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Mike Slee
About/Awards/Bio/Press
In 1981 after graduating from the University of London LCP with a B.A. (1st Class with Hons) in Photography, Film and Television Mike joined BBC Film editing as an assistant. Work in post-production included David Attenborough's 'Life on Earth', 'The Living Planet' and films in the BBC Forty Minutes strand and the P.B.S.NOVA/BBC Horizon documentary strand.
In 1986 Mike partnered in The Principal Film Company Ltd. Over 15 years Principal became one of the UK's leading factual independents, with Mike producing/directing or executive producing more than 75% of Principal's productions – over 50 hours of primetime factual programming filmed in 25 countries on every continent on earth. This included the multi award winning international climate change special 'After the Warming' for PBS and Ace award winning 20 part series 'James Burke's-Connections2' for DCI/The Learning Channel also films for W.G.B.H., Discovery and National Geographic TV.
In 1997/8 Mike co-devised and directed Discovery's 'Wildfire – Feel the Heat', a $5 million giant screen action documentary for PLF, Principal's large format IMAX© (70mm) feature production arm. Mike was also Principal Picture's executive on 2 critically successful BBC TV Drama series 'The Passion' (Gina Mckee, Paul Nicholls) and 'Fish' (Paul McGann & Gemma Redgrave).
In 1999 Mike became Co-Chairman and Creative Director of Principal Media Group and Executive Produced Principal Picture's ratings hit Edwardian comedy film 'Gentleman's Relish' for BBC/ICON starring Billy Connolly and Sarah Lancashire. Mike also produced and directed a number of factual projects for international networks including Discovery, National Geographic, Le Cinqueme, Channel Four, ITV, C5, ABC, TLC.
In 2000/1 Mike co-wrote and directed PLF's groundbreaking large format period ghost story ' The Legend of Loch Lomond'.
2002/3 Mike wrote and directed the multi award winning giant screen 3D movie 'BUGS!'. This $9 million IMAX 3D natural history drama narrated by Judi Dench has, as of 2009 grossed over $37 million at the international box office and was a semi finalist in the 2004 Oscars.
2004/5 Mike wrote, produced and directed 2 films for National Geographic Television in the hit series 'Megastructures' – Golden Gate and North Sea Wall
Mike also co-wrote and directed a cinema feature on the plight of the Asian elephant – 'The Elephant's Story'. It was filmed across India in High Definition for WCCE/ORTV.
2005 Mike produced a popular Science History event for ITV 1 – 'The Gunpowder Plot – Exploding the Legend' presented by Richard Hammond. The 90 minute special was also written and directed by Mike for Darlow Smithson Productions. It was an ITV Network ratings success, became a global news story and was shortlisted for a specialist factual BAFTA. It was also very loud!
2005/2006 Mike produced and directed 'Icestorm' for Impossible Pictures. A documentary drama set in a near future when a freak icestorm shuts down Montreal, Canada. Part of the Emmy nominated series 'Perfect Disaster'
2006 Mike wrote, produced and directed 'Ice King' – a film in the BBC drama documentary series'Voyages of Discovery'. British Explorer Paul Rose journeys to the Arctic to tell the extraordinary story of Fridjtof Nansen and his bizarre, epic attempt to conquer the North Pole in 1895.
2007 – Mike co-directed 'Meerkat Manor -The Story Begins' a 90 minute feature film shot on location in Africa's Kalahari desert. Along with co-director Chris Barker Mike reveals story behind the world's most famous Meerkat, Flower. Told by Whoopi Goldberg, the story follows Flower and her family, The Whiskers. Selected for 2008 Tribeca Film Festival Spotlight.
2008 – Mike was in Taiwan directing "Taipei Tower" revealing the unusual stories behind the world's tallest building. Hosted by Richard Hammond and produced by DarlowSmithson/IMG for National Geo TVand BBC2 its one episode in science/history series "Engineering Connections".
2008 also saw Mike producing and directing "Life from Mars" the season finale of "Josh Bernstein's – Journey's into the Unknown" exploring how life on earth may have begun.
2009 Mike completed two one hour films in the BBC Worldwide/Channel Five UK series "Charlotte Ulhenbroek – Among the Apes". "Orangutan" and "Gorilla" filmed in Borneo and Uganda respectively the shows reveal the secret lives of these special primates.
2009/10 Mike was Series Director on Discovery's new look "ATLAS 4D". Shooting for DarlowSmithson on location across East Africa for "The Great Rift Valley" and around Europe and the Middle East for "The Mediterranean".
Mike also began testing on the feature film based on the new book "A VILLAGE LOST and FOUND" by Elena Vidal and Queen's Brian May, the IMAX 3D follow up to "BUGS! 3D" "FLIGHT of the BUTTERFLIES 3D" and the big screen thriller "GHOSTS of LONDON 3D".
2011/12 Mike has completed a BBC film on brain injury with Sir Stirling Moss and Richard Hammond, an Explorer film for National Geographic US telling the surprising story of the discovery in Antarctica of "SHACKLETON'S WHISKY" Mike has also directed rock legend Brian May, actress Virginia McKenna and singer Kerry Ellis in a BORN FREE – Save the wild Lion Promo and Samuel L Jackson in the Discovery Curiosity investigation asking the intriguing question "HOW WILL THE WORLD END".
2013 saw the release of the wildlife drama "Flight of the Butterflies 3D" and that same year it won 7 awards (an unprecedented clean slate) in the Giant Screen Cinema Association film festival. It has also received universal critical and consumer acclaim.
In 2014 Mike completed 3 films: the 90-minute science fiction feature for eOne "The Great Martian War" (Mark Strong) Then for National Geographic Studios the science fact IMAX 3D movie "Robots" (Simon Pegg) and for BBC Earth the wildlife 3D IMAX "Wild Africa" (Helena Bonham Carter).
2015 saw Mike complete, as writer director, the Ultra HD natural history feature film "Colombia – Magia Salvaje"and as executive producer for National Geographic the 3 part TV series "Colombia – Wild Magic" The feature has recently broken box office records to become the most watched film in the history of Colombian cinema.
Also in 2015 Mike directed & executive produced for Smithsonian/History Channel/Shaw Media/Yesterday UK the genre busting archaeology/animation series "Mummies Alive" bringing to life the ancient dead.
2016 Mike produced & directed "Drain the Ocean WWII" for National Geographic by exposing 6 of the greatest war wreck sites in full 3D computer generated imagery a new vision of WWII events was revealed.
2017 "Amazon Adventure" was released across the Giant Screen Cinema Network. It's a 3D IMAX wildlife drama telling the story of an amazing scientific discovery. In 1852 young Henry Walter Bates found the beautiful proof to back up Darwin's extraordinary theory of natural selection. The film won multiple giant screen awards including, Best Picture, Photography, Sound, Score and Best Film for Lifelong Learning. Spectacular…A large screen triumph – Variety Review.
*Directors Guild of America *Directors Guild of Great Britain *BAFTA *DIRECTORS UK * Hostile Environment trained * IVisa *Blue Peter Badge (1969!)
© Mike Slee 2019
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Beautiful 2 story house with big interior patio. First floor is the living room with an elegant bar, family room, dining room, kitchen, laundry room and one bedroom which opens into the interior patio, also a bathroom for the visitors. Kitchen with nice cabinets and granite counters, all appliances stainless steal. On the second floor is a big size kitchenette with a dining table, three bedrooms each with full bathrooms, air units, and large closets, windows open into the interior patio. Master bedroom opens to a big terrace on the second floor with a far ocean view. The first floor has antique mosaic floors. The second floor the floors are wooded floors. San Francisco street is one of the most popular residential street in Old San Juan. Lots of security, its right by the governor's mansion. Please call Lolin 787-244-2824 for showings.
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The Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act 1898 made provision for debtors to enter into compositions, schemes of arrangement or deeds of assignment outside of bankruptcy. It is the first comprehensive code for these types of proceedings and matters could proceed without the approval of the court so long as the requirements of the Act were observed.
1. Scheme of Arrangement - where debtors' affairs are arranged to "trade out".
2. Deed of Assignment - where all assets are assigned to Trustee who liquidates them and disperses them to creditors after all fees are taken out. Debtor walks away with nothing.
3. Composition - creditors agree to take a certain percentage in the pound and debt is then written off.
These indexes record which of the above processes was selected, whether "scheme", "composition" or "deed". They record file numbers and are the way in to the files under the Bankruptcy Act Amendment Act (Record Series No. 166).
The first index 1899-1909 was transposed into the second index 1899-1917. Index(es) for 1917-1928 are missing and the only entry to the files is through indexes at front of Deeds of Assignment registers (Record Series No. 168) and registers of Compositions or Schemes of Arrangement (Record Series No. 169).
Where later pages of these registers have not been indexed it will be necessary to browse registers for name required in order to locate a file number.
In addition index (Record Series No. 178) gives comprehensive coverage of names 1899-1928; however, while file numbers referred to are those of the Official Receiver and not those of the Supreme Court (Record Series No. 166) it is worth checking for a name if not located in sources listed above.
Indexes to Government Gazettes are another source of information and may give petition numbers (or file numbers).


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Q: Use a numeric value in a linq dynamic query string I am trying to make a dynamic linq query that will check for values based on a string.
First of all, here's the query:
objQry = from o in m_Db.OBJECTS.Where(whereConditions)
                      select o;

if(!objQry.Any())
{
    return null;
}

The whereConditions variable is a string I build and pass as parameter to find out the values I need. Here's examples of valid string:
OBJ_NAME == \"Sword\" and OBJ_OWNER == \"Stan\"
This will return any item whose name is "Sword" and owner is "Stan;
OBJ_COLOR == \"Blue\" OR OBJ_COLOR == \"Red\"
This will return any item which color is either blue or red.
Up to there, I'm fine, but now I have a problem: I need to check a decimal field. So I've tried this string:
OBJ_NUMBER == 1
But the query returns null even if there are objects which OBJ_NUMBER value is 1. It's a decimal. How can I indicate the query that they need to check for a decimal value?
**** EDIT ****
I have tried to "modify" the value passed so that it looks like this:
"CARD_NUMBER == Convert.ToDecimal(1)"

And now I have a different kind of error telling me this:
LINQ to Entities does not recognize the method 'System.Decimal ToDecimal(Int32)' method, and this method cannot be translated into a store expression.

Any clues anyone? I'm still looking for a way to do this. Thanks!
EDIT 2
You can get an example of how my code is shaped by looking at this question.
Let's come back at this problem. I want to check decimal values. Let's say that OBJ_NUMBER is a decimal field.
Using Dynamic Linq, I tried to read the decimal field. Say that I want to get each object which number is 1.27. The whereConditions field would then be shaped like this:
OBJ_NUMBER == 1.27

But then I would get an Invalid real literal '1.27' error. I don't know why.
So I have tried Gert Arnold's solution and done this instead:
decimal bDecimal = decimal.Parce(valueToParse);

param = new ObjectParameter("cardNumber", typeof(decimal)) { Value = bDecimal };

valuesToUse.Add("CARD_NUMBER == @cardNumber");

listParams.Add(param);

But I ended up having 2 problems:

*

*The first problem is that my whereConditions string is shaped this way:
CARD_NUMBER == @cardNumber
But I get the following error:
No property or field 'cardNumber' exists in type 'CARD'
Leading me to believe that it cannot make the link between the object parameter and the string used to do the query.

*As you can see, I have a list of Params. This is because I cannot know for sure how many parameters the user will chose. So each time the user enters a new search field, I have to create a new ObjectParameter and store it in a list. Here's how I try to do the thing after:
ObjectParameter[] arrayParameters = listParams.ToArray();
// Convert the list to an array
And then, when I try to make the query:
cardQry = from c in mDb.CARD.Where(whereConditions, arrayParameters)
                               select c;

But to no avail.
RESULTS
Based on the answered question below, I have developped something "awful", yet functional.
First of all, I ignore every decimal fields because I could never reach them with dynamic linq. Instead, I do this:
var valuesToParse = keyValuePair.Value.Split(new[] {' '}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

// Here I parse the value and, if that's the case, the symbol.

decimal baseValue = decimal.Parse(valuesToParse[0]);

if (valuesToParse.Count() > 1)
{
    string baseMethod = valuesToParse[1];

    if (baseMethod == ">" || baseMethod == ">=")
    {
        if (baseMethod == ">=")
        {
            baseValue--;
        }

        // The list is actually like this: Dictionary<string, object> list = new Dictionary<string, object>();
        list.Add("low", baseValue);

        // I kind of activate a tag telling me that the user is looking for a higher value.
        cardHigher = true;
    }
    else
    {
        if (baseMethod == "<=")
        {
            baseValue++;
        }

        list.Add("low", baseValue);

        cardLower = true;
    }
}
else
{
    //lowParam = new ObjectParameter("dec", typeof(decimal)) { Value = baseValue };

    list.Add("low", baseValue);
}

cardNumberActivated = true;

At the end, when I get the list of objects, I do this:
if (list.Count > 0)
{

    (example)
    if (cardNumberActivated)
    {
        if (cardHigher)
        {
            q = mDb.CARD.Where("CARD_NUMBER >= @0", list["low"]).ToList();
        }
        else if (cardLower)
        {
            q = mDb.CARD.Where("CARD_NUMBER <= @0", list["low"]).ToList();
        }
        else
        {
            q = mDb.CARD.Where("CARD_NUMBER == @0", list["low"]).ToList();
        }
    }
}

// Here we get the orinalData with the basic filters.
listToReturn.AddRange(cardQry);

if (q != null)
{
    //listToReturn.AddRange(q);
    for (int i = 0; i < listToReturn.Count; i++)
    {
        var priceList1 = listToReturn[i];
        if (!q.Any(_item => _item.CARD_NUMBER == priceList1.CARD_NUMBER))
        {
            listToReturn.RemoveAt(i);
            i--;
        }
    }
}

And it works. This is not an elegant way to make it work, but I can validate the fields the way I wanted, and for this, I am thankful at last.

A: You should not build a query string with inline predicate values. Use parameters in stead. Then will also be able to specify the type:
var whereConditions= "it.CARD_NUMBER = @cardNumber";
var param = new ObjectParameter("cardNumber", typeof(decimal)) { Value = 1 };
objQry = from o in m_Db.OBJECTS.Where(whereConditions, param);

Edit
I don't know what doesn't work in your code. Here's just a random piece of working code derived from one of my own projects:
var param1 = new ObjectParameter("dec", typeof(decimal)) { Value = 90000m };
var param2 = new ObjectParameter("int", typeof(int)) { Value = 90000 };
var q = ValueHolders.Where("it.DecimalValue >= @dec OR it.IntegerValue > @int",
                    param1, param2).ToList();

Note that param1, param2 could also be an array of ObjectParameter.

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Bollywood Sultan aka Salman Khan has most number of 100 Crore Movies in Bollywood. His latest film Tubelight failed at box office but still the film manage to join 100 Crore Club. Race 3 is the Salman Khan's 13th 100 Crore Movies. Here's list of Salman Khan's All 100 Crore Movies. In below we mention Salman Khan 100 crore movie list.


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Q: Parse html table as plain text with ews-java-api I fetch emails from the Exchange Server with the ews-java-api. As I do not want to deal with html I parse the body to text using the ews functionality
 PropertySet propertySet = new PropertySet(BasePropertySet.FirstClassProperties)
 propertySet.requestedBodyType = BodyType.Text

This works fine most of the time. For some html tables however it happens that after every column there is a linebreak e.g.

ColName1
ColName2

A
B

converts to
ColName1

ColName2

A

B

In Outlook GUI there exists the function "Move>Actions>Edit Message" where when I click in the table and select "Layout>Data>Covert to Text" Outlook asks me "Separate Text with...."

*

*Paragraph Marks

*Tabs

*...
When I select "Tabs" the table remains in a table like style. When I select "paragraph Marks" it renders the above described format.
Anybody has an idea how to tell the ews api to break down the tables with "Tabs"? Or any other feasible solution?
Thank you in advance for your help!


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<?php

namespace core\html\form\io\element;
use core\html\form\io\InputElement as InputElement;
use core\util\param\Validator as Validator;

class Button extends InputElement {

  private $title    = null;
  private $btype    = null;
  private $btypes   = array("button","submit","reset");
  private $value    = null;
  private $disabled = null;
  private $iclasses = null;

  public function __construct($module = "core", $fname = "", $name = "",
                              $groupid = "e", $row = -1, $col = -1, $num = -1,
                              $title = "button input", $btype = "submit",
                              $value = "", $text = "submit", $disabled = "",
                              $iclasses = "") {

    parent::__construct($module, $fname, $name, $groupid, $row, $col, $num, "button");
    $this->title    = $title;
    $this->btype    = $btype;
    $this->value    = $value;
    $this->text     = $text;
    $this->disabled = $disabled;
    $this->iclasses = $iclasses;

  }

  /**
   * Build a button element.
   * @param $data data used to set the value.
   * @return XHTML code for this element
   * Data need to be provided as array. The first entry will be used.
   * <pre>
   *   array ( "button-type" => array ( "button-value", "button-text" ) );
   *   array ( "button" => array ( "1234567890", "Button text" ) );
   *   array ( "submit" => array ( "1234567890", "Submit button text" ) );
   *   array ( "reset" => array ( "1234567890", "Reset button text" ) );
   * </pre>
   */
  public function build($data = array()) {

    // build the button from (first) data passed
    foreach($data as $key => $values) {
      return "<".$this->type." ".
               "class=\"input_button ".$this->iclasses."\" ".
               "name=\"".$this->getName()."\" ".
               "title=\"".$this->title."\" ".
               (!Validator::isempty($data) && Validator::isa($data,"array")
                && Validator::in($key,$this->btypes)
                  ? "type=\"".$key."\" " : "type=\"button\" ").
               (!Validator::isempty($values) && Validator::isa($values,"array")
                && count($values)>=1 ? "value=\"".$values[0]."\" " : "").
               $this->disabled.">".
             (!Validator::isempty($values) && Validator::isa($values,"array")
              && count($values)>=2 ? $values[1] : "").
             "</".$this->type.">";
    }

    // otherwise build from values set upon creation
    return "<".$this->type." ".
             "class=\"input_button ".$this->iclasses."\" ".
             "name=\"".$this->getName()."\" ".
             "title=\"".$this->title."\" type=\"".$this->btype."\" ".
             "value=\"".$this->value."\" ".$this->disabled.">".
           $this->text."</".$this->type.">";
  }

}

?>

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Sockeye salmon, also known as red salmon, are full of flavor and rich in color and have a unique sweet taste. Sustainably harvested out of the nearby, icy waters of Cook Inlet, Alaskan sockeye salmon is without a doubt a true delicacy and delight to enjoy. Processed and packaged within hours of being caught to guarantee freshness, we're certain once you've had this fillet of salmon you'll be coming back for more.
Our salmon have pin bones in them, to remove the pin bones the fish has to rest for 36 to 48 hours before the pin bones will release, (basically the fish starts its decomposition process) our fish are processed the same day the fish was caught, the fish is less than 24 hours old by the time it is frozen that ensures the freshest product available. We pride ourselves on having the freshest fish available and with our salmon being the best it requires a little more prep time to prepare the fish prior to cooking. The pin bones can be pulled easily after the product is thawed or cut out.


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How I do it
How I do it: Sir Martin Sorrell
Sir Martin Sorrell is founder and Executive Chairman of the London-based listed company S4 Capital plc, which is building a global digital advertising and marketing services business. He had been founder and CEO of WPP for 33 years, building it from a £1m "shell" company in 1985 into the world's largest advertising and marketing services group. When he left in April 2018, WPP had a market cap of more than £16bn (it's £13bn now). Prior to that, he had been CFO of Saatchi & Saatchi plc for nine years. S4 merged with MediaMonks, its "content practice", in July 2018 and with MightyHive, its "data and digital media practice", in December 2018. This year, it combined the two practices under the Media.Monks brand. Having added eight companies in 2019 and six in 2020, it has made 11 in acquisitions so far in 2021. Just three years after its formation, S4 Capital has almost 6,000 people in 33 countries, with a market cap of some £3.5bn. Investors are forecasting the company will have 2021 revenue of £553.6m, EBITDA of £103.2m, and EPS growth of 54%.
What is the significance to media companies of the rapid growth of S4 Capital/ MediaMonks?
You say "media companies". If that's the target market you're talking about, we signify the growing importance of digital media (55-60% of the market, incremental $100bn of digital spend this year). That's where the growth is. It also signifies the importance of transparency and the faster (agility), better (knowledge of their digital ecosystem), cheaper (efficiency) model, along with our unitary (one p&l) structure.
Advertising as a proportion of GDP slipped from 2% to 1% over the last 5-10 years. It's forecast to rise to 1.75% over the next five years or so. The motive forces behind these moves have been the pressure on traditional media, which will continue, and the continued rise of digital media. Consumer consumption of media has changed fundamentally.
What's so special and distinctive about your company?
Our mission to create the new era advertising and marketing services model and disrupt the old. Four founding principles – focussed totally on growth and, therefore, digital; the "holy trinity model" uses data to drive the creation, production and distribution of advertising content in an iterative way; faster, better, cheaper or speed, quality, value is our go-to-market mantra; and all through a unitary structure.
What's your ultimate vision of S4 Capital, say, in 10 years?
I can't really think 10 years ahead. The mission is to create the new model. The headline 10 years (or mostly sooner) is adoption at scale of the new model. We have 6 "whoppers" (clients generating $20m of gross annual revenues). We're targeting 19 more, who we already work for. The measure of success is whether we achieve conversion at scale and become the 'agency of the decade'.
What's the single biggest lesson you learned in 32 years managing WPP?
The centrality of strategy and structure – the need for a clear vision and mission and the right structure to implement it. Aligning all the stakeholders is not easy.
What has been the proudest achievement in your corporate career?
Building two businesses from nothing (WPP & S4) and helping to build a third (Saatchi).
Which company (other than your own) do you most admire?
Very difficult to single out one – has to be from MAGAT: Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon or Tesla
How different will the media industry look in, say, five years?
Digital will be well over 70% of the market and the FAANGs will still be dominant, but there will be significant and growing competition from the Metaverse, Web 3.0, AI, AR, VR and voice.
How will the world economy and the media industry fare in 2022?
Very well. GDP growth will be 4-5%. But just watch out for 2023, when GDP growth reverts to 2-3%, as pre-Covid. But we will still have the digital marketing transformation tailwind behind our backs.
What's top of your agenda for 2022?
Growing conversion at scale. We have 6 "whoppers'. Our target is 20. We've identified another 19 potentials over the next three years. So building our client base among the "whoppers", "whoppertunities" and local heroes is the priority.
S4Capital
S4 Capital

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This weekend I will cross the border into Sweden to visit the parents of Terje, one of my good friends. I will leave the urban jungle to enter the forests of Värmland, one province bordering the eastern part of Norway.
We will take E6 leading south towards the second largest city in Sweden, Göteborg. South of Oslo we will change to E18, travel through the communities of Spydeberg, Askim, Mysen and cross the border towards Töcksfors. From there we will travel to the city of Karlstad, and then north to Sunnemo.
I look forward to visit this region that I have crossed through by train. Close to Sunnemo you find Mårbacka, the home of the Nobel laureate in literature, Selma Lagerlöf. We will also visit Karlstad, and I will do some shopping on our way back.
I will keep you posted after I return. Here is a map marking the location of Sunnemo.


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List of RAAF inland aircraft fuel depots
No 1 Fuel Tank, RAAF No.10IAFD, Northam, Western Australia, 2013
Aerial view of RAAF No.10 IAFD –Northam, note underground tank
In 1939, with the commencement of World War II, the Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) identified the necessity to increase bulk storage and supply of aviation fuel across Australia for the purpose of defending Australia. An investigative committee was created to determine the most strategic, safe locations and the design of the storage facilities. It identified that 31 inland aircraft fuel depots (IAFDs) were required to be constructed for the storage of aircraft fuel, built from brick, concrete and steel.
The sites were to be located inland to enhance protection from air attack and would hold 20,760,000 gallons (93,420,000 litres) of aircraft fuel. Eleven were built in New South Wales, six in Queensland, four in Victoria, four in Western Australia, four in South Australia, one in Tasmania and one in the Northern Territory.
Originally some of the depots stored fuel in drums and were referred to as 'Inland Storages for Reserves of Aviation Spirit' and others designated 'RAAF Inland Storage Depots' which were later referred to as 'RAAF Inland Petrol Depot (RIPDs)'. With another later standardisation of the name, these depots were finally designated 'Inland Aircraft Fuel Depot' The eventual construction of these brick and steel tanks was substantially carried out by the Allied Works Council made up of bricklayers, carpenters and manual labour.
The total 31 IAFDs were in full operation by early 1944 with all sites located close to railway lines for access by rail tankers, but were situated well away from the airfields they serviced, for safety, as these were bulk storage facilities. Fuel would be transported from the IAFD to the airfield fuel tanks by road tanker. In close co-operation with the United States Army Air Corps the costs and fuel distribution were shared with the RAAF with the USAAC having additional bulk inland fuel storages at 13 of the 31 IAFDs.[1][2]
Names and locationsEdit
The following list gives details of Inland Aircraft Fuel Depots across Australia during World War II:[3]
IAFD Number
De-commissioned
No. 1 Ballarat Victoria 1942 29 August 1944
No. 2 Warragul Victoria 1942 14 June 1944
No. 3 Cootamundra New South Wales 1942 14 June 1944
No. 4 Wallerawang New South Wales 1942 1944
No. 5 Muswellbrook New South Wales 1942 29 August 1944
No. 6 Grafton New South Wales 1942 29 August 1944
No. 7 Toowoomba Queensland 1942 29 August 1944
No. 8 Gayndah Queensland 1942 29 August 1944
No. 9 Charters Towers Queensland 1 June 1942 29 August 1944
No. 10 Northam Western Australia 1942 14 June 1944
No. 11 Solomontown (Port Pirie) South Australia 1942 14 June 1944
No. 12 Wolseley South Australia 1942 14 June 1944
No.13 Violet Town (Seymour) Victoria 1942 14 June 1944
No. 14 Tocumwal New South Wales 1942 14 June 1944
No. 15 Deniliquin New South Wales 1942 14 June 1944
No. 16 Lake Bathurst (Goulburn) New South Wales 1942 1944
No. 17 Uranquinty (Wagga Wagga) New South Wales 1942 29 August 1944
No. 18 Parkes New South Wales 1942 14 August 1944
No. 19 Narromine (Dubbo) New South Wales 1942 14 June 1944
No. 20 Tamworth New South Wales 1942 14 June 1944
No. 21 Yarraman Queensland 1942 29 August 1944
No. 22 Roma Queensland 1942 29 August 1944
No. 23 Cloncurry Queensland 1942 14 August 1944
No. 24 Alice Springs Northern Territory 20 May 1942 November 1944
No. 25 Narrogin Western Australia 1942 14 June 1942
No. 26 Merredin Western Australia 1942 29 April 1944
No. 27 Boulder (Kalgoorlie) Western Australia 1942 14 June 1944
No. 28 Gladstone South Australia 1942 14 June 1944
No. 29 Yelta (Mildura) Victoria 1942 14 June 1944
No. 30 Ross, Tasmania (Mona Vale) Tasmania 1942 14 June 1944
No. 31 Crystal Brook South Australia 1942 14 June 1944
^ "Northam war history rediscovered". The Avon Valley Advocate. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
^ Piper, Robert. RAAF Inland Aircraft Fuel Depots: Brief history of World War 2. Vol. 4 no.9 September 1987: 554, 56.
^ RAAF Historical Section (1996). Units of the RAAF: Volume 6 - Logistics Units. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service. p. 136. ISBN 0644427981.
Air Power Development Centre (August 2016). "The RAAF and Fuel Security in World War II". Pathfinder Issue 217. Royal Australian Air Force.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_RAAF_inland_aircraft_fuel_depots&oldid=838079675"


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Invitation to presentation of BioArctic's Interim Report for the period January – September 2021 on October 21 at 9.30 a.m. CET
Stockholm, Sweden, October 11, 2021 – BioArctic AB (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm: BIOA B) will publish the company's Interim Report for the period January – September 2021 on Thursday, October 21, 2021, at 08:00 a.m. CET.
In conjunction to the report, BioArctic invites investors, analysts, and media to an audiocast with teleconference (in English) on October 21, at 09:30 CET, where Gunilla Osswald, CEO, and Jan Mattsson, CFO, will present BioArctic and comment on the Interim Report for the period January – September 2021, followed by a Q&A-session.
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Each year, the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum's "Great Friend to Kids Award" recognizes and celebrates individuals and/or organizations in the Hudson Valley who are advancing the well-being of children and families through their activities in the areas of education, health and/or community building.
The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum presented its 2018 Great Friend to Kids Award to Hudson River Housing, Inc., in recognition of its work in community revitalization, supporting local families through innovative housing solutions, and supporting children through their transitional housing programs.
Since its founding in 1982, the organization has grown from one program designed to house the homeless, to over 25 separate programs offering housing solutions and supportive services across a range of needs, addressing homelessness, emergency housing, home ownership, and community development. Hudson River Housing, Inc., also provides a variety of services to populations with mental health issues, chemical dependencies, victims of domestic violence, and low- and moderate-income households in general.
The 2018 Great Friend to Kids Award was presented during the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum's "Taste of the Market" fundraising event on July 19, 2018.
The Mid-Hudson Children's Museum presented Ms. Ozie Williams, Public Health Nutrition Educator for the Dutchess County Department of Behavioral and Community Health, Public Health Nursing Division with the 2017 Great Friend to Kids Award on September 13.
By partnering with local schools and not-for-profit organizations, Ms. Williams works tirelessly in our local community to promote comprehensive wellness from birth through adulthood. She is personally dedicated to working with families with young children of all backgrounds to advance understanding about optimum nutrition.
Beth Doré is a fifth grade teacher and Garden Coordinator at Austin Road Elementary School in the Mahopac Central School District. With over 20 years of elementary teaching experience in the district, she spearheaded the creation of a school garden and outdoor classroom space five years ago for the school's 620 students. Ms. Doré also oversaw the integration of garden-based teaching into the school's curriculum and events.
Christine Fitzgerald is a special education teacher with Dutchess County BOCES who works with autistic children in grades 6 through 8 in the special education classroom at Union Vale Middle School. In her work, she focuses on teaching basic life skills and self-sufficiency in performing daily functions so that her students may better prepare themselves for the world and to one day enter the workforce.
Shelley Squires-Trani is currently the Head Teacher at the Dutchess Community College Lab Nursery School in Poughkeepsie. In this role, she is the lead classroom teacher for children enrolled in the preschool program and is responsible for classroom oversight, curriculum and building relationships with individual families. Ms. Squires-Trani also serves as an academic advisor to Dutchess Community College students enrolled in the Early Education Program.
Andrea Moriarty is the Principal at G.W. Krieger Elementary School in Poughkeepsie. In this capacity, she oversees approximately 600 students in grades 1 to 5 , and 70 staff . Previously, Ms. Moriarty was the Principal of the Early Learning Center at Smith School, which is dedicated to educating pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students in the Poughkeepsie City School District. In this capacity, Ms. Moriarty helped to forge an ongoing collaborative pre-K partnership with the Mid-Hudson Children's Museum in which every child enrolled in Smith School's Universal Pre-K Program visits the museum for free monthly field trips and receives free museum memberships during the academic year.
Montgomery Nursery School was incorporated as a non-profit in 1967 and continues to be a model of a small-town education center supported by local parents, community contributors and teachers who are very much part of the Hudson Valley and its traditions. The School serves as a collaborative agency for Valley Central School District's Universal Pre-K program since UPK's inception in the district in 2008. Montgomery Nursery School offers preschool classes to 3 year-olds and "Mommy and Me" classes for caregivers and children as young as 18 months.
Dr. Crenshaw is a renowned child psychologist who is best known for his pioneering work in the area of play therapy and the use of facility dogs in trauma informed child therapy. Dr. Crenshaw is currently the Clinical Director of the Children's Home of Poughkeepsie. He was previously the clinical director at the Astor Home for Children.
NAUC promotes civic unity among people of diverse racial, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds and conditions. NAUC focuses on educational programs for K-6th grade reading, athletics, and health and wellness, and programs leading to naturalization including English as a Second Language, GED, computer usage, and preparation for citizenship.
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The Mystery of Thugs: Did They Really Exist?
10/22/2021 Massimo Introvigne
The legendary Indian sect of stranglers probably existed, although controversies are not settled—but using them to slander Hinduism does not make sense.
by Massimo Introvigne
Thugs strangling a traveler, 19th century watercolor. Credits.
India, 1830. A caravan travels the roads and jungles of the immense Indian subcontinent. It meets another caravan of friendly merchants. The two groups decide to travel together. The travelers of the first caravan enjoy the trip: the merchants are cheerful, full of life, play music, share drinks. and know how to tell traditional Indian stories in a lively way. After a few days, suddenly, a signal is heard. The alleged merchants throw the travelers off their horses. With consummate skill, some immobilize the travelers by holding them by the feet and hands, so that others can pass a noose around their necks and strangle them.
The entire drama was consummated in a matter of minutes. The nice merchants, in reality, were not merchants at all but Thugs, followers of a feared "cult" of jungle stranglers. Italians know the Thugs if they have read the novels of Emilio Salgari (1862–1911), something all Italian teenagers used to do until a few years ago, before the Internet took over. His The Mysteries of the Black Jungle also had several movie and TV versions.
Cover of Emilio Salgari's I misteri della jungla nera (1897).
In Britain, Thugs may show up in sensational family stories passed to new generations by a great-grandfather who was an officer in India. The word "thug" has passed into the English language to mean a street bandit. Americans, whose myths may be more recent, saw the Thugs in the movie Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which also originated a role-playing game centered on the stranglers' organization, the Thuggee.
But did Thugs really exist? Sometimes, the Thuggee has been used to slander Hinduism, or even religion in general. In 1830, William Sleeman (1788–1856) converted the Thugs into a national issue in British India with a letter he wrote to the Calcutta Literary Gazette. Journal of Belles Lettres, Sciences and the Arts, which was widely reprinted.
Even more sensational was the book Confessions of a Thug, published in 1839 by British official Meadows Taylor (1808–1876) by novelizing the confessions of different men arrested as Thugs by the colonial authorities in 1832. Happily, there are today better scholarly sources, such as Martine van Woerkens' 2002 book, originally published in French and translated by University of Chicago Press, The Strangled Traveler: Colonial Imaginings and the Thugs of India.
William Sleeman. Credits.
This and other studies may help us addressing three questions: did the Thugs really exist? If yes, does something of them remain in today's India? If yes, again, were they a religious "cult" or a simple criminal association? Not surprisingly, the first question is the most hotly debated. Some contemporary Indian and Western colonial studies scholars argue that Thugs are an invention of British colonialism, an archetype of the "inferior" and violent Indian built by William Sleeman, who both organized the repression of the Thugs and popularized their history in the West. According to this version, Sleeman generalized occasional episodes of crime, and sometimes executed innocent men on the basis of simple slander.
Van Woerkens believes that this theory is not supported by a dispassionate study of the sources. An examination of the trial records shows that the British repression of the Thugs was indeed harsh, and 3,869 were executed. The cultural distance between judges and accused probably led to some miscarriages of justice. However, van Woerkens concludes that the Thugs not only existed but were responsible for thousands of murders.
Their repression was applauded by ta majority of the Indian population, who did not sympathize with the Thugs, but rather pitied their victims. With all his prejudices, William Sleeman also supplied, together with what we would today call fake news, some real information about the Thugs and their secret language, the Ramasee, rendering a service to historians.
A group of Thugs, British photograph. Credits.
Whatever the Thugs really were, it was because of the popular support that British repression was successful. In the last decades of the 19th century in India there were no more Thugs in the proper sense of the term. This does not exclude the possibility that some groups that have continued to exist up to the present day, even though they are not technically Thugs, retain traits and characteristics partly derived from the reality or myth of the 19th-century stranglers.
Van Woerkens, who published her book in 2002, mentioned deviations in the religious order of the Pandas of Benares. They welcome travelers convinced that dying in Benares may free them from the wheel of reincarnation. However, some were suspected of robbing their "guests," travelers of the death, and of "helping" them to die faster. These rogue Pandas were sometimes called Thugs, and reportedly used a secret language where some words came from Ramasee. Today, authorities have almost totally eradicated this phenomenon.
Were Thugs part of a religious movement or simply criminals? The answer is not simple, also because the question of the Thugs' origins is in itself controversial. A Chinese pilgrim, Hiouen Tsang, told of having escaped from stranglers consecrated to Kali already in the 7th century CE, and the name of Thugs is attested at least since the 14th century.
Most scholars think that the Thugs were born as an antinomian and extreme wing of the great movement that goes by the name of Tantrism. They were a radical fringe of a Tantric current that worshiped as its main deity Kali, a mother who nourishes but also punishes and destroys. If we believe the British courts' accounts (some scholars don't), Thugs were persuaded to perform a cosmic duty to the benefit of all humans. Without the ritual sacrifice of the few they strangled, Kali might have destroyed humanity as a whole. As for the victims, Thugs claimed they might have helped them to escape the wheel of reincarnation.
Thugs worshiping Kali, according to The Missionary Repository for Youth, and Sunday School Missionary Magazine, 1850, 98. Credits.
Interestingly, Thugs were not all Hindus. There were also Muslim Thugs, and here some historians speculate that a rogue form of Sufism might have led to human sacrifices. Precisely because they were not part of a specific religion, and included both Hindus and Muslims, some scholars have concluded that Thugs were not a sect of Hinduism.
There is no doubt, however, that their origins were religious. Feringhea, a legendary Thug chief who decided to cooperate with the British, stated that lured by the greed of booty, in the 19th century Thugs came to forget their religious motivations and neglected their rituals, losing the protection of the goddess and thus causing their own destruction, of which the British were a mere instrument.
Much of what we know about the Thugs from fictions and movies is false. What we know from British trial transcripts is uncertain. Those who deny that the Thugs ever existed compare these trials to the prosecution of the witches by the Inquisition. However, although tainted by colonial prejudice, British courts in the 19th century did include judges who sincerely tried to ascertain the truth.
Their procedures left detailed records scholars can study today. There were strangled victims, indeed thousands of them, and bodies. It seems unlikely that more than 4,000 cases tried by British courts were simply figments of the colonial police and the judges' imagination. It seems more probable that Thugs indeed existed, but they were something different from a Hindu sect, and using them to slander Hinduism is both inaccurate and unfair.
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Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press' Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the "Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
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Brad William Henke, who was best known for his role on Orange Is the New Black, has died at 56.
His manager issued a statement confirming the news.
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Henke reportedly died in his sleep, but the cause of death is unknown.
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He is survived by his mother, sister, wife, stepdaughter and stepson and one grandchild.
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The silent masters of the oceans: the strategic and non-proliferation implications of nuclear-powered submarines in Australia and Brazil
At the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in 2022, Director General Rafael Grossi emphasizes that "the world of nuclear proliferation and safeguards is changing," and that this change creates important technical and political challenges. The announcement of the AUKUS agreement and the progress of Brazil's nuclear-powered submarine program reflect regional geopolitical realignments. Internationally, the IAEA safeguards system is challenged by these developments insofar as they entail risks of nuclear proliferation. How does the acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines impact both the regional and international strategic balance and nuclear non-proliferation norms? The purpose of this research note is to analyze the geopolitical motivations of nuclear-powered submarine programs in Australia and Brazil and their implications for nonproliferation instruments.
The affirmation of the U.S. space nuclear technology strategy
Since 2017, U.S. interest in space-based nuclear power applications appears renewed. In a context of growing international competition, these applications are even receiving increasingly structured political support. The objective of this note is to examine these developments in order to put into perspective the issues that accompany them. Although primarily intended for interplanetary exploration (surface energy supply and high-performance propulsion), space nuclear technologies remain dual.
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Scratchy

Rashid Khan

version 0.1,
2013-11-18

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1. The Scratchy Way

Scratchy is a simple system for extracting user focused documentation from code. Scratch is not
for API docs, though it could be if you really wanted.
Scratchy enforces no particular format. It’s purpose is to assemble the scattered parts of your
documentation in the order you specify, then drop them into a directory and file structure.

While scratchy doesn’t force a particular format, there are some recommendations.
- Start every line in a comment with a specific character. Scratchy necessarily trims leading
whitespace to deal with indentation. If your formatter requires leading white space it will be
relative from your --line argument

1.1. Documentation Format

It is up to you to decide what format you wish to document in. If you were some kind of sadist
you could write your docs in HTML and skip the post processing

[Don’t do that]

The Scratchy documentation uses Asciidoc because it serves as a powerful intermediary to many
other formats, but you could just as easily use something like Markdown.  From there you can use
whatever tool you’d like to post process them.

1.2. Scratch tag

Scratchy does not want all of your comments. To denote doc blocks that scratchy should
extract, the opening of your comment should contain the @scratch tag immediately following
the comment opening characters.

1.3. Scratch path

The scratch path tells scratchy where to put the extracted documentation. The path is a
simple directory path, followed by an priority number. For example, /intro/welcome/2
would be written to your output directory, in the intro directory, in the welcome
file. It would appear after /intro/welcome/1 if it existed. Gaps in
priority numbers are fine, as are duplicates. Of course
order is not guaranteed with duplicate priority numbers.

1.3.1. Pre-existing files

Scratchy will not overwrite your exist docs, nor will ti append to them or try to merge
them. You will need to move your old docs out of the way. Scratchy will not abort, but
will communicate that it failed to write that path

2. Running Scratchy

Scratchy has only one required argument --output, to tell scratchy where to put the docs it
extracts. For example:

scratchy -o docs

Would put the extracted docs into ./docs. Here is the command we used to build the docs you are
reading right now:

scratchy -uo docs -p scratchy

Scratchy is extracting documentation from itself! Spooky.
If you’re wondering what those switches
do, see the Command Line reference

3. Post-Processing

Scratchy is designed to promote post processing. Why? Because how can anyone know what format
you will want your documentation in, or for what purpose? Scratchy does not assume you’re
writing API docs, nor does it assume that a web browser will be the destination for the
documentation it extracts. How you choose to post process is up to you.

3.0.1. How does scratchy do it?

Because the documentation for the Scratchy project is in ASCIIDoc, we have
the option of extracting it to HTML, PDF, ePub, and a host of other formats. Here is the command
we use to post process Scratchy’s output:

find docs -name *.txt | xargs -L 1 asciidoc -a numbered -b html5 -a icons -a toc2 -a theme=scratchy

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News Release 12-Jan-2022
Pusan National University study "cracks" mystery of water-promoted fracture growth on glass
Scientists experimentally investigated the water-induced cracking behavior around contact flaws on annealed and tempered glass surfaces
Peer-Reviewed Publication
Pusan National University
image: Scientists experimentally investigated the water-induced cracking behavior around contact flaws on annealed and tempered glass surfaces view more
Credit: Pusan National University
Glass windows often endure external environmental factors such as wind, rain, and humidity, which lead to the formation of microcracks in their surface. For instance, a gust of wind can propel sand onto a window and create microscale surface cracks due to the impact of sharp-edged sand particles. These microcracks then grow in size when aggravated by water droplets and humidity.
When water comes in contact with these surface flaws, it penetrates the microcracks and slowly dissolves the silicon-oxygen bonds. This chemical attack breaks the glass networks which gradually degrades the mechanical strength and optical properties of glass structures. This environmentally enhanced crack growth process is known as stress corrosion or subcritical crack growth (SCG). The depreciation of mechanical performance due to SCG raises safety concerns for skyscrapers and high-rise buildings.
Recently, scientists have taken an interest in the effect of SCG on two widely used types of soda-lime glass: annealed and tempered glass. However, most studies have focused on establishing crack growth rates, and not much is known about the effect of water on the propagation of crack flaws. Additionally, many of the studies investigated the microcrack propagation dynamics of annealed glass and not tempered glass.
To address this gap in research, a team of researchers from Pusan National University (PNU) led by Prof. Sanghu Park, explored the mechanisms associated with water-promoted cracking behavior around surface micro flaws in both annealed and tempered glass in a study published in the Journal of the European Ceramic Society. Prof. Park explains, "Thermally tempered glass is of great commercial importance; it is used in displays, protection covers, vehicular windows, and others. The crack propagation of tempered glass is different from that of annealed glass by water droplets. So, it's really important to understand how water droplet
promotes cracking behavior in different types of glasses."
To emulate surface microcracks, the researchers created artificial flaws on a glass surface using a Vickers indenter—an instrument used to test the hardness of a material. Then, the samples were exposed to atmospheric humidity and water to analyze crack growth. The team discovered that the maximum length of crack growth was much lower in tempered glass than annealed glass. A subsequent 24-hour water immersion text revealed the formation of radial cracks in annealed glass and lateral cracks in tempered glass.
The comparative study provides new insights into the origin of glass cracks which can be useful for glass designers, engineers, and architects. "With an increase in typhoon and storm frequencies due to global warming, we need to find out new ways to protect the exterior of glass windows. We tried to understand the interactions between water and surface cracks to help solve safety problems associated with glass windows and structures", concludes Prof Park.
Authors: Hong-Seok Kim (1) and Sang-Hu Park (2)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.11.058
(1) Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University
(2) School of Mechanical Engineering and ERC/NSDM, Pusan National University
*Corresponding author's email: sanghu@pusan.ac.kr
About Pusan National University
Pusan National University, located in Busan, South Korea, was founded in 1946, and is now the no. 1 national university of South Korea in research and educational competency. The multi-campus university also has other smaller campuses in Yangsan, Miryang, and Ami. The university prides itself on the principles of truth, freedom, and service, and has approximately 30,000 students, 1200 professors, and 750 faculty members. The university is composed of 14 colleges (schools) and one independent division, with 103 departments in all.
Website: https://www.pusan.ac.kr/eng/Main.do
Prof. Sanghu Park is a Professor of School of Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Center for Hybrid Innovative Manufacturing & Engineering sponsored by Korean Government at Pusan National University (PNU). He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in 2006. Before joining to PNU, he completed Postdoctoral research on nanoscale additive manufacturing and imprinting process at the Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials (KIMM). Currently, Prof Park and his group are working on laser-induced metal processes of cladding, additive manufacturing, post-processes for improving mechanical properties and metal-nonmetal combining for higher characteristics.
Personal website address: http://imagineering.pusan.ac.kr
ORCID id: 0000-0002-7053-1515
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.11.058
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Subject of Research
Vickers crack extension and residual fracture strength of annealed and thermally tempered glass in water
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    expressApp.get('/memberGameInfo', 'memberGameInfo', expressApp.restrict, function (req, res, next) {
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        var currentPage = Number(req.query.page || 1);
        var filter = {};

        var Model = expressApp.models.MemberGameInfo;

        var keyword = req.query.keyword || '';
        keyword = keyword.trim();

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                        offset : (currentPage <= 1) ? 0 : perPage*(currentPage-1)
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                        res.render('memberGameInfo/list', {
                            title: 'MemberGameInfo',
                            listObjs: results,
                            page:currentPage,
                            count:count,
                            keyword:keyword
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                    }).catch(function (err) {
                    next(err);
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            }).catch(function(err){
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    expressApp.get('/memberGameInfo/create', 'memberGameInfo.create', expressApp.restrict, function (req, res) {

        res.render('memberGameInfo/create', {
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    expressApp.get('/memberGameInfo/delete/:id', 'memberGameInfo.delete', expressApp.restrict, function(req, res, next) {
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                obj : result
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        }).catch(function(err) {
            next(err);
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    });

    expressApp.post('/memberGameInfo/', 'memberGameInfo.store', expressApp.restrict, function(req, res, next) {
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            , HideYN : memberGameInfo.HideYN
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            , DataFromRegion : memberGameInfo.DataFromRegion || ''
            , DataFromRegionDT : memberGameInfo.DataFromRegionDT || '1900-01-01 00:00:00:000 +00:00'

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            Level : memberGameInfo.Level
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            , Points : memberGameInfo.Points

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Ket, Managing Director graduated from the respective Hospitality and Tourism School in Europe and S.E Asia, has been in the travel industry and hotel hospitality in Laos since 1990. His decades of expertise gained from managing the previous well-known local tour operator and have been motivated him to setup his own travel and airticketing company in 1999.
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Somchanh, Deputy Managing Director who has fully experiences in dealing with local authorities and gained value of experiences sat as Managing Director for other local tour operator before joining Visit Asia.
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Klaus is quiet has wonderful smile amongst entire colleagues, his personal characteristic and with highly patient under the work pressure. He is one of the key employee who help growing the company rapidly, especially the products line, B2B online department that has been assigned. He is very well-trained for IT expert such as website design, software programming and data hardware.
Klaus has discovered Laos from North to South and from the East to the West in order to seek for the best value and new update information. At Visit Asia, he does not work just for production lines, but also manage the company technologies and software programming and is the head of Software department which is used the latest version.
Jack, Sales Executive Senior was graduated in English Faculties from Chiang Mai, Thailand and returned to his homeland in Laos to serve the tourism needs. While in Thailand he became novice monk for few years. He also learned how the meditation system works, put himself in deep jungle as monk travelers and live in nature way of life. Now he travels throughout Laos to find top quality of products.
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Patty Khaiphet, Sales Executive was born in a family of 4 children. Her native Vientiane originally, but seeks for adventurous, after graduated from National university of Laos in 2011 and employs at Visit Asia, she has been travelling throughout countries, researching for tourism at remote provinces for deeper experiences. Her skill is also very well understanding of technologies and software computer.
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The Management team: Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Kanhchana, Sales Executive was born in central province of Cambodia, graduated from Angkor University Major Business Management in 2011 and while she joins Visit Asia, she also work as part time, but afterward she has fully employed at company, since then she is based in Siem Reap, Cambodia Office and help managing new products, suppliers negotiation and update necessary information to head office.
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Kanhchana experienced with restaurants knowing food and drinks and of course she has customer service minded. Since 2010 start working as a team of Visit Asia. She began with production update, data entry on Cambodia hotels and tourist information and support Sales Team. She likes travelling to original places and meets different people, always smiles and keeps good professional relationships with suppliers and over agents.