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Q: Match a Variable to Other Dataset Based using Multiple Overlapping Variables I have two data sets with some overlapping variables. One dataset is basically a subset of the other but needs an additional variable added based on some of the overlapping variables. For example
varA <- c(rep(c("a","b"), each=5))
blah <- c(11:20)
varB <- c(1:10)
speed <- rnorm(10)
dataset1 <- data.frame(varA,blah,varB,speed)

varA.2 <- c("a","a","b","b")
varB.2 <- c(2,10,11,7)
speed.2 <- rep(NA, 4)
dataset2 <- data.frame(varA.2, varB.2, speed.2)
dataset2

I would like the "speed.2" variable to contain the speed values for the lines where varA and varB are matching between the two sets.
I've tried something with "merge" but am having issues.
Thank you!

A: May be:
colnames(dataset2) <- gsub("\\..*","", colnames(dataset2))
library(dplyr)
left_join(dataset2[,-3],dataset1[,-2])
#    Joining by: c("varA", "varB")
#   varA varB      speed
#1    a    2 -1.3243815
#2    a   10         NA
#3    b   11         NA
#4    b    7 -0.6026936

Or without changing the column names.
 merge(dataset1[,-2],dataset2[,-3], by.x=c("varA","varB"), by.y=c("varA.2", "varB.2"), all.y=TRUE)
 #  varA varB      speed
# 1    a    2 -0.6797753
# 2    a   10         NA
# 3    b    7 -2.1838454
# 4    b   11         NA

Values in speed differ as the example was without using set.seed()

A: You can use 'match' function for "where varA and varB are matching"
dataset2$speed.2 = dataset1[match(paste(dataset2$varA.2,dataset2$varB.2),
                               paste(dataset1$varA, dataset1$varB)),]$speed
dataset2
  varA.2 varB.2   speed.2
1      a      2 0.3917783
2      a     10        NA
3      b     11        NA
4      b      7 1.3265439
>

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Dennis Hopper: A Wild Life of Art, Success and Sorrow
by Doniphan Blair
Monument Valley, Arizona Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda race the light so cinematographer Laszlo Kovaks can capture a pushed-two-stops 360-degree sunset shot from the top of the mesa. photo: courtesy digilander.libreto.it
Famously drug-addled, Hopper was also literally a high artist: painting, photographing, collecting, trying and sometimes succeeding in making serious art films
Dennis Hopper was such a mystery man, hidden behind sunglasses, bushy moustache, and goofy sidekick character in the '60s-icon "Easy Rider" (1969), that few recall he actually directed the movie as well as co-authored it with Peter Fonda (who also produced) and Terry Southern. Even fewer knew that he was a talented painter and photographer, with photos in New York's Museum of Modern Art and on the covers of some '60s records; and an avid art collector and arts supporter, even ferrying the equally eccentric alt-filmmaker Bruce Conner by private jet to be honored at CineVegas, a festival Hopper helped direct. Hopper cited as inspiration for "Easy Rider" Satyajit Ray and Louis Buñuel.
Hopper died on May 29, 2010, at 74, not bad for a man who spent "half his life running at the track," as was said of William Burroughs. He had a strong constitution. Arguably Hollywood's most notorious drug user, his habit reached three grams of cocaine a day, offset by thirty beers or Cuba libres, according to Peter Biskind in "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" (1998) - not to mention the weed. He finally gave up the booze and hard drugs in the 1980s but, true to hippie traditionalism, continued puffing the "boo," or "gauge," as they called it when he was a kid - up to $700 a week at the end, completely legal, of course, since California had medical marijuana by then and Hopper was dying from prostate cancer.
Hopper on the Set of Night Tide, 1960, a poetic suspense story in which a sailor meets a mermaid. Set in Venice, California, it is another example in his surprisingly large oeuvre of art films. photo: courtesy Associated Press
Hopper's bad boy rap is hardly exaggerated. He was such a pain in the arse, he was blacklisted from Hollywood after forcing director Henry Hathaway to do eighty takes on "From Hell To Texas" (1958) before taking direction. If he had been directing his younger self, Hopper told "Fresh Air"'s Terry Gross in 2007, he would have integrated his improvisation while also making him toe the line. Hopper advocated improv, which gave him many of "Easy Rider"'s laconic scenes. He wasn't accepted back into the film family until John Wayne, of all people, took pity on him - Hopper was the son-in-law of Wayne's friend, actress Margaret Sullivan - with a small role in "The Sons of Katie Elder." He also appeared in Wayne's "True Grit" (1969).
Hopper was intensely sensitive. After his friend James Dean died in 1955, he descended into a deep depression. After his follow up to "Easy Rider" - called "The Last Movie," ominously enough - bombed, he embarked on a 12-year bender. Nominally about stunt men staying on in Peru after a Hollywood film wrapped, "Last Movie" was Hopper's response to Jean-Luc Godard, replete with "Scene Missing" titles and a theater-of-the-absurd plot, not to mention off-screen orgies and coke insanity. "Last Movie" finished first at the Venice Film Festival, ironically, but was eviscerated by American critics and viewers, who were expecting another colorful road movie. Hopper descended into a drug-induced, paranoia-plagued inferno, replete with much carrying of guns and surrealistic activity, both inadvertent and straight-up performance art (notably a staged suicide, using a coffin and dynamite), and much alienation of friends, particularly his five wives. His marriage to Michelle Phillips, of the pop folk band The Mamas and the Papas, lasted for only one week.
Although CineSource's brief is Northern California, Hopper must be considered one of our wayward sons, and Venice, the Los Angeles beach town where he lived, one of our southern suburbs. Hopper's epic struggle with drugs, art and the search for redemption makes him the tragic hipster, despite or perhaps because of his late-life veer into Republicanism. Things didn't have to be so hard. We could have saved him. If he had just moved to Marin County, along with the other art filmmakers, and gotten weekly massages and cranio-sacral therapy, say, perhaps he could have found that sweet spot between good art and good life.
He did, in his own way, maintaining long friendships with other outsiders and outsizers, like Jack Nicholson, and many film and music figures. As the symbolic king of the hippie bikers, he was an automatic member of the Guggenhiem Motorcycle Club, which included Lauren Hutton, Jeremy Irons, Larry Fishburne, Keanu Reeves, and some IT billionaires, although he remarked on occasion that he didn't like biking that much.
Mostly he loved, collected and promoted art, and stuffed his enormous ball of emotions into small roles. Hopper had early promise as a leading man but became famous for his small roles, first in the '50s, when he appeared in two of James Dean's three movies, and then in the '90s, when he often stole the movie. Some years, he did almost a dozen films, since his policy was to never turn down work. He was also a prolific television and commercial actor - obligatory considering the four kids, five wives, and taste for fine art, not to mention the drugs.
Hopper never moved north because, most of all, he was addicted to Hollywood and the dream of injecting some of his artistic values. In "Easy," he employs experimental cutting, inserting a two quick flash forward frames as you approach an edit, a bit like Godard's jump cutting in "Breathless"(1961). Neither caught on, but both were effective. It must have felt damn good when "Easy" took "First Picture" at Cannes and multiple Oscar nominations. It went on to earn almost $60 million, unbelievable for a budget of $350,000, and join "Bonnie and Clyde" and "The Graduate" (both 1967) in starting the American indie film movement.
Hopper was determined to artify Hollywood (hence his harangue with Hathaway) even if it killed him - and it nearly did. According to the Rolling Stone obit, Hopper felt like a failure because he never played a really great part or made a really great movie, admitting, "I can't say it was anyone's fault but my own." Nevertheless, Hoppy, as Jack Nicholson called him, made some damn good flicks and had some epic roles.
I just watched "Easy Rider" again [first time at 13 at a drive-in in North Carolina, making the drive back to New York a tad spooky] and it still stands at the top of the "hippie oeuvre." The beginning is masterful, from the Spanish-only dialogue when copping the drugs, to their delivery to the dandy kingpin, played by Phil Spector, and then setting out across America. Despite the occasional "hippie speak," the film stands as a picaresque love letter to, and critique of, America - Fonda is emblazoned with an American flag, after all.
The film is a virtual anthropological survey, from the Anglo-latino farm family to the hippie commune to small town hicks to Mardi Gras, replete with many close-ups of the people on the road, as well as of the lush landscapes. Indeed, it reinvented the Western - Hopper is named Billy (as in the Kid), while Fonda is Wyatt (as in Earp). The cowboys are on bikes not horses but they reclaim the freedom for which America is supposed to stand, the discussion of which is the best-written dialogue in the flick - beautifully delivered by Nicholson.
Hopper scouted locations on his own cross country journey and incorporated what he experienced directly into the script. Evidently, this inspired some self-criticism because there is plenty of satirizing of hippies - astrology, UFOs, acting troupes and such - not the least the character played by Hopper himself, who is constantly being rejected, even at the commune.
The Mardi Gras-graveyard-acid trip is straight-up avant-garde filmmaking, shot in grainy 16mm, largely by Berkeley documentarian Les Blank, and punctuated with a moving moment of Fonda crying. The New Orleans whores are actually angels, who turn down the boys' blandishments of drugs and drink, and help ferry them across the forbidden mystical frontier. Fonda, the wistful romantic, and Hopper, the outcast from even the hippies, never get that deep, even in the end, but Nicholson, as the small town alcoholic lawyer, is a strong character, richly rendered. Although Nicholson had done small films for years, "Easy" was his first star turn. He soon went on to "Five Easy Pieces" (1970) and to become one of Hollywood's great leading men.
As with almost all great films, the production was plagued with great problems: Hopper fought with the first crew of indie filmmakers in New Orleans. They were jettisoned for a union crew after the studio deemed the scenes passable. He argued with Peter Fonda over everything - "He resisted but I insisted," Hopper said. Rip Torn was supposed to play Nicholson's part, but the Texan balked at Hopper's extreme redneck critique. They fought with knives - albeit only in Hopper's imagination, as Torn proved in a court of law when he won $450,000 a defamation of character suit (there were some fisticuffs, however). But most of all, Hopper duked it out with the film itself.
Editing "Easy," at Hopper's compound in Taos, where he eventually lived for 15 years, was an epic struggle of narratives and film theories as well as drugs, sex and delirium. After a year, he had only wrestled it down to an incomprehensible and uncommercial three-and-a-half hours. Henry Jaglom was brought in by the studio to chop it to a reasonably tight 94 minutes, leaving the scenes of a drug smuggling 'copter chase and the boys working a carnival on the cutting room floor. The edit credit went to Donn Cambern, naming Jaglom only as a consultant.
Hopper can be credited, however, with bottling the greased lightning of '60s iconography - motorcycles, buckskin, communes, naked in the hot springs, the quest for freedom - without excessive pandering or pretension. Music design by the Byrds' Roger McGuinn - who does a monster version of Dylan's "It's Alright Ma," right before the final apocalypse - and lensing by Hungarian cinematographer-supreme Laszlo Kovacs didn't hurt either.
After Hopper's twelve-year internal walkabout - and some external, including staggering through the streets of Cuernavaca, Mexico, stark naked - he entered rehab in 1983. He did some of his best work clean that year in Coppola's "Rumblefish," although he'd already "comeback" with his appearance in "Apocalypse Now" (1978) as the crazed photo-journalist who greets Martin Sheen and his commandos, including the young Larry Fishburne, as they motor into "The Horror" hideaway of Commander Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, Hopper's idol.
Hopper clinched his bona fides three years later in "Blue Velvet," after David Lynch - despite severe trepidations - he let him play the drug-crazed gang leader Frank. Hopper had lobbied Lynch incessantly, insisting over and over, crazed even: "I am Frank!"
Hopper, looking good at 70, in a toney LA condo where he curated famous artists for each floor. photo: courtesy Business Week
Another critically acclaimed achievement was directing "Colors" (1988), starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as cops in the bad barrios of LA. Hopper also starred in the applauded "Flashback" (1989), and then in "Speed" (1994), where he played a criminal mastermind, a role he locked down for the next fifteen years.
Ironically, Hopper honored John Wayne, not only for saving his career but by becoming a Republican and voting for Bush - twice - although he went Obama-nation in '08. He even put a white picket fence around his ramshackle multimillion-dollar Venice warehouse-home. Hopper must have creamed his jeans when a house by abstract architect Frank Gehry was built next door, the owner put it up for sale, and he was able to buy it - a perfect addition to his massive art collection, which ran from Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures to Roy Lichtensteins and Andy Warhols (Hopper bought an early "Campbell's Soup Can" for $75).
Estimated to be worth over $200 million, the art and buildings Hopper loved so much triggered a "King Lear"-like fight amongst his loved ones: the first three kids and the last wife, Victoria Duffy, six years younger than his eldest daughter Marin [as in the county, oddly enough]. In the end, the children turned against Duffy, mother to his youngest daughter Galen, who wasn't even able to attend her father's funeral because he was divorcing her mother when he died. Other old friends and associates were also excluded from the last big bash. To say he had intimacy problems and wasn't the greatest dad is to belabor the obvious, but he did invite his kids back and open up in the end.
Friends advised Hopper against collecting pop and avant art, as they advised against much of what he did, but he started in earnest, in the early '60s, after a fire destroyed his own extensive painterly work. He was already showing talent as a kid in Kansas when he was singled out at an art class by the American great Thomas Hart Benton. Hopper could do Impressionism and Photo-realism with equal facility, but decided to focus on acting, filmmaking and mass media.
Hopper studied at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg in New York in 1959, which is where he befriended Dean. Together, they journeyed west. Hopper was already Hollywood savvy, having moved to San Diego with his family when he was 13, following his father, who Hopper claimed was in the OSS (the predecessor to the CIA) - true or not, a possible source of his rebellion as well as his later-day Republicanism. Voted most likely to succeed by his high school class, he had already turned to acting, studying at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, where he fell in with Hollywood/horror actor Vincent Price, whose passion for fine art influenced him deeply.
Hopper played an epileptic in his television debut on an episode in "Medic" in 1955, a role that seemed to set a tone. He went on to hundreds of shows, from "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza" to "Petticoat Junction," "The Twilight Zone," and "Combat!" He also acted in many European films, notably Wim Wenders' "The American Friend" (1977), and received France's Order of Arts and Letters. His final feature role was a film presciently titled "Elegy" (2008).
Hopper was a great talent but emblematic of the double-edged sword of freedom and art. He seems to foresee that in "Easy," after the acid trip, when Fonda says, "We blew it." Despite being a flawed promethean who was singed by trying to steal media's fire, Hopper led a long -it's amazing he never killed anyone or himself, with all that gun-toting, rich, and artistically imbued life. Yes, he was tortured and his demons will probably continue to haunt his children. But music, art and movies do tame the wild beast, as he irrefutably proved. "The paintings are your friends," he explained to the museum-intimidated Larry Fishburne.
We must reach for the stars, Hopper's life and work seem to say. The trick is to take the Buddha's middle path, and slowly work your way up, which Hopper might have learned through some yoga lessons in Berkeley, or something. But, either way, we have to keep reaching, without losing our lust for life and its all too fleeting beauty, a problem that can beset those bored by too-beautiful California. That trick we can learn from Hopper through his art.
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is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. The ward calls itself Katsushika City in English.

As of May 1, 2015, the ward has an estimated population of 444,356, and a population density of 12,770 people per km². The total area is 34.80 km².

Geography
Katsushika Ward is at the east end of Tokyo Metropolis. It is on an alluvial plain and it is low above sea level.

The ward office (Katsushika city hall) is located at Tateishi.

Boundaries
Katsushika has boundaries with three wards of Tokyo: Adachi, Edogawa and Sumida. The cities of Matsudo in Chiba Prefecture, and Misato and Yashio in Saitama Prefecture form the northeast border of the ward.

Rivers
Major rivers in Katsushika include the Edogawa, Arakawa and Ayasegawa. Nakagawa and Shin-nakagawa flows through the ward.

Districts and neighborhoods

Kameari-Aoto Area
 Aoto
 Kameari
 Nishikameari
 Shiratori
Kanamachi-Niijuku Area
 Higashikanamachi
 Kanamachi
 Kanamachijōsuijō
 Niijuku
 Tōganemachi
Minamiayase-Ohanadjaya-Horikiri Area
 Higashihorikiri
 Horikiri
 Kosuge
 Ohanajaya

Mizumoto Area
 Higashimizumoto
 Minamimizumoto
 Mizumoto
 Mizumotokoen
 Nishimizumoto
Okudo-Shinkoiwa Area
 Higashishinkoiwa
 Nishishinkoiwa
 Okudo
 Shinkoiwa
Shibamata-Takasago Area
 Hosoda
 Kamakura
 Shibamata
 Takasago
Tateishi-Yotsugi Area
 Higashitateishi
 Higashiyotsugi
 Takaramachi
 Tateishi
 Yotsugi

History
Katsushika District was originally a division of Musashi Province. When the province was divided and reconfigured, the district was partitioned between Kita-Katsushika District (within Saitama Prefecture), Higashi-Katsushika District (within Chiba Prefecture) and the remainder was based in Tokyo Prefecture. Minami-Katsushika District conformed today's Katsushika Ward proper, plus Edogawa, Koto and Sumida wards.

On October 1, 1932, the former Minami-Katsushika District of what was then known as Tokyo Prefecture, and its seven towns and villages, merged and became part of the old Tokyo City.

The special ward was founded on March 15, 1947.

Katsushika contains the Kasai Shrine, Narihira Santosen Temple, the "Bound Jizō" of Ōoka Echizen, and Shibamata Taishakuten, selected as one of the 100 Soundscapes of Japan and 100 Landscapes of Japan (Heisei era).

Economy
Takara Tomy has its headquarters in Katsushika.

Government and infrastructure

The Tokyo Detention House, a correctional facility, is in the ward. One of Japan's seven execution chambers is located there.

Education

Colleges and universities
Tokyo Seiei College
Tokyo University of Science

Metropolitan schools
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education operates public high schools.

Special school:
 Katsushika School for the Blind (東京都立葛飾盲学校)

Municipal schools

Katsushika City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools.

Municipal junior high schools:
 Aoba Junior High School (青葉中学校)
 Aoto Junior High School (青戸中学校)
 Ayase Junior High School (綾瀬中学校)
 Daido Junior High School (大道中学校)
 Futaba Junior High School (双葉中学校)
 Higashi (East) Kanamachi Junior High School (東金町中学校)
 Honda Junior High School (本田中学校)
 Horikiri Junior High School (堀切中学校)
 Ichinodai Junior High School (一之台中学校)
 Kamihirai Junior High School (上平井中学校)
 Kameari Junior High School (亀有中学校)
 Kanamachi Junior High School (金町中学校)
 Katsumi Junior High School (葛美中学校)
 Komatsu Junior High School (小松中学校)
 Mizumoto Junior High School (水元中学校)
 Nakagawa Junior High School (中川中学校)
 Nijuku Junior High School (新宿中学校)
 Okudo Junior High School (奥戸中学校)
 Sakuramichi Junior High School (桜道中学校)
 Shinkoiwa Junior High School (新小岩中学校)
 Takasago Junior High School (高砂中学校)
 Tateishi Junior High School (立石中学校)
 Tokiwa Junior High School (常盤中学校)
 Yotsugi Junior High School (四ツ木中学校)

Elementary schools include:
 Aoto Elementary School (青戸小学校)
 Futakami Elementary School (二上小学校)
 Hananoki Elementary School (花の木小学校)
 Handa Elementary School (半田小学校)
 Harada Elementary School (原田小学校)
 Higashi (East) Ayase Elementary School (東綾瀬小学校)
 Higashi Kanamachi Elementary School (東金町小学校)
 Higashi Mizumoto Elementary School (東水元小学校)
 Higashi Shibamata Elementary School (東柴又小学校)
 Hokizuka Elementary School (宝木塚小学校)
 Honden Elementary School (本田小学校)
 Horikiri Elementary School (堀切小学校)
 Hosoda Elementary School (細田小学校)
 Iizuka Elementary School (飯塚小学校)
 Kamakura Elementary School (鎌倉小学校)
 Kameo Elementary School (亀青小学校)
 Kamichiba Elementary School (上千葉小学校)
 Kamihirai Elementary School (上平井小学校)
 Kamikomatsu Elementary School (上小松小学校)
 Kanamachi Elementary School (金町小学校)
 Katsushika Elementary School (葛飾小学校)
 Kawabata Elementary School (川端小学校)
 Kinegawa Elementary School (木根川小学校)
 Kitano Elementary School (北野小学校)
 Koda Elementary School (幸田小学校)
 Komatsuminami Elementary School (小松南小学校)
 Kosuge Elementary School (こすげ小学校)
 Matsukami Elementary School (松上小学校)
 Michiue Elementary School (道上小学校)
 Minami (South) Ayase Elementary School (南綾瀬小学校)
 Minamiokudo Elementary School (南奥戸小学校)
 Mizumoto Elementary School (水元小小学校)
 Naka Aoto Elementary School (中青戸小学校)
 Nakanodai Elementary School (中之台小学校)
 Nichikosuge Elementary School (西小菅小学校)
 Nijuku Elementary School (新宿小学校)
 Nishi (West) Kameari Elementary School (西亀有小学校)
 Okudo Elementary School (奥戸小学校)
 Ryonan Elementary School (綾南小学校)
 Seiwa Elementary School (清和小学校)
 Shibahara Elementary School (柴原小学校)
 Shibamata Elementary School (柴又小学校)
 Shibue Elementary School (渋江小学校)
 Shiratori Elementary School (白鳥小学校)
 Suehiro Elementary School (末広小学校)
 Sumiyoshi Elementary School (住吉小学校)
 Takasogo Elementary School (高砂小学校)
 Umeda Elementary School (梅田小学校)
 Yotsugi Elementary School (よつぎ小学校)

Special schools:
 Hota Shiosai Elementary School (保田しおさい学校) - Note it is physically located in Kyonan, Awa District, Chiba Prefecture, but it is a municipally-operated school by Katsushika City.

Transportation

Rail
JR East
Joban Line: Kameari, Kanamachi Stations
Sobu Main Line: Shin-Koiwa Station
Keisei Electric Railway
Keisei Main Line: Horikiri-shobuen, Ohanajaya, Aoto, Keisei Takasago Stations
Keisei Oshiage Line: Yotsugi, Keisei Tateishi, Aoto Stations
Keisei Kanamachi Line: Keisei Takasago, Shibamata, Keisei Kanamachi Stations
Hokuso Railway Hokuso Line: Keisei Takasago, Shin-Shibamata Stations

Highways
Shuto Expressway C2 Central Loop (Itabashi JCT - Kasai JCT)
Route 6 (Mito Kaidō)
Kan-nana
Kuramae bashi
Heiwa bashi
Shibamata Kaidō
Okudo Kaidō
 Tokyo Route 307 Oji-Kanamachi-Edogawa line (Oji-ekimae to Minami-shinozaki)

Sister cities
Katsushika has sister-city relationships with Fengtai District in Beijing, China, and with Floridsdorf, a district of Vienna, Austria.

Notable people

Osamu Akimoto, manga artist, creator of Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
Rumi Hiiragi, actress, voice actress (Spirited Away, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea)
Susumu Hirasawa, progressive-electronic musician
Minako Honda, singer, musical actress
Yui Horie, singer, voice actress
Takaaki Ishibashi, owarai comedian, actor, singer
Satomi Kobayashi, actress
Yumi Kumakura, volleyball player
Kazunari Ninomiya, singer, actor, voice actor, presenter
Kenny Omega, Professional Wrestler
Miho Takagi, actress, essayist
Youichi Takahashi, manga artist, creator of Captain Tsubasa

Notable works set in Katsushika
The longest-running manga series in history, Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo takes place in Katsushika.
The neighborhood of Shibamata is the home of Tora-san, the protagonist of the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo film series, played by Kiyoshi Atsumi. A statue of Tora-san stands outside of Shibamata Station. Other notable works set in Katsushika are the television series Kamen Rider Hibiki and the film Long Vacation. A statue of Captain Tsubasa main character, Tsubasa Ozora, is also located there, as the fictional town of Nankatsu was inspired by Katsushika itself.

References

External links

 Katsushika City Official Website

Wards of Tokyo

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How do you enhance growth without braces and is there any discomfort?
Most patients that present with a small lower jaw and a narrow upper jaw (see picture to the right) can attribute this to adverse muscle activity during the growth process. The form of the jaw bones follow closely with the function of the surrounding muscles. If the jaw muscles are too strong (i.e., from thumb or lip sucking, etc.), then the muscles resist the growth as it is occurring. Patients can inhibit 50% or more of what would have been their normal growth. Treatment to correct this problem is started roughly around age eight to nine years. Growth cannot be created. It is only enhanced/modified by altering the force muscles applied to portions of the jaw and dental arches during growth. After age 11, there is usually insufficient growth to make a correction with growth modification.
This is a Frankel II Orthopedic Appliance. Notice the acrylic pads around the arch that extend down to the attachment level of the cheeks and lips. Here, the lower "lip pads" are 2mm away from the teeth and bone; the upper pads rest directly against the upper teeth and bone. The lower jaw has also been postured forward to create tension in the joint spaces which, when the muscle forces are removed, enhances lower jaw growth.
Notice the correction of the lower jaw and the facial profile. This patient wore the Frankel II Orthopedic Appliance for about 24 months. There has not been any surgical correction. All visible changes are simply from growth modification and re-training muscles with a single removable retainer-like appliance. This is a lifetime correction.
Once the growth has been modified and stabilized and the upper and lower jaws are in their correct relative relationship (usually by age 11 to 12), the Frankel II Orthopedic Appliance is reduced to night wear and a custom removable appliance (known as a positioner/pre-finisher) is used to guide the permanent teeth into full contact.
The appliance to the right is a pre-finisher guidance appliance. It is made of a hard rubber that, when bitten into, forces the erupting and erupted teeth into an ideal occlusion as set up in the appliance. This appliance is worn four to eight hours daily. It can also be worn at night as a retainer after treatment.


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France: Two women sentenced to prison on terror charges
The women had planned to kill 'as many infidels as possible' and desired to 'go to paradise'
A young woman has been found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on French soil in 2016. Her accomplice, another young woman, has been found guilty of planning to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State (ISIS).
The Paris Criminal Court sentenced a radicalised young woman – identified only as Janna C. – to seven years in prison on Wednesday. She was arrested in 2016, suspected of planning to carry out an attack in France on behalf of the jihadist group.
Her lawyer, Léa Dordilly, argued that the punishment was too severe.
'We have been given a sentence of seven years in prison, which is extremely severe given the age of this girl, who was 18 when she started these activities online,' Dordilly told FRANCE 24 after the sentencing. 'And it was only for such a short period, two months – July and August, 2016 – during which she was having these conversations on social media.'
On July 12, the prosecutor's office had requested the maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment for Janna C., who is now 21. She was arrested on August 10, 2016, in a public garden in Clermont-Ferrand after having mentioned plans for an attack in online messages and with her family.
She had searched on the Internet for 'how to make an explosive belt' and also the technique for making TATP, a highly unstable improvised explosive that is prized by jihadists. On Snapchat she had written about her desire to go to paradise, taking 'infidels' with her.
The investigation began after a call for attacks in France by the ISIS French propagandist Rachid Kassim, relayed on a channel of the encrypted social network Telegram.
The investigators had identified Janna C. by tracing her exchanges on the channel.
Another radicalised woman known only as Djelika S., who was closely connected to Janna on the internet and who appeared in court alongside her, was sentenced to six years on Wednesday.
Djelika incriminated herself to police by saying that she and Janna had planned two knife attacks to 'kill as many people as possible'. However, the court found that those statements were made without the presence of a lawyer and were never corroborated by the investigation.
The judges therefore convicted her only for wanting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State.
Author's comment: The sentences were not too severe at all, and it's good to see a modicum of common sense 'pour decourage les autres' when all too often, potential jihadists have been let off with a slap on the wrist.
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See Bionic Pixie & a few other darling musos play at the Kings Arms. I love the flier, the use of watercolour is so delicate.
Need to check them out before you go/or too far away to attend but keen for new music? Listen to Sharpie Crows, Pig Out and Mr. Hayday here!


So how does God go about bringing change? One way is by bringing along the kind of people that would stand in opposition to the preconceived way you think. These people, spiritual fathers and mothers, friends, husbands and wives, all stand as a beacon to our neural networks. The typical pain response mechanisms are triggered in these relationships even though these are not the same people who caused pain in the first place. God begins demonstrating healthy fathering and mothering in himself and in others in order to change the way we think and the very physiology of our mind. He is slowly putting in place a new map for your brain to process life.
He accuses them of having a preconditioned way of thinking about themselves. They figured they were doing alright because they were considered part of Abraham's family. Jesus goes on to say that claiming Abraham as a father does absolutely nothing for them. These are the ones who are famous for searching the scriptures for the Messiah and missing him when he was right in their midst. Talk about a preconditioned way of thinking!
Remembering previously that a neuron is shaped roughly like a tree, neuroscientists call portions of the neuron that forms the roots on the tree dendrites. These dendrites reach out in turn to other neurons and are one of the conduits through which information flows. The word choice for the dendrite is a very specific. The word dendrite is based on the root Greek word dendron. In Greek, dendron means tree.
Why would Paul say: "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God (Romans 12:2)." Because he knew that something had to change about the way we think. There was a time in my life when I literally had to tell my brain to stop. It would spiral out of control. Repeatedly, throughout my day, I had to continue to tell my brain to stop thinking the thoughts it was thinking. I said to myself, "Brain, be quiet. I will not think these thoughts." Over time, my thinking began to change. But that is only one piece of the puzzle.
We now know that the way our brain is made up is actually like a tree. For your thinking to change you really do need to take an axe to the root of the tree. Our neural networks must experience radical and fundamental change. How does God go about laying the axe to the root of our thinking? By the way he comes to us, both personally and through the relationships in our life. In the next post we'll talk about key developmental relationships, and how God comes to us in specific ways to bring healing and transformation.


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3 Important Takeaways from AT&T's Earnings Call
By Ashraf Eassa – Apr 27, 2019 at 7:00AM
NYSE: T
Shareholders and would-be investors in the telecom giant should factor these points into their investment thesis.
Telecommunications giant AT&T (T -0.47%) announced its first-quarter earnings results on Wednesday. The results were relatively mixed, with revenue falling short of expectations and earnings per share (EPS) hitting the mark. AT&T's shares declined modestly on news from the report.
If you own AT&T stock or are considering investing in the company, there were three key points covered during the Q1 earnings call that you need to know about. They are:
Image source: AT&T.
1. 5G pricing has profit potential
On the call, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson pointed out that, today, "the pricing regime in wireless doesn't look like the pricing regime you see in fixed line."
Put simply, internet service providers will often offer customers different price tiers based on download speed, ranging from cheaper, relatively slow lines to more expensive, extremely fast ones. By contrast, in the world of wireless, it has historically been more common to pay for a certain amount of monthly data usage rather than for a peak data rate.
That, Stephenson said, could change in a 5G world.
"We expect there's going to be demand and that there will be price differentiation for speed as you move into a 5G environment," he said.
This could have huge -- and positive -- implications for wireless carriers, as the opportunity to up-sell consumers on higher-speed connections could help boost average revenue per user, and ultimately drive revenue and profit growth.
2. WarnerMedia is delivering the goods -- so far
AT&T dropped a whopping $85.4 billion to acquire Time Warner in a deal that closed last year. The good news is that this asset seems to be performing reasonably well for its new owner, with sales up 3.3% and operating income rising 11.6% from a year ago.
As far as that deal goes, Stephenson said that the company's "merger-related synergies are on track, and we expect to hit $700 million in run rate by the end of the year."
Additionally, Stephenson explained that John Stankey, CEO of WarnerMedia, and his team "have reorganized the business to compete in a world of streaming and streaming content." He also highlighted that AT&T has "brought in some great new talent like Bob Greenblatt ... [who] is running WarnerMedia Entertainment, and he is also leading the [subscription video on demand] development project for us." Greenblatt was previously the chairman of NBC Entertainment.
It will be a while before it's clear whether this acquisition was the right use of capital for AT&T, but so far, things seem to be going well.
3. Debt reduction is on course
One thing that is probably of interest to many AT&T investors is the progress it's making in bringing down its debt levels. Put simply, AT&T added a lot of debt after it bought Time Warner, pushing its overall debt level to $180 billion.
But the company has been throwing the free cash flow that it generates after paying out its dividend, as well as the additional funds generated from its asset monetization efforts, toward retiring that debt. By the end of Q1, AT&T had cut its net debt load to $169 billion, and management reiterated its confidence that it would get the number down to around $150 billion by the end of the year.
"So, bottom line, we committed to driving our net-debt-to-EBITDA ratio to around 2.5 times by year-end, and we are right on track for achieving that," Stephenson said.
Ashraf Eassa has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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Slovak millionaires rumoured to have submitted a bid for the biggest employer in eastern Slovakia.
The steelmaker U.S. Steel Košice (USSK) has again become the centre of attention in early December, when rumours about its sale re-emerged. Online versions of dailies Sme and Hospodárske Noviny reported on December 5 that Slovak millionaires have submitted a bid to acquire the steelmaker in eastern Slovakia.
The website biztweet.eu, is reporting that the bid was submitted by Czech steelmaker Třinecké Železárny which belongs to the Czech-Slovak group Moravia Steel.
The Slovak owners of the Czech steelmaker showed an interest in USSK which employs roughly 11,000 people in eastern Slovakia, late in 2015. At that time they failed to agree upon the purchase price with the owner but now an unnamed source knowledgeable about the situation in Třinecké Železárny confirmed the submission of the new bid to the weekly EURO.
The Czech company controlled by a group of Slovak millionaires - Tomáš Chrenk, Ján Moder, Evžen Balko and Mária Blašková submitted the bid for purchase of USSK last Friday in Pittsburg, the online version of Hospodárske Noviny reported, but it was turned down the same day.
Both companies have refused to comment.
"We do not comment on rumours," said Ján Bača, spokesperson for USSK, as cited by biztweet.eu.
Trade unionists at USSK have confirmed rumours about submitted bids. Allegedly a Chinese investor has also submitted a superior bid to that of Třinecké Železárny, Mikuláš Hintoš, the head of trade unions at USSK told biztweet.eu.
The Chinese bid was probably presented by steel giant the Hesteel Group.
It remains unknown what stance the Fico government would take. Back in 2013, USSK and the Fico government signed a memorandum in which USSK promised to remain in Košice and maintain its employment levels until 2018, while the government promised to help cut the firm's energy and environmental bills.
The steelmaker is in the hands of a private company but considering the fact that it is one of the biggest employers in the country and an important part of the national economy, the Economy Ministry is watching the situation closely, ministry's spokesman Maroš Stano told the TASR newswire but they do not have any information about the sale of USSK.


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Each year my girlfriends and I meet in South Carolina for a weekend (actually, now it's grown to nearly a week) of fun and frivolity. We plan this trip during the Charleston Food and Wine Festival which typically happens the first weekend in March.
Since almost all of the girls are from out of state, we found it was easier and more affordable to rent a home rather than trying to get several hotel rooms. With the wide variety of home rental sites like Air B&B, Trip Advisor, VRBO, etc., in addition to local rental agents and property management companies, finding a home is much easier now. You can basically give them all your criteria and then you chose the home that everyone agrees upon, which can be a bit tricky with about six to eight women involved.
Each year we try to do something different and try some new places to eat. Typically, we pick one night to go out for a nice dinner. We try to pick an upscale restaurant, something unique or highly rated, and we rent a limo or car service to take us and pick us up. This year we switched things up and brought the upscale unique evening to us. How did we manage this? We brought in a personal chef for the night.
After some research online, we chose Personal Chef Emily Lane. Her bio and reviews seemed to fit perfectly what we were looking for. We wanted a fun, laid back night where we were able to indulge in a culinary delight prepared for us in the comfort of our rental, wearing what we liked, drinking what we liked and not worrying about anything but having fun and eating.
She told us one of the reasons she chose to become a personal chef was the interaction of it. She loved being able to chat with and educate the people she was cooking for, and this was perfect for us. Another high point was she focused on healthy cooking with fresh local ingredients, and we all loved that too. We had also wanted a very casual dining experience, so rather than a four course, formal meal, we opted for some smaller appetizer type dishes to be served at the kitchen island while watching her. And before you say "Healthy? Who wants that on vacation?" you need to see our menu.
Prior to our arrival week she had worked with us to cover all allergies, dislikes and preferences and prepared a menu for the evening for all of us to approve.
She arrived at our rental house about 4 hours prior to our first course to prep all the fresh ingredients she brought. As we arrived back from some fun at the beach she was finishing up her prep work so we all grabbed some of our favorite drinks and sat around the kitchen island to watch our gourmet meal preparation. She brought everything needed to cook the meal. We only needed to supply the oven and our own alcohol (which typically is in abundance on girls week).
As Chef Emily cooked, we all chatted, sometimes about what she was doing and the food she chose, and other times about her life, our lives and just life in general. We learned several interesting things like the benefits of nutritional yeast, and the best ways to spiralize your sweet potatoes as well as numerous other tips and tidbits about healthier cooking and food options she uses.
With each course there were ohhhs and ahhhhs all around the island. The blackened carrot fries may sound a bit boring, but they were anything but. She used several different color carrots which added to the wow factor of this first course. The creaminess of the lemon yogurt helped balance the heat of the blackening spices.
The white fish was amazing, so light and flakey, and worked great with the sweet potato noodles, even for those who claim they don't care for sweet potatoes.
To the meat of the meal we went next, and it didn't disappoint. I think everyone said they could drink the blackberry red wine sauce it was so good. That sauce would have gone well on almost anything you could think of!
If you have a problem getting anyone to eat their broccoli Chef Emily's Curried Broccoli Bites with Cranberry Sunflower Seed Crumble will convert even the most adamant broccoli hater. This is the dish she put the nutritional yeast on. It added such a unique, almost cheese-like, flavor. The flavors of the dried cranberries along with the curry and nutritional yeast took that broccoli to a new level!
After all of that we still had desert coming, and no one could pass up the fresh baked hand pies with Chef Emily's orange infused vanilla ice cream, no matter how full we all were. Funny thing, as full as we all claimed to be, I don't remember any leftovers of dessert being put in the fridge.
As the meal ended, Chef Emily cleaned up everything, packaged any leftovers and had everything back to the way it was before she arrived. We didn't lift a finger the entire night, except for when lifted our glasses! The food was simply amazing, but we all agreed the best part our evening was Chef Emily's personality. She fit right in with us. She laughed along with us and our craziness and put up with some of the shenanigans that tend to happen when six life-long girlfriends gather once a year to reconnect and rejuvenate.
Our group all agreed, as much as the wine festival and beach house is a must on each girls week, so too is Chef Emily now! I can't recommend this enough to anyone on vacation in the Charleston area. Having a personal chef, even if you only do one night like we did, is worth every penny!


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Women, dog kicked off Amtrak train in viral video
By Tina Shaw On Dec 30, 2022
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KDVR) – The latest story of travelers having trouble getting to their destinations stems from a viral video of two women who were forced off an Amtrak train in Grand Junction, Colorado.
It happened after officials say their small dog — a Pomeranian — was disturbing other riders. The two women and their dog were headed to Chicago for Christmas.
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Brent Bell took the video on Dec. 21.
"Don't let this ruin your holidays, sweeties," Bell tells the women from behind the camera, while recording the moment Grand Junction police officers escorted the women and their dog off the train. He began filming seconds after police approached the two.
"All this was over was a little bit of dog poop that they cleaned up fast and cleaned up immediately," Bell said. These ladies were just shocked that this was the treatment that they were getting, that their holiday season was going to be interrupted," he explained.
The train left Oakland, California, just days before Christmas, and was headed to Chicago with the two sisters and their Pomeranian on board. Amtrak said the dog "created a disturbance by repeatedly barking, urinating and defecating" on the train. Bell said he began recording because he knew he would be witness to an injustice.
"I'm tired of unfairness and I have a little, I guess, I have a place in my heart for little old ladies," he said.
Bell himself is a dog trainer. He said he felt bad for the two women, especially because he knows how Pomeranians behave. Sometimes, he added, owners might want to keep the dog on their lap — like the women on the train did — to calm the dog.
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One of the sisters spoke with Nexstar's KDVR off-camera and said she picked up poop from the train, but it wasn't her dog's — she merely did it out of courtesy for the other riders, she claimed. She also said she was upset because the train's conductor and others were targeting them the entire ride, and harassed one of them as they were going to the washroom.
Not long after the two were escorted off the train, the conductor asked Bell to put his phone away.
"You don't have a choice, I can record the scenery," Bell responded.
"I have every choice on this train, this is mine," the conductor said.
"I even said it to the people in the car. 'Hey, has anyone been bothered by this little teeny dog?''' Not one person spoke up," Bell told KDVR in a Zoom interview.
Amtrak, however, released a statement claiming that "several nearby passengers" did request to be moved away from the dog because of the "noise and odor."
Small dogs are usually allowed to accompany their owners on Amtrak voyages for a small fee, according to the company's policy. But restrictions apply, based on the animal's weight or the length of the journey.
Bell, however, claims there were other pets on the train that day.
KDVR reached out to Amtrak to confirm their policy on that specific train, as well as their criteria for removing passengers. As of Friday, Amtrak had not responded.
There is a GoFundMe started by Bell, online where it's already raised over $500 for the two women.
Amtrak, police release statements
Both Amtrak and the Grand Junction police have released statements following the incident, with Amtrak refuting some of Bell's claims, and the police confirming the women were assisted with their luggage and taxi services to a nearby bus station.
We apologize for the inconvenience and disruption to our passengers' holiday travel on Dec. 21. Out of concern for all our customers on Train 6, two passengers were told to deboard after their dog created a disturbance by repeatedly barking, urinating, and defecating in the customer seating area. The dog's owner was given multiple warnings about the dog being on the seat and was given advance notice about stops where dogs could be taken on walks. Several nearby passengers also asked to be moved because of the noise and odor.
Kimberly Woods, Amtrak
The Grand Junction Police Department released the following narrative, as well:
On 12/22/22, at approximately 10:50 a.m., officers with the Grand Junction Police Department responded to a call from personnel with Amtrak, requesting assistance with removing a passenger and dog from a train at 300 S. 1st Street. A staff member from Amtrak stated that the dog was being aggressive with other passengers and had defecated in the train car. As a result, the owner of the dog was asked by Amtrak staff to exit the train and refused. When officers arrived on scene, two women exited the Amtrak train on their own with the dog. After Amtrak had the women removed from the train, Grand Junction Police officers assisted the women with their luggage into the station and called the taxi service to take the two women to the Greyhound Bus Station so they could get to their destination. No one was arrested or cited as a result of this incident. Please contact Amtrak for information about any additional travel arrangements.
Grand Junction Police Department
The owner of the dog said Thursday night that Amtrak contacted her, apologized, and said she is welcome back on Amtrak trains with the dog.
Both women made it to Chicago for Christmas. They are expected to return to Oakland soon.
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Вальтер Езау (;  28 червня 1913, Ніндорф, Шлезвіг-Гольштейн —  11 травня 1944, Сен-Віт, Льєж) — німецький військовий льотчик-ас за часів Третього Рейху, протягом Громадянської війни в Іспанії та Другої світової війни здобув 127 перемог у повітряних боях, у тому числі 8 під час Іспанської громадянської війни. Оберст (1944) Люфтваффе. Кавалер Лицарського хреста Залізного хреста з Дубовим листям та Мечами (1941).

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Вальтер Езау вступив в армію в жовтні 1933 року, почавши службу в 2-му артилерійському полку. У 1934 році він був переведений в люфтваффе і отримавши звання фаненюнкера вступив до авіаційної академії (нім. Deutsche Verkehrsfliegerschule) в Ганновері. Після її закінчення він в званні лейтенанта був направлений служити в Jagdgeschwader 132, пізніше, що в травні 1939 року перетворений в Jagdgeschwader 2 «Richtofen».

У квітні 1938 року лейтенант Езау став одним з перших пілотів-винищувачів, спрямованих для проходження бойової служби в складі групи винищувачів J / 88 в Іспанії. Перебуваючи в ескадрильї 3.J / 88, він в ході подальших бойових дій здобув 9 перемог в період з 15 липня по 3 листопада 1938 року, ставши одним з провідних асів цієї війни. За свої заслуги він став нагородженим в числі 28 осіб Іспанським золотим хрестом з мечами та діамантами. Протягом цієї кампанії він також був поранений, за що отримав Іспанська нагрудний знак за поранення.

1 березня 1939 року Езау, повернувшись до Німеччини, був включений до складу штабного ланки I./JG2.

15 липня того ж року, Вальтер Езау отримав звання обер-лейтенанта і був призначений командиром 1./JG20, пізніше реорганізованої в 7./JG51.

Першу свою перемогу у Другій світовій війні Езау здобув лише 13 травня 1940 року, коли вермахт вже почав битву за Францію. Протягом Французької кампанії він здобув 5 перемог, що формально давало йому право називатися асом.

З початком Битви за Британію Езау був одним з німецьких пілотів, які лідирують за кількістю перемог і 18 серпня 1940 року став 5 пілотом люфтваффе, який досяг рубіжу в 20 перемог в ході Другої світової війни, за що 2 дні по тому був нагороджений Лицарським хрестом Залізного хреста, отримавши цю нагороду першим з пілотів JG51.

11 листопада 1940 року гауптман Езау був призначений командиром групи III./JG3, замінивши на цій посаді Вільгельма Бальтазара. До цього часу на його рахунку значилося 39 перемог одержаний в ході Другої світової війни і тому показником він займав 4-е місце в люфтваффе, поступаючись тільки Гельмуту Віку, Вернер Мельдерс і Адольфу Галланда.

З настанням зими напруження боїв над Ла-Маншем вщухло, і свою 40-ту перемогу Езау зміг здобути лише 5 лютого 1941 року.

З початком нападу вермахту на СРСР Езау, разом зі своєю групою, брав участь у кровопролитних боях. При цьому зі збільшенням кількості боїв також збільшилися і успіхи німецького аса. 30 червня він здобув свою 50-ту перемогу з початку Другої світової війни, а 10 липня він за день отримав 5 перемог (64-68-я). Наступного дня, 11 липня він здобув свою 70-ту перемогу, а 17 липня 80-ю.

В кінці липня 1941 року Езау був переведений на Західний фронт, оскільки отримав у підпорядкування свою колишню ескадру JG2, які продовжували вести бої на Заході. На цей момент на його рахунку значилося 86 перемог, 44 з яких був здобуті над радянськими пілотами.

Зі зміною району бойових дій і отримання нової посади результативність аса знизилася, проте він продовжував здійснювати бойові вильоти і нарощувати рахунок своїм перемогам. 26 жовтня 1941 року Езау став третім пілотом у світі, що переступили планку в 100 перемог, здобутих в ході Другої світової війни. А з урахуванням перемог в Іспанії, їх стало вже 109.

Нагороди

 Комбінований Знак Пілот-Спостерігач (1936)
 Медаль «За вислугу років у Вермахті» 4-го класу (4 роки)
 Військова медаль (Іспанія)
 Медаль «За Іспанську кампанію» (Іспанія)
 Іспанський хрест в золоті з мечами та діамантами
 Нагрудний знак Легіону Кондор «За поранення» в чорному
 Залізний хрест
 2-го класу (15 травня 1940)
 1-го класу (20 травня 1940)
 Лицарський хрест Залізного хреста з дубовим листям і мечами
 Хрест (№ 102; 20 серпня 1940)
 Дубове листя (№ 9; 6 лютого 1941)
 Мечі (№ 3; 15 липня 1941)
 Відзначений у Вермахтберіхт 5 разів
 «Окрім тих чотирьох офіцерів, яких загудували протягом останніх тижнів, ще 3 льотчика винищувача одержали 20 і більше перемог: гауптман Маєр, гауптман Езау і гауптман Тіцен. На вершині перемог знаходиться майор Мельдерс з 32-а повітряними перемогами.» (6 вересня 1940)
 «Гауптман Езау, командир групи винищувальної ескадри, вчора здобув свою 40-ву повітряну перемогу.» (6 лютого 1941)
 «У повітряних боях останніх днів гауптман Езау здобув свою 54-ту, а обер-лейтенант Франціскат — 21-шу перемогу.» (4 липня 1941)
 «Майор Езау, командир винищувальної ескадри, 26 жовтня здобув свою 100-у повітряну перемогу.» (27 жовтня 1941)
 «Командир винищувальної ескадри оберст Вальтер Езау, якого фюрер нагородив Лицарським хрестом Залізного хреста з дубовим листям і мечами за 117 повітряних перемог над британськими і північно-американськими ворогами, героїчно загинув у повітряному бою. Люфтваффе втратили одного із своїх найкращих льотчиків-винищувачів і командирів.» (15 травня 1944; посмертно)
 Німецький хрест в золоті (17 жовтня 1943)
 Нагрудний знак «За поранення» в сріблі
 Комбінований Знак Пілот-Спостерігач з діамантами
 Авіаційна планка винищувача в золоті з підвіскою «300»

Див. також
 Список асів Люфтваффе Другої світової війни
 Карл-Вільгельм Гофманн
 Герхард Шепфель
 Карл-Готтфрід Нордманн
 Фрідріх Облезер
 Ганс Філіпп

Література

 Berger, Florian (1999). Mit Eichenlaub und Schwertern. Die höchstdekorierten Soldaten des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Selbstverlag Florian Berger. ISBN 3-9501307-0-5.
 Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000). Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939—1945. Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 3-7909-0284-5.
 MacLean, French L. (2007). Luftwaffe Efficiency & Promotion Reports — For the Knight's Cross Winners. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Military History. ISBN 978-0-7643-2657-8.
 Obermaier, Ernst (1989). Die Ritterkreuzträger der Luftwaffe Jagdflieger 1939—1945. Mainz, Germany: Verlag Dieter Hoffmann. ISBN 3-87341-065-6.
 Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939—1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives. Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2.
 Thomas, Franz (1998). Die Eichenlaubträger 1939—1945 Band 2: L-Z. Osnabrück, Germany: Biblio-Verlag. ISBN 3-7648-2300-3.
 Die Wehrmachtberichte 1939—1945 Band 2, 1. Januar 1942 bis 31. Dezember 1943. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 1985. ISBN 3-423-05944-3.
 Die Wehrmachtberichte 1939—1945 Band 3, 1. Januar 1944 bis 9. Mai 1945. München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 1985. ISBN 3-423-05944-3.
 Залесский К. А. Люфтваффе. Военно-воздушные силы Третьего рейха. — М.: Эксмо, 2005. — 736 с. — 5000 экз. — ISBN 5-699-13768-8

 Kwasny A., Kwasny G., Die Eichenlaubträger 1940—1945 (CD), Deutsches Wehrkundearchiv, Lage-Waddenhausen, 2001
 Fellgiebel W.P., Elite of the Third Reich, The recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939—1945: A Reference, Helion & Company Limited, Solihull, 2003, ISBN 1-874622-46-9
 Patzwall K., Scherzer V., Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941—1945, Geschichte und Inhaber Band II, Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall, Norderstedt, 2001, ISBN 3-931533-45-X

Посилання

 Walter «Gulle» Oesau
 Oesau, Walter  — нагороди оберста Езау
 Walter Oesau
 Оезау Вальтер
 Oesau, Walter «Gulle»
 Оесау Вальтер (Walter Oesau)

Відео
 Die Deutsche Wochenschau Walter Oesau Stukas u Hermann Göring
 Walter Oesau
 Walter Oesau

Примітки

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Оберсти люфтваффе
Німецькі аси Другої світової війни
Відзначені у Вермахтберіхті 5 разів
Збиті пілоти
Загинули в боях Другої світової війни


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July 6, 2017 ARCTIC OIL EXPLORATION, Arctic Production, Narwhal, Ocean Conservation, SEISMIC CANNON BLASTING, The Narwhal's Wake Leave a comment arcticBLASTINGCANNON MAPPINGCETACEANSconservationDEADLYDIE-OFFEXPLORATIONNARHWALSNarwhalNATURENEGATIVE IMPACTOILPEER REVIEWEDSEISMICSTUDYUnicorn of the SeaWHALESZOOPLANKTON
DEVASTATING NEWS. SEISMIC CANNON BLASTING FOR OIL LINKED TO ZOOPLANKTON DIE-OFFS, THE BASIS OF THE OCEANIC FOOD CHAIN.
Figure 1 | Potential undiscovered oil deposits worldwide and seismic survey scales. a, Estimated undiscovered marine oil deposits shown by geological province using a logarithmic colour scale in millions of barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE; source: USGS data6 for 2012), location of experiment shown by a star symbol. b, A typical 3D seismic survey area, located by the black circle in a. c, Close-up of seismic lines with individual air gun firing locations, from the area indicated by the white rectangle in b.
According to a recently published, peer reviewed, study titled "Widely used marine seismic survey air gun operations negatively impact zooplankton," in the journal Nature seismic surveys are actually killing off zooplankton, the basis of the entire oceanic food chain.
These study results have far-reaching implications and should not be dismissed (as the seismic industry is doing). Zooplankton form the base of the food chain for almost all marine mammals. Seismic surveys are being down all over the world right now, exploding the loudest man-made noise in the world (only below the detonation of an atomic bomb at 260 decibels) every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. These sounds travel throughout the ocean, reverberating along seafloor mountains and drowning out marine mammals vocals that they rely upon for navigation, feeding, and nurturing of their offspring.
Take action as this may be the death knell to the ocean as humans search for more and more remote undersea oil throughout the world and including the delicate Arctic region.
Plankton also supply half of the oxygen we breathe and are the base of the ocean food web – with less plankton there is less for fish to eat at a time when the world is increasingly looking to the ocean to provide food.
"Zooplankton underpin the health and productivity of global marine ecosystems. Here we present evidence that suggests seismic surveys cause significant mortality to zooplankton populations. Seismic surveys are used extensively to explore for petroleum resources using intense, low-frequency, acoustic impulse signals. Experimental air gun signal exposure decreased zooplankton abundance when compared with controls, as measured by sonar (~3–4 dB drop within 15–30 min) and net tows (median 64% decrease within 1 h), and caused a two- to threefold increase in dead adult and larval zooplankton. Impacts were observed out to the maximum 1.2 km range sampled, which was more than two orders of magnitude greater than the previously assumed impact range of 10 m. Although no adult krill were present, all larval krill were killed after air gun pas- sage. There is a significant and unacknowledged potential for ocean ecosystem function and productivity to be negatively impacted by present seismic technology."
The search for oil and gas deposits beneath the sea uses acoustic imaging techniques that are deadly to vital marine organisms, according to new research.
LINK TO THE PDF VERSION OF THE NATURE STUDY.
The Trump Administration is pushing for seismic surveys, banned by Obama, to be re-opened along the Atlantic Coast of the US. You have fifteen days to comment on the permitting process – see link below.
Submit a Formal Comment to NOAA regarding re-opening seismic cannon survey permits on the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States here.
YOU ONLY HAVE TEN DAYS LEFT TO COMMENT! (update: Comment Period Extended another 15 days. Here.
https://psmag.com/news/pour-one-out-for-an-organism-you-probably-only-know-because-of-spongebob
Researchers have long known that air gun blasts can disrupt hearing in whales and dolphins, which rely on acoustic signals for everything from hunting to mating. But until now, no one had looked into what effect seismic surveys were having on plankton, despite the outsized role these tiny drifters have in marine ecosystems.
"Plankton is the base of the food chain," says Jayson Semmens, an associate professor at the University of Tasmania and lead author on the new study. "It all starts with them, so if they're affected, that affects everything—including whales." Semmens and his colleagues realized it was impossible to determine the full effect of seismic testing on megafauna like whales without understanding how it influenced the abundance and behavior of the organisms that make up the base of marine food chains.
http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewhiting/2017/06/22/seismic-surveys-now-proven-to-kill-zooplankton-there-goes-your-crab-dinner/
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/plankton-at-risk-from-seafloor-mining-surveys
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New Narwhal Discovery – They Stun Prey With Their Tusk! Learn More at a Screening of The Narwhal's Wake at The Explorer's Club – May 31st, 2017 in NYC
Inuit have long attested that narwhal also use their tusk to tap and stun fish before eating them and recent video footage has verified that knowledge in a first for western science.
A NARWHAL ABOUT TO STUN A FISH WITH ITS TUSK.
Arctic expedition videographer Adam Ravetch captured the footage of narwhal stunning and feeding on Arctic Char with the help of an aerial drone camera on behalf of the World Wildlife Fund Canada expedition.
"As soon as they saw the playback on the small screen, they knew something interesting was happening and definitely needed to be checked out further," said Brandon Laforest, a senior specialist in Arctic species and ecosystems for WWF-Canada. Upon further reviewing the footage below, scientists were able to verifiably confirm that narwhals do indeed also use their tusks as a fish stunner, oftentimes idly swimming through a school of char and lightly bopping the fish with their 3 meter long tooth before swimming up to and eating the fish.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/218816630?byline=0&badge=0&portrait=0&title=0
Narwhal primarily live in Baffin Bay – a large body of water between Greenland and northern Canada in the Arctic – where they seasonally migrate from the south in the winter to the northern reaches of the Arctic in the summer. The elusive and rare whales are often difficult to study given the remote region that they live in. But a number of studies have been mounted over the past couple of decades to decode the mysteries of this anomalous species.
Dr. Martin Nweeia, Harvard Professor of Dentistry and fellow of The Explorer's Club and The Smithsonian Institute, has been studying the fascinating tooth for almost two decades during numerous Arctic Expeditions involving live capture of narwhals. His theory, and experiments attest, is that the tooth is also a sensory organ as it has millions of tiny holes that allow the animal to 'see' the chemical components of the water, as well as the temperature, allowing them to navigate in the cold, dark waters of the Arctic.
The tooth has hundreds of thousands of receptors that lead to the center of the tooth and nerve fibers that feed directly into their brain just above their auditory cortex. The theory is that they can 'sense' the salinity and temperature of the water allowing them to navigate from the sea floor, narwhals are the second deepest diving whales, back up to holes in the ice, called polynyas, allowing them to breath.
Dr. Nweeia is giving a talk on the characteristics of the narwhal's tooth on May 31st at 6pm at The Explorer's Club in Manhattan along with Dr. Christopher Clark, marine bioacoustics expert and star of the National Resource Defense Council's Sonic Sea, after a screening of The Narwhal's Wake, a feature documentary film currently in production. The film focuses on narwhals and the dangers they are facing from Arctic oil exploration that uses seismic cannons to map the subseafloor for hydrocarbons. These cannons emit the second loudest man-made noise, only after the detonation of an atomic bomb, at 160 decibels every ten seconds, 24 hours a day, for the next five years as Baffin Bay is fully mapped. For more information, and to attend the screening and talks, go to The Explorer's Club listing of the event.
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These new discoveries are thanks to Inuit concerns regarding the future of the species and working in conjunction with western scientists to learn more about the migration patterns, social behaviors, and physiological makeup of these rare whales, often referred to as, 'the unicorns of the sea.'
If you're in New York City this week don't miss this chance to have more mysteries of the narwhal revealed.
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Slideshow Talk on The Narwhal's Wake at The Studios of Key West
Check out the story of how Keep Narwhals Real! got started, what the situation is right now regarding seismic cannon mapping in Baffin Bay, and how the film, 'The Narwhal's Wake,' is progressing.
Thanks to The Studios of Key West for inviting me to speak at Mark Hedden and Marky Pierson's Slideshow series.
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Original Drawings by Colter Jackson – Prints for the Holidays!
If you contribute $20, you get a signed, limited-edition print of one of Colter Jackson's narwhal illustrations.
If you contribute $55, you get a set of all three.
It's 100% awesome and tax deductible and you can feel good every time you think of a narwhal. Which, in my case, is often.
November 21, 2016 November 22, 2016 Behind The Scenes, Documentary Film, Narwhal, The Narwhal's Wake Leave a comment Behind The Scenesbioacoustics labBTScaliforniacornellDocumentary Filmdr. christopher clarkithacajoel reynoldslab or ornithologynational resource defense councilnrdcnysanta monicasonic seaThe Narwhal's Wake
Our Most Recent Interviews – Joel Reynolds of the NRDC and Taryn Heimer of the Marine Mammal Protection Project
Interviewing Joel Reynolds at the NRDC Western Headquarters in Santa Monica, California.
We recently wrapped a great interview with Joel Reynolds, Western Director and Senior Attorney of the National Resource Defense Council (NRDC) earlier this month.
We discussed ocean noise pollution, the Navy's use of active sonar, seismic surveys in the search for oil in the Arctic and the future for cetaceans, specifically narwhals, in an increasingly loud ocean.
Director Ian Rowan interviewing Joel Reynolds.
Joel spoke about successfully litigating naval noise pollution and the hope for continued successes in helping to mitigate underwater noise pollution by challenging and working with industry to develop new technologies and techniques so as not to disrupt the marine environment to the detriment of all sea creatures.
Joel Reynolds, Western Director of the National Resource Defense Council.
We were also joined by Taryn Heimer, senior policy analyst with the NRDC marine mammal protection project, fresh from her return from attending the International Whaling Commission meeting in Portoroz, Slovenia but she didn't let the jet lag get in the way of our interview and talking all things cetacean. She was especially adamant that her young child grow up in a world that still has not only whales but magical sea creatures like narwhals.
Taryn Heimer, Senior Policy Analyst for the NRDC Marine Mammal Protection Project.
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Greenpeace and Actress Emma Thompson to Join Jerry Natanine in Clyde River to Save Narwhals
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Protesters Hold Banner in Solidarity with Clyde River – Residents are fighting a dangerous form of oil exploration that uses deafening Seismic Cannons to search for oil in Baffin Bay – Home to 90% of narwhals, 'the unicorn of the sea.'
Clyde River, Nunavut. This small hamlet, population 1,100, is at the epicenter of an international effort to stop a dangerous type of oil exploration in the Arctic called Seismic Cannon Mapping. Their primary concern is the well-being of the narwhal, a rare and threatened whale that primarily resides in Baffin Bay and is the origin of the myth of the unicorn.
A planned oil exploration survey of the entirety of Baffin Bay has been opposed by Inuit of Clyde River. Led by former Mayor Jerry Natanine, the Clyde River Solidarity Network (Greenpeace Canada, Amnesty International, Idle No More, Council of Canadians,Mining Injustice Social Network, and author and activist Naomi Klein and Actresses Emma Thompson and Lucy Lawless have signed a statement of support) asserts that the seismic cannon mapping proposed by a Norwegian consortium of companies Multi Klient Invest/TGS/PGS has been expressly refused consent by Inuit. Furthermore, Clyde River haslegitimate concerns that seismic cannons threaten the marine wildlife and the fragile ecosystem that 80-90% of narwhals inhabit.
A Seismic Survey Vessels detonates its cannons underwater. The blasts are 240 decibels and are the second loudest man-made noise only after the detonation of an atomic bomb. The blasts go off every 10 seconds, 24 hours a day, for the next 5 years.
Led by Jerry Natanine, Clyde River challenged the Canadian National Energy Board's approval of the survey in July of 2015 – the board ruled unanimously in favor of the survey amidstwidespread opposition. This year, in a rare move, the Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the case for protecting Baffin Bay from sonic blasts on November 30th.
Arctic Campaign Lead Farrah Khan and former mayor of Clyde River Jerry Natanine look on as the Captain of the Greenpeace Icebreaker 'Arctic Sunrise' plots a course for Clyde River.
In the meantime Greenpeace Canada is mobilizing their icebreaking ship, The Arctic Sunrise, on a peaceful protest training mission to Clyde River with Actress Emma Thompson accompanying former mayor Jerry Natanine. The mission is to raise awareness around the planned seismic mapping of Baffin Bay, install solar panels on the roof of the community center, and to host a training session with the residents of Clyde River demonstrating peaceful protest methods and flotilla organizing in case the cannons start shooting the Arctic waters.
Arctic Sunrise crew and guests travel through Baffin Bay, on August 14th, 2016. The ship is bound Clyde River, Nunavut, where she will deliver solar panels for the community. Mayor of Clyde River, James Qillaq (L), former mayor of Clyde River, Jerry Natanine, JerryÕs daughter, Clara Natanine, Deckhand of the Arctic Sunrise, Victor Pickering and Medic of the Arctic Sunrise, Valeriy Kharchenko during a RHIB training exercise in Baffin Bay.
Actress Emma Thompson meets with residents of Clyde River, Nunavut.
The expedition will begin installation of solar panels on the community center, peaceful protest training sessions, and flotilla safety protocols this week. Emma Thompson and her daughter have arrived and met with residents and are sitting in on the training sessions. The goal of the expedition is to primarily train residents of Clyde River to have effective tools of protest in order to be heard by the Canadian government and international media while also bolstering their self-sufficiency and sustainability through solar generated power.
Clyde River is located on Baffin Island in the Arctic Circle and is separated from Greenland by Baffin Bay, home to 80-90% of Earth's narwhals.
Located at the 70th parallel longitude within the Arctic Circle, Clyde River is at the northwestern part of Baffin Island on the eastern coast of Canada and separated by Baffin Bay from Greenland. It's a remote and frigid area of the world that not that many people visit. But there's a robust wilderness that supports an amazing biodiversity that Inuit depend upon for their survival.
A pod of narwhal, monodon monoceros, swim in the Arctic.
Baffin Bay is home to ninety percent of monodon monoceros, 'the unicorn of the sea,' or narwhal. These rare whales migrate up and down the shores of Baffin Bay, feeding on Arctic Char near the North Pole in the winter and squid and shrimp when they summer in more southern waters. They are the second deepest diving whale, up to a mile and a half, and swim upside down while feeding. But the most fascinating aspect of the narwhal is their tusk: a ten foot long tooth that protrudes from their upper lip and guides their underwater foraging.
IAN ROWAN
The final tapestry in the 'La Dame à la licorne,' or 'The Lady and the Unicorn.'
This is the tooth of legend. Literally. The myth of the origin of the unicorn has been traced back to Vikings that hunted narwhals in the Arctic Circle. They brought back the horns and sold them to southern Europeans who wouldn't reveal what animal they were from nor where they caught them in order to preserve the secrecy of the Viking fishing grounds. Lore soon built up around these horns, even the Queen of England paid the equivalent of a castle to purchase one, and the legend of the horse with a horn was born. Crushed up narwhal, or 'unicorn' horn, was said to protect those that ingested it from being poisoned by anything. That only a virgin maiden alone in the forest could attract a unicorn before hunters could capture it – indeed, the famousThe Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are based on the legends built around the very real, though unknown at that time, narwhal of the Arctic.
The narwhal's habitat is almost solely Baffin Bay – the other 10% of narwhal are on the eastern coast of Greenland and Svalbard – so they are intricately linked to the underwater ecosystem. There is much evidence to show that seismic surveys are linked to deafness, stranding, beachings, and the deaths of narwhals and other whales. In an open letter to President Obama over fifty marine biologists and scientists have urged him to ban seismic surveys off of the coasts of the U.S. The dangers are real and the future of the species that spawned the legend of the unicorn is at risk of becoming a legend itself.
View of a Pod of Narwhal Entrapped in Ice.
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Located spectacularly at the confluence of Yangtze and Jialing rivers, the massive city of Chongqing raises from the mountains, with its countless skyscrapers and tower blocks dominating the skyline. Back in 1997, the eastern part of Sichuan was "torn off" to form one of China's four direct-controlled municipalities alongside Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. Thanks to that the largest city proper in the World has emerged, currently housing the stunning number of more than 29 million residents.
most of the land located within the boundaries of Chongqing municipality is comprised of lush mountains, marvelous river gorges, deep valleys, and dramatic canyons.
However, you can be excused for thinking that a lot of effort is being done to ruin these natural wonders. Massive scale road construction and infrastructural mega-projects (such as Three Gorges Dam) significantly alter the natural setting of Chongqing, taking away from its pristine beauty. On the other hand, to this date plenty of romantic scenic spots exist within close proximity to the downtown Chongqing, offering a perfect retreat from the hassle and bustle of the Yangtze River metropolis. No matter if you are an expat living in Chongqing (or Chengdu) or just visiting for a few days, some scenic spots are definitely worth a trip. One such place is Jindao Canyon.
Jindao Canyon (the name literally means the Golden Dagger Canyon) is located near the Beibei (北碚) suburb, situated in the North of the urban core of Chongqing. The scenic spot comprises of the upper and lower canyon, both offering stunning views and excellent hiking and relaxation opportunities. Especially the lower canyon is a feast for the eyes. While walking on the 7km plank path (apparently the longest in China) built along the cliff side you can admire thousands of stalagmites, caves, pillars, and other mesmerizing rock formations.
The rapid river flows through the bottom of the canyon, constantly refueled by the water coming from numerous waterfalls scattered here and there. The best thing is you can have this natural beauty all for yourself – unlike a lot of scenic spots in China, Jindao Canyon does not attract crowds of annoying domestic tourists. In fact, during my last visit here in the middle of the week in October 2015, I was alone most of the time.
While Autumn is a great time to visit the canyon, it can also provide a cooling retreat from the scorching summer heat of Chongqing or Chengdu. If you are an expat living in one of those two cities, you won't regret spending a day or even a weekend chilling out in the canyon and its peaceful rural surroundings.
1. Board the direct bus to the canyon, departing from Chongqing North Bus station (重庆汽车北站), located adjacent to Hong Qi He Gou (红旗河沟) metro station. Note that especially in the low season, some buses do not go directly to the entrance of the canyon, but stop in the nearby town of Liuyin (柳荫). From there you can share a minivan (面包车) which will take you to the gate of the scenic spot. Don't pay more than 15RMB for a seat in a minivan.
IMPORTANT: Make sure the driver takes you to the Upper Gate (上门口) of the canyon! Otherwise, be prepared for a very strenuous constant uphill walk. Moreover, the scenery in the lower canyon, as mentioned above, is particularly breathtaking – it's worth to keep the best part for the end of your visit!
2. Take the subway line 6 to the last stop – Beibei (北碚). From there you walk towards the Beibei bus station (北碚汽车站). The station is actually an extremely ugly building housing flats, shops, and other services, with a few buses standing in front. Board the one with large sign 金刀峡 (Jindao Canyon) on the front window. Just as mentioned above, some buses do not go directly to the canyon and terminate in Liuyin instead.
Going back from the canyon, you can easily find a minivan to share which will bring you back either to Liuyin (from where you can take a bus back to Chongqing) or even Beibei.
High Season (March 1st – October 31st) – 100 yuan. Students: 50 yuan.
Low Season (November 1st – February 28th) – 60 yuan.
There is also a compulsory 10RMB payment for a short boat ride crossing one part of the river.


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Slated for Death
Author: Elizabeth J. Duncan
A Penny Brannigan Mystery, #6
This cozy mystery novel by Elizabeth J. Duncan has all the elements of a cozy mystery: amateur detective, a murder that isn't described in grizzly details, and lovable side characters. Yet, I felt this book was missing the excitement that keeps you on the edge of seat reading this book into the night. I could easily put it down and go to bed.
First, the author did pull me into her main heroine, Penny, life when she working at the spa she co-owns with her business partner, Victoria. Penny's friends say she cannot help herself when one of her friends are hurt or in trouble so when Penny friend Doreen's daughter get murder she jumps right into the case to find out what happens to the daughter.
Second, in true cozy mystery history we are not given any vivid description of the murder that took place off center stage in this novel. However, when the medical examiner was talking to the police about the examination he did; he got a little gory in describing the murder wound.
Third, there are some lovable side characters in this book, especially the ones at the nursing home. One of them, Jimmy, stayed in my mind long after the heroine did because he was written so flamboyantly as a lovable old scamp.
Last, the reading pace of this story flows in a leisurely pattern throughout this book. This is what killed any excitement and motivation I had in finding out who the killer was in this novel. It also has left me with no urge to go find other books in the "Penny Brannigan" mystery series.
Can Penny discover the killer of Glenda Roberts, a woman in her North Wales village of Llanelan?
Book Blurb for Slated for Death
When the body of well-liked and respectable Glenda Roberts is discovered at the bottom of a former slate mine, now a busy tourist attraction, pandemonium erupts in the North Wales town of Llanelen. Penny Brannigan finds herself drawn into the investigation when jars of her house-brand hand cream are found among counterfeit inventory Glenda and her sister were selling.
Police are convinced that the mine operator whose asthmatic son suffered an almost-fatal attack due to the merchandise is responsible for Glenda's death. But Penny's not so sure. A visit to Glenda's mother only deepens her conviction that a hidden family secret is the real reason for the murder.
Elizabeth J. Duncan's Slated for Death is a wonderful traditional mystery with snappy dialogue, lively characters and an enchanting setting.


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One Direction: Niall Horan looks forward to tour with McBusted
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wantedon 01/20/2015 | 13:29
In October alone, Niall Horan and his One Direction colleagues returned home from their grand "Where We Are" tour, which took them across three continents in almost half a year. But for the five guys after the tour apparently it's before the tour. The next concert tour begins on February 7 in Sydney, Australia. But One Direction are not alone: to the delight of Niall Horan, they are accompanied by the British band McBusted.
One Direction promotes McBusted
One Direction doesn't seem to have enough fans around the world. Also this year Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson will be on tour again as part of their "On The Road Again" tour, with stops in Australia, South Africa, the United States and Asia. One Direction is also planning a concert in Vienna on June 10. For at least his seven "Down Under" concerts, Niall Horan and his bandmates can count on support: The guys at McBusted are supposed to warm up Australian fans in the opening act.
In Germany, McBusted's six boys still have no real names, but in Britain the band was able to get a top ten spot with their debut album in December 2014. Side by side with One Direction, McBusted is now looking forward to a breakthrough and can count on the support of band member Niall Horan. At least the blonde boy seems to have only the best memories after his first experiences with McBusted, who jumped for 5 Seconds of Summer at some gigs during the last One Direction tour. "What are dreams made of: Tours! And on tour with you, McBusted! I was definitely pissed off for a bit of joy, "Niall Horan tweeted in anticipation.
One Direction has another guest on tour
Niall Horan shares the spotlight
It's still in the stars if Niall Horan will have his McBusted friends with them on the One Direction bonus tour. Finally, another artist also hopes to be able to accompany what is probably the most successful boy group of the present for as long as possible. In addition to McBusted, "X Factor" winner Samantha Jade will try to get the Australian sands to boil even before One Direction appearances. "I'm very excited to be able to support these legends on their Australian tour," the blonde tweeted, referring to Niall Horan and his bandmates.
Acting as the opening act for One Direction: This seems to be the great dream of many artists. In February, Samantha Jade and McBusted can use the big stage that Niall Horan and his colleagues have to offer. It may be the first step towards a breakthrough for you.
McBusted Image Source: Getty Images / Tim P. Whitby Niall Horan Image Source: Getty Images / Cameron Spencer
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Home>>Sports>>Finally Good News For San Antonio Fans
Finally Good News For San Antonio Fans
Abby TateJune 17, 2020
The lockdown has been a nightmare for sports fans across the world. With all major sports events getting canceled, most sports fanatics and NBA fans felt left out especially with no San Antonio Spurs news it was a difficult few months. If you are looking for news about your favorite basketball team all you have to do is do an internet search to get all the latest development. If you had read up on any latest events about the San Antonio Spurs, you would have known that the team's player Tim Duncan was declared as one of the top 10 NBA Players of All Time. ESPN had been revealing their list of top 100 NBL players of all time.
The list is a go-to guide for someone who wants to know who's who of the basketball sports. It has some of the legendary players like Bill Russell, Larry Bird, and others. Tim Duncan managed to surpass Kobe to make it to the top 10 list. While Duncan is at 8th sport, Kobe is at 9th but the debates on who is better than the other are already doing the rounds after the list came out. ESPN has declared Michel Jordan at the topmost spot with LeBron at second.
There are also a lot of rumors and speculations about the games since every sports event got canceled. There are also reports that the NBA was planning to finish the 2019 season at Disney World. The latest rumors speculate that Spurs can be one of the four teams in the Western Conference and may get to participate in a special play-in tournament.
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If these rumors and speculations turn out to be true then fans will have something extra special to watch. Since most games were canceled, it will attract a lot more attention. It would also mean that the league's stars get to compete for a postseason spot. Young rookie stars like Zion Williamson would also get more exposure and a chance to play. This gives Coach Gregg Popovich another chance to prove how good he is at keeping his players sharp. He was expected to retire at the end of 2019-20 season but things have changed since.
He was committed to coach Team USA for the Olympics but now that the Olympics have been postponed it is still not clear what Popovich will decide to do. He could retire from the Spurs and work towards recruiting players for Team USA. But there is a chance that he will return as a coach for the 2020-2021 seasons. Popovich has a three-year extension contract with the club that he signed last summer. The contract is worded as such that he can take as long as he wants to decide whether he wishes to continue coaching. He has been coaching the team since 1996. According to some San Antonio Spurs news, assistant coach Duncan would be considered for the position of head coach after Popovich eventually retires.
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