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← CBS #1 Monday in the U.S. BBC One #1 in the UK. Nine #1 in Australia.
CBS #1 Wednesday in the U.S. ITV #1 in the UK. Nine #1 in Australia. →
CBS #1 Tuesday in the U.S. BBC One #1 in the UK. Seven #1 in Australia.
'It's All About Screens.' This is the Daily Diary of Screens. On Tuesday, January 19, 2016,
CBS finished #1 broadcast network as 'NCIS' was the top program.
In the UK, 'BBC One' finished as the #1 network as 'Silent Witness' was again the top program.
Seven finished #1 in Australia as 'Seven News' was #1 newscast and '2016 Australian Tennis Open Day 2 was the top non-news program.
'Ride Along 2' #1 box office in the U.S.
'Star Wars' #1 at the International box office.
There are 3.734 Billion Unique Mobile 68% Social Ad Clicks Are Now Mobile. Users as of this quarter, account for a 51% worldwide penetration. Direct uploads of user videos to Facebook now exceed YouTube. 88% of Twitter users are on mobile. The Google+1 button is hit 5 billion times per day. 80% of Internet users on Pinterest are female. LinkedIn has 347 million registered members. Weibo has 100 million daily users. 600 million users on Whatsapp. Netflix now has 75 million streaming subscribers. WEDNESDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS (*SEE BELOW)
For Tuesday, January 19, 2016 (Posted on January 20, 2016)
CBS #1 Tuesday as 'NCIS' again is the #1 program drawing over 17 million viewers.
The Tiffany Network dominated most of Tuesday with the world's most watched drama taking front and center. Now they need to figure out the sophomoric writing on 'Limitless' or prepare figure out how to keep Bradley Cooper in their creative camp.
8P 'NCIS' ('Déjá Vu') finished #1 with an average 17.51 million viewers and a 10.7 ratings and a 17% share of the available audience.
9P 'NCIS:New Orleans' ('Undocumented') finished with an average 13.30 million viewers and a 7.9/12.
10P 'Limitless' ('Stop Me Before I Huge Again') finished with an average 6.371 million viewers and a 3.8/7.
The Peacock Network won the Battle @ 10P on Tuesday. 30 Rock needs to send a think you to Dick Wolf. He saved them.
8P 'Hollywood Game Night' finished with an average 4.633 million viewers and a 3.0/5.
9P 'Chicago Med' ('Bound') finished with an average 7.049 million viewers and a 4.8/7.
10P 'Chicago Fire' ('The Path of Destruction') finished with an average 8.16 million viewers and a 5.5/10.
The Alphabet Network found out one thing: Marvel isn't so marvelous. Mental note to Disneyville's programmers.
8P 'Marvel's Captain America: 75 Heroic Years' special finished with an average 3.196 million viewers and a 2.3/4.
9P 'Marvel's Agent Carter' ('The Lady In The Lake') season premiere finished with an average 3.18 million viewers and a 2.1/3.
The Little Network That Couldn't DID! They beat FOX, Telemundo and Univision on Tuesday.
8P 'The Flash' ('Potential Energy') finished with an average 3.422 million viewers and a 2.5/4.
9P 'D.C's Legends of Tomorrow: Their Time Now' finished with an average 2.05 million viewers and a 1.5/2.
930p 'D.C. Film's Presents: Dawn of the Justice League' finished with an average 1.81 million viewers and a 1.3/2.
The Animal Network of Broadcast beware: Murdoch's Minions may have to get pink slips after Tuesday's performance as it finished last among English speaking networks.
8P 'New Girl' finished with an average 2.95 million viewers and a 2.2/4.
830P 'Grandfathered' finished with an average 2.586 million viewers and a 1.9/3.
9P 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' finished with an average 2.383 million viewers and a 1.7/3.
930P 'The Grinder' finished with an average 2.000 million viewers and a 1.1.5/2.
The Avis of Hispanic Networks In America finished #1 as America's top Hispanic Network on Tuesday.
8P 'Celia' finished #1 Hispanic program Tuesday with an average 1.938 million viewers and a .
9P 'Bajo el Mismo Cielo' finished with an average 1.910 million viewers and a .
10P 'La Querida del Centauro' finished with an average 1.632 million viewers and a .
The #1 Hispanic Network In America died Tuesday as it finished at the bottom of all broadcast networks Tuesday.
8P 'Antes Muerta que Lichita' finished with an average 1.917 million viewers and a .
9P 'Pasion y Poder' finished with an average 1.841 million viewers and a .
10P 'Pasion y Poder' finished with an average 1.700 million viewers and a .
1135P NBC's 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' with guest Chelsea Handler finished with a 2.7 rating and a 7 share.
1135P CBS' 'Late Show with Stephen Colbert' with guest Charlie Day finished with a 2.1/5.
1135P ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' finished with a 1.7/4.
1235A NBC's 'Late Night with Seth Meyers' with guest Gad Elmaleh finished with a 1.4/5.
1235A ABC's 'Nightline' on Autism finished with a 1.1/4.
1235A CBS's 'Late Late Show with James Corden' with guest Jane Lynch finished with a 1.0/4.
135A NBC's 'Last Call with Carson Daly' finished with an 0.8/4.
CBS finished #1 Tuesday with an average 12.324 million viewers, UP (+4.226 million vs SD2015), and a 7.6 rating/12 share.
NBC finished #2 with an average 6.574 million viewers, UP (+2.010 million vs SD2015), and a 4.4/7.
ABC finished #3 with an average 3.158 million viewers, DOWN (-833,000 viewers vs SD2015), and a 2.1/3.
FOXNC finished #4 with an average 2.746 million viewers.
The CW finished #5 with an average 2.687 million viewers, DOWN (-445,000 viewers vs SD2015), and a 1.9/3.
FOX finished #6 with an average 2.498 million viewers, DOWN (-1.634 million viewers vs SD2015), and a 1.9/3.
TEL finished #7 with an average 1.826 million viewers and a 1.0/2.
UNI finished #8 with an average 1.819 million viewers and a 1.0/2.
MSNBC finished with an average 1.011 million viewers.
Broadcast network (English speaking) on Tuesday finished DOWN, -902,000 viewers vs SD2015.
On this date in 1998, the first episode of 'Dawson's Creek' aired on the WB network.
NOTE: We have entered a new era in screen ratings. Nielsen is expanding its sample of TV viewers to include new homes with meters that record the channel being watched — but not the demographics of the people watching. That will be estimated using data modeling and an algorithm Nielsen has developed, and added to the current sample that does include people meters that measure demos. The Panel Expansion (NPX), in which 12,900 households have been added to the national sample, is at the center of this change. The household ratings in these homes are measured by meters on each television in the home, while the demographic ratings in these homes will be assigned by Nielsen using a statistical algorithm. This is the first time since 1987 that homes in the national sample are not equipped with PeopleMeters, which measure both the program viewed and the people watching it.
Nielsen Attempts To Get Modern
Nielsen announced that it is working with Facebook to include conversations about TV programs on the social network in its measurement system. Now called "Social Content Ratings," the metric will also include TV-related chatter on Twitter. The deal is part of a broader effort at Nielsen to improve its methods for measuring how people watch television today.
Which Retailer Marketing Initiatives Do Consumers Believe Will Drive Them In-Store?
This could be the definitive point in the Death of Newspaper Advertising. Special promotions on retailer websites (55%) represent the top marketing initiative (of 7 listed) that consumers believe are most likely to draw them in-store, according to results from a TimeTrade survey of 5,444 consumers, with this result possibly reflecting in part the power of promotions rather than the website channel.
Print ads (49%) still ranked but behind digital as print advertising is trending down. Meanwhile, digital/mobile alerts such as location-based promotions (29%) and opt-in text notifications (27%) were cited by more than one-quarter of respondents. Social campaigns (20%) and mobile ads (18%), as both are fairly new contact and engagement devices, but finished considerably higher than last year indicating a powerful upward trend.
Did You Know: 64% of High-Earning Influential Millennials are Women.
Intent is more important than identity and demographics.
Immediacy is more important than brand loyalty.
Millennial Segments Shop Differently
Millennials are tech savvy and have never really known life without being online. Millennials know they have options and like to be in control of the shopping and buying process. They want to interact with your brand and expect you to understand them on an individual level, which is key to capturing this group's epic $170 million in buying power. More than one-third of Millennials shop on mobile devices at least once a month or more and 1 in 2 use mobile for shopping outside the store.
36% of Millennials actually leverage mobile while shopping in store.
SMARTPHONE-OWNING MILLENNIALS:
39% Remain loyal to brands that are up-to-date with tech 4
55% Say app stores have helped them discover brands 4
47% Noted that someone else's following, liking, pinning or tweeting info on social media had helped introduce them to a brand 4
52% Say that the importance of a brand's use of technology is more important than brand name.
Digital shopping is standard procedure across the millennial age bracket. But there are some differences in how the younger and older consumers go about things, online and offline, as explored in a new eMarketer report "US Millennials at Key Life Stages: How Younger and Older Segments Differ and Converge."
The obvious disparity between older and younger millennial shoppers is that the older ones spend more. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data covering 2014, households headed by 25- to 34-year-olds spent an average of $49,547. Households headed by someone under 25 averaged $32,179. (For total households, the figure was $53,495.) The younger consumers spent less than the older ones in categories as varied as furniture ($304 vs. $426), healthcare ($1,103 vs. $2,659), pets ($158 vs. $441) and entertainment ($1,319 vs. $2,418).
Tight finances hold millennials back from spending freely. In the to Ipsos and to Navient poll, 51% said they worry about paying all their monthly bills. Many also carry debt—not just college loans, but other debt, too. So they are alert to tradeoffs between buying what they want and being overextended.
The value equation for millennials is not confined to dollars and cents. In a March 2015 poll by to Cone Communications, 92% of 18- to 24-year-olds and 91% of those 25 to 34 (vs. 85% of total respondents) said they are likely to switch to a brand associated with a good cause. This reflects a belief "that people can solve things in working with brands and not against them," said Raphael Bemporad, founding partner and chief strategy officer at branding agency BBMG.
eMarketer sees scant difference in the proportion of younger vs. older millennials who are digital buyers. As of 2015, 73.2% of the 18-to-24 cohort and 71.6% of those 25 to 34 were estimated to have made at least one purchase by digital means during the calendar year.
Other studies also show younger and older millennials with a similar propensity to be digital shoppers. In October 2015 polling by the to National Retail Federation (NRF), 54.8% of respondents ages 18 to 24 planned to include online purchases in their holiday shopping, as did 56.7% of those 25 to 34. A July 2015 survey by A.T. Kearney identified about one-third of younger and older millennials as digital grocery buyers.
In addition, in an era where consumers check their smartphones 150 times a day, 87% of millennials admit that they have their smartphone at their side all the time. Being MOBILENow™, brands can reach this important audience 24/7.
Point is, marketing to consumers with messages that target people based on what they're currently doing on their smartphones is of maximum importance. In targeting younger consumers, now more than ever, intent is more important than identity and demographics, and immediacy is more important than brand loyalty.
Marketers Should Rely More On Consumer Intent Data
Marketers should shift their focus from demographic data to customer intent, a Google report advises. In an article by Peter Roeslerg, in INC.com (011916), given the size and diversity of the modern marketplace, it makes sense that there is a focus on using data to find the best audience for a particular message. Even before digital marketing and the age of big data, business owners, advertisers and marketers relied on demographic data to help them target potential customers.
Using demographic data may be ubiquitous, but it may also be the low-hanging fruit when it comes to useable marketing data. According to one 2015 study from Millward Brown, marketers that try to reach their audience solely on demographics risk missing more than 70 percent of potential mobile shoppers. It's just one of many data points that show why marketers need to move beyond simple demographics for choosing their target audiences.
In a recent report on this subject, Google suggests that marketers and brands need to start using data on intent, rather than data on identity. To put it in another (slightly more after school special sort of) way, what people do is a more important than their race, gender, ethnicity, etc.
That's not to say that demographic data is worthless, but it doesn't give the whole picture. It's like trying to shoot targets with one eye closed. Even if you hit every target you see, you're not seeing half of the potential targets.
To take this from the realm of analogy, here are some concrete examples of ways that relying on demographics can leave marketers blind to potential target audiences:
◎ More than half (56%) of the people searching for "sporting goods" online are women.
◎ Nearly half (45%) of searchers looking for home improvement information are women.
◎ Two out of three (68%) of skin and beauty of influencers during the second half of 2015 were men.
◎ Two out of five (40%) of purchasers of baby products live in households without children.
Business owners and marketers can focus more on intent by creating a content marketing strategy that produces content that people with the proper intent will find useful. According to research from Google, this is a good way to increase traffic and even revenue. A 2015 study from Google showed that that the majority (51%) of smartphone users have purchased from a company/brand other than the one they intended to because the information provided was useful.
One of the reasons demographic data has persisted is that it's easy to collect. However, with modern search analysis tools, such as Google Trends or Google Analytics, it's possible to see the search terms that show the intent of customers who come to a site or those who click the buy link on a certain page.
Once marketers have identified the intentions and preferred keyword choices of people who visit a site, they can use that data to create more effective marketing campaigns.
Marketers can use this data to guide the content of blog posts, how-to videos and infographics.
This can be done in several ways. The obvious, and simplest method is to create blog posts that have useful information for potential or current customers of a brand. For example, a cabinet maker can write a guide on preserve the finish of wooden cabinets. It doesn't matter what the demographic of the viewer is, anyone that finds that article useful is very likely to be in the target audience.
The same concept can be applied to video content. How-To videos on YouTube are an excellent way to reach people looking for information related to home improvement, car repairs, etc. For images, infographics are an excellent way to use image to attract fans and potential customers without relying on cute cat pictures. It truly is the Information Age, so providing useful content has become the best way to gain the attention of modern consumers.
Demographics will always be an important part of categorizing and analyzing consumers, but in a modern age and with digital marketing, demographics alone will leave huge holes in potential target audiences that savvy competitors will be happy to fill.
Point: Marketers can use this data to guide the content of blog posts, how-to videos and infographics.
Retailers Worldwide Increasingly See Mobile As Key To Commerce Growth.
Mobile Critical To Retail
Mobile's importance to retail has become undeniable. In 2014, 57% of retailers worldwide surveyed by Payvision experienced major growth in mcommerce sales. Among the total, 33% strongly agreed that growth was significant—already a sizeable share. By 2015 the evidence in favor of mcommerce was overwhelming. Nearly half of respondents were in the "strongly agree" group, with an additional 34% agreeing more generally.
Millennials, Politics and Social Media Usage
Facebook is the place to reach millennials of all political persuasions, according to November 2015 research. Other sites are more likely to skew Democratic, and even though most voters don't rely on social for political info, it's a key place for campaigns to reach them. more than eight in 10 internet users ages 18 to 29 have a Facebook account, based on polling by Harvard University Institute of Politics and GfK, but it was also the only site studied where Republicans and independents were both more-represented than Democrats.
Instagram was the No. 2 site overall among the millennials surveyed. More than half of millennials who self-identified as Democrats said they had an Instagram account—10 points ahead of millennial Republicans and 12 points ahead of independents.
Millennial penetration of Twitter, Snapchat and Pinterest was clustered in the 34% to 38% range, but usage of the three sites varied based on political views. Twitter was biggest among Democrats, who were 9 points more likely than independents and 7 points more likely than Republicans to use the service. Millennial Democrats were also 10 points more likely to use Twitter than they were to use Pinterest, notably larger than the 4-point spread in overall penetration between the two sites.
Pinterest, meanwhile, was the only site studied where millennial Republicans were more likely than any other millennial group to have an account.
Tumblr was both the smallest social service studied and also the one with the biggest Democratic skew. Millennial Democrats were nearly twice as likely as their independent counterparts and more than three times as likely as Republicans to have a Tumblr account.
Social media is not the first place most voters look for information and news. According to Yahoo and The Harris Poll, just 15% of registered voters surveyed in September 2015 said they preferred to get news from blogs or social networks. But they are still exposed to political content on such sites. Just 18% of respondents to the Yahoo/Harris Poll survey said they did not hear about political issues on social media, and about half actively followed some type of political entity or organization. Most internet users polled in October 2015 by Lab42 resarched and learned about political issues on social as well, though TV was a more source.
And the results are clear on the campaign side of the equation: Social media drives traffic. SimilarWeb reported that in September, depending on the presidential candidate, up to 38.5% of US desktop traffic to campaign websites was reffered by social media. That figure was even higher in July, when it reached 43.4%.
Box Office Weekend 15-17 January 2016 (Domestic)
#1 'Ride Along 2' $39.50 million
#2 'The Revenant' $29.50 million
#3 'Star Wars' $25.12 million
#4 '13 Hours' $16.00 million
#5 'Daddy's Home' $ 9.30 million
#6 'Norm of the North' $ 6.68 million
#7 'The Forest' $ 5.79 million
#8 'The Big Short' $ 5.20 million
#9 'Sisters' $ 4.42 million
#10 'The Hateful Eight' $ 3.45 million
Box Office Weekend 15-17 January 2016 (International)
#1 'Star Wars'	$47,300,000
#2 'The Revenant'	$31,500,000
#3 'Boonie Bears III'	$16,000,000
#4 'Creed'	$14,200,000
#5 'Royal Treasure'	$11,500,000
#6 'Last Witch Hunter' $ 9,300,000
#7 'The 5th Wave'	$ 8,200,000
#8 'Daddy's Home'	$ 7,800,000
#9T 'The Hateful Eight'	$ 7,500,000
#9T 'The Peanuts Movie $ 7,500,000
OH Canada
NFL DIVISIONAL GAMES A RATINGS THRILLER FOR CTV
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CTV's coverage of the NFL's divisional round playoff games attracted an average of 1.6 million viewers this weekend, a 15% increase over the previous year, according to preliminary data from Numeris.
Sunday's game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Denver Broncos was the most-watched program of the weekend, with 1.8 million people tuning in to see Peyton Manning guide the Broncos to a 23-16 victory.
Saturday night's OT thriller between the Arizona Cardinals and Green Bay Packers, a 26-20 Cardinals victory that is already being hailed as one of the best playoff games ever, attracted 1.6 million viewers.
The games between the Seattle Seahawks and Caroline Panthers and Kansas City Chiefs and New England Patriots each attracted an average 1.5 million viewers.
In total, more than 15 million unique viewers have tuned into CTV, TSN and French-language service RDS for coverage of the NFL playoffs, which continue this weekend with the Conference Championships on CTV and RDS.
BBC One #1 Tuesday in the UK as 'Silent Witness' top program.
8P 'Holby City' finished with an average 4.6 million viewers.
9P 'Silent Witness' (Life License:Part 2') finished with an average 6 million viewers and a 27% share.
8P 'Victorian Bakers' finished with an average 2.3 million viewers
9P 'Barely Legal Grafters' finished with an average 1.7 million viewers and an 8% share.
8P 'Trawlermen Tales' finished with an average 2.4 million viewers.
9P 'Saved' finished with an average 1.2 million viewers and a 6% share.
9P 'Celebrity Big Brother' finished with an average 2.2 million viewers.
9P 'The Jihadis Next Door' finished with an average 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share.
Seven finished #1 Tuesday in Australia with a 37.4% share of the available audience.
Ten finished #3 with a 16.5% share of the available audience.
ABC finished #4 with a 14.9% share.
SBS finished #5 Tuesday in Australia with a 7.1% share of the available audience.
Top Ten Non-News Programs In Australia Tuesday
#1	2016 AUSTRALIAN OPEN D2	Seven	1,198,000 viewers #1 everywhere except Perth
#2	A CURRENT AFFAIR	Nine	790,000 viewers Sydney top market
#3	THE BIG BANG THEORY (R) Nine	600,000 viewers #1 in Perth
#4	7.30 SUMMER ABC	570,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#5	FAMILY FEUD	TEN	496,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#6	THE PROJECT 7PM	TEN	471,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#7	HOT SEAT	Nine	459,000 viewers Sydney top market
#8	RESTORATION MAN ABC	414,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#9	KANGAROO DUNDEE ABC	398,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#10	THE PROJECT 6.30PM	TEN	379,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
To Newscasts In Australia Tuesday
#1	SEVEN NEWS	Seven	951,000 viewers #1 in Adelaide & Perth
#2	NINE NEWS	Nine	925,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#3	NINE NEWS 6:30	Nine	896,000 viewers #1 in Sydney & Brisbane
#4	SEVEN News/TodayTonight Seven	885,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#5	ABC NEWS ABC	780,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
#6	TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS @5P	TEN	550,000 viewers #1 in Melbourne
*WEDNESDAY AUSTRALIAN OVERNIGHT TV RATINGS
Nine finished #1 Wednesday in Australia with a powerful 32.7% share of the available audience.
Seven finished #2 Wednesday with a 27.8% share.
Ten finished #3 Wednesday with a 16.2% share of the available audience.
ABC finished #4 Wednesday with a 15.0% share.
SBS finished #5 Wednesday in Australia with an 8.4% share of the available audience.
Top Ten Non-News Programs In Australia Wednesday
#1	1DCRICKET:AUvsINDIASES2	Nine	1,004,000 viewers #1 in All AU Markets
#2	2016 AUSTRALIAN OPEN N3	Seven	690,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#3	1DCRICKET:AUvsINDIASES1	Nine	631,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#4	7.30 SUMMER ABC	568,000 viewers Sydney top market
#5	WOULD I LIE TO YOU? ABC	499,000 viewers Melbourne & Sydney top market
#6	THE PROJECT 7PM	TEN	486,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#7	M.FISHER'S MurderMyster ABC	464,000 viewers Sydney top market
#8	FAMILY FEUD	TEN	456,000 viewers Sydney top market
#9	MODERN FAMILY WED EP 2 TEN	437,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#10	MODERN FAMILY WED (R)	TEN	411,000 viewers Melbourne top market
Top Newscast In Australia Wednesday
#1	NINE NEWS	Nine	1,228,000 viewers #1 all markets except Perth
#2	SEVEN News/TodayTonight Seven	987,000 viewers Melbourne top market
#3	SEVEN NEWS	Seven	914,000 viewers #1 in Perth
#4	ABC NEWS-EV	ABC	692,000 viewers Sydney top market
#5	TEN EYEWITNESS NEWS @5P	TEN	520,000 viewers Sydney top market
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Biografia
Inizia la carriera televisiva a Teleperugia, rete televisiva locale umbra nel 1992. Dal 1994 conduce vari programmi a Radio Augusta Perusia (oggi UmbriaRadio), Azzurra Network, Retepiù FM. Approda a Radio Italia Network nel 1999 e a Radio Deejay nel 2000 dove conduce con Roberto Ferrari il programma W la fitness.

Nel 2000 è una delle voci ufficiali di Italia 1 nel progetto Uno di Uno, in cui sei deejay si alternano in diretta per tutto il giorno parlando tra un programma ed un altro e sulle sigle. Terminata questa esperienza, dal 2001 al 2005 è la voce che annuncia i cartoni animati di Italia 1.

Nell'estate del 2000 partecipa al Cammello del Weekend di Radio 2 Rai, con Mila Jelmini. Infine dal 2002 al 2003 è a RDS. Dal 2002 al 2007 è autore degli spot autopromozionali di Italia 1. Nel 2005 torna in radio su Radio 2 dove conduce il programma Tropico del Cammello con Savino Cesario. Sulla stessa radio conduce nel 2006 Picnic con Andrea Di Marco, Il Mischione nel 2007, Radio2 a Colazione nel 2008 con Stefania Lillo e nel 2008 e 2009 è l'inviato del programma pomeridiano Gli Spostati. Nell'estate del 2009 conduce sempre sulla seconda rete radiofonica della Rai XXL - Altrimenti ci allarghiamo! con Giacomo "Ciccio" Valenti e Lola Ponce.

Dal 2007 al 2016 è stato un inviato del programma di Italia 1 Le Iene. Dal 2015 conduce le versioni itineranti dei programmi televisivi RAI Affari tuoi, L'eredità e Rischiatutto. Dal 6 settembre 2016 al 20 aprile 2017 è inviato della trasmissione televisiva Mi manda Raitre. Dall'8 ottobre 2016 collabora con Fiorello alla realizzazione di Edicola Fiore in onda tutti i giorni su Sky Uno HD e TV8. È coprotagonista di due puntate de Il testimone di Pif in onda ad ottobre 2016 su MTV e a febbraio 2017 su TV8.

Nel 2017 e 2018 è inviato per Radio 2 Rai e Rai 2 al 100º Giro D'Italia. Sulla stessa radio conduce nell'estate 2017 dal lunedì al venerdì Non è un paese per giovani dalle 12 alle 14. Il 27 febbraio 2018 conduce su TV8 e Sky TG24 con Pif Il candidato va alle elezioni in cui intervista 10 esponenti di partiti politici in vista del voto del 4 marzo 2018. Nell'estate 2018 conduce con la coppia comica Nuzzo e Di Biase Radio2 Summer Club su Rai Radio 2 e a seguire Numeri Uni. Intanto il sabato pomeriggio conduce la versione radiofonica di B come Sabato con Angela Rafanelli, in onda in contemporanea su Rai 2. Nel 2018 partecipa a Quelli che... dopo il TG in onda dal lunedì al venerdì alle 21:05 su Rai 2 con Luca Bizzarri, Paolo Kessisoglu, Mia Ceran e Ubaldo Pantani.

Nel 2019 è inviato di Realiti - Siamo tutti protagonisti condotto da Enrico Lucci il mercoledì in prima serata su Rai 2. Nel 2019 è al fianco di Fiorello in Viva Asiago 10 su RaiPlay e Rai Radio 2. Nel 2020 è inviato de Le parole della settimana di Rai 3 con Massimo Gramellini.

Dal 30 agosto 2021 passa a RDS dove conduce  con Francesca Manzini prima la fascia di inizio giornata dalle 5 alle 7, per poi passare a quella serale del drive time dalle 19 alle 22.

Nel novembre del 2022 affianca Fiorello a Aspettando Viva Rai2!, nuovo programma di  RaiPlay, e da dicembre ogni mattina su Rai 2 a Viva Rai2!.
Nel febbraio del 2023 affianca Fiorello anche a Viva Rai2! Viva Sanremo! su Rai 1  in diretta, appunto, su Rai 1 subito dopo le puntate del Festival di Sanremo 2023.

Procedimenti giudiziari
Il 13 marzo 2013 viene indagato dalla procura di Varese, assieme a Lucia Uva e a Luca Tiraboschi, per diffamazione aggravata nei confronti di polizia e carabinieri, perché il 19 ottobre 2011, durante una puntata de Le Iene, ha accusato le forze dell'ordine di aver causato la morte di Giuseppe Uva con le percosse subite dopo il suo arresto. Il 21 novembre 2014 viene assolto.

Programmi televisivi
 Le Iene (Italia 1, 2007-2016)
 Affari tuoi (Rai 1, 2015)
 L'eredità (Rai 1, 2015)
 Rischiatutto (Rai 1, 2016)
 Mi manda Raitre (Rai 3, 2016-2017)
 Edicola Fiore (Sky Uno HD e TV8, 2016)
 Il testimone (MTV 2016; TV8, 2017)
 Giro d'Italia (Rai 2, 2017-2018)
 Il candidato va alle elezioni (TV8, 2018)
 Quelli che... dopo il TG (Rai 2, 2018)
 Realiti - Siamo tutti protagonisti (Rai 2, 2019)
 Le parole della settimana (Rai 3, 2020)
 Viva Rai2! (Rai 2, 2022-2023)
 Viva Rai2! Viva Sanremo! su Rai 1 (Rai 1, 2023)

Programmi radiofonici
 W la fitness (Radio Deejay, 2000)
 Cammello del Weekend (Rai Radio 2, 2000)
 Tropico del Cammello (Rai Radio 2, 2005)
 Picnic (Rai Radio 2, 2006)
 Il Mischione (Rai Radio 2, 2007)
 Radio2 a Colazione (Rai Radio 2, 2008)
 Gli Spostati (Rai Radio 2, 2008-2009)
 XXL - Altrimenti ci allarghiamo! (Rai Radio 2, 2009)
 Giro d'Italia (Rai Radio 2, 2017-2018)
 Non è un paese per giovani (Rai Radio 2, 2017)
 Radio2 Summer Club (Rai Radio 2, 2018)
 Numeri Uni (Rai Radio 2, 2018-2021)
 B come Sabato (Rai Radio 2, 2018)
 Viva Asiago 10 (RaiPlay e Rai Radio 2, 2019)
 L'alba dei pazzi viventi (RDS, 2021)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Inviati de Le Iene
Gruppi e musicisti dell'Umbria

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For the full list of publications, visit my ResearchGate page.
Victoria Rautenbach, Yvette Bevis, Serena Coetzee and Carin Combrinck (2015) Evaluating procedural modeling for 3D models of informal settlements in urban design activities, South African Journal of Science, Accepted.
Serena Coetzee, Victoria Rautenbach and Heindrich du Plessis (2015). Qualitative comparison of South Africa's geomatics professional body's academic model against a conceptual framework for SDI education and training, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 39(1), pp. 4-17.
Victoria Rautenbach, Arzu Coltekin and Serena Coetzee (2015) Exploring the Impact of Visual Complexity Levels in 3D City Models on the Accuracy of Individuals' Orientation and Cognitive Maps, ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., II-3/W5, 499-506, DOI: 10.5194/isprsannals-II-3-W5-499-2015.
Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee, Jochen Schiewe and Arzu Coltekin (2015) An Assessment of Visual Variables for the Cartographic Design of 3D Informal Settlement Models, 27th International Cartographic Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23–28 August 2015.
Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee, Arzu Coltekin (2014). Towards evaluating the map literacy of planners in 2D maps and 3D models in South Africa. AfricaGEO 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, 01-Jul-2014.
Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee and Adam Iwaniak (2013). Orchestrating OGC web services to produce thematic maps in a spatial information infrastructure, Computers Environment and Urban Systems, ISSN: 0198-9715, DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2012.08.001, 37, pp. 107 – 120.
Victoria Rautenbach, Serena Coetzee, Adam Iwaniak, and Marek Strzelecki (2012). Results of an evaluation of the orchestration capabilities of the ZOO project and the 52º North framework for an intelligent geoportal. XXII ISPRS Congress 2012, Melbourne, Australia, 25 August – 1 September 2012, ISSN 2194-9050, 6 pages.


David Lebovitz, the former Chez Panisse pastry chef and author of My Paris Kitchen, shares his Paris dining short list.
David Lebovitz, the former Chez Panisse pastry chef and author of My Paris Kitchen (Ten Speed Press; $35), shares his Paris dining short list.
"This bistro is owned by really cool brothers who make a great foie gras terrine" (30 rue de la Folie Méricourt, 11th arr.; 33-1-53-36-08-33; entrées from $22).
"If I can't get a table, I go to the wine bar for charcuterie and cheese with house-made bread" (43 rue Godefroy Cavaignac, 11th arr.; 33-9-80-75-32-08; wine bar entrées from $11).
"I order the cheese crêpe with smoky Montbéliard sausage" (6 Passage St-Ambroise, 11th arr.; 33-1- 47-00-72-54; entrées from $5).
"A great little chocolate shop with irresistible hazelnut pralines" (16 rue d'Assas, 6th arr.; 33-1-42-84-29-45).


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Corbette Doyle, Ed.D.
Lecturer of Leadership, Policy & Organizations
Vanderbilt University's Peabody College
Peabody #329
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203–5721
Phone: (615) 343–4362
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http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/
Dr. Corbette Doyle contributes articles on leadership for IRMI.com.
Dr. Doyle is a senior lecturer of Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness at the Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on gender diversity at the leadership level. In addition to diversity, Dr. Doyle teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in strategy and analytics, and consults on equity, diversity, and inclusion strategies. Until she joined Vanderbilt's faculty in the summer of 2008, Dr. Doyle was the chair of the Health Care Industry practice and global chief diversity officer (CDO) at Aon, one of the two largest risk and health consulting firms in the world. For the latter role, she reported directly to the CEO.
As CDO, she revamped the firm's diversity leadership strategy, co-led a process to revamp Aon's flex work strategy, sponsored the development of a companywide mentoring program, and rolled out or sponsored advanced development programs, 1 for 30 of the firm's top women from around the globe and another that focused on top minority talent in the United States.
Prior to her role as CDO, her responsibilities included executive responsibility for a dozen different industry practices, launching new practice groups, acquiring companies, closing companies, and serving on the boards of companies that Aon invested in. She was originally recruited to launch the firm's Health Care Industry Practice, which she remained the chair of until she joined Vanderbilt. Her particular areas of expertise are inclusive leadership, women in the workplace, risk financing, professional liability, and consumer-driven health care.
Dr. Doyle serves on multiple boards, including Martin Methodist College and the Friends of REAL Foundation. She serves on the mayor of Nashville's Gender Equity Council and is an external member of Nissan America's Executive Diversity Council. She previously served on the boards of Definity Health, Sterling Life Insurance, Evolve Women's Foundation, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter Board of Governors, American Society for Health Care Risk Management, and was the president of the Owen Alumni Board. In 2015, Business Insurance honored Dr. Doyle with its inaugural Impact Award for ongoing contributions to diversity in the industry. PLUS recognized her in 2009 with its Plus One award for outstanding contributions to the industry. In 2006, the Advancement of Professional Insurance Women named her the Insurance Woman of the Year, and Risk & Insurance named her one of their inaugural "99 Power Brokers."
Dr. Doyle earned her doctorate in Organizational Leadership at Northeastern University, graduated first in her executive master of business administration class at the Owen School at Vanderbilt, and graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Oswego in economics (major) and math (minor).
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Building approvals data confirm weakness
Apr 2nd, 2012
Another month has gone by with no sign of a recovery in the building industry.
The latest building approvals figures confirm that building, both housing and non-residential, is still on the sick list.
The number of residential approvals fell in February by 7.8 per cent to its lowest level since May 2009, according to the seasonally adjusted figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
At the same time, the value of non-residential building dropped by 54 per cent.
That just about completely reversed a surge in January caused by one-off public hospital projects approved in Victoria and South Australia.
Overall, the value of approvals, both residential and non-residential, was 5.5 per cent lower in February than the already-depressed average for 2011.
The numbers are consistent with the estimate of new home sales from the Housing Industry Association (HIA) on Friday, which showed only a weak bounce in February after a 12-year low plumbed in January.
Other data on Monday suggested homebuyers remain cautions.
Big mortgage broker Australian Finance Group (AFG) released data showing the proportion of loans it processed that specified a fixed interest rate rose to 25.4 per cent, up from a low of 6.6 per cent a year before and 2.5 per cent two years before.
In fact, the proportion of loans at fixed rate has only been above the February level once in the eight-year history of the AFG data series. That was in November 2007, when variable home loan rates had just hit an 11-year high.
Lending rates are not unusually high right now and there is a lot of public discussion about whether or not they will fall - rate rises are not commonly seen to be on the agenda.
Accordingly, the flight to the safety of fixed rates may be more a reaction to a more generalised anxiety than specific fear of interest rate hikes.
That anxiety may be related to the problems in Europe, widely publicised job losses in a number of industries blamed on the high exchange rate, or perhaps the coming carbon tax which seems to be generating fear well beyond any reasonably anticipated impact.
As well as the uncertainty demonstrated by the preference for fixed-rate mortgages, the housing industry faces a hostile housing market, with prices still high but no longer rising, an unappealing combination for prospective buyers.
The RP Data-Rismark measure of housing prices, updated with March data on Monday, showed housing prices were lower than a year earlier in each of the capital cities, down by 4.4 per cent on average among the capitals, and by 2.5 per cent on average in non-capital areas.
In the aftermath of the ABS approvals data, both the HIA and Master Builders Australia called for an interest rate cut when the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its monthly monetary policy meeting on Tuesday.
The sentiment was echoed by AFG's general manager of Sales and Operations, Mark Hewitt.
"The best thing the RBA could do to stimulate confidence among buyers and upgraders would be to cut interest rates tomorrow," he said.
Although a rate cut is possible, it seems more likely that the housing industry will be disappointed this month.
The RBA still apparently expects - albeit with less confidence than a year or so ago - the mining investment boom to make up for all the negatives ranged against the economy over the coming year or so.
Building NA
Casino allegations referred to police
UK internet surveillance program in works


Hi, readers. It's been half term week or two around the UK. So despite all the world's ills, there's been a break from apparent impending global catastrophes! Phew!
It's a relief to know that onein400 can bring some realism and sanity to your daily toil, or perhaps just a little bit of relaxation over a coffee and a plain chocolate digestive (not milk chocolate – milk chocolate is the anti-christ – #boycottmilkchoc). Oooops, sorry, getting affected by hashtags and completely overreacting!
This week, we have been applying logic to tasks….We have been to North Wales again, and had a great few days away.
We just chilled, relaxed and chatted the world away with our host. We even spent some time doing a scientific personality test after which we discussed our differing or perhaps similar approaches to life.
Those of you who have ever worked for a corporate will know the sort of thing I mean, for example Myers Briggs. It's a devious little questionnaire. It does sort of ask the obvious questions, and I must admit to raising my eyes at the way some people answer. Am I living in the same cosmos!?
Actually, I was digging through old papers from Lord Bragg Enterprises the other day and I did find this assessment sheet from his specialist personality assessment test.
What a guy! He sure cut through the waffle in the old days! Arhh the old days. TV ads were so much better then, including this one – Zanussi – Appliance of Science.
NOT accepting "Magic" as the answer but to always seek the ultimate truth.
Mind you, just where did David Copperfield hide that car!?
Thursday last, before my weekly massage I visited my Neurology Consultant. I will continue to see him, as long as he does not die on me, for as long as possible, but with decent gaps of about a year. Some ask why bother, as we have no cure/treatment for MND, but that is exactly the point! I keep lines of communication open, listen, question etc.
Dr D. Eath as I call him.
Only joking! I hadn't seen him for 18 months because of my minor issue with the sudden need for heart surgery! I have written about him before in my blog. He is rather mystical. We typically end up seeing him just before lunch, and he is always running 30 minutes late. I have never observed him eating, but I am sure the blood he took from the patients before me never left his room and why was he dabbing his lips with a bright red, damp hanky?!
I was tempted to change his name on the waiting board to Dr D.Eath, but I thought better of it! Although when I whispered the idea to Jean I heard an another awaiting patient snigger! Mind you, another waiting victim looked like he would jump out the window! I must realise some people just don't laugh at anything! It was a joke, ok! Sorry!
Whilst waiting I needed the loo (John for my American friends) and off I went at full speed with my rollator. Even in my rather crap state I still get blooming frustrated when the person in the loo before me takes ages and ages. Just what the hell are they doing in there? Icing a cake? I became impatient and decided to risk a longer roll to the next available toilet.
Just checking before weekly payment….. FAILED, payment withheld!
It was great to see Louis Hamilton win the Formula 1 world championship. I do so love F1. It is a demonstration of hyper-science but more importantly technology reacting extremely fast to requirements. We need more of such an approach in medical trials and other walks of life.
However, I do think Louis might face a challenge with Fernando Braggussi in his newly planned combined F1 with special challenges championship. Introducing items like paint ball during laps, adding Sudoku during the wheel changes and of course substantial points being awarded for music playlist changes! That should sort the men out from the boys, sorry adults from the children! During a trial run of the music lap, some cars were seen just stopping, drivers getting out, crossing their arms and sulking, or in some cases crying intensely. However, Fernando, showing his mettle, was able to complete the lap even with, yes, the Ed Sheeran Playlist! What a guy! Research is being carried out on how he was able to survive the lap!
As a result new safety regulations will be introduced to prevent such music being pumped into driver's ears. The worst they will have to tolerate now is the Hokey Cokey!
Of course it was Halloween last Wednesday. The traditional let-your-children-out-after-dark-and-go-and -demand-sweets-from-strangers night! I was home alone whilst Jean went to Yoga. I really didn't want to have to go to our front door and face the trick or treaters. It was front lights off and I stayed in the kitchen. It worked! A scientific and cunning approach. Was it just me or were there less trick or treaters out this year?
Of course, it meant more of these for me!
Later that week it was fireworks night. For my American friends, this is the day when we commemorate, yes commemorate, Guy Fawkes who tried to burn our parliament down in 1605!
We spent the evening with our friends just up the road. I placed our firework contribution (A Lord Bragg Bunker Buster Firework – complete with house insurance and burn cream package) on my scooter between my legs! Yes, it could have been nasty had the battery sparked and set it off, but hey I am a risk taker now!
Here is the pre-ignition stage of the Bunker Buster firework, viewed from my safely seated position behind grandmas, grandads and children! Jim needed to clear his garden of the leaves, bushes, fences, garage etc anyway!
Ooohs and arrrrrrhs when the fireworks went off. The biggest arrrrrrrrh was, of course, reserved for the most pathetic firework!!
That's it for this week folks. My next post is planned to be a serious one on research. An update, but also a thought-provoking one, I hope.
And of course don't forget onein400 is guaranteed 100% Brexit free!! Help keep my blog this way by donating to the MNDA at my MND Fight Back fund page!
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Of the 800 manuscripts and printed books from the Aragonese library which are currently housed in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, about 200 manuscripts have been selected for digitisation in the context of the Europeana Regia project: the manuscripts bought by the Cardinal Georges d'Amboise from King Federico of Aragon, which constitute a luxurious and coherent collection, both textually and artistically and the manuscripts written in Spanish or Italian appropriated by Charles VIII of France. These are not as well known but just as important.
Representative of royal tastes, the collection includes books such as poetry anthologies and treatises on shoeing horses.


An isolation transformer is commonly used to convert delta configured three-phase power to wye-configured three-phase power. Click here to learn more about the delta vs. wye configured power.
A phase converter generates a third voltage that is added to single-phase power. Single-phase power is comprised of two legs with 240V potential between them with ground and neutral halfway between. Thus, the voltage between L1 and L2 will be 240V, while the voltage to either leg and neutral/ground will be half that or 120V. The third voltage generated by the phase converter results in a triangle or delta of three voltages all 240V apart. However, the ground and neutral are still halfway between L1and L2. If you measure from the new third leg to ground/neutral, the voltage will not be 120V, but rather 208V. This is why phase converters are known to have a "high leg".
As long as the three-phase load only derives voltages phase-to-phase, the location of ground/neutral is irrelevant. However, if the three-phase equipment has internal 120V circuits that are powered by a phase-to-neutral connection, making this connection between the generated third leg and neutral would result in a damaging high voltage.
For three-phase equipment that requires a neutral wire connection, the three-phase power must be converted from a delta configuration to a wye configuration. This is accomplished with a 240 V delta to 120/208V wye isolation transformer. This assures that any of the three phase to neutral voltages will be 120V. Wye power is illustrated in figure 2.
Transformers need to be sized to the load they will supply and usually rated in KVA, which is an acronym for "thousand volt amps". For single-phase loads, multiply the operating voltage of the load by the amps then divide by 1,000 to get the KVA. e.g. 240V x 30A / 1,000 = 7.2 KVA.
For three-phase loads, multiply the operating voltage of the load by the amps, multiply by 1.73 (square root of three) then divide by 1,000 to get the KVA. e.g. 240V x 30A x 1.73 / 1,000 = 12.46 KVA.
Be sure to consult a knowledgeable supplier of transformers when choosing one for your application.


You will never believe what came in the mail today.
I got a package, I got a package, I got a package, woohoo!!!
I received a notice from the post office this morning, telling me that I had a package waiting for me. I hoped against hope that it would be from my dear friend, Kari (I just received a couple of weeks back a beautiful Christmas card from our mutual friend, Laurie, that totally made my day too!!!). So I immediately had the package picked up, and while I was chatting with some friends over at our playground, the package came.
A little aside: when I got the box, it had been opened. And hastily put back together again. See, that's the thing I don't get about the post office in this country. Why do they do that? Doesn't that constitute some deprivation of one's right to privacy? (Not that there was anything private in there, but it IS nice to be the one who tears open the tape of your own package instead of having someone get there and do it before you. And my friend Kari did such a great job of putting the box and the gift inside together so nicely… 😦 ) I suspect they open it because they want to check if there are $$ inside the package. After all, if it were to check the safety of what's inside, there are Xray machines to do that, right? hmmmm. Very strange, Watson, very strange.
BUTTTT!!! Even so, that didn't dampen my excitement!
And wait. It gets even better. As I was happily freaking about the package with my girlfriends on the chat, it dawned on me that they knew about the package and its contents! Apparently they were all in on it, they all had something to do with getting the package to me… now how TERRIFICALLY COOL is that???? I looooooove my girlfriends at the playground, they are soooo sweet! Now THAT is what totally touched my heart!!! I have seen this book through the making but to have the real thing in my hands: wow. And to know that it got to me flying over the oceans on the wings of my sweet girlfriends' love… that's an infinitely bigger WOW!!!
I guess here is where I have to explain why this book is so special: this is a book that we, rockers at Jessica's playground, came up with as a surprise for Jes (if you look at her blog and scroll to the end of December, you'll find photos there of the same book). It was a collaborative effort of all the wonderful girls on our playground. Laurie came up with the idea seed, Kari pushed and pulled and took over the reigns (Kari's da boss! 😆 ), Tori came up with the mosaic cover, and I came up with the dedication page and the two final pages at the end of the book. Every wonderful girlfriend on the book contributed her own masterpiece (without their pages, the book would be nothing) AND contributed time, effort, even finances, to get this book off the Shutterfly site and into Jessica's hands! WOW! This is working together at its very best!
Kari, you are amazing. Thank you, my dear friend, for organizing this whole thing!!! (Even if you did it behind my back. hahaha!!!) Tori and Laurie, you too! PP rocks! And everyone on my playground, THANK YOU!
Thank you. Seriously. For making this the best day of the year ever. I can't say it enough.
Girls… I love ya! You know I do!
Almost. Not quite, but I'm getting there.
Did three layouts yesterday in an attempt to get caught up with the LOAD requirements I had failed to post on time. I'm not giving up the goal though… I'm still working towards finishing 31 layouts by the 31st of January.
wheeeee! only ten more days till christmas!!!
brrrr… ….break out the blankets and the jackets! we may live by the equator but that doesn't stop jack frost from nipping at our noses and toesies!
more than the games, more than the chance to have your photo taken with santa, more than the yummy food laid out on the tables, what you loved most of all was giving your classmates christmas gifts. so wonderfully generous. so typically you.
Our challenge for this week was to take 3 or more indoor photos: one using the automatic white balance setting of the camera, one with the "tungsten" setting (or its equivalent), and another with White Balance set manually.
There were bonus points for trying out the different settings for white balance. WB settings vary from camera to camera. On my D40 I have an entire list: Auto, Incandescent, Fluorescent, Direct Sunlight, Cloudy, Shade, and Manuel. I tried them all with exactly the same item and without fiddling around with the fine-tuning knob (According to ken rockwell, this is something unique to Nikon, which Canon doesn't have: the white balance settings on Nikon allow us to further refine the white balance settings, even if they're "set," so that we can come up with the best possible color calibration when we take a photo).
Incandescent WB setting looks a little greenish, don't you think?
Nikon's Auto White Balance totally rocks. 😀 I think I'll keep my white balance setting on Auto, though it's terrific knowing how to manipulate the different manual settings, just in case I find myself in a situation that requires it.
Alright! All for now! Must get working on the next freebie for you, my sweeties!
Thanks so much for making my kit look so fantastic!!! Wonderful layouts!!!
Finally, you got your book and on the one day I wasn't reading our message board or your Blog. Bummer. But the joy in your beautiful smile warms my heart. Love you.
Well it's about time you got it!!! It was just as much a joy and pleasure to contribute to your book and it was to contribute to Jess' book. I love the photo of you holding the book. It makes my heart sing to look at it. You are such an important part of my life now and visiting your blog each day always brightens my day. Love you sistah!!!
So glad that you received the book and are enjoying it. The LO is priceless of you the book and the card. These are good times in our lives and you just constantly add to them each and every day. I thank you my friend from the bottom of my heart for sharing with us. You are a true treasure! Hugs!!
Liv…it's such a treat to see your smiling face. You are the cutest! I'm so glad your book arrived safely. Your blog is always filled with so much information and I always learn something new (so thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge)!!!
You are such a cutie pie. Love ya to death and am so happy we were able to make you as happy as you make us. You are so beautiful inside and out.
The coffee set-up photos are really cool! It's so helpful to see the different settings all together so you can compare. TFS!
So glad you finally got your special gift Liv! Great photo of you with the book! We were all waiting like kids waiting for Santa! Even if the box was not completely intact, I'm sure glad the book was in perfect condition!Enjoy GF!We love ya!
Ohhhh its so good to know you finally got it and so lovely to see a layout with you as the main character!! You look amazing! You cant imagine how had its been to keep my gob shut about this secret lol! I wish I could have been in chat when you got it! You deserve all the love from all of us!! TQM!
I was so thrilled to be on the chat when you got the package. I wasn't kiddin' when I said you are like the glue for the playground… even better than the icing on the cake!! Thank you always being a happy silly fun face for us to see playing on the playground. You are a dear!
boy you have me crying again. remember on my 7 random facts where i cry at everything??? I'm so glad you liked the surprise. i was really excited to be chatting with you when it came!!
I was really starting to get worried that someone out there was enjoying the book we so lovingly sent to you!! Sounds like someone at least took a peek 😉 You have no idea how happy it made me to see your gorgeous pictures holding that book!!! Just as I pictured you with it! Wish I could have delivered it by hand but the timing just didn't work out with the holidays and all. I give all hail to Laurie for this amazing feat – she's a genius, no?! It was an honor to work with such an amazing posse to produce such a treasure … that you can now hold in your hands!!! All the love and hugs to you that I can throw your way – and then just a few more! I love ya, sistah (more than anyone else … no matter what they say)!!
Love you, beautiful. You totally deserved this. I'm happy to be part of such a wonderful group.
The LOs are spectacular. I especially love the blues in the first one.
Liv it is so great to see you smiling with your book (and it is not a goofy smile by the way, it is gorgeous).
You really deserve to have a book and it is an honor to be a part of the book and getting to you.
I love seeing your smiling face with your book. And it is not a goofy smile by the way, it is gorgeous. You totally deserve the book and I am honored to be part of the book you have.
Yeah more DD pages, they are great!


Hours: 4hr, 8hr, 10hr, - Contact Jeff for further info.
Duchess has just had her end of season re-fit and has just passed her 5 year survey with the M.C.A and is all set for 2019.She is an Aquastar 33 fast Fisherman powered by a newly fitted in October 2015 a 280 mermaid turbo plus diesel engine, Duchess has a Flush deck with Cool Box to keep your catch fresh Live Bait Tank plus plenty of room for all your tackle boxes .Duchess is licensed for 12 passengers plus 2 crew, the crew will clean and prepare your fish for you to take home. There is plenty of free Tea & Coffee all day plus a microwave to heat your pies up if required. Duchess also has a fully functional W.C facility.We have parking alongside the boat and have parking permits on board just pop on to the boat and see the skipper.
I am Jeff Clarke I am the Owner/Skipper of Duchess II.
I have been running a charter boat for 40+years of off the South West coast. Starting at West Bay then more recently Weymouth about 20 years ago. I have been fishing on angling boats and the shore for 55+ years as keen angler myself I have a wealth of knowledge to share ..At Weymouth we can offer parking alongside the boat plus solid pontoons for boarding passengers safely ,we can also adjust times to suit customers as there are no tidal restrictions. We can offer free transport from west bay if you are staying there on holidays as we are living there at present.
We are available for charters and individuals beginners and accomplished fishing persons are all welcome aboard Duchess. We can offer all inclusive deals for private groups and can customise any trips to suit your needs Stag parties ,corporate days, light cargo work & a gift voucher system . Why not check out my individuals for availability if you like.ALL INCLUSIVE DEALS ARE AVAILABLE PHONE FOR DETAILS 07778315778.During august and september we will have Reef bank trips available including rods bait and tackle for £30 all inclusive (4hrs fishing, target fish Bream Rays Huss and Conger)Plus 1hr Mackerel trips and 2hr Squid trips are available when in season.
Heres a selection from the past weeks catches from all of our trips and is updated weekly to keep you in touch with what is happening out of Weymouth aboard Duchess ,The spring is round the corner and the seasons start to change the Black bream will start to arrive from the East the Plaice have started to show in small numbers and there is also a chance of some big Turbot and Brill to be found in the bay along with Rays Huss Smoothies Conger and Cod .
Caroline Haddrell 7lb 2oz Plaice the Plaice are now in using Rag worm bunched up the hook tipped with Squid and Prawn .
Caroline caught 11th April Black Bream the Bream are now in!!!!
The plaice are starting to show in numbers caught on 2/0 hooks Beads on a running ledger trace baited with bunched Ragworm tipped Squid and Prawn, then drift across the mussel beds for the bites and wind gently in .They are great fun to catch on light gear and tasty too.
The flattie season has started and is proving to be very productive with a plain running ledger with a 4/0 hook baited with a strip of mackerel and Dragged across the bottom of the Sand Bank and Remember not to Strike to catch the Turbot and Brill.We are now coming up to the best time of the year to bag yourself a big Turbot of a life time .
The bream are the Hardest fighting fish in the Channel they will give you a run for your money on light tackle, using 1/0 Hooks on either a paternoster ring Feathers or Portland rigs baited with Squid Worm or Scallop Frills ,as always we will be running our competition if you catch a Bream bigger that Roy Davies 6lb 4oz you win yourself a free trip of your choice,plus we will be hold a few bream competitions this year keep your eyes on the dates in our calender.
On the Reefs and Banks around Weymouth as well as the Rays seen above, we are also blessed with Smooth Hound ,Huss ,Spurdogs Congers and in the summer months Tope all of which are great sport to catch using 4/0 hooks baited with large baits either Whole Squid tipped with Mackerel or a mackerel Flapper.
Cod can be found on the Reefs most of the year on Baits in the winter months using a whole Squid tipped with Mackerel and n the summer months on lures bumped along the bottom whilst drifting.
There is a limit at the moment you can keep one Bass per angler until 31st October all others caught have to be returned .
Heres just a few of our native species we have caught in the past year we have many surprise form John Dorys to Red mullet and Grey gurnards pooping up on occasions .All were caught on Baits on the bottom.
Weymouth boast some of the best fishing in the country with many species caught all year round from the Reefs Banks in Shore and Off Shore Wrecks ,From Pollack Cod Ling Bass Rays Huss Turbot Brill and Bream plus many more Heres a few from Past trips to show what can be caught .


Sketches the background of the problem that differences in the scope of logical elements (like quantifiers and negatives), which correspond to surface position, provide numerous counterexamples to the thesis that all semantic information is represented in underlying structure. The study then examines critically the way in which two models of Generative Grammar, namely Interpretative and Generative Semantics, propose to account for the facts of the scope of negation. The correlation between the scope of negation and the distribution of Afrikaans negative particles is investigated. For the first negative particle this consists of testing its position and interpretation against the thesis generally held in linguistic theory that the leftmost logical element has the widest scope in the sentence. The results show that this particle functions to a considerable extent in the same way as the single negative of cognate languages like English and Dutch. It is argued that the Afrikaans negation differs from that of other standard Indo-European languages only in the presence of an additional negative element and that this element serves to mark the rightmost extent of the scope of negation. This hypothesis is also tested against the data. The conclusion reached on the distributional facts is that they can be described in a simpler and more insightful way than has hitherto been done in Afrikaans grammar, if they are related to scope. The ability of the models of Generative and Interpretative Semantics to handle the facts of the Afrikaans negation is discussed. It is found that the highest degree of generalisation can be achieved by the mechanisms provided by the former. It is therefore concluded that the Afrikaans negation supports the Generative rather than the Interpretative Semantics model.


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Calendar Duration
TMA Fee
Response Model Customer Acquisition 6 weeks $14,500
Retention Model Customer Attrition 6 weeks $14,500
Retention Model Time Until Attrition 8 weeks $17,500
Revenue Model Revenue Dollar Value 8 weeks $17,500
Cross Sell Model Customer Upgrade Model 6 weeks $14,500
Bundle Two-Stage Acquisition
and Revenue Model 10 weeks $25,000
*If the model type you desire is not listed, please inquire by email or phone for an estimate.
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Estimates include data exploration and deriving new attributes.
Estimates include one model scoring at the time of model delivery. Additional scoring may be conducted by the client, a data processing vendor, or performed by TMA upon request:
<= 1,000,000 records: $2,500
>1,000,000 and <=5,000,000 records: $5,000
>5,000,000: Contact TMA to assess scoring job
Client should request scoring 10 days in advance
TMA will return scored file three business days after receipt of valid file.
Additional categories for the same data set will require additional models at $9,500 each.
The need for data cleansing and preprocessing will be assessed prior to modeling assignment. One of five categories will be assigned:
Minor preprocessing: no extra charge
Light preprocessing: $2,500
Moderate preprocessing: $7,500
Heavy preprocessing: $15,000
Rejected: Data resources are not presently adequate to reach business objectives
A model validation exercise to determine whether the model needs to be refreshed is $2,500. A single file with a list of those solicited, the model scores and a flag noting who responded is needed to perform the validation.
The model may be refreshed at a $5,000 discount from the standard model pricing only if the data dictionary (i.e. file columns) is unchanged.
Unexpected data issues and extra requirements which could not be unearthed earlier in the project will be identified and written as a separate statement of work.
Resources will be made readily available to TMA as required to obtain data, understand data codes and dictionaries, approve specification changes, and sign off on deliverables. TMA resource request delays lasting more than three business days will invoke a $500 fee per day, and may disproportionately extend the deliverable timeline.
Criteria for including or excluding data from scoring will be correctly and fully specified in advance.
Client will provide a development file via FTP or CD-ROM, comma-separated, with labels in the header row. A separate file in .txt format is preferred. For each file, approximately 5,000 responders and 10,000 non-responders should be provided.
The client should provide a clear statement of the dependent variable, it's representation, and desired or required level of precision. It is preferred that the client provide performance metrics and baseline levels of performance from existing models whenever possible.
Estimates do not include ongoing support after report and delivery. "Wire support" which provides remote consultative support by phone or email may be purchased in 10-hour blocks at $3,250. Customer requests will be documented in a time sheet and effort drawn in 15-minute increments.
The client is responsible for providing the same variables included in the model development data set at run time. The data will support the target functionality.
The deliverable will be either coefficients for regression models, or a deployed model (in either PMML, R, C++, Java, Visual Basic or similar) with a report explaining the results, algorithm used, findings, etcetera.
Purchased Model Details
Customer Acquisition Model
Who is most likely to subscribe or respond? Response modeling drives efficient and effective campaign performance while revealing the factors that influence customers to respond. Response models identify individuals most likely to exhibit certain behaviors based on past purchases, demographics, lifestyle and attitudinal data. A score is generated for each prospect that identifies the most likely candidates to respond to a given promotion based on intelligence derived through data mining. Upon reviewing a lift chart of predicted gains by decile or demi-decile, the marketing manager may choose a threshold from which to conduct the campaign. Resources may then be focused on those who elicit the greatest potential for acquisition.
Customer Attrition Model
Which customers are about to leave? Since it is generally accepted that the cost of retaining an existing customer is far less than acquiring a new one, attrition modeling can deliver substantial value. Attrition models are similar in structure to acquisition models, with the objective (or dependent variable) shifted to focus on retention. The attrition model will score and rank customers based on their likelihood to churn, allowing for targeted retention and up-sell efforts.
Time Until Attrition Model
Who is most likely to churn at a given point in the future? Although the Time Until Attrition model sounds like a slight modification or extension to the Customer Attrition model, the model's structure for forecasting time is quite different. The best way to develop a Customer Attrition model is to pick a point in time: "who will most likely churn six months from now?" The resulting model will produce a score for each customer reflecting the probability of attrition at the chosen time. Alternatively, the model may be designed to predict the actual time of attrition at the expense of accuracy.
Revenue Dollar Value Model
Who will perform just like your most profitable customers? There are numerous ways to view customer value, to include total revenue, profitability, longevity and purchasing frequency. The Revenue Dollar Value model provides the means to identify the most important aspects of customer value from which to segment your existing customers or selectively guide future prospecting. The resulting scores will support targeting the nature of customer interactions for various segments and shift resources and priority to those with the greatest return potential.
Customer Upgrade Model
What is each customer most likely to purchase next? It is typically less expensive and more effective to introduce additional products and services to existing customers than to acquire new ones. The Customer Upgrade Model can produce multiple scores for each customer that will be most receptive to various products based on their buying history and demographic characteristics. Interrelationships across multiple products may be identified and translated into actionable profiles. The Customer Upgrade Model can also provide market intelligence by revealing and ranking multiple influences that drive interest in particular products.
Two-Stage Acquisition & Revenue Model
How can you acquire new customers who will perform like your most profitable? This bundled option extends a package discount for purchasing two of the most complimentary and symbiotic predictive model combinations. Just as it does not make sense to acquire customers who are likely to be unprofitable, it is not desirable to spend marketing resources on potential customers who have a very low propensity to respond.
The two-stage Acquisition and Revenue Model maps the results of the two models into four quadrants: [low response / low dollar], [high response / low dollar], [low response / high dollar] and [high response / high dollar]. Although targeting the [high response / high dollar] segment is a given, choices may be made in extending the campaign to a certain depth into the [high response / low dollar] and [low response / high dollar] categories depending on campaign and business objectives.
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 * \author  Christoph Rist <rist@fzi.de>
 * \date    2014-12-12
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#ifndef _MISSION_CONTROL_DRIVENORMAL_H
#define _MISSION_CONTROL_DRIVENORMAL_H

#include "katanaCommon/katanaCommon.h"
#include "mission_control/states/driving_states/DriveBase.h"

namespace katana
{

class DriveNormal : public DriveBase
{
public:

  //! Constructor
  DriveNormal(const System::Ptr& system, const DrivingStripChanger::Ptr& driving_strip_changer)
    : DriveBase(system, driving_strip_changer)
  {

  }

  //!
  u_int32_t getState() const override   { return (u_int32_t)DrivingState::DRIVE_NORMAL; }

  //! Jury requests the state. Return true if ready, false if not
  virtual bool juryRequestState() override { return true; }

  //! Pose has changed
  virtual void poseChanged(const PoseWithTime& pose) override;

  //! State activated
  virtual void onActivation(u_int32_t previous) override;

  //! New patch in world
  virtual void newPatch(size_t num, PerceptionState perception_state, u_int32_t job_id) override;

  //! New traffic sign
  virtual void newTrafficSign(RoadSign::Ptr sign, bool signAppeared = true) override;

  //! Timer
  virtual void timerUpdate() override;

private:

  //! Flag if waiting for speed up
  bool m_waiting_for_speed_up;
  double m_activation_distance;
  double m_distance_to_wait;

};

} // ns

#endif //_MISSION_CONTROL_DRIVENORMAL_H

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The rich tradition and fine craftsmanship of Irish jewelry are well established. Artisan jewelry makers in Ireland have been designing and hand crafting exquisite, distinctively Irish jewelry pieces for many centuries. Celtic culture in Ireland has been dated to the 8th century BC during the iron age and precious metalwork and jewelry have been a tradition ever since. Today famous Irish jewelry makers such as Solvar, Boru, Jean Butler Jewellery, and ShanOre Jewelry are known for their beautiful traditional and modern treatments of the many classic Irish motifs.
The variety and range of Irish jewelry options available today is vast and the quality and craftsmanship are superb. At IrishShop we've painstakingly assembled our Irish jewelry collections to include what we feel are some of the finest examples of men's and ladies rings, wedding rings and wedding bands, engagement rings, earrings, necklaces, pendants, charms and charm bracelets, bangles, brooches, pins, watches and cufflinks. Below are links to the main jewelry category pages for these Irish jewelry lines. Within many of the categories you'll find links to subcategories and special collections such as our Irish Jewelry lines for religious occasions, Celtic jewelry, our History of Ireland Jewelry collection, our Mo Anam Cara "My Soul Mate" collection, as well as collections of fine jewelry by specific Irish jewelers such as Solvar and Jean Butler.
From popular Irish Gaelic phrases to Trinity Knots and beautifully inlaid shamrocks to majestic Celtic crosses to myriad jewelry designs featuring the famous Irish Claddagh, jewelry from Ireland is instantly recognizable for its unique visual motifs.
Among the most recognizable, Claddagh "faith rings", according to how they are worn, express one's current relationship status. Claddagh jewelry in Ireland was traditionally passed from mother to first daughter and worn to symbolize friendship or as a wedding ring. Though of earlier origin, the Claddagh symbol takes its name from the ancient Irish fishing village of Claddagh just outside Galway City on west of Ireland where it has long been featured in jewelry design. Jewelry bearing the phrase "Mo Anam Cara" ("my soul mate" in Irish) or "Gra Go Deo" (Irish for "Love Forever") can proclaim a heartfelt bound between lovers or close friends. Sacred symbols such as the Trinity knot and the cross, whether rendered in pure gold or sterling silver or adorned with diamonds or other jewels, can serve as religious symbols and markers of important religious occasions or simply as beautiful historical or secular jewelry design motifs. Irish jewelry bearing shamrocks or leprechauns is worn as a proud statement of Irish heritage or just to proclaim and inspire Irish spirit on St. Patrick's Day or on any other day that calls for a bit of Irish.
Exquisitely Irish wedding rings and bands in every style and price range. To complement our other Irish jewelry collections, we've hand selected a beautiful line of Irish wedding rings and bands and engagement rings. Uniquely Irish jewelry crafted in 14k white and yellow gold and in sterling silver, many with diamonds and other precious stones. IrishShop wedding jewelry lines include distinctly Irish ring designs featuring the "Mo Anam Cara" (My Soul Mate) inscription, "Gra Go Deo" (Irish for Love Forever), Claddagh variations, and a range of other traditional and modern Irish jewelry styles and motifs. Each wedding ring is made in Ireland and hallmarked in the Assay Office in Dublin, certifying the jewelry's authenticity and quality.
IrishShop's jewelry collections employ a range of precious metals, many with brilliant gemstones set in the bands or addorning a Claddagh. Other pieces feature single or strung pearls. Many of our rings, wedding rings, wedding bands, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, pins, watches, and cufflinks are are produced in 14k gold, white gold, yellow gold, sterling silver, stainless steel, platinum and bronze. Several rings feature beautiful blends of these materials, often highlighting a Mo Anam Cara inscription or an elegant Claddagh. Jewelry gemstone settings include diamond, emerald, sapphire, jasper, marcasite, amethyst and zirconia. Several fine jewelry pieces are set with stunning freshwater pearls. We also offer Claddagh rings and necklaces in all birthstone gems.
At IrishShop we take great pride in authentic Irish craftsmanship. We are a Dublin, Ireland based company in operation since 1997 with a presence also in the USA. We source jewelry products from all over Ireland and from renowned Irish jewelry designers and makers including Solvar, Boru, Jean Butler Jewellery, ShanOre Jewelry and others. All of our Made in Ireland jewelry is hallmarked in the Assay Office in Dublin, Ireland, an official certification of its authenticity and quality.
Special occasions, religious or secular, are made even more special with a jewelry gift that celebrates Irish lineage. For that first communion, a ring, bracelet, pendant or earrings featuring the Trinity knot or a Celtic cross. For St. Patrick's Day, a beautifully inlaid sterling silver shamrock pendant or earrings, or perhaps an Irish Penny watch. Spread Christmas cheer with Trinity Knot snowflake, snowman or candy cane bracelet beads in sterling silver. Irish jewelry for Valentine's Day is a perfect fit. The famous Claddagh, a heart clasped by two hands, can be worn as an elegant ring, necklace, pendant, earrings, brooch or pin for her, or as a attractive Claddagh ring, watch or cufflinks for him. Irish jewelry also presents many gift options for Mother's Day and Father's Day.
Perhaps the most famous among Irish / Gaelic language expressions featured as jewelry motifs, "Mo Anam Cara" (My Soul Mate) and is a favorite inscription for the bands of Irish rings, wedding rings, pendants and bracelets. The Irish expression "Gra Go Deo" (Love Forever) and the variation "Gra Anois Agus Go Deo" (Love Now and Forever) are also beautifully rendered on our gold and silver bracelets and rings. The phrases "Le Cheile" (Together) and "Dha Chroi Le Cheile" (Two Hearts Together) are typically accompanied on jewelry by the Irish Claddagh, two hands clasping a heart, ancient symbol of faith and trust.
Family crests and coat of arms have historically been important symbols in Ireland, linking the wearer to centuries of Irish family and clan history. Today these historic symbols can be displayed in beautiful Irish jewelry personalized with your family name and the appropriate historical crest. These authentically personalized rings, pendants, cufflinks and watches make unique gifts for others or for yourself.
The History of Ireland Jewelry Collection is a hand-crafted range of elegant jewelry that portrays the history of Ireland in a series of historical panels evocative of the panels on the Celtic High Crosses which were such a distinctive expression of Irish Christian Art up to medieval times. Produced by the Irish Jewelry house Solvar, the collection features distinctive sterling silver and 14k gold rings, a sterling silver Celtic cross pendant, hand-crafted men's and ladies sterling silver bracelets and a sterling silver ingot pendant, all bearing a series of ancient Irish symbols. A completely unique jewelry collection that could only come from Ireland.


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Early Adoption of an Improved Household Energy System in Urban Rwanda
Pamela Jagger, Ipsita Das, Sudhanshu Handa, Leena A. Nylander-French, Karin B. Yeatts
Cooking with solid fuels and inefficient cookstoves has adverse consequences for health, environment, and human well-being. Despite the promise of improved cookstoves to reduce these impacts, adoption rates are relatively low. Using a 2-wave sample of 144 households from the baseline and first midline of an ongoing 4-year randomized controlled trial in Rwanda, we analyze the drivers and associations of early adoption of a household energy intervention marketed by a private sector firm. Households sign an annual contract to purchase sustainably produced biomass pellets and lease a fan micro-gasification cookstove with verified emissions reductions in laboratory settings. Using difference-in-differences and fixed effects estimation techniques, we examine the association between take-up of the improved cooking system and household fuel expenditures, health outcomes, and time use for primary cooks. Thirty percent of households adopted the pellet and improved cookstove system. Adopting households had more assets, lower per capita total expenditures and cooking fuel expenditures, and higher per capita hygiene expenditures. Households with married household heads and female cooks were significantly more likely to adopt. Adjusting for confounders, we find significant reduction in primary cooks' systolic blood pressure, self-reported prevalence of shortness of breath, an indicator of respiratory illness, time spent cooking, and household expenditures on charcoal. Our findings have implications for marketing of future clean fuel and improved cookstove programs in urban settings or where stoves and fuel are purchased. Analysis of follow-up surveys will allow for estimation of long-term impacts of adoption of interventions involving pellets and fan micro-gasification cookstoves.
Jagger, Pamela
Das, Ipsita
Link to document
Jagger, P., Das, I., Handa, S., Nylander-French, L. A., & Yeatts, K. B. (2019). Early Adoption of an Improved Household Energy System in Urban Rwanda. EcoHealth, 16(1), 7–20. doi:10.1007/s10393-018-1391-9
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Coroner ID's motorcyclist killed Thursday night in Dover Township
The male rider was reportedly southbound when he hit a truck near Conewago Road around 9:13 p.m., according to news release from the York County Coroner's Office.
Coroner ID's motorcyclist killed Thursday night in Dover Township The male rider was reportedly southbound when he hit a truck near Conewago Road around 9:13 p.m., according to news release from the York County Coroner's Office. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2019/06/07/motorcyclist-killed-thursday-night-dover-township/1378048001/
Christopher Dornblaser, York Dispatch Published 6:29 a.m. ET June 7, 2019 | Updated 7:34 a.m. ET June 9, 2019
. (Photo: JOHN PAVONCELLO / The York Dispatch)
A Dover Township man was killed Thursday night in a crash on Route 74, according to authorities.
Tyler Beaverson, 32, was reportedly southbound when he hit a truck near Conewago Road in Dover Township around 9:13 p.m., according to news release from the York County Coroner's Office.
More: Peers remember 'charismatic' tattooist who died in motorcycle crash
Tyler Beaverson (Photo: Submitted)
Northern York County Regional Police said Beaverson was riding a 1999 Suzuki motorcycle when he struck a 1997 Ford dump truck, which was turning left onto Conewago Road from the northbound lane of Route 74.
Witnesses told police the Beaverson was going fast before the crash. The driver of the truck as not injured.
Beaverson was pronounced dead at the scene.
More: Woman visiting York Hospital attacked by unstable patient
More: York City investigating after cops' Facebook posts compiled by Plain View Project
There will be no autopsy, but a routine toxicology text will be done, the coroner's office stated.
Police are still investigating the crash.
Northern Regional Police are asking anyone with information on the crash to contact them at 717-262-3647, 717-467-8355, or at tips@nycrpd.org.
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What: The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Pro Helvetia and the Ticino section of SIA (Swiss society of engineers and architects) are pleased to invite you to take part in a discussion about the Swiss Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
The Swiss contribution to the Architecture Biennale is considered one of the most important initiatives in the field of contemporary culture and building construction. For the first time this year, Pro Helvetia selected a project based on an open call of 81 architectural submissions.
Pro Helvetia and SIA will present and discuss «Svizzera 240: House Tour» – the nominated project, which looks at contemporary housing – in a roadshow across Switzerland. After events in Basel and Lausanne, we will visit Mendrisio next. The event is free and open to all.
Marianne Burki, Head of Visual Arts at Pro Helvetia.


Open to Juniors, Amateur Adults & Professionals on horses and ponies who have placed 1st or 2nd in a participating Derby or Classic during the year, including the 1st & 2nd place ribbon winners at our 2019 LCHSA Hunter & Pony Derbies. If less than 12 are entered, it becomes a sweepstakes. A Classic Round followed by a Handy Round.


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Technomancer may refer to:

Games
GURPS Technomancer, a 1998 campaign setting published by Steve Jackson Games
The Technomancer, a 2016 video game

Other uses
Technomancer (album), a 2015 album by Pictureplane

See also
Technomage (disambiguation)


The last time I ended up with a model with so few original parts left was probably the Furious 6 Charger I finished around this time last year. Like that, there is almost nothing that hasn't been reworked or completely fabricated for this build.
Once again I started with the body work, this time using a Revell '68 Charger as a base. The front and rear fenders were both widened by grafting pieces of a second Charger onto them, bending and reforming them to provide the correct contours. A strip of .020" x .080" Evergreen styrene was added to the top of each rear fender and blended into the fender extensions to recreate the grafted-on look of the movie car. I then removed the wing windows, enlarged the fender openings, and cut out the center section of the trunk. The rear fascia was replaced with a spare '69 piece from my parts box, and the front bumper is another resin copy of the Revell part. The roof parachute hatch was made from angled stock, with a chute cover made from gaffer's tape. The access hatch was a piece of metal tape, with the rivets made using a pounce wheel. Once mods were done, I painted the tail red, masked off the stripe, and painted the rest of the body semi-gloss black.
Rather than modify a Revell chassis or interior, I opted to use a full NASCAR chassis. AMT's mid-1990s Pontiac turned out to be a good starting point, as was the correct width and lacked any cast-in roll cage padding. The wheelbase was ¼" too short, though, so I lengthened it by adding plastic to the front foot wells and transmission hump. The way the cage was made allowed it to be slid forward on the chassis, and I could easily make up the now too-short rear bars with .062" round styrene. I also made a few other modifications to better match the movie car, such as the inverted "V" behind the windshield and the rearrangement of bars to allow for a passenger's seat. The only thing that I wish I had done differently was the "A" pillar bars, which I should have cut and reshaped to be flatter. Unfortunately, I did not notice the problem until after the body was in place, and at that point it was too late to change things. The gauge cluster and shifter were scratch built, with gauges I found online and resized using Photoshop. The fire extinguisher was part of the NASCAR kit, but I modified it to look like a hand-held unit. The seats were taken from a Maisto Jaguar diecast, as they were the closest things to the Mastercraft 3Gs used in the movie. A little bit of cleanup and some custom decals printed by Fireball Modelworks were all they really needed.
To get the correct ride height, I combined a few different techniques. The long trailing arms in the NASCAR kit could be repositioned to create the taller stance, but the front suspension had to be replaced altogether with parts from a Revell Donk kit. To add a little rigidity, three of the four shock absorbers are full-length stainless steel rod, with tubes and ends attached to make them look correct. the fourth shock was allowed to travel before it was glued, and the car was placed on a glass surface while that corner dried to ensure all four wheels would touch the ground. The springs were made from craft wire, and the brakes came from a Viper kit. Tires came from B-N-L Resins, with decals printed by Fireball (white) and me (red). There was nothing even remotely close to the movie car's 8-lug, 10-spoke wheels with beadlocks, so I drew up my own using Google's SketchUp and had them printed at Shapeways using their Frosted Ultra Detail plastic. It took some carving to get them to fit the B-N-L Grabbers, but the result was well worth the effort.
As with my Fast 5 Charger, I went with a 500cid top fuel engine to give this the kick it needed. I used more of the engine this time, though, including the dual mechanical distributors and the deep oil pan (which necessitated a slight reshaping of the lower crossmember). The movie car had everything under the hood, though, so the supercharger was replaced with dual quads and a parts box air cleaner. The front cover, water pump, power steering pump, radiator, and belt assembly were all modified parts box items. The exhausts were scratch built from .080" rod and aluminum tubing, dumping just behind the front tires as they did on the movie car. Everything was wired and plumbed, with details like color-coded ignition wires, braided sleeving over the radiator and oil lines, carburetor linkage, and a protective mesh over the front of the radiator. The engine was mated to a 727 transmission from Morgan Automotive Detailing, with parts box driveshafts finishing the drivetrain.
Thanks to the exposed nature of this car, several details had to be added once all of the major components were together. These included the front and rear bumpers, skid pans, the dress panel and lift bar/hooks under the hood, the front fender outlets, the rear window and braces, and the spare tires. Other than the spares, these were all scratch built since they all needed to be custom fit to the assembled car. The spares were prepped much like the mounted wheels, but the lug holes were drilled out on these. The safety straps were made from craft ribbon, with scratchbuilt ratchets. The final detail was the dummy taillight panel, which was cut from reflective safety tape.


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Place:Little Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Name Little Driffield
Alt names Drigelinghe source: Domesday Book (1985) p 307
Type Village
Coordinates 54°N 0.474°W
Located in East Riding of Yorkshire, England ( - 1974)
Also located in Yorkshire, England
Humberside, England (1974 - 1996)
East Riding of Yorkshire, England (1996 - )
See also Driffield Rural, East Riding of Yorkshire, England rural district in which the civil parish was located 1894-1935
Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England urban district of which it was a part 1935-1974
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Little Driffield is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the western outskirts of Great Driffield, to the west of the A614 road and south of the A166 road. Little Driffield forms part of the civil parish of Driffield.
Historically, Little Driffield was in the ecclesiastical parish of Great Driffield in the wapentake of Harthill. From 1894 until 1935, Little Driffield was located in Driffield Rural District where it was part of the civil parish of Elmswell with Little Driffield. In 1935 it was absorbed into Driffield Urban District.
Humberside 1974-1996
In 1974 most of what had been the East Riding of Yorkshire was joined with the northern part of Lincolnshire to became a new English county named Humberside. The urban and rural districts of the former counties were abolished and Humberside was divided into non-metropolitan districts. The new organization did not meet with the pleasure of the local citizenry and Humberside was wound up in 1996. The area north of the River Humber was separated into two "unitary authorities"—Kingston upon Hull covering the former City of Hull and its closest environs, and the less urban section to the west and to the north which, once again, named itself the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The phrase "Yorkshire and the Humber" serves no purpose in WeRelate. It refers to one of a series of basically economic regions established in 1994 and abolished for most purposes in 2011. See the Wikipedia article entited "Regions of England").
GENUKI on Little Driffield. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Great Driffield provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
A Vision of Britain through Time on Little Driffield.
A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to three maps of the East Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. These maps all expand to a scale that will illustrate small villages and large farms or estates.
Ordnance Survey 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts).
Ordnance Survey 1900 The rural districts, not long after their introduction.
Ordnance Survey 1944. The rural districts after the revisions of 1935.
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