CALIFORNIA 50 • SHOPPING CENTER BUSINESS • September 2018 platform by 10 percent. This has led Lefko to surmise that a stronger marriage be- tween online and brick and mortar will result in a happier family for all. "There is a direct correlation between the number of omnichannels a retailer implements and the increase in sales," he says. "During the 2017 holiday season, desktop computer shopping outpaced mobile device shopping by almost three times, but the significant statistic is that retailers who had a shopping platform for desktop computers, smartphones, and brick-and-mortar saw a 3 percent increase in the volume of sales per transaction." This marriage has also, naturally, brought e-commerce-only retailers into today's hottest shopping centers. "Tenants that lack an online presence and those that are slow to adapt effec- tive e-commerce strategies will continue to see their sales decline in the near fu- ture," says Bryan Ley, managing director in HFF's Los Angeles office. "On the flip side, e-commerce retailers have to have an offline presence, because shipping costs and e-commerce advertising make it ex- pensive, and a brick-and-mortar presence is an easier and more cost-effective cus- tomer connection." Ley cites Amazon Bookstores, Amazon Go, Warby Parker and a variety of cosmet- ics brands as prime examples of the allure brick-and-mortar can have on web-based companies. Technology is not all sunshine and ros- es, however. The downside to these inno- vations is that many retailers now require less merchandise and, therefore, space in shopping centers. The barrage of start-ups and e-commerce companies now rolling out their first few stores have also made lease negotiations tricky at best. "Landlords are having to figure out challenges, such as how to approach percentage rent when people are showing up at stores simply to show- room or make returns," Thompson says. "As yet, there are no easy an- swers to these issues." One seemingly "easy answer" that Lew- is has found is this: embrace change, give people what they want and design for to- morrow today. "Our new centers are focused on the experiential tenants most sought after today," he explains. "Because Lewis Retail Centers develops communi- ty centers without department store anchors, we don't anticipate having any of our major tenants leaving en masse in the near term. Rather, we anticipate having the luxury of finding the best cinema operators, the best fit- ness companies and the best-matched dining experiences to bring into our new centers, as well as to refresh our existing centers." He points to Renaissance at Rialto as one example of the firm's portfolio-wide strategy. The 430,000-square-foot shop- ping, dining and entertainment center in Rialto is anchored by Cinemark XD (Extreme Digital Cinema) and 24 Hour Fitness. The center also has a large variety of healthy, fresh quick-service restaurant options, including the Habit, California Fish Grill, Ahi Poke Bowl, Pho '77 and Panera Bread, and discount shopping options, including Five Below, Ross and Grocery Outlet. "This is the kind of center that Califor- nians seek today," Lewis contends. "Our newest centers emphasize clean, modern architecture, and the inclusion of gather- ing spaces with benches and fireplaces to give our customers a fresh environment each time they visit. We anticipate that the centers we are building now will be copied around the nation over the next five-plus years." Though new ground-up centers still debut from time to time in California, industry players are, by and large, fo- cused on redevelopments, mergers and trades. This isn't a bad thing, if you ask Thompson — at least as far as current players are concerned. "The recent Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast noted the continued decline in retail development sentiment," he says. "That could be a good thing for the owners of existing assets. On quar- terly earnings calls, you'll actually hear shopping center REIT CEOs talk about how the low supply bodes well for their repositioned portfolios. They're moving into strong markets, investing heavily in existing assets and benefitting from the relative lack of competition amid this low supply." In today's tech-heavy, efficiency-driv- en environment, sometimes less really is more. SCB Renaissance at Rialto is a 430,000-square-foot shopping, dining and entertainment center in Rialto that is anchored by Cinemark XD and 24 Hour Fitness. The property is owned by Lewis Group of Companies.


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Uma esquadrilha é um agrupamento de pequenos navios de guerra ou de aeronaves militares. O termo "esquadrilha" é o diminutivo de "esquadra", significando, originalmente, "pequena esquadra".

Inicialmente, o termo foi usado, pelas marinhas, para designar as suas forças navais compostas por pequenas embarcações, em comparação com as esquadras compostas por navios de linha. Algumas marinhas, usam o termo alternativo "flotilha", para designar as suas forças navais equivalentes às esquadrilhas. Com o desenvolvimento da aviação militar, o termo "esquadrilha" passou a ser usado, por extensão, para designar uma unidade de voo composta por várias aeronaves.

Esquadrilha naval

No âmbito naval, o termo "esquadrilha" foi aplicado, em alguns países de língua latina, para designar algumas das suas forças navais compostas por pequenas embarcações de guerra. As esquadrilhas eram, normalmente, comandadas por um oficial superior ou mesmo por um oficial subalterno, em comparação com as esquadras - compostas por navios maiores - que eram, normalmente, comandadas por um oficial general.

Para designar forças navais do tipo da esquadrilha, também era utilizado o termo "flotilha". Algumas marinhas usavam apenas um dos termos, outras usavam os dois - designando "esquadrilhas" os agrupamentos de determinados tipos de navios e "flotilhas" os agrupamentos de outros tipos. Por exemplo a Marinha Portuguesa, até à década de 1990, designava o agrupamento de navios de escolta como "flotilha" e o de submarinos como "esquadrilha", enquanto que, a Armada Espanhola usava os termos, precisamente da forma inversa.

O desenvolvimento da aviação naval levou, igualmente, à utilização dos termos "esquadrilha" e "flotilha" para designar os agrupamentos de aeronaves.

Algumas das marinhas a usar o termo "esquadrilha" são:
 Armada Espanhola - dispõe de duas esquadrilhas de escoltas - cada uma agrupando entre quatro e seis fragatas - e de uma esquadrilha de caça-minas. Os submarinos e as aeronaves agrupam-se em flotilhas. Também são designadas "esquadrilhas" as subunidades da Flotilha de Aeronaves;
 Marinha Nacional francesa - dispõe da Esquadrilha de Submarinos Nucleares Estratégicos e da Esquadrilha de Submarinos Nucleares de Ataque, ambas subordinadas à Força Oceânica Estratégica. Até 2000 também eram designadas "esquadrilhas" as unidades de aviação naval de apoio, passando então a ser designadas "flotilhas" como as unidades de combate;
 Marinha Militar italiana - dispõe de duas esquadrilhas de fragatas, uma de corvetas, duas de patrulhas e duas de draga-minas. Cada esquadrilha agrupa entre quatro e oito navios, estando dependente de cada um dos comandos de força especializados. Os contratorpedeiros e navios maiores não estão agrupados em esquadrilhas, estando diretamente subordinados ao Comando da Força de Alto Mar. Os submarinos agrupam-se no Grupo de Submarinos;
 Marinha Portuguesa - subordinada à Flotilha, dispõe da Esquadrilha de Escoltas Oceânicas - agrupando as fragatas, corvetas e navios de apoio logístico da esquadra -, a Esquadrilha de Navios Patrulha, a Esquadrilha de Submarinos, a Esquadrilha de Draga-Minas - desativada - e a Esquadrilha de Helicópteros. Cada esquadrilha é comandada por um capitão de mar e guerra. Antes de 1993 só existia a Esquadrilha de Submarinos já que as esquadrilhas de escoltas oceânicas, de navios patrulha e de draga-minas eram designadas "flotilhas" e a de helicópteros não existia. Até 1975 as pequenas unidades navais estacionadas no Ultramar Português também se agrupavam em esquadrilhas. Durante a Guerra do Ultramar foram criadas a Esquadrilha de Lanchas da Guiné, a Esquadrilha de Lanchas do Zaire (Angola) e a Esquadrilha de Lanchas do Niassa (Moçambique) que agrupavam as lanchas de fiscalização e de desembarque estacionadas naquelas áreas.

Esquadrilha aérea

A esquadrilha é um tipo de unidade de voo das forças aéreas de vários países, normalmente, comandada por um capitão e composta por um determinado número de aeronaves. O termo é, igualmente, utilizado nas componentes aéreas de várias marinhas e exércitos.

Conforme o tipo de organização, a esquadrilha pode dispor de entre quatro a oito aeronaves e de entre 20 a 100 elementos, incluindo pilotos e pessoal de apoio de terra. Duas a quatro esquadrilhas, agrupam-se, normalmente, em unidades aéreas maiores, chamadas "esquadras", "grupos" ou "esquadrões", conforme a força aérea.

Por extensão o termo "esquadrilha" é utilizado, tradicionalmente, por diversas forças aéreas, para designar algumas das suas unidades no solo. As esquadrilhas de solo são, normalmente, equivalentes às unidades de escalão "companhia", ou, ocasionalmente, de escalão "pelotão, do exército.

Algumas forças aéreas designam, as suas unidades equivalentes às esquadrilhas, com termos alternativos, como "voo" (Inglês: flight) ou "enxame" (Alemão: Schwarm).

Na Força Aérea Portuguesa, a esquadrilha é a subunidade de uma esquadra, comandada por um capitão. Teoricamente, três esquadrilhas, cada qual com oito aeronaves, formam uma esquadra. Na prática tanto o número de esquadrilhas por esquadra como o número de aeronaves por esquadrilha varia. O termo também é utilizado nas unidades de solo da FAP, como por exemplo na Polícia Aérea onde a esquadrilha é a subunidade equivalente a uma companhia. Antes da criação da FAP, em 1952, a esquadrilha de cerca de 12 aviões, sob o comando de um capitão - e, ocasionalmente agrupada num grupo de esquadrilhas - era o principal tipo de unidade de voo da Aeronáutica Militar do Exército Português.

Referências
 LOPES, Mário Canongia e COSTA, José Manuel R., Os Aviões da Cruz de Cristo,  Dinalivro, Lisboa, 1989
 Organização da Marinha Portuguesa: Unidades Dependentes do Comando Naval

Ver também
 Batalhão
 Bataria
 Brigada (militar)
 Companhia (militar)
 Esquadra
 Esquadrão
 Esquadrilha
 Flotilha
 Pelotão
 Regimento
 Terço (militar)
 Tropa
 Unidade militar

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Pacheco Was Once the Largest Town in the County
Pacheco – Flood and Fire
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Martinez was Founded in 1849, Before the County Started
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Pacheco Floods and Fire Bring About the Founding of Concord
Don Salvio Pacheco
. . . the town of Pacheco had been hit with numerous disasters in the 1860s: an earthquake, several fires and floods, and its main raison d'etre, Pacheco Slough, filled with silt and therefore ruined for navigation: Three men, who can truly be described as nice guys, came along and donated land to the beleaguered Pacheco people in a new town a few miles to the east. The three men were Salvio Pacheco, his son Fernando, and his son-in-law Francisco Galindo. The town they started was originally called Todos Santos (All Saints), and was nicknamed Drunken Indian by some irreverent American settlers, but soon after was renamed Concord, a name. which stuck.
Bacon's Store
Among the first of the Pacheco refugees to take advantage of the offer of free land, in June 1869, was Samuel Bacon whose store is the first one on the left in this early photograph About the same time Charles S. Lose put a machine shop across the street from Bacon's store, while John Brawand and George Gavin built themselves homes in the new town. The photograph shows, in addition to Bacon's store, most of the businesses intersection of Galindo Street, not too many years after the town was started. There were several general stores a hotel, and many saloons on this street. If you look closely you can see about two dozen people, including children, in this picture, standing on the wooden sidewalks and dirt street. They had waited patiently while the photographer made all his adjustments and then finally recorded their images on a glass negative to be saved for posterity. In addition to the buildings shown here there were two blacksmith shops in the town, one just behind the photographer on the other side of Galindo Street and the other two blocks away to the east and a block south. Historic preservation was not thought of in Concord's early years. Neither of the blacksmith shops and not a one of the buildings in this picture still stands.
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DERBY manager Frank Lampard has promised not to park the bus as he prepares for an emotional return to Chelsea.
Lampard's Rams take on his old club at Stamford Bridge in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night.
And the Blues legend - who has guided Derby to sixth in the Championship - admitted returning to the club will be emotional but insists he will not be overawed by the occasion.
"It will be emotional," he said.
"It'll be nice for me to meet up with a lot of friends behind the scenes at the stadium and see 40,000 friends at the game before getting down to work mode.
Lampard's side go in to the clash in excellent form - unbeaten in their last five games.
They held promotion favourites Middlesbrough to a creditable 1-1 draw at the Riverside Stadium last time out.
And the Rams have already pulled off one giant-killing this term as they dumped out Manchester United at Old Trafford in the third round.
Lampard is now aiming for another shock and hopes his inside knowledge of Chelsea will give his new side the edge.
"Obviously, I know Chelsea like the back of my hand and it won't be easy to go and play like we did in the first-half against Boro," he added.
On-loan Blues players Mason Mount and Fikayo Tomori are free to play in the game after Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri agreed it would be good for their long-term development.
And Lampard, 40, has revealed he had a chat with the new boss in the build-up to the match.
"I liked him. You can quickly see the manager's imprint in the way they play and that's testament to the hard work he's put in.


Still no Karlsson, and with Oduya banged up in the opener the Sens will have the oft-maligned Phaneuf-Ceci duo as the top pairing. Chabot was left in Belleville to get icetime, as Harpur was cashed up to fill in.
Away from the ice, the soap opera "The Young and the Contractless" continues to taste center stage. Some reporter suggested Turris has demanded a trade, which he promptly denied, saying he doesn't want to say anything more. Good luck on that.
Brown will sit tonight, as Formenton suits up for his first NHL game. He'll be the youngest player in franchise history (although Billy Gilmour of the original "Silver Sevens" was 17, and won the Cup before turning 18).
Tonight's opponents are almost universally expected to finish at or near the bottom of the Atlantic (the division, not the ocean). Despite that prediction, the Red Wings find themselves tied for top after beating the Wild in their home opener.
This turris talk is mostly generated by the media. I still bet we resign him. It's just negotiations at this point.
That reporter should be fired. Obviously he wouldn't demand a trade, he'd just wait for free agency. What fool reporter is this?
From the tweet they said a reporter who will remain nameless.
No big problems with that game. Still fairly sloppy at times, the game was a bit of a mess, but in the end we got the point and surely have something to build on.
Can't win a shootout without Karlsson.
Turris was great. Didn't show in the stats but that was a much better game for him.
Two games, two defensemen injured.
It's pretty great that we got 2 points in 2 games, but even without Karlsson, that PP has to be better. Step one, stop putting out Burrows out there all the time. Someone put up a stat: 3PP goals in last 156 games played. He's averaging over 3 minutes PP ice time per game through two games.
wprager wrote: It's pretty great that we got 2 points in 2 games, but even without Karlsson, that PP has to be better. Step one, stop putting out Burrows out there all the time. Someone put up a stat: 3PP goals in last 156 games played. He's averaging over 3 minutes PP ice time per game through two games.
In addition to screening you'd expect some tap-ins Donkey well. He is getting 2x the PP ice time he was getting in Vancouver. If the PP was doing well I'd say Boucher knows better, but they were awful last season and are 0-12 to start this one.
Put Smith in his place. He can screen and clear lanes just as well, can take a faceoff (you need 2 guys half the time), and is quicker to retrieve pucks in the corners.


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Q: How to add something after every number in a string in PYTHON? Say, I want to change the string 'A = (x+2.)*(y+3.)-1'
to
'A = (x+2.0e0)*(y+3.0e0)-1.0e0'.
Every number like 2. or just 2 should be changed. How to do this?
Thanks a lot!

A: Given the comment you wrote, this kind of regular expression should work:
import re

str = 'A = (x+2.)*(y+3.)-1'
print re.sub(r'(\d+)\.?',r'\1.0e0',str)

Output:
A = (x+2.0e0)*(y+3.0e0)-1.0e0

Explanation of regexp:

*

*(...) - means capturing group, what you need to capture to reuse during replacement

*\d - means any number, equivalent to [0-9]

*+ - means 1 or more occurance, equivalent to {1,}

*\.? - means that we want either 0 or 1 dot. ? is equivalent to {0,1}
In replacement:

*

*\1 - means that we want to take first captured group and insert it here

A: You're going to want to look at the re module. Specifically, re.sub(). Read through the entire documentation for that function. It can do some rather powerful things. Either that or something like a for match in re.findall() construct.

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Do they include comments left on blogs?
How do they deal with people?
Are the exported files adjusted so they will work elsewhere? For example, so links that worked on floss.blogspot.com will work if imported to floss.wordpress.com?
Is a rendered view of content backed up as well as the raw content? Blogger posts are exported as Atom syndication files. Are there html versions of each page too?
Are events properly preserved? A common fault in blog exports is the rewriting of time-stamps during export, import or migration.
Export is good. But don't stop there. Check portability projects for the quality and completeness of their service.
On the one hand, no selling your explicit, inferred or behavioral data to advertisers. Excellent clarity.
On the other, this promise is limited to sales to advertisers. Others will gladly pay for your data: aggregators who assemble and resell rich personal profiles from diverse sources; insurance companies to better characterize their risks; employers scanning prospective and current employee attitudes; law enforcement and intelligence agencies analyzing large bodies of text. Is App.net promising not to sell to all third-parties or just to advertisers?
On the other hand (the third hand, I know) what if a user wants to sell their data? Are you ruling out being an infomediary, acting on behalf of users willing to license their history and activity to trusted third-parties? If you just want to be a custodian of user data, will you forbid API partners from selling user data originating on App.net if users consent?
App.net members will always have full control of their data. Members have the fundamental right to easily back-up, export, and delete ALL of their data, whenever they want.
So far App.net is modeling an early export of your data.
When you are logged into the App.net alpha, we provide a button which will email you a .zip file of all of your content in a structured format. If you are an alpha tester, go ahead and try it out. It works.
Export to a file is a great start. I'm eager to see docs showing the data structure and a list of other services that readily parse that structure.
Consume my data from other sources with open arms, both one shot and updates. There are thousands of services supporting feeds, activity streams, directories, etc.
Flipping that around, App.net should also push my my App.net life updates to other services.
Disclosure on where in the physical world my App.net data is kept and flows. Maybe even choice of where. This matters when servers are subject to national court, law enforcement, and intelligence orders and to government censorship regimes.
Effective due process regarding App.net choosing to disable or kill my account. It's your business and you have the power to shut down any user or developer. How will you assure eviction is fair and seen as fair?
Controlling how my identity is presented to different publics within App.net. Is it "one account, one persona" or can I use one account to interact with my work, family, geek, cosplay, or political publics in ways I can tailor for each? We use faceted identity in the real world and need you to model it.
Discussion of who "owns" what in co-created content. Will you permit deletions to leave holes in a threaded conversation? Will you let me delete a photo I post and then delete it from other's accounts even if others reshared it?
We will align our financial incentives with members & developers.
In this paid model, the more people that value our service highly enough to pay for it, the more money we make. Our financial incentives are entirely tied to successfully delivering a service you can depend on, not on holding our ecosystem hostage.
Shoplifting is driven by value, opportunity, and perceived risk. So is having a service abuse user trust. Aligning financial incentives is a strong step to backing up data portability promises.
App.net employees spend 100% of their time improving our services for you, not advertisers.
Rather than waste most of our engineering time coming up with new and exciting ways to sell your personal data to advertisers, 100% of our engineering and product team will be focused on building the most innovative and reliable service we can.
This is about return on membership fees more than data portability. Still nice, though.
We will operate a sustainable, predictable business.
App.net will always have a clear business model. We know that depending on services that could go away or desperately squeeze users for more and more money is a toxic cycle.
We want our ecosystem to rest easy that App.net is built on a financially solid foundation.
Oceans of personal data are lost as companies kill products, turn off servers, or shut down their businesses. Business viability directly supports user-centric data portability. Other things can go wrong but at least there should be cash to pay for a graceful exit if things go badly.
We believe that developers building on our platform are increasing the value and attractiveness of our service to paying members, and thus our financial interests are fundamentally aligned. We hope developers build large, robust businesses on top of our platform. Even if it means that we will likely forgo some huge future revenue streams, we will NEVER screw developers acting in good faith.
This is a path of potential conflict: App.net's promises to users vs. developers.
Will App.net build its personal data portability pledges into developer API terms of service? How strongly will those commitments be communicated? How will they be validated and abuses reported? What sanctions are set for abusers? What forms of redress will App.net enable for users? It's easier to have these conversations in alpha.
Many people have become so cynical about user-hostile, privacy-violating social services that they refuse to participate at all. We can understand why. Earning your trust is the most important thing we can do. It won't be easy, and we will make some mistakes, but we will do our best to be honest and transparent.
These are bold values to hold. Eager to see what they look like in your user and developer Terms of Service. Congrats on your launch.
Filed under: thinking outside the box with Data Portability.


Day 4 takes us north of Auckland to Whangarei (pronounced Faung-er-ray), home to the impressive Abbey Caves and Whangarei Falls. Our Farmstay family was nice enough to drop us off there for several hours without our huge packs so we could easily explore. Armed with cameras, lume cubes, and our go pro, we set out to explore these free caves. The organ cave is the largest, with cavernous ceilings lined with hundreds of glowworms. As we waded through the sometimes waist-deep black water, we found stalagmites and new passageways at each turn. 3 hours later, our eyes straining to adjust to bright again, we more or less thoroughly explored all 3 caves in the region.
About another 10 min drive from the caves lies Whangarei Falls, one of the prettiest waterfalls I've laid my eyes on. You can easily park at the top and walk the 5 min to the bottom, or take the 45 min trail up the road that snakes through bush to the falls. Adding to this scenic, picnic-perfect spot, we eyed a Cormorant clearly posing for the cover of Audubon.
Re-discovering your travel blog! So awesome!


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Right before Thanksgiving there was a star wars extravaganza at our public library and Jake couldn't wait to go. He wanted to wear his storm trooper costume so bad! He loved posing with the "actors" for this picture.
wow! that costume is amazing!!!


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Major fix and Kentico optimisation for global IT consultancy
Undertaking a 'major fix' and Kentico rebuild project
The Berkeley Partnership turned to us for a bit of help with their website. It had gone live in 2007 and, despite being developed in Kentico, was a millstone around their necks. Because of the way it had been built, updating and changing things was a nightmare: it demanded a level of technical knowledge that The Berkeley Partnership didn't have.
We talked through exactly what The Berkeley Partnership wanted to do, and explained our recommendations for design and development changes that would enable them to easily manage the site themselves. This included changes to allow for easier control, a more flexible layout, and better workflow.
Kentico Development
The Berkeley Partnership - a specialist, independent management consultancy
The Berkeley Partnership is an independent management consultancy. They support some of the world's leading businesses, working at the heart of their most difficult projects and programmes. Founded in 1990, Berkeley now employ over 80 consultants and work with leading brands such as Unilever, The Post Office, M&G Investments and Royal Mail to name just a few.
First of all, we talked through exactly what The Berkeley Partnership wanted to do, and explained our recommendations for design and development changes. This was hugely important because once we'd finished development they'd be managing the site themselves. Once we had got to grips with the requirements and what the previous agency had built, we could take it apart and rebuild it to be much, much easier to use.
Discovery and rebuild
Easier to control
We simplified the administration required to maintain each page (and trained the client on how to use it) to give far more control over page templates.
We improved the on-page layout and document templates to be more versatile.
More flexible layout
Consistent styles
We set up the page editor to include pre-configured styles so users don't need to know any HTML.
A structured workflow and version control mean junior staff members can add content for senior staff to approve before it goes live.
Improved workflow
The new site has made a real difference: more control means that The Berkeley Partnership are making the most of it.
So rather than a site that feels neglected, they're regularly adding content and publishing articles. And that means more engaged customers and better search engine results.
Better still, the site gives them a platform on which to continue enhancing other business functions, such as an application tracking system for their continual recruitment efforts, and dynamic strategy questionnaire module to attract new business enquiries.
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At last, the snow cleared enough to get out of the village and just in time too, as I was booked on to the Winter ML refresher at Glenmore Lodge at the weekend. So I thought I'd bimble up Ben Wyvis on the way across on the Friday. The forecast was for light snow showers and winds gusting to 60mph. Still benign for this area but a bit wilder than anticipated. I hadn't been up Wyvis in yonks but apparently there's a spiffing path all the way but from the word go it was slushy snow lower down with the path disappearing once I was out of the trees and I just plodded up squishy snow fields to the foot of the steeps of An Cabar.
From then on the going was superb on steep hard snow. Just perfect for kicking steps on the what seemed like endless ascent to the top where I huddled behind the cairn to get out of the wind. The summit area of Ben Wyvis is a giant plateau so I'd planned to give the GPS a real test. Now, this might sound a bit weird coming from someone who's working towards Winter ML but I downloaded the GPS route from WalkHighlands and used that navigate across the plateau.
Nice and broad, not near any cornices and with map and compass backup, I strode off into the whiteness. The forecast was for the wind to abate during the day but by now it had closed in and visibility was 5m at best and quite often whiteout. All I could see at times were the ripples in the snow round my boots and nothing else. In fact, it seemed to be the same all over the area as Chris Townsend reported the same conditions in the 'gorms. 2kph was all I could manage in the whiteouts.
I had fresh batteries in the GPS and I knew roughly where I was and could get back by map and compass but I realised that using a GPS to navigate in winter takes balls. I have the most basic model that supports USB and it has the type of compass on it that requires you to be moving for it to work, so when you start walking after a quick look at the map, the needle jumps all over the place and you stagger around, a slave to its indecision, until you're walking fast enough for it to work. It also doesn't like being moved around too much. When I let it hang down by my side it went haywire and took a while to settle down again. Not a nice feeling in a whiteout, watching an electronic needle have a panic attack!
Eventually I started to come up to the narrowing of the plateau just above 1000m and as it was down to less than 5m viz I decided to call it day. I couldn't see a thing and I knew there would be cornices approaching and the GPS had +/- 10m showing, which was enough for me to become airborne as I couldn't see the edge. In fact, at one point I was doing the March of the Greek Guards, as the ground seemed to be rising but was in fact flat. So I'd prepare to step up and then do the funny walk until I realised I wasn't walking downhill either. If I was with a group, I'd have got the rope out and found and followed the edge (which we did a couple of days later) but on my own I thought otherwise.
So the next task was to reverse the route. A few button presses and searching of menus (it's best to work this out the night before!) and the GPS was in reverse mode but when I turned round to face the whiteout the needle was still pointing the other way. Even when I started walking, following the un-pointy end of the needle, it still insisted I was heading the wrong way, until it realised itself what was happening and flipped the right way round. That took about 10m of walking to sort itself out. Then there was the interesting route back. I presumed I'd be following my own footsteps back, exactly, as I was following the exact route but in reverse. Well, not quite. There were 3 0r 4 diversions on the way back. I'd be following the needle and my footsteps when the GPS would take me off on a loop. It didn't seem like a loop when it started, more a "where on earth is it going" moment until about 100m later it veered back onto the line of footprints. But to be fair it took me exactly back to the cairn at around 950m and straight back to An Cabar, just with a few diversions from the outward route.
So that was that. I was impressed by the accuracy of the GPS but I didn't like its hesitancy to find the route after a stop and I thought it had packed in when I reversed the route. If a GPS is your only navigational tool in winter, you're either mad or madder than you think. It gives you a, not false, but more ballsy sense of security I think. All those flashing dials and screens and beeping noises as you pass and leave proximity waypoints make you think it knows what it's doing and in the main, it does. It's an impressive piece of kit and it's a Garnin GPS 60. The most basic USB model, with a naff compass, no maps but good battery life. But. If I'd stumbled while doing the Greek walk, dropped it and it slid out of view, which would only have meant 6m. End of. It was a very scary thought, relying on that collection of electronic bits 'n bobs to find my way in a whiteout. I was glad I had the map and compass and was tracking my progress using them, just to make sure. And I had two sets of spare batteries but here's a thought. A GPS is a sensitive bag of electronics and I carry mine in an Ortlieb case but changing the batteries means exposing it to the elements. Exposing its innards as you have to take the battery cover off. I didn't like that thought.
So that was that, a grand day out and the cloud had lowered and heavyish snow was blowing from a leaden sky as I cramponned down the An Cabar steeps, off to Glenmore for a weekend of real navigation, following corniced edges (where I got to jump off the cliff on Fiacaill a'Choire Chais!) to show how to climb back up the rope! Digging holes and snow graves, more navigation and stompers and abseiling off bollards. Wonderful stuff! And just to remind myself I could navigate without a GPS I hit the top of the ski tow in 5m viz from Ciste Mhearad spot on. Mwah!


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Pirkey Avot, the lessons of the first generations of rabbis (200 BCE-200 CE), is the most popular and oft-quoted rabbinic book. Its practical proverbs in uncomplicated language made it user-friendly to many more people than scholars.
This class will focus on Pirkey Avot's most general advice on how to be a mensch, a "stand-up" person, and sometimes a hero. A quarter of the book is devoted to these kinds of sayings, meaningful to Jews as well as people of all faiths and traditions.
Texts will be from Rabbi Cartun's illustrated translation and commentary, called Family Stories: Pirkey Avot v'Immahot ("lessons of our fathers and mothers"). Having taught Pirkey Avot for many years, he noticed that available translations & commentaries were formal, often preachy, and exclusively male-oriented. So he made his own version for youth and adult education: in modern gender-inclusive plain English, with illustrations showing people in all of our human diversity. Its commentary is based on questions and explanations, not sermons.
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Japan claimed a golden double in bouldering finals at the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Youth World Championships in Moscow today.
Stefan Küng produced a superb time trial to win stage two of the BinckBank Tour in Venray today.
A joint cheering squad is being assembled to support the unified Korean team at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games later this month.
p1440, a new event series co-founded by beach volleyball legend Kerri Walsh-Jennings, has partnered with the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) for the first time to host the Las Vegas Open in October.
A "Mr Paraguay" bodybuilding competition held in Asunción has been hailed as good preparation for the city hosting the South American Championship at the end of this month.
Hosts Mauritius, Madagascar and Algeria were among the winners on the opening days of the African Weightlifting Championships in Mahébourg.
Top seeds David Horn and Paola Longoria each continued winning form as group stage action was completed at the 19th International Racquetball Federation World Championships in San José.
Francesco Bocciardo was among Para-swimmers to break world records on day one of the European Championships in Dublin's National Aquatic Centre.
Steve Smith has returned to the top of the International Cricket Council's Test batting rankings despite still serving a 12-month ban from the sport.
Top seeds began in dominant fashion on the opening days of the Boccia International Sports Federation (BISFed) World Championships in Liverpool.


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Will Smith: Jada and I 'Broke Up Within Our Marriage and Got Back Together Again'
By Sarah Hearon
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at The Vanity Fair Oscar Party in West Hollywood, California on March 2, 2014 Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Putting the pieces back together. Will Smith and Jada Pickett Smith once hit rock bottom and "broke up" during their 20-year marriage, but according to the pair, divorce was never an option.
Relive Everything Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith Have Said About Their Marriage
The low point for the pair started at her 40th birthday in 2011 after Smith hired Mary J. Blige to perform and put together a video of never-before-seen clips of Pinkett Smith's late grandmother.
"She's like, it's my birthday and she told me that the party was the most ridiculous display of my ego," the 50-year-old actor admitted during a Monday, October 29, appearance on his wife's Facebook Watch series, Red Table Talk. "Crushed, right? And to this day I know I was crushed because it was true. It wasn't a party for her. When she called me on that, that's when I snapped and that's the only time you ever heard me snap. I snapped in front of Willow and Willow starts crying and she's like, 'Just figure it out.'"
Celebrity Splits of 2018
Smith had another moment of clarity after Willow, 17, wanted to quit touring amid the success of her 2010 hit "Whip My Hair." He said she shaved off all her hair in a "deep protest," adding, "I was building what I wanted for her and she tried all the different ways to say I don't want that."
"I saw for the first time what Jada had been saying the whole time about hiding behind my ego, my dreams and my desires and pretending like it's love. And I realized [Jada] wanted none of the stuff I had built," he continued. "The house was too big, there was always too many people here, she didn't want to travel the way we traveled. She didn't want all of her kids to be getting trolled on Twitter. She didn't want any of that."
Pickett Smith, 47, then weighed in: "And there was a decline from there."
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith at the premiere of 'Focus' in Hollywood, California on February 24, 2015. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
"To have to let go of the picture, to have to let go of the dream was devastating. We essentially had to destroy our marriage," Smith explained.
Contrary to reports at the the time, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air alum and the Girls Trip star maintained that divorce was never on the table.
"I had never even seen a divorce lawyer! It never even crossed my mind," Pinkett Smith said after her husband noted he was "reading in the tabloids that we were getting divorced."
Celebrity Couples and How They First Met: Love Story Beginnings
"Because I had been divorced before, I wasn't getting divorced again. Divorce wasn't an option," Smith, who was married to Sheree Zampino from 1992 to 1995 added. "I was devastated even worse than a divorce. We broke up within our marriage and got back together again. We had to rebuild with new rules and something way, completely different."
Smith and Pickett Smith, who tied the knot in 1997, are also parents of son Jaden, 20. The Aladdin star also shares 25-year-old Trey with Zampino.
"Ultimately to have a successful relationship, you have to have a relationship with a human being," Pinkett Smith explained.
The rapper concluded: "Will Smith is a character, but deep down inside I was an insecure little boy who wanted Jada to say I was great and if she didn't say I was great, the dragon came out."
At the end of Monday's two-part episode, the twosome also cleared up rumors about their relationship, with Smith noting, "We've never been Scientologists, we've never been swingers."


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There are numerous articles and papers that cover many different aspects of the Napoleonic Campaigns and Battles. There are memoirs, orders-of-battle, doctrine, and battlefield tours among others. There are are so many, we decided to list only those that dealt with specific battles and campaigns in this section. However, so that you can find all related documents, we have developed a Military Cross Reference Index. If you can not find the information you are looking for in the list below, check our Index.
La Maddalena, 22/25 February 1793. The baptism of fire for a young Lieutenant Colonel, a certain Napoleone Di Buonaparte from Ajaccio.
An overview of Russia's involvment in the Revolutionary Wars.
Did the French cavalry really capture the ice-bound Dutch fleet?
The impact of the Franco-Austrian Campaign on the Republic of Venice.
The impact of the French occupation on the people of Verona.
Diving into the vast material of the Vienna Kriegsarchiv, Bernhard Voykowitsch found the Austrian orders of battle and reports.
A look at the British fortifications built in the Napoleonic Wars, designed to prevent an invasion and manned by the Royal Artillery.
A collection of primary source documents showing how the British government prepared for a possible French invasion.
The ships and their commanders.
The struggle for Malta during the Napoleonic Wars.
The struggle for Egypt from a Mameluk's perspective.
A look at the forces, personalities, and battles of this pivotal campaign in Napoleon's career.
A little known, but important battle that preceded the battle of the Pyramids.
Bonaparte's campaign against the Ottoman Empire in Palestine.
The battle where the young future Duke of Wellington, beat the Sultan Tippoo. In French.
Note: This paper won an Honorable Mention in the Best General History Category of the 2004 Napoleon Series Writing Contest!
A look at the battles in the Alps.
What really happened at Marengo. . .
General Jean Boudet commanded a division in the Marengo Campaign.
Did the Consular Guard turn and run at Marengo?
A brief overview of the battle.
A contemporary account of how the French artillery was carried through the Grand Saint Bernard Pass.
What happened in Egypt after Napoleon left. In French.
Tom Holmberg shows that the Napoleonic Wars were truly a world war in his article about a disastrous retreat during the the Second Anglo-Maratha War in India.
British frigates intercept the Spanish gold fleet!
A pair of articles dealing with the Russian presence in the Mediterranean.
These are figures based on the after-action reports of the Russian commanders.
These are figures based on the after-action reports of the Russian artillery commanders.
Information on Russian casualties and what happened to the thousands of wounded left behind in French care.
A detailed order-of-battle down to regimental size units.
Order-of-Battle of the Dutch troops defending the Cape of Good Hope.
Although many marshals and generals of the Napoleonic Wars have left memoirs of the events they participated in, they rarely include actual sets of orders that they received that led up to these events. The following are the orders Marshal Davout received from Imperial Headquarters in the week prior to the battle and in some cases his response to those orders.
A look at why were the Prussians so deficient in their light infantry arm during the 1806 campaign.
The Orders-of-Battle for the Prussian- Saxon forces at Auerstadt and Jena.
The next three articles won the 2002 Napoleon Series Writing Contest "Best Military Paper Award"!
Cavalry combat between French and Russian forces in the early stages of the Campaign in Poland.
Detailed orders-of-battles for the French forces.
Baron Benningsen was the over-all Russian commander, and was expected to make periodic reports to the Czar. Written a week before the battle of Eylau, it shows the rather optimistic view of the Russian commander.
Did the French 9th Light Infantry Regiment lose their Eagle at the battle of Mohrungen?
The battle as seen through the eyes of a Russian officer.
A reprint and translation of the 1807 book: "Precis Des Travaux de la Grande Armee, Par Ordre de Dates; Avec un Expose des principaux faits qui se sont passses pendant la glorieuse et memorable Campagne de 1806 a 1807, depuis le depart de S. M. I. NAPOLEON-LE-GRAND, jusqu'a la bataille d Eylau."
An indepth study of the French Cavalry in the 1807 Polish Campaign.
Denmark waged a war against American shipping in the North and Baltic Seas, causing huge losses to the U.S. merchant fleet.
First published in 1838, a look at the French invasion of Portugal in 1807 - 1808.
During the battle of Friedland, General Senarmont improvised a new artillery tactic to crush the Russian forces to his front. This artillery assault was one of the most aggressive artillery actions of the Napoleonic Wars.
A detailed order-of-battle of the Russian and Prussian forces.
A detailed order-of-battle of the French forces.
Marshal Mortier's VIII Corps invaded Swedish Pomerania in January, 1807. The 2nd Dutch Hussars participated although a chevaux-leger regiment did most of the fighting. During the blockade of Stralsund in February-March a large area of Pomerania was nearly unoccupied and was not asked to make contributions. On 1 April, the Swedes made a breakout. The fighting was not very bloody, but it was noisy.
How the little island of Dänholmen guarding the harbour of Stralsund was transformed into the outpost of the Swedish Army.
A look at the arrival and departure of the British regiments in Wellington's Army in the Peninsula.
Combats, sieges, and battles that the Portuguese Army fought in.
Without declaring war on Sweden, Russian troops crossed the border to Finland on February 21, 1808. That day, a Sunday, Swedish Major Gustav Arnkihl, of the Nyland Dragoons - who was posted at the border - signed a report to the brigade command. "...that the Russians have crossed the border at 5 o'clock today, with a considerable force..." The union's last war had begun.
A detailed look at Wellington's first battle in the Peninsula War.
A fresh look at the documents relating to the Capitulation of Bailen of 1808 and to the resulting Imperial Enquiry of 1812.
A little known British operation along the east coast of Spain.
Note: This paper won an Honorable Mention in the Best Publication and/or Translation into English of New Archival Material or Books Long Out of Print Category of the 2006 Napoleon Series Writing Contest!
An eyewitness account of the early days of the French invasion of Spain, including a detailed description of Bailen.
The British expeditionary force that was sent to the Iberian Peninsula underwent numerous changes in its organization in its first year there. Ron McGuigan has done a superb job tracking all of the changes in the order-of-battle!
During the Napoleonic Wars, there were numerous raids and attacks by British forces on French held islands in the Mediterranean Sea. This piece, written in French, provides detailed information on the attack on Capri and includes orders-of-battle and numerous black and white illustrations of the uniforms of the participants.
An eyewitness accountof the battle of Bailén.
A look at some of the factors in the Spanish popular uprising in 1808.
How maps or the lack of maps affected the outcome of campaigns in the Peninsular War.
What happened to trophies captured by the Spanish at Bailen.
French units and uniforms at the siege of Saragosa.
Four actions in 1808 in Finland.
A look at the little known Swedish invasion of Norway.
A little known unit of the British Army during the Walcheren Expedition.
The epidemic that devastated the British Army in 1809.
The organization of the British Force that invaded the Low Countries in 1809.
First published in 1832, this article provides technical detail on how the Danube was bridged in two separate operations.
Translation of a Spanish article.
A little know battle of 1809.
There were many British general officers serving in the Iberian Peninsula in 1809. Some had local rank and others permanent rank. Ron McGuigan does an excellent job sorting it all out!
The role the Spanish blatted in the battle of Talavera.
A comprehensive order-of-battle down to the regimental level.
The battle seen through the eyes of a commissary officer in the Italian Royal Guards.
Were Napoleon's methods of motivating his troops justified?
A look at an all but forgotten hero of the 1809 Campaign in Italy.
A little known action in Italy.
A vicious combat in northern Italy.
A look at what troops were sent by the minor German States and the Kingdom of Holland to support Napoleon's invasion of Spain.
A detailed examination of the defense of Cadiz.
The River Coa, Spain; 24 July 1810. The famous Light Division of the British Army is nearly cut-off and destroyed by a surprise attack by French forces under Marshal Ney.
How Marshal MacDonald attempted to impose discipline on his army and prevent needless deaths by insurgents.
This paper examines the Russian campaign of 1810 against the Ottoman Empire and how it set the stage for Russian embroilment in the region.
An account of the battle of Fuengirola, where a small Polish detachment beats a much larger British force.
The story of Marshal Stockpot!
An overiew of the famous defensive lines outside of Lisbon, Portugal.
A rare eyewitness account of the siege of Badajoz from a civilian inside the city.
Primary source relating to the battle.
A letter written shortly after the battle by a junior officer.
The battle, as seen from a private's viewpoint.
The battle, from the Spanish perspective.
A look at the colours lost by the combattants at the battle of Albuera.
Desertion in the French Army in Portugal. . .
A little known, but vicious cavalry fight during the Peninsula War.
How Napoleon found horses to expand his cavalry for the invasion of Russia.
This paper won "Best Military Paper: Honorable Mention" in the 2003 Napoleon Series Writing Contest!
A look at how the French treated the Spanish who surrendered at Valencia.
The impact of rivers on the French Army in the 1812 Campaign.
An alternate view of the reason why Napoleon invaded Russia.
How Many Troops Did Napoleon Have on the Niemen in 1812?
A look at how accurate are the accepted strength figures are.
A major paper on the internal divisions in the Russian high command during the early days of the 1812 Campaign.
Orders-of-Battle, primary source documents, and articles about the battle.
This paper won an Honorable Mention in Best Military Paper Category in the 2005 Napoleon Series Writing Contest!
What the British captured in six years of fighting.
A look at the French infantry order-of-battle at Borodino and the officers who led them.
Order-of-Battle of the Anglo-Allied Artillery at this key battle of the Peninsula War.
An account of the Battle of Hanau. Article only available in French.
Contemporary prints of the Cossacks in Holland in 1813!
A detailed listing of the Allied units.
A huge order-of-battle that covers all of the Allied forces!
A massive order-of-battle that covers all of the French and their Allies!
A Dutch merchant's encounter with Cossacks in Holland.
How the British assembled their force that would move into Holland. . .
The British expedition in support of the Allies move against France.
A look at a little known cavalry action in 1814. In French.
One of the on-going debates is why the French people still supported Napoleon in 1814 and then welcomed him back in 1815. Three contemporary testimonials were written by French civilians about the occupation of their town, Nogent-sur-Seine, by Russian Cossacks in February 1814. Are they eyewitness accounts at their best or is it propaganda?
Rather than accepting a union with Sweden, the Norwegians fought for their independence.
Maurice Weil's famous study of the 1814 Campaign in eastern France.
Copies of the Theatre Returns submitted on the 25th of each month.
The Spanish liaison officer to Wellington's Headquarters Account of the battle that was published by the Madrid Gazette on 13 July 1815.
As published in the London Gazette.
The Netherlands contribution to this key battle of the 1815 Campaign.
A look at the historical maps that were used in the wargame.
Original orders and reports written by senior French officers during the opening days of theWaterloo Campaign -- mostly from 16 June 1815.
A re-look at Marshal Ney's performance at Quatre Bras.
How accurate are his memoirs?
Rare accounts of the battle from two Dutch soldiers and the role of the Dutch in defeating the Imperial Guard.
This is the story of Napoleon's last campaign, culminating in his final defeat at Waterloo.
The definitive order-of-battle for the Allies!! Units and commanders are listed down to battalion and battery level!!!
A 19th Century account of a capture of an unknown French general.
The massive charge by the French cavalry. . .
Was d'Erlon responsible for the fiasco on 16 June?
The definitive order-of-battle for Waterloo!
The definitive order-of-battle for Wavre!
A little studied part of Waterloo.
A series of articles on minor battles between 1794 and 1815. This group of articles is ideal for wargamers looking for detailed orders-of-battle.


A new propulsion method for metallic micro- and nano-objects has been developed by researchers from the Institute of Molecular Sciences (Institut des sciences moléculaires, CNRS/ENSCBP/Universités Bordeaux 1 and 4). The process is based on the novel concept of bipolar electrochemistry: under the influence of an electric field, one end of a metallic object grows while the other end dissolves. Thanks to this permanent self-regeneration, objects can move at speeds of the order of a hundred micrometers per second. This work, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could find applications in fields ranging from nanomedicine to micromechanics.
Several approaches are currently being explored to induce controlled directional motion of nano-or micro-objects. In particular, scientists are studying the use of so-called 'fuel molecules' which, by decomposing, can propel a dissymmetric object. Other potential avenues include reproducing natural systems by mimicking the motion of bacteria or the rotation of well-known biological systems such as ATP synthase.
The advantage of this method is that no conventional fuel is required to induce this motion. Moreover, such micromotors could be adapted so as to push other objects in a predetermined direction and disappear once their task is completed. This novel process opens up new prospects in various fields of application, ranging from micromechanics to nanomedicine.
"The data only recently became available to test the models," said Rosanne D'Arrigo, one of the study's coauthors. "Now, it's obvious there's a lot of work to be done to understand how all these different forces interact." For instance, in some episodes pinpointed by the study, it appears that strong cycles of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which drives temperatures over the Pacific and Indian oceans and is thought to strongly affect the Asian monsoon, might have counteracted eruptions, lessening their drying or moistening effects. But it could work the other way, too, said Anchukaitis; if atmospheric dynamics and volcanic eruptions come together with the right timing, they could reinforce one another, with drastic results. "Then you get flooding or drought, and neither flooding nor drought is good for the people living in those regions," he said. The study also raises questions whether proposed "geoengineering" schemes to counteract manmade climate change with huge artificial releases of volcanism-like particles might have complex unintended consequences.
It's not hard to argue in favor of alternatives to fossil fuels these days, but one popular argument — domestic energy security — may be standing on very shaky legs. A lot of rare metals are needed to make photovoltaic panels, rare earth magnets for wind generators, fuel cells and high-capacity batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. But most industrialized nations, including the United States, are almost entirely dependent on foreign sources for those metals. The only way this is going to change is if there is more domestic exploration and mining.
"There's a misunderstanding in the public about moving to alternative energy and moving from mining, which can't be done," said James Burnell of the Colorado Geological Survey.
There is a long list of scarce metals needed for alternative energy and transportation. Metals like gallium, indium, selenium, tellurium, and high purity silicon are needed to make photovoltaic panels. To make batteries there's zinc, vanadium, lithium and rare earth elements as well as platinum group minerals for fuel cell-powered vehicles. One of the biggest players in the scarce metals game is China, and they are starting to play hard ball, says Burnell.
China is preparing to build 330 giga-watts worth of wind generators. That will require about 59,000 tons of neodymium to make high-strength magnets — more than that country's annual output of neodymium. China supplies the world with a lot of those rare earth elements, like neodymium, and will have little or none to export if it moves ahead with its wind power plans.
"So the source for the West is problematical," said Burnell. Trade wars are on the horizon, he predicted. Yet policy makers and the public seem only superficially aware of the problem.
"It is obvious that Japan was upset by the practical pause of rare earth export by China in late September," said Yasushi Watanabe of the Institute for Geo-Resources and Environment in Tsukuba, Japan.
New sources of these critical metals are needed, said Watanabe, as well as new methods for extracting the rare elements from different kinds of rocks.
"Extraction methods of metals from new minerals and materials are not well established," said Watanabe. "We need to develop new (refining) and smelting methods for new type ores."
We also need to find those ores and start exploiting them, said Burnell. That means more mining. It's the only way we can stay competitive in the new energy future.


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Jennifer Lawrence fuming at Amy Schumer's baby as she demands answers over The Handmaid's Tale
Adam StarkeyWednesday 19 Jun 2019 11:24 am
Jennifer Lawrence just wants answers to The Handmaid's Tale, Amy (Picture: Getty)
It's always hard when a close friend's spare time is swallowed up by the demands of parenthood, especially when you want some damn answers for The Handmaid's Tale.
Jennifer Lawrence, 28, is the latest victim to this epidemic issue courtesy of pal Amy Schumer – who failed to answer the actor's desperate plea for a quick recap on the show's first season.
In a text exchange posted on Schumer's Instagram stories, Jennifer is seen jokingly writing to the comedian: 'You up? I have questions about hand maid's tale. It's an emergency.
'Amy!!! What did she do on season 1 to deserve being in the gallows on season 2.'
(Picture: Instagram)
After not getting a response, Jennifer joked: 'I can't remember where I left off. Are you asleep bc of the baby??? Are you asleep before 11? Is this bc of the baby? Don't make me resent the baby.
'Wow. Ur really asleep before 11. I'll be damned.'
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Posting over the image, Schumer wrote: 'Everybody keeping their cool about me having a baby.'
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The Handmaid's Tale is in its third season (Picture: Hulu)
In case you're wondering why June/Offred (Elisabeth Moss) was sent to the gallows in season two, it was after she resisted orders to stone to death one of her fellow handmaids. We got your back, Jen.
Elisabeth recently bagged a gong at the MTV Movie and TV Awards for her role in the show, which is in its third season.
Schumer welcomed her first child with husband Chris Fischer back in May this year, the same day as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced the arrival of their son.
The Handmaid's Tale is available on All 4 in the UK, and streams on Hulu in the US.
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Your chance to get Williamson Rock re-opened!
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/angeles/projects/
Scoping Notice: Williamson Rock Temporary Closure Resolution
The Angeles National Forest is asking for Public comments on a proposal to resolve the existing temporary closure in the Williamson Rock vicinity.
Williamson Rock is located on National Forest System lands within the Santa Clara-Mojave Rivers Ranger District, in upper Little Rock Canyon, Los Angeles County, California. The proposed action involves portions of T. 3N, R. 9W, Section 7, and T. 3N, R. 10W, Sections 11, 12, 13, and 14, SBM. The proposed action would reopen the area to dispersed recreation while providing required protection for Federally-listed biological species. The Forest is soliciting public input for the issues to be addressed in the environmental analysis.
Comments must be received within 45 days from the publication date of this notice (09/12). This comment period provides interested parties, including those affected by the proposal, an opportunity to make their concerns known. Comments may be mailed to Williamson Rock ID Team, ATTN: Darrell Vance, Angeles National Forest, 701 N. Santa Anita Ave, Arcadia, CA 91006, or electronically at dvance@fs.fed.us.
It looks like the USFS is finally going to take some action and are asking for public opinion. If all the folks that read this send a note to:
dvance@fs.fed.us
it will be hard for them to continue to deny our access to this valuable climbing resource
-wayne
(This post was edited by pud on Oct 4, 2009, 1:17 PM)
hstewart
Re: [pud] Your chance to get Williamson Rock re-opened! [In reply to]
Access Fund just posted this as an action alert on their webiste. You can submit comments quickly and easily using their advocacy tool with a pre-drafted letter that you can customize. It literally takes 60 seconds to submit comments.
http://www.accessfund.org/action
Thanks for posting this up, Wayne.
Recently the US Forest Service released their proposed actions for reopening Williamson Rock. You can find the scoping letter at the end of this post.
Speaking on behalf of Friends of Williamson Rock, we are in general agreement with the proposed actions stated in the scoping letter. This compromise was arrived at after many discussion with the USFS, Access Fund, a few field trips, and a lot of work. Big thanks to Troy Mayr for putting the time in and not letting this go, and big thanks to the people at USFS who really are trying to make tough decisions about what's best for the forest and the people who use it.
Thanks also to all the hundreds of local climbers who respected the closure.
FoWR would like to ask you to write in with your support of the proposed actions. Letters on paper with stamps always carry more weight than email, so print that puppy out, put a stamp on it, and send it off before October 26. Email is good too.
You can find the FoWR position at
http://williamsonrock.org/blog/?p=137
An email generator and sample words can be found at
http://www.accessfund.org/...208267&aid=13208
Please mail your letter to:
Angeles National Forest
Williamson Rock ID Team
ATTN: Darrell Vance
701 N. Santa Anita Ave
Some general writing points (put into your own words):
You are in support of the proposed actions.
State why climbing at Williamson is important to you, the beauty of the area etc.
Climbers (you) respect and care for the natural areas in which we climb and are committed to access and conservation.
Climbers are good stewards of the area.
Climbers are willing to work with the USFS and other agencies to mitigate the problem.
Williamson is a very valuable resource to climbers (no alternative crag like it).
Include your contact info (include name, address and email)
Brent Ware
on behalf of the Board of Directors, FoWR
From the USFS:
Proposed Action
In meeting the needs for action, the following measures are being proposed:
Development of facilities along Angeles Crest Highway to create a focal point for recreation management, and provide basic public needs for parking and sanitation.
•	A trailhead and parking area will be developed at the existing large turnout in the saddle on Kratka Ridge, on the north side of CA-2 (T. 3N, R.10W, SW ¼ NW ¼ Section 11). The designated parking area will be striped to facilitate management.
•	As part of the trailhead, a 'sweet smelling' toilet (SST) shall be installed at the parking area to limit human waste disposal in the vicinity of Little Rock Creek. In addition, bear-proof trash bins will be installed at the trailhead to reduce the potential for garbage deposition in the area.
•	An information kiosk shall be provided to explain the sensitivities of the Williamson Rock vicinity and promote eco-friendly activities and 'Leave No Trace' principles. A map board will also show the areas that are off-limits to recreational use.
•	All other pullouts and potential access points from along CA-2, between Eagles Roost Picnic Area and the proposed Kratka Ridge trailhead, will be physically closed and (where warranted) rehabilitated to prevent unrestricted access to the upper Little Rock Creek vicinity.
Designation and development of a single access trail to Williamson Rock to protect the quality of the visitor experience, promote human safety, and promote the recovery of species.
•	The 'Long Trail', which runs approximately 0.9 miles from the Kratka Ridge saddle to Williamson Rock (T. 3N, R. 10W, SW ¼ NW ¼ Section 11, & N ½ NE ¼ Section 12), shall be constructed. This trail, which provides both scenic and reasonably safe access to Williamson Rock from CA-2, shall be designated 'Hiker only' to enhance the primitive setting of the area. This is consistent with the Angeles NF Strategy of the Southern California National Forest Plan, which permits low impact recreational activities in Critical Biological Areas, such as Little Rock Creek. Trail alignment and design will be consistent with Forest Service Manual and Handbook direction. No dispersed camping will be allowed within the Williamson Rock vicinity.
•	Signage and barriers will be strategically emplaced to keep traffic on the trail. An area closure will be enacted to limit through traffic along the trail to the Williamson Rock vicinity only. Two drainage crossings exist on the designated route through areas that do not carry appreciable water during the climbing season and are not within MYLF-occupied habitat. These will be direct, perpendicular crossings with identified (and signed) closures outside the designated crossing areas.
•	All other Williamson Rock 'user-created' braided trails and paths along scree slopes, which have historically provided direct access into MYLF habitat, will be subject to closure and (where warranted) limited rehabilitation at their outlets. The routes' closure, combined with implementation of visible signage and physical obstructions, shall remove direct public access to the creek at the base of Williamson Rock.
Designation and development of a primary staging area in order to manage recreational use at Williamson Rock.
•	The Long Trail terminus at the east side of Williamson Rock will receive limited improvement as a staging area for climbing activities: an information kiosk that will display a map of the existing climbing routes available for use and clearly-identified closed areas. Eco-friendly climbing principles (plant and animal avoidance, packing out all garbage, etc.) will also be stressed to aid in public understanding of conservation and recovery needs for the area.
•	An area-appropriate physical barrier will be constructed along the interface of the Williamson Rock staging area and the creek. Appropriate signage will be emplaced at primary access points.
Closure of areas on permanent and seasonal bases, as necessary, to protect the habitat and reproductive success of species.
•	A permanent closure will be implemented for a distance of 50 feet from centerline of Little Rock Creek. In order to preserve the species and its critical habitat, all stream-based rock climbing routes (e.g. the "Stream Wall" and "London Wall") will be permanently closed to reduce the potential for human/frog interaction.
•	To minimize impact to raptors that nest within a portion of the climbing area, portions of the rock may be subject to seasonal closure. Subject closure will consist of a biologist-determined buffer zone for the nesting site, applying to all climbing routes that intersect this zone. Closure shall be carried out in an effort to avoid impacting the birds during nesting season, and enacted on a basis determined by Forest Service monitoring.
Management of recreational use to protect the primitive solitude of climbing and the quality of the visitor experience, as well as perpetuate resource protection in the Williamson Rock vicinity.
•	A Williamson Rock Area Management Plan is under development, with specific procedures for management activities, and enforcement. Climbing-specific measures will include a map of all existing mapped climbing routes, restricted and permitted activities at Williamson Rock, etc.
•	In order to ensure the effectiveness of management, controls will be subject to compliance monitoring. As management feedback dictates, use may be subject to limitation, both in time, season and numbers. Specific use period monitoring will include on-site checks of the trailhead area, stream crossings, and staging area for compliance.
Strategic management to restore habitat and implement recovery actions for TES populations.
•	Management of the human factors within the Williamson Rock vicinity will be coupled with the ongoing regime of biological enhancement activities by the agency to provide species recovery.
In 2002, the ANF participated in creation of the Conservation Assessment and Strategy for management and recovery of the MYLF. Key components of the document include habitat protection and enhancement, inventory, monitoring, database development and data storage, research, information and education, coordination, cooperation and collaboration among management agencies, funding to accomplish goals and objectives, and reporting. The Forest is committed to utilizing that document in management of the Williamson Rock area.
•	Ongoing tri-annual surveys by the USGS of the MYLF populations in the Angeles National Forest and annual supplemental condition surveys will be conducted for all sensitive botanical and biological species within the area by Forest personnel.
•	The Forest will also continue planned projects for fish barriers and removal in the discrete MYLF habitats within the ANF in order to aid in species recovery.
Proposed actions will be designed to retain the natural character of the Williamson Rock area, allow limited recreational rock climbing, while maintaining the habitat characteristics to provide protection for species-at-risk (Forest Plan 2005, Part 2, pp. 10-11). In order to reduce conflicts with recreation activities, infrastructure will be designed to direct use away from sensitive areas (Forest Plan 2005, Part 1, pp. 33-35). Successful management will provide the ecological conditions to sustain viable populations of native species and neutralize or reverse the declining trends in threatened, endangered, proposed, candidate, and sensitive species populations (Forest Plan 2005, Part 2, p. 26).
It is anticipated that an Environmental Assessment and Decision Notice will be prepared in conjunction with this proposed action. The purpose of this letter is to provide you with an opportunity to participate in the environmental analysis for this project. The comment period provides those interested in or affected by the project an opportunity to make their concerns known. NEPA requires that the potential effects of federal actions and possible alternatives to those actions be disclosed to the public. Issues identified during scoping will help determine the range of issues to be considered in the environmental analysis and will help determine whether alternatives to the proposed action should be developed and analyzed.
Your comments must be postmarked or received within 30 days of the date of this letter. Comments may be mailed to the following address:
Darrell Vance, Williamson Rock ID Team
Just a reminder. The deadline is next Monday. We need to get a strong response for this. Last time we had over 500 paper letters written. It ain't a done deal. Write a letter supporting the actions proposed by the USFS, lick the envelope, put a stamp on it, drop it in the mail. All you SoCal locals, step up! All you folks who were driving out to the Quarry at 6 am all summer long because the climbing is DONE at noon, this is your chance to get a high-altitude summer crag afternoon crag re-opened.
The Access Fund online gizmo is good too, as is email, but nothing says love like a letter in the mail.
papa_eos
Re: [bware] Your chance to get Williamson Rock re-opened! [In reply to]
For those not on the taco.
Another 2 years of these climbers going to New Jack, Jtree and Malibu.
dugl33
Re: [papa_eos] Your chance to get Williamson Rock re-opened! [In reply to]
It's probably staring me in the face, but what is the date of the article? Thanks.
snoopy138
Re: [dugl33] Your chance to get Williamson Rock re-opened! [In reply to]
online version, date is yesterday ...
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/...national-forest.html
Re: [snoopy138] Your chance to get Williamson Rock re-opened! [In reply to]
Unfortunately no printer access, but email sent...
Dear Mr. Vance:
I am writing this letter in support of the ongoing dialogue between the Williamson Rock ID Team and the Friends of Williamson Rock and efforts to restore access. Since moving to Ventura, CA, in 2007, I have hoped to visit this spectacular area and enjoy the climbing it has to offer. On the verge of 2010, this hope remains.
Climbers are passionate and dedicated to their sport for a variety of reasons. Consistently, though, I have witnessed a willingness and desire to act as good stewards to the land, with sensitivity to the natural resource, other users, and the environment.
I have spent enough time visiting National Forest, State Park, and National Park lands to come to the conclusion that this attitude is often unique to climbers. In my local Sespe River area it is not uncommon to find piles of used shotgun shells, signs destroyed by gunfire, clay pigeons, etc. I have been amazed at the quantity and variety of trash at local popular swimming holes, from pizza boxes to dirty diapers. These same areas suffer from graffiti and words scratched in the rock. I have never seen a climber act in such an irresponsible manner, and I would go so far as to say it is frequently through the efforts of climbers such areas are cleaned up and maintained.
A person I respect and admire once said, "assume best intentions". This approach has served me well time and time again. My own involvement with Williamson Rock has obviously been very limited, but I have seen a similar spirit of cooperation be very effective for all concerned at The Pinnacles National Monument with regards to climbing management and the California Condor. With the public funds available from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the groundswell of interest and commitment to our shared goals of climbing access and protection of the mountain yellow legged frog habitat, we are facing an ideal opportunity to move forward.
I hope the Angeles National Forest and the climbing community can continue to work together to regain access to this remarkable area. Thank you for your ongoing efforts.
With best intentions,
This shouldn't be a surprise. The closure expires yearly at the end of December - the USFS had to either renew the closure or reopen Williamson. Given the content of the scoping letter, and the construction implied by those terms, Williamson was not going to be opened til late in 2010 best case. Even that was not very plausible since no work is likely until the snow goes away up there. After that, there's roadwork, toilets, trail building, construction down at the climbing area, etc. It's not just a matter of removing a sign and letting climbers have at it.
That said, it doesn't hurt to continue to let the USFS know that this is important to lots of people even with the aftermath of the Station Fire.
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