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Projects tagged "Transportation"
Memetro
Memetro is a non-profit cultural organisation, which has developed a web application for smartphones for all people who have a transitory memory upset. The term 'memetro' is a merging of two concepts'Meme' from the Spanish expression, and the film 'Memento'. People with TMG (Transitory Global Memetro) very often forget to validate their ticket of public transport, especially on the subway.
Free Subway Ride
Wednesday's Free Subway Ride? That Was Occupy Wall Street
Pothole Activism
Baadal Nanjundaswamy
Baadal Nanjundaswamy, a Bangalore based artist who works at an advertising agency uses his art to embarrass the civic authorities into fixing the potholes that litter the roads of Bangalore.
Birthday Party For A Pothole
Amemos Tijuana
A group of young adults under the name of "Love Tijuana" (Amemos Tijuana) celebrated the one year "Birthday" of a pothole located at the Via Rapida (Tijuana's Freeway) with balloons, banners, and even hats.
Color-Cycling
Narcelio Grud
Ciclo-Color
For Warmth
Thich Nhat Hanh as featured at onbeing.org
Thich Nhat Hanh reads his poem "For Warmth" in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode "Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism."
Balls Across America
The Survivaball made its first appearance in 2006, when "Halliburton representatives" attended a conference on catastrophic climate change and demonstrated the functionality of the large inflatable suits ("a gated community for one"), which keep corporate managers safe from global warming. Not long afterward, in Berlin, the Yes Men learned they also work as disruptive, arrest-resistant tools.
White Bikes
Provos
The White Bikes are the best known acts of creative activism by the Dutch group Provo. The political wing of the Provos won a seat on the city council of Amsterdam, and developed the "White Plans".
Project Easy Access Lexington
Latitude Artist Community
Spearheaded by Latitude Artist Community, Project Easy Access Lexington (PEAL) organized team 'Bricksquad' to help make the sidewalks and streets of downtown Lexington, KY more wheelchair accessible. Armed with only a canvas bag of few bricks, sand, and some tools the teams would make their way through the sidewalks restoring bricks as needed. The damage to the sidewalks was such that the gesture was symbolic more than effectual initially.
The first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren't invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC southwards primarily in order to wait, together, in waiting rooms that were still unconstitutionally segregated.
Miss Rockaway Armada
The Miss Rockaway Armada is both a collection of individuals and an idea. At its most basic, the idea is this: we're going to float down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans on rafts that we built ourselves. The crew can be called many things: artists, musicians, builders, travelers, organizers, dreamers. Ask one of the people who help build and move these crafts for the
Respect The Living Too
McCann Tirana
An advertising agency creates a one-time action for traffic safety, then uses documentation to generate awards and free promotion for their company. Did traffic fatalities actually drop after this was done once? Their Press Release doesn't make mention. From McCann's Press Release:
And Where Do I Drive?
Koce, Return to the Street
Cyclist activists from the Koce, Return to the Street initiative set up sculptures symbolically showing the marginalization of cyclists in the city, the inadequate and dysfunctional infrastructure for this means of transport, but also to point out the large number of trampled bikers in Skopje.
Heavy Trash
Creative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 2000 Heavy Trash, an anonymous arts organization of designers, architects, and urban planners, implemented its Aqua Line project throughout various parts of Los Angeles. The project involved the installation of false "Future Station Location" signs in the downtown area, notifying passersby of the impending construction of a subway that would connect the downtown to the Westside.
Anne Basting
Using Performance Art to Alert Drivers to Look Out for Pedestrians A series of three street performances taking place this Thursday and Friday carries a simple message - remember to see and stop for pedestrians.
Chilean Protesters Used Lasers to Bring down Police Drone
Chiliean protesters
A technological feat has emerged amid the Chilean protests. A video of protestors bringing down a police drone has gone viral on social media sites. These protestors didn't use any physical or gun force to bring the drone down. Instead, they used another form of technology: lasers. A lot of bright green laser beams were pointed in unison at the drone, which can be seen moving erratically, before quickly falling down to Earth.
Visual Resistance
Ghostbikes.org is intended to be a site for the worldwide cycling community where those lost on dangerous streets can be remembered by their loved ones, members of their local communities, and others from around the world. They also hope to inspire more people to start installing ghost bikes in their communities and to initiate changes that will make us all safer on the streets.
I-75 Project
Norm Magnusson
For the past few years, I've been creating what I call "art of social conscience:" tv spots, viral emails, paintings and posters, but none of it has engaged viewers as much as this series of "historical" markers, each one a small story containing a discrete point of view.
I HAVE A DREAM - Roman Subway Map
Tic Edizioni
Tic Edizioni, Roman publishing house, has created "I Have a Dream", a fake map of the Rome subway.
Pedestrian Critical Mass
Ser Urbano, Caracas a Pie, Various individuals
INVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela
South American Traffic Mimes
Venezuelan Government
"Mimes gesture as they stand in a crosswalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Oct. 7, 2011. The mayor of the city's eastern district of Sucre has launched a unique program aimed to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians, putting 120 mimes at intersections to politely and silently scold violators"
Bogota smiles: canned Sardines
Daniel Sanchez
A Colombian college student created this idea to improve Bogotas citizens experience when using the public transportation. According to one scientific study, the worst problem Bogota citizens had to deal within the public space was public transportation; this problem represented the principal cause of high percentages of stress and anger among citizens.
An Artist Strikes Back Against Foul Subway Smells
Angela H. Kim
The New York City subway is many things, but clean isn't necessarily one of them. It doesn't exactly smell great, either. While the MTA hedges on solutions (and continues to debate whether eliminating trash cans from the stations actually solves sanitary issues), the artist and School of Visual Arts student Angela H. Kim is waging a personal guerilla war against the olfactory offensiveness of it all.
Fare strike for free public transport
In the autumn of 2001 the fare strike started in Stockholm. A hike in fares forced us - activists in the Syndicalist Youth federation - to take action.


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Thomas Paris joins Floriana on a permanent basis
Floriana FC announced that an agreement has been reached with Birkirkara FC regarding the permanent transfer of player Thomas Paris.
Thomas Paris, who joined Floriana on a loan basis last January and was instrumental in the FA Trophy success, signed a four-year contract with the club. Paris will join his team mates with immediate effect to prepare for the UEFA Europa League commitments.
Floriana president Johann Said showed his delight about this latest acquisition and noted that all Maltese players who formed part of the team that won the FA Trophy are now Floriana players on a permanent basis.
Said said that the committee's work will now focus on the signing of quality foreigners to have the best possible squad in terms of quality for the Europa League commitments.
The President thanked all those involved in making this transfer possible.
A product of Birkirkara, Paris made his Premier League career with the Stripes in season 2004/05. He also had a short spell with Qormi.
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Who was Marie Curie, and what exactly did she do? Well, if you wish to know more about her, read these 15 Marie Curie facts to know about her life, her inventions and discoveries and her awards. Born in 1867, Marie Curie was a pioneer chemist and physicist. Europe's first woman recipient of a PhD, Curie was also the first woman ever to have been awarded the coveted Nobel Prize for her discovery in radioactivity. With so much achievements filling her kitty, who would think that this woman of substance could ever have received public flak for wrecking a marriage? Well, you would be surprised to know a great deal about Curie from this post about to be presented below!
Though, a woman, Marie Curie was no less determined than a man out to get education for herself. In fact she was a rebel when it came to getting educated. She was so determined that she enrolled at a Floating University at Warsaw once she finished her high school. This university had no fixed location and it kept changing locations. It was an illegal institution constructed underground and run by Poles. Marie always wanted to go for higher education, but, since women weren't allowed for higher education in the Russian occupied Warsaw, she made a journey to France to enroll at the Sorbonne. Possessing immense will power, she worked part time as a tutor for five years and in the meantime educated herself in chemistry, physics and maths.
The family of Marie Curie was not a rich one. Her parents were teachers by profession and she was their fifth child. Owing to lack of funds, she had to work as a governess at a relative's house of her father. When she was working as a governess there, she met and fell in love with Kazimierz Zorawski, the son of the family. Both wanted to marry each other but owing to Marie's and her family's poor financial status, they could not marry.
Marie Curie was not the only science wizard in her family. In-fact science ran through her whole family, beginning from her grandfather who was a teacher of physics and chemistry, her father being the teacher of maths and physics and Marie's daughter Irene Joliot-Curie who went on to win the Nobel Prize for chemistry along with her beau Frédéric Joliot-Curie. The duo won the prize for their research work in artificial radioactivity. This does not end here as the children of Irene, Hélène Langevin-Joliot and Pierre Joliot-Curie too are famous scientists working in the fields of nuclear physics and biology.
Coming next in this list of amazing Marie Curie facts is the one about her marriage with her lab partner – Pierre Curie. In the year 1894, Marie was in the search of a large space to be used as a laboratory when her Professor Jozef Wierusz-Kowalski introduced her to Pierre Curie. Pierre had a space which Marie could use for her research. The work and hours spent in the lab drew both the scientists close to each other and then after a romantic affair, they married in July 1895. They went for a civil marriage instead of a church wedding as Marie was an agnostic.
Most of us believed that Marie Curie died off aplastic anemia due to her long exposure to radiation that happened as she worked all her life with radium. But, its not so. According to the old belief, the prolonged exposure to radiation had damaging impact on Marie's health leading to this rare blood sickness. Curie didn't know back then that storing radioactive isotopes in the pocket and drawers could harm her so much. But, in the year 1995, it was discovered that her death was caused by her work with X rays that she dealt with in World War I. The year was 1934 that Curie went to Sancellemoz Sanatorium in Passy for treatment but died on July 4 of the same year. In-fact we can say that she martyred herself for her dedication to science.


Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan are all set to act in a picture produced by T. Subbarami Reddy.
Telugu cinema industry is all set to see a dream combination shortly. The two mega top stars of the industry, Chiranjeevi and his brother Pawan Kalyan are planning to act together in a movie that will be directed by Trivikram Srinivas. This dream venture will be produced by T. Subbarami Reddy.
At the pre-release gathering of Khaidi No. 150, TSR had announced that he is scheduling to make a movie with the actors. With the movie smashing all Tollywood accounts, TSR had recently felicitated Chiranjeevi and had discussed his ideas.
After Chiranjeevi's progressive response, he then come across Pawan Kalyan individually and influenced him to do a movie with his brother. "Both the brothers reacted well and granted to act together," says a representative.
When the two mega brothers have agreed to act together, as it's a rare combination, TSR instantly thought of director Trivikram as he is so close to Pawan and has also functioned with Chiranjeevi.
Comedian Srinivasa Reddy crooked lead actor with the movie Jayammu Nischyammura. Out some time back, the movie was esteemed by one and all. Reddy, who has performed with Pawan Kalyan in some of his movies, requested PK to watch his movie, but Pawan couldn't find time.
He newly watched it at an exceptional screening and directly wanted to share his opinions with the comedian. So, he sent a bunch of flowers to the Reddy with a note on it: 'You made a worthy film. I enjoyed it. Best wishes'. Delighted, Srinivasa Reddy shared pictures of the bouquet sent by PK.


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Peter awoke feeling sorry for himself. There was no real reason, it was just an occasional indulgence. Pity for the things that could have been, but hadn't happened. Oh, he could have been a world-class athlete, a devoted husband, a father to many smiling children, a vast landowner, a big game hunter, and so much more. He lay awake, looking at the ceiling.
In a high corner of the cabin was a spider's web, and there was the little black rascal spinning it. The powers of this eight-legged creature were awesome: to create a world from your own body, and to entrap and enfold other beings within it.
Peter looked out of the window. It was a gloomy day. Why couldn't it be sunny, so he could go for a run along the Meadows Road? The sunshine inspired him; it was something to run towards. But this weather was cheerless. Why would someone want to go outside in that?
After an uneasy sleep-in, he accepted that there was no way out. He had to get up and go to work. He did a fat shit, brushed his teeth, and had a quick shower. Pulsating eucalyptus waters roused his spirits, but when he opened the fridge, they fell again. Fuck! He was out of milk. Why didn't he buy some from the gas station yesterday? Or keep a stock of evaporated milk? But he hated that stuff. And cereal with water was just wrong.
Because of Peter's sleep-in, his timings were off. He was a half-hour behind schedule. As he started the truck, he heard the closing bars of his favourite radio show. That Native comic was hilarious, and the East Indian one, and the woman with the lisp – talk about shameless! How could she even conceive of doing that with cayenne peppers! But shit! Shit! He'd missed it. There was some show about psychology, talking about how your thoughts affect your perceptions, which in turn affect your behaviour. Then flaky bullshit about affecting your "realities".
He was late so pushed the truck hard, slowed behind an old lady driver, and once around the bend, flew past her at 160. No cops here ever. He saw her look of shock in his mirror. He, he, he!
But then his truck wobbled. Bastard! He realized that he had a flat. The low-pressure warning light blinked last night, but he hadn't been concerned. That sensor was way too sensitive. But the slow puncture was now a flat. He changed the tire, cursing continuously. A spider ran out from somewhere. The old lady driver flowed past him, smiling.
Peter entered the office hoping for company, but there was no-one about. Where was that pretty new receptionist? He enjoyed flirting with her. Anyway, it was all good if she wasn't there – he could watch porn and play video games.
He switched on his computer. It took forever, and then the blue screen wobbled and quickly died. Cunt! What the hell was wrong with that machine? He called the IT guy and left him an abusive message, telling him to choose between "the blue pill or the poison pill, either way you're fucked." Then he went out to grab a coffee.
The girl at the coffee shop seemed familiar, but he wasn't sure how. Her golden orbs were pushed together, bursting out of her low-cut top. She tried to charge his card, but there was a system error. She swiped it again but still no luck. Peter said to her "Why don't you swipe it down your cleavage, and I'll give you a tip?" She bared her teeth uncomfortably, and tried a third time. This was successful. But while Peter was adding cream and sugar, the manager came over and asked him to apologize to her. Peter told him to fuck off, and was immediately asked to leave, and banned from the coffee shop. Idiot people around here, he thought, they can't take a joke.
When he returned to work, his boss was waiting. She said, "Peter, may I have a word with you?"
"Sure, right now?"
"Yes," she said severely. "Right now. I'm afraid I have some bad news. Complaints against you from staff, suppliers, and customers have built up to an unacceptable level. It seems that you do not comprehend good behaviour. The company can no longer be associated with such rudeness. You can either resign immediately, or I will fire you. Which would you prefer?"
Peter informed her of his choice – and plenty more besides. He left her shaking with rage and tears. At least he'd made a lasting impression.
He went to the pub and ordered an early drink. In the daylight the pub looked different; less shiny, less clean. More hopeless. It even had cobwebs. That barman should dust higher.
Peter stayed there all day, moping. He told each new customer his woes. Eventually he was too drunk to speak coherently, but kept bothering people, leading to a small tussle with the barman. Peter fell and bashed his head on a chair, and his mouth was edged with blood. "Bash-tard! You broke my tooth!" He slurred as he was thrown out. "I just wanted one more beer."
Peter managed to start his truck and drove it a hundred yards, before red and blue lights flashed behind him. He pushed the accelerator to try to get away, and then the brake to stop. He was breathalysed and ticketed, and his car impounded. A taxi took him home, where he found an eviction noticed pinned to his door. "Your sexual harassment of my niece today at the coffee shop was intolerable. Please vacate this suite tomorrow. Your damage deposit will not be returned." Peter ripped the notice off the door and tore it up.
He fell into bed but couldn't sleep. In the high corner of the cabin, the spider's web had grown larger. His unfocussed eyes made it seem that he was within it. His sunshine, his breakfast, his laughter, his truck, his job, his coffee, his beer, his home, and his dreams, were stuck in its strands. Each dark deed trapped him further. And Peter wondered if he was the spider, the insect, or the web?
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…such language!


Whatcom County, population 196,000 (2008), stretches from the Straight of Georgia to the Cascade Mountains just south of the Canadian border. Its original TDR ordinance was never used. In December 1999, the County expanded the original ordinance. The stated goals of the new ordinance are: to provide flexibility and better use of land; to help preserve critical areas, watersheds and open space; to provide for equalization of property values between zones; and to work toward achieving the objectives of the County's land use plan. But the amendment was primarily designed to focus on the goal of preserving the watershed of Lake Whatcom.
Whatcom County's TDR program aims to preserve land in the watershed of Lake Whatcom, which supplies drinking water to much of the County.
Lake Whatcom is a multi-purpose reservoir that supplies drinking water to half the population of Whatcom County including the City of Bellingham and several smaller water districts. In addition to water supply, Lake Whatcom is used for boating, fishing and swimming. Although the Lake Whatcom watershed is currently primarily forested, residences currently exist and many more could be added. However, the potential build out of the watershed was recently reduced from about 10,000 to 6,000 home sites as a result of several efforts. 1) A watershed protection ordinance was adopted for the portion of the watershed that lies within the City of Bellingham. 2) The County rezoned a portion of the watershed from one unit per two acres to one unit per five acres. 3) A large development community pledged to eliminate 1,400 lots. Approximately one-third of the parcels in the watershed do not have sewer service. Other uses include small farms, limited commercial, public facilities and private as well as public parks.
In 2000, various concerns about the program were raised by citizens and County staff including the transfer ratios from the UR and RR sending areas, the need for additional receiving areas and extra developer incentives. Amendments addressing these concerns were adopted in January 2001. Other amendments to the TDR code were subsequently made in 2004 and 2005, as discussed below.
Sending sites are those areas that qualify as sending sites according to the County's zoning map. The December 1999 amendment designated a sending area that included the entire watershed for Whatcom Lake, an area approximately 45-square miles in size. Almost half this land area, 46 percent, is in public ownership as state forest. Another 23 percent is in commercial forests.
In January 2000, the County Council excluded Sudden Valley from the sending area. Sudden Valley is a recreational community approximately three square miles in size and is located on the western shore of Lake Whatcom. It was excluded from the sending area because it was pursuing its own lot-elimination campaign designed to retire 1,400 lots, bringing the potential build out of Sudden Valley from 4,600 to 3,200 houses.
The code allows additional sending areas to be created through the process of amending the zoning map. Consequently, Whatcom County can expand the goals of its TDR program without necessarily having to make further amendments to its TDR ordinance.
The mapped sending areas have a wide variety of zoning designations. Much of the watershed is zoned for commercial forestry, which allows very little development potential. Other rural zones in the watershed allow on site development ranging from one unit per ten acres to one unit per two acres. These rural zones offer a one-to-one transfer ratio; the number of TDRs that can be transferred equals the number of dwelling units that can be built on site. However, the code makes an exception for land in the watershed in the Urban Residential (UR) and Rural Residential (RR) zones. In these zones, TDRs can be certified at the densities that would only be allowed to on-site development with sewer and/or water. For example, a five-acre site zoned UR 3 would only be allowed one TDR per five acres without public water and sewer service. However, TDRs could be certified at the three-unit-per-acre density that would be allowed if public sewer and water were available. This amounts to a transfer ratio of 15 to one.
Receiving areas are also depicted on the County zoning map. The County can create additional receiving areas by amending the zoning map following a determination that the subject site is appropriate for designation as a TDR receiving area. As the ordinance existed in 2002, when allowable density in an area increased due to a rezoning or expansion of an urban growth area, the County was to review the area to determine whether it is appropriate as a TDR receiving site. After amendments in 2004, these rezoned areas and expanded urban growth areas are to automatically become receiving areas. The county ordinance also allows incorporated cities, in cooperation with Whatcom County, to designate TDR receiving areas if the sites are appropriate for higher densities, not limited by significant critical areas and unlikely to cause significant adverse impacts.
As of 2002, three areas in the City of Bellingham's growth area zoned URMX were depicted as receiving sites on the zoning map. This zone provides a baseline density of four dwelling units per acre. With TDR, the maximum density can increase to six units per acre, a density bonus of 50 percent. Density can go as high as ten units per acre when developers provide development features and amenities.
Developers wishing to use TDRs must apply for a transfer of development rights permit. Decisions on the TDR permit are made concurrently with decisions needed for the receiving site project. The permit may be approved if the transfer achieves the purposes and requirements of the TDR provisions and if the transfer will result in the preservation of open space. Approval of an application for a TDR permit is discretionary.
Prior to final approval of a TDR permit, the County must approve the concurrent development project and record a legal instrument to effect the transfer. This instrument must include legal descriptions of the sending and receiving parcels and the serial numbers of the TDRs being transferred. The County must also verify that a deed restriction on the sending site has been recorded.
To encourage the use of TDR, Whatcom County allows applicants to apply for exemptions from certain fees and requirements. Specifically, the applicant must be granted a 25 percent reduction for all lot review fees. In addition, projects using TDRs may be granted reductions or exemptions from minimum landscape requirements and a 15 percent reduction in lot coverage if these exceptions will not adversely affect project residents, adjacent residents or the character of the neighborhood.
In a 2004 amendment, the County added in-lieu payments as a way for developers to comply with the TDR requirements. This amendment also authorized Whatcom County to create a development rights bank and a DR bank oversight committee; however, as of 2009, the bank had not been formed.
According to the County web site, as of May 2009, 322 TDRs had been certified and 124 rights had been transferred. However, in a May 2009 phone conversation, Dean Martin of the Whatcom County Planning Department reported that TDRs were only used in one receiving site development. That transfer, discussed in the profile on Bellingham's TDR program, transferred nine TDRs to a development named Stone Crest in the King Mountain neighborhood. As indicated in a study of the use of TDR in Bellingham annexation areas, TDR in Whatcom County is currently hindered by low demand for bonus density. That study looked at 11 recent developments and calculated that the developers had used less than half of the density available to them as a matter of right (meaning without having to acquire TDRs.) The Bellingham study determined that maximum by-right density was often hard to achieve because of wetlands and other development constraints. In addition, the Bellingham study noted that developers were reluctant to use TDR because receiving site projects are subject to discretionary approval and consequently are vulnerable to neighborhood opposition. Even though the Bellingham study predicted that demand for TDRs would remain low for the next decade, the consultants recommended that the TDR mechanism be applied to future annexations into the City since the market could change in the future as growth consumes the supply of readily developable land.


Just wondering over the past few month if we could get some feedback on the improvements we've made, and any future improvements you'd like to see?
Great suggestions, we'll sit down this weekend and talk about these. Neither should be too difficult. Thanks!
One more addition, maybe...kind of like our Miles thread, but can we somehow get a tracker up instead of a thread? So folks can add their miles daily and we could show totals for the day, month, year, etc. Not sure of the exact set up but it would be cool when people visit and see 'TRF Members ran 184 Miles today!"
My main web browser is Safari. Lately when I go to the main page I see what others have typed in the shout box, but the section where I can add something is missing. Also, the member of the month section is missing. When I use Firefox I see the MOTM section, but still don't have the option to chat in the shoutbox. I never used to have this problem - it just started a week or two ago.
Could this be a problem with my computer only? If so, what should I do to fix it? Or does TRF not like Macs?
Thanks for letting us know. We will def. look into it!


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Columnaris is a common bacterial infection in aquarium fish, particularly livebearer fish (guppies, mollies etc) and catfish. Its name is derived from columnar shaped bacteria, which are present in virtually all aquarium environments.
The Columnaris bacteria is most likely to infect fish that have been stressed by conditions such as poor water quality, poor diet, or stress from handling and shipping. Columnaris can enter the fish through the gills, mouth, or via small wounds on the skin. The disease is highly contagious and may be spread through contaminated nets, specimen containers, and even food.
High water temperature accelerates the progression of the disease; however lowering the water temp will not affect the outcome of the disease.
Most Columnaris infections are external, and present first as white or grayish white spots on the head and around the fins or gills. The lesions may first be seen only as a paler area that lacks the normal shiny appearance of the rest of the fish. As the lesion progresses it may become yellowish or brownish in color and the area around it may be tinged red.
Lesions on the back often extend down the sides, giving the appearance of a saddle, leading to the name saddle-back that is often used to describe this symptom. On the mouth, the lesions may look moldy or cottony, and the mouth will eventually become eaten away. The fins will erode and have a frayed appearance as the infection progresses. The gills are affected, too. As the bacteria invade them the filaments will disintegrate, resulting in the onset of rapid breathing or gasping in the fish due to lack of oxygen. Less commonly, the infection will take an internal course which often displays no external symptoms. In these cases, only a necropsy and cultures will point to the true cause of death.
External infections should be treated with antibiotics, chemicals in the water or both. Copper sulfate, Acriflavine, Furan, and Terramycin may all be used externally to treat Columnaris. Terramycin has proven to be quite effective both as a bath, and when used to treat foods for internal infections. Salt may be added to the water to enhance gill function. Livebearers, in particular, will benefit from the addition of salt; however, use caution when treating catfish, as many are highly sensitive to salt. When in doubt error on the side of caution when using salt.
Because the bacteria thrive on organic wastes, the potential for Columnaris outbreaks can be controlled by regular water changes and tank maintenance, including vacuuming of the gravel. Proper diet and maintaining good water quality in general will keep the fish from being stressed and therefore more susceptible to infection. Placing new fish, and promptly moving any sick fish to a quarantine tankwill help prevent the introduction and spread of the disease.
To avoid spreading the bacterium to other tanks, nets, specimen containers, and other aquarium equipment should be disinfected before each use. Small quantities of aquarium salt can be used regularly as a prophylaxis to prevent disease in livebearer aquariums. When fish are being shipped or moved they are under stress, which leaves them open to contracting diseases. To give them a better chance of remaining healthy they may be given prophylactic antibiotic treatment or fed medicated food.


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Study identifies regions of genes linked to Beh-et's disease
Researchers don't know the exact cause of Beh-et's disease, a chronic condition that leads to oral and genital sores and serious complications such as blindness, but new research brings better understanding to what makes some people more susceptible to being affected.
In one of the most extensive genetic analyses of Beh-et's disease, a University of Michigan-led, international team of researchers has identified novel gene variants in the inflammatory disorder and uncovered data that could apply to studies of other diseases. The results appear in the journal Nature Genetics.
"This disease is associated with significant complications and because it is not well understood, treatment options are limited," says lead author Amr Sawalha, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine in the division of rheumatology at the U-M Medical School.
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One of the major genetic risk factors of the disease is believed to be a specific form of a gene on chromosome 6 in the HLA region (an inherited group of genes known as human leukocyte antigen). The new study shows that contrary to the belief that genetic risk in this region is most strongly tied to a form of the gene HLA-B (called HLA-B*51) - there are actually at least four independent genetic risk regions within the HLA linked to the disease. and the risk previously attributed to the HLA-B*51 protein itself is explained by a gene variant outside the HLA-B gene. Researchers have long studied the phenomenon of why certain forms of HLA are associated with autoimmune and inflammatory disorders and the severity of those disorders.
"This HLA region has an incredibly significant role in many diseases. It's also one of the most complicated areas of the human genome, which is why it's so difficult to analyze," Sawalha says. "This is an extensive way to look at the HLA region that can be also applied to other diseases. We can now identify and localize the risks within this complex HLA region more accurately than ever before, which opens the door to further developments."
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Jagoo Chandrakant Shah (born 1953) is a Kenyan former first-class cricketer.

Shah made a single appearance in first-class cricket for a combined East Africa cricket team against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Nairobi in 1974. Opening the batting twice in the match alongside Narendra Thakker, he was dismissed in the East Africa first innings by Roger Knight for 53 runs, while in their second innings he was dismissed for 8 runs by John Hutton. He took the wicket of David Acfield with his leg break googly bowling in the MCC first innings. Shah also played minor matches for Kenya prior to their membership of the International Cricket Council.

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Q: How do physical disks passed through ESXi perform vs. passing through HBAs? Context:
I have a SAN operating system (Nexenta) that runs on ESXi. It has a couple of HBAs passed through to it already, via VT-d. All of the HBAs for the SAN OS are full (no free connectors). I recently purchased some SATA SSDs for Nexenta and attached them directly to the motherboard's on-board SATA controller.
I can add those new SSDs to the Nexenta VM by adding "physical disks" to the VM profile in vSphere. Alternatively, I could connect then to one of the HBAs, but I'd have to disconnect/move existing disks, which entails considerable hassle.
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My question is: assuming that my HBAs don't do any fancy caching etc., and have the same available bus bandwidth and SATA specification as the onboard controller (the one connected to the new SSDs), is there a performance difference between attaching the physical disks to the VM via the vSphere disk add functionality, and attaching them to an HBA that is passed through to the VM via VT-d? Does the vSphere disk add method impose some relaying/request forwarding behavior that could negatively impact disk performance compared to native speeds?
Anecdotes for answers are good, but statistics are better: I know I probably won't notice a performance difference at first, since SSDs are fast. But I've been in the field long enough to know that if there is a problematic performance difference, it will manifest during production-critical activities, at the worst possible time :)

A: Please see the notes about configuring an all-in-one ZFS setup in my post at: Hosting a ZFS server as a virtual guest.
If you're talking about creating an SSD pool or adding drives as raw device-mappings (RDM's), disregard the rest of this answer. The preference there would be to run through the HBA versus RDM. Use SAS expanders if needed. The main reasons are easy portability, configuration simplicity (you don't want this or this) and consistency with what you've already configured. The performance impact is negligible. The management overhead isn't.

If you're instead thinking about using VMDK files on disks presented to ESXi, the general answer is that you can go either way. The performance difference probably won't matter. This assumes that the application is adding ZIL log or L2ARC cache devices to your virtualized ZFS system. There are instances where I'll add an SSD to a physical system and add VMDK's on top to present to the NexentaStor VM. Other cases, I may present an entire raw drive to the instance.
I base it on convenience versus performance. If performance were absolutely paramount, we wouldn't be virtualizing the storage, right? The convenience part comes with the flexibility to provide a reasonable performance boost to an existing system without dedicating an entire 100GB+ SSD to ZIL use (which only needs 4GB for my purposes). This leaves room for L2ARC if I'm constrained in some other way.
So my questions would be:

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*Is your motherboard's SATA controller supported/recognized by ESXi? Is it 6G?

*What are you doing? ZIL? L2ARC? Both? This matters because L2ARC isn't write heavy and the read performance is going to be a function of your data set and your cache hit-ratio. If ZIL, you want lower-latency writes, and would need to make sure that your device choice isn't going to slow you down.

*Have you examined your read/write profile? arcstat, arcsummary and zilstat will give you some insight into what's possible. It's also a decent way to test this. Try using a VMDK presented by ESXi and identify your bottlenecks under a representative workload.

*What type of SSDs will you be adding? You're talking about SATA, so that immediately excludes the high-end SAS SSD's available. Will you be using 6G SATA SSD's?

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The WNBA season opens on Mother's Day weekend, a holiday of even more significance now for Liberty guard Bria Hartley. She's mom to a 4-month-old son and learning the balancing act that is universal to all mothers who work outside the home. But she is also learning the particulars of being a professional-athlete mom, for whom returning to the job means physically rebuilding yourself.
Hartley started strength exercises a little more than three weeks after giving birth, when even a 20-second plank "was difficult at the beginning." She was doing on-court workouts three weeks after that.
"One of the things for me is my core strength isn't back where it was," Hartley said. "And strength is something I had to work on a lot in general [even before pregnancy].
"But I'm the kind of person, if I set my mind to something, I'm going to get it done. I don't think there was ever a moment of doubt, but you can get frustrated. Just because you're used to doing something that seemed easy before, and now it's a lot harder."
There are aspects of the athlete's journey to and through motherhood that can't be simplified, and getting back into shape is one of them. But Terri Jackson, who took over a year ago as director of operations for the Women's National Basketball Players Association, has been thinking about what could be improved for player moms.
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"There are companies everywhere that have revisited and reviewed their benefits," Jackson said. "I think that dialogue at least needs to be started. And it can come from both directions -- from some of the teams up to the league leadership and down from leadership to all the teams."
As part of the WNBA's collective bargaining agreement, which was signed in March 2014 and runs through October 2021, players who get pregnant while under contract receive 50 percent of their salary while they're out and have their medical expenses covered by insurance.
That's helpful, certainly. Eventually, the WNBA players' union and agents who represent the players are hopeful that the league might consider doing more, including in the realm of childcare. As these are all things negotiated in collective bargaining, the WNBA declined to comment, which is standard policy. But it's a topic the players' union and player agents continue to discuss.
"The WNBA should lead or at least match the most progressive companies on policies relating to women and working moms," agent Lindsay Kagawa Colas said. "It should be viewed as critical that a player can go to practice and a club can provide them with childcare, and that's not salary-cap circumvention.
"I'm confident most clubs would want to do whatever they could to insure their working moms are supported so they're empowered to perform at a high level."
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Players returning from pregnancy know they have to push themselves through frustration and fatigue. Their jobs depend on it. Hartley got advice from two former teammates in Washington, Tayler Hill and Tianna Hawkins, who are both moms.
Hill had her son, Maurice, in June 2014, during her second year in the WNBA. Early in her career, she hadn't had much time to establish herself. She was determined to get back on the floor for the Mystics that season; she played five regular-season games and one in the playoffs.
"I was kind of antsy because I was ready to play again," Hill said of the latter stages of her pregnancy. "I found out I really love this game of basketball and want to play it for as long as I can."
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"My son brings so much joy into my life," she said. "He doesn't care what I did on the court. He loves me the same way. I'm his superhero."
That said, Hill and other players who are moms say they know they can't do it alone. Players' partners or spouses, family members, friends and teammates all pitch in.
"Don't turn down help. It really does take a village," said Minnesota guard Jia Perkins, whose daughter, Aalirah, is almost 13. "I don't know how I'd do it without my mom and my family."
Perkins took Aalirah overseas from about the time she was 2 years old. Most WNBA players go overseas to compete in the winter and spring. That can present additional logistical challenges for moms, but it also brings more options. Some teams/countries have more progressive policies in regard to childcare, and players can negotiate living space and travel expenses for their children and caretakers.
"She adjusted easily going to other schools overseas, and I think it was a great experience," Perkins said of Aalirah. "But I haven't gone the last few years. Now she's in middle school, and I want her to have her core friends through high school."
Perkins' pregnancy was seen as a liability by teams when she was drafted. She was part of a very good 2004 class that included current Lynx teammates Lindsay Whalen and Rebekkah Brunson, plus Phoenix's Diana Taurasi and Los Angeles' Alana Beard. All were top-10 picks, with Taurasi and Beard going Nos. 1 and 2.
But Perkins, who was about seven weeks from giving birth on draft day, wasn't chosen until the third round, at No. 35, the fourth-to-last pick. Those are picks that often don't make a roster.
Yet Perkins is in her 14th WNBA season. Talent-wise, she clearly belonged in the first round. But the fact that she was pregnant made teams see her as too much of a risk -- even though a player from the same college as Perkins, Texas Tech, had proven that coming back from pregnancy was not an obstacle to being great in the WNBA.
Sheryl Swoopes had her son in the WNBA's inaugural season in 1997 and went on to win three MVP awards. But that had no impact on how Perkins was viewed. She had to prove herself.
No perfect time
That's what Mistie Bass will have to do too, despite being a WNBA veteran. Bass is pregnant, and her baby is due June 13. She is 33 and has played 10 seasons in the WNBA, mostly as a reserve post player who understands her role and does it well. She spent the past three seasons in Phoenix and won a WNBA title with the Mercury in 2014.
She always intended to have a child and set aside a savings fund specifically for that. She wanted to be prepared for any possible circumstance, which was fortunate because things haven't gone exactly as planned. Bass is an unsigned free agent, so she isn't currently earning a salary, nor is she on the WNBA's standard health insurance. She's on COBRA coverage, which is very expensive.
Because she is an unsigned free agent, Mistie Bass is currently not earning a salary, nor is she on the WNBA's standard health insurance. Her baby is due June 13. Getty Images
Also, she is having a hard time lining up a job overseas for later this year, even though she'll have had time by then to get back in shape.
"It's not based on anything I've already done in my career," she said of teams' reticence to sign her. "It's just because I'm pregnant. I'm going to have to prove myself all over again."
One of her former Mercury teammates, DeWanna Bonner, is sitting out this season because she's pregnant. Bass said there are certain decisions that players have to make if they want to have children, and they usually aren't easy.
"A lot of us just never know a 'perfect' time to get pregnant -- because there isn't one," Bass said. "We make most of our money overseas. But we want to play in the [United] States too. So regardless, you're going to miss some paychecks if you have a baby during your career."
Kawaga Colas said that's one reason some players have opted to go another route: They have their eggs frozen, with the idea that they might be artificially inseminated later, when they either are well-established financially or have stopped playing.
This isn't an expense covered by insurance, and it is another area Colas hopes will be a priority to be negotiated at some point.
Australia's advocacy
The situation of former Storm player and native Australian Abby Bishop brought the issue of childcare -- and how different countries and sports organizations approach it -- to the front burner. Bishop took custody of her newborn niece in 2013, when her sister was unable to care for the baby. Bishop, then 24, wasn't expecting to be a mom, but suddenly she was, and the child has remained with her.
Part of Seattle's 2010 championship team, Bishop also played for the Storm the past two seasons. Bishop thought the Storm did as much as they could -- within league rules -- to help her make things work. In Europe and Australia, childcare was part of her contract.
Former Texas Tech star Jia Perkins had first-round talent but dropped to the fourth-to-last pick in the 2004 draft likely because she was pregnant. David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images
However, it became an issue with the Australian national team, which required her to cover the costs of traveling with a nanny and mandated that the child and nanny stay apart from the team. Bishop opted not to play in the 2014 world championship because of that. Later, she was able to resolve some differences with Basketball Australia, but she was cut before the 2016 Olympics.
Bishop's situation was part of the impetus for the Australian Athlete's Alliance to become even more proactive. The AAA is what's known as the "peak body" -- or umbrella organization -- that represents the country's elite professional athletes, who are also represented by their own sports union.
The AAA doesn't do collective-bargaining negotiating, but it advises eight unions and advocates for all the athletes. Between 750 and 800 of the roughly 4,500 athletes represented by the AAA are women.
"We have established a best-practice parental policy that we're seeking to be enacted across our members sports," AAA general secretary Jacob Holmes said. "We've invested significant time in understanding what was going on globally as well as domestically. We're fortunate in Australia that I think we have quite robust workplace policies for women and their families in the general workforce, so we've really tried to get them across to the sporting workplace."
"What nobody wants to do is rewrite the collective bargaining agreement through a series of side agreements. But I think this is an issue where we could get league and union folks on the same page very quickly." Terri Jackson, WNBA players association director of operations, on how the WNBA can best serve its working moms
Netball is the biggest women's sport in the country, and Holmes said the Australian Netball Players Association has been successful, through collective bargaining, in reaching the parental-policy standard that the AAA advocates. That covers childcare issues such as paid travel and lodging for caretakers.
Holmes and Jackson have discussed Australia's policies, but obviously, there are not just organizational differences but national ones as well. Ultimately, what Jackson hopes to do is continue to push the WNBA to consider how it can best serve its working moms.
"What nobody wants to do is rewrite the collective bargaining agreement through a series of side agreements," Jackson said. "But I think this is an issue where we could get league and union folks on the same page very quickly. At least I'm hopeful we could and possibly carve out a side agreement on this issue until it's time for the larger discussion about the entire document."
Whether that happens remains to be seen. Ultimately, the WNBA's moms return to the fact that it's the people around them who are so critical to making this work. Sunday is Mother's Day, a celebration of them. But the WNBA's moms give a lot of credit to all the people who help them.
"I don't know everyone's experience, but I can say with the Mystics, they've done everything they possibly can to help," Hill said. "I never felt on an island or like Maurice wasn't welcome. So personally, I'm very grateful."


The monthly community partners' and cross-training meetings for 2020 are listed below; click on the date to see the meeting announcement. Each cross-training event begins with a brief partners business meeting at 1:00 followed by the scheduled cross-training presentation and partner information-sharing. This is your opportunity to learn about the workings, roles and services of these organizations.
If you want to host a meeting; present a cross-training program or suggest a separate topic, sent an email to: blllink@mail.com.
2020 Dates and cross-training sessions – Click on the date (link) to see the program information for each month's meeting.
January 10, 2020 [NOTE: changed to second Friday.] – Carolyn Smith, United Disabilities Services, Community HealthChoices: "Lessons learned" and opportunities. – The meeting venue will be determined.
February 7, 2020 – Constance, a daily check-in service. – The meeting venue will be determined.
March 6, 2020 – Joe Kwiatkowski, Pleasant View Retirement Community and Stephanie Williams, Lebanon County Library System. – This meeting will be held at the Lebanon Community Library, 125 North 7th Street, Lebanon, PA 17046.
April 3, 2020 – Jessica Kemp, Service Access Management – The meeting venue will be determined.
May 1, 2020 – Martha Harris, president / CEO, Fi.zi.ka. – The meeting venue will be determined.
June 5, 2020 – Faith Haeussler, the Pennsylvania Council on Aging – The meeting venue will be determined.
July 10, 2020 [NOTE: changed to second Friday.] To be determined – The meeting venue will be determined.
August 7, 2020 – To be determined – The meeting venue will be determined.
September 4, 2020 – Joshua Mountz, Compass Mark. – The meeting venue will be determined.
October 2, 2020 – Anne Kempsel, Compassus Hospice | Palliative – The meeting venue will be determined.
November 6, 2020 – To be determined – The meeting venue will be determined.
December 4, 2020 – To be determined – The meeting venue will be determined.


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The Ireland national baseball team has been in existence since 1996 and has taken part in several major baseball tournaments and tours. As in many other sports in Ireland, the team represents both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

History
The Ireland national baseball team has participated in the following tournaments:

 1996 – European Pool B Championships – Hull, United Kingdom
 1998 – European Pool B Championships – Vienna and Stockerau, Austria
 2000 – European Pool B Championships – Karlovac, Croatia
 2001 – Team tour of New England, United States
 2002 – European Pool B Championships – Stockholm, Sweden
 2004 – European Pool B Championships – Regensberg,Germany
 2005 – Team tour of Orange County area inLos Angeles, United States
 2006 – European Pool B Championships – Antwerp, Belgium
 2008 – European Pool B Championships – Abrantes, Portugal
 2010 – Team tour of New England, United States
 2014 – European Pool C Championships – Ljubljana, Slovenia
 2016 – European Pool C Championships – Ljubljana, Slovenia
 2018 - European Pool C Championships - Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland
 2019 - European Pool B Championships - Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Ireland finished fourth in the 2002 tournament, won a bronze in the 2004 tournament and managed a silver medal in the 2006 tournament, losing to tournament favourites Croatia.

Ireland won the C pool in 2018, advancing to the B pool of competition in 2019. The competition was played at the International Baseball Centre in County Meath.

Roster
Ireland's roster for the European Baseball Championship Qualifier 2022, the last official competition in which the team took part.

See also
 Baseball in Ireland

References

External links
 Irish National Baseball Team News (archived 2009)

National baseball teams in Europe

Baseball


At any one time you may think you're desiring a resolution to a conflict, a new car, a new home, a new relationship, but at the root of all of these little desires is your primal need to remember, know and BE what you really are. IT puts you through certain experiences to bring you Home!
Your job is to keep turning to your 'I Am,' the loving awareness, the inner Presence, and feeling that all is well. That's actually the automatic response to turning within and sensing the silence of Presence— IT feels good, IT feels like general well-being, perfection— even when circumstances suggest otherwise. IT's a felt sign, the first sign, that your blessing is HERE, even though you can't see it yet.
I love you all so much and intend that you can appreciate whatever is challenging you right now. It's truly all okay, everything is great. Feel IT and walk in IT knowing that you've already won. It's done.
P.S. **the real blessing is freedom from circumstances.


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Pastes and malt creams are a great way to help the overall wellbeing of your cat. They are a great way to help regulat the digestive system or reduce hairballs. Pastes and cremes are not a complete food and are best fed as an occasional supplement or as per the feeding recommendations on the pack.
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The World Power Systems Fraud
World Power Systems advertisement from the
April 1979 issue of Kilobaud Microcomputing
In March 1979, a company named World Power Systems began running multi-page advertisement in many popular computer magazines, including BYTE, Creative Computing, Interface Age, and Kilobaud Microcomputing. World Power Systems, founded by Jim Anderson, advertised a number of interesting and unusual products for the TRS‑80 and S-100 computers at prices that seemed almost too good to be true. As it turned out, they were too good to be true; Jim Anderson was actually a prison escapee named Norman Henry Hunt and World Power Systems was an elaborate scam that ended up costing customers and suppliers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
However, World Power Systems wasn't Hunt's first attempt at computer related fraud. In early 1977, using the name Colonel David Winthrop, he started a company named DataSync Corp in Santa Maria, California. DataSync ran advertisements in Byte and Creative Computing advertising RAM boards and data terminals at prices significantly lower than competitors. The problem was that those products advertised didn't actually exist.
DataSync advertisement from the
July 1977 issue of BYTE
In June 1977, he was accused of defrauding a Santa Maria man for whom he was supposedly designing computer hardware. "Colonel David Winthrop" was arrested and fingerprints revealed his true identity to be Norman Henry Hunt. The entire DataSync fraud was exposed. Hunt was convicted on state fraud charges and sentenced to two years, eight months at the Chino State prison in California. For some reason, federal authorities decided not to prosecute Hunt for mail fraud.
Hunt escaped from that minimum security facility in February 1978. He was sought by police, who thought it likely that he would attempt a similar fraud. The official bulletin from the Santa Maria Police Department (which was published in Kilobaud Microcomputing) was quite specific about Hunt's favored scheme, known as a "bust out":
His method of operation has been to move to a town under a new identity, rent a house with an option to buy and make contacts in his field of endeavor (recently, computer hobbyists). Hunt will generally begin his operation by soliciting backing for product design from private parties. Often he will sell his qualifications so well that it is the victim's idea to ask Hunt to design a product for him.
Hunt may then start a business and solicit partners. He will rent a building, hire employees, begin a credit line with suppliers. After enough equipment has been received from suppliers on credit to look impressive, he will apply for a bank loan to start production. He will usually go to a local bank rather than a large bank chain. If the loan is received, Hunt empties the business of its equipment and leaves the area, leaving the creditors and the bank high and dry.
Hunt also orders equipment from dealers and pays by check. He then stops payment on the checks. When contacted by a dealer about why he stopped payment, he may say that the product was defective and is being returned and request that another unit be shipped.
April 1979 issue of BYTE
World Power Systems
This was a very good description of what Hunt ended up doing. Beginning again in Tucson, Arizona and using the name Jim Anderson, he started a new computer company, World Power Systems, along with a computer hobbyist named Perry Pollock. Pollock and his wife Korinne both appeared in what was probably the most famous of the World Power Systems advertisements, titled "Hello Fellow Computerist":
At this time I wish to introduce myself. I am PERRY POLLOCK, the owner, manufacturer and designer of the products advertised in this fine magazine. In the issues to come, I will be introducing more powerful interfaces for the various popular computers.
That advertisement identified Pollock as the driving force behind the company, a fiction which would have come in handy for Hunt later after abandoning the company and its debts.
Some people were immediately skeptical of the World Power Systems advertisements. Careful readers noticed that many of the products depicted in the advertisements didn't look real. Some circuit board layouts didn't make sense and one board in particular was lacking any power connections at all! But these red flags, though troublesome, didn't necessarily indicate a fraud. Due to magazine lead times, it was not uncommon for companies to show mockups of products in advertisements.
But there were enough suspicious details for some people to investigate further. One of those people was John Craig, an editor at Creative Computing. He telephoned World Power Systems suggesting a visit for a potential story. The prospect of an in-person meeting was a serious problem for Hunt, because Craig would recognize him as Colonel David Winthrop at DataSync1.
Hunt must have assumed that the game was up because he and his wife fled abruptly on April 25, 1979. The whole World Power Systems operation collapsed soon after. Perry Pollock, the designated fall guy, was arrested but soon released.
On May 30, 1979, Hunt and his wife were arrested in Honolulu, Hawaii. They were returned to Arizona where he pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud on September 17, 1979, facing 10 years in prison and a $2000 fine. His wife, Dinah Lee Hunt, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud.
Craig once wrote that they had been "good friends at one time." Craig later successfully sued Hunt to get back an ASR-33 teletype that he had "rather craftily obtained." ↩
The 80 Micro Young Programmer's Contest
80 Applications


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/*
 * @lc app=leetcode id=528 lang=java
 *
 * [528] Random Pick with Weight
 *
 * https://leetcode.com/problems/random-pick-with-weight/description/
 *
 * algorithms
 * Medium (44.41%)
 * Total Accepted:    138.9K
 * Total Submissions: 312.8K
 * Testcase Example:  '["Solution","pickIndex"]\r\n[[[1]],[]]\r'
 *
 * You are given an array of positive integers w where w[i] describes the
 * weight of i^th index (0-indexed).
 *
 * We need to call the function pickIndex() which randomly returns an integer
 * in the range [0, w.length - 1]. pickIndex() should return the integer
 * proportional to its weight in the w array. For example, for w = [1, 3], the
 * probability of picking the index 0 is 1 / (1 + 3) = 0.25 (i.e 25%) while the
 * probability of picking the index 1 is 3 / (1 + 3) = 0.75 (i.e 75%).
 *
 * More formally, the probability of picking index i is w[i] / sum(w).
 *
 *
 * Example 1:
 *
 *
 * Input
 * ["Solution","pickIndex"]
 * [[[1]],[]]
 * Output
 * [null,0]
 *
 * Explanation
 * Solution solution = new Solution([1]);
 * solution.pickIndex(); // return 0. Since there is only one single element on
 * the array the only option is to return the first element.
 *
 *
 * Example 2:
 *
 *
 * Input
 * ["Solution","pickIndex","pickIndex","pickIndex","pickIndex","pickIndex"]
 * [[[1,3]],[],[],[],[],[]]
 * Output
 * [null,1,1,1,1,0]
 *
 * Explanation
 * Solution solution = new Solution([1, 3]);
 * solution.pickIndex(); // return 1. It's returning the second element (index
 * = 1) that has probability of 3/4.
 * solution.pickIndex(); // return 1
 * solution.pickIndex(); // return 1
 * solution.pickIndex(); // return 1
 * solution.pickIndex(); // return 0. It's returning the first element (index =
 * 0) that has probability of 1/4.
 *
 * Since this is a randomization problem, multiple answers are allowed so the
 * following outputs can be considered correct :
 * [null,1,1,1,1,0]
 * [null,1,1,1,1,1]
 * [null,1,1,1,0,0]
 * [null,1,1,1,0,1]
 * [null,1,0,1,0,0]
 * ......
 * and so on.
 *
 *
 *
 * Constraints:
 *
 *
 * 1 <= w.length <= 10000
 * 1 <= w[i] <= 10^5
 * pickIndex will be called at most 10000 times.
 *
 *
 */
class Solution {
    Random rnd = new Random();
    int[] w;

    public Solution(int[] w) {
        this.w = w;
        for (int i = 1; i < w.length; i++)
            w[i] += w[i-1];
    }

    public int pickIndex() {
        int x = rnd.nextInt(w[w.length-1]);
        int id = Arrays.binarySearch(w, x);
        if (id >= 0)
            return id+1;
        return -id-1;
    }
}

/**
 * Your Solution object will be instantiated and called as such:
 * Solution obj = new Solution(w);
 * int param_1 = obj.pickIndex();
 */

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Hoyêdo de Gouvêa Lins (Florianópolis,  — Florianópolis, ) foi um advogado, contista, cronista e poeta brasileiro.

Carreira
Era titular da cadeira 11 da Academia Catarinense de Letras, empossado em 5 de maio de 1994.

Algumas publicações
Contos:
Ritinha. Florianópolis : Editora da UFSC, 1986
A Lenda de Cajurê. Florianópolis : Lunardelli, 1991
Ventos Ilhéus. Florianópolis : Lunardelli, 1992
Histórias que a Bíblia não Contou. Florianópolis : Lunardelli, 1995
Histórias para o Entardecer, Florianópolis : Coleção ACL, vol. II, 1996
Histórias do Desconhecido. Garapuvu, 1998
Histórias Românticas. Garapuvu, 1998 (1ª ed.), 1999 (2ª ed.)
Histórias à Luz do Abajur. Garapuvu, 1999
Histórias para as Horas Tardias. Garapuvu, 2001
Contos em Família (co-autoria). Garapuvu, 2004
Histórias Avulsas. Garapuvu, 2005
Histórias Perdidas no Tempo. Nova Letra, 2007

Crônicas:
Janela do Tempo. Florianópolis : Lunardelli, 1993
Companheiras do Tempo. Papa-Livro, 2000

Poesia:
Tempo de Amor Maior. Garapuvu, 1997
Vigília Poética. Garapuvu, 2006

Ligações externas
Biografia e discursos de recepção e posse no sítio da Academia Catarinense de Letras
Nota de falecimento

Membros da Academia Catarinense de Letras
Naturais de Florianópolis


One of an excellent line-up of regional delights from an exciting new Spanish venture, this tastes as good as it looks. Made from biodynamically farmed, old vine Verdejo, it's a savoury, textured white with subtle oak, tangy acidity and just a hint of oak framing the pear and citrus fruit flavours. Almost Burgundian in terms of weight, concentration and complexity, this is a remarkable Verdejo.
If you're bored of identikit Kiwi Sauvignons that taste as if they've emerged from the same enormous tank farm, this complex, Loire Valley-like example from one of Central Otago's best producers will come as a pleasant respite. The estate is much better known for its superlative Pinot Noirs, but this biodynamic white deserves to be (almost) as famous. Fermented in old oak barrels, it has a mealy undertone to set alongside the flavours of lime, cream, grapefruit and gooseberry. It's a very subtle number that wouldn't look out of place in Sancerre, thanks to its chalky, palate-tingling freshness.
Nero di Troia is the least well known of Puglia's three main red varieties, but to me it's the one with the most finesse. This is remarkably light and refreshing for a wine from the south of Italy, reminiscent of a Tempranillo, with elegant red fruits, a nip of tannin and impressive length on the palate. It hangs around. And you're grateful.
French law means that this Vin de France can't carry a vintage, but the words "11ème année" are a chunky hint. It's basically a declassified Châteauneuf du Pape, made in a slightly (and I mean slightly) lighter style. Given the high prices of CNDP these days, this is a great way to taste a stylish, full-throated blend of Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre at a more than reasonable price. Spicy and savoury with medium weight tannins, hints of rosemary and thyme and a core of sweet raspberry and bramble fruit. Perfect autumn drinking.
Vermentino, or Rolle, is one of those grapes that should be more widely planted, partly because it retains acidity and freshness in warm climates, but also because it has plenty of flavour. This is typical of the variety, and at a very appealing price: orange peel and citrus zest with an undertone of Mediterranean herbs and a tangy aftertaste. Perfect for the last few days of summer.
If you love Nebbiolo (and who doesn't?) but can't afford to drink top Barolo, this lighter style is a brilliant introduction to one of Italy's two best red grapes. It's subtle and fragrant, with a raspberry sweetness that reminds me of red Burgundy, backed up by fine, but not remotely aggressive tannins. Complex, leafy and well balanced, this is delicious now, but will develop for at least another five years.
A delicious, unoaked blend of two under-rated Mediterranean varieties, Roussanne (80%) and Vermentino (20%) from a little known area in the Languedoc. It's fresh and tangy with notes of wet stone, green olive, fresh herbs, stone fruit and lemon peel. Crisp and refreshing but with underlying weight and concentration in reserve.
If the price of Barolo and Barbaresco leaves you spluttering into your pasta, some of the regional wines made from the Nebbiolo grape can be good value alternatives, enabling you to enjoy this most brilliant (and temperamental) of Italian varieties without raiding your savings account. This is very elegant and comparatively forward, showing considerable finesse and poise, medium-weight tannins, a core of sweet and savoury tobacco and red cherry fruit, fresh acidity and a fine tapering finish.


Forgiveness is freely granted to us through the sacraments: in baptism, in receiving the Eucharist for the removal of venial sins and for all sins through the Sacrament of Penance. All we have to do, with the help of the Holy Spirit, is to make ourselves open to receive it by being truly sorry for our sins and being determined to try not to commit them again.
In no way do we ever make payment for our sin. Jesus alone can do that, and He has done it by shedding His blood for the remission of sins. God's forgiveness is available to us without charge because of what Jesus has done. The penance we receive is not a punishment to pay for our sins; it is medicine to heal and strengthen us. The one sacrifice of Jesus is the only payment necessary or possible.
In the parable of the sower in the Gospel we notice how generous he is with the seed he sows. It indicates that God is lavish with His gifts. But no matter how generous God is the seed will not bear fruit unless the soil is right to receive it. So it is important that the soil on which the seed falls is kept fertile. The better the soil, the more fruitful will be the harvest. We belong to one of the different types of soil which Jesus describes. What type of soil describes each of us?
Holy Spirit, help us prepare the ground of our hearts so that it may always be ready to receive God's seed and so produce abundant fruit.