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Dianne Holum (* 19. Mai 1951 in Chicago) ist eine ehemalige US-amerikanische Eisschnellläuferin und Eisschnelllauftrainerin. Sie gewann 1968 und 1972 insgesamt vier olympische Medaillen, darunter 1972 die goldene über 1500 Meter. Zu den von ihr betreuten Sportlern gehörte der fünffache Olympiasieger von 1980 Eric Heiden.

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Eisschnellläuferin

Dianne Holum stammt aus der Metropolregion Chicago. Sie wuchs mit mehreren Geschwistern in einer sportbegeisterten Familie auf. Ihr Vater hatte als junger Mann Baseball gespielt und führte seine Kinder an verschiedene Sportarten heran. Mit drei Jahren stand Dianne Holum erstmals auf dem Eis, anfänglich als Eiskunstläuferin. Als sie zehn Jahre alt war, zog ihre Familie von Franklin Park nach Northbrook. Dort trainierte sie im örtlichen Eisschnelllaufverein unter der Anleitung von Ed Rudolph, der Northbrook seit Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem Zentrum des US-Eisschnelllaufs entwickelt hatte. Etwa 100 Kilometer nördlich von Northbrook in West Allis befand sich mit dem 1966 gebauten Wisconsin Olympic Ice Rink die zu diesem Zeitpunkt einzige 400-Meter-Eisbahn in den Vereinigten Staaten, die Holum und ihre Vereinskolleginnen im Winter zum Trainieren nutzten.

Als 14-Jährige wurde Holum nach Erfolgen auf nationaler Ebene zum ersten Mal für die Mehrkampfweltmeisterschaft nominiert, die 1966 im norwegischen Trondheim stattfand und bei der sie als bestes Streckenergebnis einen neunten Rang im 500-Meter-Sprint erreichte. Im Folgejahr gewann sie bei der Mehrkampf-WM 1967 im niederländischen Deventer ihre erste internationale Medaille: Sie belegte Platz drei der Gesamtwertung beim Sieg von Stien Kaiser und lief dabei die zweitschnellste Zeit über 500 Meter. Bei den olympischen Wettkämpfen in Grenoble 1968 gewann Holum Silber über 500 Meter und Bronze über 1000 Meter. Mit einer Zeit von 46,3 Sekunden auf der 500-Meter-Strecke war sie dabei auf die Zehntelsekunde zeitgleich mit ihren Teamkolleginnen Mary Myers und Jennifer Fish, die somit ebenfalls eine Silbermedaille gewannen. Holum war die einzige US-amerikanische Sportlerin, die bei den Winterspielen in Grenoble zweimal auf dem olympischen Podest stand.

In der Vorbereitung auf die Olympischen Winterspiele 1972 in Sapporo trainierte Holum mehrere Stunden täglich. Mit einem Teilzeitjob als Kellnerin im Sommer 1971 finanzierte sie für den Herbst einen dreimonatigen Trainingsaufenthalt in den Niederlanden. Dort trainierte Holum gemeinsam mit Stien Baas-Kaiser und verbesserte ihre Ausdauerfähigkeit, um auch auf den längeren Strecken konkurrenzfähig zu sein. Ein Artikel in der US-Zeitschrift Sports Illustrated charakterisierte sie als asketische und leidenschaftliche Wettkämpferin, die sich ihrem Sport wie einer Religion widme. In Sapporo wurde Holum über 1500 Meter mit einer Zeit von 2:20,85 Minuten und zwei Zehntelsekunden Vorsprung auf Baas-Kaiser Olympiasiegerin. Außerdem gewann sie – sechseinhalb Sekunden hinter Baas-Kaiser – die Silbermedaille über 3000 Meter. Mit Anne Henning entschied eine Vereinskollegin Holums aus Northbrook das 500-Meter-Rennen für sich. In den Wochen nach den Olympischen Spielen gewann Holum bei der Sprint-WM in Eskilstuna und bei der Mehrkampf-WM in Heerenveen Silber beziehungsweise Bronze.

Eisschnelllauftrainerin
Holum beendete nach dem Winter 1972 im Alter von 20 Jahren ihre aktive Eisschnelllaufkarriere und nahm ein sportwissenschaftliches Studium an der University of Wisconsin–Madison auf, das sie 1976 mit einem Bachelor abschloss. Gleichzeitig begann sie als Sporttrainerin in örtlichen Vereinen zu arbeiten, darunter im Madison Speed Skating Club, wo sie unter anderem das junge Geschwisterpaar Beth und Eric Heiden betreute. Holum blieb bis zu deren Karriereende 1980 die persönliche Trainerin der Geschwister, die beide in die Weltspitze aufstiegen: Beth Heiden wurde Mehrkampfweltmeisterin 1979, Eric Heiden gewann sieben Weltmeistertitel und bei den Winterspielen 1980 fünf olympische Goldmedaillen. Ab Mitte der 1970er-Jahre war Holum zudem gemeinsam mit dem Niederländer Peter Schotting für das US-Nationalteam verantwortlich. In den 1970er-Jahren war Holum die einzige weibliche Trainerin von Weltklasse-Eisschnellläufern.

Als Trainerin setzte Holum – in Anbetracht der geringen Zahl an Eisbahnen in den Vereinigten Staaten – stark auf intensive Trockenübungen abseits des Eises, etwa auf Radfahren und Calisthenics. Ein Artikel der Washington Post bescheinigte ihr, sie lege als Übungsleiterin viel Wert auf emotionale Fürsorge und Ermutigung, und beschrieb sie als "Streichlerin, Egobuilderin und Hohepriesterin" ("a stroker, an egobuilder, a high-priesttess"), die großen Anteil am Erfolg der Heidens hatte. Zugleich sagte der Präsident des US-Eisschnelllaufverbandes George Howie, Holum neige dazu, Menschen mit ihrer aggressiven und temperamentvollen Art zu verärgern. Die Athletin Leah Poulos-Mueller äußerte sich angesichts des hohen Arbeitspensums kritisch gegenüber Holums Trainingsmethoden. Nach den Winterspielen 1980 zog sich Holum vorübergehend als Nationaltrainerin zurück und arbeitete Anfang der 1980er-Jahre mit dem Eishockeyteam der Colorado Rockies. 1983 kehrte sie wieder an ihre alte Position zurück und betreute die US-Eisschnellläufer bei den Olympischen Winterspielen 1984, ehe sich der Verband 1985 von ihr trennte. Sie blieb dem Eisschnelllauf als Trainerin in West Allis verbunden. Parallel dazu arbeitete sie in den 1990er-Jahren als Sportlehrerin an katholischen Grundschulen in der Gegend um Milwaukee.

Dianne Holum und der Nordische Kombinierer Mike Devecka – mit dem Holum nie verheiratet war – sind Vater von Kirstin Holum (* 1980), die 1998 ebenfalls als Eisschnellläuferin an Olympischen Spielen teilnahm und im Vorfeld von ihrer Mutter trainiert wurde.

Auszeichnungen
Seit Mai 1986 ist Holum Mitglied der US Speedskating Hall of Fame. Im Jahr 1993 wurde Holum in die Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame aufgenommen, zudem gehört sie seit 1996 der International Women's Sports Hall of Fame an.

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Olympische Winterspiele
Dianne Holum nahm an zwei Olympischen Winterspielen teil: In Grenoble 1968 sowie in Sapporo 1972 gewann sie jeweils zwei Medaillen.

Mehrkampf-Weltmeisterschaften
Von 1966 bis 1972 nahm Holum an sieben aufeinanderfolgenden Mehrkampfweltmeisterschaften teil. Sie gewann dabei zwei Bronzemedaillen. Die folgende Tabelle zeigt ihre Zeiten – und in Klammern jeweils dahinter ihre Platzierungen – auf den vier gelaufenen Einzelstrecken sowie die sich daraus errechnende Gesamtpunktzahl nach dem Samalog und die Endplatzierung. Die Anordnung der Distanzen entspricht ihrer Reihenfolge im Programm der Mehrkampf-WM zu Holums aktiver Zeit.

Sprint-Weltmeisterschaften
Holum gewann zwischen 1970 und 1972 einmal Silber und einmal Bronze bei Sprintweltmeisterschaften (die 1970 zum ersten Mal ausgetragen wurden). Die folgende Tabelle zeigt ihre Zeiten – und in Klammern jeweils dahinter ihre Platzierungen – auf den vier gelaufenen Einzelstrecken sowie die sich daraus errechnende Gesamtpunktzahl nach dem Samalog und die Endplatzierung. Die Anordnung der Distanzen entspricht ihrer Reihenfolge im Programm der Sprint-WM zur aktiven Zeit Holums.

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My goal was to come up with a model for GitHub's growth to understand what kind of rules its growth followed and so I could better predict the future.
My first assumption was that I could handle this as a population using standard approaches like the exponential or logistic equations, but I started by plotting a couple of things: users over time, and the log of users over time. Getting a feel for the shape of the data should be the starting point for any analysis.
If it's a population experiencing exponential growth, it should be log-linear (plotting the log of users on the Y-axis rather than raw users should be linear), but it's not — so the growth cannot be treated exponentially. Since GitHub users increase faster than exponential growth allows (tighter curvature on graph of users over time, higher slope on log-linear graph), to fit growth, we need a superexponential model.
After digging into this for a while, I finally discovered a model of populations that might fit — coalition-based growth, described by von Foerster and colleagues in 1960 in a publication in Science. Its essence is in game theory, considering the entire community as a single group in a two-entity game against its environment, due to members' high level of communications enabling them to form tightly linked coalitions, rather than independent individuals trying to survive. To me, the parallel with collaborative software development seemed quite strong.
where P is the population at time t, P0 is the initial population, and k is a growth constant (i.e., the frequency of growth by a factor e). This equation is different from the more typical exponential growth [P(t) = P0 * ekt] because of an additional multiple of t to indicate that the rate of growth actually increases with time, which is inserted to account for the network effects. The results generally make sense, which is always a good check to make — for example, the initial population is much closer to zero than 3 million.
In the meanwhile, I'd thrown out a request on Twitter for suggestions on how to model this, and Adrian Cockcroft suggested treating it as diffusion atop a pre-existing social network. This seemed reasonable too, so I started looking into it. Turns out that the logistic function is also used to describe diffusion of innovations, but it's again log-linear, which doesn't fit the GitHub adoption data. Then I combined this with some of my previous thoughts that there must be alternate ways to model GitHub based on social-network analysis rather than population dynamics.
where P again is the population at time t, p and q are coefficients for advertising and social-network effects, respectively, and m is the total size of the market.
Under that model, you would interpret nearly all of GitHub's popularity to social effects (word-of-mouth and friends) and nearly none to broadcast advertising. Again, it's good to see the results generally make intuitive sense.
Regarding the market size m, it's critical to note that it is commonly underestimated, particularly with the paucity of data here (only a partial curve and no inflection point).
In summary, modeling GitHub adoption as diffusion of an innovation seems to work pretty well, too, despite the obvious simplifications regarding the social network and static market sizing, advertising, pricing, etc.
Neither fit is perfect, with some clear systematic errors, but I suspect that won't be fixable without a more complex model (e.g. heterogeneous social networks) or more data. The coalition model says things increase faster and faster forever (which seems just a tad unrealistic), predicting 100 million users after 10 years. Although I don't necessarily discard 100 million developers out of hand, I'm definitely skeptical about 2.5 billion at year 15, which makes the model as a whole a little weak. The Bass model, on the other hand, is a more typical S-shaped curve that's clearly moving toward a maximum, predicting 20 million users at year 10 and 21 million at year 15.
Now, don't take those numbers as hard figures, because there's huge amounts of uncertainty associated with them — the purpose of this exercise was more about understanding GitHub's growth model and possibly some near-term prediction.
Update: GitHub hit 4 million users in early August and 5 million in December, exactly as predicted.
Categories: adoption, community, data-science, open-source, social.


President Erdogan denounced the "so-called Turkish Medical Association" as "terrorist-lovers". He was reported two days later as saying: "They are not intellectuals, they are a gang of unthinking slaves… They are the servants of imperialism.
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Q: How can I get my Netbook upgrade to 11.10 to use the new system button? Most, if not all, the user interface updated correctly when I went from Natty to Oneiric but the system button did not. How can I get rid of the ugly purple monitor icon to be replaced with the new icon used by Oneiric? Is it a Unity-2D thing?

A: In general your icon theme looks outdated. Open the system settings and change the theme to high contrast, then back to Ambiance.
If that doesn't fix it, then run:

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If the theme does not automatically update, change the theme as mentioned above.

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This assignment can be completed individually or in groups of 3 - 4 people. One copy per group will be handed in. The assignment must be hand-signed by all group members.
2. Define the phrase "environmental problem."
3. Why are environmental problems currently on the forefront of the news?
4. List ten environmental problems that concern you.
5. Criteria are often established to define, classify, and prioritize environmental problems.List at least five criteria that you would use to classify environmental problems.
6. What are some of the values or attitudes these criteria express?
Provide a brief description of the criterion.
Describe how the criterion can be measured.
Identify the criteria that apply.
Describe how the criteria can be measured.
9. Which three of these environmental problems would you consider most important for the President of the United States? What are your reasons for choosing these?
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Here's a link to our June 2013 update. We're back in the USA from April-October for an extended visit with family, friends, and supporters; to raise financial support; to rest and gear up for our move to Chiang Mai in the fall! Go here to read about it all.


The moment that nerds have been waiting for has finally arrived. The trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past has hit the interwebs. And I must say, as a comic book fan, this is one of the most stunning trailers I have ever seen.
There is the allusion to character relationships like Kitty Pride and Iceman. But the centerpiece of the trailer is Professor X. Patrick Stewart, even in short bursts, delivers a stunning performance.
And unlike most Marvel trailers which tend to rely on the shock and awe of fight scenes and explosions, this trailer goes the emotional route. The end of mutantkind looms over all of their heads, and clearly this story isn't about discovering who you are or keeping a mutant secret. This is world saving business. Narrated by voice-overs from prominent members of the cast, the seriousness of the story is felt from beginning to end.
And that seriousness is what has set the X-Men: First Class series apart from the rest of the Marvel stable. You can see it in the eyes of every character throughout the trailer. The gravity of the situation is not spared on anyone, not even Mystique who is caught shedding a tear.
It appears that most of the old cast won't be sticking around long since almost all of their scenes in the trailer appear to take place in the same location, however, that is how is should be. By the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past we can all just pretend that those first three movies are from a timeline that no longer exists, and the current filmmakers can work on repairing all of the damage that had been done to the X-Men franchise.
Now, I'm not sure how Bryan Singer is going to tie all of these characters together in this film since the movies have already veered so far from comic canon, but I can't wait to see how he does it. May 24th 2014 can't get here soon enough.
Watch the trailer below and let us know what you think of it in the comments section below!


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Holiday Guide | Sanford's Clark Griswold
Date: December 1, 2019Author: RantEditor 2 Comments
"I've always said if I can bring a smile to someone's face, then none of this is work. If this brings a little joy to someone's heart, then that's what this is all for," says Don Perry, whose home on Rockwood Drive in West Sanford is one of the area's best Christmas light displays every year. Photo by Billy Liggett
Around the time everybody starts thinking of what costume they're going to wear for Halloween, Don Perry is thinking Christmas lights.
It's his own fault, he'll be the first to admit, but if he's going to maintain his unofficial title of "Sanford's Clark Griswold," Perry has to start unraveling those lights and stringing them around his front yard trees and bushes and along his driveway — thousands and thousands of little bulbs — in October. The inflatables — dozens and dozens of them — go up around Thanksgiving.
It all gets turned on Dec. 1 (if he makes it in time). His home on Rockwood Drive in West Sanford (you can't miss it at night) is a sight to behold.
And for Perry, all the hard work is worth it.
"I'm 61, and I don't get on the roof anymore … my son-in-laws do that now. And it's not always easy to go out at night and cut everything on by hand, because I'm still not using those automatic on and off programs. And it's certainly not fun to do it when it's raining," says Perry. "But I've always said if I can bring a smile to someone's face, then none of this is work. If this brings a little joy to someone's heart, then that's what this is all for."
Perry's home can be seen from several blocks away — Rockwood Drive can get backed up on some nights as drivers with children and dogs crammed in the back seats slow to a crawl so everybody can "ooh" and "aah" the decorations and catch the small details. Outhouses with Santa peeking out … snow globes … Will Ferrell's Elf … nativity scenes are just a few of them.
He started decorating his home in the mid-90s — the finished product was tame then compared to today's standards. It began with the lights, then as a gag, Perry bought a six-foot-tall blow-up Santa Claus (back before they were popular, he adds).
"As the children got older, they got to liking it," he says. "So every year, I added more. Lights started going on the bushes and on the roof. Then we started going higher in the trees. By 2000, it kinda got out of control. And every year, I'm adding more."
He enjoys the comparisons to Clark Griswold from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. In fact, one of his nativity scenes is the same Chevy Chase used in the classic movie. When he began, not a lot of homes in his neighborhood were decorating, but today, he's starting to see competition spring up around him. He notes one nearby house on the aptly named Holiday Road and another home on Carbonton Road.
"They've gone overboard, too," Perry says. "But they do theirs with a lot more organization. Mine's just a bunch of tacky colors."
He does have a favorite piece among the Christmas cacophony — an eight-foot plywood sign painted by his sister-in-law a few years ago. The sign features the names of Perry's entire family, and since its creation, he's started adding his grandchildren's names to it.
"Hopefully it's something we'll keep adding to," he says. "It's the neatest thing."
The Perry home will be lit up beginning Dec. 1, and the lights will stay on through the New Year.
— by Billy Liggett
More Christmas Lights
There aren't a ton of neighborhoods in our city that get together to purposely wow the local citizens, but there are several homes and businesses around Sanford that would do Clark Griswold proud. Below are a few of our favorites.
Carolina Women's Fitness
Interactive fun — three spots outside of the gym on Center Church Road in Tramway where you can drive up, turn your dial to the FM station posted in front of those lights and watch them blink and play along with the music. The highlight is the reindeer quartet singing Christmas songs.
Carbonton Road
David and Kay Ward's house on Carbonton Road is also a wonderland of Christmas lights and inflatables, and it's worth slowing the traffic behind you to take it in. They're also starting to go all out for Halloween and Thanksgiving, too.
Holiday Road
Not far from Don Perry's House is another impressive display (more tactifuly done, Perry admits) on Holiday Road in West Sanford. And yes, you now have that song stuck in your head. You're welcome.
Broken Plow Farm
Unlike the previous entries, this one costs money ($9 a person), but your ticket includes a hayride and visit with Santa. The hayride takes visitors through a nice assortment of lights.
Mockingbird Lane, in the Quail Ridge community, has several homes that do pretty well when it comes to lights. It's one of the few local neighborhoods where they seem to try to outdo each other.
Depot Park
A few years ago, Downtown Sanford Inc. and the City of Sanford joined in to light up downtown's Depot Park with lights surrounding the square and the depot building, and moving lights on the train. It's certainly worth a stop or a drive-by during your lights search.
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Rhonda says:
These are great. If you could also let your readers know about Arthur Maddox Rd.in the Tramway area. Several tractors are lit with yellow and green lights with reflections off the water. Pretty cool to see
Peggy Womble says:
Thanks for the info, we enjoy riding around and looking at all the decorations!

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Steve- the youth are doing nice, many cool experiences as we handed out around 50 Bibles immediately and we're capable of pray for many individuals. Many new things, and learning not to take issues as a right, resembling hot water…or water basically. Both final night and intervals all through the day there is no such thing as a water whenever you turn on the tap because there are shortages city large. It is unlucky when it happens midway through a shower and the water stops…simply ask Dylan!


I have a new article on the Microsoft CRM Team Blog today with some tips on building a virtual development server for CRM using Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008. Check it out!
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The award for Best Personal Essay is new to the 2017 Digital Publishing Awards program, and our jury has nominated 10 outstanding pieces of personal journalism. The award honours the best overall story in which the writer's perspective and/or personal experience is the main focus.
Out of this year's nominees, we explore topics such as coming out to parents, queer mentorship and stories of transitioning, as well as personal tales of the grief associated with miscarriage and widowhood. Family dynamics & traditions, life with cancer, life after the Olympics and the passing of Leonard Cohen are also topics explored in this year's nominees.
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Inside Out Thought Bubbles Review
Inside Out Thought Bubbles
Inside Out Thought Bubbles Review. Control Riley's Memories
I don't know about you, but I was blown away by the animation movie Inside Out. I remember thinking 'this makes so much sense.' I like how the different emotions come to life in the film and how Riley responds to their actions. It is one of my top animation movies. This is why I had to try the Inside Out Thought Bubbles app available for Google Android, iOS and Windows Phone. Find out why you should get this app as soon as possible.
This game has stunning graphics featuring 3D animations. The different animated characters look exactly as they do in the movie which makes them quite enjoyable. It also has a plethora of colors which makes it very beautiful and quite attractive to the eye.
In this game, you will be basically trying to help Disgust, Sadness, Joy, Anger and Fear by matching the different colored memories in Riley's head. As you progress through the levels, you will be able to unlock various tasks and take a trip to destinations such as Imagination, Dream Productions and Family Island. The game has a total of 125 levels that are inspired by the animation movie. The bubble shoot genre of this game is very familiar. However, there is a unique spin to this game that differentiates it from the rest. For instance, you get different challenges like releasing the memory workers and brain freezes which you will not find in any other similar game. Apart from this, I also like the fact that you can unlock different unique powers for the characters you are playing, which makes the game even more enjoyable.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles has straightforward controls. All you need is a simple swipe of your finger to match the items and shoot the different memories in Riley's head. This makes it favorable for different age groups.
Inside Out Thought Bubbles is free. However, it features a number of in-app purchases such as gem packs and bundle packs. These in-app purchases range between $0.99 and $49.99. You can turn them off in the settings section if you don't need them. I don't think they are necessary. I have got very far in the game without needing to purchase anything.
Replay Value
When I got the Google Play app for this game, I played for hours non-stop. I played up to level 40 without putting the game down, and I still couldn't get enough. Everyone I have recommended this app to says the same. I am sure you will get addicted to it as well.
I am a great fan of Inside Out Thought Bubbles. This leading puzzle game is the perfect distraction when you have some time to spare and when you just want to relax. It is well executed with numerous challenges and loads of amazing features. I would recommend it to anyone who is in search of a great puzzle game as well as all Inside Out fans out there. Get the latest version on the App Store, Windows Store or Google Play Store, depending on which device you are using.
It's fascinating
It is compatible with iOS, Windows and Android
The game is free
Frequent updates.
It's quite large
Expensive in-app purchases
Does not make sense to someone who has not watched Inside Out.
Take a note. This app's size is bigger than the average in this category
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Creative Labs Zen – seria popularnych odtwarzaczy MP3 firmy Creative. Należą do niej m.in.: Zen, Zen Extra, Zen Micro(od 1 GB do 8 GB), Zen Micro Photo(od 2 GB do 8 GB), Zen Stone, Zen Stone Plus, Zen Nano, Zen Nano Plus, Zen V, Zen V Plus, Zen Sleek, Zen Sleek Photo, Zen Vision, Zen Vision M(30/60/120GB), Zen Vision W(30GB), Zen Mozaic, Zen X-Fi. Wszystkie odtwarzacze, oprócz Nano, Nano Plus, V, V Plus, Mozaic, Stone i Stone Plus posiadają dysk twardy o pojemności od 2 do 120 gigabajtów.
Linia Zen cechuje się ponadto dużym zróżnicowaniem - od prostych odwarzaczy obsługujących formaty muzyczne, po zaawansowane odtwarzające zdjęcia i filmy video. Głównymi konkurentami Creative Zen są marki: iPod, Iriver, Philips, Sony, Samsung.

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Winamp 5.9
A free classic media player for Windows PC
Winamp Updated
May 02, 2022 Size
Winamp is a free multimedia player that is compatible to play most modern file types of audio and video. It can support MP3, FLAC, AAC, MIDI, WAV, M4A, WMA, MOD, and MPEG files. After installing Winamp from themes choose skins for the stylish look of the interface. The player also offers free access to a range of songs, films, and online radio stations from AOL Radio with XM and SHOUTcast Radio.
You can download Winamp's latest version, 5.9 which supports Windows 11. Before that Winamp old Version 5.8 was released in 2018 and supported Windows 10.
Like KMPlayer and VLC Media Player, Winamp is a good choice for converting and ripping music. The program can rip audio from CDs. Moreover, it can encode music in WMA, AAC, and other file formats. Most importantly, the tool supports a wide range of plugins to extend functionalities and features. For instance, you can use plugins for graphic equalizers to boost 3D sound, support lossless FLAC file format, and crossfade.
Winamp music playback supports all MP3, MIDI, MOD, MPEG-1 audio layers 1 and 2, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV, and WMA. During installation, this tool searches media files on your computer and adds them to the media library database. It supports media file metadata and full Unicode filenames. Winamp syncs unprotected music to the iPod and offer extended support for portable media players, Mass Storage Compliant devices, Microsoft PlaysForSure, and ActiveSync.
Winamp can be used as an RSS media feed aggregator that can play streaming media, download files, and show articles. Winamp Media Monitor enables web-based browsing, bookmarking, and streaming or downloading of all MP3 songs from music blog websites. Winamp Remote enables remote playback over the Internet of unprotected media files on the user's PC.
Winamp offers thousands of skins and plug-ins for customizing the player's appearance and feel with new functionalities. Additional plug-ins offered by Winamp Classic include interface customization options and three-dimensional audio software. Thus, customizing its design and streamlining playback capabilities can stay open while other programs are running due to its lightweight feature.
Winamp Classic is a free program that offers similar playback features with several common tools accessible and a customizable layout. It is fairly simple to use and may be ideal for people searching for a streamlined media player.
Winamp is a reliable multimedia player, but there are similar programs with greater functionality as well. If you want to download a free multimedia program with similar functionalities, you can consider using Potplayer, GOM Player, SMPlayer, and All Player.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul and the Inspiration to Overcome with Amy Newmark
All Network Episodes, The Trauma Impact
An inspiring conversation with Amy Newmark, bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Amy shares what she has learned about resilience and overcoming. The power of storytelling has been a passion to heal and during the most trying times in life. Sharing stories is healing for the reader and story teller.
Amy Newmark is the bestselling author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. Since 2008, she has published more than 170 new books, most of them national bestsellers in the U.S. and Canada, more than doubling the number of Chicken Soup for the Soul titles in print today. She is also the author of Simply Happy, a crash course in Chicken Soup for the Soul advice and wisdom that is filled with easy-to-implement, practical tips for enjoying a better life.
Amy is credited with revitalizing the Chicken Soup for the Soul brand, which has been a publishing industry phenomenon since the first book came out in 1993. By compiling inspirational and aspirational true stories curated from ordinary people who have had extraordinary experiences, Amy has kept the twenty-seven-year-old Chicken Soup for the Soul brand fresh and relevant.
Amy graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University where she majored in Portuguese and minored in French. She then embarked on a three-decade career as a Wall Street analyst, a hedge fund manager, and a corporate executive in the technology field. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Her return to literary pursuits was inevitable, as her honors thesis in college involved traveling throughout Brazil's impoverished northeast region, collecting stories from regular people. She is delighted to have come full circle in her writing career—from collecting stories "from the people" in Brazil as a twenty-year-old to, three decades later, collecting stories "from the people" for Chicken Soup for the Soul.
When Amy and her husband Bill, the CEO of Chicken Soup for the Soul, are not working, they are visiting their four grown children and their grandchildren.
Follow Amy on Twitter @amynewmark. Listen to her free podcast, The Chicken Soup for the Soul Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, the Podcasts app on iPhone, or by using your favorite podcast app on other devices.
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You Young Guns are to Funny!!!!!
Takk, need a new Sig. help an old guy out. you don't have to use a motorcycle. make me something thats cool as shhhi""" with a DES Godsmack in it please.
lol ok godsmack but maybe you dont hijack shorty's thread and just pm me.
Why? Everyone else did? It turned into a "how tall are you" now its a "i needa sig" what diff does it make?
Hey Shorty welcome to the forum!!!!!!! Im about 6 foot tall but i dont think anyone cares lol. I hope you enjoy your time here at the W$N forum .


Status of Java support and Guile conversion?
Subject: Status of Java support and Guile conversion?
I am increasingly working on projects that are either all Java or have a major Java component. Particularly in mixed environments, with a lot of Java code, native components written in C/C++, test environments using expect or guile, etc. setting up build and release environments becomes increasing difficult.
I have done a few searches to ascertain the state of Java support for the automake/autoconf tools which have been, in the past, difficult to use in a Java or mixed environment (we're mostly using Jam, right now). Although I have seen some activity it's unclear if there is any type of focused effort under way to fully integrate Java builds and what that status of that effort is - specifically, is there anything out there that we could try our hands on.
During the searches I also came across a remark along the lines that autoconf/automake would be re-written in Guile. Didn't find anything else, but that is pretty exciting. I'm currently fixing and extending the old greg library (sort of a simple expect for Guile) to run with the latest Guile release and drive our automated test suite. Anyone have any info on this effort?
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A housewife has been ordered to pay her executive ex-husband, who has an annual salary in the high six figures, $300,000 in an "equitable" distribution in their divorce.
Goodman gained notoriety after she wrote a letter in the Rockland County Times in 2015 in which she described frustrations in her divorce which had dragged on since 2010, largely because of the alleged irrational rulings of recently retired Judge Victor Alfieri, who failed to schedule a trial and even forced Goodman to start the case over again several years into the process.
Shortly after her letter was published, Alfieri recused himself from the case and the case was reassigned back to Judge Berliner, who had actually been involved at the start of the divorce in 2010. However, Judge Berliner was moved to Westchester County and the case was assigned to Judge Alfieri. Judge Berliner scheduled a trial for the following Spring. While the trial was held in March of 2016, his decision wasn't made until nearly a year later, even though the decision only numbered 11 pages.
"In November 2016, I reached out to the court after being notified by Ellen Holtzman (her ex-husband's attorney) via e-mail that Philip Morris International, my spouse's employer, would be switching my children and I from the domestic health insurance plan we had been on for years, as well as during trial, to an international health insurance plan as of January 1, 2017, due to the fact that my spouse chooses to live overseas. My procedural question to the court, since I am pro-se, was should we have an emergency court conference or do I file a motion to address this issue, since the Judge had not rendered his decision from the March 2016 trial yet?" Goodman said.
Goodman said she wasn't sure the Judge examined all the evidence carefully.
A phone call to Judge Berliner's chambers was left unreturned.
An email to Arlene Hackel, a public affairs officer with the New York Court System, was also left unreturned.
Lempa's attorney provided account statements which included an investment account showing only approximately $2,000 in it. But during Lempa's deposition, he admitted to moving hundreds of thousands of dollars through the account. Goodman said she wasn't sure if the Judge read the deposition and only held Lempa to account for the $2,000.
Berliner ordered that Goodman account full for a bank account holding approximately $100,000 when the divorce started in 2010. She said the account is now nearly empty. Because Berliner ordered a 50/50 split, Goodman is responsible to pay half of what was in that account 7 years ago to her ex-husband.
Goodman also said she had approximately $100,000 saved before she married Lempa and this should not have been included in the assets to be split up, but Berliner never credited her this $100,000 as her separate property.
Though Goodman is a stay at home mom and Lempa works as a manager at Phillip Morris making in the high six figures, Berliner's decision awarded her no spousal support, only child support for the two children of the marriage.
Goodman remembered it differently, saying she wouldn't need maintenance if the decision was made based on her terms where she expected marital property to be split up equitably.
"Plaintiff believes that if the property is allocated as set forth herein, and child support is set forth herein, no maintenance should be necessary," Goodman said in her statement for proposed disposition.
While her ex-husband asked for a 70/30 split in his favor and the court ordered a 50/50 split, nearly everything else in the divorce mirrored her ex-husband's terms. Goodman said shortly after the decision was made, her ex-husband's attorney began asking her for the money owed.
Though the former couple has two children, the decision made no mention of final custody.
While Goodman maintains physical custody of their two children and her ex-husband has been living abroad since even before the divorce began -and as a result has no relationship with the children- she was not officially granted sole legal and physical custody.
In fact, their custody arrangement, initially put in place by Judge Berliner on a temporary basis in 2010, and it has not been changed or finalized since.
Without sole legal and physical custody, Goodman's ex-husband can veto any major decision: including medical decisions, changing schools, and moving to another area.
He can also more easily reduce child support.
Ellen Holtzman, Lempa's attorney's, declined to comment for this story, saying the case was still unfolding.
While the divorce was finalized in the decision, Goodman plans to appeal.


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Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX"), 20 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in educational programs and activities.
Red Clay Consolidated School District does not discriminate on the basis of sex, nor does it tolerate discrimination on the basis of sex in its educational programs and activities.
Inquiries concerning potential discrimination on the basis of sex can be directed to the District's Title IX Coordinator or the Office of Civil Rights.
John Dickinson High School
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The District's Title IX Coordinator is:
Mr. Theodore Boyer
Director of District & School Services
1502 Spruce Avenue
The Office of Civil Rights is located:
Office of Civil Rights, Philadelphia
The Wanamaker Building
100 Penn Square East, Suite 515
Responsibilities of the Title IX Coordinator's include the following:
Overseeing all complaints of sex discrimination
Identifying and addressing patterns or systemic problems that arise during the review of such complaints
The Red Clay Consolidated School District will take formal action for any violation of the prohibition against sex discrimination.
Resolution Steps:
Contact the building Principal to arrange a meeting to discuss the complaint.
Attempt to resolve concerns by working with the building Principal or appropriate staff member to reach a joint resolution.
If the issue can't be resolved; a formal written grievance should be filed by the complainant and submitted to the District Title IX Compliance Officer within 10 business days of the alleged violation to request a hearing.
The letter should contain:
The child name, date of birth, home address and the school he/she attends
Your name, address and phone number
Your relationship to the student (parent, guardian, surrogate)
Name, address and phone number of the person representing you (if you have someone)
Schools decision with which you disagree and the reason
Date of decision
The Complainant may appeal the District's decision to the District Title IX Coordinator within 10 business ₴₴days of receiving the Title IX Coordinator's decision.
The Superintendent will review all statements and evidence and issue a written decision in response to the appeal no later than 30 days after its filing.
If there is a finding of discrimination, the district shall take remedial efforts to prevent recurrence.
After the Superintendent's decision any party aggrieved shall have the right to file a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights.
E-mail: ocr@ed.gov
OCR Electronic Complaint Form: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/llist/ocr/complaintintro.html


Preliminary plans have been submitted for the development of a medical office and emergency department on the High Street frontage of the UMCH property currently zoned for commercial office use. The proposal consist of a two-story, 20,000 square foot, state-of-the-art medical facility. The facility would house an emergency department on the first floor and medical offices on the second floor.


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Makes project management understandable and workable for people and organizations unaccustomed to formal controls. A flat organization believes the formal processes and controls used by many hierarchical organizations to be too involved, require too much overhead cost, and be too complex and/or time consuming..
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Head over to his page, give him some love, and convince him to stick around!The other holy paladin blogger is Dreamy from Drunkard's Regalia.Her style is completely unique, and, in my opinion, a refreshing change from the many more formal blogs out there. If you're looking to add some spice to your blog reading, Drunkard's Regalia is a good place to start.Oh, and I fixed the link to the Paladin forum at Plus Heal. Welcoming our new Retribution brother We have a new retribution blogger! Chronicles of a Casual (and don't let the name fool you, he is a raider, a dps paladin, and informative) fills in a huge gap in the paladin community by writing, with a teachy approach, about his adventures as a ret pally, both in raids and with the target dummy.She shares her observations, be they about tanking or about the people she meets or about the general game in frequent, juicy, meaty posts.
I'm not sure if I just stumble across Holy blogs more than Ret or Prot blogs because I'm Holy, or if it's just that us healer-types are chattier. It's not paladin centric, but Eade healing-centric.I aim for active blogs on general topics and/or blogs of more personal friends (because, yes, it's my blog and if I want to play favorites, I'm totally allowed). If you're a long time Wo W blog reader, you might recognize the writing style of More Bars Than You's Skip Cocoa.He's a close irl friend of mine, and more importantly, a fantastic writer with an endless imagination. The other blog I added is Healer by Nature by my guildy, raid leader and friend (I hope! I'd require a tad more frequent posting for a blogroll listing, but because Thes is awesome, he gets to be an exception. As mentioned in my intro, I'm totally open to shameless self promotion.And if you have a blog yourself, please remind us to add it.We will only add blogs that are actively updating at least once a month. In other news, I added a recent comments widget to the sidebar.


What Canine Breeds Have Little Ears?
The bulldog sports small, rose-shaped ears.
Canine ears come in many shapes and sizes, and some breeds are known by them -- consider the basset hound's long droop ears and the Boston terrier's "bat ears." Plenty of breeds sport relatively small ears, from the small prick variety to tiny rosebuds.
The Chinese Shar-Pei is a medium to large breed, weighing between 40 and 60 pounds, with characteristic face wrinkles and small, flat-set triangular ears. The tip of the ear folds forward and lies flush against the head. The ear shape and positioning, tight and close to the head, reduces airflow in the already narrow canine ear canal. The Shar-Pei requires regular, weekly ear cleaning to prevent bacterial and yeast infections. Small triangular ears can stand erect, as is the case with the chow chow.
Pricked ears stand triangular and stiffly erect atop a dog's head; unlike triangular ears, they never droop forward, such as is the case with the Shar-Pei. The Shiba Inu, a Japanese breed, weighs less than 25 pounds and features a plush, reddish coat and small prick ears. A Shiba Inu's ears are short, with distinctly rounded tips; they tilt slightly forward in line with the neck . Their open shape allows for decent airflow. Owners should check the ears weekly for dirt, redness and odor. Pomeranians resemble apricot, tan or black balls of fluff. Weighing on average between 3 and 7 pounds, Poms are spunky, curious and positively covered in thick, double-coated fur. They have small, erect prick ears that are sometimes hidden within all that fluff; rounded at the tips, the ears are slightly domed and often grow an abundance of hair from the inside out. Your veterinarian may recommend ear plucking to remove excess hair and increase airflow through the ear canals.
Bulldogs are stocky, between 40 and 50 pounds, good-natured and popular with families. Their deep-set facial wrinkles, unmistakable underbites and small, thin rose ears make bulldogs one of the most recognizable breeds around. A bulldog's ears are set high on his head and fold outward, inward and then forward so that the inside of the ear is visible. From the side, a bulldog's ear resembles the inside of a rose, which is where the term "rose ear" comes from. Airflow through the ear canal is adequate, though the skin and deep wrinkles around the ears require daily cleaning to remain free of bacteria and infection. Other breeds that feature small rose ears include pugs, greyhounds, whippets and Scottish deerhounds.
Button ears stand partially erect, the tips flopping forward, making each one look like the back seal of an envelope. The Jack Russell terrier, also known as the Parson Russell terrier, is an active, 13- to 17-pound fireball with small button ears. These pups need their ears checked and wiped free of dirt and debris weekly. Several breeds in the terrier group, such as the wire and smooth fox terrier, Airedale terrier and border terrier, sport these tiny button ears.


In a situation offering a free choice between 0.1% saccharin solution and tap water, Fawn Hooded (FH) rats consumed 363.0 +/- 33.5 ml/kg/day of saccharin solution. Subsequently those animals drank 3.0 +/- 0.4 g/kg of ethanol in a free choice between water and 10% ethanol solution. Control FH rats that did not have access to saccharin consumed 5.0 +/- 0.5 between groups was significant: p = 0.006). When control rats were exposed to the choice between 10% ethanol solution and 0.1% saccharin solution for 4 days they consumed 383.7 +/- 27.5 ml/kg/day of saccharin solution and their ethanol intake dropped to 1.2 +/- 0.3 g/kg/day. When these rats were returned back to alcohol/water choice and exposure to saccharin was discontinued, their alcohol intake was still reduced (3.7 +/- 0.3 g/kg/day for at least 10 consecutive days). Exposure of alcohol-experienced alcohol-preferring P rats with high (6.8 +/- 0.5 g/kg/day) and stable alcohol intake to saccharin/water choice for 4 days also resulted in a significant attenuation of their ethanol intake for at least 6 days following saccharin cessation. Thus, voluntary consumption of saccharin can suppress subsequent alcohol intake in both alcohol-naive and alcohol-experienced rats.


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Home Culture Stage Fishy Friendship
Fishy Friendship
A goldfish holds the world together in Morris Panych's play
by Jon Kaplan
GIRL IN THE GOLDFISH BOWL written and directed by Morris Panych, with Tanja Jacobs, John Jarvis, Kristina Nicoll, Brenda Robins and Richard Zeppieri. Tarragon Theatre (30 Bridgman). Previews begin Wednesday (September 18), opens September 24 and runs to October 27, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday (except September 21) and Sunday 2:30 pm, October 16 at 1:30 pm. $25-$31, stu/srs $18-$25, Sunday pwyc-$15, previews $17. 416-531-1827.
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It's an intimidating moment. Playwright/director Morris Panych invites me to sit with him on the set of his latest play, Girl In The Goldfish Bowl, to do our interview.
Gulp. I'm used to being in the audience, not facing all those rows of seats. They're scary even when they're empty.
We settle onto a red chesterfield, part of the 60s decor -- the show is set in a small seaside cannery town during the Cuban missile crisis -- and I feel a touch of the neurosis that affects the characters in Panych's scripts.
With his quirky dialogue, twisted logic and absurdist-tinged plots, Panych is a master at provoking laughter along with unsettled feelings. We feel the desperation in the potential suicide jumper in 7 Stories, but is he more unbalanced than the eccentrics who appear at windows to talk to him?
Does Doyle, the sonically hypersensitive hermit in Earshot, elicit sympathy or chuckles when he rails against a too-noisy humanity?
"Neurosis manifests itself in many ways, including paranoia, anger, passive aggression, fear or self-doubt," agrees Panych when I tell him about my discomfort.
"The world is so fantastically neurotic -- even if some people aren't, nations and events are. Look at this Iraq business, which is such a fucking mess. And back in the 60s, with two superpowers fighting for supremacy, no one could be anything but deeply neurotic."
Which brings Panych back to Girl In The Goldfish Bowl, whose central character, a precocious soon-to-be-11-year-old named Iris, loses confidence in her breaking-up parents and the world situation when her pet goldfish dies. A mysterious stranger she finds on the beach offers her some hope that all can be made right -- if only she can teach him how to be human.
"I wanted to write about a child, and I can't escape the fact that everything that happens to a child seems deeply dramatic, if not downright tragic," admits Panych.
"I'm also playing with ideas about the existence of God and my own utter, complete disillusionment with the Catholic Church. In fact, the play deals with disappointment in any security, truth, absoluteness and safety. It turns out to be your deep belief in such things that then catches you out."
But Panych won't leave the play's origins on a downer note.
"It's also inspired," he leans forward conspiratorially, "by the girls that Hayley Mills played in Disney films like The Parent Trap, with those dream scenarios where she works to get her parents back again. I was in love with her when I was a child, in films like The Moon-Spinners or The Trouble With Angels."
Rehearsal is just over, and Panych's hair is sticking up in a number of directions. It's not because of gel, though. It's as if Panych has run his fingers through it a few too many times during a long day.
"Iris believes deeply that something is in control of the universe, and that it's somehow tied to a force created by her goldfish's centrifugal movements in its bowl."
That's the kind of craziness that propels Panych's intriguing works, even the co-authored non-verbal piece The Overcoat, one of the finest movement-based shows I've ever seen. Vigil, a two-hander, was renamed Auntie And Me when it recently played -- and became a hit -- at the Edinburgh Festival, and there's talk of a transfer to London's West End.
Girl premiered to record-breaking audiences last spring in Vancouver, and for a change Panych let someone else direct his work. He's ready to direct the Toronto production at the Tarragon.
Though Panych has just been named one of three new associate artists at CanStage, where he's directing Sweeney Todd in March, he has a long-term association with the Tarragon that's not likely to disappear.
The link was forged through the theatre's late artistic director, Urjo Kareda. Kareda offered comments and support for Girl In The Goldfish Bowl, which Panych began writing in 1997.
"He was a true mentor, someone who was always there to call and run questions by. Urjo always had an opinion, even if it was about a slice of bread." jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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Longhorndave on Sports
A sports fan take on the world of sports. Out is what the media wants me to think, in is what people should be following.
I'm from Houston, a graduate of the University of Texas, a fan of the Houston Astros and Houston Texans. But this blog will be about the "greater sports", whatever that means.
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Sportsman of the Week Ending 8/26/2018
Hitting home runs is hard so they say. But our Sportsman of the Week seemed to have no problem doing just that this week. Six games in a row. Seven home runs total. Toronto Blue Jays slugger Kendrys Morales went on a tear with at least one home run per game every game played this week. The Jays went 5-1 against NL playoff contending Philadelphia Phillies along with the struggling Baltimore Orioles. Overall, Morales went 11-23, 6 HR with 12 RBI. The Jays are not in postseason contention, but they certainly have a franchise memory and the Longhorndave Sportsman of the Week!
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Young players with unlimited potential are what sports fans dream about. And our Sportsman of the Week fits that bill. The Atlanta Braves Ronald Acuna has come of age. Fast. On a Braves team that has lost 90 or more games the last 3 seasons looks like it is most likely to win 90 this year. And the NL East. Acuna wasn't on the Braves roster out of camp, but got here as fast as he could. By April 25. In 284 AB he's hit 19 HR for the season. That's 73 games. Less than half a season. Easily 40 for a season. And we haven't mentioned yet that he's only 20. But this week, he hit .484 with 4 HR, 9 RBI, and even 3 SB this week (I mean he's young). Going back to the week before, he homered in 5 straight games, and 7 out of 8. The Braves are a surprise N.L. East leaders, with the Mets/Nationals fading away, look out for Acuna. This Venezuelan could be Mr. October 21st Century. But he's our Sportsman of the Week for sure!
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Back to baseball, as the busy sports summer season hits it's peak with the pennant race. And no team is in more control than the Boston Red Sox. Led by an unlikely hero. Unlikely because he was an unsigned free agent until late in the offseason. February 26. Now he's an odds on favorite for the American League Most Valuable Player. J.D. Martinez has earned every dollar of his contract. This week, Martinez batted .464 with 4 HR and 11 RBI in seven games. Games in which the Red Sox went 6-1. Piling on to their 4 game sweep of the rival Yankees last weekend, the Sox are 10-1, literally just one loss in August. But back to Martinez, his season totals are staggering, batting .333 with 37 HR and 104 RBI. The last Red Sox hitter to hit for the triple crown was Carl Yastrzemski, who finished at .326, 44, and 121. J.D. is on pace to shatter those numbers, although the triple crown may remain elusive due to teammate Mookie Betts amazing batting average. Either way, Martinez has been the offseason signing of the year, and is a worthy Sportsman of the Week!
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Sportsman of the Week Ending 8/5/2018
Ninety nine races to find Victory Lane, but here's betting it won't be the last time. NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series phenom (by blood and skill) Chase Elliott was constantly hounded by "when are you going to win a race). And it was legit, since his debut in 2016, the 24 year old had 28 Top 5 finishes and over 1000 laps led. But none of the Top 10 finishes were first. And none of the 1000 laps led were the last lap. But Elliott looked both aggressive but smart at Watkins Glen, NY, as he constantly pressured the leaders until finally, they were looking at his tailpipe. Elliott finished the race holding off 2017 Cup Series Champion Martin Truex Jr. who was the only other competitor who could give him a run. And he got the run, but ran out of gas, as Elliott accelerated through the finish line for his first victory.
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Thirty-three City of Austin employees sued for age discrimination, claiming that the terms of their transfer from a defunct department to the Austin Police Department had a disparate impact on older workers. They won the case to a jury. On February 7, 2014, the Austin Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment in City of Austin v. Chandler, No. 03-12-00057-CV (Tex. App. -- Austin Feb. 7, 2014).
Under the terms of the Consolidation Agreement, no PSEM employee could transfer to APD at a rank higher than "officer" and no PSEM employee could start with a base salary higher than that of an APD officer with sixteen years' experience. Furthermore, PSEM employees could include only up to three years of PSEM service as years of APD service. Given that APD officers need five years of APD service before they are eligible to sit for a promotion exam, this meant that no PSEM employee—regardless of previous rank or years of service—could be promoted to a higher rank for at least two years after the consolidation. However, to compensate for the loss of most of their pay stipends, the City gave all transferring PSEM employees a lump sum payment to ensure that they at least maintained their final PSEM salary for their first two years at APD.
Thirty-three older employees filed letter complaints with the City of Austin Equal Employment and Fair Housing Office and the EEOC. After they received right to sue letters, they filed suit against the City.
At trial, Harvey Corn, the Appellees' expert statistician, testified that as a result of the consolidation, the average PSEM employee under 40 years of age lost 3.7 years of service when placed on APD's pay scale, but the average PSEM employee over 40 lost 6.5 years. Because seniority factored heavily into an APD officer's base pay, this disparity, according to Corn, resulted in the average PSEM employee under 40 receiving a 15.61% pay increase after consolidation, but the average employee over 40 receiving only a 5.68% increase. During cross-examination, the City questioned Corn about the validity of his analysis, and Corn admitted that he did not attempt to valuate the differences in retirement benefits, sick-leave pay, and other factors.
The City called James Pearce, an economic and statistical analyst, who testified about his analysis of the pay disparities after PSEM was consolidated into APD. Pearce testified that one reason for the larger pay increases for PSEM officers under 40 years of age was that more than half of the younger employees made less than the APD minimum salary prior to consolidation, and thus their salaries would substantially increase when they became APD officers. Pearce asserted that these "outliers" skewed Corn's analysis. However, Pearce never argued that the consolidation did not result in disparate pay raises between younger and older officers or that this disparity was insignificant. Furthermore, during his damage analysis, Pearce appeared to concede that the consolidation did result in a "disparate impact" and "loss" for older PSEM officers.
The jury found in favor of the employees, and the City appealed.
As the City correctly notes, the letter complaints do not use the phrases "disparate impact" or "facially neutral policy," nor any variant thereof. However, the complaints do identify a facially neutral policy—the consolidation of the Airport and Park Police and the Marshall's service into APD. The complaints also identify adverse effects—the Appellees' loss of seniority, years of service, rank, stipend pay, and overtime. Finally, the complaints at least allude to a resulting age-based disparity—asserting that younger officers with fewer years of service received pay increases, with the implication that older officers with more years of service did not.
Given that all thirty-three of the Appellees' letter complaints identify the same facially-neutral employment policy that allegedly disproportionally injured older employees, the EEOC would reasonably be expected to investigate this case as both a disparate-treatment and disparate-impact claim. (Citations omitted).
The plaintiff has the burden of making a prima facie case of age-based disparate impact discrimination. To make a prima facie case, the plaintiff must "(1) isolate and identify the specific employment practice challenged; (2) demonstrate any observed statistical disparity that the practice has on the protected class; and (3) demonstrate a causal link between the identified practice and the demonstrated disparity." Plaintiffs must identify a specific employment practice rather than a generalized policy in order "to avoid the result of employers being potentially liable for the myriad of innocent causes that may lead to statistical imbalances." (Citations omitted).
On appeal, the City asserts that the Consolidation Agreement is too generalized a policy to satisfy the specific-employment-practice requirement. In particular, the City claims that Corn's analysis of the Consolidation Agreement failed to take into account the benefits all PSEM employees received as a result of their transfer to APD. Furthermore, the City claims that the Appellees' proposed remedy of completely transferring PSEM rank and years of service to APD would have resulted in higher pay disparities between younger and older officers. However, these issues relate to whether the Appellees have sufficiently proven that the Consolidation Agreement caused a disparate impact, not whether the Consolidation Agreement is a sufficiently specific employment practice. Thus, the City's complaint that the Appellees failed to allege a specific employment practice is without merit. (Citations omitted).
The City also asserts that employment practices based on years of service can never form the basis of an age-based disparate-impact claim, and thus the Appellees' criticism of the Consolidation Agreement fails as a matter of law. We find this argument unpersuasive. The City relies on Hazen Paper Co. v. Biggins, in which the United States Supreme Court held that "there is no disparate treatment under the ADEA when the factor motivating the employer is some feature other than the employee's age." 507 U.S. 604, 609, 113 S. Ct. 1701, 123 L. Ed. 2d 338 (1993) (emphasis added). In Hazen Paper, the court held that discriminating against an employee on the basis of his years of service—although correlated to age—did not constitute age-based disparate treatment because the decision was not motivated by age. Id. However, as the opinion makes clear, its analysis was strictly limited to disparate-treatment claims, as the court had not yet "decided whether a disparate impact theory of liability is available under the ADEA." Id.
The United States Supreme Court and this Court have since recognized that a disparate-impact theory of liability is available under the ADEA and Texas law. Given that disparate-impact claims necessarily assert that a facially neutral employment practice adversely affected older employees, it would be wholly illogical to say that employees can never bring a disparate-impact claim when the facially neutral policy relies on factors—like pension status or seniority—that are "empirically correlated with age." An employer like the City is, of course, free to assert the affirmative defense that its use of seniority was a reasonable factor other than age. However, there is nothing in the case law to suggest that seniority is always a reasonable factor other than age for all age-based disparate-impact claims, and we decline to adopt such a per se rule. (Citations omitted).
Fourth, the City argued that the employees had failed to show that the consolidation of departments caused a significant statistical disparity, which is required to support an inference of causation. Citing the expert testimony summarized above, the court found that there was sufficient evidence to support the jury verdict.
In this case, the City asserts that its policy of ensuring that no PSEM employee's base salary decreased after consolidation demonstrates that its employment decisions within the Consolidation Agreement were based on reasonable factors other than age. It is undisputed that the City provided all PSEM employees with lump-sum payments to ensure that their salaries were not reduced from their pre-consolidation levels for at least two years. Furthermore, it does not appear that any of the Appellees' salaries were reduced as a result of the consolidation.
However, the City fails to explain a logical connection between reducing the Appellees' years of service—thereby adversely affecting their opportunities for promotion and raises—and ensuring that all PSEM employees maintained their current salaries. There is no evidence or testimony in the record to suggest that the reason the Consolidation Agreement stripped PSEM employees of their seniority was to ensure that all PSEM employees did not receive a reduction in pay. At most, the lump-sum payments to PSEM employees were designed to ameliorate some, but not all, of the adverse effects of consolidation. Thus, the jury could have reasonably concluded that the City failed to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that its employment decisions within the Consolidation Agreement were based on reasonable factors other than age.
1. The court pointed out in a footnote that the current Texas Pattern Jury Charge on age-based disparate impact discrimination (PJC 107.6) misplaces the burden of proof with respect to whether a disparity was caused by a "reasonable factor other than age."
2. The court stated "Neither the pattern jury charge nor any federal or state precedent provides a separate instruction on causation for disparate-impact claims. Therefore, whether the trial court was required to instruct the jury on causation appears to be a question of first impression." The court did not reach that question.
Having rejected all of the City's arguments, the court affirmed the judgment in favor of the 33 former PSEM employees.
From the perspective of a neutral observer, the question raised by this case is: Why did the City reduce the seniority of the PSEM employees in the first place? Ultimately, this is why the City lost the case. It could not provide a coherent explanation for that aspect of the consolidation arrangement.
While it is pure speculation, one must wonder whether the answer to the question lies in the involvement of the APD union. The union would have been motivated to protect the interests of its existing members, whose seniority could be diluted by the addition of the PSEM employees to the APD employee pool. Furthermore, it is no secret that regular police officers tend to view park police, airport police, and the like with a certain degree of condescension. It is possible -- and perhaps likely -- that the City found itself caught between the proverbial rock and a hard place, with the APD union demanding the very terms in the consolidation agreement that a jury found to be age discrimination.


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Konji svetega Marka (italijansko Cavalli di San Marco), znani tudi kot Triumfalna kvadriga, je skupina rimskih bronastih kipov štirih konj, prvotno del spomenika s prikazom kvadrige (štirivprega, ki se je uporabljala za dirkanje z vozovi) ). Konje so postavili na fasado, na ložo nad verando bazilike svetega Marka v Benetkah, ob opustošenju Konstantinopla leta 1204. Tam so ostali, dokler jih ni ukradel Napoleon leta 1797, a so jih vrnili leta 1815. Odstranjeni so bili s fasade in postavljeni v notranjost svetega Marka za namen varstva in nadomeščeni z replikami na njihov položaj na loži.

Izvor
Skulpture izvirajo iz antične dobe in so bile pripisane grškemu kiparju Lizipu iz 4. stoletja pred našim štetjem. Datacija v 2. ali 3. stoletje našega štetja je veliko bolj verjetna; znameniti konjeniški kip Marka Avrelija v Rimu (ok. 175 n. št.) je primerjava. Najverjetneje so bili nameščeni na vrhu slavoloka ali kakšne druge velike zgradbe, ki jo je morda naročil cesar Septimij Sever. Prvotno so bili narejeni za prestolnico Konstantinopel ali bili tam zagotovo pozneje.

Čeprav se imenuje bronasti, analiza kaže, da so bakreni vsaj 96,67%, zato jih je treba obravnavati kot nečisti baker in ne kot bron. Visoka vsebnost kositra je povečala temperaturo litja na 1200–1300 ° C. Baker visoke čistosti je bil izbran kot bolj zadovoljivo pozlatitev z živim srebrom.

Zgodovina
Gotovo je, da so se konji, skupaj s kvadrigo, s katero so bili upodobljeni, dolgo prikazovali na Konstantinopelskem hipodromu; morda so »štirje pozlačeni konji, ki stojijo nad hipodromom«, ki »so prišli z otoka Hios pod Teodozijem II.«, omenjenim v 8. ali zgodnjem 9. stoletju Parastaseis syntomoi chronikai. Še vedno so bili tam leta 1204, ko so jih beneške sile iztrgale kot del pustošenja glavnega mesta bizantinskega cesarstva v četrti križarski vojni. Ovratnice na štirih konjih so bile dodane leta 1204, da bi zatemnile, kje so bile odstranjene glave živali, da bi jih lahko prepeljali v Benetke. Kmalu po četrtem križarskem pohodu je dož Enrico Dandolo poslal konje v Benetke, kjer so jih postavili na teraso fasade bazilike sv. Marka leta 1254. Tam jih je občudoval Petrarka .

Leta 1797 je Napoleon konje prisilno odstranil iz bazilike in jih odpeljal v Pariz, kjer so jih skupaj s kvadrigo uporabili pri načrtovanju slavoloka Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

Leta 1815 jih je kapetan Dumaresq vrnil v Benetke. Boril se je v bitki pri Waterlooju in bil z zavezniškimi silami v Parizu, kjer ga je avstrijski cesar Franc I. izbral, da Sname konje z Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in jih vrne v sv. Marka v Benetkah. Za spreten način, s katerim je opravil to delo, mu je cesar dal zlato škatlo za njuhanje s svojimi začetnicami v diamantih.

Konji so ostali do konca 1980-ih let prejšnjega stoletja nad sv. Markom, ko je nenehna škoda zaradi vse bolj onesnaženega zraka zahtevala njihovo zamenjavo z natančnimi kopijami. Od takrat so izvirniki na ogled samo znotraj bazilike.

Sklici

Zunanje povezave

 Byzantium 1200   Hippodrome Boxes shows the location of the horses until 1204.

Rimske skulpture
Starogrške skulpture
Benetke