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Richmond's catalog showroom retailer enjoyed playing with the ordinary retail box
by Harry Kollatz Jr.
A former Best Products building in the Ashland area (Photo courtesy Virginia Museum of History & Culture)
Quick: What building in the Richmond region featured more than 2,000 porcelain-on-steel panels with overlapping 33-foot-tall letters stretching 18,000 square feet across its exterior?
If you answered the Best Products catalog distribution center near Ashland, you aced today's Flashback pop quiz.
The New York firm Sculpture in the Environment (SITE) created the building, one of nine designed for Best Products between 1972 and 1984. The design considered the surroundings, offering high visibility to motorists on Washington Highway (U.S. Route 1).
The construction of the catalog distribution center as a gigantic concrete box with 100 loading bays started in 1978, but the pièce de résistance — the "anti-sign" installation — was completed by mid-August of 1979. The lettering in different shades rendered the company's name almost illegible, like one of those posters that make you squint your eyes to distinguish the image. But it caught people's attention.
"Even from a quarter of a mile away, the sign is clear and 'moves' beckoningly," observed the Signs of the Times industry journal.
"It's called an anti-sign because it's not what you expect it to be," SITE architectural principal Alison Sky explained to Richmond Times-Dispatch art critic Robert Merritt. He observed that Sky "waited to see if she was going to be taken seriously before she continued."
She emphasized the importance of the sign in relation to U.S. 1. "The sign is kinetic," she said. "It moves, seems to pick up speed as you pass it on the highway."
The Lewises bridged the chasm between art and commerce by making their business artistic.
SITE architects James Wines and Michelle Stone chose porcelain enamel because of its durability and longevity. "This sign will never look shabby," Wines told Signs of the Times.
The anti-sign remained in 2000 when the Supply Room Co. moved into the vacant building. Owner Yancey Jones recalls, "That was baked enamel, and it looked as good in 2000 as it did when they put it up."
Sydney and Frances Lewis founded Best Products Co. Inc. in 1957 in Richmond. Best started as a mail-order business until the Lewises realized potential customers wanted to see the merchandise. They turned the company into a catalog retailer, with full-color tomes that displayed the wares customers could order and pick up at one of the showrooms. It was sort of like a pre-internet Amazon.
The Lewises bridged the chasm between art and commerce by making their business artistic. Their flagship stores deviated from the traditional concept of a chain, but they were recognizable. The company understood "branding" before that term went mainstream.
The Lewises often visited New York for contemporary theater and, while there, developed an interest in the art of the time. Their purchases jump-started the careers of artists who became stars of their world in the 1970s and 1980s, from Andy Warhol to Chuck Close, sculptor Duane Hanson, Jim Dine and Alex Katz.
They collected the art, lived with it and donated to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. They amassed these works in part, especially early on, by offering appliances and other products that the cash-poor artists couldn't otherwise afford.
Best Products, by 1982, reached sales of $1 billion from showrooms throughout the United States. At one point, Best was the country's second largest seller of diamond jewelry.
The Peeling Building, a former Best Products building along Midlothian Turnpike (Photo courtesy Virginia Museum of History & Culture)
The SITE-designed Best showrooms in the Richmond region included the Peeling Building (1972), on which the brick facade of the Midlothian Turnpike Beaufont Mall store (across from Cloverleaf) appeared to be coming off — or getting stuck on — as one might place an adhesive for a package mailer.
The Forest Building, at 9008 Quioccasin Road, in 1979 displayed a concern for the environment that is perhaps more common in projects today.
"Specialists spent months on the building site, re-training the roots of the trees to grow away from structural footings and foundations," David Douglass-Jaimes writes in a Dec. 7, 2015, post for ArchDaily, "and preserving the natural undergrowth, allowing nature and architecture to coexist. … Only later did SITE founder James Wines realize that the added shading from the preserved trees significantly reduced the building's need for air conditioning in summer months." Today, the Forest Building, home to the West End Presbyterian Church, is the only SITE Best structure standing as designed. The others are demolished or bereft of what made them special.
The Forest Building, a former Best Products building on Quioccasin Road, today home to the West End Presbyterian Church (Photo by Steve Hedberg)
Shifting winds of retail preferences crashed the company against commercial reefs, and it closed in early 1997. Perhaps if it had been able to adjust and maintain, rather than Amazon choosing New York City and Northern Virginia for new offices, Best would be expanding its international headquarters here.
The size of the Ashland anti-sign made acquisition by a local museum prohibitive. "We recycled 20 tons of metal," recalls Supply Room owner Jones, adding, "kind of a shame because it was kind of neat as an art picture." He kept just one piece of enamel, which is on display in the firm's entrance lobby with pictures of the sign.
SITE also designed the 1975 Best corporate headquarters that I toured in March 1997 during liquidation of its art and furnishings. Once thrumming with the energy of a busy hub for a chain of 88 stores, the building off East Parham Road near Interstate 95 then resembled a sound stage after a show's cancellation but before they dismantled the sets.
While meandering around, I encountered a former employee who wistfully recalled how working at Best caused her to appreciate the company's attention to aesthetics. "You didn't realize how lucky you were until you went into other corporate environments," she said.
One piece I found, as though left there for my metaphorical purposes, was a 1975 oil on canvas by Marilyn Minter, titled "Last Floor."
Minter is a well-known contemporary painter of photo-realist, yet abstract, works of gritty and often provocative subjects.
This one depicted a textured hardwood surface across which was strewn a clothes hanger, the scattered parts of a child's ring-toss toy and an electrical cord.
They looked like the last bits of a moving day.
Richmond history Frances Lewis architecture Flashback history Sydney Lewis Best Products Co.
Best Cafe at VMFA
I'm curious to know the story behind the Best Cafe at VMFA. The museum displays a (VSBA-designed?) ceramic panel from a Best store above the main entrance on the interior. I imagine Best had several firms design its buildings in different states; was this panel just more appealing or available than a panel from a local store?
Best Cafe 164 days ago
Best Cafe
That's the logo I remember being used in the central North Carolina market the entire time I was aware of the company (early 80s until their demise). Was that logo/panel not used in the Richmond market at the time?
Christopher Muller 160 days ago
Trailer Art
Anyone else remember the company's fleet of trucks in the '80s? The vast majority of the trailers had huge, mural-like artwork on the sides. My Dad was a store co-manager with Best Products in the '80s and early '90s. Sadly none of the SITE stores were in our area of Greensboro, NC.
Peeling page building
The peeling page building was not across from Cloverleaf Mall, it was east on Midlothian pike ,past German School Road and WWBT.I don't think the store across from Cloverleaf Mall had any special design.
Al Jeffers 165 days ago
Harry replies, "Best had a warehouse center pat German School Road and near WWBT, but the peeling building was in Beaufont Mall across from Cloverleaf. I don't think the warehouse had any special treatment, unlike the catalog center in Ashland."
mandy (richmondmagazine.com) 165 days ago
Peeling page, continued
Al is right. Open up Google Maps and go to the intersection of Midlothian Turnpike & Agency Ave. Find the Daily Pawn building on the northwest corner. Look at it and then look at the picture of the peeling facade building in the article. Same building. The center entrance, the small steel door at the very right hand edge, the curved curb are all still there. You can see two seams in the brick where the peeling facade elements were removed and replaced with flat brick. That's the one.
I don't know which building in Beaufont held the Best store--I'm guessing the one on the far right?--but none of them look anything like the article photo.
We stand corrected!
"Flashback" Erred: In the column by Harry Kollatz Jr. pertaining to the design of the BEST Products showrooms and those remaining in the Richmond region, the "Peeling Building" was incorrectly located across from what was then Cloverleaf Mall in Beaufont Mall, at Midlothian Turnpike near the Chippenham Parkway. While Best did use a building there, it didn't receive the SITE architectural firm treatment: The Peeling building was indeed further down at 5400 Midlothian Turnpike.


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Sundry Moldy Solecisms #5 The Drown'ed Book by Mahonri Stewart, (play review)
A few weeks ago our son told us one of his co-workers was performing in Annie at the American Fork amphitheater. The night we went there was some light rain making a beautiful pattern in the spotlights. At the end of the play Annie's optimism inspires President Roosevelt's cabinet to come up with ideas that will pull America out of the great depression, including the Works Progress Administration, which put men across the country to work doing things like building stone amphitheaters on hillsides in small towns like American Fork and Provo. There's a third amphitheater up Provo Canyon at BYU's Aspen Grove campground. I believe it has a stream running between the stage and audience.
I've never seen a performance there, but I have performed at the Castle Amphitheater in Provo. In the mid-1970s Orson Scott Card got a $10,000 grant for his Utah Valley Repertory Theater Company and made some improvements, like replacing the crumbling stone and mortar stage with cement, which now is showing some wear.
I had a minor part in Romeo and Juliet, and remember large audiences for the plays there, so I was a bit surprised that the audience for Mahonri Stewart's new play, The Drown'ed Book, or, the History of William Shakespeare, Part Last was fairly small. The Castle could easily hold an audience 20 times as great, the kind of audience the play deserves. (Parking is another matter, but the Seven Peaks parking lot is a short walk away.)
Playgoers will recognize echoes of situations from Shakespeare's plays, beginning with Thomas Quiney (Sam Schofield)'s funny mocking soliloquy against Stratford's wealthiest citizen, apparently inspired by his father's having had to beg a loan from Shakespeare. His anger and vituperation seem as out of proportion to the humiliation as Iago's rage at being passed over for a promotion.
The rage colors his courtship of Shakespeare's daughter Judith (Zel Bromley), who has her own rage against her father for being absent when her twin Hamnet died. "That was really his name?" my son asked. "I thought he said 'Hamlet' the first time."
Hamnet is not haunted by a ghost, though–he is a ghost (Hyrum Stewart, the playwright's son playing the playwright's son). He has a single line, repeated throughout the play, "Joy," and it contrasts with the sorrow the characters feel, especially when he tries to comfort Judith.
Thomas and Judith's courtship proceeds, as you would expect, like Katherine and Petruchio's from Taming of the Shrew, but as the play progresses he begins to feel more like Bertram from All's Well That End's Well. (Words Anne Hathaway (Shawnda Moss) says at the end of the play.)
The costs to the family of William (Bradley Moss) being absent for so much of his family's life ripple throughout the play. Anne's statement "Come home, William" brought to mind a visual image of the same line in Tim Slover's March Tale. (Tim played Romeo in Card's aforementioned production.) I hear the line as a homage to March Tale, which takes place at the other end of Shakespeare's career, the beginning.
But if March Tale is about a young playwright beginning to come into his own, The Drown'ed Book is about the costs of that art. Bradley Moss flubbed a few lines and I found myself wondering if that wasn't deliberate, part of the poignance of William's words being inadequate to solve the problems and salve the sorrows of his family life when it mirrors situations he was able to resolve in his plays.
The play begins with William borrowing a device from Much Ado About Nothing to nudge his daughter Susannah (Belinda Purdum) and her suitor John Hall (Peter F. Christensen) toward the altar, but as the tension in the family builds, Anne says to him, "No more poetry!"
The wit and eloquence Shakespeare used to shape his plays and the world they shaped fail William's family as they wonder what characters they represent to their father. Am I Goneril or Regan, Judith asks at one point.
At the end of the play William presents his wife and daughters with newly written plays, telling them he has been working in a new form that mixes comedy and tragedy, and The Drown'ed Book does as well.
I chatted with Mahonri during the intermission, mentioning an essay where Robert Graves said that when he was writing A Wife For Mr. Milton he only used words that had been in the language at that time. Mahonri laughed and described his own stack of books and online dictionaries to accomplish the same feat.
The result is a delightful play with an ensemble that works well together. My son, who played Leonato in a high school production of Much Ado About Nothing–and who greatly enjoyed catching Hero as she fainted each night, thought it was a little slow, even boring at times, but was gratified to hear Dogberry's comment about his piece of flesh echoed in the play. So there's even something for the groundlings–along with a great view of Provo at night, and even heated seats.
Joy and enjoy.
Tickets for the Sept. 1-2 performances are still available
Author harlowsclarkPosted on 08/31/2017 Categories DramaTags Mahonri Stewart, Zion Theatre Company
2 thoughts on "Sundry Moldy Solecisms #5 The Drown'ed Book by Mahonri Stewart, (play review)"
Mahonri says:
Thanks so much, Harlow!
I actually have never seen or read March Tale, but I love Tim Slover's work.
Theric Jepson says:
Props to Mahonri for always moving forward.
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China's '50 Cent Army' openly insulting Islam and the Prophet, encouraging ex-Muslims. 50 Cent Army insults Islam and unleashes blasphemy on the Prophet:Theodoros Benakis – News X
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TripShire arranged our family trip in a very organised way. The resort and the vehicle driver were very helpful and they went out of their way to help us in getting the maximum benefit form the very little time we had. The day tours were amazing and well planned on all the days. We stayed for a week only but wanted to stay for longer. Totally recommend these folks.


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UK's largest container port set to come to a 'standstill' due to strikes after Unite backs action | businessnews
Leave a Comment / business / By BusinessNews-Nigeria
A union has revealed plans for a strike next month that it says will bring operations at the UK's largest container port to a "standstill".
Unite made the threat while revealing the results of a ballot among its members at Felixstowe, ultimately employed by international ports operator CK Hutchison.
The union said workers backed industrial action over pay by 92% on an 81% turnout.
"The dispute is a result of the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company offering a pay increase of just 5% to its workers," Unite said.
"This is an effective pay cut, with the real (RPI) rate of inflation currently standing at 11.9%.
"Last year, the workforce received a below inflation pay increase of 1.4%".
The proposed action, which Unite expected would begin next month without substantial progress in resolving the dispute, is part of a wider union campaign for wage settlements to protect their members from the cost of living crisis.
It has already included rail and Tube strikes – with the prospect of more travel disruption to come.
Rail strikes go ahead
Felixstowe was yet to comment, but the prospect of halts to operations would have devastating effects for the UK supply chain, as it handles almost half the country's container traffic.
It is also no stranger to disruption, as backlog set in ahead of Christmas last year because of a shortage of HGV drivers.
Hong-Kong-based CK Hutchison is one of the world's leading container terminal and port service operators.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: "The bottom line is this is an extremely wealthy company that can fully afford to give its workers a pay rise.
"Instead, it chose to give bonanza pay-outs to shareholders touching £100m.
"Unite is focused on defending the jobs, pay, and conditions of its members, and we will be giving 100% support to our members at Felixstowe.
"Workers should not be paying the price for the pandemic with a pay cut.
"Unite has undertaken 360 disputes in a matter of months, and we will do all in our power to defend workers."
No specific dates for the proposed action have been announced.


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Lost properly
I've been back-cataloguing and watching Lost from the start. If you don't want to know what happens, look away now. In a way it's quite offensive to disabled people. Not only do none of the plane crash survivors develop impairments after they plunge thousands of feet onto a beach; one of them is even CURED of his disability BY the crash! And another has her asthma cured via the medium of eucalypti, because they couldn't find her inhaler. So it's not based in reality and really offensive. And I'm enjoying every minute.
Leaving that one side - and that's a huge buck-passing moment - it's got me thinking. Some people say that having a child with DS is like getting on a plane to France and ending up in Italy. I prefer to say it's like getting on a plane to France and ending up, crashing on a strange, inhospitable island, where polar bears and wild boars threaten you so you can never relax, and there's no chance of being saved! That said, some of the characters discover themselves, so there's that. But we got dumped on that island and we're spending our time dealing with the day-to-day living, rather than throwing up flares.
But the interesting character is Jack. He spends the first few minutes of the first episode being completely bamzooled, stumbling about, as seen in the picture here. Then he pulls himself together and gets on with it. Been there, done that.
Letter to Evening Standard - Undateables


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Q: Can't logged in after fetching data with redux So, I (finally) can fetching data from jsonplaceholder using redux only. The problem is, my login won't let me logged in, saying "user not found". Before using redux, it works well. Please take a minute to see my code (and help me):
body.js

import React, {Component} from "react";
import "./style.css";
import { Switch, Route } from "react-router-dom"
import {About, Login, Register} from "../../pages"
import { connect } from "react-redux";

class Body extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
            userData: [],
            admin: [{
                name: "admin",
                role: "adm",
                email: "adm@adm.com",
                username: "admin",
                password: "123"
            }]
        }
    }

    componentDidMount = () => {
        fetch('https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users')
            .then(response => response.json())
            .then(data => {
                const dataUser = data.map(user =>({
                    ...user,
                    password: "pass",
                    role: "user",
                }));

                this.props.doFetch({
                    userData: [...this.state.admin, ...dataUser]
                })
            })
    }

    showPage = () => {
        return (
            <Switch>
            <Route path="/about"  children={(props) => <About {...props} listUsers={this.state.userData} />} />
                <Route path="/login">
                    <Login />
                </Route>
                <Route path="/register">
                    <Register listUsers={this.state.userData} tambahUser={this.addUsers} />
                </Route>
            </Switch>
        )
    }

    render() {
        return (
            <>
                {
                    this.showPage()
                }
            </>
        );
    }
}

const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
    userList: state.data.userData
})

const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch) => ({
    doFetch: (userData) => dispatch({ type: "FETCH", payload: userData })
})

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Body);

login.js

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { RowInput, Button } from '../../components';
import { connect } from "react-redux";
import { Redirect } from "react-router-dom"

class Login extends Component {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
        this.state = {
            username: "",
            password: "",
        }
    }

    onChangeInput = e => {
        this.setState({
            [e.target.name]: e.target.value
        })
    }

    onLogin = async () => {
        const { username, password } = this.state

        const exist = this.props.userList.find(user => user.username === username && user.password === password)
        if (exist) {
            alert(`Welcome ${username}`)
            this.props.doLogin(username, password)
        } else alert("User not found.")

    }

    render() {
        if (this.props.statusLogin){
            return <Redirect to="/about" />
        }

        return (

                <form className="login-form" method="POST">

Login

                        <RowInput value={this.state.username} label="Username" placeholder="Username" type="text" name="username" onChange={this.onChangeInput}/>
                        <RowInput value={this.state.password} label="Password" placeholder="Password" type="password" name="password" onChange={this.onChangeInput}/>
                        <Button onClickInput={this.onLogin}>Masuk</Button>

                </form>

        );
    }
}

const mapStateToProps = (state) => ({
    statusLogin: state.auth.isLoggedIn,
    usernameLogin: state.auth.username,
    userList: state.data.userData
})

const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch) => ({
    doLogin: (users) => dispatch({ type: "LOGIN", payload: {username: users} })
})

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Login)

getdata.js

const initialState = {
    userData: []
}

const dataReducer = (state = initialState, action) => {
    console.log("state: ", state);
    console.log("action: ", action);

    switch (action.type) {
        case "FETCH":
            return {
                userData: [action.payload.userData]
            }
        default:
            return state
    }
}

export default dataReducer

Console log:

The array has been stored................right?
I'm seriously have no idea why my login not work? Is there something on my code that make it not work? Thank you before!

A: So, after three hours searching and trying, I only need to comment/delete function mapStateToProps in body.js. I assume it's because I'm calling and store data at the same time? Idk for sure either, so, if anyone know the exactly why, feel free to correct me. Thankies. Have a good day, everyone!

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Now that Christopher Nolan has categorically ruled him out of taking over directing the 007 franchise from Sam Mendes, talk has naturally turned to who else is in the running.
Last year Blade Runner 2049 and Arrival director Denis Villeneuve played coy when questioned about whether he would direct the next Bond film, but stated he had already committed to a remake Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic, Dune.
So MGM and Eon are on the hunt to see who will direct Craig, who is set to return as Bond for one last instalment, and British director Danny Boyle is apparently one of the top candidates.
Variety reports though no formal offer has been made, "Boyle has keen interest in the project and has always wanted to direct a Bond film. He is currently developing a project for Working Title, but with no cast currently attached, there is always the possibility of pushing that movie back to direct the 25th instalment in the series."
They add that Boyle, who directed Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours, "has long been in MGM and Eon's sights to direct a Bond movie, going back to 2012's "Skyfall" and 2015's "Spectre.""
Don't get too fixated on the idea though, we imagine come tomorrow there'll be a new favourite.


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Commercial Real Estate Market Guides New Era of Metro Mobile Growth
Updated Sep 16, 2016 ; Posted Sep 16, 2016
By Alabama Media Group Marketing Staff
The Mobile metro area, that is Mobile and Baldwin Counties, contains over 600,000 residents, and is the 3rd largest metro area in Alabama. Baldwin County has been in the news lately for being one of the fastest growing areas in the state, ostensibly on the back of tourism. But at the ground level it seems that there is a larger tide of sustainable economic growth across the whole of the metro area which has been building since Katrina. In fact, there has been over $620 million in capital investment since 2010.
"With commercial real estate, we are in the business of identifying and facilitating tides of growth," said Will Barrois, Vice President and Regional Manager of Stirling Properties for Alabama & Florida. "We look first at the anchor of the local economy, and the infrastructure that supports it, and then at the diversity of business, access to education for the workforce and local governments' friendliness to growth--this region has long-term potential because of these factors."
Troy Wayman, Vice President of Economic Development for the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, says the anchor of the area is location and supporting infrastructure. Manufacturing depends on efficiently moving heavy things: Mobile has 2 deepwater ports, 2 interstates, 5 Class 1 railroads, and access to 15,000 miles of inland waterway. Geographically, it is a natural transportation hub. Manufacturers benefit from multi-modal transportation. According to Chamber President Bill Sisson, 18% of Mobile's economy is manufacturing, double the national average.
The Airbus manufacturing facility, opened last September, is the single largest harbinger of growth. Airbus occupies existing infrastructure, a former air force base, made into an industrial complex with the leadership of Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson. Airbus has spurred the opening of 19 aerospace support businesses, and will ultimately employ 1,000 people directly.
Tertiary Growth Leads Back to Primary
Barrois explained the cycle of real estate growth: People generally follow jobs, especially if developers have made it convenient for them to live in the area. Retail is usually next in line, and then office space. It is a somewhat linear, but it repeats on top of itself when indicators are good. Just this May, UTC Aerospace Systems announced that its Eastern Shore facility would be expanded by $30 million, and would add 260 employees.
Several new shopping centers have recently opened in the area, contributing to market growth, including the addition of new retailers to the Forum Shops, Eastern Shore Plaza and Spanish Fort Town Center, a 230 acre mixed-use shopping center anchored by Bass Pro Shops. The ongoing renovation of Rouse Properties' The Shoppes at Bel Air, expected to be complete in the fall of 2016, will result in a $25M expansion and redevelopment of the oldest continuously operating enclosed regional mall in Alabama. These centers are drawing large national retailers, some new to the market, that are attracted to local population increases and sales growth. "Costco, Dicks, Field and Stream ... these types of national giants don't show up without having done their due diligence," said Wayman.
The Chamber itself is planning a technology incubator to build on the momentum of the St. Louis IT corridor. Retail, mixed-use "live and shop" places can be facilitated by incentives to re-purpose existing buildings in densely built areas. Right now there are 600 apartment units in various phases of planning in downtown Mobile.
The Mobile area has had some well-timed good news: Airbus opening, the announcement of a new Amtrak stop, unprecedented growth in Baldwin County, and a new Carnival cruise ship. "When people feel good about our region and it has nuts and bolts holding that momentum together, we get excited," said Barrois.
Baldwin County will likely see additional office and industrial growth. "It would be sensible to create opportunities for those people to work closer to home, to reduce commute times and clear congestion," said Barrois.
"Our office occupancy rates are higher than our competitors in the southeast," said Sisson. Class A office space is needed downtown as more companies seek to establish headquarters and leadership roles, and also across the bay in Baldwin County where there is not even one Class A office.
Commercial real estate firms, such as Stirling Properties, have an important part to play in this growth, notes Sisson. The more established CRE firms, with the strongest ties to the community tend to lead the charge.
"Stirling Properties one of the most comprehensive full-service commercial real estate companies in the Gulf South, with more than four decades of experience," said Barrois. "We're here and ready to serve the real estate needs of the Mobile metro area, and we are truly excited to be a part of the tremendous growth of our region."


My name is Rachel Chi and I am a competitive rider who loves her horse. I own a horse named serendippity or Dippity for short. I have won rider of the year, 2 champion rider, and a reserve. I do both western and english riding but my main focus is english. I am very proud of those accomplishments and very happy to keep learning. Most of all to sum me up: horses are my best friends!!


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Sainte-Anne – miasto i gmina na Gwadelupie (departamencie zamorskim Francji). Według szacunkowych danych na rok 2013 liczy około 24,5 tys. mieszkańców.

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Jana, S.C., Du, L. "Highly-filled graphite-polymer composites: Synthesis, processing, and characterization." In Graphene and Graphene-Based Nanocomposites, Prithu Mukhopadhyay and Rakesh Gupta (Ed.), Taylor and Francis. In press.
Jimenez, G.A., Lee, B.J., Jana, S.C., "Nanoparticles and Polymer Nanocomposites" Chapter 4 in Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials: Science and Applications, Sharmila Mukhopadhyay (Ed.), Wiley, ISBN: 978-0-470-50891-6, October 2011.
Gunes, I.S., Jana, S.C., "Chemical and Engineering Aspects of Morphology Development and Processing of Multiphase Polymer Blend Nanocomposites" Chapter 8 in Encyclopedia of Polymer Blends, Volume 2, Avraam Isayev (Ed.), Wiley-VCH Publishers, ISBN: 978-3-527-31930-5, November 2011.
Gunes, I.S., Jana, S.C., "Biomedical applications of shape memory polymers and their nanocomposites", in Polymeric Biomaterials, Vol II: Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Applications of Polymers, Dumitriu, S. (Ed.), CRC Press, 2010 (in review).
Gunes, I.S., Jung. C.D., Jana, S.C., "Evolution of non-linear rheology and network formation during thermoplastic polyurethane polymerization and its relationship to reaction kinetics, phase separation, and mixing", Ch. 3 in "Non-linear Dynamics with Polymers", Pojman, J., Miyata, Q.T. (Ed)., 2009 (in press).
Jana, S.C., "Clay Nanocomposites Of Polyurethanes And Epoxies: Preparation Methods And Properties", Chapter 9 in Processing and Properties of Nanocomposites, ISBN 978-981-270-390-3, Advani, S.G. (Ed), World Scientific, Published December 2006.
Roy, S., Lee, B.J., Kakish, Z.M., Jana, S.C. 2012 Exploiting sorbitol-POSS interactions: Issues of reinforcement of isotactic polypropylene spun fibers. Macromolecules, 45(5), 2420-2433.
Roy, S., Feng, J., Scionti, V., Jana, S.C., Wesdemiotis, C. 2012 Self-assembled structure formation from interactions between polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane and sorbitol in preparation of polymer compounds. Polymer, 53, 1711-1724.
Pisitsak, P., Magaraphan, R., Jana, S.C. 2011 Electrically conductive compounds of polycarbonate, liquid crystalline polymer, and multi-walled carbon nanotubes. In revision. J. Appl. Polym. Sci.
Roy, S., Scionti, V., Jana, S. C*., Wesdemiotis, C., Pischera, A.M., Espe, M. P. 2011 Sorbitol–POSS interactions on development of isotactic polypropylene composites. Macromolecules, 44, 8064–8079.
Gunes, I.S., Pérez-Bolívar, C., Jimenez, G. A., Celikbicak, O., Li, F., Anzenbacher, P., Wesdemiotis, C., Jana, S.C.* 2011 Analysis of energy transfer and ternary non-covalent filler/matrix/UV stabilizer interactions in carbon nanofiber and oxidized carbon nanofiber filled poly(methyl methacrylate) composites. Polymer, 52, 5355-5361.
Randall, J. P., Meador, M. A. B., Jana, S. C*. 2011 Tailoring mechanical properties of aerogels for aerospace applications. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 3, 613-626.
Perilla, J.E., Lee, B.J., Jana, S.C. 2010 Rheological investigation of interactions between sorbitol and polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane in development of nanocomposites of isotactic polypropylene. In review, J. Rheol.
Ertekin, A., Jana, S.C., Thomas, R., 2009 An investigation on the capillary wetting of glass fiber tow and fabric structures with nanoclay-enriched reactive epoxy and silicone oil mixtures. Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 1 (8), 1662-1671.
Gintert, M., Jana, S.C., Miller, S. 2007 On optimum organic treatment of nanoclay for PMR-15 nanocomposites, Polymer, 48, 7573-7581.
Sau, M., Jana, S.C. 2004 A study on the effects of chaotic mixer design and operating conditions on morphology development in immiscible polymer systems. Polym. Eng. Sci., 44 (3), 407-422.
Jana , S.C. , 2003 Chaotic mixing: a new technology for polymer blending. Int. J. Plastics Tech. ( India), 6(1), 88-92.
Pakdel, P., Jana, S.C., Ottino, J.M. 1996 Application of boundary integral techniques to fluid tracking and mixing. Chemical Engineering Communications, 148-150, 347-362.
Ottino, J.M., Metcalfe, G., Jana, S.C. 1995 Experimental studies of chaotic mixing. In Proceedings of 2 nd Experimental Chaos Conference, Ditto, W. (ed), pp.3-20, World Scientific, London.
Jana,S.C., Gupta, S.K. 1989 Irreversible step growth polymerization having segmental diffusion limitations in HCSTRs - simulation and steady state multiplicity. Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 38, 979-995.
Jana , S.C. , Sutradhar, B.C., Basu, R., Ray, P., Dutta, B.K. 1989 Countercurrent gas absorption with chemical reaction in a laminar falling film. Chemical Engineering Communications, 79, 27-37.
Cao, F., Jana, S.C. 2008 Evaluation of shape memory properties of polyurethane nanocomposites with high hard segment content. SPE ANTEC 66, 172-176.
B.J. Lee, Jana, S.C. 2008 Strengthening of polyolefins by bottom-up self-assembly of POSS nanoparticles. SPE ANTEC 66, 177-180.
Gunes, I.S., Jimenez, G.A., Du, L., Jana, S.C. 2008 Analysis of positive temperature coefficient effect in carbon nanofiber and carbon black filled shape memory polyurethane composites. SPE ANTEC 66, 640-644.
Gunes, I.S., Cao, F., Jana, S.C. 2008 Effect of thermal expansion on shape memory behavior of polyurethane nanocomposites. SPE ANTEC 66, 1198-1202.
Du, L., Jana, S.C. 2008 Evaluation of hygrothermal effects on properties of highly conductive epoxy/graphite composites. SPE ANTEC 66, 1972-1976.
Jimenez, G.A., Jana, S.C. 2008 Dispersion of functionalized carbon nanofibers in thermoplastic polyurethanes. SPE ANTEC 66, 2053-2057.
Jimenez, G., Jana, S.C. 2007 Polyurethane-carbon nanofiber composites for shape memory effects. SPE ANTEC 65, 18-22.
Du, L., Jana, S.C., 2007 Highly conductive epoxy composites for application as bipolar plates in proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), SPE ANTEC 65, 235-239.
Gunes, I.S., Cao, F., Jiménez, G.A., Jana, S.C., 2007 Evaluation of nanoparticulate fillers for shape memory polyurethane nanocomposites, SPE ANTEC 65, 1362-1366.
Cao, F., Jana, S.C., 2007 Shape memory polyurethane-clay nanocomposites. SPE ANTEC 65, 1367-1371.
Gintert, M., Jana, S.C., Miller, S.G., 2007 Evaluation of nanoclay exfoliation strategies for thermoset polyimide nanocomposite systems. SPE ANTEC 65, 1399-1403.
Gintert, M., Campbell, S., Jana, S.C., 2006 Harnessing molecular forces to exfoliate clay in thermoset systems, SPE ANTEC 64, 258-262.
Jana, S.C., Dharaiya, D., Pattanayak, A., Jung, C.D., 2006 Chemical and engineering issues of polymer nanocomposites design, SPE ANTEC 64, 496-500.
Jana, S.C., Dharaiya, D., 2006, Particulate fillers on morphology development in chaotic mixing, SPE ANTEC 64, 2132-2136.
Jimenez, G., Jana, S.C., 2006, Polymer composites of modified carbon nanofibers prepared by chaotic mixing, SPE ANTEC 64, 352-356.
Du, L., Jana, S.C., 2006, Carbon-filled polymer composites bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC), SPE ANTEC 64, 456-460.
Cao, F., Jana, S.C., 2006, Nanoclay-tethered shape memory polyurethane nanocomposites, SPE ANTEC 64, 646-649.
Dharaiya, D., Jana, S.C. 2005 Morphology development in blends of nanoclay, polyamide 6, and polypropylene processed in a chaotic mixer. SPE ANTEC 63, 1439-1443.
Jung, C.D., Jana, S.C. 2005 Effect of chaotic mixing on catalyzed thermoplastic polyurethane polymerization. SPE ANTEC 63, 1800-1804.
Dharaiya, D., Jana, S.C., Lyuksyutov, S. 2005 Production of conductive multiphase polymer systems via selective localization of carbon black under chaotic mixing conditions. SPE ANTEC 63, 2106-2110.
Gintert, M., Jana, S.C., Campbell, S., 2005 Nanoclay exfoliation in thermoset polyimide. SPE ANTEC 63, 1364-1368.
Jimenez, G., Jana, S.C., 2005 Preparation of poly(methylemethacrylate) and carbon nanofiber composites by chaotic mixing. SPE ANTEC 63, 1938-1942.
Dharaiya, D., Jana, S.C. 2005 Measurement of surface polarity of organically treated nanoclay using contact angle method. SPE ANTEC 63, 2213-2216.
Pattanayak, A., Jana, S.C. 2005 Thermoplastic polyurethane nanocomposites of reactive silicate clays. SPE ANTEC 63, 1933-1937.
Chandra, A., Jana, S.C., 2004 Effect of morphology on mechanical properties of composites prepared by reaction-induced phase separation, SPE ANTEC 62, 2976-2980.
Pattanayak, A., Jana, S.C., 2004 Polyurethane-clay nanocomposites via bulk polymerization methods. SPE ANTEC 62, 1962-1966.
Jung, C.D., Jana, S.C., 2004 Synthesis of thermoplastic polyurethanes by chaotic mixing. SPE ANTEC 62, 2814-2818.
Hong, C.M., Jana, S.C., 2004 Shear-induced migration of glass beads during injection molding in filled polymer compound and its effect on mechanical properties and electrical conductivity. SPE ANTEC 62, 1841-1845.
Dharaiya, D., Jana, S.C., 2004 The effects of nanoclay on morphology development in immscible polymer systems by chaotic mixing. SPE ANTEC 62, 2798-2802.
Perilla, J., Jana, S.C. 2004 Morphology-rheology relationships in coalescence of polypropylene droplets in polyamide 6-polypropylene blends induced by simple shear flows. SPE ANTEC 62, 1080-1084.
Perilla, J., Jana, S.C. 2004 Analysis of the effects of flow reorientation in chaotic mixing flows on coalescence in blends of polypropylene and polystyrene. SPE ANTEC 62, 2819-2823.
Perilla, J., Jana, S.C. 2004 Time scales of coalescence in processing flows: Investigation of flow through runners and strip molds. SPE ANTEC 62, 3423-3427.
Park, J.H., Jana, S.C. 2004 Plasticization of epoxy network in epoxy-nanoclay systems due to stoichiometric imbalance. SPE ANTEC 62, 2897-2901.
Sau, M., Jana, S.C. 2003 A study on the effects of chaotic mixer design and operating conditions on the development of morphology in immiscible polymer systems. SPE ANTEC, 61, 1556-1560.
Sau, M., Jana, S.C. 2003 Morphology development in PA6/PP system by chaotic mixing: effect of viscosity ratio and composition. SPE ANTEC, 61, 1508-1512.
Pattanayak, A., Jana, S.C. 2003 A study on intercalation and exfoliation of layered silicate nanoparticles in thermoplastic polyurethanes. SPE ANTEC, 61, 1424-1428.
Park, J.H., Jana, S.C., 2003 Epoxy-aided dispersion of nanoclay in PMMA. SPE ANTEC, 61, 1443-1447.
Chandra, A., Jana, S.C., 2003 Fiber-reinforcement of composites by reaction-induced phase separation. SPE ANTEC, 61, 2173-2177.
Park, J.H., Jana, S.C., 2003 Mechanism of nanoclay particles in epoxy-clay nanocomposites. SPE ANTEC, 61, 1438-1442.
Hong, C.M., Kim, J., Jana, S.C., 2003 The effects of shear-induced migration of conductive fillers on conductivity of injection molded articles. SPE ANTEC, 61, 1625-1629.
Perilla, J., Jana, S.C., 2003 Time-scales of coalescence in polymer processing: Study on polypropylene/polyamide 6 blends. SPE ANTEC, 61, 2360-2364.
Sau, M., Jana, S.C., 2002 Blending of immiscible polymer systems by chaotic mixing. ANTEC 2002 Proceedings, 60, 1431-1435.
Jana , S.C. 2002 Avenues of introducing chaotic mixing in single-screw extruders. ANTEC 2002 Proceedings, 60, 1436-1440.
Sau, M., Jana, S.C. 2002 Morphology development in immiscible polymer systems by baker's cut. ANTEC 2002 Proceedings, 60, 1446-1450.
Prieto, A., Jana, S.C. 2002 Natural-fiber composites of high performance thermoplastic polymers. ANTEC 2002 Proceedings, 60, 2164-2168.
Dharaiya, D., Jana, S.C. 2002 Ternary blends of phenoxy resins with polyamides and polyesters. ANTEC 2002 Proceedings, 60, 2308-2312.
Hong, C.M., Jana, S.C. 2002 Effects of conductive particles on the strength of adhesion between conductive and non-conductive polymer compounds. ANTEC 2002 Proceedings, 60, 2592-2596.
Jana , S.C. , Doni, S. 2001 On the effects of migration of filler particles on conductivity and mechanical properties. SPE ANTEC Proceedings, 59, 2022-2026.
Jana , S.C. , Jain, S. 2001 Dispersion of nanoparticles in high performance polymers using thermosetting resins. SPE ANTEC Proceedings, 59, 2180-2184.


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Vicky, Katrina to reach wedding venue by Monday evening
06-12-2021 Mon 12:19 IST | IANS | Entertainment
Bollywood couple Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal, who are slated to tie the knot at the Six Senses Fort Barwara Hotel on Thursday, will depart from Mumbai at around 12 noon on Monday and are likely to reach Jaipur by 6 p.m., sources have confirmed.
The would-be bride and groom are scheduled to reach Chauth ka Barwada at about 9 p.m. from Jaipur by road, following which a welcome ceremony will be held at the Six Senses Fort Barwara Hotel.
The sources said that the couple's families will also be at the venue.
Various wedding-related rituals will be held in the hotel from Tuesday to Thursday.
The wedding will be held in Rajwadi style, the sources said, adding that many film celebrities and VIP guests will attend the event. Six Senses Fort Barwara Hotel is located in the town of Barwara, Chauth of Sawai Madhopur.


(Photo: REUTERS / Cathal McNaughton)Signposts point the way to toilets, the hearing of Confessions and the location to collect Holy Water in the village of Knock, County Mayo, in this photo taken May 29, 2010. The reverence with which the Irish hold the Catholic Church had begun to fade even before the abuse scandals of recent years. As the economy boomed in the 1990s and 2000s, churches emptied. The abuse revelations have further undermined the Church's authority and fractured trust, alienating committed believers as senior clergy have remained in their posts. Parents, politicians, and even church leaders have begun to call for a rollback of clerical power. Why should our children have to follow a creed just to get an education, many ask.
The EAI stance is similar to that held by a prominent atheist group and a leading Muslim academic in the predominantly Catholic country.
EAI executive director Nick Park said evangelical Christians feel alienated by State-funded schools that are usually run by the Catholic Church, which has by far the largest religious following in Ireland.
He mentioned Catholic practices such as the First Communion which can be a problem for evangelical parents.
"Should we allow our children to sit through religious activities which are contrary to our beliefs? Or should we ask that our children be exempted?" he said.
In Ireland - once considered the most Catholic country in the world - the Catholic Church runs more than 90 percent of public schools.
Increased prosperity in the 1990s along with cover ups by Catholic leaders of child abuse at schools in the 20th century have undermined church credibility and led to many Irish now shunning Catholicism.
The Irish Times reported that the position of EAI to call for a secular education system in Irish schools is similar to the one proposed by Atheist Ireland.
The Atheist Ireland group has also welcomed calls by Dr. Ali Selim of the Islamic Cultural Centre in Dublin for a "revolution of inclusivity" in Irish schools and "an upheaval in Irish educational perspectives."
Selim is a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and along with the Mater Dei Institute, made the calls for secularization in his new book, Islam and Education in Ireland.
The group revealed that it looks forward to working with the Islamic Foundation of Ireland.
It aims "to promote a revolution of inclusivity, so that all children regardless of what their parents believe will have access to a neutral studying environment in accordance with human rights law and access to their local school without religious discrimination."
Polls show that if given a choice, three out of four parents say they would send their children to schools run by groups other than churches.
The most prominent substitute for church-run education is a multi-denominational model from Educate Together, a group with no church affiliation that operates 65 of Ireland's nearly 3,200 primary schools.


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Fasting may improve overall health and protect against age-linked diseases
In a University of California, Irvine-led study, researchers found evidence that fasting affects circadian clocks in the liver and skeletal muscle, causing them to rewire their metabolism, which can ultimately lead to improved health and protection against aging-associated diseases. The study was published recently in Cell Reports.
The circadian clock operates within the body and its organs as intrinsic time-keeping machinery to preserve homeostasis in response to the changing environment. And, while food is known to influence clocks in peripheral tissues, it was unclear, until now, how the lack of food influences clock function and ultimately affects the body.
The researchers discovered fasting influences the circadian clock and fasting-driven cellular responses, which together work to achieve fasting-specific temporal gene regulation,
The research was conducted using mice, which were subjected to 24-hour periods of fasting. While fasting, researchers noted the mice exhibited a reduction in oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), and energy expenditure, all of which were completely abolished by refeeding, which parallels results observed in humans.
The reorganization of gene regulation by fasting could prime the genome to a more permissive state to anticipate upcoming food intake and thereby drive a new rhythmic cycle of gene expression. In other words, fasting is able to essentially reprogram a variety of cellular responses. Therefore, optimal fasting in a timed manner would be strategic to positively affect cellular functions and ultimately benefiting health and protecting against aging-associated diseases.
This study opens new avenues of investigation that could ultimately lead to the development of nutritional strategies to improve health in humans.
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Code: JGAB-AR
Adopted: 8/8/07
Re-adopted: 11/5/19
If restraint or seclusion continues for more than 30 minutes, school staff will attempt to immediately notify parents or guardians verbally or electronically.
Following an incident involving the use of restraint or seclusion, school staff will provide parents or guardians of the student the following:
Verbal or electronic notice of the incident by the end of the school day when the incident occurred.
Written documentation of the incident within 24 hours that provides:
A description of the restraint or seclusion including
The date of the restraint or seclusion;
The times the restraint or seclusion began and ended; and
The location of the incident
A description of the student's activity that prompted the use of restraint or seclusion;
The efforts used to de-escalate the situation and the alternatives to restraint or seclusion that were attempted;
The names of staff of the district who administered the restraint or seclusion;
A description of the training status of the staff of the district who administered the restraint or seclusion, including any information that may need to be provided to the parent or guardian; and
Timely notification of a debriefing meeting to be held and of the parent's or guardian's right to attend the meeting.
If the restraint or seclusion was administered by a person without training, the administrator will ensure written notice is issued to the parent or guardian of the student that includes the lack of training, and the reason why a person without training administered the restraint or seclusion. The administrator will ensure written notice of the same to the superintendent.
An administrator will be notified as soon as practicable whenever restraint or seclusion has been used.
If restraint or seclusion continues for more than 30 minutes the student must be provided with adequate access to bathroom and water every 30 minutes. If restraint or seclusion continues for more than 30 minutes, every 15 minutes after the first 30 minutes, an administrator for the district must provide written authorization for the continuation of the restraint or seclusion, including providing documentation for the reason the restraint or seclusion must be continued Whenever restraint or seclusion extends beyond 30 minutes, staff of the district will immediately attempt to verbally or electronically notify a parent or guardian.
A district Restraint and/or Seclusion Incident Report must be completed, and copies provided to those attending the debriefing meeting for review and comment. The completed Restraint and /or Seclusion Incident Report Form shall include the following:
Name of the student;
Name of the staff member(s) administering the restraint or seclusion;
Date of the restraint or seclusion and the time the restraint or seclusion began and ended;
Location of the restraint or seclusion;
A description of the restraint or seclusion;
A description of the student's activity immediately preceding the behavior that prompted the use of restraint or seclusion;
A description of the behavior that prompted the use of restraint or seclusion;
Efforts to de-escalate the situation and alternatives to restraint or seclusion that were attempted;
Information documenting parent or guardian contact and notification.
A documented debriefing meeting must be held within two school days after the use of restraint or seclusion; staff members involved in the intervention must be included in the meeting. The debriefing team shall include an administrator. Written notes shall be taken, and a copy of the written notes shall be provided to the parent or guardian of the student.
If serious bodily injury or death of a student occurs in relation to the use of restraint or seclusion, written notification of the incident must be provided to the Department of Human Services within 24 hours of the incident.
If serious bodily injury or death of a staff member occurs in relation to the use of restraint or seclusion, written notification of the incident must be provided to the superintendent within 24 hours of the incident, or to the union representative for the affected person, if applicable.
The district will maintain a record of each incident in which injuries or death occurs in relation to the use of restraint or seclusion.
Education Program (IEP) or Section 504 Plan.
Restraint and/or seclusion as a part of a behavioral support plan in the student's Individual Education Program (IEP) or Section 504 plan.
Parent participation in the plan is required;
The IEP team that develops the behavioral support plan shall include knowledgeable and trained staff, including a behavioral specialist and a district representative who is familiar with the restraint and seclusion training practices adopted by the district;
Prior to the implementation of any behavioral support plan that includes restraint and/or seclusion, a functional behavioral assessment must be completed. The assessment plan must include an individual threshold for reviewing the plan;
When a behavior support plan includes restraint or seclusion the parents may be provided a copy of the district Use of Restraint or Seclusion policy at the time the plan is developed.
Use of restraint and/or seclusion in an emergency by school administrator, staff or volunteer to maintain order or prevent a student from harming themself, other students or school staff.
Use of restraint and/or seclusion under these circumstances with a student who does not have restraint and/or seclusion as a part of their IEP or 504 plan, is subject to all of the requirements established by Board policy and this administrative regulation with the exception of those specific to plans developed in an IEP or 504 plan.


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Haspiel + Waid = The Fox
From the Archie Comics/Red Circle press release:
http://redcirclecomics.com/2013/04/22/red-circle-comics-announces-haspiel-and-waid-to-team-on-new-series/
Eisner Award winning writer Mark Waid and Emmy winning writer/artist Dean Haspiel are teaming up to launch a brand new series – The Fox. Taking place in the Red Circle universe, this exciting creative team will deliver an innovative, action-packed superhero story starring the fabled pulp hero.
This thrilling new addition is a shake up to the Red Circle lineup. The previously solicited New Crusaders: Dark Tomorrow will receive a new release date in early 2014. The critically acclaimed New Crusaders series received high praise and year-end "best of" acknowledgements, dubbed "one of the most enjoyable and surprising books on the stands" and response to The Fox will no doubt echo that sentiment.
The first volume, New Crusaders: Rise of the Heroes, is now available for order in Previews. In addition, this summer's forthcoming New Crusaders: Legacy TPB features both new and iconic stories including Alex Toth's run on The Fox, and contributions from comic book legends Steve Ditko, Carmine Infantino, and more.
Red Circle Comics is home to Archie Comics' super hero properties, most notably The Shield, The Comet, The New Crusaders, and The Mighty Crusaders. Consisting of super heroes who emerged during the Golden Age of comics and remain relevant today, the Red Circle stable of characters have a storied history that continues to grow denser with the highly publicized New Crusaders launch.
http://graphicpolicy.com/2013/04/22/haspiel-and-waid-to-team-on-new-red-circle-comics-series/
http://comicsbeat.com/waid-and-haspiel-team-on-the-fox-for-archie/
http://www.denofgeek.us/books-comics/the-fox/102239/mark-waid-and-dean-haspiel-team-up-for-the-fox


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Токтобай Атабаев (; 1933 год, село Ак-Жар, Ошская область, Киргизская ССР — 2004 год, Ош, Киргизия) — буровой мастер Улуутауской геологоразведочной партии Южно-Киргизской геологической экспедиции Министерства геологии Киргизской ССР. Герой Социалистического Труда (1966).

С 1948 года трудился разнорабочим, с 1950 года — бурильщиком в Южно-Киргизской геологической экспедиции Управления геологии Киргизской ССР.

Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 4 июля 1966 года «за выдающиеся успехи, достигнутые в выполнении заданий семилетнего плана по развитию геологоразведочных работ, открытию и разведке месторождений полезных ископаемых» удостоен звания Героя Социалистического Труда с вручением ордена Ленина и золотой медали «Серп и Молот».

В 1973 году окончил Ташкентский геологоразведочный техникум, после чего был назначен в этом же году начальником участка. С 1975 по 1980 года — главный инженер, начальник Тереканской геологоразведочной экспедиции, в 1980—1981 годах — главный инженер Чаткальской геологической экспедиции. В 1981—1990 годах — начальник геологической партии Улуу-Тоо, начальник геологической разведки Южной Киргизии. С 1990 по 1995 года — директор конной базы.

После выхода на пенсию проживал в Оше, где скончался в 2004 году.

 Награды
 Герой Социалистического Труда
 Орден Ленина
 Орден «Знак Почёта»
 Орден Октябрьской Революции

 Память
 Его именем названа одна из улиц города Ош.
 В селе Баетово установлен памятник Токтобая Атабаева.

Примечания

Литература
 Музалевский М. В. Герои Социалистического Труда. Биобиблиографический словарь. — М.: РИЦ «Кавалер», 2008. — Т. 2. — 200 с.
 «Кыргызстан». Улуттук энциклопедия: 1-том. Башкы ред. Асанов Ү. А., Б.: Мамлекеттик тил жана энциклопедия борбору, 2006. ISBN 9967—14— 046—1


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Portable and precise gas sensor could monitor pollution and detect disease
by Chandra Shekhar
Sept. 25, 2009 9 a.m.
In the air, it is a serious pollutant. In the body, it plays a role in heart rate, blood flow, nerve signals and immune function.
Nitric oxide, a gas well known to scientists for its myriad functions, has proven challenging to measure accurately outside the laboratory. A team of Princeton and Rice University researchers has demonstrated a new method of identifying the gas using lasers and sensors that are inexpensive, compact and highly sensitive. Such a portable device, suitable for large-scale deployment, could be of great value to atmospheric science, pollution control, biology and medicine.
Nitric oxide is so potent that a few molecules of it per billion or trillion molecules of air promote smog, acid rain and depletion of the ozone layer. Similarly tiny amounts in a patient's breath could help diagnose asthma and other disorders.
The researchers believe their device could find uses ranging from the study and control of car and truck emissions to monitoring human exposure to pollutants in urban and industrial environments. For medical uses the device is particularly attractive because the results are not corrupted by water vapor, which is present in breath samples. Testing for nitric oxide in a patient's breath, for example, could reveal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and inflammation.
"The sensor we've developed is much more accurate and sensitive than existing systems, yet is far more compact and portable," said Gerard Wysocki, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton.
Gerard Wysocki, an electrical engineer at Princeton, worked with colleagues at Rice University to develop a highly portable and sensitive method for detecting nitric oxide gas, a key player in pollution and human physiology. The device uses a laser and an innovative type of polarizing filter to detect very small quantities of the gas. (Photo: Frank Wojciechowski)
Wysocki is a co-leader of a team that developed the system and conducted preliminary tests during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The team included Rice researchers Frank Tittel and 1996 Nobel laureate Robert Curl, both pioneers in the field of molecular detection using lasers, as well as Rafal Lewicki and James Doty III, also of Rice. The team published its results in the Aug. 4 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
With improvements made after the Beijing test, the system could be made into a portable, shoe-box-sized device ideally suited for mass deployment in large-scale unattended sensor networks for global, real-time, continuous monitoring of nitric oxide and other gases present in trace amounts.
Existing systems to detect nitric oxide and other trace gases have a variety of drawbacks. Some, such as carbon monoxide sensors for homes, are compact and inexpensive, but not very sensitive. These sensors can at best detect gases at parts-per-million concentrations -- they can't handle the parts-per-billion level, let alone the parts-per-trillion level that some applications require. High-end systems, such as mass spectrometers and gas chromatographs, are much more sensitive, but are slow, bulky, complicated and expensive -- and impractical for use outside of a lab.
Of intermediate sensitivity are optical systems that pass a laser beam through a gas sample and detect whether some of the laser light is absorbed by the gas sample. A weakness of this method is that the amount of absorption is very small compared to the overall amount of laser light, so the signal is hard to detect. Further, conventional optical sensors tend to be bulky, use large amounts of the sample, and require frequent operator intervention.
The new system developed by Princeton and Rice researchers uses optical sensing as well, but produces a much stronger signal. In their setup, the researchers passed the laser light through polarizing filters that block all light unless nitric oxide is present. Roughly speaking, the more nitric oxide, the more light makes it through the filters, Wysocki said. "There's no background signal to worry about."
Nitric oxide detectors have used similar methods before, but until now have been hampered by their reliance on large laser sources designed for laboratory use, he said. The new system, in contrast, uses a quantum cascade laser, a state-of-the-art device ideally suited for this sensing technique. This makes it possible to reliably detect the gas at a concentration of a few parts-per-billion. The device is so precise it can distinguish between different isotopes of nitrogen and oxygen in the nitric oxide molecules.
"It's remarkable we have that kind of sensitivity," said Curl, who laid the groundwork for the detection technique in a paper he co-wrote with Tittel nearly 30 years ago.
"A portable sensor that can continuously measure nitric oxide with such high sensitivity is a real breakthrough," said Tittel.
Unlike other systems that need several liters of the sample gas, the compact new sensor needs only a few milliliters of it. This frugality is particularly important in delicate biological applications such as cell-culture studies, said Wysocki. Also important, the new system can run much longer without intervention -- several hours compared to just a few minutes for even the best existing ones -- which will allow for long-term unattended operation.
Princeton researchers are working on various enhancements to the technology, further shrinking the size of the device and exploring an even more sensitive method of analysis called coherent detection. "This technique could help us achieve parts-per-trillion sensitivity," Wysocki said.
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation through a larger grant to the MIRTHE (Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment Engineering) Research Center based at Princeton, and by the Department of Energy as part of larger grants from Aerodyne Research Inc. and the Robert Welch Foundation.
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Top commander killed by US, Iran's leader vows revenge
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Q: How to display H264 TCP stream on the web I have a set of tiny cameras, which are streaming H264 encoded video over TCP. I need to somehow connect to them on-demand based on user actions in the browser and display the live stream to them.
I've been searching all over the Internet on how this can be achieved but not successfully.
The closest I got to this result was writing a small program using libav and C++ to connect to the video stream, save them as motion JPEG and then use mjpg_streamer to display the result as a live stream. But this solution is overly complicated and my program crashes with errors like:
Failed to decode av_out_packet: Operation now in progress

Or
Failed to read av_frame

Here's the piece of code I use to decode the stream.
void decode_stream(const char * address, int threadIdx, const char * output_dir) {
    std::cout << "Started decoding thread ID: " << std::this_thread::get_id()  << "  TID: " << threadIdx << std::endl;

    AVFormatContext *av_format_ctx = avformat_alloc_context();

    // register timeout callback
    auto * ith = new ffmpeg_interrupt_handler(default_timeout * 10);
    av_format_ctx->interrupt_callback.opaque = (void *)ith;
    av_format_ctx->interrupt_callback.callback = &ffmpeg_interrupt_handler::check_interrupt;

    AVInputFormat *av_input_fmt = av_find_input_format("h264");

    if (avformat_open_input(&av_format_ctx, address, av_input_fmt, nullptr) != 0) {
        avformat_close_input(&av_format_ctx);
        perror("Could not open input context");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    int video_stream_index = -1;

    AVCodec* av_codec;
    AVCodecParameters * av_codec_params;

    //find valid video stream
    for (int i = 0; i < av_format_ctx->nb_streams; ++i) {
        av_codec_params = av_format_ctx->streams[i]->codecpar;
        av_codec = avcodec_find_decoder(av_codec_params->codec_id);

        if (!av_codec) {
            perror("Could not find coded decoder");
            continue;
        }

        if (av_codec_params->codec_type == AVMEDIA_TYPE_VIDEO) {
            video_stream_index = i;
            break;
        }
    }

    if (video_stream_index == -1) {
        perror("Could find valid video stream.");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    //allocate codec context
    AVCodecContext * av_codec_ctx = avcodec_alloc_context3(av_codec);
    if (!av_codec_ctx) {
        perror("Could not create AVCodec Context\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    if (avcodec_parameters_to_context(av_codec_ctx, av_codec_params) < 0) {
        perror("Could not initialize AVCodec Context\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    if (avcodec_open2(av_codec_ctx, av_codec, nullptr) < 0) {
        perror("Could not open AVCodec\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    AVFrame* av_frame = av_frame_alloc();

    if (!av_frame) {
        perror("Could not allocate AVFrame");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    AVPacket *av_packet = av_packet_alloc();
    if (!av_packet) {
        perror("Could not allocate AVFrame");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    AVCodec *av_out_codec = avcodec_find_encoder(AV_CODEC_ID_MJPEG);
    if (!av_out_codec) {
        perror("Could not find MJPEG codec");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    AVCodecContext *av_out_codec_ctx = avcodec_alloc_context3(av_out_codec);
    if (!av_out_codec_ctx) {
        perror("Could not allocate output context");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    av_out_codec_ctx->width = 1280;
    av_out_codec_ctx->height = 720;
    av_out_codec_ctx->pix_fmt = AV_PIX_FMT_YUVJ420P;
    av_out_codec_ctx->time_base = (AVRational){5, AVFMT_VARIABLE_FPS};

    if (avcodec_open2(av_out_codec_ctx, av_out_codec, nullptr) < 0) {
        perror("Could not open output codec");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    AVPacket *av_out_packet = av_packet_alloc();

    std::string output_filename = output_dir;

    if (! fs::exists(output_dir)) {
        fs::create_directory(output_dir);
    } else if ( fs::exists(output_dir) && ! fs::is_directory(output_dir)) {
        perror("Target output is not a directory!");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    std::string output_final_dir = output_dir;
    output_final_dir += "stream_" + std::to_string(threadIdx);

    if (! fs::exists(output_final_dir)) {
        fs::create_directory(output_final_dir);
    }

    output_filename += "stream_" + std::to_string(threadIdx) + "/stream_" + std::to_string(threadIdx) + ".jpg";

    int response;
    FILE *JPEGFile = nullptr;

    ith->reset(default_timeout);
    while (av_read_frame(av_format_ctx, av_packet) >= 0) {
        if (av_packet->stream_index == video_stream_index) {
            response = avcodec_send_packet(av_codec_ctx, av_packet);

            if (response < 0) {
                perror("Failed to decode av_out_packet");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            response = avcodec_receive_frame(av_codec_ctx, av_frame);
            if (response == AVERROR(EAGAIN) || response == AVERROR_EOF) {
                continue;
            } else if (response < 0) {
                perror("Failed to decode av_out_packet");
                exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
            }

            if (av_frame->format != AV_PIX_FMT_YUV420P) {
                printf("Generated file may not be a grayscale\n");
            }

            // send frame to encode into out format
            avcodec_send_frame(av_out_codec_ctx, av_frame);

            // receive encoded out data
            avcodec_receive_packet(av_out_codec_ctx, av_out_packet);

            // open output
            JPEGFile = fopen(output_filename.c_str(), "wb");
            if (JPEGFile == nullptr || JPEGFile == NULL) {
                perror("Could not open output file");
                fclose(JPEGFile);
                JPEGFile = nullptr;
                break;
            }
            // write to output
            fwrite(av_out_packet->data, 1, av_out_packet->size, JPEGFile);

            // close output
            if (! fclose(JPEGFile)) {
                JPEGFile = nullptr;
            }

            // unref out packet
            av_packet_unref(av_out_packet);

            av_packet_unref(av_packet);
            // reset packet timeout
            ith->reset(default_timeout);
        }
    }

    if (JPEGFile != nullptr) {
        fclose(JPEGFile);
        JPEGFile = nullptr;
    }
    std::cout << "Exiting thread: " << threadIdx << std::endl;
    should_stop_thread[threadIdx] = true;
    av_packet_free(&av_out_packet);
    avcodec_close(av_out_codec_ctx);

    av_frame_free(&av_frame);
    av_packet_free(&av_packet);
    avformat_close_input(&av_format_ctx);
    avformat_free_context(av_format_ctx);
    avcodec_free_context(&av_codec_ctx);
}

Anyways, if there is a simpler solution which I am missing, I am open to it. Delay between real stream and displayed video is critical for me and can not be more than 1 second.