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Outlet closure causes outrage
CRAFT centre bosses have spoken of their anger after council chiefs approved the closure of one of their shops.
Vale Royal Borough Council refused to extend the licence of the Ponden Mill outlet, an anchor store at the popular Blakemere Craft Centre in Sandiway, at a planning meeting last Tuesday night.
Council chiefs say they took the move fearing the centre could suffer a chain store massacre, but bosses at Blakemere say taking away one of their most popular attractions could cause other shops to fear for their future.
Tim Gerrard, co-partner of Blakemere, said: 'Ponden Mill was helping other shops at the centre. Other shop owners feel it will effect trade and that has been mentioned to Vale Royal Borough Council.'
Following the rejection of the application Mr Gerrard said: 'It is possible staff could lose their jobs, whether we are going to appeal against the decision we do not know yet, but it is looking likely that it will close.'
Sandra Daniels, manager of Ponden Mill, said: 'In my opinion the councillors had already made their minds up before we went in to the planning meeting. They think by allowing us to trade here they open a precedent for everyone else to come. We are all absolutely gutted about it. We are not happy.'
The council claims the majority of products sold by Ponden Mill, which opened six months ago, are mass produced and it is therefore not a suitable store for a craft centre. The council says allowing the shop to continue to trade will open the door for other major retailers.
Mr Gerrard said: 'Obviously we are very disappointed. We felt Ponden Mill would increase the numbers coming to Blakemere and craft outlets would benefit, and they did.'
Mr Gerrard said Blakemere had no plans for other large stores to open there. He said: 'It is this store and this store only and we would not be coming back to ask for more.
'We were not planning on changing all shops to that style.'
Ginny Brooks, a co-partner, said the store's presence raised the centre's profile and credibility as a tourist attraction in the North West.
Vale Royal Borough Councillor Val Godfrey, who supported the closure, said: 'Blakemere only has permission to operate as a craft centre. We do not want an out-of-town shopping centre to develop from what started as an attractive craft centre.'


All-Ireland champions Tyrone roared back into title contention, with a typical gritty display in Newry tonight, dumping Ulster rivals Down out of the Bank of Ireland SFC qualifiers with a 1-15 to 0-10 score line.
Mickey Harte's son Mark scored 0-07 (3f) and tigerish midfielder Sean Cavanagh grabbed a twelfth minute goal to set them on their way.
Having looked jaded since their National League duel with Galway in the Spring, Tyrone finally looked like title contenders, limiting the Mourne men to just two scores in the opening quarter.
Both came from frees, with Liam Doyle and Gregory McCartan replying to the Tyrone tirade, which saw the champions score 1-04 in the opening 17 minutes.
Tyrone's goal followed a poor clearance from Down back John Clarke. Stephen O'Neill collected and feed the onrushing Cavanagh who lashed home to the bottom right corner of the net.
Another Harte free followed and Tyrone were soon five points to the good. Clarke and Martin Cole struck back for Down with long range efforts, as the rain poured down, and an Aidan O'Prey fisted point soon saw Paddy O'Rourke's men back in contention.
Liam Doyle made it a one-point game with a left wing free and although Brian McGuigan soloed through for a first score on the half hour, Doyle brought it back to 0-07 to 1-05 at the break with another.
The unusually quiet Benny Coutler made inroads after the restart, collecting a Dan Hughes offload to level. Mulligan then burst through only to see his goal shot saved by Down net minder Michael McVeigh. Colm McCullagh converted the resulting '45.
The poor weather meant scores were at a premium, but two good points from Harte, both from play, on 56 and 53 minutes kept the Tyrone machine in gear.
A six-point cushion was opened up when Mulligan and Harte pointed again nearing the hour mark, with the former being set up by Brian Dooher for a game-clinching score on 62 minutes, making it 1-13 to 0-08 to the Red Hands.
Harte completed his tally in the intervening minutes, and although Down were let in for late points through Clarke and substitute Colm McCrickard, McGuigan, with his second point, and referee Michael Monahan had the final say.


These days hunting for the latest portable gadgets has basically become an integral part of our lives. It's almost a shame that tech is advancing so fast that our well-loved devices barely scrape 2 or 3 years of shelf life before becoming obsolete.
This lack of longevity doesn't only affect phones. All sorts of gadgets across the spectrum make some noise while they're in the prototype phase. But as soon as they come out, people are hungry for the next thing.
So, how is 2019's latest batch looking?
Read on to find out what's going on in the smartphone scene. And don't forget to tell us which one you're most excited about (if any)!
Today's smartphone tech is about as incomprehensible to a layman as magic. Not to mention, all the most recent designs follow the same boring standard that iPhone set for us.
It all just seems like an endless parade of bigger and bigger rectangles with touch screens.
So, have the phone wizards been addressing these issues at all in the newest prototypes? And can we look forward to more imaginative designs than rectangles of pure screen?
Let's check out three of the latest prototypes.
The MagicScroll is potentially the most exciting new phone prototype we've seen. It was developed by researchers at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada.
Their aim? To develop a cylindrical touchscreen.
As of right now, the prototype's screen can unfold into a 7.5 inch OLED display. It's not quite practical yet as there's nothing to support the unrolled screen, so you'd be jabbing at a bit of wobbly plastic.
But! This phone has a lot of potential. And it's unique and original in an age where people who don't like interacting with huge vibrating rectangles are basically screwed.
There are even physical dials on either end to scroll down the digital screen, which we think is some next-level Doctor Who stuff. It's the return of bizarre, almost steampunk hardware, and we love it.
Perhaps it's the early-2000s nostalgia, but people have been yearning for the comeback of the flip phone. And it's been in the works for some time, apparently.
This year, the CEO of Samsung's mobile division says they'll produce it by the end of 2019. Thing is, Lenovo might have potentially beat them to it already with their foldable tablet prototype.
These tablets, called "Folio", can fold from tablet-size to phone-size, especially appealing to those who use play social games or mobile casino games on the go. Enlarging the screen in one simple motion will make the entertainment value that much higher.
So, do we really need a folding phone if we can have a 2-in-1 device that acts as both phone and tablet?
This one is also a return to basics. Or, it was meant to be at the start.
The tiny Palm phone sports a 3.3inch screen, and all the modern features you might find on current phones like the iPhone XR (12-megapixel camera, pixel density).
Tomorrow is the Apple event in Brooklyn, what will we see?
It's also quite cute, and cheap, at least compared to most Apple products. It rings up at $350.
The downside? Well, there's several.
It's currently only available on Verizon, which is a US phone service and internet provider. So any non-US citizen will not be able to use it.
And, perhaps the biggest downside – its only available as a secondary phone. You have to already have an iPhone to buy this baby. It's a bit like getting a complementary smartwatch with your iPhone or Android phone… except you just get a second phone.
Also, along with being basically a miniature version of what already exists – apparently it has all the same issue as its bigger counterparts regarding longevity, fragility, battery life, etc.
So while it's nice to see designers going back to portable phones that aren't larger than your hand, it's a bit lousy to limit its availability so much.


Lou Seal is the one Giants fans love.
The story of the San Francisco Giants' Crazy Crab, the most outrageous mascot of them all. The 1984 San Francisco Giants were dreadful. But the team's ill-conceived "Crazy Crab" mascot endured worse.
MNFurs becomes a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit.
In a matter of six years, with only the word-of-mouth advertising, MNFurs has gone from a small group of close friends and associates with a weekly meeting number of less then a dozen people to 40 to 60 people in the same room every other Saturday night. At the same time, we went from 20 to over 200 people on our mailing list.
Furrycon in Rochester gets a great media spokeskitty, Zeigler Jaguar.
This reporter posted on Twitter that she knew nothing about furries but had an assignment to go to a Rochester's FurryCon. Being the friendly, helpful big cat that I am, I offered to give her the 411 on the fandom, so she'd be prepared. I figured that she'd use the stuff I said as background information, maybe one or two quotes, nothing more, since she'd meet more relevant people at the con itself.
Then FurryCon decided to bar all media from attending (a very poor decision in my opinion) so this very good, very open-minded reporter had to cobble together a story based only on what she had from me and one other person.
In Spanish – check here for fursuiter video.
Vox supports me being outrageously sparkly at BLFC.
LostWolf's fantastic BLFC photos – if you went, you're probably in there.
All 8,523 of them… and Mike Folf gives a nice look at the con's themed propaganda.
A fake blog does a fake article about Furrymate.
"Adventures In Dating—Spotlight On FurryMate". I hate this article so much I'm sharing an archive link so it gets no hits. My "Spotlight on FurFling" mentions that both sites have the same owner and users report being tricked by bots for money. You'd think a real article would notice, and go meet real people on Pounced instead. But this one's only made up to mock. Don't bother.
North Carolina paper gives fursuiter a front page pic to represent an Anime article.
The article says nothing about furries though.
Stop-Mo animated "Tom & Jerry" in MacDonalds UK commercial – shared by Fred Patten.
I like the approach, but give me the classic 2D stuff!
Facebook's "real name" policy provokes protest.
This is probably relevant: Pass it along if you or anyone you know has been burned by this or wants to participate. Fursuits I think would especially help get us officially recognized as well.
FoxCT Special Report on the wonderful world of Anthropomorphism, otherwise known as the Furry fandom.
LostWolf's astonishing pic catches Patch and Kiwi Tiger in the same room together!
Thanks for the awesome video I shared before, too!


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A Star is Gone - The Music Lives on - Maurice White Founder of Earth Wind And Fire Passes Away at 74
R.I.P Maurice White
Late 2015 and early 2016 has seen many stars and iconic voices going to the other side. Right before 2016 came into existence, a number of celebrities lost their lives to bring 2015 to a sad end. Natalie Cole, Lemmy Kilmister, and Scott Weiland are just a few of them, but the effect of their loss is still being felt now. Celebrity deaths in 2016 are in no shortage already, and the new year is just a few weeks old. This week has been especially trying on fans of the music, film, and sports worlds. David Bowie, and Maurice White is just the latest legend lost, and for the hearts of fans everywhere, hopefully it is the last for a while..
Maurice White of Earth Wind & Fire passed away in his sleeps on january 4th at the age of 74. Earth Wind and Fire an iconic group that changed the shape of music and use of ancient archetypes in visuals for album covers; stages props using ancient egypt symbolism to align their magical voices. as for to subliminally say their music is eternal and it will be. I grew up listening and dancing to Earth Wind & Fire. I was braking the Juke box playing Let's Groove on repeat. All of these great memories make me feel thankful that I could align my memoreis to such greatness. "I'll write a Song for You," is one of my all time favorite and "I Need You," is a close second.
Please rest in peace. -DR

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Congress heard us! (commentary)
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I'm first working my way through the provisions in the stimulus bill that relate to breaches and notifications. One of the recommendations that I and other privacy advocates had made was central notification and disclosure on a publicly available web site. They heard us. Here's part of the new law:
(3) NOTICE TO SECRETARY- Notice shall be provided to the Secretary by covered entities of unsecured protected health information that has been acquired or disclosed in a breach. If the breach was with respect to 500 or more individuals than such notice must be provided immediately. If the breach was with respect to less than 500 individuals, the covered entity may maintain a log of any such breach occurring and annually submit such a log to the Secretary documenting such breaches occurring during the year involved.
(4) POSTING ON HHS PUBLIC WEBSITE- The Secretary shall make available to the public on the Internet website of the Department of Health and Human Services a list that identifies each covered entity involved in a breach described in subsection (a) in which the unsecured protected health information of more than 500 individuals is acquired or disclosed.
I can't tell (yet) what happens to logs of breaches of unsecured PHI affecting fewer than 500 people that are submitted to HHS in terms of whether they, too, will be posted on the HHS web site. It sounds like they may not get posted, and this only applies to unsecured PHI and not all breaches involving PHI, but it still represents significant progress over what we had under HIPAA and state laws. And this certainly is a boon to those of us to try to track breaches.
Another provision of note concerns individual notice. If the entity cannot contact 10 or more people by mail or other means, then they must use substitute form of notice such as a prominent posting on their web site or a media notice. That provision, too, will also increase our awareness of breaches because under HIPAA, they had no duty to notify patients of breaches, only to mitigate harm.
As to the content of notice, the law specifies:
(1) A brief description of what happened, including the date of the breach and the date of the discovery of the breach, if known.
(2) A description of the types of unsecured protected health information that were involved in the breach (such as full name, Social Security number, date of birth, home address, account number, or disability code).
(3) The steps individuals should take to protect themselves from potential harm resulting from the breach.
(4) A brief description of what the covered entity involved is doing to investigate the breach, to mitigate losses, and to protect against any further breaches.
(5) Contact procedures for individuals to ask questions or learn additional information, which shall include a toll-free telephone number, an e-mail address, Web site, or postal address.
The first requirement is helpful because it will stop a lot of the "We recently learned" phrases that give us no idea when the entity actually was breached or learned of the breach.
There's a lot more to the provisions, and I will continue working my way through them. No bill is perfect, but there really are some definite improvements in this law from a privacy advocacy perspective.
The "smaller" breaches we don't see
[CORRECTED] HHS proposes changes in system to…
Privacy Breach at Central Health
Stimulus bill includes protection for digital health…
Privacy Trumps Profit in Obama's $19 Billion…


In the recent issue of Epic snagging games from Steam, we're often quick to shift our view to one side of the fence, but never the other. Today, that fence has been lowered.
A former Steam employee has let some secrets on how bad Valve's game market monopoly has affected developers. Richard Geldrich just recently dropped his job at Valve. His decision was backed by numerous current and ex-Valve developers.
Tim Sweeney, Epic CEO, supports the idea of speaking up against tech industry stuff.
Epic Games Store is the common target when talking about spyware, but when Valve gathers huge amounts of data through the Steam client, no one bats an eye.
It's not potential spyware, that's insane. Anyone with procmon and some knowledge can see this. I worked for Valve and believe me they gather huge amounts of data about virtually everything you do with the Steam client. Yet no one calls Steam spyware.
Valve takes away 30% of the profit from the developers.
If it wasn't for Epic the entire industry would still be crunching away to support Valve's 30% revshare. Most of these profits went to a tiny handful of people who could care less about the industry or working conditions. Thank the gaming gods for Epic.
Epic has actually given developers a better chance to come out with a better deal.
Gamers don't see how incredibly difficult and stressful it is to make these games. Epic has given these creators a chance to strike a better deal. If you don't support them you are basically hurting the developers who will get stuck under Steam's thumb.
Again, it's not surprising to see us gamers jumping the gun when it comes to controversies like this. Little do gamers know that developing games are very hard. So, when Epic Games Store starts offering games, it's practically a good move to break Steam's harsh revenue sharing percentage, giving developers more space to create more games.
Yes, there are pros and cons of having multiple clients on your PC, and the slew of great features Steam offers is irresistible to pass along. Then again, we have to look at the bigger picture.
I'd love to be on the fence on this one. However, since it basically determines the future of the games industry, it's imperative that we push aside sentiments to make it better for all.


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Марвин Жоб Матип (; 25 сентября 1985, Бохум, ФРГ) — камерунский футболист, защитник.

Клубная карьера
Марвин начал заниматься футболом с 7 лет в составе клуба «Вейтмар 45» из пригорода Бохума. В 9 лет он перешёл в «Бохум», в котором прошёл через все юношеские и молодёжные команды.

В сезоне 2003/04 Матип дебютировал в резервной команде «Бохума». 23 октября 2004 года Марвин провёл свой первый матч в Бундеслиге против «Вольфсбурга».

Перед началом сезона 2005/06 Марвин перешёл в только что добившийся права выступать в Бундеслиге «Кёльн». Дебютировал в составе новой команды защитник в игре первого тура с «Майнцем». В первом сезоне сыграл за «Кёльн» 23 игры (все в стартовом составе) и забил 1 гол. По итогам сезона клуб вылетел во Вторую Бундеслигу, где провёл два года. Матип отыграл за это время 42 матча и по окончании сезона 2007/08 вместе с командой вернулся в Бундеслигу. На протяжении следующих двух сезонов Марвин стал все реже попадать в основной состав, и в 2010 году был отдан в аренду в клуб Второй Бундеслиги «Карлсруэ», за который сыграл 13 матчей.

Летом 2010 года незадолго до окончания трансферного окна Матип присоединился к клубу «Ингольштадт 04».

Карьера в сборной
Матип выступал за молодёжную сборную Германии на Чемпионате мира 2005 и Чемпионате Европы 2006.

В 2007 году Матип выразил желание выступать за сборную Камеруна, откуда родом его отец. Марвин был вызван на сбор команды, однако из-за проблем с оформлением документов его дебют за национальную сборную был отложен и состоялся только 2 июня 2013 года в товарищеском матче со сборной Украины.

Личная жизнь
У Марвина есть младший брат, Жоэль, выступающий за «Ливерпуль» и сборную Камеруна.
Двоюродный брат Марвина и Жоэля — бывший нападающий сборной Камеруна Жозеф-Дезире Жоб.

Примечания

Ссылки

Футболисты Камеруна
Футболисты Германии
Игроки сборной Германии по футболу (до 21 года)
Игроки сборной Камеруна по футболу
Игроки ФК «Бохум»
Игроки ФК «Кёльн»
Игроки ФК «Карлсруэ»
Игроки ФК «Ингольштадт 04»

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"Australia is a country that consumes big events very well, we have a desire to see the world's best in our backyard"; Geoff Jones, CEO of TEG, discusses how the company brought the world's biggest soccer team Real Madrid to Australia and what attendees can learn from him at the upcoming Ministry of Sports Marketing conference.
TEG is Australia and New Zealand's only integrated live entertainment organisation connecting Ticketing, Live Content Touring, Research and Data Analytics. TEG is the overall company for Ticketek, Softix, Allphones Arena, TEG Rewards, live entertainment company TEG Live and Eventopia.
"We live in a global marketplace where the media dictates that wherever you are in Australia you can see and consume big sporting events or music events. That then dictates that once you start consuming those, you want to see them in your own backyard.
"At Ministry of Sports Marketing, I will be speaking about- how we get them in our backyard, what we create around them in terms of fan engagement and trying to make it a sustainable and ideally repeatable operation. I'll be talking about bringing superstars to Australia, I'll give examples of things that we've done and how the star power attracts people.
"Should the superstar actually make it down to Australia, nothing is ever guaranteed, but it's a really good recipe for success. It creates big events, it's not just about people paying to see the sporting event or watching it on television, it's the media, the social hub that you create, other forms of activation. Ultimately what it becomes is the economic impact of the game on the state it's held.
"Recently we brought down a little team in football called Real Madrid. They are the number one team in a lot of metrics- number one sporting team in the world, one of the biggest players in the world Cristiano Ronaldo. We sold two games where Real Madrid played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, where Ronaldo played at both; we sold 225,000 tickets to the three games of football at the MCG, including 99,365 tickets to the game between Real Madrid and Manchester City.
Jones will be speaking at the breakout session 'Creating The Big Event' at the upcoming Ministry of Sports Marketing conference to be held at Sydney's iconic Randwick Racecourse on 19th July. The MSM conference features amazing international speakers like: Nike Golf global senior brand director, John Hess; leading US sports agent Kelli Masters and World Rugby head of broadcast, commercial and marketing Murray Barnett.
There is also fantastic local speakers like: Rebekah Horne, chief digital officer at the NRL; the new general manager of the NBL, Jeremy Loeliger; chief digital officer at Seven West Media, Clive Dickens CEO of Bastion Collective Marketing ANZ, Jack Watts and Ben Slack, head of international business at Tennis Australia.
Plus more to be announced! Check out the program for the big day here. Use the code BANDT to save $100 on tickets. Offer ends at 5pm 8th July 2016.
It's going to be a cracker of a day and evening. So give this little link a click and find out more about Ministry of Sports Marketing conference coming up on July 19. Follow the social pages – B&T's Twitter, MSM Conference's Twitter and Facebook – for more information and updated stories.


Soak the mung beans in water for a couple of hours. Add some more water and bring to a boil, now boil the mung beans for 40 minutes until they are slightly soft.
Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the chopped onions and fry for around 4 minutes until slightly browned. Add the chopped garlic and fry for another minute. Add the chopped root vegetables (leaving out the cabbage) and the ground cumin and ground coriander and fry for 4 more minutes.
Add the tin of chopped tomatoes and using the now empty tin, add two tins of hot water (make sure not to burn yourself on the tin!). Stir in the vegan bouillon powder and the half-cooked mung beans.
Bring to the boil and cook for 25 minutes.
Now add the sliced savoy cabbage and cook for another 10 minutes or more depending on how crunchy you like the cabbage.
Serve with Engevita yeast flakes sprinkled on the top.


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Senate rejects Biden's vaccine mandates with help of 2 Dems
Bobby Oler
Posted: Dec 8, 2021 / 07:51 PM CST | Updated: Dec 9, 2021 / 08:22 AM CST
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 17, 2014: Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee members Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (L) and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) visit during the confirmation hearing Mayor Julian Castro to be the next secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 17, 2014 in Washington, DC. The current mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Castro has not faced serious opposition in the Senate. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (NewsNation Now) — The Senate approved a resolution overturning the Biden administration's requirement that businesses with at least 100 employees force their workers to get vaccinated or test regularly for COVID-19.
Despite the rebuke, which included two Democratic senators, it's unlikely to ever take effect. Sens. Joe Manchin (W.V.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) voted with all 50 Republicans.
The Democratic-led House is unlikely to take it up, which means the mandate would stand, though courts have put it on hold for now. Still, the vote would give senators a chance to come out against a policy that they say has sparked fears back home from businesses and from unvaccinated constituents who worry about losing their jobs should the rule go into effect.
"Every so often, Washington D.C. does something that lights up the phone lines. This is one of these moments," said Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. At home, he said, "this issue is what I hear about. This issue is a top-of-mind issue."
Analysis: Body language key in Biden, Putin virtual summit
Lawmakers can invalidate certain federal agency regulations if a joint resolution is approved by both houses of Congress and signed by the president, or if Congress overrides a presidential veto. That's unlikely to happen in this case.
Under the rule, private-sector companies with 100 or more workers must require their employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or be tested for the virus weekly and wear masks on the job. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said it would work with companies on compliance but would fine them up to more than $13,000 for each violation, though enforcement is suspended as the litigation unfolds.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Americans who have refused to get vaccinated are the biggest impediment to ending the pandemic. He implied that some of the resistance to mandated vaccines is based on politics.
"Some of the anti-vaxxers here in this chamber remind me of what happened 400 years ago when people were clinging to the 'fact' that the sun revolved around the Earth. They just didn't believe science. Or 500 years ago, when they were sure the Earth was flat," Schumer said.
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The White House released a statement earlier this week stating that the president's advisers would recommend he veto the resolution in the unlikely event it makes it to his desk.
"The president wants to see Americans back on the job, and Americans back at work should not face risk from those who are not vaccinated and who refuse to be tested," the White House said.
Deaths in the United States stemming from COVID-19 are running close to 1,600 a day on average. The overall U.S. death toll less than two years into the pandemic could soon reach 800,000.
State and local vaccine mandates have also faced stiff resistance. Los Angeles' school district fired nearly 500 people this week after they did not comply with its vaccine mandate.
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Southfield Public Library Register for the 2019 Spell Bowl Starting Today!
Register for the 2019 Spell Bowl Starting Today!
Register for the 2019 Spell Bowl beginning Friday, February 15th!
This super fun and lively event benefits the Southfield Veterans' Commission, and will be held on Wednesday, April 3rd at 7 p.m. in the Meeting Room.
Register at the Guest Services Desk or download and print the registration form here. Read about the event here!
Registration is $40 per team.


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The Lévis Forts were a series of three forts located on the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Lévis, Quebec, Canada. They were at shooting distance of one another which allowed the defense of a wide area without the cost of a continuous defensive wall.  The first one was built (1865-1872) by the British Army and the other ones by private businesses (1865-1869).  The costs were almost identical for all three, ranging from 57,600 to 59,762 pounds.

During the American Civil War, Great Britain claimed to remain neutral in the conflict. However, the cotton directly imported from the south of the United States still had a great importance in the British textile industry. Following the Civil War, the British were still expecting an American invasion of Canada.

The tense political relationship between Austria and Prussia had the British worried about their wood supply, if the access to the Baltic Sea was blocked. The Canadian forests would then be used as Great Britain's main wood supply.

Lieutenant-Colonel William Jervois was sent to Canada to establish the Canadian defence plan. He suggested that detached forts be built on Pointe-Lévy, on the south shore of Quebec City. The original plans recommended 5 forts, of which 3 were actually built. None of the three were ever occupied as they were no longer considered necessary after the signing of the Treaty of Washington in 1871.

Lévis Forts National Historic Site

Fort No. 1 has been restored and is now a National Historic Site of Canada known as Lévis Forts National Historic Site.  The casemates of the star-shaped fort feature exhibits about the history and military life of the fort, and include a multimedia presentation, scale models, period illustrations, interactive games, and antique tools and materials.  Guided tours are offered of the casemates, tunnels and underground chambers, and visitors can take self-guided tours of the outdoor rolling bridge, terreplein, powder magazines, and caponiers.

Affiliations
The Museum is affiliated with: CMA,  CHIN, and Virtual Museum of Canada.

References

External links
 Lévis Forts National Historic Site - official site

National Historic Sites in Quebec
Museums in Chaudière-Appalaches
Military and war museums in Canada
History museums in Quebec
Buildings and structures in Lévis, Quebec
Military forts in Quebec
Forts or trading posts on the National Historic Sites of Canada register
1865 establishments in Canada


GOOD NEWS Teen Sisters Save Dad Trapped Under 3,000 Pound Tractor!
Here's your good news story of the day! In Lebanon, Oregon, two teenage girls saved their father's life after lifting a 3,000-pound tractor off of him. The sisters, 16-year-old Hannah and 14-year-old Haylee, had just returned home from school when they heard their father screaming. The tractor had flipped over and landed on top of him, the steering wheel crushing his chest.


Me and Åsa ordered stamps from Skipping Stones Design a couple of weeks ago, so now that they arrived I wanted to use at least one in their challenge. Since the design had three items in the middle, I choose to use the negative frames from the Grunge 2 set.
In the middle frame I wanted to use the cute squirrels from The Greeting Farm's Forrest Friends, and since they're having a challenge with leaves, I used that in the other frames. The sentence is also from that set.
Around the edges of the card I wanted to use one of my new bg-stamps from Hero Arts, Tiny Flakes. Painted it with Distress markers in autumn colors for their contest.
love the way you've cut the centers out of the film stamp to frame your images! Super cute! Thanks for joining us at Skipping Stones Design sketch challenge!
Grymt läckert kort!!! Tokgillar hur du använde grunge-settet för att göra ramar till de söta Greeting Farm-stämplarna!!! Jättekul att du ville delta i skissutmaningen hos Skipping Stones Design!


Halloween is here! | Hello Saigon!
So where do you get costumes in Saigon? Well actually, if you drive around the city, there are lots around. There's Hanah along Pasteur St. But I wanted to visit A2 Shop which was highly recommended by Dani.
So one rainy afternoon, my son and I visited A2 Shop at 107A Truong Dinh St. in District 3.
Photo grabbed from Dani (I couldn't have taken a photo because it was raining cats and bats!).
My son was wowed with the choices!
It's a costume shop and so it doesn't just sell Halloween stuff.
But of course it's the season, there are lots of scary costumes available.
They've got costumes for adults as well.
And if you can't find anything that fits you or your kid, you can have one custom made.
I wanted the butterfly costume on the wall.
They've got broomsticks as well if you're letting your child be a witch for Halloween (or if you want them to clean their room).
My son wanted to be Boboiboy. Can you imagine that? LOL. But I'm glad he decided to try on other costumes that day.
He ended up with being Peter Pan Robin Hood.
Costumes cost over 300kVND and though pricey, the material and quality is really excellent. I ended up getting an orange dinosaur costume for my little one too.
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This shop has moved to 104 Tran Hung Dao. I visited the shop today and was dissapointed. overpriced costumes, not enough sizes, and they were all made of thick fabric, which is really not a good choice to wear in HCMC. You can find cheaper options right around the corner from Lotteria. shop next to 91 Nguyen Thai Hoc. good luck.


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Qlife Holding AB carries out a directed share issue of approximately SEK 90 million.
The board of directors of Qlife Holding AB ("Qlife" or the "Company") has today, pursuant to the authorisation granted by the annual general meeting on 20 May 2020, resolved on a directed issue of 2,132,271 shares at a subscription price of SEK 42 per share (the "Directed Issue"). Through the Directed Issue, the Company will receive approximately SEK 90 million before transaction costs. The issue price corresponds to a discount of 5 per cent in relation to the volume-weighted average price for the Company's share during the last 15 trading days up to and including 29 April 2021.
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The Directed Issue is directed mainly to strategic and institutional investors who have undertaken to subscribe and pay for all shares in the Directed Issue, among others Fjärde AP-fonden, Strand Kapitalförvaltning, Eiffel Investment Group, Nyenburgh Holding and MW Asset Management.
"After a successful year with a CE mark for professional use of our Sars-CoV-2 test in the Egoo.Health device, and the recent distribution agreement with Aidian OY our way into the clinical market in Europe is paved. We are now preparing the next phase in manufacturing scale-up of both capsules and devices to enable us to meet the market demand. We are also taking important steps in our product development and the funding will enable us to push several assays through development and regulatory phases at a high pace, allowing us to bring more assays to the market. An increased institutional ownership and additional cash give us the prerequisites to continue to develop the Company at a high pace. I want to take the opportunity to thank all the investors for their support in this transaction." says Thomas Warthoe, CEO of Qlife.
Qlife intends to use the issue proceeds to finance (i) a dramatic upscaling of production capacity (approximately 60 per cent) and (ii) R&D which includes investment in new tests and regulatory work to approve new tests (approximately 40 per cent).
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Through the Directed issue, the number of shares and votes in the Company increases with 2,132,271 from 11,174,438 to 13,306,709, and the share capital increases with SEK 170,581.68 from SEK 893,955.04 to SEK 1,064,536.72. The Directed Issue results in a dilution for existing shareholders of approximately 16.0 per cent of the number of shares and votes in the Company, based on the total number of shares and votes in the Company after the Directed Issue.
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Qlife receives 3,45 MUSD funding from FIND to develop a respiratory assay in global fight against COVID-19 and influenza
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Qlife Holding AB is a med-tech group that strives to revolutionize the market for clinical biomarker and virus tests. By enabling tests at home as a complement to tests in healthcare, access to important health information that can contribute to better treatment and potential prevention of diseases is facilitated. On March 2, 2020, Qlife Holding completed a listing on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market, Stockholm. The company currently has about 40 employees.


United Republic of Tanzania – A team of Ivorian and Nigerien Government delegations accompanied by IOM colleagues in the two countries carried out a study tour in the United Republic of Tanzania from 4 to 10 November 2017 under the framework of the project "Reinforcing Interagency Cooperation for Border Security", funded by the Government of Japan.
In the spirit of cooperation between Border Management Agencies in the two countries, Regional Economic Communities (REC) and the African Union (AU), the delegation was composed of 17 members from different institutions from the two countries including the Directorate of Surveillance of the Territory, the Directorate of Customs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Identification Office, the General Directorate of Territorial Administration, and the General Directorate of National Police, as well as representatives from the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
One of the major objectives of the study tour was to see the practical aspects of the implementation of the concept of "Integrated Border Management" (IBM), with the ultimate goal of replicating the lessons learned back home in terms of enhancing inter-state cooperation to better secure their borders while facilitating cross-border trade and combating smuggling and trafficking of arms, drugs and humans.
To achieve this, a field trip to the One Stop Border Post (OSBP) of Holili–Taveta, the Land Border Point between Tanzania and Kenya, was organized for the visiting team. Additionally, meetings with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the East African Cooperation, Immigration Service Department, and Tanzania Revenue Authority were organized to discuss and exchange good practices in the management of flows of goods and persons, in order to draw comparative lessons on Integrated Border Management in its intergovernmental dimension within the two regional economic communities in the continent, i.e., ECOWAS and the East African Community (EAC).
A member of the Nigerien delegation, Colonel Hamidou Issa Djibrilla, highlighted the richness in dialogue with the Tanzanian authorities and ACBC. "Indeed, this exchange helped the delegation participants to take ownership of the concept of integrated border management and its concrete applications such as the OSBP," he added. "Furthermore, the lessons learned will enable us to consolidate the implementation of our national policies on border management," he concluded.


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Q: I want to egrep regular expression for multiple sets of numbers without union This seems like a basic question but I have done a fair amount of searching and couldn't find an answer.
Say I have many sets of numbers
9-9-9
999
123
1-23
12-3
444
55-5
I want to egrep for all numbers, now one way I could do this is set up a egrep and union the regex for all of the possibilities
egrep '[0-9][0-9[0-9]|[0-9][-][0-9][-][0-9]' and so on and so forth
Is there a way to essentially say [0-9 or NULL or -] characters in my regex?  so I could write one regex without unions like this [0-9][0-9-NULL][0-9-NULL][0-9-NULL][0-9-NULL][0-9NULL] and have it return all of the groups?
So the groups it would search would like as follows
 - first 0-9
 - second 0-9, -, NULL
 - third 0-9, -, NULL
 - fourth 0-9, -, NULL
 - fifth 0-9, -, NULL
 - sixth 0-9, NULL
Any help is appreciated.

A: Excluding the 'Null' part because I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, you use a simple regex for the egrep:
[0-9](-?[0-9]){2}

-? means 0 or 1 occurrence of -.
{2} means the preceding group gets repeated twice. Change it to + to mean at least once.

A: try a regex like
\d[-0-9]+

a dash or 0-9 one or more times
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or if it must start and end with a number (or have just one digit
\d[-0-9]*\d|\d

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or it is always three digits
\d{3}|\d-\d{2}|\d{2}-d

A: I think egrep '[0-9][0-9\-]*' should give the behavior you want.

A: Perhaps egrep '^[0-9]+(-[0-9]+){0,5}$'

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*some digits, followed by up to 5 groups of (a hyphen and digits)

*anchored at both ends of the line.

A: pretty sure (-?[0-9])+ would work
it will find one or more digits that may be preceded by a -, although i'm also unsure on what you mean by NULL

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HLER combines the initials of Heikki Lindgren and Esa Ruoho. It also describes the improvisational creative process of this ambient drone duo from Finland.
A couple of years ago, Heikki came across a second-hand Peruvian synthesiser. The machine quickly revealed its potential for endless sonic creativity, mainly because Heikki found it almost impossible to recreate the exact same sound twice. He soon introduced the machine to Esa, and together they decided to explore the machine's inherent sonic instability in a live setting.
Each performance follows the same creative process, but with wildly different results every time. Digging in to the Mochika XL's front panel, Heikki begins mining for sound. Esa then processes Heikki's discoveries through his laptop, revealing hitherto undiscovered facets to Heikki's freshly unearthed sonic gems. Then, with the twist of a dial, Heikki introduces something new to Esa, and the whole process continues onwards and upwards.
"We are always surprised by the spaces we find ourselves in, and the directions the sounds take during a performance. We cannot repeat anything in exactly the same way, even if we wanted to! Just turning the Mochika XL synthesiser off and back on, keeping all of the knobs untouched in exactly the same position, leads to a changed sound."
"It has been incredibly rewarding to work as a duo, as the unpredictability of the creative process is so refreshing. Thanks to the unstable nature of the Mochika XL synthesiser and the intuitiveness of Esa's live processing, each performance is unique. The whole live situation is based on improvisation and the sonic discoveries extracted during the encounter."
File under: organised improvised noise, clicks, hums, drone, "Hey, this sounds kind of like space music from the '70s!", a captured submarine humming in the hangar of a space station, "Are you sure you guys are alright and that the cables work?"


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Why a cannibal diet would be a serious nutritional error?
Published: - Apr 13, 2019
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Beyond legal and moral standards, eating human flesh would not even be beneficial for people
From the point of view of science, substituting meats of animal origin for human flesh would be a mistake for the nutrition and health of people, so although cannibalism is an idea that generates disgust for many, it would also be unsustainable.
Leer en español: ¿Por qué una dieta caníbal sería un grave error nutricional?
Una publicación compartida de CarnesBrasil (@carnesbrasil) el 25 Dic, 2018 a las 2:35 PST
Low calories
The calories provided by human flesh is quite small compared to animal meat, since according to Gizmodo, the human muscle has approximately 1300 calories per kilogram, while the chicken contributes up to 2390 calories per kilogram, so a diet cannibal would not provide the necessary energy or at least it would be needed to consume meat in large quantities.
According to a study of the calorific importance of the human body made by the archaeologist James Cole and published in the journal Nature, the amount of each part of the body is found, for example, an average heart of 0.44 grams has 650 calories, a whole leg of 10.27 kg contributes 13354 calories, adipose tissue is the most caloric of all, with 49938 calories per 8.72 kg. In total, the research suggests that the average human body would contribute 12,522 calories.
Also read: Do you feel as if you need to start eating healthy?
Risk of infection
Although it may seem beneficial to take a low-calorie diet, cannibalism has another problem even more severe: the transmission of viruses. It turns out that human flesh is usually infected with highly contagious viruses and bacteria, such as E. coli, hepatitis, and many others, which in case it is not well cooked, would transmit some disease to its consumer, according to Gizmodo.
And even if cooked correctly, there is also the risk of having prions, a poorly formed protein that infects other proteins by modifying and damaging them, prions are highly contagious and are eliminated by heat or the immune system, can cause death through the degeneration of the brain, according to Vix.
Also read: Does the consumption of red meat increase the risk of breast cancer?
In fact, in the mid-twentieth century, the Fore tribe of Papua Nueva Guínea, had the habit of consuming some organs of the recently deceased, including the brain, but each year up to 200 members died out of a total of 11 thousand, investigations revealed that it was because many were infected with prions, which caused a brain death that members associated with the "magic", according to The Objective
Now, moving away from the nutritional and health issue of cannibalism, this diet is not entirely illegal, for example, the United States and the United Kingdom have rules that prohibit cannibalism. However, illegality would be in the form of human flesh. , so the only option could be the'autocannibalism,' Gizmodo reviews.
Una publicación compartida de Caja Manzanillo (@cajamanzanillo) el 13 Oct, 2015 a las 5:35 PDT
Perhaps the best-known case of cannibalism has been the "Miracle of the Andes", in 1972, when a 45-passenger plane fell in the Andes, 12 died instantly and another 17 in the following days, due to the temperatures reached -30 ℃, after spending more than a week and remaining without any food, the survivors made the decision to eat the bodies of the deceased -breasted and sometimes cooked- in order to stay alive while searching rescue, a fact that lasted 72 days, according to the newspaper RT.
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Translated from "¿Por qué una dieta caníbal sería un grave error nutricional?"
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With an array of international delegate present, the chosen theme for the opening event was sourced from the heart of our uniquely African style. A rustic and raw Shebeen themed event was set to welcome the guests in true South African style, showing off our unique culture.
2500 guests were set to arrive at the Durban Exhibition Center on Sunday the 6th September for an welcome event second to none, and after much deliberation, the event was moved indoors due to Durban's inconsistent weather patterns of late......a wise choice!!
With an event of this scale, a need for out the box and fresh décor items was clearly evident and so, one week before setup, manufacture began on numerous items. Functions for Africa has been known to manufacture and create unique décor elements whenever the need arises, and this was no different. 20 rural shebeen kiosks were set into manufacture and with the help of our ever hands on staff, the result was amazing!
With the kiosks bringing in an African flair to the serving stations, a few more creative elements were needed, so off to the printers we went!!
Custom paper table cloths, custom branding elements and Ndebele print artwork was brought in and enhanced the existing décor and furniture further. An array of greenery and plants was brought in, along with a selection of traditional African décor elements. Seating areas ranged from cocktail to lounge, as well as some more interesting seating in the form of low tables and beer crate seats.
With all setup, the event was set to be a resounding success and the venue looked amazing.
Functions for Africa would like to thank Makulu Event Producers for bringing us in as part of the team and allowing us to create something new, and have such fun doing it!!!
The 13th August 2015 saw the Loeries 2015 Judges Wrap party being held at the Elangeni Hotel, in conjunction with Independent Media.
Keeping with the venues original tone and theme, we needed to supply décor and furniture to compliment the setting. A fresh, crisp, clean look was the order of the day.
The entrance was set with two white plinths and large Gladiola arrangements, being the first point of contact for the guests it is important that the look and feel of the event is brought across straight away. Glass cocktail tables with simple and elegant white flower arrangements greeted the guests once they had registered. Seating came in the form of stylish white leather backless barstools.
Following through the venue, simple but effective flowers arrangements, done in-house by FFA of course, flowed from the large center table, to coffee tables and the remaining cocktail tables. White leather couches, each flanked by stylish and clean looking white fringe curtains were brought in to soften the tone in the room and create alternate pockets for guest seating. Chrome and glass coffee tables allowed us to keep a slightly more formal feel, even though it was a party, we didn't want it to feel too relaxed.
As with any event and function, bringing in elements of colour is important. Too much in a subtle environment and you feel overwhelmed, too little and you are left feeling desperate to break the bland and dull mood created. With the venue overlooking the beach and have a clean beach vibe, we brought in subtle tones of stone and cream in the form of cream scroll table cloths for the cocktail tables, and stone printed cushions from the exciting range supplied by Craig Adam Original Designs. Hints of red were also seen as Independent Media were the primary backing for this particular event.
And of course with it being an indoor evening event, no setting is complete without the plentiful use of candle light. The depth and texture created on the tables would just not have been the same without the use of our stunning silver pillar candle holder and glass votives.
The overall look and feel of the event was definitely exciting, yet kept within the boundries of a formal judges wrap party. This was definitely a successful setup and a brilliant event to be a part of.
Thank you Loeries and Independent Media for being a great group of people to work with!!
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Cosmopolitan pointed out that hey, maybe the snakeskin is some subtle reference to Taylor Swift and her embrace of the snake after Kardashian started that snake emoji Instagram drama about her years ago. Or maybe it's not, and they just felt like wearing snakeskin.
North has been at all her dad's Sunday concerts. In the past, she has gotten headline attention before for her spirited dancing.
But this week, West had a particularly celeb-filled crowd. Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom were among those photographed arriving for the morning event. What exactly is happening at West's church? Is it actually a church? Variety spoke to a couple people who attended, who described the concert vibe as a "more spiritual" rendition of West's work. Attendees also have to sign a NDA, which explains why not much has really come out about the church besides what appears on people's Instagram Stories of the service.
The Blast did report though that there was prayer during at least one of the services. Last week, DMX was at the service and led the crowd in a "moving" opening prayer. Whether there's a sermon West gives, time will tell.


This post is part of a series called Create Interactive Charts Using Plotly.js.
So far in the series, you have learned how to create line charts and bar charts in Plotly.js. As I mentioned in the introductory tutorial of the series, Plotly.js is not limited to just a few chart types. There are more than 20 different kinds of charts that you can create using the library. Each of these chart types has its own set of customization options as well as attributes that are common to multiple charts.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create bubble and dot plot charts in Plotly.js. Both these chart types use the same scatter traces that we used while creating line charts. The important difference this time is that the mode attribute will be set to markers.
Bubble charts are used to display three dimensions of data on a chart. The data associated with every entity is plotted using bubbles or disks, where the position of a disk on the x-y axis marks its x-y values, and the area of a disk is used to plot the value of the third data point. Bubble charts are a variation of scatter charts. For this reason, it makes sense to set the type attribute to scatter while creating a bubble chart.
There are a few things that you should remember while creating bubble charts. First, the third value of a given data point is represented by the area of the bubble and not its radius. The radius is actually proportional to the square root of the actual value. Second, you can only use them to plot positive values. This makes sense because the area of a bubble cannot be negative or zero.
Now, let's create our first bubble chart by setting the mode attribute to markers. All the attributes that control the appearance of bubbles in the chart are present under the marker object. The size attribute of the marker object can be used to specify a size for the bubbles as the third data point. This attribute can either be a number or an array of numbers. When creating bubble charts, it would be very rare for all the entities to have the same value for their third data point. So you will generally set the size attribute as an array.
The opacity of all the bubbles can be controlled using the opacity attribute. Just like size, this attribute also accepts values as a number or an array or numbers with values between 0 and 1. In the case of line charts, the default value of opacity for different bubbles or disks was 1. In the case of bubble charts, the default value of opacity becomes 0.7.
Another very useful attribute that you can use to accurately create bubble charts is the sizemode parameter. This attribute determines if the value specified in the size attribute should be considered the area of a bubble or its diameter. The default value for sizemode is diameter. However, if you are creating bubble charts, it makes more sense to set the value of sizemode to area. This way, you won't have to do any calculations to determine the right bubble size for a value yourself. You can use the following code to create a bubble chart using the parameters we just discussed.
title: "A Bubble Chart in Plotly"
Right now, every bubble has the same color. The color of individual bubbles or the whole trace can be changed at once using the color attribute.
Another way to set the color of different bubbles is using color bars. In such cases, the bubble color is determined based on the numeric value specified in the array that you passed to the color attribute of marker object. This color bar can act as the fourth data point when plotting a chart.
For example, let's say you are plotting a bubble chart that shows the location and area of different parks in a large city. A bubble chart would be perfect in this situation. However, the tree density of each park or the average number of people that visit each park can be different. If the color of each bubble is specified as a numerical value, it will be possible to assign a different color to individual bubbles to plot the value of the fourth data point.
In our example, the color corresponding to different magnitudes of tree density can be specified using the colorscale attribute. When using this attribute, you are required to at least specify a mapping for the lowest (0) as well as highest (1) values. An example of a valid colorscale value is [[0, 'rgb(0, 0, 0)'], [1, 'rgb(0, 255, 0)']]. You also have the option to use a palette name string as a colorscale value. Greys, YlGnBu, Greens, YlOrRd, Bluered, RdBu, Reds, Blues, Picnic, Rainbow, Portland, Jet, Hot, Blackbody, Earth, Electric, and Viridis are all considered valid values.
You can specify the lowest numerical color value to which the lowest color scale value should be mapped using the cmin attribute. Similarly, you can also specify the highest color value to which the highest color scale value should be mapped using the cmax attribute. It is possible to reverse the color mapping by setting the value of the reversescale parameter to true. In this case, the lowest color will be mapped to the highest value, and the highest color will be mapped to the lowest value.
The colorbar object provides a lot of parameters that can be used to control its appearance. The width of the color bar created by Plotly.js can be controlled using the thickness parameter. The thickness is specified in pixels, and its default value is 30. The length of the color bar, excluding the padding on both ends, can be specified using the len attribute. The x and y position of the color bar can be set with the help of the x and y parameters. The position is specified in terms of plot fractions, and its valid value can lie anywhere between -2 and 3. The default value for x is 1.02, and the default value for y is 0.5. The x and y padding of the color bar can be controlled similarly using the xpad and ypad parameters. You can assign a title to the color bar using the title attribute. The position of that title can be specified with respect to the color bar using the titleside parameter. Valid values for this parameter are top, bottom, and right. The default value is top.
The following code will create a bubble chart where the darkness of the green color is mapped to the tree density in that park.
A dot plot is a chart that is used to plot points on a very simple scale. You should keep in mind that dot plots are only suitable for a small amount of data. Plotting a large number of points will make the chart very cluttered. Just like bubble charts, a dot plot also requires you to set the type attribute to scatter and the mode attribute to markers. Since dot plots also use markers to plot a point, all the customization options for them are also available under the marker object.
The following code creates a dot plot that shows the marks obtained by top two students in an exam every year. I have also used some other attributes related to the legend and the x-axis to change the overall appearance of our plot.
We have already covered the different attributes of the marker object in the previous section. This time, I have made some changes in the layout of the chart. Using the title attribute to assign a title to your chart will make it more informative by quickly letting the viewers know what the chart is about. I have also changed the appearance of the x-axis line to make it stand out from other lines. As you can see, the width and color of the ticks can be controlled using the tickcolor and tickwidth attributes.
The position of the legend can be specified using the x and y attributes. Both these numbers accept a value between -2 and 3. The position is specified in terms of fractions. The anchor point for the x and y positions can be specified using the xanchor and yanchor attributes. These two attributes determine the points which should be used as a reference to measure the distance specified by the x and y attributes. In the above example, the 0.5 distance of the x attribute is measured from the center of the legend because xanchor has been set to center.
This tutorial showed you how to create bubble charts and dot plots in Plotly.js using the attributes of the same marker object. You also learned how to add extra information to your bubble charts using color bars and set the color scale of those bars according to your own requirements.
I have tried to cover almost all the marker attributes that you might have to use in your projects. If you need to know more about creating bubble and dot plot charts, you can head to the marker reference section of the Plotly.js website. In the next tutorial, you will learn how to create pie and gauge charts in Plotly.js.


The east of Bali is mainly known for the US Liberty, a war II wreck that lies close to Tulamben. But this is by far not the only thing to be see here. There are many rare animals living in the small reefs and sandy areas close to the wreck. The excellent diving in this area makes it well worth an extended visit, specially for photographers interested in critter diving. Further south around Amuk Bay are several dive sites, very varied, from easy diving on a slope to current swept islands like Gili Selang, Gili Biaha or Tepekong with a good chance to see sharks, Mola Mola sunfishes and other really large animals!
Tulamben is located on the northeast coast of Bali at the foot of Mount Gunung Agung (big mountain). Tulamben is mainly known for the US Liberty wreck that lies close to the shore. The US Liberty is a cargo ship that was torpedoed in the Lombok Strait on the 11th January 1942 (during the second world war) by the Japanese. She was towed by two destroyers towards the port of Singaraja but she was taking on too much water, so she was beached at Tulamben. Her cargo was salvaged by the local people. During the disastrous eruption of Mount Agung in 1963 she was pushed off the beach, broke in half and was left in her present position close to the shore of Tulamben. The stern is somewhat intact, the mid-ship section is all broken and the bow is again in pretty good shape. This wreck is a very popular dive site and it gets crowded around the middle of the day, when divers and snorkelers from Sanur or Lovina arrive. Best stay over night in Tulamben itself and dive there early in the morning (better visibility, fewer people and perhaps you will see the resident large group of bumphead parrotfish). There are other dive sites in Tulamben that are also very nice and well worth a visit.
Please notice that they have a porter system in Tulamben. The Diving Helper Club is a collective that will haul your diving equipment to the dive sites. The beach of Tulamben is covered with large black pebbles that make it very difficult to walk with heavy gear without turning an ankle. Getting in and out of the water is challenging enough (hold on to your dive buddy and time your dash to the shore so there are only small waves!) and I was always glad someone else carried my gear. For the same reason it is advisable to wear booties.
The US Liberty wreck: entering the water from the black pebble beach can be quite difficult, but after about 30 meter you reach the black volcanic sand. The wreck lies on a sandy slope parallel to the shore, roughly southeast (stern) to northwest (bow). Part of the superstructure is close to the surface (about 5m) and can also be reached by snorkelers. The wreck is about 120m long, the deepest point is around 30m and it is nicely covered with corals and sponges. This is not a very difficult wreck to dive on (see my report on wreck diving in the Philippines), there are only a few places where you can penetrate, all towards the bow. When you make your safety stop you can just lie on the sand and observe the animals that live there. Night dives at the wreck are something special but should only be attempted if you are good with your buoyancy! We saw flashlightfish (turn off the lamp), special cowries, nudibranchs and many spider crabs.
Paradise Reef (or patch reef) and the River: These two dive sites lie between the wreck and the drop off. I usually started at the drop off (have the Diving Helpers Club carry the tanks there) and went down to 25m to see the cleaning station just slightly to the left of the drop off on the sand. Then I would head towards the Paradise Reef. If you are good on air, you can leisurely dive the whole stretch, otherwise you just get out, before you run out of air and walk back. Most of the dive is shallow (3m to 15m).
Specially the River is a great place to do so called muck diving and find rare animals such as the harlequin and the robust ghost pipefish, several species of eels and even the mimic octopus, boxer crabs or the harlequin shrimp! If you are lucky as we were, you might also see an eagle ray or a couple black tip reef sharks, a big barracuda or Spanish mackerel! During raining season the river might bring a lot of sediments, so diving there is not so good. This dive site is also very good for night dives.
Tulamben Drop Off: about 500 m to the east of the wreck and close to the temple, the underwater wall drops to a depth of 60m (the top is around 3 to 5 m), sometimes there is a slight current. There are three coral covered lava spurs that reach down to 50 or 60m but usually you dive at the one that lies to the west of the temple. The other two reefs around the corner are also worth exploring. On the first spur at 30m is a huge Muricella gorgonian fan, it must be over 2m in diameter! Just beautiful!
Batu Klebit: After a short boat trip you reach this dive site southeast of Tulamben beach. There are some rocks close to the shore, around which you can dive, and some large reefs a bit offshore. You dive on a slope with nice hard and soft corals and sandy areas in between. You can also choose to do a rather deep dive - to around 30 to 50m - to see the underwater plateau. If you are lucky you see big pelagics such as tunas, sharks, manta rays, barracudas and sometimes even sunfishes. Visibility is usually quite good.
Kubu is a small fishing village in the north of Tulamben and can be reached by car in about 10 min. There are two dive sites, one in the north (or left) and the other in the south (or right). A hightlight is the pygmy seahorses (Hippocampus bargibanti) you can find here. A really great place for muck diving with nudibranchs, shrimps and crabs.
Seraya House Reef: lies a short distance south of Tulamben. You dive just on the beach in front of the scuba Seraya resort. Getting in and out can be a bit difficult because of the waves but it is well worth the effort. The dive starts on a black sand slope sparsely covered with sponges, small corals and white hydroids. There are numerous species of nudibranchs to be found as well as the thorny and the common seahorse. There are several ridges some covered more densly than others lying too the right side of the cage (a project to grow corals). On 17m lies a cleaning station, a coral block just coverd with hingeback shrimps. A morey eel seems to be a permanent resident here. The big surprise were a pair of Harlequin shrimps who live under a small coral block. These rare shrimps with their large flat claws show beautiful colors of white, pink, blue and yellow and there are also frogfishes and ghostpipefishes living here.
Noisy Reef: When I asked - why this funny name - I got the reply, that the young fish inhabiting this reef make noise. Actually it is true, some cracking noise is always heard while diving here. Noisy Reef is situated just in front of the parking area for Seraya (west of the resort). This dive site is similar to the Seraya House Reef, but at the top the rocks are all covered with small hard corals and sponges. However there are stretches of sand between and when you get closer to Seraya the stones are more covered with hydroids and algae that attract nudibranchs. When diving there I basically looked for slugs (plenty of them), but I also found mantis shrimps, spider crabs, a robust pipefish and a small frogfish. If you like muckdiving it is worth to do both dive sites. There are also some Jacks and large triggerfishes but it is not a place to see very much fish.
There is more diving in Batu Niti which lies about half a kilometer to the east. Batu Niti is a volcanic ridge with a lava flow that drops into the sea.
Amed: The town lies on the shore of Jemeluk bay (Teluk Cemeluk), only a few kilometer south of Tulamben. There are usually a lot of jukung (local fishing boat) lying on the shore which are worth looking at since they are often nicely painted. You dive along several walls nicely covered with corals, sponges and sea fans. We finished the dive on a slope with a nice coral block covered with black corals. We saw a small Napoleon, a bluespotted ray and some nice nudibranchs. You can also dive just in front of the harbour of Amed on a sandy area which has several artificial reefs.
Kafe Garam: Coming from Tulamben at the entrance to Ahmed lies a small dive site not visited often. From the Kafe Garam Resort you walk to the beach and then just in and slightly to the left. Follow the sand slope which is dotted with black featherstars and don't forget to look inside because you are likely to find a black robust ghostpipefish hiding inside and plenty of small squat lobster. I also espied a mimic octopus which was putting up his arms in display before it desappeared inside a hole in the sand. To the left is an artificial reef made with tires, concrete elements and a small cage which lies between 18 and 20 meters depth. Here you have to keep your eyes peeled for harlequin ghostpipefishes, we found 9 of them, some in pair and some really small filigree baby ghostpipefishes. There are shrimps everywhere and several large stonefish - a record number of 8 stonefishes! - are hiding under and on the artificial reef. You continued the dive up the slope and slightly to the right where there are some small areas with sponges, anemones and again with stonefishes and special scorpionfishes. Two cuttlefishes swam close to the surface and a coconut octopus and sanddivers were hiding on the sandy area on top. A nice dive site but only for people who like to search for small critters - pure muckdiving!
Lipah Bay: lies approx. 3 kms southeast of Jemeluk. There is a small wreck of a Japanese steel freighter at 6 -12 meter encrusted with gorgonians, sponges and black corals and with a lot of glasfish. Nice hard coral cover with a lot of anthias and he even found some pygmy seahorses and a lot of nudibranchs.
This small island lies at the very eastern tip of Bali between Tulamben and Padang Bai. Reached either from Ahmed (half hour in a small boat) or from Padang Bai (1 hour by speedboat) since the road there is quite bad. Gili Selang lies at an exposed position right in the currents that flow through Lombok Strait (see Indonesian Throughflow). You dive in a very current-swept area, so this dive is only for experienced divers.
Gili Selang: The island looks like it just broke away from the mainland. There is a narrow channel on the west side, but you start your dive in the north and if you are swept along the east side of the island you end up just south of the island where there is an area to escape the current - so take an experienced boat driver along in case you get swept away. This is a very nice dive site and covered everywhere with soft corals - probably the healthiest corals in Bali - but also a lot of fish and a good chance to find turtles, bumphead parrotfishes, tunas and whitetip reef sharks.
Three fingers: lies approximately half a kilometer south of Gili Selang. This dive site consists of three rocky outcrops with nice coral reefs around them and black sand on one side. If the current is not too strong you can actually dive around all three rocks. A nice dive with nudibranchs, moray eels and colorful cleaning shrimps but also groups of bumphead parrotfishes and lots of fish.
Waterloo: this is a new dive site close to Biaha but on the mainland side. It was named Waterloo because while discovering this dive site Jürgen and Irene from diving groove saw a big male Napoleon wrasse chasing after two unwilling females. Since there are sometimes strong currents, it is not always possible to dive here. If conditions are right this is a really nice dive sites, good coral cover and the possibility to see sharks and other pelagics. There are also large groups of the endemic yellowtail sawtail (Prionus sp.) here. I specially liked the shallower area - there is a wall with overhangs, small caves and swim-throughs which is interesting.
Amuk Bay, with the villages of Padang Bai in the south and Candi Dasa in the north, is about 6 kms across and located along the south side of Bali's eastern point. Close to Candi Dasa there are two larger islands, Tepekong and Biaha, as well as an area with small rocks called Mimpang or Batu Tiga. The diving in this area is astonishingly rich. If you are interested in special small critters you should be diving around Padang Bai. But there are also several excellent dive sites for sharks, rays, large schools of fish and this is one of the places where Mola Mola ocean sunfishes are regularly sighted. Water temperatures are quite chilly, we had a bone-chilling 18° C on one of our dives, there is always a bit of surge but visibility is normally quite good.
White Beach (No. 1) (Bias Tugal) lies south of Padang Bai. This is a steep slope nicely covered with corals and sponges. Look at the outside of the large barrel sponges for Wally's squat lobster (Lauriea siagiani) and on the Muricella gorgonians for pygmy seahorses, but don't forget to look out in the blue for the Mola Mola sunfish that come here sometimes!
Padang Bai Channel (No. 2) This dive site lies about 100m from the shore in the area where the ferries leave for Lombok when they cross overhead during a dive, it can be very noisy here indeed. You go down deep on the wall and make a drift dive. Look underneath the overhangs for sharks, large black rays and turtles and enjoy the schools of batfish or small barracudas. In August to September there are often Wobbegong sharks (they come from Irian Jaya or Australia) and Mola Molas here. The shallow area where you finish your dive is also very nice with dark sand and coral boulders. There seems to be quite a collection of nudibranchs living here as well as moray eels, ribbon eels and even some well hidden devil fishes.
Padang Bai Jetty (No. 3): If you are into small critters then you shouldn't miss diving just below and around the Jetty on the beach of Padang Bai. Even with high tide the depth here is no more than 2 meters and you have to choose the right time, when there is as little swell as possible. We did two dives and saw sea horses, robust ghost pipefishes, a pipehorse (Syngnathoides biaculeatus) and special scorpionfishes under a coral rock and a whitefaced waspfish. However I recommend you take one of these inflatable boeys along with you, so the boats going in and out from the jetty know where you are.
Blue Lagoon (No. 4) (Tanjung Sari) is a small beach northeast of Padang Bai. You start the dive on a sandy slope the dive on a large wall and on several large coral blocks. It is a very good place for small animals like nudibranchs and flatworms, but we also always found at least one frogfish as well as ribbon eels and sometimes a catshark. But the most interesting sight was a redish Rhinopias- scorpionfish (Rhinopias eschmeyeri), a rare fish that I had only found once in Lembeh Strait (Sulawesi) sitting in about 16m, next to a large coral block! Actually two years later we found three Rhinopias here, two different species, one lilac with a lot of appendages (R. frondosa) and a pair of brick red and pink Rhinopias (R. eschmeyeri). Our dive guide said though, that she hadn't seen them for over a year, so I guess we were also just very lucky. One of my theorries is, that Rhinopias scorpionfishes like cold water and if it is too warm for them they live deeper down. Seems they are mostly seen here in July and September which are the coldest months as far as water temperatures go.
Mimpang (No. 5) is also called Batu Tiga (three rocks) although there are actually 4 small exposed rocks that come to the surface, on the center rock there is an eagle nest. This is a slope and a wall with hard and soft corals and some gorgonians. This is the best place around Padang Bai to see sharks but also a good place for Mola Mola. It's also amazing to just watch the big schools of fish that gather over the upper parts of the reef. The currents here can be strong, but are said to be predictable.
Gili Tepekong (No. 6) (the Goat Island) is only about 50m long and not very wide with deep waters on all sides. Off the southwestern tip of Tepekong is a well known dive site, the Canyon. Tepekong Canyon is lined with some large black boulders of basalt nicely covered with soft and hard corals. It is possible to encounter large pelagics like sharks or even sunfish (Mola Mola) and always large schools of fish! Usually the water is cold and there are strong currents, so this site is for experienced divers only and conditions have to be right to dive here. Close by are some large rock pillars. You can also dive on the east of Tepekong. This is a deep dive. Expect wall diving, strong surges and sometimes down currents. The best time according to one of the dive operators are the three days just after new moon.
Gili Biaha (No. 7) (Likman island): There is a blowhole which spouts jets of water, so Biaha looks like a large whale! This dive site is not for beginners, since the cold currents coming from the Lombok Strait create unpredictable water movements like a washing machine! The inside area of the crescent (the east side of Biaha) has a cave large enough for several divers to enter (4 to 5 m high). In the cave there are nearly always several whitetip reef sharks. However don't enter this cave, if there are enough waves to create waterspray from the blow hole, because this means, that the surge is very strong and dangerous.
On one dive conditions changed in the middle of it and we were hit by a very strong surge from above just at the entrance to the cave. The bubbles from the crashing waves reached down to 12 meters and everything turned dark. With it came the water pressure and my ears took a real pounding - it felt like I had dived down 5 or 10 meters in a short second, so strong was the water pressure - and I had to equalize like crazy! My computer registered the pressure change and told me, I had just gone down and up again much too fast while I actually stayed in place. We got out as fast as possible and when we surfaced we saw the blowhole blowing water with every wave.
Night dives are excellent in Tanjung Sari (Blue Lagoon). The dive site offers three different zones for diving - the sandy slope, the wall and the large coral blocks - each with distinctive animals living there. For example the slope and wall are covered with filter feeders like feather stars, brittle stars and basket stars and there are always crabs and shrimps crawling among them. Nudibranchs like Spanish dancers and some scorpionfishes are found on the sandy area and the coral blocks seem to attract a lot of animals as well. Apart from the sleeping angelfishes there are also lobsters and cleaning shrimps. The leaffishes you tend to see during the day are hidden, but we saw other predators - several black giant frogfishes were clinging to the coral head down and actively luring. In the shallow part, hidden among the corals we found another two frogfishes - the shy nocturnal spotfin frogfish (A. nummifer), a small species that is nearly never found during the day.
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Spears v. United States
PETITIONER:Steven Spears
LOCATION: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
DECIDED BY: Roberts Court (2006-2009)
LOWER COURT: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
GRANTED: Jan 21, 2009
In 2004, Steven Spears was charged and convicted of conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of crack cocaine and 500 grams of powder cocaine. The district court determined that the 100:1 weight ratio for sentencing crack cocaine and powder cocaine that the United States Sentencing Commission Guidelines Manual (Guidelines) used was excessive given the circumstances, so the district court instead based its ruling on a 20:1 ratio. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that the district court could not decide what ratio it wanted to apply for conviction and remanded Spears case for retrial and sentencing. The Supreme Court granted certiorari and remanded the case for reconsideration in light of the Court's decision inKimbrough v. United States, in which the Court held that the Guidelines were advisory and that a district court does not abuse its discretion by varying from the Guidelines' prescribed ratio due to disagreement with the disparity the Guidelines create between crack cocaine and powder cocaine. On remand, the appellate court again held that the district court erred in categorically rejecting the Guidelines' ratio and substituting its own.
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