Finding the Best Body Shop A body shop is a trading place where parts of the body are sold, and repair is done. The repairs done by the body shops are more affordable and practical than other locations. Tools and labour from professionals are present in the body shop making work easier. Collision repair technician restores damaged vehicles to the best condition. The reference of the technician is done by you because the services that they offer will be good that you can refer a friend. However, if the damage is beyond repair, the repairer has to measure the area damaged area. They order new parts and replace the parts and estimate the cost of repairing the damage. This position requires good basic math and reading skills. The experience and knowledge that people have from training helps them demonstrate their profession in the field. The idea of the shop check is possible because it makes the customer feedback beneficial. Experience from insurance company helps to settle claims quickly in the body shop that is accepted by all insurance providers.
Someone can refer you to the body shop or look for the best on online platforms. Your goal should be to get a skilled set of professionals who have experience and can guarantee beautiful results. The body shops around should have reasonable rates for all clients and all kinds of repairs.
Customers get austerity that the work is done from previous works completed. Services provided to the customers are good if the place is clean. A quick inspection will tell you if the place is run efficiently and if the staff are friendly. The body shop should be able to work and coordinate repairs with your insurance company. You will have established a good relationship and honesty with the people at the body shop, and you have no need to worry. The reference of the technician is done by you because the services that they offer will be good that you can refer a friend. The idea of the shop check is possible because it makes the customer feedback beneficial. Experience from insurance company helps to settle claims quickly in the body shop that is accepted by all insurance providers. Body shops are cheaper and convenient than other places of repair. The service that is provided to you should not be expensive because you already know the estimate of the repair. Efficiency of the place is known by how the people are friendly and how the inspection that you have done. The removal of parts helps to gain access to vehicle body and fenders.


World Turtle Day is an annual event that has been taking place since 2000. It was founded by American Tortoise Rescue.
The purpose of World Turtle Day is to educate people about the things that they can do to protect the habitats of turtle and tortoises. It is also a celebration of the joy that these reptiles bring to so many people on a daily basis.
The day is celebrated in a number of ways all over the world. There are many people that dress as turtles while others may just decide to wear something green. People also get actively involved in projects that help rescue turtles that may be living in their local area.
There are also a number of resources that are made available to schools that teachers can use to create lessons around World Turtle Day. This is an important step in raising awareness in the future generation of the threats that turtles and tortoises face. It is also something that children enjoy getting involved in.
American Tortoise Rescue (ATR) was founded in 1990 by husband and wife team Susan Tellem and Marshall Thompson. It is a nonprofit organisation that rescues and rehabilitates all species of tortoise and turtle. It also does a lot of work on protecting the environments in which these animals live. They will always try and find new homes for the animals but if this is not possible then they will remain in the care of the ATR.


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Broadway star Nick Cordero's wife says she 'didn't get to give him a kiss' before he fell into a coma with coronavirus
Meredith Ganzman
9:32 ET, Apr 30 2020
Updated: 15:49 ET, Apr 30 2020
BROADWAY star Nick Cordero's wife says she "didn't get to give him a kiss" before he fell into a coma with the coronavirus.
Amanda Kloots detailed the heartbreaking last time she saw her husband before he was admitted to the hospital.
Nick Cordero's wife says she 'didn't get to give him a kiss' before he fell into a coma with the coronavirusCredit: CBS
Amanda Kloots detailed the heartbreaking last time she saw her husband before he was admitted to the hospitalCredit: Instagram
Amanda said: 'This is one of the saddest parts. We thought I would see him in two hours....So I didn't even give him a kiss or a hug'Credit: Instagram
Amanda told CBS This Morning: "This is one of the saddest parts. We thought I would see him in two hours.
"I said I'm going to take Elvis for a walk, and call me when you want me to come pick you up.
"So I didn't even give him a kiss or a hug.
"We were also kind of self isolating from him, cause we have this 10-month-old baby.
"And I couldn't get sick. I'm still breastfeeding"
The Tony Award-nominated actor had never been in the hospital and had no preexisting conditionsCredit: AP:Associated Press
Nick called her to tell he was being admitted, Amanda relayed.
The Tony Award-nominated actor had never been in the hospital and had no preexisting conditions, Amanda said.
The only time she was ever in the hospital was to give birth to their son, Elvis.
Amanda admitted: "So anytime I hear you're admitted, I get a little nervous."
Very early the next morning they spoke again.
This time Nick said doctors wanted to put him on a ventilator.
He said: "He called and said I love you, and that I was a little scared."
Amanda remembered feeling terrified and said: "I didn't even completely understand what all of this meant."
Amanda said she was terrified when doctors said they were going to put Nick on a ventilatorCredit: Instagram
Since then the virus lead to an infection in Nick's lungs, which spread to his blood.
He later went into "a little bit of a septic shock" after developing a fever.
Most recently, he was scheduled to get a feeding tube, but Amanda said his blood count was too low.
She added: "Low blood can mean that he's internally bleeding from somewhere, so now we have to wait."
Over the weekend, Amanda told fans Nick tested negative for Covid-19 but needs surgery to fit a pacemaker to stop his heart rate from dropping.
Over the weekend, Amanda told fans Nick tested negative for Covid-19Credit: Refer to Caption
The 41-year-old actor also had his right leg amputated after virus complications caused him to suffer blood flow issues.
Amanda admitted making this call was extremely difficult.
She told Gayle King: "He's a dancer. He's an actor. He's a performer.
"It was not an easy decision to make."
Still Amanda is incredibly optimistic about her husband's recoveryCredit: Getty Images
Still Amanda is incredibly optimistic about her husband's recovery.
She said: "I feel like there is an army of people behind him, behind us.
"And I just believe, I get chills saying it, that he will wake up."
She and his fans have been singing his song, Live Your Life, everyday and using the hashtag #WakeUpNick to encourage him.
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Martin Lodge
Biography Works 46 Recordings 3 Resources 1 Performances 7
Martin Lodge's music is imbued with the sounds of nature, traditional Maori instrumental sounds and chant, rock music, and computers, as well as the Western classical mainstream. Typically, in his music rhythmic drive is complemented by carefully conjured colour. He is especially interested in links across chasms of time and place, and how music as a public or shared event can so acutely reflect the interior landscapes of many people. Recently he has begun to explore ways of integrating real-time computer manipulations of sound in performance situations which still retain the human interest and drama of live players, and to bring together traditional Maori instruments with Western instruments and technology. His music has been played in North America and Europe as well as in New Zealand. Lodge was born and grew up in Tauranga, on the Pacific coast of New Zealand's North Island.
He graduated MA in English literature, before advancing his music studies, and for some years has both composed professionally and published researches into New Zealand music. In March 2005 he presented a paper on New Zealand's unusual music historiography at the RILM conference Music's Intellectual History in New York. He has twice held the Mozart Fellowship composer residency at the University of Otago, in 1990 and in 1991, and has been Composer-in-Residence with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in 1993. He has also served as secretary and as president of the Composers Association of New Zealand.
He has completed commissions for leading ensembles such as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Ogen Trio in New Zealand, as well as for performers in the United States and France. Perhaps his most popular work is Hinterland (1998) an orchestral fantasy on a theme by Bruckner. Hinterland was included on the Trust compact disc "Landscapes", which was a finalist in the 2003 New Zealand Classical Disc of the Year awards. Toru (2003) for taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments), cello and clarinet has generated wide interest and led to further works which draw elements from culturally diverse sources together.
An album of his chamber music titled 'Toru' was released in 2011 by Atoll Records. In 2013 he won a Pah Homestead (Auckland) Artist-in-Residence award. Premières in 2015 included Enigmatic Bagatelle no. 1 for clarinet and piano, and Tauhara for saxophone and classical guitar, which was commissioned by Duo Montagnard. His multimedia project Organ Music was exhibited at Auckland's Silo6 from October-November 2016. In December 2016 Martin's virtuoso composition for solo cello Omanu was recorded by Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt in Berlin.
Currently Lodge is a Senior Lecturer in the Music Department at the University of Waikato in Hamilton (www.waikato.ac.nz/wfass/subjects/music/staff/martin/), where he teaches composition and music aesthetics. To promote contemporary music performances in Hamilton and provide exposure for young composers he co-founded Okta, a new music ensemble based in the Academy of Performing Arts at the University of Waikato.
Composed (46)
Aequora tuta silent (all the sea was quiet)
for viola, alto saxophone and electronic effects, 6m
After Dürer
Ahunga
for taonga pūoro and piano trio
Aria with Commentary
for two cellos, 8m 30s
for youth orchestra, 8m
Aër
for orchestra, 7m
for wind quintet
Cantus Intus
for piano or other solo instrument, 20m
for chamber orchestra, 14m
Divisions for Wind Quintet
for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, 13m
Epitaph for Douglas Lilburn
for solo cello, 4m 30s
Fanfare in C
for brass ensemble, 1m
Farewell for David Farquhar
for two celli, 3m
Four Lagerkvist Songs
for baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano, 7m
for tape (EMS/VUW), 7m
for solo trumpet in C, 7m
for cello and taonga puoro
for orchestra, 11m
for tape, 5m
Mozart Brief-Ly I and II
for two clarinets, two bassett horns and SATB soloists, 8m
Nightwind
for two cellos, 5m
Oiche ghealai (moonlit night)
for flute and taonga pūoro
Pacific Rock
for solo viola, 5m
Pan Dreaming
for solo flute, 3m 30s
for piano, 4m
for string quartet, 4m
for organ, 10m
Quiet Garden
for flute and two percussionists, 8m
for saxophone and viola
Solo a due
for cello and mini-disc player
Sonatina for Solo Flute/Piccolo
for oboe quintet, 5m
for violin, cello and piano
Symphony No. 1 (Flowers of the Sea)
The Shepherd's Dream
for tape, 10m
Three Little Pieces for Two Violins
for taonga puoro, cello and clarinet, 10m
Two Songs
for mezzo-soprano and piano, 5m
Variations on "My Man's Gone"
for violin and piano, 8m 3s
Violin Sonata
Voces naturae - I: Locus iste
for mixed ensemble, live video and live sonic electronics
Voices Within
for harpsichord and recorded sound, 5m
WAM! - Reminiscences of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
orchestral fantasy on themes by Mozart, 18m
for bassoon and orchestra, 11m
Within The Garden
for soprano and SATB choir, 5m
Landscapes: New Zealand Orchestral Music - CD
Ogen Trio: Ahi - CD
Toru: Chamber Music by Martin Lodge - CD
Music in New Zealand | Autumn 1992, No. 16 - JOURNAL
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Music for Dance/Ballet
Music for Film and TV
Suitable for Youth
Unspecified or Variable Instrumentation
Improvised Elements
Overture or Fanfare
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STEAM Lab in the month of January focused on Ice. With the Blues Hockey day, we performed science experiments to observe what liquids freeze. The outside arctic temperatures allowed us to place the experiments outside for a true-world simulation. The students examined a real hockey stick, puck and goalie helmet then engineered their model to move a small puck on ice. We also created a Snow Storm in a jar, measured ingredients and learned how clouds make snow or rain.


One of those hot Saturdays in Dar es salaam that one feels like getting out of town away from the hustles of the week be it work or tackling the long foleni's in town. On short notice we decided to pay a visit to a property nearby; my wife and I decided to have a small road trip to Bagamoyo, specifically to Family Cottages. It was a short notice but we were lucky to get a vacant cottage.
Hellow World. This isn't a usual typical heading for the first blog, but yes it is, and I would like to introduce me.
I am Hozza, a photographer having an affinity towards wildlife, nature and travel (and now Weddings and Events as well 🙂 ) who for the past 3 days, since publishing this post, have been working hard to finalize this website, and basically this is after being pushed and reminded several times by my wife to ensure that this website is finished. I thank the almighty Lord for the guidance and strength that I can happily say that I have finally accomplished it. I will be posting most of my adventures here and hopefully wedding moments that I will have a privilege to attend and document.


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Q: A problem about subadditive set functions Let $(\Omega, \mathcal{A})$ be a measurable space, and let $\mu: \mathcal{A} \to [0,+\infty)$ be a monotone subadditive set function. Let moroever $A_1, A_2, \ldots \in \mathcal{A}$ be a sequence of measurable sets. It is easy to prove that $\mu(A_n) \to 0 \Rightarrow \mu(A_n^c) \to \mu(\Omega)$. On the contrary, I am not able neither to prove the opposite implication, namely $\mu(A_n) \to \mu(\Omega) \Rightarrow \mu(A_n^c) \to 0$, nor to find an example violating it. Can someone find either one or the other?

A: It's not true that $\mu(A_n) \to \mu(\Omega) \implies \mu(A_n^c) \to 0$. Consider $\mathbb{R}$ endowed with the Lebesgue $\sigma$-algebra. Let $A_n = [0,n]$. Then $\mu(A_n) = n \to +\infty = \mu(\mathbb{R})$, but $\mu(A_n^c) = +\infty$ for all $n$.

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In recognition of his dedication to the iron and steel industry, in appreciation for his outstanding leadership within the AIME and ISS/AIST organizations, and with gratitude for his special emphasis on the development of ecologically responsible processes.
AIME Honorary Membership in 2009
Alan W. Cramb is the Posco Professor of Iron and Steelmaking and Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and was employed first by the Inland Steel Company (1979-81) and then by the Bethlehem Steel Company at the Homer Research Laboratories (1981-86). In 1986 he joined Carnegie Mellon University and became a co-director of the Center for Iron and Steelmaking in 1990. His research interests include casting processes, solidification, clean steel manufacture and the processing of titanium alloys. He is the author of over 140 publications, holds 2 patents, was the recipient of the AISI Medal in 1985 and 1986, and the Robert Woolston Hunt Award of ISS in 1987. He was named an Iron and Steel Society Professor in 1992 and was awarded the Benjamin Richard Teare Award at CMU for excellence in engineering education in 1995. Dr. Cramb was the recipient of the Posco Chair for Iron and Steelmaking in 1997 and President of the Iron & Steel Society in the year 2000. A past Trustee of AIME, he was made a Fellow of the Iron & Steel Society (2000) and was named the John Elliott Lecturer in 2002.
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finding the book that heals: literature therapy: Do you believe we're in a steep literary decline?
Do you believe we're in a steep literary decline?
How we worry about losing our love for language—texters and their OMG, the use of u for you, broken grammar, misspellings, we seem to be afloat in language sewage. We often lament that writing just isn't what it was in the golden ages of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare or James Joyce.
But look at whose novel has just been made into a movie, who was the screenwriter himself of that movie, and who earlier won The Best of the Bookers for that novel, twice. If you've ever read anything by Salman Rushdie, you know that well written literature is still produced.
I will concede that the movie isn't the biggest of box office hits, and there are many who won't be finishing this novel, but even so, at least 87 editions of the book exist. Those who do finish, and there are many, recognize this author is as complex and brilliant as any writer in the English language, including Shakespeare.
On and off the cheetah-seat, Evie performed. One foot on the seat, one leg stretched out behind her, she whirled around us; she built up speed and then did a headstand on the seat! She could straddle the front wheel, facing the rear, and work the pedals the wrong way round… gravity was her slave, speed her element, and we knew that a power had come among us, a witch on wheels, and the flowers of the hedgerows threw her petals, the dust of the circus-ring stood up in clouds of ovation, because the circus-ring had found its mistress, too: it was the canvas beneath the brush of her whirling wheels.
I'll be moving on to Rushdie's Joseph Anton next, another huge book, which I'm expecting to be as powerful. It frequently struck me while reading Midnight's Children that just as his narrator, Saleem, personally experiences the historical events of India, Rushdie himself personally experienced Islam's impact on the modern world.
As far as literature therapy goes, this one will convince you that the English language continues to be written with as much depth, humour, detail and meticulous polish as from any golden age.


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OceanHub > Feed > Met Office joins Kognifai Partner Program to offer weather and ocean data on Kognifai
Met Office joins Kognifai Partner Program to offer weather and ocean data on Kognifai
Met Office and Kongsberg Digital to ensure that the best possible data is available at the fingertips of maritime operators
Met Office has signed a partner agreement with Kongsberg Digital to offer meteorological and oceanographic data to customers, independent software developers and other users of the Kognifai ecosystem in the maritime market.
Last year, Kongsberg Digital opened the Kognifai Partner Program to all to ensure that the best industry solutions are available to KONGSBERG's customer at all times. Now, they have signed the Met Office, the UK's National Meteorological Service to provide world-leading, reliable weather forecasts and severe weather warnings to people and industries.
"Weather is one of the most important variables within the maritime industries. The ability to plan according to the weather is crucial for increasing efficiency, safety and accuracy of operations ranging from shipping, to drilling, to platform production. This partnership will ensure the best possible data is available at the fingertips of maritime operators, for use directly, in applications and analyses," says Hege Skryseth, CEO of Kongsberg Digital.
Met Office has a global reputation for developing innovative weather forecasting capabilities and climate science, delivering forecasts across every timescale all over the world to customers in sectors such as oil and gas, renewables, aviation, and transport. Both Met Office and Kongsberg Digital see an increasing demand for services involving environmental data and will work close to offer the best offerings to the market.
Patrick Sachon, Group Leader for Transport & Energy at Met Office, said: "Met Office works at the forefront of weather and climate science for people's protection, well-being and prosperity. We help industries operate safely efficiently and successfully. Everything we do is based on world-leading science and enhanced by the close working relationships we have with partner organisations around the globe, like Kongsberg. We're delighted to join the Kognifai partner programme to deliver world class weather and climate services."
Met Office joined the Kognifai Partner Program in February 2019, and weather services from Met Office will be under continuous development for the benefit of Kognifai users.
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#include "NewAudioServerTypes.h"

class NewAudioConverter : public CBase {
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    *   Initializes some variables.
    */
   NewAudioConverter() { m_totalTimeMs = 0; }

   /**
    *   Virtual destructor. Currently does nothing.
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   virtual ~NewAudioConverter();

   /**
    *   Convert the clips in clips to PCM format
    *   suitable for playing on the NewAudioPlayer.
    *   If this function does not leave, it should call
    *   NewAudioConverterListener::conversionCompleteL when done.
    */
   virtual void convertL( TClips& clips ) = 0;

   /**
    *   Stops the conversion as soon as possible.
    *   Calls NewAudioConverterListener::conversionCompleteL when stopped
    *   or the conversion is complete (if it can't be stopped)
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   virtual void stop() = 0;

   /**
    *   Calculates the sum of the clips from begin and upto
    *   but not including end.
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Wrap yourself up in this Adventure Time 'Finn the Human' Terry Hooded Poncho and set off on an adventure. Made from French Terry fabric and featuring Jake the Dog from Cartoon Network's Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, this hooded poncho is perfect for after bath or a day at the beach or pool!
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I once lived in an area where we could listen to Car Talk on WITF in Hershey or another NPR station from Wilkes Barre. One Saturday morning, I realized that the callers all sounded familiar. It soon became obvious that I was listening to the Wilkes Barre station's replay of the prior week's program from WITF in Hershey. This presented a fantastic opportunity.
My wife (at that time), constantly complained that I couldn't do anything mechanical. I'm a CPA for Pete's sake, what made her believe I was mechanical in any way, shape or form? Anyhow, I wrote down the problem and your solution to all the callers' concerns from the next week's WITF program and studied the list endlessly for the entire week.
Then, I made sure we were in the car together at 10 AM the Saturday after that. I casually tuned into the Car Talk broadcast from Wilkes Barre. She rolled her eyes and gave me that exasperated look that she got every time I walked through the house with a power tool.
I nailed the first question, telling my wife it sounded like the caller needed new ball joints. She told me I just got lucky. I then properly diagnosed a new starter, transmission slippage and every other problem for the rest of the show. She immediately began to give me a renewed amount of respect.
She ended up divorcing me a few years later anyhow, but I wanted to thank you guys for giving me, most likely, another three or four years with her before she came to the conclusion I was a complete loser and left me for an unemployed former bait shop owner with a significant family trust fund.


A lot of people will be traveling during the holidays and that can lead to an encounter with pests that like to join you. Polk County Health Department spokesperson Sarah Boese says bed bugs are not something you want to be a part of your holiday memories.
Contrary to popular belief, you aren't necessarily safe just because you are staying with someone you know. She says you should be aware of bedbugs whether you are staying in another person's home or a motel. When you enter the room you are sleeping in Boese suggests you pull the sheets up and look along the cracks of the mattress for bugs, empty skin shells or little black spots on the cracks of the mattress — and also check out the bedside table.
The best way to avoid spreading the bugs is to stay away when they are discovered. "If you see signs of a bed bug infestation in the place that you're staying, try to make different arrangements to stay someplace else, or in a different room," Boese says. She recommends reporting the bed bug findings to the manager of the hotel-motel and ask for a different room.
Once you get home, you should check the seams of your luggage for any bed bugs, and then wash your clothing in hot water and dry with high heat to kill any bed bugs that might've gotten into your clothing. Boese says bed bugs don't pose any major danger beyond an itchy bite — and perhaps some stress.
"At this time there is no disease associated with bed bugs, but they really do cause families a lot of mental anxiety, and it can be really expensive and time consuming to treat them," Boese says. Bed bugs made a resurgence as the pesticides that were used to get rid of them were wiped out.
Boese says they are like cockroaches and mosquitoes and will likely never go completely away, but we can help by doing things to try and control any outbreaks.


You can't blame Morgan Joseph if she marvels at the synchronicity that brought her to the Greater Marco Family YMCA staff.
The upbeat, youthful, Pittsburgh-area native has been the Y's aquatics director since January, replacing Hannah Heidenreich. She first came onboard last July, when she was hired as a lifeguard.
Joseph brings a stellar background to the position.
She was a scholarship collegiate swimmer at Edinboro University, a Division II school in Pennsylvania. Her competitive career began at age 7, perhaps ironically, at a Y; in this case the Richard G. Snyder YMCA in her hometown of Kittanning, Pa.
College came next. There, she competed in the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke, freestyle sprint events and on backstroke sprint relay teams, before graduating in the spring of 2018. She also qualified for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championships all four years while at Edinboro.
"Swimming has really taken me a long way and it's really the only sport that's had a huge impact on my life," said Joseph.
The sport has also dominated her professional life, thus far.
Her first job, at age 16, was as a lifeguard at a recreational complex in Kittanning, where she eventually became aquatic supervisor. During summers, while attending college, she served as the swim team's head coach.
Joseph moved to Marco last July, to join her boyfriend, Jud Toth, who'd arrived that February. Toth is a universal banker at the SunTrust Bank branch on the island.
"As a couple, we see a lot of the same people. They come here and swim, I see them during the day and then go to the bank," said Joseph, who is also Marco Island Academy's head swim coach.
She didn't expect something swimming-related to be a profession right out of college. But she finds the position to be very rewarding and without a doubt, fitting.
Joseph earned a bachelor's degree in biology, with minors in chemistry and psychology. Her sights were set on becoming a physician's assistant. But she decided to take a "gap year" after graduation to get settled after moving and decide what she really wanted to with her life. She's now studying Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in hopes of entering med school.
But for right now, she's loving life on Marco.


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Hybrid Cars Catch Fire More Than EV, Gas Cars Combined: Study
the Chevy Bolt faces an uncertain future, mostly because the once-promising electric vehicle started burning up in driveways and garages. Any momentum the Chevy Bolt picked up, thanks to its design and relatively low price, hasn't been enough to overcome the fires and GM's half measures. But a new study citing the NTSB other NHTSA claims that EVs in the US actually light on fire at a much lower rate when compared to ICE cars and hybrids, as Kelly Blue Book reports.
the study claims that hybrids are actually involved in the most car fires out of every 100,000 cars sold, outnumbering the number of fires involving both fully-electric cars — like the Chevy Bolt — and ICE cars combined. From KBB:
Analysts from AutoInsuranceEZ examined data from the National Transportation Safety Board to track the number of car fires and compared it to sales data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
The result? Hybrid-powered cars were involved in about 3,475 fires per every 100,000 sold. Gasoline-powered cars, about 1,530. Electric vehicles (EVs) saw just 25 fires per 100,000 sold.
Of course, given the lower number of hybrid cars on US roads, the number of most fires in total still goes to ICE cars. the study says gas-powered cars saw 199,533 fires. Hybrid cars accounted for 16,051 fires. Fully-electric cars came in with 52 fires total. The study claims these figures are for the entire year of 2021.
The study also looked at the number of US cars recalled for fire risk in 2020. Again, the biggest number belonged to ICE cars, with 1,085,800 vehicles recalled. A total of 152,000 fully-electric cars were recalled. And 32,100 hybrids were recalled. KBB reports the number of fully-electric recalls is probably going to be much bigger in 2021, after adding the Chevy Bolt recalls for that year.
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Interestingly enough, the fire risk recalls for both EVs and hybrids both trace back mostly to the car's batteries. Except that in hybrids, the risk of fire did produce more instances of actually fires. And for reference, the fire risks among ICE cars were mostly down to electrical shorts.
The stats are surprising due to the coverage EV fires have gotten across many media outlets, including from us. Chalk it up to the novelty of EVs, maybe. It's really no surprise that electric cars are going to be scrutinized more than their combustion-powered counterparts. But what is most surprising is that among these methods of propulsion, hybrids proved to be the most fire-prone.


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Advocacy Update: DOH and SED Issue Additional FAQ Guidance on Student Immunizations
DOH and SED Issue Additional FAQ Guidance on Student Immunizations
The State Department of Health and the State Education Department have jointly issued an additional 'Frequently Asked Questions' (FAQ) on student immunizations. The document answers recent questions on the 14 day vaccine requirement. The guidance can be accessed through the link below.
DOH/SED Student Immunization FAQ
ECB Produces Resource Guide on Restorative Justice
The New York State Educational Conference Board (ECB) - of which NYSSBA is a member - recently produced a resource guide and video on the issue of restorative justice. ECB member groups spent months working on these materials, with the goal of informing and shaping the discussion around restorative justice practices and approaches, headed into the 2020 legislative session. Please feel free to share throughout your school community. Both the resource guide and video can be viewed by clicking the following link:
ECB Restorative Justice Practices
Governor Signs Local Insurance Reserve Fund Bills
Late last week, Governor Cuomo signed into law four bills giving multiple school districts the authority to establish insurance reserve funds to their self-insured health plans. The newly authorized districts include Bedford, Grand Island, Ithaca and Kenmore-Tonawanda. Legislation for four additional districts was passed by both the Senate and Assembly this year, but they have yet to be delivered to the Governor.
NYSSBA worked closely with member districts on this issue and are pleased to see them signed into law. We will continue supporting the districts whose bills are still pending.
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Q: What properties ( if any ) do controls like GridView and TextBox save in their control state?
1) What properties ( if any )  do controls like GridView and TextBox save in control state? BTW - I assume these controls have their control state enabled by default?!

2) Control needs to call Page.RegisterRequiresControlState ( during Init event ) in order to signal that its control state needs to be persisted.
Assuming control A (A is of type WebControl2) needs to save its control state and that A is contained inside control B ( B is of type WebControl1 ) -->  I was able to  register A's control state by overriding B's OnInit method:
protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
{
    Control control= this.FindControl("A");

    Page.RegisterRequiresControlState(control);
    base.OnInit(e);
}

Is this considered a bad programming practice?

thanx

A: If you are looking for a lot of control definitions, check out .NET reflector, a free tool that allows you to inspect this.  For GridView, I know it has editindex, pageindex, selectedindex, sortexpression, sortdirection, datakeynames, pagecount in control state.  I don't think TextBox uses control state.
Only store essential properties in control state.  I don't know what benefit tapping into another control's state is going to do, because the actual values that get loaded and saved in control state have to be done in protected LoadControlState and SaveControLState methods.  Values do not automatically get saved in control state if enabled.


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Queer movies on the big screen by Jack Cline
By Jack Cline
After a bit of a dry stretch, LGBT characters are once again returning to cinemas, and there are several things worth keeping an eye out for, writes Jack Cline.
If you haven't yet seen Call Me By Your Name (out now), it's one of the year's must-see movies – a sensitive exploration of the dawning of sexuality set in a picturesque corner of Italy. It stars Armie Hammer and rising star Timothee Chalamet. And next week, hot young British actor Harrison Dickinson makes his astonishing debut as the lead in Beach Rats (out 24 Nov), playing a closeted teen in suburban New York who isn't quite sure how to express his deep yearning for men. It's sexy and beautifully observed. Both films are complex and unpredictable, refusing to play by the rules of gay cinema.
Three films in cinemas now feature feisty queer girls in ways that are entertaining for boys as well. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is about the threesome that created the iconic comic book superhero, and it stars out actor Luke Evans. The Party is a ripping British black comedy about politics and relationships with an ace cast including Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Mortimer as a lesbian pregnant with triplets. And from Norway, Thelma is a fiendishly original coming-of-age thriller about a teen with a startling gift.
And finally, here are some awards season movies that we'll be hearing a lot about over the coming months. Some are taking their time to get to UK cinemas, but it's worth the wait. Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Jan) has an almost unspoken gay twist that adds another layer of meaning to a blackly comical thriller as fierce Frances McDormand takes on racist cop Sam Rockwell. Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape of Water (Feb) features Richard Jenkins as a gay man who can't even speak those words in a remarkable fantasy about outsiders in 1950s America. Chile's candidate for the Oscar, A Fantastic Woman (Mar) is the drop-dead gorgeous story of a trans woman who refuses to give in to bigotry. And France's Oscar contender will be 120 Beats per Minute (Apr) a devastatingly moving account of romance among AIDS activists in 1990s Paris.
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/ Uninvited U.S. Investors? The Explosion of Unsponsored ADR Programs and the Implications for Foreign Private Issuers
Uninvited U.S. Investors? The Explosion of Unsponsored ADR Programs and the Implications for Foreign Private Issuers
By: Kevin S. EvansCheryl A. Gorman
Last week we reported that the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission's ("SEC") eagerly awaited amendments to Rule 12g3-2(b) became effective on October 10, 2008. The new Rules automatically exempt foreign private issuers from the registration requirements of Section 12(g) of the U.S. Exchange Act of 1934, provided certain conditions are met.
One anticipated concern of foreign private issuers, as a result of the automatic nature of the new exemption, was the potential proliferation of unsponsored ADR programs. This concern appears to have been justified. From September 1, 2008 to October 9, 2008, the SEC's records show 49 filings for sponsored and unsponsored ADR programs. Since the commencement of the new 12g3-2(b) Rules on October 10, 2008, the SEC's records show that the large ADR banks have filed in excess of 400 new unsponsored ADR programs. This release outlines the implications for foreign private issuers who find that a depositary bank hás created an unsponsored ADR program over its securities without its consent.
The SEC, when it published its proposals to amend the prior Rule 12g3-2(b) exemption, recognized that additional unsponsored ADR programs may result from an automatic exemption replacing the written application necessary to secure Rule 12g3-2(b) exemption. It noted that under the prior Rule 12g3-2(b) a foreign private issuer that does not seek to have its securities traded in the United States in the form of ADR's is able, by not formally claiming the Rule 12g3-2(b) exemption and submitting documents to the SEC, to restrict the ability of ADR depositary banks to establish an unsponsored ADR facility.
Once the exemption became available without the need to file an application, an issuer's ability to control the establishment of an unsponsored ADR program was lost. In light of the possible proliferation of unsponsored ADR programs, the SEC specifically solicited comments on the question of whether, as a condition to the registration of ADRs, the issuer must give its consent to the depositary and whether the depositary must notify the foreign private issuer of its intention to register ADRs and have either received an affirmative statement of no objection from the issuer or not received an affirmative statement of objection from the issuer.
In the final Rules the SEC acknowledged the competing interests of the depositary banks and foreign private issuers. However, the SEC chose to ignore the various measures suggested to protect issuers.
Instead, the SEC sided with the depositary banks and included a suggestion that the depositary banks be able to establish unsponsored ADR programs based upon their reasonable, good faith belief, after exercising reasonable due diligence, that an issuer complies with the new Rule 12g3-2(b).
Interestingly, the SEC made reference to the submission made by one of the large depositary banks, Deutsche Bank, who stated that, because, in practice, depositary banks typically obtain the issuer's consent before establishing an unsponsored ADR facility, a rule requiring such consent was not necessary.
It is apparent from the increased level of filings with the SEC that the unsponsored ADR environment is becoming less friendly than that suggested by Deutsche Bank, and that depositary banks are proceeding to establish unsponsored ADR facilities without the consent of the issuer.
Implications for Foreign Private Issuers
The existence of an unsponsored ADR program may cause problems should a foreign private issuer subsequently choose to establish its own ADR program. It is well established that a depositary bank may not implement an unsponsored ADR program where a sponsored ADR program already exists. The position when no sponsored program exists is more complicated. It was suggested to the SEC that the new Rules require a depositary bank to terminate an unsponsored facility created without the consent of an issuer if the issuer decides to create a sponsored facility. This suggestion was rejected.
The problem arises from the fact that the SEC will not permit an unsponsored facility to co-exist with a sponsored facility for the same deposited securities. An issuer seeking to establish a sponsored facility after the establishment of an unsponsored ADR facility, is required to ensure that the depositary of the unsponsored facility would effect a transfer of the deposited securities and the related ADR holders to the new sponsored facility and terminate the unsponsored facility.
In addition, the SEC hás stated that the depositary bank and the issuer, when filing to establish a sponsored ADR program, will be required to provide a representation that arrangements are in place to terminate any existing unsponsored ADR programs in a prompt and orderly fashion. The SEC may require written confirmation from the depositary of the unsponsored program that it agrees with such arrangements. This provides the incumbent unsponsored depositary bank with the technical legal ability to preclude a company from instituting a sponsored ADR program and thus leverage regarding the identity of the depositary bank for the proposed sponsored facility.


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The 260-2501-A Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge was designed for the National Weather Service to provide a reliable, low-cost tipping bucket rain sensor. It has been updated and improved with the addition of an inner funnel to even the flow of rainfall into the gauge, providing better accuracy at higher rainfall rates. Its simplicity of design assures trouble-free operation, yet provides accurate rainfall measurements. The tipping bucket mechanism activates a sealed reed switch that produces a contact closure for each 0.01" (0.25 mm) or 1 mm of rainfall. The gauge has an 8" orifice and is manufactured of powder coated and anodized aluminum. The funnel screen prevents debris from entering the gauge. Shipped complete with mounting legs and 25' of signal cable.
The 260-2501-A Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge was designed for the National Weather Service to provide a reliable, low-cost tipping bucket rain sensor. It has been updated and improved with the addition of an inner funnel to even the flow of rainfall into the gauge, providing better accuracy at higher rainfall rates. Its simplicity of design assures trouble-free operation, yet provides accurate rainfall measurements. The tipping bucket mechanism activates a sealed reed switch that produces a contact closure for each 0.01" of rainfall. The gauge has an 8" orifice and is manufactured of powder coated an anodized aluminum. The funnel screen prevents debris from entering the gauge.
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Alternative Headline: "'Loose Women' Viewers Puzzled By Age-Old Legal Principle..."
The 78-year-old singer made the controversial remark during an appearance on Loose Women on Tuesday.
What on earth is 'controversial' about this?
...while the Loose Women panel, which included Sir Cliff's friend Gloria Hunniford, appeared to agree with his comment, viewers expressed outrage.
'Cliff Richard repeating his line that he'd rather 10 guilty rapists walk the streets than 1 innocent person be investigated on #LooseWomen is gross and abhorrent,' said one person on Twitter.
'Imagine having 10 predators on the streets just because you were mildly inconvenienced by an investigation into you that was proven to be untrue?'
Another said: 'I'm not a fan of Cliff Richard but he's turned my stomach saying that 10 guilty men should go free to save one who's innocent. Absolute disgrace.
'The victims of abuse, assault and rape deserve more.'
Another viewer branded his comment 'insane' and 'offensive.' 'Cliff Richard just said one of the stupidest and most offensive things I've ever heard in television,' the viewer wrote on Twitter.
Congratulations, 'Loose Women' viewers! You have all just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that daytime TV lowers your IQ.
Labels: #MeToomorons, crybabies, lying about rape
Christ on a bike.
We will lose jury trials in cases of rape soon enough as this will become a soundbite 'right-on' policy and people will either ignore, not understand or call anyone making a dispassionate case about jury trials and unintended consequences and perverse incentives as a secret rapist/rape apologist.
The worst thing I think, is often people complaining about this see themselves as 'left wing' or radical. Not understanding that limited the state's ability to persecute you and lock you up without a fair trial and in front of your peers is the foundation of English liberty and was, up until very recently a steadfast 'left wing' value. With only the tory pro-police authoritarians complaining about how the state should smash the crims and alleged crims more.
We are done.
Bucko said...
Good Lord! I dispair at the way people are trying to dispose of liberty in any way they can. They seem to have lost the ability to critically think through what they are proposing.
Longrider said...
They even got the quote wrong - it's ten guilty men go free rather than one innocent be convicted - not investigated. Idiots
Andrew Scarborough said...
Loose women have always had the tendency to lower my IQ.
"We will lose jury trials in cases of rape soon enough..."
There are still a few lone voices shouting into the void. But it would never surprise me...
"They seem to have lost the ability to critically think through what they are proposing."
'Education, education, education', remember..?
"They even got the quote wrong..."
It IS teh Grauniad... :)
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Lady Gaga Apologizes for R. Kelly Collaboration: 'I'm Sorry … For Not Speaking Out Sooner'
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Lady Gaga apologizes for working with R. Kelly on 2013 single "Do What U Want (With My Body)." John Shearer/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock
Lady Gaga has apologized for working with R. Kelly in a Twitter statement. The singer, herself a victim of sexual assault, introduced the lengthy apology by noting, "I stand by anyone who has ever been the victim of sexual assault." "I stand behind these women 1000%, believe them, know they are suffering and in pain, and feel strongly that their voices should be heard and taken seriously," Gaga wrote in response to the women who spoke out about Kelly in the Surviving R. Kelly documentary series. "I'm sorry, both for my poor judgment when I was young, and for not speaking out sooner."
The singer collaborated with Kelly on her single "Do What U Want (With My Body)," which dropped in the fall of 2013 and appeared on her album ARTPOP. Gaga also performed the song with Kelly on Saturday Night Live and at the American Music Awards. In her statement, Gaga confirmed that the track will be removed from iTunes and "other streaming platforms." She also confirmed that she will not work with Kelly again.
"As a victim of sexual assault myself, I made both the song and the video at a dark time in my life, my intention was to create something extremely defiant and provocative because I was angry and still hadn't processed the trauma that had occurred in my own life," Gaga explained in her apology. "The song is called 'Do What U Want (With My Body),' I think it's clear how explicitly twisted my thinking was at the time. If I could go back and have a talk with my younger self I'd tell her to go through the therapy I have since then, so that I could understand the confused post-traumatic state that I was in—or if therapy was not available to me or anyone in my situation—to seek help, and speak as openly and honestly as possible about what we've been through."
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— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) January 10, 2019
Fans have been anticipating Lady Gaga's apology since Surviving R. Kelly began airing on Lifetime. The documentary series includes interviews with several women, including Kitti Jones and Andrea Kelly, who have accused Kelly of sexual assault and abuse. Recently Chance the Rapper, who also appeared in the documentary, apologized for working with Kelly on 2015's "Somewhere In Paradise" and said was a "mistake."
Lady Gaga,


This article first appeared in its entirety in the April 2013 issue of AMT News.
At the NIMS Student Summit at IMTS 2012, we introduced a new concept: MTAmbassadors. For the first time, we asked Student Summit exhibitors to staff their booths with younger engineers who had just started their careers with the company.
Because it's easier for a student to relate to someone closer to their age, we thought that younger engineers would be more approachable for middle school and high school students, and we seem to have been right about that. We provided the MTAmbassadors with badges and we let the students know in their orientation session that they could look for those badges as they visited the Student Summit exhibits. As a result, exhibitors reported less apprehension among students in approaching and interacting with the exhibits and staff.
As we are developing strategies to change perceptions about the importance of STEM education and careers in manufacturing among parents, students, educators and policy makers, we are continuing to expand on the use of MTAmbassadors.
We've collaborated with Gardner Business Media and the SME Education Foundation on a DVD series, including print materials that have been sent to 5,000 Project Lead The Way schools, with the videos also available online in the Modern Machine Shop Next Generation Zone. One video includes a QC Engineer at GE who talks about what she does at a jet engine manufacturing plant and how rewarding she finds her work there.
In the coming months, we'll be creating videos that leverage the MTAmbassador concept, so if you have any young employees at your company who you think would be a good candidate for a video interview discussing their career, please let me know.
It's absolutely necessary for all of us to act as ambassadors of manufacturing on a local, regional and national level, and there are a number of things that you can do in support of the AMT Manufacturing Mandate to build a better educated and trained Smartforce.
If it's been a while since you've visited with the administrators at school systems in your local area, make a point to schedule a visit with an agenda to talk about the importance of U.S. manufacturing, and why we need a stronger pipeline of young people coming into careers in our industry.
Offer to mentor the machine trades or STEM academy teachers at schools in your area.
Get better acquainted with the advanced manufacturing technology community college programs, as well as the engineering schools in your town or your region, and offer to provide internship opportunities, and /or restart a traditional apprenticeship program at your company.
If you have a company anniversary coming up or you have another reason to schedule an open house at your company, don't forget to invite the public, educators, administrators, your congressional representative and other policy makers, in addition to your customers and partners. To change the trajectory of the skills gap in our industry, we must all act as ambassadors for U.S. manufacturing.
Greg, I love the Ambassador concept and the encouragement for industry to take the lead in efforts to change the common misconceptions of the industry. It's going to take a while but I'm confident that things like this can turn the tide.


Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Finding good Thanksgiving wines may be a lot easier than you think.
Are we really discussing Thanksgiving? People, I'm not only talking about it, but I've already eaten it, and I've already slurped it down.
Yes, as Thanksgiving nears –- a little more than two weeks and counting! –- the annual question arises of what to drink with the feast. As usual, the wine panel has taken a practical approach. We've had a Thanksgiving meal with a bunch of different wines to see what works and what doesn't. You can read about the meal and our thoughts in my column.
This is the sixth straight year we've done this, and while the column focuses on the five reds and five whites we drank with this particular meal, the choices were informed by our slow –- some might say painfully slow — accumulation of Thanksgiving wisdom. I thought it would be worth looking back over the last five years, as those general recommendations can supplement the specific bottles we suggested in this week's column.
As always, please don't contort yourself trying to find only the specific bottles we recommend. These bottles are simply examples of the types of wines that ought to work well at Thanksgiving.
I always imagine that your Thanksgiving will be somewhat like mine, that is, a long celebratory affair over the course of many hours with lots of people and tons of food. For this reason, I always suggest versatile, agile wines that will go with many different sorts of foods and that won't weigh you down over the course of the feast.
My Thanksgiving is too informal, with too many different foods coming from too many different sources, to be fastidious about pairing particular foods and wines. If your Thanksgiving is more like a sit-down dinner party, with a few close friends and expensive wines, then this advice may not be useful. But if you want a red, a white, and plenty of it, here are a few thoughts gleaned over the last few years.
For whites, the options can be unlimited. Sauvignon blanc is often a fine default choice. I especially like those from the Loire. Sancerre can be a little expensive at times, but I still see excellent bottles in the $20 range, like those from Lucien Crochet. You can also find good less expensive choices from Loire appellations like Quincy.
Many other good, dry whites come from other Loire appellations like Touraine, Vouvray, Montlouis, Savennières and Cheverny. Muscadet is also a good bet.
California sauvignon blanc can also work very well, especially when it's dry and not high in alcohol. As always, a good retailer can steer you through the shoals.
I personally love an off-dry riesling, like a Mosel kabinett, at Thanksgiving. Off-dry rieslings from Washington State can be good, too, while good dry rieslings for under $20 can be found from the Finger Lakes.
Among Italian whites, Soave is an often overlooked choice, as is fiano from Campania. Both can be good, dry, minerally choices. As for chardonnay, the Mâconnais whites from the southern part of Burgundy can be very satisfying.
And let's not forget Rueda, albariño and godello from Spain.
As for reds, the Loire is again a treasure trove of moderately priced, delicious wines, whether from Touraine, Chinon, Bourgueil, Anjou or even labeled simply vin de table. The wines can be made from cabernet franc, gamay or numerous lesser known grapes. The key is that they be lithe, with a minimum of oaky flavors.
I love good Beaujolais at Thanksgiving, as opposed to the Beaujolais nouveau and mass-market wines. Some of the better Beaujolais choices can rise above $20 a bottle, so I often look to the Loire for my gamay needs at Thanksgiving, from producers like Clos Roche Blanche and Thierry Puzelat.
If you prefer American wines at Thanksgiving, Shinn Estate makes a terrific merlot on the East End of Long Island. Pinot noir is often too expensive these days, but you can find some excellent blended reds, and even gamay, from the excellent California producer Edmunds-St. John.
Zinfandel is an old Thanksgiving standby. For me, it's more of a pass-by, as I find most too big and alcoholic. But Ridge makes some great ones. I never think of cabernet, either, but we've had some good ones, include a bottle from Liberty School in Paso Robles.
Chianti can be a great choice, but a lot of the best ones are a little expensive. If $25 isn't too high, Montevertine's pian del Ciampolo, a Chianti substitute, is a good possibility.
Did I really forget Côtes du Rhône? I'm a fan of Eric Texier, but there are plenty of other good producers as well.
The fact that I could go on and on should tell you that finding good Thanksgiving wines may be a lot easier than you think. Here's the most important thing to understand: Many bottles will do the trick. There is no single, right solution. Here is the second most important thing to understand: When all else fails, don't worry too much about finding wines to match the food. Find wines that you know you will enjoy. Chances are, your guests will, too.


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City Church Alter Markt, Mönchengladbach (Germany)
Beam Steering
A venue for culture
Mönchengladbach's City Church Alter Markt reopened in Autumn 2013 after a renovation programme lasting several years. While still functioning as a religious venue, the building is also used for cultural events, concerts, panel discussions, readings and other events alongside the regular services. During its renovation, the church's sound system was completely replaced.
The City Church is now equipped with two Fohhn Linea Focus LFI-350 systems mounted on a special steel construction. During events, this construction also enables aisle seating to be separated from the altar area by use of a curtain. In the reverberant acoustics, the 3.5 metre long Fohhn line arrays guarantee clear transmission of the spoken word as well as powerful sound reproduction of orchestral and band concerts.
Andreas Jütten, Project Planner:
"Our greatest challenge was the choice of loudspeaker systems. Many factors needed to be taken into account: building preservation, the aesthetics of the re-design, performance capability and of course budget all had considerable influence on the outcome. Loudspeakers from various manufacturers were tested, however with regard to speech intelligibility and musicality, none were as convincing as Fohhn's Linea Focus systems. Accessories for mounting and steering the system via network also needed to be considered, as well as the timeless, unobtrusive appearance of the speakers themselves. Even in these complex church surroundings with the unfavourable acoustic conditions, two 3.5 metre columns have proved more than adequate. The system can also be extended as required by adding two XS-30 active subwoofers.
For further enhancement, directional coverage was also recommended. The previous sound system was a classic ELA installation with 20 loudspeakers distributing sound throughout the room in an undefined manner. Now, the sound comes from the actual viewing direction of the audience. Speech reproduction is clear and effective, without sounding too harsh. Music reproduction benefits from both the location and the ability for complex sound structures to be purely reproduced and differentiated. Positive feedback has been received from both concert audiences and worshippers. The loudspeaker coverage is extremely even due to the beam settings. From its outset, this project has been professionally supported both by the manufacturer, Fohhn, and the system integrator Firma Teqsas from Hürth. Intensive cooperation and advice from both partners has led to successful results in every respect. The two Fohhn line arrays have more than surpassed our expectations of a modern sound system."
DLI-330 (fixed installation)
XS-30 active
Einsiedeln Abbey (Switzerland)
Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, New Cairo
Gedächtniskirche, Berlin
Tianhe Church, Guangzhou (China)
Doonsan First Methodist Church (South Korea)


Freshwater mussels in large bodies of water can attach themselves to boats, which are then transferred to rivers and smaller lakes. If they reproduce, they do considerable damage to the ecosystem.
Contamination from boats is not uncommon, but ATV tires and motorcycle tires contaminate the ecosystem, too. Riding from an area with invasive vegetation to another without transfers seedlings and pollen that can crowd out plants vital to maintaining a healthy environmental balance.


Stefan Dech is director of the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) and current spokesman of the Earth Observation Center (EOC) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Since 2001 he has held the Chair of Remote Sensing at the Institute of Geography and Geology of the University of Würzburg. His research focuses on satellite remote sensing applications for terrestrial ecosystem research in the context of global change and sustainable land use.


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In this extract from his new book, freelance illustrator and art director Ben Tallon talks about the realities of setting up his own business straight out of college and reveals the lessons he learned.
Ben Tallon is a freelance illustrator and art director who set up in 2006 and has worked for clients including the Guardian, Unicef, Design Week and WWE. His new book – Champagne and Wax Crayons – is a first-person account of the trials, tribulations and triumphs of the freelance creative world. In this extract, Tallon talks about his first steps setting up a freelance business out of college and reveals the lessons he learned.
That old expression, "it's who you know, not what you know" is kind of true. But what you have to ask is – how do you get to know these people? You're not just handed a network – you have to work for that and people have to like you and what you do. Time, patience, money, effort, personality and what you know is also important, so don't be fooled. I graduated with an empty database.
Rich Taylor had graduated in the same year as me, from the furniture design degree course [at the University of Central Lancashire]. He was a friend of a friend and I finally met him in person after seeing him ghosting around the art department building a lot without ever getting the chance to say hello. Rich is the kind of person who is happier for you than you are for yourself when something good happens. You feel like you can tell him your filthiest secrets within an hour of meeting him.
He had won an award for his chair design at university and he told me about a creative grant that was available through an initiative called "Fresh Creative". I was so impressed by his furniture design award and his beard that I took notice. I was just about covering my living costs with my full-time wage and my outlandishly ambitious football bets were not bearing any fruit, so I had no way of affording the £1,000 worth of Apple Mac that I needed simply to start creating my illustrations. I went to chat to the guys at Fresh Creative and told them Rich Taylor had sent me to see them.
Only one week earlier, I had threatened to quit art for good after the Apple Store had denied me a three-year credit plan on a Macbook laptop computer, due to my lack of debt, and therefore lack of credit rating. It felt crushing at the time but was quickly revealed as a blessing in disguise.
I was assigned Rich's friend, who steered me through the programme. She agreed with his opinion that my graduation portfolio was half decent. I instantly took a shine to her and we got along well. She walked me through six weeks of one–to-one consultation sessions in which they assisted me in writing a business plan – something I had not even heard of.
The process made me answer all the questions that forced me to think about things I had not considered, such as who my market was, how I would reach these people and what professional attributes set me apart from my competition. I looked forward to my mentoring sessions each week and the guys running the scheme believed I would be a strong candidate to be awarded some start-up money. They were right and I walked away with a bit of business direction, industry understanding and just shy of £1,500 – a game-changing sum of money which I spent on a Macbook laptop, the programmes I needed to design things and some art materials.
To a creative person, that word, "business", can be like garlic to a vampire. I've witnessed some individuals quit at the very mention of the word. It was used a lot over the six weeks I spent on the Fresh Creative scheme.
I took a trip down to my local tax office and registered as "Ben and Ink Illustration", a title a friend had coined at university. I hated it from the off, it sounded like a pun, but it was memorable and nobody knew or cared who Ben Tallon was, so I stuck with it.
Life after graduating is not easy. It's a culture shock, but don't despair; it's the beginning of exciting times if you're prepared to work for them.
it is a foundation on which to build and that takes dedication and hard work.
It is no longer socially acceptable to start drinking in the afternoon when you're not a student.
Getting a full- or part-time job to support your passion, contrary to common artist folklore, is a good thing provided it serves your long-term goals.
It takes time and costs money to start a business. Be patient and realistic, with a sprinkling of sacrifice.
A garden table in a bedroom is not an ideal office, but can be made to work if you're disciplined enough.
The cut off from years of tutorial input is difficult, surround yourself with people off whom you can bounce ideas. Ideally, hire an affordable external space to work from.
a business, no matter how creative or arty that service is. Act like one.
Business plans are not as evil as they seem. They force you to learn about your market. Write one.
Be sociable and network yourself to death. People who know people are good people to know, but you have to meet them first.
Champagne and Wax Crayons – Riding the Madness of the Creative Industries, by Ben Tallon is published by LID Publishing priced at £12.99. The book is available here.
Good luck with this Ben hope it all goes well for you.


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El Museo Nacional de Antigüedades y Arte Islámico (en francés: ) es un museo de arte en Argel, Argelia.

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Según la organización Museum with No Frontiers, el Museo Nacional de Antigüedades y Arte Islámico es el museo más antiguo de Argelia y África. La colección fue creada en 1835 por Bertrand Clauzel, militar francés y gobernador de Argelia, y comisariada por Louis-Adrien Berbrugger, arqueólogo y filólogo francés. El primer museo se inauguró en 1838 con antigüedades de origen argelino. Hasta 1896, el museo se había trasladado a varios lugares diferentes, hasta que se instaló definitivamente en las colinas de Mustapha Pasha —ahora conocido como el Parque de la Libertad— y se inauguró oficialmente allí en 1897.

En 1911, Baedeker en su libro El Mediterráneo, puertos y rutas marítimas: Manual para viajeros, lo describió como «la mejor colección de este tipo en Argelia».

La colección está distribuida en dos edificios separados: uno contiene la colección preislámica, mientras que el otro tiene la colección de arte islámico. La sucursal del museo que alberga la colección islámica se inauguró en 2003. En 2006 se inauguró una sala de lectura con una colección numismática.

En marzo de 2019, durante las protestas argelinas de 2019-20, el museo fue saqueado. Según el Ministerio de Cultura argelino, los delincuentes aprovecharon la agitación de las protestas callejeras para penetrar en el museo, romper y robar algunas de las piezas expuestas, iniciar incendios en las oficinas de la administración y destruir documentos de registro. Trataron de hacer lo mismo la semana anterior, pero la policía había contenido a los saqueadores. Unos días después, las autoridades argelinas anunciaron que se habían recuperado los artefactos robados del museo (principalmente espadas y armas de fuego de la década de 1950) y que el incendio había tenido lugar en un pasillo que estaba en remodelación.

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Navy Builds Stealthiest Nuclear-Armed Sub "Ever" to Counter New Threats
The entire premise of undersea strategic deterrence is based on the need for nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines
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Video Above: Northrop Grumman & Eastern Shipbuilding Group Build New Weapons Into Coast Guard OffShore Patrol Cutter
byKris Osborn- Warrior Maven
The entire premise of undersea strategic deterrence is based on the need for nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to hold potential attackers at risk of catastrophic destruction, without being found, detected, or seen by enemies in any way.
This reality, which is increasingly becoming more complex for submarine weapons developers, might explain why the Navy's new Columbia-class, nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines are being engineered to be the quietest, stealthiest submarines … ever to exist.
The new submarines will also need to be higher tech in the sense that they will need to be less detectable, due in large measure to the reality that enemy platforms capable of submarine detection are getting much more advanced through the use of longer-range, more sensitive sonar systems, harder to detect, long-endurance, small undersea sub-hunting drones and advanced methods of aerial submarine detection; some of these detection systems include the use of air-dropped sonobuoys, high-tech sub-hunting surveillance planes and other systems, including the use of surface and shallow-depth laser scanner technologies engineered to find subs on patrol.
In light of this kind of global equation, it is by no means surprising that the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday's CNO NAVPLAN text specifically cites the pressing need to deliver the new Columbia-class boats … "on time."
The rapid and large-scale proliferation of undersea drones, many of them being quite small, quiet, and less detectable by submarine defenses, presents an entirely new threat calculus for submarine commanders who need to lurk quietly in undisclosed, undetectable, yet strategically vital locations.
Also, the Chinese continue to quickly build new Jin-class, nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines, platforms soon to be armed with JL-3 long-range nuclear weapons. These new sub-launched JL-3 missiles introduce an ability for Chinese submarines to hold larger portions of the continental U.S. at risk of a nuclear attack.
Given all this, the U.S. Navy naturally needs larger numbers of highly-capable new ballistic missile submarines, but perhaps to an even greater extent, the new submarines may need to be the stealthiest undersea platforms ever to exist. This, interestingly, may in fact be the case due to a Navy effort to integrate an entire suite of new undersea warfare technologies into the Columbia-class. These technical efforts, emerging after years of successful Navy Science and Technology work, are multi-faceted and wide-ranging, and some of them are even being migrated over to the Columbia submarines from the Navy's Block III Virginia-class attack submarines. Several attack submarine innovations are being adapted for the much larger Columbia's, to include the use of a fiber-optic periscope cable enabling commanders to view surroundings within the submarine from different locations, and essentially not have to stand just beneath a periscope dropdown. The Columbia's also incorporate fly-by-wire computerized navigation controls which, unlike a mechanical hydraulic system, draw upon advanced computer automation to control submarine settings such as depth, speed, and other mission elements, of course when directed by a commander.
It is certainly quite likely that the Columbia may incorporate many as-of-yet unknown quieting technologies which, yet one item often discussed by senior Navy weapons developers is its electric drive technology. This high-tech, the electrical propulsion system is known to be much quieter than existing technologies, and also bring very crucial added amounts of mobile electrical power to the submarine, systems of great relevance given the large number of advanced electronics built into the submarine. Newer kinds of command and control, computerized or automated navigational systems, and electrically-powered weapons and sensor interfaces.
Yet another way to remain less detectable is through the use of missile-tube launched undersea reconnaissance drones. Many of these drones are now being built by the Navy to bring new launch and recover surveillance systems to undersea warfare through the use of missile tubes. The technical ability to dispatch and track unmanned sonar and underwater reconnaissance systems, increasingly able to share data in real-time with larger host submarine platforms, can enable a large Columbia class boat to linger more safely in "impossible to detect" locations, allowing forward-operating undersea drones to enter higher-risk areas to patrol for threats such as enemy subs.
-- Kris Osborn is the Managing Editor of Warrior Maven and The Defense Editor of The National Interest --
Kris Osborn is the defense editor for the National Interest. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army—Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at national TV networks. He has appeared as a guest military expert on Fox News, MSNBC, The Military Channel, and The History Channel. He also has a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature from Columbia University.