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Animal Themed Exhibits at Albany Institute Ending
December 23, 2018 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment
The Albany Institute of History & Art has had lively animal related art and decorative arts in the galleries this year and those popular exhibitions will close soon. A Menagerie of Whimsey: The Art of William B. Schade and Birds and Beasts: The Scary, Magical, and Adorable Animals of the Albany Institute will close on December 30, 2018.
A Menagerie of Whimsey: The Art of William B. Schade features art from the creative output of artist William B. Schade (1943–2008), a whimsical cast of furred and feathered creatures appears before us as if from the enchanted dream of a child. Work features grinning crocodiles, roosters with attitudes, and a host of plump and prancing rhinos, tigers, and hippos. In the exhibition, A Menagerie of Whimsy: The Animals of William B. Schade, the artist's full range of work is represented in the Albany Institute's galleries, from prints and sculptures, to paintings and ceramics.
Schade was born and raised in Albany and spent most of his working career in the Capital Region. He received Master's Degrees from both the University at Albany and the distinguished Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. In addition to receiving awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Commission, Schade also held residencies at the McDowell Colony for the Arts and at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs. His work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, and elsewhere. For more than thirty years, Schade taught at Sage Colleges where he was always a popular professor.
Birds and Beasts: The Scary, Magical, and Adorable Animals of the Albany Institute The Albany Institute's collection is rich in two- and three-dimensional representations of animals. In everyday life, animals are part of our personal experience, whether as pets, beasts of burden, or part of the natural world around us. In art, animal images have been used as subject, decoration, and metaphor since ancient times. Ranging from farmyard to forest to fantasy, Birds and Beasts will remind you of the many ways that animals have been part of the universal human experience.
The objects selected also represent the types of collections the Institute holds: fine arts, decorative arts, photographs, costumes, toys, utilitarian objects, household furnishings and jewelry. The oldest object in this exhibition was made in 1619 in the Netherlands and the most recent was made in Albany in 2006.
The works of Albany-born sisters Gertrude and Dorothy Lathrop are featured in Birds and Beasts. Gertrude (1896-1986) was a sculptor of animals, and Dorothy (1891-1980) was an award-winning illustrator whose drawings were used in more than 38 books.
The Albany Institute of History & Art is located at 125 Washington Avenue in Albany, New York. Free parking is available in the museum's lot at the corner of Elk and Dove Streets.
For more information, visit Albany Institute's website.
Painting: North American Soup Line, William B. Schade (1943-2008), c. 1984, acrylic on linen, collection of Thomas Branchick.
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DCB Bank Ltd ticked all the right boxes in terms of growth metrics for the September quarter and showed it can withstand intense competition in lending to small businesses, its key focus area.
The lender's loan book grew at a robust 27% for the quarter, leading to core income growth of 14%. A steady asset quality required no sharp increase in provisions and, therefore, net profit came in at ₹ 73.4 crore, which was in line with Street's expectations. That the bank slowed its branch expansion this year, compared with previous years, helped keep a lid on operating expenses and brought down the cost-to-income ratio.
Having said that, analysts believe that the benefits of the branch network built over the past years—328 as of end-September—will become visible in the coming quarters. The management also endorsed this in its conference call and added that some nascent benefits from reduced competition from non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have helped it during the quarter.
NBFCs suffering from liquidity issues have slowed down lending, which directly benefits lenders like DCB Bank in acquiring new business.
Moreover, the lender said that it has witnessed improvement in small business asset quality, as well as growth in loan offtake, which goes against the stated experience of other banks in the small and medium enterprises segment. What's more, margins in the small business segment are higher.
But there are undoubtedly some concerns that investors need to keep in mind. The net interest margin was 3.83% for the quarter and the management has guided 3.75-3.85% for the full year. Essentially, there is not much room for margins to expand any more. DCB Bank also said that cost pressures are increasing even though growth in low-cost current and savings account deposits was at a healthy 19%.
On asset quality, DCB Bank wrote off ₹ 18 crore during the quarter, its biggest write-off in a year. Unless investors are convinced this is a one-off, it could undermine the lender's track record in keeping its bad loans under check.
The DCB Bank stock fell more than 4% on Wednesday and trades at a multiple of 1.7 times its estimated book value for FY20. At this valuation, the lender is still considered reasonable by most analysts. The market was closed on Thursday for Dussehra.


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Blogging Fast and Slow: Being an Account of the Author's Misadventures in Guest-Blogging, with Some Musings on the Genre's Pitfalls and Pathological Forms (and Jonah Lehrer)*
Hi, Tom Medvetz here with my final OrgTheory guest post. I thought I'd bring my discussion full circle in this one by returning to the general theme with which I began—namely, "reflexivity"—albeit now with some reflections on the blogging genre itself. As my earlier posts have illustrated, sometimes with painful clarity, I'm no blogger by training. To be honest, I don't even read academic blogs very often. So it was with a certain curiosity that I ventured into this arena over the last couple of months—first, by writing a few entries myself, and second by paying attention to some of the top social science blogs. What did I learn from this? If you're a longtime academic blogger or blog-reader, some of it might seem obvious to you, but hopefully it will also contain a novel twist, like reading an ethnography about your home country.
In the first place, it's clear that the "rules" of academic blogging are different from—and sometimes even apparently at loggerheads with—the rules of scholarship. Part of a blog's appeal, in fact, is that its default style is casual, not formal, and its "temporality" is fast, not slow. If you're a scholar, blogging seems to free you at least momentarily from some of the constraints of academic discourse, and without forcing you to abandon altogether your scholarly authority. As other people have mentioned on this site, blogging can bring certain payoffs that complement the research enterprise nicely. I've come to think of the relationship between these payoffs and academic research in terms of a temporal metaphor:
(1) "Pre-scholarly" dividends
On the one hand, blogging offers certain benefits that I'd call "pre-scholarly" because they're oriented to the goal of generating ideas that can be developed further in research. Here blogging is like "freewriting," a la 3rd grade English class, wherein the point is to "put some thoughts down on paper" and get them flowing without having to worry too much about whether they're actually right or wrong. To say something on a blog, after all, isn't to put it On The Record per se—and in any case it's very easy to go back the next day and strike it from the record. (In fact, you could even argue that this "zig-zag" style of blogging is very efficient for conveying a sense of thoughtfulness while also doubling your output, which is a real issue if you're a blogger. My point being: Who has something worthwhile to say every day? Certainly not I.)
(2) "Post-scholarly" dividends
Conversely, blogs can also be a medium for summarizing or disseminating research results in a very authoritative and definitive style. Writing in a quasi-journalistic mode, an academic blogger can report on the scholarly Events of the Day without having been a part of the action itself. To me, the most interesting thing about this payoff is that it appears to be based on a kind of "meta-objectivity," by which I mean a position of implied distance from the object in which the object is itself a world where authority flows already to those who effectively cultivate a stance of objectivity and distance.
There's no doubt, then, that blogs have a certain seductive appeal to them, especially in their promise to combine these payoffs. And I should emphasize that I don't consider either payoff to be "false." In fact, over the last month I've seen some truly virtuoso examples of academic blogging, both on this site and on some related ones. Overall, then, count me as a cautious fan of academic blogging. However, because I'm both an admirer of Durkheim and a confirmed pessimist, my first impulse whenever I see something seemingly innocuous or good is to go looking for its pathological forms. (Yeah, I know what you're thinking and you're correct: I am great at parties.)
You don't have to look very far to find academic blogging's pathological forms. The most obvious would have to be the hubristic style of blogging which, by imagining itself as merging the pre- and post-scholarly stances I just described, also makes a subtle claim to exist in between them—as if being an academic blogger somehow makes you a better scholar. As a blogger, you can post your anecdotal observation-in-need-of-further-investigation one minute and then switch to your Ted Koppel-style Summarizing Voice of Authority the next, the implication being that you also operate quite comfortably in between those bookends. Now I'm sure that an Inveterate Blogger would say that there's no such message built into the act of blogging. Fair enough, I'd say, but this only brings us back to our original question: Why blog? Given the focus of my earlier posts, it should come as no surprise that I see in the "will to blog" something other than a megalomaniacal impulse or a straightforward result of the growth of new media technologies. Instead, I think the popularity of academic blogging has to be understood in relation to other developments in the intellectual field over the last four decades, including the proliferation of "new cultural intermediaries" and intellectual bridging figures, the development of a space of "organized punditry," and the rise of think tanks and "policy experts."
As I mentioned above, there's no question that bloggers can, in their best moments, act as intellectual bridging figures between disparate worlds, such as those of policy, media, and research. But I think embedded in the larger story is a cautionary tale, especially for younger scholars. For instance, if you'd asked me to name the quintessential intellectual bridging figure in America just four months ago, I would have named Jonah Lehrer, the now-discredited neuroscience journalist who went from research assistant in a Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist's lab to a Rhodes Scholarship, and then on to the land of Wired magazine and TED talks. Lehrer skipped the part where you actually master "straightforward" scientific research and moved immediately into the role of an intellectual bridging figure.
I find his story very interesting, not just because he's the latest inductee into the Pantheon of Disgraced Journalists already inhabited by people like Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass. More interesting, I think, are the striking continuities between Lehrer's "sins" and the qualities that made him successful in the first place. These continuities in turn reveal the supreme ambiguity of the bridging role he tried to play. The last straw for Lehrer, reputation-wise, was the revelation that he had fabricated quotes in his most recent book. This was an unambiguous ethical breach by any professional code of conduct, be it scholarly, journalistic, or otherwise. However, to focus only on this last stage of his downfall would be to miss its connection to the previous ones. I'm referring, first, to the intermediate stage in which Lehrer was dogged with the awkward charge of "self-plagiarism," and second, to the earliest critiques of Lehrer, which date roughly to the moment he first stepped into the public eye. Even these critiques, I would argue, contained the seeds of his undoing. In a 2007 review of his first book Proust Was a Neuroscientist (published when Lehrer was just 26), Jonathon Keats presciently charged that Lehrer's work was governed by "trivial" choices and "reductionist" tendencies; that it "arbitrarily and often inaccurately illustrat[ed] the sciences with works by artists"; and that it "embodie[d] an approach to the humanities and sciences that threaten[ed] the vitality of both."
Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) succumbs to the dark side of the Force, journalistically speaking, in the 2003 movie Shattered Glass.
The common thread across these critiques, in a word, is shortcuts. Jonah Lehrer took too many shortcuts. But how could you avoid taking shortcuts if your public reputation was based on your supposed ability to synthesize and reinterpret work from numerous fields, translate it into an easily digestible style, and engage in rapid, voluminous production—particularly at such a young age? (Lehrer published four books by the age of 30 and wrote columns and/or blog postings for several major outlets, including Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian.) Despite all the disfavor heaped on him, no one has ever accused Lehrer of being an out-and-out fraud. I find this, along with the fact that much of the offending work was hidden in plain sight for months (or even years) before anyone called him out on it,† to be very telling. Both points speak to a constitutive ambiguity in the intellectual bridging role Lehrer was attempting to play. His loss of public legitimacy wasn't sudden, but followed a slow, steady progression from "He's not quite the virtuoso he wants us to believe he is" to the more concrete but still vague, "He recycled his own material, and that's… not right, is it?" to the final, damning, "Dude, he just made up that Bob Dylan quote."
In summary, I hope you can see that my view on academic blogging is double-sided and that this is not a critique of the medium itself. As an Inveterate Blogger would point out, any broad slam against blogging would have to rely on sloppy generalizations, fuzzy and impressionistic thinking, and straw men. I'll leave aside the obvious retort—namely, that generalizations, fuzzy thinking, and straw men are precisely what blogs enable you to get away with so easily—and focus instead on the main point, which is that academic blogging's attractions seem to come at the cost of ambiguity: ambiguity about the "rules" of a good blog, ambiguity about the ultimate goals and payoffs, and ambiguity about the proper relationship between blogging and research. When viewed in this light, the "constraints" of scholarly research begin to look more like forms of freedom to me.
* The title of this post refers to two "Daniels": Kahneman, whose 2012 book you should definitely check out if you haven't already, and Defoe, whose titles generally had that cool 18th century flair about them and ran roughly the length of a typical blog post.
† And I mean really plain sight, as in New York Times Bestseller List plain sight.
Written by Tom Medvetz
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Tagged with blogs, books, epistemology and methods, expertise, guest bloggers, intellectuals, sociology

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The use of stochastic models of delay and capacity in analyzing traffic flow can improve vehicular traffic management. Field research shows that in light traffic conditions, stochastic models can give reasonable estimates of the delay in or capacity of minor vehicular movement. In heavy traffic conditions, models that consider time-varying aspects of the vehicle flow are more appropriate. A review of stochastic modelling of delay and capacity at unsignalized priority intersections is presented.
Author: Cheng, T.C.E., Allam, S.
A study was conducted to investigate the job relocation problem in relation to a re-development project in South Boston, MA, where a reconstruction sequence for a set of old buildings was required. It was shown that there would be adequate temporary housing space to accommodate displaced residents during building rehabilitation. It is also of theoretical interest to study the relocation problem with different constraints or under different conditions.
Author: Cheng, T.C.E., Lin, B.M.T.
Optimality properties of Lawler's pseudo-polynomial algorithm to examine single machine total tardiness problem are presented.
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Children's Hope Dinner features Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton
Best known as Olympic Gold Medalist, ice skating commentator and cancer survivor, Scott Hamilton will share another significant aspect of his life -- family and adoption -- at the 3rd Annual Children's Hope Dinner benefiting Orphan Outreach, on Thursday, April 21. Supporting the organization's work to provide for vulnerable children and orphans in some of the world's most impoverished areas, Hamilton will reveal his touching personal story of being adopted as a baby and how he and his wife recently adopted two children from Haiti. The event will also honor Dallas humanitarian Paige Rippey Locke with this year's Children's Hope Award for her compassionate work with orphans.
Just a few years ago, Hamilton and his wife, Tracie, adopted two children from Haiti – Evelyne and Jean Paul -- joining their two biological children Maxx and Aidan. "Our hearts and family are full, thanks to the blessing of adoption," said Hamilton. "I am thrilled to be able to share my story at the upcoming Children's Hope Dinner, and to support Orphan Outreach's mission to serve orphans in critical need around the world."
The Children's Hope Dinner supports Orphan Outreach's programs, which provide vulnerable children with basic survival needs and education. The Dinner was founded by Dallas philanthropist Jimmy Westcott, after a heart-wrenching mission trip to visit Russian orphanages. Westcott felt led to help raise awareness and urgently needed funds in support of the organization's mission to serve some of the world's most neglected children. "The Children's Hope Dinner was conceived by Jimmy to bring hope to the children Orphan Outreach serves," added Tiffany Taylor Wines, OO Marketing Director. "That hope comes in a the form of a meal to a hungry child, education to the child who desperately wants to better themselves and the hope of a Heavenly Father who loves them dearly," she added.
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"For people who care about orphans this year's event is a must-attend as we celebrate our honoree Paige Rippey Locke and hear Scott Hamilton share his inspirational story," said Michael Douris, Orphan Outreach president. "This event supports our work to provide for children's critical needs -- allowing them to attend school, receive a daily meal and, ultimately, lead full, hopeful lives."
The 3rd annual Children's Hope Award Dinner will be emceed by former FOX 4 reporter Becky Oliver. Sandra and Elmer Doty will serve as honorary event chairs and Angie Brackbill and Margo Isbell will serve as event chairs.
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av Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
Pocket - 2020 - Svenska - ISBN: 9789179130558
Människor har förutspått jordens undergång i alla tider, därför är det helt naturligt att vara skeptisk när ett nytt datum är satt för Domedagen. Men vad händer om förutsägelserna denna gång faktiskt är rätt, och apokalypsen verkligen kommer nästa l…
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av Terry Pratchett, Niel Gaiman
Pocket - 1991 - Engelska - ISBN: 9780552137034
Taking a cynical look at the horror genre, this book features Crowley and Aziraphale, two friends who attempt to prevent the prophesised Armageddon. When the Antichrist is born they divert him from his original home at the American Embassy to Tadfie…
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The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons - well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel - would quite like the Rapture not to happen. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist...
Men At Arms
'Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!'But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman... most of the time)…
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Colour of magic : a Discworld novel
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On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There's an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who…
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck... Living in the past is hard.
Until next time.' SFXThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .
A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.
Light fantastic : a Discworld novel
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Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's app…
The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of m…
'Persistently amusing, good-hearted and shrewd' The Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .
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Interesting times : a Discworld novel
Mighty battles! Revolution! Death! War! (and his sons terror and panic, and daughter Clancy). The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are u…
Terry Pratchett's Discworld City Watch Collector's Edition 2021 Calendar
Övrigt - 2020 - Engelska - ISBN: 9781473228368
The calendar dates are extensive, and exhaustively researched, and include all major real-time calendrical data for Great Britain, Eire, Australia, New Zealand and the USA, as well as notable Discworld dates. This year's calendar has us signing up t…
A beautiful gift edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel.
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The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume Two
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half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest.'Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork.
A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision.
'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle,…
The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume One
Containing material unavailable for twenty years -- this is a comprehensive guide to the capital city of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, getting to the heart of Ankh-Morpork's secrets, societies and guilds. Think you know Ankh-Morpork? Think again. In…
The hilarious end-of-the-world novel from two of the giants of fantasy fiction.
You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.
The hilarious end-of-the-world novel from two of the giants of fantasy fiction, with a cover in the style of Neil Gaiman's novels!
Fifth Elephant
A beautiful hardback edition of the classic Discworld novelThey say that diplomacy is a gentle art. A few days ago Sam Vimes was a copper - an important copper, true - chief of police - but still, at his core, a policeman. But today he is an ambassa…
SAM VIMES IS A MAN ON THE RUN. YESTERDAY HE WAS A DUKE, A CHIEF OF POLICE AND THE AMBASSADOR TO THE MYSERIOUS, FAT-RICH COUNTRY OF UBERWALD. The Fifth Elephant is Terry Pratchett's latest instalment in the Discworld cycle, this time starring dwarfs,…
'Precisely balanced . a cracking comic thriller' The TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .
Night watch : a Discworld novel
TRUTH! JUSTICE! FREEDOM!AND A HARD-BOILED EGG! Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in th…
The second Discworld novel in a special collector's edition hardback - the funniest and most unorthodox fantasy series in this or any other galaxy.
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Last Hero
A 'Discworld novel with pictures' - the 27th instalment in the fantasy series that has made Terry Pratchett an international superstar. A short but perfectly formed complete Discworld novel, fully illustrated in lavish colour throughout, THE LAST HE…
Thief Of Time
And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.
'This is the best Pratchett I've read' Sunday Telegraph The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .
Colour of Magic
The first Discworld novel - the book that launched a phenomenon - in a beautiful new collector's edition hardback.
Sourcery
Other children get given xylophones. Susan just had to ask her grandfather to take his vest off. Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe - especially when you have to…
Lords and Ladies
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!"For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...
Carpe Jugulum
They don't have much time for the givers of this world - except perhaps mealtimes - and even less for priests. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. Lancre's newest residents are a thoroughly modern, sophisticated vampire family.
'Terry Pratchett will remain an enduring, endearing presence in comic literature' Guardian The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a gian…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innoc…
'Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on display' Sunday ExpressThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, tha…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
Wyrd sisters : a Discworld novel
The sixth "Discworld" novel. The witches of Discworld, not the most joyful bunch, decide that they must get involved in the politics of the planet. Granny Weatherwax, their obvious choice as spokesperson, finds that life in royal politics is not as…
Terry Pratchett's hilarious fourth Discworld novel established once and for all that Death really is a laughing matter...
The Long Cosmos
av Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter
2070-71. Nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valiente, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that tu…
The Long Mars
av Stephen Baxter, Terry Pratchett
Sally, Joshua, and Lobsang are all involved in this perilous work when, out of the blue, Sally is contacted by her long-vanished father and inventor of the original Stepper device, Willis Linsay. He tells her he is planning a fantastic voyage across…
A beautiful gift-edition hardback of the classic Discworld novel. NAMED ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD
Folklore of Discworld
av Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson
NOW UPDATED to include material on the Discworld books up to Raising Steam. Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some…
Thud!
'Some people would be asking: whose side are you on? If you're not for us, you're against us. Huh. If you're not an apple, you're a banana' Koom Valley, where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls, was a long time ago. Bu…
'Imaginative, witty and consistent' SFXThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is .
Monstrous Regiment
A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time . . And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost…
'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original' The TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants whi…
'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your…
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
'They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach which just goes to show they're as confused about anatomy as they gen'rally are about everything else, unless they're talking about instructions on how to stab him, in which case a bette…


Picturing Disney: Free Printable Disney World Photo Scavenger Hunt!!
Free Printable Disney World Photo Scavenger Hunt!!
As always, I like to give credit where credit is due, when I first started searching the internet to see if someone else had developed this sort of list I stumbled on a few more generic "pictures everyone should take on the their Disney trips" lists and even a few printables.
The one over on Travel Hyper linked to some free pattern pieces on the blog Sprik Space which I used for the adorable chevron backgrounds. And I found the fonts, as always on the free font site Da Font.
I love that you've done this!!


If you could go back in time and change one thing, would you stop Hitler or stop being such a disappointment to your parents? Hypothetical question. Hitler killed a lot of people, but your parents wish they were dead whenever they have to claim you in public.


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Bloodthorn - _Genocide_
(Morningstar Records, 2006)
As the first signings to Keep of Kalessin mainman Arnt O. Grønbech's new imprint, there's clearly some responsibility on the part of Bloodthorn to fly the flag for the label and get fans excited about what the future may hold. And as safe bets go, this Norweigian quartet certainly isn't a poor choice by any stretch of the imagination, despite having drawn the ire from a number of fans when they made their transition from black to death metal with _Under the Reign of Terror_. Their fourth album sees them continue down this route, largely dropping the sporadic rhythms in favour of a markedly less jilted approach, and for the most part _Genocide_ forges ahead with the accelerator pedal firmly stuck to the floor. It helps that Knut "Fug" Prytz's production job pours an extra splash or two of lighter fluid into the furnace so to speak, but in the face of such vitriolic numbers as "Blood & Iron" and "They Will Arise" such embellishments are hardly necessary. Though not quite the most inventive blend of death and black metal you'll hear anytime soon, Bloodthorn inject their every riff with enough class and conviction to make the album an exciting and decidedly un-American alternative to the many high profile releases that are headed in from across the pond in 2006.
Contact: http://www.bloodthorn.net
4/26/2006 J Smit Bloodthorn: Affiliated With the Suffering
8/12/2001 A McKay 8 Bloodthorn - Under the Reign of Terror
11/17/1997 S Hoeltzel 7 Bloodthorn - In the Shadow of Your Black Wings


Japan relies on rail transportation most, especially the Bullet Train. Bridges and tunnels link all of Japan's main islands together.
Japan has also one of the world's largest merchant fleets which is used for trade. The fleet's gross comes out to be 14.4 million a year.


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HomeeCommerce NewsOne of India's e-commerce giant, Flipkart raises $3.6 billion fresh funds from...
One of India's e-commerce giant, Flipkart raises $3.6 billion fresh funds from global investors
India's giant e-commerce platform, Flipkart announced that it is acquiring $3.6 billion fresh funds from global investors, including sovereign funds, private equity, and from its parent company which is Walmart.
This new round of funding was led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and Walmart. There were additional investments from sovereign funds like Qatar Investment Authority, Malaysia's Khazanah Nasional Berhad, and DisruptAD, the venture arm of the Abu Dhabi sovereign fund, ADQ. Other investors include China's Tencent, Franklin Templeton, and Tiger Global. Additionally, Japan-based SoftBank which had said goodbye to the startup when the Bangalore-based firm sold majority stakes to Walmart in 2018 at a valuation of $22 billion, has come back and reinvested about $500 million in the new round. Hence, this Monday's investment marks the return of SoftBank. Flipkart said it now has a valuation of $37.6 billion.
While commenting on recent investment, Flipkart CEO Kalyan Krishnamurthy said in a statement that the funds acquired by leading global investors reflect the promise of digital commerce in India and their belief in Flipkart's capabilities to maximize this potential for all stakeholders. He affirms that the company will give more priority to helping millions of small and medium-sized Indian businesses to thrive, including small family-owned grocery shops known as kiranas, and plans to continue investing in new categories and home-grown technologies. He adds that they will continue to invest in new categories and leverage made-in-India technology to transform consumer experiences and develop a world-class supply chain.
With the fundraising, Flipkart is offering its employees the option to sell their stock options worth $80.5 million.
Nevertheless, among Flipkart's competition, the most persistent one is the U.S. e-commerce giant Amazon, which has invested billions of dollars in the Indian market, as well as domestic names such as JioMart, the online grocery delivery app from Reliance Industries.
For its part, the Indian government has reportedly proposed new e-commerce draft rules in June and it is expected that the new rules have the probability of impacting Flipkart and Amazon India.
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Hollywood can be a rough place. For decades people have come from all over the world seeking fame and fortune- lured celluloid dreams. Everyone calls it different things but making it in the world of film is, without a doubt, one of the last beacons of the American Dream. No one knows that better than Christiana Leucas. Still a relative newcomer, she burst on to the scene this winter in Arnold Schwarzenegger's action packed The Last Stand, which comes out on DVD May 21.
Though her role is small, her stunning figure and commanding screen presence has caught the attention of many in the industry. "I always knew I wanted to be an actress," she said in an exclusive interview with Press Pass LA. "I began acting when I was eight years old and haven't stopped since." To judge Leucas on her looks alone would be a grave misconception.
Over the course of a single conversation it is clear that there is much more than meets the eye with her. "I know people look at me and think of me as a model but the truth is I've always loved drama. I consider actresses like Meryl Streep and Jodie foster my roles much more than models. My heart will always belong to serious acting.
Leucas is proof that following your passion pays off. It may take time but the American Dream is still alive and well in the City of Angels. Keep an eye on Leaucas, she is made for great things. The Last Stand comes out on DVD May 21.


A list of leading international hospitals offering Submucuous Diathermy (SMD) to international patients.
This is a surgical procedure to remove nasal blockage by using high-frequency electrical currents. It uses an electrically heated instrument (diathermy) to cauterize the unwanted tissue. It is also known as cautery.
Submucous Diathermy involves passing a probe below the mucosal surface lining of the nasal turbinate bones. Cauterization is then used to shrink the size of these structures.
This procedure preserves most of the mucosal lining. It also allows for preservation of normal function. The mucosa humidifies and warms the air you breathe in and also aids in the production and wafting of mucus to the back of the nose. If the inferior turbinates are completely removed especially in severe cases, their function is taken over by the other turbinate bones.
Small packs or dressings may be placed inside the nose to reduce bleeding and keep things in place. An outer dressing is placed under your nose to collect any ooze from the inner dressings. The surgeon will instruct you on how long the dressings have to stay in place before you take them out.
There are no visible scars as most of the surgery is done within the nose. Your doctor will prescribe medication to relieve any pain or discomfort. The operation is performed under general anesthesia and it lasts for approximately one hour.
After care : -Submucous Diathermy is usually done as an outpatient procedure. This means that you can go home on the same day. It is performed under general anesthesia and you should have someone drive you home after the procedure. -You should keep the nose well moisturized using saline nasal douches due to postoperative nasal dryness. -You should also avoid blowing your nose and should open your mouth wide open when sneezing as this is helpful. -Heavy lifting and straining should not be undertaken for the first 2-3 weeks. -You can apply Vaseline to the anterior nostrils of symptomatic relief throughout the day and at bedtime as needed. -A blood stained watery discharge from the nose is normal and will take a few days to settle. As the nose heals, scabbing may occur. Do not pick the scabs as this will cause bleeding. If a plaster or nasal splint is in place, do not disturb it. -Avoid very hot drinks, meals, or baths for the first few days. -Stop or cut down on smoking as it irritates the nasal passages and affects the body's ability to heal. -Avoid people with colds and coughs and dusty or crowded places, as infection can be picked up in the nose. -If fresh and steady bleeding occurs, pinch the fleshy part of the nose and lean forward, then apply ice to the forehead and bridge of the nose. A frozen pack is a good alternative if you do not have ice in the freezer. You should avoid swallowing any blood as it can make you feel sick. If the bleeding continues for longer than 30 minutes call your doctor.


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Q: Is there a way to find our that ~ in Symfony config means? I know that the ~ value in the Symfony config files means null or default:
framework:
    router:
        strict_requirements: ~

But is there a way find out what this default value actually is? For example the strict_requirements property is set to %kernel.debug% in a project created with Symfony 2.8. The skeleton of the a new Symfony 3.4 project defines it as ~.
It would be helpful (as example) to know if ~ defaults to %kernel.debug%...

A: There is a command line which displays the default configuration values:
php bin/console config:dump-reference framework

And another one to display the actual configuration:
php bin/console debug:config framework

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Most chamomile teas are made by crushing the flowers - not a nice thing to do. The best chamomile tea comes from brewing the whole flowers - which is exactly what we do. Well known benefits of chamomile include sleep-promoting properties, relaxing muscles and soothing anxiety.
A beautiful yellow cup which gives way to a sweet, surprisingly juicy flavour of chamomile. Naturally caffeine free.
Unable to switch off. One cup of this will calm any incessant mind-whirring, especially if you put your feet up whilst someone else makes it for you.
Drink pure or sweeten with a little honey.
Just cover one tea temple with boiling water and infuse for 3 minutes. Remove temple and top-up glass with iced water. Sweeten with honey.
loose tea - 2 rounded teaspoonful per person. Brew for 3+ minutes.
As much as we love a good cuppa, we are more than aware that sometimes you just need something a little bit stronger. That's why it is with great pleasure we can unveil some of our favourite tea-based cocktails.
dairy free, gluten free, suitable for vegetarians and vegans. Made in a factory that handles nuts.
"Simply the best, truest chamomile tea. The only other time I have had chamomile tea like this was when I used to live in Greece and a friend of my mom's used to give us tea that she had picked herself from around her village in a mountainous area in Lesbos.
I have had loose leaf before but they tend to be from Egypt and invariably leave a bitternes in the end. I'm not sure if it's to do with the warm climate or the processing in Egypt.
"Saw this on offer in a shop and thought yeah I'll try it. Ment to help with sleep etc.. and I've just started working night shifts.
Very nice subtle flavour doesn't taste watery at all as I was afraid of that.
"Truly the best chamomile tea there is on the market, and I have tried many brands.
"Tried it for the first time today and was amazed, firstly by the colour then by the clean taste of chamomile.
"I have never really enjoyed herbal tea bags; I find the flavours are usually tart and overwhelming. I much prefer your 'usual' type of tea in a bag.
Of an evening, I find myself putting the kettle on and reaching for one of these tea temples, instead of grinding coffee or brewing a standard cup of tea.
"I've always struggled with Chamomile tea. It's either too bitter or gritty to drink straight and I always find I'm forcing myself to finish a cup... And then I tried Teapigs.
"Never would of had me down as a chamomile drinker, just received my second order of teapigs and chamomile was the first one I tried. Lovely , you can easily get two decent cups from one bag.
"Having tried many Chamomile teas over the last few years I recently purchased Tea Pigs for the first time! (Love the name, can't stop saying it TEAPIGS!!) The Tea is that good I felt compelled to write a review.
WOW! What an incredible bouquet, the flavour is fresh, yet sweet and warming; there is also a wonderful subtle honey flavour to these Chamomile flowers. I will never go back to the ground varieties again. I'm on my second order already.
"I am a big fan of all things Croatian as I have visited that beautiful country many times.
"This tea is just ridiculously relaxing - and has such a beautiful scent and taste. There's something very therapeutic about making a cup of Teapigs Camomile Flowers tea before bed and watching an episode of your favourite TV series with your jammies on.
I've just had a Mamapack from Daisychainbaby and there was a sample of the chamomile tea...I've just had it and OMG I have never had such a beautiful cup of tea!
Needless to say I'm just about to stock up!
"I've already mentioned my foreign background in another review on here...as well as having grown up in Luxembourg, I'm Italian and German, and my Italian roots are a big influence on my culinary tastes.
Chamomile Tea is given to infants and children all over Italy as a bedtime drink, so the smell and taste of this particular tea reminds me of childhood relaxation. It also reminds me of the many summers when my mother and I would pick chamomile flowers, boil them up and then pour the cooled chamomile infusion onto our hair after washing, before drying it out in the early evening sunshine to help bring out the natural blondness in our hair.
Having an infusion made straight from the flowers rather than a tea infused with the flavour & scent of chamomiles is amazing. It tastes, looks & smells fantastic!
"I have to say I did ponder on whether or not go for the Chamomile when placing my order as I have always found that most of the Chamomile tea`s (including some of the more expensive brands) have always had a bitter after taste and not been very refreshing. Well, That was until now! I have since become a convert! Teapigs Chamomile has to be the best I have ever had the fortune to let pass my lips!!
It is not only soothing and slightly fruity but is also smooth with no bitter after taste at all! I highly recommended this tea for Chamomile & non Chamomile fans a like, I`m telling you it is so very different from all the rest out there.
"I now looking forward to bedtime, as I've got into the good habit of brewing a cup of Chamomile Flowers to help me relax and unwind. The whole flowers really give the tea a rich, soothing taste - what a difference compared with other brands which contain ground flowers.
"Simply divine! The most delicious chamomile tea I've ever tasted. No bitterness and no pungent odour. Like drinking a golden cup of sweet smelling sunshine.
"I had despaired of finding good chamomile tea in the UK until I tried teapigs. I had resorted to bringing supplied back from France until I discovered this lovely tea. It is perfect. Not a trace of dustiness - lovely juicy flowery tea.
"I have tried chamomile tea in the past as it is meant to help you get to sleep but it's always tasted bitter and unpleasant. I've been able to just about put up with the taste by adding honey.
Then I got a teapig sample of chamomile with my last order. I'm a convert!!! This is truly delicious. Not bitter, dry, dusty or unpleasant at all. It really does taste sweet and juicy and I'm about to order a box. And that's before I know if it will help me get to sleep or not.
By far the best .


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FROM ruby:2.1

MAINTAINER pradeep@seleniumframework.com

# Env
ENV PHANTOMJS_VERSION 1.9.7

# Install phantomjs and set in path
RUN apt-get update && \
  apt-get install -y vim git wget libfreetype6 libfontconfig bzip2

# Install bundler package manager for gems
RUN gem install bundler -v 1.12.1

#Enable as jenkins slave
# Install a basic SSH server
RUN apt-get install -y openssh-server
RUN sed -i 's|session    required     pam_loginuid.so|session    optional     pam_loginuid.so|g' /etc/pam.d/sshd
RUN mkdir -p /var/run/sshd

RUN apt-get install -y openjdk-7-jdk

# Add user jenkins to the image
RUN groupadd jenkins
RUN useradd -m jenkins  -s /bin/bash -p jenkins -g jenkins -G staff
RUN chown -R jenkins:jenkins /usr/local
# Set password for the jenkins user (you may want to alter this).
#RUN echo "jenkins:jenkins" | chpasswd

# Standard SSH port
EXPOSE 22

CMD ["/usr/sbin/sshd", "-D"]

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Wolf Trap Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods has several shows this week. Details here.
The Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre has a new show this week: Soul in Motion Players: Drum and Dance. Showtimes are Tuesday-Friday at 10:15am and 11:30am.
Rise + Rhyme is a weekly Busboys and Poets series for local stay-at-home parents and early rising families of all kinds! Featuring performances and stories for children ages 5 and under. Today's featured artist is Marsha Goodman-Wood.
Pinstripes' new chef, Ryan Ross, will host a free "Kids in the Garden" day in which children of all ages are invited to come by Pinstripes and dig in the dirt while learning about gardening, plants and seeds. Chef will do a demonstration in Pinstripes' outdoor Chef's Garden on the process of planting to growing to eating, after which the children will have an opportunity to plant their own seed to take home. Children are welcome to stay for Pinstripes' Mom & Tots program, a Monday-Friday ongoing program in which kids bowl for $5 and parents bowl for FREE from 10am-noon. Reservations for Kids in the Garden Day can be made by calling 202-625-6500.
Now in its fourth year, the NoMa BID is proud to present Family Film Night at Sursum Corda, where families and children gather for free family-centric movies and free food. Family Film Night will take place on four Tuesdays this summer.
A summertime favorite, Backyard Theater for Children returns with enough music and magic to thrill kids and parents alike – all outdoors under a big tent! Each artsy experience comes at a wallet-pleasing price of only $8 each ($7.20 Stars Price) and free for ages 2 and under. Bring blankets and a bag lunch. Brooklyn-based Tim and the Space Cadets play songs about the important things in life: pizza parties, snow days, and summer vacations. Frontman Tim, host of Sunny Side Up on the Sprout Network, will be sure to delight, especially when they perform their XMKids chart-topping single "Superhero." Get tickets here.
Make the most of summer's lingering daylight spending family time together outdoors in the park. Register all participants; fee is for children only. Take a tour of the solar system without leaving Earth!3 and up $5.
**Don't forget to cool off at one of DC Parks and Rec spray parks and pools!


Jared Padalecki Was Almost NOT Dean in "Gilmore Girls"
Read: there was almost A DIFFERENT Dean.
In an alternate universe far, far away, Stars Hollow exists, the Gilmore Girls revival has already aired its second Netflix season, and um, apparently there is someone other than Jared Padalecki playing Dean? It's almost impossible to imagine anyone else taking on the role of such a beloved character, but in the original, unaired pilot for the show — which has been making its rounds on the Internet — the role of Dean is played by Nathan Wetherington.
Though it's at the very least fun to imagine what the series would have been like with other actors in the leading roles, we're happy that the casting worked out the way it did. After all, all of Stars Hollow can probably agree than anybody other than Jared Padalecki playing Dean is as wrong as not having coffee before 9 A.M.


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People can be accidentally injured in a number of ways, workplace incidents and automobile accidents are common causes. While workplace injuries are addressed through workers' comp coverage, injuries sustained in automobile accidents or other incidents involving third parties may be resolved through personal injury law. This area of law also called tort law, allows the injured individual to receive financial compensation after suffering harm on the part of someone else's intentional conduct or negligence.
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There are several categories of incidents where the rules of personal injury apply. Within each of these categories, there can be a number of circumstances that lead to harm, both physical and mental.
When someone acts negligently or behaves carelessly, any harm caused to another person as a result of those acts can be the legal responsibility of the offending party. Car accidents, medical malpractice, slips or falls and other unexpected incidents are a few examples.
Personal injury isn't limited to physical harm, as defamation is included in tort law. Written defamation is called libel, and spoken defamation is called slander. These acts are false statements made against that are presented as fact, and the ensuing consequences cause emotional distress, financial loss, and a damaged professional or personal reputation.
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In some cases, a person is purposely harmed by the intentional conduct of another. Common examples are assault and battery, other acts include trespass, false imprisonment, fraud or deceit, or the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
If a product you purchased was to malfunction, injuring you in the process, a product liability claim may the classification for your personal injury claim. Damages or injuries could include additional health complications from using a defective medical device, illness linked to product usage, or injury resulting from the malfunction or defect.
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PHP used to stand for Personal Home Page, but now it means Hypertext Preprocessor (if you ignore the order of the initial letters). It's a server-side scripting language that's very commonly used in website development, including web templates, frameworks, and content management systems (CMS). PHP code is often embedded within a page's HTML markup; in fact, many webpages you've come across on the Internet have the .php extension.
The current iteration of PHP is PHP7, a richer version than PHP5 because it contains a wealth of new operators and supports strict type declarations for function arguments. Plus, it interprets faster than previous PHP versions.
The usefulness of PHP extends beyond the Internet. It also can implement standalone graphical applications.
Learn more about how smart, experienced PHP7 developers like the ones at TESSA Marketing + Technology can help your Washington DC business realize its fullest potential in the online marketplace. Call us at 1-800-586-1553 or click the Contact Us button below to reach our Northern Virginia office and find out how our tech expertise can work for your company.


Pit Stop: How does an F1 pit crew work?
While drivers and engine manufacturers may take home most of the praise and accountability for wins in F1, the pit crew is usually the component of the team that abides to bear the blame for most of the inopportune events that might occur on and off the track.
The crew plays a much greater role in the outcome of a team's race now given the limited overtaking opportunities that have arisen from the budget disparity amongst Formula One teams.
A good pit-stop could be the one element that leads a team to a top of the podium finish; a poorly executed one, more often than not, leads to the driver losing quite a few places and facing an insurmountable challenge for the rest of the race.
As a result, the pit crew is as integral to an F1 team's machinery as the driver and the car itself, with the trio forming the proverbial "F1 Trinity". Some pit stops have gone down in Formula 1 history for how good or bad they were.
All this however begs the question – what does the pit crew actually do during a pit-stop?
We all know the duties of an F1 driver and there is an abundance of knowledge of the car's engine and aerodynamics and what each part actually does. It's about time we deconstruct the duties of that final member of an F1 team's three vital components.
Who are the members of the pit crew?
In truth, there are no fixed members in an F1 team who specialize in a certain duty during a pit stop such as tyre changing or stabilizing the car. The pit crew is actually comprised of the team's mechanics who perform the task of taking part in a pit stop in addition to their other roles. The pit stop comprises of but a small part of their multitude of duties that they undertake.
The pit stop roles are usually given based on physical attributes rather than expertise, as the majority of the crew are competent enough to handle any role given to them. As such, jack men tend to be more physically imposing and strong so as to lift the car, while Twheel men tend to be much more agile to quickly change the tyres.
The only fixed role in a pit stop is given to the chief mechanic who operates as the lollipop man at the front of the car and oversees the entire procedure from the front and controls the release of the car once the pit crew completes the formalities.
With the vast increments in technological advancement that have occurred in car aerodynamics and engine research, it is only natural that pit stops have now also been highly modernized so as to economize on time and increase the efficiency and reliability of the process.
Each wheel of a Formula 1 car sits on specific drive pins positioned the axle so that whenever they are removed and a new set is applied, they fit perfectly. In order to minimize time wastage, teams minimize the thread required to actually spin the nut when handling a new wheel.
There are minute pockets in the wheel nuts so as to ensure that the wheel gun, when applied, connects automatically with the nut for the torque generated by the gun to easily fix the nut in place.
Currently the nut retention system comprises of the wheel gun socket pushing the pins into the axle to remove the nuts and once the refitted nut runs over the pins, they spring out when it is fully fixed.
F1 crews use a special kind of wheel gun known as a pneumatic gun which sends pulses of torque to loosen and tighten the wheel nut when applied.
The gun has a lighting system which signals when the procedure is done to the pit light system. Wheel men however also raise their hands when they are done so as to remove any room for electronical error.
In order to operate on the car when it comes into the pits, the crew needs to raise it off the ground first. To do so, they utilize a modified version of a car jack.
F1 jacks possess a quick release feature, where the mechanic pulls a mechanical lever to unhinge the jack, which saves time as it is quicker than lifting the entire jack back up. Swivel jacks are used at the front of the car so that the mechanic and jack can get out of the way as fast as possible and clear the way for the car to move once the process is completed.
The pit light controlled system was invented by Ferrari and soon enough every team on the circuit followed suit. It compromises of a partly automated system to signal when the car is ready to leave. The lights are connected electrically to the team's jacks and wheel guns and once all the jacks are off, the light system goes off thus signalling the driver to move.
Research is currently being done on facilitating the lights to compute more information such as detecting the proximity of other cars approaching so as to limit the chances of a pit lane accident.
There are over 20 members of an F1 team present at a pit-stop. They all need to work together and at an almost robotic level of efficiency if they are to service the car in around 3 seconds.
In addition to changing the tyres of the car, the crew also undertakes the responsibility of repairing the front wing or nose in the event of a crash. They do this only after they determine if the car is safe to continue racing post the crash by checking the suspension and electrical components first.
As a result, pit-stops are always hectic moments in a team's race and require absolute concentration and precision from each member of the team. In order to better understand the sheer magnitude of activity that goes on during a pit stop and appreciate the process as a whole to a greater level, each individual role needs to be thoroughly analysed first.
Quite possibly the most important and senior member of a pit crew, the lollipop man is in charge of letting the driver know when he can move on after the work on the car is finished in addition to supervising the entire process.
When the driver approaches, the lollipop man lets the driver know when to turn in and then runs around to the front of the vehicle with a sign board labelled "BRAKES" to let the driver know that he needs to keep his foot firmly planted on the brakes to prevent the car from moving as work on the wheels is in progress.
After all the wheels have been successfully replaced and any other modifications to the car have been appropriately handled, the 'lollipop' is turned over to show "FIRST GEAR" to signal to the driver to move into first gear so that he can leave.
Only after checking the pit lane for any oncoming traffic will the lollipop man let the car go, so as to avoid any unfortunate pit lane accident. In case the driver has come into the pits as a result of a penalty such as a 10-second stop-go penalty, it is the lollipop man's duty to keep a track of this time as the electronic pit lights cannot factor this in.
Two members of the pit crew are designated as jack men and are responsible for lifting the car up so that the wheelmen can operate on switching the tyres more easily. The two jack men are placed at opposite ends of the car- one at the front and one at the back.
When the car approaches the front jack man stands in position at the front of the pit box, armed and ready with the jack in position so as soon as the driver stops, the jack is instantaneously in position under the front wing. The rear jack man however stands to the side away from the pit box and only after the car arrives does he run to the back and position his jack to be mounted onto the rear hooks fastened under the rear wing.
Both jack men then lean back to raise the car at the very same time and the car is raised by only about 10cm to minimize both the raising and lowering time while providing the wheel men with more comfort to replace the wheels.
After all the wheels have been changed, the car is then gently lowered by the jack men to avoid any damage to the undercarriage. The front jack man then moves to the side of the car as fast as possible so as to give the driver a clear passage out. In order to accomplish this swift movement, the front jack man utilizes a swivel jack so that it can easily be moved out of the way. The rear jack man, however, remains in position and is armed with a starter gun in case the engine fails.
Generally each F1 team designates no fewer than 3 members of the crew to supervise the tyre changing at each of the car's four wheels. The wheel men, armed with pneumatic guns in order to remove the wheels, kneel in place before the car arrives into the pit box and the moment it stops, the guns are placed on the centre nuts of each wheel and a force of torque is applied so as to remove the nut as quickly as possible.
The second crew member, who by this time is firmly holding the wheel in place, removes the wheel once the nut is off and signals the third member to bring in the fresh set of tyres.
Once the new wheel is brought in, the wheel is slightly rotated as the crew needs to locate the studs that enable the turning of front axle and brakes. Once the located, the gunman pulls a lever on the pneumatic gun to reverse the rotation of the gun. This results in the nut being seated place tightly on the axle. Once this is done, the wheel man removes the gun and raises it in the air to signal lollipop man that work on that wheel is over.
As the FIA doesn't impose any restrictions on teams pertaining to the number of crew allowed to work on the car during a pit-stop, Formula 1 teams possess a variety of extra crew members present during a pit-stop.
These extra members have a variety of contingent duties such as those present at the side pod entrances to remove any track debris from the radiators to prevent overheating while some are even employed to clean the driver's visor should any distracting substance find its way onto the helmet usually with a damp cloth soaked in disinfectant. There are also back up jack men present at both ends should any extra assistance be required.
Most of these members are present at the side during the pit-stop and only approach the car should their services be necessary so as to provide more room for the pit crew members performing more vital functions to work with ease.
As the driver enters the pit lane he first must reduce his speed to comply with the designated pit lane speed limit of 80km/h. Upon crossing the pit lane line, he engages a pit lane speed limiter that electronically prevents the car from accelerating above the given speed limit. The activation of this limiter automatically signals the fuel filler cap to pop open and all the driver needs to do now is stop exactly at the designated spot in the pit box so as that the pit crew need not waste time in repositioning themselves.
The lollipop man first signals the driver to keep the brakes engaged the entire time by flashing the "Brake" sign on his lollipop indicator. Now the car is lifted up by the jack men using the hydraulic jacks while the wheelmen remove the wheel nuts and proceed on to removing the wheels.
Once the new set of tyres is reattached using the pneumatic guns, there is a signal that transfers to the electronic pit light signalling that all four tyres have been successfully fitted. This in turn is complemented by each of the wheelmen signalling the same by raising their hands to the lollipop man. The car is now gently lowered down as the jacks as swiftly removed with the front jack man rushing out of the way.
The lollipop man now changes the sign on his electronic board to 'first gear' to signal the driver to move into first from neutral as the pit procedure is completed. Upon inspecting the lane for any traffic and deeming the pit lane clear enough for a smooth exit, the lollipop man waves the driver away. After leaving the pit lane and disabling the speed limiter, the fuel cap automatically shuts and the driver can proceed with the race.
Thus, a Formula 1 pit stop is an intricate arrangement of a multitude of specialized duties that if executed to perfection, forms a piece of art no less beautiful than the very machines on which they work.


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The Grão Mogol State Park () is a state park in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
It protects an area of high, mountainous terrain with cerrado vegetation, important as a source of water in a region with a dry climate.

Location

The Grão Mogol State Park is in the municipality of Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais.
It has an area of .
The park is mostly within the Serra Geral, in the region known as the Serra da Bocaína.
It contains the valley of the Bosque River and other smaller streams within the Jequitinhonha River basin.
The rivers are perennial, although the climate is very dry.
The terrain is mostly mountainous, with large plateaus such as the  Chapada do Bosque, the Chapada do Bosquinho and the Chapada do Cardoso.

History

The Grão Mogol State Park was created by decree 39.906 of 22 September 1998.
Its area was redefined by decree 45.243 of 2009.
It is classed as IUCN protected area category II (national park).
The purpose is to protect regional fauna, flora and sources of rivers and streams in the region, to support research and scientific studies, and to provide alternatives for rational use of natural resources, such as ecological tourism.
As of 2015 it was open only for scheduled educational and research visits, but was expected to soon open to the general public.

Environment

Trees are mostly small and low, typical of high altitude fields.
Forms of cerrado dominate the plateaus, particularly low cerrado with trees such as Caryocar brasiliense, Curatella americana and Qualea parviflora, and shrubby caatinga with Bromeliaceae and cactus.
The valleys contain distinctive vegetation such as Vellozia squamata and isolated patches of Mauritia flexuosa.
Fauna includes endangered species such as the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), cougar (Puma concolor), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), macaco sauá (a titi) and lontra.

Attractions

The park contains a trail built by slaves in colonial times with stone paving.
It links the Fazenda do Cafezal, owned by the Baron of Grão Mogol, to the town of Grão Mogol.
Several sections are well preserved.
Another attraction is the Curral de Pedras (Stone Corral).

Notes

Sources

State parks of Brazil
Protected areas established in 1998
1998 establishments in Brazil
Protected areas of Minas Gerais

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