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Gayland Bradford Scheduled to be Executed in Texas on Wednesday, June 1
By Texas Moratorium Network On May 29, 2011 · 7 Comments · In Uncategorized
Texas is planning to carry out the first of its four scheduled June executions on Wednesday June 1 when Gayland Bradford is scheduled for execution. Bradford lost an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court last week. If the execution is not stayed, Bradford will be the fourth person executed in Texas in 2011 and the 468th person executed in Texas since 1982. He will be the 229th person executed in Texas since Rick Perry became governor.
To express your opposition to Gayland Bradford's execution and to state your opinion on the Texas death penalty, call Governor Rick Perry at 512-463-2000.
Rick Perry is considering running for president of the United States. Perry's death penalty enthusiasm will probably be a liability for him in many parts of the country where the governor is expected to exercise his executive powers in a more responsible manner than Perry did in the case of Todd Willingham.
Bradford was scheduled to be executed on October 14, 2010, but he received a stay of execution. Bradford was convicted of the shooting death of 29-year-old Brian Williams during a robbery of a food store in Dallas.
June Executions Scheduled in Texas
On June 1, Gayland Bradford is scheduled for execution.
On June 15, John Balentine is scheduled for execution.
On June 16, Taylor Lee is scheduled for execution.
On June 21, Milton Mathis is scheduled for execution.
7 Responses to Gayland Bradford Scheduled to be Executed in Texas on Wednesday, June 1
ageckle says:
No reason to contact Gov. Perry for a reprieve. This POS should be executed. He did the crime and now it's time to go face-to-face with the ultimate judge!
Serves him right.
Hey Ben, maybe you'll get to like the Air Force, zooming all over the sky and shouting ROGER and WILCO and everything. Maybe it won't be so bad.
Put him down and do it now.
No more appeals, no mercy for this piece of human detritus.
Gayland Bradford deserves a much more painfull death than the one he will receive tonight.
An animal like him that would shoot a young man in the back does not deserve a place in this world. I hope there is an after-life where this POS can get his true reward.
Brian was a kind liberal kid that needed a job and wanted to help the community. He did not deserve to die that way. I blame Dallas politics more than anything.
Stop the execution now…. before it's too late…. OOPS….
Texas Moratorium Network (TMN) is a non-profit organization with the primary goal of mobilizing statewide support for a moratorium on executions in Texas. Significant death penalty reform in Texas, including a moratorium on executions, is a viable goal if the public is educated on the death penalty system and is encouraged to contact their elected representatives to urge passage of moratorium legislation.
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Execution Vigils
Huntsville - Corner of 12th Street and Avenue I (in front of the Walls Unit) at 5:00 p.m.
Austin - At the Texas Capitol on the sidewalk on 11th Street facing Congress Avenue from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.
Beaumont - Diocese of Beaumont, Diocesan Pastoral Office, 703 Archie St. @ 4:00 p.m. on the day of an execution.
College Station - 6 to 7 PM on execution days, corner of Texas Avenue and University Drive.
Corpus Christi - at 6 PM in front of Incarnate Word Convent at 2910 Alameda Street
Dallas - 6 pm, SMU Catholic Center, 3057 University Blvd (University Blvd. and Airline Rd)
Houston - To learn location or if a stay has been granted before you come out, call Burnham Terrell, 713/921-0948.
Lewisville - St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 1897 W. Main Street. Peace & Justice Ministry conducts Vigils of Witness Against Capital Punishment at 6:00 pm on the day executions are scheduled in Texas.
McKinney - St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Community located at 110 St. Gabriel Way. We gather the last Sunday of the month, following the 11:00 Mass to pray for those men/women scheduled to be executed in the next month and to remember the victims, their families, and all lives touched, including us as a society.
San Antonio (Site 1) - Archdiocese of San Antonio, in the St. Joseph Chapel at the Chancery, 2718 W. Woodlawn Ave. (1 mile east of Bandera Rd.) at 11:30 a.m. on the day of execution. Broadcast on Catholic Television of San Antonio (Time-Warner cable channel 15) at 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on the day of execution.
San Antonio (Site 2) - Main Plaza across from Bexar County Courthouse and San Fernando Cathedral - Noon
Spring - Prayer Vigil at 6 PM on evenings of executions at St Edward Catholic Community, 2601 Spring Stuebner Rd for the murder victim, for family and friends of the murder victim, the prison guards and correctional officers, for the family of the condemn man/woman, for the man/woman to be executed and to an end to the death penalty.


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Socar & Turcas Oil Refinery
$5bn
10 million tons per annum
Socar & Turcas Refining
Foster Wheeler, Technip Benelux, KTI, Axens and UOP
A greenfield refinery is being built in a joint venture by the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Socar) and Turcas Energy in Aliaga, Turkey. The JV formed a subsidiary called Socar & Turcas Refining in 2008 to carry out the project.
The new refinery will cover an area of 13,750 acres. It will have an annual crude processing capacity of ten million tons (mt) and 214,000 barrels per stream day (bpsd). About $5bn is being invested in the refinery.
The refinery will produce mainly light naphtha, LPG and diesel. Mixed xylenes, jet fuel, high reformate and coke will also be produced.
The Socar-Turcas JV received the construction licence from the state regulator of Turkey's Energy Market, Socar in July 2010. Construction of the refinery is expected to start in 2012 and be completed by 2014.
Feasibility study completed by Technip
The environmental impact assessment report for the refinery was approved by the Turkish Government in December 2009. The conceptual design of the refinery was carried out by UOP in 2009, and the preliminary feasibility study was completed in July 2009 by Technip.
"The new refinery will cover an area of 13,750 acres."
Construction is expected to start after completion of ongoing engineering studies. Around 7,000 to 10,000 people are expected to be involved in the construction of the plant. Once operational, the refinery will generate around 1,000 jobs.
Crude and vacuum distillation
The refinery will include crude and vacuum distillation units, a 40,000bpsd delayed coker unit and a 28,000bpsd continuous catalytic reformer. It will also include naphtha hydrotreating units, a 66,000bpsd hydrocracker and LPG caustic treatment units, kerosene and diesel hydrotreaters, a saturated gas unit and sulphur and tail-gas treatment units. An amine and sour-water stripper and a 160,000-normal-m³/hr hydrogen unit will also form part of the refinery.
In March 2010, the Socar & Turcas JV signed the front end engineering and design (FEED) contract with Foster Wheeler. The FEED study will be carried out by Foster's global engineering and construction Group.
The JV has also signed agreements with five companies to provide engineering and licence services for various units at the refinery.
"Heavy crude can be converted into value added products."
These companies are France-based Axens, UOP, Foster Wheeler, Technip Benelux and Italy-based KTI. Foster Wheeler will be responsible for the engineering and design of the coker, which will use the company's SYDEC technology.
A project management consultancy is expected to be chosen for the project towards the end of 2010.
The engineering, procurement and construction contracts are expected to be awarded in 2011.
Thermal conversion technology
Foster's SYDEC technology is a thermal conversion process used to convert heavy crude oil into high-value products. The technology helps to maximise the production of clean liquid and minimise the production of fuel coke derived from high sulphur residues.
Using this technology enables both companies to maximise their profits. Compared with light and sweet crude, heavy crude oil is sold at a lower price. By using SYDEC technology, heavy crude can be processed easily and converted into value added products.
"Four millions tons of naphtha and fuel oil will be provided to Petkim."
Diesel and jet fuel sales
The new refinery will be integrated within the Petkim Petrochemical complex in Aliaga. Its ability to then provide raw material to Petkim was a leading factor in planning of the site by Socar – a majority shareholder in the petrochemical company.
About four millions ton of naphtha and fuel oil will be provided to Petkim to fulfil its raw material needs.
The refinery's remaining products, such as diesel and jet fuel, will be sold in Turkey and Europe. Petkim currently purchases naphtha from Tupras.
Petkim infrastructure
The new refinery is being built in the Petkim petrochemical plant as it can supply essential raw materials directly to the complex. Choosing this location also saves 30% in investment costs as the infrastructure is already in place.

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Everywhere you travel, be sure to eat the local food. Food is one of the most exciting and immersive ways to understand a particular place's flavor and way of life. To understand a new culture, you must taste their cooking. Food - and all of the surrounding rituals and traditions - can always tell us a little something about the culture. Social structure is reflected through the ways in which food is prepared, served, and consumed.
For eons, meals have been a defining feature of human cultures. It is our life force how we consume and what we consume, is different across the globe and largely defined by cultural upbringing. Food plays a large role in defining family roles and cultural traditions shape our mealtime mannerisms. Social values, belief systems, age old customs, and gender roles are all expressed through food.
For decades anthropologists have looked at the ways in which social relations are expressed through food. Researchers at the Orebro University in Sweden found that trying new foods is essential understanding a place's cultural identity. Food can even be political (tell that to your mom next time she tells you to hush up about the election during a holiday dinner).
Some of the most scrumptious comfort foods were developed out necessity in times of poverty. Many regions around the world have traditional home cooked meals that seem hodgepodged together with leftover ingredients. Some of the most expensive and fancy-shamcy foods today used to be considered 'peasant food.' Take lobsters, for instance, they used to be fed to prisoners and the poorest working class.
When you choose your next meal when traveling, slow down to enjoy it and savor the exotic flavors and unique tastes. If you are willing to partake in a new dining ritual, you might just find that you like it and want to bring the tradition home. And, for the love of all that is delicious, do not take a course on an "exotic cuisine" and then whitesplain that food as if you're the expert. Food is cultural and to try and separate it is disrespectful appropriation. Plus, you turn a rich history into a dull fad and that's no fun at all.
I love to eat, but I wasn't always an adventurous diner. When I was younger, nothing could make me eat a cooked carrot or broccoli. I wouldn't have touched a mushroom, let alone try something I'd never heard of before. Travel changed all of that for me. I began venturing away from my bland and basic diet because I didn't want to see the world and only consume McDonald's while doing it. If you travel around the world without indulging in local delicacies, you are missing out on the beauty that is food diversity.


The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center's Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry was awarded $1.8 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue to participate in the NCI's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program. The Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry has provided incidence and survival data on all cases of cancer in Hawaiʻi since 1973. The award includes a potential of additional nine years of funding for a total award of more than $21 million.
"The UH Cancer Center's Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry plays a vital role in cancer research and cancer control activities in Hawaiʻi and nationally. The registry is particularly notable for its contribution to addressing the burden of cancer in Asian and Pacific Island ethnic groups that are not well-represented in the U.S.," said Brenda Hernandez, PhD, MPH, Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry principal investigator.
As one of only 16 newly funded NCI-SEER regions nationwide, the Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry collects detailed information on the more than 7,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed in Hawaiʻi residents annually, as well as follow-up and survival data. Since its inception as a SEER registry in 1973, the Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry's surveillance has covered approximately 200,000 Hawaii cancer cases.
"For nearly 50 years, the Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry has provided valuable insight that informs cancer prevention and research efforts, especially in Asian American and Pacific Islander populations. This federal funding will allow the Cancer Center to continue this important work toward developing new treatments, and eventually, a cure," said U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono.
The Hawaiʻi Tumor Registry maintains a confidential database of information on all reportable cases of cancer, benign brain tumors, many blood disorders and other reportable "neoplasms" diagnosed in Hawaiʻi , and data are published to inform local prevention and control efforts, as well as national and international research efforts. Founded in 1960, the Registry is jointly operated by the UH Cancer Center and the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health.
The Registry's database contains more cancer cases of Native Hawaiians than any other registry nationwide. It also contains sizable numbers of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Pacific Islanders and Whites, including smaller numbers of other ethnic groups. This racially-diverse and unique population resource has been invaluable in demonstrating ethnic variations in cancer incidence and survival. The database information is used by cancer control partners, hospitals, researchers, physicians and many others.
Since 1973, the Registry has been a coveted and founding member of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER), the nation's cancer surveillance and reporting system and it receives its primary financial support from the National Institute's of Health, National Cancer Institute (NCI). HTR is also recognized as a high-quality central cancer registry, receiving GOLD standard awards from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) on an annual basis.


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EU court: UK must continue to accept asylum seekers until Brexit is official
The European Court of Justice ruled today that the United Kingdom must continue to accept asylum seekers in accordance with European Union law up to the point that Brexit becomes official.
The case stems from a family of three seeking asylum in Ireland. Originally, the family lived in the UK under a student visa for one parent and a dependent visa for the other parent. When the school closed down, both the student and the dependent visa expired. After their visas expired, the family moved to Ireland and filed for asylum there.
Under the Dublin III Regulation, asylum applications are usually handled by the first country the applicants entered the EU through. When Ireland sought to move the case to the UK, the family contested on the grounds of the UK invoking Article 50 TEU. Article 50 governs how an EU member state can withdraw from the union.
The High Court of Ireland issued a stay of proceedings in order to ask the European Court of Justice if invoking Article 50 precludes a current member state of its duties under the Dublin III Regulation. The Court of Justice said it did not.
The Court takes the view that the fact that a Member State, in this case the United Kingdom, which is designated as responsible within the meaning of the Dublin III Regulation, has notified its intention to withdraw from the EU in accordance with Article 50 TEU does not oblige the determining Member State, in this case Ireland, itself to examine, under the discretionary clause, the application for international protection.
Therefore, the UK remains bound by the Dublin III Regulations until Brexit is official.
(Published by Reuters, January 23, 2019)
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Let us have a look at Matthew 24:37-42 and see what JESUS says about who is taken? and who is left? We will also loot at the corresponding verses in Luke as well.
The first mistake people have made in the belief that if you are right with GOD. You will be the one that is taken. This is because they start at verses 40 and do not refer to the previous verses, from verse 37. Why do they do this? It is because their doctrine would not hold up if they started from verse 37. This is done with a lot of doctrines in the Christian religion. Let us have a look at where they start.
From these verses (40, 41), we can come up with any theory. Take for example the secret rapture theory. It is where people will be going about their everyday life and all of a sudden the driver of the bus is gone! The person that you are talking to in the street is suddenly gone! The pilot is gone! You get the idea. Hollywood has made movies out of this. First, how can you believe in movies anyway? It does not even matter if a 'Christian' made the movies. It takes you away from prayer and studying the Bible. Also it takes you away from doing the work that GOD has for you to do.
It is very dangerous to take a couple of verses out of the Bible and then to build a theory around the.
Let us have a look from verse 37 and see if we get a different story from the one above.
JESUS first starts off with Noah (Noe). We all know the story of Noah. How the flood came and destroyed the animals, plants and people. He links the story of Noah to when He is going to come back.
So the people were not bothered with the warning from Noah. The building of the ark did not bother them anymore. They just carried on with life as normal. The problem came when Noah entered into the ark. Now the people saw the animals enter in on their own. They saw the door of the ark closed.
Then after seven days they started to worry when the rain came!
Here is the verse that we need to pay attention to! The flood came and took them away! Who was taken? The wicked. Who was left? Noah and his family were left in the ark. The rest of the people died in the flood. They were taken away!
Now let us look at the verses where the people that believe differently start. Let us see if we now get a different picture. Just remember that changing beliefs is very hard. Only JESUS that is the truth can help us to get over the false theories, doctrines and teachings that we have all been taught!
Now, who is taken? You see, we can come up with another theory than what JESUS was teaching. Then that would be a false doctrine! JESUS said in verses 37-39 that it was the wicked that were taken. Who is left? The righteous are left for JESUS to take to Heaven. These are the people that will be caught up to meet JESUS in the air. The righteous will be left!
You see how dangerous it is not to read the verses above to see if the person that you are listening to, or reading is telling the truth!
You have to compare these verses (40-41) to the rest of the story of Noah. You can't separate them!
Now in Luke 17 people will start at verse 34. This is incorrect as the story starts with Noah in verses 26 and then moves onto Lot's wife in verse 28. So JESUS has added more to the story than He said in Matthew.
Again a comparison to Noah and when JESUS second coming.
Now JESUS moves over to Lot and his story.
Who was taken? The wicked were taken away. Destroyed! Who was left? Lot and his family.
JESUS says that it will be the same when He comes back. So who is taken? And who is left?
JESUS has added something extra into His story from Matthew. We must not look at our earthly things otherwise we too will be destroyed. Taken away!
These verses are to be compared to the rest of the story from Noah to Lot. Only then can we make a correct interpretation of what JESUS is telling us!


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Home Europe Everton and Wolves face new competition in race for young defender –...
Everton and Wolves face new competition in race for young defender – Club have him 'top of the list'
By Lucas Sposito -
Portuguese newspaper Record features today a big story about Jean-Clair Todibo. The defender is said to be 'on top of the list' of signings which Benfica plan to make this summer.
The 20-year-old spent last season on loan at Schalke 04, and has since returned to Barcelona, with whom he has a contract until 2023.
Record says Benfica won't have an easy task to sign the player, since there's a big competition from the likes of Everton, Fenerbahçe and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
The newspaper writes that it was first the Toffees and Wolves who made their approaches asking for the conditions for the signing. Then the Turkish side joined the race.
Even though the Eagles have been following him since January, they're still to make a move.
The report claims the Todibo isn't staying at Barcelona due to the big fight for a place in the team.
However, there's no information on how much he'd cost. All they say is that the Catalan side demanded €25m for Schalke 04 to keep him, and that's why the Bundesliga side gave up on the signing.
If that is all they are asking for, then Everton and Wolves shouldn't have too much of a problem meeting that.
First, however, they'll probably want to finish the Premier League campaign before delving into the complicated and frustrating world of making offers for players.
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Physical Data: mp 68-70 °C; [a]rtD = 14.6° (c = 1.18, CHCl3).
Solubility: sol all common organic solvents.
Form Supplied in: colorless crystalline solid.
Preparative Method: the commercial glycine N-methylamide hydrochloride is converted to the racemic imidazolidinone (2) by imine formation with Pivalaldehyde and cyclization under acidic conditions (eq 1).1,2 The mandelate salt of like configuration is less soluble and is used for highly efficient resolution; subsequent treatment with Boc anhydride (Di-t-butyl Dicarbonate) gives the enantiomeric Boc-BMI (1) (eq 2).
Handling, Storage, and Precautions: stable in a bottle at rt for years.
Reactions of Boc-BMI with Electrophiles.
The enolate of Boc-BMI is generated with Lithium Diisopropylamide in THF at -75 °C; the resulting solutions of this highly nucleophilic reagent are stable up to 0 °C. All reactions occur from the face of the enolate trans to the t-Bu group at C(2). Alkylations1,3-6 even with secondary alkyl halides are so efficient, to give (3), that one-pot double alkylations, which yield (4), are possible; the sequence in which two different alkyl halides are employed determines the absolute configuration of the a-branched a-amino acids eventually obtained.
The method has been used to prepare isotopically labelled amino acids.3,7 While Boc-BMI enolate adds to aldehydes with only moderate diastereoselectivity, reduction of the acylation products (5) gives allothreonine derivatives (6).8 Michael additions to a,b-unsaturated esters,9 ketones,10 and nitro compounds1 lead to products of type (7) and (8) (for a general discussion see Suzuki and Seebach9).
Preparation of and Michael Addition to 5-Alkylidene Boc-BMI.
Hydrolysis to Nonproteinogenic Amino Acids.
Chiral Imidazolidinones with Other Substitution Patterns.
Other Synthetic Building Blocks from Boc-BMI.
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2. Seebach, D.; Fitzi, R. Ger. Patent 3 604 591, 1986 (CA 1988, 108, 94 944j).
3. Seebach, D.; Dziadulewicz, E.; Behrendt, L.; Cantoreggi, S.; Fitzi, R. LA 1989, 1215.
4. (a) Seebach, D.; Gees, T.; Schuler, F. LA 1993, 785. (b) Studer, A.; Seebach, D. LA 1995, 217.
5. Müller, W.; Lowe, D. A.; Neijt, H.; Urwyler, S.; Herrling, P. L.; Blaser, D.; Seebach, D. HCA 1992, 75, 855.
6. Morton, M. E.; Leanna, M. R. TL 1993, 34, 4481; Hawthorne, M. F. AG 1993, 105, 997.
7. Lemaire, C.; Plenevaux, A.; Cantineau, R.; Christiaens, L.; Guillaume, M.; Comar, D. Appl. Radiat. Isot. 1993, 44, 737.
8. Blank, S.; Seebach, D. LA 1993, 889.
10. Seebach, D.; Pfammatter, E.; Gramlich, V.; Bremi, T.; Kühnle, F.; Portmann, S.; Tironi, I. LA 1992, 1145.
11. Zimmermann, J.; Seebach, D. HCA 1987, 70, 1104.
12. Schickli, C. P.; Seebach, D. LA 1991, 655 (CA 1991, 115, 72 163w). Seebach, D.; Bürger, H. M.; Schickli, C. P. LA 1991, 669 (CA 1991, 115, 72 164x).
13. Polt, R.; Seebach, D. JACS 1989, 111, 2622.
14. Amoroso, R.; Cardillo, G.; Tomasini, C. TL 1990, 31, 6413.
15. Seebach, D.; Miller, D. D.; Müller, S.; Weber, T. HCA 1985, 68, 949. Seebach, D.; Juaristi, E.; Miller, D. D.; Schickli, C. P.; Weber, T. HCA 1987, 70, 237.
16. Lowe, C.; Pu, Y.; Vederas, J. C. JOC 1992, 57, 10.
17. Juaristi, E.; Rizo, B.; Natal, V.; Escalante, J.; Regla, I. TA 1991, 2, 821.
18. Coggins, P.; Simpkins, N. S. SL 1991, 515.
19. Pfammatter, E.; Seebach, D. LA 1991, 1323.


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Twin Pines infests 16th-century Seville with a host of VFX for 'La Peste
by Michael Burns · Published April 25, 2018 · Updated April 25, 2018
Twin Pines' team of 35 VFX artists created over 500 shots for the hugely successful Spanish TV series La Peste (The Plague). The Madrid-based VFX studio worked over a period of ten months on the Movistar+ production, set in 16th-century Seville. Created by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos, the first season of The Plague, consisting of six 50-minute episodes broke viewing records and is the costliest TV series ever made in Spain.
Twin Pines started working on the project long before shooting began. An initial phase of contextualisation, followed by execution, took up to ten months. "One of the biggest technical problems we came across was that, unlike other productions we had done before, we worked in different sets in which the cameras moved freely in 360 degrees", recalled Juanma Nogales, VFX supervisor at Twin Pines. "Using immersive techniques, we had to insert the computer-generated elements."
Nogales is speaking at FMX in Stuttgart this week, discussing the use of Nuke Studio in making La Peste. The Foundry's software played an instrumental role in the project, enabling VFX, editing and finishing as well as compositing major digital set extensions and CG backgrounds. The whole process generated around 50TB of data for VFX and over 19,500 hours of rendering.
One of the most complex parts to replicate was the port of Seville, one of the most important in the world at that time. Twin Pines solved the problem by recording several images of the Guadalquivir river around the area of the Isleta in Coria del Río, which was then digitally enhanced to achieve an result faithful to history. The team at Twin Pines also had to model the ships and galleons in the port in 3D, which were then integrated into the different scenes.
CG crowds were also a major feature of the production. In one of the episodes, 15,000 people were recreated, after digitally scanning 100 extras and their clothing, to fill a massive space.
At the beginning of the first episode, the main character appears on horseback looking down on Seville from a distance. In fact, the character was on a horse in front of a green screen situated on a hill overlooking a motorway and then composited into the completely 16th-century CG Seville countryside.
According to Twin Pines, the biggest challenge was digitally recreating the city of Seville of the period with the same historical gravity as a history documentary. To this end, throughout the production process the team worked alongside historical advisors, documentary makers and an art director for VFX.
The development of visual layers and the creation of 3D CGI elements relied heavily on maps, etchings and paintings from the period. A large part of the buildings and monuments that feature in the series are not actually from Seville, but instead use similar buildings as references, many of which were photographed and rebuilt in 3D, such as the cathedral, the city walls, the poor quarters, the city gates and St George''s Castle.
"The job of reconstructing the city was formidable, given that there is practically nothing existing today of 16th-century Seville", explained Juanma Nogales. "It required a painstaking process combining historical seriousness with aesthetic taste. And that's where the collaboration between all the different teams came in: art [Pepe Domínguez], make-up [Yolanda Piña], photography [Pau Esteve], VFX [Juan Ventura, Juanma Nogales], and postproduction [José Moyano, Iván Benjumea]. Unless everybody is on the same page, working in the same direction, such an ambitious production as The Plague would not have been possible. And the results are there for everyone to see."
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Housebuilder George Wimpey counted the cost of last year's weaker housing market to reveal a 16 per cent fall in full-year profits.
Housebuilder George Wimpey counted the cost of last year's weaker housing market to reveal a 16 per cent fall in full-year profits.
The group said pretax profits for 2005 slumped from a record £437.6 million in 2004 to £366.5 million last year after its UK business suffered from increased incentives to promote sales in a weak market.
But Wimpey looked to a stronger 2006 after a rally towards to the end of last year showed signs of continuing.
It also announced that chief executive Peter Johnson will retire on June 30 to be succeeded by his deputy Peter Redfern.
That further fuelled sector consolidation speculation surrounding the firm.
The company, which has been tipped as a potential bid target for rivals Solihull-based Taylor Woodrow and Barratt Development, said, however, it would focus on organic growth.
Although Wimpey struggled in the UK, its US arm Morrison Homes benefited from another strong year.
Group turnover was up one per cent to £3 billion as a five per cent sales fall in the UK was offset by a 20 per cent increase in the US.
But a 64 per cent jump in operating profits at Morrison was not enough to make up for the 32 per cent decline at Wimpey as lower prices and fewer sales took their toll on group earnings.
Completions in the UK fell from 12,232 in 2004 to 12,100 last year, while the average selling price was down from £185,300 to £178,000.
In the Midlands George Wimpey has offices at Cannock, Wolverhampton, Solihull and Leicester, with nearly 600 people employed.
It has housing schemes across the region - in Birmingham they include Nightingale Gardens, Kings Norton, a mixed development of 164 homes on the site of a former hospital; The Mall, Erdington, a 200 unit mixed scheme; The Observatory, Erdington, 46 one and two bed apartments; and The Vineyard, Acocks Green, 75 new properties made up of luxury apartments, mews style homes and detached houses on a former laundry.
Other sites include Saltsiford Gate, Warwick; The Pavilions, Rugby; Forgemill, Rugeley; Hamilton Court, Wednesfield; Bratton Village, Telford; Kingsmede, Shrewsbury; The Grange, Nuneaton; Birchfields, Tipton; and Meadow View, Market Drayton.
Daimler Green, Coventry, is a major 58 acres urban re-generation site being developed with Advantage West Midlands for 600 new homes.
Developments are about to start at Dudley Port and Coventry City Football Club's former ground at Highfield Road.
Wimpey's core private housing business was hardest hit last year although its smaller affordable houses saw sales completions jump 48 per cent and prices improve ten per cent.
Overall margins fell from 18 per cent to 12.9 per cent after incentives and price reductions were used to attract buyers in the softer market.
Wimpey chairman John Robinson said: "Market conditions weakened considerably during the second half of 2004. This trend continued throughout most of 2005.
"The traditional strong spring selling season remained subdued and the market was slow but steady for much of the year.
"Customers were generally cautious, taking longer to commit to their purchase and, as a result of the material reduction in total housing transactions, often experienced delays in selling their existing homes."
But he was more upbeat about Wimpey's prospects for 2006.
Mr Robinson added: "In the UK, the improvement we experienced at the end of 2005 has continued and we remain encouraged by growing signs of returning buyer confidence.
"Although it is too early to predict the market for the year, the level of transactions in the first seven weeks of the new year has started to increase, and in some areas we are reducing incentives."
But brokers Panmure Gordon Securities were less sure.
They stated: "We expect further weakening in UK operating margin in 2006 and Wimpey's cost inflation to outstrip net house prices in a competitive market. In the absence of material volume growth, we are forecasting a further fall in UK EBIT (earnings before interest and tax)."
In the US Wimpey indicated fears that the housing market may be set to slow.
The market, which has broken sales and construction records with prices up more than 55 per cent nationwide, appears to be cooling, and concern is mounting that house price rises in some cities have created a bubble that could pop.
Wimpey has proposed a dividend of 17.6 pence per share, up ten per cent from a year earlier.


It's a lovely morning as I write this from up in Montreal, Quebec, sipping my morning SUTRA, and expressing gratitude for the work I get to do day in and day out. Be sure to check out my Insta Story to see more from this beautiful city!
Ryan has a unique path to rarified air. He started as a flight attendant while still in college as a way to pay the bills and see the world at a young age. He met an executive of Microsoft on a flight one day which launched him into a career in Marketing for some of the worlds largest and fastest growing companies. Now he's the CMO at G2Crowd, a software reviews site that just raised $50 million in venture funding and seems to be the next big time in B2B tech. His story is fun, but also methodical in his ascension into Marketing leadership.
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I know, it's a bit dark, but I heard this line used when speaking to someone about starting a company. Over the past decade, more and more people from outside of my tech circles have come to me with "ideas".
Then nothing else happens. They don't do anything real, because people love to romanticize about starting a company, and being on the cover of Forbes, and making a ton of money. Most of the time they don't realize, until they sit, and really think about how much work actually goes into it. How much money you'll need, or regulatory issues you'll have to fight, or even growth or balance in the marketplace if you decide to build a Yelp competitor, for example. You wasted your $2500.
"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die" exemplifies this romantification and then having to do the actual work for the next decade or more. staring at a 99% failure rate and potentially no income for that time frame.
I have some advice here, but you'll have to check out the Career Hacking book and podcast for low hanging fruit ways to actually start businesses.
What it costs to build your ideal lifestyle. I usually write this section but the legend, Tim Ferriss, summed it up so perfectly that I'll just link to his article here, https://tim.blog/lifestyle-costing/.
I just got into drinking this water or soda alternative called hint. We will be having the CEO, Kara Goldin, (who is an Arizona State alum) on the podcast in the next few weeks so I tried the product and now I'm hooked. The Watermelon one is my favorite. La Croix used to be my go-to water/soda alternative, now I find myself stocking the fridge with both.
It's mostly tropical, chill, or normal house music, but this is my 2018 playlist. My favorite three songs to start the summer off right are Wonder – Adventure Club, One More Day – Afrojack, Breathe (BRKLYN remix) – Mako.
I have a playlist on Spotify for 2017 and 2016 as well. It's just a list of songs that I add to over the year. Follow me on Spotify or check out the 2018 tunes here! I also have a killer R&B playlist from mostly 90s and early 2000s tunes. Check it out if you're into that sort of thing.
The number one skill I wanted to work on this year was my communication. My communication as a leader, boss, colleague, friend, family member, significant other and general fellow human. It's probably the most important life skill is to be able to effectively communicate with others.
The book I'm reading right now is called Triggered: Transmuting Upsets Into Love. It's basically a handbook for living consciously in your relationships and understanding what things make you feel a certain way and why. It's almost like self reflective therapy without needing another person. Understanding what makes you, or someone else feel triggered, allows you to dig down to find the deeper reason. Only once you have that, can you begin to communicate effectively.


The article "When a win against Comcare isn't really a win" (SMH 13/9/18-https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/when-a-win-against-comcare-isn-t-really-a-win-20180913-p503es.html) completely reflects the experience of many of our Comcare clients.
In the matter of Griffiths and Australian Postal Corporation (Griffiths), the Tribunal considered whether Ms Griffiths was entitled to compensation in respect of her psychological condition and whether she had made a wilful and false misrepresentation in respect of her psychological condition under section 7 (7) of the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act (the Act).
The Comcare and Seacare Legislation Amendment (Pension age and Catastrophic Injury) Bill 2017, introduced into Federal Parliament on 11 May 2017, was given assent on 22 June 2017. Prior to assent, injured workers covered by the Comcare or Seacare Schemes lost the right to claim loss of earnings benefits at age 65, despite many Australians not being able to access the pension until age 67.
The Comcare and Seacare Legislation Amendment (Pension age and Catastrophic Injury) Bill 2017 has been introduced into Federal Parliament. (https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017B00080/Explanatory%20Memorandum/Text).
How long should Comcare or a licensee pay for physiotherapy treatment?
Psychological Injuries - Developments in "Reasonable Administrative Action"
There have been two recent decisions which have shed light on when the 'reasonable administrative action' exclusion will operate. The first of these decisions is Comcare v Martin ( HCA 43) which was handed down by the High Court in 2016. The latest decision, in April 2017, is that of Lim v Comcare. But what do these decisions mean?
An injured employee who is retired from employment and receives a pension and/or lump sum under a superannuation scheme must have their incapacity payments determined in accordance with sections 20 to 21A of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 (SRCA).
Comcare has announced a new payment system which will commence from 1 September 2016 whereby all Comcare payments will be paid directly to employees', employers' and service providers' bank accounts by electronic funds transfer (EFT).
Compo win against Australia Post- NWE, loss of overtime, impairment and physiotherapy treatment.
A Bill amending the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act (the SRCA) has been introduced in Federal Parliament ( Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Amendment (Improving the Comcare Scheme) Bill 2015 ) the aim of which is to make the Comcare scheme more sustainable according to Workplace Relations Minister Eric Abetz. These are weasel words which actually mean the aim of the Bill is to reduce worker's entitlements and providing savings to employers.
Many workers who are covered by the Comcare scheme will develop injuries over a period of time and it is not always possible to pinpoint the date of injury. For example, workers who gradually develop back pain or overuse injuries may find it hard to precisely identify when the injury occurred. Similarly in claims involving work related psychological injuries, it may be difficult to show when normal distress or upset because of a work incident, actually becomes a psychological injury.
Sections 20 and 21 of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act (1988) (SRCA) deal with the effect of superannuation on incapacity benefits. Generally speaking, workers who are in receipt of incapacity or loss of earnings benefits under the SRCA should resist termination or defer resignation because once employment is terminated a worker's superannuation is "paid out" and even if these payments are rolled over, a worker is deemed to have "received" the lump sum benefit and therefore weekly payments are reduced on the basis of the formula in the Act. (see Archer v Comcare (2000) 101 FCR 30).
ACCRUAL OF ENTITLEMENTS AND THE COST OF MEDICATION FOR TELSTRA WORKERS UNDER THE COMCARE SCHEME.
Pursuant to s 116 of the Safety Rehabilitation and Compensation Act, a worker is entitled to accrue sick leave and annual leave but only during the first 45 weeks of absence following acceptance of liability for a work related injury. Thereafter, if an injured worker is unable to work, only long service leave accrues under the SRCA. Similarly an employer is only required to make superannuation contributions when an employee is physically working.
WORKERS WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL INJURIES LIKELY TO BE PUNISHED AGAIN.


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Q: Spilt Comma From Value In a Multi-Dimensional Array Suppose I have an array like this:
$myarray = attr_group => array(
             "group_id" => array(
                    "attr" => array(
                          [0] => "test1"
                          [1] => "test2"
                          [3] => "test1,test2,test3,test4"
                          [4] => "test1,test5,test6"
                     )
               )
           )

How could I explode the values from the "attr" array onto different lines and then continue using the array if I were to call it like this:
$myarray[attr_group][group_id][attr]
And I want the final result of my array to look something like this:
$myarray = attr_group => array(
             "group_id" => array(
                    "attr" => array(
                          [0] => "test1"
                          [1] => "test2"
                          [3] => "test3"
                          [4] => "test4"
                          [5] => "test5"
                          [6] => "test6"
                     )
               )
           )

Maybe this isnt possible, but I thought it would be worth a post! Thanks in advance!

A: $myarray = array(
    "attr_group" => array(
        "group_id" => array(
            "attr" => array(
                0 => "test1",
                1 => "test2",
                3 => "test1,test2,test3,test4",
                4 => "test1,test5,test6"
            )
        )
    )
);

$attr = &$myarray["attr_group"]["group_id"]["attr"];
$attr = array_values(array_unique(explode(",", implode(",", $attr))));

print_r($myarray);

DEMO

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Bird Survey Walk Richard Bland 5 minutes, 24 seconds	"Bird Survey Walk"
Richard Bland, amateur naturalist extraordinaire, has done the same Downs walk on 750 Sunday mornings, logging the birds he sees and hears for the British Bird Breeding Survey.
On bird walk: Half past seven at the peregrine watch point, heading south and it's very dull, very windy, almost too dark to see birds or flowers but it'll soon get lighter. Kestrel playing with the wind. One of the things about seven thirty in the morning on a Sunday, is that the birds are hungry and the traffic is light, comparatively.
At home: I came to Bristol in 1961 to teach history at Clifton College so lived in Clifton for, fifty years. I have always been interested in birds and was a member of the British Trust for Ornithology which is an organisation no one's ever heard of which basically does research into birds which is used by the government an the RSPB and other people for conservation. And it was quite an exciting time in ornithology because the BTO was pioneering new ways of surveying birds and I became increasingly fascinated by the importance of urban areas for birds. The tradition of the time in ornithology was that towns were a no no for birds, completely useless, and that you had to go out into the countryside and the reservoirs and the woods and so on to find birds, and I began to realise that really this wasn't true in Bristol, that the Downs themselves were better, some species had higher populations than they did in the countryside.
On bird walk: There's a very nice gull, I think it's a Herring Gull, soaring over the gorge, they are very common, we've got a whole lot coming over the sky. They probably roost out at Steepholm and come back into the city to gorge on all the rubbish that's been left behind on the streets last night, and get themselves fat for the winter.
At home: So I began to do fairly regular walks around the Downs, and I would record the birds, I would map, the bird territories that I found there. So I have got dozens of files of one kind or another from the past and this has become a growing involvement. I retired in 1996 and have become a sort of full time naturalist since then. And there's also been a new survey system developed by the BTO from 1994 called the Breeding Birds Survey which is based upon 1 km squares, and I began this experimentally with a 1 km square covering the south area of the Downs.
On bird walk: I've got binoculars with me, I've got a clipboard with a standard form on it and a biro – very extensive equipment. What I simply do is a standard walk and I record all the birds and I record all the plants in flower. Raven – wonderful noise – two ravens. Cronk cronk cronk is the noise. You've got to use your ears as much as your eyes.
At home: My records show the seasonal changes in the numbers of birds so I can more or less predict, every week I do the walk how many of what species I will see but it also, because I've done it over 15 or 16 years, shows changes, long terms changes in the patterns of numbers. One big change is the complete collapse over that period of time of starlings, I've ceased to see them at all. Another big change is the feral pigeons. Their numbers used to be up to 200 in the middle of winter, 250, and they have come right down so that now I will see perhaps 50 at most in the middle of the winter.
On bird walk: Every week of the year I do this standard walk because if the same person does the same thing on the same track then the results that he gets, the changes from week to week, are real and significant and comparable. That's a peregrine falcon just dived down, its nest is just below here in the summer and it maintains a territory right through the winter.
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The area in and around Pymatuning State park is filled with a wide array of places to visit during the summer season. On Saturday Super G. and I took the kids to just one of the local attractions, Deer Park. Pymatuning Deer Park is located in Jamestown, PA, at the southernmost tip of Pymatuning Lake. In operation since 1953, the small zoo is bulging at the seams with over 250 exotic and domestic animals. It's the perfect place to spend an afternoon.
You'll be greeted at the entrance by a large herd of Fallow Deer, they'll follow you along the fence line licking their lips and staring at you with their big pleading brown eyes, which will make you want to buy enormous amounts of $1 treat bags to dole out. They're excited to get one but very gentle and so cute!
After you rip yourself away from them to venture further into the park you'll see a large pen with colorful birds of all sorts inside. Pretty peacocks, pheasants, a chicken or two and a ton of others I don't the names of. The trio of donkey's lounging in the shade next to the bird pen need to be petted as you wander by.
You'll have a nice view of the petting area as you walk the uphill sloping boardwalk, then ooh and ahh over the tiniest little monkeys, called marmosets, you've ever seen in the center pen before traveling onward.
If you're lucky like we were, the black spotted leopard will be laying right out in the front of his enclosure so you can snap a picture while standing just feet away. You'll marvel at how his soft fur gleams in the dappled sunlight. You'll wish you could snuggle with him but know by the look of his companion that they would probably have other activities, like lunch, in mind. There are wallabies, reindeer, ostriches, and playful zebras who all are curious and happy to see you.
Don't miss the "Deer Park Express" miniature train! Hop aboard for a little break from walking. It's fun to see how many deer you can spot in the trees. If you look closely you might even catch a glimpse of the Timber Wolves taking an afternoon nap.
After the train ride you can take a stroll through the Wild West where a very large bear and an unlikely unicorn will stop for a quick photo. Watch out though or you could find yourself behind bars!
In the little store you can find bags of "Authentic Mining Rough" for sale. They might look like they're just filled with a bunch of dirt but if you take it outside to the water run you can "pan for gold". You won't be disappointed as each bag has 4 or 5 ounces of gorgeous natural gemstones and minerals hiding inside. In the two bags we panned, we found Labradorite, Green Quartz, Flourite, Tiger Eye, Green Aventurine, Emerald Calcite, Fossilized Lime Stone, Gastropod and Fool's Gold just to name a few.
Young and old will enjoy a visit to the "Kiddie Zoo" where you can pet a large number of roaming moochers cuties. Abundant with goats, you'll also find an adorable miniature horse that you wonder if anyone would notice missing, . The striped legged Zedonk just might be one of the sweetest animals in the whole petting area!
Certainly the funniest animals in the Kiddie Zoo are the mob of llamas and alpacas. They won't scoff at a handout and in fact are most insistent that you give them something… anything… to eat. Just a nibble or lick please! Your family might even have the most laughs of the day whilst standing in front of that silly llama pen.
There are so many more animals there that I can't even remember them all! We are already planning a trip back to see the Black bears, their exhibit was closed due a tree falling on the building (animals are fine!).
Deer Park is one of the hidden gems of Pa. Even on a hot 90 degree day, the shady grounds and the fun of animal interaction made for a family outing that even the moody teenager enjoyed.
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What an amazing park! A lot of people here in Cleveland go to Pymatuning but I've never heard of this park. If we ever make it over that way, we'll be sure to go, I'm sure my preschoolers would love it!
It really is such a fun place! I LOVE that most of it is shaded too so it's like taking a walk in the woods :) I hope you get to it someday, the little ones would love to be able to feed all the animals!
Okay, that is seriously the coolest park ever. I'm a huge lover of deer (even though my dad hunts them, ugh) and just love watching them.
What an amazing place! This looks like such a great place to spend the day at.
It was!! maybe your family can visit it!!
People, wake up. That place is a hellhole roadside zoo. Even their website lists "biscuit-begging black bears". When will we stop using animals for our own lousy entertainment…? Please go out in nature, enjoy any one of PA's state/local parks, but don't support a roadside zoo.


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Adding one more example which only uses redux and not thunk. This helps a lot for a beginner to understand basic redux first.
This example shows how to integrate Redux and Redux Thunk in Next.js.
Usually splitting your app state into pages feels natural but sometimes you'll want to have global state for your app. This is an example on how you can use redux that also works with Next.js's universal rendering approach.
In the first example we are going to display a digital clock that updates every second. The first render is happening in the server and then the browser will take over. To illustrate this, the server rendered clock will have a different background color (black) than the client one (grey).
The Redux Provider is implemented in pages/_app.js. Since the MyApp component is wrapped in withReduxStore the redux store will be automatically initialized and provided to MyApp, which in turn passes it off to react-redux's Provider component.
All pages have access to the redux store using connect from react-redux.
On the server side every request initializes a new store, because otherwise different user data can be mixed up. On the client side the same store is used, even between page changes.


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Remembering MJ : "Michael Waved Back At Me!"
"Michael Waved Back At Me!"
J.G is a friend of mine who lives in West London, he once told me about when Michael Jackson came to West London in the mid 1980's. It turned out that he also has a couple of interesting real life tales about Michael.
J.G saw Michael on March 28, 1985, at the height of his career just after Thriller. Michael was invited to unveil his wax model at Madame Tussauds in Marylebone, London. It was his first solo public visit to England since the Jackson Five tour in the late 1970's. London was brought to a standstill as thousand of fans gathered in the street near the museum hoping to get a glimpse of him.
It was purely coincidental that the car Michael was traveling in got held up by traffic and stopped right in front of my friend as he was leaning against the barrier among fans in the street.
It was a very brief and surreal moment as he didn't expect Michael to be so close, only two feet away from him. Michael was wearing his dark sunglasses, in black and gold glittery military jacket siting at the back of the car. J.G automatically waved excitedly at Michael, other fans started to go crazy. A rather shy Michael waved back to him and everyone else in his famous sequined white glove before moving off. As it happened so fast it was only afterwards that he realised that he had just seen Michael Jackson! He watched the news later that day featuring the footage of Michael leaping onto the roof of his car to wave to his adoring fans before leaving. He was then the super star Michael Jackson instead of a shy Michael he saw earlier that day.
He indeed saw a piece of history, he also told of a friend of his (Simon) who had actually met Michael more than a decade later in an antique shop "Alfies" in Marylebone where he once worked.
Michael was in his surgical mask and arrived unannounced with two bodyguards. Although Simon was used to seeing celebrities, he was totally taken by surprise. Unlike other major Hollywood stars that came to the shop, Michael appeared to be very nice and polite. Simon recalled hearing Michael speak in a deep voice, looking around the shop and enquired about items that he was interested in. Michael bought an elaborate Walt Disney's autograph valued around £600 along with some movie memorabilia which were paid for by his bodyguard. During the visit, Michael was discovered by a few local kids who excitedly tapped on the window. Michael responded to them by taking off his surgical mask and went outside to greet them. He spoke with them in a soft higher voice, happily posed for photos and gave his autographs before returning to the shop.
These are now distant memories of King of Pop, Michael Jackson who will be sadly missed.
Thanks to my friend J.G for sharing the stories.


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Christopher High Shearer (* 18. Mai 1846 in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania; † 29. April 1926 ebenda) war ein US-amerikanischer Landschaftsmaler der Düsseldorfer Schule.

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Shearer, eines von neun Kindern des Farmers und Handwerkers Christopher Shearer (1820–1910) und seiner Frau Catharine, geborene Diehm (1822–1859), sowie Enkel des deutschstämmigen Schuhmachers, Gerbers, Famers und Malers Jonathan Scherer (1780–1845) und Urenkel des in Womrath (Grafschaft Sponheim) geborenen Sergeanten Johann Christoph Scherer (1752–1830), welcher unter George Washington an dessen Überquerung des Delaware teilgenommen hatte, wuchs auf einer Farm bei Tuckerton in Berks County auf. Früh zeigte er Interesse für die Natur, insbesondere Schmetterlinge, Motten und Käfer, und für das Zeichnen und die Malerei. Durch die Landschaftsmaler Francis Daniel Devlan (1835–1870) und John Heyl Raser (1824–1901) wurde er als Heranwachsender darin bestärkt. 1864 trat er mit einem Gemälde erstmals an die Öffentlichkeit. Nachdem er als 21-Jähriger ein Atelier in Reading eröffnet und lokal bereits einige Erfolge verzeichnet hatte, reiste er nach Europa, wo er sich an verschiedenen Kunstzentren in Deutschland und Frankreich umsah und studierte, insbesondere in Paris, Düsseldorf und München. 1876 debütierte Shearer an der Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, wo er fortan bis 1895 erfolgreich ausstellte. Auch an der Centennial Exhibition des Jahres 1876 nahm er teil. 1878 reiste er erneut nach Düsseldorf und lebte dort ein Jahr.

In Reading bildete Shearer einen kunstinteressierten Zirkel, etwa mit Frederick Spang (1834–1891), John Heyl Raser und Edward A. Howell (1848–1924). Am Schuylkill River unterrichtete er Freilichtmalerei und etablierte sich als zentrale Figur einer Kunstbewegung in Berks County, unterstützt durch die Oscar Woerner Art Gallery. Schüler Shearers waren die Landschafts- und Tiermalerin Mary B. Leisz (1876–1935) sowie der Illustrator und Wandmaler Ralph Dunkelberger (1894–1965).

Shearer beteiligte sich 1913 an der Gründung des Reading Public Museum und überzeugte dessen mit ihm befreundeten Gründer, den Insektenkundler Dr. Levi Walter Scott Mengel (1868–1941), in dieser Kultureinrichtung eine Gemäldegalerie zu integrieren, als deren leitender Kurator er fungierte. Zu den Förderern der Sammlung und Gemäldegalerie des Museums gehörten Irvin Frances Impink (1882–1962), Henry K. Janssen, Gustav Oberlaender und Ferdinand Thun. Im Alter zog sich Shearer auf eine Farm in der Nähe von Stoudt's Ferry Bridge in Bern Township (Berk County) zurück, wo er bis zu seinem Tod wirtschaftete und ein Malatelier betrieb.

Shearer heiratete Sarah "Sally" D. Fisher (1848–1900), die die Söhne Bernard (1869–1937) und Victor (1872–1951) gebar, welche ebenfalls Maler wurden. Die Ehe wurde geschieden. 1876 heiratete er Linda A. Heckendorn (1852–1928) aus Maryland. Aus dieser Ehe ging die Tochter Amy hervor. Auch sein Bruder Edmund Leaser Shearer (1851–1935) war Maler.

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 Landscape with Figures (Landschaft mit Figuren), 1876
 Fetching Water Outside the Walls (Wasserträgerinnen vor den Mauern), 1879
 Park Scene with Ladies Reading (Parkszene mit lesenden Frauen), 1881
 Landscape with Cattle (Landschaft mit Rindvieh), 1890er Jahre, Reading Public Museum
 On the Schuylkill River (Am Schuylkill River), 1895
 View on the Upper Schuylkill (Ansicht am oberen Schuylkill River), 1898

Literatur
 Emmanuel Bénézit: Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays. Gmünd, Paris 1976, Band IX, S. 563
 Peter Falk Hastings: Who was Who in American Art. Sound View Press, Madison (Connecticut) 1985, ISBN 978-0-9320-8700-3, S. 563

Weblinks

 Christopher H. Shearer, Datenblatt im Portal rkd.nl (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie)
 Christopher High Shearer (1846–1926), Biografie im Portal greshvilleantiques.com

 Christopher Shearer (1846–1926), biografische Notiz im Portal freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
 Christopher H. Shearer, Auktionsresultate im Portal artnet.de
 Christopher Shearer, Kurzbiografie im Portal askart.com
 Christopher High Shearer, Kurzbiografie im Portal foreignaffairintl.com

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Maler (Vereinigte Staaten)
Maler (Düsseldorf)
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US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1846
Gestorben 1926
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Liebheit had been responsible for shifting key operations of Heraeus Photovoltaics to Asia, establishing closer ties with customers such as JinkoSolar. Image: Heraeus
Updated: Major PV metallization paste producer Heraeus Photovoltaics has announced that its President, Andreas Liebheit has already stepped down from his position, due to personal reasons.
Liebheit joined Heraeus in November, 2013 to take over the running of the division when Andy London, a 40 year veteran planned to retire. Liebheit had been European managing director for Hanwha Solar One, now known as Hanwha Q CELLS, a 'Silicon Module Super League' (SMSL) member.
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Heraeus said that Liebheit stepped down from his position on July 15th, instead of leaving the company.
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It's the colour that matters: Brendon McCullum
Somyanshu Arora January 16, 2016 Uncategorized 2 Comments
Dear Mr. Brendon McCullum,
I hope this letter finds you in great health and spirit. I have been thinking about writing you this letter for a long time now and have finally decided to pen this down. You see it is difficult to comprehend that soon another of my favourite cricketers won't be putting on his international jersey anymore. There has been a lot retirements in the recent years. Sachin, Dravid, Laxman, Hussey, Clarke, Smith, you! When I was younger my parents would tell me that one-day, all of a sudden, I shall realize that life is not stagnant, people go away, move on, leaving us with memories to cherish and times to remember. Now, I wonder how right they were.
But this letter is not about me. It is about someone who has inspired me to be better, to not let myself act like others when they don't act right and to understand that there are things out there who are bigger than us and we need to search for them lest we shall feel lost. This letter is about that man; this letter is about you sir.
"It is in inconsequential match or so we all thought. This is Cricket World Cup 2015 in its full flow and Australia would be crowned champions in the coming few days, but one team has already won the hearts. Coming back to the match, a Bangladeshi batsman hits the ball to the boundary, everyone thought it was going to be a boundary or so we all thought. One man had different thoughts and so he ran after the ball and just as the ball was about to reach the boundary he plunged himself onto it and then on the advertisement boards. It was still a four but something had happened.
He was in discomfort. That man, Brendon McCullum, was in pain and so was probably the whole of New Zealand. Brendon McCullum had converted a rugby nation and was resolved to convert a team made up of talented youngsters into world-beaters. But then our protagonist shrugged off the pain, signaled he was fine, wringed his hand and smiled. This was just an advertisement board, but it felt like in those days he could have well run into a truck and shrugged aside his broken bones and then set the fielding for the next ball."
That moment to me enclosed everything I liked about the way you played the game. But this likeability was not there long ago. After the 2011 world cup, the New Zealand Cricket Board had organized a Presidential Election like race to the New Zealand Captaincy. You had lost to your teammate Ross Taylor and when Ross Taylor was removed as captain in
They know how to hit, I know how to dive.
2012, after a Test victory in Sri Lanka no less, you had to take the blame. Frankly, I hated you at that moment. I won't be surprised if many others did as well. You were after all to me just a tattooed ambitious guy who had usurped the rightful owner. A test match later, New Zealand had been shot out for 45 by South Africa. It was not just that many had lost hope of a recovery; it might as well be that they had beaten hope and then thrown it from a cliff into a valley to make sure it is never found.
But then something clicked somewhere and somehow you gave us a reason to believe. The one-day series afterwards in South Africa was won 2-1, it was a first in New Zealand's cricket. There was a new crop of players to work with, a new, faint, as it may have been, hope to believe in.
And behind the scenes a great heist was being planned. Victories were needed and so was a better demeanor. So out came a team meeting, plans were made, suggestions were given and a bond was formed. For much of the next one year, New Zealand gilded itself with the tags of an improving team with some spurts of brilliance piercing through madness. It remained like this until West Indies arrived on your shores. Three tests played, one nearly won and two bossed around. The summer had started and jigsaw's solutions were appearing. And they all looked beautiful.
After that came the Indians, befuddled they stood at what they had hit. I remember that it was at Basin reserve that you made a heist like not many of us had seen before. You hit the first test triple century by a New Zealander. Martin Crowe had said he could now die without any remorse. He was once your strongest critic, now he was one of your biggest fans. Who was I to still hate you, still not admire the integrity and passion you led with and still not adore the way you put the interests of the fans before everything else.
But there was to be more to this bravado and that too, when it was the least expected. Philip Hughes had died, leaving everyone bereft about how a young life had been lost forever. A talent was left unfulfilled, a life left unrealized. How the world shed its tears, how sorrow engulfed everyone. While this was going on, you rekindled the belief. Silent as everyone stayed that day, you rekindled the belief in this game that we all love and you did it all with respect. That innings had every ingredient that a great innings has but there was no celebration because bigger things mattered.
After all this, came the biggest cricket carnival in New Zealand and Australia. And even though Australia won the trophy, you and your men won our hearts. Who in this world would have imagined putting four slips in a one-day international match? Who in this world would have thought about exhausting all your strike bowlers' quota inside 30 overs? Who in this world would have shown the bravado to come dancing down the track to world's most fearsome bowlers? Who would have done the same to make sure the first dance did not seem like a fluke? You did sir, and you won our hearts with a smile.
A swansong before saying good bye. Can he do it again against them?
And you always seemed to do that without a care in the world and it reciprocated through us all. There cannot be anything more joyful than putting smiles on people's faces and you did that continuously for years. I know arguments might arise that your record could have been better, Mitchell Starc could have been played a bit better in the World Cup Final, you could have stayed on a little bit longer and this and that, and this and that. But hey, as you once taught us there are things bigger than all of us – joy, happiness, respect, humility- and you showed us bucket loads of it. All of it.
Have a nice post-career time, sir. After all, you deserve it. Thoroughly!
And yeah remember to beat the Aussies before that.
A fan you once converted
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Ishan Pathak February 8, 2016
This is a gem of an article. Just in love with this.. Brilliant work!
Somyanshu March 3, 2016
Thanks a lot. Ishan. Do check out the other articles as well if you get time. Also, like the Facebook page if you may want to. Thanks once again.


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Various options are available to switch from DC to AC & this usually comes in the form of an additional small circuit board, which when installed achieves the changeover.
Modern day electric door strikes have over the years evolved with the above functions designed into one strike, thereby allowing the customer to purchase one generic type model, which incorporates all the features & benefits.
The modern day range of electric door strikes also come with a range of extension lips to accommodate the various thicknesses of door jambs & door configurations.
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Overall electric door strikes form an important part of any access control system, but caution should be exercised when deciding what the door strike is there to do. Because of the design of the electric door strike, it is always recommended that the strike be used as an access control product only.
If additional higher levels of security are required, it may be pertinent to fit additional devises to operate during the hours of darkness or when the building may be unoccupied.
Waterproof Keypads & Exit Switches
Alpro's ranges of waterproof keypads, along with the exit switches, are components that can be used in access control systems.
The waterproof keypads are tested to the IP68 standard and so are suitable for both internal and external applications. The units are designed to operate other components of the access control system such as electric door strikes, electric bolts and various door magnets.
The keypad has either raised buttons with which to input a code, or in the case of the Alpro keypads the buttons are hard anodised into the surface of the unit to deter vandalism. Some keypads also have the facility of Braille to aid the visually impaired person. Keypads are also in general backlit to allow the user during the hours of darkness to see the keypad. Keypads also have the facility to be surface or mortise mounted, depending upon the application required.
Exit switches are also a valuable addition to any access control situation and can be both mortise and surface mounted depending on the application in question. As the name would suggest a simple operation of a button mounted on the unit, allows the current to be broken to the system, thereby allowing exit from a door.
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