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The Dionne Quintuplets: Yvonne, Cecile, Marie, Annette, Emelie
The Wyatt quintuplets
Jean Hersholt
Dr. John Luke
Rochelle Hudson
Mary MacKenzie
Helen Vinson
Gloria Sheridan
Slim Summerville
Constable Jim Ogden
They Always Come Back
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Callander, Ontario, Canada
7,235ft (8 reels)
Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor known for delivering the famous Wyatt quintuplets, Dr. John Luke. To honor the doctor on his retirement and to publicize their town, the Moosetown chamber of commerce decides to hold a reunion of all the babies delivered by the doctor, some of whom have become famous, such as the first baby he delivered, Phillip Crandall, who is now a governor, and motion picture star Janet Fair. Phillip and his wife are childless, and Phillip is against adoption because he fears that his opponent in the upcoming election would suggest that the adopted baby was his from the past. He decides to go to the reunion to renew his friendship with Dr. Luke, whom he hasn't seen since a fishing trip twelve years earlier, before he was married. When Janet, who is down on her luck, learns from her agent that she has the lead in a New York show, she decides to accept the invitation to the reunion for the publicity she hopes it will bring. In Moosetown, the quintuplets' father, Asa Wyatt, is upset when his rival, Constable Jim Ogden, excitedly brags that his wife is due any minute to give birth to six babies because two fortune-tellers have told him so. When Jim's wife gives birth to one baby, Jim is disappointed at first, but as he plays with his new baby daughter, he tells her that he'd rather have her than six or sixty babies. After Dr. Luke's nephew Tony arrives from Toronto to take Dr. Luke's position, Tony receives a call from a woman in Toronto, which upsets nurse Mary McKenzie, Tony's sweetheart. Many of the thousands who come to the reunion throng around Janet, who is pleased to see her old friend, bachelor Charlie Renard. Phillip is attracted to an orphan named Rusty, whom Dr. Luke says was born eleven years ago to a woman who died of a broken heart. The mention of the woman's name greatly affects Phillip. Dr. Richard Sheridan and his wife Gloria then arrive from Toronto, and Gloria, the woman who called Tony, tells him that she plans to divorce Dick, a workaholic whom she no longer loves. When Dr. Luke, surmising the affair betweem Tony and Gloria, berates his son, Tony admits that he doesn't love Gloria. Although Dr. Luke pleads with him to end the affair, Tony refuses, feeling that he owes it to Gloria to carry on. When Dr. Luke tries to convince Gloria that Tony doesn't love her, but that he loves Mary, she becomes indignant. Dr. Luke then convinces her to freshen up in a bedroom and arranges for Mary to meet Tony in an adjoining room. When Dr. Luke makes Tony admit that an older woman has made a fool of him, Gloria overhears and leaves in an agitated state. Although Tony confesses that he loves Mary, she says she cannot love anyone who could turn his affections off and on at will. At the reunion gathering, Dr. Luke instructs Rusty to repeatedly make a gesture identical to one that Phillip makes. Won over by the boy, Phillip asks Dr. Luke about adoption formalities. When a telegram arrives from Janet's agent stating that the deal for the role in the New York play is off because the producer wants a younger woman, Janet, shaken, goes inside. The gathering then watch as the quintuplets arrive each in a pony-drawn carriage and play in a fenced-in enclosure. Dick tells Dr. Luke that he and Gloria, after a long talk, have decided to go abroad for a second honeymoon, and Gloria shakes Dr. Luke's hand. Dr. Luke then learns that Janet has shot herself. Tony takes charge of the operation with Mary as his assistant. After the operation, Tony tells Charlie that Janet will live if she has anything to live for. Charlie calls her by her real name, Mamie, and after he kisses her face, she takes his hand. Tony and Mary reconcile, and Dr. Luke's longtime nurse, Katherine Kennedy, mildly rebukes him for falsely making Phillip believe that he is Rusty's father.
Robert Kent
Tony Luke
Dorothy Peterson
Nurse Katherine Kennedy
John Qualen
Asa Wyatt
Alan Dinehart
Governor Phillip Crandall
J. Edward Bromberg
Charles Renard
Sara Haden
Montagu Love
Sir Basil Crawford
Tom Moore
Dr. Richard Sheridan
George Ernest
Katherine Alexander
Mrs. Martha Crandall
Janet Fair
Julius Tannen
George Chandler
Edward Mcwade
Maude Eburne
Mrs. Barton
Claudia Coleman
Mrs. Simms
Hank Mann
Hattie Mcdaniel
Colonel Mcdonnell
A. S. "pop" Byron
Prison guard
Eddie Dunn
Henry Roquemore
Bald-headed man
Mary Maclaren
Mrs. Ogden
Mickey Rentschler
Buster Slaven
William Mahan
Adrian Rosley
Band leader
Jim Toney
Joe Behm
Harry Brand
Publicity Director
Earl Carroll
Daniel B. Clark
Dr. Allan R. Dafoe
Tech Supervisor
Walter Ferris
Contr to Screenplay const
W. D. Flick
Bruce Gould
Sam Hellman
Roger Heman
Ollie Hughes
Mark-lee Kirk
Gladys Lehman
Yvonne Leroux
Sonya Levien
Arthur Levy
Thomas Little
Jack Mintz
Contr on Special seq
Jacqueline Noel
Ed O'fearna
Mollie O'shaughnessy
Bogart Rogers
Generator man
Frank Sullivan
Harold Wilson
Darryl F. Zanuck
The working title of this film was They Always Come Back. Actress Maude Eburne's surname is incorrectly spelled Eburn" in the onscreen credits. This was the second film featuring the Dionne Quintuplets. For information regarding the quintuplets, please see the above entry for their first film, The Country Doctor, a fictional account of their birth, which was released earlier in 1936. The screen credits note that, "Scenes of the Dionne Quintuplets were photographed at Callander, Ontario under the technical supervision of Dr. Allan R. Dafoe." Dr. Dafoe was the Canadian doctor who delivered the quintuplets on 28 May 1934.
According to the pressbook for the film, a company of eighty people from Twentieth Century-Fox arrived in Callander and began filming on August 17, 1936. The quints, who were two years and three months at the time, were filmed for twenty-six days, except Sundays, for one hour a day and were paid $83,000. A special blue filter for the lights which cameraman Daniel Clark developed for The Country Doctor was also used in this film. Helen Jerome Eddy was listed as a cast member in a Hollywood Reporter production chart, but her participation in the final film has not been confirmed.


Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord?
The themed issue of the Fibreculture journal on Trolls and the negative space of the internet has been released, with a raft of amazing articles, including my piece 'Olympic Trolls: Mainstream Memes and Digital Discord?' looking at the mainstreaming of some techniques associated with trolling, using a case study of a Facebook group lamenting the quality of Channel 9's coverage of the 2012 Olympics.
While the mainstream press have often used the accusation of trolling to cover almost any form of online abuse, the term itself has a long and changing history. In scholarly work, trolling has morphed from a description of newsgroup and discussion board commentators who appeared genuine but were actually just provocateurs, through to contemporary analyses which focus on the anonymity, memes and abusive comments most clearly represented by users of the iconic online image board 4chan, and, at times, the related Anonymous political movement. To explore more mainstream examples of what might appear to be trolling at first glance, this paper analyses the Channel Nine Fail (Ch9Fail) Facebook group which formed in protest against the quality of the publicly broadcast Olympic Games coverage in Australia in 2012. While utilising many tools of trolling, such as the use of memes, deliberately provocative humour and language, targeting celebrities, and attempting to provoke media attention, this paper argues that the Ch9Fail group actually demonstrates the increasingly mainstream nature of many online communication strategies once associated with trolls. The mainstreaming of certain activities which have typified trolling highlight these techniques as part of a more banal everyday digital discourse; despite mainstream media presenting trolls are extremist provocateurs, many who partake in trolling techniques are simply ordinary citizens expressing themselves online.
The full paper is freely available online, and as a PDF.


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Dining with a vampire likely sounds like a bad idea. But dining with an actor who played smoldering vampire, Damon Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries probably sounds like heaven.
Since The Vampire Diaries ended, star Ian Somerhalder has donated a huge chunk of time to support his favorite causes. He created The Ian Somerhalder Foundation (ISF), designed to "provides public outreach, education, and grants in support of Creatures, Environment, Youth, and Grassroots initiatives.," according to the site.
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THAAD Progress
The Lockheed Martin built Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system successfully intercepted a target today in a missile defence test led by the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with critical support provided by the US Army.
The THAAD system, located at Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, AK/USA, detected, tracked and intercepted a threat representative intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) target. The test was the first IRBM intercept for THAAD.
During the test, designated Flight Test THAAD 18 (FTT-18), the THAAD radar first detected, acquired and tracked the target. The THAAD system then developed a fire control solution and launched an interceptor that destroyed the target's reentry vehicle with sheer force of a direct collision.
"Our THAAD system performed flawlessly in today's test and we are proud to support the MDA and US Army as they demonstrate the system's unmatched capabilities," Richard McDaniel, Vice President of Upper Tier Integrated Air and Missile Defense Systems at Lockheed Martin, said. "With this successful test, the THAAD system continues to prove its ability to intercept and destroy many classes of the ballistic missile threat to protect citizens, deployed forces, allies and international partners around the globe."
This was the 14th successful intercept in 14 attempts for the THAAD system since 2005. THAAD has been deployed in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and South Korea. The THAAD system is being designed, built, and integrated by Lockheed Martin acting as prime contractor. Key subcontractors include Raytheon, Boeing, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Honeywell, BAE Systems, Oshkosh Defense, MiltonCAT and the Oliver Capital Consortium.
The THAAD system uses hit-to-kill technology to destroy a threat with direct impact to neutralize lethal threats before they reach protected assets on the ground. The system is rapidly deployable, mobile and also interoperable with other Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) elements, including PATRIOT/PAC-3, AEGIS, forward-based sensors and the Command, Control, Battle Management and Communications system.

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Preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation is a 2-year preparation process, starting in Year 7 (12 year olds and above) and culminates in the reception of the sacrament at the end of Year 8 (13 year olds and above). Please refer to our "Age Requirement" page for details on class placement.
THE CONFIRMATION CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY 24th MAY 2019 AT 9:30AM.
A scanned copy of the candidate's Baptism Certificate.
A scanned copy of the candidate's Holy Communion Certificate.
If you are transferring from another Parish, or are new in the country and are looking to enroll your child to our program in order to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation, please provide us with a letter or email from your former Parish or Catholic School confirming that your child has been attending faith formation classes in preparation to receive the Sacrament or was on track to receive the Sacrament within their Catholic school program. This information should be sent to our Program Coordinator via email to: 1015registration@stfrancisjebelali.ae.
If your child has not been attending catechism classes previously, or opted out of catechism classes after they received Holy Communion and are now returning for Confirmation, they will be required to join our Year 6 class, which is the class before confirmation preparation.
If your child has been attending catechism classes at another parish or Catholic school, and is on track for Confirmation, then they will be placed in our Year 1 or Year 2 Confirmation Class, depending on their level of preparation for the sacrament at the time of registration.
Confirmation is linked to the Sacraments of Baptism and the Eucharist. Together, all three are called the Sacraments of Initiation. In the words of the Catechism, these sacraments "lay the foundations of every Christian life." (CCC 1212) They initiate us because they provide an entrance into the fullness of life in Christ.
The relationship between Baptism and Confirmation is especially close. The Sacrament of Confirmation actually completes and deepens the grace of Baptism. Like Baptism, Confirmation is received only once, for it leaves an indelible mark on the soul. (CCC 698, 1295, 1296 1304, 1306).


Hello and welcome all to the first preview of the new season, and what a season it promises to be. After such a bad time in every aspect last year, the arrival of Rafa Benitez has brought unfamiliar optimism. Utilizing his reputation and strong character, not to forget Newcastle's desperation, Rafa has pulled apart a failed business model of tight purse strings, low aspiration and speculative investments in unproven, young players. In its place a more singular, focused and inspiring pattern is emerging. Whilst it would be human nature may be tempting to look at our 09/10 total of 102 point and say we'll beat it, if any club can fail from a position of such strength, it would be NUFC.
We kick the season off on Friday with a trip to Craven Cottage, the site of five consecutive losses in the league for Newcastle. Our last game in 2014 saw a struggling Fulham gain a vital 1-0 win for their ultimately fruitless survival bid, whilst Alan Pardew served the first of a three game ban for headbutting David Meyler. The last Newcastle win at the Cottage came in 2007, a poor quality match with a last minute Joey Barton penalty temporarily easing the pressure on Sam Allardyce.
The players are working very hard and they are ready. We know the Championship is very difficult but we have the hope and belief that we can do well. We have a lot of respect for Fulham. They beat Crystal Palace 3-1 and have a good manager. It will not be an easy game.
We face a Spurs side second in the table, needing a draw to all but seal second place and finishing above rivals Arsenal for the first time since 1995. Spurs have had a great league season, improving from 5th last year and with the best defence. The club and the squad give the impression of everyone working together well, the polar opposite of the ongoing calamities at SJP.
Our home record against Spurs is not stellar, having won one and lost two of the last five. Seemingly, we do our best work at White Heart Lane, with our third win on the bounce only one of 2 away wins this season (why are we going down again?).
Perhaps the most important Tyne-Wear derby of all-time takes place at St James' this Sunday; a relegation battle six-pointer between the sides in 18th and 19th as we enter the final stretch of the season.
Following an encouraging performance against league leaders Leicester days after taking over, Rafa Benítez will be hoping to take part in the recent trend of newly appointed managers getting a Tyne-Wear derby win in their second game. We've not been victorious in a derby since August 2011, and Sunderland have won the last six.
"I am sure that we can win this game and that will give the players belief going forward into the next games. Every game is different and a derby is a derby, so anything can happen. The players know this but they also know how important it is that we win.
A traditional 3pm Saturday kick off sees Newcastle United playing host to Bournemouth in the latest instalment of the 15/16 Premier League season. This is the second meeting of the two sides this season, the previous being a 1-0 win for the then visitors at the Vitality Stadium down on the South Coast back in November. Ayoze Perez got the goal that day, though it is probably fair to say Bournemouth were unlucky not to have got anything from that game, largely down to some fantastic goalkeeping from Rob Elliot.
The 1-0 win at Bournemouth in November was the Magpies' first victory on the road this campaign. Fast forward to March and we're now up to two away wins, in fact Newcastle have played 14 away games so far this season, winning two, drawing one and losing 11. Seven points from a possible 42, scoring just seven goals and conceding 32 in the process. As shocking as those statistics are Steve McClaren will be thankful that this fixture is at St James' Park and not away from home.
Watford were on a woeful ruin of form leading up to this match, so in classic Newcastle style we helped them out by being rubbish and playing in an unfamiliar style, with McClaren opting to play some sort of 3-4-3; three at the back being a strategy that has never paid dividends for us. The team looked disjointed and unsure of their roles for a lot of the match.
The first half was a scrappy affair, with neither team really taking a hold of the game and playing decent football, and there were few clear cut chances as a result, the best of which fell to Mitrović, who probably should have scored but instead drew a good save from Gomes. Almost instantly after the break, Ighalo was put through one on one with the keeper and calmly rounded Elliot to put the hosts in front, replays showed that he was offside but that's the kind of call we just haven't been getting this season. 12 minutes later, after giving away a needless foul on the edge of the box, failure to clear our lines resulted in the ball falling kindly at the feet of Cathcart, who couldn't miss from six yards out.
Lascelles halved the deficit on 21 minutes with a powerful header from Shelvey's corner to put us back in the game. As we chased a point, Ayoze, followed by Gouffran and then Rivière, all had clear headed chances to salvage something for us, but every attempt was put massively wide of the goal.
For the TFI, we ask our forum members to rate each player's performance in the concerned game out of 10, which we then average out to get a rating representative of the fans' views, we also collect a few user comments to summarise how the player did and show a few different viewpoints from the board. The top scoring player is man of the match; the lowest is mug of the match.
Jamaal Lascelles picks up his first Man of the Match award for us with a score of 5.80, not a particularly high score and no-one thought he had a particularly good game either, but when the rest of the team doesn't actually do anything much it seems a goal is going to put you above the rest. Despite getting MotM in his first PL start, I doubt many fans will be clamoring to see more of him in the starting lineup in the near future. Rolando Aarons (3.70) picked up our Mug of the Match award, but its hard to blame him when he was played out of position in a formation our entire team was unfamiliar with, the side as a whole averaged 4.81.
Our perhaps you could consider our manager the real mug of the match, as fans rated him a lowly 2.70. Fans hanging a lot of the blame on him as he changed to playing three at the back, due to our squad not having a fit left back. Of course not having a player accustomed to playing left wing back either never crossed his mind, so instead of playing a one player out of position in a back four we had half the team in unfamiliar roles. That its the second time we've played a back three against Watford and lost makes it all the more inexplicable.


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Pageants' "Chai ( חַי)" is not about tea, but it's just as soothing
2 years ago by Iulia Ciobanu
Pageants have put out a new single in support of their upcoming album Forever, which is set to release in late October on Eye•Dull Records. After leaving Avi Buffalo in 2010, Rebecca Coleman set out to start a new and formed Pageants. Forays into separate projects (members Devin O'Brien and Dylan Wood toured with Cherry Glazerr and Best Coast respectively) gave Coleman some time to develop new material, and the band is now ready to share what they have been working on over the last few years.
"Chai ( חַי)" is a deceptively breezy offering - it floats along with the same hook and beat for over four minutes, but it feels half the length. Coleman's effervescent vocals coast over a steady tick tock beat while a lithe and airy synth line provides an instrumental refrain between verses. In an interview with i-D, Coleman delved into the song's inspiration:
"It's [pronounced] "hay," which is the Hebrew word for life. It's about a general disdain for adult things, and was written after all the touring [with Avi Buffalo] when I was coming back to real life and feeling some kind of pressure to adjust."
If you have also felt this way (if you haven't I don't understand you) and want to escape from adult life for a few minutes, take a lie down, pop in your headphones, and drift off into this song's dreamy tones.
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Film Club #3: Scores & Soundtracks
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After previously revisiting high-school and looking forward to our robot future, it's time to return to the present. Neil Brand's informative three-part series entitled Sound of Cinema – screened on BBC4 over the past few weeks and still available on iPlayer – provided an obvious discussion point for this week's Film Club. Within it, he looked at subjects including classical orchestral accompaniments, James Bond theme-tunes through the ages, pop culture influences, and the future of scores & soundtracks given the arrival of advanced technology.
Just this week in fact I remarked upon the importance of a particular track in Saw, not only in and of itself, but also how it acts as an audience cue in every subsequent sequel. What songs, scores and soundtracks in film really make an impact? What are your favourites? Two contributors each give us a double-dosage of classic musicals, whilst another manages to cover a John Williams classic, Tarantino's approach and two greats; one recent cult film, the other a horror mainstay. My approach focuses on modern scores and memorable scenes, whereas the final view looks at just one composer, and provides us with Film Club's first agreement so far! Is it Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Howard Shore or someone else? Read on, my friends.
We know that talking about these greats is going to make your ears salivate, but fear not, for the relevant pieces are embedded for your listening pleasure. So kick back with Film Club #3 and some of the finest sounds in the history of cinema.
Carl Eden (@carledenuk)
The Shining is essentially an exercise in atmosphere and tension, and the music – made up of classical compositions and eerie, string-heavy horror motifs – goes a long way to supplying the claustrophobic, dizzying atmosphere. Try watching it without sound and see how it works.
John Williams is probably the world's greatest living composer and of his many scores, Star Wars is perhaps the best. Classically influenced, Star Wars' music is rousing, iconic and perfect for the space opera tone.
Tarantino soundtracks are always amazing, and Kill Bill perhaps best represents his buffet-sample style of filmmaking, taking pieces from every genre and style and reworking them with a grindhouse/spaghetti Western/Morricone flavour. It's post-modernism in music form.
Finally, Drive stands out in recent memory for its dreamlike, almost Lynchian score and fantastic synth heavy-soundtrack, a throwback to the 80s and perfect for the LA crime noir theme.
Frazer Lough (@FrazerLough)
From Moulin Rouge! to Up to Juno: picking a favourite soundtrack is truly a little tricky. From my not so distant youth The Lion King for me has a soundtrack that I cherish. From The Circle of Life in the opening sequences to Mufasa's death and then all the way to Can You Feel The Love Tonight there is nothing I don't love about it. Who doesn't love a good Disney soundtrack though? Even if it does make you cry a little.
It would be foolish not to mention further the Moulin Rogue soundtrack. With a specific look at Elephant Love Medley which includes a vast array of songs from Your Song, to the original track Come What May, Baz Luhrmann really does know how to put a soundtrack together! And let's not forget that it brought us Lady Marmalade, the song that provides us with a charming french sentence!
Jack Sadler (@JackSadler9)
An area that's almost impossible to narrow down – I'm practically crying at the number of scores and soundtracks I've had to miss out – but I decided to focus on, in my opinion, one of the best composers working today.
John Murphy's name might not be familiar but his music almost definitely will be. It's been featured in countless adverts, TV shows and trailers, especially In the House – In a Heartbeat from 28 Days Later and the emotionally stunning Adagio in D Minor from one of my favourite films of all time, Sunshine, both directed by Danny Boyle.
Variations of these also feature in his brilliant score for Kick-Ass, which matches the film's loud, tongue-in-cheek nature perfectly, as seen in the rousing Flying Home. Murphy's compositions are always fresh yet accessible through the flawless marrying of modern and classical instruments in a way that is moving, profound and awe-inspiring.
Michael Prescott (@M_S_Prescott)
In Bruges comes to mind here, with the instantly-recognisable score proving to be a superb choice in accompanying the on-screen comedy and drama. It also turns to On Raglan Road by The Dubliners at the right moment when lyrics are needed to move the music to the forefront.
One of my favourite individual tracks, now used everywhere, was first used by John Murphy in Danny Boyle's Sunshine, though it's the slightly-altered Kick Ass version that I first became familiar with – and enjoy a little more – particularly because of the gripping and emotional action scene that complements it.
Gattaca, another brilliant sci-fi film, has the immortal track The Departure from Michael Nyman attached to it. It's haunting and yet somehow uplifting, providing the catharctic kick needed after the incredible journey the film represents. But it's with a more uplifting ascension that I choose to end with, via the superbly stirring Letting Go from Super 8. This will make your soul soar:
Raks Patel (@MycroftBrolly)
I have chosen two films – one is an out-and-out musical, and the other might as well be! I spent my teens listening to both soundtracks non-stop, whilst perfecting my dance moves. Both films are love stories and are set in the same era – late 1950s/early 1960s.
Grease tells the love story between Danny and Sandy at Rydell High, and Dirty Dancing tells the love story between Johnny and Baby at Kellerman's holiday resort. Both films feature sweet innocent young women leads chasing the bad boy in town and winning his heart after proving their worth.
Both films are modern-day versions of Cinderella – the ultimate wish fulfillment – but the reason why I love both films is because both soundtracks are filled to the brim with the most amazing songs that you can have the time of your life singing and dancing along to at home!
So there we have it – a difficult shortlist to create given the wonderful options on offer. What have we missed out? And who, from the five above, is your winner for this week? Let us know!
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Q: How to export SQL data in to excel I am using SQLCMD command to run a script and i need to output the result in to an excel file in XLSX format. How do i do that ?
Thanks in advance.

A: I recommend you use the bcp utility to do that. The bcp utility works vary fast for situation like yours and it is very flexible. You can use it to output the contents of a table or query to a "comma separated file" using any column separator you want and then consume that file in Excel.
A also believe that you could name the file with the XLSX extension, but haven't tested that.
Here is the link to the utility's documentation.
If your script is more complex, I recommend you create a stored procedure for it's logic. You could drop this procedure once you're done with it.

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New town hall plans to move ahead in Spring
By Don Eriksson |
PUBLISHED: December 16, 2005 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 11, 2019 at 12:00 a.m.
PEPPERELL — An earnest look at the site for a new town hall and/or safety complex must wait until after the Spring thaw, but preliminary investigation into building types, heating and project consultants is underway, according to town administrator Robert Hanson.
This week that a wetlands study of town land lying between the Nissitissit School and Brookline Street must be done, he said, to determine the amount of buildable land. He estimates 20 acres on the northern side of the town plot can be used.
The town purchased the former Globe family property more than eight years ago prior to Hanson's arrival. An approved subdivision was in the planning stages at that time and 18 to 19 houses had been penciled in for the acreage where the new town complex might be located.
The site of Varnum Brook Elementary School (VBES) belongs to the North Middlesex Regional School District (NMRSD) which purchased it for $1. The same holds true for the Nissitissit School. Pepperell owns the Peter Fitzpatrick School (PFS), but it is run by the school district. As a public entity, the district is not required to pay property taxes.
Hanson was given control over $31,425 in special revenue from the sale of the Foster Street fire station at October's town meeting. He can use it to secure consulting, engineering, surveying, professional services and other expenses incurred by preliminary siting and planning for a new town hall and/or public safety building.
"By spring we will have contracted for the wetlands study," Hanson said.
The historic Town Hall, with its uninsulated roof and leaky windows is, as Hanson describes it, an oil hog.
Cost, age and inefficient layout are the three strikes against remodeling or expansion of the existing building.
"I had hoped when I came to town we could use the third floor as a meeting hall," Hanson said. "But it would be prohibitively costly to insulate the roof, add heating and air-conditioning, and the necessary elevator. Where would that go? Electrical service there is still knob and wire."
No one knew what or where fixes made to the building since 1875 are, Hanson said, which is why any contractor hired for inside work spends a lot of time head scratching. That is, they even agree to do the job.
Years ago plans were drawn to build a solid foundation stop-gap structure, but were never acted upon.
"If we were to add on to the existing building we're still dealing with a wooden structure that would have to be gutted and that's very expensive," Hanson said. "Perhaps $3 million, and the layout would never be very efficient for office space."
If a new Town Hall is built, he sees the old Town Hall staying in place for historical reasons, but the inside converted into apartments or condominiums.
The same would hold true for the former Shattuck School that now houses the communications center, police and fire headquarters.
Two weeks ago the old school's unused third floor was finally cleaned of bat droppings and proofed against their entry using money also appropriated from the October town meeting. The area was to have been remodeled in a third phase of renovation planned years ago.
The renovation never progressed to a second phase that would have remodeled and refinished the second story rooms to house fire offices and training rooms. Police, fire and communications remain on the first floor, their offices cramped by space used for wide school hallways and stairs, and with windows that leak heat and cold.
"The chief (police Chief Alan Davis) would certainly like a new safety complex," Hanson said. "Cost was estimated at $4.5 million, but that was four years ago."
Davis has since estimated a building cost of $6.5 million.
"There isn't much space available on the lot for anything other than that building itself," Hanson said. "There is enough parking for condominium use (however) and that's perhaps a possibility."
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There's no shortage of traceability tools from technology providers. How effectively manufacturers deploy them is shaping up as a key competitive issue.
A driver uses a pocket PC device to download cargo temperatures and other verification data from a refrigerated trailer's control system. Wayne Farms requires its carriers to use advanced temperature-monitoring systems as part of its Intelliship distribution traceability program. Source: Thermo King Corp.
The Law of Unintended Consequences always lurks in the background of innovation, as the recent recall of 110 pork shoulder butts illustrates.
Sioux-Preme Packing Co. shipped pork shoulder butts from its Sioux Center, IA, slaughterhouse September 10 to further processors in Iowa, Colorado and Mexico. While boning a cut, one processor sliced into a small electronic transponder.
The subcutaneous transponder had been placed there as part of a University of Minnesota research project. "If we would have been notified, we could have segregated the animals and avoided the problem," ruefully notes Jim Malek, vice president of Sioux-Preme. Instead, the company recalled 110 shoulder butts-1,110 lbs. in all-from 55 animals sent to Sioux-Preme that day from one supplier. Sioux-Preme elected to destroy the meat rather than rework it.
The incident speaks volumes about the state of traceability in the industry. First, if a problem arises after livestock enters the processing stream, the parties involved can identify where the animal came from and trace back more than one step. Second, more product tends to be recalled than necessary: only five of the hogs slaughtered that day had transponders imbedded in their shoulders. It also highlights the gap between the possibility of technology and the reality of logistics snafus. The five microchip-equipped hogs were supposed to have been removed from the herd when they reached market weight and returned to the university, not sent to Sioux-Preme.
The transponders were passive radio frequency ID (RFID) tags, equipped with antennae that are energized by a reader to relay identification information. These particular microchips also relayed body-temperature data from Digital Angel Corp.'s Bio-Thermo devices (see Food Engineering, May 2003). Compact and sophisticated devices, they provide valuable information on the general health of individual animals. Similar technology is used in the VeriChip, another implanted transponder that carries human medical information. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the use of VeriChip, which is marketed by a division of Digital Angel. Those devices are criticized not only by privacy activists but some fundamentalist religious groups, who believe the tags are the "mark of the beast" described in the Book of Revelation.
Wranglers perform a retinal scan using equipment from Optibrand Ltd. The company helped Swift & Co. develop a cattle traceability system at its Greeley, CO, facility. Source: Optibrand Ltd.
No one is complaining about the mark in the beast to the US Department of Agriculture, which is dispensing $18.8 million for livestock tracking and tracing programs. It's the beginning stages of a national identity program for cattle, which are front and center in the traceability scramble thanks to the December 2003 BSE case in the state of Washington. Emergency grants are funding the development of databases of all locations with livestock. The numbers are huge: for beef alone, an estimated 600,000 locations with fewer than 100 head of dairy cows and cattle dot the country.
A portion of the USDA funding is underwriting pilot programs involving RFID microchips. Digital Angel is working with several states, says Kevin Nuesma, RFID division head of Digital Angel, South St. Paul, MN. In Minnesota, Digital Angel will deploy microchips, scanners and possibly a data collection system to track individual animals from birth to slaughter. "We'll be able to track where the animals were fromwhere they went to slaughter, and all other animals they came in contact with that would have an exposure risk," Nuesma says. "Theoretically, livestock owners would be responsible for tagging the animal at birth. Each time it moved to a feedlot or other location, the tag would be scanned and the information reported to the database. It's not that different than transferring a car title."
Retinal scans are further along in commercial deployment. Swift & Company is using the technology with select feedlot suppliers and with cattle at its Greeley, CO, facility. When ConAgra owned the plant, Greeley was the site of the second largest recall in US food history, an event that dramatized the liability of a poor traceability system. A limited recall of beef trim and ground beef on June 30 mushroomed to include 18.6 million pounds, representing 28 production days because of inability to document control procedures.
As part of its Swift Trace to track beef from arrival at a processing facility to a specific box, the Greeley plant went commercial in February with multi-function scanners that capture a retinal vascular picture immediately after an animal is stunned, creating or confirming a unique identity that can be married to ear tags, RFID and other tracking data. Sides of beef exiting the cooler the next day are correlated with the retinal scan. Time studies take over once the sides enter the fabrication room.
The system represents a quantum step in traceability. "We have improved our ability to track animals from the day to the shift, to a span of hours, to minutes," according to Warren Mirtsching, Swift's vice president of food safety and quality assurance. "We are continuing to work to narrow that time span." The company also is investigating "forward to the consumer" technology, Mirtsching adds, including DNA testing to associate an individual steak to a specific animal.
Optibrand Ltd. of Fort Collins, CO, assembles the Unix-based, battery-powered scanner units at Greeley. The scanners encrypt images and other data to produce an auditable record. The units also can read bar codes, RFID tags and other identifiers, according to Mark Swanson, executive vice president of operations. Bluetooth wireless connection to a global positioning satellite provides a time, date and location stamp for data inputs.
"Now they can define an animal with what went into a box by linking the live animal to the dead one," Swanson says. "If you don't do that, you're still working with a large population." In the case of Greeley, the population could be an entire day's slaughter, or 5,000 head.
As Swift's former IT director, Swanson helped implement Swift Trace before joining Optibrand. "The scanner is sophisticated, but it's surprisingly simple to use," he says. "It's a very rugged PC with a key pad and multilingual functions." Operating conditions are harsher in a plant than on a ranch, and at Greeley, "our units have worked phenomenally. We're tickled pink."
An uncooperative cow might thwart retinal or RFID scans, Digital Angel's Nuesma argues. His firm has patented a special reader/antenna bolted to a restraining chute. While veterinarians immobilize cattle for examinations and inoculations, RFID data can be captured and relayed to a local computer or network for tracking purposes.
"Iris scans, DNA tracking and other technology may have roles to play, but radio frequency is the only way to track animals throughout their lifecycles without impeding the flow of commerce," insists Nuesma. "How do you scan an iris when a cow is moving or read a bar code after a week in a feedlot?"
The RFID solution
RFID tags also are being deployed in slaughter facilities, such as L&H Packing Co. The San Antonio, TX, beef processor began deploying reusable tags in mid-year. Cat2 developed the system. Implementation was completed in August, and "it's running like a scalded dog," reports Mike Sardinha, president of Cat2, Conway, AR.
Originally associated with pest prevention, Steritech Group is experiencing significant growth in the food safety area, with retail and manufacturing facilities becoming a major focus because of traceability concerns. Source: The Steritech Group.
The tags are attached with a stainless-steel shroud pin to the animals' ribcages as they emerge from sanitation cabinets. Defect information, grading data, hot-scale weight and finished weight are coupled with the RFID tag, according to Clayton Leonard, L&H's part owner and special-projects director. "We would need two or three people to write down all that information; with this system, all we have to do is query the database." Rail-outs that otherwise would create sequencing problems are a nonissue, and the processor retains useful information for its customers and about its suppliers.
"Traceability is good PR, but knowing what's going on in your plant in real time makes justifying the system a lot easier," says Leonard. "Increased yields and better management is where you get your payback."
Sardinha's experience at L&H has made him rethink the use of bar codes in Cat2's other tracing systems. Bar code technology has helped Cooper Farms reduce response times in mock recalls of further-processed poultry to less than two hours (Food Engineering, August 2004). Codes are assigned to lots of raw materials and to each ingredient and processing step, and operators scan them throughout the process to build "an inverted tree" of all components and procedures performed for each case of finished goods.
But bar codes can be rendered unreadable. Humidity can produce frost build-up on cases in a freezer, for example. RFID overcomes the problem, and the L&H project has made Sardinha a believer in the technology. L&H's tags from Allflex cost less than $1 each and have been reused hundreds of times.
No matter how well a traceability system performs and a processor executes it, companies are at the mercy of their suppliers, Sardinha points out. "Some salt vendors change lot numbers every three months. If there was ground glass in a lot, it would explode a recall out. What are the people who supply me doing to minimize the scope of a recall?"
Another hurdle is attitude: when processors view tracking and tracing as a government mandate or customer requirement, it becomes an onerous cost. In fact, "traceability is nothing else but knowing how your product yields inside of your plant," he says. "There is no separation between the two: if you control yield and waste, you have traceability."
Other software and controls suppliers concur. Systems that deliver tracking and tracing capabilities also provide tools to analyze operations and improve efficiencies. Minimizing the cost of a product recall is one aspect. "It's a cost-avoidance issue in terms of reduced liability," says Randy Sadowski of Rockwell Automation. More positive payback comes from efficiencies that improve output or reduce material costs.
Three food plants served as beta sites for Tracker, a new traceability database from Rockwell. The database stores information on the lot numbers of ingredients used, which fillers or depositors dispensed product, maintenance and sanitation histories on each machine, who the operators were, what packaging materials were applied, etc. "Whatever is relevant to the production and process can be added," says Sadowski, RSBizware product manager.
At one of the beta sites, several lines are involved in producing a cheese-based product. Monthly cheese variances of up to $80,000 were occurring. "Nobody's walking off with $80,000 worth of cheese: it was just being misapplied," Sadowski says. "If you track when the cheese was consumed, where it was consumed and how much, you can pinpoint if variance was the result of a bad filler, an operator generating excessive scrap or some other action on the line," he says.
If a traceability module is simply cobbled onto existing systems, "I pay for it, but I get no value from it," adds Scot McLeod, marketing vice president for Ross Systems Inc. Unfortunately, that is often the route chosen by food and beverage processors, particularly those migrating from paper- and spreadsheet-based tracking to stopgap electronic-records systems. "They look at it as a negative cost that provides no intrinsic value to the business," he says. Unless tracking reports are part of a management system that provides information on key performance indicators, traceability is a burden rather than a boon.
As a supplier to supermarkets and club stores, Austin, TX-based Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods Inc. began feeling the heat a few years ago to fully account for where its raw materials came from and where finished goods were shipped. A score of ingredients from multiple suppliers often go into the frozen calzones and other Italian entrees produced in its 132,000-sq.-ft. facility. Processing is complex: ravioli goes through 24 production stages, with different ingredients added at each one, according to Anass Bennani, information systems manager. Further complicating matters is a just-in-time supply system that ensures ingredient freshness but also means tracking many more supply lots than if ingredients could be inventoried.
The company deployed Ross' iRenaissance ERP package to better manage inventory and production. Reduction in product variance has been the primary benefit, Bennani says, but entwined with that is the ability to account for all components and processing steps. If a customer questioned any given item, Michael Angelo's could generate a complete report within four hours.
Four-hour response in a one up, one down recall situation is expected to be the FDA's standard when traceability rules are established under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002. Fast is good; precise is better, at least where customer relations are concerned. Being able to isolate individual batches in a high-speed dairy can be the difference between recalling milk from a handful of stores or hundreds, notes Jan Rasmussen, a manager with Wonderware Scandinavia in Copenhagen, Denmark. By adding Wonderware's InTrack system to an IndustrialSQL Server installation, Arla Foods' Christianfeld Dairy Centre "is able to pull a recall report in 20 seconds," while a customer is still on the phone, Rasmussen maintains. "Previous dairy systems were not automated," adds Erik Veslov, Christianfeld's production manager. "PLCs were not connected, and there was no reporting and no traceability. Important information could only be retrieved by wading through piles of reports."
Arla is Europe's largest processor of fluid milk, and the Christianfeld facility is the first to include inTrack as part of a plantwide MES installation. Arla manages a growing roster of 70 dairies, all of which were owned by local cooperatives until the mid-1990s and none of which have the same automation system. Traceability is a valuable and necessary capability, allows Rasmussen, but the real payoff will be the ability to quickly "Arla-ize" existing and acquired plants. Computer codes were created to define the input/ output for each piece of equipment in the Christianfeld dairy. The machines become generic objects from a controls point of view, simplifying plantwide integration. The creation of a network of objects took 30 days at Christianfeld; the next two plants took 10 days each. The implications for company-wide integration are enormous.
Third-party tracking
Traceability doesn't end at the shipping dock. Breaks in the cold chain are a major contributor to recalls. Wayne Farms LLC is addressing the issue with Intelliship, a logistics management initiative launched in February. Based on advanced temperature monitoring, the system provides an audit trail for in-transit poultry products.
A worker scans boxed beef at L&H Packing Co. The company recently began using RFID tags to automate the tracking and tracing of incoming cattle. Source: Cat2.
Wayne Farms operates 13 poultry plants. Ten of those plants ship product to other food manufacturers and foodservice distributors through five common carriers, according to Denise Cameron, director of inventory and logistics management. Seven years ago, the company began requiring temperature-tracking devices inside the 60 to 70 trucks making thousands of deliveries each week nationwide. "We had to depend on mobile devices and whether they were returned by the drivers," Cameron recalls. With the advent of better, more affordable technology, Wayne Farms mandated hard-wired, advanced temperature monitoring systems on all refrigerated trucks. The mandate includes intelligent padlocks to record the precise time truck doors are opened and closed, temperature download capabilities, 24/7 carrier communication and bi-annual audits of frozen storage warehouses. Enhanced traceability, security and safety are presented as value-added services to customers. "If we have a problem, we can go back to a secure data logger with two-hour temperature readings throughout the distribution chain," says Cameron. "Human discrepancies have been engineered out."
PCs and HMIs on the plant floor complement PLCs in collecting ingredient and processing data needed for traceability with Rockwell's Tracker database. Source: Rockwell Automation.
Thermo King, a unit of Ingersoll Rand, supplies the hardware and software behind the traceability program, which includes web-based data transfer. The control system also generates data to drive preventative maintenance practices. Thermo King recently introduced software for pocket PCs that can download secured data from the controller and transfer the data through a port on a customer's PC. If product arrived late or in a thawed condition, the client could immediately determine if unacceptable temperature deviations occurred and whether the delivery should be rejected or accepted.
Customers also want greater visibility to what occurred within the four walls of the processing facility. While systems like Ross' iRennaisance and Rockwell's BizWare provide the technological foundation, the data-delivery infrastructure has yet to be built. In the meantime, physical audits are the best available tool, and processors' customers increasingly are demanding them.
Charlotte, NC-based pest-control specialist Steritech Group added a traceability module to its GMP reviews two years ago. "Recent events such as the BSE case have elevated the importance of traceability and underscored the fact we obviously didn't have good traceability in place," reports Mark Jarvis, president of Steritech's food safety division. "For companies that are not quite where they should be, we often discover that manufacturing was done with reckless abandon."
Bob Strong, vice president of quality management systems, performs many of those audits. Three areas stand out as significant chinks in the traceability capabilities of plants, says Strong: rework, bulk deliveries and packaging materials. With today's focus on traceability, "some people are refusing to do rework, choosing instead to donate out-of-spec products to charity, sell it under a second label or throw it away." Bulk materials become an issue when two deliveries are commingled, a situation that is avoided by adding dedicated storage tanks for each delivery.
Packaging wouldn't be a problem if food companies saw the value of tracing programs. That is not yet the case, according to Strong. "The packaging industry is further along with tracing programs than the food companies that use their materials," he says. Closures and other package components usually have lot numbers, but many food companies neglect to record them, he says.
Shifting from paper-based to automated tracking systems does little good if processors don't see the business value of traceability. Companies that approach traceability as another mandate are missing the wider implications. "You shouldn't have to take the stick approach; the carrot should work," Strong says. "It makes economic sense."
The Bioterrorism Act, Regulation 178/2002 in the European Union and the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act add immediacy to the tracking and tracing discussion, but customer demands and consumer confidence are even bigger drivers. The technology exists to improve traceability. Now it's a question of how it is deployed.
Mike Sardinha, Cat2,
Kevin Nuesma, Digital Angel Corp.,
Steve Phelan, Formation Systems,
John Cravens, Optibrand Ltd.,
jcravens@optibrand.com
Randy Sadowski, Rockwell Automation,
Scot McLeod, Ross Systems Inc.,
Mark Jarvis, the Steritech Group,
Brian Meagher, Thermo King Corp.,
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CDC and Connecticut COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group's Science Subcommittee Recommend Immediate Distribution of Vaccine
(HARTFORD, CT) – Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group's Science Subcommittee has submitted recommendations to him that the state's COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan start at the earliest opportunity. The recommendation comes after the subcommittee reviewed all available scientific and trial data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the FDA's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, clinical trial information provided by Pfizer and BioNTech, and peer-reviewed scientific publications about the vaccine and its clinical testing. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also voted to recommend the vaccine for individuals over 16.
Governor Lamont accepted the subcommittee's recommendations and is ordering the Connecticut Department of Public Health make all necessary preparations in order for the vaccine to be received as early as Monday, distributed, and allocated shortly thereafter to healthcare institutions and long-term care facilities all over the state.
"This is a significant moment for our state and our country," Governor Lamont said. "Here in Connecticut, we are incredibly proud to be able to say that the Pfizer team in Groton helped to develop this first vaccine to fight the coronavirus which we know will help to get our communities back to normal. The EUA, combined with this recommendation from our Science Subcommittee, with some of the best scientific and analytical minds in our state, will provide light at the end of the tunnel for our state to emerge from the pandemic. I take these recommendations seriously, and I thank everyone involved with our advisory group for their hard work and dedication to this important cause."
"We found that the process of developing, reviewing, and authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was rigorous, transparent, and scientifically sound," the co-chairs of the Science Subcommittee – Jason Schwartz Ph.D. from Yale and David Banach, M.D., MPH from UConn – wrote in their recommendations to the governor. "The subcommittee has full confidence in the integrity of the FDA review and authorization process for this vaccine and the quality of the work performed by FDA scientists, reviewers, and advisory committee members."
The co-chairs of the Connecticut COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group – Public Health Acting Commissioner Dr. Deidre Gifford and Trinity Health President Dr. Reginald Eadie – said of the recommendation, "During a trying year for our state, this recommendation is an important step toward our community having the ability to fight COVID-19 and return our society and institutions to normal. This was a rigorous, time-intensive process meant to understand the science behind the development of the vaccine, and provide confidence to Connecticut residents that our entire advisory group was working to make the best recommendations in the interests of public health."
Connecticut placed its first order for 31,200 vaccines on Friday, December 4, and the state anticipates delivery to hospitals starting as soon as Monday, December 14. Long-term care facilities across Connecticut have agreements with either Walgreens or CVS for vaccine administration, and distribution is expected to begin Monday, December 21.
The members of the Connecticut COVID-19 Advisory Group's Science Subcommittee include:
Jessica Abrantes-Figueiredo, Chief of Infectious Diseases for Saint Francis Hospital
David Banach, Head of Infection Prevention and Hospital Epidemiologist at UConn Health
Keith Grant, Senior System Director for Infection Prevention for Hartford HealthCare
Jim Hadler, Clinical Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine
Danyal Ibrahim, Trinity Health of New England
Albert Ko, Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine and Department Chair at the Yale School of Public Health
Roxy Kozyckyj, Director of State Government Affairs for the Healthcare Distribution Alliance
Richard Martinello, Medical Director of Infection Prevention for Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale New Haven Health
William Petit, State Representative (R-New Britain, Plainville)
Jack Ross, President of the Connecticut Infectious Diseases Society
Jason Schwartz, Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Public Health
Jody Terranova, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for the American Academy of Pediatrics
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Q: Integer solutions for Fermat Last Theorem like equation: $x^n+y^n=z^n+n$. I was wondering about this equation $x^n+y^n=z^n+n$ for integer solutions. I managed to find integer solutions pretty easily when $n=1,2,3$, but for $n=4,5$ I did not seem to find any. Is that the case? I tried to look at this equation modulo small primes to find some sort of contradictions that this equality cannot hold but didn't find any so far. Any suggestions?

A: Extending a comment to a full-fledged answer, the cases $n=4$ and $n=5$ can be ruled out by looking at the corresponding equations mod $8$ and $11$, respectively.
For $n=4$, the left hand side is $0$, $1$, or $2$ mod $8$, while the right hand side is $4$ or $5$.
For $n=5$, the left hand side is $0$, $\pm1$, or $\pm2$ mod $11$, while the right hand side is $4$, $5$, or $6$. (This is because the fifth power of any integer is congruent to $0$, $1$, or $-1$ mod $11$.)
The mod $8$ argument works for any even number congruent to $4$ or $6$ mod $8$. A mod-$11$-style argument works any time $2n+1$ is prime (with $n\gt3$).


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Kate Middleton Sports a Fancy New 'Do and McQueen on Tour
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This morning, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge embarked on their first public walkabout on their New Zealand-Australia tour, greeting people who had waited up to eight hours for a chance to meet them. Yesterday, Kate and Will took Prince George on his first playdate, where he hung with new friends, snacked on his mother's hair, and flaunted his general adorableness. But for today's outing, the parents were sans royal baby. Sad.
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The pair visited the War Memorial and Clock Tower in Blenheim to attend a service commemorating the 100th anniversary of the start of the World War One. Kate—perhaps in an attempt to distract us from the fact that she didn't have the cutest royal accessory in tow—wore a powder blue Alexander McQueen jacket, navy heels, and matching clutch, and chose to do something different with her hair:
Hair looped over the ponytail! Fancy!
But the best part of the duo's adventure came later in the day when Prince William wanted to climb into the cockpit of a WWI biplane at the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre:
Kate gives him a look that says "Oh my God, don't slip and fall," "Is he wearing a man bracelet?" "Christ, he's going to split his pants," or "Hmm...Did I leave the oven on?"
Thankfully, Will and his pants make it in one piece, so everyone can just enjoy the day. "See, told you so," says Will's expression in return.
"Now about that face..."
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Supreme Court Hearing Biggest Guns Case In More Than A Decade
At issue is a New York state law that requires citizens to demonstrate a specific need if they want a license to carry a concealed weapon.
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For the first time in over a decade, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case addressing the Second Amendment.
The case centers around two New York residents who were denied an unrestricted permit to carry a gun.
"Carrying a firearm outside the home is a fundamental constitutional right. It is not some extraordinary action that requires an extraordinary demonstration of need," said Paul Clement, the attorney for New York State Rifle and Pistol Association
The justices seemed to express some concern that, if the law were rolled back, it could result in people bringing guns into crowded places like sports stadiums and public transportation.
"I think that people of good moral character who start drinking a lot and who may be there for a football game or – or some kind of soccer game can get pretty angry at each other. And if they each have a concealed weapon, who knows?" said Justice Stephen Breyer.
But Chief Justice John Roberts questioned whether Americans should have to ask permission to access a constitutional right.
"Regardless of what the right is, it would be surprising to have it depend upon a permit system. You can say that the right is limited in a particular way, just as First Amendment rights are limited, but the idea that you need a license to exercise the right, I think, is unusual in the context of the Bill of Rights," said Chief Justice Roberts.
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Saipem-led JV wins onshore LNG project in Mozambique
By Angitha Pradeep
JV consists of Saipem alongside US-based McDermott International and Japan's Chiyoda Corporation
Italy's Saipem has won a joint venture (JV) engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract for an onshore Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project in Mozambique. The firm will work beside US-based McDermott International and Japan's Chiyoda Corporation for the engineering and construction of the project.
According to a statement from Saipem, scope of work will include the construction of two Natural Gas Liquefication (LNG) trains and other associated infrastructure such as storage tanks and export jetty facilities. The LNG plant will produce a total capacity of 12.88 million tonnes of liquefied gas per annum.
Saipem added that it will operate as the leader of the JV, with the company's share of the project valued at $6 billion while McDermott's share is approximately $2 billion. The contract has been executed by Anadarko Mozambique, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation. Additionally, Saipem stated that The EPC contract is subject to a full Notice to Proceed which Anadarko is expected to issue after the Final Investment Decision.
"With this project, we will strengthen our presence in East Africa, confirming Saipem's role among the leaders in the LNG market for the energy transition," said Stefano Cao, Chief Executive Officer at Saipem.
He added: "A project of such a scale will contribute significantly to the economic growth of Mozambique as a new pole in the west-east energy routes and, as Saipem, we are proud of our substantial contribute to these future developments."
Meanwhile, Samik Mukherjee, McDermott's Group Senior Vice President for Projects stated: "The Area 1 Mozambique LNG project will build on McDermott's industry-leading experience and demonstrate our ability to deliver comprehensive EPC solutions globally for world-scale LNG developments."
McDermott and Saipem have established a new office in Milan, Italy from where a team from both companies will lead the project management, engineering, and procurement before sharing on-site construction management responsibilities, McDermott said in the statement. It added that while it will perform engineering from both London and India, Chiyoda will only provide advisory services for the JV.
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