A group of bicyclists left Morgan Square Sunday afternoon for a three-mile ride around a section of town to support the Yellow Ribbon Fund, a charity that helps the families of wounded troops.
A small army of bicyclists left Morgan Square Sunday afternoon for a three-mile ride around a section of town, driven by a reason larger than any one of them.
For Dr. Harry Kinard and his wife, Mary, that reason was one very close to their heart.
Their son, Marine 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard, was critically injured two years ago by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq - an injury that cost him both of his legs. The Yellow Ribbon Fund is a charity that helps the families of wounded troops. Through countless trips from Spartanburg to Washington, D.C., and surgery after surgery after surgery, the fund helped the Kinards with airline tickets, taxi fare, housing and other needs.
For Katherine Jeter, the reason was twofold. Aside from being longtime friends of the Kinard family, Jeter is a breast cancer survivor. On Oct. 25, 2007, when she turned 69, she decided she would dedicate a year to trying to raise $70,000 to split between the Yellow Ribbon Fund and Jack's Place, a nonprofit organization that provides lodging for cancer patients in Colorodo, where Jeter and her husband often go skiing.
So far, she has exceeded her goal and is pressing ahead. She has collected $70,699, not counting the donations that people left Sunday.
She also decided to take up cycling, and - after a year of training - plans to participate in a 70-mile ride in Springfield, Ohio. It's on Oct. 25, her 70th birthday.
The Kinards plan to participate in the Springfield ride, too. Harry Kinard, a Spartanburg urologist, said they have been training for about three months.
"So, they'll be shipping our bodies back for proper burial," he said, laughing.
Jeter and the Kinards called Sunday's event "symbolic" of what's coming up in Springfield.
"This is wonderful. Katherine is the energy behind all this," Harry Kinard said. "She just kind of swept us up along the way."
As cyclists chatted in the sun, Jeter zipped around making sure everything was in place, taking calls and donations, and talking to everyone who stopped to ask her a question.
"The point of all of this is to honor Lt. Kinard and all of our Upstate servicemen and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and who have sacrificed so much," she said.
Spartanburg Public Safety Sgt. Lee Raines and Officer Susan Sutton led the pack of about 35 bicyclists - along with two handcyclists and a roller blader - most of them sporting yellow ribbons and cards pinned to their backs with the Yellow Ribbon Fund logo on them and Andrew Kinard's name.
"We should do all we can to support our troops," Raines said. "This is the least we could do."
As for Kinard, he has left his post at the Pentagon and now is working as a Senate liaison through the Marine Corps Office of Legislative Affairs. He said in a phone interview Sunday that he had to scale back his professional workload in order to accommodate his rigorous physical therapy program. He said he hopes to make a decision soon about what his next major step will be.
"I'm proud of my parents that they're undertaking this bike ride. It's for a very worth cause," Kinard said. "The Yellow Ribbon Fund provided a lot of assistance not only to me, but to my family, especially during my early days (at the National Naval Medical Center) in Bethesda. So, I'm glad we can give back to the Yellow Ribbon Fund any way we can."
Kinard said he's had 57 surgeries since the explosion in 2006, and he hopes the last major one is behind him. His girlfriend, a nurse in the U.S. Navy, is about halfway through her deployment in southern Afghanistan.
Brandt Goowin, 27, had to borrow a bike Sunday to participate in the ride. He grew up a few blocks from the Kinards in Converse Heights.
Goodwin recently got out of the Army after about five years, which included two tours in Iraq. The second one was in the Anbar province, not far from the spot where Kinard was injured in late 2006.
"I knew exactly where that took place," Goodwin said. "It was interesting to be in the same area. It kind of makes you want to work even harder."


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Ludwig (Lodewijk) van Beethoven () a fost un cântăreț flamand (tenor/bas), dirijor de curte al prințului elector din Köln și bunicul compozitorului Ludwig van Beethoven.

Origine
Ludwig van Beethoven (cel bătrân) s-a născut la Mechelen în 1712 ca al doilea fiu al maestrului brutar Michael van Beethoven (botezat pe 15 februarie 1684, Mechelen – d. 28 iunie 1749, Bonn) și al soției sale, Maria Louise Stuyckers (n. 24 aprilie 1685, Mechelen - d. 8 decembrie 1749 la Bonn). Pe lângă meseria de brutar, Michael van Beethoven se ocupa, de asemenea, cu vânzarea și cumpărarea de proprietăți imobiliare, mobilier vechi și tablouri.

Ludwig van Beethoven a avut trei frați:

 Kornelius van Beethoven (botezat pe 25 septembrie 1708 la Mechelen – d. 16 iulie 1764 la Bonn)
 Ludwig van Beethoven (botezat pe 23 iunie 1710 la Mechelen – d. 22 septembrie 1710)
 Lambert Michael van Beethoven (botezat pe 25 iulie 1715 la Mechelen – d. 21 septembrie 1715)

Viața
La vârsta de aproape șase ani Ludwig intră la școala corului de băieți a Catedralei arhiepiscopale din Mechelen unde devine membru al corului de băieți la 10 decembrie 1717.

Pe 12 octombrie 1725 Ludwig van Beethoven începe să studieze cu Anton Colfs, organist și maestru de carillon al catedralei, cel care îl inițiază în tabulatură și care îi dă primele lecții de clavecin și orgă. Despre perioada ce a urmat sfârșitului uceniciei sale în primăvara anului 1727, nu se cunosc detalii legate de viața lui Ludwig van Beethoven cel bătrân.

În noiembrie 1731 Ludwig devine tenor la Biserica Sf. Peter din Leuven, fiind acolo și înlocuitor al dirijorului. Se pare că acest post i s-a acordat cu sprijinul lui Rombout van Kiel, canonic al Bisericii Sf. Peter și fost coleg de școală al lui Michael van Beethoven (tatăl lui Ludwig).

Pe 2 septembrie 1732 Ludwig van Beethoven devine cântăreț la Catedrala  Sf. Lambertus din Liège, de data aceasta ca basist. Această schimbare s-a datorat probabil lui Francois Stoupy, director al Colegiului Liège din Leuven și prieten al lui Rombout van Kiel.

În martie 1733 Ludwig van Beethoven se mută la curtea din Bonn la dorința prințului elector de Köln, Clemens August de Bavaria, după ce acesta l-a auzit cântând la Liège.

Pe 17 noiembrie 1733 Ludwig van Beethoven se căsătorește cu Maria Josepha Poll (n. în jurul anului 1714, d. 30 septembrie 1775 la Bonn). Din căsătorie au rezultat trei copii:

 Maria Bernhardine Ludovica van Beethoven (botezată pe 28 august 1734 la Bonn – d. 17 octombrie 1735 la Bonn);
 Markus Joseph van Beethoven (botezat pe 25 aprilie 1736 la Bonn – d. data și locul sunt necunoscute);
 Johann van Beethoven (n. 14 noiembrie 1740 probabil la Bonn – d. 18 decembrie 1792 la Bonn), tatăl compozitorului Ludwig van Beethoven.

Familia locuiește inițial în vechea școală gimnazială iezuită din Wenzelgasse, ulterior într-o casă deținută de maestrul brutar Fischer în Rheingasse nr. 386 și în cele din urmă în clădirea oficiului poștal din Bonngasse nr. 386, vizavi de Casa Beethoven (Bonngasse nr. 515).

În anul 1760 speranța lui Ludwig de a deveni capelmaestru la curtea din Bonn este năruită, postul fiind ocupat de mai tânărul său coleg Joseph Touchemoulin, care era violonist cu experiență și deja compunea. După moartea lui Clemens August al Bavariei pe 6 februarie 1761, urmașul acestuia la tron, Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels, a fost constrâns să ia măsuri de austeritate. Astfel Ludwig preia postul de capelmaestru, îndeplinind în același timp funcția de cântăreț și de dirijor, iar Touchemoulin pleacă la Regensburg datorită acestor schimbări.

Ludwig van Beethoven continuă, de asemenea, comerțul cu vin, afacere pe care o construise în anii precedenți, clienții lui principali fiind olandezi. Sumele obținute de Ludwig din comerțul cu vin nu sunt cunoscute. Moare pe 24 decembrie 1773 la Bonn. Moștenirea primită de fiul său, Johann van Beethoven, a fost mai mare decât suma datoriilor rămase de acoperit.

Descrierea făcută de maestrul brutar Fischer, a constituit sursa de inspirație pe baza căreia Amelius Radoux a realizat un portret al lui Ludwig van Beethoven (cel bătrân): "Statura capelmaestrului. Un bărbat înalt, chipeș, frunte lată, nas rotund, ochi mari și proeminenți, obraji rotunzi și roșii, o figură foarte serioasă". Ludwig van Beethoven era "un om mic de statură, puternic, cu ochi deosebit de vioi", potrivit medicului Franz Gerhard Wegeler, cel care a fost prietenul compozitorului Ludwig van Beethoven încă din copilărie.

Fischer și Wegeler îl descriu ca fiind un om cu caracter serios și onorabil, conștiincios în profesie și în conducerea propriei gospodării, dovedind amabilitate și sociabilitate.

Deși Ludwig van Beethoven (compozitorul) avea doar 3 ani la moartea bunicului său, el l-a admirat întotdeauna. Astfel, trăind la Viena, de fiecare dată când schimba locuința (ceea ce se întâmpla foarte des) lua cu el portretul bunicului, pictat de Radoux, căruia îi găsea întotdeauna un loc de cinste.

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Bibliografie
Ludwig Nohl: Beethovenii din Bonn. O schiță biografică în publicația: Foișorul. Foaie de familie ilustrată. Ediția 1879. Ernst Keil, Leipzig 1879, p. 612-616; p. 613: Portretul bunicului. Gravură pe lemn de Adolf Neumann după o pictură a lui Radoux la Bonn, în posesia văduvei Karl van Beethoven din Viena.
 Ludwig van Beethoven cel Bătrân în: Joseph Schmidt-Görg: Beethoven - Povestea familiei sale, Beethoven-Haus Bonn, G. Renle Verlag München Duisburg, 1964, p. 52–57
 Marele model: bunicul Louis van Beethoven, în: Jan Caeyers: Beethoven - Revoluționarul singuratic, CH Beck-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-406-65625-5, p. 29–39

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NANAIMO — A rezoning application to allow for what would be Nanaimo's second-tallest building has cleared a key hurdle.
The City's community planning and development committee supported a rezoning application to allow for a 24-storey, 109-unit residential condo project at 65 and 77 Chapel St. at a meeting last week.
The building, proposed to be near the courthouse, would be shorter than only the 28-storey Cameron Island building.
The project, called Marcielo, is spearheaded by Vancouver-based Wertman Development Corporation, who bought the two side-by-side lots, currently used for parking, about a year ago.
Vice-president Jason Wertman said the proposal marks their first foray into the Vancouver Island market. He said the scarcity and skyrocketing price of land around the Lower Mainland makes Nanaimo a very attractive market for both developers and potential buyers.
"The fact we can build here and potentially have people commute or retire from Vancouver to Nanaimo. There's appeal for everyone," Wertman told NanaimoNewsNOW. "There's talk of the foot ferry coming in that's going to bring commuters between downtown Vancouver and Nanaimo...Families are moving an hour or more outside of Vancouver to be able to afford something. Nanaimo could offer that affordability and be closer."
The proposal calls for a significantly higher building than what the lots are currently zoned for, asking for an increase from roughly six storeys to 24. It would include 109 condos to be sold at market price, ground floor commercial and office space, an athletic club, townhouse units along Skinner St., and more underground parking spaces than required.
Wertman said their target buyer for what he called a "luxury condo development" would vary from older, semi-retired locals looking to downsize to professionals working in downtown Vancouver.
He said an open house several weeks ago heard mostly positive reviews, with many people questioning the impact of the high-rise on views and the city's skyline.
While Wertman said his company is determined to move ahead quickly on the project, referencing a highly optimistic goal of possibly breaking ground in early 2019, there are still several approvals left to clear. The rezoning application will come before Council, then if approved, move to a public hearing. From there, final approval is required before development and building permits can be applied for.
Despite the remaining hurdles, the proposal marks a continuation of increased interest in residential building for downtown Nanaimo. In late 2017, the City reported 161 multiple family units currently being built. In comparison, 203 multi-family units were constructed in the Harbour City's downtown core over the previous 10 years.
A building permit was issued late last month for an $8.6 million, 61-unit multi-family development next door to Wertman's proposal at 91 Chapel St.
Committee chair coun. Diane Brennan said the majority of the members felt the Marcielo building was "Elegant and beautiful and would be an asset to the downtown."
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A staff report said the location of the high-rise is supported by the official community plan and would "Contribute to the mix of uses and residential density needed to support a vibrant downtown."
Brennan said she doesn't envision the proposed height of the building to be as controversial as the issue was in the past. "I think now the discussion will centre around what is the height it should be, not whether or not we should have a high-rise."
It's not known when the rezoning application will come before Council.
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An excerpt from "Sunday in New York"
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Williams' Restaurant, East 65th Street, New York, Saturday, 8:00 p.m.
We met the Blaine's at Williams', a rather upmarket restaurant that the Blaine's frequently visited, and had recommended.
Of course, during the taxi ride there, Alison reminded me that with my new job, we would be able to go to many more places like Williams'. It was, at worst, more emotional blackmail, because as far as Alison was concerned, we were well on our way to posh restaurants, the Trump Tower Apartments, and the trappings of the 'executive set'.
It would be a miracle if I didn't strangle Elaine before the night was over. It was she who had filled Alison's head with all this stuff and nonsense.
Aside from the half frown half-smile, Alison was looking stunning. It was months since she had last dressed up, and she was especially wearing the dress I'd bought her for our 5th anniversary that cost a month's salary. On her, it was worth it, and I would have paid more if I had to. She had adored it, and me, for a week or so after.
For tonight, I think I was close to getting back on that pedestal.
She had the looks and figure to draw attention, the sort movie stars got on the red carpet, and when we walked into the restaurant, I swear there were at least five seconds silence, and many more gasps.
Even I had a sudden loss of breath earlier in the evening when she came out of the dressing room. Once more I was reminded of how lucky I was that she had agreed to marry me. Amid all those self-doubts, I couldn't believe she had loved me when there were so many others 'out there' who were more appealing.
Elaine was out of her seat and came over just as the Head Waiter hovered into sight. She personally escorted Alison to the table, allowing me to follow like the Queen's consort, while she and Alison basked in the admiring glances of the other patrons.
More than once I heard the muted question, "Who is she?"
Jimmy stood, we shook hands, and then we sat together. It was not the usual boy, girl, boy, girl seating arrangement. Jimmy and I on one side and Elaine and Alison on the other.
The battle lines were drawn.
Jimmy was looking fashionable, with the permanent blade one beard, unkempt hair, and designer dinner suit that looked like he'd slept in it. Alison insisted I wear a tuxedo, and I looked like the proverbial penguin or just a thinner version of Alfred Hitchcock.
The bow tie had been slightly crooked, but just before we stepped out she had straightened it. And took the moment to look deeply into my soul. It was one of those moments when words were not necessary.
Then it was gone.
I relived it briefly as I sat and she looked at me. A penetrating look that told me to 'behave'.
When we were settled, Elaine said, in that breathless, enthusiastic manner of hers when she was excited, "So, Harry, you are finally moving up." It was not a question, but a statement.
I was not sure what she meant by 'finally' but I accepted it with good grace. Sometimes Elaine was prone to using figures of speech I didn't understand. I guessed she was talking about the new job. "It was supposed to be a secret."
She smiled widely. "There are no secrets between Al and I, are there Al?"
I looked at 'Al' and saw a brief look of consternation.
I was not sure Alison liked the idea of being called Al. I tried it once and was admonished. But it was interesting her 'best friend forever' was allowed that distinction when I was not. It was, perhaps, another indicator of how far I'd slipped in her estimation.
Perhaps, I thought, it was a necessary evil. As I understood it, the Blaine's were our mentors at the Trump Tower, because they didn't just let 'anyone' in. I didn't ask if the Blaine's thought we were just 'anyone' before I got the job offer.
And then there was that look between Alison and Elaine, quickly stolen before Alison realized I was looking at both of them. I was out of my depth, in a place I didn't belong, with people I didn't understand. And yet, apparently, Alison did. I must have missed the memo.
"No," Alison said softly, stealing a glance in my direction, "No secrets between friends."
No secrets. Her look conveyed something else entirely.
The waiter brought champagne, Krug, and poured glasses for each of us. It was not the cheap stuff, and I was glad I brought a couple of thousand dollars with me. We were going to need it.
Then, a toast.
To a new job and a new life.
"When did you decide?" Elaine was effusive at the best of times, but with the champagne, it was worse.
Alison had a strange expression on her face. It was obvious she had told Elaine it was a done deal, even before I'd made up my mind. Perhaps she'd assumed I might be 'refreshingly honest' in front of Elaine, but it could also mean she didn't really care what I might say or do.
Instead of consternation, she looked happy, and I realized it would be churlish, even silly if I made a scene. I knew what I wanted to say. I also knew that it would serve little purpose provoking Elaine, or upsetting Alison. This was not the time or the place. Alison had been looking forward to coming here, and I was not going to spoil it.
Instead, I said, smiling, "When I woke up this morning and found Alison missing. If she had been there, I would not have noticed the water stain on the roof above our bed, and decide there and then how much I hated the place." I used my reassuring smile, the one I used with the customers when all hell was breaking loose, and the forest fire was out of control. "It's the little things. They all add up until one day …" I shrugged. "I guess that one day was today."
I saw an incredulous look pass between Elaine and Alison, a non-verbal question; perhaps, is he for real? Or; I told you he'd come around.
I had no idea the two were so close.
"How quaint," Elaine said, which just about summed up her feelings towards me. I think, at that moment, I lost some brownie points. It was all I could come up with at short notice.
"Yes," I added, with a little more emphasis than I wanted. "Alison was off to get some study in with one of her friends."
"Weren't the two of you off to the Hamptons, a weekend with some friends?" Jimmy piped up, and immediately got the 'shut up you fool' look, that cut that line of conversation dead. Someone forgot to feed Jimmy his lines.
It was followed by the condescending smile from Elaine, and "I need to powder my nose. Care to join me, Al?"
A frown, then a forced smile for her new best friend. "Yes."
I watched them leave the table and head in the direction of the restroom, looking like they were in earnest conversation. I thought 'Al' looked annoyed, but I could be wrong.
I had to say Jimmy looked more surprised than I did.
There was that odd moment of silence between us, Jimmy still smarting from his death stare, and for me, the Alison and Elaine show. I was quite literally gob-smacked.
I drained my champagne glass gathering some courage and turned to him. "By the way, we were going to have a weekend away, but this legal tutorial thing came up. You know Alison is doing her law degree."
He looked startled when he realized I had spoken. He was looking intently at a woman several tables over from us, one who'd obviously forgotten some basic garments when getting dressed. Or perhaps it was deliberate. She'd definitely had some enhancements done.
He dragged his eyes back to me. "Yes. Elaine said something or other about it. But I thought she said the tutor was out of town and it had been postponed until next week. Perhaps I got it wrong. I usually do."
"Perhaps I've got it wrong." I shrugged, as the dark thoughts started swirling in my head again. "This week or next, what does it matter?"
Of course, it mattered to me, and I digested what he said with a sinking heart. It showed there was another problem between Alison and me; it was possible she was now telling me lies. If what he said was true and I had no reason to doubt him, where was she going tomorrow morning, and had she really been with a friend studying today?
We poured some more champagne, had a drink, then he asked, "This promotion thing, what's it worth?"
"Trouble, I suspect. Definitely more money, but less time at home."
"Oh," raised eyebrows. Obviously, the women had not talked about the job in front of him, or, at least, not all the details. "You sure you want to do that?"
At last the voice of reason. "Me? No."
"Yet you accepted the job."
I sucked in a breath or two while I considered whether I could trust him. Even if I couldn't, I could see my ship was sinking, so it wouldn't matter what I told him, or what Elaine might find out from him. "Jimmy, between you and me I haven't as yet decided one way or another. To be honest, I won't know until I go up to Barclay's office and he asks me the question."
"Barclay?"
"My boss."
"Elaine's doing a job for a Barclay that recently moved in the tower a block down from us. I thought I recognized the name."
"How did Elaine get the job?"
"Oh, Alison put him onto her."
"A couple of months ago. Why?"
I shrugged and tried to keep a straight face, while my insides were churning up like the wake of a supertanker. I felt sick, faint, and wanting to die all at the same moment. "Perhaps she said something about it, but it didn't connect at the time. Too busy with work I expect. I think I seriously need to get away for a while."
I could hardly breathe, my throat was constricted and I knew I had to keep it together. I could see Elaine and Alison coming back, so I had to calm down. I sucked in some deep breaths, and put my 'manage a complete and utter disaster' look on my face.
And I had to change the subject, quickly, so I said, "Jimmy, Elaine told Alison, who told me, you were something of a guru of the cause and effects of the global economic meltdown. Now, I have a couple of friends who have been expounding this theory …"
Like flicking a switch, I launched into the well-worn practice of 'running a distraction', like at work when we needed to keep the customer from discovering the truth. It was one of the things I was good at, taking over a conversation and pushing it in a different direction. It was salvaging a good result from an utter disaster, and if ever there was a time that it was required, it was right here, right now.
When Alison sat down and looked at me, she knew something had happened between Jimmy and I. I might have looked pale or red-faced, or angry or disappointed, it didn't matter. If that didn't seal the deal for her, the fact I took over the dining engagement did. She knew well enough the only time I did that was when everything was about to go to hell in a handbasket. She'd seen me in action before and had been suitably astonished.
But I got into gear, kept the champagne flowing and steered the conversation, as much as one could from a seasoned professional like Elaine, and, I think, in Jimmy's eyes, he saw the battle lines and knew who took the crown on points. Neither Elaine nor Jimmy suspected anything, and if the truth be told, I had improved my stocks with Elaine. She was at times both surprised and interested, even willing to take a back seat.
Alison, on the other hand, tried poking around the edges, and, once when Elaine and Jimmy had got up to have a cigarette outside, questioned me directly. I chose to ignore her, and pretend nothing had happened, instead of telling her how much I was enjoying the evening.
She had her 'secrets'. I had mine.
At the end of the evening, when I got up to go to the bathroom, I was physically sick from the pent up tension and the implications of what Jimmy had told me. It took a while for me to pull myself together; so long, in fact, Jimmy came looking for me. I told him I'd drunk too much champagne, and he seemed satisfied with that excuse. When I returned, both Alison and Elaine noticed how pale I was but neither made any comment.
It was a sad way to end what was supposed to be a delightful evening, which to a large degree it was for the other three. But I had achieved what I set out to do, and that was to play them at their own game, watching the deception, once I knew there was a deception, as warily as a cat watches its prey.
I had also discovered Jimmy's real calling; a professor of economics at the same University Alison was doing her law degree. It was no surprise in the end, on a night where surprises abounded, that the world could really be that small.
We parted in the early hours of the morning, a taxi whisking us back to the Lower East Side, another taking the Blaine's back to the Upper West Side. But, in our case, as Alison reminded me, it would not be for much longer. She showed concern for my health, asked me what was wrong. It took all the courage I could muster to tell her it was most likely something I ate and the champagne, and that I would be fine in the morning.
She could see quite plainly it was anything other than what I told her, but she didn't pursue it. Perhaps she just didn't care what I was playing at.
And yet, after everything that had happened, once inside our 'palace', the events of the evening were discarded, like her clothing, and she again reminded me of what we had together in the early years before the problems had set in.
It left me confused and lost.
I couldn't sleep because my mind had now gone down that irreversible path that told me I was losing her, that she had found someone else, and that our marriage was in its last death throes.
And now I knew it had something to do with Barclay.
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Yamaha Highlights RIVAGE Digital Mixing Systems and NEXO Loudspeakers During Virtual Believe in Music Week
BUENA PARK, Calif. (November 25, 2020) — Yamaha is highlighting two of its marquee commercial audio technologies at Believe in Music 2021: the new RIVAGE PM5 and PM3 digital mixing consoles and the P+ Series family of loudspeakers from NEXO, a Yamaha company. These technologies deliver high-performance sound quality as standalone products but when used together form a powerful system solution, demonstrating how Yamaha is uniquely equipped to support the full audio workflow from input to mixing to final output.
Yamaha NEXO P+ Series Loudspeaker Family (left) and Yamaha RIVAGE PM Series Consoles
The PM5 and PM3 mixing systems join the PM7 and PM10 models in the RIVAGE family of digital consoles offering unprecedented live sound flexibility, faster set up and expanded routing. Both the RIVAGE PM5 and PM3 models deliver maximized functionality and control from a compact footprint, while at the same time allowing customers to build a RIVAGE system to meet many requirements and budgets.
The systems feature new CS-R5 and CS-R3 control surfaces, along with the DSP-RX and DSP-RX-EX DSP engines. These refinements add new levels of versatility and scalability to the Yamaha RIVAGE PM series.
The CS-R5 control surface for the PM5 features three large touchscreens and a condensed selected channel section for smoother and intuitive operation. The PM3's CS-R3 control surface packs the full RIVAGE PM series functionality and performance into the compact console's 45-inch width.
The new DSP-RX engine provides 120 inputs, 48 mix buses and 24 matrices, while the DSP-RX-EX engine has 288 inputs, 72 mix buses and 36 matrices. The DSP-RX-EX has an increased number of slots internally available for plug-ins from 384 to 512 slots. The availability of two DSP engines with different mixing capacities, along with the two new control surfaces, offers expanded flexibility for matching the systems to applications of any scale.
Additional features include TWINLANe-based RPio622/RPio222 stage racks with Rupert Neve Designs transformer and Silk emulation, and the ability to upgrade existing Dante-based systems to 96kHz, making use of RIO (D1 & D2 generations) for unprecedented sound quality and flexibility.
NEXO is continually adding new models to its P+ Series of point-source loudspeakers. The newest member is the P15, a 15" coaxial loudspeaker, ideal for FOH and monitoring applications.
The P15 shares the same P+ Series hallmarks of the P8, P10 and P12 models. The curvilinear enclosures of custom birch and poplar plywood are unique to the P+ Series, as the bent wood significantly enhances the lightweight cabinet's robustness.
The powerful P15 delivers 139 dB (Passive) to 141 dB (Active) SPL from its purpose-built 15" Neodymium magnet coaxial driver with a 3.5" voicecoil. Frequency response is 57Hz-20kHz.
The new P15 speaker can be used independently or with its companion subwoofer, the new L18. This compact horn-loaded model has a high-excursion 18" woofer and matches the efficiencies of the P15, offering an extremely high output level (140dB Peak) and an impressive power-to-weight ratio.
Like all NEXO subs, the L18 is scalable, so it can be used with the smaller P12 point source cabinet. It shares the same range of accessories with other models in the P+ Series, making it a convenient rental item. With the ability to fly one or two L18s above a P15 cabinet, this flexible represents a cost-effective alternative to a small line array configuration in many live sound applications.
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This time of year goes by so incredibly fast and yet it's such a special time to treasure. Don't let the holidays come and go in a flash. Why not take the time to slow down and enjoy each moment of the season. Treasure what the holiday is all about. It's the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
Saturdays, Dec. 9, 16, 23 from 9-11 a.m.
Bring the kids to enjoy breakfast with Santa and Mrs. Claus! Includes an Extensive Breakfast Buffet, Free Activities, and a Christmas Treat from Mrs. Claus! Free activities provided by Wonderworks, Ridemakerz, Sparkles, Kilwins, and Over the Moon Productions.
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The Oceanfront Merchants are hosting Holidays On The Boardwalk through December. Santa will be on hand to listen to all the Christmas wishes. There's a holiday train ride for $3 per person. Enjoy live entertainment on the stage along with Christmas crafts, face painting, balloon twisters and a shopping area just for kids. The entertainment schedule is: December 16, Carolina Vocals 2-4 pm; December 23, Morgan Elvis Noon – 4pm; December 30, Kirby Winstead Noon – 4pm. Bring your chairs and spend the afternoon on the Myrtle Beach Oceanfront Boardwalk!
December 31 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.
HTC will be streaming Times Square in NYC live beginning at 9 p.m. on a jumbo screen. A Southern Times Square at The Market Common will have a mirror ball drop. To top off this very special night there will be fireworks at midnight! Two stages with live music! There will also be a beer garden. Food vendors: CO Sushi, Crepe Creation Café, Gordon Biersch, King Street Grille, Nacho Hippo, P.F. Chang's, Travinia Italian Kitchen, The Brass Tap, Tupelo Honey Cafe and Ultimate California Pizza will all be open and we suggest you call for reservations. Cold Stone Creamery and Peace, Love & Little Donuts will also be open to satisfy your sweet tooth. Retailers will be open until 9 p.m. Enjoy the human statues, mimes, glass blower, face painters, glitter tattoo's and dancing in the streets! This is a family friendly event with inflatables and games so bring the family! In addition to our parking lots, parking garages and street parking the lots at Crabtree Gym will be available for parking. Admission: Free to the public. For safety reasons bags, large purses and backpacks are prohibited. Strollers are permitted and please put necessary items in a clear plastic storage bag.
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Jane was appointed from September 2015. She is the non-executive director safeguarding lead and is a member of the Quality Assurance Committee.
Jane has been Macmillan's Chief Medical Officer since 1999 and now shares the role as Joint CMO with general practitioner, Dr Rosie Loftus, reflecting the growing need for specialists and generalists to work more effectively together.
She has been an NHS Improvement clinical leader for over ten years and is an Honorary Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Mount Vernon Cancer Centre where she has worked for more than 20 years, during which time she helped develop non-surgical oncology services in five district general hospitals. She is an honorary senior clinical lecturer at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire.
Jane chaired the Maher Committee for the Department of Health in 1995, led the UK National Audit of Late Effects Pelvic Radiotherapy for the RCR in 2000 and, most recently, chaired the National Cancer Survivorship Initiative Consequences of Treatment work stream. She co-founded one of the first Cancer Support and Information services in the UK, winning the Nye Bevan award in 1992 and there are now more than 60 units based on this model.
She has written more than 150 published articles and advises on cancer survivorship programmes in Denmark and Canada.


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Home Brands 10 BEST JEWELLERY SHOPS IN CHENNAI
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Chennai is one the best places to buy gold jewellery in India also it's having lots of branded jewellery shops in chennai. For consumers from all over the Tamil Nadu and south Andhra Pradesh, Chennai is a great shopping destination for weddings and festivals. Akshaya Tritiya offers are very attractive in Jewellery stores across Chennai. From waivers in wastage to discount on diamond and other gem stones, jewellery showrooms run huge promotions to attract customers in the most auspicious season to buy gold ornaments.
While most gold shops in chennai are target niche customers, the big ones cater to middle class who are price conscious and very particular about wastage charges which add up to the price of gold. How to select which one is the best gold jewellery shop in chennai? That's the reason we have analysed some of the big brand players in the space and here we have listed the top 10 best jewellery shops in chennai READ THIS LIST ONE BY ONE FROM NUMBER 10
Kalyan Jewellers in T Nagar, Chennai is the Flagship store of the famous Jeweler store. Kalyan introduced the fixed price model practice without price negotiations thus making it a level playing field for all kinds of customers. While Joyalukkas in Prashanth Gold Towers in North Usman road is very popular among the affluent population of Chennai, it has less choice compared to GRT Jewellers in Chennai.
Lalitha Jewellery revolutionized the jewellery purchase once for all by slashing the wastage close to zero levels for some models. The maximum wastage is less than 8% in Lalitha while in GRT it can go up to 20% for Calcutta models. For example, if you buy jewellery worth 1 Lakh, the difference in wastage between the best and the worst can save you more than 10,000 rupees. In Chennai, most big Jewellers are located in T Nagar in Usman Road and Ranganathan Street.
However, the rise of many sub-urban regions in Chennai such as Anna Nagar, Tambaram, Chromepet, Adyar and Old Mahabalipuram have prompted Jewellers like GRT, Jayachandran, Nathella and Kalyan to open branches in these fast growing locations.
Little Nathella, a concept with kids in mind has been very successful for Nathella which opened a new branch in Tambaram following the huge success of Little Nathella. Khazana jewellery which operated its only branch from cathedral road for many years opened its second branch in Velachery which now runs a promotion called "Bangle Mela" every season.
Old Jewellers like Vimmudi Bangaru Chetty and NAC are also now attracting new customers despite their rich and loyal customers for many decades. More than ever, designs take priority to others factors like low wastage and purity gold stores in chennai. Malabar jewellery went on a advertising spree with its "Brides of india" concept featuring a line of collections targeted for the lucrative wedding theme. While the young don't worry about wastage, the cost conscious elders in the family visit mostly gold stores which charge less wastage. Lalitha jewellery gained its lost ground just by targeting customers who prefer cost to design. Prince jewellery is an old favorite among the affluent, but it operates very few branches.
Tanishq Jewellers promoted by the TATA group runs its flagship store in North Usman road just opposite to GRT. Besides customers from Chennai and its sub-urbs and Andhra, Jewellers from Chennai attract regular NRI shoppers from Malaysia and Singapore. In Pallavaram Bazaar, Shanthi jewellery, a jewellery showroom in chennai run for over 5 decades has been renovated to attract customers from South Chennai.
Kirtilals is a favorite among Diamond jewellery fans. Palsani and Mehta also run gold showrooms with designs that use precious stones like Diamond, Ruby, Pearls, Emerald etc. Lucky stones have a big market targeted by KP Jewellers, a pioneer in the concept. Sree Gold has lot of North Indian customers in Chennai.
The Gold Savings scheme run by popular showrooms is a win-win scheme for both. GRT introduced the concept two decades back enabling middle class to buy Gold ornaments through their savings. By locking Gold at the current price, customers can hedge their savings from future rise in Gold prices. Traditionally, dowry is given in the form of Gold ornaments, so there is huge burden for the middle class whenever they plan marriage for their kith and kin.
#1 GRT (G.R.THANGAMALIGAI) JEWELLERS
G.R.Thangamaligai Jewellers was founded by G.Rajendran in 1964 with its first store in T.Nagar, Chennai. GRT has a strong customer base built over the last 50 years. Many customers find the brand attractive owing to its designs, customer care and purity of the yellow metal. Besides Chennai, GRT has expanded to other cities in the recent years like Tirupati and Hyderabad. Though the wastage charges are pretty high, customers consider GRT as the first choice to buy jewellery.
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#2 JEYACHANDRAN GOLD HOUSE
Jeyachandran Gold House (An Unit of Jeyachandran Textiles) followed the footsteps of Saravana stores and launched their first store in Ranganathan street. They offer very low wastage charges without compromising on quality as well. The retail giant has opened a new jewellery store in Tambaram which is developing as a shopping hub of south Chennai (GRT already has a store here).
#3 KHAZANA JEWELLERY
Khazana has been operating only one store for many years in cathedral road (As of 2013, they have five stores in Chennai). After finding success with niche customers, they started few more stores with aggressive campaigning. The group has massive presence in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and have more than 50% of their stores in tier 2 cities. Like many popular jewellery stores, they spend a lot of money on advertising and actor Tamannah is their brand ambassador.
#4 MALABAR GOLD
Malabar Gold opened its first store in Chennai in 2011. Originally launched with Maestro Ilaiyaraja as the brand ambassador, the store has since then roped in actor Surya as its brand ambassador. As of 2013 they are coming up another store in Phoenix market city mall in Velachery. Malabar gold has a variety of collections and is one of the largest jewellery retailers with many branches in south India
#5 SREE KUMARAN GOLD HOUSE
Sree Kumaran Gold House belongs to the Chennai silks group. They have huge showroom in Usman road in the heart of the city. Though the group has big presence in many cities in Tamil Nadu, they have many varieties and designs especially for Chennai customers. They already have a huge customer base in Chennai garnered through Chennai silks and their foray into jewellery is already a big success.
#6 TANISHQ
Tanishq has a big presence in Chennai (After all, the name itself is derived from TATA/Tamil Nadu & Nishq). It has 7 stores in Chennai if different locations with its T.Nagar branch being the largest Tanishq store. While Tanishq does not promote with reduced wastage charges, the brand TATA can be trusted for purity. Tanishq is one of the few jewellers to account stone and gold weight separately.
#7 SARAVANA STORES GOLD PALACE
Saravana Stores is perhaps popular for selling utensils, appliances and clothes. But in 2002 they started their first jewellery store with aggressive campaigning and in a few years it became a popular destination for the middle class for buying jewellery as well.
#8 JOYALUKKAS
The famous Jewellery chain with stores around the world opened its store in Chennai in 2008. Celebrated by Joyalukkas as the World"s largest Jewellery showroom, the store is located in Prashanth Gold Towers (Owned by actor Prashanth) in North Usman Road, T.Nagar. It has a Diamond Cave at the top most level aimed at educating the public about Diamonds. It has a seperate section for branded jewellery and Silver.
#9 LALITHA JEWELLERY MART
The revolutionary jewellers who changed the game of gold retailing in Chennai, Lalitha opened its first store in T.Nagar Chennai near panagal park in 1985. Though many stores like Saravana and Jeyachandran have low wastage charges, it was Lalitha who capitalised on this with advertisements which emphasise wastage charges and its contribution to jewellery prices (they even have comparison charts).
#10 PRINCE JEWELLERY
Prince Jewellery is known for its great advertisements and an established store long before the arrival of Joyalukkas, Malabar gold and the likes. With three key locations in the heart of the city, their landmark store is a very big shop in panagal park, Chennai. Like many other jewel shops in T.Nagar, they offer valet parking to its customers. Their many designs and purity of the metal has earned them many loyal customers.
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Abstract: Lung abscess is usually treated with long-term antibiotic therapy. Due to the lack of a safe and easy drainage technique, drainage is only applied in refractory cases. We herein describe three cases in which drainage was successfully performed by endobronchial ultrasonography using a modified guide sheath. This procedure may have advantages in the detection of causative pathogens and early infection source control, and may therefore lead to the appropriate selection of antibiotics and reduce the duration of antibiotic therapy.
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Game Of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has a solution to the HBO leaks
Game of Thrones is having a great season, and it is pressing all the right buttons. Season 7 aims to set the tone for the end of the show, and it has been doing it really well, while getting consistently high ratings. However, despite this success, HBO is having a tough time, with all the leaks that are happening. If the massive leak which supposedly leaked out 1.5 TB of sensitive data from HBO's private archives was not enough, Season 7 episodes have been leaking, too. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays the role of Jaime Lannister, has the solution to these leaks, he recently said in an interview. Read on!
Speaking on EW Morning Live, Entertainment Weekly's Radio show, Nikolaj addressed the leak. He said it was ironic, because HBO was being extra careful this year :
"The irony, of course, is last year was crazy. We had to set up all these email accounts. They had to be triple and quadruple [checked]. All this stuff, right? And, of course, now they have this big hack!"
He continued :
"And then we get a call [saying] 'They have all your information. And we're not sure what's going to happen' What do you mean you don't know what's going to happen? 'Well, we don't know what's going to happen but they have everything.' Okay, great."
Nikolaj said that there was a way to stop the leaks from happening :
"I think they're basically going to go back to hand-delivering and just giving us scripts. Just give us the hard copies instead of all this email and digital stuff. I think that's what's going to happen in a few years' time, because you know, you talk to cops on the street, 'What's the biggest crime now?' It's all credit card fraud. It's all that stuff. It's digital. So we got to go back to cash."
Makes sense, actually. What do you think? Could this work in stopping the leaks? Talk to us in the comments, down below!
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Organisations that start strategic conversations by exploring the simple questions, 'What are the "big waves" of change heading our way and what do they mean for our organisation?' and 'What kind of "surfboard" do we need to build to ride them', are better placed to address the effects of uncertainty through their strategy (Frisch, B, 2012).
Undertaking robust analyses of what's happening in the world, the industry, and within organisations, is critical for clients to build an evidence base and a common reference point to draw upon when engaging in strategic thinking and strategic planning. We suggest that clients adopt a diagnostic approach that sorts data into patterns, and replaces the overwhelming complexity of reality with a simple story from which levers for action can be identified.
In a previous Right Lane Review article, we described our approach to strategy development. It involves asking unassuming but challenging strategic questions like: Where will we compete? How will we win? and What capabilities do we need to build? (Levy 2016). We ask clients to spend time 'upstairs' thinking about these questions, and, only when they've been satisfactorily answered, 'move downstairs' into strategic planning discussions covering goals, measures and priority initiatives. This sequence is shown in the following chart and this link (Strategic thinking before strategic planning).
offsites – we encourage clients to undertake robust analyses of what's happening in the world, their industries and their organisations, so that they have an evidence base and a common reference point to draw upon.
This sounds obvious enough, but over hundreds of strategy and planning engagements we've found that it's common for the analysis phase to be foregone or given short shrift. Leaders don't always see the value in it. Why? Only recently one of the exec team has done some strategic analysis; a consulting firm's report includes a section on industry analysis; an external report or some market research traverses some of the ground; leaders may believe that their senior teams already know what they need to know.
This reminds us of an Indian parable of four blind men walking through a forest who come across an elephant. Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant's body and describes the elephant based on their experience. One feels the trunk and describes it as a snake, another feels a leg and describes it as a pillar. What happens next depends on who is telling the story. In some versions, the men suspect the others and come to blows. In another version, they stop talking, start listening and collaborate to 'see' the full elephant.
Richard Rumelt, in his book Good strategy, bad strategy, calls this analysis a diagnosis and notes that 'an especially insightful diagnosis can transform one's view of the situation, bringing a radically different perspective to bear'. And with radically different perspectives can come different opportunities.
A financial services organisation realised that taken for granted assumptions about the demographic profile of its membership were incorrect, leading to a reappraisal of its marketing programs.
A representative organisation identified that its growth would come from industries and member cohorts that it was not explicitly targeting.
A government enterprise discovered that long term trends in its financial performance gave it less time to change its business model than it previously thought.
A deeper understanding of a retail business's stakeholder intentions led to a change in the way it framed its strategic options.
A facilities manager came to the conclusion that its prospects would be enhanced by privileging one type of customer over another.
Is there an opportunity to identify a handful of hitherto unknown, strategically material insights among the overwhelming morass of analysis that is typical within organisations today?
Will everyone bring the same understanding of the organisation's performance and health (Davis, 2005), situation and prospects to the strategic thinking and planning discussions?
Does the organisation have a contemporary 'house view' about how changes in the world will impact the organisation and its business model?
We suggest that clients adopt an evidence-based approach to discussing the elephant in their boardroom. One that links data into patterns, and replaces the overwhelming complexity of reality with a simple story from which levers for action can be identified.


It's time to ask what happened to what Lazarsfeld and Stanton (1944:vii) casually called' 'the discipline of communications research." Much of the history of this enterprise, discipline or not, can be written as a set of continuing arguments with Paul Lazarsfeld. Far from subsiding, these arguments have become more pointed in the last decade.
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Public Opinion Quarterly following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at: http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/4_PART_2.toc.


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Is Troy Cooley M. Yass?
Troy Cooley has been named as the interim head coach of Australia while Greg Chappell gets his resume in order.
It's hard to warm to this news, it's like finding out that a band who's first album was kinda ok is making a come back by playing their greatest hits in your kitchen.
In my self acclaimed new book 'Australian Autopsy' I posed the question of whether Mitchell Johnson actually exists, or whether he is just a construct of Troy Cooley.
It made sense at the time. Now I realise that I might have got this all wrong.
It's more possible that Troy Cooley is the myth.
A administracratic fudge that has never been correctly audited.
This is where we need Alex Gibney and a documentary crew, because, what does anyone know about him?
They say he played first class cricket for Tasmania, but no one watches first class cricket in Tasmania, only %30 of shidl fans know they are one of the six sides.
I mean if you are going to invent a first class cricketer, Derbyshire, Otago, Leeward Islands and Tasmania are surely safest options.
Even his numbers for Tasmania don't add up. 33 first class matches with a bowling average of 61 and a batting average of 9. Surely no one would continue to pick someone with those figures. What is more likely, the selectors kept picking him, or when putting in a fake record some administracrat put in wrong numbers?
Then his List A are 4 matches with a bowling average of 21. Come 0n, this isn't even pretending to be real.
They say he coached the England bowlers in the 2005 Ashes. There are photos of a man with the team, but if no one ever saw Troy Cooley before that, how would they know if it was Troy Cooley. There was occasionally a picture of a tall man taken during that time.
That series led to him be lauded as the best bowling coach on earth. But the ECB didn't offer him an extension of his contract, or any contract from what I can tell, and he just left.
I mean if this really was the bowling supercoach, why would he just be allowed to leave o easily? It doesn't add up.
Then "Cooley" turns up in Australia. The man in the photo pays a passing resemblance to the other Cooley, but if I took 12 random men off the street and put Cooley in the middle of them, would anyone know which one was Cooley?
So photos and first class record don't prove that Cooley is a real being.
What else can? Surely not Mitchell Johnson's record or Kabbir Ali's career.
There is no way to prove that Cooley is real or not.
But then, how did Cooley come into the cricket world you lazily whine.
Easy. You can imagine some Tasmanian official thinking, "We need to make cut backs. We don't really need a bowling coach, do we? I can't leave the box blank, because then people will question it. Troy Cooley, that sounds real."
Suddenly Troy Cooley is real. And everyone time a cricket photographer has a unidentified tall man in their frame, they either cut him out or say it's Troy Cooley.
If it is possible that Troy Cooley was an average bowler turned handy bowling coach, coached one amazing attack, confused some bowlers, struggled with a mediocre attack and then became a head national coach on a temporary basis, isn't it also possible that Troy Cooley is not a real man but just a name that people keep writing in empty boxes.


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HSSF and XSSF Examples

HSSF and XSSF common examples

Apach POI comes with a number of examples that demonstrate how you
        can use the POI API to create documents from "real life".
        The examples below based on common XSSF-HSSF interfaces so that you
        can generate either *.xls or *.xlsx output just by setting a
        command-line argument:

        BusinessPlan -xls
          or
        BusinessPlan -xlsx

All sample source is available in SVN

In addition, there are a handful of
         HSSF only and
         XSSF only examples as well.

Available Examples

        The following examples are available:

Common HSSF and XSSF

Business Plan

Calendar

Loan Calculator

Timesheet

Conditional Formats

Formula Examples

Add Dimensioned Image

Aligned Cells

Cell Style Details

Linked Dropdown Lists

Common SS Performance Test

To HTML

To CSV

HSSF-Only

XSSF-Only

Business Plan

 The BusinessPlan
        application creates a sample business plan with three phases, weekly iterations and time highlighting. Demonstrates advanced cell formatting
        (number and date formats, alignmnets, fills, borders) and various settings for organizing data in a sheet (freezed panes, groupped rows).

Calendar

 The Calendar
        demo creates a multi sheet calendar. Each month is on a separate sheet.

Loan Calculator

 The LoanCalculator
        demo creates a simple loan calculator. Demonstrates advance usage of cell formulas and named ranges.

Timesheet

 The Timesheet
        demo creates a weekly timesheet with automatic calculation of total hours. Demonstrates advance usage of cell formulas.

Conditional Formats

 The ConditionalFormats
        demo is a collection of short examples showing what you can do with Excel conditional formating in POI:

Highlight cells based on their values

Highlight a range of cells based on a formula

Hide errors

Hide the duplicate values

Highlight duplicate entries in a column

Highlight items that are in a list on the worksheet

Highlight payments that are due in the next thirty days

Shade alternating rows on the worksheet

Shade bands of rows on the worksheet

Formula Examples

The CalculateMortgage
        example demonstrates a simple user-defined function to calculate
        principal and interest.

The CheckFunctionsSupported
        example shows how to test what functions and formulas aren't
        supported from a given file.

The SettingExternalFunction
        example demonstrates how to use externally provided (third-party)
        formula add-ins.

The UserDefinedFunctionExample
        example demonstrates how to invoke a User Defined Function for a
        given Workbook instance using POI's UDFFinder implementation.

Add Dimensioned Image

The AddDimensionedImage
        example demonstrates how to add an image to a worksheet and set that
        images size to a specific number of millimetres irrespective of the
        width of the columns or height of the rows.

Aligned Cells

The AligningCells
        example demonstrates how various alignment options work.

Cell Style Details

The CellStyleDetails
        example demonstrates how to read excel styles for cells.

Linked Dropdown Lists

The LinkedDropDownLists
        example demonstrates one technique that may be used to create linked
        or dependent drop down lists.

Common SS Performance Test

The SSPerformanceTest
        example provides a way to create simple example files of varying
        sizes, and to calculate how long they take. Useful for benchmarking
        your system, and to also test if slow performance is due to Apache
        POI itself or to your own code.

ToHtml

 The ToHtml
        example shows how to display a spreadsheet in HTML using the classes for spreadsheet display.

ToCSV

The ToCSV
        example demonstrates one way to convert an Excel spreadsheet into a CSV file.

HSSF-only Examples

All the HSSF-only examples can be found in
         SVN

CellComments

HyperlinkFormula

EventExample

OfficeDrawingWithGraphics

CreateDateCells

NewWorkbook

EmeddedObjects

Hyperlinks

OfficeDrawing

HSSFReadWrite

NewSheet

SplitAndFreezePanes

InCellLists

RepeatingRowsAndColumns

MergedCells

CellTypes

ZoomSheet

ReadWriteWorkbook

CreateCells

Alignment

FrillsAndFills

AddDimensionedImage

Borders

NewLinesInCells

WorkingWithFonts

BigExample

Outlines

XLS2CSVmra

SViewer

SVFractionalFormat

SVTableCellEditor

SVBorder

DoubleStroke

BasicBrush

Brush

PendingPaintings

SVTableCellRenderer

SViewerPanel

SVTableUtils

SVTableModel

SVSheetTable

SVRowHeader

XSSF-only Examples

All the XSSF-only examples can be found in
         SVN

ScatterChart

CellComments

HeadersAndFooters

CreateUserDefinedDataFormats

CreatePivotTable

FillsAndColors

WorkingWithBorders

BigGridDemo

CreateTable

CalendarDemo

AligningCells

SplitAndFreezePanes

WorkingWithPageSetup

WorkingWithPictures

MergingCells

CustomXMLMapping

SelectedSheet

EmbeddedObjects

WorkbookProperties

NewLinesInCells

Outlining

CreateCell

IterateCells

LineChart

WorkingWithFonts

HyperlinkExample

ShiftRows

WorkingWithRichText

FitSheetToOnePage

Outlining

XLSX2CSV

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Half Chinese British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches Wimbledon third round
Resonate Team 2 July 2021
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The 18-year-old was born in Canada to a Romanian father and Chinese mother
British wildcard Emma Raducanu has beaten Marketa Vondrousova to reach the third round of Wimbledon.
The 18-year-old beat the former French Open finalist in straight sets 6-2 6-4.
Raducanu, who finished her A-levels two months ago, was born in Canada to a Romanian father and Chinese mother.
"Just to be able to be at the championships, I feel like I'm on a holiday," she said. "It's unbelievable. I just want to stay here for as long as I can."
Wimbledon 2021 marks Raducanu's Grand Slam debut. She is ranked 338th in the world and will next face Sorana Cirstea.
Raducanu defeated Russia's Vitalia Diatchenko in the first round on Wednesday, before beating Czech world number 41 Vondrousova.
She is also the youngest British woman to reach the Wimbledon third round since Elena Baltacha did in 2002.
"I think from a young age, my parents always drilled into me that my attitude was the most important thing, and it's either going to make or break my career," she told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"Now I'm the one who is leading that and I find that's the best way I cope with those pressured situations."
In other sports news, the victim of anti-Asian hate and her daughter have been honoured by throwing the first pitch at the New York Yankees stadium.
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It all began with a battery charger, which lit up a dark period in history, simplifying the lives of Berliners during the Airlift. The original name of the company back in 1948, when it was founded by the electrical engineer Hermann Bansbach, was Semperlux – meaning always light. Quite a few things have changed since then but one thing has remained – our passion for innovation, for first-class design and outstanding lighting solutions, which we use for the sustainable design of living spaces. Always closely connected with human beings and their needs, our aim is to enhance quality of life. Today, the Selux brand is a name with a long tradition that stands for modular, intuitively understood products and product families that blend perfectly into smart cities.
Over the past 70 years, we have had the pleasure of working on some of the most attractive lighting projects in the world. Together with our partners, we redesigned the lighting on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin with the Hardenberg candelabrum, rebuilt the historic Schupmann candelabra that illuminate the Unter den Linden boulevard and Pariser Platz by the Brandenburg Gate. Selux luminaires also adorn Oxford Street in London, the Old Port of Marseilles, the former container harbour Barangaroo Reserve in Sydney and the 9⁄11 Memorial in New York.
Since being founded 70 years ago, Selux head office has been located in the metropolis of Berlin, from where we still operate today, as well as from many other locations worldwide. We look forward to collaborating with you on the vision of a smart city, regardless of whether you are a planner, contracting authority, constructor or operator of exterior lighting.