The turbulent market in 2018 has complicated many people's retirement planning. It has also made it more important than ever to check your current plan to see if you're on track towards meeting your investment goals.
If you have a lot of time until you retire, small tweaks in savings or investment strategy can make a big difference. Retirement just around the corner? Sometimes a few changes to your plan now can help you cross the finish line, even if market conditions are less than fully cooperative.
1. Determine where you stand. See whether the amount you're saving and investing is on pace with the money you'll need to retire (with some margin for error). You can find numerous calculators online to help. Also, some investment advisory accounts, like Morgan Stanley Access Investing, inform you automatically when you aren't meeting your goals. If you have accumulated several different retirement accounts from past jobs, however, knowing where you stand may be harder than it should be. Consider working with a Financial Advisor with access to sophisticated tools, or consolidating your retirement accounts.
2. If you're off track, figure out why. Are you saving as much as you planned? Are you maximizing your contributions to your employer-sponsored retirement plan or individual retirement account (IRA)? Is the amount of money you'll need in retirement increasing? If you're not on course because your investments aren't performing well, see if you should make a change to your asset allocation strategy, or to the specific investments you've chosen. If your investments are not performing at least in line with benchmarks, it may be best to review the latest research in the context of the original rationale for the product. Assuming that checks out, it may be wise to hold on through a period of volatility, as chasing top performers may be a poor way to make decisions.
3. Decide how to get back on track. That could include revisiting your goal, for example by stretching out the time horizon until you retire or reducing the amount of money you plan to spend in retirement. It can also mean increasing portfolio risk, though only after careful consideration of your risk tolerance. It could be that the most palatable option is a little of all three, which makes the magnitude of any one change smaller. If you don't see a clear path to reaching your goals, consider consulting with a Financial Advisor who can help steer you in the right direction.
4. Take advantage of ways to improve returns without magnifying the risks. These strategies can include options to minimize taxes, such as "income smoothing" and tax loss harvesting. Insurance can also play a role. If used correctly, long-term care, life insurance and annuities have the potential to bolster your retirement plan due to their tax treatment and risk mitigation features.
5. Tally up your income sources. If you are retiring soon, you need to get the most out of all your sources of income. That could include strategies for claiming Social Security and traditional pension fund payments, and where applicable, approaches to help you secure or maximize rental income. If your reliable sources of income are not significant as a portion of your needs, you may want to add more conservative income-oriented investments, such as dividend paying stocks or bonds.
6. Assess the risk level of your plan. If you run through these steps and realize that you are on target to retire in a few years with room to spare, consider reducing the amount of risk in your portfolio. The current business cycle is in late innings. The stock market was rocky in 2018 and, while in our opinion, it doesn't appear that recession is imminent, a downturn may materialize in the next few years.
Checking in on your retirement plan doesn't just entail making sure you are saving enough money. It also means helping ensure the savings you've worked so hard to accumulate will be there when you need it.
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Why, it's Sherry of course! PLEASE read on!
For most people the word Sherry conjures up images of sticky brown liquids dragged reluctantly from the same bottle in Great Aunt Mildred's drinks cabinet, Christmas after Christmas (with a possible funereal exception) and forced to be sipped even more reluctantly by people who subsequently look exceptionally grave, even if they hadn't before.
This is, of course, an abomination. I would wager that almost all people who claim to hate Sherry are basing it on the experience of tasting from a tired old bottle which has been open to the air, dust, flying insects, and an atmosphere that smells faintly but distinctively of lavender and old lady's wee, for year upon year. Of course, you'd hate the finest of cheeses, cakes, chocolate, truffle or anything else, had they been subjected to such treatment.
Understandably, even the people who vaguely liked the stuff grew to regard it with disdain and a sense of anachronism. Sales fell away. However, the generation of Great Aunt Mildreds is gradually making its exit, and now is the time to think again!
The word Sherry is a corruption of the Spanish Jerez, which is in itself a corruption of the Moorish word Xerez. All three are featured on the seal of the local authority ("Consejo Regulador"). Maybe they'd be better off using one of the other words, but fashions can and do change, and Sherry's renaissance is well overdue.
Sherry, although laden with heritage, is first and foremost, a wine, and needs to be treated as such. Serve chilled (almost invariably although it is a matter of taste) from a fresh, recently opened bottle. Sherry is a fortified wine, with extra alcohol added, but many are no stronger than normal table wines.
All Sherry is made dry*, some Sherries are subsequently sweetened, right at the end of the process. This is generally to serve the export markets (principally the UK and USA). In Spain itself, and especially in Andalucia where Sherry comes from, pretty much all the Sherry sold is dry, and a lot of it is Fino. These are light, elegant, crisp, pale wines. They can be served from an open bottle (kept in the fridge) for up to a week, but no longer than this. They have the same alcohol level as most wines from Australia or other sunny places (15%). The flavours are not of the fruit – the grape that makes Sherry, Palomino, is fairly insipid in its own right – but of the process. For Fino Sherries, this is involves a layer of yeast (called 'flor') that grows on the wine's surface, protects it from oxidation, feeds on the glycerol in the wine (thus lowering the calorie content!) and flavours it with a gentle character of almond skin, apple peel and chamomile. In fact, the word Manzanilla, which indicates a Fino from the coast, is from the Spanish for chamomile. The wines are very pale and bone dry, and there is, simply, no better wine to accompany saltiness in food, from olives to bocerones, and from wonderful glistening jamón ibérico to octopus salad. Andalucia was where tapas first originated in fact.
Other Sherries, such as Amontillado and Oloroso, are fortified to an alcoholic strength that prevents the flor growing, and also eliminates the risk of bacterial spoilage (vinegar mainly), and so the wines are aged open to the air, which oxidizes them and allows them to develop nutty flavours to accompany their range of tawny to nut-brown hues. These are the Sherries that may subsequently be sweetened (with a dried grape raisin wine called Pedro Ximenez, which is also Sherry*, and occasionally sold separately), but are nevertheless at their most sublime when left dry.
No wine is a better accompaniment for soup than Sherry (the whole liquid with liquid thing is very difficult to match) from a Fino with gazpacho to a deep Oloroso with a rich onion or oxtail stew-like soup, this is one of the world's greatest food and wine matches. Sherries that have the extra fortification and are already oxidized can be left in an open bottle for a few weeks, but will go stale after that, so that bottle of Something-Cream that your granny pulls from the cupboard every year needs to be consigned to a detested pot-plant as soon as you possibly can. Apart from (and maybe including) the pot-plant, everyone's a winner in that scenario.


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2020 Medley #7
Poverty, COVID-19 and school, Testing,
Online instruction, Charters = risky business, Undermining religious liberty,
Talking to students about race
IT'S STILL POVERTY
We have a learning crisis but it's not about the kids
We know that student achievement is based largely on out of school factors yet we continue to try to "fix" the schools. Changing curriculum, blaming schools or teachers, privatizing, or overtesting won't solve the problem of low student achievement. The main link to low school achievement is poverty.
About a fifth of American students live in poverty (the same as child poverty in Indiana) and millions of those children live in food-insecure households.
As long as we, as a nation, refuse to address the growing inequality among our students, we'll continue to have high child poverty levels. Since high poverty correlates with low school achievement, we'll continue to have a large number of our students who fail to achieve.
World-class education nations don't do what seems to be our main strategy: Insist schools compete against one another, use toxic accountability measures to control and measure what schools do, and hold teachers as scapegoats for plunged education rankings...
Half a century of systematic research has shown that teachers account for about 10 to 15 per cent of the variability in students' test scores. A similar amount of variability is associated with other school factors, such as curriculum, resources and leadership. This means that most of the influence on students' educational achievement lies outside school — in homes, communities, peer groups and students' individual characteristics.
Make no mistake, teachers are the most influential part of school. We should stop thinking that teachers have the power to overcome all those inequalities that many children bring to school with them every day.
Schools Alone Cannot Save Children from Economic Inequality. Public Policy Must Assist Families in Deep Poverty
Public policy can ameliorate child poverty without being revolutionary. However, programs need to be redesigned and targeted to alleviate instability, privation and misery for the more than 2 million children living in America's poorest families. Child poverty overall was reduced in the decade between 1995 and 2005, but during that same period, the number children living in the deepest poverty rose from 2.2 to 2.6 million children. These are the conclusions of a new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) defines deep poverty as families living below half of the federal poverty level—below $14,000 per year for a family of four. Who are these children? "Children living in deep poverty are a diverse group…. In 2016, 37 percent were white, 30 percent were Latino, 23 percent were Black, and 6 percent were Asian; 45 percent lived in suburban areas, 32 percent in urban areas, and 11 percent in rural areas; 51 percent lived in a single-mother family, 37 percent in a married-couple family, and 6 percent in a single-father family; 16 percent lived in a family where someone had a work-limiting disability; and 89 percent were U.S. citizens and 31 percent lived in a family with a non-citizen."
A TEACHABLE MOMENT?
Listen to Trusted Expert Advice: Coronavirus, Schools, Fear, and an Uncertain Future
Children all over the country are getting an unplanned vacation from school because of COVID-19. Their schools are moving to "virtual instruction" (more on that below). The virus seems to be the perfect "teachable moment" as explained by Ed in the Apple. Students who are still in school could also benefit.
I was speaking with a school supervisor yesterday: he was teaching a kindergarten class: how to wash their hands. The lessons should be replicated in all classrooms across the city.
Science lessons, by grade, should explain what a virus is; English classes should be reading non-fiction about viruses and epidemics.
When I mentioned this I was told, "We don't want to unduly scare children." Knowledge is power: the more we involve the children, teach children, we all know that the "teachable moment" is at the heart of impactful instruction.
STANDARDIZED TESTS -- A LOW PRIORITY
Public Schools Can Recover from the COVID-19 Quarantine by Skipping High Stakes Tests
What should schools do when they come back from the forced COVID-19 layoff? Skip the test!
First, debrief your students. They will all have stories to tell about how their family survived, who got sick, who might still be sick, what they did to amuse themselves, and how they coped.
Then, get back to the curriculum. We should not waste time on tests. Remember that the greatest impact on a child's standardized test is what happens outside of school (see also We have a learning crisis but it's not about the kids, elsewhere in this Medley).
The question remains – what do we do when we get back to class?
We could extend the school year, but families have vacations planned and other obligations. This wouldn't solve much and frankly I don't think it will happen unless we're out for longer than expected.
I anticipate being back in school by mid April or so. That would leave about a month and a half left in the year.
This really leaves us with only two options: (1) hold our end of the year standardized tests and then fit in whatever else we can, or (2) forgo the tests and teach the curriculum.
If we have the tests, we could hold them shortly after school is back in session. That at least would give us more time to teach, but it would reduce the quality of the test scores. Kids wouldn't be as prepared and the results would be used to further dismantle the public school network.
Much better I think is option two: skip the tests altogether.
How Can K-12 Schools Make Up Time Lost To The Coronavirus? Scrap High Stakes Testing.
There will simply be no way to know how much of this year's test data is the result of coronavirus disruption. They will be a waste of time.
So don't give them.
Schools can not only recoup the time lost for giving the tests, but all the time spent preparing for the tests (plus, in some cases, all the time spent on zippy test pep rallies).
Cut the test. Reclaim the instructional time and use it to patch the holes that the coronavirus is going to blow in the school's curriculum. It's not a perfect solution, but it makes far more sense than wasting a bunch of time and money on a meaningless standardized test.
Ohio's Charter School War fails us when we could really use them.
If online charters are worthy of education dollars from the state, shouldn't they be taking the lead in teaching students "laid-off" from school during the COVID-19 crisis? This article is specifically about Ohio but is appropriate for any state with public money going to online charter schools.
With all this COVID-19 talk, every Ohio Public School District is planning to move to online instruction through the end of the year. While that seems like a heavy lift, it really shouldn't be. Why?
Because no state has more students already attending virtual schools than Ohio.
Yet in no instance has the Ohio Department of Education or any school district -- despite this emergency crisis -- said, "Hey, we have a lot of online schools already, why don't we ask them for help?"
CHARTERS -- A BAD RISK
Credit Ratings Agency: U.S. charter school sector "inherently risky and volatile"
Will higher risk relieve us of the charter school scourge which diverts public funds from real public schools?
5) National: Standard & Poor's has issued an assessment of the charter school sector's creditworthiness as part of an overview of public finance. "The charter school sector is inherently risky and volatile, relative to other public finance sectors, as reflected in our ratings distribution, and charter nonrenewal or revocations can affect credit quality swiftly. However, despite these intrinsic risks, the majority—82%—of S&P Global Ratings' ratings in the sector carried stable outlooks as of Dec. 31, 2019. While the sector is facing increasing political support for stricter charter laws or oversight in some states, federal government support for school choice remains strong, per-pupil funding is generally stable to growing, and demand for charter schools continues to grow. From a financing standpoint, charter schools' opportunities and options have expanded and interest rates remain low…
"Our rated universe increasingly reflects more established charter schools, which generally have completed several successful charter renewals, maintain steady academics, and experience less credit volatility than newer schools. While there are inherent credit risks that can affect schools throughout the year, such as failure to meet authorizer standards, charter nonrenewal due to factors such as academics, or enrollment shortfalls, we believe the sector's outlook for 2020 will continue being stable due to continued demand and growing per-pupil funding levels. However, should charter law and policy changes of significant impact occur in states where we hold a large number of ratings, or some of the broader risks (such as a slowing national economy or recession) transpire during this calendar year, charter schools could face more credit stress." [Registration required]
VOUCHER PROGRAMS UNDERMINE RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
School Voucher Programs Undermine Religious Liberty, Misuse Taxpayer Funds
The following is from the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. Vouchers aren't good for anyone...
Yes, "choice" sounds like it is associated with "freedom," but by funneling government funds to religious schools, vouchers actually undermine the religious freedom of both the taxpayer and the religious institution receiving the payment.
Not only do vouchers force taxpayers to support religious education they might disagree with, they also threaten religious autonomy by attaching government regulations that may compromise the religious mission of the school. Once dependent on voucher funds for its success, a church-based school can be even further pushed toward gaining favor with government regulators.
In other words, government neutrality toward religion is good for the state and good for religion.
TALK TO WHITE KIDS ABOUT RACE
White Fragility in Students
We should talk to all our students about race in America.
In our interviews with young people around the country for our Teaching While White podcast, we have seen firsthand an inability among white students to talk about race without exhibiting racial stress. We hear white children as young as nine years old express anxiety about being white and what they think that means. Often these white students, who mind you have volunteered to be interviewed, feel ill equipped and sometimes unable to engage in racial conversations. It seems that we are successfully raising the next generation of white people who, like too many in the current generation of adults, feel afraid and reluctant to talk about race.
There is a common cultural myth that racism is diminishing among youth today. In reality, not only are white students not talking about race, but incidents of blatant individual acts of racism are currently on the rise. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), there has been a surge in reports of hate and bias in schools in the last three years. Racism appears to be the motivation behind a high percentage of these hate and bias incidents, accounting for 63% of incidents reported in the news and 33% of incidents reported by teachers in the SPLC survey. School responses to this uptick in racialized incidents has been disappointing. More than two-thirds of the educators SPLC surveyed had witnessed a hate or bias incident in their school. According to the report, "most of the hate and bias incidents witnessed by educators were not addressed by school leaders. No one was disciplined in 57% of them. Nine times out of 10, administrators failed to denounce the bias or to reaffirm school values."
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In the age of Instagram and Snapchat, forums may seem like antiquated artefacts of a bygone era, but fashion needs them more than ever, argues Susanna Lau.
Susanna Lau, aka Susie Bubble, identifies the top five young London labels on her fashion radar.
Featuring celebrity endorsements, accessible price points and a mega-watt K-pop soundtrack, South Korea's designer showcase wrapped up this weekend in a heady mix of fanfare meets fan culture.
A new wave of Indian designers is blending traditional craftsmanship with a modern aesthetic to international acclaim. BoF columnist Susanna Lau reports.
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https://www.dustygroove.com/item/111928/Bill-Evans:Inner-Spirit-The-1979-Concert-At-The-Teatro-General-San-Martin-Buenos-Aires
Jazz CD Bill Evans
Inner Spirit – The 1979 Concert At The Teatro General San Martin, Buenos Aires
CD (Item 111928) Resonance, 1979 — Condition: New Copy
Resonance (label)
Jazz (CD, LP)
A very late live set from the legendary Bill Evans, and a great one too – a set that captures the pianist in all his spare, subtle glory – working with just the right sort of accompaniment from Marc Johnson on bass and Joe LaBarbera on drums! Both Marc and Joe are players who really helped Evans recapture some of his glory in the final years of his life – and Johnson's sense of soundshaping is especially great here, as he almost seems to wrap around Evans' beautifully sensitive notes on the piano – providing a very different sort of accompaniment than Bill had from bassist Eddie Gomez. Tracks are often nice and long, and have a really special sort of live magic – that sort that makes us feel like we can never get enough of Bill Evans concert recordings. Titles include "Nardis", "Minha", "Up With The Lark", "Letter To Evan", "Turn Out The Stars", "I Do It For Your Love", "MASH", "Laurie", and "Stella By Starlight". © 1996-2023, Dusty Groove, Inc.
There may be different interpretations or standards used to grade pre-owned vinyl record albums & CDs. These are the grades that we use and what they mean for items that are not new copies.
Used Vinyl Grades
Below are stated conditions for a used vinyl records at Dusty Groove. Grading for the cover should be assumed to be near (within a "+" or "-") the grading for the vinyl. If there is significant divergence from the condition of the vinyl, or specific flaws, these will be noted in the comments section of the item. However, please be aware that since the emphasis of this site is towards the music listener, our main concern is with the vinyl of any used item we sell. Additionally, all of our records are graded visually; considering the volume of used vinyl we handle, it is impossible for us to listen to each record. If we spot any significant flaws, we make every attempt to listen through them and note how they play.
The following grading conditions apply to the vinyl component of an album or single:
This is what it says, that the record is still held fast in shrink-wrap. We tend to be pretty suspicious about these things, so if the shrink-wrap doesn't look original, or if the record seems to have undergone some damage over time, we'll probably take it out of the wrapper to ensure that it's in good shape — which is why we don't have more of these. In some cases the shrink-wrap may be torn in spots, but if it's not possible the record has been taken out and played, the record will still qualify as "Sealed".
Dusty Groove does not use the grades of Near Mint (or Mint, for that matter) because in our experience, we find that no records ever qualify for such a high grade. Even sealed records tend to have one or two slight faults, enough to usually qualify them for a grade of NM- or lower. We've often found that records which are clearly unplayed will have a slight amount of surface noise, especially in quieter recordings.
Near Mint - (minus)
Black vinyl that may show a slight amount of dust or dirt.
Should still be very shiny under a light, even with slight amount of dust on surface.
One or two small marks that would make an otherwise near perfect record slightly less so. These marks cannot be too deep, and should only be surface marks that won't affect play, but might detract from the looks.
May have some flaws and discoloration in the vinyl, but only those that would be intrinsic to the pressing. These should disappear when the record is tilted under the light, and will only show up when looking straight at the record. (Buddah and ABC pressings from the 70's are a good example of this.)
May have some slight marks from aging of the paper sleeve on the vinyl.
Possible minor surface noise when played.
Vinyl can have some dirt, but nothing major.
May not shine under light, but should still be pretty clean, and not too dirty.
May have a number of marks (5 to 10 at most), and obvious signs of play, but never a big cluster of them, or any major mark that would be very deep. Most marks should still not click under a fingernail.
May not look near perfect, but should play fairly well, with slight surface noise, and the occasional click in part of a song, but never throughout a whole song or more.
This is clearly a copy that was played by someone a number of times, but which could also be a good "play copy" for someone new.
Very Good - (minus)
Vinyl may be dirty, and can lack a fair amount of luster.
Vinyl can have a number of marks, either in clusters or smaller amounts, but deeper.
This is the kind of record that you'd buy to play, but not because it looked that great. Still, the flaws should be mostly cosmetic, with nothing too deep that would ruin the overall record.
Examples include a record that has been kept for a while in a cover without the paper sleeve, or heavily played by a previous owner and has some marks across the surface. The record should play okay, though probably with surface noise.
Good + (plus)
Vinyl may be dirty, or have one outstanding flaw, such as a light residue, which could be difficult to clean.
May have marks on all parts, too many to qualify as Very Good-, or several deeper marks, but the record should still be ok for play without skips.
In general, this is a record that was played a fair amount, and handled without care. A typical example may be a record which has been heavily played by a DJ, and carries marks from slip cueing. Depending on the quality of the vinyl, may play with surface noise throughout.
A record that you'd buy to play, cheap, but which you wouldn't buy for collecting.
Will have marks across all parts of the playing surface, and will most likely play with surface noise throughout. May have some other significant flaws, such as residue, or a track that skips.
In most cases, a poor quality copy of a very difficult to find record.
This is a grade we rarely use, as we try not to sell records in very bad condition, though in some rare cases we will list a record in such bad shape that it does not conform to the standards above. A "Fair" record will have enough marks or significant flaws that it does not even qualify as "Good", but is a copy you might consider for playing, if you're willing to put up with noise and/or flaws. An example might be a recording with surface noise so heavy that it is equal to the volume of the music. For records listed as "Fair", we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Like "Fair", we rarely list records in this condition, as they represent the extreme low end of spectrum. These records typically have multiple serious problems, and we offer them as "relics" or "objects" only — for those who want to at least have a copy of a record, even if it is not really worthy of play, perhaps for the cover alone. For these records, we will describe the extent of the condition in the comments.
Live At Keystone Korner 1980 Vol 6
Timeless/Ultra Vybe (Japan), 1980. New Copy
CD...$16.99 18.99
Fantastic work from piano legend Bill Evans – recorded at the Keystone club in San Francisco just a month before his too-early death – and a batch of material that shows us that Bill still had plenty to offer the world! This isn't the work of a musician on his last legs – and ... CD
New Conversations (SHMCD pressing)
Universal (Japan), 1978. New Copy
CD...$16.99 19.99 (LP...$24.99)
A wonderful late 70s albums from Bill Evans – showing a further evolution of his solo piano/overdub approach! New Conversations is a record that follows strongly on the format of Bill's famous "Conversations" sessions for Verve in the 60s – and like those dates, it features ... CD
We Will Meet Again (SHMCD pressing)
One of the few larger group Bill Evans sessions from the later years – an album that features sax and flute from Larry Schneider and trumpet from Tom Harrell – in addition to core trio instrumentation from Bill on piano, Marc Johnson on bass, and Joe LaBarbera on drums! The added horns ... CD
Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano
Once Around The Room – A Tribute To Paul Motian
ECM (Germany), 2022. New Copy
A record that's very much in the subtle sonic territory that the late drummer Paul Motian might have appreciated – but one that also comes cross in ways that are nicely different than any sort of music Motian recorded himself! There's definitely drums on the record – handled by Joey ... CD
Donald Byrd Live – Cookin With Blue Note At Montreux
Blue Note, 1973. New Copy
A never-heard live set from the mighty Donald Byrd – recording here with live accompaniment from the Mizell Brothers – at a level that's every bit as wonderful as their work with the trumpeter in the studio! The material was originally recorded during a same series of albums that Blue ... CD
Ahmad Jamal
Emerald City Nights – Live At The Penthouse 1963 to 1964
Jazz Detective, Mid 60s. New Copy 2CD
Really fantastic music from pianist Ahmad Jamal – a set of tracks that's a really nice change from some of the recordings he was doing for Chess Records in the early 60s, and which definitely point the way towards the more stretched-out performances to come on Impulse Records! As the title ... CD
You Must Believe In Spring (SHMCD pressing – with bonus tracks)
CD...$16.99 19.99 (CD...$14.99)
Wonderful late work from piano legend Bill Evans – a set that was recorded in 1977, but not issued until after his death in 1980 – at which point it became an instant essential in his catalog! As with so many of Bill's 70s recordings, the session benefits from the bass work of Eddie ... CD
Another Time – The Hilversum Concert
Resonance, 1968. New Copy
Amazing work from one of the most inventive trios ever led by pianist Bill Evans – a fantastic group that features the young Eddie Gomez on bass and the mighty Jack DeJohnette on drums! Both players would develop into strong leaders of their own in later years – but here, on this ... CD
Midnight Blue (RVG remaster edition)
CD...$5.99 14.99
One of the more legendary albums on Blue Note from the label's classic run – and for many folks, the quintessential album from guitarist Kenny Burrell! Burrell had been playing for a number of years, and had been already recorded by Blue Note on some other excellent records – yet here, ... CD
Qasim Naqvi/Wadada Leo Smith/Andrew Cyrille
Two Centuries
Red Hook, 2022. New Copy
Quasim Naqvi's the youngest member of the lineup here – working beside legends Wadada Leo Smith on trumpet and Andrew Cyrille on drums – yet he fits right into the mix, and does a great job here of exploring some of the more far-ranging territory that both Cyrille and Smith have handled ... CD
Frank Butler
Xanadu, 1977. New Copy
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Der Kaufmännische Verein Königsberg wurde 1858 von angesehenen Königsberger Kaufleuten gegründet.

Der erste Vorsitzende war H. Brausewetter von der Firma Schienemann & Brausewetter. Sein Stellvertreter war der Bankier Adolph Samter. Später übernahm der Stadtrat Holldack von der Firma Holldack & Thran (Hülsenfrüchte) die Vereinsleitung.

Anfangs diente der Kneiphöfische Junkerhof als Vereinslokal. Dann wurde der Artushof gekauft, ein Gebäude am Königsberger Dom. Als die Mitgliederzahl auf 1.000 anstieg, wurde das Haus zu klein und 1924 an die Stadt verkauft. Der Verein verlegte seine Geschäftsstelle in die Börse, seine Feste seit 1912 in die Stadthalle. 1933 musste der Verein sich umbenennen in "Vortragsgemeinschaft Börsenhalle im Reichswerk Buch und Volk". Er wurde mit der alten Gesellschaft Börsenhalle und dem Bachverein vereinigt. In dieser Form bestand er bis 1945.

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Ehemaliger Verein (Deutschland)
Organisation (Königsberg)
Wirtschaft (Königsberg)
Gegründet 1858
Aufgelöst 1945

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We were approached by Scotrail and Rabbie's tours to help produce a promotional video for their latest tour. The tour takes place down the Scottish Borders and it all starts from when you get on the train at Edinburgh Waverley Station.
The project was filmed over 2 days. We were doing the entire tour and trying to capture as many of the attractions as we could. It started from Waverley Station, filming the journey down to Galashiels, boarding the Rabbie's tour bus and enjoying the tour.
This is what we produced for the video.
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Fiocchi provides you with a great value on many kinds of shotgun ammo. This example, in 12 gauge, has a 2-3/4" shell loaded with 27 Pellets of #4 nickel plated lead buckshot which it fires at 1325 fps. It's a great option for hunting medium game or for home protection. Fiocchi is the only manufacturer in the industry to offer nickel plated buckshot. Nickel plated shot guarantees surface hardness and therefore, outstanding patterns.
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Streak defects are one of the most common coating defects in roll-to-roll coating. They are also very elusive! How streaks are formed and progress is a combination of the development of a particle and the presence of an area where the particle can hang-up in the process. This combination causes the fluid to move around this particle placement and form a streak on the substrate that eventually gets cured in place. The key is to eliminate or prevent the particle and eliminate or prevent the area for hang-up in the process.
For those not familiar with streaks, they are downweb lines in the coating that are not defined as flow instabilities. For those familiar with streaks, you know that they can appear in a variety of forms and for a variety of reasons. In slot die coating it is possible to have a streak occur because of agglomeration of solid particles that get trapped in the lip opening, air trapped in the process equipment, or damage in the metal flow surface of the slot die. These particles, when combined with hang-up areas such as variation in shear stress, roughened flow surfaces, or flow separation can cause coating streaks. Individually, particles and hang-up areas do not cause streaks, but the combination forms streaks due to fluid flow disturbances. The larger the particle the more pronounced the streak.
So what should you do to eliminate streaks? Preventive medicine is always best – filter the fluid to remove particles, properly mix the fluid, and remove air prior to coating. Filtration should be properly sized for the particles of interest. Mixing based off of fluid type (suspension, dispersion, or solution) should be investigated and implemented. Air entrainment and entrapment should be reviewed, including making sure that the fluid flow is always "uphill" to allow for air removal that can't occur prior to equipment setup. Because a streak may form at any point where a particle is trapped in a hang-up area, any narrow gap is a potential issue site. Reducing dirt prior the coating head by cleaning the substrate in-line will reduce the streaks caused by trapping the dirt between the slot die and the coating roll.
You can see why the flow surfaces of the coating equipment need to be smooth. The rougher the surface, the more opportunity there is for agglomeration or fluid flow variation. This includes the pump, piping, slot die entrance, distribution manifold, flow compression zones, distribution slot onto the substrate, and all continuous substrate surfaces. Reviewing and maintaining these surfaces as flat and clean lead to flat and clean coatings. Special attention should be paid to flow surfaces that are open to the outside atmosphere, such as the external lip faces of a slot die. These lip faces can be damaged inadvertently for many reasons. If a nick in the metal is detected, the slot die may need to be refurbished to allow for improved coating performance.
In the end, the key to removing streaks is to follow the particle of interest as it flows through the coating equipment and onto the web. If there is an area of disruption that can split fluid flow along this path, it should be investigated, improved and controlled. Follow the preventative path prescribed and you will be on your way to streak free coating!


Williams has taken on former Ferrari engineer Antonio Spagnolo for the remainder of the 2016 F1 World Championship and onwards as Competitor Analysis and Performance Concept Team Leader.
The British team is locked in a battle for fourth in the F1 constructors' championship with Force India and reclaimed the place with positive results at Monza last weekend.
Spagnolo joins Williams from Ferrari, where he departs from the role of Head of Tyre Performance Group, having previously acted as race engineer for Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso at the Italian manufacturer.
Spagnolo joined Ferrari in 2005 and helped it to two Constructors' titles in 2007 and 2008 along with Kimi Raikkonen's driver title in 2007.
Williams says Spagnolo's role will focus around 'augmenting car performance', looking at its rivals' strengths and where the team needs to improve. With his experience in engineering with the Pirelli F1 tyres he will also become part of the squad's tyre performance group.
"Williams is determined to continue the positive momentum it has had since 2014 and, with new additions to the team, hopes to become even stronger," Symonds said. "We are constantly seeing ways to improve our performance and trackside operations and believe Antonio will make a valuable contribution to this process.
"As a team, we will do our utmost to achieve our on-track ambitions and secure strong positions in the Constructors' Championship this season, and beyond."


Research Unit focusing on the Sociology and Politics of Education / Koulutussosiologian ja -politiikan tutkimusyksikkö (KUPOLI) is a multidisciplinary group of senior and junior researchers, founded by Professor emeritus Hannu Simola.
KUPOLI research themes cover a wide variety of issues and approaches on sociology of education, especially problematics of policy, politics, interaction and governance in basic and higher education. The central focus is on crossings and intertwinings of global, regional, national and local levels, including schools and families.
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Водосховища Рівненської області — водосховища, які розташовані на території Рівненської області (в адміністративних районах і басейнах річок).

На території Рівненської області налічується — 12 водосховищ, загальною площею понад — 2925 га, з повним об'ємом — 47,8 млн м³.

Загальна характеристика
Територія Рівненської області становить 20,о5 тис. км² (3,3 % площі України).

Територія області розміщена у межах басейну Дніпра, зокрема його правої притоки — Прип'яті.

Гідрографічна мережа Рівненської області включає фрагмент великої річки Прип'ять, яка протікає на незначному відрізку (довжиною 20 км) на північно-західний околиці області, а також її праві притоки — середні річки Стир з Іквою, Горинь зі Случчю , Ствига і Льва.

В області функціонує 12 водосховищ з повним об'ємом 47,8 млн м³, серед яких одне має об'єм понад 10 млн м³ (Хрінницьке водосховище на р. Стир, що використовується з метою забезпечення роботи вбудованої у тіло греблі Хрінницької ГЕС — потужність 960 кВт, а також для рекреації та рибогосподарських потреб). В Рівненській області Хрінницьке водосховище є найбільшим штучно створеним водним об'єктом, і з самого початку свого існування є одним з основних рибопромислових об'єктів. Крім Хрінницької, в області працює ще одна мала ГЕС — Млинівська ГЕС (на р.Іква), потужністю 360 кВт.

З загальної кількості водосховищ області: 7 — руслові, 5 — наливні. Цільове призначення водосховищ — найбільше для зволоження земель, а також для риборозведення та культурно-побутового водокористування.

Наявність водосховищ (вдсх) у межах адміністративно-територіальних районів та міст обласного підпорядкування Рівненської області

Примітки: -* — немає водосховищ на території району;

-* — немає водосховищ, переданих в оренду.

З 12 водосховищ області — 4 (33 %) використовуються на умовах оренди, 58 % — на балансі водогосподарських організацій.

Наявність водосховищ (вдсх) у межах основних районів річкових басейнів на території Рівненської області

В межах району річкового басейну Дніпра (в басейні його правої притоки р. Прип'ять розташовано 100 % водосховищ Рівненської області.

Наявність водосховищ (вдсх) об'ємом понад 10 млн м³ на території Рівненської області

Примітка: * — у дужках наведено послідовність впадіння річки, на якій розташовано водосховище, у головну річку.

Див. також
 Водосховища України
 Стави Рівненської області

Примітки

Література
 Водне господарство в Україні / За ред. А. В. Яцика, В. М. Хорєва. — К.: Генеза, 2000. — 456 с.
 Водний фонд України: Штучні водойми — водосховища і ставки: Довідник / За ред. В. К. Хільчевського, В. В. Гребеня. — К.: Інтерпрес, 2014. — 164 с. ISBN 978-965-098-2
 Паламарчук М. М., Закорчевна Н. Б. Водний фонд України: Довідковий посібник / За ред. В. М. Хорєва, К. А. Алієва. — К.: Ніка-Центр, 2001. — 392 с.


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Associate Professor of Finance | Alumni Investment Management Research Scholar
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PhD, Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, Statistics, University of South Carolina
BA, Economics, Brigham Young University
Previous Academic Positions:
Assistant Professor of Finance, London Business School, 2007-2014
Research/Teaching Awards:
Business Advisory Council Undergraduate Teaching Award, Spring 2016
James. E. Reinmuth Teaching Excellence Award. Voted Outstanding MBA Elective Instructor, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018.
Best paper award, Lisbon Meeting on Institutions and Political Economy, 2013
Best Paper Award, Chinese Finance Association Annual Symposium, 2012
Leonard J. and Sharon L. Santow Award for Teaching Excellence, 2007
Paul M. Van Arsdell Sr. Award in Finance, 2007
Brandon Julio joined the faculty at the Lundquist College of Business in 2014. Prior to joining the University of Oregon, he was a faculty member at the London Business School. Julio's research focuses on corporate investment, capital structure, payout policy, and international finance. His recent work has focused on how political uncertainty affects the way firms make investment and hiring decisions. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Staying Home for a Career Pivot
Kevin Holmquist, MBA '20, used his time at the Oregon Executive MBA to move from a career he liked into one he loves.
Investing Across Borders
A study by associate professor Brandon Julio and coauthors found that bilateral investment treaties double chances of cross-border mergers.
UO Business: The Magazine, Fall 2020
Read stories about how the college continues to shape the business environment and chart new ways to move forward in the 2020 edition of our magazine.
Stepping Up: 2018 Faculty Promotions
In preparation for the upcoming 2018-2019 school year, the Lundquist College of Business is proud to announce its upcoming faculty promotions and named appointments.
2018 Faculty and Staff Awards
Congratulations to our faculty and staff who received honors at the end of the year.
Investment Career Dividends
The Lundquist College of Business's investment group pays dividends for two students, who will join Goldman Sachs upon graduation in June 2018.
Leaders in Finance Education
When it comes to finance, the Lundquist College has much to quack about of late. Read some of its recent activities and achievements.
Twelve Lundquist College faculty and staff members were the recipients of awards for their hard work over the 2016-2017 academic year.
The Bright Side of Political Uncertainty: The Case of R&D, with Julian Atanassov and Tiecheng Leng.
Corporate Deleveraging and Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Political Turnover, Ownership, and Corporate Investment, with Jerry Cao, Tiecheng Leng, and Sili Zhou.
Firm Size and Corporate Investment, with Vito Gala.
The Distribution of Firm Size and Aggregate Investment, with Vito Gala.
Earnings Management and Investment Efficiency, with Youngsuk Yook.
Payout Policy
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Celil, Hursit S., Brandon Julio, and Srinivasan Selvam. "Investment Sensitivity to Lender Default." Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming. http://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3552116.
Arena, Matteo P., and Brandon Julio. "Litigation Risk Management through Corporate Payout Policy." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002210902200076X.
Bhagwat, Vineet, Jonathan Brogaard, and Brandon Julio. "A BIT Goes a Long Way: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Cross-border Mergers." Journal of Financial Economics 140, no. 2: 514-538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.12.005.
Julio, Brandon, and Youngsuk Yook. "Policy Uncertainty, Irreversibility, and Cross-Border Flows of Capital." Journal of International Economics 103: 13-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2016.08.004.
Arena, Matteo, and Brandon Julio. "The Effects of Securities Litigation on Corporate Liquidity and Investment Policy." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 50, no. 1-2: 251-275. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109015000010.
Julio, Brandon, and Youngsuk Yook. "Political Uncertainty and Corporate Investment Cycles." Journal of Finance 67, no. 1: 45-83. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.2011.01707.x.
Erel, Isil, Brandon Julio, Woojin Kim, and Michael S. Weisbach. "Macroeconomic Conditions and Capital Raising." Review of Financial Studies 25, no. 2: 341-376. https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhr085.
Julio, Brandon, and David L. Ikenberry. "Reappearing Dividends." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 16, no. 4: 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6622.2004.00010.x.
Julio, Brandon, Erik Gettleman, and Elizabeth Risik. "Option Market Overreaction to Stock Price Changes." Journal of Finance and Risk Perspectives 1, no. 2: 112-129.
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Dogs have been very popular pets for many years. Humans and dogs are right for each other, something both parties are pleased with. You are the human, so that puts you in charge of ensuring your dog is healthy. If you'd like to gather a little extra information about how to treat your dog right, just check out these helpful hints.
Being a dog owner can be very costly. Not only do you have to buy food, but you have to pay their vet bills and purchase other items that they need. You could spend as much as a thousand dollars in one year on your pet! Pet insurance can be a good investment because your pet may require emergency care for illness or injury.
Hugs are great, but steer clear of kisses. Dog kissing may be adorable, but dogs have awfully dirty mouths. Keep in mind that dogs drink from toilet bowls and eat whatever is on the ground. Your dog's mouth is not really any cleaner than a human's mouth. This is completely wrong!
An annual checkup at the vet is a great idea for your dog. Dogs can't talk, so how do you know he has arthritis, for example? Regular checkups will help you find these issues prior to them becoming a serious problem.
If you have prescription or over-the-counter medication in the house, make sure that your dog does not have access to it. Your dog could be seriously injured or killed by ingesting a couple of small pills. If this does happen, call your vet immediately.
If you are not sure how often you should feed your dog, ask your vet. Simply reading the label on your dog food package may not be enough; your dog may have special needs. Therefore, ask your vet the acceptable amount of dog food your dog needs to ensure its health and well-being.
Avoid the bargain brands of pet food. Cheap dog food contains lots of preservatives and additives that your dog doesn't need. Instead, research which brands are considered to be nutritious. Your dog will be much healthier if you feed it some healthy food.
Exercise your dog frequently. Dogs need physical activity and play time; it's good for their physical and mental health. You will enjoy the time you spend doing these things with your dog as well. Besides just getting some exercise, you'll be creating a bond between you and your dog.
Take your new dog to a vet. Do this as soon as your dog arrives at your doorstep. Your vet will administer the necessary shots and make sure your dog is in good health. Set up an appointment to have your dog fixed, too.
You need to meet all of your dog's requirements. It is easier when you have good information. Apply the advice you've just been given, and your dog will be happy and healthy.


Elliott is on the West Coast intent on speaking about the social movement that will "Close Gitmo." Making a strong case from multiple perspectives, Elliott is shifting the discussion from the evils of Guantanamo to why we will be better off when Guantánamo it is closed.
This summer, in solidarity with Guantánamo Bay Detainees and Pelican Bay Prisoner Hunger Strikers — Elliott Adams, lived for 80 days on 300 calories a day. He ended his fast by partaking a meal with mosque member at sundown, during Ramadan, at a mosque in Albany, New York.
Elliott, a New York State Veterans For Peace member,is a past president of VFP's National Board. In the 1960's, he volunteered for the army and served as an infantry paratrooper in Viet Nam, Japan, Korea, and Alaska. Over time, Elliott transformed into a nonviolent warrior, applying himself to building movements focused on creating justice and ending our war culture. He has been arrested repeatedly for the cause of peace. He has also served his local community in a variety of capacities, including president of the school board, mayor of his village, and president of Rotary and Master of the Masonic Lodge.
Come meet Elliott at the Veterans Community Media Center, 1720 Market Street, San Francisco, California.
Evening sponsored by Veteran's Speaker's Alliance/Veterans For Peace Chapter 69.
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An innovative two-step program that combines analgesics with deep breathing, relaxation techniques and counseling significantly reduced pain levels in U.S. military veterans who suffer from chronic pain, according to a new study at a VA Medical Center.
Researchers at the Roudebush VA Medical Center in Indianapolis, the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine studied 241 veterans who returned from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. Findings from the ESCAPE trial -- short for Evaluation of Stepped Care for Chronic Pain – are being published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
It is a critical health issue among veterans, many of whom had multiple, often lengthy deployments. Many have significant long-term pain. We know that medications alone are only modestly successful in helping them; current pain treatments haven't made much of a dent," said Matthew Blair, MD, the study's lead investigator and an associate professor of medicine at Indiana University.
A recent study found that nearly half of the American soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan return home to the U.S. in chronic pain, and about one in seven were using opioid pain relievers. Although pain is a common condition, researchers say no intervention studies had been conducted on the best ways to treat chronic pain in these veterans.
"The absence of studies is concerning because chronic pain may prove even more disabling in veterans of recent conflicts than in veterans of previous eras owing to the high combat intensity," said Bair, who served for eight years as a U.S. Army physician.
The veterans in the ESCAPE study suffered from moderate to severe chronic pain in the back, knee, neck or shoulder for at least three months. Veterans with substance or abuse problems were excluded from the study, as were those with suicidal thoughts, active psychosis or schizophrenia.
In the first phase of ESCAPE, patients were given 12 weeks of pain medication, ranging from acetaminophen to opioids. Because analgesics may not relieve pain sufficiently when used alone, the veterans were educated about self-management strategies such as goal setting, problem solving, deep breathing and relaxation techniques. Patients were also encouraged to minimize bed rest, return to normal activities, and perform stretching and strengthening exercises.
Step two involved 12 weeks of cognitive behavioral therapy that included psychological counseling for both pain and depression. Nurse care managers consulted with veterans over the telephone, helping them counter negative thoughts – such as helping them understand that while they may not be able to perform the same physical activities they enjoyed before deployment, a substitute activity like swimming might be achievable and decrease their pain.
Those who received the two-step ESCAPE program saw improvement in their function and a decrease in pain severity and pain interference -- how pain interferes with their mood, physical activity, work, relationships, sleep and enjoyment of life.
"The decrease in pain severity and 30 percent improvement in pain-related disability we achieved in the ESCAPE study are clinically significant, and we found that improvement lasted for at least nine months," said Blair.
Researchers say the ESCAPE program could be duplicated to treat chronic pain at other VA medical centers and other large health care systems outside the VA. However, implementing the program in smaller community settings or in private settings may be challenging.
Darnall recommends the same techniques used in the VA study in her own private practice.
"It's important for people to know that the results from psychobehavioral skills build over time. In other words, use them daily and your results will unfold and strengthen over the course of weeks and months," she wrote in an email to Pain News Network.


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Иван Оскара Реди, (Јагодина 24. август 1943) признати је нишки и српски архитекта и друштвени радник. Након завршених студија, радио је као архитекта у Нишу, од архитекте–пројектанта до директора сектора за изградњу. Дуго година је радио и на пословима референта надзора и пројектовања у Дирекцији за урбанизам, изградњу и реконструкцију Ниша. Магистрирао је 2000. године на Архитектонском факултету у Београду.

Био је председник Савеза архитеката Југославије (1982—1986); члан Председништва Савеза архитеката Југославије (1977—1988); председник Комисије за међународну сарадњу Савеза архитеката Југославије (1984—1988); члан Председништва Савеза инжењера и техничара Југославије и Председник комисије за организацију и развој (1983—1987). За дугогодишњи рад у архитектури и другим областима, више пута је награђиван и одликован.

Живот и каријера
Рођен је у Јагодини 24. августа 1943. године, у породици просветних радника, од оца Оскара, Словенца и мајке Јелене, Српкиње.

Највећи део детињства провео је у селидбама. После Јагодине, живео је са породицом у Бабушници, Белој Паланци, Врању и Приштини (где је 1961. завршио гимназију), да би се коначно 1962. године породица Реди доселила у Ниш, и ту остала у годинама које следе.

Године 1963. уписао је архитектуру у Нишу, након две године проведене на студирању грађевине на Грађевинског факултета Универзитета у Београду. Дипломирао је 29. фебруара 1969. након одбране теме под називом "Туристичко насеље у Сићевачкој клисури".

Последипломске студије облика специјализације из области "Студије архитектуре — становање", похађао је на Архитектонском факултету у Београду од 1977—1979. године и на њима стекао звање: специјалиста.

Последипломске студије облика магистеријума на тему: "Настајање и развој бањских места", похађао је на Архитектонском факултет у Београду од 1996—2000. године; након којих је стекао звање: магистар наука.

Године 1998. апсолвирао је на Академији за предузетнике — Привредне коморе Штајерске, Аустрија.

Докторске студије на Универзитету у Грацу започео је септембра 2010. године на тему "Квалитет становања - становање са подршком примерено старим особама на примеру Штајерске".

Године 1989. донео је, како он сам каже, тешку одлуку да напусти Ниш и живот настави у Грацу, Аустрија. Ово одлуку Реди на овај начин образлаже:

Када је донео одлуку да живот настави у Аустрији, Иван Реди је био ожењен Весном, наставницом математике, са којом има троје деце.

Кретање у служби у Србији
Након завршених студија, радио је на бројним одговорним дужностима као архитекта у Нишу и Врању, од архитекте–пројектанта до директора сектора за изградњу.

Од 1969. до 1988. године радио је као: архитекта-пројектант (Грађевинска фирма и архитектонски биро у Врању и Нишу); архитекта-просторни планер-урбаниста (Дирекција за урбанизам и комуналну изградњу - Ниш); Шеф службе за спровођење урбанистичких планова (Секретаријат за урбанизам - Скупштина општине Ниш); Директор сектора за изградњу Трговинског центра "Калча" (Дирекција за урбанизам, изградњу и реконструкцију Ниша).
Кретање у служби у Аустрији
Од 1989. године у Аустрији је прво радио као дипломирани инжињер архитектуре (пројектант у неколико архитектонских бироа) у Грацу, потом од 2003. године као привредни саветник (сопствене фирме са седиштем у Грацу) и коначно од 2006. године као Архитекта и технички саветник (фирма "NeueLebensräume", GmbH,односно "SBZ" у Грацу - Становање старих људи са подршком).

У заслужену пензији отишао је 31. августа 2008. године.

Дело

Архитектонско стваралаштво
Део значајнијих архитетктонских дела Ивана Редија у терамама Лојпердсдорф бај Фриштенфелд у Аустрији

Значајни урбанистички планови и архитектонски пројекти
 1968. — Пројекат аутобуске станице у Врању,
 1975.  — ДУП комплекса "Центар" у Прешеву,
 1976.  — ДУП комплекса "Изолација" у Нишу,
 1976.  — Пројекат уредјења Летње позорнице у нишкој Тврђави
 1984.  — Пројекат спомен-обележја јубилеја Југословенских хорских свечаности у нишкој Тврђави,
 1977.  — ДУП-ови комплекса "14 октобар" — "МИН запад" — "Југопетрол" у Нишу,
 1978.  — ДУП насеља Пасипољана, ДУП Спортско-рекреационогцентра "ДјукаДиниц" 1978 .;
 1980.  — Генерални урбанистички план Прокупља 1980 .;
 1981.  — ДУП комплекса "Санитас",
 1994-96  — Пројекат бање "Schaffelbad", Аустрија.
Део значајнијих скулптуралних дела у простору Ивана Редија у Нишу и Аустрији

Друштвени радник и добротвор
Најзначајнија дела Ивана Редија у овој области могу се поделити у три области: Оснивање и вођење Друштва пријатељства Brücke-Most Graz-Niš;
Грађански активизам и рад са младима града Ниша; Доброчинство

Грађански активизам и рад са младима Ниша
Најновија иницијатива Ивана Редија, којом жели да заједно са младима Ниша, реализује идеју да две улице у елитном делу Ниша, Давидова (у којој се налази Синагога) и Балканска (у којој је "Купина" биоскоп) добију лепши изглед, и да по његовом мишљењу и предлогу, поново уједини људе и институције у Граду Нишу. О овој акцији Реди овако размишља:

Доброчинство

Безгранична љубав према човеку и његовом бољем животу, Реди је преточио у сопствено настојање да покаже пут којим сваки становник Србије треба ићи ка доброчинству у тешким временима обнављања највећих хришћанских и људских вредности у Србији. Међу тим настојањима нека од досадашњих и најзначајнијих су:

 Граду је, у години обележавања 17. векова хришћанства, Иван Реди је Граду Нишу поклонио спомен-чесму Свете Тројице која је постављена на Тргу патријарха Павла. Чесма, за коју је Реди дао идејно решење, поклон је градова Граца, Крагујевца и Ниша. По Редијевим речима то је било неопходно јер: три града морају учествовати у изградњи чесме да би се очувало свето тројство.
 Иван Реди је 2013. године, у Нишу обновио традицију Светосавског добротворног бала, и тако постао идејни творац, једне хуманитарне акције. Прикупљена средства, са до сада одржаних балова, прослеђена су; Домској заједници школе "Душко Радовић", школи "14.октобар" у којој уче деца са посебним потребама и дечијој Интерној клиници у Нишу, Кардиолошкој клиници у Нишу
 Спомен-скулптура "Небески певачи" Интернацион хорске свечаности, Ниш 2016. године: пројекат и реализација.
 Поклон личне библиотеке од око 3.000 јединица грађе Универзитетској библиотеци "Никола Тесла" у Нишу, 2016.године.
 Иницијатива и идејни пројекат за постављање просторне структуре "Банка доброчинства", намењене хуманитарки Марини Адамовић из Ниша, пројект реализован 2016. година, уз подршку председника владе Србије.

Друштвене активности и функције
 Председник Савеза архитеката Југославије (1982—1986),
 Члан Председниства Савеза архитеката Југославије (1977—1988),
 Председник комисије за међународну сарадњу Савеза архитеката Југославије (1984—1988),
 Члан Председништва Савеза инжењера и техничара Југославије и Председник комисије за организацију и развој (1983—1987),
 Члан Издавачког савета часописа "Архитектура-Урбанизам" -Београд (1982—1985),
 Члан редакције часописа "Градина" Ниш (1985—1987),
 Председник Друштва архитеката Ниша (1974—1978),
 Председник Друштва урбаниста Ниша,
 Председник Савеза и техничара општине Ниш,
 Потпредседник Савеза архитеката Србије (1976—1980),
 Члан Председништва Савеза инжењера и техничара Србије (више година),
 Председник Друштва пријатељства "Die Brücke-Most Graz-Niš"(Steiermark – Srbija) од 2001. године.

Награде и признања
 2016. Благодарница Градске општине Медијана, за спајање Граца и Ниша, неговање толеранције, враћање традиције српског бала;
 2016. Златна значка Интернационалних хорских свечаности Ниш 2016. као највише признање фестивала за изузетан допринос развоју и унапређењу Интернационалних хорских свечаности
 2016. Захвалница Школе за основно и средње образовање "14. октобар", за пружену подршку и сарадњу.
 2013. Прва награда за толеранцију "Цар Константин", Ниш.
 2006. Повеља Друштва архитеката Ниша за изузетан допринос развоју и унапређењу рада Друштва архитеката Ниша и обнови зграде ДАН-а
 2004. Посебно признање Југословенских хорских свечаности за допринос развоју међународне културне сарадње
 2002. Диплома Црквене певачке дружине "Бранко"-Ниш, као почасном члану
 1998. Златна значка Југословенских хорских свечаности
 1988. Златна значка Културно-просветне заједнице Србије
 1987. Орден рада са сребрним венцем СР Југославије
 1986. Плакета "14 април" Савеза инжењера и техничара Југославије
 1985. Јубиларна медаља "40 година социјалистичке Бугарске"
 1985. Повеља Савеза инжењера и техничара Србије
 1981. Златна значка Социјалистичког савеза радног народа Србије
 1968. Похвала за залагање и рад у Академско културно-уметничком друштву – Ниш
 1967. Диплома као најбољем глумцу на 21. мајском фестивалу студентских позоришта Југославије у Загребу (Камерна сцена "М"-АКУД-Ниш)
 1966. Похвала за залагање и рад у Академско културно-уметничком друштву – Ниш

Библиографија
 "Стамбена архитектура Ниша" - Излозба Друства архитеката Ниша, 1976.
 "Планирање, пројектовање и грађење тржних центара" - књига и изложба "Дани архитектуре" -1983 год. (Уредник и аутор), Савез архитеката Југославије, Београд, 1983.
 "Генеза и развој савремених бањских места" - магистарски рад на Архитектонском факултету, Београд, .2000.

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COVID-19 variant response should focus on global vaccine equity, not travel bans: scientists
Ontario | COVID | Latest News |
Published November 28, 2021 at 5:14 pm
A British Columbia-based researcher says banning travelers from southern African countries in an effort to stop the importation of a new COVID-19 variant is an example of "wishful thinking" that could do more harm than good.
Caroline Colijn, a mathematician and epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University, says the omicron variant has already been detected in countries outside of the targeted region and it's only a matter of time before it's found in Canada.
She says South Africa is to be commended for sequencing the omicron variant and for sharing its data with the rest of the world.
Colijn says she worries countries such as Canada, that responded by imposing travel bans on southern African nations, risk disincentivizing that kind of transparency in the future.
Zain Chagla, an associate professor of medicine at McMaster University, agrees that "blind closures of borders" don't make sense.
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POLLASTRONE, FORNATARO LEAD UNH PAST UMASS, 7-2
Jerry Pollastrone and Matt Fornataro each register hat tricks for Wildcats
Jerry Pollastrone scored five goals on the weekend for UNH
DURHAM, N.H. - Jerry Pollastrone (Revere, Mass.) and Matt Fornataro (Calgary, Alberta) both recorded their first career hat trick to lift the fourth-ranked University of New Hampshire men's ice hockey team to Saturday night's 7-2 victory against the University of Massachusetts at the Whittemore Center. The Wildcats completed a sweep of the best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series on the heels of Friday's 4-1 win.
UNH, the top seed of the 24th Annual Hockey East Championship Tournament with a 19-5-3 league record, improves to 25-8-3 overall and advances to the semifinals at TD Banknorth Garden for the seventh consecutive year. UMass ends its season at 14-6-6.
UNH goaltender Kevin Regan (South Boston, Mass.) recorded double-digit saves all three periods (14-10-13) to finish with 37. Danny Dries (Lake Orion, Mich.; goal, assist) and James vanRiemsdyk (Middletown, N.J.; two assists) also recorded multiple points for the 'Cats, who went 2-for-7 on the power play and also netted a shorthanded goal.
UMass starting goalie Paul Dainton exited the game at 7:56 of the second period following Fornataro's second strike of the night that gave New Hampshire a 4-1 lead. He was credited with 17 saves and his replacement, Dan Meyers, surrendered three goals on 16 shots in 32:01 of action.
UNH carried a 2-1 lead into the second period and broke the game open with four tallies to build a five-goal advantage heading into the final frame. Dries gave the Wildcats a 3-1 lead at 4:16 when he deflected Jamie Fritsch's (Odenton, Md.) long outlet pass into the left corner, gained possession, skated behind the net and fired a shot into the net from deep on the right side.
Fornataro gave UNH a 4-1 advantage when he gained possession along the right dashers in the neutral zone and charged into the offensive zone. He hesitated at the point, then moved passed the defender and slipped a shot between Dainton's legs and the puck trickled over the goal line.
Pollastrone, who scored twice in Friday's victory, netted his second goal of the game at 9:58 when he scored off his own rebound on the right doorstep. He completed his hat trick with his third goal of the night at 15:19. Meyers stopped the initial shot by Bobby Butler (Marlboro, Mass.) from the slot, but the puck slipped behind the goalie. vanRiemsdyk got a stick on the loose puck and Pollastrone swept it into the open net.
Special teams dominated play in the first period, which included six minor penalties as well as a major and subsequent game misconduct. UNH was first to the power play and took advantage of a UMass major infraction to score power-play goals 22 seconds apart to build a 2-0 lead.
Pollastrone gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead at 7:58 when a shot from the right-wing circle. The tally was assisted by vanRiemsdyk and Joe Charlebois (Potsdam, N.Y.).
The Wildcats struck again at 8:19 when Dries fed a centering pass from behind the net that Fornataro one-timed into the net. Brad Flashains (Glendale, Ariz.) was also credited with an assist.
On the same penalty kill, UMass' Michael Lecomte had a shorthanded breakaway down the slot but his 5-hole shot attempt was stopped by Regan.
The Minutemen gained a 5x3 power play when UNH was whistled for penalties at 12:37 and 12:54, and they trimmed the deficit to 2-1 at 13:45 with that two-skater advantage. Regan stopped Cory Quirk's initial shot from deep on the left wing, but he couldn't control the rebound and Alex Berry scored from the slot.
In the third period, UMass pulled within 6-2 on its second power-play goal. From the right circle, William Ortiz moved the puck to the left point, where David Leaderer fired a high shot into the net.
Fornataro closed the scoring with a shorthanded breakaway goal at 17:07. He gathered the long outlet pass from Mike Radja (Yorkville, Ill.) at center ice and broke down the slot to complete his hat trick. Kevin Kapstad (Boxboro, Mass.) was also credited with an assist.
UNH will take on the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals of the 24th Annual Hockey East Championship Tournament. Potential game times for the Wildcats' semifinal contest are 5 and 8 p.m. on Friday night at TD Banknorth Garden. UNH and Boston College have secured its spots in the semifinals, while the other two quarterfinals between #2 Boston University and #7 UMass-Lowell and #3 Vermont and #6 Northeastern are both tied up at a game apiece. This leaves BC, Northeastern and Mass-Lowell as potential semifinal opponents. Check into www.unhwildcats.com for all the latest tournament information.


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Behind That F-35 Air Combat Report
Jul 6, 2015 by Bill Sweetman in Ares
Last week's leak of a report by a test pilot on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) team would have raised much less of a ruckus had it not been for earlier statements from program people. Here's one from 2008, responding to another leak, this time of backup slides in a RAND study that compared the F-35 to the Sukhoi Su-35 and other potential adversary aircraft:
Citing U.S. Air Force analyses, (Maj. Gen. Charles Davis, then JSF program director) said that the F-35 is at least 400% more effective in air-to-air combat capability than the best fighters available in the international market, including Sukhois.
More recently:
Lockheed Martin is claiming that all three versions of the F-35 will have kinematic performance better than or equal to any combat-configured fourth-generation fighter. The comparison includes transonic acceleration performance versus an air-to-air configured Eurofighter Typhoon and high angle-of-attack flight performance vis-a-vis the Boeing Super Hornet. "The F-35 is comparable or better in every one of those metrics, sometimes by a significant margin, in air-to-air," says Billy Flynn, a Lockheed Martin test pilot.
It is therefore understandable that people thought it was news when a report showed the F-35 as inferior in energy maneuverability to a Block 40 F-16 - which nobody would claim matches the Typhoon's speed, the Super Hornet's high-AoA performance or the Su-35's combination of the two. Some of the responses from Team F-35 were worth reporting too.
Controversy Flares Over F-35 Air Combat Report
First on the scene was Dan Goure of the Lockheed Martin-sponsored Lexington Institute. "You Say the F-35 Can't Dogfight? I Say Good", the piece was headed. Although Goure seems to equate all air combat maneuvering with dogfighting, and all dogfighting with gun kills (which was entirely true until 1956) he cites John Stillion's recent report for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments as evidence that sensors, networks and weapons have made maneuvering irrelevant. "The important conclusion is not that the F-35 is a bad aircraft," Goure says, "but that the existing fleets of fourth-generation aircraft are increasingly obsolete."
In the U.K., the Royal Air Force requirement calls for the F-35B to be capable of full-spectrum air combat missions as part of an aircraft carrier group - and the F-35B has an empty weight 3,200 lb. heavier than the F-35A, which is not good from the maneuverability viewpoint. Lockheed Martin executive and former RAF Tornado pilot Andrew Linstead talked to the Daily Telegraph, praising the F-35's situational awareness and saying that air combat had changed. "People are using metrics they know, understand and may have an emotional attachment to, but they have to think about it differently. The battlefield picture they have now means they can avoid their adversary or choose to fight in a way that will give them a better outcome."
Goure, Linstead and Flynn seem to be on opposite sides of the same debate, one that started about 30 years ago as fighter traditionalists and stealth purists fought tooth and nail over the requirements for the Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF). One group argued that stealth air combat was like submarine warfare - "the last thing you want to do is surface and use the deck gun" - while the others, with the Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile still in development, maintained that there would always be leakers who survived the first beyond-visual-range (BVR) missile exchange and closed within visual range (WVR) where radar stealth would be irrelevant.
The traditionalists won. The F-22 Raptor was designed to be highly agile with a large usable flight envelope (hence its monster tail surfaces) and it had a complex, space-consuming arrangement that allowed AIM-9 missiles to be fired in lock-on-before-launch mode almost anywhere in the forward hemisphere.
The JSF is not as agile, but program leaders say that it will prevail in BVR because of stealth and situational awareness, and in WVR it will use its 360-deg. target-tracking device- the Distributed Aperture System (DAS) - to cue high-off-boresight air-to-air missiles (AAM) on to its adversaries.
What they don't say as loudly is that it can't do both, at least on the same mission. Unlike the F-22 (and the Chengdu J-20 and Sukhoi T-50) it doesn't have side bays and trapezes for rail-launched AAMs. If the F-35 carries AIM-9s it does so externally, and by Lockheed Martin's own definition it is not stealthy.
This is not an accident, or even a matter of program execution. The F-35 was "70% air-to-ground and 30% air-to-air" at its inception - a direct quote from George Muellner, who was in charge of what was then the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program in 1995. The U.S. Air Force, as the biggest customer, called the shots on the requirement. The F-117 Nighthawk had been the hero of the first Gulf War but had three main limitations: it couldn't find targets in-weather, couldn't hit moving targets and had neither the situational awareness nor the armament to survive in daylight. JAST was designed to do all these things as well as having external weapon stations to act as an F-16 on "Day Two" when the defenses had been degraded.
The Air Force in 1995 expected to have 442 F-22s to deal with any fighter threat, and side AAM bays would not remotely fit into the size and weight constraints imposed by the short take-off, vertical landing requirement. Stovl also limited the weight and size of the wing and the length of the body.
But what if the ATF traditionalists were wrong - as Goure and Linstead seem to imply - and WVR combat can and should be avoided? There are two ironies in Goure's citation of Stillion's work. The first is that Stillion was a co-author of the RAND report that drew down Davis' ire in 2008. The second is that Stillion's new study for CSBA suggests that the way to win a future air battle is not to use F-35s or F-22s but to launch AAMs from highly stealthy unmanned air vehicles, controlled from an aircraft that looks like the Long Range Strike Bomber. The logic is powerful: high-performance fighters are almost by definition short-legged, and even if they are not vulnerable, their tankers are. (I'm not the only one to have concluded that the J-20 is aimed directly at tankers and other support assets.)
That view of air combat is bolstered by Stillion's extensive study of air combat history, which shows a steady migration from guns to short-range AAMs to BVR AAMs. But there is an inkling of doubt here. Others have seen different trends - notably, the developers and customers in the MBDA Meteor program predict that BVR battles will involve more maneuvering, at high speeds. History is instructive, but not determinative.
Notably, air-to-air conflicts in the past 30 years have been grossly unbalanced. The U.S. and its allies have had a major advantage in equipment - the West has never faced the Sukhoi family, and the most modern Russian fighter to have been encountered is the early-model MiG-29, which has pitiful range and is locked into the Soviet ground-controlled-intercept doctrine. Training and experience have been on the Western side by a huge margin. And generally, one side has had the support of airborne warning and control, signals intelligence and communications jamming assets and the other has had none of these.
Not surprisingly, then, many engagements have been decided BVR; and adversaries have been given cause to believe that any attempt to get into a WVR engagement is likely to be fatal. But that kind of imbalance is not an eternal reality. Dan Goure's reaction to the F-35's possible lack of agility may be "I say, good," but he's not flying it in combat, is he?
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After a number of mumps cases were reported at Temple University, the virus has now spread to the suburbs.
Health officials say at least 16 cases of mumps have been confirmed at Temple University, the most cases in the city since 2011.
The Department of Public Health for Philadelphia said Thursday the effectiveness of the mumps vaccination tends to wane over time so it's not necessarily a case of unvaccinated people.
Spokesman James Garrow says the outbreaks tend to be more common on college campuses where people are more closely in contact.
There is no cure for mumps. Symptoms include feeling tired, fever and swollen salivary glands on the side of the face.
Garrow said the outbreak probably won't increase in number since Temple health officials are being told to treat the virus instead of testing.
The city's public health department said in 2017, there were eight confirmed cases in Philadelphia.


I was playing with the CAD model some more, just to see if I could get a decent "sleep" or rest pose. I think this qualifies pretty well. Of course, the real trick is going to be seeing if it can get up from this pose.
Very cool, and very cute.


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Q: Encode Audio Back From getChannelData() I call getChannelData and perform some actions and remove values from the Float32Array.
How can I encode this data back into a form that can be saved?
const blob = new Blob(this.chunks, { type: audioType });
// generate audio url from blob
const audioContext = new (window.AudioContext ||
  window.webkitAudioContext)();
// reading the file with file reader using a method that uses read file in a promise
ReadFile(blob).then((arrayBuffer) => {
  audioContext.decodeAudioData(arrayBuffer).then((audioBuffer) => {
    const audioBufferSourceNode = audioContext.createBufferSource();
    const numChannels = audioBuffer.numberOfChannels;
    const leftChannelArray = audioBuffer.getChannelData(0);
    // audioBufferSourceNode.buffer = leftChannelArray;
    let rightChannelArray;
    if (numChannels>1) {
      rightChannelArray = audioBuffer.getChannelData(1);
    }
    const monoChannelTrimmed = trimSilence(leftChannelArray, rightChannelArray) //we look on both sides for silence, we delete the array values and merge the channels
    //Now i want to turn monoChannelTrimmed into a usable audio file

Turning this channel back into something that is usable is what I have been struggling with. I have tried some suggestions from other questions in this field such as Converting Float32Array to Uint8Array while Preserving IEEE 754 Representation But nothing has worked if anyone has suggestions I would be very eager to try them.

A: You can probably use the MediaStream Recording API.
Here is a small snippet of how to use it, mostly taken from the example, but modified to use a WebAudio OscillatorNode as the source.  You can replace that with an AudioBufferSourceNode that is playing out your monoTrimmedChannel
let c;
let s;
let d;
let mediaRecorder;

let recordedChunks = [];

function handleDataAvailable(event) {
  console.log("data-available");
  if (event.data.size > 0) {
    recordedChunks.push(event.data);
    download();
  } else {
    // ...
  }
}

function download() {
  let blob = new Blob(recordedChunks, {
    type: "video/webm"
  });
  let url = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
  let a = document.createElement("a");
  document.body.appendChild(a);
  a.style = "display: none";
  a.href = url;
  a.download = "test.mp3";
  a.click();
  window.URL.revokeObjectURL(url);
}

setTimeout(event => {
  console.log("stopping");
  mediaRecorder.stop();
}, 9000);

function start() {
  console.log("start");
  c = new AudioContext();
  s = new OscillatorNode(c);
  d = new MediaStreamAudioDestinationNode(c);
  s.connect(d);

  mediaRecorder =  new MediaRecorder(d.stream,  {
    mimeType:  "audio/webm"
  });
  mediaRecorder.ondataavailable = handleDataAvailable;

  s.start();
  mediaRecorder.start();
}

I tested this locally and it creates a test.webm file that plays a nice oscillator tone as expected.  You'll probably want to tweak some things.

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Community Stadium Move - Years Of Frustration
Thursday's Annual General Meeting . . .
THE Grimsby Town Directors outlined the years of frustration as the club again looks to move from Blundell Park to a new community stadium
Director John Fenty said: "An immense amount of work and cost has been incurred with little to show for it over 20 years. So we are very pleased the council are now progressing forward in public.
Here's a potted history from 2001 of Town's bid to relocate.
1. In 2001 planning permission at Great Coates was refused
• Following all the delays B&Q, the schemes anchor tenant, in frustration, ironically went to Peaks Parkway.
2. The scheme was brought back and approved subject to signing the Section 106 agreement.
3. The Developer wouldn't then sign the S106 agreement, as this would have triggered a very large payment without certainty of securing another anchor tenant
As with developments of this type timing is critical, losing B&Q killed the project
4. In 2003 the club's scheme at Great Coates was allocated in the Council's Local plan
5. In 2005 the club resubmitted an updated planning application catalysed by new retail interest
6. After lengthy delays the planning application was determined with approval in Jan 2007
• The Scheme was then subjected to Judicial Review by Henry Boot, who were attempting to deliver a competing retail scheme
• In November 2007 the Planning Permission was finally validated
7. In 2008 the Economy crashed and the scheme was rendered unviable for many reasons
8. In 2010 the club finally turned its back on Great Coates and began looking for other sites that could accommodate the club's needs together with a vital enabling development.
9. 2011 the club undertook another sequential appraisal of several sites. Master plans were produced and they were scored against PPS4 criteria
10. Peaks Parkway scored way ahead of the next best option which was Western School
11. The club then approached the Council to acquire the site, negotiations ensued.
12. In 2011 the retail market was very flat and the club asked the Council about the inclusion of houses to enable delivery.
13. It was the Council's preference to stick with retail at that time.
14. In 2012 the club commissioned a retail impact assessment and undertook some soft market testing with partners.
15. Following this the club confirmed that there was insufficient retail interest and pressed for housing as being a likely part enabler and entered into negotiations with nearby landowners.
16. In 2013 a new master-plan was produced to include potential housing and retail to help catalyse the scheme.
17. Negotiation to secure an interest in the Council land at Peaks Parkway took a turn.
18. On the 4th of December 2014 the Council resolved to produce two independent studies comprising of
• A new Sequential Site appraisal
• Study to look at the benefits of a Community Stadium
19. In February 2015 the club's plans were substantially published and site consultations took place at Peaks Parkway and Blundell Park.
• Between 200 and 300 people attended each event and their views were collated
20. In March 2015, and in conjunction with consultation for the Council's New Local Plan, the club launched a paper-based and electronic survey. In summary
• 86% Chose Peaks Parkway (4671)
• 93% Said; the council should help the club relocate (5007)
• 7% Said; the Council should not help the club relocate (401)
• 2% said; do nothing (125)
After wide publication objectors and supporters alike had wide access to the survey
21. On the 23rd of November the Council resolved that its two independent studies should go to a scrutiny panel which will look at the six sites in detail from the shortlisted 16 sites it had appraised
Mr Fenty concluded: "There are objectors as you would expect with a project like this. They are being listened too and for sure their concerns will be factored into an emerging scheme. An immense amount of work and cost has been incurred with little to show for it over 20 years, so were very pleased that the council are now progressing forward in public.
"It's so frustrating to onlookers, and not surprisingly the club, that after all this time, there is no unison about where the Community Stadium should go."
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THE LAST REMNANT Remastered OUT NOW!
By Square Enix Team
The world was at peace...or so it seemed. The powers of the Remnants slowly began to change the world's balance. A rift slowly formed between those who ruled and those who obeyed. This was the dawning of a new era of countless frays that would be brought upon the world by those enslaved by their own lust for power.
Join Rush Sykes and his companions on a journey to uncover the mysteries behind the Remnants and to rescue his younger sister, Irina. Check out the trailer below!
Admired for its art direction by Yusuke Naora, known for his work on the FINAL FANTASY series (in particular: FINAL FANTASY X and FINAL FANTASY XV and many others), you can now enjoy the world of THE LAST REMNANT Remastered in a completely new light, by using Unreal Engine 4 the character designs, animation and textures are now more beautiful than ever!
Returning to work on THE LAST REMNANT once again, as the executive producer on THE LAST REMNANT Remastered, is the legendary Akitoshi Kawazu, known for his work on the FINAL FANTASY (FINAL FANTASY, FINAL FANTASY II and FINAL FANTASY XII amongst many others) and SaGa series.
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Geniusleo89
Anyone know if they are going go release at Steam.
Really hope this comes to XBox One or PC soon...
lightright
Please hear me and track this issue.This is one of my favorite games.Or at least give me one answer in this regard.thanks
So what should i do? accept this reality and stop playing it or there is solution for it?
i couldn't find any support page for this game so i'm writing this here
by using the "Caustic Blast " in battle all enemies dies ever time i'm using it.it is so overpowered and have a huge range .so im no longer fighting in game im just use this in very first second of battle and its over every one dies
by using the "Caustic Blast " in battle all enemies does aver time i'm using it.it is so overpowered and have a huge range .so im no longer fighting in game im just use this in very first second of battle and its over every one dies
there is magic ART in game names "Caustic Blast " i played lot of PC version of game and i know how this magic work in the game but in ps4 version this magic just breaking the gameplay
i have problem in this game after playing it for 20 plus hours .game play somehow breaks.
Rynidor
Will this remaster be available on PC at any time, or will the base game ever be relisted? It's a crying shame that you removed this game from Steam and your own platform. I guess the only legal way to play it on PC is having bought it in the past. I just hope for the ps4 customers, they haven't had anything censored.
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