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San Jose Central Market (Mercado Central) Tours & Tickets
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San Jose Walking Tour: Food, History and Architecture
Get a taste of San Jose's culture and cuisine on this 3-hour walking tour. Explore Costa Rica's capital accompanied by an expert guide and learn about the city's history, architecture and flavor. Explore the produce stalls of two traditional markets and discover what makes Costa Rican coffee so delicious as you sample some local brews. The tour is capped at 12 people for a personalized small-group experience.
San Jose By Night: Food and Culture Small Group or Private Tour
Discover San Jose's hidden delights with this unique evening tour of the Costa Rican capital. Get up close and personal with the nightlife in San Jose, starting with the Morazán Park where we will learn post-colonial Costa Rican history. From there, our appreciation for San Jose's historical architecture continues, with a walk by the Metallic Building, then on to Spain Park for a fantastic view of the Yellow House (now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs). We'll continue to charming Barrio Escalante, one of the oldest residential areas in San Jose. Finish the night with a 3-course meal and wine or beer pairings at a gourmet Costa Rican restaurant.
Explore the Central Market's History and Food with a Local Expert by Carpe Chepe
Visit the Central Market in San Jose on this guided tour and learn about its 136-year history. There, sample regional staples like tropical seasonal fruit, tortillas, ice cream, Costa Rican coffee, and other local specialities. Plus, find out how and why San Jose became the capital city of Costa Rica.
Bites and Sights - Walking Food Tour in San Jose Small Group or Private
Unmask the beauty and culture of contemporary Costa Rican life on this San Jose walking tour that takes you through the streets, bustling markets, and tranquil parks. * Discover a side to this city only heard from the mouths of locals, while indulging in typical cuisine and one of Costa Rica's most delectable exports .. *Discover the secrets behind herbal remedies, and fresh produce at Borbon and San Jose Central Market. *San Jose tour you'll get up close and personal with Costa Rican life, through local food, history, and even the herbal remedies of folk medicine. *Enjoy a hands-on lesson on exotic plants, fruits, vegetables, and the smoothies they can create in the midst of the vibrant city markets.Nothing could get you closer to authentic San Jose than strolling through the streets with a local as they show you the ins and outs of daily life. Take a wander through the city with us on this tour that takes typical San Jose and turns it into a local experience you'll never forget.
Pub Crawl Costa Rica with FREE cocktails & Skip-the-Line Entrance by Carpe Chepe
Experience San Jose's party scene with a pub crawl through the heart of Costa Rica's capital, and skip the line with an expert guide and a fun crew of fellow travelers. Learn about the city's history as you walk alongside your guide, drink like a Tico as you tip back house shots at a series of four bars and clubs, then dance, drink and party the night away in the heart of the city.
Chocolate Tour in the Rainforest & Hanging Bridge. Private Tour
Learn about the chocolate industry in Costa Rica on this private 7-hour tour from San Jose. You'll visit Tirimbina, a private biological reserve in the rain forest and take a guided hike across a suspension bridge to a cacao plantation. Get an intimate look at the chocolate-making process, from fruit to chocolate bar. Lunch is included.
Day Trip to Pacuare River Rafting Class III-IV from San Jose
Thanks to its warm waters and lushly forested shores, the Pacuare River is widely considered one of the most beautiful rivers in Costa Rica. This white-water rafting tour from San Jose is a fun and exciting way to experience the river in just one day. Go up against class III and IV rapids along with a guide who helps you spot wildlife like blue morpho butterflies, sloths, and toucans along the way. Then, enjoy lunch at a local restaurant before heading back to San Jose.
Half-Day San Jose Evening Bus Tour with Dinner and Pickup
Experience the sights, sounds, and flavors of San Jose on an evening bus tour. Starting from your hotel, a comfortable double-decker bus with onboard WiFi serves as your transportation for the evening. See over 25 of the city's landmarks and stop for a bilingual guided tour at key locations, including the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum. Enjoy an included dinner of local cuisine, before drop-off at your hotel.
Aerial Tram in Braulio Carrillo National Park From San José
You will get into the Braulio Carrillo National Park, and discover the beauties of the Rain Forest. Enjoy of a hiking tour and the Aerial Tram, two activities that will put you in direct contact with nature, visitors divide into smaller groups for a 45 to 90 minute (optional) nature walk with a trained naturalist guide. The Open-sided cable-cars hold 5 passengers and a guide. The guides are quite knowledgeable about flora and fauna. They'll point out orchids and different species of trees and are quick to identify the calls of the many birds that inhabit this unique environment.
Costa Rica Day Trip Tour with Lunch
Visit the active Poas Volcano, an epic waterfall, and the one-and-only Starbucks Coffee Farm on a day trip perfect for nature and coffee lovers who are short on time but want to see it all. The small-group tour reveals cloud-forest scenery, plantations, and farms along the way to the second largest crater in the world. Plus, see behind the scenes at the farm that grows Starbucks' renown coffee.
Arenal Volcano & Baldi Hot Springs From San José
Head to La Fortuna, home to the Arenal Volcano, on this guided all-day tour from San Jose. Sit back and relax as you travel through diverse plantations and cattle ranches on the roughly 3.5-hour drive. After arriving, enjoy lunch with a view of the volcano. Then, take a dip in the area's thermal waters and indulge in an optional massage or other treatment.
San Jose Craft Beer Walking Tour with food pairings by Carpe Chepe
Sample what's on tap at local breweries on this pub crawl tour in San Jose. Hear about the beer revolution in Costa Rica while you learn about the brewing process and how to pair beer with certain foods. Plus, as you travel between pubs, discover the city's streets at night on this walking tour.
Foodie Tour - Ancestral, Contemporary & Fusion Experience
During this foodie experience, you will taste selected recipes specially created for the tour at the best restaurants for each thematic or food concept. You will learn about Costa Rican culture through the gastronomy while walking at one of the trendiest neighborhoods in San Jose. Personalized service provided by staff and experienced foodie local guides. Not only you will save time on searching where to eat good quality local food, but also will get to try excellent choices in one night. (Ancestral food from our indigenous, traditional homemade food from our grandma's, and contemporary-modern, Costa Rican food) 100% local, slow food and sustainable-responsible practices.
San José By Night Food Activity- Wines & Gourmet Dinner- Small Group or Private
There's also a ton of culture and history, a tasty local dinner, and the chance to experience San Jose's nightlife with a local. Highlights: Experience San Jose by night with a local to guide the way Explore markets, significant city buildings, and local neighbourhoods Immerse yourself in the culture and history of the city Indulge in a tasty local menu filled with authentic local ingredients Sip expertly selected wine pairings as you dine
Full-day Cartago Ruins, Irazú Volcano and Sarapiquí River Cruise From San Jose
Discover Costa Rica's historic sites, natural wonders, and native wildlife on this full-day tour from San Jose. Learn more about Costa Rica's former capital at the Cartago ruins, admire views of Irazú Volcano, spot crocodiles as you cruise down the Sarapiquí River, and take in the highlights of the Braulio Carrillo National Park. Tour includes hotel pickup, lunch, and all activities.
Full-Day Tortuga Island Cruise from San Jose
Leave behind the urban bustle of San Jose for the clear, aquamarine waters and unspoiled beauty of Tortuga Island on this full-day sailing adventure. Cruise on a yacht or catamaran through the Gulf of Nicoya to Tortuga and the surrounding archipelago, where protected forests, white-sand beaches, and pollution-free waters house an amazing array of plant and animal species. Enjoy a fresh lunch on board, sip tropical cocktails, and sway to live music as you sail through this picturesque island paradise.
Private Cooking Class in San José with a Local Chef
Our cooking lesson is done on a 150 year old property which has an amazing charm and gives a unique spirit to the evening. The owners of the house will be on site and will be part of the activity which makes it very personalized and local. Our chef has been cooking for Private families for the past 15 years and has experience on mouth-watering recipes and all types of food. The activity is very dynamic, interactive, immersive, fun and with great Instagram moments.
The Authentic Pacuare River Costa Rica Rafting Tour
Don't accept imitations! or half baked tour offers that won't take you on the authentic Pacuare River. Experience the genuine adventure sport of river. Rafting along the exhilarating Pacuare. The River that will take you into the deep heart of Costa Rica. The Pacuare River is one of the best choices for your adventure treks in Costa Rica. No other trip in the country exists that offers you a perfect blend of wilderness exposure and excitement, all in one day.
Costa Rican Specialty Coffee Tasting & Workshop
Designed for coffee lovers, this San Jose tasting tour showcases the best in Costa Rican coffee, all in one sitting. Learn about the country's various coffee-growing regions and bean varieties, and get a lesson in preparing the perfect cup like a real barista. Sample several organic beans and blends, served with locally made snacks and other beverages.
Full day Catamaran Cruises from San Jose to Quepos Manuel Antonio
Experience 'la pura vida' (the good life) while gliding along one of Costa Rica's most beautiful coastlines on a Manuel Antonio catamaran cruise. Leave the city behind for the Pacific coast, spending several hours soaking up the tropical sun on a luxury vessel with amenities like dining, unlimited drinks, and live music to keep the party going. Cool down by snorkeling right off the side of the boat, and look for dolphins and other marine life during the laid-back voyage.
Xandari Experience - Day Pass
After a guided morning hike to a jungle waterfall, return to the spa. There, you will be ushered to your private Jacuzzi bath. Enjoy incredible views of the Central Valley as you feel the stress fade away. A light lunch is served after your soak.
Jaco Adventure Combo from San José
You don't need to travel far from San Jose to have an adventure in the wilderness of Costa Rica. This tour takes you from your San Jose hotel straight to a selection of exciting outdoor adventures. Check out the beach, see crocodiles in the wild, take a zipline canopy tour through the rain forest, and then round out your trip with an ATV tour or horseback ride to a waterfall.
Tropical Cooking Classes
Experience cooking alongside our creative chefs. Visit and cultivate from our garden. Great times created through experiences here at Casa Turire.
Half-Day Experience of El Indio Waterfall with Lunch
El Indio Waterfall is one of the greatest secret waterfalls in Costa Rica. The forests and rivers surrounding it are full of nature and you will learn everything about it on our tour.
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Attractions in San Jose
Gold Museum Tours & Tickets
La Sabana Park Tours & Tickets
Costa Rican Art Museum (Museo de Arte Costarricense) Tours & Tickets
Metallic Building (Ed)ificio Metálico) Tours & Tickets
Children's Museum (Museo de los Ninos) Tours & Tickets
Sarchi Tours & Tickets
Morazan Park Tours & Tickets
Rescate Animal Zooave Tours & Tickets
Yellow House (Casa Amarilla) Tours & Tickets
Chirripó National Park Tours & Tickets
National Theater (Teatro Nacional) Tours & Tickets
Orosi River Valley (El Valle del Rio Orosi) Tours & Tickets
Jade Museum (Museo del Jade) Tours & Tickets
Plaza de la Cultura Tours & Tickets
Turu Ba Ri Tropical Park Tours & Tickets
Sarapiqui Canopy Tours & Tickets
Things to do in Quepos
Things to do in Jaco
Things to do in Puntarenas
Things to do in La Fortuna de San Carlos
Things to do in Monteverde
Things to do in Limon
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Things to do in Panama City
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Things to do in Roatan
Recommended for San Jose
Day Trips from San Jose
San Jose to Costa Rica
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San Jose to Poas Volcano National Park
San Jose to Jaco
San Jose to Puntarenas
San Jose to Quepos
San Jose to Limon
San Jose to Tabacon Hot Springs
San Jose to Carara National Park (Parque Nacional Carara)
San Jose to Baldi Hot Springs
San Jose to Celeste River (Río Celeste)
San Jose to Jaco Beach
San Jose to Tortuguero National Park (Parque Nacional Tortuguero)
San Jose to Monteverde
San Jose to Tortuguero
San Jose to Alajuela


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Patients carried on charpoys for lack of motorable roads in Dungarpur tribal villages
Udaipur : Basic amenities is a far cry for hundreds of tribal families residing in Dungra and Malota villages under Pal Mandav gram panchyat of Dovda panchayat samiti. The villages are situated only 25 kilometers away from the Dungarpur district headquarters, however, even after seven decades of independence, the people here are yet to see an all-weather motorable road or a secondary school. The villagers who earn their livelihood from farming or as daily-wagers, are deprived of basic services like education and healthcare. They do not have access to ambulances in medical emergencies and hence patients are laid on charpoys (cot) and carried on shoulders up to some four to five kilometers to reach the main road.
The economic condition of villagers is worsening even as these villages remain inaccessible during the monsoon. Officials and politicians have been giving assurances for years on implementing several projects to provide pucca road, but no such projects have been implemented in these villages allege the locals. " Some 800 people reside in both these villages that are five kilometers away from the gram panchayat. Sans roads, they face difficulties daily to walk the treacherous track that becomes muddy and slippery during the monsoon. Many pregnant women have delivered babies on the roadside while being taken on the cot and many deaths have taken place because the patient could not reach the hospital on time" says Santosh Vyas, an activist who have been taking up the developmental issues in the region.
Thankfully, there is a primary school here but for the next level, children have to trek almost five kilometers to Pal Mandav. Due to lack of a secondary level school, majority of children are forced to discontinue education and work with their parents in fields. "Most of the youths migrate to Gujarat cities in search of livelihood in quite young ages. The villages have no ration shop and so its residents have to buy it from the nearest outlet and travel on the treacherous path carrying 20-40 kilos of grocery on their shoulders or head and wild animals in the hilly forest area are another cause of worry during such trips."
Vyas informs. Time and again the villagers have pleaded before the authorities for access to road, however, nothing concrete has come up yet. "We have recently written to the chairman of the National Scheduled Tribe Commission pleading for road connectivity. Only those who live here can understand how difficult it is to survive in such a miserable condition surrounded by constant fear" Bhaneshwar Parmar of adjoining Hadmatiya village said. Locals Devram and ManiShankar said that for 25 years, people from a single family have been holding the Sarpanch post. The villagers have asked them many times to take up the matter but all in vain.
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I just came back to DCUO after a few months, downloaded the new update, and now when I start up the game it reaches the Joker loading screen before character selection and then crashes, the icon in the bottom right stops spinning and my PS3 requires a manual shutdown.
When I turn the ps3 back on, it sends a report then says it needs to scan for corrupt data.
This happens every time I start the game and I am worried if I keep trying its going to stuff my PS3 up.
Have you tried contacting the game dev? or PlayStation Support via phone?
As soon as you start loading the game, press L1 + L2 + R1 + R2 at the same time and hold them down untill you see the assets reloading.
If the above does not work, unfortunately you may have to delete the game and reinstall it.


Gladys was a lifelong member of MLLC, and a lifelong resident of Carmine. Gladys died on April 18, 2018 after a long illness. Her funeral was held at MLLC on April 21 at MLLC. The obituary, as printed in the service bulletin that day, is available below.
Make note of this being a memorial for Gladys Koether.
By web site: go to the MLLC secure online giving site: click this link.
By their secure giving web site: click this link.
The Lutherhill giving site has a place on their online form to note memorial gifts, and to write a note to Lutherhill about the gift. This will help them make sure the gift is noted in memory of Gladys.
Gladys died April 18, 2018 in Giddings at the age of 85.
A lifelong member of Martin Luther Lutheran Church of Carmine, she was the first woman to serve on the church council. Gladys was also a member of the Carmine Chamber of Commerce, serving as president and secretary for many years. She volunteered at Luther Hill doing landscaping and helped in restoration of the Carmine Depot. She also assisted her mother in operation of the switchboard at the telephone company.
She helped her friends and neighbors by cutting hair. She also worked at B&S Sales and Service in Carmine, and was also employed at Brenham Heating and Air Conditioning for 47 years.
Survivors include her sister, Pauline Poehls Fischer; nieces Paula Barrick, and Kalisa Pomykal and husband, Brice; great-nieces and nephews: Jon Jankowiak and wife Shauna, Bobbie Hughes, Tammi Hughes, Kody Fox and Hunter Pomykal; great-great niece and great-great nephew, Kandyce Hughes and Ryler Boyer, as well as special cousins Joe and Beverly Cucuzza.
Gladys was preceded in death by her parents, and brother, Barry Lee Koether.
Serving as pallbearers are Hunter Pomykal, Jon Jankowiak, Bobbie Hughes, Gary Smith, Kevin Stueber, Stacy Tyner, Royce Lehrmann, and Hollis Lehrmann. Honorary pallbearers are Delbert Stiewert, Kody Fox, and Joe Cucuzza.
Memorials may be directed to Martin Luther Lutheran Church of Carmine, or to Luther Hill.
Special thanks go to Stacy Tyner and Stacia Carmean.


Highway 101 along the coast until you get to the Ruby Beach turnout.
We had a few minutes before sunset and managed to get down to Ruby beach. There was so much going on, the trees yielding to the surf, the sea stacks showing their resilience to the surf and the enormity of the Pacific Ocean highlighted by the one minute beach walker.


The focus of the final unit of this course was on troubleshooting. From how to deal with reluctant students to how to fully engage a large class, this unit covered many common problems we may come up against as TEFL teachers and gave examples on how we may be able to solve them.Reviewing some of the thing that we have learned until now was useful for me to refresh my memory and be sure that important stuff was not forgotten. At the end of this course I am very happy of all the things that I have learned as well as feeling confident in my future career.In this lesson I learned how to plan a normal daily lesson. I learned that there isn't a set way of teaching and that I should be flexible while maintaining the goal of what is to be taught. I also learned how to put the study, engage, and activate phases into planning a lesson.


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Shadowplay approached us with a clear vision of their new website. Inspired by popular sites such as Pinterest; they wished to make the most of the gigabytes of photos and hours of recorded footage they had at their disposal. The primary objective to achieve was a website where "content speaks for itself". Bearing in mind the amount of provided data and quality of their work it was a delightful task to create an appropriate "frame" to encompass it.
As with any re-design project it is imperative to dig out any data with regards to the previous' site performance. Thanks to our dear friend – Google analytics , we managed to have a deep insight on: existing user traffic and popular browsers and devices. This was extremely helpful in finding the right strategy for the core data structure on the website. A pages SEO rank is often an overlooked element when a new site map is put in place. Every established domain builds up its status of trust for major search engines such as Yahoo, Bing or Google. In order to preserve it we commenced the new website's structure creation from mapping out every old URL into new ones.
Responsive design is not a periodical passing fashion and it's here to stay. Therefore we have put special care in ensuring every page fits nicely within different resolutions served by mobile devices.


Sentiments run high for the Vegas visitor who has been flying in and out of McCarren Airport since it was not much more than an airstrip. With the SLS grand opening upon us we ponder the spot where it stands and the rich history its predecessor the Sahara had during its run.
The Cost: The Sahara Hotel was built in 1952 by the Del Webb Corporation for the bargain price of $5.5 million. In today's market that would be the equivalent of around $48 million. Not bad when you consider that Sam has spent over $600 million to turn the property into the SLS.
Big Acts: It is rumored that when approached by the Sahara to be the top act for the Congo room, Ray Bolger's wife instructed him to ask for a salary that she thought they would never meet. Scared by stories of mobsters roaming around Vegas, she convinced Ray to ask for 25 grand a week. He asked, they said yes and the hotel had the hit show it needed.
Swan Song: Comedic geniuses Abbot and Costello appeared on the Sahara stage for the last time together in 1956. Not long afterwards they parted ways for good.
Movie Credits: Unlike other Vegas hotels, the Sahara was a shy one and did not make many on-screen appearances. Except of course for the 1960 version of Ocean's 11. This rat-pack stacked movie based around the premise of a big casino heist is said to have just been an excuse for Frank, Dean and Sammy to spend the bulk of their time hanging out with show girls.
Some of the TRUE stars of Las Vegas Entertainment.
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today(ish): In the same month that we celebrate the opening of the SLS we are also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles 1964 Las Vegas appearance. The Sahara's facilities were too small to host the grand two show event. Instead, the fab four waved to fans from the balcony of their room at the hotel and played their rock and roll at the nearby Las Vegas Convention Center.
Neon: When it first opened, the Sahara had bragging rights to the biggest free standing neon sign in town at 100 feet. That's really nothing compared to the new largest sign on the block which stands at 279 feet tall in front of the Las Vegas Hilton. Six miles of fluorescent and neon cover a surface area of over 70,000 square feet.
Casino Shares: By the mid 1960's the Sahara had become part of a much bigger picture and their parent company, the California-Sahara Corporation, became the first publicly traded company that operated casinos.
Every hotel in Vegas has its own unique story to tell. The Sahara is one of the last of the first to close its doors forever and make way for bigger and better different things. While the rooms may be posher and the nightclubs cooler, there is nothing that can ever replace the integral part of Vegas history that the Sahara hotel has been.


As on 30/06/2018, provisional attachments have been made in more than 1600 Benami Transactions involving Benami Properties valued at over Rs. 4,300 crores.
The Government of India has taken various steps to identify Benami Properties. The Income-tax Department (ITD) has set-up 24 dedicated Benami Prohibition Units (BPUs) across India. These BPUs are involved in gathering information and matching the same with the data available for identifying the Benami Properties and taking effective action as per the provisions of Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act 1988 as amended by the Benami Transaction (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016.


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Marble is a stone that has been treasured by society through the ages. Marble is used as an artful rock because of its beauty and waxy transparency. The stone is particularly popular among sculptors especially the white varieties. This is because of the similarities of the stone and human skin and its softness when first acquired and hardness after a period of time.
-	Columns. Columns that are made up of marble are considered to be remarkably strong. Pentelic marble, which is a close grained, golden hued stone, was quarried in Attica, in mount Pentelicon, during the ancient Greece. You will see the Pentelic marble in the Elgin Marbles, which reside at the Bristish Museum.
-	Ancient Sculpture. The architecture of the ancient Greece was made up of marble, while their art is made up of bronze. Other cultures were attracted by the architecture and arts excellence in ancient Greece. When the Romans ruled, the bronze sculptures were molten down, and copies of the originals were sculptured using marble.
-	Renaissance. During the rebirth, of the classical carving of marble, which was in 15th century, some of the famous marble sculptures were born. During this time, David and the Pieta, carved by Michelangelo, was born. The marbles were quarried in the hills in Carrara, Tuscany. This pure white Carrara marble is a favorite of Michelangelo, and generally, with numerous sculptors of this time.
-	Taj Mahal. This is a fantastic representation of the Mughal architecture, which is a combination of Indian, Islamic and Persian styles. The dome is made up of white marble, making it one of the most popular structures in the world.
-	Baroque and Later Periods. Michelangelo's successor, Bernini, was wise enough making him qualified for the name. He is known for his masterpieces, Apollo and Daphne and the active David, with a slingshot made up of marble. These masterpieces were made up of marble during the Baroque period. During the 19th century, marble is used within most sculptures. The Kiss, made by Rodin, was sculpted originally in marble.
-	Marble Countertops. Nowadays, marble has been widely used for kitchen countertops and worktops. Marble is tremendously popular for the use of kitchen and bathroom panels, like wall panels and shower panels.
Decorative use of marble sheets as wall panels across entire bathroom walls is an outstanding addition. Utilising sheets of marble from the same blocks to allow the book marking of patterns is particularly impressive as per the 'marble cladding' image here on this page.
Stair treads (the part you stand on) and risers (the vertical face on stairs) clad in marble are utterly stunning and offer a low maintenance solution to staircases.
States like Georgia, Colorado and Tennessee have vast marble quarries. With that, a lot of houses have been utilising marble as an intrinsic part of the interior decoration. This decorative stone can be a simple, yet elegant, garden sculpture that you will love to place in your garden. The stone has been a symbol for class and refinement for years now.
Marble uses include those of the greatest structures and works of art of all time. They are a veritable witness to the rich history of the world. From the ancient times in Greece to the modern day of kitchen decors, marble has an ongoing evergreen presence. A treasured decorative stone from the precise first day of discovery until the present day.
Marble is the historical stone of royalty. The addition of this material to any home will transform the environment to be fit for kings and gods.


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import com.gorrotowi.musicalstructure.items.ItemArtist;

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Stineman Addresses Nursing Shortage in Gazette Article
Reliance on 'traveling' nurses soars at University of Iowa
By Vanessa Miller | The Gazette | 6/26/2017
Facing a national nursing shortage that's particularly taxing for the state's largest hospital system, the growing University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics increasingly is relying on "traveling nurses" to fill the gaps — paying a premium that can be double or more of what a staff nurse earns.
Their use can swell hospital costs, affect morale and propel turnover, aggravating the very nurse recruitment and retention problem that's driving the increasing need for travelers.
"Sometimes you'll see a traveler that's maybe from an institution that doesn't see the acuity that the U does, and so it's a nurse that's not necessarily prepared for the role that she is filling," said Alexis Carson, who's been a UIHC staff nurse for more than four years but is leaving next month for a better-paying traveling gig.
The UIHC nurse shortage is hardly unique. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics project 1.09 million registered nurse job openings by 2024, UI officials point out.
Compounding the university's need for more nurses was its recent opening of the new $360 million, 14-floor Stead Family Children's Hospital, which added 134 patient beds.
UIHC said that "maintaining appropriate staffing levels for nurses is critical for providing excellent care to our patients, which is why UI Health Care has an ongoing robust recruitment effort."
This year, the university has added social media, digital advertisement and job fairs to its nurse recruiting toolbox. Since January, UIHC has filled 733 "nursing and related positions."
'We need more faculty'
Entangled with the national nurse shortage — and contributing to it — is the struggle to educate and train new nurses.
The UI College of Nursing is on the front line of that battle, as it vies for top faculty in hopes of upping its capacity for students.
"People would think, 'Well, why don't you just admit more people?'" said Anita Stineman, a registered nurse, associate professor and UI interim associate dean for academic affairs. "For us, that has a trickle effect. Because what happens when we admit more students, we need more faculty. And that's how the nursing shortage hits us — is in faculty.
The university also is bound by Iowa Board of Nursing regulations that limit ratios for clinical experiences. Thus the university admits only 72 undergraduate students to its bachelor of science in nursing program in both the fall and the spring.
"That's really the maximum that our clinical facilities can meet," Stineman said. "We can only admit enough students that we can cover the full range of clinical experiences for them."
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The term "river herring" collectively refers to two species: Alosa pseudoharengus, commonly known as alewife, and the closely related Alosa aestivalis, commonly known as blueback herring, or simply bluebacks. Records dating back to the early nineteenth century indicate that fishermen could tell the difference between alewives and bluebacks, which look very similar; however, historically they have been harvested together with little regard to the differences between the two (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002). Alewives are the more common of the two species in most rivers in Maine (Collette and Klien-MacPhee 2002). Fishermen in Maine often use the word "alewife" to refer to both alewives and bluebacks.
Both alewives and bluebacks are anadromous fish, meaning that they are born in fresh water, but spend the majority of their adult lives at sea. Each spring streams, rivers, and ponds in Downeast Maine fill with adult alewives that are ready to spawn. This seasonal influx represents a major linkage between freshwater and marine ecosystems and historically provided an important food source for Wabanaki peoples and European settlers.
The origins of the name "blueback" are straightforward enough. The dorsal side of a live blueback is usually dark blue in color, as opposed to alewives, which usually have a greenish pigmentation. In both species these colors fade soon after the fish die (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002).
The origins of the word "alewife" are inconclusive, revealing the confusion inherent in tracing etymology over centuries, continents, and cultures. The confusion is also symptomatic of the close relationship between river herring and their exclusively marine cousins, the Atlantic herring. Then there is the issue of the wife herself, the woman who keeps an alehouse. Some sources claim this is the origin of the name of the fish, while others look to Native American languages, or even old English and old French as the source.
A letter written by J. Hammond Trumbell in 1871 and published in a report of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries refutes claims that the word "alewife" is derived from the Narragansett word aloof, reported by previous authors to mean "boney fish." Allis shad is another name for the European shad (Alosa alosa), a close relative of the alewife. According to Trumbell, the old English word for allis was aloose. Trumbell speculated in his letter that when copyists transferred previous records regarding shad they mistakenly wrote aloofe for aloose. This, he contended, was the source of the assumption that the word alewife comes from the Narragansett word aloof, for bony fish, rather than the old English word for Shad, aloose (Trumbell 1873).
The Mattamiscontis Stream, a tributary of the Penobscot River, derives its name from the Penobscot word madames, meaning alewife (Watts 2012; Nobleboro Historical Society 2013). Perhaps it is because of the word madames that the comparison to a woman was first drawn.
Unlike their relative the Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), which is a strictly marine fish, alewives and bluebacks are born in fresh water and spend most of their adult lives at sea (i.e. they are anadromous). In the spring adults return to spawn in the ponds and streams where they were born (though some do stray to neighboring streams). River herring harvests in Downeast Maine, both historically and currently, take place while pre-spawning adults migrate upstream in great numbers in the spring (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002).
Alewives prefer to spawn in calm water and bluebacks usually prefer areas with faster currents. The spawning habitats of the two species often overlap, especially in areas where upstream passage is blocked (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002).
Peak alewife spawning in Downeast Maine usually takes place in early to mid-May and peak blueback spawning is usually about a month later. The timing of the spawning migration is largely controlled by water temperature. Adults quickly return to the sea after spawning. Most individuals will spawn only once in their lifetime; however, some make the journey back to fresh water to spawn in multiple years (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002). Newly hatched young remain in fresh water for about two months before migrating to the sea (Atkins 1887).
Alewives and bluebacks in Downeast Maine tend to spawn later in the year (i.e., mostly in May as opposed to April), reach reproductive maturity at slightly older ages (usually around age four), and are more likely to spawn in multiple years compared to river herring in areas farther south (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002).
Written records, oral histories, and place names suggest the importance of river herring as a food source in Downeast Maine going back hundreds of years, if not longer. Traditional Wabanaki diets were (and to some extent still are) based on a variety of plant and animal species that were available at different times of the year. Most Wabanaki communities moved throughout the year to best take advantage of many species that were abundant in different locations at different times of the year. The spring and summer months were busy times for harvesting marine fish, invertebrates, and birds, as well as river-running species such as alewives, bluebacks, shad, and sturgeon (Harper and Ranco 2009; Maine Historical Society 2010). River herring were an abundant and important food source in the spring when they entered Downeast Maine's rivers in large numbers and could be easily caught with weirs, traps, and nets (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002; Prins and McBride 2007; Harper and Ranco 2009). Each spring, large quantities of river herring were dried or smoked and set aside for later consumption. Many were also cooked fresh. Bones and what few other parts were not consumed were sometimes used to flavor soups and fertilize gardens (Harper and Ranco 2009).
European settlers and their descendants in Downeast Maine harvested river herring for a variety of purposes. For these newcomers river herring were not only a food to be eaten fresh, salted, smoked, frozen, or pickled, but they were also used as bait to capture larger fish and lobsters, and were commonly used to fertilize crops (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002). Human consumption, however, remained the primary use during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (Atkins 1887). Many fishermen worked their own smoking shacks and sold smoked river herring to local markets. When harvests were especially large some fish would occasionally be pickled in barrels and sold to larger markets. River herring keep particularly well in pickle and those caught in Maine were shipped to Boston, New York, and on occasion even to the Caribbean.
This process has been replicated in recent years by the Downeast Salmon Federation (a site on the Downeast Fisheries Trail) during an event called the "Bloater Bash." The term "bloater" refers to whole smoked river herring.
Though described as a "toothsome article of food" in 1887, in modern times river herring have largely fallen out of culinary favor. They retain commercial importance as a favored bait in Maine's iconic commercial lobster fishery (Schalit et al. 2003).
Recent work by Ames and Lichter (2013) provides evidence that several subpopulations of Atlantic cod, haddock, pollock, and white hake once existed in the Gulf of Maine and that the centers of these subpopulations were located at the mouths of rivers where young river herring once exited in large numbers. They argue that, "providing alewives with access to their historical spawning areas will enhance the recovery of cod and other gadids and perhaps encourage the reformation of metapopulation components along the northeastern New England coastal shelf" (Ames and Lichter 2013).
River herring were historically harvested with a variety of different gear types, including weirs, seines, dip nets, drift nets, and set nets (Atkins 1887).
Weirs were used both by Wabanaki peoples and those of European descent to capture river herring, shad, salmon, and eels in Downeast Maine throughout the nineteenth century. Weirs are structures that guide migrating fish into a pen or trap. They were generally erected in tidal areas of coastal rivers and streams. Weirs could be used to catch different species of fish at different times of the year. They could be modified to capture fish migrating either into or out of rivers by simply changing the position of the trapping device (Atkins 1887; Prins and McBride 2007).
An 1887 report of the U.S. Fisheries Commission describes two principal weir designs which were used extensively at the beginning of the nineteenth century. One common design included a mesh enclosure supported by stakes driven into the ground and interwoven with brush. A net blocked the path of migrating fish and directed them towards a pen. As the tide retreated the fish would be left exposed on a board floor and were easily retrieved by fishermen. The other commonly used weir type, the seine weir, was similar in shape and method of intercepting migrating fish; however, it lacked floorboards. In this case, fishermen surrounded the inside of the pen with a net called a seine. The bottom of the seine net was then pulled together, enclosing the fish. This was usually done at low tide. Unlike the floored weir, fish caught in a seine weir remained submerged until harvest, ensuring their survival even if fishermen missed the tide (Atkins 1887).
Dip nets were also used extensively to catch river herring in the nineteenth century, particularly in East Machias and Dennysville. A dip net consists of a large net hung on a rounded steel bow at the end of a long pole. Dip netting was done by hand in areas of rivers and streams where river herring were constrained into tightly packed basins. Platforms were built over some streams to facilitate dipping (Atkins 1887).
Records tell of the use of other types of nets including drift nets, seine nets, and set nets to capture river herring; however, these methods were probably rarely used in Downeast Maine (Atkins 1887).
Most river herring harvests in Maine are managed at the municipal level. Historically, municipalities granted rights to the fish either to "fish committees" or sold them to individuals through an auction. Citizens of the town in question were usually assured a fixed price for limited quantities of river herring. In some cases there were provisions for people in need to be supplied with fish free of charge (Atkins 1887).
Municipal management of river herring runs persists to this day in Maine. Runs are managed jointly by municipalities and the Maine Department of Marine Resources on a river-by-river basis. Fishery management plans must abide by guidelines set forth by the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission, an interstate agency that manages river herring harvests coast-wide. Rights to fish are, in most cases, still sold to one or two individuals in each town.
Human activity in Downeast Maine impacted (and continues to impact) river herring and other anadromous species in a variety of ways, not all of which were negative. For example, beaver dams likely blocked anadromous fish passage in many New England ponds and streams prior to European colonization but by the eighteenth century the European fur trade had greatly reduced beaver abundances throughout New England. This reduction in beaver populations opened up fresh water habitats that had likely been inaccessible to river herring and other anadromous species for thousands of years (Jordaan et al. 2008).
Unfortunately the balance of human impacts on river herring populations over centuries of use did not play out in favor of river herring. Though residents of Downeast Maine have harvested these species for centuries, river herring populations did not show evidence of major declines until dams became a popular method of energy generation, particularly after the development of hydroelectric technology. Dams that powered sawmills, textile mills, grist mills, and paper mills, many of which were later modified to generate electricity, were important drivers of economic and population growth in Downeast Maine and throughout New England; however, economic progress did not come without costs. River herring likely once spawned in almost every freshwater pond and stream in New England with access to the sea. Access to many of these spawning areas was either greatly reduced or eliminated entirely by the construction of dams (Atkins 1887; Rounsefell and Stringer 1945; Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002; Natural Resources Council of Maine 2003). Compared to other areas in New England, Downeast Maine has always had a relatively low human population density and so rivers in this area remained free of dams longer than neighboring areas (Rounsefell and Stringer 1945; Maine Office of GIS 2006); nonetheless, several dams were ultimately built in this area and local river herring populations suffered the impacts of significant habitat reductions in the nineteenth century (Rounsefell and Stringer 1945).
Fishing pressure likely played a role in the decline of river herring populations in Downeast Maine and surrounding areas, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. Declines in river herring harvests in the 1960s and 1970s have been attributed to the activities of foreign fleets which harvested great quantities of river herring off of New England. The 1976 Fishery Conservation and Management Act put an end to foreign fishing off the coast of the United States and took some pressure off river herring populations (Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission 1985).
In response to declines in river herring abundances, NOAA Fisheries (the federal fisheries management agency in the United States) designated both alewives and bluebacks as "species of concern" in 2006 (National Marine Fisheries Service 2009). In 2013 the agency went through the formal process of assessing whether or not both species warranted listing as either threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. NOAA concluded that listing was not warranted, but continues to have concerns about the status and threats to these species. Both are still considered to be "species of concern" (National Marine Fisheries Service 2013).
Though river herring populations in Downeast Maine have been seriously impacted by human activities, many restoration efforts are underway to restore their populations to historic abundances.
River herring stocking efforts do not rely on hatchery-raised young, but instead use adults transplanted from neighboring watersheds. Both alewives and bluebacks return to spawn in the ponds and streams where they hatched (Collette and Klein-MacPhee 2002); thus if adults in spawning condition are moved from a stream with an abundant population to one with a smaller population, the adults themselves will not return to that location to spawn, but their offspring, born in that pond or stream, will. Stocking can help maintain river herring abundances; however, transplanted fish could contribute to a loss of genetic diversity within the population as a whole.
As restoration efforts continue to open up historically available river herring habitat, there is hope that Downeast Maine's rivers will once again support high abundances of river-running fish and the many predator species that once relied on them.
To learn about Downeast Maine's modern-day river herring fisheries and recent restoration efforts, visit the Fisheries Now section of this site.
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Schalit, N., L. Winter, and G. Wippelhauser. 2003. All about Maine alewives. Fact sheet, maine.gov/dmr/searunfish/alewife/alewife.pdf.
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Situated in the brand new Warwick Stadium, MTM Physiotherapy Warwick is well placed to provide all of your Carine Physiotherapy needs. MTM Physiotherapy is a trusted name for Physio in the northern suburbs where we have been practicing for over 20 years, our methods and management are well established as we routinely exceed client expectations.
Our home at Warwick Stadium means we are frontline practitioners that not only treat sports injuries but a variety of musculoskeletal issues and chronic pain clients. We offer the best Physiotherapy experience in Perth with high quality friendly and approachable Physiotherapists and admin staff who only want to see you improve your quality of life.
MTM Physiotherapy Warwick are proud to provide services to the players, parents and community of the Doubleview Carine Cricket club, furthermore our Physiotherapists regularly treat players at the Carine junior and senior football clubs. As well as this local exposure to the Carine area, we also look after Senators Basketball, Northern Stars Volleyball, WAIS and the WA Football commission state teams. At a national level our physiotherapists routinely assist with visiting NBL clubs. Because of this exposure we have had great experience dealing with all kinds of sporting injuries and will be able to put in place an effective management plan to rehab you or your dear one's injuries.
Your experience at MTM Physiotherapy Warwick will include a detailed assessment using a combination of the facilities at the stadium not just our treatment rooms. Your management may include dry needling, massage, mobilisation, exercise prescription and stretching. Furthermore we will also ensure that you are given the advice to self-manage at home, we never want you to rely on hands on treatment to get you better! We have access to the state of the art Warwick Workout gym and will ensure that your rehabilitation will prepare you for return to sport or to your maximal function for your day to day lifestyle.


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Relaxin' is the second classic album to be issued from the famed extended 1956 recording sessions of the Miles Davis Quintet (Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Red Garland, Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones). The set is notable for Miles' mastery with a mute as he he only plays open here on Dizzy Gillespie's "Woody'n You," the emerging talent of a young John Coltrane and the strength and subtlety of the Red Garland led rhythm section. One of Davis' brightest outings featuring such memorable numbers as "If I Were A Bell," "It Could Happen To You" and "I Could Write A Book" among others.


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If you're looking for a Surrey wedding photographer you've come to the right place!
I'm based between Guildford and Cranleigh, and have been living in Surrey for the past seven years. In that time I have photographed weddings at most of the major Surrey wedding venues. I have also photographed weddings at register offices throughout the county.
Surrey has a wealth of amazing venues, from Ramster Hall near Chiddingfold in the west to Langshott Manor and Coltsford Mill in the east. I haven't worked at every single one but I know many of them very well. Among my favourites are Loseley Park, Botley's Mansion, Gate Street Barn, Farnham Castle, Hartsfield Manor, Ghyll Manor, Cain Manor, Gildings Barns, Nonsuch Mansion, Wotton House, and Tyrrells Wood, but there are so many more!
Incidentally, if you are getting married at a venue I haven't worked at before I'll always pop over and check it out before the big day. That way I will have a good grasp of the layout and where the best places are going to be for pictures.
One of the things I check when I visit a venue is whether there is a suitable location for photos indoors as well as outdoors, since as we know the British weather can't always be relied on, even in summer.
I have been a full-time professional wedding photographer for over fifteen years. As well as the UK I have photographed weddings in the Caribbean, USA, Mexico, Europe and the Middle East. I'm happy to travel, but Surrey is home territory!
My aim is to make the photography side of things as relaxed and stress-free an experience for you as possible. Most of the day I am shooting in an unobtrusive documentary style, with small and quiet cameras.Many of my clients comment that they hardly noticed me working – which is ideal.
If you'd like some family group photos that's not a problem – just give me a list ahead of time and we can get them done quickly and efficiently, immediately after the ceremony or during the drinks reception.
I also like to do a short private photo shoot with just the two of you – normally we find a quiet area in the venue grounds and spend 20 minutes or so getting some pictures, away from the "paparazzi"! If you'd like sunset shots and the weather is cooperative we can do those too.
Read more about my approach to wedding photography.
Whether you are planning an all-day celebration at a country house or just a short ceremony with a few pictures afterwards at your local register office, I have photography packages to suit your needs. I'm also happy to tailor my coverage if there's something specific you're looking for.
The main thing to decide is how much coverage you need. I can cover your preparations, or start with the ceremony if you prefer. It's also up to you if you'd like me to stay to photograph speeches, the cake-cutting, and your first dance and general dancing.
All my photography packages for Surrey weddings include digital files on USB, and most also include a selection of prints or an album. I do encourage couples to think about an album, as they are pretty much guaranteed to last for years, whereas digital files are more easily lost.
My rates include all travel costs if your wedding is happening in Surrey.


It was supposed to be a carefully guarded secret. The identity of Days of our Lives serial killer was to be revealed for the first time on Wednesday, January 28th. But well over a week before the actual on-air reveal, several popular soap opera magazines featured front page stories declaring that Marlena was, in fact, the "Salem Stalker."
Soap Central visitors flooded the DAYS Online message board in record numbers to discuss the stunning news. Others sent email to blast us for being out of the loop when we didn't follow suit and reveal the killer's identity. So why didn't Soap Central reveal the killer's identity as soon as we found out?
Days of our Lives execs went to great lengths to keep the identity of the killer a secret. Up until around the show's Christmas break, none of the show's performers or crewmembers knew the identity of the killer. When DAYS execs filmed scenes in which the killer appeared, they used body doubles - someone different every time. Because of the taping schedule, the cast learned the killer's identity about a month before the actual on-air reveal. To keep the secret a secret, the stars of the show were required to sign papers stating that they would not reveal that identity of the killer to anyone. If they were to blab the secret, they could be fired on the spot.
Obviously, any performer who wanted to keep their job would keep the show's big secret. But what about an actor who had already been given a pink slip? That's exactly how the identity of the serial killer was first leaked to the media.
Outgoing DAYS star Thaao Penghlis (Tony DiMera) was featured in scenes when the serial killer was revealed. Penghlis had learned way back in October that his days on Days of our Lives were coming to an end. With one foot out the door, Penghlis apparently felt he had nothing to worry about in the way of job security.
Following a mauling by a tiger - the work of the serial killer -- Penghlis' character laid lifelessly in a hospital bed as the serial killer approached him. He opened his eyes in time to see the killer injecting a potent medicine into his IV line. The camera then panned up and revealed the face of the killer for the first time - Marlena.
During an interview with an Israeli publication, Penghlis revealed that Marlena was the killer. According to setside sources, DAYS execs were furious, to say the least. The show immediately moved to do damage control. Initially, there were denials about what Penghlis had said during his interview. A denial was even issued by Penghlis, who said that his comments were taken out of context. Within a few days, however, DAYS head writer James E. Reilly had granted an interview to TV Guide and confirmed that Marlena was, in fact, the killer.
The first victim of the serial killer, Abe Carver, was killed on September 29, 2003. Now, four months later, the whodunit has finally been solved. Well, sort of.


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Web Summit CEO: Hybrid virtual-physical events are the future for conferences
Lucy Ingham 24th June 2020	(Last Updated June 25th, 2020 16:03)
Paddy Cosgrave has said that hybrid events that combine virtual, interactive experiences with physical in-person conferences will be the dominant format in the future.
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Paddy Cosgrave, the CEO of Web Summit, the company behind some of the world's largest technology conferences including this week's Collision at Home, has said that hybrid events that combine virtual, interactive experiences with physical in-person conferences will be the dominant format in the future.
Speaking at a press conference during Collision at Home, Cosgrave argued that interactive online platforms will offer added value to physical events even after the coronavirus pandemic has ended, increasing access to those who cannot or do not want to make the cost and time commitment required to travel.
"I think the future of our events is a hybrid," he said, pointing to startups, which Web Summit events place particular focus on.
"We're seeing participation from Africa, from parts of central Asia, where perhaps the purchasing power of startups in all of these countries is not as high as maybe in Europe or in the United States or Canada. So travelling to an event in Toronto or Lisbon represents a huge expense."
Collision at Home: Building the blueprint for virtual and hybrid events
Collision at Home, which is running until the end of Thursday, is the online version of Collision, which had been set to be held in Toronto, Canada this week. The Web Summit team took the decision to make it online-only in March, giving them 12 weeks to build a custom online platform that augments the app that has underpinned its previous physical events.
"We set about conceiving what we thought were the missing features in creating a compelling online experience, and over the last number of weeks, starting about eight weeks ago, we began to build out those features with a very heavy emphasis on video and networking," he said.
The result is a conference where virtual attendees can watch talks across several different streams, participate in Q&As with speakers, and arrange one-to-one networking sessions with others in attendance.
Additional features are also being rolled out throughout the event, including Mingle, which is being rolled out today and enables visitors to be randomly paired with other attendees on a video call, in a manner reminiscent of Chatroulette.
"I think it's fantastic," said Cosgrave of the Mingle feature.
"It's a really nice way to interact with people and it's a very kind of beautiful feature."
This focus on networking represents a step up from many other tech events that have been hastily switched to an online format in light of the pandemic, many of which have simply provided a series of video streams.
"I think there are some fantastic online conferences already that I've participated in. They're very content heavy, very content focused. And it's a wonderful way to watch people speak or talk with each other," said Cosgrave.
"But for me, and at least for the type of events that we organise, networking between participants or attendees, between speakers, between investors and startups, is really at the core of our events."
While there have been some teething problems, such as an overloaded authentication API at the start of day one when thousands of people tried to log in for the first time all at once, the event has generally run smoothly, and has attracted over 32,000 attendees so far, from "pretty much all over the world".
"The participation, I think, of the attendees is much broader than ever before, because there's no constraint or cost to travel and accommodation," he said.
Towards Web Summit: Making a hybrid conference a reality
As a data-driven conference provider that places great focus on helping people meet potential business partners and investors, the need to make virtual conferences work has been vital for the company during this period, but it also provides a testing ground for the company's flagship event at the end of this year: Lisbon's Web Summit.
With so much uncertainty around the pandemic, the company does not yet know how much of the event – or more specifically how many attendees – it will be able to host in-person. As a result, making Web Summit 2020 a hybrid event with a clear virtual component has been key.
Talks will be filmed in studios both in Lisbon and in other cities across Portugal, but the company is hoping to make it the biggest ever version of the event, topping last year's 70,000 attendees, through virtual participation.
"Web Summit is the next major milestone for us and we're really excited about doing that," said Cosgrave.
"I think the largest number of people to ever participate in Web Summit will happen this December, because of the online platform and I'm really interested in marrying that platform with our host country Portugal, in a way we've never been able to do before."
Building a platform for virtual events
However, while Collision at Home has provided a vital testing ground for Web Summit, the platform the company has developed has also provided a new potential revenue stream for it, as a solution for other organisations looking to hold virtual events online.
"In my view, this is our demo day of an online platform that we hope may also be of use to other organisers of some of the largest conferences and events in the world," said Cosgrave.
"I think when you run events in the tens of thousands of people, it's a very bespoke experience and some of the things that are required, some of the features, are somewhat different from much smaller events. And hopefully this platform that we've built, in the coming weeks and months will start to be used by some of our partners that we've been talking with over the last over the last 12 weeks."
While Cosgrave declined to name any of the specific organisations that would be using the platform, he suggested users would include "some of the biggest companies in the world… super national organisations, NGOs and political organisations" that are "long-standing partners".
Organisations that have regularly partnered with Web Summit include Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and the United Nations, so these may be among the users Cosgrave is referring to.
"We're very excited about other people using our software," he said.
"We've learned a lot over the last two days, just from people using the platform. And we're really excited about watching the platform evolve.
"If we could build this in in eight weeks, with this experience, combined with six months, we think by the time we get to Web Summit in December, the experience that people can have will be will be something else."
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Hayredin (Bulgarian: Хайредин, pronounced [hajrɛˈdin]; also transliterated Hajredin or Hairedin) is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vratsa Province. It is the administrative centre of Hayredin municipality, which lies in the northwestern part of Vratsa Province. The village is located along the Ogosta River, 30 kilometres south of Kozloduy, 25 kilometres south of the Danube River, 52 kilometres from the provincial capital Vratsa and 186 kilometres from Sofia.
Hayredin was founded in 1574 by four families who settled on land presented to them by a high-ranking Ottoman official. It may have existed before the Ottoman conquest of the Second Bulgarian Empire, as it was mentioned among the places burnt down by the invaders; the old name of the village was Eredin. The local Bulgarian Orthodox church of Saint Paraskeva was built in 1858-1862, and the Prosveta community centre (chitalishte) was founded in 1909. The village has a mineral spring.
Hayredin municipality includes the following 6 places:
Barzina
Botevo
Manastirishte
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Mohegan Sun Shines with Meyer Sound Lyon Arena System
13:00 05 September in Product News by admin
The flagship property in a growing portfolio of casino-resorts, Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut is renowned as an East Coast destination for lively gaming and top-billed entertainment.
Recently, Mohegan Sun management upped the stakes in its bid to attract more world-class musical artists and further enhance the audience experience by investing in a Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement system for the resort's 10,000-capacity arena. The comprehensive sonic upgrade is anchored by LYON™ line array main loudspeakers, abetted by LEOPARD line arrays for side hangs and 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements for potent low-end punch.
"The main front arrays they had in here before — from another maker — were already old technology when I arrived," says Mat Diamond, an on-call engineer beginning in 2001 and audio lead since 2007. "We had since updated with Meyer Sound systems for side hangs, and that was a big improvement. Then, when we heard the LEO Family, we decided it was high time to finish the job."
Recalling his initial experience with LEO Family technology, Diamond says, "When I first heard a LEOPARD system, I knew this was much more than just another good box. I was in a VIP section above FOH mix, and every time the engineer made the slightest tweak, I could hear it clearly. 'Wow,' I thought, 'this PA does exactly what you ask it to do.' We have LEOPARDs for side hangs now, and we're using the same technology but with longer throw in the LYON boxes for the front."
Diamond also banks on Meyer Sound's reputation for a neutral, linear response. "We get everything through here. For example, coming up next week we have Godsmack one night and Gladys Knight the next. With this new rig, we can line up three or four shows like this in a row, and know it will handle them all beautifully." Notable artists using the system to date include Judas Priest, Wu-Tang Clan, Toby Keith, Little Big Town and Queen Latifah.
The LYON arrays were among the first delivered to feature TPL-3, the latest update to Meyer Sound's TruPower limiting. TPL3 adds up to 2.5 dB of high-frequency headroom, extending LYON's reach and coverage. "I can push that box as far as we dare go safely, and I'll never hear any limiting," notes Diamond.
The end-stage configuration comprises dual hangs of 16-each LYON line array loudspeakers (12 LYON-M over four LYON-W) with 16-each LEOPARD line arrays on each side. The 24 1100-LFC elements are deployed in both flown and ground-stacked cardioid arrays. The digital heart of the system is a set of six GALAXY processors, all linked via an AVB network. Diamond gives a tip of the hat to Andrew Hall of Crow Solutions for network configuration and general system consulting.
The system's extraordinary flexibility is largely due to the inherent advantages of being self-powered; it can be quickly reconfigured for any event and internal amplifiers eliminate the need for amp racks. By drawing on Mohegan Sun's existing Meyer Sound inventory, the base system can be expanded to cover 360-degree, in-the-round concerts. Each configuration has been precisely tuned to the room in the GALAXY™ processors, so once the alternate configuration is hung it is ready to go with the click of a mouse.
The sonic quality and flexibility have proven a boon in pre-production negotiations with top acts, according to Technical Production Assistant Robert Nolan. "We're a casino in a relatively remote location, so with some big-name acts I'll sense a hesitation to use a house rig," he says. "But when I drop on them that we now have a full Meyer rig with LYON, LEOPARD and 1100s, they say, 'We're good. We're done on sound. Let's talk about lighting.'"
At Uncasville, Meyer Sound systems were previously installed in both The Cabaret Theatre and Wolf Den, and the house inventory of LEOPARD line array loudspeakers can be deployed as needed in the ballrooms and even on the rooftop for a summertime concert series. And, according to Robert Nolan, the company connection with Meyer Sound is going global as part of a plan to standardise systems at all six other properties owned or managed by the parent company, Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment (MGE).
"We would like every property we own or manage to be a Meyer Sound house," he says. "We've always felt connected to Meyer Sound in a way that doesn't happen with other loudspeaker companies. We've been working with Meyer's Michael Maxson over the years, and he's given us great accessibility to the newest and best technology. He has taken care of us at every step. The level of attention and support we've received is absolutely first-rate."
On the day-to-day operational level, Mat Diamond is regularly reminded of the recent improvements. "When I'm in the building, even during sound checks, I can immediately tell the difference compared to the old rig. No matter what the engineer is doing – whether I agree with it or not – I can tell the difference in the clarity, in the way everything has its own space in the mix. I've been thrilled with this rig since day one."
In addition to the Connecticut property, Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment owns or operates destination casino resorts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Washington, Louisiana and Ontario, Canada. A major new resort project is now underway adjacent to Incheon Airport in South Korea, with opening anticipated in 2021.


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Topic: Is there anywhere to still get the bonus content?
Topic: No scripts with Demo?
I think you'll be disappointed: it's just one script per scenario to control invasions, military requests, wages and some other events, and a Tools.cs which contains helper functions for those scenario scripts.
Other than that: no scripts, everything's done in the .exe file itself.
No radical changes - the patch just fixes bugs and crashes and adds minor improvements/settings.
The original version of Hieronymus' scripting guide is in this thread. This is only for Caesar 4 as far as I'm aware: I don't have SCS, but I'm guessing it doesn't have the same interface as C4 has.
Topic: How to hire a gravedigger?
Yes, it's an item. When one of your followers dies in battle, you can loot them: one of the items they give are "follower remains", which you can then use to hire a grave digger.
Could you attach both saved games to this thread? Also, are those two .tga files in the same folder as the saved game or not? If so, the program tries to use those, and if it fails, it'll look into the .scs file (which is so complex that it might miss a couple of things).
"Norm35" wrote: OK, how is this?
I have updated the program - version 1.1 is attached to the first post in this thread. Have fun!
Topic: Daylight savings - possible problem?
I doubt it: the server running the game is a Linux server, so that one's clock is set to UTC by default, in which no daylight saving exists. No hour will be skipped. The ETA on shipments might be off by one hour, but that's most likely the only problem.


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SEGA confirms Valkyria Chronicles series still alive
December 27, 2016 by George
If you guys didn't know, Valkyria Revolution is the next game in the 'Valkyria' series of titles, but what about the original Valkyria Chronicles SRPG games? Is the Valkyria Chronicles series still alive? In an interview with PlayStation Blog Japan, Valkyria Revolution director Takeshi Ozawa and Producer Youichi Shinmosato have confirmed that Valkyria Chronicles is still on-going.
If you didn't know Valkyria Revolution is a side game, set in a totally different universe from the main Valkyria Chronicles. Ozawa compared it to Shin Megami Tensei and the Persona series where they share common theme and mechanics but the characters and story are very different. Could this mean that Valkyria Chronicles and Valkyria Revolution will be SEGA's big RPG series going forward?
Ozawa also said he always thinks about how they will approach the next installment of Valkyria Chronicles, especially with all the power in current gen consoles. So what do you think? Is Valkyria Chronicles series still alive? Are you excited for Valkyria Revolution?
[Via: NicheGamer]
SEGA trademarks 'Valkyria of the Blue Revolution' Valkyria: Azure Revolution teaser trailer and new screens release Valkyria Chronicles Remaster gets a slew of new screenshots Valkyria Chronicles Remaster Story Introduction Trailer Released Valkyria: Azure Revolution Battle Demo Gameplay
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2 responses to "SEGA confirms Valkyria Chronicles series still alive"
Cherok says:
How can a series 'still be alive' if there's only been one main game followed by a slough of spinoffs? Lip service if you ask me.
Ves says:
There were actually two main series PSP games, which was a very popular system in Japan and ended up relatively uncommon in the west meaning that they had no presence here like the PS3 game.


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Calathea is a very decorative houseplant and has a wide variety of different colors and shapes!
Scientific name : Calathea spp.
Calathea is a genus of plants belonging to the family Marantaceae, with several dozen species in this genus. Native to the tropical Americas, many of the species are popular as pot plants due to their decorative leaves and, for some species, colorful inflorescences and all are commonly called calatheas.
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9-30-09 Reds vs Cards
Thread: 9-30-09 Reds vs Cards
HeatherC1212
Joey Votto Fangirl
Re: 9-30-09 Reds vs Cards
That is AWESOME for Bronson! What a way to end the year and since we don't face Toronto next year, maybe he can have a strong full season next year!
"I tried to play golf, but I found out I wasn't very good." -Joey Votto on his offseason hobby search
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldn't do. "I can't skate or play hockey," Votto said. "Well, I can skate ... but I can't stop."
Joey sets the club doubles mark for the month of September in the game tonight which I actually didn't know until just now, LOL
Rounding Third
What happened between Dusty and Smoltz?
mbgrayson
Red's fan
Originally Posted by Rounding Third
Thom and Cowboy seemed to think it had to do with Stubbs stealing second in the third inning when the Reds were already up 6-0.
"I think we're starting to get to the point where people are starting to get tired of this stretch of ball," Votto said. "I think something needs to start changing and start going in a different direction. I'm going to do my part to help make that change."
That was payback for all the outside pitches he and Glavine and Maddux got during the 90's in Atlanta.
TheNext44
Originally Posted by mbgrayson
Which is BS. A 6 run lead in the third in nothing. Did Smoltz expect the Cardinals to stop trying to score after that?
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
WVPacman
Reds fan for life!!!!
They asked Smoltz,that question and he would'nt answer it .He went on to say that those balls was the worst that he ever pitched with in his career.He said the balls was'nt rubbed down like the ump is suppose to do.He said they were brand new.He was then asked the question that does some pitchers prefer pitching with slick balls and he said yes and he guessed that Bronson was one of thos pitchers b/c he shut down the Cards . He might as well just came out and said that "the reds organization done something with the balls so the cards would lose" b/c thats what he was thinking.
Larussa was asked about the balls and he would'nt even answer the question.He said I an't answering the question and the only thing that I will say is that the reds scored more runs than we did!! Then he only answered two more questions and walked off. SORE LOSERS!!!!!
I can spell,I just can't type!!
The Reds are now officially one one game away from 3rd place!
From Stltoday.com:
Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan, who raised the issue of what he termed unrubbed baseballs with Culbreth and crew chief Gary Cederstrom on the field, wasn't so generous in assessing Arroyo's success with the same baseballs Smoltz was using.
Duncan, who said the umpires told him the baseballs indeed were rubbed up, said Arroyo was able to deal with the issue because "I'm sure he had pine tar on his cap. He didn't have any problem getting a grip. Balls like that can generate a lot more movement than a slick ball that hasn't been rubbed up."
Asked if he had seen Arroyo go to his cap, Duncan said, "Just every pitch."
Then Duncan said, "That's not the point. The point is that a pitcher should never be able to have control over how a ball is rubbed up, whether it's more or less. And since the umpires don't rub the balls up and their clubhouse guys do, I'm sure he had some control over it."
Duncan said he didn't and wouldn't ask the umpires to investigate Arroyo's head gear. "It's gamesmanship," Duncan said.
Cardinals manager Tony La Russa obliquely said, "There's a way to improve your grip. The balls weren't slick for (Arroyo). There's probably a reason why they weren't slick for him. Different fingertips or something. I don't know."
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/spo...C?OpenDocument
If they thought Arroyo was cheating then they should have told the umpires instead of crying to the media after the game.
I'd personally like to hear what Bronson has to say about all this. We know he won't pull any punches.
Here you go...some words from Bronson in Fay's recent blog entry:
Bronson Arroyo's pine tar incident won't rank with George Brett's, but it perked up a slow morning in the Reds clubhouse. This is from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan, who raised the issue of what he termed unrubbed baseballs with (Fieldin) Culbreth and crew chief Gary Cederstrom on the field, wasn't so generous in assessing Arroyo's success with the same baseballs (John) Smoltz was using.
Duncan, who said the umpires told him the baseballs indeed were rubbed up, said Arroyo was able to deal with the issue because "I'm sure he had pine tar on his cap. He didn't have any problem getting a grip. Balls like that can generate a lot more movement than a slick ball that hasn't been rubbed up."
Smoltz walked five hitters last night after walking three in 34 innings with the Cardinals. He blamed the baseballs, saying they had not but rubbed properly. That led to Duncan's accusation about Arroyo.
"I guarantee when I pitch against the Cardinals next year, I'll call over and tell Dave Duncan I'm wearing a brand new hat," Arroyo said.
Reds pitching Dick Pole: "That must have meant (Dennys) Reyes, (Josh) Kinney and (Brad) Thompson were using pine tar, too. They didn't have any trouble throwing the ball over the plate."
Reyes, Kinney and Thompson pitched the final innings for the Cardinals. Reyes walked one, the other walked none.
Balls are rubbed with dirt by clubhouse workers.
Arroyo was amused by the controversy.
"The only reason he said that is I've been wearing this thing all season," Arroyo said.
He showed me his hat. It's stained on the bill.
"That's what happens. It's from playing in every other park where there's so much mud on the balls that that black stuff comes off on young fingers every time. I guess he said I went to my hat time every time. Yeah, I grab my (crotch) and do 8,000 other twitches. What you want me to do about it? That's how I pitch."
"The funny thing is normal switch out hats. But I didn't switch hats because it wasn't hot enough and it wasn't soaking wet."
Arroyo said he's dealt with balls that were hard to grip, particularly at Yankee Stadium in October.
"That's just the way it is," he said. "You find a way to pitch. . . I don't know I thought I had the day off."


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A Musical Joke (in German: ) K. 522, (Divertimento for two horns and string quartet) is a composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; the composer entered it in his  (Catalogue of All My Works) on June 14, 1787. Commentators have opined that the piece's purpose is satirical – that "[its] harmonic and rhythmic gaffes serve to parody the work of incompetent composers" – though Mozart himself is not known to have revealed his actual intentions.

English name

The title A Musical Joke might be a poor rendering of the German original: Spaß does not necessarily connote the jocular, for which the word Scherz would more likely be used. In Fritz Spiegl's view, a more accurate translation would be Some Musical Fun. The sometimes-mentioned nicknames "Dorfmusikantensextett" ("village musicians' sextet") and "Bauernsinfonie" ("farmers' symphony") were added after Mozart's death.

Structure and compositional elements

The piece consists of four movements and takes about 20 minutes to perform.
 Allegro (sonata form), F major
 Menuetto and trio, F major (trio in B-flat major)
 Adagio cantabile, C major
 Presto (sonata rondo form), F major

Compositorial comedic devices include:
secondary dominants replacing necessary subdominant chords;
discords in the horns;
parallel fifths
whole tone scales in the violin's high register;
clumsy orchestration, backing a thin melodic line with a heavy, monotonous accompaniment in the last movement;
going to the wrong keys for a sonata-form structure (the first movement, for example, never succeeds in modulating to the dominant, and simply jumps there instead after a few failed attempts);
starting the slow movement in the wrong key (G major instead of C major);
a pathetic attempt at a fugato, also in the last movement.

The piece is notable for one of the earliest known uses of polytonality (though not the earliest, being predated by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's Battalia), creating the gesture of complete collapse at the finale. This may be intended to produce the impression of grossly out-of-tune string playing, since the horns alone conclude in the tonic key. The lower strings behave as if the tonic has become B-flat, while the violins and violas switch to G major, A major and E-flat major, respectively.

For a reading of some elements of this composition to the sounds made by Mozart's pet bird, see Mozart's starling.

Whole-tone scales and polytonality are foreign to music of the Classical era. However, these became common for early 20th-century composers like Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky, who were searching for a new musical language. In this later context, these were legitimate new techniques in serious music. In Mozart's time, however, these non-classical elements gave the piece its comedy, expressing the composer's humor.

References

External links

, Dennis Brain, Neill Sanders (horn); Manoug Parikian (violin); London Philharmonic Orchestra, Guido Cantelli

Humor in classical music
Serenades and divertimenti by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1787 compositions
Compositions in F major

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