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Why concert safety is important
BY JOSEPH KRASSNER
Officials fear that up to forty victims perished in the Oakland fire (LA Times, 2016)
Concert safety has been the subject of recent debate following a fire that killed 36 people at a concert in Oakland, California. While some may have perceived this tragedy as unavoidable, there were safety precautions that could have been implemented to reduce the number of fatalities. Concert safety is something that should not only be a required by law, but also strictly enforced in order to reduce the number of fatal accidents at concerts.
Even though many initial safety hazards are easy to spot, most concert-goers do not focus on their safety while enjoying themselves. According to the Los Angeles Times, former residents of the warehouse where the Oakland concert fire occurred stated that the building lacked sprinklers and that the stairs were made of wooden pallets that could have fueled the fire. In addition, fire fighters heard no alarms of smoke detections while trying to contain the fire. This concert had numerous ominous signs that should have warned people to be more cautious.
Many still choose to attend particular concerts even if they are aware of the hazards they might encounter. In 2011, the temporary roof structure at the Indiana State Fair collapsed during a concert, killing seven and injuring over fifty people. While concert-goers were not aware of the poor construction of the temporary roof, people reported that they were aware of the extreme winds that occurred at the time of the collapse. Although the investigation cited faulty roof construction as the cause of the accident, the area was already experiencing very strong pre-thunderstorm winds which, according to videos filming at the time, left the roof violently shuddering. Nonetheless, it is important to note that many such accidents at concerts are in no way the absolute fault of either the concert-goer or the vendor, but a combination of both.
Though the purpose of a concert is not to constantly fret over it, there are tips that concert-goers and vendors alike should consider before a concert. First, according to Steve Adelman, Vice President of the Event Safety Alliance, people attending a concert should always consider their exits in case of an emergency whether the concert is indoors or outdoors. In the case of the Oakland concert, there was only one exit out of the building which was quickly overcrowded during the chaos and later engulfed in flames. Second, the Los Angeles County Fire Department after the Oakland fire suggested that people who attend entertainment venues should consider looking around the building where an event is hosted. In the case of the Oakland fire, while people were attempting to evacuate, the roof collapsed and trapped many who were still inside. The idea is that, as concert-goers that willingly pay to attend these concerts, we cannot always rely on vendors and their security to keep us safe in case of an emergency, so we have to hold some responsibility for our own safety.
Vendors, however, are as — if not more — responsible for enforcing safety as the concert-goer. While the job of the vendor is to host the event, they also responsible for making sure that if a problem occurs, it is attended to immediately. In Cincinnati, 11 people were killed in stampede that erupted before the start of a 1979 concert by the band The Who. While there were multiple factors that lead to the disaster, two factors in particular reflect a lack of proper incite and preparation by the vendor: a lack of attention directed towards ticket sales and entrances. According to local news stations that reported the incident at the time, approximately 80% of tickets were general admission tickets that were first-come first-serve. This led to a large crowd of thousands that vendors and workers at the event were not prepared for. In addition, the doors were opened at their designated time which witnesses reported made the crowd increasingly agitated and impatient. Even before the crowd became visibly impatient, security measures should have placed in order to minimize chaos. However, tragedies like these tend to bring change among people who sympathize with for those who died. After the tragedy, Cincinnati passed a law banning general admission seating for events with more than 3,000 people for over twenty years before reluctantly lifting the ban and replacing it with lighter regulations.
Though progress is being made in terms of creating a safer atmosphere in concerts, many recent concerts have seen record numbers in attendance, like the 2014 George Strait concert which set the record for the largest indoor concert with over 100,000 attendees. With extreme numbers on the rise, people who go to concerts should be more aware of possible safety concerns that could be present. While people can continue to blame and sue vendors for lack of proper safety, ultimately people attending must also be cognizant of their own safety in a specific concert and act accordingly.
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POLICE investigating the tragic death of three teenagers in a St Patrick's Day party "crush" are questioning the owner of the hotel.
Michael McElhatton, 52, the hotel owner, was one of the two men arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after the horror incident outside the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, his spokeswoman confirmed.
It is understood the other suspect, 40, is a member of the popular nightspot's door staff.
The men continue to be quizzed by investigators at Dungannon Police Station this morning.
Students Lauren Bullock, 17, Connor Currie, 16, and Morgan Barnard, 17, all from the Dungannon area, died from injuries received in the queue for the annual party.
CCTV indicated that up to 400 people had been in the car park or were queuing before the tragedy, and detectives said it was fortunate more were not killed.
PSNI Det Chief Supt Raymond Murray said last night: "This is an event that should have been a celebration and it has turned into every parent's worst nightmare.
A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) statement on Tuesday evening said: "Detectives from PSNI major investigation team investigating the deaths of three teenagers at the Greenvale Hotel in Cookstown on Saint Patrick's Day have arrested two men aged 52 and 40 earlier today, Tuesday 19 March, on suspicion of manslaughter.
Buses let youngsters off outside the popular nightspot before the disaster happened at the external doors of the function room.
Det Chief Supt Murray said there was an extended "crush situation" outside one of the doors.
He praised those in the crowd who worked hard to get distressed party-goers out when others were falling on top of them.
The PSNI said they hoped to track down hundreds of witnesses to the incident.
Cops have identified 160 people who were outside the hotel and appealed for more to come forward — insisting youngsters will not face police action for being under age if they make themselves known.
Yesterday, tearful well-wishers embraced tightly after laying flowers at a shrine to the dead beside a police cordon.
Eyewitness Eboney Johnston, 16, recalled: "People just started to fall, but as one person fell another went down.
"As a person went to lift another person up, they were pushing and shoving and another person would fall, which caused a build up of everybody lying there."
Meanwhile, Morgan's gran Betsy Martin is pleading for anyone with any information to come forward.


Are mobiles in retail banking chaos or best practice?
The markets of the Asia Pacific region have been amongst the leaders in the adoption of the mobile phone. Andpropelled by the advent of the smartphone and 'app', the mobile handset has assumed a major role in the lifestyle of all segments of society.
Across the global market, the GSMA projects that the number of unique mobile phone subscribers on the planet will grow to 3.9 billion (or 53% of the population) by 2017. As a result, the provision of a mobile banking service has become a strategic imperative for the World's retail bankers.
However, it is arguable that whilst significant early progress has been made by innovative, committed, and well resourced institutions, the overall development of mobile banking across the World to date has been chaotic. Many players have often followed their market intuition rather than a structured and researched approach.
While at the opposite end of the scale, many others havebeen constrained by a lack of resources or management commitment.
Developments to date have placed great emphasis on the provision of a broad range of increasingly sophisticated payment features, and experience suggests that this has benefited both customers and the respective banks. Beyond this, leading players like OCBC have also provided high quality personal financial management tools and CRM links that drive one-to-one marketing,adding value for the customer and promoting the development of relationships.
In New Zealand, ASB has created a 'branch' within Facebook emulating both the ability to chat to bank staff and the opening hours normally associated with bricks-and-mortar! However, the propositions of many other banks have yet to provide features that support relationship development, offer added-value lifestyle services, or link with social media.
So are there some basic groundrules that offer a more orderly approach to the development of mobile banking services? At the outset, planned features must strike a balance between meeting the expectations of the target customer segments, and providing benefits for the bank, including the development of functionality that offers proven and quantifiable operational advantages.
The overall specification of the proposition must be competitive. And functionality should be considered that positively differentiates the bank's service, including brand support and added value features eg: the increasingly popular shopper service.
Imagery, corporate messages, and navigation aids at the user interface must be coordinated across all forms of customer activated e-channels, from mobiles to ATMs. It is also necessary to ensure that the level of resources dedicated to the mobile programme is reasonable when compared with the total investment available for the bank's entire channel strategy.
These few items are basic but necessary professional disciplines!
Much has been achieved and solutions seem to carry a degree of operational robustness that will sustain customer confidence and commitment. Moreover, the industry has built a considerable pool of experience which, when tempered with a professional assessment of market needs and other business issues, provides valuable guidance to new and developing players.
The introduction of 4G by the telecommunications sector, otherwise known as Long Term Evolution (LTE), will offer a further quantum increase in data handling capacity. Such are the limitless possibilities now unfolding for the role of the mobile phone in retail financial services that any failure to apply strong professional disciplineswill inevitably lead tomisplaced investment and sub-optimal returns from the bank's development effort.
Best practice must triumph over chaos!
David Cavell is a delivery channel consultant and author of the Retail Banking Research Ltd report "Self ServiceBanking: Best Practice and Case Studies", published in August 2011. He is one of the speakers at the ATMIA 2011 event last 22-23rd Nov 2011.


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Two monster black holes active in nearby galaxy
Posted by EarthSky in Space | June 13, 2011
A second supersized black hole has been discovered at the heart of a nearby galaxy – Markarian 739 – already known to be sporting one.
A study using NASA's Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersized black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy, already known to be sporting one. The galaxy – Markarian 739 or NGC 3758 – lies 425 million light-years away toward the constellation Leo. Only about 11,000 light-years separate the two cores, each of which contains a black hole gorging on infalling gas. The study will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The animation below begins with a visible light view of Markarian 739 and transitions into an artistic rendering of the two black holes.
Michael Koss, the study's lead author at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland in College Park (UMCP), said:
At the hearts of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole weighing millions of times the sun's mass. Some of them radiate billions of times as much energy as the sun.
Astronomers refer to galaxy centers exhibiting such intense emission as active galactic nuclei (AGN). Yet as common as monster black holes are, only about one percent of them are currently powerful AGN. Binary AGN are rarer still: Markarian 739 is only the second identified within half a billion light-years.
Many scientists think that disruptive events like galaxy collisions trigger galactic nuclei to switch on by sending large amounts of gas toward the black hole. As the gas spirals inward, it becomes extremely hot and radiates huge amounts of energy.
Viewed in visible light, Markarian 739 resembles a smiling face, with a pair of bright cores underscored by an arcing spiral arm. The object is really a pair of merging galaxies. Data from Swift and Chandra reveal the western core (right) to be a previously unknown AGN; past studies already had identified an AGN in the eastern core. The two supermassive black holes are separated by about 11,000 light-years. The galaxy is 425 million light-years away. Image Credit: SDSS
Since 2004, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) aboard Swift has been mapping high-energy X-ray sources all around the sky. The survey is sensitive to AGN up to 650 million light-years away, and has uncovered dozens of previously unrecognized systems. Follow-up studies by Koss and colleagues published in 2010 reveal that about a quarter of the Swift BAT AGN were either interacting or in close pairs, with perhaps 60 percent of them poised to merge in another billion years.
Coauthor Richard Mushotzky, professor of astronomy at UMCP, said:
If two galaxies collide and each possesses a supermassive black hole, there should be times when both black holes switch on as AGN. We weren't seeing many double AGN, so we turned to Chandra for help.
Swift's BAT instrument is scanning one-tenth of the sky at any given moment, its X-ray survey growing more sensitive every year as its exposure increases. Where Swift's BAT provided a wide-angle view, the X-ray telescope aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory acted like a zoom lens and resolved details a hundred times smaller.
A wider view of Markarian 739. Image Credit: SDSS
For decades, astronomers have known that the eastern (left) nucleus of Markarian 739 contains a black hole that is actively accreting matter and generating prodigious energy. The Chandra study shows that its western (right) neighbor is, too. This makes the galaxy one of the nearest and clearest cases of a binary AGN.
The distance separating the two black holes is about a third of the distance separating the solar system from the center of our own galaxy. The dual AGN of Markarian 739 is the second-closest known, both in terms of distance from one another and distance from Earth. However, another galaxy known as NGC 6240 holds both records.
How did the second AGN remain hidden for so long? Co-author Sylvain Veilleux, a professor of astronomy at UMCP, said:
Markarian 739 West shows no evidence of being an AGN in visible, ultraviolet and radio observations. This highlights the critical importance of high-resolution observations at high X-ray energies in locating binary AGN.
Summary: Astronomers have found a second supersized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy already known to have one. The galaxy – Markarian 739 or NGC 3758 – lies 425 million light-years away toward the constellation Leo. The study, which used NASA's Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, will appear in a forthcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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An Asturian delegation will show in 'WindEurope Offshore Copenhagen 2019' the capabilities of the region in the field of energy at sea
Asturias will have a very prominent presence in 'WindEurope Offshore 2019', the cutting-edge international conference for the offshore wind industry and where our region will be shown as an integral partner for investments in the offshore wind sector.
IDEPA – Invest in Asturias will be present at the conference, which will be held in Copenhagen from 26th. to 28th. November, as a part of the Asturian institutional delegation. The presence will be organized by Asturex and will include the Ports of Gijón and Avilés, the technological centre IDONIAL and a representation of Asturian companies working for the offshore wind sector.
Offshore wind energy is one of the most promising energy sources of the coming decades. Very much conditioned today by the depth of the sea, offshore wind is already a reality in northern Europe and aspires to be competitive in the future in areas with deeper waters, such as Spain or the United States.
Knowing the trends in the offshore industry
'WindEurope Offshore 2019' is the ideal framework for our companies to get to know the most relevant trends in the industry and establish contacts with their peers, potential customers and collaborators.
Among the companies attending the Europe's flagship offshore wind event are Oxiplant, Mecainsa, Proinmec, Hierros Marcelino Franco, Bezzier, Astilleros Gondán and Ingoal.
In addition, the startups Pixelshub, Seerstems, Ingeniacity and SOAR Ingeniería will also be present through the Centro Europeo de Empresas e Innovación del Principado de Asturias (BIC Asturias).
Offshore wind energy in Spain
In addition to being a benchmark in onshore wind energy, Spain has a very powerful naval and civil engineering industry with which to underpin the development of offshore wind technology, according to Juan Virgilio Márquez, general manager of the Spanish Wind Energy Association (AEE).
"The presence of Spanish industry in offshore wind is indisputable, having already positioned itself as one of the main hubs of knowledge and production in the international market. To date, the history of offshore wind in Spain has been mainly a history of industrial commitment and innovation," says Márquez.
RIS3 and marine renewable energies in Asturias
The Government of Asturias has included the activity of marine renewable energies in its regional Research and Innovation Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3) given the very favourable characteristics of the region for its present and future development.
In fact, many Asturian companies are already providing services and products in the supply chain of marine renewable energy, developing both research, development and innovation and manufacturing of components, mainly in the field of offshore energy.
Several of these companies will be present in 'WindEurope Offshore 2019'.
Infrastructure to support the offshore industry in Asturias
The Asturian Energy Foundation (FAEN) has developed the study of the current and potential capacities of offshore industry in Asturias, which highlights several unique infrastructures with which the region aspires to be at the forefront of this industry.
Among these infrastructures, the FAEN cites the seaports with the capacity to be the base for the operation and maintenance of offshore plants, as well as the industrial ports of Gijón and Avilés, strategically located (at just some forty hours from the North Sea) and with everything necessary to house manufacturing operations, assembly and supply of components and equipment.
Also the marked presence in Asturias of companies belonging to the metal, energy and naval sector weaves an industrial fabric with experience and material and human capacities to contribute solutions to the supply chain of marine energy on a worldwide level.
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Filmed by Grammy-nominated director Paul Dugdale, Ghost Stories Live 2014 documents the band's unique performance of the Ghost Stories album to a small handful of fans in March 2014, two months prior to the album's release. Shot in a custom-built amphitheatre at Sony Studios, Los Angeles, the ground-breaking production sets the band's performance against stunning 360-degree and overhead imagery.
Said Chris Martin: "The Ghost Stories show at Sony Studios was a very special moment for our band. The magic theatre built by our incredible crew with the 360 screens was literally a dream come true. And it was the first time anyone outside of our studio had heard the new songs. This film is basically our original vision for the Ghost Stories album."
Parts of the performance were first broadcast in May 2014 as a Coldplay TV Special by major broadcasters around the world, including NBC in the US and Sky Arts in the UK (where the film has already been nominated for Best Live Coverage at this year's UK Music Video Awards). But Ghost Stories Live 2014 is the first time that the performance has been sequenced as originally conceived: a visual representation of the Ghost Stories album.
The release also contains an exclusive Ghost Stories live album, with audio recorded at the band's rapturously-received shows in London, Sydney, Paris, Cologne, New York and Los Angeles between April and July 2014.
The package is completed by eight music videos from the Ghost Stories era, including two never-before-seen films for B-sides All Your Friends and Ghost Story plus the exclusive Extended Director's Cut of the Magic video (with a brand new cameo from Peter Fonda).
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Good stuff spanners. I use the "basic grid" from mytargets.com when zeroing / checking zero as I find the red centre better than the grey scale. Just a personal preference I guess.
I like the Drill Dot, Crosshairs and Grid Square center.
Thank you, Spanners...I have a little job to do with my Anshutz...scope not scoping as I would like hares like it out though!!
I put together some targets witha mate of mine a little while ago. I intended to use them in a small game target shoot as part of the NZDA branch i am invovled in. As turned out the hassle involved in changing the rules to a different target was too much for me to press on with it.
So have a look and have fun with them. I have a magpie target as well but itis a bit large a file to upload to the forum.
We initially did them up as an alternative target to the NZDA HUNTS rabbit target (which is pretty much useless IMO). After we did them up though we started looking at them as being great for a varmint type competition shoot. So for rimfire 25m rabbit and magpie targets, 50m possum and cat targets. With the centrefires you could use any of the targets out to any distance you wanted!
Can we sticky this thread please, saves searching for it each time.
Lol. Got a brand new 308 to sight in today. Not mine unfortunatly.
Have 2 to check near future ,that grid I can leave the tap measure at home they nearly 1" squares.
How did that go VC?


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MaidenHead Country Lodge is a 4 star service accommodation in Queenstown. The guest house has thirteen luxury rooms all with en-suite bathrooms, and a two bedroom self catering fully equipped unit. All the rooms have views of the surrounding mountains and the beautiful garden, where you can watch the fellow deer's grazing and other small farm animals and birds.
Choose between luxury, double, standard, twin or the self-catering unit which has two bedrooms, an open plan kitchenette, washing machine, fridge, microwave, one lounge suite with coffee table and four seater dinning table. All rooms have mini honesty bar, fridge, and TV with DSTV and MNET, en-suite bath/shower, own entrance, and face the surrounding mountains and spectacular views of the CDB. The exquisitively enthinic aforo decorated guests rooms are at the front and rear of the property. Privacy, relaxed and unobtrusive service is what the Lodge offers - an escape from the city to a country style setting.
Located near the town hall at the centre of Queenstown, the Hexagon was built as a laager to which British subjects would flee in times of trouble during the 1800s. Although it never achieved its purpose, the hexagon has survived. Nowadays, its beautiful garden and a fountain continues to attract locals.
The luxurious Queens Casino and Hotel is one of the top nightlife spots in Queenstown. With a 32 room hotel, great facilities, restaurant and bar, the casino is an all in one entertainment spot.
Built in 1905, Bongolo Dam is wildely utilised for water sports such as yachting, power boating, water skiing and wind surfing. The name Bongolo is derived from the Xhosa word 'mbongolo' meaning donkey, as these animals were used extensively in the construction of the dam.
In 1921, British company the North British Locomotive Co built a locomotive that was used to pull the Royal Train when King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and Princesses, Alice and Margaret visited Queenstown in 1947. The steam locomotive has been restored to its former glory, and is currently located at the Queens Casino.
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Newspapers and technology aren't exactly best friends.
This house ad showed up on the International Herald Tribune's home page today. That's right, the IHT seems to believe its target audience is people who still use paper diaries to stay organized.
So what kind of damage would one of these bad boys do to a jet-setting executive's wallet? A cool $49.95. Plus shipping. But wait! You can have it monogrammed! So that makes it alright.
The most worrisome part of all this is that the IHT may be right and yes, in fact, the people reading one of the best newspapers in the world are the kind of troglodytes that still handle their appointments on paper. With monograms.


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1. Parking around Amsterdam Hostel Orfeo will cost you around € 5 per hour.
2. We recommend using the Park and Ride (P+R) parking facilities at Olympisch Stadion 44. This will only cost € 8 a day, and you also get free public transportation tickets to continue your visit using metro, tram or bus connections. You can only park your car there for three days, so after three days, you can take your car from the parking facilities, wait outside for a few minutes and then go back inside. You will have there more days of parking plus the tickets.
3. To get to Amsterdam Hostel Orfeo from the Olympic stadium, just take tram # 16 or 24 and get off at the Weteringschans. Go over the bridge, turn left on the roundabout and take Weteringschansstraat. Walk 400m and turn right on the third ally street, you will find Amsterdam Hostel Orfeo at 12-14 Leidsekruisstraat.


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Bois-Arnault es una localidad y comuna francesa situada en la región de Normandía, departamento de Eure, en el distrito de Évreux y cantón de Rugles.

Demografía

Historia
El pueblo fue sido creado a raíz de que, por parte del tercer hijo de Arnaut apodado "Arnault du Bois", empezó a cultivar por primera vez en la zona las tierras eriales del bosque de Breteuil en 1120.

Véase también
Comunas de Eure
Antiguas comunas de Eure

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Bois-Arnault en el sitio web del Institut géographique national (en francés)
 Bois-Arnault en el sitio web del INSEE (en francés)
 Bois-Arnault en el sitio web de Quid (en francés)
 Situación de Bois-Arnault en un mapa de Francia y de comunas limítrofes  (en francés)
 Plano de Bois-Arnault en Mapquest (en inglés)
 Ministerio del Interior de Francia - Resultados de las elecciones municipales (en francés)
Web oficial de la Communauté de communes du canton de Rougles

Localidades de Eure

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Deloitte benefits from this partnership by providing an opportunity for a talented member of their team to gain both corporate and non-profit skills whilst staying under Deloitte's umbrella. The personal and professional development the Deloitte Adara Ambassador receives while on secondment ultimately benefits the firm when they return. We cannot thank Deloitte enough for their support. They truly are an organisation prepared to put substantial resources into doing the right thing for their staff, and for people in need.
MINTER ELLISON SECONDMENT PROGRAMME
Minter Ellison is one of the largest Australian-based corporate law firms. It is an organisation with a genuine commitment to creating social change through its many pro bono programmes. In 2014, Minter Ellison partnered with Adara to create the Minter Ellison Ambassador programme, which provides the Adara Group with a top-tier lawyer on secondment for six to nine months of each year. The Minter Ellison Ambassador works in our Sydney office alongside Susan Burns, our wonderful General Counsel. They work on both the non-profit and the business sides of Adara, and have the opportunity to travel to project site in either Nepal or Uganda.
Minter Ellison has also provided us with generous pro bono legal advice from a range of specialists at the firm. With so many different entities, our legal and compliance issues are complex. Working with a top-tier firm such as Minter Ellison has made a big difference to our operations, and it has provided firsthand specialised experience in a business for purpose and not-for-profit for their lawyers. We cannot thank Minter Ellison enough for its support.
MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME
Macquarie University internship programme - every semester, Macquarie University provide Adara Development (Australia) with an intern for three months who works with the communications and partnerships team. This programme has been running since September 2009 and we are very grateful for this support.
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AND THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
We also have a long standing partnership with the Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington. Expert neonatologists visit projects in Uganda to provide skills training to then intensive care unit (NICU) staff. In addition, data from the NICU at Kiwoko Hospital has been collected for the last four years and is in the process of being analysed. The analyses from this data will provide us with critical information for the future direction of our operations in Uganda.
'I feel so lucky to have experienced both the old and the new NICU in Kiwoko, and both have left (and will continue to leave) such a lasting impression on my life. The staff and patients at Kiwoko Hospital are nothing short of inspirational and the work being done is truly making a difference.'
Dr. Maneesh Batra, Neonatologist Seattle Children's Hospital
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Георгий Гияевич Забедашвили (1 января 1996) — российский футболист, защитник.

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Q: Entrywise addition of two double arrays using AVX I need a function to entrywise add the elements of two double arrays and store the result in a third array. Currently I use (simplified)
void add( double* result, const double* a, const double* b, size_t size) {
    memcpy(result, a, size*sizeof(double));
    for(size_t i = 0; i < size; ++i) {
        result[i] += b[i];
    }
}

As far as I know the memcpy function uses AVX. In order to improve the performance I would like to also enforce AVX use for the addition. This should be one of the most basic examples for AVX, however I couldn't find any description how to do this in C/C++. I would like to avoid the use of external libraries if possible.

A: You'll need something like this, assuming AVX-512:
void add( double* result, const double* a, const double* b, size_t size)
{
    size_t i = 0;
    // Note we are doing as many blocks of 8 as we can.  If the size is not divisible by 8
    // then we will have some left over that will then be performed serially.
    // AVX-512 loop
    for( ; i < (size & ~0x7); i += 8)
    {
        const __m512d kA8   = _mm512_load_pd( &a[i] );
        const __m512d kB8   = _mm512_load_pd( &b[i] );

        const __m512d kRes = _mm512_add_pd( kA8, kB8 );
        _mm512_stream_pd( &res[i], kRes );
    }

    // AVX loop
    for ( ; i < (size & ~0x3); i += 4 )
    {
        const __m256d kA4   = _mm256_load_pd( &a[i] );
        const __m256d kB4   = _mm256_load_pd( &b[i] );

        const __m256d kRes = _mm256_add_pd( kA4, kB4 );
        _mm256_stream_pd( &res[i], kRes );
    }

    // SSE2 loop
    for ( ; i < (size & ~0x1); i += 2 )
    {
        const __m128d kA2   = _mm_load_pd( &a[i] );
        const __m128d kB2   = _mm_load_pd( &b[i] );

        const __m128d kRes = _mm_add_pd( kA2, kB2 );
        _mm_stream_pd( &res[i], kRes );
    }

    // Serial loop
    for( ; i < size; i++ )
    {
        result[i] = a[i] + b[i];
    }
}

(Though be warned I've just thrown that together off the top of my head).
Something to note form the above code is that I essentially process the remaining values using the next best parallel code.  Primarily this is for illustration of the 3 possible ways you could do it parallely.  The loops will work perfectly well on their own.  For example if you can't support AVX-512 then you'd jump straight to the AVX loop.  If you can't support AVX even then if you jump straight to the SSE2 loop then you'll be using the most performant loop that your hardware can support.
For best performance your arrays should be aligned to the relevant size used in the load.  So for AVX-512 you would want 512-bit of 64 byte alignment. For AVX, 256-bit or 32 byte alignment. For SSE2 128-bit or 16 byte alignment.  If you use 64 byte alignment for all your arrays then you will always have good alignment, though you may want to go for 128 byte alignment to ease moving over to AVX-1024 when that appears ;)

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Q: Google Map Integration I want to create a Interactive google map as per http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/map.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E93932 .. I just wanna ask if I can do that using wordpress plugin, or can I have that kind of fucntionality even without using wordpress plugin? but how?..
here are the details..
any tip please.. do I have to do to manually or there is an easy way for me  to be able to do that.. please help me :)

A: I'm not sure to understand what you want here...
You want something like yelp on the right? ( here )
That will update the website when you change your map boundaries?
Edit: I think you should look at this plugin . Is it this?


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Q: how to make arrays from txt file C I got text file with information: (100;200;first).Can anybody tell me how to seperate this information into three arrays: Min=100,Max=200 and Name=first. I have tried this whith
c=getc(inp);
i=atoi(szinput);
but its read 10 for first time and 00 for second... and so on in loop
c saves 10 not 1, so i cant get the right information for arrays...
So the array Min stores 1000 not 100
Thanks.

A: use scanf or fscanf like this:
scanf("(%d;%d;%[^)])",&min,&max,str);

A: Here is a cool, simple tutorial on how to do that.
Please note that you'll need to adapt the example a little bit, but that should not be too difficult.
Also you could try to find a library that does the job, I'm sure there are a lot of such libraries for C :)

A: You could do something like the following
FILE *file;
char readBuffer[40];
int c;
file = fopen("your_file","r");
while ((c=getc(file))!= EOF)
{
    strcat(readBuffer, c);
    if( (char) c == ';')
  //this is the delimiter. Your min, max, name code goes here

}
   fclose(file);

A: Use strtok():
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main() {
  char input[] = "100;200;first";
  char name[10];
  int min, max;

  char* result = NULL;
  char delims[] = ";";

  result = strtok(input, delims);
  // atoi() converts ascii to integer.
  min = atoi(result);
  result = strtok(NULL, delims);
  max = atoi(result);
  result = strtok(NULL, delims);
  strcpy(name, result);
  printf("Min=%d, Max=%d, Name=%s\n", min, max, name);
}

Output:
Min=100, Max=200, Name=first


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Haney Foundation Series
Frank Furness
Release Date: 1st May 2018
34 color, 84 b/w illus.
Series Haney Foundation Series
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Architecture in the Age of the Great Machines
George E. Thomas
Alan Hess
A sweeping assessment of the entire career of Frank Furness that features more than one hundred illustrations, George E. Thomas's book argues that modern American architecture, in design and genealogy, is rooted in the industrial culture of Philadelphia and the office of Frank Furness.
Frank Furness (1839-1912) has remained a curiosity to architectural historians and critics, somewhere between an icon and an enigma, whose importance and impact have yet to be properly evaluated or appreciated. To some, his work pushed pattern and proportion to extremes, undermining or forcing together the historic styles he referenced in such eclectic buildings as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania Library. To others, he was merely a regional mannerist creating an eccentric personal style that had little resonance and modest influence on the future of architecture. By placing Furness in the industrial culture that supported his work, George Thomas finds a cutting-edge revolutionary who launched the beginnings of modern design, played a key part in its evolution, and whose strategies continue to affect the built world.
In his sweeping reassessment of Furness as an architect of the machine age, Thomas grounds him in Philadelphia, a city led by engineers, industrialists, and businessmen who commissioned the buildings that extended modern design to Chicago, Glasgow, and Berlin. Thomas examines the multiple facets of Victorian Philadelphia's modernity, looking to its eager embrace of innovations in engineering, transportation, technology, and building, and argues that Furness, working for a particular cohort of clients, played a central role in shaping this context. His analyses of the innovative planning, formal, and structural qualities of Furness's major buildings identifies their designs as initiators of a narrative that leads to such more obviously modern figures as Louis Sullivan, William Price, Frank Lloyd Wright and eventually, the architects of the Bauhaus.
Misunderstood and reviled in the traditional architectural centers of New York and Boston, Furness's projects, commissioned by the progressive industrialists of the new machine age, intentionally broke with the historical styles of the past to work in a modern way—from utilizing principles based on logistical planning to incorporating the new materials of the industrial age. Lavishly illustrated, the book includes more than eighty black-and-white and thirty color photographs that highlight the richness of his work and the originality of his design spanning more than forty years.
Foreword. The American Creativity of Frank Furness
Prologue. A Revolutionary Generation
Chapter 1. "Buildings Out of His Head"
Chapter 2. The Philadelphia Client: Industry and the Future
Chapter 3. Two Competitions: Boston's Trinity Church and Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Chapter 4. Buildings as Machines: The Mature Architect
Epilogue. Sullivan, Price, and Howe
The American Creativity of Frank Furness
As an architectural historian of the American West, I have always been drawn to the exuberance of the region's modern designs that hang from poles, jut out from cliffs, border great highways, and disrupt the narrative of modern architecture as it has been written since the Museum of Modern Art's first exhibit on the International Style in 1932. The West was a region of tremendous growth and innovation in the twentieth century, just as, in the decades following the Civil War, the East had been. It was there, mostly east of the Mississippi River in the realm of the Pennsylvania Railroad, that Frank Furness helped lay the foundation that shapes modern American architecture as we know it today.
What does Frank Furness still mean to us? What were the circumstances that allowed him to see and creatively interpret, free of conventional biases, the forces at work in his day? How did similar approaches devised by other, later architects inspire significant modern architecture after him, even as his own work was largely ignored or misunderstood in the high art and architecture histories? The usual story historians tell about the birth of modern architecture sidetracked Frank Furness long ago. How could they have mistaken such a pivotal figure as a mere curiosity?
Furness grew his modernism not from speculative theories or blue-sky philosophy but from life as the industrial age was creating it all around him. His modern approach was just as much about technical innovations in engineering and construction as it was about the way modern factories and their products were reinventing the lives of people at all levels of society. Baldwin Locomotive Works' thousands of steam engines, manufactured in Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Railroad, headquartered and created in Philadelphia, tied the expansive nation together in a way that transformed both corporate commerce and family vacations. A thriving and democratic American economy was creating wealth, enlarging cities, and creating leisure time. Some of the most influential and culturally transformative companies of his day—the Apple, Microsoft, and Google of those times—were in Philadelphia, and their leaders were Furness's clients. Independent of history and disinterested in European fashion, Furness's Philadelphia was still the spiritual home of Ben Franklin, and quite willing to overthrow old traditions, fashions, or theories for a good reason. This was the modernity that Furness captured in his new architecture.
That pragmatic, reality-based spirit would never disappear from the course of modernism, especially in America; but like Furness's career, it wasn't usually reported in the standard histories. The legions of critics and historians documenting the rise of the Bauhaus in Europe in the 1920s favored the European tradition of high art culture wherein academic theory had to underpin any architecture that was to be considered seriously. By the time New York's Museum of Modern Art spotlighted modern architecture's achievements in the 1932 International Style exhibit, the groundwork had been laid for the story of modernism as the province of an elite avant-garde. Even if these historians had heard of Furness (perhaps from reading the memoirs of Louis Sullivan, his one-time employee), his significance was not recognized. Ensconced in New York, Paris, or London, they were unprepared to see how modern life, in all its phases, had developed in unheralded Philadelphia and how its industrial design, technologies, and values had shaped Furness's designs. Reflecting the multiplying power of the commercial economy, the raw power of technology, and the desires and needs of the popular audience, Furness generated forms and solutions that would usually rile the critics as crude, exaggerated, and (from their educated perspective) tasteless. Later critics would have a similar response.
When modernist historians began to look back to find the roots of modernism, Furness appeared to be a fussy historicist Victorian—exactly what modern architecture was meant to overthrow. George Thomas's text correctly identifies Furness as the very embodiment of his modern times. He drew upon the pistons, the raw combination of forms and functions of locomotive designs, the factory skylights, the towering and emblematic smokestacks, and the energetic commercial districts that were as much a part of the Age of Furness as columns and pediments were part of the Age of Pericles.
Furness's approach, incorporating the new materials and the new technologies of his day and making forms to meet specific purposes, would be repeated again and again in the actual course of modern architecture—as it was built and lived in, not just as it was reported in history books and journals—reflecting the symbiotic relationship between modern architecture and modern society that persisted through the next century. The most remarkable results that appeared in commercial buildings and resorts would rarely be noticed, or praised, by critics and historians following the mainstream narrative. They would often be controversial. Yet they are essential to modernism.
Furness's impact on two of his employees, Louis Sullivan and William Price, demonstrated the immediate revolutionary effect of the way he drew on a real, rather than a theoretically idealized, modern life. Sullivan gave shape to the modern office building, a practical architectural tool that improved commerce by combining new steel frame and elevator technologies to create appealing efficiencies and densities. Like Furness, Sullivan saw an artistic expression in this new way of life. Will Price responded to the way Philadelphia's modern industrial economy created wealth and leisure time for a broad cross section of the public by designing magnificent resorts in Atlantic City, where his Traymore Hotel (1914-1915) unleashed the verticality and ahistoricism of so-called American Vertical Style, which Price's firm called the modern style.
The impact of Furness's clear-eyed look at new conditions continued into the next generation. Frank Lloyd Wright, Sullivan's employee, designed suburban homes to reflect a new, more informal way of living that embraced nature, while opening his plans to include the housewife, breaking down old hierarchies and anticipating the future. The suburbs and their lifestyle were a direct consequence of new interurban rail (and later automobile) transportation systems that reshaped American cities as decentralized, multicentered urban areas that demanded their own new architecture—innovations that would continue into the later twentieth century.
Factories for heavy industry, commerce to disperse consumer goods to a middle-class population, suburban decentralization, automobiles: this was modernity as it was being lived. By reintroducing Furness into the narrative, George Thomas expands the history of modernism to allow us to see architecture today through a new set of landmarks, and forces us to reinterpret many of the old familiar landmarks. We can see the power and creativity this approach brought to modernism in the cities where the industrial culture of Philadelphia moved west along the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In their pragmatism, and their creative embrace of technological advances fueled by commercial wealth and social advances, Detroit, Chicago, and Los Angeles followed in Philadelphia's footsteps.
In Detroit, Albert Kahn's factories were designed as carefully as clockworks, but built on an enormous twentieth-century scale that would inspire the young Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Richard Neutra. As Detroit's vibrant technologies, mass-produced consumer goods, and wealth grew and spread, they created the environment where the modern shopping mall was defined by Victor Gruen, and where Minoru Yamasaki and Eero Saarinen revitalized architecture at midcentury. Los Angeles took modern industry, modern commerce, modern media, and new ways of living to create a multicentered suburban metropolis, its new architecture shaped for automotive living on a mass basis. There, architect Wayne McAllister saw modern life as clearly in the 1930s as had Furness in the 1870s, and was equally unfettered by academic theories when he designed his extraordinary drive-in restaurants. The automobile was now the driving force behind commerce and the shape of the city, as the railroad had been in Furness's time. Automobiles forced a redefinition of urban space to accommodate cars and pedestrians; they demanded a bold architectural scale appropriate to the elongated distance of the commercial strip, and architects responded imaginatively. That scale required an integration of sign and architecture, symbol and meaning that acknowledged architecture's role as a form of urban communication. After 1945, Armét and Davis and other Los Angeles architects would continue this evolution by perfecting the modern coffee shops that served the car-mobile public with startling evocations of the modern age, much as Furness had done in the late nineteenth century in his small commuter rail stations. McAllister would follow Will Price's embrace of an architecture for mass leisure in Atlantic City in the 1910s by designing seminal hotel-casinos in Las Vegas in the 1940s and 1950s.
Like Furness's buildings, these would be either ignored or excoriated by critics as lowbrow. They were seen as undisciplined and exaggerated parodies of the International Style purity that had become mainstream by the mid-twentieth century—or as simulacra of the automobiles that were viewed as wrecking the classic urban downtowns. Outrage was heaped upon Philadelphia architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour when, in Learning from Las Vegas, they dared to acknowledge the profound ideas McAllister introduced in that city. Even well-known architects such as Yamasaki and Saarinen were subjected to similar criticisms. Like Furness, these architects saw the commercial energy and the technological advances of the times, used them to respond to the way the public at large lived, worked, and played—and were vilified or dismissed for it.
By returning Frank Furness to his central position at the birth of modern architecture in America, George Thomas helps us understand the depth of the American roots of modernism. He enables us to see anew a range of building types and interpretations that critics in the intervening years had largely written out of the story: small boathouses as well as monumental rail terminals; branch bank buildings as well as museums and university libraries. High-art critics had dismissed these as commonplace, as not serious, as too commercial, as insufficiently pure in their rendition of architectural theory. They were not the exquisitely spare custom homes, the towering cubic and uninflected skyscrapers, the great temples of high culture that make up the majority of landmarks in the conventional canon of modern buildings, but which remain a tiny portion of the built environment. All of these buildings, whether high culture or popular, need to be part of the story of modernism. All of them are needed as a map for today's architects. Modernism is not one thing, it is many. It is not only minimalist and purist, it is colorful, opulent, ornamented. It is not only exquisitely customized and expensive, but popular and mass produced. It was not just elitist but commercial. It was not just the theoretically pure but the unlimited and exploratory. After all, modern architecture at its heart is an experiment, one that draws on the potency of technology and materials, lifestyles, and imagination.
Creating the very idea of modern architecture required Frank Furness's ability to see culture broadly and with fresh eyes (undoubtedly helped by his family's friendships with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman) and his bulldog determination to pull an entirely new view of architecture from the dynamic and unexpected social and technological forces at work in America after the Civil War. It came from his engagement with—not removal from—those forces. And he certainly did not allow convention, precedent, or elitist taste to blur his view of the raw material of the new culture.
By reclaiming Frank Furness's pivotal role in the development of modern architecture, we can now see the success of that real-world approach in his work, and in the later creative centers of modernity in Atlantic City, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, and Las Vegas. George Thomas reminds us of how many significant turning points occurred when insights into contemporary life, culture, and technology became a springboard for creative design. His modernism—and Frank Furness's—is not merely a theory but a mirror held up to society. We can only wonder what Furness would have done with the forms of the rocket-styled automobile and the transformative imagination of Walt Disney—but the myriad progeny of his works and those of his students attest to the potency of the industrial age that continues to shape our times.
George E. Thomas is a cultural and architectural historian who serves as codirector of the Critical Conservation Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. His books include First Modern: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and, with David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Architectural and Historical Guide to the University of Pennsylvania, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press; and Frank Furness: The Complete Works with Michael Lewis and Jeffrey Cohen. He is also lead author of the Buildings of Philadelphia volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' series Buildings of the United States.
"By returning Frank Furness to his central position at the birth of Modern architecture in America, George Thomas helps us understand the depth of the American roots of Modernism . . . [and] reminds us of how many significant turning points occurred when insights into contemporary life, culture, and technology became a spring board for creative design. His Modernism—and Frank Furness's—is not merely a theory but a mirror held up to society."—Alan Hess, from the Foreword
"Frank Furness's architecture brought together two seemingly opposed realms: one derived from the newly developing industrial machine, the other from nature. There is a fantastical juxtaposition of ferocious hissing, steam-driven piston power coupled with lyrically delicate ornament derived from leaves and stems of plant life (and, almost paradoxically, implanted in stone by the then newly invented steam-powered chisel). George Thomas's book places Furness's architecture in the apocalyptic climax of this moment when nature and industry could be thought of as one organic, dynamic whole."—Turner Brooks, Yale School of Architecture


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Francesco Leonardoni (Venecia, 1654 – Madrid, 1711), fue un pintor barroco italiano establecido en  España donde llegó a desempeñar el cargo de pintor de la reina Mariana de Neoburgo.

Natural de Venecia, tras formarse allí como pintor se vio forzado a abandonar su patria por un «disgusto tan pesado» que tuvo, según decía Antonio Palomino, lo que ha hecho suponer que tuviese algún problema con la justicia de la Serenísima. Tras viajar por distintas ciudades de Europa y pasar por Nápoles, donde habría retratado a Lorenza de la Cerda, hija del VIII duque de Medinaceli, se estableció en Madrid hacia 1680. En junio de 1694, a la muerte de Claudio Coello, fue nombrado pintor de la reina Mariana Neoburgo, cargo que mantuvo en el reinado posterior de Felipe V.

Especializado en la pintura de retratos, muy elogiados por Palomino, en especial los que pintó en miniatura de los reyes, se conoce su autorretrato fechado en 1701 (Museo del Prado), cuyo semblante refleja la descripción que de él dejó Palomino como «hombre de todas maneras grande», por estatura y por grosor, a la vez que de trato apacible y caballeroso. En pintura historiada, menos estimada que sus retratos y falta de dibujo según Ceán Bermúdez, se han perdido las obras pintadas para la desaparecida iglesia de la Virgen de Atocha y la Encarnación que se encontraba en la iglesia de San Jerónimo el Real, así como los Desposorios de la Virgen y la Muerte de san José mencionados por Antonio Ponz en la capilla de San José de la iglesia del convento de Santo Tomás, cuadros de grandes dimensiones por los que cobró 5400 reales el 6 de enero de 1691, restando únicamente la Transfiguración del retablo mayor de la iglesia del Salvador de Leganés, fechada en 1702, y las pinturas de los retablos colaterales del mismo templo, en las que se han visto influencias de Luca Giordano, con quien había coincidido trabajando en el Monasterio de Guadalupe.

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Bibliografía

 Rebollar Antúnez, Alba, «El colegio dominico de Atocha en Madrid. Una propuesta para su reconstrucción», Boletín de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de la Purísima Concepción, Valladolid (2012), 47, pp. 67-92.
 Urrea Fernández, Jesús, «Pintura italiana en la corte de España durante la primera mitad del siglo XVIII», VV. AA., El arte del siglo de las luces, Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2010, ISBN 984-8109-4133-4

Enlaces externos
Biografía en la enciclopedia en línea del Museo del Prado.

Pintores de Italia del siglo XVII
Pintores de España del siglo XVII
Pintores de España del siglo XVIII
Nacidos en Venecia
Fallecidos en Madrid


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Debating is knowledge sport. If you have seen the film, The Great Debaters based on the life of Melvin B. Tolson, you can realize that debating can lead to social change too. Have you ever debated an issue anywhere – in high school or the local drinking hole? If you are a serious debater, do you think these debate websites can help you sharpen your edge? Let us know. We love debating in the comments.
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UCC to award Nana Akufo-Addo doctorate degree amid Free SHS
Editorial Staff May 21, 2021
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) Saturday, May 29, 2021, will honour President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo a doctorate degree for his contribution to the education sector and introducing the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) program.
This comes after a letter to the Ministry of Education signed on behalf of the Secretary to the President, Mercy Debrah-Karikari and sighted by EducationWeb.com.gh accepted conferment of the Honorary Degree.
"With reference to your correspondence No. DA 462/471/01 dated 30th April, 2021, bearing on the above subject matter, I write to inform you that the President of the Republic has accepted the decision by the Council of the University of Cape Coast to confer on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership (Honoris Causa) at a Special Congregation to be held on Saturday, 29th May, 2021 at 10 am at the University of Cape Coast," the letter stated.
The Nana Akufo-Addo led government in September 2017 introduced the Free SHS policy to enable candidates who become succesful at the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) to access secondary education for free.
In a related development, immediate past Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, will be honoured with a doctorate degree by the University of Education, (UEW) for his support at the Ministry of Education.
READ ALSO: 2021 Private BECE results: WAEC cautions of results upgrade
UEW in a blog post sighted by EducationWeb.com.gh said the special congregation ceremony for the award of honorary doctorate degree will take place at Jophus Anamuah-Mensah Conference Centre, North Campus, Winneba.
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Meeting Giant Tortoises on Curieuse Island
ByAmy July 23, 2019 July 18, 2020
Last Updated on July 18, 2020 by Amy
We've been cruising around Seychelles, checking out the islands while having two groups of friends visit: Vishnu, Frido, and the three-year-old Ranju; and Kyle and Lauren. We'd already seen the coco de mer palm tree at Vallee de Mai in Praslin, and now it was time to see another endemic species: the Aldabra giant tortoise.
About Giant Tortoises
Curieuse Island
Visiting Curieuse Island
Park Fees at Curieuse Island
Tortoises Everywhere!
Hiking to Anse St Jose
Anse St Jose
There are only two locations in the world where there are any more giant tortoises; Seychelles and Galapagos. It's actually a very sad statement about humankind's influence on nature; giant tortoises once roamed all over the world but were hunted to extinction. Giant tortoises can float with their heads up and can go for six months without food or water, meaning it's likely that giant tortoises spread around the world by oceanic dispersal. Unfortunately, their ability to go without food for long periods of time meant they were taken on ships out to sea and kept for the sailors to ear, exterminating them in nearly worldwide.
When conservation effects were attempted, tortoises were only found in Seychelles in the Aldabra atoll, way to the south. Tortoises were brought back up to the inner islands and repopulated.
David and I had already seen giant tortoises when we visited the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz, Galapagos.
The island itself has an interesting history as well. Originally it was simply used to extricate resources, like the tortoises and coco de mer trees. This resulted in a fire that wiped out all the natural trees on the island and pretty well desiccated it. In 1829 the island was set up as a leper colony, which was in operation until 1965. Another fire in the 60s led to the government taking over, and from there conservation efforts took place. The area around the island was declared a marine park, and the tortoises were reintroduced, as well as a breeding program developed.
Starry Horizons at Curieuse Island.
We were visiting on our own boat, but most people do not visit that way. Crewed charter boats and day-trippers from Praslin get dropped off in La Raie Bay on the east side. Then, they take the walk around to Anse St Jose* where a bbq lunch and their boat awaits them! We didn't provide that kind of service for our friends (sucks for them) as we left Starry Horizons in La Raie and made the trek together. While they didn't get a bbq picnic lunch they got the delight of our company!
Upon arriving at the beach in La Raie, there's a picnic table where a couple of guys take your money and give you a receipt. The cost is 200 SCR per person, roughly $15 USD.
This is no petting zoo! Just behind the bushes is a wide grassy area where the tortoises are roaming free (although if you look closely you'll probably see some tortoises hiding in the bushes). The tortoises usually are just sitting there like bumps on a log eating grass, but sometimes, if properly motivated, they lift their bodies clear off the ground and stride around standing tall…they look like dinosaurs!
Red fody birds running around with the tortoises.
Our first trip, the guy taking our money pointed to another local guy and said: "he'll show you which leaves to pick". The official rule may be that you aren't supposed to feed them, but it's sure not being enforced.
There are a few buildings near the beach, and one is the tortoise nursery. In there, baby tortoises are running around in little pens, and they are flippin adorable.
There's a 2 km hike around the edge of the island to get from La Raie to Anse St Jose. There are a few small hills to get over, but a majority of it is actually down in the mangroves. An artificial breakwater protects the mangroves to make a shallow bay, inaccessible by boats. At one point, a breeding program for sea turtles was attempted here, but for whatever reason, it was not successful. However, baby lemon sharks come into the mangrove bay to grow and feed. There are also TONS of crabs of all different varieties.
Baby lemon shark.
How many fiddler crabs can you spot?
A red, white, and blue crab! Spotted just after 4th of July.
Anse St Jose is the site of the former leper colony. There are a lot of ruins, many of which are now being used for the volunteers from GVI. And let me just say, the buildings the volunteers are living in are very….rustic. However, the doctor's house is now set up as a museum. It gave a lot of the history of the island and a bit of information about the coco de mer that we hadn't learned at Vallee de Mai.
On our second visit, we were surprised to see a tortoise hanging out just off the trail. Most of the tortoises are around La Raie, and we hadn't seen any on our first visit. While we checked out the museum, the tortoise even made his way over to the picnic gazebo.
BBQ picnic area!
At the museum.
David and Ranju playing on the second floor of the doctor's house.
Tortoise by Anse Jose.
Ruins at Anse Jose.
Kyle and Lauren.
*it's French, so it's pronounced Joe-say
Post Tags: #hiking#history#indian ocean#seychelles#tortoises#wildlife
Vallée de Mai, Endemic Species in Seychelles
Hiking the Copolia Trail in Mahe, Seychelles
What an incredible experience! I'm such a wildlife lover this would be a dream trip for me 🙂
It is definitely a treat!
I saw the giant tortoises in the Galapagos but didn't know they were in other places. I'm sorry that their feeding wasn't more organized and monitored.
Yes, these are the only two places in the world.
Patri says:
What a unique experience with such amazing creatures!
Yes it was! I love these types of experiences.
OMG, tortoises are such fascinating animals. I used to have a tiny waterturtle when I was a kid. But the giant tortoises are indeed a wonder of nature. It's so important we take care of them and our environment!
We used to have box turtles as pets!
Nicole booth says:
Oh how brilliant, this is one place I'd love to go for diving too. Those tortoises look amazing.
I wish we had done more diving, though it wasn't the perfect season for it.
Sara Essop says:
Wow, these tortoises are huge. The biggest ones I've seen were in Mauritius!
I believe they are the same species!
Alanna Koritzke says:
I know this is about the tortoises…but holy cow that red, white, and blue crab!! So beautiful! Looks like a really fun experience.
yes! They are lovely too!


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A new beginning for The Blue Market
NEWS, WISE16's Picks
On January 2021, Warwick Landscaping contractors started working in the regeneration of Market Place, the pedestrianised square off Southwark Park Road and home to The Blue Market. The improvements are part of £2m capital investment programme for the area.
The funding from the Mayor of London's LEAP Good Growth Fund and supported by Southwark Council was possible thanks to the community campaign led by Blue Bermondsey BID with local charity Big Local Works and social enterprise Community Opportunity.
Locally based Turner prize winning collective, Assemble + Hayatsu Architects were appointed to design the improvements, after their tender proposal entitled 'Made In Bermondsey' won the contract to design the improvements.
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The new layout will include two fixed structures providing a roofed four pitches areas in both side of the front of the square as well as new electrical installation; the current system was not fit for purpose. More pitches are planned to support market initiatives such as Make It Blue and Blue Latino Market, two themed market events which were launched on 2019
Additionally the project will aim to build upon The Blue's manufacturing heritage and embrace the emerging range of local 21st century food production businesses, centred around a thriving and authentic local market hosting the cream of new makers, regular cultural events alongside a thriving High St and booming local business community.
Beyond Market Place
Though the initial works started at Market Place, the project has the long-term aims to help transform the Blue into a thriving area, once more recognised and celebrated as Bermondsey's historic town centre.
One of the feature of the current works will be the demolition of one of the shops in the square to create a new pedestrianised access from Market Place to Blue Anchor Lane. This route will connect the Blue with the site of the Biscuit Factory on the other side of the railway line.
Grosvenor is the owner of the former Peek and Frean's Biscuit Factory and Southwark Park College and they got planning permission to build 2,548 new homes for rent, a school, new play and public spaces, including a large public roof terrace.
The project aims to create 150,000 sq ft of flexible employment space as well as maintaining all the office and work space managed by Workspace Group.
Please click the link below to see an overview of the project, the designs, and how they were developed.
Businesses in the square will be open as usual during the building works.
A #Rotherhithe shopkeeper who has been called a "pillar of the community" by friends and neighbours could be deported after eleven years in The UK.
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'This is my home for eleven years. I don't know what I'm going to do.' he told the News
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CONCORDIA, Kansas — The Cloud County Community College women's soccer team stayed undefeated on the young season Wednesday as the No. 14 ranked T-Birds rolled to a convincing 9-1 victory over Hesston College.
Despite resting last year's leading scorer in Joana Villanova, the Cloud County (3-0 overall, 1-0 KJCCC) offense put up videogame-like numbers as it finished with nine goals on 38 total shots, 26 of which found their way on goal.
Hesston College (0-3 overall, 0-1 KJCCC) finished with three shots, two on goal.
"We've been needing a game for a long time, especially after having our scrimmage on Monday rained out," said Cloud County head coach, Charles Long, whose team hadn't played since August 27. "It was good to see the girls knock the ball, score some nice goals. I was also able to rest some players while giving other girls some looks in game situations."
The T-Birds leaped out to a 3-1 lead in the first half, receiving goals from Franciele Cupertino and Izabella Christina nine minutes apart, then a late strike from sophomore Karem Rodrigues with five minutes remaining before the break.
Cloud County, which rotated in 25 different players on Wednesday, then went on a scoring barrage in the second-half. Five of those goals came during a 12-minute span between the 63:38 mark and 75:49.
Freshman midfielder Chiara Perrone, who got the start in the absence of Villanova, kicked off the second-half scoring with her first career goal.
"We opted to rest Joana (Wednesday). She's going to play a big role for us and is going to score big goals in big games, but it was nice to see a lot of other girls carry the load," Long said. "Chiara played real well in the midfield, scored a nice goal and settled in nicely after being a little nervous at first."
Fellow freshman Fernanda Peinado followed with her first of two goals on the afternoon, while freshmen Aroa Nieto and Thaina Cavalcante each added markers in the second half, as well.
Cloud County rounded out its scoring with the second goal from Christina at the 88:45 mark, giving her a team-leading five goals on the season.
The T-Birds will look to build off Wednesday's win as they continue their three-game home stand at 2 p.m. Saturday against Dodge City, which handed Cloud County one of its two conference losses last season.
"The girls are going to have to be ready to move the ball around because Dodge City is a very good team," Long said. "Dodge was one of the teams to beat Cloud last year, so I think there will be a little bit of a grudge match there. I think the girls will be up for it."


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Octavia Sperati (Silje Wergeland) - Interview by: Dom Lawson
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INTERVIEW: OCTAVIA SPERATI (Silje Wergeland)
Interview by: Dom Lawson
Two years after the release of their widely lauded debut album, 'Winter Enclosure', Norway's premier (nearly) all-female purveyors of gothic doom metal are back with a fantastic second full-length effort. Titled 'Grace Submerged', the album was produced by Enslaved's Herbrand Larsen at Earshot Studios in the band's home city of Bergen. Showcasing their rapid evolution, the album sees the band heading into a heavier, more overtly metallic direction, skilfully pulling off a gloriously sombre and elegant version of Thin Lizzy's 'Don't Believe A Word' and staking a formidable claim to being Europe's most fascinating and musically adventurous female-fronted metal band. We spoke with singer Silje Wergeland about Octavia's story so far and the sparkling new songs that make up 'Grace Submerged'…
How would you describe your experiences since the release of the first Octavia album?
Silje: "I think the first year was really cool. The album came out and we got a lot of good reviews and did some great tours with Cradle Of Filth and Paradise Lost and we did our first tour outside of Norway, which was really exciting. Norway's not the biggest country in the world so it was great to play in some new places. Also, we'd got a new drummer but he left after a year, so 2006 started and we were getting really into writing a new album and then we lost our drummer, so that wasn't very helpful."
How did you deal with the situation?
Silje: "Well, we needed someone really good, because the drummer always has to be better than the rest of the band, if you know what I mean. We wanted someone based in Bergen because it's very difficult to rehearse otherwise. We wanted to find someone that we liked, and Bergen isn't the biggest city in the world. We found someone really good, though. His name's Ivar. He's been in small project bands before but nothing big. Trine, our bass player, plays in another band with him, so we knew him from that."
What does he bring to the band that wasn't there before?
Silje: "He approaches things from a different angle. He has a different perspective. He comes from the thrash metal scene. It's all good! (laughs)"
Did he try and persuade you to play more fast songs?
Silje: "He tried to make us play Slayer! (laughs). We'd like to, but what comes out of my mouth doesn't sound a lot like Tom Araya. It's more like Tori Amos, I think. I really wish I could do that, but unfortunately I can't. I know my limits."
How did a new drummer affect the writing of the new album?
Silje: "We did have some new songs already. We also re-arranged some old songs from the first EP, 'Guilty Am I' and 'Deprivation'. We had a lot of new ones as well, three or four, and then we wrote the rest when Ivar joined the band."
Did you have any definite aims for the new material?
Silje: "We all wanted it to be a lot heavier. Of course, all of us wanted the first album to be a bit more heavy but it didn't end up like that. This time we worked really hard to make sure we knew how to get the right heavy sound. We're six people so there's none of that 'We can't do that' attitude. We just experiment and see what comes out. It's a very creative environment. We work together really well. Someone comes up with a riff or a very rough idea for a song, and everybody works on it together and writes their own parts. It's better when all six of us can contribute to each song. We're all happier that way. One of the songs, 'Moonlit', was written by our guitarist. She made a demo of the song, we all liked the idea and so we went with it, but mainly the album was worked out between all six of us."
The first album received some great reviews. Did you feel under pressure to make a better record this time round?
Silje: "Yes and no. We knew that it was going to be better than the first album, because it couldn't be worse! (laughs) We've all grown as musicians and as a band, so we knew it was going to be better, but we didn't worry about what other people would like. It was just about what we would like. We weren't so worried about fulfilling expectations."
What are the most important things you've learned since the first album came out?
Silje: "We're just more experienced now, I guess. We've learnt how to deal with things differently. You know, you learn what you like and what you don't like. Like anyone, we learned as we go along. Particularly when we've visited different countries, we've learned to adapt to every situation. In Norway, you get used to being treated really well and being given food and there are large backstage areas. Then you go to England and it's the exact opposite in some places! We weren't expecting anything so we were fine, but we met other bands while we were touring and they would get really angry when they didn't get what they wanted. But that's just the way it is and you have to deal with it."
What inspired the new album's title, "Grace Submerged"?
Silje: "If you look at the album cover, it shows the Earth kind of going down. It's not about the Earth specifically. We're not a political band, but if you think about the world today it's very difficult not to be interested by what's going on. There's terrorism and everybody's destroying things and making everybody miserable, including themselves. They're destroying something that could be really wonderful and beautiful. Life could be like that, but it isn't, so that's what the title represents."
How do you feel about the new album now it's finished and ready for release?
Silje: "When you finish recording an album, you have very mixed feelings. I needed to get the whole thing out of my system. I don't know anyone who thinks 'This is fucking amazing!' when they come out of the studio. There are always things that can be done better, but you have to draw a line otherwise you'll be in the studio forever. But yes, we're all very pleased with it. We hope a lot of people will like it as much as we do!"
"Grace Submerged" Track-By-Track
'Guilty Am I'
Silje: "That's from the first EP. There's a difficult story behind that. We all got to know each other through the death of a good friend of ours. Everyone who knew him got together and we turned out to be really good friends. We decided that we all shared a dream of wanting to be in a band. That happened in 1999. I had a really hard time after our friend died, and the lyrics are based around my feelings about it all. I was stuck with a feeling of guilt. I'm used to singing it now. I decided not to talk about it, until now basically. It's really sad but I'm dealing with it okay now. We just didn't want to use it as a press thing, and also out of respect for the guy's family. It's a very personal song. Of course I think about it still, but it's a song now and that helps me to deal with it."
'Moonlit'
Silje: "Some of the songs are very obtuse. I don't want them to be about anything specific. I want them to be open to interpretation, but this is probably the most political song on the album. The terrorists are having such a miserable time, causing problems for everyone including themselves. This song fits with the theme of the album, the idea of the world becoming submerged by all these terrible things when it should really be a beautiful place."
'Going North'
Silje: "There's a lot of people who want to go north, because they're having a miserable time in their own countries. At the same time, I'm moving around the world quite a lot myself, so the song is about the feeling people have when they're constantly searching for somewhere better. Everyone has things they want to get away from, but we're constantly thrown back and we can't escape."
'Don't Believe A Word'
Silje: "We wanted a song that was a little quieter for the album, to add some contrast. We got the idea of doing this Thin Lizzy song and were wondering if it we could do a quiet version of it. In the end, my boyfriend said he thought it was a good idea, so we went for it. The lyrics aren't the nicest lyrics in the world. It's not a nice thing to sing to somebody! At the same time, it's a really sad song. Even on the original version, which is very upbeat and catchy, it's still a sad song. Somehow we made it even sadder. We knew that if we messed around with it and spoiled it then people would hate us, so it was a scary thing to do. But I think we did a good job."
'…And Then The World Froze'
Silje: "This is another personal song. It's about someone I met who wanted to talk to me but never did. He looked at me like I was someone he couldn't reach. It's a very strange, personal song. Sometimes I really regret writing lyrics like this because I have to stand up and explain them afterwards! (laughs)."
'The Final Rest'
Silje: "This was inspired by when I was working on a reality TV programme and I was working with some drug addicts. It was really, really sad how they were trying to escape from their own lives. I know some of those people tried for years and years to get away from drugs. In essence, this song is about people like that."
'Deprivation'
Silje: "This is also from the first EP. It's about a time when I was unable to sleep, so it's about sleep deprivation. I was having lots of nightmares and thought I was losing my mind a little bit! It's the perfect subject for another happy song, isn't it?"
'Provenance Of Hate'
Silje: "This is about my ex-boyfriend. I wrote it when we'd just broken up, so I had to get out a lot of anger very quickly. You know how when you have a break up, there are a lot of feelings, a lot of anger and sadness. I guess this song is about one of the angry moments."
'Dead End Poem'
Silje: "These lyrics were written by Ivar from Enslaved. In fact, he is the reason why I started to sing. He's the first person who made me sing. He wrote a song and asked me to sing it. I really liked it, but his computer blew up so the music was never recorded. That was back in '99, I think. Anyway, I decided I wanted to use the lyrics and the vocal melodies for our new album, so I asked Ivar if that was okay and he was really happy about it. We've re-arranged it a little bit. Enslaved used it on their 'Below The Lights' album, and it was called 'As Fire Swept Clean The Earth'. We had to change the title, of course."


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Q: For loop multiprocessing in Python I want to excute for loop on parallel. How can I do that?
for example:
def foo():
    # brahbrah

for i in range(0,5):
    foo()

Thank you

A: from multiprocessing import Pool
from multiprocessing import cpu_count

def foo():
    # brahbrah

def func(count):
    foo()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pool = Pool(cpu_count())
    count = 5
    results = pool.map(func, range(count))
    pool.close()  # 'TERM'
    pool.join()   # 'KILL'


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