathtaking. It seems a shame that museums sometimes struggle with the representation of faith – when it should be such a rich subject.
Of course, many museums present religious subjects in quite spectacular ways and, even for a reprobate old atheist like me, genuine moments of spirituality can be found – whether in front of the Chester Beatty Papyri or in the vaulted galleries of the Diocesan Museum of Jaca. However, for any curator or interpreter who wants to do the right thing, some of the contemporary discourse around cultural appropriation, identity and diversity can lead to a hesitancy. Faith as a topic has always been something that has provoked strength of feeling. In 2009, even the Pope took issue with Glasgow's exhibit by Anthony Schag at GoMA. With faith, you are dealing with deep values and sensitivities. Any progressive museum professional is always going to strive to represent different cultures and beliefs with good manners but, as activism, on both right and left evolves new forms and occupies new milieu, museums and galleries are finding themselves objects of protest around numerous issues – from recent protests over exhibiting contemporary memes to Decolonise Our Museum's protests over the use of kimonos in an event at the Boston Museum of Fine Art. I know what's going to upset the Pope and I can make an informed curatorial judgment whether to do it. But who knows what will trigger the next bored student or constipated keyboard warrior to whip up a flashmob or 4chan flamewar [a particularly intense or volatile online debate]?
Then there is the bizarre chimera that haunts the nether world between town halls and local newspaper offices – the imagined overreaction to imagined offence about religion. The most recent example of this being the non-story, involving Theresa May, the Archbishop of York, the National Trust and Cadbury's over the omission of the word 'Easter' from advertisements for Cadbury's chocolate egg trails at Trust properties. That the word Easter featured prominently in Trust and Cadbury's advertising did not stop the Archbishop imagining it had been removed and in his outrage at the reasons he imagined for this, he channelled the imagined outrage of Cadbury's Quaker founder, which in turn gained the support of the Prime Minister. 'I'm not just a vicar's daughter, I'm also a member of the National Trust' she said, as qualifications to be properly sententious.
Faith – in all its forms – is a marvellous thing. Engaging with objects of faith in museums can offer profound, fundamental insight into what it means to be human. This February saw the publication by Bloomsbury of the first serious global survey of Religion in Museums – an invaluable resource for museum professionals to learn and take strength from the experiences of museums across a range of disciplines and perspectives. It is critical that museums are able to celebrate faith without guilt, with confidence and (as it is Easter after all) with passion. Passion doesn't work if it's been muted, qualified and censored until there's no danger it will offend. And, even watered down, it will offend, because taking offence has become a shortcut to social prominence for the morally and politically lazy. The truth is, if you're doing your job as a museum communicator, the Lord knows, you will probably upset some politician, slacktivist, vicar's daughter or vicar somewhere down the line.
That's their choice – to let the little, niggly differences get in the way and to inflate themselves with resentment about it. I can only thank God that, all those years ago, when I had a difference of opinions with my vicar, he didn't take offence but instead urged me to look for the truth beyond that difference. He kept faith and trusted me to keep heading towards the light – which, after all, is what this museum thing of ours is all about.
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A seasonal spin on a refreshing classic. This modern approach to the famous Gazpacho is sure to leave your guests in awe and should be a future summer staple.
In a blender, in batches, puree strawberries, cucumber, shallot, garlic, lime juice, vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper until smooth.
Strain through a fine sieve into a large measuring cup; discard the pulp.
Remove from heat and add cucumber.
Let sit 5 minutes; drain and cover and refrigerate until ready to use.
In a chilled stainless steel bowl, beat cream until soft peaks. Gently stir in basil.
In a small serving bowl, place a tablespoon (15 mL) of the spiked cucumbers, ladle over gazpacho and top with a dollop of basil whipped cream.
Alternately, spike the cucumbers overnight: in a small bowl combine cucumber, vinegar and sugar; cover and refrigerate overnight; drain.


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How is it that there are requirements managers still out there when all they do is transport requirments from users/stakeholders to the development team?
What value do these peple add beyond saving you the pain of filling in corporate templates?
How should a business analyst (or product owner or customer advocate) contribute to the reqirements management process?
Where is the value you are adding?
I think business analyst is person who doesn't simply transfer dreams of business to nightmares of IT. Business analyst needed when somebody has a problem and doesn't have a solution for that problem, that's where business analysts really needed. BA should analyse problem, stakeholders, get requirements if they exists or define them if they aren't exist. And then design solution which solve customer's problem.
This is how we adding value. In case when customer/business has requirements and clearly knows what the problem is and how solution of problem look like, BA needed only to transfer business ideas to IT peoples.
The role of people standing between client and internal IT team is more about being a translator than an agent.
Developers don't want to listen to business people from the customer. Most of them find it hard to talk on that level. They need translators who can understand all this business blah blah and translate it to pure beauty of technical design.
On the other side these middlemen should help to improve business case with the customer. Since it's possible that the customer implements this kind of solution for the first time and you did it a dozen times already you have better judgement what will work and what will not. You know what your product can do and what won't be possible even in a version you plan for the last quarter of 2011. It's a bit like bringing customers more to reality but it doesn't automatically mean you have to change the business case for worse.
To Kostya... great first line, should TM it!
To Pawel... yes. 'translator' is a great analogy, one I use all the time.
Overall... a business person filling out a template to hand to developers, now that's really a nightmare scenario.
What is needed is problem/opportunity definition, scoping, and the facilitation/elicitation of Requirements, then analysis and review. The result can then be used as input to a Business Case. ...all of this is BA 'work'.
Could we be automated out of our role? Never say never. Code generation is a possible replacement for programmers, and if/when that takes off, then Requirements would be next.
There is a similar discussion going on elsewhere, about the role of Project Managers, are they needed and such. One post noted how the writer/PM had gone on vacation, and how screwed up their project was when they got back. Should be the same for BAs.


Argh! Pirates love HBO's Game of Thrones.
Seriously. They downloaded the show's season 3 finale 5.9 million times, according to Variety, which cited compiled data from piracy news site TorrentFreak. That means Game of Thrones was the most pirated show on television...for two years in a row.
AMC's Breaking Bad grabbed the No.2 spot, thanks to 4.2 million downloads for the series finale, and the network's other popular show, The Walking Dead, landed in third place with 3.6 million downloads for an undisclosed episode. Other shows on the list include The Big Bang Theory, Dexter, How I Met Your Mother, Suits, Homeland, Vikings, and Arrow, in consecutive order.
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes claimed last summer that rampant piracy of Game of Thrones was "better than an Emmy," and Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan similarly admitted piracy was a brand-booster. However, Gale Anne Hurdy, a producer for The Walking Dead, thinks differently about the illegal practice.
"There's a mistaken belief by many of my peers that piracy is somehow good, that viewers will develop a habit to pay for it. I'm not sure they really understand other than anecdotal evidence that their ratings go up that the people who pirate are not then going to choose legal downloads or legal viewing in the future," said Hurd earlier this month while at the Variety Content Protection Summit.
TorrentFreak tracked piracy across the globe in 2013 using data from several sources, including download statistics reported by BitTorrent's file-sharing protocol. The site's annual list does not include downloads from cyborlocker and other streaming sites though, because they don't publicise piracy data.


Travelodge has reported rising annual sales and profits, with the budget hotels chain set to create 3,000 new jobs over the coming years as it continues to expand.
The group saw revenue climb 8.8% to £693.3 million in the year to December 31, while adjusted earnings grew £9.6 million to £122 million.
Boss Peter Gowers said the results were helped by investment in price and quality.
"Our strategic focus on location, price and quality has enabled Travelodge to deliver a set of excellent results.
The firm warned that the economic situation remains "uncertain", with Brexit storm clouds refusing to dissipate, causing alarm for businesses.
"These are uncertain times and we are not immune from the short-term challenges, but beyond, we remain confident that there are more opportunities ahead," Mr Gowers added.
Travelodge also bemoaned the impact of "significant" cost increases, citing the National Living Wage and business rates, although it added that it has successfully navigated these challenges.
The group will also open around 100 new hotels over the next five years, creating 3,000 jobs.
The firm now boasts a network of 575 in total.
Since 2013, sales have risen more than £250 million and earnings more than trebled under a five-year transformation plan, spearheaded by Mr Gowers.


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Construction contract now in place for new protected cycle track coming to Jackson Street in Downtown Tampa
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is building the first-ever cycle track on a state roadway this year in Downtown Tampa. The project was awarded to a contractor in May, and a construction contract is now in place. The cycle track, which will run along the north side of Jackson Street (State Road 60) from Ashley Drive to Nebraska Avenue, is considered to be a type of "urban shared-use path," and provides designated space on the roadway for bicycles traveling in both directions.
"District Seven is the first District in the state to introduce this type of protected bicycle facility on the state system" says Stephen Benson, Government Liaison Administrator for the District Seven FDOT Office in Tampa. "This is an exciting project that demonstrates the Department's commitment to rethinking typical roadway design to improve safety and accessibility for cyclists and pedestrians."
The cycle track will be ten feet wide and, unlike most conventional bike lanes, will physically separate bikes from motor vehicle traffic with a 4-foot raised island. At locations where driveways and side streets intersect with the bicycle pathway, special bright green pavement markings will alert drivers and cyclists to look out for each other.
"This project is a great example of designing with a Complete Streets approach, which means our goal is to serve a greater number of transportation modes," says Tana Johnston-Schultz, Design Project Manager at FDOT. "For Jackson Street and the downtown area, the key was balancing all transit needs, so we focused on safety and level of comfort for people walking, riding a bike, taking a bus, and driving."
In addition to constructing the new bicycle way, the state will also be upgrading pedestrian ramps, re-striping crosswalks, expanding sidewalk space at intersections, adding rapid flashing beacons at select locations and installing a new traffic signal at the intersection of Jackson St. and Governor St. (near the Hillsborough County School Board). The improvements will be built as part of a larger project to resurface the roadway. Construction will begin this fall and should be completed within one year. "We are planning to break ground in late October or early November," says Johnston-Schultz. "We estimate 6-7 months of construction, and the cycle track should open next year in early summer."
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Q: Examine whether $\sum_{n=1}^\infty{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}$ converges or not I have the series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}$ and I'm trying to examine whether it converges or not.
My Attempts:

*

*I first tried finding whether it diverges by checking if $\lim_{n\to\infty}{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)} \ne 0$.

$$
\lim_{n\to\infty}{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}=
\lim_{n\to\infty}{\sin\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}\cdot\lim_{n\to\infty}{\sin\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}=0
$$

*Since I didn't get a confirmation from the first try, I then tried the d'Alembert's Criterion which didn't get me very far.

$$
\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}=
\frac{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n+1}\right)}{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}=
\frac{
   -\dfrac{2\cos\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)\sin\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}{n^2}
}{
   -\dfrac{2\cos\left(\frac{1}{n+1}\right)\sin\left(\frac{1}{n+1}\right)}{\left(n+1\right)^2}
}=
\frac{
   \cos\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)\sin\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)\left(n+1\right)^2
}{
   \cos\left(\frac{1}{n+1}\right)\sin\left(\frac{1}{n+1}\right)n^2
}=\ ...
$$

*Finally, I tried Cauchy's Criterion, but I didn't get any conclusive result either.

$$
\sqrt[n]{a_n}=
\sqrt[n]{\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}=
\sin^{\frac{2}{n}}\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)=\ ...
$$
Question:
I've been thinking for while of using the Comparison Test, but I'm not sure which series to compare mine to. How can I examine whether the series converges or not?

A: HINT:
For all $x$, we have
$$0\le \sin^2(x)\le x^2$$

A: Just use the fact that$$(\forall n\in\mathbb{N}):\sin^2\left(\frac1n\right)\leqslant\frac1{n^2}.$$

A: Observe that
$$
\sin^2(1/n)\sim\frac{1}{n^2}.
$$
Indeed,
$$
\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\sin^{2}(1/n)}{1/n^2}=\left[\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{\sin(1/n)}{1/n}\right]^2=1
$$
where in the last equality we used the well known limit
$$
\lim_{x\to 0}\frac{\sin x}{x}=1.
$$
The limit comparison test implies that your series converges.

A: As an alternative note that
$$\sin^2\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)\sim \frac1{n^2}$$
then use limit comparison test with $\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1{n^2}$.

A: Using the help of the majority of the given answers suggesting that $\sin^2(\frac{1}{n})\le\frac{1}{n^2}$, I came up with the following two-step solution:

*

*Using the Direct Comparison Test:
If the infinite series $\sum b_{n}$ converges and $0\leq a_{n}\leq b_{n}$ for all sufficiently large $n$ (that is, for all $n>N$ for some fixed value $N$), then the infinite series $\sum a_{n}$ also converges.
Let $a_n=\sin^2\left(\frac1n\right)$ and $b_n=\frac{1}{n^2}$. Since $a_n \le b_n \ \ \forall\ \ n \in \mathbb{N}$, then, if the infinite series $\sum b_n$ is convergent $\sum a_n$ is as well.

*Using Riemann's Zeta Function:
The following infinite series converges for all complex numbers s with real part greater than 1, and defines ζ(s) in this case:
${\displaystyle \zeta (s)=\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }n^{-s}={\frac {1}{1^{s}}}+{\frac {1}{2^{s}}}+{\frac {1}{3^{s}}}+\cdots \ \ \ \ \ \sigma =\operatorname {Re} (s)>1.}$
Since $ζ$ is convergent for $n>1$ and $\sum b_n=ζ(2)$, $\sum b_n$ is convergent, thus proving that $\sum a_n$ is convergent as well, based on step (1).

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(5) Sat Dec 19 2009 23:18 Ultimate Star Trek Nerd Speculation: I split this out of a forthcoming "best of links" post so I could discuss it in tedious detail. The link in question is a full-throated defense of Star Trek: Voyager which sparked a lively conversation between Sumana and myself back in August. Sumana has long despised Voyager, and on the whole my verdict is "not so great". But there are some excellent episodes,[0] and it did get better over time.
When Voyager was on the air, my problem with it was I didn't like the writing. As I watched it later I discovered another problem: the supporting cast is redundant. Most Trek supporting casts have an air of blandness (this is, in a nutshell, why DS9 is the best Trek series: pretty much the entire recurring cast is well-developed), but in VOY a lot of characters are just unnecessary.
Specifically, you don't need Chakotay, Tom Paris, or Harry Kim. You just need Tuvok. Whenever one of those three characters has a scene, it would be a better show if that were Tuvok's scene. You're probably thinking: "What about the episode where Paris learned a valuable lesson about blah? That wouldn't make sense with Tuvok!" Here's the thing: that episode was lousy. Pretty much every episode where these three characters act on their own initiative (as opposed to following orders) is lousy. But once those characters existed and the actors had contracts, the writers had to use them, and it watered down the plomeek soup.
Once we started talking about this, Sumana and I started trying to compress the casts of other Trek shows. The point is not to eliminate characters that we don't like--we love almost all these characters--but to try to get a similar cast with fewer characters, so that every character can be essential to almost every episode. This is a ruthless exercise in minimalism.
What's the point? Well, all these characters looked good in the series bible, but some of them didn't pan out. Some of them consistently bombed, some were underused. The thing is, you don't know ahead of time. A series bible is like a meta-screenplay. It can be implemented well or badly, and the final verdict doesn't come in until the end of the series.
This exercise is the flip side of tie-in novels and fan fiction. Instead of fleshing out the underused characters and exploring the ignored relationships, it lets us see which parts of the show were absolutely necessary to get the stories we liked. If you totally disagree with what Sumana and I like about Trek shows, you can probably express that disagreement in terms of your minimal cast.
Now on with the show. When I think Star Trek and "ruthless exercise in minimalism", I think of the original series. You can tell almost every TOS story with just Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Everybody knows that. But you gotta have some other characters to spread the dialogue out, so let's dig deeper.
Do you need both Chekov and Sulu? Nope! TOS got along for a full season without Chekov. Do you need both Scotty and Spock? Not really! Let Spock fix the engines himself instead of telling Scotty to fix them.
Sumana took this opportunity to complain about the fact that Uhura, a chronically overlooked main character, is the only woman in TOS's main cast. I suggested making McCoy a woman. Sumana pointed out that they did exactly that in TNG, and nobody liked Dr. Pulaski. This had me stumped for a while, but now I have the solution: have Nichelle Nichols play McCoy instead of Uhura. Who would complain? Well, DeForest Kelley fans would complain, but look, now DeForest Kelley can play Khan. (Second-best solution: combine Scotty with Uhura instead of with Spock.)
Now that you see how the game works, back to VOY. As above, Tuvok subsumes Chakotay, Paris, and Kim. Apart from that, my suggestions are pretty minor. Seven of Nine can replace Kes--in fact, she did. With their powers combined, Seven and the Doctor can replace Neelix. Seven can also replace Torres, or Torres and the Doctor combined can replace Seven. But honestly I'd be perfectly happy with the Tuvok thing. You can tell most good VOY stories with Janeway, Tuvok, and Seven, but it's a stretch.
DS9 did an amazing job of developing a huge cast, so objectively speaking it doesn't need this exercise, but that's what makes it such a ruthless exercise. No one is spared! The TNG imports are out: Kira can do O'Brien's job, and Odo can do Worf's. Dax and Bashir can be combined. You still need Quark, but he can be a recurring character, like Rom, instead of a marquee character.
Sumana and I had a lot of fun messing with TNG, because it's the Trek we both grew up with. And TNG shows that major characters can just leave a show. The show didn't drastically change when Tasha Yar died, when Beverly Crusher left (or when she came back), or when Wesley Crusher left.
It's not much of an exaggeration to say you can tell all the interesting TNG stories with just Picard and Data. But you can't run the day-to-day business of Star Trek with just two characters, so let's add some more.
I think we have to leave Worf in place, especially since we got rid of him on DS9. The big question here is what to do with Riker, Troi, and Crusher, TNG's equivalents of Chakotay, Paris, and Kim. The situation's better than VOY because there's about 1.5 interesting characters between the three of them--but how to arrange them? The obvious thing to do is combine the two medical types, but the resulting character isn't any more interesting than Troi alone.
That's why we prefer to merge Troi with Riker and create a real XO character, someone responsible for mediating between the captain and crew. Either Marina Sirtis or Jonathan Frakes could play this character well. With this character you can play up Picard's reserve, make him a little less of a nice guy. If Picard is the captain everybody admires but nobody positively likes, this Troi-Riker character becomes the most interesting character on the show! Picard's more interesting, too. Combining characters doesn't just tighten up the show, it creates new possibilities.
You don't need Geordi LaForge when you have Data. If you really want to keep him (I do, he's my favorite TNG character), have him replace Crusher, but I don't think TNG needs a main-character doctor at all. Crusher was incredibly underused; have recurring guest stars do the sickbay scenes.
OK, one more. I haven't been messing with the commanders, because if you change the commander character you change the whole tone of the show.[1] But on ENT, Captain Archer isn't the strongest character: Tucker is. You can tell almost every good ENT story with Tucker, T'Pol, and Phlox[2]. You'll need an Archer+Reed+Mayweather+Sato character to spread out the dialogue, but with those four you're good to go. A Trek show where half the command staff are aliens would be really interesting, and quite appropriate for the ENT era.
[0] "Demon" and "Course: Oblivion" are among my favorite hours of Trek. For Sumana-like skeptics, some more excellent VOY off the top of my head: the "Equinox" two-parter (which shows what would have happened if VOY had been the Battlestar Galactica reboot), "Body and Soul", "Message in a Bottle". VOY also had some excellent stories about storytelling (eg. "Muse" and "Living Witness"), something that TNG tried occasionally but it never worked. DS9 fans especially should watch "Message in a Bottle" for its view into the Dominion War.
[1] Here's the kind of thing I come up with when I mess with the commanders. The DS9 pilot focuses on the great Federation diplomat Curzon Dax (Terry Farrell), who's been posted to the Bajoran system following the discovery of a strategically significant wormhole. Halfway through the pilot, Curzon is assassinated by Bajoran extremists trying to disrupt an ancient prophecy. The Dax symbiont must be saved at any cost, but the only Trill within range is Ezri Tigan (Avery Brooks), the troubled first officer of a nearby Federation starship. Yes, I said it. Avery Brooks plays Ezri Dax as the main character of DS9.
[2] Yeah, Phlox. He did kill a whole species that one time, but take him away and you no longer have ENT. Phlox's strength as a character comes from the fact that, by human standards, he's insaaaaane. IMO one of the most realistic depictions of a "human-like" alien in Trek. (Sumana asked me to add this disclaimer: "We cannot be sure how realistic this depiction is, because hypotheses about the behavior of imaginary aliens cannot be tested.")
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Posted by Brendan at Sun Dec 20 2009 02:18
Inevitable minimal-cast disagreement: there is no measure by which Data is a better or more interesting character than Geordi, and Geordi's geekiness can serve all the story functions that Data's artificial intelligenceness. Data's AI is just a metaphor for geek social stuntedness anyway! Yes, without Data you can't have Lore, but Lore is only interesting for the length of a cold open.
Posted by ScreeieercS at Sun Dec 20 2009 02:49
Voyager is actually my favorite star trek show, for three reasons:
1. The general premise
2. Absence of klingons
TVTropes has your game down to a completely generalized formula: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CastCalculus
I think the problem with star trek is the second half of the episode, where they explain that so-and-so was randomly being a bitch in the first half due to brain slugs or etc. It would be a much better show if instead of resolving weird plot points, they just kept piling up without being explained.
I made an edited voyager episode that kind of does this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZWXWYk8pkA
Warning: parts 4 and 5 are invisible rectangular SPAGHETTI!
Posted by Leonard at Sun Dec 20 2009 09:01
Trying to get me to visit TVTropes and waste the rest of the day, eh? I'm on to your game! Instead, I'll waste the rest of the day writing weblog posts like this one!
"Instead of resolving weird plot points, they just keep piling up without being explained" is sort of the entire LOST series bible. They seem to have done okay by it, really.
Posted by ScreeieercS at Mon Dec 28 2009 06:52
I tried to watch LOST, but there were too many flashbacks. I hate flashbacks!
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In the last few years, drastic liberalization has changed the comprehensive U.S. sanctions against Iran and Cuba that had been maintained for decades. Iran sanctions were first enacted in 1979 (with the broad secondary sanctions for foreign subsidiaries only in place since 2012). Cuba sanctions began in 1960.
Garnering less fanfare, the U.S. also largely lifted sanctions against Sudan in January of 2017.
However, this liberalization of sanctions does not mean "all systems go." There continue to be restrictions and requirements to doing business in all three of these countries, and strict liability for non-compliance.
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Born in Madrid in 1970, studied General Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the university RWTH Aachen.
Denis Krude
Denis Krude has got more than 21 years of experience in the plant design business. He works for thyssenkrupp since 1998 and held leading positions in engineering and management, including more than 8 years as Head of Design Department in the electrolysis division, 2 years as board member of the joint venture UHDENORA, 4 years as COO and 1 year as CEO of the Uhde Inventa-Fischer Group.
On 1 October 2016, Denis Krude was appointed CEO of thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH.
Born 1961, degree (Dipl.-Volksw.) in economics and a doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) in transaction cost economics from the University of Bonn
Arno Pfannschmidt
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Arno Pfannschmidt has since 1993 more than 20 years' professional experience in accounting, taxes, controlling, finance and M&A at thyssenkrupp. Of these more than 15 years have been in CFO functions at subsidiaries within various Business Areas, such as Stainless Steel, Elevator and Marine Systems, including assignments to Italy, South Korea and Sweden. On September 1, 2014 Arno Pfannschmidt was appointed CFO of thyssenkrupp Electrolysis GmbH, and continued in this function in thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers GmbH after the Closing of the Joint Venture.
Born in Milano in 1966, studied Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.
Fulvio Federico
Fulvio Federico has more than 20 years' professional experience in design, development and manufacturing of cells and processes for the electrochemical industry. In 1993 he joined De Nora for the research and development of electrolyzers for conventional chlor-alkali as well as for new processes, especially those using oxygen depolarized cathodes.
He was participating in projects and leading projects in new technology development for De Nora and since 2001 for Uhdenora, from basic concept until industrialization. E.g. the HCl-ODC electrolysis, NaCl-ODC, zero-gap retrofit and new chlor-alkali BM Gen. v6.
In April 2015 he joined thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers as Head of Global Technology, coordinating the R&D activities. On 1 October 2017 Fulvio Federico was appointed CTO of thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers.
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Born 1967, holds a diploma in chemistry and a doctor's degree in inorganic chemistry, both from the University of Münster.
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Dr. Roland Beckmann has worked for thyssenkrupp since 1997. During this time he managed different departments of the thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions' process technologies business unit as Senior Process Engineer, Senior Project Manager and Project Director.
In 2012 he returned from a Project Director assignment in Egypt back to the Electrolysis division at the then thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH to support the planned joint venture in the electrolysis business. When thyssenkrupp Electrolysis GmbH was founded in 2014, he established and headed the Project Execution Department.
After closing of the joint venture, he took on the position of Head of Management of the local organization thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers in Germany.
Managing Director thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Japan)
Born in 1955, degree in from Sience and Technology from Nihon University
Shinji Katayama
Representative Director/ Chairman of the board Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers(Japan)
Since joining Chlorine Engineers Corp., Ltd. in April 1974, he has successively held leading positions as the Director of such departments as Manufacturing, Production Management, and Customer Service, and as General Manager of the Sales Department and Technology Department.
In June 2009, Shinji Katayama was appointed Director of Chlorine Engineers Corp., Ltd. and in June 2012, he was appointed Representative Director of the company.
Carsten Schmitt (Dipl.-Ing.)
Born 1976, degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in Chemical Engineering and a doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dortmund
Carsten has more than 18 years' professional experience in chemical engineering.
He works for thyssenkrupp since 2002 and held leading positions in engineering and management for design, development and manufacturing of cells and processes for the electrochemical industry.
After six years as head of the design department for electrolysis plants, he took over the Product Order Execution department for Energy Storage and Hydrogen (ESH) from 2017 until his move to Japan. In the last six months before his move to Japan, he was also acting head of ESH.
At the beginning of 2020, Carsten Schmitt took over as CEO and Representative Director of tkUCE Japan.
Managing Director thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Shanghai)
Born 1963, studied history of art at Beijing Japanese Culture Center, graduated (master) in 1987, and history of painting at University of Tokyo, graduated (doctor) in 1996.
Keisho Cho
From 1987 until 1992, Keisho Cho was a teacher at Beijing Foreign Language University. From 1996 until 2010 he held various positions in the Sales Division of Chlorine Engineers Japan. In 2010, Keisho Cho was appointed Head of Sales at Chlorine Engineers Shanghai.
From 2013, he took over the position of Managing Director first for Chlorine Engineers Shanghai and since April 2015 for thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers Shanghai.
Head of Management thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Electrolysis (USA)
Born 1973, studied Technical Management at the Administration and Economic Academy Augsburg/Germany, graduated (Master) in 2005.
Juergen Grasinger
From 2000 until 2008 Juergen Grasinger was responsible for the thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers Test-Facilities at CABB in Gersthofen/Germany.
From 2008 until 2015 he held various positions in thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH – Electrolysis Division in Dortmund. In 2015 he was appointed Senior Sales Manager of thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Electrolysis (USA) in Houston. In 2016 he was appointed Head of Management thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Electrolysis (USA).
Managing Director thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Italia)
Dr. Gerhard Henßen
Dr. Gerhard Henßen has 20 years of experience in plant design business at thyssenkrupp. During this time he managed different international projects as Process, Commissioning, Engineering and Project Manager. In 2009 he took over the position as Head of Process Department at the Electrolysis Division of thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH. After closing of the joint venture, he took the position of Head of Project Execution Department at thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineeris in Germany and Project Execution Governance of the Business Unit Electrolysis and Polymers.
On 1 July 2019, Dr. Gerhard Henßen was appointed as Managing Director of thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Italia) S.r.l. in Milan.
Energy Storage and Hydrogen
Head of Energy Storage and Hydrogen
Dr. Christoph Noeres
Christoph has 19 years' experience in chemical engineering, five of which in R&D and 14 of which in EPC projects for the chlorine industry within thyssenkrupp.
From 2015 to 2016 he was Operations Director (COO) of thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Japan) Ltd. having previously held various positions inside the electrolysis division of former thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH.
Christoph was appointed Managing Director and Representative Director of thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (Japan) Ltd. in 2016.
Since January 1st, 2020, he is back in Germany to Head the Energy Storage and Hydrogen unit.


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Israel: P...
Israel: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
October 27 — November 04, 2019
• 9 Days • 15 Meals
Jaffa, Caesarea, Nazareth, Cana, Tiberias, Sea of Galilee, Mount of Beatitudes, Capernaum, Church of the Transfiguration, Bethlehem, Church of the Nativity, Jerusalem, Mount of Olives, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Western Wall, Via Dolorosa, Celebrate Mass Daily
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Oct 27, 2019: Overnight Flight
Travel to the Holy Land on an inspirational journey that visits some of the most ancient sites in the world.
Oct 28, 2019: Tel Aviv, Israel - Tour Begins
Your tour begins in Tel Aviv, a bustling city brimming with culture and history, situated on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline. Tonight, join your fellow travellers for a welcome dinner.
Oct 29, 2019: Tel Aviv - Jaffa - Caesarea - Nazareth - Cana - Tiberias
Journey to the ancient port city of Jaffa for a leisurely stroll through the winding alleys of the historic area. Celebrate Mass at St. Peter's Church. Travel to the walled city and Roman ruins of Caesarea. It was here that St. Peter converted the first pagan, Centurion Cornelius, to become a Christian, and where St. Paul was imprisoned for two years. In Nazareth, visit the Church of the Annunciation. Your day continues with a visit to Cana, the site of Our Lord's first miracle, at a wedding feast where you can renew your marriage vows. Arrive in Tiberias for a 2-night stay.
Included Meals: Breakfast- Dinner
Oct 30, 2019: Tiberias - Sea of Galilee - Tabgha - Capernaum - Tiberias
This morning enjoy a special treat when you take a boat ride on the Sea of Galilee where many of the apostles were fishermen and where Our Lord preached. Travel to nearby Tabgha and visit the Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and the Fishes, built to commemorate the miraculous feeding of five thousand. Stop at the Mount of Beatitudes for a stunning view of the Sea of Galilee. Celebrate Mass at the Church of the Beatitudes. Continue to the Church of the Primacy of St. Peter where Our Lord appeared to the apostles after His resurrection. In Capernaum, visit the church built over the ruins of St. Peter's house. Get a taste of the local flavour when you enjoy lunch at a communal settlement known as a kibbutz. Finally, visit Yardenit, the Jordan River baptismal site.
Included Meals: Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner
Oct 31, 2019: Tiberias - Mount Tabor - Bethlehem - Jerusalem
Travel to Mount Tabor, the site of the Transfiguration. Proceed to Bethlehem and enjoy a stop at Shepherds' Field, where the angels appeared on the first Christmas night. Celebrate Mass at the Church of the Nativity, built on the birth site of Our Lord. Later, arrive in one of the holiest cities in the world, Jerusalem.
Nov 01, 2019: Jerusalem, the Old City
Your visit to Jerusalem begins with a visit to the Church of the Pater Noster, built on the traditional site where Jesus taught His disciples the Lord's Prayer; its name refers to the "Our Father" prayer. Next, visit the Mount of Olives and the site where Our Lord wept over the city, now known as Dominus Flevit. Afterwards, visit the Church of All Nations, built over the rock on which Our Lord prayed the night before He was crucified. Continue to the Garden of Gethsemane, the site of Christ's betrayal by Judas. Travel to Caiaphas' Palace – known today as St. Peter in Gallicantu – where St. Peter once denied Our Lord in one of its courts. This afternoon, travel to Ein Karem to visit the Church of St. John the Baptist, built over the Grotto of his birthplace, and celebrate Mass.
Included Meals: Breakfast-Dinner
Nov 02, 2019: Jerusalem
Today you are free to explore the city on your own. Perhaps you'll choose to take an optional excursion to the Dead Sea to discover where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found; visit Masada; stop at AHAVA Visitors Centre; and perhaps even float on the salty waters of the Dead Sea. Later today, gather with your fellow travellers to celebrate Mass.
Nov 03, 2019: Jerusalem - Western Wall
Enter the old city through St. Stephen's Gate where St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, was stoned to death. Continue to the Church of St. Anne, marking the place where the parents of the Blessed Mother lived. Visit the nearby Pools of Bethesda, where Jesus healed the paralytic, and see the Ecce Homo Arch, the site where Pontius Pilate presented Our Lord to the crowds. Celebrate Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of His crucifixion, burial and resurrection. Walk through the Muslim, Christian and Jewish quarters to the Western Wall of the Temple. Then, follow the Via Dolorosa, the Way of the Cross, walked by Our Lord on the way to His crucifixion. Next, visit the Church of the Dormition (commemorating Our Lady's Assumption) and the nearby Hall of the Last Supper. In Jerusalem, enjoy a farewell dinner with your fellow travellers to celebrate the end of this unforgettable and holy experience.
Nov 04, 2019: Jerusalem - Tour Ends
Your tour comes to a close today, leaving you with many pleasant memories.
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Saffron Walden youngsters rock out on stage with ex-Iron Maiden guitar hero
Published: 11:43 AM February 9, 2013
Youngsters were on stage for LiveWire Rock Academy's first concert - Credit: Archant
Wannabe rock stars joined ex-Iron Maiden guitar hero Dennis Stratton on stage at a concert.
Dennis Stratton on stage with youngsters at the concert - Credit: Archant
The youngsters from LiveWire Rock Academy rocked out to tunes by Arctic Monkeys, ACDC, The Jam and Black Sabbath at Saffron Walden Town Hall last Tuesday (January 29).
All profits for the gig went to local charities.
LiveWire Rock Academy opened last month and is based in Saffron Walden and Bishop's Stortford. Members meet on Monday evenings at The Friends Meeting House on the High Street, teaching electric guitar, drums, bass and keyboards. Stratton, pictured on stage with the children, is a strong supporter.
Every lesson ends with a 15-minute jam session with all pupils joining in well-known rock and pop songs.
Budding young musicians are invited to attend a free taster lesson. Call 07941 670575 or visit livewirerockacademy.co.uk


A powerful Insecticon warrior who hungers for Autobot circuitry!
Autobots beware, because this Hardshell figure is just the brawler to take them on! This Insecticon destroyer can convert to creepy insect mode and create havoc or unleash disaster in robot mode with his Plague missile launcher! Keep converting him back and forth so his enemies can't keep up!
Includes figure and accessories. Commander Class Series 3 004 Hardshell Demolitions Expert. Ages 5 and up.
During the run of "Transformers Prime", the classic sub-group of Decepticons known as "Insecticons" was introduced. Far from being the three distinctive characters of Generation One, this army of dangerous creatures had a representative known as Hardshell (a name inspired by "Bombshell" from Generation One). He was a fan favorite character who unfortunately met his end in season two, but the Insecticons themselves still remain during the "Beast Hunters" era.
Hardshell is a Commander Class figure, so some design compromises had to be made in order to get a good looking figure into this size class. First off, Hardshell doesn't quite have the same hulking mass that his cGI counterpart does. On the television show, Hardshell looks like a big, hunched over brute. In this form he still looks tough and scary, but not quite as wide and bulky. Some of the proportions are different than his CG model as well, especially the head which is not as wide as the one shown on the television show relative to the rest of the body.
There are several design elements that come directly from the television show. His head, while not wide, does have the creepy looking mouth with teeth showing and two mandibles running down the sides. His shoulder armor has a fin-like piece on it that points up and his legs are thick with claw like feet at the end. While not as long as those on the CG model, his hands have claws instead of regular fingers. He still looks creepy for sure, but not as crazy threatening as the Insecticons on the television show.
The "Transformers Prime" television show has a rather dark color palette. This sometimes makes it hard to see just what exact colors certain characters are, and Hardshell is one such example. I kind of assumed he was the "typical Insecticon" colors of purple, black and yellow, but in brighter light, it turns out he's actually green, silver and yellow! Thus, most of the plastic on this figure is green, gunmetal (or dark silver if you prefer) with some touches of a light, metallic lavender color here and there. The combination is a tad odd when seen in bright light. One could argue perhaps that he is a partial homage to Generation One Barrage, one of the "Deluxe" Insecticons who featured green and yellow in his color scheme. The green and gunmetal work together certainly, but the lavender is a bit...off. It doesn't seem like it quite belongs somehow and I can't really see this color on any screenshots of the Insecticons I'm finding online, so it's even weirder to me.
There are plenty of paint applications on this figure, mostly in yellow, which you'll find on his torso, waist and shoulders. His head is mostly painted silver with green on top. The eyes are painted red. A bit more silver is on the sides of his forearms and neck. A purple Decepticon symbol graces the right side of his chest. Green paint is used on the sides of his lower legs. This is quite an impressive amount of paint for a Cyberverse figure and I'm very happy with the deco.
Hardshell has thirteen points of articulation in this form, including ball joints on his shoulders, elbows and hips. I'm counting the ability of his head/neck to move up and down even though technically that's part of his transformation scheme. Hardshell is armed with a missile launcher that uses a "pressure marble" to launch the missile, meaning the missile is held in by a ball. Press it hard enough and the built up pressure "launches" the missile. This weapon has a rather elaborate design with lots of sweeping, pointed details and held a certain way looks almost like a shield. Hardshell can hold this weapon in either hand or attach it to either forearm. All his connection points can accomodate 3mm peg Cyberverse weapons.
Swing each piece of shoulder armor forward and connect them together.
Straighten out each leg and connect them together, then swing them up against the upper body parts.
Rotate the front half of the beast mode around.
Swing the forearm panel out to form the rear legs.
Swing the front leg sections down.
Hardshell is a scary looking beetle in beast mode. It's not the sharp looking lgs in front or his long horn in front that gives this impression, well, not alone anyhow. Lift him up a bit and you'll see a (frankly) terrifying face with four narrow eyes (two on each side) and mandibles near a row of serrated teeth. Open the mouth and it almost looks like a fusion of an insect and a shark rather than a beetle you'd actually find in nature. This as well as other key features such as the design of the legs, his layered wings and the armor towards the front all reflect design elements from the CG model. The missile launcher sitting on top is more of an embelishment unique to this toy, and not a direct design element carried over from the CG model. At first glance, this beast mode looks almost organic, like something you would have seen in "Beast Wars", but look closer and you'll see most of the smaller details are angled and mechanical, revealing the true nature of the creature.
This mode shows off a lot of the green and lavender color, with the silver almost disappearing except for the four front legs. The yellow paint applications from the shoulder armor show off prominently in the front and his eyes are painted red, contrasting sharply against the green plastic. His teeth and the area in front of them are painted silver, bringing emphasis to those scary details. Overall I continue to be impressed and happy with the deco on this figure. He looks great!
I already mentioned you can open Hardshell's mouth (and wide at that). His wings both sit on ball joints and you can launch his missile in this form as well. His rear legs (being made from the arms) can also be positioned, but you're not going to get a ton of posability out of this mode, though how much posing do beetles really do?
Hardshell is an awesome Commander Class figure. I do find myself wishing that Hardshell had been granted at least a Deluxe scale figure (if not a Voyager) but for now, this figure will do nicely. Highly recommended!


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Final streetcar arrives in Milwaukee
Grand opening date expected to be announced in next few weeks
Updated: 10:59 PM CDT Sep 7, 2018
Eden Checkol
WEBVTT 12 NEWS' EDEN CHECKOL WAS THERE. YOU CAN: -- EVEN -- EDEN: TRAFFIC WAS WAS BLOCKED OFF FOR MORE THAN AN HOUR. IT'S 67 FEET LONG, 83,000 POUNDS, AND IT REQUIRES CAREFUL HANDLING. CREWS SPENT AN HOUR UNLOADING THE STREET CAR FRIDAY MORNING, WHICH TRAVELED FROM PENNSYLVANIA TO MILWAUKEE. >> IT IS WONDERFUL. EDEN: SPECTATORS LIKE JOHN DECEMBER WANTED TO BE ONE OF THE FIRST TO WITNESS ITS ARRIVAL. >> IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE.% IT CAN PROVIDE TRANSIT AND IMPETUS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND A GREAT WAY FOR PEOPLE TO SEE THE CITY. EDEN: MAYOR TOM BARRETT UNDERSTANDS NOT EVERYONE IS A FAN OF THE HOP. BUT HE HOPES PEOPLE WILL COME AROUND ONCE THEY GO FOR A RIDE. MAYOR BARRETT: I THINK THAT MANY, MANY PEOPLE HAD PERCEPTION THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT A 1940'S TROLLEYS. AND WHEN THEY SEE THIS VEHICLE AND SEE HOW SLEEK IT IS, HOW MODERN IT IS, HOW FUNCTIONAL IT IS, HOW USEFUL IT IS, AND HOW FREE IT'S GOING TO BE FOR THE FIRST YEAR, I THINK A LOT OF MINDS ARE GOING TO BE CHANGED. EDEN: ACCORDING TO THE HOP WEBSITE, THE STREETCAR WILL COST A TOTAL OF $128 MILLION. HALF OF THAT IS COVERED WITH FEDERAL FUND
The fifth and final streetcar, for now, arrived Friday morning in Milwaukee. It's 67 feet long, weighs 83,000 pounds and requires careful handling.Crews spent an hour Friday morning unloading the streetcar, which traveled from Pennsylvania to Third Street and St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee. Mayor Tom Barrett understands not everyone is a fan of The Hop, but he hopes people will come around once they go for a ride. "I think that many, many people had a perception that many people thought we were talking about a 1940s trolley. And when they see this vehicle and see how sleek it is, how modern it is, how functional it is, how useful it is and how free it's going to be for the first year, I think a lot of minds are going to be changed," Barrett said. According to The Hop website, the streetcar will cost a total of $128 million. Half of that is covered with federal funding.An official date for The Hop grand opening is expected to be announced in the next couple of weeks.
The fifth and final streetcar, for now, arrived Friday morning in Milwaukee. It's 67 feet long, weighs 83,000 pounds and requires careful handling.
Crews spent an hour Friday morning unloading the streetcar, which traveled from Pennsylvania to Third Street and St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee.
New streetcar in minor crash, damaged during practice run
The Hop takes a test ride
Take a look inside The Hop's new home
Leaders celebrate delivery of Milwaukee's first 'The Hop' streetcar
Mayor Tom Barrett understands not everyone is a fan of The Hop, but he hopes people will come around once they go for a ride.
"I think that many, many people had a perception that many people thought we were talking about a 1940s trolley. And when they see this vehicle and see how sleek it is, how modern it is, how functional it is, how useful it is and how free it's going to be for the first year, I think a lot of minds are going to be changed," Barrett said.
According to The Hop website, the streetcar will cost a total of $128 million. Half of that is covered with federal funding.
An official date for The Hop grand opening is expected to be announced in the next couple of weeks.


Visible crew/equipment: As the armoured truck is midway from the airport to the Fiat plant, the film crew is seen in the mirrored finish of the stripe running down the length of the truck.
Visible crew/equipment: When the three Mini Coopers come out of the sewer and drive towards the coach, you can see 2 people in the coach. "Big William" and Mr. Toms who really drove the coach.


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Youngsters expected to shoulder more of a load
Following Minnesota's women's hockey team's season-opening win over Connecticut on Friday, coach Laura Halldorson was asked if she expected her freshmen to be this good, this soon.
"Yes," Halldorson answered emphatically.
The Gophers (1-1) have seven freshmen on their roster, one-third of the teams' composition.
Freshman forward Gigi Marvin scored Minnesota's first goal of the season midway through the first period against the Huskies.
Fellow freshman Melanie Gagnon assisted on the power-play goal.
Marvin showed breakaway speed all weekend at the Easton Shoot Out, proving why she was last year's Ms. Hockey award recipient.
The award – presented annually to Minnesota's best senior girls high school hockey player – is based on performance both on and off the ice.
When she scored her first career goal, sophomore Liz Palkie assisted on the power play as well.
Marvin, a senior center at Warroad High School, was named the winner of the 10th annual Ms. Hockey award by Let's Play Hockey newspaper Sunday.
The award, selected by a panel of Division I and Division III coaches from Minnesota and Wisconsin, is based on this criteria: academics, community/extracurricular activities, citizenship, coachability and, of course, on-ice performance.
Erika McKenzie, Andrea Nichols and Ashley Albrecht won the award the previous three years.
"I was excited to play for the Gophers," Marvin said. "There are so many positives to playing here so I was really looking forward to it."
Asked whether she felt the need to be a goal scorer on this team, Marvin said: "I just want to be able to contribute any way I can. On the goal (against Connecticut), I came out with the puck and saw I had a wide-open lane to the net. So I just let the shot go."
In that game, though, it was Chartier's shutout that stole the show.
Making her first career start, freshman Brittony Chartier was brilliant between the posts. Chartier recorded a shutout, saving all 18 shot attempts.
Gagnon and Chartier were named to the All-USCHO Rookie Team last week.
"It was close until late in the game," Halldorson said. "I'm happy (Chartier) was able to get the shutout."
The shutout does not figure to be the last for Chartier, a highly recruited talent out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. At 6 feet tall, she covers a lot of net, and if the defense continues to play well in front of her, she doesn't figure to give up many easy ones.
"I don't know how many blocked shots we had," Chartier said. "And 18 shots (allowed against Connecticut), that's not very many."
Chartier then was asked if she goes into every game thinking about getting a shutout.
"Really, the important thing is taking it one shot at a time," she said. "But as the game goes along, (a shutout) is in the back of your mind. But there are a lot of steps that go into it before you get there.


MANILA – A sub-leader of the Abu Sayyaf and member of the Muktadil brothers – notorious for carrying out some executions for the ASG – was slain in counter operations of military troops in Sulu, according to the Zamboanga-based Western Mindanao Command.
Elements of the Joint Task Force Sulu, aboard navy vessels, engaged in a heavy gun fight with Abu Sayyaf sub-leader Salvador Muktadil, a.k.a. Badong, in Silangkan, Parang, Sulu at 1:10am of Sunday, and the exchange of gunfire ended in the death of Muktadil.
Muktadil had an arrest warrant for kidnapping and serious illegal detention, and 9 counts of murder.
He was a member of the Muktadil brothers who were usually tapped by the Abu Sayyaf in the execution of high profile and cross-border kidnappings.
He was involved in the abductions of Yahong Lim in Sempornah, Sabah; Evelyn Chang of Tawan, Sabah; and Mayor Gemma Adana of Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay.
"Badong is well-experienced in operating speedboats utilized by the Abu Sayyaf as getaway vehicles in executing kidnapping ploy," said Brigadier General Cirilito Sobejana, Commander of the Joint Task Force Sulu.
"His death rendered high seas kidnappings, particularly in Tawi-Tawi and Sabah, suppressed," added Sobejana.
The remains of Badong were brought to Kuta Heneral Teodulfo Bautista Trauma Hospital in Busbus, Jolo, Sulu for proper procedure, the Wesmincom said.
Badong was a sub-leader operating in Sabah, Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Zamboanga City, and Zamboanga Sibugay.
"I commend the troops of the JTF Sulu led by their Commander Brigadier General Sobejana for this recent accomplishment," Galvez added.