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In order to evaluate the ability of naval vessels to carry out a mission, CETENA has an extensive experience on IR/acoustic signature analysis and vulnerability simulations thanks to years of research, experimental surveys and to the constant interaction with the navy over the years.
Since 1998 CETENA has provided IR signature analysis for Italian Navy vessels and has taken part in NATO Task Group on the characterization and measurement of Naval Infrared Target and Background Signatures. CETENA ensured the IR signature control for Fincantieri Naval Vessels starting from the Design phase, through the "as-built" and verification phase carried out with measurement campaigns, in collaboration with the Italian Navy. CETENA uses software tools adopted by the NATO Group, validated during the years by the most important Navies of the world, capable of predicting the infrared signature of naval vessel in their sea background in any type of operative conditions.
The underwater radiated noise from ships has become an important issue, in particular for the potential negative impact that it can have on marine life, above all on mammals. In the past, the control of the underwater radiated noise (acoustic signature) was a precondition only to naval and research vessels; nowadays, it is subject to a careful attention by marine protected area, harbour authorities and shipowners.
CETENA has planned and realised a new system for the measurement of the underwater radiated noise, composed by a string of hydrophones (array) that turns out to be a flexible system and consistent with the regulations requirements and the international procedures. This system comes with a variable geometry in terms of total lenght and space between the hydrophones, according to (as regulations require) the lenght of the ship to be studied.
CETENA combines years of experience in numerical simulation with strong experimental expertise. This set of skills contributes to the validation of the numerical models developed and it allows to realistically evaluate these phenomena (realistic cavitation observation, measurement of pressure induced by the propeller on the hull and of the noise radiated in far-field and the study and validation of the relationship between them). It also allows to verify that the contractual and legal requirements are fulfilled (measures to achieve Additional Class Notation, in collaboration with the Registries of Classifies) and to ensure the identified corrective actions through experiment.
From 1992 CETENA develops in-house software tools for the evaluation of the ships' vulnerability. The original SAVIUS code, developed on the initiative of the navy and validated with real trials, has been replaced in 2015 by VULNUS, currently in use by Fincantieri and other customers of the national defence industry.
VULNUS is able to recreate the ship structure and its systems and to assess the vulnerability to threats as anti-ship missiles, grenades and light weapons. The code was made to be used from the very first phase of core design for trade-off evaluations among the different configurations on the unit, and so it allows to follow the ship during its life cycle to monitor its performance. VULNUS has recently been given the capacity to assess the non-immediate damage following a fire and/or a flooding of the unit. This capacity is currently undergoing additional improvements together with the capacity of modelling the effect of multiple strokes.
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Anthony Joshua Nearly Set to Fight Joseph Parker in Spring
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Negotiations are now well under way for Anthony Joshua to fight Joseph Parker in 2018, possibly towards the end of March. The fight would give Joshua the opportunity to win the WBO and move forward with his goal of becoming the first boxer in history to hold all five titles. "To hold all five belts has never been done before, so I won't let negotiations get in the way of securing my legacy, and what I could achieve in the sport," says Joshua.
Joshua currently holds three out of five of the world heavyweight boxing championships. His reign started when he won the IBF belt in 2016. Since then, Joshua claimed the open WBA and IBO titles in his epic fight against Wladimir Klitschko back in April 2017, in which he ended the career of the legendary fighter by technical knockout in the 11th round.
Parker currently holds the WBO belt, and according to Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn, negotiations are now close to complete for the championship fight to go ahead. "I think we're 95 percent of the way there with completing with Joseph Parker." Eddie Hearn will be looking for the fight to take place at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff at the end of March, the same stadium in which Joshua stopped Carlos Takam in front of a 78,000-plus crowd in his last fight. And Joshua is said to be using his massive pulling power to demand around 65-75% of the total purse, though it is now thought that the financial aspects of the contract have been settled.
Parker doesn't exactly represent an easy opponent for Anthony Joshua. The WBO champion won the title while it was vacant due to a majority decision against Andy Ruiz. Yet he boasts an impressive 24–0 record, which speaks for itself. Still, such a fight is a huge step up in power and skill from Parker's recent opponent Hughie Fury, although Joshua is expected to walk away with the WBO. Hearn, however, questions whether Parker will be up for the challenge: "Can Parker deal with the pressure? That's something we will only find out on the night," he says.
It will be a busy year for Joshua, who already has a fight expected with undefeated WBC champion Deontay Wilder in 2018. Wilder has held the WBC belt since 2015 and is a real "big hitter" who should give Joshua a true test. Hopefully, the pair can agree on the split, and the fight will go on.
Still, Joshua is the clear favorite to win the bout, with 1/3 odds on BetStars. And we all know that Joshua, ambitious as he is, has talked openly and quite confidently about facing Tyson Fury in the coming year, a fight that promises to go down in history if it does take place.
Watch this space to find out more information about upcoming Anthony Joshua fights. Will 2018 be the year that he goes down in history for being the first boxer ever to hold all five heavyweight championship belts? It certainly seems possible…

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Q: Why is $(\log n)^3\in O(\sqrt n)$? Comparing the order of growth of the two functions by taking a limit and using l'hospitals rule, it seems that $\sqrt{n}$ should be O($log^3n$). Here are the steps I took:
$$\lim_{n \to ∞} \frac{(\log_{10}n)^3}{\sqrt{n}}$$
L'hospitals:
 $$=\lim_{n \to ∞} \frac{3(\log_{10}n)^2  \frac{1}{n\ln(10)}}{\frac{1}{2n^2}}$$
$$=\lim_{n \to ∞} \frac{3(\log_{10}n)^2  2n^2}{n\ln(10)}$$
$$=\lim_{n \to ∞} \frac{3(\log_{10}n)^2  2n}{\ln(10)} = ∞$$
I.e., since $(\log_{10}n)^3$ was in the numerator, and the limit goes to infinity, it has the greater order of growth.
Where did I go wrong?

A: What went wrong is that you differentiated $\sqrt{n}$ incorrectly. The result should be $(1/2)n^{-1/2}$. Then manipulation gives you a $\log^2 n$ on top, and $\sqrt{n}$ at the bottom, and you can apply L'Hospital's Rule again, and then again.
By the way, you should take the cube root first. So you will be  looking at $\frac{\log n}{n^{1/6}}$. Then one step of L'Hospital's Rule does it. The limit is $0$.

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Home All News Research UNIST Reveals the Whole Genome Sequences of Whale Sharks
UNIST Reveals the Whole Genome Sequences of Whale Sharks
Their findings have been published in the journal PNAS.
Oct 15, 2020JooHyeon Heo Public Relations Team
A recent study, affiliated with the Korean Genomics Industrialization and Commercialization Center (KOGIC) at UNIST has presented the whole-genome sequence and analyses of the endangered whale shark (Rhincodon typus), the largest extant fish on Earth. The findings of this research are expected to help researchers unravel the secrets to human longevity and aging.
Figure 1. Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest extant fish on Earth. Image Credit: GettyImagesBank
Through joint research with Harvard University, Seoul National University, Jeju National University, and Clinomix Co., Ltd., the research team at KOGIC has sequenced, assembled, and analyzed the genome of the endangered whale shark, and thus reported their study in the journal PNAS. Their findings show that a strong correlation exists between gene length and lifespan. To better understand how genomic traits correlate with physiological and ecological parameters, such as body weight, lifespan, temperature, and metabolic rate, the research team compared the whole genomes of 84 other species ranging from yeast to humans to the whale shark reference genome, which was generated based on DNA samples provided by the Hanwha Aquarium, Jeju, S. Korea. The research team also found that introns are longer in the shark genomes than in most other species. Introns are the parts of the gene sequence that are not expressed in the protein, but rather they are related to basal metabolic rate (BMR), which contributes to species longevity.
On average, whale sharks can grow to a length of 20 meters and weigh up to 42 tons. Besides, they also have an incredibly long lifespan. The estimated lifespan of whale sharks ranges from 70 to 100 years. It has been known that large species live longer because they are better at retaining heat for longer periods of time. However, the exact mechanisms underlying the longevity of whale sharks has not been identified.
Figure 2. Comparative genomic analysis across 85 species reveals traits linked to lifespan and bodyweight. (Top) Image of a whale shark. (Bottom) The phylogenetic tree was constructed using the NCBI common tree without divergence times.
According to the research team, introns are longer in the shark genomes than in most other species due to the high proportion of repetitive elements. In particular, many of those repetitive elements that show extensive regularity were found in intron regions, which indicates that introns may have an additional feature. The researchers believe that some of these features are linked to aging and longevity.
"In the whale shark genome, a striking number of CR1-like long interspersed nuclear elements, and Penelope-like repetitive elements are located in intronic regions, when compared that of other species," says Dr. Seung Gu Park, the first author of the research. "Among the many functions of introns unveiled, we expect there to be functions that affect aging."
Figure 3. Repetitive elements, evolutionary rate model, and flow of genes in the whale shark genome. (A) Each pie chart summarizes the lengths of predicted intronic repetitive elements (labeled at the top of pies). Values from 84 animals were averaged across six classes (Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, Sarcopterygii, Actinopterygii). The whale shark and the elephant fish are listed separately. Yeast was excluded from these analyses.
In their study, the researchers sequenced, assembled, and analyzed the genome of the whale shark and compared its genome and biological traits to those of 84 eukaryotic species with a focus on gnathostomes, such as fishes, birds, and mammals. In particular, they identified scaling relationships between body size, temperature, metabolic rates, and genomic features and found general genetic and physiological correlations that span the animal kingdom. They also examined characteristics unique to the whale shark and its slow-evolving, large genome. During that process, the research team sequenced and assembled its genome de novo, thereby generating a reference genome of whale sharks that spanned almost 3.2 billion base pairs.
The research team unexpectedly found that the size of neural genes is strongly correlated with lifespan in most animals. In the whale shark, large gene size and large neural gene size strongly correlate with lifespan and body mass, suggesting longer gene lengths are linked to longer lifespans.
"Our comparative genomics approach uncovered multiple genetic features associated with body size, metabolic rate, and lifespan and showed that the whale shark is a promising model for studies of neural architecture and lifespan of different species, including humans," says Professor Bhak.
This study has been participated by Professor George M. Church of Harvard University and Professor Jeremy S. Edwards of New Mexico University, as corresponding authors.
Jessica A. Weber, Seung Gu Park, Victor Luria, et al., "The whale shark genome reveals how genomic and physiological properties scale with body size," PNAS, (2020).
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THE SYRIAN army may have chased the Nato-backed rebels out of Aleppo and Damascus but the imperialist hate campaign remains in top gear as the leaders of the capitalist world plan their next move in the war to topple the Assad government.
Though the imperialists will once again return to the United Nations Security Council to seek another mandate to sanctify open aggression, Russia and People's China have made it clear that they will use their veto for the fourth time to defend Syrian independence.
So the Americans are once again talking up a plan for "no-fly" zones and raising the spectre of "weapons of mass destruction" to justify open Nato intervention on behalf of their willing tools in Syria with or without UN sanction. France is calling on the reactionary Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the Al Qaeda gangs that are spreading terror and destruction across the country to form a "provisional government" in exile. This has been echoed by the Cameron government, which these days goes along with everything Washington and Paris want in the Middle East, in the belief that there will be some pickings for British imperialism if Syria falls.
No doubt the imperialists and their feudal Arab lackeys are quite capable of cobbling together some sort of "provisional government," which they will then proceed to recognise as the "legitimate" government of Syria. But it is equally clear that all they're going to get is a motley band of traitors and religious bigots already on their payroll, who have little credibility in Syria itself and even less on the broader Arab street. While that did the job last year to pave the way for the overthrow of the Gaddafi government they won't be able to play the same trick twice.
We only have to look at the tragic experience of Libya to see the fate of the Syrian people if the imperialists get their way. The cheer-leaders of imperialism predicted that the outcome of regime change in Libya would be some sort of bourgeois democratic Arab paradise.
But the only "paradise" that exists in Libya today is that of the big oil corporations who have resumed their plunder of the country's immense oil reserves, pushing production back up to 1.5m barrels a day.
All the Libyans got was fraudulent elections that produced a phantom government led by nonentities unable to quell sectarian and tribal violence even if they wanted to. Forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi's family are stepping up their attacks while tribal and militia leaders settle old scores amongst themselves in the heart of the capital, Tripoli.
While the health, education and social services that once made Libya a beacon for Africa have collapsed, religious fanatics spend their time demolishing mosques and persecuting Muslims deemed to be heretical by Al Qaeda and the other militias armed and funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The Assad leadership and the newly elected government in Damascus are determined to see that this never happens in Syria.
The Stop the War Coalition is calling on all its groups and supporters to campaign against further war in the Middle East. Public meetings and other events are being organised around the country in September and October. The campaign points out that the ultimate goal of US intervention in Syria is an attack on Iran and that any intervention in Syria will have huge regional and global consequences; the conflict is already spreading to Lebanon and Turkey, and could spark a sectarian war involving Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq and Iran.
Communists must rally in support of the renewed anti-war campaign to stop any British involvement in any new imperialist war against the Arabs and halt all existing support to the "Free Syrian Army" and the other terror gangs operating in Syria. At the same time we must work to build solidarity with Syria and Syria's communist movements which are supporting the Assad government's efforts to end the fighting through genuine reform and reconciliation.


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De Copa del Rey 2020/21 is het 119e seizoen (inclusief 1904, 1910 en 1913) waarin wordt gestreden om de nationale voetbalbeker van Spanje. Het toernooi, georganiseerd door de Spaanse voetbalbond (RFEF), begon op 11 november 2020 en eindigde met de finale op 17 april 2021 . De winnaar krijgt een ticket voor de groepsfase van de Europa League 2021/22 en beide finalisten kwalificeerden zich voor de Supercopa de España 2021/22.

Laatste 16

Kwartfinales

Halve finales

De loting voor de halve finales vindt plaats op 5 februari 2021 om 13:00  (UTC+1)  op het bondskantoor van de RFEF in Las Rozas

Finale

Zie ook
Primera División 2020/21

Copa del Rey naar seizoen
Bekervoetbal 2020/21

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AMMAN/GENEVA, 30 April 2013 – UNICEF and partners have stepped up vaccination campaigns in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey amid a number of measles outbreaks in a region already struggling to provide humanitarian assistance to millions of people affected by the Syrian crisis.
Since the start of the crisis more than two years ago, over 1.4 million Syrian refugees have fled into neighbouring Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, with a current average of up to 8,000 Syrians fleeing the country daily.
In addition, some 4.25 million Syrians have been internally displaced – nearly half of them children. Many live in cramped and unsanitary conditions where disease can easily spread. The on-going conflict has seriously damaged the health system including the national routine immunization programme.
In Iraq, since December 2012, about 332 cases of measles have been reported in the northern Domiz refugee camp. In Lebanon, since January, some 300 cases of measles have been reported by the Ministry of Health, while Syria has registered 133 confirmed cases. In Jordan, at least five cases have been identified among Syrian refugees in the densely populated Za'atari refugee camp. Meanwhile in Turkey over the past year, there have been some 3,000 to 4,000 reported measles cases, including 300 among Syrian refugees.
In all the countries, UNICEF, working with the Ministries of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, has increased vaccination campaigns to help ensure that all children are protected against disease. In Syria, some 550,000 children have been vaccinated by Ministry of Health teams recently as part of a national campaign that is targeting 2.5 million children with the support of UNICEF and the WHO. In Lebanon, 462,000 Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian children have been vaccinated this year alone.
In Jordan, a mass vaccination campaign at Za'atari camp has immunized 60,000 refugees against measles. A national vaccination campaign is expected shortly.
Meanwhile, in Iraq's Domiz camp, about 19,300 refugees from the age of six months to 30 years were vaccinated with the support of UNICEF. In Turkey, the Ministry of Health has stepped up immunizations in eight provinces where most of the around 292,000 Syrian refugees are concentrated.
These campaigns coincide with World Immunization Week, which promotes global immunization as one of the most effective tools to keep children safe from deadly disease.


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After the discovery of gold on Pedro Creek on July 22, 1902, by an Italian prospector named Felice Pedroni (who came to be known as Felix Pedro), a stampede ensued. Claims were staked and the Fairbanks District was established along with a mining town later to be named Fairbanks. During the eight years that followed, Felix worked his mine; married Mary Doran; fought off lawsuits; and with his wife, protected their rights as claim owners despite Felix's dwindling health.
It was not until October of 1924, that Felix's contribution to the history of the Fairbanks District was truly recognized in the form of a speech delivered by Past Pioneers of Alaska Grand President Joseph Ulmer to the men of Igloo No. 4. An enlarged photograph of Felix was also displayed and thus the Pioneers of Alaska were the first to honor the memory of this great pioneer.
Nothing further was mentioned of Felix until November 29, 1937, when the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner ran a story about the gold discovery along with a sketch of Pedro by local artist, T. R. Lambert. Only minor references were made regarding the discovery in subsequent years until 1947, when the first marker for the site was placed.
From discovery in July 1902, until the summer of 1947, the discovery claim on the creek named for Felix Pedro was mined, remined, and mined yet some more. A. A. Zimmerman held the mining rights of the claim through a lease for many years until it was purchased by U. S. Smelting and Refining in the late 1930s.
In June of 1947, several members of the Fairbanks Carnival Committee and Men's Pioneer Igloo No. 4 located the claim, the corner post, and where Pedro's cabin had once stood. They also located the area of the first shaft sunk by Pedro but did not mark it due to active mining. With the newfound knowledge, the Carnival Association planned to commemorate his initial finding on the discovery claim with an historical marker which was completed and ready for placement by June 21, 1947. That Solstice Day, it was placed with the Pioneers of Alaska conducting dedication ceremonies 45 years after discovery was made. After it was unveiled, a second marker next to it was revealed. That marker was painted as a bright red and white target with an inscription inviting those who were compelled to shoot at signs to use the target instead of the historic marker.
In October 1949, a third version of the discovery story since Ulmer's 1924 speech was featured as an editorial in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. It pointed out increased interest in Pedro's story from other newspapers around the world due to a rumored recent gold strike at Fishwheel, Alaska, along the Yukon River.
By April 1952, plans were made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Pedro's gold discovery. This "Discovery Day" celebration was to be presented by the Fairbanks Pioneers of Alaska, Men's Igloo No. 4 and they set out to make it one to remember. The Fairbanks community took part in the event that became the precursor to today's "Golden Days" celebrations.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner printed a special edition of the paper recounting memories of the early days in Fairbanks. Although a few historical articles and very small editions had been previously published, this was the first time the News-Miner produced something that created such sense of hometown pride within the residents of Fairbanks.
The Italian Government commissioned a bronze bust of Felix Pedro that was presented to the University of Alaska by Consul General Baron Filippo Muzi Falconi of San Francisco at the dedication ceremony of the Brooks Memorial Mines Building located on the Fairbanks Campus, which then housed the School of Mines. The life-size bust was cast in Italy near the hometown of Felix Pedro and today it is displayed on the 3nd floor of the Elmer E. Rasumsson Library in the Alaska History section.
A proclamation was issued by Fairbanks City Mayor Robert Hoopes, the Pioneer Women of Alaska hosted a tea, a Mug-up dinner was given, and a new bronze plaque mounted onto a boulder was placed as a permanent monument to Felix Pedro. An additional smaller plaque for the monument with the correct name of Felice Pedroni was commissioned for the monument by the Italian government as a gift. At the time of placement, the monument could not be erected at the discovery shaft site due to active mining. Instead, it was placed near the cabin of Nick Kupoff, the last miner to lease the claim. The cabin was located along what is now known as the Old Steese Highway. and the road was widened to accommodate visitors to the site.
Over 250 people made their way to the Pedro Monument dedication and the events were well attended with dignitaries and VIPs. Most notably were the Baron and Baroness Falconi of the Italian Consul office in San Francisco; August Hanot, whose father was Pedro's financial backer and partner; and Lulu Fairbanks the daughter of U.S. Vice President Charles Fairbanks, for whom our city was named. An annual re-dedication ceremony has been held by the Pioneers of Alaska Fairbanks to remember our heritage since the initial dedication ceremony.
By the late 1950s only a few folks could say they had met Felix Pedro. The old-timers were rapidly being replaced by a younger population who did not always appreciate the significance of Felix Pedro's discovery of gold. In June of 1959, a group of young men on a drinking binge peppered the monument with bullets which left unsightly marks to his bronze face and brought about public outrage. The vandals were never caught.
The discovery claim and other associated Pedro Creek claims were actively mined until about 1960. In 1961, the U.S. Smelting Mining & Refining Co. deeded Pedro's Discovery Claim to Igloo No. 4. The Pedro monument was then moved from its location at 16 mile Old Steese Highway to the exact spot where Pedro sank his discovery shaft in the bottom of the creek that bears his name along the new Steese Highway.
At the 1964 re-dedication, the guest speaker was Governor William A. Eagan who announced the winning bid to build the Pioneer Museum and Stampede Room at Pioneer Park.
The State of Alaska Department of Transportation constructed the lower part of the Pedro Monument wayside, still in use today, as part of the rebuilding of the Steese Highway in 1965.
In 1968, all Pioneer of Alaska member legislators from the Fairbanks area were recognized and honored.
During the 1970s, the monument frequently glaciated during the winter months with overflow from Pedro Creek. In the winter of 1976, it became totally engulfed. Due to the rising cost of gold during this period, there was an onslaught of trespassing miners and vandalism became a problem. Both issues were finally solved by opening the 19 acre claim to the public for gold panning only, moving the monument from the discovery shaft to its present location on a hill, and clearing the roadsides of debris and tailing piles. The claim is still open to the public today courtesy of Pioneers of Alaska Men's Igloo No. 4.
--Edited from a re-dedication speech given by Women's Igloo No. 8 President Joan Skilbred on July, 2014.
All images and text Copyright 2018, Pioneer Memorial Park, Inc. Photos courtesy of Pioneer Museum, Fairbanks and Jim Plaquet.
Felix Pedro (Felice Pedroni), a charter member of the Fairbanks Men's Igloo No. 4, was born 1858, in Fanano, Duchy of Modena, Italy. He arrived in Alaska in the early 1890s and prospected throughout the Interior of Alaska and Yukon before the major stampedes and his strike on the discovery claim of Pedro Creek. He died July 22, 1910, in Fairbanks, Alaska, from apparent heart trouble although his partner claimed Felix had no heart problems.
His body was embalmed and sent to San Francisco for burial. In 1972, his body was exhumed and sent to Italy where an autopsy was performed. The autopsy supported the conclusion that Felix was murdered. He was reburied in a small cemetery in his hometown.
For a more complete biography, see the Alaska Mining Hall of Fame website. Photo courtesy of Pioneer Museum, Fairbanks.
Photo from the Betsy Sharp Collection, courtesy of the Pioneer Museum, Fairbanks.
In 1952, the granite boulder for the permanent monument was found in Fairbanks by mining engineer and Igloo No. 4 President, Pat O'Neill, who had it moved to the commemoration site. The two bronze plaques were then attached.
In 1961, it was moved to the site of the discovery shaft and after years of glaciation from the creek, it was moved again in the 1970s to higher ground on the claim to its permanent location to by the roadside. Photo courtesy of Jim Plaquet.
The Felix Pedro Monument is located at a wayside at 16 mile Steese Highway.


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am using cu920 and if i did off my handset and on back i can browers why? my email is cy4real61@yahoo.com.
Let me tell you something again dear colleagues. Finally I got rid of that phone, because I sold it. hehehe. Without loss! If you are reading this, I am changing my comment about the phone little bit. you can go for it. Because my dears, Phone prices are defined and announced according to the criteria. cost, demand, design, specifications, customers' affordability, etc. LG phones are relatively cheaper than many other companies' phones as it doesn't have much reputation except refrigerators, washing machines, tvs etc. Try one LG phone and make a difference for yourself. Thanks everyone.
I strongly recommend not buying this phone. because daytime outside reading on the screen is difficult. display is low quality. when you call someone screen is locked. go for another model or company brothers and sisters. tv function is not useful. because you can not use outside us country. it is like some of china made cheap, low quality simple plastic finishing phone. I made a mistake as I bought this phone. regards.
hey im using it but i can brows why?
how can it come in music player??
i cant do other task while listning music..
plz be needfull to solve ma problem..
Its a really great phone... a must buy.
how does the tv works and the procedure to get it to work?


With a place in the Olympic Games on the line Argentina took nothing for granted. A strong team including players to have been regulars in the senior Pumas squad combined with Sevens Rugby specialists to give the men's team their strongest opportunity of playing in Rio de Janeiro 2016.
Argentina's 57-0 and 64-0 victories over Paraguay and Venezuela underlined the country as the odds-on-favorites to win the qualifying tournament. The results means that neither Paraguay nor Venezuela can hold on to an Olympic dream for 2016 but for Chile and Uruguay the dream is very much alive.
Chile started strongly by defeating Venezuela 27-0 and also performed impressively against Peru by winning 41-0 but was overpowered by the host nation, losing 17-0. The results make for an enticing day two which will see Chile facing Uruguay on Saturday morning. A win for Chile will be required to avoid elimination.
The region's most improved country in recent years, Colombia, also delivered noteworthy results. On day one Colombia was to strong for both Peru and Venezuela before losing 24-12 against Uruguay. Despite not knocking-over Uruguay the encouraging development of Uruguay stood out and the team is a strong possibility at finishing higher than it's CONSUR B categorization at the senior men's level.


The GOOD web site ("a collaboration of individuals, businesses, and nonprofits pushing the world forward) had a posting the other day about America's Wealthiest Religions.
I'm not sure where they got their information from, and I'm not totally clear on what exactly the point of it is, but they have an interesting chart that compares a church's income distribution with that of the national average. Jehovah's Witnesses and Historic Black Churches seem to be the "poorest". The Mormons seem to be fairly close to the national average.


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STOUGHTON—Maria Caruso, age 56, went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, due to natural causes, at her home.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019, at CRESS FUNERAL HOME, 206 W. Prospect St., Stoughton, with the Rev. Paul Lundgren officiating. Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery in Madison. Visitation will be held from 11:30 a.m. until the time of services Wednesday.
Please share your memories of Maria at www.CressFuneralService.com.


Tomorrow is National Cookie day! It's a day to indulge in your favorite cookie and enjoy every bite! It's also a day to start thinking about Holiday Baking!
Here's a great way to get some ideas! Find a cookie – share a cookie! Join our Great Cookie Exchange!
The rules are simple – share only those sweet treats that you can give away – cookies, fudge, brownies, bars – You know. That kind of treat!
What a fun cookie exchange! Can't wait to make some of the delicious recipes shared here!
Thanks for joining us!! Spread the word! And Happy Holidays.
Great idea for a cookie exchange! Thank you for bringing them all to FF.
So many great recipes. I need to come back with more time to go through a few I want to try out.


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While building a weather station has been a "back of the head" interest for me since I was a kid, it wasn't until a few years ago when I started thinking seriously about practical home automation that I revisited the idea. If you want to automate common tasks that are easily forgotten, tedious, or need to happen when no one is home, you need data. A weather station can give you loads of useful data about the outside environment that can drive decisions in your system like "should I water the lawn?" or "someone should shut the kitchen window, it just started raining." This project is one in a series of Home Automation projects I have in the works and this article is the first step to building a weather system for use by other systems.
What data does it provide?
As outlined in my project description, this station collects most of the basic data you would expect from a typical station and is outlined below. I decided that since "Air Quality" is a substantially different dataset, I would separate it into an independent project. I also originally thought that I would produce the calculated "feels like" (heat index, wind chill, etc. data on the station but after considering how intensive the calculations can be, I decided that the scripts that rendered the data to the user would be a better place for that work. This would reduce the compute cycles of the code on the station, reducing the likelihood of error.
Temperature - What is the current temperature?
Humidity - What is relative humidity?
Barometric Pressure - What is the current pressure in kPa?
Wind Speed / Direction - How fast is the wind blowing in mph and from what direction(deg)?
Rainfall (inches per interval) - How much has it rained in the last two minutes?
Rainfall (Is it raining) - Is it raining or not right now?
Lightning (counts per interval) - Is there lightning in the area and how intense is it?
LUX - How bright is it outside?
Why reinvent the wheel? What did I gain?
There are hundreds of home brewed weather stations outlined on the Internet and dozens of well-made commercial stations available so why build one? Simply, none of them gave me control of the data in a way that I could depend on. This station reliably provides a dataset on a useful interval that is stored in a local database. I was able to choose what I wanted to measure against and while this station wasn't cheap, this system does have more options than most commercial systems of the same cost. Since this station doesn't rely on batteries, and is wired directly to my home network, I have been able to operate this station for more than 6 months uninterrupted with no errors, dropped packets or missing data.
Since the data is stored in a database, any number of scripts and applications can poke and prod the information for everything from "it's dark outside" to "based on the current conditions, the crawl vents should be closed." This data can also be used by the homeowner to find trends in energy consumption, irrigation patterns, and behavior to make decisions that can lower costs or improve the overall automation experience.
Lastly, I control the code of the station which, allows me to adapt to changes in my home automation system and add new features as needed. For example, I recently settled on an open home automation platform called Home Assistant. I'll go into more detail about HA in a separate post but for brevity, HA allows a myriad of inputs to control thousands of devices. One supported type is MQTT which is a fast publisher/subscriber system for managing messages. I added MQTT publishing of my data to the posting code of the weather station in an afternoon and had all of my weather data available to HA in minutes.
I've been working on a station now for a little less than 4 years. The first year, though was mostly spent learning about the weather and what people were doing with stations. I built several test platforms that helped me understand various communications schemes, power types, database updating methods and so on. As it turns out, there are loads of ways to make a station and not all of them are equal. Along the way I learned that solar and directly powered devices are about as equally reliable but wireless networking was not at all as reliable as wired. Some of the devices I chose were cheap and reliable and some were not. Ultimately, the design I wound up with may not be the final version but it is working very well so far.
The platform is powered by an Arduino Mega. I chose this platform for simplicity since I preferred the dedicated nature of a MCU over a single board computer like a Raspberry Pi. I didn't want to have to troubleshoot the operating system in case I had a problem.
As stated above, I found that wireless networking would regularly fail or require a restart from time to time. Plus, I wound up burning up a couple of wireless network cards for reasons I still don't understand. So, I opted for a wired approach which wasn't my preferred option. Since I had to run a cable anyway (and trying to find the "upside" of committing all of that sweat equity to burying a cable) I also opted to use power over ethernet injectors to power the device over the much more expensive solar power option.
The Mega collects data from the following devices and transmits it directly to a MySQL database as a single insert. I didn't use a real-time clock on the Mega, opting instead to allow the database insert a timestamp on update, again keeping things as simple as possible.
DHT22 Temp and Humidity Sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/product/385)
This sensor is nexpensive and accurate enough for my use. There are other options that are arguably more precise but, considering the conditions of my back yard, would not yield any significant improvement over this sensor.
SEN-08942 Rain Gauge / Anemometer / Wind Vane (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8942)
Inexpensive and accurate enough for my use although a larger, more robust tipping gauge would improve accuracy and longevity. I did make some modifications that helped accuracy but I expect to replace this device in a year or two. More on that below.
RG-11 Rain Sensor (http://rainsensors.com/)
Expensive but easily the most reliable rain sensor for the cost. I chose this sensor over a cheaper contact sensor because I wanted something that could detect mist quickly and didn't need to dry off before "resetting" to a "not raining" state.
MPL3115A2 - Barometric Pressure/Altitude/Temperature Sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/products/1893)
This sensor is inexpensive and accurate enough for my use.
TSL2561 - Luminosity Sensor (LUX) Sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/product/439)
Inexpensive and accurate.
MOD-1016 - Lightning Detector (http://www.embeddedadventures.com/as3935_lightning_sensor_module_mod-1016.html)
Expensive and somewhat difficult to get configured but there are limited options for sensing lightning reliably. I've read articles about home-made circuits to detect lightning and may test out some of those in the future. This device has the potential to be very useful but configuring it has proven to be a pain. More on that below.
I opted to not custom build an enclosure as I simply didn't trust a porus 3D printed enclosure to prevent moisture problems. I bought standard outdoor enclosures as shown below. I also bought a standard solar shield that was properly tested. in the end, This build wasn't the cheapest way to go but in paying a bit more, I knew there were some things I didn't have to worry about.
Part Qty Notes
Arduino Mega 2560 1 The primary processor
DHT22 1 Temp and Humidity Sensor
SEN-08942 1 Rain Gauge / Anemometer / Wind Vane
RG-11 1 Optical Rain Sensor
MPL3115A2 1 Barometric Pressure/Altitude/Temperature Sensor
TSL2561 1 Luminosity Sensor (LUX) Sensor
MOD-1016 1 Lightning Detector
E989NNJL 1 Weatherproof PVC New Work/Old Work Junction Box
14252 1 1-Gang Gray Metal Weatherproof Standard Electrical Box
US-SA-AJD-198018 1 3.2"x4.3"x1.8" ABS Universal Project Enclosure w PC Transparent Cover
RHRS 1 Solar Radiation Shield
B00NRHNPUA 1 Power Over Ethernet injection kit
B019Q3U72M 1 12V DC power supply
LM7809CV 1 12VDC to 9VDC regulator
1 330Ω resistor
1 RGB LED
2 RJ-45 Connectors
1 6-port Keystone Jack wall plate
1 Mega Proto Shield
Ethernet Cable for data/power and for short runs for component connections
Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge
Interesting things you'll learn about measuring rainfall when you build a weather station.
Cheap tipping buckets are well, cheap. Don't expect that they were well designed or accurate. My bucket had a too shallow lip around the edge of the collection area. I was getting errors of 25% - 40% depending on how hard it rained or how hard the wind was blowing. I printed a riser and it stabilized the error.
Don't trust the paperwork. When the specifications say that each tip of the bucket will be 0.011 inches of rain, the real world results will be something different. In my case, the more accurate reading is .0138. This may be due to internal resistance of the center bar as it turns over the plastic notches.
Bigger is better. When it stops raining there is always a certain amount of rainfall that isn't heavy enough to tip the bucket so that amount isn't counted and evaporates. Larger buckets have smaller amounts of rainfall per tip so are more accurate in very light rain and missed buckets at the end of a shower.
With changes 1 and 2 listed above, rainfall measurements through this gauge is around 90% what is in my manual gauge. I'll take that.
I've had a lot of trouble out of the lightning detector. First it wouldn't read at all and this was due to a known manufacturer defect. Embedded Adventures, the vendor for this particular breakout board replaced it and for a while it seemed to work using a code library for the AS3935 chip. Then there was an update for the code in the Arduino IDE that broke it. I found a library that was built by Embedded Adventures and it seemed to work but once I put it back in the box, it stopped registering events. I may have a wiring issue but I just haven't made troubleshooting it a priority.
However, while it was working, I discovered that it can be very touchy and incredibly sensitive to noise. For a while I was getting a lot of false positives and after a bit of crude analysis, I determined that it was too close to the wiring of the anemometer and picked up the events it was sending. I then moved it out to a separatebox with the LUX sensor but haven't been able to see anything since...
More to come on that one.
Power and Heat
My rain detector requires a solid 12 volts to work properly. Period.
If you've worked with wall warts at all, you have probably noticed by now that they hardly ever supply the rated voltage under load. In my case, a 12 volt supply I was using was actually supplying 8.5 volts under load. The Arduino and all of the other parts were happy with this result but my rain detector was not. It would trip and stay tripped until reset. So, I found one in my junk box that supplied 12.2volts underload reliably and used that instead. Problem solved, or so I thought - the mega would lockup - a lot.
In increasing the voltage I introduced a new problem - heat. The onboard voltage regulator on the mega was good for voltages ranging from 6-20v but at 12volts, the onboard regulator was burning off that excess energy in the form of heat - a lot of it. When combined with a sealed enclosure, the system would overheat and lockup. My solution was to get a 12v to 9v power regulator and secure it with heat transfer adhesive to the lid of an external metal enclosure. The rain detector had its 12 volts and the mega had the 9 volts that liked better. Heat problem solved.
One of the primary goals for building this station was an effort to use the data for home automation. When I started building, I had not yet settled on a home automation management system. The reason was simple; there isn't one that unites all of the devices out there although some get pretty close. I had seriously considered SmartThings and Wink but in both of those cases you must have an internet connection for those things to fully work. Plus, I'm tired of everything I do being used for marketing purposes and I didn't want to give anyone a new dataset to sell me stuff. So, I deferred.
I read up on some locally managed (as in no internet connection required) systems and found that some were really promising but didn't check off all of the boxes like Open HAB. While being a very active and mature project, it was written in java and since I am learning Python, I wanted something I can use and contribute to. A friend at work referred me to Home Assistant and this one checked off all of the boxes - active community, python based, used open standards and had API integrations for a very large device base AND, not least of all, it worked even if my internet was down.
One of the niceties here was that it has a plugin for a MQTT broker that was installed in minutes and ready to go. All I needed to do was add the publishing bits to the weather station data upload section.
Currently, I am using light level data to automatically turn on the den lights when it gets dark enough outside.
I'm going to let some of these changes bake in for a while and see how well it does in hotter weather. When dealing with an outdoor device, time seems to be the best tester but in the meantime there are some things I'm going to go ahead and change:
Make a dedicated shield for version 1 - I've wanted to develop a custom PCB for a while now and this project would be a good one to start with. It doesn't require a lot of components and the traces are few. Mostly this shield will be a place to mount RJ connectors and an RGB LED.
Troubleshoot / Replace Lightning Detector - As stated, I've had a lot of trouble out of the lightning detector so, I'm going to give it an earnest attempt at troubleshooting and correction but if that doesn't work, I am considering replacing it. At minimum, I need to validate the library.
Update MySQL Connector Library - I'm using an older version of the software used to communicate with my database. This needs to be updated.
Create Weather Underground update script - The weather station wasn't intended to talk to the world. That's why I setup a server and database. So, I didn't design it with a realtime clock and other items that would make sending data to external repositories easier. I'm working on a python script to send the latest stored data from the station to weather underground via their API.
After that, I'll consider it finished and ready to go.
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3M's Higher-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries
New electrodes and electrolytes could mean higher energy and less danger from lithium-ion batteries.
By the end of next year, engineers at 3M, based in St. Paul, MN, expect to have ready for battery makers new materials and manufacturing methods that will add 30 percent more capacity to lithium-ion batteries. These new methods will also address safety concerns surrounding the use of such batteries in laptops.
The recent recalls of Sony's lithium-ion laptop batteries, due to fears that the batteries could catch fire, included those used in some Dell and Apple computers and could extend to as many as 9.6 million laptop batteries. So it's no surprise that, while Sony says changes have been made at factories that should take care of the problem, many manufacturers are scrambling to find safer technology. But alternatives to conventional lithium-ion batteries tend to present trade-offs, such as increased costs or decreased energy-storage capacity (see "Safer, Higher Capacity Batteries" and "How Future Batteries Will Be Longer-Lasting and Safer").
3M's advance includes new electrolytes and electrode materials. Although both materials will cost more than conventional lithium-ion batteries, the added energy capacity of the electrode materials should make up for the expense by lowering the key measure for battery price, cost per watt hour, says 3M research specialist Mark Obrovac.
The company is addressing battery safety by improving the electrolytes, the liquid inside lithium-ion batteries that conducts lithium ions but blocks electrons, forcing them to travel through an external circuit to power a device. Under certain conditions, such as when a battery is overcharged, overheated, or has an internal short circuit caused by damage or manufacturing problems, the electrolyte can chemically react with materials in the battery electrodes. In some cases, the battery could explode, spraying electrolyte into the surrounding air where it can ignite "like a flamethrower," Obrovac says.
The company has developed additives for existing electrolytes, as well as new electrolytes that will not react with the electrodes. Indeed, when subjected to an open flame, the safer electrolytes do not catch fire. As an added bonus, says 3M's battery-research technical manager, Doug Magnuson, the new chemistries work better at extremely cold temperatures, such as minus 40 degrees Celsius, at which other electrolytes block ion flow and effectively reduce battery capacity by 80 to 90 percent. This capacity loss is now a key impediment to using lithium-ion batteries in hybrid vehicles, which could be exposed to these conditions. The new electrolytes would allow ions to flow more freely at these temperatures, potentially limiting the losses to about 40 percent of capacity, Obrovac estimates.
3M engineers also say that new electrode materials will improve battery-energy capacity by 30 percent. For example, the company is replacing the current anode materials, based on graphite, with a silicon-based anode that should double the amount of lithium ions the anode can store. The capacity of lithium-ion batteries is limited by the amount of lithium that can be stored in electrodes. Graphite anodes can require six carbon atoms to store just one lithium ion. Electrodes containing metals and metalloids such as tin or silicon can hold many more lithium ions–nearly four ions for each silicon atom, for example–by forming alloys.
But such electrodes have been impractical because the material can swell to three times its original size as it incorporates lithium ions. Such dramatic changes in size wreak havoc on a cell, shortening its useful life.
3M's approach reduces the amount the anode expands by using amorphous silicon, rather than crystalline silicon, and pairing this with inert materials, helping to stabilize the system. 3M engineers have also developed better methods for depositing the materials onto the films that are later rolled up to form a cylindrical battery. They are now optimizing these methods for large-scale manufacturing.
The new materials reduce but do not eliminate expansion and contraction as the ions move in and out of the anode. As a result, the researchers are developing new battery designs that can absorb the changes in size. Obrovac says that these designs, along with the new electrode and electrolyte materials, should be ready for battery manufacturers to start incorporating into their products sometime next year.
Ted Miller, supervisor of advanced battery technology at Ford Motor, in Dearborn, MI, says that a move away from graphite to these kinds of anodes is, in addition to offering capacity gains, essential for coping with extremely cold conditions that they could be exposed to in vehicle applications. Under these conditions, charging a battery can cause lithium metal to build up, sometimes doing many months' worth of damage to the battery in the course of a few minutes. Moving away from graphite will prevent the reactions that lead to lithium-metal buildup, Miller says.
So far, only one alloy-based anode is being used commercially: a battery from Sony called Nexelium, which uses a tin-based anode. But this technology will start to appear more often, according to MIT materials scientist Yet-Ming Chiang. "It's a very logical direction" for battery companies to go in, he says.
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There are many methods an actor may choose to study. There is Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Alexander, Hagen, that random British director you met in college who changed your life, that Spanish actor you watched in that play who has been your entire inspiration, etc. What do all of these methods really do for the actor's instrument? Is there a method that works best for you? Which one speaks to you? Where should you look for instructors who teach these methods? This short and practical guidebook gives you the nuts and bolts of four pinnacle training methods, sample exercises for each method, examples of actors who have used these methods, the places where you can find these methods being taught, and further in-depth literature on each method. Let this be an opening to these fundamental methodologies. The next steps are up to you.


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Q: Spring Cloud Dataflow Set System Properties I have written a custom spring cloud stream sink application that starts up when I run it as a spring boot project in eclipse. When I deploy my application I need to pass in some system proeprties. See below.
@ComponentScan
@EnableConfigurationProperties(MyProperties.class)
@SpringBootApplication
public class MyApplication {//extends SpringBootServletInitializer{

    public static final String COMPONENT_NAME = "my-application";

    @Autowired
    private MyProperties properties;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("server.env", "DEVT1");
        System.setProperty("some.other.var", "foo");
        SpringApplication.run(MyApplication.class, args);
    }

I am trying to pass these system properties into dataflow using the Deployment Properties screen, picture below.  I am wondering if I pass one of these if it is working. It seems like my application starts up but is looking for the other property. When I try passing both I get this weird error saying the main class can not be found. So when I pass one my application seems to get farther. Am I close to being on the right track? Do I need to separate the arguments some way? I tried with commas but it didn't seem to make a difference.
Error when passing two arguments -

Error: Could not find or load main class
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A: So the picture in my post above is actually correct for setting jvm arguments. My error stemmed from one of my jvm arguments being a file path that was not exposed through docker. Make sure use-spring-application-json is unchecked if you specify your jvm args this way. So this is valid for passing jvm arguments...
through docker /res/ maps to a folder on my c drive.


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Rio 2016 Olympiad may only see Barbadian Track & Field competing: Brazilian envoy pledges all will be ready next year
by AirBourne / August 14th, 2015
With a slim hope in the triathlon field, it appears Track & Field is most likely the only sport where Barbadians will compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics and Paralympics in Brazil.
Barbados Olympic Association president Steve Stoute admitted to this serious fallback in Bajan prowess during a hand over of Barbados' invitation to the games by Brazilian ambassador Luis De Andrade at the Association's Wildey headquarters in St Michael.
During the Q&A segment, De Andrade was grilled on Rio's level of preparation based on reports from International Media in 2014 over the level of infrastructure expecting close to 11-thousand athletes from over 200 countries participating in 42 sports. While Stoute indicated it would be fully known two months before the 31st Olympiad starts next year, as that's after Barbados' athletics trials which provide the numbers that would be sent to Brazil.
Barbados was represented at the recently concluded Pan American Games in Canada, but only track and field athletes returned home with medals despite the presence of several other aspects including swimming, equestrian sport and boxing. With such a lacklustre harvest, Stoute admitted it appeared to be "difficult for (Barbados) to qualify in sports other than athletics" but held a slim hope for the triathlon field.
Stoute was referring to triathlete Jason Wilson who ranked among the top 50 in the world in that event; the BOA president also believed Akela Jones in the heptathlon held a good chance to be among those qualifying.
This as the Brazilian diplomat made a narrative augmented with both video and power point presentations, which led to concern from the Bajan Reporter over the level of preparation, and the answers while naturally assertive, did not necessarily engender confidence with this News Blog.
(L to R) BOA's Operations Mgr, Glyne Clarke observes when President of the BOA, Steve Stoute receives the official invitation from Ambassador Luiz De Andrade of the Brazilian Embassy.
De Andrade said the games in Brazil are projected to cost approximately US$12 billion which includes an expansion of the South American city's subway system, these major additions are expected to be completed in time for the August 5 to 21 event. While the Paralympics will be contested between September 7 to 18.
The games are being staged at a cost of US$12 billion, the 31st Olympiad will see golf and rugby sevens added as medalling events.
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Wolverine 3 gets Blade Runner 2 writer
Hugh Jackman and James Mangold's next Wolverine movie gets a new writer
Hugh Jackman about to go Berserker in The Wolverine
Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse is underway, but Hugh Jackman and James Mangold are gearing up for the next instalment of Wolverine' solo journey.
The Wrap reports that Michael Green has been tapped to write Logan's third stand-alone film, which the site reports as being titled Wolverine, and that he'll work with Mangold on the story.
Green recently wrote Blade Runner 2 with Hampton Fancher, to be directed by Denis Villeneuve, and he's got comic book movie experience having written Green Lantern, but we'll try not to hold that against him. He also did revisions on Jack Paglan's script for Prometheus 2 for Ridley Scott.
The untitled Wolverine sequel is released in UK cinemas 2 March 2017. X-Men: Apocalypse will hit cinemas on 27 May 2016. You can buy X-Men: Days Of Future Past on Blu-ray for £9.99 from Amazon.co.uk. Get all the latest superhero news with every new issue of SciFiNow.
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package io.qameta.allure.testng.samples;

/**
 * @author charlie (Dmitry Baev).
 */
public class OwnerClassTestInherited extends OwnerClassTest {

    @Override
    public void testWithOwner() throws Exception {
        super.testWithOwner();
    }

    @Override
    public void testWithoutOwner() throws Exception {
        super.testWithoutOwner();
    }

}

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Actually, our first assistant, Marta, was in her own way better than a JoAnn clone or a Joseph clone. She brought her own history and culture and personality to client interactions. She was different from JoAnn and me, and that difference enriched our clients.
Clients First transformed Marta as it had transformed us. Clients First was cloned in that moment when Marta said of a dismantled deal, "I'm glad. It really wasn't the best thing for either of them." She was talking, of course, about the Browns and the Smiths with whom we had met the night before. Marta knew that undoing their deal was the right thing to do, and she lived the Clients First maxim from that moment on. We leveraged ourselves through Marta, and that was the start of our Clients First team.
You might think that Marta's acceptance was a no-brainer. After all, she was right there in our home office. We could hear her interact with clients. We could step in if things went screwy, or Marta could hand off the call if the client preferred talking to JoAnn. Why shouldn't Marta follow our lead?


The special issue of the Geophysica-journal contains information on the Finnish snow expertise the whole society benefits from.
In unpopulated areas, for example, automated continuous snow observations are important for weather prediction, climate modelling and interpretation of remote sensing observations. FMI-SPACE researchers Leena Leppänen, Anna Kontu and Jouni Pulliainen have compared the manual and automated snow measurements in Sodankylä, Finland, and found automatic measurements to be accurate and usable for snow depth, snow water equivalent (SWE) and snow temperature.
The special issue of Geophysica also includes an article by Juhani Damski, the Director General of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, where he emphasizes the importance of Arctic and Nordic collaboration. Outi Meinander and FMI-SPACE researcher Ali Nadir Arslan explain in their article the backgrounds for the Pyry100 snow seminar, part of the Finland 100 Project on the centenary of Finland's independence at the Prime Minister's Office, as well as for the European Union funded snow Action coordinated by Finland. FMI-SPACE researcher Johanna Ekman comments on Finland's Chairmanship of the Arctic Council 2017-2019 and its working groups.
The Finland100 special issue of the Geophysica-journal contains almost 100 pages. It appeared on-line during 2018 and as printed in January 2019. The articles are based on the presentations given at the Pyry-seminar on 1 November 2017, organized by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. The authors are researchers from Finland, Estonia, Austria and Germany. The reviewers were from Finland and abroad. The editor of the special issue was Outi Meinander, researcher at the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Geophysica is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal of the Geophysical Society of Finland, published since 1935. The editor-in-chief is professor emeritus Kimmo Kahma.


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2018 Update: Community Care Access Centres (CCAC) have since been discontinued. School Health Support Services (SHSS) are now provided through Local Health Integration Network (LHIN).
report by Albert Lubberts
published in the August 2000 issue of Home Rules, the OFTP members' newsletter
On December 16, 1999 Elizabeth Witmer, the Minister of Health & Long Term Care (MOHLTC) announced the government's commitment to provide School Health Support Services to all independent school and home educated school aged children in the province. This new initiative will come into effect in September, 2000. The expected cost to start up this program is between 3 & 4 million dollars. These services would be identical to those the public school children already receive since 1984. All costs will be covered by the MOHLTC through the local Community Care Access Centres (CCAC).
For all you history buffs, you may recall that the health services issue has long been a contention between independent educators and the government. It was part of the independent school funding issue that went to the Supreme Court a few years ago. That is known as the Adler case. The independent schools (OFTP was a party to this case) lost in their bid under the Charter of Rights & Freedoms. The Supreme Court ruled that the issue should be settled politically as there was no legal format for the court to force the Ontario government to fund independent education. Further pressure was brought on the government when the United Nations considered the issue and decided that there were discriminatory actions by the provincial government. To placate the independent education sector, Premier Harris decided the time was politically correct to extend the health services to the independent and home schooled children.
Since early January, the Ontario Federation of Teaching Parents has been engaged in a series of implementation meetings with the various stake holders and the Ministry of Health. There are still a good number of details to iron out including the final wording of the regulation that will be put into effect this summer. However, our last meeting on June 20, 2000 allows OFTP to make the information available to our members.
It is estimated that about four percent of home schooled children will be able to benefit from this extended service. As well, it is understood that some of your children who can benefit from this service are already doing so. That is good.
What is covered in this extended School Health Support Service?
Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Dietetic Services.
Educators, school principals and parents can refer a child to the local Community Care Access Centre for an assessment. When you believe or have reason to believe that your child may qualify for any of these services, contact your local Community Care Access Centre. Set up an appointment with a case worker there before September 1, 2000 if possible. Identify yourself as a parent whose child is in an independent school or is taught at home and that your school aged child may qualify for the school health support service. If the case worker does not consider your child to be eligible, ask for a referral to a professional or other agency who may be able to help. Do not be shy.
What are Community Care Access Centres?
In 1996, 43 Community Care Access Centres were created to consolidate health care services provided by 38 home care programs and 36 placement services. They are responsible, in part, for determining eligibility for, and buying on behalf of consumers the highest quality best priced visiting professional and homemaker services provided at home and in publicly funded schools as well as service planning and case management for each client. It must be remembered, however, that regardless of the amount of money willing to be spent, it is the availability of the right professional people that will determine the success of the programs offered. Unfortunately there is a great shortage of professionals in the fields of the services extended.
Who pays for this service?
The government is willing to commit whatever dollars are required to make this service work for you. All costs will be paid for by the Ministry of Health through the local Community Care Access Centre. You will receive no invoice for the service whether your child qualifies or not.
Where do I get further information?
A list of all Community Care Access Centres [was] included below [in the original article]. The local CCAC can provide you with a list of the services offered or refer you to someone who does. If problems are encountered please contact your local OFTP contact. The Ontario Community Care Access Centre website is [no longer a valid URL].
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[The article included a list of all the CCACs. The provision of these services has since been restructured and CCACs no longer exist.]
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Symbolism in Hindu Architecture
L. Peter Kollar (Author)
Synopsis The theme of this work is the symbolic significance of the magnificent architecture of a unique South Indian temple in Madura. Due to its largely isolated state from external disturbances throughout history, South India developed its own style of Dravidian Architecture. In its latter periods the Nayaks of Madura were builders of great temples throughout the region. The temple at Madura is one of these characteristic temples, which began around 1550 and finished around 1640. The temple, in the Shaivaite tradition, is dedicated to Shiva and to his consort, Parvati. Minakshi, the fish-eyed goddess is an aspect of Parvati, and Sundareswar is an aspect of Shiva. It was under this form that he married a local maiden and this occasion is perpetuated in the Great Temple at Madura. Shri Minakshi Sundareswar temple is thus in its very name and in its architectural arrangement the symbol of the union of divine 'masculinity' and 'femininity' of Purusha (Essence) and Prakriti (Substance), metaphysical principles unmanifested in themselves, but from which union and from which union alone universal manifestation proceeds. The passage through the temple is described and illustrated with a single goal in mind: gaining insight into the meaning of the symbols of space and the architectural configurations, tracing the way from the exterior to the interior, from the peripheral to the central, from the contingent to the essential, from the finite to the infinite. The text, the photographs and diagrams fathom the unbreakable bond between the spatial arrangements of South Indian sacred architecture and the metaphysical principles from where the formal arrangements derive. The approach of interpretation seeks to stay faithful to traditional orthodox Hindu doctrine, based on the Vedas in the first place, on the Puranas, and on the Shilpa Shastras – which deal with the arts in general – and the Vastu Shastras – which deal with the science of architecture. It is hoped that by illustrating not just the Temple but also the metaphysical and symbolic meanings that underlie, the reader will be helped to understand the deepest essence of the civilization and be given opportunities to better comprehend man and his aspirations.
L. Peter Kollar
Dr. L. Peter Kollar, an architect was born in 1926 and educated in Hungary. After the Second World War he emigrated to Australia, where he completed his architectural education. It was there that he came in touch with eastern thought and was attracted to the sacred texts of the Hindu tradition. A journey to India followed, and the present work is the fruit of the profound impressions gained on that journey and of further theoretical studies in the Hindu doctrine. In 1957, Dr. Kollar joined the academic staff of the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He has taught there ever since, and is now Visiting Professor. His major interests developed in the theory of architecture, theory of form and sacred architecture, published in a number of articles and monographs. His major work on symbolism in Christian architecture illuminates certain hidden, but essential parallels in the symbolism of number and of spatial configurations, common to most sacred traditions throughout the world.
The Sacred Landscape of Kalanjara Fort: Art, Architecture and Epigraphy
Forts of Kerala: Historical and Architectural Account
The Heritage of the Adil Shahis of Bijapur
Landscape Architecture in India: A Reader
Title Symbolism in Hindu Architecture
Author L. Peter Kollar
Publisher Aryan Books International
length xiv+98p., Figures; Plates; Bibliography; Glossary; Index; 26cm.
Subjects Art and Architecture > Architecture


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Moléans is een gemeente in het Franse departement Eure-et-Loir (regio Centre-Val de Loire) en telt 502 inwoners (2004). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Châteaudun.

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De oppervlakte van Moléans bedraagt 11,1 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 45,2 inwoners per km².

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Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Social Innovation towards Sustainability: Embracing Contemporary Challenges for Regional Development
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Call for papers: Social Innovation Towards Sustainability workshop - Faro, Portugal
The Portuguese section of European Regional Science Association (ERSA) invites you to participate to the 25th APDR workshop "Social Innovation Towards Sustainability: Embracing Contemporary Challenges for Regional Development".
This event intends to promote an inter-sector dialogue among researchers, activists, local, regional and national policy-makers, associations, non-governmental organizations, practitioners of social innovation and social entrepreneurs.
The workshop is organized by APDR – Portuguese Association for Regional Development and CES – Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.
The Local Organising Committee invites researchers, activists, public officials and social entrepreneurs to submit proposals for contributions to the workshop. Submissions might be based on formal research or on concrete activist, community or public policy initiatives.
The workshop is particularly interested in proposals related to these thematic fields:
On innovation: studies, reflections and examples about innovation (s) that, particularly, are concerned to emphasize sustainability and regional development, such as social innovation, grassroots innovation, transformative innovation, among others;
On transformation: studies, reflections and examples focused on sustainability transitions, multi-level perspective, transferability and scaling-up, and their relationships with innovation and regional development;
Doing It: Examples of real-world practices in developing innovative practices that address social and environmental needs, such as sustainable intentional communities (ecovillages), smart-cities, eco-cities, cities in transition, transition movements, living laboratories, NGOs, territorial and local development agencies, public policies, among others, that may instigate regional development.
Abstracts Submission Deadline: 31 January 2020
Social Innovation towards Sustainability - Workshop - Faro, Portugal
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How and why innovators are embracing sustainable ocean resources in the global food market.
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When are antibiotics really necessary in your pet? Antibiotics are chemicals that kill bacteria. They are not effective in fighting viruses or other infectious organisms. I do not believe that antibiotics should be used just because an animal is sick and the cause is unknown, 'just to see if they help'. Antibiotics are not benign. If you need evidence of this, read the package insert of any antibiotic and you will likely be shocked by the number of potential side-effects, some of which can be quite serious and debilitating. Antibiotics are killing agents, meant to target bacteria. Whenever you use a killing agent, you also run the risk of adversely affecting the organism you are treating.
Bacterial infections usually appear as something with a drainage, such as an abscess or nasal infection. It is also important to determine which antibiotic will be the most effective. Different antibiotics treat different types of bacteria, and some are more effective in certain body systems than others. A culture is the most effective way to determine if there is a bacterial infection, which bacteria is causing it, and which would be the most effective antibiotic.
Are antibiotics are not the only way to fight bacterial infections? No, absolutely not! Antibiotics are killing agents, meant to target bacteria. Whenever you use a killing agent, you also run the risk of adversely affecting the organism you are treating. Another approach would be to build the natural immunity of the organism and support the healing process. All animals have an amazing ability to heal, as long as we are not doing anything to break down that process. Good nutrition, probiotics for immune and intestinal support and minimizing vaccinations are the most important tools for keeping the immune system strong. Natural antibiotic alternatives such as honey, propolis, garlic, herbs and homeopathic remedies can also aid in fighting infections.
There is a very important and potentially devastating effect of over-using antibiotics. There are some very scary bacteria that are growing in our world today, and they are getting harder and harder to treat. Why? They are becoming resistant to the drugs that should be treating them. Over time, bacteria will mutate to withstand the effects of antibiotics, requiring the use of stronger and stronger antibiotics to treat them. Eventually, we run out of antibiotic options and these infections can become life-threatening in some individuals. Bacteria do not become resistant to an effective immune system.
My approach is to try natural support first for simple infections. For more serious or extensive infections, I may use antibiotics, but will start with a more basic antibiotic that has been around for a while, or use a culture so that I know exactly what I am treating.
A healthy foundation is the best way to treat infections of any kind. Allowing the body to heal itself will only make it stronger and better able to fight future infections. Traditional medications such as antibiotics should be used with caution and on a case by case basis.
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Description: Approaching Atlanta in July of 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman knew he was facing the most important campaign of his career. Lacking the troops and the desire to mount a long siege of the city, Sherman was eager for a quick, decisive victory. A change of tactics was in order. He decided to call on the cavalry. Over the next seven weeks, Sherman's horsemen - under the command of Generals Rousseau, Garrard, Stoneman, McCook, and Kilpatrick - destroyed supplies and tore up miles of railroad track in an attempt to isolate the city. This book tells the story of those raids. After initial successes, the cavalrymen found themselves caught up in a series of daring and deadly engagements, including a failed attempt to push south to liberate the prisoners at the infamous prison camp at Andersonville. Through exhaustive research, David Evans has been able to recreate a vivid, captivating, and meticulously detailed image of the day-by-day life of the Union horse soldier. Based largely upon previously unpublished materials, Sherman's Horsemen provides the definitive account of this hitherto neglected aspect of the American Civil War.
Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Writing inside.
Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. Ex-library with usual markings.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
0253329639 HC/DJ in Very Good Condition. 1 2 3 4 5. DJ has light wear-Has not been price clipped. Corners are bumped. No markings.
8VO, 645 pgs., B/W Photos, Hardcover. Hardcover: Excellent condition. Clean, crisp book and dust jacket. Nice tight binding. Dust jacket is in excellent condition and is in protective mylar.
0253329639. Top front corner bumped; 1.8 x 9.3 x 6.3 Inches; 645 pages.
Evans, David., Indiana University Press, nd (1996), c1996, 2nd printing, boards w/gilt spine titles, fine w/fine dj, 645 pp w/index, bibliography & notes, B & W photographic & map illus., tall 8vo.
Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, xxxvi + 499 pages, blue boards. A fine, clean, neat hard cover with little shelf wear, binding tight, paper cream white BUT a blush of foxing to the top fore-edge. In a fine, lightly worn dust jacket.
Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Good dust jacket. Signed/Inscribed by author on half title page.
Illus. 645pp. 8vo, blue boards, d.w. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1996). Fine.
Fine in fine dj. Brodart cover on dj.
0253329639. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
645 pages, some illustrations, notes, extensive bibliography, index. Front paste down endpaper has prev. owner's bookplate and a 32 cent "Sherman" postage stamp.
688 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt decoration on covers. Record # 469876.


Climb aboard the coach for a day trip experiencing Dresden with your own local guide. Learn about Dresden through the ages, from the Saxon Kings to the post-communist era. And learn of the rich cultural and artistic heritages this town has to offer.
Join this fascinating day trip to Dresden aboard your coach hired just for this round trip to Dresden. Dresden was the royal residence of the Saxon Kings, who established a city of such cultural and artistic splendour it was named "The Pearl of the Baroque." To this day it is still considered one of Germany's most beautiful cities.
During the tour you'll explore the immaculately restored Old Town and Old Market, including the famous Church of Our Lady (Frauenkirche), the Semper Opera House, and the Balcony of Europe – once Dresden's defensive rampart on the River Elbe. You will also wander around the Zwinger medieval fortress – home to the Old Masters' Collection featuring works by Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, and more.
During the tour, you will also learn about the Albertinum, Blue Wonder, Dresden Castle, Taschenberg Palace, and Procession of Princes. Walk by the Augustus Bridge, Brühl's Terrasse and the New Market.
Hear stories of Dresden at the time of August the Strong (who allegedly sired 300 children), emotional wartime experiences, and the Communist era. Discover the vibrant city of today, and enjoy free time to visit the world-class museums, relax on the waterfront, or stroll through the flea market.
Meeting point west: In front of McDonald's, outside main entrance to S+U Zoologischer Garten Train Station. Hardenbergplatz, 10623 Berlin. Just look for the friendly Insider guides.