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Q: What would be the best way to create such grid via html and css? I am creating grids with bootstrap but the problem is that my code is too nested. I wanted to ask you how you would probably program such a grid with content in it.
Thank you for your approach!
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A: The simplest way to create this layout is using CSS columns
You need to mention the column-count with number of columns.
Read more about CSS columns here: https://www.w3schools.com/css/css3_multiple_columns.asp
Check the browser compatibility here : https://caniuse.com/#search=column-count

.container {
  column-count: 3;
}

.container div {
  padding: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  display: inline-block;
  border: 2px solid #000;
}

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Q: Optimizing MySQL for small VPS I'm trying to optimize my MySQL config for a verrry small VPS.
The VPS is also running NGINX/PHP-FPM and Magento; all with a limit of 250MB of RAM.
This is an output of MySQL Tuner...
-------- General Statistics --------------------------------------------------
[--] Skipped version check for MySQLTuner script
[OK] Currently running supported MySQL version 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.8
[OK] Operating on 64-bit architecture

-------- Storage Engine Statistics -------------------------------------------
[--] Status: -Archive -BDB -Federated +InnoDB -ISAM -NDBCluster
[--] Data in MyISAM tables: 1M (Tables: 14)
[--] Data in InnoDB tables: 29M (Tables: 301)
[--] Data in MEMORY tables: 1M (Tables: 17)
[!!] Total fragmented tables: 301

-------- Security Recommendations  -------------------------------------------
[OK] All database users have passwords assigned

-------- Performance Metrics -------------------------------------------------
[--] Up for: 2d 11h 14m 58s (1M q [8.038 qps], 33K conn, TX: 2B, RX: 618M)
[--] Reads / Writes: 83% / 17%
[--] Total buffers: 122.0M global + 8.6M per thread (100 max threads)
[!!] Maximum possible memory usage: 978.2M (404% of installed RAM)
[OK] Slow queries: 0% (37/1M)
[OK] Highest usage of available connections: 6% (6/100)
[OK] Key buffer size / total MyISAM indexes: 32.0M/282.0K
[OK] Key buffer hit rate: 99.7% (358K cached / 1K reads)
[OK] Query cache efficiency: 83.4% (1M cached / 1M selects)
[!!] Query cache prunes per day: 48301
[OK] Sorts requiring temporary tables: 0% (0 temp sorts / 144K sorts)
[OK] Temporary tables created on disk: 13% (27K on disk / 203K total)
[OK] Thread cache hit rate: 99% (6 created / 33K connections)
[!!] Table cache hit rate: 0% (32 open / 51K opened)
[OK] Open file limit used: 1% (20/1K)
[OK] Table locks acquired immediately: 99% (1M immediate / 1M locks)
[!!] InnoDB data size / buffer pool: 29.2M/8.0M

-------- Recommendations -----------------------------------------------------
General recommendations:
    Run OPTIMIZE TABLE to defragment tables for better performance
    Reduce your overall MySQL memory footprint for system stability
    Enable the slow query log to troubleshoot bad queries
    Increase table_cache gradually to avoid file descriptor limits
Variables to adjust:
  *** MySQL's maximum memory usage is dangerously high ***
  *** Add RAM before increasing MySQL buffer variables ***
    query_cache_size (> 64M)
    table_cache (> 32)
    innodb_buffer_pool_size (>= 29M)

and this is the config.
#
# The MySQL database server configuration file.
#
# You can copy this to one of:
# - "/etc/mysql/my.cnf" to set global options,
# - "~/.my.cnf" to set user-specific options.
#
# One can use all long options that the program supports.
# Run program with --help to get a list of available options and with
# --print-defaults to see which it would actually understand and use.
#
# For explanations see
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/server-system-variables.html

# This will be passed to all mysql clients
# It has been reported that passwords should be enclosed with ticks/quotes
# escpecially if they contain "#" chars...
# Remember to edit /etc/mysql/debian.cnf when changing the socket location.
[client]
port  = 3306
socket  = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

# Here is entries for some specific programs
# The following values assume you have at least 32M ram

# This was formally known as [safe_mysqld]. Both versions are currently parsed.
[mysqld_safe]
socket  = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
nice  = 0

[mysqld]
#
# * Basic Settings
#

#
# * IMPORTANT
#   If you make changes to these settings and your system uses apparmor, you may
#   also need to also adjust /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld.
#

user  = mysql
socket  = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port  = 3306
basedir  = /usr
datadir  = /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir  = /tmp
skip-external-locking
#
# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
bind-address  = 127.0.0.1
#
# * Fine Tuning
#
key_buffer  = 32M
max_allowed_packet = 16M
thread_stack  = 192K
thread_cache_size       = 8

sort_buffer_size = 4M
read_buffer_size = 4M
myisam_sort_buffer_size = 16M

# This replaces the startup script and checks MyISAM tables if needed
# the first time they are touched
myisam-recover         = BACKUP
max_connections        = 100
table_cache            = 32
tmp_table_size = 128M
#thread_concurrency     = 10
#
# * Query Cache Configuration
#
#query_cache_limit = 1M
query_cache_type = 1
query_cache_size = 64M

#
# * Logging and Replication
#
# Both location gets rotated by the cronjob.
# Be aware that this log type is a performance killer.
# As of 5.1 you can enable the log at runtime!
#general_log_file        = /var/log/mysql/mysql.log
#general_log             = 1

log_error                = /var/log/mysql/error.log

# Here you can see queries with especially long duration
#log_slow_queries = /var/log/mysql/mysql-slow.log
#long_query_time = 2
#log-queries-not-using-indexes
#
# The following can be used as easy to replay backup logs or for replication.
# note: if you are setting up a replication slave, see README.Debian about
#       other settings you may need to change.
#server-id  = 1
#log_bin   = /var/log/mysql/mysql-bin.log
expire_logs_days = 10
max_binlog_size         = 100M
#binlog_do_db  = include_database_name
#binlog_ignore_db = include_database_name
#
# * InnoDB
#
# InnoDB is enabled by default with a 10MB datafile in /var/lib/mysql/.
# Read the manual for more InnoDB related options. There are many!
#
# * Security Features
#
# Read the manual, too, if you want chroot!
# chroot = /var/lib/mysql/
#
# For generating SSL certificates I recommend the OpenSSL GUI "tinyca".
#
# ssl-ca=/etc/mysql/cacert.pem
# ssl-cert=/etc/mysql/server-cert.pem
# ssl-key=/etc/mysql/server-key.pem

[mysqldump]
quick
quote-names
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
#no-auto-rehash # faster start of mysql but no tab completition

[isamchk]
key_buffer  = 16M

#
# * IMPORTANT: Additional settings that can override those from this file!
#   The files must end with '.cnf', otherwise they'll be ignored.
#
!includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/

The site contains 1 wordpress site,so lots of MYISAM but mostly static content as its not changing all that often (A wordpress cache plugin deals with this).
And the Magento Site which consists of a lot of InnoDB tables, some MyISAM and some INMEMORY.
The "read" side seems to be running pretty well with a mass of optimizations I've used on Magento, the NGINX setup and PHP-FPM + XCACHE.
I'd love to have a kick in the right direction with the MySQL config so I'm not blindly altering it based on the MySQLTuner without understanding what I'm changing.
Thanks

A: (I started with a simple answer and it became a link-dump. Sorry.)
I found this script when optimizing a 256-Slice to run Wordpress (in our case, Ubuntu-Apache-PHP). It came in quite handy.
This blog entry suggests skipping loading InnoDB, because Wordpress doesn't use it. (N.B. don't do this for Rails, which does.)
This forum post is a pretty thorough (and very dense) walk-through of MySQL optimization.
This blog post goes into detail on optimizing Drupal on a VPS for a Dugg situation. Lots of the MySQL points are useful, not because he offers a specific recipe but because he shows how he figured out all the settings he used.

A: If you're looking for info on the various variables to tweak, here's a list of resources
If you're wanting advice...get a bigger VPS with more RAM

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Sony Unveils Rumbling Flagship Phone
Paul Rubens - February 26, 2018 - 08:07 AM
The Xperia XZ2 uses PlayStation handset technology to provide tactile feedback during movies and games.
(CCM) — Sony's new flagship smartphone vibrates during explosions and heavy impacts in video games and movie scenes, the company has announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Xperia XZ2 incorporates the same "rumble" technology which provides tactile feedback to players using its PlayStation controllers, according to a BBC report, but this is the first time the technology has been used in a smartphone.
The new handset also boasts the capability of recording "super-slow-mo" video clips at a resolution of 1080p, thanks to a customized version of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 845 chip which incorporates image signal processing technology, according to the report. This is twice the slo-mo resolution of Sony's previous flagship smartphone and of the new Samsung phones unveiled on Sunday.
The XZ2's camera can record videos at 4K resolution in high dynamic range (HDR) format for more vibrant colors when displayed on an HDR screen. It can also record in 10-bit color, making it easier for users to adjust the colors without causing visual artifacts.
Sony has moved to quash speculation that it may be looking to withdraw from the mobile phone market. "As long as Sony remains committed to the electronics business, mobile will be of strategic significance due to its R&D prospects for delivering numerous cutting-edge technologies such as 5G networks, the internet-of-things and 3D-sensing," Hideyuki Furumi, Sony's marketing chief, said in the BBC report.
Image: © Anton Watman - Shutterstock.com
Sony xperia find my phone - How-To - Mobile
Spotify, Sony Unveil PlayStation Music - News
Sony Unveils Xperia Z5 and Variants - News
Sony Unveils Selfie-Optimized Smartphone - News
Sony Unveils AI-Powered Ride Hailing - News
Smartphone Market Faces Bloodbath
Google Launches Routines for Assistant
MediaTek Unveils Flagship Gaming Chips
Apple Preps 16-inch MacBook Pro
Amazon Prime Video in Virtual Reality
Pandora Launches Voice Mode

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Welcome to IAAY number ten!
This week it's all about Australian guitarist Lincoln Brady, someone who not only performs other people's work (and pushes the boundaries of the classical repertoire off the edge of the planet), but also composes his own work. As a guitarist myself, I take my hat off to anyone who does both.
It's All About Lincoln Brady
It's All About Jan Freidlin
Hello, my name is Lincoln Brady and I am a classical guitarist living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. I'd like to talk about several artistic projects I've been involved with over the past four years.
During this time I've worked with the excellent Russian-born,Israeli composer - Jan Freidlin - premiering several of his new compositions for guitar:
Moon Triptych
TangO'Clock
Five Venetian Glass Poems
Freidlin is a very prolific composer with a very poetic but accessible style. The above compositions are very different in terms of emotional content revealing a broad-ranging imagination and a great technical proficiency.
'Moon Triptych' is kind of 'serenade' to the moon but with a deeply 'existential' feel. 'TangO' Clock' is a musical description of 'a day in the life of a tango dance teacher', as revealed in the titles of the 5 movements: 'Entrada at Sunrise', 'Morning Milonga', 'Tanghitta at Noon', 'Evening Tango-Vals', and 'Final at Night'.
"Five Venetian Glass Poems" is yet another contrasting piece – a meditation on the special poetry of the amazing glass-Art exhibits of Venice. The video clip of this suite is hosted on the website of the "Murano Museo del Vetro" (a museum in Venice).
Each of my interpretations of these pieces appear on Youtube with exquisite picture sequences organised by the composer himself.
Last year, at my request, Freidlin generously composed and dedicated a piece for my guitar & flute duo (DUO ORFEO) called "Delphic Music Games in Three Events" for guitar & flute & woodblocks - it was premiered at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival on 9th August, 2012.
This year I've also resumed writing a composition project of my own – "Six Preludios" for solo guitar. They are written in a mainly traditional and romantic style. Although they have fairly formal musical structures they have a 'personal' tone – written more for pleasure rather than attempting to make a big statement. I gave them Italian titles which just seemed appropriate and which alluded to classical music tradition:
Preludio Romantico
Preludio Molto Ritmico
Preludio Notturno
Preludio Vivo
Preludio Misterioso
Preludio Con Amore
'Preludio Misterioso' is probably the best one and it is my favourite. This piece uses a rapid right hand arpeggio technique which is used in many classical guitar compositions.
It was inspired by a piece by the American progressive- Rock band 'Spastic Ink' which only uses two pitches and lasts for an amazing four minutes! This technique is also used in classical music composition.
It's called 'Limited Pitch Class Set' - the composer restricts himself to a small selection of pitches forcing himself to rely on other musical parameters such as rhythm, harmony, tone colour to create interest. My piece, though, employs five pitches, two chords, and lasts only two minutes!
You can find links to more of Lincoln's performances of pieces by other composers on his website.


Now forty-one years old, Craig has seen enough of the world to know that Cambridge is the place he and his wife, Hope, want to live and where they want to raise their two boys, Robbie (6) and Cooper (4). The quiet, friendly neighborhoods, dynamic schools, bustling shopping areas, wonderful parks, super libraries and great people have earned Cambridge a special place in Craig's heart.
Following law school, Craig became an environmental consultant, married Hope (whom he met while she was biking with a cast on her leg) and, eventually, moved from a Porter Square apartment to a small house in North Cambridge. He has served as the Chair or Vice-chair of the North Cambridge Stabilization Committee since 1996, was instrumental in founding the Alewife Neighbors, Inc. and played a major part in revitalizing the Sierra Club's Boston Inner City Outings program. Over the past several years, Craig has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to preserve the Alewife floodplain, promote environmental issues and develop affordable housing throughout Cambridge. He has testified repeatedly on neighborhood concerns before the Board of Zoning Appeals, the License Commission, the Planning Board, the Conservation Commission, the City Council and the School Committee.
Craig is a regular contributor to a variety of journals and papers, including the Cambridge Chronicle, the Massachusetts Sierran, The Ride (a bicycle magazine) and The Word (a Marine Corps Reserve magazine).
Few things are as important as providing housing for Cambridge residents who can't afford it. But the city must do a better job of ensuring that government-subsidized housing is also decent, desirable housing—not simply housing of last resort.
Develop a clear, balanced affordable-housing policy that promotes appropriate siting, respects neighborhood zoning, and restores growth policies, land-use planning, and public interest as considerations (rather than the current approach—"As much as possible, as dense as possible"—favored by the City).
With only 6.2 square miles of land, Cambridge is a city where even the smallest things can have a huge impact on our immediate environment and our public health. Whether it's the City's viewing its open space as "free" when it comes to situating City projects, traffic spewing fumes into air that already fails EPA health levels or industrial and city property that is laden with hazardous pollutants, we need a City government that can competently address these concerns.
As a neighborhood advocate, a member of the local Sierra Club's Executive Committee and a professional environmental author, lecturer and consultant, I have repeatedly argued that the City's open space is not "free." Whether it is a park or a community garden, our green space is precious and must be valued accordingly in any city decision. Once this land is built on- be it for housing, health care or educational uses- it will never be available as open space again. The City must give the value to this open space that it warrants.
When it comes to traffic, it is important that we minimize the exhaust from cars and trucks idling at our intersections and clogging our streets. First and foremost, we must get people out of their cars, making public transportation a more attractive alternative to the people who live and work in our town. The best way to do that is to limit the parking spaces at the millions of square feet of commercial development planned for many parts of Cambridge in the near future. The City Council could set a wonderful example by eliminating its reserved parking spots behind City Hall. Once our elected officials start relying on mass transit, it seems very likely we'll see an improvement in transit service. Almost as important is to get the MBTA and other bus companies to use cleaner burning fuels and, during non-rush hours, to use smaller busses.
We all must also remember that Cambridge is a City with a very industrial history. Working with others, I helped obtain tens of thousands of dollars to help monitor remediation work at the contaminated W.R. Grace site in North Cambridge. Alongside other neighborhood advocates, against the will of the City, I helped prove that not only was the Grace site contaminated with asbestos, but so was nearby City-owned playing fields. As a result of this discovery, and lots of hard work by the neighborhood and former Councilor Triantafillou, Cambridge now has an asbestos protection ordinance that will help minimize the public's exposure to this dangerous fiber.
My history of environmental protection and public health advocacy in a myriad of fashions is equal to anyone's.
As the Chair of my local neighborhood group for most of the past 8 years, I have seen firsthand how neighborhoods get squeezed by a variety of development forces. All too often, these forces, whether they are municipal or commercial, are in the position of having professional engineers, consultants and other hired "experts" push their agendas while the local residents simply have their personal experiences and common sense. Unfortunately, the City pays far too little attention to the valuable information these residents bring to the table.
The City must listen to its residents. The people who live in our neighborhoods know more about traffic patterns parking problems, density issues and how important the local Laundromat is than any panel of City-hired experts. Cambridge residents know that people will bike around town when it really is safe to do so, not simply because the City painted some lines on a few roads. Locals know that large housing developments with only one parking space per unit will make it tougher to find parking on nearby streets. Our fellow citizens understand that the City Manager has appointed the members of the Planning Board and Board of Zoning Appeals, so there is no amazement (although there is considerable angst) at the zoning relief these boards give to well-funded developers.
As a Councilor I will push hard for neighborhood voices to be respected at City Hall. I will urge my fellow Councilors to lead by example, by biking or taking public transit to City Hall instead of parking in the reserved spaces behind the building. I will ask the Council to take back its power to appoint the members of the Planning Board and the Board of Zoning Appeals.
And most of all, I will try, as hard as I can, to make my peers understand that our neighborhoods are fragile and the City must support them in every way it possibly can, whether it be underwriting the rent of a small corner store or minimizing auto-dependent development throughout our City.
Cambridge owes much of its current status to the abundance of fine colleges and universities within its borders. MIT and Harvard are two of the City's largest employers and both, along with Lesley and other schools, offer a variety of amenities to all Cambridge residents.
That being said, the power of these universities to change our City with their massive development plans is very intimidating. Whether it be Harvard wanting to build on the Charles River or Lesley looking to expand over the Porter Square MBTA tracks, far too many parts of Cambridge face university expansion threats that are extremely disquieting.
While there is no perfect solution, the City should continue to work on getting universities to be taxed as the corporations they essentially are. When it comes to constructing dorms or research labs, local universities are more like well-funded developers than they are benign non-profits and they should be taxed as such. Similarly, the boarding room fees paid by these large universities, which operate thousands and thousands of rooming units in Cambridge, are absurdly low. Cambridge could gain roughly nine million dollars in revenue, and scrap the scrounging for the relatively small PILOT contributions, simply by altering the permit fee. Finally, land owned by, or coveted by, these universities should be zoned to protect local neighborhoods just as if any other developer were interesting in building there.
Interagency 'favors' should continue as is. For example, the universities provide assistant teachers for our schools. Cambridge allows street closures for university events. This arrangement is not exactly a quid pro quo, but simply a reflection of the belief that we co-exist and should do our best to accommodate and help each other. These aspects of Cambridge's relationship with its universities should continue even as we explore ways to ensure that these institutions of higher learning are fulfilling their own civic responsibilities.
For starters, participation on City Boards and Committees should be expanded beyond the current core group from which the City Manager picks his members. As an example, I have applied to be on roughly a dozen city boards or committees, from the Library Committee to the Board of Zoning Appeals to the Police Review Advisory Board. For reasons he won't explain to me, the City Manager has refused to appoint me to any of them, despite the fact that vacancies frequently exist for weeks if not months, many of the same people serve on multiple boards and my credentials are as impressive as anyone's. Sadly, my experience in this matter is not unique. It appears that the Manager wants to control public input on these bodies and the long-term effect of his efforts to control is that the general public has begun to view these public forums as little more than local 'dog and pony' shows. The City Council should insist that the Manager alter his appointment practices to include a wider variety of neighborhood voices.
A second, and very easy, thing the City Council should do is to modify its rules to allow anyone to show up at City Council to talk about any item, whether or not it is on the Council's agenda. I would also suggest that any Councilor be allowed to waive the Council rules three times per meeting to allow two additional people to speak beyond the current three minute limit. And while the public is speaking, the Councilors should be in their seats, paying attention, not in the room next door eating dinner. Few things discourage civic participation more than taking the time to go to City Hall to speak at a Council meeting only to find just one or two, if that many, of the Councilors are paying the slightest attention to what the public is saying.
The plan for excellent education must be more than simply merging or closing schools, cutting teachers and support staff, and redesigning the high school. In particular, there must be proper implementation of the recently approved K-8 re-organization plan or there can be little doubt that Cambridge's public schools will continue to shed lower-grade students at a rate that will cripple the entire system.
My wife, Hope, and I have been thrilled with virtually every aspect of our son's public school education thus far, (Robbie attends the Baldwin School), but it is clear that many students, especially those in the higher grades, need the Cambridge Public School system to challenge them more. It is equally clear that many other CPS students are not succeeding academically. This "performance gap" threatens to overwhelm our schools and needs immediate attention through a planning process that is based on sound educational policies--not spreadsheet politics!
While it's hard to argue that the Cambridge Public School system needs more than the roughly $17,000 per student it currently spends each year, it's just as hard to determine exactly how much our public school system does need to teach our students well. We must decide how we will best educate our children, then obtain and disburse the necessary funds to accomplish that goal.


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Bon Secours Mercy Health Named Top 10 Best Companies for Executive Women
Bon Secours Mercy Health (BSMH) has been named a Top 10 2021 Best Companies for Executive Women. This is the most definitive list of top workplaces for women who want to advance through the corporate ranks. It celebrates companies that champion women's advancement, with a focus on succession planning, profit-and-loss role, gender pay parity, support programs, and work-life balance programs.
In addition to this award, BSMH was also recognized as one of the Best Companies for Multicultural Women and one of the Best Companies for Working Mothers for our commitment to advancing the careers of all women in our workplace.
Both rankings were awarded by Seramount (formerly Working Mother Media).
Bon Secours Mercy Health serves communities across seven states and Ireland, with a workforce that is 81% women. More than 75% of our managers are women and 69% of our senior managers are women. In addition, 50% of our corporate executives are women, and 70% of the top 20% of earners in our health system are women.
Bon Secours Mercy Health Makes Strategic Investment in U.S.-Based Sourcing and Manufacturing of PPE
•December 19, 2022
Bon Secours Mercy Health President Brian Smith to retire after 32 years with health system
Business Courier and Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Name Bon Secours Mercy Health Goal Setter of the Year
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Raymond to turn up volume for Metallica drive-in concert
Posted on August 20, 2020 by Vauxhall Advance
Photo courtesy of Town of Raymond Facebook
By Dale Woodward
Alta Newspaper Group – Lethbridge
The Masters of Puppets are going to grace the big screen in southern Alberta.
In the only showing in Alberta, the Town of Raymond will host a drive-in style performance from metal legends Metallica Aug. 29 as the Encore Drive-In Nights concert feature rocks the four-storey screen at the Raymond Drive-In.
The on-screen concert is exclusive to drive-in theatres in North America including one in B.C., two in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, 10 in Ontario, three in Nova Scotia and one each in New Brunswick and Quebec as music fans settle for concerts on the big screen while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shut down live performances.
The event will also feature a guest performance from Canadian band Three Days Grace.
Working with EncoreLive, Raymond snagged the sole Alberta viewing.
"Because we're the only venue in Alberta, Raymond is a little maverick at times and we like to go for big things. We don't see barriers, we see opportunities," said Greg Robinson, director community development and human resources for the Town of Raymond.
Less than a month ago, the Raymond Drive-In, located at 53 West 500 North, hosted another drive-in from Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani and Trace Adkins, a 150-vehicle sellout.
"It's a bit of a different concept so it took a little bit of traction," said Robinson. "People are thinking it's just a video of a concert and it kind of is, but it's a unique concert that it is created just for these events. Metallica has completed their performance and is fine-tuning it and making it a very worthwhile show to attend and you'll only be able to see this for one night. It's not to be sold or shown anywhere else."
Tickets for the event, running from 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., are $155 per car with up to six people per vehicle – car, truck or SUV. RVs and limousines are not permitted.
Alberta Health COVID-19 guidelines will be in effect in order to protect the health and well-being of those in attendance.
Staff will wear personal protective equipment and enforce at least six feet of space between cars.
Guidelines around concessions will be enforced to abide by Alberta Health rules and regulations.
"We're making a lot of efforts to make sure everybody can have a safe time, but also have a good experience," said Robinson. "There are about 14-foot-wide stalls and between the front of the stall and the front of stall behind you is about 30 feet. There is a lot of room for you to enjoy the show, whether you decide to sit in your vehicle or just outside your door. We have people there to make sure people aren't mingling it up. We had so many good comments from Blake Shelton. People were really well behaved and observed the rules we put in place to keep everybody safe, but still have a good time."
"More people sat in their car than sat outside of their vehicle. It's a summer night, so it's hard to say what they feel they might want to do. But we've given them enough space so everybody can be safe. (At) Blake Shelton, some of them sat on the roof of their car or they backed in with their truck and sat in the bed of their truck. But they all stayed in their zone and everybody had a good time."
Being the only viewing spot in Alberta, Robinson noted the tourism opportunities for Raymond.
"I had envisioned a 50-50 split for people from Raymond that would attend shows like this and 50 per cent from outside Raymond. But it way exceeded my expectations. I think for Blake Shelton we only had about 25 cars from Raymond and the rest were from outside of Raymond. We had cars from Medicine Hat come to Blake Shelton and probably half-a-dozen cars from Calgary. We had Red Deer, Airdrie, Claresholm and even Edmonton. I had a lady phone me (Tuesday) morning and she's buying four vehicles. So her whole family is coming from Edmonton and she said they're making a whole weekend of this. This is their vacation. That's what the benefit is. These are people that would probably have no other reason to come to Raymond, to be honest. So it provides us with an excellent opportunity to show off what Raymond is all about."
Tickets are on sale for the concert at http://www.ticketmaster.com/encore-metallica.


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Separated at Birth: Redline Racer & Suzuki Alstare
Redline Racer was a very early release for the Dreamcast and was little more than a technical showcase for the hardware. Developed by Criterion (yes, the same Criterion behind the Burnout series) the game initially launched for PC where it received average reviews, and a few months later in April 1999 it hit Japanese Dreamcasts to a similarly lukewarm reception. When Redline Racer was released in North America and PAL regions the following year, it came with official branding and a new name: Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing.
Thinking back, Suzuki was one of the first titles I experienced on the Dreamcast and I clearly recall renting it from Blockbuster when the price of a new game of my own was something way out of my price range. I also remember thinking it was a fairly decent, nice looking racer and to this day I still don't think there's anything particularly offensive about it. Sure, the visuals haven't aged well and the handling model is fairly rudimentary when compared to more contemporary motorcycle racers like Moto GP et al, but as a simplistic arcade jaunt there are worse titles out there.
I was aware of the connection to Redline Racer, but never really paid much attention to the Japanese ancestor because I always just assumed it was the same game without the Suzuki license and thought nothing more of it. However, in the recent past I acquired a copy of Redline (£3 well spent!) and gave it a whirl just out of curiosity; and I can honestly say that while many sites simply label Redline Racer as the Japanese version of Suzuki Alstare, in truth they couldn't be more different...
While the basics are quite obvious in both games - the menu systems, the layouts of the select screens and the majority of the tracks are identical in layout and aesthetic design - the visuals are almost unrecognisable when shown side by side. The images below will illustrate this a thousand times better than my limited vocabulary ever could (and the video further down even more so than that), but to say I was shocked at the visual overhaul Criterion gave to Redline Racer before unleashing it on western audiences is a massive understatement.
Redline Racer
Suzuki Alstare
Back in the late 1990s, it was almost a given that any western release (or more specifically a PAL release) would be a pale imitation of a Japanese version of the same game; but in this case the opposite seems to be the case. The extra months of development time were quite evidently spent increasing the level of detail in the riders, the bikes and the tracks. The environments do appear to be the same (so the beach track in Redline is still the beach track in Suzuki, for example), but the level of detail and texturing quality afforded to Suzuki is nothing short of staggering. You can clearly see from the images above and below that the textures of the track and trackside details have been bumped up considerably and the rider and bike models are far more complex in Suzuki.
There are other improvements too, such as in the bike handling and incidental sound effects and music. Also, in Redline Racer there are times where the environment is too dark to see where you're going, and this leads to constant crashing in tunnels and in ravines. Thankfully, this has been rectified in Suzuki. Gone too are the random messages that pop up in Redline, alerting you that you're off the track...even though you clearly aren't, and the loading times have been vastly improved in Suzuki. Seriously, the loading times in Redline Racer seem to go on forever as the Dreamcast shakes itself to bits reading the GD, but they're almost nonexistent in Suzuki. Well, not nonexistent but certainly not the 45 second gulfs that they are in the Japanese game. Here's my hastily cobbled together video showing a comparison:
Best viewed in 720p HD for maximum effect
I suppose it's hardly surprising that Criterion thought better than to release Redline Racer in the state it was on a western audience. With competition from newer racing titles that were appearing at the time of the PAL and NTSC-U launches, the game would have been utterly mauled by the press. One thing is clear though - the extra development time was put to good use.
Tags: Criterion, DCJY Features, Redline Racer, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing
Wow that's crazy. I'll say this though, 'Redline Racer' is a way better title.
You said the game as a whole is a little dated today, but is 'Suzuki Alstare' still fun/worth playing?
DCeric said...
I think Suzuki Alstare does look a lot better. I know I said Redline Racer looked better on a comment in Facebook but seeing more in the video made me quickly change my mind on that. I don't know much about Redline Racer but I find Suzuki Alstare a truly bad ass title for the Dreamcast and I don't know why there i so much hate for it. I do realize that the physics are one thing that might be bad in the game.
DCGX - Yes, I think so. It's still a fun racer with nice variation in the tracks. I found it odd that the starting courses are different in each game though. I had to play through the championship in Suzuki to unlock the countryside track but in Redline it's one of the initial three that are open.
Eric - Yes, I agree. I think Suzuki got middling reviews when it launched because there were other more impressive games out by that point.
I really like this game and still play it every know and again, it doe's take practice to learn the courses but it a graphically smooth game. I also looks amazing through vga, any Dreamcast owner should have it as its usually pretty cheap to pick up.
Cool. I'll have to keep my eye out for it at local game shops.
Gareth said...
The frame-rate seems to have taken a bit of a hit on Suzuki though. All that extra didn't didn't come for free, and I think the frame-rate is a casualty.
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Marmolejos In Tense Race For Triple-A West Batting Title
The race for the Triple-A West batting title is going down to the wire, and it has several layers.
Tacoma's Jose Marmolejos is hitting .347, Salt Lake's Michael Stefanic is second at .342, and the only two contenders are facing each other at Cheney Stadium in the final series of the season.
The big hitch is that Marmolejos needs 16 more plate appearances over the final four games in order to qualify. That adds another level to the chase: Marmolejos needs to get these 16 plate appearances, so he can't miss a game for any reason.
Last night Marmolejos hit cleanup, and got four plate appearances in a game the Rainiers won – so they batted in just eight innings.
The wet weather is something to worry about. What if a game gets shortened by rain? That would be a problem.
A rainout and a make-up doubleheader would be a real issue. It's hard to get four plate appearances in a seven inning game – especially if the home team wins, and only bats in six innings. A pure cancellation due to rain would be easier to deal with, since the minimum number of plate appearances is based on total team games played. Tacoma is scheduled to play 130 games, and you need 2.7 plate appearances per game to qualify, so that's a total of 351 PAs. A cancellation would drop that number to 348. Marmolejos currently has 335.
If plate appearances become a concern this weekend, manager Kristopher Negron could move Marmolejos up to the No. 2 spot in the lineup, to increase the chance that he bats an extra time in a game.
The fact that the Rainiers are playing Salt Lake adds to the intrigue. Tacoma's pitchers can help Marmolejos by getting Stefanic out. Stefanic is really consistent: his batting averages for the last three months are .374 in July, .352 in August, and .357 in September.
Tacoma has pitched Stefanic really well. He's hitting just .239 against the Rainiers this year, going 17-for-71 in 19 games against Tacoma. He's hit .365 against all of the other teams in the league.
Hopefully tonight the Rainiers will score a dozen runs and Marmolejos will get six plate appearances – and some hits, too!
YESTERDAY: Four Tacoma pitchers combined on a three-hit shutout as the Rainiers opened the final series of the season with a 4-0 win over Salt Lake on Wednesday night. Robert Dugger pitched the first six innings, allowing three hits with no walks and six strikeouts. Dugger finished his season with back-to-back outings of six scoreless innings. Andres Munoz, Justin Grimm, and Jimmy Yacabonis finished up the Rainiers sixth shutout of the year. Offensively, Jose Godoy hit a two-run double, and Jantzen Witte added two hits with a homer.
TODAY: Salt Lake (53-72, 4-2) at Tacoma (76-50, 3-3), 7:05.
OPPONENT AFFILIATION: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
OPPOSING MANAGER: Lou Marson.
SEASON SERIES: Tacoma leads, 15-10.
PITCHERS: LHP Thomas Pannone (5-11, 7.45) at RHP Ryan Weber (4-2, 3.64)
Pannone is the first of four straight left-handed pitchers that Salt Lake has listed to start the final four games of the season.
HOT HITTERS: Dillon Thomas is 17-for-53 over his last 16 games… Jose Godoy is 23-for-60 over his last 14 games… Luis Liberato is 17-for-40 over his last 12 games… the Rainiers are 43-24 when Donovan Walton is in the starting lineup, and 33-26 when he is not… Walton has an eight-game hitting streak.
OPPONENT NEWS: Salt Lake just went 4-1 in a five-game series against Sacramento… Mitch Walding is saving his injury-riddled season with a late surge, going 20-for-49 with five homers over his last 12 games… Brendon Davis has two homers and eight RBI over his last five games… Bees home run leader Jake Gatewood has missed the last four games with an undisclosed injury.
The Mariners won another thriller last night, and remain a half-game out of the last wild card spot. The team is off today before hosting the Angels in the final three games of the season starting Friday night.
Mitch Haniger is looking for the baseball that he hit for his 100th career home run on Tuesday.
Outfielder Jarred Kelenic has been one of the hottest rookies in the majors recently.


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Middle school transformed into affordable housing for seniors
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Constructed in 1930, the Watkins Glen Middle School building features a brick façade and historic details such as its large hallways, solid wood doors,and the craftsmanship of its masonry. But as the New York town began to consolidate its school buildings, the structure was no longer needed as a school.
To repurpose the architecturally pleasing building while also tackling the problem of affordable housing, it was suggested to use the retired school building as a reinvestment and repurpose it as 51 affordable housing units for seniors, reports Building and Design Construction.
One of the main challenges of the project was to maintain the existing character of the building while assuring that upgrades met energy efficiency standards and the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED for Homes program conditions.
For example, compromises needed to be made with green building or energy efficiency standards when it came to preserving historic walls and window details. The finished project achieved LEED for Homes silver certification by maximizing material reuse points; implementing air sealing measures; selecting new windows, a high efficiency boiler for heating and hot water, and Energy Star appliances; and for its great location, close to many amenities.
The auditorium was preserved as a civic space and represents the area's largest gathering space and each converted unit has a unique layout, setup and details.
Repurposing the building required $14.2 million in funding, which it achieved via a combination of NYSHCR financing, Historic Tax Credits from the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and National Park Service and incentives from New York State Energy Research & Development (NYSERDA).
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Issue Date: November 20, 1970
City: New York, NY
Printing Method: Lithographed and engraved
Color: Black, vermillion and ultramarine
Signing Of United Nations Charter
On June 26, 1945, 50 nations signed the United Nations Charter.
Following the Paris Peace Conference that ended World War I, several nations joined together to create the League of Nations, aimed at maintaining world peace. However, the league was unable to prevent the aggression of the Axis powers in the 1930s that ultimately led to World War II.
By 1939, the U.S. State Department had formulated a place for a new world organization to replace the League of Nations. Additionally, representatives from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and nine other nations met in London in June 1941 to sign the Declaration of St. James' Palace. This was the first of six conferences that ultimately led to the founding of the United Nations.
That December, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt suggested the term United Nations as a name for the Allies of World War II. Then, on December 29, 1941, Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill drafted the Declaration of the United Nations, an agreement to uphold the Atlantic Charter, commit all resources to war against the Axis powers, and to not sign separate treaties with Germany or Japan. Twenty-six nations signed the declaration in early January 1942 at the Arcadia Conference (21 more nations would sign it within the next three years).
Over the course of the war, the idea of the United Nations continued to evolve as Allied nations met at the Moscow and Tehran Conferences. Through these meetings national leaders agreed to the need for an international peace and security organization. President Franklin Roosevelt wrote that the work of the U.N. was "peace: more than an end of this war – an end to the beginning of all wars."
This led to a meeting of 46 nations in San Francisco on April 25, 1945. Exhausted from the extended war and disheartened by the inhumanity they'd seen, they were determined to prevent future generations from experiencing what they had seen firsthand. Their ultimate goal was to form an international organization that would have the power to maintain security and foster prosperity and give human rights an international legal status.
A group of non-governmental organizations lobbied vigorously for a strong commitment to human rights in the U.N. Charter. In particular, several small Latin American countries were committed to the inclusion of such a guarantee. A Pan-American conference held in Mexico City produced a group united in their determination to see such goals met. A number of American non-governmental groups also pushed for a type of "bill of rights" in the charter. Over 1,300 organizations placed ads in newspapers demanding that human rights be an integral part of the international organization.
When the member nations met in San Francisco in April of 1945, their proposal fell short of the clear and concise commitment to human rights that these groups sought. Forty-two American groups serving as consultants to the U.S. delegation convinced participating governments of the need to clearly state a policy of protection for individual human rights. They were persuasive, and the result was a legal commitment by governments around the world to promote and encourage respect for the inalienable human rights of every man, woman, and child.
On June 26, 1945, the fifty nations present signed the United Nations charter, with its high goal. "We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights…to establish conditions under which…international law can be maintained, and…to promote social progress and better standards of life…"
In order for the charter to come into effect, it had to be ratified by China, France, the USSR, the United Kingdom, the U.S., and a majority of the other 46 nations. Over the next four months, 29 nations ratified the charter, setting it into effect on October 24, 1945. The remaining nations ratified it by the end of the year and the U.N. held its first General Assembly on January 10, 1946.
Today, the U.N. vision has grown to include nearly every country in the world.
United Nations Headquarters in New York City
The U.N. Charter was approved by the required number of nations in 1945. At that time, the organization lacked a permanent headquarters. Delegates agreed the headquarters should be in the United States. On December 14, 1946, the U.N. General Assembly accepted a donation of $8.5 million from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to buy 18 acres of land along the East River in New York City. The next year, the U.S. Congress approved an interest-free loan of $65 million to construct the headquarters buildings. The buildings were completed in the fall of 1952. The most prominent of these is the tall Secretariat Building, which is a well-known symbol of the United Nations.
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On Wednesday, November 28 we are holding a community meeting for Creston neighbors. We will discuss the Grand Rapids Public Schools Transformation Plan and its effect on our neighborhood and schools.
When: November 28th at 7pm.
GRPS will host an additional public hearing on December 3 and the school board will vote on the plan on December 17.
The bio-retention island project that closed part of Plainfield this summer is complete, and a com-plete success.
On August 28 Mayor Hartwell and the City Commission of Grand Rapids recognized the creative col-laboration used in Creston to make the project happen.
The "smooth as glass" road is now reopened for business and Nyleene, a Creston High School graduate and owner of the Earth-bound T-shirt business, says she's proud to be calling her old class-mates from Creston to suggest that they drive and walk the new and improved roadway.
On Sunday, 8/26 350 athletes will participate in the Michigan Titanium Triathlon. The race will originate at Versluis Park (Northland Ave/Plainfield Ave) at 7 AM. After completing the swim, athletes will then bike 112 miles throughout northeast Kent County (see map). They will then run 26 miles down Grand River Dr and 3 Mile Rd as far south as Knapp St.
These roads are open to traffic however, beware of some delays at intersections. Also, while driving along the course be extra vigilant of cyclists, runners, police officers and volunteers.
The run course, Grand River Dr between Northland Ave and Knapp St – and – 3 Mile Rd between Dunnigan Ave and Grand River Ave will be closed to thru traffic. Local resident's traffic will be allowed.
Race starts at 7 AM. Bikers will be on the course from 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM. Runners will be on the course from 11 AM to as late as midnight.


Guided Redwood Forest and Oregon Coast Tours, Enlightening Adventure!
A veritable journey through some Oregons most fantastic landscapes. Be astounded by the towering majesty of the Redwoods. Then its on to the Oregon Coast, which beckons you with its dramatic sea-stacks and alluring tide-pools.
Ride along with a knowledgable guide to the Northern California Redwoods & Southern Oregon Coast for a full day's journey or enjoy overnight at a select lodging establishment.
No where else can you, your family, and friends have an escorted, custom tour to the breathtakingly beautiful Redwoods National Forest and the Southern Oregon Coast all in one day. Or add overnight lodging and stretch it to two days!
You will 'Learn the Lore' of a rare part of America's Pacific Northwest Gold Coast, from Native Americans, to early explorers, to famed fisherman and their trade.
Pickup is from the location of your choosing, Ashland/Medford or Grants Pass at 8:30 am and traveling on the Beautiful Redwoods Highway.
Stop at Stoney Creek Trail-Smith River National Recreation Area near the town of Gasquet, CA, along Redwood Highway 199, to enjoy the botanical wonders of the Smith River Region, showcasing Darlingtonia or Pitcher Plants: Oregons endemic carnivorous plants.
We will stroll in the Giant Redwoods of the Redwoods National Park near Jedediah Smith State Park.
Travel Northwest on the Hwy 101 through tulip farms to Brookings/Harbor (Oregon's seaport towns) on the Oregon Coast.


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Dell Entrepreneur Spotlight series: Emma Jones, Enterprise Nation
Andrew Miller	• December 10, 2012
As a member of the small business marketing team at Dell, I get the chance to meet with a diverse range of entrepreneurs, small business owners and industry organisations. Through our support of StartUp Britain I've had the opportunity to get to know one of the campaign's founders, Emma Jones. Not only is Emma the co-founder of StartUp Britain, but she also founded Enterprise Nation and was recently awarded an MBE for Services to Enterprise.
I recently had the opportunity to learn more from Emma about how she launched a successful enterprise and the advice she'd offer entrepreneurs with ambitions to start a business of their own:
What is your company all about?
Enterprise Nation is a company that helps people to start and grow their own business. We have more than 75,000 members in the Enterprise Nation community who enjoy daily blog posts, books, eBooks, kits, workshops, and an online profile through being listed in the Enterprise Nation Directory.
How did the idea for your business come about?
In 2000 I started, grew and sold a business in the space of two years. That was my first business and it was started and built from my spare room. When I sold the company, it made me realise there was a gap in the market for a website and information for people running a business from home, and that's how Enterprise Nation started out – as the home business website. Over the past six years we have grown into a small business community and helped thousands of people take an idea and turn it into a business from the comfort of the kitchen table/home office!
What was the biggest challenge you faced when starting your business and how did you overcome it?
Hope it doesn't sound trite to say but I don't see challenges, I only see opportunities! When starting out, there is a lot to do – write a business plan, secure customers, profile yourself and the business, perfect the product, keep customers happy etc. – so certainly a commitment to hard work is required but that's not really a challenge as, when you love what you do, you don't mind putting in the hours!
Ahead of this stage though, what many people question is 'when is the right time to go full time as your own boss' and this is why we are seeing so many people 'working 5 to 9' which is the term I apply (and the title of one of my books!) to the 5 million plus people who are holding down a day job and building a business in their spare time. It's a great way to start as you give yourself the time to build confidence in your abilities and cash in the business.
If you had to do it all again, what if anything would you have done differently in building the business?
I'm not sure there is anything I would have done differently. I learned a huge amount in a quick space of time with my first business and those learnings have been applied to Enterprise Nation. We have followed a plan for the past six years, I'm privileged to work with a great team of people, and we are growing the business according to plan. Some of our partnerships have not always developed in the way I hoped and my only ever frustration is the pace of growth but I think that's down to my terrible lack of patience! A solid business takes time to build!
What was your 'Plan B' if your business venture didn't work out?
There was no plan B as I had total belief it would work – and it was down to me, plus the talented people around me, to make it work. Starting and growing a business requires confidence, dedication and passion. I love what I do and knew that if I committed myself to it, we would be able to build a business around helping others achieve their own business ambitions. Thankfully, it has worked as I'm not sure I'd make for a very good employee!
What key business advice would you give to entrepreneurs or start-up businesses?
Come up with an idea that appeals to a niche audience of customers
Keep overheads low by running the business from home, embracing social media, and borrowing and bartering resources
Go global at speed – it's now perfectly possible with powerful online sales platforms – and stay nimble to make the most of all the opportunities that will come your way
What technology could your business not live without?
Lots! As a business, we have moved a good deal of our operations into the cloud so we use Basecamp (project management software), Gmail, Skype and cloud applications such as Dropbox. I'm also a big fan of social media for engaging with our community.
What's the best perk of being your own boss?
The freedom and flexibility to work where, how and when you like. Oh, and to have an incredible sense of satisfaction in watching your business grow – and helping many others in the process.
You can find Emma on Twitter @emmaljones where she tweets about all things small business.
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Sam Miller • July 5, 2016


A Changing Climate Means A Changing Society. The Island Press Urban Resilience Project, Supported By The Kresge Foundation And The JPB Foundation, Is Committed To A Greener, Fairer Future. This Op-Ed Was Originally Published September 24, 2018 In The Progressive.
Over the course of four days in mid-September, Hurricane Florence dumped a record-breaking 34 inches of rain on Swansboro, North Carolina — a city that usually gets 57 inches in an entire year.
In 2017, Hurricane Harvey caused the worst flood in Houston's history. In 2012, flooding from Superstorm Sandy — considered a once-in-700-year event — devastated coastal New York and New Jersey.
These and other events are typically called natural disasters. But overwhelming scientific consensus says they are actually the result of human-induced climate change and irresponsible construction in flood-prone areas.
Most scientists agree that global warming is causing sea levels to rise, while increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of extreme weather events. At the same time, the rapid urbanization of coastal areas is putting more people and property in harm's way.
Given this new normal, it is time to rethink our approach to floods. We typically deal with only the symptoms of the problem, by evacuating residents before a disaster, housing them temporarily in emergency shelters, and paying insurance so that they can rebuild afterward.
But this is tremendously costly, both in human and financial terms.
Moody's Analytics has tallied at least $17 billion in property damage from Florence so far. Harvey cost $125 billion and the tally for Maria in Puerto Rico is $139 billion. Katrina destroyed $161 billion in property.
Fortunately, the right infrastructure can prevent flooding, rather than treat it after the fact. Prevention is cost-effective: The National Institute of Buildings Services estimates that every dollar spent on the reduction of a community's vulnerability to disasters saves approximately $6 in economic losses.
As an architect and urban designer working on large-scale projects, as well as a native of the Netherlands, a low-lying country that wouldn't exist without flood-management infrastructure, I have been intrigued by recent, innovative solutions to flood prevention.
For example, the beach town of Cleveleys, in England, chose not to build a standard concrete seawall, which has all the charm of a military bunker and can block human access to the shore.
Instead, the city built a structure with amphitheater-like viewing spaces and steps. The steps accentuate the beautiful curvilinear shapes, while creating access to the beach and adding public space, which is important for a coastal town that relies on tourists.
Flood protection can even be integrated into buildings. The Dutch coastal town Katwijk aan Zee integrated a levee with a parking garage, and covered it with landscaping. In Rotterdam, levees include built-in shops and parks. This type of infrastructure has economic benefits beyond flood protection.
Finally, some of the best solutions rely on an ancient flood protection device: dune grass, a saltwater tolerant plant that stabilizes dunes and prevents erosion. In contrast to reinforced concrete defenses that take the full force of waves until they are worn away by the sea, dunes absorb the waves' velocity, while beautifying the landscape and providing habitats.
By marrying flood management with creative urban and landscape design, infrastructure can become a strategic civic asset. In addition, it can pay for itself by unlocking the real estate and economic development potential of newly protected areas. The new normal of flooding and sea-level rise poses great challenges, but it also offers opportunities to improve our urban areas and landscapes.
Stefan Al is Associate Professor of Urban Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published several books, including Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook and The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream. As a practicing architect and urban designer, he has worked on renowned projects such as the Canton Tower in Guangzhou.


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Career Conference Speech
Illinois Institute of Technology | March 30, 1957
It won't be long for most of you in this room before rock & roll will no longer mean a dance, a pony-tail hair-do blue jeans, or a guitar player with side-burns. Instead, rock & roll will mean rocking babies to sleep in the middle of the night, and rolling to work at 6 or 7 in the morning.
No one person is smart enough, experienced enough, or sufficiently wise to advise every student in this auditorium what to do about careers in law, teaching, science, business and entertainment.
Charles Van Doren, Ann Landers, President Eisenhower, and Mike Todd – all rolled into one could not make such a speech. That's why Illinois Institute of Technology, the Sun-Times, and the Chicago Technical Societies Council have brought together today experienced people from many fields of human activity -- experts who will give you detailed and specific information about many of the most fascinating careers in the world today.
I won't expose my ignorance by trying to compete with them, but here's a thought I would like to pass along:
99% of us in this room have, or soon will have, 2 careers in common. Neither of these careers are going to be discussed in the special meetings later on today. Both of them are so fundamental you can end up a failure as a professional man, or woman, unless you are first, a success in them. The two careers I'm thinking about are marriage and citizenship.
We have an expert here on marriage. He just spoke to you, and I'm not going to compete with a successful father of 6 children like Mayor Richard J. Daley. The citizens of Chicago respect Mayor Daley as much for his successful career as a father as they do for his outstanding accomplishments as Mayor. When you think about your choice of a career that's a point to remember.
I think I can say the same thing about my father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy. Joseph P. Kennedy is the man who has made millions of dollars, has been Ambassador to Great Britian, and a trusted friend of President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Pope Pius XII, and many other famous people. But many Americans consider his greatest achievement to be the role he has played as a successful father of 9 children, one of whom, Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts, almost won the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States last summer, a second, Bobby Kennedy, is the young lawyer who has been directing so many brilliant questions to Dave Beck during the recent Senate investigations, a third won the Navy Cross for bravery in World War II.
These are only three of Mr. Kennedy's 9 children, but recently the Daily News described all 9 of them in these words: "There isn't a lout in the lot." And I know that Mr. Kennedy was pleased to read that statement.
Some of you then will be asking with dismay:- "What is this thing called love?" And you won't have an intelligent answer to that important question unless you plan now to make yourself a successful partner in marriage.
No man wants to spend his life with a woman who didn't take time to plan and prepare for being a wife, - and a mother to his children. No woman will want to marry a man who was not interested in preparing for a career, and consequently can't hold a decent job.
Someone long ago said this:- If you avoid planning now, someday you will view success, but only from a distance. This is true of marriage, just as much as mechanical engineering.
The second career, Citizenship, involves everybody. In a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "holds office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility, but we shall fail to develop a proper sense of responsibility, unless we begin with the determination to develop ourselves first as men, before we worry about jobs, or trades, or security, or pension rights, or insurance policies. Viewed in this way, - citizenship is a career in itself. Recently I spoke on this subject aid the Dean of Students here at I.I.T., Dean Deakins, having read what I said, asked that I express to all of you my thoughts on this "Career of Careers" - the one career which underlies all our other activities in life.
I should like to discuss this career of citizenship with you, first, in terms of our city, Chicago, and, second, in terms of ourselves.
Chicago is known all over the world as a transportation center, stockyards center, merchandising and steel production headquarters. But why is it that relatively few people outside Chicago speak of our city as a wonderful place to live, or thank us for our contributions to the ideals, hopes, dreams of mankind?
Even today in the 20th century, the Ancient Romans are still well-known for their law, their military organization, their good roads and orderly government.
The Ancient Greeks are famous for their philosophers like Aristotle and Plato; their teachers like Socrates; their poets and playwrights like Homer and Euripides.
But what are we in Chicago famous for? What do we export to the world? What have we given? What do we give today?
You might justifiably remonstrate that Illinois, if not Chicago, gave Lincoln to the world, and you would be right, --except that Lincoln was born in Kentucky. But granting Lincoln, what are we giving today?
I suggest we are giving almost only material things: - steel, automobiles, TV and radio, candy, meat, refrigerators, farm machinery. These products of our factories are vital to our national power, it is true, and our power is crucial in a world which seems to live in fear: fear of atomic war, fear of economic defeat, fear of socialism and communism. But fear alone is a poor substitute for the higher virtues.
The western world cannot combat communism on such a basis. A people guided by fear leaves all the initiative and all the advantage to the other side. Throughout history, the men with the positive goals have won their way. Ideals like 'The Chosen People" of Ancient Jewry, the unity of Christianity in the middle ages, our own American Republic, -- these ideals have proved most effective in hitching the human forces of hunger and power and greed and fear into producing a batter life for mankind.
Racially, the United States is a melting pot of every nation under the sun. Geographically we reached our present borders only within the last 100 years. But by force of an idea --- the proposition that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, the United States has risen to be the most powerful community in recorded history.
We have been made and sustained by faith in man, –faith in his freedom, his responsibility, his dignity as a creature of God, endowed with rights and responsible in duties.
Man is not master of the Universe because he can split the atom. He has split the atom because he first believed in his own mastery.
Faith led to material achievement, not the achievement to faith.
So, I repeat, we are not giving enough -- or perhaps it would be more accurate to say we are not giving enough of the right things -- when we in Chicago export primarily steel, farm machinery, food products, radio and TV, to the world.
True, the world needs these things. But it needs much more the faith and the idealism which made America unique in the world.
The second half of the 20th century can be America's century, -- the century of America's greatest success and of your greatest personal happiness. But it won't happen by accident. It will require work and personal sacrifice. Let us recall the bible story about the last day when all men shall be judged. Those will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, according to the Holy Book, who on earth gave drink to the thirsty, food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, comfort to the afflicted, care to the sick and to those in prisons, faith to the unbeliever, peace to the troubled in mind or heart.
Whether you believe in the Bible or not, it is interesting, I think, to observe that each of the requirements set down for entrance into Heaven involves personal service to others.
There is nothing about the size of your bank account, nothing about the ranch house in the suburbs, nothing about that new Ford convertible you want, nothing about that gorgeous new dress in the "28" shop at Marshall Field's.
Frankly, I wish there were at least a mention of a few things like the White Sox in first place, or a regular golf game in the low seventies. Because, -- let's not kid ourselves -- all of us - each one of you and me, - would like to have our cake and eat it.
But the good book is silent about eating cake it talks only about giving it away.
I frequently think of a sad but true incident which illustrates my thought.
In 1923 a very important meeting was held at the Edgewater Beach Hotel here in Chicago. Attending the meeting were 10 of the world's most successful men. They were:
1) The President of the largest steel company in the United States.
2) The President of the largest bank in the country at that time.
3) The President of the largest utility company.
4) The President of the largest gas company.
5) The greatest wheat speculator.
6) The President of the New York Stock Exchange
7) A Member of President Coolidge's Cabinet.
8) The greatest Wall Street speculator.
9) The Head of the world's greatest monopoly.
10) The President of the World Bank for International Settlements. Certainly most, people would agree that this was a gathering of some of the world's most successful men.
25 years later, in 1948, let's see what had happened to these men.
1) The President of the largest steel company had died bankrupt. For five years before his death he had lived on borrowed money.
2) The President of the largest utility company had died penniless. A fugitive from justice in a foreign land.
4) The President of the largest gas company was insane.
5) The greatest wheat speculator died abroad, -- insolvent.
6) The President of the New York Stock Exchange was in Sing Sing Penitentiary convicted of embezzlement.
7) The Member of President Coolidge's Cabinet was pardoned from prison so he could die at home.
8) The greatest "Bear" in Wall Street died a suicide.
9) The Head of the greatest monopoly died a suicide.
10) The President of the Bank of International Settlements died a suicide.
All of these men had learned the art of making money. Each of them, as the saying goes, "had everything in the world:" -- new Cadillac convertibles, beautiful homes, money in the bank, good jobs, security, ocean-going yachts, whatever they wanted.
They had all learned how to make a living, but none of them had learned how to live. As one of them said in a suicide note to his son:-
"...I'm leaving you well fixed financially, but that's all I'm leaving you..."
What of more recent cases of frustration and self-deception?
Klaus-Fuchs; the world . s greatest spy and traitor, the man who gave away the secret of the atom bomb. ,He was not greedy for money. He was a poor man and content to be one. Nor was he ignorant. He had the advantages of the highest education and greatest intellectual achievements. Or: Alger Hiss, another example of a man who had everything in the world: brains, power, position, education, culture.
Yet these men,-- and many others -- have had everything in this world, and ended up failures, - even in terms of this world. Failures, may I suggest, because they had nothing to take them out of this world, out of themselves, and into a much greater and happier world, -- the world of service to others.
"Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a good deal that is hard to bear, but far more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness." (Tolstoi)
You high school leaders, can avoid the pitiful failures which characterized the end of the lives of all these so-called successful men.
You are American citizens, members of the most powerful and wealthiest nation on earth. 95% of all living human beings are less fortunate than you for this one reason alone.
You are educated Americans. Less than 2% of all living human beings have this additional advantage you now possess.
You are living in 1957. A year recently described by our Secretary of Commerce in Washington as one of the greatest years in all history of American business.
Job opportunities are greater than ever. Salaries are higher than ever. Even for those who must serve in Military forces, there is less chance of being shot at today than at any time since 1941.
Add all these factors together and we can surely agree that of all living human beings you are luckier than 99% of them. You are part of the 1% who must lead, inspire, and save the world, for the world is either lost or saved in every generation. And yours will be no exception.
Those are fine-sounding words -- you might say. put how, you might also ask, can I, lead the world or inspire the world or save the world?
You can do all these things, I believe, if you follow your highest ideals and put them into daily practice.
A great musician once said: - "If I fail to practice even for one day, I notice it.
"If I fail to practice for two days, my friends notice it.
"If I fail to practice for three days, everyone notices it."
In the offices of the Chicago Housing Authority you can work all day trying to provide shelter for those who are homeless.
In the Public Welfare Department you can work all day helping to bring food to the hungry, care to the sick, comfort to the afflicted.
At our own Board of Education you can try to qualify for work with the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and with ordinary children too.
Let us, make no mistake, Toll and I will solve the problems of ignorance, poverty, racial discrimination; slums and filth here in Chicago in our lifetimes, or tougher, harder working zealots of an alien culture will trample our freedom, and your opportunities to death.
Let us not be content with things as they are. A famous man once said:
"Anything that has been done for 10 years is being done wrong. Orthodox is another word for obsolete..."
While it is not necessary to accept this thought completely, we know that we can create the greatest school system in the world in Chicago if we want it badly enough to work for it and pay for it.
We can have Grand Opera again in Chicago if we will support the opera when it comes to town.
We cam eliminate slums if we compel our Aldermen and other public officials to enforce the laws against illegal changes in existing houses.
We can change Chicago. That's easy. The hard part is to change ourselves to change ourselves from men and women looking for the easy job with "the most in it for me" as the popular expression puts it. Such a job may pay well – in dollars. And the absence of work may be pleasant – for awhile.
But if like a scientist you will take, the raw materials of, your mind and body and, process them through the laboratory of humility, prayer, and neighborly love, the result will be a second explosion heard 'round the world.
You will be raised into a life of overwhelming love, great peace, and heroic achievement, And these things no-man will ever be able to take from you.
Our city will be regenerated - our country ennobled – because of you.
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The call sign WFBC-TV could refer to one of two television stations in South Carolina:

WYFF, a television station broadcasting on channel 36 digital/4 PSIP, licensed to Greenville, which held the call sign WFBC-TV from 1953 to 1983.
WMYA-TV, a television station broadcasting on channel 35 digital/40 PSIP, licensed to Anderson, which held the call sign WFBC-TV from 1995 to 1999.

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