On May 8, 1966, Frank Robinson became the first (and only) player to hit a home run out of Memorial Stadium.
The pitcher, Cleveland's Luis Tiant, peered in for the sign and delivered a fastball, low and inside. Frank Robinson swung from the heels. The crowd of 49,516 rose as one to watch as the ball soared over the left-field wall — and kept climbing. It cleared the football press box, 50 rows of bleachers and a 12-foot TV camera stand sitting at the top of Memorial Stadium before it disappeared.
The place exploded. On May 8, 1966, in his 19th game as an Oriole, Robinson had done the unthinkable, becoming the first (and only) player to hit a home run out of the ballpark. As he rounded the bases with that gingerly gait, the crowd — then the largest ever to see an Orioles game — gave him a standing ovation. The applause lasted a full minute, until Robinson had touched his cap five times. Or was it six?
"I have hit balls as hard, but it would be difficult to say that I have hit any harder," he said afterward. "I was a little embarrassed [by the ovation]; it hit the soft spot."
Half a century later, Robinson called it a seminal moment in his baseball career. Hearing the cheering, "I felt like I really belonged in Baltimore," the Hall of Fame slugger told The Baltimore Sun in December.
The 50th anniversary of the feat will be commemorated in a community event Sunday not far from where the ball landed.
Robinson's historic 1966 home run affected others, too. Outside the park that Sunday afternoon, two youths passed by. Fifteen-year-old Mike Sparaco and his buddy Bill Wheatley, 14, were returning home to Waverly in a sullen mood.
"We'd gone to meet two girls at a miniature golf course on Hillen Road, but they never showed," Sparaco recalled. Crossing a parking lot outside the stadium, they heard a roar, looked up and saw fans pointing at them from the top row of the bleachers.
"We thought, 'What's going on?'" said Sparaco, now 65, of northeast Baltimore. "Bill said, 'Maybe somebody hit one out.' I said, 'Great, maybe we'll get a new baseball and play with it.' The first car I looked under was a white Cadillac and there was the ball, right in the middle. No sooner had I crawled under to get it than all these people came running over. A guy with a transistor radio shouted, 'Frank Robinson just hit that!'"
Fifty years later, Jim Palmer vividly remembers his disbelief as he walked from Memorial Stadium on the evening of Oct. 9, 1966, a newly minted world champion.
The ball had traveled 451 feet on the fly before rolling to a stop 540 feet from home plate.
Ushered into the stadium, the boys hoped to lean over the Orioles dugout and present the ball to Robinson. Some fans thought otherwise. Sparaco said: "One man stood up from his seat and offered $50 for it. His wife said, 'Sit down, Harry.'"
Instead, they met with Harry Dalton, the Orioles general manager who took them to the press box. There, the public address announcer introduced the two ninth-graders to the crowd, who gave them a standing ovation.
"I couldn't believe it," Sparaco said. "Five minutes earlier, I'd been a nobody. Now we were doing an interview on a Cleveland radio station. After the game, we visited the Orioles locker room. Reporters swarmed us. We shook hands with every Oriole, from Luis Aparicio to Boog Powell. They all signed a ball and a program. Then we jumped up on a training table, gave the ball to Frank Robinson and had our picture taken with him. The Orioles gave us both season passes, we said our goodbyes and that was it."
Not quite. Walking home, Sparaco was met by neighbors shouting, "We saw you on TV!" On Monday, at Woodbourne Junior High, he and Wheatley were celebrities.
"I was flabbergasted. It's hard to deal with all that," Sparaco said. "Relatives called from all over the country. I delivered papers for the Baltimore News American and that afternoon, when I opened my bundle, our picture was on the front page."
Wheatley has since died, but Sparaco, a semiretired bricklayer, can recall every detail of that afternoon on 33rd Street 50 years ago.
"Every once in a while, someone will come up to me and want to talk about it," he said. "That was my 15 minutes of fame."
Robinson's home run, in the first inning of an 8-3 victory during the second game of a doubleheader, was more remarkable having come off an Indians pitcher (Tiant) who had thrown three consecutive shutouts to start his season. The feat so moved the city that a sports booster club sought to commemorate the blast. A week later, in a pregame ceremony, an orange flag with black lettering was raised at the spot where the ball left the park. "HERE" is all it said.
The flag flew until the end of 1991 — the Orioles' last at Memorial Stadium — when it was won by a fan in a club-sponsored giveaway during the penultimate game of the season.
"I still have it," said Les Kelly, 57, of Fort Worth, Texas. A retired Marine, he keeps the flag folded in a Ziploc bag, with a certificate of authenticity, in the bottom of a foot locker that accompanied him during tours in Okinawa, Japan, and Hawaii.
It's only by chance that he's the owner of the HERE flag, Kelly said. Stationed at Quantico, Va., in 1991, after serving in Operation Desert Storm, he'd driven to Baltimore with his wife and two sons Oct. 5 to visit the National Aquarium — or so he thought.
"They surprised me and said we were going to the Orioles-Detroit game for my birthday," said Kelly, who's from Michigan. "But we didn't have tickets and the game was sold out. Then a guy walked over and said, 'I'll sell you four tickets for $12.' They were upper deck but we took them."
Next thing Kelly knew, his seat had been selected and he'd won a prize.
"When [the Orioles] told me what it was, everybody swarmed around me, wanting to buy the flag," he said. "What are the odds of all that happening? Frank Robinson signed it 'Best Wishes' and shook our hands. One guy offered $1,000 for it, on the spot. The Babe Ruth Museum asked to display it, but I kept it."
The HERE flag has been at Kelly's side ever since, except during his deployment to Iraq in 2005.
"I've been thinking about it lately," he said, but not because it's the golden anniversary of Robinson's home run. "Antiques Roadshow," the PBS television series, goes to Fort Worth in July, and Kelly hopes to have his keepsake appraised.
On Sunday, Baltimore will stage its own celebration. At 1 p.m., Mark Melonas, a neighborhood activist, will raise a replica of the flag atop a 16-foot pole on the chain link fence in the left-field corner of the YMCA ballfield where Memorial Stadium once stood. Youngsters can also compete in Major League Baseball-sponsored Pitch Hit & Run contests, whiffle ball games and a home run derby (ages 14-18).
"We'll hang the flag and give a quick history lesson on Robinson and what it meant for blue-collar Baltimore to embrace a hero who had darker skin than many of them," said Melonas, a furniture maker. "After the arrest last year of Freddie Gray, and people having a poor opinion of the city, the metaphor of HERE is an interesting one, overlaid on that history. We're still an amazing town, and this neighborhood is surprisingly diverse."
At 40, Melonas wasn't alive when Robinson played for the Orioles. But praise from his father, Jim Melonas, is good enough for him.
"Mention Robinson and dad gets a funny look in his eye," Mark Melonas said. "'There are players,' he'll say, 'and then there's Frank.'"


Great to speak with you and Kari on Friday and I'm very glad the trip was successful. You and your kids did a wonderful job and our instructors in Peru, and our staff in Denver, have really enjoyed working with Casady School.
As discussed, a major focus of World Leadership School this coming year will be to help eight of our U.S. school partners make the transition from service learning trips to what we are calling Global Partnerships. This is the next stage in our strategy to help schools develop truly innovative global education programs.
On our service learning trips, students and faculty engage with a global issue, develop leadership awareness, and build important relationships in an overseas community. A Global Partnership continues the momentum of a trip and extends it into a year-round distance learning exchange between classrooms in different parts of the world.
Each Global Partnership will include regular interactions between two classrooms, one in the U.S. and the other in the overseas community; a sustained study of a global issue; and ongoing service projects, both abroad and perhaps in the U.S. as well. Ideas of leadership will be integrated, where appropriate.
These partnerships are designed to support and mesh with existing curriculum at each school. Our hope is that these partnerships will allow teachers to do a better job teaching Spanish, biology, environmental sciences, human geography, world history and other subjects.
We have had some early success with Global Partnerships at World Leadership School. This year, students from St. John's Episcopal, a K-8 school in Olney, Md., are studying environmental sciences through a sustained dialogue on climate change with students in Belize.
· Stand out in a rapidly changing global education market.
We know these types of global partnerships are hard for schools to launch without initial support and help. Building and sustaining an overseas relationship takes a lot of time and energy, and the responsibility usually falls upon teachers who are already overscheduled with competing priorities. Even in the best cases, these relationships can fizzle out for no apparent reason. In addition, figuring out which technology to use and how to fit the interactions into pre-established curriculum presents further challenges. Yet there's no question that these class-to-class global partnerships, as challenging as they initially are, will be a key component of global education in the future.
For these reasons, World Leadership School is launching a Global Partnerships program. We will work with no more than eight schools during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
· Assign 2 faculty members who are committed, and have the time, to work with us on developing a global partnership in their classroom. Their work responsibilities to World Leadership School should be written into their contract and they should be willing to travel with students in the spring or summer. We cannot succeed without committed faculty.
· Two Global Partnerships. We will work closely with two faculty members from your school to design curriculum, manage the technology and facilitate the relationships involved in the launching of two new global partnerships at your school. At least one of these global partnerships will be with a World Leadership School site overseas; the other we can help your faculty build from scratch, or we can connect with a school at another World Leadership School location.
· Faculty Training. Apart from the two faculty we work with, we want to help your entire faculty and administration understand how to build and maintain overseas distance learning relationships; implement a new array of Web 2.0 tools in the classroom; and integrate global issues, service, and leadership into the classroom. The hope is that other faculty will see the success of Global Partnerships at your school and, armed with knowledge and a few basic tools, be inspired to explore their own in-class service programs or overseas partnerships.
We will provide on-site coordination and classroom facilitation for global partnerships offered in World Leadership School sites in Costa Rica, Belize, Peru, Guadeloupe and Kenya.
Our goal is to have success with every global partnership we start for schools this coming school year, but this may not be achievable. Some partnerships will fail for reasons beyond our control, including lack of commitment from overseas schools in countries where World Leadership School does not operate. In this case, we will do everything we can to re-design the partnership to make it successful.
Communicating the success of these programs is critical. Once the program is underway, we are glad to work with your development or communication office to help explain these partnerships, and why they are important, to your larger school community.
We will also provide feedback directly to school leadership on the progress made in establishing the global partnerships and what adjustments need to be made to ensure success.
Cost. The total cost to participate in the Global Partnerships program for the 2009-2010 school year is $6,250. Half of the fee, or $3,125, is payable on September 1, and the remainder is due January 1. This price is all-inclusive. World Leadership School will not bill any additional expenses for travel, accommodations, meals, communication, etc. Each school is responsible for providing basic computer equipment (laptop with web cam, microphone, and projector/Smartboard) in the assigned "global partnership" classrooms.
Staff. This effort will be headed by Alecia Berman-Dry, upcoming Global Partnerships Director for World Leadership School. As Technology Coordinator for St. John's Episcopal, Alecia continues to develop what is to date World Leadership School's most successful and sophisticated global partnership. This new position, which she starts July 2009, will allow Alecia to use her experience and knowledge to help other schools roll out similar programs. For more information on Alecia, see below.
I will also devote much of my time this coming year to working with Alecia and our partner schools on this new and exciting program.
Alecia Berman-Dry, Global Partnerships Director, is an experienced speaker and workshop leader who has worked in environments as varied as Washington, D.C. law offices, church basements and college classrooms. Along the way, she has helped school administrators, teachers, and parents make informed decisions about internet safety, social networking, website development, the use of computer programming to teach math, Web 2.0 tools and global education. Her summer teacher training sessions, "World Village Training," are her favorite hands-on workshops to present. Alecia is passionate about helping teachers establish and maintain their own meaningful classroom partnerships both nationally and internationally.
She currently teaches technology at St. John's Episcopal School, a K-8 Independent School just outside of Washington, D.C. Previously Alecia served as St. John's Technology Coordinator for 8 years. She is a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholar, as well as the 2006 Best White Paper award winner at MICCA, Maryland's annual conference for educational technology. Alecia also served as the Technology Chair of the AIMS (Association of Independent Maryland Schools) Academic Advisory Committee for two years.
Several Casady students spent the first days of their summer vacation in Peru--not on a sightseeing venture but on a mission to help World Leadership School and the children of Ollantaytambo.
During their journey, the students moved a giant debris-choked hill of dirt and spread it around the new Children's Land in Ollantaytambo, Peru. They also built a fence around the play area, painted the fence and put doors and windows in the thatched meeting hut built by the Shady Side students this spring.
"I really enjoyed getting to know some of you over the last few months and I want you to know that the students and Casady faculty who went on this trip did a really fabulous job," said Ross Wehner, executive director of the Denver-based World Leadership School.
The work is part of an ongoing project to convert a trash dump into a "Children's Land." This experiential learning area is part of an after-school program funded by World Leadership School that helps children in Ollantaytambo become stewards of their environment. Here's the blog in Spanish from the Children's Land: http://www.tiniollantaytambo.blogspot.com/ and Casady's blog (in Spanish): http://casady-peru-09.blogspot.com/.
For more information, visit its website at www.worldleadershipschool.com.


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THUNDER BAY, Ontario, July 17, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MEXICAN GOLD CORP. (TSX-V: MEX; OTCQB: MEXGF; FRA: 4QW1) ("Mexican Gold" or the "Company") announced today that pursuant to the Company's stock option plan, and subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange, the Company has granted 4,150,0000 stock options to Directors, Officers and Consultants of the Company at an exercise price of $0.105 per share, expiring July 17, 2024.
The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Jay Sujir to the Company's board of directors.
The Company also announces the resignation of Carl Hering as COO and a director of the Company, and the resignation of Gordon Glenn as a director of the Company. The Company would like to thank Mr. Hering and Mr. Glenn for their service to the Company and wish them both well in their future endeavors.
About Mexican Gold Corp.
Mexican Gold Corp. is a Canadian based mineral exploration and development company committed to building long-term value through ongoing discoveries and strategic acquisitions of prospective precious metals and copper projects in the Americas. Mexican Gold is exploring the Las Minas Project, which is located in the core of the Las Minas mining district in Veracruz State, Mexico, and is host to one of the newest, under-explored skarn systems known in Mexico.
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Growing interest in HPV vaccination in India
by Prasad RavindranathPosted on October 4, 2017 October 4, 2017
Delhi and Punjab have introduced HPV vaccination and are expanding it, while a few States have shown interest. And the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation is considering the introduction of HPV vaccination as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme.
After the suspension of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine trial in 2010 carried out on nearly 23,500 girls in Vadodara, Gujarat and Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Punjab governments have started vaccinating girls aged 11 to 13 years from November 2016 onwards. The two States started the vaccination programme for school children on the occasion of the National Cancer Awareness Day.
In 2012, there were 123,000 new cases of cervical cancer and 67,000 deaths in India. About 25% of global cervical cancer deaths take place in India.
While 1,200 doses have been administered in Delhi as of March 2017, nearly 10,000 girls have been covered in two high prevalence districts – Bathinda and Mansa – in Punjab. A total of 261 schools in Bathinda (5,851 girls) and 187 schools in Mansa (4,002 girls) were involved in the program and 5,851 and 4,002 girls were vaccinated in Bathinda and Mansa respectively, says a paper published in September 2017 in the Journal of Global Oncology.
While Delhi intends to expand the vaccination programme to cover 250,000 school-going girls annually, Punjab will be expanding the HPV vaccination to five more high prevalence districts in its second phase. The vaccination will eventually be scaled up to include all girls in class 6 across Punjab. The bivalent vaccine, which contains HPV 16 and HPV 18, is used in Delhi while the quadrivalent vaccine (HPV 16, HPV 18, HPV 6 and HPV 11) is used in Punjab.
"Now other States such as Sikkim, Harayana and Tamil Nadu have shown interest," says Dr. Ravi Mehrotra, Director of the National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida.
Lessons from the HPV trial fiasco
As more States decide to introduce HPV vaccination, it is important to bear in mind the lessons learnt from the HPV vaccine trial in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. The trial came under scrutiny following the uproar over the death of seven children. Though deaths of the children were found to be unconnected with the vaccination, investigation into the conduct of the trial exposed several ethical violations, including signing of 2,800 consent forms by a hostel warden. The trial was suspended in March 2010.
"The HPV vaccine is offered in the private sector and people who can afford it are getting it. But the poor who are more vulnerable are not getting it," says Dr. Soumya Swaminathan.
Following the uproar caused by the deaths and unethical practices during the conduct of the HPV vaccination trial, the Supreme Court in January 2013 expressed serious concerns about clinical trials in India. It said that uncontrolled clinical trials in India by multinational pharmaceutical companies was creating "havoc" and slammed the Centre for failing in its duty to stop the "rackets" that resulted in deaths of people who had participated in clinical trials.
And in September 2013, the Supreme Court stayed the approvals for 162 clinical trials already approved by the Drugs Controller General of India. It then came out with very stringent guidelines for the conduct of clinical trials.
ICMR driving HPV vaccination
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been the driving force behind the vaccination programme. "We held expert group meetings with many stakeholders, including NGOs, and looked at the scientific evidence from the World Health Organisation, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), other countries that have introduced HPV vaccine and from within India. We took into account the current global recommendations. We also looked at experiences of other countries in this region such as Nepal, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, which have introduced the vaccine," says Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Director-General of ICMR.
"The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation is considering the introduction of HPV vaccination as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme," says Dr. Swaminathan. "The HPV vaccine is offered in the private sector and people who can afford it are getting it. But the poor who are more vulnerable are not getting it."
"Screening should go hand-in-hand with vaccination. Strengthening cervical cancer screening is part of the ICMR recommendation," says Dr. Soumya Swaminathan.
Some of the important recommendations by the expert group are to make the uptake of vaccination absolutely voluntary and with prior knowledge and informed consent from the parents of girls to be vaccinated. Also, cervical cancer screening of mothers accompanying the female child at the time of vaccination has been recommended.
While it may take about 25 years to see the benefits of large-scale vaccination of children, screening mothers in the 30-65 years group will have an immediate positive outcome.
Screening should continue
There is a lack of effective screening for cervical cancer in developing countries, India included. A 2009 study carried out in about 500 villages in Osmanabad district in Maharashtra found a "single round of HPV testing was associated with a significant reduction in the numbers of advanced cervical cancers and deaths from cervical cancer". There were 34 cancer deaths in the HPV-testing group compared with 64 in the control group.
One of the main reasons cited by HPV vaccine manufacturers and other experts on the need for HPV vaccine is the near-absence of screening for cervical cancer. Only about 5% of women in India have been ever screened for cervical cancer. But what is not mentioned is that HPV vaccination does not make screening for cervical cancer unnecessary. "Screening should go hand-in-hand with vaccination. Strengthening cervical cancer screening is part of the ICMR recommendation. Earlier detection of cervical cancer is very important," says Dr. Swaminathan.
The WHO has made it abundantly clear that despite vaccination, screening for cervical cancer should continue. The reason: besides 16 and 18 HPV serotypes, infection with 11 other serotypes can cause cervical cancer. The HPV serotypes 16 and 18 account for only about 77% of cervical cancer in India. Hence, girls vaccinated with even a quadrivalent vaccine can be infected with other serotypes. The 9-valent HPV vaccine, which was licensed in 2015, offers greater protection against HPV-causing serotypes.
Voices against HPV vaccination
Some oncologists from the Tata Memorial Centre are of the opinion that HPV vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is not needed in India. They cite the sharp fall in the number of cervical cancer cases without any medical intervention. They attribute this fall to increased awareness particularly of personal hygiene in cities such as Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi. Cancer registries in four rural pockets have not shown any increase in incidence in over two decades.
Published in The Hindu on October 4, 2017
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The naked truth about the Internet will be revealed this week thanks to four loony volunteers who are locking themselves away in a hotel room with only a PC, a bathrobe and credit card to keep them company.
The volunteers -- who responded to an advertisement in the national press -- include a retired fireman from Dunstable as well as an American writer.
The cyber survivalists will be locked away in separate rooms at a location on the Euston road at 10.30am today and will emerge on Friday afternoon after five days of isolation. One of the participants -- Glyn Thomas, a freelance book editor form Middlesex -- is looking forward to "planning his holiday and playing chess online".
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Deadsocial Keeps You Alive Online After You Die
We haven't figured out if this tool is creepy or the most intriguing thing on the Internet today, but the team behind DeadSocial definitively generated some buzz at The Next Web Conference. The tool awards some sort of immortality to its users, at least on social networks.
DeadSocial Keeps Your Digital Legacy After You Die
"DeadSocial is a tool that allows anyone to create scheduled messages. These are distributed across their social networks after their death," says the official website. This means that the users who register for free on the DeadSocial network can keep their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ accounts alive and active even after their deaths.
DeadSocial subscribers can schedule messages to be sent to their friends or followers for years after their passing. In brief, the tool keeps the digital legacy and uses technology to extend our online digital life. The team that came up with this idea and developed the project announced a beta release of the platform. Later on, the company will roll out a new version that integrates into Facebook Pages, according to the official website. Probably, for the companies who plan to file for bankruptcy but still want to remain in their customers' memory.
Creepy, Yet Interesting Start-up
DeadSoci.al was selected amongst the final 19 start-ups to pitch, present and launch their services at The Next Web Conference, hosted these days in Amsterdam where I am present. The team from London entered the 'Startup Rally' and James Norris the founder of DeadSocial was the one walking up the stage to present his ideas and it seems it was one of the winning start-ups at the rally.
The intriguing platform that offers to keep our social accounts alive entered the Alpha channel of the start-up competition. This section of the competition is reserved to the brand new services, meaning that DeadSoci.al is launching these days. Amazon CTO Werner Vogels will preside over a team of experts who have the mission to decide this year's start-up winner and we'll know the results by the end of the month. For now, it was the best presentation at the Start-up rally.
What Social Accounts do When You Die
Currently, the lawyers and lawmakers specialized in the rights of the netizens are wandering what happens with the accounts on social networks after the users die. Some of the US states (Oklahoma, Nebraska and Oregon) already came with a solution. Here the authorities consider that the all the information stored on the social accounts is part of the users' legacy; therefore the relatives have the right to claim access to these accounts after the owner's death.
Facebook already has a system that allows the accounts of the members who died to be "memorialized." This means that only the deceased user's confirmed friends can view the profile and post messages on the wall in his or her remembrance. However, Facebook doesn't allow access to these memorialized accounts to anyone, not even to the family of departed user.
Twitter has a different approach to the situation, more inclined to respect the privacy of the departed. The friends and family of the deceased users can contact Twitter and obtain a copy of the public tweets. Afterwards they can ask the account to be closed. A digital executor will need to verify name and contact details, the documents related to the death and the relationship to the user and at the end of this process the account is closed.
LinkedIn and YouTube need proof of death and also need to confirm the relationships and identity of the people who speak on behalf of a deceased user. If everything checks out, both platforms will grant heirs the access to the accounts of deceased members. Google+ and Gmail have a less complicated verification process but the result is the same.
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Pedro Emilio Garreaud (1834-1875) fue un fotógrafo francés que realizó su trabajo entre Perú y Chile.

Nació el 23 de julio de 1834 en la ciudad de Le Mans, y muere en el año de 1875 en Viña del Mar, Chile. Sus padres eran  Pierre Garreaud y Marie-Louise-Aimée Elisa Bacq. Con veinte años llegó al Perú, al puerto del Callao en noviembre de 1855 a bordo del barco inglés Commerce, en compañía de la cantante de ópera Sophia Kammerer y del también fotógrafo T. Amic Gazan, con el que abrió tres meses después un estudio fotográfico en Plateros de San Pedro, cerca del estudio del estadounidense Benjamin Franklin Pease. El nombre dado al estudio fue "Fotografía de París", lo que suponía un nombre novedoso, al igual que los términos empleados en aquel entonces tales como daguerrotipo y ambrotipo. En septiembre de 1858 Amic Gazan abandonó la compañía y quedó Garreaud como único responsable, con el nombre de E. Garreaud y Cía.

En junio de 1859 abrió un segundo estudio en la calle Plateros número 239 creado con gran lujo y donde podían contemplarse retratos coloreados de gran número de personalidades, diversas pinturas, estatuas y otros objetos de arte. Continuando con el ejemplo iniciado por Pease, la galería de Garreaud permanecía abierta permanentemente y se fue convirtiendo en un centro de reunión donde se podía aprender pintura, escuchar música y gozar de los populares "Cosmorama" o "Gabinete Óptico" que eran juegos visuales de moda.

En el plano técnico se considera a Garreaud como el principal promotor en el cambio del daguerrotipo a la fotografía al colodión húmedo en Perú. Otros aspectos introducidos a lo largo de su carrera fueron los retratos Rembrandt, los de gran formato o Tarjeta Imperial, retratos Glasses, las fotos miniaturas, los foto-crayons, retratos en relieve sobre papel, retratos esmaltados y los esmaltados o mosaicos.

En agosto de 1859 Emilio Garreaud se asoció con el empresario Amandus Moller, aparentemente para poder cumplir con las deudas contraídas a raíz de la ampliación de sus dos estudios y en enero de 1860 tuvo que dejárselos en circunstancias poco claras. Lo que llevó a Pease a acusar a Moller de haber dejado en la calle a Emilio Garreaud, incumpliendo el contrato firmado y utilizando el buen nombre del fotógrafo francés.

Viajó a Chile a comienzos de 1860 pero regresó al año siguiente contrayendo matrimonio con la parisina Marie-Christiane-Adèle Tessier el 28 de diciembre de 1861. En torno a 1863 disponía de un estudio en la calle Ucayali número 28 de Lima firmando como Garreaud y Cía. En esos años se produjo una rebaja en los precios de las fotografías debido a la competencia entre los estudios, lo que llevó a que los principales estudios hicieran un pacto para ofrecer un precio fijo por las fotos.

El 2 de enero de 1864 en el número 360 del periódico El Mercurio anunció una exposición de mil tarjetas coloreadas por un sistema recién llegado de París, y en el número siguiente ofrece sus servicios para retratos en "un saloncito elegante con tocador para que puedan vestirse las señoritas". Al año siguiente aparecieron varias fotografías suyas en el Atlas Geográfico del Perú de Mariano Felipe Paz Soldan de las cuales llaman la atención las realizadas a los indios y una vista panorámica de Arequipa obtenidas durante "su viaje al interior del Perú" según Paz Soldán.

En torno a 1865 se trasladó a Chile con su esposa donde abrió estudios en Copiapó, Santiago en 1868, Valparaíso en 1869, Talca, La Serena y Concepción. En Chile adopta un logo que permite identificar sus fotografías: el escudo de armas chileno, o un cóndor volando con una oveja en sus garras y un volcán detrás. En 1867 el estudio de Copiapó participó en la Exposición Universal de París, según reza en las tarjetas-visita de un álbum de la colección Cisneros Sánchez.

En 1869 nació su hijo Fernando Garreaud que continuaría la tradición fotográfica de su padre. Ese mismo año publicó un álbum de 22 fotografías de gran formato titulado Vistas de la Patagonia, del Estrecho y de la Tierra del Fuego con la ayuda de Pedro H. Adams que era su socio o empleado, y que fue encuadernado por El Mercurio de Valparaíso. También introdujo motivos chilenos en las tarjetas navideñas y de año nuevo desplazando a las que llegaban de Inglaterra. En 1872 la firma fue premiada en la Exposición de Santiago. En 1874 publicó el  Álbum del Santa Lucía que incluía 49 fotografías en gran formato con textos de Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna.

En 1875 la ruina del mineral de Caracoles causó su quiebra ya que había invertido allí todas sus ganancias. En octubre de ese año vivía enfermo en Viña del Mar y murió poco tiempo después.

Véase también
Fotografía en Perú

Referencias

Nacidos en Le Mans
Fallecidos en Viña del Mar
Fotógrafos de Francia
Fotógrafos residentes en Perú
Fotógrafos de Francia del siglo XIX

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Home News Pa. DEP penalizes EQT for release of abandoned mine drainage
Pa. DEP penalizes EQT for release of abandoned mine drainage
PITTSBURGH — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that EQT Production Company has paid a $294,000 fine for releasing 4 million gallons of abandoned mine drainage in Allegheny County.
On Jan. 29, 2017, EQT was using horizontal directional drilling to bore a hole under State Route 136 for the construction of its Monongahela to Rostosky Waterline in Forward Township, Allegheny County.
EQT inadvertently bored into the abandoned Gallatin mine, causing a discharge of abandoned mine drainage into the Monongahela River.
The abandoned mine drainage discharged through the waterline borehole to unnamed tributaries to the Monongahela River, the Monongahela River and associated wetlands.
EQT was aware that several abandoned coal mines were within the site, but had relied on regional mapping that generally described mine pools as "not flooded or unknown" and did not undertake any further investigation.
EQT has since implemented an internal multi-department process to prevent future mine water releases.
EQT also constructed a subsurface collection and conveyance system to reestablish the collection and drainage system in place at the time of the release.
EQT also agreed to establish a $100,000 fund with the Clean Streams Foundation to provide for the maintenance, operation and replacement of the system.
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Hostip.info – Forum • View topic - Dynamic IPs... fixed cities?
Love the site/API (however still limited for Europe)!
But... what with dynamical IPs?
Are they always in the same city? Or is it possible that today my IP is in "CITY A", and tomorrow that IP is in "CITY B" (at about 10 miles from A) ?
Re: Dynamic IPs... fixed cities?
We currently map to a resolution of a /24 instead of a /32 primarily because the latter changes so frequently compared to a /24. If we mapped every persons' IP address, you can imagine how many changes there would be!
In Europe an ISP can cover a whole country so a particular IP can be for example used in the the North of Scotland one day and in southern England the next so a city is pretty meaningless in this context.
It's like that here too.
The ISP I'm using seems to allocate the same /24 to anywhere in about a 300km radius.
if I hit a website that uses geolocated text in adverts the results can be well off-target.


I've had this problem for awhile on IOS 11.3 and 10.x.x. When i go to look at the battery usage no APPs are showing up as being used but the totals show usage, in attached photo 1:28 hours. How come there are no APPs showing up as being used for this time?
My phone is an iPhone X. I want to say I had the same problem on my iPhone 7 also. My iPad Pro 9.7" shows APP usage and both devices are setup the same.
It takes time for iOS to calculate the app usage. You've recently charged your phone from the look of it. Anytime you charge your phone for a significant period of time iOS clears out the app usage list until your phone has been off the charger for a while. It needs that time to calculate the percentage of usage, and it needs to read the battery drain to do that.
So your saying 1 hour and 28 minutes is not enough time to track battery usage?
My 7+ on iOS 11.3.1 shows tabs under Battery Usage for Last 24 Hours and Last 7 Days and has many Apps under either tab. Currently shows Usage under Time Since Last Full Charge at 4 minutes. I haven't figured out yet how to do a screen shot. Posting using my PC rather than my phone.
That's the problem I'm seeing. I so usage, 1 hour and 28 minutes but no APPS are showing up. I don't use the phone a lot so I'm wondering why the usage is showing 1 hour and 28 minutes with no APPs showing up.
Here is a screen shot from my iPad Pro. It show 35minutes of usage and all of the APPs I have used.
That is 1 hour 28 minutes since the last **full** charge. Have you plugged in the phone for brief periods since the last full charge? I suspect so, with 69 hours of standby with a phone that appears to be more than half charged.
One thing to try is to restart the phone. But, if that doesn't restart tracking, I'd suggest plugging in until the phone is fully charged and then see if app tracking restarts.
I was going to say this as well. With the standby time I would assume you only partially charge your phone throughout the day. That's what is really causing iOS to constantly recalculate the battery usage stats. I've seen it in the past when I've done multiple partial charges throughout the day. I could also recommend restarting your phone, and also charging to full whenever you do charge.
I've had this problem for awhile on IOS 11.3 and 10.x.x.
I've had this exact same issue on my iPad 9.7 2017!!! It has had the issue since I took it out of the box brand new, starting with iOS 10.x.x. It was like that when I took it out of the box and updated it for the first time (after playing with it for over an hour). When iOS 11 came out in beta I installed that and still had the same issue. I cannot tell you how many times I factory reset the device, and nothing has fixed it.
It's random. Sometimes I'll go look at the battery and it will have all kinds of stats. Then I'll go to look at it 2 minutes later and the entire page will be blank just like in your snapshot.
Well I spent a couple of minutes on a chat with Apple Support yesterday. Since I wasn't home at my computer there wasn't too much they could do. It ended with the expectation of resetting my iPhone X and recovering via the latest backup. Well I w not ahead and reset the phone to new and reinstalled everything manually instead of using a backup. So far so good. I'll give it a couple weeks before I call the problem solved.


Camp Olympia was started in the late 1950's by Stephen and Elizabeth Benedek. They were both involved in athletics all of their lives including teaching physical education from elementary through university levels. They both competed in various sports at the national level in their home country of Hungary. Stephen was inducted into the Georgetown University Hall of Fame for his very successful coaching of the track team. This quality leadership has been the driving force behind our successful program since 1958. Today, Elizabeth continues the legacy that she helped to build with her husband, Stephen.
It is our goal to challenge your child to achieve new levels of knowledge. We teach the skills and then let the children practice them in an environment where they have the opportunity to be the best that they can be. Many of our former campers have told us that their Camp Olympia experiences have helped them to achieve their life's goals both personally and professionally. We have campers visit us many years later and remember that their summers at Camp Olympia were the best ever!
The activities that we offer are not only supervised and organized, but the children will LEARN. We teach all the basics such as the correct way to run, catch, throw, climb, plus much more. In other words, our program is not a "babysitting" camp. We are an educational, instructional summer camp and proud of it.
This may all sound great but how about some FUN? The children have great fun with their participation in all of the activities, but the real fun comes from improving their skills and achieving a sense of accomplishment. Just look at their faces when they have achieved a new skill and made new friends through the comraderie of team activities.
Elizabeth Benedek: Owner/Director, MS in Physical Education. Past positions before retirement include physical education teacher at National Cathedral School, physical education teacher and basketball coach at Stone Ridge School, and Athletic Director and basketball coach at Loyola College.
Andrea Lingwood: Camp Director, Director Camp Olympia County Day School, BS in Elementary Education, CHA Advanced Level 4 Certified Horseback Riding Instructor.
All of our instructors are carefully screened and selected according to their knowledge of various sports and ability to work well with children. The goal of our staff is to encourage the children to participate in all activities through patience and guidance. Individual counselors are trained in or are certified in First Aid, Adult, Infant and Child CPR, and lifeguard training. All staff undergo an extensive orientation program and criminal background checks.


PIGEON FORGE — Attendance is not the only thing that has increased thanks to a 10-year, $300 million plan launched in 2013 with an eye on pushing Dollywood from a regional them park to a national destination.
So has the economic impact it and other Dollywood Company components have at the local, regional and state level.
That's according to a study by a team at the University of Tennessee led by Dr. Burton English. It's an update to a study the group produced in four years ago, when Dolly Parton announced the company's plan to invest $300 million over between then and 2023.
The update shows the Dollywood Company's economic impact already exceeds original projections for the 10-year period.
Dollywood's 32nd season began Saturday. Parton has dubbed the 2017 season "The Year of the Family" and the design and location of two new rides being added to the park's lineup — as well as live shows and seasonal festivals —reflect that theme. One is "Drop Line," which will take riders 230-feet into the sky before dropping them back down. Next door will be "Whistlepunk Chaser," described as a "junior coaster" and sitting in the shadow of Dollywood's wooden coaster "Thunderhead." The placement will allow an option for each age group of a family within the same general area, a concept that has proved popular elsewhere in the park.
Also new this season: extended evening hours in the fall, featuring "Pumpkin Luminights" during Dollywood's Harvest Festival, which includes the Southern Gospel Celebration during the day.
On Friday, Dollywood President Craig Ross released the current economic impact figures, compared to 2013, as well as updated projections for the company's economic impact between this year and 2025.
• The 2013 study stated Dollywood then had an economic impact of $1.1 billion and the 10-year investment plan would add $150.6 million, raising the total to $1.2 billion by 2023.
• The updated study just completed shows Dollywood's economic impact is well above that $1.2 billion and currently is stated at $1.53 billion. The new projection, with continuation of the investment plan, estimate another $315 will be added by 2025, bring Dollywood's total annual economic impact at $1.84 billion.
• The 2013 study stated Dollywood supported 12,400 jobs (direct and indirect) and projected that would grow by 2,500 to total nearly 15,000 jobs by 2023.
• The updated study shows Dollywood now supports 19,285 jobs (direct and indirect), a figure projected to reach 23,248 by 2025.
• The 2013 study stated Dollywood at the time generated $64.2 million per year in state and local taxes, an amount projected to grow by $7 million and total $71.2 million by 2023.
• The updated study shows Dollywood currently generates $118 million in state and local tax revenues annually, a figure projected to grown by $13.3 million and total $131 million by 2025.
"This is thanks to our hosts, to the partners we have in this community, and our season passholders and other loyal guests who visit us," Ross said. "It's quite impressive what a young girl has done to impact the lives of so many people. I express that with the utmost humbleness.
Attendance at the park has increased between 5 to 7 percent each year, overall. But the company's goal of marketing to a national audience — which included building the park's DreamMore Resort to offer onsite lodging — is clearly paying off, Ross said, noting the number of visitors from the Atlanta and Nashville markets has increased 20 percent during the same period.
"Dolly's original intent for building Dollywood ... was to create jobs," Dollywood Director of Communications Pete Owens said. "To really be ... the economic engine to create an economy that was based on tourism. That's what the Smokeys were about. She knew that this place would be someplace special for people to come visit. And the amount of work that's gone in, and the amount of growth that's happened over such a short amount of time is really a testament to her vision and a testament to the entire area.
Parton was not "on park" this weekend, as she typically has been for season opening.
Owens said Parton, expected next to visit Dollywood in May, is in Los Angeles working on the third of five television movies included in her deal with NBC. Parton also is working on the music that will be featured in the new dinner show scheduled to replace "Lumberjack's" on the Parkway this summer. Details on the new show are expected to be announced next week, but early hints are that it will —like the hugely popular two NBC movies already aired, "Coat of Many Colors" and "Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love" — play off Parton's family memories.


There are many Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter activities that you and your family can enjoy in the surrounding area. Here is a sample of the many activities we would be happy to help you find and enjoy during your stay with us.
Glacier National Park is open year round but access is limited during the off-season. Spring is a beautiful and quiet time to be in Glacier National Park due to the sights of springtime coming to the park and less visitors during this time. However, you must be more self sufficient for there are very few services open in the park in the early spring. Most of the concession services in the park do not reopen for the season until late May to early June.
The Going-to-the-Sun Road is plowed from the Park entrance at West Glacier to Lake McDonald Lodge. Plowing of the rest of Glacier's roads begins in late March on the east side of the park and by the beginning of April, plow crews turn their focus to the Going-to-the-Sun Road from Lake McDonald. Plowing of this historic landmark can take two and a half to three months depending on the snow conditions. By mid to late May, most roads throughout the park will be open for vehicle travel with the exception of the whole Going-to-the-Sun Road. The entire road will not open until mid to late June. The actual date of opening the whole road will depend on whether crews have finished plowing it.
During the spring, lower elevations in the park usually melt out by the end of April, opening up some of the hiking trails. Trails towards the continental divide or middle of the park take longer to be free of snow for hiking, usually not until late July.
Before the Going-to-the-Sun Road is open to vehicle traffic, one can experience the park in a special and unique way on a bike. We have had opportunities to ride on the Going-to-the-Sun Road with our bikes with no one else around, creating a feeling of having the whole park to ourselves. Depending on where they are plowing, the Park allows you to ride on the Road in sections closed off to vehicle traffic. When the road crew is not working on the road, you can ride all the way as far as they have it plowed off. If you do not have your own bike with you, we can get you in touch with someone you can rent a bike and helmet from to use on your trip.
If you have plans on doing some hunting in this area, we can take care of you and your hunting partners. Not only will you have a comfortable room and bed to come to after a day of hunting, we can take care of your nutritional needs as well. If you need a sack breakfast or lunch, we can pack it for you and have a nice hot homemade meal for you at the end of the day.
From the middle of September to the middle of June, our place is available for churches to have a place to come and be renewed in Christ. Our café is closed to the public. It is where we would serve you meals and where you can also have discipleship and fellowship. Our rooms are available for lodging. The RV Park and Campground for RV's, tenting, and outdoor activities are available weather dependent in the shoulder seasons of spring and fall. All of this is available at a reduced lodging and meal rate.
There is so much to do in Glacier National Park and the surrounding areas. For a small fee, as a service for our guests, we can book some local activities to enhance your visit. Please call us before your arrival and we can take care of these arrangements for you. Here are a few of the companies that our family has participated with over the years.
Glacier National Park is taking a scenic boat tour on one or more of the four alpine lakes in the park.
We can schedule a tour for you and your family.
of the river near us. We can book a raft trip or fishing trip for you and your family.
horseback trips throughout the park.
like seeing Glacier National Park from the air.
National Park while sitting back and enjoying the views from the famous Red Buses, this is the way to go.
There are so many hiking experiences in and around Glacier National Park. We can give you ideas on where to go and what you may experience from many of the Park's trails. There are many trails that can be accessed near our place both inside and outside of the Park. There are a couple mountain lakes nearby and even a glacier behind us in what we call "our backyard".
Some of the best fishing is easily accessible from our place with the closest fishing access just a mile and a half down the highway.
Our guests are welcome to use one of our campfire sites in our RV Park next door. If you just want to have a fire or cook a meal, you can enjoy the summer night's outdoors. There is badminton, volleyball, and tetherball available there too.
Besides spending time in Glacier National Park, within an hour away there is the Hungry Horse Reservoir, http://www.recreation.gov/recAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&recAreaId=135, and Flathead Lake, (http://flatheadlake.us/). Both of these areas are filled with great outdoor activities.
If you want spend time shopping in local boutiques, antique shops, and more, we less than an hour away from these three cities: Kalispell, http://www.kalispell.com/home/, Whitefish, http://www.whitefish.com/, and Big Fork, http://www.cityofbigfork.com/.
Glacier National Park is open year round but access is limited during the off-season. Depending on the weather and snow conditions, some of the summer activities are still possible. Fall in Glacier National Park and the surrounding areas can be a wonderful time to visit. Many of the services in the park are still fully available through mid to late September. By the end of September all of the concession services inside the Glacier National Park have closed for the season. Therefore, at this time of year, you have to be more self-sufficient when you are in the park. Generally, there are fewer visitors in the park, making it a lot quieter.
Most of the trails are still open for hiking in the park. There is a better chance of seeing wildlife because of being more active due to the coming of winter. The trees begin turning colors with the shorter sunlight available. On the west side of the divide, the larch trees turn a brilliant gold and red color. It is said the best area to view the larch trees and their changing colors are along HWY 2 around the southern boundary of the park, right where we are located.
In the fall, you will find the Going to the Sun Road is less congested with vehicle traffic. While the lower portions of the road remain open all year, the alpine section of this road generally closes for the season the third weekend of October. During this time, you can usually ride your bike on the road where it is closed to vehicle traffic unless roadwork is being done. Some sections of the road may close earlier to accommodate accelerated road rehabilitation work. When that happens, you will not be able to drive all the way through the park on that road, but you can still visit both sides of the park from our location. Other park roads into Two Medicine and Many Glacier remain open until the 3rd week of November. If you are planning on traveling to Canada, the Chief Mountain Port of Entry is open to September 30th, from 9am to 6pm and then closes for the season. Although the Port of Piegan/Carway, on Hwy 89, is open year round, 7am to 11pm.
We have areas just outside your door where you can ski or snowshoe into the Flathead National Forest. There are many areas along Highway 2 where you can do the same. If you want to ski or snowshoe in Glacier National Park, you can park at Lake McDonald Lodge and then proceed on skies or snowshoes up the Going to the Sun road and trails in the area. The Park even has guided tours during the winter months.
Our neighbor, Izaak Walton Inn, has equipment for rent and groomed trails for skiing. Our guests can ski with a discounted trail pass.
If you want to do some snowmobiling, there are several miles of groomed trails 20 miles to the east of us near Marias Pass.
From the middle of September to the middle of June, our place is available for churches to have a place to come and be renewed in Christ. Our café is closed to the public. It is where we would serve you meals and where you can also have discipleship and fellowship. Our rooms are available for lodging. All of this is available at a reduced lodging and meal rate.
We will be happy to give you information about the many activities you and your family can do in the area.


Previously General Manager of Pre-owned luxury vehicles, Markus now looks after the largest dealership selling the luxurious vehicles namely Bentley, Porsche and Volkswagen.
Having come from his position as General Manager of Giltrap Prestige, Lee has taken over at Archibald and Shorter looking after two dealerships that sell Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo.
With over a decade's worth of experience in his current role, Greg looks after Aston Martin and Lamborghini customers up and down New Zealand.
Overseeing all aspects of Giltrap Audi, he looks for nothing but excellence in customer service. Having picked up numerous award personally and with his dealership, he has won the hearts of his customers time and time again.
With 23 years in the car industry Phil has a wealth of knowledge to draw upon. This year is Phil's 19th year with the group and 11th year as a Dealer Principal. Phil's achievements include 5-time Sales Manager of the year, 4-time Holden Grand Master and 3-time Kia Dealer of the year.
Blaine brings extensive managerial experience to Schofield Holden. He has previous experience with Andrew Simms Mitsubishi, John Andrew, Mercedes Benz New Zealand, Manukau Nissan, and Giltrap Nissan.
With an extensive background in luxury sports vehicles, Luke brings a hands-on approach to ensuring each customer has a uniquely tailored experience as Sales Manager.
Previously National Sales Manager for Audi New Zealand, Torben has spent 10 years in the industry working across multiple brands both in retail and at a brand level. Torben now runs Giltrap Skoda with a burning passion for the brand, his people, and our customers.
Derek joined Bentley Auckland in June 2017 with previous experience as General Manager and Brand Director of Jack Barclay Bentley in London for the past 12 years. Derek returned to New Zealand after an extended 22 year "OE" having grown up in the Wellington region.
With 16 years in the industry, having previous experience at Winger Motor Group before working for Moyes as a salesman and then used vehicle assistant manager, Mike is well equipped as General Manager of Giltrap Nissan.
With over a decade's worth of experience with Jaguar Land Rover, Shawn joined Archibald & Shorter North Shore as Brand Manager for these iconic brands back in May 2017.
A kiwi born lad from Tolaga Bay returning back to New Zealand with his young family after spending the past 19 years working in the Motor Industry in the UK. Most recently Sean was the Centre Principal at Porsche Reading, the UK's largest Porsche Dealership.


"It wasn't just that he played basketball. He was a basketball player. That's what he did. It was obvious in his body, in his ability, obvious especially in a place clear out of sight - in his heart.
So why did this coach, this crazy man with all the enthusiasm, this guy wh o would start talking, start selling, and just wouldn't stop doing either, keep bugging him about coming out for track and field? Charles hated running, totally abhorred it."
- Excerpt from an excellent piece in the Orange County Register written by Jeff Miller on how Charles Jock only reluctantly did track (actually he refused to do track and started only with field and jumps as he was a bball player) after being continually harassed by HS coach Emmitt Dodd, who only needed to watch Jock jog one lap of the track at basketball practice to know he was made for running.
USA roster for worlds to be announced tomorrow... any surprises?
How can you not like Lukas V after seeing this pic?
Cat 1 or D1 - which is harder?
2010 USATF Annual Report Is Available Here We're sure there are things worth talking about, so if you find them, please email us.
Japanese Amateur 2:08 Marathoner Yuki Kawauchi Runs 30km Race at 5:02 Pace And Gives Result A 100% Perfect Score His other pre-World Championships races had been total disasters. The article reveals the "lone-wolf" of Japanese marathoning is getting coaching advice from the Japanese federation - maybe they are to blame?
New World Championships Team Member Mai Ito Did 30km Run In Boulder In 95-Degree Heat To Get Ready For Worlds God, that sounds awful.
LRC Week That Was: American Women's Medal Chances, Semenya's Inconsistency, The Amazing Magdalena Lewy Boulet And More We've got it all covered this week. We have emails from a scientist and a 2:23 transgender marathoner to possibly explain Caster Semenya's up-and-down season, daydream about Jenny Barringer Simpson being a world leader in two events, and praise the amazing Magdalena Lewy Boulet, while looking at her husband Richie Boulet's similar situation in 1997. We spend the majority of our time breaking down the US women's chances of medaling at the World Championships. We hate to admit it, but as good as Morgan Uceny and Shalane Flanagan are, they both face an uphill battle in grabbing a medal.
A Must Read! Sports Illustrated Takes A Great In-Depth Look At Carl Lewis' Long Jumping Prowess And His Supposed 30-Foot Jump King Carl was the Usain Bolt of his era and this article is a true treasure. We loved this quote from Carl when he was asked to compare himself to the current generation.
Sally Kipyego Excited About 1st World Championships We didn't realize Kipyego's brother Mike is an 8:08 steepler who has run 2:11 in the marathon.
Women's Commonwealth Games Marathon Champ Irene Kosgei Added To Kenya's World Championships Squad Rotterdam champ Philis Ongori Moraa is out injured.
*Exclusive Vanity Fair Exposé On "Operation Shady Rat"
Breaking News: Steve Mullings Tests Positive Yet Again The man whom the Letsrun.com nation got pulled from the 2005 NCAA meet after we started a petition (as we were irate that the NCAA wasn't honoring an IAAF drug suspension) has tested positive for a masking agent. It's big news when the man is ranked #3 in 100 and #5 in the 200, but will probably become even bigger when it's pointed out his training partner is Tyson Gay. In fairness to Gay, Mullings was busted once before for cheating before training with Gay and Gay has been a part of the voluntary extra stringent USADA drug testing program.
France Champs: Christophe Lemaitre Runs Wind-Aided 20.08 To Win 200 Shattered NR of 20.16, but not wind-legal.


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THE MIGHTY KUROS? IS BACK IN THE GREATEST WIZARDS & WARRIORS YET!
When Kuros? last did battle with the Evil Wizard Malkil? atop Icefire Mountain, he raised his IrowSword? in triumph and glory....or so he thought.
Suddenly, a powerful bolt of magic has robbed Kuros of his armor, memory and honor. But the distant presence of evil stirs in his mind, leading him to the once far city of Piedup, the very same place the villainous soul of Malkil survives.
Without his armor, Kuros will need crafty disguises to travle undetected, ready to do battle as a wizard, nobleman, or theif. His quest will take him from the depths of the dungeon to the palace containing riches beyond belief --- building strength, perfecting fighting skills and accuring rare knowledge of magic along the way. The time has come for Kuros to turn his visions of power ... into reality!


After flying for almost a year with my loyal Blade 400 I decided to sell it to a local bloke and buy a 250 class size. At first i was very tempted with the 250 clone from Hobbyking, but then I decided that I would treat myself good and went for the real deal. So I convinced my local hobby shop to make me a super price on a 250 Pro Super Combo and walked away with an enormous grin on my face.
This was my first heli build, and I have to say that I enjoyed it...A LOT! So much that after that I purchased a 450 Pro too, and let's see what the future will bring!
This article is about how I built it (well, following the manual, but hey!) and I also experimented a bit with an iphone app which allows me to produce stop motion movies. Love it. But here we go!
These are the electronics, the kit comes with a 15A ESC, a 3400kv brushless motor, the Align GP790 gyro, a DS420 digital tail servo and three digital DS410 cyclic servos. I had to add my receiver, which as usual is the awesome Orange R615, which I stripped of the case to save some weight.
This is the full content of the box (minus the electronics). From the top left there is a pair of tweezers, thread lock, screw and hex drivers, battery and rx straps, velcro, two types of tail feathers, blade holder, ball links and dog bones, swash and other head parts, flybar paddles, tail bits and bobs, main gear (which has got a one way bearing in it), canopy, landing skids, pushrods, frame parts and main blades.
I strongly recommend, actually I force you to take the head completely apart (it comes partially assembled) to check for threadlock. Usually there is none, and a friend who didn't check the head of his 450 was about to make some damage not long ago. Luckily we caught that in time.
The instructions to build the head are very well done, so you won't have any issue in building it. Just make sure to apply thread lock to any metal to metal screw and not to tighten them up too much. Also a drop of thin oil in every bearing is a good idea. While you build the head make sure that all parts move freely. And I mean really freely, almost no pressure must be needed to move the flybar and the linkages.
Make sure all the links are mounted the correct way (there is a little "A" on one side, that is the side facing away from the ball link) and that the flybar is PERFECTLY in the center of the head. I use a digital caliper to measure the two sides. This will ensure that each side of the head weighs the same as the other.
The landing gear, which is very sturdy, and dead easy to build.
This is the frame built up, with the servos mounted and in the process of centering. This is an operation which is at the same time fundamental, slightly complicated and great fun. There are loads of tutorials on how to do it, the best I found are these by Finless Bob. In specific you want to look for CCPM setup 01 and 02. Another great guide is by John Salt, which you can buy from his site.
This is the bottom half of the frame, and this is when you install the motor, making sure you have the proper gear mesh. How you do it? Like this.
Time to assemble the tail and assemble the heli together. It starts to look good now!
An operation I find quite tedious is to run the wires to make sure they don't get caught anywhere, and that they look good too. The eye has to be pleased!
In this case I didn't do a very good job, I was very impatient (mistake!) and the heli is so small that you have to have incredibly small hands to get inside the frame. I did what I could, hiding the ESC underneath the battery tray, the gyro under the main gear, the rx outside the frame, on the right side. This balances the heli (two cyclic servos are on the left side) and allows to have all the wires on hand something should happen.
I like to run my wires in a wire mesh, which holds them together perfectly, and hides them too.
Boom! She's ready, let's go outside and try her out!


The median price paid for residential properties in neighbourhoods (MSOAs) within England and Wales ranged from £23,375 (within County Durham) to £2,700,000 (within Westminster).
In 2016, the median price paid for property increased in 78% of neighbourhoods in England and Wales, a small reduction compared with 2015.
Neighbourhoods in London and the South East accounted for 45% of the total value of residential property transactions in England and Wales overall in 2016.
The nominal total value of residential property transactions in England and Wales for 2016 was at the highest level since the pre-recession peak in 2007.
The House Price Statistics for Small Areas (HPSSAs) use data from the Land Registry (LR) to provide statistics on the price paid and composition of residential property transactions for properties that were sold in England and Wales. Properties sold at a discount to market level, such as properties sold under the Right to Buy scheme, are excluded from the data.
Residential property transactions added to or edited in the LR Price Paid Data (PPD) are included, especially in more recent periods to which changes are more likely to relate.
If a geography change is made the entire series reflects the new structure, avoiding geographic breaks in the time series.
The smallest areas for which statistics are presented are middle layer super output areas (MSOAs), of which there are 7,201 in England and Wales, each containing around 3,000 households. These are referred to as neighbourhoods in this statistical bulletin. Statistics for neighbourhoods therefore provide a detailed geographic understanding of housing trends.
HPSSAs provide a different set of statistics to the UK House Price Index (UK HPI). The UK HPI is weighted to reflect the mix of properties sold in the previous year, which is broadly representative of the mix of properties in the overall dwelling stock. The HPSSAs are not mix-adjusted but use rolling years to better reflect the actual mix of property sold than is possible with a shorter period. This means that the UK HPI provides a measure of the changing value of properties in the housing market, whereas the HPSSAs measure the price paid for properties sold in a given period. Therefore the two sets of statistics provide different figures.
The HPSSAs report the non-adjusted average transactional values down to the small area level and are therefore particularly useful when identifying the change in price for properties actually sold in a given period and area.
The median price paid in neighbourhoods (middle layer super output areas) ranged from £2,700,000 (within Westminster) to £23,375 (within County Durham). Figure 1 shows the median price paid for middle layer super output areas (MSOAs) in England and Wales in year ending December 2016.
Figure 2 shows the median property price paid in the 10th and 90th percentile of neighbourhoods for each year. The aim here is to illustrate the range of values between neighbourhoods with relatively low prices (as shown by the 10th percentile) and those with relatively high prices (as shown by the 90th percentile). The 10th percentile has stayed relatively stable, at around £100,000, since 2006, with minor changes over the last ten years. The 90th percentile has increased from £310,000 to £450,000 in the last 5 years.
The ratio between the 10th and 90th percentiles for price paid is shown in Figure 3. The chart shows that the ratio has been steadily increasing over the last decade, having fallen rapidly from its peak in 2002.
Figure 4 shows that the median price paid for property increased in the majority of neighbourhoods (middle layer super output areas) in 18 of the past 21 years. The percentage of neighbourhoods in which property prices increased peaked at 96% in 2003 and reached a low of 19% in year ending December 2009. This highlights the impact of the economic downturn on the housing market at this time. However, over the last 3 years the percentage of neighbourhoods with rising prices has decreased marginally, from 81% in 2014 to 78% in 2016.
When we look at housing market activity (the number of property sales) across neighbourhoods in England and Wales, a different pattern emerges. Figure 5 shows the percentage of neighbourhoods in which the number of property sales increased compared with the previous year. In 2016, 44% of neighbourhoods had an increase in the number of property sales compared with 2015. This is similar to housing market activity growth in the previous year, but is lower than the post-recession peak of 81% in 2013.
Housing market value (HMV) is the total value of residential property transactions for an area. It is driven by a combination of property prices and the number of property transactions. This can be used to provide an overview of the scale of the property transaction economy. These housing market value statistics are presented in nominal terms, which means that they have not been adjusted to take account of inflation over time, and so they present the simple total transactional value of all property sales.
In 2016, the neighbourhood (middle layer super output area) with the highest HMV was within Tower Hamlets, with a total of £563 million. This was almost four times the 2015 value of £150 million. In the same period, the median price paid in this neighbourhood increased by £48,000 to £488,763, while the number of property sales increased from 312 in 2015 to 1,086 in 2016. Of these, 890 were new flats. This area of Tower Hamlets covers the north bank of the River Thames from Blackwall to East India Docks, opposite the O2 Arena and has had a large amount of development in the last 5 years.
The neighbourhood with the lowest HMV in 2016 is within Birmingham, with a total of £984,000. This represents less than 0.2% of the value of the highest value neighbourhood, within Tower Hamlets.
The median price paid for the neighbourhood within Tower Hamlets in 2016 was £488,763, while it was £110,000 within the Birmingham neighbourhood. Despite this large difference, it is the housing market activity that had the larger impact on the two neighbourhoods' HMV. In the neighbourhood in Birmingham there were nine house sales in 2016, compared with 1,086 house sales in the neighbourhood in Tower Hamlets.
HMV statistics for small areas show the wide variation in housing market value across England and Wales. If we use the interquartile range, the gap between the highest quarter of housing market value of neighbourhoods and the lowest quarter, this describes the range of the housing market value in half of all neighbourhoods and so minimises the effects of the highest and lowest outliers. This value can be described as the housing market value (HMV) gap.
The HMV gap for England and Wales has widened by more than £11 million since 2011. Figure 6 shows the neighbourhood HMV gap on a regional basis for England and for Wales. The HMV gap was largest for neighbourhoods within London, which means that neighbourhoods in London have more varied housing market value than neighbourhoods within the other English regions and in Wales. This most likely reflects the diverse property market in London, both in terms of price paid and in terms of housing market activity levels.
Each bar represents the difference between the top and bottom of the middle valued 50% of middle layer super output areas (referred to as neighbourhoods).
Figure 7 shows that London had the highest share of total housing market value of all English regions and Wales in 2016, but that it did not have the largest share of all property sales, which was in the largest region, the South East. This illustrates that the price paid for properties in London contributed proportionately more to housing market value than the level of housing market activity.
In the North West, the price paid for property contributed to housing market value to a lesser extent than anywhere else. Here, the number of property sales comprised 12% of all property sales in England and Wales, while the housing market value of the North West comprised 8% of the total HMV.
The total value of transactions in the housing market of England and Wales almost halved in 2008, during the recession. Its value decreased from £279 billion in 2007 to £141 billion in 2008. The housing market value for England and Wales has been steadily rising since 2011, although it is still below its 2007 peak, with the housing market value for 2016 being £254 billion. Note that these figures are in nominal terms and are not adjusted for increases in inflation over time.
The English regions and Wales have followed a similar trend of HMV to the national trend, with the exception of London. Figure 8 shows the HMV in London overtook its 2007 figure in 2014, with a total of £62.2 billion. Unlike the other regions and the national trend, London's housing market value has fallen since its 2014 peak and in 2016 was almost £59.1 billion.
Figure 9 shows the number of sales as indices based on 2007. Sales pre-2008 remained consistent, not really affecting the increase in HMV. The recession of 2008 caused a similar drop in sales as happened with the HMV, both indices dropping to around 51%. The post recession recovery in HMV has been driven by rising prices rather than number of sales, as the sales index has not risen as high as the HMV. The fall in the HMV for London since 2014 can be attributed to a fall in sales, which in the same period fell from 118,433 to 100,877 in 2016.
In the March 2017 release of House Price Statistics for Small Areas (HPSSAs), we published statistics for four new geographies (electoral wards, NUTS3, combined authorities and counties). We kept these datasets separate from the "regular" datasets containing the existing geographies, such as middle layer super output areas (MSOAs) and local authority districts. In this release we have incorporated the data for the four new geographies into the regular datasets.
Due to the increase in the number of sub-national geographies available in the HPSSAs, datasets numbered 6 to 20 in previous publications have been split into two types of geography: administrative geographies and other sub-national geographies.
MSOA level data will continue to be published in datasets 1 to 5.
The administrative datasets will be numbered 6 to 20.
The sub-national datasets will be numbered 21 to 35.
Ward geography data will be released in its own datasets, numbered 36 to 40.
Details of the policy governing the release of new data are available in the UK Statistics Authority's Code of Practice for Offical Statistics or from the Media Relations Office via email to media.relations@ons.gsi.gov.uk.


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