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CSJ LEAD COMMENT
The PM takes decisive action and calls for global action to stamp out modern slavery.
A secure, suitable home is fundamental to tackling poverty and supporting the life chances of the poorest in society.
Back banking offers new opportunity for more targeted, timely and reliable access to affordable credit.
Abridged from Philippa Stroud's article for Conservative Home.
With an estimated 45 million victims of slavery worldwide, trafficking is the fastest growing crime. Innocent men, women and children, often in vulnerable circumstances, are being exploited and abused for profit.
At the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, the Prime Minister urged world leaders to work together to develop a response based on strong law enforcement and legislation, reducing vulnerability and supporting victims, tackling transparency in supply chains and effective international cooperation.
The UK is seen as a global leader in the fight against slavery largely due to the Modern Slavery Act passed last year. The CSJ's 2013 report, It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery, sparked much of this progress and was fundamental in seeing slavery become a political priority.
However, as outlined in the CSJ's latest report, A Modern Response to Modern Slavery, and in the PM's announcement this week, the battle has not yet been won.
With slavery thriving in too many European nations, the CSJ's report A Modern Response to Modern Slavery, authored by Fiona Hill, special advisor to the then Home Secretary Theresa May, and with a foreword by May, sought to offer a solution.
The report looks at how slavery should be tackled in every European country, offering 40 practical recommendations including harmonised terminology, a requirement for countries to obtain reliable data and holding law enforcement, borders and immigration officials to account.
We hope that every country will take up the Prime Minister's call to play their part in ending slavery and that together we can see an end to slavery once and for all. Slavery is not inevitable and leaders have the power to end it.
CSJ Report: A Modern Response to Modern Slavery
CSJ Report: It Happens Here: Equipping the United Kingdom to fight modern slavery
By Amelia Abplanalp
The Prime Minister has committed to leading a Government that works for everyone. If this Government is serious about tackling poverty in our country, a credible housing strategy that incorporates a social justice strategy must be a top priority.
More people than ever are renting and private renting is rapidly becoming a new norm for low-income families.
This presents certain challenges because private landlords are less inclined to rent to tenants on Housing Benefits and people on low-incomes can struggle to obtain rent desposits and reference checks.
We identify five key objectives which would demonstrably improve life chances in our recent report, Home Improvements: A Social Justice Approach to Housing Policy, many of which were endorsed by the Minister for Housing and Planning, Brandon Lewis.
Tackling instability so that households are able to build lives around a secure housing situation, and so that they do not have to make frequent, involuntary moves.
Improving the suitability of the housing stock to provide the housing conditions that families need to thrive.
Enabling flexibility, so that people are able to move when their life circumstances change.
Supporting work and progression when housing impinges upon the welfare system.
Eliminating architectural design which contributes to social breakdown, and building neighbourhoods that work for the poor.
The recommendations set out in this report offer a chance to make housing work better for those on low incomes, to use it as a means of helping people acquire a more stable base for their lives and to make it a better launch pad for their futures.
Housing Week (19-24 September) brings together housing associations to show how they are leading through change.
CSJ Report: Home Improvements: A Social Justice Approach to Housing Policy
By Patrick Spencer
Too many people on low incomes lack access to short term credit to cover unforeseen costs such as the school uniform or a broken washing machine.
Ensuring that people on low incomes have access to affordable credit is a key social justice issue and essential to ensuring that we move forward as a one nation society.
This week, the CSJ hosted a roundtable bringing together the financial sector, third sector organisations and the DWP, to discuss an alternative lending model, which is sustainable for banks and meets the needs of low-income people.
Many low-income households currently struggle to access traditional high-street banking and mainstream credit or they pay disproportionate amounts to do so because of high penalty charges and fees. This can lead to increased living costs, difficulty managing day to day finances as well as drive them into a debt spiral.
A back banking system could support the roll out of Universal Credit, which for the first time would enable short-term, low interest lending provision to negate the need for high interest loan providers currently in the market.
By fostering a new generation of socially responsible Alternative Financial Institutions which offer financial products specifically tailored to the needs of low-income families, the Government could help people avoid high-interest payday loans.
Tackling problem debt requires a new positive vision and approach centred around meeting the needs, wants and choices of people. Back banking offers an effective system to achieve this.
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Jane Fiona Catherine Stevenson  (née le )  est une femme politique du Parti conservateur britannique qui est députée pour Wolverhampton North East depuis 2019 .

Jeunesse et carrière musicale
Stevenson est né et grandit à Wolverhampton. Son père est originaire d'Irlande du Nord et s'installe à Wolverhampton dans les années 1950. Il vit à Bushbury pendant les 30 dernières années de sa vie. Sa mère est de la famille Mattox, dont les racines à Wednesdayfield remontent au .

Avant d'entrer en politique, Stevenson travaille comme chanteuse classique. Après avoir joué avec des orchestres locaux tout en étudiant à Wolverhampton Girls 'High School, elle remporte une bourse d'entrée à la Guildhall School of Music and Drama de Londres. Après avoir terminé des études d'opéra de troisième cycle. Stevenson travaille à son compte en tant que soliste soprano pendant de nombreuses années. Elle enseigne également le chant.

Elle a des rôles avec English Touring Opera et la Early Opera Company. Elle s'est également produite lors de concerts au Royal Albert Hall et au Symphony Hall de Birmingham. Au niveau international, elle joue au Festival international des arts de Harare (HIFA) au Zimbabwe et à des concerts aux Émirats arabes unis et en Ouganda. Elle s'est produite à Paris, Rome, Berlin, Salzbourg et Vienne. Elle s'est également produite à Subotica, en Serbie, l'une des villes jumelles de Wolverhampton .

Carrière politique
Stevenson s'intéresse à la politique depuis son adolescence. Elle assiste à la conférence du parti conservateur au début des années 1990 avec un groupe de Wolverhampton, qui comprend alors le député , l'un des premiers rebelles de Maastricht. Après avoir fait campagne pour le départ de l'UE à Wolverhampton, Stevenson décide en 2016 de s'impliquer davantage dans le Parti conservateur. Avant de se présenter au Parlement en 2019, elle est vice-présidente de la région du pays noir et est élue conseillère municipale de Wolverhampton en 2018 . Aux élections générales de 2019, elle bat la députée travailliste sortante, Emma Reynolds, qui représentait la circonscription depuis les élections générales de 2010.

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Eastern Foods
How do you create a successful company? Mix a small amount of money with an entrepreneurial edge and provide innovative products.
Thirty-four years ago, Atlanta-based Eastern Foods opened with a $10,000 investment, a handful of employees and a 4,000 square-foot warehouse. Today, the company is approaching $100 million in annual sales, operates from a 288,000 square-foot state-of-the-art facility and has more than 300 employees across the country.
Founded by current Chairman Robert H. Brooks, the company started with just one product — a vegetable-based, refrigerated coffee creamer it sold to the airlines. During the 1970s, Brooks expanded Eastern Foods into specialty foods for institutional customers. To better serve them, he opened the first of 21 distribution centers across the United States.
In 1980, Eastern Foods launched the Naturally Fresh® brand of preservative-free products, which initially included all-natural salad dressings, dips, oils and vinegars. The company later added Naturally Fresh® Mountain Spring Water and developed Classic® bar mixers and Jackaroo® meat sauces. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Eastern Foods expanded its retail business into leading supermarkets such as Kroger, Albertsons, Publix, Safeway and Winn Dixie. It also increased its market penetration into quick-serve, casual and fine dining restaurants.
It's a Natural
The Naturally Fresh® name has come to mean more to Eastern Foods than just a product line. Since its introduction, Eastern Foods has handled the products from preparation and packaging through delivery; customers receive the products in Eastern Foods' company-owned and -operated refrigerated trucks. The company also encourages feedback. "Each product package invites customers to call or write Mr. Brooks if not completely satisfied with their product," says Alan Mesches, director of sales and marketing for the food giant. "Mr. Brooks believes Eastern Foods must do something for the customer. Naturally Fresh® — it's our name and our promise."
Mesches believes that Eastern Foods' ability to do many things in house keeps its production streamlined. "We can produce quality products and deliver them to our customers on a timely basis because we do it ourselves," he says. "We're privately held and that allows us to do things without a whole lot of other people telling us what to do to. Owning the fleet of trucks and having our own drivers and 21 distribution centers across the U.S. allows us to ship to all the major markets. It makes for a very comprehensive and effective system."
Selling a perishable product with a guarantee of freshness takes some manufacturing finesse. "From the time our product leaves our back dock and arrives at the customer's door, it is only handled by our people," explains Mesches. "Our shelf life is up to 180 days, sometimes as low as 90. When we make a product, we don't have a lot of finished goods. We usually ship it all out in a week so the customers can be assured they get the freshest product possible. To accomplish this takes a solid production schedule and a flawless logistical system."
Pure Quality
Eastern Foods' facility in Atlanta boasts 15 mixing blenders and 15 packaging lines, which run 300 different types of products measuring from a quarter-ounce cup to a 55-gallon drum. The "superior" rating Eastern Foods received from the American Institute of Baking is a high-level tribute to its quality control measures. "It's quite a compliment to receive such a designation," says Mesches. "Our employees are painstaking about the work they do on the line. They know what a mistake can cost us."
But the perfectionism displayed by Eastern Foods' employees doesn't surprise Mesches. "Our people are involved in profit sharing on all levels," he says. "The better we do, the better they do. It's not unusual for a production employee to ask how a particular account is going. They care about it. We're committed to our products and we know we have to generate our own success. That's the kind spirit that moves this organization.
"The nice thing about not having a lot of layers in our organization is that when a customer needs something created, like a new product, it's a quick process. There are no committees or approvals. If there's a viable opportunity to create a product for a customer, we can react fairly quickly," Mesches adds.
Fresh from the Start
A lot of Eastern Foods' custom products start out in the food-service area. Then other applications for the product emerge out of that development. "We've used our food-service division to generate a lot of ideas that we take to different markets," says Mesches. "Our Classic Caesar salad dressing was originally developed for food service. We took it to retail and it's been an excellent seller. And some of the barbecue sauces that we make for the food-service trade also make sense for deli departments in grocery stores."
Eastern Foods recently launched a line of fruit and vegetable dips for companies that offer cut fruit and vegetables to their customers. For this new line, the company created a 4-ounce prepackaged cup filled with cream cheese-type dips, which can be easily inserted into ready-to-serve trays. It also developed a gravity-fed rack that's less than 18 inches wide, holds 60 cups filled with various dips and sauces, and is easy to fill and display. "This rack doesn't take up a lot of space, it's highly visible and it's a big piece of our business," Mesches says. "It's opened up some business opportunities for us in the deli departments or in the home meal replacement areas of finer grocery stores."
Eastern Foods is always looking at how it can be more impactful for its customers, and how it can help drive both its customers' and its own business. The company recently created a tear pad with a $1.00-off coupon, account specific for two of its product lines, tartar sauce and cocktail sauce. Mesches says, "We like to provide valued-added concepts. We think it's a great way to grow our volume."
All in all, customer satisfaction drives Eastern Foods to continue making tasty products. "It's not unusual for a customer to save the wrapper from a salad dressing they've had on an airline flight, write us and ask us how they can get the product," says Mesches. "If a customer is going to go to that much trouble to contact us, we must be making an impression. And that makes it all worth it."
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Today is the Pi Day (March 14h, or better 3.14). But March 14th is a very important date in science for at least two more reasons. On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born and on March 14, 2018, Stephen Hawking passed away.
Albert was born on March 14, 1879, to the Jewish family in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire. His mother was Pauline Koch and his father Hermann Einstein. He studied physics and mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1901 he became a Swiss citizen and in 1905 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich. Historians sometimes refer to this year as the "miracle year" (Annus Mirabilis).
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1955 – April 14, died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
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Albert is a much smarter guy than me, so I'll let him speak for himself.
Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England, on January 8, 1942, and passed away in Cambridge, England, on March 14, 2018. His work as a theoretical physicist and a cosmologist and his contribution to the science is really tremendous.
1970 – by using quantum theory and general relativity he is able to show that black holes can emit radiation.
He "appeared" multiple times in South Park, Family Guy, and The Simpsons.
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Eevi Huttunen, nombre de casada Pirinen (Karttula,  – ), fue una patinadora de velocidad sobre hielo finlandesa.

Por una década, fue casi la única painadora capaz de competir con las grades deportistas soviéticas de esta misma especialidad. En 1960, Huttunen volvió a las pistas en los Juegos Olímpicos de Invierno de 1960 (los primeros en las que participaban las mujeres), y donde ganaría la medalla de bronce en los 3000 m. Compitió en once Campeonatos Mundiales hasta de 1948 a 1960 (cada año a excepción de 1956 y 1958). Se especializó en largas distancias y se convirtió en la mejor patinadora no soviética de esa época.

Palmarés internacional

Récords personales

Bibliografía
 Eng, Trond. All Time International Championships, Complete Results 1889 - 2002. Askim, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 2002.
 Eng, Trond. Finland - Suomi: Speedskating as at 2009. Part 1: History/Records/Championships men junior. Askim, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 2009.
 Eng, Trond. Finland - Suomi: Speedskating as at 2009. Part 3: Championships ladies/Alltime lists ladies distances. Askim, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 2009.
 Teigen, Magne. Komplette resultater, Internasjonale Mesterskap 1889-1989 (in Norwegian). Veggli, Norway: WSSSA Skøytenytt, 1989.

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Eevi Huttunen on www.fanbase.com
Eevi Huttunen's obituary

Patinadores de velocidad de Finlandia
Medallistas olímpicos de bronce de Squaw Valley 1960
Medallistas olímpicos de bronce de Finlandia
Medallistas olímpicos de bronce de patinaje de velocidad


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Although Paul Eugene-Henri Gauguin was born in Paris, Paul Gauguin spent his early childhood in Peru, before returning to France in 1855. He worked for a time as a stockbroker, painting only as a hobby until the stock market crash of 1882 prompted a dramatic change of career.
Paul Gauguin first pictures were in the Impressionist style, influenced in particular by his friend, Camille Pissarro. Increasingly, though, Gauguin became dissatisfied with the purely visual emphasis of the movement and tried to introduce a greater degree of symbolism and spirituality into his work. Inspired by Japanese prints, he also developed a new style, coupling bold splashes of bright, unmixed color with simplified, linear designs. At the same time, haunted by memories of his Peruvian childhood, Gauguin developed a growing fascination for exotic and 'primitive' cultures.
With his inclination for adventure and sincerity, Gauguin saw Paris in a completely different light from the Impressionist; for him, the Ville Lumiere was a stifling prison from which he needed to escape. Initially, he was able to satisfy this need in the remote region of Brittany in 1885 were inspired by the region's distinctive Celtic traditions, Gauguin painted his first important works, he produced the Vision After The Sermon Jacob Wrestling With The Angel, his first great masterpiece. This key work from this period in Brittany is a fine example of the style known as Synthetism, which combines a realistic scene of women in traditional Breton dress with the imaginary vision of the biblical struggle between Jacob and the angel. It was during the 1880's, Madame Gloanec's Inn in the Breton village of Pont-Aven was recognized as one of the most advanced art "centers" of the time. There a group of writers and artists gathered around the expansive and prophetic Gauguin. Rejecting the seductive light and muted colors of the Impressionists, the artist used simple forms and vivid colors to achieve suggestion, rather than description.
Gauguin To the End of the Earth, in Search of Purity.
In 1888, Gauguin stayed with Van Gogh in Arles, but the brief friendship between the two peintres maudits (cursed painters) of Post-Impressionism ended abruptly. Gauguin returned to Pont-Aven in Brittany, and in 1891, set sail to the French colony of Tahiti, in search of something more authentic and immediate. Here he withdrew completely from modern society, which he believed no longer left room for the imagination. Gauguin poured all his passion for the exotic and the primitive into the warm skin tones of the beautiful young Polynesian women, creating an image of a kind of lost paradise, far from the increasingly gray and oppressed modern world. They are a symbolic expression of natural and moral purity, the bold unusual colors, naked brown bodies of the natives and the lush vegetation were unfamiliar to the eyes of Europeans at the time.
In fact, when electricity came to Tahiti, Gauguin fled to the Marquesas Islands. Dogged by poverty and ill health, he spent most of his later life in this area, producing the paintings for which Paul Gauguin is best known today. He died there, attended by a medicine man and a missionary.
Paul Gauguin paintings are rarely offered for sale. His 1892 Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry) became the world's most expensive artwork when it sold privately for US$300.0 million in February 2015. The buyer is believed to be the Qatar Museums.
In 2014 the painting Fruits Sur Une Table ou Nature Morte Au Petit Chien, with an estimated value of between $9.0M to $27.0M, which had been stolen in London in 1970, was discovered in Italy. The painting, together with a work by Pierre Bonnard, had been bought by a Fiat employee in 1975, at a railway lost property sale, for US$40.00 dollars! Paul Gaugin's oil painting La Vague (The Wave) is thought to be one of the most original seascapes in Western art, was sold at auction in New York from the collection of the late David and Peggy Rockefeller in May 2018 for US$35,187,500.
Today Paul Gauguin is recognized as a highly influential founding father of modern art and one of the world's artist.
Art Movement History: Symbolist, Post-Impressionism, Impressionism.
He Traveled To Peru, Tahiti, Denmark, Panama, Martinique.
Painters Paul Gauguin Influenced: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse.
Paul Gauguin Hand-Painted Oil Painting Reproductions.
Paul Gauguin Museum Art Replicas on Canvas.


Following on from her recent European mid-career retrospective, Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Swedish artist Mamma Andersson.
Following her major mid-career survey at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Stephen Friedman Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new work by American artist Catherine Opie.
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Europe of Canadian artist Kent Monkman.
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by German artist Stephan Balkenhol.
Following on from a major retrospective at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden which toured to venues in Germany and Austria, this exhibition presents an important opportunity to reassess the artist's work at this significant moment in his career.
Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to present the first UK solo exhibition by American painter Wayne Gonzales.


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SAN JUAN, Texas – Master Sgt. Pablo H. Villescas was serving with the Army Reserve in Afghanistan when that country held its first free, direct elections in 2004.
More than three-quarters of Afghanistan's registered voters cast ballots in the election.
"The people were so happy to finally have a voice, to finally have a say in which direction their country should go," Villescas said.
He added that some Afghans were also killed so they couldn't vote.
In the United States, where there are few, if any, barriers to the polls, voter registration and voter turnout is low. In the 2012 U.S. presidential election, only 53.6 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot, according to the Pew Research Center.
The Fourth of July is a day of celebration, but it is also an ideal time to reflect on our freedoms and the sacrifices our service men and women have made to sustain them — men like Villescas.
Villescas, 60, serves as the administrator of the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle-National Shrine, where he has been employed for 45 years.
From there, Villescas was promoted to cashier and then worked in the gift shop, the mailroom and the hotel, just to name a few of his posts. Later, he began learning the administrative side and was responsible for purchasing and acquisitions.
"Even before he stared working here, he was an altar server at the church and a student at the school so that means he has spent his whole life here," said Father Amador Garza, rector of the basilica. "He's an invaluable resource because he is the institutional memory for the basilica after all these years here.
Villescas was named administrator in 2010, after his last overseas tour with the Army Reserve. He manages a staff of 95. The basilica welcomes more than 25,000 pilgrims a week.
Villescas' family was instrumental in establishing a shrine to Our Lady of San Juan in the Rio Grande Valley. In the 1940s, Villescas' grandparents, Bernardino and Bernadina Villescas, petitioned Father Jose Maria Azpiazu, a priest of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, to build a shrine for those who could not travel to Mexico.
Villescas said he believes Mary kept him safe during his overseas tours.
A native of San Juan, Villescas is the fifth of Fortino and Ninfa Villescas' 10 children. He and his wife, Olga, have been together for 20 years. He also has three daughters, a son and eight grandchildren.
Villescas joined the Army Reserve in 1977 and has served four tours overseas. In 1992, he served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm in Kuwait. In 2000-01, he served in Operation Noble Eagle in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Villescas served a tour in Afghanistan in 2003-04, spent 2005-06 at Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood working with wounded and ill soldiers and served another tour in Afghanistan in 2009-10 before retiring from the Army Reserve in June 2013.
It was his father who inspired him to retire.
Through his father, Villescas learned how much heartache the family members of those who serve in the military endure.
His experience with the Catholic Church and the military have impacted his life's work.


William Bacon (1803-1879) was a 19th century writer, educator, and pastor who specialized in topics related to family life. His main work, Parental Influences, was published originally by Miller, Orton & Mulligan. Bacon, as a clergyman, believed many parents needed a work that would assist them with the task of instilling Christian morals and virtues in their children. The influential author considered his work on the subject to possess a more comprehensive view than other similar publications previously presented to the public. Bacon felt that those who had read some of the other parental literature might also profit from the concise but original perspective of his own work; it might give them a deeper understanding of the parent's role in family life, and it might bring to mind and reinforce those positive concepts which they have learned already. The original edition elicited many warm recommendations from colleagues, such as from the Theological Seminaries of New Albany and Auburn, who commented that the work was: "judiciously and ably handled", "eminently practical", "full of sound and important ideas", "valuable and timely and plainspoken instruction".


The importance of runaways in both beginning and advanced training to maintain courage test integrity.
How to make sure your dog does a fast and strong courage test.
We end almost all training sessions with the runaway.
Runaways are good for dogs from 8 weeks to 8 years old, an exercise that is a cornerstone to schH training.


> you can have or not a patch.
completely decided how this should be implemented, though.
> patches from bug reports.
good enough; those that can't will just have to refer to a message.
<Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?


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Q: How do you implement shared GKMatchmaker's findMatchForRequest correctly (so GKMatch.expectedPlayerCount == 0)? When switching to GKMatchmaker from MatchmakerViewController my two sandbox game center accounts running on separate devices (both iPhone 5s) no longer connect into the same match. Both show expectedPlayerCount still above 0.
I followed the RayWenderlich tutorial on creating a multiplayer game with game center. It is supposed to be real time and was working as such. Using a GKMatchmakerViewController it all worked completely fine (both auto-matching and invites). However, as soon as I switched one block of code it no longer works. I've been fiddling with this for awhile now and the apple docs don't seem to help me at all. Anyone know what I might need to do extra?
func findMatchWithMinPlayers(minPlayers: Int, maxPlayers: Int, viewController: UIViewController, delegate: GameKitHelperDelegate) {

    if enableGameCenter == false {
        return
    }

    matchStarted = false
    gkMatch = nil
    gkDelegate = delegate
    viewController.dismissViewControllerAnimated(false, completion: nil)

    var request = GKMatchRequest()
    request.minPlayers = minPlayers
    request.maxPlayers = maxPlayers

    if pendingRecipients != nil {
        request.recipients = pendingRecipients!
    }

    GKMatchmaker.sharedMatchmaker().findMatchForRequest(request, withCompletionHandler: { (match: GKMatch!, error: NSError!) -> Void in

        self.gkMatch = match
        self.gkMatch?.delegate = self
        println(match)
        if self.matchStarted == false && match.expectedPlayerCount == 0 {
            self.lookupPlayers()
        }
    })
}

This only difference between this and what was working is that this has the GKMatchmaker instead of the GKMatchmakerViewController and Delegate.

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Celebrate the 118 years of the Spokane Humane Society (SHS) providing shelter, care and love to the unwanted and abandoned companion animals in the Spokane area. Event offers cake and ice cream, demonstrations and more. All alumni (adopted animals) of SHS are invited as special guests for the day.


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Tons of Info, Preseason, Jets Game, etc.
What did you think of Andre's induction speech? I love that he got the fans involved. ¾ of the crowd must have been Bills fans. Also the Jim Kelly moment was very touching.
Kind of a shaky first preseason game, eh? I hope EJ works out his timing and passing lanes. 5 preseason games too much? I say they need the practice.
The is so much to cover in this e-mail!
Here is the status of games shown at the bars. Unfortunately there is nothing we can do. We go through this every year.
Carolina: Unfortunately we can't show the Carolina game. The game isn't live in our area and the replays are at inconvenient hours.
Pittsburgh: McFadden's will show the Steelers REPLAY, which will air on the NFL Network on Sunday 8/17 at 12 noon.
Tampa Bay: McFadden's will show the LIVE Tampa Bay game, which is 4:30 pm on Saturday 8/23.
Detroit: Unfortunately we can't show the Lions game. The game isn't live in our area and the replays are at inconvenient hours.
Hey, 3 out of 5 isn't bad.
McFadden's does require you to purchase one of the specials.
Calico Jack's continues as optional though.
Phew, I'm out of breath from all of that.


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Cadiz Town Council Hears from Mediacom Pertaining to PMG Negotiations
In what carries on to be a struggle between information mogul Paxton Media Team LLC and cable giant Mediacom, it is the citizens of Trigg County that have ended up staying the callous casualty.
That was the message during Tuesday night's Cadiz City Council conference, when Mediacom Director of Region Operations Joe DiJulio took thoughts and fears from council members surrounding the cable company's best selection to pull Paducah's WPSD Nearby 6 out from its tv package deal — depriving quite a few viewers of NBC content material, as effectively as regional news, sports and climate reports.
At the coronary heart of the issue is re-transmission charges, which should be paid out by a cable corporation and back to the network primarily based on subscriber prices — and in this scenario, from Mediacom to PMG.
Negotiations of these fees have reportedly stalled among the two organizations, with DiJulio noting PMG's inquiring price tag is simply "too high."
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DiJulio included that most of Mediacom's area prospects have presently "cut the cord," switching their cable solutions for speedier net options in get to love streaming expert services this kind of as Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+ and other solutions — which could be a additional deterrent in conversations.
In the meantime, PMG has distinctive rights with Mediacom as the area's NBC affiliate, this means Mediacom can't even pull from Bowling Eco-friendly, Nashville, Evansville, Jackson or Memphis for coverage and written content. Nor would that make a difference, considering that those people five markets do not effectively emphasize west Kentucky with their coverage.
Councilwoman Susan Bryant famous she's read from a quantity of constituents about the misplaced channel, which is making a early morning, afternoon and evening hole in some people's life.
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In a June 1 statement, Mediacom reps mentioned "Paxton has become the most recent station owner to exploit our nation's out-of-date federal broadcast tv regulations in an effort and hard work to raise its base line."
DiJulio strengthened all those concerns on Tuesday night time.
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PMG representatives have responded to identical barbs in the very last few months. Invoice Evans, vice president for the West Kentucky Media Division of PMG and publisher of The Paducah Sunshine, wrote in a June 21 assertion that Mediacom was "misleading its subscribers, and that WPSD did not ask for, nor get, the blackout. Rather, an extension of a new agreement was presented," and that "this wasn't about dollars."
Through these stalled talks, PMG officials have been chaotic negotiating the purchase of Landmark Community Newspapers LLC dependent out of Shelbyville — in what is a team of 47 newspapers and many media organizations across Kentucky, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
On Feb. 24, PMG gained a Paycheck Defense Financial loan value $7.86 million as a result of the U.S. Financial institution Nationwide Association, which was labeled as an ongoing financial loan to keep 500 jobs. The bank loan has not been fully repaid or forgiven.
So it looks, for now, PMG and Mediacom will stay at an deadlock.
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How many times have you gotten your baby ready to go out, strapped him/her in their carseat and then wedged a blanket all around those squirmy little feet, tucking it in around the carseat straps... whew, ready. Five minutes later, your little one has kicked the blanket off - it's a frustrating cycle that can repeat itself over and over.
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By keeping the baby covered when it is cold outside.
This will make life easier because you won't have to hunt down shoes that the baby has kicked off while in the car seat. Now the baby's feet will be wrapped up and shoes will be safe!
Trying to keep the blanket in place in the wind while balancing the carrier and diaper bag and purse and car keys and holding a 3 yr. old's hand is next to impossible. This would solve at least 1 of those problems!
This would be great for the babies to feel secure and swaddled!
I love that it comes with iron-on Velcro tabs to secure top blanket. So handy for the busy mommy!
This would be great for the mom because it secures to the blanket and is also reversible.
You can throw it in the wash. Very helpful to a busy parent not having to worry about hand washing it!
I like that it's washable & reversible.
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It would be wonderful to not have to tell strangers not to touch my baby!! The fabric options are wonderful.
This would be nice to keep the baby snuggly warm during the winter months and the blanket would help with sun glare. Thanks for the chance.
What a great product! This would be perfect for a busy parent because everything is secured - you don't have to worry about blankets falling everywhere (as they always tend to do).
I like the pacifier clip on the bottom.
it would make my life easier because it already has a pacifier and toy loop and i spend minutes everytie we leave the house adding those things!
I like the fact that it keeps the wind, rain, or snow off my baby, no more blowing blankies!
you don't have to worry about your blanket blowing away!
It makes parents lives easier because it keeps them from having to worry about the blanket coming off and the baby getting cold.
LOVE the Washable Factor~! Thanks for the chance.
this sounds much better than a coat.
it would make life easier because the baby would feel comfy and secure and therefore be more content instead of screaming while you're in the car ;) i am pregnant with #4 and would love one of these.
Keeping the blanket in place while the wind always seems to pick up when we go somewhere!
I love that the blanket rolls up -- one less thing to carry. And I love the toy/binky clip -- very convenient!
I would love one of these. I am due in November and this is perfect for a fall baby. I love the racie mae pattern.
My son is a kicker, wiggler, and definately makes it hard to keep him snuggled in the carseat on winter days. One of these would be absolutely great, because he would stay warm and I wouldn't have to worry. It's also quick to put on and that makes it great when we're in a hurry! It would make a lot of things easier!
Having a car seat cover and cover blanket all in one would really help on those hectic mornings when you are running around trying to get everythin ready to go!
less blankets equals less bulk!
This would be awesome for the babies to feel secure and swaddled!
I am so glad it is "Universal" and fit all car seats!I would choose the "Emma" design!
That looks like a lot less trouble than carrying around blankets.
This is a great way to protect baby from the elements or keep them cozy without hauling around a blanket that is always falling off/over/around!
There are several things that would make it easier for a parent. The blanket is attached but you don't have to use it. It has a pacifier clip. No more hunting the car for the spit-out pacifier. Plus, it is machine washable!!! Thanks!
I would give this to my friend who just had her first baby. I know that this would help her keep her precious new baby covered and not have to worry about the blanket falling off or getting tangled up while she's driving.
This would be nice! I am always droping blankets when getting in and out of the car so this would work great!
This would prevent a lot of lost blankies on teh floor.
You won't have to hunt down anything when your packing up baby...Your blanket is attached and there is a loop to keep a pacifier or toy. Also, you won't have to worry about the blanket falling off and there is a space for the blanket to be rolled up/secure while not in use. Looks like a great product! Thanks for the chance!
Wow! This really is a great product! This makes it so much easier to make your child comfortable without worrying about keeping track of so many items!
It would make life easier because it's one handed!
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He would be so warm in that. It looks easy to use.


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Particles in the Arabic language do not have gender. Verbs do, but their gender is based on that of their subjects, and their subjects are, of course, nouns. So, in reality, nouns are the only part of speech that have any gender in Arabic.
The grammatical gender of nouns is one of two: a noun may be masculine or it may be feminine, and there is no neutral option. Moreover, masculinity is the default grammatical gender and a word does not have to have anything special in order to reflect this. Femininity, on the other hand, is not default and a noun would have to have something special to reflect this gender. Therefore, this tutorial discusses grammatical femininity in Arabic nouns.
A noun is masculine by default. It must have one of four signs in order for it to be considered feminine. Which nouns receive one of these four signs (and are therefore feminine) and which do not receive any of these signs (and are therefore left masculine) is entirely coincidental. There is no rule that dictates whether a noun will be masculine or feminine; it is entirely based on coinage. Yes, there are clues such as things that are conceptually masculine will most likely be grammatically masculine as well – the word 'man' (رجل) is masculine and the word 'woman' (امرأة) is feminine.
This applies to static nouns (جامد) and gerunds (مصدر). Derived nouns (مشتق), on the other hand, usually have the capability to be masculine sometimes and feminine other times; they toggle depending on the grammatical requirements. For instance, the derived noun قاض is masculine but it has a feminine form قاضية as well.
The four signs of femininity are as follows. Below the list is a table with some examples.
The round Taa is the most common sign of femininity. And notice that it can be appended to masculine participles, thus rendering them feminine, as in قاض and قاضية. You can learn more about this letter from our sister site's alphabet tutorial entitled The Last 4 Letters of the Alphabet.
The الف مقصورة and the الف ممدودة are signs of femininity provided that they are extra. In the word مصطفى, for instance, the ى at the end of the noun is not extra; it is part of the base letters. Therefore, the word مصطفى is not feminine. The word عليى, on the other hand, is feminine because its ى is extra. You can learn more about the الف مقصورة from The Last 4 Letters of the Alphabet.
Finally, the fourth sign of femininity is an assumed round-Taa. There are only a handful of words in the Arabic language that are feminine by means of an assumed sign – this type of femininity is termed مؤنث سماعي. The way we know that a word is feminine despite not having an explicit sign is because the round Taa appears in the word's diminutive form. For example, the word شمس is feminine despite there not being a sign; we say there is an assumed round-Taa. The reason we know this word is feminine is because the diminutive form is شميسة (notice the Taa), and also because we find the Arabs describing this word using feminine adjectives and so forth.
The table below gives a few sample words that are feminine without having an explicit sign of femininity.
There are two types of femininity: one where the feminine noun has a masculine counterpart among the living beings, and one where it does not. For example, ناقة (she-camel) is of the first type because its counterpart is a male-camel and a male-camel is both masculine and living. The word شمس, on the other hand, is of the second type because, although it has a counterpart – namely, the moon – and the moon is masculine, the moon is not alive.
Feminine nouns of the second type are usually given a lot of lenience when it comes to complying to gender correspondence. For example, if such a word is the subject of a verb, the verb need not be brought feminine. And the majority of cases where this happens is in relation to feminine gerunds because gerunds tend not to have live, masculine counterparts. One can say, for instance, اشتد كراهيتي إياه (my dislike of it intensified), where كراهية is a feminine gerund and yet the sentential verb is masculine.
The grammatical rules surrounding femininity are discussed in various subtopics of grammar. However, there is one rule regarding feminine nouns that is quite prolific and permeates all subtopics.
What this rule says is that if you have a plural noun, and the entity to which the noun refers is not a human being, then this plural will be treated singular feminine. For example, the word ثعالب (foxes) is the plural of ثعلب which means 'fox'. This word is masculine. But it refers to something that is not human. Consequently, it will be treated singular feminine. That means that it will be described using singular feminine adjectives, verbs for which it is the subject will be singular feminine, and so forth.


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Intel gets serious about wireless
U.S. Correspondent, IDG News Service | PT
The fact that LTE connectivity is becoming ubiquitous in smartphones and tablets isn't lost on Intel, which aims for its baseband processors to be used in more mobile devices and base stations.
Intel is optimizing LTE modems to be paired closely with its smartphone, tablet and ultrabook chips, and the chip maker ultimately plans to integrate baseband processors, which manage radio functions, inside its mobile chips.
Intel wants to increase its shipments of baseband processors independent of application processors. At last week's Mobile World Congress, the company announced plans to start shipping its first multimode LTE modem for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks. The XMM 7160 modem supports 15 LTE bands, and also 3G and EDGE communications.
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"We are going after quite a number of different branches of customers to help them get into the market fast," said Hermann Eul, vice president and general manager for Intel's Mobile and Communications Group, in an interview at MWC, in Barcelona last week.
Intel's wireless communications business got a start with the acquisition of Infineon Wireless in early 2011. Eul joined Intel with that acquisition and he was picked to lead the Mobile and Communications Group along with Mike Bell, a former Palm and Apple executive.
Intel has invested aggressively in the development of low-power chips, and a number of smartphones and tablets with low-power Atom chips have shipped. Intel has accelerated the development of mobile chips to take advantage of its latest manufacturing processes, which will bring more performance and power savings. However, company officials declined to provide a specific date when the baseband processor would be integrated with the application processor.
"We are looking at a time frame, but we have not spoken about it," Eul said. "The integration down the road will certainly happen."
Integration of the application and baseband processor is important to Intel, but customers have different needs, Eul said. The communications processor business is key in providing a range of chip offerings to customers looking to build cellular and data connectivity in mobile devices and other equipment, Eul said.
LTE is now a big priority for Intel, Eul said. Intel is projecting LTE connections to double over the next year to around 120 million, and in mobile devices the LTE chipset is as important as the application processor, he said.
"LTE is the backside that speaks to the network. If that doesn't work you'll be disappointed," Eul said.
Another priority is to expand the number of LTE bands supported by Intel's wireless chips. That will help smartphones and tablets work on multiple LTE networks in different countries.
"This multiplies in LTE's case," Eul said. "We're counting 39 bands and a year back we were counting 13 bands."
As Intel focuses on mobile devices, the ability to provide a baseband processor is a step in the right direction, said Dean McCarron, principal analyst for Mercury Research.
"What we're seeing is the evolution of what the expected architecture is going to be. You are going to get your application and baseband processor from the same vendor," McCarron said.
The industry has moved in the direction of including more smartphone components inside a chip, McCarron said. Qualcomm was the first to integrate a modem inside its Snapdragon chips and Nvidia just introduced Tegra 4i, which integrates an LTE modem with a Cortex-A9 ARM processor.
"I wouldn't say it's the last remaining piece, but it's a critical piece," McCarron said.


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Panorama Above 'Perseverance Valley' on Mars
Toward the right side of this scene is a broad notch in the crest of the western rim of Endeavour Crater. Wheel tracks in that area were left by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity as it observed "Perseverance Valley" from above in the spring of 2017. The valley is a major destination for the rover's extended mission. It descends out of sight on the inner slope of the rim, extending down and eastward from that notch.
Opportunity's panoramic camera (Pancam) took the component images for this view from a position outside the crater during the span of June 7 to June 19, 2017, sols 4753 to 4765 of the rover's work on Mars.
This scene includes features that may have been ancient channels from water, ice or wind moving toward the notch in the rim, which might have been a spillway. Perseverance Valley, just on the other side, was likely carved by action of some fluid, such as water, water-lubricated debris, or wind. The mission is investigating to learn more about that process from evidence in place.
The panorama spans about three-fourths of a full-circle view, from southeastward on the left, through westward in the middle, to northeastward on the right. High points visible on the rim of Endeavour Crater include "Winnemucca" on the left and "Cape Tribulation" on the right. Winnemucca, with a distinctive pale cap, is part of the "Cape Byron" portion of the crater rim. The horizon at far right extends across the floor of Endeavour Crater, which is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) in diameter. Opportunity has been investigating sites on and near the western rim of Endeavour since 2011, following seven years of exploring smaller craters after its 2004 landing. Images showing more of the crater's rim, for context, are at PIA21496, PIA21490 and PIA17758.
This view merges exposures taken through three of the Pancam's color filters, centered on wavelengths of 753 nanometers (near-infrared), 535 nanometers (green) and 432 nanometers (violet). It is presented in approximately true color. The rover team calls this the "Sprained Ankle" panorama because the images were collected during a driving moratorium while engineers diagnosed a temporary steering stall with one front wheel pointed outward more than 30 degrees. The team was able to straighten the wheel to point straight ahead, and then resumed driving.
The location from which this scene was recorded is labeled as "Sol 4752" on a later traverse map. Opportunity subsequently entered the upper end of Perseverance Valley and returned views looking down the valley and back up toward the rim crest from the location it reached on July 7 (Sol 4782).
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of "Solander Point" on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Mars Hill-Climbing Opportunity at 'Solander Point,' Left Eye
This view of a rock called "Block Island," the largest meteorite yet found on Mars, comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Mars Meteorite
This 3-D image combines computer-generated models of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and its lander with real surface data from the rover's panoramic camera. It shows Spirit's position just after...
On Its Own (3-D)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this southward uphill view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of "Solander Point" on the western rim of Endeavour Crater.
Mars Hill-Climbing Opportunity at 'Solander Point'
The color image on the left was taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the part of the rock outcrop dubbed Stone Mountain at Meridiani Planum, Mars.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity set a one-day distance record for martian driving on the rover's 383rd martian day, or sol, which began on Feb. 19, 2005. Opportunity rolled 177.5 meters (...
Record Drive Day, Opportunity Sol 383 (3-D)
This scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity looks back toward part of the west rim of Endeavour Crater that the rover drove along, heading southward, ...
Rover's Tracks in Stereo View Along Rim of Endeavour Crater
This image shows a portion of the rim of "Erebus Crater" in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars.
Rim of 'Erebus'
The "keys" to NASA's Mars rovers are in the capable hands of the official rover drivers. Learn how they operate the vehicles from millions of miles away in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Prop...
Mars in a Minute: How Do Rovers Drive on Mars?
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity obtained this view from the top of the "Cape Tribulation" segment of the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover reached this point three weeks before the 11th ...
High Martian Viewpoint for 11-Year-Old Rover (False-Color Landscape)
In February 2015, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is approaching a cumulative driving distance on Mars equal to the length of a marathon race. This map shows the rover's position relative...
Opportunity Rover Nears Mars Marathon Feat (Labeled)
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, working on Mars since January 2004, passed 25 miles of total driving on the July 27, 2014. The gold line on this map shows Opportunity's route from the la...
Opportunity's Journey Exceeds 25 Miles
This grouping of two test rovers and a flight spare provides a graphic comparison of three generations of Mars rovers developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The setting is ...
Three Generations in Mars Yard, High Viewpoint
These two images from 10 days apart show that dust was removed from the panoramic camera's calibration target on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Before and After a Cleaning Event on Spirit
The target beneath the tool turret at the end of the rover's robotic arm in this image from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is "Private John Potts." It lies high on the southern side of "...
Mars Rover Opportunity at Rock Abrasion Target 'Potts'
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has extended its robotic arm for studying a light-toned rock target called "Athens" in this March 25, 2015, image from the rover's front hazard avoidance c...
Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Bright 'Athens'
Taken on June 10, 2018 (the 5,111th Martian day, or sol, of the mission) this "noisy," incomplete image was the last data NASA's Opportunity rover sent back from Perseverance Valley on Mars.
Opportunity's Last Message
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is continuing its traverse southward on the western rim of Endeavour Crater during the fall of 2014, stopping to investigate targets of scientific interest...
Opportunity Pausing at a Bright Outcrop on Endeavour Rim, Sol 3854
This enhanced-color view of ground sloping downward to the right in "Perseverance Valley" shows textures that may be due to abrasion by wind-driven sand. The Pancam on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity...
Wind's Marks in "Perseverance Valley" (Enhanced Color)
Spirit acquired this mosaic while investigating the area east of the elevated plateau known as "Home Plate" in the "Columbia Hills." The trench exposed a patch of nearly pure silica, with the comp...
Rover's Wheel Churns Up Bright Martian Soil
This false-color image taken by the panoramic camera onboard the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity highlights the spherules that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain
So, you want to study Mars with a lander or rover - but where exactly do you send it? Learn how scientists and engineers tackle this question in this 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo...
Mars in a Minute: How Do You Choose a Landing Site?
Textured rows on the ground in this portion of "Perseverance Valley" are under investigation by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, which used its Navigation Camera to take the component ima...
Rock Stripes Pattern in Mars' 'Perseverance Valley'
As Opportunity crept farther into "Endurance Crater," the dune field on the crater floor appears even more dramatic, as seen in this false-color image.
Endurance Crater's' Dazzling Dunes
This color view of a mineral vein called "Homestake" comes from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
'Homestake' Vein in Color


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Real-Color images of the earth from the satellite Himawari (JMA)
Thursday, December 7, 2017 - 00:25 | Author: wabis | Topics: Knowlegde, Space, Animation, Interactive | Comments(4)
For the first time in 50 years, a technical trick is used to create true color images of the entire earth with the help of the new weather satellite Himawari 8 (Japan) and combine them into video sequences. The pictures and video sequences are freely available. Here, a sequence of original shots and a video in true colors can be viewed and I explain how the true color images are computed from the original data.
Deutsch: Echtfarb-Aufnahmen der Erde vom Satelliten Himawari der JMA
Video from Himawari-8 Real-Color Images
The video shows full-scan images in Real-Color of the Japanese weather satellite Himawari 8:
Period 2016-11-01 00:20 to 2016-11-29 23:20 UTC
Recording Rate One image every 10 minutes
Resolution approx. 17.7 km per pixel on 720p quality (HD)
Number of Images approx. 4100
Frame rate 25 images per second
Duration 2 minutes 44 seconds
Source Digital Typhoon: Himawari-8 Monthly Archive of Cloud Image Animations ;
KITAMOTO Asanobu @ National Institute of Informatics
The images of this video were calculated from the satellite's raw data to match human perception as closely as possible. Since the satellite does not use a commercial camera for the recordings, but a so-called Multispectral Camera , true color images had to be calculated using special algorithms.
Images from RGB Raw Data
Stop the animation by setting the slider FPS to 0. With the slider Img you can select a specific picture. With FPS = 8.33 the animation runs as fast as the video above.
If you combine the 3 RGB channels of the Multispectral Camera of the satellite without editing, you will get the pictures shown above. In these pictures the vegetation is not displayed correctly, because the three RGB filters are not aligned to the human visual spectrum, but to wavelengths optimized for weather data.
Note the reflection of the sun on the surface of the earth. The South Pole is illuminated for 24 hours at this time of the year, meaning the sun never sets.
Number of Images 48
Source Satellite Imagery ; Japan Meteorological Agency JMA
The images shown are obtained through the following settings on the JMA website :
Incidentally, even the oblateness of the earth can be measured accurately on the high-resolution infrared images of the satellite: Can we see the Oblateness of the Earth on Satellite Images?.
View of the Orbit
The animation above shows the real proportions of Earth and the distance of the satellite at November 25. The position of Himawari 8 is 140° east at a distance of 35,786 km from the earth's surface above the equator. The satellite orbits the Earth synchronously in a geostationary orbit. That is, he always shows exactly the same view of the earth.
The animation shows why the sun never sets in the antarctic summer at the South Pole (Antarctica). From the satellite's point of view, the sun is always below its orbit at this time of the year. Therefore, the sun's reflection in the images is always in the lower half of the globe.
In reality, the orientation of the earth axis does not change when the date is changed. Here, a coordinate system was chosen, which always shows the earth from the same side in relation to the Earth-Sun connection. So this coordinate system rotates with the Earth around the Sun, so it seems like the Earth's axis is turning.
The Satellite Himawari 8
Himawari 8 wether satellite. Interaktive Animation of the Satellite . Source: asahi.com
Himawari 8 is a weather satellite of the Japanese Meteorological Agency JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency ). The satellite was manufactured by Mitsubishi Electric with support from Boeing. It is the eighth geostationary weather satellite in Japan and the first of a new series. Himawari 8 was brought into its geostationary orbit on October 7, 2014. It flies at an altitude of 35,800 km above the equator at 140° East, has a length of 8 m and a weight of 3.5 t. He officially went into operation on July 7, 2015 [1].
Himwari-8 Real-Time Images opened at 03:00 UTC on 3 July 2015 [2]. True Color Reproduction was added on 10 May 2016 [3].
The image data is sent to various institutes which process the images to produce, for example, true color images, infrared images and weather maps [4].
The Advanced Himawari Imager AHI
The Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) is a Multispectral Camera with sixteen channels (0.46 µm to 13.3 µm) in the range of visible light and in the infrared range and provides overview and detail shots. The images reach a resolution of up to 500 meters per pixel. It can record the whole earth at 10 minute intervals with 11,000 x 11,000 pixels resolution (approx. 1 km per pixel) and the japanese teritorium all 2.5 minutes. The camera provides cloud, temperature, wind, precipitation, and aerosol distribution data over the various spectral ranges [5] [1] [6].
A photo or video camera has sensors that are sensitive in the visible spectrum of the light. The spectrum is recorded with 3 overlapping independent channels which delivers gray scale image data for each of the color channels: red, green and blue. If these channels are superimposed, a so-called true color image is recreated.
Satellite sensors, with exceptions, are not primarily sensitive to electromagnetic waves in the visible region of the spectrum. Specialized satellites such as weather satellites are particularly sensitive in those spectral bands that provide specific data such as cloudiness and temperature. Weather satellites therefore have bands predominantly in the near infrared and infrared ranges.
To graphically display the data, they are mapped to the bands for the three primary colors red, green and blue. This creates so-called false-color images.
Computation of the Real-Color Images
In addition to the infrared bands, the AHI camera also has 3 bands in the visible range. Therefor it is the first time cince 50 years that true color images of the entire earth can be made with a weather satellite. But there is a small technical problem: The green band does not overlap with the red band (Fig2), so a large amount of green/yellow/orange is missing on the pictures and forests look like red/brown deserts.
Fig1: The three types of color-sensitive retinal cells (cones) are excited by different wavelengths of light.
Fig2: Color spectral bands of the AHI sensor.
Source: A SIGHT FOR SORE EYES; The Return of True Color to Geostationary Satellites
In Fig. 2, the reflection component of green vegetation is shown as a green curve. It can be seen that there is no EM band in the AHI sensor in the visible range just where there is a peak of the vegetation radiation. Therefore, the sensor is blind for this color range. However, it can also be seen that the vegetation has a high signal in the near infrared region at channel 4. With the help of channel 4 data in the near infrared range, the missing data of the green band can now be partially reconstructed by mapping a portion of this band into the green band.
Fig3: AHI Image from the channels 1-3: The green of the vegetation is missing.
Fig4: AHI Image from the channels 1-4: The green of the vegetation is reconstructed.
More Videos and Satellite Images
Monthly videos of the whole earth in true color
http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/himawari-3g/monthly/index.html.en
One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles YouTube; www.nesdis.noaa.gov
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFrP6QfbC2g
Japan's New Satellite Captures an Image of Earth Every 10 Minutes
New York Times, images from the Himawari-8 weather satellite's first official day paint a living portrait of the western Pacific
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/10/science/An-Image-of-Earth-Every-Ten-Minutes.html?_r=1
First images from Himawari-9 ;
At 02:40 UTC on 24 January 2017, the first images from all 16 bands were captured by JMA's Himawari-9 geostationary meteorological satellite, which was launched on 2 November 2016. Image in full resolution available.
http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/satellite/news/himawari89/20170124_himawari9_first_images.html
At 02:40 UTC on 18 December 2014, the first images from all 16 bands were captured by JMA's Himawari-8 next-generation geostationary meteorological satellite, which was launched on 7 October 2014. Image in full resolution available.
Himawari-8 Images and Movies
Digital Typhoon: Full Disk - Images and Movies of Himawari-8
http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/himawari-3g/full-disk.html.en
First high definition image of the Earth
The world's first high definition image shooting of the Earth from about 110,000 km deep in space from Lunar Explorer KAGUYA; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), 29. Sept. 2007, more Infos
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/earth/20071001_kaguya.html
The View from the Top, from the Suomi-NPP satellite ; NASA, Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=78349$@ffsrc=ve
Galileo spacecraft looked back
On December 16, 1992, the Galileo spacecraft looked back from a distance of about 6.2 million kilometers to capture this remarkable view of the Moon in orbit about Earth.
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/earth/gal_earth_moon.html
Some more pictures to explore from planetary.org
http://planetary.org/explore/space-topics/earth/pics-of-earth-by-planetary-spacecraft.html
Looking Back from Apollo 11
Looking Back from Apollo 11, acquired on July 16, 1969 using a Hasselblad camera using a 250 millimeter lens, no digital image, High Resolution imageHigh Resolution image
The Blue Marble from Apollo 17
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=55418
Interaktive Animation des Satelliten ; The Asahi Shimbun (News-Site)
http://www.asahi.com/special/rocket/himawari/
15 Free Satellite Imagery Data Sources ; GisGeography
http://gisgeography.com/free-satellite-imagery-data-list/
System-Specifications of the Himawari 8 Satellite ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
Specifications of the AHI Multispectral Camera ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
Overview of the Himawari-8/9 ground segment and operations ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
Satellite operation plan for Himawari-8/9 ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
Can we see the Oblateness of the Earth on Satellite Images?
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Himawari 8 ; Wikipedia(en)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari%5F8
MTSAT Real-Time Image ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
http://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/data/sat_dat/index.html
Himawari Real-Time Image ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
http://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/data/himawari/index.html
Overview of the Himawari 8/9 ground segment and operations ; Meteorological Satellite Center (MSC) of JMA
http://www.jma-net.go.jp/msc/en/general/system/system89/index.html
Himawari 8 ; Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himawari%5F8
Himawari-8 Spacecraft Overview
http://www.jma-net.go.jp/msc/en/general/system/himawari89/index.html
1Zhang 10/16/2018 | 08:26
Thanks for your share, it' s very helpful
2Bob 5/23/2019 | 13:44
How come the continents are still,?
3wabis (Walter Bislin, Author of this Page) 5/23/2019 | 15:40
Bob, Himawari is in geostationary orbit, see View of the Orbit.
4Scott Wallace 7/9/2019 | 16:18
Thanks again for your wonderful work, Walter. Cheers from cloudly Vienna, Scott
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TAYLOR WILL TRY AND AVOID CLIMATE ACTION FOREVER: GREENS
Adam Bandt 11 Jul 2019
Greens climate change and energy spokesperson and Acting Leader, Adam Bandt MP, today said that Angus Taylor's apparent refusal to convene the COAG energy council is more evidence that this government does not care about climate action whatsoever.
Nuclear waste dump process must be independent
Sarah Hanson-Young 10 Jul 2019
The Greens have called for the process to select a nuclear waste site to be halted, and an independent, expert panel to take over, amid deep concerns about the sidelining of the community and Traditional Owners.
Media Release: Minister Howarth's Homelessness Gaffe Shows He Is Completely Out of Touch
Mehreen Faruqi 10 Jul 2019
Australian Greens Senator and Housing Spokesperson, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has called the Assistant Minister for Community Housing, Homelessness and Community Servicer, Luke Howarth MP, completely out of touch for his comments around putting a 'positive spin' to homelessness and housing stress.
Senator Faruqi said:
"Minister Howarth is completely out of touch if he thinks there is any way to positively spin the number of people who are homeless. What an incredibly insensitive gaffe.
Submission Guide to the Draft Greyhound Racing Regulation 2019
Mehreen Faruqi 9 Jul 2019
The NSW Government has released the draft Greyhound Racing Regulation 2019, which will replace the Greyhound Racing Regulation 2018.
While we all want to see an end to the Greyhound racing industry, we must ensure that as many lives as possible are saved by enacting stricter regulations while this cruel activity is allowed to continue. The greyhound racing industry are trying to roll back even the modest animal welfare gains that have been put in place since the backflip.
Money for Murray-Darling must be frozen
Sarah Hanson-Young 9 Jul 2019
Water and Murray Darling Basin
The Greens have called for an immediate freeze on money for Murray-Darling water projects until the Auditor-General can review payments and water recovery.
Motion: World Heritage of Royal National Park in NSW
I move:
(a) notes that:
(i) the Royal National Park in New South Wales has enormous heritage value, including being the first national park in Australia, as well as one of the first in the world, and
(ii) it has been six years since the Federal and New South Wales State Governments committed to nominating the Royal National Park for World Heritage status; and
Students in Distress: New Reports Shows Majority of Students are Impacted by Housing and Food Insecurity
Australian Greens Senator and Spokesperson for Education, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has responded to today's release of the 2018 Higher Education Accommodation and Financial Stress Survey that shows high levels of student financial and psychological distress.
The survey found:
SA leading the way on single-use plastics
The Greens have praised the South Australian Liberal government for continuing the state's leadership on the environment with a ban on single-use plastics. They will continue to work toward a ban on single-use plastics at a national level with a Bill to be introduced to the Senate.
Australian Greens announce new shadow ministries for the real opposition
Richard Di Natale 5 Jul 2019
The Australian Greens have today announced updated portfolios, as decided at Monday's meeting of the Australian Greens Party Room.
"Someone needs to stand up against Scott Morrison's regime of failed trickle-down economics, or we'll end up living in a dog eat dog society like Trump's America," Opposition Leader Senator Di Natale said.
Statement: Appointment as Greens Spokesperson for International Development
International Aid and Development
I'm honoured to be the new Greens spokesperson for International Development. As someone born in the Global South taking on this role, I am looking forward to bringing a new perspective.
Global poverty is the result of colonialism, structural inequalities, and grossly unfair neoliberal trade and debt systems. We must look at overseas aid as a global justice issue.
I am inspired by the words of Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano, "Poverty is not written in the stars; underdevelopment is not one of God's mysterious designs".


7 p.m., White Water Tavern.
Steadily, Travis Hill is turning his Little Rock label Last Chance Records into a national player. He's released material from Memphis' rock 'n' roll throwbacks John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives, Southern rock hero Joey Kneiser (of Glossary) and rising North Carolina alt-country act American Aquarium. And now, thanks undoubtedly to his relationship with American Aquarium, Hill's releasing the debut album from The Small Ponds, a new Raleigh, N.C.-based trio that includes folk-rock chanteuse Caitlin Cary (Whiskeytown, Tres Chicas), Matt Douglas (The Proclivities) and Skillet Gilmore (Whiskeytown). An early intimate show at White Water should be a good venue for the group's moody, slow-build relationship songs. Cary and Douglas have pure voices that sound great together. Slobberbone front man Brent Best, who's damn near a regular at White Water, opens the show with a solo set.


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Bonny Zanardi: New technology meets fine arts at Peninsula Museum of Art show
By County Times |
PUBLISHED: April 24, 2015 at 12:24 p.m. | UPDATED: April 21, 2018 at 5:50 a.m.
"3D Printing: The Radical Shift" opens Sunday at the Peninsula Museum of Art, including a members-only reception from 1 to 2 p.m. and a public reception from 2 to 4 p.m.
The exhibit presents work from a multidisciplinary group of Bay Area artists using cutting edge techniques in their art. Guest Curator Hanna Regev works with artists experimenting freely with technology and who have access to innovative tools via the Autodesk Artist in Residency program.
World-renowned sculptor Bruce Beasley was among the first artists to adopt Autodesk design software. "Computer modeling and 3D printing give me the ability to make sculptures I could not execute in any other way," he says.
Beasley notes that while the "creative impulse remains the same" no matter what tools an artist is using, "it is liberating and exciting to explore a new vocabulary of shapes — part mechanical, part organic–made possible through innovations in technology."
The show also features work by Bill Kreysler and Associates, creators of a model of SFMOMA's new building featuring a scaled-down facade of panels which will be the largest architectural application of composites technology in the U.S.
Scott Kildall is a new media artist. "I see data as sculpture material, like clay, plaster or steel," he says. He uses "code to transform columns of numbers into 3D models."
Artist Wei Li examines taboo subjects in her work, exploring fantasy and desire with language from visual to visceral.
Also included are Sayed Reza Ali, Jennifer Berry, Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions, Jon Kuzmich and Sebastian Martin and Kristina Larsen of Cloud Ear.
The exhibition will continue through June 28. On the closing day there will be a reception and an Artist Panel on "3D Printing Technologies–What Lies Ahead," featuring Regev in conversation with Ali, Farnsworth and Kreysler.
The Peninsula Museum of Art is at 1777 California Drive, Burlingame. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission is free. Call 650-692-2101 or go to www.peninsulamuseum.org.
Note: There also will be a Preview Event from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday celebrating the Open Studios event coming May 2 and 3.
Cuban contrasts
Photographs by Bill Scull are featured in the exhibit "Cuban Icons, Cuban Lives," which opens Tuesday at Gallery 9. Receptions with the artist will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday and from 4 to 6 p.m. May 3.
Scull has traveled widely throughout Cuba. He says his photographs "offer narratives of the daily lives of Cubans, their large hearts, resilience in the face of daunting challenges and indomitable spirit."
The show will continue through May 30. Gallery 9 is at 143 Main St., Los Altos. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. Call 650-941-7969 or go to www.gallery9losaltos.com.
Urban and industrial
Photographers Tom and Marj Green present their photographs of Cuba, Paris and California at Main Street Caf & Books, 134 Main St., Redwood City, through May 29. You can meet and talk to the Greens at the cafe from 2 to 4 p.m. May 2.
Exhibit hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Call 650-949-4536 or go to www.tomandmarj.com.
The show "Exotic Nature" is featured through May 10 at the Coastal Arts League Museum. It features works by painter Greta Waterman and photographer Linda Rutherford.
The museum is at 300 Main St., Suite 6, Half Moon Bay. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Fridays through Mondays. Call 560-726-6335 or go to www.coastalartsleague.com.
"California Spring" is on view through May 22 at the Coastside Land Trust Gallery. Work by 37 local artists is presented, in media from watercolor and acrylics to mosaic and photography.
The gallery is at 788 Main St., Half Moon Bay. Hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sundays. Call 650-726-5056 or go to www.coastsidelandtrust.org.
At Sterling Court
A show of work by eight members of Tangerine Arts is on view at Sterling Court, 850 N. El Camino Real, San Mateo, through June 10. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. Go to www.sterlingcourt.com.
Art lovers are invited to explore the studios of local artists during the first three weekends in May when Silicon Valley Open Studios (SVOS) holds its annual event. More than 380 artists will participate.
Weekend One (May 2-3) focuses on the Northern Area, including Burlingame, Hillsborough, San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Los Altos and Palo Alto.
Weekend Two (May 9-10) is for the Central Area, including Stanford, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View and Sunnyvale.
Weekend Three (May 16-17) celebrates artists in the Southern Area and on the Pacific Coast, from Montara and El Granada to Moss Beach, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Saratoga, San Jose and Morgan Hill. Go to www.svos.org for a complete list of locations, artists and contact information. Hard copies of the directory are available at 480 locations, including many libraries, throughout the Bay Area. Click on "Find a Directory" on the website to find a directory location near you.
Transform it
The Redwood City Public Art Utility Box Mural Program invites you to share your creativity to beautify the neighborhoods of Redwood City by transforming a dull utility box into a work of art. It's open to all Redwood City adult and student practicing artists.
Selected artists will receive $500 for their completed work. The application submission deadline is May 5; notification will take place by mid-June. The project must be completed by Aug. 1.
The program is held in partnership with the Redwood City Civic Cultural Commission, ARTSRWC and the Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation. For complete information on the program, go to www.redwoodcity.org/utilityboxart. Information on visual and literary arts can be sent to Bonny Zanardi at Bzanardi@aol.com.
Shelters being built at former BMX Park
Plants begin to bloom at Chico State