Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus erythropolis Type Strain JCM 3201.
Yoshida K, Kitagawa W, Ishiya K, Mitani Y, Nakashima N, Aburatani S, Tamura T.
Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Apr 4;8(14). pii: e01730-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01730-18.
Sugino K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Ohkuwa K, Uruno T, Matsuzu K, Suzuki A, Tomoda C, Y Hames K, Akaishi J, Masaki C, Ogimi Y, Yabuta T, Ito K.
Endocr J. 2019 Feb 28;66(2):181-186. doi: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ18-0324. Epub 2018 Dec 19.
Usefulness of Stereotactic Radiotherapy Using the CyberKnife for Patients with Inoperable Locoregional Recurrences of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer.
Ishigaki T, Uruno T, Tanaka T, Ogimi Y, Masaki C, Akaishi J, Hames KY, Yabuta T, Suzuki A, Tomoda C, Matsuzu K, Ohkuwa K, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Sugino K, Ito K.
World J Surg. 2019 Feb;43(2):513-518. doi: 10.1007/s00268-018-4813-5.
Identification of a novel bacteriocin-like protein and structural gene from Rhodococcus erythropolis JCM 2895, using suppression-subtractive hybridization.
Kitagawa W, Mitsuhashi S, Hata M, Tamura T.
J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2018 Oct;71(10):872-879. doi: 10.1038/s41429-018-0078-3. Epub 2018 Jul 6.
Saito Y, Sugino K, Takami H, Matsuzu K, Uruno T, Ohkuwa K, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Kawakubo H, Ito K, Kitagawa Y.
Sugino K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Ohkuwa K, Uruno T, Matsuzu K, Suzuki A, Masaki C, Akaishi J, Hames KY, Tomoda C, Ogimi Y, Ito K.
Endocr J. 2018 Mar 28;65(3):299-306. doi: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ17-0365. Epub 2017 Dec 21.
Tomoda C, Sugino K, Tanaka T, Ogimi Y, Masaki C, Akaishi J, Hames KY, Suzuki A, Matsuzu K, Uruno T, Ohkuwa K, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Ito K.
Thyroid. 2018 Jan;28(1):104-109. doi: 10.1089/thy.2017.0524. Epub 2018 Jan 3.
Masaki C, Sugino K, Saito N, Saito Y, Tanaka T, Ogimi Y, Maeda T, Osaku T, Akaishi J, Hames KY, Tomoda C, Suzuki A, Matsuzu K, Uruno T, Ohkuwa K, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Takami H, Ito K.
Endocr J. 2017 Aug 30;64(8):819-826. doi: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ17-0104. Epub 2017 Jul 28.
Restoration of the growth of Escherichia coli under K+-deficient conditions by Cs+ incorporation via the K+ transporter Kup.
Kato S, Kanata Y, Kitagawa W, Sone T, Asano K, Kamagata Y.
Sci Rep. 2017 May 16;7(1):1965. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-02024-4.
Tomoda C, Sugino K, Matsuzu K, Uruno T, Ohkuwa K, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Ito K.
Thyroid. 2016 Dec;26(12):1706-1711. Epub 2016 Oct 12.
Enrichment and isolation of Flavobacterium strains with tolerance to high concentrations of cesium ion.
Kato S, Goya E, Tanaka M, Kitagawa W, Kikuchi Y, Asano K, Kamagata Y.
Sci Rep. 2016 Feb 17;6:20041. doi: 10.1038/srep20041.
Prognosis After Brain Metastasis from Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma.
Saito F, Uruno T, Shibuya H, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Sugino K, Ito K.
World J Surg. 2016 Mar;40(3):574-81. doi: 10.1007/s00268-016-3405-5.
Outcome and characteristics of patients with malignant pleural effusion from differentiated thyroid carcinoma.
Tomoda C, Ogimi Y, Saito F, Masaki C, Akaishi J, Matsuzu K, Suzuki A, Uruno T, Ohkuwa K, Shibuya H, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Sugino K, Ito K.
Endocr J. 2016;63(3):257-61. doi: 10.1507/endocrj.EJ15-0631. Epub 2015 Dec 10.
Insect's intestinal organ for symbiont sorting.
Ohbayashi T, Takeshita K, Kitagawa W, Nikoh N, Koga R, Meng XY, Tago K, Hori T, Hayatsu M, Asano K, Kamagata Y, Lee BL, Fukatsu T, Kikuchi Y.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Sep 15;112(37):E5179-88. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1511454112. Epub 2015 Aug 31.
Chemosensitivity of anaplastic thyroid cancer based on a histoculture drug response assay.
Uruno T, Masaki C, Akaishi J, Matsuzu K, Suzuki A, Ohkuwa K, Shibuya H, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Sugino K, Ito K.
Int J Endocrinol. 2015;2015:967286. doi: 10.1155/2015/967286. Epub 2015 Mar 18.
Increase in Bacterial Colony Formation from a Permafrost Ice Wedge Dosed with a Tomitella biformata Recombinant Resuscitation-Promoting Factor Protein.
Puspita ID, Kitagawa W, Kamagata Y, Tanaka M, Nakatsu CH.
Microbes Environ. 2015;30(2):151-6. doi: 10.1264/jsme2.ME14119. Epub 2015 Apr 4.
Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Children and Adolescents: Long-Term Follow-Up and Clinical Characteristics.
Sugino K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Shibuya H, Ohkuwa K, Uruno T, Suzuki A, Akaishi J, Masaki C, Matsuzu K, Ito K.
World J Surg. 2015 Sep;39(9):2259-65. doi: 10.1007/s00268-015-3042-4.
Clinicopathologic features and outcomes in patients with diffuse sclerosing variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Akaishi J, Sugino K, Kameyama K, Masaki C, Matsuzu K, Suzuki A, Uruno T, Ohkuwa K, Shibuya H, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Shimizu K, Ito K.
World J Surg. 2015 Jul;39(7):1728-35. doi: 10.1007/s00268-015-3021-9.
Draft Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus erythropolis JCM 6824, an Aurachin RE Antibiotic Producer.
Kitagawa W, Hata M, Sekizuka T, Kuroda M, Ishikawa J.
Genome Announc. 2014 Oct 9;2(5). pii: e01026-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01026-14.
A hidden pitfall in the preparation of agar media undermines microorganism cultivability.
Tanaka T, Kawasaki K, Daimon S, Kitagawa W, Yamamoto K, Tamaki H, Tanaka M, Nakatsu CH, Kamagata Y.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2014 Dec;80(24):7659-66. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02741-14. Epub 2014 Oct 3.
Total synthesis of aurachins C, D, and L, and a structurally simplified analog of aurachin C.
Enomoto M, Kitagawa W, Yasutake Y, Shimizu H.
Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2014;78(8):1324-7. doi: 10.1080/09168451.2014.918494. Epub 2014 Jun 17.
Endogenous fructose production and fructokinase activation mediate renal injury in diabetic nephropathy.
Lanaspa MA, Ishimoto T, Cicerchi C, Tamura Y, Roncal-Jimenez CA, Chen W, Tanabe K, Andres-Hernando A, Orlicky DJ, Finol E, Inaba S, Li N, Rivard CJ, Kosugi T, Sanchez-Lozada LG, Petrash JM, Sautin YY, Ejaz AA, Kitagawa W, Garcia GE, Bonthron DT, Asipu A, Diggle CP, Rodriguez-Iturbe B, Nakagawa T, Johnson RJ.
J Am Soc Nephrol. 2014 Nov;25(11):2526-38. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2013080901. Epub 2014 May 29.
Does completion thyroidectomy improve the outcome of patients with minimally invasive follicular carcinoma of the thyroid?
Sugino K, Kameyama K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Shibuya H, Ohkuwa K, Uruno T, Akaishi J, Suzuki A, Masaki C, Matsuzu K, Kawano M, Ito K.
Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 Sep;21(9):2981-6. doi: 10.1245/s10434-014-3734-2. Epub 2014 Apr 26.
Draft Genome Sequence of Methanol-Utilizing Methylophilus sp. Strain OH31, Isolated from Pond Sediment in Hokkaido, Japan.
Kugo T, Kitagawa W, Shimomura Y, Yamagishi T, Tanaka M, Sone T, Asano K, Kamagata Y.
Genome Announc. 2014 Apr 10;2(2). pii: e00274-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00274-14.
Draft Genome Sequence of Tomitella biformata AHU 1821T, Isolated from a Permafrost Ice Wedge in Alaska.
Funo K, Kitagawa W, Tanaka M, Sone T, Asano K, Kamagata Y.
Genome Announc. 2014 Feb 13;2(1). pii: e00066-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00066-14.
Follicular thyroid carcinoma with distant metastasis: outcome and prognostic factor.
Endocr J. 2014;61(3):273-9. Epub 2014 Jan 10.
Retrospective analysis of factors predicting end-stage renal failure or death in patients with microscopic polyangiitis with mainly renal involvement.
Kawai H, Banno S, Kikuchi S, Nishimura N, Nobata H, Kimura Y, Takezawa Y, Ogawa M, Suzuki K, Kitagawa W, Miura N, Imai H.
Clin Exp Nephrol. 2014 Oct;18(5):795-802. doi: 10.1007/s10157-013-0926-1. Epub 2013 Dec 21.
Glomerular tip adhesions predict the progression of IgA nephropathy.
Maeda K, Kikuchi S, Miura N, Suzuki K, Kitagawa W, Morita H, Banno S, Imai H.
BMC Nephrol. 2013 Dec 5;14:272. doi: 10.1186/1471-2369-14-272.
Structure of the quinoline N-hydroxylating cytochrome P450 RauA, an essential enzyme that confers antibiotic activity on aurachin alkaloids.
Yasutake Y, Kitagawa W, Hata M, Nishioka T, Ozaki T, Nishiyama M, Kuzuyama T, Tamura T.
FEBS Lett. 2014 Jan 3;588(1):105-10. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.11.016. Epub 2013 Nov 20.
Optimal timing of surgery for differentiated thyroid cancer in pregnant women.
Uruno T, Shibuya H, Kitagawa W, Nagahama M, Sugino K, Ito K.
World J Surg. 2014 Mar;38(3):704-8. doi: 10.1007/s00268-013-2334-9.
Solitary amyloidosis of the sigmoid colon featuring submucosal tumor caused hematochezia.
Ogasawara N, Kitagawa W, Obayashi K, Itoh Y, Noda H, Funaki Y, Yokoi T, Sasaki M, Imai H, Kasugai K.
Umami: the taste that drives purine intake.
Johnson RJ, Nakagawa T, Sánchez-Lozada LG, Lanaspa MA, Tamura Y, Tanabe K, Ishimoto T, Thomas J, Inaba S, Kitagawa W, Rivard CJ.
J Rheumatol. 2013 Nov;40(11):1794-6. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.130531. No abstract available.
Thyroid lobectomy for papillary thyroid cancer: long-term follow-up study of 1,088 cases.
Matsuzu K, Sugino K, Masudo K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Shibuya H, Ohkuwa K, Uruno T, Suzuki A, Magoshi S, Akaishi J, Masaki C, Kawano M, Suganuma N, Rino Y, Masuda M, Kameyama K, Takami H, Ito K.
World J Surg. 2014 Jan;38(1):68-79. doi: 10.1007/s00268-013-2224-1.
Clinicopathological analysis of glomerulopathy with fibronectin deposits (GFND): a case of sporadic, elderly-onset GFND with codeposition of IgA, C1q, and fibrinogen.
Yoshino M, Miura N, Ohnishi T, Suzuki K, Kitagawa W, Nishikawa K, Imai H.
Intern Med. 2013;52(15):1715-20. Epub 2012 Mar 1. Review.
Serum intact parathyroid hormone level after total thyroidectomy or total thyroidectomy plus lymph node dissection for thyroid nodules: report from 296 surgical cases.
Yano Y, Masaki C, Sugino K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Sibuya H, Ito K.
Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2012 Fall;10(4):594-8. doi: 10.5812/ijem.3462. Epub 2012 Sep 30.
Kim JK, Lee HJ, Kikuchi Y, Kitagawa W, Nikoh N, Fukatsu T, Lee BL.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Aug;79(16):4879-86. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01269-13. Epub 2013 Jun 7.
Kitagawa W, Ozaki T, Nishioka T, Yasutake Y, Hata M, Nishiyama M, Kuzuyama T, Tamura T.
Chembiochem. 2013 Jun 17;14(9):1085-93. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201300167. Epub 2013 May 15.
Does Hürthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid have a poorer prognosis than ordinary follicular thyroid carcinoma?
Sugino K, Kameyama K, Ito K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Shibuya H, Ohkuwa K, Uruno T, Akaishi J, Suzuki A, Masaki C, Ito K.
Ann Surg Oncol. 2013 Sep;20(9):2944-50. doi: 10.1245/s10434-013-2965-y. Epub 2013 Apr 26.
Diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration biopsy cytology and ultrasonography in patients with thyroid nodules diagnosed as benign or indeterminate before thyroidectomy.
Sugino K, Ito K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Shibuya H, Ohkuwa K, Yano Y, Uruno T, Akaishi J, Suzuki A, Masaki C, Ito K.
Endocr J. 2013;60(3):375-82. Epub 2012 Nov 29.
Resuscitation promoting factor (Rpf) from Tomitella biformata AHU 1821(T) promotes growth and resuscitates non-dividing cells.
Dewi Puspita I, Uehara M, Katayama T, Kikuchi Y, Kitagawa W, Kamagata Y, Asano K, Nakatsu CH, Tanaka M.
Microbes Environ. 2013;28(1):58-64. Epub 2012 Oct 26.
Myeloperoxidase anti-cytoplasmic antibody related crescentic glomerulonephritis in a patient with IgG3λ monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease with membranous features.
Ito A, Miura N, Kimura Y, Maeda S, Suzuki K, Kitagawa W, Morita H, Banno S, Imai H.
Intern Med. 2012;51(17):2393-7. Epub 2012 Sep 1. Review.
Changes in the thyroid function of Graves' disease patients treated by subtotal thyroidectomy.
Endocr J. 2012;59(12):1115-20. Epub 2012 Aug 24.
Systemic AA amyloidosis in a patient with lung metastasis from renal cell carcinoma.
Nobata H, Suga N, Itoh A, Miura N, Kitagawa W, Morita H, Yokoi T, Banno S, Imai H.
Amyloid. 2012 Dec;19(4):197-200. doi: 10.3109/13506129.2012.712926. Epub 2012 Aug 28.
Sugino K, Kameyama K, Ito K, Nagahama M, Kitagawa W, Shibuya H, Ohkuwa K, Yano Y, Uruno T, Akaishi J, Suzuki A, Masaki C, Ito K.
Tamura Y, Tanabe K, Kitagawa W, Uchida S, Schreiner GF, Johnson RJ, Nakagawa T.


With all the focus on the Kia Stinger, you've probably forgotten about Kia's flagship sedan, the K900. Well Kia has unveiled the 2019 Kia K900 today at the New York Auto Show, which seeks to set a new standard for luxury and hopefully get more attention than before.
The second generation 2019 Kia K900 is wrapped in a more sophisticated exterior that Kia hopes will appeal to more buyers. It's no secret that sales of the first generation K900 didn't exactly take off. To design the 2019 K900, Kia reached out to its design teams in both South Korea and California.
The 2019 K900 is slightly longer and wider than its predecessor and at the front it features a new "Quadric pattern" grille with 176 jewel-like cells. The duplex headlights are also influenced by the trajectory of light, while the hood features a "floating" design that is meant to a emphasize the length, volume and balanced proportions of the car. The rear of the K900 features duplex taillights that are similar to the headlights.
Overall the design of the 2019 K900 isn't a stand out, like the Stinger, but instead it's more sophisticated and luxurious.
Inside the K900 shines with luxurious materials like metal veneers and open pore matte wood. Soft leather also covers more surfaces than before and the dash features an uncluttered minimalistic design. At the center of the dash there's a 12.3-inch Human Machine Interface touchscreen that displays maps, trip information, audio sources and climate controls. A second 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster is also optional that displays different graphics based on the selected drive mode: Comfort, Eco, Sport or Custom.
The 2019 Kia K900 is powered by a 3.3L twin-turbocharged V6 that generates 365 horsepower and 376 lb-ft. of torque. The V6 is mated to an eight-speed automatic transmission and a standard full-time Dynamic Torque Vectoring Control all-wheel drive system. The all-wheel drive system is rear biased, but up to 50 percent of torque can be sent to the front wheels. In Sport mode up to 80 percent of the power can be sent to the rear.
The 2019 Kia K900 will arrive in the U.S. in the second quarter of 2018.


Port City Craftsmen annual arts and crafts show is November 21-23 at Abba Shrine Auditorium. This event always features beautiful, high-quality, handmade crafts and artwork.
And, this year, among the 95-100 artisans is Susan Wright, who takes apart old, sometimes broken jewelry and, using the best, most beautiful parts refashions them into new and exciting pieces. She also makes wall hangings and table top decorations from old jewelry, as seen in the photo at left.
For information on the PCC show, call Kendra Bennett, 508-1210.
Usually go to this event. Always surprised by something new and different.


Traditionally, a 10-15X magnification hand lense or low power digital microscope has been used to help distinguish mushroom features like cap and stem texture, gill edge type and spore stains.
Costly stereo-microscopes have been used for low magnification of fungi surface and macro features.
Stereo microscopes use light reflected from the surface of the mushroom to produce 3D 20-300x magnification through combining the different viewpoints of the two eyepieces.
The magnifying power of stereomicroscopes are not high but their prices are.
Digital microscopes attach to a computer output either via a a built in screen or via usb connection to your computer. They can have a built in camera or a camera tube to which a microscope camera or regular digital camera can be attached.
There are both low power and high power digital microscopes. Digital microscopes allow you to see and photograph your fungi image via a screen which can be further projected via your computer. The high power versions usually have monocular or binocular viewing tubes as well as the digital screen.
These days, smart phone adaptations can be a vastly cheaper and more flexible alternative to a stereomicroscope. Click here for more on quality smart phone attachments.
High megapixal macro photos can achieve similar results to a stereo microscope with the bonus of making permanent records. Click here for tips on fungi photography.
To see microscopic fungi parts like spores and ascii you will need 1000x magnification.
Getting clear image detail at 1000x magnification has requires a quality oil immersion compound microscope.
There are usually four objective lenses with 4x, 10x,20-40x and 100x magification and a 10x magnification ocular lens making a total magnification of 1000 times.
Press here for a diagram showing each of the aspects of a compound microscope.


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Ranova similis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1953.

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Beetles described in 1953

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Caring nurse at rest home.
Shots from a shoot in the nursing home, exposing the fulfillment of the special needs and requirements that are unique to senior people. Shot with Sony PMW-F3, Arri, Dedolight and Kino Flo lightning system.


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Nominations sought for Lead-free Solder Awards
LONDON — Soldertec Global is looking for individuals or organisations involved with the development of lead-free technology to enter for this years Lead-free Solder Awards. The awards recognise significant contributions of researchers, engineers or companies to the development and implementation of lead-free electronics soldering during 2005.
Applications can be made directly by individuals or organisations, but industry is also encouraged to provide nominations of individuals they feel should be recognised for this award. For the second year running we will be presenting a student award for academic research into lead-free issues. Applications or nominations should be made by email to Tom Perrettdescribing in less than 300 words the work of the individual towards achieving the successful introduction of lead-free electronics. Additional back-up material is welcome.
Past awards have been made for leading collaborative research projects, introducing lead-free soldering into production, making particular improvements in process technology or contributing to knowledge through academic studies. The Soldertec Global Award was established in 1999 to mark the launch of Tin Technologys Lead-free Soldering Centre (Soldertec) and was granted in its first year to Dr Kenichiro Suetsugu of Panasonic, Japan in recognition of the successful introduction of lead-free soldering in mass production of the portable MiniDisc SJ-MJ30-S.
The deadline for application is 14th October 2005 and winners will be announced in November 2005.
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Bryan Lee Phillips
Mon., December 09, 2019
Bryan Lee Phillips, 42, of Marion, Iowa, passed away on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. Bryan will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him. Family will greet friends from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Marion. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, at Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Marion, conducted by Pastor Nate Montover, with burial at a later date.
Bryan was born Aug. 3, 1977, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the son of Charles "Larry" and Ruth (Burgher) Phillips. He attended Marion Elementary Schools in his youth, then Clear Creek Amana Junior High and High School, graduating in 1995. Bryan was a natural athlete, excelling in basketball, baseball and football programs. After graduation, he excelled in golf, playing many tournaments with his brother, Doug, his dad, Larry, and many, many friends. He was a member of the Wildcat Country Club in Shellsburg and, in winter months, enjoyed virtual indoor golf. Bryan also enjoyed league bowling with family and friends and was an avid Dallas Cowboys fan, attending some of their games with his dad, grandfather and brother. He enjoyed playing cards and games with his family.
Bryan was united in marriage to Karen Meyer on April 18, 2015, at Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Marion. They enjoyed many family vacations together.
Bryan had various jobs throughout his life, most recently as the owner/operator of Midwest Surplus, which he truly enjoyed, as he could base his hours around all of his children's activities for school and sports. He put everyone's happiness above his own and was an excellent father, and truly loved all six of his children. Bryan was always so happy and loved being around people and joking with family and friends.
He is survived by his wife, Karen Phillips of Marion; his children, Jocelyn, Belle, Jennifer, Faith, Noah and Kinsley; mother, Ruth (Bill) Cellman of Oxford; brother, Douglas L. Phillips of Hiawatha; father-in-law, Randal E. Meyer (Vicki Schroder) of Woodbine; brother-in-law, David (Sarah) Meyer of Coggon; sister-in-law, Dawn (Marty) Jenness of Cherokee; and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and good friends.
Bryan was preceded in death by his father; paternal grandparents, Doyle and Lola Phillips; maternal grandparents, Rudy and Irene Lnenicka; stepgrandparents, John and Rosalie Cellman; and mother-in-law, Elaine Meyer.
Memorials in Bryan's memory may be directed to the family.
Please share a memory of Bryan at www.murdochfuneralhome.com under obituaries.


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namespace Oro\Bundle\FormBundle\Tests\Unit\Form\Type;

use Oro\Bundle\FormBundle\Form\EventListener\FixArrayToStringListener;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormEvent;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormEvents;

class FixArrayToStringListenerTest extends \PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase
{
    /**
     * @dataProvider preBindDataProvider
     *
     * @param string $delimiter
     * @param mixed $data
     * @param mixed $expectedData
     */
    public function testPreBind($delimiter, $data, $expectedData)
    {
        $event = new FormEvent($this->createMock('Symfony\Component\Form\Test\FormInterface'), $data);
        $listener = new FixArrayToStringListener($delimiter);
        $listener->preSubmit($event);
        $this->assertEquals($expectedData, $event->getData());
    }

    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function preBindDataProvider()
    {
        return array(
            'skip' => array(
                ',',
                '1,2,3,4',
                '1,2,3,4',
            ),
            'convert array to string' => array(
                ',',
                array(1, 2, 3, 4),
                '1,2,3,4',
            )
        );
    }

    public function testGetSubscribedEvents()
    {
        $this->assertEquals(
            array(FormEvents::PRE_SUBMIT => 'preSubmit'),
            FixArrayToStringListener::getSubscribedEvents()
        );
    }
}

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The report, drawn up for tobacco giant Philip Morris Inc, found that the Czech Republic saved about $147m in 1997 through the deaths of smokers who would not live to use healthcare or housing for the elderly. This is not the normal way we think about the lives of citizens Richard Daynard, anti-tobacco industry lobbyist Compiled as a cost-benefit analysis and delivered to the Czech Government, the study weighted the savings against the income tax lost and cost of caring for smokers before they died. However, tobacco industry opponents have attacked the report as an attempt to show that governments benefit from smoking related deaths. Marlboro cigarettes Philip Morris produces one of the world's best known brands The study "was part of an ongoing debate about the economics of cigarette excise tax policy in the Czech Republic," said a company spokesman. Philip Morris employs 178,000 people in more than 150 countries, and is the world's largest cigarette maker with brands such as Marlboro. It produces 80% of the cigarettes smoked in the Czech Republic. Defence Tobacco companies have used similar arguments in the past to defend themselves against lawsuits from states demanding reimbursement for treating smoking-related diseases. However, last month a Los Angeles jury ordered Philip Morris to pay more than $3bn to a smoker suffering from terminal cancer who said the company did not warn him of the dangers of smoking. The award was the largest individual punitive damage award ever against a cigarette maker.


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Labour party leadership
This rebellion is a shambles. Now we need a year of dignified government
Sat 6 Jun 2009 19.01 EDT First published on Sat 6 Jun 2009 19.01 EDT
As political theatre goes, it was bizarre, like an amateur production of a Jacobean melodrama: bodies piling up all over the stage; actors stumbling over the corpses and missing their cues; tragedy turning to farce. In rebellion as in government, Labour lacks direction. No wonder the audience is leaving.
Meanwhile, Gordon Brown is still going through the motions. He now commands a rump cabinet, united by the calculation that, however badly things go under the current leader, they could still go worse under another one.
Those in the party who would gamble on change are running out of options. European election results due tonight, followed by a meeting of MPs tomorrow, may see some further agitation. But there is no king over the water. Alan Johnson and David Miliband, the likeliest alternative candidates, have taken jobs in the new cabinet.
The rebels' vision of electoral redemption relies on a critical mass of discontent forcing Mr Brown to stand nobly aside. It won't happen. The prime minister has made it clear he will fight to the end. So the choice now for Labour MPs is between debilitating guerrilla warfare against an entrenched Gordon Brown or acceptance that he will lead the party into the next election.
Either way, that election is probably lost. But if Labour can regain some collective composure and start addressing the electorate instead of itself, it may still salvage a year of dignified government from the wreckage of this parliamentary term. It may, in that time, even succeed in turning the political debate away from personality and towards policy. Then the cabinet may just about be capable of articulating some underlying purpose in a Labour government. That would at least force the Conservatives to tell voters what they would do with power instead.
The Tories are currently winning by default. Council election results confirm that the Labour vote is collapsing and the Conservatives are generally reaping the reward.
But as David Cameron's position has strengthened, his agenda has shrunk. His message has crystallised during the expenses scandal into a single refrain - the call for a general election. The change in politics that people are craving, he implies, is a change to a Tory government. But only a few of Mr Cameron's friends seem to know what that entails. And even they sound pretty vague.
The country has been hit in rapid succession by economic and political crises. The first was born of unrestrained, rapacious finance. The second was the product of an opaque and complacent Parliament. Since the Conservative party has always been hostile to regulation and constitutional reform, it is by no means obvious that it should be handed the task of cleaning up the mess.
Intellectually, the Tories have not won the argument about what sort of economy and what kind of politics should emerge from the twin crises. With the exception of some nebulous chatter about the "post-bureaucratic age", they have hardly made their case.
But they have felt little pressure and have little motive to do so. Any misgivings the public may have about a Conservative government are outweighed by distaste for Labour's haggard incumbency and the Machiavellian contortions of its embattled leadership.
Gordon Brown is obsessed with the confection of tactical "dividing lines" between himself and the Tories. David Cameron, meanwhile, benefits as long as public attention stays focused on the contrast in style between his slick operation and the dysfunctional Downing Street bunker. The result has been an impoverishment of political debate.
Nowhere is that clearer than on the economy. The recession is boring a hole in the public finances that will soon need plugging. That means a harsh round of spending cuts starting, according to the budget, in 2011.
That will be a massive political and social shock for the country, a prospect about which Westminster is mostly in denial. The Conservatives talk about austerity and hint at difficult decisions ahead, but Mr Cameron still pretends that the state is so flabby it can be whipped into shape without too much pain.
Gordon Brown, meanwhile, flatly denies that Labour will make cuts, which is either a lie or an admission that his party will soon lose power.
With less than a year before the next election, parties should be spelling out the values that will guide their decisions over how to make public services work on a shrinking budget. What will be protected? Who will pay? Does Labour still see Trident as worthy recipient of scarce resources? Do the Conservatives sincerely believe that fairness in austere times means cutting inheritance tax?
Questions such as these have all been submerged in the expenses furore. That also suits Mr Cameron because the scandal reinforces an inherently Conservative prejudice that politicians cannot be trusted with taxpayers' cash. But parliamentary expenses are not departmental budgets. It is time the conversation turned back to the big money issues.
For that to happen, Labour needs to find a new voice. Even when the prime minister gets things right, as with his chairmanship of the G20 summit, he is incapable of turning it into domestic political advantage. His command of global issues is trumped by his illiteracy in political communication.
But the problem runs deeper than that. The financial crisis and the expenses scandal have created an appetite for political renewal. Mr Brown has already promised that once when he took office. He failed to deliver. He pledged on many subsequent occasions to change, to listen, to consult. He has proved himself incapable each time.
As Mr Brown fought off rebellion last week, he still found time to name Sir Alan Sugar his new "enterprise tsar". A peerage for a celebrity with a view to grabbing headlines - what better emblem of the old, discredited politics could there be?
If there is to be a renewal of serious political argument from the government, it must come from elsewhere in the cabinet. A particular responsibility falls to those ministers who could have finished off Mr Brown but chose instead to support him - Alan Johnson and David Miliband. Since they saved this administration, they have a duty now to explain what the point of it is to the country. Mr Brown should give his colleagues free rein. Any leadership ambitions they harbour are surely mothballed until after the election.
Even if, as looks likely, Mr Brown clings on to the premiership, there is still a vacancy at the top of the Labour party. Someone in the cabinet needs to step up and express the values and purpose of a Labour government or the nation will assume there is none. Then the Conservatives will stroll into power without having to express any values or purpose of their own.


No meteorologist could have possibly predicted this Red Storm.
St. John's 79-75 win over No. 1 Villanova on Wednesday marks the second top-five opponent the Red Storm have beaten in four days.
After knocking off then-No. 4 Duke 81-77 on Saturday, the Red Storm (12-13, 1-11 Big East) walked into their conference rivals' court and beat the Wildcats (22-2, 9-2) for their first win in the Big East this season.
'Nova had difficulty shooting beyond the arc, going 8 for 33 from 3 compared to St. John's 6-for-16 shooting. It also did not help that Jalen Brunson shot all but one of the Wildcats' free throws. He attempted 11, making 10.
Shamorie Ponds led the Red Storm with 26 points on 8-for-20 shooting, five rebounds and five assists.
The Wildcats made the game interesting in the final two minutes, cutting the deficit to one after trailing by as many as nine late. St. John's responded with a breakaway and-one dunk by forward Marvin Clark that turned the momentum.
Will this win alone help propel St. John's to a berth in the NCAA Tournament? Probably not.
Will St. John's become the first team ever to start 0-11 in conference play and earn an at-large berth?
But the back-to-back upsets do serve as reminders to the top teams that trap games can always be right around the corner.


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Juan Ruiz, zwany Arcipreste de Hita (ur. ok. 1283, zm. ok. 1350) – hiszpański poeta i duchowny katolicki.

Kształcił się w Toledo. Był dziekanem Hity. Napisał słynny poemat Księga dobrej miłości (Libro de buen amor, 1343, pierwsze pełne wydanie 1901, wybór polski 1980), przeciwstawiający "dobrą" miłość bożą "grzesznej" miłości ludzkiej; poemat ten stanowił syntezę prądów średniowiecznej hiszpańskiej kultury i przegląd ówczesnych form wersyfikacyjnych, a jednocześnie był opowieścią autobiograficzną.

Bibliografia
 Nowa encyklopedia powszechna PWN, t. 5, Warszawa 1998.

Hiszpańscy duchowni katoliccy
Hiszpańscy poeci średniowiecza
Urodzeni w XIII wieku
Zmarli w XIV wieku


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Bakkekammen 40
Bakkekammen 40, Holbæk
Bakkekammen 40 in Holbæk is one of Denmark's best preserved examples of Better Building Practices architecture.
The merchant's house at no. 40 is the jewel in the crown of the neighbourhood of Bakkekammen in Holbæk – an area which today is recognised as the birthplace of the architectural style known as Better Building Practices. The house and its extensive garden, which date to 1917, are considered as one of the period's, and the architect Ivar Bentsen's, most outstanding works from the period. Realdania By & Byg acquired the property, which is a listed building, in order to preserve the building for posterity as a unique example of the Better Building Practices style, which was a forerunner of modernism.
When a group of architects and building contractors led by the architect Ivar Bendtsen in 1915 embarked on a new direction in architecture, it was a move which came to have great significance for Danish building culture. The group sought to raise the bar for the building culture of the day, and to this end established the nationwide society "Better Building Practices", which had the goal of building simple, sensible properties to a high standard with a good balance between layout, choice of materials and aesthetics. A perfect example of such a building is the property at Bakkekammen 40 in Holbæk, designed by the architect Ivar Bentsen and built in 1917. Both in its appearance and its craftsmanship, this property stands as one of the finest examples of the Better Building Practices movement in Denmark.
Bakkekammen 40 is remarkably well preserved, and both the house and its garden are listed buildings. Since its construction in 1917 and up until it was acquired by Realdania By & Byg over 100 years later, ownership of the house has remained in the hands of the same family. As such, the doors, flagstones, cupboards, paintwork and layout of the house are not only an authentic glimpse of the architect Ivar Bendtsen's vision; they are also a testament to the fruits of high standards and good craftsmanship, qualities which were central tenets of the Better Building Practices philosophy. At the same time, the house also comprises an element of the wider neighbourhood, which is to a large extent made up of houses designed and conceived by Ivar Bendtsen and his colleague Marius Pedersen.
Bakkekammen 40 was built by and for one of the town's leading lights, the merchant Julius Mortensen. The house and its garden are a unique example of the type of houses constructed around the turn of the century, when the bourgeoisie moved out of the cities to greener suburbs. The design and layout of the house furthermore tell the narrative of the stratified Danish society of the day and the everyday life of Danes in the period up until the Second World War.
Bakkekammen no. 40
Bakkenkammen 40, 5300 Holbæk
Ivar Bentsen


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R22 refrigerant is being phased out because of something known as the Montreal Protocol, which is an agreement between most of the major world powers that says that they will collectively stop using R22 and other HCFC refrigerants over the next few years. R22 is already completely phased out in Europe, and it will be phased out in the United States in 2020.
When the phase out completes, no new R22 will be allowed to be imported or manufactured in the country, and the only R22 that will be on sale will be stock that contractors and maintenance companies have stockpiled, and stock that they have reclaimed from phased out units. It will still be legal to use air conditioning units that are powered by R22, but if you ever need to 'recharge' the unit then you will find that the gas will be expensive and hard to source.
The ideal option, when R22 is phased out, would be to replace your air conditioning unit with a new one that is more energy efficient, more reliable, and costs less to run. However, not everyone is in a position where they can afford to do this, and the good news is that there are other options.
Most units that are powered by R22 now can be retrofitted to use other refrigerants. The challenge when it comes to using other refrigerants is that most of the other gasses need a different type of compressor to work properly. Retrofitting an older unit with a hermetic compressor will allow you to use other gases, and is far less expensive than replacing the entire unit.
There are some refrigerants that are 'drop-in replacements' for R22, and these could be a good option if you want to stop using R22 and do not want to have to retrofit a large number of air conditioning units. One of the most interesting replacements is TDX 20 created by Bluon. This is a drop-in replacement for R22 that can be used in systems with an expansion device and a capillary. There is no need to change any of the lubricants with this refrigerant because it is compatible with POE oils as well as mineral oil and alkyl benzene oils. RS-44 is also known as R424A and has an A1 classification. It has low discharge temperatures and can offer energy savings of 10 to 20 percent compared to R22 when swapped out in any given unit.
RS-45 is another option although one that is primarily marketed to OEMs. It can be used to replace R22 across a wide range of applications, not just HVAC, but also for refrigeration. RS-45 cannot be used in systems with a capillary, but it is quite versatile when used in applications with an expansion device. It is non-flammable and has a lower discharge temperature than R22.
RS-52 is another replacement option, one that works well at low temperatures. It is designed to withstand R502 pressures and is also useful in flooded systems. This is not likely to be used in domestic applications but does have some applications in a commercial space.
When you are looking for replacement refrigerant, you should take into account the Global Warming Potential, or GWP, of each refrigerant. As a general rule, lower is better when it comes to GWP, but all of the viable replacements for R22 have vastly lower global warming potential than R22 does, so they are all considered to be a step up.
R410A, which was one of the early candidates to replace R22, has a GWP of 1900, and if someone were to choose R32 over R410A then they would cut the GWP significantly, since R32 has a GWP of just 677.
As well as GWP, there is also the ODP – Ozone Depleting Potential, to take into account. Again, lower is better with this metric, and the best refrigerants to choose would have minimal GWP and ODP. You may be restricted in terms of what refrigerants you can choose based on the type of air conditioning unit that you have. You may also find that some gases are better than others based on the average temperature of the area you need to cool. Your contractor will be able to help you with that and offer you advice on the refrigerant that will offer the best performance. The good news is that all of the replacement refrigerants should offer a step up in performance compared to R22, so you will see some cost savings immediately. If, at some point, you are able to upgrade your unit to a newer one then you will see even more cost savings as well as enjoying a quieter and more efficient unit.
As the phase out deadline draws nearer we are going to see more and more scammers trying to take advantage of the confusion about the new rules. One thing that some disreputable companies are saying is that it is illegal to use R22 at all. This is incorrect. You can continue to use your existing system. However, if your R22 based HVAC unit were to spring a refrigerant leak it would be illegal for a contractor to just replace the gas without fixing the leak because this would mean that they were knowingly releasing HCFCs into the atmosphere. They are obliged to fix the leak.
If you decommission an old HVAC system that contains HFCF then you are legally required to make sure that it is disposed of properly. Your contractor will drain the unit and then either safely dispose of the gas or reclaim it to use in other units that are still operational.
Your air conditioning is not going to just stop working after the phase out date, and you have a number of options when it comes to replacement gases and retrofits that will allow you to keep using your unit until such as time as you are able to replace it.


WiringPi supports an extension module for the PCF8591 Analog IO expander IC.
The Raspberry Pi has one I2C bus and the PCF8591 has a 3-bit address select port, so in-theory you can connect up 8 PCF8591's to your Pi.
The PCF8591 has a 4-channel, 8-bit analog input port and a single channel analog output port.
It is the device used on the Quick2Wire analog board.
The pinBase can be any number you like above 64 and the i2cAddress is the address of the device in the I2C bus – 0x48 is the default but they can change if you have multiple devices. Use the i2cdetect command (gpio i2cd) to probe your I2C bus to work out the right address to use.
You can call pcf8591Setup() as many times as needed for each PCF8791 you have in the system – just give it a different pin base and I2C bus address.
You don't need to specify the number of pins here – the PCF8791 has 4 pins – the analog output uses base pin number 0 – the same as analog input 0.
The wiringPi PCF8591 driver knows which revision Pi you have, so you know need to take any special precautions – your code will work on either a Revision 1 or 2 Pi.
The PCF8591 does not have programmable internal pull-up resistors, but the pins when in input mode effectively have an internal pull-up active.
The analog output pin is normally in a high impedance mode until the very first read or write to the device. It may be prudent to perform an initial analog write to the device to set it to the initial value you need.


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The Democratic Party and Democratic Executive Committee meet at 3:30 p.m. and the Democratic Women's Club meet at 4:30.
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Sam Elliott Is 'The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot' — Or Is He?
By Simon Abrams
Published February 7, 2019 at 3:00 PM MST
In <em>The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, </em>Sam Elliott stars as an esteemed war veteran who helped kill Hitler. Years later, he's on a new mission — to kill Bigfoot.
If you left A Star is Born: Take Four wanting more where co-star Sam Elliott's scene-stealing performance came from, check out The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot.
No, seriously: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot is a real movie — one more emotionally resonant and character-driven than that deceptively goony title suggests. The film — writer/producer Robert D. Krzykowski's directorial feature debut — features a great lead performance from Elliott as Calvin Barr, a disillusioned World War II vet who struggles to remember that one time he killed Adolf Hitler.
Calvin is a great role for Elliott at this point in his storied career. Always a welcome and reliable screen presence, the actor's singular gifts risk making him seem too idiosyncratic for a macho leading man (Mask, The Legacy) and too iconic for a Byronic character actor (Thank You for Smoking, Hulk). But recently, Elliott has handily played introspective guy's guys in worthy films like the 2017 character study The Hero and the 2015 romantic comedy I'll See You In My Dreams (both written and directed by Hearts Beat Loud director Brett Haley). Krzykowski's drama also gives him plenty of opportunities to bring his stock mannerisms to bear: that enigmatic smirk, that mystifying stare, that avuncular grumble.
As Calvin, Elliott spends a lot of time asking other people — and himself — what they want from him. He struggles to articulate complex emotions, sometimes because he can't remember what he wanted to say, and sometimes because several other characters patronize his character due to his advanced age.
Calvin doesn't have many personal relationships (strong or otherwise), except for his golden retriever and his affable barber Ed (comedian Larry Miller). So it's not surprising that Calvin glares his way through a visit from the FBI's errand boy Flag Pin (Ron Livingston), who asks Elliott's character to serve his country one last time by, uh, killing Bigfoot.
Calvin is the sort of tight-lipped guy who prefers to be alone with his memories, which are represented here through flashbacks. Unfortunately, most of these Lost-style flashbacks are uninvolving, partly because Aidan Turner (who plays a younger version of Calvin) isn't as eye-catching as Elliott. But these flashbacks are also visually unremarkable, which is a significant problem, since three of the film's seven(!) flashbacks concern the titular Nazi assassination plot. Krzykowski's lack of story-telling experience shows most during these scenes.
Then again, Krzykowski does not appear to have consistently prioritized visual or narrative dynamism when he made The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot. For better and worse, the film feels like the product of a busy, but unfocused imagination. Calvin may spend most of his time thinking about the past, but he doesn't do much about his memories. Things just ... happen to him, as when the FBI propositions Calvin only after more than 40 minutes have passed in the film's sluggish 97-minute runtime. Worse still: Calvin's flashbacks remind viewers that Krzykowski's movie is not a linear, emotionally simple power fantasy. Elliott even spells out that theme when he tells Flag that Calvin's heroic past was "nothing like the comic book you want it to be."
Thankfully, Krzykowski and his collaborators nail several key scenes, like the flashback where Turner's Calvin stammers as he asks his love interest Maxine (Caitlin FitzGerald) to marry him before he leaves home to serve in the army. It's a tough scene to pull off: a complicated mix of romance, comedy, and tragedy. But the patience that Krzykowski applies to his characters' dialogue — and the way he dotes on Fitzgerald and Turner's faces by shooting them in warmly lit medium close-ups — gives this crucial moment sufficient emotional weight.
More importantly: Elliott's scenes are strong because Krzykowski, as a director, consistently plays to Elliott's strengths as an actor. Calvin's dialogue is never as important as the periodic twitch of Elliott's mustache, his mischievous squint, or his refreshingly flat line delivery. And Calvin's story is thankfully never as important as Elliott's magnetic screen presence, which makes it easier to follow Calvin wherever Krzykowski's insane story takes him.
You can tell that Krzykowski loves and admires Elliott from the way he films Calvin's first scene. Nosy, but well-meaning bartender George (Alton Fitzgerald White) asks Calvin why he doesn't move some place where he can relax and fish. Calvin matter-of-factly growls that he hates fishing. He adds that he just might quit drinking and never come back: "What do you think of that?" George knows he offended his friend, so he calls after Elliott's antihero when Calvin heads for the door: "See you tomorrow, Calvin?"
You know Elliott means it when he, in character, sighs: "See you tomorrow, George."


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Study Sheds Light On Dating Violence in Texas Public Schools
Written by: C. Price
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C. Price is part of DatingAdvice.com's content team. She writes advice articles, how-to guides, and studies — all relating to dating, relationships, love, sex, and more.
Almost 1.5 million high school students suffer from dating violence every year, and Texas was the first state to mandate school policies on dating violence, according to a new study.
Yet Texas still has a long way to go in the fight against teen dating violence.
The Crime Victims' Institute at Sam Houston State University found one-third of the school districts in Texas don't make it clear enough to students that they can receive counseling after suffering from dating violence.
Also, none of the districts offered safety provisions for victims, such as the ability to transfer from a class or campus.
"One-third of school districts in Texas don't make it clear
enough to students that they can receive counseling."
Researchers found an encouraging 90 percent of Texas schools have implemented anti-dating violence policies since 2007, yet most of these schools failed to provide their students with proper information on teen dating violence.
Those schools who did offer these materials often made them hard for students to find.
The study also found most school districts in Texas treat violence as little more than "misconduct" or "mistreatment."
The repercussions schools placed upon violent students were often too general to be effective and the specific repercussions varied from school to school and district to district.
Source: Crime Victims' Institute via Sam Houston State University. Photo source: safe.eku.edu.
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Disney Tsum Tsum Festival
Platform(s): Nintendo Switch
Genre: Rhythm
Publisher: Bandai Namco Games
Release Date: Nov. 8, 2019
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Switch Review - 'Disney Tsum Tsum Festival'
by Cody Medellin on Jan. 23, 2020 @ 12:00 a.m. PST
Disney Tsum Tsum Festival is the first console game featuring Disney Tsum Tsums, enabling fans from all over the world to collect and play with some of their favorite Disney and Pixar characters as adorable Tsum Tsums!
If you're unfamiliar with the Tsum Tsum line of stuffed toys, think of them as Beanie Babies with Disney characters, minus the stigma of being a failed collectible investment. The toys were released in 2013 in Japan to coincide with the mobile and arcade games, and their popularity hasn't ceased, with new ones coming out every month and people continuing to snag them at every opportunity. The mobile game has done well for both Line and Disney, with the title still going strong in all regions. With that in mind, it makes sense that Bandai Namco would try its hand at the franchise with a Nintendo Switch release. Unfortunately, Disney Tsum Tsum Festival only serves as a reminder of how good the mobile game is.
It should be noted that the mobile game is actually included in this Switch port, but you can't connect it to your mobile progress. In the game, you have a set amount of time to link at least three or more of the same characters in a line before they disappear, giving you points and making way for more characters to match up. There's an unlimited number of lives in the Switch port, so this is a good way to practice before spending precious lives on your mobile game. There's also a local versus mode, which isn't usually seen in puzzle games of this type.
The puzzle mode can only be played in handheld mode by using the touch-screen (no Joy-Cons) in a portrait orientation. That makes the mode a great analog to the mobile version, but it also robs the game of the big-screen experience. The majority of the game requires the system to either be played on a TV screen or in tabletop mode, so like Super Mario Party, those with Switch Lite consoles need extra equipment to check out this title.
Beyond the port of the mobile title, Disney Tsum Tsum Festival is all about multiplayer minigames, which can vary quite wildly. Bubble Hockey is simply glide hockey, and Curling celebrates one of Canada's favorite sports. Egg Pack Coaster has everyone working together on one track to gain speed during turns, and Ice Cream Stacker has you trying to hold a tall stack of ice cream steady. Round 'n' Round Run is a race where picking up diamonds and other gems becomes more important than crossing the finish line, and Spinner Battle has all of the Tsum Tsums riding tops to knock off one another. Tsum Rhythm is the expected rhythm game, Tsum Tsum Mania is a turret shooting game in space, and Tsum Chase is essentially multiplayer Pac-Man (minus the ability to eat one another).
Just about every minigame has both a versus and cooperative version, which makes it perfect for players of all ages. Each minigame has the opportunity to receive daily and weekly challenges for the chance to earn bonus coins, and some of them also have online leaderboards. Some of the games also have online play, but it might as well be invisible since no one is currently playing online in any of them.
The bad news is that a number of the minigames have a few control issues. For the motion-controlled games, that means that some of the commands aren't being registered. For the Egg Pack Coaster and Tsum Rhythm minigames, only half of your commands are recognized, even if you exaggerate your movements. In Lost Treasure, your aiming cursor constantly gets out of sync, but Tsum Tsum Mania doesn't exhibit this issue. Minigames like Round 'n' Round Run have button commands that don't work, and Bubble Hockey and Tsum Curling lack enough directions to help you understand what's going on.
The result is that a bulk of the games aren't fun. Part of the time is spent fighting the controls, which is the last thing you want in a party game. Compared to other party games, the minigames in Disney Tsum Tsum Festival last for far too long. It also doesn't help that, when playing solo, the AI opponent gets lucky far too often and it feels almost impossible to beat them. Some of the games just aren't designed well. Egg Pack Coaster feels like everything is out of your control, Round 'n' Round Run feels like it moves too slowly, and the lack of songs in Tsum Rhythm makes it feel shallow. Considering how that's a good chunk of the minigames, that's not exactly inspiring.
It is telling that the one minigame most people will spend their time with is the coin pushing one, Lost Treasure. It still features some problems, as your directional cursor needs to be reset often, and frustration can arise as coins and other objects knocked off to the side don't count in the player's favor. The minigame is quite generous when it comes to giving you more coins than you can spend. Given how easy it is to earn Tsum Tsums, you'll more likely to go to the Lost Treasure minigame instead of the present shop if you want to maximize your funds, since you'll spend less than 10,000 coins to get one Tsum Tsum.
If there is one thing the game has going for it, that would be the strong presentation. The graphics are loud and colorful, with a mostly solid frame rate in every game. The highlight is the Tsum Tsums themselves, which are quite numerous in every screen and move around so often that it's hard to not find them adorable. Meanwhile, the music initially sounds generic, but the rest of the soundtrack keeps up with an electronic theme to keep the vibe lively — even when the minigames aren't doing that.
It's very difficult to recommend Disney Tsum Tsum Festival. The best minigame happens to be the one originally made for mobile platforms, and the second best is the coin-pushing game. The other minigames have various control and design issues, and they range in quality from OK to bland, so even the great presentation can't compensate for those shortcomings.
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Watches are the main focus of Fratello Watches. However with our monthly Strap Review articles and many similar articles we try to bring you some interesting stuff from the world of accessories. We have already introduced G.L.C. Straps for you guys not too long ago. Owner Massimiliano and his team are known all over the world. They attend watch shows such as the Munich and Miami fairs. If you are at one of these events chances are high you will meet them. If you do so, make sure you check out the following items.
If you want something special for your timepiece but afraid that with the camouflage pattern it looks too military even if the watch is not, don't be afraid. Camouflage is getting back to fashion. It was always around as one of the most common patterns for cargo pants. Nowadays ties, pocket squares even sports blazers or shirts are made using camo. Having one of these straps on your watch can be a fashion statement today.
On the other hand owning a true military (-influenced) piece means every once in a while you have to go army all the way. While military watches look cool on a plain leather strap offsetting the given rugged look, other times putting the watch on a military strap can even enhance its characteristic. You can find many camouflage straps on the market; from leather to nylon (NATO) the options are endless.
The strap perfectly matching the above criteria is called Vintage Ripstop 1.There are a number of different styles to chose from, namely the M1, M3 and M5 in two different color patterns – mine being the M1. Interesting thing about this strap is that the fabric used to produce it is a 1970's dead stock, Vietnam era army material. Stock is very limited; they can only produce about 30-40 straps in different sizes and models per stock. Good news though is that the second limited run is hopefully starting this September. Ripstop is a woven fabric used for yacht sails, hot air balloons, parachutes or army uniform, just to name a few. The strap , as with all the straps by G.L.C. Straps, is completely hand made in Rome. The inner side of the strap has a leather cover however due to the nature of the fabric the strap is not waterproof. It can stand time underwater but definitely not suggested using in water for a long time. It is 2.5mm thick; the length of it is 7.5cm on the buckle side and 12cm on the long side, so pretty much standard size and thickness. It comes in 4 different sizes from 18 to 20 and 22mm. Price-wise you are looking at a very friendly €65 which I think for a limited run, hand made, Italian strap is a very competitive price.
Continuing the camouflage theme we have something for the frequent traveler. There are many options when you want to take more than one watch on a trip. Most obvious out of all of this is a watch roll. To be fair I think it is a great option. Watch rolls can be found for a very cheap price they are literary everywhere. There are a few problems with the though, namely that for instance watches with inflexible bracelet or leather strap with a deployant are hard to store flat. Some people also like to keep their lather strap curve as flattening it could result in wrinkling the leather. For these guys G.L.C. Straps – among many other makers – came up with a nice alternative; a watch tube. The one in question are made of mostly suede leather – with the exception of a blue and a black leather. They are also hand made from start to finish. Among the usual colors of beige, brown or blue there are two camouflage version. One features the classic green style the other more of a desserts camo with different shades of green, brown and sand color. The shell is soft aside of the two round ends; they are strengthened to keep the shape of the tube. It has space for 3 watches (4 if you want to store ladies or smaller timepieces,) or many bracelets if you use it for jewelry. The watch holder inside the tube is a smaller long round pillow, so it is not separated like some other designs. The tube is about 21cm long its diameter is about 8cm. Once closed there is a stainless steel buckle with a leather strap to keep it closed. It features the G.L.C. Straps logo on the right side of the cover but you can also have yours customized with your initials. These tubes are €160 for the suede version and for the black or blue deer leather they are charging you €190. They come complete in a camouflage outer bag, similar to a dust bag, which protects the suede, which could be susceptible.
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50 years of reinforced plastic boats
8 October 2006 | George Marsh
This Odyssey 54DS (54 ft, deck saloon) is the latest from French company Jeanneau, one of the world's largest-volume manufacturers of reinforced plastic (mainly glass) sail and motor boats. (Picture courtesy of Jeanneau.)
Composites have had a major impact on the design and production of fast power boats like this V24. (Picture courtesy of Mark Pascoe Ltd.)
By the late '70s and early '80s, thousands of GRP cruising sailboats like these (seen off St Michael's Mount, Cornwall) were in modest series production.
As well as making leisure craft accessible to the general public, fibreglass has permitted the large-scale production of working craft, like this catamaran from South Boats, Isle of Wight.
An explosion in powerboat popularity has resulted from the ability to produce stylish GRP craft in large volumes. (Picture courtesy of Jeanneau.)
Fifty years ago, if you wanted a yacht, it would be custom built for you, as a one-off, usually by fastening together hundreds of separate hand-crafted pieces of wood. Most boats of any size, including working craft, were built this way. Only the well-off could afford them.
But the boat building industry was about to jump ship from wood to a novel 'wonder' material. Fibreglass, as it was generally known, offered the prospect of continuous monocoque structures that would start and stay watertight, along with ease of building whole series of identical boats. Fibreglass/glass reinforced plastic (GRP) went on to transform boat building from a small-scale enterprise steeped in wood and tradition to what is rapidly becoming a commodity industry. Today even median earners can aspire to a new Jeanneau, Beneteau, Bavaria etc. Workboat numbers have multiplied alongside the ensuing leisure craft explosion.
Meanwhile, however, the old tradition of commissioning an individual bespoke vessel from the board of a gifted designer never actually died. Indeed, in recent years it has been re-invented. The key is high-performance composites, lusted after by the rich and sponsored who, with the help of specialist fabricators and structural engineers, have used them for craft of prodigious size, performance or both. Vessels like Ellen MacArthur's B&Q Castorama and cutting-edge canting keel racers would be virtually impossible without composites, while the likes of Mirabella V, the world's largest sloop and the ultimate charter yacht, show the impressive scaleability of composite con-struction. In a new twist to the story, we see high-performance composites edging down-market into production craft, via series-built performers like the breathtaking Volvo 70s of recent racing circumnavigation fame.
Actually, although Reinforced Plastics magazine first saw the light of day at about the time this boat building revolution was getting under way, the history of fibreglass boats extends a couple of decades further back still. According to US sources, Ray Greene, an employee of the Owens Corning company, produced a composite boat as early as 1937, but did not proceed further at the time due to the brittle nature of the plastic used (it was most likely phenolic). Experi-menters experienced other difficulties too. When Basons Industries tried to produce a fibreglass boat in the early 1940s, no release agent was used and the hull could not be extracted from the mould. Mould and hull were eventually disposed of by rolling them into the Bronx River!
All the materials needed were coming together during the 1930s. Glass fibres were known to the ancients but mass production of glass strands only became possible from 1932 when a researcher with the Owens Glass company accidentally directed a jet of compressed air at a stream of molten glass and produced fibres. After Owens Glass joined up with the Corning company in 1935, the method was adapted by Owens Corning to produce its patented 'Fiberglas' (one 's'). Product researchers could see the potential for combining cloths of this material with a plastic, but had to wait a few years more for a suitable resin. DuPont was awarded a patent for polyester resin in 1936, though the first direct ancestor of today's polyester resins emerged from American Cyanamid in 1942. Peroxide curing systems were in place by then.
These developments effectively unleashed the composites revolution. Combining polyester with glass fibres provided an alternative to conventional materials that, by mid-World War 2, were in increasingly short supply. Military aircraft and naval constructors had first call, but Ray Greene was nevertheless able to produce a fibreglass sailing dinghy in 1942. Other 'plastic' boats followed, an example appearing at a US boat show in 1947. Altogether, it's likely that thousands of fibre-glass boats, some quite small, existed by the late 1940s. Fibreglass surfboards, too, were making a splash, the first known example dating from 1946. (A board of glass/foam sandwich construction appeared in 1949).
This gives the lie to the common mis-perception that fibreglass boats have existed only from the 1950s, although serious production for the commercial market started about then. The first fibreglass yacht was probably the Arion, a 42 ft Herreshoff-designed ketch that appeared in 1951. That was a one-off, but Ray Greene had, by 1957, built 175 of a 25 ft Sparkman & Stephens design, making him a series production pioneer. That baton was then taken up by the Pearson Corp which, from 1959, produced its popular 28 ft Triton sailboat.
In Europe the first fibreglass boats appeared in the early 1950s. A Tod 12 ft dinghy, produced in 1951 by W&J Tod utilising an early Crystic polyester resin from Scott Bader, is credited as having been the first, though it was run close by a Flying Twenty sailboat produced in 1952 after a meeting between Isle of Wight-based designer Uffa Fox and Patrick de Laszlo, founder of the Halmatic company. Halmatic went on to construct, in 1954, what it claimed to be the world's first large GRP boat. Its Perpetua, a 48 ft 8 in motor cruiser moulded with Crystic resin, was produced to demonstrate to the British Admiralty that a GRP craft could withstand the vibration of diesel engines. Halmatic has since produced thousands of working and leisure craft, and remains a leading producer of GRP vessels today.
The 1950s and '60s saw an influx of new constructors who, attracted by the low starting investment needed, were happy to satisfy the public's desire to get afloat. Many built boats in conditions that would be laughed out of court now. An enthusiastic entrepreneur could acquire a draughty shed, assemble a few semi-trained laminators, build a mould from inferior materials, buy some fibreglass and a drum of resin, and be in business. Personnel, devoid of protective apparel, would lay up by hand layers of chopped strand mat and roll and/or brush resin into them, having first mixed the resin with catalyst and accelerator in a bucket. Cure would take place under whatever ambient conditions offered. Not surprisingly, the quality of fabrication varied wildly between constructors and with the same constructor on different days.
Strangely enough, despite this, most of the fibreglass boats that have ever been made survive to this day. This owes something to the fact that early boats were somewhat over engineered. Generous lay-ups have contributed to longevity and, though we now know that GRP is far from being the maintenance-free material originally anticipated, most of the problems that occur, even the dreaded blisters caused by hydrolysis/osmosis, can be managed and do not mean writing off the structure. It remains to be seen whether those craft that are now being mass produced down to a price and within increasingly rigorous emissions constraints will survive for so long. It is said, for example, that some boats built soon after the oil crises of the early 1970s are more blister-prone than others because there was pressure on prices and hence the quality of the materials and lay-ups used.
In the 1960s GRP boat building really took off. Jeanneau, in France, moulded its first GRP hull in 1960. A fleet of 22–27 m GRP trawlers were built in South Africa during the decade, while the US Navy and Royal Navy started looking into the possibility of producing minehunters in GRP because this material would not trigger magnetic influence mines. (A prototype for the RN's Hunt class minehunters, among the largest GRP vessels ever produced, emerged during the 1970s). The 17.4 m yacht Sir Thomas Lipton that won the 1968 Single Handed Transatlantic Race was an early example of GRP sandwich construction. By the 1970s all sorts of craft including ships' lifeboats, fast rescue lifeboats such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's 16.5 m Arun class, fishing vessels and fast power boats were being produced in GRP. Since then, this versatile material has added rigid inflatable boats (RIBs), personal watercraft and large multihulls to its credit list and today there is scarcely a type of vessel, from the humblest canoe right up to warships and fast catamaran ferries, that is not built in GRP.
If fibreglass made the mass production of boats possible, the boat industry returned the compliment by providing a major launch pad for the reinforced plastics industry. In the 1960s the marine market became the largest consumer of reinforced plastics, though it would later be eclipsed by automotive use. Glass/polyester was and remains the primary material mainstay for marine constructors.
But the materials palette was expanding. Improved isophthalic resins complemented the original orthophthalics, while protective gel coats developed apace. Glass refinements included improvements to the strands themselves, along with development of more ordered uni- and multidirectional continuous-fibre cloths. DuPont launched its Kevlar para-aramid fibre, benefiting structures subject to high shock and impact loads. Vinyl ester and epoxy resins were introduced.
Epoxy, short for polyepoxide, dates from work carried out in the 1930s in the USA and Switzerland. First used in marine circles as a wood adhesive and moisture-resistant coating, epoxy resins tantalised builders of performance craft with their superior toughness, weather and moisture resistance and other superior properties. 'Tantalised' because, at first, constructors could not afford to use them as matrices, so aerospace had first bite. Similarly, when the UK's Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough (later Qinetiq) devised a way of producing super-strong carbon fibres in 1963, these would be out of reach for some time.
Initially, carbon was used in selective areas of boats that were predominantly glass. For example, two rowing 'shells' used in the 1972 Munich Olympics utilised both reinforcement types along with epoxy resin. Carbon racing shells followed from companies like Carbocraft in England. Racing dinghies began to benefit, then performance yachts. One of the first carbon sailing vessels was the high-speed trimaran Colt Cars GB, engineered in 1980 by Isle of Wight-based Structured Polymer Systems Ltd (subsequently SP Systems and now Gurit). This craft, which also utilised Kevlar, was wet laminated and vacuum bag consolidated and cured. At the time, it was said to be the largest composite structure apart from the Space Shuttle loading bay doors!
Thanks to the rigidity, strength and low weight of these and subsequent craft, carbon has since become a byword for structural performance. Its use has spread with reducing cost differentials and rising affluence. Low-temperature laminating resins have helped too. Today, carbon is even used for upper-end production yachts, notably by Poncin Yachts in France and Denmark's Shipman Yachts. Away from hulls and decks, it is also used for hi-tech masts, spars, sails, foils, rudders, steering wheels and other marine items.
The emphasis on low weight for high performance has also promoted the development of sandwich construction using structural foam cores such as Airex (Alcan Composites), Divinycell (DIAB) and Corecell (Gurit/SP).
Processes have moved on too. Spray-up quickly emerged as a faster alternative to hand lay-up. Open moulding was made less ubiquitous by vacuum bagging. A gradual transition to closed moulding is still in progress as regulators wage war on styrene and other volatiles. Following the introduction of prepreg materials into aerospace by Hexcel and others in the 1970s, prepregged marine craft started appearing from 1980, the process being particularly suited for carbon structures. These materials have been joined by 'semi-preg' systems such as SPRINT (Gurit-SP).
There could hardly be a greater contrast than between the 'bucket and brush' era of the 1950s and the leading edge of marine composite construction today. Modern performance craft are highly and precisely engineered. Structural engineers, the new marine aristocracy, use computer-aided design, computational fluid dynamics and other software to define vessels virtually before they are produced for real. They also use software to deliver laminate specifications. Manufacturers carry out lamination under close environmental control, using technical textiles or prepregs.
Twin examples of recent work carried out by a leading marine structural engineer serve to point up the contrast.
High Modulus (Auckland, New Zealand and Hamble, UK) has engineered the primary structures of two very different vessels that are truly at the leading edge of what is now possible. One is for a 130ft Wally yacht being billed as the world's fastest upwind sailing yacht. High Modulus used detailed finite element stress analysis and Matrix Applied Computing to design an ultra-light structure stiff enough to resist buckling and other loads. This number crunching, backed by long experience of in-service behaviour and materials testing, resulted in a detailed laminate specification based on the use of high-strength and intermediate modulus carbon fibre prepregs. Panel stiffness is tuned by specifying the densities and thicknesses of Nomex honeycomb cores sandwiched bet-ween the carbon/epoxy skins. The super-yacht has a lifting keel, a slim aerofoil rudder and an elegant interior designed by noted architects Foster and Partners.
The second craft is an advanced 120 ft, 1000 ton motor yacht that will have to with-stand the forces involved in three 4000 hp engines driving her at up to 60 kts. Weight minimisation was a design mantra, calling for a carefully optimised sandwich structure using carbon/Kevlar laminate skins and Airex foam cores. The resulting structure is lighter and tougher than an equivalent laminate in solid carbon fibre, and half the weight of an equivalent produced in wet lay-up glass/epoxy with foam core. Custom-produced multiaxial carbon fabrics were flown to New Zealand from Europe for the job. It was decided to vacuum infuse the carbon-epoxy/foam structure in a female mould, and then post-cure it.
Reinforced Plastics, having reported on a remarkable half-century evolution from simple 'bucket and brush' glass/polyester boat building to, on the one hand high-volume production of craft accessible to the general public and, on the other, to a performance driven high-technology sector, is eager to reflect the further changes in materials, techniques and products to come.
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