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Raiders continue to explore Oracle Park as possible 2019 home
The Raiders continue to pursue the possibility of playing in San Francisco next season, even as they remain officially homeless for the 2019 campaign.
Negotiations are continuing for the Raiders to play their 2019 home games at Oracle Park, home of the Giants, a source said Sunday night.
NBC Bay Area reported Sunday evening that the Raiders had reached a deal with the Giants to play next season at Oracle Park. The NFL would have to approve a deal, however, and the 49ers would have to waive their territorial rights in San Francisco. That has not happened, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Article 4.2(A)(1) of the NFL's bylaws states that the 49ers and Raiders have "exclusive right" to play in their cities, and that "neither the San Francisco nor the Oakland club shall have any right to play professional football in the city of the other without the consent of the other club."
In December, the Raiders withdrew from a tentative agreement to play one more season at the Oakland Coliseum before moving to Las Vegas in 2020. That decision came a day after the City of Oakland filed a federal lawsuit against the team and the NFL over the Raiders' impending relocation, calling the move "illegal" and demanding hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation.
There have been indications the team will remain in the Bay Area for next season.
A crew from a sign company hangs a temporary banner in Willie Mays Plaza bearing the new name of the ballpark where the Giants play before the team announced that AT&T Park will be renamed Oracle Park.
Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters in Atlanta last week that: "I think the hope of (Raiders owner Mark Davis) is to continue to be in the Bay Area with Raider fans." Goodell said he expected a resolution to the Raiders' stadium situation "soon," adding the NFL needs an answer for scheduling purposes.
CBS Sports reported Sunday that the league recently conducted a site survey of Oracle Park to determine whether it could host the Raiders for a season. Other possible solutions include the Raiders sharing Levi's Stadium with the 49ers for a season or returning to the Coliseum.
Oracle Park likely would seat between 38,000 and 40,000 fans for football games. The venue has hosted football: The XFL's San Francisco Demons played there in 2001, Cal played home games there in 2011 and the stadium hosted a college bowl game from 2002 through '13.
The Raiders need a home for seven regular-season games. They will play one "home" game in London, against the Chicago Bears.
Chronicle staff writers Eric Branch and John Shea contributed
to this report.
Matt Kawahara is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: mkawahara@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @MatthewKawahara
This post was originally posted at https://www.sfgate.com/raiders/article/Report-Raiders-reach-deal-to-play-at-Giants-13586252.php.
Bucks' spurt beats Pacers
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Cal can't hold lead at ASU, loses 16th in a row
The reason why Jordan Bell was suspended from Wednesday night's game
Allan Byer, who helped keep Giants in SF, passes away at 91


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Marcus Lamb, Founder Of Daystar Television Network, Has Passed Away
By Anton Carillo Dec 02, 2021 02:26 PM EST
(Photo : Twitter) Daystar Television Network founder and president, Marcus Lamb, recently passed away.
Daystar Television Network President and Founder Marcus Lamb reportedly passed away on Tuesday morning, November 30.
News on the death of Lamb was made by Daystar Television Network via their Facebook page while asking for prayers for his bereaved family. Reports afterwards revealed that the 64-year-old Lamb was infected by COVID-19 and died of complications from it.
"It's with a heavy heart we announce that Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, went home to be with the Lord this morning. The family asks that their privacy be respected as they grieve this difficult loss. Please continue to lift them up in prayer," Daystar said.
The post was shared 10,000 times and received a similar number of comments on top of 27,000 reactions from the network's subscribers and from Lamb's supporters, family, and friends who expressed condolences and prayers for Lamb and his family.
Among those who first reacted to the news of Lamb's demise is Samaritan Purse's Franklin Graham who took to Facebook and expressed his shock upon receiving the news about it. Graham conveyed his condolences to Lamb's family and assured them of his peaceful repose.
"I was shocked to learn today that Marcus Lamb passed away early this morning from complications due to COVID-19. Marcus was the founder of Daystar Television Network, located outside of Dallas. He will be greatly missed. My prayers are with his wife Joni and their children," Graham said on Tuesday.
"For all those who put their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, we have that assurance of being with God for eternity in heaven. Marcus is now in the presence of His Lord and Savior. He had preached about heaven, taught about heaven, and now he is experiencing heaven," he added.
Graham, in line with Lamb's death, also urged the public through his post to take some time to reflect on their lives and see their need to return to God, stressing the uncertainty of life.
"I know that Marcus would want each and every one of you to examine your own lives, and if there is sin in your life that is holding you back, confess it to God and ask His forgiveness. Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ today. None of us know when we will step into eternity," Graham stressed.
Lamb launched Daystar Television Network in Dec. 31, 1997 based on the Bible's 2 Peter 1:19 with the goal "to reach souls" through "the good news of Jesus Christ." The inspiration to build a television station came just a few months after he got married to Joni Trammel who was from South Carolina.
The network came as an offshoot of previous television networks he established that trace back to 1984 at an early age of 27, which made him the youngest to have accomplished such a feat in the United States. Daystar Television Network is now regarded as one of the fastest growing Christian television networks encompassing a global market.
Prior to his broadcasting undertakings, Lamb was already a renowned speaker and evangelist in the country. CBN News said Lamb started preaching at an early age of 15. Years later, he founded in December 1981 at Macon, Georgia the Word of God Fellowship before he got married. He then traveled with Joni on evangelistic trips to more than 20 states in the country. Lamb was eventually ordained as a bishop by the Church of God.
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Evangelicals Believe America Better Off If Marriage And Children Are Prioritized: Poll

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Vittra operates in over 20 municipalities and each municipality can choose to organise its school admissions slightly differently. To know exactly how school admissions work in your municipality, read more on the page "How school admissions work", which you will find in the menu.
No matter how the system works, it is a good idea for you as a parent to prepare so you can make as informed a choice as possible. We have therefore put together some extra information that we believe can help you to make your choice.
On the website www.skolvalet.nu, which is run by the Swedish Association of Independent Schools, you can find out more about how school admissions work and the general rules regarding independent schools and choice of school.
When it comes to your choice of school, we recommend that you take the time to find out about the way the different schools work, so you can consider whether they are a good fit for your child. We are all different and we are happiest in an environment that provides security and positive stimulation. You know your child and how best he or she can be motivated and supported.
Take the time to attend some open days or private tours to gain an impression of the premises, the atmosphere among the staff and to find out what a rainy day in October looks like, for example. Illness and bad weather strike in autumn every year, and it is therefore important that the ideas and setup continue to work even under suboptimal conditions. You may also have heard a rumour about some school that you can have confirmed or denied so that you can make an even more well informed choice of school.
We often receive questions about our long-term commitment, since we are a profit-driven enterprise and people therefore feel there could be a conflict between long-termism and profit. In fact, we believe the two are closely linked and that extremely long-term commitment is required within schools. But what do you think, and what feeling do you get about long-term commitment when you visit the different schools (municipal and independent)?
All the different operational forms or types of owner have their benefits. Ask questions about this if you are concerned or if you want to know more about the long-term plan.
On a visit, take the opportunity to talk to some of the older pupils to get an idea of what they think about their school. Do you get the impression that they are good role models for your child, and do the current pupils feel the school delivers on its promises?


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Groupe Rand Accelerates Its Digital Transformation in the Fashion Sector With Openbravo
March 7, 2019 Press Release
LILLE, France, March 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Openbravo, the global omnichannel platform vendor for agile and innovative retailing, today announced that it has been awarded a new contract by Groupe Rand. The contract covers the deployment of Openbravo software using Openbravo Cloud and implementation services at the company's headquarters and across 43 stores in France, Spain and Italy belonging to its well-known brands, Lollipops and Balaboosté.
This strategic project will enable Groupe Rand to move forward in the digital transformation of its businesses in fashion jewelry and accessories. The company will strengthen its innovation strategy with new features that will modernize its retail operations, improving its customer experience in all stores with mobile POS and accelerating its omnichannel strategy.
"We are delighted to have signed this contract with Openbravo to accelerate our digital transformation in our retail business," said Marc Aimonino, CIO of Groupe Rand. "We were particularly impressed by the functional coverage of Openbravo and the flexibility of its cloud and mobile technology platform, which will enable our business to gain agility and realize significant IT cost savings."
"We are very pleased over this new project with a recognized leader in French fashion, Groupe Rand. This confirms the value our cloud-based omnichannel solution brings, compared to other historical retail software players on the French market," says Bruno Menteaux, General Manager for France & Northern Europe at Openbravo. "The flexibility offered by Openbravo will allow the current system to be replaced very quickly, so the company can quickly focus on its new growth strategy. "
About Groupe Rand
As the Parisian leader in the market of the fancy jewel and accessories of fashion for five generations, Groupe Rand passionately continues to promote the link between innovation and traditional know-how.
Based in the heart of Paris for more than 80 years at the same address, Groupe Rand is now present in more than 11,000 points of sale in 12 countries worldwide. More than 700 employees are dedicated to developing the company around its founding values: passion, loyalty, respect and innovation.
About Openbravo
Openbravo is a global omnichannel platform vendor for agile and innovative retailing. The Openbravo Commerce Cloud is a cloud-based omnichannel platform providing comprehensive omnichannel capabilities. It is built on a highly flexible, mobile-enabled technology platform, which allows retailers to innovate more and faster, and to manage change more efficiently.
With customers in more than 60 countries and over 16,000 back-office users and 25,000 points of sale currently using its solutions, Openbravo offers the most flexible omnichannel platform on the market. Openbravo has offices in France, Dubai, India, Mexico, and Spain.
Visit www.openbravo.com to learn more.
Xavier Places (Marketing Director)
+34607676568,
xavier.places@openbravo.com
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Q: What is a word or a phrase for "finding balance"? I want a stoic and blissful name for my blog, and unfortunately "finding balance" is not available. Can you suggest something along the lines of that? I basically want this to be about how my life is a balancing act between trying and wanting to be different things at once.

A: How about something like, "Locating Stasis", or "Achieving Equilibrium".

A: What about "Spirit Level"? That's all about balance, it's quite concrete -- but the first word could be a play on words to denote your inner well-being (or something like that).

A: 'Achieving Stability'
'Juggling Safely'
'Busily Composed'

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What The Jewish media isn't telling you about the risks of reopening
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/what-mainstream-media-isnt-telling-you-about-the-risks-of-reopening/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4919
In the second half of June, the story of the United States' coronavirus pandemic began to shift dramatically, as a massive surge in new infections took hold, particularly across states in the South and West that had previously been spared the worst of the outbreak. Media reports abruptly switched gears from declaring that reopening was proceeding with few ill effects (Reuters, 5/17/20; Tampa Bay Times, 5/28/20) to expressing alarm that health officials' warnings against lifting social distancing restrictions too soon had been proven right—a cognitive dissonance perhaps most dramatically depicted in Oregon Public Broadcasting's headline, "Oregon's COVID-19 Spike Surprises, Despite Predictions of Rising Caseloads" (6/10/20).
Increasingly, the big story has been the litany of state moves to halt or roll back reopenings: A typical roundup in the New York Times (6/26/20) included closing bars in Texas and Florida, a full stay-at-home order in California's Imperial County, and putting beaches off-limits in Miami-Dade County for the July 4th weekend.
"This is a very dangerous time," declared Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio, where new cases began rising on June 15, just over a month after the state allowed stores and businesses to reopen. "I think what is happening in Texas and Florida and several other states should be a warning to everyone."
But a warning of what? While the question of how quickly to reopen will affect potentially millions of lives, equally important is asking what science can tell us about how to reopen. Health experts point to many lessons we can learn from the pandemic experience, both in the US and elsewhere, that can help inform which activities are safest (and most necessary) to resume—a discussion that is more useful than the media's inclination toward simple debates about whether reopening is good or bad (LA Times, 5/14/20; New York Times, 5/20/20).
Among the most important conclusions:
1. Types of reopenings matter
While the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 at first seemed like an all-powerful threat that could be carried by everything from cardboard boxes to cats, public health officials have long since determined that infection is overwhelmingly via person-to-person encounters. This means that reducing face-to-face interaction time—or ensuring that it's at least conducted while wearing masks, or in outdoor or well-ventilated spaces—is key to reducing risk, as spelled out in a diagram by University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth infectious disease researcher and blogger Erin Bromage:
Infectious disease experts have attempted to reduce this equation to simple mnemonics that will be easy to remember; Tulane University epidemiologist Susan Hassig has cited "the three D's: diversity, distance and duration" (Business Insider, 6/8/20), while Ohio State's William Miller created the rhyme "time, space, people, place" (NPR, 6/23/20). These were featured in the increasingly common articles attempting to rank which activities were riskiest, including some that assigned weirdly specific point scales to behaviors for anyone wondering whether they should go bowling or for a pontoon boat ride (MLive, 6/2/20).
But most of those articles entirely ignored one of the most widespread reopening activities: going back to work in shared office spaces. Infectious disease experts say that offices can be the perfect petri dishes for viral spread, involving gatherings of a large number of people, indoors, for a long time, with recirculated air. As one study (Business Insider, 4/28/20) of a coronavirus outbreak at a Seoul call center showed, the virus can quickly spread across an entire floor, especially in a modern open-plan office. In fact, the call center was doubly prone to viral spread, because its workers were all talking constantly, which previous studies have found to spread respiratory droplets just as effectively as coughing (Better Humans, 4/20/20)—a warning that was heavily noted in media's coverage of the risks of chanting protestors (Washington Post, 5/31/20; Politico, 6/8/20), but notably missing from articles on the reopening of workplaces.
"They're pretty high-risk spaces," Boston University School of Public Health epidemiologist Eleanor Murray tells FAIR. "What we would like to see with offices, if people have to be there for the function of the office to work, is to keep the minimum number of people in at any given time." (She also urges consideration of the risk to office cleaning workers, who are seldom included in back-to-work safety debates.)
This is especially key, adds Tulane's Hassig, in office environments where co-workers are breathing the same air. Workers can safely unmask if they're in a private office where they can shut their door, she tells FAIR; however, "if you're in an open office space with little four-foot cubicle walls, everybody needs to be wearing masks all the time."
Yet most states have limited themselves to following CDC guidelines for reopening offices, which mandate wearing masks only when within six feet of a co-worker. But as Bromage (5/6/20) has pointed out, "Social distancing rules are really to protect you with brief exposures or outdoor exposures."
In fact, former Arizona Department of Health Services director Will Humble told Newsweek (6/9/20) that one reason his state became the nation's leader in new infections per capita was that local officials did not go beyond CDC mandates to impose "performance criteria such as required business mitigation measures, contact tracing capacity or mask-wearing." Hassig worries that the CDC's guidance may have been "far less prescriptive than they would like it to be from the scientific perspective," noting that "we've got plenty of evidence that distance is not enough if you're in a shared space with lots of people."
All of this would have been good for US workers returning to their jobs to know, but very little of it has made it into media coverage of reopenings, whether before or after the recent virus spikes. And the rare exceptions often left much to be desired: When CBS News (5/28/20) devoted time to investigating the dangers of reopening offices, it was solely in terms of whether plumbing systems left stagnant during closures could lead to the spread of Legionnaires' disease.
2. Let science, not political power, guide health decisions
Because it takes at least two to three weeks for case numbers to noticeably rise in response to a change in social distancing rules, Hassig says, states should start slowly, and wait to see if numbers rise before moving on to the next stage of reopening. "If your reopening timetable is preset, that's somewhat of a folly," she says. Ideally, she says, after each change in policy, states should "wait at least three weeks to make a decision before you move on, which would mean that probably you're really looking at a month in each phase. And that is not what Texas did."
It's also not how the Texas media presented reopening plans to the public. The Austin American Statesman (4/27/20, 5/1/20) dutifully listed types of businesses that would resume operations under Gov. Greg Abbott's reopening order, but never cited any independent health officials on the risks each activity would entail. When the Dallas Morning News (4/30/20) ran answers to reader questions about the reopening, the only potential negative consequence it mentioned was whether Texans who refused to return to work could still get unemployment benefits. And the Houston Chronicle (4/30/20) declared, "No more stay-home. Just stay safe"—though the only "safety" measures it mentioned were those still being recommended by Abbott, such as wearing masks in public and limiting the size of gatherings.
In doing so, the media largely followed the lead of elected officials, who in many cases let concern over profit-and-loss statements take precedence over whether the data indicated it was safe to resume business as usual. In Ohio, state officials went so far as to allow guidelines to be written by the businesses seeking to reopen themselves (Columbus Dispatch, 6/29/20), something health experts suspect helped lead to a tripling of daily new cases in the state between June 14 and June 25.
3. Learn from places that have done better
Some hard-hit European countries have had much more success with reopening than the United States, as a comparison of per capita average daily new cases shows (orange: Italy; green: Spain; red: Germany; blue: France; purple: US). (Chart: 91-VIDOC)
The Covid curves in many European and Asian nations that were hit the earliest and took the first and strongest action have remained low, despite reopenings in those nations: Italy, for example, once the world epicenter of the virus, currently has under three new cases per day per million residents, according to Johns Hopkins data—about half the infection rate for the least-hard-hit US state, Vermont.
Those nations, however, took very different approaches to reopening than the US. First off, they waited until case rates were much lower before reopening: When Italy first reopened restaurants on May 18, its daily new-case rate, averaged over the previous week, was 14.4 per million residents; when Florida did so on May 4, its average daily rate was 31.7 per million. "Where you start in terms of your case burden will probably wind up being one of the best predictors of how well your reopening went," says Hassig.
In addition, the measures the European nations took to get cases down that low were much stricter than those ever implemented in the US—something that was largely overlooked in rundowns of nations imposing and lifting lockdowns (New York Times, 6/10/20; CNBC, 6/25/20). "What we were doing in the US compared to what Europe was doing in terms of lockdown are completely different things," says Murray:
I have friends in France, and you had to have a permit that said what time you were allowed to go to the grocery store. So even the places in the US that did a gradual opening were already starting from a much more open place than places in Europe.
US residents can also learn from areas of their own country that have done comparatively well under reopenings. Hassig notes that New Orleans and neighboring Jefferson Parish have provided an unintentional controlled experiment—albeit "a sample of one"—in the efficacy of wearing masks: "The mayor of New Orleans made masking mandatory in indoor spaces, which empowered businesses to put up signs like 'No mask, no shoes, no shirt, no service.'"
The city, which had been an early Covid hotspot, also established a hotline to report violators, kept casinos closed longer, and kept tighter restrictions on such things as church gatherings—with the result, says Hassig, that Orleans Parish currently has less than half the new-case rate of the similarly sized Jefferson Parish. (On Monday, Jefferson Parish announced its own mandatory mask order—New Orleans Advocate, 6/29/20.)
4. Every reopening is a tradeoff
Even before most US states had shut down, Siva Vaidhyanathan (Guardian, 3/26/20) was warning that pitting health against the economy was a false choice.
When media outlets posit the decision facing states as balancing the economic needs with public-health needs, it not only ignores that an out-of-control pandemic would be an economic catastrophe (Guardian, 3/26/20), but overlooks another important point: In reopening, governments have a limited amount of risk they can safely spread around without losing control of an outbreak. As a result, reopening decisions don't just impact public health and the economy now—they also could end up undermining your ability to reopen other things down the road.
"It's not 'open' or 'shut'—there's a whole spectrum in between," says Murray. "We need to be thinking about what are the high-priority things that we need to reopen from a functioning point of view, and not an enjoyment point of view."
If the goal is to prevent the kind of explosive surge in Covid cases that many states saw in March and April—and which are now being repeated in new hotspots in June and July—that means picking and choosing carefully, not just which activities are the safest, but which are the most urgent for a functioning society—which, it bears emphasizing, is not the same thing as what's best for businesses' bottom lines.
"We need to be getting dentists' offices open and getting childcare open and getting elective medical treatment open; bars are not as important," advises Murray. "It may be that we have to give up on some of those things to allow the risks that some of these other activities take."
That's a discussion that will require informed public debate on the conditions of reopening, from what should stay closed to whether to require masks. It's a debate that will be much easier if the media spends less time on who is "winning" or "losing" in the struggle to reopen, and more on why people are getting infected—and how they could not be.


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what is exact difference between "http:worker-threading-profile" vs "default-receiver-threading-profile" and where to use?
According to the documentation http:worker-threading-profile defines the threading profile for setting the number of dedicated threads to receive the socket connection. It will then hand of to the receiver thread pool.
In contrast the default-receiver-threading-profile defines the default thread profile used by the receiver thread pool for any flow in the application.
For more information read the tuning performance guide in the documentation.


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Q: Angularjs some routes slow to load I am having a very bizarre situation that I can't seem to figure out.  Here are my routes:
$routeProvider.when(/application1/:type, {
          templateUrl: "application1/index.html"
        })
.when(/application1/:type/:folder, {
          templateUrl: "application1/index.html"
        })
.when(/application2, {
          templateUrl: "application2/index.html"
        })
.when(/application3, {
          templateUrl: "application3/index.html"
        });

For some reason when I use $location.path on application2 and application3 it works fine and updates right when i call it.  However anytime I switch to anything on application1 it takes about 3-5 seconds, then starts to load.  When I refresh the page on application1 it works right away so I don't think it is the code that is associated with it.  How can certain routes behave so differently?
UPDATE: I ran a profiler on my application: It seems to be take 5+ seconds to run $apply and/or $digest when loading a route in application1.  What can be ways for me to speed this process up?

A: I had the same problem that routing worked when starting but becomes slow at doing specific routes. Since it worked when started i thought $route.reload(); might do the trick.
$route.reload();
$location.path("application1/");

This fix worked for me. Don't ask me the detailed explanation though.

A: I just had this issue happen to me.  It turns out it was because my function that was calling $location.url was called from jQuery ".on" (jQLite actually).  I had forgotten about how with AngularJS if you are called from something outside the $digest cycle you need to call $applyAsync (or $apply) to do "AngularJS stuff".  Maybe if it wasn't for my timeout timer it would have not worked at all (I think when that kicked off that's when the new view finally was processed).
The fix in my case was to change this (this is CoffeeScript but same sort of deal in pure JavaScript):
element.on 'hidden.bs.modal', () ->
    stuffIncludingLocationUrlCall()

to this:
element.on 'hidden.bs.modal', () ->
    scope.$applyAsync ->
        stuffIncludingLocationUrlCall()

Now the view change from $location.url happens really fast.

Edit: Here's a Javascript & jQuery version for those that come across this, as I did...
$(element).on("click", function() {

    // any processing or other logic you need goes here

    $scope.apply(function() {
        $location.path("new/path");
    });
});


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Edgar António de Mesquita Cardoso OC • GOSE • GCSE (Resende, Resende, 11 de maio de 1913 — 5 de julho de 2000) foi um engenheiro de pontes português do século XX.

Formou-se em engenharia civil na Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) em 1937. Foi professor universitário e autor de algumas das mais belas pontes portuguesas, tendo sido agraciado com um doutoramento Honoris Causa pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

De 1938 a 1951 exerceu como Engenheiro Civil na JAE-Junta Autónoma das Estradas.

Em 1944 estabeleceu o seu gabinete de projetos.

A 5 de agosto de 1944 foi feito Oficial da Ordem Militar de Cristo e a 12 de junho de 1963 Grande-Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada, tendo sido elevado a Grã-Cruz da mesma Ordem a título póstumo a 4 de outubro de 2004.

De 1951 a 1983 foi professor de Pontes no Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisboa.

A Câmara Municipal de Lisboa prestou-lhe homenagem atribuindo o seu nome a uma alameda na freguesia de S. Sebastião da Pedreira, actual freguesia das Avenidas Novas, junto à Estufa Fria, cuja cobertura foi por si projectada.

Em Outubro de 2021 a empresa do engenheiro Edgar Cardoso, Edgar Cardoso, Engenharia e Laboratório de Estruturas, foi escolhida como uma das três finalistas do concurso público internacional para a construção da nova ponte que ligarás as duas margens do Rio Douro.

Obras
Referência a algumas das obras que projetou:
 1944 – Ponte de Abragão, sobre o Rio Tâmega, com um arco de alvenaria com uma relação flecha/vão de 9m/60m = 1/7
 1951 – Ponte do Vale da Ursa sobre o rio Zêzere

 1952 – Ponte na Foz do Sousa, com um arco de betão armado de 115m de vão

 1954 – Ponte de Santa Clara sobre o Rio Mondego, em Coimbra, com um tabuleiro em laje contínua de altura variável

 1954 – Pontes do Cávado e do Caldo, com tabuleiro em betão armado apoiado em pilares ocos de cantaria com altura máxima de 60m

 1954 – Reabilitação da Ponte Luíz I sobre o Rio Douro no Porto, uma ponte em arco executada em 1881 segundo projeto de T. Seyrig

 1956 – Alargamento do tabuleiro e aplicação de pré-esforço exterior na Ponte D. Luiz, uma ponte com tabuleiro em estrutura metálica com vãos de 60m, construída em 1881 sobre o Rio Tejo, em Santarém
 1960 - Ponte sobre a ribeira do Inha ( EN 222 )
 1961 –  Ponte de Mértola em Mértola
 1961 - Viaduto de Vila Franca de Xira na A1

 1957 – Ponte Almirante Sarmento Rodrigues de Barca de Alva sobre o Rio Douro, com arcos múltiplos de 37,5m de vão

 1962 – Alargamento do tabuleiro e aplicação de pré-esforço exterior na Ponte de Abrantes sobre o Rio Tejo, uma ponte construída em 1870 pela empresa Fives-Lille, com vãos de 42,5m+5x50,8m+42,5m

 1962 – Ponte suspensa múltipla sobre o Rio Save, em Moçambique, com vãos de 90m+3x210m+90m

 1962 – Ponte suspensa múltipla de Tete sobre o Rio Zambeze, em Moçambique, com vãos de 90m+3x180m+90m

 1963 – Ponte de S. Fins, com um arco de relação flecha/vão de 5m/70m

 1963 – Ponte da Arrábida sobre o Rio Douro no Porto, com um arco de 270m de vão (na época o maior arco de betão armado do mundo)

 1964 – Pontes ferroviárias e pontes cais em betão pré-esforçado em Moçâmedes, Angola

 1969 – Vários edifícios para a Universidade de Coimbra (Faculdades de Medicina, Matemática e Humanidades)

 1972 – Hotel Sheraton, edifício de 30 pisos em Lisboa

 1974 – Ponte de Mosteiró sobre o Rio Douro, com 110m de vão central. Foi considerada por Edgar Cardoso como a sua melhor e mais bela obra (construção sobre a antiga aproveitando dois dos três pilares originais).

 1974 – Ponte de Macau-Taipa (Ponte Governador Nobre de Carvalho) , com um tabuleiro contínuo de 1231m realizado com elementos pré-fabricados

 1975 – Ponte do Kwanza (Angola), ponte atirantada com um vão central de 260m e um tabuleiro misto aço/betão

 1978 - Ponte Edgar Cardoso da Figueira da Foz sobre o Rio Mondego, ponte de tirantes com um vão central de 225m

 1984 – Prolongamento do Aeroporto do Funchal com uma extensão de 1800m (e estudo da sua extensão para 2781m), com uma laje pré-esforçada com 150m de largura apoiada em pórticos de betão armado, realizado sobre o mar, executada em vigas de betão prefabricadas, assentes sobre pilares de betão armado (estudos iniciais adaptados por António Segadães Tavares)
 1989 –  Ponte sobre o rio Limpopo ( Xai-Xai) em Moçambique.
 1992 – Ponte ferroviária de S. João sobre o Rio Douro no Porto, uma ponte com pórticos de betão armado pré-esforçado com o tabuleiro realizado por avanços sucessivos em consola e vão máximo de 250m

Ligações externas

Cardoso, Edgar
Engenheiros civis de Portugal
Naturais de Resende (Portugal)
Alumni da Universidade do Porto
Professores universitários de Portugal
Oficiais da Ordem Militar de Cristo
Grandes-Oficiais da Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada
Grã-Cruzes da Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada

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RWKrafts: Good to be Home!
I've been away the past 2 weeks without television, without internet, and without my crafty things. It was a beautiful vacation with my family but it feels good to be back to normal!
Me, Matty, Meeko, Mom, Dad on our porch with the best view in Chautauqua!
Being back home with my pretty paper is so nice. It's even nicer when I have so many pretty goodies waiting for me from Two Peas!
I used my new-to-me Lawn Fawn stamps to join in the newest Lawnscaping Challenge. It just so happens to be my favorite challenge... paper piecing!
I saw a comment on an Instagram photo that read, "I don't even know how to send a postcard!"... this one's for you, Internet Person!
stamps - Lawn Fawn "You've Got Mail"
paper - Studio Calico "Atlantic", Basic Grey "Soleil"
Awesome card and welcome back!
I love the layout of this card, the papers you used are perfect! Amazing job!
Fab card from this stamp set! It's one of my favorite ones!
LOVE the diagonal elements across the card...just perfect!
When I was little we had a dog named Meeko! :) WAY before the movie Pocahontas came out with the raccoon with that name. I don't know where my mom got it, but I always liked it. Anyway, lovely goodies and your card is gorgeous. Thanks so much for playing with us at Lawnscaping!
Congrats on your Honorable Gnome! Its always in to come home to crafty goodies waiting on you. I am happy you had a nice vacation!
The colors and design are stellar!! But, I can't get past the 2 weeks w/o TV or Internet - did you have electricity??


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June 28, 2021 Jhustin Hall
It's hot. Too damn hot. Record-breaking heatwaves have raged across Washington for years, and this is just the beginning. It's too hot in the lab to make products, and even the office team can't cope with the colossal heat wave we're experiencing (30 degrees Fahrenheit above average). AC units are SOLD OUT in stores across Washington, and the housing infrastructure was designed to heat residences, not to cool them. Even our lab is underpowered for the intense heat for the region.
Sea Witch Botanicals will be closed today, June 28th. We can still accept online orders, but please be mindful that there will be shipping delays. Please keep cool and hydrated, and be grateful for your access to water as so many people across the globe have to go without in their daily lives.
If you are reading this, chances are that you already understand the core concept of climate change. If not, here's some information from Hannah to help you understand why these heatwaves are amplified by human activity, even though the general weather cycles can be considered natural occurrences.
The earth is a very dynamic system. Over its 4.5 billion year old life the climate has changed numerous times. It's constantly ebbing and flowing. The past 10,000 years on earth have been relatively mild in comparison to the rest of earth's history. The age known as the Holocene is when humans began to settle down and farming entered the scene. Seasons and local climates were more predictable making farming more routine. This was the dawn of civilization. Ten thousand years later we are in a new era, the Anthropocene. Humans have become the dominant force on earth. We are now the leading driver of this climate change.
This particular climate change is due to excess amounts of greenhouse gases being pumped into our atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gases?
Greenhouse gases are gases like carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor that reside in our atmosphere. When the sun's energy reaches earth, greenhouse gases work as a blanket, keeping the earth warm. The more greenhouse gases added to the atmosphere the more blankets we put on. Humans are have contribute 2,000 billion tons of carbon dioxide since the start of the industrial revolution. That's a THICK blanket!
What is and can happen?
Dry places are getting drier and fires are becoming more frequent. Glaciers are melting causing less sunlight to be reflected back into space allowing it to be trapped in the atmosphere. Ocean acidification. Massive hurricanes. Droughts. Flooding. Massive winter storms. Sea levels are rising forcing coastal communities to move further inland. Mass extinction events and so many more.
Climate change is scary. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and not want to think about it. But we've come to a point where we no longer have that privilege. It's already here, we are already experiencing it and people are already dying. It is something that will affect every single one of us in one way or another. Our house is on fire and we alone are responsible for putting it out. We can all do our part by reducing meat intake, planting trees, reducing our carbon footprint, listen to scientist and most importantly holding corporations responsible. This is going to requer monumental change from each and everyone of us but we can do it. We are capable of incredible things and we are capable of fixing this problem.
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Mugo pine and Ezo spruce, Pinus mugo and Picea glehnii, bonsai since 1985.
Update from June 2010: the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection exhibit is open again, 6 days a week. Check out their website for times.
It feels like there's no end to to the bad news these days... Today, I learned the the famous Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection show garden will be closed in end of March 2009 until unknown date in the future. Due to the recession, the Weyerhaeuser Company that owns of the collection, has decided to close the display garden to the public, which is a pity as the collection is truly amazing. As the web site states, it is like an outdoor museum of living Asian art and it is located in a beautiful woodland setting within the Weyerhaeuser Company's corporate campus. It features 60 outstanding bonsai from six Pacific Rim nations. These miniaturized, living trees shaped have been by bonsai artists to portray scenic large trees in nature. Some bonsai create a vision of a serene, benign environment, while others suggest the drama of trees clinging to sheer mountainsides or windswept rocky shores.
This Chinese hackberry, Celtis chinensis, has been trained as bonsai for more than 40 years.
Catlin elm, Ulmus parvifolia 'Catlin', a miniature grove of 20 small trees.
Willow-leaf fig, Ficus salicifolia, bonsai since 1986.
While I visited, the bonsai were still in their wintertime shelters, which is understandable, but visually a bit disappointing. Otherwise, I loved the detailed way the process of creating bonsai was explained, together with interesting facts about the bonsai pots. It really is a pity that this lovely, specific exhibition will disappear from the public sight, so check it out while you still have a chance!
Luckily, the Weyerhaeuser Company will keep the bonsai trees and continue to employ the curator and one full-time gardener to take care of these little treasures. I hope that they still keep their excellent web pages up, as they have good pictures and detailed information about the bonsai on display, information about the art of bonsai, a list of suggested reading and videos, other bonsai and penjing displays in the United States, and bonsai club websites and Internet resources.
Trident maple, Acer Buergerianum, bonsai since 1880, about 8 feet high. This tree was imported from Japan for exhibit at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. It was bought after the exhibition by nurseryman Kanetaro Domoto in California and kept in the Domoto family until it was included in the Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection.
My English is not good, but can appreciate your bonsai!
I know, it's so sad when any public garden shuts down. I have never been to the bonsai/rhodie garden but feel like I really need to haul down there someday soon! Thanks for this post as a reminder that I'd better be quick!


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Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 – How I Experienced It
On March 11th 2011 something happened in Japan that probably nobody of us will ever forget! Of course I'm talking about the Great Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011. It was so horrible, especially for the people who were in Japan at that time.
I was one of them.
The Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011
March 11th, 2011, a sunny Friday afternoon:
It was a wonderful sunny and peaceful Friday afternoon. It was my day off, so I was sitting in front of my laptop in my super tiny Japanese apartment, drinking a cup of cappuccino and munching something sweet I had bought the day before.
It was just a normal Friday afternoon …… or so I thought.
Suddenly my Twitter account and mailbox were almost exploding!
I got a lot of messages asking if I was ok. At first, I was confused and just quickly replied: "Yeah, sure!"
I thought to myself that something must have happened in Japan, so I turned on the TV, but what I saw was not what I expected.
Houses, cars, ships washed away by tsunami waves as if they were toys. Fires everywhere!
I almost dropped the remote control!
I think I stared at the TV while my jaw dropped onto the floor. It took a few minutes until I realized what happened. Immediately I was back in front of my laptop and checked what others were writing.
I replied to some more mails from friends and family who seemed a bit concerned, but they knew I was far enough away.
Yes, that's right. At that time I was actually SO far away that I didn't notice the big Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011 AT ALL! That's why for me – the world was still as normal as could be – until I turned on the TV.
The next few hours I spent trying to contact my friends in Tokyo, but I couldn't get hold of most of them. The communication network was pretty much down at that time. Twitter was the only reliable source back then. Here's a short extract of what I wrote only a few hours after the big earthquake hit:
"I've turned on the TV ever since then and the pictures are terrifying! The number of dead or missing people is rapidly increasing!
Luckily I was able to confirm that my friends in and around Tokyo are all safe, still waiting for the response of some, though. Most of them don't have electricity or gas! 8 prefectures seem to be without electricity right now!"
One day after the earthquake I was able to confirm that my best friend and her little daughter had survived, but they didn't have any electricity. People in and around Tokyo had to go through a lot of nerve-wrecking aftershocks.
One of my acquaintance's friends died during the earthquake in Tokyo. :(
In the late evening on March 11th, I wrote the following:
It's so horrible what has happened and I hope that everybody will be safe! My thoughts are especially with the people in Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures and all strongly affected areas as well as with all those people who are stuck in Tokyo right now and probably will have to spend the night in a train station.
Although there was a tsunami warning for almost ALL of Japan's coasts, I didn't have to worry about myself as I lived far, far away from the ocean. As you can see there were regions in Japan that were COMPLETELY unaffected by the earthquake and tsunami.
Slowly recovering from the shock and relieved that most people I knew were confirmed to be safe, I didn't expect that another horrible disaster was still lurking in a dark corner, just waiting to come out.
Not much later the news were all about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and how it was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami:
"The walls of a concrete building surrounding the reactor container at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant collapsed in an explosion, but the reactor and its containment system were not damaged, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said."
"The next step for workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will be to flood the reactor containment structure with sea water to bring the reactor's temperature down to safe levels, he said. The effort is expected to take two days.
Radiation levels have fallen since the explosion and there is no immediate danger, Edano said." (source)
Finally even people who were far away from Fukushima started to worry.
What if the worst case scenario would actually occur? Being far away from Fukushima would mean NOTHING!!! I kept checking the live news.
About a day later, I started to panic!
I've already been through such a disaster once in my life (Chernobyl) – and I didn't want to go through another one! However, I also didn't want to leave Japan in panic like many others did (so-called "Flyjin" = fly + gaijin [foreigner]). The airports in and around Tokyo were so crowded. It was very difficult to get a flight ticket back home … and those were very expensive.
While panicking I wrote the following on March 12th, 2011:
There is contradictory information about a possible meltdown in at least one of the atomic power plants!
They're already handing out iodine pills to the people in the affected area to prevent thyroid cancer, among other things. This just shows that they can't control the situation anymore and they just try to do what they can to save as many people as possible.
Of course they won't say on TV how severe it really is! That actually a huge amount of radiation has been leaking and depending on the wind it will spread far, far away. Nobody in Japan is safe anymore and even people in China and Russia have to be afraid of the radiation now!
I think it's much, much worse than they admit on TV. Of course it is! They can't afford a panic of 33-something million people in Tokyo! Tokyo is too big to be evacuated!
The week after the big Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011
My family and friends freaked out and told me to get back home RIGHT NOW!!!
In order to calm them down … and I guess myself as well, I packed an emergency bag and got a re-entry stamp for my visa, so that I could leave the country at any time without losing my work visa.
The international airport that was closest to where I lived wasn't crowded at all. I checked for tickets and there were still enough available. I guess the panic had not swapped over to all of Japan yet. A lot of people had already left the Tokyo area. Either they moved farther west to Osaka/Kyoto or they left Japan completely. Some embassies called their people back home, most international companies sent their staff out of Japan.
However, I decided to wait and see.
I didn't want to leave Japan unless ABSOLUTELY necessary.
I guess we all spent a lot of sleepless nights for at least about a week.
I had to call my grandmother every single day, because she was so worried!
In the meantime the foreign media made the disaster look even worse than it actually was!
This exaggeration led to a lot of donations, which was pretty much the only good thing about it. However, it also caused many families to freak out asking their loved ones in Japan to get their ass out of there ASAP!
Although I lived in a region that was not affected at all, water was sold out in most supermarkets.
It wasn't as bad as in other cities where almost everything was sold out completely within a few hours!
I spent many hours in front of the TV, just crying. At that time nobody could believe that this actually really happened. And to make things worse, the number of people who were confirmed dead just kept rising. On top of it all there was the threatening situation with the nuclear power plant in Fukushima!
In the end I stayed in Japan. None of my friends or acquaintances was hurt or died. I tried to help where I could.
In May 2012 I visited Miyagi Prefecture just to see that some cities such as Ishinomaki still had not recovered from all the damage that was caused.
It was a horrible disaster and its traces (especially the radiation) will never fully disappear. Even now people are still worried about how safe it is in Japan.
Some great videos and links about the Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011
Nuclear Nation – The Fukushima Refugees Story (a film by Atsushi Funahashi)
3.11: Surviving Japan: "After the Japanese 3/11 earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima disaster, an American named Chris Noland volunteered in the massive cleanup effort. What he found led him on a path to answers across North East Japan – to the government, to the power company, and to discover the shocking truth."
Remembering the March 11, 2011 disaster – a great documentary, great blog!
How did you experience the big Japan earthquake and tsunami 2011?
Where were you on March 11th 2011, what did you do?
How did you feel when you saw the horrible pictures?
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I can't even imagine what it was like for japanese residents. However I was asleep that day. Woke up to my boyfriend freaking out asking "did you hear about japan??". Immediately I was up and googling any article I could find. Everyday for weeks I was looking for any update about the lost people and fukushima. Every now and then I check up through you, about.com and others the recovery efforts. I hope one day things will be as close to normal as they can be. R.I.p. to the victims.
Sometimes I wonder how I would have felt or reacted, had I not been in Japan at that time.
I'm just glad and feel very lucky that I was far enough away at that time and that all the people I know were safe.
I feel so sorry for all those people who have lost everything! ;__;
We were supposed to have visitors from Ritsumeikan Keisho around that time and we were really worried about them. Luckily they're from Sapporo so they didn't feel much from the earthquake. I remember being on my way to school when I read the news. I immediately texted my friend Makoto and asked him about it. He said that I shouldn't worry, that Japan is used to earthquakes. But when we met in school, I saw that he was starting to get really worried. I didn't sleep for three days after the accident, and I constantly updated the news. It was horrible and I wish it will never happen again. I always get tears in my eyes when I look at pictures from the accident. Japan has been so strong and handled everything in the best way anyone could.
I wouldn't say that "Japan" has handled everything in the best way. I think the people who were affected certainly did, but definitely NOT TEPCO or the government! :(
I understand how difficult the situation is / was, though. I wouldn't want to trade with TEPCO!
I'm glad to hear that your guests were safe! I hope you or your friend Makoto didn't lose anybody in the earthquake / tsunami! :/
I was back home in Australia that terrible day watching everything unfold live on TV. I remember desperately trying to get in touch with family and friends in Japan to see if they were all OK and safe. Not a nice experience and prays and wishes to the victims of the disaster.
I guess the whole world (well, almost) was shocked on that day.
I hope everybody you know was safe!
Rina says:
I was at the other side of the world – in Germany. But still I was horrified!
I didn't sleep well that night and woke up early. When I turned on my netbook and looked up for the news, I got a little shock. It was right after the first news of tsunami coming Japan. I was so scared for everyone in Japan, specaly for my friends in the Tokyo area. :whyohwhy:
The whole day, and even the days after, I continuly looked at the newsticker and watched the german tv news. It was confusing, because I looking up for the news from many different countries, the "fearmongering" was so different! I know the japanese ones were (and still are if you ask my opinion) holding up too many information and the eurpoean were too exaggerating (thanks to that my family don't want to let me go to tokyo, even wish that I will not go to near of Japan at all for the next 20 years, minimum :notamused: )
When I see pictures of that day and even pictures of how it looks now , I still tearing up. I don't know any of the persons, who were killed or lost their home because of that earthquake/tsunami, but it's just too much. :(
Please tell your parents to better lock you up in your room, because something could happen to you at any time and everywhere in the world, not only in Japan!
Yes, Japan has a lot of earthquakes, but not ALL of Japan. Also, most of the earthquakes are pretty harmless.
There's really NO reason not to come to Japan. I know that I don't have to tell YOU that! ;)
Thoughts on 11th March… | Haikugirl's Japan says:
[…] Japan Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 – How I Experienced It – A German expat in Japan recalls the day the earthquake struck, and reminds us that it is safe to travel in Japan. […]
I was in Tokyo and really scared. My iPhone was the only communication to the outside world but I had to be careful in using it because it was not fully charged. I slept in a temporary emergency shelter. The next day at 4am in the morning I found out about what happened in Tohoku. I saw a photo from the airport in Miyagi and could not figure out how this could happen, what happen until I read it and got an extra explanation from someone. Tsunami!
Back home I slept until the afternoon and switched on the TV and Fukushima was on!
Wow, I'm sorry to hear that you had such bad luck and had to sleep in an emergency shelter. I guess it was really bad!
How about your family? Were they all able to get back home that day / night?
LeenaEvilin says:
i was at saitama that day! i remember that i was talking to my neighbours when suddenly the street felt like a huge swingboat…
first i thought it was nothing special… because two days before, during my japanese class there was a huge quake as well and all acted pretty normal (we were on the 10th floor though)…
but this time everyone was scared!!!
i was a really difficult time for me after that day. i lost my job so i moved to tokyo… but was lucky enough to find the best job ever after a month of horror^^
so after all this struggle i went through… i still love japan and my live in japan!!!! ;P
I'm glad to hear that things turned out well for you in the end, but I bet that this one month was quite horrible.
Hamyo says:
Wow, it's been 2 years since that tragedy. It's weird how times flies, i hope there is no more tears and painfull memories there.
"Pray for Japan" :)
RexBoerner says:
The film shows moving moments and feelings of people. This tragedy and particularly the consequences we should bear in mind. For me personally it means among other things, to travel again to Japan and visit this wonderful country and meet the people also away from the big cities!
We should never forget 311!
Arrigato zoomingJapan! :thumbup:
I'm glad to hear that you want to travel to Japan again!
A lot of people are still too scared to do so. It's a shame! :(
Ken Seeroi says:
Yeah, that was a historically bad day. I was in Tokyo when the earthquake hit, and I thought the building was going to explode. I spent the next six hours walking home. It got pretty cold and tiring after a while. Then watching the TV, and the replays of the tsunami devastating the coast, jeez, it was horrible.
Hard to believe it's been two years already.
Sounds like you had a lot of "fun". Did you have to walk home alone?
I bet it was almost morning when you arrived. :(
I was in my office in Tokyo when the building started shaking. It was one of the scariest days of my life. Had to walk about 4 hours to get home. But I think the whole week after that was quite difficult with so much conflicting news about the nuclear power plant. I eventually went back to India that week. But I'm back in Japan now :)
I'm sorry to hear that you had such a horrible time, but at least you weren't injured and I hope nobody you know was!
Glad to hear that. When did you come back to Japan? :)
I came back in January this year. Enjoying the spring here now :)
I'm glad to hear that! ^___^
I usually enjoy spring, but this year my hay fever is really bad. I hope you don't have to struggle with that.
coolio says:
I can still remember that day, if it was just yesterday. My biggest worry was my little son and his family. After the quake, i couldn't reach my ex or anybody else near to her. I had no information what happened to them. No telephone line, nothing. So i left office and literally ran home. 20 kilometers by foot. No train, no taxi, no bus, no nothing. The streets were overcrowded with people. It felt like Tokyo marathon. When i finally reached my home town and saw my little boy, i broke down in tears. I'll never forget the expression in his face………
That must have been so horrible!
Of course it's hard to imagine what you must have felt, but I'm so happy to hear that your family was ok!
D'un Renard says:
Not only the Earthquake and the tsunami of which you can recover and rebuild, but also the fukushima catastrophe which started then and is still ongoing, its radiation and contamination to continue to affect the life of west Honshu for many hundreds years!
I agree that the radiation was the worst disaster concerning long-term issues.
I went through a similar situation once already when Chernobyl happened in Europe. At least that disaster in the 80s didn't come along with an earthquake and tsunami. :(
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Think twice about the evolution of photosynthesis
The evolution of photosynthesis represents one of the key biological innovations responsible for the rise of complex life on planet Earth. Dr Tanai Cardona from Imperial College London recently published a review in Open Biology that challenges common myths in this field.
By Buchi Okereafor
"The main points I would like the reader to take away, especially younger audiences, is that there are fascinating stories yet to be told on this fundamental topic. That there is a lot of scope for new research and new views. And finally, that trying to solve the puzzle of why life is the way it is can be an exciting and rewarding career endeavour."
Buchi Okereafor
Publishing Editor - Open Biology, the Royal Society
The evolution of photosynthesis represents one of the key biological innovations responsible for the rise of complex life on planet Earth. Dr Tanai Cardona from Imperial College London recently published a review in Open Biology that challenges common myths in this field. We asked him a few questions about his work and what's next in his career.
Tell us about yourself and your research?
I grew up on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, in a place called Montería. I travelled to Bogotá to study biology and there I became very interested in photosynthesis. After graduating, I went to Sweden to do my PhD in photosynthesis research at Uppsala University. After that, I spent two years at the CEA in Paris for my postdoc, before moving to the UK seven years ago. I am in the lab of Prof. A. William Rutherford FRS at Imperial College. I must say that 15 years since leaving Colombia, my love for photosynthesis research has only grown. I have the privilege now to lead an independent research programme to study the evolution of photosynthesis and photosynthetic reaction centres. Photosynthetic reaction centres are nature's solar cells. These molecular machines are so amazingly ancient, yet so structurally and functionally complex, that I can never stop wondering: "how did these intricate machines originate? How did they evolve? When exactly?" I want to solve these questions at the greatest level of detail possible, that is, at the atomic level.
What is your article about and what are the main points readers should take from it?
The article is a critical assessment of the fundamental principles that underpin the study of the evolution of photosynthesis. There are two types of photosynthesis: oxygenic and anoxygenic photosynthesis. Oxygenic photosynthesis uses light to extract electrons from water, releasing oxygen as a by-product. Anoxygenic photosynthesis cannot split water and does not release oxygen. The importance of oxygenic photosynthesis for the evolution of life can hardly be overemphasised. It represents one of the key innovations that transformed Earth and paved the way for the rise of complex life.
It is universally accepted that anoxygenic photosynthesis is the more primitive type and that it gave rise to oxygenic photosynthesis. There is currently an unquestionable belief that this is indeed the case. This is important because our best scenarios for the evolution of life and Earth during the first half of the plant's history depend on when photosynthesis originated and on when oxygen becomes available to life for the first time. At the beginning I had no reason to doubt this, but the closer I looked at the available data, the more I found inconsistencies and contradictions. My own research showed that the traditional view has no support, or that at the very least it was not accurate enough. I started to wonder, "Where does the confidence in this traditional view come from when all the evidence has been ambiguous, at best, or paradoxical, at worst?" I started to trace the history of the subject and discovered that this traditional view emerged from speculative commentary long before we understood the process well enough. So, I wanted to debunk some of the mythology that has built up around the subject and provide a new framework for the study of the evolution of photosynthesis. This new framework is better supported by multiple independent lines of evidence and is informed by our extensive understanding of photosynthesis today. It clarifies ambiguities, dispels paradoxes, and has more explanatory power. I think it is a big deal, text-book rewriting stuff.
The main points I would like the reader to take away, especially younger audiences, is that there are fascinating stories yet to be told on this fundamental topic. That there is a lot of scope for new research and new views. And finally, that trying to solve the puzzle of why life is the way it is can be an exciting and rewarding career endeavour.
Your review received good attention via Preprints.org; as a researcher, how have you found preprint servers helpful?
I am a huge advocate of open science. I upload all of my articles into a preprint service and try to engage with the community online via Researchgate, a science blog, and Twitter. I share unpublished data, openly discuss topics of interest in my field, and try to provide commentary and feedback on preprints that are within my expertise. I have found the preprint service very useful, both as a dissemination tool and as a way to receive feedback from other scientists before the paper is finally published.
Why did you submit to Open Biology and how was your experience publishing with Royal Society Publishing?
There were several reasons behind my decision to submit to Open Biology. The most important one is that Open Biology explicitly encourages the submissions of critical reviews. Flexibility in the submission format and structuring of the manuscript were also very important. The fact that it is published by the Royal Society was also something that I liked. My experience was good and smooth, the flexibility on submission format made the process more convenient than other journals with stricter formatting rules.
As an early-career scientist, my main objective at the moment is to consolidate my independence and to take the necessary steps towards establishing a research group. So I am currently working towards getting a tenured position. That brings some uncertainty, of course. Having said that, I have a few ongoing interesting projects. For example, I have a project that combines computational and lab-based approaches to reconstruct ancestral forms of photosynthesis. I want to experimentally test some of the predictions on the evolution of photosynthesis that are derived from my research. This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
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Eyewitnesses reported that it looked like a pin or a section of the metal ride had detached before the accident.
After the accident, it took approximately one hour for ride operators to get everyone else off the Ferris wheel. Rhody Festival Vice-President Brandi Hamon and President Debbie La Follete both had children stuck on the wheel at the time of the accident; they released a statement thanking volunteers and employees for stepping up to care for the victims and handling crowd control during a tense situation.
The festival was contracted out to The Funtastic Carnival Traveling Shows, which operates the faulty Ferris wheel and other rides. Funtastic had been in operation for over 60 years, and President Ron Burback told reporters that this is the first such incident in the company's history. Investigators returned to the scene on Friday to continue their work.
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Known for their tough and durable nature, dungarees were initially very popular among the people involved in physical labor. In this article, we will study the history of dungarees, and look at how it turned from clothing for manual laborers to a major fashion statement that it is today.
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Origins of Dungarees
The history of the word dungarees is believed to have come from the Indian words 'dungri' or 'dongerjins', which were manufactured in 'Dongri', a village in Mumbai, in the 1600s where this type of calico fabric was first invented.
Dungaree is a type of cloth that is woven from thick durable cotton twill, which is mostly dyed blue in color. While dungarees in the UK refer specifically to overalls, i.e., casual garments consisting of trousers with a bib held up by straps over the shoulders, it is used in the US to describe blue jeans, or jeans used while doing manual labor.
Most records show that dungarees first originated in 1792, as a protective garment for slaves, farmers, mechanics, and other people whose occupation involved a lot of manual labor. These garments were made with cheap, poorly-fitting, rough, and durable fabric, which marked it as a garment for men of the lower classes.
Fashion History of Dungarees
Initially, any fashion related to dungarees was solely associated with rural American men. The use of these overalls, commonly known as slops, was widely seen in militias that participated in the American revolutionary war, for the infantry as well as the cavalry, where the bib and the jeans were separate.
In the mid 1800s, the bib and the trousers came together, to form the first overalls. These garments were designed by Levi Strauss, and were ideal for hard physical labor, and for carrying tools, which eliminated the need for waist belts. It soon became a standard clothing for those working in factories, mines, construction sites, etc. The overalls were mass-produced and even color coded according to the profession of the person: white for painters, pinstriped for railroad workers, and different shades of blue for the rest of the working class. It wasn't until the first World War when women started wearing these garments, as they worked in the factories to help in the war efforts. Dungaree jeans were given a major boost in 1930, when they were marketed in small sizes as a style statement for kids, and not just for the manual laborers. These clothes became even more popular when they were sported by movie stars such as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood, which turned dungaree overalls into a symbol of rugged sexiness.
Eventually dungarees and overalls were given various fashionable modifications in the '60s, '70s, and '90s, where they became the focus for the clothes of many fashion designers. Following a lull in the demand, these clothes were revived in 2010, with many innovative designs, which were sported by prominent celebrities such as Pixie Lott, Rihanna, and Alexa Chung.
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History of Navy Dungaree Uniforms
Bell-bottomed dungarees were widely used in the United States Navy during the First World War, as utility uniforms by sailors as well as officers. These uniforms included a work coat of blue denim and matching trousers, along with a white 'dixie cup' cover as headgear, and low black leather boots. The sailors could also wear a sweater inside for warmth. These garments were to be only used when working on some task that could possibly get the person dirty. Sailors were not allowed to go out of naval bases while wearing these clothes, and if they had to travel in these clothes, the cars were not allowed to stop anywhere on route to their destination.
Recently, however, these clothes have become optional, and have to be worn with chambray shirts, with different color codes to differentiate the ranks of the personnel while working at sea. The cloth is made of water- and wind-resistant cotton, that is lined with nylon fleece. Although designed initially only for men, new rules in the navy ensure that even women personnel have these uniforms.
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QuickCool AB (publ): European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund requests conversion of convertible bonds
Mon, Dec 16, 2019 17:01 CET
European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund has by notice to the board of directors of QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool") called upon its right to conversion of convertible bonds previously issued in accordance with the financing solution announced by QuickCool through a press release on 21 June 2018.QuickCool has received notification from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund regarding conversion of convertible bonds into 714 285 shares in QuickCool, corresponding toSEK 500 000 of the convertible loan. The conversion price per share is SEK 0,70. Upon
QuickCool AB (publ): The Board of QuickCool AB (publ) needs additional time to complete the negotiations on the company's long-term financing
Sun, Dec 08, 2019 21:21 CET
On November 24, 2019, the Board of Directors of QuickCool AB (publ) resolved to withdraw proposals for resolutions at the Extraordinary General Meeting in light of the ongoing negotiations being conducted by the Board on the Company's future financing and operations. The Board has continued to evaluate available financing options and negotiate various arrangements.The Board needs additional time to analyze and decide on the structure that best takes into account the interests of the shareholders. The Board's previous assessment that the negotiations could be completed within a two-week
More from the Company Monthly Newsletter November 2019
During the month of November, we have continued our development and documentation work. The negotiations regarding our long-term financing have continued, another patent application was submitted to PRV (The Swedish Patent and Registration Office), our Notified Body, TÜV Süd, conducted its annual audit of our Quality Management System and we participated at Stora Aktiedagen in Stockholm.Our notified body, TÜV Süd, conducted their annual recertification review of our Quality Management System according to ISO 13485:2016 for two days. It was a well-conducted inspection and review of our
QuickCool AB (publ) signs letter of intent with Biovation
Tue, Nov 19, 2019 18:20 CET
As previously communicated, QuickCool AB (publ) ("QuickCool") proposes to transform the existing QuickCool company into a holding structure to invest in cannabis and other alternative medical markets as well as to, in a separate new subsidiary, continue to develop QuickCool® SYSTEM.As part of the change of business, QuickCool intends to enter an agreement with Biovation Sciences Ltd. ("Biovation") regarding investment advice and support for investments in additional operations. As of 19 November 2019, QuickCool and Biovation have entered into a letter of intent on such collaboration.
Fri, Nov 08, 2019 12:29 CET
European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund has by notice to the board of directors of QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool") called upon its right to conversion of convertible bonds previously issued in accordance with the financing solution announced by QuickCool through a press release on 21 June 2018.QuickCool has received notification from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund regarding conversion of convertible bonds into 999 999 shares in QuickCool, corresponding toSEK 1 100 000 of the convertible loan. The conversion price per share is SEK 1,10. Upon
QuickCool AB (Publ.) Proposes to become a holding company with the new direction of investing in cannabis and alternative medicine that also provides financing for the development of QuickCool® SYSTEM
Sun, Nov 03, 2019 22:30 CET
QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool") The Board of directors proposes that the existing QuickCool company be transformed into a holding structure to invest in cannabis and other alternative medical markets as well as to, in a separate new subsidiary, continue to develop QuickCool® SYSTEM. The change provides a financing solution for acquisitions in medical cannabis, as well as for the development of QuickCool® SYSTEM.The board of directors proposes that the name of the company, as a consequence of the change in business, will be changed to Bio-Med Cannabis Europe AB and that QuickCool becomes a
European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund requests conversion of convertible bonds
Tue, Sep 17, 2019 12:54 CET
European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund has by notice to the board of directors of QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool") called upon its right to conversion of convertible bonds previously issued in accordance with the financing solution announced by QuickCool through a press release on 21 June 2018.QuickCool has received notification from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund regarding conversion of convertible bonds into 500 000 shares in QuickCool, corresponding to SEK 500 000 of the convertible loan. The conversion price per share is SEK 1,00. Upon
QuickCool AB (publ): Clarification regarding the investigation of the proposal that would secure the long-term financing
Thu, Aug 29, 2019 15:17 CET
The Board of QuickCool has been presented with a proposal to finance QuickCool's running operations up to the granting of the required CE mark and certification of the QuickCool® SYSTEMClarification: The financing proposal comprises a potential "reverse merger" with a third party company with different activities in the nutritional supplements, biotech and pharma industries, of different nature from QuickCool's business, through an acquisition of such company by QuickCool with the payment of the purchase price being made through the issuance of new QuickCool shares. Through this
Wed, Aug 28, 2019 19:46 CET
QuickCool AB requests an extra tranche of convertible loan, in order to off-set a promissory note that was issued in January 2019, from EHGO
Wed, Jul 24, 2019 15:43 CET
QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool" or the "Company") requests an extra tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 M from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund in order to offset a promissory note that was issued on 28 January 2019, in accordance with the financing solution announced by Quickcool through a press release on 21 June 2018.Convertible Instruments The board has resolved, based on the general meeting's authorization, to request the issuance of the seventh tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 million by issuing convertible instruments. The
QuickCool AB requests the seventh tranche of convertible loan from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund
Tue, Jul 23, 2019 12:17 CET
QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool" or the "Company") requests the seventh tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 M from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund in accordance with the financing solution announced by Quickcool through a press release on 21 June 2018.Convertible Instruments The board has resolved, based on the general meeting's authorization, to request the issuance of the seventh tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 million by issuing convertible instruments. The convertible instruments can be converted into shares of QuickCool. European High
Mon, May 13, 2019 15:45 CET
European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund has by notice to the board of directors of QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool") called upon its right to conversion of convertible bonds previously issued in accordance with the financing solution announced by QuickCool through a press release on 21 June 2018.QuickCool has received notification from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund regarding conversion of convertible bonds into 653 846 shares in QuickCool, corresponding to SEK 1 700 000 of the convertible loan. The conversion price per share is SEK 2,60. Upon
QuickCool AB (publ): QuickCool AB requests the sixth tranche of convertible loan from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund
Wed, Apr 17, 2019 18:30 CET
QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool" or the "Company") requests the sixth tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 M from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund in accordance with the financing solution announced by Quickcool through a press release on 21 June 2018.Convertible Instruments The board has resolved, based on the general meeting's authorization, to request the issuance of the sixth tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 million by issuing convertible instruments. The convertible instruments can be converted into shares of QuickCool. European High
Fri, Apr 05, 2019 16:25 CET
European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund has by notice to the board of directors of QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool") called upon its right to conversion of convertible bonds previously issued in accordance with the financing solution announced by QuickCool through a press release on 21 June 2018.QuickCool has received notification from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund regarding conversion of convertible bonds into 1 333 332 shares in QuickCool, corresponding to SEK 3 200 000 of the convertible loan. The conversion price per share is SEK 2,40. Upon
More from the Company Monthly Newsletter March 2019
Tue, Apr 02, 2019 17:06 CET
During the month of March, we continued our development and documentation work, participated in the 9th Annual Therapeutic Hypothermia Conference in Miami and presented at ABG Sundal Collier Introduce Investor Days in Stockholm.The highlight of the month was the participation in The 9th Annual Therapeutic Hypothermia Targeted Temperatue Management and the Use of ECMO in Critical Care Event in Miami. Most of the participants were researchers, medical doctors and nurses from the USA, but also from another 15 countries or so. It was an exceptionally wide-ranging program. Some of the topics
QuickCool AB (publ): QUICKCOOL AB REQUESTS THE FIFTH TRANCHE OF CONVERTIBLE LOAN FROM EUROPEAN HIGH GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES SECURITIZATION FUND
Thu, Mar 14, 2019 15:27 CET
QuickCool AB (Publ) ("QuickCool" or the "Company") requests the fifth tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 M from European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund in accordance with the financing solution announced by Quickcool through a press release on 21 June 2018.Convertible Instruments The board has resolved, based on the general meeting's authorization, to request the issuance of the fifth tranche of convertible loan amounting to SEK 2 million by issuing convertible instruments. The convertible instruments can be converted into shares of QuickCool. European High
Wed, Mar 13, 2019 14:57 CET
Quickcool AB: Strengthens its organization with an experienced Director of Operations
Mon, Mar 04, 2019 17:33 CET
QuickCool AB: Jim Hansson begins his position as Director of Operations on 01 April 2019.As part of the company's shift from development company to a company focused on production, marketing and sales, Jim Hansson has been recruited to QuickCool AB as Director of Operations starting on Monday April 1.The company employs a key person that fundamentally strengthens the company's expertise and experience. Jim brings a unique experience of medical technology and systems of integrated cooling. He has for the past 9 years worked as production manager and service manager at the medical
Thu, Feb 14, 2019 08:00 CET
Rights issue with preferential rights for the company's shareholders is now registered
Tue, Feb 05, 2019 17:21 CET
Quickcool's rights issue with preferential rights for the company's shareholders is now registered. The issue was subscribed to 67 per cent. The subscription amounted to SEK 4.3 million (of which SEK 2.2 million was added by offsetting), before deducting the issue costs, which amounted to approximately SEK 0.3 million.QuickCool AB (publ) ("Quickcool") published the outcome of the rights issue in a press release on 21 December 2018. The rights issue was registered today, 5 February, with the Swedish Companies Registration Office. The number of shares in the rights issue, 4 294 116 shares,
Fri, Feb 01, 2019 16:03 CET
Directed share issue to the European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund is registered
The directed share issue, with exemption from the shareholders ' preferential rights, addressed to the European High Growth opportunities Securitization Fund, has been registered.QuickCool AB (publ) ("Quickcool") published a press release on 18 January 2019 that the Board of Directors had taken the decision to address a directed share issue, with exemption from the shareholders' preferential rights, to the European High Growth Opportunities Securitization Fund. It has now been registered. Through the directed share issue, 416 667 shares have been issued which corresponds to an increase


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