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MV Agusta launches Lewis Hamilton and AMG edition bikes
Two of the world's most evocative names in motorsport – Lewis Hamilton and MV Agusta have joined forces to create a new MV Agusta Dragster LH44 revealed in public today in Milan.
The three-time F1 World Champion drives for Mercedes AMG who also happen to own MV Agusta.
Self-confessed bike nut Lewis Hamilton collaborated with MV Agusta's designers to create the special edition version of the Dragster RR. "I enjoy riding motorbikes because I feel free," said Hamilton. "I think the first time I fell in love with going fast, my Dad used to come and collect me and take me for the weekend, he would drive fast!" The new MV Agusta Dragster LH44 features a host of carbon-fibre and more than 50 changes to the standard bike to turn it into the LH44. 44 is the number Hamilton runs in F1. It features a red metal opaque frame finish and a white paint scheme featuring Hamilton's Panther logo. There's also an Alcantara leather seat with red stitching.
Just 244 bikes will be built.
For 2016, MV's Brutale 800 gets updated with a new bigger triple exhaust system to meet Euro 4 emissions regulations and a power output of 116bhp. Torque is up by 25 per cent to 61ft-lb of torque. It also has ride-by-wire throttle control and a 8-stage traction-control.
MV Agusta also unveiled a special F3 AMG concept bike at the Milan Show. It features a solar beam yellow finish and is designed to echo the paint scheme of the Mercedes AMG-GT car. There's also a black AMG logo on both sides and black wheels along with yellow stitching on the seat and a carbon-fibre mudguard. Why it's just a concept and they don't just get on with selling some of them beats us.
Other changes to the MV Agusta range include a black engine finish on the 800cc three-cylinder range and a larger 16-litre fuel tank on the Rivale.
All the 2016 MV Agusta models will be available for sale in December with deliveries of the new Brutale 800 in January.
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Three teenagers arrested over fire at Wythenshawe school ahead of visit by Kate Middleton
Three teenagers have been arrested after play equipment at a Wythenshawe school, due to be visited by the Duchess of Cambridge, was destroyed in a fire.
Willows Primary School on Tayfield Road, Woodhouse Park will be visited by the Duchess, Kate Middleton later this month.
The fire was started sometime between 6.10pm and 6.15pm on Wednesday 10 April 2013 at the children's playground at the school.
No one was injured during the incident and fire crews were quickly on the scene and controlled the fire.
But the playground equipment was completely destroyed, causing an estimated £46k worth of damage.
People in the local community are said to be rallying to restore to the playground in time for the royal visit on April 23.
Inspector Caroline Hemmingway from Wythenshawe police station, said: "There has been an overwhelming response from the community, local residents, students, councillors, community wardens, police officers and staff have been out in force and have between them pledged to rebuild the playground."
Three boys, aged 13 were arrested on suspicion of arson, they have been bailed pending further enquiries.
Any witnesses or anyone with information is asked to call police on 0161 856 4548
Thugs ram car and launch baseball bat attack in Newall Green
Wythenshawe house with mum and kids inside targeted by firebug

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You can expect a lot from the 2019 Hyundai Tucson. Under the hood you'll find a 4 cylinder engine with more than 150 horsepower, and for added security, dynamic Stability Control supplements the drivetrain. Hyundai prioritized comfort and style by including: an outside temperature display, tilt steering wheel, power door mirrors, lane departure warning, remote keyless entry, an overhead console, and power windows. Audio features include an AM/FM radio, and 6 speakers, enhancing the audio experience throughout the interior. Hyundai ensures the safety and security of its passengers with equipment such as: dual front impact airbags, head curtain airbags, traction control, a security system, and 4 wheel disc brakes with ABS. Brake assist technology provides extra pressure when applying the brakes. We have the vehicle you've been searching for at a price you can afford. Stop by our dealership or give us a call for more information.


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Revaluate maps out San Francisco's 'business of love'
Statistics may be falling, but is that just a product of dating and hook-up apps?
by Chris Drayer
While researching neighborhood safety, quality of life and environment data, Revaluate uncovered an unusual trend in the business of love.
Between Chicago and San Francisco, Revaluate revealed almost 100,000 reports of lewd acts since 2001. That stat alone is staggering, but it's not shocking. More interesting is the fact that these reports are rapidly dwindling.
The data we've uncovered indicates a sharp drop in police reports, complaints and reported incidents of prostitution, lewd sexual acts, and public indecent exposure. In San Francisco, as you may know, the trend had been climbing for years, but recently the records have been dropping – and dropping rapidly.
The Hot Beds of Love map illustrates this data for San Francisco. In recent years, trend lines indicate that these Love Hot Beds have gone cold.
The oldest profession in the world is not legal in San Francisco. It's only legal in a few low population counties of Nevada – where it's regulated and taxed like other professions.
The map shows that arrests, complaints and reports are down big, but do we really think demand has dropped proportionately? No, but this data does correlate with the growth of a totally unrelated industry.
Is the business of love in San Francisco failing?
The advancement of technology, the proliferation of smartphones, and the launch and wild success of several dating and hookup apps are likely the chief catalysts.
Selling love is not gone, it's just not in plain view on the side of the road.
This kind of love has existed since Fred met Wilma behind the bowling alley. Today, there are just a lot more options for keeping it legal and on the downlow.
Those beds are still plenty hot.
Chris Drayer is the co-founder of Revaluate. Connect with him on LinkedIn and on Twitter @FPO.
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Kerrigan looks back, 20 years after Harding drama
SOCHI, Russia (AP) - February 21, 2014
There were only a handful of media members in the room with her Friday as opposed to the hundreds that hounded her in 1994 after rival skater Tonya Harding's ex-husband put together a hit squad to try to keep Kerrigan from skating against Harding in the Lillehammer Olympics. But as she fumbled with her cellphone and tugged at the bottom of her stylish jacket, it was clear that watching the events unfold again in a press conference room in Sochi all these years later brought bubbling back to the surface those same feelings of helplessness and bewilderment.
"It made me think about everything all over again," Kerrigan said after a screening of "Nancy & Tonya," which will air on NBC on Sunday.
"It's surprising how this whole event and being attacked, it's changed not just skating, it changed my life. It changed tabloid journalism, reality television. That whole other aspect that I had no part of. It just moved the world, almost, in a different direction. Whether it's for the better or not, who knows? It just changed everything."
Kerrigan and Harding were two of the brightest stars in American figure skating when they arrived in Detroit for the U.S. championships in 1994, about six weeks ahead of the Lillehammer Games. Kerrigan was knocked out of the competition when an associate of Harding's ex-husband whacked her on the right knee with a baton. It touched off a staggering scandal that pushed figure skating into the mainstream and made the camera-shy Kerrigan the uncomfortable subject of international fascination.
Kerrigan recovered in time to win a silver medal in Lillehammer, while Harding spun out of control.
"It's a little surreal to watch your life and to think, 'That's me,'" Kerrigan, who works for NBC as a skating analyst for the Sochi Games, said after watching the show. "It's almost like a whole other person at this point. I've changed. Well, I haven't changed really much, just moved on. Things in my life are different. I'm basically the same sort of competitive person, but it's just things move on."
As Harding parlayed the incident into a circus sideshow sort of celebrity that included televised boxing matches and guest commentary spots on hokey TV shows, Kerrigan retreated to the cocoon of family life. She almost never spoke publicly about her experience until just recently as the 20th anniversary approached.
During the screening, a dozen or so people sat near the front of the room. But Kerrigan sat near the back, out of sight while she watched the show recap her rise from modest means to skating stardom; the "whack heard 'round the world" that jeopardized her Olympic chances; and Harding talk about a hard-scrabble upbringing while continuing to deny she had any role in the attack on Kerrigan.
"I've apologized so many times," Harding said dismissively in the show. "She is not worth my time anymore."
"When you see someone struggle from the beginning, that's hard and I feel for her," Kerrigan said. "It doesn't excuse poor judgment. I hope now, after all this, for not just my sake but her sake, too. She has a family. Let's move on. You've got to allow people that chance to get on with their lives and try to be better and learn from mistakes."
As much as she expressed a desire to move past it Friday, there were times when it was clear that there is still some lingering pain and resentment for Kerrigan.
When journalist Mary Carillo, who interviewed both Kerrigan and Harding for the piece, was asked about Harding's persistent denial of involvement in the assault, Kerrigan interjected with an exasperated chuckle.
"Wouldn't it be weird to change it now?" Kerrigan said.
One of the toughest parts for Kerrigan was to see how some portrayed her as "an ice princess," a robotic, occasionally snarky competitor who was mocked for her cries of "Why? Why?" when she was struck on the knee and when microphones caught her calling a parade at Walt Disney World "corny."
"I remember how that felt," Kerrigan said. "So watching it, it's upsetting. Why are people like that? I don't understand."
She said she's always been a private person, so when the world turned its camera lens on her in 1994, the harsh light that shined with it was difficult for her to handle. She felt the picture that was painted was unfair and unflattering, a feeling that hasn't faded over time.
"I always wanted to be understood. Who doesn't want to be liked, right?" Kerrigan said, her voice trailing off as she concluded the interview. "That's all. I'm sorry."


One of things I was just starting to do at Kelowna.com during my last couple of weeks was writing scripts and doing voice overs for videos. Though they could be somewhat time consuming, I had a lot of fun with them. Working with different mediums gets you thinking in different ways and helps you develop your all around storytelling skills.
Below are links to the videos I worked on. I also want to acknowledge Kelowna.com videographer Chris Stanford who did most of the heavy lifting of shooting and editing these stories.
Josie Evans, 15, was walking home from school along as darkness fell along a sidewalk-less road when she was hit and killed by a truck. This video is of a memorial held a month after she died.
In the lead up to the Olympics, several foreign teams came to Kelowna to train for the Games. Here we catch up with some of them see what they think of us.


The Texas Tech University System seeks to commission a professional artist to create site-specific murals to be placed on the exterior of the new Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center, located on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, TX. Construction of the facility will be completed by August 2020.
Original commission - see full RFQ document in "Additional Requirements" for all details or online at http://www.txsmartbuy.com/sp/17-04_ART-RFQ.
The Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center will be located at one of Texas Tech's main intersections, directly across the street from the United Supermarkets Arena, where graduations, basketball and volleyball games, and many concerts are held. The public art at this location has an opportunity to contribute significantly to the overall aesthetic on campus. See additional resources for building renderings and selected public art locations.
Ideal submissions will include mosaic or other types of murals representative of Texas Tech Athletics, specifically, the basketball program. Use of photographs from Texas Tech's sports archive for inspiration is encouraged. The selected artist will work with TTU representatives in their image selection. This piece will be outdoors and available to the community.
The commissioned artist(s) will create works of art that will serve as visual representations of the TTU basketball program and serve as focal points and unifying elements for the new Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center. These works should resonate with the function of the building and will be placed on exterior walls.
See additional resources for marked locations on renderings. Locations 1-4 are mandatory; locations 5-7 are optional if the commissioned artist(s) feel it is within the current budget. Note that the north side of the building is designated for women's basketball, while the south side is designated for men's basketball. Public art can serve as indications for the functions of each side and different portions of the building through images.
In order to be considered, submissions must comply with the requirements outlined in this document. Objects that are mass-produced or of standard manufacture are not eligible for consideration.
Site-specific murals to be placed on the exterior of the new Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center, located on the Texas Tech University campus in Lubbock, TX.
Finalists will develop a design concept that reflects the standards and culture of Texas Tech specific to the Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center, and will prepare presentation materials, drawings, a model, and related specifications in sufficient detail and in the format required to convey the design intent.
Please describe your initial impressions of and projected approach to this public art project for the Womble Basketball Center. Specifically, please address your thoughts on location and medium and, if applicable, discuss any projects for which you used a similar approach (limit to 250-500 words).
Texas Tech will select the Artist that best meets the requirements, based on the information contained in their response to the Request for Qualifications, any reference checks conducted, and the information presented during any interviews conducted as part of the selection process.
1. The conceptual basis for the Artist's body of work as defined in the written statement.
2. The quality – technical and aesthetic – of the artist's past work as represented in the image submissions.
3. The experience of the artist in successfully designing, fabricating, administering, and completing public art projects and/or custom architectural elements on time and in budget.
4. The artist's training and education.
5. The quality and comprehensiveness of the submission package.
After evaluating the artists' submissions, Texas Tech will narrow the pool of applicants to approximately two to five finalists to develop a design and model for presentation to the University Public Art Committee in Lubbock, Texas. Each finalist will be paid an honorarium of $2500 for the development of their Design Proposal and to facilitate travel for the presentation. The model will not be returned to the artist if they are selected.
The Design Proposals will be subject to review and acceptance by Texas Tech University System's University Public Art Committee, the President of Texas Tech University, and the Chancellor of the Texas Tech University System.


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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
By John J. Donohue / Stanford Law Review / Justin Wolfers, on 1 January 2005
Over much of the last half-century, the legal and political history of the death penalty in the United States has closely paralleled the debate within social science about its efficacy as a deterrent. The injection of Ehrlich's conclusions into the legal and public policy arenas, coupled with the academic debate over Ehrlich's methods, led the National Academy of Sciences to issue a 1978 report which argued that the existing evidence in support of a deterrent effect of capital punishment was unpersuasive. Over the next two decades, as a series of academic papers continued to debate the deterrence question, the number of executions gradually increased, albeit to levels much lower than those seen in the first half of the twentieth century
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You all will agree that if the morning is pleasant and enthusiastic the whole day is going to be a lot fun and happy. When you wake up in the morning and not feeling fresh it can lead to a bad day. So here are some tips which can make your mornings good and will help you in starting your day with lots of zeal and plans in your mind.
Try to go to bed at time in night and have sufficient sleep to remove mental and physical tiredness. If you want to have a sound sleep then this is the most important thing you should do. Avoid drinking alcohol and caffeine and using any type of gadget or electronic item like television, mobile, laptop or anything 20 minutes before you go to sleep. Using these items will make your mind active while you are going to sleep and will disturb you in sleeping.
Try to wake up with your alarm. Pressing snooze button again and again can make you feel more tired as you will try to sleep for 10 minutes and you will be disturbed after every 10 minutes. This feel make you tired both physically and mentally. So try to wake up at first call from your alarm clock.
It is not necessary to do it on some mat; you can try it in your bed. Stretch your arms and legs and neck. This will help in improving your blood circulation after a long rest and your body will be energized.
Keep a bottle with you before you go to sleep and when you wake up drink this water. This will make you feel fresh and will also clean your blood. Say thanks to god for giving you one more beautiful day to fulfill your dreams.
Keep a diary and pen near you so that when you wake up in the morning you can make a plan for the day and can prepare your to do list for the day. You can also share your dreams with your diary if you have enough time to do this.
Nothing can be better than this. Try to do some breathing exercises and some yoga postures to make your each nerves and cell active and making your body relaxed. Yoga will help you in starting your day with zeal and enthusiasm.
They really should remove the snooze option. I overuse it for sure. Very useful post, thank you for sharing!


The Rays have officially signed Johnny Damon and Manny Ramirez, the team announced. Damon's deal is worth $5.25MM plus a potential $750K in bonus money based on attendance and Ramirez's deal is worth $2MM. Both players are represented by Scott Boras.
We first heard that Damon and the Rays were discussing a deal, and that Tampa Bay was a "leading suitor" for Ramirez. According to Newsday's Ken Davidoff (via Twitter), Boras pitched the idea of both of his clients signing with the Rays "as a package deal" given that both players were interested in playing for Tampa Bay.
The signings reunite Damon and Ramirez, who played together in Boston from 2002 to 2005, and it also brings both men back to the AL East. Ramirez was a Type A free agent and Damon a Type B, but since neither player was offered arbitration (by the White Sox and Tigers, respectively), no compensatory draft picks are involved.
Damon likely moves into a corner outfield position (with Desmond Jennings filling the other spot), while Ramirez will be Tampa Bay's new DH. Damon could also see some playing time at DH against right-handed pitching. Damon hit .271/.355/.401 with 36 doubles for the Tigers last year.
In spite of injuries and controversy that led to his trade from the Dodgers to the White Sox, Ramirez still posted a .298/.409/.460 slash line in 320 plate appearances in 2010. On a $2MM contract, Ramirez will be one of the winter's biggest bargains if he comes close to repeating that performance in 2011 over a full season.
Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated first reported the deal and added detail on Damon's incentives. For more on today's press conference, click here.
Rays did really well here. Both signings represent tremendous value.
Why do you list Jennings as the other corner OF? Most experts have Jennings starting the year in the minors with a platoon of Joyce, Zobrist and Fuld in RF.
I came here to ask/mention the same thing…I was under the impression that Jennings had to win a spot in spring and even then it might be a bench spot.
I'm not familiar with the Rays particular situation, but I don't see the sense in having a young guy rot away on the bench when he could play everyday in the minors.
WHAT!?? when did this happen!!
Actually it hasn't happened yet, time is no longer linear.
The next thing you're going to tell me is the Yanks signed an aged, semi retired, pudgy former cy young winner.
You kids and your crazy rumours!
I still think the Rays signed both looking to deal them come the deadline. I think thats a good idea if it is true as with their system and draft picks they can wind up with a legit prospect at every position.
If they are in the hunt then it would be hard to replace their offensive value.
Johnny Damon's incentives are based on ATTENDANCE? I have never seen such a thing before.
I assume it's based on fan attendance (under the premise that Damon will bring more fans to the ballpark), but perhaps its based on his own attendance at things like practice and games?
Seems very peculiar. Anyone know more?
In other words, he won't get any incentives, 100 dollar bills under every seat wouldn't get any more fans to the game, they gave away tickets with the purchase of a car wash and still couldn't get fans to come out.
If Tampa sells out on Opening Day he gets the Bonus.
Again….there will be no bonus for Damon…..
Manny's hammy won't play for $2 mil. That's about 3 weeks worth. He'll be on the DL around 4/20. Then, he'll forget which hammy is bothering him. Soon after, he'll fail a test for PED's and get suspended for the remainder of the season. He'll say all he took was pre-natal vitamins.
Prediction: Johnny Damon gets traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates for a bag of Baseballs, and says the following statement after arriving in Pittsburgh: "THIS is my Dream Team, I've always wanted to play here! My wife and I dreamed for playing for the entire 12 fans that we have!" Pitsburgh will state the trade was a fair deal.
I'm just a little confused, why would manny, a prolific hitter who is arguably one of the top 5 pure hitters in baseball the past 10 years, sign for less than half of Johnny Damon? I know he didnt produce much last year however his pure swing should have gotten more money than 2m… I'm aware that he wanted to sign a one year deal to regain his credibility, but it's Manny Ramirez we are talking about.
There's your answer.Manny is at the point in his career where his abilities are waning and teams no longer feel that they have to put up with his selfish whims.When he was younger, he could hit and at least run, even if his fielding was lacking, so his antics were tolerated. That's no longer true. Case in point, this past season with the Dodgers. He was fine until they let it be known that they would not pick up the option, then he got 'hurt'. He made no real effort to return in order to help in the playoff push. Then he had the ugly incident where he goaded the umpire into throwing him out of a game in the first inning, on a disputed strike call. Replays showed that he cursed at the ump and left him no choice but to run him. Then he put Torre and Mattingly in the tough spot of defending him, knowing the Dodgers needed him. No one said anything, but it did not go unnoticed by the other clubs.
After Orchestrating his waiver deal to the White Sox, he appeared not to be interested and seemed to be just going through the motions in Chicago.While teams have not come out and stated it in public, it appears to be pretty evident no one is interested in him because of his recent antics. When you look at his resume and that of the many lessers hitters that were signed before him and at higher salaries, you can only come to one conclusion. No one is interested in putting up with his crap anymore. The Rays signed him for $2MM and for them that's serious money, but if he acts up, they'll eat the salary and cut him loose.


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Features & Facilities
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La Tzoumaz – Verbier
La Tzoumaz Amenities
4 Vallées Ski Area
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Chalet Cathay is nestled in a tranquil clearing in La Tzoumaz, a peaceful village in the beautiful Swiss Canton of Valais. La Tzoumaz is named after the word "tzoumer" meaning to take a break, so it couldn't be a more perfect setting for a mountain getaway.
The chalet has stunning views looking down the Rhône Valley with the magnificent Swiss Alps in front and calming forest on either side. Cut into a bank away and down from the roadside with its back to the traffic, it is afforded uninterrupted views of sleepy La Tzoumaz below and the powerful mountain landscape beyond.
High Among the Trees
The beautiful surroundings confer privacy and seclusion. The vibrant colours of the mountain backdrop are dazzling to behold and are constantly changing with the seasons.
The peaceful ambience of our setting belies its easy access to the main road and proximity to the village centre and ski lift station. With no buildings or other distractions in front of the chalet to be bothered by, there is a sense of quiet and solitude, unmatched for a chalet so centrally located.
In both winter and summer, and whatever your priorities, Chalet Cathay's idyllic location in La Tzoumaz is perfect for both relaxing and more adventurous mountain holidays with family and friends.
PERFECTLY SITUATED
Perfectly situated on the main road just half a mile from the village centre, the chalet is conveniently located with easy access to all that La Tzoumaz has to offer throughout the year. It's on the main road that leads directly to the lift station and the adjacent Tourist Office and other neighbouring amenities including bars, restaurants and the local supermarket.
Mountain Living
The timeless appeal of Chalet Cathay's calming forest setting finds its fullest expression in the guest invitation: Be at home.
Chalet Cathay is easy to find with simple directions. Luckily for us, there are no obscure side roads or tricky paths to navigate to get to our front door. Even in winter for first time guests arriving in the evening, the final section of the journey to the chalet will be stress free.
Easy to Find
How to know you've arrived at Chalet Cathay?
Look for the lamppost directly above our drive. We're on the main road to the village and lift station. Just a few steps away from the top of our drive, there is also a free public car park and a bus stop. Better still, it's only one stop away from the lift station.
It's only a five-minute downhill walk from Chalet Cathay to the lift station.
La Tzoumaz Village Map
For families with children, the grounds around the chalet offer lots of fun and safe areas in which to play and relax in the fresh mountain air. The woodland by the side of the drive area is an enchanted forest right on our doorstep. It's a wonderful place for children to explore, play hide-and-seek or just watch the local fauna in their natural habitat.
Outdoor Relaxation and Recreation
Your very own private playground and gateway to further alpine adventures.
The lawns on either side of the chalet are another great place to spend time outside. Wooden decking around the lower ground floor terrace connects the generous grassed spaces to the forested area by the drive.
There is also a charming walking trail at the foot of the chalet that runs alongside a "bisse", a little canal that in days past has served to provide irrigation to neighbouring areas.
There's plenty to explore around the beautiful landscaped grounds of Chalet Cathay.
Wild deer have been seen on the chalet grounds, although you have to up very early to see them!
Approaching the Chalet
The chalet is approached directly from the main road via a gentle, sloping tarmac drive offering easy access on foot or by car and leads right up to our front door. There are no steps that can sometimes be tricky to negotiate in winter, especially for children and older guests.
Fortunately for us, the Vouatère Parc bus stop is situated in the public car park adjacent to our driveway and it is just over a minute on the bus to get to the lift station.
Convenient Access
Even in winter when it's snowy and icy, getting to and from the chalet by car or on foot is still a pleasure on the gently sloping landscaped drive.
There is plenty of space on the drive to park up to four vehicles depending on size. In the unlikely event there is not enough space, additional parking is available in the free public car park at the top of our drive.
Secure Space
Private, accessible, off-road parking for multiple vehicles provides peace of mind in all seasons.
The free resort ski bus stops right at the top of our drive!
La Tzoumaz – Verbier Bus Map
Getting Here By Road
La Tzoumaz is located 160Km south-east of Geneva Airport. It's an easy journey, doesn't take long and is rewarded with scenic views making driving a pleasure. The route is straightforward, mostly on motorway and joining it from the airport is particularly easy and stress free.
Epic Drive
The motorway route from Geneva Airport to Chalet Cathay has sections of scenery that will simply take your breath away.
On exit heading north-east towards Lausanne, the motorway drive along Lake Geneva is scenic, and the views approaching Montreux are particularly attractive.
The route then cuts south through the narrow valley floor beside the Rhône River to Martigny, a historic Roman town.
From Martigny, it is another 15 km east on the motorway along the valley to Riddes and then a short scenic climb of a few kilometres up to the resort.
Chalet Cathay in La Tzoumaz is well connected by road. From here other ski resorts like Chamonix in France and Zermatt, also in the Canton of Valais, are both easy day trips by car.
If using your own car, please do ensure it is equipped with winter tyres and there is a set of snow chains on board. It is certainly worthwhile practising fitting the chains at home first if you have never used them before.
The whole journey by car takes on average about two and a half hours including hire car pick-up.
Travelling By Rail
If there are smaller groups travelling, it may be cheaper and easier to use the famously efficient and effortlessly integrated SBB Swiss public transport system.
Effortless Arrival
The train journey from Geneva Airport to Riddes requires one change to a local train at Martigny.
It only takes about three and a half to four hours by train, including a short shuttle bus ride to the resort at the end.
La Tzoumaz – Verbier Free Ski Bus Service
La Tzoumaz - Verbier
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Mamut Churlu is an artist who worked for years in Uzbekistan and Russia on researching folk art practices as well as creating his own art. As part of the mass return of Tatar repatriates to the Crimean Peninsula at the fall of the Soviet Union, he returned to Crimea, where he formed Crimean Style, a folk art project that promotes preservation and revival of traditional embroidery, weaving, ceramic, and ornamental practices.
Article first published at Lossi36 by Katherine Leung (republished with permission)
Mamut Churlu (Wikipedia)
So much of Crimean Tatar art was lost in the Stalinist purges but a new generation of young artists devoted to preserving their culture is bringing it all back. New workshops with updated practices have sprung up all around Crimea. Education is key in reintroducing these practices back to the people. Hundreds have participated in Crimean Style's workshops and are excited about an art form brimming with symbolism, cultural significance, and unabashed tradition. The significance strikes a different chord when it is so rooted in Crimean Tatar rites of passage and identity. Symbolism plays a big role in Crimean Tatar folk art. There are stories and meanings embedded into all Crimean Tatar artwork that have a special name – ornek.
Lossi 36 speaks to Mamut Churlu to discuss his work in the great revival project. We leave politics at the door and explore the beauty of Crimean Tatar artistry.
Fish (2006) Linen, wool, gold thread, natural dyes, felt, embroidery. 35 x 56 cm.
The Golden Age of Crimean Tatar art coincided with the peak of the Crimean Khanate prosperity from the mid 15th to 18th centuries. Then Crimean Tatar art and culture entered a period of self-isolation after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 1783. In contemporary times, ethnic groups have asserted their identity from the Russian monolithic narrative through art and preservation. Can you talk more about your involvement in the Crimean modern identity project?
Russian aristocrats and educated art consumers started to show interest in Crimean Tatar embroidery in the 19th century, influenced by Romantic art movements in Europe. Fascination with folk art arose at this time. By the end of the 19th century, many Russians had private collections. Beginning in the 20th century, orientalists and ethnographers collected Crimean Tartar art for museum collections. Large collections of Crimean Tatar embroidery can be found in museums in Russia and Berlin.
The process of Crimean Tatar embroidery usually took place in a traditional home.
The process of Crimean Tatar embroidery usually took place in a traditional home. Household items were created as a tradition, usually for weddings and certain rites of passage. Typically, a bride brought up to four hundred hand-woven and hand-embroidered items to the groom's house. The knowledge of this craft was passed down from their grandmothers and taught to girls in villages.
In 1928, The Academy of Art and Sciences in Moscow organized an exhibition of Crimean Tatar ornamental design, weaving, and embroidery. Many collectors flocked to this exhibition and a cooperative of over 350 craftswomen was formed by 1930, with the idea of creating modern textile products like tablecloths, napkins, and handkerchiefs intended to export to the European market. Around the same time, Crimean Tatar embroidery was presented at an Art and Industry exhibition in Paris and awarded a bronze medal.
We lost a lot when the indigenous people of Crimea were deported in 1944. Most of our folk culture and art was associated with the creation of household items. It wasn't until a mass return in the 1990s were repatriates able to revive their lost craft. It's not the sole work of myself, but the efforts of so many young artisans who are bringing this lost art back.
Deportation (1990) Oil on canvas. 119×136 cm.
Path (1988) Oil on cardboard. 97×67 cm.
You returned to Crimea in 1989 after spending much time in Russia and Uzbekistan. This is something of a homecoming for you. Can you talk about how Crimean folklore was a part of your upbringing? How do diasporic Tatar communities see the Crimean peninsula?
Even before my return to my homeland in 1989, I created decorative textiles, painted, and worked as a researcher. I worked with museum collections, participated in ethnographic expeditions, spoke at conferences about Central Asian carpet weaving, and even published a study on ceramic toys from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. I worked as a curator, promoting Uzbek ceramics in exhibitions all around the Soviet world.
My painting style is brutalist in character at first. It was birthed as a reaction to political aggression and an ongoing information war against my people. In the mid-90s, I realized that persistent negativity would not uplift me or my people.
I realized it was important to partner up with international arts programs and organizations that were already working towards promoting traditional arts. In 1996, I created a school curriculum that successfully brought back Crimean Tatar kilim. (Kilim is a tapestry-woven textile made from sheep wool, dyed in roots, leaves, and flowers and many believe the decorations on a kilim have special powers to protect a house.)
At the same time, there were other ornamental master jewelers returning to the motherland and creating traditional filigree decorations. Embroidery workshops also sprung up around this time. I started holding workshops for youth and teaching art at schools. In 2004, I was invited to the Ukranian Union of Folk Masters and was able to organize the first-ever exhibition of contemporary decorative Crimean Tatar art in Kyev.
This exhibit was unlike any other. We exhibited ceramic plates and toys, traditional embroidery styles such as the gold thread stitch and double-sided embroidery technique, kilim, calligraphy, and tablecloths. From that moment on, I realized that showcasing the effort and artistry of Tatar art masters was a powerful weapon for promoting our culture at the international level. Education is key to fighting back in the misinformation war. What we needed was inside us this entire time.
I started Crimean Style, an organization that puts together free seven-day seminars to study ornek for use in both traditional and contemporary creative works. This promoted constant creative activity with countless amounts of shows in the largest cities in Ukraine. In over 15 years of Crimean Style's existence, we've held more than thirty exhibitions.
To be completely honest, many people who support Crimean Tatar do so in a political vien. I urge people to see us for our culture and go deeper than politics.
Family Tree (2010) Linen and acrylic embroidery. 137×87 cm.
In the 1990s, you participated in a program from the revival of Crimean Tatar Kilim (tapestry-woven carpet and rugs) to develop folk art. Can you talk about your experience there? What is important about developing something that is lost from genocide and other trials the Tatar culture has gone through? Are there new methods to replace old techniques of creating?
In restoring what was lost, it was important to transfer the experience from the old masters to younger artisans. One example is the revival of silver filament jewelry work.
One well-known artisan in filigree jewelry art is Ayder Asanov. Before deportation, Asanov and his father taught at a workshop that trained young master jewelers. Now elderly, Asanov returned to Crimea from Uzbekistan and we've worked with him again to bring back this lost art.
Another artisan we've worked with is Zuleikha Bekirova. She studied Crimean Tatar embroidery since the 1930s. When she returned, also elderly, we worked with her to preserve and train a new generation of craftswomen in authentic traditional embroidery.
For these two practices – we've managed to keep the same traditional practice as pre-deportation. However, the revival project proved much more difficult with copper utensil production. There were no masters left who we could learn from. Crimean Style coppersmiths had to study old samples and reimagine what copper technology existed prior to the purges, without teachers.
Some craftsmen use modern metal welding technology and contemporary tools. We've used some of the same designs, but we also have adapted our ornamental heritage to the conditions of modern life.
As with copper dishes, we were able to almost entirely recreate the same dishes produced in the 19th century. We could make plaster molds using the slip casting technique. This practice is followed by engraving, firint, and covering with colored coating enamels for a second firing. The old dishes in Crimean Tatar households were simple and covered in glaze. Absolutely nothing has changed about this practice.
Amulets (2018) Linen and acrylic embroidery. 72×67 cm.
Chatyr Dag (named after a mountain in Crimea) is an organization that you started, that brings together fresh new talent. What message do you hope young Tatar artists take away? What is your message for people worldwide, who may reduce Turkic art to a monolithic category of simply rugs and traditional Islamic dress?
Chatyr Dag is more than just a mountain – it's a symbol of our common home in Crimea. The peaks of Chatyr Dag can be seen from all parts of the peninsula. Another thing the mountains symbolize is the self-efficacy of the Crimean Tatar people. My organization, Chatyr Dag, has not received a penny of financial support from the Ukrainian or Russian government in its fifteen years of existence. All our activities have been financed by sponsors and donor funds. We rely on volunteer work.
In my opinion, Crimean Tatar art and the message that is embodied in our art is considered the property of the world. Our artwork is the world's art. We bring together masters of various nationalities who have found their vocations, professions, and endless love in the ancient culture of the indigenous people of Crimea. Our art didn't start in the 19th century. There are precursors of Crimean art in Neolithic times, long before the concept of states and nations were ever created. Our art has influenced the artwork of ancient Greeks, Scythian Turk, Byzantium, Ottoman, and even art of the Islamic world.
Family (2018) Linen and acrylic embroidery. 60×87 cm.
Our art practices are rooted in an authentic feminism found in Tatar women for over a millenia. Women began creating this work and passed it down to their daughters. Our values of a strong family, rites surrounding birth, and protection for our people are all found in our artwork. And truthfully, all of that is fundamental to everything in humanity. Our values are found in all religions and in the laws of all modern states.
All artworks in the article are for sale. Contact Mamut Churlu ([email protected]) for sales inquiries.
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By Frances Collins
Successful rebrands
A closer look at two different successful rebrands; Gumtree and Airbnb delving into some of the reasons why the rebrands have been effective.
Using your audience within the process
Gumtree started a rebrand process by responding to audience reactions to their brand (non-users, lapsed users and existing users), driven from market research. James Greenfield, founder of Koto, the studio responsible for the rebrand stated the following about the original logo "People didn't understand the significance of it, they didn't like the design and thought it was cluttered, and they didn't understand the sun in the background – they just saw it as an orange circle."
Whilst there have been instances where responding to audience opinion has proved to be unwise (The 'new Coke' failure being a prominent example), in the case of Gumtree the selection by users of the new logo from the shortlisted design ideas proved successful – "Many users [sic] describing it as simple, clean and modern in testing" – Greenfield talking to Creative review.
Koto had the audience at the forefront of decision making throughout the project with consideration given to testing and perception – ensuring their goals of modern, simple and digital were communicated.
Rebranding a company where the logo is disliked takes experience, but when the logo is valued and respected but no longer fits with the company's values the rebrand process is a whole new ball game!
An immersive approach to successful rebrands
The old Airbnb brand was liked, so when it came to rebranding, the company commissioned, Design Studio, took an immersive approach to the process. Placing half their project team in the Airbnb offices, and visiting customers' spread across the globe, they came to understand the culture. This understanding led to decisions around belonging anywhere and creating a mark anyone could draw. This has been visually implemented by creating a content brand whose mark can be adapted, alongside permission given for its flexible use, has resulted in increased brand loyalty from customers and fans!
Images from Design week and Design boom
Content driven brands
A number of brands that are content driven have taken a flexible approach to branding. We look at AOL and Google to see what we can learn.
Rebrands gone wrong
Fran looks into some failed rebrands including Kraft food and Mastercard.
University rebrands
Plenty can go wrong with a University rebrand - with lots of stakeholders, and different audiences needing different things - Fran looks at some that have been less successful!


There are a growing number of services and tools available for people who want to create transmedia projects, tools that not only give creators a new way to get their stories out to people but also juggles the creative parts of peoples' brains (in a good way, I might add!) Here are two quite different ones, Storify and Shadow Cities.
Storify is a "real-time curation service" that lets a user build his/her own story from a number of sources (Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube etc) and insert own comments to create a kind of a story around a subject. It's easy to handle – what I found is that the most time-consuming part is finding the most meaningful content and arrange them so that the pieces fit together nicely and logically. In a way, it's very much like writing a blog post, but more handy in many ways – not bothering with embedding, searches possible through the same interface etc.
There are, I'm sure, a number of other ways to use Storify in a transmedia setting. It's an easy tool that gives quick results that can be easily distributed to a huge number of users/followers. That in itself should be attractive to transmedia creators!
The other service is from the other end of the spectra. The iPhone game "Shadow Cities" was launched by Grey Area of Finland a little over a week ago. It's a game that uses OpenMap as the basis, and then puts a magical layer on top of the real world, a layer where the user participates as a wizard of sorts.
Now, the background story is flimsy to say the least. I do not think anyone has any idea about why we do what we do (yes, I've been playing it since it was released, addictive it is, yes!) apart from the need for there to be a struggle between two opponents for there to be the necessary competition. There are also some flaws in the game mechanics, but these are being corrected (hopefully) continously, so there is bound the be many improvements over the coming months.
This game does juggle the transmedia creative brain quite a lot, I must say. If the game engine would be licensable, there is no end to the fun we could have with this app. Think of being the Harry Potter of the real world, throwing "real" spells as you move through the physical world, fighting monsters and evil stuff along the way (or be a Death Eater, if that's your thing). Or connect it to something like TRON or The Sorcerer's Apprentice or suchlike; why not the Underworld property or just about any story where there already is implemented the idea of a "layer" on top of our regular world.


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I was quite proud of my response to Annie (quoted in my previous blog entry), but I never received a reply. Perhaps I was too direct -- I notice now that I never complimented her on her earnest thoughtfulness. Instead, I chided her for having a stereotypical view of atheists.
"You, sir, are obsessed with reality." -- said to James Randi.
First off, I offer my apologies for taking so long to respond! My day job has required a lot of travel, so my free time has been severely limited. Plus, you spent a long time on your response, and I wanted to respond in kind.
After reading your response, I want to re-read my own website to see why you've obtained such a one-dimensional view of me and my philosophy. Could it be something I said or implied on my page, or are you painting me as a straw-man based on what is, frankly, a cultural stereotype? It's a sad and unfortunate preconception of my rationalist brethren that we are cold, calculating logicians completely unwilling to listen to the music of life. (Substitute "rationalist" for whatever term you prefer: secular humanist, naturalist, non-theist, bright, heathen, skeptic, infidel, atheist, deist, reality-based communitarian...) Spock is the embodiment of this point of view, someone who may be valuable in his ability to think through a situation while desperately eliminating all emotional aspects of life. I try not to be offended when I'm pigeonholed like this, since 1) too many rationalists get an immature kick out of being coldly contrary, and 2) the few examples of them in the media reinforce this stereotype. (Look at the Bill Pullman character in the latest made-for-TV movie.) You might be surprised to hear that I'm not a cold demagogue in a lab coat.
I'll have you know that I, too have appreciated Leonard Cohen, and at one point toyed with becoming a professional musician. My life is enriched by art, literature, film, and above all, music. I even do yoga. To me, these aren't mere diversionary entertainments, they are ways of enriching my life and broadening my perspective. They, like science, logic, and reason, are tools used to discover truth.
But I don't buy the notion of rational and non-rational tools for discovering truth as being separate-but-equal. Winston Churchill once said about democracy (paraphrasing): "It's the worst political system in the world, except for all the others." Similarly, Science/logic/reason are the worst tools for finding truth -- except for all the others. The other tools may feel better to use, but they are flawed in fundamental ways.
Science is particularly good at determining whether things exist, and whether things have truly happened. Here's an example. Because I'm on travel today, my wife and I are in different states. Let's say that the weather's bad and I know she's out driving to visit her mother. How do I know that she's alive and well? I could use non-rational tools and search my intuitions: is there a hitch in my sense of well-being? Or can call her cell phone and obtain a solid, scientific data point? Is this method foolproof? No. She could be crushed by a boulder in the moment after she hangs up on me. Are non-rational methods entirely useless? No -- I could have a strong hunch that there might be boulder-laden landslides in the area in which she's driving. But if I was given the choice of using one method over the other in this case, I'd pick science hands-down. So if this is the best method for determining my wife's existence from afar, why not God?
Intuitions and other non-rational approaches may feel compelling, but they are full of pitfalls. People are adept at bamboozling themselves, often adopting the philosophy, "If it feels good, think it." Humans seek patterns even in pattern-free situations (hence the Man in the Moon, the Mother Theresa sticky bun and the Elvis Presley taco chip), and as a result are naturally compelled to believe things which are compelling but untrue . As a result, it's better to be aware of these pitfalls than to succumb to them without reflection. Being human, I know I am prone to these truth-seeking mistakes. So when an issue is important, such as the existence of God, I do my best to see where I may be allowing wishful thinking to cloud my judgment. This is partially the reason for my insistence in evidence for the existence of God. (The primary reason is rhetorical: I had too many fundamentalists responding with absolute certainty there was a God, so I decided to call them on it.) This isn't to say that I probe all important issues with scientific / rational / logical methods. Rather, when I don't use those methods, I try to be sure to remind myself that my conclusions aren't airtight.
This isn't as cold and calculating as it sounds. If anything, it requires a very deep level of self-awareness. Not only do I know what I think, I have a good sense of why I think it.
Thus, I aim to achieve good sense of the degree of certainty I have in my beliefs. I seek out what I know for certain to be true, what I am reasonably sure to be true, what I think is true, what I believe is true, and what I'd like to believe to be true, in declining order of certainty.
would like to believe in a benevolent God and that I have an eternal soul.
The biggest mistake, in my mind, is to elevate any of those conclusions up a level of certainty.
Apologists for the existence of God try to set up a rigged game, one no one would play if it wasn't God they were talking about. If a girlfriend said she wanted a relationship with me, but that by her own choice I would never see her directly, never hear from her directly, and the best evidence of her love for me would come indirectly, say from transcendent feelings coming through art or the appreciation of a sunrise, I would say, "thanks, but no thanks." Why should a leap of faith be necessary when our very souls are supposedly in the balance?
You say that "I perceive your world as being much smaller and narrower than mine...again, I marvel at that extraordinarily limited notion of 'truth' as being facts and evidence alone." I suggest that the opposite is true. After all, sure, a single fact or data point in a scientific description of something may seem prosaic and uninteresting at its face. However, it bespeaks a lack of imagination to see the richness that these data present. Without such supposedly arcane, uninteresting data, we wouldn't have any sense of, say, the vastness of space, or an appreciation of the long struggles our ancient ancestors suffered to have offspring and pass on their genes. We wouldn't understand that within our DNA resides information about where we came from, how our ancestors migrated. We wouldn't know that we are made of the very elements that existed in stars billions of years ago, and that their exploding deaths led to our existence. Through science, humans have been capable of leaving our own planet, and looking back at it to ponder. How is this limiting? How is this prosaic? Indeed, science has shown that the universe is much broader, more fascinating, expansive and complicated than any religion could have possibly imagined. God didn't merely say "abracadabara" over the course of seven days and rested. That is much more limiting and prosaic a point of view than the truth: the universe as we know it took many, many, patient years to reach its current state. And it will continue for many long years after we are dead and gone. This truth is as awesome as it is humbling.
While scientists often seem antisocial and overly focused on minutiae, I submit that they are much more interested and appreciative of the universe than any artist, any shaman, any Pope. Read Richard Dawkins' "The Ancestor's Tale," "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan, or just about anything by Stephen Jay Gould and you see the richness of their views of life. I have hung out with artists and with scientists, and I would say that on balance the scientists possess more of a love for the world and a greater sense of awe, reverence, and wonder. You may not see the poetry, the literature in their views, see nothing but alphabets instead of Dostoyevsky. But I suggest that this is a limitation in your view of the universe, not mine.


THANKFUK FOR: THANKSGIVING 2015 - S.A.T.
Today is the one day where everyone uses "thankful" and everyone suddenly remembers how important it is to be thankful! I half love this day, but I half do not like this day because I, obviously, see the importance of being thankful all 364 other days of the year. Nonetheless, I do love thanksgiving. The food. The family. The naps. The friends. The Black Friday shopping. The joy. The thankful hearts. Such a great day!
I love it so much that I woke up at 5 a.m. and I'm still thankful!
As a mentioned earlier this week, Stuttgart is the duck and rice capitol of the world, therefore everyone and their mothers are hunting this week! Huge thanks to Mr. George for taking my brother and I hunting this morning along with the rest of the crew. I had a blast! I have been hunting, but I in no way compare to most other true hunters around here. It has been a couple of years, so I'm super thankful I got to go with the fam early this morning. Usually it is so cold, but all day it has been pretty warm meaning this morning it was a very doable hunting temperature. Thanks again for the super fun experience to start thanksgiving!
Like many of you, I spent the rest of the day with my family. JanJan and several others came together to put on yet another fantastic feast. I mean I am still stuffed.
A nap was necessary and Black Friday shopping was entertaining!
All in all I have a mountain of things to be thankful. That comes easy for me though I just really appreciate how others were thankful today. The amount of times I saw "thankful" today was CRAZY. Makes me happy! Makes me feel like I am doing the best I can!
I hope you all had a great day with whoever you spent this holiday with. Thanksgiving is such a special day for me because I often feel like I am doing my job. But with that being said please remember that you can be thankful as often as you want. I know it makes a huge difference just by seeing that in my life and I promise it will do the same for you! Being Southern and Thankful is a very important job.
Don't forget to enter my giveaway to win a free thankful for home shirt. I will decide as soon as the clock strikes midnight tonight! I can't wait to share!!
I am loving being home and loving everything about thanksgiving. I am reminded everyday just how much I have to be thankful for, but my hope is that now you can do the same! I hope you all had a very #southernandthankful Thanksgiving. My life wouldn't be the same without. I am thankful for you!
Until the next thanksgiving where thankful is overused and turkeys are not turkeys... Of how much I cherish this day! Happy Thanksgiving friends, family, and followers!


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Hi Guys, long time no see as it happens, still enjoying my flying although most of it takes place in France now days on an airfield, lots of fun and a club house.
Nice to see my Yellow Breitling Edge on the Flight Fixed wing thread, still have it in one piece after eight years.
Don't mind at all, its a very pretty composite airframe, if you have access to the old site, you may find photographs of some of the turbines, IMO the Rookie is the prettiest of all.


Excel includes a handy feature called PivotTables that can be used in a number of ways. If you have large amounts of data, PivotTables can make quick work of condensing and presenting your data in comprehensible ways. The following articles discuss how to use PivotTables to analyze data in Excel.
The following articles are available for the 'PivotTables' topic. Click the article''s title (shown in bold) to see the associated article.
Create a complex PivotTable and you may find that your system slows to a crawl. The reason for this may be due to the way in which you directed the PivotTable to analyze your data. Here are some ideas on how to speed things up.
One of the ways you can use PivotTables is to generate counts of various items in a data table. This is a great technique if your data table has quite a few items in it.
Wish there was a way to define how you want PivotTables formatted before you actually create the PivotTable? You may be out of luck, as discussed briefly in this tip.
When you create a PivotTable, it can have a name. You may want this name to appear within the PivotTable itself. There is no automatic way to do this, but this tip provides a couple of ways you can work around this limitation.
When you want to include specific records from a source table into a PivotTable, you need to employ some sort of filtering. Here's a common scenario and a way to include just the rows you want.
If you ever try to edit a PivotTable and get an error that tells you that the "underlying data was not included," it can be frustrating. This tip looks at possible causes for this error and how you can solve the problem.
Excel allows you to link to values in other workbooks, even if those values are in PivotTables. However, Excel may display an error value instead of the proper value if you don't have the linked workbook open. Here's how to prevent the error value.
If you are using a data set that includes a number of zero values, you may not want those values to appear in a PivotTable based on that data. Here are some ideas about how you can eliminate the values.
PivotTables are a great way to work with large quantities of data in an intelligent manner. Sometimes, however, you just need to look at the underlying data. Here are a few ways you can see it.
You can format PivotTables using either manual formatting or automatic formatting. You need to be careful, however, as only one type of formatting will not be wiped out when Excel updates the table.
When you refresh the data in a PivotTable, Excel can play havoc with whatever formatting you applied. Here's how to protect your formatting efforts when updating the information.
Wonder what happened to the data behind a PivotTable? It could be in a number of places, and tracking it down could be a challenge. Here are a few ideas.
Changing the data source PivotTables go to can be a bit tricky. This tip explains what can happen when you re-point your files and how you can make the switch without any problems.
Need to reduce the size of your workbooks that contain PivotTables? Here's something you can try to minimize the behind-the-scenes data that Excel uses for those PivotTables.
If you modify the data on which a PivotTable is based, you'll need to refresh the table so it reflects the modified data. This tip explains the various ways you can do the refresh.
PivotTables are used to analyze huge amounts of data. The number of rows used in a PivotTable depends on the type of analysis you are doing and the characteristics of the original data. If you need to determine how many rows are in a PivotTable, you can use the approaches described in this tip.
When you update a PivotTable, Excel can take liberties with any formatting you previously applied to the PivotTable. Here's how you can protect the column widths you want for the PivotTable.
PivotTables are great for digesting and analyzing huge amounts of data. But what if you want part of that data excluded, such as information that has a zero value? Here's a couple of quick ideas.
When you create a PivotTable based on data that contains lots of text, you may be surprised to find that your text is truncated. This is apparently by design, as described in this tip.
PivotTables are a great way to process huge amounts of data and make sense of that data. If you have a number of PivotTables in a workbook, you may want a way to update them all in one pass. This can be done through the use of a short macro, described in this tip.
Are you attached to the classic PivotTable layout? Looking for a way to make that layout the default for new PivotTables? You may be out of luck on setting the default, but you can make switching to the classic layout easier with the macros in this tip.
PivotTables are used to boil down huge data sets into something you can more easily understand. They are very good simple aggregations, such as sums, counts, and averages. They can't do weighted averages, however. That doesn't mean you are out of luck; you can still calculate weighted averages using the ideas in this tip.


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PuTTY: a free SSH and Telnet client
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PuTTY is a free implementation of SSH and Telnet for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator. It is written and maintained primarily by Simon Tatham.
The latest version is 0.71. Download it here.
LEGAL WARNING: Use of PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink is illegal in countries where encryption is outlawed. We believe it is legal to use PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP and Plink in England and Wales and in many other countries, but we are not lawyers, and so if in doubt you should seek legal advice before downloading it. You may find useful information at cryptolaw.org, which collects information on cryptography laws in many countries, but we can't vouch for its correctness.
Use of the Telnet-only binary (PuTTYtel) is unrestricted by any cryptography laws.
2019-07-08 Bug bounty concluded
The EU-funded bug bounty programme is now closed. Many thanks to everybody who sent in reports!
Anyone with a vulnerability to report should now go back to reporting it in the old way, via email to the PuTTY team, as described on the Feedback page. If you think it needs to be reported confidentially, encrypt it with our Secure Contact Key.
2019-03-25 Bug bounty continues
This year's EU-funded bug bounty programme is still running. It was originally scheduled to end on 7th March, but there was money left over in the budget. So while that money lasts, you still have a chance to earn some by finding vulnerabilities in PuTTY 0.71 or the development snapshots!
As before, vulnerabilities should be reported through the HackerOne web site in order to qualify for a bounty: if you send reports directly to the PuTTY team in the usual way, then we'll still fix them, but we can't provide money for them.
2019-03-16 PuTTY 0.71 released
PuTTY 0.71, released today, includes a large number of security fixes, many of which were found by the recent EU-funded HackerOne bug bounty. There are also other security enhancements (side-channel resistance), and a few new features. It's also the first release to be built for Windows on Arm.
2019-01-18 EU bug bounty for finding vulnerabilities in PuTTY
From now until 7th March, you can earn money by reporting security vulnerabilities in PuTTY!
HackerOne is running a bug bounty programme for PuTTY, funded by the European Union as part of the 'Free and Open Source Software Audit' project (EU-FOSSA 2). If you report a vulnerability through their web site, it may qualify for a bounty. (The exact amount will depend on how serious the problem is, and there's also a bonus for providing a patch that fixes it.)
For more details, or if you have something to report, see the link above.
(Please note that HackerOne will only consider vulnerabilities reported to them. If you send a report directly to the PuTTY team in the usual way, then of course we'll still fix it, but we can't also arrange for you to get paid.)
2018-08-25 GPG key rollover
This week we've generated a fresh set of GPG keys for signing PuTTY release and snapshot builds. We will begin signing snapshots with the new snapshot key, and future releases with the new release key. The new master key is signed with the old master keys, of course. See the keys page for more information.
2017-07-08 PuTTY 0.70 released, containing security and bug fixes
PuTTY 0.70, released today, fixes further problems with Windows DLL hijacking, and also fixes a small number of bugs in 0.69, including broken printing support and Unicode keyboard input on Windows.
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NBAA-BACE Recap: Celebrations, Giveaways and All Things Business Aviation
The NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) was held Oct. 16 – 18, 2018 at the Orange County Convention Center and Orlando Executive Airport (ORL) in Orlando, Florida. The show included an impressive static display of cutting-edge business aircraft, education sessions and more than 1,000 exhibitors, including Phillips 66® Aviation.
Booth visitors walked away with plenty of giveaways and also had the opportunity to play Sky High! Trivia and the larger-than-life Plinko, which was wildly popular. Each day, a grand prize winner was awarded in the daily Showcase Showdown. Grand prizes included an Apple Watch, iPhone 8 and MacBook.
Also at the booth, Phillips 66 Aviation honored two incredible organizations – Cutter Aviation and the Corporate Angel Network (CAN). This year marks Cutter's 90th year of providing sterling service to the aviation industry. Cutter Aviation is the oldest family-owned and operated FBO in America and is also the oldest Phillips 66 branded FBO in the network of 800-plus. To help celebrate Cutter's 90th anniversary, the FBO gave away a brand new URAL motorcycle to one lucky winner, Keith Benson with Esterline Power Systems out of Buena Park, California.
And once again, Phillips 66 Aviation presented a $22,000 check to the Corporate Angel Network, along with co-sponsors Business & Commercial Aviation Magazine and Safe Flight Instrument Corporation. CAN is the only charitable organization in the U.S. whose sole mission is to help cancer patients access the best possible medical treatment by arranging free air travel to treatment centers across the country.
The donation is a part of Phillips 66 Aviation's sponsorship of the Corporate Angel Award, a unique program that recognizes corporations and their flight departments that have demonstrated outstanding dedication as participants in CAN. The award recognizes four corporate flight departments each year. This year's Corporate Angel Award recipients are ConocoPhillips, Honeywell, Ultimate Jet Charter and Dow Chemical.
A special "thank you" to the following Phillips 66 branded FBOs that served as co-exhibitors within the booth: Cutter Aviation, Business Jet Center, Fontainebleau Aviation, Tulsair Beechcraft, DuPage Flight Center, Regional Jet Center, Tri-City Aviation, and Texas Jet.
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he 2021 NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) was held Oct. 12-14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center and Henderson Executive Airport (KHND) in Las Vegas.
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Quite often activity rather than progress or improvement is reported, and any analysis is used to simply justify what happened last month, last quarter, etc. There's very little focus on what current and past performance means for the future. If it's all 'in the green' no-one really cares what the trend is.
In a recent analysis of SDI Service Desk Certification (SDC) data, the lowest scoring concept across all industry sectors was Management Information and Performance Results. Despite the huge amounts of data available to a maturing service desk, it still seems that managers struggle with knowing what to measure to manage their operation, demonstrate value and track improvement.
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Heinrich von Mallinckrodt (* um 1590; † 23. März 1649 in Osnabrück) war Domvikar in Münster und Domkantor in Osnabrück.

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Heinrich von Mallinckrodt wurde als Sohn des Heinrich von Mallinckrodt zu Küchen und Dahlhausen (1548–1628) und dessen Gemahlin Remberta von Krevet zu Alfen († 1625) geboren. Er war der Bruder des Domdechanten Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, der wegen eines Konfliktes mit dem Fürstbischof von Galen aus seinem Amt entfernt, verhaftet und in der Burg Ottenstein festgesetzt wurde. Hier starb Bernhard, bevor seine Exkommunikation aufgehoben wurde. Heinrichs Bruder Eberhard war Domkellner und Domkantor in Münster. Sein Bruder Rembert war mit Agnes von Freitag verheiratet. Sie waren die Eltern des Domherrn Bernhard von Mallinckrodt.

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Im Jahre 1584 wurde Heinrich als Domvikar in Münster eingesetzt und blieb bis zu seinem Tode in diesem Amt. 1597 kam er in den Besitz einer Dompräbende in Osnabrück und wurde hier im Jahre 1616 Domkantor.
1606 immatrikulierte er an der Universität Köln und promovierte mit dem Dr. jur. Utr. sowohl im Zivilrecht als auch im kanonischen Recht.
Heinrich war auch Propst in Quakenbrück. Er starb als Domsenior in Osnabrück.

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 Wilhelm Kohl: Das Bistum Münster 4,2: Das Domstift St. Paulus zu Münster Germania Sacra NF 17,1–17,3, Verlag: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York 1982, ISBN 978-3-11-008508-2.

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The Cal State Fullerton Performing Arts Center, which opened in January 2006, will officially be named the Joseph A.W. Clayes III Performing Arts Center by the CSU Board of Trustees this week, thanks to a $5 million donation – the second largest donation in the history of the university from the trustees for Clayes' estate.
Clayes began attending Cal State Fullerton in 1959 when classes were held at Sunny Hills High. He served on the campus' first student council and later as Associated Student Body President, representing about 1,500 students on the new CSUF campus – then known as Orange County State College. He also personally signed the loan guarantee to enable CSUF's first fraternity, Sigma Phi Omega, to have a home adjacent to the campus, Paula Selleck, university spokeswoman said.
The soon-to-be Joseph A.W. Clayes III Performing Arts Center is not the only local facility named after a member of the the Clayes family. Clayes' grandfather, a longtime principal of Anaheim High School, saw the high school stadium, Clayes Field, named after him.
The $5 million donation to CSUF will establish a scholarship endowment for arts students.
A self-made man, Clayes was a real estate and stock investor who also enjoyed opera, theater, and the arts, Selleck said.
Many performing arts students expressed elation at the thought of such a large donation to the arts programs. Because many musicians are being bought in the form of scholarships from schools like Long Beach State, this donation will help students stay at CSUF, Dylan Harlan, a grad student studying instrumental performance, said.
"In my opinion we have better faculty, but students go where the money is," Harlan said.
The majority of art students are unable to get jobs because of their rigorous rehearsal schedule and they are living off of financial aid. Many of them also have class starting at 8:00 a.m and on-campus production work until 11:00 p.m., theater major Keelia Flinn said.
Clayes' gift can be traced to emeritus professor James D. "Jim" Young, founding chair of the campus's Theatre and Dance Department. He met with the Clayes' trustees and encouraged them to consider the gift. Clayes and Young had reconnected in 2004, at a reunion of early 1960s-era graduates and professors, according to Inside, the online magazine of CSUF.
Students and faculty said they consider the gift to the arts program extremely valuable and have no qualms with the new name, which will undoubtedly be shortened to the Clayes Center.
"If he donates $5 million, I will name me after him," Jimmy Bean, a musical theater major, said.
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Taye Diggs paid a visit to Buzzfeed last week to read all the wildly inappropriate things that the Twitterverse have to say about him. These Thirst Tweets segments always produce some hilariously uncomfortable moments when the industry's finest men are forced to read aloud the dirty stuff people think about them on Twitter, and this occasion was no exception. From Taye not knowing what a "bussy," is to letting someone bite him (as long as they don't have rabies), to just straight up applauding a tweet about his butt in Rent, the video is a goldmine. The highlight has to be the unexpected inclusion of a thirst tweet from none other than showrunner extraordinaire (and Taye's former boss from his days on Private Practice), Shonda Rhimes.
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Board index » Gemology Schools, Labs, Research & Appraisal Facilities » SSEF: Swiss Gemmological Institute
New emeralds from Musakashi in Zambia appear in the market
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The parcel of 10 Zambian emeralds submitted to SSEF for testing, which was found to consist of nine emeralds from the Kafubu area, and one emerald from the Musakashi area. Photo: © SSEF[
Advanced testing using Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LAICPMS) on an anomalous stone from a batch of 10 emeralds submitted to the Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF has indicated that it is likely to have been sourced at Musakashi, in the Solwezi district of central Zambia. This suggests that production at that site has been increased. The other nine stones showed characteristics typical of production from the Kafubu area, where most of Zambia's emeralds have been mined to date.
As a major source of gem-quality emeralds, for decades most of Zambia's production has been sourced in the Kafubu area, about 45 kilometres south-west of Kitwe in the country's Copperbelt Province. However, in early 2000, a new source of emeralds was discovered in Musakashi (Zwaan et al. 2005), about 160 kilometres west of Kitwe. But production from the latter deposit was limited, partly due to legal issues about mining concessions (Klemm 2009, 2010, Pardieu 2015).
Emeralds from the Musakashi deposit are very different in their formation and occurrence to the "classic" Zambian production from the Kafubu area, and, interestingly, in many aspects are reminiscent of Colombian emeralds. This is notable because of the presence of spiky three-phase to multi-phase inclusions, and fine hollow channels parallel to the c-axis of the crystals (Zwaan et al 2005, Saeseaw et al 2014).
Two photographs showing characteristic typical of emeralds from from Musakashi, Zambia, including (above) fine parallel hollow tubes along the c-axis of stone, and (below) spiky multiphase fluid-inclusions. Photos © M.S. Krzemnicki, SSEF.
The batch of 10 emeralds submitted to SSEF had a total weight of approximately 5 carats. Nine of them displayed classic features of Zambian emeralds from the Kafubu area, such as mica flakes, amphibole inclusions and rectangular 2-phase inclusions. But the anomalous stone revealed features previously described in emeralds from Musakashi.
Advanced testing using LAICPMS (GemTOF, see http://www.gemtof.ch), enabled SSEF to positively confirm that the emerald had originated from Musakashi. This was done by comparing the data with analyses of rough samples from the area, which had been added recently to the SSEF reference collection.
"Learning more about new gem deposits is an ongoing obligation and sometimes a challenge for any gem lab." says Dr. Michael Krzemnicki, Director at the Swiss Gemmological Institute SSEF. "Studying material from new and lesser-known emerald deposits gives us greater insight into the different formation mechanisms for emerald crystallisation. This ultimately supports our work on origin determination, and also means that occasionally we have to update our findings and conclusions, when new scientific evidence is revealed."
"Having now seen stones of very fine quality of 2-5 carats and higher from Musakashi, it is reasonable to assume that production has become more active in the area, and more of this interesting material will appear in the trade in the near future," Dr. Michael Krzemnicki added.
Further research on these samples is being conducted and will be reported upon in the near future in the SSEF Facette.
Post subject: Re: New emeralds from Musakashi in Zambia appear in the mark
Been waiting quite a while to learn of another sighting of emerald from this source.
Very intriguing! Incidentally I wonder if they routinely do this level of testing on all stones that come through, or if the inclusions tipped them off.
I'd be pretty surprised if MS was a standard measurement on a parcel of 1/2 carat stones. As you mention, probably the inclusions (and maybe fluorescence measurement?) suggested they do a deeper analysis. That, and they knew to be on the lookout for Musakashi stones.


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Lenny Wolpe as Captain Andy and the cast of Show Boat. Photo by Diane Sobolewski.
When it first was staged in 1927, Show Boat broke new ground as the first American musical play (shifting away from operas and revues) and in taking on the issues of family relations, love and hope against a backdrop of racial prejudice. The story and its characters are no less poignant today, especially in Director Rob Ruggiero's slick revised version playing on the Goodspeed stage.
Based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel, the musical spans four decades in the lives of folks working on the Mississippi and on the river show boat, The Cotton Blossom between 1887 and 1927. The setting couldn't be more fitting – after all, Goodspeed is a beautiful Victorian opera house sitting on the banks of the Connecticut River. Bringing the musical, usually staged with a big cast performing huge production numbers on a large-sized boat to the smaller Goodspeed stage might have sunk the production without Ruggiero at the wheel. Under his skillful direction, however, this version is more compact (it's a breezy two and a half hours) and focuses on the relationships at the heart of the story.
The plot follows affable Captain Andy Hawks (a charming Lenny Wolpe), his uptight wife, Parthy (Karen Murphy) and their daughter, Magnolia (Sarah Uriarte Berry) who travel along the Mississippi staging shows on their boat. The star, Julie (Lesli Margherita) becomes close with Nola as well as some black folks working on the water, like Queenie (Andrea Frierson) and her husband, Joe (David Aron Damane).
Julie and her husband, Steve (Rob Richardson), are forced to flee, however, when the law finds out that Julie is half black, making her marriage to white Steve illegal. Nola steps in as Julie's understudy and falls in love with leading man Gaylord Ravenal (Ben Davis). She leaves the boat to join him for the uncertain life of the wife of a river gambler. She is forced to sell her valuables to keep them afloat, especially after the arrival of their daughter, Kim (played as a child by a skillful Madeleine Berry and briefly as an adult by Mollie Vogt-Welch). When her life is capsized, Nola is helped by old show boat performers Ellie May and Frank (Jennifer Knox and Danny Gardner) who have found success in romance and show business.
Making this production totally enjoyable are the stellar performances across the plank. Vocally, everyone makes the beautiful Jerome Kern score (with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II) an absolute pleasure to hear. Michael O'Flaherty is music director of the larger-sounding small orchestra with nice orchestrations by Dan DeLange. There are some transpositions of tunes to accommodate the range of the performers and Ruggiero, with the blessing of the Rodgers & Hammerstein organization, juggles the order of and eliminates some tunes from the original soundtrack to help focus the story. He also inserts "Til Good Luck Comes My Way" from the 1951 movie version at the top of the second act as a replacement for the fair number.
If satisfying our emotions and ears weren't enough, this production is pleasing on the eye as well. Amy Clark creates costumes that convey the periods, but wisely chooses soft colors that keep the stage looking bright and uncongested (original costume design by Florence Klotz). Choreographer Noah Racey, challenged with space restriction, reins in some of the larger numbers, but goes all out when he has fewer dancers on stage giving Gardner in particular a chance to show off some of his dancing moves. Scenic designer Michael Schweikardt's show boat fills the stage offering two levels and side staircases on which to place performers, then converts into the Ravenals' meager rooming house accommodations and also into the Trocadero. a club where Nola ends up singing.
This production really is full steam ahead and due to demand for tickets, already has been extended. Get on board while it is docked at the Goodspeed in East Haddam until Sept. 17. For tickets, call 860-873-8668 or visit www.goodspeed.org.


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