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How Can We Decarbonize Airports?
Published November 13th, 2019
What is a Smart Airport?
How Can We Make
Sustainable Aviation a Reality?
Smart Airports are Future-Proofing their Parking
This is the second article in a series on the future of sustainable aviation.
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the aviation industry today. What changes are needed--in technology, policy, and design--to make sustainable aviation a reality?
Last time, we looked at how to build environmentally sustainable aircraft. Designing more fuel-efficient planes, and ultimately changing their fuel source, is an essential step towards decarbonization.
But building better aircraft is just one piece of the puzzle. Quite a lot of the industry's emissions are produced on the ground, through wasteful and inefficient airport operations. If we really want to decarbonize aviation, we need to build better aircraft and build better airports. So how can we do that?
In a nutshell: we need to redesign the terminal, integrate air traffic with high-speed rail, and change the way we monetize ground access.
Redesign the Terminal
Airport terminals are giant structures that host tens of thousands of people a day. They have the carbon footprint of a small city and produce massive amounts of waste. That includes human waste: airport bathrooms have one the highest turnovers of any public facility. It includes food waste: think of all the food that remains uneaten on planes and in lounges. It also includes toxic waste produced when groundwater combines with jet fuel and deicing liquid. Lastly, airports waste energy by heating and cooling enormous spaces, and by lighting terminal areas that remain unoccupied for hours at a time.
Smart airports understand that reducing waste increases profits. Some recycle human waste and resell it as fertilizer. Others work with local food banks to deliver uneaten food to the poor, which in many places counts as a charitable donation. Smart airports also deploy passive daylighting systems, natural ventilation, and solar panels to cut down on energy bills. Some airports are even building their own microgrids in order to achieve full energy self-sufficiency (see here and here).
Lastly, smart airports understand that working with nature is often cheaper and more effective than coming up with a costly engineering solution. Designing wetlands around the airport, for example, is a natural and inexpensive way to detoxify runoff water.
Smart policymakers can support these initiatives by creating financial incentives that empower airports to decarbonize their operations. They should also support airport redevelopment projects that take aim at two of the biggest sources of CO2: congestion and inefficiency. If we really want to reduce emissions, we need to cut down on taxiing times and minimize the amount of time that planes spend circling the airport while waiting to land. Moreover, many older terminals were designed at a time when energy was cheap and sustainability didn't matter. They were built with low-quality building materials and are poorly insulated. It's time to upgrade and replace them.
Addressing these challenges will require major investments in newer, energy-efficient terminals. It may also entail expanding existing runway capacity. To many observers, these investments may seem counterintuitive. It's essential that we explain to the public how newer airports—just like newer airplanes—will actually advance the cause of sustainability.
Integrate Air and Rail
Transforming airports into multi-modal hubs—where air traffic intersects with high-speed rail (HSR)—is the second step towards decarbonization. Doing so will empower us to shift short-haul flights to rail, which will lower emissions and open up slots at congested airports. Leading hubs like Frankfurt have successfully positioned themselves as air-rail nodes, making it the bedrock of their business model. Similar patterns are emerging in China: Shanghai's Hongqiao airport, for example, is integrated with the country's busiest HSR station.
Moving forward, we need to combine aviation and HSR into one system that offers passengers seamless connections between both modes of transit. That means when I go to the train station, I can drop off my bags and check them through to their final destination. It also means that I can use one single ticket for both the train and plane legs of my journey. And when my plane arrives late and I miss my rail connection, I'm automatically rebooked on the next train.
High-speed rail remains woefully underdeveloped in some world regions like North America and the Middle East, leading to a lot of missed opportunities. But overall, this air-rail integration will be good for airports, who can increase their throughput and grow their catchment area through high-speed connections on the ground. And by shifting short-haul traffic to high-speed rail, airports can free up airside capacity for more lucrative medium- and long-haul flights. But resistance from airlines, along with poor coordination between air and land transport ministries, may pose significant challenges. In response, successful airports and successful airlines will develop pilot programs that promote new forms of cooperative governance, cross-investment, and profit-sharing across transport sectors. KLM's active support of Schiphol's new air-rail strategy is a promising step in the right direction—as are two major airport HSR projects currently unfolding in Thailand and the UK.
Innovate Ground Access
How people travel to the airport—what transport nerds like myself call ground access—is one of the biggest sources of pollution in the aviation industry. Every day, thousands of passengers and employees drive to the airport, generating enormous quantities of CO2. Convincing them to not come by car would be a huge step towards decarbonization.
To do that, smart airports and smart cities invest in comfortable and convenient connections between the airport and the surrounding region. In Hong Kong, I almost always take the express train to the airport: it's quicker than driving, it's cheaper than a taxi, it runs every 10 minutes and—most importantly—it's designed for people who are traveling with luggage. Smart airports also incentivize employees to use public transit by offering discounted monthly passes. And in areas where public transport is limited, they're deploying car-pooling apps to empower their employees to travel together.
These initiatives sound great in principle, but there's a big catch. Airports make a lot of money off of parking. Globally, it's the second largest source of non-aeronautical revenue; and in North America, it's #1. In our current business model, airports have a huge financial incentive to encourage their customers to drive to the airport. Given the environmental challenges that we face, that business model isn't future-proof. That's an uncomfortable truth that many people in our industry don't want to hear.
We need to steer airports away from their dependence on parking—but that will only work if we can offer new opportunities to generate revenue. Some airports have started charging a flat access fee to all customers, regardless of how they come to the airport. Others are finding more lucrative uses for the land that is currently occupied by parking. Singapore Changi, for example, recently demolished its central parking facility (pictured above) and replaced it with The Jewel, a mixed-use shopping, entertainment, and hotel complex (pictured below).
Decarbonizing the aviation industry is an extremely complex task. It's easy to lose sight of the big picture. Moving forward, we need to focus on three goals:
First, we need to have an honest conversation about what it will take to decarbonize air travel. Right now, most discussions are largely ideological and ignore readily available solutions. It's essential to educate the public about what we need to change in terms of technology, design, and behavior.
Second, airports need to make sustainability a priority. Many CEOs think of sustainability as a buzzword, and delegate it to a CSR department that has no money and no power. That's never going to change unless we can build a new airport business model. The existing one contains big financial barriers to achieving sustainability. We need to replace those barriers with incentives to reduce waste, increase energy efficiency, and adopt new technologies. We also need to promote future-proof revenue sources, like property development, droneports, and access fees, to replace unsustainable ones, like parking.
Finally, airports can't achieve carbon neutrality without the support of the public sector, and without the support of the institutional and private equity investors that are playing an increasingly large role in the industry. They will need to provide leadership in capital-intensive areas that require coordination across various sectors, such as terminal redevelopment projects and air-rail integration. Those same investors would also be wise to update the existing business model so that airports can continue to thrive in the face of major environmental and technological disruptions.


Wörrstadt (renewablepress) - Juwi´s award winning solar hybrid project at Sandfire Resources DeGrussa Copper/Gold Mine has been successfully operating for more than one year. The DeGrussa Solar Project is the world´s largest Off-grid solar hybrid project for mining and has saved the mine several million litres of Diesel. The project was voted Project of the year 2016 during the Energy and Mines Magazine World Congress in Toronto at the end of 2016.
Over a year ago the world´s largest PV-hybrid-system, some 900 kilometers northeast of Perth (Australia), was successfully put into operation – now the mine owner and project partners report positive results. "For me as the electrical superintendent of Sandfire DeGrussa, reliability of power supply is of paramount importance for the success of our mining operations. Now after more than 1 year of operation I can confirm that the hybrid system is running smoothly, delivers substantial diesel savings and the power quality and reliability are as good or better than before." Peter Gordon – Electrical Superintendent, Sandfire Resources.
The hybrid system consists of a single-axis tracking 10.6 Megawatt (MWp) solar power plant coupled with a 4 Megawatt battery station utilising lithium ion storage technology. The innovative power plant supplements the existing 23MW diesel power station. Each month the solar power plant produces around 1.7 Gigawatt hours of climate-friendly electricity. This equates to a reduction of five million litres of diesel per year and simultaneously abates more than twelve million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. The system also provides tangible financial benefits to the mine operator. The system was designed and put into operation by the internationally renowned juwi group – a globally active project developer and EPC of wind and solar projects. "A mine powered by wind or solar energy reduces energy price risks and thus permanently increases the mine´s stock value", Roth-Deblon emphasizes, who heads juwi´s Global Business Initiatives and as such is responsible for the development and implementation of hybrid systems. "The hybrid power plant at DeGrussa sets new standards and serves as a blueprint for a reliable and sustainable energy supply for industrial off-grid industries," says Amiram Roth-Deblon.
"The hybrid system at DeGrussa reliably delivers power to all site operations including ball mill, vent fan, pumps and diesel generator starting and stopping", states Peter Drager, hybrid system specialist of juwi Australia.
Already a year ago the off-grid-hybrid-system at DeGrussa was a hotspot for the international mining industry. It was awarded "Project of the year" at the global conference Energy & Mines World Congress 2016. Additionally many industry players visited the site in Western Australia. This year again, the project has been presented as a flagship project at Australia´s mining trade show Australia Summit Energy & Mines in Perth.
In the coming months juwi will present innovative and robust power solutions for mines at various international events, such as Energy & Mines World Congress in Toronto (Canada) 27th and 28th of November 2017.
The DeGrussa solar hybrid power system provides electricity to the DeGrussa mine of Sandfire Resources in Western Australia. juwi developed, built and integrated the hybrid power plant into the existing KPS Diesel power station. The project is owned by the leading French renewable power producer Neoen, with juwi providing O&M services. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) provided debt and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) provided recoupable grant funding.
"The hybrid system is running smoothly, delivers substantial diesel savings and the power quality and reliability are as good or better than before." Peter Gordon – Electrical Superintendent, Sandfire Resources.
The juwi group is one of the world´s leading companies in the area of renewable energy. The renewable energy pioneer with a strong regional presence offers project development and EPC services as well as products and solutions for the energy turnaround. Company activities are mainly projects with solar and wind. The juwi group was established in 1996 in Rhineland-Palatinate/Germany. Since the end of 2014, Mannheim based utility MVV Energie AG has been partner and majority shareholder (63%) of the juwi Group. juwi has about 1,000 employees worldwide, branches on all continents and is actively engaged in various projects all over the globe. Working together with passion to implement renewable energy economically and reliably is what drives us.
So far, juwi has realized more than 950 wind turbines with a total capacity of more than. 2,100 megawatts at more than 150 sites globally. In the solar segment, more than 1,600 projects with a total capacity of around 2,300 megawatts have been designed and constructed. Combined, these energy systems produce around 7.7 billion kilowatt hours of clean energy per year, equaling the annual demand of more than 2.5 million German households. Within the past 20 years, juwi has initiated an investment volume of around 8.6 billion euros to realize these projects.


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module CreateTableRoles

import SearchLight.Migrations: create_table, column, primary_key, add_index, drop_table

function up()
  create_table(:roles) do
    [
      primary_key()
      column(:name, :string, limit = 100)
    ]
  end

  add_index(:roles, :name)
end

function down()
  drop_table(:roles)
end

end

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Q: TabItem header loses Binding to Property="TextElement.Foreground" The following ControlTemplate for TabItem
<Style x:Key="MyTabItem" TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
        <Setter Property="Template">
            <Setter.Value>
                <ControlTemplate TargetType="{x:Type TabItem}">
                    <Grid>
                        <Border x:Name="Border">
                            <ContentPresenter VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="5" HorizontalAlignment="Center" ContentSource="Header">
                            </ContentPresenter>
                        </Border>
                    </Grid>
                    <ControlTemplate.Triggers>
                        <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="True">
                            <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="Red" />
                            <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="TextElement.FontWeight" Value="Bold"/>
                            <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="TextElement.Foreground" Value="Yellow" />
                        </Trigger>
                        <Trigger Property="IsSelected" Value="False">
                            <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="Background" Value="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}}"/>
                            <Setter TargetName="Border" Property="TextElement.FontWeight" Value="Normal"/>
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works o.k. when I use it like
<TabItem Header="Details">,
but not any more when I use:
<TabItem.Header>
        <TextBlock >
            <Run Text="Details " />
            <Run Text="{Binding ViewModel.ToFrom, Mode=OneWay}" />
        </TextBlock>
 </TabItem.Header>

or
<TabItem.Header>
            <TextBlock Content="Test"/>
</TabItem.Header>

In also tried it in a simple test-project with the same result.
I can only add that
<TabItem.Header>Test</TabItem.Header>
also works.
This disappoints me. I tried to bind TextBlocksomehow to the attached property TextElement without luck.
Does anybody know how to fix this?
And why does it not work like I expected?

A: Try Something like this;
Your Main Window.xaml file
<Window xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    x:Class="WpfApplication1.MainWindow"
    mc:Ignorable="d"
    Title="MainWindow"
    Height="350"
    Width="525">

    <Grid>
    <TabControl>
        <TabItem Style="{StaticResource MyTabItem}" >
            <TabItem.Header>
                <TextBlock>
        <Run Text="Details " />
                    <Run  Text="{Binding ToFrom, Mode=TwoWay,UpdateSourceTrigger=PropertyChanged,NotifyOnSourceUpdated=True}"/>
        </TextBlock>
            </TabItem.Header>
        </TabItem>
    </TabControl>
</Grid>

Your MainWindow.xaml.cs file like this:
 public partial class MainWindow : Window
 {
    public MainWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        DataContext = new TestViewModel();
    }
 }

and your viewmodel be like this:
public class TestViewModel
{
    public string ToFrom { get; set; }

    public TestViewModel()
    {
        ToFrom = "test";
    }
}

This should work fine..

A: The most likely explanation could be that you have a default style for TextBlock which overrides the Foreground property. You could prevent using the default style when using an empty style explicitly.
Something like this eliminates a default style as source of your error, at least for debugging purposes:
<TabItem.Header>
    <TextBlock Content="Test">
      <TextBlock.Style>
        <Style />
      </TextBlock.Style>
    </TextBlock
</TabItem.Header>

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Book fans re-create favourite covers using their own faces and bodies
Stylist Team
People are really clever, aren't they?
Case in point: these photos of people who have recreated their favourite covers using their own faces and bodies.
Emily Pullen is the creator behind the craze and has curated a collection of images for her blog Corpus Libris, or in English, 'Body Books' (thanks to Google Translate for that one).
Pullen lives and works in LA at a book shop and originally began the site as a small project "as a fun little photo essay on a Thursday night while working at Skylight Books in Los Angeles".
But, she says, seeing as it became so popular, she decided to open it out to everyone else and now you can send in your own, and she might even publish them.
Below we've picked out some of the best examples of what readers have sent in to her. There's even an amazing Ryan Gosling one, which we obviously had to share with you.
Our favourite one though is the third one down, with a man who has managed to blend in the whole of the book to himself and the background. Now that's dedication to the cause.
If you're a lover of making people do a double take, you're probably also aware of the brilliant sleeveface.com, whereby you take an album cover and try to make it look like it's your face.
If you've got any examples of this why not send us a shot of you and your book to @StylistMagazine
See more of Pullen's work here corpuslibris.blogspot.co.uk

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Do you rock the K'tan? Post your photos on instagram and tag us @ktanPH and use our hashtags #babyktan #ktanRevolution #ktanPH and we might feature your picture in our Photo Gallery!


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Q: Layout Anchor and NSLayoutConstraint are not working? I was(and still am) goofing around with Objective-C. I want to learn how to create UI programatically. I have a method that takes an already defined UIButton (I don't know if defined is the right word) and it customize it based on developer's input. Here is the function:
   +(void)configureButtonWithBoldTextTop50Left150RightAnchor160: (UIButton *)buttonToConfigure whithXParam: (CGFloat)x withYParam: (CGFloat)y withHeight: (CGFloat)height withWigth: (CGFloat)width  withTitle: (NSString *)title withTitleColor: (UIColor *)titleColor withCornerRadius: (CGFloat)cornerRadius withBorderWidth: (CGFloat)borderWidth withBorderColor: (UIColor *) borderColor withButtonBackgroundColor: (UIColor *)buttonBackgroundColor withFontSize:(CGFloat)fontSize presentIN: (UIViewController *)ViewControllerToPresentIn
{

        CGFloat leadingAnchorValue = 150; // left
        CGFloat trailingAnchorValue = -160; // right

        buttonToConfigure = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
        buttonToConfigure.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
        buttonToConfigure = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];
        [buttonToConfigure setTitle:title forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [buttonToConfigure.titleLabel setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helveticaneue-Bold" size:fontSize]];
        [buttonToConfigure setTitleColor:titleColor forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [buttonToConfigure setFrame: CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];

        buttonToConfigure.layer.cornerRadius = cornerRadius;
        buttonToConfigure.clipsToBounds = YES;
        buttonToConfigure.layer.borderWidth = borderWidth;
        buttonToConfigure.layer.borderColor = borderColor.CGColor;
        buttonToConfigure.backgroundColor = buttonBackgroundColor;
        buttonToConfigure.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentCenter;

        // adding button to view hierarchy

        [ViewControllerToPresentIn.view addSubview:buttonToConfigure];

        [buttonToConfigure.centerXAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:ViewControllerToPresentIn.view.centerXAnchor].active = YES;
        [buttonToConfigure.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:ViewControllerToPresentIn.view.topAnchor constant:50].active = YES;
        [buttonToConfigure.trailingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:ViewControllerToPresentIn.view.trailingAnchor constant:trailingAnchorValue].active = YES;
        [buttonToConfigure.leadingAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:ViewControllerToPresentIn.view.leadingAnchor constant:leadingAnchorValue].active = YES;
    }

The problem is that the Layout Anchors do not work. Also, I tried to add NSLayoutConstraint by defining(creating) it in my .h file, but when I add it to the button, the whole app crashes with Error: "Thread 1: signal SIGABRT". How can I add some kind of constraints, so it looks kind of the same on all screen sizes?

A: You are creating the button twice. Remove the following line since you are using constraints:
buttonToConfigure = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)];

There is also an easier way to setup a bunch of constraints at once:
UIView *view = ViewControllerToPresentIn.view;
[view addSubview:buttonToConfigure];

[NSLayoutConstraint activateConstraints:@[
    [buttonToConfigure.centerXAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:ViewControllerToPresentIn.view.centerXAnchor]
    [buttonToConfigure.topAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:view.topAnchor constant: 50],
    [buttonToConfigure.heightAnchor constraintEqualToConstant: height],
    [buttonToConfigure.widthAnchor constraintEqualToConstant: width],
]];

Note that here I provide different constraints. You need to decide which constraints you really need.
Keep in mind that you need to specify a horizontal position and size and a vertical position and size. The constraints I show here are just one of several ways to satisfy that requirement.
The constraints in your question have two issues.

*

*You have three horizontal constraints. Since you have both a leading and trailing, the use of centerXAnchor is unnecessary. The leading and trailing constraints define both horizontal position and size.

*You only have one vertical constraint. For a UIButton this may not be an issue since the button has a default height. But your method takes a height parameter which you don't use (after removing the extra button creation line).

Your method has an x, y, width, and height but none of your constraints use any of those parameters. So you need to decided what is necessary.


The Parish of St. Michael the Archangel » Elevations, Ordinations, Conclave, oh my!
I would like to congratulate Fr. John DiGilio, Rev. Mr. Jason Campbell, and Rev. Ms. Cherry Russell on their elevations!
Please feel free to go to our website to read the details and Facebook to congratulate our Sister and Brothers in their elevations. Their hard work and dedication is a great blessing to our community!
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How to submit a letter
Letters to the Editor: The death penalty should be banned, except for these crimes
The entrance to the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., where federal executions are carried out.
(Associated Press)
Oct. 21, 2021 3 AM PT
To the editor: UC Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky believes the Department of Justice should not be seeking the reinstatement of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence when the Biden administration has put a moratorium on federal executions.
The Justice Department may well be acting on the belief that even with perfect jury instructions, the sentence would have been the same. This goes to the issue of the egregiousness of the crime. In such a case, where the public has been so viscerally engaged, it is important that the outcome be broadly seen as just.
Given the sharp societal divide on the death penalty, would it not be better to recognize that a range of egregiousness exists in the crime of murder that should inform the penalty phase? One can readily carve out a category for which the death penalty should remain an option — say, for serial killers or mass murderers, and for those who kill government officials or police officers — even as it is ruled out more generally.
Such a move would have more public support than a categorical elimination of the death penalty.
Siegfried Othmer, Woodland Hills
To the editor: Chemerinsky's argument is well taken.
Although his point is difficult for some Americans to heed, I continue to believe that the U.S. is better on criminal justice than countries such as China, Iran, Iraq and North Korea, which retain capital punishment. And I do not think that it is too much to ask for the Biden administration to rise above the depths of the former president's administration, which carried out more federal executions than in the previous seven decades.
The right call is often not the politically expedient one. However, I believe that if this president wants to continue to regain the "soul of America," then he must not fall victim to political expediency.
Frederick Glasser, Orange
To the editor: Chemerinsky contends that President Biden is hypocritical in simultaneously imposing a moratorium on the federal death penalty while urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a death sentence.
Well beyond that is the hypocrisy of the government committing mass murder from the air when it indiscriminately — or discriminately — drops bombs on human beings below from jet aircraft or drones.
You have to go back more than 40 years to find a president, Jimmy Carter, who did not order the military to drop bombs that would kill innocents.
Kevin H. Park, North Hills
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Tomato is known to be a powerhouse of nutrition. It contains numerous health benefits and are commonly used for medicinal purposes.
Also it is considered both as vegetable and fruit, which form an important part of cuisines worldwide. It has high amount of vitamins A, B6, C , K, folate and thiamin.
Chronic abnormalities and inflammation have been linked to a variety of unpleasant health conditions. Studies have found that a daily glass of tomato juice helps lower an individual's marker for inflammation by nearly one third.
The carotenoids and lycopene in tomato juice, have been found to lower the risk of different cancers, including breast, lung and prostate cancer. Research have shown that men who consume high amounts of lycopene, lowers their risk of pancreatic cancer, by at least 30%.
Daily consumption of tomato juice, keeps the liver healthy. This in turn helps in digestion, prevents constipation and stimulates regular bowel movement.
Tomatoes contain vitamin A, which prevents macular degeneration, helps improve vision and prevents night-blindness. Vitamin A is considered to be a powerful antioxidant, which helps form an excess of beta-carotene in the body.
Most eye problems, occur due to the negative effects of free radicals and vitamin A is a powerful antioxidant.
The fiber present in tomato juice helps break down bad cholesterol or LDL cholesterol and niacin. This has been known to have beneficial impact on high cholesterol levels.
It is not only milk and dairy foods with aids in bone health. Tomatoes also promote good bone health.
It contains vitamin K, one of the most essential vitamin linked with bone health. Vitamin K helps activate osteocalcin, which is responsible for anchoring calcium inside the bones.
Studies have linked a high intake of lycopene to 30% reduction in incidences of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease.
The high amount of phytonutrients found in tomatoes, have been known to help in the prevention of abnormal platelet cell clumping. This is beneficial for those with or at risk of heart conditions.
Tomato juice is known to help protect against emphysema. This is caused by inhaling second-hand cigarette smoking. Studies have shown that lab rats that were exposed to second-hand cigarette smoke, but consumed tomato juice did not develop emphysema.
Research has proven that a diet rich in tomatoes, can help in the prevention of stroke. This is due to its lycopene content.


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The history of Al Franken is not just a recent development
Al Franken [image credit: Lorie Shaull/flickr]
SNL has a history of producing comedians like Louis C.K., Al Franken, & Sarah Silverman.
by Wil Pixton
November 20, 2017 at 8:36 PM November 20, 2017 at 8:36 PM
The Al Franken scandal is simply a situation of the chickens coming home to roost. If said chickens could live for 30 years, then aforesaid home, society, is setting some new, roosting boundaries. Perhaps comedy and the comedians it spawns have been walking the razor's edge for far too long.
Saturday Night Live (SNL) has been a long-running, series for many decades now. It produced such comedic greats as Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jim Belushi, Bill Murray, and even Eddie Murphy. All of these comedians went on to have great careers — if only short-lived in the case of Radner and Belushi — in the form of some of the all-time greatest movies.
Movies which made us laugh.
SNL of the 1980s
It may surprise many that Al Franken was a well-established writer for SNL back during the 1979-1980 season. He must have been well thought of by the producer/creator Lorne Michaels, for him to consider Franken as an ad-hoc replacement — if only for a spell — during that same season.
Indeed, the Al Frankens and frankly for that matter, Conan O'Briens of the comedy world, toiled away at the less glamorous task of putting comedy routines together. Many of these so-called comedians were simply writers prior to getting their big break.
SNL of the 1990s & 2000s
In this author's opinion, the golden age for SNL was a ten to twelve-year stretch. It started on the cusp of the 1990s when the late, great Phil Hartman performed impersonations as President Reagan.
Some of the most memorable characters were created during this timeline.
Names like Dennis Miller, Dana Carvey, Mike Myers, the aforesaid late, great Phil Hartman & Chris Farley, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, and Tina Fey, all conjure up some fantastic memories. The one aspect they all had in common was respect for both real and original character situations.
All of the previously mentioned comics went on to make many movies post-SNL. Not all were necessarily as remarkable when contrasted against their SNL career. However, the one thing they had in common was that marginalizing of women was never a funny premise beyond certain stereotypes which were somewhat tolerable.
Edgy comedy pushing the new normal
When one looks up the origin of sketch-comedy, they find that it was never intended to be over-the-top in terms of art imitating life. The modern comedy paradigm is one that seems to be all about inappropriate subject-matter being made appropriate and thus, acceptable and approachable. A typical justification for such an act is that they're just being "real" or "edgy".
Sara Silverman and her female colleagues are somewhat to blame for this new era of comedy running amok. when comediennes began pushing the envelope of the new normal with regard to romantic relations, relationships in general, and physiological conditions unique to either gender. A reasonable argument can be made that this is when the decency meter lowered.
While Al Franken is not a comedian who one could imagine coming from that school of thought, given his long profession at SNL when it was a classy comedy show, a second accuser, and perhaps more to come, makes one take pause because his earlier work stood no chance against the new brand of edgy comedy.
2017 #CommonSenseTricity #AlFrankenResign & LONG HISTORY OF ODD AT BEST INTERACTIONS: https://t.co/kiq6mCoIef via @YouTube
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Wil Pixton
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Entrance fees. Meals and beverages.
Comfortable clothing and shoes, hat, jacket and sunscreen.
9:00 am. Pick you up from Hotel and start our tour. You will visit Casa de la Libertad, where the Act of Independence of Bolivia was signed in 1825.
The cemetery: "today us, tomorrow you" reads the inscription at the entrance gate – this is possibly the most beautiful place of all Sucre, and you will get to see how rich people were back in the 1800's in South America.
The tour lasts for about 4 hours and you will get dropped off in the main square at around 12.30.
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Village Hall, Stoneham Street,
Coggeshall, CO6 1UH
Our regular dates are :
the third Friday of every month at Wickham Bishops
the third Saturday of every month at Coggeshall
Keep those dates free!
reel picture house is your own community cinema. First located in the Coggeshall Village Hall in Stoneham Street it is at the heart of this vibrant community. Once a month reel picture house shows films at Coggeshall Village Hall with doors opening at 6.30pm and the film starting at 7.30pm.
Once a month reel picture house also shows films at Wickham Bishops Village Hall with doors opening at 7pm and the film starting at 8pm.
The cinema has a large screen, ensuring all seats have an excellent view.
Tickets for Coggeshall are available in advance from "The Normans" sweet shop in Stoneham Street, Coggeshall.
Tickets for Wickham Bishops are available in advance from Wickham Bishops Health Foods, 12 The Street, Wickham Bishops CM8 3NN (Tel: 01621 890004)
All tickets are competitively priced at £8. Under 18s (classification permitting) must be accompanied by an adult.
reel picture house offers a sophisticated cinematic night out. Unlike other cinemas, we have tables and chairs and we give you the opportunity to meet up with friends, to have a drink, a meal and socialise before the film. With an intermission half way through the film you can stretch your legs and refresh your glass. We have a fully licensed bar, with beer from the local Red Fox Brewery, a selection of wines anda wide selection of premium soft drinks. (So whether it's your turn to drive or not, you are guaranteed to have a great night out).
reel picture house belives in serving reel, locally sourced food. Bunting's Foodstore are supplying our sausages, we have locally sourced delicious cheese boards and Hadley's ice cream from Colne Engaine are supplying home made ice cream.
When you come to reel picture house not only can you be sure of an excellent evening's entertainment with quality food and beverages available, but you'll also know we are supporting local businesses and cutting our food miles. Why go to the multiplexes in Braintree and Colchester when you can be with the grown ups?
There is ample free parking right next to the village hall. Go past the library on Stoneham Street and turn left into Crouch End and the car park is behind the village hall.
reel drinks
Wines: Red, White or Rose Wine available by the glass or bottle.
Beers (from Red Fox) and Cider by the bottle
Soft Drinks: including premium colas, traditional lemonade and ginger beer, to name but a few.
In additon some seasonal drinks will be available.
reel food
reel Premium Hotdog: Made exclusively for reel picture house. Paul and Dean at Buntings Foods hand make an extra long premium sausage served in crusty french bread with slow roasted onions. Eat it your own way with a choice of Wilkins and Sons (the Jam Factory in Tiptree) sauces and relishes free of charge.
reel Cheese Board. Selection of three cheeses, served with fruit and a selection of biscuits.
Hadley's Home Made Ice cream and Sorbets. Jane has been making ice cream on her family farm in Colne Engaine since 2001 from her herd of pedigree holstein cows. Flavours will vary with season.
A selection of home made cakes and chocolate are availlable.
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Would you like to celebrate your forthcoming special event in a unique and stylish way? Why not hire reel picture house to show a film of your choice to your friends and loved ones? You can have the luxury of exclusive use of reel picture house. We can also cater your event. Whether you want cinema food or a three course meal we can help make your dreams into an unforgettable reality.
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Ideal for birthdays, anniversaries or work nights out. Please contact us to discuss our competiitive prices starting from £340 for 120 guests.
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Would you like to reach your local Essex customers? Then advertise with reel picture house. We will create and show your advert on a loop for the first hour of opening. Our audience of 120 local customers are waiting to see your advert. Prices start from as little as £35 per performance. Contact us to find out more.
Coggeshall is a beautiful small medieval market town between Braintree and Colchester. It has over 300 listed buildings and is a photographers paradise with it's chocolate box houses. It is North Essex's hidden gem. There are an number of independent shops in Coggeshall making it the ideal location if you are looking for that special gift that you don't want to find on every high street. With two national trust properties, Grange Barn and Paycockes House along with the picturesque St Peter ad Vincula church why not make a day of it and visit Coggeshall, rounding off with a film and a glass of wine. What more could you ask?
Wickham Bishops is a village and civil parish in the Maldon district of Essex, England. It is located around three miles north of the town of Maldon and around two miles southeast of Witham, in whose post town it lies.
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using namespace std;
using namespace cv;

static void help(char* progName)
{
    cout << endl
        <<  "This program shows how to filter images with mask: the write it yourself and the"
        << "filter2d way. " << endl
        <<  "Usage:"                                                                        << endl
        << progName << " [image_path -- default lena.jpg] [G -- grayscale] "        << endl << endl;
}

void Sharpen(const Mat& myImage,Mat& Result);

int main( int argc, char* argv[])
{
    help(argv[0]);
    const char* filename = argc >=2 ? argv[1] : "lena.jpg";

    Mat src, dst0, dst1;

    if (argc >= 3 && !strcmp("G", argv[2]))
        src = imread( samples::findFile( filename ), IMREAD_GRAYSCALE);
    else
        src = imread( samples::findFile( filename ), IMREAD_COLOR);

    if (src.empty())
    {
        cerr << "Can't open image ["  << filename << "]" << endl;
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    namedWindow("Input", WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);
    namedWindow("Output", WINDOW_AUTOSIZE);

    imshow( "Input", src );
    double t = (double)getTickCount();

    Sharpen( src, dst0 );

    t = ((double)getTickCount() - t)/getTickFrequency();
    cout << "Hand written function time passed in seconds: " << t << endl;

    imshow( "Output", dst0 );
    waitKey();

  //![kern]
    Mat kernel = (Mat_<char>(3,3) <<  0, -1,  0,
                                   -1,  5, -1,
                                    0, -1,  0);
  //![kern]

    t = (double)getTickCount();

  //![filter2D]
    filter2D( src, dst1, src.depth(), kernel );
  //![filter2D]
    t = ((double)getTickCount() - t)/getTickFrequency();
    cout << "Built-in filter2D time passed in seconds:     " << t << endl;

    imshow( "Output", dst1 );

    waitKey();
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
//! [basic_method]
void Sharpen(const Mat& myImage,Mat& Result)
{
  //! [8_bit]
    CV_Assert(myImage.depth() == CV_8U);  // accept only uchar images
  //! [8_bit]

  //! [create_channels]
    const int nChannels = myImage.channels();
    Result.create(myImage.size(),myImage.type());
  //! [create_channels]

  //! [basic_method_loop]
    for(int j = 1 ; j < myImage.rows-1; ++j)
    {
        const uchar* previous = myImage.ptr<uchar>(j - 1);
        const uchar* current  = myImage.ptr<uchar>(j    );
        const uchar* next     = myImage.ptr<uchar>(j + 1);

        uchar* output = Result.ptr<uchar>(j);

        for(int i= nChannels;i < nChannels*(myImage.cols-1); ++i)
        {
            *output++ = saturate_cast<uchar>(5*current[i]
                         -current[i-nChannels] - current[i+nChannels] - previous[i] - next[i]);
        }
    }
  //! [basic_method_loop]

  //! [borders]
    Result.row(0).setTo(Scalar(0));
    Result.row(Result.rows-1).setTo(Scalar(0));
    Result.col(0).setTo(Scalar(0));
    Result.col(Result.cols-1).setTo(Scalar(0));
  //! [borders]
}
//! [basic_method]


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Who are fools, who are villains?
The author is the head of the digital content lab at the JoongAng Ilbo.
I went to the west coast for summer vacation. I drove around the beaches in South Chungcheong and North Jeolla, and there were a number of tunnels on the way. When I drove through the long, dark tunnel, I could not see what was around me and stared at the bright end. It is what's called "tunnel vision." It is similar to the blurred, circular field of vision you have when you are drunk. I felt a strange pressure when my vision narrowed, and I didn't like driving through the tunnels.
There is psychological tunnel vision, which is focusing on one thing so much that judgment becomes blurred. It's like looking at the tree and not seeing the forest. Once you realize it, you feel like a fool.
What's more upsetting is when someone tricks me using the tunnel vision, especially public agencies or so-called experts. They often "play" with numbers and charts. Numbers are powerful. Psychologically, when specific numbers are mentioned, people tend to assume that they are accurate. When combined with a chart that shows the numbers intuitively, the power doubles.
A chart recently released by the Blue House was a similar case. Claiming that the rate of household income was improving, the latest figure of 2.1 percent was drawn bigger than 2.8 percent from the past. Also, on the improved quality of jobs, 0.2 percent margin was marked the same as 0.9 percent margin. Because the errors were criticized, the person in charge explained that the designer drew the chart by hand and made mistakes.
It is pathetic that the national data charts were hand-drawn and mistakes were allowed. German statistician Dieter Hochstetter classified those who manipulate numbers into two: They are either fools who don't know what they are doing and make errors or villains who use statistics for the interests of certain groups.
To break tunnel vision, you have to keep your eyes wide open and slowly look around. Going around the tunnel is not a solution. You can similarly shake off psychological tunnel vision. Distrusting all statistics and numbers is like burning the house to scare the mouse away. Rather than denying the numbers, you should think about how correctly numbers can be used, advised Bosbach in his book. So let's keep our eyes open and see who the fools and villains are.


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Issue 9 - 2022 (1)
This issue of Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays offers a broad collection of views and themes. It takes us to regrettably common places within the collective imaginary, such as the police raid, address the expression of coloniality via the aesthetic utilization of the long take, undertake an exploration of U.S. petro-masculinity, reflect on the perception of time in "slow cinema", approach nationalism within contemporary South Korean blockbusters and, finally, study the use of voiceover narration from a gender perspective within the video essay format. Like in other issues, the featured works are extraordinarily miscellaneous. They are both in Spanish and English.
Additionally, we are proud to showcase three works by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid students, made within the curricular trajectory of the Bachelor's Degree in Film, TV and Media Studies.
Lastly, in the section "From the Archive", as part of the commemorations of the centenary of the birth of filmmaker Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis Cemillán recounts a little known episode for the general public in the extraordinary career of the director..
We go on… Enjoy, please.
Coloniality, the Backstage, and the Long Take
Márton Árva (Eötvös Loránd University) – 09:36
This audiovisual essay analyzes the sensory expression of coloniality in a long take that follows the protagonist, a live-in domestic worker, in Anna Muylaert's film The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?, 2015).
Keywords: coloniality; long take; domestic labor; politics of affect; Brazilian cinema
Drill, baby, drill. Petro-masculinity in the United States cinema.
Ariadna Cordal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – 8:50
Starting with the concept of petro-masculinity, this video essay traces the archaeology of the United States petroleum film, linking it with the Western genre to unravel how nature is represented.
Keywords: petro-masculinity, western, ecocriticism, United States cinema
Police Force(s)
Edurne Larumbe Villareal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Abraham Roberto Rea Núñez (Universidade De Santiago de Compostela) – 05:09
This video-essay approaches a certain iconography of the police raid, reviewing its cinematographic, TV, and journalistic images to compare them with those taken in the streets through the smartphone. It is through a type of "disciplinary gesture" that bodies become one: police institution as State machinery.
Keywords: police raid, iconography, discipline, gesture, Foucault
Temporal Ghosts | David Lowery's "A Ghost Story"
Enrique Saunders (University of Reading) – 06:40
This audiovisual essay researches the effects of slow cinema on the viewer in A Ghost Story (2017). It intends to provoke reflection on the perception of time during long takes.
Keywords: slow cinema, long take, A Ghost Story, temporality, realism
With the Voice Present: "Imperfect" Video-Essays during Quarantine
Michelle Leigh Farrell (Fairfield University) – 07:50
This audiovisual essay deals with the use of voice-over in terms of gender beyond an English-language focus within the video-essay genre. I argue that the audiovisual essay in Spanish can serve as a tool to challenge the limits of the classroom, while also placing the video-essay work in dialogue with multiple communities.
Keywords: voice-over, "imperfect cinema", Garwood, pandemic, gender
The exaltation of nationalism in the Korean blockbuster: Ode to my father and Roaring Currents.
Sonia Dueñas Mohedas (University Carlos III of Madrid) – 12:56
This video essay reflects on Park's use of film as a propaganda tool made to enhance her popularity during the most crisis-ridden stages of her term in office by appealing to national pride through historical memory.
Keywords: South Korea, nationalism, blockbuster, historical memory, Korean cinema
Classic and Modern Avant-garde. Surrealism
Elena González Janot, Leire De la Peña Aoiz & Natalia Bermúdez Pérez (University Carlos III of Madrid) – 12:10
This video essay takes a brief historical look at the main examples of surrealist cinema and its influence on some of the great names in modern and contemporary cinema.
Keywords: surrealism, avant-garde, Buñuel, Kubrick
The voice in film
Alejandro Torres Almendros (University Carlos III of Madrid) – 06:57
This paper presents the main concepts revolving around the use of voice in film. The concept of 'the acousmatic' is explained employing canonical examples from classical cinema, which are used to show the centrality of the voice in filmic perception.
Keywords: voice, acusmaser, Michel Chion
Santiago Gómez Chacón, Daniel Guijarro Hernanz, David Ildefonso Trabada & Verónica Antoñanzas Martínez (University Carlos III of Madrid) – 15:56
This video essay examines the history and characteristics of the sitcom subgenre from its beginnings, exposing the most paradigmatic television fictions of each period.
Keywords: sitcom, comedy, Friends
A risky misunderstanding. The three islands of Juan Antonio Bardem
On the centenary of Juan Antonio Bardem, an essential figure of our cinematographic memory, we review one of the most complex episodes of his career, sometimes labeled as irregular: that of La Isla Misteriosa (1973) and its tripartite result (a montage for the Spanish version, a second for the Italian and another for the one released in France). Trying to elucidate the motives and dissimilar results of the three montages allows us to question the authorial readings of Bardem, the most widely rehearsed to date, and to shed light on new perspectives on the work of this filmmaker.
Section curated by Luis Cemillán Casis (University Carlos III of Madrid)
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Employers sometimes provide severance pay to departing employees, whether as part of a severance pay plan or policy, an individual separation agreement or to settle a dispute between the employer and the departing employee. While the recipient of the severance pay is a former, not current, employee, the payment is considered "wages" for Oregon and federal income tax and withholding purposes, and is reportable on IRS Form W-2 (not 1099-MISC).
Years ago, a dispute arose between employers and the Internal Revenue Service over whether severance pay also is "wages" subject to FICA (Social Security and Medicare) taxes and withholding. The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington D.C., agreeing with the IRS, held that severance pay is wages for FICA purposes. More recently, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati, agreeing with an employer, Quality Stores, held that severance pay is not wages for FICA purposes. Notwithstanding the Sixth Circuit decision, we have generally advised employers to treat severance pay as wages for FICA purposes.
This morning, the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision in United States v. Quality Stores, resolved the split in the circuits, agreeing with the IRS that severance payments generally are wages subject to FICA taxes and withholding.
There is still one type of severance pay that is not subject either to income tax withholding or to FICA taxes and withholding. That is payments from a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit (SUB) Plan, which are designed to supplement and are tied to the receipt of state unemployment benefits. The Court recognized that the IRS has specifically exempted those benefits, which were not at issue in the Quality Stores case. Whether the IRS continues its exemptions for SUB benefits remains to be seen.
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VICE Media and Econet Media will launch VICE in sub-Saharan Africa.
Called Kwesé VICE, the partnership will see VICE and Econet open a new bureau and production studio in Johannesburg.
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The deal follows the recent launch of Kwesé Play in South Africa.


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We are using craco to run our react app. The craco config looks like this:
module.exports = {
  babel: {
    plugins: [
      ['@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators', { legacy: true }],
      ['babel-plugin-styled-components'],
    ],
  },
  // Disables react-scripts's own ESLint from running on every compilation. This prevents a very long compilation time.
  // We don't need react-scripts to run its own ESLint every time, because we have our own ESLint configuration to use with "npm run lint"
  eslint: {
    enable: false,
  },
};

Does anyone know what I can do to fix the error? We've tried different versions of the npm package but all of them throw a similar error. We really need this package for a feature I am working on so there is no option for an alternative.


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Alternate Surnames in Russian Poland
Lecture Notes from the Boston Seminar 1996
by Lauren B. Eisenberg Davis
Surnames were not always fixed or permanent in the way we consider them today. This discussion involves the manifestations of alternate surnames in the towns of Chęciny, Poland and Krasnystaw, Poland, with an illustration of a case study from Krasnystaw. Refer to the Summer 1996 issue of AVOTAYNU for further discussion of Chęciny examples.
During my quest to find my MANELA ancestors in Chęciny, I discovered the notation "MANELA v KWART". 'v' stands for 'vel', the Latin word meaning 'also known as'. Most cases of 'vel' represent a transition between two names. It is important to recognize that records will exist with only one of these surnames as well. 'vel' is not the only indication of a variant surname, but it is the most easily identified.
Other instances found in Chęciny include:
Husbands may take on the wife's surname, particularly if she is from a more prestigious family.
Records may identify people by occupation rather than surname. (This is actually an error, not a variant surname, but leads to the same type of confusion in research).
Identification by patronymic (father's given name) rather than a surname. Confusion can arise for names that qualify as either a surname or given name. For a woman identified as "Haia Manela": is Manela the father's given name or surname?
Adoption of a new surname with no transition period.
The last manifestation is the most difficult to trace. It becomes crucial to consider all facts on vital registrations, including patronyms, ages, and occupations, in order to match families of seemingly different surnames. One branch of the Manela-Kwart clan began to use the surname Goldrat around 1822. The concrete connection was only possible due to the family of a married sister of the man whose children's registrations reflected this surname change. Although most Chęciny women registered by patronym, this woman used her maiden names of Manela and Kwart, and eventually Goldrat as well. She was much easier to identify than her brother, because she remained married to the same man, for whom I was able to identify a stable occupation, surname and patronym.
The changing regimes of the region may help explain this phenomon of sudden acquisition of a new surname at this time. In 1795, Chęciny fell under Austrian rule in the third partition of Poland, and became part of West Galicia. The Jews of Chęciny were required to adopt surnames under the Austrian regime in 1805. In 1809, Austria ceded West Galicia to the Napoleonic Duchy of Warsaw. Then in 1815, the Kingdom of Poland (Congress Poland) was established by the Congress of Vienna, and fell under the leadership of the Tzar of Russia. Surnames were mandated for Jews in Russian Poland in 1821. Consequently, some families, or even just certain branches of families, reverted to their prior surnames from the Austrian mandate, while others took on new identities.
Alternate surnames were rampant in Krasnystaw, but were of different forms than in Chęciny:
Variations on a root: GOLDBERG, GOLDEN, GOLDMAN.
Similar sounding names: WILENSKA, WILKENSZTAJN.
People intermittently using their fathers' surnames, mothers' maiden names, and stepparents' surnames.
Women who married multiple times used any of their current and prior surnames, often in an inconsistent manner.
The family of Marya Cukierman and Jankiel Goldman introduced two mysteries to my family research. In addition to the marriage of Marya and Jankiel, and the births of their two daughters, I found a second marriage for Jankiel, however I had not found a death record for Marya. Additionally, Jankiel had different parents on his two marriage registrations:
1845 Marriage #3:
Groom: Jankiel Goldman, son of Herszek (deceased) and Sura Goldman
Bride: Marya Cukierman, daughter of Lipa (deceased) and	Perla Cukierman
Groom: Jankiel Goldman (widower), son of Herszek and Sura Cukierman
Bride: Fajga Klarman, daughter of Szloma Klarman and Chana Szajn
Why did Jankiel's parents have different surnames on the two records? Herszek Goldman was dead by 1845; did Sura remarry a Herszek Cukierman by 1856, and if so, why was he listed as Jankiel's father?
I began to perform complete vital records extractions in Krasnystaw, which at first only served to confuse the issue further:
1833 Birth #1:
Father: deceased
Mother: Sura Rywa Cukierman
Child: Herszek Lipa
No identity was provided for the deceased father. Was Cukierman Sura Rywa's married or maiden name, or did she perhaps remarry prior to the registration of the baby's birth?
I hit the jackpot with the 1855 death records:
1855 Death #10:
Decedant: Marya Goldt
Father: Lipa Cukierman
Husband: Jankiel Goldman
This accounted for one part of the mystery. Marya's death was registered under an abbreviated surname.
1855 Death #5:
Decedant: Sura Rywa Goldman, widow
Father: Herszek Cukierman
Mother: Fajga
Sons: Icyk Goldman, Jankiel Goldman
Daughter: Mendla Stycer, widow
This was quite an unusual death record for Krasnystaw, which normally provided no survivors' list, and often no parents. It is interesting to note that Sura Rywa's parents are the grandparents of Marya Cukierman. Hence Marya and her husband Jankiel Goldman were first cousins. Therefore, Jankiel's parents were listed under their correct surname on his 1845 marriage, but under his mother's maiden name in 1856. Furthermore, the fatherless baby of 1833 was the son of Sura Rywa Cukierman and Herszek Goldman.
The search was on to find Mendla Stycer. Naturally that was not her actual name, but she was rather easy to identify. Numerous records existed for a young widow named Mindla Stancygier, who registered children under the maiden names of Cukierman and Goldman. However, for each mystery solved, more always seemed to surface. Mindla Stancygier's most predominant maiden name was Fliswaser.
There was only one Fliswaser family in Krasnystaw, and as a result of my thorough study of the town, I had come to know all the residents quite well. Josef Fliswaser, a glazier, and his wife Dwojra, had numerous daughters prior to Dwojra's death in the early 1830s. I returned to the records of the 1830s searching for clues.
Father: Josef Fliswaser
Mother: Sura Herszkowiczow
Child: Fayga
Following the deaths of Herszek Goldman and Dwojra Fliswaser, Josef Fliswaser married Sura Cukierman. Mindla was still a child, and grew up in the home of Josef Fliswaser, apparently causing her to use his name as her primary means of identity.
This single case study illustrates many of the naming anomalies in Krasnystaw:
Herszek Goldman and Sura Rywa Cukierman were identified on Jankiel's 1845 marriage as Goldman and on his 1856 marriage as Cukierman.
The 1833 birth of Herszek Lipa Goldman did not identify his surname. The only surname on the record was the maiden name of his mother, Sura Rywa Cukierman.
The 1855 death of Sura Rywa Goldman was registered under the surname of her first husband, rather than her most recent husband, Josef Fliswaser, and she was identified as the widow of Herszek Goldman.
The 1855 death of Marya Goldman was registered under the variant name of Goldt.
The 1855 Death of Sura Rywa Goldman identified her daughter as Mendla Stycer, while in actuality, Mendla's married name was Stancygier.
Mendla Stancygier used three different maiden names: Goldman - her father's name, Cukierman - her mother's maiden name, and Fliswaser - her stepfather's surname.
In conclusion, you can piece together the full picture only by examining EVERY record, not just every record of your surname(s) of interest. Full vital records extractions are the best solution.
Lauren B. Eisenberg Davis
Special thanks to Warren Blatt and Alexander Beider for their help and encouragement on my alternate surnames research.
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Merseyside Police
Latest shooting brings trouble back to notorious estate once dubbed 'Hell's Kitchen'
Grizedale estate in Everton has previously been plagued by crime and bitter gang feuds
Jenny KirkhamNight reporter
Updated 21:17, 19 MAR 2018
A shooting in Everton last night brought trouble back to an estate once dubbed "Hell's Kitchen".
Detectives are hunting two men who they believe lay in wait for their victim on the notorious Grizedale estate.
A 40-year-old man was left fighting for his life after being blasted in the leg while he sat in the back of a taxi with a female passenger .
The incident, that occurred on Maryport Close at around 8pm, echoes a time when bitter gang rivalries saw the area compared to the gritty New York neighbourhood.
Tit-for-tat shootings in 2004 followed the murder of Craig Barker, 19, who lived on the estate. Michael Singleton, 18, was killed in a house in Wykeham Way in Kirkdale and then car wash boss David Regan, 36, was murdered outside his business on Prescot Road, Old Swan.
But there had been problems on the estate for almost a decade beforehand.
It was believed at the time that drug feuds between a gang on the Grizedale estate and a rival faction in Kirkdale were the cause of violence in the area which became known as "crack central".
They are still attempting to establish whether the victim was the intended target, and what the possible motive may have been
The Grizedale estate was supposed to be a haven for families to bring up their children, but by its very design it helped gangsters and criminals to flourish and become seen as a safe place for users and pushers from other areas to carry out drug deals.
Police hunt two men seen on Grizedale estate minutes before man shot as he sat with friend
As Supt Alan Cooper, a senior officer in north Liverpool at the time, said: "It looks as though it was built for crime.
"There are so many entries, so many ways people can escape. It's been so difficult for the police."
The estate, which was built in the 1970s and comprises 233 houses, became a playground where only bullies could thrive.
Incidents like last night's shooting have significantly decreased over the last 13 years, much of that due to the convictions of members of the prolific Gee family who ran the Grizedale Crew.
Shooting scene on Maryport Close, Everton
Patrols by Merseyside Police have been stepped up in the area to reassure those living on the estate.
These actions have been praised in the past as officers helped residents feel "safe again".
Today, Superintendent Mark Wiggins condemned the brutal attack and appealed for anyone who had seen anything suspicious in the area.
He said the force would follow up any lines of community intelligence and added patrols would be stepped up around Maryport Close to reassure those living close to the shooting scene.
Taxi driver rushed shooting victim to hospital as passenger fought for his life
Supt Wiggins said: "We are appealing for people who were in the area at around 8pm, or in the lead up to then, to let us know if they saw two men hanging around. What were they up to, what was the direction in which they travelled, were they indeed on pedal cycles?
"We are also asking anyone who has dashcam footage and who may have got them running away from the scene or cycling away from the scene - or going to the scene. We really could do with that information."
*Anyone with information about gun crime on Merseyside is asked to contact the police's gun crime hotline on 0800 230 0600 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111
Kirkdale
Knowsley
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Herbert Hoover 1930 Typed Letter Signed as President – To Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
Category: Presidents.
** President Hoover Invites His Successor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to Join a White House Conference **
31st President. Typed letter signed (TLS) "Herbert Hoover" AS PRESIDENT, October 21, 1930, 7.5 x 10.5, White House letterhead, to Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, in full:
My dear Governor:
In July, 1929, I called together a preliminary committee to lay out the work for a nation-wide inquiry into Child Health and Protection. This committee has secured the assistance of more than 1200 national and state officials together with experts in every field, and has gathered facts and compiled data for a nation-wide consideration of the whole subject.
I have called a national conference for this consideration to be held at the White House in Washington, November 19th to 22nd. I am most desirous that every state should participate in the determination of conclusions and recommendations upon this subject. I would deeply appreciate it, therefore, if you would appoint delegates from your various official Departments who will represent their respective fields in this connection at the conference. The subject is one that I feel will appeal to you. The conference is not called for the purpose of advancing legislation. Its maximum value can be obtained from advancement of thought and interest in the subject, the exchange of experience and the establishment of standards and methods for the future.
In 1920, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, praised Hoover with these ringing words: "He is certainly a wonder and I wish we could make him President of the United States. There could not be a better one." But only twelve years later, when Hoover had indeed risen to the highest office in the land, Roosevelt found himself running against the man he had formerly praised. Roosevelt made the following charge at a political rally: "I accuse the present administration of being the greatest spending administration in peacetime in all our history. It is an administration that has piled bureau on bureau, commission on commission, and has failed to anticipate the dire needs of and the reduced earning power of the people."
Ironically, it would be FDR who would expand the power and scope of the Federal bureaucracy, and was seen as the great President of social services; this despite the present letter from Hoover attesting to his diligent work on domestic issues.
Incredible association letter with an almost unseen connection from one President to his successor.
Benjamin Harrison 1892 Letter Signed as President
George H.W. Bush 1987 Typed Letter Signed as Vice President
William H. Taft Typed Document Signed – Excerpt From His Lincoln Memorial Dedication Speech
Harry S. Truman 1951 Autograph Endorsement Signed as President – Defending Truman's Early Business Dealings


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COVID-19 Press Release 4/9/20
by Rocksteady | Apr 9, 2020 | Race Updates, Uncategorized
PRESS RELEASE 4/9/20 2020 SUPERIOR SPRING TRAIL RACE CANCELLATION DUE TO THE COVID-19 (NOVEL CORONAVIRUS) PANDEMIC AND STATUS UPDATE REGARDING ALL OTHER ROCKSTEADY RUNNING RACES; [ZUMBRO ENDURANCE RUN – ALREADY CANCELLED ON 3/20/20] AFTON TRAIL RUN,...
Rocksteady Running 2021 Races Update 1/9/21
Superior Fall 2021 Updates 10/16/20
COVID-19 Update 7/30/20 – 2020 Superior Fall Trail Race Cancellation
2020 Superior Fall Trail Race Cancellation – Email Sent to Runners on 7/30/20
COVID-19 Update 6/15/20 – Superior Fall Trail Race
Medals & Buckles
Race Poster
Race Updates
Volunteer Thank You's
© Superior Trail Race / Rocksteady Running
Superior Fall Trail Race
100MI, 50MI, 26.2MI Trail Race(s)
Lutsen, Minnesota
(approx 4hrs North of Minneapolis, MN)
September 11 & 12, 2020
• 100MI Friday 8:00AM
• 50MI Saturday 5:15AM
• 26.2MI Saturday 8:00AM
Registration / Lottery:
Registration via 15 day lottery registration period.
Opens Wednesday January 1st, 2020 – 12:01AM CST
Closes Wednesday January 15th, 2020 – 11:59PM CST
Complete Lottery / Registration Details HERE
100MI Start: Gooseberry Falls State Park, MN HERE
50MI Start: Finland Rec Center – Finland, MN HERE
26.2MI Start: Cramer Road – Schroder, MN HERE
Races Finish: Carbibou Highlands – Lutsen, MN HERE
The Superior Fall Trail Races 100MI, 50MI & 26.2MI are run on rugged, rooty, rocky, 95% single-track trail with near constant climbs and descents. The race is held on the Superior Hiking Trail in the Sawtooth Mountains paralleling Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota / not far from the Canadian border. The race located approximately 4 hours North of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Superior Fall Trail Races are very difficult / challenging races and are probably not a good choice for your first trail or ultra race (see Registration Info for qualifying requirements).
100 Mile:
Point to Point 103.3 Miles
Elevation Gain 21,000 FT
Elevation Loss 21,000 FT
NET Elevation Change 42,000 FT
13 Aid Stations
38 hour time limit
Complete 100MI Info HERE
50 Mile:
Point to Point 52.1 Miles
7 Aid Stations
16.75 hour time limit
Complete 50MI Info HERE
26.2 Mile:
Elevation Gain 5,500 FT
Elevation Loss 5,500 FT
14 hour cutoff
Complete 26.2MI Info HERE
More About the Race:
The Superior Trail 100 was founded in 1991 when there was no more than a dozen or so 100 mile trail races in the USA, back then if you wanted to run a 100, you had choices like Western States, Hardrock, Leadville, Wasatch, Cascade Crest, Umstead, Massanutten and Superior . Superior quickly earned it's reputation of its namesake today – Rugged, Relentless and Remote and is known as one of the tougher 100 mile trail races. Superior lives on now as one of the "legacy 100 milers" and is considered by many to be one of the most challenging, prestigious and beautiful 100 mile trail races in the country. Shortly after the inception of the 100, the Superior 50 was started and in the early 2000's the Moose Mountain Marathon was added. None of the history or tradition of this race has been lost and is a great event for those looking for a world-class event with a low-key, old-school 100 miler feel. The Superior Trail Race is put on by ultrarunners for ultrarunners.
More About the Area:
The North Shore of Lake Superior runs from Duluth, Minnesota at the Southwestern end of the lake, to Thunder Bay and Nipigon, Ontario, Canada, in the North to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, in the east. The shore is characterized by alternating rocky cliffs and cobblestone beaches, with rolling hills and ridges covered in boreal forest inland from the lake, through which scenic rivers and waterfalls descend as they flow to Lake Superior. The shoreline between the city of Duluth to the international border at Grand Portage as the North Shore. Lake Superior is considered the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area. It is the world's third-largest freshwater lake by volume and the largest by volume in North America. The Superior Hiking Trail, also known as the SHT, is a 310-mile long distance hiking single-track hiking trail in Northeastern Minnesota that follows the ridgeline overlooking Lake Superior for most of its length. The trail travels through forests of birch, aspen, pine, fir, and cedar. Hikers and runners enjoy views of boreal forests, the Sawtooth Mountains, babbling brooks, rushing waterfalls, and abundant wildlife. The lowest point on the trail is 602 feet above sea level and the highest point is 1,829 feet above sea level.
Due to COVID19 the 2021 Superior Fall Trail Race; race date, registration open date and additional details are yet to be finalized. You can find more information HERE


Today I really wanted to go for a run, I feel I haven't put enough in it lately. But of course I am now coming down with a cold. My throat hurts, my head hurts and I keep sneezing.
Instead I spent the night counting up the Jar Money (after doing something one might call laundrying money). For you how haven't read previous post on how the money jar came about, you can read it here or just get the short re-cap. I was at a party, the party got out of hand, I came home with a big jar full of money. Sad part is that not all money in the jar is actually worth something. But I have sorted them all out and counted up the ones that are worth something, or I don't have to pay more than they are worth to exchange into local currency.
The coins that I can not use I will not let go to waste. On Friday I will go flying and on airports the usually have those big bins where you can drop your money for charity. It won't go towards my collection, but it is the finally destination that counts in the long run.
Now I'm only hoping that this cold will be a short one, otherwise I will have to walk the race next week and that is not acceptable at all.
What I am doing for the possible ones are trying to get my friends to"purchase" them of me. For example the euro ones are all the "brown" coins, the small ones that you can't really exchange here but are fully usable in euro countries. The same with the dollars and the pounds. So we will see what the Money Jar actually end up donating in a few days.
Next Post The wallet diet works!


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Q: android jellybean prebuilt binaires on panda board not booting up I am trying to bring up panda-board omap4430 with Android jellybean pre-built binaries, which I have downloaded from linaro.org (http://releases.linaro.org/12.12/android/panda/).
I am creating two partitions on SD card into file systems.
First is bootable FAT32 containing boot.tar.bz2 and u-boot.img and other ext3 partition is having   userdata.tar.bz2 and    system.tar.bz2.
After putting my SD card in panda board & connecting it through minicom on my Ubuntu pc, I am not able to see even a single charecter of untaring or something or any logs.
Am I missing something.
I have done Ubuntu porting on Beagle board earlier successfully.

A: you are flashing it first time on panda board then it has some other method, as they have given like below process
format sd card
copy MLO and u-boot.bin in fat 32 partitions
then follow the given process on OMAPpedia release nots.


Its official. Steve just made the NEW site LIVE. Check out NERDBLURB.COM . Give us some feedback. please RT and expect a new cast this week.
Nice guys I like it. Very easy to use.
Thank you sir. More new stuff to follow.
Well the old forums are still up, but not for long. I installed SMF last night (nerdblurb/forums), but they're not officially what we're going with yet. Take a look at let me know what you think. I"ll check out bbpress tonight.
Thanks dude. We actually just recorded 129 last night. It's a pretty good one and it'll be posted up tonight.
Nice job guys! I've been disappointing my parents since 1997.
Thank you sir. Although, i must say…1997!!! Holy crap, way to make a dude feel old.
Haha, thats what my parents say when I talk about old video games like the NES!


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IN FAIR WEST LONDON
Shakespeare in the Squares' Romeo and Juliet
After the roaring success of the inaugural Much Ado About Nothing last summer, we could not have been more thrilled to sponsor Shakespeare in the Squares for a second time around. This year's series introduced Romeo and Juliet, the infamous love story, performed in an entirely unique rendition set in 1950s Italy.
"We tend to assume comedies play best in the lovely summer surroundings, but the idea of community is a strong one in Romeo and Juliet, and the first half, at least, is extremely funny, youthful and exuberant." – Sue Fletcher, Co-producer
"A production like this has so many moving parts and I love watching all the complex elements that so many people have worked on – the performances, the design, the stage management, the choreography and composition - come together. Sue and Martin have done a wonderful job creating a company with joy, generosity and tenacity at its heart and it's been a pleasure to be a part of it." – Tatty Hennessy, Director
"Having Dame Judi as Patron has given us authority as a serious professional company, albeit a new one." – Sue
"One of the highlights was at the dress rehearsal, when I was suddenly aware that all the builders on a site outside the square had stopped work and were standing on the scaffolding watching the show." – Martin Neild, Co-producer
Throughout its three-week run, this series of Shakespeare in the Squares blew us away with an electric energy like no other. Commenting on working with the cast, Tatty told us, "They were an absolute joy. From the first day of rehearsals we all felt like a team and by the end we felt like family. Not only were they all sickeningly talented on stage, but the camaraderie and mutual support offstage, their commitment to the project and infectious sense of fun made the challenges of this project so much easier to face. I am very smug about the casting!"
Just as this dynamic interpretation of the play brought something new to the crowds and communities of west London, so did we want to bring a fresh take on the Domus Bar. Drawing upon the relationships we've developed with several of the area's architects, we saw the evolution of the Bar as an exciting project to once again collaborate on. Enter Tigg + Coll Architects with their eye-catching design for 'Capulets Orchard'! This bar delivered thoughtful design, pairing lighter materials with darker ones to evoke a masculine / feminine juxtaposition in keeping with the play's star-crossed lovers; the arches and stairs spoke to the architecture of 1950s Italy.
"The starting point for the design of the bar takes its cue from one of the most infamous scenes in Shakespeare's works. Capulet's Orchard places Act 2, Scene 2 of Romeo and Juliet within one of the most iconic and recognised set formats in cultural history. Theatre set design seemed like the logical lens through which to approach the concept for this bar, however, putting an architectural spin on this was very important to us. It had to showcase craftsmanship and elegance too." – David Coll, Tigg + Coll Architects
"Capulet's Orchard absolutely chimed with our design ethos: simple, stylish, clever and fun." – Martin
"The bar was a really great addition to the experience! I remember all of us watching it being constructed for the first time with great curiosity, and then the finished bar was so unique and elegant. And it was really lovely that the same bar team were at many of the shows so we got to know them." – Tatty
We knew at once that THIS was the bar from which we would serve the ontheme Milanese gin and tonic cocktails (thanks for the recipe Campari!). The vision for our Capulet's Orchard bar was realised by Stella Rossa Contractors, who did a fantastic job of ensuring the structure could survive the sometimes-unpredictable phenomena of each garden square – all very much in keeping with the nature of the series. In fact, there's something about the capriciousness of a touring outdoor theatre that brings an added dynamic to the dramatics of the whole thing!
"There was a wonderful comic moment during the scene where the Nurse discovers Juliet's body, and cries out "she's dead, she's dead!" A public-spirited passerby looked into the garden and shouted, "Should I fetch the police?"" – Sue
Another summer; another successful Shakespeare in the Squares. Quite simply, the players played (brilliantly), the watchers watched and the drinks were drunk. For us, it feels almost as though we built our very own Serpentine pavilion… seven
times over! What a fantastic opportunity to have come together with so many lovely communities to share this one-of-a-kind experience.
Shakespeare in the Squares: shakespeareinthesquares.co.uk
Twitter: @shakessquares
Tigg + Coll Architects: tiggcollarchitects.com
Twitter: @tiggcollarch
Instagram: @tigg_coll_architects
Stella Rossa Contractors: stella-rossa.co.uk


Last month Ann and I were one of the speakers at the second annual OTA Sessions in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
I wrote about my OTA experience already, but this morning noticed a quick video we did with the Rural Learning Center hit the web and we wanted to share it with you.
Just a little advice that any business, town or organization could take and start making engaging content today.
Thanks again to Hugh Weber and the entire conference team for putting on such a great event.