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Interview: Norman Ohler
14 Apr 2017 Interview
In his new book Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, German author and journalist Norman Ohler documents a compelling facet of Nazi Germany — the regime's systematic drug abuse. Drawing on a wealth of archival research that Norman conducted in Germany and the United States, the book is a gripping look at how the Third Reich used everything from cocaine, heroin, morphine and methamphetamine to boost their soldiers' resilience and keep Hitler himself in a state of dangerous euphoria.
Ahead of his Sydney Writers' Festival appearance, we caught up with Norman to find out more about his work, and what he looks to for refuge in an uncertain world.
SWF: Your book looks at the history of Nazi Germany from the angle of its drug use — what was it about the topic that first drew you in?
Norman Ohler: Reading the notes of Dr. Theo Morell, Hitler's personal physician, at the Federal Archives of Germany was like sitting in a time capsule, going back, and sneaking into the innermost secret room of the regime. I was hooked from the start.
It's an area that hasn't received all that much critical attention from historians and scholars. What's the reaction been like from the academic community?
Ian Kershaw, the leading expert on Hitler, said he found Blitzed 'very good and extremely interesting, a serious piece of scholarship'. Antony Beevor praised Blitzed in his review for The New York Review of Books, and the late Hans Mommsen — perhaps the leading historian on National Socialism in Germany — said the book 'changes the over-all picture.'
What was the most interesting or unexpected fact you discovered in the course of your research?
That the Nazis worked on brainwashing techniques that US intelligence later adopted, and expanded on.
'Non-fiction is a tighter genre, and therefore it might be easier to handle. Then again, what is easy in writing a book?'
— Norman Ohler, author of 'Blitzed'
Who was the most interesting person you spoke to in the course of your research?
I enjoyed talking with Dr. Peter Steinkamp who is a leading expert on meth abuse in the Wehrmacht, and also to Dr. Volker Hartmann from the Bundeswehr, who taught me that the German Navy was also involved in war crimes. And he let me know what drugs the special forces of the current German Army took in Afghanistan.
You started your career writing fiction, and then moved onto non-fiction — which process do you prefer?
Non-fiction is a tighter genre, and therefore it might be easier to handle. Then again, what is easy in writing a book? The novel opens its own vast field — one can get lost. But it can also be very rewarding, and offers fruits a non-fiction book can never yield.
Which writers do you most admire and why?
I love certain books, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. I would love to find out how the latter was researched.
Complete this sentence: For me, refuge is…
…finding peace and quiet.
Is there book (or piece of writing) that you consider to be your sanctuary?
The work of Shakespeare.
What physical environment is your favourite place to read?
The beach, of course.
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Heart-Shaped Hack
Kate and Ian, Book 1
By: Tracey Garvis Graves
Narrated by: Kristin Condon
Series: Kate and Ian, Book 1
Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
4.0 out of 5 stars 4.0 (1 rating)
White-Hot Hack
Ian promised Kate that life with him would never be boring, but spending her days picking out paint colors and going to Pilates isn't going to cut it. Meanwhile, Ian discovers that building a white-hat security firm from the ground up seems harder the second time around, and he might have underestimated how much he'd miss the undercover work he walked away from. To make matters worse, the hacktivists are threatening national security, and the task force could really use Ian's help.
The Girl He Used to Know
Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard, Christopher Ragland
An unusual love. Two broken hearts. What difference does 10 years make? Annika Rose has always been different. Sensory overload is a constant problem for her. She has a hard time reading people and feels lost in social situations. She's a brilliant chess player but can't pull an outfit together to save her life. In her last year of college, she's the weird girl whose only real friend is her roommate, Janice. Then, one day, Jonathan joins the chess club and is immediately captivated by the mysterious girl whose attention is completely fixed on her game.
What a Wonderful Story
On the Island
Narrated by: Heidi Baker
When 30-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island. Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter.
A good listen
By Kathryn on 27-02-2019
The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
By: Josie Silver
Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Two Lives. Two Loves. One Impossible Choice. Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible. But she's wrong. Because on her 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a car accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob 'til her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to live her life well.
Persistence will pay off
A Place Without You
By: Jewel E. Ann
Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Kelsey Navarro
Everything feels temporary when you've experienced tragedy - until Henna Lane meets Bodhi at a music festival. Young and spontaneous, they have a lust for seizing the moment, falling hard and fast. When Bodhi is forced to leave without a goodbye, Henna thinks she'll never get over him. But then she meets Mr. Malone, her sexy, new guidance counselor.
I loved this book
By Kindle Customer on 30-07-2020
Why Mummy Drinks
By: Gill Sims
Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister
Why Mummy Drinks is the brilliant novel from Gill Sims, the author of the online sensation Peter and Jane. It is Mummy's 39th birthday. She is staring down the barrel of a future of people asking if she wants to come to their advanced yoga classes, and polite book clubs where everyone claims to be tiddly after a glass of Pinot Grigio and says things like 'Oooh gosh, are you having another glass?'
one of the funniest and real book ever.
By lucie on 12-01-2019
When Kate Watts opens a food pantry in Minneapolis, she never dreamed it would be this difficult. Facing the prospect of turning hungry people away, she is grateful for the anonymous donations that begin appearing. Determined to identify and thank her secret benefactor, she launches a plan and catches Ian in the act.
Ian intrigues Kate in a way no man ever has. Impressed with her tolerance and captivated by her spirit, he complies and begins to slowly charm his way past her defenses. But Ian has enemies and they're growing restless. When Kate learns exactly how much Ian has paid, she'll discover just how strong her love is for the man who has hacked his way into her heart.
©2015 Tracey Garvis Graves (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC
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What listeners say about Heart-Shaped Hack
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Janet Henderson
I couldn't finish it. I know it's a romance novel, but I like there to be an actual story, not just constant sex. I like a story that is so good that I want to fast forward thru the sex parts to get back to the story.
jodiod
This is why we read romantic audiobooks. Pure joy. My heart warms just thinking of this couple. Sweet, sweet,sweet.
Jae Williams
Delightful and Intriguing! Holds your interest!
Would you listen to Heart-Shaped Hack again? Why?
Sure, it was more than just silly romance and swooning lovers...there was a delicious plot.
What did you like best about this story?
That is held my attention with other things besides just the main story.
Awesome, unique story
The concept is not like others I have read and Tracey has an amazing ability to make you feel all the intended emotions and get wrapped up in her stories. I absolutely loved it.
The ending dragged just a hair but I didn't care because I was so in love with Ian and Kate.
The narrator was fantastic. I think she really nailed the character and her voice crying was what did it in for me. I could feel the pain. The only criticism is that when Ian and Kate would have a discussion, I would sometimes get lost because there was no difference in her male/female voice.
Another Winner from Garvis-Graves
It's official. I adore Tracey Garvis-Graves books. The woman can write.
With this book, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. When you read a lot of this kind of romance, you can usually predict the plot twist and this one wasn't a surprise. But the way the whole thing is written - and the way it was narrated on audio - were really moving. Garvis-Graves is really able to communicate the dynamic of a romantic relationship.
It was also interesting to hear about the world of hackers. Although it was a very basic overview, the lives of cyber criminals was fascinating. I'm not even sure I want to know more because it might scare me to death - the way they could ruin our world so quickly.
On audio, Kristin Condon was both good and bad. Her interpretation of dialogue was spot on and she really set the atmosphere for the book. However, her distinction between voices left a lot to be desired. There were times I wondered who was speaking because there was no vocal difference between Kate and Ian. On the other hand, her voicing of Kate nearly had me in tears. She took great writing and really improved it.
This author's debut novel, On the Island, is one of my favourite books. Now I can't wait to read everything else she's written.
Skylar Widmore
Ridiculously cute banter
I adore Kate and Ian, especially when they are together and bantering back and forth about his lack of boundaries and her sweetness. I love books that make me "LOL" (yes, Ian, I wrote that), but I was surprised that this book also made me cry. Strong writing that will definitely evoke your emotions.
Any additional comments?
I'm not sure if I got a bad audio copy, but there were certain lines that when read by the narrator sounded as if they had been recorded through a cell phone. It was kind of distracting, and I'm going to try re-downloading the book.
SleepyMommy01
Great love story
Highly recommend it. Funny and heartwarming just like I like my romance. I love Kate and Ian's story.
Amanda R
I've been wanting to read this one for a while and am so glad I did. A sweet romance with some unexpected twists to keep your interest and leave you wanting more.
Hard to overstate how terrible
This reads like it was written by a high school student who can't wait to move out and have lots of sex with all the glamorous men she'll meet. The storyline is far-fetched but even that could be forgiven in a romance if not for the horrendous, idiotic, flirting dialogue. Few things are worse than boring characters being sold to the reader as clever and witty, and that's what you have here. Scene after scene of excruciatingly tired flirtatious banter and frequent, uninspired descriptions of sex. I wasted too many hours giving this a try.
Karen Ackman
I was on edge, mostly because of the explicit sex. That was somewhat embarrassing. I love Ian and Kate as people in spite of their perfection. The story has an interesting core, and I loved that it was located in Minneapolis. I felt a lack of edge to the plot until about 2/3 of the way through. The twist at this point was surprising and exciting. "Happily ever after" sums up this story nicely.
I loved Tracey's other books but I found this a bit corny. Like a Mills and Boon but with glamour thrown in. The worst thing though is the narrator's affected voice. 'Drass' instead of 'dress'. 'Yieuw' instead of 'you'. And she does that awful thing of pronouncing words that start with 'St' as 'Sht'. 'Shtraight' instead of 'straight'. Ugh. Not sure I'll read the sequel.


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Брюно Версавель (,  27 серпня 1967, Діст) — бельгійський футболіст, що грав на позиції півзахисника.

Виступав, зокрема, за «Мехелен», з яким став чемпіоном Бельгії та володарем Суперкубка Європи, та «Андерлехт», вигравши з ними три чемпіонати, один Кубок та два Суперкубка Бельгії, а також національну збірну Бельгії, у складі якої був учасником чемпіонату світу 1990 року.

Клубна кар'єра

У дорослому футболі дебютував 1985 року виступами за команду «Діст» зі свого рідного міста, в якій провів один сезон, взявши участь у 23 матчах другого дивізіону чемпіонату Бельгії. Після цього Брюно перебрався до вищого дивізіону і протягом 1986—1988 років захищав кольори клубу «Локерен».

Своєю грою за останню команду привернув увагу представників тренерського штабу клубу «Мехелен», до складу якого приєднався 1988 року. Відіграв за команду з Мехелена наступні чотири сезони своєї ігрової кар'єри. Більшість часу, проведеного у складі «Мехелена», був основним гравцем команди і виграв Суперкубок Європи 1988 року та чемпіонат Бельгії 1988/89.

У січні 1992 року уклав контракт з «Андерлехтом», у складі якого провів наступні п'ять з половиною років своєї кар'єри гравця. Граючи у складі «Андерлехта» також здебільшого виходив на поле в основному складі команди. За цей час тричі виборював титул чемпіона Бельгії, двічі Суперкубок Бельгії і один раз національний кубок.

Влітку 1997 році Версавель приєднався до італійської «Перуджі» з Серії В, але закріпитись у команді не зумів, тому вже взимку 1998 року перебрався до швейцарського «Лугано», де і дограв сезон.

1998 року він повернувся на батьківщину і грав за команди «Геренталс» та «Вербрудерінг Гел», а завершив ігрову кар'єру у нижчоліговій команді «Тюрнгаут», за яку виступав протягом 2000—2007 років.

Виступи за збірну
12 жовтня 1988 року дебютував в офіційних матчах у складі національної збірної Бельгії в товариській грі проти Бразилії (1:2)

У складі збірної був учасником чемпіонату світу 1990 року в Італії, зігравши у трьох матчах, в тому числі у програному матчі 1/8 фіналу проти Англії (0:1).

Загалом протягом кар'єри у національній команді, яка тривала 8 років, провів у її формі 28 матчів, забивши 4 голи.

Титули і досягнення
 Чемпіон Бельгії (4):
 «Мехелен»: 1988/89
 «Андерлехт»: 1992/93, 1993/94, 1994/95
 Володар Кубка Бельгії (1):
 «Андерлехт»: 1983/84
 Володар Суперкубка Бельгії (2):
 «Андерлехт»: 1993, 1995
  Володар Суперкубка УЄФА (1):
 «Мехелен»: 1988

Примітки

Посилання

бельгійські футболісти
Гравці збірної Бельгії з футболу
Гравці чемпіонату світу з футболу 1990
Футболісти «Діста»
Футболісти «Локерена»
Футболісти «Мехелена»
Футболісти «Андерлехта»
Футболісти «Перуджі»
Футболісти «Лугано»
Футболісти «Тюрнгаута»
бельгійські футбольні легіонери
Футбольні легіонери в Італії
Футбольні легіонери у Швейцарії
Уродженці Діста

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From The Editor's Floor: Cobra Starship
A Conversation with Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta, Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez
Sitting in a room with Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta, Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez at the Crush Management offices, it's hard not to get distracted. One minute they're munching on two large pizzas from Patsy's–one margherita, the other olive–and the next minute, they're running around pulling up their video for "Good Girls Go Bad" off their new album, Hot Mess. Before you know it, you're playing "Name That Tune" as Saporta runs through his phone's ringtones, which range from Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls" to Beastie Boys' "Brass Monkey." Needless to say, there's never a dull moment with the Cobras. We chat with the guys about what makes them one Hot Mess.
What is your definition of a Hot Mess?
RYLAND BLACKINTON: A hot mess is the chick I saw last night outside with holes in her stockings barfing up somewhere in Greenpoint [in Brooklyn, New York]. She was just hurling on the street; it was messy, but earlier in the night, she was probably really hot.
GABE SAPORTA: There's this thing that happens in New York City that doesn't happen in any other city. I think it's because clubs close at 4 a.m. here. Everywhere else they close at 2 a.m., so that by the time everyone starts getting drunk, you've got to go home; but here, they've still got another two hours. I was at [NYC's] Sway on Sunday night, and people were moshing and I almost got in a fight. I was with my friend and he was like, "Yo, do you think if we pretend we're gay and hug each other while we're moshing, we could push people harder and not get into a fight?" So we did. We were dancing and hugging and no one fucked with us. I stepped away and came back and this kid put his foot out and would not let me pass. I said, "Excuse me," three times and finally just picked him up and moved him and walked past him. I saw in the mirror that he was looking at me and I was like, "I asked you three times nicely to move–three fucking times!" I scared the shit out of him. Later on, I apologized and bought him a drink and we made up.
But that's the whole thing: New York is a stressful city to live in. People have a lot of aggression to get out, and they go out and let go. You see a lot of people who are hot messes. We're kind of a hot mess, too.
ALEX SUAREZ: In some of the smaller cities, they aren't as crazy and busy as we are, but they rage hard there because they're bored.
BLACKINTON: They're a mess, but they're not hot.
We know Gabe had surgery on his vocal cords to remove a cyst during the recording of this album. What would have happened if he didn't recover?
BLACKINTON: I've always got my job at the bank. Music was a stupid dream anyway. No, we were in the studio.
SUAREZ: Nobody knew what the outcome was going to be, but we were just trying to get things going.
SAPORTA: We always just fucking roll with it. We always shoot from the hip, but when we walk into a room, we always make sure we know where the exit signs are. We don't have to make a full plan, but you've just got to go with it. It's a lot of pressure. I went down to Uruguay to see my family, and that definitely gave me some space to really clear my head about everything and recover. And eventually I got my voice back.
Gabe, how did you originally start singing anyway?
SAPORTA: Dude, if I can sing, anyone can. Singing is not about having a good voice. It's about being able to express how you feel. I'm not the best singer, but I sound like me. You know that I'm singing.
I never learned how to sing. I don't have the natural ability, but I love it and I figured out how to do it. I was so tone deaf when I first started in music, and I didn't understand the concept of rhythm. I was in a punk band and just tried to play as fast as I could. I remember asking another band when I was playing bass, "How do I know what to play?" The guy was like, "It's always best to do the same rhythm as your guitar player." It opened up my eyes. It didn't come naturally. It still doesn't, but fuck it.
You guys went into the studio with songwriter-turned-American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, who's worked with Britney Spears, the Jonas Brothers and Kelly Clarkson. How did that collaboration go?
SAPORTA: I just talked to Kara again last night and she was like, "Working with you guys was awesome. I've been doing the same shit for so long, and the session made me inspired again." We come from playing garages since we were, like, 14 years old and haven't been primed and prepped on something like Mickey Mouse Club since we were 14. There's nothing wrong with that, it's fun. We just come from a different place. We already have a sound, we already know what we like, and we're defined. We're not going in and figuring out who we are. I had actually never heard of Kara before, and I still don't know what she's worked on. I was actually pissed off at first that she was coming in and told her that, too.
BLACKINTON: It was the way we were told, like, this lady's going to come in and she's a top-list songwriter.
SUAREZ: I thought you said topless.
SAPORTA: At first I thought that they said that she was topless, too–we had no idea what "top list" meant. It's basically someone who does the song part on top of the beat and helps with lyrics and melody.
You also worked with Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester in "Good Girls Go Bad." Are you big fans of the show?
SAPORTA: I fell in love with Gossip Girl on our headlining tour because we played on Monday nights [when the show airs] and kids would bring me rips of that week's episode.
BLACKINTON: I heard about it because of the people my girlfriend works for. They make clothing for a lot of the people on the show, so she would watch it and take notes. She got obsessed really quickly, and I just thought Chuck Bass [played by Ed Westwick] was really cool. I don't understand any of the arcs of the plot, but when I watch it and that guy's on, I'm happy. He's so devious, it's amazing.
SAPORTA: One day, I'm at our management office and I hear someone talk about Gossip Girl and found out both Taylor Momsen and Leighton Meester were doing records. It's hard to choose between Gossip Girls, it's like asking which of your fingers you like better.
BLACKINTON: In the show, I like Leighton's character because she's matronly. I don't like the standard Serena [Van der Woodsen, played by Blake Lively]. She's blonde and not even that hot to me. And I like Poppy [Tamara Feldma]. She's the real deal. She's part of the Ponzi scheme–that's very now. That's a very sensitive nerve.
SAPORTA: I think both Leighton and Blake Lively have nice looks. Leighton's prettier, but I like Serena's character. Blair Waldorf [played by Meester] is too conniving for me. And the show is so ADD in terms of storylines; everyone has dated each other and they're still friends.
Blackinton: I have a friend who's a writer who pointed out that it's the smartest show on television based on how much payoff you get. All these different balls of yarn are getting wound up over time, but you constantly get payoff. They build you up and then you earn some juicy piece of info.
SUAREZ: I've never seen the show.
Some of you are pretty active on Twitter. What are your thoughts on it?
SAPORTA: Twitter's the only thing that I got right away. I don't have Facebook or MySpace. Twitter's fast and easy. I don't have to sit on somebody's wall looking through all the shit that's on there. Even if I wasn't in a band, I'd have Twitter. It's just dope. This is the shit I'm fascinated by: How does something like this catch on to society so quickly?
SUAREZ: I have no Facebook, old MySpace, and a Twitter.
BLACKINTON: I do Flickr [because it's] not as much updating. I also have Tumblr that I use once a month. I'm not good at that stuff.
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In a cooperation with Ericsson, Fraunhofer IPT in Aachen is developing the future of wireless aerospace production technology: adaptive process design in aerospace prototyping enabled by 5G.
When it comes to the latest aero engine components, today's production technology is already challenged when it comes to meeting the requirements concerning accuracy, component safety and efficiency in series production processes.
In particular, the thin-walled and highly twisted blades of the latest blisk designs require an extremely stable milling process and high degree of process planning to avoid vibration of the blade during milling to avoid unacceptable surface defects, making this the most critical process in blisk production. Despite all these challenges being met for current geometries, future blisk designs are still evolving and will soon exceed the capabilities of today's production systems.
based on trial and error, making it inefficient, time-consuming and dependent on the worker's experience. Additionally, this makes the cost and duration of this phase even less predictable.
To avoid all these uncertainties, the approach followed by IPT, in cooperation with Ericsson, is based on real-time live data collected from smart sensors and the machine control system. In combination with workpiece simulations, this data gives an exclusive insight in what is really happening at the contact point between the tip of the cutting tool and the component surface.
To enable the monitoring of this most important process area, the workpiece itself is equipped with a wireless smart sensor that detects the current process stability status. This smart sensor captures workpiece vibrations using a miniature acceleration sensor directly attached to the component's surface as shown above (Fig.1). Battery powered evaluation electronics and a wireless 5G transmission module enclosed in an IP68 waterproof housing make it possible to have the whole unit inside the milling machine and attached to the workpiece during the entire milling process of the blisk. The sensor system transmits vibration levels in a frequency range up to 10kHz to a receiver system outside of the machine for subsequent data analytics and determination of process stability.
Wireless transmission technologies are widespread across many application fields. In industry, these applications are mostly restricted to non-critical uses with no safety issues, low data rates and no hard time constraints. For manufacturing and process control of complex products such as blisks, the transmission requirements are much higher. Timing, reliability and high data transmission rates are crucial when it comes to wireless closed-loop control systems and high precision process monitoring.
Where most standard technologies like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc. fail, the future mobile communication standard 5G offers a latency of 1ms or less in combination with up to 10Gbit/s throughput. In its final stage, once a global infrastructure has been deployed and multi-level device support implemented, 5G will be a global network with the aforementioned characteristics, representing a universal solution for connected applications on shop floor level, logistics, tracking and combinations of these. Making this technology available and exploring industrial, reliable ultra-low latency use cases in a real production environment is the main goal of IPT's and Ericsson's cooperation.
The blisk milling project is the first of multiple trials currently being explored on the 5G equipped IPT shopfloor in Aachen, using the only precommercial 5G system in a production environment worldwide provided by Ericsson. With this unique combination of 5G equipment and comprehensive manufacturing machinery, Fraunhofer IPT is capable of providing partners from various industries and research fields with a unique testbed (Fig.2) to realise numerous industrial wireless applications.
After wirelessly acquiring the vibration information directly from the process, evaluating and processing are the next logical steps towards an optimised and stable process design, where the blade is not energised at resonance frequencies (eigenmodes). With a continuous extraction of the machine coordinate data from the control system of the machine, the sensor data can now be interlinked with the location on the part's surface where it was captured.
By using this spatially resolved vibration data, in combination with the simulation data of the blade, a precisely tailored control strategy can be derived. Taking the current process stability from the sensor, the tool location from the machine control and the simulation data as input, a control algorithm can calculate the optimum spindle speed with respect to the real-life workpiece status and its constantly changing behaviour. Feeding back this information to the machine control finally closes the loop. With the simulation data as background information on the part's behaviour, critical frequencies can effectively be avoided in an online closed loop control as they get detected.
While process monitoring and control is important during manufacturing, documentation remains a continuous task throughout the whole lifetime of a part, ranging from CAD/CAM data, manufacturing data and metrology data to operational data and maintenance data. This documentation is required by law, causes an enormous workload and, in most cases, is done manually by the worker being in charge of the current processes. Applying data connectivity to all those stages enables the next important milestone towards the most central aspect of Industry 4.0; integrated and centralised data in combination with its availability to all networked client systems and users.
The 'Digital Twin' (Fig.3) of a component, an assembly or an entire aero engine combines all this data. The automation of this data collection requires highly integrated sensor devices with advanced pre-processing capabilities and a universal wireless data interface. 5G embodies exactly this interface, a global network suitable for all kinds of data acquisition systems ranging from low latency sensor and control applications to high volume long term statistical data.
For future aero engines, this will be achieved by highly-integrated devices that combine sensors, pre-processing, data-storage, communication modules and efficient energy supply systems. Devices like this will be highly ruggedised to resist the extreme environmental conditions inside an aero engine, which allow them to be embedded into the component throughout its entire lifetime.
The digital twin will allow a better understanding of what happened during the manufacturing of a part. In case of a defect or failure, the reason for this can be traced to its origin in order to eliminate the problem and prevent it in future. During operation, the collected data will be essential to determine the component's health or wear status and schedule the next maintenance tasks accordingly. Finally, the collection of the resulting maintenance data will be an important input for the next generation of blisk design, based on the new information and insights empowered by 5G.


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Asha Jaquilla Degree (Shelby, Carolina del Norte; 5 de agosto de 1990) desapareció en la mañana del 14 de febrero del año 2000, cuando tenía nueve años de edad. A primera hora de ese día, preparó su mochila, dejó su hogar familiar, al norte de la ciudad, y comenzó a caminar por la autopista 18 de Carolina del Norte a pesar de las fuertes lluvias y el viento que había aquella jornada. Varios automovilistas que pasaban recordaron verla. En un punto determinado de la carretera, abandonó el arcén y se adentró en una cercana zona boscosa. Por la mañana, sus padres se dieron cuenta de su ausencia.

Su desaparición, mantenida en la actualidad, llevó a una intensiva búsqueda que condujo a encontrar algunos de sus efectos personales cerca de donde fue vista por última vez. Un año y medio después, su mochila, aún empacada, fue desenterrada de un sitio de construcción a lo largo de la autopista 18 al norte de Shelby, en Morganton. En el punto donde se adentró hacia el bosque, hay una valla publicitaria pidiendo ayuda para encontrarla. Su familia organiza una caminata anual desde su casa hasta la cartelera para llamar la atención sobre el caso.

Si bien las circunstancias de la desaparición de Degree al principio parecían sugerir que ella estaba huyendo de su casa, los investigadores no pudieron encontrar una razón clara por la que ella podría haberlo hecho, con una edad bastante más inferior a la media de los niños que lo hacen. Las autoridades especularon entonces que pudo ser secuestrada. El caso llamó la atención de los medios nacionales. En 2015, el FBI se unió a las autoridades estatales y del condado en una investigación reabierta, ofreciendo una recompensa por la información que podría ayudar a resolver el caso.

Trasfondo del caso
Los padres de Asha, Harold y Iquilla Degree, se habían casado el día de San Valentín en 1988. Asha nació dos años después. También tienen un hijo, O'Bryant. Criaron a ambos niños en su casa en Oakcrest Drive, una subdivisión residencial en medio de una zona rural al norte de Shelby (Carolina del Norte), en el extremo occidental del área metropolitana de Charlotte. Ambos trabajaban cerca de casa. Los niños salían solos a la escuela y regresar al término de esta para hacer las tareas, esperándoles sus padres entonces.

El matrimonio se aseguró de que sus hijos estuvieran aislados de las influencias externas y tuvieran una vida centrada en su familia, la iglesia y la escuela. No contaban con ordenador en casa. "En el momento en que encendías la televisión había un pedófilo que había atraído al niño de alguien, a través de Internet", recordó Iquilla en una entrevista para la revista Jet en 2013. También recordó que Asha era cautelosa, algo tímida y no estaba molesta por los límites que sus progenitores habían puesto a su alrededor. "Estaba muerta de miedo por los perros", recordó años después. "Nunca pensé que ella saldría de la casa".

Asha estudiaba cuarto grado en la Escuela Primaria Fallston y tenía un fin de semana de tres días en la segunda semana de febrero de 2000. Las escuelas del condado de Cleveland cerraron el viernes 11 de febrero. Los niños pasaron el día en la casa de su tía en el mismo vecindario, desde donde asistieron a sus prácticas de baloncesto juvenil en su escuela. Al día siguiente, el equipo de baloncesto de Asha, en el que ella jugaba, perdió su primer juego de la temporada. Sus padres recordaron que ella estaba algo molesta por esto, llorando junto con sus compañeros de equipo después, pero parecía haberlo superado y haber visto el juego de su hermano después.

Desaparición
El domingo 13 de febrero, los niños fueron a la iglesia desde la casa de un familiar y luego regresaron. Harold Degree salió a trabajar su segundo turno en la planta cercana de PPG Industries por la tarde. Alrededor de las ocho de la tarde, ambos niños se acostaron en la habitación que compartían. Casi una hora después, se fue la luz en el vecindario después de un accidente automovilístico cercano. Fue restaurado poco después de que Harold regresó del trabajo, alrededor de las 0:30 de la noche. En ese momento revisó a sus hijos y los vio a ambos dormidos en sus camas. Revisó nuevamente poco antes de acostarse a las 2:30 de la madrugada, ya en 14 de febrero, y nuevamente los vio a ambos.

Poco después, O'Bryant recuerda haber escuchado el chirrido de la cama de su hermana. No se despertó más, ya que supuso que ella simplemente estaba cambiando de posición mientras dormía. En ese intervalo de tiempo, es cuando se especula que Asha se levantara de la cama, cogiera su mochila, en la que previamente había empacado algunos juegos de ropa y artículos personales, y salió de la casa. Entre las 3:45 y las 4:15 de la madrugada, un camionero y un automovilista confirmaron verla caminando hacia el sur por la autopista 18, justo en el cruce norte con la autopista 180, vestida con una camiseta blanca de manga larga y pantalones blancos. Informaron esto a la policía después de ver un informe de televisión sobre su desaparición. El automovilista dijo que dio la vuelta a su automóvil porque pensó que era "extraño que un niño tan pequeño saliera solo a esa hora". Dio tres vueltas y vio a Degree correr hacia el bosque junto a la carretera y desaparecer. Era una noche lluviosa, y el testigo dijo que había una "tormenta furiosa" cuando la vio. El sheriff del condado Dan Crawford dijo: "Estamos bastante seguros de que fue ella porque las descripciones que dieron son consistentes con lo que sabemos que llevaba puesta". Agregó que también la vieron en el mismo lugar, en la misma dirección.

Iquilla se despertó a las 5:45 de la mañana para preparar a los niños para la escuela. Era la mañana del 14 de febrero, un día importante ya que no era solo San Valentín, sino el aniversario de bodas de los Degree. Cuando abrió la habitación de los niños para despertarlos antes de la alarma de las 6:30 y llamarlos al baño, O'Bryant estaba en su cama pero Asha no, e Iquilla no pudo encontrarla en la casa ni en la de sus familiares cercanos ni en el coche. Despertó a su marido y dijo que no encontraba a la pequeña Asha. Harold sugirió que Asha podría haber ido a la casa de su madre al otro lado de la calle, pero cuando Iquilla llamó, su cuñada dijo que Asha no estaba allí. "Fue entonces cuando entré en pánico. Escuché un auto al lado... Me puse los zapatos y salí corriendo". Iquilla llamó a su madre, quien le dijo que llamara a la policía.

Búsqueda
A las 6:40 de la mañana, los primeros policías habían llegado a la casa. Los perros del departamento policial no pudieron captar el aroma de Asha, con la complicación de la lluvia y el terreno mojado. Iquilla recorrió el vecindario llamando al nombre de Asha, despertando consigo a varios vecinos. Amigos, familiares y vecinos cancelaron sus planes para el día para ayudar a la policía a buscar en la vecindad mientras el pastor de su iglesia visitaba y consolaba a los Degree en su casa. Al final del día, todo lo que se había encontrado era una manopla, que Iquilla Degree dijo que no pertenecía a su hija, ya que descubrió que no le habían quitado la ropa de invierno de la casa. La cobertura de las noticias locales dio como resultado que los dos conductores que habían visto a Asha caminar por la carretera temprano esa mañana, incluido uno cuyo intento de acercarse a ella aparentemente llevó a Asha a huir al bosque, informando los avistamientos a la policía.

El 15 de febrero, se encontraron envoltorios de dulces en un cobertizo en un negocio cercano a lo largo de la carretera, cerca de donde Asha había sido vista corriendo hacia el bosque. Junto con ellos había un lápiz, un marcador y un lazo para el cabello con forma de Mickey Mouse que se identificaron como pertenecientes a ella. Fue el único rastro de ella encontrado durante la búsqueda inicial. El 16 de febrero, Iquilla se dio cuenta de que en la habitación de Asha faltaba su ropa favorita, incluido un par de jeans azules con una franja roja. Una semana después, después de una búsqueda exhaustiva, con centenares de voluntarios peinando la zona donde la habían visto por última vez, anuncios y vallas en toda el área y 300 pistas que van desde posibles avistamientos hasta consejos sobre casas abandonadas y pozos donde Asha podría haber terminado, la búsqueda fue cancelada. "Nunca hemos tenido esa primera ventaja importante y sustancial", dijo el sheriff del condado, Dan Crawford, en una conferencia de prensa. Instó a los medios a mantener viva la historia.

Desarrollo posterior de la investigación
En una conferencia de prensa ofrecida por la policía el 22 de febrero, el sheriff del condado Crawford dijo que iba a "largo alcance" en la búsqueda de Asha. Tanto el FBI como la Oficina de Investigación del Estado de Carolina del Norte (SBI) se involucraron y la pusieron en sus respectivas bases de datos de niños desaparecidos. Mientras las agencias terminaban de buscar en el área de su hogar y ruta, "estamos siguiendo todo", insistió.

Según el relato de Iquilla de lo que Asha se había llevado con ella, los investigadores creyeron que ella había planeado y preparado esta partida durante los días previos a su desaparición. "Ella no es el típico fugitivo", observó el agente del OSE Bart Burpeau. Otro experto, Ben Ermini, del Centro Nacional para Niños Desaparecidos y Explotados, señaló que la mayoría de los niños que huyen tienen al menos 12 años. Un agente del FBI también señaló la falta de un problema del que ella podría haber huido, como una familia disfuncional o un bajo rendimiento académico. Aun así, los investigadores creían que esa era la explicación más probable para su partida, pero que por alguna razón ella se desvió o fue secuestrada.

La atención de los medios se volvió nacional. Un mes después de la desaparición de Asha, la familia apareció en The Montel Williams Show para llamar la atención sobre el caso, que se incrementó con sus comentarios en America's Most Wanted y The Oprah Winfrey Show.

El 3 de agosto de 2001, la mochila de Asha y otros artículos fueron desenterrados durante un proyecto de construcción en la autopista 18 cerca de Morganton, en el condado de Burke, a unos 42 kilómetros al norte de Shelby. La mochila se encontraba envuelta en una bolsa de plástico. El trabajador que lo encontró dijo que la mochila contenía el nombre y el número de teléfono de Asha. El FBI lo llevó a su cuartel general para un análisis forense adicional. Los resultados de esas pruebas no se hicieron públicas, siendo, hasta la fecha, la última evidencia encontrada del caso.

Las investigaciones posteriores llevaron a callejones sin salida. En 2004, según una denuncia recibida de un preso en la cárcel del condado, la oficina del sheriff comenzó a cavar en una intersección en Lawndale. Los huesos que se encontraron resultaron ser de un animal.

Los Degree tomaron medidas para mantener viva la memoria de Asha, y el caso, en la mente del público. En 2008, establecieron una beca en su nombre para una estudiante local merecedora. Organizan una caminata anual para crear conciencia y dinero para financiar su búsqueda. La caminata comienza en su casa y termina en la cartelera de una persona desaparecida para Asha a lo largo de la autopista 18, cerca de donde fue vista por última vez. Originalmente se llevó a cabo el 14 de febrero, pero se cambió al 7 de febrero de 2015 y al 6 de febrero de 2016, ya que Harold e Iquilla sintieron que no era justo para los participantes hacer del Día de San Valentín una ocasión sombría. Imágenes de Asha, tanto reales como aquellas que le muestran cómo podría aparecer en años posteriores, creada por investigadores para ayudar en la búsqueda, todavía decoran la casa familiar. "Espero que ella cruce la puerta", dice Iquilla.

Iquilla Degree se quejó en una entrevista de 2013 con la revista Jet de que la desaparición de su hija no había recibido tanta atención de los medios a lo largo de los años como algunos casos posteriores de niños desaparecidos, por el hecho de que Asha fuera afroamericana. "Los niños blancos desaparecidos reciben más atención. No entiendo por qué", dijo. "Sé que si les preguntas, dirán que no es racial. ¿En serio? No voy a discutir porque tengo sentido común".

En febrero de 2015, el FBI anunció que sus agentes, los investigadores de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Cleveland y los agentes de la Oficina Estatal de Investigación estaban reexaminando el caso y volviendo a entrevistar a los testigos. También anunciaron una recompensa de hasta 25.000 dólares por "información que conduzca al arresto y condena de la persona o personas responsables de su desaparición". Un grupo comunitario llegó a ofrecer una recompensa adicional de otros 20.000 dólares.

15 meses después de dicho anuncio, en mayo de 2016, el FBI anunció nuevas pruebas, revelando que Asha pudo haber sido vista entrando en un Lincoln Continental Mark IV de principios de la década de 1970, o posiblemente un Ford Thunderbird de la misma era a lo largo de la Ruta 18 cerca de donde fue vista por última vez esa noche.

En septiembre de 2017, el FBI anunció que su equipo de Despliegue Rápido de Secuestro de Niños (CARD) estaba en el condado de Cleveland para ayudar en la investigación y "proporcionar investigación sobre el terreno, análisis técnico, conductual y apoyo analítico para averiguar más sobre qué le pasó a Asha". El equipo trabajó junto a los empleados del FBI de Charlotte, los investigadores de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Cleveland y los agentes de la Oficina de Investigación del Estado de Carolina del Norte durante diez días. Las agencias llegaron a reunirse "varias veces al mes para repasar lo último sobre la investigación". Desde septiembre de 2017, los agentes e investigadores locales han realizado aproximadamente 300 entrevistas.

En octubre de 2018, los detectives de la Oficina del Sheriff del condado de Cleveland solicitaron información del público sobre dos elementos de interés en el caso: McElligot's Pool, un libro para niños del Dr. Seuss, que fue prestado de la biblioteca de Fallston Middle School a principios de 2000, y una camiseta del concierto New Kids on the Block. Un investigador dijo que los elementos son "críticos para resolver [el caso]".

Referencias

Estados Unidos en 2000
Historia de Carolina del Norte
Personas desaparecidas


The good news is that Hurricane Irma has been downgraded from the most damaging Category 5. The bad news is that more recent refinement in the forecast models now put the still-dangerous Category 3 storm on a collision course with Florida's $8 billion agricultural economy.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there are more than 47,000 commercial farms in Florida, and last year it was the United States' top producer of not only oranges and sugar cane, but also a host of other fruits and vegetables including grapefruit, watermelons, tomatoes, and cucumbers. It contributes more than half the country's orange and grapefruit crops, on-tree fruit sales of which totaled more than $825 million for the 2015-2016 growing season.
The agricultural futures market showed signs of anxiety this week in advance of Irma's arrival to the U.S. mainland. "They're putting price premiums into anything that's in the state of Florida," commodity trading consultant Mike Seery told NBC News. Oranges, sugar, even cattle futures have risen — in some cases, reversing sustained troughs — which speaks to market worries.
Initial, somewhat diverging forecasts had one of two paths for Irma: One that hugged the state's East Coast and a second that cut a swath roughly through the center of the state.
"The worst scenario would be if the storm ends up a little bit west," said MDA Weather Services senior agricultural meteorologist Kyle Tapley. An easterly track would have spared more citrus groves, vegetable farms and cattle operations while dealing out more damage to the sugar cane producers in the state's southeastern region.
But that doesn't appear to be how Irma will play out: Meteorological consensus was coalescing around the forecast of a more western track, which would take the most damaging wind and rain up through Florida's center, potentially affecting much more of its 9.4 million acres of farmland.
"What I can say is that we currently expect nearly all of the citrus acreage in Florida to receive damaging winds," Tapley said.
Orange juice futures have risen more than 15 percent in recent days, said KKM Financial CEO Jeff Kilburg, indicating that the market is bracing for the worst.
"The amount of loss in terms of economic dollars would be impossible to be as high as it was in 2004 and 2005, simply because the state doesn't produce as much citrus as it did then," said Judith Ganes-Chase, founder and president of J. Ganes Consulting. A string of hurricanes in those years wiped out some 40 percent of production, and the industry never fully recovered. The remaining trees were more susceptible to disease, which further decreased yields.
"In order to have the damage on the magnitude of 2004 and 2005, you'd have to wipe out the entire citrus crop," Ganes said.
"At the end of the day, up to 50 percent of the citrus crop could be devastated."
The silver lining is that Irma is coming before many citrus varieties are ready to harvest. The lighter weight of immature fruits gives them a better chance of hanging on to their branches in strong winds, but the size and ferocity of Irma still makes them vulnerable, and if the wind uproots the trees, the result is a complete loss.
Long-term ramifications also concern Kilburg, particularly in regard to how Irma could shake up the crop insurance marketplace — a question that has implications that go beyond citrus groves.


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Kristyn Burtt is a commercial dance journalist, TV host and producer. She was the West Coast correspondent and host of "To the Pointe" on Dance Network for five years. Her coverage of "So You Think You Can Dance," "Dancing With the Stars" and "World of Dance" is popular with dance fans across the globe. Kristyn's love of dance began early in her life. She trained at the Boston Ballet School, danced with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre in "The Nutcracker" and won a dance scholarship to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She currently serves on the American Dance Movement's Marketing & PR Committee and is a member of the Television Academy and SAG-AFTRA.
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LA Dance Moves Has Their Fingers on the Pulse of the Los Angeles Dance Scene
Kristyn Burtt 2021-04-27
LA Dance MovesCourtesy of Nancy Paradis
The Los Angeles dance scene was hit hard over the last year from the pandemic, but with subsiding COVID-19 numbers in the state of California, performances are starting to bloom again. For LA Dance Moves, their return to the stage was a creative endeavor that developed through the long months when performing onstage wasn't an option for them.
Artistic Director of LA Dance Moves Nancy Paradis has teamed up with composer David Karagianis, who created the album Pulse, which combines improvisational abilities into the realm of electronic music. PULSE! - in two movements features Movement 1 – Journey and Movement 2 – STRUT with dancers Michelle Lebowski, Jenna Valdez, Greyson Myes and Hannah Barr.
The pieces were filmed for BalletProject.TV and will have their streaming world premiere this weekend beginning Saturday, May 1, and running through Sunday, May 2. Paradis explained to News Break why it was important to get back on their toes after such a long hiatus and how it has made a huge impact on her and the dancers. "It's about being alive! Feeling your pulse and pushing through barriers with more focus, more drive and more wisdom than before," she says. "It's also about having extreme gratitude to come together and do what we love and inspire our audiences. Creating this piece has been very healing for me and the dancers, and it was a gift to put together."
LA Dance MovesCourtesy of Nancy Paradis.
Karagianis' music was also a source of inspiration for Paradis to get back to the studio to create. "I love the complexities of David's music: the syncopation, the meter changes, the push, the energy — it's just jazzy and cool," she shares. "I wanted to challenge myself and the dancers, and his music definitely does that. The fact that he composed it for modern classes and now, we are doing our contemporary ballet twist with it is also exciting."
PULSE! began in a choreography workshop hosted by Ballerinas of Los Angeles along with LA Dance Moves. In preparation for filming, the company put the dancers' safety first by utilizing a hybrid format of both virtual, self-practice and in-studio rehearsals. "Dancers were sent videos of choreography to learn their solos and ensemble sections," Paradis explains. "We then worked together on Zoom, which was a great way to spend time individually with each dancer. Then we met for three in-studio rehearsals... and the fourth rehearsal was our filming day."
Filming took place in a Los Angeles warehouse filled with natural light, which only emphasized the overwhelming feeling for Paradis and her dancers to be back together shooting on-location. "When it was time to wrap, no one wanted to go home," she reminisces. "The dancers hung out for a bit taking photos and just enjoyed the space. Filming day was honestly a gift."
Tickets are on sale now for $10 at BalletProject.tv for the May 1 premiere beginning at 5 p.m. PDT, which not only includes the world premiere of PULSE!, but also behind-the-scenes footage and a look inside the artistic process of the LA Dance Moves experience. For Paradis, this is the light at the end of the tunnel after a very challenging year for artists. While it was hard, it also provided lessons in appreciation for the art of dance.
"I see other independent dance companies, as well as LA Dance Moves, doing everything we can to help dancers, the community and the arts as we keep moving forward," she sums up. "I feel dancers have a deeper gratitude for what I provide and anyone willing to help keep them dancing. My mission is to touch and inspire our audiences with our works and collaborations with artists — and coming to the end of this pandemic, people need inspiration more than ever."
For more information on LA Dance Moves, visit their website.
To purchases tickets for PULSE!, visit BalletProject.tv.
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Q: How to locate an access point using user coordinates and signal strength?
Hi everyone,
I'm working on a school project for an android app where I need to locate all Access Points I can find and mark them on the map.
The problem is:
being x, y the coordinates of my phone
being s the signal strength of a given AP
how do I estimate the approximated x1, y1 of the AP location to mark it on the map?
Any tips on how to get ahead of this issue is welcome, I can't figure out how to do this without 3 signal repeaters.
Thanks very much.

This is an example scenario where A is me on the map and the marker show the position of AP I'm finding and of those I have already found previously.

A: Theoretically you could use ping value to the routers to estimate the radius in which the router could be but I don't think it can be so easily done, because ping depends on different factors. Here's a similar question

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By Gruesome Greg Blogs, Featured, Gruesome Greg March 24, 2012
Bobby Liebling is NOT on drugs.
Although he came off as a coked-out space cadet on the two occasions I've seen him perform, and I've read many an interview where he clearly appears to be off his rocker, I can safely say that Bobby Liebling is not on drugs. Because I've seen him on drugs, in the Last Days Here documentary, and he looked a lot worse than he does now.
The movie, several years in the making, follows the Pentagram frontman from his days at rock-bottom, smoking crack in his parents' sub-basement, to his triumphant comeback gig at New York City's Webster Hall in March 2009. We're also treated to interviews with ex-bandmates Victor Griffin (now back in the band) and Joe Hasselvander, founding members Geof O'Keefe and Greg Mayne, along with some cheesy reenactments in which the actor playing Bobby looked a lot like Deaner from FUBAR. The quotes were great, the clips not so much. It's crazy to see how many clippings O'Keefe has kept from his Penta-days, especially since there was nothing to indicate when the original band broke up that they'd ever be something people would be interested in some 30-odd years later. But perhaps the greatest source the filmmakers dug up was producer Murray Krugman, who was all but ready to get 'em signed to Columbia–had it not been for Bobby Liebling lashing out at him in the studio.
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Mind you, what with the snail's pace of the film industry, we don't get to see Pentagram's subsequent successful US tours–nor the disasterpiece that followed Russ Strahan's impromptu exit–documented here. In fact, all the backing musicians that were in the band at the time of filming have since moved on. And the comeback album that Phil Anselmo passes on finally got made, a few years later, and released on Metal Blade. But don't get me started on Last Rites…
Alas, while this documentary might not change Bobby Liebling's life quite like The Story of Anvil did for its protagonists, it'll definitely change the way you look at Bobby Liebling. A poignant portrait of a man who is no longer on drugs.
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If you view the city from another angle, boat trips will be the best option for you. You can have detailed information about the dinner cruises and other kinds of boat trips in Vieux-Port.
Montreal is a unique city thanks to its multi-lingual environment, great cuisine, fascinating architecture and essences of European history and culture. Creating a matchless atmosphere for international events like conferences, congresses, symposiums, fairs, exhibitions and tradeshows.
Experienced as a host city of large scale global gatherings, the city's physical facilities are also favorable. Having world class hotels, convention and exhibition centers equipped with the latest technology, Montreal makes one of the most attractive centers for these kinds of events in Canad and in North America.


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For every mile driven, the 2022 Audi S7 will emit 408 grams of CO2, which is about 6,120,000 grams of CO2 per year.
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Greece is the word amid rumours of Budget bust-up
Number Ten denies over-ruling Alistair Darling over cuts. But the rumours won't do anything for confidence...
The Government's Pre-Budget Report measures to address the UK budget deficit – or more precisely, the lack thereof – haven't gone down well with the people responsible for funding said deficit: gilt prices plummeted yesterday, as investors decided that buying Government bonds might not be such a good idea after all. But if today's papers are to be believed, perhaps we shouldn't blame Chancellor Alistair Darling. Reports suggest that the Treasury wanted tougher cuts, but was overruled by the Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in case it really trashed his chances with the voters. Whether it's true or not, it won't exactly inspire confidence that the UK's finances are in safe hands…
When Darling stood up on Wednesday to deliver the PBR, the markets were hoping he'd come up with a credible plan for getting the country's finances back on track. Initial reaction was pretty muted, after he promised to halve the deficit within four years, while delivering largely unchanged growth and bond issue forecasts. However, the more people started rooting around the small print, the more they started to get nervous about the lack of detail on plans to repay our massive debt pile. In fact, we're actually going to borrow even more money next year, while the national debt could be getting on for £1.5trn in five years' time.
The well-respected Institute of Fiscal Studies has provided the most telling analysis of the Treasury's current plans: it reckons there's about £30bn of supposed savings entirely unaccounted-for in the Chancellor's sums, and argues that making up this shortfall will cost every family in Britain about £2,400. For the public sector departments that haven't been ring-fenced (i.e. everything but schools, hospitals and the police), it's predicting that savage budget cuts of up to 20% will be required in the next few years (which would surely mean strikes, on a large scale). Incidentally, this would also mean that all Labour's spending hikes since coming to power in 1997 would be reversed. Presumably that won't make next year's election manifesto.
The problem is – still – that nobody really knows where the axe is going to fall, since the Government is refusing to publish spending plans (as opposed to vague forecasts). Gordon Brown insists he didn't over-rule Darling on tougher measures (like hiking VAT to 20%), but it's easy to see why he wouldn't want to go into specifics on cuts, just before an election that he's already favourite to lose.
But this uncertainty is rotten news for Britain's creditworthiness: Moody's has already raised the possibility of us losing our gold-plated AAA credit rating if we haven't got our house in order by 2013. If we're not careful, we could go the same way as recently-downgraded Greece...
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Thinking About the Flag in Flames
Issue 71, Fall 1998
The House of Representatives has approved, and the Senate is perilously near approving, an amendment to the United States Constitution to prohibit "desecration" of the flag. Pressure has been building since the Supreme Court ruled in 1989 that burning an American flag in political protest is protected by the First Amendment (Texas v. Johnson). If the amendment, SJ 40, is approved by two-thirds of the Senate, and ratified by three-fourths of the states, it becomes part of the Constitution. All state legislatures, except Vermont, have indicated they will ratify an amendment.
NCAC opposes the Amendment. For our statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, click here.
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Raldi - "Blah Blah" (Video) raldi.jpg RESPECT. Premiere: https://respect-mag.com/2019/07/respect-premiere-raldi-unleashes-visual-for-blah-blah-prod-by-flvckobeats/ Direct Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Eo3dmBfAiys Embed: Description: Armed with blistering bravado and mind-bending visuals, rising emcee Raldi proves he's absolutely one to watch for this year with his trippy new video for "Blah Blah." The Lancaster, PA-based artist worked closely with director Sam Duncan on the video, which resembles the 2019 version of your favorite psychedelic rap video from the '90s (think Busta Rhymes, ATCQ). So, for every shot of Raldi spitting his slick talk, there's symbolism-heavy footage of him hanging out with goats or getting shoved around in a parking garage. The visuals, however wonky they may be, fit the track perfectly. "Blah Blah" itself is steeped in braggadocio, one of rap's core tenets. But it's all delivered in a way that's strikingly off center thanks to Raldi's shape-shifting delivery and producer Flvckobeats' infectious instrumental. The two also bring a melodic element to the affair, particularly on the incredibly catchy hook, which helps cement "Blah Blah" as one of 2019's most exciting singles to date. Check out the visuals and head over to your preferred digital retailer or streaming platform to support! Smart URL: https://smarturl.it/raldiblahblah Follow Raldi Online: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/iamraldi • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamraldi • SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/iamraldi • Spotify: http://bit.ly/raldify For all media and press inquiries, please respond to evieblancomusic@gmail.com
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Dr. Bruce Cox holds the B.S. degree (music education) from Bob Jones University, the M.S. degree (music education) from the University of Illinois, and the DMA degree (trumpet performance and pedagogy) from the University of Southern Mississippi. While at Illinois and Southern Mississippi he performed in ensembles under James Keene, Thomas Fraschillo, and Jay Dean; he studied trumpet with Michael Tunnell, Ray Sasaki, and Allan Cox. After graduate school he has continued further private study with Ruth Still and Larry Black. From 1984 through 1990 he directed the pre-college bands of Bob Jones Academy, and since 1997 has served as assistant director of bands at BJU. In addition to conducting the BJU concert band and trumpet choir, Dr. Cox teaches courses in brass pedagogy and literature, and serves as the Department head for Instrumental Studies. As a conductor in both church and school settings, Dr. Cox attended two summer sessions of the Westminster Choir College Conducting Institute; he now serves frequently as clinician for Christian high school band festivals and summer camps. An active performer, he plays in the Foundation Brass-the faculty brass ensemble at BJU, the Anderson (SC) Chamber Orchestra, and the Spartanburg Philharmonic. He has been a member of the International Trumpet Guild since 1980.
For twenty five years he served as music pastor at a local church in the Greenville area. He is married to Jennifer Mercado Cox with whom he has three children.