We're pleased to offer the following services in our Airmont Veterinary Hospital.
We do work by appointments. However, our receptionists and team will attempt to accommodate all requests to the best of our ability, even if its short notice! We pride ourselves in staying on schedule so that our clients do NOT have to wait to see the doctor or technician.
Emergencies are accepted anytime our clinic is open. If you feel you have an emergency with your pet, please call us immediately. We definitely recommend calling before coming in so that a staff member can advise you on your particular emergency and the doctor can be readily available. Although the animal hospital is NOT a 24 hour facility at this time, Dr. Saunders usually has her pager on to receive emergency calls. Call our animal hospital at (845)356-8616 and listen to the message tape to receive further instructions.
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Golden Spike 150: How Americans reacted the day the transcontinental railroad was completed
By Carter Williams, KSL.com | Posted - May 9th, 2019 @ 5:45pm
Editor's note: This is the fourth and final part of a series looking back at the history and impact of the transcontinental railroad, which was completed 150 years ago this year.PROMONTORY — Newspaper reports from Monday, May 10, 1869, indicate there was perfect weather at the time of the ceremonial completion of the transcontinental railroad. When the golden spike was tapped into the ground at 12:32 p.m., United States flags unfurled, music from a band played and artillery fired in the air. The news was also immediately relayed through telegraph.
The completion of the transcontinental railroad has been lauded as a big deal in American history. How communities reacted to it being finished 150 years ago truly gives an idea about how big it really was for Americans.
It was the moment the eastern and western parts of the U.S. were finally connected. Here's how people reacted the day the transcontinental railroad was completed:
In its May 11, 1869, evening edition, the Deseret News dedicated most of its paper to coverage of the moment. News of what happened ended up in the May 11 edition because there was an "unaccountable delay" in the telegraph message sent from the Deseret News correspondent stationed in Promontory, the newspaper staff wrote.
The paper gave a detailed account of what happened during the ceremony and reactions of the moment the transcontinental railroad was completed.
"We meet to celebrate a great event in connection with the history, progress and development of the United States of America," former territory Gov. Charles Durkee told the crowd that day. "The fathers of the Republic were patriotic and progressive. They established a liberal and free government — free for enterprise, energy and progress, and we have availed ourselves, to some extent, of the high privilege bequeathed to us."
Durkee continued by saying he hoped and believed the moment would allow free trade across the globe.
"I can very well remember the time when there was no such thing as a railroad in existence. I rode on the first that was ever made, soon after its completion; that was between Manchester and Liverpool, England. Now they spread like a network over England, France, Germany and all Europe; permeate every available place in the United States, and this is the last grand link in the mighty chain," added John Taylor, who would later become president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1880, in another speech that day.
Other places in the state, like Mount Pleasant and St. George, also celebrated as news the railroad was completed trickled in.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin ran an Associated Press article noting the Pacific Railroad was finished. A second article on the front described the scene that news came across the telegraph in the paper's newsroom.
An Associated Press article that ran in the May 11, 1869, edition of the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin. (Photo: Google Newspaper Archive)
As noted by historians, the message relayed across the country was "D-O-N-E." The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin staff seemed to be taken back with the moment that message came across.
"A rare and interesting scene was presented yesterday at the telegraph office, when the strokes of the hammer driving the last spike of the Pacific Railroad were indicated by the successive taps in the telegraph apparatus," staff members from the New Orleans paper wrote. "The finishing ceremony took place at noon on the railroad, but the difference of time put its announcement here at about 2 p.m. This telegraphic audition of the final hammer strokes extended, doubtless, to all parts of the United States."
Finding the exact newspaper printed in a city 150 years ago can be difficult. Luckily, some newspapers that have survived time and have been digitized carry wire stories from other places in the country.
For example, The Jacksonville Weekly Sentinel in Jacksonville, Florida, ran a story from San Francisco, California, that recapped the moment the city found out the railroad was finished. Among other things, the message noted that it initiated trade between points east of the Mississippi River and goods from countries in Asia.
It said that a note from San Francisco read, "The Pacific Railroad Company today, at 11:45 in the forenoon San Francisco time, laid the last tie and rail, and the last spike was driven. The telegraph was attached to the City Hall bell in this city, and a fifteen inch gun at Fort Point. The first stroke of the hammer on the last spike fired the gun at the fort and range the City Hall bell. The news created great enthusiasm in the interior cities of the State. The first invoice of Japan teas by the Pacific Railroad was shipped for St. Louis today, inaugurating overland trade China and Japan."
A wire story from Chicago also ended up in the May 11, 1869, edition of the Deseret News. It described the scene when the news the Pacific Railroad was completed came in. In Chicago, people flooded the streets in celebration "so densely packed" that businesses were forced to close for the afternoon.
"Today has been one long to be remembered in the history of this city. The demonstration in honor of the completion of the Pacific Railroad was a true uprising of the people, spontaneous and not manufactured to order," a report from Chicago stated. "The city, all day, was decorated with flags, banners, etc., and when the bells announced that the last spike had been driven, an immense procession began to move, but owing to its enough length, it was found impossible to adhere to the programme, and the marshals guided it as best they could. Apparently, almost every vehicle in the city took part in it and nearly the total of the population turned out."
Workers line up for a celebration of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on Monday, May 10, 1869. (Photo: Utah State History)
New York City and Philadelphia
A commemoration service was held at the Trinity Church in New York. At the same time, the Liberty Bell rang in Philadelphia and reports stated it was the biggest celebration in that city since the end of the Civil War, according to a wire story that also was printed in the May 11, 1869, edition of the Deseret News.
The May 11, 1869, edition of the Boston Daily Evening Transcript, summed up the feeling upon the completion of the Grand Pacific Railroad.
"This is one of those events whose startling character no familiarity can destroy. A few ticks — hardly louder than those of a watch — tell to the listener of the advances in science and art, the invisible and half comprehended agencies which have wrought the miracles of the age," staff wrote in the newspaper. "The fact is marvelous beyond conception; the mind almost refuses to believe what the senses testify to; and except to sordid taste, dull and almost brutal natures, an appeal is made to the sentiment of wonder, to show how much there is above and beyond the wit of man, on which well-being of the individual and the race depends."
One of the more unique responses to the completion of the railroad came in New Hampshire. An event was held in Nashua, New Hampshire, on May 11, 1869, for "Californians, pioneers, Indianian, Oregonians, Nevadians, and all who have crossed the Plains to California, or who have resided on the Pacific slope west of Salt Lake" to congratulate the completion of the Pacific Railroad, according to the Nashua Daily Telegraph.
New UMFA gallery shows how photography and transcontinental railroad merged in the 1860s
Golden Spike 150: Take a tour of Utah's transcontinental ghost line
Golden Spike 150: Honoring the forgotten Chinese workers lost in history
Utah unveils new copper spike for 150th anniversary of transcontinental railroad
Carter Williams

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The Ulhas River is a river in Maharashtra, India. It is in the Thane, Raigad, and Pune districts of that state. It flows north and west from it source to where it splits into Vasai Creek and Thane Creek, near Thane. The Ulhas divides Salsette Island from the mainland, and is important for the water supply of Mumbai.

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List of rivers of India
Rivers of India
Seven Islands of Bombay

References

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Geography of Raigad district
Palghar district
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After a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunamis struck the northeast of Japan on March 11, 2011, large-scale destruction of the coastal communities, including nuclear accidents, turned into a political maelstrom. Debates over the country's alternative energy futures became intense; worries over ailing energy infrastructure, public safety, and the lack of transparency and accountability led to the most extensive restructuring of its power sector in the country's recent history.
Against this backdrop, renewable energy was heralded as one of the important solutions: A new nation-wide Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) was introduced in July 2012, replacing the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), which many had perceived, until then, as largely inadequate.
Nearly six years have passed since. Japan's reconstruction, originally envisioned to last for 10 years, is now in its latter phase. The coastal communities are slowing recovering, with many focused on the idea of "building back better." We now hear less about the country's energy future in the national and international media. But less documented is how well these communities are performing in terms of the ambitious reconstruction plans that they had proposed.
This was the context in which my colleague Stephanie E. Chang and I began our research titled Disaster as Opportunity for Change, recently published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. We evaluated renewable energy transition trends in the 30 coastal communities in Tohoku, Japan from 2012-2015. We focused on energy transition as one measurable dimension of "building back better (BBB)," because this is a popular concept that is often talked about, but rarely analyzed through empirical modelling.
In this study, we sought to answer three simple questions. First, are the disaster-affected regions really "building back better?" Have they introduced more renewable energy than the rest of Japan?. Second, why did some communities achieved greater renewable energy transition than others during recovery? Third, what was the role of government policy? We were interested in answering these questions through quantitative analysis, instead of an in-depth case study, since such in-depth analyses are rare in the field of disaster recovery.
In a reconstruction study, we typically need about 10 or more years to make major conclusions. Since we did our study in year six, this study doesn't provide the final answer, but rather whether the disaster led to opportunity to build back better.
Our research indicated some clues in answering the above three questions, but many puzzles remain. First, it was clear that the disaster-affected regions achieved a greater transition to renewable energy, particularly in both small and mega-solar adoption. Other renewables including wind and geothermal are lagging due to many factors such as more complex approval processes. We focused our analysis on energy transition, measured in terms of per capita approved renewable capacity, as opposed to indicators such as installed capacity or power generated, since the latter depend on many factors such as the readiness of grid systems in accommodating intermittent renewables.
We also found that the relationship between a transition to renewable energy and the extent of disaster damage, and other post-disaster changes such as number of houses being relocated, appears to be non-linear. This means that the destruction caused by disasters, and subsequent decisions to relocate population, provided at least some momentum for wider societal change. Clearly, when communities experience very large destruction or extensive change such as land-use adjustment, this can overwhelm the local capacity to implement broader changes such as major investments in renewable energy. Balancing competing reconstruction demands is, therefore, an important policy question that must be dealt with, most ideally, prior to any large-scale disasters.
Third, our results remain somewhat inconclusive as to the contribution of government policy. Counter-intuitively, communities having renewable energy plans prior to 2011 adopted significantly less solar energy after the Tohoku disaster. Statistical modeling such as ours tells little about how different aspects of national and prefectural policies have fostered or hindered local energy transitions and these are better answered through other means such as in-depth interviews.
Overall, we find potentially complex drivers of "building back better" and we hope that this study motivates further systematic studies of societal change in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. Of course, a better articulation of what policies work in promoting change and why will also help foster the sustainability transition even without the impetus of a disaster.


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Q: how to get a dynamic customer attribute option from eav_atrribute_option _value table in magento 2 how to get a dynamic attribute options from eav_atrribute_option _value table in magento 2

app/code/Cm/CustomerAttribute/Model/Plugin/Checkout/LayoutProcessor.php

  <?php
namespace Cm\CustomerAttribute\Model\Plugin\Checkout;

class LayoutProcessor
{
    /**
     * @param \Magento\Checkout\Block\Checkout\LayoutProcessor $subject
     * @param array $jsLayout
     * @return array
     */
     public function __construct(\Bootsgrid\CustomerAttribute\Helper\Customerattribute $helper)
    {
        $this->helper = $helper;
    }

    public function afterProcess(
        \Magento\Checkout\Block\Checkout\LayoutProcessor $subject,
        array  $jsLayout
    ) {

 $attributeCollection = $this->helper->getUserDefinedAttribures();

    if ($attributeCollection->getSize() > 0)
    {
         foreach ($attributeCollection as $attribute)

       {
        if ($this->helper->isAttribureForCheckoutRegister($attribute->getAttributeCode()))
        {
        $frontEndLabel = $attribute->getStoreLabel($this->helper->getStoreId());
        $attributeCode = $attribute->getAttributeCode();
        $getAttributeCodeFunction = "get" .  str_replace(' ', '', ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', $attribute->getAttributeCode())));
        $fieldRequiredClass = ($attribute->getIsRequired()) ? 'true' : '' ;
        $fieldFrontendClass = ($attribute->getFrontendClass()) ? $attribute->getFrontendClass() : '';
        $fieldInput =$attribute->getFrontendInput();
        if($fieldInput == 'text')
        {
            $fieldInputType = 'input';
            $fieldAbstract =  'abstract';
        }
        elseif ($fieldInput == 'date') {
           $fieldInputType = 'date';
           $fieldAbstract =  'abstract';
        }
        elseif ($fieldInput == 'select') {
           $fieldInputType = 'select';
           $fieldAbstract =  'select';
        }
        elseif ($fieldInput == 'multiselect') {
           $fieldInputType = 'multiselect';
           $fieldAbstract =  'abstract';

        }
        elseif ($fieldInput == 'boolean') {
           $fieldInputType = 'boolean';
           $fieldAbstract =  'abstract';

        }
         elseif ($fieldInput == 'textarea') {
           $fieldInputType = 'textarea';
           $fieldAbstract =  'abstract';

        }
        $jsLayout['components']['checkout']['children']['steps']['children']['shipping-step']['children']
        ['shippingAddress']['children']['shipping-address-fieldset']['children'][$attributeCode] = [
            'component' => 'Magento_Ui/js/form/element/'.$fieldAbstract.'',
            'config' => [
                'customScope' => 'shippingAddress.custom_attributes',
                'template' => 'ui/form/field',
                'elementTmpl' => 'ui/form/element/'.$fieldInputType.'',
                'id' => $attributeCode
            ],
            'dataScope' => 'shippingAddress.custom_attributes.'.$attributeCode.'',
            'label' => $frontEndLabel,
            'provider' => 'checkoutProvider',
            'visible' => true,
            'validation' =>[$fieldFrontendClass , 'required-entry' => $fieldRequiredClass],
            'sortOrder' => 250,
             'options' => [
                [
                    'value' => '',
                    'label' => 'Please select a value ',
                ],

 [
                    'value' => '1',
                    'label' => 'Silver level ',
                ],
            ],
            'id' => $attributeCode
        ];

        }
       }
     }
     return $jsLayout;
    }
}

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A: One of the example of fetching options of customer attribute

Object Manager Approach

/**
 * Get attribute info by attribute code and entity type
 */
$attributeCode = 'gender';
$entityType = 'customer';

$objectManager = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();

$attributeInfo = $objectManager->get(\Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute::class)
                               ->loadByCode($entityType, $attributeCode);

/**
 * Get all options name and value of the attribute
 */
$attributeId = $attributeInfo->getAttributeId();
$attributeOptionAll = $objectManager->get(\Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection::class)
                                    ->setPositionOrder('asc')
                                    ->setAttributeFilter($attributeId)
                                    ->setStoreFilter()
                                    ->load();

var_dump($attributeOptionAll->getData());

Block Approach

if you want to do it through block then add this block in your module
<?php
namespace YourCompanyName\YourModuleName\Block;

class YourCustomBlock extends \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template {

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute
     */
    protected $_entityAttribute;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Collection
     */
    protected $_entityAttributeCollection;

    /**
     * @var \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection
     */
    protected $_entityAttributeOptionCollection;

    /**
     * @param \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context
     * @param \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute $entityAttribute
     * @param \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Collection $eavEntityAttributeCollection
     * @param \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection $entityAttributeOptionCollection
     * @param array $data
     */
    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Framework\View\Element\Template\Context $context,
        \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute $entityAttribute,
        \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Collection $entityAttributeCollection,
        \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection $entityAttributeOptionCollection,
        array $data = []
    ) {
        $this->_entityAttribute = $entityAttribute;
        $this->_entityAttributeCollection = $entityAttributeCollection;
        $this->_entityAttributeOptionCollection = $entityAttributeOptionCollection;

        parent::__construct($context, $data);
    }

    /**
     * Get attribute info by attribute code and entity type
     *
     * @param mixed $entityType can be integer, string, or instance of class Mage\Eav\Model\Entity\Type
     * @param string $attributeCode
     * @return \Magento\Eav\Model\Entity\Attribute
     */
    public function getAttributeInfo($entityType, $attributeCode)
    {
        return $this->_entityAttribute->loadByCode($entityType, $attributeCode);
    }

    /**
     * Get all options name and value of the attribute
     *
     * @param int $attributeId
     * @return \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection
     */
    public function getAttributeOptionAll($attributeId)
    {
        return $this->_attributeOptionCollection
                    ->setPositionOrder('asc')
                    ->setAttributeFilter($attributeId)
                    ->setStoreFilter()
                    ->load();
    }

    /**
     * Get particular option's name and value of the attribute
     *
     * @param int $attributeId
     * @param int $optionId
     * @return \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection
     */
    public function getAttributeOptionById($attributeId, $optionId)
    {
        return $this->_attributeOptionCollection
                    ->setPositionOrder('asc')
                    ->setAttributeFilter($attributeId)
                    ->setIdFilter($optionId)
                    ->setStoreFilter()
                    ->load();
    }

    /**
     * Get the first option's name and value of the attribute
     *
     * @param int $attributeId
     * @return \Magento\Eav\Model\ResourceModel\Entity\Attribute\Option\Collection
     */
    public function getAttributeFirstOption($attributeId)
    {
        return $this->_attributeOptionCollection
                    ->setPositionOrder('asc')
                    ->setAttributeFilter($attributeId)
                    ->load()
                    ->getFirstItem();
    }
}

I hope this will help

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Life's a drag: NHRA kicks off 2014 season with this weekend's Winternationals
By Jerry BonkowskiFeb 6, 2014, 7:18 PM EST
Like the swallows that return to nearby Capistrano every year, the early bird will likely catch the worm as the NHRA Mello Yello Series kicks off its 24-race 2014 season this weekend.
The Circle K Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway in Pomona, Calif., have traditionally been where championships begin.
Defending Top Fuel champ Shawn Langdon is the perfect example of that: he began his quest for his first NHRA pro title by winning last year's Winternationals.
And then, as if to add emphasis – if not to clinch the championship – Langdon returned to his home track (he grew up about 20 miles away in Mira Loma) last November to win the season-ending finals.
Judging by preseason testing, Langdon is prepared to maintain his stranglehold on that championship trophy in 2014, as well. Once you get a taste of being the best of the best, it grows on you, and that's certainly the case with Langdon.
Even if you've won a record 16 championships, as Funny Car legend John Force has done, the hunger for No. 17 hasn't changed one iota. If anything, Force may be more determined than ever to win yet another Funny Car crown for several different reasons.
First, he'll turn 65 in May. He became the NHRA's oldest champion across all pro classes when he won the Funny Car title last season, his first since 2010, but also his 16th in 24 seasons.
Even though he's a senior citizen, Force is still driving like a 20-something. And that should be no different this season, which leads to the second reason why this year will be one of the most significant and poignant of his career.
Force will part ways at the end of the season with long-time sponsor Castrol GTX motor oil, as well as car manufacturer Ford. Both companies announced in the offseason that they would be ending sponsorship of Force's car and will likely allocate those resources in other areas.
Given his fierce loyalty to Castrol and Ford, Force would like nothing better than to have them go out in style with yet another championship.
And, who knows, if his bid to find a new primary sponsor and new manufacturer doesn't go as smoothly as he hopes – he said in a recent NHRA teleconference that his yearly racing budget for all the teams under the John Force Racing umbrella is $24 million – it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to think Force may also end his relationships with Ford and Castrol by also going out as a champion.
In other words, 2014 could potentially be Force's last season as arguably the greatest drag racer the NHRA has ever known. He's at a point in his life that watching daughters Brittany and Courtney build their own respective drag racing careers has become his top priority.
Brittany Force is coming off a Rookie of the Year season in Top Fuel.
There's also a chance that John Force may switch rides with daughter Brittany next season: she would drive a Funny Car and he would compete in a Top Fuel dragster for the first time in his career.
It wouldn't be the first time a driver has switched classes. Don "Snake" Prudhomme, Kenny Bernstein, Gary Scelzi and Tommy Johnson Jr. (who returns to a full-time ride this season in Funny Car for the first time in five seasons) are among only 15 drivers that have won national events in both fuel categories.
Of all the things he's done in his career, that's one thing Force has not achieved, and could provide incentive – not to mention possibly start him writing yet another chapter of his life story – if business reasons (i.e., sponsorship) dictate such.
If Force foregoes a possible switch to Top Fuel – which he's thought about off and on for more than 15 years – there is also the possibility (dare we even think it, let alone say it) that Force may not be at the 2015 Winternationals … as a participant, that is.
In the Pro Stock ranks, defending champ Jeg Coughlin Jr., is already on the hunt for his sixth championship. Winning two races in last year's Countdown to the Championship clinched the title for the Ohio native, who amassed four wins overall in the season.
One driver Coughlin won't have to worry about, at least early in the season, is four-time Pro Stock champ Greg Anderson, who surprised the sport earlier this week when he announced he would miss the first three months of the season (likely six events) to undergo and recuperate from non-life threatening heart surgery.
The Winternationals kicked off Thursday and will continue with two rounds of qualifying for pro drivers on Friday and Saturday, with final eliminations set for Sunday.
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On its anniversary, the Montgomery Ward episode is a stark reminder of what unleashing wartime government power over industry has actually looked like.
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One of the most significant yet underappreciated lessons of the history of impeachment is that it was intended as a tool to strengthen the nation's security.
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Platforms' ability to assess the context of content plays a major role in determining whether "new school regulation" sets proportional limits to freedom of speech.
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Jillan Valpy (right)
Maritime museum exhibit offers glimpse into life at sea
On a 52-foot-long boat, John Horton set out to do what few others have done.
May. 25, 2016 5:00 p.m.
He set out to follow part of the route that British explorer Captain George Vancouver sailed between 1790 and 1795, during which he charted the northwest pacific coast and helped lay the foundations for what would later become Canada.
Vancouver (whom the City of Vancouver was named after) was originally a protege of Captain James Cook, the first explorer from Britain to make contact with the northwest coast from 1776 to 1779, and sailed on voyages with Cook. Vancouver later returned to chart the region from Alaska to Oregon.
Horton's interest in Vancouver's voyage began in 1994 during the 200th anniversary of Vancouver arriving on the coast, during which he was commissioned to put together a series of paintings on the voyage.
In order to make the paintings historically accurate, the maritime artist and avid sailor, completed weeks of research, combing through books and papers, and studying line drawings of the ships.
He also got his hands on Vancouver's journals, which provided rare insight into the explorer and provided detailed descriptions of the places he visited. Eventually Horton decided if he was to make the typography and backgrounds accurate in his paintings, he would have to follow the very route Vancouver travelled.
Shortly after, he loaded up his vessel and set out from the mouth of the Columbia River with Vancouver's journal in hand. Over a five-year-period, for up to six weeks at a time, Horton sailed Vancouver's route, travelling as far north as Alaska, exploring every cove that Vancouver would have sailed.
"We would sit in a given spot and read Vancouver's description of it," Horton said. "Had the negotiations between the British and the Spaniards not been successful, Spain would have retained their claim over the coast and the Russians or Americans would have moved in. So the interesting story is how it's part of the Canadian story and how Canada came from sea to sea."
But the voyage wasn't without challenges. Trying to understand Vancouver's journal, which was written in Old English, was a problem at times.
"You would look up and say 'oh that's where he was', and trying to picture what it was like when he was there. Much of the coast hasn't changed, but some of it has," Horton added.
He created roughly 50 works of Vancouver's voyage charting the coastline and the challenges they faced, many of which have been sold. Nine of his paintings are currently on display as part of a new exhibit called A Summer of Discovery at the Maritime Museum of B.C.
The display also includes a wax figure of Capt. Cook, several navigational tools such as a polaris, a type of compass, a sextant, which helped explorers determine landmarks, stars and points to determine where they are at sea, a chronometer, which allowed explorers to keep track of the time it took to get from point A to point B, and telescopes.
Also on display are Cook and Vancouver's journals and model replicas of the Discovery and Endeavour ships that explorers used.
Jillan Valpy, exhibits, collections and program coordinator with the museum, said the exhibition helps with the museum's outreach program to schools.
"The importance of the exhibit is to promote our outreach programming and continue to develop outreach programming to our community and schools," she said.
This is the museum's first display since it moved from the Steamship Terminal last year.
The display will be open to the public from Thursday, May 26 until the end of September at the museum's new location at Nootka Court (634 Humboldt St.)
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The Conversation on Race
There have been a lot of calls for a "Conversation on Race in America" over the last few days. You hear that a lot every time a new racist event hits the headlines. But as someone who has been participating in the "Conversation" for most of my life, I know from experience that no one really wants to have a serious conversation – because no one really wants to hear or tell the truth.
But for the sake of the those who still don't know, let me encapsulate the basics of the "Conversation on Race in America." From the African American side of the table, they want White People to understand how incredibly difficult it is for African Americans to pull themselves out of poverty, and how dehumanizing and helpless it feels for a Black child to come to the realization that he or she is probably going live out his or her entire life in that condition. They want White People to understand that becoming a gang banger, living a life of crime or becoming the mother of multiple children with multiple fathers is a byproduct of that hopelessness. They want White People to understand how humiliating it is to be watched from the time you enter a store to the time you leave simply because you are Black, and they want White People to understand how outrageous it is and the rage they feel inside when a police officer unjustly questions them, just because they are Black. They want White People to understand that when they see George Floyd lying on the ground begging for his life, they see themselves begging for theirs.
From the White side of the table, they want to know why after sixty years of increasingly generous Progressive social programs and affirmative action, the social and economic health of the African American community has gotten worse instead of better. They want to know why so many African American men show such disrespect for women and the children they create. They want to know why African Americans don't stop the adoration of gangs, crime and violence, when they are the disproportionate victims of it. They want to know why African Americans talk about "Reparations" when there is no reasonable way to implement it. They want to know why police officers routinely put their lives on the line to protect African Americans, and still African Americans refuse to help or even cooperate with them. And they want to know why even though so much as been done for African Americans, they don't do more for themselves.
A "Conversation" requires both sides at the table to be heard. That's not happening, because neither side is really ready to hear the other. Why? In part, because this is an incredibly complicated problem that has its roots in 246 years of slavery, a horrific civil war and 156 years of discrimination, economic torment, death and suffering. Both sides are horribly frustrated, and now political parties, looking for an opportunity, have made an already difficult debate impossible. The bottom-line, when one side of the table can't say what they really think, because they are immediately labeled a racist, the "Conversation" is over.
The truth is, when one side of the political divide or the other, politicizes race, religion, sex or any other condition of humanity that naturally divides us, it fuels the fires that consume our democracy and everyone in it. Our communities are on fire because we have allowed politics to set them.
A final word to my little socially conscious friends, who have been guided by their rage over racial injustice to throw bricks and fire bombs through the windows of African American owned businesses, homes and automobiles, while they prattled on about their White privilege and then go home to sleep in their parents' basements in the suburbs. You're idiots. You've done irreparable harm, and you should be ashamed.
Many of us, Black and White, who have attempted to have this "Conversation" over the years have learned a great deal about each other and the problem. We are genuine friends, and in the last few days, we've largely been on the same page. What happened to George Floyd was unconscionable. The peaceful protests and indignation were good and proper, but the rioting that followed was despicable. It served no purpose other than to give back ground that had been gained over many years of hard work.
I'm reminded of something said about John McClendon, the first African American coach to win a national sports title and a powerful voice in civil rights. An historian and close friend of his said, "Dr. King and Malcolm X were undeniably important in our march to equality, but it was guys like John McClendon, reassuring their white friends that everything would be alright, that really made the difference."
That quote, better than any I've ever heard, explains the truth about what it takes to make great strides in social progress. Shouting and protest is all well and good to get people to notice, but reason, compassion and kindness are the qualities that eventually lead to real change. Why don't we start a new "Conversation" by just being polite to one another?
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Consumer prices failed to go up in April, despite a package of measures designed to boost inflation, increase spending at Swedish tills and grow the nation's economy.
Sweden is on a mission to boost its economy. Part of the strategy involves cutting interest rates (to lower the cost of borrowing) and buying government bonds (essentially loaning money to inject into the country's economy), which the country's central bank (the Riksbank) hopes will help push up the prices of everyday goods and services in Sweden that have been stagnant for two years.
However the nation's number crunching agency, Statistics Sweden, announced on Tuesday that consumer prices were unchanged between March and April. Analysts had expected a price increase of 0.3 percent, according to a survey by news agency Reuters.
Statistics Sweden's figures also revealed that prices were down 0.2 percent compared to this time last year, causing eyebrows to be raised about the government's approach.
"It's a very big surprise," Olle Holmgren, an economist at Swedish bank SEB, told newswire TT on Tuesday.
He said that forecasters may have "misjudged how international prices are affecting Sweden", adding that "there is low inflation worldwide".
Meanwhile Statistics Sweden said that inflation had stalled due to lower prices for package holidays, electricity, books, clothes, petrol and footwear.
Sweden's central bank (the Riksbank) has been steadily cutting interest rates over the past few months, but in April it announced that the nation's key interest rate, the repo, was likely to remain at its record low of -0.25 percent until 2016, despite much speculation that it could be lowered even further.
The bank is already under pressure to reverse that decision. The krona weakened against the euro following Statistics Sweden's announcement about prices failing to rise.
The Riksbank is next scheduled to discuss its interest rate strategy at a major conference in July, although there is speculation that the issue will be raised at an earlier meeting on May 18th.
Concerns about low inflation sit alongside a generally rosy picture for Sweden's economic future.
A key EU report released last week predicted that Sweden was set to benefit from "strong investment and a brightening outlook for exports" over the next few years.
Exports are forecast to increase by 4.1 percent in 2015 and 5.3 percent in 2016 according to EU economists, while investment growth is projected to rise at a slower pace of 4.1 percent in 2015 and 4.5 percent in 2016.
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CMO50 2018
CMO50 2016: Ones to watch: Jee Moon
Name Jee Moon
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Upon arriving in the business, Luxottica's Jee Moon's focus has been turning around the OPSM brand in A/NZ and regaining its position as number one in the optical category.
"We set the team, and the business, a challenge: Get clear about our sustainable point of difference in a cluttered, outspoken market. The agenda of brand as business was pushed across the whole organisation, operationally, culturally and experientially. To execute this, a season of change has commenced, operationally and structurally, in stores and all the way up to the global Luxottica team based in Milan," Moon says.
To make this happen, Moon is manoeuvring around existing barriers and establishing new procedures, including global alignment, initiating and leading a project to redefine customer segments, and using this segmentation to develop a new brand strategy.
She says her proudest moment in the last 12 months as CMO has been in building a culture of confidence in the power of marketing, within the team and within the broader business.
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Demonstrating innovative thinking
In November 2015, Moon was tasked with turning around the OPSM brand in Australia and New Zealand. As part of the mission, she quickly identified how displaced the OPSM brand had become by new competitors within the optical category.
Moon and her team needed to even out the playing field and get clear about the company's sustainable point of difference in a cluttered, outspoken market. The agenda of brand as business was pushed by Moon across the whole organisation, operationally, culturally and experientially.
To execute this brand repositioning, Moon commenced – operationally and structurally, on the ground in stores, all the way up to the global Luxottica team based in Milan.
Traditionally, OPSM strategy has been driven by Luxottica, based in Milan. Moon manoeuvred around this roadblock, which was drastically affecting how the company could take its products to market and opened up a dialogue with the Luxottica Global leaders, communicating the needs and behaviours of the Australian market and requested permission to go to market in different ways that would be better suited to the Australian market.
She also initiated and led a project to redefine OPSM customer segments. Previous customer research focused only on the optical buying behaviours of customers. Moon commissioned and championed research that focused on the customer's identity as a complete picture, which ultimately shaped the way we developed our go-to-market strategy.
She also used the customer segmentation to commission development of a new brand strategy, look and feel and brand guidelines.
"All this work will culminate in a new TVC launching in September that will signal the start of the beginning of OPSM's repositioning and take us from our current state to our desired one."
Demonstrating empowered and strategic thinking
Jee has the foresight and experience to know that great strategy comes from great insight, and spending time with your consumers and customers is the only way to deliver that.
Moon says putting the consumer first is key to great strategy, and in building brand strategies to meet cusomer needs.
"OPSM's customer research has traditionally been very grounded in customer purchasing behaviour," she says.
As such, Moon commissioned research that explores the key attitudinal mindsets in the community. Defining the mind-sets in terms of life attitudes, behaviours, beliefs, needs, wants, desires, hopes and fears, giving OPSM a focal point for marketing and promotions, and ultimately the new brand strategy. The research used an exploratory approach to yield inspiration, not just information.
Additionally, Moon also recognised she joined a "broken team."
"We had been without a direct leader for nearly a year, and were without a clear sense of direction. Consequently, the culture was badly damaged, and morale was low."
Moon quickly identified how fragmented the team was, particularly with marketing functions reporting into different areas of the business.
She brought the marketing team back under her remit and redefined the roles in each team after understanding the needs of her team members. Each function now has clear responsibilities, set KPIs and are finally accountable for their output.
Demonstrating agility
On Moon's commencement to the business, she encouraged the team to question every single established procedure.
"The culture had been to accept the costings and service as they were and not to push back. Nothing was taken for granted; every retainer, process and procedure was looked at from scratch and built up again, finding enormous cost savings along the way.
She empowers the team to ask questions, request information and expect accountability from agencies and suppliers rather than just accepting the expensive and sometimes poor service they provide.
"We inherited a relationship with a design studio and print supplier who provided little visibility in the way of pricing coupled with inefficient processes. Jee empowered us to manage the relationship and make changes that benefited the team and our business, including full price breakdowns for each job, monthly reports, regular reviews, moving design studio in house and setting clear expectations and targets for the supplier to meet."
Demonstrating creativity
Marketing is often a silo within an organisation, mostly confined to communication and promotion - but Moon says she is able to push the agenda of brand as business across the whole organisation, operationally, culturally and experientially.
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Chapters of Life: The Value of 'Home'
Houses are like people: individual, special and radiating emotional connection. Like people too, houses have stories to tell. Over time, chapters form and characters emerge. The themes that bind these stories have as much to do with the people as they do with the walls that surround them and how these people choose to configure and decorate the space to reflect themselves.
For example, memories of your first family home may have appeared in a home that to others may have seemed uniform and mundane-perhaps a raised bungalow on a mound of clay in a suburb that had no trees or sidewalks. Plain like the others, one in an enclave of houses already built from seven plans in three different coloured brick, one can still recount how bland it all looked. Whatever the house may have lacked in character, like the others around it, it grew with the optimism of a loving family built on hope. It's not tangible, but it is as present as if it were.
It's a strange phenomenon really. Some buildings feel neglected, while others feel too shiny and new to offer much depth, while others that are plain and simple embrace you with a wonderful sense of calm. One thing is certain, while appearance does matter, it is how a property "feels" that gives it the quality of "Home".
Have you ever gone into a model home and, as beautiful as it was, felt no emotional connection to it? This is the struggle designers battle with, trying to seduce you into recreating an emotional connection when none inherently exists. This is because "Home" is not something that can be manufactured; it has to be lived and experienced. It requires not only emotional connection, but a commitment of time and person to throw down roots. Space can be pretty, but if it doesn't resonate with potential Buyers, the impact is lost. So, why is that? Why do some spaces feel like a living container, while others feel like "Home"?
Research on housing and home, suggests that no matter where you live, you do what is called 'optimization'. Basically, whether the place you are in meets all or your needs, wants or wishes, you optimize the space so that it most closely accommodates your vision of home. Of course, while this mostly depends on your financial situation, people often start with little things that are easy and decorative. Inexpensive solutions like paint, window coverings, and carpeting are used to provide a backdrop to personal possessions, enhancing their representation of you and, as a result, instilling a sense of 'Home'. But home still can't be conveyed solely through the placement of personal possessions in a place physically modified to a more pleasing aesthetic. The visual result of changing a space doesn't make a place necessarily feel more like Home, but the personal investment and physical act of a person making a change helps makes it so. It is the act of spreading one's positive energy through a place that helps solidify that sense of home. People often say that the first thing they do when moving into a space is that they clean it, even if it is already immaculate. This is a way of spreading one's energy, and by extension, the moving of furniture, the hanging of pictures, and the painting of walls, all help imprint the energy of the resident.
Sometimes as realtors, we price an abode and add a premium for enhancement. Despite the modesty of its location, or the state of its condition, we feel the charm of the place and the love for its patina. This premium for home is not easy to achieve, for it only comes to those who have truly celebrated the place in which they have lived. It is for those who have optimized the space and made the best of it without dismay or regret. This positive energy can run with a property. Each time it has new occupants it adds more depth and colour, and the enchantment grows like its value.
At Urbaneer, we spend our days sweeping the city for properties that offer the best value for their dollar and that hold the most opportunity for you to tell your own story of "Home". No matter how much we might promote a particular property for its tangible qualities, we assist our clients in their search for a property that pulls on their heartstrings. Beyond purchasing a place for practicality or convenience, the purchase of a Home where one can love, laugh and grow into is the key to an intelligent purchase. People who love where they live find the sanctuary of their dwelling helps them become more prosperous, more balanced, and more personally satisfied.
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The Pearl Button
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The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border...
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian indigenous people, of the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
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Coyote Ugly could have turned out very differently.
The film turned 15 in August and now, director David McNally is revealing that Jessica Simpson, then fresh off her 1999 debut album Sweet Kisses, was considered a "contender" for the lead role of Violet.
It would be another five years before Simpson would make her big-screen debut in The Dukes of Hazzard.
The Coyote Ugly role ended up going to Piper Perabo, who was a relative unknown at the time. "Towards the end of the process, Piper walked in," McNally said. "She was actually from New Jersey and seemed to get it."
Another recent revelation about the film includes the 11th hour addition of LeAnn Rimes to the roster. THR reports that Perabo had initially recorded all of the film's music, but was later informed that her voice would be dubbed over by Rimes.
"[McNally] said, 'We're going to dub the songs,' and I was like, 'Uh, OK.' What can I say? I'm 21. What am I going to say, no?" Perabo said, calling the news "disappointing."
Rimes' version of "Can't Fight the Moonlight" went on to reach No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the film's soundtrack has been certified four times platinum.
Now, try to wrap your brain around a Simpson-sung version of the same tune.
Tune in tonight for ET's exclusive interview with Rimes, discussing her brand new holiday album.
ET was on the film's set with Perabo and co-star Maria Bello -- both of whom took the whole dancing on the bar with water thing very seriously. See the flashback in the video below!


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Alex Diamond' was initiated as a stand-alone, conceptual art project by Jörg Heikhaus in 2004. Although it outlived its original intent with the release of the book and the exhibition series "Don't worry about a thing / Being Alex Diamond" in 2009 and 2010, it has become Jörg's stage name as an artist since.
Known for skillfully employing a vast variety of different techniques and crafts over the years, the majority of his oeuvre today consists of his distinctive trademark woodwork: multi-layered, meticulously and highly detailed sculptural woodcuts, blended with diverse painting and pigmenting styles.
Essentially being a determined and straightforward storyteller, most of his artwork can be seen as an exploration of our society and culture and its recurring recognition patterns, with strong references to popular content and aesthetics.
A vivid political and social unease can always be felt in the work of Alex Diamond. As an artist, he takes the responsibility to articulate his views on the pressing issues of our time seriously. An anger can be felt, but also hope and an encouragement to change. However, this depth of substance is not necessarily in the aesthetic and thus not visible foreground of his work. It rather unfolds like a good song by engaging with melody and rhythm, harmony and disharmony, text and voice.
Jörg has been an artist since 1987. He founded the internationally acclaimed heliumcowboy gallery in 2002 in his small artist studio in Hamburg St. Pauli as a unique place to show and experience art. After gradually reducing his own involvement in the galleries' program to be able to better focus on his art, he dropped out completely in 2020 and handed over the reigns to his son Melvin Wiebigke-Heikhaus (23), to continue the success story of heliumcowboy with a fresh set of eyes and a young approach to an ever changing art


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A few thoughts and observations on the day which kicks off the annual Season of Greed: Black Friday.
A cultural shift has taken place over the last 10-12 years: what little actual emphasis was on "thanksgiving" on Thanksgiving Day has been eclipsed by the spirit of covetousness. Thanksgiving was about giving thanks for maybe a minute or two–during the grace at dinner and a few TV prayers. Otherwise, the focus of the holiday had long ago morphed into food and drink, football games and travel.
"Giving thanks" was an incidental happening. But at least lip service was paid to the concept.
The Curse of Black Friday has, hour-by-hour, slowly edged into Thanksgiving until the actual event is a few hours of traditional Thanksgiving (a big meal with some family and/or friends) with Black Thursday-Friday consuming many hours of planning, researching and list-making.
Now, very clearly, the emphasis is on DEALS! and saving a few bucks on the latest electronic gadget. Somehow, the Black Friday violence over sweaters marked down 40 percent is a more honest reflection of who Americans really are.
More than that, Black Friday is a perfectly-named day for the millions of church-goers who annually partake in its perverse madness.
But the greed-spawned violence is really just another spectator sport for the apostate church-goers. It just another sick reality show for those who prefer to keep alive the lie that they are Christians.
Jesus stated the situation quite clearly in Luke 14:33.
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L'assioma di Pasch, chiamato così dal nome del matematico tedesco Moritz Pasch, è uno degli assiomi che Hilbert aggiunse ai postulati di Euclide per renderli completi e così assiomatizzare completamente la geometria del piano.

L'enunciato dell'assioma, che fa parte della famiglia degli assiomi di ordinamento, è il seguente:

Se una retta interseca in un punto interno un lato di una poligonale trilatera chiusa, allora interseca in un punto interno uno ed uno solo degli altri due lati, oppure interseca entrambi nell'estremo comune.

Il suo enunciato viene semplificato in:
Dati un triangolo nel piano, una retta che ne attraversi un lato in un punto che non sia un estremo, deve necessariamente intersecare un altro dei due lati o il vertice in comune tra essi.

L'evidenza intuitiva di questo enunciato è talmente forte, che è difficile pensare alla necessità di postularlo esplicitamente. Fu Moritz Pasch, nel 1882, a comprendere l'impossibilità di dedurlo quale conseguenza degli altri assiomi.
Pasch mise in evidenza anche altre assunzioni implicite e non dichiarate operate da Euclide.

Hilbert, nel suo Grundlagen der Geometrie, raccolse questi ed altri assiomi, allo scopo di dare fondamenta assiomatiche rigorose complete alla geometria.

Quanto da esso enunciato non va confuso con il teorema di Pasch, avente ad oggetto l'ordinamento dei punti sulla retta.

Indipendenza dagli altri postulati
Nel 1970 il matematico Lesław W. Szczerba fornì un esempio di geometria in cui sono validi gli assiomi della geometria euclidea, ma non l'assioma di Pasch.

La dimostrazione si basa sull'esistenza di una soluzione discontinua dell'equazione funzionale , con . Se si definisce una relazione di ordinamento parziale  nel modo seguente:

allora la quaterna  risulta un campo semiordinato. Se  non è continua, il piano cartesiano costruito su questo campo soddisfa gli assiomi della geometria euclidea ma non l'assioma di Pasch. Si noti che tale dimostrazione richiede l'assioma della scelta.

Una dimostrazione alternativa si basa sul fatto che il piano cartesiano senza una striscia "verticale" sarebbe un modello di piano euclideo in assenza dell'assioma di Pasch.

Note

Voci correlate
Assiomi di Hilbert
 Teorema di Pasch
Geometria assoluta
Geometria euclidea
Teorema di incompletezza di Gödel

Collegamenti esterni

Assiomi
Geometria euclidea


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Scope and Contents Records of The Observer, including a large collection of photographs, a collection of issues of the newspaper, and a digital collection with black-and-white and color page images of the newspaper. The photograph collection from The Observer contains multiple formats. The print and negative collection of The Observer graphics...
Dates: 1966-[ongoing].
University Photographer
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Subject: University of Notre Dame -- Basketball -- Photographs. X
Subject: University of Notre Dame -- Sports -- Photographs. X
University of Notre Dame -- Alumni -- Photographs. 5
University of Notre Dame -- Buildings -- Photographs. 5
University of Notre Dame -- Religious life and customs -- Photographs. 5
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Q: How do I install Ubuntu 12 on a 64bit PC with UEFI and GPT SSD disk, with no current OS? How do I install Ubuntu 12 on a new 64bit PC which has UEFI instead of BIOS and a GPT formatted SSD disk, with no current OS ?
I have already tried and although it seemed to install, it would not boot/startup.
I have temporarily given up trying to install Ubuntu and am using Windows 7, but I would far prefer Ubuntu !

A: Did you add a 1MB biosgrup partition at installation? This is usually necessary for the newer GUID partition table for the BIOSes to recognise it or something (remember you are not limeted to four partitions like the Master Boot Record partition table so you can have as many as you want!)

A: This can be tricky because it's not obvious what your boot mode is when you run the installer. Most modern UEFI computers support booting in both BIOS mode and in EFI mode, and there's no system-to-system consistency about which mode gets used by default. I recommend using the "try before installing" mode and checking your boot mode by looking for the /sys/firmware/efi directory; if it's present, you've booted in EFI mode, and if not you've probably booted in BIOS mode.
If you've booted in BIOS mode, installation should proceed as usual, possibly including the 1MiB "bios_grub" partition that Marcappuccino mentioned. (This is needed only if you use GPT for partitions, though.) If the system doesn't boot at this point, then it probably means that the firmware is trying to boot in EFI mode. Perusing your firmware's boot options (from F2, F10, F12, Del, or some other key at boot time) may provide a clue about why it's not working.
If you've booted the installer in EFI mode, then installation should also proceed normally, although you don't need the bios_grub partition; instead, you need a ~100-500MiB EFI System Partition (ESP) with a FAT filesystem. The Ubuntu installer should create this automatically when it runs in EFI mode. If the computer doesn't boot when you reboot after this installation, then it might be trying to boot in BIOS mode -- again, checking your firmware settings might find a solution. More likely, though, something went wrong with the EFI boot loader installation. In EFI, boot loaders are normal files on the ESP, so you can check them out from an emergency system. If you mount the EFI at /boot/efi (its more-or-less standard location), look for the /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu directory; it should hold a grub.efi file (or something with a similar name, like grubx64.efi; I don't recall precisely what Ubuntu uses). You can check that this file is correctly entered in the firmware's boot list by using the efibootmgr utility, which you may need to install with sudo apt-get install efibootmgr. Typing efibootmgr -v should produce a list of boot loaders. If you don't see GRUB in that list, then registering the boot loader may do the trick:
efibootmgr -c -l \\EFI\\ubuntu\\grub.efi -L Ubuntu

You may need to adjust this command, though, especially if your ESP isn't on /dev/sda1. See the program's man page for details.
If this doesn't work, you can copy/rename GRUB from its location in /boot/efi/EFI/ubuntu to live as /boot/efi/EFI/boot/bootx64.efi, or possibly /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/boot/bootmgfw.efi. The first name is the default EFI boot loader name, which the computer should boot if there are no other boot loaders available. The second is the name for Microsoft's boot loader, which some EFI implementations treat in a similar way (although really they shouldn't).

A: After installing Ubuntu, use Boot-Repair from liveCD or liveUSB. Its Recommended Repair generally fixes EFI boot problems.

A: I managed to get ubuntu to install correctly by pressing F6 and disabling all the special features like "nomodeset". Hope this helps.
I have ASUS UEFI bios.

A: please check this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
It helps me with this one:
Creating an EFI partition
An EFI partition is necessary to install Ubuntu in EFI mode via the manual Ubuntu installer.
Since Ubuntu 12.04, it is possible to re-use an existing Windows7 EFI partition (without formatting it). If you use a previous version of Ubuntu, or if you have several installations of GNU/Linux in EFI mode, it is safer to create a new EFI partition EFI.
An EFI partition can be created via a recent version of GParted (the Gparted version included in the 12.04 disk is OK), and must have the following attributes:
Mount point: /boot/efi (remark: no need to set this mount point when using the manual partitioning, the Ubuntu installer will detect it automatically)
Size: minimum 100Mib. 200MiB recommended.
Type: FAT32
Other: must be located at the start of a GPT disk, and must have a "boot" flag.


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Prepared: By Y.Tyshchenko, Y.Kazdobina, S. Gorobchyshyna, A.Duda
Кyiv-2018
The publication has been prepared as part of the project "Enhancing Government Capacity for Working with Crimea Residents and IDPs from Crimea" implemented by the UCIPR with the assistance and funding of the British Embassy in Ukraine. Its main objectives are to familiarize Ukrainian authorities responsible for policy towards Crimea and internally displaced Crimeans with the situation on the peninsula and key measures of the de-occupation policy, as well as to identify gaps in activities of central authorities in this area and help remove them.
Citizens and the state in the government-controlled territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions: Problems, challenges and visions of the future
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Kyiv-2017
Russophone identity in Ukraine in the context of the armed conflict in the east of the country
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Constitutional Changes after the Maidan
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Crimea after the Illegal Annexation. Public Policy, Challenges, Decisions and Actions. The White Book
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