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    /// Container for the parameters to the DeleteCacheParameterGroup operation.
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Falling in love with London.....Again!
Check in at Palmer's Lodge is 2pm, so had a meander around Victoria (arrived 10.25am) but decided to head to Swiss Cottage - got Oyster Card (£5 plus whatever you want to put on it) from kiosk in coach/train station- a definite must as its sooo easy to use and you can check balance at top up machines in stations (Dad and John would have loved it!) Amazingly, for me, I found the Tube really easy to navigate (reading rather than colours for me - Dad had Nystagmus so colours were better to see than words!) Luckily, no-one had slept in my bed the night before ( Female dorm of 8 beds,mine was bottom bunk - thank god haha!) So I was able to check in early. Dorm very nice but find getting to bed and up in morning a bit stressful as you have to consider other people, so its softly softly haha!
I got Tube to Buckingham Palace and did Royal Mews Tour(Carriages ,Cars and Horses)very interesting- fabulous Gold Coach!I then wandered about,went to Hyde Park and saw Joy of Life Fountain - so lovely and made me feel very happy to be alive - I feel like this lately since Llantrisant Walk.
Someone's alarm went off at 6am and woke me up, they eventually got up (2 snooze buttons later !) but returned later - it was girl above me - and she fell back to sleep ! Then someone else got up and returned ( toilets and showers are communal unless you book private/en suite rooms) Girl above me snoring , so started to relax about that! Eventually decided to get up amid much squiggling about - as bathroom facilities are unisex communication varies , so some people will acknowledge you whilst others do not ( not morning people ha!) I then went for breakfast (£4.99 at Palmer's /Free at Hillspring) It was lovely - I had Muesli ,Orange Juice, Hot Chocolate, Choc Aux Pain ,Boiled Egg and small Blueberry Muffin, there was also Croissant, Cornflakes, Fruit, Toast and other beverages and juices available. Yummy!
Started the day by visiting Madame Tussuad's WOW!!! the ticket included a taxi ride in London through the Ages and a 4D screening of Marvel Superheroes - kept thinking how much fun Kelly and the kids( Warren included!) would have loved this !However I think Taxi ride might be too noisy for them at the moment.
I also came across Boris Bikes - I was thinking what a good idea as there seemed loads of people taking advantage when I crossed the cycle path as a cyclist came from my right side ( I had crossed as cyclist on my left had gone past) and nearly got hit ,very close!!!! I heard him say ''Jesus Christ!'' Bloody Hell it was scary! I still don't know how we didn't collide! Up till then I had crossed one way on cycle paths but apparently the one by Westminster Bridge is both ways!I am aware I should of been concentrating , horrific wake up call though! Its similar to the ''Walk on the right side'' they are really fervent on this especially on escalators as everyone rushes down the left side!
Anyway got back today and there was an young girl unpacking in Dorm (loads of clothes !!) Got talking to her - she was Canadian , here for 5 days having just spent time in Paris (Hostels very posh apparently, doesn't speak French but says people are ok and will help)She's going to Barcelona afterwards- hows that for a coincidence? So are Kelly and her family soon! She reckons it is very cheap there even though she's never been(?!) My feet are doing really well since getting size 7 haha!
What a fabulous trip down memory lane today! I decided to go to Tower Hill - St Katherine's Dock plus I've booked a ticket for Wicked tonight (30% off £47 Seat in Row D) So excited! It took 2 Tubes to Tower Hill although 2nd one was so long I thought I was on wrong one!I got off to find I was only one stop behind haha! It has changed somewhat - more tourist orientated but ,I thought, tastefully done to be honest .I got lost initially trying to find Tower Hotel but soon got back on right track- thank god I like walking!
I found the hotel and Dickens Inn ( directly opposite on other side of Dock) - so beautiful and so many happy memories despite returning to Birmingham with a black eye and bruises ( never argue with a Geordie gal when you're both drunk!) I just kept thinking ''I use to live here!'' When I got to front of Hotel and St Katherine's Dock I thought'' This was my back yard!'' I had a pint in Dickens Inn - looked for other 3 pubs we regularly frequented but couldn't find them, so will do research at home haha!
I went back to Hostel in afternoon and had shower and changed- another girl had arrived and had suitcase of clothes spread over floor plus didn't realise girl above me having afternoon nap till after shower ( I had been packing everything up ready for tomorrow) , bugger it they should be out exploring!!
Woke up at 6.30am to rustling and zipping again (?!) Thank god I packed yesterday , got up and went to breakfast - which I love- then, after putting rucksack and bag of gifts in Hostels Left Luggage.
I returned to Hostel to collect my stuff ( had tea in lounge ) but when I went to collect belongings I couldn't find my purse - cue frantic searching in Left Luggage ( just secured storage room), came out after about 10 mins totally freaked - no sign .As an afterthought backtracked to Lounge - on the seat I had sat ....my purse . Coach due 9pm , will be glad to get in my own bed!!!
The Tube - I can do it!!!
The people - all were friendly and fun!!!
Boat Cruise- fab commentary from crew !!!
Swiss Cottage and Birdcage Park- Beautiful!
I shall be returning as there's still loads I want to do !!!! What's your favourite City???


What's changed is the way that network services are deployed, says Amy Jo. 'What I see all around me now are networked social tools that have 'emergent purpose' - mobile phones and other personal devices.
Very much the issues that Lee Bryant and others at Headshift are exploring - and implementing. The latest from Lee reflects on the practicalities of informal knowledge-sharing among health professional, with a good round-up of links on blogs and wikis, virtual conferencing and other tools.
The problem once you get away from the various experts exchanging ideas, and those running blogs and wikis, is that most people are only just catching up with online communities. At least those are fairly easy to demonstrate and join ... and for people to evaluate as useful or not. Still, early days.


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Ministry of Communication and digitalisation holds mentorship programme
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A thousand girls from selected basic schools in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western North Region have participated in the Mentorship program organized by the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation as part of its flagship program, Girls-in-ICT under the theme: Connected Girls, Creating Brighter Futures.
The Girls-in-ICT is an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), aimed at encouraging Girls to opt for careers within the Information and Communication Technology ICT (Sector).
The Mentorship Program which features women in the ICT Industry brought together mentors from various disciplines. They are; Dr. Mercy Badu, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, KNUST; Dr. Priscilla Kolibea Mantey, Neuropharmacologist, Researcher, Senior Lecturer KNUST; Sophia Tandoh, Advisor, Regulatory Affairs, MTN-Ghana; Angela Adu Ampofo, Regulatory and Government Affairs, MTN Ghana.
The rest are Elizabeth Yaw Amuzu, Student, University of Cape Coast; Regina Farco, Instructional Technology, ICT Center Coordinator/CIC Manager.
Dr. Marion Okoh-Owusu, Regional Director, Ghana Health Service in the Western North Region who chaired the Mentorship program advised the girls to take their aspirations seriously, adding, that they can achieve whatever they put their minds to.
She stressed the need for the girls to make judicious use of their time and refrain from procrastination.
The Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said girls continue to be underrepresented in Science, Technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She stressed the need to improve basic digital skills in internet access to help find and keep jobs to close the growing digital divide.
Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful said the Girls-in-ICT project has been put together to build awareness about the gender digital divide, support technology education, and skills training, encourage more girls and young women to actively pursue careers in STEM.
Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful explained that the Mentorship Program is specially organized to break the stereotype related to gender and tech and encourage authorities to support girls to pursue education in Technology. "For me, the Mentorship session is the best because it gives the girls first-hand information".
She noted," It is not only boys who can work with technology and excel, but you also can too" she stressed.
Minister stressed the need to build ICT Centers to help them practice what they have learned. She said the first 100 girls will all have laptops.
The Mentors took turns to share experiences in their jobs with the girls and urged them to take their studies seriously and remain focused.
Present at the ceremony were the Chief Director, Mrs, Magdalene Appenteng; Director, Policy Planning Budget, Monitoring and Evaluation (PPBME), Mrs. Veronica Sackey; Director, Research, Statistics, and Information Management (RSIM), Mr. Alfred Nortey; Regional Director of Education, Mr. Stephen Kwaku Owusu.
The girls were presented with grooming packages at the end of the Mentorship program.
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Funeral Services for Jose Lazaro Montes, 78, a Hereford resident will be at 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 28, 2018 at Iglesia Bautista Fundamental with Pastor Ernest Rodriguez, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in West Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday, August 27, 2018, and Tuesday, August 28, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. until service time at Iglesia Bautista Fundamental. Mr. Montes passed away Saturday, August 25, 2018 in Hereford.
Jose Lazaro Montes was born March 8, 1940 in Chihuahua, Mexico to Apolinar and Juliana (Sosa) Montes. He married his beloved wife Cruz Sanchez in Lazaro Cardenas, Chihuahua, Mexico. Mr. Montes had worked for Merrick formally (Hereford Bi-Products) and after retirement he cleaned the Post Office for many years. He loved to feed the ducks at the Aquatic Center, and enjoyed drinking a sprite and eating peanuts while he watched his grandkids play at the park. He was the best husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and absolutely adored all his great grandkids.
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Man to be detained for 11 years over fatal assault in supermarket
Feb 1st 2018 8:09AM
A man who fatally kicked a rival in the head inside a supermarket as horrified children looked on has been sentenced to 11 years detention in a young offenders' institution.
Lee Monk, 20, attacked 26-year-old Nick Rogers near the checkouts of Morrisons in Wymondham, Norfolk.
The two men were involved in a long-running dispute when, by coincidence, they saw each other in the supermarket and violence flared.
Mr Rogers ended up on the floor where Monk inflicted the fatal kick.
A man has been sentenced to 11 years over #Wymondham supermarket killing - more here >>https://t.co/9pWeecvKcR
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Monk was found guilty of manslaughter at an earlier trial and was sentenced at Norwich Crown Court on Thursday.
Judge Stephen Holt said: "This attack occurred in a very public area; there were children present.
"Children were heard screaming at the violence they witnessed.
"This attack received widespread publicity, in a supermarket that many customers and residents in Wymondham use."
He said Monk's kick to Mr Rogers' head used the sort of force used to convert a rugby ball, adding "it was vicious, cowardly and it was inflicted on a helpless man lying on the floor".
He said the background to the "violent offence" was a "long-running dispute" between Mr Rogers, Monk's family and others and that there had been a number of incidents in the months before.
Mr Rogers had gone to Morrisons with a friend to buy water and fruit before going running when they saw Monk, who was there shopping with his girlfriend at around 7pm on July 17 last year.
Judge Holt said some details of the earlier stages of the altercation were unclear, but noted: "What is clear is once he was on the ground he was sprawled out lying on his back.
"He did not present any sort of risk to you.
"You could have walked away but you didn't.
"You kicked him at full force to his head."
Mr Rogers died as the result of a head injury the following day in hospital.
Susan Rogers, mother of Nick Rogers, fought back tears as she read a victim impact statement to the court.
"My heart felt as if it had been torn out of me," she said.
She said she arrived at the supermarket to find police and an air ambulance outside.
"My beautiful boy died right there on a cold supermarket floor," she said. "I watched as his life faded away right in front of me."
She told Monk: "I will never until the day I die forgive you for what you did."
Jude Durr, mitigating, said Monk, of Silfield Road, Wymondham, was of previous good character and it was a "spontaneous, unpremeditated" attack.
As the sentence was read out, Monk said "thank you your honour" and there were shouts of "love you Lee" from the full public gallery.
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Djokovic's Tears Reveal the Charm of Sport
Posted on June 7, 2015 by hzm6
The charm of top-class sport was on display over the last two days. It didn't just inhere in the mental fortitude and technical brilliance on display during the matches themselves, but also in the immediate aftermath of the matches when the players let their guards down and revealed the impact of the released weight of realised dreams, broken ceilings, shattered hopes and crushing defeat. Nowhere was this conflictual mass of human emotion that underpins the wonder of these sports more poignantly evident than Novak Djokovic's reaction to the applause the French Open crowd gave him upon receiving his loser's medal. Aware of Djokovic's history of disappointments and close calls at the French Open, the crowd lavished him with a full-hearted round of applause that continued past the ordinary length for such events. Djokovic acknowledged their applause with the grace and decorum that a champion is expected to muster, but it was only upon the breaking of the third wave of their applause that stretched beyond the conventional limit that the crowd's affection for him and his disappointment became too much for him to handle. He visibly broke down under the weight of what he was feeling, and had to struggle to fight back the tears amidst his gracious smiles. He wasn't alone either, and therein lies the majesty of sport: its ability to raise in us the same hopes, fears, dream and herculean responses to challenges. With the startling contrast between his controlled grace and subsequent visible emotion during those two long minutes, Djokovic made his way into our hearts. Stanislas Wawrinka was a worthy and heroic champion, but both players in their attitude on and off the court were a testament to tennis and the fine attributes sport can invoke in men.
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Agassi serves up a fault with claim that men's tennis has never been better
Posted on January 28, 2013 by hzm6
The great Andre Agassi passed some interesting remarks on the lavish state of men's tennis currently, and in doing so, effectively dismissed his own era as not comparable in quality. This was some judgement to pass, considering that his era contained players of the talent and imagination of Pete Sampras, Agassi himself, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Gustavo Kuerten and Michael Chang, and so his comments beg closer scrutiny.
Agassi drew a fascinating tactical comparison between how the game was played in his day, and how the range of shots that players can pull off now has rendered those tactics redundant and triggered an "evolution" of the game:
"In my day, somebody who ran well was [Michael] Chang," Agassi said. "He's just going to get to one more ball, but that's his problem if he wants to run one more time, you know. It's not mine.
"And then you saw it go to Lleyton Hewitt, who would move even better. If you just were off on one [shot], he would then move forward in the court and turn a point around. Now you got problems if you don't keep him on the defensive. And then you take that to a guy like Djokovic, who probably moves even better than Hewitt ever moved and doesn't need to turn a point around. When he's on defence, he can actually win the point with one shot. That's an evolution of the game."
Such insight from the eight-time Grand Slam winner suggests he is a fantastic pundit in the making, and the sight of his familiar shaved pate at Melbourne Park as prize-giver to the finalists was a stirring and timely reminder of an era of men's tennis that could certainly hold its own to this one when it came to dynamic personalities and compelling rivalries, as well as perhaps providing ample ammunition against the growing number of claimants – Agassi now among them – that it was impoverished in comparison to the modern day in its standard of tennis. For while few would argue that Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer's 2008 Wimbledon epic stands head and shoulders above most other claimants as the purest display of tennis excellence in the modern era, who could equally say that the latent enmity detectable in every match-up between two players and people as markedly different as black and white as Sampras and Agassi were was anything short of pure sporting drama? The quality of matches they put on also challenges the notion that anything Nadal and Federer produced in their titanic clashes was somehow on another plane; Sampras's straight-set evisceration of Agassi at the 1999 Wimbledon final had commentators ooo'ing and aaah'ing far before Federer elicited the same sounds from them, and the two Americans' five-set clash at the very same Australian Open where Agassi was consigning his era to the ashes of memory still stands as a shining monument to how sport played between the very best can thrill and inspire. Agassi was dressed in black that day, Sampras in white and the two knights of American tennis duelled back and forth with their unforgettable confrontation of imaginative shot-making of the highest order (Sampras) and nearly inhuman returning and retrieving capabilities that stretched each point to fever pitch (Agassi).
It is the way this generation, led by Djokovic, has improved on the retrieving capabilities that he was so famed for and upon whom Andy Murray, among others, modelled his game that Agassi has now settled to pitch his argument that tennis has moved on. Michael Chang used to be able to return one well-struck ball with his athletic ability, Lleyton Hewitt pushed that further to being able to return and move forward, and now Djokovic can simply reach a potential winner and smack a winner back from an impossible angle with his dizzying mix of athletic ability and shot-making talent. In Agassi's eyes, the difference between offence and defence has therefore narrowed, and the game has become nearly impossible to plan in a tactical sense. One explosive winner may simply be returned by another explosive winner, and so players stop thinking about dictating points and more about hitting off pure instinct. His theory is borne out by what we saw in the men's final yesterday, which was a continuation of the mind-blowing, hit-first-look-later, ping-pong rallies that have characterised Djokovic and Murray's recent encounters.
Agassi's analysis of the game and its changes is as shrewd as you might expect from one of the most gifted tennis players of the last twenty years; where he falls short, however, is in his attribution of the causes for this "evolution." In only fleetingly attempting to shed light on what has been behind the change – his remark that he would "have had to have a different body [to play now]" alone pointing the way to the vast improvements in sports science and recovery potential that form part of the reason – , he leaves us with the impression that it is largely to do with the inherent quality of this generation's set of players over any other factor. Indeed, he even distinguishes between the big four, claiming that while "Fed raised [the standard]", Nadal "matched and raised it, [and] Djokovic, for that intense period of time, even raised it." To suggest that Nadal and Djokovic have somehow taken tennis to a level that even Federer could not reach, and that a pattern of constant improvement in the quality of players will be evident so that those following the Big Four will be even better than them ("Something tells me it's not going to stop here…every five years it seems to click up a different level") should give everyone pause for thought. Is Agassi not doing a disservice to every great in the history of a great game – including, in that penultimate quotation, Federer, by suggesting that they bear no comparison to anything the latest in the game can produce? Is he not, in fact, talking about the changes that technology and sports science have foisted on tennis, and how it is this, rather than any gigantic leap in the quality of individuals that has transformed the face of the game?
For every time we see Djokovic miraculously sliding across the surface to smack back a ball seemingly already past him to the opposite side of the net with interest, or Murray make a dramatic forehand pass down the line whilst on the run, we marvel at what these players can do and inevitably allow the talents of the Sampras-Agassi generation to dwindle by comparison in our impressionable minds. However, it is abundantly clear that these scarcely believable feats of athletic prowess and tennis ability have almost as much to do with the most dedicated professionals amongst today's batch taking full advantage of the gargantuan leaps in sports science and racket technology as inherent ability. A cursory glance at the eclectic combination of sprints and tailored weights that comprise Murray's fitness regimen reveals the extent to which fitness trainers have zeroed in on the kind of body the tennis player of today requires: 4/10's sprinter (explosive speed), 3/10's footballer (sudden changes of movement), 3/10's boxer (cardio and upper body strength). In Sampras's day, a player would perhaps travel with his coach but now two or three fitness trainers can sometimes be seen sitting in Murray's box and the benefit of these additions is reflected in the additional balls he reaches from the back of the court in such superhuman fashion.
Once he gets there, however, he still has to make the shot and that is where the racket comes in. Christopher Clarey of The New York Times has reported on how "strings are the real breakthrough in the past decade" and specifically, how "the development of polyester strings has changed the game by allowing players to take bigger cuts without bigger risks." Thus all those shots that have audience members gasping out loud – Djokovic running like lightning across the baseline to smack a backhand winner that lands flush on the line, or Murray taking an explosive swing at the ball to increase its pace but still landing it in the corner – must be taken with a pinch of salt. How do they reproduce the impossible on such a regular basis, the audience wonders? How have they improved tennis so much? Players from the 90's may have had access to the same wide frames characterising Djokovic and Nadal's rackets that also help improve margin for error on shots, but polyester strings have apparently taken it to another level. The game has become punishingly athletic as a result, with stronger athletes being allowed to smack the ball back without finesse to destructive effect and those favouring shots such as the one-handed backhand being forced to discard it simply because the ball is coming back quicker, and net play becoming redundant as coming forward risks being passed by another polyester-aided, perfectly placed pass.
This is not to detract from anything that Djokovic, Nadal and Murray are producing now; given their gifts and searing ambition, they would have adapted and succeeded in any era, just as Sampras and Agassi would have moulded the quantum leaps in rackets and sports science to their inherently superior advantage if they were playing now. However, dubbing any era as a "golden age for tennis" has to speak for human qualities alone, and there is no doubt that people's perception of soaring standards has been deceptively skewed by factors that are anything but. Shot-making is at an all-time high, but it is also easier to strike a ball with the perfect combination of power and accuracy than it was ten years ago. Players from outside the Big Four are able to produce great shots without necessarily being great, thus devaluing the art and our ability to distinguish true genius or improvisation from that which has been powdered over by technology to appear so. Any comparisons of Nadal and Djokovic to previous generations would therefore have to accept the premise that they are benefitting from a perfect fusion of (admittedly unique) sporting talent with significant breakthroughs in racket technology and sports science to a much greater extent than anyone before them. They are both tennis player and athlete, and it is becoming increasingly hard to separate the two. The aesthetic change accompanying the evolving landscape may not be to everyone's taste either – yesterday's match between Murray and Djokovic was stunning, but also brutalizing; finesse was lost in the constant barrage of shots, and the everyday tennis player might have felt alienated from the turbo-charged game they were watching on television. It was a far cry from the purer form of the game that was practised in Agassi's time, and it is worth bearing this in mind as we shower unchecked praise on the feats of the modern generation.
Posted in Tennis, Uncategorized	| Tagged Agassi, Andy Murray, Australian Open, Djokovic, Federer, Gustavo Kuerten, Lleyton Hewitt, Melbourne Park, Michael Chang, Rafa Nadal, Sampras, Yevgeny Kafelnikov	| 5 Replies
Nadal's injuries hurt all of tennis
Posted on August 16, 2012 by hzm6
Sports fans have short memories and are quick to move on, but both Rafael Nadal's stature and the nature of the injury suffered calls for a moment to pause and consider. What made Nadal's initial withdrawal, from the Olympics, all the more worrisome was that it had swiftly followed a Wimbledon match he had completed without sustaining any obvious injury. In football, some of the most damaging injuries are those sustained by players for whom there was no obvious external cause – such as an opposition stud or a dangerous tackle. They suggest chronic, deeper-lying structural flaws that cannot be totally overcome by surgery, nor detected until they flare up again, nor calmed without the passage of time. Nadal's passage has now extended from the Olympics to the Rogers Cup, to Cincinnati and now the US Open. What kind of injury worsens, or simply doesn't go away even when the player is resting?
His absence was easily forgotten in the heat of Murray-mania during the tournaments at Wimbledon this summer, but will slowly extend a shadow over the ATP the longer he stays away. If Roger Federer continues his excellent form, fans will look for confirmation of the worth of this late-period revival in the form of a contest against his most testing opponent. Andy Murray might initially take a first major on the back of defeating one or both of Federer and Djokovic, but consistently holding sway with every member of the big three will be a challenge denied him in full until the return of its longstanding member. Part of the appeal of the top four players in men's tennis is the way in which they constantly push each other to new levels of greatness in unfailingly epic encounters, which provides a preferable option to when one player lords it over the rest. Nadal is a vital part of this competitive appeal.
Apart from all that, it is never nice to see a player – particularly one as lodged in the affections of the fans as Nadal – suffer such unplanned changes of direction to their career. Sportsmen take pride in shaping their own destiny, and it would be cruel to see the most hardworking tennis player of all be denied the chance to play out the second half of his career on his terms.
Posted in Tennis, Uncategorized	| Tagged Andy Murray, Cincinnati Masters, Djokovic, Federer, Nadal, Olympics, Rogers Cup, US Open, Wimbledon	| 2 Replies


As of 3:30pm noon EST March 29, 2012, PvPvE is leading with 48.76% of the votes so far.
Please be sure to check out the follow posts by Amber, especially those of you on the Public Testing Server. Bioware is wanting your focused feedback on the new systems that will be coming in Patch 1.2, like UI customizations, Guild Banks and for all you PVPers there is a special post for a Warzone event tonight March 29th, 2012. Be sure to read the post fully to get the time correctly for your time zone.
On 3/29 from 7PM CDT (5PM PDT/ 8PM EDT/ 1AM GMT/ 2AM CEST/ 11AM AEDT) until 9PM CDT (7PM PDT/ 10PM EDT/ 3AM GMT/ 4AM CEST/ 1PM AEDT), we invite all our PTS testers to queue up for Warzones! Our developers will be observing this event and are looking for bug reports and feedback from our PTS testers. If you haven't tested Novare Coast, the new Warzone, now's your chance to check it out and provide your feedback! All you need to do to participate is queue up for (and play) Warzones on PTS during the listed hours. We appreciate your participation and are looking forward to seeing your bug reports and feedback in this thread (we'll open it up when the event begins)!
So if you feel PVP needs some help then logon and help make a difference. Paraphrasing Smokey the "Gamer" Bear…Only you can help prevent PVP issues in Warzones! 🙂 Below are the rest of the posts by Amber, regarding focused feedback on bugs with the UI customizations and Guild Banks.
Greetings, testers! We want to encourage everyone on PTS to test our new UI Customization options in the game and post any bugs you find in this thread!
We have been avidly reading the PTS forum to gather feedback and bug reports, but wanted to post this thread to encourage testers to post any bugs they've found in this system (even minor ones) if they haven't done so.
Characters of any level can test this system, so please do try it out and let us know in this thread if something isn't working correctly. Thank you for your participation on PTS!
Greetings, testers! We'd like for everyone on PTS in a guild to help us test the new Guild Bank feature. Though we've been reading the PTS forum for bugs and feedback, we're looking for some more testing of this feature.
The next time several members of your testing guild are online, we'd like for you to have several people use the Guild Bank at once to help us uncover any bugs in the system. Please have several guild members perform Guild Bank operations simultaneously – changing permissions, depositing and removing items, and any other activities you can think of involving using the Guild Bank features.
Please post any bugs you find in this thread. Thank you very much for helping us, test this new feature!
Stephen Reid "alludes" to possible in-game events in 1.2?
Stephen Reid is the best at answering questions and hinting at things, but without giving away full answers. To his credit this is his job to deal with us, the community and answer our many, many questions. Now saying all that, you can read his below posts and replies to questions on the subject of events in SWTOR. I gathered that there will be events, but to the nature, the amount of notice and duration of said events…who knows, well they know just not ready to reveal what is behind that curtain just yet. What do you think it means? What are some possible events you would like to see in-game? Let us know in the comments below.
StephenReid General Discussion -> GM/Dev Hosted Events in SWTOR?
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I was looking for a music video for this week and saw, Crimson Nova Girls – Music Video (SWTOR). Already it fit what I was needing to find and a nice bonus, it utilizes in-game footage. Although this video is really hard to describe, there is no denying the creativity, even in using their own voices and not to mention time that went into making it. Now that is said, you just have to watch the video for yourself. You can tell the guild has a good time, and from the locale in the footage they have played their way up in the game. Bottom line the video might make you laugh, but I'm sure it was fun to make…bottom line having fun should be the reason we play games.
This week we welcome another new writer to the CRR family. John Yim aka Ghoztt is our new writer and will be bringing you a look into Operations with his article entitled Operation Information. So if you are looking to better understand how to gear up and the ins and outs of Operations, be sure to look for his article! The March Writers' Roundtable podcast was also this past week. If you missed it or any of the past week's articles…we have you covered with the links below. Please don't forget to leave our authors your comments and suggestions in the article comment thread.
Is there a particular topic in SWTOR you would like us to cover? Have you seen a helpful site for questing or just an entertaining SWTOR link? If so please send them to us here at Corellian Run Radio and it might just get highlighted in future articles. You can email me at corellianrun@gmail.com, or you can leave link suggestions in the comments below, or in the Facebook group.
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So you want to go to India and experience its people, right? Are you looking for an authentic experience? Or maybe you are just looking for cheap transport in India… you may have landed here because you are a penny-pinching backpacker. Someone willing to beg for rotten vegetables from street sellers, prepared to disembowel a holy cow and sleep inside of its belly to fight the Himalayas' freezing cold, sorta Leonardo di Caprio in "the Revenant"? That's sick, dude. Really sick 😀 — (Well, if you ever come to Penang where we live, we have a great backpackers guide for that).
No matter your traveling style, the sleeper train in India is an experience you'll never forget — akin to sailing on a PELNI boat in Indonesia. We have used second class sleeper to travel all over India by train, from Amritsar in the far West to Dibrugarh in the upper Northeast; from Kerala to Mumbai, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. And even when we traveld to North India's best hill stations, we always took the train as far as we could. Trust us: you won't make more interesting random encounters anywhere than on an Indian train's sleeper seat.
After so many trips — and even more delays — on the Indian Railways we have definitely learned a few tips to survive — and even enjoy — India's sleeper class. We are going to share some good tips in this funny photo essay we shot in November-December 2018 as we traveled on second class sleeper across the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal.
First of all: What is a Sleeper train in India?
As the name implies, a sleeper train in India is made, well… for sleeping as you travel long distances (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
To start with, let us tell you what is a second class sleeper. India has quite a convoluted train system, and with a billion plus humans, it's even harder to buy tickets. We will not explain how to buy train tickets in India here. Just consider that each Indian train has four classes of carriages. The second class sleeper is the second to last, just above the rock bottom general class — meaning everyone can get in, there's no seat reservation, just an elbow-in-the-eye, stay-on-the-luggage-rack kind of a mess.
Marco chilling in the lower bunk while two women chat in the sleeper class train's lower side bunk (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
Sleeper class in India is a carriage with open compartments with foldable bunks, six on one side of the train — two opposite tiers of three beds each — and two on the left side, positioned one right above and one right below the window. The middle berths can be folded up and down. It's like the 3rd class on a Trans-Siberian train, but with much more scruff around the edges.
During the day people seat on the lower berth, while the middle berth is folded down and functions as backrest. Middle train sleeper seats are usually rolled up to sleep by 9 pm. So if your idea of a peaceful trip is to get some privacy (ahahahahah) make sure you book an upper berth or one of the two side berths.
In a sleeper train in India, the lower berth is used as a seat in daytime hours. This doesn't mean people won't lay down to sleep (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
First of all, sit and relax: it's going to be a long ride, for Indian trains are always delayed.
PRO TIP – You can use applications like Ixigo to track the running live status of your sleeper train. This is especially useful before you go to the station. Check if your train is delayed and avoid pitiful waits — or camping out — on the platform.
It's best to store it underneath the lower berth, even if it's not your allocated seat. The berths have metallic rings to lock the luggage, a good thing to do on overnight trips on the sleeper train in India. Bring a chain and padlock from home, and don't leave valuables, money, electronics and anything sensible in your bag while you sleep in an upper berth.
We always carry a smaller backpack to store our cameras and laptops and we stash it between our heads and pillows — which you must bring yourself, as in sleeper class in India you get nothing but stares.
As we just said, you'll get nothing but a bare bunk lucid with dirt. A sleeping liner is mandatory, and you better carry a real sleeping bag if traveling in India between November and February, especially in the North, as nights get very cold, and the sleeper train's seats are not air-conditioned. The windows never close properly, so if you want to avoid getting cold and sick, prepare as if you were going to camp outside. There's really not much difference.
Most compartments have one electric plug. If it's working, you must share with your neighbors. There are usually also a few more electric plugs positioned near the train carriage's doors, just before the toilets. If you decide to leave your phone charging there, you better stick around (read: stand close by) or sit somewhere you can always keep your eyes on it.
Lunch is served on an Indian sleeper class train (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
At times it seems like there are more sellers than passengers on Indian sleeper class trains. Carrying baskets filled with provisions, they rock up and down the train, getting up and down at different stations, and feeding the masses of budget travelers.
Oh Oh Oh… bananas are coming – a seller walks in the aisle of an Indian second class sleeper trying to make a living (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
We have eaten on the train only a couple times, for every trip to India gives us at least one type of stomach bug, and we now tend to be extremely careful with food.
But you should try at least once, especially if the food is packed and warm, as you can get some very nice biriyanis. We'd steer away from the nuts-and-chickpeas variety of snack that's plentiful on second class sleeper: it's prepared in front of you, yes, but comes from who-knows-where, and sellers shuttle it around all day in the sleeper train, soaking up dust and dirt. Bleargh.
Do you really want to eat this stuff on a sleeper train in India? (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
What you can drink liters of, instead, is chai. In India, chai simply means "black tea", but on sleeper class, you are generally served the much tastier milk tea variety. We love chai so much we don't really care where it comes from, and at INR10, we buy a lot to sweeten those long train journeys. You can have a simple breakfast buying cookies and snacks at train stations' platforms before boarding your train.
Yes, we mean it. Or buy them from this guy, or any of the dozens food peddlers you'll meet on India's sleeper class trains (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
As anything in India, the amazing local encounters one can do on a sleeper train in India also include a bunch of unsavory types. Just keep your cool, enjoy the ride, and learn how to deal with them.
When you are deep into your book, and you hear a sound of clapping hands, two times, inches from your face, there you go: here come the ladyboys. CLAP CLAP!
Indians believe that ladyboys are somehow invested by magical powers, and as such, they can give you the evil eye. That's how ladyboys dressed in colorful sarees jump on the sleeper trains in India, asking for money. Young men traveling by themselves are their favorite target. When people don't pay, the ladyboys will curse them using what Indian friends described as "very foul language". It also happened to us: just keep reading your book or do whatever you were doing. Ladyboys are annoying but generally harmless. Older men or fathers in families are quite good in sending them off with those sweet, firm words you won't ever care learning.
Indian Railways have attendants in uniform who, sometimes, come to sweep the carriage clean of all the rubbish Indian passengers dispose above and below the train's sleeper seat. They won't ever ask for money.
But if you see young men squatting on the floor, cleaning the train with a rag, trying to be overzealous and coming under your legs to do the best job possible, there you go. At the end of their round, they'll come back asking for their pay, sometimes pretty insistently, too. It's up to you to pay or not, but remember, nobody asked those guys to clean in the first place.
When beggars get annoying, this is the best strategy to learn when riding any second class sleeper in India (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
India is infamous for its syndicates of beggars who get by (sometimes handsomely well) by showing their crippled limbs left and right. We obviously pity and respect their problem, but we can't condone begging, in any form, anywhere. What we call "yoga masters" are found in big numbers on sleeper trains in India. We've seen people with their right legs unnaturally bent all the way up, knee over the shoulder, passing a bowl around and begging. Again, ignore them. You'd be doing more harm than good by giving them anything. These people need help in other forms. Don't feed their syndicates and keep them on the streets.
Similar to the category above, these little kids have been trained by unscrupulous adults to hop through plastic circles, do backflips and other stunts directly between your knees and the opposite lower berth. They are the acrobats of India's second class sleeper circus. We think they should better quit the sideshow and go back to study in school, so please don't give them any money. That's their parents' excuse to send them out begging on the train rather than keeping them in school to get a real education.
Life along the rails in small-town India (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
Please understand that toilets in any sleeper train in India are poorly maintained, to say the least. Passengers seem to defy gravity with their dejections, at times doing it where you should stand. On a recent sleeper class ride from Patna to New Jalpaiguri, some artist left a turd the size of a mid-size Domino pizza under the sink, 30cm away from the toilet hole. Creative, isn't it?
Regardless of such foreign objects, we have seen people walking barefoot in inch-thick puddles of water and excrements, all made the worst by cleaners who just hose the whole cubicle down without clearing the feces, and not giving a damn.
Our suggestion here is only one: use common sense. Try to go for the western toilet — each sleeper train in India has one of each variety in every carriage — because locals prefer the Indian toilet. Don't even think of going in without wearing shoes or slippers. Try to go at the beginning of the trip, or right after the train has stopped stopped at a major station, when toilets should be cleaned by ground staff.
On India's sleeper trains, every inch of space literally counts (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
You'll soon realize that the more you cling to your berth, the best it is. If you are afraid of sharing with the locals, an upper berth, which grants a bare minimum of privacy for the best part of the day, is the way to go.
Otherwise, try to forget about etiquette, and just claim your space, because people will do the same. With the worsening condition of sleeper trains in India, there's also far less control and many people who only hold general class tickets will jump on your carriage at smaller stations, sitting wherever they find a space. Even if you lay down on your berth, it won't be uncommon to have children or small women — Indian women tend to be of the lighter, smaller type — come to sit between your toes and the 10 centimeters gap between your feet and the wall. Just take a deep breath, think of Lord Shiva, and don't move. Let them be. They are experts in the art of contortion, and they'll adapt to any space you give them.
And don't be afraid to tell those rascals who jump on your berth that they have taken your seat, and to get the hell out. It may take five times and countless head-bobbling, but in the end, they will go if you stand your ground.
Most of the photos you can see in this article were taken with a Fujifilm XT3 using a kit lens 18–55mm. You have to exploit the available light, so seating close to one of the windows, or asking your fellow passengers to open one, is the way to go.
Try to seat on the edge of the lower bunk, as it's a very good vantage point to use a wide lens and capture good low angles of passing sellers laden with colorful goods, and passengers sleeping in funny positions.
Pan, matches and local cigars, right from the edge of the lower berth on India's sleeper class (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
Nuts are the only thing besides chai we'd eat while riding a sleeper train in India (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
Lower berths are great to snap photos from wide, low angles (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
The upper side berth is also a great vantage point to shoot top to bottom, giving you and your lens a wider, deeper sense of the field and a better perspective to picture sleeping people.
Marco top to bottom, crushed on the lower berth at the 10th hour of a delayed sleeper train ride from Patna to New Jalpaiguri (picture credit: Kit Yeng Chan).
Usually, on sleeper trains in India, we don't ask permission to take portraits — this is to get the most candid shots, as we noticed that if you ask to take their picture, Indians say yes all the time, but then pose very unnaturaly. After you get your portrait, it's nice to show it to them, as this usually breaks the ice and brings up good conversations.
Last tip: avoid taking pictures of beggars, ladyboys and other unsavory types described above. You may think it's a great idea for a wild shot, but in the end, you'll have to pay them money, and maybe you'll even get in trouble.
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CAES / Entomology / News / James Affolter named to UGA's Larry R. Beuchat Professorship
James Affolter named to UGA's Larry R. Beuchat Professorship
University of Georgia horticulturist James Affolter has been named to the newly endowed Larry R. Beuchat Professorship for Annual and Perennial Ornamental Plant Research.
The professorship in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences was created through a generous gift from Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus Larry Beuchat. The research-focused position will be located in the Department of Horticulture and housed at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The goal of the position is to promote ornamental plant research and the partnership between the Department of Horticulture and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, a 313-acre "living laboratory."
Some of UGA's top revenue-generating new plant varieties, including more than 20 commercial and home garden blueberries and half of the hydrangea grown in the U.S., are the result of research from UGA's horticulture department.
"I wanted to express my gratitude to the university for having been afforded the opportunity to be a faculty member and contribute to the advancement of food and agricultural sciences," said Beuchat, who joined the Department of Food Science and Technology on the UGA Griffin campus in 1972. He has since published some 530 refereed scientific journal articles and five books, with most of his research at the UGA Center for Food Safety focusing on how food safety issues relate to foods of plant origin. "I wanted to support and fund programs that would advance ornamental plant science while simultaneously assisting students in the program."
Beuchat developed an interest in plants at an early age when he helped his parents tend their gardens on the family's dairy farm and sell the flowers, fruits and vegetables at a local farmers market. He earned a bachelor's degree in horticulture from Pennsylvania State University.
Affolter joined the CAES faculty in 1993 and was promoted to full professor in 2005. As director of research at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, he manages three full-time employees who have a combined total of more than 50 years of experience in the garden's research and conservation program. The garden's plant conservation program is recognized as one of the best in the country and has received awards from the American Public Gardens Association and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, among others.
"One of the goals of this endowment is to strengthen ties between the State Botanical Garden and the UGA Department of Horticulture. This mission is near to my heart since I have served as the director of science and conservation at the botanical garden for more than 25 years, and the most satisfying part of my job has been fostering an interest in plants in undergraduate and graduate students," he said.
Affolter leads the applied research program at the garden, which focuses on native plant production, habitat restoration and protecting endangered species. The Beuchat endowment will fund UGA student participation in the research and outreach programs at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia's Mimsie Lanier Center for Native Plant Studies. This includes the introduction of new and underused species to home landscapes and commercial nurseries, he said. The gift also will fund research comparing the ecological value of various native plant selections used to promote biodiversity and for habitat restoration projects.
"The center is key to the growth of our plant introduction programs at the botanical garden," Affolter said. "The renovated complex consists of a greenhouse, headhouse, high tunnel, raised beds and classroom, all essential for the success of our research program."
UGA CAES graduate and undergraduate students receive hands-on training and conduct research in the center. Funding from the Beuchat professorship will be used in part to help support their research, which often focuses on the potential value of native ornamental species in home gardens, pollinator gardens and habitat restorations.
"The funding the professorship provides will accelerate our research efforts and create new academic opportunities for UGA students who have a passion for horticulture and botanical gardens," Affolter said. "I look forward to strengthening the research program even further with the resources and recognition that accompany this professorship."
Affolter has worked in university botanical gardens since receiving his doctoral degree in botany from the University of Michigan in 1983. He served as curator of the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley from 1983 until 1990, then as director of Cornell Plantations — the botanical garden, arboretum and natural areas of Cornell University — from 1990 until 1992. He is the founding chair of the Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance, headquartered at UGA, a network of more than 40 botanical gardens, government agencies, and environmental organizations working throughout the state to study and preserve Georgia's endangered flora. He is a board member and past president of Botanic Gardens Conservation International U.S., part of a worldwide network of more than 700 institutional members, mostly botanic gardens, from 118 countries. The U.S. branch works with more than 100 member gardens and conservation organizations to raise awareness and scientific understanding of native and threatened plants in North America.
A common thread throughout Affolter's career has been his interest in using university botanical gardens as platforms to create interest and knowledge of species that are new to the green industry. The recognition and resources associated with the Larry R. Beuchat Professorship will enhance these efforts and meet the goals of the endowment, he said.
For more information about the UGA horticulture department, go to hort.caes.uga.edu. To learn more about the State Botanical Garden, go to botgarden.uga.edu. For more information about planned gifts to the CAES, visit caes.uga.edu/departments/development-alumni-relations.
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Celebrate Smart Irrigation Month in the home landscape Posted on 07/16/19 by Sadie Lackey
Landscape irrigation can be tricky, especially in the summer. During the month of July — Smart Irrigation Month — University of Georgia experts have advice on how to use irrigation as efficiently as possible.
Muscadine growers urge people not to dismiss Georgia's native grapes Posted on 07/11/19 by Merritt Melancon
Many people dream of retiring from their day jobs and buying a wine vineyard. But those rolling hills and endless bottles of wine don't come easy — cultivating European, or vinifera, wine grapes is hard work.
Brent Marable selected as 2019 president of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Board Posted on 07/01/19 by Merritt Melancon
Brent Marable, assistant director of the University of Georgia Innovation Gateway office, has been elected as president of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association Board of Directors for the 2019-2020 term.
Kill weedy grasses with mulch and herbicides, UGA expert says Posted on 06/27/19 by Paul Pugliese
Many clients contact their local University of Georgia Cooperative Extension office frustrated with grasses taking over their flower beds or vegetable gardens. Here are a few tips to take some of that weed stress away.
New ornamental blueberries from UGA were bred for home landscapes Posted on 06/27/19 by Sharon Dowdy
For years, University of Georgia plant breeder Scott NeSmith has created blueberry varieties for the commercial market. Now, he's introduced a series of blueberry plants bred for home gardeners.


September is National Preparedness Month. And while none of us like to think that we might be in a disaster situation, it is always better to be prepared. We like simple approaches, as much as possible, to emergency preparedness. And so in this post, we have a few go-to resources and common sense advice — we hope that it helps you be ready in case a disaster strikes. We want your family to be safe and protected.
First, you have to be motivated. In today's busy lifestyle, figuring out a disaster plan can be low on your priority list. Most of us are "fighting" the everyday home "disasters" of getting chores done, groceries bought, food on the table, kids happy and healthy. And these everyday activities tend to get priority. But we were motivated by this FEMA video (below). It reminded us that the best place to start is at home. And the best time is now.
Make it fun. A bowl of popcorn with some notetakers keeps everybody happy and engaged.
Talk about what your family feels you should be prepared for.
What disasters could your family face? Some common possibilities are wildfire, flood, hurricane, power outage, earthquake.
Make a list of what your family needs to do to be prepared. Examples are escape plan, document and photo grab-and-go plan, meet-up plan, and emergency kit preparation (including 3-day emergency food).
Write down ideas that family members give.
Week 1: Role play with your family what to do if there is an earthquake.
Week 2: Come up with a list of what you need in a 72-hour emergency kit.
Week 3: Obtain first set of items for your 72-hour emergency kit.
Week 4: Obtain next group of items for your 72-hour emergency kit.
In this way, you can become prepared without breaking the bank and without feeling like it's too overwhelming. Of course, if you can afford to purchase ready-made 72-hour kits in one fell swoop, go for it!


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What Should You Know Before Selecting a Wedding Card Design Company?
Wedding cards are very important to be distributed among the relatives and friend, and it is a way to tell them that you are getting married and you want them to come and bless you with their love. Wedding cards are all in different types in accordance with the quality and material to be used in it.
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In order to choose the best wedding card designer company, you can ask for references from your friends and relatives. You can also ask the people whose wedding cards you've liked. People will give you references and you can talk to the card companies and can meet and see the variety of cards that they offer.
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2017 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Rural Geography Specialty Group (RGSG) Student Paper Competition Winner
Maclaren, Andrew (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Awards, Distinctions, Medals, and Prizes
2017 European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) Student Paper Competition Winner
22nd International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB), 2017: Best paper award winner
Lin, C. (Recipient), 2017
Academic Gold Medal of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
Lurie, David (Recipient), 13 Sep 2017
Benson, V., Saridakis, G., Tennakoon, H., & Ezingeard, G. (2015) The Role of Security Notices and Online Consumer Behaviour: An Empirical Study of Social Networking Users, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies'
Tennakoon Mudiyanselage, H. L. (Recipient), Dec 2017
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Armstrong, Jackson (Recipient), 2017
Downing, M. R. (Recipient), Kumar, K. (Recipient), David, C. (Recipient) & Ashcroft, P. (Recipient), Jun 2017
Best psychiatry research article of the year
Dubol, M. (Recipient), Trichard, C. (Recipient), Leroy, C. (Recipient), Sandu-Giuraniuc, Anca-Larisa (Recipient), Rahim, M. (Recipient), Granger, B. (Recipient), Tzavara, E. T. (Recipient), Karila, L. (Recipient), Martinot, J. (Recipient) & Artiges, E. (Recipient), 2017
Data Blitz 6th Cambridge Neuroscience Symposium | Neural Networks in Health and Disease
Vuksanovic, V. (Recipient), 2017
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Speakman, John (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Elected to RSA Fellowship Council
McLennan, Neil (Recipient), 2017
E-poster Prize - Cancer and Work
MacLennan, Sara (Recipient), 2017
Excellence in Teaching Award (Undergraduate) 2016-17
Durkin, S. A. (Recipient), 2017
Excellence in Teaching Award 2016-17
McCann, Laura (Recipient), Jun 2017
Excellence in Teaching Award - nomination
Luzzi, Federico (Recipient), 2017
Executive Adminstrator, Centre for African Research on Enterprise and Economic Development
Omeihe, K. (Recipient), 2017
Fellow of Higher Education Academy
Sweeney, Paula (Recipient), 2017
Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
Benson, David (Recipient), 15 Feb 2017
Duff, P. R. (Recipient), 15 Feb 2017
Ritchie, Lewis (Recipient), 7 Mar 2017
Tetzlaff, Doerthe (Recipient), 15 Feb 2017
Gilbert, M. J. (Recipient), 15 Feb 2017
Reid, Jane (Recipient), 15 Feb 2017
Brink, S. (Recipient), 15 Feb 2017
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
de Siena, L. (Recipient), 2017
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE)
Cleland, J. (Recipient), Dec 2017
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Smith, Pete (Recipient), 5 May 2017
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Ritchie, Lewis (Recipient), 1 Jun 2017
McCann, Laura (Recipient), 1 Feb 2017
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Robson, I. (Recipient), 1 Apr 2017
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Wiercigroch, Marian (Recipient), 2017
Perez-Reche, Francisco (Recipient), 2017
International Society for Cost and Value in Health Professions Education
Cleland, J. (Recipient), May 2017
Isabel MacCaffrey Award
Pugh, Syrithe (Recipient), 8 Sep 2017
ISMRM Summa Cum Laude Merit Award
Ross, James (Recipient), 2017
Patron of the Welsh Music Guild
Mealor, Paul (Recipient), 2017
Philippe Duchaufour Medal of European GeoSciences Union (EGU)
Smith, Pete (Recipient), 25 Apr 2017
Pierce Allan Award
Howell, John (Recipient), 20 Dec 2017
Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research in the Biomedical Sciences
Pettitt, Jonathan (Recipient), 2017
Principal's Prize in Public Engagement with Research - Senior Category (Winner) 2017
Vargesson, Neil (Recipient), 28 Aug 2017
Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research 2017, Outstanding Achievement: Early Career Category, Runner up
Morgan, Heather (Recipient), 2017
Pro Historia Polonorum
Frost, Robert (Recipient), 11 Oct 2017
Recogniton of Service, British Academy of Management's Leadership and Leadership Development Doctoral Representative
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Barlow, William (Recipient), 2017
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Walker, Kim (Recipient), 4 May 2017
Sending Messages: How Faculty Influence Professionalism Teaching and Learning.
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Zhang, Yeshui (Recipient), 5 Jun 2017
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The healthcare sector is one of the most highly targeted for cyber attack. With the copious amount of sensitive data sets, like personally identifiable information (PII), medical history, and more, cyber hackers think of healthcare databases as a treasure trove of information.
One of Evolver's healthcare clients turned to us for a monetary cyber risk quantification to determine if they were spending the right amount of money in the right places for the cybersecurity. Evolver is especially qualified to determine the risk of the technology spend due to their many certified FAIR Analysts on staff.
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Thomas Preining (born 21 July 1998) is an Austrian racing driver who is the 2018 German Porsche Carrera Cup champion.

Career

Formula 4
Preining's first season in single seaters was in 2015 with German team ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg where he competed at the first two rounds in the ADAC Formula 4 Championship where he got a podium in only his third race at this level at Oschersleben. Preining finished the season with 16 points.
Preining competed in another F4 championship in 2015 where he raced at the first round in the Italian F4 Championship at Vallelunga with German team Mücke Motorsport. His best finish was 10th.

In 2016 he returned to the ADAC F4 grid for the full season but this time racing for Austrian team Lechner Racing. Preining would go on to finished the season with two wins and a further 4 podiums, this helped him to 4th in the championship with 180.5 points. Championship winner, Joey Mawson, finished 193.5 points ahead of Preining.
Like with the German championship, Preining returned to race in the Italian F4 Championship in 2016. He only competed one round and his best result was 12th.

Porsche Carrera Cup Germany
In 2017 Preining made the switch from single seater to Sports car where he competed in the 2017 Porsche Carrera Cup in Germany racing for Konrad Motorsport. Preining won two races meaning he finished 5 points behind Christian Engelhart in 7th. Preining made the switch to his former team Lechner Racing for 2018 where he dominated the season, winning 10 of 14 races and only failing to finish on the podium twice. He won the championship by 37 points over Michael Ammermüller.

Formula E
Due to Preining's affiliation with Porsche, their Formula E team offered him a drive in the Rookie test at Marrakech. He partnered experienced French driver Frédéric Makowiecki. Preining's fastest time 1:19.374 which was almost 3 seconds slower than Nick Cassidy's fastest time of a 1:16.467.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

In December 2021, it was confirmed that Preining would race full-time in the 2022 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters by driving the only Porsche 911 GT3 R car fielded by KÜS Team Bernhard. In the first race of the fourth round at the Norisring, Preining scored his first win in the DTM, which was also the first win for a Porsche car in the series. His second win in the DTM came in the second race of the seventh round at the Red Bull Ring, which saw him starting from seventh position and making several overtakes on a wet track, before being able to maintain the lead as the track began to dry. Ahead of the eighth and final round at the Hockenheimring, Preining was one of the five drivers who had a chance of winning the championship title. However, he was in one of the cars that were involved in a major crash during the Saturday race. Although he was able to extract himself from his badly damaged car, the doctors eventually declared him unfit to participate in the Sunday race. This left him in 5th place in the drivers' standings, with a total of 116 points.

In 2023, Preining returned to the series for a second consecutive season, moving to fellow Porsche outfit Manthey EMA. In addition, Olsen competed in the 2023 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with Rutronik Racing, sharing a Pro class entry with Laurin Heinrich and DTM teammate Dennis Olsen.

Racing record

Career summary

† As Preining was a guest driver, he was ineligible toscore points.

* Season still in progress.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

1998 births
Living people
Austrian racing drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
ADAC Formula 4 drivers
Italian F4 Championship drivers
Porsche Supercup drivers
FIA World Endurance Championship drivers
International GT Open drivers
ADAC GT Masters drivers
European Le Mans Series drivers
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters drivers
Porsche Motorsports drivers
Mücke Motorsport drivers
Walter Lechner Racing drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers
24H Series drivers
Porsche Carrera Cup Germany drivers

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Thur. 3/31 - Quick team-meeting then the Anatomy & Autopsy Project Scavenger Hunt!
Wed. 3/30 - Quick, but important team meeting, then Self-Assessment of Anatomy/Autopsy, lastly trip to library to hang up and assess peer projects!
Mon. 3/28 - Quick team, then the last day to work on LBH Notecards before they are due tomorrow!
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Fri. 3/25 - Quick team-meeting on "Rubric" and the "Analysis Chart", then Anatomy/Autopsy work-time!
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Thur. 3/24 - Quick team meeting on the rubric for the Anatomy/Autopsy Projects and the last workday!
Wed. 3/23 - Team Meeting (due date changes, etc.) and then Anatomy/Autopsy Project work-time!
Mon. 3/21 - Little Big History Project Note-Cards!
Thur. 3/17 - Quick team-meeting & work/research time on the Anatomy/Autopsy Projects!
Wed. 3/16 - Quick team-meeting and then back to Little Big History "Guided Research Qs" and the start of the "Annotated Works Cited" process!


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Barsunchet – gaun wikas samiti w środkowej części Nepalu w strefie Bagmati w dystrykcie Nuwakot. Według nepalskiego spisu powszechnego z 2001 roku liczył on 111 gospodarstw domowych i 554 mieszkańców (283 kobiet i 271 mężczyzn).

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Spring is here (in theory) and it's time to stop hibernating and start connecting with other archivists. The CAA Events Subcommittee invites all Chicago Area Archivists, friends, and fellow travelers to a meet-up at the 2013 Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) in Indianapolis.
Have a drink (each person is responsible for his or her own) and meet colleagues old and new. While you're there, grab one of the nifty CAA buttons (if you're a member) and be the envy of all other MAC attendees. Then go on to MAC's restaurant tours ... or stay around and chat with your co-Chicagoans until dawn (or at any rate until the bar closes).
If you have questions, contact Andy Steadham at andrewsteadham@gmail.com. No need to register.
Can't make it to MAC this year? Never fear! The Events Subcommittee has many great activities coming up later this spring and summer at a variety of locations and times, including a second opportunity to tour the Chicago History Museum archives coming in May.


House No. 38 on Kolomenskaya Street in St. Petersburg was erected in 1880 during the heyday of historicism in architecture. The building's architect, Alexander Ivanov, was inspired by the French and Italian Renaissance.
The Tver Charitable Society was housed in the building in the early twentieth century. It provided social support and financial assistance to needy people from Tver who lived in St. Petersburg.
Vladimir Naumovich Nagly lived in the building in the 1930s.
Vladimir Nagly was born in 1903 in Petersburg to the family of a watchmaker. He was a supporter of the October Revolution, joining the the Red Army in 1919, and the Bolshevik Party in 1921. However, he devoted all of his short life to the theater.
In his indictment, dated 26 July 1939, Vladimir Nagly, former director of the Theater of Comedy and Satire (1930–1933), former director of the First Five-Year Plan Park of Culture and Rest (summer 1931), former director of the Central Park of Culture and Rest (summer 1932), former director of the Philarmonic (1932), former deputy director of the Pushkin Academic Drama Theater (1933–1936), former deputy director of Lenfilm Studios (1936–1938) and, at the time of his arrest on 20 October 1938, director of the Theater of Drama and Comedy (now the Theater on Liteiny), was identified as a "guerillla" in a group that was, allegedly, planning to murder Andrei Zhdanov, who at the time was First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Party Committee and the Municipal Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
The regime admitted the case was a complete frame-up only in 1956, when Nagly was posthumously exonerated.
Vladimir Nagly's son Mikhail (1926–2012), who was himself a well-known theater director, recalled that, before his father was arrested, the actors Nikolay Cherkasov, Vasili Merkuryev, Yuri Lavrov, and Yekaterina Karchagina-Alexandrovskaya were frequent guests in their spacious flat, and that his father had taken him to a see a rehearsal by the world-famous avant-garde theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold. The family avoided talking about Vladimir Nagly's plight, and his relatives only recently learned the circumstances of his criminal case and his death.
A plaque in memory of Vladimir Nagly was mounted on the building at 38 Kolomenskaya Street on 28 February 2016.


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We invite to participation any students (undergraduate BSc, MSc and specialists) from Russia, CIS and far abroad, as well as students of secondary vocational schools, and senior school pupils interested in science.
- Contemporary Concept of Natural History.
- Ornamental Horticulture and Lawn-Making.
- Personal and Social Safety.
- World Agriculture and Foreign Trade Activities.
- Problems of IT Application in Agricultural Sector.
According to the sessions' results the best reports will be awarded diplomas and souvenirs. The I and II degree works will be published in the students' collected articles.
Registration of applications and submission of abstracts is December 1, 2010 to January 31, 2011 at the site of the Conference http://lomonosov-msu.ru/rus/event/449/ (electronic registration only). You must register at http://www.lomonosov-msu.ru/, in your profile click on the word «Calendar» (on the left) and via «search query» find the page of the 64th International Student Research Conference RGAU-MTAA, click on «Apply» to complete the online form and attach a file with abstracts.
Application form and the guidelines for abstracts are posted on the conference webpage.
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The New Deal in New Mexico
Explore the history of the New Deal and learn how Gallup is preserving their collection of New Deal art.
History of the New Deal
The United States economy collapsed on October 29, 1929, plunging the nation into "The Great Depression." The Depression was further complicated by several years of drought. The Dust Bowl, encompassing eastern New Mexico, forced homesteaders to migrate.
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in 1933, his administration put together a package of public work projects called "The New Deal," administered by the Works Progress Administration (the WPA). The New Deal was the largest investment in art, architecture, agriculture, and infrastructure in U.S. history. The package included financial reforms, regulations, and various programs to jump start the economy.
Between 1933-1943, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) programs funded numerous construction projects. They paid artists to paint murals in public buildings, like state houses, schools, and courthouses. They commissioned decorative furniture makers and tin workers to provide the interior details. The WPA also funded preservation of culture and heritage, funding traditional crafts and documenting local folklore and traditions. Photographers, like Russell Lee, John Collier Jr., Dorothea Lang, and Jack Delano, were dispatched to capture scenes of everyday life in New Mexico's small towns.
Built in 1938 by the architectural firm Trost & Trost out of El Paso, Texas
Gallup's New Deal
More than 65 murals, 650 paintings, 10 sculptures, and a variety of other works of art artworks were funded by the WPA in New Mexico. Many of the artists who defined the "southwestern look" in the early 20th century were involved, like Peter Hurd, Gustave Baumann, Bert Phillips, and Ernest L. Blumenschein. The WPA programs also boosted the careers of up-and-coming native artists in the 1930s, like Allan Houser, Pablita Velarde, and Maria Martinez.
Gallup has an impressive collection of New Deal creations, including architecture, hand-carved wood furniture, Spanish Colonial-style tinwork, prints, murals, western American paintings, and Native art. It is one of the largest collections in New Mexico. In total, there are 156 objects housed in five different locations, not all of which are open to the public. However, the McKinley County Courthouse is a readily accessible opportunity to see several New Deal creations, including the building itself.
Anna Wilton New Deal Mural - The Zuni Potters (Completed 1942) | McKinley County Courthouse
McKinley County Courthouse Murals
Located at 201 West Hill Avenue in downtown Gallup, The McKinley County Courthouse is eye-catching. The courthouse is a New Deal art project. Designed in Spanish Pueblo Revival Style, the building is distinctly "New Mexico." The facility is home to 19 pieces of New Deal art, including several murals, tile work, lamps, and furniture. One of the most ambitious murals, by artist Lloyd Moylan, depicts the "Allegory - History of the Region." Moylan completed the painting in 1940. It was restored in 1991.
The 10-foot panels cover the walls of the courtroom, with each panel highlighting different aspects of Gallup's history and heritage. The painting begins in one corner of the room with fading outlines of dinosaurs. Waves of human arrival are depicted, from the Puebloans and Navajo to the Spanish conquistadors and American soldiers. The mural comes to a conclusion with images of western migration; mountain men, miners, railroad workers, and homesteaders.
360 tour of the Lloyd Moylan Mural
Lloyd Moylan studied at the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Art Students League in New York, and the Broadmore Academy in Colorado Springs prior to venturing to the Southwest. He later became the Curator of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art in Santa Fe. His work can be found in the Museum of New Mexico and the Penrose Public Library. He died in Gallup in 1963.
"Allegory – History of the Region" by Lloyd Moylan. New Deal Federal Arts Project (1935-1943)
Preserving Gallup's New Deal Legacy
GallupARTS is working to restore the legacy of the New Deal in Gallup, unifying the collection on a website, making it widely available as an artistic and historical resource. They received a $30,000 Public "Discovery" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to develop the Gallup New Deal Art website. They received an additional $100K grant in 2020 to build the prototype. The design team is a collaboration of Gallup's artists, key stakeholders in community, and web developers. The site will compile academic information for researchers as well as curating creative content.
McKinley County Arts Committee
207 West Hill Ave, PO Box 70
The McKinley County Courthouse is open from 8-5 Monday-Friday. The hallway paintings are accessible during business hours, but the courtrooms may be occupied. Tours of the WPA murals in the courtroom may be arranged through GallupARTS.
Schedule Tour of the Courthouse - (505) 863-1400
McKinley County Courthouse
207 W Hill Gallup, New Mexico 87301 (505) 863-1400
McKinley County Courthouse207 W Hill
Gallup, New Mexico 87301
Downtown Mural Walking Tour
106 W Highway 66 Gallup, New Mexico 87301 (800) 380-4989
Downtown Mural Walking Tour106 W Highway 66
Gallup Cultural Center
201 E Highway 66 Gallup, New Mexico 87301 (505) 728-8048
Gallup Cultural Center201 E Highway 66
Rex Museum
Rex Museum220 W Highway 66
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