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FACT gift guide 2019
Features I by Fact I 04.12.19
27 great gift ideas for music lovers, from synths and gadgets to books and box sets.
The end of the year is fast approaching, so once again we've researched gift ideas for all types of music lover so you don't have to. From a Rick & Morty synth and wireless headphones to books about bleep techno and sound system culture, we've assembled our pick of the year's best music loot for all ages, whether you need ideas for friends, relatives or just suggestions for your own gift list.
Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Sound System Culture by Joe Muggs
Joe Muggs and photographer Brian David Stevens' new book details the rich history of UK sound system culture. Features interviews with Smith & Mighty, Mala, Shy One, DJ Storm and more. Price: $30/£25
Join The Future: Bleep Techno & the Birth of British Bass Music by Matt Anniss
Matt Anniss' Join The Future is an in-depth exploration of Yorkshire's '80s bleep techno scene and its lasting effects on UK club culture, featuring profiles of forgotten legends and the story of the early years of Warp Records. Price: $20/£13
Pedal Crush: Stompbox Effects For Creative Music Making by Kim Bjørn and Scott Harper
The latest book from the team that brought us comprehensive guides to interface design in electronic music and modular synthesis is a jam-packed tome on how all musicians can get more out of the humble guitar effects pedal. Price: $66/£52
The 33 1/3 B-sides: New Essays by 33 1/3 Authors on Beloved and Underrated Albums
While the 33 1/3 series typically gives a whole book over to on album, this collection takes a shortform approach, with essays on Haruomi Hosono, De La Soul, Sinead O'Connor and more. Price: $20/£16
On Tour With DJ Rashad by Ashes57
Ashes57's poignant photo book is a must for footwork fans. It captures late icon DJ Rashad between 2011 and 2014, "from the shows that he invited me to and the time we spent hanging out in between." Price: $49/£40
Step By Step: Adventures in Sequencing with Max/MSP by Gregory Taylor
If you need a gift for the producer who can seemingly already do it all, this deep dive into building sequencers with the Max/MSP programming language could open up a new world of possibilities. Price: $25/£15
Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot by Vivien Goldman
Journalist and former Flying Lizards vocalist Vivien Goldman's brilliant and wide-ranging book explores feminist punk through key themes of identity, money, love and protest with interviews, history and her own personal experience. Price: $18/£14
Synths and studio gear
ALM Squid Salmple
No module sums up British company ALM's idiosyncratic take on Eurorack quite like the Squid Salmple. It's basically a fun, flexible drum machine you can patch how you like, and it includes sounds from Lauren Flax, Dungeon Acid and Solid Blake. Price: $499/£399
Sonarworks Reference 4 bundle
Sonarworks' studio bundle, which includes a microphone to calibrate your monitors for challenging acoustic environments, is an ideal gift for home producers. This Chirstmas pack also includes a few mixing plugins. Price €299
Elektron Model:Samples
While Elektron's latest all-in-one sampler features the company's famous sequencer with parameter locks, it's also its most affordable and accessible device yet. It coms with 300 presets from Splice including kicks, snares, hi-hats and "exotic, never-before-heard" sounds. Price: $399/£349
Do you know someone who wants to get into modular synthesis but don't have the space to store a full system? Korg's small and affordable Volca Modular is enough to scratch the modular itch without needing to take out a small business loan. Better still, it comes with its own set of patch cables. Price: $199/£159
The analog revival has meant a wilderness period for digital synths, but Arturia's Microfreak is a great reminder that the fabled 'warmth' of analog gear isn't everything. With 11 digital oscillator modes, this affordable synth can create almost any otherworldly timbre you can imagine. Price: $299/£259
Roland MC-101 Groovebox
Roland's pint-sized revival of its classic Groovebox gives you four-tracks and the sounds of the classic TR-808, TR-909, JUNO-106 and SH-101 instruments to play with. It's all any budding producer needs to get started with hardware, and it even runs off four AA batteries. $499/£399
Teenage Engineering PO-137 Rick and Morty Edition
Taking the concept of the soundboard to frankly ridiculous extremes, this tiny synthesizer and sequencer combo allows diehard Rick & Morty fans to make techno out of real sound effects from the show. Don't say we didn't warn you. Price: $89/£85
Headphones and gadgets
Apple's new AirPods Pro look better than the original model, and with noise cancelling also sound significantly better too. They also come with a wireless charging case so you can use them for up to 24 hours on the go. Price: $249/£249
IKEA Symfonisk table lamp with wi-fi speaker
IKEA and Sonos's first collaboration isn't just a wi-fi speaker – it's also a table lamp. Perfect for anyone who doesn't have space for any more gadgets or enough money for a standard Sonos speaker – it's significantly less expensive than a Sonos One. Price: $179/£150
Sega Genesis Mini
Nintendo's mini console classics have been some of the most popular gaming gifts of the past few years, and Sega's Genesis Mini (or Mega Drive Mini if you're in the UK) is just as good. If you need a crowd-pleasing dose of nostalgia, the 40 games inside will provide fun for years. Price: $79/£60
AIAIAI TMA-2 HD wireless headphones
The latest addition to AIAIAI's modular headphone range is a "high-definition" wireless model aimed at audiophiles. If you know someone that already has an earlier pair of TMA-2s, you can order individual parts to give them an upgrade. Price: $350/£310
UE Wonderboom 2 Bluetooth speaker
For portability, battery life and sound, UE's Boom range is almost unmatched. Anyone who needs a compact Bluetooth speaker will love the Boom 3, which comes in plenty of bright colors and even floats in water. Price: $79/£60
Vinyl, CDs and box sets
WXAXRXP box set
Warp celebrates its 30th birthday in style with a 10LP box set of radio sets from the label's three-decade history. Peel Sessions from Aphex Twin Boards of Canada and LFO make up some of the highlights, along with NTS sessions from Kelly Moran and Mount Kimbie. Price: £120
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives Of LP/CD
One of the best albums in Japanese electronic music history gets the reissue treatment thanks to We Want Sounds. Ideal for Yellow Magic Orchestra superfans, or indeed anyone who has a pair of ears. Price: €17/€12
Burial – Tunes 2011-2019 CD
It wouldn't be Christmas without a Burial release, and this year we've been treated to a CD collection of the past eight years of EPs and singles. It's not a proper third album, but it'll do. Price: $15/£15
Arthur Russell – Iowa Dream LP/CD
A collection of demos, home recordings and folk songs rescued from Arthur Russell's archives by his partner Tom Lee and Steve Knutson of Audika Records, Iowa Dream is a posthumous collection of Russell songs that feel almost like a complete album. Vinyl price: $29, CD price: $12
Joe Hisaishi – Studio Ghibli 7″ Boxset
There is probably no greater gift you could give to the Studio Ghibli fan in your life than this exquisite box set of 7″ singles, featuring music from My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle In The Sky. Price: £90
Partisan tape pack from Circadian Rhythms
This compilation from London's Circadian Rhythms features club tracks from Hyph11E, Flora Yin-Wong and Sully. It comes as a tape pack constructed from military surplus materials containing a sewing kit to encourage listeners to repair and reuse. Price: £23
Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 box set
Compiled by Visible Cloaks' Spencer Doran, Kankyō Ongaku is the definitive survey the "environmental music" that came from Japan's ambient and new age movements during the 1980s. In case the ambient fan in your life isn't sold by the concept alone, it's Grammy-nominated. Price: $65/£63
Dark Entries 10th anniversary compilation Tens Across The Board
Dark Entries' 10th anniversary compilation features 10 remastered tracks, seven of which are being released for the first time. Featuring music from Severed Heads' Tom Ellard, Lena Platonos and X-Ray Pop, it also includes a two-sided poster that includes every artist the label has released in its first 10 years. Price: $18/£23
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I would like to get the site landing page roughed out and in place this weekend. Currently http://ninecrows.com just drops you on a plain HTML page with text on a background and some links. I know mod-rewrite rules can re-point that reference to a sub-folder. I have installed a target to catch those requests and expect to configure this to serve static wordpress pages. If all goes well, I'll have something in place there by Tuesday.
I've fleshed out and enhanced the book shelf area. Still not particularly structured but it now has thumbnails for all of the books and I've added comments on more of them. I still need to add comments to much of the newer material and perhaps rearrange the lists to be more usable. It have been an interesting dive into my books list as I ran across a few items that I had bought out of curiosity and never found the time to give real attention to. I'll have to remedy that soon.
I want to tackle the 'things I've worked with' list on this blog next. It is currently just an expanded version of the key word list from my resume. It needs expanding (and I guess my resume list needs expanding as well then) and it needs organizing. I think I may go to a category based setup with 'languages', 'operating systems', process and such.
Sandbox projects keep getting postponed due to work and life time crunches. Not looking much better in the near term future, but I'm going to hold out hope.
Ju st grabbed a copy of 'Building web apps with WordPress' for my kindle app. I'm really looking seriously at building shared information applications with my site in the middle. I need to substantially improve my command of the UI side of web apps and this looks like it may hit that and some of the back end issues that would help me get leverage from WordPress rather than writing code from scratch.
I've bought quite a few books (paper and kindle) since last time I updated my books list. I'll be working to back-fill that area to cover the new stuff as time permits. I've added a number of entries to the EBooks and Others section and expect to keep at this area until I'm caught up. I may or may not handle the paper based books as a bookshelf depending on time and quantity of items.
I spent last weekend getting backup set up for the site after a scare that had me thinking I'd lost the blog side of the site. Backups now are looking good and appear to be running well. I still need to load XAMPP on my linux box and verify that I can restore the sites, but I'm pretty comfortable that will work.
I've been putting off fixing the ninecrows.com landing page because things have been busy. At this point I'm trying to put content up here and keep the site interesting and thus I'm looking at fixing the landing page and pulling the whole site together.


In just over a month, the Michigan State basketball team will hit the hardwood for the start of another season.
And on Wednesday, the Spartans kicked off practice at the Berkowitz Basketball Complex.
MSU enters this coming season on the heels of a heart-breaking loss to Syracuse last year, along with accusations that the program mishandled sexual assault allegations.
MSU basketball coach Tom Izzo says this season provides players and students with a fresh start.
"Hopefully we're learning from the past and moving forward to make sure this is the greatest, safest place for students with their health, safety, and all things we have to address," he said.
The NCAA cleared both the MSU football and basketball programs of any wrongdoing last month.


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April 19, 1919: Baseball resumes after World War I on Patriots Day in Boston
July 23, 2020 /in Games Project 1910s First Games Back /by sabr
Dixie Tourangeau
No matter your perspective, the 1919 Patriots Day opening day doubleheader at Braves Field just didn't feel the same as those previously played in the twentieth century. Many things swirled in the festive atmosphere that April 19, including the lingering sweet aroma of the January 15 molasses tank explosion/flood tragedy in the North End that killed 21 workers and residents. World War I officially ended five months before (the Treaty of Versailles was not signed until June 1919) but more importantly, the devastating Spanish Flu epidemic was finally beginning to wane in the Hub, once Ground Zero for it. Every day ships entered Boston Harbor with returning troops from Europe, bringing joy and relief to awaiting households, but they docked in the midst of continuing pandemic burials.
Added to the day's headline mix was the ongoing New England telephone and telegraph operators strike. That inconvenient chaos was colliding with the traditional Patriots Day (state holiday officially legislated in 1894) celebrations, sandwiched between between solemn Good Friday and Lent-ending Easter.1 Baseball did not take a back-row chair, as there were more than 50 college and high-school games on tap. Dozens of schools vied for attention with various other amateur athletic events including the 22nd Boston Marathon, by then basking in its own national fame.
Baseball normally enjoyed a lofty perch in this carnival of leisure, but in preseason 1919 the moguls were very concerned that fans might still be depressed about the war, the flu carnage, and the shortened 1918 season. They didn't know how much turnstile enthusiasm to expect. Newly appointed National League President John A. Heydler was there to witness the event at the invitation of George Washington Grant, who had bought the Braves in January.
The NL's first pitch of 1919 mirrored those tossed in 1897 and 1901, the only opening pitch thrown that day. Baseball's other combatants, as well as these two teams, would not convene for four more days. Conflicting Boston season openers were in vogue in 1902-03 when the two rival leagues battled over the signing (and stealing) of players. The NL Beaneaters played two games with Brooklyn in 1902 while the upstart American League Bostons hosted Baltimore in a solo tilt. An awkward duel occurred in 1903 when both Boston squads played twin bills with their respective Philadelphia foes. This happened on April 20 because the 19th was a Sunday — no pro ball was allowed.2 A reasonable compromise apparently ended the one-day economic pettiness in 1904 and beyond as the Beaneaters traveled to Brooklyn and the Americans had the city's cranks all to themselves. After that, the NL Doves/Rustlers/Braves drew the odd years for a lucrative Patriots Day gate and the Americans/Red Sox got the even years.
By 1919 the Braves' fortunes had fallen from their "Miracle" of 1914 and good times of 1915-16, while the Brooklyn Superbas/Robins/Dodgers' success had also dropped since their 1916 pennant.3 Meanwhile a mile-plus down Commonwealth Avenue, the Red Sox had captured the 1918 pennant and World Series from the Cubs in the war-curtailed season. Now the Red Sox were also hogging some of April's sports columns as slugging phenom Babe Ruth hit four straight home runs on Good Friday in an exhibition against Jack Dunn's International League Orioles in Ruth's Baltimore hometown. Ruth clouted two more on Saturday, setting Easter's sports pages ablaze nationwide.
Cavernous Braves Field hosted this combined Patriots Day, Opening Day throng for the first time in 1919. In 1915 the Braves celebrated Patriots Day at Fenway Park by whipping Brooklyn 7-2, 6-4. NL Boston beat Philadelphia 7-3, 4-2 in 1917, but it was not Opening Day; that had come on April 12. Brooklyn was on Boston's opening menu several times (1890, 1894, and 1919 on Patriots Day), having an overall 4-10 record by day's end.4
Saturday morning dawned chilly but clear in the Hub. Brooklyn had not faced the Braves since July 2, 1918, and both second-division teams were eager to show improvement. Lt. Leon Cadore, back from rugged Army duty in France, pitched the 10:30 morning game for the visiting Dodgers. He was 2-1 lifetime at Braves Field, really pitching only one season, 1917, recording a 13-13 mark. Cadore's future baseball fame came a year and two weeks later when he and Joe Oeschger endured a record 26-inning, 1-1 tie in Braves Field. New York native and Miracle Braves ace Dick Rudolph was the host hurler. He dipped to 9-10 in 1918, but was 4-2 at Braves Field in his career against the Superbas. Careerwise, Rudolph was 103-79, Cadore 14-15 as 1919 began.
Six-year Boston manager George Stallings was missing some crucial offense. Baseball's first World War I enlistee, Hank Gowdy (.279), could not report for action until May 24 (Hank Gowdy Day) and Native American Olympic star Jim Thorpe (.327) would not be traded from New York to the Braves for another month. Walter "Rabbit" Maranville (.267) was only a week back himself from his Navy duties and had practiced just once. He played for his USS Pennsylvania team and while he was in Cuba in March, but was not yet big league-tuned. Through a New York Giants deal, via Cincinnati, newcomer Walter Holke provided some needed punch (.292) along with journeyman Charlie "Buck" Herzog (.280). Reports had the Braves returning from their Georgia training camp in very good condition.5 On the visiting bench, Brooklyn's five-year field boss Wilbert "Uncle Robbie" Robinson had his veteran roster ready. Zack Wheat's lethal bat (.297; .335 NL title in 1918) was set, as was his pasture sidekick, Henry "Hi" Myers (.307, NL top 73 RBIs in 1919, 14 triples).6 Ivan "Ivy" Olson (.278, 164 hits in 1919) embarked on his best season. Missing was newly acquired first baseman Ed Konetchy (.298), a Boston contract holdout. His being dealt to Brooklyn was announced in that morning's papers.
A crisp 50 degrees greeted 4,000 to 8,000 fans (depending on your news source). Respected umpires Bill Klem and Bob Emslie were the Opening Day arbiters. In the first inning, Wheat, newly appointed Superbas captain, wasted no time getting into his dangerous groove. After Lew Malone (Army) singled, Zack stroked a triple knocking home baseball's first run of the year. Olson singled in the next frame and was brought home by Ernie Krueger's (Army) safety. Cadore sailed along until the seventh when three Braves singles and Maranville's sacrifice fly plated the equalizers. With the score still 2-2 in the 10th, Rudolph's defense went AWOL and Brooklyn executed excellent small-ball strategy. Cadore reached on Maranville's error and a sacrifice attempt was botched by catcher Art Wilson's bad throw. Malone's sacrifice put runners at second and third and newcomer (dealt from Cincinnati) Tommy Griffith singled in both mates. Two batters later, bat-whiz Myers squeezed him home perfectly for a 5-2 lead. Myers' fine running catch of Joe Riggert's liner ended the game. Each team made 10 hits but Boston committed five errors and left eight on base.7
Despite his first-game miscues, Maranville was presented with a large floral display from friends of the Morning Glory Club of Charlestown (or his admiring shipmates, depending on which paper you read). Big Jeff Pfeffer (then 79-53) was Brooklyn's afternoon pitching choice while Stallings dropped his original pick, Art Nehf (44-32), and gave the ball to Don Carlos Pat Ragan (76-102). Like Cadore, Pfeffer had one victory in 1918 as he had enlisted in the Navy.8 The estimated afternoon mob of 20,000 was no big deal to Pfeffer because he had seen 42,600 fans packed into Red Sox-borrowed Braves Field for the Game Five finale of the 1916 World Series, which he lost to Ernie Shore, 4-1. Big game, big stadium, big gate.
Meanwhile Ragan was tossing some of his last pitches of an eight-year career. Things looked bright when he fanned the first two Brooklyn batters and gave up one hit through four innings. However, with two outs in the fifth, Maranville opened the gates again with a bobble on Ollie O'Mara's bouncer. Krueger followed with the second Brooklyn hit and Pfeffer drove a solid smash to center fielder Riggert, who ran a long way, made a nice grab, but then dropped the sphere, allowing both runners to score (unearned). In Brooklyn's sixth, Griffith singled, Holke mishandled Wheat's grounder and the versatile Myers advanced both runners. Olson drove Griffith home with a single off Ragan's shin (unearned).
Down 3-0, Boston's Tom Miller (2-for-8 career) pinch-hit for the unlucky Ragan in the seventh and singled. Maranville walked and Charlie Herzog's safety tallied Miller. Pfeffer came close to blowing his own game in the eighth when he walked Riggert, hit Holke, plunked Joe Kelly, and, after a force out at home, walked rookie pinch-hitter Jack Scott, scoring Holke. Big Jeff then snuffed out the self-inflicted, no-hit rally. After 105 minutes of lackluster play, Braves fans headed home for dinner, their team having lost 3-2. Pfeffer allowed nine hits, while his Superbas got eight. Most of the Robins' holiday runs were gift-wrapped by nine Boston errors, plus the Braves stranded 20.9
Information for this essay was compiled mostly through Retrosheet game and player logs, and next-day newspaper accounts of all of the games mentioned from the Boston Globe, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn Daily Times, Brooklyn Citizen, and Brooklyn Standard Union. The A.J. Reach and A.G. Spalding Baseball Guides for 1918 and 1919 were also consulted.
1 Starting in 1890 the Patriots Day gate was coveted by the "Gay Nineties" Beaneaters and both the Americans and Nationals in the first 1900s decades. Teams that played that day then exited town for warmer venues, returning in milder May. Patriots Day was an intentionally legislated excuse to cast off winter's chilly misery and commemorate the historic 1775 impromptu skirmishes for colonial independence out at Lexington Green ("Shot heard 'round the world") and Concord Bridge, 8 and 12 miles to Boston's northwest. Colonial garb and musket firing were crowd-pleasing staples. Hub clubs could open their season, their home season or just celebrate the holiday on that big gate occasion.
2 According to the April 20, 1903, Boston Globe, crazed crowds totaling 27,600 supported the Americans' split decision while the Nationals saw 6,500 patrons in the stands for their combined split. The AL's Huntington Avenue Grounds home plate was about 800 feet from the NL's venerable South End Grounds revered dish, separated only by myriad railroad tracks and brick walls. It was estimated that 200,000 witnessed parts of the Marathon.
3 Just as the Boston team changed names (Beaneaters, Doves, Rustlers, and Braves) in this era, the Brooklyn squads were called the Robins, Superbas, and Dodgers, depending on which paper you read and when. In 1919 Brooklyn's four major papers used all three names; the Eagle preferred "Superbas."
4 In a sidebar story, the Brooklyn Standard Union went so far as to remind fans in the "City of Churches" that their boys played such an April 19 game in Boston when it was welcomed from the American Association into the NL in 1890. Beaten 15-9 at Boston's magnificent South End Grounds, it was an inauspicious start for the Bridegrooms, who eventually won the NL pennant. The paper's historians declined to note that on that same day, only 2.5 miles east, the rebel Players' League Boston Reds defeated the Brooklyn Wonders, 3-2, at the Congress Street Grounds, the "opening game" for each. They finished one-two in that League's solo season.
5 The Braves' Columbus, Georgia, training site was 105 miles south of Atlanta along the Chattahoochee River, adjacent to Fort Benning. Braves players were happy that the last two exhibition games were rained out, giving them more time to relax on the train to Boston. On board they encountered at least a dozen war-weary soldiers, most missing limbs. In awe of that sacrifice, the sympathetic ballplayers cheerfully treated the heroes to upgraded food, drink, and cigars along the homebound route.
6 Myers was the player who smacked a first-inning solo inside-the-park home run off Babe Ruth in Game Two of the 1916 World Series. Boston won 2-1 in 14 innings at Braves Field.
7 Biased Boston and skeptical Brooklyn news outlets differed in crowd size estimates. The Boston Globe boasted 10,000 and 20,000 for the two games, several thousand at each game invited veterans. Brooklyn's four papers varied from 4,000 to 8,000 for the morning contest, and while the Brooklyn Daily Eagle would accept only 12,000 for the afternoon match, the others leaned toward 15,000 to 20,000. In between games the temperature rose to near 60 and Finland native Carl W. Linder of Quincy, a 30-year-old worker at the nearby Fore River shipyard, won the Marathon in 150 minutes. Two other runners of Finnish descent from the field of 47, William Wick (Quincy) and Otto J. Laakso (Brooklyn) were next to cross the line. The Gaffney Street entrance to Braves Field became mobbed by Marathon watchers now wanting some baseball action. The 3:15 start was postponed to 3:45; few fans seemed to mind the delay.
8 Brooklyn's Opening Day starters Cadore and Pfeffer were among the 103 NLers who served their country during the war. Cadore volunteered for the Army and went to Officer Candidate School in late 1917. He got a furlough in early June 1918 and pitched on June 5 and 8 at Ebbets Field. He shut out St. Louis 2-0 on four hits (Wheat had two RBIs) and then two-hit Pittsburgh over eight innings in a 1-1 tie before being pinch-hit for. (Myers' RBI in ninth tied it.) The Dodgers won 2-1 in 12 innings (Myers run). Lt. Cadore gained fame in France by commanding a company in the "colored" 369th Infantry Regiment, "the Harlem Hellfighters," which captured 1,000 German soldiers the day before the Armistice. Pfeffer volunteered for the Navy and trained at the Great Lakes facility, 27 miles north of Chicago. On a weekend pass, he pitched at Cubs Park (Weeghman Field) on July 19, two-hitting the Cubs, 2-0, behind RBIs by Wheat and Myers (Olson both runs). In all Brooklyn had 18 roster players who were drafted or volunteered and Boston had 14.
9 Brooklyn got off to a nice 9-1 start in 1919, behind 4-0 Pfeffer. Boston headed the opposite way, losing its first nine games. In the end Brooklyn was 69-71 and Boston 57-83, both remaining in the second division. The next time the two teams played on Patriots Day at Braves Field was 1929 (doubleheader host sweep, 6-5, 5-1). The teams had opened the season the day before with a 13-12 slugfest win by Boston, which featured solid swatting by George Sisler and Floyd "Babe" Herman.
While most players looked forward to the new campaign free of war and disease worries, poor error-prone infielder Oliver O'Mara's (.231) four-year, 411-game Brooklyn career abruptly ended with this 1919 season-opening doubleheader. Malone was moved to third base (.204) and then Chuck Ward (.233) tried his skills there. O'Mara (.202) got into Game Four of the 1916 World Series at Braves Field facing Hubert "Dutch" Leonard as a pinch-hitter. He struck out, Brooklyn lost 6-2.
Brooklyn Robins 5
Boston Braves 2
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A table saw or saw bench is a carpentry instrument, comprising of a roundabout saw cutting edge, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric engine.
The sharp edge distends through the outside of a table, which offers help for the material, generally wood, being cut.
We will discuss how to make a colorful cabinet using a table saw.
Before we start the procedures of making the cabinet, let us bite the materials needed to make this happen.
The table saw mobile bases is a very good option.
A good drill and any kind of pocket hole jig.
Pressed wood plywood for the side boards, bottoms, and whatever another basic piece that won't be seen. Pressed plywood wood or a strong wood board for the entryway boards. Strong wood of decision for the face outline, entryway edge, and cabinet front. Cabinet slides for anyway numerous drawers you are making. Utilized Euro-style cabinet slides in this assemble. Bureau entryway pivots for whatever style entryway you are making. Use overlay entryway pivots.
1- %" take opening screws.
For the coloring of the cabinets, you will need spray cans of different colors to give it a colorful look.
To begin making the cabinet; Cut the plywood into workable sizes.
A bureau confront outline is the front edge of a bureau that will set up the area of the majority of the entryways and drawers just as for giving some basic solidness to whatever is left of the case. The general size of the face outline is dictated by what number of entryways and drawers you need to have.
The general development technique for these cupboards is stash openings. There are many pocket gap dances and machines out there that will all total a similar assignment. On the off chance that you are completing plenty of ventures utilizing pocket openings a pocket gap machine might be a legitimate choice for you.
Once you are done cutting the face panel, it's time to assemble the parts.
After the face outlines are finished, connect the side boards to the face outlines with pocket gaps also. Every one of these cupboards that are assembled ought to have one side that would have been against the divider so on those sides, put the pocket openings looking out. On the sides that would have been exposed, put the pocket gaps within the cabinet, but make a point not to put anyplace you could without much of a stretch see them if the entryway was open. The base racks are anchored with pocket gaps also. The pocket openings are on the base so you never observe them.
Strain the quarter inch processed plywood panel. While you leave the strain to drain, make the drawers. The drawers are A" plywood screwed to 3/8" plywood. Then nail and glue the woods together.
Mount the drawer slides to the sides of the drawers attached to the cabinet. Prepare the door to be attached to the cabinet.
Gently place the door in position in the front side, with knobs for easy opening.
Now the cabinet is set. Use your spray paint to give the colorful looks to your cabinet.
Before you spray the cabinet, make sure you cover the part you don't want to be colored with adhesive tapes.
The first thing that you need to consider when buying a toilet is the design. Out in the market, we have so many colorful toilet designs. You have can choose an elegant toilet that matches your bathroom décor theme. You can also consider the taste of your children, this can also give you a hint on what design to choose.
The next important factor to consider is the size of the toilet. Out there in the market, there are so many colorful toilets of different sizes. When we talk of the size you need to consider height and width of the toilet. Your choice of toilet size can be guided by the size of your bath arena. You have to choose the size of a toilet that will fit well in the available space and leave allowance for movement purposes. Another factor that can guide you on the size is the users purchase a toilet that is user-friendly. For instance, avoid squatting pan if you have some little kids or elderly people.
When purchasing a toilet look for a color that blends well with your home wall color. Nowadays you find very colorful toilets in the market well designed and decorated. You can opt to buy a decorative toilet which comes as a pack of toilet bowls, wash basin and pedestal and will give a unique look to your bath space.
This is a very important factor to note before purchasing a toilet. Flushing system comes into two types single flush and dual flush. Single flash uses more water at single use. It is always advisable to select a dual flush when buying because it is economical in terms of water usage.
The most important aspect to be noted is the price of the toilet. In the market, there are so many colorful toilets but this comes with a cost. The more colorful a toilet is the more expensive it is. It is therefore important that you choose a toilet that fits in your budget.
By going through all the factors discussed above you will be in a position to select the most appropriate toilet. Alternatively, you can look at the best toilets review and you might borrow some ideas from there.
There are many creative activities that help children psychologically, increase cognitive abilities, and bolster creativity. Unarguably, wood coloring is one of such activities that a lot of children are taught to do. And when it comes to this distinctive act of coloring, there are many profound or good styles and tactics used to create compelling visual images that are ideal for children and can be taught as they grow older and get better creating rational images.
The ability to focus and coordination is just developing in children. A creative activity such as coloring wood (with all sorts of drawings or painting) strengthens or foster this budding talent, which will be incredibly useful later on in life. When coloring, they will have to choose colors, learn how to use coloring materials properly, and other activities which will help improve focus (since most kids find it interesting) and help cultivate strong hand-to-eye coordination.
Coloring wood could also help to improve motor skills. The motions or actions and precise grip they experience every time they do it could aid in developing hand, finger, and wrist muscles. Proper motor skill development can help them write better as well as the manipulation of small objects. This will improve their performances in many physical and mental activities as they grow older.
Dexterity, attention to detail and hand strength are required in writing cursive scripts or printed letters. Starting them out with coloring wood would help to develop these immensely useful skills. This will eventually aid in proper writing.
Generally, people express themselves differently, and many kids are visual in nature. When children are coloring wood, decisions have to be made regarding the type of colors to use, and other decisions, which also makes it a vehicle for self-expression (among other things).
In sum, coloring woods, as a creative activity for kids, offers many immense advantages ranging from triggering children creativity to contributing to better handwriting, which are properly listed above, not to mention the fact that it can be a great way in which wood is recycled, since those woods are put to good use.
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The grilled or smothered tacos grilled meals give tasty and nutritious meals for their customers. The fast-food restaurant with outlets across the globe boasts the world best menu recipes and customer service, which had earned them amazing customer loyalty and positive social media reviews. Their menu booklets are a show of creativity and innovation that can be emulated when coloring books.
Books, on the other hand, require a touch of color to beautify it as well as add aesthetic value. Imagine reading a food book, with the picture from a white and black balance. It creates an environment of boredom and dullness, which affects even your reading speed. It does not motivate you to open more pages and read more. That is the sole reason why you can read a 100-page book in hours while you take days in another book with a similar number of pages. However, the color should go hand in hand with the content and the language.
Traditionally before the digital age, you could not publish a book, journal or a magazine without it going through a publisher for verification and authentication of content and language style. Although some publishers took advantage to frustrate authors, it was the best policy to have a third party recommendation for the best books. This is the sole reason old authors and their books are still interesting and fun to read in the contemporary society.
Currently, the innovation of EBooks because of technological advancement requires the use of colors and food photographs as an attraction as opposed to the content. Taco's bell has mastered this art not only in the outlook but also in their customer service, ambiance, and arrangement of furniture, counter desk, and the kitchen. It is one restaurant which allows you to go to the kitchen and you cannot fail to notice the color arrangement in every section of the kitchen and the restaurant as a whole.
Different colors have a different influence on people's minds. The menu booklets with bright colors portray a welcoming effect. In coloring books, you need to use the same concept to entice your readers. Your behavior is highly influenced by the color hues, for you to read a book. The colors of the cover page are a great determinant. In the hospitality industry, stick to bright colors with a blend of dull colors, in moderation, to have a friendly effect and a sense of comfort. This should be relayed in the walls, floor, menu booklets, and the entrance. Constant painting and having a trademark makes it better in maintaining the brand and the trademark. Use various graphical design applications to have an idea on how to use colors for your books.
lot. Renowned table tennis players admit that the grip and positioning of the table tennis battle in relation to the tennis ball determine its landing point. Remember you have to land it, if possible against the position of the opponent, within the court for a win.
The ping pong racket is made of wooden and the upper part insulated using rubber to allow the ball to bounce back in response to the ball hitting. Both sides are insulated with the rubber. A modern version of the table tennis paddle is connected to a circuit and a scoreboard for live streaming of scores. It is a new technology yet to be rolled out and used in the Olympic games. Some of them have different colors, which acts to the advantage of the opponent to predict the direction of the ball once it is hit. Forehand, backhand and your body movement is a determinant of the success of the table tennis game.
The standard size of a table tennis paddle is 15cm in width and 16cm in length. Both sides have to be smooth and flat. The science behind the table tennis racket is that the wooden part offers a firm surface while the rubber gives a skidding effect for the ball to bounce back. The strength of the hit determines the direction and speed at which the ball moves back to the opponent's side. Check this pingpongperfect.com/best-table-tennis-paddle.
They are independent on other equipment for their functioning.
A table tennis player and a color artist need to practice their skills for a perfect picture outlook. Otherwise, it is a process in futility. However, in terms of physical activities, the two hobbies are rather on the extreme. Table tennis requires stamina and a physically-fit body while coloring is a passive activity. One can handle both hobbies for a comprehensive physical health.
After a tiresome time coloring books, you need to stretch while being mentally active. Table tennis comes in handy since it is a brain game which requires muscular endurance and agility for success. The table tennis paddle, the tennis table, and the tennis ball are complete ping pong equipment. In Asia, it is a popular game right from a young age, encouraging creative art skills among children. The government invests in them in a camp with professional and qualified coaches to nurture the talent- the reason behind the success.
Kuvings whole slow juicers depict the value of artistic skills in developing juicer themed coloring book. Coloring book should be able to accommodate all kinds of colors crayons, paints, and colored pencils. All these are features in Kuvings juicers, you have no limit of the type of fruits and vegetables the appliance can crash or blend. Are they seeds or fruits, or beans? Kuvings juicers will offer value for the investment.
What makes Kuvings Juicers Peculiar vs. Coloring Books?
These juicers operate in a slow motion and a press up functionality to ensure all the juice extracts from plants is extracted for a smooth flow of the drink. Furthermore, the juicer manages nutritious conscious individuals for a perfect drink. The motor system uses a brushless motor system a clear indication of the safety of the fruits and vegetables. When you need a spotless kind of juicing the Kuvings juicers are the best option.
The silencer when grinding and squeezing the juice portrays modernity away from the old juicers which cause noise pollution, In fact, Kuvings juicers are must-have kitchen appliances in the home or office to promote healthy living by drinking all-natural juices. Most people get tempted to visit stores to buy processed juices because of the disappointments from other old juicers, which were noisy and had a lot of residues at the end of the juicing.
Kuvings juicers are ideal for commercial purposes because of a wider and longer can squeeze more juices within a short time. In addition, the appliance maintains the nutritive value of the fruits maintaining the quality of the natural juice.
The self-cleaning feature of Kuvings juicers gives them an upper hand since it saves its users the hassle of cleaning after a moment of juicing. Compared to the old juicers, where they have foods that tend to trap various residues making cleaning the juicer an uphill task.
Another unique feature of the Kuvings juicers is the fact that you do not have to chop the fruits prior to juicing, place the fruits in the can, switch on the motor and allow current to flow for proper juicing. The press and juice function is an added advantage to the Kuvings brand.
idea of colors are clearly depicted in the hospitality industry. The view of colors of different juices gives you a positive mind during consumption of the juice. A positive mind portrays a high self -esteem, which encourages individual to take life from a positive angle.
The use of Juicers and coloring books is a forum to display creative art and skills since there is no definite formula in handling them.


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Race 1 Number 7 – Aliferous – Stewards have permitted James McDonald to ride the filly 0.5kg over its declared weight of 55kg.
Race 7 Number 15 – Sir Bacchus - Stewards have permitted Sam Weatherley (a) to ride the gelding 0.5kg over its declared weight of 53kg.
Race 9 Number 11 – Sweet Scandal – Stewards have permitted James McDonald to ride the filly 1kg over its declared weight of 54.5kg.


Investors, who are parsing any and all Fed communication for clues on the central bank's next move, heard from a flurry of Fed officials on Tuesday.
Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart's willingness to cite a specific dollar figure for purchases, one largely in tandem with market expectations, was seen as another hint that planning is actively underway.
"If we're going to pursue another round of quantitative easing, it has to be a large enough number to make a difference," Lockhart said in an interview on CNBC television.
"As a monthly number ($100 billion) is fairly consistent with what we did before, and so I think it would certainly be in the range of numbers one might consider … but if you were talking about $100 billion as simply the overall program, I think that's too small," he said.
The Fed cut interest rates to near zero during the financial crisis and then bought around $1.7 trillion of mortgage-related and Treasury debt to further push down borrowing costs.
The Chicago Fed's Charles Evans and New York Fed chief William Dudley stuck to their views that monetary policy can and should do more to support the recovery, unless the economy improves.
Dudley said both inflation and employment are likely to remain below levels that are consistent with the Fed's mandate.
"Viewed through the lens of the Federal Reserve's dual mandate — the pursuit of the highest level of employment consistent with price stability, the current situation is wholly unsatisfactory," Dudley said, repeating an argument he made earlier this month.
The hints of forthcoming stimulus were not enough to soothe U.S. stocks, which were down sharply on the day after an interest rate hike in China sparked concerns about the outlook for global growth.
The prospect of further Fed easing, which helped push the dollar to a 10-month low, has drawn the ire of emerging market economies contending with a flood of capital as investors chase higher yields. The dollar surged on Tuesday after the surprise Chinese central bank interest rate increase.
The view that further stimulus was needed appears to be the core view at the central bank, but it is a view not unanimously held.
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said that while the economy is barely growing fast enough to create new jobs, the case for further monetary easing has not been made conclusively.
"The efficacy of further accommodation using nonconventional policies is not all that clear," he told the New York Association for Business Economics.
His counterpart at the Minneapolis Fed, Narayana Kocherlakota, also appeared skeptical about how much stimulus further bond purchases or quantitative easing (QE) could provide.
"My own guess is that further uses of QE would have a more muted effect on Treasury term premia," because markets are functioning much better now than in early 2009, said Kocherlakota.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Chicago Fed's Evans not only backed more easing but repeated his call for a price-level target, saying that there was little chance the U.S. unemployment rate, now at 9.6 percent, would fall below 8 percent by 2012.
Targeting a price-level would involve the Fed tolerating higher inflation for a while to offset a period of inflation below its comfort level.
The Fed has an informal inflation target of 1.7 to 2 percent. For the 12 months through August the core personal consumption expenditure price index, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, was running at 1.4 percent.
Federal Reserve Governor Elizabeth Duke told the Money Marketeers of New York University that more easing at the Fed's November meeting is not a done deal. "A lot can change between now and the meeting," she said.
Dudley and Duke are permanent voters on the Fed's policy-setting panel, while Evans, Kocherlakota and Fisher move into voting slots next year. Lockhart won't have a vote on monetary policy until 2012.


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Til og med 2006 var kredsen en opstillingskreds i Københavns Amtskreds. Fra 2007 er de tidligere kommuner Ledøje-Smørum og Værløse overført til Nordsjællands Storkreds.

Den 8. februar 2005 var der 54.567 stemmeberettigede vælgere i kredsen.

Kredsen rummede i 2015 flg. kommuner og valgsteder::
Ballerup Kommune
Tapeten
Rugvængets Skole
Højagerskolen
Grantoftehallen
Rosenlundskolen
Lundebjergskolen
Tidl. Skovlunde Lokalkontor
Måløv Ny Hal
Egebjerghallen
Østerhøjhallen
Glostrup Kommune
Nordvangskolen
Sognegården
Søndervangskolen
Vestervangskolen
Ejbyskolen
Hvissingehallen

Folketingskandidater pr. 25/11-2018

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Climate@Emory brings interdisciplinary strengths to pressing world problems
Emory Report | April 9, 2015
A recent campus exhibit demonstrated how Emory researchers measure indoor air pollution from burning yak dung in stoves in Tibet. From the smoke of open stoves in developing parts of the world to the pollution of coal-fired utilities and gas-guzzling SUVs in industrialized countries, the issues of climate change are tightly bound up with culture, politics, religion and economics. Emory Photo/Video
Professor: Multiple disciplines needed to understand climate change Feb. 19, 2014
Emory University admitted as observer to UN climate talks Dec. 11, 2014
Climate@Emory
Climate@Emory Day of Scholarship
Academics, Science, Research, Sustainability, Emory College, School of Public Health, University, International
A sampling of climate research at Emory
Emory experts are examining climate change from a variety of disciplines. Here is a sample of just a few of the research efforts currently underway.
• Physics of glaciers, polar ice
• Impact of climate change and pollution on health
• How climate affects water quality and disease
• Mentoring students on environmental topics
• Small farms, climate change and food security
Steve Sclar traveled to Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in China last summer to research the indoor air quality of nomads, who burn yak dung in their stoves for warmth and to cook their food. His measurements showed high levels of fine particulate matter in the smoked-filled tents and homes of some of the nomads. But Sclar also caught a glimpse of how global pollutants from industrialization may be impacting the isolated realm of the Tibetan plateau.
"The Tibetans are noticing changes in their climate and they're worried about the effects," says Sclar, an MPH student in Rollins School of Public Health's Department of Environmental Health. "Their grassland is getting poorer in the summer months and they see the snow pack getting smaller on the holiest mountain range in the region, known as Amnye Machen.
"I asked one nomad, 'What happens if Amnye Machen loses all of its snow?' He told me, 'Then it's the end of the world.'"
Climate change "is the biggest environmental health problem we face," Sclar says, "and yet it is so hard to pin down. There's no one country or entity to blame, and there is no one field of study that has the solution. We need to figure out how to reconcile all this."
Climate@Emory is an initiative made up of more than 50 faculty and staff from 20 departments across the university. Its goal is to harness Emory's strengths to help it play a leading role in the global response to perhaps the most complicated and pressing problem of our time. Since its launch last fall, the initiative has worked to support, connect and expand Emory's climate-related scholarship, teaching and community engagement.
"It's really not possible to understand climate change from the standpoint of any one discipline," says Eri Saikawa, who is Sclar's adviser and one of the founders of Climate@Emory. She is an assistant professor at Rollins and in the Department of Environmental Sciences. "We want to connect the dots to improve the quality and impact of Emory's research and provide a platform for intellectual engagement on climate change."
Climate@Emory recently launched a website that highlights the climate-related expertise of Emory's faculty across a range of disciplines and provides guidance for students on climate-related course offerings and other learning opportunities. The website also gives details about relevant events on campus, including the ongoing Climate@Emory Seminar Series.
The group is also launching the first annual "Climate@Emory Day of Scholarship" on Friday, April 24. The event, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in White Hall, room 208, will feature poster sessions of ongoing climate-related research by students. The day will also include speakers from Georgia Tech and Emory across an array of disciplines, from paleoclimate, environmental health and policy, to bioethics and religious thought.
"The Day of Scholarship aims to initiate multi-disciplinary collaborations on the Emory campus, as well as between other universities throughout the greater Atlanta area," Saikawa says.
Interdisciplinary approach to climate
From the smoke of open stoves in the developing parts of the world, to the pollution of coal-fired utilities and gas-guzzling SUVs in industrialized countries, the issues of climate change are tightly bound up with culture, politics, religion and economics, says Saikawa, who is an expert in atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy. Her classes on air pollution and ecological economics draw students from majors throughout the sciences and humanities.
A public health powerhouse, Emory is also a major player in medicine, business, ethics, religion, law, the humanities and the natural and social sciences. An interdisciplinary culture knits all these disparate parts into an even more powerful force for change, says Daniel Rochberg, an instructor at Rollins and in the Department of Environmental Sciences and another founding member of Climate@Emory.
"Emory is one of those rare places where people truly are interested and willing to collaborate across disciplines," he says. "That makes us especially well-positioned to make a difference in the area of climate change."
Before joining Emory, Rochberg worked with the U.S. Department of State, serving as special assistant to lead U.S. climate negotiators under both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
The long-range goals of the Climate@Emory initiative include:
Developing partnerships and policies that guide and strengthen the response to climate change at Emory, in Georgia, and beyond.
Producing high-impact research on climate science, climate impacts, strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and approaches for increasing resilience to climate change.
Boosting climate literacy across the Emory student population and beyond, to help train future leaders who are empowered to combat climate change and its impacts.
A major milestone for Climate@Emory was gaining observer status to United Nations climate talks. Emory plans to send a delegation of faculty and students to the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in November-December, to both present their own research and to gain knowledge and insights that they can bring back to Atlanta. The goal of the Paris conference is to reach a new global deal to try to avoid a dangerous increase in global temperatures.
The university is going beyond research and community engagement to lead by example. In 2005, Emory pledged to reduce its energy usage per square foot by 25 percent in 10 years, a goal it met early, in 2014. The university is now pursuing targets of a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and a 50 percent reduction by 2050.
Teaching about climate change
Environmental sciences lecturer Shaunna Donaher coordinates minors in sustainability science and earth and atmospheric sciences. Just begun this semester, the new minor in earth and atmospheric sciences (EASC) "allows Emory students to focus on a particular subset of environmental courses, many of which deal with the past, current and future climate of the Earth system," she says.
Donaher is leading an effort through the Climate@Emory initiative to compile a database of Emory's 50-plus climate-related courses. This information will be organized by level, department and theme, including climate in the humanities, to make it easier for students to identify and take climate-related courses.
"Once the database is complete, our goal is to compare our offerings to other universities to determine what we have here that makes Emory special, and if there are any gaps in our curriculum that we can fill with new courses," she says. "This is an initiative that began last year and is ongoing."
--Carol Clark
Physics of glaciers and polar ice
Justin Burton, assistant professor of physics, is studying the physics of glaciers and ice in the polar regions of the Earth. "Right now we are currently investigating the calving process, where icebergs, some as large as all of downtown Atlanta, break off from the front of glaciers and fall into the ocean, often generating earthquakes," he says.
"Understanding how to interpret the seismic signature of ice loss and calving can help us better monitor changes in global ice coverage, a sensitive indicator of climate change," Burton notes. A strong interest in applying physics knowledge to global problems has made climate change an important topic in his research and teaching in the last year.
Impact of climate change and pollution on health
Stefanie Sarnat, associate professor of environmental health in Rollins, is working on two studies. Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one study is assessing the impacts of climate change on the prevalence of heat-related disease among vulnerable populations in Atlanta, working with colleagues Andrea Winquist, Howard Chang at Rollins and Jeremy Hess in the School of Medicine and in collaboration with Andrew Grundstein at the University of Georgia.
"My team is estimating how future climate change may affect local demand for emergency medical care in the Atlanta metropolitan region," Sarnat says.
She is also conducting a study assessing the impacts of air pollution mixtures on the prevalence of acute cardio-respiratory disease in five U.S. cities, including the impact of temperature and climate on air pollution-health associations. This study is part of the Emory University/Georgia Institute of Technology Southeastern Center for Air Pollution and Epidemiology.
How climate affects water quality and disease
Justin Remais, associate professor of environmental health and director of the graduate program in Global Environmental Health in the Rollins School of Public Health, is collaborating on a National Science Foundation study with Karen Levy, assistant professor of environmental health, to develop computational models for estimating the impact of climate change on water quality and waterborne disease in key tropical and subtropical areas.
"We are devising strategies to moderate potential future risks, and developing new analytical tools to assess their impact," Remais says. With field sites in western China and northern Ecuador, the project brings together top earth scientists, environmental engineers, mathematical modelers, social scientists and epidemiologists from Emory, University of Florida, Georgia Institute of Technology, Trinity College and University of Michigan.
In her other research, Levy says she's focused on "trying to actually get data to support the assertions that climate change will have the potential to affect water borne diseases… Everybody and every report, when they talk about climate and health, they always mention waterborne diseases. But having hard numbers to characterize the relationships is much harder to come by."
Levy points out a major aspect of collaborative research on climate change: "I think one of the most important things that is often overlooked is collaborations with social scientists because behavioral change is the most difficult thing in public health."
Mentoring students on environmental topics
Maeve Howett, associate professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, is a member of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Region 4 Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU), a network of experts in children's environmental health. "More and more we're asked to answer questions about climate change," she notes.
As a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, she will go to Washington, D.C., in late April where the committee will write an advisory letter to EPA Director Gina McCarthy on climate change.
Through PEHSU, Howett helps lead an annual program "Break the Cycle." "We mentor student projects on environmental topics and bring the students onto our campus to present their papers at the Environmental Health Conference to be held this year April 23-24 at the Pediatric Research Building," she says. The students' papers are also published.
The very competitive program with only 12 slots attracts students from Chile, Colombia, Mexico and the United States. "We did some research and the past participants said very clearly that participating influenced them to go into careers where they are working on environmental issues," she adds.
Small farms, climate change and food security
Working with smallholder farmers in West and East Africa, and more recently in the southeast United State frames Carla Roncoli's research on adaptation to climate change.
"I seek to understand how they think about climate, how they perceive and predict climate changes, and how they use this knowledge in making decisions about what to plant, when, where and so on," says Roncoli, associate director for the Masters in Development Practice and a senior research scientist in the Department of Anthropology.
She works at the community level, spending considerable time in the field to build rapport and to understand farmers' lived experience from their own point of view.
"In the last 20 years climate science has made significant advances in its ability to predict climate anomalies, through improved observational and modeling capabilities," she says, citing for example, understanding the effect that the El Nino phenomenon has on climate worldwide.
"Agencies that conduct and support this research, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the World Meteorological Organization, are increasingly engaging social scientists to understand how this new information could be used to address global problems, such as rural poverty and food insecurity."
--Leslie King


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Teknos Strategy 2019-2025
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Troldtekt Denmark
Collaboration for sustainable solutions
"Sustainability is an integral component of our company philosophy, therefore we are proud to be able to document our sustainable initiatives with a Cradle-to-Cradle certification," says Peer Leth, managing director of Troldtekt A/S.
The Danish company, based in Tranbjerg near Aarhus, manufactures acoustic panels which are 100% made of the natural raw materials wood and cement. They are installed as ceiling and wall panelling in schools, kindergartens, swimming pools, concert and event rooms, commercial and industrial buildings, and also private residences. The advantages are compelling: excellent sound absorption, pollutant-free, breathable, and flame resistant.
Troldtekt panels are also successful outside Denmark and a significant share of production is now exported. The most important export countries are Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway and Great Britain. The company recently expanded the production capacity in Denmark, and founded a subsidiary in Hamburg.
High sustainability standards
Troldtekt has long placed great value on environmental friendliness and sustainability. This can be seen in the FSC® and PEFC certification, documented contribution of Troldtekt products to sustainable construction certifications such as LEED, BREEAM and DGNB, and the environmental award of the Danish construction industry, which Troldtekt was awarded in 2010. In October 2014 Troldtekt received the CSR Strategy Award of the Danish CSR Foundation for making sustainability the focal point of their business strategy.
The design concept Cradle-to-Cradle plays a particularly important role. Its central idea is that the materials used should not end up as garbage after the end of the product life cycle, but rather become raw materials again in a closed metabolic cycle. "When we first started working with the Cradleto-Cradle principles we thought of it as an environmental label," says Troldtekt Managing Director Peer Leth. "But then we saw the opportunities that the concept offers us to develop even further. It creates transparency and trust in our company and our products. Today Cradle-to-Cradle is an integral component of our strategy." That's why Troldtekt has entered into cooperation with Vugge til Vugge Denmark and created a roadmap with goals and projects until 2022. With the latest certification in February, Troldtekt improved from silver to gold in many categories, exceeding many of the current objectives already. Troldtekt expect to achieve certification at gold level in 2017 and to reach platinum level in some categories by 2022.
Sustainability in the coating
The Cradle-to-Cradle certification was also a challenge for the coating. "The C2C concept places high demands on the raw materials which we use for our products," explains Peer Leth. "Successful certification is only possible in close and trusting cooperation with our suppliers."
Troldtekt has been relying on Teknos for more than 20 years. A key product used for their panels is the Teknos Ceiling Paint 7344-20, which was specially developed for coating cement-bonded wood wool. Troldtekt and Teknos R&D departments worked closely together to meet the high C2C requirements. Teknos scrutinised the entire recipe of the ceiling paint and exchanged raw materials. The result is an even more sustainable and environmentally-friendly recipe, which is in accordance with the high requirements of the Cradle-to-Cradle concept.
In the end it's not just the environment that profits from cooperation, but also both parties. "The Cradle-to-Cradle project is an opportunity for all participants," says Peer Leth. "It makes both us and our suppliers stronger in the competition for responsible, future-oriented solutions." This is confirmed by Tine Kokholm, Group Environmental Manager at Teknos. "The sustainability of products and processes plays an increasingly important role, and we are constantly working on improving ourselves and our products. This includes finding the right solution for our customers' special requirements together. The Cradleto-Cradle certification at Troldtekt is a good example of what this looks like in practice."
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Mine Onsen, also known by the name of the public bathhouse facility, Odoriko Onsen, is a geothermal hot spring located in Daifunto park, Kawazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The hot springs are accessible from Tokyo on the Odoriko or the Super View Odoriko  train lines.

Water profile
Mine Onsen is part of the Kawazu hot spring system. The mineral water is high in sodium chloride and sulphur; it emerges from the source at 143°F (61.6°C). There is a geyser onsite, which erupts regularly, shooting water into the air at 200°F.

Thermus thermophilus bacteria has been isolated in the hot spring water.

See also
 List of hot springs in Japan
 List of hot springs in the world

References

Hot springs of Shizuoka Prefecture
Kawazu, Shizuoka


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This year, from May 13th to May 19th, thousands of police officers, law enforcement professionals, friends, family, and survivors, gather in Washington D.C for National Police Week. In 2017 alone, 129 officers were killed in the line of duty. Since 1791, a total of 21,541 officers have lost their lives in the line of duty.
One of the most moving ceremonies is the Annual Candlelight Vigil, where the names of fallen officers will be forever etched into the Memorial Wall. Unlike many memorials in Washington D.C, the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial is ever-changing as new names are added each year. A wreath will be laid for each fallen hero and their names will be read aloud to the thousands of people and loved ones.
For most, these touching events are a way of honoring the fallen, saying goodbye to their loved ones, or paying tribute to the brothers and sisters in blue who made the ultimate sacrifice. During Police Week, let us all take a moment to remember and recognize the heroes who laid down their own lives for the safety of ours. "The wicked flee when no man pursues but the righteous are bold as a lion".
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Q: Different way to set Airflow DAG fields I would like to create an Airflow DAG and want to learn which parameters should be set in field_1 vs default_args vs args?
my_dag = DAG(
  "my_dag",
  "field_1"="xxx",
  default_agrs=default_args,
  **args
)

I checked with documentation, I understand that some parameters such as "owner" have to be set through the default_args and can't be in field_1. But looks like there's no difference for the most of parameters. I tested some fields such as "catchup" and "on_failure_callback", and they all work in all these three places.
So I wonder what's the best practice of setting parameters when create a dag?

A: The best practice is something like the Airflow tutorial
with DAG(
    'tutorial',
    # These args will get passed on to each operator
    # You can override them on a per-task basis during operator initialization
    default_args={
        'depends_on_past': False,
        'email': ['airflow@example.com'],
        'email_on_failure': False,
        'email_on_retry': False,
        'retries': 1,
        'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=5),
        # 'queue': 'bash_queue',
        # 'pool': 'backfill',
        # 'priority_weight': 10,
        # 'end_date': datetime(2016, 1, 1),
        # 'wait_for_downstream': False,
        # 'sla': timedelta(hours=2),
        # 'execution_timeout': timedelta(seconds=300),
        # 'on_failure_callback': some_function,
        # 'on_success_callback': some_other_function,
        # 'on_retry_callback': another_function,
        # 'sla_miss_callback': yet_another_function,
        # 'trigger_rule': 'all_success'
    },
    description='A simple tutorial DAG',
    schedule_interval=timedelta(days=1),
    start_date=datetime(2021, 1, 1),
    catchup=False,
    tags=['example'],
) as dag:
...

Reference: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/stable/tutorial.html#example-pipeline-definition
But I use something like that and is enough:
import pendulum

default_args = {
    'owner': 'airflow',
    'depends_on_past': False,
    'retries': 1,
    'retry_delay': timedelta(minutes=1)
}

with DAG(
    default_args=default_args,
    dag_id='dag_etl',
    catchup=False,
    start_date=pendulum.datetime(year=2022, month=1, day=1, tz='America/Chicago'),
    schedule_interval='0 8 * * *',  # https://crontab.guru/#0_8_*_*_*
    description='DAG Extract Transform Load'
) as dag:
...

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package org.infinispan.query.cacheloaders;

import org.infinispan.configuration.cache.ConfigurationBuilder;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

/**
 * @author anistor@redhat.com
 * @since 5.2
 */
@Test(groups = "functional", testName = "query.cacheloaders.SharedCacheLoaderQueryDistributedIndexTest", enabled = false,
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   @Override
   protected void configureCache(ConfigurationBuilder builder) {
      super.configureCache(builder);

      builder.indexing().enable().indexLocalOnly(true)
            .addProperty("default.directory_provider", "infinispan")
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   }
}


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The unification of Italy
Historian Dr Michael Morrogh, our July speaker, brought clarity to a complicated series of events leading to a united Italy, writes Lionel Cartlidge
Historian and author Dr Michael Morrogh was our July speaker (photo by Robert Edmondson)
Although I studied history at university it was a long time ago and I had quite forgotten how complex the process of unifying a disparate collection of states, kingdoms and interests proved to be.
A few names emerged from my mental fog: Garibaldi, Cavour, Mazzini and King Victor Emmanuel. Luckily we had Dr Mike Morrogh to cast light in the darkness. I would not describe his presentation as the simplification of Italy but his exposition helped to clarify the roles of the competing interests.
Garibaldi was the determined and exotic character who, with his thousand redshirts, took control of the southern half of the country. The Austrians and the French had a stake in affairs, and local Italian players were represented by the Pope, Rome and the kingdom of Piedmont.
To me, the amazing thing was that with so many competing interests the country was unified at all. Success was achieved only by a combination of military force and compromise. Garibaldi saw off 25,000 Bourbon troops, and Napoleon III defeated the Austrians at Magenta and Solferino in 1859.
However, the real achievement was the ditching of ambitious localism and the aim of many players for a unitary or federal state in favour of a traditional monarchy, with Victor Emanuel of Piedmont crowned king of Italy in 1861.
All of these complexities were explained with clarity, grace and humour by Mike Morrogh, leaving his audience at least a little more knowledgeable than when he began.


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Physical Security and the API Economy
January 01, 2019 by Steve Van Till in API
Forbes Magazine hailed 2017 as "The Year of the API Economy." If you're not following this important trend, what you need to know is that APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have become the new medium of customer interaction in the cloud era. By simplifying data interactions between companies, APIs amplify the benefits of cloud computing a hundred fold. They drive consumption, open new business models, and foster cross-industry partnerships.
Call it the sharing economy for applications.
And it's expanding at nearly 20% per year. This growth comes from companies like Amazon Web Services, whose APIs connect millions of virtual servers to the real world and enable AWS to thrive as the largest public cloud provider in the world. It comes from companies like Google and Facebook, whose APIs help capture one-fifth of all global advertising dollars last year. And it comes from the APIs that thousands of smaller companies have built into their products in every imaginable vertical.
So, how is the API economy doing in physical security?
January 01, 2019 /Steve Van Till
Danger, Will Robinson
September 03, 2018 by Steve Van Till in IoT, AI
Sci-fi fans and Netflix junkies across the galaxy have welcomed the 2018 release of a rebooted Lost in Space featuring an all new cast, including a vastly upgraded robot sidekick for young Will Robinson. His signature warning, "Danger, Will Robinson," has been immortalized in the annals of fictional space travel but really has a home in our own world of physical security.
The nameless robot is, of course, a robot, but what usually escapes mention is that it is clearly also possessed of many skills that look like what passes for AI today: vision, language, deductive reasoning, and more than a hint of cognitive abilities. All of these are, not coincidentally, a prescription for what we would like out of our future security systems.
September 03, 2018 /Steve Van Till
IoT, AI
Mobile Credentials are the New UX
July 18, 2018 by Steve Van Till in Mobile
Smartphones have changed the way we do business in virtually every industry that touches the Internet—which is now virtually every industry on the planet. Commercial security is no exception, but until recently the primary impacts have been on the way that systems are administered, with mobile platforms taking over the functions previously performed from the desktop. With the advent of mobile credentials, smartphones are beginning to change the security experience for those who come and go from the buildings and public spaces we aim to protect. And as they are changing the products that make this new age of electronic security possible, they will also change the relationships among manufacturers, integrators, and end users.
Mobile credentials are revolutionary not simply because they provide greater convenience and security than cards and fobs—although they do a great job on both counts. They are revolutionary because for the first time we are placing interactive applications in the hands of the people who use our buildings—tenants, employees, visitors, support staff, and everyone else who walks through a door or a turnstile. This one fact has the potential to dramatically change the dynamics between the securers and the secured.
July 18, 2018 /Steve Van Till
IoT in Physical Security
June 05, 2018 by Steve Van Till in IoT
Business and technology analysts are in unanimous agreement that the number of IoT devices will explode into the many 10's of billions within the next five years. These billions of new computing devices will produce enormous volumes of data about ourselves, our society, and our physical environment.
The security industry is at ground zero of this upheaval. In fact, the single largest group of consumer IoT devices being deployed today is for home automation and residential security. Gartner estimates that the typical family home could contain more than 500 devices by 2022. Commercial applications are not far behind, and they will dramatically enhance our ability to analyze, predict, and react to conditions in our environment.
June 05, 2018 /Steve Van Till
Yes, Cloud Is Inevitable, Even in Security
November 07, 2017 by Steve Van Till in Cloud
On February 11, Netflix announced the complete migration all IT infrastructure to the Amazon Web Services cloud. Yes—all of it. 100%. Every single IT function—hundreds of them—including billing, customer and employee data management, analytics, big data, video transcoding, and even their "special sauce" algorithms for user recommendations.
Mind you, Netflix is the single largest bandwidth user on the Internet, accounting for over 38% of all traffic during peak evening hours. If they find it advantageous to use a shared cloud service, shouldn't security buyers at least be considering this option? Are any of us operating at even a fraction of their scale? Can we achieve better TCO, or cyber security, or staffing efficiency on our own?
November 07, 2017 /Steve Van Till
Copyright, 2019, by Steve Van Till. All rights reserved.


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Clara Moto
By Joe Gamp BUY
Sometimes the best music can be borne from times of hardships and darkness. From the punk movement to jazz and the UK grime, music can come from the socio-political – or circumstantial landscape – as well as it can from an individual's heart. Electronic producer Clara Moto separated herself from her friends, family and existence to explore the ideas of separation and longing in her new album 'Blue Distance'. Recorded for the musically gilded InFine Music, Clara explored her feelings and emotions in a melancholic fusion of orchestral atmosphere, meandering grooves and beautifully jagged beats.
Far from being part of that breed of extroverted, limelight-hogging superstar DJs, softly spoken Clara Moto carries herself in much the same way as her delicate, thoughtful but quietly powerful take on contemporary dance and electronic music. Clara caught up with Inverted Audio ahead of her album launch in London to speak distance of the heart, Agoria, collaborations with rappers and the creative fruits that come from being outside your comfort zone.
The title of your second album Blue Distance hints at a melancholic theme around the work as a whole – what personal attachments do you have with the album?
Well, between the two albums was a three-year gap. I was travelling a lot after the release of my first album and I didn't have a real home, so I was quite nomadic and moving around the place. I had this whole 'distance' thing going on and I felt a large empty space – so the whole topic surrounding my album was distance.
In particular what things (or people) did you feel cut off from? And how did it affect the production of the album itself?
There were many things – family friends, relationships (and kind of relationships) and stuff. For every album I make I have a theme and the prevalent topic for Blue Distance was this feeling of separation from everyone. I also felt wanted to create that sense of distance between the listener and myself; I wanted them to feel some distance too, through the music itself.
Three years is a fair amount of time between the albums – how would you say you've developed since 'Polyamour', both in the way you work and the sound you're aiming for?
It was a long time to work on the album as I started from scratch in comparison to the first album. But the whole process is the same as the first – it was me, on my own. Blue Distance is definitely less dance-floor and more home listening in places – it's not very club focused to be honest. When I started the tracks I started at the same house tempo but I felt more comfortable with less BPM and more atmosphere. It was created in a homely space, very intimate and I think that this album catches that emotional, intimate atmosphere. I didn't want to put myself under pressure to deliver anything that was expected, or to think I had to deliver more dance-floor tracks or whatever – it just came out of me naturally. There wasn't any intention there really at all.
Are you critical of your work? And did this contribute to the creative process and the time spent recording the LP?
[Laughs] yes of course, very critical. I'm very strict on myself. I really can't listen to my first album without getting too critical on myself… I would not call myself a perception though as I think there is no end to a track. You can always build and build upon it. Three years does sound long, but in a way it isn't. Half a year touring and travelling, and then all the stuff from finishing up to release… I guess I spent around a year and a half on the album in total, but the criticism comes afterwards.
The album is full of luscious tapestries that clearly reflects your desire to diverge from the usual producer setup – when you recorded the album, how much focus did you place on instrumentation?
I did lots with my computer, most in fact, but I bought a few instruments and recorded them and also a little bit of live percussion. Plus I also used lots of field recordings, just to make it sound organic and I also used my voice. I see my vocals being more of an instrument because I don't have a singing voice and I'm not a singer. However, I have some musician friends who also helped on some tracks. On for your love, my friend played drums and another played the Sitar and that was really cool. I really love the idea of having acoustic instruments, so I'm going to be looking more at that in the future.
Could this translate into a full live show, mixing electronic and acoustic instruments? What does your current live set up entail?
At the moment its just me with my computer, a keyboard and me singing – so it's a little bit live [laughs]. But for the future I'm thinking of taking a drummer out with me when I perform, and maybe a bass player. We'll see how that goes though, but as a recording artist Id love to work with more. My parents are musicians and they have a room literally full of all kinds of instruments that I've always wanted to play.
It also states that you're a big fan of breaks-led music, such as hip-hop and broken beat; this aesthetic translated on to your album didn't it? Do you think you will continue to revisit the genre?
I used to listen to a lot of hip-hop when I was young and I'm still really into it, listening to new trends in the genre all the time. I guess I just wanted to try something new, something a little different from house and techno beats. It was a new challenge for me… I'd love to continue to make hip-hop in the future – another dream is I'd love to work with a rapper! It'd be really different and to work together on a track or work with the voice. I didn't feel the time was right before but now, you know….
Your label, InFine, have always taken a musical approach to the dance-floor and electronic music in general, so with your own musical approach, you must fit in with the label rather nicely… How do they help develop you as an artist?
They are great for me and they are so relaxed. They never tell me to make more dance-floor bangers, or tell me to make trendy sounding music, they just let me go and If I need their help I know that they are there with wise words. They are always very wise and the label manager is a really good A&R, so we had a really intense relationship during the making of the album, and that really helped me a through it a lot.
In the years that have passed many changes have also taken place at the label itself; has Agoria's mentorship at the label helped you build confidence as an artist? How do you fill that void now he has left the label?
Yes I do feel more confident in music. Of course, Agoria had a huge influence and was a mentor to me and even though he's not part of the family anymore, he is still in contact and gives me advice. I'm not the kind of person that sends their tracks to loads of people – I'm quite shy like that and I think it would influence my work too much, the opinions of others – so I just send to my label. As Agoria's not part of the label anymore, I see him as a close friend, so his opinion as a musician is really good. He's so precise about the advice he gives.
Now you've regained your distance so to speak (and returned from your creative cocoon) how are the next 12 months looking for you? Do you have more releases lined up as well as the developing live show?
I've got a remix EP coming out of Blue Distance and some more stuff. Ill have my live show set up and ready to go by next February too so ill be on tour for a good while again. Maybe in this time I will also find a rapper at some point , so I can record some new stuff!
Clara Moto's new album 'Blue Distance' is out now on InFine Music. Buy a vinyl copy from Boomkat.
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Flerårig, klättrande ört med pålrot. Stjälkarna är något kantiga, sparsamt håriga. Blad äggrunda, bland med tre flikar eller tänder, hjärtlika vid basen, sparsamt håriga, ibland i rader. Blommor ensamma eller i par i bladvecken, de är vita, eller sällsynt purpur, trattlika, femflikiga, 1,5 cm i diameter. Blommar från midsommar till hösten.

Artepitetet lacunosa (lat.) betyder ungefär "med mellanrum" och syftar på bladens nerver.

Hybrider
Arten bildar hybrider med I. cordatotriloba och dessa har fått namnet I. ×leucantha (syn.  I. lacunosa f. purpurata Fern.)

Synonymer

Convolvulus lacunosus (L.) Spreng.
Ipomoea triloba f. lacunosa (L.) Nishiyama
Quamoclita lacunosa (L.) Raf.

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Flora of China

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