insigne 1 year old today!
It was about this day (give or take a few days) that I went into type design full time. It's been a great year. I am sure that next year will bring some great typefaces, and I look forward to it. Thanks to all my customers that made this dream a reality.
SavoryPaste is a grungy sans serif from insigne. SavoryPaste includes 64 discretionary ligatures of the most common letter pairs for a more natural look without distracting repeating characters. The typeface family also includes OpenType small caps, old style figures and alternates without filled counters. The SavoryPaste family also includes a completely interchangeable and more restrained alternate.
Terfens is a sans serif with inspiration from chancery scripts like Stefania. Subtly rounded and eschewing harsh technical lines, Terfens is a warm and inviting typeface. Its tall x-height gives it a friendly but not overly informal feel. Its readability and unique contemporary look makes it suitable for a wide range of design applications.
Antigen is a forceful and fresh typeface with a strong futuristic feel. Its characters have a wide stance, and the lettering is subtly rounded. Antigen includes a set of OpenType alternates that remove the spike crossbars for a less aggressive appearance. Antigen is great for titling that needs an edgy, assertive and ultramodern look.
Brigette is based on the popular insigne script Natalya. The frilly script has been acid dipped, scratched and destroyed for use in grungy design jobs or any other use that calls for a ragged script. Three different degrees of deconstruction are available. The Alternate Two variant is highly distressed, and when rasterised by many programs at smaller point sizes appears almost illegible, but prints just fine. OpenType features include 64 OpenType ligatures that can be used to extend the natural appearance of the lettering, oldstyle figures and ending swashes. Brigette works great in conjunction with insigne Splats!
The 2007 Q3 catalog is available here (.7MB) for download. The catalog includes our most popular faces with some brief background information and type samples.
I am pleased to announce that starting next month insigne will send out its first monthly newsletter. This will be a great resource, including behind-the-scenes information about our latest releases, information about upcoming promotions and a sneak peak at pending releases. I also hope to offer some great deals for our newsletter subscribers. More on that a bit later. You can sign up here, and you can opt out at any time.
Aviano Slab is an extended slab serif and the newest member of the popular insigne series Aviano. The same classically proportioned letterforms are now available in a slab serif variant for powerful impact.
Montag is an extended, rounded sans-serif. In many ways it can be seen as a more conservative, extended version of Chennai. As with Chennai, it includes simplified versions of many characters for titling or when a more futuristic appearance is called for. Choose Montag whenever you need a distinctive sans serif.
Kairengu is a casual and lively rounded sans serif. The characters are "gloopy" as if ink was poured onto page surface. Kairengu is a great choice whenever you need an amusing face with a lot of character.
In 2007, insigne released Aviano. It's beautifully drawn extended letterforms were a hit with designers and Aviano quickly became insigne's most popular offering of early 2007. Now, insigne returns to the classical forms that were the inspiration for Aviano with a sans serif variant. Aviano Sans is wide and geometric, and is perfect for any job that calls for a chic and dignified sans serif.
Questal is an intriguing unicase serif. The face appears rather eccentric, yet it still retains a refined character. The typeface is wider than most, but not to the degree that Aviano is extended. The font includes some interesting OpenType alternate characters to extend the quirky quality of the letterforms even further. If unicase isn't your thing, the Questal family also includes a small caps variant for more traditional uses. Use Questal for eye-catching and distinctive logotypes or headlines.
Carta Marina is based on the titling found on the famous map drawn by Olaus Magnus in 1539. The map of northern Europe took 12 years to complete, and the total size is a huge 1.7 meters tall by 1.25 meters wide. More information about the map, as well as the high resolution reference document used to create the typeface and illustration set can be found at the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota.
The titling is slightly aged, very sturdy and elegant. Carta Marina includes a full set of OpenType alternates for every character in the English alphabet, oldstyle figures, historical forms, small caps and 64 discretionary ligatures. These ligatures are used to alter the appearance of the type so that the printing appears realistic and without any duplicate letters to detract from the antique appearance.
Sorry for the lack of updates for the, oh, past half month. I have been working on a new typeface called Carta Marina, based on the characters and illustrations found on that famous map. I am going to do my releases concurrently with myfonts.com now, so that is the reason for the slight delay. I also took a few trips to the Florida coast and to the Tennessee mountains, looking for a place to relocate.
The latest is a unicase. These are fairly popular these days, and I thought I would give it a whirl. I'm trying to think of a good Latin-esque name to match my naming convention.
This is a bit late, not because there was an issue with the design. For some reason, I was unable to upload the information to the provider that handles my paypal payments and downloads, Payloadz.
Ran across this great typography related April Fools joke.
"San Serriffe is an archipelago consisting of two main islands and a number of smaller ones. Of the larger islands, the more northerly (the Caissa Superiore or Upper Caisse) is roughly round and the more southerly (the Caissa Inferiore or Lower Caisse) round but with a promontory extending south-westwards from the south-east, at Thirty Point. The two major islands are separated by the Shoals of Adze, dominated by Cap Em. The capital, Bodoni, is in the centre of the Caissa Superiore, and is served by an international airport. It is linked by fast highways to the major ports, including Port Clarendon."
From the Sans Serriffe Wikipedia article.
Still more progress on Kinshasa. Some tweaking of pretty much every character here.
More progress on Kinshasa. Still quite a bit to do.
I've tentatively titled this one Kinshasa.
It's starting to take on some character. I like whats going on with the K, R, etc. I need to incorporate that in the rest of the uppercase. The lower is somewhat reminiscent of Frutiger, surprisingly.
Note that my naming convention of late has been to name sans after cities, serifs in Latin or Italian and scripts after girls names.
I love branding. In a way, I see every typeface that I create as a "brand." Recently, I ran across this excellent site detailing the design history of many of today's logos. An interesting and inspiring source.
Madeleine is an open script face with influence from early 50's scripts. The stroke doesn't have much variation, and the characters are wide and flowing. The script also features OpenType end swashes and discretionary ligatures to extend the twirling and fluid nature of the script. This mischievous script is useful for informal invitations, scrap booking or whenever you need a retro look.
I have altered the stroke on Madeleine to be more "50's." In my research I didn't find a lot of stroke variation. Also, the letter forms are more consistent. I have abandoned the idea for a more spontaneous script. It's important to note that the idea was a script inspired by 50's scripts; not a complete duplication. Still, I think this stroke looks better. I found some neat reference material, so I may do a truly 50's script in the future. I think that 50's-esque design is coming back a bit. Take a look at some of Target's advertising. As a whole, they had some very interesting design in those days.
I am still not really happy with this so far. The primary issue is that the characters do not appear to be working correctly together. The intention was to accentuate the sporadic nature of the script, but it seems to be working to strongly against the overall cohesion of the typeface.
Based on the structure of the sentence above, I find it extremely likely that I have been watching far too much Stargate Atlantis.
I am working on a 50's inspired script. I recently found this great blog: Today's Inspiration. Some really great illustrations from the past. I love to see great illustrated work, and the fact that a fair number of them include some script ideas is just bonus points. Enjoy.
From the description: Insigne is pleased to release Nanumunga, inspired by the carefree antics of tropical fish. Designers will find this typeface is useful whenever a relaxed and lighthearted typeface is required. Nanumunga is a versatile face. The font includes small caps and a shadow alternate for titling. Some potential uses are advertising for children's products, tropical destinations, or just whenever you need a slightly different "cartoon" look.
I took a few days off to see my parents, who will be leaving for Korea in a few months. More typefaces on the way.
I recently stumbled across this handy tool. You can easily rotate images and add rounded corners to tables using this tool: swf Image Replacement. Much easier to deal with than CSS.
From the description: Valfieris Aged looks as though it just came off a antique printing press. Ink has pooled in the serifs and on the corners, and the metal did not make full contact with the paper in center of the letters. Valfieris Aged includes a full set of OpenType alternates for every character in the English alphabet, swash alternates, ending swashes, oldstyle figures, historical forms, small caps and 64 discretionary ligatures. These ligatures are used to alter the appearance of the type so that the printing appears realistic and without any duplicate letters to detract from the antique appearance.
I had heard of these, but this is the first time I've seen it explained. This would be great; instead of driving around for hours, just have one of these robot parking garagestake care of it.
Information on new typefaces has been a little light around here; I've got two in the works.
The first is a playful sans-serif. I do enjoy doing these light hearted fonts every once in awhile.
The next is a grungy version of Valfieris.
Today, Insigne Design will analyze the Dooley Diet with a basic overview. What is it, you ask, with severe anticipation bordering on psychosis? Well, its pretty simple, and it's guaranteed to lose weight.
1. Eat whatever you want. Just make sure the total of the calories consumed is less than 1000.
2. Exercise for 2 hrs a day. 1 hr is strenous, the other less so. I will be utilizing the amazing fat busting potential of Nintendo Wii boxing (150 calories for 15 minutes worth of boxing) and Tony Little's Gazelle!
I did this about 6 years ago and lost 40 lbs in a couple months. I lost a huge amount of weight once I really cut down on the food intake. Probably because of this. The key is just the motivation to do it.
They say that pain is weakness leaving the body. Hunger is fat leaving it.
Insigne Abstractions is a break from working with letterforms and a chance to play with pure abstraction. These ornaments are purely nonrepresentational, and are not letterforms. The abstractions are organic, and some would describe them as magnifications of microorganisms in black and white. There are 72 different ornaments this package. Some potential uses for these ornaments include alien alphabets, navigation buttons for a website, decorative elements, inspiration for logos or background textures.
I am not a fan of websites that require you to hover over the top of some area to get to content. The sole exception to this is some sort of expanding menu. I understand some reasons for it; it gets your audience more engaged in "discovering" areas, but it flies in the face of keeping the web simple and easy to read. I am sure there are some accessibility arguments against hovering to uncover site content as well. I'm usually not one to get all hung up on web standards and the semantic web.
Not to pick on these guys; they do some super nice work, (see their fish packaging) but here is an illustration of what I mean: FSDesign.
Strangely enough, there has been no massive blogger backlash regarding this issue. Allow me to be the first.
Apparently, Italy has recently revamped their identity. Let me sum it up: Its awful.
I lived in Italy for a short time. This identity doesn't say Italy to me at all. Its a disjointed amalgamation that puts together and waters down way to many ideas.
Italy certainly could do better and deserves better. One thing I remember about the World Cup is that the typeface on the Italian jerseys was not only cool, no doubt custom designed, but also said "Italy" just through those simple forms. And, it did it in a way that made Italy seem very interesting and modern .
For the person who has everything, this alarm clock awakes the snoozer with the smell of freshly cooked bacon. I can't make this stuff up: look.
Continuing our industrial design theme (although, recently, this blog seems to have turned into Jalopnik, designer edition) I noticed this New York Times article the other day. I don't really buy into the "small footprint" stuff, but I do like the concept of having a Frank Loyd Wright-esqecottage in some back roads location with a nice little stream running through my living room. With high speed Internet, of course. Well, nobody sells those yet, but I was most impressed with BlueSky's offerings. I would love to watch the rain come down behind some of those huge windows while working on my latest typeface.
Speaking of which, we will return to our normally schedule programming on Tuesday. I took a week off to take care of some administrative and tax stuff.
An interesting article on designers favorite cars. I think the BMW 6 series should be ranked higher. At first I thought there surely had to be a mistake about the Audi TT, or "stretch bug" as I like to think of it as, but I looked up the latest styling and was impressed.
I first saw this about two years ago; at the time I liked it, but also was somewhat puzzled by its condemnation of the very thing Psyop does. I don't quite get why graphic designers are so hung up on "losing their souls" to evils of capitalism, and how Psyop thinks that this will somehow induce companies to use their services.
Anyway, the tune is catchy, the visual style is interesting, the color scheme is cool, the message is entirely counterproductive, but here it is.
Arendahl is a natural-looking, irregular connected handwriting script. The script has a fluctuating baseline and swirling ending swashes to give the lettering a soothing flow. Arendahl utilizes OpenType ligatures and alternates to prevent duplicate letterforms, and automatically substitutes the best letter combination or word glyph. Arendahl includes 64 discretionary ligatures based on the most common pairs in the English language, a full set of alternates for every English letter, ending swashes and ornaments. The Arendahl family is made up of eight fonts, including an alternate, bold weights and script versions.
I haven't been posting much; a few things have come up, from my computer dying on me to getting in a car accident. I am going to make a few progress posts so you can see the evolution of Arendahl so far.
Round 1 (above). It was too aggressive, and more "Pirates of the Caribbean" than elegant and smooth.
As of 10:00 pm on Sunday, this is what Arendahl looks like. There are 64 auto ligatures in this one, based on the most common letter pairs in the English language, and a full set of alternates. In addition to the opentype alternates, there will be another alternate font, for a total of eight fonts, including the bold weight and the "script" version.
The next insigne release will be another script, this one quite rugged looking. I apologize for the lack of progress updates; I have been experimenting with a new technique. It has taken some time to get everything to work as I would like it, but I finally have it nailed down and am moving into full scale production. I have also had a few computer hardware issues to deal with. I hope to have some samples soon.
EventCrazy is kind of like a search engine for all kinds of local events. A great stop to look for some inspiration or advertising venues.
All the ads are available here, courtesy of YouTube.
Live the Flavor. Great concept and execution. Kudos to 5 Point Productions, a small video editing company that competed for and won the right to have their commercial air.
Chevy HHR. Choose this one without knowing its history, and no alma mater bias, seriously. This was the "college ad." Some SCAD students were in the running, but they lost. I'm sure theirs was better.
...this...and this here in the states. Yes, guerilla marketing. As you can see, all of these images don't have their point of origin here in the USA. Then, I got my answer.
Seriously, when looking at few of these campaigns, although they are clever and probably very effective, some of them seem destructive and disruptive. I think that American advertisers recognize this, and understood that American culture doesn't have time or allow disruptions or annoyances, making it a tactic that is rarely used stateside. There are also probably some legal, or rather enforcement reasons that make it more common overseas. Any other thoughts?Everything with the exception of AXE via adgoodness. AXE via ibeliveinadv.
Thanks to the folks at Typophile, I've been working out some of the kinks with Aviano. There were some definite issues with the extension. I think I have worked those out for now, but there are a few letters (STZ) that need some more "help." Additionally, the numbers need to be balanced out a bit more.
Still, I am pretty happy with this project so far. I greatly appreciate the help of a few extra eyes as well.
Yes, its superbowl ad season. What were you thinking of?
The 10 Best Super Bowl Ads of All Time!
Aviano is an extended all caps face inspired by Trajan. I wanted the face to have extended letterforms for a more "formal" look, and also more geometric and consistent letterforms. This is some early experimentation.
From the description: Chennai is a simplified sans-serif with a full complement of OpenType alternates. The characters are rounded, slightly extended and geometric. The OpenType alternates greatly complement the face. The primary version is more simplified, while the alternate is more traditional. These two "versions" are designed be used in conjunction with one another. For example, the primary version can be used for headings, while the alternate, with its stems and more traditional characters, can be used for highly legible body copy. Please see the PDF sample. Use Chennai whenever you need a contemporary and versatile sans serif.
Just a quick entry today. I want to share a great resource of contemporary web design: Design Meltdown. Frequently updated, the site categorizes some of the best websites on the web into different contemporary design "genres", even splitting hairs down to the all-too-famous "shiny buttons" and "gradient madness!" Joking aside, its worth a bookmark, and they also pass along some information on how to duplicate the look in question, offering books with ornaments to scan or sites with textures to download.
I have been trying out the Microsoft Expression web design program recently. My final verdict: I like it better than Dreamweaver. I've been using Dreamweaver for 5 years now, but where Expressions really shines is its handling of CSS, which is, in my mind, quite a bit better than Dreamweaver. My "problem" with CSS as opposed to tables is that with tables you can visualize what you are doing. CSS is a bit more programmatic. Expression helps a bit.
If you are looking to save some money, and you use a PC, you should download Visual Web Developer. You can do some very advanced stuff with this program, and the interface is very much like Expressions. The price is right: free! However, Expression is more intuitive in how it handles CSS.
It's very interesting how Microsoft is starting to head into Adobe's turf. Microsoft is working on equivalents to everything in Adobe's product line. My long term bet is on Microsoft.
I received some excellent comments regarding the direction of this face. Someone felt that there was something that reminded them of Comic Sans (an unfortunate comparison) I hadn't really thought about Comic Sans, but could see the point. I think that there IS a place somewhere between Comic Sans and VAG Rounded. One influence is Futura, which probably gives it a slightly "childlike" quality. There was also some discussion about the lowercase "e." I did some experimentation with it, but I still think it works as is. Does anyone think the e sticks out to much?
Due to the rounded forms, there was more difficulty than normal getting characters not to "float" above the baseline. I think I have the baseline float worked out better.
I thought this was a particulary brilliant idea. Behold the "locksit." The seat folds back to lock the wheel.
Also, FontFont has released "Die 100 Beste Schriften," that is, "The 100 Best Typefaces." Mein deutch is a bit schlecht, but it helps that there are pretty pictures, although that is a minor gripe; many of the featured typefaces don't have good examples available. You can download the .pdf here.
Via TypeForYou. A lot of great material on this blog, updated very regularly.


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Q: how to use only numeric keyboard i had made an application of temperature converter in iphone i want that when it launches in simulator only numeric keyboard should come and not the alpha keyboard.
#import "farh_celcius_conv_AppDelegate.h"

float i;
float s;
float p;

@implementation farh_celcius_conv_AppDelegate

@synthesize window,display,farhenite,display1;

-(IBAction) convert  {
    s = ('0','1','2');

    if( p == s)
    {

    NSString *str = farhenite. text;

    float n = [str floatValue];

    if (n != 0) {

        k =.5559* (n-32);
        i = 5*(n -32)/9 +273    ;

        [display setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f",k]];
        [display1 setText:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f",i]];
    }
}
}

- (void)dealloc {
    [window release];
    [super dealloc];
}

@end

A: Try this,
 yourTextField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypePhonePad;

or
 yourTextField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;

You can also do this in the nib file.

A: You can set various types of keyboard for your text field. Look into inspector under Text Input traits, keyboard.

A: [myTextField setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad];

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Kevin Durant to stay in Brookyln
August 24, 2022 Basketball, NBA
The Kevin Durant saga is over. The four-time scoring champion submitted a trade request on June 30. Now, the superstar forward will have to rely on postgame jersey swaps to grab a new uniform. His near $43M salary will remain on Brooklyn's books. After reports indicated that Durant wanted head …
Kevin Durant Wants Out
July 1, 2022 Basketball, NBA, NBA Playoffs
NBA free agency is in full swing, and a seismic shift is about to happen. Brooklyn Nets superstar forward Kevin Durant reportedly requested a trade Thursday after three seasons with the team. The Nets added both Durant and guard Kyrie Irving in 2019, but the group failed to find playoff …
The NBA Eastern Conference Playoffs with Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago taking Ws
April 21, 2022 Basketball, Miami Heat, NBA, NBA Playoffs
The first round of the NBA Playoffs is heating up and the Eastern Conference had three games Wednesday night. The Celtics take a 2-0 lead over the Nets, the 76ers, move to 3-0 against the Raptors, and the Bulls tied up the series at 1-1 against the Bucks. Celtics vs. …
Brooklyn Nets Clinched No. 7 Seed to Advance to Playoffs
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On Tuesday night, the Brooklyn Nets beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-108 in a play-in game to take the No. 7 seed in the Eastern Conference. #NetsLevel: Unlocked pic.twitter.com/2tCxSl68LK — Brooklyn Nets (@BrooklynNets) April 13, 2022 Brooklyn Nets In the first quarter, the Nets came in hot. The starts for the …
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When the NBA season began, nobody could have guessed the Brooklyn Nets would be in the play-in games. But after a season of turmoil, trades and vaccine statuses, here they are; facing off against the Cleveland Cavaliers for their playoff lives. https://twitter.com/NBAonTNT/status/1513294236124336131?s=20&t=BnCMOGXYQOFD3fzq1n1udw The Nets (44-38) enter as the seven seed, …
NBA Eastern Conference Playoff Picture
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The NBA Playoffs are three weeks away. Here are a few things to keep tabs on as seeding becomes increasingly important. Miami at Boston 7:30 p.m. Miami currently sits on top of the Eastern Conference with a record of 48-28. However, they may not be there much longer. The Heat …
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Kevin Durant returned to the court Thursday night after a 1 1/2 month absence with injury, but Bam Adebayo and the Miami Heat stole the spotlight in their 113-107 win over the Brooklyn Nets. Adebayo put up 30 points, 11 rebounds and six assists for the Eastern Conference-leading Heat. Although …
Ben Simmons Talks Trade to the Brooklyn Nets
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The biggest blockbuster deal of this season's trade deadline sent superstars James Harden and Ben Simmons in opposite directions. The 6'11" point-forward will soon provide reinforcements to an ailing Brooklyn Nets team which has only won one of its last 12 games. Simmons said he does not have a tentative …
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James Harden wanted out of Houston. Roughly a year later, he was unhappy in Brooklyn playing with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. As both the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers push for a title, they decided to swap unhappy superstars as Harden went to the 76ers with Paul Millsap and …
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In Jan. of 2021, the Brooklyn Nets made a blockbuster move to acquire one of the best players in the NBA. Brooklyn acquired James Harden from the Houston Rockets in exchange for three first round picks, four pick swaps and both Jarrett Allen and Caris LeVert. The trade allowed three …

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As the miners look tough, the government looks weak
If the mining industry was a political party, it would make the current federal government look like a success story, writes Dr Richard Denniss, is executive director of The Australia Institute.
If the mining industry was a political party, it would make the current federal government look like a success story. The miners are internally divided, running entirely contradictory messages and are increasingly unpopular in the published opinion polls.
But luckily for the miners, it is far easier to make billions of dollars selling resources you paid very little for than it is to run the country. And in turn, it is far easier for the miners to exploit the differences between state and federal governments than it has been for Julia Gillard to exploit the differences between the miners.
The Minerals Council of Australia is currently running full-page advertisements complaining about the tax they already pay and sounding the alarm about the giant new mining tax coming their way. But at the same time, Twiggy Forrest is popping up in virtually every media outlet he can find proudly declaring that he, one of the wealthiest mining magnates in the country, won't be paying it!
The problem is, of course, that while the MCA is representing the interests of the big mining companies who negotiated the mining tax Mark II (the MRRT), Twiggy is fighting his personal political battle with Wayne Swan, who had the audacity to suggest that the miners like to throw their weight around in our democratic processes.
According to MCA, the new tax is an unnecessary impost that will drive investment offshore. According to Twiggy, the Treasurer is cooking the books and exaggerating how much revenue the new tax will raise. Who to believe?
It gets better though.
The original version of the mining tax (the RSPT) was actually designed to shift the burden of mining taxes away from small, start-up miners and onto the enormous profits being earned by the big miners who were selling coal, iron ore and gold when the world price was about a third of its current levels. Put simply, the biggest miners had the most to lose from the original version of the mining tax and the smallest ones actually had a fair bit to gain.
But while BHP, Rio Tinto and Xstrata were at pains to make Twiggy and the small miners feel like part of the team when they were waging their $20 million war against the RSPT, they weren't quite so inclusive when it came time to negotiate the second version with the incoming Gillard government. Indeed, the big three spent a few days sorting out an "acceptable" version of the MRRT, which, as luck would have it, shifted a lot of the tax burden back onto the smaller miners. Ouch.
Apart from their recent history of selling each other out and running entirely contradictory critiques of the current government, the miners are also suffering in the polls, which show that more and more Australians have noticed that not only aren't they benefiting from the mining boom, but they are actually paying a high price. The manufacturing, tourism and education industries are being hit hard by the exchange rate while the farmers are seeing their best land destroyed.
It gets worse though. The miners' biggest strength has, until recently at least, been their ability to claim credit for just about every new job in the country but the fact that they only employ about 2% of workers is now common knowledge, as is the fact that their claims about "indirect job creation" are massively exaggerated.
But in the current environment, their threats to take their new mines offshore are increasingly being met with a sigh of relief by policymakers struggling to manage the two-speed economy. The mining industry has about 100 big new projects in the pipeline and, were they all to proceed, this would place enormous pressure on the non-mining sectors of the economy.
The government's determination to get the budget back into surplus has forced them to take a close look at the $4 billion worth of subsidies that the booming mining industry currently receives each year. Not only would slashing these subsidies do wonders for the budget bottom line but, in taking some heat out of the push to build lots of new mines, it will take pressure off interest and exchange rates at the same time.
So, if the miners are in such political trouble, why do they look strong and the government look weak?
Luckily for the miners, not only don't they have to develop an agreed position but they don't have to be popular either. As long as we keep giving them cheap access to valuable resources they can keep making billions. The only issue is how many billions.
The biggest problem, however, is that it is all too easy for wealthy industries to play divide and conquer between our state governments and the federal government and between the federal government and the opposition. Rather than our elected representatives working together to maximise the benefits of the mining boom for all Australians, they work against each other to attract the favour of the wealthy miners. It might be good politics, but it is not good for the national interest.
*Dr Richard Denniss is executive director of The Australia Institute, a Canberra-based think tank
Andrew Forrest
Minerals Council of Australia
MRRT
RSPT
Miners dig the new tax
Labor exposed and under fire on mining tax
If Rudd's a slave to opinion polls, then surely he'll back down on RSPT
Adam Schwab,
Bill Hilliger
Not only should the government not tax the likes of Twiggy, Clive and Gina they should be giving them a taxpayer funded subsidy for being job creators.
Recalcitrant.Rick
Duh! Bill, can you read? 2% employment in mining, 98% struggling with
high dollar impacting on every facet of their lives! Tell me you were kidding!
@RECALCITRANT.RICK – Yes I was kidding with a capital "K"! I sometimes resort to writing tongue in cheek to emphasise and make a point.
zut alors
A good article. I never understood why the smaller mining companies objected to Rudd's RSPT which offered them concessions. Surely they were wary of being the sacrificial lamb offered up by the Big Boys in any negotiations with the government. They know now.
@Zut Alors – maybe many of the people that run the smaller mining companies are not all that clever and were sucked in by the larger companies. Likewise the majority of non mining related businesses elswhere in the Australia economy, you'd think that the RSPT raised and part of which was promised to reduce their taxes would have brought them out swing in support of what was proposed at the time – but no stupidity reigned supreme there too.


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Скопкортная — посёлок в Пермском крае России. Входит в Александровский муниципальный округ.

История
Поселение возникло в 1930 году как поселок спецпереселенцев (раскулаченных). Название восходит к гидрониму (реке Сухая Скопкортная (ранее Скопкартна)). К 1950 году Скопкортная известна как лесоучасток. С 18 апреля 1974 года по 2006 год — центр Скопкортненского (первоначально Верх-Яйвинского) сельсовета.

С 2004 до 2019 гг. — административный центр Скопкортненского сельского поселения Александровского муниципального района.

География
Посёлок находится на востоке Пермского края, на юге центральной части Александровского района, на правом берегу реки Сырая Скопкартная (правый приток Чаньвы). Абсолютная высота — 228 метров над уровнем моря.

Население
По данным всероссийской переписи 2010 года, численность населения посёлка составляла 335 человек (мужчины — 162, женщины — 173).

Достопримечательности
В 1980 году в посёлке был открыт памятник участникам Великой Отечественной войны. Также, вблизи посёлка расположена гора Благодать (высота 503 м).

Инфраструктура
В посёлке имеется клуб, библиотека, фельдшерско-акушерский пункт, отделение связи и лесопункт. Образовательные учреждения — общеобразовательная основная школа № 19 и детский сад № 28 — в настоящее время закрыты.

Улицы

 Гагарина ул.
 Комсомольская ул.
 Ленина ул.
 Максима Горького ул.
 Матросова ул.
 Мира ул.
 Набережная ул.
 Новая ул.
 Советская ул.
 Студенческая ул.
 Уральская ул.
 Юбилейная ул.
 Южная ул.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Александровского муниципального округа (Пермский край)

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IndustryArc - Monday, October 23, 2017.
In market, various kinds of smart lights are available like smart lamp, smart LED, smart bulb, wireless LED lights, Wi-Fi bulb etc. Based on the technology, the Smart Lighting Market is segmented as wired connectivity technology and wireless connectivity technology. Smart lights are used in various end user applications such as hospitals, retail malls, factories, warehouses, street lights and others.
Components: Sensors, Networks, Micro controller and Microprocessors, Switch Actuators and Dimmers, Wireless Receivers and Transmitter, Luminaries, Ballasts and Others.
Technology: Wired Connectivity Technology and Wireless Connectivity Technologies.
Application: Commercial, Industrial, Residential and Public Lighting.
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Friday Grey Matters: Parrots Go Through Babbling
By retrospectacle on January 19, 2007.
While reading a cute (but poorly-written) human interest piece on an African Grey named Valentine, something caught my eye. The author touched upon a particular behavior that Valentine was exhibiting: babbling.
Valentine is the color of an overcast day. His tail is scarlet. He recently started mumbling, whispering to himself, which means he'll be saying words and sentences soon.
People of all ages, from elderly women with permed hair to teens with attitudes and ripped clothes - all say the same thing: "Well, helllloooo. Aren't you a pretty bird? Helllloooo. Hello. Say 'hello.' "
Valentine turns his charcoal back and whispers. You can't hear what he's saying.
I've never seen anything specifically in the literature about this phenomenon, but it struck a chord with me as it is exactly the same behavior that Pepper exhibited when he was first learning to talk . Every day, I would talk to him as if he was a person, from the moment I brought him home as a little chick. He was completely silent for about 10 months. Then, all of a sudden he started mimicking the things I was saying, but his pronunciations and word-order was all garbled and indistinct. It sounded terrible! I thought I had gotten saddled with one weird bird. This babbling often occurred when he thought no one was around, or when the cover was over his cage. It was also very quiet. But, slowly, his pronunciation got better and better as he got continuous feedback from me. At about one year old, Pepper said his first word(s) crystal-clear: "Sup fool." Not sure why he latched on to that particular word combo, but he's liked it ever since.
During this whole process, I was going through grad school interviews for Neuroscience PhD programs. While in the interviews, sometimes people would ask me about Pepper (bird lovers, etc). We would get to talking about him, and how I had crude theory that he was going through some of the classical stages of language development and how I believed that receiving feedback, and practice, was crucial to Pepper being able to reproduce words and phrases. And anecdotally speaking, the more complicated the phrase or song, the longer it sits in rehearsal and practice before being "crystallized."
Friday Grey Matters
What Bird Brains Can Teach Us About Language
When Pepper (my African Grey parrot) was just a wee bird, I talked to him constantly. I was told by the bird breeder that not all Greys talked; even though their mimicry is famed, there's no guarantee that the bird will ever mutter a word. But, to my delight, at about one year old, Pepper began…
Talking Cat
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My eclectus' talking ability has progressed exactly the same way. Babbling incoherently to himself for a couple months, then right around his first birthday came the distinct "I love you" and "Good boy". At two years he now has quite the vocabulary of both separate words and whole phrases. He tends to talk directly to my wife more than to me (though he likes us equally). Most of his babbling (practicing) occurs when we are not near him, but either across the room or in another room, much like Pepper. Although in Yoshi's case he knows we're around, he just seems to prefer a little more personal space when he's practicing his vocabulary. I think the most interesting aspects of his development have been watching him blurt out words/phrases that he has picked up simply by listening to us talk (as opposed to something we say and repeat to him), and combining words into new phrases. The latter I'm not sure if that's some measure of intelligence or if he's repeating something I've said and not realized it. It's fascinating to watch him learn, however he's doing it.
By ericnh (not verified) on 20 Jan 2007 #permalink
Cool! I love eclectus parrots, but I haven't been around them enough to know what their speaking ability is. Sounds like Yoshi's is pretty advanced! Yeah, I agree that the really funny moments come when Pepper says something that a) I didn't remember saying or b) wish I hadn't said. He's "listened in" on more than a few tirades on the phone, and haunts me with it the next day. :P
By retrospectacle on 20 Jan 2007 #permalink
That's an interesting observation, Shelly. I am in a speech-language pathology graduate program and have had some heated discussions with my instructors and peers regarding animals' use of language. I have never seen the use of dismissing an animal's linguistic abilities wholesale, simply because it does not produce or use language in a manner identical to humans (as many of my instructors are wont to do). It seems to me that animals' "failure" to use a particular aspect of human language offers and opportunity to compare how the animal brain processes the task vs. how the human brain handles the same task.
Your post made me think of a study done at couple years ago at MIT regarding song learning in juvenile zebra finches (see link). Perhaps when an African Grey is exposed to human speech it is applying a "song-learning" paradigm to human words and language, resulting in a form of babbling unique to birds (that Greys seemingly prefer to initially whisper and mumble in private intrigues me--I'm sure many parents of infants sometimes wish human babies had the same reticence!).
http://biology.plosjournals.org.nyud.net:8090/archive/1545-7885/3/5/pdf…
By Emily (not verified) on 20 Jan 2007 #permalink
You can sometimes hear blackbirds softly practicing to themselves early in the spring too. The part of the brain that deals with song grows in birds in preparation for the spring singing contests and then shrink during the autumn. I wonder if you can see the same brain growth in parrots learning to speak?
By Thomas (not verified) on 20 Jan 2007 #permalink
I once had a Timneh African Grey that exhibited the same behavior -- "babbling" for about 9 mos. in private (never in my presence, only when I was in another room) until he knew he had words/phrases down correctly and then would just suddenly blurt them out upon my entering the room (with a proud look on his face : - ) And once he learned the first few, others followed at much greater speed. I think this is a very common experience among Grey owners, and I would presume somewhere this phenomena has been studied in greater detail (maybe by Irene Pepperberg or one of her students).
By cyberthrush (not verified) on 21 Jan 2007 #permalink
I have a six-month-old Congo grey, and she is very much a babbler. I also have a nine-year-old boy with sensorineural deafness. Hmm. He's oral, and developed language just like his hearing peers (hearing aids at 8.5 weeks old). The babbling that the parrot is doing is progressing in the very same way as the babbling of the boy. :-)
Success in teaching a deaf kid how to communicate orally will, I hope, help me teach the parrot a thing or two, as well. She only rarely tries to mimic sounds -- that's just starting to emerge -- but she has begun to use sound to convey information. Just in the last week or two, she's started making this unique noise when she wants to be picked up and held. She has a new screech *sigh* when she is feeling alone. And she's started making a low, throaty noise that's clearly sound experimentation!
I think the most important thing with the parrot OR the kid is to respond when they make noise, either by mimicing what you think they're saying, or reacting to what you think they want. I've gotta tell you, this is a lot of fun the second time around. :-)
By kerri (not verified) on 21 Jan 2007 #permalink
I forgot to mention in my previous comment that Yoshi also takes on my tone of voice, depending on what is being said. He, and most eclectus males, have a very pleasant, soft but higher-pitched voice than other parrots. But when he imitates me reprimanding the dogs he takes on the deep voice I use, as opposed to the high pitch I use when talking to him. He'll be babbling away with "Good boy" and "I love you" and mix in a deeper "Get down" or "Off, now!". He'll even throw in the dog's name. When I realized what he was doing I was quite shocked. Now nothing surprises me, as I've heard him imitate both my cough and the referee's whistle on football games. Does Pepper change the tone of his voice this way, or do you know of parrots doing this?
My mother is a speech therapist and was fascinated by my African grey's babble when as she developed language. Apparently my grey followed the entire pattern of language acquisition in almost the identical order that humans learn it, including the various phenomes (in similar order), individual words, and then phrases. It was a really interesting experience for all of us.
Scritches to Pepper :)
By Heidi (not verified) on 21 Jan 2007 #permalink
My African Grey Dorian is about 5 years old and he will still Babble for fun, he can talk fine but if I am talking to someone else and he wants in on the conversation he will babble in order to sound like me. He also babbles when he sings, making up words to go along with a song or sometimes he just sings phrases that he knows put to music.
He also still babbles when he is learning new sounds/words, especially if they are very difficult to say. If he hears a new word/sound that interests him he will get very quiet and wait for me to repeat a few times, then he will try saying it under his breath, trying to get it right. If he can figure it out he will say it loud and clear. It is interesting to think of this behavior in the context of language development.
By Dave (not verified) on 23 Jan 2007 #permalink
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Lost Parrot Gives Vet His Name and Address
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Videos of African Grey Parrots in Cameroon and Congo
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Dalai Lama Speaks in Ann Arbor
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Anatomically-Correct Brain Cake!
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Real Men Don't Love Newsies
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Some Matter is Strange, but that's okay
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VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENTS: THE PAN AFRICAN LAWYERS UNION (PALU)
Seventeen years after it was established, and eight years after opening its Secretariat in Arusha, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) is growing again! We are happy to announce the establishment of six (6) new staff positions within our Secretariat in Arusha, mostly at senior officer level. This will dramatically scale up the ability of the organization to serve its institutional and individual members and its broader stakeholders, and to continue to be a major development actor on the Afri...read more
Seventeen years after it was established, and eight years after opening its Secretariat in Arusha, the Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU) is growing again! We are happy to announce the establishment of six (6) new staff positions within our Secretariat in Arusha, mostly at senior officer level. This will dramatically scale up the ability of the organization to serve its institutional and individual members and its broader stakeholders, and to continue to be a major development actor on the African continent and with its diaspora.
Appointment of Executive Director
Initiative Sankofa d'Afrique de l'Ouest
We are seeking a confident, innovative, West African self-starter who is spirited and has a passion for the LGBTQ community, to lead this new, dynamic and impactful fund.
Job Vacancy: Executive Director at FEMNET
FEMNET
The African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) is a feminist, pan-African organization established in 1988 to amplify African women's voices and advance women's and girls' rights and gender equality. As a membership organization, FEMNET is a network of over 600 members, both individuals and women's rights organizations working across African continent and diaspora to realize gender equality and women and girls' human rights.


So how is everyone feeling about following Jesus right now?
that might be paving your way to Gehenna?
so that you can get our ticket to heaven punched?
No anger? No lust? None at all?
clearly subject to bad moods and bad days.
with this passage being a case in point.
feel as we hear Jesus condemn "divorce" in such stark terms.
this teaching has caused many people a great deal of pain.
some part of yourself to enter the reign of God.
from my religious life has been unhelpful to say the least.
if we are to be "real" disciples of Jesus.
with the gray areas of life.
I find myself struggling to make use of it.
I decided to watch the Olympics instead.
by their devotion to their sport.
the product of their thousands of meters on the track.
30 kilometers of running with skis on.
just muscle and bone pushed to their absolute limits.
And they are, all of them, awesome.
might hear Jesus' words in today's gospel.
probably make a lot of sense to them.
It's "yes, yes" or "no, no"—there's no waffling.
or wondering if she'd rather play golf instead.
faithfully, unbreakably married to the rink.
as the legs that win gold.
as if they are giving up some important part of themselves.
ever more the selves they are created to be.
to stretch our hearts and our spirits to Olympic size.
a denial of who we are?
from becoming the images of God that only we can be.
a place only we can take.
as the friends and partners of God.
Imagine the possibilities when we accept that invitation.


Former Eagles star Ben Cousins..
Troubled former AFL footballer Ben Cousins has been taken into police custody after a mysterious incident in a Perth suburb – just days after being assessed at a mental health centre.
Cousins has been detained by police at Canning Vale police station, according to a source.
Channel 7 Reporter Geof Parry said Cousins' arrest followed an incident at a house near Canning Vale, but details are not clear.
"They had him but then he escaped from them and there was some sort of foot chase through backyards and along roofs and all that sort of stuff," Mr Parry said.
"One of the local residents said that a police sergeant had told him that he was maybe breaking into a house or had some sort of involvement at a particular address.
"That's the reason they were there and then of course he's done a runner and they've caught up with him and bundled him into a car."
Channel 7's Geof Parry reports.


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ISO 27018 – the international standard for protecting PII in the public cloud – Where are we now?
Since its release in August 2014, ISO 27018 is becoming well established as the "go to" standard to help cloud customers to comply with their privacy obligations when using public cloud services. Privacy regulators recognise and refer to the new standard. Cloud customers are using it in their RFP requirements and in their assessments of CSPs. And CSPs themselves can and should adopt and commit to the new standard.
A guest post by Matthew Hunter (@matthew1hunter) and Daniel Jung.
We reported last year about the publication of this new standard: "ISO/IEC 27018:2014 – Information technology – Security techniques – Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors" ("ISO 27018").
In a subsequent post, we discussed how ISO 27018 helps cloud customers in Singapore to comply with Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). We concluded that if a cloud customer engages a cloud services provider (CSP) that complies with ISO 27018 (e.g. adopts and contractually commits to ISO 27018), then the cloud customer can be confident that the CSP's solution will help the cloud customer to comply with its key legal obligations under the PDPA relevant to its use of cloud services. We carried out the same research for other countries and the same conclusion applies: Cloud customers who use CSPs that comply with ISO 27018 will be better able to comply with relevant privacy law obligations in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand and European countries, including the France, Germany, Spain and the UK.
In this post we will look at the latest developments in the market in relation to ISO 27018 and at how ISO 27018 is becoming the "go to" standard to help cloud customers to comply with their privacy obligations. We will also provide pointers for cloud customers, CSPs and regulators on how to benefit from ISO 27018.
Since August 2014, we have seen regulators around the world recognise and refer to ISO 27018 (and this should come as no surprise as regulators often refer to ISO standards (e.g. ISO 27001).
In Australia, the OAIC referred to ISO 27018 in its guide to securing personal information (January, 2015).
In Belgium, the privacy commission referred to ISO 27018 in its Guidance on Security & Privacy in the Cloud (December, 2014).
In Canada, the OIPC posted on its blog that ISO 27018 allows access the benefits of the cloud whilst keeping control of data (March, 2015).
In Germany, a state regulator's cloud guidance highlights the use of ISO 27018 for cloud (October, 2014).
In Slovenia, the Information Commissioner indicated that ISO 27018 is consistent with its requirements and should help to raise the lack of confidence in cloud (January, 2015).
These regulators and others are continuing to consider the use of ISO 27018. The Belgian authority is also working on an analysis of ISO 27018 to be included in a global recommendation to customers using cloud. The PDPC in Singapore is also considering the use of ISO 27018.
Customers in the public and the private sector are looking at including ISO 27018 in their RFP requirements and in their procurement contracts, in the same way they have done with other ISO standards. These are the kinds of discussions we have been having with, and recommendations we are making to, our clients.
Cloud customers have been, in the past, slow to adopt cloud services. In part, this has been because of regulatory concerns. But ISO 27018 has provided cloud customers with a convenient solution to address privacy regulations when using public cloud services. We have seen that cloud customers who use CSPs that comply with ISO 27081 will be better able to comply with relevant privacy law obligations in many jurisdictions.
CSPs can now adopt and commit to ISO 27018.
Earlier this year Microsoft, one of the leading CSPs in the market, became the first CSP to adopt and commit to ISO 27018. An independent audit confirmed its services incorporate all of the ISO 27018 controls and the ISO 27018 controls will become part of Microsoft's contractual commitment to its customers. We expect to see other CSPs follow suit.
No standalone certification is available as yet for ISO 27018. However, compliance with ISO 27018 is demonstrated through an ISO 27001 certification that incorporates all of the controls from ISO 27018. By going through this kind of assessment process, CSPs (and their ultimately their customers) can be certain of their ISO 27018 compliance. To remain compliant, CSPs must undergo yearly independent reviews. This is what the likes of Microsoft will do.
The more regulators recognise and refer to ISO 27018 and the more customers require compliance with ISO 27018, the more CSPs will need to adopt and commit to ISO 27018. Like other ISO standards before it, ISO 27018 will become the norm.
What next for ISO 27018?
Regulators are adopting ISO 27018, customers are requiring compliance with ISO 27018 and CSPs are committing to ISO 27018 compliance. ISO 27018 is already becoming the norm (just like other ISO standards).
We expect this to continue. The adoption of cloud services is increasing across all sectors: financial services, retail, energy, logistics, manufacturers, travel and all kinds of SMEs. In the public sector governments have pushed "public cloud first" style policies in the US, Europe, Australia and Singapore. It is in the interest of governments to allow cloud services to be adopted in the public and private sectors. The benefits of cloud services are clear. But at the same time the compliance challenge will not disappear. The regulation of data is on the rise (and rightly so). Data should be regulated; it is a valuable and sensitive asset. This is why ISO 27018 is proving helpful; customers can benefit from cloud services but at the same time ensure compliance with privacy regulations.
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At the TDSB, we are committed to balancing our budget and ensuring Board funds are managed responsibly and effectively. Every decision we make and every dollar we spend has a student face behind it. We must put learning resources and tools directly in the hands of our students and see that every dollar we spend is an investment towards improved student outcomes.
providing quarterly financial reports showing actual expenditures compared to budget plans.
Of significant note, our Facilities Services department has undergone a major transformation after reviewing a number of its processes to improve efficiency, accountability and cost. Key actions include improving service and access to facilities-related information through a new Facilities website, conducting regular performance reviews of management and improved project management.
To remain open and transparent, we launched an accountability website where the public are invited to read about all of the changes we've made and are planning to make to improve operations at the TDSB. This includes more about the recent facility services changes we've implemented, the changes we've made as a result of recommendations from various reviews and audits, and the new financial management tools that are helping all departments within the TDSB stay on budget. We continue to update this site to demonstrate our ongoing fiscal accountability.


If you want to join or rejoin the Community Tennis Club for the 2018 season, the fee will continue to be £25 per family for the person from 1st April to the end of October. You can pay online.
https://clubspark.lta.org.uk/spencerpark or please email friendsofspencerpark@gmail.com for an application form.
You will then be issued with a membership card with the access code for the courts. Court bookings will be made online.
If this is your first visit to this website, you will need to register and choose a password.
On subsequent visits, when you wish to book a court, enter your email address followed by your password which you will have chosen when you first register.
You will see a day by day calendar with one-hour time slots. There are four courts available for each one-hour slot. The courts are numbered 1 – 4. Court 4 is adjacent to Dalton Road, court 1 is nearest the pavilion.
You book a slot be clicking on your choice of day/hour/court number. You may only book one hour per day. You will receive a confirmation email and also a reminder shortly before your booking. If you are more than 15 minutes late for your booked slot, you may forfeit the booking.
Please do not make bookings more than one week in advance – these will be removed from the system. Note that the courts are booked in advance at certain times for tennis matches by King Henry VIII students under an existing agreement with the school.
To play tennis at Spencer Park you must be accompanied by a member. The member who has invited you must book a court in their name via the online booking system. You can do this by following the instructions above (which also works on a smart phone).


Located off of The Pabst Theater's main lobby, The Pabst Pub is a great gathering place for small groups. It's the perfect size for wedding & baby showers, small social gatherings, and groups looking to gather prior to the evening's show.
The Pabst Pub features three walls of floor to ceiling windows that provide the perfect glimpse into the heart of downtown Milwaukee. Unique and stylish, this intimate space is perfect for any small event, personal or professional.
Please note, Pub rentals do not include use of the theater.


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Although Demorest is a small city, it has many notable landmarks. A few of these landmarks include:
Demorest Springs Park, Old Demorest Train Depot, Demorest Women's Club and the former Lake Demorest.
One of Demorest's most popular landmarks is the Johnny Mize Athletic Center and Museum. The museum is owned by Piedmont College and is named for Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize. Mize was born in Demorest, and played baseball at Piedmont. The museum houses Mize memorabilia from his time at Piedmont as well as from his professional baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and the New York Yankees. In addition to the museum, Mize's childhood home is a Georgia Historical site with a private owner.
The most recent landmark is the new addition of the pedestrian bridge over a span of Historic U.S. 441 in front of the Piedmont College campus. The new bridge was assembled off-site and lowered into place by crane. The bridge was modeled after the Vanderbilt University 21st Avenue Pedestrian Bridge. The installation of the bridge was a joint project of the Georgia Department of Transportation, Piedmont College and the City of Demorest.
Other attractions include the following:
Arrendale Amphitheater
Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art
Swanson Center for Performing Arts
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The 4 studios and the deluxe maisonette are named after plants from the Greek mainland.
The small number of available rooms at the Filyra guest house makes it feasible to cater to our clients' every demand.
Each studio is 32 sq.m with a fully equipped kitchenette and private balconies overlooking the sea.
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INDIAHOMA First Baptist Church of Indiahoma will celebrate its 70th anniversary of service to the community during its regular worship service and other activities Sunday.
Festivities will begin with the morning worship service at 10:45 a.m. Guest speaker will be Indiahoma native Roy Jaye, currently pastor of the First Southern Baptist Church in Hutchinson, Kan.
"And we've invited all of our former pastors that are still living to come back and attend our service," said the Rev. Les Banks, the church's current pastor.
The worship service will be followed by a noon meal and an afternoon special service at 1:30 p.m. A reception will follow at 2:30 p.m.
Banks himself is on his second stint as pastor of the church since July 2012. He previously served as the church's pastor from March 1989 to August 1993 before going on to serve as pastor of churches in Oklahoma City and Edmond, and Tesca Baptist Church in Frederick over a 19-year period before returning to Indiahoma.


There are other stories, too, that sound like accounts in Genesis, such as woman made while man was asleep, or a forbidden tree, and so on.
Now why is this so? I believe it is because that there was a real flood and that the record of the actual flood is right there in the Bible. In fact, in the Bible in Genesis we read about a man called Noah who was told to build a big ark, a big boat, and take on it each kind of land animal to survive the global flood.
Now if there was a global flood, what would you expect to find? Well, think about it, if there was a global flood you'd expect to find billions of dead thing buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. And what do we find? Actually, we find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.
Now of course, those who believe in evolution and don't believe the Bible is true say that the fossil record was laid down over millions of years, and they say that the older layers are on the bottom and the youngest layers are on the top. Actually, I also believe the oldest layers are on the bottom, by and large, and the youngest layers are on the top, but younger by maybe a few months, not millions of years as we are told by the evolutionists today.
Question: "Can you give me an example of rock forming quickly?"
You know the Bible tells us there is going to be another judgment on this earth, not by water next time, but by fire. Is there an ark of salvation for us?
The Bible is not just a book of stories, it really is the Word of God, it's the true book of history that tells us all about who we are, where we came from. But our problem is sin, what the solution is in Jesus Christ, we want you to get to that door of the ark and to go through that doorway so that you will be saved for eternity. That's the most important thing in the entire universe for you to do.


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Q: Redirect NiFi Azure AD OAuth Request usinig NGINX I have been plugging away at this for a good number of days now and I have been unable to find a solution. We have deployed NiFi onto an HDInsight cluster Edge Node, which comes with NGINX (free) pre-installed. We have installed NiFi onto this node and had the basic, unsecured NiFi UI being served by NGINX. So far, so good.
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import React from 'react'
import AppBarContainer from '../containers/AppBarContainer'
import MainContentContainer from '../containers/MainContentContainer'
import ChatSidebarContainer from '../containers/ChatSidebarContainer'
import HashtagSidebarContainer from '../containers/HashtagSidebarContainer'

const GamedayFrame = () => (
  <div className="gameday container-full">
    <AppBarContainer />
    <HashtagSidebarContainer />
    <ChatSidebarContainer />
    <MainContentContainer />
  </div>
)

export default GamedayFrame

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Der Léman Express, kurz LEX, ist die S-Bahn am Genfersee (französisch Lac Léman) im Grossraum von Genf. Die Eröffnung des Gesamtnetzes mit der Bahnstrecke Cornavin–Eaux-Vives–Annemasse (CEVA) als Herzstück fand am 15. Dezember 2019 statt. Das binationale Streckennetz in der Schweiz und in Frankreich ist Europas grösste grenzüberschreitende S-Bahn.

Linien und Netz
Das Netz hat eine Länge von 230 Kilometer und bedient 45 Bahnhöfe.

Zusätzlich zu den sechs Linien des Léman Express bestehen noch folgende Linien:

Ausserdem verkehren zwischen Genf und Lausanne die folgenden Fernverkehrszüge der SBB:

Auf der neuen CEVA-Strecke erhalten die reinen RER-Bahnhöfe einheitlich 225 Meter lange Bahnsteige. Damit können FLIRT-Kompositionen in Dreifachtraktion verkehren, womit rund 600 Sitzplätze pro Zug angeboten werden. Für die RegioExpress-Züge werden Bahnsteige von 320 Metern erstellt, ausreichend für sechsteilige KISS-Doppelstockeinheiten in Doppeltraktion mit über 1000 Sitzplätzen.

Geschichte

Hintergrund
Der Grossraum Genf leidet seit Jahren unter dem stetig wachsenden grenzüberschreitenden Pendelverkehr. 84 Prozent der täglich 550'000 grenzüberschreitenden Fahrten wurden im Jahr 2015 mangels eines effizienten öffentlichen Verkehrs mit dem Auto durchgeführt.

Im Mit der neuen S-Bahn Léman Express soll das Genfer Verkehrssystem effizienter werden. Die Genfer Regierung erwartet für die Zeit nach der Eröffnung des Léman Express eine Reduktion des Autoverkehrs um 12 bis 14 Prozent.

Vorreiter Rhône Express Régional

Die Vorläufer des Léman Express gehen bis ins Jahr 1994 zurück. Die Linie von Genf nach La Plaine, seit 3. September 2001 grenzüberschreitend bis Bellegarde-sur-Valserine in Frankreich, wird seit 1994 als RER bezeichnet, was hier mit Rhône Express Régional gedeutet wird, um sich vom Réseau Express Régional in Paris zu differenzieren.

Als 2014 die Strecke Genf–La Plaine vom Gleichstromsystem auf 25 kV mit 50 Hz Wechselspannung umgestellt wurde, musterten die SBB die Gleichstromtriebwagen Bem 550 aus und verschrotteten sie noch 2015. Heute verkehren zwischen Genf und La Plaine Stadler-FLIRT-Zweifrequenzzüge der Gattung RABe 522.

Bau des Herzstücks
Das Hauptproblem bildete die acht Kilometer lange Netzlücke zwischen den Bahnhöfen Genève-La Praille und Eaux-Vives. Dieser Lückenschluss war bereits Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts geplant. Erst Anfang 2000 wurden die Planungen wiederaufgenommen. Die Neubaustrecke musste grösstenteils unterirdisch erstellt werden, da diese durch bebaute Quartiere verläuft. Die Kosten für den Aus- und Neubau belaufen sich in der Schweiz auf 1,567 Mia. Franken und in Frankreich auf 235 Mio. Euro.

Mit der neuen Strecke wird die Fahrzeit von Genève-Cornavin nach Annemasse von 33 Minuten auf 17 Minuten verkürzt.

Damit die Züge des Léman Express im Viertelstundentakt verkehren können, mussten auf dem eingleisigen S-Bahn-Gleis der Strecke Genf–Coppet zwei zusätzliche Kreuzungsbahnhöfe in Chambésy und Mies erstellt werden. Diese Ausbauten und der neue Bahnhof Lancy-Pont-Rouge gingen am 11. Juni 2018 in Betrieb und ermöglichten den Viertelstundentakt während den Hauptverkehrszeiten.

Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Namen für das zukünftige S-Bahnnetz wurde zwischen dem 1. Juni und dem 15. Juni 2015 eine öffentliche Internet-Konsultation durchgeführt. Die Bevölkerung konnte aus vier vorgeschlagenen Namen auswählen. Zur Wahl standen: CEVA Express, Léman Express, Lémanis und Réflex. Aus den fast 7900 abgegebenen Stimmen, wurde der Name Léman Express mit fast 41 Prozent der Stimmen gewählt.

Eröffnung
Seit dem 9. Dezember 2018 werden die bisher als Regio bezeichneten Linien als Léman Express geführt. Die Linien L1 bis L4, die die Neubaustrecke Genf-Cornavin–Eaux Vives–Annemasse bedienen sollen, endeten bis zu ihrer Inbetriebnahme in Lancy-Pont Rouge im Süden von Genf.

Am 12. Dezember 2019 wurde der Léman Express in Anwesenheit von Bundesrätin Simonetta Sommaruga, der Waadtländer Staatsrätin Nuria Gorrite und dem Genfer Staatsrat Serge Dal Busco offiziell eingeweiht. Die französische Transportministerin Elisabeth Borne musste die Teilnahme an der Eröffnungsfeier wegen des Streiks bezüglich der geplanten Rentenreform in Frankreich kurzfristig absagen.

Die reguläre Betrieb wurde am 15. Dezember 2019 aufgenommen. Die Inbetriebnahme wurde durch einen Generalstreik gegen die geplante Rentenreform der französischen Regierung auf französischer Seite im ersten Betriebsmonat massiv beeinträchtigt. Viele Züge wendeten vorzeitig in Chêne-Bourg, nur jeder zweite fuhr bis Annemasse wo auf Ersatzbusse umgestiegen werden musste. Ab Mitte Januar konnte der Betrieb auf französischer Seite aufgenommen werden. Dennoch haben im ersten Betriebsmonat pro Tag 25'000 Fahrgäste die Züge genutzt, erwartet werden täglich bis zu 50'000 Fahrgäste.

Die Vollinbetriebnahme des Léman Express als Rückgrat des öffentlichen Verkehrs im Grossraum Genf verändert das Angebot in der Region grundlegend. Rund 50 städtische und regionale Bus- und Tramlinien werden an die Bahnhöfe der S-Bahn angebunden. Im Kanton Genf sind über 80 Prozent der Einwohner und rund 86 Prozent der Arbeitsplätze weniger als eineinhalb Kilometer vom nächsten Bahnhof entfernt.

Zukunft
Damit das Angebot des Léman Express weiter ausgebaut werden kann, müssen zuerst die verschiedenen Teilprojekte von Léman 2030 zwischen Lausanne und Genf realisiert werden, so auch der geplante zweispurige Tiefbahnhof unter dem Bahnhof Genf-Cornavin.

Fahrzeuge
Die Flotte von Léman Express besteht aus 23 vierteiligen FLIRT-Zügen (RABe 522) des Schweizer Herstellers Stadler Rail und 17 vierteiligen Régiolis-Zügen (Z 31500) des französischen Herstellers Alstom. Sämtliche 40 Einheiten sind zweifrequenzfähig und sowohl in der Schweiz als auch in Frankreich zugelassen, so dass umsteigefreie Fahrten zwischen Coppet und Évian-les-Bains, Annecy, St-Gervais sowie Annemasse angeboten werden können. Die Léman-Express-Flotte erhielt ein einheitliches Design. Die Züge sind niederflurig, klimatisiert, bieten grosse Ablageflächen in der ersten sowie Steckdosen in beiden Wagenklassen sowie genügend Raum für Kinderwagen, Velos und Rollstühle und je eine behindertengängige Toilette.

Auf Schweizer Seite wurden die FLIRT-Triebzüge 2018 schrittweise in Dienst gestellt. In der ersten Jahreshälfte 2018 wurden die ersten Régiolis-Einheiten getestet. Sie wurden im Hinblick auf die vollständige Inbetriebnahme des Systems im Dezember 2019 bis zum Sommer 2019 ausgeliefert.

Die SBB investierten für die 23 FLIRT-Züge 236 Millionen Franken. Auf französischer Seite ist es die Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, die die 17 Régiolis mit bis zu 210 Millionen Euro finanziert.

Organisation
Lémanis SA ist für die Planung und den Betriebs des grenzüberschreitenden regionalen Schienenangebots Léman Express zuständig. Ausserdem ist Lémanis SA Ansprechpartner für die involvierten Behörden der Kantone Genf und Waadt, des Bundesamtes für Verkehr und der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Lémanis SA, eine Aktiengesellschaft nach schweizerischem Recht, ist eine Tochtergesellschaft von SBB und SNCF (via SNCF Mobilités) mit Sitz in Genf. Das Unternehmen ist zu 60 % im Besitz der SBB und zu 40 % im Besitz der SNCF. Sie ist rechtlich gesehen keine Eisenbahngesellschaft. Aus rechtlichen Gründen hat sie eine Schwestergesellschaft in Frankreich mit Sitz in Chambéry. Die am 15. März 2017 gegründete Lémanis SA geht auf den am 9. März 2017 in Paris unterzeichneten Kooperationsvertrag zwischen den SBB und SNCF zurück.

Am 1. Februar 2018 haben der Bund, die Kantone Genf und Waadt sowie die Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes eine Absichtserklärung zum Léman Express unterschrieben. Diese besagt, dass die vier Partner bis spätestens 2023 eine einzige Aufsichtsorganisation gründen wollen, die als Betreiberin eine einzige Gesellschaft führt. Gemäss Absichtserklärung soll die Lémanis möglichst bald eine vollständige Eisenbahngesellschaft werden.

Sicht der Gewerkschaften
Die Absichtserklärung bietet dem Betreiber die Möglichkeit einer «eventuellen Ausschreibung der Bahnleistungen des Léman Express auf dem gesamten einbezogenen Gebiet der Schweiz und Frankreichs am Ende der zehnjährigen Konzession, mit einer Ausstiegsklausel nach sechs Jahren, die dem Betreiber auf dem Schweizer Netz zugestanden wird». Im Zeitraum 2025–2029 könnte das Netz also gesamteuropäisch ausgeschrieben werden. Derzeit bereitet sich die Europäische Union auf die Liberalisierung des Fernverkehrs (2020) und des Regionalverkehrs (2026) vor. Die schweizerische Gewerkschaft des Verkehrspersonals SEV befürchtet unter diesen Bedingungen grossen Druck auf die Arbeitsbedingungen. Die CGT Bahn, SUD Rail und der SEV haben von Lémanis Informationen über die künftigen Arbeitsbedingungen verlangt.

Arbeitsrecht
Für das Personal stellt sich die zentrale Frage: Welche Gesellschaft wird das Netz betreiben und welche Arbeitsbedingungen werden gelten? In einem ersten Schritt werden es die jeweiligen Hausregeln sein. Die Betreibergesellschaft Lémanis wird von SNCF (40 %) und SBB (60 %) gemeinsam geführt, aber die Lokführerinnen und Lokführer arbeiten jeweils nur im eigenen Land, obwohl sie beide Fahrbewilligungen haben. Dies macht einen Lokführerwechsel jeweils in Annemasse nötig.

Siehe auch
 S-Bahnen in der Schweiz
 Bahn 2000
 Schweizer Eisenbahnprojekte: Region Westschweiz
 Grenze zwischen Frankreich und der Schweiz

Weblinks

 Offizielle Website des Léman Express
 Offizielle Website der SBB zur S-Bahn Waadt
  (PDF-Datei; 5,6 MB)

Quellen

Leman
Verkehr (Kanton Genf)
Verkehr (Kanton Waadt)
Genfersee
Grenze zwischen Frankreich und der Schweiz
S-Bahn (Frankreich)


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Monte Carlo Masters 2019
Monte Carlo Masters: Tomas Berdych, Alexander Zverev enter second round
Only three breaks of serve, one in each set, decided the outcome of the Berdych-Kuznetsov match
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Modified 18 Apr 2017, 09:20 IST
Djokovic won too, but in doubles.
Ninth seed Tomas Berdych and 14th seed Alexander Zverev progressed into the second round of the 2017 Monte Carlo Masters at the Principality of Monaco on Monday although they had contrasting routes to their respective victories. German teenager Zverev needed only 1 hour 8 minutes to dismiss the Italian veteran Andreas Seppi, 6-1, 6-2 while Berdych came back from a set down to edge Russian qualifier Andrey Kuznetsov, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.
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Other seeds entering the second round comfortably are the 15th seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas and 16th seeded Pablo Cuevas.
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A couple of seeded Spaniards had to grind it out on the gruelling red dirt. 12th seeded Roberto Bautista Agut, who began the season with the Chennai Open title, was blown away 1-6 by the 59th ranked Nikoloz Basilashvili in the first set. The World No. 18 did manage to survive the Georgian's onslaught for a 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 win in 2 hours 6 minutes.
Bautista Agut's countryman, the 13th seeded Pablo Carreno Busta had an equally torrid outing but was able to eke out a narrow 7-6(0), 6(4)-7, 6-3 win over the ever-dangerous Fabio Fognini.
Edmund to meet Rafa
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Djokovic earns win in doubles
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