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Ryujehong signs to the Vancouver Titans
By Michael Czar November 29, 2019
After the big news of Chan-hyung "Fissure" Baek coming out of retirement to sign to the Vancouver Titans, the team hit us with another big signing yesterday. This time, it is one of the most prolific veteran players in the league: support player Jehong "ryujehong" Ryu, formerly of the Seoul Dynasty.
We are very excited to welcome the man, the myth, the legend, @ryujehongsexy to the Vancouver Titans!#ForceOfNature pic.twitter.com/ovRXRaERVW
— Vancouver Titans (@VancouverTitans) November 27, 2019
The veteran pickup
Ryujehong is the player you should think of when you think of competitive Overwatch veterans. He was known back in the day for being an amazing player in other first-person shooter games. However, when Overwatch came out, he joined Lunatic-Hai. This powerhouse Korean roster won back-to-back championships in APEX. Ryujehong's support play was regarded as MVP in both those championship seasons. His Ana play made him stand out, marking him as the best Ana player in the world.
After dominating with Lunatic-Hai, he moved with them to the Overwatch League to play for the Seoul Dynasty. They were regarded as one of the most likely teams to win the first season, but they unfortunately didn't click. When his contract ended last season, he got to choose where to go. And it seems he liked that season's finalist, the Vancouver Titans.
Will he get to play?
Unfortunately, some see this signing as almost useless. The Titan's Jooseok "Twilight" Lee was already one of the best players in the role of Ana. There is also a significant chance that Ryujehong won't perform on this team as well as he did in the past. If so, he might ride the bench, which would be disappointing. Especially with how much the Titans wanted synergy to be their key factor, this signing doesn't make much sense. However, with the signing of Fissure and release of Bumper, it seems the Titans want nothing less but the title next year.
Still, there is an argument that Fissure is not much of an upgrade, and the same goes for Ryujehong. But for name value and popularity, these two signings are massive. Adding one of the best main tanks from season one along with the best Ana player in the world before the Overwatch League? If you could, you should. Still, these risky additions might hurt the Titans more than improve them. For now, we'll have to wait and see.
Disclaimer: Daily Esports' owner Enthusiast Gaming holds a stake in the Vancouver Titans.
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Infrastructure and learning management tools include the learning environment and administrative tools used by the training manager.
The learning environment and training management tools are commonly referred t as the "Learning Management System," or LMS.
Why do we need to manage the Learning culture?
Benefits of LMS - Cont.
While others try to be all things to all people.
Selecting a learning management infrastructure is one of the most strategic e-Learning decisions that companies will make.
By first determining what needs to be managed, it's much easier to find a system that responds to those needs.
Using 3rd party e-learning libraries?
3%	Misc software, consulting, travel, training, etc.
What is the need for the LMS?
What is your potential ROI?
What initial pilot groups can provide an early win?
Who are your project stakeholders and what are their expectations? Who will be the key sponsor of this project??
What are your functional and non-functional requirements for the LMS?
What are the key user roles and their functional requirements?
Who manage the LMS within your organization?
What are the phases for LMS implementation?
Who will be on your LMS Selection Project Team?
National Learning Management System (NLMS) Project Update -. louise frost and jane daly esr benefits realisation manager and north central london account manager 24 th january 2008. agenda. project background nlms – how will it work?
Evaluation of Course Management Systems for Improved Learning -. a thesis proposal by samuel chukwuemeka department of computer science troy university montgomery submitted to dr. irem ozkarahan january, 2013.


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Kilmarnock residents divided over supermarket imposing parking restrictions
The Kilmarnock Standard revealed last week that the store, which opened on West Langlands Street in 2004, planned to start imposing a three-hour stay maximum for those using the car park.
Euro Car Parks sign put up in Morrisons car park Kilmarnock (Image: UGC)
Kilmarnock residents are divided over the announcement of parking restrictions imposed by Morrisons supermarket.
Last week, signs went up across the car park laying down the new rules.
Cameras will now record vehicle number plates and monitor the duration of stay every day including bank holidays.
Fines of £100 could be imposed on those who do not comply.
It comes after Morrisons scrapped plans which would have seen shoppers hit with an £85 fine if they stayed more than two-an-a-half hours in 2013.
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Now, more than six years on, supermarket chiefs have introduced the controversial measures.
The restrictions contradict promises made by the store when plans for the supermarket were approved in 2003.
In order to ease concern about accessible parking for workers in the town, Morrisons told a public inquiry 16 years ago that it would "not restrict the use of car parks either in terms of time spent or by charging".
Reacting to the story this week on Facebook, many Kilmarnock Standard readers were worried about the new rules.
Paula Raymond commented: "I moved to the Johnnie Walker Bond a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't our choice, our work relocated.
"I have parked at Morrisons over the last couple of weeks, but have also spent over 300 quid in their shop in two weeks, as have many of my colleagues.
"That's one hell of a parking fee! To make out that folk are wanting something for nothing is wrong.
Body of a man found in Kilmarnock flat near primary school
"Morrisons became our supermarket of choice because we were parked there. Back to Tesco I suppose..."
Laura Rennie said: "This is heartbreaking. As a business owner in the town centre I bring people to Kilmarnock to work and visit.
"Parking freely for a few hours when there are plenty spaces shouldn't be a problem. This is completely against the rules within the land agreement so I'm very surprised the council have allowed this to happen."
However, some believed the changes were understandable.
Cathy Munro said: "I think it's a great idea as parking is terrible at Morrison's as a lot of the students from the college park there."
Jennifer Dickie said: "Can't wait to be able to get in for my shopping and not driving round the car park trying to find a space. It's ridiculous the amount of spaces taken by non-shoppers."
The store has recently undergone a radical makeover with a new barista bar in addition to their huge cafe and a party and balloon kiosk.
In light of the new additions to the store, some also questioned the fairness of a three-hour limit on shoppers.
Alanna JayCee said: "I can understand the frustration of spaces being used by non-customers however, between the pharmacy, cafe, barista area etc they are actively encouraging customers to spend as long as possible in the store."
The Kilmarnock Standard has approached Morrisons for comment but no response has been received thus far.


Looking for a solution. We use Filemaker Pro for one database of client/patient names, addresses, dates, notes, etc, and a web-based document storage service for scanned documents related to the above. I want to use just one program, user level access limitations, and export to excel reports.
I know this is kind of vague, but we do case preparation for workers comp cases, so I dont need a medical office suite, just a basic patient record type, that can have scanned documents (PDF) attached to that record for easy retrieval.
Is a stripped down Medical Suite.
Here at least one of the Main Medical Software Suppliers has a version of their product that is very limited and used to save records.
I haven't seen anything else used in a situation like this.


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And a thank you to Brian also from me.
I as beginning to think I was cracking up.
I was unaware of the ECF's change of policy.
I confess that I didn't check up on whether the CAA Chairman informed the rest of the CAA.
Sadly, my post, typed on my phone, seems to have gotten lost.
a) I seem to have missed the announcement that the ECF was changing its Tournament Rules. That is, no doubt, on me, but I would appreciate a commitment from the ECF that any future change to the Tournament Rules be loudly broadcast on all available media.
b) My simple reading of the two linked ECF pages is that, literally, the ECF is now saying that it should only grade zero default games. I am, however, sure that that is not what the ECF intends.
c) The ECF makes clear that the FIDE Laws are authoritative. However, nowhere to my knowledge, does it state that the Organisers Guide is also an authority.
If so, should FIDE not state this?
It's what you might expect to happen in practice as a player with a missing opponent would claim when the clock shows that the default tolerance has elapsed. So if the clocks are slightly late being started, that gives a little longer for late arrivals to make it.
FIDE rule makers may live in an imaginary universe where rounds don't start late, notwithstanding it being a standard practice for years in European Opens for the first round to start late as the arbiters struggled to find out who was present and put them in ranking order. The pragmatic solution adopted by Stewart Reuben and others back in the 1970s that you pair on the basis of who you expect and re-pair games not started after half an hour based on who is present seems to have passed them by.
Just as the CAA produces its own annotated copy of the FIDE Laws of Chess, so does the FIDE Arbiters Commission. The 2018 edition is here.
default time shall lose the game unless the arbiter decides otherwise.
unless the regulations of an event specify or the arbiter decides otherwise.
one minute before start of the game.
official time of the tournament.
of the start of the round and that he writes down the starting time.
I can't comment on a) because it is no longer my responsibility.
b) "1. Games submitted to the ECF for grading must be played in accordance with the FIDE Laws of Chess, or as modified by the ECF Competition Rules." The reference should be to the Tournament Rules rather than Competition Rules, but I think it's clear that the ECF is not saying that.
c) If you mean the FIDE Guidelines for Organisers, they are really just a regurgitation of what is already stated in the FIDE Laws of Chess, but all of the things the organiser may vary are included in one short document, rather than mixed in with the rest of the FIDE Laws of Chess.
"1. Games submitted to the ECF for grading must be played in accordance with the FIDE Laws of Chess, or as modified by the ECF Competition Rules." The reference should be to the Tournament Rules rather than Competition Rules, but I think it's clear that the ECF is not saying that.
1. Games submitted to the ECF for grading must be played in accordance with the FIDE Laws of Chess, or as modified by the ECF Competition Rules.
4. According to Article 6.7.1 of the FIDE Laws of Chess, the regulations of an event shall specify a default time. If the default time is not specified, then it is zero.
However, what you are not admitting to, is that the ECF Competition Rules have been changed so that events have been rendered literally ungradeable where they were relying on the ECF holding to their previous statement that in the absence of statements by organisers to the contrary, the default time for standard play events was half an hour and for rapid play events was ten minutes.
The point is that the ECF previously specified default times in the absence of an organiser's statement. Then the ECF removed that specification, without much publicity or (possibly) any at all.
I think that would be very useful on your part, Brian. Please do it.
Whilst true, a placatory statement would have said that you recognised the concern, and would pass it on to your successor.
So, your first statement relied on a "regurgitation", rather than something of actual value?
It is perfectly possible for issues to be raised with the incoming director via the facility on the ECF website. There is no need for people to berate the outgoing director just because he occasionally helps the forum tick over.
What was the point of the outgoing director responding, then, if his ultimate statement was that he was the outgoing director?
No idea other than it was fair comment.


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    <parent>
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        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
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Q: Alias for "| foreach { "$_" }" in PowerShell I like to use the following code to emulate the Unix "find" behavior:
ls DIRECTORY -recurse -include PATTERN | foreach { "$_" }

In fact, there are a couple of other commands that I'd like to append this | foreach { "$_" } to.  So I'm trying to find a way to make this easier to type.  I tried stuff like this:
function xfind {
    ls $args | foreach { "$_" }
}

And then I invoked it like so:
xfind DIRECTORY -recurse -include PATTERN

But that seemed to do the wrong thing...

A: Consider simply to use the -name switch of the Get-ChildItem (aka ls, dir):
ls DIRECTORY -recurse -include PATTERN -name

This way is native, clean, and effective.

A: Try this, it can be extended to a full blown advanced function. The key is to pass the parameters to ls by passing all of them using a special variable (PSBoundParameters) which is avaialble in advanced functions:
function xfind {

    [cmdletbinding()]

    param(
        [string[]]$path,
        [switch]$recurse,
        [string[]]$include
    )

    ls @PSBoundParameters | foreach { "$_" }
}

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Stole this from hazelasher, because it was cute.
catagelophobia: I think she friended me first from tagalog (not sure). Anyways, we have chatted on Yahoo! Messenger a few times.
iamblahg: This is one of my best friends, also a sister in Nexus, but apparently hasn't been updating her journal in some time.
jalapenogirl: Met her through mujer. Found she had some really interesting posts, so I added her as a friend.
jeiki: Met him through tagalog. I found his posts very interesting, especially about some historical posts about the Philippines.
kapayapaan: I consider this boy like a cousin. His words and ways of thinking is amazing.
mandichaos/weirdweb: One and the same. Met her through the WB forums playing games like Steppenwolf and Arcane. She was the one that gave me an invite code for LJ when they still just accepted invite codes. She's one of my moderators for The Geek Forums.
meshuggeneh: Another one from the WB Forums. She also helped on some of the walkthroughs for The Geek Forums and became moderator.
tidus: Met him through Tag-Board.Com as well. He's a sweetie, but he's always busy.
todda: My Lineage prince. I know I should get my act together and join him in game some day.
tswolf: A very well-known guy in Nexus. Thought I'd add him as a friend to see what he's like.
violetbloom: Met her through weirdweb. She had very interesting posts, and I thought to add her as a friend.
Hehe, I remember that place! Wow, haven't been there in ages.


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Q: How to force jTable to be not editable? What I know that theoretically you can force a jTable to be non-editable by creating an AbstractTableModel and override the following method by always returning false all the time (eventhough this is not necessary due to the fact that the default method from the AbstractTableModel is already returning false).
@Override
public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int column) {
   return false;
}

It seems though that I still can't figure out how to make this work right for my code. What am I doing wrong? Here's my code:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;

public class Datagrid extends AbstractTableModel {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1080095595481949205L;
    private String[] title;
    private String[][] data;
    private JTable table;
    private JFrame frm;

    public Datagrid(String[] title, String[][] data) {
        this.title = title;
        this.data = data;

        create_table();
    }

    public JTable getTable() {
        return table;
    }

    private void create_table() {
        table = new JTable(data, title);

        frm = new JFrame();
        frm.getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(table));
        frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frm.pack();
        frm.setVisible(true);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isCellEditable(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int getColumnCount() {
        return table.getColumnCount();
    }

    @Override
    public int getRowCount() {
        return table.getRowCount();
    }

    @Override
    public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
        return table.getValueAt(row, column);
    }

}

A: First of all, don't create UI elements from within models...
Second of all, don't create UI elements from out side the Event Dispatching Thread
Third of all (as pointed out by cubanacan), you've not applied the model to the the table...
public static void main(String args[]) {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            TableModel model = new Datagrid(); // <-- Create a new instance of the model
            table = new JTable(model);         // <-- Apply it to the table..

            frm = new JFrame();
            frm.getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(table));
            frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
            frm.pack();
            frm.setVisible(true);
        }
    });
}

cubanacan is on fire...
Fourthly, the following is going to crash your program.  These methods are called by the table in order for it figure put how to configure itself.
public int getColumnCount() {
    return table.getColumnCount();
}

@Override
public int getRowCount() {
    return table.getRowCount();
}

@Override
public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
    return table.getValueAt(row, column);
}

You should referencing the internal data structures you are trying to model.
You might find it help to read through How to Use Tables

A: *

*not an answer to isCellEditable, to remove from AbstractTableModel
.
public JTable getTable() {
    return table;
}

private void create_table() {
    table = new JTable(data, title);

    frm = new JFrame();
    frm.getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(table));
    frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frm.pack();
    frm.setVisible(true);
}

*

*separate view and model logics

*in this form (missing add, remove row, setValueAt(...)) isn't possible to store any changes from JTables view to the AbstractTableModel

*miss there ColumnClass

*all data for JTables view are stored in XxxTableModel

*quite correct AbstractTableModel for implemented methods in API (Object[]/Double[]/String[]... and Vector<Object>/Vector<String> ... )

A: You have several problems here:

*

*You haven't set table model to the JTable.

*If you set your table model you will get StackOverflowError, because when you invoke table.getRowCount() it invokes getModel().getRowCount().

*If you set your table model you will not get column titles specified in constructor. Look at javadoc of method AbstractTableModel#getColumnName(int) for details.

Here is runnable and working solution based on your code:
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel;

public class Datagrid extends AbstractTableModel {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -1080095595481949205L;
    private String[] title;
    private String[][] data;
    private JTable table;
    private JFrame frm;

    public Datagrid(String[] title, String[][] data) {
        this.title = title;
        this.data = data;

        create_table();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String[] columnTitles = {"Title 1", "Title 2"};
        String[][] tableData = {{"Value 1", "Value 2"}, {"Another Value 1", "Another Value 2"}};
        new Datagrid(columnTitles, tableData);
    }

    public JTable getTable() {
        return table;
    }

    private void create_table() {
        table = new JTable(data, title);
        table.setModel(this);
        frm = new JFrame();
        frm.getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(table));
        frm.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frm.pack();
        frm.setVisible(true);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isCellEditable(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
        return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int getColumnCount() {
        return title.length;
    }

    @Override
    public int getRowCount() {
        return data.length;
    }

    @Override
    public Object getValueAt(int row, int column) {
        return data[row][column];
    }

    @Override
    public String getColumnName(int column) {
        return title[column];
    }

}


In a nutshell, the best and really the only way to truly learn journalism is by doing it.
Lectures and textbooks will only take you so far; right off the bat, I send students out to practice interviewing, reporting, and writing. Offering detailed and constructive feedback is particularly important in journalism and its a continual process of improvement as students go from first struggling to master the basics of grammar and writing clearly and concisely to tackling more difficult and meatier topics.
Often I send students out on assignments with relatively little specific instruction, and a lot of the learning comes from critiquing their work and discussing what could be improved in class. Encourage students to read the news and in some courses, have news quizzes to give them the incentive - you cant be a good journalist if you never read any good journalism. I eschew tests - memorization isnt going to get you anywhere, really - in favor of writing and reporting assignments.
And of course, in this day and age, a strong grounding in the fundamentals - primarily accuracy and verification - is absolutely as critical as it ever was, but its not enough - students are increasingly learning multimedia and social media tools. I encourage my students to constantly experiment using these tools. I try to come up with a variety of different assignments that will get students out of their comfort zone, talking to a variety of different people and encountering different situations and challenges.
Here's a blog post of mine that talks a little bit about curricula. Also you might check out the site by Mindy McAdams Teaching Online Journalism.
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Q: How to read and write UTF-8 strings in excel using Groovy? I am using a Groovy Script for automating a WEB Service test case in SOAPUI.
The groovy script will read an Excel sheet containing UTF-8 strings and send that as an input in the Web Service.
However the problem is that in Groovy I am not able to read the UTF-8 strings.
Can someone please suggest any solution?
I have tried to do the following:
Workbook workbook1 = Workbook.getWorkbook(new File("testdata.xls").getText("UTF-8"))
Sheet sheet1 = workbook1.getSheet(0)
numberOfRows = sheet1.getRows().toInteger()
testStep = myTestCase.getTestStepByName("Property -Looper")
testStep.setPropertyValue("Total", numberOfRows.toString())
counter = testStep.getPropertyValue("Count").toString()
counter = counter.toInteger()

next = (counter > numberOfRows-1?0: counter+1)

Cell qualifiedUser = sheet1.getCell(0,counter)

The testdata.xls file will be something like:


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*Editor's Note: Every Monday Kevin Hinton, the Director of Instruction at Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, N.Y. and one of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers, tells you how a tour player hits a great shot. This week, Hinton examines the monster drives of Kyle Stanley, winner of the Waste Management Phoenix Open and runner-up last week at the Farmers' Insurance Open at Torrey Pines, and compares his driver swing with that of Long Drive champion Jamie Sadlowski.
*__Here's Kevin:__Kyle and Jamie have similar builds (about 5-foot-11, 165 pounds), and they do a lot of similar things in their golf swings. They both start by setting up to the ball to maximize distance. They have wide stances, their spines are tilted to the right, and their heads are well behind the ball. These address characteristics promote hitting up at the ball, which is essential to driving it a long way. Watch these two videos and then read my analysis below to learn how you can hit the ball farther as well.
Both players make a huge shoulder turn over a braced lower body. Notice how they allow their heads to move some. Restricting all head movement with a driver normally leads to power loss. Jamie simply allows his backswing to continue to gain extra power by continuing to hinge his wrists. This is a tremendous power source, and it requires flexible wrists. If he were playing on the PGA Tour he would likely shorten it to gain accuracy, but that's not the game he's currently playing.
Take note of how their downswings are triggered by leading with the lower body, technically before the club completes the backswing. As with many power-hitters, it's difficult to pinpoint exactly when the backswing ends and the downswing begins. This "two-way" helps increase the angle between the left arm and the shaft, amplifying their speed potential at impact.
impact. This is very common with high-speed players, and it also encourages the club to swing up at the ball through impact.
Kyle and Jamie continue to rotate their bodies hard and have the same unique arm action at this point. Their left elbows don't point downward as much as many players' arms do, almost giving them a "chicken wing" look. They likely developed this to prevent the clubface from closing and to prevent hooks. If you're a slicer, I would not suggest you copy this part of their swings.
Because the ball is long gone by the time you get to this point, it doesn't really influence the flight of the ball, but this is more a result of the things that happened prior....good or bad. You can't go wrong, however, copying their balanced finished positions, which are quite remarkable considering the speed at which they have just swung!


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Pinball machines are beautiful objects. Bright lights and colors, reflections and shadows, special artwork with lots of details that look great when viewed in closeup: pinball machines and especially their playfields and backglasses are good subjects to make photographs off. Or even drawings or paintings, as a lot of people will probably already have seen the paintings by Charles Bell.
Most people that are interested in pinball machines look in amazement to these works of fine art, or the nice photographs by Kevin Tiell and PinballReviews.com and think they could never create anything like that themselves and you need a very expensive setup for this.
This is only partially true. You do need some knowledge about how to take a photograph (more than just aim and press the button). Having good photoshop skills may also help a lot if you want to create spectacular artwork. A more expensive camera will give you better looking restuls, but even with a normal point-and-shoot camera you are able to take quality pinball pictures that you can be proud off and that won't look bad framed at the walls of your gameroom ! OK for some special shots you'll need something special like a wide-angle or macro lens, but it's not that because you only have a point-and-shoot camera, you cannot take any great looking pictures at all !
Even if you're not interested in the artistic part of pinball, good pictures will help you when selling a game on ebay. Especially if it's really in such mint condition as you say and don't want to hide anything. Paying a bit of attention and taking good photographs can mean you get more money when you sell the pinball machine. Or if you don't auction it and put it just for sale, can it result in finding a buyer much faster.
My first introduction to pinball photography was about 8 years ago.
I was contacted by Marco Rossignoli when he needed pictures of my Road Kings pinball machine for his book Pinball Memories he was working on. Some of the tricks I'll show here I learned from him. Since then I've taken a lot of pictures myself. As I always try to use my own pictures on this website, each time I visit pinball shows I make a lot of pictures of every machine present, in case I ever need it for an article..
At Pinball Expo 2002 there has also been a seminar about pinball photography, here on ebay you can read an article about the subject by these authors.
I have been planning for a long time to write an article about photographing pinball machines. I'm busy with photography itself for about a year now, still learning more and more every day, always trying to make better pictures than before as I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Problem is that each time I learn more, my expectations go up, so I probably won't be happy until I make pictures that look better than what's technically possible with my current camera.. And if I invest in a better camera it'll probably take me another year until I find I know it well enough and pictures are good enough..
So now I just decided to start writing an article about pinball photography for my website and included what I already learned. If I wait until I'm happy with what I know and think I mastered it, it'll be probably another few years before I write this tutorial..
I also didn't know what angle to take - there are a lot of things to talk about in pinball photography.
I don't want to include too many technical information about photography itself, but some basic knowledge is required and I'll include links to websites that explain it more in detail, for those who are interested in learning more about photography.
I didn't know how to present the material, I first wanted to show you nice pictures and explain how they were done, but when I started searching through the thousands of pinball machine photographs I've taken over the past year, I found many more examples of what not to do, then pictures that I'm really happy with.. and if I show too many pictures that are good, a lot of people may again think they'll never be able to do something like that themselves and not try..
So I started writing this tutorial by showing you what basic mistakes I have made in the past (and often still make). You will learn from my mistakes. My goal is to motivate some people to try and make nice pictures themselves. Get rid of the 'I could never do this myself' thinking.
This is pinball photography 101. You will learn the basics that will allow you to make better 'snapshots' of your pinball machine, especially if you want to make pictures to put on your website or if you want to sell a game on ebay and present it as good as possible.
Maybe I'll make a sequel to this guide, explaining more in detail how to make 'fine art' photographs of pinball machines, but at the moment I have no idea if and when this will be finished. It'll probably also depend on reactions I get on this tutorial.
I don't know everything there is about photography (especially combined with pinball machines), and there may be other ways to make great pictures. So if you had good results using another 'trick', or have questions or doubts about something I say here, feel free to email me..
Note too there are a lot of things that can be corrected in Photoshop. But I want to be a better photographer, not a better graphic artist, and it's usually less time and is more fun to do it correct using the camera, than spending hours behind the computer later trying to patch things in postprocessing..
Where you photograph a pinball machine also has a large influence on what your possibilities are and what results you can get.
If you are at home and its your own machine, you have much more possibilities to get the picture just right. If you are taking pictures at a pinball show, a distributor, there is less you can influence so you just have to make the best out of the situation.. sometimes you can't make great pictures, but at least you can try to make the worst a bit better.. As I don't know in what situation you are, I'll try to explain all situations, and just try to apply what's possible.
My photo-studio at home setup. A white sheet hangs next to the game, acts as a diffuser, and as a background for playfield shots in that direction. Behind the sheet there's a flash that I can aim directly towards it, or up to bounce off from the ceiling. On the right side on a pinball machine lays a flash with optical trigger. It will flash also if the first goes off. This second strobe bounces off the white ceiling onto the playfield (although it would be better if it were closer). In front of the game is a tripod to mount my camera on.
I know this article became quite long, and there's a lot of information in it. I hope it's not too overwhelming, it was certainly not meant to be ! Some parts are important and come back all the time - the basics for lighting a backglass or a playfield are not that different. So just read everything, the whole article, so you know what's possible, and then later come back and go in detail in what interests you when you want to make a certain type of picture.
You have to try yourself a lot of the techniques and tricks I explain. This is not meant a guide to be strictly followed. Depending on your gameroom, your camera (dslr or compact), .. you may have to do the opposite of what works for me. But at least you know the variables, know what makes a difference, and then just try it yourself and see what gives you the best results. Experiment a lot, one step at a time. Learn from your mistakes.
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April 9, 2015 by crmayes
American Vegemite and the "In-Group": Consumer Ethnocentrism Part 2
consumerism, health, politics
Australia, choice, consumption, Dick Smith, food, lifestyle, media, ozemite, vegemite
Vegemite is a culinary shibboleth of Australian-ness. Paul Rozin and Michael Siegal write that 'Vegemite may be the best predictor of national identity of any food in the world. That is, if you eat Vegemite, you are almost certainly Australian'.
The cultural significance of Vegemite for Australia is demonstrated by the awkward, yet seemingly obligatory question put to foreign dignitaries – "do you like vegemite?" A quick Internet search reveals that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama were recently asked for their opinion on the spread, and it formed part of wedding gift to Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge.
Despite this intimate bond with the Australian national identity, Vegemite has been owned by the US-based Kraft Foods since 1935. Partly in response to its American ownership, Australian entrepreneur, Dick Smith launched Ozemite in 1999 as an Australian-made alternative.
The Dick Smith Foods brand replicates other brands and products considered to be Australian, yet are now foreign owned. In outlining the rationale for this endeavor Smith asserted that 'Australians are patriotic but at the moment the labelling is so deceptive you don't know what's Australian. What I can say to people "if you buy a product with a Dick Smith Foods on it – it's as Australian as you can get"'. "As Australian as you can get" has become the slogan for the Dick Smith Foods brand.
Over the past 12 years Smith has built his brand on a form of ethnocentric consumerism. By appealing to patriotic sentiment, Smith uses and reinforces an "in" or "we" group to direct consumer behavior away from "them" – foreign owned foods, particularly Vegemite – and towards an identification with Australian made and owned foods. The economic success of Smith's brand is questionable; it is not close to the size of Kraft and many of the products are more expensive.
Smith claims that he is not interested in making money – 'I have enough money. I'm not greedy, I have adequate money'. Rather he explains that he is 'doing all this work so a consumer can go into a shop and if it says Dick Smith, it literally means, it's as Australian as you can get'. A clear focus of Smith's initiative is to encourage Australian consumers to buy Australian brands and products for domestic economic security, but there is a strong underlying theme of national identity and pride.
With debates continuing over introduction of country-of-origin labelling in Australia, especially in relation to berries from China, the case of Dick Smith and Vegemite demonstrates that in addition to being a mechanism that protects domestic markets, knowledge of the country of origin (and country of ownership) has a potential to tie national or geographic identity to a brand, such as Vegemite. However, country-of-origin knowledge also provides an opportunity to build a brand and gain market share, as in the case of Dick Smith Foods.
While Dick Smith draws on the "in-group" aspect of consumer ethnocentrism, appealing to nationalism to establish a brand and market share, the example of "freedom fries" demonstrates the use of "out-group" to shape consumer behavior.
Part 1 – here
April 1, 2015 April 1, 2015 by crmayes
Consumer Ethnocentrism: Part 1 Country of Origin Food Labels
advertising, Australia, authenticity, biopolitics, capitalism, consumerism, consumption, ethics, food, neoliberalism, public health
boycott, china, country of origin labelling, ethnocentrism, food labelling, food labels, food safety, frozen berries, global food, Hepatitis A, Indonesia, Nanna's Berries, racism, us, us and them, xenophobia
In 1989 my uncle returned from a trip to the US with a pair of basketball shoes that were not yet available in Australia. Having seen them on the feet of American basketball stars, my friends and I coveted these shoes, and I was the first to own a pair. Taking them out of their box, I noticed the label at the back of the tongue: Made in Indonesia. I was disappointed. These shoes were not from the land of Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan but from an island I knew little about, 3000
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kilometers to the north of Australia. Rather than the genuine product and official brand of champions, I was in possession of a cheap imitation. My sense of disappointment was not alleviated when an older boy assured me that the shoes were in fact fake.
The revelation that my basketball shoes were not made in America was my first conscious encounter with globalised manufacturing and trade. The now commonplace statement, 'Made in Indonesia', took some of the sheen off the brand, which was so carefully manufactured in marketing and design offices far removed (geographically, economically and culturally) from the factories in which the shoes were manufactured.
Buying like "us"
While I would like to say that the disappointment I felt in learning that the shoes were made in Indonesia was due to concern for the conditions of the workers, this would be disingenuous and perhaps a bit much to expect of a 9 year-old. My disappointment was due to the otherness of Indonesia. These shoes were not made by people like "us" – me, my friends, Magic Johnson or Michael Jordan. They were made by "them" – people I knew little of, except that they weren't in the NBA, didn't play basketball, didn't appear in the multi-million dollar commercials, and according to a friend's father, were waiting for an opportune time to invade Australia. These feelings of parochialism, or perhaps more accurately racism and xenophobia, were an early expression "consumer ethnocentrism".
Ethnocentrism is the attitude that distinguishes between an "in-group" and "out-group". Terence Shimp and Subhash Sharma developed the concept of consumer ethnocentrism to 'represent the beliefs held by American consumers about the appropriateness, indeed morality, of purchasing foreign made products' [1: 180]. According Shimp and Sharma's study on the psychology of ethnocentric consumers 'purchasing imported products is wrong because, in their minds, it hurts the domestic economy, causes loss of jobs, and is plainly unpatriotic' [1]. While Shimp and Sharma focused on the 1980s American automobile industry, I suggest that consumer ethnocentrism is increasing in the food industry through current debates over country-of-origin labelling and local sourcing movements.
Global Food and Ethnocentric Consumption
The global food system has led to an increase in ignorance and confusion about where food comes from and the conditions under which it is produced. This ignorance is manifest in at least two forms. First, a general ignorance about the way food is produced and where it comes from, i.e. what season does asparagus
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grow or what part of a pig does bacon come from? And second, where geographically does the asparagus I purchased in the supermarket come from or a more complex question, where was my microwave dinner produced, and were the ingredients all from the same location? Unlike my basketball shoes, the country-of-origin labelling on food products is not as clear. And some food products may use ingredients, manufacturing processes and labor from a variety of countries.
Since the early twentieth century, the Commerce (Trade Descriptions) Act 1905 and Commerce (Imports) Regulations 1940 has enforced country-of-origin labelling for clothing imported into Australia [2], with similar legislation in place in the US (Tariff Act of 1930). However, these laws do not address the importation of food products. Over the past decade, country-of-origin labelling for food products has become a significant issue for consumer's, workers' unions and food companies in the US [3, 4], Australia [5-7], and the European Union [8, 9].
Country-of-Origin Labelling and Food Safety
There are a number of reasons why consumer groups and sectors of the food industry want country-of-origin labelling regulations for food products. A common reason is food safety. With the interconnection of the global food system, governments and consumers are concerned by food poisoning outbreaks, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad-cow disease", and possibility by the threat of cross-contamination [10]. The recent outbreak of Hepatitis A in Australia associated with Nanna's Mixed Berries from Chinese factories has re-invigorated the country-of-origin labelling debate.
A second argument for the introduction of country-of-origin labelling is to protect domestic markets. For example, canned food company, SPC Ardmona, made 150 redundancies and closed a production factory in Australia. According to the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union this is partly due to a lack of adequate labelling laws that allow major supermarkets in Australia to stock cheap imported foods without being required to inform the consumer [7]. Furthermore, while the label may state "Made in Australia" this is allowed 'even if only a few of the ingredients are grown in Australia' [5]. As a result, companies that use local workers and ingredients are squeezed out of the market by cheaper imported goods.
Food safety and the protection of domestic markets are significant issues, yet they can also become enmeshed with more explicit manifestations of consumer ethnocentrism. With products and brands representing "us" or "them". In Part Two, I discuss the example of "in-group" ethnocentric consumption in relation to Dick Smith's response to Kraft Foods ownership of Vegemite. In Part Three I use the call for US consumers to boycott French products in response to the French government's refusal to join the "coalition of the willing" to highlight "out-group" ethnocentric consumption.
Shimp, T.A. and S. Sharma, Consumer Ethnocentrism: Construction and Validation of the CETSCALE. Journal of Marketing Research, 1987. 24(3): p. 280-289.
Australian Customs Service. Australian Customs Service Fact Sheet. 2007 [cited 2012 March 19]; Available from: http://customs.gov.au/webdata/resources/files/FS_clothing.pdf.
Lusk, J.L., et al., Consumer Behavior, Public Policy, and Country-of-Origin Labeling. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2006. 28(2): p. 284-292.
Loureiro, M.L. and W.J. Umberger, A choice experiment model for beef: What US consumer responses tell us about relative preferences for food safety, country-of-origin labeling and traceability. Food Policy, 2007. 32(4): p. 496-514.
Peacock, M. Food Labelling inquiry chair disappointed Federal Government drops key recommendations. PM 2011 [cited 2012 February 6]; Available from: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-01/food-labelling-inquiry-chair-disappointed-federal/3707464.
Blewett, N., et al., Labelling Logic: Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy. 2011, Commonwealth of Australia: Canberra.
Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union. SPC regional job losses show need for food labelling laws and watchdog on supermarkets. 2011 [cited 2012 March 19]; Available from: http://www.amwu.org.au/read-article/news-detail/749/SPC-regional-job-losses-show-need-for-food-labelling-laws-and-watchdog-on-supermarkets/.
Miller, J.W., Country labeling sets off EU debate, in The Wall Street Journal. 2011, News Corporation: New York.
Department of Environment, F.a.R.A. Country of origin labelling. 2011 [cited 2012 March 19]; Available from: http://www.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/food/labelling/country-origin/.
Smith DeWaal, C., Food Protection and Defense: Preparing for a Crisis. Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology, 2007. 8(1).


Paul is expected to throw his hat in the electoral ring on Friday, CNN says. CNN goes on to say, "Paul will hold a morning campaign event in Exeter, New Hampshire where he is expected to receive several endorsements."
Paul is vying for the White House for the third time. He ran as a Libertarian Party nominee in 1988. In 2008, he sought the GOP nomination.
Politico reports Paul has been making overtures for a GOP bid recently. The political blog writes, " He also recently raked in more than $1 million during a one-day online 'money bomb' ahead of the first GOP presidential debate."
The Hill writes more than two weeks ago, Paul visited Iowa to announce he had created an exploratory committee.
A previous report on DigitalJournal.com found a recently released poll showed Paul would fare best in a head-to-head electoral battle against Obama. But the poll's author added, "No GOP candidate has a statistically significant lead, so it's way too soon to start talking about front-runners."


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From Suffrage to Substantive Human Rights: The Continuing Journey for Racially Marginalized Women
Bandana Purkayastha
Parent Category: Civil Rights
Category: Voting Rights
Excerpted From: Bandana Purkayastha, From Suffrage to Substantive Human Rights: the Continuing Journey for Racially Marginalized Women, 42 Western New England Law Review 419 (2020) (75 Footnotes) (Full Document)
June 4, 1919, when the Nineteenth Amendment was passed by both houses of Congress, was a culmination of a long struggle for women to get the right to vote. In 1920, Tennessee became the last state needed to ratify women's right to vote, and the deciding vote was cast by Harry T. Burn, apparently at his mother's behest; this ratification is another remarkable victory in this long journey. The road was paved with conflicts within the suffrage movement, as well as the conflicts with other groups outside the movement as people fiercely opposed the idea of women's suffrage. Yet, as this Article will highlight, it is not enough to examine this achievement through the lens of men vs. women's rights alone. An intersectional lens, one that examines access to political rights by focusing on how structures of race and class intersect with structures of gender, offers a more complex picture of a process that led to unequal freedom--consequently, an unfinished journey--for different groups of women. As Evelyn Nakano Glenn argued in her book Unequal Freedom, even after formal documents and rulings define rights, these rights are often re-interpreted and boundaries reinforced at local levels to ensure that some groups cannot access rights. These patterns of inclusion and exclusion have led to a parallel journey by non-white groups for rights, a journey which remains unfinished today.
About ten years before the House of Representatives passed the Nineteenth Amendment, young women who worked in textile factories in New York City went on strike to protest unequal pay, harsh work conditions, and the racist, sexist, and classist supervision that consigned their lives to ongoing misery. It was not as if working class women were not part of the suffrage movement--after all, the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment was achieved first in the western states, where people recognized that women were workers, often as co-participants in the quest to create homesteads. But these young women in New York were "immigrants" and, consequently, racial outsiders. Their struggles for economic and social rights did not draw the support of the mainstream women's movements. At the same time, the contributions of African American women and men to this cause, their key role at different stages of the movement as well as their conception of rights which went well beyond the mere right to vote, remained, and continues to remain, under-acknowledged. Racist ideologies also continued to shape policies and practices that enforce a wide variety of boundaries in matters of politics, social life, and economic opportunities against many other citizens and immigrants of color. In the next few sections, I discuss the struggles over rights, how rights have been claimed, and identify impediments to rights. As described in Part I, I use an intersectional approach to reflect on the struggles, and I situate the idea of rights within a wider human rights framework to encapsulate the ways in which racialized minority women (and men) have articulated rights. Their continued struggle to achieve these rights, described in Part II of this Article, reflects the "unfinished journey."
This brief overview has outlined, using experiences of racial minority women and men, the complicated structures that affect who ultimately has the right to vote and, more importantly, who can substantively exercise this right. Several decades of scholarship now indicates that thinking about suffrage as something that was won and enshrined in the Constitution is not sufficient for understanding the extent to which this right has been realized. The use of intersectionality frameworks, which analyze the ways in which structures of race, class, gender, sexuality, and other axes of power and discrimination, offer ways to examine the immense roadblocks for people to access their rights to vote. The adoption of a human rights approach that emphasizes the links between rights helps us to further focus on the complex structural barriers that impede access to rights to vote. For people of color, labor rights, rights to education, housing, health and other conditions that enable them to build lives of human dignity--lives that are not constantly buffeted by insecurities arising from the economic, political, and social structural systems--are intimately tied to the right to vote.
The moment when the Amendment, granting the right to women's suffrage, was ratified in 1920 was very significant. It was a culmination of decades of struggles that are important to celebrate in U.S. history. However, without understanding that access to the right to vote is an outcome of intersecting structural barriers, it is difficult to understand the continuing impediments that affect racialized minority women. Without robust solidarities among those who are struggling for fair labor conditions, violence-free lives, and access to voting rights without having to repeatedly prove they belong on the voter lists, the promises of franchise are not attained. It is important to pay attention to the struggles that continue in our own backyards, as many groups continue on the unfinished journey to claim promises of suffrage in fullest measure. In essence, the struggles for suffrage were about being recognized as humans worthy of rights. That essence remains a distant dream for many citizens in this country.
Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology & Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, USA.


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Asteroid the size of a football field makes 'surprise' flyby close to Earth
By Jennifer Earl, | Fox News
A football-sized asteroid – labeled 2018 GE3 – buzzed by Earth on April 16, 2018. (Texas A&M)
An asteroid the size of a football field buzzed by Earth Sunday in one of the closest encounters the planet has seen in a while.
At its closest point, the asteroid – called 2018 GE3 – was just 119,500 miles away from Earth's atmosphere, about half the distance between Earth and the moon, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). The estimated diameter of the space rock ranged from 131 to 328 feet, CNEOS reports.
That's nothing compared to asteroids that make up the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which can measure to about 580 miles across, NASA explains on its website. Those asteroids, however, pose no threat to Earth.
The 2018 GE3 asteroid was discovered just one day before it skimmed past Earth in what scientists are calling a "surprise" flyby.
"2018 GE3 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey approaching Earth on April 14th. Hours later, amateur astronomer Michael Jäger of Weißenkirchen Austria video-recorded the space rock gliding through the southern constellation Serpens," Spaceweather.com reported.
WHY NASA IS SENDING A SPACECRAFT TO A METAL ASTEROID CALLED 'PSYCHE'
The asteroid that flew by Earth Sunday was up to six times the size of the meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains in Chelyabinsk back in February 2013.
That meteor – estimated to be about 10 tons and 49 feet wide – entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph and shattered into pieces about 18-32 miles above the ground, injuring 1,100 people (mostly from flying glass), the Russian Academy of Sciences confirmed.
"It might make you feel better (or worse) to know that asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere unnoticed on a fairly regular basis."
— EarthSky
"It doesn't take a very large object. A 10-meter size object already packs the same energy as a nuclear bomb," Andrew Cheng, who led a 2000-2001 mission for NASA to orbit and land on an asteroid, told Fox News at the time.
The April asteroid, however, traveling at a speed of about 66,000 miles per hour, would have likely broken down "due to friction with the air" as soon as it entered Earth's atmosphere, EarthSky reported.
MINING FOR ASTEROIDS WILL BE THE NEXT GOLD RUSH
"However, some of an asteroid this size might have gotten through to Earth's surface, and an asteroid this big is capable of causing some regional damage, depending on various factors such as composition, speed, entry angle, and location of impact," the space website explains. "It might make you feel better (or worse) to know that asteroids enter Earth's atmosphere unnoticed on a fairly regular basis."
NASA tracks asteroids that make close approaches to Earth, providing data on the distance and estimated diameter of each object. At least three other small space rocks are set to fly past Earth on Tuesday – with the largest measuring 111 feet around.
That's significantly smaller than the 2018 GE3 asteroid.
"A preliminary analysis of the orbit of 2018 GE shows this is the closest this particular space rock has come to Earth at least since 1930," EarthSky reports.
Jennifer Earl is an SEO editor for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter @jenearlyspeakin.


For Akron Residents: How Long Does a Metal Roof Last?
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Ben & Jerry's sources Fairtrade Certified bananas, coffee, cocoa, sugar, & vanilla
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Ben & Jerry's ice cream uses responsibly sourced packaging
We are proud to partner with fellow B Corps Greyston & Rhino Bakeries on our Half-Baked ice cream. Both the fudge brownies & cookie dough make this a flavor that not only tastes good, but does good.
A delectable dance of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Chocolate Fudge Brownie. Vanilla ice cream and chocolate ice cream with chunks of cookie dough and fudge browniesits hard to imagine a better combination. Ben & Jerry's Half Baked which got its name because the cookie dough isn't baked, but the brownies has been a bestselling flavor since we first decided to combine our classic ice cream creations back in 2000. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, with big chunks of chocolate chip cookie dough surrounded by vanilla ice cream, was created back in 1984 at our very first Scoop Shop after we received an anonymous fans flavor suggestion. It continues as a flavor phenomenon to this very day. Chocolate Fudge Brownie is a fan-favorite chocolate extravaganza, mixing chocolate ice cream with ridiculously delicious Greyston Bakery brownies. Its been satisfying chocolate lovers since 1991. We know it can be hard to choose between those two legendary flavors. With Half Baked, you don't have to! We work with Fairtrade certified producers for all the cocoa, sugar, and vanilla in our recipes. Greyston Bakery, one of the largest social enterprises in the US, provides the scrumptious brownies for this and all of our frozen dessert flavors. All our ice cream is made with non-GMO sourced ingredients and cage-free eggs. This ice cream pint, like every pint we make, features responsibly sourced packaging.
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Irish lottery ticket sales down €40 million in 2009
31 May 2010 by CasinoListings
The news that Irish lottery ticket sales declined significantly last (2009) year is perhaps an indication of the hard economic times punters have been experiencing. Sales dropped €40 million to €815.1 million as cash-strapped punters stopped buying Lotto tickets - a drop of 11.4% drop in overall sales.
Chief executive Dermot Griffin waived his performance bonus, but media reports indicate that staff numbers rose during 2009, from 92 to 99 people - mostly in administration. Payroll costs consequently rose by more than €300,000 to €7.8 million.
Breaking down the numbers, scratch card revenue declined by €7 million to €163.7 million, and EuroMillions game sales were down €2 million - a Dublin resident won €29 million, Ireland's second biggest EuroMillions prize yet.
The All Or Nothing daily game proved popular, gnerating €3.4 million in less than three months after launching in October 2009, whilst Tellybingo sales were up 2.5% to €14.3 million.
Management noted that online operations had performed well, generating €744,000 from 6,000 online punters, and revealed that there are plans to introduce more internet games.
Winners accounted for a total of €438 million throughout 2009.


A study appearing in Science Translational Medicine puts scientists one step closer to clinical trials to test a gene delivery strategy to improve muscle mass and function in patients with certain degenerative muscle disorders.
Severe weakness of the quadriceps is a defining feature of several neuromuscular disorders. Researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital have shown that a gene delivery strategy that produces follistatin – a naturally occurring protein that inhibits myostatin, a growth factor expressed specifically in skeletal muscle – directly to the quadriceps of non-human primates results in long-term gene expression with muscle enhancing effects, including larger muscles with greater strength.
Previously, Nationwide Children's researchers demonstrated follistatin's therapeutic potential using rodent models. This more recent study produced similar results in non-human primates, in a translational study to demonstrate efficacy in safety in a species more closely related to humans. Non-human primates that received the injection of the follistatin transgene experienced pronounced and durable increases in muscle size and strength. Muscle growth occurred for 12 weeks after treatment, after which time the growth rates appeared to stabilize and were well tolerated, with no adverse events noted over the course of the 15-month study.
"Our studies indicate that this relatively non-invasive approach could have long-term effects, involve few risks and could potentially be effective in various types of degenerative muscle disorders including multiple forms of muscular dystrophy," said the study's corresponding author, Brian Kaspar, PhD, principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.
Jerry Mendell, MD, principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy at Nationwide Children's added, "These findings serve as the basis for testing in patients and give us confidence in moving forward with our translational program of follistatin to enhance muscle mass."
The research team has developed a plan with the Food and Drug Administration and is currently in the process of performing the formal toxicology and biodistribution studies to support initiating a human clinical trial.
The potential use of this strategy for muscle strengthening has important implications for patients with muscle diseases including Duchenne muscular dystrophy – the most common form of muscular dystrophy – as well as for the planned first clinical trial for inclusion body myositis. It also may be applicable to other forms of muscular dystrophy, such as facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, in which gene replacement or other types of gene manipulation are not feasible because of the absence of a specific gene defect.
impatient to browse through even more of your current writing, regards!
Any other information on this treatment since 2009?


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Father Sebastian Leonard, OSB
Saint Meinrad Class: O 1957
Fr. Sebastian Leonard, OSB, 88, a monk and priest of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, St. Meinrad, IN, died on September 21, 2019, at the monastery. He was a jubilarian both of profession and priesthood.
He was born in Indianapolis, IN, on September 4, 1931. Fr. Sebastian entered Saint Meinrad minor seminary in 1944. He was invested as a novice July 31, 1951, and professed his simple vows on August 1, 1952, and solemn vows on September 8, 1955. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 3, 1957.
Fr. Sebastian received a baccalaureate in sacred theology from The Catholic University in Washington, D.C., in 1958. Appointed choirmaster for the monastic community, a position he held for four years, he also began teaching history at Saint Meinrad College and the School of Theology.
He earned an MA degree in modern European history at Georgetown University in 1962. He then studied at Oxford University, where in 1968 he was awarded a doctorate of philosophy in modern history.
In 1971 he was appointed an associate dean of students in the School of Theology and director of Conley Hall. He taught history in Saint Meinrad College until 1976 and in the School of Theology until 1983.
In 1983, Fr. Sebastian was assigned as associate pastor at St. David Church in Davie, FL, where he served for 11 years. He returned to Saint Meinrad in 1994, and the following year took an assignment as chaplain and professor at Canterbury School in New Milford, CT. He served there for the next 20 years, becoming the longest-serving chaplain in the school's history.
Since 2015, he had resided in the monastery infirmary.
Fr. Sebastian was preceded in death by his parents; his sisters, Ellen Falvey, Winifred Strack and Sr. Delia Leonard, SP; his brothers, James, Joseph and William F.; a niece, Maureen Reeser; nephew, Vincent Maxwell; and cousin, Mary Agnes Spellman. He is survived by a sister, Margaret Maxwell (and husband John); sister-in-law, Patricia Leonard; and nieces and nephews.
The Office of the Dead will be prayed at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 24, in the Archabbey Church, followed by visitation until 9 p.m. Visitation on Wednesday will be from 8 to 9:45 a.m. in the Archabbey Church, followed by the funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Burial will follow in the Archabbey Cemetery. All times are Central Time.


if you aren't on instagram then you probably don't know what i'm talking about (although you can share it through any media: twitter, facebook, tumblr, flickr, blog, etc.) but here's a recap of my january photo a day challenge. i love how it challenged me to take photos of other things besides P. ;) thanks Chantelle over at fat mum slim for this awesome idea.