Aquapriva is a new and unique swimming and wellness center concept that can be build at suitable metropolitan areas around the world.
Imagine living in one of the metropolitan areas of the world like New York, Moscow, Mumbai or Tokyo and wanting to go for some swimming, sauna, relaxing and having fun, with your family, friends or colleagues – and with them only!
That is what Aquapriva is all about – an affordable private luxury, whenever you want.
Aquapriva consists of (eight) separately rentable private wellness areas with a swimming pool, a hot tub whirlpool, a sauna and an integrated café inside a surrounding building with a public restaurant, a shop, a beauty and wellness center and optionally other enterprises.
According to our research, nothing even close to Aquapriva exists. If you don't own a private pool or sauna, you can't do your wellness program in peace and private company only.
The targeted total costs for the first Aquapriva is 15 million €.
The targeted EBIT is 3,4 million €.
Aquapriva consists of 8 separate wellness-areas, which can be booked online in advance for 2 hours or more.
In the center is an integrated café and catering area with 8 counters.
At full capacity, about 640 bathers are expected in 8 shifts each day, or 230,400 bathers a year.
Surrounding the inner private areas is a public circular path with a restaurant, a shop and a beauty and wellness center (and optionally other enterprises, depending on the outer building size and type).
The public restaurant offers the same range of healthy drinks and snacks as the central integrated café, plus breakfast, a selection of menus and alcoholic beverages.
Current newspapers are available for free reading and there is a free WiFi access.
The shop sells practical items such as bathing accessoires and cosmetics, fashion, as well as different beautiful, luxury, or artistic items.
The public beauty and wellness center offers a well sorted variety of individual massage and beauty treatments.
The site for the first Aquapriva is of central importance. Since there are no comparable figures, to be on the safe side, a metropolitan area with more than 4 million inhabitants in the immediate vicinity of 20 - 30 km should be chosen.
In places like New York, Tokyo, Mumbai, Beijing, Los Angeles, Moscow or London, Aquapriva would be definetely running risk free at full capacity all year round.
There are many advanced and environmentally friendly technologies out there nowadays and we are striving for the best solution within our budget. Which technology will be used will be decided at a much later stage, but an environmentally sound concept is favored by us, and will also be good in advertisement.
The maximum number of allowed persons may be limited to a certain number according to the size of the wellness areas.
Editors from TV-journals, major magazines and newspapers, as well as major internet magazines and bloggers will receive a personal invitation with a voucher for 2 hours and 10 people, which can be redeemed at any time in exchange for a report.
Online photo display of special und unusual events and decorations like a conference or a marriage in Aquapriva.
What are the safety regulations in the country? In Germany for instance public swimming pools must be supervised by appropriately qualified personnel according to the DGfdB Directive 94.05.
Here is yet to be determined, if for instance a video surveillance is equally permissible, or whether the obligation to monitor the pool area can be transferred fully or partially to the tenant.
Are there any grants from the government for creating new jobs?
Are there cities or projects which will indicate their interest in Aquapriva by providing an interesting construction site or special conditions?
The circular arrangement around a central café and catering area is a fixed part of the core design, because this way the café and catering area can be run in all pools simultaneously with just a few waitresses or waiters.
The number of 8 areas is ideal in terms of space and revenue, but could also be different, for instance to make some larger areas if there are any good reasons.
For a cost effective building and for keeping the online booking simple, we suggest to equip every area with exactly the same components, which may vary only in details according to the budget.
The interior design could be completely luxury, stylish and even different for each or only a few areas.
For example one area could be designed in a maroccan style, one in a Hundertwasser or Gaudi like Style, one in a zen like asian style and so on.
Level 1 is the heart of the system, all technical installations, internal paths for employees, covered access ramps for deliveries, storage rooms, etc. are located here.
The inner building is technically a round reinforced concrete building, with the technology level, the visitor level and an optional management level.
The management level could be up to 30 m in diameter and it could be rented out for private conferences.
The inner building can also be placed on other levels, to encompass a car parking level for example.
Surrounding the inner building is an independent circular wooden path with 4 adjacent corner buildings in wooden structure. The 4 corner buildings include a restaurant-café, a shop, the entrance and a beauty and wellness center.
No details are worked out yet. Updates will be posted on this website.
The actual private wellness areas are highly thermally insulated to cost-efficiently maintain a constant high level internal temperature.
The outer building or shell can be variable, for instance a square or dome type, depending on the individual desires and the budget. Aquapriva can also be integrated in other construction concepts.
A building of 70 m x 70 m is needed to encompass the inner building and a basic squared type construction is included in our 15 million budget.
Since the inner building is already arranged like a mandala or yantra, we think it would be a good idea to also apply some Feng Shui and ancient indian Vastu principles for the overall forms, directions and color combinations.
This doesn't cost any significant amount, but could help a lot in creating a positive atmosphere of wellness, plus it would be a good advertisement.
The Aquapriva team has a lot of creative ideas for the interior design and we are planning to work out some detailed design concepts in the near future.
Aquapriva is open from early morning to midnight and optionally even 24 hours.
The entrance into the outer area with restaurant, shop and the public beauty and wellness center is free, but is permitted only after buying a prepaid electronic bracelet with a free choice of a bonus from 10 to 200 €.
After buying the electronic bracelets, the guests enter the circular path. On the path are the entrances to the booked wellness areas, some art objects, the outdoor restaurant, the shop and the public beauty and wellness center.
Everything is attractively designed, with a lot of wood and green plants, so that bathers like to stay here for some time before or after their bath and also non bathing guests will like to come here.
The electronic bracelets can be recharged on all payment counters inside, the deposit amount may be viewed with the help of various installed scanners. In the shop cash payment is possible due to some higher-priced items, otherwise all payment is made electronically.
Admission times and group name are shown on a screen next to each door. At the entrance and in the restaurant there are screens with a time schedule overview. 5 minutes before each new shift a time signal could be given to remind people.
The new password to open the door automatically enters into force for the time booked and the guests can enter with the password. The number of actual visitors is automatically counted via Rfid by the electronic bracelet on entry.
Guests enter through a shoe area into the (20) changing rooms. Inside will be a small locker for valuables. From here one enters barefoot into the freshly cleaned wellness area.
If they have booked for 2 hours they have exactly 2 hours and 15 minutes before the next group enters.
Now they can use everything freely, turn on some music, change the light, take a shower, sit in the hot tub, swim in the pool, or use the sauna.
The integrated cafe is at their service whenever they want, with a well sorted variety of fine coffee and tea specialties, fresh fitness drinks and some wholefood snacks.
After 2 hours the cleaning crew enters the room and begins their work. (Empty bins, wipe clean tables and toilets and check everything.
Another 10 minutes later (exactly 5 minutes before the next scheduled group enters), there is a final announcement to leave the hall. The security and ⁄ or the cleaning crew will check that all are out in time.
Now everyone is refreshed, the kids are probably hungry, so why not enter the public restaurant with it's delicious wholefood specialties for a cosy conclusion of the visit?
Quite a few will shurely go there.
Are your public pools also looking like this?
A visit to Aquapriva will be really pleasureable and relaxing for everyone. No hassle, no crowds, no noise, no anxiety about where your kids are, just pure wellness.
There is a worldwide potential for Aquapriva.
Please visit your local swimming pool for further convincing arguments.
The booking website is to be very well designed, so that a reservation can be done with a few clicks in a short time and with minimal inputs. To ensure this, usability tests should be carried out with casual internet users of different ages.
Payment is to be done in advance for the hall including 10 people, for booked extras, plus 50 € reserve for up to 10 possible further guest entry fees.
A freely chosen password will be assigned for the hall.
A cancellation is only possible by paying a cancellation fee. Infos about cancelled areas will be automatically send by email and sms to interested persons.
The standard booking can be done for maximum 90 days in advance.
1 or 2 halls are reserved (except early morning and late night times) for short-term appointments (VIP reservation) by raising (doubling) the booking price. Free VIP halls will be reduced to the regular price one or a few days prior. Infos about the newly available normal priced halls will be automatically send by email and sms to interested persons.
Instant reservation for free halls on the same day should be possible via phone by an immediate transfer a non refundable deposit.
General booking should also be possible by phone, if a suitable direct payment method is available.
People can rent a hall, specify interests or conditions, for example to meet other single women, vegetarians or yoga practitioners, etc.
Interested people can then make direct contact with the main tenant and may be invited via password sharing.
Aquapriva is a unique concept for the top metropolitan areas of the world.
We are looking for someone who understands the potential of Aquapriva and turns it into his own profitable business. All we want is a fair share for the concept, not more, not less. We are open for proposals.
Note that all following calculation is done in Euro, but can probably be converted 1:1 to currencies with a similar value, like the US-Dollar or GBP, when Aquapriva is build in a country using these currencies.
Construction costs are estimated for an attractive and functional building, while considering construction costs and payback period first. If however the building itself should set already architectural standards, these numbers are of course irrelevant.
The proposed entrance fee is 10 € per person for 2 hours.
A non-refundable minimum number of 10 entry fees has to be paid in advance upon booking.
On weekends and holidays the entrance fee could be raised to 12 €.
The goal is to bring the sales up to 5 € (and beyond) per guest by offering high-quality fitness drinks, fine coffee and tee specialties and assorted wholefood snacks.
The goal is to attract at least the same number of guests to the restaurant as to the booked wellness areas. This could be a mixture of bathing guests who extend their stay and non-bathing guests who just come here because of the atmosphere and the good healthy food.
230,400 guests that spend 10 € each for food and drinks will amount to 2,30 million revenue.
The shop could become a substantial source of income also, if the line of goods is carefully selected.
We didn`t add the shop to our calculation yet.
We are still researching this at the moment, but we can already say, that it has a great potential when properly done. We didn`t add this operation to our calculation yet.
Estimate is based on average values of existing pools of 1,300 kw / h per m² of water per year. Since the entire building and especially the swimming area is planned to be built with high thermal insulation, the consumption values could be significantly lower.
5:30 to 0:30 = 19 hours = 3 shifts of 6,5 hours.
Total: 56 jobs at 2500 € average = 140,000 x 12 = € 1,680,000 € ⁄ year.
Note: There may be different reasons to split these jobs into smaller units (part time jobs).
*In very big and busy cities, opening hours may even be extended to 24h a day, which will result in further income.
Note: All estimations on energy consumption, operating and construction costs are based on diverse publicly available figures and may differ significantly according to the country.
A detailed review of these numbers by qualified architects, auditors and by tendering is therefore still outstanding.
We'd love to hear your feedback, constructive criticism and enquiries.
Please contact us first via email and use an email address of your company.
We try to answer all incoming emails within one business day.
Aquapriva is a startup, founded to do research on the Aquapriva concept and to find investors.
The Aquapriva concept was developed by Thomas Koertge and is a protected proprietary design.
This may change however in the near future.
Are you are an experienced architect, engineer, water technician, etc.?
If you are an expert in one of the fields needed for planning, constructing and running a project like Aquapriva and you got something relevant to say, offer or sell, please don't hesitate to contact us anyway.
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Sure, it's nutty but Gleason sincerely believes his "multi-talented testicles" expose the works of Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavettes and Sam Peckinpah to a new audience.
Damn. That takes, ahem, balls.
Thank goodness. We wouldn't want a monopoly in this vital sector of the economy.
Let me know if any boobie-related puppet shows turn up.
Amazing what people can do in their spare time. Give him credit for finding another way to use his nuts.


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Sing for Flint
News March 21, 2016 / 8:02 PM March 21, 2016
By Jeff Bash
Youngstown State University's NAACP is helping bring relief to the victims of the Flint, Michigan water crisis by having a lip sync battle known as "Sing for Flint" to raise awareness and funds for the city.
The event, "Sing for Flint," will be a lip-synch battle planned by the NAACP. Proceeds are planned to go to other universities and schools who are suffering from the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
YSU's local youth chapter of the NAACP has been working to expand their recruitment and build a school-wide effort to combat social injustice. Victoria Shaffer, a senior political science major and current president of the NAACP youth chapter, is interested in collaborating with student leadership to build a coalition that could bolster support to combat social injustice.
"Being the president of the NAACP is a challenge; however it is a fun challenge. The difficult part of running the organization is getting everyone involved," Shaffer said. "So that's why our group has taken the initiative to try and get more organizations to unify to help us for our lip sync battle. I want it to be about other organizations as well, not just the NAACP."
Shaffer argues that community involvement shouldn't start with the government but with people. Being a resident of Michigan, she wants to see positive change locally that will spread hopefulness and charity to other regions.
Speaking personally about living only an hour away from Flint, Shaffer related memories of her time in the region. She spoke of her involvement with the Boys and Girls Club of America and how it inspired her toward community involvement. Now she hopes to expand the influence of student organizations on campus through unifying efforts.
Ashley Orr, the Student Government Association president, echoed the sentiments of Shaffer and expressed her excitement for the collaboration.
"I think utilizing other organizations through collaboration is key. SGA is excited to advertise for them and the event," Orr said. "I see collaboration as unity — that is, how can we work together to accomplish our goals — this time, the NAACP Lip Sync, which I think will be awesome."
The student government has been working to increase communications and synergy between organizations since the beginning of Orr's term as president.
"Student government offers a variety of services for student groups and their events; we can fund them, advertise for them and attend them," Orr said.
Kimiya Flowers, a junior telecommunications major, has been closely working with Shaffer to help construct and coordinate the event. Flowers has been collaborating with other student groups attempting to gain supporters for the project and hopes that students from all walks of life will join the groups' efforts.
"You know, I think one thing that needs to be said is that the NAACP is not just for African American students," Flowers said. "It's for anyone who wants social justice and to help build a greater community."
Flowers and Shaffer's event ideas culminate into an event fully catered and entertained by different individuals and organizations competing to be the top performers for a good cause.


First, second, and third graders are having a blast at the Holyoke Elementary School annual Track and Field Day. Events include the 50, 100, 200 meter dashes, egg walk, can walk, obstacle course, 3-legged race, basketball shoot, frisbee throw, sling-shot, racket ball, teacher pull and bucket brigade.
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Explanation: What do Saturn's rings look like from the dark side? From Earth, we usually see Saturn's rings from the same side of the ring plane that the Sun illuminates them -- one might call this the bright side. Geometrically, in the above picture taken in August by the robot Cassini spacecraft now orbiting Saturn, the Sun is behind the camera but on the other side of the ring plane. Such a vantage point gives a breathtaking views of the most splendid ring system in the Solar System. Strangely, the rings have similarities to a photographic negative of a front view. For example, the dark band in the middle is actually the normally bright B-ring. The ring brightness as recorded from different angles indicates ring thickness and particle density of ring particles. At the top left of the frame is Saturn's moon Tethys, which although harder to find, contains much more mass than the entire ring system.
Stunning image!! Great text and links, too!
This solar system has the best planets!
Well... it's alright... but i think i was spoiled by the last(?) saturn picture that was shown, from the back-side, with the greenish hue.
Time and again I try to imagine a more aesthetically stunning alien world and I just can't do it! Saturn rules! And APOD ends the year on a high!
"Alright", indeed. Very, VERY alright!! Another brilliant encore by Cassini!
So... it seems the rings are directly over the equator of Saturn... or are they? If so, is that to be expected of ring systems, part of the tidal forces that keep them suspended? Actual Moons don't seem to be so constrained to a single specific plane, do they?
bay area john wrote: So... it seems the rings are directly over the equator of Saturn... or are they? If so, is that to be expected of ring systems, part of the tidal forces that keep them suspended? Actual Moons don't seem to be so constrained to a single specific plane, do they?
Moons can orbit at any inclination (although most tend to be fairly close to the equatorial plane). Rings are only stable over the equator, however, because all planets (and especially gas giants) are somewhat oblate. That creates forces that eventually pull orbiting bodies into equatorial alignment, but nonequatorial rings would fall apart quickly.
Cassini FAQ wrote: Why do Saturn's rings all lie in the same plane? Why are planetary rings always found in their equatorial planes and not sometimes crossing their poles?
Saturn, its rings, and most of its moons all probably formed from a spinning disk of gas and dust within the original solar nebula. As it collapsed toward its center, it would have formed a central sphere (which became Saturn), leaving a disk of material orbiting its equator. That material probably coalesced into many or most of Saturn's moons. The ring particles may be material that was left over from this process, or they may be the remnants of a moon that was shattered by collision or by tidal forces (see Roche limit). In either case, the ring particles would have kept the angular momentum of the original disk, and continued orbiting Saturn in its equatorial plane.
The black & white brings out what appears to at least one crater on Saturn.
This seems odd, as I did not think that the surface of the planet was visible.
As the dawn of this New Year's Eve brings METAR 311053Z 10006KT 2SM -DZ BR OVC003 10/10 A3006 it looks as though I might have time to find out a bit more, as won't be going outside.
I'm sorry; but I think this is a view of the day side of Saturn! Look where the terminator is!
Yes, we see sunlight on Saturn's face. Imagine you're Saturn and you're wearing a broad-brimmed hat. You pull the hat down against the sunlight. Now, are you looking at the dark side of the brim? Yes.
RedFishBlueFish: I wondered about that too. It can't be a crater. It almost looks like an asteroid impact only a few hours old. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned by the editor.
Ray-Optics wrote: Yes, we see sunlight on Saturn's face. Imagine you're Saturn and you're wearing a broad-brimmed hat. You pull the hat down against the sunlight. Now, are you looking at the dark side of the brim? Yes.
RedFishBlueFish wrote: The black & white brings out what appears to at least one crater on Saturn.
It is either a cloud structure, if you look closely up above it, you also see some WHITER spots, or it could be a camera artifact. I am thinking an asteroid, would have a blackish ring or mark around it, like Jupiter did.
Image of Saturn for the end 2012.
I think this picture is very interesting. Indeed.
Did spend a little time yesterday looking on the web, but have not actually found an answer.
It does not seem to be a lens artifact, a perfectly circular storm "eye" with no evidence of inflow is not likely, recent impact seems possible - but it would have been a spectacular event and surely would have been noted. If do not get called in today, will look about a bit more.
Again - and officially now - Happy New Year!
I think that hint may be a little too subtle.
Beyond wrote: I think that hint may be a little too subtle.
Obviously, neufer's hint was too direct.
Even Saturn's rings appear to dwarf Tethys (660 miles, or 1,062 kilometers across), which is in the upper left of the image, although scientists believe the moon to be many times more massive than the entire ring system combined.
I think it's amazing such a tiny moon could be more massive than Saturn's spectacular rings.
Moon shadows on Saturn typically appear inky black, just as the shadows of the rings do. I don't know what the spot is -- maybe a camera or processing artifact -- but it appears far too light to me to be a moon shadow.
owlice wrote: Moon shadows on Saturn typically appear inky black, just as the shadows of the rings do. I don't know what the spot is -- maybe a camera or processing artifact -- but it appears far too light to me to be a moon shadow.
I assume we're talking about the circular structure below the rings, towards the lower pole? It's just a storm system. The same system shows up in other images made around the same time, such as the one here taken a couple of weeks later.


Saltwater Fish - including sharks!!
Jerry contacted Blue Planet Aquarium over the Thanksgiving holiday of 2016. He was a local business owner in Hebron, IN and bought a house he was rehabbing (as well as adding numerous garages for his car collection!). Sounded very interesting to say the least!
Part of the house rehab was a family theater in the basement. I started talking to the General Contractor on site who was very hands-on, so I didn't have any concerns about the project going well. The GC even had thoughts on how to improve the aquarium installation before I could even get them out of my mouth!
I made several trips down before getting started on the installation. Our moving team was going to have a challenge getting the 800 pound tank down a narrow flight of stairs and all of the hardwood floors had just been finished, so no carts or dollies could be used.
We had the tank delivered on site rather than to our facility first, due to the size of the tank and the location being far from our offices. A finicky truck driver did not want to drive down a narrow driveway to drop the tank and support stand near the house, so we had to take them for a two block walk from the street to the house!
Nobody lost any fingers moving the tank in place and the installation went as smooth as could be!
The tank is a picture frame-style or in wall aquarium, viewable only through the front panel. Located in the home theater, the black walls and ceiling of the room and darkness of the theater makes the colors of the custom coral insert and the array of fish really stand out!
The GC was able to get us some amenities that made the installation and future service a breeze. There wasn't a water source or a drain in the area behind the tank and he was able to supply them. We installed a Reverse Osmosis/Deionization unit to store filtered water for water changes and the drain allows us to remove water easily from the aquarium without having to lug buckets.
Our techs head down to Hebron once a month to service the tank and currently it's thriving, with fish, sharks, and eels! Another Blue Planet success story!
Before this project I had never even heard of Hebron Indiana!
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For our honeymoon we knew three things: We wanted to go somewhere warm and sunny. We wanted it to be somewhere completely different from home. And we wanted to keep it affordable.
We decided on Joshua Tree after finding TONS of great Airbnb's at reasonable prices close to the entrance of the National Park. I couldn't make up my mind so we actually booked two different Airbnb's and split our time. We flew into Los Angeles, rented a car, and drove the 2.5 hours to the high desert.
Joshua Tree is a small town and the main appeal is the scenery, so we spent most of our time in the National Park or taking in the views from home. Our first stay was at a Buckminster Fuller inspired geodesic dome.
The best part of the trip was drinking coffee and watching the sunrise and drinking champagne at sunset. We actually had lots of rain including some incredible desert thunderstorms.
The National Park was an incredible place to hike and drive through.
This is the face of someone who did not bring the appropriate gear for an 8 mile desert mountain hike. And definitely not enough water.
After driving from Joshua Tree to the southern entrance to the park, we stopped in Palm Springs to go to my favorite Vintage Store, The Fine Art of Design. We also stopped by Moorten Botanical Garden, an incredible cactus and succulent garden that was almost unreal. This photo is not even edited and it looks like a painting.
We ate most of our meals at home - that is one of the reasons we love to get an airbnb with a kitchen - but we had an unbelievable meal at La Copine. If you go to Joshua Tree, this restaurant is a must.
Our second Airbnb was created by the same couple as the dome and was equally lovely. The dome had better views, but the charming vintage appliances and the outdoor bathtub made the cabin just as good.
Time to plan our next trip. Where should we go? If you know of any beautiful Airbnb's, let me know in the comments below.
Nothing says spring quite like flowers. I have been flower crazed lately. So when I saw edible flowers at the market I couldn't resist. I brought them home, not sure what I'd do with them, but knowing that I had to have them. Then at Yoga Teacher Training we volunteered our time at Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet, and we ended up harvesting edible flowers ourselves. So by the end of the weekend I had more edible flowers than I knew what to do with. Knowing they wouldn't last long, I decided to make floral popsicles to preserve their beauty.
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Having lived in New York for a few years, I am very familiar with living in small spaces. Now that I am back in Atlanta, all of my experience living in tight quarters is paying off. My current home is 438 square feet. Two of us plus 3 cats live here and we are completely comfortable. Scroll down to read some of my tips for making the most out of a small home.


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Games for Windows Live service to be discontinued by next year
Games for Windows Live, Microsoft's attempt at creating an Xbox Live-esque network for PC games, will finally be put out of its misery next summer.
According to an update to Microsoft's support website (which has since been removed,) all Games for Windows Live services will be discontinued on July 1st, 2014. It's currently unknown how/if the closure of Games for Windows Live will affect the many games that connect to the internet through the service, but Microsoft's update did specifically mention that Age of Empires Online will be unplayable following GFWL's shut down.
"Games for Windows Live will be discontinued on July 1, 2014," Microsoft's statement said. "Although it is available through Steam, Age of Empires Online requires features of the Games for Windows Live service. You can continue to enjoy all the features of Age of Empires Online as the service will remain 100% operational until July 1, 2014 when the server will shut down."
This news comes as many of Games for Windows Live's biggest third party supporters jump ship from Microsoft's platform and onto Steam: while the first two Arkham games on PC supported GFWL, WB Games recently announced that the PC version of the upcoming Arkham Origins wouldn't use Microsoft's service. Capcom, who previously released most of their PC ports with GFWL connectivity, similarly announced that Ultra Street Fighter IV will drop all support for the network.
Games for Windows Live originally launched in 2007, and was Microsoft's attempt to create a unified PC gaming network to compete with Valve's Steam. Like Xbox Live, a GFW "Gold" account originally required a paid subscription, but the service quickly dropped the subscription fee a few months after launch when it became clear that PC gamers weren't going to pay a monthly fee when Steam provided comparable services for free. Last week Microsoft announced that users would no longer be able to purchase new games through the GFWL storefront, but they promised that customers would be able to continue to access and play their GFWL games without interruption.
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With the laser system developed by two university students, the enemy bullet will be detected after it comes out of the barrel. With the project developed by two students studying at Yıldız Technical (YTU) and Middle East Technical (METU) Universities, enemy fire will be detected with lasers. With the system, which will play an important role in the points where enemy fire is coming on the border, it is possible to detect where the bullet came from in a short time like a second during sudden raids and to respond. With the Enemy Fire Recognition System, a solution was created to one of the problems experienced in border posts. The new system will also play an important role in harassing the border troops, which has come to the fore with the civil war in Syria recently.
IT WILL DETECT A BULLET IN THE AIR
The system works with two separate laser curtains capable of pinpointing to be placed one after the other. It detects the bullet passing through it in the area in the form of a gateway (window). The direction of the bullet, which passes through two separate laser curtains one after the other, is determined linearly. The points detected on the laser curtains are transferred to the computer environment and projected into the coordinate system, and the trajectory of the bullet is determined. Then, thanks to the system placed on the watchtowers, the area where the fire was opened is illuminated and the military personnel are informed about the location of the attack in a short time like a second.
FROM SOFTWARE TO DEFENSE SYSTEM
The way in which two successful students produced the system drew attention. Two students developed the Enemy Fire Recognition System, inspired by laser curtains for detecting faulty or holed cans in soft drink factories. Yıldız Technical University Ship Machinery Management Engineering student Furkan Kutluca stated that they created the system after about 1.5 years. Expressing that the system can be implemented at a cost of approximately 25 thousand liras, Kutluca stated that it will be ready in a short time if financial support arrives. Kutluca also thanked his professors from Yıldız Technical University and Middle East Technical University, who supported them throughout the project.
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10 May 2019 • 11 min read
We obviously all love REST - and it's become the standard least-surprising choice to make when building any type of service these days, be it monolithic, microservice, web, or whatever.
However! There is a fundamental change in the way we build new systems coming - already starting to emerge in the hyperscale enterprise space - but starting to make it's way into the workspaces of run-of-the-mill software projects. This fundamental change is called Streaming or Event-driven (and earlier maybe CQRS or Event Sourcing). I'm just going to stick with Streaming throughout this post.
Streaming Architecture really marks the beginning of a new age in software architecture, definitively putting a dagger into the back of the age of the Microservice Architecture, which we could really call the pinnacle of the Services-Oriented Architecture period in the history of system architecture.
Streaming is seriously disruptive. It changes everything. Everything. Be prepared to re-think basic concepts like stateless, databases and even the concept of request/response itself - because these are fundamentally at odds with Streaming.
And guess what? Life is better. And simpler. And scalable. But different - so you are allowed to feel uncomfortable! I think we, as software developers, are generally OK with technology changing and evolving rapidly, but it is less frequent that fundamental design patterns are disrupted and we have to start again; re-programming our neural pathways to think and solve problems in a completely new way.
If you're like me, you've kinda always known that services-oriented-architecture has been broken, but you've made do - it was better than nothing. You happily built XSD/WSDL based SOAP services. You were happy when REST came along, because it dropped a bunch of evil XML remote procedure calls, and introduced the seperation of noun from verb (resource & method) with the trade-off that you could no longer programmatically manage service schema (but nobody cared - XML sucked!). You jumped on microservices when it appeared, it promised to make our services scalable and simpler! But it lied... life as a microservice software developer became complicated quickly. To be a useful developer - you now needed a team of highly skilled DevOps, Kubernetes, Netflix OSS, SpringBoot, Nginx, Vault, Helm, Spinaker, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Cassandra and Mongo unicorns as support before you could write and test your first most basic service. The foundations required for the old "Hello, World" service in a hyper-scale microservice architecture is pretty daunting.
So why does a Microservice Architecture need handfuls of all these various technologies and stacks to make it work? My gut says that there must be something fundamentally broken that we are building upon. Something at the core of what we use that doesn't scale - and so all these additional technologies and stacks we throw into the mix are really just masks; that maybe shift the bottlenecks around, or spread them over a wider surface, but never really get rid of them. And that seems OK to most people - it makes for busy development teams, rockstar architecture teams, brilliant and hard-to-find devops teams - but it all seems like wasted energy; and we haven't even written 1 line of valuable code yet. My theory is that we can trace the blame right back to one very simple little tool. The concept of Request/Response.
(Figure 1 - The Poison)
I think that Streaming takes us back to the beginning. Back to basics. But built upon a fundamentally distributed architecture - so all those hyper-scale foundations come mostly for free. Just build simple stuff using the distributed primitives provided. However - not all the primitives you have previously enjoyed and come to love are available. Stuff like our old faithful request/response. And stuff like our trusty databases. And therefore stuff like RESTful, or HTTP/1.
The Streaming primitive is something called The Event.
(Figure 2 - The Remedy).
The interesting thing about The Event is that it has no particular direction. It doesn't move from one place to another, it's not requesting anything, nor is it in response to anything. It just pops into existence. Anywhere. And whoever might be interested in it can consume it. However, consuming The Event doesn't destroy it. It hangs around persistently, because anyone else might want to consume it too. Even more interesting is that it might be consumed by someone in the future who don't yet exist, or may not even be conceived of yet.
Probably even more exciting about The Event is that it is composable. Meaning that you are able to create higher-level events from the composition of lower-level events - sort of like lego - the ability to glue them together to make bigger lego blocks. This was infeasible in the request/response world. At a microservices level it is really impossible to leverage composition - a request/response pair just simply cannot be glued to another request/responses. They are un-gluable. Often the best we could do is called "orchestration" - which is really just an abstraction around the order that particular requests and responses should be made, by one particular service - but really you were not able to take a number of Microservices and compose them to create a new higher-level service. Not without a lot of pain and suffering along the way - the juice is just not worth the squeeze.
(Figure 3 - The pulsating rhythmical remedy)
Composition is a key property of Functional Programming - and if you are already a functional programmer (or at least think about stuff in a functional way) then Streaming is a dream come true. Its really the architecture that functional programmers have been looking for - and eradicates all the frustration and conflict felt when dealing with external services or external data stores (such as RDBMSs) which are fundamentally non-composable, and non-immutable in nature. Streaming relies on a "durable, immutable commit log" at it's core - and if that makes sense to you you're probably at least already halfway there.
(Figure 4 - Commit log materialising multiple table structures)
The Commit Log structure is far superior to a regular database table structure, and is really a higher-level structure that can be used to easily derive a table-like structure. It's a super-structure. Infact a table-like structure is just ONE of the types of derived structures you can produce from the commit log (by simply reducing and merging the latest commits) - there are also a bunch of other interesting structures you can derive, such as a group-by (as in the example), time-based windows, or some sort of aggregation (sum, mean, avg, count, etc). Of course, the real power of this structure is the practical realisation of time-travel, and the ability to calculate (or materialise) the state of the world at any point along the event timeline. No state change is discarded, it is simply appended to.
This power over time is really a central theme of Streaming, giving us a powerful tool for dealing with distributed data. The database world struggles with creating distributed data systems because it fundamentally does not embrace time, nor does it embrace immutability. So we have this very difficult situation where we try to reconcile a distributed set of datastores, being mutated independently and in an unsynchronized way. This makes for an impossibly hard problem - which I would propose really isn't solved today. Maybe stuff like log shipping and eventual consistency get us some of the way there. And possibly things like Google Spanner and it's use of atomic clocks to keep time atomically synchronized gives us the ability to tie-break two conflicting changes - but that seems like overkill, and probably not a practical general pattern (unless we commit to shipping an atomic clock with each of our products!).
Commit logs are not a new concept - and are already used internally by popular database technologies to allow concepts such as "transactions" (ability to rollback or commit) and "replication" (through techniques such as log shipping) - however the database service itself does not expose the commit log to the outside world - it's simply used to retain commits transiently before records get processed into the mutable table structure. And therein lies the fault in database design - considering the commit log a transient structure, and considering the materialised tables the primary persistent structure.
(Figure 5 - Database transient commit log)
Streaming takes an alternative view, promoting the commit log as the primary data structure, offering persistence and durability in addition to the fact that it's already a distributed structure. As we already know, the flattened data structure can be re-calculated (re-materialised) at any point along the timeline of the commit log and can therefore be considered a second class citizen within Streaming. Of course, it would be impractical to constantly re-materialise these views, so there are techniques to make this less cumbersome - but fundamentally the shift is away from considering these as the master structures.
(Figure 6 - Streaming persistent commit log)
So what does a Stream look like? Conceptually its a simple list structure holding records of key=value. Producers append records to the end of the stream and Consumers consume, starting from the beginning of the stream - each consumer having a persistent offset into the stream. Multiple consumers can consume from the same stream, each having a different offset into the same stream. And each consumer can be scaled up independently depending on the workload.
(Figure 7 - Conceptual view of a Stream)
Physically however, streams are a bit more complicated and due to their distributed nature need to split and replicate records across multiple Partitions. Each partition can be physically relocated to seperate nodes in the infrastructure, and can have different replication properties. As with any distributed data structure there are a number of constraints and guarantees that any developer must be aware of when designing a streaming application - these are generally around ordering and locality of data within a particular partition as opposed to within the stream - and typically the record key must be used by the developer to manipulate which partition a particular record might land in. Although this may seem quite foreign initially - this is just part of understanding the paradigm and a necessary tool for designing streaming applications.
So events within a stream can be composed, but composition can also occur at the higher Stream Processing level where a collection of individual consumers and producers can be clustered together and encapsulate their inner workings - exposing only the streams consumed and produced by the composed cluster.
(Figure 8 - A composition of Stream Processors)
Composing stream processors does not make the cluster any less distributed, and still allows for independent scaling of individual consumer / producers within the cluster - meaning that you really can get down to eradicate bottlenecks at a very fine grained level. The ability to create ACID-like properties between stream processors is of course also possible - and typically through use of particular streaming design patterns (such as write-once and idempotency, but some more mature streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka recently allow for things like exactly-once guarantees and transactional rollbacks even).
With any new disruptive technology there is often a plethora of wildly different views, often I think based on individual context and personal perspectives. So I went around and asked a bunch of different people how they would describe streaming and what they thought a streaming architecture looked like. Keep in mind, all of these people had had experience with building applications ontop of streaming platforms (typically either Apache Kafka, AWS Kinesis or Apache Spark Streaming).
(Figure 9 - Saša's Washing Machine)
Saša's view of streaming is that it really allows you to model the world (or enterprise, or platform) as a washing machine. Events swirl around inside the drum as multiple chains of events trigger and fire endlessly incorporating external events into the mix (fabric softener) and generating events that may be consumed externally (soapy water).
(Figure 10 - Saša's Laundromat)
Once again you could easily reason about the washing machine in a way that would allow composition of multiple washing machines (a laundromat) to form. In reality this could represent things like divisional units, or products within a larger enterprise, and of course you could compose the entire laundromat, linking multiple laundromats together into a higher-level thing. Turtles. All the way down.
(Figure 11 - The data scientists neural stream)
Talking to our data science team about streaming got a few blank stares - with most of them really not uncomfortable with the concept. One of the guys from my team simply describes a streaming architecture as a very simple neural network, composed of input layers represented by ingress streams, multiple hidden layers abstracting the business logic of the application and producing an output layer represented by a number of streams that can be consumed by external systems. Of course things like recurrency can be represented within the streaming architecture analogous to back-propogation - so really not too unfamiliar to people who work with neural networks.
(Figure 12 - Marais' Queue / Store Duality)
Marais sees streaming as a computational graph database - where streams themselves take on a duality of information flow (analogous to a queue) and data store (analogous to a database). Observation of the stream by a particular consumer will collapse the stream - for that consumer - into either form for observation. And that sounds pretty reasonable to me - I doubt you could ever compare any other architecture to the particle/wave duality of quantum mechanics!
(Figure 13 - Paul's Streaming Smart Contract)
Paul - who is obsessed with blockchain - sees streaming as a platform for building centralised, simple forms of smart-contracts. Although blockchain is really disruptive it often doesn't pass a number of acid-tests for incorporation into an enterprise setting - the cons can often outweigh the pros for enterprise adoption. Paul sees streaming architecture as simply the ability to create a number of immutable ledgers, where smart contracts represented by stream processors process entries from the ledger and update other upstream immutable ledgers. A perfect fit.
(Figure 14 - Tjaard's Symmetrical Flat Event Architecture)
Tjaard takes a more practical and "digital channels" view of streaming - concerning himself with how events may impact end-users of an application. He sees the world as a series of interconnected event stores, one large one centralised in the enterprise (the traditional back-end) and many smaller ones resident on each end-users device (browser, mobile, etc). This allows the front-end application to be built exclusively upon the event store resident on the customer device, unlocking features such as offline use, ability to cache and progressively load content - but of course allowing for events to flow in either direction (down from the device and up from the back-end) when connectivity exists between the two. This is really a beautiful thing in practice. A full web or mobile application driven exclusively upon events - not one request/response interaction required.
And so, in conclusion I find it really exciting to get five really different views of what streaming architecture looks like. I don't think you could get such wildly different views from senior people describing a traditional microservices architecture. Of course we are very early on the streaming hype curve - probably still at the beginning of the early-adopter stage, or possibly even late innovator stage. Some of the technology in this space is usable, for example the Confluent gang and their vision for Apache Kafka and the Streams DSL is really compelling - but of course with any new technology your-mileage-may-vary and so it will always be a trade-off whether you will net benefit from adoption within your enterprise. The one thing I can tell you is that Synthesis as a technology company (and as a skills incubator) we will continue to challenge the official future and are all-in on this architecture; ready to be there to support our customers, our partners and the industry as this architecture moves up into the early majority.
Thanks for reading and - Stream Big!
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Kenan Thompson Tapped to Host White House Correspondents' Dinner with Hasan Minhaj
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President Trump has yet to announce if he will be attending, having skipped the last three annual events.
Organizers of the White House Correspondents' Dinner announced on Tuesday that "Saturday Night Live" star Kenan Thompson is set to host with comedian Hasan Minhaj featured as a special guest.
"Kenan and Hasan are two of the most engaged and engaging entertainers in America. I'm thrilled they'll help us celebrate the role of a free press in our democracy," said Jonathan Karl, president of the White House Correspondents Association and chief White House correspondent for ABC News. "We're looking forward to a lively evening honoring the most important political journalism of the past year."
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Karl went on to say the annual gala -- often seen as a spotlight on the relationship between the media and the President's administration -- is being "re-engineered" as it has been custom to have only one celebrity headlining and referred to as a featured entertainer.
"Kenan is one of the most beloved comedians in America, and one of the funniest comedians in America," Karl added. "Hasan is somebody who has done real breakthrough comedy with his show, 'Patriot Act.' I think the combination of these two will really make for a great dinner."
Last year, the event went in a different direction by tapping biographer Ron Chernow as the featured speaker, who discussed the history of journalism and the First Amendment, instead of presenting the customary comedic content.
Michelle Wolf Claps Back at Trump's 'So-Called Comedian' Insult -- And Mocks Melania in the Process
The shift appeared to be in response to the prior year's host, stand-up comedian Michelle Wolf, who was criticized for taking sharp aim at the Trump administration, specifically Sarah Huckabee Sanders with controversial barbs such as likening the spokeswoman to an "Uncle Tom but for white women who disappoint other white women."
"So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian," President Trump tweeted at the time.
Trump himself broke with tradition as he was the first President to skip the event since 1981, when Ronald Reagan was recuperating from an assassination attempt. He has yet to say if he will be attending this year.
So-called comedian Michelle Wolf bombed so badly last year at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that this year, for the first time in decades, they will have an author instead of a comedian. Good first step in comeback of a dying evening and tradition! Maybe I will go?
Thompson is the latest in a long line of "SNL" performers who have led the gala, as Cecily Strong and Seth Meyers have taken the reins in recent years.
Minhaj hosted the event in 2017, during the first year of Trump's presidency, and pulled no punches.
"Don Rickles died just so you wouldn't ask him to do this gig, all right?" Minhaj said at the time. "RIP to Don Rickles, the only Donald with skin thick enough to take a joke like that."
The White House Correspondents' Dinner will be held on Saturday, April 25
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by Ben Cohen
As I read Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's speech to the delegates of the World Jewish Congress, who assembled in Budapest this past weekend, I found myself visualizing the furrowed eyebrows and anxious seat shuffling going on in the audience. For not only was Orban's speech a chain of platitudes from beginning to end, it was downright dishonest.
The WJC says it held its conference in Budapest as a gesture of solidarity with Hungary's Jews, who are once again the targets of the kind of vicious anti-Semitism for which Eastern Europe is renowned. The direct source of the poison is the extreme right-wing Jobbik Party, which is these days the third-largest party in the Hungarian parliament, having won 17 per cent of the vote during the April 2010 elections. But several observers of the Hungarian scene have argued that Orban's ruling Fidesz Party variously ignores, plays down or even encourages the anti-Semitism of Jobbik; Orban's speech to the WJC, therefore, was his opportunity to clearly explain whether he considers Jobbik a threat, as well as his chance to make amends for his close friendship with Zsolt Bayer, an anti-Semitic writer who has compared Jews to "stinking excrement" and has opined that "a significant part" of the Roma gypsy population are "unfit for existence."
In the event, neither Jobbik nor Bayer even made it into the speech. Instead, Orban declared that the situation in Hungary isn't really that disturbing:
I know that Jewish leaders have come here from all over the world. Including from places where anti-Semitism sometimes claims the lives of schoolchildren. And from places where following the anti-Semitic murder of children, there is no consensus on whether a minute's silence in memory of the victims may be ordered in state schools. From places where bomb attacks that claim lives are launched against synagogues. Nothing of this nature has so far occurred in Hungary.
Really? Try telling that to Ferenc Orosz, the head of Hungary's Raoul Wallenberg Association. At the end of April, Orosz attended, together with his family, a soccer match at Budapest's Puskas Stadium. A group of spectators sitting nearby were bellowing the Nazi chant, "Sieg Heil," and Orosz courageously demanded that they stop. Of course, the hooligans turned on him, spitting "Jewish communist" and other anti-Semitic epithets in his direction. When Orosz attempted to leave the stadium at the end of the game, two men blocked him, one of whom punched him in the face, leaving him with a broken nose.
Evidently, the WJC wasn't too impressed by Orban's implication that anti-Semitism shouldn't be taken overly seriously unless bombs are exploding in synagogues. In a statement released after Orban's speech, the WJC expressed its "regret" that the prime minister had not "confronted…the threat posed by the anti-Semites in general and by the extreme-right Jobbik party in particular…Mr. Orban did not address any recent anti-Semitic or racist incidents in the country, nor did he provide sufficient reassurance that a clear line has been drawn between his government and the far-right fringe." (Having spent several years working for American Jewish advocacy organizations, I know that their desire to maintain access to troubling leaders like Argentine President Christina Kirchner and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan dampens down any criticism they might advance; the WJC statement is thus a notable and welcome departure from that unfortunate habit.)
Ultimately, the WJC wanted something from Orban that he wasn't prepared to give them; not just an abstract statement that "anti-Semitism is unacceptable and intolerable," but a concrete undertaking to eradicate it from Hungarian politics. Orban's silence on the nature of the threat to Hungary's Jews will, rest assured, be interpreted as a license by the country's anti-Semites (like the Jobbik parliamentarian Marton Gyongyosi, whose idea of solidarity with the population of the Gaza Strip was to publish a list of Jews he considers to be a "national security risk") to continue their agitation.
For that reason, a precise understanding of Jobbik's anti-Semitic worldview becomes all the more important. It is true that Jobbik leaders echo the Nazis in their constant associations of Jews with human waste and sexual mischief, and in that sense, it is correct to classify the party as a part of the extreme right. Yet, as the Gyongyosi episode demonstrated, Jobbik has also imbibed the visceral loathing of Zionism and Israel more commonly associated with the extreme left. Gyongyosi himself told an anti-Semitic rally staged in Budapest on the eve of the WJC conference that Hungary has "become subjugated to Zionism, it has become a target of colonisation while we, the indigenous people, can play only the role of extras".
As James Kirchick has observed, statements like this one explain why Jobbik, with its "virulently anti-Europe rhetoric, anti-Western worldview, and undisguised anti-Semitism," has "embraced the mullahs" who rule Iran. Nor is the romance with Iran confined to Jobbik. Eleven of the 27 parliamentarians on the executive of the "Hungary-Iran friendship committee," which is chaired by Gyongyosi, belong to Orban's Fidesz Party. And that, incidentally, is another detail that somehow didn't make it into Orban's speech.
Ben Cohen is the senior correspondent of the Algemeiner.


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Broad-spectrum antiviral that interferes with de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis
Hans Heinrich Hoffmann, Andrea Kunz, Viviana A. Simon, Peter Palese, Megan L. Shaw
Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Mount Sinai Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute
Compound A3 was identified in a high-throughput screen for inhibitors of influenza virus replication. It displays broad-spectrum antiviral activity, and at noncytotoxic concentrations it is shown to inhibit the replication of negative-sense RNA viruses (influenza viruses A and B, Newcastle disease virus, and vesicular stomatitis virus), positive-sense RNA viruses (Sindbis virus, hepatitis C virus, West Nile virus, and dengue virus), DNA viruses (vaccinia virus and human adenovirus), and retroviruses (HIV). In contrast to mammalian cells, inhibition of viral replication by A3 is absent in chicken cells, which suggests species-specific activity of A3. Correspondingly, the antiviral activity of A3 can be linked to a cellular protein, dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH), which is an enzyme in the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway. Viral replication of both RNA and DNA viruses can be restored in the presence of excess uracil, which promotes pyrimidine salvage, or excess orotic acid, which is the product of DHODH in the de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis pathway. Based on these findings, it is proposed that A3 acts by depleting pyrimidine pools, which are crucial for efficient virus replication.
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Hoffmann, H. H., Kunz, A., Simon, V. A., Palese, P., & Shaw, M. L. (2011). Broad-spectrum antiviral that interferes with de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(14), 5777-5782. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101143108
Hoffmann, Hans Heinrich ; Kunz, Andrea ; Simon, Viviana A. et al. / Broad-spectrum antiviral that interferes with de novo pyrimidine biosynthesis. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2011 ; Vol. 108, No. 14. pp. 5777-5782.
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A pie and a pint with Owen and Sandy
Airdrie legend Owen Coyle is returning to the Club for one night only for a brilliant Academy fundraiser at the Excelsior Stadium on Friday December 4.
The Houston Dynamo head coach will be joined by fellow Diamonds favourite Sandy Stewart - his right hand man at the Major League Soccer club - for a special Q and A session hosted by Diamonds chief executive Iain King.
It's sure to be an evening filled with great memories from two special players for the Club as we chart their times with Airdrieonians and their journey in the dugout since they moved on.
Owen told airdriefc.com: "I have been keeping tabs on the Club this season as I always do and things look really positive on and off the park.
"So when I was asked to do this I thought it was a great idea. Airdrieonians are a club that will always be in my heart and Sandy - whose son Scott is carrying on the family tradition in the team now - feels the same.
"I'm delighted that the night ties in with my time home from the States and I'm looking forward to meeting up with some old faces again."
As well as the Coyle and Stewart Q and A there will be an auction, a raffle and a top quality after-dinner speaker on the evening to entertain the crowd which we hope will be a sellout for the youth development cause.
Tickets for a special night in the Joey Rowan Suite for all Diamonds fans are priced £30, which includes your pie and your first pint of the night!
They will go on sale at the Club Shop, the Trust Shop and at the Taxi for Farrell book signing at the game on Saturday.


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As a photographer, I knew Bob Shell by reputation. He wrote technical articles for Shutterbug magazine. Then whispers began circulating within the photographic community that the highly-respected expert had moved into the netherworld of "glamour photography." Glamour photography rides the border between art and pornography, between erotic and graphic, between glamour and exploitation. Too often it crosses the line and preys on young women whose ambition leads them to do things they shouldn't in front of a camera.
As a photographer, I knew Bob Shell by reputation. He wrote technical articles for Shutterbug magazine. Then whispers began circulating within the photographic community that the highly-respected expert had moved into the netherworld of "glamour photography."
Glamour photography rides the border between art and pornography, between erotic and graphic, between glamour and exploitation. Too often it crosses the line and preys on young women whose ambition leads them to do things they shouldn't in front of a camera.
I took my first nude photo while still a student at Floyd County High School in 1963 – a relatively innocent shot of a classmate walking in a stream just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Since that time I have shot a number of nudes but have stayed away from the glamour end of the business. There's too much chance for trouble and the lines between what is or is not acceptable become blurred.
Shell crossed the line and faces trial in Radford on charges stemming from the drug overdose death of a 19-year-old model he exploited both photographically and sexually. He moved from glamour to self-described "deviant photography," featuring bondage themes. The married photographer was 37 years older than Marion Franklin, the nude model he photographed, slept with and share drugs with.
Sunday's Roanoke Times began a series about the downfall of Art Shell. It should be required reading for any young woman who thinks glamour modeling is a way to fame and fortune. It also should be read by photographers who might be thinking of entering that netherworld of the profession. It is a warning to both to avoid falling into the trap.


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Emergency department will double in size with $42m upgrade
by Tegan Annett
Tegan Annett
Tegan Annett has been a journalist at the Gladstone Observer since 2012. She started as a cadet reporter, while studying at CQUniversity. A Tannum Sands resident since 2005, this year she took on the role as deputy editor.
7th Jul 2016 5:00 AM
THEY say a change is as good as a holiday - and for 17 years the emergency department at Gladstone has had neither.
But now a $42m upgrade to the department, which sees almost 30,000 people a year, means a state-of-the-art facility is no longer a dream.
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Today the plans for the department's first upgrade since 1999 will be discussed at a community information session.
The upgrade, expected to start in May, will see the department double in size, have a designated paediatric area, more resuscitation spaces, new radiology equipment and easier access to the public and private hospitals.
Gladstone Hospital executive director Brendan Docherty, who has worked on the upgrade plan, said he and the hospital board shared a vision for not just a new emergency department but a whole new Gladstone Hospital.
He said the fact a comprehensive plan existed meant the process to upgrade the hospital when funding was available would be expedited..
Their priorities are the emergency department, an upgrade to the mental-health ward, with funding available for 10 beds, and then ambulatory care, which covers short-term patients such as radiology and chemotherapy.
Brendan Docherty explains how it will make a difference:
"The emergency department is usually the first step of hospital redevelopment," Mr Docherty said.
"We're looking at core located services, like theatre and high dependence and how patients can access the private hospital better.
"One option we have is to have a standalone new building for the ED and then we will have the capacity to add new floors on top of that department as we make further upgrades."
Gladstone MP Glenn Butcher said now that an ED upgrade was secured his priority was to campaign for a new, modern Gladstone Hospital.
"Gladstone Hospital needs replacing," Mr Butcher said.
>> The difference $42m will make to the Gladstone Hospital
Mr Butcher was elected in 2015 and during his campaign he said the hospital was the main issue residents approached him about. "The hospital is aging and we need to come up with a plan," he said.
"This is not just a blueprint for emergency. It's a blueprint for what's needed for the term to get a new hospital going forward."
The $42m funding was part of the state government's $180m Significant Regional Infrastructure Projects Program.
At today's meeting a blueprint for the ED, and how it will influence the future of the hospital, will be shared.
WATCH: State premier announces the $42m funding
Premier at Gladstone Hospital: Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces $42 million to build a new emergency room at Gladstone Hospital.
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We Are Family (2010)
Producer: Hiroo Johar, Karan Johar
Screenwriter: Gigi Levangie Grazer, Venita Coelho
Studio: Columbia Pictures, Dharma Productions
Starring: Arjun Rampal, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor
We Are Family (2010) is a Hindi film directed by Siddharth Malhotra and produced by Karan Johar. The project features actors Kajol, Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal in the lead roles, and is a remake of the 1998 film Stepmom. It released worldwide on September 3, 2010, and a day before in India and UAE.
Maya (Kajol) is a perfect mother. Her life revolves around her three children, Aleya (Aanchal Munjal), Ankush (Nominath Ginsburg), and Anjali (Diya Sonecha). Despite being divorced from her husband, Aman (Arjun Rampal), Maya has ensured that everything runs smoothly in her house and that they continue to remain a happy family unit. However, when Aman introduces his girlfriend, Shreya (Kareena Kapoor) a career oriented woman, who has a lot to learn about children, to the family, the situation immediately takes an unexpected turn.
When Shreya comes with Aman to Anjali's birthday party, she accidentally drops Anjali's cake – this causes the kids to perceive Shreya as evil. The next day, Aman tells Shreya to babysit the three kids at his house because Maya is out of town. At a fashion show Anjali helps Shreya with the outfit. When Shreya goes to get ice cream for the kids, Aleya tells Anjali and Ankush that she is using them so she can take their dad away; soon after Anjali goes missing. At the police station, Shreya and the kids see Maya and Aman, and Shreya is told by Aman that she cannot go near the children unless she has Maya's permission.
Several days later, Maya finds out that she has terminal cancer and tells Aman – this prompts him to move back in with the family. However, when Maya tells the kids that she has cancer, Aleya retaliates by going to one of her friend's party with an older boy. After a few days later Maya tells Shreya that she has cancer. Shreya agrees to move in and leaves her career as a fashion designer. In the following days, all three kids develop an attachment towards Shreya. But when Maya and Shreya have a fight Aman tells Maya that they should not be competing with each other. At the same time Maya faints and ends up in the hospital and the doctor tells her that she has only few days left. Shreya has to take care of the kids while Aman is with Maya at the hospital. Maya comes home for Diwali and all the kids make a special event for her. When they take a family photograph, Maya asks Shreya to join them as she is now family. Ten years later we see Aleya getting married and Shreya gives her a bracelet which belonged to Maya. Aleya wishes that her mother was there. In the end, Shreya looks at the stars and remembers what Maya said to her.
Kajol as	Maya
Kareena Kapoor as	Shreya
Arjun Rampal as	Aman
Nominath Ginsberg as	Ankush
Aachal Munjal as	Aleya
Diya Sonecha as	Anjali
"Aankhon Mein Neendein"
Written by Irshad Kamil
Composed by Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa
Performed by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Shreya Ghoshal and Shankar Mahadevan
"Dil Khol Ke Let's Rock"
Written by Irshad Kamil and Anvita Dutt Guptan
Performed by Anushka Manchandani, Suraj Jagan and Akriti Kakkar
"Hamesha & Forever"
Performed by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal
"Reham O Karam"
Performed by Vishal Dadlani and Shankar Mahadevan
"Sun Le Dua Yeh Aasman"
Performed by Bela Shende
"We Are Family – Theme"
Reviewed by ChathuRangA on 29 October 2010
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Brandon Arnold has been named as the new Head Cross Country coach at Alice Lloyd College. In addition to his cross country coaching duties, Arnold will also be serving the men's baseball program as an assistant coach. Additionally, he will assist the Director of the Library and supervise the Campus Fitness Center.
Arnold, a native of Blountville, TN, is a 2008 graduate of Virginia High School and a 2013 graduate of Alice Lloyd College. He is married to Char-Leigh Craft Arnold, a native of Whitesburg and a 2012 graduate of Alice Lloyd College.


It's been said that curiosity is the key character trait for fostering deep learning, rich relationships and joyful living. As parents, we have the opportunity to inspire curiosity in our children. By doing so, we open their minds to endless possibilities and empower them to seek answers for themselves, solve problems and create boundless opportunities for their futures.
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Take the The Curious Mind quiz to learn more!
1. At dinner time my family is on their phones with minimal open discussion.
2. My child continuously asks questions to better understand situations.
3. I am very involved in my child's learning and create projects at home for my child.
4. My child and I read aloud at home together.
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