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Dan Gurney: The Greatest American Hero
Happy 82nd Birthday to the Big Eagle.
By Marshall Pruett
I'll go ahead and admit my bias right up front. Like most kids in America, I grew up with a healthy dose of hero worship for stick-and-ball players. It was Willie Stargell, Dr. J, David Thompson, Lynn Swan and a few others that captured my imagination in the late 1970s.
I worshipped what they did, the things they accomplished in their respective sports. As motor racing started to overtake my sensibilities in the latter portion of the 70s, new heroes emerged.
Mario Andretti was the first. His Formula One World Championship in 1978 was celebrated in the Pruett household like we'd won the lottery, and as my father taught me more about the legends who came before Mario, more heroes were added to my list.
Jim Clark was my dad's hero, as was Carroll Shelby. It's a bit predictable, but they soon became my favorites, too. He also spoke with reverie for Dan Gurney, but not to the same lengths as Clark and Shelby, and I'm guessing something about that slight inequality piqued my interest.
If my passion for Clark, Shelby and Andretti was a byproduct of a son marveling at the men his father worshipped, Gurney was my own.
As I asked more about him and read whatever I could find, he and his band of demi-gods at All American Racers took center stage on my personal list of greats. And as Daniel Sexton Gurney turns 82 years old today, I don't mind gushing about one of my American heroes.
He was a peerless driver, with wins in everything from F1 to NASCAR to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He made his F1 debut in 1959, driving for Enzo Ferrari. Then he won Porsche's one and only Grand Prix as a constructor in 1962. That would be enough for most people in one lifetime, but Gurney was only getting started. As an engineer and designer, his creations won in F1, multiple Indy 500s, the 24 Hours of Daytona, and sports car championships in addition to delivering an endless list of other accomplishments and innovations.
His 1972 Eagle Indy car made the biggest single leap in speed in Indianapolis history—17 mph faster than the previous best.
Gurney's history and accomplishments at the Indy 500:
He's even credited with uncorking and spraying the first celebratory bottle of champagne on the podium during his win at the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he drove a Ford GT40 with none other than A.J. Foyt.
Most of Gurney's entries into the history books concluded by the late 1990s, but his AAR outfit, which keeps itself busy today with production of Alligator Motorcycles, not to mention a few defense contracts, sent a quiet reminder in 2012 that it was still at the cutting edge of racecar design and manufacturing.
Despite the fanfare and marketing claims made by Nissan, it was Gurney's southern California shop that turned Ben Bowlby's DeltaWing from a concept into the actual car that raced at Le Mans. Plenty took credit for funding it or powering it, but the car came to life on the same shop floor that's delivered countless motorized marvels.
Driver, designer, engineer, team owner and entrant. Few have reached the top of a single profession or discipline, yet Gurney ticks the box in all five categories.
It's easy to admire a driver for his singular excellence behind the steering wheel, but for me, the likes of a Dan Gurney, who could win a car of his own design, that he engineered, owned and entered, moves the bar beyond reach.
Gurney's achievements are well known and often celebrated, including his famous win at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix in his Eagle-Weslake, but his character—the man behind the name and reputation—has always been more impressive.
As much as Gurney put his brilliant mind to work on his cars and creations, he was inclusive in his hiring practices at a time when the Civil Rights movement polarized the country. Jochen Rindt's qualifying photo for the 1967 Indy 500 shows the future F1 world champion, Gurney and the AAR team, including crew member Hardy Allen, whose dark hue held no significance to his boss but was a rarity on pit lane.
Gurney worked with British designers and engineers in the early days, and years later, the 1989 Eagle IMSA GTP car bore the initials 'HF89' in deference to its primary designers—the 'F' was taken from the last name of Hiro Fujimori.
One of the HF89's drivers, Willy T. Ribbs, was a longtime AAR driver who won numerous races for Gurney in the fearsome turbo Toyota Celica and would go on to break Indy's color barrier in 1991, becoming the first African-American driver to compete in the great race.
All American Racers was just as its name implied—a melting pot of American talent and ideals.
To my continual and utter amazement, I've become friends with Dan Gurney. They say you should never meet your heroes, and I'll admit that I feel like a 5-year-old staring up at Santa Claus whenever we speak, but he's never disappointed.
He's sent the nicest cards thanking me for articles he felt I got right, and chided me when I've gotten them wrong. His level of honesty is remarkable, positive or negative, and you always know where you stand.
If there's a perpetual gift Gurney continues to give, it's that he's maintained his optimism and curiosity in a sport where both start to decline in men half his age. He continues to wave the American flag with pride and does so in a tranquil, dignified manner. He also continues to inspire those of us who gravitate towards the Big Eagle for wisdom and perspective.
If you're looking for a new racing hero with substance, style, smarts and humility, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better candidate than DSG, who, coincidentally, was Car & Driver's presidential nominee in 1964.
Happy 82nd, Dan.
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In dishing out an overall grade for Clare's 2019 Allianz National Hurling League effort, a pass rate would be the reward.
Though it was not a case of passing with flying colours and more doing enough to get by. Of the six games played, home wins over Kilkenny and Wexford were recorded with away defeats to Tipperary, Cork and Waterford, not to omit drawing with All-Ireland champions Limerick in Cusack Park three weeks ago.
As he took a step back assess their campaign in the minutes after Saturday's fourteen point loss, Joint Manager Donal Moloney admitted, "We were quite happy with it up until today to be honest, we found a few new players and we changed the team a bit again today put in some new guys and give the likes of Seadna a bit of game time and try out Aidan McCarthy at wing forward. We've a lot to sift through in terms of looking at the overall performances and start getting ready for May".
Switching his attention to their most recent outing, he commented, "I was quite disappointed, we expected to perform better than we did but Waterford were excellent and fair play to them". He added, "We were flat today but Waterford were well worthy of their win".
Moloney felt not utilising the advantage of the wind in the opening half proved costly as they only led by two points at the interval. "We should have been further ahead, we missed a goal chance and a few points. We should have been further ahead at half time and we weren't. We made a few mistakes at the start of the second half and Waterford quickly went ahead and pushed on from there".
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I hope that headline got your attention! I know that getting pond pros to take a break is no small task at this time of year. Spring has finally sprung, and the season is in full swing! I'm sure your heads are spinning between pond openings, doing bids and quotes, starting new builds, checking up on your customers and all the other exciting things that happen when nature starts to thaw out.
But while these are all vital pieces of the pond business, it's also important to keep up with what's going on in your trade. And believe me, there's a lot happening. In case you didn't notice, this issue is a little weightier than past issues. We have so many things to share with you that we had to increase our page count!
For starters, check out our cover story. If your typical pond installation consists of building a pond, filling it with water and sending an invoice, Max Taylor thinks you're leaving money on the table!
Turn to pg. 37 to find out why you ought to make landscaping the next phase of your business. If the advice of one Max isn't enough motivation to think outside the box, I'll give you one more. We pushed things "TWO the MAX" in this issue, with Max Phelps contributing a story about edible pond fauna!
Why simply look at your landscaping when you can eat it, too? Max shows you how on pg. 42. Of course, not all greenery is edible, as Roger Tower can attest. In fact, some of it can even kill your dog. On pg. 25, Roger outlines the dangers that toxic blue-green algae can pose to your precious pets.
If plants and algae aren't your thing, don't fret. There's something for everybody in this issue! Ed Beaulieu explains why you don't need a lot of space to install an amazing water feature on pg. 55, and on pg. 49 Paula Biles shares some magic tricks that will help you control the weather (or at least tweak the microclimates in your yard). And for those rugged types who just want to get their hands dirty, John Olson explains how to add custom rock shaping to your repertoire and bolster your profits on pg. 14.
Our stories are certainly an odd and interesting mix, aren't they? Of course…some might say the same thing about us pond folks.


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Paerdegat Basin Park
This text is part of Parks' Historical Signs Project and can be found posted within the park.
This marshy East Flatbush park comprises a 1.25-mile channel that empties into Jamaica Bay in nearby Bergen Beach. Paerdegat Basin, whose name means "horse gate," in Dutch is a saltwater wetland area.
Paerdegat Basin is surrounded by two neighborhoods that were developed in the 1960s. Both communities, Georgetown (to the west) and Paerdegat Basin (to the east), are small, designated parts of larger neighborhoods. Georgetown is officially part of Bergen Beach, and Paerdegat Basin of Canarsie.
The area known today as Bergen Beach originally served as a refuge island for the Canarsie Native Americans, whose name still refers to the neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn. The Canarsie called this area Keskachauge or Kestateuw, but the Dutch renamed it New Amersfoort soon after they settled here in the 1630s. When development of the Brooklyn area earnestly began in the mid-1800s, Canarsie served as a hotbed of growth. By the 1950s, the Italian and Jewish neighborhood was one of the most vibrant in Brooklyn.
Paerdegat Basin is a small area of Canarsie that borders the actual basin on the eastern front. It runs along Paerdegat Avenue North and is divided into 15 numbered "Paerdegat streets." Developers in the 1960s sought to build 400 two-story, colonial-style houses in the Georgetown area and called the community "Georgetowne Greens." Mayor John V. Lindsay (1921-2000) also pushed for an alternative housing project in the area, however, both plans failed. Eventually, a variety of developers built up the Italian and Jewish neighborhood now referred to as Georgetown.
This park, bounded by Paerdegat Avenue North, Bergen Avenue, Ralph Avenue, and Flatlands Avenue, was acquired by Parks from the Department of Citywide Administrative Services in 1998, and it serves as home to many species of birds and smaller water creatures. The Department of Environmental Protection monitors the park to ensure that it remains a stable environment to support the wildlife in the area. Groves of trees such as the ailanthus (Ailanthus altissima), honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos) and Smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) in the basin's upland region provide a welcome habitat for many species of birds and animals whose numbers have dwindled in recent years.
Although the basin consists of over 160 acres, more than 75 of those are underwater. There are currently no access points to the basin and the best view of the water is available from the Belt Parkway, which spans this vital natural habitat.
Directions to Paerdegat Basin Park
Kayak/Canoe Launch Sites
Paerdegat Basin Park - Invasive Phragmites
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Zip Code:11234, 11236
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Park ID: B406
Acreage: 118.80
Property Type: Nature Area

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Hosszútelek (Pauli Villa) Árpád-kori település. Nevét már 1299-ben villa Pauli f. Ladislai (László fia Pál faluja) néven említette oklevél. Ekkor ugyancsak említették a Buzdról ide, László fia Pál falujába vezető nagy út is említve volt.

1320-ban nevét Huzyuteluknek írták, birtokosa ekkor Hosszútelki Bálint, aki a falu felét átengedte cserébe néhai Pál fia László dévai várnagynak, s Péter, János és István nevű fivéreinek. 1332–1334-ben a pápai tizedjegyzék v. Pauli néven sorolta fel.

Német nevű papja 1332-ben 9, 1334-ben 4 dénár pápai tizedet fizetett (Gy 2: 165).

További névváltozatai: 1338-ban villa Pauli, 1290–1301 között Pauli villa, 1733-ban Hosszutelke, 1750-ben Dostat, 1760–1762 között Hosszutelek, 1808-ban Hosszútelke h., Langenthal g., Dostat vel Telku val, 1861-ben Hosszutelke, Langenthal, Dostát, 1888-ban Hosszútelek (Tohrstadt, Dostat), 1913-ban Hosszútelke.

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Why the name Gemini Handmade?
Gemini Handmade is a riff on the birth story of the owners of the shop, Jake and Elyse, who were born two days apart, in the same hospital in the same city, under the season of Gemini.
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Covid-19: what you need to know today
Rumita Patel
| Dec 27, 2020
The number of countries that now have Covid-19 cases where the infection is caused by the new variant first detected in the UK in September has increased. In addition to the UK, and assuming the South African variant is completely different, the list now includes Japan, France, Spain, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and Denmark. Once India adjusted its screening process for passengers arriving from the UK, it identified a slew of positive cases, one of which jumped onto a train after testing positive and was eventually detained in Rajamundhry, Andhra Pradesh, but the Genome sequencing of these cases was still ongoing as of Sunday as this article was written.
There is growing evidence that the new variant is more infectious than the older version of the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Last week, scientists, including some from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, published a study (under the auspices of the institute's Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases; the study has not yet been peer-reviewed) that showed that the new variant is available. 56% more infectious. But there is no evidence yet that it causes more serious Covid-19 cases or leads to more deaths.
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To repeat something I wrote last week, given that the majority of coronavirus disease cases in the UK are now being caused by the new variant, and given that there have been around 70 flights per week between India and the United Kingdom since May, they were temporary. It was stopped last week and will not resume before the end of the year; the variant is very likely already here.
This columnist learns that India may have made the mistake of going slow in sequencing viral genomes over the past four months, as most of the viral genomes sequenced in the country date back to the beginning of the pandemic. That will now change with India's decision that at least 5% of all positive cases from all states and territories in the Union will undergo genome sequencing. And like the UK, India eventually formed a consortium of various laboratories and institutions from the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) and the National Center for Disease Control, called Insacog, and put it in charge of surveillance efforts. genomics of the country. A country with more than 10 million cases of the coronavirus disease should have sequenced more than the few thousand cases that India has, although, as Dispatch 232 noted on December 24, India is not the only laggard when it comes to. to this: the US with about 20 million cases is also one.
Now that India has addressed the issue of genome sequencing, it has yet to follow up; A previous ICMR guideline on weekly antibody tests in each of the more than 700 districts of India has been ignored; It should also pay attention to other issues related to the evolution of the pandemic in the country.
Chief among them is one on the unique trajectory of Covid-19 infections in India. To date, it is one of the only countries that has seen a significant number of cases, without witnessing a second wave of the pandemic. Interestingly, even the large gatherings in India in recent months have not turned into high-profile events like those seen in the United States and Europe. And October, November, and December have been the coldest in years, even decades, in northern and northwestern India (in the northern hemisphere, cases were expected to increase as winter came, and that's what happened. in the US and Europe). Understanding why this has not happened in India is as important as celebrating the fact that it has not happened. And it may just provide some ideas on how to handle the pandemic in the coming months as India embarks on its vaccination campaign.
It has long been clear that more science, not less, is needed to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
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Multinational investment bank Goldman Sachs recently revealed its plans to bring its wealth management services to individuals in the lower tier of the economic ladder. Financial Times reported that the institution will be releasing a robo adviser next year...
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Q: How to read a barcode from an image I'm seeking a library, technique or advice on how to read an EAN-13 barcode from an image (including ISBN,and ISSN encodings).
The image would come from a mobile phone or webcam, so resolution may be quite poor and not well aligned.
I'm specifically interested in something that could be used from ruby on rails, but answers for other languages are welcome. Open Source solutions preferred.
Leading solutions to date:

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*ZBar (previously known as Zebra - h/t @bgbg, @Natim) - implemented in C with interfaces for Python, Perl, and C++

*ZXing (h/t @codr) - implemented in Java (J2SE and Android) with other modules/ports in varying states of development (JavaME, C#, C++, JRuby, RIM, iPhone/Objective C)

A: The zebra barcode reader (http://zebra.sourceforge.net/) is a small, layered bar code scanning and decoding library implemented in C (C++ wrappers are also provided). It supports many popular symbologies (types of barcodes), including EAN-13.  However, I'm not aware about any Ruby bindings. The library is available under the GPL

A: This project might be what you're looking for: ZXing

A: You might want to try this if it's to allow your site's visitors to scan stuff, I think it's embeddable in your own site, but I've never used it : http://en.barcodepedia.com/

A: We use the Softek library.
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#define H5D_PACKAGE /*suppress error about including H5Dpkg	  */
#define H5D_TESTING /*suppress warning about H5D testing funcs*/

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/* Headers */
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#include "H5private.h"  /* Generic Functions                        */
#include "H5Dpkg.h"     /* Datasets                                 */
#include "H5Eprivate.h" /* Error handling                           */
#include "H5Iprivate.h" /* IDs                                      */

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/* Local Macros */
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/* Local Typedefs */
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/********************/
/* Local Prototypes */
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/* Package Variables */
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/* Local Variables */
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/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NAME
    H5D__layout_version_test
 PURPOSE
    Determine the storage layout version for a dataset's layout information
 USAGE
    herr_t H5D__layout_version_test(did, version)
        hid_t did;              IN: Dataset to query
        unsigned *version;      OUT: Pointer to location to place version info
 RETURNS
    Non-negative on success, negative on failure
 DESCRIPTION
    Checks the version of the storage layout information for a dataset.
 GLOBAL VARIABLES
 COMMENTS, BUGS, ASSUMPTIONS
    DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT TESTING
 EXAMPLES
 REVISION LOG
--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
herr_t
H5D__layout_version_test(hid_t did, unsigned *version)
{
    H5D_t *dset;                /* Pointer to dataset to query */
    herr_t ret_value = SUCCEED; /* return value */

    FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE

    /* Check args */
    if (NULL == (dset = (H5D_t *)H5I_object_verify(did, H5I_DATASET)))
        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_DATASET, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "not a dataset")

    if (version)
        *version = dset->shared->layout.version;

done:
    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value)
} /* H5D__layout_version_test() */

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NAME
    H5D__layout_contig_size_test
 PURPOSE
    Determine the size of a contiguous layout for a dataset's layout information
 USAGE
    herr_t H5D__layout_contig_size_test(did, size)
        hid_t did;              IN: Dataset to query
        hsize_t *size;          OUT: Pointer to location to place size info
 RETURNS
    Non-negative on success, negative on failure
 DESCRIPTION
    Checks the size of a contiguous dataset's storage.
 GLOBAL VARIABLES
 COMMENTS, BUGS, ASSUMPTIONS
    DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT TESTING
 EXAMPLES
 REVISION LOG
--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
herr_t
H5D__layout_contig_size_test(hid_t did, hsize_t *size)
{
    H5D_t *dset;                /* Pointer to dataset to query */
    herr_t ret_value = SUCCEED; /* return value */

    FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE

    /* Check args */
    if (NULL == (dset = (H5D_t *)H5I_object_verify(did, H5I_DATASET)))
        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_DATASET, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "not a dataset")

    if (size) {
        HDassert(dset->shared->layout.type == H5D_CONTIGUOUS);
        *size = dset->shared->layout.storage.u.contig.size;
    } /* end if */

done:
    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value)
} /* H5D__layout_contig_size_test() */

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NAME
    H5D__layout_compact_dirty_test
 PURPOSE
    Determine the "dirty" flag of a compact layout for a dataset's layout information
 USAGE
    herr_t H5D__layout_compact_dirty_test(did, dirty)
        hid_t did;              IN: Dataset to query
        hbool_t *dirty;         OUT: Pointer to location to place "dirty" info
 RETURNS
    Non-negative on success, negative on failure
 DESCRIPTION
    Checks the "dirty" flag of a compact dataset.
 GLOBAL VARIABLES
 COMMENTS, BUGS, ASSUMPTIONS
    DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT TESTING
 EXAMPLES
 REVISION LOG
--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
herr_t
H5D__layout_compact_dirty_test(hid_t did, hbool_t *dirty)
{
    H5D_t *dset;                /* Pointer to dataset to query */
    herr_t ret_value = SUCCEED; /* return value */

    FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE

    /* Check args */
    if (NULL == (dset = (H5D_t *)H5I_object_verify(did, H5I_DATASET)))
        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_DATASET, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "not a dataset")

    if (dirty) {
        HDassert(dset->shared->layout.type == H5D_COMPACT);
        *dirty = dset->shared->layout.storage.u.compact.dirty;
    } /* end if */

done:
    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value)
} /* H5D__layout_compact_dirty_test() */

/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 NAME
    H5D__current_cache_size_test
 PURPOSE
    Determine current the size of the dataset's chunk cache
 USAGE
    herr_t H5D__current_cache_size_test(did, size)
        hid_t did;              IN: Dataset to query
        hsize_t *size;          OUT: Pointer to location to place size info
 RETURNS
    Non-negative on success, negative on failure
 DESCRIPTION
    Checks the size of a contiguous dataset's storage.
 GLOBAL VARIABLES
 COMMENTS, BUGS, ASSUMPTIONS
    DO NOT USE THIS FUNCTION FOR ANYTHING EXCEPT TESTING
 EXAMPLES
 REVISION LOG
--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
herr_t
H5D__current_cache_size_test(hid_t did, size_t *nbytes_used, int *nused)
{
    H5D_t *dset;                /* Pointer to dataset to query */
    herr_t ret_value = SUCCEED; /* return value */

    FUNC_ENTER_PACKAGE

    /* Check args */
    if (NULL == (dset = (H5D_t *)H5I_object_verify(did, H5I_DATASET)))
        HGOTO_ERROR(H5E_ARGS, H5E_BADTYPE, FAIL, "not a dataset")

    if (nbytes_used) {
        HDassert(dset->shared->layout.type == H5D_CHUNKED);
        *nbytes_used = dset->shared->cache.chunk.nbytes_used;
    } /* end if */

    if (nused) {
        HDassert(dset->shared->layout.type == H5D_CHUNKED);
        *nused = dset->shared->cache.chunk.nused;
    } /* end if */

done:
    FUNC_LEAVE_NOAPI(ret_value)
} /* H5D__current_cache_size_test() */

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The Surgeon – Professional Profile
The Bristol Knee and Sports Injury Clinic provides expert help to anyone who is suffering from joint problems, sports injuries or pain. We treat the full range of orthopaedic problems and offer comprehensive diagnostic, surgical, physiotherapy and rehabilitation services. If you are suffering from a joint problem or sports injury you can book a consultation and receive treatment from us directly as a self-paying patient, private insured patient or you may be referred by your general practitioner or insurance company.
You can find out more about each member of the team in this part of the site.
David P Johnson
MB ChB FRCS FRCS(ORTH) MD
Professional expertise
David Johnson is a pioneering orthopaedic surgeon with more than 25 years' experience. He has an international reputation for his skills in knee surgery, knee joint replacement and in managing sports injuries. His expertise is sought after by some of the world's leading sportsmen and women, and he has treated Premier League and international football players, rugby players (from the British Lions and Springboks, among others), Wimbledon champions and top players from many other sports. He also treats many people of all ages and backgrounds with other kinds of joint injuries, especially degenerative and arthritic conditions of the knee.
David specialises in knee surgery, sports injuries joint replacement and Orthopaedic Surgery. He has extensive training in orthopaedics surgery at Manchester, Bristol and Oxford followed by a year's travelling scholarship to Australia, and further travelling fellowships in the USA. He was the first British trainee to be awarded the travelling scholarship of the European Society of Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine – American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine exchange. His expertise has been recognised by the awarding of an Honorary Fellowship of the American Society for Sports Medicine. He wrote a text book entitled "Controversies in Soft Tissue Surgery of the Knee", and is one of only two European Board members of the American Journal of Sports Medicine. On many occasions he has been asked to undertake teaching or lecturing activities nationally and internationally.
When I make decisions or perform surgical procedures my key aim is to provide each individual patient the best relief of pain and restore them to full function as easily and quickly as possible.
David has 25 years of medico-legal and medical negligence reporting, and has attended court as an expert witness on many occasions. He is often asked to report in respect of failed knee replacement surgery and ligament reconstruction, catastrophic orthopaedic injuries, loss of limbs or infected joint replacements. David has worked for the NHS Health Care Commission as a Specialist Opinion in complaints review and the NHSLA. He has also undertaken fitness to practice reports on behalf of the General Medical Counsel.
Further professional information
View Personal Profile
Mr Johnson's CV


Today I'm presenting you Julie, the lovely maker of Sparkles By Julie !! !!
Hoje Apresento-vos a Julie, a adoravel criadora dos Sparkles by Julie !!!!
When have you started? I started playing around with Frankening early 2011, and spent most of that summer experimenting with different glitters and pigments and started creating polishes for myself and friends for fun. Several of my friends encouraged me to expand, and I opened up my Etsy shop in March 2012.
Is there a story behind the name of your brand? I love all things that sparkle, particularly nail polish, so the brand name seemed natural.
How many polishes/collections have you created? So far I have made 4 complete collections, Galaxy, Candy, Halloween and Christmas Collection; each consisting of 6 different polishes. I also had 10 different holographic polishes but they did not sell well so decided to only continue selling a holographic topper. I am also working on a Floral collection, and a Liquid Gems collection.
Is there a special polish/collection? Why? I love all my collections, they all represent something I like.
Where you a polish addicted before starting making polishes? Oh yesss =) But making polishes seemed to increase and expand my interest.
Whats your favorite thing about making polishes? I have always been creative, since I was a kid. My favorite thing about making polishes is that it is a creative outlet.
Can you tell us a curious thing that has happened to you with some client or something funny? One of the most interesting and curious things I have found about my shop is all the different nationalities of my customers. I have sent polishes back to Norway, as well as to Japan, Russia, Singapora, Australia, Brazil, and a few locally, and that's just a few of the destinations!
This is a gorgeous gelly polish filled with multi colored and sized glitters in shades of blue and green and some opalescent glitters. Here are two coats of Lost in Space over two coats of Purple Professional nr.18. Easy to apply and with glitters that spread evenly. Great formula. I loved wearing it. Dried fast.
Um lindissimo verniz gelly repleto de glitters de vários tamanhos e tons de azul e verde e alguns glitters opalescentes. Duas camadas do Lost in Space sobre 2 camadas do Preto da Purple Professional nr.18. Muito facil de aplicar, os glitters aplicam-se e espalham-se bastante bem e a fórmula é facil de trabalhar. Secou bastante bem.
This is a top coat glitter filled with two sized black & white hexagons and bars and a very fine holographic shimmer. Only one coat of Snow City over two coats of Purple Professional Pink n3. The glitters spread very evenly and don't get bumpy. Died fast. Topped with SV.
Eis um lindo top coat glitter repleto de glitter de barras e hexagonos, de dois tamanhos, em preto e branco completo com um fino shimmer holográfico! Uma camada de Snow City sobre duas camadas do Purple Professional nr.3. Os glitteres espalham-se muito bem e não fazem altos nas unhas. Completo com 1 camada de SV.


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Abou Lebdi, N. (2017). Innovation Modes and Venturing in German Industries - An Empirical Analysis. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Jury: Hussinger, K. (Promotor), Kaspereit, T., Fletcher, D. E., Okamuro, H., & Hottenrott, H.
ORBilu viewed: 156 (17 UL) — WOS: - — SCOPUS®: -
Schumann, M. (2017). Estimation of nonlinear panel data models: an integrated likelihood based approach. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Jury: Tripathi, G. (Promotor).
ORBilu viewed: 67 (13 UL) — WOS: - — SCOPUS®: -
Chevallier, C. O. (2017). Financial Intermediation and Macroeconomic Fluctuations. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Jury: Sneessens, H. (Promotor).
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Pulina, G. (2017). Tax havens under international pressure: a game theoretical approach. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Jury: Pieretti, P. (Promotor), Bertinelli, L., Zanaj, S., Haufler, A., & Masciandaro, D.
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1. Articles in Academic Journals
Nelson, T., & Constantinidis, C. (2017). Sex and gender in family business succession research: A review and forward agenda from a social construction perspective. Family Business Review, 30(3), 219-241.
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IF 2017: ?; last: 4.147; IF5: 5.011 — EigenF 2017: ?; last: 0.001 — Article Infl. 2017: ?; last: 0.9
Picard, P. M., & hamano, M. (2017). Extensive and intensive margins and exchange rate regimes. Canadian Journal of Economics, 50(3), 804-837.
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IF 2017: ?; last: 0.5; IF5: 0.858 — EigenF 2017: ?; last: 0.004 — Article Infl. 2017: ?; last: 0.7
Kyriakopoulou, E., & Xepapadeas, A. (2017, July). Atmospheric pollution in rapidly growing industrial cities: spatial policies and land use patterns. Journal of Economic Geography.
ORBilu viewed: 89 (3 UL) ; downloaded: 1 (1 UL) — WOS: 10 — SCOPUS®: 10
Joxhe, M. (2017, April). Do the Ethnic Networks Influence Circular Migration? Evidence from the UK. Applied Economics Letters.
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Mantin, B., & Jiang, L. (2017). Strategic inventories with quality deterioration. European Journal of Operational Research, 258(1), 155-164.
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Leon, F. (2017). Implications of loan portfolio concentration in Cambodia. Economics Bulletin, 37(1), 282-296.
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Tryba, A. (2017). Venture Creation by Teams: How Joint Pre-Founding Circumstances Imprint on Effectual Decision-Making. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017(1), 13570.
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Arts, J. (2017). A multi-item approach to repairable stocking and expediting in a fluctuating demand environment. European Journal of Operational Research, 256(1), 102-115.
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Arts, J., van Houtum, G.-J., & Zwart, B. (2017). The asymptotic hazard rate of sums of discrete random variables. Statistics and Probability Letters, 125, 171-173.
Balsmeier, B. (2017). Unions, Collective Relations Laws and R&D Investment in Emerging and Developing Countries. Research Policy, 46, 292-304.
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IF 2017: ?; last: 3.47; IF5: 5.118 — EigenF 2017: ?; last: 0.015 — Article Infl. 2017: ?; last: 1.5
Balsmeier, B., & Czarnitzki, D. (2017). Ownership Concentration, Institutional Development and Firm Performance in Central and Eastern Europe. Managerial and Decision Economics, 38, 178-192.
ORBilu viewed: 197 (4 UL) ; downloaded: 0 — WOS: 27 — SCOPUS®: 30
Balsmeier, B., & Hickfang, M. (2017). Gewerkschaftlicher Einfluss auf F&E-Investitionen in KMU. ZfKE: Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, 65, 77-83.
Balsmeier, B., Manso, G., & Fleming, L. (2017). Independent Boards and Innovation. Journal of Financial Economics, 123.
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Basten, R., & Arts, J. (2017). Fleet readiness: Stocking spare parts and high tech assets. IISE Transactions, 49(4), 429-441.
ORBilu viewed: 259 (6 UL) ; downloaded: 309 (8 UL) — WOS: 0 — SCOPUS®: 0
Beine, M., & Parsons, C. (2017). Climatic factors as Determinants of Migration: Redux. CESifo Economic Studies, 63(4), 385-402.
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Berge, L. (2017). Network proximity in the geography of research collaboration. Papers in Regional Science, 96(4).
Berge, L., Scherngell, T., & Wanzenböck, I. (2017). Bridging centrality as an indicator to measure the 'bridging role' of actors in networks: An application to the European Nanotechnology co-publication network. Journal of Informetrics, 11(4), 1031--1042.
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Berge, L., Wanzenbock, I., & Scherngell, T. (2017). Centrality of regions in R&D networks: A new measurement approach using the concept of bridging paths. Regional Studies, 51(8), 1165--1178.
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Brandi, U., & Iannone, R. L. (2017). Learning strategies for competence development in enterprises. Industrial and Commercial Training, 49(1), 1-5.
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Chen, T., & Tripathi, G. (2017). A simple consistent test of conditional symmetry in symmetrically trimmed tobit models. Journal of Econometrics, 198, 29-40.
Chen, Y., & Zou, B. (2017). To Migrate With orWithout the Children—A Theoretical Note. Economics Bulletin, 37(2), 686-696.
Dawid, H., & Zou, B. (2017). Foreign direct investment with endogenous technology choice. Pacific Economic Review.
Derouiche, I., Narjess, T., & Syrine, S. (2017). The control-ownership wedge and the survival of French IPOs. Journal of Applied Accounting Research.
Gast, J., Gundolf, K., & Geraudel, M. (2017). Produktinnovation in Start-ups: Die Rolle der Gründungsmotivationen von Unternehmern. ZfKE: Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship, 65(3), 123-149.
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Geraudel, M., Gast, J., & Gundolf, K. (2017). New product and service launching in new ventures: A multilevel approach to innovation antecedents. Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 26(4), 353-367.
Glock, C. H., Lange, A., Grosse, E. H., & Das, A. (2017). Celebrating the 10th volume of IJISM: a bibliographic review and outlook. International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 11(4), 332-353.
Granata, J., Geraudel, M., Nicolosi, A., & Garcia, K. (2017). Understanding the evolution of coopetition among SMEs in a wine cluster: A social capital approach. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 31(1), 67-84.
Gundolf, K., Cesinger, B., Geraudel, M., & Filser, M. (2017). Strong ties, personality, and legitimacy of entrepreneurs: the case of private physicians. International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing, 9(4), 346-372.
Gundolf, K., Gast, J., & Geraudel, M. (2017). Startups' innovation behavior: An investigation into the role of entrepreneurial motivations. International Journal of Innovation Management, 21.
Han, Y., Pieretti, P., & Zou, B. (2017). ON THE DESIRABILITY OF TAX COORDINATION WHEN COUNTRIES COMPETE IN TAXES AND INFRASTRUCTURE. Economic Inquiry.
Heger, D., & Hussinger, K. (2017). Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights, Access to External Funding and New Product Development in Start-up Firms. Industry and Innovation.
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Irmen, A. (2017). Endogenous Capital- and Labor-Augmenting Technical Change in the Neoclassical Growth Model. Journal of Economic Theory.
Jiang, L., Dimitrov, S., & Mantin, B. (2017). P2P Marketplaces and Retailing in the Presence of Consumers' Valuation Uncertainty. Production and Operations Management, 26(3), 509--524.
Joxhe, M., & Addis, E. (2017). Gender Gaps in Social Capital: a theoretical interpretation of evidence from Italy. Feminist Economics, 23(2), 147-171.
Kallrath, J., Klosterhalfen, S., Walter, M., Fischer, G., & Blackburn, R. (2017). Payload-based fleet optimization for rail cars in the chemical industry. European Journal of Operational Research, 259(1), 113 - 129.
Kaspereit, T., Lopatta, K., & Onnen, D. (2017). Shareholder value implications of compliance with the German Corporate Governance Code. Managerial and Decision Economics, 38(2), 166-177.
Kaspereit, T., Lopatta, K., Pakhchanyan, S., & Prokop, J. (2017). Systemic operational risk − Spillover effects of large operational losses in the European banking industry. Journal of Risk Finance, 18(3).
Kremer, M., Mantin, B., & Ovchinnikov, A. (2017). Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Myopic and Strategic Consumers: Theory and Experiment. Production and Operations Management, 26(1), 116--133.
Lange, A., & Delfmann, W. (2017). Network concentration indices for less-than-truckload transportation. TRANSPORTATION, 44(6), 1475-1497.
Limam, M.-A., Terraza, V., & Terraza, M. (2017). Hedge Fund Return Dynamics: Long Memory and Regime Switching. International Journal of Financial Research.
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Lonzius, M. C., & Lange, A. (2017). Robust Scheduling: An Empirical Study of Its Impact on Air Traffic Delays. TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW, 100, 98-114.
Lopatta, K., Jaeschke, R., Canitz, F., & Kaspereit, T. (2017). International evidence on the relationship between insider and bank ownership and CSR performance. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 25(1), 41-57.
Marchiori, L., Pieretti, P., & Zou, B. (2017). Immigration, occupational choice and public employment. Annales d'Economie et de Statistique.
Marchiori, L., Pierrard, O., & Sneessens, H. (2017). The EU-US Unemployment Puzzle Revisited: Institutions, Demography, and Capital Flows. Journal of Demographic Economics.
IF 2017: ?; last: -; IF5: 0.095 — EigenF: — Article Infl.:
Monastyrenko, E. (2017). Eco-efficiency outcomes of mergers and acquisitions in the European electricity industry. Energy Policy, 107, 258--277.
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Sadegh AmalNick, M., & Qorbanian, R. (2017). Dynamic pricing using wavelet neural network under uncertain demands. Decision Science Letters.
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Schindler, M., Caruso, G., & Picard, P. M. (2017). Equilibrium and first-best city with endogenous exposure to local air pollution from traffic. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 62, 12-23.
Sneessens, H. (2017). Malinvaud on Macroeconomic Policy. Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 125-126.
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Irmen, A., & Litina, A. (2017). What a Study of 33 Countries Found about Aging Populations and Innovation. Harvard Business Review.
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Polachek, S., Pouliakas, K., Russo, G., & Tatsiramos, K. (Eds.). (2017). Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (45). Emerald.
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3. Chapters of Collective Works (including conference proceedings published in collective works)
Muessig, A. (2017). Zur Zufriedenheit von Mitgliedern des Verwaltungsrats und der Geschäftsleitung Schweizer Aktiengesellschaften mit dem "umfassenden Bericht" der Revisionsstelle : Ergebnisse einer explorativen Studie. In W., Funk, Internationale Rechnungslegung und Internationales Controlling : Herausforderungen - Handlungsfelder - Erfolgspotenziale (dritte, erweiterte Auflage, pp. 251-279). Wiesbaden, Berlin, Heidelberg, Deutschland: Springer Gabler.
ORBilu viewed: 46 (6 UL) — WOS: - — SCOPUS®: -
Muessig, A. (2017). Regional Disparities in Audit Pricing : Evidence from Switzerland. In J., Baldauf & S., Graschitz, Theorie und Praxis aus Rechnungslegung und Wirtschaftsprüfung (pp. 307-339). LexisNexis.
Constantinidis, C., Fletcher, D. E., & Joxhe, M. (2017). Testing the discrimination hypothesis for female self employment migrants in the UK. In IAFFE, Books of Abstracts.
ORBilu viewed: 191 (10 UL) ; downloaded: 140 (6 UL) — WOS: -
Berge, L., Doherr, T., & Hussinger, K. (2017). Software patents and scientific publications. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017 (pp. 13779).
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6. Reports
Bourgain, A., Sneessens, H., Shadman, F., & Mehta, K. (2017). Analyse de l'impact des interactions sectorielles sur l'évolution des salaires. Comparaison de quatre pays.
Communications (excluding conference proceedings)
Scientific Presentations in Universities or Research Centres
Joxhe, M., De Arcangelis, G., & Borelli, S. (2017, September 14). Migration. Labor Tasks and Production Structure in Europe. Paper presented at XXXII National Conference of Labour Economics, University of Calabria.
Zanaj, S., MARCO, M., & JEAN, G. (2017, May 24). Knowdledge diffusion and price dynamics in a vertically differentiated market. Paper presented at RESEARCH SEMINAR IN RETHYMNON, CRETE.
Zanaj, S. (2017, May 11). COMMODITY TAXATION AND REGULATORY COMPETITION. Paper presented at RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES, UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE, GLASGOW.
Zanaj, S. (2017, April 07). COMMODITY TAXATION AND REGULATORY COMPETITION. Paper presented at RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES, SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN.
Fletcher, D. E., & Seldes, P. (2017, February). Creating the future in the present: the embodied practice of artifactual design. Paper presented at Entrepreneurship as practice, Dublin, Eire.
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Dupuy, A. (2017). CHILDCARE, QUALITY AND LOCATION: AN HEDONIC APPROACH. Paper presented at Workshop on Childcare Research, TrygFonden's Centre for Child Research.
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Pagina per scoprire la definizioni e traduzione di distillation . Il dizionario è una parte integrante del sito esercizinglese.com con cui puoi imparare la grammatica inglese attraverso tutti i vari esercizi e lezioni di inglese che il sito ti propone.
The process of producing a gas or vapour from a liquid by heating the liquid in a vessel and collecting and condensing the vapours into liquids.
(chemistry) The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible by a cool receiver, alembic, or condenser; rectification; vaporization; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.
That which falls in drops.
The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
The substance extracted by distilling.


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/**
 * @class Ext.util.Format

This class is a centralized place for formatting functions inside the library. It includes
functions to format various different types of data, such as text, dates and numeric values.

__Localization__
This class contains several options for localization. These can be set once the library has loaded,
all calls to the functions from that point will use the locale settings that were specified.
Options include:
- thousandSeparator
- decimalSeparator
- currenyPrecision
- currencySign
- currencyAtEnd
This class also uses the default date format defined here: {@link Ext.date#defaultFormat}.

__Using with renderers__
There are two helper functions that return a new function that can be used in conjunction with
grid renderers:

    columns: [{
        dataIndex: 'date',
        renderer: Ext.util.Format.dateRenderer('Y-m-d')
    }, {
        dataIndex: 'time',
        renderer: Ext.util.Format.numberRenderer('0.000')
    }]

Functions that only take a single argument can also be passed directly:
    columns: [{
        dataIndex: 'cost',
        renderer: Ext.util.Format.usMoney
    }, {
        dataIndex: 'productCode',
        renderer: Ext.util.Format.uppercase
    }]

__Using with XTemplates__
XTemplates can also directly use Ext.util.Format functions:

    new Ext.XTemplate([
        'Date: {startDate:date("Y-m-d")}',
        'Cost: {cost:usMoney}'
    ]);

 * @markdown
 * @singleton
 */
(function() {
    Ext.ns('Ext.util');

    Ext.util.Format = {};
    var UtilFormat     = Ext.util.Format,
        stripTagsRE    = /<\/?[^>]+>/gi,
        stripScriptsRe = /(?:<script.*?>)((\n|\r|.)*?)(?:<\/script>)/ig,
        nl2brRe        = /\r?\n/g,

        // A RegExp to remove from a number format string, all characters except digits and '.'
        formatCleanRe  = /[^\d\.]/g,

        // A RegExp to remove from a number format string, all characters except digits and the local decimal separator.
        // Created on first use. The local decimal separator character must be initialized for this to be created.
        I18NFormatCleanRe;

    Ext.apply(UtilFormat, {
        /**
         * @type String
         * @property thousandSeparator
         * <p>The character that the {@link #number} function uses as a thousand separator.</p>
         * <p>This defaults to <code>,</code>, but may be overridden in a locale file.</p>
         */
        thousandSeparator: ',',

        /**
         * @type String
         * @property decimalSeparator
         * <p>The character that the {@link #number} function uses as a decimal point.</p>
         * <p>This defaults to <code>.</code>, but may be overridden in a locale file.</p>
         */
        decimalSeparator: '.',

        /**
         * @type Number
         * @property currencyPrecision
         * <p>The number of decimal places that the {@link #currency} function displays.</p>
         * <p>This defaults to <code>2</code>, but may be overridden in a locale file.</p>
         */
        currencyPrecision: 2,

        /**
         * @type String
         * @property currencySign
         * <p>The currency sign that the {@link #currency} function displays.</p>
         * <p>This defaults to <code>$</code>, but may be overridden in a locale file.</p>
         */
        currencySign: '$',

        /**
         * @type Boolean
         * @property currencyAtEnd
         * <p>This may be set to <code>true</code> to make the {@link #currency} function
         * append the currency sign to the formatted value.</p>
         * <p>This defaults to <code>false</code>, but may be overridden in a locale file.</p>
         */
        currencyAtEnd: false,

        /**
         * Checks a reference and converts it to empty string if it is undefined
         * @param {Mixed} value Reference to check
         * @return {Mixed} Empty string if converted, otherwise the original value
         */
        undef : function(value) {
            return value !== undefined ? value : "";
        },

        /**
         * Checks a reference and converts it to the default value if it's empty
         * @param {Mixed} value Reference to check
         * @param {String} defaultValue The value to insert of it's undefined (defaults to "")
         * @return {String}
         */
        defaultValue : function(value, defaultValue) {
            return value !== undefined && value !== '' ? value : defaultValue;
        },

        /**
         * Returns a substring from within an original string
         * @param {String} value The original text
         * @param {Number} start The start index of the substring
         * @param {Number} length The length of the substring
         * @return {String} The substring
         */
        substr : function(value, start, length) {
            return String(value).substr(start, length);
        },

        /**
         * Converts a string to all lower case letters
         * @param {String} value The text to convert
         * @return {String} The converted text
         */
        lowercase : function(value) {
            return String(value).toLowerCase();
        },

        /**
         * Converts a string to all upper case letters
         * @param {String} value The text to convert
         * @return {String} The converted text
         */
        uppercase : function(value) {
            return String(value).toUpperCase();
        },

        /**
         * Format a number as US currency
         * @param {Number/String} value The numeric value to format
         * @return {String} The formatted currency string
         */
        usMoney : function(v) {
            return UtilFormat.currency(v, '$', 2);
        },

        /**
         * Format a number as a currency
         * @param {Number/String} value The numeric value to format
         * @param {String} sign The currency sign to use (defaults to {@link #currencySign})
         * @param {Number} decimals The number of decimals to use for the currency (defaults to {@link #currencyPrecision})
         * @param {Boolean} end True if the currency sign should be at the end of the string (defaults to {@link #currencyAtEnd})
         * @return {String} The formatted currency string
         */
        currency: function(v, currencySign, decimals, end) {
            var negativeSign = '',
                format = ",0",
                i = 0;
            v = v - 0;
            if (v < 0) {
                v = -v;
                negativeSign = '-';
            }
            decimals = decimals || UtilFormat.currencyPrecision;
            format += format + (decimals > 0 ? '.' : '');
            for (; i < decimals; i++) {
                format += '0';
            }
            v = UtilFormat.number(v, format);
            if ((end || UtilFormat.currencyAtEnd) === true) {
                return Ext.String.format("{0}{1}{2}", negativeSign, v, currencySign || UtilFormat.currencySign);
            } else {
                return Ext.String.format("{0}{1}{2}", negativeSign, currencySign || UtilFormat.currencySign, v);
            }
        },

        /**
         * Formats the passed date using the specified format pattern.
         * @param {String/Date} value The value to format. If a string is passed, it is converted to a Date by the Javascript
         * Date object's <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parse.asp">parse()</a> method.
         * @param {String} format (Optional) Any valid date format string. Defaults to {@link Ext.Date#defaultFormat}.
         * @return {String} The formatted date string.
         */
        date: function(v, format) {
            if (!v) {
                return "";
            }
            if (!Ext.isDate(v)) {
                v = new Date(Date.parse(v));
            }
            return Ext.Date.dateFormat(v, format || Ext.Date.defaultFormat);
        },

        /**
         * Returns a date rendering function that can be reused to apply a date format multiple times efficiently
         * @param {String} format Any valid date format string. Defaults to {@link Ext.Date#defaultFormat}.
         * @return {Function} The date formatting function
         */
        dateRenderer : function(format) {
            return function(v) {
                return UtilFormat.date(v, format);
            };
        },

        /**
         * Strips all HTML tags
         * @param {Mixed} value The text from which to strip tags
         * @return {String} The stripped text
         */
        stripTags : function(v) {
            return !v ? v : String(v).replace(stripTagsRE, "");
        },

        /**
         * Strips all script tags
         * @param {Mixed} value The text from which to strip script tags
         * @return {String} The stripped text
         */
        stripScripts : function(v) {
            return !v ? v : String(v).replace(stripScriptsRe, "");
        },

        /**
         * Simple format for a file size (xxx bytes, xxx KB, xxx MB)
         * @param {Number/String} size The numeric value to format
         * @return {String} The formatted file size
         */
        fileSize : function(size) {
            if (size < 1024) {
                return size + " bytes";
            } else if (size < 1048576) {
                return (Math.round(((size*10) / 1024))/10) + " KB";
            } else {
                return (Math.round(((size*10) / 1048576))/10) + " MB";
            }
        },

        /**
         * It does simple math for use in a template, for example:<pre><code>
         * var tpl = new Ext.Template('{value} * 10 = {value:math("* 10")}');
         * </code></pre>
         * @return {Function} A function that operates on the passed value.
         * @method
         */
        math : function(){
            var fns = {};

            return function(v, a){
                if (!fns[a]) {
                    fns[a] = Ext.functionFactory('v', 'return v ' + a + ';');
                }
                return fns[a](v);
            };
        }(),

        /**
         * Rounds the passed number to the required decimal precision.
         * @param {Number/String} value The numeric value to round.
         * @param {Number} precision The number of decimal places to which to round the first parameter's value.
         * @return {Number} The rounded value.
         */
        round : function(value, precision) {
            var result = Number(value);
            if (typeof precision == 'number') {
                precision = Math.pow(10, precision);
                result = Math.round(value * precision) / precision;
            }
            return result;
        },

        /**
         * <p>Formats the passed number according to the passed format string.</p>
         * <p>The number of digits after the decimal separator character specifies the number of
         * decimal places in the resulting string. The <u>local-specific</u> decimal character is used in the result.</p>
         * <p>The <i>presence</i> of a thousand separator character in the format string specifies that
         * the <u>locale-specific</u> thousand separator (if any) is inserted separating thousand groups.</p>
         * <p>By default, "," is expected as the thousand separator, and "." is expected as the decimal separator.</p>
         * <p><b>New to Ext4</b></p>
         * <p>Locale-specific characters are always used in the formatted output when inserting
         * thousand and decimal separators.</p>
         * <p>The format string must specify separator characters according to US/UK conventions ("," as the
         * thousand separator, and "." as the decimal separator)</p>
         * <p>To allow specification of format strings according to local conventions for separator characters, add
         * the string <code>/i</code> to the end of the format string.</p>
         * <div style="margin-left:40px">examples (123456.789):
         * <div style="margin-left:10px">
         * 0 - (123456) show only digits, no precision<br>
         * 0.00 - (123456.78) show only digits, 2 precision<br>
         * 0.0000 - (123456.7890) show only digits, 4 precision<br>
         * 0,000 - (123,456) show comma and digits, no precision<br>
         * 0,000.00 - (123,456.78) show comma and digits, 2 precision<br>
         * 0,0.00 - (123,456.78) shortcut method, show comma and digits, 2 precision<br>
         * To allow specification of the formatting string using UK/US grouping characters (,) and decimal (.) for international numbers, add /i to the end.
         * For example: 0.000,00/i
         * </div></div>
         * @param {Number} v The number to format.
         * @param {String} format The way you would like to format this text.
         * @return {String} The formatted number.
         */
        number:
            function(v, formatString) {
            if (!formatString) {
                return v;
            }
            v = Ext.Number.from(v, NaN);
            if (isNaN(v)) {
                return '';
            }
            var comma = UtilFormat.thousandSeparator,
                dec   = UtilFormat.decimalSeparator,
                i18n  = false,
                neg   = v < 0,
                hasComma,
                psplit;

            v = Math.abs(v);

            // The "/i" suffix allows caller to use a locale-specific formatting string.
            // Clean the format string by removing all but numerals and the decimal separator.
            // Then split the format string into pre and post decimal segments according to *what* the
            // decimal separator is. If they are specifying "/i", they are using the local convention in the format string.
            if (formatString.substr(formatString.length - 2) == '/i') {
                if (!I18NFormatCleanRe) {
                    I18NFormatCleanRe = new RegExp('[^\\d\\' + UtilFormat.decimalSeparator + ']','g');
                }
                formatString = formatString.substr(0, formatString.length - 2);
                i18n   = true;
                hasComma = formatString.indexOf(comma) != -1;
                psplit = formatString.replace(I18NFormatCleanRe, '').split(dec);
            } else {
                hasComma = formatString.indexOf(',') != -1;
                psplit = formatString.replace(formatCleanRe, '').split('.');
            }

            if (1 < psplit.length) {
                v = v.toFixed(psplit[1].length);
            } else if(2 < psplit.length) {
                //<debug>
                Ext.Error.raise({
                    sourceClass: "Ext.util.Format",
                    sourceMethod: "number",
                    value: v,
                    formatString: formatString,
                    msg: "Invalid number format, should have no more than 1 decimal"
                });
                //</debug>
            } else {
                v = v.toFixed(0);
            }

            var fnum = v.toString();

            psplit = fnum.split('.');

            if (hasComma) {
                var cnum = psplit[0],
                    parr = [],
                    j    = cnum.length,
                    m    = Math.floor(j / 3),
                    n    = cnum.length % 3 || 3,
                    i;

                for (i = 0; i < j; i += n) {
                    if (i !== 0) {
                        n = 3;
                    }

                    parr[parr.length] = cnum.substr(i, n);
                    m -= 1;
                }
                fnum = parr.join(comma);
                if (psplit[1]) {
                    fnum += dec + psplit[1];
                }
            } else {
                if (psplit[1]) {
                    fnum = psplit[0] + dec + psplit[1];
                }
            }

            return (neg ? '-' : '') + formatString.replace(/[\d,?\.?]+/, fnum);
        },

        /**
         * Returns a number rendering function that can be reused to apply a number format multiple times efficiently
         * @param {String} format Any valid number format string for {@link #number}
         * @return {Function} The number formatting function
         */
        numberRenderer : function(format) {
            return function(v) {
                return UtilFormat.number(v, format);
            };
        },

        /**
         * Selectively do a plural form of a word based on a numeric value. For example, in a template,
         * {commentCount:plural("Comment")}  would result in "1 Comment" if commentCount was 1 or would be "x Comments"
         * if the value is 0 or greater than 1.
         * @param {Number} value The value to compare against
         * @param {String} singular The singular form of the word
         * @param {String} plural (optional) The plural form of the word (defaults to the singular with an "s")
         */
        plural : function(v, s, p) {
            return v +' ' + (v == 1 ? s : (p ? p : s+'s'));
        },

        /**
         * Converts newline characters to the HTML tag &lt;br/>
         * @param {String} The string value to format.
         * @return {String} The string with embedded &lt;br/> tags in place of newlines.
         */
        nl2br : function(v) {
            return Ext.isEmpty(v) ? '' : v.replace(nl2brRe, '<br/>');
        },

        /**
         * Capitalize the given string. See {@link Ext.String#capitalize}.
         * @method
         */
        capitalize: Ext.String.capitalize,

        /**
         * Truncate a string and add an ellipsis ('...') to the end if it exceeds the specified length.
         * See {@link Ext.String#ellipsis}.
         * @method
         */
        ellipsis: Ext.String.ellipsis,

        /**
         * Formats to a string. See {@link Ext.String#format}
         * @method
         */
        format: Ext.String.format,

        /**
         * Convert certain characters (&, <, >, and ') from their HTML character equivalents.
         * See {@link Ext.string#htmlDecode}.
         * @method
         */
        htmlDecode: Ext.String.htmlDecode,

        /**
         * Convert certain characters (&, <, >, and ') to their HTML character equivalents for literal display in web pages.
         * See {@link Ext.String#htmlEncode}.
         * @method
         */
        htmlEncode: Ext.String.htmlEncode,

        /**
         * Adds left padding to a string. See {@link Ext.String#leftPad}
         * @method
         */
        leftPad: Ext.String.leftPad,

        /**
         * Trims any whitespace from either side of a string. See {@link Ext.String#trim}.
         * @method
         */
        trim : Ext.String.trim,

        /**
         * Parses a number or string representing margin sizes into an object. Supports CSS-style margin declarations
         * (e.g. 10, "10", "10 10", "10 10 10" and "10 10 10 10" are all valid options and would return the same result)
         * @param {Number|String} v The encoded margins
         * @return {Object} An object with margin sizes for top, right, bottom and left
         */
        parseBox : function(box) {
            if (Ext.isNumber(box)) {
                box = box.toString();
            }
            var parts  = box.split(' '),
                ln = parts.length;

            if (ln == 1) {
                parts[1] = parts[2] = parts[3] = parts[0];
            }
            else if (ln == 2) {
                parts[2] = parts[0];
                parts[3] = parts[1];
            }
            else if (ln == 3) {
                parts[3] = parts[1];
            }

            return {
                top   :parseInt(parts[0], 10) || 0,
                right :parseInt(parts[1], 10) || 0,
                bottom:parseInt(parts[2], 10) || 0,
                left  :parseInt(parts[3], 10) || 0
            };
        },

        /**
         * Escapes the passed string for use in a regular expression
         * @param {String} str
         * @return {String}
         */
        escapeRegex : function(s) {
            return s.replace(/([\-.*+?\^${}()|\[\]\/\\])/g, "\\$1");
        }
    });
})();


Since 2009, annual rate increases to help pay for the construction of the nuclear plants – co-owned by state-owned Santee Cooper utility – have been approved under the Base Load Review Act. Raising rates now to pay for construction costs for the nearly $10 billion nuclear plants at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, near Jenkinsville, is intended to reduce the utility's long-term borrowing costs for the project.
The utility estimates the rate hikes mean it will save $1 billion in financing costs, which will reduce rates for future customers. Consumers are expected to save $4 billion over the life of the units, scheduled to begin operating in 2017 and 2018, according to SCE&G's estimates.
The need for the new nuclear power plants and the electricity that they produce is questioned by some.
For years, Santee Cooper has been trying to sell off parts of its 45 percent stake in the two plants. The state-owned utility says it no longer expects it will need the plants' capacity because of waning customer demand. Demand has dropped as the Great Recession slowed South Carolina's population growth, and businesses and consumers have become more energy efficient. So far, Santee Cooper has been unable to reach a deal to sell any of its stake in the Fairfield plants to other utilities.
SCE&G, meanwhile, says the nuclear-power plants are needed to meet South Carolina's future energy needs and ensure the state has diversified, clean energy sources.
The Public Service Commission has approved multiple rate hikes in the past four years for SCE&G – to build the nuclear plants, and to pay for increased operating costs and federally required upgrades.
Last November, however, SCE&G gave ground in a rate-hike request amid customer backlash, reducing the increase it asked for by $50 a year for consumers who use 1,000 kilowatt hours a month and accepting a lower profit for its investors.
The latest rate-hike request would boost the monthly bill of a customer using 1,000 kilowatt hours to $142.43. At the beginning of 2010, the bill for that use was $118.79 a month – meaning that customer will be paying $23.64 a month more than three years ago.
The utility serves about 673,000 S.C. electric customers.


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Xavier Amigò (* 8. Mai 1972) ist ein ehemaliger spanischer Rallyebeifahrer.

Karriere
Seine erste Rallye in der Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft bestritt Amigo in Katalonien 1996 als Beifahrer von Marc Blázquez in einem Peugeot 205. Diese Teilnahme endete mit einem Ausfall. In der Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft 1999 musste Amigo als Beifahrer von Michael Huete im SEAT Ibiza, ebenfalls bei der Rallye Katalonien aufgeben, konnte sich aber bei der Rallye Portugal erstmals als 34. platzieren. Nachdem er 2000 keine Platzierungen erreichen konnte, wechselte Amigo für die Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft 2001 als Beifahrer ins Fahrzeug von Alejandro Galanti. Mit ihm erreichte er in der Juniorenweltmeisterschaft den vierten Rang. Nach einem weiteren Jahr im Auto von Galanti wechselte Amigo, zur Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft 2004, ins Auto von Salvador Cañellas jr. mit dem er in der Juniorenwertung vordere Plätze belegte. Auf das Jahr 2004 wechselte Amigo in den Mitsubishi Lancer von Daniel Solà. Er konnte mit Solà auf Grund von Unfälle und technischen Defekten keine Spitzenränge erreichen. Auch in der Saison 2005 musste Amigo von sechs gestarteten Rallys vier nach einem Unfall beenden. 2006 gewann er, bei der Rallye la Vila Joiosa, erstmals einen Bewerb gemeinsam mit Solà. Ebenso war Amigo bei der Rallye Costa Brava und der Rallye Principe de Asturias erfolgreich. 2007 wechselte er für ein Jahr ins Auto von Xavier Pons, bevor Amigo ab 2008 als Beifahrer für Jordi Zurita im Mitsubishi Lancer unterwegs war. Seine letzte Rallye bestritt er 2007 bei der Rallye Großbritannien, welche Amigo mit dem neunten Rang beendete. Besonders Aufsehen erregte Amigo, als Fahrer Pons ihn bei der Rallye Deutschland 2006 so beschimpfte, dass er zu weinen begann. Pons entschuldigte sich später.

Erfolge
 Fünfmal Platz 4 (Rallye-Weltmeisterschaft)

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 Fotos bei motorsport.com (englisch)

Rallyefahrer (Spanien)
Rallyebeifahrer
Spanier
Geboren 1972
Mann


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Becky Mandelbaum wins the 2016 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
UGA Press / September 19, 2016
Photo by Anna Hurst
Becky Mandelbaum has been named this year's winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and her collection of short stories will be published by the University of Georgia Press. Mandelbaum's Bad Kansas will be available from the UGA Press in fall 2017.
The competition seeks to encourage writers of excellent short stories, while bringing award-winning work to a wider audience by offering publication of a book-length collection and a $1,000 prize. The Flannery O'Connor Award has helped launch the literary careers of such previous winners as Ha Jin, Antonya Nelson, Rita Ciresi and Mary Hood.
Becky Mandelbaum is from Kansas but currently lives and works in Mount Rainier National Park. She is the winner of the 2013 Lawrence Art Center's Langston Hughes Award for Fiction. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Great Jones Street, Salt Hill, Juked, South Dakota Review, Midwestern Gothic, McSweeney's Internet Tendency and Kansas City Voices.
"What's most impressive about this collection of stories, in which Kansas is as much a metaphor for dislocation and disconnection as it is a state, is that Ms. Mandelbaum has us fretting about matters worth the bother: what lines we dare not cross, how deep love can cut, what to stop wishing for, when to worry that the world is wobbling out of round, and why we tell the lies we must. Hers are characters riven by need, kids and adults about to go which-away toward a betimes terrible self-knowledge. Bad Kansas is so good it hurts," said Flannery O'Connor series editor Lee K. Abbott.
The finalists for this year were Pete Fromm's Under the Rocks and Stones, Jeff Greene's Stories from the Cold Room, Edward Hamlin's After Dreamland and Other Stories, Soren Palmer's The Message Board and William Pei's Unrequited Loves.
The winning books from last year's competition, The Current That Carries by Lisa Graley and The Jungle Around Us by Anne Raeff, will be published in September and October 2016. Copies will be available from the UGA Press, major retailers, and local independent booksellers. Submissions for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction are accepted Apr. 1 – May 31 each year; for guidelines and more information about the award can be found here.
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Revolutionary Ideas in BioCommunications – The 2010 Joint Annual Meeting of the BioCommunications Association, Association of Biomedical Communications Directors and the Health and Science Communications Association!
The meeting will be held June 2-5, 2010 with a possible full day photography workshop on Sunday, June 6th.
Please download the Call for Papers and consider presenting at this conference!
Abstract submission deadline is November 30, 2009.


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After launching a line of gaming PCs and laptops late last year, Walmart Inc (NYSE: WMT) is ready to deliver its next computing device, a low-cost Android-power tablet. Bloomberg says the retailer will market the tablet under its ONN brand, though there are no details on price or timing.
Tablet shipments fell 6% in 2018 to 173.8 million units, and have been declining for 17 consecutive quarters. But some analysts think the tablet market may be ready to make a recovery, with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) leading the way. While most everyone else including Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) suffered declines, and some manufacturers left the market altogether, the fourth quarter saw strong gains by a number of players, potentially making Walmart's entrance perfectly timed.
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Yet when Trump calls for a revolution there is nothing wrong with that.
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it"
"They promised us homes fit for heroes, they give us heroes fit for homes."
And they funded the Clinton's as well!
Peace through strength will be at the center of our foreign policy. We will achieve a stable, peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.
Advance America's core national interests, promote regional stability, and produce an easing of tensions in the world. Work with Congress to fully repeal the defense sequester and submit a new budget to rebuild our depleted military.
Rebuild our military, enhance and improve intelligence and cyber capabilities.
End the current strategy of nation-building and regime change.
Ensure our security procedures and refugee policy takes into account the security of the American people.
Read Donald J. Trump's Plan to Make America Safe and Respected Again, here.
Work with our Arab allies and friends in the Middle East in the fight against ISIS.
Pursue aggressive joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, international cooperation to cutoff their funding, expand intelligence sharing, and cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting.
Defeat the ideology of radical Islamic terrorism just as we won the Cold War.
Establish new screening procedures and enforce our immigration laws to keep terrorists out of the United States.
Suspend, on a temporary basis, immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.
identify the warning signs of radicalization, and to expose the networks in our society that support radicalization.
Read Donald J. Trump's Detailed Plan to Defeat ISIS, here.
Read Mr. Trump's Remarks at the Center for the National Interest, in Manchester, New Hampshire, and in Youngstown, Ohio.
Trump's 20 page pdf/speech on defeating Radical Islam. I'll comment on this one later, but I don't recall anything of this substance from current POTUS BHO, or the loser HRC.
According to one of the world's most deadly and infamous terrorists, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, President George W. Bush wiped out plans for other imminent attacks by quickly invading Afghanistan after 9/11/2001.
According to a new book detailed by The Federalist and former Bush staffer Marc Thiessen, KSM admitted during enhanced interrogation the President's swift "shock-and-awe" action not only thwarted plans for follow up attacks to 9/11, but changed Al Qaeda's entire strategy.
KSM was right. For the past eight years, our leaders have told us that we are weary of war and need to focus on "nation building at home." We have been defeating ourselves by quitting — just as KSM predicted.
I love that KSM compared his own people to fleas.
The most extensive study ever conducted of British Muslims found what the researchers described as some "deeply worrying" results, including over 40 percent of British Muslims wanting to replace British law with at least some aspects of Sharia Law and widespread belief that the 9/11 terror attacks were either an American or Jewish conspiracy.
The study was commissioned by the Westminster-based think tank Policy Exchange and included a survey of over 3,000 British Muslims by the highly regarded polling firm ICM. While the survey found general agreement among Muslims with the rest of the population on issues like immigration, unemployment and healthcare, views diverged sharply on law and terrorism.
A total of 43 percent of British Muslims surveyed said they wanted at least parts of British law replaced by "particular aspects" of Islamic law (16 percent "strongly" supported; 25 percent "tend to support" the idea). Only 22 percent are opposed (9 percent are strongly).
The widespread views on terrorism were even more eye-opening: 31 percent of British Muslims said the 9/11 terrorist attack was a conspiracy of the U.S. government, while 7 percent blamed the Jews. Only 4 percent believed Al Qaeda was behind the attack.
The conspiratorial views on 9/11 were not the only troubling results regarding radical Islam. More than a quarter (26 percent) surveyed said they did not believe that Islamic extremism even exists and nearly half (48 percent) said they would not turn someone over to police if they knew the person was linked to terrorism.
Tuesday's deadly terror attack in Brussels, Belgium(Mar.22,2016) was yet another Islamic terror attack that has occurred during President Barack Obama's administration. Obama's weakness on the world stage and failure to even utter the words "radical Islamic terrorism" has emboldened the Islamic jihadist movement and has caused their evil expansion and growth. Here is the complete list of Islamic terror attacks that have occurred under Obama's watch.
Obama Says No Foreign-Planned Terror Attacks on U.S. in 8 Years. WATCH How Soldiers Respond.
A 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy tried to blow up a Christmas market in the town of Ludwigshafen, prosecutors say.
He left a rucksack with explosives which failed to detonate in November, and put another explosive device by the town hall a few days later, they say.
But a member of the public alerted the police, and no-one was injured.
The 12 year old - who is now in custody - is thought have been recently radicalised and to have links with the so-called Islamic State group.
Focus magazine cited security and judicial sources as saying the boy was "strongly radicalised" and apparently instructed by an unknown IS member.
Public Prosecutor Hubert Stroeber said the boy left a backpack containing a home-made nail bomb at the Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, on 26 November, but the device did not go off because the detonator apparently failed.
The second device near the city's town hall, placed on 5 December, was discovered by an "informant" and specialists defused it, Mr Stroeber said.
Image copyright EPA Image caption The 12-year-old is reported to have left another device near the town hall The boy was born in Ludwigshafen to Iraqi parents in 2004.
Prosecutors said no formal proceedings would be launched against him, because he is below the age of criminal responsibility.
Last Thursday, German police arrested two teenagers aged 15 and 17, accused of plotting a terror attack on a public institution in Aschaffenburg, in north-western Bavaria. Police found Islamic State flags and propaganda material in their homes.
Germany suffered a spate of attacks in the south of the country over the summer.
Ten people were killed and dozens more injured in separate gun, bomb, axe and machete attacks.
The authorities say they were not linked, and one of them was not terror-related.
But the wave of violence has made a nation already on edge after a huge influx of refugees even more nervous.
Its going to be a Bloody Christmas.
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