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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLD Dyna Switchback 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLH Electra Glide 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHC Electra Glide Classic 1980, 1981, 1982
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHR Road King 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRCI Road King Classic EFI 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRI Road King EFI 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRS Road King Custom 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRSE CVO Road King 2014
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRSE3 Screamin' Eagle Road King 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRSE5 CVO Road King 2013
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRSEI Screamin' Eagle Road King 2002
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRSEI2 Screamin' Eagle Road King 2003
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRSI Road King Custom EFI 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHRXS Road King Special 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHS Electra Glide Sport 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHT Electra Glide 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHT Electra Glide Standard 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTC Electra Glide Classic 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCSE Screamin' Eagle Electra Glide Classic 2004
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCSE2 Screamin' Eagle Electra Glide Classic 2005
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCU Electra Glide Ultra Classic 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCU Ultra Classic Electra Glide 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCUI Ultra Classic Electra Glide EFI 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCUL Electra Glide Ultra Classic Low 2015, 2016
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCUSE Screamin Eagle Ultra Classic Electra Glide 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCUSE2 Screamin Eagle Ultra Classic Electra Glide 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCUSE4 CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide 2009
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTCUTG Tri Glide Ultra 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTK Electra Glide Ultra Limited 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTKL Ultra Limited Low 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHTKSE CVO Limited 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FLHX Street Glide 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXCWC Rocker C 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDB Dyna Street Bob 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDB-D Dyna Daytona 1992
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDB-S Dyna Sturgis 1991
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDBI Dyna Street Bob EFI 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDC Dyna Glide Custom 1992
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDC Dyna Super Glide Custom 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDCI Dyna Super Glide Custom EFI 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDF Fat Bob 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDFSE CVO Fat Bob 2009
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDFSE2 CVO Fat Bob 2010
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDI Dyna Super Glide EFI 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDI35 35th Anniversary Super Glide EFI 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDL Dyna Low Rider 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDLS Dyna Low Rider S 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDS-CONV Dyna Convertible 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDSE Screamin' Eagle Dyna 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDSE2 Screamin' Eagle Dyna 2008
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDWG Dyna Wide Glide 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDWG2 Screamin' Eagle Dyna Wide Glide 2001
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDWGI Dyna Wide Glide EFI 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDX Dyna Super Glide Sport 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDXI Dyna Super Glide Sport EFI 2004, 2005
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXDXT Dyna Super Glide T-Sport 2001, 2002, 2003
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXLR Low Rider Custom 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXR Super Glide 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXR Super Glide II 1982, 1983
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXR2 1999
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXRS Low Glide 1984, 1985
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXRS Low Rider 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXRS Super Glide II 1982, 1983
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXRS-CONV Convertible 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXRS-SP Low Rider Sport 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXRT Sport Glide 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXS Blackline 2011, 2012, 2013
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSB Breakout 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSBSE CVO Breakout 2013, 2014
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSE CVO Pro Street Breakout 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXST Softail 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXST Softail Standard 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTB Night Train 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTC Softail Custom 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTD Softail Deuce 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTDSE2 Screamin' Eagle Deuce 2004
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTDSEI Screamin' Eagle Deuce 2003
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTI Softail Standard EFI 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTS Springer Softail 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTSB Bad Boy 1995, 1996, 1997
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTSI Springer Softail EFI 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTSSE Screamin' Eagle Softail Springer 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTSSE2 Screamin' Eagle Softail Springer 2008
0033-1084M PM3024 Black FXSTSSE3 CVO Softail Springer 2009
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCA V-Rod 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCAW V-Rod 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCB V-Rod 2004, 2005
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCD Night Rod 2006, 2007, 2008
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCDX Night Rod Special 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCDX V-Rod 10th Anniversary Edition 2012
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCF V-Rod Muscle 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCR Street Rod 2006, 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCSE Screamin' Eagle V-Rod 2005
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCSE2 Screamin' Eagle V-Rod 2006
0033-1084M PM3024 Black VRSCX V-Rod Limited Edition 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XG500 Street 500 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XG750A Street Rod 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL1200C Sportster 1200 Custom 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL1200CX Roadster 2016, 2017
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL1200L Sportster 1200 Low 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL1200N Nightster 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
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0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL50 50th Anniversary 2007
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL883 Sportster 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
0033-1084M PM3024 Black XL883C Sportster Custom 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
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Injury Resources > Personal Injury Blog > INJURYwise: Should you Sue for Personal Injury or Wrongful Death?
If you or a loved one has been seriously injured or killed the decision to sue for personal injury or wrongful death is not always a straight forward yes or no. My latest INJURYwise column for Castanet goes over the pros and cons associated with a decision to take legal action. The point is to help you review the information that may have an impact on whether a law suit is the right move for you and your family. As the article indicates, one way to help make sure you have all the information you need to make a good decision is to talk to a personal injury lawyer about the facts of your case. Most, if not all, personal injury lawyers offer a free consultation. At Murphy Battista, we do this to help injured people understand their legal rights and their options. Acting for injured people is about more than taking cases to court. It is about making sure that injured people have access to the information and resources they need to get their lives back. Providing a free legal consultation is the start of that process.
Are you trying to decide whether you should sue? Take a look at my article HERE and if you have further questions please feel free to contact us.


Bert Callahan, MD, an orthopedic & sports medicine physician, is now serving patients at Ripon Medical Center, 845 Parkside Street in Ripon.
He joins Jeffrey Meincke, MD, orthopedic surgeon. They are both located on the first floor clinic at the hospital, with direct adjacencies to surgery and rehabilitation services.
Dr. Callahan earned his medical degree from the St. Louis University School of Medicine. After that, he served with the U.S. Army as an officer in the Medical Corps for nine years, including five years of orthopedic surgery at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Aurora, Colorado. He also served two years as a flight surgeon in Wiesbaden, Germany, and two years as a staff orthopedic surgeon at Bassett Army Community Hospital in Fairbanks, Alaska.
He is board certified in orthopedic surgery, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.
Dr. Callahan's two main areas of interest within the field of orthopedics are joint replacement and sports medicine.
Dr. Callahan, and his wife, Debbie, have four children and three grandchildren. He enjoys spending time with his family, friends and church, as well as traveling. He has always had an interest in photography, particularly of sporting events and our local agricultural countryside.
Over the past two years, he developed an interest in endurance events, including half marathons and triathlons, and most recently, his first full marathon - the Chicago Marathon.
For more information or to schedule an appointment, call (920) 745-3500.


Two Fallbrook High School players participated in the CIF individual tennis tournament Nov. 5-9 at the Balboa Tennis Center in San Diego although both lost in the first round.
The first-round matches were played Nov. 5. Fallbrook senior Makena Larson lost a 6-4, 6-0 competition against Christian senior Lauren Mansy.
"I came back in the first set," Larson said.
Mansy had leads of 3-0 and 4-1 in the first set. Larson narrowed the deficit to 4-3. Mansy won the next game to take a 5-3 lead. Larson followed with a win to create a 5-4 score, but Mansy won the ensuing game to capture the set.


Microsoft Canada has announced the creation of an Excellence Centre in Vancouver at the top two floors of Pacific Centre – the office space above the Nordstrom department store.
The development of Microsoft Canada Excellence Centre (MCEC) will create new job opportunities and enable local knowledge transfer. Microsoft's expansion will also include Foundry Vancouver, an annual program that will provide 50 students from Canadian universities with paid 16-week internships beginning this summer.
The jobs at Microsoft's expanded presence in Vancouver will focus on further expanding and developing on the company's software and online applications, including Microsoft Office, Office 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer, Lync, Skype, Bing, Bing Apps, MSN and advertising platforms.
Microsoft is committed with the initiative on a long-term basis and has signed an 11-year long lease at the office space.
About 400 new jobs will be created, doubling the technology giant's workforce in Vancouver, to become Microsoft's largest hub in Canada. It is estimated that $90 million will be invested in the facility each year, resulting in more than $181.4 million in annual local economic spinoffs.
The new state-of-the-art facility will open in late-2015.


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package org.activiti.engine.impl.transformer;

import org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException;

/**
 * A Transformer is responsible of transforming an object into a different object
 *

 */
public abstract class AbstractTransformer implements Transformer {

  /**
   * {@inheritDoc}
   */
  public Object transform(Object anObject) {
    try {
      return this.primTransform(anObject);
    } catch (Exception e) {

      throw new ActivitiException("Error while executing transformation from object: " + anObject + " using transformer " + this);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Transforms anObject into a different object
   *
   * @param anObject
   *          the object to be transformed
   * @return the transformed object
   */
  protected abstract Object primTransform(Object anObject) throws Exception;
}

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Bukit Batok park is an abandoned quarry site and today has become a peaceful nature park. Situated in the Singapore west, there is this picturesque pond. The terrain is undulating and there are footpaths (both paved and unpaved) meandering through the lush secondary forest, widely used by joggers and weekend hikers.
There is also a simple World War II memorial for the soldiers who perished.
PS: I was away for a while and was not checking in on any of your posts. I hope to look in over the coming days.
This is sumptuous Ayush, like an untouched Eden.
Due to my interest in bird photography, I visit it a lot.
It's goo to see you again, Ayush, doing "your thing."
Good to see you posting again, Ayush. You have been missed!
Looks to be a good place; I'm pleased when it somewhere like this gets returned to nature.
Very nice Ayush! NBice to see you back.
Very nice. I like all that deep green.
Wow, amazing place ! Very nice picture !
Great to see you back, Ayush! This is such an incredible image - I love the clarity, and the beauty of the reflections!!!


Power supply will be suspended in the following areas on the following dates in the following areas between 9.00 A.M. to 4.00 P.M. for maintenance work. Supply will be resumed before 5.00 P.M. if the works are completed.
1st avenue – Shastri nagar, 1st main road, Shastri nagar, 2nd lane Shastri nagar, 3rd st, Parameshwari nagar, Jeevarathnam nagar, Main road, L.B.road, Cross street shastri nagar.
KK Road, Bharathi Avenue, Kaveri Nagar, Kuppam Beach Road, 1 st to 3 rd street AGS colony, 1st to 21 st street venkateshwara nagar, New colony, Palgalai nagar, Kottivakkam kuppam, Thulakkathamman street, ECR Road.
Part of Velachery main road, KR Ramasamy nagar, Gurunanak college, Rane Madras, Westin ghats hotel, Spencer.
Kulakkarai, Sidco Industrial estate, Vichoor Road.
West st kamaraj nagar 1 st to 3 rd st, West Avenue Kamaraj nagar, 1 st main road Kamaraj nagar, Ranganathapuram & canal road, Periyar nagar, Valluvar nagar, 16,17,18,20&28 th cross st Indira nagar, 10 th lane to 15 lane Indira nagar, 1 st avenue to 3rd avenue Indira nagar, Ist cross st to 15 th cross Indira nagar, Iswarya colony and C.S. colony, Venkatarathinam nagar and Extension.
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Special Populations in the Workforce
Most employers would hire veterans over equally qualified candidates
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Sixty-five percent of employers report they'd hire veterans instead of equally qualified candidates, according to a new CareerBuilder study.
The study also finds that 29 percent of respondents say they are targeting veterans for employment, marking an increase of nine percentage points from 2011, and 22 percent of respondents say they expect to hire National Guard members, up 8 percentage points.
"The unemployment rate for veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq, though declining, is still considerably higher than the general population," says Brent Rasmussen, president of CareerBuilder North America. "While military veterans possess a great deal of the business-friendly skills that employers look for in candidates, one of the challenges vets face is knowing where to begin when job hunting after they return from active duty."
Among the most prevalent sectors for veteran hiring are information technology at 30 percent, customer service at 23 percent, engineering at 22 percent, sales at 20 percent, manufacturing at 20 percent and business development at 15 percent.
"Today's military is a well-educated, professional, all-volunteer force," says Elaine Howard, president of Gannett Government Media Corp., publisher of the Military Times brands. "So when troops join the civilian work force, they bring with them skills, discipline and unmatched drive. But navigating the job search and translating military skills into civilian terms has always been a challenge."
During recruitment of U.S. veterans, one of the top challenges for employers is that veterans don't always market themselves as such. In fact, while 45 percent of respondents say they pay more attention to veterans' applications, 30 percent of respondents say veteran candidates don't always make it clear on their résumés that they have military experience.

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The Vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that Edo State in the last decade, has retained her status as a reference point with regard to good governance in the country.
Osinbajo gave the commendation at a State Dinner held in his honour at the Edo Government House in Benin City, as part of his 2-day visit to the state.
He expressed satisfaction with the efforts of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led adminstration in reenacting the developmental strides recorded in the administration of the late Dr. Samuel Osaigbovo Ogbemudia.
The Vice President assured of the federal government's readiness to support Edo State in her effort to bring development to the people.
He said the various projects which informed his visit to the state, would boost the Edo economy, especially the federal government's South-South Innovation Hub.
In his remark, Obaseki expressed his appreciation to the Vice President for his continued support for the state, noting that the several initiatives of the Office of the Vice President have provided jobs for Edo youths.
"The N-Power and N-Build programmes have remained major sources of encouragement for the state in her journey to greatness," the governor said.
The Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Phillip Shaibu, solicited for more support from the federal government to enable the state government benefit more from the initiatives of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
Obaseki at the dinner, announced full scholarship to Miss Obakpolor Esosa, a Senior Secondary School 1 student of Idia College, in Benin City, due to the depth of her presentation on the Menace of Human Trafficking.
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (4th right); Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki (3rd right); wife of the Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki (2nd right); Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Philip Shaibu (4th left); wife of the deputy governor, Mrs. Maryann Shaibu (3rd left); National Chairman, All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun (right); former Edo State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole (second left), and wife of the former governor, Mrs. Lara Oshiomhole, at the Dinner organised by Edo State Government in honour of the Vice President, in Government House, Benin City.


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- President Donald Trump, in the first stop of his maiden trip abroad, received a regal welcome Saturday in Saudi Arabia, feted by the wealthy kingdom as he aims to forge strong alliances to combat terrorism while pushing past the multiple controversies threatening to engulf his young administration.
For one day, anyway, Trump appeared successful in keeping his domestic woes an ocean away, as he basked in the pageantry that began with an elaborate airport welcome ceremony punctuated by a military flyover and a handshake from Saudi King Salman.
He later was given a tour of one of Riyadh's most opulent palaces and sat through an elaborate signing ceremony in which, one by one, the Saudis agreed to military deals with the U.S. government and private businesses. And he largely kept a distance from reporters who were unable to ask about the tumult at home.
"That was a tremendous day. Tremendous investments in the United States," Trump said after a late day meeting with the Saudi crown prince, his only utterances to the press by late in the day. "Hundreds of billions of dollars of investments into the United States and jobs, jobs, jobs."
The visit kicked off an ambitious international debut for Trump. After two days of meetings here, Trump will travel to Israel, have an audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican and meet with allies at a NATO summit in Brussels and the Group of 7 powerful nations in Sicily.
Soon after, Trump tweeted for the first time on international soil as president, writing that it was "great" to be in Saudi Arabia.
The king and Trump were overheard discussing natural resources and arms, and the king bemoaned the destruction caused by Syria's civil war. Trump also agreed to a defense cooperation deal with the Saudis, pledging $110 billion effective immediately and up to $350 billion over 10 years, as well as some private sector agreements. The military package includes tanks, combat ships, missile defense systems, radar and communications, and cybersecurity technology.
Saudi's ruling family grew deeply frustrated with Obama's detente with Iran and his restrained approach on Syria. The king did not greet Obama at the airport as he did Saturday with Trump.
The First Lady and Trump's daughter, Ivanka, both eschewed a headscarf. Trump had criticized former-lady Michelle Obama for not wearing a headscarf during a 2015 visit to the kingdom.
Trump will call for unity in the fight against radicalism in the Muslim world, casting the challenge as a "battle between good and evil" and urging Arab leaders to "drive out the terrorists from your places of worship," according to a draft of the speech obtained by The Associated Press. The draft also notably did not contain the words "radical Islamic terror," a phrase Trump repeatedly criticized Hillary Clinton for not using during last year's campaign.


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Obituary for Richard Arthur Barbely
October 11, 1947 - May 24, 2020
South Brunswick, New Jersey | Age 72
Richard loved woodworking, golfing, boating and fishing. Most of all he loved spending time with his family.
Richard Arthur Barbely of South Brunswick passed away Sunday, May 24th at Saint Peters University Hospital after a long illness. He was 72 years old.
Richard was born in New Brunswick and raised in Milltown before moving to South Brunswick in 1973.
For 44 years, he founded, owned and operated Tech Abrasive Supply Company. He was a communicant of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church and a member of the NJWA (New Jersey Woodworkers Association.)
Richard loved football, especially traveling to all the college games when watching his sons Jonathan and Justin play. An avid golfer, woodworker, boater, and fisherman, he also loved spending time with family and friends at his home in Seaside Park.
He was pre-deceased by his parents Arthur and Frances (Beatty) Barbely.
Surviving are his loving wife of 48 years Regina (Tennyson), and three sons, Jason and his wife Michelle of East Islip, NY; Jonathan and his wife Jennifer of Howell, NJ; Justin and Teresa Podlaski of Seaside Park, NJ. A sister, Joan Pankow of Milltown, a brother James and his wife Lydia of Grovetown GA, a brother Robert and his wife Wendy of Clarendon County, SC. Four Grandchildren, Taylor, Ashley, Arthur, Connor, and nieces and nephews.
The Barbely family is grateful to the staff at the Parker Adult Day Center in Monroe for their compassionate and professional care – and their friendship.
There will be a private ceremony with immediate family. Richard will be laid to rest at St Peters Cemetery in New Brunswick on Thursday, May 28 th. A memorial Mass and Celebration of Rick's life will be held at a future date to be announced. Arrangements are by The Crabiel Home for Funerals, 170 N Main St. – at Riva Avenue, Milltown. You may sign the online condolence "guestbook" at www.crabiel.com


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Cook confident of England's triumph in World Cup this year
Alastair Cook believes England can end decades of World Cup disappointment with a triumph on home soil this year.
England have never won the men's World Cup, but with 100 days to go until the start of the latest edition, a team captained by Eoin Morgan are top of the 50-over world rankings.
Former England skipper Cook, who retired from international cricket last year as the country's highest Test run-scorer and most-capped player, said there were several reasons why Morgan's men could go one better than the England teams that lost in the 1979, 1987 and 1992 finals.
"They're a very settled side, they've got 15 players pretty much nailed on for that squad," Cook told AFP at a World Cup event in London's Trafalgar Square on Tuesday.
"Everyone knows their role, they're very comfortable in their role, they've got a lot of strength in depth, they seem to have a lot of options covered and they're an exciting team to watch.
"They are a brilliant one-day side."
Cook never played in a World Cup, with the left-handed opening batsman dramatically dropped from the squad that then failed to beat a fellow Test nation while suffering a group-stage exit at the 2015 edition in Australia and New Zealand.
But Cook said a change of attitude lay behind England's rise up the one-day rankings since that dismal display.
"Probably over the years we've really concentrated on Test cricket as a nation. Over the last three or four years we've really given the one-day cricket its due," he said.
'Sky's the limit'
It was a point emphasised by former England spinner Graeme Swann, who said: "I just think England are picking the right team these days.
"They're picking one-day specialists and the sky's the limit.
"When they bat, people like Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, they think that (scoring) 400 is feasible rather than an impossible dream. I think England have finally picked a very aggressive team as well, with Eoin Morgan, who's a brilliant captain.
"They've got a team that is putting them in firm contention to win this World Cup," insisted Swann, who added "I never thought we (England) would win it deep down when I was there."
Swann was a member of the only England men's side to have won a major global trophy -- the 2010 World Twenty20 in the Caribbean -- and sees parallels between that team and Morgan's men.
"The only world trophy I thought we had a genuine chance of winning was the World Twenty20 in the West Indies that we did, because we were ahead of the curve there.
"We picked a team of specialists, people like Craig Kieswetter, Michael Lumb -- and I think that's what England have finally started doing in the one-day game as well."
'Never write off India'
But Swann warned that England would face several tough opponents in their quest for World Cup glory.
"You can never write off India, they are an exceptional one-day team, Virat Kohli is a brilliant captain, brilliant player."
As for champions Australia, England's oldest rivals and five-times World Cup-winners, Swann said: "The Aussies are like Germany in the football -- you can never write them off at a World Cup."
Swann though said he was particularly looking forward to watching Pakistan, who won the 2017 Champions Trophy one-day tournament in Britain.
"They are so mercurial, you never know what you are going to get. When they are on fire, they are absolutely explosive and when they're not, they're awful."
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Rubens Florentino Vaz (Rio de Janeiro, 17 de março de 1922  5 de agosto de 1954) foi um militar brasileiro, major da Força Aérea Brasileira (FAB).

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Filho de Joaquim Florentino Vaz Júnior e de Zilda de Oliveira Vaz, em 1º de abril de 1940 iniciou seu curso na Escola Militar do Exército. No ano seguinte, com a criação do Ministério da Aeronáutica, solicitou transferência para essa arma. foi aluno da Escola de Cadetes da Aeronáutica, no Campo dos Afonsos, no Rio de Janeiro, e concluiu seu curso em 1943. Em 1954 servia na Diretoria de Rotas Aéreas, no Rio de Janeiro, quando se intensificou a oposição ao governo de Getúlio Vargas.

Destacou-se por ser a vítima mortal do atentado da rua Tonelero contra o deputado e jornalista Carlos Lacerda, quando este, retornando de uma palestra, se aproximava do seu apartamento no edifício situado na rua Tonelero, nº. 180. Os tiros disparados feriram o pé de Carlos Lacerda e mataram o major Rubens Vaz. A investigação subsequente indicou como mandante do crime o chefe da segurança pessoal do então Presidente da República, Getúlio Vargas, Gregório Fortunato, alcunhado de "O Anjo Negro". No dia do crime, 5 de agosto, a proteção a Carlos Lacerda deveria ser feita pelo major Gustavo Borges, mas em virtude da necessidade de realizar um voo para completar as horas determinadas aos aviadores, o major Vaz o substituiu naquela noite, fazendo um favor ao colega.

Dezenove dias após o episódio, em 24 de agosto de 1954, Getúlio Vargas suicidou-se.

Rubens Vaz foi promovido post mortem por duas vezes: em 1954 e em 1965. Foi casado com Lígia Figueiredo Vaz, com quem teve quatro filhos.

Ver também

 Cronologia da quarta Republica Brasileira

Militares do Rio de Janeiro
Brasileiros assassinados
Naturais da cidade do Rio de Janeiro
Mortes por armas de fogo


Add depth and motion blur. Pull rack focus, create lens blurs, and more. Includes 10 filters. Cross-host license.
The Continuum Blur & Sharpen Unit offers multi-host support with a single license.
The BCC Fast Lens Blur filter is a 100% GPU accelerated replacement for our original BCC Lens Blur. BCC Fast Lens Blur uses OpenCL to emulate a lens blur defocus/rackfocus effect where out of focus highlights of an image clip take on the shape of the lens diaphragm.
When a lens is used at it's maximum aperture (fully open / set to the smallest f stop number) the out of focus highlights are typically in the shape of a circle, however, when the lens is stopped down (set to something other than the smallest f stop number) the blades inside the lens shape the out of focus highlights into multi-sided shapes. This filter includes a pop-up that can be used to match the different looks that can be achieved in the physical world based on the lens aperture setting. This pleasing optical result is referred to in photographic terms as Bokeh.
The BCC Gaussian Blur filter implements a popular blur algorithm that produces smoother blurs but takes more time to render than the Basic Blur filter.
Gaussian Blur softens the image by averaging each pixel with its neighboring pixels. The word "Gaussian" refers to the bell- shaped curve commonly used in statistical analysis. The shape of this curve determines how much each averaged pixel contributes to the output.
The BCC Motion Blur filter creates a realistic blur on the motion in an image, simulating the effect of shooting a moving object on film. The blur is based on the motion of the pixels in the image. For example, you could apply the Motion Blur filter to a clip of a speeding car and the car's motion would blur while the background would not. The blur is most pronounced when the object moves quickly and more subtle when it moves slowly.
Motion blur is not visible if the image is static.
results when using the Advanced option it is recommended that you switch to the Simple mode on that card.
The BCC Pyramid Blur filter emulates the look of shooting in soft focus or with lens diffusion. This filter allows you to blur the horizontal and vertical components of the image separately.
BCC Pyramid Blur uses a refined algorithm that speeds rendering approximately 20 – 40 percent. When you create new blur effects, you should use this filter. To maintain compatibility with existing BCC settings, use the BCC Blur filter.
The BCC Radial Blur filter creates a blur around a specific point, simulating the effect of a zooming or rotating camera.
The Amount option specifies the amount of blur, depending on the selection for Type. For a Spin blur, which applies blurs in circles around the center point, the Amount value indicates the degree of rotation. For a Zoom blur, which applies blur that radiates out from the center point, the Amount value specifies the degree of radial blurring.
The Blur Type menu sets the type of motion blur that is created. The choices are _Blur _or Smear. Smear blurs the pixels in one direction. Blur blurs the pixels symmetrically.
The BCC Unsharp Mask filter uses a classic image sharpening technique similar to the method used to sharpen film images. The source image is blurred, and the blurred image is then subtracted from the source. The resulting image is sharper and has more contrast.
Unsharp Mask sharpens areas in an image with significant color changes by adjusting the contrast of edge details to create the illusion of image sharpness. This filter is useful for refocusing an image that appears blurry due to scanning, poor lighting, or other factors.
The BCC Z-Blur filter uses a Z-map image to emulate a rack focus effect.
Move the focal plane through the source image, using the Z-map to control the focus. Adjust the focal point, depth of field and blur parameters to finetune the area of the image to blur.


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The Framework Model
The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council takes a broad definition of competitiveness: "Competitiveness refers to the ability of firms to compete in markets. Ireland's national competitiveness refers to the ability of the enterprise base in Ireland to compete in international markets".
National competitiveness is a broad concept that encompasses a diverse range of factors and policy inputs including education and training, entrepreneurship and innovation, Ireland's economic and technological infrastructure and the taxation and regulatory framework.
For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, the goal of national competitiveness is to provide Ireland's people with the opportunity to improve their living standards and quality of life. Improving living standards depends on, amongst other things, raising incomes and providing employment. To raise incomes and grow employment, productivity gains are necessary but in an economy with a small domestic market, this requires a healthy exporting sector to achieve economies of scale necessary for productivity gains. For a vibrant exporting sector, Ireland must maintain its national competitiveness.
The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council uses a "Competitiveness Pyramid" to illustrate the various factors (essential conditions, policy inputs and competitiveness outputs), which combine to determine overall competitiveness and sustainable growth.
Sustainable Growth
At the apex of the Competitiveness Pyramid is sustainable growth. Competitiveness is not an end in itself, but is a means of achieving sustainable improvements in growth and living standards. The ultimate goal of economic policy making is to achieve broad based improvements in people's well-being. The Council monitors progress towards this goal by assessing economic, social and environmental dimensions of wellbeing. The annual Competitiveness Scorecard benchmarks three elements of sustainable growth, namely income (growth rates, levels and distribution), quality of life, and environmental sustainability.
Competitiveness Outputs
The outputs of competitiveness are represented in the second (blue) tier of the Competitiveness Pyramid. These can be seen as metrics of current competitiveness. These metrics cover business performance, costs, productivity and employment. The indicators considered in this tier are defined as "competitiveness output" indicators and are not directly within the control of domestic policymakers. Ireland's performance in these areas is directly related to the quality of previous policies instituted at the input level.
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The third (yellow) tier of the pyramid focuses on "competitiveness policy inputs". Four categories of inputs are examined - the business environment, physical infrastructure, clusters and firm sophistication and knowledge and talent. These represent the drivers of current and future competitiveness. It is within these particular areas that policymakers can have the greatest impact on competitiveness.
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Each year the NCPC publishes an annual report Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge on the key competitiveness and productivity challenges facing the Irish economy and suggests specific policy actions to address these challenges.
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In such tattoos portrayed the monk as a symbol of asceticism, renunciation of wealth and a symbol of service to God. If under the hood of a monk not the human and demonic face, under-the- hoof robe looks such a tattoo is the mirror opposite.
The people sitting behind bars, a monk with a quill pen,uniquely associated with the so-called " clerk " pickpocket thief, who uses his craft finely - sharpened objects, rings, coins, razor.


The Trinidad and Tobago Women's League Football will be hosting a seven-a-side football fiesta on March 25th at Eddie Hart Grounds starting at 10:00am.
The competition will be run as a Seven – A – Side (7) Tournament primarily open to all clubs/teams. Each team will be allowed a minimum of Eight (8) and a maximum of Twelve (12) registered players.
All interested teams are asked to fill out the attached form and drop off at TTFA offices, Ato Boldon Stadium.


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Q: Figure doesn't fill canvas in interactive plot with Matplotlib in Jupyter notebook I am trying to do something like this to have a closer look at my data:
What is the currently correct way to dynamically update plots in Jupyter/iPython?
Or here:
https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/branning/c8e63ce81be0391260b1
This is my code:
%matplotlib notebook
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

START = DATA.index[0]
END = DATA.index[-1]
DT = "6H"

DATERANGE = pd.date_range(START, END, freq=DT)

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize(8, 6))
since = DATERANGE[0]
for till in DATERANGE[1:]:
    data = DATA['SOME_SERIES'].loc[since:till]
    if len(data) > 0:
        if ax.lines:
            ax.lines[0].set_xdata(data.index)
            ax.lines[0].set_ydata(data)
        else:
            ax.plot(data.index, data)
        upper, lower = data.min()*0.9, data.max()*1.1
        if not (isnan(upper) or isnan(lower)):
            ax.set_ylim((data.min()*0.9, data.max()*1.1))
        ax.set_xlim((data.index[0], data.index[-1]))
        fig.canvas.draw()
    time.sleep(2)
    since = till

My problem is that while the plot is updating it doesn't fill the canvas (hope I got the terminology right there) but is only about a quarter of the size.
It looks like this:
Plot while looping
Only when the loop ended the plot gets bigger:
Plot after looping
This is also the case with the exact code from the links above.
I updated jupyter and matplotlib, I tried fig.tight_layout(), I also tried %matplotlib notebook %matplotlib nbagg but that didn't do the trick either..
Does anybody have a solution for this?
Thanks,
Phillip

A: For me this was an issue when working on my Mac. There is an open issue on this; right now it seems that the best solution is to split the code into two cells. Shameless cross-copying of that solution:
# Cell 1
%matplotlib notebook
# OR: %matplotlib widget
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import time

fig = plt.figure()

# Cell 2
for j in range(10):
    plt.plot(range(0, j), [1/(i+1) for i in range(0, j)])
    fig.canvas.draw()
    time.sleep(.1)

Alternatively one could go for the "inline" backend. Of course that one is not interactive, and a bit uglier. See this thread

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This is part of a series highlighting this year's class of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame. The 15-member class will be inducted Oct. 9.
Bill Bradshaw will never forget the moment he found out he was going to be inducted into the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.
The director of athletics at La Salle University in Philadelphia was in his office late one night in March. He was searching for a new head basketball coach and had said he wasn't taking any calls. But then the area code 716 popped up — an area code he picks up no matter what — and even at the risk of it being someone asking about the search, he picked it up.
It was Tom Koller, the president of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame, telling him he was a member of the Class of 2018.


If you have been giving your baby tummy time and plenty of opportunities for kicking and moving on the floor then you will notice increasing strength in their neck and shoulders. You will see that they are looking at toys and beginning to reach for objects. They will want to move and reach out for things and these movements will be erratic and seem random at first. This is them learning about their body and how it moves in a process called sensory integration. Sensory integration is when information from the body is being processed by the nervous system and the brain.
The baby's brain is being flooded with information from sensations, eyes, ears and every place in their body. This information has to be sorted by the brain and nervous system and begin to develop perceptions. This integration of movement and sensory information into the brain is how your baby is laying the foundations for their learning and behaviours. As the brain is stimulated in sensory integration it is making networks across millions of brain cells in a process called myelination. Myelination of nerve networks means that information passes more quickly along the pathway. The more your baby experiences things and is stimulated the more the brain will myelinate networks. Myelination is important as it makes pathways more efficient. This process of laying down networks is needed for the brain to be able to process complex information later on as your baby grows and develops. That is why play and movement is vital for learning. Your child needs to lay these neural foundations for more complex thinking later on. So if you want your baby to be able to learn to read and understand numbers when they are older they need to have lots of movement and play.


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package org.spongepowered.test.myhomes.data.home;

import org.spongepowered.api.data.manipulator.ImmutableDataManipulator;
import org.spongepowered.api.data.value.immutable.ImmutableMapValue;
import org.spongepowered.api.data.value.immutable.ImmutableValue;

public interface ImmutableHomeData extends ImmutableDataManipulator<ImmutableHomeData, HomeData> {

    ImmutableValue<Home> defaultHome();

    ImmutableMapValue<String, Home> homes();

}


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Coert Steynberg
Sculpting the Dias statue, 1933
Coert Laurens Steynberg
(1905-01-07)7 January 1905
Hennops River, South Africa
28 July 1982(1982-07-28) (aged 77)
sculpture, drawing
Monuments, Statues, Coin Design
Honorary Life Membership: Royal Society of Arts, London
Honorary Life Membership: South African Arts Association
Honorary Membership: International Society of Arts and Letters, Lausanne, Switzerland
D.Phil. (Honoris Causa): University of Pretoria
Medal: Academia Nacional de Belas Artes, Portugal
Medal: Admiralty of the Navy, Portugal
Medal of Honour: South African Academy of Science & Art
Coert Steynberg (7 January 1905 – 28 July 1982) was a renowned South African sculptor who worked in stone, marble, bronze, copper and wood. His work is represented nationwide and internationally, including a statue of Bartholomew Dias in South Africa House in London, a monument to Andries Pretorius in Graaff-Reinet, and the Peace of Vereeniging monument in Vereeniging.
Coert Steynberg, Pretoria, 1980
Steynberg is best known for sculpting a statue of Paul Kruger, found at the Kruger-gate, Kruger National Park. His most famous coin design is the pronking springbok on all gold Krugerrands. The springbok design was reused on the 5 shilling and 50 cents crowns from 1947 to 1964, the gold 1/2 Pound and 1 Pound coins of the 1952-60 issues, the gold 1 Rand and 2 Rand of the 1961-83 issues, and on the Krugerrand medal-coin issues that have been issued since 1967.
While Steynberg is famous for his huge statues of public figures, his many private works are of his most definitive works, such as his well-known statuette of the dancing Mabalel. In later life his works tended to be of a more abstract nature. He experimented with a wide variety of materials, such as lacquer, coloured glass, wire mesh and ceramic.
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(1) The fictional Ares 3 landing site in southern Acidalia Planitia. (2) Carl Sagan Memorial Station (Landing site of the NASA Pathfinder mission) (3) Marwth Vallis (4) Meridiani Planum and the site of NASA's Opportunity rover (5) Schiaparelli crater. Credit: NASA Astrobiology
Mars has been a focus of astrobiology and exobiology research since the early days of NASA. Even before the invention of the telescope, Mars captured the imagination of scientists and philosophers who were interested in life's potential beyond Earth.
With the Viking landers in the 1970s, Mars became the target of NASA's first dedicated mission to search for life in our solar system. Ever since, further robotic missions have expanded our knowledge of Mars, revealing many sites on the surface that could hold evidence of past or present life.
Humans have yet to make the journey, but the desire to send teams of researchers to visit scientific sites on Mars has been a driving force for space exploration. The question of life on Mars is so compelling that artists, writers and some of humankind's greatest thinkers have been exploring the possibility through fiction for centuries. Recent weeks have showcased two big news stories about Mars that capture both our scientific and fictional fascinations with the red planet.
On September 28th, 2015, NASA announced evidence that liquid water does exist on Mars today. Liquid water is one of the key ingredients for life as we know it, and its presence on Mars raises hopes that we may soon discover the first known living organisms native to a planet other than Earth. Days later, a new Hollywood epic, The Martian, arrived in theatres.
The Martian, based on the novel by Andy Weir, follows the story an astronaut stranded on Mars after harrowing circumstances force his colleagues to abort their mission. Although fictional, the story takes place in the near future and finds inspiration in real-life work performed by NASA and other institutions around the world. NASA is already developing technologies that appear in the film, and the Astrobiology Program has been studying many of the sites on Mars that feature on the big screen.
In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney undergoes an epic journey as he struggles to survive after being left alone on Mars. He draws on his skills as a botanist and mechanical engineer to overcome many obstacles that the harsh martian environment throws at him. However, if Mark Watney had been an astrobiologists, and survival wasn't his first priority, there are many detours he could have taken along his route to perform some spectacular scientific investigations.
To check out some of the sites, a great place to start is NASA's online tool Mars Trek: http://marstrek.jpl.nasa.gov. Mars Trek is a web-based application that allows anyone to explore high-quality visualizations of Mars using 50 years of data from NASA missions and other institutions.
Watney begins at the fictional landing site of the Ares 3 mission, placed at the southern reaches of Mars' Acidalia Planitia. From here, he travels south to the real-life site of NASA's Pathfinder mission and the Sojourner rover. His path eventually takes him all the way across Mawrth Vallis in an attempt to reach Schiaparelli Crater. With a little more time (and a lot more resources), Watney could have made some incredible observations along the way that would have greatly advanced our understanding of life's potential on Mars.
What follows is just a small snapshot of some of the astrobiological sites on Mars that Watney could have taken in if his journey had been a little less desperate. The truth is, any samples he could have collected, or experiments performed, would be spectacular. This is just a snapshot of some real-life highlights along his fictional route.
Acidalia Planitia
Acidalia Planitia is a huge area on Mars, centered at 49.8°N 339.3°E, and sits northeast of the famous Valles Marineris. In the story, Watney touches down in a region of wind-blown deposits and weathered craters at the southern reaches of Acidalia Planatia, just 800 kilometers north of the actual site of the 1997 Pathfinder landing site (now designated Carl Sagan Memorial Station).
Because Acidalia Planatia is such a large region, there are many sites of interest to astrobiology here. At the far north of Acidalia Planatia is an area dotted with geological structures that could be the ancient remnants of mud volcanoes, where wet mud would have been belched out to the martian surface from underground. Some scientists believe that this would be a good place to search for biosignatures of ancient life on Mars, but it would actually be a long trek for Watney to undertake from Ares 3. Instead, Watney turned south toward Pathfinder.
NASA's Pathfinder mission delivered a lander and rover to a region known as Ares Vallis on Mars. The choice of landing site was no mistake. Ares Vallis is what is known as an outflow channel, and it may have been formed by liquid water flowing out of a region of hills to the south known as Margaritifer Terra. The water would have flowed from the hills and through the Xanthe Highlands, ending in a feature called Chryse Planitia, which bears a striking resemblance to deltas on Earth.
The Sojourner rover and undeployed ramps onboard the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft can be seen in this image, by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) on July 4 (Sol 1). The mission provided data indicating that Mars was once warmer and wetter than it is today. Findings also suggested that Mars once had a much thicker atmosphere, and that liquid water could have existed at the surface. Credit: NASA
There is evidence of past water erosion in Chryse Planitia, which may have also received outflows of water from Valles Marineris. This site would be an interesting place for an astrobiologist to explore because any environment where liquid water was once present might contain clues about past habitability on Mars, or even biosignatures of ancient life. It's a shame that Watney didn't have the resources to carry samples from the Pathfinder site for further study.
Marwth Vallis
Watney's next major journey takes him from Ares 3 across Marwth Vallis, a region with a plethora of sites that could have easily distracted him from his survival mission had he been trained as an astrobiologist. Marwth Vallis was a finalist in the selection of landing sites for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission and its Curiosity rover.
In the end, Curiosity landed halfway around the planet at Gale Crater in 2012, far away from Watney's path. But before the mission launched, Marwth Vallis was under scrutiny due to the fact that it contains the best-known exposure of clay minerals at the surface of Mars. On Earth, clays form in wet environments and their location on Mars is a good sign that a watery environment was once present. Clays also trap organics, molecules essential for life as we know it.
For more about Marwth Vallis and the interesting features is contains, check out the discussions from the 4th MSL Landing Site Workshop in 2010 from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) at: http://blogs.agu.org/martianchronicles/2010/09/28/4th-msl-landing-site-workshop-day-1/
After his treacherous journey through Marwth Vallis, Watney turns south into Meridiani Planum, the landing site of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity. Even in the story, Watney is tempted to head just a bit further south to search for Opportunity. If he had been an astrobiologists, he probably wouldn't have been able to resist the temptation.
Merdiani Planum was selected after rigorous study as Opportunity's landing site because of its high scientific value. For astrobiology, the main draw is evidence that liquid water was once present in the area. Meridiani has an ancient layer of a mineral known as hematite. Hematite is an iron oxide, and wet environments are often a key to its formation on Earth. There are ways in which hematite can form without water, but its presence in Meridiani was a big draw for team behind the MER rovers.
A self-portrait of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
Opportunity confirmed many scientists' suspicions about Meridiani, providing compelling evidence for a wet environment on ancient Mars.
At the rim of Endeavor Crater, Opportunity uncovered clays that were older than the impact event that formed the crater itself. They are the oldest rocks that Opportunity has examined thus far, and they could have formed in waters that were habitable for life. The findings also suggest that the water might have persisted for long periods of time. Grabbing a sample from these rocks would be a high priority for any wandering astrobiologist.
Opportunity also spotted a few meteorites on Meridiani Planum, and studying these rocks from space could help astrobiologists understand whether or not the ingredients for life's origins could have been delivered to Mars when the planet was warmer and wetter.
An astrobiologist on Mars would have a field day exploring all of the interesting sites that Opportunity has uncovered during its incredible decade-long journey on Mars (1).
Schiaparelli crater
Watney's end goal as he heads across Meridiani Planum is to reach Shiaparellicrater. Shiaparelli is a relatively large crater some 460 kilometers in diameter. If Watney's fictional journey had been focused on astrobiology, this would still be a great destination for a visit.
Outcrops of ancient rock could be present on Shiaparelli's floor, and the rim of the crater itself also provides access to rocks that cover a long period of Mars' geological history. There is even evidence that sedimentary deposits in the crater could have been left behind by flowing water.
Layers, Bedrock Ridges, and Dark Sand in Schiaparelli Crater. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
The biggest draw of Shiaparelli, however, is the presence of hydrated minerals. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express mission has sent back images of deposits inside Shiaparelli that are similar to those found when lakes on Earth evaporate. This has led some to theorize that a martian lake once filled parts of the crater. These deposits of hydrated minerals rest near the surface, and would be an excellent place for astrobiologists to explore.
Alternate Routes
If Watney had chosen an alternate route to Schiaparelli, via Ares Vallis, he could have also hit a few more sites of interest. After grabbing plenty of samples from Ares Vallis itself, he would have reached Firsoff crater.
Firsoff crater is one of the sites being considered for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 rover, and there would be a lot to see here. The University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images of many features around Firsoff crater that would be worth a stop. A detailed map of the points of interest for Mars 2020 can be found here: http://www.uahirise.org/hiwish/view/101424
The big draw of Firsoff is the presence of Equitorial Layered Deposits (EDL) inside the crater. These mounds of material have been interpreted by some as 'mud volcanoes,' and could have been formed by water upwelling from underground and evaporating (2). The possibility of groundwater rising to the surface raises many questions about whether or not the EDLs would be a good place to search for signs of past or present life.
Another point of interest on this route is Oxia Palus, a site that has been considered for future Mars landings, including the ESA's ExoMars 2018mission. Ancient, clay-rich rocks feature here, and they would definitely be worth a look for any passing astrobiologist.
A Walk on Mars
In The Martian, Watney's journey is focused on his survival. If a real-life astronaut were to touch down at the site of the fictional Ares 3 mission, there are many more areas of interest on Mars that could be reached over a similar distance by a wandering astrobiologist. This includes other candidate sites that were considered for the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover, such as Holden and Eberswalde craters.
NASA is currently developing many technologies that could make human exploration of Mars a reality. For aspiring astrobiologists interested in where they might want to explore if they make it onto a future NASA mission to Mars, check out the Explore Mars Trek at: http://mars.nasa.gov/maps/explore-mars-map/fullscreen/
The list below provides a few hints for some other astrobiology sites on Mars that you might be able to reach if you ever find yourself on a cross-country martian roadtrip:
Terminus of Sabrina Vallis
Hypanis delta
Valles Marineris: Melas Basin and Coprates Chasma
Eastern Margaritifer Terra
The Martian, Part 1: Acidalia Planitia (NASA JPL)
Real Martians (NASA)
Nine Real NASA Technologies in 'The Martian' (NASA)
Ares 3 Landing site (NASA JPL)
(1) Knoll et al. (2005) An astrobiological perspective on Meridiani Planum, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 240, 179–189
(2) Pondrelli et al. (2011) Mud volcanoes in the geologic record of Mars: The case of Firsoff crater, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304(3–4), 511–519
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The Light Ships
A Transported Commission
A Regular Marvel
François Matarasso
Credits and copyright
Tag: Boston Stump
18/11/2014 02/01/2017 François Matarasso Architecture, Film, Music, Performance, The Light Ships, Visual art, Writing
Download the book – free
The next Light Ships event will be held this Saturday, 22 November, at Wrangle Church.
The main book launch, with a screening of a wonderful old film of Boston in 1943, will be at 3.00pm – but do come a bit earlier if you can, to see the exhibition and enjoy being in one of the Fenland's loveliest churches. From 2.00pm there'll be refreshments and an organ recital by Tony Fitt-Savage, who was organist at Sandringham for almost 40 years.
From today, The Light Ships is also available as a free download. It is a PDF file, which most computers can open with a programme like Acrobat Reader. It can be enlarged on screen for easier reading, or printed out. There are two versions: the low-resolution file takes less time to download, but the high-res file has better quality pictures. Click on the links below to save the file to your computer.
The Light Ships (low-res 4.5 MB)
The Light Ships (high-res 14.5 MB)
Copies of the printed books will be available on Saturday at Wrangle and the following Saturday, 29 November, at Gosberton, where the launch coincides with the church's seasonal Christmas Tree Festival. From 1 December 2014, you can also buy copies for £5 plus postage from Transported:
Holbeach St. Marks Community Association Building,
Sluice Road, Holbeach St. Marks, Lincolnshire PE12 8HF
Phone 01406 701006 Email TransportedLauren@litc.org.uk
Books will also be available through the churches included, with all proceeds will go to church funds or supporting future arts opportunities in Boston Borough and South Holland District.
01/08/2014 23/11/2014 François Matarasso The Light Ships, Visual art
On the eve of war
Pinchbeck Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Whaplode Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Cowbit Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
In 1914, Macmillan & Co published the latest in their successful series of topographical books on England. Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire was written by a retired Hampshire Headmaster, Willingham Franklin Rawlings, and illustrated with pencil drawings by Frederick L. Griggs. It was a handsome volume, over 500 pages of rich text about the county, with – as usual in Lincolnshire – much attention given to the ancient churches.
Griggs' drawings, even allowing for the limits of available print technology, are very fine. Although he contributed illustrations for a number of similar books, Fred Griggs (1876 –1938) was far more than a jobbing artist. He studied at the Slade and was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He made an important contribution to English etching and has been described as 'the most important etcher who followed in the Samuel Palmer tradition'.
And, like Edwin Smith, John Piper and so many other 20th century artists drawn to the subject of churches, his work was firmly within the English neo-romantic tradition. Here are his drawings of fenland churches as reproduced, on the eve of the First World War, in Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire.
Freiston Priory Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Long Sutton Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Boston Stump from N.W., Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Spalding Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Fleet Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Gedney Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Surfleet, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Boston Church from the N.E,, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Boston Stump, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Boston Haven, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Algarkirk Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Leake Church, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
Croyland Abbey, Frederick L. Griggs, 1914
14/07/2014 23/07/2014 François Matarasso The Light Ships
Treasure tucked away in Boston
You wouldn't think to look if you didn't know they were there, which may be why the carved figures under the seats of the choir stalls in Boston Stump have survived when so much medieval church art has not.
Medieval church services were sung standing up, several times a day for those in religious life. Thus was born the idea of the misericord, a little wooden shelf on the underside of a folding seat that provided the old, infirm (or less motivated) with something to lean their backsides on when they were supposed to be standing at prayer. Its a very human solution, pragmatic and realistic as mediaeval people often were. It's name derives from the Latin for an act of mercy.
Because a misericord was rarely seen, the carpenters who made them were allowed more freedom in their work. So, rather than saints and biblical scenes, they carved animals, heraldic symbols and scenes of everyday life. The result is a rich picture of life in the Middle Ages, full of humour and interest – and St Botolph's church in Boston has as fine a set as you can see anywhere.
There's a boy being whipped by his teacher, protecting himself with a schoolbook; a bear baited by a man with two dogs; a man and a woman sitting beside a cooking pot; a hunter pursuing a deer with a fearsome arrow; and much more. And if Ernest Napier, author of an excellent guide to the Boston misericords hadn't told me about them, I'd have left without discovering the wonderful art hidden below the seats.
06/07/2014 23/09/2014 François Matarasso Architecture, History, The Light Ships
Like pearls on a string
Boston Stump, seen from Whaplode Church across fields that once were marsh and sea
When you climb onto the roof of Whaplode church tower – which requires some acrobatics, these days – you get a breathtaking view of the Lincolnshire fenlands, as far north as Boston, 12 miles away, where the Stump rises on the horizon.
Moulton, with the windmill and spire, seen from Whaplode Church
To the west, is the spire of Moulton, a mile away as the crows fly, half an hour on foot. Four miles further on, Spalding church can be seen. If Pinchbeck people had added a spire to their church tower, you'd see that too (but given the alarming angle at which it leans, they were probably wise to restrain their ambitions).
Holbeach church, seen from Whaplode Church
To the east, barely two miles from Whaplode, is Holbeach, then Fleet, Gedney and Sutton St. Mary (Long Sutton) on the edge of the old marshlands separating Lincolnshire from Norfolk. It's 14 miles from Spalding to Sutton, along the road that marks where sand banks once separated freshwater fen from saltwater marsh. Those 14 miles are studded by eight churches as fine as you could wish to see, each one vying to match, if not outshine, its neighbour. It must have been impressive to reach Whaplode by boat in 1300, and see this line of towers and spires marking the shoreline of England: here was a rich and confident land. Now, the parishes of Whaplode and Moulton have been combined into a single benefice, with Moulton Chapel and Holbeach St Johns. For the first time in a thousand years, these close but independent communities will be served by a single minister. With the recent appointment of the Rev. Julie Timings a new chapter of shared fellowship begins, though the pride in local identity that created each of these unique churches will surely not diminish.
My thanks to everyone I met at Whaplode on Friday and particularly to Roy Willingham for his help in organising the day.
26/06/2014 03/07/2014 François Matarasso Visual art
Distant spires
Michael Strutt is a clock restorer, a bell ringer (at Gosberton) and a photographer. He use Blipfoto, which has the distinction of allowing photographers to add only one photo a day, taken on the day it is shared. The resulting photo diaries allow the viewer to imagine the connections. They highlight how sequencing images – putting one after another, making a beginning, middle and end – nourishes our natural instinct to compose stories.
With Michael's permission, here are two of his images of churches, which he captioned 'Distant Spires'. Although I see steeples all the time, as I drive across the fenland, I've found it hard to capture the feel of them with the camera. There is a visual paradox at play here. Last night, coming home from Wrangle, I noticed again how much taller the Boston Stump seems from a distance than it does when you get closer. So it's a pleasure to be able to share these fine photographs.
Michael Strutt's Blipfoto page
22/06/2014 25/06/2014 François Matarasso Architecture, Building materials
Replacing the irreplaceable
The stone that Tony Leonard was holding had taken him a couple of days to carve. It's called a 'springer' because from it spring the intricate lines that make up the tracery of a gothic window. The next time I pass St Botolph's church in Boston, it will be in place, white and crisp looking, compared to those around it. In a few year's time, it will have weathered and softened: only an expert eye will be able to distinguish the new stone from the old.
Tony and his brother Phil have been stonemasons at the Boston Stump for 34 years. A job they began in 1980 – a few months after Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister – has gone on and on, as funds have been raised and new repairs identified. They can see their work throughout the building, from the tower downwards: the south window on which they are working today is just the latest in a very long line of projects.
Next year, Tony and Phil will make the long journey from Nottingham, where they live, to Boston for the last time. They will retire and the church administrators will have to find a new way to manage the everyday conservation of the building. It will not be easy.
In some ways Phil and Tony Leonard must know this church better than anyone alive, through the daily task of handling it. Their knowledge is experiential, not intellectual, held in muscles and fingertips. It can't be written down for someone else to read: it can only got by doing. That's why stonemasons have traditionally learned their craft through apprenticeship, learning from those who have travelled the same paths before them.
It will not be easy to replace these craftsmen and their knowledge but, one way or another, it will be done. The church has stood for over 700 years. It has been made and remade by numberless hands over that time. Everything about them has passed away except the work they did. The first person to be buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, in London, was its architect, Sir Christopher Wren. On the wall beside his tomb is a tablet inscribed with the Latin words:
Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice'
Reader, if you seek his monument, look around you
The same could be said for all those who have laboured by hand and mind and heart to build and maintain their churches for each succeeding generation.
Workmen removing the bells from St Botolp's during the 1932 restoration of the tower.
St Botolph's Church, Boston
Restoration Appeal
'National Civic Pride Award for Boston Stump', Boston Standard, February 2004
St Paul's Cathedral Crypt
04/06/2014 07/06/2014 François Matarasso Architecture, The Light Ships
The original skyscrapers
The train curved round and then I saw, for the first time, that astonishing church tower known as the 'Boston Stump'. This tower is not quite three hundred feet high; but nevertheless, situated as it is, it looked to me more impressive, not as a piece of architecture, but simply as a skyscraper, than the Empire State Building in New York, with its eleven hundred feet. It is all a matter of contrast. Here the country is flat; you have seen nothing raised more than twenty or thirty feet from the ground, for miles and miles; and then suddenly this tower shoots up to nearly three hundred feet. The result is that at first it looks as high as a mountain. Your heart goes out to those old Bostonians who, weary of the Lincolnshire levels and the flat ocean, made up their minds to build and build into the blue. If God could not give them height, they would give it to him.
J. B. Priestley, English Journey, 1932
Apparently, the earliest appearance of the word 'skyscraper' relates to the topmost, triangular sail on a square-rigged sailing ship, in the late 18th century – something that must have been familiar in a port like Boston.
But church towers and spires have been stretching up to scratch the heavens for centuries. Competitive pride pushed communities to outdo each other, especially in wool-rich counties like Somerset and Lincolnshire. Travellers on the Great North Road seeing the distant spires of Grantham and Newark must have debated which was the finer. Lincoln Cathedral, visible for miles around on its cliff, once capped its towers with wooden spires, the tallest of which collapsed in 1549, not to be replaced.
Running like a thread through all these stories is the idea of humanity challenging the deity by daring to leave the earth and, like Icarus, falling to destruction.
John Angerson's English Journey – A revisiting of Priestley's Journey
Boston Church, Lincolnshire," by James Harrison (1814-1866), watercolour. Dated 1821
Happy Christmas and thank you
Grizzly Bears at Quadring Church
A Time of Gifts
Light Ships launch at Wrangle
The book launch at Whaplode
Come to Whaplode Church on Saturday afternoon…


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Q: Check for invalid UTF8 I am converting from UTF8 format to actual value in hex.  However there are some invalid sequences of bytes that I need to catch. Is there a quick way to check if a character doesn't belong in UTF8 in C++?

A: Good answer already, I'm just chipping in another take on this for fun.
UTF-8 uses a general scheme by Prosser and Thompson to encode large numbers in single-byte sequences. This scheme can actually represent 2^36 values, but for Unicode we only need 2^21. Here's how it works. Let N be the number you want to encode (e.g. a Unicode codepoint):

*

*If N < 128, just one byte 0nnnnnnn. The highest bit is zero.

*Otherwise, several bytes. The first byte starts with as many ones as there are bytes in the sequence, followed by a zero, and then the data bits; successive bytes start with 10 followed by six data bits. Examples:

*3 byte sequence: 1110xxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx.

*5 byte sequence: 111110xx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx.

*7 byte sequence: 11111110 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx 10xxxxxx.

A k-byte sequence fits 5 k + 1 bits (when k > 1), so you can determine how many bytes you need given N. For decoding, read one byte; if its top bit is zero, store its value as is, otherwise use the first byte to figure out how many bytes are in the sequence and process all those.
For Unicode as of today we only need at most k = 4 bytes.

A: Follow the tables in the Unicode standard, chapter 3. (I used the Unicode 5.1.0 version of the chapter (p103); it was Table 3-7 on p94 of the Unicode 6.0.0 version, and was on p95 in the Unicode 6.3 version — and it is on p125 of the Unicode 8.0.0 version.)
Bytes 0xC0, 0xC1, and 0xF5..0xFF cannot appear in valid UTF-8.
The valid sequences are documented; all others are invalid.
Table 3-7. Well-Formed UTF-8 Byte Sequences
Code Points        First Byte Second Byte Third Byte Fourth Byte
U+0000..U+007F     00..7F
U+0080..U+07FF     C2..DF     80..BF
U+0800..U+0FFF     E0         A0..BF      80..BF
U+1000..U+CFFF     E1..EC     80..BF      80..BF
U+D000..U+D7FF     ED         80..9F      80..BF
U+E000..U+FFFF     EE..EF     80..BF      80..BF
U+10000..U+3FFFF   F0         90..BF      80..BF     80..BF
U+40000..U+FFFFF   F1..F3     80..BF      80..BF     80..BF
U+100000..U+10FFFF F4         80..8F      80..BF     80..BF

Note that the irregularities are in the second byte for certain ranges of values of the first byte.  The third and fourth bytes, when needed, are consistent.  Note that not every code point within the ranges identified as valid has been allocated (and some are explicitly 'non-characters'), so there is more validation needed still.
The code points U+D800..U+DBFF are for UTF-16 high surrogates and U+DC00..U+DFFF are for UTF-16 low surrogates; those cannot appear in valid UTF-8 (you encode the values outside the BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane — directly in UTF-8), which is why that range is marked invalid.
Other excluded ranges (initial byte C0 or C1, or initial byte E0 followed by 80..9F, or initial byte F0 followed by 80..8F) are non-minimal encodings. For example, C0 80 would encode U+0000, but that's encoded by 00, and UTF-8 defines that the non-minimal encoding C0 80 is invalid.  And the maximum Unicode code point is U+10FFFF; UTF-8 encodings starting from F4 90 upwards generate values that are out of range.

A: public static bool IsValidUtf8(byte[] bytes, int length)
{
    // https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Codepage_layout
    // http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8
    // https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/df18cca9-5e54-410e-a5c5-74efc7b52e29
    // http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/ConvertTo-String-d79aed45

    Encoding enc = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
    string binaryText = enc.GetString(bytes, 0, length);
    Regex rx = new Regex(@"\A(
          [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E]            # ASCII
        | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF]             # non-overlong 2-byte
        |  \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]        # excluding overlongs
        | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2}  # straight 3-byte
        |  \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF]        # excluding surrogates
        |  \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2}     # planes 1-3
        | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3}          # planes 4-15
        |  \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2}     # plane 16
        )*\z", RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace | RegexOptions.Singleline);

    return rx.IsMatch(binaryText);
}

Note:
To be able to match regular expression against binary data (bytes), the binary data is converted first to a Unicode string (all .net strings are Unicode) using "iso-8859-1" encoding. It is the only single-byte encoding that has one-to-one mapping with the first 256 Unicode code points. Other encodings do not preserve all the binary bytes after conversion to text.
static void Main(string[] args)
{
    string filename = "myfile.txt";
    byte[] bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(filename);

    if (IsValidUtf8(bytes, bytes.Length))
    {
        Console.WriteLine("encoding: utf-8");
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine("unknown encoding.");
    }
}


When your opportunities shift from mid-market to enterprise level, deals get larger as more decision makers and money become involved. The length of your sales cycle will undoubtedly increase as well.
According to TOPO's 2017 Benchmark Report, the average sales cycle of enterprise deals is 7.7 months. So roughly 2/3 of the year can be spent working a single account from lead to close.
This long sales cycle should be treated like a marathon rather than a sprint. The consistent care for your deal takes you across the finish line. Like a marathon, getting through the race is as much a mental game as it is a skill. You need to blend the necessary sales skills with patience and gusto to keep the sale moving forward.
So to prep you for the long journey ahead, here are a few ways you can move your slower sales process towards a win.
A Harvard Business Review study found that companies that contacted potential customers within an hour of inquiry were seven times more likely to have a meaningful conversation with a key decision maker soon after. In comparison, companies that responded after 24 hours or longer were 60 times less likely to have a conversation.
When you are working with enterprise-level accounts, each and every action you take contributes to the evaluation of your company, including your turnaround time. It's not just your pitch and demos that are scrutinized, but your attention to detail, response times, and ability to follow up. A quick and attentive turn around could be the key to a prospect's decision between you and your competitor.
So stay diligent and respond to your prospect's as soon as possible! With SalesLoft you can enable Live Feed notifications that ping you when prospects reply to your emails, immediately prompting you to respond. Plus, with Snippets, you can increase your response times by piecing messages together with reusable, informative content. Delivering a quick response with targeted information will show your prospect you're fully committed and focussed on their company.
With long sales cycles, it's easy for you and your opportunity to fall out of touch. To keep your long sales cycle alive you need to consistently communicate with your prospect. Keeping your prospect in a nurture cadence gives your sales cycle reliable checkpoints that can keep everyone engaged with the sale.
Think of your long sales cycle nurture cadence like a safety net for communication. Ideally, you will be scheduling meetings with your prospects that will develop your business relationship. But setting a nurture cadence with monthly pauses keeps you on the prospect's radar if the conversation isn't already flowing.
You can even keep your nurture cadence aligned with enterprise prospects that you've established a good rapport with. If you consistently speak with a prospect, SalesLoft allows you to schedule your emails in advanced. This way your prospects can still receive valuable emails from your nurture cadence at just the right time for them.
Over the course of the long sales cycle, you're going to talk to your prospect. A lot. You are going to discuss the pain points and goals of their business, revenue, growth opportunities, how their weekends were, and more. Through all of this communication, you should learn the company's buying style and adapt your sale to fit their needs.
Use those initial conversations to feel out your prospect's personality. Gauge from cues whether the prospect is more introspective and may need you to motivate them throughout the sale or if the prospect is a take charge kind of person, they may want to guide more of the sale themselves.
The most important thing to keep in mind when you are working a long sale cycle you aren't just pushing a sale. You are building a business relationship. If you strategically manage your steady sale cycle, you'll win the deal and form a partnership.
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Welcome to Chao Phraya Thai Massage. We specialise in Relaxation Massage and Traditional Thai massage.
Our qualified practitioners provide a range of Massage types and styles to suit your individual requirements. We are located conveniently at 303 Buckley Street, Essendon.