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'use strict';

import { IDisposable, dispose, toDisposable } from 'vs/base/common/lifecycle';
import CallbackList from 'vs/base/common/callbackList';
import { EventEmitter } from 'vs/base/common/eventEmitter';
import { TPromise } from 'vs/base/common/winjs.base';
import { once as onceFn } from 'vs/base/common/functional';

/**
 * To an event a function with one or zero parameters
 * can be subscribed. The event is the subscriber function itself.
 */
interface Event<T> {
	(listener: (e: T) => any, thisArgs?: any, disposables?: IDisposable[]): IDisposable;
}

namespace Event {
	const _disposable = { dispose() { } };
	export const None: Event<any> = function () { return _disposable; };
}

export default Event;

export interface EmitterOptions {
	onFirstListenerAdd?: Function;
	onFirstListenerDidAdd?: Function;
	onLastListenerRemove?: Function;
}

/**
 * The Emitter can be used to expose an Event to the public
 * to fire it from the insides.
 * Sample:
	class Document {

		private _onDidChange = new Emitter<(value:string)=>any>();

		public onDidChange = this._onDidChange.event;

		// getter-style
		// get onDidChange(): Event<(value:string)=>any> {
		// 	return this._onDidChange.event;
		// }

		private _doIt() {
			//...
			this._onDidChange.fire(value);
		}
	}
 */
export class Emitter<T> {

	private static _noop = function () { };

	private _event: Event<T>;
	private _callbacks: CallbackList;
	private _disposed: boolean;

	constructor(private _options?: EmitterOptions) {

	}

	/**
	 * For the public to allow to subscribe
	 * to events from this Emitter
	 */
	get event(): Event<T> {
		if (!this._event) {
			this._event = (listener: (e: T) => any, thisArgs?: any, disposables?: IDisposable[]) => {
				if (!this._callbacks) {
					this._callbacks = new CallbackList();
				}

				const firstListener = this._callbacks.isEmpty();

				if (firstListener && this._options && this._options.onFirstListenerAdd) {
					this._options.onFirstListenerAdd(this);
				}

				this._callbacks.add(listener, thisArgs);

				if (firstListener && this._options && this._options.onFirstListenerDidAdd) {
					this._options.onFirstListenerDidAdd(this);
				}

				let result: IDisposable;
				result = {
					dispose: () => {
						result.dispose = Emitter._noop;
						if (!this._disposed) {
							this._callbacks.remove(listener, thisArgs);
							if (this._options && this._options.onLastListenerRemove && this._callbacks.isEmpty()) {
								this._options.onLastListenerRemove(this);
							}
						}
					}
				};
				if (Array.isArray(disposables)) {
					disposables.push(result);
				}

				return result;
			};
		}
		return this._event;
	}

	/**
	 * To be kept private to fire an event to
	 * subscribers
	 */
	fire(event?: T): any {
		if (this._callbacks) {
			this._callbacks.invoke.call(this._callbacks, event);
		}
	}

	dispose() {
		if (this._callbacks) {
			this._callbacks.dispose();
			this._callbacks = undefined;
			this._disposed = true;
		}
	}
}

export class EventMultiplexer<T> implements IDisposable {

	private emitter: Emitter<T>;
	private hasListeners = false;
	private events: { event: Event<T>; listener: IDisposable; }[] = [];

	constructor() {
		this.emitter = new Emitter<T>({
			onFirstListenerAdd: () => this.onFirstListenerAdd(),
			onLastListenerRemove: () => this.onLastListenerRemove()
		});
	}

	get event(): Event<T> {
		return this.emitter.event;
	}

	add(event: Event<T>): IDisposable {
		const e = { event: event, listener: null };
		this.events.push(e);

		if (this.hasListeners) {
			this.hook(e);
		}

		const dispose = () => {
			if (this.hasListeners) {
				this.unhook(e);
			}

			const idx = this.events.indexOf(e);
			this.events.splice(idx, 1);
		};

		return toDisposable(onceFn(dispose));
	}

	private onFirstListenerAdd(): void {
		this.hasListeners = true;
		this.events.forEach(e => this.hook(e));
	}

	private onLastListenerRemove(): void {
		this.hasListeners = false;
		this.events.forEach(e => this.unhook(e));
	}

	private hook(e: { event: Event<T>; listener: IDisposable; }): void {
		e.listener = e.event(r => this.emitter.fire(r));
	}

	private unhook(e: { event: Event<T>; listener: IDisposable; }): void {
		e.listener.dispose();
		e.listener = null;
	}

	dispose(): void {
		this.emitter.dispose();
	}
}

/**
 * Creates an Event which is backed-up by the event emitter. This allows
 * to use the existing eventing pattern and is likely using less memory.
 * Sample:
 *
 * 	class Document {
 *
 *		private _eventbus = new EventEmitter();
 *
 *		public onDidChange = fromEventEmitter(this._eventbus, 'changed');
 *
 *		// getter-style
 *		// get onDidChange(): Event<(value:string)=>any> {
 *		// 	cache fromEventEmitter result and return
 *		// }
 *
 *		private _doIt() {
 *			// ...
 *			this._eventbus.emit('changed', value)
 *		}
 *	}
 */
export function fromEventEmitter<T>(emitter: EventEmitter, eventType: string): Event<T> {
	return function (listener: (e: T) => any, thisArgs?: any, disposables?: IDisposable[]): IDisposable {
		const result = emitter.addListener(eventType, function () {
			listener.apply(thisArgs, arguments);
		});
		if (Array.isArray(disposables)) {
			disposables.push(result);
		}
		return result;
	};
}

export function fromCallback<T>(fn: (handler: (e: T) => void) => IDisposable): Event<T> {
	let listener: IDisposable;

	const emitter = new Emitter<T>({
		onFirstListenerAdd: () => listener = fn(e => emitter.fire(e)),
		onLastListenerRemove: () => listener.dispose()
	});

	return emitter.event;
}

export function fromPromise(promise: TPromise<any>): Event<void> {
	const emitter = new Emitter<void>();
	let shouldEmit = false;

	promise
		.then(null, () => null)
		.then(() => {
			if (!shouldEmit) {
				setTimeout(() => emitter.fire(), 0);
			} else {
				emitter.fire();
			}
		});

	shouldEmit = true;
	return emitter.event;
}

export function delayed<T>(promise: TPromise<Event<T>>): Event<T> {
	let toCancel: TPromise<any> = null;
	let listener: IDisposable = null;

	const emitter = new Emitter<T>({
		onFirstListenerAdd() {
			toCancel = promise.then(
				event => listener = event(e => emitter.fire(e)),
				() => null
			);
		},
		onLastListenerRemove() {
			if (toCancel) {
				toCancel.cancel();
				toCancel = null;
			}

			if (listener) {
				listener.dispose();
				listener = null;
			}
		}
	});

	return emitter.event;
}

export function once<T>(event: Event<T>): Event<T> {
	return (listener, thisArgs = null, disposables?) => {
		const result = event(e => {
			result.dispose();
			return listener.call(thisArgs, e);
		}, null, disposables);

		return result;
	};
}

export function any<T>(...events: Event<T>[]): Event<T> {
	let listeners: IDisposable[] = [];

	const emitter = new Emitter<T>({
		onFirstListenerAdd() {
			listeners = events.map(e => e(r => emitter.fire(r)));
		},
		onLastListenerRemove() {
			listeners = dispose(listeners);
		}
	});

	return emitter.event;
}

export function debounceEvent<T>(event: Event<T>, merger: (last: T, event: T) => T, delay?: number, leading?: boolean): Event<T>;
export function debounceEvent<I, O>(event: Event<I>, merger: (last: O, event: I) => O, delay?: number, leading?: boolean): Event<O>;
export function debounceEvent<I, O>(event: Event<I>, merger: (last: O, event: I) => O, delay: number = 100, leading = false): Event<O> {

	let subscription: IDisposable;
	let output: O;
	let handle: number;

	const emitter = new Emitter<O>({
		onFirstListenerAdd() {
			subscription = event(cur => {
				output = merger(output, cur);
				if (!handle && leading) {
					emitter.fire(output);
				}

				clearTimeout(handle);
				handle = setTimeout(() => {
					let _output = output;
					output = undefined;
					emitter.fire(_output);
					handle = null;
				}, delay);
			});
		},
		onLastListenerRemove() {
			subscription.dispose();
		}
	});

	return emitter.event;
}

/**
 * The EventDelayer is useful in situations in which you want
 * to delay firing your events during some code.
 * You can wrap that code and be sure that the event will not
 * be fired during that wrap.
 *
 * ```
 * const emitter: Emitter;
 * const delayer = new EventDelayer();
 * const delayedEvent = delayer.wrapEvent(emitter.event);
 *
 * delayedEvent(console.log);
 *
 * delayer.bufferEvents(() => {
 *   emitter.fire(); // event will not be fired yet
 * });
 *
 * // event will only be fired at this point
 * ```
 */
export class EventBufferer {

	private buffers: Function[][] = [];

	wrapEvent<T>(event: Event<T>): Event<T> {
		return (listener, thisArgs?, disposables?) => {
			return event(i => {
				const buffer = this.buffers[this.buffers.length - 1];

				if (buffer) {
					buffer.push(() => listener.call(thisArgs, i));
				} else {
					listener.call(thisArgs, i);
				}
			}, void 0, disposables);
		};
	}

	bufferEvents(fn: () => void): void {
		const buffer: Function[] = [];
		this.buffers.push(buffer);
		fn();
		this.buffers.pop();
		buffer.forEach(flush => flush());
	}
}

export interface IChainableEvent<T> {
	event: Event<T>;
	map<O>(fn: (i: T) => O): IChainableEvent<O>;
	filter(fn: (e: T) => boolean): IChainableEvent<T>;
	on(listener: (e: T) => any, thisArgs?: any, disposables?: IDisposable[]): IDisposable;
}

export function mapEvent<I, O>(event: Event<I>, map: (i: I) => O): Event<O> {
	return (listener, thisArgs = null, disposables?) => event(i => listener.call(thisArgs, map(i)), null, disposables);
}

export function filterEvent<T>(event: Event<T>, filter: (e: T) => boolean): Event<T> {
	return (listener, thisArgs = null, disposables?) => event(e => filter(e) && listener.call(thisArgs, e), null, disposables);
}

class ChainableEvent<T> implements IChainableEvent<T> {

	get event(): Event<T> { return this._event; }

	constructor(private _event: Event<T>) { }

	map(fn) {
		return new ChainableEvent(mapEvent(this._event, fn));
	}

	filter(fn) {
		return new ChainableEvent(filterEvent(this._event, fn));
	}

	on(listener, thisArgs, disposables: IDisposable[]) {
		return this._event(listener, thisArgs, disposables);
	}
}

export function chain<T>(event: Event<T>): IChainableEvent<T> {
	return new ChainableEvent(event);
}

export function stopwatch<T>(event: Event<T>): Event<number> {
	const start = new Date().getTime();
	return mapEvent(once(event), _ => new Date().getTime() - start);
}

/**
 * Buffers the provided event until a first listener comes
 * along, at which point fire all the events at once and
 * pipe the event from then on.
 *
 * ```typescript
 * const emitter = new Emitter<number>();
 * const event = emitter.event;
 * const bufferedEvent = buffer(event);
 *
 * emitter.fire(1);
 * emitter.fire(2);
 * emitter.fire(3);
 * // nothing...
 *
 * const listener = bufferedEvent(num => console.log(num));
 * // 1, 2, 3
 *
 * emitter.fire(4);
 * // 4
 * ```
 */
export function buffer<T>(event: Event<T>, nextTick = false, buffer: T[] = []): Event<T> {
	buffer = buffer.slice();

	let listener = event(e => {
		if (buffer) {
			buffer.push(e);
		} else {
			emitter.fire(e);
		}
	});

	const flush = () => {
		buffer.forEach(e => emitter.fire(e));
		buffer = null;
	};

	const emitter = new Emitter<T>({
		onFirstListenerAdd() {
			if (!listener) {
				listener = event(e => emitter.fire(e));
			}
		},

		onFirstListenerDidAdd() {
			if (buffer) {
				if (nextTick) {
					setTimeout(flush);
				} else {
					flush();
				}
			}
		},

		onLastListenerRemove() {
			listener.dispose();
			listener = null;
		}
	});

	return emitter.event;
}

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GDPR Just Got Real!
By Maxine Davenport
£300m GDPR fines are a stark warning for UK businesses
Just over a year after GDPR – the EU General Data Protection Regulation – came into force, the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) seems to be celebrating by meting out nearly £300m in fines to two large companies this week.
On Monday 8th July, British Airways – owned by parent company IAG – was fined £183m. While not quite the maximum four per cent of annual revenue that represents the full extent of the ICO's power with GDPR, this fine is still a record breaker. A simple site diversion hack, planted on BA's website and disclosed by the company in September 2018, had duped 500,000 customers to surrender their personal data to digital fraudsters.
On Tuesday 9th July, the ICO followed up by announcing that the Marriott hotel group was to be fined £99.2m following its admittance in November 2018 that 339 million records of its guest data – including credit card details, passport numbers and dates of birth – had been stolen outright by intruders.
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"The ICO is now showing its commitment to carrying out its GDPR duty, and BA and Marriott's penalties should serve as firm precedents – and very real warning – for other companies contravening data law, as well as the level of basic service they owe their customers."
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Data Breach Costs Rise
Data Theft
Cracking down on Data Breaches – It's not all about Technology

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Some kids arrive by ambulance. Others by helicopter. Some will leave the same day. Others will stay for weeks. Whether they're in the burn unit, the trauma center, the oncology department or the rehabilitation unit, the children at Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital in Portland, Oregon, all have one thing in common: They'd rather be somewhere else.
Jen Usinger is one of five certified Child Life specialists at Legacy Emanuel, dedicated to helping young patients cope with the pain, anxiety and boredom that inevitably accompany their hospital stays. "It's a kid's job to play and have fun," she says, "and we try to incorporate that into their hospital experience." Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity helps them do just that.
Child's Play, founded in 2003 by Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, recently disclosed that its 2007 holiday donations drive raised more than $1.1 million in cash, toys and games for children's hospitals like Legacy Emanuel. Though Child's Play began as a modest attempt to provide toys and games to the Seattle Children's Hospital, last year the gaming community and industry helped the charity provide donations to 50 hospitals in North America and worldwide.
2007 was Legacy Emanuel's second year as a Child's Play beneficiary. Like other participating hospitals, its patients have benefited from a steady stream of holiday donations, often purchased by Child's Play donors from hospital-specific Amazon.com wish lists. The hospital gets books, DVDs, art activity sets, board games and more. "It's been great," says Usinger. "It's impressive that we get to have a say, because we don't necessarily get a budget to buy toys or videogame systems. It's how we've received all of our hand-held games. Those don't come in through individual donors very often – that's a rarity."
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Games and activities are much more than just novel pastimes. They're a desperately needed distraction from the discomfort and boredom of hospitalization, where kids too often find themselves confined to bed or otherwise isolated. "That's not part of being a kid, and that's not what you should be doing," says Usinger. "What you should be doing is playing. Kids in the hospital aren't going to be outside running laps, but they still need to play. I mean, I can prepare them for surgery, and we can do medical play and all of that stuff, but you can't do that all day. You have to take a mental break. You have to check out and be a kid."


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package Engine;

import org.lwjgl.BufferUtils;
import org.lwjgl.util.vector.Matrix4f;
import org.lwjgl.util.vector.Vector3f;

import java.nio.FloatBuffer;

/**
 * Created by john_bachman on 3/14/16.
 */
public class MatrixUtils {

    public static Matrix4f createTransformMatrix(Vector3f translate, float rotx, float roty, float rotz, float scale) {
        Matrix4f matrix = new Matrix4f();
        matrix.setIdentity();
        Matrix4f.scale(new Vector3f(scale, scale, scale), matrix, matrix);
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        Matrix4f.rotate((float) Math.toRadians(rotx), new Vector3f(1, 0, 0), matrix, matrix);
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        Matrix4f.rotate((float) Math.toRadians(rotz), new Vector3f(0, 0, 1), matrix, matrix);
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    }

    public static FloatBuffer MatrixToFloatBuffer(Matrix4f matrix) {
        FloatBuffer floatBuffer = BufferUtils.createFloatBuffer(16);
        matrix.store(floatBuffer);
        floatBuffer.flip();
        return floatBuffer;
    }

}


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Picking one battery at random from Sears DieHard, I found 730 CCA. That's 730 Amps at 12 V. That is a LOT of power.
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e.g. 5V drop x CCA rating of 800A = 4000 Watts of heat for 30 seconds can supply 7.5V * 800 = 6000 Watts of power to the load.
This is the maximum "safe" power transfer.
The starting current for a DC motor is 8~10x the "rated current", and is also called the "stall current". This may be calculated or measured with a voltmeter.
Obviously, this ages the battery faster with frequent max CCA tests and also if the left in an undercharged condition < 11.5V but cars do not typically draw the max CCA rating and the lights do not dim to half power, but if they do then battery may be weak, badly sulphated or simply have high ESR.
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Nicosia Beyond Partition. Complex Geographies of the Divided City
by Anna Casaglia
This book is the result of a long period of research conducted by the author in Nicosia with the aim of understanding the complex geographies of its spatial and social configuration. Nicosia is the capital of the two entities that emerged after the Greek Cypriot coup and the subsequent Turkish military occupation of part of the island in 1974. The book frames the consequences of partition through analyses of different scales, from the urban level of everyday life and interactions, to supranational aspects including the role of the European Union and how Cyprus' membership impacted the path to the resolution of the longstanding conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.
The spatial crystallisation of this conflict and the reorganisation of the city are the main objects of the study. The book tackles the roles of diverse political and institutional actors, placing them in dialogue with the experiences of people living in a divided city. It discusses citizens' encounters with the 'other', their emotional relations with space, and the role of urban materiality in shaping narratives on the nation and on history.
Anna Casaglia is assistant professor at the University of Trento, School of International Studies and Department of Sociology and Social Research
From introduction (pag. 9-11)
Nicosia is a city divided physically, ethnically, religiously, and politically by a double line of fences, walls, barbed wire, and barrels. It is the capital city of two national entities: the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). […]
Following the presentation of the case study and an explanation of the research conducted in Nicosia, the text opens with an overview of the articulated theoretical framework necessary to study a situation of border dispute, with specific attention paid to its urban dynamics.
The consequences of the physical division for urban life are then analysed in relation to development and planning, the administration of the city, economic dysfunctions, and interactions among residents living on the opposite sides. The role of external actors is presented throughout the book to afford an understanding of the interconnection of diverse agents at different scales in the definition of the situation and in the structuring of people's everyday life in Cyprus.
Finally, a critical analysis of the landscape of partition in Nicosia offers insights into national identities, historical narratives, and the results of the exercise of political power on space.
All these aspects shed light on issues concerning the construction of identity linked to territorial belonging in the specific case of contested territories. Space is considered as both a carrier and receiver of meanings tied to the conflict that characterise a given context. The main assumption is that in cities in which a division, whether materialised as a wall or not, marks the existence of a present conflict or the memory of a past one, people will experience a definition of feelings of belonging and a construction of otherness in strongly territorial terms.
Therefore, the very possibility of imagining alternative relations of coexistence in a shared, though divided, space passes through a resignification of the spatial. Attention to the everyday aspects of partition allows us to go beyond the reduction of Nicosia to its mere ethno-national divisions and look for traces of opportunities and possibilities emerging from the specificities of living in a divided city (Carabelli et al., 2019).
The presentation of research results throughout the book intertwines the analysis of literature and documents with the voices of the protagonists of the history of Nicosia and Cyprus and present life. The analysis draws from different sources: first, from institutional and government materials, which offer extremely valuable insights into political actors' various perspectives; second, from wider public discourses available in the media; and third, from an examination of the views of administrators, politicians, civil society representatives, and informants in the ethnographic sense. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in four different fieldwork periods between 2008 and 2018, involving civil society actors, experts (both academic and administrative), EU representatives, and Cypriot citizens.
The questions animating this research form part of an interdisciplinary debate that includes political and human geography, urban sociology, international relations, and political science, because they entail a broad range of issues. 'Theories from multiple disciplines are utilised because no single perspective is likely to capture fully the complex social and ecological aspects of urban ethnic conflict' (Bollens, 2000, 11).
This project of a study of a divided city developed from an interest in the dimension of space in the urban analysis, both when considered capable to orient action and when studied as the product of social action and interaction. This is related to the subjective experience of space use and the representations people have of it as key elements to understand the process of identity construction, especially in relation to boundaries.
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Title: Nicosia Beyond Partition. Complex Geographies of the Divided City
Author: Anna Casaglia
Publisher: Unicopli
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Hankook Tire America Corp. has renewed its commitment to DAV (Disabled American Veterans), which provides free services to veterans of all generations where they live.
In the fifth year of its partnership with DAV, Hankook is donating $175,000 to help veterans and their families nationwide by providing access to employment resources and Veteran Affairs benefits by sponsoring career fairs and DAV's Mobile Service Office (MSO) program.
The 2019 partnership was announced at DAV's 98th National Convention on Saturday, Aug. 3, in Orlando, Fla. During the convention's opening ceremony, Rob Williams, Hankook's senior director of TBR tires, presented the check to DAV National Adjutant and CEO Marc Burgess and National Commander Dennis Nixon.
"At Hankook Tire, we're honored to be able to give back to veterans and their families through our longstanding partnership with DAV," says Hankook Tire America Corp. President Hosung Suh. "Each year, we've been able to help even more veterans across the country. In the fifth year of our partnership, we look forward to continuing to support DAV's great work, helping bring career resources, transportation and benefit assistance services where veterans and their families need them most."
Hankook Drives Job Opportunities with DAV Career Fairs
This year, Hankook is sponsoring six DAV career fairs throughout the country. The career fairs aim to bring opportunities to veterans, their spouses, active-duty personnel and members of the National Guard and Reserve in their local communities from companies seeking the unique traits, dedication and commitment they gain from their military service.
As part of this support, Hankook will recruit employees for its Clarksville, Tenn., plant and Nashville, Tenn., headquarters during the DAV career fair in Nashville on Sept. 5, at the Nissan Stadium in Nashville.
DAV and Hankook Support Veterans Through Mobility
Through DAV's MSO program, DAV National Service Officers drive their "office on wheels" across the country to counsel and assist veterans, educating them and their families on the benefits and services earned in service. This program extends DAV's benefits assistance to veterans who might not be able to access it otherwise due to distance, transportation, health or other various reasons. Hankook continues its promise to help American veterans through mobility with 12 Hankook-sponsored DAV MSO stops this year. To bring DAV's claims specialists to veterans in their local communities on a national scale, Hankook partners with tire dealers and distributors across the country.
In addition, as a continuation of the 2018 partnership, Hankook recently donated a new DAV Transportation Network vehicle to help Nashville area veterans access the healthcare they earned in service to our nation. The Hankook-branded vehicle is now the only vehicle permanently stationed at Hankook's hometown Nashville Campus of the Tennessee Valley Healthcare System. Without the volunteer-driven vehicle providing free, reliable transportation, many ill and injured veterans wouldn't receive critical health services.
"Hankook's growing and continued support enables DAV to further support the men and women who served with reliable transportation, job fairs and professional benefits representation," says DAV National Adjutant and CEO Marc Burgess. "Our partnership continues to strengthen going into its fifth year, and we want to sincerely thank Hankook Tire for the valuable role the company plays in helping us ensure that veterans and their families can access the full range of benefits available to them, to empower them to lead high quality lives with respect and dignity."
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Then it was time for us to speak. I turned on my mike and then showed slides of the early days when we developed VisiCalc. Many of them (and the story) are in the History section of this web site (start here). Bob talked about some of his philosophy of developing and using technology. One of the major problems in developing a product like the spreadsheet is in deciding what to leave out, not what to put it, he explained. I then said a bit about my views on the mundane being important (like my What will people pay for? essay), and then we took questions. An interesting one: Did we expect the spreadsheet to be used in so many fields besides finance (like engineering)? The answer: Yes, we figured that out right away when the first review (in Byte Magazine, before it shipped) only gave an engineering example, forcing us to not cut the transcendental functions to meet our schedule as we had planned.
That was it. We got up real early and took the 6:45am flight back to Boston to get back to our regular routine.


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Artist Talk - Jack Catling, Joel Chan, Rufus Noonan & David Stearn
The Artist Talks programme, curated by Lancaster Arts and Lancaster University's Fine Art Department, invites artists, thinkers and curators to explore an aspect of their practice in a lunch-hour.
On Thursday 23 February, we're joined by four MA students from the Royal College of Art, including Lancaster University Fine Art alumni Joel Chan.
Jack Catling | jackcatling.co.uk
Jack Catling is an artist working mainly through the mediums of performance and installation. Through his practice he aims to bring about an atmospheric shift in ontological value, opening up a space for wonders to occur. Catling draws from his background in illusion, his interest in the value and perpetuity of symbols and a shady past built from various fictions. Jack Catling is also a founding member of the performance group: The Parlour Collective.
His MA Thesis, titled Wonder and Liminality, explored the psychology and structure of the magic trick, and its translation into the experience of Art.
Joel Chan | joelchan.co.uk
Joel Chan's practice is an investigation of portraiture and self-portraiture, narration and documentary, the authentic and the imaginary, and the boundaries between fictions and realities. He sees his practice as a form of play and aims to experiment and play with the world, and everything and everyone in it: a kind of play which involves wide ranging mediums including pouring hot metal, altering electronics, and performance.
His MA Thesis, titled The Artist and the Diver: The Death of God and the Birth of Art in the Fullness of Time, took the form of a fictional story set sometime in the future when art, as a kind of secular religious power, might give rise to extremism.
Rufus Noonan
For the past three year's Rufus Noonan has been asking questions to thousands of online workers from within North America. The many databases of material manifested from this practice are formed mainly of text, audio and video files, which then create both digital and physical artworks. The volume, form, texture and mass of the inordinate amount of accumulated data created feels like tar, clay, colour and paint. It is within this approach to the data's materiality where his works begin to take shape.
His MA Thesis, titled Time, Meaning and Experience: Jean-François Lyotard and Arte Povera, focused on Lyotard's philosophical text, Time Today, and a landmark show he curated called 'Les Immaterial' at the Pompidou Centre, Paris (1985), comparing and contrasting the works of various Arte Povera artists with Lyotard's text and exhibition.
David Stearn | davidstearn.blogspot.co.uk
David Stearn's has a practice that is focused on developing a performance based relationship between material, context and the adaptation of a situation, predominantly in the form of interventions/unannounced events. By focusing on making simple gestures using sound, mechanical objects, industrial machines and industrial materials, the practice attempts to cause actions of disruption within a given context or site and alter specific functions through a process of reverse engineering.
His MA thesis was titled What am I to do with this? Sculpting in the Name of Sculpture, and was an exploration of personal experience in relation to the futurist manifesto and the effects of materiality, performance, humour and the macabre on audiences and producers of sculpture.
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Tyler is coloring the space between the tiles on the table at Chili's, and Tucker is looking like something straight out of the 1930s in his Easter hat. He looks like a newsie.
We have just finished an evening at church; we opted to go on Saturday so our parking spot might be free tomorrow for someone who might come for the first time. This has led to many conversations of clarity, since we went to church on Good Friday, again on Holy Saturday, even though Easter is on Sunday.
Just put on your hats and join me, Newsies.
"I have been thinking about Easter. Please tell me why we celebrate it." Please tell me an accurate answer.
Earlier this week, they were caught up in easter eggs and bunnies, and I swallowed a gulp of maternal shame since their priorities were clearly off target. So we've been rehearsing a bit each day. Please learn these answers, even if they're only words to you right now.
There's a fine line between pride and responsibility. It's my responsibility to teach them well; I am proud of them when they know the answers.
We all agree: dying just for the sake of death would be boring and pointless. As a collective three, we're not up for that.
This is the most tangible understanding of the resurrection that I've ever claimed.
We celebrate with our family, with our community, with believers all over the world, and with Daddy and his million friends in heaven.
We celebrate because this isn't all there is.
I don't mean to alarm you. But the Grand Luxe Cafe has closed. Quite seemingly, for good.
I know. I know. Take a moment.
I shall do no such thing. With all due respect to The Cheesecake Factory, she is not The Grand Luxe.
I shall date no cousin of the one I love. I shall not.
They even refer to themselves as "the Colorado location." As if that's how I've addressed my Christmas cards.
Oh, Asian Nachos, how have you forsaken me? I feel like you've gone to heaven.
and they are hungry for the best goodness in the history of the world.
I'll not even go into the fact that Robb took me there every time I could convince him to go again. We were perfect bread partners: he loved the crusty outsides while I loved the chewy middles. We each carved out our favorite part and set the other aside in a pile of marital affection.
But I won't play the widow card right now. That's a low-blow, a dirty trick in the face of such loss.
Farewell, Grand Luxe. I left my heart in your wineglass.
We are working side by side in the kitchen; I am cutting fruit, and he is playing on the Cool Math Games website.
I've received an invitation to the first graduation party of the season: my first class of students will graduate from high school in a few weeks.
Which is odd, because in my mind they're all nine years old, shorter than me, delighting in stickers on math pages, journaling about video games, and experimenting with newly perfected cursive handwriting.
There's nothing quite like your first year as a teacher. There was definitely nothing quite like mine. I fell in love with those students. They taught me as much as I taught them.
And now they're choosing colleges. And prom dates. Both of those decisions fascinate me equally. I was newly married to Robb and just out of college when I met each of these graduates of 2013.
I can see now how time has passed so quickly, how memories transcend and matter. But whenever I cross paths with one of them, they are surprised I remember them.
Oh, silly you. Of course I remember you. Every single one of you.
Well, not everyone has always thought so, kiddo. I'm sorry you get the mom version of me. The sister, friend, love, teacher, companion… she's a fun girl.
And if only you knew how much worse this could be for you. Vegetables aren't even on my radar.
I initiated building a snowman, for the record. Because I'm fun like that. Also, I didn't totally lose my mind yesterday when I found the boys wrestling – while Tyler was holding a saw. I'm not even kidding. I just calmly asked him to put away the saw. Forever.
I think I'm fun. There's fun in me. There used to be.
I just don't think a girl's measure of fun should come down to whether she's willing to sleep downstairs on any given evening.
Someday, maybe. Just not tonight.
And I'm still fun. No matter what they think.


Walk for ME was the brain child of Luke Remnant, Sarah-Louise Jordan and Ian McPhee and was founded in 2013. As a family we have supported this event since the beginning, so not only is it the 5th year anniversary for the fundraising event but also our 5th year of participating.
Since May 2013 The Walk for ME fundraising teams have grown from initially doing fundraising walks to also incorporating events such as sponsored swims, runs and rides across the UK, Ireland, the Isle of Man, France, Spain, Malaysia, New Zealand and both coasts of America.
The Walk for ME Team events have raised over £70,000 including gift aid so far.
This first picture is us in 2011, when Tara hadn't long been diagnosed. We knew very little about the illness and even less about how to manage it. This photograph was taken before we did a fundraising walk for the The Young ME Sufferers Trust (TYMES Trust) ~ so not part of the "Walk for ME" fundraising, but included it as it was our first fundraising walk to help raise funds towards helping those suffering from ME. We walked 5 kilometres during the Easter Weekend in 2011.
In 2013 it was just myself and Keisha who did the walk along with our two Border Terriers Taylor and Skyla. We walked a 10 mile route along the Cranfleet Trail which is a canal side walk with countryside either side of the canal. We were surrounded by swarms of midges the entire route. By the end of it we were damp, muddy and exhausted ~ but thrilled that we exceeded our fundraising target which made it all worthwhile.
2014 saw all of us doing the walk, but this time both Tasha and Tara were in wheelchairs as not well enough to walk. Again we went along the Cranfleet Trail because it's such a lovely canal side walk. It was warm but windy, hence the windblown hair and Keisha who had not long since cut off her dreadlocks and shaved her head for Invest in ME Research had dyed what hair she had blue for ME.
Then for 2015 Keisha once again joined me along with her friend Paige. We yet again decided on the canal side walk of previous years (the pub for a drink afterwards was a great lure). We were very lucky with the weather and had a very enjoyable walk, although I was dragging my feet and suffering from very low energy, so the girls, being lovely, hung back to walk with me. Little did I know then that ME was causing my exhaustion as I had yet to be diagnosed. Dave and Tasha stoically saved our seats in the pub beer garden whilst we were walking and had glasses full of cold liquid refreshment ready for us on our return. Tara was home in bed as not doing so well on the day.
2016 and Walk for ME was my birthday meander as my birthday falls during ME awareness week. I knew by now that I had ME and so took a slow winding route to the beach and back, with many a rest on the numerous benches along the way.
So now to 2017, our Walk for ME this year was walked by myself and hubby Dave, along with our two dogs Taylor and Loki. Due to my reduced mobility I utilised the aid of my faithful crutches and manned the bumbag full of dog treats and poop bags whilst Dave juggled the dogs. We decided to walk up the "hill" to the Tor for our walk but after a pre~walk check Dave realised the walk from the town car park to the base of the mound was way too much for me. Thankfully a very kind man let us park in his driveway as he lived at the foot of the Tor entrance. So, relying heavily on my crutches and ankle/wrist supports to get me there and back we set off. We had to take many a rest breaks as I struggled, especially on the way up. Once at the top we flopped onto the grass to rest and drink in the scenery. It was a lovely day and we thoroughly enjoyed just sitting back and chilling. The dogs welcomed the break too. Finally, once I felt strong enough, we started our descent. This was hard going too for me and the last part of the descent my legs from thigh to toe were trembling and "popping". I honestly thought my legs were going to go from under me which made me panic a little. At last, and with a huge sigh of relief, we reached the car. Getting back out of the car was a trial ~ Dave parked directly in front of the cottage door and I sort of stumble walked in and collapsed on the sofa. My feet are like footballs and my legs don't want to carry me BUT I DID IT! So now I will have to be good over the next few days and rest to recuperate from the exertion, no doubt PEM will kick my arse so behaving myself.
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Why Conservatives Like Ben Shapiro Are Triggered by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP'
It's clear enough that Ben Shapiro and Republican candidate James P. Bradley's puritanical pearl clutching over Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's (censored!) music video "WAP," which stands for Wet-Ass Pussy, is largely irrelevant.
Shapiro's and Bradley's statements decrying the explicit message of the song and the (un)dress in the video constitute the kind of performative moral panics that are so baldly opportunistic as to render them banal. (Though, aside from his ranty and tedious video, Shapiro's tweets express a bizarre curiosity about the rappers' vaginal health in which he solicits input from his "doctor wife".) Yet, here I am writing about them because it is now a central function of being a public conservative scold to swerve boldly out of your lane and perhaps onto an entirely different highway, in another country. These hysterical men have made lascivious rap their business by cosplaying as responsible parents, framing their repulsion as dignity and concern. (Bradley exclaimed on Twitter that the song made him "pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!") So, the moment has arrived at which we must reckon with the not-so-slick game potential conservative lawmakers and self-righteous "dark web" lecturers are playing by supplying us with their Wet-Ass Pussy takes.
In a tweet this evening, Cardi wrote, "I can't believe conservatives soo mad about WAP." It's almost unbelievable except that, across the political spectrum, fear and fury toward Black female sexuality is commonplace, and has been.
"It's almost unbelievable except that, across the political spectrum, fear and fury toward Black female sexuality is commonplace, and has been."
As long as the U.S. has existed, white supremacy has labeled Black women hypersexual and untrustworthy—and thus, bad mothers—and from those stereotypes, respectability sprung forth (in fact, these characterizations were usually imported from Europe). During slavery and after emancipation, many free and then middle-class Black people, in particular, carried on with polite and modest comportment so as not to—they hoped—fall victim to racist distortions. Black women, specifically, saw themselves monitored not only by the white gaze but by Black men—and even other Black women, too. The advent of hip hop, and women carving a place for themselves as musicians and performers within the tradition, saw a mainstream repudiation of Black female respectability. Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Remy Ma, and others came on the scene with salacious lyrics and revealing outfits; Missy Elliott rhymed frankly and facetiously about sex. These women sprung from a legacy of clever lyrical impropriety in Black female expression—Ma Rainey was known for her sharp tongue and even Ella Fitzgerald had her moments.
Many of these Black woman rappers also grew up working class or poor. The postures of respectability were certainly not unheard of in their communities—from Portsmouth, Virginia, to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn—yet the creative imagination of these places often lived in gray areas between public and private, spaces harder to monitor in that they demanded inventiveness in their own ways: The church, the streets, the schoolyard, and yes, the bedroom. Men have been rapping, crooning, and belting about their sexual exploits for time immemorial, yet when women reclaim a space in this much-publicized arena, the same old scripts emerge. For Black women, this double standard is not merely the residue of the U.S.'s puritanical roots, but of the way in which racist assumptions about—and systemic devaluation of—Black women makes them always already too little and too much.
In 2014, Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" elicited plenty of overwrought commentary about Black female sexuality, riling up the cultural conversation around fat asses. Al Roker, for example, was disgusted by the music video, but generally, Minaj received more thoughtful engagement with her irreverent audacity. Mostly the same goes for "WAP," a spectacle that, while not at all groundbreaking, is lyrically astute and visually multi-dimensional. The video itself recalls the work of Elliott, Minaj, and Lil' Kim, as well as pop stars like Lady Gaga and Madonna, whose whiteness has often seen their artistry emphasized over their sensuality. In fact, that Republicans are loudly condemning the video only means that many more people will watch it, just as they "accidentally" did themselves. Megan and Cardi know this, and have taken all hand-wringing in stride, carrying on with the kind of self-confidence that a politics of respectability cannot supply and "future girls" would do well to take note of.
The post Why Conservatives Like Ben Shapiro Are Triggered by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP' appeared first on The Daily Beast.


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A third of Port Hills red-zoned houses are still standing
Mar 20, 2017, 11:59 AM News
Rebecca Brebner
Clearance work remains on 200 Crown-owned red-zone properties Flickr
Six years on from the 2011 earthquakes, 200 of the 619 residential red-zoned properties in the Port Hills owned by the Crown are yet to be cleared.
The cost ranges from $11,000 to $300,000, depending on the property.
Land Information New Zealand (LINZ), Port Hills Group Manager, Brendan Winder, said the properties all had different degrees of demolition that were yet to be completed.
"Each one has anything from a three-storey house to a garden shed awaiting demolition" Winder said.
LINZ has $42 million to do the job - approximately $69,000 per property. It should have all Port Hills demolitions complete by April 2018.
"Our job is to clear the land and maintain it. We support engagement with the community about the future regeneration of the residential red zone," Winder said.
Demolition Red Zone Port Hills
Muslim association wants $1.3 million for security
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But community urges government to be involved in boosting security at mosques.
Native animals threatened with extinction
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Secret Sicily
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This adventure into the heart of Sicily discovers the untouched beauty of the country through the hospitality, passion and spirit of Sicilians themselves. Explore medieval Erice and Baroque Ragusa with local guides, learn how to bake bread with an award-winning Sicilian baker and meet a shepherd whose passion and dedication has transformed a valley into a work of art. There will be an array of delights for food lovers, including the chance to taste fresh produce from local farms, olive groves and wineries, while history and architecture fans will love exploring the historic towns, cities and ancient ruins. But it's the locals we meet across that make this more than just another tourist experience; we'll arrive in Sicily as visitors and leave as friends.
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7 nightsin 3 and4-star hotels
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Day 1 UK – MARSALA
Today you'll depart on your flight to the spectacular Mediterranean island of Sicily. When you arrive, we'll transfer you to your charming central hotel in Marsala, a Baroque town on the island's west coast. You can look forward to a welcome dinner once you arrive at your hotel, and a quiet evening to ease yourself into the trip.
Day 2 Marsala, Erice & Stagnone salt pans
Today is all about Marsala, a town that's known for its fortified (you guessed it) Marsala wine, which has been produced in the area since the 18th century. We'll visit a winery and learn all about the local tipple while tasting different varieties. We'll then enjoy a light lunch of local specialities, including Arancini, which are delicious deep-fried rice balls. The ancient medieval town of Erice is our next stop. We'll explore the narrow streets and take a good look at its magnificent 12th century Castello di Venere. The views of the surrounding countryside are unmissable on a clear day, you can see as far as Mount Etna. On our way back, we'll stop to admire the Stagnone salt pans, a lagoon-filled landscape and haven for wildlife.
Day 3 Farm Cultural Park – Favara
This morning we'll transfer to our historic hotel in the charming centre of Favara. After checking in, we'll visit the towns' cultural and artistic hub, Farm Cultural Park, which has transformed the once semi-abandoned centre of the town into a wonderfully colourful enclave of contemporary art. The regularly-changing exhibitions in this social project aim to regenerate and reimagine the town's Arab-influenced centre through art and culture. The afternoon is free to spend how you wish. If you like, join us on our optional trip to the Valley of the Temples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the best-preserved archaeological sites in the world. We'll tour the remains of seven magnificent temples from the classical Greek civilisation. Or simply kick back and relax into the slow Sicilian pace of life.
Day 4 Favara
You're free to relax on your own today. Alternatively, why not join us on one of our fantastic optional trips? Our first trip is to the town of Agrigento, which you'll have the chance to explore in a historical Italian Fiat 500 while your local guide will fill you in on all the secrets of Agrigento town. Either drive yourself or be driven around this beautiful historic town, stopping for great photo opportunities and delicious Sicilian street food along the way.
If you love food as well as getting to the heart of a traditional community you'll also love our second optional trip. In the small town of Campobello di Licata, we'll be regaled with stories of the city's history and secrets in the main square, followed by a lunch of rustic Sicilian food, including a demonstration from chef Giovanni on how Mpanata a traditional roulade of dough made with spinach is made. There will also be a tasting of wines from renowned local winery Baglio del Cristo di Campobello, goat cheeses from tiny dairy Azienda Montalbo, and extra virgin olive oil from Lu Trappitu, a family-run olive farm.
Day 5 Sant'Angelo Muxaro & Andromeda Theatre
Today we'll get entirely off the beaten track exploring the small, characterful villages of Sicily. Our first stop is Sant'Angelo Muxaro, a fascinating, thousand-year old village perched on a solitary hill in the middle of the Platani river valley, and surrounded by small farms producing sublime olives, citrus fruit and almonds. A local guide will talk us through the town's monumental protohistoric tombs and explain local connections to the small English town of Bedford. It transpires that many of the town's current inhabitants used to live there, which means you can find English speakers on every corner.
During our visit we'll meet local dairy farmer Angelo and enjoy a taste of his delicious ricotta cheese. Following this is a trip to a local bakery, where owner Maria dishes up pizzas baked in wood ovens, bread seasoned with oil and oregano, and fragrant sweets with honey and almonds. In the afternoon we'll explore another picturesque village, Santo Stefano Quisquina, which has an intriguing outdoor stone theatre built by local shepherd-turned-sculptor Lorenzo Reina. One of the highest outdoor theatres on earth, its 108 cube-shaped stones represent the stars of the Andromeda constellation.
Day 6 Borgo Santa Rita – Syracuse
Sicilian wheat has been grown for thousands of years, and today we'll visit the village of Borgo Santa Rita to trace its history through the fields, in the oven and at the table. The village is a mere dot on the map, and home to just five families, but has risen to fame for its extraordinary bakery, where bread is baked to an ancient Sicilian recipe using heirloom grains. Owner Maurizio Spinello, widely considered to be the best in Sicily, will supervise as you participate in baking a batch of fresh bread, before getting to taste the results, accompanied by local olives, oils, cheeses and pizza. Continuing with the baking theme, we'll tour the tiny Museum of Grain and Bread, and explore the village's Church of Santa Rita and scenic overlook, before enjoying an authentic Sicilian meal (paired with local wine) lovingly prepared by the museum's owners.
Day 7 Ragusa & Syracuse
Today we'll explore Ragusa, a hilltop town whose fate is inextricably linked to the earthquake of 1693. Following a rebuild, the town now stands as a Baroque jewel, and part of the UNESCO-listed Noto Valley. Breathe in the magnificent views, stop for a drink at a pavement caf or explore the narrow alleyways and staircases of the Ragusa Ibla, the old town. In the afternoon, we'll return to Syracuse and visit the island of Ortigia, which is connected to the mainland by three bridges. You are free to explore at your own pace, perhaps wandering the medieval lanes or doing a spot of people-watching in a caf in one of the attractive piazzas. You're also free to dine here this evening and finish your Sicilian adventure in style.
Day 8 Catania/UK
Today we'll transfer you to Catania for your return flight to the UK.


Northern Heights are the leading loft conversion specialists in West Sussex.
With over 25 years of experience, completing over 50 loft conversions a year of various types, designs and specifications, we know exactly how to convert your loft in order to add significant value to your property.
Here are a few case studies of loft conversions in West Sussex we are rightly proud of and hope they give you some ideas for your own loft conversion to your property. For more advice and help please call us on 01403 865524 or use our contact form. We look forward to hearing from you.
Loft Conversion to a Semi Detached Bungalow in Brighton.
We did a hip to gable extension with a full width rear dormer to maximise the full potential of the loft with 2 Velux windows to the front.
When the home owners realised that space was dwindling in their bungalow, they turned their attention to the loft. Expanding on the available space, we created a spacious, modern bedroom with French doors and a glass Juliet balcony, with another room being used as an office which doubles as a guest room along with a spacious shower room. We fitted a gable window along with 2 Velux windows to maximise the light to both bedrooms.
With this design and loft conversion we provided the valuable extra living space they were looking for.
Hip to Gable with a Three Dormer conversion at the rear.
Meeting the Regulations – Old for New.
This customer already had a loft conversion to their property but it did not comply with building regulations. We were asked to design and build one that met their needs and was compliant. The old loft conversion on this Rusper bungalow was stripped out first so we could build the new loft conversion with a front hip to gable and 3 rear dormers creating 2 bedrooms with a bathroom.
Just because you have enough living and sleeping accommodation in your home, it doesn't mean your loft space isn't of value.
Northern Heights Loft Conversions helped create a lifelong dream for this customer to have a dedicated Home Cinema built in his loft. Both the customer and the Northern Heights Loft Team worked very closely together to ensure a perfect finish.
By having two side Dormers built in the loft, his dream became a reality.
Whilst working from home suited this family, perfectly. The piles of paperwork, folders etc on the kitchen table, didn't!
After exploring their options and choosing to convert their loft, Northern Heights Loft Conversions created a large, airy working space up in the loft. This meant the family also gained an extra bedroom with an ensuite shower room for visiting friends and family.
This loft space was maximised by a rear Dormer and Velux windows to the front of the property.
Hip to Gable with a Full Dormer conversion at the rear.
Many bungalows have a generous roof height which generally makes them good candidates for a Loft Conversion. This example was built by Northern Heights Loft Conversions, in Burgess Hill, West Sussex.
This customer used the valuable space in her loft to enable her to remain in her own home and continue with independent living. The Loft was converted into two bedrooms and a bathroom, which enabled her son and daughter in-law to move in and for each of them to still have their own space. The Loft Conversion was a Hip to Gable with a full rear Dormer.
Mr and Mrs Pond bought a property with an existing loft conversion that was unsightly and didn't meet with current building regulations.
The roof was reconfigured taking away the unsightly box Dormer and replaced with a Hip to Gable and a rear Dormer. This enabled us to re-site the stairs to the loft over the existing stairs giving the family back two large bedrooms.
Dormer Conversion to the Front and a Full Dormer conversion at the rear.
Remodelling to realise a Bungalows potential.
Mr and Mrs Coomber wanted to remodel their bungalow to increase its value as an investment for their retirement.
By putting two sympathetic pitched dormers to the front of the property and a full width rear dormer they were able to achieve a master bedroom with en-suite and dressing room plus two further bedrooms and a bathroom.
The addition of the loft conversion fully realising this Horsham property's potential.
Dormer Conversion to the Garage and a Full Dormer conversion at the rear.
Extending the usability of a garage.
Mr and Mrs Ferriman wanted to extend their property to accommodate their daughter and granddaughter moving back in.
They extended the property in Loxwood with a full width dormer at the rear of the main building and a conversion over the garage. This outcome was a further two bedrooms and a bathroom.
The addition of the loft conversions fully enhancing this Billingshurst property's potential and value.
Velux Conversion to front and rear.
Extending to start a family.
This young couple wanted to start a family but didn't want to move from their much loved home as it was so well positioned for work and future schools.
They had a Velux conversion which gained them a master bedroom to the property with a walk in wardrobe and a en-suite bathroom.
A large Velux and Dormer Conversion to rear of property.
This is the third loft conversion Northern Heights have done on this property, two to he main building here and one to the barn. The outside images are before the second conversion was made, showing dormers on the right side of the building. The third loft conversion is mainly to the rear of the building. If you line up the flue with the internal images and the ones from outside, you get a better indication of the size of the latest conversion. Outside images of the changes will be posted soon.
This was a large loft conversion incorporating velux windows and dormer windows.


Paskey Tours has seats available on two different bus trips.
A one-day trip is set for May 28 to Amish Country to the Farm at Walnut Creek. This is a true working farm that has more than 500 animals from six continents. A trip to Miller's Bakery and J.M. Smuckers Store with lunch at Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen in Mount Hope is included.
A three-day trip to the Sight and Sound Theater in Lancaster, Pa., is set to see "Jesus" on Aug. 7 to 9. Attendees also will go to the Dutch Apple Dinner Theater to see "Annie." Call Ron or Dee for complete information at 330-677-1000.


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LEXUS LF-30, CROSSOVER FROM THE FUTURE
Toyota's luxury spin-off brand, the Lexus, was founded in 1989. Today, with thirty years of history behind it, it is attempting to look ahead one decade by proposing a concept that interprets how [...]
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HYUNDAI 45, HERITAGE FOR TOMORROW
When Giorgetto Giugiaro designed the Hyundai Pony Coupé, presented by his Italdesign at the Turin Motor Show in 1974, he certainly could never have imagined that forty-five years on his styling research would be [...]
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CASE PROJECT TETRA, WORKING WITH STYLE
The Case Project Tetra concept was conceived about a year ago by Carl Gustav himself, the new president of Case Construction. Gustav wanted to see how far one could go in terms of the [...]
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As you move towards that big yellow silhouette shining in its gold-pigment-enhanced paint, one comment can be heard rising from the team standing around it: "It's a concept, but it's 80% definitive. The production [...]
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CITROËN AMI ONE, SHARING CREATIVITY
Of all the boundaries on tomorrow's motoring landscape, one of the most stimulating to emerge is shared mobility, which promises to profoundly change the daily lives of millions of people in large urban centres. [...]
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GFG STYLE KANGAROO, WHEN THE ROAD DOESN'T MATTER
To escape traditional typologies and their related limitations of use, imagining an alternative mobility not so much in its propulsion, which is obviously electric, but in the search horizon of the pleasure of driving. [...]
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ALFA ROMEO & FIAT, A DOUBLE SUPPLEMENT
The Alfa Romeo Tonale and Fiat Concept Centoventi, two show cars that have captured the public's imagination at the Geneva Motor Show, as described by Klaus Busse, Head of FCA design for the EMEA [...]
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NEW HOLLAND FIAT CENTENARIO, A CENTURY OF HISTORY
Just one look at the orange bodywork of this New Holland Fiat Centenario takes you back in your mind to thirty years ago. It was exactly that terracotta colour that characterised the final period [...]
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How to create a mobility space able to influence the emotions of those on board, through the use of the almost infinite possibilities enabled by four cornerstones of the future - a clear strategic [...]
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VOLVO 360c, THE NEW SHAPE OF SAFETY
From seat-belt to airbag safety blanket: Volvo's journey into safety, from that 1959 patent for the belts we all use (the Gothenburg company did not keep an exclusive on them, but opened their use [...]
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Single Review: The Blankz – White Baby
Phinky posted 16th July 2018
The Blankz
White Baby - Slope Records
Slope Records have just released White Baby, the debut single by Phoenix's The Blankz, on Friday 13th July. White Baby is an autobiographical account of growing up in Arizona in the 1970s and 1980s as a white child adopted by a Mexican-American family, a match that was a rarity at the time. Though it's rooted in personal experiences, White Baby creates a vibe that anyone can relate to, at least anyone who has ever ridden around a hometown that's changed, but thanks to familiar scenery can't help but think about the people and places of their past.
White Baby is a high energy track that recalls the original new wave scene, especially with the keyboard sound that was such a hallmark of the new wave sound at the beginning of the eighties, and subsequent bands such as The Epoxies. The personal nature of the track gives the song an added kick and at the moment I cannot think of a more timely reminder that different races and cultures should be coming together, rather than being used as a divisive subject to breed hate. The b-side, Sissy Glue, pushes things up a gear and leans more towards early punk but maintains the new wave influences, and is there anything else that screams vintage punk quite like a track about glue sniffing?
The Blankz have released an impressive debut single that harks back to the origins of punk and new wave, to pull this off you have get the elements right or you just end up sounding up dated before you've even started, The Blankz have got everything right on their debut, White Baby is a single that recalls the best elements of snotty punk and early new wave without sounding like they're ready for a mid life crisis. The Blankz are set to release their sophomore single, (I Just Want To) Slam in less than a months time and I can't wait to hear more from them as this is one of the most impressive debut singles I've heard this year.
White Baby can be ordered via Slope Records here and Bandcamp here
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Recollections Photography - Newborn Child Family Photographer Frisco/McKinney TX: "What big eyes you have!"
I just finished processing Elaina's 7 month pictures and...although I am her mom and somewhat (ok very) partial...I must say that her eyes are stunning. I guess some of a person's beauty, no matter the age, just gets lost in the day to day shuffle of life. You will see in the last picture that she was ready to quit being my photography subject and get back to being the snuggly daughter that I adore!


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Ångackumulator är en anordning i vilken en större eller mindre mängd ånga kan uppsamlas för att vid erforderligt behov åter avges. Vanligen sker uppsamlingen i behållare (pannor, cisterner) med hett vatten, i vilka ångan kondenseras, varigenom vattnets temperatur och således även trycket inuti behållaren stiger. Vid urladdning, det vill säga avgivning av ånga, lämnas ångans avdunstningsvärme av det heta vattnet i behållaren, och i följd därav måste vattnets temperatur och således även trycket i behållaren sjunka. Av ångackumulatorer med hett vatten som värmeupptagande och värmeavgivande medium finns egentligen två typer: Rateaus ångackumulator och Ruths ångackumulator.

Rateaus ångackumulator
Denna uppfanns av Auguste Rateau i Paris omkring 1900. Rateau ställdes inför problemet att ackumulera ånga genom studiet av gruvspelsmaskiners arbete. Vid undersökning av dessa maskiner, som arbetade med ånga och utan kondensering, fann han, att deras driftekonomi var ganska dålig. Han kom då på tanken att ta vara på avloppsångans värme genom att kondensera ångan i hett vatten för att senare genom vattnets avdunstning återbörda densamma och utnyttja den i en lågtrycksångturbin. Emedan ångstötarna från gruvspelsångmaskinen kom mycket oregelbundet, kunde de ej direkt utnyttjas i lågtrycksturbinen, som vanligen arbetade med relativt konstant belastning och därför erfordrade motsvarande jämn tilloppsångmängd.

Genom ångackumulatorn införde Rateau således en buffert mellan en intermittent ångtillströmning och en relativt jämn ångavgivning, och därigenom vanns ett betydelsefullt ekonomiskt resultat. Som värmeupptagande medium använde Rateau till en början vatten och tackjärn, det vill säga ångan kondenserades i en mängd tråg, fyllda med hett vatten, men övergick sedermera att använda uteslutande vatten som värmeupptagande medium. Ångan inströmmar i vattnet genom ett antal mynningar av olika form och så anordnade, att bästa möjliga cirkulation uppnås, så att så likformig temperatur som möjligt erhålls. Vid urladdning uttas ångan genom ångledningen från ångdomen. Rateaus ångackumulator arbetar med låga ångtryck och mycket små tryckvariationer. Vanligen ligger ackumulatorns tryck omkring 0,2 kg/kvcm övertryck, och tryckvariationerna utgör ungefär ± 0,15 kg/kvcm.

Ruths ångackumulator
En vaporackumulator (av latin vapor, ånga) är en av Johannes Ruths uppfunnen apparat för att vid ångpanneanläggningar åstadkomma ökad ekonomisering och möjliggöra uttagning av olika mängd ånga per tidsenhet, utan ojämn eldning.

Apparaten består i huvudsak av en väl isolerad, sluten, delvis vattenfylld plåtbehållare i form av en liggande cylinder med halvsfäriska ändar samt försedd med ångdom och erforderliga rörledningar. Till- och avloppsledningarna är utrustade med särskilt konstruerade, automatiska ventiler, genom vilka ackumulatorn "laddas", då överskott av ånga finns, och "urladdas", då mera ånga, än ångpanneanläggningen kan avge, under en viss tidsperiod krävs. Vaporackumulatorn kan anordnas och inkopplas i en ånganläggning på en mångfald olika sätt, beroende på erforderliga ångtryck, kapacitet o.s.v. Särskilt användbar är den vid fabriksanläggningar, där ånga av olika högt tryck används för skilda ändamål, exempelvis dels för kraftalstring, dels för uppvärmning. Även för anläggningar, avsedda enbart för kraftalstring, kan med hjälp av vaporackumulatorn goda resultat vinnas.

Om till exempel en ångkraftstation utrustas med en högtrycks- och en lågtrycksturbin samt mellan dessa inkopplas en vaporackumulator, kan driften ordnas så, att högtrycksturbinen tillgodoser det normala kraftbehovet, men lågtrycksturbinen automatiskt inkopplas vid belastningsstötar. Ruths inlämnade redan 1913 den första patentansökan för ackumulatorn, och 1916 bildades AB Vaporackumulator för att exploatera hithörande uppfinningar. Ett flertal anläggningar enligt Ruths system utfördes i Sverige och visade mycket goda resultat. Även från utlandet visades stort intresse för vaporackumulatorn.

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Kates: Exciting hockey will return to the Mullins Center
(Cade Belisle/Daily Collegian)
By Jason Kates
It may have been because I had just finished up a game recap of the Massachusetts hockey team's five overtime win over Notre Dame in the Hockey East tournament, but I went to bed early Saturday morning with a thought in mind: These Minutemen have a real chance to pull off an upset and advance to the next round.
Instead, UMass finished the season how it started, getting blown out 7-0 by the Irish in the rubber match of the series.
But the mere thought the Minutemen could advance showed how much the team had improved over the course of the season.
While UMass fans may be bitterly disappointed with the team's 2014-2015 campaign (which included one of the worst losses in program history, an 11-1 home loss to Vermont on Nov. 24), there is genuine reason to be excited for next season.
And no, I don't think I'm losing my mind.
When you take a look at the roster assembled by coach John Micheletto, something sticks out immediately. Only six seniors are graduating this year, and just two players will be leaving the program next season.
Micheletto is trying to create a foundation, and that begins on offense.
Take a look at the individual statistics and the ages of the players who recorded the most points this season. It goes freshman, redshirt sophomore, sophomore, junior, freshman, freshman and sophomore.
The total point breakdown by class finished like this: 111 points from freshmen, 84 from sophomores, 32 courtesy of the juniors and 39 from seniors. This means that underclassmen accounted for roughly 73 percent of the team's points, with freshman Dennis Kravchenko leading the way with 33.
In other seasons, Kravchenko might have drawn consideration for Hockey East Rookie of the Year, but this year the award has all but been handed to Boston University freshman and top NHL prospect Jack Eichel.
Another advantage to the youth is the staying power they possess. This isn't college basketball – very few players are bolting to the NHL after their freshman or sophomore years to play professionally. So that means core pieces like Kravchenko, Frank Vatrano and Steven Iacobellis will take the Mullins Center ice for the next two or three years.
Oh, and don't forget about Brandon Montour. The Anaheim Ducks prospect took Hockey East by storm when he arrived for the second half of the season, registering 20 points in 21 games. I can only imagine what the Ontario native will achieve next year in his first full year with the Minutemen.
Besides Montour, freshman Jake Horton and sophomore Marc Hetnik are returning to the blue line, as well as junior Ben Gallacher. As a group, the defensemen will be counted on the fill the minutes played by graduating seniors Oleg Yevenko and Mike Busillo and improve a defense that allowed an abysmal 4.2 goals per game.
Goaltending is the big question mark Micheletto will have to deal with heading into next year. Steve Mastalerz, who is another senior, split time with freshman Henry Dill, although Mastalerz was the preferred choice in net as the season progressed. Dill showed flashes of being a No. 1 goaltender, but struggled throughout the year.
But there are reinforcements on the way for the Minutemen, in goal and on defense.
Nic Renyard (a goaltender who plays in the Alberta Junior Hockey League for the Okotoks Oilers and will sign in the spring signing period) was recently honored as the league's Most Valuable Player and Top Goalie. Renyard finished with a 30-7-3 record, earning a .925 save percentage. While Dill has the edge in experience, it wouldn't surprise me one bit to see Renyard grab the starting job next season.
A prized recruit on defense is William Lagesson. A Swedish defenseman who was drafted by the Edmonton Oilers in the fourth round and will also sign in the spring, the six-foot-two Lagesson brings physicality and commitment in his own zone to the defensive corps. It's easy for me to envision a defensive pairing with the Swede and Montour. Montour's quickness matched with Lagesson's defense would surely make for a dynamic duo, and Lagesson could replace some of Yevenko's physicality on the top pairing.
At forward, UMass has received two National Letters of Intent from Kurt Keats and Austin Plevy. Plevy has dominated for the Brooks Bandits of the AJHL, recording an astonishing 92 points in 56 regular season games. His production will surely be welcomed, and will give Micheletto another offensive weapon to build on. In the past three years, Keats has also produced some impressive numbers, putting up 120 points combined in his last two seasons with the Powell River Kings in the BCHL.
With 16 underclassmen returning next year and a strong group of recruits entering the system, I'm going to go out on a limb and make a bold prediction: The Minutemen will finish next season in the top six of Hockey East, and high quality hockey will return to the Mullins Center.
Jason Kates can be reached at [email protected] and followed on Twitter @Jason_Kates.
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UMass finishes off sweep of Vermont, wins 3-1 Saturday night
Chaffee's hat trick powers No. 10 UMass to 4-0 win over UVM
Special teams remain the focus for UMass heading into series with Vermont
Filip Lindberg, last-minute defensive stand will UMass past BC on Friday
No. 10 UMass makes statement in 3-1 win over No. 4 BC
With lessons learned from Denver, UMass shifting its focus to Boston College
UMass gives up three in third period, falls 4-2 to Denver Friday night
Rematch: No. 9 UMass and No. 7 Denver set to meet for the first time since national semifinal
Niko Hildenbrand's game-winner pushes UMass past Rensselaer, 5-3


"The application of preaeration of sewage on the operation and design of waste stabilization lagoons was investigated and its effect on the permissible BOD loadings was determined to provide original and basic information of value to the sewage treatment field.
The investigation was conducted using two 15 gallon aquariums, one of which was designated as the Control Lagoon and the other as the Test Lagoon. These experimental lagoons were subjected to 12 hour diurnal light and dark cycles, provided by means of fluorescent light fixtures.
Raw sewage and aerated raw sewage were fed daily to the Control and Test Lagoons, respectively. Three different BOD loadings were used in this investigation ranging from 35 to 118 pounds of BOD per acre per day. The raw sewage was aerated for a period of four hours before use.
The primary parameter employed in this investigation was the BOD determination. In addition, the dissolved oxygen, suspended solids, pH, and coliform group determinations and a microscopic examination provided information of value to the studies.
It was found that preaeration was beneficial to BOD reductions for loadings above 59 pounds of BOD per acre per day but that at lower loadings preaeration had no appreciable effect on the reductions"--Abstract, page ii.
© 1962 Richard G. Huber, All rights reserved.
Huber, Richard G., "The application of preaeration of sewage to the design and operation of waste stabilization lagoons" (1962). Masters Theses. 2717.


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Repository of specimens collected as part of the DAIDS VAX004 Clinical Trial.
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The HVTN shares data and specimens collected in its studies with investigators who would like to use our materials to answer research questions related to vaccinology, immunology, or HIV/AIDS.
HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN): Scholar Awards
HVTN provides structured mentorship and project funding to investigators working on HIV vaccines.
NIH AIDS Reagent Program
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) AIDS Reagent Program provides critical research reagents and resources to the scientific community. The ARP acquires, develops, and produces state-of-the-art reagents and provides these reagents at no cost to qualified investigators throughout the world.
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This contract is with the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).


In Crimson Class we are happy and enjoy learning. We keep our classroom tidy and look after the equipment and resources. We are good friends and look out for each other. Crimson Colourful Crystals have excellent manners and are well behaved.
Our new topic this half term is called 'The Lighthouse'. We will be learning all about maps and giving directions in our topic lessons. In English we will be looking at a story of a lighthouse keeper with a serious problem! Can the children of Crimson class help to solve the clues?
Our new topic this half term is 'Where The Wild Things Are'. We will be looking at contrasting localities and where places can be found on a map. We have lots of exciting things planned such as creating our own African sunsets, clay animals and designing our own bug hotels. In English we will be looking at the book 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and we will be creating our own versions of the story that will be suitable for KS1 children.
Our new topic this half term is all about our wonderful NHS. The children will be learning about the history of the NHS, Florence Nightingale, first aid, what to do in an emergency and the importance of a healthy lifestyle.
Before we start our new topic in Autumn 2 we will be spending the first week back at school learning all about The First World War to celebrate 100 years since the signing of the Armistice that marked the end of the war. We will be learning about the sacrifices made by men and women during the war, what life was like back then and we will also be making our own poppies.
From week 2 onwards we will be learning all about The Great Fire of London. We will be learning about the bakery on Pudding lane, Samuel Pepys' diary and we will be creating our own Tudor houses to safely burn down.
On Monday 5th November we looked at colour mixing. We learnt all about primary and secondary colours and we used the colours we mixed to create beautiful firework pictures.
On Monday 12th November during our inspiration afternoon we created our own Tudor houses similar to the houses that were built in London during the time of The Great Fire of London.
Our first topic of the school year was 'Into the Woods' where we looked at different fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs and Hansel and Gretel. We re-told the stories by re-writing them, acting them out and creating our own alternative endings.
Our 'into the woods' topic started with learning all about the story of Hansel and Gretel. We have written fantastic stories where we have altered part of it and we have designed our own gingerbread houses.


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Big cat spotted twice over past few days in north Norfolk.
Published: 12:55 PM June 30, 2011
A mysterious panther-type black cat has been spotted twice over the past few days in north Norfolk.
A black cat creature was spotted on Wednesday at around 4pm when it crossed a road in front of someone as they were driving past the old RAF Coltishall site towards Buxton.
The sighting comes after a puma like creature was seen near Worstead by a man, who wishes to remain anonymous, on Saturday evening just after 7pm.
The man said he saw the animal as he passed the second exit to the Heinz Factory, the creature, which was jet black, jumped from a hedge on to the road before running off.
He said: 'It was too big to be a domestic cat but it moved like a cat and was too sleek to be a dog.'
In June an Aylsham woman, who asked not to be named, said she spotted a large cat in the grounds of the National Trust's Felbrigg Hall at about 5pm in late April.
Sylvia Phillips, of Plumstead Road East, Norwich, said she and her husband were driving from Dereham to Scarning at the beginning of June when a jet-black cat had appeared in the middle of the empty road ahead and 'stood there.'
Sightings of big black cats in the wild have been regular occurrences all over Norfolk in recent years. But no conclusive evidence of their existence has yet been produced.