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Review and road test of the Honda Civic four-door
HONDA PUTS THE BOOT IN
Honda broadens its Civic range with this saloon version. Jonathan Crouch takes a look at what's on offer.
Ten Second Review of the Honda Civic four-door
We miss Honda's Accord medium-sized model. The Japanese brand hasn't revived it - but it has done then next best thing, bringing us a four-door version of its tenth generation Civic. It's a model large enough to satisfy you if you used to own an Accord. And if you didn't but want something a little different with four doors and a boot, it might be worth a look.
By and large, compact saloon volume brand models don't sell well in the UK. Volkswagen has recently had to discontinue its Jetta four-door model here for just that reason. Which is odd when you consider just how many hundreds and thousands of BMW 3 Series, Audi A4 and Mercedes C-Class models we buy on these shores, cars that aren't really that much bigger than saloon models of 'compact' size. What though, if a volume brand could launch a four door that wasn't so compact? And had a bit more about it in terms of character and technology? Might it do better? Honda is certainly hoping that's the case, with this saloon version of its tenth generation Civic.
The engine range on offer here is pretty much the same as you get in the five-door hatch, expect that you don't get the 182PS 1.5-litre VTEC Turbo petrol unit that's offered with that hatch model. And obviously, there's no 2.0-litre petrol Type R hot hatch variant. This means that Civic four door customers are faced with a choice of two very different powerplants. Either a 129PS 1.0 VTEC Turbo petrol unit. Or a 120PS 1.6 i-DTEC diesel. Both come with the choice of either 6-speed manual or CVT automatic transmission. This Honda's easy to manoeuvre around town, though it does have a slightly larger turning circle than some of its rivals. What we particularly like though is the way his car feels so driver-centric right from the moment you first set off in it. The perfectly positioned seat and pedals help here. So does the manner in which the gear lever falls beautifully to hand and the way in which the futuristic dash delivers everything you need to know in perfect line of sight. As the miles roll by, you'll also be struck by the near-perfect weighting and smoothness of the brake and clutch pedals and, we'll say it again, the lovely, snickety precision of the six-speed gearbox. In short, you don't need an expensively powerful engine to feel fast in this car. Which is one of the things we like most about it.
Wider, longer, and lower than any of its predecessors, this Civic saloon has a short front overhang and taut lines that claim to reference strong aerodynamic efficiency. A sharp and aggressive 'face', along with pronounced wheel-arches aim to hint at what Honda calls this saloon's 'sporting character'. Similar to the hatchback, this model's wide, long platform results in impressive interior space for this class of car - almost as much in fact, as you'd get from a 'D'-segment Mondeo or Insignia-style model. The interior features a simple, uncluttered layout and a sophisticated design theme that includes a digital instrument binnacle. At the top of the centre console, there's a 7-inch Honda Connect 2 colour touchscreen display. The seating position is low-set to give the driver a greater feeling of connection with the car, and there's a big boot.
Expect to pay around £500 more for this saloon body shape than you'd have to find for a conventional Civic five-door hatch. That means pricing which starts at around £19,400 for the entry-level 'SE' version of this model powered by the brand's 1.0-litre 129PS VTEC Turbo petrol engine. There are also 'SR' and 'EX' trim levels further up the range and for £1,400 more, you can have the CVT auto gearbox that a lot of Civic four door buyers will probably want. The other engine on offer, the 1.6i-DTEC diesel, requires a £1,400 premium over the petrol unit, so starts at just under £21,000. Again, there's the same choice of manual or auto transmission. Key safety inclusions across the range run to a 'Collision Mitigating Braking System' that brakes the car to avoid an accident. Plus a 'Forward Collision' set-up that warns you of oncoming hazards. And 'Lane Departure Warning', 'Road Departure Warning' and 'Lane Keeping Assist' features that'll keep you from veering away from where you should be on the road. There's 'Traffic Sign Recognition' that reads speeds signs as you pass and displays them on the dash, this set-up then working with an 'Intelligent Speed Assistance' system that can automatically set your speed to match the prevailing limit.
Civic four door buyers get two class-competitive petrol engines when it comes to running costs. The brand claims that the 1.0 VTEC TURBO petrol unit can match the best of the competition when it comes to fuel and CO2 returns. Expect 58.9mpg on the combined cycle and 110g/km of CO2 from the manual version. The 1.6 i-DTEC diesel unit offers a competitive package in this regard too, with a combined cycle economy showing of 83.1mpg and CO2 returns of 91g/km. Whatever engine you choose, you'll do slightly better efficiency-wise with the CVT auto gearbox. On to the warranty, a three year/90,000 mile deal, which is a bit better than most rivals who tend to offer guarantees limited to 60,000 miles. There's also a fixed-price comprehensive aftercare package called 'Five' which includes five years' servicing, five years' warranty and five years' roadside assist. Residual values have always been a Civic strongpoint.
Though we'd have preferred to have seen the return of the Accord, we welcome this four door Civic body style as the next best thing. The bigger size that the Civic has grown to in its tenth generation guise makes this three-box model basically as big as a Mondeo-segment car inside, yet it offers a useful saving on models like that - and will be more cost-effective to run. A lot of boxes have been ticked then - and it's clear that Honda has also worked hard to maintain a characterful approach in this segment. Add in British build quality, a great driving position and strong standards of safety and media connectivity and you've got a potentially very appealing package.
Honda Civic four-door review by Jonathan Crouch
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The cancellation charges are quiet exhorbitant. When the Total amount of Ticket was 200, the cancellation charges stood upto 190. Refunded amount is just 10. I dont understand the split of this 190 cost.
Moreover, in SWR, the cost of Tea/coffee or anything sold in trains or stations is not as per the guidelines. Rs.10 for Beverages, Rs 20 for beverages being sold. No one respond to this query. Ridiculous admin.
Every Friday train, from Yeshwantpur to Chennai, is always late at KR puram. Minimum Half Hour delay every week. Patronage for the train is too good and across demography. But no respect to the complaints made till date, nor Railyways concerned about correcting the issue.
I agree with many. Railways has been all talk and little do. helpline etc is probably only positive nizamuddin station is in bad bad state.


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U.S. Tax System History in the 19th Century
Taxes that were used to raise money for the Wars were later repealed and would later be replaced by the income tax.
Americans often resisted taxation during the 19th century except during wartime. Once the wars were over, they insisted that Congress repeal the Acts that gave the Federal Government the right to levy taxes.
War of 1812 Taxation
When Thomas Jefferson became President in 1802, all direct taxes were abolished and during the following ten years no internal revenue taxes other than excises were in force. Until the War of 1812, this remained the only tax. But when money was needed for the War of 1812, Congress imposed additional excise taxes, raised some custom duties, and raised money by issuing Treasury notes. These were repealed by Congress in 1817 which prevented the Federal Government from collected the taxes for the next 44 years. The only way revenue could be raised were from high custom duties and through the sale of public lands.
Civil War Taxation
The Revenue Act of 1861 was passed by Congress to fund the Civil War. Excise taxes were restored and a tax on personal incomes was imposed. Income was taxed at 3 percent on all incomes higher than $800. Collections did not start until the following year. As the Civil War continued, it became obvious to Congress that the Union's debt was growing at the rate of $2 million daily and additional revenue was needed. Congress passed a law on July 1, 1892 placing new excise taxes on items such as:
patent medicines
license fees collected for almost all professions and trades.
Important features of the 1862 law were:
A two-tiered rate structure.
Taxable incomes up to $10,000 were taxed at 3 percent.
Income over $10,000 were taxes at 5 percent.
A standard deduction of $600 and a variety of deductions were permitted. These included rental houses, repairs, losses and other taxes paid.
Taxes were withheld by employers to make sure of payment.
After the end of the Civil War the need for Federal revenue declined and most taxes imposed during its duration were repealed. The main source of revenue were those coming from taxation of liquor and tobacco. In 1872, the income tax was abolished.
Spanish American War Taxation
When the flat rate income tax was imposed in 1895, it was immediately challanged. According to the Constitution, Congress could only impose direct taxes only if they were levied in proportion to each State's population. In 1895 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the flat tax unconstitutional because it was a direct tax and not apportioned to the population of each state. The Federal Government then began to rely heavily on high tariffs.
In 1899, the War Revenue Act was passed to raise money for the Spanish-American War through the sale of bonds, taxes on recreational facilities used by workers, and doubled the taxes on beer, tobacco, and chewing gum. The Act expired in 1902, leaving the Federal Government to look elsewhere to provide money to operate.
From Colonial times, through the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War and Spanish American War, all or most of the taxes imposed during wartime were later repealed or overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. The debate about how to raise money for the needs of the Federal Government would continue into the 20th century.
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Smart As... is a puzzle game for the PlayStation Vita. It was developed by Climax Studios and published by the XDev Studio Europe department of Sony Computer Entertainment. The game was released in North America on October 30, 2012, and Europe and Australia on October 31, 2012.

Gameplay
Smart As... is designed, like most other brain training games, to be played once a day in order to achieve a Brain Power Score. The user is challenged to a brain game from each of the game's four areas: Arithmetic, Logic, Observation and Language. After playing each brain game the user's cumulative average score from each category is presented as their Brain Power Score for the day. This score is then shared with the Smart As World which allows the user to see where their score stands against everyone else in the world. After each day's Daily Training the user will unlock one of brain games in the Free play area allowing them to play and practice at any time.

In addition to the Daily Training Mode and the Free play area the game also contains an extensive charts and stats section allowing the user to see their score from every day played as well as recording the answers to all questions answered and other in game statistics and finally the Smart As World section which contains all of the game's player and geographic leaderboards, access to "near challenges" and a GPS based Street Smart game mode.

Brain Games
Smart As... contains 5 games in each of the four "brain areas", making for a total of 20 games. The games are based on using different inputs on the PlayStation Vita including front and rear touch functionality, gyroscopic sensors, and AR Card recognition. The "Street Smart" mode uses the Vita's GPS location-based features.

Each game is unlocked for Free Play after performing a Daily Training session. On the first day 4 games are unlocked immediately, with the remaining 16 being unlocked one by one as the user plays the game on the following days. Within the Free Play area, all games have 4 difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard and Genius with the difficulty increasing at each stage.

Most games are scored on the amount of time it takes a user to complete 3-5 rounds of the puzzle. Some games have time penalties for incorrect answers or results. The general principle is that practice will bring familiarity with each game, allowing the user to complete it quickly and accurately for a better brain power score.

Arithmetic Games
Calculations + This game challenges the player to enter the missing digit from a sum by writing it onto a whiteboard displayed on front screen.

Less Equals More Two digits are shown on screen and the user must decide if the one of the left is less than (<), equal to(=) or more than (>) the number on the right. The user inputs there answer using the front touch screen.

Sum Sequence The user must follow the progression of a sum shown one digit at a time on screen. At the end of each round the user must write the answer to the sum on the board using the front touch screen.

Bubble Sum An AR game challenging the user to point the PlayStation Vita in the air looking for the answers to sums displayed in floating bubbles on the screen. The user must shoot the bubbles in order to complete the sum.

Number Pinch The user is shown two numbers displayed on screen that need to be made by "pinching" liquid bubbles together containing other numbers.

Logic Games
Roller Blocks This game challenges the player to use the gyroscope feature of the PlayStation Vita in order to roll coloured blocks onto target squares

Chain Reaction The user must connect a series of pegs by drawing lines between them without lines crossing.

Pathfinder The user is shown a playing piece and a series of directions they will travel. They must then raise or lower blocks in order to direct the playing piece to the target.

Cubemania The user must make a path around a 3D cude by rotating tiles using the front touch screen

Live Jigsaw This game takes the live feed from the front and rear camera and breaks up the display into a jigsaw that the user must put back together as quickly as possible.

Observation Games
Turbo Tap This version of a Stroop test requires that the user touch the front and rear screen as instructed while the directions and instructions appear randomly in different areas of the screen.

Rapid Recall The user is shown a number of objects and must then select them from memory.

Where is it This AR Game sees and item hidden under a cup that is then mixed up with other cups. The user must track the item and select the correct cup at the end of the round.

Boxed In A series of items enter and exit a box randomly. At the end of each round the user must select the items that remain in the box.

Same Different The user is shown two objects on screen which are then replaced with another set of objects. The user has to select whether the objects are the same as, or different from the last two objects in the chain.

Language Games
Lost Letter The user must enter the missing letter from a word by writing it using the front touch screen.

Odd Word Out The user is shown a set of four words and must choose the Odd Word out as quickly as possible.

Word Wheel A number of letters are dropped onto a wheel in anagram form. The user must rearrange the letters to make a word as quickly as possible.

Spell it The user must correctly spell a word that is spoken to then via the in game narrator.

Alpha Trap This AR Card game sees the user using the rear camera to look for letters positioned above "traps" these letters must be shot using the shoulder buttons in alphabetical order.

Development
The game was developed by Climax Studios and published by XDev Studio Europe. The game was officially announced alongside a brief gameplay demo at Gamescom 2011. The game was shown in more detail at E3 2012 During Gamescom 2012 it was announced that John Cleese would appear in the game as the voice of the narrator.

Reception

References

External links
Smart As... at PlayStation.com
Climax Studios website

2012 video games
Climax Group games
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Vita-only games
Puzzle video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom

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Les votacions al premi Vanguardia de la Ciència són obertes a tothom i fins el dia 28 de febrer.
Investigadors de l'Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras (IJC) han pres una part important en totes les àrees de què s'ocupa la nova guia.
Un nou article publicat per investigadors de l'Institut de Recerca de Leucèmia Josep Carreras (IJC) i el Programa de Medicina Predictiva i Personalitzada de Càncer, Institut de Recerca Germans Trias i Pujol (PMPPC-IGTP) revela un nou rol per la macroH2A1.1.
Dr Yamamoto, famous for his seminal work on the genetics of the ABO blood groups has brought new insights to the evolution of the ABO and FORs blood group systems in vertebrates.
Link between defects in DNA replication and loss of heterochromatin.
A second paper from a multidisciplinary group from several research centres finds the link between defects in DNA replication and loss of heterochromatin. This work follows on from the paper published in Science in April.


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Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption – a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit.
After nearly a decade since the last sell-out UK tour, Cameron Mackintosh's acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg's musical Les Misérables is touring the UK.
This brilliant new staging has taken the world by storm and has been hailed 'Les Mis for the 21st Century'. With scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo, the magnificent score of Les Misérables includes the songs: I Dreamed a Dream, On My Own, Bring Him Home, One Day More, Master Of The House and many more.
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This program is ideal student who wants to study in a university environment, combining studies with travel in Australia or New Zealand, and still have the possibility to take advantage of these credits back home to complete the degree.
The Study Abroad is a program for international students who are interested in attending a semester or year of graduation at an Australian or New Zealand university.
The student who chooses the Study Abroad will be able to choose the subjects that will study (up to 4 subjects per semester), even if these are not directly related to the course that is being carried out back home.
During your studies at the university, students will have the opportunity to participate in academic and social activities, projects that will develop their personal and professional skills, develop an international network and make friends from all over the world.
The international student will also have opportunities to develop research and academic work, and to undertake an internship in companies in Australia or New Zealand.
The Study Abroad allows the student to complement his graduation, guaranteeing a more comprehensive training and adding a differentiated experience to the student.
It is important to emphasize that the analysis and validation of credits made abroad will be made by the universities on the return of the student home, and it is up to them to determine the possibility of taking advantage of these credits.
Another major advantage of conducting a Study Abroad program in New Zealand or Australia is that the academic calendar of universities in these countries is similar to that of Brazil, with classes beginning in February and July. In this way, you will be able to calmly reconcile your study time abroad with your return to Brazil.
The AC Australian Centre also offers full degree program options abroad where the student conducts his entire degree at a university in Australia or New Zealand. As well as other university programs such as postgraduate and doctorate.
Demonstrate fluent English proficiency through a language proficiency examination (IELTS or TOEFL certificate, some universities accept Cambridge Certificates - CAE or CPE).
Be regularly enrolled in an undergraduate course.
Have completed at least one year of graduation.
For courses that require specific skills (architecture, graphic design, fashion, music), a portfolio may be required or some practical test in the area is required.


Ultrasound scans have provided a conclusive evidence of malaria's effect on fetal growth. The study shows that malaria infection may lead to low birth weight.
The researchers studied almost 3,800 pregnancies for their study.
Low birth weight is the most important risk factor for neonatal mortality in developing countries. The research, carried out on the border of Thailand and Myanmar (Burma), highlights the importance of preventing malaria in pregnancy.
According to the World Malaria Report 2011, malaria killed an estimated 655,000 people in 2010. It is caused by parasites such as Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax that are injected into the bloodstream by infected mosquitoes.
Malaria is one of the most common parasitic infections to affect pregnancy.
Researchers at the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, part of the Wellcome Trust-Mahidol University-Oxford University Tropical Medicine Research Programme, have used ultrasound scans to provide the first direct evidence of the effect of malaria on fetal growth in pregnancies.
Antenatal ultrasound, which is essential for dating pregnancy accurately, is becoming more widely available in developing countries. The technology also allows doctors or locally trained workers to measure the diameter of the fetus's head.
For infections that occur in early pregnancy, the researchers believe that the size of the head may be the most appropriate indicator of growth restriction.
The ultrasound scans revealed that the diameter of the average fetus's head was significantly smaller when malaria infection occurred in the first half of pregnancy when compared to pregnancies unaffected by malaria.
On average, at the mid-pregnancy ultrasound scan the fetuses' heads were 2 percent smaller when affected by malaria. Even a single infection of treated P. falciparum or P. vivax malaria was associated with reduced fetal head diameter, irrespective of whether the woman had shown symptoms or not.
"By using antenatal ultrasound screening, we have provided clear evidence that malaria infection affects the growth of a child in the womb, even when the infection is caught early and treated. This can increase the risk of miscarriage and affect the child's health in later life," Dr Marcus Rijken, first author on the study said.
"Strategies to prevent malaria in pregnancy have focused on the second half of pregnancy, when most of the fetal weight gain takes place, but our works suggests that we need to broaden our efforts to focus on the first trimester, too.
"We need to make sure that pregnant woman are educated about the risks of malaria in pregnancy and where possible in areas of high risk, offer preventative medication from early pregnancy onwards," he said.


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This Car Was Hidden Away For 30 Years
The Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe prototype sits in its rightful place, a museum founded by its current owner. The first of only six ever built, it was the first American manufactured car to defeat the Ferrari on its own turf, was engulfed by flames in Daytona, was driven through Los Angeles by a popular musician and then restricted to a storage unit for over 30 years. Many had believed the vehicle had been lost. Today though, over 50 years after being built it was found.
Created by American automotive entrepreneur, Carroll Shelby, who wanted to beat Italian designer Enzo Ferrari. He had previously done so as a driver with the Aston Martin, winning the FIA World Sportscar Championship in 1959. By 1963 Shelby had hung up his racing gear but wished to win as a constructor, and with an American Car that he created. With designer Pete Brock, hired to shape the car for maximum speed the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe was born. Two years later in 1965 Shelby took first place at the FIA – the first American to do so.
After years of events surrounding the car such as surviving a fire while refueling in Daytona 1964 and setting 23 national and international speed records it ended up in the hands of music producer Phil Spector. Spector chose to use the vehicle as a cruiser but wound up getting an extraordinary amount of speeding tickets, eventually being suggested by his lawyer to get rid of it. In light of this Spector decided to sell the prototype to his bodyguard, George Band, for $1000. Brand then gave the car to his daughter, Donna O'Hara, who then decided to hide it away in a California storage unit, where it remained for over 30 years.
Interest over time mounted around the car and O'Hara received multiple offers for it, but she always refused. With the help of a lawyer, Martin Eyears, car collector and retired neurosurgeon Frederick Simeone managed to convince O'Hara to sell him the car, for an unknown amount, but believed to be up around $4 million. In 2008, he founded the Simeone Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, where the car now sits amount 65 other classic racers. It is unfortunate that a happy story also included a strong downer. After the sale of the car O'Hara willed the proceeds of the sale to her mother and then set herself on fire. This was after the deal had been done.
After the owner's surprising demise a legal battle ensued around the car that lasted for months. When information that the car was discovered and was being sold to a private party, many buyers desperately pleaded to the judge to put it up for public sale. Even Phil Spector tried to reclaim ownership over the car stating he never truly sold the car to his bodyguard but simply loaned it to him for safekeeping. In the end the judge concluded that the Daytona Coupe prototype had already been sold legitimately to Simeone.
It's hard to put a price on the car today, almost 15 years after the sale. The other five Daytonas – produced in Italy – are already in the hands of private collectors with one sold in 2009 for $7.5 million. It is safe to assume that Shelby's first prototype would get significantly more due to it being the originator, the last to be in competition, and still in its original state with no replaced parts or repainting. Not too bad for a car sitting inside a storage unit for over 30 years.
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Ranking The Top 25 Crazy Finds In Storage Lockers On Storage Wars
Storage Wars the hit A&E Network reality show about a group of professional buyers and bidders going to storage facilities to buy units that have been left by their owners. The laws differ from state to state, in California the filming location for the TV series, the law states that storage units can be auctioned off for bidders if the owner has not paid after three months.
There have been times over the years where the legitimacy of Storage Wars finds have been called into question such as when one of the main bidders, Dave Hester, was caught in a lawsuit claiming he had planted items within the lockers to increase the excitement of the show.
Regardless of the validity of the finds, they do make for great television, certainly with the assortment of crazy things they have come across over 12 seasons. Ranging from the bizarre and fantastic to the outlandish and peculiar, screenrant ranks their top 25 items found on Storage Wars. Below we pick out a few of our favorites.
The Elvis Collection
Newspaper clippings long ago had a lot of value, but today most get their news and information online the value of these clippings have fallen greatly. However, specific newspapers that cover various moments in history can still be quite valuable. Dave Hester wound up bidding on a unit that unknowing to him, included tons of newspaper clippings from the day Elvis Presley died. With the clippings and assortment of Elvis memorabilia and collectibles, the unit was valued to be worth around $90,000. One of the largest finds on the show to date.
World War II Minesweeper
After a long bidding war between Dave and Ivy in the boiling heat of Southern California, Dave walked away with a fully packed unit using a high bid of $1500. What at first, felt like a bit of a loss bidding so much for a unit ended up being a huge victory when an old army container and the helmet was found in the unit. Upon further inspection of the items, it was determined they had uncovered an old World War II Minesweeper valued at almost $4,400.
On the spookier side of things, Dave Hester as going through a locker uncovered a collection of human bones, skull included. Given the circumstances and for his sake, he brought in an expert to determine whether or not the skeleton was real or not. They were determined to be real but not in a malicious way. The human skeleton was used for medical schools for students to study. The expert was able to determine this by the professional cleaning and nylon strings used to hold the bones together. All in all the skeleton was found to be worth over $1500.
Whale In A Jar
For a time on the show, Darrell decided with his son Brandon to go off on their own so he could teach his son the ropes of playing the storage hunting game. Unfortunately, Brandon still walked away with many dud units. One find though was quite significant and oddly strange. When picking through a unit he came upon a jar that he could only claim as "whale stuff". Even experts after the find became baffled by how such an item would end up in a storage unit.
Frank Gutierrez Artwork Collection
Artwork is not a surprise to find when it comes to storage units. In fact, it is one of the most common items found in abandoned units, but one unit full of it ended up being one of the greatest finds in the show. Valued at over $300,000, it was as if the unit itself had been abandoned by Frank Gutierrez. Containing several pieces from the artist, we are left with many questions. How did the owner attain this artwork and why would they let it go?
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One man's forgotten stuff is another man's treasure.
Especially when the man's forgotten loot is Mark Wahlberg.
A friend of "Storage Wars" star Rene Nezhoda apparently came across the treasure trove by chance. Nezhoda's friend spent $3,000 on three storage locker units at a facility in San Fernando Valley a few weeks ago. When he inspected the contents he discovered he had actually stumbled upon a wealth of Mark Wahlberg's personal items for early in his career.
Among the items were some of Wahlberg's old pieces of furniture, family photos, trophies, mementos from when he was rapping as Marky Mark and filming of the 1997 movie "Boogie Nights". Most of the items went up for grabs with the actors blessing. Some of the personal items, however, were returned to the actor rather than selling them off.
It is amazing some of the stuff you can find with a self-storage auction. Just imagine, opening the door your next unit, peeling removing the tape and opening a box to discover some lost movie memorabilia.
Here are 4 famous movie props that have been lost…
The Original Iron Man Suit The suit Robert Downey Jr wore in the 2008 Marvel movie Iron-Man has disappeared from the prop storage warehouse.
Valued at $325,000
The Ruby Slippers From The Wizzard of Oz This 13-year-old mystery was solved in 2018, but the FBI is not talking yet. We are still waiting to find out where these have been hiding.
Valued at $1,000,000
World War Z – Fake Cows Not sure what you do with fake cows, but a pair of fiberglass cows used during the filming of 2013 World War Z were stolen from a field in Falkirk Scotland during filming.
The Golden Gun from The Man with the Golden Gun In 2008 one of the prop guns used by Christopher Lee's villain Scaramanga in the 1975 Bond caper was stolen from the Elstree Studios.
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Movie Props Found In Storage Units
While movie props often pop up in the homes of the actors who take them home afterwards, or at a public museum, others have randomly been found in storage units that have been auctioned off. It doesn't happen often, but when it does we're pretty starstruck!
Lotus Espirit Submarine
In 1989, a Long Island contractor bought a random storage unit for $100. Upon opening the unit, the man and his brother came across a giant lump that turned out to be the Lotus Submarine. At that time, neither man had seen James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me, so they didn't realize what they had stumbled across. Eventually, his neighbor clued him in and he watched the movie, but he still didn't realize the value of his find until the Ian Fleming Foundation tracked it down– $1 million.
Read More: Uplifting: Father's Portrait Returned to Son by Auction Winner
Planet of the Apes Vest
In a 2012 episode of Storage Wars, two of the show's main cast members came across a vest worn in the original Planet of the Apes. Though rumors spread that the discovery was staged, that has never been confirmed.
The storage unit housing the Death Star wasn't even auctioned. When the account became delinquent, the facility threw everything in the unit away. Luckily, an employee spied the Death Star in the trash and exclaimed, "That's no moon!" At least, I hope he did.
It's hard to one-up the Death Star, but a unit auctioned off in 2011 contained a whopping 40,000 pieces of movie memorabilia, including Disney animation cels, original Tim Burton artwork, signed Wizard of Oz books and pop culture swag beyond any ComicCon attendee's wildest dreams. Somehow, the Hollywood execs who stashed their valuables in the locker over a period of decades kept forgetting to pay the rent.
Interestingly enough, there's been even more memorabilia found.
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Fortress Mathematica
Brian Rotman: John Nash and Paul Erdos, 17 September 1998
The Man who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman.
Fourth Estate, 320 pp., £12.99, July 1998, 1 85702 811 2Show More
by Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler.
Springer, 210 pp., £19, August 1998, 3 540 63698 6Show More
A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash
by Sylvia Nasar.
"... results, I told him proudly, in the partition calculus he'd invented with his fellow Hungarian Richard Rado; I was also trying to settle a conjecture in infinite combinatorics – that there was no infinite descending sequence of countable order types. He ignored the first, questioned me about the second, thought for a few mom ents, then shrugged – which ..."
Enter Hamilton
Eric Foner, 6 October 2016
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
by Alan Taylor.
Norton, 704 pp., £30, November 2016, 978 0 393 08281 4Show More
"... including Joe McCarthy and George Wallace. Not to mention more respectable types such as Richard Nixon, whose 'Southern strategy' offered a blueprint for mobilising white resentment over the gains of the Civil Rights movement. (That 'respectable' and 'Nixon' can be included in the same sentence illustrates how far our political standards ..."
Thomas Jones: Bio Insecurity, 5 November 2009
"... flew into the World Trade Center: if they wish 'to carry out a bioweapons attack in the US', Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers has said, 'their simplest means of acquiring access to the materials and the knowledge would be to send individuals to train within programmes involved in biodefence research.' Background checks are carried out on ..."
On Roy Fisher
August Kleinzahler, 29 June 2017
"... on the South Side from James Farrell's trilogy; the block of South Drexel where Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright's Native Son killed and incinerated his rich employer's daughter; Nelson Algren's Division Street; the train station where Louis Armstrong was met by King Oliver'; and the Panther Room of the Sherman Hotel, which was a notable touring venue ..."
Getting the Undulation
Benjamin Lytal: Willa Cather's Letters, 20 February 2014
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout.
Knopf, 715 pp., £24, April 2013, 978 0 307 95930 0Show More
"... her first story collection in 1905. 'A Wagner Matinee' is about a former teacher at the Boston Conservatory who, after making a foolish marriage, spends thirty years as a frontier wife in Nebraska. Returning to Boston, she hears a matinee concert and realises that she has wasted her life. Asked by a correspondent ..."
Participation in America
Geoffrey Hawthorn, 6 November 1980
by Richard Sennett.
Secker, 206 pp., £6.95, October 1980, 0 436 44675 8Show More
"... merely of order, but of an expressive energy which makes order and freedom itself worth having? Richard Sennett believes that it is. As he has explained in what he has written about Chicago and about the bewildered self-contempt of blue-collar workers in Boston in the late 1960s, and as he has most elaborately argued in ..."
Half a pirate
Patrick O'Brian, 22 January 1987
Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates
by Robert Ritchie.
Harvard, 306 pp., £16.95, November 1986, 0 674 09501 4Show More
Richard Knight's Treasure! The True Story of his Extraordinary Quest for Captain Kidd's Cache
by Glenys Roberts.
Viking, 198 pp., £9.95, October 1986, 0 670 80761 3Show More
"... as an ordinary hand. The agreement before he left London was that he should report to Bellomont at Boston on his return. One year's piracy, with only two or three prizes and little in the way of bloodshed – nothing remotely to compare with Morgan's – seems a strange basis for such a lasting reputation. But the reputation was founded on the enormous ..."
Cracker Culture
Ian Jackman, 7 September 2000
Irish America
by Reginald Byron.
Oxford, 317 pp., £40, November 1999, 0 19 823355 8Show More
Remembering Ahanagran: Storytelling in a Family's Past
by Richard White.
Cork, 282 pp., IR£14.99, October 1999, 1 85918 232 1Show More
From the Sin-é Café to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish
by Eamon Wall.
Wisconsin, 139 pp., $16.95, February 2000, 0 299 16724 0Show More
The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America
edited by Michael Glazier.
Notre Dame, 988 pp., £58.50, August 1999, 0 268 02755 2Show More
"... scholars and popular writers for concentrating on the mainly Catholic ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago and ignoring everywhere else. In The Irish Diaspora in America (1976), Lawrence McCaffrey described the Irish as 'pioneers of the American ghetto' and Byron believes that this has become the stereotype for all Irish ..."
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Michael Dobson: The Astor Place Riot, 2 August 2007
The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama and Death in 19th-Century America
by Nigel Cliff.
Random House, 312 pp., $26.95, April 2007, 978 0 345 48694 3Show More
"... Shakespearean actor Edwin Forrest (1806-72), a man described by his admiring modern biographer Richard Moody as 'the first actor who refused to subscribe to the nation's cultural inferiority complex'. As The Shakespeare Riots makes clear, however, Forrest was sufficiently affected by this inferiority complex to have spent much of his life telling the ..."
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Stephen Sedley: The Governor Eyre Affair, 2 November 2006
A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law
by R.W. Kostal.
Oxford, 529 pp., £79.95, December 2005, 0 19 826076 8Show More
"... were channelled. Where else does an argument about illegality and injustice go? When in 1869 the Boston lawyer Richard Dana added a postscript to his celebrated narrative Two Years before the Mast, reflecting on the brutality which he had witnessed a quarter of a century earlier as a boy at sea, he was quick to insist that ..."
Richard Altick, 20 August 1981
The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British Library
by Patrick Kearney.
Jay Landesman, 354 pp., £45, July 1981, 0 905150 24 4Show More
"... with Amsterdam and Paris, seems to have been one of the most fertile sources of erotica. A 'Boston' imprint might really mean Stuttgart, and a 'Mexico City' imprint might have been applied in Cleveland, Ohio. For sheer cheekiness, however, a prize might be claimed by several early editions of the Comte de Mirabeau's Errotika Biblion ..."
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Joanna Biggs: Sylvia Plath at 86, 20 December 2018
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. I: 1940-56
edited by Peter Steinberg and Karen Kukil.
Faber, 1388 pp., £35, September 2017, 978 0 571 32899 4Show More
The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Vol. II: 1956-63
"... May, 'an eclectic blend of ulysses, kilroy, icarus, neptune, ishmael, noah, jonah, columbus, and richard halliburton! So you must, in all kindness, emphasise your mortal finitude when next we meet!' He had leave in June, and it is through Gordon's faithful eyes that we see Plath on the cover of the first volume of the letters: blonde hair, red lipstick ..."
At the Royal Academy
Daniel Soar: Renzo Piano, 3 January 2019
"... rue des Archives in the Marais – in the shadow of the Centre Pompidou, which he designed with Richard Rogers in the early 1970s. At RPBW Genoa, on the coast just to the west of the city, meetings happen at a round table, with no notes taken: bad ideas are encouraged, because they'll immediately be replaced by better ones as the collective musters its ..."
John Bayley, 29 October 1987
How I Grew
by Mary McCarthy.
Weidenfeld, 278 pp., £14.95, September 1987, 0 297 79170 2Show More
Myself and Michael Innes
by J.I.M. Stewart.
Gollancz, 206 pp., £12.95, September 1987, 0 575 04104 8Show More
"... the favourites: Even more than the better-known The Forest Lovers I loved The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, about King Richard the Lion-Hearted, published in 1900 ... the medieval romances I was writing at top speed on an empty stomach were meant to be in his manner. I cannot remember whether I showed any of them ..."
Patrice Higonnet, 14 November 1996
Benjamin Franklin and his Enemies
by Robert Middlekauf.
California, 276 pp., £19.95, March 1996, 0 520 20268 6Show More
"... pot never boils'. No one can wholly avoid hating 'Old Daddy Franklin', from whose Poor Richard's Almanac these sayings come, especially if brought up to revere him in Public School, USA. Abraham Lincoln is the father of his people; George Washington, of his nation; but Benjamin Franklin – as it happens, a basically very decent man – hovers ..."


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N_JOBS=$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo)

echo ""
echo "Bazel will use ${N_JOBS} concurrent job(s)."
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# Run configure.
export TF_NEED_GCP=0
export TF_NEED_HDFS=0
export PYTHON_BIN_PATH=`which python3`

export TF_NEED_CUDA=1
export TF_ENABLE_XLA=1
export TF_CUDA_COMPUTE_CAPABILITIES=3.7

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bazel clean
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    --jobs=${N_JOBS} --test_timeout 300,450,1200,3600 \
    --build_tests_only --test_output=errors --local_test_jobs=8 \
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The Sprague Rest Area on I-90 westbound will be closed from milepost 241.6 to milepost 241.8 beginning at 7:00 am on April 24, 2019, until about 4:30 pm on April 24, 2019.
US 395 milepost 19 to 21: Tuesday April 23, 7 p.m. to Wednesday April 24 at 6 a.m.
US-395 northbound milepost 25 to milepost 27: Thursday April 25 from 8 a.m.. to 3:30 p.m there will be a right lane closure for pavement repair work.
I-182 in the Tri Cities, westbound milepost 11, Thursday April 25 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. there will be a right lane closure for guardrail repair work.


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Apprenticeship firm Learndirect 'wasted public cash'
Rosemary Bennett, Education Editor
Learndirect received £500 million over three years despite concerns over qualityCHRISTOPHER FURLONG/GETTY IMAGES
The biggest private provider of apprenticeships "neglected its learners", wasted taxpayers' money and used "spurious legal action" to delay and frustrate a damning Ofsted inspection into its work, MPs have found.
The government gave Learndirect £500 million in the past three years to provide vocational training, despite concerns about quality. MPs on the public accounts committee suggested that despite its poor performance, it may have been deemed "too big to fail".
After the collapse of Carillion, the construction and outsourcing giant, questions were rightly being asked about how the government manages companies delivering public services, Meg Hillier, the committee's chairwoman, said.
"In the case of Learndirect, thousands of learners have been let down amid poor oversight by government and at significant public expense. There has…


BNICE is a moral awareness program for elementary, middle, and high school students that focuses on helping students grow positive relationships with others by developing a stronger sense of empathy and improving their self-esteem. Through Experiential Education, BNICE integrates both of these results through a culturally sensitive, interactive, discussion-based program that teaches tolerance and diversity. Multiple presentations are offered: a K-3 grade program that incorporates real life examples of inclusion, acceptance and love through relatable examples and music & movement. The 4-8 grade program presents more interactive activities that inspire open-minded behavior and critical thinking relating to ones character in everyday life. The 9-12 grade program offers a variety of speaking presentations and workshop topics that center on the essential skills needed for high school students to become LIFE READY. All presentations are completely adaptable to continue your schools current specific character development efforts.
BNICE helps our students become even better human beings in proven and sustainable ways.
Chris French has been an advocate and presenter on character education for over two decades. Character development is his passion! All of his experience and training in teaching diversity, cultural sensitivity, tolerance, inclusion and love has led him to the creation of this program that he has been sharing with thousands of students across the nation. Over the years, he's worked with many youth of all ages at leadership retreats, conferences, schools and summer camps.
Varied presentation settings, from individual classrooms to general assemblies.
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Equipped with age-appropriate program styles for primary, secondary and middle schools.
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Optional program amenities include live guitar playing and magic that incorporates the BNICE message.
BNICE will work with student leadership to develop a curriculum that inspires positive character throughout the year.
If student leadership is not already in place, BNICE can help create a Character Council that regularly champions moral awareness.
Kids will learn to apply simple, daily acts of kindness into their lives, which will help them to better identify differences between right and wrong.
From faculty presentations to working side-by-side with individual teachers, BNICE can help emphasize the development of the school's current character education program.
From educators to students, see what people are saying about BNICE with Chris French.
Chris French and his program BNICE is an excellent support for your school site's effort towards positive climate, culture and PBIS. The foundation of moral awareness and good character are presented in a way that students can understand and relate to in a meaningful way.
BNICE is easily integrated into daily curriculum through the lesson plans, daily calendar messages and coaching student leadership groups (PAL). BNICE is an excellent enhancement to your existing curriculum and the best way to make character lessons entertaining, meaningful and impactful.
We noticed an immediate decrease in behavior referrals after his presentations and more importantly, a sustained decrease in referrals after adding BNICE activities to the daily routine.
Can't Wait To Have The BNICE Assembly Again Next Year!
Engaging music, interactive fun, riveting participation, and most importantly- students actually learning to BE NICE! Chris French will not just tell your students to be nice, but they will sing about it, act it out and really feel the inner joy of this virtue. He planned differentiated and motivational assemblies for all of our students, preschool through sixth grade.
I feel like a better person. I am way more aware of my decisions now.
Chris French was awesome! I liked that part where he told us that being nice to someone else might mean being nice to yourself, too! His words were influencing me to do so.
I really liked Frenchy's humor, he made the whole class laugh while still staying on topic!
Our school had the opportunity to work with Chris French in October 2016. From the moment I met Chris last spring, I recognized his professionalism and his passion for character education and children. Chris was great to collaborate with, his flexibility yielded two days of presentations and interactions with students and teachers that directly connected to our ongoing school-wide character education monthly themes. Chris's presentations and activities with the students focused on inclusion vs exclusion and how we tend to judge others without getting to know them first. Underlying all his presentations, was the theme of empathy that was taught through kid-friendly relatable examples, magic, illusions and music. Chris is a great communicator, friendly, fun, and reliable—I know your students will enjoy him as much as mine did!
Your Students Will Enjoy Him As Much As Mine Did!
We had the pleasure of hosting Chris French in Goshen County, Wyoming. Chris was so awesome to work with! He spent ½ day at each of our four elementary schools and customized his programs based on the age-level of the students and to the needs of each individual school. He is super-responsive to e-mails and questions and, basically, a nice guy. I watched three of his programs (all at one school) and it was fun to watch him shift from working with K-1 students to 2-3 students to 4-6 students. The message of each program was essentially the same (BNICE) but he reached out to each level in a unique way that was appropriate for that age. He understands how to reach kids, whether through music, games, or magic tricks.
I liked it when he had us do the opinions activity and we had to walk around the room, it was a super cool experience.
According to www.character.org surveys, schools who are committed to character education programs and curriculum have experienced positive and notable results.


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The Valley of Flowers Festival takes months of planning. As soon as one festival is over, the Board of Directors begins work on the next year's programs. The Valley of Flowers Festival Board of Directors is supported by the Festival committee. The committee is made up of volunteers representing many organizations throughout the Florissant area. Each of these organizations plays a significant role in the overall success of the event. With the cooperation of all these groups this is a premier event of the spring.
Kathy Blasingame, Kelly Eagan, Vicky Egan, Mary Gettemeier, Tom Jost, Mike Kubiak, Mike Lunatto, Amanda Mills, Liz O'Fallon, and Ron Peach.
The Committee works in partnership with the City of Florissant, local merchants, and local businesses.