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Abteilung 502: The secret of Leviathan
This book under the ABT502 label is an art book, especially designed by Michael Kontraros for all fans of his work, and in general for those modellers who appreciate fantasy figures. This artistic book, with a very unique layout that shows us the steps of the creation of Leviathan, a work with which Michael Kontraros won several awards, ranging from his concept to his painting. The book is a limited edition of 2000 copies worldwide.
Learn the secrets of one of the contemporary master modellers with an absolutely recognizable style. Do not expect a regular modelling book, but a book to enjoy reading and learning.
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Jack Parsons is getting his star-turn next month, but we'll have to wait for L. Ron Hubbard
By Tony Ortega | May 22, 2018
The effort to bring to television George Pendle's excellent 2006 book about Jack Parsons, Strange Angel, is finally nearing fruition as a Ridley Scott-produced series premieres on the streaming service CBS All Access on June 14.
John Whitesides "Jack" Parsons has long been a figure of fascination because he was both a pioneer of America's early rocketry and a sex magick occultist who led an American chapter of thelema, Aleister Crowley's riff on the dark arts which would become such an inspiration for L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology.
Scientology watchers are well aware that Hubbard and Parsons got up to some pretty kinky things in 1945-46 at Parsons' Pasadena home and in the Southern California desert involving a woman named Marjorie Cameron and an attempt to create "the Moonchild," an incarnation of the anti-Christ.
Crowley himself considered Parsons and Hubbard a couple of idiots, and no child came from the weird sex rituals between Parsons and Cameron (Hubbard reportedly witnessed the acts as scribe, while stroking his, er, wand).
So you can see why our readers have been eagerly awaiting a television portrayal of Parsons and Hubbard and their occult shenanigans. But alas, we have confirmed with CBS All Access that the first season of Strange Angel takes place in 1938, some seven years before Hubbard and Parsons first met.
Judging by the first-look trailer which has been released, the thelemites of 1938 Pasadena were some very sexy individuals with some smoking hot design sense.
That should make for some very watchable television, and we're really looking forward to the series start.
On the other hand, we couldn't help thinking about Nieson Himmel, a Los Angeles Times reporter who lived in the Parsons Pasadena house at the time and witnessed some of Hubbard's antics there. In this 1997 interview, Himmel describes the thelema meetings with Parsons and Hubbard and others in long robes and with "dunce caps" and "pyramid hats," like they were a bunch of clowns…
Well, we can't blame Ridley Scott for sexing that up a bit. And Parsons himself was truly fascinating, as Pendle explains in his book. It's a shame the rocket scientist was blown to pieces in a 1952 accident at his home lab. By then, however, Hubbard was long gone, having ripped off his friend in a business deal gone bad involving a sailing ship. Sounds like we'll have to wait until season two or three before we see that on the screen!
What a crock
A few weeks ago, a tabloid reporter called us up for help on Justin Craig, the guy we wrote about who is pretending to be the reincarnation of L. Ron Hubbard. We enjoy helping out other publications, but in this case, we explained to the reporter, what he was asking for (Craig's criminal record) was stuff his newspaper should really be looking up on its own. Just from a legal perspective, you understand.
Sigh. It looks like that turned out to be the least of the problems with the finished product.
You really can't save the tabloids from themselves, apparently. What a crock — that a few deluded former members of the Church of Scientology have fooled themselves into having some interest in this ex-con has nothing to do with the church itself.
What do you think — is there actually an "insider" saying stuff this stupid, or did the tabloid make all of these quotes up?
Make your plans now!
HOWDYCON UPDATE
Hey, we're only a month away from this year's HowdyCon in Chicago, June 21-23. As in past years, we're looking forward to meeting readers of the Bunker, culminating in Saturday night's main event.
The biggest difference this year is that our Saturday night event is separate from that evening's dinner. Chee Chalker is setting up an inexpensive pizza dinner that you don't need to pay for ahead of time, after which we'll walk over to the theater where our event, hosted by Chicago Fire star Christian Stolte, will take place. Because it's a separate event, we're asking that you pay $10 each to get into the Saturday night event, which will help us recoup what the Bunker paid for the venue. (We have never made a penny on our HowdyCon meetups, we only try to break even.)
Please email your proprietor (tonyo94 AT gmail) in order to reserve your spot for Saturday night's main event. Seating is limited, and we're going to have some really interesting people on stage and they may make a few announcements that you don't want to miss.
Scientology disconnection, a reminder
Bernie Headley has not seen his daughter Stephanie in 5,122 days.
Katrina Reyes has not seen her mother Yelena in 1,725 days
Brian Sheen has not seen his grandson Leo in 268 days.
Geoff Levin has not seen his son Collin and daughter Savannah in 156 days.
Clarissa Adams has not seen her parents Walter and Irmin Huber in 1,331 days.
Carol Nyburg has not seen her daughter Nancy in 2,105 days.
Jamie Sorrentini Lugli has not seen her father Irving in 2,879 days.
Quailynn McDaniel has not seen her brother Sean in 2,225 days.
Dylan Gill has not seen his father Russell in 10,791 days.
Mirriam Francis has not seen her brother Ben in 2,459 days.
Claudio and Renata Lugli have not seen their son Flavio in 2,719 days.
Sara Goldberg has not seen her daughter Ashley in 1,759 days.
Lori Hodgson has not seen her son Jeremy and daughter Jessica in 1,471 days.
Marie Bilheimer has not seen her mother June in 997 days.
Joe Reaiche has not seen his daughter Alanna Masterson in 5,086 days
Derek Bloch has not seen his father Darren in 2,226 days.
Cindy Plahuta has not seen her daughter Kara in 2,546 days.
Claire Headley has not seen her mother Gen in 2,521 days.
Ramana Dienes-Browning has not seen her mother Jancis in 877 days.
Mike Rinder has not seen his son Benjamin and daughter Taryn in 5,179 days.
Brian Sheen has not seen his daughter Spring in 1,285 days.
Skip Young has not seen his daughters Megan and Alexis in 1,688 days.
Mary Kahn has not seen her son Sammy in 1,560 days.
Lois Reisdorf has not seen her son Craig in 1,142 days.
Phil and Willie Jones have not seen their son Mike and daughter Emily in 1,647 days.
Mary Jane Sterne has not seen her daughter Samantha in 1,891 days.
Kate Bornstein has not seen her daughter Jessica in 13,000 days.
Posted by Tony Ortega on May 22, 2018 at 07:00
Our book, The Unbreakable Miss Lovely: How the Church of Scientology tried to destroy Paulette Cooper, is on sale at Amazon in paperback, Kindle, and audiobook versions. We've posted photographs of Paulette and scenes from her life at a separate location. Reader Sookie put together a complete index. More information can also be found at the book's dedicated page.
The Best of the Underground Bunker, 1995-2017 Just starting out here? We've picked out the most important stories we've covered here at the Undergound Bunker (2012-2017), The Village Voice (2008-2012), New Times Los Angeles (1999-2002) and the Phoenix New Times (1995-1999)
BLOGGING DIANETICS: We read Scientology's founding text cover to cover with the help of L.A. attorney and former church member Vance Woodward
Other links: Shelly Miscavige, ten years gone | The Lisa McPherson story told in real time | The Cathriona White stories | The Leah Remini 'Knowledge Reports' | Hear audio of a Scientology excommunication | Scientology's little day care of horrors | Whatever happened to Steve Fishman? | Felony charges for Scientology's drug rehab scam | Why Scientology digs bomb-proof vaults in the desert | PZ Myers reads L. Ron Hubbard's "A History of Man" | Scientology's Master Spies | The mystery of the richest Scientologist and his wayward sons | Scientology's shocking mistreatment of the mentally ill | The Underground Bunker's Official Theme Song | The Underground Bunker FAQ
Our non-Scientology stories: Robert Burnham Jr., the man who inscribed the universe | Notorious alt-right inspiration Kevin MacDonald and his theories about Jewish DNA | The selling of the "Phoenix Lights" | Astronomer Harlow Shapley's FBI file | Sex, spies, and local TV news
May 22nd, 2018 | Category: Strange Angel

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Stick-Shifted Six-Bangers On Nitro And Radials Rock Brazil!
By Andrew Wolf January 04, 2018
You know what makes hot rodding great? Sheer ingenuity and creativity. Not just the high-tech, money-driven kind, but guys and gals assembling a unique blend of parts and pieces and making it do something it perhaps has no business doing, all in the name of going fast.
In Brazil, an eliminator exists, called TT, filled with cars that fit this very model: domestic model vehicles, production engines (none came with V8's, so they're all four- and six-bangers), stick shifted with a clutch, 275 drag radials, and the allowable use of real, honest to goodness nitromethane in the tank.
Two such competitors in the class are teammates Celso Camargo and Israel Fontanela, who drive for Julieta Motorsports. The team campaigns these Chevrolet Opala's — one of the most popular body styles in the country for drag racing purposes — with power from stock iron block six-cylinder GM 250 engines with stock iron heads, 98mm turbochargers, and 25 percent nitro. Marcel Ferreira tunes both of the cars using FuelTech's new FT600 ECU and FTSpark capacitive discharge ignition system.
Weighing in at 2,900 pounds, these old-school machines on equally old-school, low-tech horsepower crank out laps in the 4.80s to the eighth-mile and 7.30s the quarter. Fontanela, driving the silver Opala, is the national record holder in the class.
Andrew has been involved in motorsports from a very young age. Over the years, he has photographed several major auto racing events, sports, news journalism, portraiture, and everything in between. After working with the Power Automedia staff for some time on a freelance basis, Andrew joined the team in 2010.
Stick-Shifted, Nitro-Burning Straight Six Sets Brazilian Record!


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How To Make A Long Game Longer…And Still Piss America Off [TeeCoZee's Championship Roundup]
January 25, 2010 by TeeCoZee
This job keeps getting easier and easier. At first, I would have to cover and upwards to 16 games at once, and then last week it was reduced to four, and now, shit, there's only two games?!?!? Regardless, nature has it's way of getting revenge. Even though I only have two games to cover, I have to cover them with 9 fingers. Saturday night, I went on a terrible bender, blacked out, and gained consciousness Sunday afternoon with a nasty cut on my finger. But at least I got home! There's also no better way to nurse a wound and a hangover like 6 full hours of championship football! Are you with me?!?!?
Who Dat??!?!?
Of course you are! For the last time this season, lets round up some fucking games!!!!
Woooooo!!!!!
Wait, who's playing?
Indianapolis Colts 30 New York Jets 17
Son of a fuck! With only two games this week, this means I really DO have to talk about the Colts. Well, lets do that. They played great. There, I said it. To elaborate, shit kind of fell apart in the first half, and then they came out in the 3rd and regained dominance in this world. On the other side of the ball, the Jets fucked some shit up in the first half of the game. There was an 80 yard Sanchez-Edwards TD connection that would make any Browns fan cry. The defense held Peyton & Friends down on not one, but two trips to the redzone, resulting in field goals. But of course, right before the end of the half, Pretty Boy Manning found Austin Collie not once, not twice, but three fucking times in a row for a combined total of…yep…80 yards. That was the beginning of the Jet's downfall. Before that, they were up 17-6, but then with a 4 point lead at the half, everyone knew what was about to happen.
This is what I don't understand about Peyton Manning. He has the ability to psyche out his opponents…ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BALL! How the shit is that even possible? It seemed as if Mark Sanchez became starstruck in the 2nd half, and knew he could never live up to the poise and accuracy of this great quarterback, so he just fucking gave up! To be absolutely fair, Sanchez ended up with impressive stats [17/30-257-2-1…pretty fucking dece], and it wasn't as if they were going 3 and out every possession. It was just a matter of Peyton Manning and the Colts offense playing so well, that it convinced the lackluster defense to make the big plays when necessary, thus shutting the Jets down completely in the 2nd half. It's a sad state of affairs, considering that this is exactly what happened last week, when the Jets upset the Super Chargers. Nobody actually expected the Jets to win this game against Indy, but they tried really hard to prove us wrong. I give them a lot of respect for that, because at the end of the day, it was still a rookie quarterback that led a cinderella squad [that didn't even make it to the playoffs last year…not even with the help of Brett Favre!] to the championship. People love stories like that. The shit warms up your heart. In the end, there will be no hard feelings towards this QB that is younger than me, and starting today, he can spend a lot of time basking in the sun with beautiful women. The way life is supposed to be.
New Orleans Saints 31 Minnesota Vikings 28 [OT]
Oh man does this look wrong.
Words cannot describe how completely jacked I was to watch this game. If you watch the highlights or look at the score, you would probably feel that this was a game for the ages. However, as I sat and watched this game, I was waiting for it to get more exciting. This game dragged like none other. The time crept like hell, as we were subjected to replays, injuries, penalties, and commercial breaks after commercial breaks. And to pour salt in my finger wound, it went into overtime. And in overtime, 3 plays were challenged by the booth! For fucks sake, lets get this game over with. I felt incredibly scared when the shoddy kicker for New Orleans stepped up to the plate for a 40 yard attempt, for two reasons:
1) If he missed, the Saints would probably lose
2) If he missed, this game would continue
But, of course, he made it. Thank god.
This was a very evenly-matched game. Nobody ever had a lead over 7, everything was back and forth, but statistically, the Vikes should have won. Brett Favre threw for 310 yards, Drew Brees threw for 197. Purple Jesus rushed for 122 yards, Pierre Thomas only got 61. Bernard Berrien? 102 yards receiving. Devery Henderson? 39. You know why the Saints actually won this game? 5 TURNOVERS! How the shit does that happen in a dome?!?!? Everyone had butterfingers last night, nobody could hold onto the ball, even on both sides of it. What this meant for New Orleans was that there was a lot of dropped passes, which is bad. What this meant for Team Favre was that everyone was fumbling, which is much worse! However, there was one turnover that this team, and Brett Favre will never live down. There was 19 seconds left in regulation, and after having too many men in a huddle, it was 3rd and 15 at the 38 (which would make a 56 yard attempt for Ryan Longwell, who could use a good 5-10 yards to help buffer the game winning field goal). Favre drops back, and doesn't see anything available right away. He could either run it into the free space in front of him, gaining an easy breezy 8-12 yards to help improve the chances of a field goal, or take a gamble on Sidney Rice. He chose the gamble, and it was picked off. Ultimately, the Saints won the OT coin toss, drove down the field like mad, got favored on some bad penalty calls, and won the game. All is well in the world, right?
Wrong. Now, people are angry. They are angry because the Vikings outplayed the Saints. They are angry for the controversial pass interference call in OT. Most of all, they are angry that for every team Brett Favre has played for, his last play for that team was picked off. And that's a truth you can take to the bank. In his conference last night, Brett Favre was a defeated man, a pummeled man, a man with nothing else to live for. When he came out of retirement in Minnesota, just weeks before the start of the season, everyone thought that it was a story insane enough to become a Super Bowl story. Even though I didn't want it to happen, I still felt that it was inevitable that Brett would win one more Super Bowl before he retired for good. He played the season of his life, and they made it as far as possible without actually "making it". Now America is pissed off. They all feel cheated away from such a great success story that was supposed to be. Now, instead of seeing a Super Bowl with 2 great quarterbacks at the pinnacle of their careers, we get so see…a Super Bowl with 2 great quarterbacks at the pinnacle of their careers! Don't you just love how things even out?
And to all the Brett Favre fans out there that feel cheated, let me invite you to imagine a different Super Bowl. On February 7, instead of watching the game, try to imagine the Super Bowl being the Vikes vs The Chargers, the game that was supposed to be. If that sounds ludicrous to you, then stop fucking bitching, man up, and be happy for 2 great teams reaching the biggest game of all!
But of course, that's not next week is it? For some backwards reason, they decided to play the Pro Bowl the week before the Super Bowl?!?!? Then of course this means that all of the players that are participating in the Super Bowl cannot play in the pro Bowl. Substitutions have already been made. This is the only way that David Garrard can actually be regarded as a Pro Bowl caliber player. Also, for personal reasons, Philly Rivs will not be playing either, which worries me to death. Maybe I'll cover the game, maybe I wont. Nobody really cares anyway. So I guess I hope that you all have a festive 2 weeks, at a time of year in which there is nothing to be festive about.
-TeeCoZing.
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if name == 'Alice':
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elif age < 12:
    print('You are not Alice, kiddo.')
else:
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The Rough Guide to Amsterdam
ISBN: 9781848365155 Categorii: Diverse. An apariție: 2010 Autor: Karoline Densley, Phil Lee, Martin Dunford Editură: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd Colecție: The Rough Guide to Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 296 Stoc: La comandă
From its humble origins as a city crowded around a dam of the Amstel river, Amsterdam has grown up to be one of Europe's most beautiful and well-loved cities. The Rough Guide to Amsterdam is an indispensible tool in discovering the works of Rembrandt and Van Gogh at the Rijksmuseum, navigating your way through the winding streets that follow the flow of the city's canals, and seeking out the hottest nightspots in the Leidseplatz. This guide includes everything you need to know to eat, drink, and sleep in this most intriguing and captivating of cities.
Martin Dunford is co-founder of the Rough Guides series. Phil Lee is co-author of Rough Guides to Mallorca & Menorca, Norway, England, the Netherlands and Canada. Karoline Densley is a Rough Guides travel editor in London.
About Rough Guides
Rough Guides is a leading publisher of travel and reference information, respected for their accurate, up-to-date content and informed contemporary writing.
These days, Rough Guides is as much a travel content provider as it is a publisher of guidebooks. The guides themselves – distributed worldwide by the Penguin group – cover more than 200 destinations around the globe and subjects as diverse as Climate Change and Pregnancy.
Rough Guides are also back on TV screens with Five's successful Rough Guide to… series. And of course, Rough Guides have also migrated to digital platforms with the launch of Rough Guides Mobile, and downloadable travel podcasts, podscrolls, and e-books.
Karoline Densley, Phil Lee, Martin Dunford
Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
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Even as BJP state president B S Yeddyurappa resigned on Saturday as chief minister, 55 hours after being sworn-in for the third time on May 17, this despite being elected as the single largest party with 104 MLAs in the house of 224 members, the party leaders in the region said that it was a self-goal as the national and state leaders failed to strengthen the party and groom leaders here.
The party worker said that in 1999, Dr Bharathi Shankar from T Narasipur and V Papanna from Hunsur were an addition, while Pawar lost and Vijayshankar did not contest the elections.
"If the national and state leaders had strengthened the party since the 1994 and 1999 victories, the BJP would have grown into a major party in the region by now. The BJP lost the opportunities since forming the coalition government with the JD(S) in 2006 and forming the government independently in 2008. The party was further decimated with the formation of the KJP by Yeddyurappa in 2013. Even after Yeddyurappa returned to the BJP, no steps were initiated to take all leaders into confidence and to strengthen the party. The BJP and KJP divide is still evident in the region. Some leaders such as Ramdas were elevated as ministers but none grew into a father figure," he said. The BJP is still riding piggyback on JD(S). All affairs of the BJP are decided by the JD(S) leaders such as G T Devegowda and Sa Ra Mahesh," Basavegowda said.
G Basavaraju, a BJP worker, said, so far the party has not been able to win any elections, even in the Zilla Panchayat level in Mandya, the home district of state president B S Yeddyurappa. "Despite achieving so much in state and national politics, Yeddyurappa has not been able to win the hearts of the people of his native district," he said.
"The leaders do not take any steps to iron out the differences and rivalry between the leaders. The workers are left in a confused state. The party does not groom any candidate to contest the polls. It waits from some disgruntled migrant to issue tickets. If there are no defections from other parties, some scapegoat is fielded in the last moment," Basavaraju said.
"The BJP has given a tough fight and has emerged runner-up in Narasimharaja, Varuna, Sakleshpur, Belur, Hanur and Chamarajanagar constituencies, while it has given a good show, despite being pushed to the third place in H D Kote and Mandya constituencies, said Rajendra, a party worker. "In all the constituencies, including the ones in which the party has emerged victorious, the candidates were left to fend for themselves. The leaders believed that the rallies by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah alone would win the polls.
The leaders did nothing to encash on the charisma of the national leaders. Once Modi and Shah left, the leaders here went into sleeping mode," he said. "The induction of senior leaders like former chief minister S M Krishna and former minister V Srinivas Prasad was not used for the benefit of the party. If the party had issued a ticket to Krishna's daughter Shambhavi from Maddur, like Prasad's son-in-law B Harshavardhan was fielded in Nanjangud, a better show would have been possible," said Rajendra.


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Q: Parsing, Extracting & Returning JSON as Hash I am trying to make a localized version of this app:  SMS Broadcast Ruby App
I have been able to get the JSON data from a local file & sanitize the number as well as open the JSON data. However I have been unable to extract the values and pair them as a scrubbed hash. Here's what I have so far.
  def data_from_spreadsheet
    file = open(spreadsheet_url).read
    JSON.parse(file)
  end

  def contacts_from_spreadsheet
    contacts = {}
    data_from_spreadsheet.each do |entry|
     puts entry['name']['number']
     contacts[sanitize(number)] = name
    end
    contacts
  end

Here's the JSON data sample I'm working with.
[
 {
   "name": "Michael",
   "number": 9045555555
 },
 {
   "name": "Natalie",
   "number": 7865555555
 }
]

Here's how I would like the JSON to be expressed after the contacts_from_spreadsheet method.
{
  '19045555555' => 'Michael',
  '19045555555' => 'Natalie'
}

Any help would be much appreciated.

A: You could create array of pairs (hashes) using map and then call reduce to get a single hash.
data = [{
    "name": "Michael",
    "number": 9045555555
},
{
    "name": "Natalie",
    "number": 7865555555
}]

data.map{|e| {e[:number] => e[:name]}}.reduce Hash.new, :merge

Result: {9045555555=>"Michael", 7865555555=>"Natalie"}

A: You don't seem to have number or name extracted in any way. I think first you'll need to update your code to get those details.
i.e. If entry is a JSON object (or rather was before parsing), you can do the following:
def contacts_from_spreadsheet
  contacts = {}
    data_from_spreadsheet.each do |entry|
     contacts[sanitize(entry['number'])] = entry['name']
  end
  contacts
end

A: Not really keeping this function within JSON, but I have solved the problem. Here's what I used.
def data_from_spreadsheet
  file = open(spreadsheet_url).read
  YAML.load(file)
end

def contacts_from_spreadsheet
  contacts = {}
  data_from_spreadsheet.each do |entry|
    name = entry['name']
    number = entry['phone_number'].to_s
    contacts[sanitize(number)] = name
  end
  contacts
end

This returned back clean array here:
{"+19045555555"=>"Michael", "+17865555555"=>"Natalie"}

Thanks everyone who added input!

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Energy Act 2008
An Act to make provision relating to gas importation and storage; to make provision in relation to electricity generated from renewable sources; to make provision relating to electricity transmission; to make provision about payments to small-scale generators of low-carbon electricity; to make provision about the decommissioning of energy installations and wells; to make provision about the management and disposal of waste produced during the operation of nuclear installations; to make provision relating to petroleum licences; to make provision about third party access to oil and gas infrastructure and modifications of pipelines; to make provision about reports relating to energy matters; to make provision about the duties of the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority; to make provision about payments in respect of the renewable generation of heat; to make provision relating to gas meters and electricity meters and provision relating to electricity safety; to make provision about the security of equipment, software and information relating to nuclear matters; and for connected purposes.
View the full legislation - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/32/contents
An Act to make provision for the arrangement and financing of energy efficiency improvements to be made to properties by owners and occupiers; about the energy efficiency of properties in the private rented sector; about the promotion by energy companies of reductions in carbon emissions and home-heating costs; about information relating to energy consumption, efficiency and tariffs; for increasing the security of energy supplies; about access to upstream petroleum infrastructure and downstream gas processing facilities; about a special administration regime for energy supply companies; about designations under the Continental Shelf Act 1964; about licence modifications relating to offshore transmission and distribution of electricity; about the security of nuclear construction sites; about the decommissioning of nuclear sites and offshore infrastructure; for the use of pipelines for carbon capture and storage; for an annual report on contribution to carbon emissions reduction targets; for action relating to the energy efficiency of residential accommodation in England; for the generation of electricity from renewable sources; about renewable heat incentives in Northern Ireland; about the powers of the Coal Authority; for an amendment of section 137 of the Energy Act 2004; for the amendment and repeal of measures relating to home energy efficiency; and for connected purposes.
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
The building sector is crucial for achieving the EU's energy and environmental goals. At the same time, better and more energy efficient buildings improve the quality of citizens' life while bringing additional benefits to the economy and the society.
To boost energy performance of buildings, the EU has established a legislative framework that includes the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD) and the Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU. Together, the directives promote policies that will help
achieve a highly energy efficient and decarbonised building stock by 2050
create a stable environment for investment decisions
enable consumers and businesses to make more informed choices to save energy and money
Following the introduction of energy performance rules in national building codes, buildings today consume only half as much as typical buildings from the 1980s.
Both directives were amended, as part of the Clean energy for all Europeans package, in 2018 and 2019. In particular, the Directive amending the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2018/844/EU) introduces new elements and sends a strong political signal on the EU's commitment to modernise the buildings sector in light of technological improvements and increase building renovations.
EU countries need to transpose the new and revised rules into national law by 10 March 2020. The UK had already implemented the Directive as it stood in 2012 prior to departing the EU.
The Commission has introduced a renovation wave of public and private buildings, as part of the European Green Deal. It aims to take further action and create the necessary conditions to scale up renovations and reap the significant saving potential of the building sector.
Find out more about this EU Directive - https://ec.europa.eu/energy/topics/energy-efficiency/energy-efficient-buildings/energy-performance-buildings-directive_en
European Communities Act 1972
This historical Act of Parliament made provision for the enlargement of the European Communities to include the United Kingdom, together with (for certain purposes) the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar. Now largely repealed, it is relevant as the origin of the introduction of energy assessments to meet the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) which remains a guiding principle in UK public policy.
The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
These regulations were made to amend The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015. They removed the ability for building owners (landlords) to claim an exemption from making improvements on the basis that there was no grant funding available. In place of this they established a cost cap that has to be spent improving the property to try and meet the minimum standard.
View the full legislation - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/595/made
Tags Energy Efficiency, Sustainability
The Energy Efficiency (Private Rented Property) (England and Wales) Regulations 2015
These regulations were made to establish the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) for rental properties in the domestic and non-domestic markets in England and Wales. They were required by the Energy Act 2011.
View the full legislation - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/962/contents/made
The Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012
These regulations were made using powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and by section 74 of the Energy Act 2011. They establish the legal framework for a number of statutory energy assessments and certificates including Energy Performance Certificates (EPC), Display Energy Certificates (DEC) and Air Conditioning Energy Inspections (ACEI).
View the full legislation - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3118/contents/made
The Renewable Heat Incentive (Amendment to the Energy Act 2008) Regulations 2011
An amendment to the definitions of "biogas" and "biomass" for the purposes of the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). The scheme was first established under the Energy Act 2008.


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Electrician Apprentice Dies Following a 55-foot Fall From a Roof
Wisconsin FACE 93WI254
A 21-year-old male electrician apprentice (the victim) died of injuries received after falling 55 feet from a roof. The victim was working with a journeyman electrician to install conduit and wiring for a surveillance camera on the flat roof of a hospital. An eighteen-inch high ledge surrounds the roof edge, and a wire rope guard railing was located 20 feet from each roof edge. The victim was standing outside the guard railing and was using a reel pulling tape to pull de-energized electrical wire through a conduit. There were no witnesses to the incident, and it appears he inadvertently stepped to the edge of the roof and fell 55 feet to the ground. The electrician was replacing the cover on a pull box about 40 feet away from where the victim had been standing and looked for him in that location. He noticed that the electrical wires were over the edge of the building, went to the edge to look over, and saw the victim lying near the base of the building. The victim was moved to the hospital emergency room, where he was pronounced dead of massive head trauma. The Wisconsin FACE investigator concluded that, to prevent similar occurrences, employers should:
evaluate their current safety program and incorporate specific training procedures emphasizing the importance of recognizing and avoiding hazards in the workplace. These procedures should include, but not be limited to, conducting hazard evaluations before initiating work at a job site and implementing appropriate controls
ensure that fall protection equipment is provided and used by workers where the potential for a fall from an elevation exists
conduct scheduled and unscheduled site visits to evaluate field compliance with company safety rules and procedures
On November 16, 1993, a 21-year-old male electrician apprentice (the victim) died after falling 55 feet from a roof. The Wisconsin FACE investigator was notified by the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor and Human Relations, Workers Compensation Division, on November 24, 1993. On December 15, 1993, the WI FACE field investigator initiated an investigation of the incident with an interview of the owner of the company. The investigator obtained copies of the coroner's report, death certificate, police report and photographs, OSHA citations, and viewed a videotape of the incident site that was recorded several hours after the incident. The investigator conducted a visit to the site of the incident on April 18, 1994, and interviewed the company safety director and a security officer of the building where the incident occurred who was on duty at the time of the incident.
The employer in this incident was an electrical contractor that had been in operation for 75 years and employed about 325 workers, of which approximately 57 were electrician apprentices. The employer had a safety director who implemented a formal safety program which included providing training films at new employee orientation and during continued employment, and making monthly site visits with the foremen of major jobsites to discuss safety aspects of these jobs and to conduct periodic safety inspections. In addition, the foremen were directed to conduct weekly toolbox safety talks at each jobsite. There were no written job-specific safety procedures, or records of safety training and discussions.
The safety director met new employees to provide a general description of company safety policies, before they were assigned to jobsites. Apprentice electricians were selected from a union pool after completion of a formal training program, and received on-the-job training, direction and supervision from senior journeyman electricians. The teams of apprentice and journeyman electricians were assigned to work together until a project was completed, and then might be assigned separately to different projects. Apprentices usually worked at the company for about six months, and then returned to the union pool for reassignment as an apprentice. The victim had worked for the company for four months prior to the incident. This was the first fatality the company had experienced.
The victim was working with a journeyman electrician (the co-worker) to install conduit and wiring for a surveillance camera on the flat roof of a five-story hospital. Work on the project had been in progress for 3 days before the incident, however the day of the incident was the first day that the victim had worked on the roof. The victim and the co-worker had been working together for approximately one week.
On the day of the incident, the victim and co-worker arrived at the site and started work on the roof at approximately 7:30 a.m. There were no other workers on the roof on the morning of the incident. The weather conditions were overcast with no precipitation or wind. The flat roof had a tar and pea gravel surface and was dry at the time of the incident. An eighteen-inch high, 3½ inch-wide ledge surrounds the roof edge, and a wire rope guard railing was located 20 feet from each perimeter edge. The two wire-rope guardrails are approximately 42″ and 21″ high, and are strung through concrete support poles. Personal protective equipment, including safety harnesses and lifelines, were available for company employees in a construction trailer located on the hospital grounds, but were not being used by the victim or his co-worker.
The workers had spent the morning installing conduit and electrical wires to be connected to a camera at the northeast corner of the roof. The victim was using a "fish tape reel", a hand-held device used by electricians to pull electrical wires through conduit. The line of the reel was attached to three de-energized electrical wires that were pulled through the conduit as the reel was turned. The conduit was attached to the bases of the concrete guardrail support poles and then bent around a corner outside of the guardrail and extended to the ledge wall on the east side of the building, about 20 feet from the northeast corner where the camera was located. The electrical wires emerged from the conduit at the point where the conduit met the ledge wall. At approximately 10:45 a.m., the co-worker saw the victim outside of the guardrail area, holding the reel and facing south. The co-worker was kneeling about 40 feet away, and looked away for about 30 seconds to replace the cover on the conduit junction box. When the co-worker looked back, the victim was gone and the wires were over the north edge of the roof. The co-worker went to the edge to look over, and saw the victim lying face down near the base of the building with two people standing nearby. The co-worker went inside to call for help, then went to the victim's location. The victim was moved to the hospital emergency room, where he was pronounced dead of massive head trauma.
CAUSE OF DEATH:
The medical examiner reported the cause of death as head trauma.
RECOMMENDATIONS/DISCUSSION
Recommendation #1: Employers should evaluate their current safety program and incorporate specific training procedures emphasizing the importance of recognizing and avoiding hazards in the workplace. These procedures should include, but not be limited to, conducting hazard evaluations before initiating work at a job site, and implementing appropriate controls.
Discussion: Safety programs should be evaluated and training procedures incorporated which emphasize the importance of recognizing and avoiding hazards in the workplace, following established safe work procedures, and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment. In this incident, the hazard of working near the unguarded roof edge without fall protection equipment was apparently not recognized by the workers. Since the incident, the company has expanded the written safety program to include specific fall protection information and maintaining records of all training activities.
Recommendation #2: Employers should ensure that fall protection equipment is provided and used by workers where the potential for a fall from an elevation exists.
Discussion: Fall protection equipment should be immediately available for workers when there is a possibility that their work tasks will involve exposure to an unprotected roof edge. In this incident, the work tasks involved installing conduit along the 18-inch high roof ledge. Fall protection equipment was available in a construction trailer located near the incident site, but was not being used by the workers on the roof.
Recommendation #3: Employers should conduct scheduled and unscheduled site visits to evaluate field compliance with company safety rules and procedures.
Discussion: Employers should conduct scheduled and unscheduled safety inspections of work sites to help ensure that employees are performing their assigned tasks according to established company safety rules and procedures. The company in this incident had one safety officer who directed the safety program for 325 employees at multiple worksites, and visited the major sites once or twice a month. He was not always able to visit smaller contract sites (as in this incident). To be effective, a safety program must be enforced at each worksite by the supervisor and any unsafe conditions should be corrected immediately. Such inspections also demonstrate that the employer is committed to the company safety program and to the prevention of occupational injury.
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FACE 93WI25401
Staff members of the FACE Project of the Wisconsin Division of Health, Bureau of Public Health, perform FACE investigations when there is a work-related fatal fall, electrocution, or enclosed/confined space death reported. The goal of these investigations is to prevent fatal work injuries in the future by studying: the working environment, the worker, the task the worker was performing, the tools the worker was using, the energy exchange resulting in fatal injury and the role of management in controlling how these factors interact.
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The development of an evidence-based patient booklet for patients undergoing lumbar discectomy and un-instrumented decompression
Alison H. Mcgregor, Anthony Burton, P Sell, Gordon Waddell
Department of Nursing and Midwifery
School of Human and Health Sciences
Post-operative management after lumbar surgery is inconsistent leading to uncertainty amongst surgeons and patients about post-operative restrictions, reactivation, and return to work. This study aimed to review the evidence on post-operative management, with a view to developing evidence-based messages for a patient booklet on post-operative management after lumbar discectomy or un-instrumented decompression. A systematic literature search produced a best-evidence synthesis of information and advice on post-operative restrictions, activation, rehabilitation, and expectations about outcomes. Evidence statements were extracted and developed into patient-centred messages for an educational booklet. The draft text was evaluated by peer and patient review. The literature review found little evidence for post-operative activity restrictions, and a strong case for an early active approach to post-operative management. The booklet was built around key messages derived from the literature review and aimed to reduce uncertainty, promote positive beliefs, encourage early reactivation, and provide practical advice on self-management. Feedback from the evaluations were favourable from both review groups, suggesting that this evidence-based approach to management is acceptable and it has clinical potential.
European Spine Journal
10.1007/s00586-006-0141-9Licence: Unspecified
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Mcgregor, A. H., Burton, A., Sell, P., & Waddell, G. (2007). The development of an evidence-based patient booklet for patients undergoing lumbar discectomy and un-instrumented decompression. European Spine Journal, 16(3), 339-346. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-006-0141-9
Mcgregor, Alison H. ; Burton, Anthony ; Sell, P ; Waddell, Gordon. / The development of an evidence-based patient booklet for patients undergoing lumbar discectomy and un-instrumented decompression. In: European Spine Journal. 2007 ; Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 339-346.
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Moses and the Israelites in Egypt lived in a world filled with many gods and goddesses. That there was but one God was something that they only gradually comprehended. Therefore, at the beginning of their relationship, when God first appeared to Moses, it was only natural that Moses should wonder about the name of the God he was standing before. He accepted that this was the same God that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had worshipped, but he wanted a name to bring back to the people. Names were considered important because they gave you power: if someone calls your name, you respond to it, you look up, you see who it is that used your name. Moses wanted that with God.
Ah! There lies the rub. You need this verse to mean this in order to support something else in the Greek scriptures!!!
You are I entitled to your opinion. And what you have stated in your opening remark, within the first sentence is just that, an opinion. This not about what you want to believe. It is not as if there is a gray area. There are too many Hebrew scholars, religious overseers and just plain ole intelligent people that can understand fact rather than fiction on this one verse.
What ever your bias, Exodus 3:14 is not a scripture that requires a lot of interpretation especially since it is very clear in Hebrew what it means. "I WILL PROVE TO BE" does not fit with or ideology. It shouldn't. Because you should not be basing your ideology on anything external to the source.
1. As stated earlier, there are a total of 43 places in the Hebrew Scriptures, where Eh·yeh is usually translated as "I will be." In fact, just 2 verses earlier, in Exodus 3:12, both the King James and the NASB, among others, translates ehyeh as "I will be." The majority of Bible translations translate ehyeh as "I will be" or "I shall be," except for at Exodus 3:14. Can you explain this away??????
-The trinitarian United Bible Societies and trinitarian scholar Delitzsch both translated the Greek "I will be" of Rev. 21:7 into the Hebrew ehyeh. – See their Hebrew New Testaments.
-Not only is ehyeh overwhelmingly translated "I will be" instead of "I am," but in the vast majority of these instances you will find Jehovah speaking and declaring his "power and enduring presence with [his people]" precisely as is explained in the New Bible Dictionary statement explaining ehyeh at Ex. 3:14 ! – The New Bible Dictionary, Douglas (ed.), 1962, pp. 478, 479.
-Also see the strongly trinitarian standard reference The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Eerdmans, 1984 printing, Vol. 2, p. 1254 (#3), p. 1266 (#5), and p. 1267 (#9), and the trinitarian A Dictionary of the Bible, Hastings, Vol. 2, pp. 199, 200, Hendrickson Publ., 1988 printing.
If you want to believe in the Trinity Doctrine, that is fine. But you cannot get there using Exodus 3:14. It is just not possible unless you just want it to be regardless.
You have the last word….
Translation is not equivalent to breaking a cipher. The context of a word or phrase is rather important for making sense of what it means.
In any language, the meaning of a word is contextually determined. Words do not always mean the same thing, even within a single text or sentence. Translation adds another level of difficulty onto the problem.
When the horse broke for the hills, I thought all was lost. When I fell off the horse, a bramble bush broke my fall. But then I tripped over a rock and broke my ankle. It was another six months before I broke that horse. After that, I lost my job, and then I was flat broke.
Again, context makes all the difference.
Notice how the presence and absence of the preposition "into" changes the meaning of these two sentences.
My point is, that just because you can show me places where "ehyeh" can be rendered "I will be" All your examples are phrased "ehyeh im", where the verb "ehyeh" is followed by the preposition "im"; that potentially has an effect on the meaning, though it is easy enough to render it as "I am with." "I will be" is not the only possible understanding of those phrases. In fact, you'll find many translations render all the verses you mention above as "I am with you" rather than "I will be with you".
And to repeat, the problem is simply that the imperfect aspect in Hebrew is not equivalent to the English present or future tenses. It instead indicates uncompleted action. Classical Hebrew does not, in fact, precisely have tenses at all.
And in any case, consider that Moses lived in a polytheistic society. He's curious about the name of this God talking to him out of the burning bush. He's wondering which of the possible gods he knows about has appeared to him. That's why the traditional rendering "I am that I am" makes better sense given the questions "what is your name" and "who should I tell them sent me"? If Moses believes (at this juncture) there are many gods, then Moses' question makes sense. If there is only one, then God's answer makes sense. God doesn't need a name (unlike say human beings: there are a bunch of us, and so names help limit the confusion that comes when we are in groups; consider the confusion if two people have the same name).
God said "ehyeh", that is "I am". "I will be doesn't make a whole lot of sense when he went to the people and announced "Yahweh" sent me, that is "He is" sent me.
And so forth. That is, all the possible uses of the verb "to be" regardless of aspect or person, singular or plural have something to tell us about how to render the first person singular imperfect form of "to be".
And again, consider the use of the Greek word "kurios" as it was commonly understood by Jewish people (remembering that the LXX used it to translate the divine name) and then how it is that Jesus is called by this word that the Jewish people of his day generally used in place of the divine name.


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#include "CPF_EPOLLServer.h"
#include "../common/CPF_typedef.h"
#include "../common/CPF_IBuff.h"
#include "../common/CPF_Base.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <algorithm>

CPF_EPOLLServer::CPF_EPOLLServer()
{
    m_iConnectID = 1;
    m_mapEpollMutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
    pthread_mutex_init(&m_mapEpollMutex,NULL);
}

CPF_EPOLLServer::~CPF_EPOLLServer()
{
   pthread_mutex_destroy(&m_mapEpollMutex);
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::InitModule(CPF_Base *pBase)
{
    m_pManagerServer = pBase;
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::UnitModule()
{

}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectionEstablished(CPF_UINT iConnectID, CPF_EPOLLBuffer *pbuff)
{
    printf("oneconnect:%d\n",iConnectID);
    bool bConnSuccss = false;

    /************************************************************************/
    /* 用户权限验证入口                                                       */
    /************************************************************************/
    if (m_pManagerServer && pbuff != NULL)
    {
        CPF_IBuff IBuff;
        IBuff.m_pbuff = pbuff->pBuff;
        IBuff.m_nLen = pbuff->ilen;
        bConnSuccss = m_pManagerServer->OnConnectionEstablished(m_iConnectID, &IBuff);
    }

	if (pbuff == NULL)
	{
		bConnSuccss = true;
	}
    /************************************************************************/
    /* 有权限则加入用户管理,没有权限则关闭用户连接*/
    /************************************************************************/
    if (bConnSuccss)
    {
        OnConnectManagerAdd(iConnectID);
    }
    else
    {
        OnCloseAconnect(iConnectID);
    }

    //SendText(iConnectID, pbuff->pBuff, pbuff->ilen);//返回用户第一次发送数据
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectionClosing(CPF_UINT iConnectID, CPF_EPOLLBuffer *pbuff)
{
    printf("oneclose:%d\n",iConnectID);
    CPF_UINT uConnID = OnConnectManagerSub(iConnectID);
    if (m_pManagerServer && uConnID > 0)
    {
        m_pManagerServer->OnConnectionClosing(uConnID);
    }
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectionError(CPF_UINT iConnectID, int nError)
{
    CPF_UINT uConnID = OnConnectManagerSub(iConnectID);
    if (m_pManagerServer && uConnID > 0)
    {
        m_pManagerServer->OnConnectionError(uConnID,nError);
    }
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::OnReadCompleted(CPF_UINT iConnectID, CPF_EPOLLBuffer *pbuff)
{
    CPF_UINT lConnectID = OnConnectIDFind(iConnectID);
    if (lConnectID == 0)
    {
        return;
    }
	printf("recv data:%d\n", iConnectID);
    if (m_pManagerServer)
    {
        CPF_IBuff Ibuff;
        Ibuff.m_pbuff = pbuff->pBuff;
        Ibuff.m_nLen = pbuff->ilen;
		printf("m_pManagerServer!=NULL");
       m_pManagerServer->OnReadCompleted(lConnectID, &Ibuff);
    }
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::OnWriteCompleted(CPF_UINT iConnectID, CPF_EPOLLBuffer *pbuff)
{
    CPF_UINT lConnectID = OnConnectIDFind(iConnectID);
    if (m_pManagerServer && lConnectID > 0)
    {
        CPF_IBuff IBuff;
        IBuff.m_pbuff = pbuff->pBuff;
        IBuff.m_nLen = pbuff->ilen;
        m_pManagerServer->OnWriteCompleted(lConnectID, &IBuff);
    }
}

void CPF_EPOLLServer::SendToClient(CPF_UINT lConnectID, const char* pBuffer, const long lLen)
{
    CPF_UINT uConnID = OnConnectManagerFind(lConnectID);
    if(uConnID > 0)
    {
       SendText(uConnID,const_cast<char*>(pBuffer),lLen);
    }
}

CPF_UINT CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectManagerAdd(CPF_UINT ulConnectID)
{
   CPF_UINT uConnID = m_iConnectID;
   pthread_mutex_lock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
   m_mapEpollContext.insert(make_pair(m_iConnectID,ulConnectID));
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
   ++m_iConnectID;
   return uConnID;
}

CPF_UINT CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectManagerSub(CPF_UINT ulConnectID)
{
   CPF_UINT uConnID = 0;
    pthread_mutex_lock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
    map<CPF_UINT,CPF_UINT>::iterator ItemF = m_mapEpollContext.begin();
   for(;ItemF != m_mapEpollContext.end();ItemF++)
   {
        if(ItemF->second == ulConnectID)
        {
            uConnID = ItemF->first;
            m_mapEpollContext.erase(ItemF);
            break;
        }
   }
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
   return uConnID;
}

CPF_UINT CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectManagerFind(CPF_UINT ulConnectID)
{

    CPF_UINT uConnID = 0;
    pthread_mutex_lock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
    map<CPF_UINT,CPF_UINT>::iterator ItemF = m_mapEpollContext.begin();
   for(;ItemF != m_mapEpollContext.end();ItemF++)
   {
        if(ItemF->first == ulConnectID)
        {
            uConnID = ItemF->second;
            break;
        }
   }
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
   return uConnID;
}

CPF_UINT CPF_EPOLLServer::OnConnectIDFind(CPF_UINT ulConnectID)
{
    CPF_UINT uConnID = 0;
    pthread_mutex_lock(&m_mapEpollMutex);
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Crumble fried bacon, Saut onion and pepper in drippings. Add remaining ingredients, except cheese. Cook 20 - 30 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Alternate layers of hominy and cheese in a greased 2 qt casserole dish ending with cheese. Bake at 350 for 20 minutes. Serves 6.


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Police: Couple charged with having sex at 150-foot SkyStar Wheel in downtown Cincinnati
Sarah Brookbank
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A couple was arrested Thursday after police said they had sex in front of children at the SkyStar Wheel at The Banks in downtown Cincinnati.
Michael Mathisen and Lauren Wilder were taken into custody about 6 p.m. on Opening Day the SkyStar wheel, a 150-foot observation wheel that is temporarily in Cincinnati.
Court documents said Mathisen, 30, of Florence, and Wilder, 31, of North College Hill, were both intoxicated.
The couple "engaged in sexual intercourse in the open in front of children and adults," a complaint states.
More:SkyStar wheel at the Banks staying for 6 more months
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Wilder, was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct and booked into the Hamilton County Jail around 6:30 p.m. She was released on her own recognizance about 11:30 p.m., jail officials said.
Mathisen was arrested on one count of disorderly conduct while intoxicated and is still housed at the Hamilton County Jail.
Both are scheduled to appear in Hamilton County Municipal Court at 12:30 p.m. Friday.
The SykStar Wheel has 36 enclosed and climate-controlled gondolas, each holding up to six passengers. The rides will last 12 minutes and include four revolutions.
More than 100,000 have ridden the wheel since its arrival in September.
Enquirer media partner Fox19 contributed to this report.
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Miara łukowa kąta – miara kąta wyrażona przez stosunek długości łuku okręgu opartego na tym kącie do długości promienia okręgu

gdzie:
  – rozpatrywany kąt,
  – długość łuku okręgu,
  – promień okręgu, którego wycinkiem jest łuk.

Jednostką tak zapisanego kąta jest radian (1 rad). Ze wzoru wynika, że wymiarem radiana jest jedność:

Przybliżenie małych kątów
Miara łukowa kąta, zgodna z układem SI, jest najczęściej stosowaną miarą kąta w fizyce i większości nauk technicznych. Jest wygodna szczególnie dla bardzo małych kątów, ze względu na własności funkcji trygonometrycznych. Do przybliżania małych kątów często używane są wzory:

Przy czym zależności te nie są prawdziwe dla kątów wyrażonych w innych jednostkach. O precyzji tego przybliżenia świadczą przykłady w tabelce:

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! α (°) !! α (rad) !! sin α !! tg α
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| 40
| 0,698132
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| 0,748886
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|30
|0,523599
|0,500000
|0,546302
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|20
|0,349066
|0,342020
|0,356011
|-
|10
|0,174533
|0,173648
|0,175415
|-
|5
|0,087266
|0,087156
|0,087377
|-
|2
|0,034907
|0,034899
|0,034914
|-
|1
|0,017453
|0,017452
|0,017454
|}

Inne miary kąta
 stopień (minuta, sekunda, tercja, kwarta)
 grad (centygrad, myriograd)
 tysiączna (artyleryjska, Rimailho; z nadmiarem, niedomiarem).

Zobacz też
 miara kąta

Bibliografia
 I.N. Bronsztejn, K.A. Siemiendiajew: Matematyka. Poradnik encyklopedyczny, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1997, wyd. XIV, .

Kąty

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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a big Halloween guy. I love to put together a bunch of props to scare the neighborhood kids. I picked up this fog machine a couple of years ago and it works great. If you're putting together any kind of Halloween haunt, I recommend picking this up.
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You can see many unnecessary files on your computer but you can't delete these files when you try to delete these files these type of messages will appear cannot delete file, another person use files, Access denied etc. Reboot Delete File Ex is freeware that will help you to delete this kinds of files.
You can easily install Reboot Delete File Ex on your system after the installation a tray will appear browse the folders and select the files you want to remove then press the 'Delete File' button and restart the system the files will be removed. It supports Windows 8,7,Vista and XP operating systems.


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ZIP files are files used as a container for storing other files.
The idea is that if you want to transfer or archive a number of files, perhaps with a complicated associated folder structure, doing so by dealing with a large number of individual files and folders would be difficult and error prone.
So, instead, a ZIP file is created, and this single ZIP file contains all the separate files, as well as information about their filenames, and their folder structure.
The ZIP file can then be copied, backed up, transferred across the internet, etc.m, as needed. Eventually, when the user needs the contents of the original files back, he simply unpacks the ZIP, and gets back the original files, with the original file names, in their original folder structure.
As well as these basic features, ZIP files are also compressed (saving on storage space, transfer times over a network, etc.), and can optionally be password protected, so that unauthorized people can not access them.
For these reasons ZIP files are very convenient way of delivering downloads such as software programs and of course eBooks. Many of the eBooks listed in our eBook directory, especially those intended for use on Windows PCs or Apple Macintosh computers, are thus delivered as ZIP files, the ZIP file containing the eBook files, and perhaps other associated items such as the license agreement, videos, etc.
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In June 2017, the Cambridge Compact for a Sustainable Future and the Kendall Square Association (KSA) convened a panel of experts at MIT to identify local climate related business risks and explore potential collaborative strategies to mitigate these risks in Cambridge. Discussions focused on a range of climate resiliency initiatives including district storm water management, storm surge and sea level rise flood mitigation, heat stress mitigation and shared business continuity agreements that called for both community level solutions and a wider regional response. Facilitated group discussions that followed helped identify priority ideas of importance, and interest in joint action.
A table top exercise is proposed this fall to evaluate potential strategies and build stakeholder capacity for action in the face of emerging climate related business risk.


I love champagne 🙂 No, seriously, I love champagne, especially pink Champagne (oh yes, and frozen margaritas.. but we can talk about that some other time).
Last year, my brother, his wife and I killed off a couple of Champagne bottles one night, and one of them had this nice little fancy sleeve on it.
So what do I do? I decide to keep this sleeve, thinking it might be useful for another Champagne bottle… You know, to keep it chilled or protected or something.. I don't know….
It was obviously some misguided idea I had, that I would tuck some Champagne bottle nicely into this little sleeve, for some reason.
It's not like it's going to last long enough after it's opened, to be needing a sleeve to keep it chilled 😉 and should I need something, there is such a thing as a bucket and ice.
And it definitely don't need it for protection. Have you seen how many times they try to break a champagne bottle against a ship sometimes, when they are Christening it?
So what was I thinking?


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Settle: "Naked At a Family Function"
Okay, so full disclosure: I happen to know the dudes in Settle pretty well. But that's kind of inevitable, given that the scene in the Lehigh Valley is seriously limited, thus allowing us to cross paths many times over the last half-decade. I've also worked with lead singer Nick Rose, went to high school with bassist Chris Burcin and shared many a bill with the band in my former days of being a rock and roll superstar. So duh, we're hardcore BFF's. This is all irrelevant, though, because regardless of whether or not I'm friendly with the guys, I'd still love their band anyway.
Hoping to become the first successful band to make it out of the Valley since...well, ever, Settle releases their debut LP At Home We Are Tourists via Epitaph Records on May 19. The band inked with the venerable indie label after impressively winning MTVU's Best Music On Campus contest in 2006 and quietly selling over 20,000 records by themselves. They recorded At Home last year with producer Adam Lasus (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Yo La Tengo) and the result is undeniably impressive. The album's a dizzying concoction of Moog-driven escapades, serene ballads and power-pop blasts, and the whole thing's available now on iTunes for dirt cheap. Grab it now (or start with sampling "Naked At A Family Function" above) and you can say, "I knew them when..." Here's to hoping our area becomes known for birthing someone other than Jonathan Taylor Thomas and this guy.
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Critics have wrongly attacked U.S. legislation designed to regulate minerals imported from Congo.
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Question: Will Lithium Be Good For Afghanistan?
The prospect of mineral wealth in Afghanistan may be the worst thing that could happen to it.


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Deep in space, The Authority wage battle on two fronts. Aboard The Carrier, the combined might of the entire team is barely enough to keep the possessed, reanimated Aegean in check. It's time for Hawksmoor to finally unleash his secret weapon, but will it be enough? Outside, against the vast entity known as Mondregon, even the immense Carrier is a mere speck. The High's comeback may prove to be short–lived, as he's about to face down Mondregon in what could turn out to be a suicide mission.
THE BIG BOOK OF GRIMM
THE BIG BOOK OF GRIMM retells the fantastical fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm with all of their original horror and intensity. Presented as graphically violent parables, these infamous folk tales contain moral lessons that fluctuate from the obvious to the obscure. But told through the medium of comic book storytelling, these literary classics employ their often fatal, gruesome, authentic conclusions such as the horrific death of Cinderella's stepsisters by pecking birds.
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In issues #26-38 of her previous series, Harley attempts to balance psychiatry and her criminal activities – until she's suspected of murdering a police officer! Plus, Harley gains super powers!
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Fresh off his bone-cracking appearance in "War Games," Mr. Freeze returns looking to ice Gotham City once and for all! But when he and Batman end up facing death together, can they set aside their differences long enough to live?
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Things go from bad to worse in this compendium of the best of the worst of practically everything! An array of comics' most talented artists — Eddie Campbell, Joe Sacco, Phil Jimenez, Colleen Doran, Darick Robertson and many more — turn their attentions to legendarily terrible "bad guys" (both real and fictional), artists, scientific movements, places, and historical events.
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THE BIG BOOK OF VICE examines humanity's worst habits in all their sinful glory. Ranging from true acts of debauchery to harmless infatuations, this guilty pleasure exposes the negative aspects of alcohol, gambling, tobacco, prostitution, drugs, pornography, candy, pinball machines, comic books and video games. Also expanding its reach to touch on the dens of immorality and the greatest advocates of errant behavior, this comic-style book includes special features on Las Vegas, Sodom, Phoenix City, Larry Flynt, Carrie Nation, and Timothy Leary.


There are many types of beats for different daily meditation purposes: Delta Waves. Alpha Waves, Theta Waves. Beta waves, Gamma waves. Relaxation music can be used as spa music and massage music. Here you can find powerful self-help hypnosis including healing music, Zen music, and yoga music.


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CityU bids farewell to Professor H K Chang
Staff members, students and alumni from CityU and its friends and partners converged at the InterContinental Hong Kong on 29 April to bid farewell to Professor H K Chang, the outgoing President.
CityU appoints Professor Richard Ho as Acting President
The Council of City University of Hong Kong has appointed Professor Richard Ho Yan-ki as Acting President of the University with effect from 1 May, 2007.
Cultural Journey Revisited Joint Concert sends the audience to a cross-cultural journey
The CityU Joint Choir, Chinese Orchestra and Philharmonic Orchestra co-organized their first-ever joint performance entitled "Cultural Journey Revisited Joint Concert", sending the audience to an exciting cross-cultural musical journey.
Students bid farewell to Professor H K Chang
On 19 April, about 300 CityU students, staff and social leaders attended the largest-ever high table dinner organized by the Students' Union to farewell Professor H K Chang.
Senior Chinese official Professor Cheng Siwei visits CityU
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Promoting Hong Kong as a regional education hub
Professor H K Chang, President of CityU, believes that only by promoting Hong Kong as a regional education hub can Hong Kong sustain its future development in a globalized world.


Elk have quite the sense of humor to go with their size and general dangerousness. I lifted this picture from Yellowstone National Park's Facebook page August 30.
So I thought I'd do a little research. What exactly are the dangers lurking in these unassuming national parks? How can we protect ourselves? Here's what I found: A little common sense goes a long way.
See a bear off in the valley? Don't go running after it with camera in tow. Is an elk camped on the side of the road leisurely munching grass? Take a through-the-window shot and keep it moving. Does that big bison look like he couldn't move fast enough to harm a fly? Think again.
Avoid an encounter with a bear. Hike in groups and make a lot of noise. Lacey and I intend to sing. It'll be a karaoke hike.
If you do encounter a bear, know how to react, If it charges you, you need to defend yourself. If you just startle it and it starts acting a little like its trying to make a big show, just back away. Don't try to out-alpha it.
Know how to use your bear spray — and what it's limitations are. Its not insect repellent, as the park service is quick to point out. Think of it more like super-mace. You don't want it anywhere near you.
Yellowstone also provides a nice elk safety video — basically don't walk up to them or park your car next to them.
So, Toni and Sandy. Your daughters are armed with cutting edge National Park safety technology. I think we have a 99 percent chance of survival in the wild, wild west.


US-based e-commerce giant Amazon has launched the Hindi version of its mobile website and app for its new customers based in smaller cities. It was earlier reported that Amazon was testing mobile website in Hindi, to target vernacular customers.
According to Amazon executives, the website is now available in five international languages, including English and Hindi.
"Of the 400-odd million Internet users in India, more than 100 Mn Internet users prefer to shop in Hindi, interact with Hindi language websites. Close to 65% of them are from the smaller cities who want to make an online purchase for the first time. We believe that Amazon.in in Hindi is a critical step to address these users," Amazon India vice-president (category management) Manish Tiwary, said.
Amazon is boosting its efforts to target the first time buyers by enhancing and simplifying their shopping experience by focusing on generating local language driven content for its customers.
The e-commerce giant has more than 180 million products from around 380,000 sellers on its platform. It is looking to translate all the product details in Hindi to further provide a complete shopping experience for its customers. It claims to have already hired people with domain and language expertise to help it translate the product details.
If the Hindi website and app proves to be successful, the company will be looking to further strengthen its vernacular game by introducing local language support to target the growing local language e-commerce customers owing to mobile penetration in the country.
While Amazon's Hindi website for mobile users is already live, its rival Flipkart is not far behind. Last month, Flipkart acquired AI-powered speech recognition startup Liv.ai, to penetrate into the tier 2 cities.
According to a study by KPMG and Google in April 2017, titled 'Indian Languages – Defining India's Internet', Indian language internet users have grown at a CAGR of 41% to reach 234 million in 2016 from merely 42 million users in 2011.