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Crown Roofing has recently received recognition for being best three among Roofing Contractors in Sacramento. Three Best Rated uses a 50-point inspection system which includes everything from evaluating reputation, history, complaints, local reviews, customer satisfaction, trust and cost to establish ranking. Having served in the roofing business for more than 40 years, the Crown Roofing Team is extremely pleased to receive this recognition.
The Crown Roofing commitment to excellence has deep roots stemming from the late 1950's when Tommy Claunch held the position of Lead Superintendent for Crown Roofing, a large company for it's day with roofing operations spanning from San Francisco to San Diego. After leaving Crown Roofing in 1966 Tommy created Alpine Roofing with two partners which focused on tract housing in the greater Los Angeles basin, keeping him slightly closer to home and his family of five. Tommy struck out on his own in 1971 as Claunch Roofing Co. and incorporated in 1973 with his eldest son Woody joining the operation.
Tommy Claunch continued his focus in the tract housing industry while moving towards Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties with a number of established housing developers who respected his quickness, efficiency, and professionalism. Tommy's operation reached heights of 150 employees, including four sons now, during the late 1970's and yet another housing boom. As the economy waned by 1980, which significantly affected the housing industry, this allowed Claunch Roofing Inc. to downsize, reorganize, and adapt to the changing roofing materials being introduced.
The early 1980's saw two of Tommy's sons move on to college and the military creating successful careers for themselves, leaving Tommy, Woody, Jeff, and a workforce of approximately fifteen men. During the 1980's the tract housing market was changing in many ways. For example, tract homes were now being built 25-50 at a time instead of 250-500, concrete tile and asphalt shingles were now dominating over wood shake roofing, and union employees were being replaced by nonunion workers. These factors contributed to our change in focus toward the residential re-roofing market by the early 1990's.
Claunch Roofing Inc. experienced significant change in 2007 when Jeff Claunch relocated the operation to the greater Sacramento region in search of a new sustainable re-roofing market, where the "dba" of Crown Roofing was re-established, honoring his father's roots. Through persistence, dedicated team work, and commitment to excellence Crown Roofing flourished over the next 10 years in Sacramento and continues today, establishing themselves as a leader in the local Sacramento re-roofing community and is honored in being recognized as a "Three Best" re-roofing contractor in the greater Sacramento region. Crown Roofing proudly continues to embody the qualities, traits, and values established by Tommy Claunch and strives daily to live up to his high standards of excellence.
Crown Roofing receives recognition for being rated best three among Roofing Contractors in Sacramento using an evaluation system which uses history, local reviews, customer satisfaction, trust and roofing cost as evaluation criteria.


SEATTLE -- A man in the Phinney Ridge neighborhood has been carrying on a tradition that he and his late wife started over 25 years ago.
Herb and Mary Lou Allwine would decorate their plum tree for every holiday. Mary Lou passed away nine years ago after a battle with cancer, but Herb has carried on the tradition.
"I think she really loved it," Herb said. "It would be nice to have her around still."
The tree is currently decked out for Valentine's Day, but soon those decorations will be removed to prepare for St. Patrick's Day.
"I hope she's happy that I'm doing it," Herb told Q13 News.


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Home CEREMONIAL 2019 Indonesia Comic Con: a major pop culture event returns
2019 Indonesia Comic Con: a major pop culture event returns
Tuesday, July 23, 2019 | 13:14 WIB
Indonesia Comic Con 2019 - BE FREAKISHLY AWESOME! - Come and visit us on 12 - 13 October 2019, Jakarta Convention Center (Hall A & B), Indonesia.
IO, Jakarta – Reed Panorama Exhibitions, in cooperation with Shopee, one of Southeast Asia's e-commerce businesses, is holding an event to entertain Indonesia's pop culture fans: the INDONESIA COMIC CON 2019. The event, to be held on 12-13 October 2019 at the Jakarta Convention Center, showcases both Eastern and Western, local and international pop culture figures and idols.
Hundreds of famous domestic and local pop culture brands, animes, games, TV shows, and exclusive merchandise are sure to excite Indonesian fans. The 5th Indonesia Comic Con ("ICC") will have many interesting programs that pop culture lovers, whether consumers, creators, or cosplayers, can enjoy throughout the show. Starting from the "Be Our Captain" cosplay contest, the Love Reading ICC, and the special price given to the first 50 buyers of the event's merchandise.
ICC's 5th edition will have fun shows like the ICC Stage program, plus the latest Zone introduced this year: The Creator Zone. This is a forum where talented, innovative, hard-working creators show off their skills to the visitors and explain about their works. They would draw and discuss their original characters, their stories, they would have original merchandise to sell as well.
Other than the Creator Zone, the Cosplay Zone is making its usual appearance. This is where cosplayers dress up and act as the comics, film, and game characters whom they admire, where enthusiastic fans can meet their favorite characters and cosplayers, where people can exchange information and take selfies and just enjoy the scene.
ICC fans would be happy to know that Steven Chwee, Reed Panorama Exhibitions' General Manager and his team, have prepared many lovely surprises for their fans. Pop culture idols, best domestic and foreign merchandise, and even a movie launch will be made during the show. "We're absolutely certain that the Indonesia Comic Con is an event eagerly awaited by the thousands of our homeland's pop culture lovers. Therefore, we hope to accommodate them by showcasing and promoting this country's best talents for the world to know and love," he said.
Andriani Tirtawisata, Indonesia Comic Con's Project Manager from Reed Panorama Exhibitions, stated that the ICC has successfully attracted the attention of thousands of pop culture fans in Indonesia and has satisfied their desire to meet with their idols. "We've had amazing people such as the actor who played Gaban, Kenji Oba; the original Kamen Rider, Hiroshi Fujioka; Negasonic from Deadpool movie, Briana Hildebrand; the Green Power Ranger, Jason David Frank; and many others. Just wait for this year's guest stars – it's a surprise," he said.
"For toy fans, this year ICC will continue to showcase merchandise from famous brands such as Funko, Jadda, Majorette, Bburago, and Fortnite. From the comics industry, we will have many creators who are the pride of our country as intellectual property creators. These include edgy indie creators such as Frankkomik, Komik Ga Jelas, and Tahi Lalats. Our local film industry will be launching new films from the Bumi Langit Studios, Gundala Putra Petir and Tahi Lalats x Jumanji. All these will bring joy and light to the ICC 2019," Andriani said.
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Joseph Barthélemy (Toulouse, 9 de julio de 1874-14 de mayo de 1945) fue un político francés, Ministro de Justicia durante el régimen de Vichy.

Biografía
Nació el 9 de julio de 1874 de en Toulouse.
Se convirtió en diputado de Gers por Action républicaine et sociale en 1919. Fue un firme defensor de la No Intervención francesa en la Guerra Civil Española.

Ocupó el cargo de ministro de Justicia del régimen de Vichy entre el 27 de enero de 1941 y el 26 de marzo de 1943. Entre sus acciones en el ministerio se han destacado la introducción del concepto de «raza» en el proyecto de reforma constitucional y el arreglo del proceso de Riom de condena de los líderes de la Tercera República.

Falleció el 14 de mayo de 1945 en Auch o en su ciudad natal, dependiendo de las fuentes.

Referencias

Bibliografía

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Ministros de Francia
Francia de Vichy
Nacidos en Toulouse

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Will The City Get A Great New Project?
On Sept. 26, 2002, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is overseeing the redevelopment of the demolished World Trade Center and adjacent areas, announced that it had selected six "new" design teams, from a total of 407 responses, for the controversial and very important project.
The new "teams" presumably will come up with fresh ideas that will gain more public acceptance that the six plans published last summer by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (see The City Review article). By and large, the new teams represent modernist rather than traditional architects and as such reflect the influence of proposals recently promulgated in The New York Times Magazine (see The City Review article) and New York Magazine (see The City Review article).
The six teams represent 27 architectural and design firms in the United States and four foreign countries. Two of the six teams consist of individual architectural firms: Studio Daniel Libeskind, the architect of The Jewish Museum in Berlin, the new Imperial War Museum in Manchester, London and a planned explansion of the Denver Art Museum; and Foster & Partners, whose head, Norman Foster, the British architect, has designed such projects as the Commerzbank Headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany in London and the new Reichtstag Building in Berlin, and a planned new skyscraper for The Hearst Corporation on Eighth Avenue and 57th Street.
"Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said, 'I am pleased that we have been able to attract the caliber of excellence exhibited by the group assembled here today. In response to the public's comments, the LMDC expanded the search for the most innovative architects and planners in the world to participate in a new urban design study regarding the future of the WTC site. We will continue to take our time during the planning process and seek ideas from wherever they come so that together, we can create a Lower Manhattan of the future that surpasses everyone's expectations.'"
The six teams will each receive a $40,000 stipend to work with new and supposedly "more flexible program requirements," among which, according to the press release, "will be a range of commercial space, a preference for honoring the footprints as part of the memorial space, a powerful skyline element, the creation of a grand promenade on West Street, and the exploration of residential housing on or off the site."
The press relesae stated that the "LMDC and PA will continue to work with consultant teams previously engaged on the project, including Peterson Littenberg Architecture and Urban Design, and they too will be invited to participate in the design study. At the end of the study, LMDC and the PA will select the most promising ideas from those generated during the study, and invite those firms to work with LMDC and PA's consultants to refine and develop the ideas into site plan proposals. By the end of the year, the LMDC and PA will present at least three new bold site plan proposals for public review. A final land use plan is expected to be released in Spring 2003."
New York New Visions is a coalition of 21 architecture, engineering, planning, landscape architecture and design organizations and it recommended a panel of six to select the six finalists. The panelists included Toshiko Mori, Chair of the Department of Architecture, Harvard Design School; Eugenie L. Birch, Professor and Chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania; Richard N. Swett, former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark and the only licensed architect to serve in the US Congress in the 20th Century; Kinshasha Holman Conwill, an arts and management consultant and Director Emeritus of the Studio Museum of Harlem; Terence Riley, Chief Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art; Michael Van Valkenburgh, landscape architect and principal of Van Valkenburgh Associates.
The press release include quotations from the submission and except from the review panel's report for each of the six finalists.
Several architects who participated in the proposal presented in The New York Times Magazine, Richard Meier, Peter Eisenman, Charles Gwathmey and Steven Holl, made up one of the other teams. Mr. Meier is best known for The Getty Center in Los Angeles. Mr. Eisenman is well known for the Greater Columbus (Ohio) Convention Center, Mr. Gwathmey is known for the Morgan Stanley & Co., building in Times Square. Mr. Holl is known for the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland.
Another team is lead by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which has designed the proposed new Pennsylvania Station in New York, joined by Field Operations of Philadelphia and New York, Tom Leader of Berkeley, California, Michael Maltzan of Los Angeles, Neutelings Riedijk of Rotterdam, and SANAA of Tokyo together with artists Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Rita McBride, Jessica Stockholder and Elyn Zimmerman. The team's submission is quoted as follows: "Like New York, our design team is at once global and local, visionary and practical, mindful of history and willing to question it." The panel's report notes that "Recognizing New York as a "city of contrasts," the team led by SOM seeks to "reconcile the spiritual and the pragmatic, meaning and purpose." Their combined talents represent a diverse range of artistic and design disciplines, generational perspectives, and cultural backgrounds. The team has the potential to harness effectively fresh and unexpected thinking with the considerable resources of a global corporate firm. Rather than a single unified solution it is hoped that such a team can approximate the complexity, vitality and sophistication of the culture of Lower Manhattan.".
The LMDC also announced that the review panel also identified seven semi-finalists in the shortlist for this Innovative Design Study.
The seven semi-finalists included: Ken Greenberg, architects, Alliance; Behnisch, Behnisch & Partner; ARUP, NY and Mueser Rutledge; Ian Simpson Architects, Ian Simpson and Rachel Haugh, Principals; Eric Owen Moss Architects, Eric Owen Moss, Principal: Lead firm; Coop Himmelb(l)au: Associate firm, Peter Sellars, Artistic Director: Associate firm; Bernard Tschumi Architects; Leslie Robertson Associates, Structural Engineering, ARUP, Transportation; Michel Devigne, Landscape Architecture; Santiago Calatrava; Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects, Julie Bargmann, Landscape Architect of D.I.R.T. Studio, Ralph Lerner Urban Design and Sam Schwartz Company, traffic and transportation design; Sasaki Associates; Dennis Pieprz, Urban Design, Alistair McIntosh, Landscape Architecture; Alan Ward, Urban Design/Landscape Architecture, Kathryn J. Madden, Planner/Managing Principal.
Clearly, there are some significant talents among the six finalists and also among the semi-finalists, and the purpose of this "design study" is to discover some new conceptual approaches to the problem of what should be done in Lower Manhattan. One suspects, unfortunately, that a "Chinese menu" - one from column (team) A, one from column (team) B, etc. - may vitiate the conceptual designs. Still, it is a worthwhile and important exercise that will help bring into sharper focus the magnitude of the challenge and its potentials. One does wish that Eric Owen Moss, Santiago Calatrava and Frank Gehry were in the finalist group.
While the design goals are ostensibly to plan an exciting new downtown skyline, a fitting memorial for those lost in the terrorist attacks, a handsome "bridge" to Battery Park City, and vastly improved transportation access to Lower Manhattan, such goals can be accomplished and still fall far short of the real opportunity to make downtown much, much more vibrant and viable, to make the city much more dynamic and contemporary, to reassert the city's status as the world's greatest urban center.
Before the tragedy of 9/11/01, the proposed new Solomon R. Guggenheim museum designed by Frank Gehry for a platform on the East River south of the South Street Seaport promised much in terms of significantly uplifting downtown with cultural and architectural excitement. It should not be overlooked in the new plans. Nor should the city's major historical monuments, which might provide clues for the new developments, not specifically in terms of design but in terms of their transformative values.
1 - The Statue of Liberty. No other structure so richly symbolizes the spirit of the city, and the nation. It is an indelible icon of inspiration, idealism, and liberty.
2 - The Woolworth Building. New York City truly gained international statue when the lower end of the island of Manhattan began to sprout splendid skyscrapers and this "cathedral of commerce" was, and is, thrilling.
3 - The Singer Building. Sadly demolished, this elaborate skyscraper bulged at the top and marked the city's dynamic individualism.
4 - The Empire State Building (see The City Review article). By a fluke of history, this skyscraper's isolation has given it more visibility than any other.
5 - Rockefeller Center (see The City Review article). This Art Deco-style masterpiece of urban planning legimitized midtown as a business district and quickly became the heart of the city.
6 - The Chrysler Building (see The City Review article). A good building with the world's greatest and most spectacular and shiny skyscraper top. It makes imaginations run riot.
7 - Grand Central Terminal (see The City Review article). A bulky Beaux Arts-style railroad terminal that is significant for its great and gigantic grand concourse, its underground connections to surrounding buildings, its integration with subways, and the great "Terminal City" vision that led to the development of many surrounding compatible projects, many sadly since altered.
8 - The original Penn Station. Sadly demolished, the original Penn Station had several of the city's noblest spaces that evoked grandeur far surpassing that of Grand Central Terminal, but sadly it did not spur nearby development of comparable quality. Both it and Grand Central Terminal, however, were very great gateways to the city.
9 - The Brooklyn Bridge. One of the world's greatest engineering feats when it was created, it has assumed a romantic, legendary aura even though it is not the city's prettiest bridge. It did, however, expand the city.
10 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art (see The City Review article). In its infancy, it was a nice, small museum, but it has grown into a gargantuan treasure house that displays the wondrous, world-class treasures accumulated by many New Yorkers.
11 - The Helmsley Building, originally the New York Central Building (see The City Review article). The midtown grid, one of New York's greatest plans, is violated here but a very romantic and impressive tower that is equally impressive at its base where it has curved drive-throughs. It also was a sublime landmark that happened to be part of the "Terminal City" of Grand Central Terminal.
12 - The New York Public Library (see The City Review article). A stunning Beaux Arts-style masterpiece that signified the city's understanding and support of education.
13 - Central Park. This large landmark park did much to improve uptown real estate values and is full of delightful surprises and over the years its edges have been built up with many important buildings.
14 - The San Remo. The most beautiful of Central Park West's multi-towered residential skyscrapers, this epitomized the elegance of high-rise living, even though it was preceded by the Ritz, which suffers from not facing on a major park, but which was also designed by Emery Roth.
15 - The Beresford. With its three-towers, this Emery Roth-designed residential skyscraper solidified Central Park West's status as the city's most architecturally important residential avenue.
16 - The Municipal Building. Straddling Chambers Street like the Helmsley Building straddles Park Avenue, this fine public building has a noble top but unfortunately is a sad reminder that plans for a truly grand civic center never got off the ground.
17 - The Plaza Hotel (see The City Review article). The city's dowager luxury hotel commanding the southeast entrance to City Park reeks of elegance.
18 - The United Nations. This flamboyant International Style-landmark ushered in the era of glass-curtain walls and certified the city as the international center of the world.
19 - The Flatiron Building. The triangular plan of this richly detailed Beaux Arts-style skyscraper has never lost its appeal in part because of its fronting on Madison Square Park and being at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway.
20 - The old Metropolitan Life Building on Madison Square. Although its facade was "modernized" a few decades ago, this huge variation on the famous tower in Venice added a great lantern, an observatory, sadly closed for many years, and giant clocks high up on its four facades.
21 - The Seagram Building (see The City Review article). The building that not only spawned a generation of bronze-glass office towers, but more importantly its decision to not building on its entire plot and create a large front plaza led to a major change in the city's zoning.
22 - Lever House (see The City Review article). Small by the city's standards, this Modernist-style landmark spawned a generation of green-glass office buildings, made Park Avenue the city's most impressive office address, and its opening of street-level spaces and landscaping and asymmetrical design qualify it as a masterpiece of modern architecture.
23 - St. Patrick's Cathedral (see The City Review article). This twin-spired neo-Gothic-style building gave midtown its most graceful landmark.
24 - The Sherry-Netherland Hotel (see The City Review article). This minaret-topped luxury hotel may well be the city's best skyscraper because of its massing and gargoyles and location.
25 - 998 Fifth Avenue (see The City Review article). The first major, palatial Fifth Avenue apartment house.
26 - Riverside Drive. By building this highway, Robert Moses created a major park overlooking the Hudson River with sinuous borders.
27 - Washington Square Arch. Washington Square Park was the city's most elite residential address before the arch was built and over the years has been largely taken over by New York University, but the handsome arch is a lovely southern anchor to Fifth Avenue.
28 - The World Trade Center (demolished in the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01). The gleaming twin towers were awesome even if they tilted the downtown skyline and lacked some subtlety in detailing.
29 - The World Financial Center at Battery Park City. Highlighted by Cesar Pelli's great Wintergarden, this huge commercial complex included a major marina for large yachts and significantly help reddress the skyline imbalance created by the World Trade Center and gave a significant boost to the rest of Battery Park City with its vast and handsome retail spaces.
30 - The Lincoln Center for The Performing Arts. Disappointing architectural, but an extremely important incentive for the renaissance of the Upper West Side. Its central plaza surrounded by huge balconies of the three main "houses" is very successfully done and one hopes that renovation plans do not lessen its popularity.
32 - World Wide Plaza. This full-block redevelopment of a former site of Madison Square Garden was extremely important in the renaissance not only of Eighth Avenue but also of Times Square as long-delayed plans to renovate 42nd Street were mired in legal controversy for many years. The project consists of a major skyscaper modeled in Post-Modern fashion after the great New York Life Insurance Building on Madison Square Park as well as a large-mid-block plaza and a residential section with a handsome tower and low-rise structures.
33 - Zeckendorf Towers. William Zeckendorf Jr., whose father was a legendary developer, pioneered several very important "renaissances," in this case that of Union Square. He also was a principal in the development of World Wide Plaza. While this four-towered, full-block project is a bit ungainly, its illuminated tops complement the great lantern top of the Con Edison Building across Irving Place.
34 - The Dakota. This legendary apartment building was a pioneer in the development of Central Park West and the Upper West Side and its courtyard and fearsome moat railings never fail to impress.
35 - The Ansonia. Another Upper West Side landmark, this building is missing some spires but remains the city's most fanciful "exploded" Parisia-style apartment building.
36 - The present Waldorf-Astoria (see The City Review article). One of the city's Art Deco-masterpieces, this is the city's "grand hotel."
37 - Carnegie Hall (see The City Review article). The world's most famous concert hall is also a fascinating mixed-use building.
38 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Flank Lloyd Wright's inverted cone is one of the masterpieces of architecture.
39 - Citicorp Center (see The City Review article). This silvery structure raised on stilts remains a bold, modern landmark.
40 - The Crown Building (see The City Review article). The great top of this medium-size skyscaper adds the right amount of glitter to the city's most expensive intersection.
41 - The Equitable Center on Seventh Avenue. An insurance company with a long and prestigious real estate history in the city pioneered the renaissance of the West 50th on Seventh Avenue with this huge tower and, more importantly, its lavish and interesting art.
42 - The Frick Collection. The finest small museum in the Western Hemisphere and the crown jewel of the city's museums because of its very, very high ratio of masterpieces.
43 - The National Museum of Design, originally the Andrew Carnegie mansion (see The City Review article). With its enormous garden and handsome tall fences and great marquee, this huge mansion led to the renaissance of a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill.
44 - The Queensborough Bridge - With its Gothic finials and huge steelworks, this structure gives great visual interest to an otherwise bland East River cityscape.
45 - The city's subway system. Not only did the subways provide fast transit to most parts of the city, but they also did away with elevated rail lines that were noisy.
46 - 9 West 57th Street (see The City Review article). A daring, soaring sloped skyscraper of great sleekness established the Plaza district as a major business district.
47 - The George Washington Bridge. Public enthusiasm for the exposed structure led to the decision not to clad it in limestone, thankfully.
48 - The A. I. G. Building, originally the Cities Service Building (see The City Review article). One of the great spires of Manhattan, it contains the world's greatest observatory, unfortunately closed to the public.
49 - Waterside Plaza. Slender, chamfered and bulging residential towers along the East River, designs that should have been used on Roosevelt Island, one of the city's major architectural disappointments.
50 - The MetLife building, originally the PanAm Building (see The City Review article). Although rightfully detested by many for its marring of vistas of the Helmsley Building, and its poor detailing, this is one of the world's finest Brutalist buildings, with an unusual massing and very strong and deep fenestration pattern, and expansive public spaces.
This is not a list of the city's finest architecture, but of its most important structures historically and it would be easy to add to this list with structures such as Trinity Church on Wall Street, One Wall Street, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the old Madison Square Garden on Madison Square Park, Gramercy Park, the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now Library), the former U. S. Customs House, the former Hall of Records, 570 Lexington Avenue (see The City Review article) and Trump Tower (see The City Review article).
The redevelopment of the World Trade Center site hopefully will eventually get near the top of this list.


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Year after year, Dragon athletes continue to outshine theirbrcompetition, whether they're winning back-to-back state championships or namedbrto an All-District team. Many of Southlake Carroll's talented sports stars signbron to play at the university level at schools throughout Texas and across thebrcountry. This spring, we're talking to Cat McCoy, Jonathan Roberts and MichaelbrBasler — three outstanding student athletes who are excellent examples of how passion,brperseverance and teamwork are all key ingredients in the recipe for success.
At this year's 5A state championship, senior JonathanbrRoberts defended his title in the 500 freestyle with a 4:16:90 — one of the topbrfive times in the race's high school history — and was crucial in leading hisbrteam to their fourth straight state title. The Texas commit boasts a long listbrof career achievements but says none of it would be possible without thebrsupport of his coaches and teammates.
When did you first becomebrinterested in swimming?
Ibrhad a natural feel and love for the water at an early age. I started swimmingbrsummer league when I was 5, then realized at 7 that I wanted to participate inbrswimming year round. I enjoy the camaraderie and friendship. We learnbrdiscipline, time management and goal setting.
How many hours a week are youbrin the pool?
I ambrin the water up to 20 hours a week and doing weights, core exercises, yoga andbrstretching an extended five or so hours. Workouts can be very strenuous,brespecially when you are doing them as early as 5:45 or 6 in the morning.
What career moment are youbrmost proud of?
Makingbrthe Junior World Championships during the summer of 2013 and being able tobrrepresent the USA in Dubai. It was a huge stepping stone in my career, and itbrmotivated and humbled me greatly. Competing with the fastest 18-and-unders inbrthe whole world made me realize how far I have come in this sport and how far Ibrcan go.
How do your teammates inspirebryou?
Comingbronto the Carroll varsity team as a freshman, I was enamored by the juniors andbrseniors who had just come off of a revered second-place finish at state. Theybrpushed me and helped me achieve things my first two years that I once thoughtbrimpossible. As a senior, things were tough. We lost a large pool of talent andbrgreat leaders. For energy and inspiration, I looked to the freshmen on the teambrwho came in with such zeal. Without them, things would have gone verybrdifferently.
What are you most lookingbrforward to about swimming at the collegiate level?
Forbrmost swimmers, collegiate swimming is the pinnacle of the sport. It will offerbrme the opportunity to continue leaning how swimming mirrors life and willbrprovide me with new friends, teammates and outstanding coaches. When looking atbrcolleges, Texas was the clear choice and the complete package. I really likebrAustin as a city, and UT has so many excellent options academically. It feltbrlike home.
Volleyball phenom Cat McCoy has been named an All-DistrictbrDefensive MVP, Under Armour HighbrSchool All-American First Team honoree, one of Volleyball Magazine'sbrGirls 30 Underclassmen to Watch and LoneStarVolleyball.com's Outstanding Libero/Defensive Specialist. Currently a senior, the 5' 7"brathlete is committed to play next year at the University of Texas.
When did you firstbrdevelop an interest in volleyball?
I was in third grade. My friends and I started on abrSouthlake parks and rec team, and I've loved it ever since. The quick pace ofbrthe game appeals to me. I play libero, which is the defensive position. Playingbrdefense requires you to be quick on your feet and to be able to read thebrhitters.
What is your mostbrmemorable experience from your high school volleyball career?
Advancing to the state tournament this year. It was thebrfirst time the Lady Dragon volleyball program made it to the state tournamentbrin 5A history. We beat one of our rivals, Colleyville Heritage, to get there.
What moment are youbrmost proud of?
Winning the national championship this past summer with mybrclub volleyball team, TAV 17 Black. We went through the most rigorous andbrmentally challenging year any of us had ever experienced. Our coach, Ping Cao,brwas on the Chinese Olympic team, and his expectations from each of us were verybrhigh. We practiced and conditioned almost five days a week, and we were on abrstrict diet. We sacrificed so much for the ultimate goal, but everything webrwent through was worth it. Winning the gold medal and becoming the number onebrteam in the nation was the best day of my life.
Who do you look upbrto?
Growing up, I looked up to Misty May-Treanor because she isbran amazing athlete with a great attitude that I really tried to emulate. Rightbrnow, one of my all-time favorite volleyball players is Natalie Hagglund. Shebrwas the libero at USC the past four years, and she is hands-down the bestbrdefensive player I've ever seen. The way she leads her team and carries herselfbris inspiring.
What is yourbrdefinition of success?
Successbris not something you can put on a to-do list. Rather, it is a state of being. In my opinion, ifbryou are happy in life, then you are successful.
Michael Basler won a state wrestling title in thebr160-pound weight class this year, but the senior is also an accomplished left-handedbrpitcher. He says he's most proud that hebrcould excel in two difficult sports and make good grades during all four yearsbrof high school. Although Michael hasn't decided where he wants to go tobrcollege, he wants to continue playing baseball at the university level.
How old were you when you began wrestling?
I got intobrwrestling in the second grade. My dad took me to a practice, and I just went onbrpracticing and getting better and better. I like that wrestling is just twobrguys — whoever wants it more in the end will come out victorious.
I practiced everybrday for two hours. On Mondays and Wednesdays, I had an extra practice. I wouldbrwork out in the morning before school as well and go to the gym at night.
What has been your most memorable momentbrfrom your high school wrestling career?
It would have to bebrwinning state or going to Las Vegas and wrestling there, getting third. Vegasbrwas such a fun tournament because it was so fast-paced. I wrestled seven matchesbrin about four hours, which was pretty crazy — finishing one match and goingbrimmediately to another mat to wrestle the next. Winning state was such anbramazing feeling, knowing that all the hard work I had put into the sport hadbrfinally paid off.
What do you enjoy about baseball?
I love playingbrbaseball because of how challenging the sport is. It's so much fun to play withbrall of your teammates. Compared to wrestling, it's so laid-back and morebrrelaxing. My high school career as a pitcher has been a lot of fun. I've beenbrsuccessful throughout high school and summer, and my teammates have been thebrbest anyone could ever ask for. I love them all.
Reaching the goalbryou have set for yourself and going further. I was never happy with what Ibraccomplished until I was the very best at it, so success to me is being thebrabsolute best you can be and looking back knowing you gave it everything youbrcould possibly give.


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A Particle Collider Created Matter Not Seen Since the Big Bang
This is a recreation of some of the first states of matter.
When the Big Bang happened 13.8 billion years ago, all matter as we know it went from a single point of near-infinite energy to an ever expanding tapestry of matter, anti-matter, dark matter, photons, neutrinos, and more. In those early moments, the quark-gluon plasma emerged, a kind of matter that can only be created at supremely dense and hot states unseen since the universe burst into existence.
But now, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island have recreated the quark-gluon plasma, briefly bringing back to life a state of matter rare in the universe today – if it exists at all. Three helium-3 atoms were smashed into a ionized gold atom, creating the energy.
Traces have been detected before at the Large Hadron Collider, though this is the first time it's been created with lighter isotopes. (Previous experiments yielded the quark-gluon by obliterating lead atoms with additional protons, breaking the bond enough to allow quark-gluon formation.) The quark-gluon "goo" appears to act as a frictionless liquid.
Further experiments into the quark-gluon could provide clues to how the universe formed, and provide insight into how matter (or even anti-matter) formed. While it's unlikely it could be yielded for any commercial purposes, it's still amazing to think that we can harness the atom enough to turn a laboratory into a sort of time machine.
Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory via Discovery
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Boat is available starting The day after the big liberal opener(Which we are chartered) for anyone who would like to round up 6 guys or the family for a charter.
will post open boat info and dates as we get closer add dates as interest warrants it!!!
but from the read i got and bookings thus far are leaning more towards bottomfishing... look like we will be doing a lot more blackfishing this April... Hope the ocean is kind to us!!!
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At the end of Captain America: Civil War, Captain America (Chris Evans) gives up his shield, breaks his fellow vigilantes out of prison, and goes into hiding in Wakanda. Being a fugitive is an odd place for Captain America to be, but it makes a bit more sense if you accept that Steve Rogers is no longer Captain America.
So where does this leave Rogers? Some have speculated that he could go by "Nomad", the identity he took on in the comics when he became disillusioned with the government during the Watergate era. Granted, he probably wouldn't have such a goofy costume, but perhaps we'd see him working under the codename "Nomad". But don't expect Steve Rogers to be permanently removed from being Captain America.
"There's a big purple guy coming. He could be very helpful," said co-writer Christopher Markus.
Captain America: Civil War hits Digital HD, Digital 3D and Disney Movies Anywhere on September 2nd and Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and On-Demand on September 13th.


Cooper, of 1884 Conowingo Road, Rising Sun, Maryland, was arrested for DWI by a controlled dangerous substance by Maryland State Trooper Rann on Jan. 1, 2019 at 1:17 pm while operating a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer at 379 Conowingo Road.
Cooper was arrested by Maryland Trooper Adam Siemek on Jan. 1, 2019 at 6:25 pm as he operated a Ford with tag #6BX5622 on Craigtown Road at Rt. 276 and charged with DWI impaired by a controlled substance. Cooper has a court date of March 7, 2019 in Cecil County District Court.


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/*
 * PassKit C# Wrapper for PassKit API v2:
 * https://dev.passkit.net/v2
 */
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Newtonsoft.Json;
using Jose;
using unirest_net.http;

namespace v2PassKitSDK
{
    #region Class definition for API objects (used for marshal & unmarshal)

    public class PassImages
    {
        public string background = null;
        public string footer = null;
        public string icon = null;
        public string logo = null;
        public string strip = null;
        public string thumbnail = null;
    }

    public class DynamicImages
    {
        public PassImages passbook = null;
    }

    public class DynamicBackfields
    {
        public string label = null;
        public string value = null;
        public string androidPay = null;
        public string appleWallet = null;
    }

    public class PassLocations
    {
        public double? alt = null;
        public double? lat = null;
        public double? lon = null;
        public string relevantText = null;
    }

    public class PassBeacons
    {
        public int? major = null;
        public int? minor = null;
        public string uuid = null;
        public string relevantText = null;
    }

    public class PassPassbook
    {
        public string relevantDate = null;
        public string groupId = null;
        public string bgColor = null;
        public string labelColor = null;
        public string fgColor = null;
        public PassLocations[] locations = null;
        public PassBeacons[] beacons = null;

    }

    public class Pass
    {
        public string id = null;
        public string templateName = null;
        public string campaignName = null;
        public string userDefinedId = null;
        public string recoveryEmail = null;
        public string expiryDate = null;
        public string updatedAt = null;
        public string createdAt = null;
        public string firstUnregisteredAt = null;
        public string lastUnregisteredAt = null;
        public string firstRegisteredAt = null;
        public string lastRegisteredAt = null;
        public string lastRedeemAt = null;
        public bool? isVoided = null;
        public bool? isRedeemed = null;
        public bool? isInvalid = null;
        public int? passbookDevices = null;
        public int? androidPayDevices = null;
        public Hashtable dynamicData = null;
        public DynamicImages dynamicImages = null;
        public Hashtable dynamicBackfields = null;
        public PassPassbook passbook = null;
    }

    public class PassCreateUpdateResponse
    {
		public string id { get; set; }
    }

	public class PassCreateUpdateBatchResponse
	{
		public string[] id { get; set; }
	}

	public class PassBatch
    {
        public List<Pass> passes = null;
    }

    #endregion

    public class PassKit
    {
        private string apiKey = null;
        private string apiSecret = null;

        private string apiUrl = "https://api-pass.passkit.net";
        private string apiVersion = "v2";

        public PassKit(string apiKey, string apiSecret)
        {
            this.apiKey = apiKey;
            this.apiSecret = apiSecret;
        }

        #region Public Class Methods (all supported API calls)

        /*
         * Creates a new pass with PassKit.
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#create-a-pass
         */
        public string createPass(Pass input)
        {
            try
            {
                string payload = PassToJsonString(input);
                string response = doQuery("POST", "passes", payload);

                PassCreateUpdateResponse pass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PassCreateUpdateResponse>(response);

                return pass.id;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
         * Retrieves a pass by the PassKit pass-id.
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#retrieve-a-pass
         */
        public Pass retrievePassById(string pid)
        {
            try
            {
                string response = doQuery("GET", "passes/" + pid);

                return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Pass>(response);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
         * Retrieves a pass by the user defined Id and campaign name.
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#retrieve-a-pass-with-user-defined-id
         */
        public Pass retrievePassByUserDefinedId(string userDefinedId, string campaignName)
        {
            try
            {
                string response = doQuery("GET", "passes?userDefinedId=" + userDefinedId + "&campaignName" + campaignName);

                return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Pass>(response);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
         * Updates a pass by the PassKit pass-id.
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#update-a-pass
         */
        public string updatePass(string pid, Pass input)
        {
            try
            {
                string payload = PassToJsonString(input);
                string response = doQuery("PUT", "passes/" + pid, payload);

                PassCreateUpdateResponse pass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PassCreateUpdateResponse>(response);

                return pass.id;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
         * Updates a pass by the user defined Id and campaign name.
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#updating-a-pass-with-a-user-defined-id
         */
        public string updatePass(string userDefinedId, string campaignName, Pass input)
        {
            try
            {
                string payload = PassToJsonString(input);
                string response = doQuery("PUT", "passes?userDefinedId=" + userDefinedId + "&campaignName" + campaignName, payload);

                PassCreateUpdateResponse pass = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PassCreateUpdateResponse>(response);

                return pass.id;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
         * Creates passes in batch (max of 25 at the time)
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#batch-create-passes
         */
        public string[] createPassBatch(Pass[] inputPasses)
        {
            try
            {
                string payload = PassesToJsonString(inputPasses);
                string response = doQuery("POST", "passesBatch", payload);

                PassCreateUpdateBatchResponse passes = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PassCreateUpdateBatchResponse>(response);

                return passes.id;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
		 * Updates passes in batch (max of 25 at the time)
		 * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#batch-update-passes
		 */
        public string[] updatePassBatch(Pass[] inputPasses)
        {
            try
            {
                string payload = PassArrayToJsonString(inputPasses);
                string response = doQuery("PUT", "passesBatch", payload);

                PassCreateUpdateBatchResponse passes = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<PassCreateUpdateBatchResponse>(response);

                return passes.id;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        /*
         * Retrieves passes in batch (max of 25 at the time)
         * Method specification: https://dev.passkit.net/v2#batch-get-passes
         */
        public Pass[] retrievePassBatch(string[] pid)
        {
            try
            {
                string response = doQuery("GET", "passesBatch?id=" + string.Join(",", pid));

                return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Pass[]>(response);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw new Exception(e.Message);
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region Private helper methods

        /*
         * Executes the queries to the PassKit API
         */
        private string doQuery(string httpMethod, string endpoint, string payload = "")
        {
            string url = this.apiUrl + "/" + this.apiVersion + "/" + endpoint;

            HttpResponse<string> response = null;

            try
            {
                string authHeader = "PKAuth " + generateJWT();

                // Put a 5 time retry in place in case of API throttling.
                for (var i = 0; i < 5; i++)
                {
                    switch (httpMethod)
                    {
                        case "GET":
                            response = Unirest.get(url)
                                    .header("Authorization", authHeader)
                                    .asString();
                            break;
                        case "PUT":
                            if (payload != "")
                            {
                                response = Unirest.put(url)
                                    .header("Authorization", authHeader)
                                    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                                    .body(payload)
                                    .asString();
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                response = Unirest.put(url)
                                    .header("Authorization", authHeader)
                                    .asString();
                            }
                            break;
                        case "POST":
                            if (payload != "")
                            {
                                response = Unirest.post(url)
                                    .header("Authorization", authHeader)
                                    .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
                                    .body(payload)
                                    .asString();
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                response = Unirest.post(url)
                                    .header("Authorization", authHeader)
                                    .asString();
                            }
                            break;
                    }

                    // on success break loop and return body.
                    if (response.Code == 200)
                    {
                        break;
                    }

                    if (response.Code != 503 && response.Code == 500 && response.Code != 429)
                    {
                        throw new Exception("PassKit returned unexpected error. Code: " + response.Code + ". " +
                                            "URL: " + url + ". Request Payload: " + payload + ". " +
                                            "Request Response: " + response.Body + ".");
                    }
                    // Sleep 200ms
                    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(200);
                }

                // It either reaches this on success, or after 5 retries. In case it's not success, then return
                // the latest error.
                if (response.Code != 200)
                {
                    throw new Exception("PassKit returned unexpected error after 5 retries. Code: " + response.Code + ". " +
                                        "URL: " + url + ". Request Payload: " + payload + ". " +
                                        "Request Response: " + response.Body + ".");
                }

                return response.Body;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw e;
            }
        }

        private string generateJWT()
        {
            Int32 exp = (Int32)(DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(300).ToUniversalTime().Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1))).TotalSeconds;

            var payload = new Dictionary<string, object>() {
                {"exp",exp },
                {"key",this.apiKey}
            };

            return JWT.Encode(payload, Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(this.apiSecret), JwsAlgorithm.HS256);
        }

        private string PassToJsonString(Pass inputPass)
        {
            return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(inputPass, new JsonSerializerSettings { NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore });
        }

        private string PassArrayToJsonString(Pass[] inputPasses)
        {
            return JsonConvert.SerializeObject(inputPasses, new JsonSerializerSettings { NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore });
        }

        private string PassesToJsonString(Pass[] inputPasses)
        {
            try
            {
                PassBatch tempPB = new PassBatch();
                tempPB.passes = new List<Pass>();
                for (int i = 0; i < inputPasses.Length; i++)
                {
                    tempPB.passes.Add(inputPasses[i]);
                }
                string inputJsonString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(
                    tempPB,
                    new JsonSerializerSettings { NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore }
                );
                return inputJsonString;
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                throw new Exception(e.Message);
            }
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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Is art just a form of self-expression or is it a statement? Does art cause people to look a little closer at the social issues, at other people and their emotions, the environment that surround them, and the everyday objects ? Does the artist bring out that which cannot be seen or felt easily?
Meet 26-year-old Maina Joseph Njoroge, a promising self-taught, freelance fine artist and teacher at Ituru High School. Maina has painted portraits for renowned public figures such as Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Governor of Nairobi Evans Kidero, Mr Wilson Sossion among many others. His vibrant and naturalistic abstract as well as landscape paintings are products of passion and hardwork, as he reveals in the following one-on-one conversation that he had with Edge Magazine.
I am Maina Joseph Njoroge, 26, from Murang'a County. I did my KCSE in 2007 at Karega Sec. School and later joined University of Nairobi and pursued a Bachelor's degree in Education. I am currently a teacher at Ituru High School in Kiambu. Besides teaching, I am a self-taught freelance fine artist mainly doing drawing and painting. I do portraits, landscape and abstract paintings.
I started painting as a small boy in primary school.
What is the best thing about painting?
Painting is so fulfilling to me. Art is my hobby. Furthermore, it's inborn thus I do it passionately.
The fact that not many people appreciate art.
How many drawings do you have to do when preparing for a painting?
I've had opportunities of painting high profile personalities like Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Hon. Evans Kidero, Mr Wilson Sossion among several others. I have also worked with corporates including Automobile Association of Kenya, The TSC and several schools. I've also been featured in various local media platforms in Kenya.
Yes, I am the best version of me.
How do you advertise your works?
I mainly depend on referrals and Internet- social media and OLX.
Reflecting on Wellness…is there a formula to adoption of a healthy lifestyle?


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Edward Michael Davis (November 15, 1916 – April 22, 2006) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1969 to 1978, and later a California state senator from 1980 to 1992 and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1986. Davis' name was familiar to a generation of Americans since it appeared on its own card for "technical advice" in the closing credits of the popular television programs Dragnet (1967–70) and Adam-12 (1968–75).

Family
Born in Los Angeles, California, to James Leonard Davis and Lillian Fox Davis, Davis graduated from John C. Fremont High School in Los Angeles. He joined the LAPD and married Virginia Osborne in 1940. During World War II he took a leave of absence from the police department in order to serve in the United States Navy.

Police career
When he became Chief of Police, Davis inherited a police department that was essentially the creation of Chief William H. Parker.

He instantly became well known internationally in 1969 when he held a press conference announcing the arrests of Charles Manson and his followers for what are known as the Tate–LaBianca murders. His role is well-documented in the book Helter Skelter, written by Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the case.

As the power and numbers of street gangs increased, the community of Los Angeles became the victim of increasing escalations of violence, intimidation, and other felonies. In response, Davis escalated police responses, authorizing the use of Terry stops, large raids on gang strongholds, created the infamous anti-gang unit C.R.A.S.H, and increasingly forceful and violent means of securing suspects such as chokeholds during arrests. Although the chokeholds were less violent than older methods of beating recalcitrant suspects, they were also more forceful and were often applied until the suspect passed out. By the time the policy was halted in May 1982 by the Police Commission, 15 people had died. In the case of City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, the Supreme Court blocked a lawsuit seeking an injunction to halt the practice permanently, because Adolph Lyons could not prove that there was a substantial and immediate likelihood that he personally would be choked again.

Davis increased resources toward monitoring and investigating political circles and simultaneously attempted to squash vice. In 1972, Hayden White, acting as sole plaintiff, brought suit against Davis, alleging the illegal expenditure of public funds in connection with covert intelligence gathering by police at the University of California, Los Angeles. The covert activities included police officers registering as students, taking notes of discussions occurring in classes, and making police reports on these discussions. In the resulting case, White v. Davis, the Supreme Court found for White in a unanimous decision and set the standard that determines the limits of legal police surveillance of political activity in California; police cannot engage in such surveillance in the absence of reasonable suspicion of a crime.

Under Davis, the LAPD and its vice squad were known for active policing against homosexuals. Zealous officers are purported to have dangled a youth over a cliff to try to make him reveal names of a pedophile ring. On April 10, 1976, over a hundred officers, with Davis present, raided a charitable "slave auction" event and bragged to reporters that they had freed the slaves. Dozens of men were detained on charges of violating an 1899 anti-slavery statute, but the expensive raid was criticized by the city council and no one was convicted. In 1975, Davis declined an invitation from Christopher Street West to attend Los Angeles' gay pride celebration, saying that he would prefer to support conversion therapy instead.

Davis was often known for some of his colorful language. For instance, in one of his most famous off-the-cuff news comments, Davis said, in 1972, concerning airline hijackers: "I recommend we have a portable gallows, and after we have the death penalty back in, we conduct a rapid trial for a hijacker before the Supreme Court out there, and hang him with due process out there at the airport."

Politics
Davis retired from law enforcement in 1978 to run for Governor of California but lost the Republican primary election to then state Attorney General Evelle Younger.

Two years later, he was elected to the California State Senate. He would serve for 12 years (during the first two years of which Tom McClintock served as his chief of staff). Davis additionally lost a bid in the Republican primary for the United States Senate in 1986. In contrast to his earlier policy of investigating the homosexual movement, as a senator, he supported a statewide homosexual rights protection bill. He also became a vocal environmentalist in his later years.

In 1992, when he decided to retire from the California State Senate, he went out of his way to recruit former State Assemblywoman Marion W. La Follette to run for his seat. This despite the fact that the current assemblywoman, Cathie Wright, had already declared for the seat.

Later life
The last TV interview with Davis was taped in March 2002, where he recalled his years as LAPD chief and described the values and traits necessary to be a successful police chief. He also related his impressions of a young LAPD lieutenant named Bernard Parks who went on to become chief, and described how he implemented the community policing program during his administration.

Ed Davis died from pneumonia, on April 22, 2006, in San Luis Obispo, California. He was 89. At the time of his death, Davis was survived by his second wife, Bobbie Nash Davis; three children from his first marriage to Virginia Osborne, a son, Michael Edward Davis, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, and two daughters, Mary Ellen Burde and Christine Coey; four stepchildren; and 10 grandchildren.

References

External links

 Ed Davis Park (named for Senator Davis)
 Ed Davis Political History

1916 births
2006 deaths
Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department
Politicians from Los Angeles
Republican Party California state senators
20th-century American politicians
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The result is that sweet wines languish in the cellars of collectors, they make little inroads in the fine wine auction circles and prices rise only modestly even for the best vintages from the finest producers. This is a huge contrast to a hundred years ago when the sweet wines from Germany commanded prices en par with the very best red wines from Bordeaux. While young vintages of top first growth Bordeaux have now reached over US$1,000 per bottle, sweet wines from the very best producers such as JJ Prum in the Mosel or Climens in Barsac struggle to sell their wines at one-fifth of that price, over US$200. Sweet wines are clearly not in vogue ¨C health-conscious drinkers are moving away from dessert and sweet wines; meanwhile wine lists across many major cities around the world increasingly marginalise sweet wines. Even in Germany, the epicentre of collectible, late-harvest sweet wines, the majority of German wine drinkers prefer dry wines. ¡°It goes better with food,¡± is the simple reply. In Far East Asia, there are added challenges for sweet wines ¨C we have even less of a sweet tooth than other cultures and at the end of a meal, we often move from dry wines to whiskey or cognac, not sweet wines. If we pair sweet wines with food, it has to be one with considerable age so that the perception of sweetness has softened and the flavours are layered and gentle rather than intense. Overt sweetness can easily alter the balance of food flavours and can be as aggressive as raw, overt tannins in young red wine. There is one other explanation as to why sweet wines are currently unfashionable. In the 1960s and 1970s, sweet wines became synonymous with cheap, insipid entry-level wines. Blue Nun and Black Tower are still around and blush Zinfandel from California has its rightful place in the wine industry even today. Sweet wines slowly became associated with cheap and cheerful wines and never completely shed this image. Flash forward four decades later, studies analysing wine consumer tastes still find a disconnect between those who enjoy off-dry or sweet wines to those who actually admit to liking it. I will be bucking this trend and making a solo attempt at making sweet wines more fashionable by buying them up. I know the best will easily age as long or longer than my top Bordeaux. Even if I don¡¯t enjoy them all in my lifetime, my children will thank me for my prescience and generosity.


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Q: Immediately close bootstrap popover when exiting element? We have a bootstrap popover we are using and its loaded by:
    $('a[rel=popover]').popover({
        placement: 'top',
        trigger: 'hover',
        animation: 'false',
        delay: 0
    });

There are a number of items on the page (think cover art) and when you exit the first and move to the second there is a delay before the first one closes even though animation is off and the delay is 0. Is there a way to close the any others before the next one loads?
Note, the user is not clicking anything outside merely hovering over the next item with rel=popover.

A: use it like this:
$('a[rel=popover]').popover({
    placement: 'top',
    trigger: 'hover',
    animation: false,
    delay: { show: 100, hide: 1 }
});