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The members in this team were Luk Chuen Kit (CE3), Chan Yu Shing (EComE3), Cheng Yan Ming (EComE3), Chiu Ho Ming (EComE3), Jacqueline Ho (EComE3), Kam Ning (EE3), Pun Ching Yip (CE3), Wong Sze Shing (CE3), Wong Yiu Lun (CE3), Yeung Hiu Fan (EComE3).
Jacqueline Ho (EComE3) demonstrated the ETV system and CLP environmental promotion game Mr. Luchi Chew, the Secretary of Education Bureau of the Deyang City.


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SANAP Project News: SOCCO Gliders Home
Tuesday April 16th, 2019 - 01:45 PM | Research, Science, Southern Ocean, sub-Antarctic
Our Wave Gliders have arrived back from the Southern Ocean. Last Friday 5th April we picked up our second carbon Waveglider WG027 a few tens of metres from the breakwater in Granger Bay at the end of an exciting but problem free transit of 1500km from the Sub-Antarctic Zone (43oS 8oE)(Video). Its twin WG052 had completed its even longer transit of 2800km from the Polar Upwelling Zone (54oS OoE) 9 days earlier. Both units arrived in excellent shape in what was a first for us, bringing our gliders home with a ship pick-up. Both gliders completed 4-month long missions of which 10 weeks were sampling at their respective locations and 6 weeks transiting back to Cape Town.
VIDEO: WG052 waiting to be picked up off Granger Bay in a cold misty morning in Cape Town a couple of weeks ago after its 2800km epic from 54oS.
Bringing the gliders home under their own means opens the door towards the direction of reducing the dependency on ships and reduces the long-term costs of long-term observations. It is a significant technical challenge for the robots and the engineers. The biggest problems we encountered, apart from the vicious storms, were the very strong mesoscale jets west of the Agulhas retroflection area. Jets with flow speeds of over 2kn posed navigation challenges for the pilots but we also learned much from the experience and despite a few necessary deviations (Figure 1a,b) that probably added a week to the transit we got them home in really good shape (Figure 2).
Figure 1a: shows part of the route of the gliders from the Sub-Antarctic Zone (SAZ) to highlight how the transit routing had to be adapted to follow the mesoscale jets to the west of the Agulhas current retroflection area.
Figure 1b: shows the location of those jets SW of Cape Town.
Figure 2: Wave glider WG027 on its dolly after recovery last week and displaying a few goose barnacles as a memory of its 4-month in the Sub-Antarctic Zone.
The decision to bring them home was shaped by two main considerations: firstly, we wanted to avoid the expensive physical damage to the gliders that often happens with ship recovery, especially under the typically rough conditions in the Southern Ocean. As it turned out we made the right call especially for WG052 which would have been all but impossible to retrieve such were the conditions. Secondly, we wanted to evaluate if wave gliders can be combined to address mesoscale differences in the response of the ocean to synoptic scale atmospheric forcing.
As mentioned in earlier posts each of these gliders was paired with a buoyancy glider over the entire period of deployment at their respective long-term observational sites in the SAZ and the PUZ as part of two NRF-funded SOCCO SOSCEX-Storm projects. This pairing enabled us to simultaneously observe the air-sea fluxes of CO and the ocean physics dynamics that influence them in the upper 1000m of the ocean. This is necessary because it is not clear how important these ocean dynamics are in predicting the climate sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Southern Ocean. This learning will be used to improve the Earth System Models used to predict regional and global climate change, particularly the South African CSIR-VrESM model being developed as a collaboration between SOCCO, Global Change Institute-Wits University and the MaRe Institute at UCT.
All the instruments were fully operational over the entire time and the initial look at the data suggests that we have excellent accuracy and precision. This was the first operational test for our newly developed VeGAS pCO2 units on both gliders and we will do a deep dive into the data later this week.
This science work would not have been possible without the expertise and dedication of our engineering partners at Sea Technology Services who run SA-RobOTIC and their student engineers.
– Dr. Pedro M. Scheel Monteiro & SOCCO & SA-RobOTIC team, 08 April 2019 (posted 16 April 2019)
Tagged Gliders, SANAP Research, SANAP Science, SOCCO, Southern Ocean, Wave gliders
Current Cruise: Glider deployment, data collection and retrieval
Thursday March 7th, 2019 - 09:52 AM | Antarctica, News, Research, SA Agulhas II, SANAP, Science, Southern Ocean, sub-Antarctic
The S.A. Agulhas II is now on its homeward journey having finished all logistical and scientific work at SANAE and in the Weddell Sea (track the ship here). The work is not yet over for all aboard, however. Scientists from the University of Cape Town (UCT), the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the South African Weather Service (SAWS) continue to collect oceanographic and meteorological data. UCT and CSIR are both sampling seawater as the ship sails, measuring chlorophyll, nutrients, ammonium and phytoplankton community composition, to name a few.
Over and above this, CSIR—more particularly, CSIR SOCCO—and Martin Mohrmann of the University of Gothenburg and ROAM-MIZ deployed oceanographic instruments on the voyage south to Antarctica (see photos below). CSIR SOCCO, or the Southern Ocean Carbon & Climate Observatory, is a South African research programme focused on the Southern Ocean. ROAM-MIZ, according to their website, "is a multi-institutional initiative to observe the full seasonal cycle of the upper ocean in the marginal ice zone near the Greenwich Meridian". CSIR SOCCO deployed two wave gliders, a Seaglider and a Slocum glider. ROAM-MIZ deployed two Seagliders and a Sailbuoy, christened SB Kringla. These instruments continuously record oceanographic data while they move through the water. The wave gliders and the Sailbuoy remain at the surface, harnessing wave and wind power, respectively, to propel them through the water. The Seagliders and Slocum glider alter their buoyancy to dive and sample sea water during their journeys to the deeps (deep parts of the ocean) and back to the surface. All these vehicles transmit their data to satellites at regular intervals or when they surface after a dive.
Deployment of Gliders
Martin Mohrmann (University of Gothenburg and ROAM-MIZ)
Colin de la Harpe, CSIR team leader, lending a hand with the preparation of a CSIR SOCCO wave glider.
Mfezeko Rataza, of Sea Technology Services (STS), leading the CSIR SOCCO wave glider setup.
ROAM-MIZ's two buoyancy gliders making satellite contact in preparation for deployment.
A successfully deployed wave glider gets an avian escort.
A wave glider being deployed off the poop deck of the S.A. Agulhas II.
Deployment of a ROAM-MIZ buoyancy glider.
Deployment of the Sailbuoy, SB Kringla.
With the S.A. Agulhas II now making for home, the time has come to recover these instruments in order that they can be serviced and used again in future deployments. The wave gliders, in a true feat of engineering, are being piloted home to Cape Town. This is due to reducing sunlight available for the solar panels of the southernmost glider as the receding summer light wanes at these high latitudes. This will entail a journey of 1200 km and 2500 km for the respective wave gliders (click here for the update on the position of the gliders). Two Seagliders, the Slocum glider and the Sailbuoy will be recovered on the voyage home. The third Seaglider is to be recovered by another vessel, the Norwegian RV Kronprins Haakon, sailing from Punta Arenas in Chile.
On the 1st of March, the Sailbuoy and a ROAM-MIZ Seaglider were both safely recovered in fair weather at 60°S 0°E. The speed and success of the recovery were entirely down to the skill of the S.A. Agulhas II's crew and the prevailing calm weather. Next, the Slocum glider will be recovered at 54°S 0°E and then CSIR SOCCO's remaining buoyancy glider at 43°S 8°E. The S.A. Agulhas II is now making for 54°S 0°E after having sailed to South Thule and South Georgia for SAWS deployments and commitments.
Retrieval of Gliders
Both the buoyancy glider and sailbuoy are successfully recovered.
Recovery of the sailbuoy by the crew of the S.A. Agluhas II.
For more information on CSIR's SOCCO programme, click here and for further information on ROAM-MIZ, click here.
Cover Photo: ROAM-MIZ's two buoyancy gliders making satellite contact in preparation for deployment.
Written by: Hermann Luyt, Oceanography, University of Cape Town
Edited by: Anché Louw, Antarctic Legacy of South Africa, 07 March 2019
Photo Credit (all): Hermann Luyt
Tagged CSIR, Gliders, Remote Sensing, Sailbuoy, Sea gliders, SOCCO, SOCCO Gliders, Soutern Ocean, Wave gliders

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This Fourth of July, Celebrate "1776" – the Movie (2)
Michael Winship,
As we commemorate the Fourth of July, one of the joys — and there are many — of life in these United States is that you never know what the hell we, the people, will say next.
There's the delightful teenage girl in Montclair, New Jersey, who when informed this week that the nice married couple nearby had been arrested as Russian intelligence agents, joked to The New York Times, "They couldn't have been spies. Look what she did with the hydrangeas."
On the other end of the comedy spectrum there's House minority leader John Boehner, who scoffingly told the conservative Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that financial reform was akin to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon." Yep, the bank-fueled economic meltdown that created those 8 million U.S. job losses and $17 trillion in lost retirement savings and net worth was one heck of an anthill. Good one, John.
But one remark that really floored me occurred last week when I was interviewing FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski before an audience at the Silverdocs documentary film festival just outside Washington, DC. At the end of the conversation, which covered everything from net neutrality and broadband access to the fate of investigative journalism in cyberspace, we took questions from the audience. One gentleman had several brief policy questions and then, of all things, asked Genachowski to name his favorite movie.
"1776," the chairman instantly replied, with Fiddler on the Roof a close second.
Yes, 1776, the film version of the Broadway musical comedy by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone that turned the signing of the Declaration of Independence into a song-filled romp through eighteenth century Philadelphia. Ben Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson even dance down a staircase in Independence Hall.
You could have knocked me over with a quill when Genachowski said it. But truth be told, 1776 is a favorite of mine as well. I wouldn't rank it anywhere near such greats as Casablanca or Chinatown or The Godfather or Some Like It Hot and The Thin Man (to name but a few), but I saw the movie when it first came out in 1972, still tune it in when it pops up on cable and have even seen a couple of staged revivals of the original play, one at a dinner theater in Maryland where between scenes the actors playing delegates of the Continental Congress served up prime rib and strawberry shortcake.
Yes, it's corny; many of the jokes are groaners and some of the lyrics edge toward crossing that Spinal Tap fine line between stupid and clever. But there's something deeply stirring about seeing the Founding Fathers as human beings, their foibles broadly drawn, their desire for freedom duking it out against prejudice, self-interest and resistance to change.
"What's so terrible about being called an Englishman?" Continental Congress delegate John Dickinson asks Benjamin Franklin. ""The English don't seem to mind."
"Nor would I," Franklin replies, "were I given the full rights of an Englishman. But to call me one without those rights is like calling an ox a bull. He's thankful for the honor, but he'd much rather have restored what's rightfully his."
In some ways, this sparkly paean to patriotism is a subversive little hand grenade, its liberal politics woven into the plot at a time when Richard Nixon was still in the White House. In an exchange that stings even more now than it did then, John Hancock tells John Dickinson, "Fortunately there are not enough men of property in America to dictate policy," and Dickinson replies, "Perhaps not. But don't forget that most men without property would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich, than face the reality of being poor."
When the movie version was released its producer, Jack Warner — allegedly at the behest of Nixon — removed a song, "Cool, Cool Considerate Men," sung by loyalist, conservative delegates who smugly shout, "We have land, cash in hand, self-command, future planned!" According to 1776 writer Peter Stone, "The opponents of independence were very much involved in commerce and profits, so they were very much allied to modern conservatives. Nixon didn't want Americans to be reminded of this as he faced re-election in 1972, and the country was preparing to celebrate it's bicentennial. I think that's why he hated the song, and why Jack Warner took it out."
Luckily, the missing footage was found and has been restored to the version we see today on TV and DVD.
1776 is a reminder that the embrace of the status quo in the face of revolutionary ideas is nothing new. Nor is bloody legislative compromise or our ongoing frustration over a Congress mired in petty squabbling, unable to take action.
At the beginning of the story, John Adams sings, 'A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair. But no, You sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?" Later he laments, "I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!"
But the Tea Partiers and Glenn Becks of America who scorn government and who have tried turning the Founding Fathers into libertarian deities will find little comfort in 1776. As Franklin says in the film, "We're men, no more no less, trying to get a nation started against greater odds than a more generous God would have allowed." Rather than fall hopelessly into endless name-calling and mudslinging like today, ultimately these men engaged in forthright debate and overcame ideological differences that threatened to stop their revolution before it began. They managed to produce a nation, an experiment outlined in a Declaration of Independence that is, as the movie version's John Adams says, "a masterful expression of the American mind."
And they did so realizing, as a character in the film says — quoting the words of conservative icon Edmund Burke, member of the British Parliament — that a representative owes the people not only his industry, but his judgment, and he betrays them if he sacrifices it to their opinion.
So watch the movie and see what you think (Turner Classic Movies is playing it on the Fourth of July). I'd match 1776 against The Last Airbender or that Karate Kid remake any day.
Michael Winship is an Emmy Award-winning writer, and served as senior writer of the public television series, 'Moyers & Company.' He is also a senior writing fellow at the public policy and advocacy group Demos, and the president of Writers Guild of America, East.


11/27/2012 – Boris Gelfand played a risky attack against Gata Kamsky's Leningrad System, and lost the game in a tactical melee. Ruslan Ponomariov faced a French Tarrasch by Alexander Morozevich and outplayed the erstwhile leader. Rustam Kasimdzhanov refuted Wang Hao's Scotch to win his first game in this tournament – and join four other players in the lead. Full report with GM commentary.
Gelfand-Kamsky: Gata Kamsky chose the Leningrad Dutch after noticing that Boris Gelfand didn't play it quite successfully and lost against Nakamura in this particular line. Kamsky was not sure why everyone gives away the light squared bishop and preferred to keep it (12…Bd7). Black got reasonable position and White's slightly inaccurate 20. Qc2 break let Black get the initiative after d5. Gelfand's try to solve White's problems by tactical means with 22.Nd5 (22.Bc5 offered more resistance according to the chess engines) was convincingly refuted by the American player.
Ponomariov-Morozevich: As Ponomariov put it during the press conference, "a logical game until he (Morozevich) blundered". The French Defence with 3.Nd2 was played in this game and even though Ruslan expected this variation, White barely got anything from the opening. According to Ponomariov,18…Nb6 wasn't really needed as he wasn't sure what to do against 18…0-0. The former world champion had some doubts about Black's decision f5, e5. Anyway, the position was balanced until Morozevich's unlucky 27…Nc8. The original idea of Black was logical – to bring the knight on d4 but Ruslan found nice tactical idea, Bxf5, which gave White a huge advantage. The Ukrainian player was not quite sure how to improve White's position if Black just plays 27…Ref8 and keeps holding the position.
Wang Hao-Kasimdzhanov: The game turns to be rather one-sided as the Chinese player seem to mix two different plans in the Scotch with 4...Nf6 (normally Rc1 is played with White's queen being on h4, which makes Black's long castling impossible). As Rustam said during his first solo press-conference, "I just was brave enough to play 0-0-0 – it was the most difficult move in the game". Black got a big advantage after 26.Rc4, and later on the Chinese player didn't put up the most stubborn defence, as White could have played 31.Rc5 (after Black's 30…c5) to complicate matters. Later on Black found 32…Nb2 and the position of White became absolutely hopeless.
In the press conference Kasimdzhanov (above with his wife Firuza) said: "I feel the support here, of course, and I'm gald to win a game [applause]. The Grand Prix tournaments are very strong, I managed to win only one game in London. I was not sure I could please the spectators here in Uzbekistan and I'm glad that I managed to do so!"
Karjakin-Leko: "I've already asked Sergey a few questions in the Queen's Indian playing with white, so I didn't want to be asked those questions in return by him", pointed out Peter Leko, explaining why he preferred to go for the Ragozin Defense, which he had never played before. It came as a surprise for Sergey and he "wanted to check the main lines which might be prepared by the opponent, but try to get playable position". 7.g3 is by far not the most popular plan for White, connected with a pawn sacrifice, which was accepted by Leko (8…dc4). During whole game Black wanted to push e5, but at the moment he did there was another interesting opportunity – to sacrifice the bishop after 32…Bd2 33.R1ce Be3 and 34…Qg3. White should keep the balance, but has to play precisely. In the game the opponents kept playing solidly, and the three-fold repetition seemed logical, as none of opponents could make a progress in final position.
Mamedyarov-Caruana: Once again a surprise in the opening, as Fabiano Caruana (above right) went for the Meran Slav with 8…Bd6 instead of his main choice – the Grunfeld Defense. The players followed the game Lupulescu-Inarkiev, Plovdiv 2012, which also finished in a draw, and Caruana's first independent move seems to be an improvement on Black's play, as the endgame with opposite colored bishops doesn't offer White many chances for a win. Fabiano could have chosen to go into another endgame after 17…Rfd8 but as he pointed out "the version in the game after 17…Be7 looked better". Black's nice idea left behind the curtain – 29.Rc7 Rxc7 30.Bxc7 Bxb3!, forcing an exchange of queenside pawns as 31. axb3 a4 loses for White. Mamedyarov managed to win the second pawn but an awkward position of White's rook was just enough for Black to hold the balance.
Dominguez-Svidler: Another Spanish with 5.d3 was played by Leinier Dominguez. Peter Sivdler developed his bishop on c5 in style of the Archangelsk Variation. 14…c5 indicated an intention to complicate the position, as Peter pointed out "I could have exchanged the bishops, but it looked too boring". The same applies to his 17…bxc4 – "17…b4 was okay for Black but once again too boring". Nevertheless the game remained balanced and both players agreeing to a three times repetition would've been a logical final of the game. Leinier's spirited decision to play on (32.Rg3) in fact just led him into trouble. During the press conference the Cuban player said he was in the time trouble and didn't have time to regret his decision but just to find moves. Svidler dropped his advantage with 39…Kh8 (instead after 39…c4 that would be a hard task for White to save the game), hoping to catch White in a nice trap – 40.g3 is met with a stunning 40…Be3!!, and after 41.fe3 Raf8 White's position collapses. But he completely forgot about the same knight's pawn move on the opposite wing. "I have no explanation for what I did," said the Russian player. "I was walking around shaking my head. Of course the most obvious and most natural move in this position is c4." After 40.b3 he understood that Black had lost his advantage and found the way to a forced draw.


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These were all taken within 10 minutes of each other and no code, or asset changes were made to the project. However, for some reason the memory difference is so massively wide it's insane.
I am using world composition and the server async loads the levels (this is what world composition does). When the levels load it seems to increase memory by at minimum 300~ megabytes PER level, and I have about 10~ levels.
However, is it normal for the game to have such different memory changes considering no code was changed, nothing was recompiled, and no assets were changed? Should a server be jumping from 2,3,4, and 5 gb differences?
Each time the server was allowed to fully load it would load up to different memory values as seen in the above image.


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We need volunteers to help us for an hour during the whole event.
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Shh…Secret Supper Club…Pass It On
'Archives – Top Secret'
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In a town where security clearances seem to grow on trees, it's always nice to be the first on your block to find something new. This may not exactly be the lost Watergate tapes, but the D.C. Supper Club put on by Artisa Kitchen is shrouded in just as much mystery.
Held monthly, the dinners do not follow the usual supper club template. Instead of a revolving door of chefs, the meal is held at a different Washington-area art gallery each time. Only after you book your meal are you informed of the top secret location. No matter the site, chef Bryon Brown (of molecular gastronomy powerhouse Jaleo) prepares a 12-course farmers market-sourced tasting menu accompanied by six wine pairings ($90).
There's only room for 28 diners, and they are completely booked for the July and August events. Next up is the September 30th date, followed by a vegan supper on October 7th. It's a great option for those who like their dinner with a little intrigue…but you didn't hear it from me.
Ashley Messick
Ashley is a born and bred Washingtonian who left for college but came running back to the District as fast as her little legs could carry her. By day she is a Capitol Hill brat, but by night she is a lean, mean, eating machine. It's her goal in life to steal Anthony Bourdain's job…by whatever means necessary. Contact her at Ashley (at) welovedc (dot) com or follow her on Twitter.
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Leah on July 28, 2010 at 9:11 am said:
I'm sorry, "molecular gastronomy powerhouse Jaleo"? What are you talking about?
Mark on August 1, 2010 at 12:08 pm said:
Jaleo serves Spanish Tapas… Minibar would be your 'molecular gastronomy powerhouse'…
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Q: References for a notion related to radially lower semicontinuity Let $E$ be a real vector space, $C\subset E$ be a nonempty convex set and $z\in C$. Let $f:C\rightarrow\mathbb{R}$ such that
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\textbf{(A)} \quad f(z)\leq\limsup_{t\downarrow 0}f(z+t(w-z))\quad \forall w\in C.
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Note that if $f$ is radially lower semicontinuous at $z\in C$, i.e.
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f(z)\leq\liminf_{t\downarrow 0}f(z+t(w-z))\quad \forall w\in C
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then $f$ satisfies property (A) at $z$.
Questions:
1) Where can we find the references for property (A)?
2) Can someone put a name for the property (A)?
Thank you for all kind help and comments.

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Die Kidder Motor Vehicle Company war ein US-amerikanischer Hersteller von Dampfwagen.
Der Unternehmer Wellington Parker Kidder erhielt bereits mit 15 Jahren sein erstes Patent (für eine Verbesserung an einer Dampfmaschine) und entwickelte nach einem Studium der Angewandten Mechanik eine Druckpresse und eine Schreibmaschine, ehe er sich auch dem Bau eines Dampfwagens widmete.

Beschreibung
1899 stellte er zwei Prototypen fertig, deren zweiter erfolgversprechend war. Kidder entwickelte dafür eine Zweikolbendampfmaschine, deren Kolben links und rechts vom Boiler angebracht waren und direkt auf die Hinterachse wirkten. Durch diesen innovativen Ansatz machte er die übliche Antriebskette überflüssig.

Das Unternehmen wurde hauptsächlich mit Kapital von T. Atwater Barnes organisiert; dieser wurde auch Präsident. Ab 1900 hatte Kidder die technische Leitung inne. Firmensitz und Fabrikation wurden im Gebäude der vormaligen New Haven Chair Company an der Audubon Street in New Haven (Connecticut) eingerichtet.

Kidder entwickelte einen weiteren Prototyp, dieses Mal mit Ottomotor und Petromobile genannt. Er wurde nicht weiterverfolgt. Als der Kidder Steam Ende 1899 erschien, gab es davon zwei Versionen: Das Model 2 als konventionell aussehenden Runabout zu US$ 1000 und den Kleintransporter Model B zu US$ 1600. Vor allem der Runabout war am Anfang deutlich teurer als der verbreitete Locomobile zu US$ 600 resp. US$ 750 ab 1901.

Im November 1900 waren 35 Kidder Steamer im Bau oder ausgeliefert. Ohne dass es zu finanziellen Problemen gekommen wäre, wurde die Produktion im April 1903 eingestellt. Die Gründe sind unklar, am wahrscheinlichsten ist der Tod von Barnes in Verbindung mit Kidders Erkenntnis, dass die Zukunft dem benzingetriebenen Fahrzeug gehören würde.

1907 baute Kidder weitere sieben Fahrzeuge, die aber nicht in den freien Verkauf gelangten und von Familienmitgliedern genutzt wurden.

Die Kidder Motor Vehicle Company wurde an John H. Springer verkauft, der einige weitere Dampfwagen baute, ehe er das Unternehmen als Springer Motor Vehicle Company reorganisierte. Wenig später zog der Betrieb um nach New York City. Die Produktion wurde auf einen Benziner umgestellt und endete 1905.

Literatur
 George Nick Georgano (Hrsg.): Complete Encyclopedia of Motorcars, 1885 to the Present. 2. Auflage. Dutton Press, New York 1973, ISBN 0-525-08351-0. (englisch)
 Beverly Rae Kimes (Herausgeberin), Henry Austin Clark, jr.: The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1942. 2. Auflage. Krause Publications, Iola WI 1985, ISBN 0-87341-111-0. (englisch)
 Beverly Rae Kimes: Pioneers, Engineers, and Scoundrels: The Dawn of the Automobile in America. Herausgeber SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Permissions, Warrendale PA 2005, ISBN 0-7680-1431-X. (englisch)

Weblinks
 rootsweb.ancestry.com: Wellington Parker Kidder (englisch)
 rootsweb.ancestry.com: Wellington Kidder (englisch)
 rootsweb.ancestry.com: Annie Winslow (englisch)
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 The Automobile of 1904; Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (Januar 1904), Americana Review, 725 Dongan Ave., Scotia NY (USA); erschienen 1904, deckt auch Importe ab (englisch)

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Ehemaliger Pkw-Hersteller (Connecticut)
Ehemaliges Unternehmen (New Haven, Connecticut)
Ehemaliger Dampfwagenhersteller (Vereinigte Staaten)
Gegründet 1899
Aufgelöst 1903
Produzierendes Unternehmen (New Haven, Connecticut)

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Dubai hotels see highest occupancy levels for 7 years
Dubai's hotels experienced their highest occupancy levels for seven years in February.
Figures released by STR Global revealed an increase of 0.7 per cent to 88.6 per cent last month, when compared to the same period in 2013. In addition, this is the highest rate experienced in the emirate since 2007.
The average daily rate (ADR) also rose by 10.7 per cent to AED 1,102.78 (£180.63). This rise was the highest experienced in the Middle East and Africa region, according to the study.
Based on these statistics, the emirate showed growth of 11.5 per cent in terms of revenue per available room (RevPAR). This was expected to rise a further 3.8 per cent during 2014. Meanwhile, the supply of new hotels also jumped by 6.3 per cent in February, while demand levels experienced an increase of 7.1 per cent.
This positive development comes weeks after it was announced Dubai's hotels welcomed over 11 million visitors last year. This represented a rise of more than one million when compared to 2012.
Elizabeth Winkle, managing director at STR Global, commented: 'Growth in demand was able to outpace the continuous growth in supply, resulting in the highest occupancy levels of any February since 2007 for the market.'
Saudi Arabia, India and the UK were named among the top ten countries for visitor numbers in Dubai last month. Germany, USA, Russia, Kuwait, Oman, Iran and China completed the list.
The UAE as a whole showed positive results in February, with the ADR coming out at AED 882.92, a rise of three per cent. Meanwhile, the RevPAR also jumped by 3.5 per cent to reach AED 742.55. In addition, occupancy levels across the nation were 84.1 per cent, an increase of 0.5 per cent against February 2013.
However, the news was not all good. The report found Abu Dhabi recorded the largest decrease in terms of ADR last month. Figures showed a fall of 22.9 per cent, down to AED 441.16.


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"Apple Crosses The Line With New iPhone Feature"
Apple Crosses The Line With New iPhone Feature
That's the headline of a piece a friend just sent to me asking if there was genuine cause for concern. When I began reading it, I thought it was a Facebook alarmist post or article from a yellow journalism website:
If you're setting yourself up to get the new iPhone or get the new iPhone for your kids then you need to make sure you're aware of the new features. This is something that needs to be shared with friends to let Apple know sneaky behavior will NOT be tolerated. According to Gawker, the new iPhone will be recording video and sound AT ALL TIMES when your camera app is open by default whether you're taking picture or not. If you're planning on getting the iPhone 6s BE SURE TO TURN THIS FEATURE OFF.
Obviously, I'm not Tim, today.
No, this quote, complete with bolded capitalization, is not from Fox News or some tin-foil hat blog. Rather, it's from CBS.
So, are these claims true? Well, on a very technical level, yes they are, but there's no cause for concern. Apple calls these features Hey Siri and Live Photos.
This might sound like splitting hairs, but there's a bit of a difference between "listening" and "recording." The key difference between listening and recording is the same as caching and saving. Saving something means it persists until a user deletes it. Caching something means it's temporarily saved, for perhaps a second or two, until it's determined if it's needed. If the content is not needed, it's discarded much like a buffer; or, more likely, erased as new content is recorded over it.
Hey Siri, which is available on currently shipping iPhone models, only works when the phone is charging to save power. With the new iPhone 6s, the Hey Siri feature can be enabled at all times and, much like other listening devices, such as Amazon's Echo, it's constantly listening to sounds to determine if a key phrase is spoken. Let's say that's no more than two seconds of sound. After two seconds, any new sounds are recorded over the previous sounds. The same is true for Live Photos where Apple records video in a cache which is saved when you press the shutter button. With Live Photos, about one second of video is recorded just before and after you press the shutter. If you don't snap a photo, the video is discarded.
This isn't much different than any digital camera, whether it's on a smart phone or point-and-shoot model. Without pressing the shutter button, images are still cached on the LCD display on the back of the point-and-shoot camera for a fraction of a second. You could point a point-and-shoot camera at something I can't see and even if you never press the shutter, I could still record a video of the LCD display on the back of the point-and-shoot camera and capture everything. The key difference with Hey Siri and Live Photos is that no one has access to the cached content while the one or two second loop is recording.
Yellow-journalism is creeping more and more into mainstream media. Anything to get eye balls. Phft. Or, perhaps the joke's on me.
Update: Just to beat a dead horse, Apple chimed in to confirm that none of the Hey Siri or Live Photo content is leaving the iPhone 6S.
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Cary Dean Buterbaugh | April 3, 1965-May 4, 2019
Wed May 15th, 2019 1:30am
Cary Dean Buterbaugh, resident of Friday Harbor, born on April 3, 1965, of Anaheim, California, passed away on May 4, 2019, at age 54. He was predeceased by his parents, James K. and Phyllis Yvonne Buterbaugh also of Friday Harbor. He is survived by his son Jordan Buterbaugh; two brothers: Gregory (Deborah) and Randy (Elizabeth) Buterbaugh; his Aunt Pamela McArthur; beloved nieces: Morgan, Sarah (Jason Rich) Buterbaugh and Kristina Isphording; and nephew Shelby Buterbaugh.
Cary had a passion for hockey, was a creator of jokes and had a love of poetry. Whether watching games or playing in various leagues, including his time at the University of Western Washington, he was always captivated by the sport. Cary had the gift of filling a room with laughter when it came to his jokes and constantly spreading smiles. He also had a love for writing poetry. Although most were kept to himself, the ones that were shared were intimate, comforting and helped to ease burdens to those who were lucky enough to be in his presence.
Like his father James, Cary was loved by many, never met a stranger and welcomed everyone around him with loving arms.
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Costa del Sol News - 4th November 2011
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Saudi rail deal to benefit Málaga
The rolling stock and locomotives will be built at the city's Los Prados workshops
MÁLAGA is set to benefit from a 6.7 billion euro contract to build a high-speed rail line in Saudi Arabia.
The Renfe workshops at Los Prados in the city will be involved in the construction of rolling stock and locomotives for the line between Mecca and Medina.
The Spanish-led consortium, Al-Shoula, has been competing with consortia from a number of other countries, and since August 13 has been meeting representatives of the Saudi Railways Organisation in the last stages of negotiations. The consortium is composed of 12 Spanish companies, including Talgo and Renfe, plus two Saudi businesses.
Last week, an announcement published on the rail operator's web page confirmed that the consortium had agreed to all the issues under discussion and that it had been chosen to develop the entire second phase of a new high-speed rail link in the country. The contract includes the tracks, 35 trains, electric systems and overhead power lines, telecommunication systems, the launch of the service and maintenance for the first 12 months.
The trains to be built in Málaga will be similar to those already in use on Spain's AVE services, but they will have a greater capacity, each carrying up to 450 passengers. They will also be specially adapted to cope with local conditions of heat, sand and humidity.
Their top speed will be 330 kilometres per hour and there is an option for the Saudi Railways Organisation to purchase a further 23 trains, in addition to the initial 35 now ordered.
Drivers take to Málaga's new motorways
It was announced last week that use of the new toll road will be free of charge at night
MORE than 17,000 vehicles used the new toll motorway north of Málaga during its first 12 hours of opening last Friday. The AP46 has been built to relieve chronic congestion on the A46 road heading north from Málaga towards Antequera, and was free of tolls during its inaugural day.
Now, drivers must pay 3.05 euros to travel along it, a fee which will increase to 4.60 euros between June to September, and during Easter week. However, it was announced on Thursday that use of the new toll road will be free of charge at night. For light vehicles, there is no charge between midnight and 6am, while heavy vehicles can travel free between 10pm and 8am.
There are also discounts of between five and 20 per cent for regular users, for return journeys made within 48 hours, for the disabled and for those over 65 years old. The discounts are linked to the electronic toll paying system.
The 28-kilometre autovía has seven kilometres of bridges and viaducts, plus 2.2 kilometres of tunnels. The concession operator Guadalcesa said that on its first day around 3,000 vehicles an hour were using the road which cuts the journey time between Málaga and Antequera to just 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, the full opening of Málaga's northern ring road last Thursday has proved a success with motorists. With through traffic now able to completely by-pass the city centre on the new A7, the existing motorway - now renamed the MA20 - was described as being as quiet as on a Sunday. Chronic tailbacks around the city's conference centre were absent, although there were the usual delays at a number of exits. Official estimates suggest that half the traffic which travelled through Málaga on the old A7 will now use the new relief road.
Major boost for Guadalhorce Cercanías line
The Málaga-Álora C-2 line gets 25 per cent increase in trains on November 7
THE C-2 Cercanías line between Málaga and Álora will see a major boost in service beginning on November 7, with 25 per cent more trains and shorter wait times.
The current 22 trains a day will jump to 28 - 14 in each direction - and on weekdays and the frequency of service at peak times will be 60 minutes, improving connections with the C-1 Málaga-Fuengirola line and with other Renfe services out of Málaga, said officials.
The announcement was made last week by the socialist PSOE's president in Málaga and congressional candidate, Miguel Ángel Heredia, who took a ride on the C-2 line along with other PSOE candidates and the mayors of Cártama, Pizarra and Álora (all also PSOE), who have long been lobbying for improved service on the line.
Sr Herredia said that, apart from benefitting current train users, the service increase is aimed at boosting ridership on the C-2 line by around 25 per cent, to a million passengers a year.
The mayors of Cártama, Pizarra and Álora - Jorge Gallardo, Francisco Vargas and José Sánchez respectively - said they will carry out local campaigns to promote the train service.
The C-2 line, which covers its 37-kilometre route a little over a half-hour, is currently used by around 2,000 people a day.
Town hall street-light war leaves A7 drivers in the dark
THE street lighting on the A7 dual carriageway as it passes through Estepona and parts of Manilva has been cut off for nearly two weeks, and drivers could soon find themselves in the dark along stretches of the road in Mijas, Fuengirola and Marbella as the town halls halt electricity payments, saying the lighting is the responsibility of the Public Works Ministry.
In September the mayors of the towns wrote to Public Works demanding that the ministry begin paying for the A7 lighting, as well as reimburse the town halls millions of euros they have paid for the lighting over the last 15 years.
Estepona was the first to see the lights go out and Fuengirola announced it would stop paying beginning Tuesday of this week, followed by Mijas on Wednesday - though MIjas said it would keep the lights on at the dangerous La Cala curve. It is understood Marbella may hold out a little longer for a response from Public Works before halting payment.
The Manilva stretch currently has lighting only at a few roundabouts and danger zones, and the town hall says it will continue paying for that until the end of the year and then decide how to move forward.
Estepona claims it is owed three million euros for past lighting bills, Mijas around a million euros, Fuengirola 600,000 euros and Marbella more than three million euros.
The town halls have contacted not only Public Works but also Endesa to inform it to take the electricity contracts of their names. Once that is put into effect for all the towns, the lights could go out along a total of 71 kilometres of the dual carriageway.
Fuengirola bomb was aimed at international reaction
High Court hears final arguments from prosecutor in trial of alleged ETA members
THE prosecutor has stated in the High Court that the ETA bomb attack in Fuengirola on June 21, 2002, was not only an attempt to seek national attention but also to generate an international reaction. It coincided with a summit of the European Union being held in Sevilla.
Miguel Ángel Carbello was making his final submission to the trial being held in the High Court in which members of the 'Comando Argala' are in the dock. They are ETA members Andoni Otegi and Oskar Zelarain, for whom the prosecution is seeking a jail term of 146 years each for setting off the car bomb, which was left in front of a Fuengirola hotel.
Nobody was killed in the attack but six people were injured and compensation of 100,000 euros is being sought. However the prosecutor says the fact nobody was killed was an "authentic miracle" and the car bombs were of sufficient strength to cause "incalculable" carnage.
Benefit cheats will be caught, warns UK
Investigators catch British expat who pleads guilty to £15,000 fraud
THE VAST majority of people who claim UK benefits are honest, law-abiding citizens, but there are those who continue to cheat the system... and who continue to get caught.
One such cheat was James Bowery, 54, from Harrowside, Blackpool. For years he enjoyed life in Spain, living off UK income support, a non-exportable benefit, without telling the DWP that he had moved to Málaga. In total he fraudulently claimed over £15,000. Having been caught, he pleaded guilty to benefit fraud at Blackpool Magistrates Court in September and was sentenced to a three-month curfew order, restricting his freedom to leave home - and of course he has to pay the money back.
Many assume that benefit fraud only occurs when someone receives a benefit, such as Job Seekers Allowance or incapacity benefit, and fails to tell the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) when they start working.
But people who are in receipt of UK benefits have a responsibility to tell the DWP about any change in their circumstances, such as moving in with a partner, changing address, or going or moving abroad, say government officials.
The DWP will soon be imposing a civil penalty on those who fail to keep them updated. For people who fail to take reasonable care of their claim, perhaps knowingly letting a change in circumstances run on and incurring a small overpayment, the DWP will swiftly apply a £50 civil penalty as a punishment to deter them from such action in future. Deliberately withholding information that affects a benefit claim is a crime.
Guarded response to ETA 'cessation'
Basque terror group announces end of violence but does not disarm
LAST Thursday's announcement by ETA of a "definitive cessation" to bombings and shootings has been given a guarded welcome. Some, however, do not believe the terrorist group has gone far enough.
ETA's move came three days after a peace conference in San Sebastián attended by international delegates including Kofi Annan, Gerry Adams and Bertie Ahern, which called on the Basque separatists to end their armed struggle.
A video showed three individuals dressed in black with white masks covering their faces reading a statement which expressed a "clear, firm and definitive" undertaking to overcome armed confrontation and called on both the Spanish and French governments to open a direct dialogue with them.
Reacting quickly to the announcement, Prime Minister Zapatero called it a "victory for democracy, law and reason," while opposition leader Mariano Rajoy said it was an "important step," adding that Spain's peace of mind would only be complete once ETA was disbanded.
The defence minister, meanwhile, indicated that the government is not prepared to do deals with ETA. Speaking on television last Friday, Carmé Chacon said, "There is nothing to negotiate with ETA," adding that the group had not achieved any of its aims and that the decades "of pain and crime have not benefitted them at all".
Leonard Cohen gets Spanish Nobel
Other honourees include Fukushima heroes and London Royal Society
THE glittering annual ceremony to present the Príncipe de Asturias Awards to their recipients was held in Oviedo last Friday night. Prince Felipe praised the achievements of the winners of the eight awards, saying that they would instil in others "the passion to create and the will to innovate."
Spain's crown prince also took the opportunity to comment on the previous day's announcement of an end to acts of terrorism by ETA. It was, he said, "a great victory" for the rule of law.
A warm welcome was given to the Heroes of Fukushima, recipients of the Concord prize. These are the employees of Japan's crippled nuclear plant who worked to contain the emergency after March's earthquake and tsunami. They were represented by two policemen and two soldiers, plus Toyohiko Tomioka who led a team of fire-fighters in efforts to cool the plant. In his acceptance speech, he said they would continue to work towards the safety of the Japanese people, ending with a rousing "¡Viva España!"
The winner of the Letters award, 77-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, revealed hitherto unknown connections with Spain in his acceptance speech. He told how his love of the country had been born through the hands of a young Spaniard who played flamenco guitar in a park near his home in Montreal. Cohen said he took private classes from the player for the few days it took to learn six chords. He explained that these chords had been "the base of all my songs, of all my work."
The Italian conductor, Riccardo Muti, took the Arts award, while the winners of the prize of Technical and Scientific Research, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, Jospeh Altman and Giacomo Rizzolatti, won for their work in neurobiology. London's Royal Society won the Communications and Humanities Award, developmental psychologist Howard Gardner collected Social Sciences, and social entrepreneur Bill Drayton took International Cooperation. The Sports award went to Ethiopia's long-distance runner Haile Gebreselassie.
Each recipient was awarded 50,000 euros and a sculpture by Joan Miró, plus a diploma and insignia bearing the Prince of Asturias Foundation coat of arms.


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Many of my patients have asked if I use packing inside the nose after their nose surgery or nose job. Nasal packing can be quite uncomfortable and cause significant pressure for the patient after rhinoplasty.
I therefore do not pack the nose after surgery. Rarely, a patient may have significant bleeding during the procedure and I may elect to pack the nose at the completion of the surgery to avoid future bleeding.
However, typically, the nose remains unpacked and the patient seems to have less discomfort because of this.
Rhinoplasty or a nose job is a type of surgery that is not particularly painful, but can be uncomfortable. My patients rarely need to take much of their narcotic medication but describe the first two days after surgery as having more discomfort than pain.
Your nose will feel congested the first few days and once the swelling settles, will improve. Recovery from nose surgery typically takes anywhere between 6-10 days. Most if not all of your bruising should be resolved by then and you are actually quite "social" at this stage. Full work out routine and exercise may be resumed at 2 weeks after surgery. The recovery from rhinoplasty for the cosmetic aspect of the nose and the functional aspect of the nose is quite similar.
Dr. Funk is a rhinoplasty specialist in Houston who treats both the deviate septum and breathing issues in addition to the cosmetic concerns of the patient.
Eyelid surgery or blepharoplasty in the Asian community has different aesthetic and anatomic concerns. The Northern Asian eyelid (China, Korea, Japan) has different anatomic features that the Caucasion or Southern Asian (Thai, Phillipine, Vietnamese) eyelid.
The upper eyelid crease is typically much lower and there is a small layer of fat between the skin and the muscle in the Northern Asian eyelid. There may also be an epicanthal fold medially. Aesthetically, many patients desire "westernization" of their upper eyelid and create a new crease more superior to the original one. Ablation of the epicanthal fold may also be desired depending on the anatomy and the patient.
Similar to Caucasion cosmetic eyelid surgery, the fat is trimmed and excess skin is resected.
Dr. Funk is a board certified facial plastic surgeon who is an eyelid surgery specialist in Houston.
The term facelift is somewhat of a misnomer. As far as I am concerned, if your desire a facelift for your jowls or loose facial skin, you likely need your neck addressed as well. That is to say, you likely have significant laxity in your neck skin and may have sub mental or neck fullness that needs to be addressed.
A facelift should really be termed a face and neck lift. It truly should address the face and neck effectively. It should improve the appearance of the jowls, neck muscle banding, face and neck skin laxity, and sub mental or neck fullness from fat herniation.
Recovery from a face and neck lift is typically 2-3 weeks.
Dr. Funk is a board certified facial plastic surgeon specializing in facelift and neck lift procedures in Houston, TX.


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Sawdust and Tinsel
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Rune Waldekranz
Ingmar Bergman (uncredited)
Åke Grönberg
Hasse Ekman
Hilding Bladh
Sven Nykvist
Carl-Olov Skeppstedt
14 September 1953 (1953-09-14)
Sawdust and Tinsel (Swedish: Gycklarnas afton) is a 1953 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman.
An aging circus ringmaster visits his estranged wife to see his young sons. Meanwhile, his jealous young lover has an affair with an actor.
Åke Grönberg as Albert Johansson
Harriet Andersson as Anne
Hasse Ekman as Frans
Anders Ek as Frost
Gudrun Brost as Alma
Annika Tretow as Agda
Erik Strandmark as Jens
Gunnar Björnstrand as Mr. Sjuberg
Curt Löwgren as Blom
It has an 100% approval rating from 9 reviews listed at Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 8/10.[1] In 2012 it was voted one of the 25 best Swedish films of all time.[2] The film was shown as part of an Ingmar Bergman Retrospective at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival in 2011.[3]
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Music in Darkness (1948)
Port of Call (1948)
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Thirst (1949)
To Joy (1950)
This Can't Happen Here (1950)
Summer Interlude (1951)
Secrets of Women (1952)
Summer with Monika (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
A Lesson in Love (1954)
Dreams (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Brink of Life (1958)
The Magician (1958)
The Devil's Eye (1960)
Winter Light (1963)
The Silence (1963)
All These Women (1964)
Persona (1966)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
The Rite (1969)
The Passion of Anna (1969)
The Touch (1971)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
The Magic Flute (1975)
Face to Face (1976)
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
After the Rehearsal (1984)
The Blessed Ones (1986)
In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Saraband (2003)
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Woman Without a Face (1947)
Eva (1948)
While the City Sleeps (1950)
Divorced (1951)
Last Pair Out (1956)
The Best Intentions (1992)
Sunday's Children (1992)
Private Confessions (1996)
Faithless (2000)
The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1986)
"Daniel" (Segment in Stimulantia; 1967)
Karin's Face (1986)
Television theatre
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The Venetian (1958)
Rabies (1958)
The Image Makers (2000)
Bergman Week
Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie
The Dove
The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman Award
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We are delighted to have food industry insider Simon Tuckey as our Amabassador. Simon has spent most of his career in the food industry in the UK and overseas. In the last 10 years he has branched into other areas like house building, healthcare and sport but has, in the last 2 years, returned to food with the launch of Tuckey's Proper Biscuits. Read his longer biography and aspirations.
Rosena qualified as a chartered physiotherapist in UK in 1994, and gained her Masters degree in Sports Injury and Therapy in 2000. For ten years she worked with some of the UK's elite sports men and women (both able bodied and disabled) travelling nationally and internationally as team physiotherapist. One highlight was Rosena's appointment as part of UKAthletics medical team for 2000 Paralympic games in Sydney.
Rosena has worked in some renowned clinics prior to setting up her own clinic Johnston Clinic limited in SW London in 2000. During this time she trained in the Sarah Key Method which centres on understanding spinal pain. As a result Rosena practices a patient centred approach to back pain and is often the person who supports motivated clients when they wish to avoid surgical interventions. As a result Rosena's passion for her work, she was appointed Chair of the Sarah Key Teacher Training Group to facilitate the training of the 1st cohort of teacher trainers.
Rosena's passion and desire for providing the best patient care resulted in her being invited to the Neuromusculoskeletal faculty for the College of Medicine at its launch 6 years ago. This has involved creating links with Osteopaths, Chirpractors and Physiotherpists, organising joint seminars for all 3 professions and facilitating breakout sessions at conferences. Rosena was invited to speak at the colleges first International Conference in Bangalore in November 2013 "What To Do With An Acute Locked Back" with guest speaker Archbishop Desmond Tutu and HRH The Prince of Wales. Rosena came to Singapore in 2013 and was appointed overseas ambassador for the college.
Currently, Rosena is Team Lead and Principal physiotherapist at Changi Sports Medicine Clinic, she is sharing her knowledge and experience with the physiotherapists and Drs, facilitating Quality Review Projects and developing new services – RSWT (Radial Shockwave Therapy) and collaborating with SAF (Singapore Armed Forces) to improve service provision to the injured servicemen and women.


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National holidays in Norway are regulated by the Act Respecting Public Holidays and their Sanctity – 1995. This Act names the 10 national holidays and provides the government with the authority to create additional national holidays as one-time events if necessary.
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Yet even here, let me attempt a rescue which goes beyond the realm of conscious intentions. What will be the effect of Grass's belated revelation? As he approaches the end of his life, as the memories of Nazism fade, as the activities of his SS-Frundsberg division become the object of weekend leisure war games in the United States[9] , Grass suddenly demolishes his own statue— not as a writer of fiction, but as a moral authority on frank and timely facing up to the Nazi past—and leaves its ruins lying, like Shelley's Ozymandias, as a warning beside the roadside. Nothing he could say or write on this subject would be half so effective as the personal example that he has now left us. For sixty years even Günter Grass could not come clean about being a member of the Waffen-SS! Look, stranger, and tremble.
When I was starting to think about this mystery, I discussed it with a German friend, just a couple of years younger than the novelist but with a very different wartime biography. "You know, I have a theory about that," he said. "I think Grass never was in the Waffen-SS. He's just convinced himself that he was." I'm sure my friend didn't mean this literally. Rather, I understood his remark as a kind of poetic insight into the tortured and labyrin-thine quality of German memory. "But don't write it," he added. "Otherwise Grass will sue you for claiming he was not in the Waffen-SS."
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"I look for relevant research, interesting themes and funny stories on sites like 3 Quarks Daily, Crooked Timber, Boing Boing and Slashdot."
—Clay Shirky, prominent thinker on the Internet and its social and economic consequences, and author of Here Comes Everybody, in The Atlantic.


Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Sunday requiring parents who exclude their children from immunization requirements to submit a signed statement that they received information about risks and benefits of vaccines.
Democratic Assemblyman Richard Pan of Sacramento proposed the measure, Assembly Bill 2109, which requires the statement to be signed by the parents and by a health care practitioner.
In signing the bill, Brown said that he will direct the state Department of Health to provide a way for people whose religious beliefs preclude vaccinations from having to seek a health care practitioner's signature.
Opponents of AB 2109 blasted it as a form of government coercion that forces parents to jump through a bureaucratic hoop, potentially incurring cost to obtain a healthcare practitioner's signature, before exercising their legal right to opt out of vaccinations.
Pan, a pediatrician by profession, characterized the measure as a way to increase public safety by raising immunization rates.
You may find the text of the signing statement here.
For several years, rumors have spread through all-natural, hippie parenting circles that vaccines contain chemicals that cause autism. They maintain, despite a total lack of scientific evidence, that children have been disabled and incapacitated by mercury and other preservatives in vaccines. The one scientific study that might have made their case was discredited last year and its results thrown out. Despite this, many famous parents, including Jenny McCarthy (of MTV fame) and Mayim Bialik (TV's Blossom) have publicly lambasted vaccine research while declaring their children to be unvaccinated. Unfortunately, these conspiracy theories have hit the political mainstream as well. During the primaries this year Rep. Michele Bachmann repeated rumors she heard from an audience member at a debate about vaccine safety. In 2008, both candidates for president spread vaccine misinformation, claiming that the science was still undecided on the link between vaccines and autism.
The millions of dollars raised and spent by governments and organizations to end polio worldwide is money well-spent. Unfortunately, one epidemic could undo the decades of work making this vaccine available to every child in the world. We've already seen outbreaks of deadly and entirely preventable diseases like whooping cough and themeasles, and instances of diseases with vaccines available have increased as immunization opt-outs rise. While it's admirable that these groups are working to make vaccines available in the most remote villages in the world, parents in Portland and other liberal epicenters are setting medical science back fifty years in the United States.


Begin by loading some data and doing a regression example. We can use the manp data set which was used in earlier examples.
Observe that in the output window there are four tables created, which are also ods objects.
We are going to now use the "document" destination. The document needs a name. It is a SAS name similar to data set names. In fact, a two-level name can be used to store the document permanently. The document destination must be closed when you are finished with what you want to put in it.
Before running the code, you need to put the command "odsdocuments" in the command bar in the upper left corner of the SAS window. This opens a document window on the left side with the Results and Explorer. (It can also be done after running the program.) In this window there will be a tree which shows the objects in the document.
You have to navigate through the tree down to the "leaves" in the document which are the ods objects. Here you can right click and perform more tasks. Under "Open As" you can open them in various output destinations. You can also save them from the document viewer in these other formats.
Now go to the document tree, right click on an object, and choose "replay." Then go back to the program window and close the ods destination.
This will create your document using the settings in the ods statement.
Now we'll do a few examples using proc document. You can specify the document name which shows up under the documents folder. One of the statments is "list" which will print some information about the path and names of objects. This may be needed to refer to the objects.
Right-click on documents and select "New Document." Give it a new name if you like. Select work or another directory in the list at the bottom. Now go to the tree for Manpresult and right click on an object, say "Parameter Estimates." Choose copy. Go to your new document folder and choose paste. I have found that the new object doesn't show up right away, but if you right click on the new document folder and select "Expand All" it will show up. You can copy and paste more objects from any of the documents you have in the document window to your new document. They will be entered in the order you listed, they are always added to the bottom of the document. You can then use the method above to replay the document into any destination you choose.


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Melvin Yong: Hawkers, Digitise to Survive
Labour Member of Parliament Melvin Yong pens his thoughts on forging partnerships to help hawkers digitise.
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This article is contributed by Labour Member of Parliament and NTUC Assistant Secretary-General Melvin Yong. Any extracts must be attributed to the author. 20 June 2020.
The circuit breaker has been a tough period for all Singaporeans, especially our beloved hawkers and wet market stallholders. Many, in particular the 20 to 30 per cent of hawkers who decided to temporarily close their stalls during the circuit breaker period, heaved a sigh of relief when it was announced that Singapore will be going into phase two of circuit breaker on 19 June 2020!
However, if you think life will resume to pre-COVID-19 times, think again.
A photo of happier times, pre-COVID-19. It feels like ages ago since we have been allowed to dine-in at hawker centres, but it has only been two and a half months!
The experiences of other countries are telling. In China, over 100 million people faced renewed lockdown in the North-eastern region with scores of flights to and from Beijing being cancelled and some neighbourhoods being blocked off. In Japan, Hokkaido suffered a second wave of COVID-19 infections after lifting lockdown measures; while in South Korea, new clusters have formed quickly after lockdown restrictions were eased, forcing closures of more than 250 schools just days after they re-opened.
So even as we entered the second phase of reopening our economy yesterday, experts and economists have cautioned that Phase 2 could last for months. Therefore, it is important for our hawkers to adapt to the new 'Dabao' culture, as it will be a period of time before life returns to 'business-as-usual' and even then, it may not be the 'business-as-usual' that we are accustomed to pre-COVID-19.
Can Our Hawkers Thrive in a Post-COVID-19 Landscape? Yes, They Can!
A visit to Newton Food Centre during happier times. We will do our best to bring back the smiles to our hawkers.
In the face of uncertainty, I am glad to see that many hawkers have decided to take this opportunity and embrace the new digital age, banding together to survive. Ground-up initiatives, such as Hawkers United – Dabao 2020 Facebook Group and SG Dabao, have sprung up to give hawkers with a platform to promote their offerings to a wider audience.
The Government has also stepped in by providing grants and financial incentives for hawkers to digitalise. In April 2020, the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced an initiative to provide cooked food stallholders with a one-off financial assistance of $500 to help with the costs of signing up with delivery platforms. Through the Digital Resilience Bonus, SMEs in the Food Services industry can receive additional funding support of up to $10,000 to help them digitise quicker. The existing Hawkers' Productivity Grant has also been expanded to include more hawkers, beyond just the cooked food stallholders, to help fund the purchase of equipment that can help shorten food preparation time and increase productivity. Not forgetting the new SG Digital Office, which will outreach to some 18,000 hawkers and 100,000 seniors, to help them go digital.
Despite such assistance provided, when I spoke to second-generation hawker, Melvin Chew, and his fellow hawkers who manage the Hawkers United Facebook group, they told me that the fear of technology is still there for many older hawkers. Fortunately, these problems are not insurmountable and in fact, many elderly hawkers and market stallholders have already shown us that they can adapt to the 'new normal'. All they need is a little help!
Hence, ground outreach efforts and the recent Hawkers Go Digital programme by the Infocomm Media Development Authority, will not only be the key in helping our hawkers and showing them that digitalisation is not as daunting as it sounds but will also extend a helping hand and a little encouraging nudge to hawkers in their road to digitalisation.
Tekka Online Market, a First of Its Kind!
During the circuit breaker, the Infocomm and Media Development Authority (IMDA) taught wet market stallholders from Tekka Centre how to sell their produce using Facebook Livestream. I showed my support by making the first order for some boxes of fresh mushrooms during their first livestream.
It was my first time making an online purchase from a wet market stall through Facebook, and it was also the first time for all the stallholders. Despite being new to this, many stallholders gamely stepped up to the challenge and received many supportive comments. Today, a number of stallholders have started to live stream on their own.
One of them is Mohamed Mustafa, the owner of Haji M N Shahul Hameed Marketing. Like many hawkers and stallholders, 61-year-old Mohamed's business has been affected by the circuit breaker and social distancing measures. However, thanks to the help of the IMDA, he has learnt how to live stream via Facebook and sell his mutton online
Mohamed told me that he now live streams regularly on Fridays, and online sales have made up for the drop in business caused by the pandemic. He tells me that on a good day, all his stocks are snapped up within 15 minutes of live streaming! Going online also meant that he can now reach out to customers from far away, and he has recently made deliveries to new customers in Woodlands and Punggol.
"Using Facebook to live stream is not difficult at all. All you need is a handphone and a laptop, and you can even tap on Government grants to purchase the equipment," said Mohamed when asked if it was difficult to learn how to live stream.
My Grassroots Leaders and I met with Youmin Kim, the founder of Take.sg, during the Circuit Breaker period to discuss how we could collaborate to help our hawkers adapt to the post-circuit-breaker F&B industry.
Another stallholder who has embraced live streaming is Lee Bee Bee, the owner of Lim Siew Keow Dried Foods. 50-year-old Bee Bee heard about the Tekka Online Market from her fellow stallholders and decided to try her hand at live streaming. Together with her 28-year-old nephew, they live stream every Sunday, which accounts for about 10 per cent of their sales.
"My nephew helped me to reach out to IMDA and they gave him tips on how to do the live stream. We operate a very simple setup. Just one handphone is good enough to get started," said Bee Bee.
Bee Bee showing me how she positions her ikan bilis so that Facebook users can see how big they are.
The reinvention of our wet market stallholders to become "web market superstars" shows us that our hawkers and stallholders can all adapt and seize opportunities in this new normal. Hence, we want to help and support them to do so easily!
Working with Partners to Make It Easier for Hawkers
Partnering with Take.sg to Improve the Ordering Experience
With most of the ordering done online during this period, it is important to ensure that customers have a smooth ordering experience while ensuring that stallholders can cope with the order volume during peak periods.
That is why we reached out to Take.sg to see if we could work together to provide a smooth ordering experience for both customers and hawkers. Youmin Kim, founder of Take.sg, created a Whatsapp ordering form, to help hawkers capture orders easily through Whatsapp. Youmin told me he created the free platform to help hawkers and restaurants who were overwhelmed by the number of WhatsApp orders they received on a daily basis.
I am happy to share that Take.sg will continue working with Moulmein-Cairnhill to further improve the user experience on the platform, catering towards our more elderly hawkers. We will also look at improving the backend inventory system to cater specifically to our wet market stallholders.
"I think that this is a good initiative to collaborate on, as it is important for us to help hawkers, wet market stallholders, and mom-and-pop grocery shops to survive in the digital world," said Youmin, whose day job is an engineer at Facebook.
Partnering with nEbo's Photography Interest Group
During my engagement sessions, one important feedback that stood out to me was that hawkers find it difficult to take 'Instagram-worthy' or appetising photos of their food to post online. To help them, I have roped in the help of nEbO's photography interest group. nEbO is the junior membership arm of NTUC.
To kick off this project, five nEbO volunteers who are photography enthusiasts will volunteer their time to help hawkers and wet market stallholders in Pek Kio Market and Tekka Market take photos of their food and products which will then be uploaded ontoTake.sg.
Taking good food photography requires skills!
Support for Hawkers Paramount in Helping Them Ride Through COVID-19
Our hawkers are a resilient lot. While many may have been unfamiliar with e-commerce and food delivery in the past, they have now embraced it in a bid to survive.
We can and need to do more to aid our hawkers in their transformation to Hawker 4.0. I firmly believe that we can lower food delivery commission fees, which are currently a key entry barrier for many hawkers. The collaboration between NTUC Fairprice and WhyQ, which will charge zero commission fees to our hawkers, is a great initiative.
Let us continue to support our hawkers and preserve our beloved hawker culture. In the meantime, dabao, dabao, dabao!
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Creativity is an important characteristic to foster in your child. Fostering a creative spirit will give your child experience identifying a problem and coming up with new ideas for solving it. Here are four ways to encourage creativity in your young child.
Inventors, scientists, and mathematicians are all creative problem solvers. Creativity is an important characteristic to foster in your child. Fostering a creative spirit will give your child experience identifying a problem and coming up with new ideas for solving it. Here are four ways to encourage creativity in your young child.
Most inventors are creative people with a wide range of interests. Foster your child's interests through books and conversations. Is your child interested in stamps? Coins? Bugs? Rocks? Use your public library to check out books and other resources on the topic. Be aware of community events such as bird walks and hand-on activities that will help your child explore their interest. Encourage your child to become a collector.
Did you know that Silly Putty was discovered accidentally when the General Electric Company attempted to find a substitute for rubber during World War II? Since then, over 200 million plastic eggs, containing 3,000 tons of Silly Putty, have been sold. Many inventions come from what feels like a mistake. Help your child understand that mistakes provide opportunities to learn. It will help if you share mistakes you've made recently too!
Despite a very busy schedule, try to find a moment to look at an everyday item or event in a new way. Creativity can make common things special and special things more common!
Setting the right tone and atmosphere at home will foster creativity and learning. Ask open-ended questions that have multiple answers. Give your child the freedom to try and to make mistakes, even if things don't work out as planned. Praise your child's effort, or process, rather than praising the outcome or product. And most importantly, have fun with the creative young learner in your life!