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Nato a Goff's Oak, Hertfordshire da Arthur John Wells, un ingegnere della British Oxygen Company, dopo aver frequentato la City of London School, nel 1940 divenne apprendista installatore e studiò come allievo esterno dell'Università di Londra. Nel 1941 ottenne un titolo intermedio di B. Sc. Dopo due anni presso il Nottingham University College ottenne il titolo di 2ª classe in Ingegneria, diventando così ingegnere civile.

Nel giugno del 1950 sposò Rosemary Mitchell.

È stato l'inventore della turbina che porta il suo nome.

Onori e riconoscimenti
 1942 Premio Bayliss, Institution of Civil Engineers
 1946 Miller Premio, Institution of Civil Engineers
 1955 President's Gold Medal, Society of Engineers
 1956 Premium Award, Royal Institution of Naval Architects
 1964 Houdremont Lecture, International Institute of Welding
 1966 Medaglia Hadfield, Iron and Steel Institute
 1968 Medaglia Larke, Institute of Welding
 1969 Membro Onorario, Institute of Welding
 1973 Honorary Doctorate, Ghent University
 1975 Membro della Royal Irish Academy
 1977 Membro della Royal Society di Londra
 1979 Membro della Royal Academy of Engineering
 1982 Premio Rupert H. Myers, Università del Nuovo Galles del Sud
 1982 Ufficiale dellꞌOrdine dell'Impero Britannico
 1982 DSc (honoris causa), Università di Glasgow
 1983 Ludwig Tetmajer Award, Università tecnica di Vienna
 1984 Freedom of the City of London
 1986 DSc (honoris causa), Queen's University Belfast
 1986 Medaglia di Platino, Institute of Metals
 1987 Medaglia Edstrom, International Institute of Welding
 1994 Medaglia Esso, Royal Society
 1994 Premio Yoshiaki Arata, International Institute of Welding
 1999Membro onorario dellꞌInstitution of Mechanical Engineers
 2003 Nominato per il Professional Members Building and Library at the TWI, Abington

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Chase Elliott and crew chief Alan Gustafson
Chase Eliot driving the #9 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Henrik Motorsport as full time NASCAR Cup Series The driver is having one of the best seasons so far, topping the points table for most of the 2022 season, even without a win, until earning his first in 10 regular-season races DuraMAX Drydene 400 In the Dover International Speedway followed by his second coming out of the Nashville Superspeedway after the free weekend.
Chase Elliott was crowned as the 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Winner and he also took home the prize money after winning NASCAR All-Star Racing that same year he also won the 2014 NASCAR Nationwide Series, which is now the NASCAR Xfinity Series and he is currently in a position where he can probably win his second championship but only time will tell and his too Ally 400 The ending drew attention after the warning didn't come out Brad Keselowski and Cole Custer touched the outside wall and he also chose not to pit on the final laps of the race.
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"Absolutely, yes, that was the difference," Alan Gustafson, Chase Elliott's crew chief, explains why they managed to stay out of the box
Chase Elliott celebrates his victory in Nashville 2022
Chase Elliott and the team decided to stay away from the pits and keep going during the finale and key moments of the race and when Alan Gustavson When asked about this, he replied that his absence made the difference and with the No. 19 out Martin Truex Jr. and No.18 of Kyle Bush Catching them on fresh tires would be problematic but he was sure that wouldn't happen as he had a pretty good lead and it was quite an intense race.
"Absolutely, yes, that was the difference. I think the 18 is safe – the 19 was really good. The 18 was really good. The 18 was really fast on the short runs, so if he's running around us on new tires it's game over. Yes, he just – my expectation was that he wouldn't come that close and I had a feeling it was going to be tough – usually there's enough chaos in front of you that you can't leave anyway. said Chase Elliott's crew chief Alan Gustafson.
He added by talking about the other riders that were quite useful to Elliott who would make it difficult for the guys with new tires to overtake and fight for the win and noting that Kyle Larson, Kurt Busch who recently won at Kansas Speedway and Ryan Blaneythe riders, all of whom have been doing pretty well so far, he was confident it was better to stay out and they had to comply, and they did.
"When I saw there were four or five really good cars, guys that weren't easy to overtake. When I saw that, I felt better. You never know. But then you can't just say, oh, Kyle. You have to focus on Kurt. He's not a wimp; The guy is a great racer. He just won in Kansas and this team did really well. So you have Kurt and you have Kyle Larson and Ryan, all these guys, super good drivers and good teams. Still had to run" concluded Chase Elliott's crew chief Alan Gustafson.
He's at #1 with Chase Elliott now holding a strong lead over everyone for a whileSt In the points table, it wouldn't be surprising if he ended up winning the 2022 Cup Series championship.
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Not content to just wait around, we cycled down to the little store by the camp site and picked up lunch fixings. Someone (Mike?) had cards so we started what would be a long weekend of card playing.
Jer! Once the car arrived we fell into deploy mode and started setting up camp. Start with the tents - don't want to be too close to the fire or too far from dinner table, want to be facing the right direction.
The camp site is just like every other government camp site - thick pad of gravel - too firm to drive tent pegs, too loose to hold them. The pup tents set up quickly and we went on to the tarps.
For some reason every year it rains. We're now prepared for it at least one tarp to cover the dinner area, and tents that are half decently rain proof.
This year's tarp design was a little different that others - we used a guy line strung at 20 feet between two trees and then pulled the other two corners out. It was just luck that the tarp covered the table but had air space for the stove, covered the area close to the fire but didn't collect smoke.
The firewood supply was free but not particularly plentiful. We got three pieces of wood a night, but they were green and each had a knot in them. Thankfully Jesse brought his axe and we could (with lots of work) break the wood up into burnable chunks.
Eric had the forethought to bring two badminton rackets and with a little work we had a court set up. Jer's chairs were used to form the cheerleading section and it was game on.
Besides badminton, we also played some wacky games of beach ball volleyball, but the camp site is elevated above the surrounding area so the ball would often roll out of play.
Camping isn't camping without tents full of stuff. Four days seemed a little long because we didn't have showers (save a dip in the lake), so we should look into showers on the next trip (if only to keep Jeremy from whining).
Mike and his code. Besides all the hours of card games we also talked tech, and caught up with what's happened in the last year.
And then it rained. We only had one real night of rain, but a few things went wrong. In Sean and my tent, Sean placed all his clothes along the wall and they were wet the next morning. In Jer's tent the tarp funneled water under the tent and soaked their piece of foam. Similarly, in David and Karen's tent the ground sheet helped water get under the tent.
Once the tents were wet, the slugs moved in. At one point Mark's tent had four slugs on it, including this 6 inch beauty.
All good things - Monday comes around we have to disassemble the camp site and get ready for the cycle ride home. It took us a day or two to figure out we could move the other picnic table, but it was more convenient to have them both together.


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'SNL' Scales Back Holiday Episode With Paul Rudd After Covid-19 Outbreak
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by Jacob LindenDecember 20, 2021, 11:40 amDecember 20, 2021, 11:40 amDecember 20, 2021, 11:40 amDaily Digest, Home Featured, News, News Feed, Reviews, TV >
In an announcement posted the day of its airing, Saturday Night Live revealed that its last episode of 2021 will be shooting without an audience, and with a limited cast and crew, due to rising cases of the Omicron variant in New York City. The show posted the following to its official Twitter account:
Due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution, there will be no live audience for tonight's taping of "Saturday Night Live" and the show will have limited cast and crew.
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 18, 2021
A following tweet also said that "The show continues to follow all government safety guidelines in addition to a rigorous testing protocol." While show host Paul Rudd still took to the much-quieter stage for a Cold Open and to introduce some sketches, musical guest Charli XCX was unable to perform at all Saturday night.
In the Cold Open, Rudd celebrated his fifth time hosting the show with other five-time SNL hosts Tina Fey and Tom Hanks. Rudd even received a funny video message from another five-timer, Steve Martin, and managed to keep the show moving despite how unusual of an episode it was.
Kenan Thompson and Weekend Update co-host Michael Che were the only main cast members to make an appearance in the SNL studio, populating the audience as well. The show aired several pre-taped sketches, the highlight being "HomeGoods" with Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon.
Along with their pre-taped sketches, SNL aired some favorite holiday sketches from seasons past, including The Lonely Island's "Dick In A Box" music video, and the old Steve Martin monologue "Steve Martin's Holiday Wish."
Fey even got to flex her Weekend Update chops again when she took Colin Jost's place for a stripped-back rendition of the show's current events segments. They sat back in Director's Chairs on the main stage taking turns spitting out topical gags. Even though it's been a while since we've seen Fey behind the Update desk and she stumbled on delivery occasionally, she had a great rapport with Che.
Saturday Night Live has not confirmed any hosts or musical guests for their 2022 episodes, and it remains to be seen whether the Omicron surge will necessitate further delaying of show tapings.
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Q: Gradle includeBuild vs implementation project What is the key difference between includeBuild(...) and implementation(project(...)) in the Gradle build system? I cannot really see the usecase difference after reading the documentation:

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*https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_dependencies.html#sub:project_dependencies

*https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/composite_builds.html#separate_composite
What I am trying to do: Share same codebase for two separate projects: data classes (kotlix.serialization), external database dao, interfaces. It is not a full library but just some code snippets.
How can I connect the two projects in Intellij so that type hinting works?

A: Composite Build (by using includeBuild) is a way to create a dependency between autonomous Gradle Projects.
Project import, is a way to create a dependency between two modules within a same Gradle Project.
Composite Build is far more powerful and is also meant to be the new way of factorizing gradle configuration between multiple projects that you traditionally do with the buildSrc technique.
I found this "Structuring Large Projects" article to be easier to read than the "Composite Builds" doc.
An excellent sample project that demonstrates the power of Composite Builds can be found in Gradle sample_structuring_software_projects.
Project dependency case
The tree would look like this:
settings.gradle.kts
module1/build.gradle.kts
module2/build.gradle.kts

And you are declaring a dependency in module1/build.gradle.kts like this:
dependencies {
   implementation(project("com.domain:module2"))
}

The dependency will be resolved only if both projects are declared as sub-modules of a common root project.
It means you have a root settings.gradle.kts like this:
rootProject.name = "rootProject"
include(":module1")
include(":module2")

Composite build case
The projects do not need to have common "umbrella" root project.
Each project is a totally independent project.
One project can simply declare a dependency on the other project (without even the target project knowing about it).
Tree:
project1/build.gradle.kts
project1/settings.gradle.kts
project2/build.gradle.kts
project2/settings.gradle.kts

In project1/settings.gradle.kts:
rootProject.name = "project1"
includeBuild("../project2") //No more ':' as it is not a module

In project2/settings.gradle.kts:
rootProject.name = "project2"

In project1/build.gradle.kts like this:
dependencies {
   implementation("com.domain:project2")
}

A: I have the same problem. Reading on the first link, the next para says:

Local forks of module dependencies
A module dependency can be substituted by a dependency to a local fork
  of the sources of that module, if the module itself is built with
  Gradle. This can be done by utilising composite builds. This allows
  you, for example, to fix an issue in a library you use in an
  application by using, and building, a locally patched version instead
  of the published binary version. The details of this are described in
  the section on composite builds.

So, it should be implementation project according to me.
P.S. The code completion is working on one of my sub project but not on the other. I am still trying to figure that out

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5 reasons Strike of Kings is perfectly designed to be the next big mobile eSport
A look at Tencent's mobile MOBA and how it all comes together
June 7th 2017, 12:00 BST
By Ric Cowley, Editor
Honor of Kings is one of the top mobile games in China at the moment – it's got over 50 million daily active users, most of which are based in its home country, and regularly tops the grossing charts there too.
It's also pushing out beyond its roots under a wealth of different names, including Penta Storm in South Korea, Realm of Valor in Thailand and now Strike of Kings in Europe.
While it's definitely proven itself as a competitive game with an engaged audience, its real potential lies in it being the next "big" mobile eSport.
Mobile eSports are yet to take off to the extent that PC eSports has, but not for lack of trying – just look at the effort Super Evil Megacorp has put into growing Vainglory, or Supercell's attempts with Clash Royale.
But one thing everyone can agree on is that if a game is going to take off, it needs to be properly designed for the task.
To determine whether Strike of Kings was up to snuff, we decided to take a deep look into the game and how it plays, and found five reasons why its design means it could be the next big mobile eSport.
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It has 5v5 as the norm
When you think MOBA, you think League of Legends – it's one of the biggest games in the world, and it just so happens to have set the standards for what a MOBA is (forgetting Defence of the Ancients for a second).
One of the most recognisable aspects of LoL is that it has two teams of five people battling it out on three lanes. It's become such a staple for the genre that to see anything else feels off somehow.
Stick to the script
So rather than messing with the formula, Strike of Kings just accepts it, and puts players into 5v5 matches as standard – though 3v3 and 1v1 variations are available.
An aerial view of Strike of Kings' 5v5 map
Lanes run across the top, through the middle, and at the bottom of the battlefield, with a "jungle" in the middle filled with monsters that can give players an XP boost if they dare venture in. It also allows for sneak attacks from all sides if a teamfight happens to go down.
From a viewing perspective, 5v5 makes the most sense. Fights can break out on opposing sides of the map, forcing players to completely change their plans, and providing plenty of opportunities for exciting action to take place.
And for the players, it's more fun too. There's more scope to go off and do your own thing without worrying about your team suddenly losing by a landslide, and it keeps you even more focused as you have to assess the situation across a wide area and act accordingly.
Fun for all
So taking the norm as standard here is a smart move – the core players who will turn the game into a successful eSport are going to be more interested in joining something they're already familiar with, rather than having to learn a whole new game.
And viewers are going to find themselves enjoying familiarity too, as they understand the rules in place and can more easily follow along with the action.
Other modes are available, but 5v5 is the first one you see
It keeps things (relatively) simple
As much as it sticks to some standard aspects of the MOBA, Strike of Kings does at least make some attempt at simplifying the experience for mobile.
For starters, because you're using a virtual joystick to move, the game handles targeting enemies for you – just hammer the attack button and you'll automatically start attacking an enemy within your attack radius.
This changes the focus from twitch gameplay to more team-focused tactics, as players have to worry less about their attacks landing and more about their own placement and overall strategy.
Abilities are just as simple too – you've only got three to use, and these follow the same targeting rules as your standard attack, though you do have the option to aim them if you want full control.
These auto-targeting features can also be heavily altered in the game's settings - should players want to gain more control over their targeting, or change which type of enemy the targeting prioritises, they can.
The wealth of options available to players for targeting
Shop 'til you drop
Most impressive is the upgrade system, which allows you to access the shop from wherever you are on the map to quickly buy items you need to level up your hero.
But you can also set an upgrade path before you enter a battle, which will then allow you to quick-buy the items as you play with a quick tap of an icon that shows up once you have enough gold.
Match times are also kept relatively short – usually no more than about 15 minutes at worst – and the map is a little smaller than your usual MOBA.
That may seem a tad long for a mobile game, but here it works well - there's plenty of time for different tactics to unfurl as the match goes on, while still being less of a time investment compared to PC MOBAs.
Put all that together and you get a well-paced experience that's relatively simple to get into, but offers enough depth that seasoned veterans will no doubt find exciting ways to use its systems.
The UI is kept relatively clean too - there's not a whole lot to see and do
It has voice and text chat in matches
It's unlikely to get much use in casual matches, but the ability to chat during a game is definitely an advantage for Strike of Kings if it's going to be taken seriously as an eSport.
The ability to chat with your team and work out strategies – as well as shout at them when you're in danger – is invaluable in the heat of battle.
And while it may not be as useful when there's an intense battle going on, the fact that you can send a quick message via text will undoubtedly prove useful when other means of communication aren't working.
That said, these systems aren't without their issues. For one, absolutely nobody uses voice chat at the moment, even in ranked matches, so its usefulness is yet to be truly determined.
Text chat is also largely useless on European servers too, thanks to the wide of spread of languages on show and a lack of translation within the service.
And it can be a bit fiddly to use - while there's preset barks you can deploy if needed, typing a long message brings up your device's keyboard, which takes you out of the game and causes a brief freeze as it loads.
But in a competitive context, either within guilds or during a live tournament, the voice chat will prove very useful indeed, and text chat might even find a home with some improvements.
Tooltips remind you that voice chat is an option at the start of every match
There's already a huge cast of characters
As in most games, offering the player as much choice as possible is going to keep them happy, but in MOBAs, having an enormous cast of playable character is essential.
League of Legends, for example, currently has 134 champions to choose from. Dota 2, another hugely popular PC MOBA, has 112.
The range of characters allows for interesting match-ups in competitive games, which makes for exciting viewing of the matches – particularly when a player uses a hero that nobody expects.
Building the roster
Strike of Kings hasn't been around as long as its PC counterparts, but it's already making headway on its hero count, with 36 characters currently playable and more already on the way.
This means that even now you'll see a range of different characters in battle, particularly as players work out the best match-ups and strategies possible.
And there's also plenty of scope for Tencent to make some money early on – new champions don't go cheap, and highly engaged players will want to buy them right away.
There's plenty of characters to buy, and they don't come cheap
It's enjoyable to play even when you're a newbie
Let's face it – the biggest eSports at this moment in time are now so full of highly-skilled players that it's quite a daunting task to jump in and start playing.
And if an eSport is going to survive, it needs people who find the game engaging enough to play even when they have no idea what they're doing, so that they too can develop their skills and become a pro.
Thankfully, Strike of Kings immediately throws new players into a short but very helpful tutorial, and it isn't long before you're in real matches against fellow new players.
And even if you're not really a fan of MOBAs, the simplictity of the controls and the gameplay overall is such that you'll find yourself having fun even if you're truly dreadful and just end up dying every two minutes.
Even losing is fun - there's no real penalty for being bad, so long as you see the game through to the end, and you learn a bit more about how to play the game and deploy new tactics after watching yourself get steamrolled for the third time in a row.
And you are going to lose. Play enough ranked matches and you'll eventually face off against players who take the game very seriously, and use tactics you never would have dreamed of, allowing you to learn from them and improve.
Given the tactical options available, just watching other matches in future could act as a way for players to educate themselves on new strategies, as well as offering an entertaining spectacle for more casual viewers.
If it takes off as an eSport, viewers who have never played the game before will be quick to give it a try themselves, and if even a small number of these players stick at it long enough to become professional, it'll create its own self-sustaining livestock of pro teams.
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Silverton Considers Growing Kendall Mountain
Silverton, Colorado – population 650 – is home to two ski areas with a grand total of two double chairlifts. The smaller of the two at just 16 acres, owned and operated by the town, is Kendall Mountain. Silverton recently commissioned SE Group to study possibilities for additional ski terrain and year round recreation. The viability assessment, released last month, is very intriguing.
Kendall Mountain Recreation Area's current lift, installed in 2006, is a 1972 Poma double with a 1990 return terminal. The lift has a design capacity of 800 people per hour (pph), but currently operates at 760 pph. It rises only 263 vertical feet on a mountain that stretches some 3,500 feet above the top terminal. The setup reminds me of Whitetooth before Kicking Horse or Powder Springs pre-Revelstoke Mountain Resort. Both were modest community ski areas at the bases of large mountains transformed into destinations by private developers. Silverton isn't currently considering anything on the scale of the new British Columbia resorts but the project could eventually yield Colorado's third largest vertical drop in a place known for epic snowfall.
As part of its public outreach, the town held multiple community meetings to gain feedback over the past year. Top priorities residents came up with at a first brainstorming session were expanded lifts and terrain. SE Group identified excellent ski terrain on the central part of the mountain with a large quantity of terrain suitable for ability levels from novice up to advanced. Importantly, the mountain's high elevation would provide desirable snow conditions without the need for snowmaking.
SE Group also notes there is potential for Silverton to rise in popularity as a ski destination, benefiting both Silverton Mountain and Kendall Mountain as well as nearby Purgatory Resort. The study concludes that "expanded skiing infrastructure on Kendall Mountain would benefit the existing Silverton Mountain Ski Area by providing a complimentary experience that would draw additional visitors to the area during the winter season." Silverton currently offers guided lift and helicopter skiing for experts only.
The core plan is four new fixed grip triple chairlifts with 1,800 per hour capacities. Each would be under 3,500 feet long, reducing the need for detachable technology. The first option would occupy a mix of Bureau of Land Management lands and private mining claims with total vertical soaring to 3,700 feet – an increase of over 1,300 percent. Under this scenario, Lift 3 would become the first in the nation to top out over 13,000 feet. Five lifts would service more than 800 acres of terrain, equivalent to Eldora or Monarch Mountain but with more vertical. Comfortable carrying capacity would be 2,000 skiers, up from 160 today. A second map demonstrates how lifts could be built entirely on public land. Vertical would be 3,500 feet with a summit at 12,800 feet (still the second highest in the country if built today.) Acreage is more modest, however, around 300.
Like many other towns with ski areas, Silverton isn't really a ski town. The super successful Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is expected to deliver more than 200,000 visitors next summer. The town recently added a disc golf course at Kendall and hosts many events at the base lodge, which doubles as a community center. SE Group says a zip tour, alpine slide, scenic lift rides, hiking and biking could all be offered in the future. The entire plan encompassing expanded summer and winter activities could cost $25 million to develop. If all of the capital costs were paid for without a loan, the assessment calculated the break even point would be 71,044 visits. With financing and interest in play, it would take 116,299 visitors for the town to begin to make a profit.
Then there's this line: "If it is desired to have a detachable lift or gondola or tram or anything else, those are all certainly possible, but would be up to an order of magnitude more expensive." This is where I see the potential for a public-private partnership. In some ways, the railroad passengers are like cruise ship passengers being dropped off for hours in ports seeking adventure. Successful lift-based cruise excursions include the Mt. Roberts Tramway in Alaska and the Rainforest Adventures franchise throughout Central America and the Caribbean.
It just so happens one of the most prolific ski resort developers of the current era is based at the other end of the railroad. In a statement to the Durango Herald, the company that operates six ski resorts throughout the Southwest says, "While it's very early in the process, Mountain Capital Partners, which owns and manages Purgatory Resort, is interested in exploring a potential partnership with the town of Silverton to expand the ski terrain at Kendall Mountain."
James Coleman, Managing Partner of MCP, has what some would consider a full plate: A possible base-to-summit chondola at Arizona Snowbowl, the first lift-served bike park in Texas, an Element by Westin hotel with its own high speed lift at Purgatory, three new lifts proposed for Sipapu and a 4.3 mile gondola idea in Utah. But if he's up for it, a Kendall Mountain project could bring success with great snow, established summer traffic and broad community support.
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Chris December 22, 2018 / 10:04 am
They could follow Telluride's example. Currently Telluride does more summer business than winter ski business.
Also, I would not necessarily categorize Silverton's snowfall as amazing. Silverton ski resort measures snow basis on the lee side of the ridge which gets 2x snow blow in via wind / westerlies. The 400′ is highly suspect – as well as the deep ski base. Selective measurement.
Resolve.Action.Love (@Snowman55403) December 22, 2018 / 10:57 am
All fixed grip lifts seems like a fine option for a ski area of this proposed size. Ride times should be under 7 minutes at 500 fpm. On the other hand, a gondola or chondola from base to the top of the proposed lift 2, which I'd guess to be about 11,000 ft, would provide good summer view and hike+bike access, and serve the beginner pod during times when (in the future this is gonna matter a lot – 9,600ft is below the freeze line.
Resorts/ski areas, and communities that rely on them, will need to really plan for a warmer and potentially less snowy future. Would this area be able to get a permit for at least limited snowmaking? They might literally just need as little as 60 acres (half of the beginner "pod 2" acreage, to have a couple skiable runs early season for lessons and holiday certainty of something open.)
Ryan December 22, 2018 / 4:34 pm
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is thought to be responsible for starting a large damaging forest fire in the area this past summer and they are not on too good of terms with the community right now. I hope it sticks around but would not be surprised if they fold. Thoughts?
Paul Manafort December 22, 2018 / 9:10 pm
Looks like they are switching the coal fired locomotives to oil and buying some new diesel locomotives.
https://durangoherald.com/articles/235119
Are they going to replace the existing lift?
MR March 6, 2019 / 6:32 pm
Purgatory has an average of 300 skiers per day. This proposal says Silverton's small ski area needs 1000 skiers per day in order not to lose money on every skier. With the passes closed for avalanche control as they have been this year, exactly how are 1000 skiers per day going to get to Silverton? The plan for parking is in an avalanche zone at the end of town. Guessing for a large amount of employees with no housing in Silverton. Dream on.
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Or as the Brits say, "bike." And we're not talking cycling. I just finished drooling over the first four seasons of the Great British Baking Show, for the second time, and can't wait for Season 5. My latest TV addiction, GBBS, is thoroughly entertaining without being treacly. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood preside over brigades of British bakers who go "dough to dough" over the course of ten weeks to try to bring home the blue ribbon. Once I tuned in, it was love at first bite. In an enormous white tent set in the English countryside, 12 amateur bakers chosen from thousands compete in three weekly challenges- the signature bake, the technical, and the showstopper. With one unlucky soul voted off each week, it's like Survivor but with spatulas.
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Not only do the bakers come to feel like family after we see clips of them with their loved ones and colleagues at home and at work, but watching them create sweet and savory delicacies from scratch is the icing on the cake. If you're counting carbs this may not be the show for you, but if you have a pinch of self-control it's a great way to indulge your cravings vicariously. It can also be pure torture. While the competitors labor to produce the perfect Black Forest gateau or quintessentially British Bakewell tart, I press pause and scour my kitchen for something- anything- sweet.
Handsome blue-eyed Paul Hollywood, dubbed the Queen of Mean by Mel, can reduce a baker to tears with the words, "that's a mess," or simply, "it's a shame," while grandmotherly Mary Berry almost always finds something positive to say. After tasting one of lovely Ugne's Lithuanian cottage cheese cookies, Paul looked her in the eye and declared, "I don't like it." As she struggled to hide her disappointment, he admitted, "I love it." Mary's harshest critique, meanwhile, may have been, "it's a bit under baked, and the raspberry is bleeding into the sponge." She disdains a "soggy bottom," but her pronouncement of "scrummy" is highest praise.
I can now toss around culinary gems like genoise or crème patissiere (crème pat, to those in the know). Thanks to GBBS, I've added a wealth of colorful British expressions to my vocabulary. Aerospace engineer and Cambridge-educated Andy, who skipped graduation to practice for the Season 4 quarter-final, was "really really chuffed" when Paul liked his marjolaine. And to console Chetna- dismayed at having received a less than stellar review- Paul said, "don't lose your rag" over this. "Fiddly" ingredients, I found out, are particularly difficult to work with, and the bakers are forever "whacking" things into the oven, which is not nearly as violent as it sounds.
Realistically, I'll probably never make any of the petit fours, mini pear tarts, biscotti, or Victoria sandwich cakes myself. I can whip up a "cracking" carrot cake and my apple crisp is legendary, at least among my family. But when an early attempt at baking a German Chocolate cake with my teenage daughter went horribly wrong, I hung up my measuring spoons for good. I suspect Belfast-born Iain, following the infamous Baked Alaska meltdown of Season 2, could relate.
After a rival contestant inexplicably removed his ice cream extravaganza from the freezer on a hot summer day, poor Iain, in a fit of frustration, dumped the entire mess in the bin and stormed off. He was, unfortunately, eliminated as he had nothing to show the judges. The culprit, claiming illness, never returned to the tent.
Not all episodes are so fraught with drama, and one disastrous outcome does not automatically spell dismissal. (Spoiler alert: Despite her walnut cake placing last in a technical challenge, Nadiya went on to become the Season 3 winner and a minor celebrity herself. The following year she was asked to bake the Queen's 90th birthday cake.)
I was rooting for 17-year-old Martha from Season 1, who smiled through her tears and was so supportive of her fellow bakers that I was crushed when she was sent home. And how could you not love Richard, the rosy-cheeked builder with two adorable little girls, whose self-effacing humor made everyone laugh. I emailed my relative in South London that I was hooked on the show. She wrote back to admit, "it's been a bit of a viewing highlight for us over the years," adding "it sounds a bit sad."
It seems we're in excellent company. The Great British Bake Off, as it's called overseas, is one of the most popular programs in the U.K.
In the comfort of your own kitchen you can recreate some classics from the first season by borrowing The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking by Linda Collister. For the truly inspired, there's The Great British Bake Off: How to Turn Everyday Bakes into Showstoppers. It's full of mouthwatering photos and recipes for afternoon teas, bake sales, lunches with friends as well as scrummy desserts for dinner parties, birthdays, and other festive occasions. It also contains ideas for creating gorgeous garnishes using chocolate curls, spun sugar, and elegant piping to achieve that wow-factor every time.
Whether you're Michelangelo with a mixer or more of an armchair baker like myself, I challenge you to check out any of GBBS's five seasons on DVD and not end up binge-watching the entire series- or just plain bingeing.
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A massive explosion at an upstate New York home Tuesday morning killed a 92-year-old woman and damaged at least seven neighboring houses, according to reports.
The fiery blast in the Buffalo suburb of Lackawanna leveled the block and left at least one person, identified by authorities as Irene Sanok, dead, WKBW-TV said.
"A war zone," neighbor Michael Salamone told reporters. "I've never been in a war zone, but it looked like a war zone, debris all over.
"We had debris in our backyards, like, other side of the house," said Salamone, who is also a volunteer firefighter. "There's debris stuck in windshields."
A mattress sits amid debris on the roof of a nearby home after an explosion in a home in Lackawanna, NY, on July 20, 2021.
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Another neighbor called the deadly explosion it "absolutely mind-blowing."
"I was sleeping in bed and just heard, like, the whole earth move," Karen Buntich told the Buffalo News. "It really was that bizarre."
Firefighters responded to the scene on Bedford Avenue shortly before 7:30 a.m. and found a "large debris field," Lackawanna Fire Department Capt. Gary Strzelczyk said.
Authorities said the cause of the explosion is being investigated by local police and fire officials, with assistance from the Erie County Sheriff's Office and National Fuel.
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Galan will be the first ever documentarian inducted into the Hall of Fame. A San Angelo native, Galan, an incredibly prolific filmmaker, has made 11 episodes for PBS's "Frontline, contributed to the PBS series "The American Experience," and made the groundbreaking PBS mini-series "Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement," among many other films chronicling the Latino experience in all its forms. Hispanic Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential Hispanics and the Smithsonian Institute has screened a retrospective of his work in Washington, D.C.
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Reaching out to readers
Published 12:00 am CDT, Thursday, October 31, 2013
People can surely understand Diane Hollendonner's smile when she describes how much she loves her job.
As the Jacksonville Public Library's outreach librarian, Hollendonner spends her days visiting people who are unable to come visit her.
In her travels around Jacksonville, she delivers books, movies and audio books to the city's four nursing homes, Knollwood Retirement Village, Beecher and Turner high rises, Laborers Home Development sites on South Diamond Street and Labor Drive, Balsam Terrace and Spruce Manor on Lincoln Avenue and two private residences. She also makes occasional visits to the Morgan County Jail to restock its library with donated paperback books. "The inmates I talk to really appreciate the service because it helps pass the time," Hollendonner said.
"The outreach program is a service that the Jacksonville Public Library makes available to those patrons who are unable to come to the library on their own," Hollendonner said. The service is provided only to those who have a valid Jacksonville Public Library card.
"When I meet with homebound clients, I discuss with them their reading preferences and I set up a delivery schedule with them," she said. "Over time, I get to know people well enough that I can anticipate what authors and titles they would enjoy. Some patrons have specific requests. I have one patron at Knollwood whose interests range from baseball to the Panama Canal to evangelist Billy Sunday."
Hollendonner estimates that she delivers library materials to about 70 people every month.
The library's outreach program was started by Betty Pine in 1975, and she was succeeded by Hollendonner in 2001.
"I always thought Betty's job was the coolest job there ever was, and for the past 12 years I've had the wonderful opportunity to go around Jacksonville every day making people happy," Hollendonner said.
In addition to her deliver duties, Hollendonner is responsible for building the library's collection of large-print books.
She orders new books from large-print distributors, withdraws damaged and non-circulating large-print books from the collection and works with the Jacksonville Lions Club, which donates funds from its annual fruit sale to purchase large-print books.
Hollendonner also serves as the library's contact person for the Library of Congress Talking Book Program.
"With talking books, I register new users, assist them with the equipment and help them get the books they want," she said.
She also represents the library at community events, such as Prairie Council on Aging's Senior Day and the Morgan/Scott/Greene Planning Committee meetings at Passavant Area Hospital. She is also a member of the Jacksonville Area Senior Center board of directors.
"I do a monthly book talk at the Senior Center," Hollendonner said. "At those programs, I bring a stack of library books on a specific subject, talk a little about the books, and participants share stories about personal experiences related to the topic."
Hollendonner explained that the outreach program helps improve the lives and minds of those she visits.
"My patrons are all people who like to read," she said. "They like to read what is current and what everybody is talking about. It fills their days. When you can't go anywhere, the library materials offer the outreach program patrons a chance to escape from their daily routine. Many of my patrons have commented that they don't know what they would do without their books."
Hollendonner said anyone interested in signing up for homebound delivery service should contact her at the library.
"I enjoy building relationships with my patrons and experiencing the satisfaction of selecting just the right book that brings a smile to someone's face," she said. "And I really appreciate the library's director, Chris Ashmore, and its board for supporting this program over the years."
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 Chris Taylor (footballer, born 1985), English football player for Swindon Town
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19th century lithograph of William Price.
William Price (4 March 1800 – 23 January 1893) was a Welsh physician known for his support of Welsh nationalism, Chartism and his involvement with the Neo-Druidic religious movement. He has been recognised as one of the most significant figures of 19th-century Wales, and one of the most unusual inVictorian Britain.
Born to a lower-class household in Monmouthshire, Wales, he trained as a doctor in London, England before returning to Wales, becoming interested in the Chartists' socialist ideas regarding equal democratic rights for all men. Following their failed 1839 uprising, he escaped government persecution by fleeing to France, where he became convinced that an ancient prophecy predicted that he would liberate his country from English rule.
Returning to Wales, he tried reviving what he believed to be the religion of the ancient druids, the "Celtic" Iron Age ritual specialists of western Europe. In doing so, he became one of the most prominent proponents of the Neo-Druidic movement, something that had been developing since the Welsh nationalistIolo Morganwg's activities in the late 18th century. After cremating his dead son in 1884, Price was arrested and put on trial by those who believed cremation was illegal in Britain; however, he successfully argued that there was no legislation that specifically outlawed it, which paved the way for theCremation Act of 1902. Upon his death, he was cremated in a ceremony watched by 20,000 onlookers.
William Price was born in a cottage at Ty'n-y-coedcae Farm ("The House in the Wooded Field") in Risca, Monmouthshire on 4 March 1800. His father, also named William Price (1761–), was an ordained priest in the Church of England who had studied at Jesus College, Oxford, while his mother, Mary Edmunds (1767–1844), was an uneducated Welshwoman who had been a maidservant prior to her marriage. Their marital union was controversial because Mary was of a lower social standing than William, something which was socially taboo in late 18th century British society. The couple had three surviving children, Elisabeth (1793–1872), Mary (1797–1869) and Ann (1804–1878), prior to William's birth. Reverend Price suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness, acting erratically and experiencing fits of violent rage. He bathed either fully clothed or naked in local ponds, and collected snakes in his pockets for days at a time. Carrying a saw around, he removed bark from trees, then burning it while muttering certain words, also spitting onto stones, believing that it improved their value. His actions led to him becoming a threat to the local community, in one instance firing a gun at a woman whom he claimed was taking sticks from his hedgerow, and in another hurling a sharp implement at another man.
At home, Welsh was William's primary language, but he learned to speak English at school, which was located two miles from his home, in Machen. Although only staying at school for three years, between the ages of 10 and 13, he passed most exams and proved himself a successful student. After spending six months living at home, he decided to become a doctor despite his father's insistence that he become a solicitor. Travelling to Caerphilly in south Wales, in 1814 he became apprenticed to successful surgeon Evan Edwards, and paid for his tuition with money supplied by various family members. One of these benefactors, his uncle the Reverend Thomas Price of Merriott, Somerset, advised him to give up this education, arguing that it was putting too great a financial strain upon Price's family, but William was insistent that he should continue.
In 1820, his apprenticeship with Dr Edwards came to an end, and despite his lack of funds, he decided to move to London in order to continue his studies. Here he took up lodgings near to St Paul's Cathedral, and entered The London Hospital in Whitechapel for a year of instruction under Sir William Blizard. Around the same time, he also registered at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was under the instruction of surgeon John Abernethy. Gaining employment caring for wealthy clients to help financially support his studies, Price eventually became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, being awarded with a certificate signed by Blizard, Abernathy and others. Contemplating travelling to India following the culmination of his studies in London, he instead decided to return to Wales, where he would work as a general practitioner.
Becoming a trained doctor, Price returned to his homeland of Wales, initially setting up in his practice in his home district, before later moving to the newly industrialised Taff Valley near to Pontypridd. It was here that he was elected by the workforce to be the surgeon of the main chain-making plant in Pontypridd in 1823.
Being a proud Welsh nationalist, Price became friends with a wealthy family, the Guests, who held similar views, and gave a speech on Welsh history and literature at their Royal Eisteddfod in 1834, which Lady Charlotte Guest felt to be "one of the most beautiful and eloquent speeches that was ever heard". On the basis of it, he was invited to take up the job of judging the eisteddfod's bardic competition, with the prize being awarded to Taliesin, the son of the famous Welsh nationalist and Druid, Iolo Morganwg.
Meanwhile, his social conscience had led him to become a significant figure in the local Chartist movement, which was then spreading about the country, supporting the idea that all men should have the right to vote, irrespective of their wealth or social standing. Many of the Chartists in the industrial areas of southern Wales took up arms in order to ready themselves for revolution against the government, and Price himself aided them in gaining such weaponry, and according to government reports, by 1839 he had seven pieces of field artillery. That same year, the Newport Rising took place, when many of the Chartists and their working class supporters rose up against the authorities, only to be quashed by soldiers, who killed a number of the revolutionaries. Price himself had recognised that this would happen, and he and his supporters had not joined in with the rebellion on that day. Nonetheless, he also realised that the government would begin a crackdown of those involved in the Chartist movement in retaliation for the uprising, and so he fled toFrance, disguised as a woman.
It was whilst in temporary exile as a political dissident in Paris, France that he visited the Louvre museum, where he experienced what has been described as "a turning-point in his religious life." He became highly interested in a stone with a Greek inscription that he erroneously felt depicted an ancient Celtic bard addressing the moon. He subsequently interpreted the inscription as a prophecy given by an ancient Welsh prince named Alun, declaring that a man would come in the future to reveal the true secrets of the Welsh language and to liberate the Welsh people: as historian Ronald Hutton later remarked however, "nobody else had heard of this person, or made (anything like) the same interpretation of the inscription". Nonetheless, Price felt that this prophecy applied to him, and that he must return to Wales to free his people from the English-dominated authorities.
A photograph of Price taken whilst he was on stage in 1884. This displays some of his Druidical attire.
Soon returning to Wales, he set himself up as a Druid, founding a religious Druidic group that attracted a number of followers. Little is known of the specific doctrines which he preached, but his followers walked around carrying staffs engraved with figures and letters. Declaring that marriage was wrong as it enslaved women, he began having a relationship with a woman named Ann Morgan, whom he moved in with, and in 1842 she bore him a daughter. He baptised this child himself at the Rocking Stone in Pontypridd, naming her Gwenhiolan Iarlles Morganwg (meaning 'Gwenhiolan, Countess of Glamorgan'). He began developing an appearance that was unconventional at the time, for instance wearing a fox fur hat and emerald green clothing, as well as growing his beard long and not cutting his hair. He also began attempting to hold Druidic events, organising an eisteddfod at Pontypridd in 1844, but nobody turned up, and so, solitarily, he initiated his daughter as a bard at the event. In 1855 he then led a parade of the Ivorites, a friendly society that held to a philosophy of Welsh nationalism, through the streets of Merthyr Tydfil, accompanied by a half-naked man calling himself Myrddin (the Welsh name for Merlin) and a goat.
In 1866 he returned to Wales, finding that his daughter had grown up to live her own life following her mother, Ann Morgan's death. He settled to live in the town ofLlantrisant, where he opened up a new medical practice, which proved to be a success, and he took a young farmer's daughter, Gwenllian Llewelyn, who at the time was only twenty-one years old, to be his new partner, despite the fact that he was an old man by this time. Despite his earlier pronouncements against marriage, he organised a Druidic wedding ceremony through which he married Gwellian on 4 March 1881. Taking place at the Rocking Stone in Pontypridd, it involved Price addressing the sun at noon, and women dressed as the Three Graces were involved. The ceremony attracted a large audience, who according to reports found the whole proceeding amusing. Meanwhile, in 1871, he had published a book, written in his own invented form of Welsh that he believed was the true language of the ancient Welsh. In the work, which had a title that translated as The Will of My Father, Price conceptualised the universe being created out of a snake's egg by a supreme Father God. However, this work was largely ignored at the time and soon fell into obscurity.
Gwellian and Price's first child was born in 1883, a son whom Price named Iesu Grist (the Welsh for Jesus Christ), in an act of provocation against the traditional religion of the time, and also because he expected great things from his child. However, the infant died only five months later, in January 1884. Believing that it was wrong to bury a corpse, thereby polluting the earth, Price decided to cremate his son's body, an act which at the time was taboo, although across the country there were already several proponents of it as a form of corpse disposal. He performed the funeral in the early evening of Sunday 13 January 1884, upon the summit of a hill to one side of Llantrisant. A number of local people noticed the fire, and upon discovering that Price was attempting to burn his infant son, surged on him. He was rescued from an angry mob by the police, who arrested him for what they believed was the illegal disposal of a corpse, and the body of his son, which had not yet been engulfed by the flames, was removed from the pyre.
Price with his friend, Robert Anderson, who would later light Price's funeral pyre.
An autopsy was performed on Iesu's body by a local doctor, who concluded that the child had died of natural causes and had not been murdered. Price was therefore not charged with infanticide, but was instead tried in a Cardiff courtroom for performing cremation rather than burial, which the police believed to be illegal. Price argued that while the law did not state that cremation was legal, it also did not state that it was illegal. The judge, Mr. Justice Stephen, agreed. Price was freed, and returned to Llantrisant to find a crowd of supporters cheering for his victory. On 14 March, he was finally able to give his son a cremation involving his own personal Druidic prayers. The case set a precedent which, together with the activities of the newly founded Cremation Society of Great Britain, led to the Cremation Act of 1902.In 1885 the first official cremation took place at Woking, and ten cremations are recorded as being performed in the following year. In 1892 a crematorium opened inManchester, followed by one in Glasgow in 1895 and one in Liverpool in 1896.
The media interest in the court case had made Price famous, and he soon began to capitalise on this fame, selling three hundred medals, each depicting the cosmic egg and the snake that laid it, commemorating his victory, which sold at three pence each. He began to be invited to give lectures and attend public functions, but these did not prove to be particular successes, with much of his audiences not understanding either his philosophies, or his attire, which was made out of red cloth and embroidered with green letters.
In late 1884, his wife gave birth to their second child, whom Price also named Iesu Grist, and in 1886 she then bore him a daughter, whom they named Penelopen.He believed that his son had an important future ahead of him, being the prophesised second coming of Jesus Christ, his namesake, and predicted that he would come to reign over the earth. Meanwhile, in 1892 he erected a pole which was over sixty feet high, with a crescent moon symbol at its peak, atop the hill where his first son had been cremated, and noted that he wanted his funeral to take place there as well.
Price died on the night of 23 January 1893. His final words, when he knew that he was near death, were "Bring me a glass of Champagne". He drank the champagne and died shortly after. On 31 January 1893, William Price was cremated on a pyre of two tons of coal, in accordance with his will, on the same hillside overlooking Llantrisant. It was watched by 20,000 people, and overseen by his family, who were dressed in a mix of traditional Welsh and his own Druidic clothing. His wife would go on to remarry, this time to a road inspector employed by the local council, and she gave up her Druidic beliefs to join a conventional Christian denomination, having her two children baptised into it, and Iesu Grist was renamed Nicholas, never fulfilling the ambitious predictions that his father had made about him.
Oil painting of Price by A.C. Hemming, 1918. On display at theWellcome Collection in London.
Price held several strongly held beliefs that were counter-cultural to the Victorian social norms of the time, and chose to promote them in a "most exhibitory fashion".
During his life, Price's list of behaviour and characteristics included being a fanatical walker and a strong supporter of conservation, wearing a fox-skin headdress, never wearing socks (which, he thought, were unhygienic), refusing to treat patients who were smokers and washing every coin he received as he considered them a major source of cross-contamination. He was also a vegetarian, saying that eating meat "brought out the beast in man". Price did not believe in marriage, which he saw as theenslavement of women and also disliked the capitalist coal mine owners and the all-powerful local gentry. He was also a supporter of the local miners in several strikes during the 19th century.
His religious beliefs have provided an influence on the modern druidic movement. Michell referred to him as "a natural shaman".
Statue of Dr William Price in the Bull Ring, Llantrisant.
Soon after his death, ballads commemorating him were composed and circled the local area for a number of years to come. In 1896, an exhibition that commemorated his life was held in Cardiff, whilst a pamphlet biography of him was published to accompany it. In 1940, a more significant biography about Price was published, entitled A Welsh Heretic, which was written by Islwyn Nicholas. In 1947, the Cremation Society put up a plaque commemorating him in the town of Llantrisant, whilst a statue of him was unveiled in the town in 1982, depicting the doctor in his characteristic fox-skin headdress, arms outstretched. This was followed in 1992 when a memorial garden was named after him, and an exhibition about him opened in the town's visitor centre.
In a 1966 book examining the history of Llantrisant, author Dillwyn Lewis described Price as being "one of the most controversial figures of modern times." The historian Ronald Hutton would later describe him as "both one of the most colourful characters in Welsh history, and one of the most remarkable in Victorian Britain"whilst his biographer Dean Powell considered him "the most notable individual in 19th century Wales".
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