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The play-offs start a week on Saturday and Penicuik, fresh from a convincing 4-0 win over Tweedmouth Rangers, know a point against Musselburgh at home will be enough to clinch the Conference crown and a place in the play-offs.
Hill of Beath are waiting in the wings ready to capitalise on any slip-ups and play Newtongrange Star on Tuesday. Hill of Beath play their last league game this Saturday away to Easthouses Lily. Penicuik's play-off opponents next Saturday could be either Broxburn or Linlithgow Rose, with both of them playing their last Conference C league game this Saturday.
Broxburn are two points better off than Linlithgow going into their final league games, with the leaders away to Stirling university (EOSFL), while for the Rose it's a home game at Prestonfield against visitors Jeanfield Swifts.
Meanwhile, Arniston Rangers were first to cross the finishing line this season with their last game last Saturday away to Oakley United where Arniston lost 3-0.
Dalkeith Thistle will wrap up their season with meetings with Crossgates and Bo'ness United to come.
Newtongrange Star made a swift exit from the League Cup after losing 8-7 to Bo'ness United on penalties. With promotion to next season's East of Scotland top flight already in the bag, they bring the curtain down on their league season at home to Coldstream next Saturday. The Star have a Cup tie still to play against Sauchie away in the King Cup third round after Sauchie beat Easthouses 4-1 at the Newbattle Complex last Friday evening in a second round tie.
Penicuik were awaiting the winners of the first round League Cup tie due last night Wednesday 17 April at New Dundas Park, with Bonnyrigg Rose hosting Haddington Athletic for a showdown against Cuikie at Penicuik Park on Monday, April 22.
Penicuik are set to host Linlithgow Rose in the King Cup third round on the first Saturday of May.
Bonnyrigg Rose lost their unbeaten league tag last Saturday in their penultimate league fixture when they were beaten 3-1 by the visitors Bo'ness United at New Dundas Park.
The Rose finish their league campaign this Saturday at home to bottom of the league Eyemouth.


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Q: Directory with pdf-file rename with array c# I'm stuck renaming files.
I have a directory with pdf-files and I want to rename them automatically.
I read a CSV-file and show it in a datagrid with C#.
First column is the old filename and second is the new filename.
The old filenames have numbers before .pdf
The new filenames have numbers, letters and equel signes in the names before .pdf
I tired several code examples but the don't work for me. I'm a newbe. Below the code for creating the datagrid (array). How do I use the rows of the array to search fort he old name and rename it with the new name?
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;

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        public Form1()
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Risky Business: Mitigating threats to onshore wind projects & portfolios
By Michelle Froese | February 20, 2018
By Jatin Sharma, Head of Business Development
GCube Insurance
Natural perils have contributed to an increase in wind-farm insurance claim severity over the past five years, and this trend is likely to continue as climate change causes volatile weather conditions.
The wind market is growing — up some 21% globally, according to Global Wind Energy Council — and expanding into new territories. This is good news for the industry, but also means a changing risk profile that can pose a concern for asset owners.
For example, low-wind regions are providing new opportunities for wind-farm developers but they must be willing to invest in a less established location and marketplace. A few of the challenges of charting new wind regions may include longer project lead times, less policy or political certainty, and a lack of supply chain expertise. An investor may label the challenges as too risky, particularly when compared to regions with a foundation in wind development.
Climate change, extreme weather, and Natural Catastrophe (Nat Cat) events also jeopardize project performance and pose risks to an investor's profile. Fortunately, the industry is evolving to cope with challenging and changing risk profiles, and the insurance market is developing new products to protect wind-farm developers and operators. Here are a few risks typical of onshore wind projects with tips on how to protect wind portfolios.
Weather safeguards
Extreme weather and Nat Cat events are risk factors typically associated with offshore or less established wind markets, such as with remote island projects. However, recent weather in the United States shows that Nat Cat events also pose a threat closer to home. Severe storms and wildfires across the U.S. and Central America in the last few years have caused billions of dollars in losses to wind-energy asset owners, including turbine blade failures and tower damage or collapse.
Natural perils have contributed to an increase in insurance claim severity over the past five years, and this trend is likely to continue as climate change causes volatile weather conditions. Nat Cat losses typically fall into the "sudden and unforeseen" category accounted for by an all-risks' insurance policy.
Tip: Asset owners in high-risk areas are wise to take precautions by ensuring that the design and specifications for their site are robust, and that appropriate contingency measures are in place.
Underperformance
The U.S. "wind drought" of 2015, in which some of the lowest wind speeds in history were recorded in key markets such as California and Texas, alerted the industry to the necessity of protecting project revenue against underperformance. Resource unpredictability is posing an increasingly prominent threat to profitability as lulls in wind speeds diminish asset output below expected levels.
Although inaccuracies in the data used to project asset outputs are partly to blame for financial vulnerability, wind-farm underperformance is typically the result of unpredictable climate phenomena.
Tip: Unforeseen lulls in wind speeds are covered by the insurance market, but it is important to find a flexible product. For example, Weather Risk Transfer (WRT) structures are adaptable to individual projects and portfolios. In a nutshell, WRT mechanisms provide project stakeholders with a means to stabilize future cash flows and minimize the impact of unexpected and adverse weather on revenue. In addition, a safeguarded minimum revenue enables banks and lenders to offer more favorable debt service coverage ratios, increasing a project's value.
Mechanical issues
Wind turbines are assembled from thousands of components, so expect mechanical and electrical breakdowns at some point during operation. While quality components and a good O&M program can minimize turbine downtime, pressures to lower manufacturing and construction time and costs can compromise turbine reliability.
What's more, the push for bigger turbines with more complex infrastructure means mechanical and electrical problems pose the greatest threat to a successful wind farm. For example, the production process for composite materials in turbine blades is precise and complex. Minor errors or material inconsistencies can have a large impact on a blade's structural integrity. Third-party certification bodies have been slow to keep up with the advances in design, which has led some blade manufacturers to self-certify.
Although self-certification reduces costs for wind-farm owners, it also results in greater risks. In addition, the longer lead times for blades over 50 meters in length have led to an increase in the number of Business Interruption (BI) claims on newer turbines.
Tip: Over the last five years, GCube has seen an average of 5,000 annual incidents of blade and gearbox failures. While gearbox failures typically result in losses of around $200,000 to $300,000, blade failures can cost up to $1 million to resolve. Hence, do your homework. Use quality components designed to tolerate your site's specific wind conditions, and ensure components such as blades are third-party certified.
Location. Location. Location.
Location can make or break real estate deals, and the same can be said for wind farms. Most utility-scale projects are in remote areas, which can hinder maintenance and repair visits when something goes wrong. The rising costs of mechanical and electrical turbine breakdowns are partly attributed to the remote locations of many new wind developments.
Simple logistics can extend already lengthy lead times for new components or O&M teams. A lack of supply chain expertise in the remote markets of Asia and Latin America, for example, has resulted in damage to transformers and blades during transit, and serial defects in equipment manufactured closer to project sites. The availability of certified blade repair technicians and quality replacement equipment can also extend a project's downtime and increase BI costs.
Tip: The North American market has its share of these challenges, so it is important to plan for adequate O&M and BI costs. Project developers in Canada must also account for accessibility issues, particularly during the winter months.
Wind developers drawn to remote locations because of abundant weather resources may face other risk factors. Many emerging renewables markets exist under politically volatile regimes, or lack the statutory or legal systems to protect developers from the confiscation, expropriation, nationalization, or deprivation (CEND) of assets.
American firms have already been affected by changes to governmental policies. For example, U.S. developer Invenergy LLC recently filed a lawsuit against a Polish state-controlled company, Energa, citing actions that are "tantamount to expropriation." In 2013, Energa terminated a long-term contract for the sale of green certificates with an Invenergy wind farm company. Invenergy has pursued its rights in court against Energa to overturn the contract termination
Tip: The insurance sector has responded to these developments with Political Risk Insurance (PRI) products. While regulatory challenges are expected to decrease as wind energy becomes independent of subsidy support, risks from CEND are only set to increase as developers expand their portfolios into territories where wind power is less established.
The risks posed to wind-energy assets indicate the need for developers to complete proper due diligence. Risk transfer and insurance mechanisms are an important part of that due diligence. After all, the right insurance products can make or break a project and portfolio.


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The Worst Car in LeMons History: The 30,884-Mile Tale of the K-It-FWD Plymouth Reliant Wagon
Murilee Martin Published: Feb 17, 2014
The 2013 24 Hours of LeMons season is in the books, and . Of all those cars and teams, however, stands out from the rest as one of the most memorable—in other words, most irredeemably terrible—vehicles in the history of motorsport. Allow us to regale you with the Fantastic —here we go!
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During the course of the 2013 season, the 1986 Plymouth Reliant-K station wagon race-prepped (if that's the word) by NSF Racing in Florida sort of, but mostly not really, competed in 14 races, traveled through 43 U.S. states and one Canadian province, passed through the hands of nine teams comprised of a total of more than 100 drivers and crew members, was towed 14,012 miles, highway-driven for another 12,194 miles, and raced for 4678 miles.
It killed seven engines, stranded drivers in the Mojave Desert in 122°F heat and in eastern Wyoming at -21°F. It also created a close-knit group of friends around the continent, a group who will always see the memories of this profoundly bad car as the impossible-to-remove weatherstrip adhesive that keeps them stuck together for life. It was a long and twisted road for this car and its enablers.
, one of the all-time , specializes in three types of race cars: extremely rusty antiques dredged out of the Everglades, weird German cars, and cars that your LeMons correspondent racing. For a couple of years, I pleaded with LeMons teams to race a true . Not a K-based Shadow or Caravan or New Yorker (we've seen plenty of K cousins in LeMons), but a genuine, 200-proof , , , or . Finally, even though NSF Racing got burned like monkeys grabbing red-hot pennies by my suggestions to race a and a , they couldn't resist stretching out their much-scarred simian paws for this red-hot penny, and so they began scouring the swamps for a suitable K-car candidate.
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Some longtime friends of the NSF crew suffered the loss of their family matriarch, Detroit Betty, around this time. Betty had worked in the automotive industry for many years, and she had bought this 1986 Plymouth Reliant new before retiring in Florida. Her survivors felt that it would be nice for her daily-driver Plymouth to become a race car, and it entered the NSF shop.
So, the NSF-ers gutted the car, caged it, painted it up like a big American flag, and towed it to Eagles Canyon Raceway in Texas for .
the 2012 season-ender race
It was all very wholesome and patriotic, with the benevolent smile of seemingly warming everyone's hearts. A K-Car! The car that Yay, America!
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Of course, those of us who followed the K's adventures its debut know that the all-American adventure that started out as a soon became . But at the 2012 Heaps in the Heart of Texas race, NSF's Reliant finished 21st out of 32 entries and took home the Organizer's Choice award.
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The original in the K didn't sound so good after that race, though, so NSF-er Ron Vickers volunteered to rebuild it during the winter. A flawless plan!
2.2 engine
The 2013 LeMons season began with , and NSF put together an all-woman team of drivers to pilot the K to certain glory.
the Southern Discomfort race in South Carolina
Yes, racing the car that saved America! Such an obvious feelgood story in the making, or so we thought.
The feel-good story went awry in a hurry once the car hit the track, when, with driver Kim Harmon behind the wheel, it threw a connecting rod out the side of the painstakingly rebuilt engine after a few hours of racing.
So, a crew drove off in search of a 2.2 Chrysler in a rural South Carolina junkyard and found one after most of a day of tail-chasing frustration.
After an all-night engine swap, complete with the usual stripped threads and busted-off bolt heads, the K was ready to go on Sunday.
The K was there for the checkered flag, finishing 76th out of 84 entries and taking home the I Got Screwed award.
At this race, NSF decided to begin a program—called "K-It-FWD"—of passing the Reliant from team to team around the country, with a goal of getting it into every race in 2013. Thanks to all the arrive-and-drive racers and teams who tow thousands of miles to race at distant tracks (plus the and ), we've got a well-connected network of adventurous racers that stretches across all of the United States and Canada, and so the gears started turning on plans to achieve the K-at-every-race goal.
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A key hand-off ritual was inaugurated, and the fun began at the Southern Discomfort awards ceremonies. The first step was to get the car from South Carolina to New York, where the There Goes the Neighborhood race would be taking place. Sasha Rashev of Sputnik Racing volunteered to drive the very conspicuous K the nearly 800 miles to the north, where Sputnik would race it at the Monticello Motor Club. Along the way, he managed to get legit Maryland plates for the car, and they'd keep the car quasi-legal for the rest of the year.
At the There Goes the Neighborhood race, the K suffered from the fuel-delivery and electrical-system woes that were to bedevil it for most of the year, and the Sputnik wrenchers began adding the first of many layers of quick-fix attempts that were to make the car so maddening to work on in the future (there was also an incident that involved ). Still, the car did better than it had in South Carolina, with 129 laps finished. That was good enough for 105th place out of 121 entries.
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Sasha then handed the keys over to the K's next team captain, in this case the Midwesterner known as "Soggy" and his team, .
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At the at Gingerman Raceway in Michigan, the Lemon-Aid Racing BMW 3-series showed up in a K-It-FWD homage paint job. Yes, that's snow on the cars; April racing in Michigan is chilly.
2013 Cure For Gingervitis race
The K had its best race yet, doing 293 laps and finishing 38th out of 68 entries. The K grabbed the special regional award for the race, which we dubbed the "If You Can Find a Better Car, Buy It" trophy.
No engines were destroyed this time, and so the spare 2.2 stayed in its trash bag. The K suffered from fuel-delivery and electrical ailments once again, and NMF added to what would soon become an impenetrable tangle of underdash wiring. But we're getting ahead of ourselves here, so let's follow the K down to Texas for its next race.
Soggy handed the key off to NMF team captain Albert Wentzel, who then drove to a Lowe's parking lot in Missouri.
At that point, team captain Justin Howe showed up from Oklahoma City and took delivery of the K. Justin took the car back to his shop and . Finally, someone doing some upgrades to the K! The plan was that it would at its near Dallas.
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Of course, the K-It-FWD Reliant at such optimism, and it promptly smoked its engine during pre-race practice. Meanwhile, the OK-Speed "Tape-R" Civic blew up motor at the same time, which meant that the team had two dead cars.
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Thrashing all night got junkyard 2.2 engine of unknown provenance into the K. Add some water and go!
The car didn't run very well, or for very lengthy stretches, but it run.
The first of several flavors of commemorative K-It-FWD team shirts appeared in the Eagles Canyon paddock about this time; this one made a nice addition to the .
LeMons Team Shirt Hall of Fame
Here's the reverse side. Detroit Betty!
One dead engine. One barely-running, oil-spewing replacement engine. One welded balljoint. Bad engine-to-transmission and torque-converter-to-flexplate problems. 168 total laps, P40 out of 55 entries—and the third trophy out of four 2013 races (the special Lost Cause award).
Continue the story: Part 2 | Part 3
Many, many generous K-It-FWD participants helped me create this chronicle by sending me their stories and photographs. I've lost track of who sent which photos, so this is a general thank you to DC Doug Kirchberg, Sasha Rashev, Steve McDaniel, Frank Thomas, Bob Mitchell, Mike Carr, Albert Wentzel, Chris Champion, Justin Hyde, and all the others whose blurry, transmission-fluid-on-the-lens cellphone shots I lifted from the K-Car Fan Page.
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For Sandy Hook Killer's Father, Tragedy Outweighs Love For His Son Peter Lanza opened up to writer Andrew Solomon about Adam's life and how he tried to help him. Solomon says, "[Peter] would've liked to save the world and himself from the horror of what happened."
For Sandy Hook Killer's Father, Tragedy Outweighs Love For His Son
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Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six teachers Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., in 2012. His father has spoken to the media for the first time since the incident. Jason DeCrow/AP hide caption
Adam Lanza killed 20 children and six teachers Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., in 2012. His father has spoken to the media for the first time since the incident.
We still don't know why Adam Lanza killed his mother, then 20 children and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School before turning a gun on himself in December 2012. But we do know more about Lanza's life, what his doctors had to say about him and what his parents did to try to help him.
His father, Peter Lanza, broke his media silence by granting a series of interviews to writer Andrew Solomon. They met six times for interviews that lasted up to seven hours. The resulting article, "The Reckoning: The Father of the Sandy Hook Killer Searches for Answers," was published in the current edition of The New Yorker.
Solomon's latest book, the best-seller Far From the Tree, is about the parents of children who are profoundly different — children with psychological, cognitive or physical disorders; children conceived in rape; and children who become criminals or murderers. That book was published one month before Adam Lanza's rampage.
Solomon tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about how Adam's autism diagnosis may have masked other problems.
On early signs that Adam was severely troubled
As a small child he had a sensory integration disorder, meaning that he found various sensory stimuli overwhelming and impossible to deal with. He showed a physical insensitivity to pain: His mother warned the school that he might not stop doing something because it hurt, the way other children would, and that they should keep an eye on that. He had some obsessive tendencies, I think ...
As time went on, he began to seem more and more problematic. He developed a stiff gait and an awkward walk. He became somewhat socially withdrawn. He seemed profoundly disconnected from other people ...
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I think he found stimuli altogether difficult to deal with. I mean, the point at which he ceased to be able to deal with school was when he had to change classes. Instead of sitting in a homeroom all day in middle school, he had to move from classroom to classroom, and he found the noise of the hallway and the raucousness of the other adolescents and the chaos of having to figure out where it was he was going — he found all of those things so overwhelming that he was nearly defeated by them.
On Adam's autism diagnosis
Adam Lanza insisted that he didn't have Asperger's [syndrome]. He refused to acknowledge it. He refused to acknowledge there was anything wrong with him at all. He said that the problems were with the outside world. There was a real anger and a real resistance to the idea of that diagnosis ...
The moment when I knew there was an article here that I wanted to write was when I met Peter for the first time and he effectively said the autism masked whatever else was going on. Later, he said to me, "Autism makes people weird, but it doesn't make people like this. There was something else horribly wrong with Adam that wasn't the autism. But once we had an autism diagnosis, we assumed that that explained everything that was strange about Adam and we stopped looking beyond it."
I think we tend to think of diagnoses as being incredibly liberating and incredibly helpful to people, and I think it frequently is. But I think it's possible that when you know one thing about your child, you can mistake that one thing for knowing everything about your child.
On Adam's exposure to and interest in guns
We need to separate the interest in mass murder ... and the interest in guns. He had grown up in a household in which guns were a normal part of everyday life, as they are in a large number of American households.
His mother had grown up in New Hampshire. She was, as one friend of hers put it, "a 'live free or die' New Hampshire girl." For her, having guns around was a normal part of everyday life. And Adam was very interested in guns and, as has been widely reported, he and Nancy spent time together at the shooting range so that he could hone his skills with guns. He was on a lot of notice boards online in which he had endless, very technical conversations about the workings of [all types of guns]. That was an obsession he had which was visible and which he shared.
The obsession with mass murder, the obsession with the use of guns for adverse purposes, remained completely secret and nobody saw it.
On Adam's parents' concerns two years before Sandy Hook
In reading the emails between Nancy and Peter during that long period when Adam was not speaking to Peter, it's very, very striking that Adam, over and over and over again, was breaking down in tears, was unable to function, was so depressed that he was sitting in his room staring into space for five hours at a time. Nancy's emails throughout that whole period of time are absolutely heartbreaking. They describe someone who is in a state of such internal misery as defies almost all description ...
I think [Peter] felt like they were about to lose control of a situation that was already not a very happy situation. Again, they didn't think the loss of control would involve the murder of elementary school children, but they thought that Adam was already clearly suffering a great deal and that he was then ... going to withdraw from the last people he had any contact with. And they were worried not about his destruction, but about his agony.
I believe Peter Lanza still loves Adam Lanza, and loved him all along. I think in some great scale of justice he's weighed that love against what happened and feels that what happened vastly outweighs his feelings of love.
On Peter saying that he wishes Adam had never been born
What made that statement particularly poignant and powerful is that I believe Peter Lanza still loves Adam Lanza, and loved him all along. I think in some great scale of justice he's weighed that love against what happened and feels that what happened vastly outweighs his feelings of love.
When he said he wishes Adam was never born, it's not because he has no emotional relationship to him; it's only because he would've liked to save the world and himself from the horror of what happened.
On the tendency to blame Adam's parents
There's no question that there are instances in which parents who are extremely abusive or neglectful help their children to develop toward criminal behavior. But there are also many, many people who have got something in them that compels them to commit crime, that is not affected in any way by the parenting that they receive.
I think that Peter and Nancy tried incredibly hard to be good parents. ... I think it's reassuring to most of us to think the problem was that they were bad parents, because as soon as you think that, you think: And I am not a bad parent and therefore this can't happen to me. And the conclusion that I came to after spending all of this time with [Peter] is that it could happen to any of us. And I look at my own children, who seem to me like the sweetest people in the entire world, and I know somewhere in the back of my mind now, in a way I never knew before, that this could happen to me, too, and that they could go off in some terrible direction and I might be helpless to prevent it.


Fred Farias III, O.D., portrays an incomparable level of political acumen that makes him the backbone of optometry's advocacy efforts in The Lone Star State.
As an AOA Keyperson for more than 20 years, he has the ear of some of the state's most influential politicians—and Dr. Farias makes sure optometry's message doesn't get lost in the political noise resounding in the Texas State Capitol.
It's part of a role he cherishes and fosters on AOA's Federal Legislative Action and Keyperson Committee. Among his noteworthy contributions, Dr. Farias was instrumental in helping enact first-of-its-kind vision plan legislation that inspired countless other state associations nationwide to follow suit.
Dr. Farias-a former president of the Texas Optometric Association (TOA), which named him its 2015 Optometrist of the Year-was appointed to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board in 2015, responsible for promoting access, quality and cost efficiency in the state's higher education institutions. It's his second gubernatorial appointment after former Gov. Rick Perry appointed him to the Texas Optometry Board from 2001-2007. Certified as a therapeutic optometrist and optometric glaucoma specialist, Dr. Farias is CEO of 20/20 Vision Care in McAllen, Texas.
In an excerpt from an interview with AOA Focus, Dr. Farias talks about his professional passion for patient care and an insatiable determination to advocate on behalf of optometry.
What motivated you to become such an active advocate for optometry?
I was a student leader in optometry school as an American Optometric Student Association trustee, and I knew then that I wanted to be a part of moving our profession forward. I started the Texas State Club in optometry school at Southern College of Optometry, and I was its first president. It's great to go back to state day and see the club doing so well years later. I later became a student member of the TOA during optometry school.
Learning the history of optometry and those who have done so much for the profession before, that is what motivated me to become an advocate for the profession. We all should get involved and do our part.
Is there a particular advocacy moment that stands out for you?
There are many advocacy moments that stand out for me, personally, but really I enjoy getting involved in all of optometry's advocacy issues. To me, listening to our membership and building relationships with national and state leaders is what makes our optometry team work.
You're also involved in VISION USA and InfantSEE® initiatives, as well as outreach programs in your local community. What drives you to help underserved populations?
I have been brought up by my wonderful parents to give back to the community. My work on the AOA VISION USA committee and as an InfantSEE provider is an ideal way of helping patients in need. These programs, and my involvement in working in underserved populations, are something I do because I see it as an obligation to help serve those in need.
Our profession has many optometrists who are so giving, and for this I am grateful to be counted among our optometry family.


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The multi-verse is at risk of ending – and only a disenchanted woman running a laundromat can save the day in this inventive science-fiction
Director: Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Cast: Michelle Yeoh (Evelyn Quan Wang), Stephanie Hsu (Joy Wang), Ke Huy Quan (Waymond Wang), James Hong (Gong Gong), Jamie Lee Curtis (Dierdre Beaubeirdre), Tallie Medel (Becky Sregor), Jenny Slate (Debbie), Harry Shum Jnr (Chad), Biff Wiff (Rick)
Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) has lots on her plate: running her laundromat, completing tax returns for a demanding IRS agent (Jamie Lee Curtis), her waning marriage to goofy husband Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) and drifting relationship with lesbian daughter Joy (Stephanie Hsu), not to mention her fear of the disapproval of her demanding father (James Hong) – its Everything Everywhere All at Once as it is: no wonder she struggles to cope when discovering from an alternate version of her husband that she, and she alone, is the key to saving the entire multi-verse from destruction.
Everything Everywhere All at Once is an endlessly inventive, imaginative and unique spin on everything from science fiction to philosophy, via the struggles of an immigrant family, familial dynamics and love, death and the universe itself. Did I mention it's got jokes as well? There isn't anything quite like EEAAO out there, and if the film does lose energy at an inflated runtime of 145 minutes, at least that's because it must have been a struggle knowing what to cut.
In the mythology of EEAAO, Evelyn lives in just one of a myriad different realities. Every time a decision is taken, a new reality branches off, spawning innumerable different realities. If Evelyn can imagine it, then somewhere in another universe it happened. She should be a film star, a martial artiste, a chef, a blind singer, a pizza sign spinner…there are realities where mankind never evolved or where they evolved with hot dogs for fingers (a joke the film is a way too pleased with and seriously outstays its welcome).
With some technology from the "Alpha" universe – the first universe to discover alternate realities, where Evelyn and Waymond were pioneering scientists – Evelyn can access the memories and skills of her alternates. All she – and others with the right training and equipment – need to do to become experts at anything in seconds is to build a mental link to that reality by performing a highly improbable act. Whether that's getting four consecutive papercuts, eating a lipstick, swallowing a model frog or – in a comic highlight – Evelyn fighting to stop an opponent shoving an "Employee of the month" award shaped like a dildo up their bottom in public (you're not going to see that in many movies) – it's a brilliant comic device that raises belly laughs a plenty.
EEAAO knocks spots off the recent Doctor Strange sequel (that made almost nothing of its parallel universe concept) by not only presenting radically different worlds (in this universe Evelyn is a pinata! Here she's a rock!), but also exploring how the path-not-taken can have a mesmerising and inspiring/depressing impact. Evelyn – a woman who (justifiably?) believes she has achieved nothing, is both fascinated or heart-broken to see realities where her accomplishments are titanic. EEAO is superbly thought-provoking when it explores the emotional impact of questioning your choices, when you see turning right rather than left could have been the first step on a path of astonishing glory and success and, even, a completely different personality.
This leads into the film's second half which, after the comic energy of the first, dives into a philosophical debate about the nature of choice. The villain attempting to destroy reality is motivated not by rage or power-lust – but simply by the fact that jumping to a billion realities has persuaded them it all means nothing. Everything is basically a combination of atoms that, with a few pushes and pulls, can turn from one thing to anything else. This nihilistic view of the world – what does it matter killing one person when there are billions of other versions of them, many of them 'better' – and balancing it with a more humanitarian view, becomes the film's key debate.
It's also rooted in the film's opening, which is does a marvellous job of exploring universal family questions, while still grounded in the experience of an immigrant family. Evelyn and Waymond, having moved to America in search of their dreams as youngsters – and wound up running a laundromat – struggle to balance their relationship (her growing irritation at his perpetual optimism, his alienation from her cynicism) and, particularly in Evelyn's case, understanding her more Westernised daughter. Two generations with very different experiences, struggling to understand each other.
On top of which, many of these problems are universal. Generational conflicts: the grandpa who can't be told his granddaughter is gay, because her mother isn't sure how he will react. The mother and daughter who have lost the ability to communicate and reduced to saying increasingly cruel things to each other (there is a shocking moment when Evelyn tries to tell her daughter she loves her but instead chastises her for getting fat). Waymond tries to hold things together but is too gentle and ineffective to do anything.
All of this is bundled together in a film stuffed with inventive and hilarious sequences. There are kick-ass fights (one involving Alpha-Waymond and a fanny-pack – bum-bag to us Brits – which has to be seen to be believed), hilarious segues, brilliant parodies of other films (2001, Ratatouille and In the Mood for Love for starters): and then the film will hit you for six with a genuinely heart-breaking moment. I will say there is almost too much good stuff here – ten minutes trimmed from the film would work wonders, and the continued trips back to Hot Dog Hands reality is a joke stretched to absolute breaking point – but better too much than too little.
At the heart of this fabulous work from The Daniels are superb performances, none more so than a career best turn from Michelle Yeoh. Channelling everything Yeoh has ever done in her career into a single film, she of course can handle the astonishing action but also displays an emotional depth and complexity that will break your heart. She's bitter and trapped, then will shift on a sixpence to agonised guilt and longing. She's astonishingly good. There is brilliant support from Hsu as her trapped and troubled daughter and Ke Huy Quan (last seen in The Goonies) is heart-breakingly endearing, funny and wonderfully sweet as her good-natured husband (like Yeoh he also plays multiple variants – from confident to cold and distant). James Hong is wonderful as her austere father and Jamie Lee Curtis is having a ball as a bullying IRS agent turned villain's heavy.
When the major flaw in the film is that it is too damn long, you know you are onto a good thing. There are more ideas in a few minutes here than in the entire runtime of such things as the Doctor Strange sequel. Superbly directed with wit, energy and compassion by the Daniels and with a career-defining role for Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All At Once is destined to take its place as a year defining cult hit.
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Douglas N. C. Lin (born May 7, 1949) is Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  He was born in New York and grew up in Beijing. He earned his BSc from McGill University, his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, and performed postdoctoral research at both Harvard and Cambridge.  In 1979 he took an Assistant Professorship at UCSC, and has remained there since.  He is also the founding director of the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University.

Douglas Lin's principal research interests are in the origin of the solar system, star formation, astrophysical fluid dynamics, dynamics of stellar clusters, structure of galaxies, active galactic nuclei, and galaxy formation.

As a mark of respect to his long history of contribution within astronomy, the Monash University recently held a Symposium titled Evolution of Planetary and Stellar Systems (nicknamed Linfest) in his honour. He also sits on the selection committee for the Astronomy award, given under the auspices of the Shaw Prize.

Awards
 Guggenheim Fellow
 Otto Schmidt Medal
 von Humboldt Fellow
 Sackler Prize
 LExEN Award given by the National Science Foundation
 Member of selection committee from the Shaw Prize
 Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 Founding Director, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
 Brouwer Award (2014)
 Bruce Medal (2015)

Articles
 R. Spurzem, D. N. C. Lin   Orbit Evolution of Planetary Systems in Stellar Clusters
 Ji-Lin Zhou and Douglas N. C. Lina   Migration and Final Location of Hot Super Earths in the Presence of Gas Giants
 Douglas N.C. Lin and Ian Dobbs-Dixon   Diversity of close-in planets and the interactions with their host stars
 James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Douglas N. C. Lin.   Consequences of the Disruption and Ejection of Giant Planets

References

External links
 At Long Last, a New Sun With a Family of Planets
 Found: 2 Planetary Systems. Result: Astronomers Stunned.
 Linfest

1949 births
Living people
American astronomers
McGill University alumni
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
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All of the unaccompanied migrant children currently in the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are expected to be reunited with their parents on Friday, according to CNN.
"CBP expects that all unaccompanied children in their custody who were separated from adults who were being prosecuted will have been reunited with their families," a CBP official told CNN on Friday.
According to CNN, the reunions do not include the 2,300 to 3,000 children currently in custody of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Most of the children being reunited with their parents on Friday would be those who were detained within the last 72 hours and who weren't already transferred out of CBP custody.
The official told CNN that some children will not be reunited in cases where "the familial relationship cannot be confirmed, or believe the adult is a threat to the safety of the child, or the adult is a criminal undocumented immigrant."
The move comes after President Trump Donald John TrumpRussia's election interference is a problem for the GOP Pence to pitch trade deal during trip to Michigan: report Iran oil minister: US made 'bad mistake' in ending sanctions waivers MORE, facing intense bipartisan pressure, backed off his administration's "zero tolerance" policy this week.
Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday ending migrant family separations, a practice that had occurred as a result of his administration's zero tolerance policy that seeks to aggressively prosecute those who cross into the U.S. illegally via the southern border.
The policy, announced in April, will remain in effect, though families are now expected to be detained together, in most cases.
National outrage over the policy grew after pictures of distressed children behind chain-link fencing surfaced and audio of crying children was released, sparking condemnation of the policy from both Republicans and Democrats.


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Home News The closure of a third independent outlet exacerbates the deterioration of press freedom in Hong Kong | International
The closure of a third independent outlet exacerbates the deterioration of press freedom in Hong Kong | International
China continues to close the fence on any divergent sources of information in the Hong Kong media. The independent news portal Citizen News announced on Sunday night that it will cease publication on January 4 due to "the deterioration of the journalistic environment" in the former British colony and in order to "guarantee the safety of its staff." Although it is true that the closure of the medium was not, on this occasion, the result of an act of direct repression, the decision has little of a voluntary nature. Citizen News has decided to follow in the footsteps of Apple Daily Y Stand News, two other opposition media in the semi-autonomous region, which were forced to close in 2021, after the authorities in charge of safeguarding the National Security Law imposed by Beijing arrested some of their executives.
"We have never forgotten our initial intention, but, unfortunately, the drastic changes in society and the worsening media environment in the last two years have meant that we cannot continue to fulfill our ideals without fear. In the midst of this crisis we must make sure that all the ship's crew are safe ", express Citizen News it's a statement posted on their social networks.
"Reporting without fear means that we are not afraid of offending the elite, that we criticize the authorities when their policies are not correct, that we do not refuse to tell the truth about large corporations due to business pressure," he said at a press conference held this Monday. , Chris Yeung, editor-in-chief of this news portal and former president of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. "But that does not mean that the price is sacrificing our own freedom," he added.
Citizen News, which is defined on Facebook "without affiliation to a political party" and that "is committed to a free, open and inclusive Hong Kong", began publishing content in January 2017 and has around 408,000 followers on this social network. The outlet, which received initial support through a campaign of crowdfunding, has 40 employees on staff.
Daisy Li, Editor-in-Chief of Citizen NewsHe told the press that he no longer knows what "safe" news is. "If I am not confident enough to guide and lead my reporters, I must be consistent," he added. Yeung himself has confirmed that "the turning point for making this hasty decision was what happened with Stand News". Last Wednesday, 200 policemen participated in a raid on the newsroom of this website and in the arrest of seven members of its leadership. The authorities also frozen 6.9 million euros of the assets of Stand News, and two of its chief editors remain in detention, charged with "conspiring and distributing seditious material," after being denied bail. That same day, this media outlet, which had become the most popular among opposition activists and supporters, announced its closure.
What happened with Stand News it was nothing more than a carbon copy of the police repression that the publication also disappeared suffered in June Apple Daily, critical of Beijing, and which was forced to close after its editor-in-chief and four other executives were arrested for "conspiring with foreign forces."
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"After the closing of Apple Daily Y Stand News, Citizen News It is the third independent Hong Kong media to fall victim to intimidation and harassment by the Police, led by Hong Kong's chief executive, Carrie Lam, and whose objective seems to be the total suppression of press freedom in the territory " , notes Cédric Alviani, director of the East Asia office of Reporters Without Borders. According to data compiled by this Paris-based non-governmental organization, Hong Kong's position in the press freedom index has fallen dramatically in recent years: from 18th place in 2002; in 2021 it plummeted to 80.
The city's press union and the foreign correspondents club have expressed deep concern about the situation of freedom of expression in the city since the closure of Apple Daily. A survey, conducted last month by the Hong Kong Association of Journalists, found that nearly half of industry professionals based in the region were considering or already had plans to leave the enclave due to worsening working conditions. Also that more than half of the journalists censored themselves when covering certain topics that could go against Beijing.
Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 on the promise that a wide range of rights would be protected, such as freedom of the press, democracy and its independent courts, at least until 2047. This new closure of a media outlet that does not promote the official discourse of the mainland puts more salt on the sore that opened after the pro-democracy protests of 2019. Then, and for months, the demonstrations took to the streets of the city. Beijing responded a year later with the approval of the draconian National Security Law, which provides penalties of up to life imprisonment for crimes such as secession, subversion, terrorism or conspiring with foreign forces.
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Q: Is Arial Unicode MS right font for WinForms UI? We have .NET WinForms based application and it is expected to work on at least 9 languages including

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*English

*Spanish

*Russian

*Simplified Chinese

*Traditional Chinese

*Korean

*Japanese

Our application shall work on Windows XP (SP3), Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 2003 & 2008 operation systems.
We have never used Arial Unicode MS for localization. We have used Tahoma, a font face will be linked to various system font at run time.
Anybody have opinion on using Arial Unicode MS for application font with above listed languages? Technically it should work, but we don't know any limitations.

A: As far as I understand (although I may not understand this at all, you need to read Michael Kaplan) the correct way to handle unicode display is NOT to rely on one font having all the glyphs you need. Instead, research on MLang which does basically this: you give it a line you want to draw, it returns you several chunks + the font for each. For the english part it'll return english font, for the japanese part the japanese font, and so on.

A: Michael Kaplan says that Arial Unicode is a bad idea as a first resort
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A: I'll assume you meant Arial.  That font is not available in a default Windows install, you got it by installing Microsoft Office.  If you want to use it, you'll have purchase a license from the type foundry (Agfa Monotype, probably) and deploy it with your installer.  If my memory still serves me, it was 95 bucks for 15 installs.
Do note that using a font like this is rarely necessary in practice.  The common Windows fonts will have the glyphs that a local user needs to read text in her local language.  You would only need a full font implementation if, say, a Russian user would want to use the Chinese localization for some reason.
Be sure to test your app by installing it on the local language versions of Windows that you target.  You can get those versions through an MSDN subscription.

A: The best approach is to use whatever font the user has specified as their system's default.  You dont want to lock them in to a specific font as some users may have visual limitations that require them to use alternate fonts and sizes.


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SANDRA NYE, JD and JOEL PRIMES, JD - Sandra Nye is an attorney and former practicing social worker who concentrates on law related to health, mental health, and social service delivery. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she received her law degree from De Paul University and her MSW from Loyola University School of Social Work. She has taught at the University of Illinois Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine in Chicago, Northwestern Medical School, and the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.
Joel Primes, JD graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 1968. Upon graduation he commenced employment with the California Department of Justice, Office of Attorney General. His specialty is administrative law, with most of his cases involving the medical, dental and chiropractic professions.


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Russell's Late 3-Pointer Lifts Timberwolves Past Thunder, 106-103
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — D'Angelo Russell made a 3-pointer with 3.7 seconds remaining to lift the Minnesota Timberwolves over the Oklahoma City Thunder 106-103 on Friday night.
Russell dribbled near midcourt to let the clock run, took a couple of steps toward the basket and pulled up a few feet behind the 3-point arc for the winning shot. Oklahoma City's Hamidou Diallo missed a 3-pointer as time expired.
Malik Beasley scored 24 points and Russell added 21 for the Timberwolves, who had lost nine of their previous 11 games.
Al Horford scored a season-high 26 points and had eight assists and seven rebounds for Oklahoma City. Diallo added 16 points and a career-high 10 assists.
Oklahoma City was missing starters Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (left knee sprain), George Hill (thumb) and Lu Dort (sore left knee) along with backup point guard Theo Maledon (health and safety protocols).
The Timberwolves, who still have the worst record in the Western Conference, were without Karl-Anthony Towns again (health and safety protocols). He has played in just four games this season.
The Thunder led 55-51 at halftime after making eight of their final nine shots before the break. Horford scored 16 points in the first half.
The Timberwolves dominated the third quarter and took an 85-76 lead into the fourth, but the Thunder rallied. Horford's 3-pointer tied the game at 103 with 25.7 seconds remaining to set up the final sequence.
Timberwolves: Beasley scored 10 points in the first quarter. … G Ricky Rubio had eight assists. … Naz Reid had 17 points and nine rebounds.
Thunder: Scored the first eight points. … Held the Timberwolves to 38.5% shooting in the first half. … Horford scored seven points in the final 1:05 of the first half.
The teams meet again on Saturday night.


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What scope are you lot using next year then??
Discussion in 'General Airgun Chat' started by LAity, Dec 5, 2009.
I will be moslty using a Hawke of some sort...shock horror but what are you lot using ?? OR are you looking about for something that floats your boat. Geoff Ryder has found the khales ( which seems to work...somebody twist his turret for sure!!! ) and there are others out there with their own brand..so tell me, what are you all looking through next year ??
A new 4.5-14x38 sidewinder SR6 if Deben get the calibration right and I get a good deal on one.
I'll stick with the Leupold EFR 3-9x33 mil-dot unless something truly staggering pops up. Can't see that happening though.
Same as my rifle, not sure yet.
O yes, i bet i do.
Leupold 4/12/40 v111 with premier ret , on a ISP Airstream .
Falcon Menace 4-14x44 FFP, not sure which reticle to choose from, ML16 or Enhanced Mildot?
Are you doing the next UKAHFT season then Chris?
Yeah, me too. I am edging towards the enhanced mildot.
Depends entirely how my shifts fall, same as last year. Hopefully, the calendar will be a little kinder. Made the decision to never again use all my leave up to cover shoots.


Civica has demonstrated its commitment to the next generation by joining 'The 5% Club', an industry led initiative focused on driving momentum into the recruitment of apprentices, graduates and placement students.
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Uzbekistan assures US on Afghanistan distribution route
By Press Trust of India | Washington | Last Updated at May 17 2018 14:35 IST
Uzbekistan today assured the US of its continued support to the northern distribution network, which provides a crucial alternative route to Afghanistan and reduces American dependence on Pakistan for military supplies to the war-torn country.
Uzbek President Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev "assured continued support" for the northern distribution network and its contribution to achieving peace and stability in Afghanistan, the White House said in a statement after he met President Donald Trump at the White House.
The two countries cooperate closely to secure the border with Afghanistan and to interdict the illicit movement of narcotics.
Trump noted the historic partnership of the US with Uzbekistan in the fight against terrorism. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, Uzbekistan provided critical access and support to drive out al-Qaeda terrorists from Afghanistan, it said.
Highlighting the importance of a strong and independent Central Asia, Trump applauded Mirziyoyev's efforts to convene Central Asian leaders for a cooperative dialogue, as discussed during the November 2017 Samarkand Conference.
Mirziyoyev joined other Central Asian leaders in March in Astana, Kazakhstan, opening new possibilities for intra-regional commerce and cooperative approaches to address security challenges.
Trump recognised Uzbekistan's key role in this important dialogue and pledged the US' support to cooperation and development through the C5+1 regional format. Both presidents expressed support for including Afghanistan in multilateral cooperation formats in Central Asia, the White House said.
Trump congratulated Mirziyoyev on the success of the 2018 Tashkent International Conference on 'Peace Process, Security Cooperation and Regional Connectivity in Afghanistan', which reaffirmed that the international community is united in its position that the Taliban immediately agree to peace talks with the Afghan government.
Both leaders "condemned cowardly terrorist attacks" against Afghan security forces and innocent civilians, and committed to expanding dialogue to overcome the challenges facing Afghanistan.
"Mirziyoyev pledged steadfast political support to the government of Afghanistan and discussed the December 2017 visit of Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where the two leaders signed a series of landmark agreements to increase trade and develop critical infrastructure," the White House said.
Trump recognised the important role that Uzbekistan plays in regional economic development and praised its efforts to expand the development of trade and commercial ties with Afghanistan.
"He offered political support and planning consultations regarding Uzbekistan's railroad and infrastructure projects in Afghanistan," the statement said.
The two leaders condemned extremism and international terrorism, and vowed to strengthen cooperation against these common threats.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA, 1/31/2019 – The La Salle Explorers were seeking their first Atlantic 10 victory of the season. The Explorers erased a 16-point defecit and tied the game at 49 on a Jeryn Reese three-pointer with 6:11 to play. The Fordham Rams would score eight if the next ten points and get a 65 – 54 win at the Gola Arena.
The Rams had a 42 – 26 lead midway through the third quarter and appeared to be cruising. The Explorers began a comeback closing the third with a 15 – 3 run to get to within 45 – 41 setting the stage for the final quarter.
After Reese tied the game Rams guard Bre Cavanaugh went on a streak scoring the next 8 points for her team which ended the Explorers chances. La Salle got as close as 5 with 1:37 to play. That would be the last the team would score, and Fordham went 7 of 8 from the line to close it out.
The Explorers shot a season-best 57.1% from the three-point line making 8 of 14. Reese made 3 of 5 from distance on her way to a career-high 15 points and tied her season-high in made three-point baskets. Shalina Miller added inside presence scoring 12 points on 6 of 12 shooting, and took down 9 rebounds while blocking 4 shots. Janay Sanders added 11 points. Overall, La Salle made 39.6% from the floor. The team is showing improvement on offense.
Fordham got inside points as their front line of Mary Goulding and Megan Jonassen combined for 25 points and 22 rebounds. Goulding handed out a season-best 7 assists. Jonassen had a career-high 10 rebounds recording her first collegiate double-double. Guard Lauren Holden scored a team and season high 15 points, most off drives and free-throws. Cavanaugh, Fordham's leading scorer at 17.3 points per game, was limited to 11 points, and 8 of which came in the fourth quarter.
The Rams had a big 43 – 24 advantage in rebounds, 16 – 5 off the offensive glass.
"Fordham crushed us off the boards and that was a major difference in the game, " said MacGillivray.
The Explorers played without their leading scorer Rayshel Brown who missed the game due to injury leaving the team a bit shorthanded. It did not limit their effort.
La Salle drops to 0 – 8 in the Atlantic 10 and is 3 – 19 overall after their 10th straight loss. But the team is on an upward trend on offense which MacGillivray sees as getting better.


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When I first read in The Timetables of Science that in 1907 Bakelite was the pioneering invention of the Plastic Age, I wondered what connection it had to ovens or to cooking. But then the provenance became clearer: the inventor was Leo Baekeland. It happened that the stuff was moldable and when it cured into a solid it was a poor conductor of heat and electricity. One common use was plastic handles of cookware.
My grandparents were nearly 10 years old at the time, and I wonder what moldable products were previously in their lives. Glass was one, but it easily shattered. Iron, tin and lead were others, but they conducted heat. Beeswax was an illuminating third, and vulcanized rubber an elastic fourth. Molding these involved heating stuff up to a point where it would flow into the mold, and therein cool off. Bakelite was different because it formed from the chaining together of building blocks—from the polymerization of monomers—and the building blocks were synthetic chemicals. In addition, and in contrast to glass or metals or wax, for making Bakelite the heating step converted a fluid into a solid.
If you could scan the contents of my grandparents' kitchens, bathrooms and pantries of 1907 and compare them to ours of 2021, then you could see what a century of polymer chemistry has achieved. Even more remarkable is the pervasive place today of plastics in hospitals, clinics and research labs. Their vital roles have been underscored by the impacts of disruptions in the supply chain caused by covid: you know things are grim when you have trouble buying yellow tips for your micropipettes.
Yellow micropipette tips illustrate a problem: they're a single-use item. One and done. Use and toss. But the virtue is also a vice, and especially so for other one-and-done items such as plastic bags. To address the litter and landfill issues of long-lived but single-use plastics (SUPs), the European Union on July 3 put into force a ban on 10 of the most heavily used single-use plastic items, including cutlery, plates, straws, Q-tips, beverage stirrers and food containers made of expanded polystyrene.
Ending certain uses of plastics is one approach to reducing their environmental damage. Tonight we get to hear about another approach, one that is, like 'Bakelite' once was, a term new to me: "chemical upcycling."
On July 7 Reid Van Lehn of the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering will speak on "New Recycling Technologies to Combat Plastic Pollution."
Description: Plastics are ubiquitous in all facets of everyday life. Globally, over 400 million metric tons of plastic are produced per year; over 35 million tons of plastic are consumed in the United States alone. These numbers are projected to increase, contributing to numerous long-term environmental challenges. Of particular note is the growing accumulation of discarded plastic waste in landfills and the environment. Despite public support for plastic recycling, the plastics industry has struggled to make recycling commercially competitive. As a result, only 2% of waste plastics is converted back to their original starting material via closed-loop recycling, while over 70% is diverted to landfills or leaks into the environment. There is thus an urgent need for new, economically viable technologies to recycle – or upcycle – plastic waste.
In this presentation, I will introduce the Center for the Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics (CUWP), which was recently established at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with funding from the Department of Energy. CUWP is developing new technologies designed for the near-term recycling of waste plastics. We are working in close collaboration with a range of scientists and engineers across 7 different universities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, as well as 8 companies that produce, recycle, or consume plastics. I will particularly focus on a technology that we call Solvent-Targeted Recovery and Precipitation (STRAP), which was recently developed as a method to recycle plastic packaging materials. STRAP has been shown to recover nearly 100% of the components from a high-volume commercial plastic film provided by our industrial partners and is less expensive than purchasing the original plastic material. I will conclude my talk by highlighting several other promising plastic recycling technologies being developed in academic and industrial laboratories around the world.
Bio: Reid Van Lehn is the Conway Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT under the supervision of Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, then performed research as a NIH Ruth-Kirschstein postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Tom F. Miller III at Caltech. He joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2016, where his group develops and applies molecular simulation methods to characterize, predict, and engineer the physicochemical properties of soft materials. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Science list in 2016 and has recently been recognized with the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, the UW-Madison Vilas Associate award, and an NSF CAREER award.
Links: https://www.facebook.com/cuwp.engineering/
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On July 14 Catherine Steffel will share her insights into "Assessing Atherosclerosis with Ultrasound: A Quantitative Approach."
Description: Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause of death worldwide. Throughout my PhD, I worked to improve the ways that doctors can non-invasively and inexpensively see the atherosclerotic plaques that cause some of these strokes and other harmful health events. The ultimate goal of this research is to give clinicians an inside look at which plaques are vulnerable, which will help doctors identify people who are more likely to have a stroke years before an adverse health event occurs. During this talk, I will be discussing the results of the ultrasound imaging studies I performed during my time as a PhD student in the Department of Medical Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Bio: Dr. Catherine Steffel has spent her entire academic career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, receiving her bachelor's degree in physics in 2014, her Master's degree in medical physics in 2017, and her PhD in medical physics in January 2021. In addition to receiving prestigious grants from the National Institutes of Health, she has accepted over 20 honors and awards for her research and other work. In spring 2021, Catherine was named a UW-Madison Notable Graduate for founding the Research Showcase at the Wisconsin State Capitol — during the annual showcase, graduate students and postdocs share their research with Wisconsin State legislators, staffers, and the public. Though she started working as a University Relations Specialist in the Department of Biochemistry earlier this month, her time as a graduate student in the Department of Medical Physics will always be near and dear to her heart. When she isn't reading or writing, Catherine can be found going on walks around Madison, cooking, watching post-apocalyptic TV shows, or looking for new hobbies to pursue.
• WISL Award for Communicating PhD Research to the Public: http://scifun.org/Thesis_Awards/steffel.html
• Medical Physics in General: https://w3.aapm.org/medical_physicist/index.php
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-steffel-phd-9792608b/
By the way, in the filmography of 'plastics', I note that before "The Graduate" there was "It's a Wonderful Life."
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I've been thinking about some of the Urban Fantasy books on my wishlist and shelves. A lot of these are books that I added to my to-read list when I was still discovering the Urban Fantasy genre. I wanted to know what was the best, what people always recommended and then, more often than not, I went out bought them all. Now, of course, many of them I did read. Patricia Briggs, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kelley Armstrong, Chloe Neill, etc. etc!
But many I just never got to and… that makes me both a wee bit sad and a wee bit glad. The latter because it means I still have fantastic new literary-universes to explore!
Anyhow, here's a look at some of the books I've "really, honestly, I promise" been meaning to get to. I can't recommend them myself, but they are considered "classics"* for a reason!
As you can see, I have a lot of good books still on my list! The Kitty series, for instance, is supposed to be a must-read for fans of Kelley Armstrong and – hello! – features a radio host! And hell, the Dresden Files I kinda just want to read in order to get into the fandom.
SO! I am taking it upon myself to kick off a personal challenge: read some Urban Fantasy "classics" and find some new favourites.
This is not a deadline challenge, but rather a perpetual reminder to self. I plan to get to some of these books this year (I'm looking at you, Carrie Vaughn) and will let you know how I get on!
* Just in case some of you are feeling extra pedantic, I remind you that I am using the word "classic" very lightly. Not to mention the fact that "urban fantasy" is still a relatively new genre (25 odd-years old, though there are older works that could probably fit the under the title as well). So, yes, these novels are millennials – but they are still "classics" in my book!


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Dance and performance artists Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion describe what they do as 'handmade and human-scale'. They build performances with simple, non-spectacular elements that arrive at a deceptive viruosity, radiating delight even as they make the audience think.
Over the past ten years, the two artists have built a body of work that mixes the formality of music composition with a radical approach to performance. Counting To One Hundred and One Flute Note continue their conversation with the structure of John Cage's Lecture On Nothing, at once as a homage to and questioning of a way of thinking that has underpinned so much dance and performance in the last thirty years.
Supported by Kaaitheater Brussels, PACT Zollverein Essen, Sadler's Wells Theatre London and BIT Teatergarsjen Bergen. Counting To One Hundred and One Flute Note are supported by Arts Council England and co-produced by Kaaitheater Brussels.
a challenging meditation on form and memory… a deliciously entertaining kind of dance theatre.


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On November 1, 2018, the City of Worcester License Commission amended the rules and regulations for establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to be consumed on-premises. The establishments affected by these new rules and regulations include restaurants, bars, nightclubs, hotels, breweries and other businesses that hold pouring licenses in the City of Worcester. The new rules and regulations are meant to improve security and to prevent service to underage patrons.
One of the most significant additions to the rules and regulations is the "Identification Plan" requirement for all licensed establishments (including restaurants) that allow individuals under the age of twenty-one to enter the establishment after midnight. Under the new rule, all such licensed establishments must prepare and submit a security plan to the City of Worcester License Commission that describes how underage individuals will be identified and prevented from consuming alcoholic beverages. Licensed establishments are also required to have sufficient security personnel to enforce the particular identification plan. Licensed establishments that do not have the ability to monitor the activities of underage patrons may voluntarily refuse to admit underage patrons after midnight.
Since the enactment in November 2018, the City of Worcester Police Department Alcohol Enforcement Unit has been meeting and educating licensees about the new rules and regulations and providing tips on how to ensure compliance. The City of Worcester Police Department Alcohol Enforcement Unit now appears ready to begin enforcing these new rules and regulations, having issued a notice on January 7, 2019 indicating that it will be stepping up efforts to stop the sale of alcoholic beverages to underage patrons.
Licensees in the City of Worcester should review the new rules and regulations and make any necessary filings with the City of Worcester License Commission to ensure compliance. Licensees should also take the time to confirm that their license reflects the current operations of the business (including the named Manager of Record for the licensed establishment, operating hours and ownership structure). Failure to obtain approvals for changes to a license can result in the issuance of violations, which could lead to disciplinary hearings and the potential suspension or revocation of the license.
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In the year 1980 in the then Calcutta University Post Graduate Centre the Department of Life Science was established. Then Calcutta University Post Graduate Centre was converted into Tripura University in 1987. At some time on 12th June 2007 the Department of Zoology was established due to trifurcation of pre-existing Department of Life Science where three basic subjects were there in the department. Those subjects were Botany, Physiology and Zoology as well.
The Department of Zoology for the first time in Tripura developed captive breeding research technology on Ompok bimaculatus and also on Chitala chitala. Further, the department identified Triploid form of Clarius batrachus for the first time in North-East. A series of aquaculture researches are going on on different varieties of Pabda species. Research works are also in progress to identify the wild resource of different endangered, rare and threatened fish species in Tripura.
At the present period the Department of Zoology is actively engaged in teaching Zoology. Simultaneously, Pre-doctoral research on various fields of Zoology are also going on. The fields of research have been development of fertilization technology in some Endangered, Threatened and Rare fish species, aquaculture biotechnology on Pabda fish etc., endocrinology, earthworm biology and ecology etc. The Department presently offers specialization in the field of aquaculture biotechnology, ecology and environmental biology, endocrinology etc. This Department has facilities to work with sophisticated trinocular microscopes, electrophoretic system, gas chromatography, PCR system, lyophilizer and fraction collector as well.
Usually the Intake capacity for the MSc students in the Department is 30 and for Ph.D. scholars the number of intake capacity varies from year to year. RET Examination is conducted by the University for admission of Pre-Doc scholars in each department.
At present, the Department is working on enhancing its area of the research activities in different fields of Zoology. To enhance researches on different advance areas of biology financial supports from various central agencies were available such as DBT, DST, CSIR, Government of India, .
(ii)Academic and Research: Class Room (02), Practical room (02), Computers (12) with internet facility, LCD Projector facility, Water Distillation Plant, Power Backup (both generator and UPS), Animal House Facility (on sharing basis), Bio-statistical and Bioinformatics Programmes with License.
Biosystematics and Biodiversity: Professor B. K. Agarwala has been engaged in exploration of vast areas of north-east India for systematic and biodiversity studies of insects with emphasis on specially for butterflies and aphids of Tripura state. He has recorded 179 butterfly species belonging to various genera and several families and assigned them to 91 ranks according to their relative abundance. He found that areas having high physical heterogeneity like Debabari and Maharani in Tripura show greater species richness and diversity than many other areas which show less heterogeneity in physical features. He is also investigating distribution of aphids in relation to their host and climatic conditions. He noted that widely distributed polyphagus aphids like Aphis gossypii and A. spiraecola show host specialized races or monophagy in the hot and humid climate of north-east India. Host-specific adaptation in viviparous population of A. spiraecola showed phenotypic plasticity in response to seasonality of host plants.
Physiology & Biochemistry: The Insect Physiology and Biochemistry laboratory headed by Professor D. Ghosh, is engaged to explore biochemistry of ovarian development and oogenesis of insects and other Arthropods resolved by Electron microscopy and Biochemical tools. It's primary focus concern with vitellogenesis, vitellin and choriongenesis. He characterizes vitellin and chorion proteins of grasshoppers and at present actively engaged to explore the genetic background of the same. At the same time he is also engaged to characterize proteins and peroxidases from fruit sources to identify their immunomodulatory activity in mammals.
Aquaculture and Fish Biotechnology:Professor S Banik has been actively engaged in the exploration of various endangered, threatened, and vulnerable fish species of both lotic and lentic freshwater ecosystems of Tripura state for the purpose of Conservation of fish diversity with special emphasis on Development of Captive Breeding technology with the application of recent aquaculture technology. Simultaneously, for enhancing greater survival rate as well as growth potential of the fish larvae of those endangered, threatened, and vulnerable fish species a viable larval rearing technology has been developed in our laboratory. A successful captive breeding technology for an endangered fish Ompok bimaculatus is developed and standardised for the first time in the country. Breeding and larval rearing technologies for a rare fish species Nandus nandus and a vulnerable freshwater prawn species Macrobrachium dayanum was already standardised for the first time in the country. This technology for another endangered fish species Ompok pabda has also been developed in recent period. Puntius ticto a lentic water fish species in a recent study is identified as vulnerable fish species for which also captive breeding technology is developed for the first time in the country. In order to explore various economically important fish species a number of freshwater river ecosystem of Tripura such Feni river, Muhuri river, Gomoti river, Deo river etc have been investigating for habitat mapping of some wild fish species. Apart from this work some studies on identification of triploid form of Clarias batrachus was done in our laboratory.
Vermicompost forming and Earthworm Biodiversity: Another dimensions of work is undertaken by Dr. P.S. Chaudhuri. He engaged to evaluate the role of earthworm diversity in the important cash crop plantation i.e. rubber, pineapple etc. of Tripura - a biodiversity hot-spot of India. The soil of Tripura is highly acidic with depletion of organic carbon, phosphorus and calcium. He has also been working on amelioration of soil health for better crop yield through application of vermicompost produced by endemic variety of earthworm (Perionyx excavates). He has also elucidated the reproductive biology of fifteen species of earthworms of Tripura in order to evaluate reproductive potential of these earthworm — the "ecosystem engineers" for their future application in "in-soil earthworm technology".
Endocrino-immunology: Dr S. S. Singh is actively engaged to explore new dimensions in area of endocrino-immunology.
Studies with Microsatellite marker in relation to genetic characterisation of Ompok pabda in collaboration with National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (ICAR), Lucknow is in considerable progress.


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Unterseeboot 70 foi um submarino alemão do Tipo VIIC, pertencente a Kriegsmarine que atuou durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.

O U-70 esteve em operação entre os anos de 1940 e 1941, realizando neste período apenas uma patrulha de guerra, nas quais afundou e danificou quatro navios aliados. Foi afundado no dia 7 de março de 1941 pelos navios de corveta britânicos HMS Camellia e HMS Arbutus, causando a morte de 20 tripulantes enquanto que os outros 25 sobreviveram.

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Subordinação

Ver também
 U-boot
 Submarinos da Marinha da Alemanha.
 Submarinos de maior sucesso da Kriegsmarine na Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Bibliografia
 Stern, Robert C. (1991). Type VII U-boats. Annapolis, Maryland (USA): Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-828-3.
 Peter Sharpe, U-Boat Fact File. Midland Publishing, Inglaterra, 1998. ISBN 1-85780-072-9.
 Rohwer, J. and Hummelchen, G. (1992). Chronology of the War at Sea 1939-1945. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 1-55750-105-X.
 M. J. Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two, Arms and Armour Press, London 1988 ISBN 0853689105

Ligações externas

Submarinos alemães Tipo VIIC
U-Boots comissionados em 1940
U-Boots afundados em 1941
U-Boots afundados por navios de guerra britânicos
Submarinos da Alemanha na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Naufrágios no oceano Atlântico na Segunda Guerra Mundial
Navios de 1940
Navios construídos em Kiel
U-Boots afundados por cargas de profundidade


In this trailer for Samson we see the hero Samson (Taylor James) preparing for battle. We see Israel in the year 1170 B.C and the striking gaze of Delilah (Caitlin Leahy). Deliilah is spoken to by the lords of the Philistines. At the same time we see Samson fighting off scores of men by himself. Delilah cuts off Samson's hair. Finally, we see Samson holding the weight of a building, announcing his name.


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