For our last feature for 2018, we sat down with Seek the Uniq's Commander-in-Chic Mikka Padua for Heyjow Style Stories.
We chatted with Mikka about fashion and business at Habitacion, Seek the Uniq's fifth guide shop at Powerplant Mall.
We took our time exploring every corner of this bohemian space - and here are just some of the finds we loved.
Joana: "I've always wanted a bar cart and this rattan piece goes perfectly well with the rest of my furniture pieces. I'm looking forward to spending time at the beach in the coming months and the wide brim hat and tote would be great to bring on a tropical getaway."
Kath: "The clutch combines two of my favorite things: orange and language. I attended a good friend's wedding earlier this year and my bridesmaid dress was in orange. I've been obsessed with this color ever since! I love the scent of Scentful Living's Bamboo and Lotus candle - a whiff of it is instantly relaxing. I'm hoping to be more consistent in doing yoga in the coming year and the Karma water bottle would be great to bring to classes."
Sheila: "I can imagine wearing the blush jumpsuit with the woven bag and low heeled sandals on a weekend holiday with my family. It's a chic ensemble that allows me to move freely so I can take photos with ease! I'm a fan of Viajecito's water-resistant totes and this color is a good alternate to my sky blue one."
Jaz: "These colorful salt and pepper shakers are fun, functional and very Filipino! I can imagine using them as accents for one of my Filipino-themed cocktail parties or catering gig. The Amor coasters remind me of the movie 'Coco' and would be perfect for tapas or Mexican food nights."
Michelle: "I just love anything pink - and these knotted heels are so fun and feminine. The alpargatas are just as comfy as my usual sneakers but definitely more chic - perfect for events or errand days. I've recently taken skincare more seriously - and the serum's unique packaging instantly caught my eye. It's playfulness definitely makes putting it on seem less like a chore."
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Lizard's Lair Results
Written by Ryan Garside
October 4, 2006 | 11:02
Tags: #coverage #david #doak #festival #ian #lair #livingstone #lizards #london #molyneux #peter
Companies: #games
Last night a one-off show called the Lizard's Lair took place. The event was modelled around BBC's Dragons Den show, where a panel of industry experts consider business propositions, deciding whether they are good or bad, and worth their investment.
The future games designers and developers got the chance to pitch their game ideas to Peter Molyneux (Black and White, Lionhead), Ian Livingstone (Eidos and co-founder of Games Workshop), Miles Jacobson (SIGames creator of Football Manager Series) and David Doak (Goldeneye and Free Radical Design).
The setting was breathtaking, a room full of cameras and lights (the BBC was filming the show) with floor to ceiling windows giving everyone a view of London bridge, the river Thames and the rest of the city at night. Many of the contestants unsurprisingly suffered from a bout of nerves, however some original ideas were proposed.
One such idea, from a man of 41, was to create a driving game for Symbian mobile phones. He hoped his own passion for real world driving would give his game a unique selling point. Unfortunately the 'Lizard's' didn't agree. Jacobson argued that not enough people owned Symbian phones to make this a commercial success, the others agreed though advised him to continue his project. "Symbian phones could soon be mainstream," said Peter Molyneux, "which would put you in a great position with this game."
One contestant wasn't able to secure work experience off the back of his game proposal but was offered the chance to go down to SI Games and become a games tester. Another contestant wasn't so lucky. His plan was to create an RPG/action/RTS/FPS game, set in a Lord of the Rings meets Charles Dickens noir world. The Lizards pounced on him for, what Doak called, "a shopping list" of genres. Jacobson advised the designer-hopeful to work on writing a story as opposed to making a game.
It was towards the end of the night that the big guns finally appeared. A competition called 'Dare to be Digital' which invites students from around the world to showcase their game design plans, had bought down four teams to present games ideas. These were far more developed games, and the Lizards became far more interested.
The most well received presentation of the night went to a young lady from Ireland(the only girl in the 10 man lineup) whose idea was called Cults. Her proposal was a Sims meets Sim-City style game based around cults. The game sounded like it was in the same ball park as Spore, when she suggested gamers would be able to create their own cults and would compete online with other people's cults in a race to gain the most members. Livingstone asked whether he would be able to make a 'cabbage eating' cult before Peter Molyneux snapped her and her team up on a 6 day work experience placement at Lionhead studios.
Another idea looked at creating an Abe's Odyssey type game for the DS Lite called 'Metalheads'. The game centred around collecting little fellows called 'Metalheads' who you could then draw shapes for, like a box and a rotor, which would help your main character overcome obstacles. The Lizards seemed excited by the prospect of scribbling on a DS however due to legal reasons the game could only be run as a demo.
Another idea titled 'Spaceport' was universally panned by the Lizard's. With Livingstone citing the recent failure of 'Startopia' as a benchmark by which to judge space-management games. The Lizard's highlighted the difficulty of comedy in games with Livingstone saying:
"The problem is: What's funny in the US isn't funny in Germany and what's funny in Germany is… well probably not funny anywhere."
The final idea was described as the closest to the finished article. In an intuitive game called Flux in which the objective is to keep music playing for as long as possible by circling nodes that popped up on the screen. Peter Molyneux commented that it would work perfectly as a plugin for a media player. The game certainly looked quite fun and would help waste some hours whilst sitting bored at home.
Overall the event was and interesting and unique experience, when asked how he felt it went Molyneux replied:
"There were lots of diamonds in the rough, particularly in the earlier group. I wanted them to just go a little bit crazy as this was a real chance to shine. I just wish I could have an hour with them to guide them on how to construct their idea, to help them focus their passion."
It was great to see four of the very best British developers helping out the future of Birtish games development in this way, which can only be a good thing for the community of gamers like you and me.
What would your idea have been? Let us know in the forum.

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Loma Linda University Medical Center-Murrieta named as one of most wired hospitals in U.S. for second year
By Larry Kidder - August 17, 2016
For the second consecutive year, Loma Linda University Medical Center–Murrieta is among the hospitals nationwide to be included in Hospital and Health Care Magazine's 2016 Most Wired list.
The list was released in the July 2016 issue. According to the magazine's website, www.hhnmag.com/mostwired, "The annual Most Wired survey is designed to measure the level of IT adoption in U.S. hospitals and health systems, and serve as a tool for hospital and health leadership [sic] to map their IT strategic plans."
The website goes on to explain that Health Forum, an American Hospital Association company, oversees the collection and analysis of Most Wired data, developing industry IT benchmarks based on data practices for operational, financial, and clinical performance in health care delivery systems.
The 2016 list includes hospitals and health care systems "that are ramping up their efforts to stop hackers, and are also working to boost their capabilities in telehealth and population health." To be considered for the annual list, U.S. hospitals and health systems undergo an extensive screening process that includes an 18-page questionnaire.
Peter Baker, vice president for operations at LLUMC–Murrieta, says, "It is an honor to be recognized as one of the Most Wired Hospitals. We are constantly striving to ensure our patients access to the most current technology for their treatment." He adds, "We believe that the best technology often leads to quicker results and better outcomes for patients and their families."
He concludes, "We are excited to continue our pursuit of the highest standards of care for our community."


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Geocaching boom fuels new field of tourism for savvy promoters
By Terry PedwellThe Canadian Press
Fri., May 31, 2013timer4 min. read
OTTAWA—Ever since there were pirates or wide-eyed children searching for eggs on Easter morning, treasure hunting has been a draw for the adventurous.
The adventure, of course, is in the hunt as much as it is in finding what has been hidden and meant to be found.
Combine that sense of adventure with global positioning technology and a desire to take advantage of the great outdoors, and you have a phenomenon known as geocaching — and tourism promoters are catching on, hoping to cash in.
Some tourism groups have watched the geocaching trend blossom over the past decade and are taking advantage of it to attract treasure hunters, and their treasure.
"There are a series of geocaches that have been set up in various locations with the express purpose of bringing people to that area," says John Robb, president of the Ontario Geocaching Association.
The Ottawa Valley Tourist Association, based in Pembroke, Ont., encourages visitors to pack their GPS units and head to Renfrew County, northwest of Ottawa, a region that has become a popular geocaching destination with more than 300 cache sites scattered throughout the area.
Forgot your GPS, or don't have one? No problem. The association, like others, will loan one with payment of a damage deposit.
It has become big business.
"Anybody that does any level of geocaching will, at some point, travel to do geocaching," said Robb. "And some people take that travel very, very seriously."
Manitoba's Parkland Tourism group is also encouraging geocaching "tourism" adventures, offering tips on how to take part in the recreational activity.
Local groups in the province's Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve area, encompassing 15 communities surrounding Riding Mountain National Park, place hidden treasures in remote locations, and log the closest GPS co-ordinates.
Many people will go to great lengths to satisfy their quest.
"I know one 'cacher' from Hamilton, Ontario, who went to Brazil to find one particular geocache," said Robb, who has himself flown 4,300 kilometres from Toronto just so he could find three particular hidden items in Seattle, Wash.
One of the more popular caching destinations lies just outside of Las Vegas. It's known as the Extraterrestrial Highway. With about 1,500 geocaching sites, the highway serves to attract tourists who want nothing more than to go on the hunt.
Geocaching actually altered the economic makeup of the region. So much so that, when the Nevada Department of Transportation tried in March 2011 to put a stop to the practice, the decision was quickly reversed after local hotel and motel operators warned the loss of business would force them to lay off employees.
It's estimated that about five million people around the world take part in geocaching activities.
And they have roughly two million places in more than 125 countries to choose from to discover hidden treasures. The possibilities appear endless.
While it's difficult to gauge the full economic impact of geocaching on tourism, at least one organization in the United States tried to put a price tag on it.
Operators of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Geotrail in New York state, with a network of geocaching sites spanning five counties and 800 kilometres, estimated last year that the activity raked in one dollar per mile for every participant involved.
The basic idea behind the sport is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors and then share your experiences online, either through associations or on a worldwide scale (www.geocaching.com ).
Typically, an item is hidden, along with a logbook, an information sheet and sometimes items that can be traded. For example, some caches contain crayons or small toys, typically referred to as swag, that can be taken by the person who finds them, as long as they put something else in their place for others to discover.
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Often, those who find items will also leave comments in the logbook. Usually there is a code word on an information sheet that is used to find the website of the group that created the cache, where users can leave other comments and even pictures. That's when the game gets expanded further by a website, which will contain co-ordinates and instructions on how to find the next treasure trove, or a virtual cache.
Multi-caches are very similar to virtual caches with the exception that a traditional cache is hidden at the last stop of the quest. Clues from the virtual caches along the way lead to the final discovery. Like a traditional hunt, clues to locations are key to finding the "treasure."
One of the largest annual geocaching events held in Canada is organized by the Central Ontario Geocachers. This year, hotels in and around Ontario's cottage country are expected to be inundated on June 15 by thousands of the sports enthusiasts for a hunt held at Geneva Park on the shore of Lake Couchiching, about 150 kilometres north of Toronto.


Musicians of Cork: (Courtesy of the Knotted Chord Archive, 2002).
Born in Cork and raised in Rathduff, County Cork where his father Micheal played fiddle and accordion. His grandfather Matt was a melodeon player and step dancer and his maternal grandfather came from the Sliabh Luachra area on the Cork/Kerry border.
Matt received his first fiddle when he was five or six and his father was his earliest teacher. As well as his traditional study he also attended the Cork School of Music for formal classical training in violin. These studies continued in parallel until his mid-teens when traditional music finally held sway. Growing up, the music presented by national radio presenter and collector Ciaran MacMathuna enhanced his education, introducing him to many different fiddle styles.
As well as his father another major influence was Denis Murphy, the Sliabh Luachra fiddler who had been taught by the Master Patrick O�Keeffe.
Matt himself is now considered one of the foremost exponents of the Sliabh Luachra music. His Ph.D thesis, through the University of Limerick�s Irish World Music Centre, is based on the fiddle-playing style of this region.
Matt was a member of Na Fili with Tomas O�Cannain and made several recordings with them.
He formed Any Old Time with Mick Daly(giutar/vocals) and Dave Hennessy(accordion) and they released 2 albums, "Phoenix" and "Crossing", both on the Dara label.
His most recent band is Sliabh Notes with singer/guitarist Tommy O'Sullivan and accordion player Donal Murphy. They have 3 albums, "Sliabh Notes"(CBM), "Gleanntan"(Ossian) and most recently "Along Blackwater�s banks"(Ossian).
Matt has also released two solo albums "Give it schtick!"(Ossian) and "Take a bow"(Ossian). They form the backbone to his highly regarded fiddle tutor "The Irish Fiddlebook"(Ossian) 1988, now in it�s 3rd edition.
Matt teaches at the University of Limerick�s Blas Summer School and has also been a guest teacher at Seamus Connolly�s Boston College "Gaelic Roots" festival. In 1990 Matt was invited to participate as one of the performers in "Irish Perceptions", the lecture/recital series presented by the Irish American Cultural Institute in cities throughout the United States.
Matt was an original organiser of the Patrick O�Keeffe traditional music festival held in Castleisland each October and has been director of the Cork Arts Festival since it�s inception in 1993.
Matt also has a major interest in Bluegrass and Apalacian fiddling and swapped �music lessons� with Henry Benagh the bluegrass fiddler from Nashville who�s based in Ennis. Matt�s subsequent expertise led to his taking over from Henry in the Lee Valley String Band. He has also been a regular with Chris Meehan and His Redneck Friends band.
Matt continues to perform solo and with Sliabh Notes and is regularly featured on television and radio. He also gives lectures, master-classes and workshops at various festivals. He is a graduate in Electrical Engineering and Music at University College Cork and lectures in Electronic Engineering at the Cork Institute of Technology.
Matt Cranitch is something of a renaissance man in the realm of Irish traditional music: player, scholar, exponent, teacher, writer. With a long history of tunes under his belt, having played with Na Fil�, Any Old Time, and currently Sliabh Notes, Matt is also the author of The Irish Fiddle Book, one of the most useful and comprehensive instructional texts available to beginning students of the music. It was that book that got me on the right path with my bowing after some initial misadventures, and that I recommend to all of my serious students now. It's a rare combination -- someone who's able to both play the music with great skill and swing, and someone who's able to analyze as a scholar.
A Senior Research Scholar for the past year, with support from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Matt is at work on a dissertation looking at the music of his beloved Sliabh Luachra in greater detail. We met at his home in County Cork on a lovely afternoon this past winter.
I grew up in the little village of Rathduff in County Cork, midway between Cork City and Mallow. Both my parents were teachers and taught in the local primary school, or national school, so they taught me at some stage. My father M�che�l played the accordion and the fiddle and sang a bit as well. My mother Kathleen sang. And my grandfather on my father's side, whose name was also Matt, was a melodeon player and a stepdancer. Now I never remember him playing, as he died when I was too young, but certainly I was aware that this was the case. When I was maybe seven my parents got me a fiddle and the plan was that my father would teach me. But the lessons tended to take the form that he'd play the fiddle and have me sit down and listen to him; so they decided to send me to the Cork School of Music instead. I went there when I was eight to learn what's called classical violin, and I continued with that and playing traditional music at home, both those activities in parallel. By my mid-teens I opted for the traditional playing and gave up the classical lessons. So that would have been my early development.
In your mid-teens, were there other young people opting for traditional music?
I should tell you my parents decided when they would get married and raise a family that they were going to speak Gaelic, so I grew up speaking Gaelic as my first language. We were the only house for miles that spoke Gaelic and English was my second language -- though when I went to school I suppose it became the dominant language. At that stage it's fair to say that there weren't many people around us that played music. I can think of one family in the parish who did play music -- a slightly different style of music I suppose, but outside of that we would have to travel into Cork city to encounter anybody else. We were kind of isolated in that we lived in a farm community in the countryside, so I didn't have other youth of my own age around me, playing.
Usually when you're a young fellow you want to be off playing hurling with the other lads. What was it that made you opt for the traditional tunes?
Well, I played hurling, too, with my friends. Even now I find it difficult to explain what the attraction is, but certainly at that stage we were drawn very much to the music. There's also the fact, even though we tend to forget about it, that our parents made sure that we practiced and there was discipline in our lives from that point of view. The music has rubbed off on all the family -- I have a sister in Italy who's a violinist, I have a sister here in Cork who plays piano primarily, but fiddle as well, and I have a brother who plays the tin whistle, the flute and church organ. All of us had music lessons when we were young, and we've all continued to play.
Where did you take it then, when you decided to focus on traditional music?
Like many other people, we went to the Fleadhanna Cheoil and competed in the various competitions. We had a family band; my father and the four of us playing. We used to compete and play at local school concerts and events like that. When I did my leaving certificate I went to University College Cork to study electrical engineering, but while that was going on I was playing, both in UCC and in various groups. It was while I was in college that I met Tom�s � Canainn, who was teaching in the department of electrical engineering, and it was there that Na Fil� were formed in 1969, with initially Raymond O'Shea on tin whistle. He left after a year or so, and then Tom Barry took his place. While all that was going on, I finished my engineering studies, but I decided to go back to college and study music, so I took a music degree. At that stage I was starting to develop an interest in indigenous styles of music. Up to then, I suppose, we were all playing the music that we heard at the Fleadhanna Cheoil and listening to the radio; Sean Maguire and Paddy Canny and the Tulla Ceili Band and whatever else was on the radio -- Ciar�n Mac Math�na's Job of Journeywork in particular. When I had finished my BMus, I felt like maybe I'd try my hand at doing a Master's degree relating to indigenous playing. The nearest such style of music to here is the Sliabh Luachra style, so I choose Mick Duggan, a Sliabh Luachra musician, as my subject. I went and spoke to him and did lots of field work and all the rest of it; recordings and interviews and so on, but of course, never wrote it up. I'm not alone in that, but I think I got the benefit from it in everything except the official piece of paper, in that I learned a huge amount, and it stimulated my whole interest in the question of fiddle playing styles and fiddle playing technique.
I continued playing with Na Fil� until 1979, when we disbanded. I did a solo album of slow airs, Aisling Gheal, on the Gael Linn label, about 1984. I also started playing with two other lads here in Cork -- Mick Daly and Dave Hennessy, a great melodeon player -- in a group called Any Old Time, and over the years we did three albums: Any Old Time, Phoenix and Crossing. In 1983, John Loesberg of Ossian Publications approached me to write the Fiddle Book, which eventually was launched on the 9th of March, 1988. If I were to do it again I would have done it in a much shorter space of time, but as you know yourself So that came out in 1988, and soon afterwards the accompanying CDs, and in a sense that pushed the MA out of the way, with little hope of resurrection.
So going back -- that time you spent with Mick Duggan is what got you interested in Sliabh Luachra history and repertoire.
And particularly on one visit to Mick Duggan, on the 5th of February, 1978, he gave me all this pile of music, and inside were original P�draig O'Keeffe manuscripts, in O'Keeffe's own writing. When I look back at it, that's the thing which fired me onto all of that; I became very interested in the whole Sliabh Luachra thing and spent nights and nights down in Knocknagree in particular. I suppose 'twas also the time that the Sliabh Luachra music was getting a bit more popular. The Kerry Fiddles record came out in 1977, and The Star Above The Garter had come out a bit before that. Jackie Daly and Seamus Creagh were playing wonderful music in that kind of style, and in Cork the set dancing revival had started, led initially in Cork by Timmy McCarthy, or Timmy the Brit as he is generally known, and also by Joe O'Donovan. Timmy was very adamant that the local sets, the polka sets, would be featured, and then, of course, the musicians had to play for those sets, so there was a cross fertilization. Lots of musicians, not only myself, became increasingly interested in the repertoire of the region and the repertoire of people like Denis [Murphy] and Julia [Clifford] and Johnny O'Leary. So from then on my interest in it became more and more and more, and I decided that I should embark on a kind of academic approach to it once again. But in parallel with all of this, I was working as a lecturer in the department of electronic engineering at Cork Institute of Technology. So my life was two-fold. On the one hand I was teaching electronics and related subjects, and on the other hand I was playing a lot of music. In 1994, Sliabh Notes was formed; in 1995 the first CD came out. In parallel with all of this, I decided to get back into academia. I spoke to M�che�l � S�illeabh�in about embarking on something like this again and taking the bigger picture. I felt like O'Keeffe warranted an inclusion in the bigger picture, so after a while I decided that I'd sign on to work towards a PhD. This year I got an award of Senior Research Scholarship from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. So that's enabled me now to work full-time at this project, and I've also just submitted some things for publication.
Tell me more about Sliabh Notes.
Well, Sliabh Notes is the present group I'm involved with -- we have D�nal (Murphy) on accordion, Tommy (O'Sullivan) on guitar and songs, and myself on fiddle. D�nal lives in Abbeyfeale, and his father is an accordion player with great allegiance to the music of Scartaglen and places like that. D�nal'd grown up hearing lots of slides and polkas, so he and I had a huge rapport with regards to that kind of music, and find that we're asked frequently to play at c�il�s and sometimes at house dances. But our repertoire is not exclusively Sliabh Luachra; well over fifty percent is Sliabh Luachra material, some of it from the O'Keeffe manuscripts. On each of the CDs, we've also included music by Cuz Teahan. There's such wonderful music there that we feel we're delighted, and indeed honored, to put this stuff on CD, and make it more available to the public. We are also conscious of giving credit where possible to the sources and people like Mick Duggan, Johnny O'Leary and Paddy Cronin, because for a long time they were never known about. In a ay they're the forgotten heroes of this music -- the people who have passed this music on so generously.
Thinking about the book, one of the things that makes it such a good tool for people learning how to play, particularly people learning how to play who don't live in Ireland, is that you explain what to do with the bow.
musicians. They go to fiddle class a half hour a week and for the rest of the week they don't hear a note of the music, so they have no reference. The only thing they have is the bow directions, but for the most part they would often interpret the bow directions like a classical player would interpret them. Now contrast that with, let's say, the time when P�draig O'Keeffe was teaching: there weren't radios, the only music that a lot of people heard was fiddle players playing in houses, so there was a lot of unwritten and unspoken musical education imparted in the sense that you knew how the music should sound, you knew what the swing was, you had all that unwritten information and nobody needed to tell you about it. When I was doing the book, I felt that I wanted to be able to give sufficient directions that people got some sense of the swing of the music. If I were writing the fiddle book now, in the light of the additional knowledge I have, I would probably be even more overt in that sense. When I give workshops I tend to start from that viewpoint; at a lot of workshops people get taught tune after tune after tune but, in my opinion, very few tutors talk about the "how." Over the years, people have asked me, "How do you do it, how do you play that?" All of which has led me today to be very interested in trying to answer the question of what it is that the fiddle players are doing to make the music sound the way it does. When I talk about P�draig O'Keeffe or Paddy Canny or Johnny Doherty or Jay Ungar or whoever, I'm interested in what they're doing, and in the power of the bow. The power of the bowhand is absolutely immense and greatly underrated.
In master classes, I tend to look more at passing on to people the ideas and the techniques that will help them to advance themselves. It would be very easy for me to go into a class and teach two tunes today and two tunes the next day, but I think that will never improve a person's overall playing. My approach is that I'm teaching this tune today, but we're doing this because we're going to concentrate on rolls or on a certain aspect of articulating phrases. We'll concentrate on that tune and get into the swing of it, but then at the end of the class I'll say, "Now if you take those ideas and try to incorporate them into your existing repertoire you can improve all of what you have, all of your music." I find that people are trying to learn, or are being taught, tunes slowly, complete with all the ornamentation included. I would tend to think that at a beginning level, a bit more emphasis needs to be put on looking at the less obvious part of the music, the swing and the articulation and all that. It's a bit like talking -- none of us talks in a monotone, people don't sing in a monotone. You phrase your talking and you can accentuate the meaning of what you want to say, rather than saying a lot of complicated words in a hurry. It mightn't be a great analogy, but my thinking would be along those lines.


Subtype polymorphism, almost universally called just polymorphism in the context of object-oriented programming, is the ability of one type, A, to appear as and be used like another type, B.
The primary usage of polymorphism in industry (object-oriented programming theory) is the ability of objects belonging to different types to respond to method, field, or property calls of the same name, each one according to an appropriate type-specific behavior.
The programmer (and the program) does not have to know the exact type of the object in advance, and so the exact behavior is determined at run-time (this is called late binding or dynamic binding).


Bae, Bien-U (*1950 in Yosu, South Korea) gained recognition for his meditative landscape photographs, which possess an almost calligraphic quality. His new series, created over the course of the past twenty years, features landscapes in motion. Trees and grass lean in the wind; steep crags, cliffs, and rocks and stones shaped by water lie enveloped in sea spray and fog in the surf; the lines of the horizon disappear in the white-gray of the sky. As is also the case in Chinese and Japanese, the Korean word commonly used to denote landscape is a compound of the words "wind" and "scenery." It is closely bound to the traditional cosmological notion of a quintessence that permeates all living things: the ether. The poetic neologism, "windscape," is a literal translation of this term, which is associated with the same levels of meaning throughout East Asia.


Sakib is pursuing his Doctoral studies in Civil/Environmental Engineering at University of Toledo. Currently, he working on health effects of Nano Materials. He is passionate about Railway Systems and Transportation.


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Philippines Files Diplomatic Protests against Beijing's Moves in South China Sea
Jojo Rinoza, Jeoffrey Maitem and Drake Long
Manila and Washington
A busy day on the flight deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt while transiting the South China Sea, April 10, 2018.
The Philippines filed two diplomatic protests against Beijing on Wednesday, saying it violated international law through recent actions in the South China Sea, including by declaring parts of the disputed waters as Chinese districts, according to Manila's top envoy.
The protests were delivered to the Chinese Embassy in Manila after office hours, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said.
They were for the "pointing of a radar gun at a Philippine Navy ship in PH waters" and for "declaring parts of the Philippine territory as part of Hainan province," Locsin posted on Twitter. He said both actions constituted "violations of international law and Philippine sovereignty."
"China created Nansha district under the jurisdiction of Sansha city, akin to something we already protested in 2012," the foreign secretary added. "Old hat but bears repeating in the protest."
Locsin did not elaborate on the alleged radar-gun incident.
Late Wednesday, officials from the Philippine Navy and the armed forces declined to comment. China's embassy in Manila did not immediately respond to phone calls from BenarNews.
Manila made the accusations against Beijing as the U.S. Pacific Fleet announced that an Australian frigate, the HMAS Parramatta, joined three U.S. Navy ships during exercises in the South China Sea on April 18.
"It is great to be operating with the Australians again," the Pacific Fleet quoted Capt. Kurt Sellerberg, commanding officer of the USS Bunker Hill, as saying in a statement. The guided missile-cruiser was with an amphibious U.S. assault ship and another warship, USS America, during the maneuvering exercise with the Australians, which was observed or participated in by over 3,000 sailors, it said.
This comes after the USS America and Bunker Hill sailed near the Chinese survey ship Hai Yang Di Zhi 8, which is operating at the site of recent oil exploration inside Malaysian waters.
On Tuesday, the USS America was within 60 nautical miles of the West Capella, the Malaysian-contracted drillship being shadowed by China's survey vessel and coastguard, according to vessel-tracking software.
According to Patrick Buchan, a former Australian government official and the director of the U.S. Alliances Project at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, this latest joint effort by their navies demonstrates the closeness of the alliance between the United States and Australia.
"This is yet another example of Australia increasing its interoperability with the U.S. Navy on the high seas, but it's particularly gratifying to see Australia operating with U.S. vessels at this time in the South China Sea," he said.
Australia has participated in freedom of navigation and freedom of flight exercises in the South China Sea, but has a neutral stance on the various claims made by states in the area.
Nonetheless, Buchan emphasized that Australia has a stake in the stability and openness of the region. Australia's top trading partners are all in Northeast Asia, he pointed out. "It's critical for its trade links that no single country dominates the South China Sea," he said.
Manila, Hanoi, US criticize China
The Philippines lodged the new diplomatic protests barely two weeks after Manila joined Hanoi and the United States in criticizing China over the alleged sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese coast guard ship near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
The "statement of solidarity" from Manila rebuked Beijing for the incident, and said it was an act of needless provocation at a time when countries in the region were busy trying to contain a pneumonia-like virus, which has killed thousands and left millions sick around the world.
In the wake of the April 2 sinking, China claimed that the Vietnamese boat sank itself by ramming into its coast guard ship.
Locsin issued his statement about the diplomatic protests three days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte had a one-on-one call with U.S. President Donald Trump, during which the two discussed bolstering bilateral ties as their countries continued to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Both leaders agreed to continue working together as long-time allies to defeat the pandemic, save lives and restore global economic strength," the U.S. Embassy in Manila said on Monday.
"The two leaders also discussed how the United States and the Philippines can continue building upon the strong and enduring economic, cultural and security ties binding the two nations," it said.
On Tuesday, the U.S. military said it had sent an amphibious assault ship and a guided missile cruiser to the site of an ongoing survey by a Chinese vessel in Malaysian waters in the South China Sea, signaling Washington's support for other countries in the region as Beijing pressed its advantage in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak.
Lt. Cmdr. Nicole Schwegman, spokeswoman for the Hawaii-based U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, confirmed that the USS America and USS Bunker Hill had been deployed to the South China Sea.
"Through our continued operational presence in the South China Sea, we are working with our allies and partners to promote freedom of navigation and overflight, and the international principles that underpin security and prosperity for the Indo-Pacific," she wrote in an email. "The U.S. supports the efforts of our allies and partners to determine their own economic interests."
Satellite imagery from Tuesday provided by the European Union through the EO Browser service confirmed that the USS America was then less than 60 nautical miles from the West Capella, a Malaysian-contracted oil exploration vessel. In close proximity, there were a combination of Chinese survey vessels, coast guard and maritime militia ships, according to vessel tracking software.
The Chinese survey vessel, named the Hai Yang Di Zhi 8, arrived in Malaysian waters on April 16 and was last tracked surveying an area within Malaysia's exclusive economic zone, between the West Capella and Malaysia's coast.
As of Tuesday morning (local time), the Hai Yang Di Zhi 8 was around 180 nautical miles from the Malaysian coast – but only 100 nautical miles from the Luconia Shoals, which are claimed by both China and Malaysia. On April 17, the Hai Yang Di Zhi 8 was also within 200 nautical miles of Indonesia's Natuna Islands.
China has said that the Hai Yang Di Zhi 8 was conducting normal activities.
At the weekend, announced two new administrative districts for South China Sea and released a new map naming all the islands and reefs it claims in the contested region.
The United States, for its part, in recent week had withdrawn key military assets from the Western Pacific region.
The aircraft carrier the USS Theodore Roosevelt had to be pulled out of active deployment on March 26 due to dangerous rates of coronavirus infections among its crew. On April 17, the U.S. Air Force announced that it would stop deploying strategic bombers to its base on the Pacific island of Guam.
China claims most of the South China Sea on historical grounds, including areas that reach the shores of its smaller neighbors. Apart from the three countries, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims over the region.
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Newly built neo-classical social housing in Islington
The picture above is of Union Square in Islington. It shows newly built social housing. As part of a redevelopment of Packington Estate, these houses, in sympathy with the rest of the square, replace the 1960s ugly slab blocks.
The Hyde Group housing association who are responsible for the scheme say:
The terrace of four and five bedroom traditional town houses on Union Square, are all for social rent. The 17 family homes on Union Square are designed to mirror the existing Edwardian street properties.
Hyde is replacing 491 council homes, and adding 300 new homes which will be sold on the open market to finance the £130 million scheme (not completely – there is a £33 million "gap funding" subsidy from the Government.) There will also be new community spaces, a youth centre, retail units, and employment spaces.
Perhaps the scheme could have been made self financing – this will increasingly be the requirement in the future. The social housing seems to be entirely for fully-subsidised social rent tenure rather than for affordable rent or shared ownership.The Guardian are naturally pleased that the tenure mix does not make room for the aspirational squeezed middle.
But I think they miss the point in seeing such new housing as the antithesis of the Policy Exchange proposals for high-value social housing to be sold. If creating new housing through schemes like this does require subsidy then surely the way of achieving it is for councils like Islington to sell off million pound street properties to help finance them?
The rights of existing tenants must be respected. Decisions to sell high value social housing must be made as and when properties become vacant. Where there is a redevelopment scheme it is important to win the support of the existing tenants by offering them better homes. Often council estates are high rise but low density. This raises the possibility of creating new homes in the same area.
At any rate, what has been achieved in Packington fulfills important criteria of estate redevelopment. It offers better replacement homes and ends the closed ghetto of poverty by opening up a mixed community with new private housing.
The 17 new houses in Union Square are only a small part of it and their design was a particular concession based on the virtue of blending in. However, it is interesting that had these houses been of hideous modernist design their building costs would have been equivalent.
These houses offer a reminder that there is no reason why a new building must be a modernist building.
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A lifetime ago, when I was a community college professor who knew nothing about wine, I was contemplating a move to New York. I interviewed for a job at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York. I stayed overnight there and thought it was such a great little city. I jumped at the opportunity to return for a day to visit Hudson-Chatham Winery's new tasting room in Troy's historic downtown area near the Hudson River, the third location for the winery, including the home estate in Ghent and another tasting room in Tannersville, which I reviewed previously.
Once I approached the space and entered, I realized this was not just a tasting room. I hate the phrase tasting room because it seems so sterile and impersonal. On the contrary, this space is welcoming, warm, and comfortable. The décor, coziness, and the tables out front reminded me of a European café with a country feel, a place to gather with friends and family, and that is exactly what you will find here.
In addition to wine tasting and wines by the glass and bottle, Hudson-Chatham Troy focuses on a variety of locally made craft beverages and food options, including coffee, beers, ciders, spirits, breakfast breads and pastries, cheese, focaccia, and pizza. With so many offerings, the label "tasting room" simply does not apply. Hudson-Chatham Troy is a purveyor of all things local.
However, it is always the wine that brings me back to Hudson-Chatham. During my inaugural visit to this beautiful space, I tasted a plethora of wines paired with local cheeses. My friends and I sat at a large, family-style table to taste with owner Carlo DeVito. The experience exceeded my expectations. DeVito captivated and entertained us with Hudson-Chatham's wines, his stories, and his sense of humor.
We tasted rosé, whites, and reds: the NV Riesling, NV Rosé, 2015 Block 1 Seyval Blanc, 2015 Pinot Noir, 2015 Léon Millot, 2015 Old Vines Baco Noir, 2014 Empire (red blend), and 2014 Merlot. On this day, the Léon Millot spoke to me, initially with its rich, purple-red color in the glass. The grapes for this wine come from winemaker Stephen Casscles' own vineyard in Athens (Greene County), New York. A low-alcohol beauty (ABV 12%), every step of the making of this wine is done by hand, from hand-picking and sorting the grapes, to Casscles' minimalist approach of aging the wine in neutral, French oak barrels, leaving the wine unfiltered and unfined in the bottle. Lovely aromas and flavors of black fruits, like blackberry, blackcurrant, and plum, permeate the senses. A succulent mouthfeel and delightful acidity left me longing for a delicious meal to share the stage with this stunning wine.
We concluded our experience with a not-yet-released Marmalade Fino, a wine made from chardonnay and oranges, then aged in a bourbon barrel in the style of a fino, a dry, sherry-like fortified wine, which turned out to be one of the highlights of the tasting. Hudson-Chatham is not afraid to make wines outside of what most of us would consider 'typical'. It is this creativity and risk taking that brings me back to Hudson-Chatham again and again to satisfy my craving for unconventional winemaking at its finest.
Address & Contact Information: 203 River St Troy, New York 12180. Telephone: 518-392-9463, website: www.hudsonchathamwinery.com. Tasting Hours: Tues-Sun 10:30-5:00.


If you saw Marvel's Black Panther and you're from the Rockford area, you had to know there was a very good chance something like this could happen.
No spoilers so you're good, but T'Challa, 'Black Panther', hails from Wakanda. A fictional country located in Africa.
When spoken out loud, Wakanda sounds very much like the nearby village of Wauconda.
Wauconda, about 70 miles directly east of Rockford, is a small village in Lake County and home to just over 13,000 residents, none of which is the Black Panther.
That hasn't stopped fans of the movie from calling Wauconda in search of vibranium. Vibranium is a precious material that can only be found in Wakanda. Fans are also screaming a popular battle cry from the movie when calling.
Alise Homola, who works at the village hall in Wakanda, told the Chicago Sun-Times "We had a guy call and [he] was shouting that (Wakanda Forever). I was a little confused."
The internet has also had some fun with it too.
If you haven't seen Black Panther yet, please do so. Black Panther raked in over $200M nationwide in just one weekend, making it the fifth highest-grossing opening for a film in box office history.


Have you enjoyed you summer break? You have certainly deserved all that time of, away from school and classrooms, catching up with your friends and family. You've probably done your hardest to avoid thinking about tomorrow as well haven't you? Well, there is no avoiding it, GCSE Results Day is here.
It's only natural to feel as nervous as you do now. Don't worry about it. All of your friends will be feeling the same way, and so will thousands of other students across the country.
It's important to be fully prepared for every eventuality tomorrow. GCSE Results Day can be really stressful at the best of time. Being ready, and knowing exactly what you need to do in any given situation will help lessen that stress load a lot. So here's a few things for you to remember before you go to college or school to pick up your results.
• Make sure you don't forget your mobile phone. Remember to charge it fully the night before as well. When you pick up your results, whatever happens, you will have any number of people you need to call.
• Take a note pad and a pen with you. You may need to take some notes, contact details, or do some working out on the day.
• Buy a bottle of water to take with you. Results Day is a stressful time, you don't want to dehydrate.
• Be positive. Whatever happens, there are still plenty of options left open to you. It's not the end of the world.
So, we're all packed, time to find out what could happen to you on GCSE Results Day.
Congratulations! You must feel brilliant. You deserve it. Call your parents and your friends and let them know how you got on. They will be dying to know.
After you've done all that, you should think about what happens next. You have a number of options. First off you could go straight ahead and study A Levels. If you're looking for a more real world, practical kind of thing, you might like to look into taking a BTEC. If you've done well in your GCSEs but found it a real hard slog and don't really fancy stepping straight back into a classroom, there are plenty of vocational courses available to you.
Whatever you end up choosing, think hard about what you want to do. Speak to your family and don't be afraid to ask advice from your teachers, they will know you pretty well by now. Listen to their advice, it's an important decision.
Ok, first off speak to a teacher or exam officer and request a copy of your marked paper and check to see if an Enquiry About Results (EAR) is appropriate.
If you were expecting to do better and are surprised by your grades, check you UMS Score against AQA's UMS Grade boundaries, and if you find you have missed a grade but just a few marksyou're your results are suspiciously low, speak to a teacher or an exam officer and ask for a review of marking or moderation, or you can ask for a remark. If you want to do this, it's important you this straight away as there is a deadline.
If you get no joy, then maybe you should think about some resits.
Before you do that though, you need to find out if resits are 100% necessary. If you have a bad grade in a subject that you have no desire to carry on to A Level, or that is not a core subject like Maths, English or one of the Sciences, then you might not have to do any resits. Speak to you teachers if you are planning on staying at your school to sixth form, or give your new school or Sixth Form College a call. You might find that they don't need you to have that subject or subjects to get on their A Level programme.
First things first, don't panic. There's lot of things you can do.
You could do a whole host of resits. But chances are if you found your first round of GCSEs really difficult, and you did not respond to the subjects, then perhaps this kind of education is not for you. You might be more practically minded, you might find inspiration outside the classroom in subjects not taught at GCSE or A Level. If that's the case, then maybe a BTEC or a more vocational course is for you. Again, speak to you teachers, your family, and have a good think about what they say and you want to do. It's your life, it's important you do what makes you happy.


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For an organization, customers are decisive factors who decide the fate of the company in the market. The relationship between a company and its customers plays a significant role in deciding the emphasis of the business ventures. That is when a customer relationship management solution or a CRM Solutions comes at work. If experts are to be believed, CRM is an essential business philosophy that offers a comprehensive vision and a thought process to define the communication channel between a customer and an agency. CRM Application Development therefore integrates all the modules inside an organization. For most of the business organizations, this strategy gives shape to sales and marketing channels. It helps to maximize the value of relationships.
Before indulging in the detail of software solutions for CRM, let's get an idea what is customer relationship management is all about. A number of new technologies have revolutionized the spectrum and invented new strategies to implement the CRM products in the most feasible manner possible. A software or application made for the purpose helps to integrate and manage cross-departmental processes. Most of the CRM applications do focus on a few aspects of the implementation cycle that results in decreased consumer satisfaction.
While developing a custom CRM solution, custom web development professionals take care of all the elements that play a significant role during the interaction cycle. Experts' take help of various media such as website, email and inbound and outbound telephone calls to initiate the interaction. Most of the business organizations want to implement a customer interaction center inside the premises, that is where the significance of CRM arises.To accomplish the purpose, Vtiger CRM brings good number of utilities and features.
Experts in CRM development manage the operational CRM Solutions when it requires to add functionalities such as order processing and the back office applications.The key responsibilities of these experts are to integrate these systems with existing marketing, customer service and support suites running inside the organization. To bring the thing in the right direction, the most innovative SUGARCRM helps business owners a lot.
In technical terms, a customer relationship management is an extensive business strategy that helps organizations to become more customer oriented and service centric. An organization that tenders more values and priority to the customers, get the advantage of a well-managed CRM software to efficiently manage sales, marketing and customer service channels together. Software development for CRM enables decision makers to take the right decisions to manage employees and customers efficiently.
An experienced web development company develops CRM applications for every organization. Whether you are a small organization needs a cloud CRM technology are a big corporation that needs business applications to be integrated together, a web based CRM solution is the perfect answer.
Efficient marketing to existing campaigns.
Enable real-time access to customer data repository.
Access up to date pricing, marketing and sales information for the sales team.
Giving more time to sales team to creating and closing opportunities.
Faster issue resolution and instant customer service.
A CRM software module helps business houses to generate various reports very quickly and efficiently. It leads to a number of advantages in terms of data warehouses building and discharge of critical business decisions. Listed below are the various decision making advantages of customer relationship management solutions.
Asses, assign and track the leads.
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Customer database management for focused marketing campaigns.
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Being an online business owner you can either choose a web based CRM or an on-site CRM, all it depends upon your individual business requirements. For small business owners a web based solution is the best one and in contrary, for a big organization, on-premise solutions are most preferable with its ability of customization and configuration. CRM Development offers various business functions in a row.
Measurement and evaluation of key customer influencers and other constituents.
Implementing and tracking of key performance indicators such as revenue and order tracking.
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Trigger specific responses based on various criterion.
Reduce duplication and data redundancy.
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Publish, store, and access information repository.
Although an automated solution offers a number of business benefits to the organizations in terms of productivity, scalability and customer retention, it is very important to Hire Dedicated Web Developers who have experience in CRM development or ask quotes from service providers with competence in the vertical.


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New approach for range prediction improves accuracy of proton therapy
Tumor therapy: Today, a new method for more accurate prediction of proton range is introduced into clinical routine for the first time worldwide
Credit: OncoRay / Christian Hahn, Nils Peters
Today (Tuesday, 23 April) marks the beginning of a new era in treatment planning at the University Proton Therapy Dresden of the University Hospital in Dresden (Germany): For the worldwide first time, a new approach increases the accuracy, safety and probably also the tolerability of proton therapy. The range prediction procedure was developed and extensively validated by medical physicists from the Dresden OncoRay Center, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. Together with radiation oncologists, its clinical advantages were investigated.
With the "DirectSPR" method, the proton range in human tissue can be predicted more accurately and on an individual patient basis. The Dresden researchers were able to demonstrate that the volume of irradiated healthy tissue surrounding the target volume can be reduced by 35 to 40 percent. The range accuracy, which has remained practically unchanged for more than 30 years, is thus for the first time significantly improved. The patients in Dresden will be the first benefitting from this.
Protons have particularly favorable properties for cancer therapy, as they release a large part of their energy exactly at the moment when they stop in the body. Thus, healthy tissue beyond the target can be better spared. However, medical physicists are faced with the challenge to determine the stopping behavior of the different tissue types, which the protons pass on their way to the tumor.
So far, mostly conventional computed tomography (CT) images have been used for this purpose. However, in human tissue the interaction processes of X-rays used for CT differ from those of protons used for therapy. Hence, the stopping behavior of protons and thus their total range can only be predicted with limited accuracy.
For this reason, a safety margin of healthy tissue surrounding the tumor needs to be irradiated with the same dose as the tumor to ensure that the tumor is completely irradiated. For prostate cancer, for example, this safety margin can be up to 12 millimeter. The range uncertainty concept in proton therapy has been standardly used since the 1980s. Also, the safety margins employed have been practically unchanged since then.
Dual-energy computed tomography (DECT), which was originally developed for the field of Radiology, provides medical physicists with more meaningful information for proton treatment planning. "So far, it was not possible to predict the range of the protons with high accuracy in patients," explains Dr. Christian Richter, head of the research group High Precision Radiotherapy at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), which is one of the three founding partners of the hospital-based OncoRay Center, together with the University Hospital Dresden and the University of Technology Dresden. "Until now, we were lacking a technology for determining the individual parameters that define the stopping behavior of protons in different tissue types. With the DirectSPR approach, which is based on DECT, we are now able to do this. We can much better resolve differences in tissue composition between different patients, as well as in different tissues in the same patient, and take them into account during treatment planning. With this innovation, proton therapy becomes better tolerable, more accurate and also more tailor-made."
From the dual-energy CT scan, two CT images, generated with different X-ray spectra, are available for further processing. They contain substantially more information on required tissue characteristics than with the previous standard method using conventional CT. Nevertheless, patients are not exposed to a higher X-ray dose compared to conventional CT. The only difference is that they are moved twice through the CT scanner.
The Dresden scientists were able to prove that the advantage of the DirectSPR method for range and dose calculation is not only theoretically existing, but also clinically highly relevant. "We have seen that the comprehensively validated DirectSPR approach, that was already proven to be more accurate, results in a proton range that is four to eight millimeters different from the previous standard method – for deep-seated tumors. At that moment, the high clinical relevance of this innovation was immediately clear to us," says Prof. Esther Troost, Director of the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology at the University Hospital Dresden and head of the research group Image-guided High Precision Radiotherapy at the HZDR.
"As the results of the studies were so unequivocal, we wanted our patients to benefit from the new approach as quickly as possible. The lower radiation volume, for example in the brain, allows an even better protection of important neurological structures, such as the brain stem or the optic nerves. Thereby, we reduce side effects and make proton therapy even more tolerable for each individual patient," adds Prof. Mechthild Krause, also Director of the Department of Radiotherapy and Radiation Oncology at Dresden University Hospital and Director of the OncoRay Center. In concrete terms, this means a reduction of the safety margin for prostate treatments by around 35 percent, for brain tumor treatments even up to 40 percent.
As early as 2015, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg together with colleagues from Dresden developed and optimized the calculation algorithm. With DirectSPR, the relative electron density and the effective atomic number are determined individually in each voxel and are then used to determine the stopping behavior, the so-called stopping power, of the tissue. The abbreviation SPR stands for "Stopping Power Ratio" and expresses the energy loss of the protons per distance travelled relative to the energy loss in water.
An important prerequisite for the current clinical implementation of the DirectSPR approach was the worldwide-first routine application of DECT for clinical proton therapy planning at the University Hospital Dresden back in spring 2015. This enabled the scientists to retrospectively evaluate the DirectSPR approach using real patient data, which was previously only possible in phantoms. By doing so, they gained valuable information about the clinical relevance of the new method. The results have also convinced industry: Siemens Healthineers has been collaborating with the researchers in Dresden since 2016 to make the DirectSPR approach available as medical product to other proton therapy centers around the world. The product development will for the first time be presented at the international meeting of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) to be held from April 26 to 30, 2019 in Milan, Italy.
"As translational researchers we would certainly not have been successful without the excellent cooperation with the clinicians and clinical medical physicists at OncoRay," says Christian Richter. He therefore regards the interdisciplinary and cross-institutional structure of the OncoRay Center with its three partner institutes – the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the Technische Universitaet Dresden – as an essential prerequisite for the rapid translation of research results into clinical application. The close cooperation with the Heidelberg Institute for Radiooncology at the National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology also makes it possible to bundle expertise and realize projects that would not have been implemented at one of the locations alone.
Christine Bohnet
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Kate Middleton could have impressed one royal bride to bend the principles somewhat though, as when Princess Beatrice unveiled photos of her secret wedding in 2020, she was sporting an analogous half-up half-down fashion to the Duchess'.
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I received a PhD in sociology from Cornell University, a JD from Northwestern University School of Law, and AB degrees in Public Policy and Spanish from Duke University. Before entering graduate school, I worked as an associate in the Private Client Department of McDermott Will & Emery LLP in Chicago, IL and as Associate Director of Planned Giving for the Harvard Business School in Boston, MA.


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Saint Maximinus of Aix () was the (legendary) first bishop of Aix-en-Provence in the 1st century.

According to his legend, he was the steward of the family at Bethany and one of the seventy-two disciples of Jesus. He accompanied Lazarus, Martha and Mary on their flight. He began the evangelisation of Aix-en-Provence together with Mary Magdalene. He was visited by Saint Alexander of Brescia and strengthened his faith.

He is traditionally named as the builder of the first church on the site of the present Aix Cathedral.

Mary Magdalene later left him to continue his apostolate alone when she withdrew to the solitude of a cave, which later became a Christian pilgrimage site Sainte-Baume. On the day she knew she was to die she descended into the plain so that Maximinus could give her communion and arrange her burial. Her sarcophagus is now at the Basilica of St Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, along with that of Sidonius, Marcelle, Suzanne and Maximinus, after whom the place was subsequently named.

He died on 8 June, now the day of his feast. In the 3rd or 4th century his remains were placed in a sarcophagus.

Sidonius (Saint Sidoine) succeeded him as bishop of Aix.

He has been badly confused with Saint Maximin of Trier.

Notes and references

Sources
 Vollständiges Heiligen-Lexikon (1858)
 Catholic Online

Archbishops of Aix
Gallo-Roman saints
1st-century Christian saints

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It also says that advanced driver assistance systems - which can tempt motorists to switch off one minute and retake control the next - could increase the risk of distraction.
The paper concludes that businesses need a robust company driver training policy that isn't ignored.
IAM Roadsmart business development director Tony Greenidge said: "Our white paper shows that with increasing the sophistication of in-car technology, there is an unintended consequence that requires drivers - typically in real time - to decide how to best process and utilise the information provided.
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I didn't read what this man said about Michelle. Haven't people lost their jobs over this type of behavior?


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Significant revenue increase across Finavia's network
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Finavia's revenues have increased by 181.8 per cent during the review period (January to June 2022), due to substantial growth in passenger activity.
Finavia's revenues increased by 181.8 per cent during the review period and amounted to €134.2 million (47.6) due to substantial growth in the number of passengers and flights. The operating margin before extraordinary items improved by 171.3 per cent and came to €18.7 million (-26.2).
The operating profit before extraordinary items was €-39.4 million (-77.2), an increase of 48.9 per cent.
Revenues from business operations at Helsinki Airport (HEL) increased by 186.4 per cent and amounted to €87.5 million. Operating profit was €-24.8 million.
Revenues from Finavia's network airports increased by 86.9 per cent and came to €26.1 million. Operating profit was €-17.6 million.
Airpro's revenues totalled €33.4 million and operating profit was €-1.0 million.
Finavia launched a cost-cutting programme in June 2020 with the aim of reducing operating expenses by €200 million and investments by €100 million by the end of 2023. By the end of June 2022, savings of €179 million had been achieved in operating expenses and €51 million in investments. The cost-cutting programme progressed on schedule.
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