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DiamondPeak Holdings Corporation
PROPOSED BUSINESS COMBINATION: Lordstown Motors
ESTIMATED CURRENT FUNDS in TRUST: $284.4 million*
*SPACInsider estimate a/o 10-17-20
DiamondPeak Holdings Corp. proposes to combine with Lordstown Motors Corp. ("Lordstown"), a leader in electric light duty trucks, with an implied enterprise value of $965 million. The transaction is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2020 with the combined company remaining listed on the NASDAQ with the new ticker symbol, "RIDE".
Lordstown Motors Corp. is an Ohio-based original equipment manufacturer of light duty fleet vehicles, founded with the purpose of transforming Ohio's Mahoning Valley and Lordstown, Ohio, into the epicenter of electric-vehicle manufacturing. The company owns the Lordstown Assembly Plant where it plans to build the Lordstown Endurance, believed to be the world's first fully-electric pickup truck designed to serve the commercial fleet market. Lordstown unveiled the prototype of its flagship Endurance pickup truck on June 25, 2020, and to date, has received more than 27,000 pre-orders for the vehicle representing over $1.4 billion of potential revenue, primarily from commercial fleet customers.
Lordstown Endurance™ will be the first full-size electric pickup truck designed to serve the U.S. commercial fleet market with initial production expected in the second half of 2021. Approximately $675 million of gross proceeds that are expected from the transaction will be used to fund production of the Endurance and its innovative in-wheel electric hub motor design.
The business combination values Lordstown at an implied $1.6 billion pro forma equity value, at the $10.00 per share PIPE price and assuming minimal redemptions by DiamondPeak stockholders. Proceeds for the transaction will be used for development and commercialization of Lordstown's Endurance Vehicle.
Furthermore, this combination includes a $500 million fully committed PIPE, which includes $75 million of investments by General Motors in addition to investments from institutional investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, Wellington Management Company LLP, Federated Hermes Kaufmann Small Cap Fund, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
$500 million fully committed PIPE (50,000,000 million shares at $10.00), which includes $75 million of investments by General Motors in addition to investments from institutional investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC, Wellington Management Company LLP, Federated Hermes Kaufmann Small Cap Fund, and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
There is a closing condition of the Company having cash on hand equal to or in excess of $300,000,000
Outside Date of February 1, 2021.
Goldman Sachs is serving as exclusive financial advisor to DiamondPeak.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is serving as legal advisor to DiamondPeak.
Goldman Sachs is serving as exclusive placement agent on the PIPE offering.
Deutsche Bank is serving as additional capital markets advisor to DiamondPeak.
BakerHostetler is serving as legal advisor to Lordstown.
DIAMONDPEAK HOLDINGS MANAGEMENT & BOARD
David T. Hamamoto, 59
Mr. Hamamoto is the Founder of Diamond Head Partners, LLC which he established in 2017. Previously, he served as Executive Vice Chairman of Colony NorthStar (now Colony Capital (NYSE:CLNY)), a real estate and investment management firm, from January 2017 through January 2018. The NorthStar companies, which he founded, were sold to Colony Capital in January 2017. Prior to the sale, Mr. Hamamoto was Executive Chairman of NorthStar Asset Management Group ("NSAM") since 2015, having previously served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from 2014 until 2015. Mr. Hamamoto was the Chairman of the board of directors of NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE:NRF)("NRF)), a real estate investment trust, from 2007 to January 2017 and served as one of its directors from 2003 to January 2017. Mr. Hamamoto previously served as NRF's Chief Executive Officer from 2004 until 2015 and President from 2004 until 2011. Mr. Hamamoto was Chairman of the board of directors of NorthStar Realty Europe Corp. from 2015 to January 2017. In 1997, Mr. Hamamoto co-founded NorthStar Capital Investment Corp., the predecessor to NorthStar Realty Finance, for which he served as Co-ChiefExecutive Officer until 2004. Prior to NorthStar, Mr. Hamamoto was a partner and co-head of the Real Estate Principal Investment Area at Goldman, Sachs & Co. During Mr. Hamamoto's tenure at Goldman, Sachs & Co., he initiated the firm's effort to build a real estate principal investment business under the auspices of the Whitehall Funds. Between April and July 2018, several class actions (and two derivative lawsuit) were filed in connection with the Colony-NorthStar merger and the merged company's performance thereafter; three in federal court in California, three in state court in California, and two in state court in Maryland. Mr. Hamamoto is named as an individual defendant in each of these lawsuits. The lawsuits generally share a factual nexus, and allege securities law violations and other claims against all defendants, including Mr. Hamamoto. Presently, only one federal and one (consolidated) state case are pending. Mr. Hamamoto disputes all such allegations and is defending vigorously against the lawsuits. Mr. Hamamoto received a B.S. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kyriakos Mihalitsis, 39
Mr. Mihalitsis is a Senior Vice President in the finance group at Silverpeak. Mr. Mihalitsis has been with Silverpeak since its inception in 2010, having previously been employed by its predecessor, Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 2006, Mr. Mihalitsis was a Manager at EisnerAmper LLC, a full service advisory and accounting firm, where he was responsible for performing and overseeing audits and consulting engagements for both public and private companies, including hedge funds and private equity funds. Mr. Mihalitsis received his B.B.A in Accounting from Baruch College. Mr. Mihalitsis is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.
Mark A. Walsh, 59
Mr. Walsh is a partner and co-founder of the Silverpeak family of companies, a multi-strategy investment platform with expertise in the real estate, energy and credit sectors. He is responsible for Silverpeak's strategic initiatives and origination activities, and also serves as Chairman of Silverpeak Argentic, Silverpeak's commercial real estate lending platform. Before founding Silverpeak in 2010, Mr. Walsh headed Lehman Brothers' Global Real Estate Group and served as Global Co-Head of Lehman Brothers Real Estate Private Equity. During his 20 years at Lehman Brothers, the firm became a leading debt and equity investment platform both domestically and globally. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Walsh was a lawyer where he represented financial institutions in all aspects of commercial mortgage loan origination, workouts and secondary market transactions. Mr. Walsh is also a Founding Member of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Mr. Walsh earned his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross and a J.D. from Fordham Law School.
Andrew Richardson, 52
Director Nominee
Mr. Richardson currently serves as President, Land & Development and as Chief Financial Officer of iStar Inc. (NYSE: STAR), a real estate investor and developer, and as Chief Financial Officer of Safety, Income & Growth (NYSE: SAFE), a company focused on ground lease acquisition, management and capitalization. He has held these positions since March 2018 where, in addition to all financial and capital markets activities, he is also responsible for the development and monetization of an approximately $1 billion portfolio of commercial land and master planned residential developments owned by iStar. Prior to joining iStar and Safety, Income & Growth, Mr. Richardson was the Chief Financial Officer of The Howard Hughes Corporation (NYSE: HHC) from 2011 to 2016, one of the premier master planned community and large-scale mixed use commercial developers in the U.S. Prior to HHC, from 2006 to 2011 Mr. Richardson served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., a publicly traded commercial real estate finance company focused on investment in real estate loans, fixed income securities and net-leased real estate properties. Before joining NorthStar, from 2000 to 2006, Mr. Richardson was an Executive Vice President with iStar Financial Inc. Mr. Richardson also served in various capacities at Salomon Smith Barney, including Vice President in the real estate investment-banking group focused on mergers and acquisitions and raising capital for public and private companies. Early in his career, Mr. Richardson was a Certified Public Accountant with Ernst & Young LLP. He holds a B.B.A. in Business from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Steven R. Hash, 54
Mr. Hash is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Renaissance Macro Research, LLC, an equity research and trading firm focused on macro research in the investment strategy, economics, and Washington policy sectors, which he co-founded in 2012. Between 1993 and 2012, Mr. Hash held various leadership positions with Lehman Brothers (and its successor, Barclays Capital), including Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking from 2006 to 2012, Chief Operating Officer of Global Investment Banking from 2008 to 2011, Director of Global Equity Research from 2003 to 2006, Director of U.S. Equity Research from 1999 to 2003, and Senior Equity Research Analyst from 1993 to 1999. From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Hash held various positions with Oppenheimer & Company's Equity Research Department, including senior research analyst. He began his career in 1988 as an auditor for the accounting and consulting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co. He has served as a director of Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) since 2013 (and is currently lead director), as a director of The Macerich Company (NYSE: MAC) since 2015 (is currently non-executive chairman) and as the lead director of The Nuveen Global Cities REIT, Inc., a non-traded REIT, since 2018. Mr. Hash received a B.A. in Business Administration from Loyola University and a M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Judith A. Hannaway, 66
Ms. Hannaway currently acts as a consultant to various financial institutions. Prior to this, until 2004, Ms. Hannaway was employed by Scudder Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Bank Asset Management, as a Managing Director. Ms. Hannaway joined Scudder Investments in 1994 and was responsible for Special Product Development including closed-end funds, offshore funds and REIT funds. Prior to joining Scudder Investments, Ms. Hannaway was employed by Kidder Peabody as a Senior Vice President in Alternative Investment Product Development. She joined Kidder Peabody in 1980 as a Real-Estate Product Manager. Ms. Hannaway has served as lead independent director of NorthStar Realty Europe Corp. (NYSE: NRE) since 2015 and as an independent director of Fortress Transportation & Infrastructure LLC since 2018, and previously served as an independent director of NorthStar Realty Finance Corp. (NYSE: NRF) from 2004 to 2017 and NorthStar Asset Management Group Inc. (NYSE: NSAM) from 2014 to 2017. Ms. Hannaway holds a Bachelor of Arts from Newton College of the Sacred Heart and a Master of Business Administration from Simmons College Graduate Program in Management.


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Chuks Aneke will join Sky Bet Championship outfit Charlton Athletic when his contract expires at the end of the month.
Chuks was offered a new deal to remain with the Dons but has opted to make the move to The Valley as he steps up a division.
The Club would like to thank Chuks for his contribution and wish him every success in the future.

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Niemi, Sharks beat Predators 2-0
San Jose Sharks' Logan Couture (39) blocks the shot against the Nashville Predators' Ryan Ellis (4) in the first period at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 12, 2015. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group)
San Jose Sharks'Joe Thornton (19) fights for the puck against the Nashville Predators' Roman Josi (59) in the first period at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 12, 2015. Image was shot with fish-eye lens. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group)
San Jose Sharks' Tomas Hertl (48) fights for the puck in front of the net against the Nashville Predators' goaltender Pekka Rinne (35) in the first period at the SAP Center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday, March 12, 2015. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group)
By Curtis Pashelka | cpashelka@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group
SAN JOSE — The Sharks got two goals Thursday night from unusual sources on their second power-play unit. The exceptional goaltending, though, was provided by the player who has been their workhorse for the last four-plus seasons.
Tomas Hertl and Tommy Wingels both scored power-play goals, and Antti Niemi made 35 saves to lead the Sharks to a 2-0 win over the Nashville Predators before an announced sellout crowd of 17,562 at SAP Center.
Three nights after a 39-save performance against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Niemi picked up his fifth shutout of the season as the Sharks won for the fourth time in five games to once again move within three points of third place in the Pacific Division.
"Nemo was very strong again tonight," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said. "He looks very confident, and the team feels very good with him in there right now."
McLellan felt the Sharks' third line was their best, as Wingels, Hertl and Chris Tierney combined for five points.
Hertl scored on the power play with 3:19 left in the second period off assists from Justin Braun and Tierney. Wingels scored an empty-net goal with 58.8 seconds left in the third, with Tierney and Hertl picking up the helpers.
"I thought we had a couple chances there," Tierney said. "We still have room to improve, obviously. But I think overall we felt pretty good, and hopefully we can keep it going."
Considering how well Nashville has played at even strength this season, the Sharks felt they had to win the special teams battle.
Although they did not score on two power-play chances in the first period and one more in the second, the Sharks were able to stay out of the penalty box until the third period when Patrick Marleau went off for holding and Melker Karlsson was called for slashing. San Jose killed off both penalties, with Niemi making a combined four saves.
Hertl had a goal disallowed in the first period, as it was ruled he had made incidental contact with Pekka Rinne. Hertl took Tierney's pass from behind the net, and as he was hit from behind by Nashville's Michael Santorelli, directed the puck past Rinne.
Nashville started slowly thanks to those penalties but began to assert itself toward the end of the first period, outshooting the Sharks 9-2 over the last eight minutes of the first. Nashville had a 20-6 edge on shots on goal at even strength in the first half of the game.
The Sharks entered Thursday 10-4-1 this season against Central Division teams, which included wins over Chicago and Dallas and a loss to Nashville since the All-Star break.
The Sharks conclude their four-game homestand Saturday afternoon against Chicago, then embark on a make-or-break seven-game trip that starts Tuesday in Winnipeg. Four of the teams the Sharks will face — including the Jets — are safely in the postseason picture or are still fighting for a spot.
"We have a little momentum, but we just have to bring it every night at this point," Braun said. "We can't think about the last game. We just have to think about the next one going forward, get those two points."
Two weeks after his latest surgery to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, Sharks forward Raffi Torres was back at SAP Center, hopeful that the worst was behind him and that he could return to play for San Jose next season. Torres said the knee surgery he had Feb. 25 went well, and recent blood work showed no sign of infection.
In October, Torres had decided to move forward without another operation, instead trying to strengthen the muscles around the knee to expedite a return to the ice this season. But after consulting with Dr. Joel Boyd in Minnesota, Torres went ahead with the surgery and is optimistic he can return in time for training camp in six months.
"This will give me the best opportunity to keep playing and to come back," Torres said. "Hopefully everything's behind me."
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No matter what type of consulting that you do, having a steady stream of fresh new customers coming in the door is essential. When you are trying to get new clients for your consulting firm, you may be tempted to turn to the latest marketing tools, the mobile app, to increase engagement and thus lead to higher conversions. While you may have the urge to go out and hire a programmer or even employ the services of a coding studio to build your app, there are other options that you can use to get a great mobile app at a fraction of the price and without having to know a single bit of code. We will talk more about that later, first, however, there are some essential elements that you should make sure are included in your mobile app in order to get the most effective benefit from it with your customers.
Perhaps this is the most important aspect of your mobile app. Above all else, you need to have a way for your customers to give you feedback in a simple and user-friendly way. It is this feedback that will enable you to better serve them in the future. The feedback system can be as simple as an email input box with a comment section, or as detailed as an opt-in survey form. No matter what type of feedback system you use, the key is that it be easy for the end user and that you get reliable contact information out of the exchange.
People love apps that they can customize for themselves. It doesn't matter if it is changing the app's background color or choosing a theme, they feel that when they have more control over the look and feel they are able to better connect with the company that sponsors the app. Giving your users the ability to customize the app to their preferences, even in small ways, can increase their engagement with it and thus their engagement with you.
This is one of the things that honestly makes no sense. Why in the world would someone build a mobile app for their consulting business, and not take advantage of the core fact that the app is being used on a phone? Give users the ability to make contact with you on demand by utilizing the voice features of their phone, you can also give the option for video or text chat if you like. Remember, the more options that you give a client as to how they can stay in contact with you, the greater the likelihood that they will stay in contact with you.
OpenID is a technology that allows customers to sign up and log in to services securely and quickly by utilizing the logins that they already use for established profiles on major social media and communications services. Allow a customer to use social media login for your app and you will increase the chances that they will sign up and engage with you. No one wants to have to fill out a long sign up form and in today's identity and online presence theft awareness, people are sometimes hesitant to get started with something that they do not already know about. This can be crippling to your efforts to get new customers to learn about you via your app. Using a social media log in system is an effective way around this blockade by giving them a way to sign up and log in using a service and interface they already know and trust.
These four simple things can be easily added to your consulting business mobile app and can go a long way toward helping to increase its effectiveness. Now earlier, it was mentioned that you can get a great mobile app without having to know a single line of code. Services like App7.io can help you build a highly effective mobile app, test it, develop it out and then get it listed and distributed via a wide range of channels easily. App7 lets you build your app using a simple point, click, drag, and drop interface lets you build your new app as easily as you can build and update your business website.
If you are ready to get started building a great mobile app for your consulting business check out App7 today. With a wide range of features, great pricing packages, and top-notch customer support, there is no better way to get a mobile app that is perfect for your needs in minutes. You can reach us via phone at (866) 882-8484 or you can fill out our contact form.


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America's 10 Most Dangerous Cities
Surging crime rates have been a point of concern for many across the United States, and efforts to deal with the problem have formed the basis of many political campaigns. According to a study from MoneyGeek, the total cost of crime in America's most dangerous cities was an astonishing $203 billion in 2020, which is quite an increase from $176 billion in 2019. With a combination of homicides, gun violence, assault, and theft, curbing the spread of crime in these areas remain an everlasting struggle. The following article looks at the 10 Most Dangerous Cities in the United States, ranked by the highest cost of crime per capita.
1. St. Louis, Missouri - $11,574 per capita
A dark shady street with industrial buildings in urban St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis has the highest crime cost per capita of $11,574, with reportedly high levels of assault. In addition, this city, with a population of 298,422 residents, also ranks as a dangerous place with allegations of police assaults and several unsolved murder cases. Moreover, the violent crime rate of 2,016 per 100,000 people has made St. Louis the country's most dangerous urban center.
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2. Jackson, Mississippi - $9,138 per capita
Mississippi's capital city, Jackson, is home to a population of nearly 153,701 residents and reports a high crime rate. The city has a per capita crime cost of $9,138. Moreover, the violent crime rate of 1,050 per 100,000 people suggests that the city has high rates of assaults, robbery, and rape. This sad statistical reality has led to an increased push to make this capital city a safer and more prosperous place for everyone.
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3. Detroit, Michigan - $7,292 per capita
Detroit police officers in action. Editorial credit: Lester Graham / Shutterstock.com
Unfortunately, Detroit has long held a reputation for being a dangerous city, even though many parts of the city are indeed a beacon of culture, art, and industry. Detroit has a per capita crime cost of $7,292. With a population of 659,616 inhabitants, the "Motor City," has a violent crime rate of 2,179 per 100,000 people. Still, the historic and geographic importance of Detroit cannot be negated, and many efforts continue to be made to ensure the city effectively tackles its crime problems.
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4. New Orleans, Louisiana - $7,214 per capita
A sign warns tourists of the recent crime wave in the New Orleans French Quarter on January 17, 2015, and encourages people to walk in large groups for safety. Editorial credit: Chuck Wagner / Shutterstock.com
New Orleans has a per capita crime cost of $7,214. The city has the unenviable distinction of having the highest homicide rate among all major cities in the United States. Having a population of 393,779 residents, New Orleans has a violent crime rate of 1,324 per 100,000 people. Over the years, a more concentrated effort is required to help stop the plague of homicides in this most cultural and special Southern city.
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5. Baltimore, Maryland - $7,091 per capita
Baltimore has a per capita crime cost of $7,091 and a violent crime rate of 1,461 per 100,000 people. In 2019, about 348 homicides were reported in Baltimore, the highest in 26 years, while 2020 and 2021 have only seen minor decreases.
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6. Memphis, Tennessee - $6,884 per capita
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The second-most populous city of Tennessee with a population of 650,937 residents, Memphis has a per capita crime cost of $6,884. In 2020, Memphis was the country's most violent metropolitan area, and in 2021, the city set a record with 346 murders. Memphis has a violent crime rate of 2,352 per 100,000 people.
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7. Cleveland, Ohio - $6,423 per capita
One of the chief cities in the Great Lakes region, having a population of 379,121 residents, Cleveland has a per capita crime cost of $6,423. Due to its high rate of criminal violence, Cleveland is one of the country's most heavily policed cities, with about 1,475 police officers being deployed in the city in 2021. The city has a violent crime rate of 1,657 per 100,000 people.
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8. Baton Rouge, Louisiana - $6,150 per capita
Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana, forms the heart of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area along the eastern shores of the Mississippi River. With a population of 219,245 inhabitants, Baton Rouge has a per capita crime cost of $6,150. It is to be noted that the combined rate of violent and property crime in Baton Rouge is higher compared to other places that have a similar population size. Baton Rouge has a violent crime rate of 952 per 100,000 people.
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9. Kansas City, Missouri - $5,382 per capita
Kansas City policemen in riot gear. Editorial credit: Jenny Davis Bauman / Shutterstock.com
Having a population of 499,335 inhabitants, Kansas City is Missouri's largest and the country's 36th most populous city. The city has a per capita crime cost of $5,382, and a violent crime rate of 1,586 per 100,000 people.
10. Shreveport, Louisiana - $5,153 per capita
Louisiana's third-most populous city, Shreveport, has a population of 185,588 residents and a per capita crime cost of $5,153. In 2021, with 87 homicides, Shreveport recorded the highest number of homicides in its history. Shreveport also has a violent crime rate of 923 per 100,000 people.
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Addressing criminal activities and ever-increasing rates of crime continues to be one of the most prominent issues in the United States. Whether it is murder, robbery, or assault, the variety of crimes reduces any city's favorability. In addition, people who live in higher crime areas pay much higher prices for vital needs and witness depressed home values. The ten American cities on this list continue to struggle with the containment of crimes and yet are great examples of art, culture, and human achievement.
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Carolyn George Photographs, circa 1800s-2007 [bulk 1970-1998]
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | *MGZEB 14-6764
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The Carolyn George Photographs consist of approximately 100,000 images: black and white and color prints, contact sheets, negatives, and slides of both dance and non-dance subjects photographed by Carolyn George from the 1950s to 2005. The... more
The Carolyn George Photographs consist of approximately 100,000 images: black and white and color prints, contact sheets, negatives, and slides of both dance and non-dance subjects photographed by Carolyn George from the 1950s to 2005. The collection also contains some family photographs and childhood photographs of George and spans from circa 1800-2005 (bulk dates 1970-1998). less
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D'Lana Lockett (1961-2006) was a tap dancer, dance instructor, and dance researcher who began research on a book on African American female tap dancers. The D'Lana Lockett research files contain correspondence, notes, typescript drafts, and... more
D'Lana Lockett (1961-2006) was a tap dancer, dance instructor, and dance researcher who began research on a book on African American female tap dancers. The D'Lana Lockett research files contain correspondence, notes, typescript drafts, and photographic prints and negatives regarding the performers Lockett researched for her book. less
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Deena Burton (1948-2005) was an American dancer and expert in Indonesian dance who founded the non-profit Arts Indonesia. The Deena Burton papers document Burton's study and performance of Indonesian dance, both in the United States and in Indonesia.


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Pope calls on Cypriot Church to welcome change and diversity with patience
In the first official discourse of his Apostolic visit to Cyprus and Greece, Pope Francis addresses Bishops, Priests, Men and Women Religious, and Catechists, inviting them to be patient as they go forth in a spirit of fraternity, forgiveness, mercy, and openness.
By Linda Bordoni
A "patient" church is the one best suited for the reality in Cyprus, "a church that does not allow itself to be upset and troubled by change, but calmly welcomes newness and discerns situations in the light of the Gospel."
This is Pope Francis' vision and encouragement for Catholic clergy, religious, and catechists (click link to find the full text of the Pope's remarks) gathered in Nicosia's Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Grace at the start of his Apostolic visit to Cyprus.
Addressing representatives of all the Catholic Rites present in Cyprus – the Latin Rite, the Maronites and the Armenian Catholics – the Pope upheld the wealth of their diversity and urged them to persevere "without growing weary or discouraged."
Amongst those to welcome him were the Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus Selim Sfeir, the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch Bechara Boutros Rai, and the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa.
Pope meets bishops, priests, religious and catechists in Nicosia
Greeting representatives of the Maronite Church, the Pope spoke of his concern for crises currently crippling Lebanon: "I am sensitive to the sufferings of a people wearied and tested by violence and adversity. I carry in my prayer the desire for peace that rises from the heart of that country."
The patience of St. Barnabas
Getting to the heart of his message, the Pope reflected on the heritage of Cyprus's patron, Saint Barnabas, whom, he said, was a man of faith and wisdom, whose attitude was one of utmost patience: "the patience to keep moving forward; the patience to enter into the lives of hitherto unknown individuals; the patience to accept what was new without rushing to judgment."
Barnabas, he continued, also had the patience of discernment, the patience to "study" other cultures and traditions, the patience of accompaniment, shown by how he accompanied newcomers to the faith by taking them by the hand and dialoguing with them.
The open arms of the Cypriot Church
Pope Francis encouraged those present to continue in this path, welcoming newness and discerning situations in the light of the Gospel.
He upheld the work carried out on the island as it welcomes "new brothers and sisters arriving from other shores of the world," never leaving anyone bereft of its loving embrace.
A message for the Church throughout Europe
"This is also an important message for the Church throughout Europe, marked by the crisis of faith. It does little good to be impulsive and tempestuous, nostalgic or querulous; instead, we do well to march forward, reading the signs of the times as well as the signs of the crisis," he said.
The Pope also called on priests to be patient in proclaiming the Gospel to the next generation, and on bishops to be patient in being close to their priests and in encountering our brothers and sisters of other confessions.
He asked them to cultivate a culture of forgiveness and mercy and the capacity to have open ears and hearts for different spiritual sensibilities, different ways of expressing the faith, different cultures.
The Church, he said, "does not want to reduce everything to uniformity, but to integrate with patience."
The need for a fraternal Church
Pope Francis went on to highlight the significance of Barnabas' encounter with Paul of Tarsus, "an approach of friendship and sharing of life." He urged those present to take up the history of others, "taking the time to get to know them without labeling them, bearing them on our shoulders when they are tired or wounded, as the good Samaritan did. This is fraternity, and it is our second word."
He recalled the time the two apostles, who had journeyed together evangelizing the eastern Mediterranean region, had a disagreement and went their separate ways.
However, the Pope noted, although they had different ideas, there was no rancour between them: "This is what fraternity in the Church means: we can argue about visions, sensibilities, and differing ideas."
"We need a fraternal Church," the Holy Father reiterated, "one that is an agent of fraternity in our world," inviting us not to experience diversity as a threat to identity.
Brothers and sisters, all of us!
We are brothers and sisters loved by a single Father, the Pope said, noting that the Church in Cyprus is immersed in the Mediterranean, "a sea rich in history, a sea that has been the cradle of many civilizations, a sea from which today many individuals, peoples, and cultures from every part of the world still disembark."
He concluded by urging them to remind everyone, and Europe as a whole, "that we need to work together to build a future worthy of humanity, to overcome divisions, to break down walls, to dream and work for unity. We need to welcome and integrate one another, and to walk together as brothers and sisters, all of us!"
Full video of Pope Francis' Meeting with Consecrated Persons in Nicosia, Cyprus


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Walking Tour in Coyoacán
This walking tour takes you to the Churubusco former convent from the 16th century, where memories are kept from the US-Mexico war of 1847 at this actual battle-site. As we walk through the traditional neighborhood of Coyoacán we will visit the living quarters and fortress against the KGB where Leon Trotsky, Soviet Union and Red Army founder, lived, died and is buried in exile while we learn about his relationship to Frida Kahlo who lived a few blocks away. Tour ends at the entrance to Kahlo´s home that you may visit on your own as tickets for her house have to be bought separately and in advance.
at entrance to the Churubusco convent.
Tour ends at the entrance to
Frida Kahlo´s Home without entering. Tickets for her home have to be bought additionally, separately, in advance and directly from them: HERE.
Visit a 16th century former convent, the historical site of the Churubusco Battle of the Mexican-American War and the Hideout of one of the founders of the Soviet Union and the Red Army at the heart of Mexico in a 1.5 mile, 3 hour walk!
This tour takes through the borough of Coyoacán and ends at the entrance of Frida Kahlo´s Home (Kahlo´s home has to be visited separately). Amaze yourself with the exhibits from the wars that Mexico has fought to defend its territory from Spain, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. See the true site of a battle fought between Mexican and U.S. forces while gazing through the memorabilia through a different point of view..
Travel back in time to the early 20th century as Leon Trotsky chose Mexico City while living in exile and hiding from Stalin´s KGB. Wander past beautiful gardens and visit Trotsky´s Tomb under the Soviet Flag. Enjoy the house and patios while understanding daily life through the appliances used at the turn of the 20th century. Learn of the fear and assasination atempts while discovering the watch towers.
Walk the modern side of Coyoacán and learn of the lifestyle in this unique neighborhood. Discover the proximity, friendship and affair between Leon Trotsky and Frida Kahlo while walking to her home that she shared with her husband, muralist Diego Rivera.
If you want to also vist Frida´s home, tickets are sold independently and separately as visitors are only allowed at certain alloted time slots. Frida´s Home Tickets HERE.
Gringos, Soviets & Frida tour is given in English.
On this tour you will visit the 16th century former convent of Churubusco, site of a battle of the Mexican-American War, the National Museum of Foreign Interventions, the former fortified residence of Leon Trotsky and his tomb. This visit will take you through almost two centuries of history of the unique borough of Coyoacán.
Due to the ceremonial nature of the buildings to be visited, we may encounter temporary closures at any time so we are always prepared with an alternate and equivalent route as we may never guarantee the access to the public venues.
Visits do not return to the starting point; Tour ends at the entrance to Frida Kahlo´s Home at 247 Londres Street.


The 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent monster tsunami waves on March 11 2011 severely damaged Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. A breakdown of cooling systems left nuclear reactors overheating, resulting in core meltdowns. The accident and suspension of other plants in the quake-hit areas have caused serious power supply shortages in various parts of eastern Japan including Tokyo.


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#define vtkDatabaseToTableReader_h

#include "vtkIOSQLModule.h" // For export macro
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class VTKIOSQL_EXPORT vtkDatabaseToTableReader : public vtkTableAlgorithm
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European markets slip into the red again after worst one-day fall in almost two years on Fed's bond-buying bombshell
By Hugo Duncan for the Daily Mail
Published: 17:03 EST, 20 June 2013 | Updated: 12:53 EST, 21 June 2013
European stock markets slipped into the red yet again today after their worst one-day sell-off in nearly two years yesterday.
The FTSE 100 spent the morning in positive territory as investors sought out bargains but there was another bout of fretful selling just ahead of the open on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones opened marginally higher by 0.2 per cent but soon after fell back and by the close the FTSE 100 was 43 points or 0.7 per cent down at 6,116.17.
Sell-off: Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has warned that the era of easy money may be coming to an end
Last night, British government borrowing costs raced to a 15-month high last night as financial markets around the world tanked.
Bond prices, shares and commodities fell sharply on global exchanges after the US Federal Reserve outlined plans to water down support for the world's biggest economy.
The yield on ten-year gilts – a key interest rate on UK government debt – rose above 2.3 per cent.
It was the highest level since March 2012 and well above its recent record low of 1.4 per cent.
The yield on US bonds, or Treasuries, also spiked higher after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke said that the central bank would scale back its bond-buying programme later this year if the economy picks up as expected.
'Yields are rising everywhere,' said Orlando Green, a strategist at Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank in London.
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He added: 'The gilt market is following on that front. There is still a lot of uncertainty around about how much central banks will deliver going forward.'
A senior official at the Bank of England last week warned that a bond price crash was the biggest threat to financial stability around the world.
Bond prices have been driven up – and yields down – by central banks such as the Fed and the Bank buying up government debt through quantitative easing.
Andrew Haldane, an executive director at the Bank, said it has created 'the biggest government bond bubble in history' and warned of devastating consequences for the global economy if it bursts.
A rise in bond yields would push up the cost of borrowing for governments, for businesses and for households – and it could be enough to push the economy back into recession.
The sharp fall in bond prices yesterday was then echoed on the stock market.
Ian Spreadbury, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Strategic Bond fund, said: 'Clearly, markets are hooked on quantitative easing.'
The FTSE 100 index dived nearly 3 per cent or 189.31 points to 6159.51 in London in its biggest one-day fall for nearly two years.
The rout was mirrored around the world with shares in Germany, France, Italy and Spain all down more than 3 per cent.
There were also heavy losses in Asia and on Wall Street in the US where the Dow fell 354 points closing below the psychologically -important 15,000 mark.
Gold crashed to its lowest level in three years below $1,300 an ounce and is now down 28 per cent since its peak close to $1,800.
Silver fell more than 6 per cent and oil dropped $3 a barrel, with fresh concerns about the Chinese economy adding to the gloom.
The dramatic sell-off followed Bernanke's warning on Wednesday night that the era of easy money may be coming to an end.
He said the 'downside risks' to the economy and the jobs market have 'diminished' in recent months.
And he added that if the economy continues to pick up as expected, then QE would be scaled down later this year and ended by mid-2014. The Fed is currently pumping £55billion a month into the US economy to bolster growth and drive down unemployment.
Yusuf Heusen, a sales trader from City firm IG, said: 'Ben Bernanke has put the cat well and truly among the pigeons with his statement saying that asset purchases would begin slowing by the end of this year.
'It does feel as if the Fed chairman has pulled the rug from underneath the stock market rally, and he certainly seems to have dealt a killer blow to gold.
'The US economy might be getting better but this will be cold comfort for investors today. Until the dust starts to settle, it is hard to say where the latest bout of selling will end.'
Stock markets and other assets have soared in value since central banks embarked on QE in a desperate effort to stop recession turning into depression in the wake of the financial crisis.
Ishaq Siddiqi, an analyst at trading firm ETX Capital, said: 'It seems investors are ignoring the silver lining.
'We have now got a timeframe for a reduction of QE.
'We have a scheduled end to the programme, which should remove some of that uncertainty about when the Fed will unwind.'
European markets slip into the red after worst one-day fall in almost two years on Fed's bond-buying bombshell


So, following my rather different post last week, I thought I'd switch it up again today with a post about probably my favourite thing in the world, Music. If you follow me on instagram or twitter, you'll know that one of my favourite things ever is live music. I go to gigs and concerts pretty much every month. So today I thought I'd write a post about one of my favourite bands, Don Broco! Their new album 'Technology' came out on Friday and I am obsessed. I'd pre-ordered the album a while back and my signed vinyl arrived on the day of release, which was super exciting. What was more exciting though was actually going to see the band play at ULU Live in London for an Album release show. I'd already been to see them at Alexandra Palace back in November which is incredible, so when I saw that they'd announced another London date at a venue less than one tenth of the size of the last, I was practically bouncing off the walls.
So, the 2nd of Feb finally rolled around and after binge listening to the album all day, I was so excited to see them again! I was just a teeeeeny bit nervous that they wouldn't quite match up to the time we saw them at Ally Pally, because that was possibly the best gig I've ever been to. I've also been to see bands before that once in a smaller venue, don't seem to put as much effort into their set. Fortunately, the same cannot be said for Don Broco! From the moment they stepped onto the stage, opening with 'Pretty', a track from their new album, they put everything into the performance and it was musically and vocally on point the whole way through. The energy of the whole band was just incredible and they really interacted with the crowd in a way you can't always achieve in much bigger venues.
If you've never listened to them before, I'd definitely recommend checking them out. Their sound is so unique that a crowd at a Don Broco gig is really quite diverse, which creates a really great atmosphere. Due to their high energy, heavy sound, there was a lot of moshing and chaotic jumping around, but instructed by lead singer Rob Damiani to 'look after each other in the pit', there was still a really friendly and inclusive vibe in the crowd, which was really lovely to see.
Overall, it was just an incredible night, their set included plenty of new tracks, but only those that had been released as singles, which made sense as the album had only just come out that day - meaning everyone already knew all the words (not that I wouldn't have loved to have heard some of the brand new tracks!). They also played a lot of old favourites such as 'Priorities' and 'You Wanna Know'. I lost count of the amount of times I grabbed my Husbands arm screaming 'OMG I love this song!!'.
Now onto the Album itself, in all honesty, I think you'd have trouble giving Don Broco an actual genre, they're definitely a rock band, but they use a lot of electronics and random instruments (a couple of tracks even use a cowbell!) in their music which combined with Rob Damiani's insanely diverse vocals, give them a really complex and unique sound. Each album on the track is really quite different and they all have varying subject matter, but the underlying theme seems to be the modern age and how it's basically kind of fucked up.
You've got tracks that explore topics such as Social Media takeover, Fake News, Politics and Brexit, Fake News and Corruption in Hollywood. On first listen, the message in a lot of the songs can easily be missed due to the upbeat sound and heavy guitar and drums, but that's what I've been loving about this album. There are no entirely slow tracks, but they've managed to pack a lot of powerful messages into 16 (yes, 16!) heavy, high energy tracks.
I won't do a track by track review, as I'm certainly no expert, but I'd say my top three tracks on the album right now have got to be Come Out to LA, Something to Drink and T-Shirt Song.
Check out Technology here - I'd thoroughly recommend checking it out on vinyl if you can - the quality of these records is just fab!
Have you been to any great gigs lately? I'd love for you to let me know in a comment below!


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What Integrating a 4G LTE Modem means to the Snapdragon S4 Processor and Battery life
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The advantage of buying a Smartphone equipped with a 4G LTE modem is clear: you can surf the web, video conference, or play multiplayer games at up to 10 times the speed of conventional 3G. In some cases, these phones have enough data throughput capability to be their own mobile hotspots and share their 4G connection with up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled devices.
So what's the catch?
4G LTE can sometimes come at the expense of battery life. Prior to the launch of Snapdragon™ S4, a LTE phone's modem and application processor were usually separate chipsets. Typically, the more chips that are involved in building a device, the more challenging it is to conserve battery life while maintaining performance.
What's unique about the Snapdragon S4 processor, particularly the MSM8960, is that the modem baseband and application processor are combined into a single chip, optimized for performance and power efficiency. The modem is also multimode, meaning it can fall back to 3G when LTE isn't available. (Some chipmakers still sell separate 3G and 4G modems – and don't even try to integrate them into the application processor.)
Consolidation means good things for your battery. Of course, there are other factors at play besides LTE integration. Moving to a 28nm manufacturing process technology, an act of shrinking a die to create a somewhat identical circuitry with a more advanced fabrication process, improves performance by packing in more transistors, and also significantly reduces active power consumption. There's also the inclusion of Connected Discontinuous Reception (CDRX), a technology that dynamically shuts down the handset receiver to conserve power between data bursts from the network (such as when a web page is loading). Display technologies, such as BRITE (Backlight Reactive Illumination Tecnology), solve the issues of backlight intensity by dynamically adjusting it based on content demands.
Reviewers have noticed the difference. Consider these reviews of the HTC One X (AT&T) and HTC Evo 4G LTE—the first handsets with a Snapdragon S4 processor and LTE—will do the trick:
Anandtech says, "In practice the AT&T One X seems to last a lot longer using LTE than any LTE Android phone we've tested in the past."
Slashgear shares a similar verdict: "The battery life here is pretty excellent, just like the HTC One X on AT&T and the HTC One S on T-Mobile, you've got the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 backing your whole system up with its ability to stay strong without draining the life out of your day via the battery. Count on this device to last you what it's lasted us, that being 10+ hours a pop with heavy use, no problem"
The road to balancing blazing 4G speeds with great battery life has been long and winding, but it looks like Snapdragon might finally get us there.
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How Clipping Became Today's Sound
Let me preface this article by saying I'm not opposed to the sound of clipping. In fact, I have a tutorial on how to clip a kick drum deliberately to make it hit harder. I use distortion in my mixes all the time. I even have a broken hardware compressor that I use specifically to clip things.
But I like clipping on my terms. I can do it in a way where I can get the bigness and the attitude without creating ugly harmonics or flattening the punch. Bad clipping makes things sound out of place, cheap, and weak. And yet, it is a ubiquitous sound in today's modern music.
What is Clipping?
Sound is essentially amplitude over time.
In the acoustic world, we don't really have any regulations on amplitude — things simply exert the pressure changes in the atmosphere that they exert, be it a mouse sneezing or a grenade going off.
However, in the mechanical world, the electrical world, and the digital world, we have limitations.
When those limitations are exceeded the amplitude of the sound can no longer exist in its original form — it transforms and creates energy where energy previously didn't exist.
This is clipping.
Not All Clipping Is Equal!
We have two forms of clipping — hard and soft. And these can occur in the mechanical, electrical, and digital domains. All of these manifest a bit differently.
Mechanical hard clipping occurs when a system's physical limitations are exceeded. This most commonly occurs in microphones and speakers. When these are receiving or creating sound, the diaphragm pushes and pulls with respect to the sound pressure level (SPL). However, the diaphragm can only stretch so far, and if the SPL exceeds how much the diaphragm can tolerate, it distorts.
Hard clipping also exists in the electrical stage. There are a number of ways this can occur, but it always involves some kind of gain staging system where the total voltage rating for a non-linear component is exceeded. Some non-linear components include diodes and transistors. Once the device hits its voltage limit, it clips not entirely unlike mechanical clipping.
In electronics, however, we can also have "soft" clipping. This occurs when a device starts to saturate as a signal approaches its limit, causing the amplitude to "bend" before it fully clips. A common device that does this is the push-pull amplifier frequently associated with tube gain stages, and the result of this distortion is a "warmer" or "rounder" sound than hard clipping.
Digital hard clipping is perhaps the most naturally aggressive form of clipping. In the digital domain, we have an absolute ceiling, meaning there's no bending or softening of the level at all at the threshold of our maximum level.
All of these different places in which clipping occurs have accounted as to why it's so integrated into today's sound.
Deliberate Clipping
Clipping really began with electric guitars.
Electric guitars naturally produce a very clean sound. Distortion was originally only really introduced through broken equipment or people trying to gain their amps up too loudly, but it didn't take long before musicians were experimenting with getting things to distort on purpose.
In the 1960s, manufacturers began making devices that would specifically introduce various degrees of hard and soft clipping, known as distortion pedals. And it didn't take long before musicians started making this an integral part of their sound. Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones were known for their use of distortion. While Rock had been around since the days of Chuck Berry, Rock, as we think of it, was really started by those aforementioned artists, and distortion was a distinguished part of that sound.
In the 70s, musicians started experimenting with all sorts of distortion. Many artists used overdrive, which hinges on soft clipping for its gritty but harmonically intact sound. Other artists like Hendrix and Black Sabbath used even edgier hard clipping-based effects, like fuzz pedals. The use of clipping in this way became a definitive sound of popular music, and in this way, we collectively embraced distortion as part of the music-making process.
Pushing the Envelope
Given a chance to experiment, we as musicians inevitably will. We always like to push the envelope and try to mess things up on purpose. Once distortion effects were present in the music-making market, we started putting it on everything — bass, drums, vocals — nothing was off-limits. Culturally, we have heard and accepted distortion in every which way for generations.
But in the 80s, we weren't just pushing the figurative envelope. We were pushing the literal envelope of the sound. Once commercial radio and the recording industry had fully bloomed in the 60s and 70s, radio stations and record labels started getting competitive. People wanted their records to sound bigger than everyone else's. In order to do this, record labels began instructing record engineers to print records louder.
There are two primary ways to do this. One is to compress the dynamics of the record very fast, a technique known as limiting; the other is to push the record into distortion. The limiting technique is designed to push levels up without incurring distortion, however, this can only be effective so far.
Eventually, something is going to give, and as record labels started demanding records continue to be louder and louder, subtly pushing the record into distortion along with limiting ultimately became better than just trying to do it all with a limiter (the lesser of two evils really). In this way, clipping was introduced to the sound of records. But it doesn't really stop there.
Competitive Music Making
This idea of making one song sound bigger than another has also applied to the world of sample packs. By the early 2000s, Hip-Hop and subsequently EDM dominated the popular music markets. These genres rely heavily on programmed drums for their rhythm parts. And these drums were either from drum machines or samplers. Either way, pre-packaged drum samples became part of a musician's arsenal in production.
A market for drum samples emerged in the mid-2000s, and the best sellers were the people who had the biggest sounding drums. This meant not only getting the best drum sounds but also making them sound as loud as possible. Sample pack producers began using similar techniques — dynamic compression and distortion — to do this.
I, myself, made a sample pack a few years back and part of what I used to make the sounds big was a dbx 160SL compressor. The limiter circuit on my dbx 160SL has a little quirk. The bypass doesn't disengage the whole limiter, it just disengages the part that does the actual limiting, but the part that turns down the ceiling stays in-line.
In other words, the bypass button actually turns the limiter into a clipper. I used very subtle amounts of clipping from the dbx to push the signal a little louder. Many sample pack producers use similar techniques, although with different mechanisms and to different degrees.
So even before our records are clipping due to pushing them loudly, the samples being used in our records already have some clipping burned into the sound. And we have about fifteen years of music-making happening in this fashion.
Our Capabilities Have Changed
As our record-making equipment and techniques have evolved, we've grown capable of making records more pristine than ever before. But the sound of clipping has become so integrated into the culture and quality of recorded music, it almost doesn't sound right when we aren't distorting somewhere.
In truth, I don't lament this. There are very few styles of music where pristine recordings make for effective results. Music is a reflection of culture and of emotion — and neither of those things exists without imperfections.
Distortion, like music itself, is a reflection of the human condition, which is beautifully flawed.
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Over the last week or so I've had 4 clear nights in which to gather data on NGC 2264. Unfortunately on the night I was gathering OIII data, the conditions we less the great resulting is a loss of that nice deep blue I was hoping for.
I'm still pleased with the resulting image, and ready to move on so I'll call this one done for now :).


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Diana Thater
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Diana Thater is a core faculty member and former chair of ArtCenter's graduate Art Department. An exhibiting artist since 1992, Thater has received international acclaim for her ground-breaking film, video and installation-based works. A writer, educator and curator as well as artist, she is known for exploring the unpredictable relationships between culture and nature, human and animal, and science and magic. Her film Welcome to Taiji with T. Kelly Mason and Ric O'Barry served as the basis for the Academy Award-winning documentary The Cove.
Thater received her BA in art history from New York University and her MFA from ArtCenter. During the past decade, her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions, including the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; Natural History Museum, London; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Secession, Vienna; and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois. In 2015, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art presented Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, a 25-year mid-career survey of her work.
Her art is represented in museum collections worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Notable awards and fellowships include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art project grant, Artistic Innovation award from Los Angeles' Center for Cultural Innovation, and James D. Phelan Award in Film and Video.


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Margaret's Night in St. Peter's is the second book in The Pope's Cat series. Margaret is a stray cat who was adopted by the Holy Father. In the first book of the series, she was introduced to life in the Vatican.
In this installment, it is Christmas Eve and the Vatican is getting ready for the big celebration. Margaret has the opportunity to listen to a Swedish children's choir and take a tour of St. Peter's Basilica. While in the basilica, she gets to visit the tomb of St. Peter and see Michelangelo's Pieta. She also has the opportunity to attend Midnight mass and to hear the Pope give his "Urbi et Orbi" (To the City and the World) address.
This book series, written by Jon Sweeney and illustrated by Ray DeLeon, is a cute introduction to life at the Vatican for children ages 6 – 10. Two more books, Margaret's First Holy Week and Margaret and the Pope go to Assisi, are scheduled to be released in 2019.
"We can become saints because the Lord helps us. . . .[Becoming a saint] is the greatest gift that each one of us can give to the world." These words from Pope Francis are intended for all of us, both young and old.
My Year with the Saints for Kids, compiled by Peter Celano, is designed to help children aim for holiness. Each day's entry features a short saint or scriptural quote followed by a brief prayer or reflection question. This book would be best for children ages 7 and up. The quotes, reflections, and prayers are all relevant to adults and teens as well as children.
My Year with the Saints for Kids would be a great addition to a morning basket for children or for use with family prayer time.


Nevertheless there certainly are techniques and habits that will improve happiness, productivity and health. And these can be used to help yourself so to speak. So what to call these handy tips for life? To avoid the bad name of the self-help industry I'll just call it life improvement. However you won't hear me marketing like Dale Carnegie, neither will I write long motivational monologues. You'll just get the tools, the data and why they work, no pointless fluff.
Now before you read my incredible summaries of great books, and start using the tools I will point you towards you might want to now what my overarching vision is.
So we focus on slowly creating one good habit at a time and waiting with the next one until we have successfully implemented it for a minimum of 3 weeks.
The goal is to create these habits in a way that the least amount of willpower is necessary which can be accomplished through "Ulysses pacts" like changing your environment, making a commitment once that locks you out for an extended period of time, doing one action immediately after another and more techniques that will be dealt with in a future blogpost.
Most of your behaviour and instincts have been selected for through evolution, but the context of this evolution has (mostly) not been modernity, but rather some proto-agrarian village in the forests of Europe. And the goal is to find a way to have these instincts work for you as much as possible rather than constantly fighting them as you probably are doing right now.
Community is important, very few men are islands. Most do better when regularly socializing with other people. Another use of community is telling people about your commitments, once failure disappoints someone you are much more inclined to push through. Lastly, success will probably increase your status within your community which is a good motivator.
Having clearly defined goals and tracking their progress works. So keeping a journal, weekly log or habit tracking app keeps you on track.
There is such a thing as enough, forever working to become better is not necessarily the goal. This cultist mentality of never ending self-improvement is mostly pointless. People with incomes above 85.000 Euro a year actually generally become less happy and more stressed as their income increases. And ask yourselves if you are in the top 10% strongest guys in your gym what extra benefit is there to hitting the top 5%? Usually the law of diminishing returns hit's pretty hard and enough is enough.
A stoic world-view is generally helpful, and mindfulness meditation is useful in creating and sustaining this mental architecture.


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Home — News — The rise and rise of the diminutive zebrafish
The rise and rise of the diminutive zebrafish
It shares 70% of our genetic code, can repair its own heart, grows at an astonishing rate and is transparent meaning it can be easily examined. Little wonder this stripy tropical creature has become one of scientists' best allies in fighting disease.
Once more commonly favoured as an aquarium pet, the tiny black and white zebrafish has acquired a startling scientific importance in recent years and is now playing a key role in unravelling the roles of all the 20,000 genes inside the human body.
Its soaring popularity is down to several key attributes that scientists look for when trying to model human diseases.
Astonishing growth rate
Female zebrafish produce hundreds of offspring that grow at an astonishing rate. A zebrafish embryo will develop as much in a day as a human embryo will in a month and a fish reaches full adulthood – and its maximum size of around two inches – within three months. They are also easy to maintain in large numbers indoors.
Transparent bodies
Young zebrafish are almost completely transparent, a critical feature for it allows researchers to study cells inside their bodies as they grow and divide without touching them.
FVG Inc, Portland September 2014 - visit to Zebrafish laboratory
Fully sequenced genome
In combination with its transparency and remarkable growth rate, the zebrafish's genetic structure is surprisingly close to that of humans. Its genome has been fully sequenced and it has well-understood, easily observable and testable developmental behaviors.
As a result, scientists have already used the fish to pinpoint the functions of hundreds of human genes. About 70% of our genes turn out to have a zebrafish counterpart, and for genes that cause disease in human, 84% of these have zebrafish analogues, which is why bodies like the Wellcome Trust in the UK is funding a substantial study of zebrafish.
Zebrafish also have the ability to regenerate their own fins, skin and hearts which is helping advance research to improve the survival and recovery rate of people recovering from heart attacks.
Advancing research
Their use was first pioneered by the American molecular biologist George Streisinger in the 1970s and 1980s but has led to advances in the fields of developmental biology, oncology, toxicology, reproductive studies, neurobiology, stem cell research and regenerative medicine.
Once best known as an aquarium pet, the zebrafish has become a scientific star


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The Human Body, Searchable in 3-D
A new tool lets people see the inside of the body up close and in great detail.
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The first online 3-D interactive search tool of the human body was released today. It allows a user to view and navigate the human anatomy, male or female, down to the finest detail—from the muscles and deep muscles to the nerves, arteries, vessels, and bones. This new tool, called BodyMaps, was developed by Healthline Networks, a company that provides medical information to consumers online, and GE Healthyimagination, a Web-based platform that shares and promotes projects that focus on consumer health, such as apps or healthy how-to videos.
Anatomical views: BodyMaps, a 3-D visual search tool, allows a user to search and navigate the human body. Shown at left is the left ventricle of the heart. Pop-up text gives definitions, descriptions, and common conditions. At right, the "deep muscle" view of the knee shows layers of the body from the skin and muscles down to the arteries, vessels, and bones.
BodyMaps is a consumer tool developed to educate the user on health conditions or medical ailments. At the center of the BodyMaps page is a 3-D image of the body; at left is textual information about the body section being shown. As a user mouses over the text, the section of the body in the image is highlighted, and vice versa if a user mouses over the image. At the bottom is a scrubber that lets the user rotate the body 360 degrees. The page also features videos, tips on staying healthy, information on symptoms and conditions, and a definition of the section in view.
The user can select a body region to explore by clicking the text or image, or by using the search tool. Selecting shoulders generated a crisp, high-definition 3-D image of the shoulder section, starting at the skin level, with the option to click through to see the muscles, nerves and vessels, and bone. Choosing the deltoid muscle, a definition popped up and the remaining muscles were shaded out. An option to read more provided a lengthy definition and description of the muscle, including common injuries and their causes and symptoms.
There is also an anatomy list for each body section the user chooses to view—the heart even has a cross-section view and a diagram of blood flow while the knee shows each layer of connective tissues.
BodyMaps is a flash application and can be viewed in any browser; it does not require the user to download any software or special programs to run. "This is not a science experiment," says West Shell, chairman and CEO of Healthline Networks. "We have built this as a search product for consumer education," he says.
Google is working on a similar project called Google Body, which is part of Google Labs. Unlike BodyMaps, it requires a Web 3-D standard called WebGL and can only be used in a Chrome browser. Google Body also lacks the level of detail both in its imagery and information that is available in BodyMaps.
BodyMaps was built using Healthline's taxonomy, a database of health and medical information the company spent 10 years building. It relates the different attributes and facets of a disease or condition to relevant symptoms and treatments, types of doctors, and even insurance billing codes. When a user conducts a search, all the relevant information is displayed. To create the 3-D graphics, Healthline and GE Healthyimagination used over 25 medical illustrators to first make the drawings. They then partnered with Visible Productions to do the 3-D modeling and applied the existing taxonomy and search and navigation technology to the models.
Shell says the most viewed information on Healthline.com is visual data such as images, videos, and animations. "We are enhancing the visual learning experience by making the 3-D body the platform for navigation," he says.
The next phase of development for the new 3-D tool is to make it available on mobile devices and tablets. To do so, Healthline is building the application in HTML 5, a programming language that is supported by most devices. Shell expects BodyMaps to be on mobile platforms in the next six months to a year.
The system, while the first of its kind, still needs some work. Some queries, like "large intestine," produce no results, and certain "read more" sections, such as in the knee region, do not have any additional information. Also, choosing to "read more" about the muscle "biceps brachii," displayed in the shoulder region, makes the user go back to the arm section.
The company expects to introduce additional capabilities by June that will let users explore in 3-D graphics the progression of a disease, how a drug works in the body, a medical procedure, or even an injury. At least 20 different scenarios will be launched initially, and new ones will continue to be released. Further planned improvements will let users upload his or her medical imagery into the system and compare it with the information in BodyMaps.
Shell says Healthline is conducting a pilot study with GE, integrating the imagery from the company's electronic medical record system with BodyMaps. This application will not be available to users "for a while," but should be implemented widely across GE for testing later this year, he says.
Brittany Sauser


Without carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, Earth would be a frozen and uninhabitable planet. The greenhouse effect is a good thing. The ratio of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere has, for the last several hundred thousand years, naturally hovered between 180 and 280 parts per million. In the 1960s, this ratio shot up to 300 parts per million for the first time in human history. We are now over 400 parts per million!
Since human beings have been around, there has been a pretty astounding balance between the greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere and natural carbon sinks like forests, and the ocean.
Beginning around the time of the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses began to increase in our atmosphere like no other time in human history. This is attributed to the combustion of fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.
But how do we know humans are the cause of the increasing greenhouse gasses and the swelling greenhouse effect?
"But, that's not even 2 percent of the 30 billion tons of CO2 that our civilization is cranking out every year. And, funny thing, the measured increase of CO2 in the atmosphere tallies with the known amount that we are dumping there by burning coal, oil, and natural gas," he says.
Scientists from around the world, from wildly diverse areas of study, and from countless institutions—public and private—resoundingly agree - human activity is causing rapid climate change.
Below, is a four-minute video, which succinctly and simply explains climate change, how it works and why it is imperative that you care about it.
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An overzealous policeman was almost beaten by angry residents in Delta state over alleged harassment.
It was gathered that the policeman attached to a bank in Sapele area of the state, harassed motorcyclists who brought their passengers close to the bank premises, some days ago.
Even the passengers were not left out as it was alleged that the policeman used a big wood to hit one of the passengers identified as Mr. Jeff after being dropped by a motorcyclist near the bank.
The overzealous officer reportedly continued harassing innocent citizens until he allegedly hit an old woman with the wood which made her fall to the ground and found it difficult in standing up.
This angered people around who gathered the police officer and harassed him as he was nearly beaten in the process.


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my pinky looks a little bit thicker due to the wrap being on it but I can deal with that.I left my nails natural cus they didn't look that bad.some people have imperfections on their real nails so i am not too bothered by it. I have to say the wraps weren't that hard to do. it was getting them to fit that was a problem. having to trim and trim I did use only one wrap for both fingers since i had so much leftover. I wasn't going to waste it.
I did two coats of IA over the wraps then did one of rock topcoat. I probably could have used another coat you can faintly see the cross marks of the wrap but no one would notice that but me.
Seche vite has one but the reviews on that one arent good. that one cost like 24 bucks.
My other middle nails is a tad weak i am always paranoid about breaking it even with the IA I think i filed it weird so that is the problem. I may end up wrapping it but who knows. I have to say that instant artificials was so worth it. i totally love it.
I found and tried the IA, too. Both my mom and I can tell the difference with it. But it doesn't hold up to doing dishes at work :( I don't think anything will, tbh. Thankfully I only have to do that once a week.
did you do one or two coats?
I used 2 coats. I thought about using gloves, but I can't stand the feeling of water inside of them. It completely freaks me out. Our sink at work is almost 2.5 feet deep, so I'm usually up to my elbows. IA is a lot better than anything else I've ever tried, so I'm going to chalk it up to a hazard of the job.
I hope your nails do grow while using it though.


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London Waterloo station is a central London terminus on the National Rail network in the UK.

Waterloo station may also refer to:

Railway stations

United Kingdom
Aberdeen Waterloo railway station, a former station in Aberdeen, Scotland
Waterloo Halt railway station, a former station in Rudry, Caerphilly, Wales
Waterloo (Hanover Stadtbahn station), in Lower Saxony, Germany
Waterloo International railway station, a former Eurostar terminal in London, England
Waterloo railway station (Merseyside), in England
Waterloo tube station, a London Underground station below the mainline station

Elsewhere
Waterloo metro station (Charleroi), a light rail station in Hainaut, Belgium
Waterloo railway station, Belgium, in Walloon Brabant, Belgium
Waterloo railway station, Lower Hutt, in Greater Wellington, New Zealand
Waterloo railway station, Sydney, a rapid transit station in New South Wales, Australia
Waterloo station (Indiana), in the United States
Yau Ma Tei station, a rapid transit station, formerly named Waterloo station, in Kowloon, Hong Kong

Similar names
University of Waterloo station, a light rail station in Ontario, Canada
Waterloo East railway station, in London, England
Waterloo Road (NSR) railway station, in Staffordshire, England
Waterlooplein metro station, in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Other uses
Waterloo Station (TV series), an Australian television series

See also

Waterloo (disambiguation)
Waterloo & City line, a London Underground shuttle line between Waterloo and Bank
Waterloo Underground Depot
Waterloo and Whitehall Railway


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Q: CheckboxColumn в GridView У меня есть таблица со следующими полями:
integer $ID_REC
string $NAME_TOPIC
integer $RANDOM
integer $MAX_TIME
string $DT_UP
integer $STATUS

В переменной $RANDOM в БД у меня записаны данные либо 0, либо 1.
Как мне вывести в GridView колонку в виде CheckBox для поля $RANDOM? Потому что если я вывожу таким образом, то у меня все чек-боксы пустые.
<?php Pjax::begin(); ?>    <?= GridView::widget([
        'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
        'filterModel' => $searchModel,
        'columns' => [
            ['class' => 'yii\grid\SerialColumn'],
            'ID_REC',
            'NAME_TOPIC',
            [
                'class' => 'yii\grid\CheckboxColumn',
                'checkboxOptions' => function ($model, $key, $index, $column) {
                    return ['value' => $model->RANDOM];
                }
            ],
            'RANDOM',
            'MAX_TIME:text',
            'DT_UP',
            'STATUS',

            ['class' => 'yii\grid\ActionColumn'],
        ],
    ]); ?>
<?php Pjax::end(); ?></div>

A: Все оказалось довольно просто. Чек бокс сам себя не отметит, нужно просто было указать условие:
return ['value' => $model->RANDOM, 'checked' => $model->RANDOM];

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    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
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        isTransparent = NO;
        selected = NO;

        // Default is clear color
        red = redH = green = greenH = blue = blueH = alpha = alphaH = 0.f;

        const CGFloat *rgb = CGColorGetComponents(self.backgroundColor.CGColor);

        isTransparent = NO;
        selected = NO;

        // If background color was set
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        {
            red = redH = rgb[0];
            green = greenH = rgb[1];
            blue = blueH = rgb[2];
            alpha = alphaH = rgb[3];
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        grayScale = nil;
    }
    return self;
}

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{
    [grayScale release];
    [super dealloc];
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- (void)setBackgroundColorHighlighted:(UIColor *)color
{
    const CGFloat *rgbH = CGColorGetComponents(color.CGColor);

    // Color is black or white
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    {
        redH = rgbH[0];
        greenH = rgbH[1];
        blueH = rgbH[2];
        alphaH = rgbH[3];

        grayScale = nil;
    }
    else
    {
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    }
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- (void)changeBackgroundColor:(BOOL)highlighted
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    if (highlighted)
    {
        [self.imageView setImage:[self imageForState:UIControlStateHighlighted]];
        [self.titleLabel setTextColor:[self titleColorForState:UIControlStateHighlighted]];
        [self setBackgroundColor:(grayScale != nil ? grayScale : [UIColor colorWithRed:redH green:greenH blue:blueH alpha:alphaH])];
    }
    else
    {
        [self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:red green:green blue:blue alpha:alpha]];
    }
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- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted
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    if (selected)
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        [self.titleLabel setTextColor:[self titleColorForState:UIControlStateDisabled]];
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    {
        [self.titleLabel setTextColor:[self titleColorForState:UIControlStateNormal]];
        [self.imageView setImage:[self imageForState:UIControlStateNormal]];
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Home Labour flexibility
Self-service at filling stations will cause layoffs and work flexibility
on: July 14, 2019 In: Employment, Energy crisis, Labor reform, Labour flexibility, Workers' rights
The Argentine national Energy Secretariat, led by Gustavo Lopetegui, former Deputy Chief of Cabinet of Mauricio Macri, is about to implement something that will directly harm service station...	Read more
Statement after 270 layoffs in Nucleoeléctrica Argentina SA
on: July 30, 2018 In: Dismissals, Employment, Labour flexibility, Workers' rights
By Luz y Fuerza de Zárate Nucleoeléctrica Argentina S.A. (NASA in its Spanish acronym) dismissed 270 permanent workers, as a result of the austerity policies carried out by the Argentine nat...	Read more
Labor reform an adjustment against workers
on: July 12, 2018 In: Anti-layoffs bill, Employment, General Information, Labor reform, Labour flexibility, Workers' rights
Fabián Pereyra, a recently retired oil worker from Comodoro Rivadavia and a member of FeTERA, analyzed in this new FeTERA Informative program number 132, the modifications to the collective...	Read more
Luz y Fuerza Mar del Plata condemns the agreement with the IMF
on: June 11, 2018 In: Dismissals, General Information, Labour flexibility, Workers' rights
By Luz y Fuerza de Mar del Plata Trade Union The national government, through the Minister of Finance, Nicolás Dujovne, and the President of the Central Bank, Federico Sturzenegger, announce...	Read more
International rejection to Macri's labor reform
on: November 06, 2017 In: Employment, General Information, Labor reform, Labour flexibility
On November 2nd, in a fraternal meeting, the National Board of the CTA Autónomas and the CTA de los Trabajadores received the delegations of the French CGT, led by its General Secretary, Phi...	Read more
Macri's government privatizes energy
on: November 02, 2017 In: Energy crisis, General Information, Labor reform, Labour flexibility
By José Rigane* In the midst of tax and labor reforms, flexibilization initiatives, and a new reform on the pension system which directly affects retirees, the Government decides to sell nat...	Read more
Rigane: "Labor flexibility means securing profits for companies"
on: October 17, 2017 In: General Information, Labor reform, Labour flexibility, Minimum Wage, Workers' rights
In dialog with the news website "El Retrato …", the General Secretary of the Luz y Fuerza de Mar del Plata trade union, José Rigane, stated that "the labor flexibiliz...	Read more
Luis Campos: "The labor reform of Macri and Triaca will try to remove unions from negotiations"
on: September 25, 2017 In: Employment, General Information, Labor reform, Labour flexibility, Workers' rights
The Argentine government wants to push a labor reform after the October 22 legislative elections. The model to imitate would be the reform recently implemented by Brazil. Although it is not...	Read more
In the face of labor flexibility, we need unity of workers
on: July 29, 2017 In: Dismissals, Employment, General Information, Labour flexibility, Workers' rights
By José Rigane* On Thursday July 27, the business sector in Argentina, represented by the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA), the Chamber of Commerce (CAC), the Argentine Business Association...	Read more
José Rigane: "The minimum wage set by the government is a shame"
on: June 30, 2017 In: Employment, Labour flexibility, Minimum Wage, Workers' rights
The Deputy Secretary of the CTA Autónoma (CTA-A), José Rigane, participated Tuesday June 27th -along with Pablo Micheli (Secretary General of the CTA-A) and leaders from the CTA de los Traba...	Read more