A big thank you to these 5 women for sharing their talents.
You can revisit my 6 tags here.
please leave a comment on this post with links to your social media.
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Lovely tags, Kim- and I still remember your gorgeous Marie Antoinette which were some of yours, in this swap .
I soooo wish I could have been a part of this swap, but knew I wouldn't get my tags made in time. Life gets in the way sometimes. :) Everyone did an amazing job!
I got mine today and I am completely Enchanted! The beautiful assemblage with the paintbrush paint brush and your card are just stunning. This was one of my favorite swaps I've done in a long time! I love all the ones I got and I hope everyone loves the ones I sent! Thank you so much Kim for putting this together!
Omgosh! These are wonderfully created! Such a cool idea for a swap Kim! Wish I had gotten in on this one!
Beautiful cards!! I can't believe I missed this swap.
I'm glad I saw these because I have some paint samples at home that I didn't know what to do with. Now I will definitily give this a try.


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What happened to the Bulls after The Last Dance?
If you've seen The Last Dance, Michael Jordan used tough love to harden his team for the NBA. With this amazing basketball talent at their nucleus, the Bulls won back-to-back-to-back NBA Championship not once, but twice.
This is almost impossible, dare I say inhumane, right?
Now is the time for confessions, I am not an avid basketball follower. Aside from the fact it seemingly turns your eyes yellow, it is a sport for giants, and the best giants play in the NBA.
Well, like 97 per cent of the world's population, I am not over six foot. Nor do I live in America.
Might be more inclined to focus more on basketball if the NBA had a six-foot (183cm) height limit division. There you go entrepreneurs, want to make some money? Establish an NBA six-foot division, lower the basket ring so everyone can dunk, and get ready for athleticism that a myriad possess, but only a few giants like Jordan can display.
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Back to The Last Dance, after 1998, what happened to the ensemble?
Well here it goes.
Phil Jackson was effectively sacked by Jerry Krause (RIP), setting in motion the events of the docuseries.
If you think six championships with the Bulls was incredible, Jackson was only getting started.
Phil did it again, this time with the LA Lakers, another back-to-back-to-back NBA Championships trifecta (2000-2002). Jordan, it turns out, was human and replaceable after all.
Phil's Lakers were another basketball dynasty. Instead of Jordan and Pippen, there was Kobe Bryant (RIP) and Shaquille O'Neal.
Jackson's LA also made the NBA finals on no less than seven occasions, winning back-to-back titles also in 2009-2010. As a coach, Phil completed his career coaching teams to 11 titles (six with the Bulls, five with the Lakers).
We are starting to understand why Jordan did not want to continue at the Bulls without Phil Jackson as head coach.
Vale Kobe Bryant. (Tolga Adanali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Remember the short fella Jordan punched in the face? That was Steve Kerr.
Kerr is not that short by the way, standing at 6 foot 2 (191cm) compared to Jordan's 6 foot 5 (198cm). In boxing they would both be heavyweights. One icon hitting another and both grew together as a result.
Outside of the NBA bubble, few would recognise Kerr as a living legend, but has done what neither Jordan nor Jackson did. As coach of the Golden State Warriors, Kerr has competed in five consecutive NBA finals, and this current run ain't over yet. The Warriors have so far claimed three titles and their rivalry with the Cleveland Cavaliers is legendary.
Where Jordan's era was characterised by the slam dunk, the modern legend is Stephen Curry, three-point sharpshooter extraordinaire.
Interestingly, it is not Curry, but his coach who holds the highest percentage (45.4) for NBA players who have hit at least 250 three-pointers.
As a player, Kerr went on to to claim another two NBA titles, with the San Antonio Spurs. Kerr not having his own episode felt like a bit of a sucker punch.
The soprano would never play in the NBA Championships again. He would however, finally hit pay dirt with a five-year, $67 million deal with Houston-Portland, before a final $10 million, two-year contract back with the Bulls.
(Matt A. Brown/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Enough is never enough for some.
"I felt like we could've won seven. I really believe that. We may not have, but man, just to not be able to try, that's something that I just can't accept for whatever reason. I just can't accept it," Jordan said in the series.
And that is why he is a living legend.
Rodman still alive, kicking and living life. Not all about sport. What a legend!

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Welcome to the Whimsy Stamps July Release Day BLOG HOP!
CLICK HERE to start the hop at Iris's blog.
PRIZE ALERT ... We have hidden a fabulous prize of a $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE at one of the stops on today's hop! To enter the draw, simply leave a comment HERE and at EVERY stop along the hop by 12.00pm noon on Friday July 11th.
For today's hop I used a new stamp from Whimsy's Time 4 Tea Designs (Yo Yo girl), along with the set Feathers and flourish and a sentiment from a previous Whimsy release - Girl Talk.
It's a pretty simple design. I used designer paper from my stash, but added a little more stamping to it by using the flourish and a feather stamp from the new set "Feathers and Flourish" by SC designs. Image has been colored using copics and fussy cut. I simply embellished with a butterfly and some pearls and then sewed around the edges.
Here are you Whimsy Stamps quick links and images of stamps/sets that I used.
These stamps are available for purchase TODAY at Whimsy Stamps.
This is also my DT entry for this month's Whimsy Stamps Facebook challenge, where the theme is Favorite Colors.
Don't forget to leave comments on each Designer's blog post (links listed above), if you'd like to hop along with us for a chance to win.
Happy hopping, and I hope to see your challenge entry on the Whimsy Facebook page.
What a great card for a teenage girl. This is awesome!
This made me smile! How super adorable and fun!
OMG this is soooooooo Adorable!!! love it!!
Love, love your card coloring and creativity!!! Outstanding!
Cute card with great colors! I love your fabulous coloring also!
What a fun and whimsical card! I love your colors too!
Really like the design of your card. Very cute.
Lovely card. Such a sweet image.
Love this! Yes, Girls just wanna have fun! Great card!
Your card is so cute! I love all the stamp sets you incorporated!
What a lovely card Ellie!!
Good grief, as soon as I read this all I could think about was the song. LOL Love how you colore her, very sweet!
What a great pairing of the yoyo girl and the sentiment!! Couldn't help but smile and laugh when I saw it. Terrific design!
The new releases are so cute... Those that I've seen I WANT!!!! Thanks for sharing so cute!
This card is such fun - I love it.


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Karpatt est un groupe de musique français, composé de trois musiciens : Frédéric Rollat est auteur, compositeur, interprète, guitariste ; Hervé Jegousso est le contrebassiste ; Gaétan Lerat est le guitariste.

Biographie
Frédéric Rollat, auteur, compositeur, interprète écrit ses premiers textes en 1983. Entre 1990 et 1994, il devient guitariste et choriste du groupe Yan et les Abeilles avant de former le groupe Karpatt en 1994. Le groupe du début comporte Fred Rollat son frère Olivier Rollat ainsi que Julien Barthelemy.

En 2002, au moment d'enregistrer le premier album À l'ombre du ficus (Productions Spéciales), Gaetan Lerat et Hervé Jégousso rejoignent l'équipe. Leur premier opus est classé  music world (présence de nombreuses percussions). Cet album était une maquette destinée à obtenir des engagements de concerts mais ce fut leur premier opus qui depuis est devenu introuvable. En 2004, leur second album, Dans le caillou (label du caillou- Productions Spéciales) voit le jour, teinté de jazz manouche, et de chanson française. Il est enregistré au studio Le Pressoir à Bourré. C'est leur première expérience de studio professionnel. Richard Lornac et Mano Solo ont participé à l'enregistrement. l'album atteint la  place du classement des top albums.

En 2006, le trio enregistre leur troisième album, Dans d'beaux draps, publié au label Productions Spéciales. Il atteint la  place du classement des top albums. Ils retournent chez eux enregistrer cet album. Déçus du mode de travail en studio, ils recherchent la liberté du travail artisanal qu'ils obtiennent en travaillant à domicile. L'album est dans la lignée du précédent avec un univers acoustique très affirmé. En 2009, Montreuil (L'Autre Distribution), album plus électrique, est enregistré dans la ville du même nom et atteint la  place des top albums. La tentation du « tout acoustique » n'est plus de mise dans cet album à fort tempérament. Karpatt y explore ses territoires intérieurs. Sur scène, l'arrivée d'un batteur, de guitares et basses électriques bouscule les habitudes et donne un relief particulier à leur répertoire.

En 2010, leur double live À droite à gauche (L'Autre Distribution) est enregistré dans 8 salles de concerts de France. Enregistrés lors de la dernière tournée d'automne 2009 et mixés par Steve Forward (Ray Charles, Depeche Mode), les titres ont été revisités pour l'occasion : on retrouve dans ce double album live les incontournables Soulève ta jupe, La mouche électrifiés qui côtoient Léon et Les Canards en plastique ainsi que les titres du dernier album studio Montreuil. À droite à gauche atteint la  place des top albums. En 2011, Sur le quai est un album studio enregistré en formule trio, travaillé, ébauché et composé en grande partie à Dieppe (sur le quai de Dieppe). Ils collaborent avec d'autres auteurs et s'associent la plume de Jehan Jonas, Christian Olivier de Têtes raides ainsi que de Nicolas Jules. Le titre Palais royal est un bel hommage à leur ami Mano Solo.

En 2018, ils changent de label pour At(h)ome, un label historiquement spécialisé dans le heavy metal, « mais qui s'est ouvert depuis un bon moment à plein d'autres projets, dont la chanson française », et préparent un septième album. Dès lors, ils publient Valparaiso en 2019. En , le groupe est annoncé à la soirée des Voix d'hiver de Gauchy, remplaçant la chanteuse Gatica, atteinte du coronavirus.

Représentations
Le groupe a tourné dans des pays tels que l'Indonésie, la Slovaquie, la Croatie, la Suisse, la Russie, l'Estonie, la Lituanie, la Lettonie, la Biélorussie, la Belgique, l'Allemagne, le Kazakhstan, la Hongrie, le Canada, l'Italie, les États-Unis, l'Espagne, l'Ukraine, la Tunisie, le Salvador, le Nicaragua, le Costa Rica, le Panama, le Honduras, le Guatemala, et le Chili.

Karpatt a participé à plusieurs festivals dont Solidays, Francofolies de La Rochelle, Musicalarue, Garorock. Karpatt a aussi joué dans les salles parisiennes La Cigale, l'Olympia, Le Café de la Danse, L'Européen, Le Divan du Monde, La Maroquinerie. Premières parties de Mano Solo

Membres
Fréderic Rollat, originaire de Coustouges (Pyrénées-Orientales) écrit ses premiers textes en 1983. Entre 1990 et 1994, il sera guitariste et choriste du groupe Yan et les Abeilles avant de créer le groupe Karpatt en 1994.

Gaétan Lebat, originaire du Morbihan, guitariste et membre du groupe depuis le début, compose également pour de nombreux documentaires (Belle île la bien nommée par exemple). En 2008, il a également participé à l'enregistrement de l'album D'Jolo de Dikès.

Hervé Jegousso, originaire de Bordeaux, sort du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris en 2003 ( de jazz), après des études en musicologie et un diplôme de fin d'études au Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Bordeaux.

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Notes et références

Liens externes

Karpatt
Groupe de la nouvelle scène française

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They can borrow between 1,500 and 15,000 pounds for one to five years. CHAPTER 1 Main lenders payday loans data 2012. Solvency loan researched in Kansas Kansas doesn't allow roller coasters. The United Kingdom limits creditors to allowing 2 extensions per loan. Ten years ago there were only thirty-six payday loan providers in Kansas, thanks to the web, there are now literally hundred of them.
In Kansas, the median payday loan is $380. For the United Kingdom, the loan is £260 on average.
Payment day loan in Kansas are through Kan legally. These are also referred to as small credits. - The loan conditions. Kansas State has not established a threshold for payday lending. It has a $500 credit limit for a 7-30 day period. Financing costs for a $100 14-day loan are $15.
APR for a 14-day $100 loan is 390%. However, the maximal amount of loan due at one go is one per creditor or two altogether. Research by the Center for Responsible Living (September 2013) shows that Kansas is in the group of states without sensible regulations on payment day financing.
On the following chart you can see statistical data for payday lending in Kansas. Only thirty-six payday loan providers were active in Kansas a decade ago. Right now, because of the productive use of the web, there are tens of thousands for payday loan choices. According to an online research in early 2009, "Payday loan Kansas" showed 195,000 matches.
Since 2005 they are in operation, only on-line (no shop windows). It has been in operation since 2004 and has financed more than 4 million credits in 25 countries. You have been in operation since 1989, BBB-accredited payday creditors. You work both on-line and with real shop windows. In Kansas, payday creditors are allowed to conduct business in the state but they must follow the same rules as cancellation creditors.
As the third and last well of payday loan providers is an online payday loan organisation. Looking at Kansas, there are 4 state-licensed online lenders: Reported from payday Banks from 2012 shows that 1,082,716 payday balances were made to Kansas buyers for a total of $413,9 million.
During 1995, 36 areas were offering payday credit in Kansas. We will present here the features and samples of payday borrower in Kansas. 6 per cent of borrower were persons with some handicaps, 3 per cent student, 12 per cent housewife and 3 per cent pensioner. Borrower can have two at a time. Whilst there is no basic amount for loans, a payday prepayment amount may not exceed $500.
Payday credits may not have a maturity of less than seven or more than thirty working days. If you have a $100 balance, you would have to refund the $100 in excess of the $15 interest fee. Payment day bankers cannot divide your loan amount into smaller slices.


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News: In 1834 a 13 metre long Iguanadon fossil was found in Queen's Road in Maidstone
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HERB COLLECTOR
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Re: Bouncing Bomb's
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2018, 23:02:44 »
Two photos of the statue of Sir Barnes Wallis on Beacon Hill Road, Herne Bay, and a photo of a 'bouncing bomb' at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire.
« Reply #17 on: August 05, 2015, 22:54:50 »
Second launch sequence of practice dropping the 'Upkeep' weapon at Reculver Bombing Range.
© IWM (IWM FLM 2338) An Avro Lancaster flying at 60 feet above the water, approaches the release point.
© IWM (IWM FLM 2339) The Lancaster releases the bomb towards the shore.
© IWM (IWM FLM 2340) The bomb falls from the Lancaster as the aircraft begins to climb.
© IWM (IWM FLM 2342) The bomb rises from the water after the first 'bounce'.
© IWM (IWM FLM 2343) A group of observers watches as the bomb bounces toward the shoreline. Dr Barnes, on the extreme left of the group, can be seen urging the bomb on.
Chatham_Girl85
« Reply #16 on: September 22, 2011, 21:51:44 »
Well after scanning them to your computer, you then need to upload them to a photo hosting site, like Photobucket or Flickr..
Once you have done that use this link and it shows you quite simply how to upload them to the forum...
http://www.kenthistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=11707.0
Look forward to seeing your contributions
AlanPConroy
Certainly but can someone tell me how to put them on here please? I cannot see anyway of including images
Welcome to the forum AlanPConroy...
I would be interested in seeing the cuttings you have on the subject, as I feel other members would be also.
I suggest either putting the cuttings in this thread, or maybe even starting a new one in this board.
Hope I have helped a bit.
I was the Press Officer during the 1997 operation and have an extensive file of newspaper cuttings. I can copy them and make them available on-line if that would be of interest. I also have many photographs. If it is of real interest I can scan the material but where should I place it?
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2011, 23:19:11 »
The Herne Bay Museum has one of the smaller prototypes also.
Barnes-Wallis is commemorated just up from the King's Hall...
Nobby007
« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2011, 23:06:59 »
I think Dover castle has a damaged one
kyn
The one at Manston is the one photographed at Fort Amherst in a seperate thread.
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« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2011, 19:02:49 »
The one in the spitfire museum at Manston was the smaller prototype version, and not the same as the ones used on the Dam Busters raid.
Bryn Clinch
I think that there is also one in the Spitfire Museum at Manston.
Quote from: Robin on February 22, 2011, 17:39:41
Hi ETA.
There is a complete bomb in the Barnes Wallis Collection at the Yorkshire Air Meseum at Elvington, near York.
There is one in the Imperial War Museum at Duxford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duxford_UK_Feb2005_bouncingbomb.JPG
One of the reasons that a lot of the bouncing bombs recovered from Reculver are damaged, was due to the military clear up of the site after the war. Any thing sticking out of the mud/sand was blown up with a ribbon charge. Some of the bombs that were further from the shore got missed. As to what happened to the hundred bombs still in store in 1945, still looking.
seafordpete
Quote from: ETA on February 22, 2011, 16:48:36
. Other people assisted: a liaison officer from RAF Manston was present, as was a SNCO from the RAF's EOD Flight in Wittering (whose task it was to confirm that there was no explosive hazard, .
His prescence would be purely political The RAF have ownership of all "Allied " ordnance on UK territory, generally their policy is to blow it up rather than immunise and move it. By rights there should have been a RN too as the "own" anything in tidal waters or ports
There is a complete bomb in the Barnes Wallis Collection at the Yorkshire Air Meseum at Elvington, near York. I saw this specimen when it was put on display a couple of years ago and it is in perfect condition, I think that it was one of those brought ashore at Reculver, but cannot be certain.
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Porsche Cayenne GTS Review: The New Fast SUV Benchmark
The most focused version of the current Cayenne does what it says on the tin, providing a noticeably sharper drive than the already irritatingly brilliant Turbo
By Matt Robinson, 30th June 2020
Taking electric stuff out of the equation, it feels like the realm of fast SUVs is the corner of the performance car industry which is progressing the fastest.
At the pointy supercar end of the spectrum, for instance, gains have become marginal - it feels like fast car science is already being pushed as far as it can. But SUVs? It seems there's still work to be done when it comes to making tall, heavy things corner like they're not tall, heavy things at all.
Just when we think we've gotten used to the bizarrely tidy handling characteristics of a modern uber SUV, the limits are pushed further still. As a perfect case in point, I declared only a couple of weeks ago that the Audi RSQ8 had - dynamically, at least - just about edged the Porsche Cayenne Turbo. But now, there's a Cayenne GTS, and that's better than both.
Mechanically, the suspension doesn't differ from the Turbo's. However, as with the Panamera GTS, this Cayenne is deliberately set up to be the most focused derivative in the range. Get it on a twisty bit of road, and this is obvious almost immediately. You can massively load up the front beyond what you think is acceptable, squeeze on a little more throttle, and feel the whole thing neatly pivot in the middle as traction briefly departs the rear axle.
Fast changes of direction are brushed off like they're nothing, and there isn't a great deal of body roll. The caveat here is 'our' GTS test car had rear-axle steering, and on an SUV we'd feel more compelled to recommend speccing than on something like a 911. It's on these silly fast SUVs where this kind of tech - combined with parts like the also optional and also worth having air suspension - really makes the difference.
I don't know if the Cayenne GTS can quite be described as 'silly fast', though. It may have the same 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 as the Cayenne Turbo, but the boost pressure is turned down to lower the power from 542bhp to 454bhp, while the torque drops from 568lb ft to 457lb ft.
Still a healthy output, but there is a lot of metal to propel here. The 0-62mph time of 4.5 seconds is respectable rather than laugh out loud fast - for comparison, the Turbo will happily smash out the same benchmark in 3.9. And sure enough, it does lack outright drama when you put your foot down.
The lower boost pressures do make for a noticeably more responsive engine, however, and since the power output isn't too ridiculous, you can enjoy longer bouts of wide-open throttle before needing to lift. A welcome thing, since the V8 sounds nicely rorty, if a little muted.
Unlike the Panamera GTS and its dual-clutch gearbox, the Cayenne uses a conventional torque converter auto, as that's better for towing things. It may lack the outright aggression of the 'PDK' transmission, but it's really not that far away. The GTS also gets bonus points for using lovely metal shifters, as opposed to the horrible plastic tabs some manufacturers are sticking on the back of steering wheel.
So far, so good. There's even an electric power steering setup which gives - shock horror - some degree of feedback, as well as bang-on speed and weighting. If you read our Audi RSQ8 review, though, you'll know that at this point, proceedings can go sideways, with the realisation that the rest of the SUV has been horribly compromised to achieve the bafflingly good dynamics.
Thankfully, that isn't the case here. Yes, even with the optional air suspension knocked back to its softest setting, the GTS does ride more firmly than some performance SUVs, but it's well within the realms of acceptability. Meanwhile, the cockpit is brilliantly laid out, solidly built, and is fitted with one of the best infotainment systems in the business.
There's very little to get annoyed about with the Cayenne GTS. I've wracked my brains, and the only things that stick out (literally, as it happens) are the grab handles, which poke a little far into the footwells. Oh, and we do have to take umbrage with the carbon fibre roof option on the 'Coupe' - on something like this it's just a needless waste of money.
Speaking of which, before anything is specced, you're looking at £85,930 for a standard GTS, or £88,750. This messes with our usual fast SUV caveat that you'd be better off with the cheaper, lighter and lower estate equivalent - it turns out the Panamera GTS Sport Turismo is quite a bit pricier at £109,326.
And so, Porsche has done it again, making another fast SUV that's almost annoyingly good on every level. You can moan about the existence of these cars all you want, but the brilliance of the execution simply can't be ignored.
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Raymond Christensen, MD, has practiced family medicine for approximately 40 years, making it his personal mission to provide rural communities with access to high quality health care. He serves as associate dean for rural health at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, and associate director of the Rural Physician Associate Program. He also advises the Family Medicine Interest Group on the Duluth campus.
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Girl Scouts Names Winner of K12 "I Want to Rock the Mall" YouTube Contest!
Girl Scouts of the USA congratulates the winners of the K12 and Girl Scouts I Want to Rock the Mall YouTube contest. Dana Marie Rogers a Girl Scout Ambassador from Old Bridge, NJ wowed the judges with an original Girl Scout Cookie Rap that landed her a spot on stage, June 9th at Girl Scouts Rock the Mall: 100th Anniversary Sing-Along.
"I am so excited to be chosen as the winner of Girl Scouts Rock the Mall, and I can't wait to perform my original Girl Scout songs for girls from across the country! Music is my passion, and I love to share it with others. I am so proud to be a Girl Scout," said Dana Marie.
The YouTube contest was created to excite and motivate the tech-savvy youth culture. Girl Scouts across the United States jumped onboard and created original songs celebrating what it means to be a Girl Scout. Some played guitars, were backed by their family band, or created cool videos for the chance to perform live onstage in Washington, DC at Girl Scouts Rock the Mall: 100th Anniversary Sing-Along before an anticipated audience of 200,000 Girl Scouts, family, friends and alumnae from around the world. Girl Scouts Rock the Mall will be the largest gathering of Girl Scouts to mark the 100th anniversary of the movement.
Girl Scouts Rock the Mall teamed-up with K12 Inc, America's leader in online learning for students in grades kindergarten through 12, to tap the tech-savvy youth culture with the YouTube contest.
Girl Scouts have been writing, singing and playing songs that celebrate sisterhood and the fundamental ideals of Girl Scouting for 100 years – the only difference now is that they're able to reach so many more as their voices are heard across the country and beyond.


A Lea-Francis was a 'dream bicycle' in its day and, such is its rarity over a century later, it remains so today.
But which quality three-speed gent's bicycle might you buy in 1908 if money were no object?
A cheap option for a quality bicycle would be a machine built with BSA Fittings. For example, John Piggott Ltd advertised the same in Cycling magazine of June 1908, for 7 guineas.
The Imperial Triumph with three speed was £13 10/-.
A Gentleman's Elswick Special Cross Truss with Sturmey-Archer three speed was £13 15/- 6d, and the Royal Premier was 14 guineas.
The basic Dursley Pedersen Cantilever was £12 17/- 6d; extras were another 22/- 6d.
Rudge-Whitworth's most expensive machine (a No 6 Aero-Special de Luxe Featherweight with Sturmey-Archer Tri-Coaster hub brake) was £14 12/-.
The Golden Sunbeam with two-speed epicyclic gears was 15 guineas, and with three speed it was 16 guineas.
As you can see from the 1907 Lea Francis catalogue illustration below, the Lea-Francis Men's Bicycle with Sturmey-Archer three speed was 16 guineas.
Raleigh's top of the range Modele Superbe X Frame was £17 10/- with no extra cost if paid in 12 monthly instalments.
The Centaur Featherweight with SA three speed was £18 15/- (the three-speed added £3 to the basic option) and the 1909 Resilient would be 17 guineas.
Prices are approximate because some were taken from previous year's catalogues and some from year later. Prices fluctuated from year to year, and cash purchases were often cheaper than advertised in the catalogues. But we can see from this comparison that Lea-Francis prices were toward the upper end of the quality market. A Lea-Francis machine was built to such a high standard the company enjoyed almost cult status.
Like all their competitors in the top end of the market, their components were unique in order to prevent unscrupulous companies making cheap copies of their machines.
This example has concealed roller lever brakes, 1908 being an early adoption of this feature, patented by Lea Francis. Other patent features are the unusual LEAF aluminium pedals and 'trip motion' lever.
This fabulous machine was previously owned by my friend Brian, who lives in Wiltshire. I first met him many years ago when I purchased from him a 1914 James Mercury Lady's bicycle. Brian tells me that he came across this Lea Francis in the 1990s. He was at an auction to bid on a Sunbeam he fancied. He didn't win the bidding, and a chap behind him tapped Brian on the shoulder and offered him a similar Sunbeam. The seller lived in Coventry, some distance from Brian's home, so Brian arranged to visit him on the way to the annual Riley Owners Club rally near Coventry.
Brian hitched up his home-made trailer to his 1932 wood-bodied Riley and drove to see the Sunbeam. He found the bike, with several others, in an open-fronted shed. He purchased several machines from the seller (including the James Mercury Lady's mentioned above), creating much interest when he arrived at the car rally with bicycles piled up in the trailer. He had spotted the Lea Francis in the shed, but couldn't afford it on that trip. So he returned the following year to buy it.
In early 2012, I discovered a bicycle advertised in an auction in Chippenham that had a Lea-Francis toolbag fitted to the saddle. The auctioneer's description of the bicycle was ridiculously poor, as is often the case, so I signed up for telephone bidding. I resolved to bid up to £300 for this 'bicycle of unknown manufacture' as I wanted the toolbag. But the bidding went much higher and I dropped out at £650. Of course, I assumed the bicycle might be a Lea Francis, but I could not tell for sure from the small photo. I did not know who won the auction until summer 2012, when I phoned Brian for a chat. He told me he'd entered a Lea-Francis in a forthcoming auction. So I went to the auction and won the bidding. This is the bike. When we talked about it subsequently, I discovered he was the person in the Chippenham auction saleroom bidding against me. It was only because he won that Lea-Francis at the Chippenham auction that he decided to sell the one you see here. So we both ended up with a Lea Francis.
But this story never ends! A few days after getting the Lea Francis at the auction, my friend Robert decided he wanted it. So we did an exchange. A year later Robert decided he wanted to do another bicycle exchange in order to obtain my 1910 Raleigh (with concealed roller lever brakes; seen on another page). I visited him and, over lunch at a veggie cage in Hackney, we worked out how to solve his latest problem: because, that morning, he'd pulled out the old Premier bicycle from his basement that he intended swapping for my Raleigh; however, he liked it too much. So he decided to exchange this Lea Francis instead as, with its 27″ frame, it was too tall for him to ride.
The oiler is housed in the handlebar stem, accessed by a removable cap engraved with the company's name.
Lea Francis patented this special design, a 'Leaf' pedal, which was made for them by Brampton. They were also an option on Dursley Pedersen machines.
Observe that the pedal name LEAF relates to LEA Francis, as well as being in the shape of a leaf.
Roger S. Thorne was a Lea-Francis bicycle owner in the 1960s. His Lea-Francis was also a 1908 model though, from the description on the display board he used when taking his bicycle to shows (reproduced below), it was slightly different from the machine featured here.
He knew A.G. Wilson, who worked for the Lea-Francis from 1897 to 1908, and he corresponded with Peter Pringle of the Lea-Francis Owner's Club.
I bought these letters at an auction in 2010 (along with the original 1901 Lea-Francis catalogue referred to in the letters) and am pleased to be able to publish them to be shared by fellow enthusiasts of this fascinating marque.


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Papua New Guinea – People and place
Plymouth's collections in context
At the time when most of the Museum's collections were made, Papua New Guinea (PNG) was a part of the British Empire, known then as British New Guinea (BNG). During the nineteenth century, a great many Christian missionaries travelled from Europe to PNG. Plymouth's most prolific collector of PNG material, the Reverend Harry Moore Dauncey, was just one of them. Missionaries were often the first Europeans to settle into local communities for long periods of time. The image below shows the village of Delena where Dauncey worked, seen from the mission house.
Courtesy and copyright Royal Anthropological Institute (RA 34343)
Council for World Mission/SOAS Library (CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 2 – card 15)
By the time that Dauncey arrived in PNG, European rule was already well established.
As part of the process of converting local people to Christianity, missionaries often confiscated or encouraged locals to give up important spiritual objects. Many of these objects are now in European museum collections.
The image to the right shows missionaries 'preaching from a ship' at Waga Waga in Papua New Guinea.
Courtesy and copyright Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI 34398)
New Guinea is an island in Melanesia, between Southeast Asia and Northern Australia. New Guinea now consists of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua in the West, and Papua New Guinea (PNG) in the East. More than seven million people live in PNG, speaking about 700 distinct languages and a with great diversity of local customs and traditions. Most PNG people today live in rural areas and practice subsistence-based agriculture. However, mining for metals and ores is an important industry, and more than 300,000 people live in PNG's capital city, Port Moresby.
People have lived in New Guinea for over 50,000 years. The climate is tropical and the landscape is varied, with a high spine of mountains along the centre of the island and lowlands round the coast. The Fly River originates in the mountains and enters the sea in the Papuan Gulf – the region where Dauncey lived, worked and collected. Crops (including sugar cane, yams and bananas), were first grown and harvested in the highlands at least 9,000 years ago, making this one of the earliest agricultural areas in the world. Pottery, pigs and new fishing techniques arrived in about 500 BCE and sweet potatoes were introduced in the 1700s, leading to increased population density. The photograph above, from Dauncey's collection, shows two men preparing sago, one of PNG's staple foods.
Council for World Mission/SOAS Library (CMW/LMS/Papua New Guinea/Photographs/, Box 9 File 16/4)
The first European (Dutch) settlers arrived in 1828 and took control of the western half of the island. In 1962 this became an Indonesian province known as West Papua. The eastern half of the island was divided between Britain and Germany in 1884. The photograph to the right, from Dauncey's collection, shows the raising of a British flag – perhaps in Delena – to mark the proclamation of the British New Guinea protectorate in 1884. The local chiefs are seated on the ground to the right, while the British colonial officers are standing, wearing white.
Australia took over the southern section (Papua) from Britain in 1907 and the northern section from Germany in 1914. It was administered by the League of Nations and then the United nations until gained its independence as Papua New Guinea in 1975. PNG remains part of the British Commonwealth. In a 2000 census, 96% of Papua New Guineans identified themselves as Christian, although many people today combine Christianity with traditional beliefs and ways of life.
Papua New Guinea – Harry Moore Dauncey
Papua New Guinea – Other collections
Papua New Guinea – Body ornaments and clothing
Papua New Guinea – Weapons and warfare
Papua New Guinea – Music, magic and religion
Papua New Guinea – Betel chewing and smoking
Papua New Guinea – Eating and drinking
Papua New Guinea – Tools
Papua New Guinea – Other objects


The "Catholic 7" are officially parting ways with the Big East Conference and creating a league of their own.
The Big East announced the departure agreement on Friday and the separation will become effective on July 1.
"I am pleased that this agreement has been reached," Big East Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco said. "With the long-term well-being of our outstanding institutions and their student-athletes of paramount importance, each group worked through a number of complex issues in an orderly, comprehensive and amicable manner marked by mutual respect. We part ways as friends and colleagues and look forward to the success of both conferences."
The Catholic 7 -- Georgetown, Marquette, Villanova, Providence, St. John's, Seton Hall and DePaul -- will also add Butler and Xavier next season. Either Creighton or Dayton is also expected to join. It's been widely reported that the league will take the Big East name with them and keep the men's basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden.
The league is also expected to announce a multiyear media rights deal with Fox Sports, ESPN reported.
As for the former Big East schools?
UConn, Cincinnati, South Florida, Rutgers, Louisville and possibly Notre Dame will combine with Temple, Memphis, Central Florida, Houston and SMU in 2013-14. It has been reported that league could be named the America 12. The name has been registered with a branding firm by the league's attorneys. But a Big East source said it "is not necessarily married to anything," and the league is planning on possibly reaching out to fans for suggestions on a new name and "having some fun with it."
Louisville and Notre Dame are set to join the ACC in 2014-15 while Rutgers is moving to the Big 10. East Carolina and Tulane will join UConn and Co. in 2014 and Navy will board the league in 2015 as a football-only program.
"It's been my feeling that we have been fractured since 2005. To me it has always been a miracle they have been able to keep it together this long, given the disparity between all the schools involved," UConn women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma said. "We may have been the most diverse conference in the history of conferences. It was only a matter of time. ...We all knew it was going to happen. Once the storm clouds came in that football was running the NCAA, we knew. How are eight football schools going to survive with eight basketball schools? That is not a marriage made in heaven."
Even with Providence part of the Catholic 7, the headquarters for the "America 12" will likely stay in Providence and Aresco will remain commissioner.
"(UConn president) Susan Herbst and our athletic director, Warde Manuel, are going to get us in the best position possible," UConn's men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie said. "If they think this is the best position for us, we're going forward. I have to coach the team, whether they're playing in my backyard, the ACC, the Big East or whatever they call this conference. I'm in their boat, ready to go wherever they take us."
With the new version of the Big East most likely hosting its conference championship at MSG, the "America 12" will be looking for a home for its conference tournament. Reports have stated Memphis, Houston, Orlando, Hartford or a revolving door as possibilities.
The Big East women's tournament has been held at the XL Center in Hartford since 2004. That contract ends after this year's tournament. Big East associate commissioner Danielle Donehew said meetings are scheduled for May to select a venue for the future.
Beginning as a non-football league in 1979, the Big East added football in 1991. Over the past two years, 16 schools have departed or announced they were leaving the Big East.
"It seems like it was all a football decision on one side and a basketball decision on the other, but it is friendships," said Villanova women's basketball coach Harry Perretta, the only women's coach to coach in every Big East tournament. "You will still be friends, but it will be a little different. They did keep it together for a long time, but they just started picking teams out for football and then it was just inevitable. I am excited about it.
"If you know something is going to be, you have to embrace it, be excited about it and move on."


Minneapolis, July 23, 2010—An empty wooden box, a clear plastic cup, a pair of balloons, a spray of paint, a bed of moss, a moment in time. Exploring the poetic and conceptual promise of minimal gestures and simple materials, the Walker Art Center exhibition A Shot in the Dark, opening on Thursday, August 12 (5–9 pm), features works that transcend their humble means as they evoke other places, times, and states of mind. Consisting entirely of recent Walker acquisitions and rarely seen works from the collection, the exhibition will be on view through March 20, 2011.
Spanning disparate categories of artistic production—from early 20th-century landscape painting and 1960s conceptualism to kinetic sculpture and contemporary photography—A Shot in the Dark highlights a diverse group of works new to the collection, including three moving-image works, which form the core of the exhibition. Attempting to locate the expansive and abstract in the familiar and tangible, the artists featured here all aim to give form to speculation, intuition, and chance, pursuing the possibility that the mundane may shed light on the metaphysical.
In 2006, the Walker acquired the film Deeparture (2005) by the Romanian-born artist Mircea Cantor, who often reorients quotidian aspects of life, prompting us to contemplate other social and natural orders. With a title that evokes both migration and also an aberration (as in, "a departure from nature"), the film presents a quotation from the natural world, as the artist places a deer and a wolf in an empty white space usually reserved for the exhibition of contemporary art. Cantor's film, which is screened as a video projection, presents a charged narrative situation that never resolves. The psychology and emotional states we project onto these displaced animals are pure speculation.
Rivane Neuenschwander's film An Inventory of Small Deaths (Blow) (2000) documents a large amorphous soap bubble as it traverses a tropical landscape. Training the camera's frame on this uncanny shape, the artist tracks its random movements as it expands and contracts, separates and reunites. Across a series of slow shot transitions, the bubble never pops, continually deferring the "death" to which the title refers. Acquired in 2005, Neuenschwander's film, revealing her interest in life cycles and unusual materials, transforms a simple childhood diversion into an extended meditation on the nature of space.
In Untitled (1998–1999), the artist Trisha Donnelly executes a series of enigmatic leaps in slow motion. At the apex of each, Donnelly's pose appears to freeze momentarily in midair. With these repeated actions, which are vaguely familiar gestural tableaux, Donnelly's video meditates on the trance-like state that can result at the ecstatic height of performance, that indefinable instant when performance overtakes performer, endowing the moment with metaphysical weight.
Around this cluster of moving-image works, A Shot in the Dark also assembles recent acquisitions in a wide range of media, as well as a few rarely seen works from the collection. A series of delicate spray paint drawings by the 1960s postminimal artist Bill Bollinger explore natural phenomena, such as dispersion, gravity, and horizons. Exposed to the ambient light of the night sky, Liz Deschenes' mirrored photogram reflects our own ghostly movements in space. Christopher Williams' conceptual photographs document the random accumulation of dust and fingerprints on museum display cases. Finally, Meg Webster's sculptural installation called Moss Bed, Queen (1986/2005), which consists of a transplanted bed of moss living in the gallery space, presents an empathic statement on natural containment and human relationships. Together the works in this exhibition ponder presence and absence, the body and its traces, the hidden workings of the mind, and the elusive potency of form.
A new approach to the traditional gallery guide, Card Catalogue is an evolving publication featuring information on artists, exhibition themes, specific works, and a wealth of facts and artifacts from the Walker's archives. Many authors and voices are slated to contribute to this experimental project. With a gradual accumulation of data, theories, ideas, and stories, Card Catalogue provides an expanded and amplified history of the Walker and of contemporary art in general. In conjunction with this exhibition, a card will be issued for Meg Webster's Moss Bed, Queen.
A Shot in the Dark is organized by the Walker Art Center, and curated by Walker curatorial assistant Eric Crosby.


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"""
Form Widget classes specific to the Django admin site.
"""
import copy

from django import forms
from django.db.models.deletion import CASCADE
from django.urls import reverse
from django.urls.exceptions import NoReverseMatch
from django.utils.encoding import force_text
from django.utils.html import smart_urlquote
from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
from django.utils.text import Truncator
from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

class FilteredSelectMultiple(forms.SelectMultiple):
    """
    A SelectMultiple with a JavaScript filter interface.

    Note that the resulting JavaScript assumes that the jsi18n
    catalog has been loaded in the page
    """
    @property
    def media(self):
        js = ["core.js", "SelectBox.js", "SelectFilter2.js"]
        return forms.Media(js=["admin/js/%s" % path for path in js])

    def __init__(self, verbose_name, is_stacked, attrs=None, choices=()):
        self.verbose_name = verbose_name
        self.is_stacked = is_stacked
        super().__init__(attrs, choices)

    def get_context(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        context = super().get_context(name, value, attrs)
        context['widget']['attrs']['class'] = 'selectfilter'
        if self.is_stacked:
            context['widget']['attrs']['class'] += 'stacked'
        context['widget']['attrs']['data-field-name'] = self.verbose_name
        context['widget']['attrs']['data-is-stacked'] = int(self.is_stacked)
        return context

class AdminDateWidget(forms.DateInput):
    @property
    def media(self):
        js = ["calendar.js", "admin/DateTimeShortcuts.js"]
        return forms.Media(js=["admin/js/%s" % path for path in js])

    def __init__(self, attrs=None, format=None):
        final_attrs = {'class': 'vDateField', 'size': '10'}
        if attrs is not None:
            final_attrs.update(attrs)
        super().__init__(attrs=final_attrs, format=format)

class AdminTimeWidget(forms.TimeInput):
    @property
    def media(self):
        js = ["calendar.js", "admin/DateTimeShortcuts.js"]
        return forms.Media(js=["admin/js/%s" % path for path in js])

    def __init__(self, attrs=None, format=None):
        final_attrs = {'class': 'vTimeField', 'size': '8'}
        if attrs is not None:
            final_attrs.update(attrs)
        super().__init__(attrs=final_attrs, format=format)

class AdminSplitDateTime(forms.SplitDateTimeWidget):
    """
    A SplitDateTime Widget that has some admin-specific styling.
    """
    template_name = 'admin/widgets/split_datetime.html'

    def __init__(self, attrs=None):
        widgets = [AdminDateWidget, AdminTimeWidget]
        # Note that we're calling MultiWidget, not SplitDateTimeWidget, because
        # we want to define widgets.
        forms.MultiWidget.__init__(self, widgets, attrs)

    def get_context(self, name, value, attrs):
        context = super().get_context(name, value, attrs)
        context['date_label'] = _('Date:')
        context['time_label'] = _('Time:')
        return context

class AdminRadioSelect(forms.RadioSelect):
    template_name = 'admin/widgets/radio.html'

class AdminFileWidget(forms.ClearableFileInput):
    template_name = 'admin/widgets/clearable_file_input.html'

def url_params_from_lookup_dict(lookups):
    """
    Converts the type of lookups specified in a ForeignKey limit_choices_to
    attribute to a dictionary of query parameters
    """
    params = {}
    if lookups and hasattr(lookups, 'items'):
        items = []
        for k, v in lookups.items():
            if callable(v):
                v = v()
            if isinstance(v, (tuple, list)):
                v = ','.join(str(x) for x in v)
            elif isinstance(v, bool):
                v = ('0', '1')[v]
            else:
                v = str(v)
            items.append((k, v))
        params.update(dict(items))
    return params

class ForeignKeyRawIdWidget(forms.TextInput):
    """
    A Widget for displaying ForeignKeys in the "raw_id" interface rather than
    in a <select> box.
    """
    template_name = 'admin/widgets/foreign_key_raw_id.html'

    def __init__(self, rel, admin_site, attrs=None, using=None):
        self.rel = rel
        self.admin_site = admin_site
        self.db = using
        super().__init__(attrs)

    def get_context(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        context = super().get_context(name, value, attrs)
        rel_to = self.rel.model
        if rel_to in self.admin_site._registry:
            # The related object is registered with the same AdminSite
            related_url = reverse(
                'admin:%s_%s_changelist' % (
                    rel_to._meta.app_label,
                    rel_to._meta.model_name,
                ),
                current_app=self.admin_site.name,
            )

            params = self.url_parameters()
            if params:
                related_url += '?' + '&'.join(
                    '%s=%s' % (k, v) for k, v in params.items(),
                )
            context['related_url'] = mark_safe(related_url)
            context['link_title'] = _('Lookup')
            # The JavaScript code looks for this class.
            context['widget']['attrs'].setdefault('class', 'vForeignKeyRawIdAdminField')
        if context['widget']['value']:
            context['link_label'], context['link_url'] = self.label_and_url_for_value(value)
        return context

    def base_url_parameters(self):
        limit_choices_to = self.rel.limit_choices_to
        if callable(limit_choices_to):
            limit_choices_to = limit_choices_to()
        return url_params_from_lookup_dict(limit_choices_to)

    def url_parameters(self):
        from django.contrib.admin.views.main import TO_FIELD_VAR
        params = self.base_url_parameters()
        params.update({TO_FIELD_VAR: self.rel.get_related_field().name})
        return params

    def label_and_url_for_value(self, value):
        key = self.rel.get_related_field().name
        try:
            obj = self.rel.model._default_manager.using(self.db).get(**{key: value})
        except (ValueError, self.rel.model.DoesNotExist):
            return '', ''

        try:
            url = reverse(
                '%s:%s_%s_change' % (
                    self.admin_site.name,
                    obj._meta.app_label,
                    obj._meta.object_name.lower(),
                ),
                args=(obj.pk,)
            )
        except NoReverseMatch:
            url = ''  # Admin not registered for target model.

        return Truncator(obj).words(14, truncate='...'), url

class ManyToManyRawIdWidget(ForeignKeyRawIdWidget):
    """
    A Widget for displaying ManyToMany ids in the "raw_id" interface rather than
    in a <select multiple> box.
    """
    template_name = 'admin/widgets/many_to_many_raw_id.html'

    def get_context(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        context = super().get_context(name, value, attrs)
        if self.rel.model in self.admin_site._registry:
            # The related object is registered with the same AdminSite
            context['widget']['attrs']['class'] = 'vManyToManyRawIdAdminField'
        return context

    def url_parameters(self):
        return self.base_url_parameters()

    def label_and_url_for_value(self, value):
        return '', ''

    def value_from_datadict(self, data, files, name):
        value = data.get(name)
        if value:
            return value.split(',')

    def format_value(self, value):
        return ','.join(force_text(v) for v in value) if value else ''

class RelatedFieldWidgetWrapper(forms.Widget):
    """
    This class is a wrapper to a given widget to add the add icon for the
    admin interface.
    """
    template_name = 'admin/widgets/related_widget_wrapper.html'

    def __init__(self, widget, rel, admin_site, can_add_related=None,
                 can_change_related=False, can_delete_related=False):
        self.needs_multipart_form = widget.needs_multipart_form
        self.attrs = widget.attrs
        self.choices = widget.choices
        self.widget = widget
        self.rel = rel
        # Backwards compatible check for whether a user can add related
        # objects.
        if can_add_related is None:
            can_add_related = rel.model in admin_site._registry
        self.can_add_related = can_add_related
        # XXX: The UX does not support multiple selected values.
        multiple = getattr(widget, 'allow_multiple_selected', False)
        self.can_change_related = not multiple and can_change_related
        # XXX: The deletion UX can be confusing when dealing with cascading deletion.
        cascade = getattr(rel, 'on_delete', None) is CASCADE
        self.can_delete_related = not multiple and not cascade and can_delete_related
        # so we can check if the related object is registered with this AdminSite
        self.admin_site = admin_site

    def __deepcopy__(self, memo):
        obj = copy.copy(self)
        obj.widget = copy.deepcopy(self.widget, memo)
        obj.attrs = self.widget.attrs
        memo[id(self)] = obj
        return obj

    @property
    def is_hidden(self):
        return self.widget.is_hidden

    @property
    def media(self):
        return self.widget.media

    def get_related_url(self, info, action, *args):
        return reverse("admin:%s_%s_%s" % (info + (action,)),
                       current_app=self.admin_site.name, args=args)

    def get_context(self, name, value, attrs=None):
        with self.widget.override_choices(self.choices):
            context = self.widget.get_context(name, value, attrs)

        from django.contrib.admin.views.main import IS_POPUP_VAR, TO_FIELD_VAR
        rel_opts = self.rel.model._meta
        info = (rel_opts.app_label, rel_opts.model_name)
        url_params = '&'.join("%s=%s" % param for param in [
            (TO_FIELD_VAR, self.rel.get_related_field().name),
            (IS_POPUP_VAR, 1),
        ])
        context['url_params'] = url_params
        context['model'] = rel_opts.verbose_name
        if self.can_change_related:
            change_related_template_url = self.get_related_url(info, 'change', '__fk__')
            context.update(
                can_change_related=True,
                change_related_template_url=change_related_template_url,
            )
        if self.can_add_related:
            add_related_url = self.get_related_url(info, 'add')
            context.update(
                can_add_related=True,
                add_related_url=add_related_url,
            )
        if self.can_delete_related:
            delete_related_template_url = self.get_related_url(info, 'delete', '__fk__')
            context.update(
                can_delete_related=True,
                delete_related_template_url=delete_related_template_url,
            )
        return context

    def value_from_datadict(self, data, files, name):
        return self.widget.value_from_datadict(data, files, name)

    def id_for_label(self, id_):
        return self.widget.id_for_label(id_)

class AdminTextareaWidget(forms.Textarea):
    def __init__(self, attrs=None):
        final_attrs = {'class': 'vLargeTextField'}
        if attrs is not None:
            final_attrs.update(attrs)
        super().__init__(attrs=final_attrs)

class AdminTextInputWidget(forms.TextInput):
    def __init__(self, attrs=None):
        final_attrs = {'class': 'vTextField'}
        if attrs is not None:
            final_attrs.update(attrs)
        super().__init__(attrs=final_attrs)

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Isabella Jane Cruise's Net Worth, Age, Siblings, Height – Bio
By Olivia Clarke January 11, 2023
Known for movies
Seven Pounds 2008
as Young Ben
Red Dawn 2012
as Daryl Jenkins
Died December 18, 2008, Howth, Republic of Ireland
Spouse Max Parker
Fact Adopted by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in February 1995.
1 Who is Isabella Jane Cruise?
2 How rich is she, as of now? Isabella Jane Cruise Net Worth
3 Adoption and Childhood
4 Half-Siblings
5 Educational Background
6 Hairstylist, Make-Up Artist, and Fashion Designer
7 Secret Marriage and Reunion with Her Mother
8 Who is Her Father? Tom Cruise Short Wiki/Bio
8.1 Career Beginnings
8.2 Rise to Prominence
8.3 Success during the 1990s
8.4 New Millennium
9 Who is Her Mother? Nicole Kidman Short Wiki/Bio
9.3 Continued Success
9.4 Significant Roles in the 2010s
10 General Info
12 Accomplishments
13 Social profile links
Who is Isabella Jane Cruise?
Isabella Jane Cruise was born on 22 December 1992, under the sign of Capricorn, in Miami, Florida USA, and is (still) a celebrity child although 27-years-old, probably best recognized for being the adopted daughter of Hollywood stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. However, she's trying to make her way in the world and is also known as a hairstylist, make-up artist, and fashion designer.
How rich is she, as of now? Isabella Jane Cruise Net Worth
Isabella Jane Cruise's net worth is over $5 million, which she acquired on her own through successful involvement in the entertainment and fashion industries. On the other hand, her father is one of the highest paid actors in the film industry, with an impressive net worth of over $570 million, while her mother has a total net worth of $130 million, earned as a successful actress.
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Adoption and Childhood
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman met each other while they were filming "Days Of Thunder", and exchanged their wedding vows on 24 December 1990 in Colorado. After going through a difficult period due to Nicole's miscarriage, they decided to adopt a child. Following Isabella's birth in 1992, Tom and Nicole adopted her from a hospital since Isabella's biological mother could not care of her. Her adoptive parents knew her biological mother from the Church of Scientology, so Isabella moved from Miami, Florida to their residence in Los Angeles, California. In 1995, her parents adopted Connor Antony Cruise, but after spending eleven years in marriage, Tom and Nicole divorced in 2001. At the time, Isabella was only nine years old, and the divorce affected her a lot, since she had a lot of problems with depression and anxiety, and caused her relationship with Nicole to became strained. Following the divorce of her parents, Isabelle decided to live with her father and brother.
Half-Siblings
In 2006, Tom Cruise married actress Katie Holmes, and they welcomed their daughter during the same year, Isabella's half-sister named Suri Cruise. She also has two younger half-sisters, named Faith Margaret Kidman Urban and Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, from her mother's marriage to musician Keith Urban.
As a young girl, Isabella Jane Cruise wanted to become a screenplay writer, even though her parents made sure to keep her away from the world of show business. Isabella and her brother didn't attend a regular school, but were homeschool by their aunt Cass Mapother. Afterwards, Isabella continued her higher studies in London, England, and there was a student of Art. Moreover, Isabella completed her training as an auditor from the Church of Scientology.
Hairstylist, Make-Up Artist, and Fashion Designer
Being interested in pursuing a career as a hairdresser, Isabella even attended Sassoon Academy, from which she obtained her 12-month diploma in professional hairdressing. She then furthered her education at Delamar Academy of Make-up & Hair at Ealing Studios, London – so far, Isabella has worked as a make-up artist for several film titles. Most recently, she started pursuing a career as a fashion designer, and launched her clothing line in February 2018. The name of her clothing line is 'BKC', standing for Bella Kidman Cruise.
Secret Marriage and Reunion with Her Mother
Isabella Jance Cruise was romantically involved in a relationship with music composer Eddie Frencher for several years. In 2015, she hit the headlines for her secret marriage to Max Parker, an IT consultant. Their wedding took place at the Dorchester Hotel in London on 18 September 2015, and wasn't attended by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, which caused some speculation in the media.
Her father reportedly took care of the ceremony expense, but he was unable to attend it; on the other hand, apparently her mother wasn't invited, but in 2016, she reunited with her mother. Isabella and Max currently reside in Croydon, London.
Who is Her Father? Tom Cruise Short Wiki/Bio
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on 3 July 1962 under the sign of Cancer, in Syracuse, New York State USA, and is a 57-year-old actor and film producer. He was raised in a Catholic household by electrical engineer Thomas Cruise Mapother III, and special education teacher Mary Lee. He has three sisters, named Cass, Marian, and Lee Anne. The family then lived in Canada until his parents divorced, and he returned to the US with his mother and siblings. After attending 15 schools in 14 years, Tom eventually matriculated from Glen Ridge High School in 1980.
Tom Cruise made his film debut as Billy in the 1981 romantic drama "Endless Love", while his breakthrough came with the role of Joel Goodson in Paul Brickman's 1983 teen coming-of-age comedy film "Risky Business", which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
Rise to Prominence
Tom came to prominence after playing Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell in the 1986 action drama "Top Gun", directed by Tony Scott, followed by his portrayal of Charlie Babbitt in the 1988 comedy-drama "Rain Man", alongside Dustin Hoffman. The film was box office success and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 1989, Tom landed the role of Vietnam War veteran Ron Kovic in the biographical war drama "Born On The Fourth Of July", winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Success during the 1990s
Tom's next major role came in 1992, when he featured as Lt. Daniel Kaffee in the legal drama "A Few Good Man", alongside Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman, which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 1996, he landed the title role in the romance "Jerry Maguire", winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, and his second Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He then played Ethan Hunt in the 1996 action spy film "Mission: Impossible", the first installment of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise; he would later reprise the role in its sequels.
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Tom won his third Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Frank T. J. Mackey in the 1999 epic drama "Magnolia".
In 2001, Tom produced and starred as David Aames in the romantic thriller "Vanilla Sky", alongside Penélope Cruz and Cameron Diaz, after which he produced and played Nathan Algren in Edward Zwick's period drama action "The Last Samurai" (2003), winning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor. In 2004, he gained critical acclaim for his portrayal of Vincent in Michael Mann's neo-noir action thriller "Collateral". His next major role came in 2009, when he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for starring as Les Grossman in the 2008 action comedy "Tropic Thunder". Tom also starred as Jack Harper in the 2013 post-apocalyptic action "Oblivion", next to Morgan Freeman, and portrayed Nick Norton in the 2017 action-adventure "The Mummy".
It has been announced that he will appear in "Top Gun: Maverick", and the seventh and eighth installments of "Mission: Impossible".
Who is Her Mother? Nicole Kidman Short Wiki/Bio
Nicole Mary Kidman was born on 20 June 1967 under the sign of Gemini, in Honolulu, Hawaii USA, and is a 52-year-old actress and producer. She was born to Australian parents – her father, Antony Kidman, was an author, biochemist, and clinical psychologist, while her mother, Janelle Anne, was a nursing instructor. She is the elder sister of journalist Antonia Kidman. At the age of four, she moved with her family to Sydney, Australia, where she went to Lane Cove Public School and North Sydney Girls' High School. She also studied at both the Phillip Street Theatre and Australian Theatre for Young People.
Nicole Kidman made her film debut as Helen Thompson in the 1983 drama "Bush Christmas", while her breakthrough came with the role of Megan Goddard in the 1987 mini-series "Vietnam", for which she won the AACTA Australian Film Academy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. Nicole eventually made her Hollywood debut with the role of Dr. Claire Lewicki in the 1990 sports action drama "Days Of Thunder", starring opposite Tom Cruise.
Nicole won her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Drew Preston in Robert Benton's gangster film "Billy Bathgate" in 1991. Her next major role came in 1996, when she played Suzanne Stone Maretto in the crime comedy-drama "To Die For", directed by Gus Van Sant, which earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.
She then starred as Alice Harford in the critically acclaimed film "Eyes Wide Shut" in 1999.
Continued Success
In 2001, Nicole landed the role of Satine in Baz Luhrmann's musical "Moulin Rouge!", winning a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In the following year, she portrayed writer Virginia Woolf in the psychological drama "The Hours", for which she won both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Thereafter, Nicole earned two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for her portrayals of Ada Monroe in the 2003 epic war film "Cold Mountain", and Anna in the 2004 drama "Birth". In 2009, she produced and starred as Becca in the independent drama "Rabbit Hole", receiving another Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
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Significant Roles in the 2010s
In 2012, Nicole landed the role of Charlotte Bless in the drama "The Paperboy", earning Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, after which she was cast as Martha Gellhorn in the HBO biopic "Hemingway & Gellhorn", earning a Primetime Emmy nomination. She earned her fourth Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Sue Brierley in the 2016 biographical drama "Lion". Between 2017 and 2019, Nicole produced and starred as Celeste Wright in the HBO drama series "Big Little Lies", and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for both producing and acting. Most recently, she earned two Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for the role of Gretchen Carlson in the 2019 biographical drama "Bombshell". It's also been announced that Nicole will feature in such upcoming TV and film titles as "The Undoing", "The Prom", and "The Northman", etc.
Profession Disc jockey, Actor
Nationality American, American
Parents Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman
Siblings Connor Cruise, Suri Cruise, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban, Isabella Jane Cruise, Suri Cruise, Faith Margaret Kidman Urban, Sunday Rose Kidman Urban
Movies Red Dawn, Seven Pounds
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/theconnorcruise
1 Has four siblings: older sister Isabella Jane Kidman Cruise (b. 22 December 1992), younger half-sister Suri Cruise (b. 18 April 2006), and younger half-sister Sunday Rose Kidman Urban (b. 7 July, 2008), and younger half-sister Faith Margaret Kidman Urban (b. 28 December 2010).
2 Of African-American heritage.
3 Adopted by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in February 1995.
Source: IMDb, Wikipedia
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Adam Feliks Dyczkowski (ur. 17 listopada 1932 w Kętach, zm. 10 stycznia 2021 w Zielonej Górze) – polski duchowny rzymskokatolicki, doktor filozofii przyrody, biskup pomocniczy wrocławski w latach 1978–1992, biskup pomocniczy legnicki w latach 1992–1993, biskup diecezjalny zielonogórsko-gorzowski w latach 1993–2007, od 2007 biskup senior diecezji zielonogórsko-gorzowskiej.

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Urodził się 17 listopada 1932 w Kętach. Egzamin dojrzałości złożył w 1950 w kęckim liceum ogólnokształcącym. W latach 1952–1957 odbył studia filozoficzno-teologiczne w Metropolitalnym Wyższym Seminarium Duchownym we Wrocławiu. Święceń prezbiteratu udzielił mu 23 czerwca 1957 w archikatedrze św. Jana Chrzciciela we Wrocławiu biskup Bolesław Kominek, delegat Prymasa Polski z uprawnieniami biskupa rezydencjalnego we Wrocławiu. Dalsze studia miał odbyć zagranicą, jednak władze komunistyczne odmówiły mu wydania paszportu. W związku z tym w latach 1957–1961 studiował na Sekcji Filozofii Przyrody Wydziału Filozofii Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, gdzie w 1961 otrzymał magisterium z filozofii. Tamże w latach 1961–1963 kontynuował studia w zakresie filozofii przyrody. Doktorat uzyskał w 1965 na podstawie dysertacji Sposoby ustalenia sensu terminów w «Kosmologii» Selvaggiego.

W latach 1963–1971 pracował jako wikariusz w parafii archikatedralnej we Wrocławiu. Od 1965 do 1978 był duszpasterzem akademickim i kapelanem Klubu Inteligencji Katolickiej we Wrocławiu. W latach 1968–1978 pełnił funkcję prefekta w Liceum Ogólnokształcącym Sióstr Urszulanek we Wrocławiu. Od 1965 do 1992 prowadził wykłady z metafizyki, kosmologii i teodycei we wrocławskim seminarium duchownym i Studium Katechetycznym. Od 1968 do 1992 zajmował stanowisko adiunkta w Katedrze Metafizyki, Teodycei i Kosmologii Papieskiego Wydziału Teologicznego we Wrocławiu. W 1969 został pracownikiem Centralnego Ośrodka Duszpasterstwa Akademickiego. Od 1970 do 1992 był cenzorem diecezjalnym.

19 września 1978 został mianowany przez papieża Jana Pawła I biskupem pomocniczym archidiecezji wrocławskiej ze stolicą tytularną Altava. Święcenia biskupie otrzymał 26 listopada 1978 w archikatedrze św. Jana Chrzciciela we Wrocławiu. Udzielił mu ich arcybiskup metropolita wrocławski Henryk Gulbinowicz w asyście Stefana Bareły, biskupa diecezjalnego częstochowskiego, i Wincentego Urbana, biskupa pomocniczego wrocławskiego. Jako zawołanie biskupie przyjął słowa "Sursum corda" (W górę serca). W latach 1978–1992 sprawował urząd wikariusza generalnego archidiecezji. W zakresie jego obowiązków w kurii metropolitalnej znajdowały się sprawy duszpasterstwa młodzieży akademickiej, inteligencji, nauczycieli, harcerzy i środowisk zawodowych. Należał do rady kapłańskiej i kolegium konsultorów archidiecezji. W 1979 został ustanowiony kanonikiem gremialnym wrocławskiej kapituły archikatedralnej. Został ponadto przewodniczącym Dolnośląskiego Komitetu Odrodzenia Harcerstwa i członkiem Zarządu Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Ossolineum.

25 marca 1992 został przeniesiony na urząd biskupa pomocniczego nowo powstałej diecezji legnickiej. Objął funkcję wikariusza generalnego diecezji. W kurii biskupiej zajmował się duszpasterstwem rodzin, harcerzy, służby zdrowia, a także duszpasterstwem środków społecznego przekazu. Przewodniczył również radzie katechetycznej i odpowiadał za sprawy II Synodu Ogólnopolskiego w diecezji legnickiej.

17 lipca 1993 został mianowany biskupem diecezjalnym diecezji zielonogórsko-gorzowskiej. Diecezję objął kanonicznie 19 lipca 1993, a 5 września 1993 odbył ingres do katedry Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim, a 12 września 1993 do konkatedry św. Jadwigi w Zielonej Górze. W diecezji utworzył w 1993 Stowarzyszenie Rodzin Katolickich, a w 1994 Katolickie Stowarzyszenie Młodzieży i Akcję Katolicką, a w 2003 Archiwum Diecezjalne w Zielonej Górze. W 1994 przeprowadził Diecezjalny Kongres Rodzin, a w 1997 podejmował w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim papieża Jana Pawła II w trakcie jego VI podróży apostolskiej do Polski. W 1998 zaprosił polityków różnych opcji do Paradyża, skąd uczestnicy spotkania wystosowali list do premiera Jerzego Buzka w sprawie utworzenia województwa lubuskiego. Przyczynił się do rozpoczęcia w 2002 procesu beatyfikacyjnego biskupa Wilhelma Pluty. 29 grudnia 2007 papież Benedykt XVI przyjął jego rezygnację z obowiązków biskupa diecezjalnego diecezji zielonogórsko-gorzowskiej.

W ramach prac Episkopatu Polski był przewodniczącym Komisji ds. Duszpasterstwa Służby Zdrowia (1982–1996) i wiceprzewodniczącym Komisji ds. Duszpasterstwa Akademickiego (1980–1996). Ponadto został członkiem Komisji ds. Trzeźwości i Komisji ds. Zakonnych. W 1988 asystował podczas sakry biskupa pomocniczego wrocławskiego Jana Tyrawy.

Zmarł 10 stycznia 2021 w Zielonej Górze w następstwie powikłań po zachorowaniu na COVID-19. 26 stycznia 2021 został pochowany wraz z biskupem Antonim Stankiewiczem w krypcie katedry Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim.

Odznaczenia, wyróżnienia, upamiętnienie
Postanowieniem prezydenta RP Andrzeja Dudy z 11 maja 2018 został odznaczony Krzyżem Kawalerskim Orderu Odrodzenia Polski.

W 2008 przyznano mu honorowe obywatelstwo Gorzowa Wielkopolskiego, Zielonej Góry i Głogowa, a w 2010 gminy Pszczew. W 2006 został odznaczony Odznaką Honorową za Zasługi dla Województwa Lubuskiego.

W 2011 otrzymał tytuł doktora honoris causa Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego. W 1991 został laureatem nagrody Kolegium Rektorów Wyższych Uczelni Wrocławia.

W 2015 został uhonorowany tytułem Zasłużony dla NSZZ "Solidarność", a w 2019 tytułem Człowieka 30-lecia Wolnej Polski.

W 2021 jego imię nadano Archiwum Diecezjalnemu w Zielonej Górze.

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Search Results: 1 - 10 of 14788 matches for " Xueming Tang "
Fuzzy Decision Method Applied in Action of Reactive Power Compensation Devices in Wind System [PDF]
Xueming Li, Li Feng, Yi Tang, Yonghua Chen
Journal of Power and Energy Engineering (JPEE) , 2014, DOI: 10.4236/jpee.2014.24039
Abstract: Frequent occurrence of large-scale cascading trip-off of wind turbine raises the concern about the decision process of ordered control of reactive power compensation devices. The theory of fuzzy multi-attribute decision making is adopted to ascertain the action sequence of reactive power compensation devices. First, a set of evaluation indexes including control sensitivity, regulation
margin, response time, response level and cost is set up, and fuzziness of the proposed qualitative indexes is introduced to make them comparable to the proposed quantitative indexes. Then a method to calculate fuzzy weight of each index is put forward for evaluating relative importance of the proposed indexes. Finally, the action sequence of reactive power compensation devices is determined through the theory of fuzzy compromise decision making. The case study shows that the proposed method is effective to obtain the action sequence of reactive power compensation device which correspond to experience.
A Framework For Fully-Simulatable $h$-Out-Of-$n$ Oblivious Transfer
Bing Zeng,Xueming Tang,Chingfang Hsu
Computer Science , 2010,
Abstract: We present a framework for fully-simulatable $h$-out-of-$n$ oblivious transfer ($OT^{n}_{h}$) with security against non-adaptive malicious adversaries. The framework costs six communication rounds and costs at most $40n$ public-key operations in computational overhead. Compared with the known protocols for fully-simulatable oblivious transfer that works in the plain mode (where there is no trusted common reference string available) and proven to be secure under standard model (where there is no random oracle available), the instantiation based on the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption of the framework is the most efficient one, no matter seen from communication rounds or computational overhead. Our framework uses three abstract tools, i.e., perfectly binding commitment, perfectly hiding commitment and our new smooth projective hash. This allows a simple and intuitive understanding of its security. We instantiate the new smooth projective hash under the lattice assumption, the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption, the decisional $N$-th residuosity assumption, the decisional quadratic residuosity assumption. This indeed shows that the folklore that it is technically difficult to instantiate the projective hash framework under the lattice assumption is not true. What's more, by using this lattice-based hash and lattice-based commitment scheme, we gain a concrete protocol for $OT^{n}_{h}$ which is secure against quantum algorithms.
Assessing the Impacts of High Speed Rail Development in China's Yangtze River Delta Megaregion [PDF]
Xueming Chen
Journal of Transportation Technologies (JTTs) , 2013, DOI: 10.4236/jtts.2013.32011
This paper assesses the impacts of high speed rail (HSR) development in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) Megaregion, China. After giving an introduction and conducting a literature review, the paper proposes a pole-axis-network system (PANS) model guiding the entire study. On the one hand, the HSR projects in the YRD Megaregion are expected to generate significant efficiency-related transportation and non-transportation benefits. As a result, the spillover effects from Shanghai and other major cities (poles) will greatly promote the urban and regional developments along the major HSR corridors (axes), and the entire megaregion will become more integrated economically, socially, and culturally. But, on the other hand, the HSR projects will also create serious social and geographic inequity issues, which need to be addressed as soon as possible in a proper way. This empirical study confirms the PANS model proposed.
Multipartite matroids and secret sharing
ChingFang Hsu,XueMing Tang,Qi Cheng,HaiJun Xiao
Chinese Science Bulletin , 2010, DOI: 10.1007/s11434-010-3086-7
Abstract: In a secret-sharing scheme, a secret value is distributed among a set of participants by giving each participant a share. The requirement is that only predefined subsets of participants can recover the secret from their shares. The family of the predefined authorized subsets is called the access structure. An access structure is ideal if there exists a secret-sharing scheme realizing it in which the shares have optimal length, that is, in which the shares are taken from the same domain as the secrets. Brickell and Davenport proved that ideal access structures are induced by matroids. Subsequently, ideal access structures and access structures induced by matroids have received a lot of attention. Seymour gave the first example of an access structure induced by a matroid namely the Vamos matroid, that is non-ideal. Since every matroid is multipartite and has the associated discrete polymatroid, in this paper, by dealing with the rank functions of discrete polymatroids, we obtain a sufficient condition for a multipartite access structure to be ideal. Furthermore, we give a new proof that all access structures related to bipartite and tripartite matroids coincide with the ideal ones. Our results give new contributions to the open problem, that is, which matroids induce ideal access structures.
Nutrient distribution within and release from the contaminated sediment of Haihe River
Min Wu,Suiliang Huang,Wei Wen,Xueming Sun,Xianqiang Tang,Miklas Scholz,
环境科学学报(英文版) , 2011,
Abstract: We assessed nutrient characteristics, distributions and fractions within the disturbed and undisturbed sediments at four sampling sites within the mainstream of Haihe River. The river sediments contained mostly sand (> 60%). The fraction of clay was < 3%. Total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP) concentrations ranged from 729 to 1922 mg/kg and from 692 to 1388 mg/kg, respectively. Nutrient concentrations within the sediments usually decreased with increasing depth. The TN and TP concentrations within the fine sand were higher than for that within silt. Sediment phosphorus fractions were between 2.99% and 3.37% Ex-P (exchangeable phosphorus), 7.89% and 13.71% Fe/Al-P (Fe, Al oxides bound phosphorus), 61.32% and 70.14% Ca-P (calcium-bound phosphorus), and 17.03% and 22.04% Org-P (organic phosphorus). Nitrogen and phosphorus release from sediment could lead to the presence of 21.02 mg N/L and 3.10 mg P/L within the water column. A river restoration project should address the sediment nutrient stock.
A 90-Day Dietary Toxicity Study of Genetically Modified Rice T1C-1 Expressing Cry1C Protein in Sprague Dawley Rats
Xueming Tang, Fangting Han, Kai Zhao, Yan Xu, Xiao Wu, Jinbin Wang, Lingxi Jiang, Wei Shi
Abstract: In a 90-day study, Sprague Dawley rats were fed transgenic T1C-1 rice expressing Cry1C protein and were compared with rats fed non-transgenic parental rice Minghui 63 and rats fed a basal diet. No adverse effects on animal behavior or weight gain were observed during the study. Blood samples were collected and analyzed, and standard hematological and biochemical parameters were compared. A few of these parameters were found to be significantly different, but were within the normal reference intervals for rats of this breed and age, and were thus not considered to be treatment-related. Following sacrifice, a large number of organs were weighed, and macroscopic and histopathological examinations were performed with no changes reported. The aim of this study was to use a known animal model to determine the safety of the genetically modified (GM) rice T1C-1. The results showed no adverse or toxic effects due to T1C-1 rice when tested in this 90-day study.
An Efficient Adaptive Anticollision Algorithm Based on 4-Ary Pruning Query Tree
Wei Zhang,Yajun Guo,Xueming Tang,Guohua Cui,Longkai Wu,Ying Mei
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks , 2013, DOI: 10.1155/2013/848746
Abstract: In radio frequency identification system (RFID), the efficiency in which the reader identifies multiple tags is closely related to the methods to solve the collision of multiple tags. At present, a reasonable solution is the introduction of 4-ary query tree (or n-ary query tree) to reduce the collision time slots and additional query is used to decrease idle timeslots. The advantage of a 4-ary tree anti-collision algorithm is that it is able to reduce collision timeslots, but it also increases the idle timeslots. To reduce these excessive idle timeslots the 4-ary tree anticollision algorithm brings, an anti-collision algorithm based on adaptive 4-ary pruning query tree (A4PQT) is proposed in this paper. On the basis of the information of collision bits, some idle timeslots can be eliminated through pruning the 4-ary tree. Both theoretical analysis and simulation results support that A4PQT algorithm can significantly reduce recognition time and improve throughput of the RFID system. 1. Introduction In the Radio frequency identification (RFID) system, if multiple readers and multiple tags, or a single reader and multiple tags, transmit simultaneously in the readers' working area, there are three types of collision as readers and tags operate on the same wireless channel. First, it is the frequency interference among readers which is due to the overlapping of two or more readers in the working area. The signals transmitted by these readers are causing mutual interference; thus the readers cannot read properly the tag data within the region. Second, when a tag appears in two or more readers' working area, it will not know which readers to communicate with. Third, when many tags appear in the working area of one reader, these tags respond simultaneously to the queries of the reader, which will result in collision. Generally, the first two types of collision are called reader-to-reader collision, and the third is known as reader-to-tag collision. When collision occurs, the reader cannot read the tag's data. How to reduce the number of collisions? How to reduce the messages that tag transmits repeatedly and reduce the communication overhead of the RFID system? Therefore, an efficient anticollision algorithm for identifying multitag is of great importance for the wireless RFID system. RFID system for solving multitag collision problem is currently divided into ALOHA-based anticollision algorithms and tree-based anticollision algorithms [1, 2]. ALOHA-based anticollision algorithms such as Slotted ALOHA, framed slotted ALOHA, dynamic framed slotted ALOHA, and
URBAN PLANNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN LOS ANGELES: AN OVERVIEW
Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management , 2009,
Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the urban planning management system in Los Angeles, United States. This system consists of institutional subsystem, legal subsystem, operational subsystem, and technical subsystem. The City of Los Angeles Planning Department carries out its urban planning responsibilities in accordance with the General Plan Guidelines promulgated by the Governor's Office of Planning and Research. The planning process has a good balance between government activities and citizen participations. The City's advanced technical tools, including internet-based Zoning Information and Map Access System and online filing system, have fostered the public interaction with the planning process. The City is recommended to incorporate more market-based planning measures in the future.
CHINESE IMMIGRATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON URBAN MANAGEMENT IN LOS ANGELES
Abstract: This paper reviews the Chinese immigration history in Los Angeles, with Chinatown representing its urbanization process and San Gabriel Valley representing its suburbanization process. These two processes are distinct and have different impacting factors. This empirical study also compares similarities and differences of the urban development patterns between the Chinese Americans and the mainstream white Americans. Furthermore, the paper examines the implications of Chinese immigration on local urban management from political, cultural, and socioeconomic aspects.
Screening of specific diagnostic peptides of swine hepatitis E virus
Kai Zhao, Qiwen Liu, Ruisong Yu, Zhen Li, Jianyue Li, Hong Zhu, Xiao Wu, Furong Tan, Jinbin Wang, Xueming Tang
Abstract: By bioinformatic analysis, we identified and then synthesized 12 peptides from open reading frames (ORFs) ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3, including swHEV-1 - swHEV-12. Using the results from ELISA, we selected swHEV-11 as the best candidate antigen and used it as a coating antigen for the development of peptide-based swine anti-HEV ELISA kits. The coefficient of variation (CV) the coefficient of variation (CV) varied between 4.3-7.2% in the same batch, and between 8.2-17.7% in six different batches. When comparing our swine peptide-based kit with the commercial recombinant-based kit, the humane anti-HEV IgG test had a 73.4% correspondence rate for them.This is the first systemic study to screen the diagnostic peptides of swHEV and our findings strongly suggest that peptide swHEV-11 is a potent diagnostic reagent of swHEV that could be used in the development of highly efficient diagnostic assays for the specific and highly sensitive detection of anti-HEV activity in swine serum samples.Swine hepatitis E virus (swHEV) was discovered in pigs in the USA in 1997 [1], and it has since been demonstrated that there is potential for the zoonotic transmission and cross-species transmission between humans and pigs [2]. Based on phylogenetic analysis, swHEV genotypes 3 and 4 contain genomic sequences closely related to human HEV [3,4]. To date, swHEV infection has been documented in a number of provinces and municipalities in China [5], and is considered a major problem in pig production and a threat to human health. There is therefore a real need for specific and effective methods of diagnosis, prophylaxis and treatment for this disease.The antigenic structure of the related human HEV virus has been studied in detail. Several antigenic regions of diagnostic relevance were found within the open reading frames (ORFs) ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3, using a range of different sized synthetic peptides [6-10] or recombinant proteins [11-13]. Three of the seven peptides encoded by ORF1, ORF2 and ORF3 of