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Q: How do I reduce frame-rate without increasing duration? I'm trying to convert a 24fps video to 12fps. While it seems like the conversion is working, ffmpeg is also increasing the duration of the output video (about a second longer). It would seem like the output video should be similar or shorter than the source video.
Here are the commands that I tried:
ffmpeg -i src.mov -r 12 out.mov
ffmpeg -r 24 -i src.mov -r 12 out.mov

And the complete output:
$ ffmpeg -i src.mov -r 12 output.mov
ffmpeg version 2.4.3 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Nov  6 2014 23:40:10 with Apple LLVM version 6.0 (clang-600.0.54) (based on LLVM 3.5svn)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/ffmpeg/2.4.3 --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-nonfree --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-avresample --enable-vda --cc=clang --host-cflags= --host-ldflags= --enable-libx264 --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libxvid
  libavutil      54.  7.100 / 54.  7.100
  libavcodec     56.  1.100 / 56.  1.100
  libavformat    56.  4.101 / 56.  4.101
  libavdevice    56.  0.100 / 56.  0.100
  libavfilter     5.  1.100 /  5.  1.100
  libavresample   2.  1.  0 /  2.  1.  0
  libswscale      3.  0.100 /  3.  0.100
  libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
  libpostproc    53.  0.100 / 53.  0.100
[mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 @ 0x7fc18980da00] multiple edit list entries, a/v desync might occur, patch welcome
    Last message repeated 1 times
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[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Fast SSSE3 SSE4.2 AVX AVX2 FMA3 LZCNT BMI2
[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] profile High, level 3.1
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[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 34% 25% 28%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%  2%
[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 38% 23% 12%  4%  6%  6%  5%  4%  3%
[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] i8c dc,h,v,p: 42% 25% 30%  4%
[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] Weighted P-Frames: Y:7.1% UV:2.4%
[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] ref P L0: 74.8%  5.4% 14.9%  4.7%  0.2%
[libx264 @ 0x7fc189829a00] ref B L0: 90.9%  9.1%
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A: I used avconv instead, which got much closer to what I wanted:
avconv -r 24 -i src.mov -an -vf fps=fps=12 output.mov


Anyone else noticed that this morning no large spike on the QLN? Tone 46, Plus where has Radio 4 gone?
The main transmitter is down for maintenance "soon", and to be replaced by a (presumably) lower powered device.
BTW a RF3 sees Droitwich off for me, but I'm 100 miles away.
100 miles away, in Wales? Where did you get your RF3 from?
Quite a noticeable difference at The Cattery.
First you see it, then you don't . . .
But it keeps my Casio radio watch accurate and I didn't have to put it right for BST either.
That would be MSF Anthorn surely?
You are quite right, 4candles. I take it Anthorn is the new location for Rugby which has closed? I'm just so out of date!
Aye, Rugby shut down in 2007.
I believe the timing on some Economy 7 electricity tariffs is still controlled by coding on 198 kHz.
I get all my RFI from radio China international 7310 kHz and 198 kHz does not effect me at all on fttc.
Loading; in another forum someone removed breakthrough from the 3 Moorside Edge transmitters which were all of 1 mile from him !
2) for pickup on 'phone extensions, use filtered faceplate ( NOT I plate) to stop 'phone extensions acting as aerial.
3) If these are not a 100% cure, consider filtering/spacing from 50Hz wiring.


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Flood-weary communities in Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec are preparing for a critical weekend as rising water levels force thousands to evacuate their homes. Rain is expected in Ontario's cottage country, stretching east into Quebec and Atlantic Canada. Montreal, Ottawa and many smaller communities have declared states of emergency, prompting the federal government to deploy hundreds of soldiers to help with sandbagging and other relief operations. "We're all just putting our shoulder to the wheel in the most effective way, to make sure that the personnel and the resources are available to fight the immediate disaster," Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said. But worried residents are watching as water levels rise fast, with little respite in sight. "We are watching the next system, possibly Wednesday into Thursday another huge system that will be sweeping across southern and central Ontario and southern Quebec," Gerald Cheng from Environment Canada told CTV Toronto. The worst is yet to come for Ottawa according to Patrick Nadeau, executive director of Ottawa Riverkeeper, which works to protect the Ottawa River and its tributaries. "What we're seeing for the Ottawa area right now is that the peak is set to come around Monday or Tuesday," he told CTV News Channel. The city issued a state of emergency on Thursday. "Those levels could be over half a metre from what we're seeing right now." Despite a night that gave Ottawa a break from the rain, water levels around the capital region are expected to rise half a metre higher than they did during a 2017 flood that was thought to have been a once-in-a-century event. Brian Streatton, engineering manager at the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority, told CTV News Channel that the river is the highest it's ever been. "People that live along the Ottawa River from Ottawa down to Montreal are getting flooding at the highest level we've ever seen," he said.
"There was a high snowpack this year throughout the entire Ottawa River watershed and we've had some major precipitation events over the last couple of weeks." Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement forecasting up to 35 millimetres of rain in the Ottawa region. Four hundred soldiers have been deployed to help battle the flood water. A large focus is being put on the Constance Bay area, which is considered one of the worst-hit areas. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Constance Bay on Saturday morning, where he spoke with local volunteers. Trudeau and his two sons helped with sandbagging. Dozens of volunteers, including players from the Ottawa 67's hockey team, also helped with the flood relief. Others donated food to help those in need. A morning report from the board that monitors levels in the Ottawa River near Constance Bay says water levels are just shy of their 2017 levels and are forecast to rise another 47 centimetres. At a measuring spot near Parliament Hill, where paths and parking lots along the river are already underwater, the board forecasts a rise of another 75 centimetres before water levels peak on May 1. Nadeau says flooding like this is becoming the new normal, adding that better coordination is needed. "We need sustained investment in our conservation authorities that help to plan for these disasters." Increased winds also hampered sandbagging efforts, causing waves to crash over walls protecting homes. Ontario Provincial Police are discouraging motor boats from going close to shore, after reports of wake causing additional damage to nearby homes. Officials announced Saturday night that the Chaudiere Bridge over the Ottawa River would be closed as of 6 a.m. on Sunday,due to flooding and high waters. The Ottawa River is expected to rise another 55 centimetres by Tuesday. Efforts are also underway to protect the Britannia Water Treatment plant, which purifies water for more than half of Ottawa. If flood waters block the road leading to the plantdeliveries of purifying chemicals will be threatening safe water supplies, officials said. There are also flood warnings in several other areas of Ontario, which includes the province's cottage country. Bracebridge Mayor Graydon Smith asked cottage owners not to come to their properties to check for the damage this weekend because there are a lot of roads closed. "Don't try and be a hero," he said. Bracebridge saw some snow overnight and about 34 mm of rain at nearby Muskoka airport. Smith said the late-season snow is a welcome sight as it acts as a "sponge" for rising floodwaters that now mark a "historical event." Property owners have been advised to wait until the emergency passes before checking on cottages.
Quebec: Rainfall warnings have been issued for the southern half of Quebec, with some areas expected to see another 60 mm of rain. Water at the Chute-Bell dam, built in 1915, has reached levels expected once every 1,000 years, but Hydro-Quebec said it's confident the structure is solid. Provincial police were patrolling homes and cottages along the Rouge River, about 140 kilometres west of Montreal, where 75 people were forced to evacuate over fears the flood waters could overwhelm the dam. Meanwhile, soldiers with the Canadian Armed Forces were dispatched to reinforce a dyke in Pointe-Calumet, northwest of Montreal, that was threatening to give way. Quebec authorities said that as of Saturday morning, 3,056 homes across the province were flooded and 2,736 were surrounded by water. About 2,000 people have so far been forced from their homes. Just in the city of Rigaud, near the Ontario border, 685 people have left their houses where a mandatory evacuation order is in place. Officials say by Sunday, water levels could surpass those seen two years ago. Montreal and 13 other municipalities have declared states of emergency in Quebec. Flood waters in Gatineau are expected to take weeks to recede. Some 1,800 homes there are in the flood zone, with about 4,000 people at risk. Around 750 have asked for help. Quebec's Public Security Minister Genevieve Guilbault said Saturday about 50 landslides have been reported across the province. "The situation is changing hour by hour," Stephanie Picard, spokesperson for Canadian Red Cross, told CTV News Channel. The Red Cross has 10 centres across Quebec to help those affected by the floods, she said. "Last night (Friday) we provided safe shelter for close to 500 people who had no other option but to turn to the Red Cross to have a safe place to sleep," she said. In Montreal, the Galipeault Bridge, which connects Ile-Perrot to Montreal's West Island, is closed until further notice due to rising water. In Rigaud and Point-Fortune, residents have been defying mandatory evacuation orders. According to Rigaud Fire Chief Daniel Boyer, only 10 out of 170 homes had been evacuated as of Saturday.
New Brunswick: Meanwhile, the Saint John River has been receding in Fredericton, where parts of the downtown core were underwater this week. Geoffrey Downey, a spokesperson for New Brunswick Emergency Measures Organization, said while it's raining across much of the province on Saturday, officials aren't expecting a lot of precipitation. The Red Cross has registered 940 evacuees from 330 households in New Brunswick as of Friday afternoon. Red Cross officials in New Brunswick said Friday 70 per cent of the people asking for flood assistance this year also asked last year. Premier Blaine Higgs told reporters that with two floods in as many years it's clear climate change is affecting flooding frequency, and his new Conservative government will take this into account in future planning. The latest forecast predicts waters will slowly recede in most areas over the next five days.
Manitoba: In southern Manitoba, the rising Red River has forced some road closures and a small number of evacuations near St. Jean Baptiste but earlier predictions for major flooding between the U.S. border and Winnipeg haven't come to pass.
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AR3190, the biggest sunspot in years and visible to the naked eye has so far failed to deliver: However, an enormous plasma discharge, more than 500,000 km long released from sunspot AR3192 ZIG-ZAGGED more than half a million km and zapped the massive sunspot. More seismic activity records two more major quakes last night!
More whale horror after 400 whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand resulting in 300 deaths 240 more arrive
Freedom of Information document in the UK, submitted by a Dr Campbell, claims 17,371 Covid deaths in two years cost the UK tax payers 400 billion Pounds! BBC claim kids, arriving in Moldova from the Ukraine fever pneumonia coughing breathing problems and flu-like symptoms—No mention of Covid!
Was Planet X responsible for the space race back in the late 50s? Astronomers are so sure of the 10th planet they think there is nothing left to do but to name it." Could a large object be responsible for the Earth's erratic behaviour?
Japan says it will release more than a million tonnes of water into the sea from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant this year. Fukushima's reactor cores have been in direct contact with groundwater since 2011 when the accident occurred leaving toxic radioactive waters leaking at an alarming rate into the Pacific.
Locked n' loaded! Massive sunspot AR3190 takes aim and faces earth: It's the biggest sunspot in years (More than 4 times the size of earth) and is now facing our planet directly. It is so big it can be seen with the naked eye and is responsible for two very powerful major quakes in Indonesia
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22 May 2014 | This 'n' that
Karttalehtinen, a company that specialises in making orienteering maps, has posted 133 photographs of Helsinki from 1907–1912, by Signe Brander, the pioneering city photographer, together with contemporary Google street shots, on this zoomable site.
Click 'Google street view' (Google Maps) down left, for a bigger view. (Kuvan tiedot gives details of Brander's photo, in Finnish only.) The old photos are from the Helsinki City Museum archives.
Brander (1869–1942) was hired by Helsinki City Council's Board of Antiquities to record the fast-growing city for almost seven years between 1907 and 1913.
The southernmost photo on the map shows the barren Ursin rocks on the seashore, with Hernesaari ('Pea island') in the background. Today, as the Google shot shows, there is a park and a monument for seafarers, particularly those who lost their lives at sea.
Helsinki life and buildings as they existed a hundred years ago are portrayed in these calm shots of a small town going about its business. Signe did a very good job in her capacity as official photographer.
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Chuck Todd Examines 'How Barack Obama Won' NBC's newly appointed chief White House correspondent talks with Dave Davies about his new book, How Barack Obama Won: A State-by-State Guide to the Historic 2008 Presidential Election.
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With NBC Elections Director Sheldon Gawiser, Todd breaks down the data across demographics and political alignments, using measures like "The Bush Factor" — how Obama fared in states where President George W. Bush's approval rating was low — to tease out a sense of the American electorate and whether there's really been a sea change in American politics.
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Bear Friends Forever: This hiker just made a very, very, unexpected pal.
We're not saying this is exactly how things played out here. In fact, we're fairly certain it didn't happen like that and that the cameraman involved isn't called Howard/Geoff. But, one thing is clear, this wildlife footage is seriously great whichever way you flip it.
Also, how cool is the cameraman in all this? He just sits on his chair, calm as you like, and let's the bear take a seat right next to him. Put us in exactly the same scenario, and the video would have been shot from the floor while we curled up in the foetal position and sobbed gently into our anoraks.


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Coronation of the Icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa
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Dr. Zenon Szlyk
2013 "Pride of Polonia Award" Recipient
On August 25, 2013, during the annual pilgrimage of Polonia to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa, in Doylestown, PA, Dr. Zenon Szlyk was honored with the 2013 "Pride of Polonia" Award. The award was presented by Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami, FL, the main celebrant of the Liturgy, on behalf of Cardinal Adam Maida, and Msgr. Anthony Czarnecki, National Chairman of the Polish Apostolate Committee, in the presence of clergy, Pauline Fathers and family members.
Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Msgr. Anthony Czarnecki, and children dressed in Polish attire present the 2013 Pride of Polonia Award to Dr. Zenon Szlyk.
The recipient of this distinguished award, Dr. Szlyk was born on January 1, 1927 to Polish Catholic immigrants John and Antoinette Szlyk in Worcester, MA, as the youngest son of their six children. The family adhered to the Polish spiritual and cultural heritage but always considered being blessed to live in America.
Dr. Szlyk began his early Catholic education at St. Mary's School of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish in Worcester. Upon completion of his military service in the Army during World War II, Zenon earned his BA at Harvard University and his medical degree at Georgetown Medical School. There he met his future wife, Florence who was a nurse at Georgetown University Hospital. They were wed in June 1953 in the Chapel of St. Patrick's Cathedral. They moved to Worcester, MA where Zenon practiced his professional training at Worcester City Hospital and became Chief Surgical Resident in 1958.
Then, he moved to Dudley with his wife and children to assume his surgical practice in a heavily Polish populated area. He was a well known doctor in the region, a very skillful surgeon who responded generously to every emergency. His famous saying was "I perform the surgery, but God supplies the healing."
Dr. Szlyk, an active member of the Webster First Federal Credit Union since 1968, served as chairman many times, most recently in 2012. The Credit Union was established in 1928 by a small but unified group of men of Polish descent. He is also a charter member of the Quo Vadis Club. The Quo Vadis Club supports excellence in education through student scholarships for college and graduate studies and teacher appreciation awards. He has been involved in various community projects serving on the Dudley School Committee, the committee on school planning and construction of the regional high school and corporator of the hospital. He, also, served as president of the Pope John Paul II Foundation of New England.


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Луч — гоночный одноместный швертбот национального класса с парусным вооружением типа кэт.
Швертбот подходит для обучения парусному спорту и соревнований среди детей, подростков, студентов и взрослых. Распространён в России и некоторых других странах, входивших в состав СССР.

Рангоут

Рангоут швертбота — гибкий составной, трубчатого сечения. Изготавливается из алюминиевого сплава.

 Нижняя часть мачты длиной 2,85 м, имеет прикрепленное заклепками стальное основание штыревого вертлюга, а также кронштейн крепления блоков-оттяжки. Нижняя часть мачты имеет пластиковое основание-заглушку.
 Верхняя часть мачты длиной 3,6 м выполнена гибкой. Эта часть не имеет каких-либо конструктивных замков и иных креплений, и просто вставляется в нижнюю часть. Топ и нок мачты имеют пластиковые заглушки. Отсутствие на мачте закрепленных частей обусловлено надеванием на неё кармана паруса.
 Гик выполняется из трубчатого профиля и имеет на пятке пластиковую заглушку-гнездо для штыря вертлюга. На гике закреплены: металлическая вставка блок-оттяжки гика, проводочные кипы гика-шкота и оттяжки шкотового угла, щелевой стопор.

Благодаря гибкости верхней части, мачта может изменять изгиб путём регулирования оттяжки гика.

Парус
Парус типа бермудский кэт площадью 7,05 м² выполняется из дакрона. Спроектирован в дакроновом варианте изготовления в 1970 году для вооружения яхт «Лазер» серебряным призёром Олимпиады и известным в США парусным мастером Хансом Фогом. Парус имеет три лат-кармана. На парусе имеется «окно» из прозрачного лавсана для контроля гонщиком обстановки. Также к парусу прикрепляют индикаторы обтекания паруса воздушным потоком — «колдунчики». В отличие от большинства гоночных швертботов  парус крепится к гику не через ликпаз, а оттяжкой шкотового угла; таким образом, между парусом и гиком имеется щель. Для тонкой настройки формы паруса имеется натяжка передней шкаторины — «оттяжка Канингхема».

Корпус

Корпус выполняется из стеклопластика, сборкой-запрессовыванием двух секций: собственно корпуса со шверт-колодцем, пластиковыми стрингерами и верхней секции — палубы с элементами жесткости, мачтовым стаканом, отформованной с кокпитом в единое целое. Доступ внутрь корпуса (например для ремонта) экипаж осуществляет через врезные завинчивающиеся лючки на корме и носу швертбота.
Аварийная плавучесть корпуса швертбота обеспечивается пенопластовыми вставками. В основании транца швертбота расположена пробка-шпигат для слива накопившейся внутри корпуса воды. Кокпит швертбота имеет небольшие размерения; в случае переворота швертбота в нём скапливается небольшое количество воды. Это позволяет обходиться на «Луче» без черпака. Также в кокпит швертбота встроен водосливной эжектор, работающий лишь при достаточной скорости яхты. Благодаря небольшой массе корпуса и высокой плавучести спортсмену не составляет труда поставить яхту на ровный киль в одиночку.

Оснастка корпуса

На носу корпуса закреплена кипа буксирного троса. На палубе, в районе гнезда мачтового стакана закрепляются проводочные кипы или блоки оттяжки Канингхема и оттяжки шкотового угла.
Палуба в районе швертового колодца имеет закрепленные один-два щелевых или кулачковых стопора для фиксации этих оттяжек.

В кокпите расположен ремень для откренивания швертбота, закрепленный в двух точках:
 пластиной, на крышке швертового колодца
 привязкой к кипам, расположенным на задней стенке кокпита.

На крышке швертового колодца крепится блок гика-шкота.

На палубе, в районе передней части кокпита, по обоим бортам могут быть расположены кулачковые стопоры для фиксации гика-шкота.
На корме корпуса расположены две проводочные стальные кипы и щелевой стопор для проведения через них погона тросового типа, по которому перемещается блок гика-шкота.

На транце расположены две петли навесного руля, а также стопор-пластина, препятствующий выскакиванию руля из петель при перевороте яхты.

Такелаж

Швертбот имеет такелаж бегучего типа, с тросовым погоном на корме. Мачта не закреплена в степсе и поворачивается вокруг собственной оси вслед за парусом.
Проводка гика-шкота и других тросов проходит через систему блочков для уменьшения мышечного усилия гонщика. Оттяжка гика в простом варианте состоит из многошкивных блоков. На оттяжке гика применяют веревки из прочных материалов — кевлара и Вектрана V12.

Шверт и рулевое управление
Шверт кинжального типа, стеклопластиковый. Шверт удерживается в поднятом состоянии за счет силы трения или при помощи резинки, перекашивающей и тем самым заклинивающей его в колодце. В верхней части шверта закреплен резиновый стопор-ограничитель хода шверта в швертовом колодце, не позволяющий шверту проваливаться вглубь колодца

Руль навесной стеклопластиковый, с пером подъёмного типа, которое фиксируется в рабочем положении тросовой оттяжкой (сорлинем) в щелевом стопоре. Рулевая коробка выполнена из алюминиевого сплава и рулевые петли выполняются из нержавеющей стали. Румпель выполнен из алюминиевого трубчатого профиля. Удлинитель руля на шарнире выполнен из алюминиевой трубки малого диаметра.

Производство
Швертбот начал массово выпускаться в СССР в 1984 году Таллиннской экспериментальной верфью спортивного судостроения. До 1991 года было выпущено около 6 тысяч яхт.

Примерно с 2000 года производство швертботов «Луч» налажено (в разное время) в нескольких городах России: Москве, Нижнем Новгороде, Санкт-Петербурге, Сызрани, Тольятти.
С 2015 года производство швертботов разрешается любой судостроительной компании, имеющей лицензию  Ассоциации национального класса «Луч».

Модификации

Швертбот Луч имеет модификации, отличающиеся размером кокпита, площадью парусности, длиной нижней секции мачты:

 Луч-мини (площадь парусности уменьшена до 5,3 кв.м.)
 Луч-радиал (площадь парусности уменьшена до 6.0 кв.м.)

Достоинства и недостатки швертбота

Достоинства:
 швертбот имеет небольшую массу (60—65 кг) и может легко перевозиться даже на багажнике легкового автомобиля;
 относительная дешевизна швертбота позволяет приобретать его секциям и частным лицам;
 наличие тонких настроек паруса позволяет начинающим яхтсменам развивать свои знания умения и навыки в парусном спорте;
 высокая скорость швертбота, обусловленная большой площадью парусности и глиссирующими обводами корпуса; возможность идти в режиме глиссирования при ветре достаточной силы;
 схема проводки бегучего такелажа с тросовым погоном препятствует скручиванию задней шкаторины паруса;
 рукавное крепление паруса к мачте улучшает обтекание профиля паруса воздушным потоком, увеличивает его тягу.
Недостатки:
 узкий корпус и большая парусность существенно ухудшают остойчивость швертбота;
 как и все швертботы с вооружением кэт, на курсе фордевинд «Луч» подвержен раскачке;
 рукавное крепление паруса к мачте не позволяет оперативно уменьшать парусность при сильном ветре, опускать парус перед буксировкой, при подходе к берегу и т. п.

Распространение швертбота в России и других странах
По состоянию на 2015 год швертботы классов «Луч», «Луч-мини» и «Луч-радиал» приняли участие в 19 всероссийских и межрегиональных соревнованиях. Чемпионат России 2016 года собрал 21 участника в классе «Луч» и 34 в классе «Луч-радиал».
Класс «Луч» распространён в Белоруссии, Приднестровской Молдавской Республике "Яхт-клуб Фордевинд на Кучкрганском водохранилище"(самопровозглашенное непризнанное государство), на Украине и в некоторых других странах, входивших в состав СССР.

Структура цены швертбота
По состоянию на 2017 год стоимость швертбота в базовой комплектации лежала в диапазоне от 170 до 275 тысяч рублей.

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David Hu: Studying the Biomechanics of Animal Locomotion
David Hu '97 is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biology at Georgia Tech. Dr. Hu has applied his expertise in the mechanics of interfaces between fluids such as air and water to the biomechanics of animal locomotion, publishing papers ranging from why frog tongues are so sticky to how fire ants form waterproof rafts. His work has been published in high impact journals including Nature (2003, 2005) and PNAS (2009, 2011, 2012, 2014) (all publications available in pdf at http://www.hu.gatech.edu/publications), and featured on Good Morning America, NPR, the New York Times (2013, 2017), National Geographic Magazine and USA Today. Dr. Hu has been recognized with the prestigious NSF CAREER award, Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty award, and the lighthearted but coveted Ig Nobel prize. Below, he chats with Xinyi Zhou '10 about his experiences in the Magnet, how he became a professor, and his research today.
Tell us a little about your Magnet experience -- what classes and clubs do you remember? What teachers were memorable? I remember I was in Ms. Sandoval's class in Chemistry. I got a borderline grade on a final exam and she convinced me to join the cross-country team. Ever since then I've been running every day. The cross-country team was really, really good for me. It was a team of other nerds. I guess everyone in the Blair magnet is nerdy but cross-country was especially so. It's really challenging and uplifting to go running. She basically taught me a lifelong skill.
With Ms. George, she's probably retired, we used to go on this trip to Wallops Island. You go crawling around on your stomach in the mud, like a turtle.
Yeah, I went to Wallops! We did that.
That's great, they keep it alive! I grew up in the suburbs so that was my first experience of the real outdoors. I don't have any degrees in biology but I'm a professor of biology, and I think part of appreciating nature started with taking her Marine Biology class.
Another thing is the research projects in [junior] year. The teamwork was painful but useful to go through. I also started to realize there are some really smart people in Blair.
The big thing about Blair was that I did the SRP (Senior Research Project), which got me into MIT. If I didn't do this research project that was supported by Blair -- I worked at NRL (Naval Research Laboratories) -- if I didn't do this project I don't think people would have recognized that I have any scientific talent . . . I was a Westinghouse semifinalist -- that was a really big deal for me; that was the first time I was nationally recognized.
How did you decide to major in mechanical engineering in college?
I think I've always been someone who likes hands-on things. I'm not convinced about things unless I see them with my own eyes. When I was at MIT, I took a physics class on mechanics and I really liked it. You could really predict things with a few simple equations. You could understand where to put the doorstopper or how do you design bookshelves so that they don't break when you put books on them. So I decided to pursue that part of physics. And I sort of did a double major in applied math, since you could do a minor in with your MechE degree and that was really influential.
So you then did a PhD in mathematics?
It was in fluid mechanics in the math department. MIT's math department is one of the four math departments in the US that have a lab. It might be more now, but they actually do experiments and do calculations to see how they get those results. I liked the natural world and I wanted to figure out tools to study and understand it. I met this professor named L. Mahadevan, he's at Harvard now, but he was in the MechE department, and the nice thing about MIT is every undergrad has to have an advisor. He's the first professor I met that seemed to do research about everyday life. He wrote papers on like, what's the best way to cut a turkey, how do knives work -- is it better to make them serrated or is it better to make it straight. He wrote papers on Venus flytraps and why flowers bloom and what the shapes of leaves are. As soon as I saw that, I knew that was what I wanted to end up doing in my career.
How does someone succeed in academia today, especially when you want to do something that seems less practical? How did you become a professor?
I think the thing that actually saved me is that we do calculations. We discover new kinds of physical principles and I can support it with math. That's the only thing that allows me to be silly and still be taken seriously sometimes. Because the math makes it so that the things we discover are permanent and real, they're always there.
Working on weird things, I don't think it's for everybody, but it's definitely for me. It gets you attention, and it can be good and bad. A lot of the grants I got were because program officers saw my stuff in the New York Times or the Washington Post or USA Today. People saw this and thought, this could lead to something that David didn't even think about yet. Attention is a double-edged sword; I was publicly criticized by a senator on Fox & Friends last year. It was very stressful. It's kind of unintentionally made me this spokesperson for weird science. All science should be done, but especially the weird science. You had asked me how I got this job. The nice thing about studying animals these days is that there are a lot of applications in science and engineering. And this is not something I knew in college on in high school, or even in grad school; it's really something I noticed writing grants and making my name as a permanent faculty member. A lot of things that people are trying to do, are things that are done in nature, but almost impossible to make with robots and human made devices. We can make a lot of progress by understanding how things work. It's not a big field but it's big enough to have a lot of people working on it. It's enough to have a pretty good career. When I did the faculty job search I didn't have trouble finding a job. A lot of times people will take something they don't know they're looking for. I don't think anyone at Georgia Tech was saying, we're looking at someone who puts ants on water and puts snakes in socks. I was able to convince them that this is an interesting field and they'll be able to attract mechanical engineers. Georgia Tech made a bet on it and I think they bet pretty well. I think the number one concern of graduate students is that their advisor seems really stressed and the prospects for a job seem really slim. I've seen this all around me, but if you are really original, and fearless, sometimes there's this saint that protects you. It's like when you're playing Hearts and you're shooting the moon. It helps you stand out from the crowd and that's half the game.
How would you describe your underlying approach to research?
I've been a professional scientist for about ten years, if you count the PhD it's almost 15 years now, of making money off coming up with ideas that people didn't think of, and trying to figure out if those ideas are true and telling it to the whole world. I think that's what my job is. I don't think a lot of scientists think of the last part as part of their job. But it's part of the job I've really practiced and really liked. My approach to research is one part, I try to be as original as possible. I try to figure out what is the one thing in this field that would be really surprising and bring a lot of new understanding. Two, I try to tell it to as many people as possible and tell the story of this research in a way that is almost like a fiction book. Nature's so bizarre. We use a lot of photography in my lab. I hired the whole Georgia Tech yearbook team to join my lab and we took a lot of science photos. Photos of mosquitoes getting hit by raindrops (that one actually got into National Geographic), photos of elephants urinating, and these things, people have never seen that. But when you look at it through the lens of photography it's really beautiful. I think that's part of my secret -- I look at where photos are really important and useful. Looking at your papers, it seems like you use a lot of different techniques -- how do you make progress in research when you need a lot of diverse expertise? I'm driven by questions, so once we have the question right, and we have the right animal, then we figure out what tools solve the problem. That's where the students come in. One thing I've realized about science is you get out of touch [of bench work] really quickly. The only way I can get results is because the students bring skills to the table I don't have, that didn't even exist before. There are a few students who are makers and 3D print things. Studying biology, there are no rules. It's like the wild wild west, you really have to figure out what's going to do the job and you often have to figure out new tools for every animal. I meet the student and see what skills they have and what projects could fit. I don't really have the tools anymore; I just have a really good eye for projects. We do what's called table top science -- we're usually measuring things or trying to visualize things. So I try not to get too too high tech. I've published a lot of papers just by describing what happens, and trying to understand why that happens. That's where the math comes in.
Going back to science outreach, what do you think are the current challenges in explaining the value of science to the public? How do we reach people who don't read National Geographic and might not read newspapers like the New York Times either?
I agree with you -- the New York Times and National Geographic are basically to an audience that already believes that science is discovering truth and science is important and nature is beautiful and should be conserved. So when we publish, I try to tell our news people to get this stuff into other [news outlets], such as USA Today. When we measured the length of eyelashes, we got into beauty blogs. I think my response to the senator was also read because I wrote a response in Scientific American so there's a chance that science skeptics actually read it. I've tried to self-invite to the Republican National Convention but I haven't been invited yet. I think it's a big challenge but the more we put our stuff out there, the more we use photographs and video, the more chances that someone on the other side is going to see it. Because photographs aren't really pro-science or anti-science, they're just documenting the way things are. The more anti-science people see these beautiful things, they might actually see the other point of view. I teach a class at Georgia Tech about science communication. We get together every two weeks and we talk about photography, storytelling, website making -- how to prepare for when your research is picked up by the news. We make this press kit for journalists, so they have all the interesting tidbits and any pictures that can help get it disseminated. There's a lot of pushback among academics. There's a lot of people that don't see the importance of talking to journalists, many professors disdain it, and you can be a grad student for five years and never learn how to talk to journalists, and I think it's really bad for the field. Math is very difficult to talk to general audiences. Even though a lot of people look at my papers and see the math, they think I'm a mathematician, I talk about the story that the math tells. My pee pee paper (pdf) came from changing diapers, my eyelash paper (pdf) from my daughter being born and she had long eyelashes. And I also do it because I like to look back and think of my family and where I was in life at the time. It seems like you get your ideas from everyday life. Yeah. That's the great thing about biology, the vestiges of evolution are all around us. In one lifetime I won't be able to understand all the things but if I can kind of understand a few interesting tidbits that might have some engineering applications, I'll be pretty happy.
Is there any research you want to talk about right now?
There's this article that's going to come out tomorrow in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics on why bees are so hairy. We find that they're hairy because they act like a carpet when the bees capture pollen -- they capture 30% of their weight in pollen every day! The pollen gets embedded on the tips of their hairs and that allows for easy grooming. They groom using their arms -- imagine their arms are covered in little Christmas trees, and the hairs on their arms are really tightly spaced so they can use them as tweezers to pick out pollen. They can remove over 15,000 particles in three minutes, they're really fast. It's the first time anyone's tried to get quantitative, tried to count and figure out why bees are so good [at pollen capture and removal].


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Jennifer L. Chiodo, P.E., LEED AP BD+C — Managing Principal
Jennifer Chiodo became a principal of Cx Associates in January 2005. She brings her skills in management and planning to the growing organization while applying her knowledge of energy efficient building design, lighting systems, facilitation and measurement and verification to her projects. Jennifer provides collaborative consultation for the design and delivery of high performance buildings to organizations committed to developing buildings with a positive impact on occupants, the community and the environment.
Jennifer's experience includes ten years of project management and systems design for commercial and institutional projects at two major M&E firms in San Francisco, project management of successful energy performance contracting projects and the management and development of Efficiency Vermont's Business Energy Services group from its inception, commissioning of over 2 million square feet of commercial facilities, energy efficiency program savings verification for the ISO NE Forward Capacity Market and program evaluation for NYSERDA's Large Savers and Commercial New Construction Programs. Jennifer is a licensed electrical engineer and a LEED Accredited Professional.
Contact: jennifer [at] cx-associates [dot com] |
Matthew Napolitan, P.E., CCP, BCxP, LEED AP BD+C — Principal
Matt Napolitan is a mechanical engineer with nearly 20 years of experience in energy efficient building design and operations. His commissioning experience ranges from major renovations, new construction, and retrocommissioning of commercial and industrial, educational, health care, and military facilities. He has been the lead commissioning engineer for several completed and ongoing projects including Champlain College's LEED Platinum-certified Perry Hall, the University of Vermont's LEED Gold Certified Student Center, Dealer.com's Burlington headquarters, and Hypertherm's 150,000 square foot facility in Hanover, NH. Matt has extensive expertise in HVAC system efficiency and DDC controls optimization, as well as experience delivering meaningful, permanent measurement and verification systems. Matt has been the mechanical design engineer and project manager on nearly $1 billion worth of construction. Prior to joining Cx Associates he was the project manager for mechanical engineering design on several major projects, including the New York Times' headquarters in Manhattan.
Contact: matt [at] cx-associates [dot com] |
Eveline Killian, CEM — Associate Principal
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Rick Stehmeyer - Senior Engineer
Rick Stehmeyer is an expert in building system controls programming and has extensive experience with many different control systems, systems integrations, and energy management systems. Rick has the keen ability to find ways to optimize building systems for increased efficiency through controls programming and has successfully performed analyses of algorithms implemented by controls contractors. His analysis has allowed the further optimization of the energy efficiency of controls systems during commissioning. Prior to his work at Cx Associates, Rick spent over a decade working at Control Technologies, Inc. where he started as an Intern, working his way up to Technical Services Manager.
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Daniel Tuhus-Dubrow, P.E., LEED AP BD+C O+M, BEMP - Senior Engineer
Daniel Tuhus-Dubrow is a mechanical engineer focused on improving energy efficiency and reducing energy costs in buildings. He has performed energy auditing and retro-commissioning activities for over 20 projects, including several for Local Law 87 (New York City) and Executive Order 88 (New York State) compliance. He has experience with LEED certification, energy modeling and energy efficiency design and measure implementation verification.
Prior to joining Cx Associates, Daniel worked as an energy engineer at an energy management and demand response firm in Boston, MA, where he was involved with many energy efficiency projects across different sectors, including university, municipal, office and industrial.
Daniel earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and an M.S. in Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado's Building Systems program.
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Katherine Mason, EI, LEED AP O+M — Senior Engineer
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Katie graduated from the University of Vermont where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. Prior to Cx Associates, she worked in Construction Management.
She is a certified Engineer Intern and is working to achieve her Professional Engineer License.
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Walker Calderwood, E.I., CEM — Senior Engineer
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Before joining Cx Associates, Walker specified equipment and assisted with mechanical design as a sales engineer for Meier Supply Company representing Mitsubishi Electric. His experience also includes working on early phase development of a prototype design for a new multi-function, behind-the-counter photo kiosk for the Eastman Kodak Company.
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Tate Colbert, E.I.T. - Engineer
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At Cx Associates, Rachael provides project coordination, budget/timeline management, data management, and quality assurance for several large commissioning and M&V projects. In addition, she provides support for energy metering and analysis, LEED certification administration, and the full spectrum of commissioning activities.
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Before making the move from New York City to Vermont in 2009, Eric served as the Director of Operations and Development Associate during his four years at the non-profit, Common Good. Before that he held various development positions at other non-profits such as Partnership with Children, Society & Animals Forum, and the Public Broadcasting Service.
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On Hallowed Ground
Zas B'ul
Subject: On Hallowed Ground Sat 17 Jun 2017, 14:24
As the pack settled in once more with their home caern, greetings offered, handshakes given and their important encounters briefly shared with the Warder; the Silent Strider made his way beyond the informal welcoming committee which had gathered near the path's entrance.
The rest of the pack could regale the curious with the packs deeds of late. The philodox felt that he had worn the crown of being the harbinger of ill news long enough for the evening, so he instead sought out different company.
After searching around, the Indian warrior found a good spot and spent some time to himself just reflecting on recent events. His moment of solitude occasionally interrupted by laughs from the crowd that now gathered about his Brothers and sister.
He cracked an eye open however upon hearing another walking nearby.
"Good evening Harvester. I hoped I might see you at some point again. Do you have a moment?" Dead hands inquired softly.
The Laughing Stranger
Subject: Re: On Hallowed Ground Mon 19 Jun 2017, 13:09
The Silver Fang nodded and gathered her robe about her, sitting down across from Zas. Tereza's gaze wandered towards the other members of sept coming and going, passing beneath the shadowed eves of earth and stone. Her eyes were sharp and scrutinizing, dark chips of jagged flint. She seemed on edge, but then again, the old Garou had been born beneath the fevered light of the Warrior's Moon.
"Speak."
Subject: Re: On Hallowed Ground Tue 20 Jun 2017, 01:46
Not one to waste words unnecessarily, the Silent Strider took a slow breath before looking across the space between them and beginning.
"I have come across a few odd things. There is an Uktena war chief who goes by the name Hanging Maw. He prowls the Happy Hunting gro-- er, the Dark Umbra as a spectre whose pleas to Gaia go unanswered."
He watches the Silver Fang for a moment to gauge for some form of reaction or surprise. Undeterred by much of a lack of response he continues.
"He is the only one of our kind I have come across who dwells there."
The philodox gives an intense gaze full of iron resolve. "I believe our paths have crossed for a reason. I feel that the reason is that he should be brought back to serve Gaia in the natural way, or at the very least cleave and sever his ties to oblivion."
The apache's eyes soften, "But, I do not know how or even if such a thing can be done. I was hoping you might know more?"
He starts to also bring up another topic but waits to first hear her thoughts on this.
"It may be easier to take this unhappy moroi and devour it... but perhaps the easiest solution and the best solution are not the same." One of the Silver Fang's claws wandered towards her side, unconsciously checking for dampness seeping through her white robe.
"It is difficult to offer advice without having knowledge of this particular dead man... but dead men are still men. More or less."
Tereza smiled grimly. "Often less."
"Tell me- what does your Hanging Maw care about?"
The Silent Strider's gaze followed the ahroun's hand but gave no other signs that he had observed the act.
Zas nodded in response to her initial statement, but matched her grim expression as she emphasized the dead.
Her question however seemed to have been on the younger philodox's mind for some time as he looked away from her gaze for a brief moment.
"The First Beloved of the Cherokee seeks vengeance upon the wyrmcomers for the slaying of his people. This is his goal, and perhaps his all consuming passion and reason to exist. He wages total war on those who call themselves the Hierarchy" As he speaks, the words come out with more than a tinge of sympathy, but he tries without success to mask it, by clearing his throat. "He believes himself unchanged from when he strode Gaia's face, as he is simply doing in death what he did in life-destroying the wyrmcomers, but he has no problems with their deaths feeding Oblivion."
He runs his hand over his head as he says, "But what he cares about-...I believe he cares that his sacrifice and the strength of the other great war chiefs, who were willing to give of themselves so that their people may escape and live is remembered; and that his people are protected-as any good Chieftain should."
Zas looks back to the Silver Fang and says, "That is who he is."
Subject: Re: On Hallowed Ground Wed 21 Jun 2017, 16:29
"It sounds as if this moroi of yours may desire revenge more than anything else. Unfortunate." Tereza clucked her tongue softly and folded her arms before her as she withdrew into her own thoughts. Zas waited patiently for a moment, the starts burning overhead in their slow ritual dance across the heavens. Crickets played their songs, and down from the river a particularly loud frog could be heard singing.
One of the Silver Fang's eyes snapped open, peering at the Philodox. "I once heard it said that revenge grips the heart like an eagle's talon. It does not let go once it takes hold."
"I do not know if this Hanging Maw can be saved. I do not know if it wishes to be saved. But I know this- you said this creature imagines it still serves Gaia." Tereza waved her hand dismissively. "Bah! It is wrong, of course; better to die than to become mad shadow clinging to grudges that cannot ever be made right."
The Ahroun slowly swept a thin hand through her greying hair, and shuddered slightly despite the warm night.
"Whether it can find redemption all comes down to one thing, I think: what matters more to Hanging Maw... Gaia, or his revenge?"
Subject: Re: On Hallowed Ground Thu 22 Jun 2017, 15:23
Zas B'ul lowered his head in acknowledgement of the woman's words. "Wise words. I will see them put to good use."
The Silent Strider looks up to the Silver Fang Ahroun and says, "Though he is not the only thing I wish to pick your brain on."
Sitting up he mentally recalls the packs excursion into Houston before speaking, "When my packmate and I were in Houston, we found the Fianna. They seemed to have been drawn and trapped into some form of underworld creature, that slowly drained them of their vitality and vigor as their bodies lay still and cocooned."
He gives an inquiring gaze to see if she had heard of this from the Fianna as he continued. "The entity's touch was cold and its numerous hands felt of the void but it spoke and threatened to send all of us to the deepest dark parts of oblivion."
The philodox considered the next words carefully lost in his thoughts, "Yet when I cast it down into this swirling pool of the darkumbra, it seemed gleeful."
The Apache stirred himself from his stupor. "Mocks the Night ancestor seemed to recognize what the entity was, but could not give it a name-for it was ancient, but it was clear that whatever it was, was a powerful enemy. And the creature itself claimed that it had been bound to its spot by a garou from the nation-not the pure."
Turning to face her once more, "I do not tell you this to brag or frighten you, but I wish to know if you know what this is or could be? This creature was primarily undone due to its arrogance and thinking that we were not capable of harming it, but I do not believe it was fully eradicated, and if it should return, it likely will not make the same mistake twice."
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When Tereza heard Zas tell of how he banished his foe, she shook her head dismissively. "Most of the dead are insane. The mind does not last forever, but death, outside of the Mother, is eternal. It likely welcomed destruction."
When Zas went on to talk about how not even the ancestor spirits of the Shadow Lords could put a name to the creature, the Silver Fang nods quietly. "This is not surprising, but it is an ill omen." She begins to speak but then closes her mouth and is silent for a few moments. The cool night wind stirs the spring dandelions around the two Garou, making them dance and fly.
"Not all dead things are men... but you know this. Hanging Maw was one of us. But there are some dead things that were not men, or Garou, or even mockeries. They were something else. Pagan gods, maybe, or nightmares of the dead given form. Wicked old things, hungry for things that can never be."
Tereza gingerly pressed a hand to her side and wincing, stood to go. Before she disappeared down the path to the Silver Fang quarters, she turned and said this:
"If... if the dread ghost spoke the truth, I know of only one of our kind who can bind ghosts like that- the high prophet of the Sicarri."
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This was on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius.
Afterwards, on the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the Lord sent another message through the prophet Aggaeus.
Tell me, those of you who saw this house in its former brightness, what make you of it now? It is no better in your eyes than a very nothing.
Take heart, Zorobabel; Josue, son of Josedec, take heart! And you, too, people of the land, the Lord of hosts bids you put heart into the work; is not he, the Lord of hosts, at your side?
stirred all the nations shall be, hither shall come the prize the whole world treasures,✻ and I will fill this temple with the brightness of my presence, says the Lord of hosts.
Silver or gold, what matters it? the Lord of hosts says. Both are mine!
Bright this new temple shall be, he tells you, as never the first was; here, he tells you, his blessing shall rest.
bidding him, in the name of the Lord of hosts, make enquiry of the priests upon a matter touching the law.
And the question was this: Here is one carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and with this same fold chances to touch bread or broth, wine or oil, or what food you will; does this food become consecrated thereby? And the priests said No.
Why then, Aggaeus went on, let some other man touch this food, one that is contaminated by the contact of a dead thing, will the food be defiled? And they answered, Defiled it is.
Then Aggaeus opened his mind to them: Here is a whole people, a whole race, the Lord says, that shews defiled under my scrutiny. Never an enterprise of theirs, never an offering they bring, but is defiled.
how fared it with yonder twenty-bushel heap of corn? Look closer, and it was but ten bushels. Did you think to press fifty quarts into the vat? There were but twenty.
Sirocco I sent and mildew, smote all your crops with hail, and you would not come back to me, the Lord says.
Mark well how you thrive henceforward, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, when you laid the foundations of the Lord's temple;✻ mark it well.
Not yet has the corn ripened, not yet have vine and fig, pomegranate and olive, had time to blossom; but on all these my blessing lies henceforward.
but thou, son of Salathiel, says the Lord of hosts, thou, Zorobabel, art my servant still; on that day I will take thee to my side, keep thee there, close as signet-ring; it is a divine choice that has fallen on thee, says the Lord of hosts.


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94.9FM The Rock (CKGE-FM) ist ein kanadischer privater Hörfunksender aus Oshawa, Ontario, Kanada. Der Sender sendet ein Aktiv-Rock-Format mit einer Leistung von 50 kW.

Geschichte
Der Sender begann mit der Ausstrahlung im Jahr 1957 und wurde von Lakeland Broadcasting unter der Marke 93.5 CKLB-FM betrieben. Anfangs wurde ein Easy-Listening-Format ausgestrahlt. 1966 wurde der Callsign auf CKQS geändert. Im gleichen Jahr wurde die Frequenz auf die heutige umgestellt.

1979 wurde der Sender von Grand Broadcasting übernommen. Dies führte zu einer erneuten Änderung des Callsigns auf CKQT. Grant Broadcasting wurde 1990 von Power Broadcasting übernommen.

1993 änderte der Sender sein Sendeformat und sendete ein Adult-Contemporary-Format. Das Callsgin wurde beibehalten, hinzu kam jedoch die Marke "The Edge". 1995 wurde der Sender in "Magic 94.9" umbenannt. 1999 änderte man das Sendeformat in ein Modern-Adult-Contemporary-Format, um die jüngere Hörerschaft zu gewinnen.

2000 wurde Power Broadcasting von Corus Entertainment übernommen. 2003 wurde der Sender an Durham Radio Inc. verkauft.

Programm
 Rock Mornings with Graig and Mike
 Matt Diamond
 Doug Eliot
 Lee Eckley
 Claudio Figgucio
 David Marsden
 5 O'Cock Quttin Time Tune
 Headin Home with the Hip
 Top 6 at 9
 94.9 The Rocks Indie at 8

Weblinks
 94.9 The Rock
 CKGE history in der Canadian Communications Foundation

Hörfunksender (Kanada)
Medien (Ontario)
Oshawa
Privater Hörfunksender
Sendestart 1957


Will Stone has XKD 526 for sale and has posted a great history on his website: http://www.willstonecars.com/jaguar-d-type-1955.html.
The 13th anniversary Jaguars on the Island was held by the Jaguar Club of Victoria which and also sanctioned by the Jaguar Club of North America.
Front and center was a Jaguar XJ220 finished in Monza Red with only 860km on the odometer. This chassis SAJJEAEX8AX220625 was delivered new to Switzerland and is among the last 10 cars made in the 270 car production.
-Massive pile of receipts from 1996 to present.
Finally got some time to work on our own 1967 E-Type chassis 1E32915.
This was at one point equipped with a 13.9:1 Shelby V8 and now are reverting it back to original spec.
The transmission tunnel is an absolute mess so thankfully Chuck from Monocoque Metalcraft can supply us with the four-or-so missing pieces.
And now begins the massive parts hunt for Jaguar unobtanium. At the top of the list is a 4.2 intake manifold if anyone has one going spare :).


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Growing up I had my faithful companion Sam. He was a little black poodle. Although Sam was considered the family dog, I always think he liked me best. It was Sam that was the first real thing that I ever really remember loving and the first thing that I was ever heart broken over when he was no longer a part of our family. When my dad would pick us up on the weekends for our weekend visits Sam would run out of the house so fast when he saw my dad's car. Sam would never jump on my dad, but just jump straight up in the air just as though he were on springs. On cold mornings Sam and I would lay by the heater together until we both got too hot and we had to move. I feel kind of sorry for people who have never experienced the love of a pet. My own dog Courtney seems to remind me a lot of Sam. Even now I can still be brought to tears thinking about when he left us. There is something that is so pure and irresistable about a faithful pet, whatever pet you choose it to be. I always think one can learn alot from pets, they love us unconditionally. When I am home Courtney is never far from my side, always ready to be near me.
Today in your writing did you have a special companion when you were a child? Tell about your experience. I know the day will come when I will have to lose Courtney and I can't even imagine what that would be like. I always feel such a deep sadness when I hear from some of my students when they lose a pet. They become such a wonderful part of our families. I am grateful that I had Sam to love on as a kid, and now I am grateful that I have Courtney as my constant companion!


Has anyone successfully come up with a way to provide row and/or column level security in Teradata?
We have been mandated to provide row level security and also column level security from one of our customers.
First question for those who have dared the improbable.
How much of a performance hit are we looking at approaching security at a row and column level?
What functions or characteristics are built into Teradata to accommodate this level of security?
Is there a better way that will be more manageable?