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Teachers considered quitting their jobs because of Crystal Palace road blocks
"They are feeling like they are unable to balance teaching as a profession with their home lives"
Tara O'ConnorLocal Democracy Reporter
Planters in Crystal Palace have now been removed and are set to be replaced by cameras
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Some teachers in Sutton considered quitting their jobs because their journeys to work were so disrupted by planters blocking off their routes to work.
The barriers were put up as part of Lower Traffic Neighbourhoods set up by Croydon Council. But they've proved extremely controversial and some teachers have said it's made them doubt if they can balance work with home life.
Staff have reported having to make much longer journeys to work or walk with their arms full of books and resources to get around the barriers.
The physical barriers – part of a Low Traffic Neighbourhood in the area – have now been removed but they are set to be replaced with ANPR cameras, meaning those without permission will get fined for driving through them.
Previously it was thought only residents that live within the zone would be exempt from this.
But bosses at Cypress Primary School and Harris Academy Crystal Palace said they were seriously concerned about the impact on their staff.
Crystal Palace road blocks to be removed but they could be replaced with ANPR cameras
The London council that's considering a U-turn on a U-turn over road blocks
In a letter Lynne Sampson, head of The Pegasus Academy Trust which runs Cypress Primary, said that staff were thinking of leaving their jobs due to increased journey times getting to school and travelling between schools in the trust – Pegasus also has three schools in Thornton Heath.
Ms Sampson wrote: "From a personal point of view my journey to Cypress Primary from Beckenham used to take seven to ten minutes. It now takes 25 to 40 minutes.
"If I travel instead from Auckland Road the installation of the bus gate means I cannot access Cypress Road. Sometimes I park and walk to the school but I have so much to carry I have to make several journeys thus making my start to the working day very laborious."
While these were her experiences while the physical barriers were in place she said that ANPR cameras would also impact schools and the mental wellbeing of staff.
South Fulham traffic causes division but council data suggests scheme could be working
In a letter written last month, Michael Williams, head at Harris Crystal Palace said that longer journey times to school left some teachers "feeling like they are unable to balance teaching as a profession with their home lives".
He said he is concerned that some of the 120 staff at the school would not want to have to apply for an exemption to pass through the LTN "to work and educate our nation's next generation".
The pleas from the head teachers seem to have had the desired effect.
Croydon Council's Traffic Management Advisory Committee met last night (Monday, February 15) and voted in favour of increasing the categories of vehicles which will be able to drive through the ANPR cameras.
This already included residents in the zone, taxis, buses and Dial-a-Ride vehicles.
It will now be extended to include staff from Cypress Primary School and Harris Academy Crystal Palace, carers visiting residents in the LTN area and Blue Badge holders.
The cameras will be installed first for 12 months, when the LTN will be reviewed.
Get in touch with our reporter with your stories for this area at tara.o'connor@reachplc.com.


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Justia Dockets & Filings Eleventh Circuit Florida Middle District Crayton v. Secretary, Department of Corrections et al (Pinellas County) Filing 3
Crayton v. Secretary, Department of Corrections et al (Pinellas County)
ORDER dismissing without prejudice as successive and unauthorized 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus and directing Clerk to forward appropriate form, terminate all pending motions, and close this case. Signed by Judge William F. Jung on 1/7/2022. (CCB)
Case 8:21-cv-02912-WFJ-AEP Document 3 Filed 01/07/22 Page 1 of 2 PageID 28 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA TAMPA DIVISION FREDDIE CRAYTON, Petitioner, -vs- Case No. 8:21-cv-2912-WFJ-AEP SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent. ________________________________/ ORDER Mr. Crayton, a former Florida prisoner, filed a petition for the writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 ("petition") (Doc. 1). To the extent he challenges his 2003 convictions, the Court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate the petition because Mr. Crayton previously sought and was denied federal habeas relief in this Court regarding those convictions (see Crayton v. Secretary, Dept. of Corrections, Case No. 8:14-cv-2234-CEH-MAP (M.D.Fla.)), and he has not shown that he has received authorization from the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to file a successive habeas petition. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A); Gilreath v. State Bd. of Pardons & Paroles, 273 F.3d 932, 933 (11th Cir. 2001). And to the extent he attempts to appeal a decision from the Florida Second District Court of Appeal affirming the denial of his 2021 motion for an evidentiary hearing by the state circuit court, federal courts do not act as appellate courts over state courts. District of Columbia 1 Case 8:21-cv-02912-WFJ-AEP Document 3 Filed 01/07/22 Page 2 of 2 PageID 29 Court of Appeals v. Feldman, 460 U.S. 462, 482–86 (1983); Rooker v. Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413 (1923); Staley v. Ledbetter, 837 F.2d 1016, 1017 (11th Cir.1988) ("The federal courts are not a forum for appealing state court decisions."). Accordingly: 1. The petition for the writ of habeas corpus (Doc. 1) is DISMISSED without prejudice as an unauthorized second or successive petition. 2. The Clerk must send to Mr. Crayton the Eleventh Circuit's form for second or successive habeas corpus petitions under 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b), terminate all pending motions, and close this case. ORDERED in Tampa, Florida, on January 7, 2022. Copy to: Freddie Crayton, pro se 2

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) defends against Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry during the first half of Game 3 of basketball's NBA Finals, Wednesday, June 5, 2019, in Oakland, Calif. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
The Latest: Raptors leading 60-52 at halftime of Game 3
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Latest from Wednesday's Game 3 of the NBA Finals (all times local): 7:20 p.m. Kyle Lowry has 15 points, Pascal Siakam has 14 and the Toronto Raptors lead the Golden State Warriors 60-52 at halftime of Game 3 of the NBA Finals. All five Raptors starters have at least eight...
Former assistant basketball coach for the University of Southern California Tony Bland leaves federal court in New York, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Bland was the first of four ex-coaches charged with crimes to plead guilty to bribery conspiracy. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and two years of probation. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Emotional ex-USC basketball coach avoids prison after plea
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge says a former assistant basketball coach for the University of Southern California won't be going to prison for accepting a bribe to steer young athletes to a manager. Tony Bland dropped his head in relief Wednesday when he was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and...
FILE - In this Wednesday, April 10, 2019, file photo, Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade (3) acknowledges cheers from the crowd before the start of the final NBA basketball game of his career, against the Brooklyn Nets in New York. William Morrow announced Wednesday, June 5, 2019, that Wade, who retired at the end of the 2018-2019 season, has a memoir coming out called "3 Dimensional," scheduled for release in October. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)
Dwyane Wade memoir to be published this fall
NEW YORK (AP) — Basketball great Dwyane Wade, who retired at the end of the 2018-2019 regular season, has a memoir coming out this fall. William Morrow announced Wednesday that the book is called "3 Dimensional" and is scheduled for Oct. 22. It will focus on the "essential principles" of Wade's...
Minnesota Vikings chief operating officer Kevin Warren talks to reporters after being named Big Ten Conference Commissioner during a news conference Tuesday, June 4, 2019, in Rosemont, Ill. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Big Ten taps Vikings' Kevin Warren as new commissioner
ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Kevin Warren keeps a picture in his office of Curt Flood. There's another of Jackie Robinson, one of Texas Western's barrier-bulldozing 1966 NCAA championship basketball team and Dr. Martin Luther King's letter from "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Warren understood the...
East Carolina's Turner Brown (8) is carried by Jake Kuchmaner (29) as he celebrates after scoring in the fifth inning against Campbell in an NCAA college baseball tournament regional game in Greenville, N.C., Monday, June 3, 2019. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)
Michigan heating up at right time, moves to super regionals
After barely making the NCAA Tournament, Michigan is now a regional champion and on its way to the next round. The Wolverines beat Creighton 17-6 in Corvallis, Oregon, on Monday night, rebounding from 24 hours earlier when they gave up seven runs in the ninth inning and lost 11-7 to the Bluejays,...
Klay Thompson, de los Warriors de Golden State, conduce el balón frente a Danny Green, de los Raptors de Toronto, en el segundo partido de la Final de la NBA, el domingo 2 de junio de 2019 (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
Thompson questionable for Game 3, Looney out indefinitely
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Golden State guard Klay Thompson has a mild strain in his left hamstring that forced him out of Game 2 in the NBA Finals and he is listed as questionable for Game 3 against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday night. In addition, backup big man Kevon Looney suffered a non-...
Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard (2) stretches to keep the ball from Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut (12) as he drives to the net during the second half of Game 2 of basketball's NBA Finals, Sunday, June 2, 2019, in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
Warriors beat Raptors 109-104 to even NBA Finals
TORONTO (AP) — The Golden State Warriors relied on a champion's heart to overcome their weary bodies. Klay Thompson scored 25 points before leaving with a hamstring injury, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Warriors ran off the first 18 points of the second half on the way to a 109-104 victory over the...
Toronto Raptors guard Danny Green (14) pressures Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson (11) as he drives down court during the first half of Game 2 of basketball's NBA Finals, Sunday, June 2, 2019, in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
The Latest: Klay Thompson limps to locker room
TORONTO (AP) — The Latest from Sunday's Game 2 of the NBA Finals (all times local): 10:15 p.m. Klay Thompson has limped to the Golden State locker room. The Warriors guard got hurt early in the fourth quarter and tried to get teammates to take a foul at the Toronto end in order to stop the game so...
Golden State Warriors Kevin Durant watches during basketball practice at the NBA Finals in Toronto, Saturday, June 1, 2019. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)
Kerr: It's 'feasible' that Durant may play after 1 practice
TORONTO (AP) — Tuesday is the next telltale day in Golden State star Kevin Durant's recovery process from a calf injury. The Warriors are scheduled to arrive home from Toronto early Monday and will get the rest of the day off. Practice resumes Tuesday, and what happens then will determine if Durant...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver holds a news conference before Game 1 of basketball's NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
Adam Silver reveals advice he's given to Zion Williamson
TORONTO (AP) — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says he has already offered presumed No. 1 overall draft pick Zion Williamson advice on enjoying the process of entering the league. Silver, who appears on the latest episode of PodcastOne Sports Now with AP Basketball Writer Tim Reynolds, also says he...


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Bharat Acquires GSK's Chiron Behring Vaccines
BioPharm International Editors
India's Bharat Biotech is set to acquire GlaxoSmithKline's Chiron Behring Vaccines, a World Health Organization-prequalified global manufacturer of rabies vaccines.
Bharat Biotech, a biotechnology company focused on developing and manufacturing vaccines and therapeutics, announced a deal to acquire Chiron Behring Vaccines from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Asia on Feb. 15, 2019.
Bharat will acquire 100% equity stake in Chiron Behring in an all cash transaction subject to a number of closing conditions, which Bharat and GSK intend to complete in the coming weeks following this announcement. Specific financial details were not disclosed.
Chiron Behring is a World Health Organization-prequalified manufacturer of rabies vaccines eligible for supplies to United Nations agencies and has product registrations in more than 20 countries. Located in Ankleshwar, Gujarat, India, Chiron Behring is the result of the 1998 purchase of German life-sciences company Hoechst's vaccines business by Chiron Corporation USA, which was later acquired by Novartis and then sold to GSK in 2015.
Bharat reports that the addition of this rabies vaccine will establish Bharat Biotech as a global leader in rabies vaccines manufacturing. The company plans to enhance manufacturing capabilities at Chiron Behring Vaccines and expand market access through product registrations in additional high-demand countries.
"This acquisition is strategic in helping us enhance our opportunities to achieve greater scale in tackling public health problems," said Dr. Krishna Ella, chairman and managing director of Bharat Biotech, in a company press release. "Bharat Biotech will strengthen its product portfolio and substantially increase product availability in response to the growing demand for this vaccine."
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Economist Martin Armstrong is predicting that rising resentment against the status quo as a result of economic inequality is likely to cause a serious political uprising before 2016.
"It looks more and more like a serious political uprising will erupt by 2016 once the economy turns down. That is the magic ingredient. Turn the economy down and you get civil unrest and revolution," writes Armstrong.
Riots which rocked Ferguson, Missouri earlier this year and threaten to reignite should Officer Darren Wilson be acquitted illustrate how single events can spark sustained social unrest.
However, more widespread dislocation is only likely to occur in the aftermath of an economic collapse which impacts a huge number of Americans. As we have seen in numerous countries across Europe, including in Belgium just today, crippling austerity measures combined with anemic economic growth have set the stage for violent unrest.
In a February 2013 article entitled Why the Banking Elite Want Riots in America, we outlined why the political class is perfectly content to engineer and exploit social unrest as a means of paving the way for the IMF to engage in its tried and tested method of asset stripping and looting a nation.
With polls showing some 74% of Americans are already angry or dissatisfied with the government, further economic hardship could prove to be the straw that breaks the camel's back.


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To most TR traditionalists this is where the TR tale ended, the final flourishing of the theme before the TR7 betrayed an outstanding tradition. In the mid-Sixties, the TR line was on a roll and the TR6 continued the upward momentum, outselling all earlier models. It was a natural progression from the original TR2; the body evolved from the TR4/5, the power unit from the TR5.
Crisply styled, with chisel-chin good looks and carrying over the 2.5-liter six-cylinder engine of the TR5, the TR6 in early fuel-injected form heaved you along with 152 galloping horses. This was as hairy chested as the TR got, and a handful too, with some critics carping that, like the big Healeys, its power outstripped its poise. But that just made it more fun to drive.
KARMANN STYLING
There is an obvious difference between the TR4/5 and the later TR6, restyled by Karmann; sharper, cleaner lines not only looked more modern, but also gave more luggage space. The chopped off tail was an aerodynamic aid.
FAT WHEELS
Wider wheels were a TR6 feature, as was the antiroll bar at the front.
TOP OPTION
One-piece hardtop was available as an option, and more practical than the two-piece job seen on earlier models.
STATESIDE SALES
Some 78,000 TR6s went to the US even though emission regulations emasculated it.
SMOOTH TR6
Virtually all bulges, like the TR5's hood "power bulge" and cowled headlights, have been ironed out.
POWER DROP
Revised injection metering and reprofiled camshaft reduced power from 1973; US carburetor versions were more sluggish and thirstier.
ROOMY COCKPIT
The cockpit was more spacious than earlier TRs, providing excellent driving position from comfortable seats. Big, wide-opening doors gave easy access to the TR6, a long cry from the tiny doors of the TR2 and 3.
The TR6's good looks, and a long production run, made this model the biggest selling of all TR models. British sales stopped in February 1975, but continued in the US until July 1976. The US model may have been slower than the UK model by 12 mph (19 km/h), but 10 times as many TR6s were exported as remained in Britain.
The first engines, as on this 1972 car, produced 152 bhp, but public pressure for something more well mannered resulted in a 125 bhp version in 1973. Americans had to make do with just over 100 bhp and no fuel injection.
Steering wheel size was reduced at the time of other mid-model changes in 1973.
The interior is still traditional but more refined than earlier TRs. Yet with its big dials, wooden dash, and short-throw gear knob, its character is still truly sporty.
LONG-TAILED
The TR6's squared-off tail was longer than earlier TRs. Even so, there was only space in the trunk for a set of golf clubs and an overnight bag.
Deep-throated burble is still a TR6 come-on.
The TR6 was launched just after the 1968 merger of Leyland and BMC, which produced Triumph motors. Hence the badge on the side of the TR6's bodywork.
S P E C I F I C A T I O N S
MODEL Triumph TR6 (1969–76)
PRODUCTION 94,619
BODY STYLE Two-seat convertible.
CONSTRUCTION Ladder-type chassis with integral steel body.
ENGINE Inline six-cylinder, 2498cc, fuelinjection (carburetors in US).
POWER OUTPUT 152 bhp at 5500 rpm (1969–1973), 125 bhp at 5250 rpm (1973–1975), 104 bhp at 4500 rpm (US).
TRANSMISSION Manual four-speed with optional overdrive on third and top.
SUSPENSION Independent by coil springs all around; wishbones at front, swing-axles & semi-trailing arms at rear.
BRAKES Front: discs; Rear: drums.
MAXIMUM SPEED 119 mph (191 km/h, 150 bhp), 107 mph (172 km/h, US)
0–60 MPH (0–96 KM/H) 8.2 sec (150 bhp); 9.0 sec (125 bhp); 10.6 sec (104 bhp)
0–100 MPH (0–161 KM/H) 29 sec
A.F.C. 25 mpg (8.8 km/l)
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Q: How to get scale, rotation & translation after feature tracking? I have implemented a Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi feature tracker. I have used it on two images, that show the same scene, but the camera has moved a bit between taking the pictures.
As a result I get the coordinates of the features. For example:
1. Picture:
| feature | (x,y)=val       |
|---------|-----------------|
| 1       | (436,349)=33971 |
| 2       | (440,365)=29648 |
| 3       | ( 36,290)=29562 |

2nd Picture:
| feature | (x,y)=val    |
|---------|--------------|
| 1 | (443.3,356.0)=0    |
| 2 | (447.6,373.0)=0    |
| 3 | ( -1.0, -1.0)=-4   |

So I know the position of the features 1 & 2 in both images and that feature 3 couldn't be found in the second image. The coordinates of the features 1 & 2 aren't the same, because the camera has zoomed in a bit and also moved.
Which algorithm is suitable to get the scale, rotation and translation between the two images? Is there a robust algorithm, that also considers outliers?

A: If you dont know what movement happened between the images, then you need to calculate the Homography between them. The homography however, needs 4 points to be calculated.
If you have 4 points in both images, that are relatively on a plane (same flat surface, e.g. a window), then you can follow the steps from here in math.stackexchange to compute the homography matrix that will transform between images.
Note that while rotation and translation may happen between 2 images, they also could have been taken from different angles. If this happens, then the homography is your only option. Instead, if the images are for sure just rotation and translation (e.g. 2 satelite images) then you may find some other method, but homography will also help.

A: *

*Depending upon whether the camera is calibrated or uncalibrated, tracked features to compute essential or fundamental matrix respectively.

*Factorize the matrix into R, T. Use Multiview geometry book for any help with the formulae. https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/hzbook/hzbook1/HZepipolar.pdf
Caution: These steps only work well if the features come from different depth planes and cover wide field of view. In case all features lie on a single plane, you should estimate homography and try to factorize that instead.

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It's not dated so I am not absolutely certain when AIRO posted this to their site. It's a graph of the changes in two sections of the Irish property market since 2005, Dublin, and National ex-Dublin.
It's very interesting for a couple of reasons. It demonstrates that both the increase and decrease in market prices in Dublin was sharper than it was in National ex-Dublin. This doesn't totally surprise me – anecdotally there has always been some evidence to suggest the prices are were behaving at more extreme levels in Dublin. It's interesting to see how the graphlines cross (do click through – it's worth it).
The data is from the CSO and as far as I am aware, CSO data is limited to the mortgage market. This is interesting because there is some evidence to suggest that a lot of the market in Dublin, in particular, in recent months, has been cash driving. Without having the CSO data in detail, and a cleaned up extract from the Property Price register, it would be hard to say for certain what the split was.
The other chief regret I have about this data is that it only goes back as far as 2005. I'm mindful of sounding like an auld one but there is some evidence to suggest that the period from about 1997 might be educational as well. I guess a lot depends on what data you have available to you.
Anyway, this was done in Tableau and there is some scope for playing around in it. I am glad AIRO did it – it's a useful exercise, and perhaps, there might be some scope for doing a county by county comparison. We have a lot more data now on the property market than we did even 3 years ago (yes, I have some programming under way for it myself) so information should be easier to come by, particularly if and as we get postcodes, the data will be cleaner up front.


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A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Inpatient, Dose-Ranging Efficacy Study of Staccato Alprazolam (STAP-001) in Subjects with Epilepsy with a Predictable Seizure Pattern. ENGAGE study.
O'Brien, T., Kwan, P. & Mullen, S. A.
Elucidating the pathophysiological signature of visual snow
Fielding, J. & White, O.
ADVANCE: Addressing Dementia Via Agitation-Centered Evaluation
Gleason, A., O'Brien, T., Woodward, M. & Clarnette, R.
Development of small molecules for neuroprotection and repair during progressive multiple sclerosis
Petratos, S. & Young, K.
Ocular Motor Laboratory Support
Merck Serono Australia Pty Ltd
Develoment of small molecules for neuroprotection and repair during progressive MS
Calvary Health Care Bethlehem
The role of microglia and P2X7 Receptor in human gliomas – a translational study
Monif, M., Drummond, K., O'Brien, T., Williams, D. & Kan, K.
Brain Foundation
NHMRC Equipment Grant - Quanterix SIMOA HD-1 Analyser
Shultz, S., Kwan, P., Medcalf, R., O'Brien, T., Mitra, B., Coughlan, M., Jones, N., Van Der Walt, A., Butzkueven, H., Semple, B. & Hutton, E.
Monash University – Internal Department Contribution, Monash University – Internal Faculty Contribution, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Australia Ltd
INVESTIGATING THE GENETIC CONTRIBUTION TO THE FOCAL EPILEPSIES
Perucca, P.
Sylvia & Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation
The Development and Management of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy.
Laing, J., O'Brien, T., Kwan, P. & Perucca, P.
Biomarkers of Brain Concussion
Shultz, S., O'Brien, T., Kosofsky, B., Germaine, J., Smith, R., Fielding, J., Clough, M. & Wright, D.
VISIONARY-MS: A Phase 2, Randomized, Double-Blind, Parallel Group, Placebo Controlled Study for the Treatment of Visual Pathway Deficits in Chronic Optic Neuropathy to Assess the Efficacy, Safety, Tolerability, and Pharmacokinetics of CNM-Au8 For Remyelination In Stable Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS).
Van Der Walt, A.
Automated seizure detection for patients with epilepsy
Kwan, P.
PhD Project: Altered Vitamin D responsiveness in Multiple Sclerosis Immune Cells.
Butzkueven, H., Van Der Walt, A., Stankovich, J., Jokubaitis, V. & Monif, M.
Roche Products Pty Ltd
Jorge and Anne Thaler donation to support the area of ocular processing research at Monash University.
White, O. & Fielding, J.
Jorge and Anne Thaler, 14 Hawksburn rd, South Yarra, VIC 3141
Mark Pennycook Foundation Research Donation
Butzkueven, H.
Predicting progression risk in Multiple Sclerosis – a genotype-phenotype correlation study
Jokubaitis, V.
Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia
Use of software for the analysis and study of neurological and psychiatric conditions in the pre-clinical setting
O'Brien, T. & Casillas-Espinosa, P.
Characterizing the effects of vitamin D supplementation on immune gene expression in patients with a clinically isolated syndrome.
Butzkueven, H., Taylor, B. V. M. & Lucas, R. M.
Genomics of antiepileptic drug-induced Stevens Johnson syndrome
Kwan, P., Petrovski, S. & Sham, P.
Improving Multiple Sclerosis treatment outcomes
Treatment Gap in People with Newly Diagnosed Epilepsy in Australia.
Kwan, P., Chen, B., Lawn, N. D., Dunne, J. W. & Lee, J.
Investigating treatments and biomarkers of brain concussion
Shultz, S.
Psychiatric disorders in epilepsy
Jones, N.
Movement Disorder Fellowship 2017
Williams, D.
Ipsen Movement Disorder Fellowship
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the diagnosis of Atypical Parkinsonism
Bertram, K. & Williams, D.
Parkinson's Victoria
Ataxia Research Program
Storey, E.
Spinocerebellar Ataxia Australia
Recommendations for Commencing Non Oral Therapies in Parkinsons Disease
AbbVie Pty Ltd
ASPREE (Asprin in Reducing Events in the Elderly) CENTRAL HEARING: Hearing and Health in a large cohort of elderly adults
Storey, E. & Rance, G.
Deafness Foundation
Movement Disorders and Headache Fellowship Research Grant
Allergan Australia Pty Ltd
Immediate Cooling and Emergency Decompression (ICED) for the treatment of spinal cord injury: pilot, safety and feasibility studies
Batchelor, P., Rosenfeld, J., Freeman, B. J. C., Dunlop, S., Bernard, S., Nunn, A., Middleton, J. M., Atresh, S. & Geraghty, T. J.
Transport Accident Commission (TAC)
A study of Statins for reducing events in the elderly
Zoungas, S., Abhayaratna, W., Beilin, L. J., McNeil, J., Nelson, M., Storey, E., Tonkin, A., Ward, S. A. & Wolfe, R.
Mechanisms of ataxia in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 transgenic mice
Uncovering mechanisms of drug-induced side effects in Parkinson's disease
Williams, D. & Cheshire, P.
Perpetual Trustees Australia
The SNORE-ASA study: A study of neurocognitive outcomes, radiological and retinal efects of Aspirin in sleep apnoea
Storey, E., Hamilton, G., Kawasaki, R., Naughton, M., Ward, S., Woods, R. & Janke, A.
Mouse DigiGait Image Analysis System
Medcalf, R., Morganti-Kossmann, C., Rosenfeld, J. & Storey, E.
Dysfunction of the Serotonin System and Dyskinesias in Parkinson's Disease
Williams, D. W.
CASS Foundation
Finding the optimum target and predictors of outcome in deep brain stimulation of older patients with parkinsons disease
Williams, D., Bittar, R., Cook, M., Kinsella, G., Rowe, C. & Silburn, P.
Can various cerebellomdulatory agents alleviate ataxia in mouse models of Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) type-1, and type-3, and Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA).
Tarlac, V. & Storey, E.
Establishing BDNF Genotype as a Risk Factor for Dyskinesias in Parkinson's Disease
Movement Disorder Society of Australia 2009 Conference
Novartis Pharmaceuticals NSW
Mapping the distribution of pathological tau in Alzheimer's disease and progressive supranuclear palsy.
ANZ Trustees
Is dysfunction of the serotonin system responsible for L-DOPA induced dyskinesias in Parkinson's disease?
Equity Trustees - Harold and Cora Brennen Benevolent Trust
ASPrin in Reducing Events in the Elderly (ASPREE)
Grimm, H., McNeil, J., Nelson, M., Nelson, M., Storey, E., Tonkin, A., Wolfe, R., Woods, R., Benavente, O., Murray, A., Newman, A., Shah, R. & Williamson, J.
National Institutes of Health (NIH US)
Movement Disorder Research
Ipsen Pty Ltd, Glen Waverley
Mapping progressive neurodegeneration in PSP using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and CSF-Tau
Williams, D., Berardelli, A., de Silva, R. & Ottaviani, D.
CurePSP - Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Differentiating progressive supranuclear palsy from Alzheimer's disease using CSF-Tau analysis
Williams, D. & Storey, E.
Pfizer Australia Pty Limited
Aspirin for the prevention of cognitive decline in the Elderly: a NeuroVascular Imaging Study (ENVIS-ion) from APSREE
Reid, C., Ames, D., Budge, M., Storey, E., Tonkin, A. & Wong, T.


An application is using Messaging to transfer different types of data, such as different types of documents.
How can the application send a data item such that the receiver will know how to process it?
Use a separate Datatype Channel for each data type, so that all data on a particular channel is of the same type.
By using a separate Datatype Channel for each type of data, all of the messages on a given channel will contain the same type of data. The sender, knowing what type the data is, will need to select the appropriate channel to send it on. The receiver, knowing what channel the data was received on, will know what its type is.


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Injury forces Sharapova to withdraw from Qatar tennis open
Lesley Walker
World No. 6 tennis star Maria Sharapova has pulled out from playing in the Qatar Total Open later this month due to a recurrent arm injury, organizers said.
Announcing her withdrawal yesterday, the 28-year-old said in a statement: "Unfortunately, I will not be able to play the Qatar Total Open because of my left forearm injury. I would like to wish the tournament and all the great fans in Doha a great week of tennis and I hope to see them next year."
The tournament runs from Feb. 21 to 27 at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
Analysts: Threat of Gulf troops in Syria risks escalating Qatar's role
Peter Kovessy
'No plans' to lower Qatar Airways fares as oil prices fall


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Bordeaux reports limited frost damage to vines
| 02 April, 2020
Vineyards across France have been hit by snow and frost this week, although many winemakers are reporting "very limited damage" to the vines to date.
The Bordeaux wine group – Conseil Interprofessionel du vin de Bordeaux (CIVB) - said that during the night of March 26 frost severely affected several major French wine regions.
It said: "Despite negative temperatures in places, and apart from a few affected plots, the Bordeaux vineyard region was fortunate to be spared the frost."
This date was followed by two days of sunshine, with temperatures above 17 degrees Celsius, which is seven degrees above average for this time of year.
This was followed, on Monday March 30, by a morning of snow, followed by two nights of very low temperatures.
The CIVB said: "Damage has been noted, but it remains limited in the Bordeaux vineyards."
It noted also that bud burst is already well advanced in Bordeaux by about 15 days ahead, and it said, "the vine remains very vulnerable to frost at this stage in the growth cycle".
When the cold snaps were forecast, the French administration (through the Gironde prefecture) authorised burning under certain conditions. Growers deployed equipment on the ground to reduce or eradicate frost damage by heating the ambient air .
Vineyards in the Rhone Valley and in Provence are reported to have suffered more vine damage, as temperatures dropped to -4C earlier this week.
Bordeaux hits London with white wine pop-up
London Wine Fair confirms hybrid event for 2022
WSET names Michelle Brampton CEO as Ian Harris prepares to step down
"Strong demand" for own-label beer, wine and spirits drives Aldi Christmas sales


If this cat belongs to anyone, let me know! If no one claims her I'm giving her away. Plz share!
The City of Minonk is accepting applications for part-time employment as a Clerical Assistant. The City of Minonk is an EOE/AA employer. Full description and application process can be viewed at www.cityofminonk.com.
http://www.ilrwa.org/CCR/Minonk.pdf. To speak to someone about this report or request a copy, call (309) 432-2644.
I want to thank everyone for the cards, kindness, and well wishes for my retirement. I want to thank the employees of the Minonk Community Bank for my retirement party. Thanks again.
The sales are advertised in the following papers: The Woodford County Journal, and the Woodford Star; Streator Times Press; Toluca Star Herald; El Paso Journal. Each and every ad has a date/time of the sale and that the sales are posted on this website for everyone to see.
Alvina Ford will be 100!!
Alvina Ford was a long time resident of Minonk before relocating to Wisconsin several years ago. She is still interested in Minonk people and happenings. Her highlight of the day is getting her mail.
Public Notice: The Public Works Department will be doing nuisance trapping at the walking trail starting April 1, 2018 until further notice. For your pet's safety, please keep them on a leash or do not take them to the walking trail until the traps have been removed. Signs will be posted at the entrance as a reminder for people wanting to walk at the walking trail.
I have a 10 month old beagle I will give to someone who is looking for a dog. I will include his kennel. If interested, call me at 309-232-3514.
Duane Block Sheila Borton-Yaeck: Dog has been rehomed.
The annual Dana Alumni Banquet will be held Saturday May 26 at Capponi's in Toluca. Social hour 5:30, dinner 6:30. $17 per person. All are welcome.
Is anyone missing a small cat with a blue harness? Its been hiding underneath my porch. It's not the person that has already posted something on this site. This is a small cat.
The Public Works Department will be FLUSHING FIRE HYDRANTS the week of April 30, 2018. The water may be temporarily discolored, but will be safe for consumption. However, discoloration of clothing during laundry may occur. If your water looks discolored, let it run for a few minutes.
There's 1 spot available for 4 pm Sat. April 21st if you'd like to get a 5 person team together to bowl in our Annual 9 Pin Bowling Tourney for St. Jude! Please message Sonja Frei asap to hold the spot. Even if you're not bowling, please come on up to Minonk Lanes tonight or tomorrow from 4 pm til around 9:30 pm to purchase chances for raffles and the 50/50! It all goes to a wonderful cause! Thanks for your support!
I was just out for a walk on the nature trail, they are not doing any trapping to relocate anything. The city is trapping to kill. Plus I didn't notice any trap to get rid of the true nuisance, the geese. My question is they are trapping regulated fur bearer animals out of season. Did they get their special permit from DNR, just because it's a city trapping doesn't mean they can break the law.
I enjoyed reading your write up this morning, but I think one thing needs to be added. According to statistics from the Peoria Journal Star in regards to Midland school, we can build two small schools on our current properties less expensive and saving our current gyms. There would also be savings to the tax payer than one large school. This is a VERY IMPORTANT thing that needs to be in the article. The headline is a little misleading.
Editor reply: There was no intention to imply that it will cost more to build two buildings as compared to one. Thank you for the information.
Chad Fallon Edmund Johnson: I heard they are trapping Beaver up there. They are using live traps and relocating them. I've also heard there are a lot of skunks in that town also. If I ever went walking out there I would be worried that they would have a skunk in a beaver in the same trap.


The Curlew is in real danger of becoming a thing of the past as it has just become one of the newest additions to the British Red List of Birds of Conservation Concern, and deemed to be of the highest conservation priority.
The Curlew is one of our most rapidly declining breeding bird species, showing a 46% decline across the UK from 1994-2010 with this figure exceeding 50% in Wales and Scotland. The UK holds almost a third of the European population and in response to these declines, and those seen elsewhere in Europe, the species has recently also been listed as globally near-threatened by the IUCN Red List, one of the few British species to gain this unfortunate accolade. The wintering population in the UK originates largely from Scandinavia, but also includes a significant proportion of UK-breeding birds, and has declined by 20% in the last 15 years.
Our estuaries support internationally important communities of wading birds due to the mild climate and key position on the East Atlantic flyway. However, our estuarine ecosystems are under ever increasing pressure from human activities, such as development and agricultural intensification – we need to understand more about the threats faced by Curlew wintering on our estuaries.
There is an extremely urgent need to identify the causes of these Curlew declines so that we can help guide potential conservation interventions. The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is a charity at the forefront of providing impartial scientific evidence to conserve the nation's birds and has launched a fundraising appeal to fund the world class research that will inform how we can reverse the fate of this iconic bird – before it's too late.


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Head-to-head: EBow vs Aeon guitar sustainers
By Electronic Musician (emusician) 01 April 2020
The original sustain tool has new competition
(Image credit: ebow)
Guitarists have been envying the sustain capabilities of other instruments probably since the first picker heard the extended notes of a pan-flute, violin, or church organ. With the advent of the electric guitar, the instrument's sustain was enhanced by loud amps, distortion, fuzz, and compressor pedals, but it was the arrival of the EBow that finally allowed guitarists to hold a note indefinitely.
The EBow is the original monophonic handheld electromagnetic string driver. It was invented by Greg Heet in 1969. Using a sensor coil, driver coil, and an amplifier, it employs electricity to vibrate one string at a time, producing a sound like bowing — hence the name. The current generation of Ebow allows you to switch to a second mode that produces a higher harmonic instead of the fundamental.
Soon after its introduction to the market, Steve Hackett of Genesis employed an Ebow on "Carpet Crawlers" from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Ever since, the EBow has since enhanced string sustain for everyone from Queen to Queens of the Stone Age.
Processed through distortion, modulation, delay and reverb, and/or overdubbed through loopers, this small object can create massive electronic soundscapes, and with more and more modern players seeking new sounds, the EBow has seen a surge of popularity. Such interest was bound to encourage other manufacturers to enter the market, and TC Electronic has joined the field with the Aeon.
The Aeon also uses transducers to excite the strings but then the design veers off in a different direction, addressing three weaknesses of the EBow.
(Image credit: aeon)
The Aeon's brushed aluminum enclosure is more durable than the EBow's plastic one, and its simple battery slot improves on the latter's battery hatch, which can often pop off and/or break after dropping. Second, the Aeon's recessed power button is unlikely to be turned on or off accidentally, unlike the flimsy toggle of the EBow that can inadvertently be engaged in transport, draining the battery before the gig. And third, in the rare case that you should accidentally push the Aeon's button or forget to turn it off, the device automatically shuts down after it is unused for eight minutes.
The Aeon's shape ensures a firmer grip, like holding a pencil. At first I feared its elongated profile would make it too unstable for tabletop guitarists who like to place an EBow on one of the strings. But the deep grooves of the Aeon kept it firmly in place. Its thinner profile and cheaper price should appeal to those who wish to use multiple sustainers side by side when they lay the instrument flat.
How does the sound compare? The EBow definitely puts out a stronger field, which makes it easier to get the vibrating started and seems to make the tone fatter and darker as well. I found the Aeon's thinner sound improved with distortion and processing, though you may find it merely a matter of Les Paul versus Stratocaster.
Once the Aeon gets going it works well but starting up requires some pressure, whether from your hand pushing it down on the string, or its own weight when the guitar is lying flat. This, combined with its slightly deeper grooves, rules out the sweeping arpeggios possible with an EBow. Still, the variation in volume that comes with pressure allows an expressive up and down tremolo, as opposed to the EBow's less sensitive sliding along the string variety.
Despite its flaws, the EBow's rich, powerful sound makes it an essential tool in any electronic guitarist's sonic palette. For those wanting to enter this world at a lower price point, or to add a second sustainer with a different tonal color, the Aeon is an attractive option.
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Hand painted roses with gold decoration on a cobalt green background. The fact that it is unmarked could be the vase was made prior to 1896 (when items coming into the country had to be marked).
The item "ANTIQUES NIPPON HAND PAINTED ROSES COBALT GREEN EWER PITCHER VASE" is in sale since Monday, September 24, 2018. This item is in the category "Pottery & Glass\Pottery & China\China & Dinnerware\Nippon".


I updated from Photoshop CC to CC 2014. When working with ultra large format scans (more than 3 Gigapixel) the Spot Healing Brush set on Content-Aware takes unusually long (5-7 seconds for retouching small dust spots). In Photoshop CC the same Content-Aware Spot Healing Brush actions were executed instantly without any perceived delays once I've pointed a source for the Clone Stamp tool (which I found weird but doing so really made the Spot Healing Brush faster on large files). On smaller images it's still very fast on CC 2014 but not on the 3.5 GPixel images I'm working on at the moment.
I know there have been some changes/improvements for the Content-Aware tools but in this case it's seriously hitting the performance. I haven't noticed any other slow-downs in processing performance with the update.
I'm working on a dual-CPU (2 x 2.4 GHz 6-core) and 128 GB RAM Windows 8.1 machine. I've allowed Photoshop to use up to 120 GB RAM. My performance settings are the same for Photoshop CC and CC 2014.
Could you optimize the performance of the Content Aware function in CC 2014 to work as fast as it did in CC?
If not, could you allow the choice to use the older (less complex) Content Aware functions of Photoshop CC?


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cdb.php file is a cdb (container database) inspector tool.
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Pope Leo the Great (461) mentions these prayer periods, or Ember Days, as an ancient traditional celebration of. the Roman Church. He even claims that they are of apostolic origin (which may well be correct as far as the Jewish custom of seasonal prayer times is concerned). He preached a number of sermons on the occasion, stressing both the duty of imploring God's blessing and of thanking Him for the harvest by the tribute of a joyful fast before consuming the gifts of His bounty.6 In subsequent centuries, however, the Ember celebration lost a great deal of its joyous and festive character, and the motive .of penance was stressed more and more.
The Embertides have remained official times of ordination ever since.9 Candidates are still obliged to perform spiritual exercises in preparation;10 however, these are now made privately, and not in union with the whole congregation, as was the case in ancient days. On the other hand, the Ember weeks have been stressed in recent centuries as a time of special prayer on the part of the faithful for vocations to priesthood and for the sancti-fication of priests.
In the earliest liturgical books the Ember Days are simply called "the fast of the first, fourth, seventh and tenth month" (that is, March, June, September, December)—an interesting example of how the ancient practice of starting the year on March first, which had been officially abrogated by Julius Caesar, was still in vogue among the population of Rome centuries later.15 During the sixth century the term Quatuor Tem-pora (Four Times or Seasons) was introduced, and has remained ever since as the official ecclesiastical name for the Embertides.18 From the Latin word most European nations coined their popular terms: Quatretemps in French, Quatro Tempora in Italian, Las Temporas in-Spanish, Quatember in German, Kvatrni posti among the southern Slavs, Kdntor bojtok in Hungarian. The northern Slavs of the Latin Rite call the Embertides Suche dni ("Dry days") from the ancient custom of eating uncooked food during fasts. The English term Ember seems to derive from the Anglo-Saxon ymbren (season, period).
Common Features • In early medieval days it was customary in Rome to hold a penitential procession which proceeded from the place of gathering (collecta) to the Station church for the services on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays of Ember weeks. - The night from Saturday to Sunday was a major vigil. As at the Easter vigil, passages from the Bible were read in twelve long lessons, the last one always being the story of the three young men in the furnace (Daniel 3). Today there are only six lessons— considerably shortened—but closing, as of old, with the miracle of the furnace and the hymn of the three men (Daniel 3, 47-56) .1The call Flectamus Genua (Let us bend our Imees) has also been retained from the rite of major vigils in ancient times.
Besides some traces (in the lessons) of the original purpose, tie Mass formulas of Ember Days mostly express the thoughts of the liturgical seasons in which they fall: expectation of the Lord in Advent; penance and prayer in Lent; the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Masses of the Embertide in September seem to have preserved features of the original celebration, since the lessons and prayers reflect the joy of a harvest festival.
Religious Customs • Up to the late Middle Ages the Ember Days were generally kept as holydays of obligation, with attendance at Mass and rest from work, and as weeks of penance and fervent prayer. They were favored dates for the reception of Holy Communion, a custom still alive in many Catholic sections of Europe.
The practice of spiritual and temporal works of charity and mercy, which had always been stressed by the Church in connection with Embertide fasting, produced the custom of devoting the Ember Days to special prayer for the suffering souls in purgatory, and of having Masses said for them during the Em-bertides. This tradition, too, is still frequently found in European countries. Alms and food were given to the poor on Ember Days, and warm baths provided for them (a popular work of Christian charity in bygone centuries).
Since people in centuries past were more keenly aware of the connection between Embertides and prayer for God's blessing upon the functions and fruits of nature, they also included in their petitions, and in a special way, the successful and happy birth of their children. Thus the Ember Days became particular occasions of prayer by and for pregnant mothers. Children born during Embertides were considered as unusually blessed by God. Popular superstition ascribed to them "good luck" for their whole life, excellent health, and many favors of body and soul.


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package config

import (
	"encoding/base64"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

const (
	authHeader string = "Authorization"
)

type authV1JsonParser struct{}

type authV1 struct {
	Domains     []string        `json:"domains"`
	Type        string          `json:"type"`
	Credentials json.RawMessage `json:"credentials"`
}

type basicV1 struct {
	User     string `json:"user"`
	Password string `json:"password"`
}

type oauthV1 struct {
	Token string `json:"token"`
}

type dockerAuthV1JsonParser struct{}

type dockerAuthV1 struct {
	Registries  []string `json:"registries"`
	Credentials basicV1  `json:"credentials"`
}

func init() {
	addParser("auth", "v1", &authV1JsonParser{})
	addParser("dockerAuth", "v1", &dockerAuthV1JsonParser{})
	registerSubDir("auth.d", []string{"auth", "dockerAuth"})
}

type basicAuthHeaderer struct {
	auth basicV1
}

func (h *basicAuthHeaderer) Header() http.Header {
	headers := make(http.Header)
	creds := []byte(fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", h.auth.User, h.auth.Password))
	encodedCreds := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(creds)
	headers.Add(authHeader, "Basic "+encodedCreds)

	return headers
}

type oAuthBearerTokenHeaderer struct {
	auth oauthV1
}

func (h *oAuthBearerTokenHeaderer) Header() http.Header {
	headers := make(http.Header)
	headers.Add(authHeader, "Bearer "+h.auth.Token)

	return headers
}

func (p *authV1JsonParser) parse(config *Config, raw []byte) error {
	var auth authV1
	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &auth); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if len(auth.Domains) == 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("no domains specified")
	}
	if len(auth.Type) == 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("no auth type specified")
	}
	var (
		err      error
		headerer Headerer
	)
	switch auth.Type {
	case "basic":
		headerer, err = p.getBasicV1Headerer(auth.Credentials)
	case "oauth":
		headerer, err = p.getOAuthV1Headerer(auth.Credentials)
	default:
		err = fmt.Errorf("unknown auth type: %q", auth.Type)
	}
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	for _, domain := range auth.Domains {
		if _, ok := config.AuthPerHost[domain]; ok {
			return fmt.Errorf("auth for domain %q is already specified", domain)
		}
		config.AuthPerHost[domain] = headerer
	}
	return nil
}

func (p *authV1JsonParser) getBasicV1Headerer(raw json.RawMessage) (Headerer, error) {
	var basic basicV1
	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &basic); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if err := validateBasicV1(&basic); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return &basicAuthHeaderer{
		auth: basic,
	}, nil
}

func (p *authV1JsonParser) getOAuthV1Headerer(raw json.RawMessage) (Headerer, error) {
	var oauth oauthV1
	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &oauth); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	if len(oauth.Token) == 0 {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("no oauth bearer token specified")
	}
	return &oAuthBearerTokenHeaderer{
		auth: oauth,
	}, nil
}

func (p *dockerAuthV1JsonParser) parse(config *Config, raw []byte) error {
	var auth dockerAuthV1
	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &auth); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if len(auth.Registries) == 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("no registries specified")
	}
	if err := validateBasicV1(&auth.Credentials); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	basic := BasicCredentials{
		User:     auth.Credentials.User,
		Password: auth.Credentials.Password,
	}
	for _, registry := range auth.Registries {
		if _, ok := config.DockerCredentialsPerRegistry[registry]; ok {
			return fmt.Errorf("credentials for docker registry %q are already specified", registry)
		}
		config.DockerCredentialsPerRegistry[registry] = basic
	}
	return nil
}

func validateBasicV1(basic *basicV1) error {
	if basic == nil {
		return fmt.Errorf("no credentials")
	}
	if len(basic.User) == 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("user not specified")
	}
	if len(basic.Password) == 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("password not specified")
	}
	return nil
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Salmon in the trees by Amy Gulick, December 3, 2010
Salmon in the trees
by Amy Gulick, Fellow, International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)
Amy Gulick, Author & Photographer
Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska's Tongass RainforestPhotograph © Amy Gulick
Crouched on a rock near a churning waterfall, I'm entranced by thousands of salmon thronging in a pool. Fin to fin, tail to tail, they sway against the current as one giant mob. I forget that they are individual fish until one springs from the crowded stream, hurling itself against the foaming wall of water. Fish after fish, leap after leap, so much energy expended, so much energy delivered. The long green arms of Sitka spruce and hemlock trees spread across the stream as if to welcome the salmon back into their forested fold. Click, click, click goes my camera in a frenzied attempt to freeze an airborne fish in my frame. They're fast, much faster than my reflexes. I try again and again. Hours vaporize like the mist rising into the forest from the spray of the waterfall. But for the salmon every minute is precious because their time is coming to an end.
Salmon Spawning-chum/dog salmon Dog Salmon Creek Prince of Wales Island Tongass National Forest Alaska U.S.A.Photograph © Amy Gulick
They've stopped eating. They're in their final act – spawning – and they won't stop pushing upstream until they die. Their instinctive drive to pass on their genes is hammered home to me with every leaping fish. The harpy screams of ravens emanating from the forest jolt my soul. Bald eagles swoop from treetops to rock tops, eyeballing the feast before them. Bears march into the stream with purpose, causing me to stand at attention. They know I'm here, but they seem focused on the fish at hand or at paw.
Just a few days before, there wasn't a single salmon in this stream. In a few weeks, the only visible evidence of what took place here will be spawned-out carcasses littering the stream banks. The cleanup crews of birds, otters and mink will scour the remains. Heavy fall rains will wash the fish bones out to sea, and bears will curl up in their dens as snow dusts the mountaintops.
Bald Eagle and Salmon Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Alaska U.S.A.Photograph © Amy Gulick
With one eye pressed against the viewfinder and one eye open for bears, I attempt to focus on anything but instead just bask in the present. I've never felt more alive. I have a front row seat to one of the greatest shows on Earth, one that plays out every year all over the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska.
Spawned Salmon-Chum/Dog Fish Creek Douglas Island Tongass National Forest Alaska U.S.A.Photograph © Amy Gulick
The show will be over, but the annual payout is rich. Bald eagles, fueled by salmon, will soar greater distances to find food during the lean winter months. Female bears, padded with fat reserves, will give birth in their dens and nurse their tiny cubs with salmon-enriched milk. The forest, fertilized with super-charged soil from decayed fish, will sprout new growth come spring.
And the salmon? Those who survived their time in the ocean, dodged the hooks, nets, beaks and jaws of predators, and returned to their birth streams to spawn and die are still here. These salmon live on in frolicking spring cubs, plump blueberries, new growth rings in tree trunks and downy eaglets perched in their nests. And the next generation of salmon is swaddled in the streams and incubated by the forest. The fertilized eggs will soon hatch, ensuring that the cycle of life is a circle, always flowing, never broken. What goes around comes around.
The Tongass Circle of Life
The Tongass National Forest boasts nearly one-third of all that remains of the planet's rare old-growth temperate rain forests, making it a world as well as national treasure. Rarer still is that all of the pieces are here – ancient forests, wild salmon, grizzly bears, wolves, Steller sea lions, humpback whales and more.
Berg Bay Tongass National Forest Alaska U.S.A.Photograph © Amy Gulick
The circle is whole. And we are part of it too, not strangers on the outside looking in. The Tongass is a place where people live with salmon in their streets and bears in their backyards. One of the world's largest densities of brown bears is twenty minutes by floatplane from the Internet cafes and 30,000 residents of Juneau, the state capital of Alaska. Cruise ships carrying more than 2,000 passengers ply the same waters as mom-and-pop fishermen.
That the modern world has arrived and hasn't yet broken the circle of life in the 21st century Tongass is nothing short of astounding. But we're on our way to carving up this extraordinary forest, and it may just be a matter of time. We only have to look south to the once-magnificent salmon rain forests of Washington, Oregon and northern California to see how quickly we can decimate ancient trees, wild salmon and a rich way of life.
Devil's Thumb Frederick Sound Alaska U.S.A.Photograph © Amy Gulick
Salmon link the land to the sea and they can't survive if both aren't healthy. Neither can we. That scientists have discovered salmon in the trees in the Tongass rain forest tells us that everything is connected. And if we start tossing away the pieces, we eventually unravel the whole glorious show. Long ago, we knew how to live within nature's constraints. Deep down, I think we still do. We need the Tongass if for no other reason than to connect us to the world as we once knew ourselves. When the circle is whole, so are we.
We've been given a great gift and an even greater responsibility. The Tongass National Forest is public land entrusted to all of us. I think we can get it right in the Tongass simply because there's still time to do so, and we know it's the right thing to do. Let us learn from the lessons that salmon in the trees teach us and ensure that the greatest show on Earth goes on.
Muskeg and Forest Tongass National Forest Alaska U.S.A.Photograph © Amy Gulick
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The supervisory team uses data synthesis and modelling experiments to explore hypotheses regarding ocean biogeochemistry and the maintenance of biological activity.
For example, it is of interest to assess i) whether dominant control by one particular source of iron can be established, ii) to appraise the relative importance of iron recycling against physical inputs and iii) to quantify which aspects of the fine physical and topographic scales are important – such as topographic steering or also transport and stirring at fine scales? To achieve these aims, the student will need to conduct experiments and analyze output from a state of the art 3D high resolution ocean biogeochemical model and make use of the extensive field datasets that are available for this well studied region or examine remotely sensed sea surface temperature and chlorophyll datasets. There will be sufficient flexibility in the studentship for the precise aims and objectives to be modified via the particular interests of the successful candidate.
The successful candidate is expected to spend time visiting and working with collaborator Dr Marina Lévy in Paris. In Liverpool, the student will participate in the NERC funded Doctoral Training Programme (DTP), supported by the Universities of Manchester and Liverpool alongside the National Oceanography Centre. Finally, the candidate will also be required to attend national and international conferences/workshops.
This project would be ideal for a student interested in ocean biogeochemistry and the coupling of ocean physics and biology. Ideally, the candidate will have a background in a physical, chemical or biological science and have strong numeracy skills. No previous experience in laboratory, fieldwork or modelling is required, as training will be given in the first year of the PhD.


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Meh Car Monday: You Can Actually Still Buy a Lincoln MKT But You Won't Because Nobody Bothers
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Being a writer in this glorious modern age is fascinating. On one hand, it means every little mistake you make is immediately found and people all over the world get to call you a moron in real time. On the other, it means that your readers can get directly involved, which I love. That's why today's Meh Car comes from a reader named Preston who suggests not just any Meh Car, but his own Meh Car: a Lincoln MKT. Yeah, I forgot that was a thing, too.
Here's how Preston pitched the MKT:
I have an idea bout a Meh car, my car. My car is a Lincoln MKT. Don't know what it is? Well it's the Lincoln version of a Ford Flex. Wait you don't know what one of those are? I'm not surprised. It is basically the successor to the Freestyle. I am not writing this because I hate my car because I don't. In fact I really like my car but it seems I am one of the few considering it hasn't really been updated since 2013. Anyway, I figured Id write this to say, it's a great car in reality but it's a car that when people see it they go, "What the FUCK is that ugly thing!". I figure that it fits a Meh car since it does its job but people see it and forget it. Plus it is also a weird CUV wagon. I dare you to find a commercial for one. I certainly have not seen one. I bet they did but it has not been aired for at least 5 years. So that is my car for Meh Car Monday, literally my own car.
Preston makes a pretty good case, and it's very strongly backed up by the fact that my brain seems incapable of recalling the last time I saw one of these, or if I've even seen one at all, or if they even exist outside of Preston's fevered mind.
I checked and, holy crap, you can buy one of these new! I mean, you won't, because hardly anyone does—only 131 were sold in the whole United States last month, due to an ever-increasing trend of Nobody Gives A Shit About This Car that analysts have been tracking.
The MKT is built on the same platform as the Ford Explorer and the Ford Flex, which just makes the mehgnamity of the MKT more infuriating, because I think the Flex is the most interestingly-styled car in the entire Ford lineup. There's no deep-seated reason the MKT has to be so meh; it just is.
I don't even think it's all that ugly, like our owner/meh-car-outer Preston does. It looks like a modern Lincoln, but not a specific modern Lincoln, it just sort of looks like the general idea of modern Lincoln, even though it actually is one specific car itself. But it doesn't feel like a specific car model, it feels like a sketchy police-artist rendering as described by someone who was flung by a Lincoln showroom at 75 MPH.
Like so many meh cars, the specs of the car are basically just fine. You can get it with front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive, you can get engines ranging from a fleet-sales 2-liter four to a quite good 365 horsepower 3.5-liter V6. You can only get it with the six-speed auto, and a special system that sucks all the interest out of the driving experience and converts it to tepid warmth that's then pumped into the seat heaters.
The only version of this thing that's remotely interesting is the hearse variant, and that's really saying something when the best way to enjoy a particular car is to be dead. I mean really dead, not just the usual meh car dead inside sort of feeling.
Preston, our MKT owner, dared me to find a commercial for one, and while I completely understand his confidence—I sure as hell didn't remember any commercials for this thing—it looks like Lincoln made some after all:
I've always really liked the Church song Under the Milky Way Tonight, though this cover version is sort of grating, and this ad could really be for almost any car or moving object at all. The car whizzes by in the black, empty void, the camera swoops in and out, and we're done.
I bet the ad agency made this with placeholder cars and just sold them to anyone. I bet Proton or Perouda have the same damn ad running on Malaysian television.
Also, that tagline, Reach Higher, is one that's so generic it could work for a middle school's attempt to no longer be in the bottom 1/3rd of the state on standardized tests, or it could be the tagline of a dating service targeted at wealthy tall people. It's completely generic.
I thought there might be another commercial available, but, no, if you want Lincoln MKwhatever ads, you can have Xs and Cs and even Zs, but this moody slice of dark nothing is it for the MKT.
I'm sure there's many people who have MKTs and think they're just fine. I'm sure there's many people who have MKTs but have been calling them MKCs or MKXs for years and also think they're just fine. But I still can't imagine an actual human being who actively wants a Lincoln MKT.
If they did, what, exactly, would they be wanting? The experience of being in a sensory depravation tank? A freedom from the exhausting draw of the material world? The sweet embrace of nothingness?
I hope I never find out.
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Apple unveiled a brand new MacBook Air, which is Apple's lightest notebook ever and is available in 11-inch and 13-inch models. The new laptops are equipped with solid state drives and a battery, that offer up to seven hours work time and up to 30 days of standby time.
The new Apple's laptops have aluminum unibody construction with 0.68-inches at its thickest and only 0.11-inches at its thinnest point. The 11-inch model weights just 2.3 pounds, while the bigger 13-inch brother – 2.9 pounds.
They come with LED-backlit glossy widescreen displays with 1366 x 768 resolution for the smaller one and the 13-inch packs 1440 x 900 panel. For the equipped custom-designed flash storage, Apple claims that is 90 percent smaller and lighter than a conventional notebook hard drive. The 11-inche Both are powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors – a 1.86GHz or 2.13GHz for 13-inch and 1.4GHz or 1.6GHz for 11-inch, other hardware include: NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics, up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, up to 128-256GB SSD storage, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and built-in battery, which offers 5-hour battery life for 11-incher and 7 hours wireless productivity for 13″ MacBook Air.
MacBook Air also include a full full-sized keyboard and gets the glass Multi-Touch trackpad, which is available on Apple's MacBook Pro. There're also USB 2.0 ports on both sides, built-in FaceTime camera, mic and stereo speakers, Mini DisplayPort, headphones and the 13-inch MacBook Air also includes an SD card slot.
Both MacBook Air laptops are available now with suggested retail price – 1.4 GHz 11-inch MacBook Air with 2GB of memory and 64GB for $999 and 128GB model for $1,199, while the 1.86 GHz 13-inch MacBook Air with 2GB of memory and 128GB of flash storage starts at $1,299 and with a 256GB model for $1,599.


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What's Normal When it Comes to the Female Libido?
The introduction of a female libido pill has sparked conversation on sex and desire. Here's what the experts say about women and sex
Addyi: The drug designed to boost female libido
Lately it seems as though everywhere you turn, people are talking about sex. It's due, in part, to the FDA approval of flibanserin, brand name Addyi, aka pink Viagra (although it's actually not very Viagra-like at all, but we'll get to that). If nothing else, the arrival of Addyi south of the border has sparked a conversation about sex that we should have had a long, long time ago ' because it turns out we actually don't know that much about sex or, to be more specific, about women and sex.
'There are a lot of myths out there about how women's libidos work,' says Dr. Lori Brotto, a psychologist and associate professor in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of British Columbia. 'Even though research on female desire has increased slightly in the past 10 years, we still know a lot more about men's sexuality than we do about women's.' A lack of research isn't the only problem. 'Women don't talk about their sexual concerns, even to their doctors,' says Dr. Brotto. 'And our medical schools aren't doing a good job of teaching healthcare providers how to ask questions about sexuality. My own family physician has never asked me about my sexuality ' ever.'
Small wonder that we don't know what's 'normal' when it comes to our ever-fluctuating levels of desire. And what we see on the big (or small) screen isn't helping our sexual self-esteem either. 'Even though we say to ourselves 'that's not reality' when faced with different media portrayals of sexuality, we're completely inundated by messages that sex should be easy, spontaneous and multi-orgasmic,' says Dr. Brotto. 'Then, when we don't experience it in that way, we feel really broken.'
Understanding the ebb and flow of your libido
Until recently, most people thought that desire was the first step in any sexual encounter, but the latest research suggests that women's sexual desire may not be all that spontaneous after all. 'Women's sexuality can be more responsive and more contextual than their biological drive years,' says Dr. Teesha Morgan, a sex therapist in Vancouver. For instance, some women often report that they don't consider the idea of sex or intimacy until their partners make a move (like planting a kiss on their necks).
Because that initial physical desire isn't necessarily around at the outset, many women assume there is something wrong, says Dr. Morgan. 'Many women have little idea how their sex drives work. They'll come into my office and say 'Something is wrong with me: I have low libido.' And when I tell them desire often comes after arousal, their faces light up and they say, 'Yes, that sounds like me!" Women experience desire in different ways, adds Dr. Brotto. Even at the start of a sexual encounter, they may not necessarily feel desire, especially in a long-term relationship. 'They might have reasons to engage in sex ' they want to be close, they want to feel arousal and they want to have an orgasm ' but they're not necessarily feeling a high libido in that moment. Then, as the encounter continues, they start to connect with their bodies and their desire emerges after that.'
Of course, there may be times when sexual desire simply refuses to kick in at all ' and that's completely normal too, says Dr. Brotto. But, contrary to popular belief, it's not necessarily something we can pin on our hormones. 'Many studies that have looked at hormonal contributions to sexual desire show they're really not that significant. It tends to be more relationship-related, psychological or emotional factors that predict women's sexual desire, whereas testosterone plays a stronger role in men.'
This distinction is especially important for post-menopausal women. Yes, hormones do cause problems after menopause, when ovaries stop producing estrogen, but they're more often physical issues, such as discomfort or dryness. 'A number of large, longitudinal studies confirm that menopause doesn't affect sexual desire,' says Dr. Brotto. But, she adds, pretty much everything else does. Here's a list of a few of the things that can affect your libido: medications (especially antidepressants, cardiac pills and anti-seizure drugs), mood (women with low desire have three times the level of depression), pregnancy, fatigue, stress, long work hours, a messy house, you didn't have time to shave your legs, resentment toward your partner, children running around'. 'Pretty much everything,' says Dr. Brotto, although some studies rank stress and fatigue at the top.
'Many women say that even though they'd like to engage in sex and are attracted to their partners, they're just so tired and stressed that it's the last thing they want to do in that moment,' she says. Interestingly, men are a lot less likely to be worried about unwashed dishes. 'Men's desire may be more immune to the external insults that tend to dampen women's sexual desire.'
Is Addyi the answer?
The FDA's approval of Addyi (which is not, as yet, available in Canada) has created a great deal of discussion about women's sexuality, says Kelly Suschinsky, a post-doctoral fellow in the department of psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, ON, who studies arousal and sexual response. This is a good thing, she says, because sexuality is such a vital part of our lives that it's important to understand it better. However, a pharmaceutical approach may not be the best option. 'The fact that Addyi must be taken daily, unlike Viagra, is concerning because of its potential negative interactions with alcohol,' she says. 'Then there's the fact that the actual effect seems to be relatively minimal compared to a placebo.' While Viagra is just about increasing blood flow, Addyi is about changing brain chemistry and, although it might be helpful for some women who experience low desire, it's not for everyone, adds Dr. Brotto.
'Addyi will not make a woman like her partner any more. It won't teach her partner how to evoke arousal or orgasm, and it won't address the layers of taboo, myth, shame or anxiety that many women have wrapped up in their low desire,' says Dr. Brotto.
So what's a girl to do? Dr. Brotto recommends starting with some lifestyle changes. First, get more sleep. Research in the Journal of Sexual Medicine shows that women with sleep apnea (when your breathing repeatedly stops and starts) have higher rates of sexual dysfunction, while a recent study by researchers in the U.S. shows that women who sleep an extra hour are 14 percent more likely to have sex the next day. 'Look at your energy levels and plan sex for times of the day when you're awake and at your best,' says Dr. Brotto. 'It's good, healthy and fun to plan sex ' it doesn't have to just happen spontaneously.' Planning can be as simple as logistically removing distractions, or imagining what an encounter will be like and fantasizing about it ahead of time, she says.
Dr. Brotto also recommends mindfulness meditation. In a study she co-authored and published last year, Dr. Brotto found that mindfulness-based group therapy (non-judgmental present moment awareness) significantly improved sexual desire in women. 'It can help women be really present in their bodies during sex and help them notice the arousal and connect with their partner's touch,' she says. 'It also gives them the ability to give feedback to their partner, to communicate and get into a nice, mutually reinforcing cycle of focused arousal.'
It takes two to tango
Dr. Morgan says that often the first time a woman comes to see her about a lagging libido, she comes alone. The second time, she will sometimes bring her partner. 'It's a dual dynamic ' it's not just her issue and she needs to fix it,' she says. 'Often it's just about improving emotional intimacy between two people. And sometimes all it takes is a little introspection.' Too often, Dr. Morgan says, it's social comparison that can lead to negative emotions about the relationship between a woman and her partner; they will feel like they aren't normal. (Just because your girlfriend is having sex three times a week doesn't mean you should be, too.) 'Comparison is the theft of joy,' she says. 'If frequency isn't a problem for you and your partner, it's a moot point.'
Iris Krasnow agrees. She spent two years talking to women ages 20 to 90 about how sex and intimacy change as life changes for her book Sex After'. 'One of the biggest takeaways for me was that there is no normal when it comes to sexuality,' says Krasnow. She spoke to women in satisfied, committed relationships who were having no sex, but that was normal for them. Then there were women in their 70s and 80s who 'were giddy as teenagers and excited to still be experimenting with their sexuality.' Sex ebbs and flows in the best of relationships, and sexuality is unique to individual couples, says Krasnow. 'Women get saddled by their emotions and obligations and busyness. And couples forget to have sex, they forget to give each other a kiss, they forget to say 'hello' or to be cordial with each other.'
Krasnow's main recommendation is to keep things fresh. (A little hotel sex is never a bad idea, she says.) One woman she spoke to told her she and her partner schedule sex every Wednesday ' the exciting part is they never know what time on Wednesday it might happen. The key, says Krasnow, is to make time for intimacy. 'It's never too late. And considering that women in their 90s is the fastest growing segment of our aging demographic, it's good to know you can be 75 and still look forward to a full life of intimacy and sexual pleasure.'
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Watermill Close, Desborough
Splash out on this stunning waterside property in Desborough
Six-bed family home is on the market for more than £1m
By Neil Burkett
Updated Thursday, 13th January 2022, 12:02 pm
This stone-built six-bedroom detached property comes with more than an acre of grounds in a secluded gated location.
The entrance hall has a cloaks cupboard and cloakroom, and there is an office with underfloor heating overlooking the front garden.
The dining room has a window and doors to the rear. It has stairs to the first floor, and a mahogany bar with mirrored storage units behind and a seating area.
From the dining room, double doors lead into the conservatory and doors lead to the drawing room which has dual aspect French doors, a bay window, and a feature stone and brick inglenook fireplace with log storage.
There is also a kitchen/breakfast/family room with an adjoining utility room which connects to the games room and a second cloakroom. This area has annexe potential.
The first floor has four bedrooms, three with en suites, and a family bathroom with a five piece suite.
A further bedroom can be accessed from two of the other bedrooms and has previously been used as a dressing room. The master bedroom suite is on the second floor and fitted with air conditioning.
The kitchen with underfloor heating has a range of base and wall units by Charles Yorke with granite worktops.
Integrated appliances include an Aga and combination oven, a fridge, a freezer, a dishwasher, microwave and pull-out bin.
The central island unit has wine storage and a sink with mixer tap. The utility room has full height and base units, a stainless steel sink, and integrated appliances include a washing machine and tumble dryer.
Outside, a sliding electric gate gives access to the driveway to the house. To one side a bank slopes down to a stream with a path through a wooded area.
There is a wood store on one boundary with the garden continuing to the rear of the house where a terrace spans the full length of the property.
There is a detached double garage with adjacent single garage which both have electrically operated doors. There is also an outside WC and a two garden sheds/workshops.
This property, in Watermill Close, Desborough, is on the market for £1.35m through Michael Graham estate agents on Rightmove.
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Russia's Top Movies: April 2013
Like most places in the world, Russia's silver screens are dominated by Hollywood's global blockbusters. Russia's film industry has struggled with the financial crisis, but is also capable of producing films that can occasionally compete locally with the American machine. Once a month, SRAS provides a lineup of the top five movies in Russia by box office take—with the official Russian-language trailers from YouTube and, for those Russian films on the list, links to our Russian film site.
Below are films listed with their English and Russian titles (note that they differ sometimes), as well as how much the film has earned over the calendar month.
1. Обливион—Oblivion—$17.6m
While "обливион" is not a Russian word (the translation of "oblivion" would be "забвение" or "забытьё"), the distributors of the Russian version of this film have chosen to transliterate rather than translate the title. This is perhaps because the translation into Russian is more obviously related to the central plot twist—forgetting—that the film's plot hinges on.
2. Легенда № 17—Legend #17 (Rus)—$16.5m
3. G.I. Joe: Бросок Кобры 2—G.I. Joe: Retaliation—$6.2m (in April; total—$15m)
Russian distributors seem to greatly prefer names for sequels that use numerals. Thus, this film has reverted to the name of the original G.I. Joe movie in Russian: Бросок Кобры (Lunge of the Cobra) to become G.I. Joe: The Lunge of Cobra 2.
4. Зловещие мертвецы. Черная книга—Evil Dead—$5.8m
This cult classic has a direct translation of its name into Russian, although the distributors have chosen to add "The Black Book" as a subtitle.
5. Семейка Крудс—The Croods—$5.7m (in April; total $27.6m)
The distributors for The Croods have elected to clarify in Russian that "Crood" is a family name—changing the name of the film to "The Crood Family." Note that they have also elected to use "семейка," the diminutive of the standard Russian word for "family," which is "семья." This use of the diminutive helps let us know that the film is a comedy and that we should care for the main characters, The Croods.
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Josh Wilson is the Assistant Director for The School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) and Communications Director for Alinga Consulting Group. In those capacities, he has been managing publications and informative websites covering geopolitics, history, business, economy, and politics in Eurasia since 2003. He is based in Moscow, Russia. For SRAS, he also assists in program development and leads the Home and Abroad Programs
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QUEENSRŸCHE Announces U.S. Tour
Manos Spanos October 29, 2015
Progressive metal legends QUEENSRŸCHE will embark on a U.S. headlining tour in January.
Confirmed dates are as follows:
Jan. 07 – Rockbar – San Jose, CA
Jan. 08 – House of Blues – Anaheim, CA
Jan. 09 – Hard Rock Live – Las Vegas, NV
Jan. 10 – Rialto Theatre – Tucson, AZ
Jan. 12 – Marquee Theatre – Phoenix, AZ
Jan. 14 – Alamo City Music Hall – San Antonio, TX
Jan. 15 – Trees – Dallas, TX
Jan. 16 – Scout Bar – Houston, TX
Jan. 17 – Brewster Street Ice House – Corpus Christi, TX
Jan. 21 – Theatre of Living Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Jan. 22 – Starland Ballroom – Sayreville, NJ
Jan. 23 – The Palladium – Boston, MA
Jan. 24 – Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA
Jan. 25 – 9:30 Club – Washington D.C.
Jan. 27 – Bogart's – Cincinnati, OH
Jan. 28 – Limelight – Peoria, IL
Jan. 29 – St. Croix Casino – Turtle Lake, WI
Jan. 30 – The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
Jan. 31 – Concord Music Hall – Chicago, IL
Feb. 02 – Knuckleheads – Kansas City, MO
Feb. 03 – Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO
Feb. 04 – In The Venue – Salt Lake City, UT
Feb. 05 – Knitting Factory – Reno, NV
QUEENSRŸCHE's new album, "Condition Hüman", debuted at No. 27 on The Billboard 200 chart, having shifted 14,000 equivalent album units in the week ending October 8.
The Billboard 200 ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA).
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