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The southernmost point of Switzerland is easy to recognise because of the "milestone" indicating the coordinates, but also because of two installations that have been placed there: a paving that depicts Switzerland and a nice photo point.
The southernmost point of Switzerland is on the Italian-Swiss border, on the hill of Pedrinate. We suggest walking there along the "Sentiero delle Guardie" (Guard Path), which starts near the footbridge over the River Faloppia, near the border checkpoint. This recently built path gives walkers the chance to find out more about the activities of the border guards, who patrolled the length of that metal fence that marked out the edge of Swiss territory. Alternatively, you can reach this place thanks to the Itinerary among Mendrisiotto's vineyards (n°2).


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PHOENIX (AP) — "That's not real Mexican food," ″My grandma would slap you" and "sellout" are just some of comments Jose and Leticia Gamiz received when they started their pop-up vegan Mexican food business, Mi Vegana Madre, four years ago.
People saw them doing something new and took it personally, Jose Gamiz said. "We even had somebody write (online) in Spanish, 'They're probably not even Mexican.'"
Despite the haters, the couple's meat- and dairy-free endeavor has built a following. It's part of a growing vegan Mexican food industry in the U.S. that has seen Latinos take control of the kitchen and plant-based Mexican cuisine increasingly plant roots in areas with large Latino communities.
Las Vegas and Austin, Texas, each have at least a few eateries or food trucks that are exclusively vegan Mexican. Across Southern California, there are a slew of options, including a vegan panaderia peddling traditional pastries.
The vegan Mex wave now seems to be sweeping Arizona.
Mi Vegana Madre expanded into a brick-and-mortar restaurant in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale last year. It offers vegan takes on carne asada, al pastor and nachos with a cashew cream-based cheese sauce. Another restaurant offering vegan Mexican and Mediterranean dishes opened in January a half-mile away. In September, a third place opened in Phoenix, also led by a Mexican American family.
Keren Aguilar, 19, and sister Keyla Aguilar, 22, launched Earth Plant Based Cuisine in Phoenix's hipster Grand Avenue arts district. Other family members, including their mother, also work there. The menu includes fish tacos, churros and soy chorizo (Mexican sausage) — all made in-house. They also have a plant-based BBQ sandwich, burger and hot dog.
The sisters and their parents have been vegan for nearly five years, and it was Keren's dream to open a vegan restaurant. It just so happened a space became available and a family friend was willing to be a financial partner.
While most American vegan restaurants offer a few basic Mexican-inspired items, the Gamiz and Aguilar families are trying to capture the array of recipes they grew up on.
"We didn't want it to have a 'vegan taste' or be bland. We wanted it to have flavors, so our spices are very important to making it Mexican," Keren Aguilar said.
Gustavo Arellano, a Los Angeles-based columnist and author of "Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America," said restaurants like Earth Plant Based Cuisine are bringing a level of authenticity beyond the "hippy dippy white vegan stuff like tempeh, or they get a taco and put cubes of soy in it."
Arellano believes vegan food in Mexican and Hispanic cultures has blossomed as younger generations became inspired by ways they can cut animal products from cooking.
"What blew up the vegan Mexican movement was these pop-up vegan food fairs where you have not just Mexicans, but Central Americans," Arellano said.
Since opening their sit-down locations, both family-owned restaurants have also noticed Latinos of a certain age sampling the food. Jose Gamiz recalls wrongfully assuming a father and daughter, both Mexican, were frequent patrons because the girl was vegan.
″(The father) said, 'I started doing it for my health,' and he was like, 'Nobody in my family will follow me except for my daughter,'" Gamiz said. "Usually the men in the family are the ones that are more resistant. I think there's a misconception that you need meat to be manly."
Adults in the U.S. have a 40% chance of getting type 2 diabetes, but Hispanic and Latino adults have more than a 50% chance, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Hispanics/Latinos also are at greater risk of developing diabetes at a younger age and getting complications like kidney failure and vision loss. The CDC says some of the factors contributing to this are genetics and the cultural value in eating meals high in fat and calories.
Yet for some Latinos, going sin carne can still feel like a sin. Linda Sepulveda, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, which has virtually no all-vegan Mexican restaurants, would find it hard to give up an omnivore's life. Her house is always stocked with ground beef, tortillas and salsa.
"I'm intrigued by (vegan Mexican), but I think a part of me knows it won't taste the same," she said. "We are always trying to find where we can add veggies, but there always has to be a main meat and everything else dresses it up."
While some may say veganizing is misappropriating Mexican food, the country's indigenous natives actually ate mostly plant-based foods, according to Arellano. Colonizers from Spain irrevocably altered the food culture with introductions of beef, lamb and pork.
"They don't realize, if you're real Mexicans, you're not supposed to be eating this meat in the first place because colonizers brought it over," Arellano said. "I eat everything, but I'll eat vegan Mex if it's good."
Terry Tang is a member of The Associated Press' race and ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ttangAP
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What is badminton called in Europe?
On its annual meeting held on 8 April 2006 the members decided to change the name from European Badminton Union, to Badminton Europe.
Then, what is the biggest badminton championship?
The BWF World Championships
Thereof, what is badminton tournament called?
BWF World Championships
Correspondingly, what is the old name of badminton?
Poona
Who is the father of badminton?
He was ranked World No. 1 in 1980; the same year he became the first Indian to win the All England Open Badminton Championships.
Prakash Padukone
Born 10 June 1955 Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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Which country invented badminton?
The game is named for Badminton, the country estate of the dukes of Beaufort in Gloucestershire, England, where it was first played about 1873. The roots of the sport can be traced to ancient Greece, China, and India, and it is closely related to the old children's game battledore and shuttlecock.
Who is the world champion of badminton in 2020?
Anders Antonsen
Tournament details
Location Pak Kret, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Men's singles Anders Antonsen
Women's singles Tai Tzu-ying
Who has the most titles in badminton?
The record for the most number of tournaments won in a single calendar year is held by Gao Ling of China who won an unprecedented nine titles in the 2007 BWF Super Series edition.
What is Super 500 in badminton?
The 26 tournaments are divided into five levels – Super 1000 (three tournaments), Super 750 (five tournaments), Super 500 (seven tournaments) and Super 300 (eleven tournaments). Each of these tournaments offers different ranking points and prize money.
What does badminton called in Europe?
What sneakers are popular in Europe?
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Why is it called badminton?


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It's morning in Country View, freshly washed by yesterday's rain and a gaggle of geese are waddling down the street, conversing with each other about whatever they converse about. All is well, the day is starting off with a fresh breeze, the leaves rustling gently and the light clouds hold promise of more rain to come. Troy is waiting patiently for his morning walkies, pacing silently up and down behind my chair, with the slight click of his nails a constant reminder of what he is waiting for.
Some of you know by now that I will not be a candidate for Chairman at Thursday's AGM. I want to thank all of you that have followed my weekly letters from Country View and your kind comments about my ramblings. From Thursday I will revert to being an ordinary member, just playing ' The beautiful game', as Ian put it to me a few days ago. It is indeed that, this game that we play every week, the passion of it, the never ending ups and downs, the vast variety of hands that amaze and confound us, the vagaries of distribution, surprises around every corner, of every suit, against every player. The thought that there are more possible hands than grains of sand on the beach!
Therefore, let me just thank all of you for your support over the past few years and I ask you to extend your support to the incoming Chairman(..person?), as you have to me.
Thanks for your kind donations to The Children of The Yemen charity. We were able to transfer R750 to them last night.
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Tajkistan / Society / 135 new officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Tajikistan on August 12-13
135 new officially confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Tajikistan on August 12-13
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MoHSPP says no new coronavirus-linked deaths have been reported in the country over the reporting period.
The Ministry of Health and Social Protection of the Population (MoHSSP) says 135 new officially confirmed of the novel coronavirus (COVID 19) were reported in Tajikistan on August 12-13, bringing a total number of COVID-19 cases officially reported in the country since April 30, 2020 to 15,997.
A MoHSPP says no new coronavirus-linked deaths have been reported in the country over the reporting period, and the number of officially confirmed cases of the coronavirus-linked deaths in Tajikistan remains the same since April 30, 2020, when the infection index cases were officially confirmed in Dushanbe and Khujand – 123.
165 COVID-19 patients have reportedly recovered in the country over the reporting period, bringing a total number of those who have been cured in Tajikistan since April 30, 2020 to 15,593.
Meanwhile, according to unofficial data, the number of affected persons and deaths is in the thousands, because there are more infections, and the disease has become more severe.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Tajikistan is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Tajikistan when its index cases, in Dushanbe and Khujand, were confirmed on 30 April 2020.
By January 13, 2021, it was reported by the government that all cases had either recovered or died, leaving the country free of COVID-19 for the first time since April 2020. However, after five months and twenty-one days, Tajikistan officially confirmed 63 new COVID-19 cases and one coronavirus-linked death on June 21.
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- The Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) Board of Advisors held its semi-annual meeting on Oct. 18, at the Bolger Center, Potomac, Maryland, prior to the Economic Crime Institute (ECI) of Utica College's 21st Annual Conference. The conference, "Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Fraud and Corruption on the Loose," examined the fraud and corruption that manifested itself in the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and many others like it.
Housed at Utica College, CIMIP is a research collaborative dedicated to furthering a national research agenda on identity management, information sharing and data protection. Founded in June 2006, its ultimate goal is to impact policy, regulation, and legislation, working toward a more secure homeland.
At the meeting, board members discussed ongoing projects within CIMIP, including Critical Factors Affecting Identity Theft, Identity Fraud Research Project, and the Sex Offender Authentication Research Project, for which a workshop was held the afternoon of October 18. This workshop included special guests from government agencies to view preliminary results of the study to date. The board also examined possible areas of research for CIMIP, and the future direction of the center in other identity fraud-related areas, such as mortgage fraud research and telecommunication research, as well as an increased focus on the use of cell phones for identity theft. The activities of CIMIP in 2010 were also discussed, including an identity theft seminar given to First Source Federal Credit Union, featuring NYPD Detective Judy Newton.
Board members attending included: Dr. Donald Rebovich, executive director, CIMIP; Dr. James Byrne, University of Massachusetts; Tracy Gast, United States Secret Service; Dan Cortez, United States Postal Inspection Service; Brian Zimmer, Coalition for a Secure Driver's License; Tim Carroll, SIR; Dr. Heith Copes, University of Alabama; Jerry O'Farrell, United States Postal Inspection Service; Dr. Andrew Harris, University of Massachusetts; Alexa Hancock, Florida Highway Patrol Bureau of Investigation; Dr. Kyung-Seok Choo, University of Massachusetts; Dr. Robert Morris, University of Texas; Tom Oscherwitz, ID Analytics; Ingrid Norris, CIMIP; and Barbara Stack, CIMIP. Attending by teleconference were Scott Coby, Triad Biometrics, and Brenda Sorenson, TASCET.
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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Tuesday called for an end to violence in Egypt and for the release of deposed president Mohammed Morsi and other political prisoners, who are mainly from the Muslim Brotherhood.
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. – When you think of small business, you often think of the associated challenges that come with it. There's cash flow and financial management, increasing brand awareness, lead generation and many other common problems.
It's why more small business owners across the Lehigh Valley are banding together — exploring co-marketing and partnerships, hosting pop-up events and turning the very idea of being "competitors" upside down.
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In short, it's a strength-in-numbers initiative that has not only aided in keeping businesses afloat but is helping them to thrive.
"I think the coolest part about all of that is that everybody is realizing that there's a spot for everybody, right? There's room for everybody to play this game, there's room for everybody to be there," said Lauren Vargas of Nowhere Coffee Co., which opened its doors at North Cedar Crest Boulevard and Tilghman Street (where Allentown meets South Whitehall Township) in February.
Lauren and her husband, Juan, both left their corporate careers and poured themselves (pun intended) into creating a different kind of coffee shop experience in the Lehigh Valley. Pretty quickly, they found a way to turn their business into a shared space to support other entrepreneurs.
Nowhere Coffee Co. now hosts a bookshelf supporting Apport Used Books in Emmaus — with a mix of titles available the Vargases describe as "super eclectic, from philosophy to mycology to wildlife of the western states" — and also partners with Laura Valasakos of High Point Kombucha, selling a product that is made through a small business incubation program.
"A few days ago, the [owner of the] Udder Bar in Allentown also approached us and so we formed a partnership with them. They're going to provide the ice cream for our frappes," Juan Vargas said, describing how the current culture has allowed business owners to think more creatively and more collaboratively.
That mindset is the reason the Vargases will soon open a second location for Nowhere Coffee Co. inside a shared space with South Mountain Cycle in Emmaus.
"It was important for us to reach out to other small businesses and work with them," Lauren Vargas said. "And then when South Mountain reached out to us, and we saw all of this stuff moving forward, you know, we only have this opportunity because another small business said, 'I want to do this as well, right? I want to take this opportunity to give somebody else a chance.'
"We took the biggest risk that a family can take [when] we both walked away from jobs to do this. And I think every day something happens that tells us this was the right thing, and you're making the right choices. And you know, it's benefiting everybody around us," she added.
'It's creating an opportunity'
Jay's Local in Allentown has opened its kitchen to culinary entrepreneurs (Photo by Stephanie Sigafoos | WLVR)
Another business fully embracing the idea of community is Jay's Local, a neighborhood eatery nestled in Allentown's West End within walking distance to Muhlenberg College. Not only does the café have its own list of delicious and innovative dishes with locally sourced ingredients, the building has become a multi-use space shared with culinary entrepreneurs to help them grow their brand.
The program — part pop-up restaurant, part ghost kitchen program — has a growing list of people looking to get in the door to experiment with food, test recipes and attract new customers without the expensive overhead of having their own brick-and-mortar location.
One of the people finding success with the program is Ron Foxworth, the owner of Lá Amé Dé Cuisine, a catering company serving up multi-ethnic cuisine, including Indian, Moroccan and Caribbean foods.
"For me personally, it takes a little weight off my mind that even small businesses can make it now," Foxworth said as he prepped for a recent pop-up event at Jay's. "It's creating an opportunity because [Jay's Local owner Lyell Scherline] really understands community and family. And it's nice to not have to put the burden on family and say, 'Hey listen, I'm going to take out my life savings, I'm going to do whatever I gotta do to make it.'"
The pop-up dates and use of the kitchen will continue, with the pop-up shops generally operating the same hours as Jay's Local, while chefs utilizing the kitchen can operate after Jay's closes for the day.
"[Lyell is] a really sweet guy, a real generous guy," Foxworth said. "We went over some numbers, some dates, and then here we are. The first weekend, everything sold out. It was so fast that the people that came on Friday came again on Saturday.
"We just want to make sure that we're having a broad aspect of our cuisine and just touching each part of the world to bring it here to the Lehigh Valley," Foxworth said.
Collaborations are key
Boosting other business owners has also become a big part of the day-to-day operations of Sherman Street Beer Co. in east Allentown, said co-owner Casey DeCeia, who runs the business with her husband, Beau Baden.
For DeCeia, there was a quick realization that many small businesses — especially those that opened their doors in the middle of the pandemic — don't have the resources to do everything on their own and many would benefit from collaboration.
Sherman Street Beer Co. in Allentown hosts pop-up events and food trucks as part of a collaboration with other small businesses (Photo courtesy Sherman Street Beer Co. Facebook)
One of its first events was a pop-up with Sterner's Stems, another Allentown-based business that specializes in rare plants, botanical art and succulent design. Since then, the brewery has hosted similar events with the likes of Sugar Mere bakery (specializing in custom sugar cookies) and bigger pop-up markets featuring Bethlehem's Steel City Plant Co., Handcrafted with Love (specializing in handmade, personalized crafts) and more.
"The more you get to know the people behind the businesses, the more you just want to help them and support them," DeCeia said.
Naturally, the collaborations extended to food trucks that are on-site to serve hungry customers on days Sherman Street's kitchen is closed. A particular focus for DeCeia has been to bring in several women-owned businesses such as Red Ticket Café and Queen V Wraps, which rotate weeknight slots and are an arm's length away for anyone hanging out in Sherman Street's beer garden wanting a bite to eat.
DeCeia said the 'it takes a village' approach has benefited everyone, and collectively these entrepreneurs care about much more than the bottom line.
"We all have like a limited scope of … our base and how to get our name out there," she said. "And I think, you know, I've always said we're all in this together, and even if it's just helping each other out, then we need it. I think it's really important."
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The USAID Project Management Specialist (Democracy and Governance) is located in the Office of Economic Development and Governance (OEDG), USAID/Philippines. The Specialist reports to the OEDG Director or his/her designee. The Specialist is a member of USAID/Philippines' Democracy and Governance (DG) core team. USAID OEDG activities will assist the Philippines to strengthen its journey to self-reliance, improve democratic practices, mitigate conflict and reduce the allure of violent extremism (VE), and advance its aim of becoming a prosperous, predominantly middle-class country by 2040. This portfolio builds on the accomplishments of the Philippines-U.S. Partnership for Growth with Equity that helped the Philippines to reach a sustained and more inclusive growth trajectory on par with other high performing emerging economies. This portfolio also supports the Philippine government priorities outlined in the 2017-2022 Philippine Development Plan and Ambisyon Natin 2040, the Philippines' long term development vision.
The Specialist is responsible for performing a range of development assistance functions in the design, development, management and monitoring and evaluation of the OEDG's democracy- and governance- related activities. DG activities are currently implemented through cooperative agreements, contracts, or grants. The current DG technical assistance areas are rule of law, anticorruption, fiscal transparency and accountability, human rights, human trafficking, local governance, electoral reform, conflict mitigation and civil society development.
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8. AREA OF CONSIDERATION: Open to all interested individuals who are Filipino citizens or non-Filipino citizens lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the Philippines, and who also have the required work permits. USAID/Philippines does not sponsor work permits.
a. Education – At a minimum, Bachelor's degree in a field relevant to development assistance, such as public or business administration, sociology, political science, economics or law is required. Note: Additional education may NOT be substituted for Experience.
agencies, Philippine government organizations or relevant private sector or civil society/non-governmental institutions.
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government, and with influential persons in civil society, the private sector, and among other key stakeholders is required.
Must have the ability to persuasively represent and defend the USAID development policies, and concerns to senior USAID officials as well as high level Philippine government officials. The ability to identify significant, economic, political, and social trends in the Philippines and assess their importance and impact on USAID development assistance objectives and programs is required.
Given the incumbent's role working on highly sensitive political issues within the realm of democracy and governance, s/he must possess a highly developed political acumen and savvy adequate to engage counterparts substantively, but with tact and diplomacy.
4) provide information and advice with objectivity. S/he must also possess a very high degree of maturity and flexibility, very strong interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills.
1. Interested applicants are required to submit an application letter and a comprehensive resume.
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Complete list of opponents for the Minnesota Vikings in 2022
The Vikings are headed home after a disappointing 2021 season. We already have an early look at their 2022 opponents.
By Erik Buchinger Jan 7, 2022, 7:56am PST
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The Minnesota Vikings were knocked out of postseason contention after Week 17 when they were crushed by the Green Bay Packers on the road without Kirk Cousins. Minnesota seems to be far too talented to be a fringe playoff every season, and it feels like there could be changes coming to the organization. The Vikings are 7-9 heading into their regular season finale against the Chicago Bears on Sunday, and they're falling far short of expectations.
What the franchise decides to do this offseason will be very interesting for the future of what the Vikings will be. Minnesota could shake everything up for an organizational rebuild and move on from general manager Rick Spielman, head coach Mike Zimmer and Cousins. Minnesota has very talented players especially at the skill positions on offense, and the ceiling should be higher for the Vikings each season.
Minnesota Vikings 2022 opponents
The Vikings will face their NFC North divisional opponents six times, half at home and half on the road. In addition, they draw matchups against all four teams from the AFC East and NFC East. Their 17th game will be against the AFC South team that finishes in the same position as them.
Home: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, New England Patriots, New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts, NFC West (Rams or Cardinals)
Away: Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Football Team, NFC South (Saints or Falcons)


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Climate Science that will not Spin Genuine Scientists in their Graves.
Posted on October 3, 2013 by Ken McMurtrie
From 'NIPCC' :
Read Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science for free online by using the following links:
Chapter 1. Global Climate Models
Chapter 2. Forcings and Feedbacks
Chapter 3. Solar Forcing of Climate
Chapter 4. Observations: Temperature
Chapter 5. Observations: The Cryosphere
Chapter 6. Observations: The Hydrosphere
Chapter 7. Observations: Extreme Weather
The Summary for Policymakers was written in collaboration with the lead authors and approved by them. Because it is aimed at a larger popular audience than the book, it adds a discussion of the scientific method and the precautionary principle, a brief summary and critical analysis of each of the IPCC's main lines of argument, and a brief set of recommendations for policymakers. We also recommend you review the separate Executive Summary.
CCR II: Physical Science is an independent, comprehensive, and authoritative report on the current state of climate science. It is the fourth in a series of scholarly reports produced by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international network of climate scientists sponsored by three nonprofit organizations: the Science and Environmental Policy Project (SEPP), Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, and The Heartland Institute.
Whereas the reports of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warn of a dangerous human effect on climate, NIPCC concludes the human effect is likely to be small relative to natural variability, and whatever small warming is likely to occur will produce benefits as well as costs.
CCR-II consists of three parts: a Summary for Policy Makers (SPM), part one titled Physical Science, and part two titled Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerabilities. The SPM and part one was released on September 17-18, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois USA. Additional release events will take place the following week in the U.S. in Washington, DC, New York, Florida, and the following week in England, Germany, and Holland. See the calendar feature in the right sidebar of this site for more event information.
Believe what you will but the evidence supports this science.
On the other side of the coin, the evidence is strong that the science is invalidated and the agenda bias is strong.
Be careful in what you believe. I suppose in the long run it doesn't matter much what you and I believe, but it matters that megadollars are wasted and that countries are subjected to outside controls and social destruction. This matters to me.
Heartland Institute climate change panel reveals science the UN suppresses (ConservativeActionAlerts.com)
Harris: New report counters climate change scare – Calgary Herald (calgaryherald.com)
Report gives the truth about climate at last (climatism.wordpress.com)
Real climate science the IPCC doesn't want you to see (wattsupwiththat.com)
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Measurements and observations over the past 50 years show beyond any reasonable doubt the core of the Sun:
1. Made our elements
2. Birthed the solar system 5 Ga ago
3. Sustained the origin and evolution of life on Earth after 3.5 Ga ago, and
4. Sends out powerful, invisible force fields that can occasionally be seen penetrating the photosphere as sun-spots (magnetic fields from the Sun's pulsar core).
I will look up and post below a few of the key experimental observations that have been purposefully ignored to promote the illusion Earth's climate is controlled by a giant H-fusion reactor rather than a pulsar.
Oliver K. Manuel
FEAR of the energy that causes atoms, stars, and galaxies to explode is at the root of our troubles today.
I haven't returned home yet, but here is one of the early observations that should have destroyed the illusion of a hydrogen-filled Sun produced by the collapse of an interstellar cloud of hydrogen.
In 1960 Kuroda reported Pu-244 was alive and decaying as Earth formed [1]. It's decay products were later found in Earth's atmosphere, in the Earth's mantle, in meteorites and in the Moon.
In 1994 Kuroda and Myers showed that the Pu-244 was produced in a supernova explosion 5 Ga ago, at the birth of the solar system.
Here are the data:
http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1994Data.htm
1. Kuroda, P. K.: 1960, "Nuclear fission in the early history of the Earth", Nature 187, 36-38.
Another unexpected observation: In 1972 primitive meteorites were found to have trapped xenon directly from poorly mixed supernova debris [1]. Here are the 1972 data:
Meteorite analyses over the next two decades revealed that lightweight elements (primarily H, He, C, N) of the outer planets had a different nuclear history than major elements of the inner planets (Fe, O, Si, Ni, S):
1. Microscopic diamond and graphite formed directly from the carbon-rich region of the supernova and trapped heavy elements with excess proton-rich and neutron-rich isotopes.
2. Silicon carbide grains (SiC) formed deeper in the supernova debris and trapped heavy elements enriched in the middle isotopes.
"Normal" isotopic composition could be produced by mixing these two "mirror-image" isotopic anomalies reported by Prof. Begemann of the Max Planck Institut fuer Chemie at Mainz, Germany in 1993 [2].
The results are illustrated here for Xe, Ba, Nd and Sm:
These observations & measurements falsified the notion that an uniform interstellar cloud of hydrogen formed the solar system. Interstellar dust grains that magically survived their journal here was the ad hoc explanation used to protect the standard model.
1. O. K. Manuel, E. W. Hennecke, and D. D. Sabu, "Xenon in carbonaceous chondrites", Nature Phys. Sci. 240, 99-101 (1972):
Click to access XenonInCarbonaceousChondrites.pdf
2. F. Begemann, "Isotopic abundance anomalies and the early solar system" in Origin and Evolution of the Elements, ed. Prantos, N., Vangioni-Flam, E. and Cassé, M., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (1993) pp. 518-527.
Strange Xe Accompanied All Primordial He at Birth of the Solar System
The University of Chicago made the 3rd embarrassing observation when analyzing noble gases in mineral separates of the Allende meteorite:
http://omatumr.com/Data/1975Data.htm
Microscopic diamonds contain all of the primordial Helium in the Allende meteorite, and it is accompanied by "strange xenon" in which Xe-136, the heaviest isotope is enriched by almost a factor of two (2).
Later analyses of diverse types of primitive meteorites revealed the same enigma [1]: Strange Xe Accompanied All Primordial He.
In 1983 we predicted [2] the Galileo Probe of Jupiter would find strange xenon in Jupiter's helium-rich atmosphere.
The Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere on December 1996, saw strange xenon [3], and NASA hid the data until publicly embarrassed at a CSPAN news briefing January 1998:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m3VIFmZpFco&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dm3VIFmZpFco
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
1. O. K. Manuel, "The enigma of helium and anomalous xenon,"
Icarus 41, 312-315 (Feb 1980)
http://tinyurl.com/6bco8qr
2. O. K. Manuel and Golden Hwaung, "Solar abundances of the elements", Meteoritics 18, 209-222 (1983): http://tinyurl.com/224kz4
Click to access SolarAbundances.pdf
3. O. K. Manuel, "Isotopic ratios in Jupiter confirm intra-solar diffusion",
Meteoritics and Planetary Science 33, A97, paper 5011 (1998):
Click to access 5011.pdf
SUMMARY of three unexpected observations
1. Supernova made Pu-244 in Moon, Earth and meteorites 5 Ga ago.
2. "Normal" isotopic abundance on Earth is mixture of "strange" ones seen in oldest meteorite minerals.
3. Strange Xe accompanied primordial He
A Journey to the Core of the Sun
Click to access Synopsis.pdf


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At the movies — 3.15.19
Times Record Staff
Below is a list of movies playing in Fort Smith. Show times and information are available at www.amctheatres.com and www.malco.com.
Opening Today
Captive State — Ten years after an extra-terrestrial being is seen in Chicago, the lives of those called the collaborators and those known as dissidents unfold in this new movie that stars Vera Farmiga, John Goodman, Machine Gun Kelly, Madeline Brewer, Kiki Layne, D.B. Sweeney and Ashton Sanders. (PG-13)
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase — Nancy (Sophia Lillis) is an outsider who has difficulty relating to her new environment in this new family drama from director Katt Shea. Nancy is joined by friends to solve a mystery and help establish Nancy into her new community. Also stars Laura Wiggins, Zoe Renee, Linda Lavin, Jesse C. Boyd and Sam Trammell. (PG)
Wonder Park in 3D — A magnificent amusement park takes center-stage in this new animated feature. June is a young girl with a creative streak that grows by the day. Features the voices of Sofia Mali, Jennifer Garner, Kenan Thompson, Mila Kunis, Ken Jeong, Matthew Broderick, Brianna Denski and Ken Hudson Campbell. (PG)
Alita: Battle Angel — Previously deactivated, a cyborg is revived, but she is unable to remember anything from her past life in this new action/romance from director Robert Rodriguez. Jennifer Connelly, Christoph Waltz, Rosa Salazar and Mahershala Ali are among the cast members. (PG-13)
Aquaman — Justice League member Aquaman (Jason Momoa) learns that he is the heir to an underwater world of Atlantis and must battle a relative (Jason Patrick) to become the leader his people need. (PG-13)
Bumblebee — Set in 1987, Bumblebee, a broken, scarred Transformer, seeks refuge in a California junkyard before being discovered by a teenager (Hailee Steinfeld). (PG-13)
Captain Marvel — Brie Larson ("Room") stars as Carol Danvers, who is one of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's most powerful — and mysterious — heroes in this new action-thriller. Carol, better known as Captain Marvel, finds herself in the middle of a struggle between two warring alien races. Co-stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn and Annette Bening. (PG-13)
Fighting with My Family — Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson portrays a former wrestler, who gets help making a living from his family. They perform at small venues around the country, as the kids begin dreaming about being World Wrestling Entertainment stars. Co-stars Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn and Nick Frost. (PG-13)
Green Book — A bouncer (Viggo Mortensen) finds work as a driver for an African-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) on a tour throughout the American south in the 1960s. (PG-13)
Greta — A young woman crosses paths with a lonely widow, who could be harboring a dark, deadly plans for her new aquaintance in director Neil Jordan's new movie. Stars Chloe Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe and Jeff Hiller. (R)
Happy Death Day 2 U — Tree Gelbman learns that the act of dying over and over again was shockingly easier than the terrible danger that lurks around the corner in director Christopher Landon's latest film. Stars Ruby Modine and Jessica Rothe. (PG-13)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — Director/co-writer Dean DeBlois presents this animated sequel, which has Hiccup learning that Toothless isn't the only Night Fury around. Hiccup then must find a secret dragon. Features the voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, F. Murray Abraham and Craig Ferguson. (PG)
Isn't It Romantic — Rebel Wilson portrays a young woman who has grown tired of romantic cliches and the fortune of others. The woman is stunned to see that she in fact is trapped inside a romantic comedy, where love and good fortune are in the air. Co-stars Liam Hemsworth and Adam Devine. (PG-13)
The Kid — Actor Vincent D'Onofrio stars in and directs this new drama, which focuses on a young boy who watches the interactions between Billy the Kid and Sheriff Pat Garrett. Costars Chris Pratt, Leila George, Ethan Hake, Adam Baldwin and Rachel Singer. (R)
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part — Lego Duplo invaders threaten the safety and happiness of the Lego heroes in this animated sequel, which features the voices of Chris Pratt, Tiffany Haddish, Will Arnett and Elizabeth Banks. (PG)
Mary Poppins Returns — Everyone's favorite magical nanny arrives to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children. (PG)
Ralph Breaks the Internet — Ralph and a friend discover a wi-fi router in their arcade. (PG)
Run the Race — Surrounded by sports, two brothers living in a small town in the South begin clashing over their views on the world. Their bond is tested multiple times while they hold out hope that their relationship will be somehow strengthened. Stars Tanner Stine, Evan Hofer, Mario Van Peebles and Mykelti Williamson. (PG)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man in his reality and meets his counterparts from other dimensions. (PG)
Stan & Ollie — Famous comedy duo Laurel and Hardy reunite for a vigorous, post-war tour of Britain. Stars Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly. (PG)
Tyler Perry's A Madea Family Funeral — Madea (Tyler Perry) and her family think they are going to enjoy a joy-filled reunion with relatives, but an unexpected funeral causes stress, laughs and more in this new comedy from writer/director/star Tyler Perry. Also stars Patrice Lovely, Cassi Davis, Quin Walters, Ciera Payton and Jen Harper. (PG-13)
The Upside — Nicole Kidman, Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston star in this new comedy based on the bond between a wealthy quadriplegic and the unemployed, shady individual who is hired to help him. (PG-13)


text: Meet Souleyman Bah, star on Undateables, Para-Athlete & The Apprentice 2019 candidate Souleyman Bah was 1 of 16 candidates competing to be Lord Sugar's new business partner in the 15th series of The Apprentice, however he was controversially fired after heavily criticising his teams product but not acting upon his criticism. Here's all you need to know about the multi-skilled 20-year-old. Unlike many of the other candidates, Souleyman isn't directly involved with a business as of yet, he is mostly known as a Team GB para-athlete that specialises in the 100m sprint. Souleyman had his 1st encounter with athletics at age 12 after winning the 100m race at his school sports day, breaking their record. After the win, he was referred to the 'Playground To Podium' (a scheme that helps young, disabled people progress to high-level competitions) ready for the London 2012 Olympics. The athlete suffers from a rare eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa (affecting the retinas at the back of his eyes which means he has poor vision) & would love to represent Great Britain in the 100m & 200m events at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic games. "[Ray Charles] made blindness cool and achieved immense success despite his disability" He is no stranger to fame & attention, being both a motivational speaker & has appeared on television multiple times. Souleyman once appeared on BBC News after winning the 100m race at the Paralympic School Games in Brazil. Not only this, but he had also appeared on Channel 4's 'The Undateables', leaving viewers heartbroken after his date cancelled the date that Souleyman was genuinely excited for! The inspirational young man stated that he would be brutally honest on The Apprentice and that his eyesight is nothing but a strength. However, it was this brutal honesty that landed him in the boardroom as he consistently criticised an idea, but Lord Sugar felt that this criticism lacked solutions. "The less sight I have, the more imagination I gain, because what you see is what you see and what you don't see is when the magic begins" Despite being fired by Lord Sugar, it is clear that Souleyman has a great future ahead of him, no matter whether it's in the sports world or in business.


Park Acoustics in association with Southern Comfort presents Aking, Klopjag and friends.
As the year is slowly drawing to an end, we get ready for the second last Park Acoustics of the year with Aking, Klopjag, Georgetown, Bacchus Nel, Deon Bakkes and the Stolen Horses and Dj Legend.
Comedy will have you laughing with Martin Davis(UK), Kraai Du Toit, Mojak Lehoko.
Here is the lekker line-up for the day!
With that said, I had a chat with Hennie van Halen from aKing.
Hi there! I've been a huge aKING fan since your debut album, Dutch Courage in 2008. One thing I've noticed is there is distinct changes with every new release. Is that a deliberate decision or is it merely a reflection of where you are as a band at that stage?
First of all, thanks for the support through all the years! Our sound has kind of changed along with our tastes in music. We all listen to a wide variety of styles and genres and every now and then we come across a song or a band that inspires us to try and create a sound that we haven't explored before. In short, you could say it's 50% self-indulgence and 50% changing tastes that influences our songwriting.
When aKING started the musical landscape in South Africa looked a lot different than it does today. Has the change in landscape affected the dynamic of the band in any way? Perhaps a change in influences for the members?
The biggest change in the music industry, not only in SA but the entire world, has been the advent of online music consumption. I think it has definitely changed the way we "market" the band. People are online for 8 hours a day, on average, looking at Facebook & Instagram. The best part about this change has to be the connection that can be made with our audience. You never used to be able to gauge what people think of your latest release until you play a show. Now you release a video online or a download link to your new single and within a matter of minutes people are sharing opinions and forwarding it to their friends. This would never have been possible before everything became digital.
What are your opinions on the current state of the alternative music scene in South Africa?
This question is difficult to answer because everyone has an opinion and to try and distill that into one cohesive thought is impossible. I'm assuming the question is set to be about a certain style of music being more or less popular in the mainstream. In my opinion, "alternative" music is alive and well in SA and it's exciting to see new and interesting bands coming to the forefront. People seem to like compartmentalizing musicians. If you're in a rock band, you can't release a polished pop album, but a slow ballad is fine. An EDM producer isn't taken seriously when he picks up a guitar, but most rappers have full bands nowadays. It's this hypocracy regarding genres and styles that limits a lot of really talented musicians in achieving commercial/mainstream success.
Your latest release, Morning After dropped in 2014. With Snake also being in Fokofpolisiekar, and them releasing Selfmedikasie and embarking on this huge tour, are aKING taking it a bit slower at the moment or are the other members still working it in his absence?
The two bands have always worked alongside each other without the need for a back seat. We synchronize our calendars and try and accommodate each other as much as we can. Sometimes that means we can't play shows on the same date in different cities, but those instances are quite rare. First prize is when we get booked to play the same event.
Are there any young or up-and-coming local bands that you guys reckon people should take note of?
There are too many to mention, but here are a few.
Snake is obviously in Fokofpolisiekar and Andrew is in Thieve, but are there any other projects the members of the band are involved in?
Hennie produces some minimal-electro in his spare time as well as working on a reggae project. Laudo has collaborated with a few other artists, featuring as a vocalist or songwriter or both.
Morning After was released three years ago already. Have you started planning a follow-up yet, or what is the plan for the near-future for aKING?
We are in the process of writing a new album to be released in 2018, but I can't give you any more details than that. Just know that it is in the works!
Thanks for the chat. We'll see you at Park Acoustics this weekend.


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Defining Urban Centres using Alternative Data Sets
Emily Moylan, Somwrita Sarkar,
urban form polycentricity transit smartcard census journey-to-work
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Moylan, Emily, and Somwrita Sarkar. 2019. "Defining Urban Centres Using Alternative Data Sets." Findings, May. https://doi.org/10.32866/8166.
Figure 1a. Comparisons of Centricities and Centricity Ranking for the Smartcard and JTW Datasets
Figure 1b.
Table 1. The Extremes of the Ranks Showing the High Correlation for Centers and Anti-centers
Figure 2. Rank Correlation Between the Opal and JTW Data. Rank correlation between the Opal and JTW data is strongest when only the most important centers are considered. Correlation increases again at the bottom of the ranking, indicating that anti-centers (residential areas) are also well correlated in rank.
In growing cities, the evolution of urban form is partially motivated in principle by travel distance benefits. Evidence from travel data can support the categorisation of activity organisation as monocentric, polycentric or dispersed. We consider centricity measures at a fine geographical scale for Sydney, Australia using two data sets: Census journey-to-work transit data and commute trips from Opal transit smartcards. Only a few top-order centres are detected, and there is a significant level of dispersed activity in areas that are not centres. Further, most top-order centres that are detected are clustered spatially. Thus, we find that a comparison of the data sets does not support the polycentric model but instead a legacy monocentric model combined with dispersal.
RESEARCH QUESTION AND HYPOTHESIS
As cities grow larger, average travel distances to destinations of interest increase. In response, growing cities' structures might transition from monocentric to polycentric (destination activities concentrating in a few points in the city) or dispersed (destination activities not concentrating and assuming a more scattered form) (Louf and Barthelemy 2014; Pfister, Freestone, and Murphy 2000). Polycentric cities are normatively seen as a desirable urban form, since they can likely provide travel-distance benefits if travel behavior in a region is organized so that residents travel mostly to their closest center.
Travel data describe the organization of activities across a metropolitan area, and thus track their centricity structure. If a region is polycentric, the standard assumption is that only a few geographies will show positive net inflows (inflow–outflow), especially for data on work commutes. But we hypothesize that such a clear signature on polycentricity is not easily seen. Increasingly multimodal transport systems and evolving economies and workforces suggest that the polycentric model might be unrealized as workers move around the city in ways not well-captured by traditional models and data sources.
In this article we investigate the empirical evidence on the above hypothesis and test whether centers are consistently defined across data sources.
We examine two datasets:
Transit journey-to-work (JTW) data for the metropolitan region of Sydney at the Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) geography definition for 2016 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Transit smartcard data (Opal card transactions from April 5, 2017) for the metropolitan Sydney region, aggregated to the SA2 geography definition.
The geography considered is SA2s in Sydney, Australia, which are larger than suburbs but smaller than functional metropolitan labor markets. The SA2 region was chosen because it is the finest consistent area definition for which a full origin–destination table is available from the ABS. To make the datasets comparable, both were limited to public transit commute trips: the journey-to-work data was limited to only trips completed on public transit and the smartcard data was limited to trips that occurred in the morning peak (7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.) and were repeated at least three times that week. All trips are aggregated into two origin–destination matrices at the SA2 level, one each for each dataset.
The subsets of the data are designed to allow comparison of like with like. Since only work commutes are available in the ABS JTW data and only transit trips are available from Opal card transactions, we consider the intersection of transit commutes. Trip purpose is not recorded in smartcard data, so repeated a.m.-peak trips are used as a proxy for commute trips. Therefore, commutes that occurred once or twice per week, commutes that occurred three or more times per week but not on April 5, 2017, commutes that occurred outside the a.m.-peak period, and commutes during which the traveler used more than one card or varied their boarding or alighting stop are not included. This resulted in a smartcard dataset that is substantially smaller than the journey-to-work dataset, as evident in Figure 1a and Table 1. As described below, the difference in scale is accounted for by working with the rank of the center rather than the inflow itself. The requirement of the a.m.-peak departure time is a potential source of bias as it emphasizes traditional "nine to five" monocentric commute patterns that may be evolving away.
Figure 1a.Comparisons of Centricities and Centricity Ranking for the Smartcard and JTW Datasets
(a) Comparison of net inflow for each SA2 for the smartcard data and the census JTW data. The inset shows the detail near the origin with the most and least important centers labeled.
(b) Comparison of the ranked centricities based on smartcard and JTW data. There is substantial scatter, especially for SA2s in the middle of the ranks.
Table 1.The Extremes of the Ranks Showing the High Correlation for Centers and Anti-centers
JTW Inflow
JTW Rank
Smartcard Inflow
Sydney–Haymarket–The Rocks 215,390 1 95,500 1
North Sydney–Lavender Bay 24,555 2 9,368 2
Pyrmont–Ultimo 14,309 3 1,149 8
Surry Hills 12,623 4 289 16
Parramatta–Rosehill 11,698 5 2,777 3
Mortdale–Penshurst -3,775 263 -1,531 213
Epping–North Epping -3,796 264 -2,359 232
Ashfield -3,872 265 -1,726 219
Petersham–Stanmore -3,985 266 -1,512 212
Arncliffe–Bardwell Valley -4,186 267 -2,281 231
A second principal difference between the two datasets arises from a counting principle. The JTW data considers "usual residence" as the origin point. Thus, the number of trip origins are counted from a respondent's place of usual residence. The smartcard data, on the other hand, counts tap ins and outs. Thus, the number of trip origins as per the smartcard data is aggregated up to the SA2 level from the station or stop levels. If someone lives in one SA2 but walks and catches the train or bus from the nearest station or stop in another SA2, it would change the counts for the number of trip origins measure between the smartcard and the JTW data somewhat. However, as mentioned above, treating these data differences as noise, we have worked with ranks rather than actual inflow numbers.
Further comparisons of the two datasets are discussed near the end of the Findings section.
The research aims to calculate a flow-based centricity measure using the two datasets and compare the results.
Centricity, Ck, is defined as the net inflow for zone k:
\[ C_{k}=\sum_{i=1}^{I} T_{i, k}-\sum_{j=1}^{J} T_{k, i} \]
where Ti, j is the total number of trips originating in zone i and ending in zone j. If a region is divided into n small zones, then each zone serves as an origin as well as a destination. Centricity is defined as the number of people coming into a destination zone minus the number of people flowing out of the same origin zone, and regions with higher inflow are centers.
The SA2s are ranked by centricity (net inflow) for each dataset, with the smallest rank given to the center with the highest net inflow. While the centricities go from positive net inflow to negative net inflow (indicating net outflow), the ranks go from 1 to n, where the largest rank corresponds to the place with the highest net outflow. Regardless of scale, the ranking indicates the relative importance of each SA2 as an employment center. The Opal smartcard and census JTW rankings are compared using Spearman's ρ rank correlation coefficient. This coefficient varies between -1 (perfect inverse correlation) and 1 (perfect correlation), and values around 0 indicate weak correlation. The null hypothesis of the test is that the two ranks are not correlated, and the p-value indicates the probability of observing these rankings if the null hypothesis is true.
This article's research question asks whether different measures will yield consistent results about the organization of activities in general and about the location and importance of centers specifically. Anti-centers, or sources, in the system (places with net outflow/negative inflow) describe the residential organization of workers, while centers or sinks (places with net positive inflow) describe the organization of principal destinations in the system. Therefore, for this study, centers (high net inflow) are more interesting than anti-centers (high net outflow), although we study and report on the entire range of places. Accordingly, rank correlations are tested as a function of sample size, x, where the correlation values are reported by considering the ranks of the x most important centers and then gradually increasing x to n. This tests the hypothesis that centers above a certain threshold of importance are well defined (and therefore will show high correlation values between both datasets), but different data sources or approaches might yield inconsistent results for less centric geographies (and hence correlations will go down as the number of centers increases and those of higher ranks are considered). Dispersed urban form would be implied by marginal net inflows for most SA2s and weak correlation between the ranks from the two datasets.
The comparison of the two datasets is shown in Figure 1. The inflow values tend to be higher for JTW data, and many SA2s are clustered around zero for both datasets, indicating that as many trips enter as leave for public transit commutes. The plot highlights that the most important center, the historic-traditional Central Business District (CBD) Sydney–Haymarket –The Rocks, has an inflow roughly 10 times larger than the next most important center, North Sydney–Lavender Bay. In part, this reflects that the system was designed to serve and therefore reinforce a strong CBD. The comparison of ranked centricities (Figure 1b) shows correlation, particularly for very high- or very low-ranked SA2s.
The rank correlations are compared with Spearman's ρ, yielding a coefficient of .51, rejecting the null hypothesis (H0: uncorrelated ranks) with high probability (p < .001).
Starting with only the most important centers, Spearman's test is repeated for increasingly large samples. As suggested by Figure 1b), the correlation is strongest for the most important centers. By the middle of the rank, the correlation is weak (.3) and volatile. Correlation increases toward the bottom of the rank as the anti-centers (those with substantially more outflow than inflow) also show correlation. This relationship is illustrated in Figure 2. The SA2s with the highest and lowest JTW net inflows are shown in Table 1 to illustrate the strong scaling between the datasets and correlation in the extremes.
Figure 2.Rank Correlation Between the Opal and JTW Data. Rank correlation between the Opal and JTW data is strongest when only the most important centers are considered. Correlation increases again at the bottom of the ranking, indicating that anti-centers (residential areas) are also well correlated in rank.
There is also corroboration between the two datasets when proportions of trips attracted by the top five centers are compared. Both datasets describe only transit commutes, yet the top five centers have only 59% of trips (142,839/241,953) in the smartcard data and 60% (299,369/502,854) in the JTW data. This suggests that a substantial number of transit commutes occur outside of the traditional top centers.
The finding also highlights that two datasets designed to capture public transit commutes show only weak correlation for most SA2s. This is a caution against considering the centers universal; the organization of activities in a region may be more dispersed than existing urban theories such as central place theory suggest (Sarkar, Wu, and Levinson 2019). Most noticeably, four of the top five centers are spatially clustered around the traditional historic CBD, and only one center (Parramatta–Rosehill) is near the west of Sydney, separated by a significant distance from the traditional CBD. The inflows from the two datasets are compared spatially in Figure 3 to show this concentration around the CBD. Both datasets support the hypothesis that a traditional monocentric city form has not turned into a polycentric form, but instead into a dispersed form for the rest of the region, with the monocentric center still dominating. Applying centricity methodologies across scales and different data sources may reveal more about the datasets than the cities. One such example is the discrepancy of Surry Hills shown in Table 1. Surry Hills is in walking distance to Central Station (located in the traditional CBD, Sydney–Haymarket–The Rocks), so the smartcard dataset would misattribute trips during which the traveler accessed Central Station by foot rather than by bus.
Spatial Distribution of centers in the JTW (left) and Opal (right) Data. Four of the five most important centers account for 60% of the trips and are adjacent near the Sydney CBD. Measures for both datasets are displayed as \(Ck \cdot \ln |Ck |\) where Ck is the net inflow for region k
This finding shows that centricity is consistently defined between datasets for the most important urban centers and anti-centers. However, the net inflow for all except the Sydney–Haymarket–The Rocks SA2 represents a small fraction of the total travel taking place. In fact, the spatial adjacency of four of the five most important SA2s indicates a monocentric model with over 40% of transit commutes to dispersed destinations, which reflects the legacy of a CBD-focused transit system design. Although the centricity shown in the inset of Figure 1a naively suggests polycentricity, the spatial confluence of the top centers, in addition to inconsistencies in the middle-ranked centers supports a monocentric-plus-dispersed model instead.
The authors thank David Levinson for early discussions and feedback.
Louf, T., and M. Barthelemy. 2014. "Modeling the Polycentric Transition of Cities." Physical Review Letters 111: 198702.
Pfister, N., R. Freestone, and P. Murphy. 2000. "Polycentricity or Dispersion? Changes in Center Employment in Metropolitan Sydney, 1981-1996." Urban Geography 21: 428–42.
Sarkar, S., H. Wu, and D. Levinson. 2019. "Measuring Polycentricity via Network Flows, Spatial Interaction and Percolation." Urban Studies, April, 004209801983251. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019832517.


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Full Name Melaine Martin
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Melanie Martin is an American Instagram influencer and Bartender, she is widely recognized as the missmelainemartin from her official Instagram account. Where she has a fan following of over 180,000 in it. Further, she is also famous as the girlfriend of the American rapper and singer, Aaron Charles Carter.
Melaine was born in 1992 in southeast Europe, Bulgaria. She was raised by working-class parents with her siblings. However, she is currently living in California with her rapper boyfriend. Now, let's know more about the gorgeous model, Melanie. Is she married? What is her net worth and earnings? Continue reading.
Dating life with Backstreet Boys singer, Aaron Carter
Melanie has faced a complicated relationship with her boyfriend, Aaron. The two publicly announced their relationship in January 2020. Then after they started uploading one another pictures in their respective social media account. Aaron even has tattooed of her name.
Image: Aaron Carter with his girlfriend, Melanie Martin. Source: Instagram
In March just after two months of their relationship, the couple appeared to split due to Melaine involved in felony domestic violence. The pair even unfollowed and deleted one another pictures from their respective social media account.
However, with lots of ups and downs, their relationship is still running well and they've managed to stick with one another during their hard days.
Pregnancy and engagement
Aaron publicly announced about becoming a first-time father in his life. He even showed a positive pregnancy test on his Instagram Live. However, after a couple of weeks, Melanie suffered a miscarriage and Aaron explained to his fans stating
She suffered a miscarriage due to stress conditions. We're going to give it time, let her heal and then we're going to try again.
Furthermore, the pair are now engaged, they publicly announced their engagement on 10th July 2020 through their Instagram account. The pair uploaded the picture of their engagement ring on their respective social media account captioning.
He captioned the shot: "Lövē wins #iloveyou3000 #engaged #fiance #ourlovestory."
Twenty-eight years old, Melanie is not only beautiful but she is also hardworking personal. She has a net worth of $300,000 as of 2020. She is a professional bartender and Instagram influencer whose estimated annual income is between $80,000 to $100,00.
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Before I saw this stitch, I had never heard of Adventure Time.
It didn't matter, of course, because even if you don't know the subject matter, this is just charming. 🙂 Check out X Takker X's flickr photostream for more great stuff!
That's a whole lot of satin stitch! Good job and good patience!!
omg my daughter would so love this. Adventure Time is her favorite show! Of course, I just love the embroidery because, well, it's awesome!


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ActiVote got an early Christmas present when we learned that we had passed through the rigorous BLab certification for organizations meeting the highest verified levels of social performance. When we first formed ActiVote we knew a few things about what we wanted to achieve. We knew that we wanted to empower voters all around the…
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Introduction As part of the Build Back Better event, run in the ActiVote app from November 3rd -November 17th, 2021, a poll on 11 topics and 2 bills was executed. The topics were:– Child Tax Credit– Earned Income Tax Credit– Expanding Medicare– Global Minimum Tax– Home Health Services– Pell Grants– Pre-K– Rural Development– Section 8…
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Many opinion pieces have been written about Cancel Culture, what it is and whether it is positive or negative. Vox wondered in 2020 whether we can't stop fighting about it, and whether it "is a mob mentality, or a long overdue way of speaking truth to power"? An opinion piece in the New York Times…
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4 people killed in violent crash in Capitol Heights
Prince George's County police are investigating the single-car accident.
Author: Susan Phillips
Updated: 10:52 AM EDT April 20, 2019
CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md. — The barely recognizable wreckage of an SUV involved in a violent crash that claimed four lives in Capitol Heights Thursday night has been towed away, but the investigation is just beginning.
Officer Nicholas Clayton, spokesman for the Prince George's County Police Department, says they're trying to figure out what caused an SUV carrying two men and two women to inexplicably cross the center line in the 5800 block of Sheriff Rd. around 10:30 p.m., sending the vehicle on a collision course with a utility pole.
Initially the devastating scene led police to Tweet the SUV had struck two pedestrians, however further investigation revealed a man and a woman inside the vehicle had been ejected by the impact. Another man and woman were trapped inside the wreckage. All four died from their injuries.
The victims were identified as 35-year-old Samuel Moss, 24-year-old Shyra Harris, 27-year-old Antonio Price and 21-year-old Jasmine Davis.
According to a press release, investigators believe speed is a possible major factor contributing to the crash. Police are asking passengers and drivers to wear seat-belts.
The crash investigation closed Sheriff Road between Addison Road and Cypresstree Dr. for several hours. All westbound lanes have since reopened. Right now a power crew working to make repairs to the damaged utility pole is blocking one eastbound lane.
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Involvement of cannabinoid receptors in peripheral and spinal morphine analgesia
Neuroscience. 2014 Mar 7;261:23-42. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.12.030. Epub 2013 Dec 21.
J Desroches 1 , J-F Bouchard 2 , L Gendron 3 , P Beaulieu 4
1 Department of Pharmacology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2 Faculty of Medicine and School of Optometry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
3 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada; Centre de recherche clinique Etienne-Le bel, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada; Institut de pharmacologie de Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada. Electronic address: Louis.Gendron@USherbrooke.ca.
4 Department of Pharmacology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Electronic address: pierre.beaulieu@umontreal.ca.
The interactions between the cannabinoid and opioid systems for pain modulation are reciprocal. However, the role and the importance of the cannabinoid system in the antinociceptive effects of opioids remain uncertain. We studied these interactions with the goal of highlighting the involvement of the cannabinoid system in morphine-induced analgesia. In both phases of the formalin test, intra paw and intrathecal morphine produced similar antinociceptive effects in C57BL/6, cannabinoid type 1 and type 2 receptor wild-type (respectively cnr1WT and cnr2WT) mice. In cnr1 and cnr2 knockout (KO) mice, at the dose used the antinociceptive effect of intra paw morphine in the inflammatory phase of the formalin test was decreased by 87% and 76%, respectively. Similarly, the antinociceptive effect of 0.1μg spinal morphine in the inflammatory phase was abolished in cnr1KO mice and decreased by 90% in cnr2KO mice. Interestingly, the antinociceptive effect of morphine in the acute phase of the formalin test was only reduced in cnr1KO mice. Notably, systemic morphine administration produced similar analgesia in all genotypes, in both the formalin and the hot water immersion tail-flick tests. Because the pattern of expression of the mu opioid receptor (MOP), its binding properties and its G protein coupling remained unchanged across genotypes, it is unlikely that the loss of morphine analgesia in the cnr1KO and cnr2KO mice is the consequence of MOP malfunction or downregulation due to the absence of its heterodimerization with either the CB1 or the CB2 receptors, at least at the level of the spinal cord.
Keywords: cannabinoid receptors; formalin test; morphine; mu opioid receptors (MOP); pain; tail-flick test.
Copyright © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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Moschino creative director Jeremy Scott shows CNN Style exclusive, behind the scene, footage from shows in cities around the world. Born in Kansas City in 1975, he showed his first collection for his eponymous label at Paris Fashion Week in 1997 and has since spent almost two decades livening up runways in New York, Milan and London.
The film follows Scott as he took his menswear show to London for the second time — staged in an impressive Mayfair church both male and female models, including Lucky Blue Smith, Rob Evans, Molly Bair and Ruth Bell, and stormed the runway in super-saturated designs crafted to remind us of the stained glass windows overhead.


I have arranged for MTH 496 to meet in Wells Hall A320 (former C wing) for the rest of the semester. It is better configured for the number of students we have in the class.
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Redesigning the Topgear App
Marie Schweiz's Android Design Workflow
by Marie Schweiz
Marie Schweiz, one of the most renowned Android designers is today's guest blogger. She is almost famous for the documentation of her workflow, a resource that is of incredible worth to the community and aspiring Android designers. Here, she shares some very detailed insights with us.
Anyone who isn't familiar with Topgear (at least in the English speaking part of the world) may deserve a smack on the back of his/her head for ignoring popular culture.
Just in case, here's the short version: Topgear is a terribly popular television show broadcasted by the BBC. It's about cars – fast and awesome cars of any kind. And about the three guys hosting it who are as funny and witty as it gets.
I redesigned their Android app, because, well… it was awful. This is a showcase of what I did and how I pulled it off.
1. The Original Material
You can see clearly that this was ported straight from the iOS and just doesn't work for Android.
2. The Concept
In scribbled wireframes I have laid out what is to become a solid, nicely working Android app. You get the notion: it is pretty complex at first, but that's exactly what a good UI design should do: break apart complex structures and make them accessible for the user. Here you get some insight on the information architecture and the thoughts I put into it, featuring the overall purpose of the app, the structure of the presentation, and the proposals for individual screens.
3. The Redesign Process
From the scribbled layouts of the app screens, the content structure and the navigation, I dove into Illustrator to really take everything apart and build it anew.
So now, to the individual screens of the app: I stuck very closely to the Android guidelines, as you will see. No gradients or skeuomorphisms – everything's flat now. You really start focusing on the content instead of the UI, which is even more important for such a feature rich, complex app as this one. One more aspect that shouldn't be forgotten is staying true to the branding as much as possible.
The News Screen
The Seasons Screen
The Car Reviews Screen
Oh yeah, and don't forget about the rich notifications:
Initially, I laid out a hierarchy of the app. With this in mind I designed the screens to make them match:
Now think way, way back: remember the original material? The result has little in common with it anymore. Man, that was easy. I wonder what took me so long.
Written on 2013-03-22 by Marie Schweiz — Marie Schweiz is a user experience and visual designer, now based in Berlin. The documentation of her workflow has made her an icon in the Android design community. Her cat Emil thinks it's a dog. If you'd really like to buy her a car, she'd prefer an Aston Martin. Not too much to ask for a girl in her league.


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The former Darboussier factory
Architecture - Pointe-à-Pitre
The factory, located in the Carénage district beyond the port, owes its name to a French merchant, Jean d'Arboussier, who settled in Guadeloupe during the 18th century. In the 1860s, Jean-François Cail and Ernest Souques joined forces to co-found the Compagnie Sucrière de Pointe-à-Pitre (CSPAP). The sugar factory was founded in 1867 and, by 1871, it was the biggest employer on the island, with 700 workers. However, the global sugar crises of 1885, 1895 and 1902, coupled with the now oversized workforce, forced Souques to cede ownership of the factory to the Société Industrielle et Agricole de Pointe-à-Pitre. (You can still see the letters SIAPAP painted on the side of the building.) In 1970, the former Darboussier factory merged with the Compagnie Française des Sucreries to form the Société Industrielle de Sucreries - Société Agricole de la Guadeloupe (SIS-SAG). For a while the factory was owned by Baron Empain before finally closing down in 1980. During the factory's heyday, a number of small-scale businesses and metal industries grew up around it, transforming the area into an important economic zone. Once the factory closed, however, it turned into a sprawling industrial wasteland of some 10 hectares. On April 20, 2006, part of the abandoned site was listed as a Historic Monument, and more recently, work has begun here to create a Cultural Center dedicated to the memory of slavery and the slave trade (Mémorial ACTe).
The former Darboussier factory, a major symbol of a rich sugar past
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe. Rue Raspail facade of the former Darboussier factory
Former factory Darboussier - Pointe-à-Pitre. The offices were still occupied just 20 years ago
The abbreviation SIAPAP remains inscribed on the pediment of the factory


What happens when you put three engineers, four industrial designers, two fashion designers a couple of material scientists, and four apparel production experts in the same room with a trio of Shima-Seiki digital knitting machines for 10 weeks and ask them to experiment? You get TEK-TILES(TM) a series of 20 experimental swatches and products designed to integrate technology into the manufacturing process. Join Deb Johnson for an interactive, hands-on presentation and learn more about the Pratt/BF+DA.


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