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Inverse Square Law of Light In Photography Explained
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Photography has taught me a lot, and for that, I am forever grateful, however, at the same time, it has brought to my attention a lot of things that I did not know before.
For instance, the whole concept of the inverse-square law of light was something that was previously unknown to me and, therefore, never really occurred.
However, after doing some research, I realized just how important it is not just outside photography but in it, as well. That is why in this article, we are going to explore this law and see what it is all about.
How Light Works The Inverse Square Law
How To Use The Inverse Square Law In Photography?
Using The Inverse Square Law For Natural Light Portraits
What Is The Inverse Square Law In Simple Terms?
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The first thing that we are going to do is look at just how light works in the inverse square law. This is, of course, very important to fully understand the law in the first place.
For starters, if you double the distance between the subject and the light source, it will illuminate a surface area four times greater than the one before.
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In general, we normally multiply the distance with itself so we can calculate the enlargement of the surface area. However, in cases of a larger surface area, the light intensity becomes inversely proportional to the square of the distance since the same amount of light needs to be distributed onto a larger surface area.
That is the reason we see light fall-off, which also means a decrease in light intensity. In technical terms, the inverse-square law of light reads as follows.
The energy (in this case: light intensity) at location A (subject area) decreases inversely proportional to the square of A's distance to the energy source (for example, the flash head).
While it might sound and look complicated, it only requires some basic knowledge to actually get it right and write things down.
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Now that you know what the inverse-square law of light is, the next logical step would be to start talking about just how you can go ahead and use this in photography.
I can already tell you that I know so many photographers who have not even heard about this law to begin with. However, that does not change the fact that it is useful and works wonderfully.
With that said, the formula is a lot simpler than one might think. All you need to do is take the distance from the light to the subject and then inverse the square of it. Confused? Let me make it easier for you.
If the distance is one foot, the inverse of one squared comes down to just one. In other words, the light you are going to get is 100-percent without any adjustment.
When you increase the distance to two feet, you get the inverse of two squared, which is ¼, which mean means you are only going to get 25% of light. When the distance is three feet, you are going to get 1/9, which means that only 11% of light is present.
So, as a photographer, you will have to make use of the formula and then figure out the light, but thankfully, once you get good at it, you can do most of it on the fly.
Not many people know this, but you can use the inverse-square law of light for some stunning natural-light portraits, as well. Now, I am not going to tell you to remember some law that is going to be honestly difficult for a lot of people, but hey, it is just something that you will have to do, to be honest.
You can start by getting a garage light which usually serves amazingly for photos that are going to have a black background. You want to go ahead and place your subject in the shade but close to the line from the sun.
So, be sure that you look for that line on your garage floor, where the light and the shadow meet. Place your subject there, and you will be all good to go.
By doing so, you will get access to some really nice light on their face, but the light falls off rather quickly and becomes very dark behind your subject. The point here is knowing how to go ahead and use the law so you can get the type of pictures you want with great ease.
I believe we have talked about everything that needed to be talked about, so the next thing is that we are going to start looking at just what exactly is inverse-square law. To be honest, it is not at all complicated.
The law is that the light intensity decreases with the distance from the source to receiving surface, and the rate of this decrease is in proportion to the square of the distance between the emitter and the receiver. This is called the inverse-square law, and this is perhaps the easiest way to understand the difference.
If you are just getting into photography, understanding the inverse-square law of light can be a difficult thing. But I have to be honest with you; it really is not something that you should be fretting about. If you know the law and how it works, you will have a much easier time using it than actually studying it.
Most of the things that this law covers are already a part of a photographer's routine, and using these techniques happens on almost a daily basis. Therefore, it is better that you are keeping it in mind before you go ahead.
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Towards the end of 2015 and beginning of 2016, I had the pleasure of taking part in several events in Berlin and Sydney which involved readings from my book 'Our Little Wooden House in the Forest' and screenings from my aural-visual collaboration with Uferlos Studios.
Over the past few months I have begun an aural-visual-textual collaboration with creative collective Uferlos Studios, involving live and performed readings of my writing and video work based on the soundscapes and music of Klaudia Domurat.
After 3 months travelling in India, I am back in Berlin and furiously editing my novel. Some travel pictures, shot on Olympus Trip 35, can be seen on my Tumblr or Instagram.


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From this line it is possible to call the 611 service number, though. Any help is appreciated.
PS: the device is an iPhone 6.
But it's been 4 days. We called custom service a couple times, and they just told us to shutdown and restart the phone, which didn't solve the problem. Is there anything that can be done manually on our side, like resetting things? Or would it help to go to a T-mobile store?
When you try to make an outgoing call, do you get a message regarding "Always allowed numbers"?
magentatechie asked a really good question. There could be restrictions set up on this line but you should let us know if it's getting that message. After speaking with our Team of Experts, did they mention filing a Trouble Ticket for you?
Just for followup, I've been making calls since last week. And last Thursday the Team of Experts opened a ticket for this issue. It was awaiting response from the engineering team, according to what I heard from the Team of Experts.
Then Friday I made another call, the same agent answered. She told me that at that moment, there's no response to the ticket yet, and usually it takes about three business days. Saturday she called me back and the issue was still there. So I asked if they could mail me another SIM card for activation, and she ordered one for me. Interestingly while this new SIM card is still on the way, the issue disappeared on Sunday. Phone calls started to work for that line and I guess I don't need to do another activation.
I didn't call back to provide feedback or check on the status of the ticket. So after all I don't know what's been fixed or maybe it fixed itself. That's all the information I can provide, and I'll update this thread if the issue comes back again.
Thanks for being so thorough and coming back to keep us updated. I'm really glad the issue is resolved for now. It's possible that the engineers fixed the issue and haven't updated the ticket yet, but what's most important is that the service is working.


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The Star of Artaban is a 287–carat cabochon-cut star sapphire currently located at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.  Its origin is somewhat obscure but it is believed to come from Sri Lanka.  Unlike some other sapphires, it is not transparent and is of a milky blue colour. It was donated by an anonymous member of the Georgia Mineral Society in the 1941–1943 time period.

The name of the gem is based on the 1895 tale of The Other Wise Man by Henry van Dyke. The story's hero, Artaban, was a wise man from Persia who set out to join the Biblical Magi in their journey to see the newborn Jesus. He purchased three great gems, one of which was a sapphire, to present as a gift to the newborn king.  He never achieved his goal, and gave his gems to the needy instead.

See also
Star of Asia
Star of Bombay
Star of India (gem)
The Star of Adam
List of individual gemstones
List of sapphires by size

References

Individual sapphires
Jewellery in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution
Gems of Sri Lanka

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Review of: "Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security"
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From: Celebrating 30 Years of ACUNS (May E-Update) (Academic Council on the United Nations System)
Review of: "Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security" —- 9 May 2017
Scott Jasper (ed.) Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons: A Comprehensive Approach for International Security (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2012), pp. 280.
Reviewed by: Manas Dutta (Department of History, Kazi Nazrul University, India)
In recent times, the global community is witnessing that several countries, both friendly and unfriendly to the United States (U.S.), have tried to gain economic power and military capabilities. This stimulates concerns about whether there can be peace and harmony in the near and distant future. China, for example, continues to increase its economic power by rapidly acquiring scarce assets around the world. Natural resources such as agricultural land, water, oil, and precious metals, such as gold and silver, have been acquired by China. Besides, North Korea continues to acquire greater military capability and challenges the U.S. by defying it and by violating basic human rights. North Korean leadership continues to refuse to sign agreements that will limit the production of nuclear weapons. On the other hand, in the Middle East, Iran's leaders seek to establish better relations with the U.S. Still, one wonders whether North Korea is going to use their nuclear assets and capabilities only for peaceful purposes. Amidst such uncertainties, which cause discomfort and unease, it is hard to establish global peace and security. Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons tries to addresses our concerns and indicates areas where freedom of action is threatened mainly in the air, at sea, in outer space, and in cyberspace.
The book explains the conditions of the global commons in the international scenario, which is more congested, contested, and competitive. Scott Jasper, the editor of this volume, is a retired navy captain, who served in the U.S. Navy. He describes the four global commons, namely maritime, air, space, and cyberspace, which, according to him, "no one state can control but on which all states must rely." (p. 1)The text tries to emphasize the collaborative efforts in each sphere, yet more emphasis is placed on cyberspace and maritime domains.
US support for the global war on terrorism. photo credit: Wikimedia Commons: United States Navy.
The foreword of this monograph addresses three complex and challenging security areas that influence the commons: violent extremist organizations, regional antagonists, and a rising China (p. ix). Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons includes thirteen essays which are categorized into five sections under the subheadings of security dynamics, conflict methods, cooperative opportunities, interface mechanism, and behavioural norms. At the outset of the book, the authors mention that the U.S. has a long-standing interest in protecting access to the global commons. The U.S. military has protected the global commons as this, not only provided security and prosperity for the nation, but also protected international airspace and the high seas to guarantee a global free flow of ideas, commerce, and travel. Though, the U.S. involvement in the protection of the global commons has been a matter of debate for quite some time among the security strategists and policy makers of the globe.
The monograph tries to identify and explore the trends, contexts, and implications of persistent conflict and shared cooperation that occur within the four domains of the global commons. In this respect, the global commons according to the authors, "can serve as an organizing principle…for developing strategy, policy, and capabilities" (p. 12). The first section of the book explains various aspects of security dynamics and introduces the reader to the notion of competing interests and motivations. These competing interests and motivations in turn threaten the security and prosperity in the global commons. Thus, this section provides a ground through which one can build a basic understanding regarding the collective action, where groups cooperate to ensure the security of the global commons. This section also explains various causes and types of conflict in the global commons and elaborates on concepts of deterrence.
China Victory Day parade 2015. photo credit: Wikimedia Commons: Voice of America.
The next three essays namely, 'Problems in Collective Action', 'The Character of Conflict', and 'Strategies of Deterrence' deal with conflicts, which according to the authors, could originate within the global commons. It is evident that these three essays are wide-ranging, however they primarily discuss the impact of Chinese military modernization within the maritime, aerospace, and cyberspace domains of the commons. This section also explores how China's ballistic missile improvements could potentially undermine the U.S.-Russian Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This example demonstrates that any changes within the global commons can affect all of the global players.
The next two sections, cooperative opportunities and interface mechanisms, provide a notion of alternative solutions to conflicts that occur in the global commons. Two of the essays from these sections address maritime security, two others address cyberspace concerns, and one of the essays discusses the U.S. joint operational access. Theses sections explain the collaborative methods undertaken jointly by the government, commercial, and military stakeholders in defence of the commons and provide insights on the various types of forums, practices, and incentives used in implementing a comprehensive approach for the commons.
Paul Giarra's "Assuring Joint Operational Access" is one of the excellent articles published in this book. The article summarizes intellectual changes required by the U.S. strategists to deal with complex challenges. Giarra examines operational access needs embedded in traditional American war models of "getting forward, staying forward," and operating along secured lines of communication (p. 150). Adversary modernization, highlighted in earlier essays, could prevent the U.S. from enjoying these advantages as fully as in the past. Giarra suggests that we need to elevate operational access planning to a new strategic context by recognizing our past assumptions, "enroute and forward-deployed infrastructure" demands, and how our competitors exploit the commons (p. 150). As Giarra suggested, we cannot move forward if the U.S. falls back to its old strategic mind-sets.
Discussion on Cyber Security Held at UN in Geneva. photo credit: UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré.
The last section of Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons argues that new mind-sets and global understanding of the actors and of the threats must be shaped by new behavioural norms. The two essays namely, 'Setting Norms for Activities in Space' and 'Establishing Rules for Cyber Security' focus on space and cyberspace domains. They explain the notion of behavioural norms used to maintain peace and stability in the international environment. The 'Setting Norms for Activities in Space' article highlights the responsibilities of state and non-state actor to provide debris mitigation, prevent harmful interference, and manage space traffic. An essay on "Establishing Rules for Cyber Security", written by Eneken Tikk, is the second exceptional article in this volume. State and non-state actors should be more responsible and should avoid vulnerable ambivalence in the cyber security area. The readers can identify with several international issues that connect people around the global commons. One can argue that all ideas presented in the book are interesting, while some could be seen as contradictory during implementation.
Scott Jasper sheds a light on a crucial area of international relations – the global commons – that most of us have not looked at closely enough, but need to. Overall, Conflict and Cooperation in the Global Commons provides excellent ideas that can be used to promote cooperation in a comprehensive manner against the ongoing security threats, military domination, civilian antagonism, commercial agendas, and conflicts. All of these factors play active role in creating a global crisis in the global commons. This book will definitely fill our knowledge gaps about shared international domains that are absolutely essential to our security and prosperity. The book specifically highlights the importance of cooperation as a prerequisite required to overcome national power in the political, diplomatic, economic, and military realms. Finally, the book tries to highlight issues that can enhance cooperation by avoiding conflict among the nations.
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The Yorkshire County Division was activated on 24 February 1941, and became operation on 19 March. It was redesignated the East Riding District on 1 December 1941. It was commanded by three officers, Major General the Hon E. F. Lawson until 11 September, Brigadier G. H. Gotto until 23 September, Major General E. C. Hayes until 20 November and then Gotto again. It commanded 201st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), 218th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) and 221st Independent Infantry Brigade (Home). It was directly under Northern Command until 9 March and then came under I Corps.
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Ruth Rivera Marín (Mexico, 1927-1969) was the first woman to graduate from the College of Engineering and Architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico in 1950. Daughter of Mexican renowned muralist Diego Rivera and well-known actress and writer Guadalupe Rivera Marín, she was early on introduced to the world of the arts and culture. She studied urban rehabilitation in Rome after working in the master plan for the city of Celaya, Guanajuato for the public service. She then returned to Mexico to teach architecture Theory, Architectural Composition and Urban Planning Theory, and furthering her intellectual acumen and nationalist ideal working closely with Diego Rivera and architects Juan O'Gorman, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Enrique Yañez.
By the 1960's she became head of planning for the Ministry of public Education's National Systems of Regional Rural School. Rivera would later be involved on the building of the national Medical Center and the Museum of Modern art in close collaboration with Pedro Ramírez Vázquez; as well as with Luis Barragan on the Museum 'El Eco' in Mexico City. Her most noted work was the Anahuacalli Museum in association with Diego Rivera and Juan O'Gorman; and her design for the Mexican Pavilion for the 1962 Century 21 Fair in Seattle alongside Carlos Mijares. Rivera then ran Notebooks of Architecture and Conservation of the Artistic patrimony and its supplement Notebooks of Architecture, a journal of theory and practice in the discipline that was the basis for teaching in the XX Century in Mexico.
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In Idaho and the Treasure Valley there is no shortage of public information officers, public affairs officers, communications directors and specialists.
There are more combinations of these words – and we didn't even mention the platoons of lawyers who pore over information requests. Dozens and dozens of people throughout the state are paid millions of dollars collectively to broker and serve as information conduits to media and citizens. The proliferation of this class of public employee would lead one to expect the utmost transparency and access to public information, right?
Well, that's not always the case, as the package of stories published Sunday by the Statesman's Cynthia Sewell made clear. Though we all welcomed Gov. Butch Otter's appointment of an ombudsman at the state level earlier this year – and we can note progress amid disappointments – there is room for improvement in providing access to the public and the media when it comes to getting records and information which, with few exceptions, citizens have a right to obtain on demand.
Though Idaho has a public records law, Otter's ombudsman, Cally Younger, does not have jurisdiction or sway over all levels of government in the state.
Too often the default for the media and the public to obtain information has to pass through a tunnel of litigation or face a gantlet of gates and variable processes and costs to obtain records. That doesn't seem to square with the transparency that all of these Idahoans running for office in November seem to embrace.
Rather than dwell on what's wrong with the system, one set of rules and hoops should apply to all state, county, local and school district information requests – with an independent ombudsman's office providing oversight.
How do we get there? By focusing on best practices used in certain corners of Idaho state government, and by adopting a structure similar to Utah, which follows the Government Records Access and Management Act.
The Idaho Legislature would have to give authority over all levels of government to its state ombudsman's office. But that burden could be lessened if more Idaho agencies adopted practices already being used at places like the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and the State Controller's Office.
DEQ's streamlined policies make accessing records easy. The Controller's Office offers transparent.idaho.gov for anyone interested in information on such things as the state workforce, expenditures, the budget and other financial reports.
Other things that need fixing include uniform pricing for attaining information and adopting consistent procedures for record retention. Some agencies hold on to supporting records, such as emails, longer than others.
All new transparency initiatives must respect privacy issues. Idaho can do that while empowering an ombudsman to establish organizational norms and responsibility.


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himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.
doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"
that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers."
the route number, not the speed limit.
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this whole time," the officer says with concern.
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Feb. 9 marks 50 years since John, Paul, George and Ringo seized America by playing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Half a century – really?
A mere 77 days after America endured the horrible nightmare of JFK's assassination, four moptops from England brightened our mood with their youthful exuberance, wit, charm, and fresh sound.
I was a slow convert. My older brother Dave played electric guitar, and I had become musically aware at a young age through exposure to his music. For awhile it had been folk music, then surf guitar via artists like Duane Eddy and the Ventures.
Watching the Beatles' American debut on our black and white Magnavox console TV, I distinctly remember disliking Paul and George shaking their heads while warbling "Ooo!" I said so the next day at school to a 4th-grade classmate who raved about how dreamy they were.
"They're not as good as the Ventures," I said.
"The Ventures?! They're just a bunch of gross old men!" the girl said in disgust.
But I came around. That week, KJR and KOL Radio in Seattle played Beatles songs endlessly, and the quality of those tunes beat some sense into me. By the time the Beatles played the Sullivan show again the following Sunday, I was a convert.
"Meet the Beatles," the Capitol Records LP that topped the charts, eventually became the first album I ever bought with my own money. But for my birthday in March 1964, I asked for and received an LP from another British-invasion band: "Glad All Over" by the Dave Clark Five.
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Richard Holden MP's Two-Year Anniversary: 10 Highlights of Serving North West Durham
Richard Holden MP lets his constituents in on his top 10 highlights of being the MP for North West Durham.
On 12 December, Richard Holden MP wrote:
"Two years ago, voters across our towns and villages decided to do something that had never been done before and put their trust in a new Conservative MP for the first time ever (see come pictures of that campaign below!)
For me, that campaign was just the start something huge. And there is not a day that has gone by since that I've not been fighting for the people of North West Durham. I am determined to repay that trust you've placed in me.
Top Ten Highlights
Brexit Done. Within a month of being elected, I voted for the key legislation to get Brexit done - and help the U.K. move on - after Parliament had prevaricated for three years.
Motorhomes Tax. Within 100 days of becoming your MP, I'd managed to convince the Chancellor to reverse the gold-plated EU #MotorhomesTax - this saved up to 100 jobs locally that were otherwise totally viable (LINK: https://www.webuyanymotorcaravan.com/the-ncc-wins-battle.../)
Covid Support Measures. Covid struck a few months after I was elected and I backed the unprecedented support measures to protect jobs via the furlough scheme & grants for businesses. Something no other Government in history has done.
16 beds for Shotley Bridge. After downgrade after downgrade of our local healthcare facilities over decades, I went toe-to-toe with many people to campaign against a "zero-bed replacement" for Shotley Bridge and instead got the Government to commit £10 million more (a 50% increase) for a 16-bed unit (double the current 8 beds) with more services (such as chemotherapy) to be delivered locally and for it to become part of the Government's 40 new hospital building programme. The replacement became the 40th new hospital commitment of the programme and is now well on with planning and development stages (LINK: https://www.gov.uk/.../pm-confirms-37-billion-for-40...)
Capped Bus Fares. In Local Transport I've backed the 'Bus Back Better' changes - which will mean a £4 daily cap (lower than London) in County Durham for using our local buses, with more cleaner new buses coming forward from next year. I've won two feasibility study bids for looking at improved public transport via Consett -> Tyne and to examine a new passenger service from Weardale and Crook to Darlington. I've also been part of the campaign to keep fuel duty down (with no rise in fuel duty for cars and vans since the election)
Lower Beer Duty. I've led a national campaign to get a lower rate of duty on on-sales of beer and cider to help our pubs and hospitality sector. This will kick in next year after the consultation on implementation ends.
Banned Virginity Testing. After hearing about the horrific practices of so called 'virginity testing' and Hymenoplasty, I've led a cross-party campaign to change the law to ban these practices in the Health and Care Bill currently going through Parliament and also backed the raising of the age of marriage from 16->18.
Banned Credit Card Online Gambling. As per of the APPG on Gambling Related Harm, I've pushed for action from online gambling companies to ban the use of credit cards (Done), raise the age at which you can play £350 a week online on the lottery and buy scratch card from 16->18 (Done) and I'm working cross party on the broader review into the 2005 Gambling Act for further changes.
Protecting Local Schools. I've launched on-going campaigns for local schools, including to stop the permanent closure of Wolsingham 6th form (Done) and I'm fighting for better facilities for Witton-Le-Wear Primary, a look at what can be done for Alternative Provision via Delta North and am regularly visiting local schools to hear from staff, pupils and heads about their concerns.
Toft Hill Bypass. I've backed Dehenna's levelling-up bid for the Toft Hill Bypass on the A68 (Done & it's happening) and am submitting my own levelling up bid for high street regeneration for Crook/Willington/Tow Law in the new year.
In addition my team and I have completed over 17,000 pieces of casework, battling for people on everything from getting the DWP to look again at support, to helping people in really difficult situations get housing, to helping push the council to get bin collections sorted.
If you ever need me and the team, just message via www.richardholden.org.uk/contact
Two years ago was proudest moment of my life. I'll continue to work as hard as I can and stand up for you whenever I can.
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Year End Recap. We meet again.
The one thing I can for sure say about 2012 is that time moves utterly too fast for my liking. Seriously. Cut that crap out, Time. I feel as if the last sixteen years of my life can be grouped into four bundles. For example, last year was surely 2009. And the year before that was 2005, followed by '01. And four years ago was definitely 1997. By this math, next year Juliana will be about to start her senior year of high school and the year after that Jason and I will be retired and living in the south of France.
Wait, really? Maybe this isn't so bad after all!
The 50K emerged as my favorite distance to *not* race. I completed THREE of these suckers (as well as a 39.3 miler which I'm lumping in here.) What's great about these events is that I never worry about my pace or trying to beat a previous best. It's all about going the distance and enjoying the time out there- usually with friends, and especially if it's a trail run. Also, training for a 50K is pretty much like training for a marathon, without all the weird hype and pressure marathons tend to come packaged with. It's a nice change.
If 2011 was the year that I allowed dance back into my life, then 2012 was the year I stopped being scared of where it might take me. Despite a hiatus over the summer (while I trained for my longest race of the year) I was pretty diligent with my weekly classes through the winter, spring and most recent fall sessions. I also took a couple of advanced level master classes in June- in which I didn't make a fool of myself! And I even managed to screw up the courage to audition for the Danceworks Performance Company. No, I wasn't the person selected, but I'm pretty sure I held my own and would do it again in a heartbeat. I might not even cry on the way home from all the overwhelming feels next time.
What did I just say about all the marathon having all kinds of weird hype and pressure? Case in point: I trained like mad to PR at the Rockford Marathon in May and then on race day it was approximately eleventy hundred degrees. By mile 18 I decided that a 3:55 marathon time was not worth severe dehydration or heatstroke and I started to walk. I finished 25 minutes after my goal time and I didn't die. The day was a win. I tried again to at least run a sub-4 in October at the Haunted Hustle Marathon and the course ended up being a half mile long, leaving me to finish in 4:02 with 26.7 miles on my Garmin. This race burned me up a little more since I finished in front of the 4-hour pace group and still missed my time, but in the grand scheme of things- IT'S ONLY RUNNING. We're darn lucky to be able to run marathons in the first place, be it in 3:55, 4:25 or 8:25.
Time for a few not-so-humble brags. I *did* run a PR in the 5K this year (21:57) as well as in the Half Marathon (1:44:40). I also finished a 50-mile race all by myself. So if there was any question about my toughness... Bing bang boom.
If I annoyed anyone with all our Europe trip photos on Facebook this summer, I apologize. Sort of. I mean, it was pretty amazing. Would you rather I be super ungrateful and ho-hum about traveling to London and Paris? I guess I could act like that but- LOOK! PICTURES!
We didn't have a fancy wedding. Not wanting to be engaged for a year just to wait for an open reception hall, so we got hitched on a Sunday night and had our party in a church basement. And because we were a wee nineteen years old, the two of us toasted with some sparkling grape juice instead of champagne. For years now I've wanted to throw a super fun anniversary party with all of our friends but it always seemed like it would be a) a lot of money and b) a lot of planning. This year, because Jason loves me (or something like that), we were able to throw a fantastic 15th anniversary shindig with family and friends, old and new. The photobooth from this event will live on forever. Also: whiskey cockails.
I literally just had to step away from the computer for a minute before writing this one. I feel like I've accomplished some pretty incredible things in my life, but nothing compares to these two. They continuously amaze me with their ever-changing, dynamic personalities and fill me with Mama Bear Pride as I see them developing more CONFIDENCE in themselves with each passing year. At nine and twelve years old I realize the most challenging years are still in front of us but I know in my heart everything will be ok because they are simply amazing little people.
So, 2013. What do you hold? Obviously the race schedule on the side bar of this blog is quickly filling up already. I'm also looking forward to taking my love of fitness/movement/dance "to the streets" as I get my personal trainer certification and hopefully start teaching classes in the spring. And as always, I plan to eat all the food and travel all the travels that I can get my greedy paws on. 2013: Hit me with your best shot.
Po sez Happy New Yearz.


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Putting the 'Open' Back in Shanghai's Reopening
Shanghai is an international city. Its business environment needs to reflect this.
Nie Riming
2022-07-05 11:12:59 Voices
Nie Riming Researcher
Nie Riming is a researcher at Shanghai Institute of Finance and Law, a think tank.
As Shanghai emerges from two months of lockdown, local officials have made reviving the local economy a key policy goal. The city's reopening plan, published on May 29, included 50 policy measures aimed at stimulating economic activity. Of these, six were dedicated solely to reviving foreign investment and trade.
Foreign investment is a part of Shanghai's DNA. The city was a relative backwater prior to China's forced opening to foreign trade in the mid-19th century, when its position at the mouth of the Yangtze River helped make it a bridge between important markets in China's interior and the outside world. Within just a handful of years of the city's opening in 1843, Shanghai's trade revenue had outstripped that of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. By 1874, 70% of China's exports and 50% of its imports were passing through the city each year.
That historical legacy made Shanghai a key part of Deng Xiaoping's plans to re-integrate China into the global economy after the Mao period. In 1990, Deng made multiple calls for Shanghai to deregulate foreign trade. The following year, he acknowledged the consequences of Shanghai's extended isolation from the world and reiterated his expectations that the city be reopened to foreign business. During an inspection tour of the city in January 1991, he stated, "It is late for us to be developing Shanghai, so we have to work hard."
Officials had no sooner loosened their grip than the city's economy took off. Alongside the development of the Pudong New District, Shanghai's GDP went from a fifth of Hong Kong's in the early 1990s to surpassing that city by the late 2000s. Foreign investment was vital to this process. Prior to the pandemic, foreign-invested companies generated more than a quarter of Shanghai's GDP, a third of its tax revenue, around two-thirds of its imports and exports, and roughly one-fifth of all new jobs, according to official statistics.
The most direct expression of this contribution can be found in the movement of goods. Shanghai is far more reliant on foreign trade than any other Chinese region. About 17% of all goods exported by foreign-invested companies in China pass through the city. Based on data from the Ministry of Commerce and the China Statistical Yearbook the import and export revenue of Shanghai's foreign-invested companies accounted for 57% of the city's GDP in 2019. That's more than five times the comparable figure for Beijing or Jiangsu province, and more than triple the figure for export-dependent Guangdong province.
Unlike some of these other regions, Shanghai cannot replace these foreign-invested companies' goods with domestic exports. Many of the most important products shipped through Shanghai are made in China by foreign firms with strong brand name recognition and customer loyalty, including upscale products like Tesla electric cars and iPhones.
Foreign-invested companies employ 2.6 million people, or about 18% of all workers in the city's urban areas.
- Nie Riming, researcher
These international firms are an important source of high-paying jobs in the city. Nationally, foreign-invested companies employ 5.5% of China's urban workforce, but these workers account for 17.4% of all individual income tax receipts, according to the 2019 China Taxation Yearbook. Shanghai's job market is even more dependent on foreign companies. In Shanghai, foreign-invested companies employ 2.6 million people, or about 18% of all workers in the city's urban areas, but account for 39% of individual income tax receipts.
The presence of these workers has had ripple effects throughout the Yangtze River Delta region and across China. When local employees of foreign-invested companies decide to change jobs or start their own businesses, they bring important techniques and knowledge from their respective places of employment with them — a process that has helped drive domestic Chinese growth over the past four decades.
After Apple shifted production to China, for example, a complex industrial chain formed to serve the company's needs. This chain then provided the necessary conditions for the rise of local mobile phone brands, which have since gone on to carve out a foothold in overseas markets. A similar process is underway at places like Shanghai's biotech-focused "Zhangjiang Biotech and Pharmaceutical Base." Although the impact of this kind of outward "trickle" of technological and managerial expertise may be difficult to quantify, it cannot be overlooked. Many of China's current industry leaders, whether state-owned companies or internet startups, have benefited from poaching the employees of foreign companies.
All this is to say that, without foreign investment, Shanghai's fortunes would plummet. Local officials know these companies have the ability to vote with their feet, and the concerns of foreign investors have repeatedly pushed the city to improve the quality of local governance over the past 40 years. In the 1980s, for instance, it took more than 100 official stamps to approve a foreign investment in the city. That had a chilling effect on business and led then-Shanghai Mayor Zhu Rongji to announce a new "one-stop shop" for applications in 1988, which helped lay the groundwork for the city's later boom.
Today, China's COVID-19 prevention and control measures are casting a similar pall over the city's foreign businesses. Shanghai's May 29 policy document, with its explicit calls to "stabilize foreign investment and trade" and "listen to the opinions and suggestions of foreign-owned companies," represents an early step toward reassuring the city's international business community. But it needs to be followed up with practical and effective action that demonstrates a sincere engagement with the needs and concerns of foreign companies — action capable of convincing these businesses to continue taking part in a process of mutual growth with Shanghai and China as a whole. Given the stakes, whether measured in GDP, tax revenues, or employment, failure is not an option.
Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the percentage of workers employed by foreign-invested firms nationwide.
Translator: Lewis Wright; editors: Wu Haiyun and Kilian O'Donnell.
Shanghai Vows Greater Market Access for Economic Recovery
Defying God — and COVID — on a Shanghai Stage
Shanghai Eyes a Post-COVID Era
Remembering a Golden Age: Shanghai at the Turn of the Century


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Антонов () — деревня в Вербовичском сельсовете Наровлянского района Гомельской области Беларуси.

География

Расположение
В 15 км на юго-запад от Наровли, 20 км от железнодорожной станции Ельск (на линии Калинковичи — Овруч), 193 км от Гомеля.

Гидрография
На реке Словечна (приток реки Припять).

Транспортная сеть
Транспортные связи по просёлочной, затем автодороге к Наровле. Планировка состоит из полувыгнутой, почти широтной ориентации улицы, к центру которой с севера присоединяется переулок. Застройка двусторонняя, деревянная, усадебного типа.

История
Обнаруженное археологами городище железного века (в 0,5 км на запад от деревни) свидетельствует о заселении этих мест с давних времён. По письменным источникам известна с XVI века как местечко Антоновичи в Мозырском повете Минского воеводства Великого княжества Литовского. Впервые упомянута под 1595 год. Обозначена на карте ВКЛ 1613 года. Около села в 1751 году спасались остатки разбитого правительственными войсками отряды гайдамаков и повстанцев. С 1764 года во владении Аскерко.

После 2-го раздела Речи Посполитой (1793 год) в составе Российской империи. В 1795 году деревянная церковь Святителя Николая. Рядом находилась деревня Слобода Антоновская. Деревня была отдана действительному тайному советнику Я. Сиверсу, а с 1825 года во владении С. И. Горвата. В 1879 году обозначена в числе поселений Демидовского церковного прихода. Согласно переписи 1897 года действовал хлебозапасный магазин, в Наровлянской волости Речицкого уезда Минской губернии. С 1917 года работало народное училище.

В 1931 году организован колхоз, имелись водяная мельница и кирпичный завод. Во время Великой Отечественной войны действовала подпольная группа (руководитель Т. Целко). В августе 1943 года оккупанты полностью сожгли деревню. 79 жителей погибли на фронте. Согласно переписи 1959 года в составе колхоза имени М. В. Фрунзе (центр — деревня Грушевка). Располагались 9-летняя школа, клуб.

Население

Численность
 2004 год — 84 хозяйства, 160 жителей.

Динамика
 1795 год — 26 дворов, 140 жителей; в деревне Слобода Антоновская 5 дворов 40 жителей.
 1834 год — 16 дворов.
 1897 год — 73 двора, 439 жителей (согласно переписи).
 1908 год — 87 дворов 657 жителей.
 1940 год — 124 двора, 369 жителей.
 1959 год — 934 жителя (согласно переписи).
 2004 год — 84 хозяйства, 160 жителей.

См. также
 Городские посёлки Белоруссии
 Города Белоруссии

Примечания

Литература
 Гарады і вёскі Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. Т.2, кн.2. Гомельская вобласць/С. В. Марцэлеў; Рэдкалегія: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэдактар) і інш. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2005. 520с.: іл. Тыраж 4000 экз. ISBN 985-11-0330-6 ISBN 985-11-0302-0

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Населённые пункты Наровлянского района


The melodrama between Yoko Ono and her chauffeur, playing out in New York City courtrooms and across newspaper headlines 11 years ago, appeared to end with that two-month span of accusations, denials, and threats. The chauffeur, Koral Karsan, was sent back to his native Turkey after 60 days in jail, and Ms. Ono returned to her public creative pursuits and the side of her life she has long kept private, within the walls of the apartment in the Dakota where she once lived with her husband, John Lennon.
But shortly after meeting with Ms. Ono last month in Manhattan, the police in Berlin this week announced what amounts to an audacious coda to that 2006 chain of events. The police said they have mounting evidence that Mr. Karsan, even as he was accusing Ms. Ono of sexual harassment and demanding $2 million to stay quiet, was stealing Lennon's personal effects from the cupboards of her apartment in the Dakota.


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Q: What can a 1st gen Apple TV do than a new Apple TV cannot? I have a 1st gen one and I'm thinking about selling it to get a new one.
People on ebay seem to want the old one.
Why are 1st gen Apple TVs selling on ebay for over $100 while a new Apple TV is sold for $99?

A: de_an777 wrote a pretty solid answer. I'll add that because the underlying CPU is an Intel Pentium-M, the first generation Apple TVs can be hacked to run OS X. The later generation ones are ARM based and are thus restricted to Linux distributions that are ARM-compatible.

A: Here is the big reason: The first gen ATV has a wifi card which can be removed in favor of a $40 Broadcom HD Decoder card.  Then, with a customized Linux distribution, you can run XBMC on the device and stream 1080 content from a NAS or another computer.
Since there is no jailbreak currently available for the third gen ATV, this is an easy an inexpensive way to watch HD video on one's HDTV, complete with an IR remote, and it's a full linux install as well.

A: The main reason the 1st generation Apple TV first retains it's value is because of the hard drive.  The 2nd generation does not have any built in storage and so everything has to stream to it.
There's nothing worse than hearing that long sigh on the other end of the phone when I have to explain that iTunes needs to be on the computer to stream the Glee album she wants to play.
It has its limitations but the original Apple TV is superior for browsing my music collections.

A: I'm impressed that the Apple TV first generation is really an Intel Mac capable of much more than a movie player. The Linux Crystalbuntu OS seems to be a good medium between a video device and an all out Intel Mac.  I purchased the 160 GB 1st generation for under $80 instead of the ATV 3 and think I've got a much better toy.

A: It may not be an issue to many, but I prefer the old one because it has analogue audio out which makes it possible to link it with an older amplifier
This is a big issue to anyone who wants audio in Zone 2 or 3 from an AV receiver.
Only very expensive AV receivers can pass digital audio to secondary zones, they only pass analog audio.  Because newer AppleTVs only output digital audio (HDMI or optical), you need a digital to analog converter if you want audio from the AppleTV in secondary zones.

A: We have a 1st Gen ATV plus a 2nd Gen ATV. At times either of these have been connected to the same Sony 42" HDTV. There is a money saving difference that no one here mentioned: the first option with all movies on the ATV1Gen is to rent the SD version for a dollar less than the HD version. At least on our ATV 2nd Gen, only the HD version of movies is offered. Since the ATV and our Sony HD television are both capable of up-converting, we usually buy the SD version and save about $50 a year in movie rentals. The SD version is not some crappy, old low quality 4:3 television image. It looks so good on our TV only a video freak would notice the difference without a side-by-side comparison. I know, some of you will say it's big difference to you. Personally, we don't see much difference and we already have the thing so I say "Save the money." We rent a lot of stuff with friends over, and not one has ever asked "What's wrong with the resolution of the movie? Are you up-converting it?"
We also hacked it with RemoteHD to be Airplay capable, and have it connected to the analog inputs of our tuner downstairs. Only the hacked ATV1Gen can accept streams from another Apple TV; later generations of ATV cannot share between each other. So we can stream music to it from any device in the house, even the other ATV, which is nice if you like background music while working or when entertaining.
Although it has a hard drive, even if you pre-fill it with rented movies to take it with you, it still requires an internet connection to authorize the playback, so it's not really "untethered" from the internet for DRM movies. But non-DRM content like MP3 and Home movies play without a network connection. With some effort, you can get around this by converting movies beforehand, but I won't go into that. That's for people with more time than money, or insomniacs going on an extended cruise or something where there's no possibility of reliable internet.
ATV1Gen has proven to be a keeper. I bought it used on eBay for $125 and wouldn't sell it back even for more than that.

A: The only super major differences the 1st Gen Apple TV's has from the new ones is the ability to store Movies, Music, Content, etc because they have a physical hard drive in them for doing those things.  The other things is that they can connect to TV's through Red, Blue, Green Component Cables.  They also do not support Airplay with out a hack or a software fix. Also, the newest Apple TV, the 3rd Gen, allows for 1080p HD playback, where the older ones only support 720p HD playback.
There are also a few other minor differences in size, power consumption, software options/OS and so on.
The new Apple TV's do not have hard drives or Component Cable outputs and support Airplay out of the box. Airplay is probably the biggest feature that makes people who don't want to hack to jump ship to the newer box.  It is pretty cool. The 1080 HD playback is nice, but depending on your TV, may or may not be noticeable/important.
Some people like the older ones also because they can be hacked and used as linux computers (link) with actual storage and since they can also store things on them, you can take it with you and have videos/music on it and not require internet for streaming your content.
Though the biggest reason is most likely the hack-ability of them, they are tiny computers with a decent amount of power. And since they aren't sold any more and are still sought after, that would explain their above average price.
The new Apple TV's require internet of some kind or at least a local network for stream video and movies and data from a computer or the internet.
They are also significantly smaller too, the older Apple TVs are much larger.
You can see all the differences on their wiki page, it lays out the differences in features between the devices and even talks about most of the hacks that are available. Very informative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV
I hope that this answer helps you out.

A: You can also upgrade the HD to 1TB which takes the whole ATV1 to a new level.

A: Re: Analog/Digital capabilities
With newer-gen Apple TVs you still can, apparently, hook up to analog with a simple & inexpensive hack - a digital-to-analog converter = $20
I'm just the messenger - not the thinker behind this, so if you want to check it out,  the link is at bottom of my comment
I can't argue anything technically here - I was just looking into this and found the link right after leaving this site (which was helpful - thanks)
Just wanted to share with anyone who comes looking for answer after me...
http://www.technologytell.com/hometech/95077/3rd-gen-apple-tv-multi-room-music-server/

A: Floating pictures screensaver
Ah, there is a major void here. The Apple TV Gen 1 is a photographer's dream.  For those of us with thousands of digital images, when do we ever trot them out and look at them? Rarely. Instead, get a 22" flat panel, hook it to your Apple TV generation 1 40GB, and just run the floating pictures screensaver.
Artfully shows several pictures at once
It beats all others that show one picture at a time in a manner that clearly looks like a computer screensaver.
Not one picture at a time
No other device has this floating pictures screensaver. None. And no, there is no other software that can do this even with a PC hooked up to the monitor. If you want a standalone device that shows your photos in a floating screensaver mode, the Apple TV gen 1 is the only way.
Night light
We leave ours on in the kitchen 24/7 as a night light, wall decor, and constant reminder of where we've been and what we've done.
Limit: 2000 photos
I found that about after 1-2000 photos it starts to repeat, regardless of whether there are 10,000 photos on the device.  Thus far, have been unable to find any sites describing the algorithm apple uses for the floating photo screensaver.

A: I can put it in my car, with all my movies stored on it, and if I need to down load another one, I just connect it in the garage via wifi and purchase in my driveway or in the garage, and the kiddies are happy and quiet on any car ride.

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Police on Saturday gunned down three family members and their friend in what it called a shootout with 'terrorists' near Sahiwal.
While Khaleel, his wife Nabeela, elder daughter Areeba and friend Zeeshan were killed on the spot, the couple's minor son sustained a bullet injury and two other daughters remained safe. The family was travelling in a car when the alleged encounter – which the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officials later termed an 'intelligence-based operation' – took place on GT Road in Qadirabad area near Sahiwal.
"Four people, including two women and Daesh local commander Zeeshan, have been killed and one child has been injured in the cross-fire," a CTD spokesperson said. The suspects were kidnappers and three children were recovered from them, police said.
"A CTD team tried to intercept a car and a motorcycle near the toll plaza, however the people in the car starting firing at them," the spokesperson said. He claimed that the deceased were high-level targets who were also involved in the kidnapping of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son. "The operation was conducted as follow-up of the one in Faisalabad which took place on January 16," he added.
However, eyewitnesses, minor child and relatives of the deceased strongly refuted the CTD's version. "I was travelling to Burewala for my uncle's wedding with my father Khaleel, mother Nabeela, elder sister Areeba, father's friend Zeeshan and two younger sisters when the vehicle was stopped by police," Umair Khalil, the injured child who was in the vehicle at the time of the incident, told media. "When we were stopped, my papa pleaded that there was no weapon in the car and that police could search the vehicle. They didn't listen to my papa and opened fire," Umair, who appears to be around 10-years-old, said. "Police left us [Umair and younger sisters] at a petrol pump and we were later taken to a hospital," he added.
A video of the crime scene shows the bodies lying in the bullet-riddled car after the firing incident. In another video, also doing rounds on social media, eyewitnesses and people present at the hospital can be seen suggesting that police shot the family members in cold blood. In another video, a man who identified himself as an uncle of the children, said that several family members were going from Lahore to a village near Burewala in four vehicles to attend a wedding. He said he was travelling in another vehicle and lost contact with the deceased as their mobile phones were off. He alleged that the CTD personnel tried to rob the victims as they were carrying cash, jewellery and other valuables, and then killed them.
Eyewitnesses conflicted CTD's statements and said the people in the car did not fire at police officials. "There were no weapons found with the bodies," they said.
The neighbours, in their statement to the press, maintained that they know the deceased since the last three decades, and expressed their doubts over their alleged involvement with Daesh. They said late Zeeshan's brother, Ihtesham, is employed in Punjab's Dolphin force.
A post-mortem examination of the deceased showed that the victims received bullet injuries in their heads, necks and stomach areas. The bodies of the three family members have been handed over to their relatives.
Khalil was a resident of Chungi Amar Saddhu in Lahore where he owned a shop. Family, relatives and residents of the neighbourhood staged a protest near Chungi Amar Saddhu against the brutal killings. The protest led to huge traffic snarl-ups on several arteries of the city. Following successful talks with city administration, the heirs of the victims called off protest at Ferozepur Road.
Prime Minister Imran Khan contacted Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar and sought a report in connection with the incident.
The CTD officials involved in killing were taken into custody on the orders of the chief minister.
Punjab inspector general of police (IGP) has announced the formation of a joint investigation team (JIT) comprising officials from police, Inter-Services Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau to probe the incident. The team has been asked to submit its report within three days.


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Knox County court news
The following cases were completed in the Knox County court from Jan. 22 through Jan. 29. Margaret A. Nugent, 70, Vinalhaven, operating under the influence, 150-day license suspension, $500 fine. Shari L. Thompson, 50, Warren, operating after habitual offender revocation, 30 days in jail, $500 fine. Wendie W. Demuth, 62, Rockport, OUI, dismissed; driving to endanger, 30-day license suspension, $500 fine. Jason M. ...
The following cases were completed in the Knox County court from Jan. 22 through Jan. 29.
Margaret A. Nugent, 70, Vinalhaven, operating under the influence, 150-day license suspension, $500 fine.
Shari L. Thompson, 50, Warren, operating after habitual offender revocation, 30 days in jail, $500 fine.
Wendie W. Demuth, 62, Rockport, OUI, dismissed; driving to endanger, 30-day license suspension, $500 fine.
Jason M. Gallagher, 40, Waldoboro, failure to appear for hearing, dismissed.
Alicia Averill, 29, Union, disorderly conduct, dismissed.
Gerrod Henry Little, 28, Warren, aggravated assault on June 22, 2019 in Warren, 18 months in prison; trafficking in prison contraband on same day and place, nine months in prison.
Shari L. Thompson, 50, Warren, OUI, 30 days in jail, 150-day license suspension, $500 fine with the fine suspended; aggravated operating after habitual offender revocation, six months in jail, $500 fine; five counts of violating a condition of release, 30 days in jail; operating after habitual offender revocation, 30 days in jail, $500 fine.
Justin M. Sanford, 31, Rockland, false public alarm or report on Nov. 15, 2019 in Rockland, $250 fine.
Matthew R. Spear, 18, Cushing, driving to endanger, 30-day license suspension, $575 fine.
Kevin Brown, 37, Rockport, refusing to submit to arrest on April 20, 2020 in St. George; operating after habitual offender revocation, six months in jail, 48 hours jail.
Amy W. Atwood, 50, Owls Head, trafficking in prison contraband on Dec. 13, 2018 in Warren, two years in jail with all but 45 days suspended, two years probation.
Nicholas C. Sellick, 35, Rockland, unlawful possession of drug on July 17, 2020 in Rockland, dismissed.
Christopher R. Lang, 55, Danvers, Mass., OUI, seven days in jail, 150-day license suspension, $500 fine.
Evan W. Obercian, 37, Lincolnville, OUI, seven days in jail, 150-day license suspension, $500 fine.
Kaleb R. Cambell, 21, North Haven, operating after habitual offender revocation, dismissed; criminal mischief on April 26, 2020 on North Haven, $500 fine.
Nathan Miller Hildings, 28, Vinalhaven, criminal mischief on July 25, 2020, $250 fine.
Jessy Silvernale, 45, Warren, domestic violence criminal threatening on Sept. 21, 2020 in Warren, 120 days in jail.
Ashley Libby, 32, Thomaston, operating after registration suspended, $150 fine; operating while license suspended or revoked, $250 fine.
Samuel T. Ward, 19, Thomaston, operating vehicle without license, $150 fine.
Ryan A. Hopkins, 30, Union, operating while license suspended, $250 fine.
Jay Poulin, 54, Rockport, theft on Nov. 17, 2020 in Rockland, $175 fine, $13 restitution.
Nicholas J. Lacoy, 21, Union, driving to endanger, 30-day license suspension, $575 fine; failing to make accident report on Nov. 21, 2020 in Appleton, $350 fine; failing to notify of accident, dismissed.
Wilbur McCaul Jr., 42, Appleton, resident crossbow hunting without license on Nov. 28, 2020 in Appleton, $100 fine.
Frank Guptill, 53, Friendship, raising or hauling traps during a closed period on Sept. 25, 2020 in Friendship, $250 fine.
Robert E. Maloney, 55, Cushing, two counts of violating menhadden requirement on Oct. 9, 2020 in Cushing, $400 fines total.


Instead of training for the "Run for the Roses," though, the horse found himself in a swimming pool just north of Oakdale. Seriously.
Texas Red isn't the first derby-quality horse to rehab at Premier Equine Center north of town. Co-owners Pat and Amie Grohl are getting more and more referrals from veterinarians who treat injured race, equestrian and rodeo horses. Those horses go to the Grohls for rehabilitation or simply for rest and relaxation. You might even think of the facility as a Club Med for horses, a rehab clinic for some and a spa for others.
The Grohls met on the rodeo circuit – Amie a barrel racer and Pat a team roper. They were married, and started their first horse rehab center near Jamestown, where he grew up.
"But we realized we needed to be down in the Valley to make it," Pat Grohl said.
Pat is quick to point out neither he nor Amie are veterinarians. Simply put, they've been around horses their entire lives. Amie grew up in Arcadia and spent many weekends at the Santa Anita racetrack.
"I didn't know then I'd be dealing with lots of those horses now," she said.
They administer the rehabilitation programs prescribed by each horse's vet.
"The hardest part is developing the trust with the vets," he said.
They did that by spending time at the racetracks, trying to make the connections needed to have quality horses sent their way. They finally made it when they met racing trainer Jeff Bonde, who sent them a horse named Twice the Appeal. The horse won the 2011 Sunland Derby to qualify for the Kentucky Derby, where it finished 10th that same year, but later suffered a leg injury.
They've worked with seven-time stakes race winner Smiling Tiger. They worked with Social Inclusion, who finished third in the Wood Memorial, the Preakness and the Woody Stephens G2 in succession in 2014 before suffering a tendon injury.
"We rehabbed him and got him back to Gulfstream (Park in Florida)," Grohl said. The horse finished second on his return to the track in April, and is expected to compete in an allowance race at Belmont on Saturday.
The Grohls have also tended to four-race winner Majestic Stride, El Camino Real Derby winner Metaboss and 2011 Preakness entry Sway Away, who is now retired at stud. Considering the money invested in horses, it's a huge responsibility to be entrusted with working them back to the point where they can begin training again.
They've added a swimming pool, aquatic treadmill and cold-water treatment equipment over the past couple of years, giving them more options to help horses rehabilitate or rejuvenate. The pool enables horses to get in cardiovascular work without putting undue stress on the injured feet or legs. The key, Amie Grohl said, is to get the blood flowing to the injured areas.
The animals can spend anywhere from a few weeks to several months there, she said. The goal for active racehorses is to get them back to the point where they can train for racing again. That included Texas Red, who hasn't raced since February but did well during his rehab stint in Oakdale. He's expected to return in July with an eye on being ready for the Travers Stakes in late August.
But could he have been the horse to upset American Pharoah? It's a thought relegated to woulda-coulda-shoulda status.
The Belmont Stakes will be shown at the Turlock Turf Club at the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds on Saturday. The off-track betting facility opens at 8 a.m. Post time for the Belmont will be 3:50 p.m.


RED BLUFF, Tehama County (CBS / AP) — Officials say a Northern California police officer shot and killed a man who was threatening to strike officers with a large stick.
Red Bluff Police Chief Kyle Sanders said in a statement that after officers encountered the man on a street he repeatedly refused to obey orders to drop the stick and walked away from them during the confrontation shortly after midnight Sunday. Police did not describe details about the stick.
Officers first used a stun gun and a bean bag shot at the man to try to get him to comply but those efforts didn't work, Sanders said.
When the man came toward the officers with the stick raised, Red Bluff Cpl. Stephen Harper fired a shot, striking the man in his upper torso, Sanders said. He said in a statement that officers began life-saving measures and the man was taken to a hospital where he died. The video shows it took several minutes following the shooting before officers began administering CPR.
The man's identity was not immediately released.
Harper, a 15-year veteran of the department, has been put on administrative leave while officials investigate.
Red Bluff is about 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of San Francisco.


To make the next few posts easier to understand, I want to describe to you the treatment center that I was admitted to, the various programs they have and the types of therapies we learned about.
At this center, there are three levels of treatment; Inpatient Hospital Treatment, Partial Hospitalization Program, and Intensive Outpatient Program. There is also a residential facility for patients with eating disorders. In all of these programs, the adults are separated from the adolescents.
With inpatient treatment, there are various units to which a patient could be assigned. This includes the Special Intensity Unit for patients who are experiencing more acute symptoms of their mental illness. While in inpatient care the doctors, therapists and nurses work together to address the patient's disorder and work towards long-term recovery. After discharge from inpatient treatment, the patient continues care with the Partial Hospitalization Program or PHP.
Partial Hospitalization Program or PHP, is considered the highest level of outpatient treatment. PHP is a full day program that consists of group, individual, family and other various therapies. PHP is the follow up to inpatient treatment but can also be the starting point for another patient. Each patient is placed within different programs where it is deemed that they will receive the most amount of beneficial therapy.
Intensive Outpatient Program or IOP, is a half day program that helps patients transition to life outside of the program. It is often a follow-up to inpatient treatment and PHP. IOP offers group, individual and family therapy along with transitioning to daily routines. It is considered the lowest level of outpatient treatment for the program and transitions patients to life outside of treatment including setting up schedules and appointments with outside therapists and psychologists.
The center also includes an after care program which is a once a week group therapy session. This allows for continued group therapy alongside your individual outside therapist and doctors.
Each day started with our morning check-ins. With these, we described how we felt at the moment, any questions or concerns we had with medications or therapies and how our previous evenings had occurred. After check in, we had our one hour group therapy session which met daily. During these sessions anyone was free to talk about anything and everyone was allowed to talk, discuss and suggest ideas and solutions. After group therapy, we would either have expressive (art) therapy, music therapy, medication education, emotional regulation, or weekend planning depending on the day. The last hour before lunch, which was also the last hour for the IOP patients, was spent learning about different therapies, issues and ideas dealing with mental health or if you were fighting an addiction, learning about co-dependence on drugs and/or alcohol Many of these classes have given me ideas and information to use for posts.
After lunch the PHP program would continue with two more class periods. During the first class period, patients would learn about distress tolerance, cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT, expressive therapy and anger management. During the second class, patients learned about mindfulness skills, healthy alternatives, communication skills, expressive therapy, and interpersonal effectiveness. Expressive therapy is taught often because it allows patients to express how they feel in a safe environment. Please read Alternative Medications & Therapies for more information on expressive therapy. During the day, we are also pulled out by our doctors, therapists and APNs for meetings and check-ups.
At the end of the day, we would fill out our daily wrap up sheets, detailing how we felt and if we felt we could stay safe during the evening. After the program, our doctors, therapists and staff would meet to discuss our continuing treatment and eventual discharge.
The program I attended is an accredited program within the nation. But if you think you need more help than a weekly therapist appointment please check within your area for a program that can teach you to manage your mental illness.


Discussion in 'Air War in the Pacific' started by Ken The Kanuck, Dec 16, 2015.
police get lots of firearms training and practice......but I don't know how many times I've seen them miss a large man at close range that is barely moving or not at all ..
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/nyregion/firing-at-man-in-times-square-police-wound-two-bystanders.html?_r=0 here a large man missed!
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/nyregion/firing-at-man-in-times-square-police-wound-two-bystanders.html?_r=0 84 shots 83 misses !
how many times have you've seen a picture like this vehicle in above link?? rounds all over the place..or many shots fired and no kill shot??
''ew York City police statistics show that simply hitting a target, let alone hitting it in a specific spot, is a difficult challenge. In 2006, in cases where police officers intentionally fired a gun at a person, they discharged 364 bullets and hit their target 103 times, for a hit rate of 28.3 percent, according to the department's Firearms Discharge Report. The police shot and killed 13 people last year.
my math might be wrong, so please correct if so--whatever distance you are off at 25 yards, it's 4 times that at 100 yards? and that's without including the drop?
Police generally get terrible training and worse, they're handicapped with Glocks or similar firearms with awful triggers. Most cops aren't "gun guys" just guys issued a gun who only fire it annually to qualify. Cops that can shoot well, do so because they like to shoot and do so on their own time.
Again though, I'm not saying I necessarily believe it happened, just that it's plausible given the circumstances.
I'd say it's generally just habit rather than discipline or training. I don't know if Baggett came from a shooting family or if he ever discussed that, but good shooting is more familiarity than a course of intensive training. You need to pick up your gun and shoot it, a lot. When you do that, it becomes less a matter of discipline and focus and turns into simple muscle memory. I suppose it's like driving - take a guy like me who has spent the best part of his life driving in rural Alaska and turn me loose in downtown Phoenix and it takes every bit of my concentration and focus not to end up running over a Prius, while for people who drive there every day it's like taking a walk in the park.
In the same vein, turn me loose with a pistol and a golf ball and I'll keep it jumping until it's out of sight.
We don't know if Baggett was a skilled shooter or just got lucky, or if he brought the plane down at all. I just think given the circumstances as described, it's certainly possible.
I think much of what you and Bronk7 are debating is merely a matter of semantics. What he was describing with snapping in and discipline is basically a repetitive training process to instill muscle memory and make habitual, good marksmanship traits. Your stating good shooting is muscle memory and habit, same/same. I would disagree with "good shooting is more familiarity than a course of intensive training", most marksmanship instructors will tell you that it is easier to take someone that has never shot and make them an expert, than to take someone that has shot a lot, but has developed poor habits. The second case may initially be a decent shooter, but it is hard to make them into an excellent shooter. There is also a good amount of innate natural ability that can't be quantified, but is a factor. To some people it comes naturally and intuitively, it's how their brains are wired. They're the ones that with training and practice can become the exceptional ones. I've shot since I was old enough to hold a gun, fired expert during my time in the Marine Corps and Army, was even sent through a six week Special Operators Pistol Course, and still shoot a good bit. I'm a very good shot, I've worked with men that have insane skill levels, you watch them and think how the hell did they make that shot, (that's the innate natural ability I spoke of earlier, honed by years of training and practice). That said, I still doubt they could make the shot being discussed, unless lady luck stepped in.
Did we plan for this contingency or should we sue for peace now?
Video here a while back showed a ww2 US training video on the 1911. They shot a German helmet from x number of yards away (normal combat range) and it put a large dent in it.
If the plane were coming towards , straight on, the .45 would have to travel through the windscreen.
Maybe i missed (99 problems) the part where the pilot was shot through his open canopy from the side/above (while turning his head to view parachutist ?).
Actually, I'm playing the simulation, even though I did have to restart twice because of omissions/errors I had made and didn't catch in my sandbox tests. The plan we came up with in conjunction with Gebirgsjaeger (General Nishio) for China is working excellently. The new TOE's are working well, and allow for a lot of tactical flexibility. They'll also be more powerful once we have the weapons and trained personnel to implement the squad TOE. They did manage to infiltrate a large KMT formation down to the coast and attacked a position I didn't have heavily defended. I resisted the urge to alter our operations in order to deal with this threat and sent an armored infantry, light tank QRF that I had refitting to relieve them. I had two naval surface action groups training in the Pescadores and thought what the hell, I'll send them to bombard the enemy troop concentration. Figured I could at least destroy some of their supply and disrupt any impending assault, giving the QRF more time to get there. It had better effect than I expected and was going to repeat, but found out I had insufficient port facilities and naval support forces to reload the 14" guns. Sent some engineers (to improve the port facilities) and additional naval support personnel to remedy the situation in the future. In the meantime I sent them to Shanghai where they married up with some AKE's I sent from Kagoshima, reloaded and returned. I have a longer turn around than from the Pescadores, but it is brutally effective. The poor Commonwealth troops on the coast of Malaysia are in for a beating when that balloon goes up. I'm running my BB's through in pairs now just practicing on the poor Nationalist troops that are now trapped. Building proficiency.
I do spend about 90% of my time on logistical fine tuning and industrial management, I'm gearing up the economy to full wartime footing, it's a calculated risk because I'm drawing down war stockpiles very quickly. If I take 65% or so of my SRA objectives as planned without appreciable delays I should be in good shape.
There was a second shooter, and he was on the grassy knoll. That's the guy that shot the pilot in the head.
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The A6M did not have bullet proof glass installed at this time. The first A6M with bullet proof glass on the center windscreen would be the A6M5b Model 52-Otsu.
100 mph is ~145 ft/sec. The round will take .3 seconds to travel 75m. The plane will have traveled ~44 ft in that time bringing it ~30 ft closer and 30 ft tangential. I suspect however that the plane would have been flying a significantly lesser angle if the pilot wanted to make sure that he had shot the parachutist. Likely he would try to pass slightly to one side and below him. That could significantly decrease the amount of lead. I've seen people shoot small birds with a BB gun that would probably be harder shots. In any case I suspect that he wasn't shooting at the pilot but at the plane. From the description he had already planned what he was going to do before he would have known that the cockpit was open.
I'm with LWD, there is not a single suggestion in the story that he shot at a 45 degree angle. In fact, just the opposite - one of the few solid statements in the tale is that he took four shots and scored on the last shot. So, he was shooting at an approaching plane, a shallow angle. If not approaching, he doesn't have time to take four shots. I'll also point out that handgun training then, was one-handed with the pistol extended out straight armed, something he could do even with his left arm wounded. In fact, my old man, a WWII vet, taught me to shoot that way and I didn't do it differently until the USCG made me adopt the modern Weaver stance. So, he had every opportunity to shoot just as everyone shot pistols in that day.
One of the few other statements about the event is that the pilot had his canopy back and was coming in to verify he'd killed Baggett. Well, no way anyone is going slide the canopy back at 200 or 250 miles per hour, so he's making a slow pass which is something else that nudges it into possible.
I'll use the same analogy I used earlier. If I stand on the shoulder of a road with a car approaching a few lanes over at 100 miles per hour and I'm supposed to kill the driver... Well, that driver is going to be dead, likely on the first or second shot. Baggett, was dangling from a parachute which complicates the shot, but he had four opportunities so entirely plausible.
I remember reading an account, I think from North Africa, of a mortar dropping a round into the open hatch of a German tank (possibly a Tiger). That would seam to me to be at least on the same order of difficulty. If the tank was moving it would be even more difficult.
Well to make your analogy work you'd need to fire after jumping off the trailor of a tractor trailor truck driving at 12-15 miles an hour to simulate rate of descent and lateral drift. Don't have a clue how to simulate oscilation which would vary.
In my vagrant yoot, I made four (or three?) civilian jumps from a training place outside of Monroe, Michigan. I didn't pursue it because I couldn't really afford it, but back then in your training jumps you weren't strapped to a trainer, you just jumped on your own. Me and my buddy went through the mock landings - we jumped and rolled off of a four foot platform, etc. It was all pretty casual in those days. At any rate, I did the jumps in very mild weather - trainees could only jump when it was basically windless, so I recall making two or three trips for each jump. We'd drive all the way out there and the wind would just be slightly too high for people who didn't have the qual. At any rate, the training jumps had no free-fall, you just jumped and pulled the cord from whatever altitude it was - I don't recall how high that was - 5000 feet? There's a jerk and some oscillation, as you say, but then you just settle into a slow descent. I recall my buddy and I yakking back and forth and pointing at landmarks and places we knew. Your arms are completely free and you don't even feel the descent - more like hanging from a balloon. It's not until you get close to the ground and see the approach that you remember that you are descending and pull left or right to try and hit the marked spot, not that it mattered in those open corn fields around there.
I just don't think the parachute descent would be that big a deal, as long as the weather was mild. More like shooting out of an open elevator, if the conditions were good.
I've got over 100 jumps with military canopies, 5 of which are with the WWII era T-7, which should be similar to the canopy of a WWII aircrew chute. The reason you felt like you were floating is you have no frame of reference, that's why it seems the ground rushes up and smacks you. You don't sense it but that doesn't change the fact that you are moving vertically at a pretty fast clip. You also can't perceive your lateral drift because of no frame of reference. In your analogy you're stationary and all movement is by the target on a horizontal axis. In the incident we are discussing you have both the target and the shooter moving in both the horizontal and vertical simultaneously. In the analogy the shooter has frame of reference to judge speed, distance, closure rate, etc. of the target, not so in the actual event. And again you're standing still in the analogy, not moving at an unperceived rate of decent or lateral, diagonal movement. The brain uses a lot of incoming data to calculate a shot, if the data isn't present or improperly perceived it effects the shot placement. One of the reasons its harder to shoot at night, range estimation is inhibited, targets can appear closer or further away than they actually are.


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Q: Set else clause for promise if not possible to execute I currently have a service that gets the user's current location coordinates when they first run my app.
However, if it isn't enabled, I would like the location coordinates to default to null, until the function setLatLng is executed, which attempts to derive the user's geocode using the Google Maps API (this hasn't been implemented yet).
The problem I am currently having is creating an error clause for my promise (i.e. nothing has been found so set lat and lng to null). How would I resolve this?
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  function currentLocation() {

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    var opts = {
      timeout: 10000,
      enableHighAccuracy: false
    };

    $cordovaGeolocation.getCurrentPosition(opts).then(function success(position) {
      q.resolve(position.coords);
    }, function error(err) {
      q.reject(err);
    })

    return q.promise;
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controller.js
 function HomeCtrl($scope, $cordovaGeolocation, LocationService) {

   LocationService.currentLocation().then(function success(res) {
    $scope.lat = res.latitude;
    $scope.lng = res.longitude;
   })

   $scope.setLatLng = setLatLng;

   function setLatLng($scope) {
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     //$scope.lng = 0.0;

     console.log(lat);
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A: services.js
function LocationService($q, $cordovaGeolocation) {
  var scope = this;
  scope.currentLocation = currentLocation;

  function currentLocation() {
    var opts = {
      timeout: 10000,
      enableHighAccuracy: false
    };

    return $cordovaGeolocation.getCurrentPosition(opts).then(function success(position) {
        return position.coords;
    }, function error(err) {
        return null; // this will waterfall into the next then().
    });
  }
}

controller.js
function HomeCtrl($scope, $cordovaGeolocation, LocationService) {
    LocationService.currentLocation().then(function (res) {
        if (res !== null) {
           $scope.lat = res.latitude;
           $scope.lng = res.longitude;
        } else {

        }
    })

    $scope.setLatLng = setLatLng;

    function setLatLng($scope) {
        // attempt to set lat lng here
        //$scope.lat = 0.0;
        //$scope.lng = 0.0;

        console.log(lat);
    }
}

So one key thing here is that you can return promises without having to create new ones in order to chain them!
When you return a value from either success or fail function, the chained then() will pick up both returns. If you want to have a subsequent fail function picked up you need to throw in the first fail function. Like so:
return $cordovaGeolocation.getCurrentPosition(opts).then(function (position) {
    return position.coords;
}, function error(err) {
    throw 'no coords';
});