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'Broadstairs', by Elwin Hawthorne, 1931. © the Artist's Estate
Broadstairs has always been a popular place for city-dwellers to come down and take in the crisp, clean air and sea views. The town boasts its fair share of famous visitors and residents, not least a young Queen Victoria and of course the eminent Charles Dickens to name but two. After all, as a young princess Queen Victoria holidayed regularly in Pierremont Hall. Charles Dickens famously spent several years living and writing in the clifftop Bleak House. Getting away from the smog and dirt of London down to our little coast remains a much-loved pastime, especially as the seafront hasn't really changed all that much over the years.
A young Princess Victoria on Broadstairs sands
A lesser-known but very note-worthy visitor to Broadstairs was London-based post-WW1 artist Elwin Hawthorne. A prominent member of the East London Group, he joined fellow artists Walter and Harold Steggles as they drove around the country in their newly-aquired Ford motorcar. All prolific painters of industrial East London, they perhaps seized the chance to not only get out of the city for a while, but to also paint something different. What resulted were numerous depictions of provincial, between-the wars-England, often by the sea. One of their destinations in the late 1920's/early 1930's was the Broadstairs we know and love. Hawthorne, clearly taken by its charm, produced some truly beautiful work here.
1931 photo view of Harbour Street, taken by Elwin Hawthorne. © the Artist's Estate
Hawthornes' paintings are somehow both pleasingly surreal and realist at the same time. They possess an other-worldly quality - with all but a few people and the odd vehicle omitted - and are comfortingly evocative of the true spirit of the place. He and the Steggles brothers were at one point commissioned by Shell to contribute to the oil companys' famous series of posters depicting English life. Hawthorne's submission was a wonderful impression of the commanding North Foreland lighthouse.
Shell poster commission of 'North Foreland Lighthouse, Broadstairs, Kent', 1929-31. © the Artist's Estate
With a nod to the Arts & Crafts movement preceding, Hawthorne also turned a hand to wood carvings and linocuts and one can imagine him poring over his sketches and photos to get the pieces right. His view of the Broadstairs harbour skilfully captures the character of the jetty and its fishing boats, without becoming twee. The omission of any people or seagulls (always guaranteed in real life) making that possible.
'Broadstairs', 1931. © the Artist's Estate
Going by Hawthorne's Broadstairs work, we can imagine he might have spent a very pleasant day or two observing the quintessential English seaside comings and goings. His reference photo and sketch of the bandstand is a delight to modern eyes, making us wish a full painting of the scene existed.
Hawthorne's reference photo of Broadstairs bandstand, 1931. © the Artist's Estate
Anyone who has been down to the bandstand will recognise the bunting fluttering in the wind, the music getting carried off by the sea breeze and the deckchairs waiting for their occupants to bring cups of tea or ice-cream cones to sit down with. If Hawthorne had painted this scene in full, no doubt the deckchairs would have remained empty and all but the band conductor left visible to the sole gentleman looking on.
Sketch of Broadstairs bandstand, 1931. © the Artist's Estate
The East London Group was mentored by world-renowned post-impressionist Walter Sickert, Hawthorne working as his studio assistant from 1928-1931. Sickert himself lived semi-retired in Broadstairs from 1934 to 1938, perhaps introduced to the sleepy seaside town by Hawthorne? This from Alan Waltham of East London Group in its modern guise: It "might have accounted for Sickert's interest in moving to Broadstairs although it might also have had something to do with JMW Turner's affections for the Margate and Thanet area generally: who knows?" You can learn all about the fasinating history of the group along with other places around Thanet and East Kent that Hawthorne painted here. Alan Waltham has family connections to the Steggles and has spent the last few years lovingly documenting the groups' works, correspondence, painting notes and all manner of other emphera to save them getting lost in time. He has curated exhibitions showing some of the pieces and hopes to continue this next year. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see them down here in Broadstairs?
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BlipCare, a Chicago-based maker of health care products, is shifting its focus from hospitals to consumers and using crowd-funding site Indiegogo to help. It's not that BlipCare is depending on donations to determine whether to build its new Wi-Fi-enabled blood-pressure monitor and scale. Instead, the company is using Indiegogo campaigns to test the market and learn more about its prospective customers.
CEO Sukhwant Khanuja tells Crain's contributor Steve Hendershot about that strategy, and more about the company's new consumer products — the scale and blood-pressure monitor together cost about $250, compared with $1,500 for BlipCare's clinical offerings.
The blood pressure monitor
Your blood-pressure monitor campaign already hit its target, but the scale campaign fell well short of its goal. What are you hoping to accomplish through the crowd-funding campaigns?
The consumer market is something we don't know much about. We haven't done consumer marketing, so we knew we needed to understand what that customer would really want. That was one reason why we went to the crowd-funding approach— because crowd funding lets you test response before you go and build 50,000 units. At our price point, we need to build in volume, not in small runs. And to go out and build 5,000 units or 10,000 units, we need to know that we'll be able to sell them in a reasonable period of time. The crowd-funding platform allows us to test that.
What happened was very interesting. Even though we didn't raise a lot of funding, we got interest from around the world — Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Dubai, Turkey, Malaysia. It created a conversation we had not anticipated. And now companies are coming to us, telecommunications companies like Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T and Verizon, saying they have all these people who they sell Wi-Fi to, and they could offer our applications to their subscribers to make that business more sticky. So this has opened up very interested channel opportunities for us, and we hadn't anticipated that. We were planning to sell directly to consumers.
What have you learned about your customers? Who's going to be these Wi-Fi devices?
There are three groups of people. There's the clinical market, of course, where doctors are interested in taking care of patients. There's also the athletic people who like to monitor themselves and keep track of their own health. Those are mostly 20- to 40-year-olds. And that group doesn't want to buy for their parents, because the parents are still in good health. But the third group is 30- to 50-year-olds whose parents are between 50 and 70 and who are starting to manifest heart failure, diabetes, hypertension and so on. This is the group that buys it for their parents.
Tell me more about the products and vision. What's the benefit of putting Wi-Fi in a home blood-pressure monitor or scale?
My dad thought I was nuts to do what I was doing. One day when he was visiting, we gave him the blood pressure monitor and discovered his systolic number was not coming down. I took it to a cardiologist friend who said that my dad has systolic hypertension. Often that's not diagnosed — doctors ignore the systolic number and focus on the diastolic; they assume that the systolic number is temporarily elevated because you had coffee or walked up the stairs. But he had systolic hypertension, which is manifested most commonly in people older than 50. So that made a believer out of him.
Different people have different biorhythms or circadian rhythms. Not everybody has the same lifestyle, and as a result, some people see their blood pressure spike at noon, and for some people it spikes at night. So if your doctor says to take a medication once a day, some people should take it in the evening and some people should take it in the morning. Nobody knows which one is right for them.
We really wanted to bring the answer to the consumer level, and the only way to do it was to put a Wi-Fi radio in the monitor and use home Wi-Fi, because that way the cost is manageable. Previously we had been selling a blood-pressure monitor and also a hub to receive the data which had a modem to send out the data. The cost was always higher because you had to provide the hub and the device.
We learned from our clinical experience that people need to be nudged periodically. They use something for a while and then fall off the bandwagon and need to be brought back. The cost of reminding somebody is quite high. So we put a little beeper in the blood pressure monitor, like a wristwatch alarm clock, and it beeps at you and you can program it on the Web. I gave this blood pressure monitor to my dad, who is not living with me, and then both monitored him remotely and also set it up so if he does not take a reading by 9 a.m. it starts beeping at him.
Any other features in the consumer models that are derived from seeing your clinical products in action?
The scale
We also learned that people don't have multiple scales in the bathroom. So you have to have a "Guest" button. And you may want your spouse to use the scale, too, but without corrupting your data — so there are two user buttons in both the blood pressure monitor and the weight scale so that your spouse can also use it.
This is all learning from the clinical product, which was built for a single user and never bought by the patient; it was bought by the insurance company or home care agency. But now, we're really getting into preventative stuff. For $100 or $150 you could buy these as a gift with no monthly fees or extra charges. It's free for life, and you stay connected.
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Herbert Gwyn Turner (19 June 1909 – 8 June 1981) was a Welsh international footballer who played as a full back for Charlton Athletic. He was best known for scoring for both sides in the 1946 FA Cup Final, becoming the first player to do so.

Football career
Turner was born in Brithdir, Caerphilly and, after school, he joined the Welch Regiment where he had a reputation as an all-round sportsman winning medals for rugby, athletics and hockey with Army teams, as well as playing football. On leaving the army, he returned to his place of birth where he made four appearances for the village team before a trial with Charlton Athletic.

Turner signed in August 1933 and made his first team debut in the Football League Third Division South, with twenty appearances at centre half in the 1933–34 season as Charlton finished fifth in the table. In the next season, he started off at centre half, playing alongside Bill Dodgin and Frank Harris before the arrival of Don Welsh in February led to him being moved to right back. The team that manager Jimmy Seed had assembled went on to  claim the Division title at the end of the season, and finished as runners-up in the Second Division in 1936, thus achieving back-to-back promotions.

In their first season in Division One, Charlton finished in the runners-up spot, missing the League title by only three points to champions Manchester City, with the meanest defence in the division conceding only 49 goals. Turner continued to play regularly for Charlton up to the outbreak of the Second World War, as Charlton consolidated their place in the top flight with fourth place and third-place finishes in the next two seasons.

By now, Turner's club form had brought him to the notice of the Welsh selectors and he made his international debut at Ninian Park on 17 October 1936 in a 2–1 victory over England. Wales followed this with victories over Scotland (2–1) and Ireland (4–1) to comfortably claim the 1937 British Home Championship. Turner made a total of eight appearances for Wales prior to the war, with five victories and three defeats. He continued to turn out regularly for Wales during the early part of the war, making a further eight appearances in wartime internationals.

During the war he was a guest-player for Lovell's Athletic, the works team for Lovell's sweet factory in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales.

After the cessation of hostilities, there was no League football in 1945–46. The FA Cup was the main competition to be played this season; to make up for the lack of quality matches, all FA Cup rounds from round one up to and including the quarter-finals were made two-legged ties (rather than the traditional single matches) with the aggregate score determining who went through to the next round. After easy victories over Wolverhampton Wanderers, Preston North End and Brentford, Charlton met Bolton Wanderers in the semi-final. Bolton were still suffering from the after-effects of the Burnden Park disaster in which 33 spectators were killed as a result of overcrowding. Charlton won the semi-final comfortably to set up a Cup Final against Derby County.

The final was played at Wembley Stadium on 27 April 1946. The game was goalless until the 85th minute, when Jackie Stamps and a Charlton defender jumped up to head a centre from the right. As the ball was nodded out it went straight to Dally Duncan, who shot goalwards. Turner tried to kick the ball clear, but only managed to turn the ball into his own net. In the next minute Turner scored for his own side when he took a free-kick from the edge of the Rams' penalty area, and although goalkeeper Vic Woodley appeared to have the shot well covered, the ball struck a Derby player and was deflected past Woodley into the opposite corner of the net to which he was diving.

Turner thus became the first player to score for both sides in an FA Cup Final, a feat subsequently repeated by Tommy Hutchison in 1981 and Gary Mabbutt in 1987. At the age of 36 years 312 days, Turner also became the oldest player to score in an FA Cup Final. The match finished level after 90 minutes, but in extra time Derby County scored three goals to win the match 4–1.

Turner played one more season with Charlton, but was no longer a regular choice, and was used as cover for Peter Croker at right back or Herbert Johnson at right-half. Turner retired in 1947 after a 14-year Charlton career in which he played 196 matches. Apart from the cup-final goal, his only other goals were two penalties.

Coaching career
He moved to Dartford as player-coach 1947 and 1950 he spent a year in the Netherlands coaching Dortrecht FC.
He then left for Sweden where he coached Malmö FF and Kalmar FF.

Later career
In 1956, he returned to England, where he became a licensee in Manston, Kent, until 1980.

Family
His elder brother, Ernest was a forward with Merthyr Town and Southampton in the 1920s. Bert married Ena James 18 May 1937 and so became brother-in-law to Dai Astley (footballer) who was married to Ena's sister Muriel. In 1938 Ena gave birth to a daughter Jillian, who later lived in Sweden

Honours

As a player
Charlton Athletic
FA Cup runners-up: 1946
Football League Third Division South champions: 1934–35
Football League Second Division runners-up: 1935–36
Football League First Division runners-up: 1936–37WalesBritish Home Championship winners: 1937

As a managerMalmö FF'''
Allsvenskan: 1951, 1953
Svenska Cupen: 1951, 1953

References

External links
Report on 1946 FA Cup Final, with picture of own goal

1909 births
1981 deaths
Welsh military personnel
Association football fullbacks
Welsh footballers
Footballers from Caerphilly
English Football League players
Charlton Athletic F.C. players
Wales international footballers
Wales wartime international footballers
Welsh football managers
Welsh expatriate football managers
Malmö FF managers
Kalmar FF managers
Expatriate football managers in Sweden
Welch Regiment soldiers
FA Cup Final players
Lovell's Athletic F.C. wartime guest players
Welsh expatriate sportspeople in Sweden

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Department of Homeland Security's Director of the Office of Counternarcotics Enforcement will visit the Coast Guard Cutter Dallas, SeaHawk, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center here Tuesday.
Director Uttam Dhillon will tour Dallas and then participate in a ceremony at 9 a.m. to add two new cocaine "snowflake" stickers to the bridge wing on Dallas to commemorate Dallas' most recent drug interdictions.
During Dallas' last two patrols, the crew interdicted 790 pounds of cocaine in two separate air-drop seizures and caused several drug-smuggling delivery disruptions. The two cocaine snowflake stickers will join 18 snowflakes and 17-marijuana leafs that currently adorn the Dallas' side. Each sticker represents one cocaine or marijuana bust.
The crew of Dallas recently returned to Charleston from a 66-day patrol and is scheduled to leave on patrol again later this Spring. The Dallas is a 378-foot high endurance cutter that normally spends more than six months away from its homeport of Charleston conducting missions such as law enforcement, search and rescue, homeland security and national defense.


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Ms B was sent to the Royal Sunderland Hospital for treatment where it was found that she suffered an injury to her back and right shoulder as a result of the slipping accident, a tendon injury in her right hand had to be corrected by surgery at a later date. She also had numerous sessions of physiotherapy.
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Q: How do you close applications when multitasking?
A: (Scott Forstall) You don't have to. The user just uses things and doesn't ever have to worry about it.
A: (Steve Jobs) It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager… they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have to think about it.
Strange as this rumor may be on the face of it, Apple have a bit of a track record for bringing out products that Steve Jobs has previously had nothing but contempt for. Heck, the iPad mini is a prime example of just that. So I won't be shocked to see a stylus as an iPad Pro companion at some point this year.
The big question will be if the stylus is any good. I honestly haven't seen any stylus for a mobile device that has really grabbed me since way back in the days of Windows Mobile.


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I know this may sound silly but has anyone tried Rain-x in their mask? I'm not sure if it is compatable with the mask but it would seem to get rid of the fogging for longer periods of time. I'm thinking of getting some to see if it will work or destroy the mask.
I have tried rain-x, never seem to work for me. I think toothpaste works the best, good ol spit works 2nd best for me.
I really would think rain-x would fog up. Ever just rain-x your car windows, get up in the morning and they just fog up like hell.
I think 500PSI is the best mask defogger. Key is also to use slate cleaner on your mask right when it is new and say every few months or so.
Not sure I'd want Rain-X that close to my eyes.
The factory rep suggested not using it on poly camera ports as it will etch them.
I don't think I would try it. Besides it is probably just as or more expensive than most of the commercial sea drop type applications anyway and you don't have the worry of what it may do to your eye sight if you get it in your eye.
I have heard people comment that rain-x softens their windshields and causes them to crack and chip. I have no idea if this is the case. If so I can only imagine the ramifications of putting it on your mask and diving to 100'.
I agree with WD Diver. I don't know what is in Rain-X and don't know if it is safe for eyes. I've tried 500PSI and other stuff but my spit works best for me.
RAIN-X causes fogging on windshields, it doesn't keep them from fogging. OTC anti-fogs work fine. I wouldnt bother with something that doesnt work, and that may harm you.
they don't even claim RainX prevents fog - it's meant to go on the outside of the windows and make the water run off. They make a separate ant-fog stuff for inside the windows.
Baby shampoo works pretty well. You can use it just like seadrops.
I wouldn't use the rain-x based solely on the petroleum/silicone interaction, but then I don't really ever have a problem with mask fogging.
I had a bottle of some sort of drops once, but it didn't work as well as spit, and wasn't nearly as convenient, so I threw it out. Call me crazy, but I just can't see paying good money for an inferior version of something I excrete. Some folks say, "It's more sanitary!" I say, "That's not on the top of my list of things to worry about when I'm about to jump into the giant fishpoop soup we call an ocean."
I use spit or sea drops, but what I think helps the most is using toothpaste or softscrub before I go diving. Just a quick scrub gets any build up or whatever off and I've never had any issues with fogging since I started doing this.
Hey... I just noticed that I'm now a guppy... woot! Feels like the old ymca swimming class days.
The spit seems to wear off soon, so I just keep my mask flooded with 1/4" of water in the bottom. A quick swish of the head clears it for a couple of minutes.
I am not sure about Rain-X, what if the chemicals in Rain-X are not good for your eyes or your skin? I haven't got the chance to read the ingredients on the product. I never had a bad luck with my own spit and defogger solution.
+1 to spit. I have gotten weird looks from new divers when I spit in my mask, they have that "What in hades are you doing?" look about them.
they have that "What in hades are you doing?" look about them.
Has anyone used "absolutely clear"?
I use a home-brewed small spray bottle of 50% H20 and 50% baby "no tears" shampoo. Spit works well in a pinch. No way am I getting Rain-x in my eyes. Works great on my windshield tho.
Haven't used absolutely clear, but I may not have been very clear on my post either... I scrub then use spit or sea drops.
Been there, done that. And you're right, Love the looks.
Baby shampoo works like a charm. It's cheap and works much better than Sea Drops and other products I've tried.
I have used Absolutely Clear. Didn't see any real improvement over Sea Drops or 500PSI. Definitely did NOT last all day. Rain-X is not the product for inside the mask. It fogs glass. I had thought about it for shedding the water on the surface to see clearer. I do have some concerns about the petroleum product and silicone skirt.


Do you ever wonder why you are not "full" after some foods?
This is a great visual example of why we often over indulge. Our body is not able to feel that we just ingested 400 calories of oil or meat in 3 minutes, as it did not trigger a stretch response in the stomach. That is why you feel full, yet satisfied after eating a large salad, plus the more you eat of salad, the better the chances that you can eat again soon. 🙂 We all love to eat! The healthier the choices you make, the more you get to devour those delicious vegetables and fruits.


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Charlie Hunnam stars in KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, directed by Guy Ritchie – in theaters March 24, 2017
Acclaimed filmmaker Guy Ritchie brings his dynamic style to the epic fantasy action adventure "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword." Starring Charlie Hunnam in the title role, the film is an iconoclastic take on the classic Excalibur myth, tracing Arthur's journey from the streets to the throne.
When the child Arthur's father is murdered, Vortigern (Jude Law), Arthur's uncle, seizes the crown. Robbed of his birthright and with no idea who he truly is, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. But once he pulls the sword from the stone, his life is turned upside down and he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy…whether he likes it or not.
Starring with Hunnam (FX's "Sons of Anarchy") and Oscar nominee Law ("Cold Mountain," "The Talented Mr. Ripley") are Astrid Bergès-Frisbey ("Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides") as Mage; Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou ("Blood Diamond," "In America") as Bedivere; Aidan Gillen (HBO's "Game of Thrones") as Goosefat Bill; and Eric Bana ("Star Trek") as Arthur's father, King Uther Pendragon.
Guy Ritchie ("The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," the "Sherlock Holmes" films) directed the film from a screenplay is by Joby Harold ("Awake") and Guy Ritchie & Lionel Wigram, story by David Dobkin ("The Judge") and Joby Harold. The film is produced by Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman ("A Beautiful Mind," "I Am Legend"), Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell ("Awake," "Holy Rollers"), and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "Sherlock Holmes" producers Steve Clark-Hall, Guy Ritchie and Lionel Wigram. David Dobkin and Bruce Berman are executive producers.
Ritchie's behind-the-scenes creative team included two-time Oscar-nominated director of photography John Mathieson ("Gladiator," "The Phantom of the Opera"), Oscar-nominated production designer Gemma Jackson ("Finding Neverland"), editor James Herbert ("The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Edge of Tomorrow"), costume designer Annie Symons (Masterpiece Theater's "Great Expectations"), makeup and hair designer Christine Blundell ("Mr. Turner," the "Sherlock Holmes" films), and Oscar-nominated VFX Supervisor Nick Davis ("The Dark Knight"). The music is by Daniel Pemberton ("The Man from U.N.C.L.E.").
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An Automation World survey reveals both cloud and edge computing are central to IIoT-enabled predictive maintenance and performance monitoring applications, each at different stages of the journey.
Beth Stackpole
Almost half of the respondents (43 percent) to a recent Automation World survey already have edge computing implementations underway.
In the world of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the noisy debate over cloud vs. edge computing masks a key fact: Manufacturers are mapping out a route that covers both, each an integral on-ramp for new predictive maintenance and performance monitoring applications at different stops on the journey.
Almost half of the respondents (43 percent) to a recent Automation World survey already have edge computing implementations underway; just a little more than that (51 percent) have ventured into cloud computing territory as part of their IIoT implementations. Fog computing, considered a superset of edge computing used to bridge the traditional operations (OT) world with enterprise IT, is also starting to take root, cited by only 20 percent of respondents.
More than a third (39 percent) of the manufacturers responding have been using edge/fog or cloud computing technology for one to two years, and 48 percent have been invested in programs for significantly longer (three years or more). Only 12 percent of respondents are just getting started with edge/fog or cloud computing, launching initiatives in the past year or less.
Edge computing was the more popular path for production/manufacturing data analysis applications, cited by more than half of respondents (52 percent), while equipment data analytics—for capacity or overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)—enjoyed slightly less traction with this compute model, cited by just under 20 percent of respondents. Both edge (18 percent) and fog computing (27 percent) were less likely to be the preferred paradigm for enterprise effectiveness analysis compared with the cloud, which was cited by 36.5 percent of respondents.
Regardless of deployment model, manufacturers are already seeing benefits from these initial IIoT deployments. Half of the companies launching edge/fog or cloud computing IIoT initiatives report significant reductions in downtime. At the same time, 38 percent are enjoying measurable improvements to production output, 37 percent tout profitability increases, and 30 percent highlight a decrease in production costs, the survey found.
Though there's no singular recommended route, IIoT deployments do follow a typical rollout pattern: Phase one is usually centered around the cloud to host core enterprise analytics applications to evaluate plant performance on quality issues, for example, or for asset optimization designed to reduce production downtime. From there, manufacturers invest in new edge computing technologies or retrofit legacy automation systems with intelligence and connectivity horsepower to advance the second phase of deployment, which involves doing detailed analytics in near real time, directly at the point of asset operation. Eventually, the cloud is looped back into the mix as a means of providing additional storage and compute scalability as well as to collect and analyze data beyond a specific industrial asset or single plant floor operation.
"To enable digital transformation, you have to build out the edge computing side and connect it with the cloud—it's a journey from the edge to the cloud and back, and the cycle keeps continuing," says Tony Antoun, senior vice president of edge and digital at GE Digital. "You need both to enrich and boost the business and take advantage of different points within this virtual lifecycle."
A natural progression
Antoun describes three common IIoT deployment scenarios. In one, sensored industrial assets send signals to cloud-based business intelligence tools, dashboards and asset performance management software to track a machine's health and to trigger basic red- and green-light alerts used to more effectively manage uptime and performance. A second scenario involves these same applications with additional processing capabilities at the edge to trigger an action back at the machine level—for example, opening or closing a valve or resetting an actuator to improve performance or to fix a problem that might cause unnecessary downtime. In the third scenario, edge analytics help avoid unnecessary bandwidth, enhance security and initiate a near-real-time response at the machine level, but the results are also pushed up to the cloud and merged with other data for additional enterprise-level visibility and machine learning-enabled insights.
The choice between edge or cloud computing comes into play depending on what manufacturers are trying to accomplish and where they want to begin. Consider the example of additive manufacturing printers used to build key components for an airplane engine, which Antoun describes as a natural candidate for an edge computing approach. With edge technology, data is collected and analyzed at the point of operation to determine whether the printer is aligned properly prior to production, allowing any necessary adjustments to be made in real time so costly rework is avoided.
A different example, an offshore wind turbine farm with 100 units, showcases where cloud computing is a natural play. In this case, edge processing is tapped to make critical adjustments to individual wind turbines, yet the cloud aggregates signals from the entire fleet and combines it with weather data to support an algorithm that automatically calibrates turbine speeds and blade placement for optimal fleet performance.
"Factories are moving at different speeds, from different angles," Antoun explains. "Fog and cloud and edge are different approaches, but they don't negate each other. They actually complement each other at different places in IIoT's evolution."
The cloud's strength for IIoT applications lies in the infinite scalability of compute and storage capacity and in the ease of deploying analytics, given the variety of applications already available. The cloud is also a way for manufacturers with brownfield environments to take a spin with IIoT applications at less expense and disruption, given the longevity of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other automation technologies, which simply can't support edge analytics without a costly and disruptive retrofit, notes Matt Vasey, director of IoT business development at Microsoft and a board member of the OpenFog Consortium, which promotes and standardizes fog computing technologies.
Remote monitoring and predictive maintenance applications are natural targets for cloud deployment because there is no need for a real-time response, explains Jason Andersen, vice president of strategy and business line management for Stratus. "If you're doing data collection, perhaps sensing temperature to do red light and green light operations, it makes sense to start in the cloud because it's easier and it's not something that potentially impacts the production line or business model," he says. "On the other hand, edge applications tend to be more real-time and mission-critical, so it makes sense that you don't take on that type of project first."
Edge computing shines when there's a need for real-time, latency-free action at the source on a machine or near an operator and when you want to apply the power of machine learning in an industrial context, explains Rhonda Dirvin, another OpenFog Consortium board member and director of IoT and embedded systems at Arm, a semiconductor and software design company. She cited a robotic arm as an example where an edge approach would be favored over cloud deployment. "In a factory environment, latency is an issue—you have to make a decision locally and you don't have time to send data up to the cloud," she explains.
Fog creates a new and improved edge
Fog computing is another element of IIoT architecture gaining traction. Though many use fog and edge computing interchangeably, experts see fog as a superset of edge computing, also designed to push intelligence down closer to where data originates. Instead of residing at a device level, fog processing power resides at a local area network (LAN) level, enabling data from multiple assets to be aggregated, filtered, pre-processed and eventually securely transmitted to the cloud using protocols such as MQTT or HTTP.
One benefit to this approach is better security because data is aggregated before transmission to the cloud, so there are fewer pinholes or opportunities for spoofing or data breaches. "We are leveraging the architecture of edge and fog to greatly improve security and to minimize the amount of traffic being pushed to the cloud," notes Jim Chappell, vice president of information solutions at Schneider Electric, which as part of its merger with Aveva offers a full suite of industrial software. "We want the ability to do everything in the cloud, but edge is a means of optimizing the cloud experience in terms of latency, bandwidth and security."
Fog computing not only bolsters security and reduces points of failure, but it also bridges the IT/OT divide while breaking the "logjam of PLC purgatory," explains David King, CEO of FogHorn Systems, which bills its platform as industrial-grade analytics designed specifically for resource-constrained edge devices like PLCs, gateways and industrial PCs.
"OT has been living in a closed-loop automation world the last several decades while the IT world has largely had infinite computing," King explains. "As you start to collapse the two together, the purpose of fog computing is to serve as a bridge layer between OT and IT. It's a higher-order layer of compute power."
FogHorn's technology employs complex event processing (CEP) analytics on live data to deliver cloud-like computing capacity at the edge instead of simply using edge intelligence to gather and pre-process data before transmission to the cloud for sophisticated machine learning analytics. "A lot of what we've seen from edge players is not really doing anything other than collecting and normalizing data and getting it somewhere else to do the heavy lifting," King says. "We've turned that model on its head—we can offer the same capacity that you would otherwise do in the cloud in a fraction of the footprint right at the source."
On the hardware side, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is also flipping the model of what is typical for edge or fog computing, leveraging its enterprise-class server, memory and storage technologies to create the Edgeline Converged Edge Systems. This family of systems can handle full-scale data center analytics and machine learning processing for IIoT applications at the edge, enabling a foundation for real-time processing that will empower new types of industrial, edge-based applications, says Tom Bradicich, vice president and general manager for HPE's servers, IoT and converged edge systems.
Even in scenarios where edge computing is capable of data-center-level processing, the dueling routes to IIoT will still work together synergistically, King says. Cloud becomes the global repository for a fleet-wide view of all assets and it is also central to the process of refining and updating models for IIoT-enabled applications. "Even here, it's not edge vs. cloud, but edge to cloud," he explains. "We believe [artificial intelligence] in the industrial context means permanent, iterative edge-to-cloud machine learning to automate the process of updating the model."
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Schelmuffsky ist ein zweiteiliger Lügenroman des 30-jährigen Theologie-Studenten Christian Reuter von 1696/97. Der vollständige Titel lautet in barocker Manier: Schelmuffskys Warhafftige Curiöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande. Und zwar die allervollkommenste und accurateste Edition, in hochteutscher Frau Mutter Sprache eigenhändig und sehr artig an den Tag gegeben von E.S.

Der Literaturwissenschaftler Georg Ellinger bezeichnete das Werk, das in der Tradition der Schelmenromane steht, als "die genialste humoristische Erzählung des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts".

Hintergrund

Grundmotivation für den Roman waren Rachegefühle des Verfassers Christian Reuter gegenüber der wohlhabenden Familie Müller aus Leipzig. Der Bauernsohn Reuter hatte sich zum Wintersemester 1688 für ein Studium an der Leipziger Universität immatrikuliert. Ab 1694 wohnte Reuter zusammen mit dem Pommern Johannes Grel, der schon sieben Jahre studierte, im Gasthaus "Zum Rothen Löwen", das an der Ecke von Grimmaischer und Reichsstraße lag. Die beiden Studenten blieben schließlich für ein halbes Jahr die Miete schuldig und wurden von der Hauswirtin Anna Rosine Müller vor die Tür gesetzt.

Reuter rächte sich mit einer pasquillantischen Schrift, seinem ersten Theaterstück Die Ehrliche Frau zu Plißine, in dem er die Wirtin Anna Rosine Müller als "Frau Schlampampe" karikierte und auch Schelmuffsky bereits auftaucht. Die Figur des Schelmuffsky orientierte sich an Eustachius, dem ältesten Sohn der Wirtin. Typisch sind seine ständig wiederholten Redewendungen "O Sapperment" und "der Tebel hol mer". Die Witwe Müller, die sich und ihresgleichen als lächerliche Figuren dargestellt erkannte, wandte sich am 15. August 1696 in einer Klage an den Kurfürsten. Die Zeit seiner Festsetzung im Karzer nutzte Reuter produktiv für eine Überarbeitung des ersten Teil seines Romans und die Ausformulierung eines zweiten.

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Hauptperson und Ich-Erzähler des Romans ist ein gewisser Schelmuffsky, von dem wir keinen Vornamen erfahren. Von sich selbst sagt der "allezeit reisefertige" Schelmuffsky: "Teutschland ist mein Vaterland, in Schelmerode bin ich geboren". Auch wenn für die thüringische Gemeinde Birkenfelde eine Wüstung namens Schelmerode bezeugt ist, handelt es sich hierbei um einen fiktiven Ort, die Betonung liegt auf Schelm. Sein Lieblingsgetränk ist "Klebebier", das so heißt, "weil es so Maltz-reich wäre, dass es einen gantz zwischen die Finger klebete und schmeckte auch wie lauter Zucker so süß."

Der Roman beginnt mit einer vorangestellten Widmung an den "Hoch-Gebohrnen grossen Mogol" von Agra, bei dem er angeblich 14 Tage verweilen durfte. Zum Dank dafür möchte er dem Mogul eine in Schweineleder gebundene Fassung seines Reiseberichts anstelle von leicht verderblichem Klebebier zukommen lassen. Darauf folgt eine Mitteilung an den "Curiösen Leser", in der er prahlt, wie weltgewandt und weitgereist er im Gegensatz zu vielen seiner Zeitgenossen sei.

Dann beginnt das erste von zirka 20 Kapiteln mit ungewöhnlicher Zählung, denn auf das zweite folgt das sechste und auf das dritte das neunte Kapitel. Da es Schelmuffsky im Haushalt seiner Mutter zu eng wird, lässt er sich Geld geben, um auf Reisen zu gehen. Seine angebliche Weltreise führt ihn zuerst nach Hamburg, das bei ihm wie Leipzig am Fluss Elster liegt. Hier steigt er in einem Gasthaus ab, wo er auf noble Gesellschaft trifft und sich eine Dame namens Charmante sofort in ihn verliebt. Dann macht sich Schelmuffsky auf in die Stadt Altona, "welches drey starcke Teutsche Meilen von Hamburg liegt." Von dort segelt er schnell weiter nach Schweden, wo er in Stockholm an Land geht und in einem Wirtshaus absteigt. Wieder sind die Herren von ihm begeistert und die Damen entzückt. Es kommt zu einem Duell, und nach kaum vier Wochen erscheint auch Charmante in Stockholm. Auf der Überfahrt nach Holland wird das Schiff bei einem Sturm an die Klippen bei der Insel Bornholm geworfen und zerschellt: "O Sapperment! was war da von den Leuten ein Gelamentire in den Wasser!" Die arme Charmante ertrinkt, aber Schelmuffsky kann sich auf ein Brett retten und treibt weiter nach Amsterdam, an den Ufer-Garten des Bürgermeisters. Schelmuffsky wird zu einer Hochzeit eingeladen, betrinkt sich über die Maßen und speit "der Tebel hohlmer der Braut den Busen gantz voll". Von dort geht es nach Indien, dem weitest entfernten Punkt der Reise. Dort wird er von dem großen Mogul von Agra empfangen. Da Schelmuffsky ihm die Finanzen in Ordnung bringt, möchte ihn der Mogul zum Reichskanzler ernennen, doch Schelmuffsky lehnt großzügig ab. Über Spanien und St. Malo, wo er in Gefangenschaft gerät, und über London und Hamburg kehrt er nach Hause zurück. Wieder in Schelmerode angekommen, ist ihm inzwischen alles so fremd geworden, dass er nach drei Tagen Suche sein Haus nicht wiederfindet, und auch die Muttersprache hat er verlernt. Laut seiner Zeitrechnung ist er insgesamt elf Jahre unterwegs gewesen, aber nach einem Einwurf seines Vetters, der nun bei der Mutter wohnt, waren es kaum 14 Tage: "Ich habe mir von unterschiedlichen Leuten erzählen lassen, dass mein Vetter Schelmuffsky nicht weiter als eine halbe Meile von seiner Geburts-Stadt kommen wäre und alles mit einander mit liederlicher Compagnie im Toback und Branntwein versoffen."

Die zweite Reise führt Schelmuffsky in die Stadt Venedig: "Sie liegt auff einem großen hohen Stein-Felsen und ist mit einen vortrefflichen Wall umgeben." An einer Lotto-Bude auf dem "Sanct Marx-Platz" gewinnt er mit der Losnummer 11 eine Bartbürste im Wert von 6 Pfennig und mit der Nummer 098372641509 ein Reitpferd im Wert von 500 Reichstalern. Als ihm das Pferd davonläuft, verfolgt er es bis vor die Stadt Padua ("sie liegt eine halbe Stunde von Rom"). In Rom schließlich küsst er dem "auff einen Groß-Vater Stuhle" schlafenden Papst "die stinkenden Füße". Danach geht es über Polen wieder "nach Teutschland zu." Ein am Schluss angekündigter dritter Teil der gefährlichen Reise zu Wasser und zu Lande ist nicht erschienen.

Einordnung
Christoph Stoll und Sven Hanuschek sehen Schelmuffsky in ihrem Artikel in Kindlers Literatur Lexikon als ein Werk an der Schwelle zwischen Barock und Aufklärung, das eine Satire auf die Trivialliteratur seiner Zeit und auf das damalige Ideal des modisch-höfischen Mannes von Welt darstelle. Die Komik des Romans entstehe durch die stets misslungene Galanterie und die rüpelhafte Grobheit der Hauptfigur sowie durch deren Sprache, die hohle Phrasen, unverstandene Fremdwörter und Obszönitäten kombiniere. Reuter habe mit Schelmuffsky den ersten deutschsprachigen Roman mit einem unzuverlässigen Ich-Erzähler geschaffen.

Rezeption
Der Komponist Andreas Heinrich Schultzen (1681–1742) komponierte die Schelmuffsky-Sonate.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, der ein seltenes Exemplar besaß, machte Gottfried August Bürger mit dem Schelmuffsky bekannt, der die maßlosen Übertreibungen als Vorlage für seine Bearbeitung von Münchhausens Wunderbare Reisen zu Wasser und zu Lande nutzte.

Die Heidelberger Romantiker um Clemens Brentano entdeckten den Roman ab 1804 und gerieten regelrecht ins "Schelmuffskysieren", das heißt, sie verwendeten mündlich und auch brieflich Redewendungen aus dem Roman. Gemeinsam mit seinem ehemaligen Koblenzer Mitschüler Johann Joseph Görres verfasste Brentano eine Erzählung mit dem parodistischen Titel: Entweder wunderbare Geschichte von BOGS dem Uhrmacher, wie er zwar das menschliche Leben längst verlassen, nun aber doch, nach vielen musikalischen Leiden zu Wasser und zu Lande, in die bürgerliche Schützengesellschaft aufgenommen zu werden Hoffnung hat, oder die über die Ufer der badischen Wochenschrift als Beilage ausgetretene Konzert-Anzeige. Nebst des Herrn BOGS wohlgetroffenem Bildnisse und einem medizinischen Gutachten über dessen Gehirnzustand.

Besonders Wilhelm Grimm unterhielt ab 1809 gern Gesellschaften im Schelmuffsky-Stil und verwendete auch in seinen Briefen Anspielungen und Formulierungen aus dem Buche. In einem Brief an die Familie des Pfarrers Mannel in Allendorf schrieb Wilhelm Grimm: "Ich will mich, der Tebel hohl mer, recht dankbar dafür auch erweisen … oder ich will dem Herrn Pfarrer ein Fässchen Klebebier zuschicken, worauf man, wenn man einen Nössel getrunken, flugs predigen kann." Auf Anregung der Gebrüder Grimm wurde 1817 der erste vollständige Neudruck herausgegeben, nachdem Achim von Arnim mit diesem Plan gescheitert war.

Heinrich Heine schrieb in Paris die Parodie Aus den Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski, die 14 Kapitel umfasste und Fragment geblieben ist. Durch deren Lektüre wurde Richard Wagner, der damals noch freundschaftlich mit Heine verkehrte, erstmals auf die Sage vom Fliegenden Holländer aufmerksam. Die Fabel von dem Fliegenden Holländer wird im VII. Kapitel wiedergegeben.

In Reuters Geburtsort Kütten gibt es heute eine Schelmuffsky-Straße ebenso wie den Kräuterschnaps "Schelmuffskys Reise-Elixier".

Seit den 1970er Jahren beendete die "Schelmuffsky-Troffi", eine fünf Kilometer lange Radstrecke rund um den Petersberg in Halle (Saale), die alljährliche Petersberg-Ralley.

Schelmuffsky liefert eine der Herkunftstheorien des Begriffs Zeitungsente (in der Variante Lüg-Ente):

Ausgaben

Der erste Teil erschien 1696 und 1697 in zwei Fassungen, der zweite Teil folgte 1697. Im Jahr 1750 wurde das Buch neu aufgelegt, diese Ausgabe geriet jedoch bald auf den päpstlichen Index, obwohl die groteske Szene der Papstaudienz schon früher der Zensur zum Opfer gefallen war.

 Schelmuffskys Warhafftige Curiöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande. 1. Theil/ Und zwar die allervollkommenste und accurateste Edition, in hochteutscher Frau Mutter Sprache eigenhändig und sehr artig an den Tag gegeben von E. S. Gedruckt zu Schelmerode/ Im Jahr 1696. (Google Books)
 Schelmuffskys Warhafftige Curiöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande. 1697.
 Schelmuffskys wahrhaftige, curiöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande in Zweyen Theilen, curiösen Liebhabern vor Augen geleget und mit Zweyen Lust= und Trauer=Spielen versehen. Franckfurth und Leipzig, 1750. (Google Books)
 Schelmuffskys Wahrhafftige, curiöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande. Erster Theil. Gedruckt zu Schelmerode in diesem Jahr. Haxthausen 1817. (Google Books)
 Schelmuffsky: Wahrhaftige, kuriöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande. Zinnen-Verlag, München 1944.
 Schelmuffskys Wahrhaftige kuriöse und sehr gefährliche Reisebeschreibung zu Wasser und Lande. Aufbau Verlag, Berlin 1955.

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Literatur
 Gunter E. Grimm: Kapriolen eines Taugenichts. Zur Funktion des Pikarischen in Christian Reuters "Schelmuffsky". In: Chloe 5, 1987, S. 127–149.
 Klaus-Detlef Müller: Einfallslosigkeit als Erzählprinzip. Zu Christian Reuters Schelmuffsky. In: Geschichtlichkeit und Gegenwart. Festschrift für Hans Dietrich Irmscher zum 65. Geburtstag. Böhlau Verlag, Köln Weimar Wien 1994, S. 1–12.
 Simone Trieder: Der Schelm aus Kütten. Betrachtungen zu Christian Reuter und über den komischen Halbgott Schelmuffsky. Gefährliche Reisebeschreibung. Hasen-Edition, Halle (Saale) 2005, ISBN 3-939468-00-2.
 Helen Walden: Christian Reuter: Is He a Barock Poet, or Not?, in: The German Quarterly, März 1936, Vol. 9, Nr. 2, S. 71–77.
 Burkhardt Wolf: Ein Rattenmann auf Kavalierstour: Phantastische Aufklärung in Christian Reuters 'Schelmuffsky.' Poetica, vol. 48, Nr. 3/4, Brill, 2016, S. 305–31.
 Friedrich Zarncke: Christian Reuter, der Verfasser des Schelmuffsky. Sein Leben und sein Werk. S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1884. (Google Books)

Siehe auch
 Studentes, eine Studentenkomödie von 1545
 Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, ein Schelmenroman von 1669
 Studentenroman

Weblinks

 Schelmuffsky im Projekt Gutenberg
 Schnabelewopski im Projekt Gutenberg
 Olaf Velte: Christian Reuter: Ein wahres Schandmaul, in: Frankfurter Rundschau vom 5. Mai 2012
 Benedikt Erenz: Vergessene Autoren (1): Das große Schwätzbrevier, in: ZEIT online vom 3. Januar 2008.

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Literarische Figur
Literatur des Barock
Literatur (17. Jahrhundert)
Literatur (Deutsch)
Schelmenroman
Studentengeschichte (Frühe Neuzeit)


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MIAMI SEAQUARIUM RE-OPENS SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2020
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MIAMI – (June 12, 2020) – The first day of summer will bring a ray of sunshine after a challenging spring: Miami Seaquarium will reopen on Saturday, June 20, 2020.
South Florida's best aquarium and favorite visitor attraction has spent the past 99 days closed as a precautionary measure, taking the time to implement new cleaning and safety procedures. The experience at Miami Seaquarium will be different from at any point in the park's 64-year history, as the park delivers an educational and fun, family experience, while ensuring the health and safety of Guests, Animals and Team Members. Miami Seaquarium will build upon its longstanding emphasis on a clean, safe environment with a series of measures following the recommendations of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and best practices within the attractions industry.
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WORLD WATER DAY: Salesian Missions Highlights Programs Providing Clean Water for Healthy Living, Agriculture
(MissionNewswire) From safe drinking water and healthy sanitation to agriculture, water is essential for life. Six to 8 million people die annually from the consequences of disasters and water-related diseases, according to the United Nations. Furthermore, 783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation.
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In honor and celebration of World Water Day 2013, Salesian Missions is proud to highlight Salesian programs around the globe that provide safe water and much-needed agricultural training to those most in need.
In Bolivia, families now have access to safe drinking water in their homes through community water distribution projects. In the town of "19 de Agosto" in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, the new distribution brings water directly to 106 families who previously had to carry potable water from the town well to their own homes. In addition, the distribution system greatly improves the sanitary conditions of the drinking water. In the town of "Las Parabas," 50 families now have water distribution directly into their homes.
In another project, water helps power electricity that brings hope to the people of Kami, a village high in the Bolivian Andes. Through Salesian Missions, an abandoned hydro-electrical power station has been restarted to provide the only source of electricity to the local school, hospital, sawmill and new businesses. Refurbished turbines can be fully used even with a small supply of water in the dry season. Excess power can be sold to the Bolivian Electricity Board to defray costs. Now the community has access to technology in its school, better basic medical care, job opportunities and a brighter future for all.
The Salesians are helping East Timor recover and rebuild in the wake of a devastating civil war that claimed countless lives, decimated entire communities and resulted in living conditions that are among the worst in the world. One-third of the population faces food shortages and many of the schools have been destroyed.
At the Salesian agricultural school there, students learn theoretical agricultural methods and work on the college farm. Agricultural skills are also being taught in parish centers and schools. In Baucau, young people have set up a cooperative to plant rice on land owned by parishioners. When they started, they had no tools or machinery, just their bare hands. With assistance from Salesian Missions and AusAid, they were able to purchase hand plows, threshing and milling machines. A portion of the crop belongs to the workers, a portion goes to the landowners as rent and the rest is sold for profit.
Child survival depends on safe drinking water. In India, progress has been made toward making access to safe drinking water more readily available with 84.5 percent of rural and 95 percent of urban populations having sustainable access to safe drinking water, according to the World Bank.
At the Don Bosco Center for Learning in Kurla, course work focuses on job training in developing technologies concerning water – ranging from plumbing and sanitation to developing efficient methods for utilization and analyzing existing systems for efficient transportation of water. The courses are designed for youth who have previously left school in order to help them enter the job market.
In Kenya, agricultural training has made a significant difference at the Kakuma Refugee Camp. There, food security is enhanced by the demonstration farm which offers training in agriculture skills. It also produces fresh fruit and vegetables adding to the amount of food available to the refugees and inhabitants of the camp.
Agricultural skills are also an important component at the Bosco Boys Kuwinda facility. There, students receive training in the care of livestock including poultry, cows and pigs, as well as training in the vegetable gardens. Eggs and meat are sold from the farm to help support the project.
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I am attaching a spreadsheet with the company's reports. I need some help with writing my paper. Do not worry about the APA or the accurate formate I will clean up. However, I need understanding of the context of the documents.
Introduction paragraph - Introduce the Company and discuss the purpose of the project.
Ratio Analysis - One paragraph over each of the five categories f rations. Explain the meaning/use of the category and then a written analysis of your findings from the ratios. Comment particularly on trends or individual ratios that capture your attention (Drastic Changes, significant deviation from industry standards. etc Provide insight into why this may be occurring.
"Establish Starbucks as the premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining our uncompromising principles while we grow."
?	Provide a great work environment and treat each other with respect and dignity.
?	Embrace diversity as an essential component in the way we do business.
?	Apply the highest standards of excellence to the purchasing, roasting and fresh delivery of our coffee.
?	Develop enthusiastically satisfied customers all of the time.
?	Contribute positively to our communities and our environment.
?	Recognize that profitability is essential to our future success.
?	Starbucks is committed to a role of environmental leadership in all facets of our business.
?	Understanding of environmental issues and sharing information with our partners.
?	Developing innovative and flexible solutions to bring about change.
?	Striving to buy, sell and use environmentally friendly products.
?	Recognizing that fiscal responsibility is essential to our environmental future.
?	Instilling environmental responsibility as a corporate value.
?	Measuring and monitoring our progress for each project.
?	Encouraging all partners to share in our mission.
A ratio analysis is performed on Starbucks.
A Financial Ratio Analysis of Landry's Restaurants Inc.


Make the Castrol brand relevant to vehicle owners by creating a service design solution that uses real-time telemetry data to predict the appropriate timing for regular service appointments as well as identifying adhoc maintenance issues.
Combining adZU, Code's marketing automation platform, with Internet of Things technologies we developed a connected car solution positioning Castrol as a partner at the heart of all aspects of the driving experience.
Streaming real-time driving data to the cloud and accessed via a mobile app, the service tracks a customer's driving, recommends cost saving tips, provides locally relevant offers – and when the engine light comes on or it's time for regular maintenance, it helps drivers to find and book a service.


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CLIMATEYOU, ACT NOW
How to Fight Back After Decades of Exxon Climate Misinformation by ClimateYou Senior Editor George Ropes
The article in the Guardian, How Exxon's Climate Change Trial Became a Battle Over Numbers is about how Exxon has misled Americans on climate change for decades. The authors are John Cook, Geoffrey Supran, Naomi Oreskes, Ed Maibach and Stephan Lewandowsky
This Guardian piece is good on the misleading that Exxon has done on climate change. Unfortunately it is quite weak on how to fight back, other than, "Get educated" both about the tactics Exxon and other fossil fuel companies used to disseminate misinformation, and as a counterweight, to learn the scientific facts that 97% of all climate scientists agree on — combusting fossil fuels emits greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) which trap the sun's heat, thus raising the Earth's temperature.
To combat climate change :
We've got to stop using fossil fuels
We've got to hold the fossil fuel companies responsible for the damage their products have caused.
We've got to tax carbon so it's real cost is reflected in its price.
Governments have to stop subsidizing the coal, oil, and gas companies with billions of dollars each year.
Pension funds, mutual funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, and other financial institutions must join those that have already divested trillions of dollars from those companies.
Banks must cease funding oil and gas exploration and extraction projects, just as they mostly already have stopped funding coal projects. At least they can charge higher interest rates to reflect the very real climate risks such projects face.
Individually, we all can purge our portfolios of Big Oil stocks to the extent possible (they're hidden in index funds so we'll all have to decide whether to keep them or not).
We can tell our elected representatives — repeatedly — that we care deeply about the climate and that we expect them to vote accordingly, because we will hold them accountable on election day.
We can join a pro-climate activist group and march, demonstrate, or protest (without breaking the law or destroying property). By showing you care, responsibly, others become more aware of your concerns, come to sympathize with them, and may even join the cause.
CLIMATEYOU
Sea Level Rise and Climate Change By City Tech Blogger Jan Adamez
The world mean sea level increased by around 8 to 9 inches from 1880. Most of this increase has been observed in the past two and half decades. The increasing water level happens because of meltwaters emerging from glaciers. Further, glaciers turn into water with all forms of
Jan Adamez	December 21, 2021
How Does My Academic Major Relate to Climate Change? By City Tech Blogger Hilal Din
Climate change can be very detrimental on a global scale, considering the fact that humans are susceptible and vulnerable when it comes to climate change and the outcomes associated. As problem solvers, scholars, and engineers (Construction Engineering) we can help incorporate proper measures to help reduce the overall
Hilal Din	November 18, 2021


The number of hospital mergers dipped about 22% in 2018 but grew in overall size , according to a new report.
Hospitals saw a profitable October, spurred by a boost in volume and length of stays, according to a new report.
Hospital leaders may not be looking in the right places as part of cost-cutting initiatives, according to a new report.
LifePoint Health and RCCH HealthCare Partners signed an agreement to merge, forming a joint entity with a combined $8 billion in revenue for 2017.
Providers know they need to adopt a consumer-centric approach to care, but progress toward that goal is slow, according to a new report.
Henry Ford Health System and Wayne State University are planning to join forces, and a letter of intent is forthcoming, according to a new report.
Both CEOs recently addressed details of the merger for the first time since announcing the proposed deal in December.


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Get in the Holiday Spirit With New Photos of Lorna Luft in White Christmas U.K. Tour
Cast Complete for U.K. Tour of White Christmas the Musical, Starring Lorna Luft
Lorna Luft to Lead U.K. Tour of White Christmas The Musical
Lillias White, Lorna Luft, Melissa Errico, More to Play Crazy Coqs' Americans in London Series
Upcoming at Feinstein's/54 Below in August: Sierra Boggess, Ethan Slater, Mauricio Martinez, and More
National Tour News Lorna Luft and Conrad John Schuck to Star in White Christmas U.S. Holiday Tour The Irving Berlin musical will play limited engagements in Chicago and Boston this December.
By Adam Hetrick
Lorna Luft
The stage adaptation of Irving Berlin's 1954 holiday classic White Christmas will return to the road November and December with theatre and concert veteran Lorna Luft reprising her performance as Martha Watson, alongside Conrad John Schuck as General Waverly.
The production will play limited engagements in eight cities across the U.S., culminating in a two-week Boston run over the Christmas holiday.
Luft and Schuck will be joined by David Elder as Bob Wallace, Jeremy Benton as Phil Davis, Kerry Conte as Betty Haynes, Kelly Sheehan as Judy Haynes, Brad Frenette as Ralph Sheldrake, Danny Gardner as Mike Nulty, and Cliff Bemis as Ezekiel Foster. Emma Grace Berardelli and Kyla Carter will alternate in the role of Susan Waverly.
The White Christmas ensemble will include Darien Crago, Sarah Fagan, Drew Humphrey, Bryan Thomas Hunt, Brianna LaTrash, Stephanie Brooks Martin, Chris McNiff, Daniel Plimpton, Kristyn Pope, Sean Quinn, Karilyn Ashley Surratt, Lamont Brown, Kimberly Immanuel, Tina Johnson, Kristie Kerwin, and Chris Shin.
White Christmas will preview November 9 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center), with dates to follow in Lincoln, Nebraska (November 11–13 at Lied Center for the Performing Arts); Sioux Falls, South Dakota (November 15–17 at the Washington Pavillion); Des Moines, Iowa (November 19–24 at the Des Moines Civic Center); Cleveland, Ohio (November 26–December 1 at Playhouse Square); Durham, North Carolina (December 3–8 at the Durham Performing Arts Center); Chicago, Illinois (December 10–15 at the Cadillac Palace); and Boston, Massachusetts (December 17–29 at the Boch Center).
The stage adaptation of White Christmas, written by David Ives and Paul Blake, features songs from the 1954 movie, including "Snow," "Sisters," "Blue Skies," "I Love a Piano," "Count Your Blessings," and the enduring title song, as well as standards from the Berlin catalog.
The tour features the original staging and designs from the 2004 San Francisco premiere, which has played numerous regional and touring engagements—including two seasonal runs on Broadway in 2008 and 2009. White Christmas has direction and choreography by Randy Skinner, scenic design by Anna Louizos, scenic adaptation by Kenneth Foy, lighting design by Ken Billington, and sound design by Keith Caggiano, orchestrations by Larry Blank with vocal and dance arrangements by Bruce Pomahac, and associate choreography by Kristyn Pope.
Visit IrvingBerlinsWhiteChristmas.com.
Conrad John Schuck
David Elder
Kerry Conte
Swing Siblings: How Lissa and Mathew deGuzman Came to Cover the Full Ensemble of Aladdin's National Tour
By Michael Gioia | April 20, 2017
We ask them who got the offer first, who went on for the first preview, and what they're most looking forward to with their first show together.
What Does a Stripped Down Into the Woods Look Like?
By Sheryl Flatow | February 27, 2017
With no narrator, no orchestra, and minimal design, critics call the touring production a revelation.


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Fishing in Mauritius - The very mention of the island of Mauritius conjures up images of tranquil seas, idyllic beaches, lagoons and reefs—and you'd be perfectly correct in thinking this! Add a mountainous interior with gorges and waterfalls, rainforests and rare and wonderful wildlife and you would think you're in heaven on earth. One thing you may not think off is angling! The seas around Mauritius teem with giant blue and black marlin, dorado, wahoo, mako sharks, tiger sharks, huge yellow fin tuna, dog tooth tuna and a host of other fish too numerous to mention—all ready for you to tackle as you take in the beautiful seas, the warm sunshine and a cool beer or two.
Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, and is situated off the coast of Madagascar, which itself is off the coast of central/southern Africa. With a population of around 1.3m its capital city of Port Louis, with a population of around 150,000, was named after the French king Louis XV. The old parts of the capital, and indeed, the island itself still has a distinctly colonial feel to it although the island has a rich cultural diversity with such buildings as the (English-style) Saint James Cathedral, the Tamil Temple and the elegant five-tier colonial Port Louis Theatre.
The climate is very pleasant with average temperatures of around 28C and the humidity and mountainous interior to the island give it a lush, tropical atmosphere. The seas around Mauritius offer excellent your next big game fishing trip with experienced skippers and fishing charters waiting to take anglers to fish off the reefs and coves around the island or out into the deep waters of the Indian Ocean.
Big game fishing in Mauritius is the name of the game here and angling takes place all year round with different species being sought depending on the time of year. Most of the angling tours take place on the West Cost from Port Louis, Black River or Grand Baie although there are several other areas around the east coast that are becoming more popular. The island is a Mecca for anglers and as a considerable income is made for the island from anglers, they are treated with respect. Angling is from modern, well-equipped boats skippered and crewed by highly-experienced anglers. The fishing charter companies are professional and adept at making even the most inexperienced angler get the catch of his life. MarlinMag rates Mauritius as one of the world's best fishing destinations for granders, along side with Cape Verde, Azores, Madeira, Gran Canaria, Hawaii, Australia or Brasil.
There are several different types of angling practised around the island and, in recent years, the traditional deep-sea angling has been augmented by other styles which are continuing to grow in popularity. For instance, in recent years Jigging and popping have become more and more popular. For those of you more used to the world of European angling, jigging is the practice of fishing with a jig which is a type of lure consisting of a heavy sinking (usually made of lead), which is covered in a soft body. Embedded in the body is the hook and the jig is raised and lowered in the water column in a jerky, 'jigging' motion, hence the name. Jigging is very popular throughout the Indian Ocean region and, indeed, throughout much of the world, although less so in European countries. As an alternative to spinning it can be a deadly method in the right place at the right time.
Popping is different to jigging in that the lure, which is usually made from wood or plastic, is pulled along the surface of the water, or just below. The lure is jerked and pulled erratically so as to imitate a wounded or excited fish. The idea is that fish that swim in the upper layers will be attracted to the lure and strike at it. This is a very exciting way to fish as the strike against the lure can be explosive in the extreme!
Light tackle fishing is a new concept to the area, and one that is growing in popularity. As the name suggests, lighter tackle is used as opposed to the heavy deep-water tackle and the angling is done in shallow waters around the reefs and bays. The usual catch is smaller tuna or king fish.
Most fishing charters in Mauritius offer fishing expeditions to the Soudan Bank. It's a long journey (15 hours to get there and 15 hours back), so it's worth the wile to stay several days. Fishing the Soudan Bank isn't the cheapest option, but you'll never forget!
Pacific Blue Marlin: Can be caught all year round. Weight: 100 to 1430 pounds. Best months, November to April.
Black Marlin: The Mauritian record is around 750lb. Average weight 400lb. An all-year catch but particularly prevalent in summer and a great, hard-fighting fish.
Yellow Fin Tuna: Big specimen fish are abundant in March and April but can also be caught all year round in smaller sizes. Max weight around 200lb. Another hard-fighting fish.
Dogtooth Tuna: A member of the tuna family that is found close to the reefs. The biggest specimens are around 220-230lb. It is expected a new world record fish will come from the Mauritius area.
Giant Trevally or GT: The Giant Trevally is a super predator that often hunts in shoals attacking their prey in a ferocious, frenzy like manner. They can be found in a wide variety of marine systems ranging from the shallow flats to deep water pinnacles.
Skipjack Tuna: Found in large shoals, this surface-feeding fish is found all year round and smaller fish make ideal bait for Marlin Fishing. Mauritius holds several world records with specimens of around 42lb.
Wahoo: With weights up to 125lb with an average of around 45lb, Wahoo are great fun on light tackle and are found all year round.
Dorado: Dorado rarely exceed 50lb but don't be fooled by the lighter weights as when caught on light tackle they can be very exciting. Found all year round.
Mako Shark: A fierce fighter and a fish not to be messed around with! Large specimens are caught every year and the world record, caught in Mauritius is 1115 pounds.
Blue Shark: Another record-breaker for Mauritius, the blue shark, although not very abundant, is one to search out.
Tiger Shark: With fish in the waters around Mauritius to over 1000lb, this is one fish that has a reputation for swallowing anything that floats! Generally a good fighting fish.
Don't miss places on the Coast of Mauritius like Grand Baie, Black River, Trou aux Biches, Pointe Eglise, Pointe aux Sables, Pointe des Pêcheurs, Flic en Flac and Poste Lafayette.
If you want to go fishing in Mauritius with a fishing boat, you need a fishing license to fish in both fresh water and salt water. The fishing charters are fully equipped and normally have the fishing license included in the price for a full day fishing, so you don't need to buy one if you're chartering a boat.


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Fiji muzzles critical blogs
May 18, 2007 — 9.02pm
Fiji's military government appears to have successfully blocked access to a number of critical blogs that have embarrassed the administration.
A spokesman for Fiji International Telecommunications Limited (FINTEL), which is the sole provider of overseas telecommunications, confirmed some blogs appeared to be inaccessible today. But the spokesman denied his company was behind the blocking, saying he did not know how the military rulers who seized power last December had done it.
"Whatever they have gone off and done, we had nothing to do with it.
"We don't know what they have done. Maybe they have worked with someone outside of Fiji to address this," he said.
Yesterday FINTEL chief Sakar Tuilakepa released a statement confirming the military government had asked them to block access to the sites.
"FINTEL has advised the ministry of alternative options that they could explore to address these concerns without compromising the national access to the entire internet network and without breaching the conditions of FINTEL's licence as the international gateway service provider," he said.
The Fiji army's Land Force Commander, Colonel Pita Driti, earlier this week signalled the government would get tough on bloggers, and said he had a list of 20 people who would be arrested in connection to the blogs.
A number of weblogs critical of the military since Commander Frank Bainimarama swept to power in a coup d'etat last year appear to have switched servers in readiness for the crackdown.
Last week Fiji information technology specialist Ulaiasi Taoi claimed he was kept overnight at a military camp where he was punched and kicked by soldiers who alleged he was involved in anti-military blogs.
The United States has in the past accused the interim government in Fiji of trying to censor television news broadcasts and said the military had "detained, interrogated, and abused" people who wrote letters to the media opposing the coup.
"On a radio talk show on December 22, Bainimarama stated that if pro-democracy activists did not shut their mouth, the military would shut it for them," a US report said.
Meanwhile Bainimarama has reportedly told people not to waste their time on blogs.
According to a Radio New Zealand report, Bainimarama has said the blogs tell anti-military stories meant to depress people.
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