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Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge is a  National Wildlife Refuge located on the Mississippi River at the border of Illinois and Iowa.  The refuge is east of Wapello, in Louisa County, Iowa and Mercer County, Illinois.

Port Louisa is divided into four divisions: Louisa, Horseshoe Bend, Big Timber (including the islands) and Keithsburg.

Port Louisa is the northernmost refuge in the Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge Complex. The refuge provides several opportunities for public use including hunting, fishing, hiking, photography, interpretation, environmental education, and wildlife observation (not all activities are allowed on all divisions).

Port Louisa was established for the protection of migratory birds. It is located along the Mississippi Flyway, one of the major routes for migrating waterfowl. Key goals of the refuge are to conserve and enhance the quality and diversity of fish and wildlife and their habitats; and to restore floodplain functions in the river corridor.

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Age diversity
Businesses must do more for older workers
Older workers value learning, mentoring and career progression just as much as their younger peers
Businesses need to do more to support and recruit older workers in order to cope with potential skills shortages, according to Patrick Thomson, senior programme manager at the Centre for Ageing Better.
"Our research has found that older workers value learning, mentoring and career progression just as much as other ages, but all too often miss out on opportunities to pursue them," Thomson told HR magazine. "With UK employers facing large-scale skills and workforce shortages businesses need to do more to support their current older workers and recruit talented older applicants."
Older workers do not feel that employers are doing enough to attract them, according to research from Capita. The Embracing Experience report found that 74% of older workers feel that employers are not doing enough to recruit them.
A third (32%) of the 1,002 older workers polled said they felt sidelined, and 17% said they had been passed over for promotion because of their age. Despite almost all (94%) UK businesses stating they believe older workers could be the key to bridging the skills gap, only one in five (23%) reported that they are currently looking to the over-50s to grow their business.
"These findings fit with existing evidence and what businesses and older workers are telling us," said Thomson. "Despite the introduction of age equality legislation and the removal of the default retirement Age, many older workers are still unfairly missing out in the workplace. This is due to both conscious and unconscious bias, which manifests in how job roles and adverts are designed, at selection and at the interview stage, and then in opportunities to progress once you are in work."
Chris Merrick, a director at Capita Resourcing, called for a "recalibration" when it comes to older workers. "The UK's older working population is set to increase rapidly in the coming years, while at the same time the number of skilled school leavers will continue to struggle to fill employment gaps," he said. "Yet with eyes focused on technology and innovation few businesses have older workers on their agenda, leading to a huge missed opportunity.
"It's time for a recalibration of what it means to be an older worker – these employees want to be challenged not sidelined."
Thomson added that HR has an important role to play in supporting older workers. "We know that simply having a policy on age bias in itself isn't enough," he said. "Employers need to train line managers, address unconscious bias and stereotypes, and shift workplace cultures to ensure that employees of all ages are supported at work.
"In the end businesses themselves benefit from recruiting and retaining employees who are fulfilled, happy and supported to make the most of their potential – irrespective of their age."
Businesses must do more on social mobility
Employers must help upskill older workers
Older workers unhappier at work
More support needed for older workers and working carers
Older workers taking more work experience opportunities
Coronavirus pandemic worsens unemployment crisis for older workers


Back-to-back Challenge Cup winners Hull FC can reveal their squad numbers for the 2018 Betfred Super League season.
Mickey Paea, who returns to the club after a two-year stint in the NRL with Newcastle Knights, takes number 23 whilst fellow new recruit Bureta Faraimo will wear number two.
Jordan Abdull, who's back at the club following a season-long loan spell with Hull Kingston Rovers, takes number 16 having played a pivotal role in their promotion back to Super League.
Dean Hadley, who also returns after a successful loan stint with Wakefield Trinity last season, retains number 11 having been handed that number ahead of the 2017 campaign.
Prop Josh Bowden takes over number 13 following the retirement of back-to-back Cup-winning captain Gareth Ellis, who's become the club's football manager.
Jez Litten, who will link up with Richard Horne's Doncaster for the 2018 season on loan, takes up Bowden's former number 22.
Hull FC's Young Player of the Year Brad Fash moves up to 20 after a strong season, making over 20 appearances for the Black and Whites.
Former France Under-20s international Hakim Miloudi, who signed a full-time deal with the Airlie Birds in August, has been handed number 28.
Youngsters Cameron Scott, Jordan Lane, Ross Osborne and Jack Sanderson, the latter three spending 2018 on loan at Doncaster, have been awarded squad numbers.
Nick Rawsthorne, who made the Yorkshire switch from Halifax to Hull in 2016, has been elevated to number 19 after making his debut last year.
You can see all of them in action next year by making sure you have reserved your seat for 2018.
Existing members have until Saturday 2nd December to renew their seat before any unclaimed seats go on general sale.
Thousands have already signed up for next season, leaving some areas of the ground sold out!
There's still time to guarantee your seat and this can be done in a number of ways.
In store: You can sign up at the club's retail stores at the KCOM Stadium and Savile Street. Both stores are open from 9am – 5pm Monday - Saturday.
By phone: You can call our membership team on 01482 327 200 (option 1), with lines open from 9am – 5pm Monday to Friday and 9am - 12noon on Saturdays.
The full list of squad numbers for the 2018 season are as follows.


Anyone who has purchased a car in the past few months with us knows that we like to give back to our community. We have connected with four charities in our area. With every car that is sold, our customers get to cast a vote to one of the four charities they wish a donation be made to. One of these four, is the Children's Emergency Shelter here in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The shelter is having a their largest fundraiser of the year on Friday, June 5, 2015 at the Riverfront Amphitheater. It will be a Havana Night of hand rolled cigars, rum tasting & speciality, brewed beer, cuban inspired cuisine, award winning salsa band : Calle Soul and a silent auction! Tickets are $100.00. There is a limited number of tickets, so be sure to order yours online at http://childrensemergencyshelter.org/havana-nights-coming-in-june/ . We would love to see you there and party with a purpose with us!


That is one gorgeous dress. I am looking forward to seeing your version. Looking at the close up photo, it looks knit not crocheted. I can't imagine handknitting or crocheting it in less than 3 months unless I was crafting furiously every day. Do you own a knitting machine? that would be the way to go.
According to the article, the repairs at least were done with crochet. I would expect they'd use the original technique to repair the fabric if at all possible. As for me, however, I'm going to use a pre-made crochet lace that's reasonably close at first glance– figuring that people will focus on the beetlewings rather than the base fabric!


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On Monday, starting at 19:30, the Cologne-Hamburg game will be held in the 29th round of the Bundesliga 2, the 2018-2019 edition.
The two bands have shared their victories lately. Hamburg defeated 1-0 on the tour, but also on the last visit to the RheinEnergieStadion, score 2-0, while Koln triumphed in Hamburg in the last season of the Bundesliga.
Cologne is the most offensive team on its own field this season at Bundesligii 2. The Tapes scored 44 times in the RheinEnergie arena, receiving 18 goals in the 14 rounds. The team prepared by Markus Anfang leads the Bundesliga 2 standings with 58 points, 7 away from the rival in promotion, Hamburg. The last failure of the Cologne team happened 8 rounds, 2-3 at Paderborn.
Hamburg has occupied the leaderboard for a good part of the season, but now it is on second place, at a considerable distance from Monday's opponent. Hannes Wolf's formation has made several points away, than on the Volksparkstadion, a very pragmatic football. Hamburg received only 13 goals in the 14 stages on the external field, but in the last five matches, it won one.
The duels in Bundesliga 2 are difficult to predict, always surprises are the order of the day. It is the last chance for Hamburg to reduce the difference to Cologne, but it remains to be seen if "Dinosaurs" will be exposed.


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Woman Hit by Car in Wayland, Massachusetts
A 35-year-old woman was seriously injured and transported by medical helicopter.
By Marc Fortier	• Published at 12:56 pm on October 7, 2016
A 35-year-old Wayland, Massachusetts woman was seriously injured when she was hit by a vehicle on Friday.
According to Wayland Police, the accident occurred at 11:39 a.m. on Main Street near the intersection of School Street. The vehicle was headed southbound when the collision occurred and the pedestrian was not in a crosswalk at the time of the accident.
The woman was transported to Beth Israel Hospital in Boston by medical helicopter. Police said she sustained serious injuries, but they did not appear to be life threatening.
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The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
The operator of the vehicle was a 73-year-old woman from Maynard, police said. The names of the victim and the driver of the vehicle are being withheld pending notification of family members.
Main Street was closed at School Street for approximately 40 minutes as a result of the accident.


The federal bank regulatory agencies will accept public comments on a major proposal by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision to amend the 1988 international capital adequacy framework. The full document is available on the Web site of the Bank for International Settlements at www.bis.org. Comments are requested on the proposal by May 31, 2001, and may be sent to the United States banking agencies and to the Basel Committee.
While the 1988 Capital Accord was applied to all banks in the United States, it has not been determined how broadly the new approach will be applied, particularly given the many complex elements that may not be needed for smaller, less complex institutions. The United States banking agencies recently issued an advance notice of proposed rule making for non-complex institutions ("Simplified Capital Framework for Non-Complex Institutions," published November 3, 2000). Comments received on that proposal (due by February 1, 2001) will be considered in determining whether to apply the new approach to all banks.
The U.S. banking agencies plan to issue a paper summarizing the Basel Committee's proposal as well as a list of specific questions that banks may find useful as they prepare their comments. The summary and questions, which will be issued in a few days, will be sent to all insured banking institutions and also will be available on the Web sites of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (www.occ.gov), the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (www.federalreserve.gov) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (www.fdic.gov).


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How well can you see with your ears? Device offers new alternative to blind people
July 11, 2013 July 8, 2013 ScienceBlog.com
A device that trains the brain to turn sounds into images could be used as an alternative to invasive treatment for blind and partially-sighted people, researchers at the University of Bath have found.
The vOICe sensory substitution device is a revolutionary tool that helps blind people to use sounds to build an image in their minds of the things around them.
A research team, led by Dr Michael Proulx, from the University's Department of Psychology, looked at how blindfolded sighted participants responded to an eye test using the device.
They were asked to perform a standard eye chart test called the Snellen Tumbling E test, which asked participants to view the letter E turned in four different directions and in various sizes. Normal, best-corrected visual acuity is considered 20/20, calculated in terms of the distance (in feet) and the size of the E on the eye chart.
The participants, even without any training in the use of the device, were able to perform the best performance possible, nearly 20/400. This limit appears to be the highest resolution currently possible with the ever-improving technology.
Dr Michael Proulx said: "This level of visual performance exceeds that of the current invasive techniques for vision restoration, such as stem cell implants and retinal prostheses after extensive training.
"A recent study found successful vision at a level of 20/800 after the use of stem cells. Although this might improve with time and provide the literal sensation of sight, the affordable and non-invasive nature of The vOICe provides another option.
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Coverage: Lin-Manuel Miranda for the 2020-2022 Rolex Mentoring Programme
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[ Written on April 27 2021 by Francesca ]
Sony Animation and Netflix share a first look at Vivo, the animated feature with songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda, who also voices the leading character.
Watch the teaser below.
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Hamilton (Filmed Original Broadway Production)
The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Filmed live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theatre with the original Broadway cast. On Disney+ from July 3, 2020
Piragua Guy
A feature version of the Broadway musical, in which a bodega owner has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to the Dominican Republic after inheriting his grandmother's fortune. In US theaters and on HBOMax on June 10, 2021.
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer (Andrew Garfield) navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out. In selected theaters from on November 12 and on Netflix from November 19, 2021
The film is centered on a young girl and her family in Colombia, who all have magical powers, sadly, the young girl has no powers. In theaters on November 24 and on Disney Plus from December 25, 2021.
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Athetis ignava is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Southern and Eastern Africa, including the islands of the Indian Ocean.

The wingspan is approx. 30–35 mm

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Moths described in 1852
Moths of the Comoros
Moths of Africa
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Moths of Réunion


It's been a big day around here. One Tiny Suitcase is growing and part of that growth includes coverage in some great magazines like Canada's Chatelaine!
Chatelaine's July 2009 issue includes an article on how to take a vacation on a budget. Writer Karan Smith included an interview with me about some of the cost cutting measures we have done as a family to enable us to continue travelling during this recession.
"Corbett says she's perfected the art of saving on sustenance with her young twins. 'I hate going to restaurants, ordering them a meal and then seeing them pick at it', says the entrepreneur, who runs One Tiny Suitcase, a baby-gear-rental business.
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Koupe ice cream is much lower in sugar than the regular stuff and contains three times the protein. Thanks to its healthy image and a good dose of marketing nous, Koupe's products were available in six countries just a year after launch.
Jaco Pieper assumed people would not be interested when he presented his ice cream brand Koupe to other food start-ups in Silicon Valley in 2017. But the protein ice cream was a hit, and it still is. It's now been on the market for a year and can already be found in big supermarket chains in Europe and the Middle East.
In a previous lifetime, Pieper was a marketing communications advisor for big brands. "But it was always my dream to establish a brand within my budget as the ultimate test of my capabilities," he says. When he made a trip to Greece just before his 40th birthday, he came across a place selling frozen yoghurt with added protein powder. Strategically located next to a gym, it gave him the idea of developing a high-protein low-calorie ice cream.
Pieper:"Koupe is an ice cream that is delicious and healthy. It's available in four flavors, chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, and banana, and contains 40% fewer calories, 70% less sugar, and three times as much protein as regular ice cream. Nutrition consists of three building blocks: fat, protein, and carbohydrates. The advantage of protein is that it is absorbed more slowly than carbs, which makes you feel less hungry. And protein contains amino acids, which are good for your muscles.
What was your biggest ambition?
"I want to be the Ben & Jerry's of healthy ice cream and maybe even of more products. Healthy ice cream is becoming really big in the US and England. During the trade mission to Silicon Valley I went on, the point was made that a new revolution is now occurring in food. I was right about that four years ago, but it also means that the competition is increasing.
What else do you have planned?
"We are coming out with a new flavor in mid-April. And I'm working on launching Koupe in France. Thanks to my winning pitch at the FoodBytes! start-up event in May 2017, I am now participating in the ShakeUp Factory agrifood accelerator in Paris.
What advice would you give other entrepreneurs?
"I developed Koupe alongside my regular job. At first, a start-up can seem like a mountain that is too high to climb. If you start thinking that way, there is a real risk you become paralyzed. I told myself to take one step every day, no matter how small. It could even be a phone call.
This article was posted on Rabobank.com and RTL Z on the website of a Dutch business and financial news channel, on April 2, 2018.
Coffee Flour transforms a by-product into a nutritious and delicious ingredient for beverages and baking.
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Duvelisib (IPI-145), is an orally available, small-molecule, selective dual inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K) δ and γ isoforms originated by Intellikine (owned by Takeda) and developed by Infinity Pharmaceuticals. Orally administered duvelisib was rapidly absorbed, with a dose-proportional increase in exposure. The compound produced a half-life of approximately 7-12 hours, following 14 days of dosing. Duvelisib exerts profound effects on adaptive and innate immunity by inhibiting B and T cell proliferation, blocking neutrophil migration, and inhibiting basophil activation. Duvelisib blockade of PI3K-δ and PI3K-γ potentially lead to significant therapeutic effects in multiple inflammatory, autoimmune, and hematologic diseases. The molecule is in phase III development as a combination therapy for patients with haematological malignancies such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and follicular lymphoma.
PI3K-δ and PI3K-γ inhibition by IPI-145 abrogates immune responses and suppresses activity in autoimmune and inflammatory disease models.
IPI-145 antagonizes intrinsic and extrinsic survival signals in chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells.
Novel phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ,γ inhibitor: potent anti-inflammatory effects and joint protection in models of rheumatoid arthritis.
IPI-145 shows promise in CLL patients.
PI3-kinase inhibitors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and gamma inhibitor, IPI-145 (Duvelisib), overcomes signals from the PI3K/AKT/S6 pathway and promotes apoptosis in CLL.
Targeting PI3Kδ and PI3Kγ signalling disrupts human AML survival and bone marrow stromal cell mediated protection.


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Goodpasture antigen: expression of the full-length alpha3(IV) chain of collagen IV and localization of epitopes exclusively to the noncollagenous domain.
Leinonen A, Netzer KO, Boutaud A, Gunwar S, Hudson BG
Kidney Int. 1999 55 (3): 926-35
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BACKGROUND - Tissue injury in Goodpasture (GP) syndrome (rapidly progressive glomerular nephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage) is mediated by antibasement membrane antibodies that are targeted to the alpha3(IV) chain of type IV collagen, one of five alpha(IV) chains that occur in the glomerular basement membrane. GP antibodies are known to bind epitopes within the carboxyl terminal noncollagenous domain (NC1) of the alpha3(IV) chain, termed the GP autoantigen. Whether epitopes also exist in the 1400-residue collagenous domain is unknown because studies to date have focused solely on the NC1 domain. A knowledge of GP epitopes is important for the understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease and for the development of therapeutic strategies.
METHODS - A cDNA construct was prepared for the full-length human alpha3(IV) chain. The construct was stably transfected into human embryonic kidney 293 cells. The purified full-length r-alpha3(IV) chain was characterized by electrophoresis and electron microscopy. The capacity of this chain for binding of GP antibodies from five patients was compared with that of the human r-alpha3(IV)NC1 domain by competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.
RESULTS - The r-alpha3(IV) chain was secreted from 293 cells as a single polypeptide chain that did not spontaneously undergo assembly into a triple-helical molecule. An analysis of GP-antibody binding to the full-length r-alpha3(IV) chain showed binding exclusively to the globular NC1 domain.
CONCLUSION - The full-length human alpha3(IV) chain possesses the capacity to bind GP autoantibodies. The epitope(s) is found exclusively on the nontriple-helical NC1 domain of the alpha3(IV) chain, indicating the presence of specific immunogenic properties. The alpha3(IV) chain alone does not spontaneously undergo assembly into a triple-helical homotrimeric molecule, suggesting that coassembly with either the alpha4(IV) and/or the alpha5(IV) chain may be required for triple-helix formation.
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Scenic Eclipse builder finds new partner as launch date approaches
Peter Lynch 8 Feb 2019
The troubled construction of the Scenic Eclipse, Australia's first ultra-luxe expedition yacht, appeared yesterday to be in the hands of another Croatian shipyard.
The financially-challenged Uljanik, where the $250 million yacht is nearing completion with a deadline of some six weeks, has chosen Brodosplit over Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri Group.
There are reports Fincantieri, one of the world's leading cruise ship producers, may stay on as an adviser.
At one point, local media speculated that Scenic itself had looked over the yard's books for possible investment with Fincantieri. This has not been confirmed.
There was no word yesterday as to whether the news will have implications for Scenic Eclipse and a second similar Scenic yacht slated for construction at the yard.
Scenic chair and founder Glen Moroney has spent weeks with his own team of workers at the yard to ensure guests get aboard for the first sailing this year, after a set back meant delays in 2018.
Croatian Minister of Economy Darko Horvat said according to the documents from the bidding phase, Brodosplit is solvent. He noted that it would be a serious problem if it turns out that the selected partner has no financial capacity for the restructuring of Uljanik.
Uljanik is Croatia's largest shipbuilder with two shipyards in Pula and Rijeka in the northern Adriatic. The company has financial troubles and for months it has been searching for a strategic partner that would invest in it.
Uljanik's workers went on strike several times due to unpaid wages last year.
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The Good e-Reader Android App Store client was officially updated today for both Android and the Blackberry Playbook! We have augmented our existing Android app so there is now an optimized mobile and new Honeycomb version. All of the new versions give you many new enhancements and features.
One of the main new elements of our store is that is now completely now optimized for mobile phones and tablets. We know a ton of people use their Kindle Fire, Kobo Vox and many other tablets. Our mobile version also has been updated that makes it look even better on your smartphones or Android tablets. You will get the best experience with Android 2.1 – 2.3 and 4.0. We have also created a brand new Honeycomb version for people who still have those.
One of the main new features we have introduced are fixes to Popular Apps and New Apps. In the past no matter what version of the client you had, it showed apps from both our Playbook and Android sections. We thought this confused many users and amended it so if you have the Android Client you will only see Android apps. We have also revised the way text is displayed in the App descriptions. It now maintains proper paragraph form and line spacing. Finally, we have added a new Splash screen image and added new enhancements to the auto update feature when an app you have as an update.
The Good e-Reader App Store features over 1500 apps for both Android and the Blackberry Playbook. You think of our app market as a veritable editors choice of the best apps on both platforms. Here at Good e-Reader we put a heavy emphasis on reading and news apps, but we have tons of games and other content too. Whenever a new version of an app is released we always are one of the first app markets to update our apps. Our Playbook App Market is currently rated the #1 store of its kind, as voted by Crackberry.
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Likud MK Avraham Neguise, the only MK from Ethiopia currently in the Knesset, is still waiting for an invitation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to join him in two weeks on his trip to Africa, including a two-day visit to Ethiopia.
"No one has yet asked me," Neguise, who is the chairman of the Knesset's Caucus for Israel-Africa Relations, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
Neguise, who emigrated in 1985, said he hopes that the reason he has not yet been invited does not have to do with the mini coalition crisis he sparked in the spring along with fellow Likud MK David Amsalem when they refused to vote with the coalition and deprive it of its one-seat majority because the government reneged on a commitment to bring the remaining 9,000 immigrant applicants waiting in Ethiopia to Israel.
Neguise was referring to members of the Ethiopian community here waiting to be reunited with family members from Ethiopia.
An official in the PMO, asked whether Neguise would be invited to join the prime minister, said that the list of who will be accompanying Netanyahu has still not yet been finalized.
Neguise said he was confident he will still be asked to join the trip.
Netanyahu is scheduled to go to Uganda on July 4th to mark 40 years to the day of the Entebbe raid. A ceremony will be held at the airport, and will include a number of those who were held hostage there in 1976, as well as the IDF commandos who rescued them.
From there Netanyahu will proceed to Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where he will spend two nights. He will return to Israel on July 8. This will be the first visit by a sitting prime minister to Sub-Saharan Africa since Yitzhak Shamir visited five countries in West Africa in 1987.
Neguise said that the government would be wise if it used members of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel to build the relationship with Africa.
For Ethiopian Israelis, he said, the visit of the prime minister to Ethiopia is a "closing of the circle," and a source of pride to younger Israelis of Ethiopian descent that the country of their parents' birth was important enough to merit a prime ministerial visit.
"It gives the younger generation motivation to invest there, which some are already doing," he said.
Neguise said that Israeli companies doing business there should employ Ethiopian Israelis who know the language and the culture, and could help them maneuver the business culture in the country.
According to Neguise, Netanyahu's visit has much more than purely symbolic significance, and it will surely open the doors for Israeli businesses to set up shop on the continent.


The spacious semi-detached property is one of a pair of cottages which sit within five acres of the owners' grounds, where guests are invited to enjoy this lovely open space at their leisure and take in the peace and serenity of the area. From the private balcony there are stunning, far reaching views over the gardens and beyond to the Frome Valley. Located within the rolling picturesque Dorset countryside, this is the perfect spot for guests looking for a relaxing break in peaceful surroundings, with an array of walks from the properties that lead over the picture postcard landscape. With their central location, these cottages are ideal for guests looking to explore the wider area, from Cerne Abbas with its famous giant carved into the chalk hillside, Weymouth Sea Life Park and Marine Sanctuary, Abbotsbury Swannery, to the awe inspiring World Heritage Jurassic Coast that is a must for guests visiting the area, to name but a few.
On entering the cottage you will find yourself in the cosy and traditional open-plan lounge/kitchen/diner. With original exposed beams as well as a TV and DVD player, the lounge is a snug and relaxing place to relax in. The sofa bed can be made up to sleep either an adult or up to two children. There is a charming dining area and the kitchen is equipped with an integrated oven and hob, small fridge with ice compartment and microwave. There is also a shared utility room with fridge and freezer facilities and a washing machine available in an outbuilding. Heading upstairs you will find a spacious, comfy bedroom with beams and a super-king size bed, which is a zip-and-link bed and can be made into a twin on request. This lovely bedroom is a light and airy room and has French doors leading out onto a private enclosed balcony with seating, a perfect spot where you can take in the views and perhaps spot some of the local wildlife. The bedroom also has a compact en-suite shower room with WC which is accessed via two steps down.
Stepping outside, guests are welcome to explore the five acres of the owners' grounds and enjoy the open space at their leisure whilst taking in the peace and tranquillity of the area. There is a seating area to the rear of the property and you will have access to shared lawns with a small ornamental pond (please take care with children). Off-road parking is available in the shared driveway to the front of the cottage.
Lovely cottage in a quiet location, yet many places accessible. Very friendly owners, on site, who responded immediately when needed. Perfect for dogs. Good friendly pubs within a short drive. Would love to go back another time.
A lovely calm cottage with privacy, where we had a very warm welcome. This is a nice place to start journeys in South West England or just to walk in a beautiful surrounding. For us it was the perfect combination of relaxing and exploring a great area. Combined with impressive fogey calls during night time.
A car definitely needed as very rural location, no village shop or pub within walking distance, but lovely and quiet and although the owners were only next door they left us alone to enjoy our holiday but were very approachable if needed!
Lovely cottage. Well kept pretty gardens with amazing views. Very quiet and good location although you do need a car. Large bedroom with comfy bed.
A pleasant place to stay in a quiet, typical English setting. The grounds were very English and well presented. The owners were very welcoming and helpful.
Lovely property in excellent location. Very quiet and peaceful. Owners were very friendly and helpful. We enjoyed the free eggs fresh from the chickens and also the lovely ginger biscuits.
In a quiet,pleasant village without its own pub. The cottage is well situated for visiting the Jurassic Coast, walking and visiting many pubs with good food. We found the property offered an adequate kitchen, a bijou shower room, and very spacious bedroom and sitting room with an excellent outlook over a large garden and farmland.
The cottage is in a lovely location, close to walks, pubs, sights. It has wonderful views especially from the upstairs terrace and the hosts are charming and most helpful. They have two horses and some chickens and we were left a boRead morex of eggs for our arrival, a nice touch. It is quiet and peaceful.


One of this season's most versatile items, the Uncle Henry Hamilton coat dress doubles as a military-esque jacket or dress. It skims the body in all the right places and as is made from cotton rib with lovely contrast cotton twill trim details and big brass buttons. This knit will keep you warm in winter and cool in changeable weather.
Just add attitude and white boots. True to size.


Dragon Coast: XPs. Posted by DM Mike.
This is a record of XPs given out in-game and for RPing in the Taverns-mode.
Any XPs I awarded you for individual posts, help, etc. over in the game thread are NOT recorded here. You are expected to keep track of them yourself.
Likewise, XPs for posting a portrait, a description, and setting up bio lines for your PC are not reflected here.
This thread is updated regularly, and I will tell you when I am awarding XPs here.
All PCs receive 25 XPs per post they made in the Taverns thread.
This message was last updated by the GM at 12:44, Tue 13 June 2006.
All PCs gain a base of 100 XPs.
All PCs receive 50 XPs.
All PCs get 200 XPs.
All PCs get 50 XPs.
All PCs get 35 XPs.
General posting and RPing: All PCs get 50 XPs.
General posting and RPing (and waiting!): All PCs get 50 XPs.
Investigation: All PCs get 50 XPs.
RPing, the "poker" game, and waiting for me: All PCs get 150 XPs.
All PCs get 75 XPs.
General posting/RPing: All PCs get 50 XPs.
All PCs get 125 XPs.
See below for individual posting rewards, since some players posted more than others did this month.
That last encounter was as tough as I wanted it to be!
Those who posted did a great job, too!
ALL PCs get 400 XPs. for this last climactic encounter!
See below for any individual XPs, too.
All PCs go up a level. Boom. It's that easy.
(Well, there IS some math involved. Your PCs are now 1 level higher. Add HALF their current XPs to the minimum for the appropriate level to get their new XP value.
Do this AFTER taking XPs (and any levels from those XPs) awarded for the final encounter in the adventure and the monthly XPs listed above.
Let me know any major changes to your PC, and make those changes on your PC's sheet, too.
Great work, all! I had a lot of fun with this adventure!
Thanks for helping to make it so much fun, all!
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:28, Tue 12 June 2007.
See below for your RPing XPs.
Okey I'll add your Xp here in a log and bump the tread when I give you XP. Also I will be keeping a record on any loot you get during your missions just so I got it ready.
Current XP:(This is your total XP if you want to call it that.) This is the amount of Xp you got after all XP his handed out.
This message was last edited by the GM at 02:08, Wed 27 Feb 2008.


I am VERY pleased to announce that our dates for Fort Drum, NY have been approved!!
This will be a .50 caliber match over a 3 day event. The 2nd day will have targets in the excess of 2,000 yards. The dates are June 13-15, 2008. Please feel free to contact me for any questions.
The North Coast Shooters Association will continue to promote and bring more places East of the Mississippi online for .50 caliber shooting. Making the East a hotspot for .50 caliber competition!


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KDE 3.4 Will Talk to You
Submitted by Olaf Schmidt
The KDE Accessibility team is in the process of integrating speech synthesis into KDE. Not only does this mean better support for visually-impaired and speech-impaired users, but the new features should also prove for a fun desktop experience overall. An important milestone has been reached with the recent release of the KDE Text-to-Speech System (ktts). If you wish to learn more about speech synthesis support in KDE, you can also read an extensive interview with four developers at the KDE Accessibility Website.
Both ktts and KSayIt (an application to read out longer texts) will be included in KDE 3.4. They are important additions to KMouth (an application for speech impaired people) and the other two assistive technologies in KDE, KMouseTool and KMagnifier.
The interview is part of a planned series of interviews with participants of the KDE Accessibility Project. Future interviews will cover other areas of accessibility in KDE:
improved support for partially sighted people in KDE 3.4
support for blind users in KDE 4.0
foundation of the freedesktop.org accessibility initiative to find a consensus on a common speech driver API
close cooperation with the GNOME Accessibility Project to ensure that all assistive technologies will integrate into each desktop without problems
invitation of other accessibility projects to the last KDE conference, and participation in the FSG Accessibility Workgroup
This sounds (easy joke) very cool to me. Accesibility is a very important goal to me, but accesibility features are not only useful for people with disabilities. I use the text zooming in konqueror a lot when I want to read something, and I'm very separated from the screen. Now I hope that with ktts I can still read websites or emails while I'm tidying my room or having a shower. ;-)
I'm sure other geeks will find other interesting uses to this features.
The HAL factor
Accessibility aside, you can't beat the coolness factor having your computer talk to you:-) Using ktts to speak the messages from knotify sounds like fun.
One question tho, since I almost always have music plying. Can you set ktts to fade the volume from the mediaplayer (noatun/juk) to like 25% of current volume before it speaks and turn the volume up afterwards? I don't think playing it on top of the music without doing anything with the volume or temporary stopping it would not give anything particularly comprehendable.
By Morty at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: The HAL factor
file it as a wish on bugs.kde.org... the sooner, the better. should be easy to do via dcop...
By Mathias at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Especially with JuK and Noatun having a similar dcop interface.
By mETz at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
The coolness factor is the kind of thing Microsoft uses to sell you their soft (despite how much cooler KDE is).
Said that, it's a good to have feature for practical reasons, specially for accesibility ones, and I'm glad this is the path chosen by KDE developers.
By Shulai at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
> you can't beat the coolness factor having your computer talk to you:-)
Agreed, but, I want to be able to talk to it.
IBM's ViaVoice was fairly good. I have a (oldish) copy of ViaVoice from my MDK 8.0 Pro CD's (and for whatever reson the CD that ViaVoice is on can't be read... :-\ - I'm on Gentoo these days anyway). ViaVoice worked when I used it last. I want to be able to have a mic sitting in front of me and be able to say "Computer play eno" and have music play. Can I do this yet?
By Xanadu at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
> IBM's ViaVoice was fairly good.
I agree. The problem is that IBM still refuses to make ViaVoice available for Linux endusers.
The speech recognition part is not available at all for Linux. The speech synthesis part of ViaVoice is available on Linux for about half of the languages that are supported on Windows, but only if you buy 300 copies at once for $1500 altogether.
By falonaj at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
I think that "talking to my PC", with the virtual reality stuff, was the biggest and most useless hype of the past years.
Interfaces should be completely differents to be really usable and useful.
And anyway, even if only used as text typing substitute, let's think about the chaos that would be generated in a tipical office...
By Davide Ferrrari at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
SO what keeps you from talking back? Use Sphinx and Perlbox Voice (perlbox.org). Installing Sphinx is really trivial and Perlbox will do the rest. Also, Perlbox has KDE desktop integration. Works like a charm to me...
By Josephine at Thu, 2004/12/30 - 6:00am
But what if you want ktts to do karaoke? You won't want it to fade the volume down.
By Miguel at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
some tts reqs
as someone who works often with tts engines, please please please include support in the api for following:
1) dictionary file for correct pronounciations.
2) string substitution (for example "AFAIK" to "as far as i know")
By rands at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: some tts reqs
The latter is already supported using the SSML API ;)
I went down to 32 chocolate st.
The issue with automagic string replacement is that it may not expected by the user, but this could indeed be a nice feature..
File a wish and we'll see.
By Paul at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
dict.leo.org
I don't know much about this stuff, but perhaps you can support an api to connect to internet servers like
www.leo.org
This is a big online dictionary provided by the technical university of munich (TU),
use this link to have a look http://dict.leo.org/?lang=en&lp=ende&search=
You can search for english and german words and there's also a french dictionary online. After searching for a word you can have it pronounced by clicking on the speakers symbol.
It's a nice feature and perhaps there is a possibility to automatically connect to the server, download the sound files and have them played.
By Andy at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: dict.leo.org
Department of Informatics / Technical University of Munich
Fakultät für Informationstechnik / Fachhochschule München
Fakultät für Informatik / Technische Universtität München
Department of Computer Science / Munich University of Technology
Egal was auf leo.org bzw der Drehscheibe stehen mag... ;-)
By TUler at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
back end...
ktts is a really good looking project.
does anybody know the status of the backends?
can any of them produce a good voice?
By Mark Hannessen at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: back end...
The new Festival voices, i'm told, sound _very_ natural.
By Paul at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
Pretty cool feature, but what about non-english languages, like danish, german, spanish, japanese, icelandic and so on...
KDE is in soooo many languages, will it continue to be that in speech?
Just my 0,02 kr.
By Kalna at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Re: Non-english
Festival supports english (British and American), Spanish and Welsh text to speech, Epos supports Czech and Slovak (read the article). These are the text to speech engines that ktts uses.
There are probably non free tts engines that are available in other languages. I wonder if it is possible to use them?
By Derek Kite at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Also German is supported via Hadifix (txt2pho plus MBROLA) and via IMS German Festival mod. Finnish is supported via Festival. See the KTTS Handbook for details.
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/
Besides the dozens of other languages needed, conspicuously absent are French and Italian. If anyone figures out how to get these languages working, please email your links and instructions; I'll put them in the KTTS Handbook.
By Gary Cramblitt ... at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
AT&T used to sell their natural voices packages that supported English (UK & US), French, Spanish (ES), German, and Korean. There is a Linux client available, though the software is harder to find nowadays since AT&T stopped supporting it. This is non-free software. A company called Scansoft also makes a variety of engines: English, French (FR & CA), Spanish, Dutch, German, Japanese. I'm not sure if they have Linux versions of these engines (I've only seen Windows clients). The AT&T one, at least, should not be hard to plug in, and sounds much better than the free TTS engines.
I think you're talking about IBM ViaVoice? To properly support it, we need a permanent licensed copy. Anyone care to donate?
By Gary Cramblitt ... at Tue, 2004/12/21 - 6:00am
User speech recognition?
So how about adding capability to control the computer via speech too (on blind support for kde-4.0)?
Open Mind Speech
OSSRI
CMU Sphinx
and others come to mind... If one could be supported/used, which one? ;-)
By Nobody at Mon, 2004/12/20 - 6:00am
Annoying..
It is annoying already have to read so many "K", now we will hear them.
By DebianUser at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Annoying..
On Gentoo, you can remove all the K's. Simply add a sed filter to the build chain. Works like a charm. I recommend you switch!
By GentooUser at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Congratulations from the fundator
I am the fundator of Proklam, latter renamed to KTTSD (by me) and now it seems, it was renamed to KTTS. And I say C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S! Keep the good work!
When someone asks me what's good about free software, I always mention this, I founded the project but I couldn't finish it, and someone else picked it and it's evolving, it's awesome, Long live to free software!!!
By Pupeno at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: Congratulations from the fundator
hey man! thanks for Proklam!! it's also good to be able to thank directly the guys that make your computer run :)
By c0p0n at Thu, 2004/12/23 - 6:00am
Woot! :D
As a visually impared person(20/100) and huge KDE nut I think this is really good news :)
I tried oralux 0.6a and was sort of dissapointed. Emacspeak would be nice it you took away emacs and replaced it kwrite :) Then again oralux sounded better then my attempts at getting festival to spit out ogg's via the console.
If I go totally blind one day I have faith that I will be able to pop in my live distro dvd with the entire project gutenberg collection and listen my ears out :) I think it will be cool when people who are totally blind now can do the same too! ^_^
By Nintenduh at Wed, 2004/12/22 - 6:00am
Support for the blind
Support for blind users sounds sweet. Is there any information available yet on how this will be accomplished?
By Canonymous Oward at Thu, 2004/12/23 - 6:00am
Re: Support for the blind
What would be _really_ nice is a OCR system for KDE which actually works properly. I have a friend who is slowly going blind. He now cannot read ordinary text, and finds life a bit shallow. I know there are commercial packages which work, but my friend is does not have a private income and cannot afford any of them. Anybody know of a solution?
By Christopher Sawtell at Sat, 2004/12/25 - 6:00am
Have you tried Kooka's ocr before?
http://www.kde.org/apps/kooka/
By Nintenduh at Sat, 2004/12/25 - 6:00am
The free versions of SUSE come with an OCR system, that seems to be commercial, but works very well.
By Z_God at Sat, 2004/12/25 - 6:00am
> Is there any information available yet on how this will be accomplished?
The Qt-toolkit used by KDE already has support for screen readers on Windows and Macintosh. The next version (Qt4) will also support the Linux screen reader Gnopernicus, and a number of other assistive technologies.
We are closely cooperating with the GNOME project to create common standards for accessibility purposes.
We will make more information about this available during the next weeks.
By Olaf Jan Schmidt at Sun, 2004/12/26 - 6:00am
Better use of time
It would seem to me that a better use of development time would be things that make Linux more user friendly for the masses. Things like software installation for example. Less time needs to be spent on "foo-faa" features like rotating background software while blending it with a webpage or yet another screen saver option. Don't get me wrong, KDE talking to you is going to be very cool, but there are more important things that need to be fixed first. In reality most of the common tasks that people do in Windows are too difficult on Linux for the end-user. Microsoft will rule the world until a more concentrated effort on making KDE (or Gnome) a really usable environment for Linux and not just some "cool thing" for geeky types to play with.
By chris at Thu, 2004/12/30 - 6:00am
Re: Better use of time
KDE talking to you is more about accessibility than having a toy to play with. It is very important for those who need it.
By Paul Eggleton at Fri, 2004/12/31 - 6:00am
French Perlbox release
I built a french version of perlbox which uses espeak instead of festival.
The advantage of espeak is that it supports many more languages than festival actually does. I love Festival and Sphinx which helped me starting with voice synthesis / recognition but years passed and still nothing really usable in the straightforward way.
So to use perlbox voice french (which can be modified to be used with other languages) we need :
- Espeak that you will compile from sources, packages included in distros are generaly outdated
- Sphinx 2 in it's simplest version, no matter if in English
- extract the archive you downloaded in the directory /tmp
- as root enter in the newly extracted archive named perlbox-voice-fr-1.0
- launch ./install.pl
- click ok
finished.
Logout from your root account and launch ./perlbox-voice
download from http://www.r-kraft.com/perlbox-voice-fr-1.0.tar.bz2
or from http://perlboxfr.tuxfamily.org/
you may have a qucik view of this version at working in it's very alpha version, so it wasn't able to identify every words but only few of them, for now it has evolved so it should be usable even with complex words http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/rkraft_fr/video/x2meug_dscf1...
By Pierre at Fri, 2007/07/27 - 5:00am


Today's post is more a little rant and just letting my fingers exercise themselves over my keyboard than an actual attempt at a long post. It's something that has been on my mind for a while and has stopped me from posting on this site if I'm honest. I was living a fake life online and felt a fraud and a liar. How could I be living the life I wanted when I was a slave to the online drum of my electronic overlords?
Do you come out in a cold sweat when you can't find your phone? Do you miss the beauty of things outside as you slave over facebook posts and youtube videos? Do you tell yourself you are only going online for a few minutes 'to check something', only to be shocked when you spot a clock and notice hours have gone by?
I know I was. I spent nearly all day online. I would use the computer at work, banging through the usual and then aimlessly surf online when I wanted a break from my work duties. I'd go home and spend hours watching Youtube videos, the last TV show or online movie, check email repeatedly throughout the night, craving a new notification on my Facebook account. It felt like a drug. I craved the little red light flashing or the beep to say someone had sent me something or liked something I posted. I got a high when it happened. I felt bad when I didn't. I judged myself and how I saw my life by how others valued it on social media. I was living a fake life online. Not living a life.
Slowly I have been working through it and building an actual physical world. One with girls. One with hobbies. One with things done outside! It can be done but it takes a while to build. I won;t dare try and give some tips just now as I had a real dependency on the life I created and trying to make others see me as that person and not the scared boy I felt inside. Thankfully now the real me is the now the me that is on and off line. But I'm still working on it. Something that really helped me clarify my thinking was the following video. It is very hard hitting and should really make you think.
We are worried about the zombie apocalypse. Of brain dead people, in lines, unkempt, with unfocused eyes, glaring at their prize of eating the living. Sadly we have our own zombie apocalypse but there is no dead. We are brain dead and focused only on the online world they live. They fight to keep the lies they tell about themselves. They bully and insult others to feel better about themselves and avoid attacks from others. They spend hours on the phone or the laptop, avoiding daylight or speaking to the warm bloodied creatures around them, needing their fix of likes and follows. The apocalypse is now. Look at how few can get through a meal or talk to you without checking some form of social media or switching to watch the TV. We have forgotten how to interact and be in the moment and speak to one another. We have forgotten what being social really means. Social networks have actually put us further away from one another. The electronic systems that were meant to bring us closer together has actually created more walls as we aim to show off a life that doesn't exist by using crafted photos and hashtags and hide the real feelings of despairs we hold deep down inside.
I am getting better at it. I no long er feel the need to check my phone every thirty seconds but it is something I am still fighting. Are you a zombie or one of the band of survivors fighting to remain in contact with what it means to be human now. I used to struggle to interact with people. I din't know what to say in groups so I surfed on my phone as it was easier than trying to build relationships. This worked fine for a wee while until the dependency on the light and sounds online meant I never went out and depression took it's dark hold on my life. I've not felt better since I took since I ventured online in little bursts, which I control.
It takes time and effort to do, to unplug yourself from the matrix but it is possible. Watch the video. Evaluate how you are living your life and if you need to change. I wouldn't wish the existence I had before on anyone. It was my choice then but something I had to stop doing to become happy again. Living almost exclusively online stole away the real me and I forgot who I was. Are you doing the same?


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\subsection{Methods: Process tomography}
In order to characterize the gates, we perform full process tomography on the three-level system and reconstruct the process matrix $\chi_{\rm exp}$ using a maximum likelihood procedure \cite{Jezek2003}. Any $SU(3)$ operator acting on a three-level system can be decomposed into nine orthogonal basis operators. As a full set of basis operators we choose $\{I_{01}$, $\sigma_{01}^x$, $-\mathrm{i}\sigma_{01}^y$, $\sigma_{01}^z$, $\sigma_{0e}^x$, $-\mathrm{i}\sigma_{0e}^y$, $\sigma_{1e}^x$, $-\mathrm{i}\sigma_{1e}^y$,$E\}$, where $\sigma_{ij}$ are Pauli operators acting on the levels $i$ and $j$, $I_{01}=\ket{0}\bra{0}+\ket{1}\bra{1}$ and $E=\ket{e}\bra{e}$. The process is fully determined by its action on a complete set of nine input states $\{\ket{0}$, $\ket{e}$, $\ket{1}$, $({\ket{0}+\ket{e}})/{\sqrt{2}}$, $({\ket{0}+\mathrm{i}\ket{e}})/{\sqrt{2}}$, $({\ket{0}+\ket{1}})/{\sqrt{2}}$, $({\ket{0}+\mathrm{i}\ket{1}})/{\sqrt{2}}$, $({\ket{e}+\ket{1}})/{\sqrt{2}}$, $({\ket{e}+\mathrm{i}\ket{1}})/{\sqrt{2}}\}$. These states are prepared by sequentially applying identity, $\pi-$, and $\pi/2-$operations ($I$, $R_x(\pi)$, $R_x(\pi/2)$, $R_y(\pi/2)$) on the $\ket{0}\leftrightarrow\ket{e}$ and $\ket{e}\leftrightarrow\ket{1}$ transitions. After applying the geometric operation to the input states, we perform full state tomography on the respective output states \cite{Bianchetti2010}. The length of a typical sequence is 208\,ns (five 40\,ns pulses with 2\,ns separation). We calibrate the $\pi$-pulses on the $\ket{0}\leftrightarrow\ket{e}$ and the $\ket{e}\leftrightarrow\ket{1}$ transitions by measuring Rabi oscillations between the corresponding states. From the recorded $9^2=81$ measurements, the process matrix $\chi_{\rm exp}$ is reconstructed. The process is compared to the ideal one (\ref{idealproc}) by calculating its fidelity as  $F=\rm tr\left(\chi_{\rm exp}\chi_{\rm th}\right)$. Since the $\ket{e}$ state serves only as an auxiliary state, we present only the reduced density matrix $\tilde\chi$, which describes the processes involving the $\ket{0}$ and $\ket{1}$ states and omits any operators acting on the $\ket{e}$ state. The set of basis operators is thus given by $\{I,X,\tilde{Y},Z\}=\{I_{01},\sigma_{01}^x,-\mathrm{i}\sigma_{01}^y,\sigma_{01}^z\}$.

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Celadon and Amelia
You searched for: Work of Art items where Versions matches 'E18'
William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801) after Wilson
S,1.32
E18B
Celadon is seen at the centre, looking to the heavens with his arms outstretched in disbelief and grief. Amelia lies dead at his feet. In the background, there is a house with a shepherd driving his sheep up a hill, on which is a fortress. To the right, a bay is visible with stormy seas and a broken bridge. The sky dark is with storm clouds, though clearing to the right of the fortress.
Lettered below the image 'R.Wilson pinxit' and 'Woollett et Browne fecit'
The subject derives from The Seasons by the Scottish poet and playwright, James Thomson (1700-1748) - specifically Summer (ll. 1191 ff.), first published in 1727.
The subject derives from The Seasons by the Scottish poet and playwright, James Thomson (1700-1748) - specifically Summer (ll. 1191 ff.), first published in 1727.
D135 Broken Trees on a Mountain, The British Museum D362 Study for Celadon and Amelia, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
D135 Broken Trees on a Mountain, The British Museum
D362 Study for Celadon and Amelia, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The engraving is of an unlocated painting exhibited by Wilson at the Society of Artists in 1765 (157), entitled A Summer Storm with the Story of the Two Lovers from Thompson (Celadon and Amelia). Its original owner is cited as William Lock of Norbury, the artist's travelling companion from Venice to Rome 15 years previously. Solkin has described the subject as a modern, English, Christian equivalent to the 'Destruction of the Children of Niobe' (see P90 and other versions), noting that such a moral theme was well suited to a landscape painter of Wilson's Grand Style pretensions. The design appropriately recalls storm scenes by Gaspard Dughet and mountain views by Salvator Rosa, both of whom were admired by Thomson.
The engraving is of an unlocated painting exhibited by Wilson at the Society of Artists in 1765 (157), entitled A Summer Storm with the Story of the Two Lovers from Thompson (Celadon and Amelia). Its original owner is cited as William Lock of Norbury, the artist's travelling companion from Venice to Rome 15 years previously. Solkin has described the subject as a modern, English, Christian equivalent to the 'Destruction of the Children of Niobe' (see P90 and other versions), noting that such a moral theme was well suited to a landscape painter of Wilson's Grand Style pretensions. The design appropriately recalls storm scenes by Gaspard Dughet and mountain views by Salvator Rosa, both of whom were admired by Thomson.
Fagan 1885, p. 26 cat. LVII, 2nd State; WGC, p. 165 under pl. 24b; Solkin 1982, pp. 220-21 (entry on one of several impressions at the British Museum); S. Mitchell, 'James Thomson's Picture Collection and British History Painting', Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 23, no. 1 (2011), pp. 127-28; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 284 (entry on E18, an impression at YCBA)
Fagan 1885, p. 26 cat. LVII, 2nd State; WGC, p. 165 under pl. 24b; Solkin 1982, pp. 220-21 (entry on one of several impressions at the British Museum); S. Mitchell, 'James Thomson's Picture Collection and British History Painting', Journal of the History of Collections, vol. 23, no. 1 (2011), pp. 127-28; Wilson and Europe 2014, p. 284 (entry on E18, an impression at YCBA)
WGC notes that a line engraving of the composition, published in France by J.J. Avril (1771-1835) and derived from the Woollett engraving, in earlier impressions has the name of Wilson as painter but substitutes that of Vernet in later impressions.
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Broken Trees on a Mountain, The British Museum
Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782), Study for Celadon and Amelia, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801) after Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven
William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801) after Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery
William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801) after Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, The British Museum
William Woollett (1735-1785) and John Browne (1741-1801) after Wilson, Celadon and Amelia, National Museum Wales, Cardiff
John Browne, 1742-1801
William Woollett, 1735-1785
Louis Fagan, A Catalogue Raisonné of the engraved Works of William Woollett


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Ed Williams may refer to:

 Ed Williams (actor), American actor
 Ed Williams (running back) (born 1950), American football running back
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Welcome to a new year with FSG! We hope that your holiday was awesome and you're back into the swing of "real life". We enjoyed our time away but we're HYPE to be back at it!
On television, the 17th season of The Biggest Loser premiered. We like the show and the new changes to the format, but the highlight is that Shells apparently has a "real life crush". Wow. Lip Sync Battle also premiered with Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Dewan Tatum, and they pulled out ALL the stops! The BeyHive spazzed!!
In Fashion, Jaden Smith is the face of the new Louis Vuitton womenswear line. Ok.
In politics, President Obama took Executive Action in an effort to reduce gun violence. His announcement was emotional and pointed. Read the full official press release here!
In sports (kinda), it's been announced that Beyonce will be a part of the Super Bowl 50 half-time show! She won't be performing alone- Cold Play and Bruno will be there- but when Bey's in the building…no one else matters, right?
In the hypothetical world of "Would You Rather" we consider if we'd rather feel a sharp pain each time someone says our name or have a bell sound each time we are are aroused? LOL! Of course we want to hear your take… We're listening: #FSGWYR @FSGPodcast on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Have you ever been a witness and/or participant in an argument on social media? We talk about the motivations and the harm done by those who engage in virtual combat, even when the intention may be good. Check out our perspectives and then let us know what you think!
Finally, we wrap up the show with the first What's In My Beat's of the year. Irene gets us started with a little "Church" by a few of Chi-town's finest. And for Eye Spy Inspiration, Shells reminds us that a year is a long time to work on becoming better versions of ourselves, so be patient and just keep practicing.
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Home Trucking News FMCSA Shutters Three Illinois HHG Carriers
FMCSA Shutters Three Illinois HHG Carriers
Summer Smith
Today, the FMCSA announced it has put the brakes on three Chicago-area household goods carriers by revoking or suspending the companies operating authority because of "serious violations of safety and commercial regulations."
In addition to having their operating authority suspended or revoked, the companies face thousands in civil penalties.
In 2012, the FMCSA created a Moving Fraud Task Force shortly after the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation released a report that identified Chicago-area household goods moving companies that had received numerous consumer complaints, including holding customers' shipments hostage until additional charges were paid. The FMCSA Task Force began investigating the companies listed in the Senate Committee's report. That investigation led to the shut down of the following companies:
Aurora, Ill.-based White Glove Relocation Services, Inc. (USDOT No. 2069670) was ordered shut down for safety violations. The company's operating authority has also been suspended for holding customers' shipments hostage. The company has been assessed civil penalties totaling $56,300 for commercial violations (holding shipments hostage, misleading advertising, billing clients excessive charges for moves) and $2,070 for safety violations (failing to implement a random drug and alcohol testing program, using a driver not medically qualified). The company is currently not allowed to operate in interstate commerce.
Cicero, Ill.-based Able Moving, Inc. (does business as Father & Sons Moving Service) (USDOT No. 1418141) had its operating authority suspended for holding customers' shipments hostage. The company has been assessed civil penalties totaling $20,000 for commercial violations (holding shipments hostage) and $2,000 for safety violations (failing to implement a random drug and alcohol testing program). The company is currently not allowed to operate in interstate commerce.
Chicago-based Best Price Moving & Storage (USDOT No. 693651) was ordered shut down for safety violations. The company was allowed to resume operations after it fulfilled a corrective action plan. The company has been assessed civil penalties totaling $15,900 for commercial violations (billing clients excessive charges for moves, false documents purporting to release the carrier from liability) and $5,530 for safety violations (failure to maintain driver qualification files, failure to maintain drivers' duty status records). The company has been assigned a federal safety rating of "Conditional" and FMCSA will monitor its safety compliance.
"Unscrupulous moving companies are on notice that any attempt to take advantage of customers will get them shut down, period," said Senate Committee Chairman John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV. "The practices we uncovered of Internet moving brokers and some moving companies were appalling – particularly in the way they exploited vulnerable consumers, who often had no way of fighting back once they got caught in a predatory scheme. Today FMCSA is proving once again that they're willing to do what it takes to kick the worst actors out of the marketplace."
"Moving is stressful enough without families having to worry whether or not their possessions will arrive safely," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "The Department of Transportation is cracking down on dishonest movers and working hard to educate families on how to avoid them in the first place."
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GM Stops Backing Trump Administration in Emissions Fight With California
Source: By Mike Colias, Wall Street Journal • Posted: Monday, November 23, 2020
Company sees path to compromise on fuel economy rules
General Motors Co. will no longer back the Trump administration in its legal battle to strip California's authority to set its own fuel-efficiency regulations, saying GM's goals for green cars are aligned with the state and the new Biden administration.
In October 2019, GM intervened in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups challenging the Trump administration's decision to revoke a federal waiver that allows California to set its own tailpipe-emissions standards. GM was joined byToyota Motor Corp. TM +0.98% , Fiat Chrysler Automobiles FCAU -0.16% NV and other car companies in siding with the administration's view that federal regulators should set the rules, not individual states.
On Monday, GM said it has withdrawn from that lawsuit and encouraged other auto makers to follow, saying it sees a route to compromise on tailpipe-emission rules.
"We are confident that the Biden Administration, California, and the U.S. auto industry, which supports 10.3 million jobs, can collaboratively find the pathway that will deliver an all-electric future," reads a letter GM released from Chief Executive Mary Barra to the environmental groups that brought the suit.
Fiat Chrysler didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
In a statement, Environmental Protection Agency spokesman James Hewitt said "it's always interesting to see the changing positions of U.S. corporations." He declined to comment further.
The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ms. Barra's letter also said GM is encouraged by President-elect Joe Biden's plan to create jobs by supporting the adoption of electric vehicles. The letter is a public signal that GM is ready to work with the Biden administration, even though President Trump has yet to concede the election and continues to challenge the outcome.
GM is placing among the auto industry's biggest bets on electric cars, upping its investment last week to $27 billion through mid-decade. Ms. Barra has said GM believes the industry is moving toward a future in which cars will be fully electric and emit no tailpipe emissions.
Still, environmental groups sharply criticized GM and Toyota for siding with the Trump administration on the issue. The companies at the time said they backed a single, national standard on fuel economy because it would be too costly if states established rules individually and they had to develop vehicles for different markets.
The auto industry has been divided on the issue of fuel economy amid the legal wrangling between California and the Trump administration. The two have also clashed over new emissions regulations finalized this year that eased rules put in place under President Obama.
Last summer, a group of four auto makers led by Ford Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. came to an agreement with California regulators to meet standards tougher than those proposed by the Trump administration, but less-stringent than the Obama-era rules. These auto makers also agreed not to challenge California's authority.
Write to Mike Colias at Mike.Colias@wsj.com


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