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Эдит Норма Ширер (, 10 августа 1902 — 12 июня 1983) — канадо-американская актриса, обладательница премии «Оскар».

Биография

Юные годы
Норма Ширер родилась в Монреале 10 августа 1902 года. У её отца, Эндрю Ширера, был успешный бизнес в строительном деле, в то время как её мать, Эдит Фишер, будучи красивой элегантной женщиной, не раз изменяла мужу и часто баловалась наркотиками. Мать хотела, чтобы дочь стала пианисткой, но Норма Ширер уже в девятилетнем возрасте твёрдо решила, что станет актрисой. Эдит очень сомневалась в возможности этого: ей казалось, что дочь недостаточно красива. Норма сама видела свои недостатки, — она была довольно полным подростком с широкими плечами, крепкими ногами и маленькими, немного косыми глазами, — но решила, несмотря ни на что, добиться своей цели, так как считала, что перед её обаянием никто не сможет устоять.

Первой трудностью для Ширер на пути к достижению её цели стало разорение компании отца в 1918 году и умственная болезнь старшей сестры. Её родителям пришлось продать дом в Монреале и переехать в бедняцкий пригород. Эдит Ширер не смогла смириться с такими условиями и, бросив мужа, вместе с дочерьми переехала в дешёвый пансионат. Спустя несколько месяцев Эдит, при поддержке брата, который верил, что у его племянницы Нормы талант, продала фортепиано дочери и на полученные деньги купила три билета на поезд до Нью-Йорка. У неё при этом при себе имелась рекомендация для Нормы, написанная одним из владельцев театральной труппы. С этой рекомендацией Норма могла пойти к Флорензу Зигфелду, ставившему в то время очередной сезон своего шоу.

В январе 1919 года все трое прибыли в Нью-Йорк. Они поселились в крохотной арендованной квартире с одной двухспальной кроватью без матраса и общей на весь этаж ванной в конце длинного и тёмного коридора. Норма с сестрой поочерёдно менялись, чтобы спать на кровати с матерью. Нормально спать в этой комнатке было невозможно, так как окна выходили прямо на железную дорогу и жильцам постоянно мешали проезжающие поезда.

Начало карьеры
Мечта Эдит Ширер увидеть дочь в шоу Зигфелда не сбылась: Флоренз лишь посмеялся, увидев полненькую 17-летнюю Норму Ширер. Но девушка решила не отчаиваться и стала продумывать другие ходы для достижения цели. Вскоре она узнала, что компания Universal Pictures отбирает 8 красивых девушек для съёмок в своём новом фильме. Ширер, прихватив сестру, отправилась на кастинг, где обнаружила более 50 желающих впереди себя. Ассистент быстро отобрал первых семь девушек из начала очереди. Тогда Норма, чтобы не упускать шанс, громко покашляла и тем самым привлекла к себе его внимание. Она приглянулась ассистенту и была выбрана восьмой девушкой для съёмок. Так состоялся кинодебют Ширер.

Вскоре после этого последовали новые эпизодические роли Нормы Ширер в кино. Во время съёмок в «Водопаде жизни» в 1920 году она представилась режиссёру Д. У. Гриффиту, с надеждой, что он поможет развитию её карьеры. Но Гриффиту Ширер не приглянулась из-за слегка косых глаз, и он не стал с ней разговаривать, заявив, что она никогда не станет настоящей актрисой.

Чтобы как-то исправить этот недостаток, Ширер накопила денег и обратилась к доктору Уильяму Бейтсу, занимавшемуся коррекцией зрения. Он прописал ей серию упражнений для глаз, которые должны были помочь девушке.

Финансовое положение семьи Ширер оставляло желать лучшего, и она решила попытать счастья в модельном бизнесе. На её удивление, она оказалась принята в модельное агентство, и начавшаяся там карьера оказалась довольно успешной. Вскоре рекламные плакаты с изображением Нормы красовались на улицах Нью-Йорка.

В 1921 году, спустя три года после прибытия в Нью-Йорк, Норма Ширер получила первую заметную роль в кино в фильме «Похитители». После этого её заметил голливудский продюсер Хал Роч, искавший новые таланты, и в 1923 году предложил ей контракт от лица Луиса Б. Майера, руководителя Mayer Company. Для Нормы это стало настоящим успехом после долгой череды трудностей.

Карьера в Голливуде
Весной 1923 года Норма Ширер вместе с матерью отправилась в Лос-Анджелес в Mayer Company. Вскоре она познакомилась с вице-президентом MGM Ирвингом Талбергом. В последующие годы актриса стала появляться во многих успешных фильмах. К 1925 году у неё уже был контракт на $1,000 в неделю со студией «MGM», а спустя 5 лет она получала $5,000 в неделю. Детская мечта Нормы Ширер сбылась: она стала звездой. Вскоре она приобрела для себя и матери шикарный дом, прямо под знаком Голливуд.

Несмотря на такой успех, актрисе приходилось прикладывать немало усилий для того, чтобы оставаться одной из первых актрис Голливуда. Среди её соперниц были очень яркие актрисы, в том числе Грета Гарбо, чья карьера тогда только начиналась. Ширер стала всё чаще обращаться к Ирвингу Талбергу, и он с удовольствием подыскивал ей новые успешные роли. Их дружба со временем переросла в романтические отношения. Впервые как пара они появились вместе на премьере фильма Чарли Чаплина «Золотая лихорадка» в июле 1925 года. 29 сентября 1927 года состоялась их свадьба, перед которой Норма Ширер приняла иудаизм.

Через неделю после их свадьбы на американские экраны вышел первый звуковой фильм, — кончилась эра немого кино. Актрисе, которая до этого снималась лишь в немых фильмах, не составило труда перейти в звуковое кино, несмотря даже на её канадский акцент. Первым звуковым фильмом Ширер стал «Суд над Мэри Дуган», который вышел на экраны в 1929 году и имел большой успех у зрителей.

В 1930 году Норма Ширер сыграла главную роль в фильме «Развод», ставшем одним их кинохитов того года. За роль Джерри Бернард Мартин Ширер удостоилась премии «Оскар» как лучшая актриса года. Далее последовали не менее успешные картины, включая фильм «Вольная душа» (1931) и «Странный перерыв» (1932). Они принесли ей большой успех и вознесли над другими голливудскими звёздами (такими, как Джоан Кроуфорд и Грета Гарбо). Норма Ширер стала ведущей актрисой Голливуда и «королевой MGM». Она ещё трижды номинировалась на «Оскар» за роли в фильмах «Барретты с Уимпоул-стрит» (1934), «Ромео и Джульетта» (1936) и «Мария-Антуанетта» (1938).

14 сентября 1936 года от пневмонии в возрасте 37 лет умер её муж Ирвинг Тальберг. После его смерти Ширер не утратила своих позиций ведущей актрисы студии и приняла участие ещё в нескольких проектах.

Завершение карьеры
В 1939 году Норму Ширер пригласили на пробы роли Скарлет О'Хары в фильме «Унесённые ветром». Но она не проявила ни малейшего интереса к этому фильму, заявив: «Я не хочу играть Скарлетт. Роль, которую я хотела бы сыграть — это роль Ретта Батлера!» Это был не единственный успешный фильм, от роли в котором Норма отказалась. Однако она снималась в малоизвестных фильмах, среди которых «Мы танцевали» (1942) и «Её картонный любовник» (1942). Эти фильмы провалились в прокате. В 1942 году Ширер официально заявила, что уходит с киностудии.

В том же году актриса вышла замуж за бывшего лыжного инструктора Мартина Эрроджа, который был младше её на 12 лет. Дальнейшую жизнь она тихо провела с мужем, но её последние годы были омрачены болезнью Альцгеймера, и, по слухам, она часто называла мужа Ирвингом. Норма Ширер умерла от пневмонии 12 июня 1983 года в возрасте 80 лет. Её похоронили в Глендейле в одном мавзолее с Ирвингом Тальбергом.

За свой вклад в кинематограф Норма Ширер удостоена звезды на Голливудской аллее славы на Голливуд-бульвар 6636.

Избранная фильмография

Награды
 1931 — Премия «Оскар» за лучшую женскую роль («Развод»)

Примечания

Ссылки

Иммигрировавшие в США из Канады
Лауреаты премии «Кубок Вольпи»
Голливудская «Аллея славы»
Похороненные на кладбище Форест-Лаун
Прозелиты в иудаизме
Киноактрисы Канады
Киноактрисы США

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LACOSTE unveiled the 2017 Presidents Cup uniforms for the U.S. and International Teams at the PGA Merchandise Show on Wednesday, marking the first time in the history of the competition that a single brand is outfitting both sides.
Throughout the design process, LACOSTE worked closely with captains Steve Stricker (U.S.) and Nick Price (International) to create uniforms that met their color, style and fabric specifications, while also channeling the brand's history of sporting elegance.
LACOSTE will dress both of the teams in seven different ensembles, one for each day of the event, including practice and competition rounds. Each of the collections draws inspiration from the teams' respective flags. The Americans will be outfitted in a patriotic color palette of red, white and blue, while the kits for the Internationals feature pops of lively gold, blue and green against a neutral backdrop of black and gray.
Two of the days see the U.S. squad in bold rugby-style stripes, including the final round where the Americans hope to win the Presidents Cup for the seventh straight time. Other days see the U.S. in a mix of powerful reds and classic blues and grays.
The International Team's script calls for sporty color-blocking, classic stripes, and simple solids. All of the pieces in the collections are embroidered with the gold Presidents Cup trophy and corresponding team flag.
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Okay okay moving on from snowy bird houses, it is full on bike season crazy times in here, we celebrated our 6 year anniversary last month, hosted a Bike to Work Week breakfast AND just yesterday got interviewed for a prestigious local paper. Clarifying a couple of things: did not buy the shop, opened it from scratch, and some days we sell WAAAAAY more than 1 bike. But some days we sell none. Also they did not use the answer to What Sets Your Shop Apart question? (answer: Shop Fish). So without further adieu, here is something new to read on this 6 year old blog!
Each week, The Daily Iowan will provide an in-depth look at a local business.
All three full-time staffers at 30th Century Bicycle, 312 E. Prentiss St., ride their bikes to work each day.
The independent shop sells new and used bikes, as well as accessories. Staffers also offer repairs to customers, the most popular being brake issues, shifting adjustments, and flat tires.
Owner Steve Goetzelman bought the shop six years ago. He said the bike demand in Iowa City is high, and he doesn't expect it to drop.
On a typical day, the shop will sell one bike.
The most popular are used bikes, and sell between $200 and $500, which is a good price, Goetzelman said.
Approximately 40 to 50 bikes are on display typically, and fewer than 10 of those are used bikes because of the high demand.
One of the shop's employees, Mary Coats, is one of the rare female mechanics in the bicycle industry.
She joined the 30th Century Bicycle team two years ago after disliking her previous experiences at bigger corporate shops.
Customers, Goetzelman said, are a mix between students and locals. The fall season is the busiest time of the year because of the dry weather — and students back in town for school.
However, Goetzelman said, other seasons are popular for customers as well.
Next door to the shop is Trumpet Blossom Café, 310 E. Prentiss St.
Owner Katy Meyer has known Goetzelman for many years, she said, and is happy to have him as a neighboring business.
In addition, Meyer said Goetzelman is a customer at the café and comes in to replace light bulbs and perform other maintenance.
All employees at 30th Century Bicycle have different pasts with touring, racing, and biking in general. Their experiences make them good advisers, they said, to their customers.
As the temperatures fluctuate and the snow and ice unpredictably accumulate remember what Bob Harris said in that Japanese commercial. At least we think this is what he said, it was lost in translation.
As ever we have a whole bunch here, and looking at the forecast they will be useful for relaxing your rides for a while yet.
Riding a bike through the winter is about more than just about the riding you know. Winter cyclists navigate more than just icy streets, bike racks and locks get plenty chilly, too. Wearing a liner glove with an outer glove that is big enough to fit over it keeps your fingers toasty while riding, and pulling off the outer glove and leaving the liner on gives dexterity and takes the bite out of the air while you secure your ride.
After years of fighting to unwind stiff coiled cable locks we find that a U Lock is faster and easier and more secure to boot. But don't forget your wheels, bolt ons or "locking" skewers let you rest easy that your bike will be just as you left it for that ride home.


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Planning a stag or hen do in the UK? Newcastle is one of the most vibrant, fun and friendly cities in the North with brilliant nightlife. There are a huge a array of activities to chose from and we will get on to those later.
Follow these simple steps to arranging stag and hen weekends in Newcastle.
So you have been landed with the huge responsibility of harassing your best pals family, friends, associates and in laws, nightmare… If you're lucky its just the friends, if not you will have grandma or grandad along for the ride. Trying to accommodate a massive age range can be difficult but not impossible.
Have a discussion with your stag or hen and decide who to invite, will it be a mixture of people or just close friends.
Activities are important, Saturday is the prime day, Endless Adventure North East offers a range of outdoor, adventure activities and free transport to and from the location. Our ethos is simple, every adventure is tailor made and is as hassle free as possible. We understand how difficult it can be to arrange weekends like these and we are here to help, just drop us a line to find out more.
Cost out what people need to pay including getting there and back. Everyone will be greatful if you can cost out what the weekend will cost in advance so all they have to worry about is money for drinks and food. Transport can be done on an individual basis or if your group are leaving from the same town a minibus can be a good way of getting people moved. We have a 16 seat minibus and can provide transport to and from a any location should you require it, just get in touch.
Its really important to get everyones money so you know how committed people are, without it you may end up out of pocket. We offer a deposit system to help you plan the weekend more easily, 15% to secure your date and the full amount due 30 days prior.
Once you have the funds get it booked and look forward to the weekend. Its a good idea to remind people of anything they may need to bring, for our adventures, spare trainers are the thing people forget most. Get an email, whatsapp or Facebook message out to people the week before with any useful contact details, the bestman or maid of honours phone number will be helpful over the weekend so get it to people early.
Sit back and enjoy the weekend, with a firm plan you can rest easy.


Mini tacos are the best.
I bought these 4in round corn tortillas from Fred Meyer and can't stop using them. I thought for sure they would be too small but the reality is they are just right.
Sweet Potatoes make a great alternative filling to meat. The sweetness countered with any spice you add to your taco sets the tone for a yummy experience.
The sweet potatoes can be baked the day before and reheated for a quick and easy dinner on the go or midnight snack. School keeps me up at night and midnight snacks are once again something I contend with.
The cool thing about tacos is they can be layered with a variety of toppings to create a variety of flavor profiles.
Overall, the mini's are just fun! They look cute on your plate and are just the right size to hold. A couple of bites and your done. On to the next one.
To prepare my sweet potatoes I preheated the oven to 400 degrees. Cubed them about all the same size and tossed them in a bowl with: oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and onion powder. Baked until crispy on one side. My oven took about 45 minutes.
The tortilla's I heated on my cast iron griddle for a few seconds on each side. No oil needed.
I precut the toppings and grated our favorite cheese.
We each made our own taco's using which ever toppings suited our fancy at the time.
Then, we went back for seconds.
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AMERICA — There have been no arrests made in the case of a 19-year-old man who was murdered on June 21 at 2:30 a.m. He was killed in a "protest zone" in Seattle, Washington, where people are protesting the death of George Floyd as part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Video footage released by the Seattle police body cameras show at least eight officers approaching the protest zone at the moment the shooting occurs, where they were confronted by other protestors, who yelled obscenities and told them to put their guns down. They also informed the officers that the victims had been taken away by separate unidentified vehicles. The other victim, 33, who was shot but not killed, was reportedly a white male. Eventually, the police left as protestors continued to yell at them.
The deceased victim is yet to be identified, but according to Kshama Sawant, a member of the Seattle City Council, it was an African American male.
Meanwhile, the search begins for the individual who is responsible for the shooting, especially since it lead to the murder of an innocent protestor during a protest that was largely peaceful.
One grief-stricken man, who attended another protest later on Saturday, was asked about the victim that got killed. "When I woke up this morning and I learned about it—it broke my heart." He continued, "I love how it's organized but last night—as I slept somewhere else—somebody got killed." He also implored the perpetrator to turn himself in for the sake of the movement.
Even though police were present, there were no reports of clashes between protestors and police, which has been a central theme in several American cities for almost a month, since the death of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The protest zone where the shooting occurred has been a topic of political debate, with President Donald Trump criticizing its use by Governor of Washington Jay Inslee and Mayor of Seattle Jenny Durkan.
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Banpo-myeon (koreanska: 반포면) är en socken i kommunen Gongju i provinsen Södra Chungcheong
i den centrala delen av Sydkorea,  km söder om huvudstaden Seoul. Den ligger cirka 15 km nordväst om staden Daejeon.

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Chalara or ash die back some case studies?
There are many methods of pruning ash trees within the urban and woodland environment which is dependent on the reasons for pruning such as wood fuel production, pruning for future shape and woodland or tree management. As arboriculturists we are always mindful that there is a specific ecology of flora and fauna attached to this tree species.
The latest findings are showing that to sustain a similar woodland environment in an attempt to continue with ash associated ecology that the replanting of aspen and alder trees with a shrub layer of privet may provide some level of prevention to this potential loss.
Within Europe ash trees exhibiting ash die back have been felled. In the United Kingdom we are attempting to leave the trees to decline in the hope some genetic resistance may be seen and thus provide a seed bank or material source to sustain a future for this tree species.
Within woodland management of these trees findings are that coppiced trees show some early stage recovery and then fall prey to ash die back and fail completely. With lapsed coppice trees which are normally rotationally managed for wood fuel the findings are not as clear and the thinking is to coppard the trees to allow the trees to survive some pruning works. Old pollard trees are not surviving as well from the pollard works with some poor regeneration. Urban ash trees are now showing decline and its now about managing the risk.
At the time of writing this we are basking in a summer heatwave. Just imagine if these temperatures were normal and the lifestyle that we would lead.
A forecast climate change Lyon in France has predicted summer temperatures of similar to Algiers in North Africa by the end of this century. And a temperature increase of 1 to 2 degrees Celsius causes the movement of insects and wildlife associated with that climate by a distance of 250km northwards. It seems reasonable to assume our climate will change by the end of the century.
This means that the tree species planted now for our future generations should be resilient to what is coming and requires careful planning to keep us cool.
So why do we want trees?
A recent study has found that; birth weights are higher when people are located with 50 meters of trees; children have increased learning performance when they have a view of trees with better test scores, higher levels of graduation and the reduction in criminal behaviour.
Forest bathing which is extended walks in woodlands reduces stress, increases immune functions, reduces nerves, lowers pulse rate & blood pressure and reduces cardiovascular/respiratory diseases all dependent on the presence of trees.
Workplace attention restoration theory is based on looking at trees from the office which means more patience, job satisfaction, reduced ailments and increased enthusiasm .Having a walking workplace meeting around trees allows for more productive meeting.
Hospital healing gardens or places, green streets and obesity combative parks (park runs) are now being prescribed by Doctors in America.
For elderly people walking in amongst trees reduces mortality rates over 5 years and leads to reduced illnesses. Dementia and Alzheimer's can be now managed with woodland activities.
The potential financial savings in managing ailments, reducing crime and having a productive workplace could be significant.
In any landscape design, tree management and planting scenario we are creating and future proofing these places for clients as it can be shown to have a long term benefit for us and our future generations.


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Education|Kerala
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IIT Engineer Switches Career, Upcycles Waste Into Toys to Teach 'Ahimsa' to Kids!
"Instead of questioning and thinking critically, school kids in India blindly accept what's taught to them. My aim is to change that."
Getting into teaching children how to upcycle waste seemed too far fetched back when Subid Ahimsa was a student at IIT in 2003, where he was pursuing a post-graduation course in Industrial Design. Multiple job offers followed and till 2011, Subid worked in several firms before quitting engineering.
"Something was missing and was not right. Despite having the knowledge and skills, there was nothing concrete that I was contributing. I saw my friends struggling to keep up with the pace of life, jobs and responsibilities. I kept going back to my years at IIT where I worked on several meaningful projects," Subid from Kerala tells The Better India.
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In 2011, Subid started a movement called 'Ahimsa Toys' (Non-Violence toys) that aims to change the way students learn in school. The IITian conducts workshops on how to make toys from waste materials in government and private schools across India.
So far, Subid has conducted 600 sessions across the ccountry.
How the Workshop on Upcycling Waste Works
The workshops start with Subid showing the toys he had made with waste materials to attract the attention of the young learners.
He then asks the students to deposit all the waste items they have brought from home. He mixes them before throwing the box open for common use. Sharing is one of the crucial values that Subid tries to teach the young ones.
Once the students let their minds take the creative route, they make their own toys from waste items like ball pens, old CDs, plastic bottles, plastic straws, etc.
Subid allows them to explore and intervenes only when needed.
Instead of preaching the kids about why waste should be repurposed and recycled, Subid ensures children see waste through a different lens. He does this by showing the innovative toys he made from materials that are usually considered useless.
The workshop lasts for 3-4 hours and he prefers paying for his own travel and accommodation.
"Self-confidence, sharing, teamwork and realising that nothing is waste are some of the takeaways from the workshops,' adds Subid.
Even as a young boy, Subid Ahimsa did not agree with certain methods of teaching like following only textbooks. But he never dismissed or took his education for granted.
Like millions, he too strived hard and successfully got admitted to one of India's premier institutes, the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2003
His tryst with waste management had already began at home. Subid had always lived a very simple and sustainable lifestyle in Thrissur. Reusing things before discarding them was a norm while growing up. No wonder then that Subid's first project in IIT was on the lowest rung of the society and how they handled waste in Delhi.
"I couldn't ever throw away anything just like that. I always tried to utilise it in some form or another. During the project, I wondered, what if every person repurposed the waste. It would certainly be a huge favour on the waste pickers and environment. But the thought never translated into anything until 2011," he says.
As for the education part, Subid realised the problem when he joined IIT.
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He saw how the education environment there was very different. The teachers considered students as equals. They sat around a table without hierarchy and discussed life experiences. The professors would know every student's pulse and would guide them accordingly.
"From mugging to only sticking to textbooks, school students in India are mostly deprived of critical thinking. Instead of questioning, they blindly accept what is taught to them. Our education system only encourages individual growth and competition. This is the exact cross-section of how our civil society works. We don't give space for children to learn. We take away their self- confidence. My workshops are, in a way, a movement for justice, self-reliance and sustainable development. I called it "Toy-Swaraj" (Swaraj: self-rule). It gives a message that our world is built by ourselves," Subid explains.
Subid's turning point in life came in 2011, when he met Padma Shri Arvind Gupta, a toy inventor. He was invited to translate one of Gupta's toy-making short films in Malayalam.
"His videos opened my eyes and guided me toward the aim of my life. He breathed new life into waste by developing exciting toys for children. Taking a leaf out of his life, I ventured into Ahimsa toys."
For someone who went through an existential crisis, desperately finding the purpose of life, it is commendable to see how Subid is now changing the face of education, one workshop at a time.
"More than teaching, I focus on how students are learning," shares Subid.
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Sandhya Raag (1977)
Posted by Puru | Mar 6, 2014 | Assamese, Bhabendra Nath Saikia | 2 |
Sandhya Raag is a 1977 Assamese film by Bhabendra Nath Saikia, one of the prominent film makers of the Assamese Cinema. The film is based on the story 'Banaprastha' written in 1969. It is the first Assamese film to be showcased in the Indian Panorama.
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Sandhya Raag is the story of Putali, a widow living in the village, and her two daughters. The daughters are sent to the city to work as domestic help in two different household, and live under different circumstances. While the elder, Charu, is accepted as a part of the family she works for and gets accustomed to the life in the city; the younger, Taru, is not so lucky and has to keep warding off the advances of the lecherous son of her master. When the sisters are of marriageable age, they have to return to the village. However after all the years spent in an urban setup, they find it difficult to adjust to the restricted life of the village. Seeking a way out, Charu agrees to marry her former employer's driver even though he is impotent. After her marriage, Putali and Taru join her in the city.
In his debut film, Saikia impresses with his sense of human nature and with a remarkable dexterity, handles the complex cultural differences between the village and the city and the resultant tension it creates in the lives of the characters. The treatment is minimalist and leans towards neo-realism. The first Assamese film produced by NFDC, Sandhya Raag is a great insight in the life of rural Assam in 1970s.
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Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and Patricia works with a small band of other magicians to secretly repair the world's ever growing ailments. But something is determined to bring them back together—to either save the world, or end it.
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As Good as New
Bridging Infinity
Jonathan Strahan, Charlie Jane Anders, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds
A People's Future of the United States
Victor LaValle, John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Lesley Nneka Arimah & Charles Yu
Six Months, Three Days, Five Others
The Cartography of Sudden Death
Intestate
Rock Manning Goes for Broke
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Thirteen
Jonathan Strahan, Alastair Reynolds, Charlie Jane Anders & Yoon Ha Lee
The Long List Anthology Volume 4
Naomi Kritzer, Tobias S. Buckell, Charlie Jane Anders, Nick Wolven, Jamie Wahls, Max Gladstone, Alex Acks, Sarah Gailey, Ursula Vernon, JY Yang, Jess Barber, Sara Saab, Kelly Robson & Mary Robinette Kowal
Six Months, Three Days
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition
Charlie Jane Anders, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, James Alan Gardner, Yoon Ha Lee, Liz Gorinsky, Nnedi Okorafor, Paul Park, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Michael Swanwick & Harry Turtledove
Lightspeed Magazine, issue 49 (June 2014 - Women Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue)
Christie Yant, N.K. Jemisin, Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, Carrie Vaughn, Amal El-Mohtar & Maria Dahvana Headley
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 100 (September 2018)
John Joseph Adams, Seanan McGuire, Carrie Vaughn, Ken Liu, Charlie Jane Anders, Adam-Troy Castro & Gene Doucette
War Of The Realms
Gerry Duggan, Christopher Cantwell & Charlie Jane Anders
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 106 (March 2019)
John Joseph Adams, Charlie Jane Anders, Richard Kadrey, Ashok K Banker, Kat Howard & Carrie Vaughn
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104 (January 2019)
John Joseph Adams, Ashok K Banker, A. Merc Rustad, Roger Zelazny, E. Lily Yu, Meg Elison, Maria Dahvana Headley, Charlie Jane Anders & Chris Kluwe
Alle Vögel unter dem Himmel
Minden madár az égen
Shoreline of Infinity 11½ - Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition
Jane Yolen, Eric Brown, Holly Schofield, David L. Clements, Ken MacLeod, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Paul McAuley, Anne Charnock & Charlie Jane Anders


Congress should be cautious about committing taxpayer dollars to promote plants that both industry and Wall Street consider too risky to finance on their own.
Originally conceived as providing power that would be "too cheap to meter," nuclear energy was seen as the future of the electric industry. Reality quickly overtook this utopian vision in what has been called "the largest managerial disaster in business history," leading to two bailouts of the industry in the 1980s and 1990s.
Advocates of nuclear power are now promoting a "nuclear renaissance" based on claims that a new generation of reactors will produce relatively cheap electricity while solving threats posed by global climate change. The industry has proposed building almost 30 new nuclear reactors, with some calling for 300 new plants by mid-century. The rapidly escalating and still highly uncertain costs of new nuclear plants—along with the stated unwillingness of Wall Street to finance them—has sent the industry back to the federal government for financial assistance. In response, Congress authorized a package of subsidies in 2005 that included federal loan guarantees and production tax credits. The industry is now asking for more.
In this report, the Union of Concerned Scientists urges Congress to be cautious about committing taxpayer dollars to promote plants that both industry and Wall Street consider too risky to finance on their own. We also identify several critical steps the federal government needs to take before moving ahead with any program that would shift the risks of building new nuclear plants from industry to taxpayers, leading to a third bailout that could dwarf the first two.


The Exchange Tower - Benton and Overbury Ltd.
This multi-million dollar commercial project started in fall 2015 with a retrofit of the existing Vancouver stock exchange tower and then continuation of a 31 storey addition to the property. Benton and Overbury employed up to 150 skilled trades persons on the project up to completion in January 2018.


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Hořec Clusiův (Gentiana clusii) z čeledi hořcovité (Gentianaceae) je alpinská bylina původem z Evropy. Je pojmenována po vlámském průkopníkovi moderní botaniky, Carolu Clusiovi (1525–1609).

Popis
Jde o vytrvalou rostlinu s krátkým nerozvětveným oddenkem. Z oddenku vyrůstají listy v přízemní růžici a 1 až 8 cm dlouhý stonek. Stonek zakončuje jeden květ o průměru 5–6 cm. Velký a hluboký květ se skládá ze zeleného kalicha a sytě modré koruny ve tvaru zvonku.

Výskyt
Roste na vápencových skalách. Vyskytuje se v Pyrenejích, Alpách, Apeninách, pohoří Jura a Schwarzwald a v Karpatech. Na Slovensku se vyskytuje na Malé a Velké Fatře, v Chočských vrších, Západních, Belianských i Nízkých Tatrách, ve Slovenském krasu a na Muráňské planině. Na území Slovenska je zákonem chráněn. V Česku neroste.

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Hořcovité
Flóra jihozápadní Evropy
Flóra střední Evropy
Flóra jihovýchodní Evropy
Flóra východní Evropy


This ministry consists of parishioners who distribute the church bulletin as they greet those entering the church. We need Greeters at both Saturday evening 4pm Mass and the 9am Sunday Mass. If you are able to commit to either of those times, and you can be at the church 15 minutes prior to those Masses, please let us know.


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De Koninklijke Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland (Koninklijke VHOK) werd op 13 november 1911 opgericht op initiatief van antiquair Abraham Staal. Leden waren onder anderen Etienne Delaunoy, Bernard Houthakker, Meijer Mossel en S.A. Simons. De vereniging had vanaf het begin drie doelstellingen: het behartigen van belangen, het verbeteren van de onderlinge verhoudingen, en het tegengaan van opzettelijke misleiding en "het verhoogen van het aanzien van ons bedrijf" - de laatste twee als één punt genoteerd.

De vereniging had in 2010 ongeveer negentig leden.

Voorzitters van het bestuur
 1911-1912 R. Elion
 1912-1913 S. Duits
 1913-1925 E.J. Goudstikker
 1925-1928 H. Spyer
 1928-1941 Jacques Goudstikker
 1945-1954 B. Houthakker
 1954-1967 R.G. de Boer
 1967-1974 S. Nijstad
 1974-1980 S.J. Fontein
 1980-1987 D.R. Aronson
 1987-1990 Frides Laméris
 1990-1993 C.P.A. Castendijk
 1993-1998 P.L.W. Arts
 1998-2010 M.H.P. Hoogendijk
 2010-2019 Robert Aronson
 2019-2020 Ali Foumani
 2020-heden Pieter Ariëns Kappers

Bibliografie
, Kunst, kennis en kwaliteit. De Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, 1911-heden (2007) ISBN 9789040082641

Externe link
 www.kvhok.nl Website Koninklijke VHOK

Kunsthandel


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Legend of Zelda: Four Swords - Gameplay Trailer
September 15, 2011 / Miguel Mendoza
During my 3rd year in Highschool, a friend of mine lent me his Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past for the GBA and in return I let him borrow my Mega Man Zero cartridge. We went on to trade more games over the summer.
To be honest, the only Zelda game I had played before that was Oracle of Ages which I didn't find very fun. When I played Link to the Past I thought the graphics where butt. why did Link have purple hair? I knew the GBA could do better than that (during that time I didn't know Link to the Past was originally on the SNES). Still I found a great deal of enjoyment from that little game and really opened my eyes to the Zelda franchise. But there was another game on that cartrige. It had a nicer sprited Link, a sword that could split 1 hero into four, and a kick ass intro. There was a problem. I couldn't play the game alone and always wondered how that game played. That game was The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords.
After around 2 years, I was finally able to play Four Swords with other people via an emulator. I didn't knew very few that owned a GBA. They didn't have a link cable nor did we really have the same games so emulator was the only way to go with this. I gotta say that it was a blast.
With Four Swords coming to DSiWare and wireless communication now the norm, this is the perfect time to have a Zelda Four Swords LAN Party.
Aside from the main Four Swords game, there looks be a ton of new content. From new areas and puzzles to a NES looking stage and a original Gameboy area.
September 15, 2011 / Miguel Mendoza/ Comment
News, Nintendo, Nintendo DS/DSi
dsi, DSiWare, nintendo, The Legend of Zelda Four Swords
Pokemo~ I mean Crystal Monsters!... Wait, what?
April 08, 2011 / Miguel Mendoza
Gameloft is a studio that is known for making a lot of games for mobile devices. The inspiration for most of their titles can be a bit.. questionable at times (most of the time) but they do release some quality titles.
Here we have one of their games that was released on July 10, 2010. Look Familiar?
From the Gameloft site:
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who can see monsters - called Neo-Seeds - and those who can't. Neo-Seeds wield extraordinary power and battle using tamed monsters in grand tournaments. As a young Neo-Seed who just discovered his ability, it is time for you to set off on a fantastic adventure to become the greastest Monster Breeder. Travel across the world on a quest to uncover the secret of the Final Monsters as you capture, breed and train your own team of powerful creatures to best your opponents in dangerous monster battles.
After seeing this, I have lost all faith in Gameloft.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D71z7LLPbE&w=640&h=390]
Source: 4playerpodcast
April 08, 2011 / Miguel Mendoza/ 1 Comment
Misc, Nintendo DS/DSi
Crystal Monsters, dsi, DSiWare, Gameloft, nintendo, Pokemon Black, Pokemon Black and White, Pokemon White


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Strategic Investment Advisory Services
LC Venture is a leading consultancy and advisory holding company registered in the UK. The company provides quality advice on strategy and business solutions to clients which are mainly SMEs, multinational companies and governments. Our clients also include philanthropic foundations and family estates. We employ more than a dozen multilingual professionals who are bilingual and multicultural with Chinese and western education mainly in the UK.
LC Venture has its headquarter in the UK and maintains offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur.
Our services mainly focus on providing market intelligence and market opportunity assessment, localisation and globalisation; cross-border investments, corporate incorporation and structuring. The firm is active with experience in the automotive industry, mega construction projects, manufacturing, real estate and the financial industry. The company is also highly sought for public relations and promotion services in mainland China and for organising and executing events and forum for government agencies, large multinational corporations and various organisations and interest groups.
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LC Venture China
In 2009 Mr. Gaston Chee and Ms. Jennifer Leong founded a social enterprise BeGo, – 'Be Empowered, Go Beyond'- with support from the Institute of Applied Entrepreneurship at Coventry University. BeGo operated an online platform which provides relocation and settlement services to students travelling to the UK to study. In 2011, BeGO joined the Coventry and Warwickshire Co-operative Development Agency (CWCDA) to collaborate with their activities and raised over £1M from Venture Capital firm Midven in the Midwest and other angels the next year. It expanded its scope of services to include assist asian private business owners focusing in real estate, B2B matchmaking, and visa and immigration services.
In 2014, LC Venture entered China's mainland market by acquisition of BeGo, an education and lifestyle brand, and set up LC Venture Beijing Ltd. with registered capital of RMB 100 million.
LC Venture Beijing Office provides customised solutions for Chinese clients seeking global investment. It also actively participates in the Chinese investment market. By the end of 2017, its business has expanded to 15 first- and second-tier cities in China, and completed a series of acquisitions of energy and real estate projects.
In 2017, LC Venture led the foundation of China Going Global Forum, joined by diplomats from Beijing's 166 embassies, representatives of the 60 countries on the Belt and Road and senior Chinese government, business, media and philanthropic leaders. The aim of the forum is to help its members make the connections which underpin sustainable business in the China century.
LC Venture is recognised as a long-term cooperation partner between the Chinese government and foreign chambers of commerce by its contribution to the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between British Chamber of Commerce and China Centre for Promotion of SME Development of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Silk Road Cities Alliance.
Since 2017, LC Venture is participating in various cross-country projects such like the Melaka Gateway Project and is highly spoken by the British and local government.
Notable work.
LC Venture has been growing in its scope and size of its services over the years leveraging its founders and teams unique position as a multi-lingual and multi-cultural firm with Western education and Eastern roots. In recent years, the company has been involved in multi-billion dollar deals. The most notable was in 2017, when LC Venture was appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Her Majesty Treasury to support Jardine Lloyd Thompson (JLT) Group, one of the world's leading providers of risk management and insurance from the UK, to deliver the USD 10 billion Melaka Gateway Project, representing new UK-based service businesses. Besides, through its collaboration with Silk Forum Alliance, a project under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), LC Venture has assisted the UK government through the instrumentality of the British Chamber of Commerce in Beijing to establish key relationships with the Chinese Government leading to the signing of two MoU's under President Xi's Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.
Recently, LC Venture was appointed by the China International Capital Corporation (CICC), an investment arm of China Construction Bank (CCB) and a leading underwriter of the Panda Bond in China, to facilitate an inaugural bond issue by the Malaysian Ministry of Finance.
Go to Our Projects
LC Venture has always adhered to the implementation of corporate social responsibility. In 2011, it was awarded the "Social Entrepreneur Award" by the Higher Education Foundation of England (HEFCE) and UnLtd., the world leading UK investment company. LC Venture is also a committed group to the education of young people and has strongly supported BeGo Education to become a bridge for cultural exchanges between the East and the West. At present, BeGo acts as the most influential international education brand under LC Venture.
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The RS badge applied to Skodas, or vRS in the United Kingdom, has always meant a more exciting drive, sprinkled with some special exterior and interior touches.
Now, for the first time, the Chzech automaker has used the performance designation on an SUV: the new Kodiaq.
Presented at the 2018 Paris Motor Show, the Kodiaq RS is powered by a 240 PS (237 hp / 177 kW) and 500 Nm (369 lb-ft) of torque 2.0-liter diesel. The bi-turbo TDI is the most powerful oil burner ever to have been used in one of the Czech brand's cars, and is paired to a 7-speed auto and all-wheel drive.
Performance wise, the Kodiaq RS is quite punchy, as it sprints to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 7.0 seconds and reaches 220 km/h (136 mph).
With the RS logos, 20-inch wheels, 17-inch brakes, visible exhaust pipes, glossy elements and updated bumpers, the RS looks the part, too.
The same can be said about the interior, too, which gets a couple of sports seats at the front, leather and imitation suede, and contrast stitching to mark its special character.
The regular Kodiaq is one comfortable and spacious cruiser, and the RS doesn't cut back on that. In fact, it has the same adaptive damping suspension, so it performs remarkably well, even in Sport mode, with the ride feeling composed and stable.
That being said, it is definitely not a less expensive alternative to the Porsche Macan Turbo, but rather a well put together SUV that stands out thanks to a few key upgrades and a powerful engine.
AutoTrader traveled to southern Spain to test the new Kodiaq RS, and here's what they had to say about it.
No, this is completely different, newer, but also cheaper car. Different platform, engines, parts. I doubt there is even one thing that is common with the old Q7.
The old Audi Q7 was on the PL71 platform. The Skoda Kodiaq uses the MQB platform that much of the Volkswagen range sits on. It can be scaled up or scaled down depending on the model – so everything from the new Polo to Arteon uses it.
Thanks interesting, well at least the side profile reminds me of the old Q7.
The hot versions of sSkod are called vRS in Portugal as well, not only in the UK.
If only the TTD was available here in Australia.. But due to our hot climate, the engine is unable to be certified for use downunder. We require extra cooling , auto transmission cooler, heavy duty air-con larger radiator & larger thermostat. There's just no room under the bonnet for the extra plumbing required. This one would do well here. How about it Skoda, manufacturing an Aussie spec that can operate from -15c to +50c. The Euro versions are rated from about -30c to + 35c so overheating for us would be a major issue. We are missing out on what effectively be a popular model.
The Cullinan doesn't even ride on a BMW platform, so why call it the 'BMW Cullinan'?


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// Copyright (c) 2017 Lanceolata

#ifndef LOG2HDFS_UTIL_QUEUE_H_
#define LOG2HDFS_UTIL_QUEUE_H_

#include <queue>
#include <mutex>
#include <memory>
#include <condition_variable>

namespace log2hdfs {

/**
 * Simple thread safe queue.
 */
template<class T>
class Queue {
 public:
  /**
   * Static function to create a Queue shared_ptr.
   *
   * @returns std::shared_ptr<Queue>
   */
  static std::shared_ptr<Queue> Init() {
    return std::make_shared<Queue>();
  }

  /**
   * Constructor
   */
  Queue() {}

  Queue(const Queue& other) = delete;
  Queue& operator=(const Queue& other) = delete;

  /**
   * Push T value to queue.
   */
  void Push(T value) {
    std::shared_ptr<T> data(std::make_shared<T>(std::move(value)));
    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
    queue_.push(data);
    cond_.notify_one();
  }

  /**
   * Wait to pop a value from queue.
   *
   * @param value pop value
   */
  void WaitPop(T* value) {
    if (!value)
      return;

    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
    cond_.wait(lock, [this]{ return !queue_.empty(); });
    *value = std::move(*queue_.front());
    queue_.pop();
  }

  /**
   * Wait to pop a value from queue.
   *
   * @returns std::shared_ptr<T> point to pop value.
   */
  std::shared_ptr<T> WaitPop() {
    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
    cond_.wait(lock, [this]{ return !queue_.empty(); });
    std::shared_ptr<T> res = queue_.front();
    queue_.pop();
    return res;
  }

  /**
   * Try to pop a value from queue.
   *
   * @param value pop value
   *
   * @returns true if pop and set value success; false otherwise.
   */
  bool TryPop(T* value) {
    if (!value)
      return false;

    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
    if (queue_.empty())
      return false;

    *value = std::move(*queue_.front());
    queue_.pop();
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Try to pop a value from queue.
   *
   * @returns std::shared_ptr<T> point to pop value if pop success;
   *          nullptr otherwise.
   */
  std::shared_ptr<T> TryPop() {
    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
    if (queue_.empty())
      return nullptr;

    std::shared_ptr<T> res = queue_.front();
    queue_.pop();
    return res;
  }

  /**
   * Whether the queue is empty.
   *
   * @returns true if queue is empty; false otherwise.
   */
  bool Empty() const {
    std::lock_guard<std::mutex> lock(mutex_);
    return queue_.empty();
  }

 private:
  mutable std::mutex mutex_;
  std::condition_variable cond_;
  std::queue<std::shared_ptr<T>> queue_;
};

}   // namespace log2hdfs

#endif  // LOG2HDFS_UTIL_QUEUE_H_

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Curtis Jackson of Tiverton has been fishing for almost 30 years and is used to donning his scuba gear to find little necks, steamers, quahogs and some oysters along the bottom of Narragansett Bay.
"I have been fishing since I was 14 years old," he said this week in the kitchen of his home on Lucy Avenue. "I love being on the water. And being my own boss."
But instead of hunting for shellfish at the bottom of the bay, he would like to try something new: raising oysters and steamers in Blue Bell Cove in Portsmouth. He is waiting for a decision from the state Coastal Resources Management Council to set up a nearly one-acre aquaculture farm in the cove's shallow waters.
Jackson said he hopes to be part of the aquaculture industry that is growing around Portsmouth.
Peter Brown of Bristol has been part of that industry since 2006, when he opened a three-acre oyster farm in Portsmouth's Coggeshall Cove. He opened another two-acre farm nearby last year.
"I sell about 1,000 to 1,200 oysters a week," Brown said recently. "On a good week, I can bring in 2,000, but that doesn't happen often."
He pays about seven-tenths of a cent for each oyster seed he buys and sells the mature oysters for 55 cents each. High-end restaurants in Newport charge their customers $2.50 apiece.
Peter Sebring of Warren has a four-acre site near Brown's oyster farm; the two are good friends.
"He got me started with this whole thing," Brown said of Sebring. "We kind of work together."
Sebring said he harvests about 150,000 oysters a year, but is aiming for 200,000.
Oyster harvesting is becoming a big industry in Rhode Island, he said. There are 30 to 35 shellfish-growing sites in the state and 90 to 95 percent of them are oyster farms.
"It is a very positive, green industry," Sebring said. "The oysters clean up the nitrogen and byproducts from fertilizers and sewage plants." One oyster can purify 50 gallons of water a day, he said.
While state regulatory agencies support the oyster industry, it sometimes runs into other opposition. Sebring was forced to abandon an aquaculture proposal in Tiverton last year because of opposition from local residents, who formed an organization and hired a lawyer to fight his proposal.
"It is a growing industry and will become something big for the state," he said. "But I don't know if that will be in my lifetime or my kids' or my grandchildren's."
Another Bristol resident, Kyle Hess, has applied to build and maintain a three-acre oyster farm in Hog Island Cove. He is also seeking state Department of Environmental approval to restore tidal flushing to the southeastern salt marsh complex on Hog Island.
Both Sebring and Brown purchase oyster seeds that are about the size of a grain of sand.
"When we get them they are just specks," Brown said at his dock in Bristol. "A million oyster seeds would have the same volume as a two-liter Coke bottle."
The seeds are placed in a container with a wooden frame, called an upweller, which measures about 20-feet-by-8 feet. The upweller is tied to a dock just as a boat would be, and sea water is pumped through it to force feed the tiny oysters, Brown said.
The oysters thrive in that environment and will grow to an inch or an inch-and-a-half in about two months. At that point, Brown moves them to the aquaculture sites in Coggeshall Cove, which lies between Bend Boat Basin and Arnold's Point on the western side of Portsmouth.
The oysters are put inside plastic bags with a weave pattern to allow water to flow though. The bags are placed in 3-by-6-foot wooden cages with six compartments - one for each bag. The cages are lowered to the bottom of the bay, where they remain. Fifteen to 20 cages can be connected to one trawl line to be raised and lowered, much like lobster pots.
Brown hauled a cage to show visitors recently and was happy with what he found inside. Most of the 150 oysters in one bag had grown to two inches and some were even three-and-a-half inches.
"They are ready for market," he said. The batch of oysters had been planted in 2010 and was going through its second winter.
As he pulled up other cages, however, Brown found some disturbing predators. The round plastic tubes used to close the bags were covered with barnacles, which will eat the calcium in the oysters' shells. He also found small oyster drills - shellfish that can drill a small hole in the oyster shell and eat the meat inside.
When he opened another bag, he spotted a starfish - or sea star - no bigger than a dime. But he emptied the whole bag onto a table in the stern of his 20-foot boat to pick out that one starfish, which is not a fish, but an echinoderm.
"They will grow really fast and they eat the oysters," he said. "If I left it there, it would get really big in a month and do a lot of damage."
Although he harvests oysters, Brown said he doesn't know what they taste like.
"Never once in my life have I eaten an oyster," he said. "I like to grow them, but I have never tasted one."
His wife, Marie, eats them and critiques his catch.
"She loves the ones we are growing out here," he said.
When Brown lifts a cage from the water, many tiny fish fall back into the sea. In the spring, that draws striped bass, which return to that part of the bay every year, he said.
"They know that when I lift up the cage, the small fish fall out and they will get a free meal," he said. "They swim underneath the boat, and on a sunny day you can see maybe six, seven or eight of them under the boat."
Although Brown used to try to catch the fish, he decided he just wants to watch them.
"I'd rather just feed them and play with them," he said. "It's a lot of fun feeding them."
The oyster harvest is not a full-time job for either Brown or Sebring. Brown works the night shift at the Super Stop & Shop in Bristol and goes bull-raking for other shellfish in the bay. Most of his income is from fishing, he said, but he needs the security and benefits of the full-time job.
Sebring owns the Atlantic Aquaculture Supply Co. in Warren, which sells the equipment needed to grow oysters and other shellfish.
For Jackson, shellfishing is a full-time job, but at 41 he is looking for other sources of income.
"I want to have the oyster farm because I am getting older and I want to find a different way to make a living," he said. "I love being on the water, but it gets tougher and tougher to be out there on the bay every day."
The site he wants to use is not close to the area of the cove where shellfishing is banned because of pollution. The polluted area is near the small houses of Island Park, he said, and his site is on the other side of the cove, toward Route 24.
"I know where the pollution line is, and I am not in the pollution area," Jackson said.
He is not the only one who wants to set up an oyster farm in Blue Bell Cove. Thomas and Lisa Boulanger of 281 Riverside St., Portsmouth, also recently applied to the CRMC to set up a 2.75-acre aquaculture farm near their home to raise oysters and quahogs.
While the outlook for oyster farms is encouraging, Brown said the same is not true for shellfish such as quahogs.
"In 1981 when I started, there were 5,000 licenses for shellfishing in the bay," he said. "Now there are 300. Bull- raking is a dying business around here."


On May 7, 1941, Sam Henderson became the first Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper killed in the line of duty. Bill McClendon joined his fallen brother on Oct. 1, 2006, when he was struck by a tractor-trailer after pulling to the side of the road when he responded to a call. Between those two deaths, 31 other Oklahoma troopers have died while protecting the people of the Sooner state.
It took only four years for the first trooper to lose his life after Gov. E. W. Marland commissioned the OHP in 1937.
Over the years, the fallen troopers have been memorialized through various venues, including a memorial plaque in front of the Department of Public Safety in Oklahoma City, which memorializes all Oklahoma peace officers killed in the line of duty.
However, in the next few months, the fallen heroes will have their own memorial-at Falls Creek.
The board of the OSTA last week approved buying 40 bricks to be placed in the Falls Creek Plaza in memory of the 33 troopers killed in the line of duty.
"While we hope we won't need those extra bricks, we have to be realistic and plan for expansion," said Rogers. He said the plaque in front of the Department of Public Safety had to be rebuilt last year to give more room for names.
One trooper who many Oklahoma Baptists remember is Nik Green, who was killed on Dec. 26, 2003, when he stepped out of his car to help a stranded motorist who then shot him. Green, at the time, was youth director at Devol, First, where the youth department had grown to nearly 200 young people under his leadership. In 2005, the church dedicated a Christian youth center to Green's memory.
Rogers said he first became aware of the opportunity to place bricks in the new Falls Creek Plaza while attending church at Dougherty, First, where he is a member.
Rogers said it is a fitting place for a memorial in that the Highway Patrol has had a presence at Falls Creek for many years.
"I've been a trooper for 39 years, and we have had a representative from the department on campus all those years," he said.
Rogers has suggested a paver be placed at the top of the bricks for an explanation and then that the design be laid in the outline of the state of Oklahoma.
Rogers said the Oklahoma Highway Patrol will have a representative present for the dedication of the Tabernacle on May 26.


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Karl Rieger (* 1903; † 1983) war ein deutscher Kommunalpolitiker und der letzte Bürgermeister von Haunstetten vor der Eingemeindung nach Augsburg.

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Rieger wurde 1955 zum Bürgermeister der damals noch eigenständigen Stadt Haunstetten ernannt. Sein Vorgänger war der seit 1919 amtierende Xaver Widmeier. In der Amtszeit Riegers wurden eine Vielzahl baulicher Maßnahmen verwirklicht. Dazu zählen beispielsweise das Naturfreibad, der Bauhof sowie das Sportstadion. Auch der Bau des Haunstetter Krankenhauses wurde durch Karl Rieger in die Wege geleitet. Die Amtszeit von Rieger endete mit der Eingemeindung von Haunstetten nach Augsburg im Jahre 1972.

Aufgrund seiner Verdienste wurde Rieger mit der goldenen Bürgermedaille ausgezeichnet.

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Bürgermeister (Augsburg)
Deutscher
Geboren 1903
Gestorben 1983
Mann


The size of tractor required to pull this digger mostly depends on the soil condition and traction. We generally recommend a 60 to 80 horsepower, 4X4 tractor, or a 80 to 100 horsepower, 2-wheel drive, tractor. Power is usually not the issue, traction usually is.


Widely regarded as a golden generation, Israel's newest crop of artists have gained the attention of collectors and fans throughout the art world. Serge Tiroche, who combined his love for art with a savvy financial background, has stood as a cultivating factor in the local scene since initiating his private collection in 1986. His latest initiative, ST-ART, represents the country's first artists incubator, a means of facilitating artist growth through a form of 'angel investing' and hands-off management. Based in a majestic villa in Jaffa, ST-ART utilizes its headquarters as a gallery space, and is truly one of the city's best-kept secrets.
Upon reaching ST-ART facilities, you will enter through a charming garden, often used to showcase outdoor installations. The villa is in the Ottoman style, characterized by dome-like arches and high ceilings providing for a flood of natural light. With a breath-taking view of the Mediterranean from its balcony perched atop the Jaffa port, one can only imagine the caliber of effendis who had once taken up residence in this amazing property. The facility hosts temporary exhibits of artists associated with the project, as well as a rotating selection of works from the Tiroche permanent collection. Any art-lover's stay to Tel Aviv would be incomplete without visiting the villa.


Charlie Went For A Swim!
Charlie, a seal mitted Ragdoll with an hourglass blaze, will be a year old on July 23rd. He is crazy bored all the time, so I try to keep him entertained. If I am not careful, when I open my front door, he will jet out and then just start running. Not the typcial slinky cat that we all know. He fears nothing! It actually scares the living daylights out of me because he just runs whenever he gets outside and if there is nothing to stop him, he keeps going. I fear he'll be hit by a car, so I have to be really careful.
We are going to my parents' lake house for the Fourth of July, so I wanted to be sure that he knew how to swim before we went.
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Oracle EBS Enterprise Command Centers (ECC)
Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) provide information discovery along with visualization and exploration capabilities embedded within Oracle E-Business Suite user interfaces. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework enables the creation of business dashboards in different functional areas. Oracle E-Business Suite users navigate transactional information using interactive visual components and guided discovery capabilities allowing exploratory data analysis. Mobility and responsive design are built into the Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework, and all dashboards automatically adjust the layout to better fit a desktop or mobile device form factor. Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework automatically adheres to existing Oracle E-Business Suite security. The dashboard content a user sees is completely consistent with the Oracle E-Business Suite context and security.
Example of an Enterprise Command Center Dashboard
Each Enterprise Command Center has a set of features that allows users to answer essential questions, uncover business insights, and drill down to take the relevant action. It helps users quickly and intuitively analyze data so they can make confident decisions driven by data.
Highlights of an Enterprise Command Center
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework comes with search capabilities that allow users to search for a term within a particular data. To do a basic search, type your search term into the search box then a list of attribute values containing the search terms is displayed, and you can select a value from the list to search for it or click on the magnifying glass (search icon) to retrieve all records containing this value.
Search Box Example
The Search box supports the following capabilities:
Look and Feel: The search box appears at the page level instead of in the side navigation panel. This look and feel provides easy-to-read search term highlighting and keyboard navigation for the auto-suggestion list.
Multi data set: In the products where the search box is configured with more than one data set, the user can switch among the data sets to search for values from each data set and apply as filters. Name of the selected data set appears on the component header.
The Selected Refinements region allows you to view and understand how the applied filters are displayed and grouped based on refinement operator.
In the Selected Refinements region, filters are grouped as described below:
With the same attribute and same operator, filters are displayed in the same accordion
Example of the Same Attribute and Operator in Selected Refinements
With the same attribute but different operators, filters are displayed in different accordions
Oracle Enterprise Command Center Framework has a set of graphs and charts that provide a powerful way of summarizing and presenting data that are critical in decision making in an easily comprehended manner. You can find insights, detect outliers, filter the data directly from the charts, and drill down to a deeper level of details. The following examples show how charts and graphs are used to detect and solve several problems or highlight bottlenecks and exceptions.
Summarization Bar
As the name implies, metrics, flags and dimensions in the bar summarize important aspects of the data displayed. All values are updated with new calculation results when you change the focus as you filter the data.
The summarization bar supports conditional formatting. With conditional formatting, a metric item can be displayed in a specific color based on a specific value or range of values, so that the color changes depending on the value of the metric.
Summarization Bar Example
You can apply a filter from a metric item in the summarization bar; this filter can be based on static condition. For example, "Draft Orders" based on conditions (open flag = Y AND booked flag = N). Also, the filter can be based on a variable condition. For example, "My SRs" metric is based on service requests assigned to the logged-in user. In this case, the condition is changing based on the logged-in user.
Charts depict data trends, distributions, anomalies, and more. You can drill down through different levels of hierarchy and allow the system to expose different levels of details dynamically. You can control which options to slice the data by and affect the whole navigation path by picking filters directly from the charts.
Charts are effective when there is numerical data that splits nicely into different categories so you can quickly see trends within the data, compare related information, and gain immediate insight.
Example of a Bar /Bar Line Chart
You can refine the displayed data by clicking the data point on the chart. Also, by hovering the mouse over a chart, you can display the dimension and metric value for a data point.
Also, you can make the following refinements:
Click a data point on the chart to refine the data by all of the applicable dimension values
Click a label on the category axis to refine the data by that value only
Click a legend entry to refine the data by that value only
Pie and Donut Charts
Pie charts show a single metric aggregated across a group dimension.
Example of a Donut Chart
You can hover the mouse over a wedge or segment to display the corresponding metric value as well as its percent of the total.
Scatter Chart Example
A scatter chart is used to plot two metrics against each other. Scatter charts are used to find clusters of data points, to show gaps, and to identify sub-populations. Example use cases include cause and effect analysis (a driving factor and a dependent one), or analysis of the correlation of two variables, for example, the analysis of the relationship between cash inflow and outflow per project.
You can define the dimensions of the data used in the scatter chart. The group dimension (for example, location) controls the shapes of the data point display. The series dimension controls the number of data points with a particular shape. A data point is displayed at the intersection between the x and y metrics.
Bubble Chart Example
A bubble chart is used to plot two metrics against each other with an additional metric represented as the bubble size. Bubble charts are used to show concentrations of data along two axes with magnitude. For example, they could be used to illustrate performance review ratings or customer profitability.
You can define the dimensions of the data used in the bubble chart. The group dimension controls the bubble color. The series dimension controls the number of bubbles with the same color. A data point is displayed at the intersection between the x and y metrics.
Reference Line
Example of a Reference Line in a Chart
A reference line in a chart can be used to identify a specific value on a chart axis. The value can be based on a function, such as the average, maximum, or minimum. It is a constant value. The reference line is available only for a defined metric; for example, Invoice Amount (sum).
You can add more than one reference line to a chart. You can add a separate line for each metric defined, or you can add several reference lines for the same metric, using different functions associated with each one.
Reference lines are supported in all types of charts except pie and donut charts.
A tag cloud highlights keywords in the system based on a configured importance metric. For example, a tag cloud could show top (or bottom) suppliers by invoice count, invoice amounts, and so on.
Example of a Tag Cloud
You can change the attributes of the Tag Cloud by using the Options icon.
Detailed Insights
Oracle Enterprise Command Centers can offer detailed insights into the data through results tables and grids which help you gain insight as quickly as possible. You can then act on it by taking the required action to resolve a process bottleneck or address an exception.
On some results tables and grids you can use the Options icon to compare records or perform other functions.
For record search only, you can control the order of the search results based on the record score in the data set. Data is sorted by "Score" by default. You can override this default order or add more sort options when you configure a dashboard. This ranking is supported only in results tables and grids.
A results table displays 10 records per page by default, and when expanded, it displays 50 records per page.
Grid functionality includes the following:
Runtime Sorting: Business users can sort by any attribute displayed at runtime.
Pagination Control and Selection: Pagination control and record selection can be removed from a grid to support additional business use cases for the grid.
Text Formatting: You can change the text style, alignment, size, and color.
Example of a Grid
You can compare records in a results table or grid. The Compare pop-up also allows you to compare among the records view information of attribute values. Attributes are organized into corresponding groups if configured.
Compare pop-up can also have dynamic titles as column headers. An aggregated table displays aggregated metrics in tabular format. The aggregation level is controlled by all dimensions displayed in the table. Examples of aggregated tables include the comparison of the financial information of multiple assets, or the comparison of account balances.
Grid actions can also be accessible from the column headers of the pop-up.
Records in results table and results grid can be exported in a CSV file format. The exported file contains records organized in a tabular structure with attribute keys and attributes names as table headers. The exported file also contains selected refinements on the page and timestamp of export. To Export:
Click Export in runtime options to open a pop-up with export options.
Choose standard or custom delimiter.
Choose the Attributes to export.
Choose the number of records.
Choose if hidden attributes and primary key needs to be included.
Choose if the file needs to be compressed.
Example of an Export Pop-Up Window