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NORMA Group grows in second quarter of 2022
Sales up 12.9 percent over prior-year quarter to EUR 317.9 million
Growth mainly due to currency effects as well as positive cost pass-through effects
Strong business with water management products in America and Asia-Pacific
Increasing material prices negatively impact earnings and margin
Operating profit at EUR 22.3 million, EBIT margin at 7.0 percent
Measures for improvement initiated with focus on Europe
Maintal, Germany, August 10, 2022 – NORMA Group today presented its figures for the second quarter of 2022. Despite the strained situation on the global raw material markets, uncertainties in the energy sector and higher inflation, the company significantly improved its sales compared to the prior-year period.
"We grew again in the second quarter", says CEO Dr. Michael Schneider. "Thanks in particular to strong business with water supply, irrigation and drainage products in America, we achieved robust results despite unexpectedly high burdens from the impact of the Ukraine war, Corona restrictions in China and general inflation. We managed to partially offset our increased material and logistics service costs through higher selling prices."
In the period from April to June 2022, NORMA Group generated Group sales of EUR 317.9 million – a year-on-year increase of 12.9 percent (Q2 2021: EUR 281.7 million). Organic sales growth was 5.3 percent. Positive currency effects, particularly in connection with the US dollar, contributed an additional 7.5 percent to sales growth. Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (adjusted EBIT) was EUR 22.3 million (Q2 2021: EUR 36.1 million). The adjusted EBIT margin was 7.0 percent (Q2 2021: 12.8 percent). Net operating cash flow in the second quarter of 2022 was about EUR 26.4 million and was thus well below the prior-year figure (Q2 2021: EUR 36.8 million).
Growth in America, moderate organic sales decline in Europe and Asia
In the EMEA business region (Europe, Middle East and Africa), NORMA Group generated sales revenues of EUR 121.6 million in the second quarter of 2022, corresponding to a year-on-year decline of 1.3 percent (Q2 2021: EUR 123.1 million). This was attributable to the continued decline in customer demand in the European automotive market as well as lower sales of standardized joining technology.
In the America region, sales were up 29.7 percent to EUR 155.3 million in the period from April to June 2022 (Q2 2021: EUR 119.7 million). Roughly half of this strong growth was driven by organic growth and half by positive currency effects. Business with water management solutions for stormwater management and efficient irrigation was again very positive.
In the Asia-Pacific region, sales amounted to EUR 41.1 million in the second quarter of 2022, an increase of 5.8 percent compared to the previous year period (Q2 2021: EUR 38.8 million). The increase was the result of positive currency effects; organically, sales declined by 2.8 percent. In particular, modest demand from the Chinese automotive industry for joining solutions as a result of Corona-related lockdowns had a negative impact. By contrast, the water management business in India, Malaysia and Australia developed positively.
Sound growth in the first half of 2022
In the first six months of the current financial year, Group sales were EUR 622.3 million, an increase of 9.5 percent compared to the prior-year period (H1 2021: EUR 568.1 million). Organically, sales grew by 3.8 percent in the six-month period. The main contributors to this positive development included good business with water management solutions in the Americas region, positive currency effects and price effects from increased selling prices.
In the period from January to June 2022, adjusted earnings before interest and taxes (adjusted EBIT) amounted to EUR 52.7 million (H1 2021: EUR 73.0 million). The adjusted EBIT margin was 8.5 percent (H1 2021: 12.8 percent). At EUR 9.8 million, net operating cash flow in the first half of 2022 was significantly lower than in the previous year (H1 2021: EUR 39.3 million). In addition to reduced earnings, this development is attributable to a build-up of inventories, some at higher prices, of components and materials for example.
Improvements in productivity and cost pass-through planned
Second-quarter earnings 2022 in the EMEA region were negatively impacted by lower sales, higher material prices and temporarily higher costs in the course of moving some product lines from a plant in Thuringia to existing plants in Germany and the Czech Republic. NORMA Group has initiated a range of measures in order to improve profitability. In the EMEA region in particular, the company intends to increase the productivity of its plants, carefully scrutinize operating costs and offset higher material prices even more consistently with price increases.
Dr. Michael Schneider: "Our joining solutions are in demand worldwide, and our order books are well filled. I am confident that we can meet this demand more profitably than we are currently in a position to do. With targeted measures, we will initially leverage short-term savings potential and also further improve both our efficiency and processes in the medium term. Our long-term goal of sustainably profitable growth remains in place."
NORMA Group has been focusing its activities on the business areas of water management, general industry applications as well as mobility and new energy since 2021. These areas will be further expanded in the future.
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Our instructors are uniquely qualified to train other educators about Autism Spectrum Disorder, best practices, teaching strategies and the public education system. Experts in the field, all of our instructors have hands-on classroom experience as well as proficiency in mentoring and consultation.
Amber Fitzgerald, M.A., has worked with individuals from birth to adulthood with a variety of special needs, including autism spectrum disorder, emotional disturbance, behavior challenges, and moderate to severe disabilities, for the past 11 years. She has worked directly with students with autism and other behavioral/developmental challenges in both the public and nonpublic school systems as an in-home behavior technician, special educator, district behavior specialist and program specialist for students with ASD.
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After four excruciating years studying part-time for my master's degree and one year waiting patiently for the convocation ceremony, the much-anticipated day had finally arrived. These are some of those wonderful things that really mattered to me.
To make up for my parents' absence, Jimi came for an unexpected rescue. He knew that I had to fulfill my second chance for a more proper celebration. And he knew that I had to do it the right (or wrong) way no matter what happened. So he came, proudly sitting there on my parents' reserved seat. Indeed, with his presence, I could feel the company of all my family members.
Oh, you've heard of him. Watch out – he can be hysterically nasty. Yes, having the over-the-board Ayie around me during the convocation day made things so chaotically wonderful. He was my incredible host, my talented make-up artist, my art director of photography and, most of all, my best ex-housemate.
I don't know what to do in my life without Azrai. If Digi has a yellow man to follow its customers everywhere, I have Azrai to follow me to every important day in my life. He chatted frantically, advised wisely, laughed heartwarmingly, took photos enthusiastically and, most importantly, slept musically, hehe.
She was the only biological family member who made it there. Currently pursuing a Law degree in the same institution, she was supposed to celebrate her graduation day with me. For some reasons, she was only there to watch me rejoicing my sweet victory. But I knew that she was not discouraged. She gave me that proud and inspiring look that tenderly melted my heart.
Shazlee was my personal photographer. He was my ex-student who survived his deadly malady – a cancer. His presence symbolized my dream for a perfect graduation day. I wanted every detail to be artistically captured and beautifully remembered. And Shazlee did just that – a real splendid job. He was incredibly patient and professional despite the stormy weather and the demanding requests from Ayie – his unofficial art director, haha.
There were only 8 lucky graduates for my course. And I was one of the rare two male graduates. Gufron was smiling – he was my Indonesian coursemate who is now a lecturer at Genting INTI International College. Deeba was smiling – she is a lecturer at Universiti Tenaga Nasional. Sheema was smiling – she is a lecturer at UiTM Perak. I was smiling too – why not? I am attached to one of the best universities in Malaysia.
In conjunction with the 25th anniversary, UIA introduced a new robe's design. The colour was changed from green to turquoise, the university's corporate colour. Most importantly, mortar board was introduced despite the controversial objections from some concerned parties. Personally, I was proud to be among the first batch of graduates wearing the significant headgear. Oh, the song! For the first time ever, UIA introduced its official song entitled "Leading the Way". I had goose bumps listening to the melodious, inspiring, Disney-like song. It reminded me of one of the songs in Hercules soundtrack, hehe.
The moment of truth was revealed when I was officially conferred a degree by the Hon. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hj Hassan, the latest president of UIA. It was the moment that signified perseverance and conquest. And that was just the beginning for my next step towards doctoral studies. One thing for sure, this particular moment will definitely end up being framed and hanged nicely on the wall of my parents' house, haha.
p.s. I can be contented for my birthday next week. I have got the precious gift already.
oh bro dear bro .. COngratulaTiON!!
Congrats cekmi! biasalah tu… parents will only attend our first convo. Luckily ada teman2 lain kan? Not bad juga new robe tu.. tp tetap suka kalau pakai songkok.. Hahaha..wish comes true, tetiba je uia ada lagu rasmi. hehehe..
zkea> too bad my parents were not there, but i had real fun with friends. ah, songkok and its sentiments hehe. and yes, i was really shocked when they played that song. it's beautiful hihi.
Tahniah Cekmi. Saya singgah dari blog abang Fajar.
Jubah dan mortar board baru…mesti bau kedai lagi he!he!
cekmi congrats once again!!!berseri-seri muka cekmi bila dapat cert ;).
cantik lah the new robe!my fav colour lak tu.
aliff> thanks. the jubah was so new i can't believe i was wearing it for the first time. lucky first timer hehe. salam mubarak.
siti> thanks a lot. actually i dont really like turquoise. my fav is maroon, UTM's corporate color, haha. btw, people look good in turquoise, rite?
ha'ahh.. muka cekmi berseri2 time convo.. hahaaa..
Danial> thanks dear. may merdeka and ramadan bring better things in our lives.
laura> really? I guess i was too much overwhelmed hehe. thanks.
CongRatulaTion… hope you enjoy your job and yOur LifE..!!
salam.hye sir.congrats!!! tgh searching pictures for my friend assignment, ternmpak gmbr sir….u look diffrent than b4 ms sy blaja di IIC dulu..miss u soo much…heheh^_^ Anyway..congrats!!


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Combat ships. Cruisers. Unlucky perfection
These ships can really claim to be the best Japanese light cruisers. And in the world table of ranks, they would have taken a fairly high place. The only thing that overshadows everything - these cruisers turned out to be very unlucky in reality.
But these ships had one interesting difference, which is discussed below.
Initially, these cruisers were planned as scout scouts, but in the end they were repurposed as destroyer leaders. This affected the final appearance of the ships, the design of which was based on the classic 5500-ton cruisers, but by the time work began, the ships in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy were completely and irrevocably outdated. Modern destroyers became faster and had a long cruising range, so we had to pay attention to modern destroyer support ships.
Therefore, as soon as Japan withdrew from the London Agreement, the Admiralty immediately began to create cruisers of a new type, fortunately, there were no restraining factors left. As a result, between 1939 and 1945, 13 new cruisers with a displacement of about 6,000 tons were supposed to enter service, and almost all entered, but it was not easy. The shipyards were heavily loaded with military orders.
So, in the second half of the thirties in Japan, work began on the creation of new 6000-ton light cruisers. In general, light cruisers in Japan were divided into two classes, "A" and "B". The "A" type cruisers carried stronger weapons, the main caliber was 155mm guns, the "B" class, which was closer to the destroyer leaders, was armed with 140mm guns.
The new type of ships was supposed to replace the light cruisers of the Mogami class, which, by replacing the towers, turned into heavy cruisers armed with 203-mm guns. And the escaping 155-mm guns could be used to arm the ships in shift. Very logical, isn't it?
So "Agano", which was based on the work of Captain Fujimoto on the cruiser "Yubari". The ship was supposed to have a high speed and cruising range, which was quite satisfactory for the Admiralty. It was originally planned to equip it with 155-mm guns in the towers from "Mogami", but this led to a significant increase in displacement and an increase in the size (width) of the ship.
Therefore, they decided to abandon the 155-mm guns, and arm the ships with 152-mm guns, designed by the Vickers company from Great Britain and produced under license. Such weapons were part of the armament of battlecruisers of the "Congo" class as anti-mine artillery.
On the "Agano" it was decided to install eight such guns in four twin-gun turrets. But since the cruisers were supposed to become scouts and destroyer leaders, the number of towers was reduced to three, but the torpedo armament was strengthened by installing two four-tube torpedo tubes instead of three-tube ones.
And this became the final weapons design.
The construction of the ships began in 1940, with the laying of the lead Agano. Construction proceeded at a very slow pace, with priority given to heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers.
The length of the hull of the Agano-class ship was 172 m at the waterline, and the maximum was 174.5 m. The width was 15.2 m, the draft was 5.63 m. The standard displacement was 6 614 tons, and the total displacement was 8 338 tons.
Reservation of light cruisers, traditionally for Japanese designers, was just easy.An armored belt 60 mm thick covered the engine room and boiler room, protecting against 140-mm shells at a distance of up to 20 cables (almost 4 km).
The ammunition cellars were protected by sheets of armor 55 mm thick, the tiller compartment was protected by armor sheets of 16, 20 and 30 mm, the conning tower was armored for the forehead - 40 mm, side - 30 mm, top - 20 mm, rear - 16 mm.
The barbets of the turrets of the main caliber were 25 mm thick, the turrets were 25.4 mm thick, the armored deck was 20 mm, and the bevels of the armored deck were 20 mm.
The ship was driven by a power plant of six steam boilers and four Kampon-type turbo-gear units, which rotated four propellers.
The power of the power plant was 104,000 hp, which easily made it possible to reach a speed of 35 knots. The fuel reserve was 1,900 tons of oil, which, according to calculations, was enough for 6,300 miles, but actually 5,820 miles with 18 cruising knots.
Crew and habitability
The total crew size for the project was supposed to be 649 people, however, as practice has shown, on all Japanese ships the crew size was significantly higher than the design one. Mainly due to the increase in the number of anti-aircraft artillery crews. So on the "Agano" itself the number of the crew was 700 people, and on the "Sakawa" - 832 people.
Main caliber
The main caliber consisted, as already mentioned, of six 152 mm guns. These Vickers cannons fired shells weighing 45.4 kg at a maximum distance of 21 km. Combat rate of fire 7-10 rounds per minute.
The two-gun turrets provided an elevation of the barrel up to 55 ° and it was possible to conduct defensive anti-aircraft fire. Such towers were used only on the Agano-class cruisers.
Auxiliary / anti-aircraft artillery
As auxiliary artillery, four of the newest 76 mm Type 98 guns were used in two-gun Mod. "A", also not used anywhere else.
Small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery was represented by six 25-mm Type 96 machine guns and four 13, 2-mm Type 93 machine guns.
Naturally, the number of machine guns changed over the course of the war. At the beginning of 1944, the cruisers already had 26 25-mm barrels each, in July 1944, the two ships that remained in service already had 52 25-mm barrels, and the final anti-aircraft armament figure was 61 barrels: 10 three-barreled installations and 31 single-barreled.
All ships except Agano received radars.
Mine torpedo and anti-submarine weapons
On the Agano-class cruisers, two four-tube 610-mm torpedo tubes were installed, one on board, which were loaded with Type 93 torpedoes. The devices had a quick reloading system, so the stock of torpedoes was 24 pieces.
In addition to torpedoes, each cruiser had hydrophones for detecting submarines and two bomb releases with 36 depth charges.
Aircraft armament
Each cruiser had a standard Type 1 # 2 Mod.11 catapult and two Kawanishi E15K Type 2 seaplanes.
The set of weapons was not typical for ships of that time. The Agano-class cruisers were significantly stronger than the usual Japanese light cruisers, which had 6-7 140-mm guns, which, moreover, could not all participate in an onboard salvo.
True, the combat service of these ships cannot be called successful.
Combat service
"Agano"
Combat service "Agano" began in December 1942, when, together with the cover group of the aircraft carrier "Zuno", he escorted a convoy with troops to capture the islands of New Guinea. The islands of Vevek and Madang were eventually captured by the Japanese.
Then "Agano" took part in the evacuation of the Japanese army from Guadalcanal.
In November 1943, "Agano" took a direct part in the defense of Rabaul and in the battle in the Gulf of Empress Augusta. The Japanese were then defeated, losing the cruiser Sendai and the destroyer Hatsukadze.
After the battle, returning to Rabaul, November 7, 1943, "Agano" miraculously did not fall victim to a raid from aircraft carriers "Saratoga" and "Princeton", but eventually fought back.
On November 10, the Americans repeated their visit, which was more successful: a torpedo from the Avenger hit the stern of the Agano, pretty much disrupting the steering and engine rooms. As far as repairing the damage, "Agano" went in a convoy to Truk Island, where a large base of the Japanese fleet was located, in order to get up for repairs.
Again, no luck. The Agano was attacked by the American submarine Scamp. After the explosion of the torpedo, the cruiser completely lost speed. Another American submarine, the Albacore, was operating in the area, which tried to finish off the cruiser, but was driven away by escort ships.
"Agano" was taken in tow by the sister ship "Noshiro" and nevertheless dragged to Truk on November 16.
It turned out that there was no way to repair the cruiser on Truk. And once again patching up the ship and putting it on the move, "Agano" was sent to Japan to be seriously repaired there.
Did not work out. First "Agano" received two torpedoes from the American submarine "Skat". The ship again lost speed, and the Americans planted two more torpedoes in the cruiser. Perhaps, if not for the strongest fire, the crew could have defended the Agano. However, in fact, the disfigured and flaming wreck of the cruiser was abandoned by the crew, which boarded the destroyer Fumizumi.
Again, no luck. A few hours later, American torpedo bombers flew into the destroyer and sank the ship with all the crew and guests from the Agano. No one survived.
In general, it is worth noting that the Agano was a totally unlucky ship.
After commissioning, the cruiser was appointed leader of the 2nd destroyer flotilla of the Second Fleet. From 23 August 1943, "Noshiro" was based on Truk and was mainly engaged in patrolling.
The baptism of fire took place on November 5 in Simpson Bay, where, as part of a squadron of ships, he tried to resist the American invasion. The crews of aircraft from the aircraft carriers Princeton and Saratoga bombed the cruiser very well, which received several holes from bomb explosions near the sides.
The cruiser went to Truk for repairs. However, on November 10, "Noshiro" ran into the already mentioned submarine "Scamp", the crew of which fired six torpedoes at the cruiser at once. However, luck was on the side of "Noshiro" and only one torpedo caught up with the cruiser, but exploded prematurely, causing additional damage, however. A small storm that began further allowed the crippled cruiser to escape from the submarine.
On November 15, 1943, the Noshiro arrived at Truk, where, having undergone repairs, continued to patrol the islands in the central part of the Pacific Ocean. On November 21, the cruiser went to sea to provide assistance to the tanker "Terukawa Maru", which was torpedoed by the Americans, but did not have time, and the tanker sank.
In early 1944, the cruiser took part in the evacuation of Japanese troops from Kavienga. There he was captured by aircraft from the aircraft carriers Bunker Hill and Monterrey. The "Noshiro" was hit by a bomb in the area of tower No. 2, on the starboard side, damaging the skin and causing a leak. The cruiser had to be sent for lengthy repairs.
In June 1944, the cruiser took part in the Battle of the Mariana Islands. Nominally. The Nosiro's guns did not fire a single shot, the seaplanes did not take off, and the torpedoes were not fired. Such a strange participation.
After repair and modernization, "Noshiro" was sent to Admiral Kurita's First Saboteur Strike Force. In October he took part in the battle of Fr. Samar, in which a 127-mm projectile from an American destroyer disabled the stabilized aiming post on the starboard side.
On October 26, 1944, in the Strait of San Bernardino, the compound of Admiral Kurita comes under attack from aircraft from the aircraft carriers Wasp and Copens. The first attack on the Noshiro damages the steering. During the second attack, the cruiser receives a torpedo in the stern and completely loses control and loses speed. Further, the third attack turns into simply finishing off a stationary target. The torpedo bombers who arrived from the aircraft carrier Hornet hit the stationary Noshiro five times with torpedoes.The crew does not give up and simply works wonders, fighting for survivability, despite the fact that the engine and boiler rooms are flooded with water.
Two hours later, during the fourth attack, Noshiro receives another torpedo. An hour later, the cruiser sinks to the bottom, taking with it 328 crew members.
Yahagi
It entered service on December 29, 1943, but the process of re-equipping, equipping and training the crew dragged on indecently for a long time. The Yahagi entered the First Mobile Fleet only in May 1944.
Baptism of fire took place in the Battle of the Mariana Islands. "Yahagi" took a direct part in the battle in the form of a target, like other ships on both sides of the front. The cruiser was not damaged and took part in the rescue of the crew of the Shokaku aircraft carrier.
September 29, 1944 "Yahagi" is part of the Second Night Battle Group of Vice Admiral Suzuki of the First Subversive Strike Force of Vice Admiral Kurita. Convoys convoys between Singapore and Fr. Luzon.
On October 24, "Yahagi" was in the battle near the island of Sibuyan. At first, it was perforated with bombs by American aviation very qualitatively, causing numerous floods and leaks. The crew coped with the problems, but the speed dropped to 20 knots.
Even in this state, the next day, "Yahagi" drowns the American destroyer "Johnston" with artillery fire. In response, he receives a 127-mm projectile in the bridge and a 250-kg bomb next to the starboard torpedo tube.
Repair was required and the cruiser left for Kura for repairs and upgrades.
Further, "Yahagi" was assigned to the cover detachment of the battleship "Yamato". On April 5, she took part in joint firing with the battleship according to the radar data, and on April 6, "Yahagi" goes on her last cruise.
"Yahagi" went to sea on April 6, 1945 to participate in Operation Ten-Go. The last major operation designed by the Japanese Naval Headquarters. A detachment of ships led by the battleship Yamato was supposed to break through to Okinawa, attack the American amphibious fleet, inflict maximum damage on it, and threw itself into shallow water to turn the ships into stationary batteries.
The detachment was tiny: battleship Yamato, light cruiser Yahagi, 8 destroyers. The entire power of the American fleet aviation was thrown against the detachment. The result is known: "Yamato", disfigured by torpedoes and bombs, went to the bottom.
Operation Ten-Go ended there.
The Yahagi, hit by 4 torpedoes and 12 bombs, sank 15 minutes after the first bomb hit.
The cruiser sank before the Yamato, at 14.05. Killed 445 crew members "Yahagi".
Sakawa
The cruiser entered service on November 30, 1944 with standard armament, and on December 7, 1944, she headed the 11th destroyer flotilla of the Combined Fleet.
Based in Singapore, where in early 1945 he transported more than 700 soldiers evacuated from Penang. Sakawa did not go to sea for a long time due to poor crew training.
On March 26, 1945, the cruiser escorted the convoy to Kam Ran, and on 8.04 goes to Maizuru, where the cruiser was partially disarmed by dismantling the catapult and unloading the 152-mm guns. After that, "Sakawa" was included in the air defense of the Naval region of Maizuru.
On July 28, during a raid by American aircraft, the cruiser received minor damage due to close bomb explosions. Sakawa met the surrender of Japan in Maizuru.
After the surrender of Japan, Sakawa is engaged in the transportation of repatriates from Singapore to Nagasaki. This ship was occupied until June 1946, after which the Sakawa was transferred to the American Navy.
On February 25, 1946, Sakawa is part of a squadron of ships that planned to use it as targets in Bikini Atoll.
In March 1946, the ship was transferred from Yokoski to Eniwetok by an American crew of 165 sailors and officers, together with the battleship Nagato. After ten days of passage, being 560 km from Enewetok Atoll, the battleship failed, the steam boiler began to take water and a list appeared on the starboard side. The Sakawa took the battleship in tow and they reached Enewetok on April 1, 1946.
It is noteworthy that the crew of the cruiser raised a real riot.American sailors, not accustomed to the Spartan conditions on Japanese ships, and even there were 165 of them instead of 325 according to the regulations, rebelled and ruined a large amount of equipment on the ship.
Sakawa and Nagato became the first atomic suicide ships. On July 1, 1946, the Nagato and Sakawa, together with the American battleships Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arkansas and New York, experienced the power of atomic weapons.
The Able bomb exploded 450 meters above the cruiser's stern. The explosion caused numerous fires, the blast wave destroyed the superstructure and broke the stern. The cruiser burned for more than a day. They wanted to tow the ship in shallow water for study, but after the start of towing, the Sakawa began to sink and almost dragged the tug along with it.
As a result, on July 2, 1946, the former cruiser Sakawa finally disappeared under water.
What can be said as a result? The Agano-class cruisers turned out to be very fast, well-armed and, most importantly, strong ships. The fact that their use was somehow frankly unsuccessful, with the exception, perhaps, of the "Yahagi", which sank the destroyer, otherwise it was somehow quite depressing.
Most likely, the ships have nothing to do with it. Towards the end of the war, the training of the crews of Japanese ships steadily declined, since the imperial fleet simply did not have time to train replacements for those leaving. Building a ship is only half the battle, a well-trained crew is much more difficult.
But in fact, the Agano-class cruisers were the final development of the family of Japanese light cruisers and, according to their data, could have left behind many classmates from France, Italy, Germany and the United States.

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Pope Alexander VI (1431 – 1503)
The reward for "Baddest Pope Ever" arguably goes to Rodrigo Borgia, who enjoyed the benefits of having an uncle who just happened to be Pope Calixtus III. Thanks to his convenient social status, Borgia passed through the ranks of bishop, cardinal, and vice-chancellor, gaining enormous wealth along the way. In 1492, he was actually able to buy his way into the papacy, defeating two other opponents by means of bribery.
Alexander was so corrupt that his surname eventually became a byword representing the hellishly low papal standards of the time. He sired at least seven different illegitimate children by his mistresses, and didn't hesitate to reward them with handsome endowments at the church's expense. When low on finances, he either established new cardinals in return for payments, or he slammed wealthy people with completely fabricated charges, jailed or murdered them for said false charges, and then stole their money.
Not surprisingly, there is very little about Alexander VI that can be considered godly or even lawful. His goals were selfish and ambitious, and the orderly government he initially administered quickly deteriorated until the city of Rome was in a state of complete disrepair. The words spoken by Giovanni de Medici (the future Pope Leo X) after Borgia's election are telling:
"Now we are in the power of a wolf, the most rapacious perhaps that this world has ever seen. And if we do not flee, he will inevitably devour us all."
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Lommel Proving Ground is een testbaan van Ford ten zuiden van het Belgische gehucht Kattenbos, Lommel en beslaat een terrein van 3,22 km².

In 1964 begon de bouw en een jaar later werd de faciliteit geopend. De bedoeling was onder meer om tot integratie tussen de Britse en de Duitse Ford-fabrieken te komen. Vanaf 1970 werd de baan nog uitgebreid en in 2008 waren er 80 km aan testbanen. Aangezien de modellen geheim zijn, is de baan afgesloten. Naast testbanen zijn er ook klimaatkamers, zoet- en zoutwaterbaden en dergelijke. In de afgelopen zes jaar is er 23 miljoen euro ingestopt. Ook wordt het terrein soms afgehuurd door Toyota, omdat die zelf geen testbaan in Europa hebben. Als die klaar is echter, stormt Ford het terrein weer op. Het testen gaat 24 uur per dag door en er is een strikt schema.
Elk jaar met Pinksteren wordt de testbaan opgesteld voor fietsers en rolschaatsers.
Op 7 september 2019 werd er een wereldrecord verbroken. Meer dan 1.300 Ford Mustangs vormende er een stoet van ettelijke kilometers lang. De recordpoging kwam er naar aanleiding van het 55-jarig bestaan van deze Amerikaanse bolide.

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Researchers have identified a protein called CPEB4 that seems to be crucial in establishing melanoma's intrinsic signature and in driving the development of these aggressive tumors.
The study, "Lineage-specific roles of the cytoplasmic polyadenylation factor CPEB4 in the regulation of melanoma drivers," published in Nature Communications, suggests that CPEB4 may be a promising therapeutic target for melanoma patients.
"In previous studies, we have demonstrated that melanomas are very different from other types of tumors in that they activate mechanisms of self-degradation (autophagy), or control the internalization and secretion of molecules, for example," Marisol Soengas, senior author of the paper and an expert in the field of melanoma identity, said in a press release.
However, understanding which mechanisms drive the particular aggressive behavior of melanomas has been hindered by the high mutation rate found in these tumors. Now, the researchers have found that CPEB4 plays a critical role in establishing melanoma's characteristic behavior.
The CPEB family of proteins is known to regulate gene expression by participating in the process of mRNA stabilization in the nucleus. Consistently, these proteins are associated with a multitude of cellular processes, including cell proliferation, differentiation, polarity, and motility.
The expression of CPEBs in cancer is highly variable, with pro- and anti-tumorigenic roles reported depending on the system, most likely because these proteins can both stabilize and destabilize mRNA molecules. CPEB4 caught the attention of researchers because of its overexpression in gliomas and pancreatic cancers, which are also aggressive cancers.
After performing computer and histological analysis, the researchers found that CPEB4 was increased early in melanoma progression, suggesting that this protein could be involved in cell proliferation.
Their results then revealed that melanoma is dependent on CPEB4 in a manner not shared by other tumors. In melanoma, CPEB4 was found to control lineage-specificity through two distinct mechanisms: activation of genes that are unique to this tumor type and distinct regulation of factors that are also common to other cancers.
Indeed, CPEB4 was able to modulate the expression of MITF and RAB27A, which are both essential drivers of this tumor type, and to enrich the expression of key tumor-promoting signaling pathways.
This data provides new insight on the mechanisms underlying melanoma progression, suggesting that CPEB4 is a main driver of the melanoma-specific signature, and that CPEB4-controlled pathways could represent a melanoma vulnerability that could be exploited therapeutically.
Tagged CPEB protein family, CPEB4, melanoma signature, MITF, RAB27A.


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Q: Operator ' ' cannot be applied to operands of type 'method group' and 'int' I'm writing an Android application in Visual Studio, but stuck at this:
case Resource.String.strName:
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at the line editText2.Length shows an error:

Operator '!=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'method group' and 'int'

No matter which operator I replace with, I get the same error. I've referred many posts but doesn't seems to be helpful.

A: Length isn't a property but a method of EditText. so it gives error Operator '!=' cannot be applied to operands of type 'method group' and 'int'
just replace your code  with my ans it will sure help you my friend.
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A: Length is a Method of the TextView, you are not calling the method.
To get the length of its text string you can either call the method, or get the text of your TextView and get the length of that.

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1573 National Cellars has a strong aroma on the nose, sweet and fresh taste with a long finish on the palate. It is known for its exquisite national brewing craftsmanship. It is one of the most famous Chinese brands is the first liquor to be awarded the cultural heritage "double national treasure" status in China and is the only strong-flavoured organic Baijiu to date.
The National Cellar Spirit of China has a soft and sweet aroma on the nose, and has fresh and clean tones on the palate. It is known for its exquisite craftsmanship including the fermentation and storage methods. It is the only strong-flavoured Baijiu made with organic ingredients to date. 1573 National Cellars was accredited as one of the Chinese National Cultural Heritages in 1996. It holds the Guinness World Records of the oldest and most intact fermentation cellar, back to the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368-1644). Limited supply.
The Australian Open has landed a significant partnership deal with leading Chinese Baijiu brand Luzhou Laojiao in the largest Chinese sponsorship deal in the history of the tournament. The partnership will be brought to life during the Australian Open by celebrating the shared values of tradition, history, celebration, culture and innovation as part of a special 'Winning Moments' series. Luzhou Laojiao will benefit from global exposure and brand engagement through the Australian Open partnership including international broadcast visibility and a world class hospitality offering.
Guojiao 1573·Guoyun is led by Chinese bartending experts, the 23rd generation of the traditional brewing skills of Luzhou Laojiao, and the national liquor judge Zeng Na. The taste is warm and soft on the palette, fresh on the nose. 60 degrees, just like when people reach their middle age, after years of hard work and experiences, they gradually mature and become more successful. Guojiao 1573·National charm, which means fortune and happiness in Chinese. It symbolises the success of career, and achievements. It is the best choice to be served in your celebrations, business functions and banquets.


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Shaparel Salleh
Born in 1972, Malacca's very own Mohd Shaparel graduated with an Honours Degree in Fine Arts from University Science Malaysia(USM) in 1995. What started with Realism, Shaparel is known as an Abstract Expressionist. His switch, whihc was starling to many includinf his ardent admirer, displays not only Shaparel's growth as an artist but his versatility as well, which rarely has seen in today's artists. Shaparel held his first solo exhibition, Pusaka Rimba, Tuanku Fausiah, Museum and Gallery, USM in 2007 and has gone onto hold three month solo exhition including, Natural Environment(2011), Beauty for Survival(2012), and Imbas Umbi(2014). Known for its pleasing appeal and rawness in emotions, Shaparel has enjoyed much success with collectors as well. His paintings can be viewed in Bank Negara Malaysia, Balai Seni Lukis Sabah, Muzium dan Galeri Tuanku Fauziah, and Soka Gakkai Malaysia to name a few. Mohd Shaparel has been awared three times, the first one is a 1997, CONSOLATION PRIZE, NEW TALENT, PESTA PULAU PINANG, second is at 1999, MAIN PRIZE. YOUNG TALENT, PESTA PULAU PINANG, AND third is 2007, 2ND PRIZE, TASIK KENYIR PAINTING COMPETITION, 2007, TASIK KENYIR.


Mass for Frank Fiorite, 84, a Chicago attorney, will be said at 10 a.m. Monday in Ascension Catholic Church, 815 S. East Ave., Oak Park. Mr. Fiorite, who died Friday in his Oak Park home, had practiced law since the mid-1930s. From 1929 until 1975, he also worked nights in the composing room of The Trib- une. He was a member of the Chi-cago Bar Association and the Justinian Society. His son Frank Jr., who died in 1986, was chief admins-trative law judge and chairman of the board of appeals for the Illinois Department of Revenue. Mr. Fiorite is survived by his wife, Lillian; a daughter, Sister Elizabeth, O.P.; and three grandchildren.


"This work has been tremendously exciting and fulfilling for me."
Mysterious, statue-laden Rapa Nui, dubbed Easter Island by European colonizers, is not an easy place to thrive. At more than 2,000 miles from the coast of South America, it is one of Earth's most remote inhabited islands. The soil is poor in nutrients, rainfall is unpredictable, and while there are freshwater lakes within its volcanic craters, there are no streams or other sources of surface freshwater. These ecological constraints, argue scientists in a new PLOS One study, are the key to solving the long-standing mystery of its statues.
"These results are significant because they clearly show that ahu locations are related to freshwater sources in a way that they aren't associated with other environmental factors, which resolves previous debates about why they occur where they do, and it allows us to look deeper into why this pattern occurs," study co-author and University of Oregon Ph.D. student Robert DiNapoli, tells Inverse.
Rapa Nui, or Easter Island.
DiNapoli and his co-authors aren't saying that the monuments are necessarily like bread crumbs leading the way to a drink, but it's hard to argue with what they found: Every time they found large amounts of fresh water on the island, the giant statues were nearby.
DiNapoli notes that archeologists often view monumental structures — whether it's a pyramid or a moai — as places that perform multiple social roles and functions. A monolith, in other words, can serve both spiritual and practical uses. In the paper, the team argues that Rapa Nui's monuments are partially related to community competition and cooperation centered around the island's limited freshwater sources.
"While basically everyone agrees that they are ritual, religious sites and clearly have a coastal distribution," says DiNapoli, many researchers have argued that they could also be related to social factors, like cooperation and competition for agricultural land, marine food, and freshwater. The team's goal was to test those ideas with rigorous statistical modeling. Focusing on the east side of the island, where local resources had previously been mapped, the team investigated whether there were any relationships between the distribution of 93 ahu and the supplies necessary for life.
There didn't appear to be a link between monument location and marine food or agricultural land, but the team did find a spatial relationship between monuments and the island's limited freshwater sources. This may mean that the monuments were built, in part, to signal territorial resource control.
Archaeological investigation has revealed new details about the societies on Easter Island.


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Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Review
Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Review. In the wake of testing Samsung smartwatches, I'm generally left with a wrinkled temple, considering what might have been. It's not on the grounds that they're terrible, revolting or an aggravation to wear. As a matter of fact, it's the inverse.
Undoubtedly, Samsung's smartwatches are all that Android clients can purchase at the present time, and the $279.99 Galaxy Watch 5 is no special case. (However, that might change once the Google Pixel Watch shows up.) If Samsung would fix one — perhaps two — things, its smartwatches would make the Apple Watch the previous news. I was wanting to report that Samsung had at long last nailed it, yet no matter what, the Watch 5 is business as usual.
I don't mean this allegorically. The Watch 5 is almost indistinguishable from its ancestor, the Galaxy Watch 4. It comes in similar 40mm and 44mm sizes. Besides a couple of new tie tones, it appears to be identical. I've gone through years evaluating practically every smartwatch under the sun, and tie tone is the main way I could detect the distinction between my Watch 4 and 5 survey units initially.
The Watch 5 additionally has large numbers of similar specs as the Watch 4, including the Exynos W920 processor, 1.5GB of RAM, 16GB of inward stockpiling, contactless installments, GPS, discretionary LTE, contactless installments, and 5ATM of water obstruction. You get similar wellbeing highlights through the marginally superior 3-in-1 BioActive sensor — pulse following, ECGs, and body creation examination. Equipment-wise, the main new thing you're getting is an infrared temperature sensor.
That, incidentally, doesn't do quite a bit of anything yet. It will purportedly further develop rest following exactness, yet as Samsung said during Unpacked, it added the sensor so engineers can dabble around making future wellbeing highlights. To the extent that product goes, it likewise runs Wear OS Powered by Samsung (otherwise known as Wear OS 3 running a Samsung skin). The Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, which ships close by the Watch 5 on August 26th, is where you'll see new plan decisions and sweet elements like turn-by-turn route, yet the Watch 5 is an exceptionally vanilla update.
I question the vast majority will see the small bunch of changes Samsung has made. The 40mm and 44mm watches are a piece heavier — about the heaviness of a penny — in light of the fact that they have somewhat bigger batteries. It has a curvier back to guarantee better skin contact for more noteworthy precision. That bended back doesn't actually change how it feels on your wrist. Samsung claims it's 9.8mm thick, yet YouTuber DC Rainmaker found that it's nearer to 13mm when you incorporate the sensor knock. However, you won't see it. The Watch 5 likewise utilizes sapphire gem glass for more prominent strength. That is perfect, yet it will not be valued by any individual who isn't an oaf, a globe-trotter, or a courageous oaf.
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Regulating Language
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Content Warning: Indigenous genocide
On April 22nd, 2019, Japan's parliament passed a bill that for the first time legally recognised the Ainu people as the "Indigenous people" (in Japanese: senjū minzoku, literally "earlier inhabitant people") of Japan.
If you're like me before I went to Japan for the first time, you probably weren't aware of a people inhabiting Japan before the Japanese. People outside of Japan have a tendency to think of it as a monocultural nation, partly due to Japan's own perception of itself as that. The Ainu have traditionally lived in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands, as well as the Kamchatka peninsula and some other Russian islands. Intercultural relations between the Ainu and Japanese have historically been tense to say the least, but the Meiji Restoration—where Imperial Japan was reborn and its policies shifted to resemble that of western colonial governments—exacerbated these tensions.
Japan annexed Hokkaido in 1869, and the fervent hypernationalism that characterised Japanese policy at that time—which would go on to inspire some of the worst of World War II's war crimes—first saw Ainu lands stolen and given to Japanese settlers, before a harsh policy of assimilation was implemented by the newcomers. This saw a decline not only in Ainu culture, but also their language, which is an isolate; it is unrelated to any other language.
Because of the cumulative effects of assimilation over many generations, Ainu's uniqueness is in danger of being lost forever. There are only a handful of native speakers left—perhaps as few as fifteen—and all of them are elderly. While there is a much higher number of second-language speakers with varying degrees of fluency, without concerted efforts to protect it, Ainu's chances of survival are, sadly, quite low.
It's worth noting here that Ainu is just a microcosm of a worldwide loss of linguistic diversity. Just 23 languages are spoken by over half of the world's population, while
a third of the roughly 7,100 languages spoken today have fewer than a thousand speakers left. At this point in time, the number of languages in the world is still rising as linguists are still documenting them; but there is consensus that by 2100, between half and ninety per cent will be extinct.
So, then, what role has the Japanese government played in the preservation of Ainu? Let's start by looking at schools. Currently, the Japanese Government will not accredit any school—public or private— that does not use Japanese as the language of all classroom instruction and associated learning materials. Funnily enough, this policy began with the Meiji restoration, and affected the decline of other minority languages spoken in Japan—like those of the Ryūkyū Islands, which were annexed by Japan a couple of years after Hokkaido. Clearly, this is a huge barrier affecting the passage of Ainu from parent to child, and is primarily why the few Ainu who can speak their language as their native tongue are so elderly.
There is some hope for Ainu's preservation, however. The 1980s saw a moderation in Japanese policy towards Ainu, resulting in some support for the production of teaching materials. There are also a number of organisations which have been established to advocate for further policy support for the protection of Ainu. There are even a number of universities in the northern subprefectures of Japan which offer tuition in Ainu. But these efforts are fighting in the face of centuries of policies designed to deny Ainu autonomy.
The plight of Ainu is exemplary of the role that the state can play in the suppression of minority languages, and eventually, their loss. Placed within a broader context, Ainu is but one example of the effects of colonialism. With the loss of languages like Ainu, we lose uniquely human ways of interpellating the world, and this is something to be mindful of when one questions the validity of protecting minority languages.


The LET'S CEE Short Film Competition will give young filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Austrian ones, the opportunity to present their films at the LET'S CEE Film Festival in Vienna. The underlying theme this year is Civil Society.
The competition expires really soon, so you better act quickly!
Once a year in Vienna the Festival presents high-quality productions from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including the Caucasus region and Turkey.
Since its first instalment in 2012, the LET'S CEE Film Festival has been providing an exclusive and attractive stage for Central and Eastern European cinematography. Its programme features a selection of the best current feature films and documentaries as well as promising short films, all of which take part in the festival's film competitions. In addition to those, the LET'S CEE Film Festival also features various categories, ranging from legendary classics to topic-related retrospectives and tributes to distinguished children's films, depending on the respective topical focus.
With only a few exceptions, almost all of the featured films are presented in the respective original versions with English or German subtitles. Many of these are Austrian premieres, being accessible to the Austrian audience for the first time ever.
The second (2013) LET'S CEE Film Festival will be held from 13th September to 21st September, 2013.


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The Growing Importance of Women in Philanthropy
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Increasingly, women are rising as leaders in philanthropy. They're creating their own wealth, establishing private foundations, and collaborating with their philanthropic peers. In this podcast, we hear from two extraordinary women who are transforming the sector through research and convening power. Together, Jacki Zehner, Chief Engagement Officer of Women Moving Millions and President of The Jacqueline and Gregory Zehner Foundation, and Dr. Debra Mesch, Director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute discuss gender differences in giving and their significance as more women take the helm affecting social change.
About Jackie Zehner:
Jacki Zehner is an impassioned philanthropic leader committed to women's advancement and philanthropic movement building. She became a community member of Women Moving Millions (WMM) in 2009 and has since become WMM's Chief Engagement Officer. In addition to her role with WMM, she is President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, a Board Member of The Sundance Institute and an advisory board member to many organizations including Impact Partners, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, The Shriver Report, The Women's Philanthropy Institute, Catalytic Women, and Gamechangers, the first ever film fund for female directors. Prior to her full-time engagement in the philanthropic arena, she was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
Throughout her career, Jacki has received numerous awards in recognition of her philanthropic work and leadership. She was most recently named to Inside Philanthropy's 50 Most Powerful Women in U.S. Philanthropy and The Global Diversity List published by The Economist. She is a member of many networks including The International Women's Forum, The Red Cross Tiffany Circle, and The United Way of Salt Lake's Women's Philanthropic Network. She is also a frequent media commentator, blogger, consultant, and speaker on women's success in the workplace, women and wealth, investing, and high-impact philanthropy.
About Debra Mesch:
Debra Mesch is Director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy where she holds the Eileen Lamb O'Gara Endowed Chair in Women's Philanthropy at the Lilly Family School. Dr. Mesch's primary responsibility for the Women's Philanthropy Institute is to guide the research agenda on the role of gender in philanthropy. During her tenure as Director of the WPI, she and her colleagues have written several reports for the Women Give series examining the effects of age, marital status, and income of gender differences in the likelihood and amount of giving to charity.
Dr. Mesch received both her M.B.A. and Ph.D. in organizational behavior/human resource management from Indiana University Kelley School of Business.
About Jacki Zehner:
Jacki Zehner is an impassioned philanthropic leader committed to women's advancement and philanthropic movement building. She became a community member of Women Moving Millions (WMM) in 2009 and has since become WMM's Chief Engagement Officer. In addition to her role with WMM, she is President of the Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, a Board Member of The Sundance Institute and an advisory board member to many organizations including Impact Partners, The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, The Shriver Report, The Women's Philanthropy Institute, Catalytic Women, and Gamechangers, the first ever film fund for female directors. Prior to her full-time engagement in the philanthropic arena, she was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.
Debra Mesch is Director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy where she holds the Eileen Lamb O'Gara Endowed Chair in Women's Philanthropy at the Lilly Family School. Dr. Mesch's primary responsibility for the Women's Philanthropy Institute is to guide the research agenda on the role of gender in philanthropy. During her tenure as Director of the WPI, she and her colleagues have written several reports for the Women Give series examining the effects of age, marital status, and income of gender differences in the likelihood and amount of giving to charity.


As part of our 2018 TSE internship program, Michele Tufano explored options to predict the impact of software changes building activities. The paper was accepted for ICSE-NIER 2019. See you all in Montreal, Canada. Congratulation Michele, well deserved.
The pervasive adoption of Continuous Integration practices – both in industry and open source projects – has led software building to become a daily activity for thousands of developers around the world. Companies such as Microsoft have invested in in-house infrastructures with the goal of optimizing the build process. CloudBuild, a distributed and caching build service developed internally by Microsoft, runs the build process in parallel in the cloud and relies on caching to accelerate builds.This allows for agile development and rapid delivery of software even several times a day. However, moving towards faster builds requires not only improvements on the infrastructure side, but also attention to developers' changes in the software. Surely,architectural decisions and software changes, such as addition of dependencies, can lead to significant build time increase. Yet,estimating the impact of such changes on build time can be challenging when dealing with complex, distributed, and cached build systems.In this paper, we envision a predictive model able to pre-emptively alert developers on the extent to which their software changes may impact future building activities. In particular, we describe an approach that analyzes the developer's change and predicts (i) whether it impacts (any of) the Longest Critical Path; (ii) may lead to build time increase and its delta; and (iii) the percentage of future builds that might be affected by such change.
M. Tufano, H. Sajnani, and K. Herzig, "Towards predicting the impact of software changes on building activities," in 2019 ieee/acm 41st international conference on software engineering: new ideas and emerging results (icse-nier), 2019.


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25 years with the Whitmires
By Communications Team on July 16, 2020 in Music
July 15, 1995, was Mark's and Virginia's first day at St. James's Church. They say it has been a wonderful 25 years, making music with so many wonderful people.
Recently, Mark and Virginia looked through the rosters – they were amazed to see how many choristers have been singing with them for 10, 15, and 20 or more years. And at least 6 singers (Jeanne Lapierre, Taffy Williams, Scott Ellett, Robin Price, Rick Mellott and Scott Corwin) have been with the Whitmire's from the beginning!
When Mark and Virginia came to St. James's, they felt when you bring children into the life of the church, you have a stronger church. Their contribution to this has been through music. The Children's Choir (grades 2-5) was expanded under Mark and Virginia, and they started the Youth Choir (grades 6-12) and Cherub Choir (pre-k to 2nd grade). The Whitmire's also started the West Gallery Choir and the Guitar Ensemble. The Parish Choir already existed, but has been enriched during the Whitmires' 25 years.
Mark is the Director of Music and Virginia is our organist, however, they share directing responsibilities of our various choirs. Mark directs the Parish Choir and the Children's and Cherub Choirs, while Virginia directs the West Gallery Choir, Youth Choir, and Guitar Ensemble.
Mark and Virginia are incredibly talented musicians. They excel in a variety of genres – classical, rock-n-roll, jazz, bluegrass, standards, and more. Mark has written countless songs that have been a part of all the choirs' repertoires, Vacation Bible School, and various mission trips. Virginia composes as well, arranges pieces for the various ensembles, and has spent countless hours planning the beautiful Advent Lessons and Carols services, Bluegrass, Dylan, and U2 masses. The Whitmire's brought the Jazz Mass to St. James's – which started as a yearly event and has been offered as a monthly Sunday afternoon service at various times.
The Whitmire's always leads music with a worship component and has been instrumental in so many outreach projects through music, including regular visits to the Virginia Home to sing with the residents.
There is so much the Whitmire's have created during their 25 years at St. James's, we would need to write a book. But one thing that stands out is what thoughtful people they are. Here is a sampling of what folks had to say:
"Their attitude, commitment, and mentoring, not just with music, but with their support, and spirituality will forever be remembered by me. Congratulations on 25 years!"
"You were gifts to St. James's and to the Richmond community. Your generosity, joy, and commitment are infectious and a wonderful reminder of what can be accomplished through faith and dedication to one another. We are blessed by your presence and leadership!"
"Thank you for your constant commitment to the word, the music, and the song."
"Congratulations Mark and Virginia! And most importantly, thank you for building such an amazing and welcoming community!"
"Congratulations! What a wonderful ministry and legacy! As you know, the choristers and parish are eternally grateful to you both!"
"Your lives and ministries to all of us have been a gift that is greater than even that "pearl of great price". Thank you seems inadequate to express our gratitude to you both, but it will have to suffice for now. If music be the food of love, play on…."
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A bayonet (from French baïonnette) is a bladed weapon such as a knife or short sword, or spike-shaped weapon designed to fit in, on, over or underneath the muzzle of a rifle, musket or similar weapon, increasing the weapon, as a spear. In this regard, it is an ancillary close-quarter combat or last-resort weapon. Some modern bayonets, such as the one used on the British SA80 assault rifle, can be used as wire cutters when combined with their scabbards. Knife-shaped bayonets — when not fixed to a gun barrel — have long been utilised by soldiers in the field as general purpose cutting implements.
The experience of the First World War prompted a complete reversal in opinion on the relative value of long rifles and bayonets in typical infantry combat operations. Whether in the close confines of trench warfare, night time raiding and patrolling, or attacking across open ground, soldiers of both sides soon recognised the inherent limitations of a long and ungainly rifle and bayonet when used as a close-quarters battle weapon. Once Allied soldiers had been trained to expect the throw point or extended thrust-and-lunge attack, the method lost most of its tactical value on the World War I battlefield. It required a strong arm and wrist, was very slow to recover if the initial thrust missed its mark, and was easily parried by a soldier who was trained to expect it, thus exposing the German soldier to a return thrust which he could not easily block or parry. Instead of longer bayonets, infantry forces on both sides began experimenting with other weapons as auxiliary close-quarter arms, including the trench knife, pistol, hand grenade, and entrenching tool.
Soldiers soon began employing the bayonet as a knife as well as an attachment for the rifle, and bayonets were often shortened officially or unofficially to make them more versatile and easier to use as tools, or to maneuver in close quarters. During the Second World War, bayonets were further shortened into knife-sized weapons in order to give them additional utility as fighting or utility knives. The vast majority of modern bayonets introduced since the Second World War are of the knife type.
↑ Bayonet. Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. Accessed 19 April, 2017.


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[ARCHIVED] City Accepting Applications for New Program to Reduce Yard Flooding
The City of Wheaton is starting a new program to help residents reduce flooding or standing water in their yards that occurs after significant rainfall, making part of their yards unusable. This shared-cost program will reimburse up to 50% of the cost, up to $5,000, for property owners to have a contractor install a private storm sewer in their yard that connects to the City's storm sewer system.
Interested residents must submit an application for this program between now and Feb. 1, 2023. This is not a first-come, first-served program; instead, the City will accept applications now through the Feb. 1, 2023 deadline and will then award funding to projects based on a set scoring system. Scoring is based on factors including the depth of a depressional area served by the proposed private storm sewer, and the number of neighboring properties that would benefit from the proposed storm sewer. Pre-approval from the City is required, and this program does not apply to work that has already been completed.
The City will award as many grants as possible until the allotted yearly budget has been spent, which for 2023 is a total of $50,000. Residents whose project are not selected for this year's program can reapply for consideration in the following year's program.
This program is part of the City's Strategic Plan aimed at providing relief to property owners experiencing flooding on private property.
Please see full details in the program packet and application.
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FAIRFAX, VA--(Marketwired - Jun 4, 2014) - wefi, the market leader in mobile experience and network analytics, today announced key findings from its Quarterly Wi-Fi Analytics Report focused on insights and trends from Q1 2014. wefi found carriers offloading Wi-Fi in nearly 80 percent of all US states, an increase of 2-3 percent compared to Q4 2013. Additionally, a deeper view into consumption trends found that entertainment apps Netflix, Vine, Spotify, ESPN and Instagram continue to drive the highest data use. These insights are based on data gathered from millions of mobile devices in the United States enabled with wefi software.
Most states, with the exception of Connecticut and Florida, averaged above 92 percent in Wi-Fi offloading.
Wi-Fi offloading increased by 90 percent from 4 states in the first quarter of 2013 to 41 states in the first quarter of 2014 -- with an average of 94 percent Wi-Fi offloading in these 41 states.
In the first quarter of 2014, wefi found Snapchat speeds blew past Facebook on every metric, including per state and in-state comparisons. For example, in Manhattan, users of Snapchat experienced a nearly 106 percent increase in Mbps whereas Facebook user speeds fell by nearly 81 percent.
"Facebook has been optimized for easy sharing of rich media which entails the uploading and downloading of larger content files. This requires more bandwidth which may affect users' speeds," said David Fishman, wefi CMO. "In contrast, content shared on Snapchat is much smaller in size and once viewed, is not stored, requiring less bandwidth and resulting in faster user speeds."
Consumers have come to recognize that Wi-Fi connectivity presents a superior experience compared to consuming content via cellular networks. This, coupled with devices that automatically sense and log users into Wi-Fi networks when they are present, contributes to the growing use of Wi-Fi and the overall rise in Wi-Fi offloading nationwide.
The top five states with the highest Wi-Fi offloading rates were Utah (99 percent), New Mexico (98 percent), Arkansas (98 percent), Vermont (98 percent) and Maine (97 percent). Of note, New Mexico and Utah were the only states that kept their position in the top 5 Wi-Fi offloading list from Q4 of 2013.
Across the Eastern United States where cellular services are more pervasive, Wi-Fi offloading was also more robust with carriers offloading 82 percent more data than those represented across the Western United States.
Wi-Fi networks were 27 percent faster in Q1 2014 with an average speed of 5.3 Mbps compared to Q1 2013 with an average speed of 4.2 Mbps. Massachusetts, Maryland, Iowa, Illinois and Connecticut clocked in with the fastest Wi-Fi connections this quarter.
Cellular networks were 62 percent faster in Q1 2014 with an average speed of 4.7 Mbps compared to Q1 2013 which had an average speed of 2.9 Mbps (based on the average of states with the top 5 fastest speeds in Q1 2014 compared to Q1 2013 respectively). New Hampshire, Missouri, Maine, Louisiana and Kansas clocked in as the top five states with the fastest cellular connections this quarter.
The report also found that ESPN, Instagram, Netflix, Spotify and Vine maintained their positions as the top five most downloaded applications.
wefi's Quarterly Wi-Fi Analytics Report includes national statistics related to wireless Internet including cellular data offloading onto Wi-Fi networks, amount of data being uploaded and downloaded, average Wi-Fi and cellular data speeds, and mobile application data usage.
"The proliferation of smart mobile devices with built-in broadband capabilities has marked a transformation in how consumers use their devices. Today's consumers have an insatiable demand for connected smart mobile devices, generating rising amounts of mobile data consumption via Wi-Fi," said wefi CEO Zur Feldman. "To address this growing demand for more data and more bandwidth, network carriers can offload users from their 3G/4G network to Wi-Fi networks to add more capacity in a more affordable and flexible way."


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VAPE ( — «амфибийная тяжёлая разведывательная машина») — проект аргентинской колёсной плавающей боевой разведывательной машины. Два прототипа были разработаны французскими компаниями «Рено» и «Панар» по заказу аргентинской армии. Машину предполагали использовать не только по своему прямому назначению, но и для непосредственной поддержки собственных войск и борьбы с танками противника.

История строительства
Аргентина 1960-70-х гг. зарубежными специалистами считалась вторым после Бразилии производителем вооружений в Латинской Америке. В стране строились корабли, боевые самолёты, бомбы, стрелковое оружие и пр. Производство же бронетехники после выпуска в 1940-х 16 танков «Науэль» прекратилось. В 1960-х был принят План «Европа», согласно которому планировалось развитие производства бронетехники в Аргентине. В 1968-м по лицензии французских фирм СОФМА и СФАК на заводе судостроительной компании Astarsa была налажена сборка танков AMX-13. В 1970-х правительством Аргентины была предпринята попытка производства собственных образцов бронетехники. В 1974 западногерманская фирма Thyssen-Henschel получила контракт на разработку танка, под названием TAM, а также БМП VCTP.

В январе 1979 государственная компания  заказала компаниям «Рено» и «Панар» постройку прототипов колёсной БРМ для аргентинской армии. Машину, получившей название VAPE, планировали поставлять на экспорт. Аргентине, не обладавшей развитой автодорожной сетью, требовалась быстроходная, облегчённая военная техника. С оглядкой на это строились семейства TAM/VCTP и VAE/VAPE, а в 1950-х — самолёт Naranjero. Контракт предусматривал постройку 1000 единиц БТР и БРМ. Сборка планировалась на заводе оборонной компании TENSA () в Кордове. В 1979—1980 гг. «Рено» и «Панар» представили прототипы колёсной формулы 6×6. Прототипы были переданы Институту научно-технических исследований в области обороны (CITEFA) для полевых испытаний. Хотя они были пройдены успешно, тем не менее заказ на серийное производство не поступил. Аргентина того периода («Грязная война» «Процесса национальной реорганизации») испытывала финансовые затруднения, что и решило судьбу проекта VAPE. Прототипы были выставлены в музеях военной техники.

Конструкция

VAPE имеет отделение управления в лобовой, боевое отделение — в средней части машины. Корпус БРМ герметичный, выполнен из стальной противопульной и противоосколочной брони. Штатный экипаж состоит из трёх человек: командира машины, механика-водителя и оператора-наводчика. Башня находится за моторным отделением по центру корпуса. Оснащён системами защиты от ОМП, кондиционирования воздуха, пожаротушения.

Вооружение

VAPE оснащён 90-мм пушкой GIAT F4, расположенной в башне SAMM-TAMSE-TENSA AR90 аргентинского производства. Запас боеприпасов — 20 снарядов. Начальная скорость снаряда — 1500 м/с. Кроме того, он располагает двумя 7,62-мм пулемётами с 1000 патронами и пусковыми установками дымовых гранат, расположенных с обеих сторон башни. Приводы наведения ручные.

Двигатель

Модификации
 VAPE-1 () — вариант БРМ фирмы Renault.
 VAPE-2 () — вариант БРМ фирмы Panhard.

См. также
 VAE

Примечания

Ссылки
 Los vehículos VAE y VAPE | Zona Militar

Бронеавтомобили по алфавиту
Бронеавтомобили Аргентины
Тяжёлые бронеавтомобили
БРМ по алфавиту
БРМ Аргентины
Плавающие БРМ
Военная продукция Panhard
Военная продукция Renault


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Poland/2019
Sylwia Rosak
Former disco polo genre star Jan Prostojan, after couple of years absence, has a chance of coming back to the stage. His only rival is worshipped Mariusz "Mario", a new generation's artist. Jan comes with a plan, that will make him remembered forever. He is willing to do such an act, which hasn't been seen in disco polo yet. His only way of winning is to balance on a thin line between life and death.
Natalia Pietsch
Andrzej Kowalczyk
University of Silesia in Katowice
Ziemowit Pedziwiatr
Mateusz Grabowski
Robert Czebotar
Sylwia Rosak is a student of the Direction at Krzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television University of Silesia, Poland. She gained experience by working with Bartosz Konopka and Aneta Kopacz, among others. In her art she mainly focuses on the inner world that her characters build for themselves. By presenting them in an interesting form she creates auteur cinema. The short films she has made so far have successfully been making the rounds atinternational festivals.
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When Sen. McCarthy took on Millard Tydings and won | COMMENTARY
By Larry Tye
For The Baltimore Sun |
Millard Tydings. (Baltimore Sun)
If Wheeling, West Virginia, was where Sen. Joe McCarthy made himself the most divisive man in 1950s America, Baltimore was where he became the most feared and the role model for our 45th president.
McCarthy, like President Donald Trump, couldn't forget a slight. And none of his congressional colleagues had maligned him more than Millard Tydings, who'd represented Maryland for four years in the U.S. House and 23 in the senior chamber, where he earned his reputation as the goad of the Senate. After McCarthy launched a crusade against communism in his Lincoln Dinner speech in Wheeling in 1950, Tydings branded the Wisconsinite a faker and called his holy war a mirage.
Tydings' background further made him a tempting target for the farm-raised McCarthy. The lawmaker from Havre de Grace was among the Senate's richest members (by marriage) and the most pontifical (by not knowing when to muzzle himself). His tailored suits, comme il faut diction, and baronial estate on the Chesapeake Bay made it easy for McCarthy to lampoon him as a soulmate of the elitist and leftist Foggy Bottom set. No matter that Tydings' rise from a one-room schoolhouse and a job with the railroad was truer to Horatio Alger than McCarthy's. McCarthy was the one framing the narrative, and in his rendering it was Man-of-the-People McCarthy versus Mi-Lord Tydings.
With the who decided, the focus switched to how. McCarthy "was so preoccupied with Tydings," reported one person close to the Wisconsin senator, "that he'd sit by the hour figuring out ways to get revenge." McCarthy realized what mattered most to most politicians was their reelection. Taking on a four-term incumbent like Tydings seemed pointless, which is why the only Republicans running against him in 1950 were D. John Markey, a former hat-and-shoe salesman, and John Marshall Butler, a realtor-turned-lawyer whose primary qualification was his made-for-the-Senate name. For McCarthy, those long odds made it just the attention-getting gambit to bolster his claim that a silent majority of Americans believed in his red-baiting evangelism. So just days after a committee headed by Tydings issued a blistering report on McCarthy, Joe was huddling with Butler, arming him with every weapon McCarthy knew could win elections even before Butler won his own primary.
Step one was assembling the brain trust. Who better to steer the media campaign than Bazy Miller, publisher of the Washington Times-Herald and niece of right-wing newspaper magnate Colonel Robert McCormick? The Wisconsin senator also made three personal appearances in Maryland and went on the radio. He turned over to Butler his anti-Tydings speeches and cartoons, and shifted the focus from butter-and-bread issues like taxes to whether the incumbent was "protecting Communists for political reasons." And McCarthy's Senate staff managed the essentials of the campaign, from research and outreach to ferrying money from Washington to Baltimore.
With funds flowing to Butler from McCarthy's friends in Oklahoma, Texas, Maine and Minnesota, the Maryland Republican was able to spend a total of $75,000 ($818,000 in today's terms). What later caught the attention of congressional investigators wasn't just the huge amount for a state race, but that it was five times the limit under the Federal Corrupt Practices Act.
McCarthy's rallying the troops for his own election wouldn't have been unusual, but a vengeful blitzkrieg like this against a fellow senator was unheard of. The McCarthy forces were slugging lower and harder than Tydings knew how to, and had barely gotten going. McCarthy's wife Jean Kerr helped prepare more than 300,000 copies of a four-page tabloid called "From the Record," which described itself as published and paid for by Young Democrats for Butler. That, congressional investigators would conclude in 1951, was "a false front organization." The 18 charges made against Tydings — including undermining American war aims in Korea — contained "misleading half-truths, misrepresentations, and false innuendos," according to the bipartisan Senate probe.
But Maryland voters wouldn't know those truths until later. At the time, 53% pulled the lever for the unknown aspirant Butler, 46% for the seemingly-unsinkable Tydings. It was a landslide and an earthquake. A series of factors were at play. The midterms were a slap at the unpopular President Harry Truman, as well as at Maryland's Democratic governor who was driven to defeat by his unpopular sales tax. Tydings had alienated critical blocks of Black voters, unionists, liberals, and local politicos. Even with all of that, the incumbent's biggest ball-and-chain was McCarthy.
The Wisconsin demagogue's barefaced message in Maryland was heard across the nation then, and resonate today in President Trump's bare-knuckled campaign for reelection. McCarthy's protégé, a snarling attorney named Roy Marcus Cohn, 30 years later was young Mr. Trump's tutor. And Cohn passed to the eventual president lessons of McCarthyism learned in Baltimore: sign on, stand aside, or beware the battering ram.
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STIHL petrol hedge trimmers are ideal for park, garden and landscape maintenance. They are characterised by their hard-wearing construction and practical features.
Depending on the intended use, the equipment comes as either the T version for trimming hedges with thin branches or R version for cutting back overgrown or woody hedges.


Bless Unleashed is a free-to-play action RPG MMO imported by Bandai Namco from the Asian market with the tagline 'Make Them Pray'. It's coming to Xbox One at first later this year, and to other platforms at some point in the future. We had the opportunity to have a go at their combat demo at PAX East in Boston this year, and it seems to be getting ready to provide some button-mashing fun to Western audiences.
Dauntless remains an unusual action RPG, using a small-party mechanic to group people together to hunt Behemoths of various abilities, then taking the spoils back to the hub town of Ramsgate to complete quests and level up one's gear through crafting. While the demo on the floor didn't truly give a good view of this other behavior, what we got was the main gameplay loop, which was to go a-huntin'.
This year's PAX East in Boston, MA, was very different in tone than in previous years. The abdication of Twitch left a vacuum for streaming services that was more than capably filled by Mixer and Facebook Gaming with large booths and partners doing meet and greets and broadcasting live on the show floor.
It has been confirmed that Trion Worlds and it's assets (including Defiance and RIFT), have been acquired by the gamigo group and as part of this acquisition, a number of Trion Worlds' former staff have been reportedly laid off.
On October 3rd, 2018, Mike Morhaime announced that he was stepping down as president and CEO of Blizzard Entertainment and, in the same joint post, he announced his successor as J. Allen Brack, a 12-year veteran of Blizzard.


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This local real estate business has started targeting OFWs who want to buy homes back in the Philippines as investments or as dwellings for their families.
Multinational and local companies account for 25 percent of demand, indicating strong optimism in 2013.
Commercial space is always competitive.