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Spain faces Japan looking to seal last-16 spot at World Cup
December 1, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)
Spain's Ansu Fati works out during a training session at Qatar University, in Doha, Qatar, on Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- After conceding late to miss out on a victory against Germany, Spain finds itself with some work left to do against Japan to guarantee its spot in the round of 16 at the World Cup.
The Spaniards doen't need much, though, because a draw on Thursday will be enough, and even a loss may allow the team to advance depending on the other Group E result between Germany and Costa Rica.
Japan doesn't have it as easy, but a win will guarantee the Japanese a place in the knockout stage for the second straight time. It would be the first time Japan advances past the group stage in back-to-back tournaments. If Japan loses, though, the team will head home.
"It's going to be a high-pressure game for our players," Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu said Wednesday. "But we must believe in ourselves. The players must believe in themselves and they must believe in their teammates in order to fight against our opponent. Hopefully they will be able to do their best and the result will come."
The Japanese opened their campaign with a surprising win over four-time champion Germany before losing to Costa Rica. They were eliminated by Belgium in the last 16 in Russia.
Spain, which conceded an 83rd-minute equalizer against Germany, may also go home with a loss if Costa Rica beats the Germans or if the Germans win big to overcome Spain's goal difference after its 7-0 opening win over Costa Rica.
A victory at Khalifa International Stadium will guarantee Spain first place in the group, and keep it on track for a possible matchup with five-time champion Brazil in the quarterfinals.
"Hopefully we will get to face Brazil, because that would mean that we finished in first place in our group," Spain coach Luis Enrique said. "To win a World Cup you need to beat every team, so we are not going to try to avoid anyone."
Spain enters the final round with four points, one more than both Japan and Costa Rica. Germany has one point.
"We are not thinking about our opponents in the knockout rounds," Spain midfielder Koke Resurreccion said. "We need to beat Japan first and then we'll see which team we'll have to play against. If it's Brazil in the quarterfinals, so be it, and we'll try to prepare for it as best as possible."
Germany's chances of staying alive in Qatar will largely depend on Spain winning its match against Japan. Then a victory over Costa Rica would be enough for the Germans.
What may not help Germany is the fact that Luis Enrique may rotate some of his players after making only one change from the first to the second game -- Dani Carvajal coming in for Cesar Azpilicueta at right back.
Teenager Gavi, who started in the first two matches, trained separately from the group after the 1-1 draw with Germany because of a minor knee injury. He was expected to be available for Thursday's match but was not likely to start.
Another midfielder expected to be rested is 34-year-old Sergio Busquets, the only remaining player from Spain's World Cup-winning squad in 2010. Striker Alvaro Morata, who scored a goal in each of the first two matches after coming off the bench, could get a spot in the starting lineup against Japan.
The under-23 squads of Spain and Japan met in the semifinals of last year's Tokyo Olympics, when Spain advanced before eventually losing to Brazil in the final. Several players from those squads made their senior teams in Qatar, including Marco Asensio, who scored Spain's winner in extra time in the semifinals against Japan, and Takefusa Kubo, who plays for Real Sociedad in the Spanish league.
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Vier stukken op één toon (Quattro Pezzi (su una nota sola)) is een compositie van de Italiaanse componist Giacinto Scelsi. Het is geschreven voor ensemble.

Compositie
De compositie is een werk, dat bestaat uit vier naamloze delen (1e beweging, etc.), waarbij gedurende het desbetreffende deel slechts één toon wordt gespeeld. In deel 1 staat de F centraal, in deel twee de B, in deel drie de As en in deel vier de A. Het werk week destijds af van de gangbare klassieke muziek van de 20e eeuw met al haar theoretische compositie- en ritmestijlen. In dit werk geen berekende factoren, zoals in seriële muziek en minimal music. De muziek is intuïtief. De muziek staat stil of golft een beetje heen hen weer, ook al wordt er per deel slechts één toon gespeeld. Die ene toonhoogte wordt gevarieerd gespeeld. Er klinken microtonen, alle tonen tussen de Fes en Fis worden immers aangeduid met F, daarnaast zijn octaafvariaties toegepast en past de componist steeds de toonkleur en omgevingsnoten aan. Ten slotte beïnvloedt ook de dynamiek het geheel. Het tempo van de muziek en laag; het lijkt of de compositie ademt.

Samenstelling
 Altdwarsfluit, hobo, althobo, 2x klarinet, basklarinet, fagot, saxofoon;
 4x hoorn, 3x trompet, 2x trombone, tuba;
 pauken , zingende zaag, bongo, tumba, hangend bekken, grote tamtam (niet in deel drie);
 2x altviool, 2x cello, contrabas.

Bron en discografie
 Mode Records: Weens Radiosymfonieorkest o.l.v. Peter Rundel
 Neos: Radiosymfonieorkest van Beieren o.l.v. Hans Zender
 Accord: Radiosymfonieorkest van Polen o.l.v. Jürg Wyttenbach

Externe link
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Compositie voor orkest
Compositie van Giacinto Scelsi
Compositie voltooid in 1959

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by Helene Meyers
Yentl, Me, and 1983
Yesterday, April 22, Barbra Streisand received the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Chaplin Award. In announcing the award on behalf of the Film Society, Ann Tenenbaum cited Yentl as representative of Streisand's achievement, a "milestone film." Yentl was the first flick to have an American woman serve as writer, director, producer, and star. But Yentl also was and is a milestone film because it gave voice, loudly and unrelentingly, to the frustrations and longings keenly felt by a generation of smart, mouthy Jewish women. Born of the old world, Yentl spoke to new world Jewish feminists.
Of course, long before Yentl, Babs had become an icon for Jewish women. A great deal of attention has been paid to the ways in which Streisand made Jewish beautiful. While some of us don't regard her being featured on the cover of Playboy in 1977 as a compliment, her refusal of nose and surname changes have always been cause for kvelling. The drama of her hair from wild Jewfro to WASPY wisps and back again in The Way We Were struck some of us as a form of talking back to culturally dominant standards of beauty (and I know that I'm not alone in thinking that she was more beautiful before her makeover in The Mirror Has Two Faces). Those of us who hail from Brooklyn, Babs's old stomping ground and the site of her recent Barclays Center homecoming, also felt the power of identification born of Jewish geography. But Yentl was different. That milestone film indirectly projected on-screen the experience of a generation that was confronting and transcending the impediments to living a full intellectual and spiritual Jewish life.
Yentl came out in 1983. Just a year earlier, I had been a college senior. The director of Hillel, who was also my academic advisor, recommended that I attend an institution where I would be likely to find a nice Jewish husband who would give me the Jewish children I had a responsibility to bear to counter the genocidal work of Hitler. I refrained from cursing this kosher pig out loud, but I left that office feeling at odds with my tribe and wondering whether feminism and Jewishness might be another marriage I didn't want–or worse, couldn't have.
In the early 1980s, I was far from alone in feeling Jewish feminist frustration and yearning. On Being a Jewish Feminist, the groundbreaking volume edited by Susannah Heschel, appeared the same year as Streisand's Yentl. In 1983 Amy Eilberg was two years away from breaking the rabbinical barrier in the Conservative Movement (Sally Priesand had done so in the Reform Movement just over a decade earlier). In 1983 Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, committed to providing women with traditional Jewish learning without requiring them to adopt male names or clothing, was only 4 years old and still gestating its kollel for women.
At this juncture in history, it was thrilling to see Babs wrap herself in a tallit even before she reinvented herself as Anshel and donned the masculine wear of a yeshiva bocher. Rather than seeming overbearing, her omnipresent voice in song sounded to me like the return of the repressed, a defiance of the literal and figurative silencing of women. While the shrill bookseller recommending romances reminded me of my own recent encounter with educational gatekeeping, the father who taught her Talmud and inspired "Papa, Can You Hear Me" now brings to mind my own father, Alfred Meyers, of blessed memory, who sadly did not live long enough to see me earn tenure or read any of my published books.
Yentl's loneliness in crossing the gender divide, her failure to interest Hadass in Talmud, struck me not as a failure of sisterhood but rather as an honest acknowledgment that women are not necessarily feminists just as men are not necessarily pigs. And when Yentl reveals her female body, endures Avigdor's rage, and refuses his very modest proposal to do the studying for both of them, I understood this as the painful realization that even the men we love won't always get it and that we betray ourselves if we settle for less than full Jewish personhood.
When Deborah Kass's Warhol-inspired images of Streisand's yeshiva boy-girl first appeared under the title "My Elvis," I saw the beginning of Yentl's feminist afterlife. Yentl's Revenge, an anthology of Jewish feminist third-wave writings edited by Danya Ruttenberg and with a foreword by Susannah Heschel, codified the feminist fertility of a film once dubbed "Tootsie on the Roof."
Of course, the yearnings of Yentl were originally penned by Isaac Bashevis Singer in reference to a complex world of Talmudic learning largely lost to the crematoria. In a conversation with himself that appeared in The New York Times, Singer revealed that he was no fan of Streisand's Yentl. He objected to all the singing and her flight to America: "What would Yentl have done in America? Worked in a sweatshop 12 hours a day where there is no time for learning? Would she try to marry a salesman in New York, move to the Bronx or to Brooklyn and rent an apartment with an ice box and a dumbwaiter? This kitsch ending summarizes all the faults of the adaptation."
But adaptation, which necessarily entails continuity and real change, is at the heart of Jewish tradition and has been a key to Jewish survival. Singer's projected stereotypical unhappy ending for Yentl in America dismissed the feminist revolution being fought in the contemporary Jewish world, a revolution overlaid on Singer's text and Yentl's cross-dressed body. That's the way historical novels and films work–they represent the past, not necessarily accurately, and speak to the present. Just as Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner's Lincoln is an indirect meditation on the Obama age, Streisand's Yentl needs to be understood as part of the still incomplete process of women shattering Jewish and non-Jewish glass ceilings. So as Babs is honored with the Chaplin Award in her native New York, we might remember that Yentl was a milestone not only for Streisand and for Hollywood, but also for nice Jewish girls for whom singing dayenu was never enough.
Helene Meyers, Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University, is the author of Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. She is writing a book on Jewish American cinema.
For more about Babs in Lilith, read Rachel Kranson's The Myth of La Streisand.


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Venturimeter: Definition, Application, Working Principle, And Advantages
Venturimeter is a key instrument in the Mechanical engineering field, especially in Fluid Mechanics, to measure the flow rate of fluids inside a pipe. It is widely used in the water, chemical, oil, and gas industries. Unfortunately, many of us know a little about Venturi Meter. So in this article will talk about Venturimeter, its advantages, disadvantages, and the working principle.
The Venturimeter is called after GB Venturi, who developed the concept of Venturimeter in 1797; however, this concept got into practical consideration by Clemens Herschel.
Article Synopsis
Venturi meter Definition
Key Parts Of Venturimeter
Conical Converging Area
Cylindrical Throat
Conical Diverging Area
Derivation Of Venturimeter
What is Co-Officiant Of Discharge?
Working Principle Of Venturimeter
Types Of Venturimeter
Advantages of Venturimeter
Disadvantages Of venturimeter
Application Of Venturimeter
Conclusion : Venturimeter
Venturimeter is an instrument used to measure the speed and flow rate or discharge of liquids through a pipe. In the venturi meter, the pressure energy is converted to kinetic energy. The Venturimeter working principle is based on Bernoulli's theorem.
When fluid passes through different cross-sections of a venturi meter, it undergoes different levels of strain. This strain difference is measured with the assist of a manometer, which helps determine the rate of fluid flow through the pipe.
There are mainly three parts of venturi meter
Apart from that there are two cylindrical entry and exit area which is called Entry Main & Exit Main
Venturimeter
After the inlet main, the converging area starts. In the converging area, the diameter gradually decreases because the flow rate increases at the cost of pressure loss.
The converging angle is 20-22 degrees, and the length of the converging area is about 2.7 Dd. Where D is the diameter of the inlet main and d is the diameter of the throat.
The throat is the central part of the Venturimeter and its cross-sectional area constant. The throat is the area where the venturimeter has the least diameter. The pressure is at the lowest point and the velocity is at the highest inside the throat.
One end is connected with the converging area, and the other end is connected with the divergent area. The throat diameter is 1/3 to 1/4 of the diameter of the inlet area.
This is the last section of the venturi meter where the cross-section area gradually increases. Due to that, the pressure is built up again, and the velocity starts decreasing. The typical conical angle in the diverging area is about 7-15 degrees.
Schematic of a Venturimeter
P1 = Pressure at the cylindrical inlet section
p2 = Pressure at Throat section
v1= Velocity of fluid at the cylindrical inlet section
v2= Velocity of fluid at the throat
a1= Area of the cylindrical inlet section
a2= Area of the throat section
ρ = Density of the fluid
g = Gravitational constant
Now at both sections if we apply Bernoulli's theorem, then
(p1/ρg)+(v12/2g)=(p2/ρg}+(v22/2g)
(p1-p2)/ρg = (v22-v12)/2g
h = (v22-v12)/2g
Where,
(P1-P2) / ρg = h = Difference of strain head at the cylindrical inlet section and the throat.
Now Let us apply the continuity equation.
a1v1 = a2v2
v1= (a2v2)/ a1
Now let us apply the value of v1 to calculate the strain head.
h= v22-[{(a2v2)/ (a1)}2]/2g
Now from this equation we get the value of v2
Discharge Q= a2v2
Substitute value of v2 in the above equation
Ideal flow rate of the venturimeter
Q is the theoretical discharge under ideal conditions. The actual discharge formula is given by
Actual flow rate of the venturimeter
Where Cd is the co-efficient of the Venturimeter, and its value is less than 1. We apply the co-officiant of discharge to calculate the actual discharge because due to the friction between the venturi meter surface and the fluid, there will always be a pressure and velocity loss.
Co-Officiant of discharge of venturimeter can be calculated as the ratio of actual flow rate to the theoretical flow rate.
Cd=Qact/Q
Where Cd= Co-Officiant of discharge
Qact= Actual flow rate
Q= Theoretical flow rate
The value of co-officiant of discharge lies between 0.95-0.99. However, if you want to achieve a higher Co-officiant of discharge, then you need to smoothen the surface of venturimeter. ISO 5167 is the standard that provides the values of various co-officiant of discharge.
Let us consider the two cross-sections of a typical venturimeter , one at the inlet and the other at the throat. The difference in the pressure heads of these areas is used to calculate the rate of flow through the Venturimeter.
As soon as the water enters the inlet area, that is, it goes through the convergent area and reaches to the throat.
The throat has a smaller cross-section area, and in fact, it has the smallest cross-section area in the Ventrimator as the water enters the throat, fluid velocity increases, and the pressure decrease to a minimum due to the increase in velocity.
Now there is a pressure difference of the fluid in the two sections. In Section 1 (i.e., at the inlet), fluid pressure is maximum, and velocity is minimum. And in Section 2 (throat), the velocity of the fluid is maximum, and the pressure is minimum.
The pressure difference between the two sections can be seen in the manometer fitted in both sections. And then, we can use Bernoulli's theorem. And the continuity equation to find out the value of discharge.
There are three types of venturimeter available in the market.
Horizontal Venturimeter
Vertical Venturimeter
Inclined Venturimeter
Venturimeter provides accurate results.
The accuracy of the Venturimeter is not dependent on the temperature and pressure inside the pipe.
Very little energy loss.
Wide applicability to water, suspended solids, gases, slurries, chemicals, dirty liquids, etc.
High discharge coefficient and very low-pressure drop.
Venturi meters may be established in a horizontal, inclined, or vertical direction.
The pressure recovery of the Venturimeter is very high. The discharge pressure is almost near the inlet pressure.
No moving part
They are large and therefore, where space is limited, they cannot be used.
The initial cost and installation cost is high
A longer placement length is required. That is, the venturimeter must be operated by a straight tube with no connections or misalignments to avoid flow disturbance for satisfactory operation.
It cannot be used in pipes with a diameter of less than 7.5 cm.
Maintenance is not easy.
It cannot be modified to measure pressure beyond the maximum speed.
In industries, venturimeter is used to measure the flow rate of gas
In medical industries, venturimeter is used to measure the blood flow rate
In a water treatment plant, venturimeter is used to measure the pressure difference and the discharge of water.
In engine carburetors, venturimeter is used to measure the airflow.
Although we may see many electronic devices to measure the flow rate and pressure drop inside a pipe, still venturi meters are widely used in industries. The precision level may not be as high as expected. But it is easy to use and can be used in a wide array of applications. The cost is also low compared to any modern electronic device that measures fluid discharge and pressure loss.
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› Key Issues › Fuel Poverty and Health › Useful Documents and Resources
Affordable Warmth & Health Impact Evaluation Toolkit, Centre for Sustainable Energy and DECC, (March 2016)
The Relationship Between Fuel Poverty And Health: A Discussion Paper, Energy Action Scotland (2012)
Health Impacts of Cold Homes and Fuel Poverty, The Marmot Review Team (2011).
Prof. Christine Liddell, The Impact of Fuel Poverty on Children, Policy briefing for Save the Children (2008).
Liddell, C and Morris, C, Fuel Poverty and Human Health: A Review of Recent Evidence. (2010) Energy Policy, 38. pp. 2987-2997.
Health Impact of Low Indoor Temperatures, World Health Organisation (1985).
Good Places, Better Health Implementation Plan, Scottish Government (2008).
K. J. Collins, Member of MRC (UK) Staff and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Geriatric Medicine, Low Indoor Temperatures and Morbidity in the Elderly, Age & Ageing (1986) 15 (4): 212-220. (Access online will require a subscription).
National Energy Action, Fuel Poverty Research Database. Categories include Fuel Poverty and Health, which links to a variety of research ongoing and completed.
Will Anderson and Vicki White, "You just have to get by" Coping with low incomes and cold homes, (2010) Centre for Sustainable Energy and Andrea Finney, University of Bristol Personal Finance Research Centre.
Greater Manchester Fuel Poverty Initiative – a two year review, which ran until May 2010, of how Local Authorities, Primary Care Trusts, energy suppliers and other partners can work together to optimise the contribution they make to improving housing conditions for vulnerable people and reduce health inequalities.
Dr Liesl Osman, University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with Castlehill Housing Association and Aberdeen City Council Community Services, The effect of energy efficiency improvement on health status of COPD patients, (2007) A Report to the eaga Charitable Trust.
Trevor Davison, NHS Education for Scotland and NHS Health Scotland, Health Implications of Cold and Damp Housing, (2005) A Report to the eaga Charitable Trust.
Dr Vivienne Press, fuel poverty+health: A guide for primary care organisations, and public health and primary care professionals, Produced by the National Heart Forum, the Eaga Partnership Charitable Trust, the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Help the Aged and the Met Office, (2003).
Krishnan Bhaskaran, Shakoor Hajat, Andy Haines, Emily Herrett, Paul Wilkinson, and Liam Smeeth, Short term effects of temperature on risk of myocardial infarction in England and Wales: time series regression analysis of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project, British Medical Journal 341:doi:10.1136/bmj.c3823 (Published 10 August 2010).


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Our commitment to the vaccine
Besides a considerable amount of media coverage, there has been much discussion among senior service organizations across the U.S. regarding mandating COVID vaccines for our employees.
While we have considered this option since we began making vaccines available to residents and staff, let us update you as to where we are at today with our COVID vaccine status.
Back in January, we enacted a "Vaccine Champion" campaign to encourage all of our staff to get the vaccine. JAA staff stepped up admirably and today we have 87 percent of our staff fully vaccinated. Among residents, even better, as 99.9 percent of all residents have taken the vaccine. In comparison, JAA far exceeds the rate of vaccines in long-term care both in Pennsylvania (59 percent staff, 83 percent residents) and nationally (61 percent staff, 80 percent residents).
We have continued to test our unvaccinated staff. Due to the rise in the community spread with the Delta variant, every week we test all staff, both vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Our goal is to have 100 percent of eligible staff vaccinated. We continue of provide ongoing (mandatory) education sessions for the unvaccinated, encouraging them in both group and one-on-one sessions to get the vaccine. We surveyed those who have been reticent and learned reasons why many are not willing to do so, many out of fear, some for medical reasons, and some for religious reasons. Social media and the spread of false information about the vaccine has not helped our cause. Still, we have been successful in getting more than half of those who initially did not want the vaccine to agree to have the vaccine shots. These individuals are now counted among our vaccine champions and, for this, we are most grateful.
For those who are still weighing their options, we have a disclosure form which any unvaccinated staff member must sign acknowledging the risk to themselves, their families, and our residents by not getting vaccinated.
And beginning on September 30, we will host several booster clinics with Giant Eagle to adminsiter Pfizer booster shots to all staff who got their first shots in January and February. We encourage the remaining staff who have not yet begun the vaccine process to take this opportunity to get their first vaccines during these cllnics.
As a faith-based non-profit organization, JAA respects the choices and beliefs of our staff, especially during these extremely difficult and challenging times. JAA staff have proven repeatedly that they are truly heroes in this fight against this deadly coronavirus.
We believe in education, understanding the roadblocks, and addressing them as the path to full staff compliance. Giving this level of support has been successful, and trusting that our staff will make the right choice for them is our objective. Of course, our ultimate goal is keeping our residents, their families, each other, and our own families safe.
We constantly enforce the need to remain cautious, wearing proper PPE, mandating facemasks among all staff and the combination of masks and full-face shields among the unvaccinated. Other protocols such as hand washing, social distancing, monitoring staff temperatures and symptoms at the beginning and end of each shift, and cleaning high touch areas remain in effect.
We continue to stay informed of any changes regarding state and federal vaccine mandates. Should vaccine requirements become mandatory, we are prepared to enact and enforce them immediately.
In the meantime, we will continue to monitor, test, and stay vigilant during this lingering battle. We have always had, and continue to have, the very best interests of our residents at heart.


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NASA's Valkyrie is a 'superhero' robot that could lead us to Mars
By Sebastian Anthony on December 11, 2013 at 4:00 pm
NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) has finally unveiled Valkyrie, its "superhero robot" entry to the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Trials, which take place on December 20 in Florida. Valkyrie will compete against fellow humanoid robots, such as Atlas, on a series of eight physical tasks to test the dexterity and autonomy of the robots, with the chance of going forward to the DRC Finals in 2014, where it could win $2 million from the US government. The DRC isn't about money, though: It's all about accelerating humanity's development of advanced humanoid robots, for use in hazardous situations… such as war.
Valkyrie, so named after the supernatural female figures in Norse mythology that plucked fallen warriors from the field of battle and transported them to Valhalla for an eternity of feasting and mead quaffing, is 1.9 meters tall (6'2) and weighs 125 kilos (275 lbs). Valkyrie, or Val for short, has 44 degrees of freedom (divided up between her legs, feet, arms, hands, torso, and head) and is capable of walking over uneven terrain, driving a vehicle, and using tools. Oh, and yes, that is a glowing NASA logo emblazoned on her chest a la Iron Man.
Valkyrie. Image (and other images on this page) are courtesy of IEEE Spectrum.
To begin with, most of the robots taking part in the DRC — including Valkyrie — will be remotely operated. The robots will still feature a large amount of task-level autonomy — the operator will instruct the robot to "grasp the tool" rather than "open hand, rotate 90 degrees, extend hand, close hand," and the robots will have built-in collision avoidance — but we're not talking about robots that can walk around and automatically pluck survivors from the wreck of a fallen building. We're also not talking about robots that can engage in squad-based military maneuvers. That step comes next.
That isn't to say that Valkyrie isn't equipped to be fully autonomous, though. Val is outfitted with more sensors than you can ever imagine: cameras and LIDAR in the head, cameras and sonar in the chest, and cameras in the feet, knees, and forearms. These sensors are primary data sources for Valkyrie's automation routines, but the operator can also take a look at a camera feed to get a closer look at obstacles, what's being grasped by Val's hand, etc.
One of the more unique aspects of Valkyrie — except for her female name; most utility robots, including those competing in the DRC Trials, usually have male or genderless names — is the fact that she's wearing clothes. If you take a look at every other robot competing in the Trials, you'll notice that they're mostly riveted metal plates and steel tubing. NASA takes softness very seriously, it seems. "Our robot is soft. If you brush against it while you're working, you don't want to feel this cold, hard metal. You want it to feel natural, like you're working next to another human being," NASA's Nicolaus Radford tells IEEE Spectrum. It's not easy to cover a robot in clothing (think about how much your skin stretches and contorts while you move), and so NASA's JSC had to develop its own clothing lab, to create Valkyrie's clothing on-site.
NASA might seem like an odd institution to be developing a humanoid robot, but it all makes a lot more sense if you factor Mars into the equation. "NASA wants to get to Mars, and in order to get to Mars, NASA will likely send robots ahead of the human explorers," Radford says. "These robots will start preparing the way for the humans, and when the humans arrive, the robots and the humans will work together." NASA has a strong background in robotics, too — don't forget that Curiosity and Robonaut are two of the most advanced and precocious robots in existence. DARPA's Robotics Challenge is mostly focused on creating robots that can replace humans in hazardous situations — chemical spills, burning buildings, warfare — and traversing Mars, which doesn't have an atmosphere, is pretty darn hazardous.
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Ljubinko Drulović (Servisch: Љубинко Друловић) (Nova Varoš, 11 september 1968) is een Servisch voormalig voetballer en coach.

Spelerscarrière
Drulović speelde in de jeugd van Zlatar Nova Varoš uit zijn geboortestad en Sloga Požega. Hij maakte zijn debuut in het betaald voetbal echter in 1988 voor FK Sloboda Užice. In 1990 verhuisde hij naar de Joegoslavische topclub FK Rad. Nadat zijn contract bij Rad afliep in 1992, vertrok hij naar het Portugese Gil Vicente FC. In december 1993 werd hij gecontracteerd door grootmacht FC Porto. In zijn eerste seizoen, 1993/94, scoorde hij direct achttien goals. Dit zou later het productiefste seizoen uit zijn carrière worden. Met Porto won hij vijf landstitels, vier bekers en vijf supercups.

In 2001 vertrok hij naar SL Benfica uit Lissabon. Na een slechte start tijdens het seizoen 2002/03 keerde hij terug naar Servië, bij FK Partizan uit Belgrado. Hij beëindigde zijn carrière bij FC Penafiel.

Interlandcarrière
Drulović maakte zijn interlanddebuut voor Joegoslavië op 28 december 1996 in en tegen Argentinië (2–3 winst). Hij scoorde meteen in zijn eerste wedstrijd de 0–1. Hij speelde in totaal 38 interlands voor Joegoslavië tussen 1996 en 2001.

Trainerscarrière
Drulović begon zijn trainersloopbaan bij laagvlieger GD Tourizense in Portugal. Toen hij eenmaal de diploma's had, mocht hij hogere teams gaan coachen. In april 2008 werd hij dan ook coach van FK Banat Zrenjanin in de Servische hoogste klasse. Hij degradeerde met de club, na een met 1–4 verloren wedstrijd tegen FK Vojvodina. In juni 2008 werd hij hoofdcoach van NK Drava Ptuj in Slovenië. In 2010 ging hij in Angola te werk, bij CD Primeiro de Agosto. Zijn grootste trainerssucces kende hij bij het Servisch voetbalelftal onder 19, hiermee won hij het EK onder 19 in 2013. Hij was daarom ook Servisch coach van het jaar in 2013. In 2014 was hij interim-manager van het Servisch voetbalelftal, nadat Dick Advocaat ontslag nam. Sinds 23 april 2015 is hij bondscoach van Macedonië. De eerste wedstrijd onder zijn leiding, een EK-kwalificatieduel in en tegen Slowakije op 14 juni 2015, werd met 2–1 verloren. Drulović haalde met Macedonië het EK uiteindelijk niet. Hierop stapte hij op om aan de slag te gaan bij de Servische voetbalclub FK Partizan. Daar stapte hij eind 2015 op, nadat Drulović de groepsfase van de Europa League niet door was gekomen in een poule met AZ, FC Augsburg en Athletic Bilbao.

Erelijst

Als speler
  FC Porto
 Landskampioen
 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1997/98, 1998/99
 Beker van Portugal
 1993/94, 1997/98, 1999/00, 2000/01
 Supercup van Portugal
 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001

Als manager
  Servië –19
 Europees kampioenschap
 2013

Referenties

Servisch voetballer
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Q: How do I have a background image change within a div using JS? My issue is I am trying to get a background image to change every second within the first div of a travel blog I have been working on using JS. I am also having text display on top of the image. There are couple tutorials on YouTube but they just arent working for me.
my css is:
    #title{
    background-image: url("../images/Nature5.jpg");
    background-size: cover;
    padding-top: 350px;
    padding-bottom: 350px;
    }

And my Javascript is:

var changingImages = document.querySelector('title');

var images = [
   "url('../images/Nature1.jpg')",
   "url('../images/Nature2.jpg')",
   "url('../images/Nature3.jpg')",
   "url('../images/Nature4.jpg')",
   "url('../images/Nature5.jpg')",
   "url('../images/Nature6.jpg')"
    ]

   setInterval( function () {

   var bg = images[Math.floor(Math.random() * images.length)]

   title.style.backgroundImage = bg;

   },1000)

Perhaps the images are too large or maybe I'm just too new to JS.
Any help is appreciated!
I tried placing the variabule "changingImages" within the function also changing the "title.style.backgroundImage = bg;" to be more spacific.

A: please try this one
add class selector in query selector argument '.title'
var changingImages = document.querySelector('.title'); // the change

var images = [
  "url('../images/Nature1.jpg')",
  "url('../images/Nature2.jpg')",
  "url('../images/Nature3.jpg')",
  "url('../images/Nature4.jpg')",
  "url('../images/Nature5.jpg')",
  "url('../images/Nature6.jpg')"
]

setInterval( function () {

var bg = images[Math.floor(Math.random() * images.length) + 1] // the change

changingImages.style.backgroundImage = bg;  // the change

},1000)

hope this work

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Winter has not gotten the best of me yet and I plan to stay positive until the first daffodil pops its head out of the ground. I miss my garden blooms greatly, but having photographs makes the world of difference, and in reality, I only need close my eyes for a stroll through our garden. The only thing missing is the scents.
We are currently Grand Central Station for the birds so gardening for wildlife has paid off. We have enough cover and wildness to qualify as great bird habitat. Even a deer enjoyed the area beside the porch for afternoon naps this past summer.
Since we've developed quite the wildlife habitat here at our home in Virginia, which we considered to be a temporary residence, the hard part of leaving, when the time comes, will be to let go of the garden.
There are several reasons this location doesn't "fit" but we felt while we were here we wanted to improve it as much as we could. Natural habitats are being destroyed around the world, so if we create more backyard habitats, we'll be doing a great thing for the other creatures that share our planet.
We have wonderful neighbors, so that's another reason we're still here. We've never lived anywhere with bad neighbors, but we've also not lived anywhere that's been this great. Maybe because most of us are home all day, it makes for more time to enjoy people. Too bad life doesn't always allow people to be a priority ... or is it the choices we make that makes life that way? Hmm ... that's another topic.
One of my neighbors, Ken Bushell, loves wildlife photography as I do, so it's been fun to share that common ground. I've mentioned him before and you may have seen some of his photos on this website.
One day he offered to paint a picture for us of our place from photographs. At first thought I didn't care about having a picture of our home. It was/is the garden that we love and will miss seeing, so later I asked if it could be a picture of the garden.
What I visualize the most is when I head out the front door and off the porch to the walkway garden. That's my "image" of our place here that we fondly call Bluebird Cove.
Ken is quite the fascinating guy and always up for a challenge! After retiring from an engineering position he went back to a childhood hobby .... painting. However, as you can see from this painting, it's not really a hobby, it's a talent! He felt all the greens and diversity of a garden might be more than he could handle, but wanted to give it a try.
With his wife, Yvonne, the constant critic and angelic voice behind him, he did an amazing job. Randal and I have been enthralled with the image being put on canvas. Fortunately he did not make it as wild as reality ... some friends call it the jungle. With the plants a bit subdued he got a real feel for the house (porch) and even the beautiful Butterfly Bench that has brought such meaning to the garden.
What a thoughtful gift and one that we will treasure even more after we've left here. For now, it hangs above the fireplace and is a daily reminder of not only the garden ... but also of the importance and treasure of having wonderful people to share your life with. This winter instead of thinking about arthritis and dreary weather, I'm focusing on the warmth of friendship.
Creating art is like making something magical happen. Maybe because I would need a miracle to draw more than a stick man on paper. There's something precious about a "living" scene on canvas. I have often wished I had a painting or at least sketch of our home in Alabama that we called "The Refuge." We were so buried into the woods that you couldn't see much of the house from any camera angle.
Ken has done many paintings since getting back to it and he's recently put them on a website. Visit Ken's Art website. If you'd like to have him paint something you see there or something from photographs, send him an email. His email address is on the home page.
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You and me are never going to fully agree on US foreign policy.
In the context of your ambiguously worded statement about your experiences and my question arising from it, the quote marks don't make all the difference, they're almost irrelevant, because you were neither "protecting their interests" or for "9 years of it" as I put in quotes. You observed the US "protecting their interests" just like the rest of us, albeit from maybe a closer vantage point. You worked in the shipping services industry, fishermen, boat traders, dock workers, and maybe every resident of the Gulf states could likely make a similar claim, there's nothing exceptional to it.
1: What particular insights does the shipping services industry, generally, provide with respect to the US "protecting their interests" that would not be otherwise observable?
2: Beyond the weeks or months you were involved with the IR655 recovery, and I in no way seek to demean that, it must have been horrific can you offer any other examples specific to your nine years that would reinforce your claim.
1) "Protecting their interests" is in quote marks because it refers directly to the standard US foreign policy statement that their actions are undertaken to "protect US interest in the region/area/country/..", take your pick. It is standard practice to use this form and there is nothing ambigious about it, unless you twist it that way.
I spent a long time out on sea, worked my way up from deckhand to master, and specialized in deep sea fire-fighting, salvage and rescue.
MV Mokran (38 dead) This tanker got hit 3 times during the war, it sank after the 3 hit.
These are not in chronological order, as you will no doubt check in your quest to establish "the facts". And of course, there was USS Stark which was hit of the coast of Bahrain and refused the help of specialist vessels in the name of "national security". Badly hit, the captain (?) refused help from the salvage tugs (with medically trained crew on board and much better fire fighting equipment than the US navy provided) and we were told to keep our distance or else. Instead of using the trained, specialist crews nearby, they waited 24 hours for another ill equipped US destroyer to come and give them a hand... I hate to think how many of the 37 US sailors that died did so needlessly, because of "national security"
Prior to the gulf, MV Mont Louis (carrying US made, US banned equipment for the Siberian oil pipeline, and nuclear wast from Cherbourg heading for Murmansk. Sank of the Belgian coast), Piper Alfha oil platform in the North Sea, the raising of MV Betelgeuse, the French tanker that explode at Whiddy Island in Ireland(1979) (where we lost a diver), and one of my first jobs as a deckhand, an attempted salvage on the Torrey Canyon which hit Pollard's Rock fully laden with crude oil and was eventually bombed out of existence by the Royal Navy and RAF.
I know the retort will be that all this was between Iraq and Iran, nothing to do with the US. It is usually followed by "we were only there to protect our (= the reflagged Kuwaiti) ships.
Reality is that Saddam Hussein was one of the many US backed puppets who went rogue, while the whole situation in Iran was a direct result of the US backing of the Shah and his extremely brutal regime. The war between the 2 countries was a direct result of US interference in the area, meaning, "protecting US interests", ie. oil.
I will repeat it again, if a fraction of the money invested by the US in propping up corrupt puppet governments with military hardware and military personel (in return for the protection of "US interests") would have been spent on people instead of psychopaths, millions of people would not have needlessly died or be living in poverty and fear of their lives. Some of it could, God forbid even have been spent at home, on disadvantaged US citizens.
Governments come and go (or get pushed), headlines are past tense the moment they are printed, but people have very long memories, especially when it comes to remembering those who threat them like crap. Put somebody with such memories with his/her back against the wall, as is happening in the Yemen and elsewhere, and you simply don't know what will happen next. What you can bet on is that whatever it is, it will not be nice... 9/11 springs to mind.
Like everybody else, the US government must learn that they are not just reponsible for their immediate actions, they are also responsible for the consequences of those actions. Unfortunately, those consequences usually mean lots of dead people, including lots of Americans. The continuing short-sightedness that continues to rule foreign policies is mind-boggling.
Last edited by Ephilant; 10-08-2013 at 12:23 PM.
We need to bring this discussion to an end, its not accomplishing much, and this will be my last word on the matter.
Despite your claims to the contrary, those sentences can easily be read as, you claiming to have 9 years of personal first hand experience of the US protecting their foreign policy interests, as opposed to simply observing them protecting their interests. The downing of IR655 was not a 9 year event.
But that's not how I read it anyway. Instead, I thought, there's a couple of possibilities here, I better seek clarification, and so I asked the question, and explained my reason, rather than jump to any conclusions.
I repeat, I'm not attempting to "twist" your words. There was genuine confusion.
I don't understand why you are criticizing me for focusing, "hammering" in your words, on the 9 year period of 1981-1988. You cited that as the relevant period of your first hand experience. I know nothing of, (beyond of course what you share here), and have made no claims of any sort about, any of your experiences outside that period. So telling me that you spent a long time at sea, doesn't tell me very much.
You've listed many landmarks of your career, beginning with the Torrey Canyon and the others such as Mont Louis, Piper Alpha, Betelgeuse, which is fine. But I don't see how any of these relate to your claim of first hand experience observing the US "protecting their interests" in the period 1981-1988. Likewise your story about the SAVAK. I don't challenge the veracity of your account, but simply point out that SAVAK was disbanded in 1979 as a direct result of the Iranian revolution. All the bad things that happened to your friends family at the hands of the SAVAK happened before 1979. So in that sense reference to the SAVAK is also meaningless to your claim.
This would likely have been your primary experience of observing the US "protecting their interests". So I looked up some sources on that, and I found several, but I'll confine myself to one, because I don't think there's much need to go beyond that.
It's a short paper on the "Tanker War" from a larger project on the Strait of Hormuz (which I think you might be interested in anyway) by the University of Texas at Austin.
November 1, 1986: Neutral Kuwait appeals to the international community to protect its shipping interests in the Gulf, resulting in the "re-flagging" of Kuwaiti tankers. The USSR is the first nation to respond, and the US leads the international effort in order to minimize the Soviet role in the Gulf.
March 7, 1987: The United States announces its decision to re-flag Kuwaiti tankers.
August 8, 1988: Iran and Iraq agree to a cease-fire.
and the full document with links to the rest of the Strait of Hormuz project is here.
1: You had a genuine lapse of memory, which happens to the best of us. It has certainly happened to me.
2: That 1981-1988 claim of first hand experience of observing the US "protecting their interests" now looks more like a classic example of an old sea dog embellishing a story. I'll leave others to judge.
Thus far, I've refrained from sharing my experience of observing the US "protecting their interests". I'll do that now. It's from a different vantage point than yours.
You lamented your view of the American people as more interested in Oprah etc. It may be correct as you imply that a majority of the US population has less interest in international affairs than domestic affairs, but that's probably also true for most large countries, and it misses the point. In contrast, smaller countries almost by definition look outwards.
It's not the people, but the government, which is responsible, at least in the short term between elections.
For nearly 25 years now, I've lived in Washington DC, and have observed the US Government "protecting their interests" up close, real close. While no government is without fault, for whatever reason, ideology, ignorance, or incompetence, I can confidently claim that the US government of whatever party, is the most well informed government in the world, by a wide, wide margin. There's nothing remotely close. Here's why. The business of Washington is government. It has no other claim to fame. That translates into a culture unseen anywhere else in the world. People who have not experienced Washington, including most Americans, have no idea of what the place is like.
One of the things that sets Washington apart from all other cities are its think-tanks. Brussels doesn't even come close, as noted by the Economist below.
The White House staff alone is about 1,500. There are 35,000 individuals registered to lobby Congress or the Executive Branch. Every big US company you can think of, from Silicon Valley, to General Motors, to Dow Chemical to you name it in any sector, that has interests that are affected by government laws and changes to regulations etc. and most do, maintains a "government affairs" office somewhere in the DC metro area. They are usually not very big, but there are a lot of them, and they all add up. All of the major government contractors maintain also maintain a significant presence.
This list of the Top 100 government contractors shows they earn about $400 billion a year, with the remainder earning another $100 billion. That's half a trillion a year. You bet they all have offices in DC.
Almost every major professional, trade, industry, group, union, association, etc. maintain an office. Doctors, dentists, lawyers plumbers, electricians, letter carriers, raisin growers, candy makers etc. In fact there are so many such groups in Washington that their staff/employees have their own group. Its called the American Society of Association Executives, ASAE. It has a membership of 21,000 representing 10,000 organizations. Every city in the US and the world does backflips to try to get the ASAE to hold its annual conference in their city. Why? Because ASAE members decide where to hold all the conferences for those 10,000 organizations they work for.
All of the above mentioned groups voraciously consume the output of the Washington think-tanks of which there are about 500, big and small. The think-tanks have an enormous influence on government policy. Estimates of employment numbers vary, but its thought to be similar to Congress about 20,000 or an average of 40 each.
Almost 10% of the world's think-tanks are located in a metro area of 3.5 million, that stretches over an area roughly equivalent of Drogheda to Naas, NS and coast to Kells EW. Bear in mind DC itself is just 64 square miles with a population of 650,000. Much smaller than Dublin or Athens.
Here are a few selected quotes about the Washington think-tanks and links to the full pieces. The first is from a leading think-tank. The others from the Economist.
Washington's "ideas" economy, based in its think tanks and universities, has made the city an intellectual leader. In 2009, the University of Pennsylvania conducted a survey of the world's think tanks. It identified 6,305 in 169 countries. At the center of this universe was Washington. Some 393 think tanks were located in the District, more than in any other city in the world; DC is home to about one-fifth of all the think tanks in the United States. Another 149 are in Virginia and Maryland. With budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to $80 million, the ideas industry is a huge driver of the local economy.
And it's not just a matter of numbers. When the think tanks in the survey were rated for the influence of their work, nine of the top ten in the United States had offices in Washington; the Hoover Institution at Stanford University—staffed with many DC refugees—was the only non-DC think tank to make the top ten.
A COUPLE of years ago, I wrote a Charlemagne column asking what was to me an obvious question: why are think-tanks in Brussels so much less impressive and influential than those in Washington? Few pieces have provoked such a furious response, at least within the tiny anthill that is the Brussels Euro-bubble.
All of which is to say that every policy proposal that comes up for consideration by the government gets analyzed up down, inside out, 7 ways to Sunday, times 29, and back again. This city eats drinks lives and breathes policy. That's why fact checking is a religion here.
The joke in Washington, if you need a policy update, ask your waiter. They can provide them as easily as refilling your water glass. And certainly, the best waiters in the top restaurants could flip you half a dozen coherent policy options on the hottest current debate in a heartbeat. Anyone not familiar with Washington and how it works, and who thinks the Americans are naive or stupid, all I can say is, the joke's on them. So, while you and others outside DC may view the US government as reckless or worse, I see it as super cautious, and attempting to double, triple check, every option, and with an army of both paid and free executives rather than the military variety.
But at the end of the day the real problem here, is with the premise of your thread. Will Yemen be another Iraq? I certainly don't think so, and I don't know anyone in Washington who does either. And certainly, no one here has jumped in to agree with you.
Instead, I believe you allowed your emotions, and hostility toward American foreign policy, to permit you to posit a question that at face value is far fetched. And now you've had to go from citing Nazi Germany, to the Torrey Canyon, Piper Alpha, and more, none of which have the slightest relevance to the issue at hand, in an attempt to justify your positions. You're in a mess.
I've said all I'm going to say on this matter. I'll continue to post relevant information in the thread, if there's any, and I'll finish with this observation.
When facts get injected into an emotional debate, people often become even more irrational than before. If you want evidence of that, just come to Washington DC. Happens everyday.
I am not going to keep on about this, suffice to say I do not appreciate being called a dog, nor do I appreciate the inference of lying. My memories are perfectly sound, as are the facts. The fact that all you can come up with are US government based think tanks to rebute an outsiders experience of US government policies just goes to show how the spin works. You may instead want to go and talk to those who have been/are at the receiving end of the nightmares the US government keeps on creating in foreign countries, whenever they think it necessary to "protect US interests".
All of which is to say that every policy proposal that comes up for consideration by the government gets analyzed up down, inside out, 7 ways to Sunday, times 29, and back again.
You asked me for other experiences showing why US foreign policy is indeed such a debacle. Here's a reminder of such an experience shared with the world by a nine year old girl, who found out the hard way 40 years ago. Titled "Napalm Girl", this one picture told the world, in no uncertain terms, something that we should not ever forget. My personal experiences (including June 1988) pale in comparisson to this, while at the same time they re-enforce the certain knowledge that this is how low a US government is prepared to sink, at any time, to "defend US interest".
Last edited by Ephilant; 11-08-2013 at 08:32 AM.
I have to break my vow, but not for any reason I expected. I never thought I would have to educate Ephilant on sea faring culture.
I understand that English may not be Ephilant's first language, (but its pretty good), and I am still willing to cut him some slack on that.
Still, someone claiming to have spent a career at sea, particularly a master mariner, not knowing the meaning of the term "Sea Dog" is kinda funny, and it also speaks to the confusion over the two sentences at issue. Also. makes you wonder if they ever went to sea all. Don't think I'd want to sail on that ship.
noun 1. a sailor, especially an old or experienced one.
4. a pirate or privateer.
n.1. Any of various seals or similar marine mammals.
2. Nautical A very experienced sailor.
3. sea·dog (s dôg , -d g ) See fogbow.
Ο χειρότερος κουφός είν' αυτός που δε θέλει ν' ακούσει.
Very good. Nice counterpart to "There is none so blind as those that will not see".
Really, very few people seem to place any serious weight on the Big Scare.
Wallpapering a thread with very long posts full of irrelevancies and red herrings is a tactic that might be used to attempt to swamp an opposition view point, or facts that one wishes to obscure.
I recommend to people reading this thread that they should not be deterred by any amount of intervening verbiage from reading Ephilant's OP or the posts he has made following it.
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Subtitle: Suspected al-Qaeda militants have killed five soldiers in an attack on a gas terminal in southern Yemen, reports say.
It is suspected that the "tribesmen" in question are members of the now dissolve Republican Guard, a very brutal division of the Yemeni army that remains loyal to Ali Abdullah Saleh. There are regular clashes between the old Republican Guard and the current military leaders, largely going unreported in the Western media. The latest of these clashes happened last Friday on Al Sabeen Square. This time there are no reports of deaths, the local media speak only of wounded. Last time (also at the end of Ramadan), the clashes did cost lives. The current Yemeni authorities do take the situation very serious, and extra security, including armoured vehicles, has been posted around the presidential palace.
Last edited by Ephilant; 11-08-2013 at 03:56 PM.
Count B, the Washington spin machine is indeed impressive and the info re this is indeed informative.
Unfortunately, when a lot of the spin and think tank-ery is funded by vested interests, I'm not sure all the data input is entirely unbiased.
In fairness to the US government, they are also hog-tied by the Israeli lobbies, re Middle Eastern policy. There's no way of changing this, given the size, influence and funding the likes of Aipac have at their disposal.
There's also the minor issue of keeping stability of supply safe on the oil front. Unfortunately, should war break out on the straits of Hormuz, most nations in Europe would be as Greece currently is.
I'm no fan of much US policy, but I'm not sure how we would fare with no global enforcement at all, and no other state or grouping of states appears to be able to take on the role. It also doesn't appear that Russia or China are any better at fair play.
I'm afraid I think you're both right... Sorry!
I am at a 100% complete loss to understand what point you are trying to make with the graf you cited above. At least with Ephilant's two cryptic sentences I could speculate on some possibilities. Yours none!
You seem to be be suggesting that the graf is lacking some information you think should be in it about the "Big Scare" or that the graf is in some other way deficient or unreliable. For the life of me, I can't figure out what that is.
You'll have to spell it out in clearer detail. Give me 50, 100, 500, or 1,000 words.


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Highland Estate Bridge Renovation- The Highlands
Renovation and replacement of two essential bridges on a remote Highland Estate.
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When two bridges at a remote Highland Estate were closed due to structural damage, Galbraith were appointed to bring them back into service to restore a popular walking route and vital link for the tenant farmer.
Inverness based Project Manager, John Pullen inspected the bridges in late 2018. Located 15km up a single track road with few passing places and blind bends, even getting to the entrance to the estate was a challenge. The bridge sites were a further 4km and 6km up a rough estate track.
Both bridges were of traditional masonry construction. One bridge was in such a poor state it was condemned. This bridge had been heavily modified over the years and had no architectural or historical significance. In consultation with the client, Galbraith recommended complete replacement of this structure.
The more remote bridge was a stunning six-pier and beam masonry bridge. At some previous time the original stone slabs forming the bridge deck had been overcast in concrete. Some masonry had been washed from the piers, the concrete deck had failed and the side abutments and wing walls were being overtopped and eroded. This bridge was specified for re-pinning, replacement masonry, extension of the wing walls and a new concrete deck.
Galbraith appointed Aviemore based McGowan Ltd as they had previously demonstrated their skill at working in very sensitive remote locations. The work was undertaken in Spring 2019 to a high standard, inspected throughout by Galbraith.
The completed bridges are now in full use an expected to provide decades of service. Galbraith look forward to a plan of improvement works to several other bridges on the estate.


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Pulitzer Winner, UC Davis Historian Alan Taylor UC Davis distinguished professor of history Alan Taylor won his second Pulitzer Prize this week for his book on 3,000 slaves that escaped the Chesapeake region of Virginia and defected to help the British in the War of 1812. We will talk with Taylor about the interesting characters he discovered in his research and how this overlooked gem from early American history changed our relationship with Canada.
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Feral Cat Management Sacramento animal control officials estimate there are about 77,000 stray cats living in the county. And, without management, these numbers will only grow. So how does the city manage the animals? Feral cats, as the strays are known, are typically unsocial, making it hard for shelters to find them homes. So shelters can either kill the animals, which was past practice, or they can catch, spay or neuter, and release the cats, which is the current practice. The only problem with rereleasing the spayed and neutered cats into the wild is the large colonies you find in many public places like parks and apartment complexes, which presents problems of its own. Here to explain more about the balance of keeping feral cats alive and controlling their populations in the shelter and on the streets is Gina Knepp, Manager of the Front Street Animal Shelter in Sacramento.
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Donna Reads One of the most prolific authors and a regular on best seller lists is Davis' own John Lescroat. The thriller writer has two new projects coming out and Donna Apidone previews them in this month's Donna Reads segment.
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Carpentry for Women Camille LeVassuer has several workshops this spring and summer teaching women and men the skills and knowledge of carpentry. Plus, she's got a new website making it easy to learn the craft of carpentry in your own home –or garage. We'll speak with LeVassuer about the in-person and online classes as well as her upcoming book "Kitchen Love Story," which explains how to design and build your own beautiful kitchen.
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Sacramento County Bar Association: District Attorney Candidate Forum
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Day 571: BlindGiRl2
It's interesting to see the maturation of the Xbox Live Indie Games channel, with it now having been around long enough that inventive indie games like "Solar" are now getting improved sequels. And so it is with "BlindGiRl", which I reviewed waaaaaaaaay back on Day 64; a really neat puzzle/exploration game which used echolocation (the sonar-like way that bats and dolphins use to navigate) to solve puzzles. "BlindGiRl2" continues that tradtion, but this time it supports two players solving said puzzles together.
When playing two player, it dynamically switches split screen on and off depending on whether you're far enough away to need it or not, and even shifts the angle of the split screen depending on your respective locations. Tread carefully because there are monsters that will attack you if you get too close. To avoid these monsters you listen to the reverberations of your footballs, or sing out; footfalls show only a small amount of the nearby area, singing shows more but also draws more attention from potential threats. There are sound-dampening areas that complicate your journey, and glass you might shatter with sound. When all else fails, scream (yes, there's a scream function).
Should a monster get on the tail of either BlindGiRl or the co-op Boy, the other can create a distraction to lure it away, leading to more than just puzzle solving for two players tackling the game together.
While co-op gameplay is the biggest draw, the 22 fresh new levels and the new puzzles that fill them is probably reason enough to the solo player (who enjoyed the original game) to grab this sequel. It's the only game I know of that attempts to make wave propagation physics fun… and somehow succeeds.
Here's what the developer (glpeas) has to say about the game:
"BlindGiRl is back. This time she is not alone. Play split-screen or with a friend to solve echo-location puzzles, and find your way through confusion to understanding."
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