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All James Cameron Movies Ranked
For James Cameron, it all started with a severed arm and some maggots. He was art director on Roger Corman's Piranha II: The Spawning and, for one special effect, thought to "motivate" some live maggots into movement in a prosthetic arm by shocking the prop with a live electrical cable. This helped him get promoted to director on Piranha II, setting in motion a career associated with groundbreaking sci-fi and genre movies.
Cameron has long since disavowed his Piranha experience — he was only "director" for less than three weeks and didn't have access to dailies or the editing room — paving the way to claim The Terminator as his feature debut, which we admit looks slightly better on a resume. And in this story of time-travelin' cyborgs run amuck, we already see one of Cameron's core fascinations: the frequently fatal conflict between man and technology, and the way it cuts off our own humanity (ironically told using state-of-the-art special FX), as seen in later movies like T2: Judgment Day, The Abyss, and Avatar. The success of the first Terminator got him into the major studio system with a gig directing Aliens, which also further cemented his reputation of creating hardened female protagonists.
By the '90s, Cameron had the freedom to indulge in his obsessions, including ocean exploration, which produced Best Picture phenom Titanic (only the highest-grossing movie ever at one point) and two documentaries, Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep. He returned to narrative filmmaking with Avatar (only the highest-grossing movie ever at one point), and though he didn't release a movie in the 2010s, it's going to be Avatar that will carry him and us through the 2020s: No less than 4 sequels are planned for this decade. —Alex Vo
The Terminator (1984)
Adjusted Score: 103679%
Critics Consensus: With its impressive action sequences, taut economic direction, and relentlessly fast pace, it's clear why The Terminator continues to be an influence on sci-fi and action flicks.
Synopsis: Disguised as a human, a cyborg assassin known as a Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) travels from 2029 to 1984 to kill... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Directed By: James Cameron
Aliens (1986)
Critics Consensus: While Alien was a marvel of slow-building, atmospheric tension, Aliens packs a much more visceral punch, and features a typically strong performance from Sigourney Weaver.
Synopsis: After floating in space for 57 years, Lt. Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) shuttle is found by a deep space salvage team.... [More]
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Adjusted Score: 97435%
Critics Consensus: T2 features thrilling action sequences and eye-popping visual effects, but what takes this sci-fi/ action landmark to the next level is the depth of the human (and cyborg) characters.
Synopsis: In this sequel set eleven years after "The Terminator," young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization's victory over... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
The Abyss (1989)
Critics Consensus: The utterly gorgeous special effects frequently overshadow the fact that The Abyss is also a totally gripping, claustrophobic thriller, complete with an interesting crew of characters.
Synopsis: Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio are formerly married petroleum engineers who still have some issues to work out. They... [More]
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester
Critics Consensus: A mostly unqualified triumph for James Cameron, who offers a dizzying blend of spectacular visuals and old-fashioned melodrama.
Synopsis: James Cameron's "Titanic" is an epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic; the pride... [More]
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Aliens of the Deep (2005)
Critics Consensus: An amazing array of images from beneath the sea.
Synopsis: Director James Cameron travels with the crew of a Russian research vessel as they plunge into the depths of the... [More]
Starring: James Cameron, Pamela Conrad, Djanna Figueroa, Kevin Hand
Directed By: James Cameron, Steven Quale
Critics Consensus: It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.
Synopsis: James Cameron's Academy Award®-winning 2009 epic adventure "Avatar", returns to theaters September 23 in stunning 4K High Dynamic Range. On... [More]
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
Ghosts of the Abyss (2003)
Critics Consensus: The underwater footage is both beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Synopsis: Veteran filmmaker James Cameron delves into the inspiration for his film "Titanic" by traveling to the mammoth cruise liner's final... [More]
Starring: James Cameron, Bill Paxton
Critics Consensus: Narratively, it might be fairly standard stuff -- but visually speaking, Avatar: The Way of Water is a stunningly immersive experience.
Synopsis: Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, "Avatar: The Way of Water" begins to tell... [More]
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang
True Lies (1994)
Critics Consensus: If it doesn't reach the heights of director James Cameron's and star Arnold Schwarzenegger's previous collaborations, True Lies still packs enough action and humor into its sometimes absurd plot to entertain.
Synopsis: Secretly a spy but thought by his family to be a dull salesman, Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is tracking down... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton
Golden Globes Best Picture Winners by Tomatometer
All 51 Billion-Dollar Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer
The 100 Best Movies Over 3 Hours Long, Ranked


In case anyone wanted to see what an installation of a Bishop as the ordinary of a Diocese looks like, you can check out the livestream of the Mass of Installation of Bishop McElroy for the Diocese of San Diego. Maybe you'll even see some of the folks you met at UCCC San Diego.
Many of us in the Bay Area have met or served with Bishop McElroy because he has served as an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco since 2010. He succeeds the late Bishop Cirilo Flores, who died September 6, 2014.
Bishop Robert W. McElroy will be installed as the Sixth Bishop of San Diego on April 15, 2015 during a 1:00 pm ceremony that will be held at St. Therese of Carmel Church, 4355 Del Mar Trails, San Diego, CA 92130.
On March 3 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States, publicized that Pope Francis had named Bishop McElroy to San Diego. Bishop McElroy has served as an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco since 2010. He succeeds the late Bishop Cirilo Flores, who died September 6, 2014.
Archbishop Viganò will be joined by Cardinal Roger Mahony, Cardinal William Leveda, Archbishop José Gomez (Los Angeles) , Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone (San Francisco), Archbishop Blase Cupich (Chicago), and retired Archbishop Vlasny (Portland, 1997-2013), at the installation ceremony. Also in attendance will be retired Bishop Robert Brom (Bishop of San Diego from 1990-2013) and Bishop Gilbert Chavez (Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego 1974-2007).
Several hundred Priests, Permanent Deacons, Religious Men and Women, cultural group representatives and parish representatives will be on hand to witness the reading of appointment letter signed by Pope Francis, the act that officially places Bishop McElroy in charge of the diocese.
The Diocese of San Diego includes 98 parishes in San Diego and Imperial counties, covers 8,852 square miles, and has a total population of 3,236,492 people, of whom 998,127, or 31 percent, are Catholic.
The ceremony will be live streamed at http://www.diocese-sdiego.org/livestream beginning at 12:30 pm.


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Mark, Kylie, Jeff and Diane Jonas with Sam Matthews come together for the Megan Jonas fundraiser
International Nurses Day marked a special occasion at Bundaberg Hospital, with nurses rallying together today to support colleague Megan Jonas after she suffered a stroke in January.
Joined by family, friends and the Hitz FM Helping Hands initiative, the group held a barbecue at the hospital in support of Megan and to raise funds to help her recovery.
The registered nurse from Bundaberg Hospital suffered a stroke on the Gold Coast the morning she was due to start a dialysis process and has faced a range of challenges since.
No stranger to setbacks, Megan spent five months in hospital with the stroke causing paralysis down one side of her body as well as critical brain swelling that led to the removal of part of her skull to ease the pressure as it expanded.
Her sister Kylie Jonas said Megan had only now just returned to her hometown.
"She was in hospital on the Gold Coast from January 15, only returning to Bundaberg Hospital this week," she said.
"It is just a waiting game now to get her into rehab to get her back to a point where she can return home to us."
While Megan currently has no movement in her left arm or leg, the rehab process will aim to build back strength or provide her the ability to learn how to function with the mobility she has.
"The rehab is basically aiming to get her strength built up to either be able to do stuff without movement on that side of her body, or possibly begin getting a little bit of movement back," Kylie said.
"We are hoping they will get her strength built up enough to be able to stand on one leg which would just be phenomenal, but it is a waiting game to see how far they can get her."
Throughout her life, Megan has previously suffered organ failure, undergone lengthy periods of dialysis, had two organ transplants and been put in a coma due to high blood pressure.
Despite all of this, Megan still managed to complete a nursing degree.
Nursing a passion for Megan
"I think part of why she became a nurse was because she has always wanted to help other people, like people have helped her," Kylie said.
Bundaberg Nurse Megan Jonas Photo: WBHHS
"She completed her degree while going through dialysis in 2012 when she was quite ill and graduated just after she had her transplant, which is pretty amazing."
Although she saw her colleagues at Bundaberg Hospital every day, it wasn't until Megan shared her story during Organ Awareness Week last year that they became aware of the hurdles she has overcome .
"We didn't know much about Megan's history, apart from the fact that she was an awesome nurse, until she shared her story to encourage organ donation," her colleague Samantha Matthews said.
"I have a lot of respect for her, she is very brave, and considering the fact that she herself was immunosuppressed and compromised, she continued to work as a frontliner through all the COVID preparation."
Friends and family rally to support Megan
Sam said while it wasn't often that nurses felt helpless, she and her fellow colleagues wanted to rally around the family and support however they could.
"When we saw the Go Fund Me page and the target, we thought that it was achievable and we commenced fundraising efforts," she said.
"This has included baking, lamington drives, sausage sizzle events, contacting the radio station for the Helping Hands program and will finish with the music bingo event on Sunday."
Spending her International Nurses Day coordinating the barbeque fundraiser at the hospital, Sam said she was sure there would be no better way to spend the day.
"There is a lot that makes us proud to be nurses, but I couldn't think of anything better than to help one of our own on this day, so it is perfect timing," she said.
The support from the local community has been overwhelming for Megan's family.
Her sister Kylie said while she thought the fundraising efforts would reach the target from their family donations, the support from the general public has been overwhelming.
"The amounts that people have been donating and the amount that people we don't even know and never spoken to have donated to us is just so overwhelming and we are so thankful for it basically because it has helped mum and dad be able to stay at the Gold Coast with Megan," she said.
The next fundraiser for Megan will be a music bingo event held on Sunday, 16 May at The Club Hotel from 2pm.
Tickets to the event cost $10 per person and you can find more details here.
Other stories: Tina reflects on her role for International Nurses Day
Sugarland Animal Hospital wins top award
Bundaberg Hospital
Local officer shares love for snakes and forensics
Emma brings all-abilities yoga to Bundaberg

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Someone stole from Santa and he needs your help to track down his stuff
Jeff Heft's professional Santa props were stolen from Point Place in a U-Haul he uses for photo shoots
By Tony Geftos
Published: Dec. 5, 2022 at 10:13 PM EST|Updated: Dec. 6, 2022 at 1:15 PM EST
TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Jeffrey Heft has a unique collection of items for his specific line of work. By day, he's a tool & dye maker. In his spare time, he's Santa.
Heft is the owner of I Believe in Santa 62, LLC. He carries around props for photo shoots in a retired U-Haul.
"I specifically bought it just for my Santa business, 'cause last year about this time, my pickup truck got totaled by a drunk driver," said Heft.
This morning, Heft woke up to find his truck gone, along with everything inside. He says someone stole it from his driveway in Toledo's Point Place neighborhood.
"I kept it parked right here, right up against the garage door, and normally I park my little car in front of the truck, but last night, I got home and I was too tired from an event," explained Heft, who says he lost his Santa suit, his Santa chair, and a fully restored antique sleigh. "The sleigh was actually built in 1893 by the McLaughlin Carriage Works in Oshawa, Ontario, and I had it restored by Amish master craftsmen."
Heft was able to locate the truck Tuesday morning, but had been cleared out by the thieves.
"Honestly, the stuff is mainly one-of-a-kind items, so I don't honestly think it was a target for the Santa thing. I think it was more or less, they saw a 17-foot U-Haul truck and they thought it might have been contractor stuff," added Heft.
He estimates altogether it's worth about $40,000, but many accessories he's amassed over the years are priceless and irreplaceable.
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Sunday was the day of our Halloween party! We played games and sang songs with our friends and families, and even went trick or treating. It was a great day of fun for all.We love Halloween!
Today we went on a field trip to TKU & TKU Human. We saw the TKU studio, and recording and TV personalities too. We said, "Trick or Treat" and got some candy.
We thank all TKU staff very much for their kindness.
Today we made scary halloween spiders to decorate our classroom.Boo!
Our big halloween party is this Sunday. We are practicing our songs every day so we can put on a good performance for our friends and family.
♪Knock knock, Trick or Treat?
Today we practiced one of our halloween party songs.
I'm a ghost, I'm a little ghost.
Today we had a birthday party for our October students. We sang songs, played games, and made yummy pumpkin salad for our snack.Happy birthday to all our October friends!
Today we made happy halloween bats to decorate our classroom!
Today our smaller children practiced counting.
Today our teacher read us the story "Trick or Treat." We learned about trick or treating and candy.
We can't wait for halloween and trick or treating!
Today for show and tell we talked about our favorite season. To help us explain, we showed our friends photos, pictures, and other things that represent our favorite season. I like autumn best!
Today we made scary haunted houses!
Friday is show and tell day. Today for show and tell we talked about our favorite sports day event. We all loved racing.Sports day was fun. We can't wait to do it again next year!
Halloweeen is coming soon! Today we made colorful Jack-o-lanterns with orange paint, construction paper,and paper plates to decorate our classroom.We love Jack-o-lanterns!
Thursday is science day here at Apple Bee. Today we mixed counting, parts of the body, and Halloween.
We cut, counted and pasted together cute little skeletons.
Sunday was our sports day! We had a lot of fun playing games and dancing for our families to watch. Even our mommies, daddies, and grandparents joined in.A good time was had by all, and we can't wait to do it again next year.Happy Sports Day!


Created in bursts of cosmic energy and caffeinated flashes, Nightlite Mary offers a collection of stories about the human condition -- human longing, disappointment and redemption.
1. Have You Seen Me Lately?


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"Alcatel-Lucent Open Sources their API Management Platform"
Following the creative commons release of their API lifecycle methodology, telco API service provider Alcatel-Lucent has open sourced the "underpinnings" of their Open API Platform(OAP).
The API management capabilities in OAP are being released under the name apiGrove. According to Alcatel-Lucent's methodology there are four major components to API infrastructure:
Alcatel-Lucent is opening sourcing the first of the four components, allowing companies to deploy APIs and meter usage to support a variety of monetization plans, provide authentication via API key, username/password for REST and SOAP APIs.
Alcatel-Lucent's goal is to initially open source the API management component, while providing paid upgrades to API service composition, monetization and analytics, and are considering open sourcing other components in the future, when it makes sense.
The functionality of apiGrove API Management platform represents the basic features companies will need when deploying web APIs internally, and externally to the public or for partners. If more advanced features are needed, they can be obtained in paid components or can be delivered by the open source community.
Bundled with apiGrove is a GUI administration tool, providing a simple interface for administrators to use, but only represents some of the features available on the platform. To fully take advantage of apiGrove API management you need to use the API--with everything on the platform accessible via an API.
While talking with Laura Merling, SVP for Application Enablement at Alcatel-Lucent, she articulated that, "there is a big difference between running in the cloud and being integrated into the fabric of the cloud", supporting Alcatel-Lucent's official response that:
Our belief is that the API management layer is becoming commoditized. The experience of creating the Alcatel-Lucent Open Application Platform (OAP), demonstrated that it was vital to open the management layer to accelerated innovation, rather than keep it proprietary.
I can't express strongly enough how important this statement is. We need to get from 7000 APIs to a million APIs before we can truly see the promise of the ProgrammableWeb. And to get there we can't have expensive software setup and licensing costs applied to companies who are looking to experiment and evolve their early API strategies. There are plenty of premium, add-on and support services that can be sold once a company has successfully deployed their APIs--let's not get in their way when it is most critical.
It's good to see that just three months after I asked the question, where is the open source API platform, there are now two separate enterprise grade open source API management platforms.


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Right. First things first: WOW THAT'S A COOL CLOUD.
Now we've got that out of the way, this is the crux of the matter: a bunch of people saw this picture of a cloud and, rather than going – "what a neat cloud." They all went down the crazy route and started panicking about the Illuminati (again).
The photo was taken in Astana, Kazakhstan by a photographer, known only as "1shustry;" he said that he didn't even notice the eye in the sky at the time he took the picture, it was only when he looked back on it a couple of days later that he realised what he'd snapped – a portent of the end times (my words, not his).
Apparently the all-seeing eye is one of their favourite symbols and they like to put everywhere (even though they are a secret society shhhhh). Why do the Illuminati like the eye symbol so much? No one knows, but it is DEFINITELY Illuminati.
The Mirror have called it a "rare cloud formation." But, really, if you think about it, every time a cloud moves, it makes some kind of pattern that has never existed before, so they're all rare. This one just happens to look like a piece of human anatomy, so we've noticed it.
Humans are so human-obsessed aren't they? It's just a cloud, guys.


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Everyday Cosmopolitanisms
Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia (Edition 1)
Franklin, Kate
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Widely studied and hotly debated, the Silk Road is often viewed as a precursor to contemporary globalization, the merchants who traversed it as early agents of cultural exchange. Missing are the lives of the ordinary people who inhabited the route and contributed as much to its development as their itinerant counterparts. In this book, Kate Franklin takes the highlands of medieval Armenia as a compelling case study for examining how early globalization and everyday life intertwined along the Silk Road. She argues that Armenia—and the Silk Road itself—consisted of the overlapping worlds created by a diverse assortment of people: not only long-distance travelers but also the local rulers and subjects who lived in Armenia's mountain valleys and along its highways. Franklin guides the reader through increasingly intimate scales of global exchange to highlight the cosmopolitan dimensions of daily life, as she vividly reconstructs how people living in and passing through the medieval Caucasus understood the world and their place within it. With its innovative focus on the far-reaching implications of local practices, Everyday Cosmopolitanisms brings the study of medieval Eurasia into relation with contemporary investigations of cosmopolitanism and globalization, challenging persistent divisions between modern and medieval, global and quotidian.
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50279
History; World; History; Europe; Medieval; History; Asia; Central Asia
https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.109
https://www.ucpress.edu/
General & world history
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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A Sabayon egy Linux-disztribúció, amely a népszerű Gentoo Linuxra épült. Olaszországban fejlesztik. Az első verzióját 2005. november 24-én adták ki. 5 asztali felülettel érhető el: GNOME, KDE, MATE, Xfce és Fluxbox. Utóbbi inkább a haladóknak, hackereknek javasolt, az első néggyel a kezdők is jól elboldogulnak, amit nem muszáj feltelepíteniük, ugyanis itt is létezik a Live média. Ezeken kívül létezik szerverváltozat is.

Több grafikus környezet közül lehet választani: régebbi és/vagy gyengébb gépeknél az Xfce és a MATE javasolt. Újabb, jobb gépeken a KDE is jól fut.

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Calculate the sum of both the diagonals.
Display the original matrix, rearranged matrix and only the diagonal elements of the rearranged matrix with their sum.
OUTPUT: THE MATRIX SIZE IS OUT OF RANGE.


Toyota has been known in India for the past 20 years thanks to some of its world-class products like the Qualis, Innova, Fortuner and Corolla.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor, the leading automobile manufacturer globally, is celebrating 20 years of being a part of the Indian market. Toyota says that their focus in India has been steady towards sustainable growth and to remain competitive with best of safety, comfort, luxury, quality and after-sales services, through globally acclaimed models, to further enrich customer trust & confidence. Toyota is known in India thanks to world-class products like the Qualis, Innova, Fortuner and Corolla.
Since the launch of its multi-purpose Qualis in India, back in 2000, the company has been focusing on evolving customer aspirations in India. The Company has been constantly upgrading its products and introducing newer innovations and technologies in the Indian Market. Toyota has continuously pursued to be Number One in Customer Satisfaction with every product milestones 'Launch of Toyota Camry in 2002', 'Launch of Corolla in 2003', Launch of Innova in 2005, Launch of Fortuner in 2009, Launch of Etios in 2010, Launch of Innova Crysta in 2016 and Launch of Yaris in 2018.
Toyota Kirloskar Motor launched Toyota Connect India, in 2017 a smartphone application based connected services which cater to customer's mobility & ownership needs in a personalized manner. Toyota Connect India is a fully integrated cloud-based connected service platform supported by a dedicated & specialized call center, Toyota's dealer networks and service providers.
Furthermore, Toyota was the first auto manufacturer to have standardized airbags across all grades in all models in India in 2015. Further, ABS & EBD has been standardized [with the launch of new Platinum Etios & Liva, since Sep 2016], reinstating the importance of safety. With Yaris, Toyota Kirloskar Motor [TKM] has underpinned commitment to safety by being the first in the segment to offer 7 SRS airbags – (D+P airbags, Side airbags, Curtain Shield Airbags (CSA) and knee airbag) across all variants in the new Yaris in 2018. Toyota continuously strives to develop advanced safety technology and apply them in its vehicles.
Guided by Toyota's 'Global Environmental Challenge' 2050 in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, till January '19 [in FY 2018-19] - Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) successfully sourced 87% of electricity from the renewable source of energy for its operations in Bidadi facility. Toyota has been recognized for its sustainable growth with its core belief "Ever-Better Cars with Ever-Better Technology for an Ever-Better Environment".
TKM sources clean energy and adopt smart manufacturing systems towards Toyota's ultimate global mission of 'Zero Carbon Emission through various initiatives like the adoption of a reverse refrigeration system, centralized control of chillers, adoption of smart ACs, TKM has been reducing a significant quantity of Co2 releases over the years. Recognising these efforts on the reduction of emission in TKM's manufacturing plant with key contributor being optimisation of renewable energy, TKM was recognised as a "Model Plant". TKM has established their Plant 2 with an ECO factory concept and implemented ECO-friendly technologies like Servo press (40% energy reduction), Water based painting technology (Reducing VOC emission by 50%). Through its philosophy of "KAIZENS", TKM drives continuous improvement in its environmental performance with an active participation of employees in bringing the change.
In FY 2018-19, 76% of the Water consumed in the Manufacturing Facility was recycled water and only 7% of fresh water was consumed. As pioneered makers of eco-cars leading the way for a better tomorrow, Toyota recently launched The All New Camry Hybrid Electric Vehicle. Toyota's strong hybrid technology not only aims at creating harmony with man, nature and machine, but also positioned as the future of eco-mobility. The Camry Hybrid or self-charging electric vehicle is a strong hybrid and the only hybrid which is locally manufactured at Toyota Kirloskar Motor's second plant located at Bidadi [Bangalore, Karnataka] in India.
Masakazu Yoshimura, Managing Director, Toyota Kirloskar Motor said "We would like to thank our customers, our vendors, our people and the Government for the relentless support and trust in the company over all these years. The inspiration from all our partners has been instrumental in our growth in India. Toyota globally believes in creating a smart mobility driven society with integrated approach connecting People, Vehicles and the Society. At Toyota, we are constantly challenging ourselves to create new ways to move and connect our customers. India is a very important market for us, we have been continuously striving to bring in newer innovations and technology to cater to the discerning taste of customers. All through this long journey, our products have stood the test of time being appreciated for the value it offers to customers.
Toyota's renowned reputation for Quality Durability and Reliability (QDR) has led our steady growth in the Indian automotive market. We are proud to declare that over 1.5 million Indians are part of the ever-growing Toyota family. Toyota says that they are also striving towards developing a more sustainable future and being pioneers in Hybrid Technology is our first step towards this movement. Through initiatives focused on education, community development and the environment, we aim to create a company that works in harmony with nature and society.


The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY) has been relatively predictable when applying some Elliott Wave Theory principles. While we are in the final stretches before we hit a major correction, a smaller one is on the horizon. The pull back will not be much, but jockeying for position is not bad.
The index should find a top around June 14 around 2791.91. This will be followed by a drop over the next 1-3 weeks. My projection has the bottom most likely between 2670 and 2740 based on typical wave 2 pull backs. I am leaning between 2700 and 2733. After this bottom, I expect major upward movement through early to mid-September. We could test 3100 during this final rally.
When projecting moves based on wave theory, I try to also identify real world items that could be cause for these moves. June 14 coincides with the end of the US-NK summit, Fed policy decision, and looming trade conflicts between the US, its allies and China. What ever the case may be, I am positioning for this pending drop and ready to ride the final wave 3 high into September.
DISCLOSURE: We currently have a 274 put options with a July 20 expiration. We may initiate another position in the next 72 hours. This article is for reference only and should not be solely relied on to predict future movement. Historical movements and technical indicators should never be the sole basis for entering positions involving risk. You should not take a risk without fully understanding the system, market, and having established trading discipline. Make sure appropriate research is conducted prior to taking any risk in a marketplace. The author and Limitless Life Skills LLC do not have a financial relationship with the companies mentioned in this article and all expressed views are that of the author.


Always a show stopper – Insignia was among the first "Bordeaux blends" produced back in 1974. This vintage showcases tons of dark berries with an overlay of spice and tobacco, and ends beautifully with lingering, supple tannins. The 2002 Insignia received high honors as Wine of the Year!
Seductive aromas great the nose and draw you into this gorgeous wine. Layers of intense cherry and berry unfold on the palate, lovely cocoa overtones, smoky oak and a hint of clove lead this gem to a memorable finish.
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Signs of life appear for long-delayed Alaska pipeline
Margaret Kriz Hobson, E&E reporter
Energywire: Monday, December 16, 2013
After decades of delays and false starts, Alaska's North Slope energy giants are again signaling a willingness to build a multibillion-dollar natural gas pipeline from the state's Arctic oil and gas fields to an export terminal in southern Alaska.
Exxon Mobil Corp. officials recently laid out the economic pros and cons of building an 800-mile line to commercialize the 34 trillion cubic feet of natural gas that the federal government says is available on Alaska's northern coast. That represents roughly a tenth of all U.S. natural gas reserves.
"Based on our view of this market and all of these considerations, we still see the Alaska LNG project to be economically viable in this environment," Richard Guerrant, Exxon Mobil's global vice president for LNG, said at a recent Alaska Resource Development Council conference.
Exxon Mobil is heading up a pipeline coalition that includes BP Alaska, ConocoPhillips Alaska and TransCanada.
State government officials and oil industry executives are hinting that 2014 could mark the turning point for action on gas pipeline construction. They pledge that a pipeline can make Alaska a major player in foreign energy markets, while also providing revenue for the state and a long-term source of fuel for local residents.
Sounds good, but Alaskans have heard such promises before.
State residents have been waiting for a pipeline to be built since the 1950s, when the Navy discovered a small field of gas in the Gubik fields near Fairbanks. In the 1970s, workers building the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline were told their next jobs would be building a separate gas line. Neither opportunity ever materialized.
Today, Alaskans are likely to remain skeptical until the companies make tangible progress. "For Alaskans to really get excited about this project, they're going to need to see more specifics," said Larry Persily, federal coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Projects.
Residents won't be popping Champagne corks until the producers take a big step forward, whether it is setting up a corporate structure for pipeline construction, applying for federal construction permits or beginning the next generation of engineering work.
"If any of those happens soon, that would be an indication that this is seriously moving forward," Persily said.
Alaska state officials say they've intensified their negotiations with the producers to establish the ground rules for operating the pipeline and selling gas. The companies have repeatedly said they need favorable fiscal terms covering state royalty and tax payments.
Any financial pact would have to be approved by the state Legislature. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) said he currently has no plans to send pipeline legislation to state lawmakers this session, which begins in January.
But state House members are already talking about drafting their own bills in anticipation of movement on the pipeline project.
Exxon officials predict the pipeline will give Alaskans plenty to cheer about.
"We're going to create a lot of jobs, a lot of economic benefits," said Steve Butt, Exxon Mobil's manager for the Alaska LNG project. "We think there's 9,000 to 15,000 construction jobs. Five thousand to 6,000 of those will be building the pipeline.
"When you build this infrastructure, somebody's got to run it," he added. "We think there's going to be about 1,000 jobs there."
LNG exports could also produce $10 billion per year in state revenue by 2035, according to a recent study by Virginia-based consulting firm ICF International. That report was conducted for the American Petroleum Institute.
'We are in a unique and critical period'
For several decades, Alaska state officials have worked with a variety of oil industry partners in a frustrating effort to tap North Slope gas for residential use and export (EnergyWire, May 22).
Parnell launched the most recent campaign in his 2012 State of the State speech when he outlined a series of deadlines for industry action on the pipeline.
In October 2012, the producers and TransCanada released a study predicting that the complete LNG project would cost a whopping $45 billion to $65 billion.
The full infrastructure would consist of a gas treatment plant on the North Slope and an 800-mile, 42-inch pipeline with up to eight compression stations and at least five off-take points for in-state gas delivery. It also would include a liquefaction plant that would produce 15 million to 18 million tons of LNG each year and an export terminal in southern Alaska.
Since that report was released, the multinational corporations appeared to be slow-walking their proposal, although their representatives insisted that they were laying the groundwork for more detailed engineering and design work.
In June, the companies announced a small summer work plan that drew the ire of disappointed state officials. In October, the companies proposed a location for their potential future gas liquefaction plant and export terminal: the Kenai Peninsula town of Nikiski.
Last month, Alaska officials stepped in, suggesting that they may seek an equity position on the project and might kick in $9 billion to $13.5 billion to help pay for the pipeline operation (EnergyWire, Nov. 20).
Now Exxon Mobil's Guerrant says the time is ripe to move forward.
"We are in a unique and critical period in the development of the project," he said. "It is time that we come together and work together to make sure that this project has its place in the global LNG market."
But Guerrant warned that bringing the proposal to fruition would face serious challenges. Alaska would be competing for customers and financing with LNG export proposals from around the world, all of which are likely to be less expensive and take less time to build.
Recent studies have estimated that 60 other LNG projects already on the drawing board are scheduled for completion between 2020 and 2030 -- the same time the Alaska LNG facility is forecast to come online. For each unit of demand, there could be more than two units of potential supply competing to sell gas abroad.
"That will lead to healthy competition between new LNG supply projects in Alaska, the lower 48 [states], western Canada, East Africa and Australia," Guerrant noted.
The other LNG operations are forecast to be built in four years and to cost roughly $20 billion each. By contrast, Alaska's natural gas facilities would be built on a five- to six-year timeline and with a price tag two to three times higher.
Guerrant blamed the heavier construction time and cost on the technical challenges of working in the remote Arctic environment and the need to build a pipeline across the length of the state, he said.
"We're working to squeeze the schedule as much as possible," he added.
The Exxon Mobil official said the Alaska LNG venture "is likely to be the largest private-sector project ever financed in the world. As such, it's going to require a broad range of lenders and potentially a complex financing and commercial structure to underpin it.
"So which projects are considered the most economically viable?" he mused.
"In our business, this is the multibillion-dollar question. The free market will ultimately determine how to sequence and place this LNG in the world's gas marketplace."
'This time it's different'
Despite the negatives of building in Alaska, the project has remarkable advantages.
The North Slope has a vast supply of natural gas waiting to be shipped. Prudhoe Bay oil companies regularly find dry gas at their Arctic oil fields, re-injecting it to boost oil production.
Historically, the oil companies have not explored for natural gas because they had no way to move it to market. But that would change once a gas pipeline is in place.
"There's plenty of growth potential as we learn more about that gas resource base there and what is technically recoverable," Guerrant suggested.
In addition, Alaska is close to the Asia Pacific markets, where demand for natural gas is skyrocketing. The state also has a history of reliably shipping gas to Japan from ConocoPhillips' small-scale LNG facility now mothballed in Nikiski. The company recently applied for a federal permit to reopen that facility (EnergyWire, Dec. 13).
The producers assert that Alaska's LNG operation would attract foreign investors and potential customers simply because the four corporate giants involved are respected internationally.
"BP, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, TransCanada are not only committed to this project but also have the resources and capabilities necessary to successfully execute a project of this size and scope," Guerrant said.
"The experience and expertise that we have will prove invaluable in developing innovative solutions to getting Alaska gas to these overseas markets."
Project manager Butt said he recognizes that Alaskans are dubious about the energy industry's pipeline predictions.
"What I think has happened is because the project has started and stopped so many times, everybody expects that every time you start, it's going to stop, because that's what it's always done," he said. "This time it's different."
Butt said the four corporations involved in the venture have "done every one of these pieces of this somewhere else on a bigger scale. We've built big pipes other places. We've built big LNG plants. We've built gas treatment plants."
"We've never done it in Alaska, and we've never pasted them all together," he conceded. "But we've done this work, and I have a lot of confidence that with the kind of team that's working on this, it can be done very well."
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import getpass
import itertools
import json
import os
import sys
import socket
import fcntl
import struct
import tempfile
import time

activate_this = '/webapps/pebbles/venv/bin/activate_this.py'
execfile(activate_this, dict(__file__=activate_this))
sys.path.append("/webapps/pebbles/source")

import yaml
from novaclient.v2 import client

config = yaml.load(open('/etc/pebbles/config.yaml'))
m2m_store = config['M2M_CREDENTIAL_STORE']

def get_ip_address(ifname):
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    return socket.inet_ntoa(fcntl.ioctl(
        s.fileno(),
        0x8915,
        struct.pack('256s', ifname[:15])
    )[20:24])

try:
    input = raw_input
except NameError:
    pass

def get_from_env_or_stdin(key, default=None, is_password=False):
    value = os.getenv(key)
    if not value:
        if is_password:
            value = getpass.getpass()
        else:
            value = input()
    return value

print("Initializing your Pebbles instance")
print("Setting OpenStack M2M (machine-to-machine) credentials")
print("Enter OpenStack M2M user")
os_user = get_from_env_or_stdin('OS_USERNAME')

print("Enter OpenStack M2M password")
os_password = get_from_env_or_stdin('OS_PASSWORD')

print("Enter OpenStack M2M tenant")
os_tenant_id = get_from_env_or_stdin('OS_TENANT_ID')

print("Enter OpenStack Keystone endpoint URL")
os_auth_url = get_from_env_or_stdin('OS_AUTH_URL')

m2m_credentials = {
    'OS_USERNAME': os_user,
    'OS_PASSWORD': os_password,
    'OS_TENANT_ID': os_tenant_id,
    'OS_AUTH_URL': os_auth_url
}
_, tmp_abs = tempfile.mkstemp()
json.dump(m2m_credentials, file(tmp_abs, "w"))

os.popen("sudo cp %s %s" % (tmp_abs, m2m_store))
os.popen("sudo chown pebbles %s" % m2m_store)
os.popen("sudo chmod 700 %s" % m2m_store)

nt = client.Client(os_user, os_password, os_tenant_id, os_auth_url, service_type="compute")
servers = [(x.id, x.addresses) for x in nt.servers.list()]
current_ip = get_ip_address("eth0")
current_server_id = None
for server_id, server_ips in servers:
    ips = [z for z in itertools.chain(*[[y['addr'] for y in x] for x in server_ips.values()])]
    if current_ip in ips:
        current_server_id = server_id

if not current_server_id:
    print("This instance of Pebbles seems not to run on the OpenStack environment associated with the given credentials")
    sys.exit(1)

print("Creating persistent volume for database")
volume = nt.volumes.create(50, display_name="Pebbles DB")

print("Attaching volume")
while True:
    try:
        nt.volumes.create_server_volume(current_server_id, volume.id, "/dev/vdc")
    except:
        print("volume not ready, sleeping a while")
        time.sleep(5)
    else:
        break

device = None
while True:
    if os.path.exists('/dev/vdc'):
        device = '/dev/vdc'
        break
    else:
        print("attached device not ready, sleeping a while")
        time.sleep(5)

os.popen("sudo mkdir /mnt/pb_db")
print("Creating filesystem on volume")
os.popen("sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdc")
os.popen("sudo mount /dev/vdc /mnt/pb_db")
os.popen("sudo chown -R pebbles /mnt/pb_db")
print("Create DB as pebbles user")
os.popen("sudo -u pebbles /webapps/pebbles/venv/bin/python /webapps/pebbles/source/manage.py")
print("Restart services")
os.popen("sudo supervisorctl restart all")


The flower market was born in the middle of a research project on social problematic in Xochimilco due government's policies and by urban sprout implications on rural areas. Our central thesis on xochimilco's dynamics came together in the flower market. The architectural programme aimed at providing a trading facility as urban-rural linkage while addressing the technical aspects of care and storage of flowers.
The theoretical component was founded on interviews and literature revision with the purpose of getting a profound grasp of the local reality. While having a traditional flower market in the inner area of Xochimilco, internal production lacks of an efficient selling channel due to accessing complications. A a means to solve it, a flower's market wasplaced in the boundary between Xochimilco and Mexico City. However, inhabitants has defined it as a cumbersome hodgepodge of good wills and failed solutions for it lacks an efficient goods transportation and appropriate technical storage and selling facilities.
If the existing market is a white elephant, the proposed design project had to be efficient and fulfil every requirement the former failed to. The master plan was generated to ensure the proper function of the flowers selling point for the "ejidatarios" native to Xochimilco while being strongly influenced by the prehispanic moving-market spatial composition, commonly referred to as 'tianguis'. Moreover, selling spot cover was designed to deploy a double skin to maintain temperature and relative humidity for preserving flowers.


Introduce the basics of line and bar graphs with our Basic Graphs Lesson Plan. This lesson demonstrates with practical application how to read, analyze, and create a basic line graph and bar graph. Anchor the purpose of graphs as a way to depict information using limited words and provide hands-on opportunities for students to develop their own graphs. Build confidence as students share their graphs results with the class. Explore meaningful survey questions and engage critical thinking skills as students predict answers to those survey questions.
Instructional Content Pages about Basic Graphs.
Hands on homework activities giving students practice on determining the different form of graphs, how to read them, analyze, etc.
Ask: Can you think of another way to give people information without speaking or writing out sentences?
Allow for responses and discussion. Students may answer: videos, movies, etc. Lead the discussion to pictures, pictographs, and then graphs.
Introduce graphs by displaying a blank line or bar graph. Take a quick survey of the students' favorite ice cream: chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry.
Using the results, demonstrate and create a bar or line graph. Discuss with students how graphs can give people information using very few words.
Distribute Basic Graphs content pages. Read and review the information with the students. Save the final question for the lesson closing. Use the additional resources to enhance understanding.
Distribute Activity page. Read and review the instructions. Pair students. Distribute supplies. Circulate through the room assisting where necessary. Suggest students create the outlines of the graphs first with the labels, numbers, etc., before adding the lines or bars (strips of paper). Encourage students to add creative titles. Once completed, allow pairs of students to share their graphs.
Distribute the Homework page. The next day, allow students to share the survey questions and their graphs with the class.
In closing, ask: If you could ask one question to every kid in America, what would you ask and why?
Depending on responses, ask students to predict some of the answers the kids would give for the question.
I thought this was well planned and easy to follow. Would recommend this one as a mini lesson or review lesson.


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This Toffee Banana Poke Cake is a simple dessert that will impress everyone! Your family and friends will request it all the time!
I'm excited to be sharing this recipe with you. This is my very first poke cake and I certainly hope it's not my last! I never realized how deliciously simple poke cakes were and the combinations are seemingly endless.
The idea for this flavor combination hit me months ago when I was dining out with friends. Someone ordered a banoffee pie and I've been obsessed with that combination ever since! Bananas and toffee are quite the dynamic duo. If you like Banana's Foster, then you will love this poke cake. I mixed very ripe bananas and a bit of brown sugar into my cake mix. Then I drizzled caramel ice cream topping into my cake for the moistest cake ever! Then I covered the cake in the creamy whipped topping and crunchy toffee bits. If you are a caramel fanatic, then you'll want to drizzle a little more caramel over your cake.
Each bite of this banana poke cake practically melts in your mouth, it is that tender. The biggest problem I had with this poke cake was keeping the family from devouring it all in one sitting! Nothing will cause more friction than when five family members all want the last piece of cake! If you love bananas as much as we do, then you'll want to try this Banana Split Quick Bread or these Bananas Fosters Pancakes!
Banana flavored cake with caramel and toffee! Sinful and delicious!
In a mixer, combine cake mix and brown sugar. Add mashed bananas. Stir in oil and sour cream until blended. Beat in eggs one at a time, mixing well between additions. Stir in vanilla. Pour cake into a greased 9 x 13 in pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a tooth inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cake cool completely.
When cake has cooled, poke holes in the cake using the end of a wooden spoon. Carefully pour caramel over cake; spreading if necessary, making sure caramel fills in the holes. Cover cake with whipped topping. Sprinkle with toffee bits and drizzle with extra caramel.
Heading on over for the recipe. This cake looks divine.
Toffee and banana sounds like the most winning combination! LOVE IT. Pinning this one!
Today I am making this for the 2nd time because really: It's Good. I wanted to bring attention to two things. First, the recipe has no temperature setting for the oven. I went ahead with the temp requirements of the cake mix, and cut the time back by 4 minutes so I could watch it near the end, and was glad I did. It was done when the timer went off and it required no extra time. And secondly, I served it the day I made it….and I wasn't impressed. It tasted like yellow box cake, not bananas. BUT the following day and thereafter the banana melded with the rest of the cake and was prominent, and delicious! So I would advise making it in advance and adding toppings just before serving.
I love your suggestion, sometimes food tastes so much better the second day! Thanks for trying the recipe!


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NGC 673 est une galaxie spirale intermédiaire située dans la constellation du Bélier. Sa vitesse par rapport au fond diffus cosmologique est de , ce qui correspond à une distance de Hubble de . NGC 673 a été découverte par l'astronome germano-britannique William Herschel en 1786.

La classe de luminosité de NGC 673 est III et elle présente une large raie HI.

À ce jour, plus d'une trentaine de mesures non basées sur le décalage vers le rouge (redshift) donnent une distance de , ce qui est à l'intérieur des valeurs de la distance de Hubble.

Supernova
Deux supernovas ont été découvertes dans NGC 673 : SN 1996bo et SN 2001fa.

SN 1996bo
Cette supernova a été découverte le  indépendamment par l'astronome amateur britannique Mark Armstrong ainsi que par Weidong Li, Qiran Qiao, Yulei Qiu et Jingyao Hu de l'. Cette supernova était de type Ia.

SN 2001fa
Cette supernova a été découverte  par M. Papenkova et W. D. Li de l'université de Californie à Berkeley dans le cadre du programme LOTOSS de l'observatoire Lick. Cette supernova était de type IIn.

Groupe d'IC 1723
La galaxie NGC 673 fait partie du groupe d'IC 1723. Outre IC 1723, les principales galaxies de ce groupe sont NGC 665, NGC 671, NGC 673, NGC 677, NGC 683, IC 156 et IC 162. Certaines galaxies (entre autres NGC 683) de ce groupe apparaissent dans le groupe de NGC 673 inscrit dans la liste de l'article de Garcia, d'autres (NGC 671 et NGC 677 entre autres) dans le groupe de NGC 671 inscrit dans l'article de Mahtessian. Toutes les galaxies de ces deux groupes ont été réunies dans le seul groupe d'IC 1723, la plus grosse des galaxies du groupe.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste des objets du NGC

Liens externes

 NGC 673 sur spider.seds.org
 NGC 673 sur la base de données LEDA
 NGC 673 sur WikiSky
 NGC 673 sur le site du professeur C. Seligman

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Constellation du Bélier
Galaxie spirale
Galaxie spirale intermédiaire
Objet céleste découvert en 1786
Objet céleste découvert par William Herschel


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Posted on May 21, 2021 by Albany ENT & Allergy Services
Do you experience ongoing symptoms of sinus congestion, facial pain and pressure, headache and fever, also known as chronic sinusitis? If so, you may be a candidate for balloon sinuplasty. Balloon sinuplasty has nothing to do with balloons like what you'd find at Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey; it is a procedure that was adapted from angioplasty, where balloon catheters are used to dilate congested blood vessels.
Balloon sinuplasty is a minimally-invasive sinus procedure used to treat chronic sinus inflammation. It's a great option for people whose symptoms aren't managed by first-line treatments like nasal decongestants, saline rinses, corticosteroids and antibiotics.
The surgery was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2005, and its efficacy and safety are making it increasingly recognized and fully covered by most insurance companies.
How Is Balloon Sinuplasty Performed?
Balloon sinuplasty can be performed by an ENT physician in a medical clinic like Albany ENT & Allergy services.
This procedure may be done under local or general anesthesia. Once you are comfortably under anesthesia, the doctor inserts an endoscope – which is a thin, flexible tube with a camera and light at the end – into the nasal passages.
Once the endoscope reaches the sinus cavity, the physician advances a small balloon catheter into the cavity. The balloon is then slowly inflated until it presses against the sinus walls. Once fully inflated, the doctor flushes the passageways and cavities with saline rinse to move debris.
Finally, the balloon is removed so the sinus can drain naturally. The entire procedure typically takes less than one hour.
What Are the Side Effects of Balloon Sinuplasty?
Like with all medical procedures, there are risks and side effects. Most commonly, there are minor side effects such as:
Bloody drainage for a few days after the procedure.
Tenderness in the nose, cheeks and forehead.
Minor swelling in the nasal passages and face.
Rarely, infection is possible.
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Balloon sinuplasty is very safe and much less invasive than traditional sinus surgeries. Some benefits of balloon sinuplasty include:
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Shorter stay and faster recovery time.
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Fewer post-op appointments.
Reduced need for pain medications, including general anesthesia.
Lower risk of infection, structure damage and scarring.
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9 lessons in crisis management from Stryker CEO Kevin Lobo
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Patients and policy — not politics
The national election didn't create new challenges for Stryker, according to the CEO, who said managers and employees remained customer-focused and that the company is focused on "policy, not politics." In that spirit, Stryker gave no quarter in requiring face masks.
"If you come to a Stryker facility, we're going to have masks there. We're going to temperature-check you, and you're going to have to wear a mask," Lobo said. "There was no debate about it. And I said, this is not a political statement, wearing a mask. This is about protecting our employees. Our first priority is protecting our employees."
Lobo applied that same clear line at AdvaMed. Asked if AdvaMed officials considered taking a stance in the disputed presidential election, Lobo said leaders at the organization did discuss issuing a statement as other industry organizations had done.
However, AdvaMed leadership chose to remain neutral. Lobo said the organization works well with both Democrats and Republicans.
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Home LNG Novatek's Q1 gas production, sales up
Novatek's Q1 gas production, sales up
Yamal LNG (Image courtesy of Novatek)
Novatek, the operator of the giant Yamal LNG project in the Russian Arctic, reported on Tuesday a rise of 2.2 percent in its gas production in the first quarter of this year.
Russia's largest non-state natural gas producer said in its preliminary report it produced 16.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) in the period under review, as compared to 16.1 bcm in the first quarter of 2017.
The company's hydrocarbons production totaled 132.5 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) in the first quarter of 2018, up by 1.5 percent from 2017.
Preliminary natural gas sales volumes, including LNG, totaled 20.26 bcm, which was 8 percent higher on year.
The LNG sales volumes on international markets in the first quarter 2018 amounted to 0.96 bcm, Novatek said.
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Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, född den 6 augusti 1715 i Aix-en-Provence, död den 28 maj 1747 i Paris, var en fransk markis och moralfilosof.

Biografi
de Vauvenargues ägnade sig åt krigaryrket samt deltog i fälttågen i Italien 1734 och i Böhmen 1742, men nödgades, för svåra kroppslidanden, 1743 ta avsked ur krigstjänsten. Han bosatte sig i Paris, där han gjorde personlig bekantskap med bland andra Marmontel och Voltaire, vilken senare inte obetydligt bidrog att göra honom namnkunnig. Redan under sin garnisonstjänstgöring hade Vauvenargues börjat nedskriva de allvarliga intryck, som livet gjorde på honom. Han använde de sista åren av sin levnad till att ordna och sammanfatta dessa tankar, dock utan att söka ge dem betydelsen av filosofisk vetenskaplighet. Därtill saknade han i själva verket nödvändiga förutsättningar. Joseph Müller tillägger i Nordisk familjebok: "Men den förtjänsten tillkommer honom, att han vid en tid, då skämtet och hånet, själfviskheten och otron voro allhärskande, vågade påminna människorna om deras moraliska plikter och fordrade af dem aktning för hvarje religiös öfvertygelse." Det enda arbete, som av honom gavs ut i tryck (1746), innehåller en större uppsats: Introduction à la connaissance de l'esprit humain och åtskilliga mindre som Réflexions sur divers sujets, Conseils à un jeune homme, Méditation sur la foi och Paradoxes mêlés de réflexions et de maximes.

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What exactly is it that inspires us, say, to write a beautiful poem or an article, or the next big idea that will change our life? There is no short answer for this question, for inspirations may come from many sources. Sometimes a dream, reading a text, a small organism in nature, or a random thought can be the source of inspiration that we have been seeking for a long time. The inspiration itself does not necessarily have to be a complex form of information. It can be the simplest piece of a large puzzle waiting to be solved.
There are many examples of inspirations in history. Sometimes it comes with a dream, as it happened to famous chemist, Friedrich Kekule (1829-1896), helping him to make one of the most amazing discoveries of his time. He saw atoms in his dream whirling, dancing and reassembling themselves in a snake-like motion, and the snake snapping its own tail. This dream provided him with the inspiration to discover the benzene ring. Benzene, a colorless and highly flammable liquid, is an important industrial solvent in the production of drugs, plastics, and dyes. Kekule is not the only person who found inspiration to an important question in his dream. For example, Otto Loewi, a famous German scientist, was inspired by a dream about an experiment that became the foundation for the theory of chemical transmission of the nervous impulse and led to a Nobel Prize. Once you contemplate on a question long enough, it becomes an important part of your life. You start seeing things in a different way, and everything becomes related to that question.
Ten years ago, a close friend of mine asked me a very interesting question. He said, "Did you ever read or witness any inspiration from Holy Scriptures, like the Qur'an, pointing to the Internet? After this question, I started to think deeply about the texts I had read, or the things I saw in my environment, and selected my readings more carefully. This helped me to capture more inspirations from my life.
It did not take long for me to relate many verses from scriptures to the question posed by my friend. It was an easy process to go backwards from the result to the possible starting ideas (verses). The hard thing about inspiration is that both the starting point and the result are unknown. Once we know the result that we wanted to achieve, it is easy to relate many things and find similarities around us that might get us to the same point. This can be either a scientific fact or a religious belief.
The relationship between science and religion, and inspirations from scriptures are the two most common controversial topics. Science and religion are the two strongest forces influencing humans. Some people use science to justify religious claims, while others start from religious information to reach unknown scientific points. Both approaches have many challenges, and may lead to consequences that conflict with one's belief. Scriptures can help us think outside of the box, and provide many inspirations for science. However, it is important to keep the balance between both worlds, while working hard on understanding science and building our faith on a solid ground.
So, how did I find the verses that pointed to the idea of the Internet in the Scriptures? I started to think of the core properties that make up the Internet. What will be my first words if I wanted to define the Internet? Some of the key definitions or features of the Internet that came to my mind was "a world-wide network of computers," "connecting people to each other," "storing or accessing world of information," "removing physical boundaries," "easy and cheap communication," or "freedom of speech."
Which feature of the Internet would sound too intricate to ever exist a thousand years ago? Probably, the possibility of storing and accessing all the information available throughout the history of mankind would be the most challenging feature. We haven't reached that point with the Internet yet, but so much ground has been covered towards this goal. Let's see how much progress is made on this road of storage and retrieval.
Wikipedia, a free web-based multilingual encyclopedia project, has over 22 million articles (over four million in the English Wikipedia). There are roughly 40 million books in US libraries. Google is building the largest online library in the history of the world, and already scanned over 20 million books. ISI Web of Knowledge, an online scientific database, is a source for thousands of journals with millions of articles published from 1900s to present. Everything published in the last couple of centuries becoming available online from handwritten books to newspaper archives, magazines, and journals.
Chemistry databases list information (e.g. structures, spectra, reactions, syntheses, and thermo-physical data) for tens of millions of organic and inorganic compounds known to man that are used in various industries. Biological databases provide information (e.g. gene sequences, textual descriptions, attributes and ontology classifications, citations, and tabular data) for living and even extinct organisms.
Besides the published information, other types of data from various types of arts, music and picture libraries are becoming an important part of the Internet. More and more museums provide virtual galleries that make all paintings, sculptures and other art pieces accessible to remote users. E-government projects make personal records, health and financial data of all citizens available to related parties. More personal information is available online through personal blogs, image galleries, video sharing, and discussion forums.
As an explanation to this verse, Ibn Mas`ud, the sixth person to embrace Islam, said "[Allah] made it clear that in this Qur'an there is complete knowledge of and about everything." The Holy Qur'an contains many verses about events in the past and future, what is lawful and unlawful, and information about the religion, our life in this world, and our destiny in the afterlife. Divinely inspired Scriptures, Prophets, and laws were sent successively, in part as an assurance of the true knowledge.
Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish Muslim scholar, lists the types of knowledge and understanding as follows; "... that is based on beholding or actively seeing something, inner (comprehensive knowledge) or outer (description and measurement), implementation of the lesser understanding (technology) or of the spiritual understanding (contemplation and worship, which yield wisdom), learning and teaching, self-based or other-based, the learner's or teacher's belief in independence of action or being, and of the believer's surrender and trust to the Creator ..." . We need to learn how to "read" the universe and scriptures consciously to acquire true understanding and wisdom.
My search for the inspiration for an idea of the Internet led me to find many verses from the Holy Qur'an. Here are some of the verses that I personally think is a starting point to inspire the idea of storing all the information known to mankind.
These verses can be interpreted in different ways. Some scholars refer these verses to the knowledge of the All-Knowing God, or a book called Lawh al-Mahfuz that stores the information on the destiny of mankind. Actually relating these verses with the Internet, and the traditional interpretations have a very interesting connection. With ever-growing capacity and capabilities, the Internet is like a small book of destiny that stores our everyday life. However, it is far from storing every single event in the universe. This helps us to realize how mighty and vast the knowledge of the God is, and the capacity of Lawh al-Mahfuz.
When I recited the verses from Qur'an that related to the idea of the Internet, my friend was surprised. As in this example, scientific discoveries and inspirations can be connected with the verses from the Qur'an in many ways. It is important to make this connection for the greater good. Gülen says, "... Recent scientific discoveries have clarified certain Qur'anic verses. Such advances in knowledge occur successively, as the universe proceeds upon its decreed course and in the measure of understanding appointed for us. We must acknowledge and praise the efforts and achievements of researchers and scientists, but they should not lead us to ingratitude and insolence (the roots of unbelief). Rather, we should reaffirm our dependence upon the Creator for guidance both in our quest for and application of knowledge..." . There is no doubt that the Qur'an drives us to deep thoughts, creativity, inspirations and great ideas.
Our further discussion raised another important question, "What is the purpose of reading scriptures?" To know why we read scriptures is as important as reading itself. The Qur'an explains the meaning of reading and draws attention to creation  by saying: "Read, in the name of your Lord, Who created" [Qur'an 96:1]. The Qur'an suggests us to observe the universe and learn from its laws and processes so we do not repeat the mistakes of the previous generations, and instead, build a better future.
Acknowledgment: This article was produced at MERGEOUS , an online article and project development service for authors and publishers dedicated to the advancement of technologies in the merging realm of science and religion.
Halil I. Demir is an internet entrepreneur and freelance writer.
Gülen, Fethullah. Questions and Answers about Islam, NJ: The Light, Inc.
Gülen. Fethullah Religious Education of the Child, NJ: The Light, Inc.


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Shula's Steak House – Naples Florida – America's Steak House
HILTON NAPLES AND SHULA'S STEAK HOUSE
AWARDED 2014 TRIPADVISOR CERTIFICATE OF EXCELLENCE
Recognized as a Top Performing Hotel Restaurant as Reviewed by Travelers on the World's Largest Travel Site
Naples, Florida – May 29, 2014 –The Hilton Naples and Shula's Steak House inside the hotel today announced that each has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence award. The accolade, which honors hospitality excellence, is given only to establishments that consistently achieve outstanding traveller reviews on TripAdvisor, and is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide. Establishments awarded the Certificate of Excellence are located all over the world and represent the upper echelon of businesses listed on the website.
"Our 2014 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence awards are very special to our entire team at the Hilton Naples and Shula's Steak House because they are a validation of how well we cared for and served our guests," said Clark Hill, general manager of the Hilton Naples. "We thank our past hotel and dining guests who took the time to complete a review on TripAdvisor, since there is no greater seal of approval than being recognized by one's customers."
When selecting Certificate of Excellence winners, TripAdvisor uses a proprietary algorithm to determine the honorees that takes into account reviews ratings. Businesses must maintain an overall TripAdvisor bubble rating of at least four out of five, volume and recency of reviews. Additional criteria include a business' tenure and popularity ranking on the site.
"TripAdvisor is pleased to honor exceptional hospitality businesses for consistent excellence," said Marc Charron, President of TripAdvisor for Business. "The Certificate of Excellence award gives top performing establishments around the world the recognition they deserve, based on feedback from those who matter most – their customers. We want to applaud exceptional hospitality businesses for offering TripAdvisor travellers a great customer experience."
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Hilton Naples is a full-service, four-diamond luxury hotel located 30 minutes from Southwest Florida International Airport, convenient to shopping, dining, attractions and one-half mile from beaches. It offers 18,000 square feet of meeting space with a complete conference, catering and audio-visual team. In addition to no resort fee, Hilton Naples guests enjoy complimentary wireless high-speed Internet access, as well as complimentary on-site garage parking. For more information visit www.naples.hilton.com or contact Niccole Neebling .
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Shula's Steak House is a perennial choice for Best Steak House in Southwest Florida by readers of local and regional media. It is also rated an OpenTable Diners' Choice restaurant, based on dining reviews. One of the Top Five Steak Houses in America, Shula's provides fine dining with an award-winning menu and exceptional team service. Shula's Naples can also accommodate private group functions and dinners. For more information visit www.ShulasNaples.com or contact Jeff Jerome.
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The Importance of Leaving Footprints: The Lesson of the Slave Narrative and "Footnote Four"
> Main Content > The Importance of Leaving Footprints: The Lesson of the Slave Narrative and "Footnote Four"
By Mark Naison (November 11, 2019)
During the last few years, it has been a matter of extreme frustration to me that I have been able to do little to prevent our country from "going off the rails." I saw what was coming four years ago, warned people about it, and had virtually no influence on anybody that didn't already share my views
In the last few weeks, I have started to make peace with my ineffectiveness as a political actor when it comes to current events. My influence, such as it is, will be manifested over a long period of time, for the most part through the activity of the students I have taught, but also through my writings, my postings on social media, and the data base on Bronx and New York History I have created with my colleagues through the Bronx African American History Project
To explain why I think this way, I want to share two things that took place in the Great Depression that would have their greatest influence over thirty years after they were done
The first was an initiative of the Federal Writers Project, created by the Works Progress Administration, to conduct oral history interviews with more than 2,000 formerly enslaved people who were still alive during the great Depression. These interviews, conducted by scores of young scholars, were placed in the Library of Congress and were neglected for more than twenty years because historians of slavery, overwhelmingly white, only trusted written documents and were only willing to use as source for their accounts of slavery journals and letters of slave owners, newspaper articles, and a small number of published memoirs of former slaves. However, in the late 60's and early 70's with the rise of the Black Studies movement, these interviews were not only "discovered" they were transformed into the major source for an explosion of published work on what slavery looked and felt like to its victims. In the process students and the general public were given the first honest portrait of how Black people not only endured demoralizing and dehumanizing treatment, but resisted it in ways small and large.
The second legacy I want to refer to is a Footnote that a Supreme Court Justice, Harlan Stone, placed in a 1938 decision involving federal regulation of milk products. Frightened by the rise of Nazism and of Nazi like and white supremacist movements in the US, Stone suggested, in his now famous Footnote 4 that it was the responsibility of the Federal Jurists, appointed for life, to assume the role of "defender of minorities" as elected officials might well be prone to oppress minorities and deprive them of their rights. For many years, as the nation was preoccupied, first with economic problems and then with war, Stone's comments attracted little attention. But in the 1950's and 1960's, when Civil Rights issues became the focal point of national politics, and in the 1970's, when Affirmative Action became a hot button issues, federal judges, including judges on the Supreme Court, used Footnote 4 as a rationale for taking an aggressive stance in defending minority rights, especially in the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, that had never before been done in the Court's history! Harlan Stone's once neglected Footnote had helped change the course of US History
These two stories, which guide my teaching and my research,give me confidence in speaking out and recording oft neglected voices even if they might not change the world around me. Some day., who knows, historians and activists may see in this legacy a guide to action that with help them change the world they live in.
Dennis O'Neil November 12, 2019 at 5:22 am
Good reminders, the both of them, prof.


Galveston is a city located in Texas perched on the Gulf Coast. It's a beach resort town on Galveston Island boasting a wide range of shopping, 32 miles of great beaches, fine seafood restaurants and stunning Victorian architecture.
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You can easily find Galveston cheap motels and affordable or more luxurious hotels in different parts of town, and most of them are situated close to the cruise ship terminals. Stay within easy walking distance, or a short distance away right on the beach (Seawall Boulevard). Some hotels will shuttle you for free to the port and offer free car parking.
If you want to stay close to the port, nearest hotels are located within walking distance of both terminals. Closest properties are The Tremont House and Harbor House Hotel and Marina. Both hotels are 5 minutes drive from Galveston Beach, as well as the dining and shopping options of the Strand Historic District.
Some Galveston hotels offer a free shuttle to the port, as well as free car parking such as the Holiday Inn Resort, and Inn at the Waterpark. Very reasonable is the La Quinta Inn & Suites.
Highly rated 4 star hotel located near the cruise terminal and Strand Historic District.
Recommended 3 star Galveston TX accommodation set on the Galveston Bay Harbor, 5 minutes from the beach.
Cheap budget friendly beachfront hotel (motel) just off Interstate 45.
The Port of Galveston is a very busy commercial port and one of the oldest ports in the Gulf of Mexico. Other Gulf of Mexico ports include Mobile in Alabama, cruise port of New Orleans and the Port of Tampa in Florida.
Located 45 minutes southeast of Houston, it's the main gateway for cruise ships with ports of call in Texas. Cruise vessels dock one block from the historical downtown, Strand district on Harborside Drive.
Several cruise companies such as Royal Caribbean RCL and Carnival Cruises operate year-round from the port. Ocean liners will take you to the warm waters of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to exotic ports of call such as Cozumel Mexico, Belize, Montego Bay, Grand Cayman and Roatan.
Galveston TX Cruise Terminals 1 and 2 — both terminals are located on Harborside Drive close to downtown and beachfront hotels. The Port of Galveston is located at the mouth of beautiful Galveston Bay, just 30 minutes from the open sea.
Terminal 1 is mainly used by Carnival Cruises, Terminal is used by Royal Caribbean International.
George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) — IAH airport is about 70 miles or 90 minutes away by car from the cruise terminal in Galveston Texas.
Hobby Airport (HOU) — Hobby Airport (HOU) is closer and much smaller airport, located at about 40 miles or within a 1 hour drive.
Frequent services from both airports to the embarkation terminal are offered by several limousine companies and cruise lines. Taking a taxi or private shuttle is another option.
If you're flying in late or out early, an airport-area hotel can be a good option. Many properties, both nearby George Bush and Hobby airports offer a free airport shuttle service to/from the airport. Stay here and the next day you can transfer to the port of Galveston tx. George Bush IOH international airport in Houston is located 90 minutes or 70 miles away from Galveston.
Parking — safe and secure, car parking lots are available directly at the cruise pier. There is a free shuttle service from the parking facilities to the piers. Parking is available across Harborside Drive or just a few blocks away.
The closest parking lot to the Galveston Cruise Terminal is "Park N Cruise", located right across the street within walking distance of the pier. Another parking lot nearby is EZCruise, which will shuttle you directly to the port.
If you are using a GPS or map program, input the following information to find the correct locations: Cruise terminals – 22nd Street and Harborside Drive. Parking lots – 33rd Street and Harborside Drive.
Exit the airport and turn right onto Eastex FRWY/US-59.
Merge onto US-59 S via the ramp- on the left. Take I-45 south to Exit 1C, and turn left (east) onto Harborside Drive/Hwy 275.
Continue about 4.7 miles to Kempner / 22nd street (which is the street leading into the Cruise Ship Terminal entrance), and turn left.
The are adjacent to the terminal is for loading/unloading luggage curbside only.
Galveston TX is home to some of the most historical buildings in Texas.
Admire old Victorian homes during a pleasant carriage ride through this historic city. Stop by the Grand Opera House, one of the country's finest historical theatres. A must see is Bishop's Palace, a beautiful historic building with fabulous woodwork, floors and ceilings. Take a tour of this lovely mansion and learn some history of the Island of Galveston, Texas.
Head to Seawall Boulevard for the best beach, surf and swim wear or look for bargains in one of the numerous antique stores or art galleries in the historic Strand District, close to where all cruise ships dock.
Beach enthusiasts can spend a relaxing day on one of Galveston Island's fine beaches. An excellent beach for families is Stewart Beach. East Beach is the hot spot for nightlife. Enjoy the breeze and sights during a nice trip on the free ferry boat from Galveston to Port Bolivar. Watch dolphins alongside the ferry and birds flying around.
A fun day out for the entire family is Moody Gardens which features a large aquarium and a 3D IMAX theater.
Many places to stay are located right on the beachfront on Seawall Boulevard, steps from beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Several provides a variety of on-site facilities, including a sports court, an outdoor swimming pool and a gym. Pleasure Pier is within easy reach.
Pre or Post cruise accommodation with free shuttle service to the pier — many Galveston hotels offer complimentary parking as well as a free roundtrip shuttle to the port.
Home Port for Cruise Ships — currently departing from Galveston TX are ships of Royal Caribbean and Carnival Cruises.


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Le cimetière britannique de Messines Ridge ou Messines Ridge British Cemetery est un cimetière militaire britannique de soldats de la Première Guerre mondiale, situé dans la ville belge de Messines. Le cimetière est situé à  à l'ouest de l'église Saint-Nicolas. Elle a été conçue par Charles Holden et est entretenue par la Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Le site a un plan rectangulaire d'une superficie de  et est entouré d'un mur en pierre naturelle. Le mémorial néozélandais Messines Ridge se trouve à l'entrée du cimetière. Il s'agit d'un des sept mémoriaux en Belgique et en France dédiés aux soldats néo-zélandais tombés sur le front occidental et sans sépulture connue. La Croix du Sacrifice se dresse au sommet de ce monument et la Pierre du Souvenir occupe le centre du cimetière. Comme le cimetière est plus haut que le niveau de la rue, l'accès libre se compose de douze marches. Le cimetière compte  tombés dont  inconnus.

Histoire
Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, la crête de Messines () est un site stratégique, non seulement en raison de sa hauteur, mais aussi en raison du système de fortifications souterraines sous l'ancien monastère. La ville a donc été le théâtre de violents combats pendant la guerre. Du  au , Messines est prise par les Allemands. Il faudra attendre le  et la bataille de Messines pour que la ville soit reprise par la division néo-zélandaise. En , Messines est brièvement reprise lors de l'offensive de printemps allemande, mais fin , elle est finalement reprise par les Britanniques.

Le cimetière a été établi après la fin de la guerre sur le terrain de l'ancien monastère en réunissant les tombes de plus petits cimetières de Messines, Warneton, Wytschaete et Bousbecque. La Croix du Sacrifice se dresse aujourd'hui sur le terp où se dressait le Moulin de l'Hospice.  Britanniques, 1 Canadien, 342 Australiens,  et  sont désormais commémorés.  ont été érigés pour les soldats dont la tombe ne peut plus être localisée. Il existe 13 autres Special Memorials et un Duhallow Block à la mémoire des soldats dont les tombes ont été perdues dans d'autres cimetières en raison de la violence de la guerre.

En 2009, le cimetière est classé monument historique et protégé.

Tombes

Soldats décorés
 Leslie Boully, sous-lieutenant dans l'Infanterie australienne a reçu la médaille de conduite distinguée (DCM).
 Percy Hunter Coxon, capitaine du Border Regiment, GGR Bott, lieutenant du South Lancashire Regiment, Charles Douglas Scott, lieutenant de l'Australian Infantry et D. McN. Joyce, caporal du Gloucestershire Regiment, a reçu la Croix militaire (MC).
 Les hommes enrôlés suivants ont reçu la Médaille militaire (MM) : le sergent Michael Patrick O'Brien, les caporaux A. E. Durrant, Ralph Oswald Kirby, William Shanks et Edward McKindry Walker, l'artilleur Charles E. Farrar et les soldats W. Cooper et W. Hewitt. Le sous-lieutenant William Whitley Gocher a reçu ce prix à deux reprises.

Personnel militaire mineur
 Albert E. Furness, caporal dans les Lancashire Fusiliers avait 16 ans lorsqu'il a été tué au combat le .
 B. McAlister, carabinier du Royal Irish Rifles avait 17 ans lorsqu'il fut tué au combat le .

Pseudonymes
 L'artilleur John Pearce Ede a servi dans la New Zealand Rifle Brigade sous le pseudonyme de John P. White.
 Le soldat Albert Edward Duminski a servi sous le pseudonyme Albert E. Allen dans l'Infanterie australienne, AIF.

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Cimetière britannique de Messines Ridge sur le site web de la CWGC.
  Cimetière britannique de Messines Ridge sur le site WW1.be

Patrimoine immobilier classé dans la Région flamande
Cimetière militaire britannique en Belgique
Cimetière militaire de la Première Guerre mondiale
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