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Чемпионат Перу по волейболу среди мужчин — ежегодное соревнование мужских волейбольных команд Перу.

С 2004 организатором является Национальная высшая волейбольная лига Перу (Liga Nacional Superior de Voleibol del Perú — LNSV), являющаяся структурным подразделением Федерации волейбола Перу (Federación Peruana de Voleibol — FPV).

Формула соревнований
До 2014 чемпионат состоял из двух отдельных турниров — Апертура и Клаусура, в каждом из которых команды-участницы проводили однокруговые турниры. По их итогам 4 лучшие команды выходили в полуфинал плей-офф и далее, разделившись на пары, определяли финалистов, которые разыгрывали первенство. Победители турниров в финале определяли чемпиона. Если оба турнира выигрывала одна команда, то она автоматически становилась чемпионом.

С чемпионата 2015 года лучшие команды образуют высшую лигу. Турнир 2021 проходил с октября по декабрь и состоял из двух этапов — предварительного и плей-офф. На предварительной стадии 7 команд играли в один круг . Четвёрка лучших вышла в полуфинал плей-офф и определила финалистов, которые разыграли первенство. Серии матчей плей-офф проводились до двух побед одного из соперников

В чемпионате 2021 принимали участие 7 команд: «Регатас Лима» (Лима), «Вамос-Пирлесс» (Лима), «Хуниор Сада» (Кальяо), «Асосиадос де Такна» (Такна), «Таленитос де Чиклайо» (Чиклайо), «Фишланд» (Нуэво-Чимботе), «Сан-Антонио» (Лима). Чемпионский титул выиграл «Вамос-Пирлесс», победивший в финальной серии команду «Регатас Лима» 2-0 (3:2, 3:2). 3-е место занял «Хуниор Сада».

Чемпионы LNSV
 2004 «Депортиво Ванка» Кальяо
 2005 «Депортиво Ванка» Кальяо
 2006 «Депортиво Ванка» Кальяо
 2007 «Депортиво Ванка» Кальяо
 2008 «Асосисьон Уакильяй»
 2009 «Депортиво Ванка» Кальяо
 2010 «Пирлесс» Лима
 2011 «Пирлесс» Лима
 2012 «Пирлесс» Лима
 2013 «Пирлесс» Лима
 2014 «Универсидад Сан-Мартин де Поррес» Лима
 2015 «Пирлесс» Лима
 2016 «Унилевер» Лима
 2017 «Пирлесс» Лима
 2018 «Регатас Лима» Лима
 2019 «Регатас Лима» Лима
 2020 «Регатас Лима» Лима
 2021 «Вамос-Пирлесс» Лима

Примечания

См. также
 Чемпионат Перу по волейболу среди женщин

Ссылки и источники
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 Сайт Национальной высшей волейбольной лиги (LNSV)
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// $Id: MoteIF.java,v 1.16 2005/07/28 15:31:11 idgay Exp $

/* Authors:  David Gay  <dgay@intel-research.net>
 *           Intel Research Berkeley Lab
 *
 */

/**
 * @author David Gay <dgay@intel-research.net>
 * @author Intel Research Berkeley Lab
 */

package net.tinyos.message;

import net.tinyos.util.*;
import net.tinyos.packet.*;
import java.io.*;

/**
 * MoteIF provides an application-level Java interface for receiving
 * messages from, and sending messages to, a mote through a serial port,
 * TCP connection, or some other means of connectivity. Generally this
 * is used to write Java programs that connect over a TCP or serial port
 * to communicate with a TOSBase or GenericBase mote.
 *
 * The default way to use MoteIF is to create an instance of this class
 * and then register one or more MessageListener objects that will
 * be invoked when messages arrive. For example:
 * <pre>
 *   MoteIF mif = new MoteIF();
 *   mif.registerListener(new FooMsg(), this);
 *
 *   // Invoked when a message arrives
 *   public void messageReceived(int toaddr, Message msg) { ... }
 * </pre>
 * The default MoteIF constructor uses the MOTECOM environment
 * variable to determine how the Java application connects to the mote.
 * For example, a MOTECOM setting of "serial@COM1" connects to a base
 * station using the serial port on COM1.
 *
 * You can also send messages through the base station mote using
 * <tt>MoteIF.send()</tt>.
 *
 * @see net.tinyos.packet.BuildSource
 * @author	David Gay
 */
public class MoteIF extends Thread {
    /** The destination address for a broadcast. */
    public static final int TOS_BCAST_ADDR = 0xffff;
    static final int ANY_GROUP_ID = -1;

    protected PhoenixSource source;
    protected Sender sender;
    protected Receiver receiver;
    protected int groupId;

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to packet source specified using the
     * MOTECOM environment variable. Status and error messages will
     * be printed to System.err.
     */
    public MoteIF() {
      init(BuildSource.makePhoenix(net.tinyos.util.PrintStreamMessenger.err),
	  ANY_GROUP_ID);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to packet source specified using the
     * MOTECOM environment variable. Status and error messages will
     * be printed to System.err.
     *
     * @param messages where to send status messages (null means no messages)
     */
    public MoteIF(Messenger messages) {
	init(BuildSource.makePhoenix(messages), ANY_GROUP_ID);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to packet source specified using the
     * MOTECOM environment variable. Status and error messages will
     * be printed to System.err.
     *
     * This constructor is only useful if you expect to be using a
     * TransparentBase base station (which does not filter or set group ids),
     * or if you're using the old GenericBase (which requires the host to
     * specify the same group id as used for sending messages through
     * GenericBase).
     *
     * @param messages where to send status messages (null means no messages)
     * @param gid group id of messages to listen to. If set to -1,
     *   receive all group ID's, and disable sending of messages.
     * @deprecated gid only needed with GenericBase or TransparentBase.
     */

    public MoteIF(Messenger messages, int gid) {
	init(BuildSource.makePhoenix(messages), gid);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to an arbitrary packet source. The
     * packet source is started if necessary.
     *
     * @param source packet source to use
     */
    public MoteIF(PhoenixSource source) {
	init(source, ANY_GROUP_ID);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to an arbitrary packet source for a
     * specific group id. The packet source is started if necessary.
     *
     * This constructor is only useful if you expect to be using a
     * TransparentBase base station (which does not filter or set group ids),
     * or if you're using the old GenericBase (which requires the PC to
     * specify the same group id as used for the GenericBase)
     *
     * Note: The returned MoteIF need not be started (it is a thread
     * for legacy reasons only)
     *
     * @param source packet source to use
     * @param gid group id of messages to listen to. If set to -1,
     *   receive all group ID's, and disable sending of messages.
     * @deprecated gid only needed with GenericBase or TransparentBase.
     */
    public MoteIF(PhoenixSource source, int gid) {
	init(source, gid);
    }

    /**********************************************************************/

    private void init(PhoenixSource source, int gid) {
	this.source = source;
	// Start source if it isn't started yet
	try {
	    source.start();
	}
	catch (IllegalThreadStateException e) { }
	try {
	    source.awaitStartup();
	}
	catch (IOException e) {
	    e.printStackTrace();
	}
	groupId = gid;
	receiver = new Receiver(source, groupId);
	sender = new Sender(source, groupId);
    }

    /**
     * Return this MoteIF's group id
     * @return The group id, -1 for "promiscuous receive" (and send
     *   with arbitrary group id - this will only work with the new
     *   TOSBase base station)
     */
    public int getGroupId() {
	return groupId;
    }

    /**
     * @return this MoteIF's source
     */
    public PhoenixSource getSource() {
	return source;
    }

    /**
     * Send m to moteId via this mote interface
     * @param moteId message destination
     * @param m message
     * @exception IOException thrown if message could not be sent
     */
    synchronized public void send(int moteId, Message m) throws IOException {
	sender.send(moteId, m);
    }

    /**
     * Register a listener for given messages type. m should be an instance
     * of a subclass of Message (generated by mig). When a message of the
     * corresponding type is received, a new instance of m's class is
     * created with the received message as data. This message is then
     * passed to the given MessageListener.
     *
     * Note that multiple MessageListeners can be registered for the same
     * message type, and in fact each listener can use a different template
     * type if it wishes (the only requirement is that m.getType() matches
     * the received message).
     *
     * @param m message template specifying which message to receive
     * @param l listener to which received messages are dispatched
     */
    synchronized public void registerListener(Message m, MessageListener l) {
	receiver.registerListener(m, l);
    }

    /**
     * Deregister a listener for a given message type.
     * @param m message template specifying which message to receive
     * @param l listener to which received messages are dispatched
     */
    synchronized public void deregisterListener(Message m, MessageListener l) {
      receiver.deregisterListener(m, l);
    }

    ////////////////  DEPRECATED ROUTINES /////////////////

    /** The maximum message size that can be sent.
     * @deprecated This is relatively meaningless as a PacketSource
     *   can be created for any desired packet size
     *   (and, worse, the constructors below may assign this static field)
     */
    public static int maxMessageSize;// = new BaseTOSMsg().totalSize_data();

    /** The default TinyOS packet size.
     * @deprecated With the new PacketSource frameworks, applications
     *   should not be worrying about packet sizes
     */
    public static int defaultPacketSize;// = BaseTOSMsg.offset_strength();

    // The size difference between payload and packet size
    // (senders need to know the full packet size)
    private static int headerOverhead;// = defaultPacketSize - maxMessageSize;

    static {
	MessageFactory mf = new MessageFactory();
	TOSMsg msg= mf.createTOSMsg(10);
	maxMessageSize = msg.totalSize_data();
	try {
	    java.lang.reflect.Method m = msg.getClass().getMethod("offset_strength",null);
	    Integer i =(Integer) m.invoke(msg, null);
	    defaultPacketSize = i.intValue();//msg.offset_strength();
	} catch (Exception e) {
	    defaultPacketSize = 288 / 8;
	}
	headerOverhead = defaultPacketSize - maxMessageSize;
    }
    SerialStub sfw;

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to SerialForwarder at host:port for
     * group id gid. The returned MoteIF (a thread object) should be
     * started if any messages are to be received.
     * @param host host of the SerialForwarder
     * @param port port of the SerialForwarder
     * @param gid group id of messages to listen to. If set to -1,
     *   receive all group ID's, and disable sending of messages.
     * @exception IOException thrown if SerialForwarder cannot be reached
     * @deprecated Use BuildSource.makeSF(host, port) instead
     */
    public MoteIF(String host, int port, int gid) throws Exception {
	this(host,port,gid,maxMessageSize,true);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to an arbitrary SerialStub with
     * group id gid. The returned MoteIF (a thread object) should be
     * started if any messages are to be received.
     * @param stub Stub to use for communication to serial port or SerialForwarder
     * @param gid group id of messages to listen to. If set to -1,
     *   receive all group ID's, and disable sending of messages.
     * @exception IOException thrown if SerialForwarder cannot be reached
     * @deprecated Use BuildSource.makeSerial(comport, baudrate) instead
     */
    public MoteIF(SerialStub stub, int gid) throws Exception {
	this(stub, gid, maxMessageSize, true);
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to an arbitrary SerialStub for
     * group id gid. The returned MoteIF (a thread object) should be
     * started if any messages are to be received.
     * @param stub Stub to use for communication to serial port or SerialForwarder
     * @param gid group id of messages to listen to. If set to -1,
     *   receive all group ID's, and disable sending of messages.
     * @param msg_size The maximum message size this application will need to send
     * @exception IOException thrown if SerialForwarder cannot be reached
     * @deprecated Use BuildSource.makeSerial(comport, baudrate) instead - msg_size and checkCrc are no longer needed
     *
     */
    public MoteIF(SerialStub stub, int gid, int msg_size, boolean checkCrc) throws Exception {
	maxMessageSize = msg_size;
	sfw = stub;
	sfw.Open();

	groupId = gid;

	receiver = new Receiver(sfw, groupId, checkCrc);
	if (groupId != -1) {
	    sender = new Sender(sfw, groupId, maxMessageSize + headerOverhead);
	}
    }

    /**
     * Create a new mote interface to SerialForwarder at host:port for
     * group id gid. The returned MoteIF (a thread object) should be
     * started if any messages are to be received.
     * @param host host of the SerialForwarder
     * @param port port of the SerialForwarder
     * @param gid group id of messages to listen to. If set to -1,
     *   receive all group ID's, and disable sending of messages.
     * @param msg_size The maximum message size this application will need to send
     *                 Note that the serial forwarded must have been initialized with at least
     *                 this message size as well.
     * @exception IOException thrown if SerialForwarder cannot be reached
     * @deprecated Use BuildSource.makeSF(host, port) instead - msg_size and checkCrc are no longer needed
     */
    public MoteIF(String host, int port, int gid, int msg_size, boolean checkCrc) throws Exception {
	this(new SerialForwarderStub(host, port, msg_size + headerOverhead),
	     gid, msg_size, checkCrc);
    }

    /**
     * Body of this thread. Repeatedly reads and dispatches messages from
     * the SerialForwarder
     * @deprecated No thread is needed for MoteIF when PhoenixSource is used
     */
    public void run() {
	// This does nothing with PhoenixSources (which have their own
	// thread)
	if (sfw != null) {
	    try { sfw.Read(); }
	    catch (IOException e) {
		e.printStackTrace();
		System.exit(2);
	    }
	}
    }
}

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Max Heinrich Runge (ur. 21 września 1849 w Szczecinie, zm. 27 lipca 1909 w Getyndze) – niemiecki lekarz ginekolog. Od 1888 do 1909 dyrektor kliniki ginekologii i położnictwa przy Uniwersytecie w Getyndze.

Był na tej katedrze następcą Jakoba Heinricha Hermanna Schwartza. Zajmował się zagadnieniami płynu owodniowego, zakażeniami wewnątrzmacicznymi, zakażeniami w ciąży. Był autorem podręcznika położnictwa (Preußische Hebammenlehrbuch) i wielu publikacji. W 1896 doprowadził do otwarcia nowej kliniki w Getyndze. Jego następcą w 1910 został Philipp Jung.

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School Supervisor Launches Online Petition to Reignite Interest in Building a New Skate Park
3rd September 2021 /in News/by Editor
School supervisor Geraldine Poole has started an online petition to develop a skate park in Goring. To date, the campaign has attracted over 600 signatures and around 30 supporters eager to apply for grants to finance the project. Specifically, Poole wants the parish council to allocate land for the park when it revises the village neighbourhood plan.
A landowner has already offered a block near the Ridgeway footpath but Poole, who works at the Woodcote Primary School, said that the land was not suitable due to its remoteness. She has also said that the green spaces in the village might be unsuitable since they are already being used for other purposes such as football matches.
"We desperately need something that appeals to all age groups in the community and it would bring so many health benefits," Poole says. "This idea is still at an early stage but already there's a lot of excitement about it and I hope it will be more successful than previous attempts as it has been difficult to get anything going in the past."
The area already saw two campaigns to build a skate park. In 2013, the idea was turned down due to concerns about noise and antisocial behavior. In 2020, the idea was rejected again but a small jump obstacle was constructed in the Wheel Orchard car park that has now fallen into disrepair.
Poole started thinking seriously about the idea of a skate park in 2019 after the opening of a £290,000 skate park on the Makins recreation grounds. However, she had to shelve the idea after the outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Placenta: If pregnancy does occur, the placenta begins to secrete progesterone which supplements that of the corpus luteum. In fact, by the fifth month of pregnancy, the placenta secretes sufficient progesterone by itself that the corpus luteum is no longer essential to maintain pregnancy.
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a real visit-children, elderly, ambulance noise, wheelchairs, busy hospital lobbies. My Mini Aussie is a therapy dog-it's all about their willingness to be petted by unfamiliar people-so get lots of practice in different settings. They have to have the natural talent to want to, there is no way to train or force them into it. Good luck!


Another hurdle that we encountered after adopting Sasha was her general hyperactivity in the house. Though this was not too big of a problem and was the least of our concerns, it still is something that many dog owners deal with. I have a feeling that a lot of people would benefit from learning about what I did to help to manage Sasha's hyperactivity and general zest for life.
Her age. When we adopted her, the shelter believed her to be about a year old: essentially, still a puppy.
Being in a new environment. Any dog will take time to adjust to a new environment, and Sasha was no different.
Games. A game that Sasha loves is called "Find It!" For this game, I cut smelly treats into small pieces and hide them around the house. (When starting out, stick to a small area of your house; once your dog knows how to play the game, you can expand.) Then I say "Find it!" and she uses her nose to sniff out where the treats are. You can also play a version Hide-and-Seek with your dog; hold your dog in one room, while another person hides out of sight in another room. Then, say "Find (insert name here)!" and have the hidden person call the dog's name. I think you will find that your dog catches onto this quickly and will enjoy using his skills! You will also see that dogs can get just as tired from mental games as they can from a long walk.
Chew toys/Kongs/bones. When Sasha is extra excitable and has already been well exercised, we give her a Kong full of frozen peanut butter or a bone. (Read about my personal favorite, Primal frozen raw bones, here!) She has her own bed where she knows she is supposed to go when she gets a Kong or chew toy. Alternatively, you can give your dog some quiet time in their kennel while they have one of these things to keep them busy.
I also highly recommend that you be proactive! Note what time of day your dog typically gets hyper; then, before they start testing your patience, do something to keep them busy: grab their leash and go on a walk; play fetch or tug; or use some of the suggestions listed above. You will probably find that it is easier to keep them busy before they get crazy.
In the five months we have had Sasha, her hyperactivity has gotten a lot easier to handle. Most importantly, we discovered her favorite kinds of exercise, and the best types of exercise for her to let off steam. We have also purchased multiple food toys for the times that she does get super energetic, and have discovered which bones and food toys will keep her occupied for sufficient amounts of time. As with anything, though, it also takes time: she has grown up a lot since we adopted her, and already I can see that she is turning into more of an adult dog. So take heart, try a few of the suggestions that I made, and try to enjoy these puppy years while they last- because believe it or not, someday you will look back on these days and miss them!
Although Sasha is extremely relaxed in this picture, she isn't always this way. It takes good exercise combined with mental stimulation for her to be this calm.
Great tips. I love dogs, they are amazing !


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Reinventing the Ruhr
TEXT MORITZ HERRMANN
PHOTOS MALTE JÄGER
Art and culture have taken the place of coal and steel in Germany's Ruhr region. Is the change too extreme? A road trip down the autobahn A40
People in the Ruhr region (aka Ruhrpott) don't like the term "Pott." It's too negative for them. Is it really so ugly here? Well, it's not pretty, but it's getting there, fast. The Ruhr is recovering, the way it always has. Just give it a moment, and go for a drive on the A40, which cuts across the region. It's supposed to be an artery and so it's sometimes clogged. This gives me time to study the road signs: Bottrop-Boy, Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Castrop-Rauxel – names that connect you with the former mining region's soul. Odes to honest work, exit poetry. We see the Gasometer rising 117.5 meters into the sky – a highlight. A point of reference, too, if you need to get your bearings when the cities overlap. This is Germany's largest conurbation and the fifth-largest in Europe. The only place to truly understand this densely populated area is in the passing lane.
2016 Ruhr Triennale
Industrial landmarks form the backdrop for this established Ruhr region festival. Dates: August 8 to September 9. Tickets: available at the door and at all ticket offices
People here are very direct, which is right up my street
Johan Simons, Artistic Director, Ruhr Triennale
The A40 to Gelsenkirchen, then exit 28
Johan Simons looks like a rock star in his brown leather jacket stretching across a belly that any self-respecting artistic director needs. After staging shows for 40 years, he's now center-stage himself, posing for the photographer in a wood near Gelsenkirchen with a don't-mess-with-me look on his face. Simons is Artistic Director of the Ruhr Triennale, previously of Munich's Kammerspiele and slated for the job at the Bochum Schauspielhaus theater (also in the Ruhr) in 2018. He clearly doesn't want to leave the area. "I like it here. I'm Dutch, so this is border country, things are in flux, people are open. You have to be direct, which is right up my street," he says, leaning against the van with the festival slogan "I embrace you." The Ruhr Triennale borrows from Schiller's poem to question Europe's values. How, for instance, is the refugee crisis changing our continent? "The Ruhr Triennale must participate in the debate; I have no time for art without a cause," says Simons. "To embrace is to clasp tightly – or crush. It's all about ambivalence." Starting in August, he will be filling 32 productions in 24 venues with ambivalence, and 900 artists from more than 25 countries will be involved. Simons' art takes its inspiration from mines – and there are plenty of them hereabouts. Traditional surface mining has been shut down, but the festival goes digging for substance capable of artistic refinement. Culture, a mine shaft. We part with a firm handshake – thanks for the audience – and get back on the road.
Essen from the road: The A40 crosses the Ruhr region and is 94 kilometers long
The A40 to Dortmund, then the B54 to Ostwall
It's been six years since Essen was declared European Capital of Culture – as a stand-in for 53 towns and cities in the region. This was primarily a salute to the scale of structural change occurring there. People didn't despair when the coal and steel industries folded, they moved forward with a will, promoting art, services, science and education. The Pott survived, although it looked like it might not. But how does a region that has changed so fundamentally – and is still changing – keep its soul? Let's go to Dortmund and find out (an absurd concept, really). It's one or the other, Schalke or BVB, Herne-West or Lüdenscheid-Nord, but never both. Dirk Stürmer agrees. He's a member of 1. Kioskclub 06, a club that has proclaimed 2016 the year of the refreshment kiosk. Known as Trinkhallen in the Ruhr, some 8000 still exist, Stürmer reckons. "There's no economic reason why the kiosk should survive – but it does," says he, a rockabilly in a bowling shirt. The club celebrates the anachronism, but also urges people to preserve it – to buy things here rather than at the supermarket. What good is a legend if it's dead? The Trinkhalle was introduced in the 19th century to sell mineral water, expanded its range to cover daily necessities and became a meeting place for off-duty miners. You fell in love here, you split up: broken marriages, broken men, broken bottles. There was always someone there to hear you out, or tell you to shut up. Here, you bought ice cream as a kid, your first cigarettes as a teenager and your newspaper as an adult. "I believe in the renaissance of the kiosk," yells Stürmer, and drives off.
Born in China, now at home in Essen: Club owner Kay Shanghai
A post-industrial tour of the Ruhr
The A40 to the A45 and the Dortmund-West intersection
Hunger hits outside of Dortmund. We could drive into town and find a restaurant, of course. Many Michelin stars are cooked up in North Rhine-Westphalia. But that would be the boring option. How about we go to the Grill-Store on the edge of town. This was once curry-sausage country. They're quite happy at the Grill-Store to cultivate the cliché, but here's the crazy part: To preserve their identity, they're reinventing it. Kay Fräder and Torsten Gralla, big burly lads not afraid of hard work, decided to open a snack bar – because nobody does that anymore. What's important isn't turning a profit, it's friendship. People around here don't let their buddies down. The Grill-Store burgers (pulled pork, fried egg, and salsa) are well known around the neighborhood. Fräder dreams up the food – a gut feeling, of course. Over the griddle hangs a crucifix, engulfed in schnitzel vapors.
Fabian Pasalk's crazy (German language) guide to 111 places in the Ruhr region.
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The UNESCO-heritage Zollverein
Visionary: The Ruhr Triennale's Artistic Director Johan Simons
The huge U used to be a brewery logo, now it adorns a museum
The Prosper mine is still partly active
A local kiosk
Dirk Stürmer (right, in the shirt) wants to preserve the kiosks, but here he's having a beer with our writer, Moritz Herrmann
Post-industrial trendsetters: Mareike Fangmann and Andrea Weber (left) from the fashion blog POTTlike
Hotel Shanghai, a popular Essen club
On the way to world fame: Klaus Risse's art has conquered the U.S. - he produces his potato pictures in the Fürst Leopold mine
The A40 to the A43, then the A52 and exit 46
Potatoes of all things! Klaus Risse shakes his head in disbelief. Pop art, portraits, landscapes – he's done it all, but his breakthrough came with potatoes. Comic tubers on the beach, out for a walk, holding speeches. Pretty bizarre, and a bit trashy, too. "You've no idea," says Risse, "Americans love them." He laughs his Sauerland laugh, a deep rumble like something echoing from the passages that run deep inside the Fürst Leopold coal mine in Dorsten, where Risse has his studio. No longer in operation, this mine is special because it's owned by an investor and receives no subsidies from the German government or the EU. Risse fits in well because he's special, too, and his story is a typical one: You labor all your life and just when you've given up hope, something happens and changes everything. He painted the potatoes as a joke and then a gallery owner dropped by. Risse now sells his art in the United States. In December, he will fly to Art Basel in Miami Beach, the wildest, most extravagant art fair in the world.
Visitors to the Gasometer in Oberhausen can view the "Wonders of Nature" exhibition, complete with a suspended globe, through 2016
Düsseldorf is located in the Rhine area, not the Ruhr, but it is still the region's hub, serving 200 destinations. In 2015, the airport handled 22.5 million passengers, 1.4 million of whom were Lufthansa customers.
The A40 to Essen-Center and exit 23
Our trip ends at the Hotel Shanghai, the smallest, greatest club in the Ruhr and the starting point for a long night. Outside, the jute-bag crowd is lined up; waiting inside, Kay Shanghai, who's really not the type to wait for anyone. He's happy at the bar, a bottle of white in his hand. Shanghai, who shed his birth name, Kay Löber, when he opened the club 13 years ago and filled a nightlife void, a pleasure vacuum, with parties and music. Shanghai grins. Gold tooth, peroxide hair. A drink? Sure! He says: "For me, the hotel is the measure of all things. No one can touch us." Mikroboy is about to go on stage. The musicians greet the boss. He knows them all and they all know him, and if you had to work out a formula for the success of the Hotel Shanghai, that would be it. This is where Deichkind invented Bierbong techno, where the young Peaches raved through the night, where DJ Kost is a house guest. Shanghai suddenly wants to take a look out front. We lose our way. Call each other on our phones. Yell above the crowd. Understand nothing. On the ceiling, sweat; on the floor, rapture. It's too loud. It's too hot. It's exactly as it should be. You can feel the bass. Feel you're alive. The Ruhrpott, too.
The district's best
Great fusion cuisine from Asia, Mexico and the Middle East in Essen.
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Fashion and trend tips, now also as a magazine.
pottlike.de
Contemporary art along the Emscher River, through September 18.
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Sebastian Bülowius is locally inspired.
pirolfurnituring.de
Big beat time
With their eclectic mix of house, hip-hop and indie pop, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, aka The Chemical Brothers, can still whip up a storm on the dance floor two decades on
Robo-Cop
Traffic lights? Boring! Much cooler: robots!
"I cannot play everything"
Sky talk
Michael Fassbender, the cool chameleon among Hollywood's legion of stars
Rio from above
Crew tip: Hang gliding
If you think Rio is beautiful, then you ought to see it from the air. Possibly the best way to do this is on a paragliding flight over the beach. A tip from cabin attendant Carlos Duarte


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Sabrina Elaine Ionescu (born December 6, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks. She is the NCAA all-time leader in career triple-doubles, the Pac-12 Conference all-time leader in assists, and the only NCAA Division I basketball player to record 2,000 points, 1,000 assists, and 1,000 rebounds in a career.

Early life
Ionescu was born in Walnut Creek, California, to Romanian-American parents. Her father, Dan Ionescu, fled communist Romania around the time of the 1989 revolution, seeking political asylum in the United States. He hoped that his then-wife, Liliana Blaj, and their son Andrei could join them in a few months, but they were unable to move to the US until 1995. By that time, Dan owned a limousine service in Northern California, where he had chosen to settle because he had several extended family members in that area. Sabrina was around three years old when she first picked up a basketball. She has a twin brother Edward ("Eddy"), who was born 18 minutes after her. Eddy played basketball at the City College of San Francisco before transferring to Oregon; he was solely a student in the 2018–19 school year before walking on to the Ducks men's basketball team in 2019–20.

In a 2019 interview with Ava Wallace of The Washington Post, Ionescu admitted to being a "natural scorer", but said that most of the rest of her skill set came from playing alongside both boys and older girls in her childhood:

Ionescu attended a middle school that did not have enough players to field a girls' team, and her school refused to allow her to play on the boys' team. She recalled, "My middle school said I should be playing with dolls. Seriously, word-for-word." She responded by recruiting enough girls to enable her school to have a team.

High school career

Ionescu was four-year varsity basketball letter winner at Miramonte High School in Orinda, California under head coach Kelly Sopak.

As a freshman in 2012–13, she started 14 of 29 games and averaged 13.8 points, 3.9 assists and 3.9 steals per game to help her team to a 27–3 record and a Northern California Section Division II runner-up finish.

As a sophomore in 2013–14, Ionescu helped her team to a 30–2 record.

During her junior year, Ionescu averaged 18.7 points, 7.7 rebounds, 4.2 assists and 4.7 steals per game, and helped Miramonte High School to a 30–2 record with an appearance in the CIF open division semifinals.

In her senior year, she led Miramonte to the CIF open division title game after averaging 25.3 points, 8.8 assists, 7.6 rebounds, 4.5 steals and 1.3 blocks per game. She posted a triple-double in the championship game loss to Chaminade with 24 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds. Ionescu also made a first half buzzer beating shot from half court. She received national honors including the USA Today Girls Basketball Player of the Year, Max Preps Player of the Year, Cal-Hi Sports Ms. Basketball State Player of the Year and Gatorade State Player of the Year. Ionescu was named a McDonald's All-America and Jordan Brand All-American selection. She was named the McDonald's All-America game MVP after scoring a record 25 points, including seven three-pointers, with 10 rebounds.

Ionescu left Miramonte with a career win–loss record of 119–9 and a school-record 2,606 points scored. She is also the all-time leader in assists (769), steals (549) and triple-doubles (21). In addition to the career record, Ionescu also held the Miramonte top three single season scoring records with 598 (2013–14), 760 (2014–15) and 834 (2015–16). Ionescu also held the single-game scoring record of 43 points vs. Pinewood High School while being double- and triple-teamed and the single game record in assists with 19 at Dublin High School.

Ionescu was the No. 1 ranked point guard and No. 4 overall player in the recruiting class of 2016. According to Ava Wallace of The Washington Post, Ionescu chose Oregon "because she wanted to be the all-American at Oregon, not just an all-American somewhere else." At the time, she was the highest-ranked recruit ever to commit to Oregon basketball. However, she had difficulty making a college choice, not signing a National Letter of Intent with any school during either the early signing period in November 2015 or the late period in April 2016. Ionescu finally committed to Oregon just before the school's 2016 summer term began, driving with her father for 8 hours from their Bay Area home to Eugene, making an unannounced visit to Matthew Knight Arena and telling head coach Kelly Graves that she would join the team.

College career

Freshman season
On November 13, 2016, Ionescu made her collegiate debut for Oregon, recording 11 points in an 84–67 win over Lamar. Ionescu recorded four triple-doubles, one shy of the Pac-12 record and two less than the NCAA record. She averaged 14.6 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game, ranking second on the team in scoring and rebounding, and first in assists. She also posted seven double-doubles, ranked third in the Pac-12 and 29th in the NCAA with 183 assists on the year. Her 1.93-to-1 assist-to-turnover ratio was second-best in the Pac-12. She was named Pac-12 Freshman of Week four times and was named USBWA National Player of the Week. At the end of the regular season, she was named Pac-12 Freshmen of the Year and unanimous First Team All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 All-Freshman Team selection. Additionally, she was awarded the USBWA National Freshman of the Year presented by the United States Basketball Writers Association.

Sophomore season
Ionescu rose to national prominence in her sophomore year, she led the Ducks to their third regular-season league crown all-time and first-ever No. 1 seed in the Pac-12 Women's Basketball Tournament.
She led the Pac-12 in scoring (19.2) and assists, dishing out 7.8 assists per game which was fifth-most in the country. She had 16 double-doubles this season and 14 20-point games. She has recorded 10-assist games 13 times this season, handing out a league season-high 14 twice. On February 26, 2018, Ionescu was named ESPNW's college basketball player of the week.  Following her second season, she was named the Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, and was also named a first team All-American by ESPN. Ionescu's Oregon Ducks also won the Pac-12 championship for the first time since 2000. She was named the winner of the Nancy Lieberman Award as the top Division I women's point guard after the season, and was also a finalist for the Naismith Award. Ionescu became NCAA women's all-time leader in triple-doubles, trailing only former BYU men's player Kyle Collinsworth (with 12) among all NCAA players.

Junior season

On November 6, 2018, Ionescu recorded her 11th triple-double in a victory against Alaska-Fairbanks. Twelve days later, she would tie the NCAA triple-double record, with her 12th triple-double in a win against Buffalo. On December 20, 2018, Ionescu recorded her 13th triple-double in a game against Air Force and broke the NCAA triple-double record for both men's and women's basketball. She was later named ESPNW Player of the Week. Since that game on December 20, 2018, Ionescu has added five more triple-doubles for a season total of eight, and has broken the Oregon women's basketball assist record (formerly 608 assists) in a Pac-12 conference game against USC. In the 2019 NCAA Tournament, Ionescu leads the Ducks to their first Final Four appearance after their 88–84 victory over Mississippi State. Ionescu finished the game with 31 points, eight assists, seven rebounds and a steal. In the NCAA Tournament Final Four, the Ducks lost to the eventual national champion Baylor 72–67. Ionescu won almost all the possible National Player of the Year awards, including the John R. Wooden Award, Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year, USBWA National Player of the Year, Naismith College Player of the Year, ESPY for Top Female College Athlete and ESPN.com National Player of the Year.

Despite having only played for three seasons at this point, Ionescu was eligible for the 2019 WNBA draft by age. Additionally, she would receive her bachelor's degree that June. However, believing that she had "unfinished business" at Oregon, she chose to come back for her senior season. This announcement came shortly after Ionescu accepted a place in a newly launched one-year master's degree program in brand creation in UO's School of Journalism and Communications.

Senior season
In the second game of her senior season on November 13, 2019, Ionescu surpassed the 2,000 points, 800 assists mark for her college career with a 109–52 win over Utah State. She fell short of another triple-double with 16 points, 12 assists and 9 rebounds in the game but recorded her 2,012 career points and 810 career assists. In a win over then #3 Stanford (87–55), Ionescu scored a career high 37 points along with 11 rebounds and 7 assists, and broke Alison Lang's Oregon all-time career scoring record of 2,252 points in the third quarter. In the rivalry game against Oregon State on January 24, 2020, Ionescu had 24 points, 9 assists and 4 rebounds and broke Oregon State and NBA star Gary Payton's Pac-12 all-time record of 938 assists. Payton personally congratulated Ionescu on the achievement. On February 14, 2020, Ionescu recorded her 1,000th career assist in a game against #7 UCLA and joined Courtney Vandersloot as the only players in NCAA men's and women's basketball history with 2,000 plus points and 1,000 plus assists. Ten days later in the Ducks' 74–66 win at #4 Stanford, she became the first NCAA player ever with 2,000 points, 1,000 assists, and 1,000 rebounds in a career. Ionescu also recorded her eighth triple-double of the season, tying her own NCAA single-season record from last season. Earlier that day, she had been a featured speaker at the memorial service for Kobe Bryant, who had become a close personal friend within the previous two years, flying from Los Angeles to the Bay Area immediately after her speech.

On April 14, 2020, Ionescu was named the winner of the Honda Sports Award as the best collegiate female basketball player in the nation. Ionescu also won her second straight Naismith College Player of the Year award, Wade Trophy, Associated Press Women's College Basketball Player of the Year award, and USBWA Women's National Player of the Year award.

Impact at Oregon
According to Ducks coach Kelly Graves, in 2019 Ionescu had "a chance to be a Marcus Mariota, that level of player and an esteemed Oregon Duck when it's all said and done." He noted that attendance at Oregon women's games had dramatically increased during Ionescu's career at the school. In the season before she arrived, the average announced home attendance for the Ducks was 1,501. Her sophomore season saw an average attendance of over 4,200; it went up to over 7,100 in her junior season and over 10,000 in her senior season. Ionescu was also a significant draw when Oregon went on the road; for example, when the Ducks visited Washington during her junior season, the crowd for that game was 3,000 more than the Huskies drew two nights earlier against Oregon State.

Graves' remarks about Ionescu's future iconic status at Oregon proved to be prophetic. Shortly after the premature end of her senior season, the university polled fans on social media, asking them to name the four Oregon alumni they would put on a notional Mount Rushmore for the university. According to a 2020 story in the university's web journal Around the O, more than 70 suggestions were provided, but the four top choices were Mariota, Steve Prefontaine, Phil Knight, and Ionescu. As the story's author Damian Foley put it,

Professional career

New York Liberty (2020–present)
Because Ionescu turned 22 in December 2019 she was eligible to declare for the 2019 WNBA draft. A January 2019 mock draft by ESPN, incorporating input from WNBA personnel and ESPN women's basketball analysts, concluded that Ionescu was a possible top pick should she declare. However, Ionescu announced in an open letter published in The Players' Tribune on April 6, 2019, the day after Oregon's loss to Baylor in the Final Four and four days before the draft, that she would return to Oregon for her senior season.

On April 17, 2020, the New York Liberty selected Ionescu with the first overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft. She played her first game with the Liberty on July 25. In her second WNBA game on July 29 against the Dallas Wings, she recorded 33 points, 7 assists, and 7 rebounds in 34 minutes of play.

On August 1, 2020, Ionescu injured her left ankle in the second quarter against the Atlanta Dream. She was diagnosed the next day with a grade 3 sprain, and was expected to miss about one month while recovering. In the end, though, she did not play again for the remainder of her first professional season.

The next season, on May 18, 2021, Ionescu recorded her first professional triple-double. Scoring 26 points, 12 assists, and 10 rebounds, she became the youngest player in WNBA history to record a triple double. It was also the first Liberty triple-double, as well as the tenth in league history.

On July 6, 2022, Ionescu had 31 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists to record the first 30-point triple-double in WNBA history.

Off the court
April 17, 2020 Nike, Inc. signs WNBA's #1 overall pick, Sabrina Ionescu to multiyear endorsement deal which will include signature footwear and apparel.

November 11, 2022 New York Liberty guard, Sabrina Ionescu rejoins her alma mater as the director of athletic culture.

November 14, 2022 Sabrina Ionescu makes Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Sports.

National team career
In late April 2018, Ionescu and Oregon teammates Erin Boley, Otiona Gildon, and Ruthy Hebard entered the USA Basketball women's national 3x3 championship tournament at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ionescu had never before played under FIBA 3x3 rules, admitting after the tournament, "I had to ask the rules before the games started." She adjusted quickly to the unfamiliar format, leading her team to the championship while going unbeaten and also being named tournament MVP. Ionescu and her Oregon teammates would be named as the US team for the 2018 3x3 World Cup to be held in June in the Philippines. At the World Cup, they were the youngest team in the field, but swept their pool, defeating Cup holders Russia along the way.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

|-
|2020
|New York
|3
|3
|26.6
|.452
|.350
|1.000
|4.7
|4.0
|0.7
|0.0
|4.3
|18.3
|-
|2021
|New York
|30
|26
|30.0
|.375
|.329
|.911
|5.7
|6.1
|0.6
|0.5
|3.2
|11.7
|-
|2022
|New York
|36
|36
|32.3
|.411
|.333
|.931
|7.1
|6.3
|1.1
|0.3
|3.0
|17.4
|-
|Career
|3 years, 1 team
|69
|65
|31.0
|.402
|.331
|.927
|5.5
|6.4
|0.9
|0.4
|3.2
|15.0
|}

Playoffs

|-
|2021
|New York
|1
|1
|35.0
|.417
|.143
|1.000
|5.0
|11.0
|1.0
|0.0
|2.0
|14.0
|-
|2022
|New York
|3
|3
|31.0
|.531
|.400
|.750
|6.0
|4.3
|1.0
|0.3
|3.0
|14.3
|-
|Career
|2 years, 1 team
|4
|4
|32.0
|.500
|.318
|.857
|5.8
|6.0
|1.0
|0.3
|2.8
|14.3
|}

College

|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2016–17
| style="text-align:left;"|Oregon
| 33 || 33 || 32.9 || .390 || .420 || .825 || 6.6 || 5.5 || 1.3 || .2 || 2.9 || 14.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2017–18
| style="text-align:left;"|Oregon
| 38 || 38 || 35.6 || .468 || .438 || .805 || 6.7 || 7.8 || 1.7 || .3 || 3.0 || 19.7
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2018–19
| style="text-align:left;"|Oregon
| 38 || 38 || 35.9 || .443 || .429 || .883 || 7.4 || 8.2 || 1.3 || .2 || 2.5 || 19.9
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|2019–20*
| style="text-align:left;"|Oregon
| 33 || 33 || 33.7 || .518 || .392 || .921 || 8.6 || 9.1 || 1.5 || .3 || 3.0 || 17.5
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|College Totals
| 142 || 142 || 34.6 || .455 || .422 || .851 || 7.3 || 7.7 || 1.5 || .3 || 2.8 || 18.0

* 2020 NCAA tournament canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Personal life
Ionescu is a Christian. She was close with Kobe Bryant, with whom she had one-on-one training sessions, and spoke at the Kobe & Gianna Bryant Celebration of Life at the Staples Center on February 24, 2020. Ionescu is also very close friends with former teammate Ruthy Hebard.

Ionescu is engaged to former Oregon football player and Las Vegas Raiders center Hroniss Grasu.

See also
 List of NCAA Division I basketball career triple-doubles leaders
 List of NCAA Division I women's basketball career assists leaders

References

External links
 Oregon Ducks bio
 USA Basketball profile

1997 births
Living people
All-American college women's basketball players
American people of Romanian descent
American women's 3x3 basketball players
American women's basketball players
Basketball players at the 2019 Pan American Games
Pan American Games 3x3 basketball players
Basketball players from California
James E. Sullivan Award recipients
McDonald's High School All-Americans
Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games
Miramonte High School alumni
New York Liberty draft picks
New York Liberty players
Oregon Ducks women's basketball players
Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States
Pan American Games medalists in basketball
Point guards
Sportspeople from Walnut Creek, California
American twins
Twin sportspeople
Women's National Basketball Association All-Stars
Women's National Basketball Association first-overall draft picks


Gardai are appealing for witnesses an aggravated burglary in which three men assaulted a homeowner in his 80s.
Three men, in possession of weapons, entered the house, demanded money and assaulted the elderly homeowner.
Gardai are investigated the burglary, which occurred on Friday morning between 3am and 4am at Kettle's Lane, Swords.
The three men were wearing dark clothing and balaclavas, and fled the scene with a small amount of cash.
At least two of the men spoke with Dublin accents.
The elderly man was later taken to Beaumont Hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Gardai in Malahide are investigating an aggravated burglary and are appealing for witnesses.
The scene was preserved and technically examined, no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses and anyone with information is asked to contact them at Malahide Garda Station on 01 6664600, The Garda Confidential Line, 1800 666111 or any Garda Station.


From the Cult: We review campaign posters because why not?
Editor's note: We've updated this article to include our hot-take on the poster of Rodney Little Mustache. We've also included an updated score and comment on S.G. Krishna after he went from having not enough posters to arguably too many.
From the Cult is The Ubyssey's unofficial AMS Election coverage. If you want real news, go over to the news section.
In case if you've been living under a rock, the 2018 AMS election draws nigh.
Whether you do happen to live under a rock and I've offended you dearly or simply don't care for student politics, it's tough to miss the campaign posters trickling into bulletin boards scattered throughout campus. Personally, when I think of campaign posters, I think of relevant pop culture references set in distasteful Microsoft Word word art, but the posters coming from this year's candidates' vying for AMS royalty are anything but.
They lack the spiciness and individuality of cheesy Microsoft Word graphics — in other words, they look like they utilized the exact same Photoshop template with a few tweaks in-between posters. This year's election sadly lacks joke candidates like current AMS president Alan Ehrenholz, meat puppet of the almighty concrete slab dubbed "The Engineer's Cairn," so we're left with serious posters that market their candidates as, well, serious.
This isn't to say that they're all looking hot off the press from the Creative Review. Some candidates' posters certainly do it better than others.
So to save you time from having to seek them out yourself, I've taken the time to go forth and nervously navigate around endless construction fences to snap photos of our dear 2018 AMS candidates' posters.
These were the only posters up as of February 28.
Simple, and the colour scheme is pleasant to look at. However, the large print size of the text in addition to the border does strike me as cluttered. Also "VOTE NOW?" is a touch aggressive, don't you reckon? Why is that so much bigger than your website's URL? Are you asking me to vote before even reading your platform? No-can-do's-ville, baby doll!
Although it's a little aesthetically… well, busy — after seeing him in the last couple debates, I think it speaks a thousand words as to what he's all about. But I don't think being "real" gives you that much of an edge when all of your competition (with the exception of maybe one) are also rocking corporeal forms.
Ah, the almighty hashtag. I looked up #GivingBackToStudents on Twitter and the last tweet with that hashtag was from @StarbucksBank on March 27, 2017. I don't really understand the point of its inclusion if you're not flaunting that hashtag in the Twittersphere, Kuol. The formatting of this poster is ghastly. Also, the long campaign website URL in dreadfully small print doesn't make me want to look at his platform at all.
I really like Chris's poster. He utilizes UBC's colour scheme — which in and of itself is very pleasant to look at — and the print is bold, clean and easy to read and has everything you need and not a touch more.
I don't know where to start with Aaron's poster. The overload of green makes me feel nauseous. Unlike the other candidate's posters, Aaron boasts that he's "the most experienced candidate" (experienced in what exactly, Aaron?) I'd love to find out for myself, but I can barely make out your URL in that sea of green.
I like her poster. The text, albeit a bit abundant, is well formatted. However, the student governance rhetoric strikes me as cheesy and unnecessary. What does "actionable affordability" mean? "Improved access" in what? What's the point if we don't know what you mean?
I have a huge problem with this poster, and it isn't the formatting or the cheesy slogan. It's the fact that I could only find one copy of this poster on-campus and it was in the Henry Angus building and literally the size of my hand. How can we "join hands to bring the change" if there's only one poster on-campus?
I arrived in the Nest early today for my morning bagel to see a heartwarming sight — dozens of S.G. Krishna's smiling mugs! He's obviously stepped up his campaigning so I figured I'd update my review to reflect this. I am going to still have to dock points for that formatting though. Sorry, S.G.K.
This poster is certainly pleasant to the eye. My biggest problem is there is no inclusion of a campaign website. Mishal does have a website — which you can find on the AMS Candidates webpage, so why not include it?
The poster has a good colour scheme, bold print that doesn't overpower the subject, and all available information is there without any unnecessary rhetoric. Also, the inclusion of her signature is cute.
Yeesh. I can barely see the dark navy text and, I'm sorry, but I'm not a fan of the picture of Leuprecht either. It's got the potential to be a good "bewildered" reaction pic. The lack of a campaign website or e-mail to contact him is a major drawback, especially when you can barely make out the AMS's website.
Am I a graphic designer? Certainly not, and our candidates aren't either. This election isn't based off of their Photoshop wizardry — we're voting based off of whether they are best suited to our needs as UBC students. What these posters do is remind us that yes, student politics at UBC does exist, and that getting a second opinion before rushing to the printers isn't necessarily a bad idea (you know who you are).


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UK: Liquidator sells Sterling Helicopters hangar at Norwich
5-Dec-2011 Source: HeliHub.com
Accountancy firm PKF, appointed as liquidators to Sterling Helicopters, have announced that they have disposed of Hangar 14 – the main hangar used by the now-defunct operator. Partner Matt Howard announced that Bond Air Services has bought the leasehold of hangar 14, which is next to the current air ambulance operation that they operate.
PKF are now aimnig to deal with the tenancy of Hangar 13, the smaller of Sterling's two buildings at Norwich Airport. Sterling went into compulsory liquidation in July after two creditors took the company to the courts, which in turn lead to 19 job losses.
The liquidators report that they have now sold "nearly all" of the stock, with only two more helicopters remaining. Other helicopters were repossessed by finance companies, and the complication of one of the BK117s having an engine owned by a third party has also been resolved.
Sterling was founded in 1989 by Gerry Hermer, and sold in 2005 to Longmint Group, a property services company which moved into aviation around that time with the purchase of a group of helicopter operators and two airfields.
Jeremy Parkin – HeliHub.com
Civil, Longmint Group, News, Sterling Helicopters, UK


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HomeLifestyleSeven Years Later, Court Finally Finds Illegal NSA Spying Program to Have Been Illegal
Seven Years Later, Court Finally Finds Illegal NSA Spying Program to Have Been Illegal
The NSA's Utah Data Center, seen here in November 2019.Photo: George Frey/AFP (Getty Images)
The National Security Agency's program to hoover up details on billions of domestic phone calls and text messages in the U.S. was illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday, and was probably an unconstitutional abuse of power.
Per Politico, the findings were unanimously handed down in a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case concerning the 2013 conviction of four Somali immigrants of fundraising for terrorist organizations, which involved bulk data collected by the NSA and has taken most of the last decade to resolve. The court found that the metadata did not play a significant role in the case and upheld the convictions of Basaaly Moalin and three co-defendants. Judge Marsha Berzon wrote in the court's ruling, however, that the NSA's indiscriminate harvesting of phone records violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as well as hinted that it was unconstitutional.
The NSA's "bulk collection" of phone records was one of the intelligence programs former CIA contractor Edward Snowden leaked to the media in 2013—showing that top U.S. intelligence officials had lied to the public that the NSA hadn't been stockpiling data on Americans at all. For the duration of the program, the NSA obtained extensive records from telecommunication companies like Verizon, including metadata such as call location and duration, the numbers of the parties involved. The NSA also had access to text message metadata, such as the number of characters in a text. When paired with other information, the metadata could be quite revealing as to the behavior and habits of targeted individuals.
The Department of Justice argued in the case decided on Wednesday that such collection did not amount to a search because those targeted implicitly agreed to share data with providers. Berzon shot down that argument, agreeing with a 2015 ruling that the mass surveillance wasn't actually tied to specific investigations. She also found the government withheld information about the source of the metadata from the defendants.
"Here the NSA collected Moalin's (and millions of other Americans') telephony metadata on an ongoing, daily basis for years," Berzon wrote. "Moalin likely had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his telephony metadata—at the very least, it is a close question."
George W. Bush started the program without court authorization in 2001. At first, the NSA issued the records demands, but in 2006, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court began ordering companies to comply based on a legally dubious interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The records ostensibly stayed in the hands of phone companies until the NSA had use for them, but at its height, the agency was harvesting billions of entries a day. The 2015 USA Freedom Act killed the program, but the NSA didn't stop collecting data—it was simply required to submit specific queries rather than suck up everything by default. The Freedom Act, however, also allowed the NSA to request metadata from anyone a targeted individual had been in contact with, allowing it to collect over 534 million U.S. call and text records from just 42 targets in 2017 alone.
In 2019, it was reported that the NSA had discovered major problems with the data provided by telecom companies and had grown cold to the program's "operational value," largely discontinuing it.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats nonetheless urged Congress last year, when the Freedom Act was set to expire, to renew its Section 215 powers authorizing bulk collection. Congress extended those powers through March 2020, but it's been too distracted by other crises to pass a revised version of the Freedom Act which would ban the practice entirely. That extension expired in March, stripping the NSA of its Section 215 playbook.
The federal government claimed the program was vital in stopping 54 terrorist attacks—which was later revealed to be a bunch of hogwash. From 2015 to 2019, the Freedom Act version of the program only started one "significant investigation." According to TechCrunch, congressional investigations have whittled down those 54 supposed cases to just one named individual, who happens to be Moalin.
Berzon wrote in the ruling the NSA program was actually so ineffective that even if it was unconstitutional, authorities would have secured Moalin's conviction anyways.
"Based on our careful review of the classified record, we are satisfied that any lack of notice, assuming such notice was required, did not prejudice defendants," she wrote. "Having carefully reviewed the classified FISA applications and all related classified information, we are convinced that under established Fourth Amendment standards, the metadata collection, even if unconstitutional, did not taint the evidence introduced by the government at trial."
According to Politico, the defendants could still call for an 11-judge en banc session to review the three judges' opinion. They could also petition the Supreme Court to hear an appeal.
The NSA has plenty of other ways to spy on the public. Its Section 702 powers to spy on the digital communications of foreigners for intelligence purposes, which deliberately extend a dragnet on Americans sometimes only tangentially linked to those targets, don't expire until 2023.
Wednesday's ruling "makes plain that the NSA's bulk collection of Americans' phone records violated the Constitution. The decision also recognizes that when the government seeks to prosecute a person, it must give notice of the secret surveillance it used to gather its evidence," Patrick Toomey, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project, told TechCrunch. "This protection is a vital one given the proliferation of novel spying tools the government uses today."


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First Lieutenant Thomas W. Custer, of Company B, Sixth Michigan Cavalry, distinguished himself at Namozine Church, April 2d [sic, April 3rd], and at Sailor's Creek, Va., April 6th, by the capture of a battle-flag at each place.
At Sailor's Creek Lieutenant Custer leaped his horse over the enemy's line of works and fearlessly dashed up to the rebel colors. When close to the color-bearer he received a shot in the face which knocked him backward on his horse, but in a moment he was again upright in his saddle and fired at the color-bearer, hitting him and causing him to reel. Immediately Custer reached out and grasped the flag, wrenching the standard from the color-bearer as he fell, and dashed back to his lines. Here he met his brother, General G[eorge]. A. Custer, and called out to him: "The rebels have shot me, but I've got their flag." Instantly he set spurs to his horse to charge again, but the general, realizing the severity of his brother's wound, checked him, and told him to go to the rear and have it dressed. This the lieutenant refused to do, whereupon General Custer ordered him under arrest and to the rear, where it was found that the bullet had entered his cheek and passed out behind the ear.


The app icon I landed on for Keyframes macOS (thus far) is the 3rd one from the left. Not 100% sold on it, but wanted to get some feedback. Still exploring.
I'm trying to develop an icon that feels true to Keyframes and captures it's playful delight, and that also feels at place in the macOS dock. I know this can be pushed further but I was hacking around late last night and wanted to have something to get the alpha going.
What is working, what is not? Specifically, should the direction try to infuse the shape-faces and bring more personality in? If so, how.
I like #2 better. When you reorient the little symbols they lose their association w/ keyframe UI (see After Effects, etc).
Good assessment @jruck I was riffing on the Favicon which arrays them diagonally, but I think the horizontal might work better. I'll keep playing with it.
I'd consider a version with no background! Just a circle and square floatin' in space?
@pasquale I like that idea! I'll explore that too.
That's gold star is so nice, cute and recognizable. Even though you'd think that shape isn't very ownable, I think it could be with the way you've rendered it.
They keyframe promitives in the other iterations are a little too simple and don't make for a recognizable shape. Maybe if they were yellow or contrasting more they could?
Thanks for the feedback, @max! Love these ideas.


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Amoud University Capacity Building Programmes
Dr. Jibril Handuleh, has started a three year residency program in Psychiatry at St. Paul's Hospital Millenium Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Closing Day Research Methods for Supervisors and Their Students by Dr. David Onen
On Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 Amoud University Seminar on "Research Methods for Supervisors and their Students" was concluded.
Day 3 Research Methods for Supervisors and Their Students, by Dr. Onen
On Monday January 6th, 2020 Amoud University Seminar on "Research Methods for Supervisors and their Students"
Research Methods Seminar by Dr. David Onen enters Day Two!
On Sunday, January 5th, 2020, Dr. David Onen proceeded to day two of the seminar on research methods. Opening the session he first invited members to ask any questions which may not have been answered during the first day of the seminar. There was an extended debate on the difference between a Thesis and Dissertation, and it was agreed that this would be food for thought which members would be allowed to carry home as a n assignment and the get back to a later date before settling on appropriate and / accurate definition of the terms to inform the way forward on what to adopt.
Basic Approaches to Writing the Research Background and the derivation of research objectives, hypotheses and questions. Four models were proposed including the 4-perspective model, the funnel-shaped model, the known-to-unknown model and the the integrated model. The raging debate was however on which approach/model is most appropriate, and when.
Research Objectives was also covered including how to State the General Objective (or purpose). How to craft Specific Objectives using Basic Models/ Approaches for Deriving Specific Research Objectives. The meaning of Research Questions and Usage of Research Questions. On Research Hypotheses, the big debate was the reasons for Preferring the Use of Hypotheses over Questions in Positivist Research. Scope of a Study, Significance of a Study, Justification of the Study and Conclusion were also covered in the first part of the seminar.
Dr. Mohamed Muse Jibril(foreground), together with a section of the audience, including Dr. Mohamed Muse Jibril, comprising various Deans, Directors, Lecturers and holders of other central offices, attending the seminar held at senate meeting hall, main campus, Amoud University, entitled "How to Identify, Formulate and State an Acceptable Research Problem: A Guide for Higher Degree Students and their Research Supervisors" by Dr. David Onen held on Saturday, January 4th, 2020.
The second topic under the theme research methods was literature review: it's meaning or what it is, types of literature review and how to go about it. The facilitator covered in details the Introduction, Conceptualizing Literature Review, How Different Individuals describe Literature Review, Situating an academic review, and why we need review Literature. He further delved into what a good literature should contain, sources of Literature, requisite skills in Literature Review, how to Review Literature, reviewing Literature with the Use of a Mind Map and proposed a Template for adoption for literature Review. He emphasized that the guiding question was the purpose and value of literature review with the running philosophy of literature first and literature throughout. Dr. Onen covered the writing process, Authors and their writing styles such as those biased towards concept-centric Approach. In addition he explained how to collect information and sources (peer-reviewed) for good information such as electronic databases, journals, which provide writers with latest authentic literature. The concept centric approach advocates for writers to first Analyse (from broader perspectives to narrow perspective—breadth and depth), Arrange the thoughts and literature (e.g. logical or sequential), Summarize and provide transitional connections between sections within the literature topics. Thereafter, Organisation of your literature follows, then Synthesis of the Articles reviewed, and finally What to Critique according to Borg (1987). Another Five Steps would then follow in Reviewing Literature including Reading & Research which explains materials that is going to use; Analysis of how to assess existing research; Drafting of what the writer is going to write about; and finally Revising or fine tuning the document into the final draft. Lastly, types of Literature review, Characteristics of a Good Literature Review and Conclusion were covered as part of second half of Day Two of the seminar whose theme was Research Methods for Supervisors and their students.
A section of the audience, comprising various Deans, Directors, Lecturers and holders of other central offices, attending the seminar held at senate meeting hall, main campus, Amoud University, entitled "How to Identify, Formulate and State an Acceptable Research Problem: A Guide for Higher Degree Students and their Research Supervisors" by Dr. David Onen held on Saturday, January 4th, 2020.
Several Questions arose in the Questions and Answers session. The first question was which approach or model is most appropriate to use for writing statement of the background. Based on the information above it was established that department of Public Health prefers to use funnel perspective but could also use integrated approach. This would perhaps defer with another department like finance department, climate change and environmental studies or Computing departments which would have other preferences depending on what suits their research approaches and intended outputs. The most important mind set in academia, Dr. Onen posited, was to be able to allow flexibility as long as there is proper justification for preference of use or application of one approach instead of another. A member rose to inquire if it is correct to force research reports to be done in a certain way through a university manual. According to the facilitator his view was that it would be a wrong academic practice to dictate even through a university policy document that only model would be used for various fields, as various fields of specialization have different emphasis and preferences and that is the reason why departments are created. The supervisor, he added, should have enough capacity to advise on the best approach based on the type of work at hand and the research area because it must be assumed that his training prepared him adequately and he would be therefore competent enough to understand the nature of any study in his field and how to go about it. He strongly emphasized that there is always need for some flexibility to be given to students and their supervisors particularly those whose departments have traditionally done things in one way or the other so that not only one model is followed because various fields of specialization may have varied preferences for very solid academic reasons.
Dr. Onen added for information purposes for everyone that some scholars argue that proposal uses the phrase background to a study as a title for the proposal report while the final thesis report uses the phrase background of a study meaning "to" refers to what is planned to happen while "of" shows it has already happened. In connection to this he stated that every writer must identify their writing styles. What most students lack is The idea is there but how to write is a problem.
Approaches/ Models for deriving specific research objectives were proposed for use including for one variable to many variables, many variables to one variable, many variables to many variables for independent variables and dependent variables and lastly the Logical Deduction approach. A question arose as to when it is approoriate to use hypothesis or question in our research work. According Dr. Onen the Rule of thumb generally is that we use either one of questions or hypothesis but we can use both questions and hypothesis at the same time because Objectives, Questions and Hypothesis are all traditionally different sides of the same coin. In essence, if you state an objective, that objective has a question. So the as to when do we use hypothesis, he said that for studies where literature informs you that there is an existing relationship between variables is is better to go for hypotheses but in exploratory studies, it is preferable to use questions.
A question was asked as to whether there is need to measure general objectives and according to Dr. Onen the answer is no, because there is a relationship between questions and objectives. A member wanted the difference between intervening and moderating variables. Dr. onen defined intervening(mediating) variable as that variable which is in between Independent Variable and Dependent Variable while moderating variable does not affect directly the relationship between Independent Variable and Dependent Variable.
A member wanted to know whether any university should limit number of objectives for a research work. In his response Dr. Onen said, not particularly but two to five objectives was reasonable for masters degree students, while two to eight objectives was reasonable for students undertaking doctoral degree programmes.
A member further needed clarification on whether a student could use a hypothesis in a uni-variate or status study. Dr. Onen responded that use objectives and questions was the right way to go, not hypothesis, because there would be no two variables to compare in a uni-variate study.