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If You Watch One of These Cree Light Bulb Ads You Will Want to Watch All Eight
Nothing could make us yawn wider then receiving a new campaign for a light bulb brand. But when the emails says "the campaign is a copywriter wet dream," our interest is peaked.
And this campaign from Raleigh-based Baldwin& is, indeed, peak-worthy. Featuring the entrancing Lance Reddick, known for his roles in Fringe and The Wire, we are thrust into a world of choice which pits the Cree LED light bulb against other, less innovative bulbs.
In one spot, Metaphorical, Reddick, holding a $100 bill, says, "Let's assume this is your money. And you'd like your money to stay your money. Then why do you continue to do this -- holds bill offscreen; it comes back with a chunk missing...eaten by a goat -- to your money? Save your hard-earned money... or feed it to metaphorical money goats."
Another spot, Grey Market, begins, "In light of the recent incandescent bulb ban, analysts have predicted the rise of an illicit grey market for the outlawed bulbs. He urges viewers to buy Cree instead or "stay beholden to the old ways, and attempt to navigate the shady, banned bulb underworld, trading jugs of grandpa's porch juice for bulbs out of a rusty hatchback from a guy with a tattoo on his forehead who goes by the name of Rattlesnake."
There are 8 spots in the campaign and they are all entrancingly awesome. We can't believe we just said that about a series of light bulb ads but, yes, it's true. Perhaps the best light bulb ads we have ever seen. | 82,313,341 |
Q:
unable to set existing text view from xml to textview array
I have 2 TextView in my Xml file and I have set them in TextView Array. How Can I access them based on the index.
Please Help me regarding this.
A:
Textview a,s,d,f,g,h;
intialize all;
TextView[] text_arrays;
text_array = new TextView[]{a,s,d,f,g,h};
now do what you want like
text_array[0].setText("Text View One);
text_array[1].setText("Text View two);
text_array[5].setText("Text View six);
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Hey all. I’ve had Soylent a few versions ago and might have to go back to it due to time. Does this mixture sound like something that could be good? Also note, I’m big on consuming sugar. For some reason it helps me throughout the day.
Normal daily serving of the powdered version of Soylent
Three servings of instant tea
Two servings of powdered peanut butter
One cup sugar
~Mix it all together.
If I get a second, overnight job I’ll try this out and tweak it in addition to having a multi-vitamin every day. The excess sugar is for more instant energy. Same with the caffeine. The added protein is to help heal things that will be damaged from up to sixteen hours of work some days.
Does it sound like something that, throughout the day with little sleep, would help me to keep going?
Seems fine. Extra protien and salt would be good if you’re physical all day. The extra sugar probably isn’t needed, but 1 cup spread out across the day would not be terrible. Though you may find you don’t need it.
I would avoid putting boiling tea into the soylent, as vitamin C can degrade at hot temperatures. Warm (body temperature) is fine. If it’s just tea power, then go ahead.
And remember to drink water. | 82,313,600 |
Q:
Why does subsection counter not reset in appendix?
So when I put subsections in the appendix, the counter does not reset after starting new chapters. I'm about to change the subsections to unnamed sections, but still wondering why the counter does not reset. Maybe it is a bug?
This is the code that will show the problem. When I change this into a pdf file, the last two subsections show up as A.0.3 and B.0.4 instead of A.0.1 and B.0.1
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{chap1}
\section{sec1.1}
\subsection{sub1.1.1}
\subsection{sub1.1.2}
\appendix
\chapter{app1}
\subsection{app1.0.1}
\chapter{app2}
\subsection{app2.0.1}
\end{document}
A:
If the O.P. uses an older (pre 2015-release) of the LaTeX core, the section number isn't reset. Then fixltx2e should be used. (I've tested with a TeXLive 2014 version still on my computer)
With the new kernel this isn't necessary any longer
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fixltx2e} % Does no harm, even in a 2015 release.
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\chapter{chap1}
\section{sec1.1}
\subsection{sub1.1.1}
\subsection{sub1.1.2}
\appendix
\chapter{app1}
\subsection{app1.0.1}
\chapter{app2}
\subsection{app2.0.1}
\end{document}
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On Tuesday morning, former owner of the San Francisco 49ers Eddie DeBartolo Jr was granted clemency for his 1998 felony conviction by President Donald Trump, thanks to an executive order signed by Trump. If you’re unfamiliar with the story, back in the 90s, Eddie wanted to get a riverboat casino license. The then governor wanted a bribe, so Eddie gave it to him and was busted as part of a sting of some sort. DeBartolo Jr. entered a plea bargain and testified against the governor, which in turn was part of the reason that led DeBartolo to lose the 49ers. DeBartolo eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to report a felony and receiving a $1 million fine and two years of probation in return for his testimony against Edwin Edwards, who was the governor of Louisana at the time. Not only did Bartolo never receive the license, but he was fined by the NFL and barred from active control of the 49ers for a year. Instead of returning to the team, DeBartolo ceded control of the organization to his sister, Denise York, in 2000.
DeBartolo was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016, with the 49ers winning all five of the franchise’s Super Bowls under DeBartolo. He has made attempts to rehabilitate his image, and I imagine today’s White House visit was another step in that direction. There was another former 49er at the White House on Tuesday. Hall of Fame wide receiver Jerry Rice, Charles Haley, and Ronnie Lott were all on hand.
Jerry Rice and other ex-NFL players are at the White House today.
Trump has pardoned Eddie DeBartolo Jr., the former owner of the 49ers who bribed a Louisiana governor.
"I take my hat off to Donald Trump for what he did," Rice said. pic.twitter.com/PzEihlyCPy — Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) February 18, 2020
All three players successfully lobbied Trump to pardon DeBartolo. Their dedication to DeBartolo is evident. I can understand how some might not like the fact that this is how you’d use your power, considering there are people out there who actually need pardons, so this may come off as an unnecessary action. Also, groups of people tend to stick together. In this case, that’s the rich. | 82,313,829 |
Q:
How to setup Application Insights for on-premise Service Fabric?
Is it possible to add application insights for web api that's hosted on the on-premise version of service fabric?
So far I have tried to add the application insights to my project and wondering where to send for monitoring. It was easy when app is also on cloud.
I believe there is no on-premise application insights service, so even if the web api is hosted on-premise over service fabric; one must use cloud version application insights service, is that correct? In that case can anyone let me know how to setup?
A:
There is no "on premise" application insights, but as long as your on premise service has access to send outbound data, you can use application insights on your site. You won't be able to use some features, like webtests, because application insights wont be able to make calls into your site.
Setup is the same as always, create an application insights resource in azure, and either configure it in visual studio, or manually set the instrumentation key in your applicationinsights.config (or via code) in your app.
If you need to configure outbound firewall rules or anything to let AI send data, that information is all here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/application-insights/app-insights-ip-addresses
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Who We Are
Mobtecnica Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is a young and resonant organization focused on Mobile Technology and Development of Custom Mobile Applications.
MOBTECNICA business structure is unique among other Mobile Application Development Companies. Although it is one of the largest and most well-established Mobile Application Development Company in Cochin, Kerala, with over 20 employees in three offices, Mobtecnica has been designed to retain the creative intensity that characterizes the smallest and best mobile application development companies. It is all of the above that works in consistently strong, smart, distinctive, memorable and impactful results that kept MOBTECNICA at the forefront in its field during these few competitive years. | 82,314,001 |
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2
12th Aug, 2002
Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX 2 is the newest game scheduled for release on Game Boy Advance under Activision's O2 brand. Based on the series that originally started on PlayStation years ago, the game lets players travel with Mat Hoffman, Mike Escamilla, Chad Kagy, Cory Nastazio, Joe Kowalski, Rick Thorne, Kevin Robinson, and Simon Tabron across eight cities in the United States. Expanding the extreme sports genre, Mat Hoffman's Pro B... Read More | 82,314,415 |
1983 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
The 1983 Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament was the 1983 postseason baseball championship of the NCAA Division I Atlantic Coast Conference, held at Boshamer Stadium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina from April 20-25. defeated in the championship game, earning the conference's automatic bid to the 1983 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.
Format
All eight ACC teams qualified for the eight-team double-elimination tournament.
Seeding procedure
From TheACC.com:
On Saturday (The Semifinals) of the ACC Baseball Tournament, the match-up between the four remaining teams is determined by previous opponents. If teams have played previously in the tournament, every attempt will be made to avoid a repeat match-up between teams, regardless of seed. If it is impossible to avoid a match-up that already occurred, then the determination is based on avoiding the most recent, current tournament match-up, regardless of seed. If no match-ups have occurred, the team left in the winners bracket will play the lowest seeded team from the losers bracket.
Regular season results
Tournament
See also
College World Series
NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament
References
Tournament
Category:Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Tournament | 82,314,516 |
Here's a reason for Royal Enfield patrons to celebrate. Potential customers, who wish to buy new motorcycles this year, can avail an extended warranty of two years or 20,000km on their bike.
Prior to this, there was no option to extend the warranty of a Royal Enfield bike. You could ony avail a standard one year limited warranty.
The extended warranty will help boost demand, which the factory hopes will translate into more Royal Enfield owners. Apart from that, Royal Enfield, with a set of new and upgraded engines are now facing fewer problems than on the previous generation motorbikes, making the extended warranty program possible.
This is a win-win situation for both, the company and clients. Royal Enfield now offers 11 different motorcycles in its existing motorcycle portfolio. | 82,314,553 |
Magnetic nanoparticles-loaded Physarum polycephalum: Directed growth and particles distribution.
Slime mold Physarum polycephalum is a single cell visible by an unaided eye. The slime mold optimizes its network of protoplasmic tubes to minimize expose to repellents and maximize expose to attractants and to make efficient transportation of nutrients. These properties of P. polycephalum, together with simplicity of its handling and culturing, make it a priceless substrate for designing novel sensing, computing and actuating architectures in living amorphous biological substrate. We demonstrate that, by loading Physarum with magnetic particles and positioning it in a magnetic field, we can, in principle, impose analog control procedures to precisely route active growing zones of slime mold and shape topology of its protoplasmic networks. | 82,315,097 |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a process for producing polyurethane, and more particularly, to a process for producing polyurethane suitable for molding by reaction injection molding process (abbreviated as RIM process hereinafter).
2. Description of the Prior Art
RIM process has been in practical use for the production of polyurethane moldings to be applied to automotive exterior and interior members such as bumpers, instrument panels, and steering wheels. It is known that the RIM process employs a polyol component which is a polyether polyol having a molecular weight of 1,500 to 12,000 and a chain extender which is a mixture composed of 5-45 wt % of aromatic diamine and 55-95 wt % of low-molecular weight diol. (See Japanese Patent Laid-open No. 74325/1982.)
The conventional polyurethane production process employs a gas loading device to ensure the mold filling of the reaction mix. On the other hand, there is a demand in the polyurethane industry that polyurethane with good moldability be produced by using the existing metering pump of axial plunger type. Unfortunately, the metering pump of axial plunger type has such a small delivery that it cannot be run with a large amount of gas loading required for the complete mold filling.
An aromatic diamine as the chain extender has a disadvantage that it, when used in excess of a certain amount, prevents the molding from electrostatic coating (which is a common finishing process). Thus there is a strong demand for a process for producing polyurethane which is superior in moldability and physical properties and receptive of electrostatic coating.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a process for producing polyurethane moldings with good moldability by using a metering pump which has such a low delivery that it does not permit a large amount of gas loading.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a process for producing polyurethane, said process permitting reducing the frequency of the application of external mold release agents.
It is further another object of the present invention to provide a process for producing polyurethane which is receptive of efficient electrostatic coating.
Other and further objects, features, and advantages of the present invention will appear more fully from the following description and claims. | 82,315,107 |
News..Exclusives..Relationships..Everything You Need To Know & YES The Word of God
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Stevie Wonder Joins The Group Of 'Trump Haters'
Stevie Wonder joined the solidarity movement which now targets Donald Trump, by taking a knee at a NYC festival.
Stevie performed at the 2017 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park Saturday night. Stevie was onstage with his son Kwame Morris when he made his move.
Stevie doubled down and took 2 knees, clearly in response to Trump's tirade Friday night when he called for NFL owners to fire those "son's of bitches" who dare to take a knee during the National Anthem. Stevie wonder now in? The President has a 'long' way to go, lol. | 82,315,109 |
Cat Country 107.3 » Electionhttp://catcountry1073.com
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Five New Jersey Natives We'd Write in on the Presidential Ballothttp://catcountry1073.com/five-new-jersey-natives-wed-write-in-on-the-presidential-ballot/
http://catcountry1073.com/five-new-jersey-natives-wed-write-in-on-the-presidential-ballot/#commentsTue, 16 Aug 2016 19:00:01 +0000http://catcountry1073.com/?p=327166Continue reading…]]>I think we can all agree this election season has already been very intense. If you're having trouble figuring out who to choose on the ballot, you can always write your own choice in!
]]>http://catcountry1073.com/five-new-jersey-natives-wed-write-in-on-the-presidential-ballot/feed/0Miljan MladenovicCarrie Underwood on Upcoming Election: 'I Want People to Do Their Homework'http://catcountry1073.com/carrie-underwood-on-upcoming-election-i-want-people-to-do-their-homework/
http://catcountry1073.com/carrie-underwood-on-upcoming-election-i-want-people-to-do-their-homework/#commentsWed, 24 Feb 2016 13:00:29 +0000http://tasteofcountry.com/carrie-underwood-2016-election/Continue reading…]]>As the presidential election approaches, Carrie Underwood is making sure she's very aware as to what is going on in the world— and she urges others to do the same.
]]>http://catcountry1073.com/carrie-underwood-on-upcoming-election-i-want-people-to-do-their-homework/feed/0Slaven Vlasic, Getty ImagesVoting Location Changes Due to Sandyhttp://catcountry1073.com/voting-location-changes-due-to-sandy/
http://catcountry1073.com/voting-location-changes-due-to-sandy/#commentsMon, 05 Nov 2012 11:50:01 +0000http://catcountry1073.com/?p=118576Continue reading…]]>Atlantic County officials have announced some polling place changes, as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
]]>http://catcountry1073.com/voting-location-changes-due-to-sandy/feed/0joebelangerNew Jersey Decides: How You Can Register to Vote in NJ and Other 2012 Election Informationhttp://catcountry1073.com/new-jersey-decides-how-you-can-register-to-vote-in-nj-and-other-2012-election-information/
http://catcountry1073.com/new-jersey-decides-how-you-can-register-to-vote-in-nj-and-other-2012-election-information/#commentsFri, 05 Oct 2012 12:28:27 +0000http://nj1015.com/?p=173200Continue reading…]]>New Jersey and the nation go to the polls on Tuesday, November 6. Here's a preview of the election and how you make sure you get to cast a ballot and have your vote count. | 82,315,234 |
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It has been just over three weeks since college basketball's season ended. The biggest news in the sport, for the most part over the past 20 days, has been the litany of NBA Draft decisions. Whereas the NCAA and NBA used to have hasty, strict deadlines for players to definitively declare and/or remove themselves from the draft pool, prospects are (rightfully) afforded much more time to determine if they will stay or go.
The NBA's deadline to withdraw from the draft, officially, is June 12 -- 10 days before selections will be made at Barclays Center, in Brooklyn. But that's really only for international prospects. The NCAA's deadline, which hits earlier, was voted into effect last year. American college players have until 10 days after the conclusion of the annual skills combine to settle on a decision, meaning college fellas this year have until May 24 (the combine ends May 14) to decide if they're going to return to school.
It's an ideal window ... for everyone except college basketball coaches. But them's the breaks, and if you have players good enough to test the waters, you've done your job right. This is a necessary evil, and evil's not even the right word here. A necessary balance, if you will. With that in mind, and with a month to go before we have full knowledge on who's gone for good and who opts to return to college hoops, let's look at the decisions that are already final. We have teams on either side: Who has fallen behind and who has been boosted by draft decisions in the past month.
One note before we get going, because you're not going to see every team listed here. Some schools were so bad or irregular (Washington, NC State, Syracuse, Cal) that losing players they expected to lose doesn't mean they're necessarily "hurt" by those decisions. On other side, teams like Maryland (Melo Trimble) and Nevada (Cameron Oliver) were set up to be pretty good next season despite the expected losses, so they weren't completely "hurt" by those choices either.
For the complete, official list of who has put their names into the draft pool, check here.
Hurt
The Wildcats will reload, no doubt, but losing sophomores Isaiah Briscoe and Isaac Humphries, on top of Bam Adebayo, Malik Monk, De'Aaron Fox and potentially Hamidou Diallo? It means John Calipari will have more turnover than even he expected as of a month ago. Kentucky isn't always hurt by draft decisions, but I think next season's team won't be as good as this season's team because eight of UK's top nine players won't be back.
The Bulldogs will be top-25 caliber again next season, but two players have left the program -- and it's two players who were not necessarily thought to be gone for sure as recently as early February: Zach Collins and Nigel Williams-Goss. NWG could have been the most important player in college basketball next season, and Collins could have turned into a top-15 guy. Plus, Johnathan Williams is going through the process, but should return. Gonzaga will be a notch below what it was in 2016-17.
The Ducks without question will take a significant step back next season due to losing Jordan Bell, Tyler Dorsey and Dillon Brooks. Bell was the least valuable of those three, and he still would've been a top-40 player next season. Brooks could have been Pac-12 Player of the Year again. Oregon will still have enough talent to be a top-five Pac-12 team, but had all of these players opted to return, Oregon would have had a solid shot at three straight Elite Eight runs. Now Dana Altman starts anew.
You lose Lonzo Ball ball, you're hurt by his departure in a big way. No getting around it. Even if he was the only one going, UCLA would be in this category. He's not the only one leaving, though. Fellow freshmen TJ Leaf and Ike Anigbogu (I know, you barely remember seeing him play, but he's going to get picked) are also gone. Elsewhere, Thomas Welsh and Aaron Holiday are in the evaluation process as well. The Bruins will go from having a top-three offense to being something of a mystery in 2017-18.
P.J. Dozier is opting to leave, and when you pair that draft decision with the departure of senior Sindarius Thornwell, it means South Carolina could have trouble making the NCAA Tournament next season. I'm not trying to explicitly doubt Frank Martin, because we all know that can turn on you, but it's obvious that South Carolina is going to be very different next season. Dozier would have had a shot at being a top-three player in the SEC had he returned.
Devin Robinson is gone and John Egbunu is testing the waters. Florida, in my estimation, would be a borderline top-20 team without both of these guys. You get Egbunu back (should happen, I think), then you're in the mix for the top 15. UF isn't hurt big-time by this, but losing Robinson does have impact.
I was ready to proclaim Jarrett Allen a top-15 player next season, but we hardly knew him after all. With UT having a bad season and Allen playing in anonymity, his college career is gone in a whoosh. The Longhorns also sit and wait on point guard Andrew Jones, who is exploring his options but absolutely should head on back to Shaka Smart.
The Seminoles will take a massive step back next season because they're losing their three best players, all underclassmen who have signed with agents: Jonathan Isaac, Dwayne Bacon and Xavier Rathan-Mayes. The Noles earned a No. 3 seed in the NCAAs but couldn't reach the Sweet 16. Was that Leonard Hamilton's last realistic chance at a Final Four? Not if he can land five-star 2017 forward Kevin Knox, who is forecast to land at Duke or North Carolina.
The Demon Deacons got all they could out of John Collins, a low-ranked prospect who turned into a first-round talent in two seasons with Danny Manning. Wake Forest is something of a mystery team next season. Had Collins returned, most would have had the Deacs in the NCAAs. Instead, Wake Forest will try to recreate its success without the player who was the engine and the oil.
You lose a point guard with the talent of Jawun Evans, you're by nature hurt by that decision. The Cowboys do get Jeffery Carroll back, but with new coach Mike Boynton taking over for Brad Underwood, this situation is going to be an interesting one to watch play out. Evans was a two-and-through type of prospect, so his decision isn't a shocker.
Helped
Miles Bridges making his decision to return amounted to the most important on-court call for any program in college basketball. The Spartans go from a top-15 team to a top-three team with his choice to stay for his sophomore season, and now Tom Izzo will enter next season with the strongest sophomore class in the sport. Bridges will have Cassius Winston, Josh Langford and Nick Ward back. There will be Final Four expectations, perhaps expectations as high as they've been in East Lansing in more than a decade.
Allonzo Trier's decision to come back, combined with a top-five incoming recruiting class, overrides any confirmed or potential losses from the senior class and other underclassmen opting to go pro. Trier is the second-biggest decision to Bridges. Sean Miller's team will have Final Four expectations as well. If Arizona can get Chance Comanche and Rawle Alkins back (both currently testing waters, both better suited for another season in college), then the argument can be made that Arizona has the deepest roster of talent-plus-experience heading into 2017-18.
Frank Jackson is in the process of figuring out if he'll leave Duke after one season (I think he comes back), but it's Grayson Allen's choice to return that helps Duke out in a big way. The Blue Devils will look very different next season, but Allen's return gives this team a former All-American on the roster. Any time you can get that, as opposed to losing that player to the NBA, you are by definition helped. Even if it's Allen and all that comes with him. If Allen wasn't coming back, I wouldn't slot Duke in my preseason top 10.
Devonte' Graham could have gone to the NBA if he really wanted, but I think he's sensing a chance at having a Frank Mason-type of a monster season as a senior. If that happens, and if Kansas wins 30-plus games again, he'll have a good shot at being drafted between 25-35 a year from now. Kansas is tangibly boosted and steadied by Graham's call to come back. A win for Bill Self, who's doing things differently these days.
Mikal Bridges and Jalen Brunson will both be drafted whenever they opt to leave. For Jay Wright, he'll have the best team in the Big East again because both these guys will be back for their junior seasons. Brunson is a sleeper choice for National Player of the Year, while Bridges should break out and become one of the 10 best players of statistical impact in the Big East. Villanova has a good chance at chasing a No. 1 seed again.
Bruce Brown's choice to return to Miami not only makes the Hurricanes a sexy Final Four pick, it also gives Jim Larranaga his scariest roster ever. Miami is now fully loaded and will compete with North Carolina, Louisville and Duke for the ACC title. This will be the non-traditional chic top-10 team by the time we get to November. Brown is among the best candidates for a breakout season.
Bonzie Colson was a player I thought would certainly come back, and so he did. He's a likely choice for first-team All-America status come November. Notre Dame has hopes of making a Final Four in 2018 because Colson -- who is Draymond Green-like at the college level in his all-around ability and value -- will play his senior season for Mike Brey. Get old and stay old. That's what Notre Dame does.
Robert Williams, who had a shot at being a top-15 pick, is back. Tyler Davis, too. These decisions mean the Aggies will be ranked in the preseason polls and should be a top-three team in the SEC next season. You might not know Williams' game well, but that will change by Christmas, I think.
Yes, the Bluejays lose freshman sensation Justin Patton, but getting Marcus Foster back is the bigger deal. Creighton has a realistic chance at getting to the 2018 NCAA Tournament thanks to Foster's decision. I think he'll average 23 or 24 points next season. My guess: Greg McDermott's team winds up as a No. 7 seed next March.
E.C. Matthews stays for his senior season, and with this and all that URI returns, the Rams might be able to make consecutive NCAA Tournaments for only the third time in program history. Top-two team in the A-10 next season. One of the most important under-the-radar decisions here. Matthews could have a humongous senior season.
Jalen Adams will be back, and UConn will need him to play at his absolute best. The Huskies get Alterique Gilbert and Terry Larrier returning after season-ending injuries. Connecticut has to be better. Adams is a joy to watch. If the team can stay healthy, Adams will be a top-15 point guard and Kevin Ollie will be back in the Big Dance.
Twisting in the wind
There are two players still in the process of figuring things out: Theo Pinson and Tony Bradley. The Tar Heels definitely lost Justin Jackson. Joel Berry II announced Tuesday he would be back. UNC without Pinson and Bradley is not a top-five team. With both, the Tar Heels are capable of repeating. I think both return, but if Bradley opted to go it would not be a shock.
Deng Adel and Donovan Mitchell are testing. Jaylen Johnson is definitely gone. Louisville has an argument for preseason No. 1 if Adel and Mitchell come back. Without them, the Cards are probably outside the top 15 for me. Rick Pitino hasn't had to deal with many freshmen and sophomores leaving early in recent years. Few teams are riding on more than Louisville with Adel and Mitchell (who could be a STAR next season).
Quite a list here for new coach Archie Miller. Thomas Bryant, Robert Johnson and James Blackmon Jr. are all testing. OG Anunoby is definitely gone. The Hoosiers could be anywhere from 20th to 50th next season depending on which of those three guys come back. No matter who does come back (Blackmon and Johnson absolutely should), it's going to be so intriguing to watch IU next season. Perspective and patience is key for Indiana fans in Year 1 of the Archie regime.
Johnathan Motley is deciding, and if he comes back, Baylor has to be a top-10 team. If he does not, I can't argue if you want to keep the Bears outside of the top 20. Scott Drew's club had big-time victories last season, and Motley was a top-10 player of value, no doubt. He probably should go, if I'm being honest. But it would be so sweet to see him return. One of the toughest calls of any on the board.
The Trojans might be the best team most people aren't giving enough credence to. Bennie Boatwright and Shaqquan Aaron are the ones who will determine if USC is a top-two Pac-12 team next season. Two other players who were flirting with NBA Draft prep -- Chimezie Metu and Elijah Stewart -- will be back. That should be enough to put USC in the NCAAs for the third straight season.
Moritz Wagner and D.J. Wilson had breakout performances in March. The Wolverines can be a top-four Big Ten team if both opt to return, as I think both clearly should. But until those decisions are finalized, U of M is twisting in the wind a bit. In mid-February, the idea either, let alone both of these guys would be testing the waters wasn't based in reality.
The Hogs' two most important players who could come back are Jaylen Barford and Daryl Macon. If both return, Arkansas will have a good shot at getting back to the NCAAs because I think these two could combine to average better than 30 points. Pivotal decisions here. I think both play in college in 2017-18.
Vince Edwards and Isaac Haas are the wait-and-see guys here. Caleb Swanigan, I have to believe, has played his last game in college. He has yet to sign with an agent, but Swanigan's stock is quite high right now. Haas almost certainly should be back. Edwards might end up testing well. Purdue could really, really use Edwards next season. If Swanigan does opt to return, then he's the inarguable preseason National Player of the Year.
Trevon Bluiett is deciding while Edmond Sumner is definitely gone. Blueitt was so good in the NCAA Tournament he's parlaying those performances to getting real looks from NBA teams. Xavier absolutely needs him in order to be a top-30 team next season, though.
Semi Ojeleye is the key guy here. Shake Milton returning is only half the battle. The Ponies lose Ben Moore and Sterling Brown to graduation, so getting Ojeleye back means SMU could again qualify as a top-25 team and perhaps have the AAC Player of the Year come March.
Khadeen Carrington, who was thought to be testing the waters, is not. But Angel Delgado is, and no player in college basketball -- other than Swanigan -- was a bigger double-double force last season than Delgado. Seton Hall's entire dynamic is altered in a huge way if he doesn't return. The Pirates need their big guy in order to go dancing for a third straight season.
Now, we wait. Over the next three weeks, we'll have names confirmed almost daily. Guys gone for good, others returning. From there, the picture of the 2017-18 season starts to take shape. | 82,315,980 |
Update 9 May, 2016: The founders of Squad have released a statement denying the comments made by their ex-employees on 4chan and elsewhere and say there will be news about Kerbal Space Program soon.
After the attention gotten by PDtv and others in their statements, detailed below, about the poor treatment of staff at Kerbal Space Program developers Squad, the founders of the studio have responded with an official statement on the site. In it, they deny the allegations, but promise to always be mindful of feedback from the community about the game and company, and promise that news is coming about KSP that will “make the team proud of their efforts.”
KSP is a great creative game. In fact, it made it into our list of the best sandbox games on PC.
“In Squad we are very proud of having a very united team, committed to creating a high quality product, improving themselves as professionals, promoting and respecting the opinion of every member of the KSP community” reads the statement.
“The comments made by those former team members does not reflect the reality of our company,” it continues “but in Squad we will keep moving along with our commitment of respecting and listening to all of those who want to make constructive criticism about the company or KSP.”
It finishes with the promise of more news coming soon, and is signed by the founders. Exactly what that news is remains anyone’s guess, but development on the game continues as its sales do. Patch 1.1 was released just a few weeks ago, and 1.2 is presumably in the works.
Original Story, 6 May 2016:An ex Squad employee who worked on Kerbal Space Program has publicly slammed the studio for low pay, long hours and firing him once they’d squeezed everything out of him.
PDtv, Squad’s former media director, took to 4chan (via Develop) to speak out against what he saw as a mistreatment of staff from the Mexican studio.
The reason he’s waited until now due to the expiration of an NDA that previously prevented him from going public with his frustrations.
In the tirade, PDtv claims that, after “building the foundations” of the space sim, Anthony Keeton, ‘Captain Skunky’, Rob Nelson and himself were all let go from the company. “After running out of usefulness and competing the brunt of the work we were all fired,” he explained.
Another criticism was aimed at low pay, in which PDtv claims to have earned $2,400 per year, for 40 hours a week. “Welcome to Squad; we pay you like shit, then fire you when your work is finished so we can just take it over and maintain it,” he said.
Another area of concern was the long working hours related to game studio crunch culture. According to PDtv, another developer “was sometimes forced to work 16-plus hours a day EVERY day during crunch time while the other developers would get days off and only have to work eight hours a day”.
A handful of current and former Squad workers have since added their own perspectives via social media, many of them collated by Develop. | 82,315,986 |
Why to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress - oneplusone
http://www.guestlistapp.com/blog/2009/10/21/5-reasons-to-use-a-static-site-generator-instead-of-wordpress.html
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mseebach
Why NOT to use a static site generator instead of Wordpress:
\- You can't update your blog unless you have a computer with the right
toolchain available. That includes uploading a cute photo from your
smartphone.
\- You can't do delayed posts.
\- You can't have local comments (you can have disqus or similar, but then
comments aren't part of your page, and won't show up in searches). Pingbacks
won't work.
\- You probably don't need fast. Wordpress + WPcache is really fast.
If your static site does any of this, it's not static, it's a dynamic site
that uses the filesystem rather than a DB for storage -- which might very well
be clever, but that's not what's being argued.
~~~
sophacles
Um.. Why cant the blog be static and have a dynamic webapp hanging off /admin/
which operates as a static site generator? The only difference would be that a
program on the web server creates the static files and copies them to the
correct directories, instead of a local program creating the static files and
copying them to the correct directories.
Edit: I should clarify that I am refering to programs that create static html
files. I read the story as dynamic == generates html from some other stored
format, be it database or flat files in rst.
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mseebach
One of the reasons listed was better security by having _no_ code executed on
the server. That argument falls apart if you're willing to have some code
running.
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jrockway
The webserver and OS are not code?
Oh, you mean world-accessible PHP scripts. That's easy to fix by letting your
webserver handle authentication to /admin.
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mseebach
Code that has write-permission to anything fancy.
I'm in pedantic territory here, I don't particularly mind the idea of
generating static files. My personal opinion is that having a dynamic frontend
with fast caching for the most popular views is a better solution for that
vast majority of CMS/blog (ie: dynamic) sites out there.
What I do mind, are "I use semi-obscure technology X, here's why X is better
than established, proven and hugely popular technology Y in every conceivable
way" style ego-boosting articles. I'd rather read a show and tell about how
this technology solved a real-life problem for you. I also enjoy the honesty
of acknowledging the shortcomings.
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phsr
Jeff Atwood uses Movable Type for the same reason: it can pump out static
HTML. This makes a lot of sense, get rid of the moving parts, and your site
will be faster. It's also nice to have be able use your own text editor. Its
great to have it under source control also!
Here's an idea: You could use this in conjunction with Dropbox and a custom
workflow to automatically update your blog from the road without access to
your home machine (I'm think OS X folder actions would work well here)
Related Coding Horror
post:<http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001291.html>
~~~
brlewis
You will see more things like this happening in the future. My site,
<http://ourdoings.com/> already lets you use dropbox to upload photos. It
automatically makes a skeleton blog backdated by the date the photos were
taken, so you can just throw all your photos into a dropbox folder, and when
you have connectivity they get uploaded and organized. A guy just told me the
other day he wished he'd had this during his 5.5+-year sailing trip.
<http://ourdoings.com/sailingtripphotos/>
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swombat
This is exactly what I use for <http://danieltenner.com> (well, almost - I use
Webby, not Jekyll). In fact, I've made the source code for that available
here, if anyone's interested:
<http://github.com/swombat/danieltenner.com>
Deploying like this has another advantage: you can deploy to a subdirectory of
an existing app. The benefit of that is simple: pagerank transfers better from
mysite.com/blog to mysite.com (since they are considered to be the same site)
than from blog.mysite.com to mysite.com (since they are considered to be two
different sites).
Edit: I should add that there is one disadvantage to this approach. If you
have non-technical members on your team, and you want to encourage them to
blog as well, making them learn to use Textile formatting and command line
tools is not a great encouragement.
~~~
DanielStraight
Kudos on having the best interface for reading I have ever seen on a blog.
Yours is the only website I've ever seen that Readability makes less readable.
~~~
swombat
Hehe, thanks :-)
That was one of my tests actually, to know when the design was right - if
Readability makes it better, then it still needs improvement!
Of course, that hasn't stopped some people complaining about the font size...
you can't please everybody I guess :-P
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mcav
I also do this, with a custom python script. Yeah, there are disadvantages,
but right now I love its simplicity. I don't have to worry about keeping
Wordpress updated; I just make a new static file and run the update script.
If my needs ever change (needing more than static files provide), I'll
probably put in a simple Python web server, but still use the static files to
edit my content. Eh, we'll see. What I have now works, and I like it -- and
that's all that's important.
EDIT: In other words, the best part about a static site isn't that you don't
need a web server to grab the content. It's that you have all of your blog
posts, right there, in plaintext format. They're tangible and easily
migratable into any future format.
When the time comes to have dynamic comments, timed posts, and other features
like that, you can write a tiny Python/Ruby web server that generates HTML for
you to handle some of the simpler tasks. BUT:
If you have Wordpress-like requirements, use Wordpress.
If you don't, a static blog can be a real joy to work with.
If you want a couple small niceties that a static blog can't have (delayed
posts, etc), shove a quick homemade webserver in front.
And in either of those cases, if you are doing more work than you wanted,
switch to an easier option. Making a static blog can sometimes be an easy,
low-mental-energy hobby project to work on, even if you reinvent the wheel
just a little.
~~~
uggedal
I'm also using a custom Python script to generate my blog
(<http://journal.uggedal.com>). It can be found here:
<http://github.com/uggedal/reprise>
Delayed posts:
at now + 1day yourstaticgenerator.py
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btilly
Isn't this obvious? We have a really good toolchain for dealing with
filesystems. The toolchain for dealing with content in databases is not nearly
as good. As a result static content should be kept in the filesystem, even if
you have to play tricks to do it.
The use case for web pages created dynamically out of the database is user
generated content. There our existing toolchain doesn't matter because users
don't get access to your filesystem so you have to create new tools anyways.
And a database makes it easier to keep data structured, takes care of
transactional mechanics, and has good tools for things like failing over in
event of a machine crash.
Seriously we had a build/compilation step as part of deployment back in the
first website I ever worked on. We didn't use a CMS to do it though, we used a
homegrown templating system (later changed to Template Toolkit) and a
Makefile.
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spudlyo
There is a Firefox plugin called "It's all Text!" that puts a little edit
button at the bottom of every multiline text widget. This button fires up your
favorite text editor, and when you save it writes the text back into that text
widget.
~~~
Periodic
I replied to another post with this before finding yours.
One thing we programmers ought to recognize is that it really is all text.
From the moment we type on our keyboard to the time it's viewed in the
reader's browser. If we separate our presentation layer (like HTML rendering)
from our content layer (the actual text with some annotations for things like
headers), we are free to edit the content as we see fit and then we can port
it into any presentation layer, from a text editor to a blog.
Also, you could always just edit in your favorite editor and then copy and
paste, no? Or write a script to take a bunch of flat files and inject them
into your database.
~~~
spudlyo
Copy and paste isn't that reliable, I've had lots of little annoyances with
line breaks and other formatting issues.
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prakash
Tom's post on Jekyll - [http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-
like-a-hac...](http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-
hacker.html)
Maciej wrote about this recently -
[http://idlewords.com/2009/09/using_wordpress_to_generate_fla...](http://idlewords.com/2009/09/using_wordpress_to_generate_flat_files.htm)
------
vital101
With the addition of a plugin or two and a sane Apache configuration,
Wordpress can handle some pretty extreme loads. This is not to say that it's
perfect, but rather that performance doesn't have to be a concern if you know
what you're doing.
To me the biggest selling point for Wordpress is it's flexibility. I'm willing
to take a performance hit for that.
------
buugs
I was hoping that this would direct to a could not connect to database page.
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AndrewDucker
It's a neat way of working - but it does leave you with limited functionality.
I've gone entirely the other way - my blog is
<http://andrewducker.livejournal.com> \- everything is database driven and
there's no static content at all.
Which, I'm sure, is slower - but it also makes updates to the layout (for
instance) faster, as you're not having to regenerate the entire site. Plus, of
course, you get huge wodges of functionality, like the commenting system
(which is the best I've seen anywwhere).
~~~
paulsmith
LiveJournal's hardly a fair counterpoint -- it's a massive site with a
complex, highly-tuned architecture, designed to be as fast as a dynamic,
database-backed site can be:
[http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/livejournals-backend-a-
hist...](http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/livejournals-backend-a-history-of-
scaling)
Most people who install Wordpress are doing it on a modest shared server or
VPS. The point of the article is the benefits of baking and serving static
files for these folks are greater than the potential risks of having a single
Apache + mod_php + MySQL instance keel over under heavy load.
~~~
AndrewDucker
That was kinda my point. The middle ground doesn't hold much benefit (as far
as I can see) - you have to manage the complexity yourself and it's risky. I'd
either want a simple system that's not goint to blow up on me (i.e. static
files) or I want a fully functional system that's run by someone else (i.e.
livejournal).
~~~
pqs
I recently migrated my WP.org blog to WP.com because of this. Now I feel safe.
Nevertheless, I publish my personal site using Emacs' Org-mode and if I were
to start a blog from scratch I would use something like org-mode or jekyll.
Probably because I need the feeling of being in control of my data.
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jseliger
I hate to tell you, but you can have some of the best of both worlds, as other
commenters have pointed out: WP SuperCache (see <http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-
cache/> ) serves static pages. Unless you update 20+ times per day, it
probably doesn't matter that the site takes a minute to rebuild after posting.
------
pqs
Does anybody know how to export WP posts to plain text files? Maybe a script
that reads the export.xml file.
~~~
ionfish
IIRC Jekyll has a WordPres importer, which I presume does something similar.
------
wglb
This is an excellent idea--no program other than basic web server talks to the
internet--just static files.
~~~
dabent
I've thought an idea like this could be used for more than just a blog (and
maybe it is in certain cases). Rather than pulling up the pages every time,
have a build process merge content and a template to form HTML pages. It could
be used on sites that are potentially huge, but render an ultra-fast site with
thousands of pages.
The only trick is to integrate that with comment forms and the like. But even
that isn't too hard to code around.
~~~
andrewvc
I'm currently making a dynamic rewrite of a legacy CMS written to generate
static files. The static CMS is a huge PITA. Yeah you can slip dynamic
features in there 'just' where you need them. What you wind up with is a mess,
and once your site gets a lot of content you start generating a LOT of files.
Our rebuild process can take a couple hours, and while it does that it's
pegging the disk.
There's nothing wrong with static sites, for something like a blog it's OK.
The feature set is fairly limited. But once you do want to add dynamic stuff,
it can get tricky. I'd say for most projects starting with a static generator
is a mistake because unless you know for sure the requirements won't change
you can easily paint yourself into a corner.
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danw
Also see tools like R3 - <http://developer.yahoo.com/r3/>
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brianobush
I'll throw in my two cents: 99% of the blogs change no more than once a day.
What is the point of needless complexity, databases, settings, etc. I like
simple, single script that rewrites my content for the web since I still have
my content on disk. I can easily grep for content.
Disclaimer: I have a static generated blog.
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lzell
I would be interested to see a follow up post after the honeymoon phase ends.
I switched from WP to webby, loved it at first, but will be reverting soon.
Static is faster, but php is fast enough for most blogs, and WP is full
featured.
~~~
oneplusone
We have been using it for about 3ish months now and have not run into any
issues. It is conceivable that the blog would eventually move over to a real
CMS (not wordpress) once we have a need for dynamic content, but the website
will stay static for the foreseeable future.
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qeorge
I used to use Blogger this way - you would give them your FTP info and it
would publish static files.
Worked fine, I just didn't really like using Blogger.
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jay_kyburz
Anybody remember City Desk? I loved it <http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/>
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tjpick
pyblosxom can run dynamically or be used as a static renderer. The same input
files are used for both so you can start with static rendered content uploaded
to your web server, and then easily migrate to running dynamically. I use it
both ways, works good.
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mariana
ikiwiki (<http://ikiwiki.info/>) as static site generator looks cool to me.
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Maro
bytepawn.com and blog.scalien.com are also generated by bash scripts.
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ilyak
The real problem here is PHP/MySQL, not the dynamicism per se.
A blogging platform based on Rhino (EcmaScript) on JVM hosted on virtualized
server (or in cloud) would easily resist slashdot effect.
And using file-based storage it would be storage-friendly, too.
And nobody prevents you from using external editor for WordPress, even.
~~~
jrockway
File-based storage may be "storage-friendly", but it isn't retrieval-friendly.
For example, finding the list of all tags your blog uses requires a linear
scan over every document in the system. Not fast. (Visit
<http://blog.jrock.us/>. It does this. It takes a long time to load.)
~~~
ilyak
You can cache cache that in-memory! Because you've got a persistent app
server.
~~~
jrockway
How do you know when to invalidate the cache without doing a scan over all the
files?
(Answer: hope your filesystem updates the directory change time when a file
inside changes, or that your app server is inotify-ed of the change. Both are
more complicated than querying a database.
If I used KiokuDB for Angerwhale, it would only take me one key lookup for
things that currently involve traversing the directory tree. Caching is nice,
but it is not the solution to all problems.)
~~~
ilyak
You know when you update your data. Therefore, you invalidate your cache when
you update your data.
Timestamps help alot if you're paranoid, also.
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Let the singing of praises commence. Over four days, fellow school librarian John Schumacher and I will count down our top 20 books of the past year. It’s a K-6, anything goes sort of list, with picture books, chapter books, nonfiction, and graphic novels all tossed into one big pot. This year Watch. Connect. Read. […]
Catalogs pored over, eyes sufficiently sapped of all moisture – it must be time to look at the 10 books that come out in September, October, and November that have me going around saying “aww, yeah!” to strangers. Or maybe just thinking it. While I search for the Visene®, take a look at the list. […]
A Pet for Petunia By Paul Schmid Harper (HarperCollins) ISBN: 9780061963315 $12.99 Grades K-2 In Stores *Best New Books* Playing opposites is a common occurrence in children’s literature. Little Pea, Bedtime for Mommy, and Children Make Terrible Pets are but a few recent examples of a concept with a long history. The act of reversing […]
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Work crews pour flow fill, a mixture of cement, soil and water, into a sink hole estimated at 35 by 35 feet across and 80 feet deep to fill it up Wednesday on Highway 24 near Tennessee Pass. CDOT officials estimated the highway would be be closed to through traffic until early August.
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Highway-sucking sinkholes are a lesson in perspective.Concrete trucks look huge when you're following them on your Vespa, but put them beside the gash in the earth along U.S. 24 and they look petite.Concrete trucks on Wednesday started pouring thousands of cubic yards of material into the so-called sinkhole that closed U.S. Highway 24 between Red Cliff and Leadville. The hole is not technically a sinkhole because it caved in over an old railroad tunnel."People wonder if we were being too conservative closing the road," said Stacey Stegman, one CDOT's public relations crew.They'renot.The hole has expanded and is now 35 feet by 35 feet and 100 feet deep. There is less than a foot of earth under part of the road, and that bit of earth is barely hanging on - a ballroom dance couple could knock it down.A bunch of rock and dirt apparently lost the will to live and fell from the bottom of the road surface into the hole during Wednesday's media tour.No one's exactly sure when the sinkhole sank. All CDOT knows for sure is that a maintenance crew rolled by there on Saturday afternoon and everything was fine. Another crew rolled by at sunrise Monday, July 9, and noticed that a large chunk of terra firm wasn't all that firm, and wasn't visible to the naked eye.They had themselves a sinkhole.It fell into a Denver & Rio Grande Railroad tunnel built in 1890 to haul silver ore out of the mines. The railroad company used it until the 1940s when a new reinforced concrete tunnel was built nearby. Trains stopped using the tracks in 1998.That abandoned loops under Highway 24 in two other places.When the tunnel was abandoned, the timbers began to deteriorate and bits of the roof began to fall, said Joseph Elsen, CDOT program engineer. Over the years, it created what looks like a chimney and the hole finally made its way to the surface, right under Highway 24.Elsen is one of CDOT's more experienced hands. This is his ninth emergency of this type."You walk up to something like this and wonder, 'What on earth do we do?'" Elsen said, adding that they don't wonder that for long.They put the repair specifications together in about two days. Because it's an emergency, they bid it out to four firms that handle this sort of thing. Those bids went out around 5 p.m. Friday. By Monday night CDOT had selected Hayward Baker and the firm was rolling to the sinkhole site by Tuesday morning.CDOT dropped an incentive clause into the contract: Hayward Baker gets $5,000 a day for every day they beat their Aug. 6 deadline. They would pay $5,000 CDOT a day for every day they miss it.CDOT expects to pay; Hayward Baker expects to collect, and crews are working from 6 a.m. to midnight to see to it.
Cleaning up these kinds of messes is all Hayward Baker does. The Highway 24 hole is massive, but the crew has plugged worse, said Joe Harris with Hayward Baker.When rockslides closed Dowd Junction in 2008, CDOT called them. When that huge boulder crashed through the I-70 bridge in Glenwood Canyon, they were called again.They're in Rock Springs, Wyo., right now cleaning up a collapsed mine. They're a regular presence around Colorado Springs when this sort of thing occurs, too.Harris' first job with the company was shoring up the foundations under the Chambertin condos in Avon. The buildings were sliding down the hill toward Interstate 70."Our company's motto is that you may not be able to see our work, but you can have confidence when we were there," Harris said.
For this job, crews are drilling underground from the north and south sides of the highway to construct containment barriers made of grout that dries hard. The walls are about 40 feet from each side of the highway.Concrete trucks are pouring a thinner grout material into the void, followed by a pressurized grout to fill any gaps. That will compress the material under the highway and strengthen the roadway platform, explained Matt Figgs, CDOT's project manager.Once everything is stabilized, crews will mill and pave the road. Those trucks are dumping about seven cubic yards of material every time they back up to that sink hole.They'll drop more than 300 truckloads into the sinkhole, calculated Elsen, who pointed out that the trucks can hold nine yards of concrete. They don't though, because fully-loaded trucks are heavy and they're backing up to a sinkhole that might, well ... sink.Staff Writer Randy Wyrick can be reached at 970-748-2935 or [email protected]. | 82,316,379 |
“The Gift Part Two: The Air Force Years: 1965 – 1970” covers my Air Force years from October 1966 to April 1970. It begins where my first book “The Gift” left off. I have just left home for U.S. Air Force Undergraduate Pilot Training and am on my way to my assignment in C-141 Jet Transport Aircraft.
Would you begin at the beginning — where you grew up, school, going into the military, etc?
I grew up in a small East Texas town, and after graduating West Orange High School, I attended college at Ole Miss and The University of Texas. I graduated from Texas. I participated in the USAF ROTC Program in college, and got my Commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force after graduation.
Where were you trained?
I actually started my flight training while I was still in high school. I was driving by the local airport one day and saw a small airplane near the parking lot. I stopped in asked the pilots standing by the airplane if they offered rides in it. They did, so I took one. About ten seconds after we left the ground, I knew I wanted to do this for the rest of my life. I was fifteen years old at the time.
With my parent’s permission, I started taking flying lessons one week later, and continued to fly through high school and college. After I got my Air Force Commission, I went to USAF Undergraduate Pilot Training. I was a member of Class 67-C, and was based at Webb AFB in Big Spring, Texas. UPT was a one-year course.
Can you tell me about your experience with flight school?
In my civilian training, where I worked my way up to Commercial Pilot with Single and Multi-Engine Ratings, I was taught by the Feuge Brothers, Clarence and Edward. Both men were fine pilots and I learned a lot from them. I started flying in July 1957, soloed on my 16th birthday in January 1958. Had my Private Pilot Certificate when I was 17, and was achieved my Commercial Pilot Rating at the age of twenty-one. I got my Multi-Engine Rating the same year I got my Commercial.
My year at Webb, in UPT, was without a doubt the best year of my life. I had 650 hours of flight time before I even reported for Air Force training, so I had a good jump on the program. Consequently, it was just a very exciting and fun school for me. I graduated high enough in my class to qualify for fighters, but I elected to fly C-141 jet transports instead.
What’s the best piece of advice you ever received about flying?
An old Captain once told me, “If your mind is not always five minutes ahead of the airplane, you are in trouble.”
Can you tell me about your Vietnam experience?
I had been flying the C-141, around the world, for two years. During that time I made two or three trips into Vietnam every month, supporting the war effort by bringing supplies in, and the wounded, and unfortunately, dead, personnel out. We got shot at a lot during our approaches and departures in Vietnam, and we were hit a time or two.
In December 1968, I was reassigned to Vietnam, flying the AC-47 “Spooky” Gunship. I was happy to be flying something that had the capability of shooting back. I flew “Spooky” from April 69 to December 69, when we turned that mission over to the South Vietnam Air Force. I was reassigned to the 362nd Electronics Warfare Squadron, where I flew the EC-47 aircraft until the end of my tour in April 70.
It would be impossible to tell about my entire Vietnam experience in one answer to your questionnaire, but I will say that the highlight of that tour was being assigned as a Flight Commander in the 4th Air Commando Squadron. I had the privilege of leading a great group of Officers and Enlisted Men in a mission that was vital to the safety of our ground troops. We provided night close air support, and were called in when those troops were under attack. We never lost an outpost!
As a Vietnam veteran, and because of the anti-war sentiment that prevailed when I got home, I never heard any praise for my work in Vietnam. BUT, I have heard from a lot of ground troops who said they lived to come home because of us. Most of them started off by saying, “Spooky” saved my ass one night… and then they would tell me their story. That was all the thanks I needed.
Which plane did you want to fly—but never got the chance to try out?
The F-100 Super Sabre was the airplane I could have, and should have flown, but for some reason I decided to fly transports and see the world instead. It’s a shame though, because I flew transports (airliners) most of my career, and the ONLY opportunity I would have had to fly the F-100 was while I was still in the Air Force. Big regret!
What did you think of the planes you flew during the war?
Well, the C-141 was not very glamorous as a war bird, but it performed a vital mission, and it was a fantastic airplane to fly. When I was flying it, it was the most modern jet transport in the Air Force inventory.
Conversely, the C-47 was the oldest transport aircraft in the Air Force, and in the gunship version it was a magnificent airplane. We carried three 7.62mm Minigun Machine Guns and were capable of firing at a rate of 6000 rounds per minute, per gun. The AC-47 was the “Proof of Concept” for side firing gunnery, and it led to the development of the AC-130 Gunships which are used to this day. As a little homage to the AC-47, the modern AC-130 uses our old call sign – “Spooky!”
What was your most hair-raising experience?
I flew for forty-five years before I retired, in Civilian, Air Force, and Airline flying, and there were quite a few “hair-raising” experiences. But, the one that immediately comes to mind was the day that I got caught above an overcast and had to fly around for four hours to find a hole to go down through to get below the clouds. I was a relatively new pilot at the time, and not instrument rated at the time, and penetrating those clouds could have been fatal.
Do you believe it was safer in the air than on the ground?
Statistically it is safer in the air. I was blessed to have a career that included over twenty thousand hours in flight, and I came away from it never hurting a passenger, bending an airplane, or violating a Federal Air Regulation.
What was your initial experience with the Viet-cong?
I went to war against them. They shot at me and I shot back at them.
Returning to America how do you feel when you look back on the war?
Well, when I returned there was a lot of Anti-War sentiment in America, so I decided to just forget about it and get on with my life. I honestly naver gave it much thought.
Now that nearly fifty years has gone by, I look back on my job as a “Spooky” Gunship pilot with pride, and that is validated when I meet veterans who say, “The only reason I am home today, is because of Spooky!”
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I read THE GIFT. It was spellbinding. I was so sure that I would not like the THE GIFT PART TWO THE AIR FORCE YEARS, however, I bought the book. Was I ever wrong! THE GIFT-PART TWO-THE AIR FORCE YEARS was as spellbinding as the first book, THE GIFT.
Some friends and I were at the beach for a few days. I was reading THE GIFT PART TWO and telling my friends about the first book. One of my friends bought the book on Amazon and enjoyed it so much. She knew several people who were mentioned. I left the part two book with her when I came home. The other friend was reading the first book and waiting for part two. They both found the books spellbinding. We never turned the television on for three days.
Mike, I am waiting for THE GIFT PART THREE. Thanks for sharing your life experiences with us!
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Richard Childress Racing
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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Richmond International Raceway
April 27, 2013
Race Highlights
* Richard Childress Racing teammates finished first (Kevin Harvick), fifth (Jeff Burton) and 13th (Paul Menard).
* Harvick and Menard are tied for ninth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings, trailing leader Jimmie Johnson by 72 markers, while Burton sits
19th.
* The No. 29 Chevrolet SS team ranks ninth in the Sprint Cup Series owner championship point standings, with the No. 27 team 10th and the No. 31 team 22nd.
* According to NASCAR's Post-Race Loop Data Statistics Harvick led the field in Speed in Traffic (118.676 mph), ranked fourth in Laps in Top 15 (400 laps), was the fifth-Fastest on Restarts (120.973 mph), earned a fifth-place ranking in Fastest Laps Run (23) and had the fifth-best Driver Rating (111.2).
* Harvick completed 47 passes while running in the top 15, positioning him second in Quality Passes.
* After gaining five positions during the final 40 laps (10 percent) of the Sprint Cup Series event, Harvick earned a ranking of third in the Closers loop data category.
* Menard is the only driver to have completed 100 percent of laps attempted (2,990) in 2013 Sprint Cup Series competition.
* Menard made 58 passes under green-flag conditions ranking him ninth in overall in Green Flag Passes.
* Harvick earned his first victory of the 2013 Sprint Cup Series season and was followed to the finish line by Clint Bowyer, Joey Logano, Jaun Pablo Montoya and Burton.
* Burton gained six positions over the final 40 laps, ranking him second in the NASCAR Loop Data statistic category of Closers.
* Burton made more Quality Passes (57) than any other driver entered in the event and spent 369 Laps (91 percent) of the 406-lap event in the Top 15
* The next Sprint Cup Series race is the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, May 5. The 10th race of the 2013 season is scheduled to be televised live on FOX beginning at noon Eastern Time. and broadcast live on the Motor Racing Network and Sirius XM NASCAR Satellite Radio.
Starting from the 29th position, Paul Menard and the No. 27 CertainTeed/Menards team faced handling issues as track conditions changed throughout the evening, ultimately finishing 13th at Richmond International Raceway. The early laps of the race looked promising as Menard made a steady march toward the front of the field and was scored in 19th by lap 50. Clicking off lap times as fast as the leader, coupled with lightning-fast stops by the pit crew, the 32-year-old driver worked his way inside the top 15 at lap 140. As the sun began to set, the track conditions changed and Menard struggled with a tight- handling racecar. The No. 27 pit crew made a variety of chassis adjustments to the Chevrolet SS during the middle and later portions of the originally scheduled 400-lap event, in hopes of remedying the issue. With just three laps remaining, the yellow flag flew and crew chief "Slugger" Labbe called his driver into the pits one final time for four fresh tires and fuel. Menard lined up 17th for the green-white-checkered restart and gained four spots in just two laps to finish 13th under the lights. Menard's top-15 finish ties him for ninth in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings heading into Talladega Superspeedway.
Start - 29 Finish - 13 Laps Led - 0 Points - 9th
PAUL MENARD QUOTE: "Once the sun went down we struggled throughout the race to find the right setup for the CertainTeed/Menards Chevrolet. "Slugger" (Labbe, crew chief) and the team never gave up working really hard to make adjustments all night in an attempt to get the handling issues resolved. I have to thank my pit crew, they did an awesome job in the pits tonight and gained us several positions on pit road throughout the evening. There at the end, the car was handling better and we were able to gain several positions to come home with a solid finish. All-in-all it was a decent points day, so we'll take it and head to Talladega Superspeedway next weekend."
Harvick Goes to Victory Lane at Richmond International Raceway
Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Bell Helicopter team earned their first point-paying event victory of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season under the lights of Richmond International Raceway on Saturday night. The California native started the scheduled 400-lap event from the 17th position and maintained a spot in the top 15 during the early laps, while battling a tight-handling Chevrolet SS. The No. 29 pit crew made an array of adjustments throughout the course of the originally planned 300-mile event during multiple scheduled four-tire pit stops. As the race progressed, Harvick worked his way toward the front of the field finding a home in the top five. Still battling handling issues during the final laps, Harvick drove down pit road on lap 397 for four tires, fuel and an air pressure adjustment under caution. The RCR veteran driver was scored in the seventh position as the field was set for a green-white-checkered finish. During a dramatic restart, Harvick gained five positions with two laps remaining and captured the lead as the field came to the white flag. The 37-year-old driver remained out front during the final lap, and was able to collect his 20th Sprint Cup Series-career victory. Following the first-place finish, Harvick is now tied for the ninth in the Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings.
Start - 17 Finish - 1 Laps Led - 3 Points - 9th
KEVIN HARVICK QUOTE: "I just want to thank everybody for this great finish. It's been a tough start to the season, but it all worked out for us tonight. We've gotten beat a couple times this year on pit road, but pitting was the right thing for us to do at the end tonight. When tires fall off by almost two seconds, you've got to come in and get fresh tires for the restarts. Gil (Martin, crew chief) made the right call and it worked out. I've got to thank Bell Helicopter, Budweiser, Jimmy John's, Rheem, Chevrolet and everybody who participates in our team's program."
Jeff Burton Caps Off Solid Run with Top-Five Finish at Richmond
Jeff Burton and the No. 31 Airgas/Bulwark Chevrolet team ran in the top 15 for 369 laps of the 406-lap night race at Richmond International Raceway, and finished off the solid effort with a fifth-place finish. After starting the event from the 16th position, the South Boston, Va., native climbed into the top 15 early and reported to crew chief Luke Lambert that the No. 31 Chevrolet developed a tight-handling condition in the middle of the corners, especially on long green-flag runs. Lambert and the No. 31 pit crew worked hard throughout the evening by making tire pressure and chassis adjustments on multiple pit stops, while Burton maintained a top-15 running position. After narrowly avoiding a multi-car accident on lap 328, the Richard Childress Racing driver brought the white and black machine to pit road for fresh Goodyear tires and Sunoco Green E15 fuel. The adjustments made on the pit stop improved the handling of the car and Burton worked his way into the top 10 with 28 laps to go, and eventually moved to seventh-place on lap 385. The final caution flag of the night was displayed with four laps to go, setting up a green-white-checkered finish. While the top-six competitors came to pit road for service, Lambert made the call for his driver to stay out putting Burton at the top of the leaderboard. On the final restart, Burton raced hard before the drivers with fresh tires were able to get around the veteran driver on the final lap. In the end, Burton crossed the finish line in fifth for his first top-five result of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. With the strong finish, Burton gained four positions in Sprint Cup Series driver championship point standings, moving up to 19th.
Start-16 Finish-5 Laps Led-7 Points-19th
JEFF BURTON QUOTE: "We were seventh there and I thought I had the No. 22 (Joey Logano) beat before the caution flag came out. The caution came out and what the heck, we might as well try something. Luke (Lambert) made a good call there and obviously new tires were a lot better. But it was worth a shot. We were going to maybe finish sixth without the caution so to pick up a spot from it was worth a shot. I thought it changed a lot. I thought Kevin (Harvick) and I both got better at the end of the race and some other cars got worse as the race went on. However, Kevin got good at the end of the race. He was his best at the end; we were our best at the end. I think all of that was the track changing and kind of going to our setups a little bit." | 82,316,620 |
The bulls are getting more bullish.
The major indexes soared to record highs Monday, and the market rally is showing no signs of quitting anytime soon, according to one portfolio manager who sees the soaring another 11 percent next year.
Steve Chiavarone, portfolio manager at Federated Investors, expects the S&P 500 to hit 3,000 by the end of next year, making him one of the most optimistic market watchers on Wall Street. This target, too, is more bullish than he was just weeks ago. Last month he told CNBC's "Trading Nation" that his 2018 price target was 2,750.
Chiavarone expects earnings growth to be one of the key underpinnings of the next leg higher.
"Unlike most years, we think that the actual earnings numbers are going to come in above analysts' expectations. Analyst expectations have been rising all year; that doesn't happen often, but it does happen. And when it does, we're usually above 3 to 4 percent below the final number, at this point," he said Friday on "Trading Nation."
"When you throw in tax reform, which looks like it's going to hit in 2018 rather than be delayed to 2019, we think we're in for an earnings number that is $150 or maybe even slightly north of that," he added Friday.
Specifically, the portfolio manager looks to a measure that he refers to as the "consensus decay rate," or how far the final earnings figure falls from where analysts' earnings growth consensus is today.
"We know that earnings grew this year north of 10 percent without a dime of stimulus. The underlying trends in the economy are good; we expect that to continue to be the case. And there are some add-ons here; tax reform is one of them, deregulation is another," he said.
Despite historically high market multiples when measuring the S&P's forward price-earnings ratio, Chiavarone isn't all that concerned, as he does not see a recession hitting the U.S. until the 2020 to 2021 time frame.
"At 20 times multiple on a $150 in earnings, that appears to be completely reasonable to us," he said.
As for the Federal Reserve's actions next year as it continues on its tightening path, Chiavarone foresees two rate hikes as opposed to the widely forecast three. This is due to historically muted inflation across the board, he said: "Inflation's going to hold them at two [hikes]."
"Technology is a big driver of that, quite frankly. There are disruptions that are occurring in the economy, and most of those are deflationary. Companies are becoming more efficient; they're becoming less labor-intensive. And while wage inflation is occurring, and we expect it to continue to build, we just think it will be slower than the Fed expects," he said.
Markets hit intraday all-time highs Monday. | 82,316,915 |
More images are coming out of Winson Green prison showing the extent of the riots which have raged all day.
The Mail reported earlier prisoners at HMP Birmingham were posting selfies of themselves in riot gear and images of the jail left in ruin.
Now, new pictures have emerged appearing to show a man wearing a helmet and a baton knocking down a door, two others wearing helmets and a shield and a third thought to be of the keys stolen from guards at the beginning of the chaos.
The pictures were posted on Twitter. It has emerged today that many prisoners have mobile phones - at least eight have contacted the Birmingham Mail. | 82,316,954 |
2. We have so much to be thankful for, we should shout and sing
joyfully!
"Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully
to Him with psalms" (Psalm 95:2).
3. If people didn't praise God, even the stones would cry out!
"Then, as He was now drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives,
the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with
a loud voice for all the mighty works they had seen, saying: '"Blessed
is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!" Peace in heaven and glory
in the highest!' And some of the Pharisees called to Him from the crowd,
'Teacher, rebuke Your disciples.' But He answered and said to them, 'I
tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately
cry out'" (Luke 19:37-40). | 82,317,234 |
/*
* Copyright (C) 2018-2020 Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>
*/
package akka.remote.artery
import akka.actor.Actor
import akka.remote.RARP
import akka.serialization.jackson.CborSerializable
import akka.testkit.SocketUtil
object UdpPortActor {
case object GetUdpPort extends CborSerializable
}
/**
* Used for exchanging free udp port between multi-jvm nodes
*/
class UdpPortActor extends Actor {
import UdpPortActor._
val port =
SocketUtil.temporaryServerAddress(RARP(context.system).provider.getDefaultAddress.host.get, udp = true).getPort
def receive = {
case GetUdpPort => sender() ! port
}
}
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+− Contents
1 Purpose
E04YAF checks that a user-supplied subroutine for evaluating a vector of functions and the matrix of their first derivatives produces derivative values which are consistent with the function values calculated.
2 Specification
3 Description
Routines for minimizing a sum of squares of m nonlinear functions (or ‘residuals’), fix1,x2,…,xn, for i=1,2,…,m and m≥n, may require you to supply a subroutine to evaluate the fi and their first derivatives. E04YAF checks the derivatives calculated by such user-supplied subroutines, e.g., routines of the form required for E04GBF, E04GDF and E04HEF. As well as the routine to be checked (LSQFUN), you must supply a point x=x1,x2,…,xnT at which the check will be made. E04YAF is essentially identical to CHKLSJ in the NPL Algorithms Library.
E04YAF first calls LSQFUN to evaluate the fix and their first derivatives, and uses these to calculate the sum of squares Fx=∑i=1mfix2,
and its first derivatives gj=∂F∂xjx, for j=1,2,…,n. The components of g along two orthogonal directions (defined by unit vectors p1 and p2, say) are then calculated; these will be gTp1 and gTp2 respectively. The same components are also estimated by finite differences, giving quantities
vk=Fx+hpk-Fxh, k=1,2
where h is a small positive scalar. If the relative difference between v1 and gTp1 or between v2 and gTp2 is judged too large, an error indicator is set.
4 References
None.
5 Parameters
1: M – INTEGERInput
2: N – INTEGERInput
On entry: the number m of residuals, fix, and the number n of variables, xj.
Constraint:
1≤N≤M.
3: LSQFUN – SUBROUTINE, supplied by the user.External Procedure
LSQFUN must calculate the vector of values fix and their first derivatives ∂fi∂xj at any point x. (The minimization routines mentioned in Section 3 give you the option of resetting a parameter to terminate immediately. E04YAF will also terminate immediately, without finishing the checking process, if the parameter in question is reset.)
These parameters are present so that LSQFUN will be of the form required by the minimization routines mentioned in Section 3. LSQFUN is called with the same parameters IW, LIW, W, LW as in the call to E04YAF. If the recommendation in the minimization routine document is followed, you will have no reason to examine or change the elements of IW or W. In any case, LSQFUNmust not change the first 3×N+M+M×N elements of W.
LSQFUN must either be a module subprogram USEd by, or declared as EXTERNAL in, the (sub)program from which E04YAF is called. Parameters denoted as Input must not be changed by this procedure.
On entry: Xj, for j=1,2,…,n, must be set to the coordinates of a suitable point at which to check the derivatives calculated by LSQFUN. ‘Obvious’ settings, such as 0 or 1, should not be used since, at such particular points, incorrect terms may take correct values (particularly zero), so that errors can go undetected. For a similar reason, it is preferable that no two elements of X should have the same value.
On exit: unless you set IFLAG negative in the first call of LSQFUN,
FJACij contains the value of the first derivative ∂fi∂xj at the point given in X, as calculated by LSQFUN, for i=1,2,…,m and j=1,2,…,n.
7: LDFJAC – INTEGERInput
On entry: the first dimension of the array FJAC as declared in the (sub)program from which E04YAF is called.
This array appears in the parameter list purely so that, if E04YAF is called by another library routine, the library routine can pass quantities to LSQFUN via IW. IW is not examined or changed by E04YAF. In general you must provide an array IW, but are advised not to use it.
9: LIW – INTEGERInput
On entry: the dimension of the array IW as declared in the (sub)program from which E04YAF is called.
On entry: the dimension of the array W as declared in the (sub)program from which E04YAF is called.
Constraint:
LW≥3×N+M+M×N.
12: IFAIL – INTEGERInput/Output
On entry: IFAIL must be set to 0, -1 or 1. If you are unfamiliar with this parameter you should refer to Section 3.3 in the Essential Introduction for details.
For environments where it might be inappropriate to halt program execution when an error is detected, the value -1 or 1 is recommended. If the output of error messages is undesirable, then the value 1 is recommended. Otherwise, because for this routine the values of the output parameters may be useful even if IFAIL≠0 on exit, the recommended value is -1. When the value -1 or 1 is used it is essential to test the value of IFAIL on exit.
On exit: IFAIL=0 unless the routine detects an error or a warning has been flagged (see Section 6).
6 Error Indicators and Warnings
If on entry IFAIL=0 or -1, explanatory error messages are output on the current error message unit (as defined by X04AAF).
Note: E04YAF may return useful information for one or more of the following detected errors or warnings.
Errors or warnings detected by the routine:
IFAIL<0
A negative value of IFAIL indicates an exit from E04YAF because you have set IFLAG negative in LSQFUN. The setting of IFAIL will be the same as your setting of IFLAG. The check on LSQFUN will not have been completed.
IFAIL=1
On entry,
M<N,
or
N<1,
or
LDFJAC<M,
or
LIW<1,
or
LW<3×N+M+M×N.
IFAIL=2
You should check carefully the derivation and programming of expressions for the ∂fi∂xj, because it is very unlikely that LSQFUN is calculating them correctly.
8 Further Comments
Before using E04YAF to check the calculation of the first derivatives, you should be confident that LSQFUN is calculating the residuals correctly.
E04YAF only checks the derivatives calculated by a user-supplied routine when IFLAG=2. So, if LSQFUN is intended for use in conjunction with a minimization routine which may set IFLAG to 1, you must check that, for given settings of the XCj, LSQFUN produces the same values for the ∂fi∂xj when IFLAG is set to 1 as when IFLAG is set to 2.
9 Example
Suppose that it is intended to use E04GBF or E04GDF to find least squares estimates of x1,x2 and x3 in the model
The following program could be used to check the first derivatives calculated by LSQFUN. (The tests of whether IFLAG=0 or 1 in LSQFUN are present ready for when LSQFUN is called by E04GBF or E04GDF. E04YAF will always call LSQFUN with IFLAG set to 2.) | 82,317,640 |
Hallway Fight
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Fights can take place in many strange locations such as a bar, a diner, or even on top of a train. Each location creates its own atmosphere and limitations which dictate the movements of the fighters.
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A Hallway Fight, as the name implies, takes place in a corridor. The fighters are more or less forced to go in one direction while the narrow and cramped quarters force them into a more claustrophobic battle. Because of these restraints, the fights can be very close and quite brutal. If the director so chooses, it can also be the perfect opportunity for The Oner. It can also be a way to Hand Wave the Mook Chivalry trope as multiple opponents often have to come one-by-one.
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An issue of the Warren Ellis run on Moon Knight has Mr. Knight fighting his way through an entire brownstone house to rescue a kidnapped girl, including several hallways.
Films — Live-Action
In Oldboy, Oh Dae-Su fights his way through a long hallway of mooks, armed with a hammer. It is perhaps the most well known action sequence in the movie due to it's intense level of violence and for being The Oner.
In Kill Bill Vol 2, the Bride and Elle briefly get into a sword fight in the hallway of Budd's trailer, which leads to the Bride ripping the eye from her socket and considering she only had one eye to begin with, it gives her the win.
In The Raid, the main characters have to take down an entire apartment building full of gangsters, which leads to plenty hallway fights. One of the main fights involves them slashing their way through bad guys with machetes.
The climax in Rogue One involves Darth Vader himself killing his way through a corridor of a Rebel spaceship in order to obtain plans for the Death Star. Calling it a "fight" is perhaps being generous.
Inception features a hallway fight between Arthur and a nameless mook. Because they are inside the dreaming mind of a person in a rolling vehicle, the two men end up grappling as the hallway rotates and they flop this way and that.
In The Matrix, the Final Battle between Neo and Agent Smith takes place in a building hallway inside the Matrix.
In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, young John Connor is trapped in the narrow gallery of a corridor in a shopping mall when the T-1000 comes around the corner and starts shooting at him. Luckily for John, T-800 is around and shields the boy from the bullets, although an unlucky janitor is killed in the crossfire. Then T-800 pushes John into an adjacent room and a shoot-out between the two terminators unfolds in the corridor.
The action thriller Snowpiercer takes place on a train, so all unfolding fight scenes resemble hallway fights.
In "New York's Finest", after freeing himself from Frank Castle, Matt fights off Dogs of Hell bikers in the hallway of an apartment building, which eventually leads to a stairwell fight. This is an homage to The Raid.
In "Seven Minutes in Heaven", Wilson Fisk needs to get rid of Dutton, the guy who runs the prison's underground economy. So he tricks Frank Castle into entering Dutton's cellblock. After Frank kills Dutton, Fisk locks him in, and releases all the prisoners who are quick to get revenge on him for killing their boss. He ends up having to go down a corridor, stabbing his way out with a shiv.
Season 3 sees Matt have a continuous one-take fight that one-ups the season 1 fight. In this one, Matt visits Rikers to try to get information on Fisk's time there. Fisk directs a bunch of inmates to start a riot and attempt to kill Matt, forcing Matt to fight his way out down several corridors. This one is a true ten minute longone-take fight, which not only sees Matt fight inmates and guards in Fisk's pocket, but also get information on Fisk out of the Albanians in the prison, and convince them to get the guards they own to help smuggle Matt out of the prison.
When Will Simpson turns into a psychotic super soldier, he attacks Jessica in her apartment. The two of them fall through a wall and start smashing each other against sides of a small passageway.
The season 1 finale sees Jessica have to fight her way through a hospital corridor filled with doctors and patients that Kilgrave has ordered to stop her. She tries to sneak down the hall to get out but she is soon spotted and forces her way through, getting a nasty cut with a scalpel for her troubles.
Luke Cage (2016): In "Who's Gonna Take the Weight", Luke Cage attacks Crispus Attucks, the location of Cottonmouth's main stash, using his Super Strength to bulldoze his way through Cottonmouth's henchmen in three different hallways before finding the vault where all of the money is stashed.
A group of Triads armed with hatchets show up at Danny Rand's hotel suite and try to kidnap Joy Meachum in retaliation for a pier deal she and Ward reversed on Harold's orders. Danny fights his way down a corridor full of their men until he gets to the elevator, where he dispatches the last two, before fleeing with Joy to Colleen Wing's dojo. Harold later kills the guy who hit Joy by splitting his head open with a sword.
Danny and Davos later fight a group of Hand members in a narrow passage while escaping Bakuto's compound, and almost get overwhelmed due to the cramped quarters.
A few episodes later, Colleen Wing and Davos rescue Danny from Bakuto and his men as they try to capture him from Harold's penthouse. The three of them dispatch Bakuto's men in the lobby of the General Electric Building, then chase down and fight off Bakuto in Central Park.
The Defenders (2017): This one is how the heroes all end up coming to meet. It starts in the boardroom of Midland Circle Financial as Danny confronts Alexandra. After taking out a dozen fighters armed with tranquilizer guns, he is eventually overpowered by a second wave. He is about to be captured when Luke suddenly breaks down the doors and they fight their way out. They burst out through the wall into the nearby hallway just as Matt and Jessica arrive. After an awkward exchange as Luke and Jessica recognize each other, they find themselves pinned down, with Elektra approaching on one side and a bunch of goons coming from the elevator and stairwells. Luke, Jessica and Danny handle the henchmen while Matt fights Elektra one-on-one.
When Frank infiltrates the enemy compound during a flashback to his service in Kandahar, he begins shooting his way through a few corridors before running put of ammo and using a knife, then a rock.
A hallway fight/stairwell chase happens in a hotel as Frank overpowers several cops and Anvil security operatives as he's chasing after Lewis Wilson, a PTSD-afflicted soldier-turned-Mad Bomber who has taken Karen hostage.
Of all places, season 5 of Arrested Development features a brief yet very gymnastics-heavy fight between George-Michael and Micheal.
Season 4 of The Flash (2014) has the villain DeVoe breaking into ARGUS Facility and butchering the guards with his psychic powers in a corridor.
In the third season of Lucifer (2016), there's a scene where the title character enters a korean drug dealer's hideout and then beats all the thugs in the hallway while K-pop music plays.
Wonder Woman: In "Judgment from Outer Space", Major Steve Trevor and friends are trapped in a hallway by two groups of Nazi soldiers. Wonder Woman rescues them by overpowering both groups.
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Video Games
Twilight Princess: The ice dungeon's miniboss room appears on the map as a circle, as with all the other. Once inside, however, it's actually a long corridor (the extra space is used for storing, of all things, cannons)., with the miniboss being a giant armored lizard swinging an Epic Flail. To get past him without getting smashed to bits, Link has to hookshot the ceiling behind the lizard and drop down.
Off-screen example in Evil Genius, in which the greatest triumph of Super Agent Jet Chan was defeating an evil genius who built a long, narrow lair which ran the length of the Great Wall of China. Chan reportedly used the lair's layout to his advantage, forcing the genius' mooks to fight him one-on-one rather than let them gang up on him.
Web Original
Anime Crimes Division: Season 2 has Joe get in a hallway fight when he visits Prestige TV City, a city dedicated to beloved western shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones instead of anime. It's even lampshaded with an original song playing in the background all about how you have to have a hallway fight scene now.
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As Bernie Sanders sees it, Wall Street got a big boost when U.S. taxpayers bailed out some of the largest financial institutions in 2008. Now it's time for Wall Street to return the favor.
Sanders has proposed something he calls a speculation tax, a small levy on every stock, bond or derivative sold in the United States.
The revenue would go toward free tuition at public colleges and universities and would also be used to pare down student debt and pay for work-study programs, as well as other programs, Sanders says.
While Hillary Clinton has proposed a similar tax on high-speed trading, Sanders' plan would go much further.
Both candidates say their tax would cut back on computer-generated, high-speed trading, which is often accused of destabilizing the markets and giving an unfair advantage to large firms.
"These high-frequency traders ... make enormous amounts of money, billions and billions of dollars, and do nothing of any social value for the economy," said Len Burman, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution. "They're just kind of the modern-day equivalent of skimming pennies out of the till."
The idea of a tax on financial transactions is anything but new. Over the years, versions of it have been proposed by economists John Maynard Keynes and James Tobin. The United States actually had such a tax until 1966, as do numerous countries today. The European Union is expected to impose one as soon as next year.
Under the Sanders proposal, trades would be taxed at a rate of 0.5 percent for stocks and 0.1 percent for bonds. A stock trade of $1,000 would thus incur a cost of $5.
Burman believes the tax "would have mixed effects."
"On the one hand, it will raise the cost of investment," he said. "It's going to be a little bit more costly to get capital to businesses and others who have got useful things they want to do with it, and that's a cost to the economy.
"On the other hand, to the extent that it discourages unproductive trading ... that's a good thing for the economy."
Given the huge size of the financial markets and the enormous volumes of trading that take place today, such a tax could also raise a lot of revenue, although estimates of exactly how much vary widely.
Robert Pollin, co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who has studied the issue for years, said the Sanders proposal mirrors a tax proposed by Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota in a bill called the "Inclusive Prosperity Act."
Pollin believes such a tax could raise as much as $340 billion a year over the next decade. But the Tax Policy Center said the potential revenue would be less than one-tenth of that.
One reason for the big disparity between the estimates is that no one really knows how Wall Street firms would respond if such a tax was imposed.
John Cochrane, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said many firms would find ways to get around the tax, by routing transactions through overseas markets, or trading options instead of stocks, for instance.
"It'll induce some very clever financial innovation of how to get around it," Cochrane said, "because there's ways to trade without incurring the tax, and, as a result, I don't think it'll gain much revenue."
"The cleverness of our financial engineers shouldn't be underestimated," he added.
Although the tax would be imposed on big banks and other large financial institutions, at least some of the pain would end up getting passed on to small investors, through higher costs to pension and insurance funds that invest in Wall Street, Burman said.
But Warren Gunnels, policy director for the Sanders campaign, argued that if Wall Street firms pass on the cost to investors, tax credits would be available to help low- and moderate-income people defray the cost.
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Strengthened Fenton degradation of phenol catalyzed by core/shell Fe-Pd@C nanocomposites derived from mechanochemically synthesized Fe-Metal organic frameworks.
We have prepared core/shell structured hollow Fe-Pd@C nanomaterials derived from Fe-metal organic frameworks which were synthesized via cheap, fast and simple mechanochemical technique. The obtained Fe-Pd@C can steadily and continuously release Fe2+ from the galvanic corrosion of Fe0 anode to trigger H2O2 decomposition into hydroxyl radicals and cause fast (10 min) and efficient (mineralization rate 95%) degradation of phenol. The presence of low level of Pd NPs in Fe-Pd@C (mass ratio of the raw material: Fe/Pd = 100:1) facilitated fast Fe3+/Fe2+ redox cycle and thus improved the catalytic performance and pH endurance of the Fe-Pd@C. After recycled four times, Fe-Pd@C remained high catalytic performance and released low level of iron ions (2.5 mg L-1), which reduced the production of iron sludge after usage. In contrast to zero-valent iron (ZVI) and commercial physically mixed Fe/C materials, the core/shell structure of Fe-Pd@C ensured efficient electron transferring from Fe0 to carbon cathode and targets, and prevented the precipitation of iron ions on Fe0 surface, avoiding the deactivation of Fe0 and termination of Fe-C internal micro-electrolysis (IME) and extending their service life. The reactive species quenching experiments and ESR characterization proved the synergistic effect of electrons and hydroxyl free radicals on degradation of phenol. The carbon-centered DMPO radical detected in reaction solution can be regarded as a proof for the strengthened oxidation ability of the combined IME and Fenton reaction. | 82,318,460 |
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Cap Skulls
Panzer EM/NCO M43 Cap Insignia
Panzer SS EM/NCO M43 Trapezoid BeVo Style Cap Insignia (Mützen Abzeichen). It is a BeVo machine embroidered black and grey cotton stitching to a black rayon base. The trapezoid shaped obverse depicts a grey SS eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons above a grey Totenkopf skull and crossbones with a single row ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-21337
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$399.95 USD
Allgemeine SS Kepi/Visor Cap Skull
Here we have a beautiful 1st pattern Danziger style, jawless skull on crossbones. It is made of die stamped tombak that has been silver washed. Both prongs remain intact! Beautiful silver wash, patina and detail! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-21050
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$499.95 USD
Cap Eagles
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Cap Eagle
A beautiful example! On a blue wool and black cloth backing is a white machine embroidered Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a swastika in one of its talons. Overall good, clean condition. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-21670
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$89.95 USD
Sea Customs Officials Visor Cap Insignia
A Wasserzollbeamte Schirmmütze Abzeichen. The eagle and wreath are constructed out of a die stamped zinc-alloy base that have been gold washed. The tri-piece cockade is constructed out of a die stamped aluminum alloy base that has been black painted/silver washed and has a red felt plug. The obverse features a sea customs eagle with outstretched wings clutching ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-21401
Rating:
NM
Price:
$499.95 USD
Panzer EM/NCO M43 Cap Insignia
Panzer SS EM/NCO M43 Trapezoid BeVo Style Cap Insignia (Mützen Abzeichen). It is a BeVo machine embroidered black and grey cotton stitching to a black rayon base. The trapezoid shaped obverse depicts a grey SS eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons above a grey Totenkopf skull and crossbones with a single row ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-21337
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$399.95 USD
Police M43/Overseas Cap Eagle and Cockade
A Polizei Mützenadler. The police eagle is constructed out of grey machined embroidered cotton thread, while the cockade is constructed out of red, white and black machine embroidered cotton, all on a green cotton border and rayon backing. The observe depicts a 2nd pattern police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, surrounded by another oak leaf and ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-20889
Rating:
NM
Price:
$44.95 USD
Police M43/Overseas Cap Badge
A Polizei Mützenadler. It is constructed out of machine embroidered black/white cotton thread, on a black rayon base. The obverse depicts a 2nd pattern police eagle, with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons which is surrounded by another oak leaf and acorn wreath. It measure approximately 2 1/4 inches wide by 2 1/16 inches tall. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-20888
Rating:
NM
Price:
$54.95 USD
Rural “Landwacht” Police Visor Cap Eagle
A Rural “Landwacht” (Land Watch/Guards) Auxiliary Police Visor Cap Eagle (Gendarmerie Polizei “Landwacht” Mützenadler). It is constructed of a die stamped, alloy base that has been silver washed. The obverse depicts a police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath and is above a bannered: “Landwacht”. The hollow back reverse has ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-20635
Rating:
NM
Price:
$67.95 USD
Rural “Landwacht” Police Visor Cap Eagle
A Rural “Landwacht” (Land Watch/Guards) Auxiliary Police Visor Cap Eagle
1937 (Gendarmerie Polizei “Landwacht” Mützenadler). It is constructed of a die stamped, alluminum base that has been silver washed. The obverse depicts a police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath and is above a bannered: “Landwacht”. The hollow back reverse is ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-20630
Rating:
NM/Mint-
Price:
$69.95 USD
Police Visor Cap Badge
A Polizei Mützenadler. It is constructed out of a die stamped, zinc-alloy base that has been silver washed. The obverse depicts a 2nd pattern police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath that is tied together at the bottom. The hollow back reverse retains both of its crimped tombak prongs. It measures ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-20627
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$44.95 USD
Army M43 EM/NCO Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Here we have an Army M43 EM/NCO Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia (Heer Mützen Abzeichen). Introduced May 1943, this insignia is intended for wear on the M42 overseas and M43 field caps. It is constructed out of bevo machine embroidered cotton thread to a green rayon backing. The obverse depicts a grey Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-19820
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$39.95 USD
Army M43 EM/NCO Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Here we have an Army M43 EM/NCO Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia (Heer Mützen Abzeichen). Introduced May 1943, this insignia is intended for wear on the M42 overseas and M43 field caps. It is constructed out of bevo machine embroidered cotton thread to a green rayon backing. The obverse depicts a grey Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-19819
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$44.95 USD
Army M43 EM/NCO Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Here we have an Army M43 EM/NCO Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia (Heer Mützen Abzeichen). Introduced May 1943, this insignia is intended for wear on the M42 overseas and M43 field caps. It is constructed out of bevo machine embroidered cotton thread to a green rayon backing. The obverse depicts a grey Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-19817
Rating:
NM
Price:
$44.95 USD
Police Visor Cap Badge
Here we have a 2nd Pattern Police Visor Cap Badge (Polizei Mützenadler)! It is constructed out of a die stamped, zinc base that has been silver washed. The obverse depicts a police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath that is tied together at the bottom. The hollow back reverse retains both ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-19689
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$44.95 USD
Navy EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here we have a Kreigsmarine EM/NCO "Donald Duck" Cap eagle! It is made of die struck, alloy that has been gold gilded. The obverse features a Kreigsmarine open winged eagle clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons. The reverse shows a hollow back and has a soldered pin attached to it. A beautiful example with nice gilding! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-19618
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$69.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Cap Eagle
A beautiful example! On a blue wool and black cloth backing is a white machine embroidered Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a swastika in one of its talons. Overall good, clean condition with traces of glue and material from where this badge was removed from the Vet's scrapbook. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-19573
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$79.95 USD
SS Visor Cap Eagle by RZM M1/17
Here we have a SS Visor Cap Eagle (SchutzStaffel Schirmmütze Adler) by F. W. Assmann & Sohne of Lüdenscheid. It is constructed out of an injection molded aluminum-alloy/cupal base that has been silver washed and lacquered. The obverse features a left facing SS eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons. The hollow back ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-19079
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$849.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO M43 Overseas Cap Badge
Here we have a Luftwaffe (Airforce) EM/NCO 2nd Pattern M43 Overseas Cap Eagle (Mützen Adler)! On blue wool backing is a white cotton machine embroidered 2nd pattern Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a mobile swastika in one of its talons. It shows age toning/soilage. It measures approximately 2 3/8 inches wide by 1 3/8 inches tall. There are threads remaining where ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18945
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$59.95 USD
Tropical Navy/Coastal Artillery EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here we have a M43 Tropical (DAK) Navy/Coastal Artillery (Kriegsmarine Küstenartillerie) EM/NCO Cap Eagle (Mützen Adler). It is constructed out of yellow and brown machine embroidered cotton to a brown rayon base. The obverse features a Navy eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons. The reverse shows folded over edges with ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18839
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$119.95 USD
Army EM/NCO Visor Cap Eagle
Here we have a 2nd pattern Army EM/NCO Visor Cap Eagle! It is constructed out of a die stamped zinc-alloy base that has been silver washed. The obverse depicts a Heer eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons. The hollow back reverse shows two crimped tombak prongs. The silver wash has been absorbed by the zinc and it ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18569
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$59.95 USD
Navy M43 Overseas Cap Eagle
A good Kriegsmarine (Navy) M43 Overseas Cap Eagle (Mützen Adler)! It is constructed out of machine embroidered yellow and blue cotton thread to a navy-blue rayon backing. The obverse features a yellow Kriegsmarine eagle with out-streached wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons on a blue backing. The reverse has three pieces of black paper/glue remnants ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18534
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$59.95 USD
Navy M43 Overseas Cap Eagle
A good cap eagle! It is constructed out of machine embroidered yellow and blue cotton thread to a navy-blue rayon backing. The obverse features a yellow Kriegsmarine eagle with out-streached wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons on a blue backing. The reverse has three pieces of black paper/glue remnants and a piece of tape. It measures 2 1/2 ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18533
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$59.95 USD
Navy M43 Overseas Cap Eagle
A good cap eagle! It is constructed out of machine embroidered yellow and blue cotton thread to a navy-blue rayon backing. The obverse features a yellow Kriegsmarine eagle with out-streached wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika in its talons on a blue backing. It measures 3 ¾ inches wide by 1 ½ inches tall. A nice one! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-18532
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$59.95 USD
1927 Pattern Political Cap Eagle
Here we have a 1927 pattern SS/NSDAP/HJ/SA Political Cap Eagle! It is constructed out of a die stamped nickel-silver base that has been silver washed and black painted. The obverse shows the 1927 pattern eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed black swastika within its talons. The reverse shows a hollow back. All three of the brennlack finished prongs ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18045
Rating:
NM
Price:
$89.95 USD
Police Cap Eagle and Cockade
On green rayon backing, we have here a grey machined embroidered police open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above another wreath and below a cockade. It is a near mint unissued piece here for the taking! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-17146
Rating:
NM
Price:
$69.95 USD
Army M44 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Here we have an Army M44 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia. On a field grey cotton backing, is a grey machined embroidered Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above a tri color cockade all on a green trapezoid backing with a thin white cotton border to the exterior. It measures 2 5/8 inches wide by 2 inches high. It ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-16616
Rating:
NM
Price:
$69.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here’s a nice one! On blue wool backing is a white cotton machine embroidered 2nd pattern Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a mobile swastika in one of its talons. It is in super condition! There are some loose threads to the exterior where it was stitched to a cap. It measures approximately 3 inches wide by 1 5/8 inches tall. An excellent ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-15569
Rating:
NM
Price:
$89.95 USD
Early 1st Pattern Navy EM/NCO Cap Eagle and Cockade
Not too often do you see these 1st pattern ones! Here we have a Navy EM/NCO ”Donald Duck’ Cap Eagle and Cockade. This cap badge is constructed out of multi-pieces. The eagle is a die stamped tombak base that has been gold gilded. The cockade has a red felt center piece, a die stamped silvered tombak middle section and ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-15495
Rating:
NM
Price:
$169.95 USD
Army M43 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Here we have an Army M43 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia. On a green rayon backing, is a grey machined embroidered Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above a tri color cockade all on a green trapezoid and rectangular backing. It measures 2 1/2 inches wide by1 15/16 inches high. It is a nice unissued piece! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-15125
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$49.95 USD
Navy Officers Cap Eagle Wreath and Cockade Insignia
Gorgeous craftsmanship displayed here! The eagle is constructed out of hand embroidered twisted gold bullion thread which has been stitched to a navy blue wool and blue buckram base that has a glued on black paper backing. The obverse depicts a Kriegsmarine open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons. The reverse shows the hand stitched on threads, ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-15073
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$379.95 USD
Army Cap Eagle/Collar Tab Pin / Stickpin
Well here is a unique piece! It is made of a die stamped, aluminum base that has been silver washed. The obverse features a Heer national eagle with outstreached wings clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons. The reverse shows a crimped tombak pin. A neat piece! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-12162
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$69.95 USD
Navy EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here we have a Navy EM/NCO "Donald Duck" Cap Eagle. It is steel based, die stamped and gold gilded. The obverse shows a Kreigsmarine eagle with out-stretched wings clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons. The reverse shows a hollow back and has a soldered and knurled pin. A nice piece you?re your collection! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-11511
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$69.95 USD
Rural Landwacht Police Cap Badge
Here we have a rare piece! This is a Rural Landwacht Police Cap Badge! It is aluminum based, silver washed and die stamped. The obverse depicts a police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath and above a bannered: ?Landwacht?. The reverse has both of its prongs intact. Nice piece with good silver ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-10784
Rating:
NM
Price:
$69.95 USD
Veterans NSKOV Visor Cap Eagle
Here we have a Veterans NSKOV Visor Cap Eagle. It goes on the NSKOV National Sozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (National Socialist Association for Disabled War Veterans) Visor. It is made of die stamped alloy and has been silver washed and red and black painted. The obverse depicts a larger closed winged eagle clutching a bannered "NSKOV" in its talons and has the ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-10636
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$69.95 USD
NSKK Cap Eagle
Here we have a nickel-silver, die stamped and black burnished NSKK Cap eagle. The obverse features an NSKK eagle with outstretched wings, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons below a bannered ?N.S.K.K.?. The reverse retains both prongs that are gold gilded and RZM 24 marked. A great example! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-10586
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$129.95 USD
NSKK Service Visor Cap Eagle
Here a rare bird! A second pattern NSKK Service Kepi/Visor Cap Eagle! It is made of die stamped aluminum that has been silver washed. The obverse depicts an NSKK eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons all below a bannered ?NSKK?. The prongs are lost to time. The reverse is marker marked: “RZM M1/52?. A beauty example! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-10460
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$239.95 USD
Veterans NSKOV Visor Cap Eagle
Here we have a Veterans NSKOV Visor Cap Eagle. It goes on the NSKOV National Sozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (National Socialist Association for Disabled War Veterans) Visor. It is made of die stamped alloy and has been silver washed and red and black painted. The obverse depicts a larger closed winged eagle clutching a bannered "NSKOV" in its talons and has the ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-10459
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$79.95 USD
Luftwaffe Herman Goring Division Cap Badge
A great example of a Herman Goring Division Cap Badge! It is the second pattern eagle in silver/grey rayon on a black wool backing. It measures approximately 3 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. Nice!
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Item Number:
BE-10135
Rating:
Exc+/Exc++
Price:
$129.95 USD
Luftwaffe Herman Goring Division Cap Eagle
Beautiful example of a Herman Goring Division Cap Eagle! It is the second pattern, machine embroidered, eagle in white/grey rayon on a black wool backing. This one appears to be unissued. It measures approximately 3 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. It retains beautiful color and detail! Just wonderful! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-9713
Rating:
Mint-
Price:
$149.95 USD
Police 2nd Pattern Visor Cap Eagle
Here we have a 2nd Pattern Police Cap Eagle! It is zinc based and die stamped. The obverse depicts a police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath. The reverse has no prongs. An inexpensive way to add to your collection! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-9464
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$49.95 USD
Police 2nd Pattern Visor Cap Eagle
Here we have several 2nd Pattern Police Cap Eagles! They are aluminum based and die stamped. The obverse depicts a police eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika within its talons, surrounded by an oak leaf wreath. The reverse continues to retain both of its tombak prongs. Nice and bright with beautiful detail and in excellent condition! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-9456
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$49.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here we have a quality machine embroidered Luftwaffe EM/NCO Luftwaffe EM/NCO Breast Eagle eagle. On a blue wool backing, the obverse depicts a white Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a swastika in its talon. It is lightly toned with age. It measure 3 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. Nice detail! Overall a good piece here just for you! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-8837
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$79.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here we have a quality machine embroidered Luftwaffe EM/NCO cap eagle. On a blue wool cotton backing, the obverse depicts a white Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a swastika in its talon. It is toned with age. It measure 3 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. Nice detail! Overall a good piece here just for you! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-8836
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$69.95 USD
Cap Removed Luftwaffe EM/NCO Cap Eagle
Here we have a quality machine embroidered Luftwaffe EM/NCO cap eagle. On a blue wool and black cotton backing, the obverse depicts a white Luftwaffe open winged eagle, clutching a swastika in its talon. It still has some threads where it had been removed. It is lightly toned. It measure 3 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. Nice detail! Overall a ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-8835
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$89.95 USD
2nd Pattern Police eagle and wreath
Army EM/NCO Cap Eagle and Cockade
On a green/grey backing, we have here a grey machined embroidered Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above a cockade. It measures 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. It is a beautiful piece! ... See More
M43 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Cockades
Sea Customs Officials Visor Cap Insignia
A Wasserzollbeamte Schirmmütze Abzeichen. The eagle and wreath are constructed out of a die stamped zinc-alloy base that have been gold washed. The tri-piece cockade is constructed out of a die stamped aluminum alloy base that has been black painted/silver washed and has a red felt plug. The obverse features a sea customs eagle with outstretched wings clutching ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-21401
Rating:
NM
Price:
$499.95 USD
Visor Cap Wreath
Visor Cap Wreath. Die stamped, silver washed aluminum alloy. Three of the four prongs remain intact. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-18990
Rating:
Exc
Price:
$14.95 USD
Visor Cap Cockade
Here we have an Early Visor Cap Cockade! It is a multi-piece construction consisting of a black printed press cardboard piece, die stamped nickel-silver adjoining piece and a red felt plug. The round shaped obverse of the national tri-color cockade features a red felt centerpiece, surrounded by a swirl piece and is above a black zig-zagged backing. The reverse shows ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18989
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$39.95 USD
Army Cockade and wreath
Army M44 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Here we have an Army M44 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia. On a field grey cotton backing, is a grey machined embroidered Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above a tri color cockade all on a green trapezoid backing with a thin white cotton border to the exterior. It measures 2 5/8 inches wide by 2 inches high. It ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-16616
Rating:
NM
Price:
$69.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Visor Wreath and Cockade
Here we have a Luftwaffe EM/NCO Visor Wreath and Cockade! It is aluminum based, die stamped and silver washed with black and red paint work. The obverse depicts a centrally placed black, white and red cockade that is surrounded by an oak leaf and acorn wreath, with wings to the sides. The reverse shows a hollow back. Both prongs ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-16563
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$49.95 USD
Early Visor Cap Cockade
Here we have an Early Visor Cap Cockade! This a multi-piece cockade. The round shaped obverse depicts an off-red cotton centerpiece, surrounded by a silvered tombak based swirled piece and above a black painted zig-zagged backing. All of the tombak prongs remain intact. It measures approximately 7/8 of an inch in diameter. A nice bright example looking for the right visor! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-15290
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$39.95 USD
Navy Officers Cap Eagle Wreath and Cockade Insignia
Gorgeous craftsmanship displayed here! The eagle is constructed out of hand embroidered twisted gold bullion thread which has been stitched to a navy blue wool and blue buckram base that has a glued on black paper backing. The obverse depicts a Kriegsmarine open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons. The reverse shows the hand stitched on threads, ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-15073
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$379.95 USD
Panzer Beret Wreath and Cockade
Here we have a Panzer Beret Wreath and Cockade! It is made of a black rayon base with black white and red machine embroidered stitching. The obverse features a centrally placed cockade that is surrounded by an oak leaf and acorn wreath. It measures 3 1/2 inches wide by 2 inches high. It retains nice clear colors and detail! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-11000
Rating:
NM
Price:
$169.95 USD
Cap Wreath for a Cockade
This is a die stamped, aluminum, decorative wreath for a cockade. It depicts oak leaves and acorns. The back retains all 2 tombak prongs. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-10578
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$39.95 USD
Cap Wreath for a Cockade
This is a die stamped, aluminum, decorative wreath for a cockade. It depicts oak leaves and acorns. The back retains all 4 aluminum prongs. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-10577
Rating:
NM
Price:
$39.95 USD
Panzer EM/NCO Overseas/M43 Cockade
Here we have a machine embroidered red, white and black cotton cockade on a black rayon backing. It is in unissued condition! Extremely hard to find! ... See More
Early Tombac Cockade Wreath
Cap Wreath for Cockade
This is a die struck aluminum decorative wreath for a cockade. It depicts oak leaves and acorns. All four prongs remain intact. It is marked: ?C.T.O.? and ?38?. Nice piece. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-8359
Rating:
Mint
Price:
$49.95 USD
Army EM/NCO Cap Eagle and Cockade
On a green/grey backing, we have here a grey machined embroidered Heer open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above a cockade. It measures 2 1/2 inches wide by 1 1/2 inches high. It is a beautiful piece! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-8355
Rating:
NM
Price:
$59.95 USD
Cap Wreath for a Cockade
This is a die struck aluminum decorative wreath for a cockade. It depicts oak leaves and acorns. The bottom prong remains intact. The obverse looks great! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-7507
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$39.95 USD
Army EM Bullion Wreath and Cockade
On green cloth backing this army officer bullion wreath and cockade depicts a hand embroidered oak leaf wreath in bright, silver/aluminum wire threads. And to the center of the wreath a hand embroidered national tri-color (white, black and red) cockade. It measures 2.5 inches wide and 1.75 inches high. ... See More
Army EM/NCO Visor Cap Wreath and Cockade
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Visor Wreath and Cockade
Here we have a Luftwaffe EM/NCO Visor Wreath and Cockade! It is constructed out of a die stamped aluminium base that has been silver washed and black and red painted. The obverse shows a centrally placed tri-color cockade surrounded by an oak leaf and acorn wreath that has two wings coming out of it. The reverse shows a hollow ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-5526
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$29.95 USD
Luftwaffe EM/NCO Visor Wreath and Cockade
One piece silver washed die struck alloy with a painted cockade. Measures approx 5 1/2" and nicely vaulted insignia is in NM condition. We have several with all mounting prongs intact. ... See More
M43 Eagle/Cockade Cap Insignia
Cap Badges & Insignia
Unissued - Water Customs Cap Wreath
In its original cellophane and paper envelope sold by “Thiele & Steinert Aktiengesellschaft Berlin SW 19 Alexandrinenstraße 89 Fernruf: A 7 3026-27”. House of History found a horde of these a while back. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-21756
Rating:
Mint-/Mint
Price:
$99.95 USD
Hitler Youth Cap Badge
Hitlerjungend Mützenabzeichen by RZM M1/128 - Eugen Schmidhäussler of Pforzheim. It is constructed out of a die stamped bronze base that has been silver washed and contains red, white and black enamel work. The rhomboid diamond shaped obverse depicts the Hitler Youth emblem, which consists of; a black mobile swastika above a silvered square diamond which is surrounded ... Read and See More
DRKB Visor Cap Cockade and Wreath
Here we have a DRKB (Deutscher Reichs Krieger Bund - German National Veterans Association) Veterans 1st Pattern Visor Cap Cockade and Wreath. It is constructed out of a multi-piece die stamped tombak base that has been gold gilded and contains a cockade that has red, white and black machine embroidered silk cloth work. The obverse cockade depicts a centrally placed ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-19672
Rating:
NM
Price:
$54.95 USD
RAD EM/NCO Cap Badge by FW 1937
Here we have a RAD (Reichsarbeitsdiens) EM/NCO Cap Badge by FW 1937. This would be appropriate insignia for the RAD M43 Field Cap. It is constructed out of a die struck aluminum alloy base that has been silver washed and contains black and red paint work. The obverse features the RAD emblem, which consists of: a black mobile swastika in ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-18674
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$39.95 USD
Police Cap Eagle and Cockade
On green rayon backing, we have here a grey machined embroidered police open winged eagle, clutching a wreathed swastika in its talons, above another wreath and below a cockade. It is a near mint unissued piece here for the taking! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-17146
Rating:
NM
Price:
$69.95 USD
Auxiliary & Security Police (Schuma) Officers Cap Badge
For the members of the Schutzmannschaften (local auxiliary security forces in the occupied east). It is constructed out of a silver rayon and black threads on a black rayon base. The obverse depicts a vertically elongated mobile swastika surrounded by a laurel leaf wreath that is tied together at the bottom and all lies on a black base. It measures ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-17000
Rating:
Exc++/NM
Price:
$59.95 USD
Prussian Pickelhaube Front Plate
WWI Prussian Pickelhaube Front Plate - In die stamped bronze gilt, One of the loops is missing. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-16564
Rating:
Exc
Price:
$109.95 USD
Early Pith Helmet Tri-Color Shield
Not too often do you see these early ones! It is constructed out of a die stamped tombak base that has been silver washed and black and red painted. The shield shaped obverse shows black, white and red colors on a 45 degree angle. The reverse shows a hollow back and retains all three soldered on tombak prongs. It measures approximately 1 3/8 ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-15292
Rating:
Exc+
Price:
$69.95 USD
FAD Cap Badge
Predecessor of the RAD movement this is an early piece of silver washed tomac insignia. One prong is lost. ... See More
Item Number:
CB-12407
Rating:
Exc
Price:
$49.95 USD
Auxiliary & Security Police (Schuma) Officers Cap Badge
For the members of the Schutzmannschaften (local auxiliary security forces in the occupied east). It is machine made of silver flatwire and black threads on a black rayon base. The obverse depicts a flatwire vertically elongated mobile swastika within in a laurel leaf wreath that is tied together at the bottom and all lies on a black base. It measures ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-11943
Rating:
Mint-
Price:
$69.95 USD
Luftschutz Cap Badge
Here we have a blue and white, machine embroidered Luftschutz Cap Badge for a "SHD/LSW" Field Cap, on a green rayon backing. Nice piece! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-10277
Rating:
NM
Price:
$89.95 USD
Cap Talleys
DAF/KdF “E.S. Robert Len” Cap Tally
Deutsche Arbeitsfront / Kraft durch Freude “E.S. Robert Len” Mützenband. It is constructed out of machine embroidered multi-color celleon thread stitched to a black rayon base. The obverse reads, in Gothic style script “E.S. Robert Len” and is flanked by the NSDAP flag and the KdF flag. It measures approximately 37 inches long by 1 5/16 inches wide. Very nice! ... See More
Item Number:
CB-21710
Rating:
NM
Price:
$179.95 USD
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Navy Kreuzer Emden Cap Tally
One of many cap tallies that we just got in! It is constructed out of a black rayon base with machine stitched gold gilt thread. The obverse reads, in gold colored gothic type script: “Kreuzer Emden” on a black base. It has two cut off edges. It measures approximately 46 ¾ inches long by 1 ¼ inches wide. It shows nice bright color and ... Read and See More
Item Number:
CB-13589
Rating:
NM
Price:
$79.95 USD
Chin Cords
Customs Visor Chinstrap
Here we have a German Customs Visor Chinstrap! It is made of grey and green, interwoven and twisted flatwire/bullion/cloth. It is in superb condition. Measures just under 1 foot. ... See More
Item Number:
Lan-10528
Rating:
Exc++
Price:
$109.95 USD
Railway Service Visor Chinstrap
Well if you have been looking for one of these now’s your chance! We have here a Railway Service Visor Chinstrap! It is made of a twisted blue and yellow interwoven cloth material. It is in superb condition. Measures approximately 1 foot. ... See More | 82,318,496 |
Surgical treatment of paraventricular cavernous angioma: fibre tracking for visualizing the corticospinal tract and determining surgical approach.
Surgical treatment of deep-seated lesions involving the corticospinal tract is one of the most challenging areas of contemporary neurosurgery, even given the recent development of radiological methods including three-dimensional anisotropy contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) axonography. Fibre tracking using diffusion tensor imaging is another MRI technique that can be used to visualize anisotropy and the orientation of white matter tracts in the brain. We report herein a patient with a paraventricular cavernous angioma manifesting as hemiparesis caused by haemorrhage. Preoperative conventional MRI failed to determine the anatomical relationship between the paraventricular lesion and the corticospinal tract, whereas fibre tracking using free software (dTV for MR-DTI analysis) indicated that the corticospinal tract was displaced anterolaterally from the medial side. The paraventricular lesion was completely removed without damaging the corticospinal tract using a transcortical transventricular approach. Preoperative fibre tracking is useful in surgical planning for procedures involving deep-seated lesions adjacent to the corticospinal tract, and may avoid postoperative morbidity due to corticospinal tract injury. | 82,318,569 |
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Peach Fuzz is made up of yellow and peach colored matte bar glitters. I've layered it over China Glaze Mimosas Before Manis.
Fuzz Sea is made up of teal and yellow matte bar glitters. I've layered it over Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure Ivory Skull.
Wool Knot is made up of light blue and white matte bar glitters. I've layered it over OPI Pamplona Purple.
Wool Lite is made up of all light pink matte bar glitters. I've layered it over Butter London Snog.
*all products featured in this post were purchased by me
Hold on to your knickers kids, because today, I have the most picture heavy post ever. Today, I'm going to show you swatches of six of the new Sally Hansen Fuzzy Coat polishes. Apparently there are 2 others floating around out there in polish world, but the displays I've seen didn't have spots for them.(EDIT: I found them, see them here! The six I have for you today are Peach Fuzz, Fuzz Sea, Tweedy, Wool Knot, Wool Lite, and Fuzzy Fantasy. Just a note, on my thumb, ring, and pinkie fingers I've applied one coat over polish undies, and on my pointer/middle finger you'll see three coats on their own. Ready? Lets do this.Tweedy is made up of black and white matte bar glitters. I've layered it over China Glaze For Audrey.Fuzzy Fantasy is made up of lime green and white matte bar glitter. I've layered it over Essie Butler Please.Application wise these go on fairly easy, you don't have to fish for the glitters and you get plenty of coverage in one coat. Personally I like these better as layering polishes. I love the effect the matte bar glitters give against the contrasting backgrounds.Which look is your favorite? I can't decide between Peach Fuzz and Tweedy.Enjoy & until tomorrow, Amy Lee | 82,318,914 |
Moussaoui Curses U.S., Is Barred From Trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Telling him he was his own worst enemy, a federal judges ruled Tuesday that terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui would be physically barred from a trial in which he faces the death penalty for his alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said her main reason for holding Tuesday's hearing was to determine "how Mr. Moussaoui plans to behave ... whether you plan to remain quiet ... or whether you plan to make speeches."
Moussaoui, who has clashed with Brinkema frequently over his courtroom tirades and outbursts, did not depart from form. The 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan descent accused Brinkema of conspiring to kill him, and then disavowed his home country and his attorneys.
"You have been trying to organize my death for four years," Moussaoui said at the lectern after pulling out what appeared to be a handwritten speech.
Moussaoui, who has pledged his allegiance to Al Qaeda before the court on numerous occasions, is the only person in the United States to be charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. He pled guilty last April to conspiring with Al Qaeda to use aircraft to hit U.S. buildings, but claims the plot was for a second wave of attacks and that he had no role in Sept. 11.
As Brinkema repeatedly tried to quiet him, Moussaoui complained that for four years, she had denied him an opportunity to explain his objections to the defense lawyers. "Today is my day," he plunged on. "If I can't make sure that those people are not going to represent me I know that I am dead."
At various points in a rambling speech, he called President Bush "a crusader" who was "launching a new campaign of revenge against terrorists."
Despite his French citizenship, he said in heavily French-accented English: "I'm not French .... I stand here as a Muslim only. I do not stand here with a nation of homosexual crusaders."
He then referred to his three attorneys as a "federal lawyer," a "KKK" (Ku Klux Klan) and a "geisha."
Brinkema sternly broke in: "I'm not going to permit you to use a federal courtroom to malign your lawyers."
Without raising his voice, Moussaoui responded, "You own everything — the defense, the judge, the attack [prosecutors]. I am Al Qaeda. I am your sworn enemy."
To which Brinkema responded: "Mr. Moussaoui, you are the biggest enemy of yourself."
She asked again if he would remain quiet or leave. "I'm going to leave," he responded. He gathered his papers, leaving his text behind. "This is for you."
"God curse you and America," Moussaoui said as he left the courtroom. He was wearing a white knit cap and a green prison jumpsuit with "prisoner" in white block letters on the back.
Brinkema ruled that Moussaoui had forfeited his right to be present and will have to watch jury selection on closed-circuit television from his cell at the courthouse.
Moussaoui was tossed out of court four times when jury selection began on Feb. 6 for outbursts in which he disavowed his court-appointed lawyers, proclaimed loyalty to Al Qaeda, derided the trial as a circus and promised to testify truthfully about his role.
Lawyers will begin individual questioning of jurors on Wednesday; opening statements are scheduled for March 6. The trial, expected to last one to three months, will determine what sentence Moussaoui receives: death or life in prison.
Moussaoui claims he was training to fly a 747 jetliner into the White House after the Sept. 11 attacks if the United States did not release an imprisoned radical Egyptian cleric. But he concealed that from federal agents who arrested him in Minnesota less than four weeks before Sept. 11.
Prosecutors will argue that federal agents could have prevented the attacks if Moussaoui had been truthful about his Al Qaeda connections after his Aug. 16, 2001, arrest. To obtain the death penalty, the judge has said, the prosecutors must show that Moussaoui's lies were directly responsible for deaths in Sept. 11 attacks.
Defense lawyers argue that Moussaoui knew less about Sept. 11 beforehand than the government, and therefore had no knowledge that would have helped the FBI or any other government agency prevent the attacks. | 82,318,973 |
Titanic Museum
Titanic Museum may refer to:
RMS Titanic Inc runs traveling museum called Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
The Titanic Museum, a home of Titanic Historical Society in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts
The Titanic Exhibits at Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Titanic Museum (Branson, Missouri), attraction museum in Branson, Missouri
Titanic museum (Pigeon Forge, Tennessee), attraction museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Titanic Belfast, a visitor attraction on the site where the ship was built in Belfast, Northern Ireland | 82,319,289 |
Comparison of the direct electrochemistry of glucose oxidase immobilized on the surface of Au, CdS and ZnS nanostructures.
A comparison of the electrochemical and photoelectrochemical behaviors of three biosensors, based on the use of Au, CdS, and ZnS nanoparticles-glucose oxidase (GOD) system, is discussed. All the nanoparticles were electrodeposited onto the indium tin oxide (ITO) thin film coated glass surface. GOD was then immobilized on the nanoparticles-modified electrodes surface with the sol-gel technique. The deposited nanoparticles on ITO electrodes were characterized by scanning electron microscopy, UV-vis spectroscopy and electrochemical impedance spectra. The direct electrochemistry of GOD, analytical performance of glucose calibration curves and the kinetic parameters of the enzyme reaction were compared for all the electrochemical biosensors. Furthermore, the current response of the quantum dots-GOD system biosensor can be increased after illumination. The electrochemical and photoelectrochemical biosensors based on ZnS nanostructures exhibited higher sensitivity than that of Au or CdS nanostructures. Considering ZnS is nontoxic to human and environment, the results suggest that ZnS nanoparticles-GOD system seems to be a promising platform for fabrication of novel electrochemical and photoelectrochemical biosensors. | 82,319,467 |
The speech was really two separate ones slammed together.
In the first he repeated in different ways, over and over again, that “we are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the people” because, well, because anyone and everyone in government has turned America into a hellhole. “The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs.” In other words, the “establishment” that he now sits atop has betrayed the country. He did not say they were shortsighted or mistaken. He did not say they made progress but left work to do. He attributes unvarnished malice to the entire establishment, dividing it from the “people.”
He perfectly channels the resentment of the white working class. And in case you didn’t know how rotten a country this is, he described, as he did on the campaign trail, a dystopia bearing little resemblance to the real United States. (“Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation, an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge. And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.”) You would not know that unemployment stands at 4.7 percent, crime is down and productivity up. He sees only blight. “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” he declared. Carnage. Take that in for a moment. Does he see America as a decimated, destroyed and weak country? Apparently yes — or he would like us to believe so in order to, in a year or so, declare how everything has improved.
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The second part of the speech was a dark, ugly tribute to “America First,” the language of nationalism, nativism and protectionism. One cringes to hear the president use the phrase of the Charles Lindbergh, fascist-sympathizing set of the 1930s. He puts forth a demonstrably false narrative that we benefited other countries at the expense of our own. He sees no benefit from markets we have developed, from collective security, from the spread of democratic governments, from the prevention of violence on the scale of the two 20th-century world wars. Just as we are supposed to resent the “establishment,” he is telling America to resent the world. One would never know that we have continued to be the world’s only true superpower, that a couple billion people have been lifted from poverty and age expectancy has soared. He does not care to know. They’re robbing us blind, got it?
His language was the crude boasting of his campaign. (“America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.”) The overwhelming number of Americans are employed; the smokestack jobs are not coming back; wages are up; and Americans dream every day. You’d never know it listening to him.
What was missing was virtually any vision of what he wants America to be. The most we got was a promise to “build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation” and to get “people off of welfare and back to work, rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.” Beyond that he cannot describe a renewed America. More opportunities? More productive? More understanding between segments of America?
There was one brief positive moment in the speech when he offered an olive branch to our allies. “We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and reform the world against radical Islamic terrorism which we will eradicate from the face of the earth.” He unfortunately followed it with a creepy statism in which we define our personal relationships through nationalistic loyalty. “At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other.” We actually have relationships, loyalties and bonds with one another that are the fabric of society and do not need to be redefined as an outgrowth of a new sort of nationalism. Conservatives who value civil society free from government should be horrified — if they have intellectual integrity. | 82,319,645 |
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Thursday said the $1.3 trillion spending bill moving through Congress this week should close the chapter on what he called the “era of austerity.”
“This spending agreement brings the era of austerity to an unceremonious end and represents one of the most significant investments in the middle class in recent history,” the New York Democrat told reporters. “It’s really a turning around.”
Republicans and Democrats alike have decried across-the-board cuts, known as sequesters, that resulted from a 2011 debt deal agreed to by President Obama and Congress.
The spending caps resulting from the 2011 Budget Control Act helped produce two straight years of actual reductions in government spending for the first time since the 1950s.
But both parties have tried to get around or lift the caps since then. The latest example was a budget deal last month that allowed for $143 billion in additional discretionary spending in 2018.
Mandatory spending on entitlement programs like Medicare, which budget analysts agree are the chief drivers of an ever-increasing national debt, are largely exempt from the caps and left on autopilot.
“We Democrats are really happy with what we were able to accomplish on a number of priorities that Democrats have fought for all along - infrastructure, education, opioid relief, and more,” Mr. Schumer said of the spending bill.
“At the end of the day, as the minority party, we feel good about being able to succeed in so many ways,” he said. “We don’t have the House. We don’t have the Senate. We don’t have the presidency. But we produced a darn good bill for the priorities that we have believed in.”
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479 F.2d 922
156 U.S.App.D.C. 201
U. S.v.Shuler
72-2227
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS District of Columbia Circuit
6/6/73
1
D.C.D.C.
AFFIRMED
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How to win a FUTI Award
What are selection criteria of the FUTI Award?
[FUTI Summer Scholarship]
FUTI’s Summer Scholarship Award (a.k.a. the “FUTI Global Leadership Award”) Program has been established to encourage students of the University of Tokyo (abbreviated as UTokyo) and U.S. universities to acquire experiences that will help them grow into global leaders in their chosen fields.
In making an award decision, we evaluate an applicant’s intellectual capacity, his/her communication skills, and extracurricular achievements. FUTI regards strong leadership in the curricular or extracurricular activities as important as the academic performance.
An essay written in English is your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words. State clearly your career objectives and contributions you aspire to make. Explain how the proposed summer program would help you achieve your goals.
From a recommendation letter, we wish to assess your academic standing among your peers and infer your personality and character.
It is hoped that our awardees will contribute to the exchange of new ideas and the development of genuine understanding between Japan and the rest of the world. We seek to identify students who demonstrate leadership potential.
[Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship]
What are described above regarding the FUTI Summer Scholarship also apply for the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship. But also refer to [Selection Criteria for the Scholarship] on the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI page.
Deadline Date
How flexible is the deadline date?
The deadline date is not flexible because we have the FUTI Scholarship Committee meeting shortly after the deadline. If you are in a circumstance which you believe deserves special consideration, send an inquiry through this form.
Multiple Applications
I plan to apply for more than one summer program. How can I apply for a FUTI scholarship?
[FUTI Summer Scholarship]
We are aware that UTokyo’s Exchange Program now allows a UTokyo student to apply for as many as three summer programs. FUTI will respond to such applications accordingly, but our application system is a web-based online system, so the procedure is different from UTokyo’s. An applicant must submit an application to each category and each program even within the same category. For instance, you may wish to apply for an IARU-GSP at Yale (Category A), an English Language Course at UC Berkeley (Category B), and another summer program in the U.S. that you have found by yourself (Category C). Indicate which program is your first choice, second choice, and third choice, by completing the relevant field in FUTI’s online application system. Needless to say, you must be selected by the summer program in order to receive a FUTI award.
[Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship]
In case you apply for this scholarship before a decision is made on the host university and its department/course, you can indicate your top three candidates and select their priorities on the FUTI online application form. A typical response from FUTI may be: “The scholarship will be granted if you are admitted to any one of the three candidates” or “The scholarship will be granted only if you are admitted to the first choice candidate.”
Applications to Awards for Programs Other Than Summer Programs
UTokyo introduced the four-term system beginning 2015. I am interested in a short-term studying/internship abroad after summer, where can I find an application guideline?
The FUTI Summer Scholarship supports only summer programs, while the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship supports study abroad programs longer than one semester. FUTI does not support short winter programs at this time. If you have a program worth consideration by FUTI, send an inquiry through this form.
Financial Support from Other Source(s)
Am I qualified to apply for other financial aid(s) as well as to FUTI’s scholarship program?
Yes, you may apply to other financial aid program(s) at your school and/or the host institution and other scholarship programs. At the time of your application to FUTI, you may not know whether you will win such a scholarship or support, but you should state your intention in the application. FUTI communicates with your school and the host institution, and we may adjust the award amount. Under no circumstance should the total support be greater than the total financial need for you to attend your chosen program or internship.
Recommendation letter
Who can write a recommendation letter?
The recommender ought to be a person who can assess objectively your academic standing, other activities and your character. Your academic advisor with teaching appointment is the most suitable. If you do not have an advisor, any professor who knows you well will be fine. Your family member, personal friend or a senior student (e.g., a graduate student) will not be appropriate since they would not typically be in a position to evaluate you vis-à-vis other students in your school.
Can I send FUTI a second recommendation letter in addition to the primary one written by my professor?
A secondary or even tertiary recommendation letter (for example, from another professor, the supervisor or coach of your extracurricular activity) is welcome. You should let FUTI know if such an arrangement is made.
Most applicants submit one recommendation letter because quality matters more over quantity. However, please feel free to submit more than one recommendation letter. The online application form accepts only one reference and one recommendation letter, but please submit additional recommendation letter(s) as follows:
Notify FUTI by sending a message through this form that you have additional recommendation letter(s) with the information of your reference(s) equivalent to what is required in the online application form.
Request your reference(s) to send the additional recommendation letter(s) directly to FUTI through recommendfriendsofutokyo.org by the deadline.
I am a sophomore of UTokyo and have only limited contact with professors because of the unique scheme of UTokyo where students do not belong to any departments for the first year and a half. May I ask my high school teacher to write a recommendation letter?
Being UTokyo alumni, FUTI members understand the situation and the difficulty of a freshman or sophomore at UTokyo to have a professor with enough intimate knowledge to write a recommendation letter. However, please try earnestly to get one. If you would still like to get a recommendation letter from a high school teacher, it is also acceptable to submit two letters, one from a UTokyo professor and the other from a high school teacher. FUTI will probably appreciate your academic capability mentioned in the letter from the UTokyo professor, and your characteristics in the letter from your high school teacher. The consideration stated above may be extended to a US student who is in a similar situation, but please explain the situation in the essay portion of the application.
What format should the recommendation letter be in?
Please have your reference send the recommendation letter as an email attachment to recommendfriendsofutokyo.org in either DOCX, DOC, or PDF format.
PDF/Word files
My multi-page application/transcript/etc. is separated into several PDF’s. What should I do?
We do not accept ZIP files on our online application system, thus it would be best to combine the pages into one PDF file. If you do not have the capability to do this on your computer, visit a site like www.pdfmerge.com where you can combine multiple PDF’s into one PDF file for free.
Computations of the GPA
What do you mean by the maximum GPA?
In some schools the maximum possible GPA score is 4.00 whereas in other schools it may be 3.00. We would like to know this value, since GPA of 2.95 out of 3.00 maximum is quite different from 2.95 out of 4.00 maximum. In some schools, the highest grade is A with 4.00 points but sometimes A+ with 4.30 or A- with 3.70 is marked. In this case, report the maximum GPA of 4.00 rather than 4.30.
The transcript of UTokyo doesn’t show GPA and, therefore, an applicant from UTokyo must calculate GPA according to the calculation table, which must be included in the application material. (A calculation table will be made available soon.)
Over what period should the GPA be calculated?
Usually the transcript of your school shows the GPA and its period. If it is not clearly stated, please supply this information. If you are a first year graduate student, please submit the transcript of the undergraduate period as well as the one at the graduate school.
If you have a TOEIC or IELTS score already, you may submit it in lieu of a TOEFL, but Yale or UC Berkeley may not accept TOEIC for their IARU-GSP programs.
Is it OK to submit the score of a TOEFL test which I took more than a year ago?
If you cannot obtain a more recent test result before the deadline, submitting an old TOEFL score is fine. It will help us to infer your current English proficiency level.
Is there a minimum score level acceptable to FUTI?
No. FUTI does not require any specific score level for TOEFL or other English language proficiency tests. However, it requires the applicant’s score to meet the requirement imposed by the program he or she is applying to. Please note that certain English language programs (e.g., Yale’s English Language Institute) do not have a minimum requirement for the English proficiency test score.
Applications to FUTI and the host university
Is it necessary to submit an application to FUTI in addition to an application to the host university?
Yes, you should submit a separate application to FUTI, because FUTI and your host university apply different data processing on your applications. Please don’t forget to ask your reference to send a recommendation letter separately to FUTI.
Host or Coordinator
What do you mean by “Study Abroad Program Coordinator”?
In many schools, including UTokyo, there is an individual or office which coordinates the application of their students to overseas-study programs. We would like to have this information, because we may sometimes need to find out about your university’s policy concerning study abroad or when our attempt to reach you somehow fails. If you know such a person at your university, please provide the name, email and phone of that person. If you do not have such an individual or office and are handling the application matters all by yourself, write “N/A (not applicable)” in that field or box.
What do you mean by “Your Prospective Host Professor or Lab’s Name(s)”?
Please provide information of your contact person at the institution or lab who will be hosting you at the summer program of your choice. In the case of an internship program, you may also know a prospective professor who will be hosting you. If you do not know such individuals, please provide the email address (and the phone number, if known) of the office which is hosting the summer program.
Instructions for Report Writing
Recipients of FUTI Summer Scholarships and Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship are (1) required to submit official reports, and (2) encouraged to post on FUTI’s Facebook page by sending text and pictures to fbfriendsofutokyo.org as materials for posts.
Be prepared during your study abroad
Please make sure to take photos in and out of the classroom/lab. Classroom settings, presentations, scenic photos, photos of social outings are all welcome.
Stay in touch with FUTI during your study abroad by visiting our Facebook page and posting about your experience.
Information about the official report
For SUMMER study abroad:
Please submit one official report–this is in addition to your postings on the FUTI Facebook page. However, material from your Facebook posts may be used in the report.
Length/file format
One or more pages single-spaced as a docx/doc file
Report format
There is no set format and the reports can be written in English or Japanese. It can be written as a diary, a narrative, report, however you like. To read examples please visit the recipient reports page.
Photos
Several photos embedded in the doc file, as an email attachment, or shared via cloud (resolution of more than 1000px would be appreciated)
*Please be advised that reports and photos will be published on the FUTI website and may be used on FUTI publications. If you have any specific privacy requests, please let us know in advance.
For Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI:
Number of reports/due dates
In general, you are required to write interim reports once in approximately three months, and the final report at the end of your study or at the end of the school year, whichever comes first. The final report should cover the entire study period including what might have already been covered by interim reports.
FUTI will give a courtesy reminder about the interim reports with the check mailing notifications which are generally once every three months, but please make an effort of reminding yourself to write the reports.
These reports are in addition to your postings on the FUTI Facebook page. However, material from your Facebook posts may be used in the report.
Acknowledgement
Should you decide to add acknowledgements in your reports and would like to express thanks for the scholarship, please take this opportunity to show gratitude to the Ito Foundation U.S.A. (the fund provider) and Friends of UTokyo, Inc. (the fund operator). Since the report will be read by both parties, acknowledgement of both organizations would be appreciated.
Length/file format
Each report should be about one or more pages single-spaced as a docx/doc file
Report format
There is no set format and the reports can be written in English or Japanese. It can be written as a diary, a narrative, report, however you like. To read examples please visit the recipient reports page.
Photos
Several photos embedded in the doc file, as an email attachment, or shared via cloud (resolution of more than 1000px would be appreciated)
*Please be advised that reports, especially the final one, and photos will be published on the FUTI website and may be used on FUTI publications. If you have any specific privacy requests, please let us know in advance. | 82,320,067 |
504 F.2d 759
dU. S.v.Bright
74-2329
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS Fifth Circuit
11/20/74
1
S.D.Tex.
AFFIRMED
2
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** Dismissed under Local Rule 20 as frivolous and entirely without merit.
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The drought that's hitting much of the Midwest this summer will hit consumers in the pocketbook by next year, Purdue agricultural experts said Thursday.
The persistent hot, dry weather has hit farm production in Indiana, the nation's fifth-largest producer of corn, harder than any other major corn and soybean producing state, economist Chris Hurt said at a news conference in Indianapolis. The conditions have shrunk corn and soybean production and dried up pastures where cattle feed in summertime, Hurt said.
U.S. food prices tend to rise when production decreases in major farm states and the drought is likely to affect production in other breadbasket states too, he said.
The U.S. Agriculture Department projects that food prices will rise by as much as 3.5 percent starting late this year and into 2013. Everything from meat, margarine and milk to baked goods, cereal and salad dressing will likely cost more, Hurt said.
And food prices were already high in 2011, agricultural economist Corinne Alexander said.
Beef prices could rise by as much as 10 percent through next year if ranchers lose many cattle to heat stress or sell off portions of their herds to avoid the high cost of feed, according to data produced by agricultural researchers at the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service.
Richard Volpe, a USDA research economist in Washington, D.C., said if herds shrink and overseas demand grows, beef prices are bound to go up.
"We're looking at much higher meat prices until at least 2014," Alexander said.
Hurt said the impact on consumers will be even greater because incomes aren't rising in line with food prices. "The difficulty is that (food) is one of the necessities of life," Hurt said.
The Purdue research cooperative forecasts that if the drought continues through August - and it shows no sign of letting up - crop losses could be as great as they were during the 1988 drought, when corn and soybean production plummeted by about 30 percent.
Food prices jumped by more than 5 percent after the drought and by nearly 6 percent in 1989, according to figures provided by Volpe.
Another factor will be the ethanol industry, which is promised the first five billion bushels of corn produced every year under federal law, Hurt said. If production drops as much as expected, he said, "The issue we haven't heard since 2008 is going to come back - food versus fuel." That could lead to a political battle in Washington, he added.
The thunderstorms that crossed Indiana in the last week didn't do much to relieve the thirsty soil, and a sweltering heat wave has engulfed much of the state with temperatures climbing to 100 degrees or more.
The new U.S. Drought Monitor report released Thursday showed nearly a quarter of Indiana is in extreme drought, mostly in the southwestern part of the state Thursday's report listed 89 percent of the state as in at least moderate drought after Indiana's driest June on record..
Less than half of the normal amount of rain has fallen across much of the state since May 1. The parched conditions have been aggravated by a dry, mild winter and above-normal temperatures.
Much of the west, especially Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, also was in extreme drought, according to the map.
Every day without rain causes crop conditions to deteriorate, Purdue corn specialist Bob Nielsen said, and some damage is already irreversible. Four to six inches of precipitation over several weeks would be required to provide much relief, he said. | 82,320,360 |
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"The project was designed to allow Soldiers to not only do something good for the community, but to also help bring the team together after the recent deployment to Afghanistan," said Chief Warrant Officer 2 Balwinder P. Singh, the electronic warfare technician for 1st BCT.
Singh said the project took place over two weekends: Nov. 9-10 and Nov. 16-17.
"Starting on Nov. 9, Soldiers helped to install doors and molding and paint the entire house," he said. "On the 10th, we installed all cabinets for the kitchen and finished the final coat of paint on the interior of the house.
"Nov. 16, the Soldiers worked diligently to finish all the landscaping by laying sod and planting trees and flowers," continued Singh. "On the 17th, 1st STB Soldiers helped to finalize the house by installing appliances, and preparing the house to have the carpet installed."
Singh stated that, with the support of 1st BCT Soldiers, the Habitat for Humanity was able to complete their houses in those two weekends.
Singh said the hardest part of the project was not knowing who has experience with construction, but they were given guidance from Habitat for Humanity that helped mitigate the lack of expertise.
"It was great to see Soldiers working side by side to better the community right here at home," he said. "Some of the Soldiers from the first weekend of the build even took time out to come back again the last weekend to help finish and see the final product of their hard work." | 82,320,500 |
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Ash-colored tapaculo
The ash-colored tapaculo (Myornis senilis) is a tapaculo species. Placed in the monotypic genus Myornis, its affiliations are not well-determined; provisionally it is placed with the other tapaculos in the family Formicariidae.
It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Travis Newberry of Atlanta, GA has been honored with a recognition by Atlanta Magazine in its selection of "Top Mortgage Professionals In Atlanta."
ATLANTA, Aug. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Announcing a special recognition appearing in the August, 2013 issue of Atlanta Magazine published by Emmis Publishing Corporation. Travis Newberry was selected for the following honor:
Travis Newberry commented on the recognition: "This is quite an honor for me. The fact that Atlanta Magazine included me in its selection of "Top Mortgage Professionals In Atlanta," signals that my constant effort to deliver excellent work has paid off. It is gratifying to be recognized in this way."
About Travis Newberry:a short profile by and about the honoree:
I'm a retired U.S. Marine who served for 23 years and during that time, my family and I lived in ten different locations. Believe me, I know how it feels when you have to try to find a new home and finance it. My team and I will make this process as stress-free as we can. With more than 13 years of experience in home financing, I know how to create an ideal mortgage solution for borrowers in all types of situations. My thorough knowledge of home financing, especially with FHA/VA lending, makes the process easier and more enjoyable for everyone involve.
Following the publication of Travis Newberry's selection for Atlanta Magazine'sTop Mortgage Professionals In Atlanta list, American Registry seconded the honor and added Travis Newberry to the "Registry of Business Excellence™". An exclusive recognition plaque, shown here, has been designed to commemorate this honor.
For more information on Travis Newberry, located in Atlanta, GA please call 678-762-4770, or visit www.travisloans.net.
This press release was written by American Registry, LLC with contributions from Travis Newberry on behalf of Travis Newberry and was distributed by PR Newswire, a subsidiary of UBM plc.
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Symbol: TSX-V: LG
MONTREAL, March 5, 2018 /CNW Telbec/ - LGC Capital Ltd. (TSXV: LG) ("LGC") is pleased to announce that it will hold a live conference call on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 11 a.m. EST (9 a.m. MST, 8 a.m. PST).
The conference call will feature a presentation from LGC's President & CEO John McMullen, to be followed by a question and answer period with LGC's management and members of the LGC Board of Directors.
Topics to be covered will include:
Little Green Pharma – Australia
AAA Trichomes – Canada
Southern African initiative
House of Hemp – South Africa
Other
Global Canna Labs – Jamaica
Creso Pharma/Baltic Beer Initiative
Etea Sicurezza
Other countries of interest to LGC in the legalised Cannabis sector
LGC's views with respect to U.S. investments in the Cannabis sector
A power point presentation outlining key points of the call will be posted to the Investors section of LGC's website at the time of the call. http://www.lgc-capital.com/investors/.
Conference Call Access and Questions
To access the conference call within Canada and the U.S.A., the toll-free number is 1-888-231-8192. Outside Canada and the U.S.A., dial 1-647-427-7451. Please dial in five to ten minutes prior to the scheduled start time.
LGC management will accept questions by telephone and e-mail. Participants wishing to ask a question during the call can do so by pressing *1. Questions can also be emailed to [email protected].
An archive of the conference call will be posted to LGC's website as soon as it is available from the conference call provider. http://www.lgc-capital.com.
About LGC (www.lgc-capital.com)
LGC Capital Ltd. is a Canadian incorporated public company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV: LG). LGC's objective is to become a diversified business group with core business divisions that provide shareholders with exposure to a diverse range of businesses, products and services.
Caution Regarding Press Releases
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
SOURCE LGC Capital Ltd
For further information: John McMullen, Chief Executive Officer, Tel.: (416) 803-0698, Email: [email protected]; London contact: Anthony Samaha, Chief Financial Officer, Tel.: +44 (0) 20 7440 0640; Investor Relations: Dave Burwell, The Howard Group Inc., Tel.: (403) 221-9015, Toll Free: 1-888-221-0915, Email: [email protected] | 82,321,219 |
Getahn Ward
USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee
The 10 percent median price jump from May 2015 came amid a continuing decline in home inventory.
At the end of May, there was just more than a three and a half month supply of residential properties.
3,698 residential closings occurred in the Nashville area in May, up 3.9 percent from 2015.
The highest number of sales are recorded over the May, June and July period.
The median price of a single-family home in the Nashville area continued its upward climb in May, rising to a record $258,900 in tracking by the Greater Nashville Association of Realtors.
That 10 percent jump from May 2015 came amid a continuing decline in inventory year-over-year and month-over-month. At the end of last month, there was a just more than three and a half month supply of residential properties in the Nashville area, which reflects a seller's market.
"Historically when inventory is down, prices tend to rise," said Richard Exton, an appraiser with Manier and Exton in Nashville.
Typically, the highest number of home sales are recorded over the May, June and July period when schools are out and families are most likely to move. They often then begin to slow in August.
Roughly 3,930 sales were pending at the end of May, a 5 percent increase from a year ago in GNAR's tracking that suggests closings for June should be better than that same month last year.
GNAR President Denise Creswell said the Nashville area's median home price and inventory trends mirror the nation's, citing a 6.3 percent increase in the national median price and 3.6 percent decline in inventory year-over-year for April.
“The successes and challenges we face locally are in line with the rest of the country," she added.
Creswell said proposed changes to the Federal Housing Administration's condominium loan program could make it easier for first-time homebuyers to purchase condos.
"That might help those first-time homebuyers that might not be able to qualify for purchasing a home, but they might be able to qualify to purchase a condo," she said. "We're hoping that legislation passes."
In its separate tracking, the Williamson County Association of Realtors reported a 5.6 percent increase from a year ago in that county's median home sale price to $433,000 in May. That was the highest median sales price on record for May, with the all-time record of $433,850 reached in March.
For May, Williamson County's homes sales remained steady with 532 closings, which was a decline of 1.6 percent from a year earlier.
In the fall, real estate data analytics firm CoreLogic ranked Nashville 10th among the nation's most overvalued housing markets, adding that the average price of a home in the city was 12.3 percent higher than the long-run sustainable level.
Knoxville ranked sixth as the only other Tennessee city in the top 10, with Austin, Texas, and Houston ranked No 1 and No. 2 overall as the most overvalued. Cities with home prices at least 10 percent higher than the long-run sustainable level were considered overvalued in CoreLogic's analysis.
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Don’t expect deep discounts on preflown SpaceX boosters
The Feb. 6 inaugural flight of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket included two previously flown boosters. After the launch, SpaceX recovered two of its three Falcon Heavy's boosters on landing pads at Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California – SpaceX customers should not expect deep discounts when they opt to launch satellites on previously flown boosters instead of new ones, at least not initially, said Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of build and flight reliability for Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX.
Although SpaceX intends to decrease launch costs over time, it will not immediately offer significant discounts on preflown boosters while it recovers its investment in the technology it is developing to make rockets reusable, including its “navy” of drone ships and telemetry boats, Koenigsmann said Feb. 6 at the Small Satellite Symposium here.
Plus, there may be no reason to offer steep discounts on rockets with previously flown boosters because “I’m not sure that booster has any wear and tear on it that makes it worse,” Koenigsmann said.
Previously flown boosters may prove to be more reliable than new ones, Koenigsmann said. SpaceX designs each rocket for multiple flights and the company has established a comprehensive process for inspecting the boosters it recovers. In addition, if a rocket has flown successfully once that means it was built correctly in the first place, Koenigsmann said.
SpaceX has recovered 24 boosters including twelve on ships, eleven on land and one in the water. On Jan. 31, SpaceX recovered the booster used to launch the Luxembourg government’s GovSat-1 even though the booster landed in the water instead of on a drone ship.
SpaceX engineers are learning how to make Falcon 9 boosters more reliable by inspecting the ones they recover. SpaceX also is using that knowledge to improve Falcon 9’s second stage where it shares hardware with the booster. | 82,322,018 |
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