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Georgia Davis: Friend says she would have stopped obese teenager from ballooning again
Posted byBig Wife May 30, 2012 May 30, 2012
I could have helped save her: Friend says she would have stopped obese teenager from ballooning for a second time by teaching her to eat healthily againGeorgia Davis, who had to be rescued from her home after her weight increased to 63 stone, had previously moved away in an attempt to lose weight, her friend saidFormer housemate Jade Tarrant said she returned home to care for her sick step-father and went back to eating junk food
Miss Tarrant said: "I always knew it was going to get this bad if she went home again."Miss Davis said to be "stable" in hospital, where she is being treated for a range of obesity-related problems
Desperate: A friend said 63-stone Georgia Davis had moved away from her parents in an attempt to lose weight
A 63-stone girl who had to be rescued from her own home had previously moved away from her parents in a desperate attempt to lose weight, her friend and former housemate has said.
Georgia Davis, 19, moved in with friend Jade Tarrant but put on weight after she returned home to care for her sick step-father.
Miss Tarrant revealed today how Miss Davis"s weight went from 18 stone to 63 stone as she returned to her bad habit of eating junk food.
Miss Tarrant, 19, said: "I always knew it was going to get this bad if she went home again.
"She'd come to live with me because of all the stress. Being with the mum and her step-dad got so stressful.
"She just wanted a break – she wanted some girly time.
"She would have lost weight if she stayed with me because I like my salads and I could have got her on it.
"But she missed her mum and step-dad. She ended up going back and putting her own health at risk."
Miss Davis moved out of their shared home in Aberdare, South Wales, to move back into her parents" home three miles away after her step-father was diagnosed with lung cancer.
She tried to be good daughter as her mother struggled with osteoporosis, Miss Tarrant said.
Friends: Jade Tarrant (left) lived with Georgia Davis (right), but Miss Davis put on weight again after moving back in with her parents
But the stress led to her returning to a diet of cakes, chips, burgers and chocolate, washed down by sugary fizzy drinks.
Miss Tarrant added: "If she'd stayed with me her life would have been good, she would have been happy and not had a so many problems on her mind.
"It was the strain of caring for her ill parents which made her eat – it was eating as a way of coping."
She thinks the world of her mum, she loves her and she loves her step-dad – she's been through a lot.
"I like my salads and I could have got her on it": Jade Tarrant said she could have helped Miss Davis lose weight again
"Her mum's osteoporosis and her step-dad's lung problems had a large impact on her.
"It went wrong when she moved back in with them, she was under a lot of stress and it put her back on the same spot.
"She went back to eating fatty foods and having huge portions every time we went out for a meal."
Miss Davis eventually stopped venturing outside altogether and, by the time a 40-man emergency team cut her free, she had not left the house for about eight months.
The teenager is being treated for a range of obesity-related problems at hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.
She is suffering from complications including diabetes and kidney failure, as well as problems with her spine, joints and skin.
Doctors and obesity experts have put her on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet to help her lose weight.
Jade, who is currently pregnant with her first child, said: "When I saw the situation I was in shock. I broke down and started crying.
Major operation: It took 40 people to rescue Miss Davis from her home after she fell ill last week
"I didn't even realise it was her, It didn't look like her, she looked so unhappy.
"I had a fear inside me that something would happen one day but never expected this.
"I really want Georgia to get well and get out of hospital so she can come and see me and my baby."
A hospital spokesman said: "Georgia is still undergoing investigations and receiving treatment from a range of health professionals.
"We are pleased to advise that her clinical condition is stable."
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My favorite vacation was with my two daughters to Nevada, Arizona and Utah in the summer of 2013.
I planned a good itinerary. We rented a car from Las Vegas and drove first to Bryce Canyon National Park, where we spent two nights. The scenic view of red, orange, and white colors of the rocks looked spectacular. It's a popular destination for hiking, skiing, camping and horse riding.
Next stop was at Lake Powell Glen Canyon Dam. There is a reservoir on the Colorado River located between Utah and Arizona. A paradise for boating, water skiing and fishing.
We took a boat to see the Rainbow Bridge. It is 50 miles away from the lake's shoreline. The Bridge is a natural arch, made from sandstone and it's so amazing!
My daughters and I had a lot of fun that day. We went back to the motel to rest. In the morning we took a tour to Upper and Lower Antelope Canyons. These incredible Canyons have been created over many thousands of years. The sandstone has different forms, shapes, and beautiful colors. The professional photographers from all over the world just love this place.
On the fifth day we got on the road toward Zion National Park in Utah. We loved driving in the desert. It's beautiful! There are a lot of hiking trails and cliffs along the Virgin River. Also, there are many different things to do, like camping, rock climbing and scenic driving.
The weather was always hot. We wore hats, light clothes, comfortable boots and drank a lot of water. We enjoyed the mountains and scenery! We would love to go back again– our best vacation!
Eamheong Chay, right, became a US Citizen last weekend. Eamhoeng comes to the US from Cambodia and has been with LVSCT for three years and meets every Wednesday.
She stands with her tutor, Martha Salmon.
Congratulations Alla Bytsiuk from the Ukraine who was placed on the Dean's List for the Fall 2015 semester. Alla is a student at Gateway Community College. She is with her tutor Florence Gambino who has been an instrumental support to Alla during her registration process and with her classwork.
Literacy Volunteers of Southern CT offers a five-week volunteer TUTOR TRAINING classes in ESL (English as a Second Language) at the Stratford Library 6:00 – 8:00 on March 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30.
Additionally, if you are interested in working with students preparing for their GED (General Equivalency Diploma) examination, or prefer to help adult students with basic literacy skills, call the Center's office for an interview.
Literacy Volunteers of Southern Connecticut is part of the ProLiteracy network of adult basic education and literacy programs. ProLiteracy is working with its member programs to raise awareness of available ESL services.


A perfect location for meetings, drinks, BBQ, dinner or party!
Next to Beach restaurant Meijer aan Zee, you can find Beach house Meijer aan Zee. This beach house is fully equipped for both large and small groups and it has its own bar and several meeting facilities. The space can be made smaller or bigger with a flexible wall. It is entirely surrounded by a nice porch, and on the private terrace, you will find a cocktail/outdoor bar, cozy bar tables, and great lounge sofas.
In front of the terrace, you can find the private beach, where various activities can take place. Of course, the beach house is private and not accessible to other guests.
Various (staff) activities can be organized in and around the beach house. We collaborate with several event agencies. They specialize in beach activities and can plan the perfect day for you: from cozy teambuilding activities to complicated workshops at management level.
Due to the handy (moveable) layout, the beach house is suitable for both large and small groups. It is decorated in the same elegant atmosphere as restaurant Meijer aan Zee. Here, you can enjoy a private dinner (15 people or more) or a big party for up to 500 people.


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With 2.2 Million Households, Sling In Year Of Addressable Convergence With Dish
The year 2018 is one of "convergence" for Dish Network and its streaming Sling TV service, which combined now offer addressable advertising to about 9 million households. "We spent a lot of last year tying together the existing data partnerships on the Dish side with the Sling side and making sure that attribution and reporting can run across both platforms," says Dish Media Sales Account Executive Chris Flatley.
Last month, Dish for the first time quantified its Sling subscriber footprint at 2.21 million households, as The Hollywood Reporter noted.
"The live, streaming space as a whole is about 4.6 million households, so we have near a 50 percent market share of that universe," Flatley says in this interview with Beet.TV. "The interesting thing with Sling is that each of our households, because of the way we deliver it through IP, is inherently addressable."
Educating the industry "as to what's possible" with advanced TV typically begins with an advertiser wanting to target viewers contextually. During March Madness, that could entail running ads in entertainment and sports networks, according to Flatley.
"And what that generally leads to as advertisers get more comfortable with the platform is the advanced TV capabilities that we offer, such as household addressable or overlaying specific demos right onto a buy," he explains.
For example, an auto manufacturer "may come in and say we're looking to reach SUV buyers who are in market for a new auto in the next 12 months." Sling works with a data vendor like Polk to pull those segments, "apply it to the Sling file and serve only matches to that advertiser who are people are actually in market to buy a car."
Eliminating waste by serve ads only to the most likely prospects is one part of the process of proving value to advertisers.
"So when we do an addressable deal, there will typically be attribution behind that. Using auto, we do sales match back data and tell the advertiser how many people were buying their cars who were exposed to the message," Flatley says.
It doesn't matter whether buyers prefer traditional insertion-order transactions or programmatic, he adds. If it's the latter, "anything we can do directly we can execute programmatically and the pricing is going to be the same."
In 2017, more than 1,000 new advertisers come onto the Sling platform, "and that really spans every vertical you can imagine. I think where we've seen huge uptick initially is with the autos and now the CPG's coming through."
This video is part of a series The New Marketplace for Television Advertising, presented by dataxu. Please find more videos from the series here.
By Steve Ellwanger on March 19, 2018 @steveellwanger
The New Marketplace for Television Advertising, presented by dataxuTagged dataxu, Sling TV, DISH Media Sales, Chris Flatley

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Our week ahead features three-days of regular instruction. School is closed for students on Tuesday November 8th due to Election Day. All schools are closed on Friday in observance of Veterans Day.
We look forward to welcoming parents and families to this week's "Principal's Coffee" meetings.
Lower Grades Principal's Coffee, 8:30am to 9:30am in Cafeteria.
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Parent Teacher Conferences will be held on the evening of November 17th (4:45pm – 7:45pm) and the afternoon of November 18th 12:40pm – 2:40pm.
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Parents: Open School Week provides you with the opportunity to observe your child's learning experience in action. It also allows us to reinforce our family-school partnership and commitment to each child's success.


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Gray Wolf Recovery Status Reports, February 2003
From: Gray Wolf Recovery Coordinator, Helena, MT
On the 3rd, MT FW&P collared a gray pup #299, from the Taylor Peak pack while capturing elk for the cooperative MSU study on elk/wolf relationships. There were 6 gray wolves in the pack. Good job! The MT FW&P biologists were primarily collaring elk as part of their cooperative wolf/elk relationships study. Chief Joe pack was seen the next day but couldn't be darted.....On the 5th, an uncollared wolf pup [now 10 months old] was killed by a vehicle on Highway 12 near Avon. It was likely a member of Castle Rock or Halfway packs.
WS reported a pair of wolf tracks near Clark Canyon Reservoir SE of Dillon, MT. They pulled M-44's in the immediate area. This is the same area where wolves killed a calf last fall.
On the 3rd, Wildlife Services killed 3 members [2 gray and a black subadult] of the Halfway pack. Two other wolves were seen and they will be removed as weather permits. The Castle Rock pack moved south of the highway and were not in a suitable location for removal. On the morning of the 6th, 3 uncollared members, including the suspected alpha male, of the Castle Rock pack were shot. That afternoon WS killed dispersing Castle Rock- but now Halfway pack- wolf #979 and #342. Control is finished, unless more depredations are confirmed. The Halfway pack is gone and 3-4 wolves remain in the Castle Rock pack.
Dr. Dennis Murray, University of Idaho, was in Yellowstone National Park this week working with Doug Smith on analysis of radio-telemetry survival and mortality data from 403 wolves that were radio-collared and monitored in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming since the early 1980's. The multi-co-author paper will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.
Information and education and law enforcement
The CENTRAL ROCKIES WOLF PROJECT is pleased to announce that registration has begun for the WORLD WOLF CONGRESS 2003 - BRIDGING SCIENCE AND COMMUNITY, to be held at the Banff Centre (Banff, Canada) from September 25-28, 2003. Please visit www.worldwolfcongress.ca for complete information.
Call for papers: Papers are now being accepted for the 2003 North American Interagency Wolf Conference, April 8 - 10, 2003 at Chico Hot Springs, Pray, MT. The theme this year is wolf/ungulate relationships. Please submit a one page single spaced abstract which includes your full contact information, affiliations, and authors, by email to Joseph Fontaine at Joseph_Fontaine@fws.gov Please submit a digital picture related to your research or topic to include in the agenda and on the website. We can also scan images sent by mail. Registration for the conference will begin November 1, 2002 and you may contact Suzanne Laverty at SLaverty@defenders.org for details. The registration website is http://keysecure.com/forwolves.org/confer2003.html
FEBRUARY 7-21,2003
The Red Shale Pack (14 wolves) has been sighted on the east front of the Rockies west of Choteau. This pack spends most of its time in the North Fork of the Sun River, but apparently travels across the front ranges to the east side. There hasn't a pack of wolves on the east front that wasn't eventually eliminated because of chronic cattle depredations, so we hope these wolves remain in the wilderness.....The Nez Perce Tribe hired Isaac Babcock and Jon Trapp to conduct winter searches for suspected uncollared packs. Four areas are being searched. An unradioed pack of 10-11 wolves was found in the Morgan Creek area north of Challis, ID, An unradioed pack of 3-4 wolves was found in upper Lolo Creek near Kamiah. The Slate Creek area north of Riggins and the upper reaches of the Boise River are still being surveyed.....Issac Babcock is in the Big Creek area now, helping with the Univ. Idaho wolf/lion/ungulate research program and Jim and Holly Akinson. Radio contact with the Chamberlain Basin pack was lost a year ago and Issac is attempting to trap and radio a pack member. .....On the 7th, the Nez Perce pack couldn't be located anywhere near the Jackson, WY area. Over the weekend graduate students with the MSU elk/wolf study in the middle of Yellowstone National Park and the pack's normal territory reported "they're back...".....Yellowstone National Park biologists caught 8 wolves in 4 packs on Feb. 12 & 13. Geode (2 caught including alpha female and beta male), a Druid sub-group (2 young males),Cougar Creek (2 males including alpha male), and Nez Perce (2 pups, one male one female). Good job.
Wildlife Service's investigated a report of a possible wolf-killed calf on the 10th several miles north of Red Lodge, MT. A wolf might have been there but there was not enough evidence to know what happened. On about the 18th a rancher closer to Red Lodge who had depredations last year reported a suspected wolf kill but not enough evidence was left to confirm anything. The rancher reported seeing two gray wolves harassing a mare/foal about the same time frame and fired shots over their heads and scared them away. On the 19th he reported another probable calf kill and preserved the evidence. Wildlife Service confirmed it was a wolf kill on the 20th. Three wolves are believed to be in the Red Lodge pack but up to 5 were seen last summer when a cow and other calves were killed by that pack. Lethal control for up to 5 wolves was authorized.....In Meeteetse, WY a calf was confirmed killed by 2 wolves. The radio from the Grey Bull river pack was located in a distant location. WS was authorized to kill up to two wolves in the immediate area of the depredation.....A rancher in the Paradise Valley legally shot two uncollared wolves [out of 3] [2-yr-old male and female pup] in his cattle/calving pasture on the 12th. He had a shoot-on-sight permit for up to 2 wolves that were on private land and near his livestock. LE investigated and confirmed that all the permit conditions had been met. Control on the Mill Creek pack [now down to 2-4 wolves] has ended unless other depredations are confirmed. Asher met with a neighboring rancher and fencing contractor to investigate building a more secure night pen for his sheep.....The Taylor Peak wolves [2 adult and 2 pups- 2 radioed] harassed a mule in the Madison Valley on the 17th. Asher and WS investigated on the 18th and wolf tracks were abundant. The mule had a deep cut on its leg, a wire cut, that it probably received while dogging the wolves. The rancher was provided cracker shells and a receiver in case the wolves came back. The pack then went further down the valley and got into a fight with several dogs through a kennel fence but none of the dogs were injured.....The rancher who has lost several llamas to wolves in the Ninemile Valley reported that a pair of wolves have been seen hanging around the area on several occasions recently. The llamas reacted to the presence of the wolves, and she is concerned there will be trouble. Attempts may be made to haze the wolves, or to trap and collar them. They appear to be a splinter group off the Ninemile Pack. The collared Ninemile wolves seem to be staying higher up in the valley. Volunteers from the Univ. Montana will receive rubber bullet training and might respond if the problem persists.....WS confirmed that a calf was killed by 2 wolves on private property north of Mackay, ID on the 15th. Another calf carcasses found 3 days previously was classified as probable and one from 10 days ago was mainly consumed but a possible wolf kill. No radioed wolves were found and snares were set in an attempt to collar a wolf. On the morning of the 18th a 2-3 yr-old male gray wolf was seen in that vicinity and it was shot by WS that afternoon. It had calf hair in its stomach. A second wolf had been reported but aerial searches on the 18th and 19th did not locate it. Control is terminated unless other depredations are confirmed.
Meier checked out a report of a possible road-killed wolf near Olney MT but it turned out to be a large dog.....On February 12 Niemeyer met with representatives of Defenders of Wildlife, the ranching community, the medical profession, the insurance profession, a state senator and others in Tuscon, Arizona, to discuss and develop an insurance model that could resolve rancher/wolf conflicts and possibly provide potential solutions to rural West ranching community and environmental problems. An abstract of the concept will be presented at the April Intra agency Wolf Conference at Chico. The first meeting was very productive and all participants identified problems to be resolved that will help in the modeling process.....On February 19 Niemeyer and Mack met with 40 ranchers, BLM and Forest Service representatives in Grangeville, Idaho. During the 4-hour presentation, the group was informed about the wolf recovery program, the Final Rule, reclassification and delisting. Niemeyer presented two slide series on recognizing wolf depredations, protecting kill sites and applying non-lethal tools to ranchers. Mack gave an update on wolf biology, pack activities and wolf population dynamics in Idaho Three Wildlife Services personnel were in attendance and ranchers were encouraged to communicate wolf sightings and depredations to the management agencies. Attendees were cordial, appreciative and felt that the program was very informative. BLM set up this outreach opportunity.
The SW MT crew attempted to dart the Chief Joe pack and others on the 28th. Chief Joe were in the open near an elk kill but the winds were too high to attempt capture. Rats! Additional attempts will be made, radio contact with this pack was lost last spring.....The Nez Perce Tribe hired Isaac Babcock and Jon Trapp to conduct winter searches for suspected uncollared packs. Jon searched the upper reaches of the middle fork of the Boise River and found 2-4 wolves are using the area but it is unsure if they were a breeding pair this past year or not.....Issac Babcock trapped in the Big Creek with help from Jim and Holly Akenson. Radio contact with the Chamberlain Basin pack was lost a year ago but nothing has been captured yet.
Wildlife Service's removed all 4 members of the Red Lodge pack near Red Lodge, MT on the 24th. Three of the 4 had mange but mainly just on their tails. The pack had been involved in numerous cattle depredations since last spring. ....Wolves in the Ninemile were thought to have killed 7 kid goats on private land on the 24th. Wildlife Service's investigated but there was no sign, (blood, hair, bone, or a struggle), to indicate there was even a depredation. No action will be taken
Yellowstone National Park's late winter wolf predation study training for volunteers was conducted on the 28th. The 30-day intensive study of wolf predation begins on March 1.....A wolf was reportedly killed near Weston, ID, a few miles north of the Utah border. LE is investigating.
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on the last of the litigation against the wolf recovery program on 02/25/03. The case involved the Diamond G Ranch, Inc, a Wyoming Corporation v. Gale Norton, Sec. Interior and USFWS. The case was an appeal of a U.S. District Court for Wyoming ruling that the wolf recovery program did not violate the Fifth Amendments takings provisions or the regulations promulgated under the Endangered Species Act. The Appeals Court affirmed the District Court ruling which dismissed the Diamond G's takings claims and the ESA claims. This is another big legal win for the DOJ, FWS, and wolf recovery program.....The Wyoming legislature passed a state wolf management bill on the 27th. The bill classifies wolves as both predators and trophy game depending upon the number of wolf packs in Wyoming. The Service will work closely with the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission and Department to finalize the state's wolf management plan to address some lingering Service concerns.
Contact: Ed Bangs (406)449-5225 x204 or ED_BANGS@FWS.GOV


BOSTON – March 4, 2014 – bigtincan, a leader in mobile content enablement, today announced that luxury clothing designer Paige Denim has implemented bigtincan Hub to improve the field sales process with distributors by making it easier for sales reps to access and share images of new jeans collections – while garnering valuable insights around which content is most effective during the sales process. bigtincan hub is a single unified solution that securely delivers the right content to the right users at the right time and location – on any mobile device.
Prior to implementing bigtincan hub, Paige was using a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to store and access images of new collections of jeans. This posed a tremendous challenge for Paige distributors as they regularly had to navigate through complex file systems to try and find and download the latest images on the fly, which often staggered the sales process. Because fashion is such a visual industry and critical to the success of sales, the company needed to implement a solution that allowed them to always have access to the newest images through a single interface.
Paige Denim implemented bigtincan hub to create a more efficient and cost effective way for its field sales team to access and share images through a single interactive interface. More importantly, the executive team wanted to understand which images and content was resonating with buyers and duplicate that process across the sales organization. Through its ContentIQ technology, bigtincan is able to provide Paige with intelligent insight into all aspects of how all of its 75 field sales users engage with content, helping them unlock expertise and create expert networks that will improve the overall performance of the entire group.
bigtincan has transformed the way business is done on mobile devices. The company's innovative mobile content enablement solution, bigtincan hub, is a unified set of productivity tools that enables users to securely and effectively engage with the right content at the right time in the right location – no matter where the content resides. bigtincan provides intelligent insights around the interaction, utilization and value of content within an organization, while providing unprecedented control and governance over content usage and sharing. Founded in 2011 with headquarters in Boston, MA and regional offices in Paris, Singapore and Sydney, the company has customers across a variety of industries including: government, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing retail and technology. For more information, please visit www.bigtincan.com/ or follow @bigtincan on Twitter.


This hadith is central to Islamic thought, culture, and understanding and shows the balance between the internal and external states of oneself. Scholars have commented that this hadith comprises one-third of knowledge because the intention in the heart is one-third of action. Our Intention creates our action, and our action creates our reality of life. The connection between action and intention highlights the connection between the physical and the spiritual components of any human. So this hadith emphasizes on the importance of having an intention for every physical act what we do, and the importance of having a purpose for every action.
Intentions lead to results. When a change in intention occurs, a change in the external conditions will follow. Intention is also enough for Allah (swt) to make a change in our reality. Specifically, in regard to Islamic work and worship, the quality of intention is very important. Involvement in Islamic work should not be primarily intended for marriage or fame, but to worship Allah, help our community and spread love amongst our community. The Prophet (sas) informed us that if you perform an act for the sake of someone else rather than for Allah's sake, then Allah will reject that deed entirely.


· Strategies for creating and maintaining a safe coaching environment.
· Preparing for, delivering and reviewing triathlon sessions.
· Developing fundamental coaching and technical skills.
Coaches will have access to an online Knowledge Hub resource, which details the principles of effective coaching and the Foundation level skills of triathlon across swim, cycle, run and transitions.
The Foundation Coach Training Program been specifically designed to provide a supporting and engaging environment for developing the fundamentals of coaching triathlon, to equip coaches with the necessary skills and resources to start coaching.
The Foundation Coach is able to prepare for, deliver and review basic predesigned triathlon coaching sessions designed for a group of athletes with a mix of ages and/or skill levels participating in a club or squad-based novice, participation focused training sessions. (i.e.not individual 1 on 1 coaching).
· 2-day face to face program attendance.
· A blended delivery strategy will be employed utilising the Flipped Classroom approach in a balance of online learning, face to face learning sessions and practical coaching.
· 20-25 hours of independent learning and assessment tasks over 3-4 weeks via the Knowledge Hub [prior to attending the face to face sessions].
Coaches will be required to complete home study online tasks, plan, deliver and review practical sessions (on course).
· How to communicate effectively.
· How to engage athletes.
· How to give quality meaningful feedback.
Coaches will also be introduced to the triathlon disciplines (swim, bike, run and transitions) and the basic skills to be coached. You will also cover athlete safety and welfare, session preparation, evaluation and reflection.
The course is supported by the Triathlon Australia Knowledge Hub online resource, which contains all the information required to complete the program and develop your own coaching knowledge and skills.
· Coaches must be at least 16 years of age at the commencement of the learning program. Coaches under 18 must have constant direct supervision.
· Be a current Triathlon Australia member. This is to provide you with appropriate insurance to cover you whilst completing the program.
· Have access to an internet connected device for the Knowledge Hub online resource.
· Coaches will be registered for the qualification for a period of 12 months from the start of the course. However, most learners complete in-line with the course duration.
· Engage and inspire people to take part in triathlon.
· Safely organise and deliver triathlon activities for a range of ages and abilities, across a range of environments.
· Demonstrate generic and triathlon specific coaching skills, good practice in coaching, athlete safety and welfare, equitable and inclusive coaching practice, and working with others.
WHERE Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre. Aughtie Drive, Albert Park, VIC 3206.


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Q: Spark Scala, merging two columnar dataframes duplicating the second dataframe each time I want to merge 2 columns or 2 dataframes like
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df2 --> this one can be a list as well
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I want to have as resulting table
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A: def crossJoin(right: org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset[_]): org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame
Using crossJoin function you can get same result. Please check code below.
scala> dfa.show
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scala> dfb.show
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'Lady And The Tramp' trailer brings iconic spaghetti scene to life
Disney just unveiled a new trailer for the upcoming reboot of Lady and the Tramp that will debut when Disney+ drops next month. Justin Theroux and Tessa Thompson voice the lead dogs in the remake of the iconic 1955 classic. Read more: Bring Me The Horizon drop customized merch based on your Spotify habits For those of you who haven't seen Lady And The Tramp, the animated movie followed what we'd
Is 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' getting a live-action remake?
The Nightmare Before Christmas is, as usual, making its rounds in the news this spooky season. It has cereal, shoes and coffee. It's also the perfect flick because we can watch it during Halloween or Christmas and no one bats an eye. But, what if there was another? ...
Harry Styles in talks to join live-action 'Little Mermaid' as Prince Eric
Disney's forthcoming live-action remake of The Little Mermaid has been popping up all over the internet with casting rumors and suggestions. Earlier this month, singer and actress Halle Bailey, who is part of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle, was announced as Ariel herself. Now, it looks like Dis...
'The Little Mermaid' fans suggest Guy Fieri play Ursula, he approves
Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid has caused a lot of buzz online recently, and one hilarious suggestion to cast Guy Fieri got the celebrity chef's stamp of approval. Last week, Singer and actress Halle Bailey, who is part of the R&B duo Chloe x Halle with her sister, was announced as Ariel herself. Read more: Avril ... Read More ...
'Mulan' fights her way through first trailer for Disney remake
The official first trailer for Disney's live-action remake of Mulan is finally here! The debut comes after rumors surfaced yesterday that the trailer would appear during the Women's World Cup game. Check out the first official look at Disney's next remake, below! Read more: S... Read More ...
'Lion King' drops tracklist with mysterious missing song name
The Lion King live-action remake is hitting theaters in less than a month, and Disney just unveiled the full tracklist with a few surprises. Prior to this, the music aspect of the film has been pretty underwraps. Read more: twenty one pilots get their own boulevard for Columbus hometown shows However, a few days ago, we did get to hear a clip Beyonce, who plays Nala, and Donald Glover/Childish G
'Lion King' classic gets Beyoncé, Childish Gambino cover in new teaser
We are beyond excited for the highly anticipated Disney remake of The Lion King in general, and a new teaser has us freaking out even more. Now, a clip dropped featuring Beyonce, who plays Nala, and Donald Glover/Childish Gambino, who plays Simba, singing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight." R...
'The Lion King' drops teaser giving first look at Beyoncé as Nala
We're just over a month awake from the release of the highly anticipated Disney remake of The Lion King. Fortunately, Disney knew just what we needed to hold us over until the film's debut, dropping a new 30-second trailer that gives us our first glimpse of Beyoncé's voice acting as Nala. Check out th...
'Aladdin' tops weekend box office despite mixed reactions
The highly-anticipated live-action remake of Disney classic Aladdin finally hit theaters this weekend. Despite mixed reviews and some backlash before its debut, the film absolutely crushed the box office Memorial Day weekend. Read more: Chromatics drop spooky Hole cover for Netflix horror film The remake of the 1992 animated film brought in $86 million domestically during its first three days in
'Aladdin' star Will Smith debuts rap version of 'Friend Like Me'
The live-action Aladdin remake is headed our way soon, and Will Smith is playing the iconic character of the genie. On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Smith talked about the role and eventually revealed he raps a classic song from the film...
'The Addams Family' animated film uses 'It' joke in first trailer
Recently, the animated The Addams Family film unveiled the first poster for the forthcoming film. It was reported that a trailer would be coming soon after, and now it's finally here. Read more: Sublime bassist suffers serious injuries following ATV accident The trailer shows the classic spooky family we know and love. Howe...
'Pet Sematary' final trailer is the most spine-chilling yet
The final Pet Sematary trailer has arrived, and it's probably the creepiest one yet. The new trailer shows a lot more of the plot behind the chilling Stephen King remake, along with some visually-astounding scenes that we just can't wait to see more of. Read mor...
Genie's first 'Aladdin' remake reveal confuses internet
Entertainment Weekly recently revealed the first look of the forthcoming Aladdin live-action remake. However, the reveal seems to have disappointed many long-time fans. According to the reveal, the genie, played by Will Smith, does not appear to be blue...
'Child's Play' creator angry about upcoming film reboot
It looks like Child's Play creator Don Mancini will be having no involvement with MGM's Chucky reboot, as he's not happy about it even happening. Mancini wrote all seven films to date and directed the last three, but will have no involvement with the forthcoming reboot starring Aubrey Plaza and Brian Tyree Henry...
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Official trailer for 'Kim Possible' live-action remake is finally here—watch
Disney has released the trailer for the forthcoming Kim Possible live-action remake. The trailer showcases the the main character's dual life between being a spy-extraordinaire and a normal teenager. After the few first-looks and teasers, we finally get a full glimpse of the cast fighting crime against all-time favorite villains Shego and Dr. Drakken. ...
'It' star cast in 'Hansel and Gretel' horror movie remake
It star, Sophia Lillis will star in the horror remake of Hansel and Gretel. Lillis played Beverly Marsh, one of the seven members of the Losers' Club, in the 2017 It remake. Her brother, Gretel will be played by Sammy Leakey. Read more: Rock band Threatin created fake fanbase to book a tour no one attended Joining Lillis and Leakey will be Black Mirror star Charles Babalola as the hunter, and Alic
A 'Clueless' remake is in the works, here's what we know so far
As if! Grab all the plaid in your closet and get ready, a Clueless remake is reportedly in the works. Read more: Some bands are giving you free concert tickets if you vote in midterms Reported by Deadline, the forthcoming remake is getting a revival thanks to Paramount Pictures. Glo...
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Get a sneak peak of Stephen King's 'Pet Sematary' remake
One of Stephen King's most terrifying horror novels, Pet Sematary is getting a remake. Paramount Pictures recently released a few set photos, which you can check out below. Read more: Post Malone joked about Panic! At The Disco face tattoo after plane emergency Photos of the Pet Sematary set have been released to Entertainment Weekly, courtesy of Paramount Pictures. From the ...
'Lilo & Stitch' live-action remake confirmed by Disney
Over the last few years, Disney has been taking our favorite childhood animated films and remaking them into live-action movies. From Jungle Book to Beauty And The Beast, we've seen these movies reinvented with varying levels of success. ...
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'Halloween' gets fan-made, shot-for-shot remake — watch
Some fans of John Carpenter's original Halloween are remaking the classic slasher with a shot-for-shot short film. The fan-made Shot For Shot: Halloween movie's five reconstructed scenes premiere July 20. And as an illustration, take a first look at the new footage in a special preview video below...


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Drivers at Elon Musk's Tunnel Told to Say Musk is 'Awesome!'
A Tesla Model X is parked within the Central Station throughout a media preview of the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop on April 9, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Photo: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)
If you trip the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnel, referred to as the Convention Center Loop, you may be tempted to ask your driver in regards to the firm's founder Elon Musk. But don't count on a straight reply. The firm has a script for its drivers and TechCrunch bought its fingers on what staff are supposed to say. It's each bit as ridiculous as you'd count on from an organization run by the second wealthiest individual on Earth.
When drivers are requested whether or not they take pleasure in working for Musk, they're instructed to reply, "Yup, he's a great leader! He motivates us to do great work," in accordance to a script obtained by TechCrunch by way of freedom of knowledge legal guidelines within the state of Nevada.
The script has loads of hypothetical eventualities for drivers within the Las Vegas "Loop" transportation tunnel, and encourages drivers to simply change the topic if questions on Musk get too delicate.
"Public fascination with our founder is inevitable and may dominate the conversation. Be as brief as possible, and do your best to shut down such conversation. If passengers continue to force the topic, politely say, 'I'm sorry, but I really can't comment' and change the subject," the Boring Company doc says, in accordance to TechCrunch.
Musk, a billionaire who thinks he's a lot smarter than he actually is, has gotten a popularity as a vindictive prick who's not possible to please, as soon as firing an assistant of 12 years after she asked for a raise. Musk denies the circumstances round that individual firing, however both approach, Musk looks as if an actual peach to work for. That truth is one thing Boring Company strategists have clearly anticipated of their speaking factors for drivers.
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Another instance of a possible passenger query within the doc reads, "Is it true what I've read about him in the papers that he [is a mean boss / smokes pot / doesn't let employees take vacations / etc.]?" Drivers are instructed to reply, "I haven't seen that article, but that hasn't been my experience."
Elon Musk's Loop transportation system was initially marketed as an autonomous underground car thought that may carry individuals to their vacation spot in high-speed 16-person automobiles touring at 150 miles per hour. Instead, it's only a human driver behind the wheel of standard Tesla vehicles taking passengers slowly in a tunnel between 30 and 40 miles per hour.
It's a ridiculous downgrade from the unique thought, to say the least, however Boring Company's PR of us clearly perceive the hazards of working with people who can reply truthfully to passengers in the event you don't give them the proper bullshit to say.
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If riders ask a driver how lengthy they've been with the corporate, they're instructed to reply with: "Long enough to know these tunnels pretty well!" The doc goes on to word: "Passengers will not feel safe if they think you've only been driving for a week (even though that could mean hundreds of rides). Accordingly, do not share how long you've been employed here, but instead, find a way to evade the question or shift the focus," the doc advises drivers.
When requested what number of crashes the system has skilled (the script makes use of the time period "accidents"), drivers are advised to reply: "It's a very safe system, and I'm not sure. You'd have to reach out to the company." Riders ought to count on equally obscure responses in the event that they marvel what number of staff or drivers TBC has, or how a lot the tunnels price to dig. (About $53 million in total).
Optics apart, the paperwork obtained by TechCrunch additionally reveal that drivers aren't all the time following the principles within the Las Vegas Loop, generally telling passengers that seatbelts are non-obligatory and evading questions on security.
As TechCrunch explains:
During testing this spring, the paperwork reveal that Clark County officers discovered some drivers weren't following all the principles. "When asked about the speed limitations, several drivers replied with wrong straightaway and/or curved tunnel speeds. None provided at station, express lane, or ramp speeds," reads one doc. "Drivers were not announcing to the passengers to buckle their seatbelts. When asked, [some were saying] that they are optional or not required."
Great job, Elon. Sounds precisely like the way forward for transportation.


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Gerard Butler's 'Motor City' Ends Due To Production Dysfunction
After a very chaotic pre-production phase Motor City, starring Gerard Butler, has succumbed to its own dysfunction. In a report from DeadlineHollywood, production came to an abrupt end and the crew was told to go home.
Emmett/Furla Film insiders told Deadline that Motor City stalled after its producers were unable to meet a due date set by Warner Bros. Production was set to begin next month on the 17th, meaning that the film would only have 12 weeks of post-production. Given the fact that the film has a high content of visual and special effects, 12 weeks was just not enough time.
A spokesman from Motor City confirmed the shut down saying:
"Faced with the realities of a very short post-production schedule and complicated visual and special effects, the producers have decided to push back production on Albert Hughes' Motor City. We are dedicated to delivering top-tier productions such as 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, which is currently in production, and Peter Berg's Lone Survivor which is in pre-production. The circumstances surrounding this project made it impossible to meet the firm March 31st delivery date without compromising the quality of the film."
Producers said that they still want to make the movie, but they're going to do a complete overhaul to stream line production in the future.
Butler would have played a man recently released from prison, seeking revenge against those who framed him and put him in jail, according to IMDB's synopsis.
Albert Hughes was set to direct, and Mickey Rourke and Adrien Brody were hired as co-stars.
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Business | Renewable energy
Banishing the clouds
To threaten fossil fuels, solar power must solve its intermittency problem
HOW far renewable energy can develop without further subsidy is one of the world's hottest questions. It will surely need to become a lot more economic if the world is to stop using fossil fuels by 2100, as rich-world leaders promised at the G7 summit in Germany this week.
Transforming the promising niche business of renewable energy into the engine of the world's economy is a daunting task. Hydroelectric generation can produce lots of power at low cost, but room for growth is constrained by environmental objections and a lack of dammable valleys in the right places. Tidal power is too untried, and so far looks too costly. Biomass (such as wood), like biofuels, will require a great deal of land to produce much energy.
Some see these drawbacks as a reason to plump for nuclear power, though its cost overruns make it unattractive. Others focus, therefore, on the two forms of renewable energy generation that have done best in recent years, solar and wind power. Growth rates are impressive—solar-energy generation grew by 38.2% last year, reckon statisticians at BP, an oil firm whose annual energy review came out this week. But the growth is from a very small base. Solar, wind and the like met 0.9% of global energy use a decade ago; that has risen to 3% now and will reach 8% by 2035, BP thinks.
To make that picture brighter, costs will have to plummet. Wind offers less scope for this (bigger windmills are more efficient, but costly to make and build). Solar is what most cheers the optimists. It can work at any scale from a modest panel placed on the roof of a house to a giant array. The plunge in costs in previous years (see chart) seems broadly to be continuing. Steve O'Neill of REC, a maker of solar systems, says his costs are falling by 1% a month, thanks to cheaper ways of making silicon wafers and to economies of scale. The circuitry that goes with solar panels, and the cost of installation, are also getting cheaper. Consultants at McKinsey say the cost of installing a watt of solar generating capacity could halve over the next five years.
Solar is no longer just a creature of subsidies (such as the 30% investment-tax credit it gets in America, along with the right to feed spare power back into the grid at the retail price). In the sunniest parts of the world it competes well with natural gas, even where that fuel is very cheap.
But the cost of solar power is not just about the systems that households and businesses install. On cloudy days and at night, they need power from elsewhere: either from storage of some sort, or from the grid. But who is to pay for it? Backup generation, and the grid infrastructure across which it flows, become increasingly uneconomic as consumers generate more of their own power (and thus pay less to other providers). A recent report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology notes that solar power's success therefore risks being self-limiting.
Better and cheaper batteries are one answer: surplus solar power generated while the sun shines can be drawn down when it is dark. But there is some way to go on this. Even the largest of the new generation of battery kits, the much-trumpeted Tesla Powerwall, costs $7,140 to install and stores only ten kilowatt-hours—not nearly enough to heat or cool a typical home.
Another option is thermal storage: using surplus power to heat or freeze water, which can then be used to warm or cool a building when needed. This is cost-effective, but only a partial solution. The stored energy cannot be easily transported, and heating and cooling are only part of consumers' power needs.
The real solution to intermittent power generation (whether solar or wind) is bigger and more flexible grids, with interconnections that cross corporate and international boundaries. The bigger the geographical area a power network covers, the greater the chance that sun or wind electricity generated in one place can be matched with demand elsewhere (though there would still need to be substantial spare capacity). But incumbent power companies may balk at investments that erode their pricing power.
There are parallels between the disruption that solar power threatens to cause in the electricity industry and the upheaval that America's shale drillers have already brought about in the fossil-fuel business. A study by Wood Mackenzie, a consulting firm, says solar's impact could indeed be "comparable" to that of shale gas.
But this very abundance of gas in North America—and perhaps elsewhere one day, if fracking gets cracking—means that except in the sunniest climes, solar power will face stiff competition from gas-fired power stations. Wood Mackenzie reckons that the unsubsidised capital cost of small-scale residential solar capacity will still be twice as costly as modern gas-powered generation by 2030. Larger, utility-scale solar arrays will be competitive by 2025, however.
Solar power has so far confounded its doubters. And whereas the cost of oil and gas can go up as well as down, solar's cost will only keep falling. But for it to keep increasing its share of electricity generation without causing a collapse in power markets, let alone for it to banish fossil fuels altogether, there will need to be significant progress in energy storage, and in building grids better suited to a world of intermittent sources of power.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Banishing the clouds"
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The map above, showing Russia, highlights the federal subject (similar to an American state) of Dagestan. Dagestan is home to just about three million people, including approximately 160,000 indigenous people known as the Laks. The Laks tend to congregate in the south central part of Dagestan, in a region that Wikipedia describes as "mountainous and very dry" and therefore not conducive to agriculture. While raising sheep and goats is not uncommon, many Lak subgroups have turned to various trades to fulfill their economic needs. Some are merchants, some are coppersmiths, and others are shoemakers. And typically, each Lak community contains a lot of people who ply one specific trade. Take, for example, the oddly-named hamlet of Tsovkra-1, where just about everyone is a tightrope walker.
That photo is one of many from this profile of the village from The Week. (There are a lot of really excellent photos there — you should click that link when you get a chance.) The Week explains that the reason for this quirky tradition has unfortunately been lost to time, but in its place we have a nice myth: "More than 100 years ago, the village's young men tired of trekking across the valleys that separated them from their female love interests in a neighboring community. So the men strung up a rope between the mountains and, after first pulling themselves across, eventually began to walk the rope, displaying their prowess for their waiting admirers."
That seems unlikely to be the true origin of the tradition. Why? Because there's evidence of people from Tsovkra-1 tightrope walking going even further back than 100 years ago — long before that, tightrope walking was the community's major driver of employment. The Independent explains that in the early 1800s, residents of the hamlet "realized they were on to something that was not only a functional skill, but could also be marketed. Troupes of Tsovkra tightrope walkers began to tour neighboring villages, putting on shows of their skill and earning a few rubles for their efforts." Over the course of the 150 or so years after, Tsovkra-1 residents were often able to find jobs in the circus — tightrope walkers have to come from somewhere, after all — and the tradition was passed down from generation to generation. Unfortunately, after World War II, that line of work began to dry up.
Regardless, the tradition has persevered. Currently, almost every one of Tsovkra-1's able-bodied citizens — which now number about 400, down from 3,000 just twenty or thirty years ago — can walk the tightrope. A Reuters report notes that the people of Tsovkra-1 start at an early age; children as young as eight years old are walking a rope ten feet or so above the ground, and without a net, even if it isn't a guarantee of employment. That may change, however: the tightrope school in Tsovkra-1 today is an unheated, two-room shack, per the Independent, struggling to stay open. Whether Tsovkra-1's tradition lasts another generation is somewhat at risk, but hopefully, it will continue.
Bonus Fact: Why is it called Tsovkra-1? There's a hamlet near Tsovkra-1 which predates it which, itself, is called Tsovkra. The numeral 1 (with the dash) helps avoid ambiguity. It's not a very creative solution, though.
From the Archives: Turning off Niagara Falls: The bonus fact is about a tightrope walker who crossed Niagara Falls. The main story is about how the Falls get turned off. Like a light switch, but a lot more complicated.
Related: A tightrope walking gyrobot.


BlueBeat.com, based in the US, streamed and sold music by The Beatles, Coldplay and others until it was sued in 2009.
In the few days before it was forced to shut down, it had distributed more than 67,000 Beatles tracks.
Judge Josephine Tucker ruled that the site had violated the music labels' copyright and was unfair competition.
BlueBeat had denied wrongdoing, claiming that owner Hank Risan's pioneering technique of so-called "psycho-acoustic simulation" allowed him to produce unique versions of copyrighted music.
The judge rejected that argument on the grounds that Mr Risan's versions were based on tracks he had purchased on CD.
She labelled the justification as "obscure and undefined pseudo-scientific language [that] appears to be a long-winded way of describing 'sampling'."
BlueBeat's attorney, Archie Robinson, said the settlement was a fraction of what music companies EMI Group PLC, Capitol Records and Virgin Records America had sought.
"I felt that was sort of an acknowledgement on their part that they don't have the damages they claimed," he said.
He said the California-based BlueBeat site was still active.
"So long as we pay royalties, we can stream their music all day and all night without a problem," he said.
Music by The Beatles has been available on iTunes since November 2010, but for years music label Apple Corps was involved in a bitter trademark dispute with Apple the computer company.
The dispute was finally settled in 2007.


"The Great Clomping Foot of Nerdism Stamping on the Human Face--Forever: World-Building and Contradiction"
Mark J.P. Wolf's symptomatically encyclopedic, anatomizing but largely pre-critical Building Imaginary Worlds attempts to normalize one particular mode of building, and of consuming, imaginary worlds--a mode that suits Disney's tyranny over our cinema screens, ancillary media, and themed merchandizing. Taking M. John Harrison's notorious provocation about world-building and China Miéville's unseemly enthusiasm for G. R. R. Tolkien's Watcher in the Water as its starting points, this paper will begin to explore the importance of contradiction to the worlds, fictional and otherwise, that we build.
Mark Bould is Reader in Film and Literature at the University of the West of England in Bristol. He is the winner of the 2016 SFRA Pilgrim Lifetime Achievement Award for critical contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy. Accordingly, there is too much to write about him. In short, he has (co-)authored the BFI Classics volume on Solaris (2014), Science Fiction: The Routledge Film Guidebook (2012), The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction (2011), The Cinema of John Sayles: Lone Star (Wallflower, 2009), and Film Noir: From Berlin to Sin City (Wallflower, 2005). In addition he has (co-)edited two special issues of Paradoxa (#22 & 26), Neo-Noir (Wallflower, 2009), Red Planet: Marxism and Science Fiction (Wesleyan UP, 2009), The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction (2009), Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction (Routledge, 2009), and Parietal Games: Critical Writings by and on M. John Harrison (Science Fiction Foundation, 2005). He is the co-editor of Science Fiction Film and Television and on the advisory boards of numerous journals, including Science Fiction Studies, Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres, Extrapolation, and Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media.


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3-D printers can now make jewelry, parts for military jets, guns, and now I read that somewhere in Europe they are using a 2-D printer to build a house! What can't a 3-D printer do? As far a jewelry goes I have done some jewelry making and it is a diffecult art to learn because there is so much to it. One has to know how to use waxes, clay(sometimes), metal and more and each thing they use has a language all to itself that must be learned. So it seems that 3-D printers will steal away the masters of the trade. Why buy from a master tradesman when you can get something perfect from a 3-D printer and get it done quickly. So no more master violin makers, sculptors, and everything else. Or am I missing something when I think that 3-D printers will do everything and better than human hands?
Good BBQ. They'll never be able to do really good BBQ.
Aye! That, and waiting on tables. Looks like another type of job might be in the sights of automation. Might be a good idea to become proficient at 3D printing, which might be a decent-paying job...until it, too, gets fully computerized.
You have just described technological unemployment.
There was a segment on CNN about this that you should want.
I bet it won't turn lead into gold.
I'm waiting for a printer/computer that can function like on Star Trek.
Soon it will make gold!
Look at the video. We will have that in less then 20 years.
A human has to create the design the 3d printers use.. I know most people have been fed the 'Artificial Intelligence' kool-aid by the media/pundits and press-release repeaters for decades, as of yet there is no such thing and the people working on it will readily admit that with our current technology true A.I. is not possible; only rule based systems that attempt to approximate 'intelligence' in specific areas.
Nobody really wants A.I. anyway it would likely come with a lot of baggage, unpredictability is not what anyone wants from a tool.
We will all be long dead before a 3-D printer can create a decent violin, an entire jet, or a complete human organ. They are an interesting and promising technology for sure, but they have been greatly over-hyped in my opinion. All of I've seen come out of them are some crude plastic parts/models and some basic organic tissue.


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Stainless steel is an alloy of iron with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content.
Other alloying elements are added to enhance their structure and properties, but fundamentally, stainless steels are considered to be steels with corrosion resistant properties.
In economic terms they compete with higher cost engineering metals and alloys based on nickel or titanium, whilst offering a range of corrosion resisting properties suitable for a wide range of applications. They have better strength than most polymer products (GRP), are readily repaired and 'recyclable' at the end of their useful life.
The basic approach is to select a grade at as low cost as possible, with the required corrosion resistance. Other considerations such as strength and hardenability will be secondary.
The unique self-repairing 'passive' surface layer on the steel is a result the chromium.
Commercially available grades contain around 11% minimum chromium, and may be either ferritic or martensitic, depending on carbon range control.
More chromium enhances corrosion and oxidation resistance, so a 17% Cr 430 (1.4016) ferritic would be expected to be an improvement over the '410S' (1.4000) types.
In addition to this basic 'rule', nickel (Ni) widens the scope of environments that stainless steels can handle.
The 2% Ni addition to the 431 (1.4057) martensitic type improves corrosion resistance marginally. Additions of between about 4.5% and 6.5% Ni are made in forming the duplex types. The austenitics have ranges from about 7% to over 20%.
The corrosion resistance is not only related to the nickel level however. It is incorrect for example, to assume that 304 (1.4301) with its 8% Ni has better corrosion resistance than 1.4462 duplex with 5% Ni.
More specific alloy additions are also made, to enhance corrosion resistance.
Copper is also used to enhance corrosion resistance in some common, hazardous environments such as intermediate concentration ranges of sulphuric acid. Grades containing copper include the austenitic 904L (1.4539) type.
Only the martensitic stainless steels are hardenable by heat treatment, like other alloy steels. Precipitation hardening stainless steels are strengthened by heat treatment, but use a different mechanism to the martensitic types.
Ferritic types have useful mechanical properties at ambient temperatures, but have limited ductility, compared to the austenitics. They are not suitable for cryogenic applications and lose strength at elevated temperatures over about 600 °C, although have been used for applications such as automotive exhaust systems very successfully.
The main physical property difference from the other types of stainless steel is that they are 'non-magnetic' i.e. have low relative magnetic permeability's, provided they are fully softened. They also have lower thermal conductivity's and higher thermal expansion rates than the other stainless steel types.
In contrast nickel levels of around 8.5% make the steel ideally suited to deep drawing operations, for example in the manufacture of stainless steel sinks.
Martensitic 420, 431 Hardenable by heat treatment Corrosion resistance compared to austenitics & formability compared to ferritics limited. Weldability is limited.
Special grades with enhanced compositions have also been developed that minimise the short comings of any particular type. These include: Super Ferritics, Super Austenitics, Super Duplexes, Low Carbon Weldable Martensitics, Austenitic Precipitation Hardening Types.
The information above is reproduced and adapted by EngineerOnLine Ltd. with the knowledge of BSSA.
For your convenience, the following is adapted and reproduced from Wikipedia as at December 2nd 2005, complete with active hyperlinks.
Some compositions of stainless steel are prone to intergranular corrosion. When heated to around 700 °C, chromium carbide forms at the intergranular boundaries, depleting the grain edges of chromium, impairing their corrosion resistance. Steel in such condition is called sensitised. Steels with carbon content 0.06% undergo sensitisation in about 2 minutes, while steels with carbon content under 0.02% are not sensitive to it.
There is a possibility to reclaim sensitised steel, by heating it to above 1000 °C and then quenching it in water. This process dissolves the carbide particles and keeps them in solution.
It is also possible to stabilize the steel to avoid this effect and make it welding-friendly. Addition of titanium, niobium and/or tantalum serves this purpose; titanium carbide, niobium carbide and tantalum carbide form preferentially to chromium carbide, protecting the grains from chromium depletion. Use of extra-low carbon steels is another method. Light-gauge steel also does not tend to display this behaviour, as the cooling after welding is too fast to cause effective carbide formation.
When subjected to high concentration of chloride ions (eg. sea water) and moderately high temperatures, localized severe corrosion known as pitting corrosion can occur. Acidic environment worsens the problem. This can cause localized perforation of the parts. Composition rich in chromium and particularly molybdenum and nitrogen display higher resistance to this mode of corrosion. Solution of ferric chloride is used for laboratory testing of pitting corrosion. Download more info.
In the presence of reducing acids or exposition to reducing atmosphere, the passivation layer protecting steel from corrosion can break down. This wear can also depend on the mechanical construction of the parts, eg. under gaskets, in sharp corners, or in incomplete welds. Such crevices may promote corrosion, if their size allows penetration of the corroding agent but not its free movement. The mechanism of crevice corrosion is similar to pitting corrosion, though it happens at lower temperatures. Download more info.
Stress corrosion cracking is a rapid and severe form of stainless steel corrosion. It forms when the material is subjected to tensile stress and some kinds of corrosive environments, especially chloride-rich environments (sea water) at higher temperatures. The stresses can result of the service loads, or can be caused by the type of assembly or residual stresses from fabrication (eg. cold working); the residual stresses can be relieved by annealing. This limits the usefulness of stainless steel for containing water with higher than few ppm content of chlorides at temperatures above 50 °C.
Stress corrosion cracking applies only to austenitic stainless steels and depends on the nickel content.
Sulphide stress cracking is an important failure mode in the oil industry, where the steel comes into contact with liquids or gases with considerable hydrogen sulfide content eg. sour gas. It is influenced by the tensile stress and is worsened in the presence of chloride ions. Very high levels of hydrogen sulfide apparently inhibit the corrosion. Rising temperature increases the influence of chloride ions, but decreases the effect of sulfide, due to its increased mobility through the lattice; the worst temperature range for sulphide stress cracking is between 60 and100 °C.
Galvanic corrosion occurs when a galvanic cell is formed between two dissimilar metals. The resulting electrochemical potential then leads to formation of an electric current that leads to electrolytic dissolving of the less noble material. This effect can be prevented by electrical insulation of the materials, eg. by using rubber or plastic sleeves or washers, keeping the parts dry so there is no electrolyte to form the cell, or keeping the size of the less-noble material significantly larger than the more noble ones (eg. stainless-steel bolts in an aluminium block won't cause corrosion, but aluminium rivets on stainless steel sheet would rapidly corrode.
Carbon steel is a very common contaminant here, coming from nearby grinding of carbon steel or use of tools contaminated with carbon steel particles. The particle forms a galvanic cell, and quickly corrodes away, but may leave a pit in the stainless steel from which pitting corrosion may rapidly progress. Some workshops therefore have separate areas and separate sets of tools for handling carbon steel and stainless steel, and care has to be exercised to prevent direct contact between stainless steel parts and carbon steel storage racks.
Particles of carbon steel can be removed from a contaminated part by passivation with dilute nitric acid, or by pickling with a mixture of hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid. However if the stainless has been mirror polished it will need re-polishing after using those methods.
"Another technique for removing rust is etching with Phosphoric Acid. Phosphoric Acid has a unique property of dissolving iron oxide (rust) quickly while etching iron very slowly. This means that you can leave metal in Phosphoric Acid for much longer than necessary with very little damage. The acid will attack bare metal slowly however and will start the process of hydrogen embrittlement, so use the minimum etch time that removes all rust.
Another unique advantage of Phosphoric Acid is that it leaves a fine coating of iron phosphate behind. Iron phosphate prevents rust. However, the iron phosphate coating is not very thick or durable. Some additional protection is still required.
Phosphoric Acid etch will leave a hard, bright metal finish. This is because it will etch the surface slightly, exposing new, bare metal. Often this is desirable. It leaves an attractive surface and a surface ready to paint. A common product which contains Phosphoric Acid is Naval Jelly. The soft drink Coca-Cola also contains Phosphoric Acid, so Coke will etch rust. But Coke also contains carbonic acid and other nasty things. You're going to drink that stuff?"


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Does anyone still believe that Finding Freedom is an objective take on Meghan Markle's time in the royal family? | Image: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File
Meghan Markle & Prince Harry Biography Is Nothing More Than Fantasy
September 26, 2020 UTC: 1:46 PM. August 3, 2020 UTC: 3:40 PM. by Aubrey Hansen
Most royal fans know that the Finding Freedom biography is nothing more than a PR piece for Meghan and Harry.
One incident demonstrates how the publication attempts to rewrite the brief time Markle was a working member of the royal family.
Of course, it's everyone else's fault. Meghan is blameless, as always.
As much as the Finding Freedom biography is entertaining and ridiculous in equal measures, it's important to remember that, for the most part, it's nothing more than pure fantasy.
It's clear to all but the most blinkered Sussex fan that both Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have rubber-stamped this account of their time as members of the British royal family.
After all, we've seen how Meghan and Prince treat media outlets that aren't as complimentary as the couple would like.
Meghan and Harry are attempting to rewrite history by way of the biography. | Source: Twitter
One Incident Highlights the Difference Between Reality and Pure Fantasy
While the Finding Freedom narrative is to paint Meghan Markle as the innocent victim throughout her time as a royal, with claims that fellow royals, palace staff, media, and the British public are all in the wrong, it would seem that other sources beg to differ.
One instance that highlights this is the Sussex's request to immediately try on a tiara they had earmarked for their wedding, only for the Queen's adviser to tell them that royal protocol couldn't allow them to access royal jewels on a whim.
According to The Mirror:
A new biography of Harry and Meghan accuses the Queen's adviser of "deliberately dragging her feet" when the Duchess of Sussex asked to have access to the tiara ahead of their wedding in May 2018. According to the authors of Finding Freedom, Harry felt that some of the "old guard" at Buckingham Palace "simply didn't like Meghan and would stop at nothing to make her life difficult.
Observing Royal Protocols
A Mail on Sunday source commented on the version of events portrayed by both Scobie and Durand:
The book's version of what happened would not be everyone else's recollection of events and certainly not those who were close to it.
The source continued, describing how Angela Kelly, the Queen's dresser and adviser, responded to the demands by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle:
Angela essentially said, 'I'm very sorry, that's not how it works.' There's protocol in place over these jewels. They're kept under very tight lock and key. You can't turn up and demand to have the tiara just because your hairdresser happens to be in town.
Watch: Meghan Markle didn't get the tiara she wanted for her wedding!
What Meghan Wants, Meghan gets; If She Doesn't, Harry Becomes Petulant
Upon finally understanding that immediate access to the royal jewels wasn't forthcoming and that royal protocol would not be broken to accommodate Meghan Markle, it seems Prince Harry lost his temper and flew into a rage.
Prince Harry was "put in his place" by the Queen. | Source: Twitter
The Mail on Sunday claims that Harry was rude and used terrible language upon learning he'd have to request an appointment to gain access to the Queen's jewels.
This was seemingly the last straw, and the Queen herself was made aware of how petulant and offensive her spoiled brat of a grandson had been towards palace staff.
Royal Protocols Apply to Everyone, Even Meghan and Her Husband
According to a royal source, the Queen called Prince Harry to a private meeting:
He was put firmly in his place. He had been downright rude.
Harry has been part of the royal family long enough to know how things work and should have advised Meghan on the procedures. It would have saved both of them the absolute embarrassment of being denied access to the jewels, and Harry the disgrace of being hauled in front of his grandmother and scolded.
This particular incident shows how far Finding Freedom will go to whitewash history and rewrite it in a manner that suits Meghan Markle.
It's nothing more than a puff piece, in my opinion.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of CCN.com.
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The Quiet Genius of Pope Benedict XVI
From a Wall Street Journal column by Francis X. Maier headlined "The Quiet Genius of Pope Benedict XVI":
In the 1980s I had two long conversations with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would be elected pope in 2005 and was known as Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI when he died Saturday at age 95. Our meetings were private affairs and off the record. This allowed us to have unhurried and unfiltered discussions about issues and personalities in the church.
The press already had branded him Panzerkardinal, the humorless German commandant of the Vatican's doctrine police. I had read his bracing work, and the label seemed implausible. I still wasn't prepared for his personal simplicity and humility. He gave no hint of impatience in his manner, no divided attention, no self-important ego. That can be said of few public figures, including churchmen.
Decades have passed, along with many of the people and issues we discussed. But I still remember the unexpected feeling our conversations produced: hope. Like the early Christian saint and scholar Augustine, who helped shape his thinking, Ratzinger wasn't an optimist. But also like Augustine, he was a man alive with unshakable trust in Jesus Christ and the God of Israel.
Pope Benedict XVI was one of the great religious minds of the past century. He belonged to an era of Catholic genius, alongside thinkers like Henri de Lubac, Yves Congar, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Pope John Paul II. All had been formed by Europe's deep cultural fractures after World War I. All lived through the church's struggle with the great atheist ideologies, the bloodbath of World War II, and reactionary impulses within the church herself. They were attuned to suffering on an industrial scale.
As a peritus, or scholarly expert, at the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) the young Ratzinger was an unabashedly progressive priest. Yet he saw the council as a task of continuity and faithful development. He believed it was a project of renewal based on a return to the sources of Christian life, not a revolution. His stress on fidelity split him from more-radical colleagues like Hans Küng, who became a venomous critic of Ratzinger.
For all the criticism he inspired, Ratzinger himself was a quiet man averse to conflict. He was a scholar of refined tastes in music and art. His greatest needs were ample sleep and silence to think and write. Much of his enormous body of work was scribbled with a pencil in shorthand. He never sought to be a bishop, cardinal or pope—but served as all three. As prefect of Rome's doctrine congregation, he tried repeatedly to resign and return home to Germany. The response of John Paul II, the pope to whom he was a friend and perfect complement, was simple: Stop asking, because "as long as I am here, you must stay." Ratzinger even remarked that he saw his papacy, which started when he was 78, as a looming guillotine blade.
This was a prescient feeling. His service as pontiff was marked by brilliant teaching and surprising energy in his travels, but he also placed unwarranted trust in some of those around him. His longtime colleague and Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, came under fire for incompetence and alleged embezzlement. His butler leaked sensitive documents. On the advice of counselors, he lifted the excommunication of a schismatic bishop as a gesture of mercy, without knowing the man was a Holocaust denier. He was accused unfairly of inadequate action and sensitivity on the child-abuse issue.
These problems were made worse by his cerebral nature. Unlike the "force of nature" public presence of John Paul II, Benedict XVI was more retiring and thus more easily attacked. His resignation as pope in 2013, the first in many centuries, caused as much irritation and bafflement as praise. His historically unique status as "pope emeritus" invited confusion.
Pope Benedict XVI nevertheless used his astonishing intellect in luminescent ways. His 2006 University of Regensburg lecture was widely and ignorantly trashed at the time as anti-Muslim. What he actually delivered was a superb defense of the mutually supportive roles of faith and reason and the nature of a free conscience. His 2008 comments to the United Nations—which he praised as "an instrument of service to the entire human family"—were a triumph. His extensive collected writings on human responsibility for the environment preceded the current pontificate. His 2011 Freiburg address offered a brutally sober assessment of the challenges facing Christianity. It was also a compelling call to conversion and hope. The first and best encyclical issued by Pope Francis—"Light of Faith"—was written in significant part by Benedict XVI.
Toward the end of his life, he described himself as a "pope between the times." He added, "You only see in retrospect how the forces of history are proceeding." Whatever the future holds, the Catholic world has lost one of its most brilliant minds and articulate voices. His memory will endure.
Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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This weekend, Pro Tour Fate Reforged takes us back to the Modern format on the Pro Tour for the fourth time since its creation in August 2011 (plus a few trips during the World Championships). While Modern is a format where sets don't rotate out, the Modern we'll be seeing at the Pro Tour is going to be a pretty fresh format, thanks to the recent round of bannings that shook the pillars of the format to the core.
But for Modern, that's nothing new. Since its inception three and a half years ago, Modern has been a highly cultivated format. Combined with new, impactful cards released every year, Modern has seen quite a bit of fluctuation over its young life. Let's take a look at some of that fluctuation through the eyes of the banned list announcements since its inception.
"We used two criteria to guide us in choosing what cards to ban. First, we have a rule of thumb about Legacy that we don't like consistent turn-two combination decks, but that turn-three combination decks are okay. We modified that rule for Modern by adding a turn to each side: we are going to allow turn-four combination decks, but not decks that consistently win the game on turn three."
The second round of bannings addressed much of what happened at Pro Tour Philadelphia. Blazing Shoal was something of a hidden gem that combined with infect creatures to kill as early as turn two, while Ponder, Preordain, and Rite of Flame all sped up the format considerably, either thanks to bursts of mana or increasing the consistency of combo decks. Cloudpost decks were capable of generating as much as fifteen mana on turn four or so, and Green Sun's Zenith was removed mostly for diversity's sake among green decks.
After facing the stress test of the Pro Tour, this is what many would consider the start of the Modern format as we know it today, with combo decks slowed considerably and some of the more absurd outliers of the format brought to bear. That led to the rise of aggressive decks and midrange decks.
"We also have the goal of maintaining a diverse format. While there were aggressive decks, control decks, attrition decks, and combination decks that succeeded, the diversity was not ideal. In particular, the heavy majority of all aggressive decks were Zoo decks. We looked at why other aggressive decks were not played, and after our analysis decided to ban two cards."
With the crazy combo decks and massive mana decks hindered, the next move was to help diversify the aggressive decks of the format. Punishing Fire was particularly, um, punishing, to anything with less than 3 toughness, as was Wild Nacatl.
"Recent Modern tournaments have been diverse, with no deck dominating the metagame. Since Modern is a non-rotating format, banned cards never rotate out. The DCI is unbanning a card to see how that affects the format. We looked for cards that were on the initial banned list for Pro Tour Philadelphia. We wanted a card that would not easily slot into an existing top deck and also wanted to enable a deck with a different play pattern than the current top decks. After examining the options, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle was selected as the card to unban."
The effect was exactly as desired, as Scapeshift has become a key part of the Modern metagame, but is far from dominant or oppressive.
Speaking of dominant, this was the time of Jund. A time when the midrangiest of midrange decks was considered by many to be the best deck in the format, and not easily addressed with other cards already in the format. Again, Erik Lauer summed it up nicely in the announcement.
"Since then, we have had four Modern Grands Prix. Jérémy Dezani won Grand Prix Lyon playing Jund. Jacob Wilson defeated Josh Utter-Leyton in a Jund-on-Jund finals to win Grand Prix Chicago. Willy Edel won Grand Prix Toronto, also playing Jund. And, finally, Lukas Jaklovsky came in 2nd, playing Jund, at Grand Prix Bilbao. Beyond that, Jund took six of the Top 16 decks at Bilbao."
Jund, Jund, Jundy, Jund, Jund. Bloodbraid Elf was the first card from Jund to get the axe, but not the last.
You can thank Stanislav Cifka and his 30-minute, noninteractive turns for this one. His Eggs deck was never truly broken, but boy was it a bore.
The second round of unbannings sought again to diversify the format, this time following closely on the second Jund-related removal. Bitterblossom and Wild Nacatl have since taken their places in the Modern metagame, but have yet to truly break out again. Will Pro Tour Fate Reforged be their shot with Birthing Pod gone?
The newest blue kids on the block led to an overhaul of Modern like no other cards before them, changing how decks were built up and down a diverse metagame. Diverse, yes, but also with the shadow of Birthing Pod and newcomer Siege Rhino hanging over its head. With Birthing Pod gone after standing as a top deck for years, and the newest offenders getting the axe as well, Modern looks to be wide open for the coming weekend. And with a new toy unbanned as well, players on the Pro Tour have plenty to play with as they prepare for every possibility.
Tune in this weekend as players from around the world re-shape Modern at Pro Tour Fate Reforged.


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Technosub delivered to Agnico Eagle Meliadine a complete turnkey pump station in a prefabricated building, designed to meet the required flow rate of 130 m3 / h with a total head of 50 m. The pumping station is also designed to withstand extreme weather conditions such as the blizzard. The pumping station will be used to supply water to a portion of the ore processing plant and a camp. Technosub also supplied 75m of insulated and heated suction pipe, as well as a filter that meets fish protection standards in freshwater intakes. Technosub is proud to have worked with local companies to deliver this project.
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