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I fell for this series back in 2004, when the urban fantasy genre was still new and shiny. The first 4 book in the Otherworld series were out. The first were 2 about Elena, Clay and the werewolves, while the next 2 were about Paige, Lucas and magic. For awhile the series flirted with Paranormal Romance, each book mainly telling the story of a couple in this wonderful world of paranormal creatures, all intertwined with one another. Each book drove not only that couple's story forward, but the story of the entire universe. As a new book in the series hasn't been published since 2012, it looks to be over. Since that time, however, the author has been diving into short stories and novellas, continuing to tell the stories of some of it's more memorable characters, namely the wolves. They have been branched out under the Otherworld Stories moniker. Many of the more recent single titles in print, are only available in print in limited hardbound books, illustrated and numbered. If you are more interested in just the verbage, the ebook versions are much less expensive but don't contain the illustrations. I admire that the author is continuing this wonderful universe for those, like myself, who can't seem to get enough. I really didn't want things to end, and now they don't have to. If you, like myself, wanted more Elena & Clay, you should take a look a the Otherworld Stories series. Just remember, these really aren't stand alone books. If you try to start here, you are missing a vast and elaborate backstory that you really shouldn't miss. This was a great addition in the continuation of the series. I gave it 4 stars.
Awesome read as always! A very interesting side story and a welcome development into the character on Malcolm Danvers.
need MORE on the werewolves! They've always been the best from Kelley Armstrong.


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Pick: What would you watch on TV in 1959?
Gee, Wally! There sure is some swell stuff on the tube.
May 8, 2018, 2:50PM By: MeTV Staff
It's that time again! Time to enter the time machine. We're heading back to 1959. As much as you might want to get out and explore Eisenhower's America, or shake, rattle and roll… there's a lot of great stuff on television. So we're staying in each evening.
Here is what the three networks had on offer in the fall of '59. Remember, you had to get up off the lounger to turn the knobs.
See how your choices compare to others.
We begin on a Sunday night, October 4. With pot roast and peas in your belly, pick something to watch at 7:30PM.
Maverick (ABC)
Dennis the Menace (Series premiere, CBS)
Riverboat (NBC)
Now it is the following evening, Monday at 8:30PM. Pick sometime.
Father Knows Best (CBS)
Tales of Wells Fargo (NBC)
Bourbon Street Beat (ABC)
Will you change the channel to something else at 9PM?
Peter Gunn (NBC)
The Danny Thomas Show (CBS)
You also happen to have some time during the middle of the next day. Will you go with music, soap or games at 4:30PM?
The Edge of Night (CBS)
American Bandstand (ABC)
Split Personalities (NBC)
The sun has set on Tuesday. Cozy up on the couch and watch something at 8:30PM.
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (CBS)
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC)
FIbber McGee and Molly (NBC)
Wednesday! Would you like some family comedy, science-fiction or a game show?
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (ABC)
The Price Is Right (NBC)
Men into Space (CBS)
Now it is 9PM this fine Wednesday evening. What are you most likely to watch in the next hour?
Hawaiian Eye (ABC)
I've Got a Secret (CBS)
The Perry Como Show (NBC)
Yep, it's Thursday. Which mean there are more sitcoms and Westerns on tap.
The Donna Reed Show (ABC)
Bat Masterson (NBC)
The Betty Hutton Show (CBS)
Why not stay up a bit longer? Watch something at 10PM.
The Untouchables (Series premiere, ABC)
You Bet Your Life (NBC)
Playhouse 90 - "The Sound of Eden" with Martin Landau (CBS)
We're going to settle in for the evening on Friday. First, we begin with these selections at 7:30PM.
Rawhide (CBS)
The Wonderful World of Disney - "Moochie of the Little League" (ABC)
Troubleshooters (NBC)
Now pick something at 9:30PM.
77 Sunset Strip (ABC)
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS)
M Squad (NBC)
And now at 10PM?
The Twilight Zone - "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" (CBS)
The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor (ABC)
Gillette Cavalcade of Sports (NBC)
We have reached the final day of our time travel journey. Pick something at 7:30PM.
Perry Mason (CBS)
Bonanza (NBC)
Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show (ABC)
And for your final selection at 8:30PM?
Leave It to Beaver (ABC)
Wanted: Dead or Alive (CBS)
Take another quiz: Can you guess the show from its secretary?
Can you guess the show from its secretary?
Can you name the TV show by the letter F in its title?
Only a TV genius can tell the difference between a soap opera and a game show
Bob 2 months ago
Toughest choice between Groucho and The Untouchables. Went with Ness.
TVFF 2 months ago
65 percent similar.
DerekBird 2 months ago
46% similar to the most popular responses. I had to choose shows that I've only seen on MeTV because I wouldn't be born for 5 years.
46% similar to the most popular responses
Snickers 4 months ago
ndebrabant 17 months ago
BrianMoore 17 months ago
65% percent similar.
idkwut2use 17 months ago
Runeshaper 27 months ago
Most of these westerns were my 1st choices. All great ones!
DouglasMorris 33 months ago
got: 70% similar! I was not even born until 1972.
remodel18 33 months ago
I was at 90%
Fred_Clampett 33 months ago
I knew it would be close, but I'm a little surprised that Perry Mason beat Bonanza. Anyway, I was at 72%. I hate The Donna Reed show, and I hadn't heard of the other two, but I figured they'd have to be better.
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You can allocate direct costs to the activity or department that generates the cost. Examples of direct costs are production materials and labor, rental of production facilities and purchase of production equipment. The operating department directly incurs these costs through its manufacture of your product, and it uses the purchased items exclusively for production. As a result, it makes sense to allocate the corresponding costs directly to operations and staff there can analyze and control the costs.
Non-operating departments often incur costs but may not enjoy the corresponding benefits. In that case, it makes more sense to allocate costs depending on which department benefits. If you have an advertising department, it pays for promotion of your products, but you have to allocate the costs of the promotion to the product featured in the ads. Ideally, you allocate the costs to the sales department responsible for the particular product and, when all the relevant costs are gathered there, you can determine product profitability. If the performance does not meet your targets, the sales department can examine and control the costs to improve results.
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Q: How to split a String text and make a calculation on it in java I have a String that is called for example str="3+5-4+4+5";
i can split it using split(); method but how can i calc more than 2 number like this string

A: You may try this:
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;

String str = "3+5-4+4+5";
public void myStringCalculation(String str)
{
    ScriptEngineManager x = new ScriptEngineManager();
    ScriptEngine e = x.getEngineByName("JavaScript");
    System.out.println(e.eval(str));
}

A: You can do it like this :

*

*Fetch the numbers

*Identify the operator

*Perform the operation as per the operator for two selected number.

A: Look at this SO link - there are ready-to-go parsers out there which will interpret a mathematical expression and return the result of it.

A: I assume you want to experiment coding.
You might reduce the expression as long as possible using reducible expressions of the form number operator number.
Here a simple version for binary operators, no braces, no negative numbers, only.
String[] operators = new String[] {
    "*", "/",
    "+", "-"
};

String expr = "3+5-4+4+5";

for (;;) {
    boolean reduced = false;
    for (String op : operators) {
        Pattern redex = Pattern.compile("(\\d+)" + Pattern.quote(op) + "(-?\\d+)");
        Matcher m = term.matcher(expr);
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        while (m.find()) {
            int lhs = Integer.parseInt(m.group(1));
            int rhs = Integer.parseInt(m.group(2));
            int y = 0;
            switch (op) {
            case "*": y = lhs * rhs; break;
            case "/": y = lhs / rhs; break;
            case "+": y = lhs + rhs; break;
            case "-": y = lhs - rhs; break;
            default: throw new IllegalStateException("Not implemented: " + op);
            }
            m.appendReplacement(sb, String.valueOf(y));
            reduced = true;
        }
        m.appendTail(sb);
        expr = sb.toString();
    }
    if (!reduced) {
        break;
    }
}

Negative numbers could function with (negative) look-ahead/behind in the regex.

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For those poor overpaid teachers in the Neshaminy School District in Bucks County PA, life is so very frustrating and so very unfair! Unable to get the School Board to bow to their wishes and continue with the fairy tale salaries, endless pay raises, absolutely free healthcare, and fewer and fewer hours of actual work, these six-figure proletariat have resorted to some pretty petty, mean-spirited approaches to getting their own way. From refusing to attend Back To School Nights to threatening to withhold college admission recommendations for their students, the Neshaminy teachers have stomped out their temper tantrums to no avail. And under the union leadership of their President, Louise Boyd, the nasty unprofessional behavior and the Give Me Or Else attitude will continue to bring the Neshaminy teachers nothing but bad press and public condemnation.
But now Ms. Boyd and the Neshaminy Federation of Teachers (NFT) have decided it's time to crank up the old Left-wing solidarity slime ball machine. Time to add a little intimidation and harassment to their revolutionary repertoire.
As part of a presentation to the union faithful back on May 31st, the NFT leadership offered a 31-page PowerPoint presentation that included this little interesting gem of potential times to come. Note the reference to picketing the homes and workplaces of School Board members and the Phone Connect strategy directed at the School Board. Phone Connect is a telemarketing term for robo-calling, where pre-recorded computer-generated messages bombard homeowners with one nuisance call after another.
Well, forewarned is forearmed as they say. And it's also quite nice to know that someone within the union camp was willing to slip this bit of information to a Neshaminy School Board member, William O'Connor, whose blog, Neshaminy Info, keeps the local taxpayers updated. Mr. O'Connor and the other brave souls serving the school district are to be commended for their guts and fortitude. Ms. Boyd, however, should be ashamed of herself.
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Hats off to Mr. O'Conner for proposing to ignore their shameful behavior, and not feed their selfish appetites. Boyd and her followers are wanting the Board to make a big WhooHA…about this, only to bring it to the attention of press…so do not give the press anything to write about…except for the continued bad behavior of Boyd and her "Gimme" teachers.
They're in for a long haul but I think they'll stay the course. The voters are behind them.


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it looks like the Angels have the will to win the big ones
Before the season I picked the Angels and Tigers as the best teams in either league. I've gone on about this at length on the baseball board. The Mariners can hit the ball, that's sure, but they don't have pitching that generally matches up with Anaheim's. Yesterday should have been an exception, and indeed we chased the Angels' starter before the 2nd inning, but then allowed those relentless Halos to get back in the game, and then another bad umpiring call may have cost us the game. Same umpire as yesterday. Dunno what's up with the umpiring corps these days, but this is 3 or 4 (if you listen to Jose Lopez) blatantly bad calls that have gone against us in two games.
About our announcers, I don't have a problem with them at all, as you know. I love Niehaus, and Rizzs is no worse than many another. Mike Blowers is actually quite good as a color guy, too, I think. Funny thing about that ... on Saturday Ken Levine did a game with Rizzs. He was a regular with Niehaus for two years back in the early 90s, when the Mariners stank, and I don't think I've ever enjoyed listening to two guys play off each other as well as those two did then. I understand that he also did a year with Jon Miller and the Orioles. I think Levine planned a limited run so he could write a book, which he did ( http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DB103DF937A35757C0A965958260 ), and then went back to writing and producing for TV (Cheers, Frasier, etc.)
He did a competent job with Rizzs (who he replaced those two years, when Rizzs was briefly Ernie Harwell's replacement in Detroit, where he was not well received), but I would have enjoyed it so much more if he'd done that game with Niehaus. Levine did drop at least one howler about that 30-3 Texas-Baltimore game the previous day, saying that with Baltimore at the plate and down by that much, the tying run "hadn't been born yet".
This year I figured the Mariner to win 85 games and miss the playoffs, so doing exactly that wouldn't really be a disappointment. We don't really have the pitching for a deep playoff run. But then again, we didn't in 1995, and we almost made it to the Series that year, so you just never know. One good playoff start from Batista or Washburn (I expect that much from Weaver and Felix) might be all it takes for a series win. Repeat a couple times and we're there.
I agree that the Yanks are a more immediate threat than the Angels, who seem out of reach. But the M's really just have to put their heads down and win the games they play, and let the playoffs take care of themselves. I expect a good game tonight, too, especially if Felix is on. That happens, combined with the stuffing I expect Roger to get from Josh Beckett today, and we're no worse off than we were a couple weeks ago, with a 2-game lead on the Yanks and many more still to play. Including the series at Yankee Stadium we play next week.
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Yukon hotel sued over alleged multi million dollar immigration scam
Updated: A Yukon hotel is being sued over an alleged immigration scam involving millions of dollars invested by Chinese citizens.
PIerre Chauvin
A Yukon hotel is being sued over an alleged immigration scam involving millions of dollars invested by Chinese citizens.
The Elite Hotel and Travel Ltd. on Lambert Street is named in a lawsuit filed March 20 in Yukon Supreme Court.
The lawsuit alleges would-be immigrants invested in the hotel as a way of improving their chances of coming to the Yukon but were instead given fraudulent documents.
The plaintiffs, Ningbo Zhelun Overseas Immigration Service Co. Ltd. and Mega International Labor and Immigration Services Inc., filed a similar lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court in November 2016.
Zhelun is an immigration consulting company based in China. According to the lawsuit, it partnered in 2012 with another immigration consulting company, USA-Canada International Investment Inc. (UCII), based in B.C.
According to the statement of claim, Zhelun would market UCII's services in China and once it found clients would prepare immigration documentations for them. The documents would then be sent to UCII for "improvement, processing and submission to the Canadian authorities," the lawsuit reads.
Because a number of immigration programs were aimed at attracting business investors and entrepreneurs, Zhelun also helped clients transfer funds to UCII.
Zhelun in turn would get a commission for every applicant who wanted to invest, immigrate or visit Canada.
In late 2013, Tzuchun Chang approached Zhelun and presented the Yukon Business Nomination Program as an "easy program through which potential client-investors could immigrate to Canada," the lawsuit reads.
The program requirements, she told them, were minimal in comparison to other nominee programs across Canada, including on language proficiency testing.
Once Zehlun had prepared all the immigration documents, UCII would apply to the Yukon government for the nomination certificates.
If the application is successful, the nominees receive a two-year work permit allowing them and their business to move to the Yukon. After the two years, if the nominee meets certain criteria, the Yukon government will sponsor their permanent residency applications.
According to the Yukon government, the Yukon Business Nomination Program is designed to "attract and retain skilled international entrepreneurs."
To be eligible the government relies on an assessment grid that gives points based on investment value, liquid assets, age, business skills, education and other criteria.
The higher the investment value and the liquid assets were, the more points the applications would earn.
According to the lawsuit, Chang directed some of Zhelun's clients' money to the Elite Hotel.
The lawsuit lists other names Chang goes by, including Joyce Chuang, Zhijun Chueng and T.C. Chang.
According to information from the Yukon Corporate Online Registry, Joyce Chang is the president and director of the Elite Hotel. She is also the director of Yukon Resources Investment according to the company's 2016 filing. But in 2015 it lists its director as "T.C. Chang."
The lawsuit doesn't make it clear what relationship Chang had with UCII, if any.
By summer 2015, Zhelun claims it had invested over $4 million on behalf of 28 clients to UCII.
But in June that year, 60 applicants, most of whom applied through Zhelun, were called from an interview in Hong Kong with Canadian authorities.
Canadian officials told them their certificates of nomination, that were supposed to be issued by the Yukon government, were fake or invalid, and that their permanent residency applications had been denied. Some of those clients also learned they could be subject to a five-year ban from applying to immigrate or visit Canada.
Under the agreement between Zhelun and UCII, each application cost $50,000 for "legal and program management fees" the clients had to pay to UCII.
For immigration programs that required business investments, clients were required to make one-time investments between $120,000 and $250,000.
Were the applications to fail, UCII would reimburse the fees and return the investment, the lawsuit says.
That didn't happen, Zhelun claims.
Chang told them the certificates were legitimate and that the applicants could re-apply to get their permanent residencies, the court document alleges.
"(Chang) also explained that UCII was not able to repay the amounts, upon request, as they had been invested in various businesses in accordance with the YBNP," the lawsuit reads.
Zhelun wants Yukon Supreme Court to issue an injunction against the defendants to prevent them from disposing of the investments. Zhelun isn't seeking a specific amount of money, but the company is asking for special damages on top of the money owed.
Zhelun also wants to register two certificates of pending litigation against two condominiums Chang owns, for $239,000 each, and against four units of the Elite Hotel worth over $2.4 million in total.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
Neither Chang, her lawyer or UCII returned the News' calls by deadline.
The lawsuit alleges both the RCMP and the Canada Border Service Agency started investigating UCII in the summer of 2016. Neither B.C. RCMP nor the CBSA would confirm that.
Zhelun's lawyer told the News both B.C. and Yukon lawsuits would proceed at the same time and that they were in the process of serving all the defendants.
Contact Pierre Chauvin at pierre.chauvin@yukon-news.com
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On January 21st, 2023, at approximately 1:19 p.m. the Cumberland Police Department responded to the 600 block of Yale Street for an assault. Upon arrival officers made contact with the victim who advised that they had been struck in the face by Peter Butler. Officers observed injuries to the victim, which were consistent with being struck in the face by a closed fist. The officers contacted Peter Butler and continued their investigation. Butler was subsequently placed under arrest and transported to central booking. He was later seen by a District Court commissioner and released on his own recognizance.
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Apr. 18. 2018 2:56 AM
Bear McCreary's soundtrack for God of War is available right now, just ahead of the launch of the PlayStation 4 exclusive, God of War. The soundtrack can be downloaded or streamed if you feel like listening to the game's OST ahead of its release.
All you need is a Spotify account to access the soundtrack from the Spotify website. It contains 21 different tracks, starting with the four minute long God of War theme song.
In a way, the soundtrack does give away some of the pacing and plot points of the game, but nothing that you probably didn't already know before going in. For instance, the second track on the album is called "Memories of Mother," which obviously alludes to the death of Atreus' mother, and his memories of his mother.
Of course, Atreus' mother dying isn't much of a spoiler at all given that the entire game is about the father and son trip that Kratos and Atreus make up the summit in order to scatter his mother's ashes. What we don't know is how his mother died and why exactly it's so necessary for Kratos and Atreus to make the dangerous journey up the Norse mountain in order to spread the ashes of the boy's mother in that particular place.
However, further down the track list there is a song called "Ashes," which could allude to two different things within the God of War realm. As some of you may already know, in the original God of War Kratos is covered in the ashes of his dead family, which is where he ends up going on a blood-soaked quest for vengeance against the Greek gods. I do wonder if the track here is paying homage to the classic ashes or the ashes of Atreus' mother? I suppose a lot of gamers will find out once the game releases this week, on April 20th.
The score itself mixes in the bombast one would expect from the axe-wielding Kratos going on an adventure where he has to slay monsters, kill giants, and face off against the Norse gods during the journey.
The soundtrack features some mellow moments for sure, as you can tell that McCreary really put in the time and effort to shape the formation of the sounds to shift seamlessly between those emotional and solemn moments, and those over-the-top action beats.
A lot of the music this time around also seems to cater toward the game's colder, and more harsh atmosphere set in the northern mountains of the Nordic regions. The music is canvassed with a lot of supporting instruments based around Nordic culture, such as the shaman tambourine, the deerskin Viking drum, and various rawhide percussion instruments fused with classical string ensembles to bring the music to life in God of War.
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There was no choice but to get going again. Next to go in was Margaret. Once ashore and bailed out she set off again and promptly hit a rock side on and capsized 30 seconds later. Small consolation as I went in again soon after. Embarrassingly, as we swept into the final bend by the top paddock I got caught in another series of pressure waves and washed the wound again. Determined not to be seen walking to the campsite, I lined up the final rapid and made it to the campsite hoping for sympathy and a hot toddy. Thanks to a piece of dirty wet handkerchief and a piece of second hand duct-tape, the wound had closed up and stopped bleeding. But no sympathy and no toddy. I held the record for the number of capsizes.
Peter spent the rest of the afternoon teaching the children how to manage the river properly while I had to accept my position as bunny of the trip.
The sequel to that was a fantastic trip down from the campsite a few days later to Kirikau, about 20km down river. This time we took all the safety gear, the river was well down after days of fine weather and no one capsized in any of the rapids. Many of the camp repeated the river from the farmer's launching point to the campsite without incident. Owen and Jan even did it in a children's plastic inflatable dinghy. Boy did that rub it in!


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On this day: Mo Mahoney born; Tony Lavelli debuts; Gene Guarilia passes
November 20, 2021 4:00 am ET
On this day in Boston Celtics history, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, former Boston Celtic forward Francis H. Mahoney was born in 1927.
Better known as "Mo" during his tenure with the Celtics, the New Yorker played his college ball with Rhode Island's Brown University. During his time there, he earned a Bachelor's degree in English, and unlike today's players, Mahoney did not make the jump to pro ball in the NBA immediately after college, electing to serve his country instead, enlisting in the U.S. Army to fight in the Korean War between 1950 and 1952.
Before he went overseas however, Mahoney was selected by the Celtics with the 62nd overall pick (there were many more rounds in that era) of the 1950 NBA draft.
Happy birthday in heaven Mo Mahoney! #Celtics pic.twitter.com/kB7tc7IB6L
— Honest☘Larry (@HonestLarry1) November 20, 2020
Mahoney would join the team in time to start the 1952-53 NBA season with them, spending much of his time with the U.S. Army Reserves until 1956.
He would play just eight games over two seasons for the club as a result, over which he averaged 1.5 points and 1.1 rebounds per game as a Celtic.
Happy birthday in heaven to Somerville and the Boston Celtics' own Tony Lavelli! So now, without further ado, enjoy the musical stylings of the man, the myth, the legend: Tony Lavelli:
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— Honest☘Larry (@HonestLarry1) July 11, 2021
Today is also the date that Celtics forward Tony Lavelli made his debut for the team in a 99 – 89 road loss to the (then) Fort Wayne (now, Detroit) Pistons in 1949.
The Somerville native would go scoreless, and Boston would end up starting the season 3 – 7 with the loss to the Pistons.
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Finally, it is the day that small forward Gene Guarilia left us in 2016 as well.
A product of George Washington University, Guarilia was selected by Boston with the 16th overall pick of the 1959 NBA draft, and played four seasons with the team.
He won a title with the Celtics each of those four seasons — rest in peace.
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Roderich Fick (16 de noviembre de 1886 - 13 de julio de 1955) fue un arquitecto alemán de los más relevantes durante el régimen nazi en Alemania.

Fick aprendió con Theodor Fischer, llegó a ser profesor en la Universidad Técnica de Múnich en 1935; diseñó la residencia en Múnich de Rudolf Hess en 1936; se unió al Partido Nacionalsocialista Obrero Alemán en 1937, y con ello se aseguró varios proyectos nazis en Ordensburg Sonthofen, el complejo de Adolf Hitler, como los acuartelamientos de las SS. Fick también recibió el encargo de rediseñar Linz, en el que sería relevado por Hermann Giesler.

Después de la guerra, Fick fue oficialmente clasificado "como una persona pasivamente cómplice de los crímenes nazis, participó en la reconstrucción de Linz, y se retiró de la arquitectura en Baviera.

Véase también
 Arquitectura nazi

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Miembros de la Academia Bávara de Bellas Artes
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Villiers-en-Plaine è un comune francese di 1.693 abitanti situato nel dipartimento delle Deux-Sèvres nella regione della Nuova Aquitania.

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Home Insights Editor's Yo! Notes Did Bollywood really Beat PewDiePie?
T-Series – which hosts Bollywood videos edged out PewDiePie as the channel with the mostest. Most number of subscribers, that is. They are both at 90 million+ (to put this in context Neflix has around 150 million paying customers) More than the actual achievement what got people's attention was the "congratulatory" video created by PewDiePie which among other things disses India, Indians and Bhushan Kumar the Chairman of T-Series.
While much is made over the "win" for India, the two are not in the same league – T-Series is essentially an aggregation of content whereas PewDiePie is content curation around gaming driven by a single person(ality). The other important difference is that PewDiePie is actively monetising his channel with monthly paid subscriptions whereas T-Series relies on ad revenue.
What is a big takeaway from this is that vernacular content has a huge following, and that will only rise as internet penetration increases in India. TikTok has been on a roll in India, with 5 million users which shows the popularity of UGC short videos. Citing safety concerns the Madras High Court has directed the Centre to ban the app this week and it will be interesting to see how that plays out. Within the Paul Writer Impact Network we have apps that are in the local language video space and the local nuances are deep and interesting in terms of form factor and what makes some work better than others. Very relevant for businesses interested in building a digital brand. The days of pan-India campaigns in one language are hopefully at their end, as Internet penetration diversifies into smaller cities and entices more women to the digital world.
PewDiePie also tells us that it is possible to amplify our brands hugely by sticking to what we know best. And while he seems personality-wise to be on the unpleasant side, it also shows that you can "be yourself" and attract like-minded souls to hit that subscribe button!
This week I've been selling stuff on OLX and delighted with the auto-text options. They are more than sufficient for the limited context of the site and help cut across language barriers. It's definitely a glimpse into functional communications of the future. I sold my stuff finally on CUGs on WhatsApp but I did enjoy my time on OLX much more than usual.
See you all on the other side of the weekend! And Happy New Financial Year!


UNITY PLEA. In an unprecedented appearance before Orthodox rabbis, a Conservative rabbi last week urged a common front between the two groups "for the survival of Judaism." Rabbi Alexander M. Shapiro, president of an assembly of Conservative rabbis, told an annual meeting of Orthodox rabbis in New York that, "Despite our differences in ideology and for the sake of the Jewish people, we must work more closely together." It was the first time a Conservative rabbi has delivered a major address on the official program of an Orthodox rabbinic body. The two groups are among three main branches of Judaism in the country, also including Reform Judaism.


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Twin Cities fans who've waited more than five years for James Blake to return to town are going to have to wait at least several months longer. The British electro-soul singer had to cancel tonight's nearly sold-out concert at the Palace Theatre in St. Paul due to illness, and a make-up date could not be confirmed.
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Blake was very apologetic about cancelling the show on his Twitter account, explaining that he had "an allergic reaction to a non-water based smoke machine while *almost* recovered from the flu" last night in Chicago.
"I had to come off stage and scream through what felt like carpet in my throat just to carry on," he explained, adding in a follow-up tweet that he was advised not to perform or risk further damaging his voice. "I don't pull out of shows lightly and I hope you guys understand."
I managed to play the show (to a great and understanding audience) but damaged my voice in the process and I have been told by a doctor and instinctively I know I risk damaging it further if I play tonight. I don't pull out of shows lightly and I hope you guys understand.
— James Blake (@jamesblake) March 4, 2019
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Before I landed my job with Bicycle Cove I attended a training school to be a bike mechanic.
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The Huiskes Medal for Biomechanics is an Award launched in 2012 by the ESB to honour the lifetime of service that Prof. Huiskes gave to biomechanics as a whole, and to the ESB in particular. This award will be given to senior researchers who have contributed significantly to biomechanics throughout their careers. The award is open to both members and non-members of the ESB, who must be nominated by at least two ESB members. The award includes a medal and certificate, as well as the costs of congress registration, travel and accommodation throughout the congress. The winner will be requested to provide an award keynote lecture at the ESB Congress.
Candidate nominations in consideration for the Huiskes Medal for Biomechanics should include a letter of nomination that highlights the candidate's career achievements and contributions to biomechanics as well as a full publication list, to be submitted electronically to the Chairperson of the ESB Awards Committee. For detailed information on the nomination and the selection procedure, please refer to the Awards Regulations.
The next round of nominations for this award will be in time for the ESB-2021 Congress in Maastricht. Deadline for receipt of these nominations is 1st December, 2020.
— Winners of the Huiskes Medal for Biomechanics —
2019 – Professor Ralph Müller, Professor of Biomechanics at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Ralph received his doctoral degree at ETH Zürich in 1994. In 1996 he moved to Boston at the Harvard Medical School. From 2000 he was first an SNF Professor of Bioengineering then Associate and Full Professor at ETH. He has become internationally renowned for pioneering the use of desktop micro-computed tomography, and quantitative imaging to hierarchically assess skeletal structure-function relationships in mechanobiology and regenerative medicine. He was the first to measure 3D bone microstructures in patients in vivo, yielding important information not only on bone structures but also on how they age in humans and the functional consequences of these changes. Not only are his approaches now used for precise phenotypic characterization of tissue response in mammalian genetics and mechanobiology, as well as tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, but the results of his research have led to a new and radical insight into the function, strength and temporal adaptation of bone tissues. These findings have been ground breaking for understanding the role of age and degenerative diseases such as osteoporosis on mechanical failure of bone, which remains critical in the modern western world.
He served as a President of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) and of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE).
2017 – Professor Lutz Claes, Professor Emeritus at Ulm University, Germany.
Prof Claes held the first chair in Biomechanics in Germany, and founded the Biomechanics Institute in Ulm. Moreover he was the founder of the German Society of Biomechanics, and has served as a board member of the ESB. Prof Claes has actively been searching for answers to a variety of problems in orthopaedic biomechanics, resulting in over 450 publications in e.g. bone fracture fixation and mechanobiology, spine and knee biomechanics. Prof Claes has also been very active in the ESB.
2015 – Professor Roger Kamm, Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Biological and Mechanical Engineering, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
Roger's scientific contributions to the field are reflected in more than 250 refereed publications with an h-index of 71. His studies over the past thirty-five years have addressed biomechanical, and more recently mechanobiological, issues in the respiratory, ocular and cardiovascular systems. More recently, his attention has focused on new areas, including the molecular mechanisms of cellular force sensation, cell population dynamics, and the development of new microfluidic platforms for the study of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. Roger has been a leader in bridging mechanics together with biology and chemistry: by exploring the ways in which single molecules transmit force through macromolecular networks and the resulting change in molecular binding or enzymatic activity. In addition to his research, Roger has served as an exemplary educator both in the classroom and in his laboratory. He has developed new courses for MIT students and co-authored textbooks on cytoskeletal mechanics and cellular mechanotransduction, helping to train a very large swath of future biomechanicians.
Roger's contributions and impact in the biomechanics field are far-reaching. Recognition for Roger's contribution is reflected in a number of awards and honours, including his election as Fellow to the AIMBE, ASME, BMES, AAAS and the IFMBE. He is also the 2010 recipient of the ASME Lissner Medal for lifetime achievements and is a member of the Institute of Medicine.
2013 – Professor John Currey, at the time of the Award was a retired (though still extremely active) Emeritus Professor at the University of York, UK, with a profound and fundamental contribution to basic bone biomechanics. John has been interested in the mechanics of hard tissue, particularly bone, throughout his academic career, although he spent some years, while mainly studying bone, examining the population genetics of the snail Cepaea. He can remember his exact position in the room with his hand on the door handle when the engineer whom he had been consulting, said 'Why don't you test it?' He had up to that moment, being a zoologist, not thought of mechanical testing. He has shown various things about bone in relation to mineralisation, to pre-and post-yield behaviour, and with Peter Zioupos and Gwen Reilly popularised the study of microdamage. His first degree being in Zoology at Oxford he has always had a keen interest in the Darwinian aspects of hard tissue behaviour, for instance how do animals with, unpleasant incisor teeth like narwhals avoid hurting each other much. Unlike last year's winner he has not won many prizes, but he considers that his life has been well and interestingly spent! He deceased on 18 December 2018.
2012 – Professor Georg Bergmann (Julius Wolff Institute, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany). Prof. Bergmann has contributed a lifetime of dedication to the field of Biomechanics in which he has pioneered technologies to allow the in vivo measurement of joint contact forces. This data has been continually and openly shared with the entire biomechanics community free of change, and has therefore guided the design and development of countless implants and prostheses. Within his career, Georg has authored over 200 peer reviewed articles in internationally recognised journals, including the single most cited manuscript in the journal of Biomechanics. He has won numerous other awards, including the SM Perren award, ESB research award, Ceramtec award, German Spine Society award for Biomechanics, DGOOC award for basic science and Low-lands biomechanics award and AE research award. Georg played a key role on the council of the ESB, as a member from 1990-1994, as well as hosting the 1986 5th biennial ESB congress in Berlin.


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US Episcopal Church lost over 60,000 members in 2020
By Michael Gryboski
The Episcopal Church lost a little over 61,000 members in 2020 and saw a decline in worship attendance even before the pandemic lockdowns occurred, according to data released by the denomination.
The Episcopal Church's General Convention posted reports this week on the liberal mainline denomination's 2020 statistics and how they compared to previous years.
Baptized Episcopal Church membership declined from approximately 1.798 million in 2019 to approximately 1.736 million in 2020 — a loss of about 61,760 people.
The total for 2020 is approximately 350,000 less than the 2.096 million members reported in 2011 and is less than half of the 3.6 million members reported in 1966.
Another report shows that the total of "active baptized members" is even lower. In 2020, there were just over 1.5 million active baptized members of the Episcopal Church, compared to over 1.6 million in 2019.
Unlike past years, the denomination calculated average Sunday attendance by using the numbers reported from Jan. 1 to Mar. 1, 2020, as COVID-19 pandemic-related cancellations of worship began in March.
Even before government lockdowns compelled Episcopal congregations to suspend worship for months on end, the average Sunday attendance in 2020 dropped considerably compared to past years.
Sunday attendance declined from approximately 547,000 in 2019 to 483,000 in 2020, about 210,000 fewer average Sunday attendees than the roughly 698,000 reported in 2011.
Jeff Walton of the theologically conservative think tank Institute on Religion & Democracy, an expert on Anglican and Episcopal church politics, wrote Wednesday that the Episcopal Church "took a major hit in the year 2020."
"These numbers indicate a doubling in the rate of membership decline and a tripling in the rate of attendance decline over the previous year," wrote Walton.
"From 2019–2020, weddings across the denomination dropped from 6,484 to 3,530, down 46% (an additional 309 weddings were reported conducted online in virtual services). Children's baptisms dropped from 19,716 to 7,286, down 67%. Adult baptisms dropped from 3,866 to 1,649, down 57%."
Multiple factors have often been attributed to the decline in membership and attendance in Episcopal Church, which traces its origins back to the 18th century and is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
These include an aging demographic and the overall decline in religious affiliation in the United States. Additionally, the increasing theologically liberal direction of the Episcopal Church has prompted considerable numbers of conservatives to leave.
In February 2020, Kristine Stache, interim president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America-affiliated Wartburg Theological Seminary, told the Episcopal Church's Executive Council that, at the current rate of decline, worship attendance may effectively cease to exist by the year 2050.
"[Data] depicts a church that appears to be dying," said Stache, according to the Episcopal News Service.
Last November, similar thoughts were echoed by Episcopal priest Rev. Dwight Zscheile, an associate professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"The overall picture is dire," Zscheile was quoted as saying, according to ChurchLeaders. "Not one of decline as much as demise within the next generation unless trends change significantly."
Courtesy of The Christian Post


A course impact assessment of the first five years of the course (2007-2011), conducted by contacting R2P alumni from 6 months to four years after their participation, showed that most participants have continued in rice, plant, or science and agriculture-related careers or higher education. The relative youth of the participants and the fact that many of them report starting, continuing, or finishing advanced graduate degrees, and beginning professional careers in the years after the course heighten the positive impact potential the R2P course can have on these young researchers.
Participant learning and benefits seem to far outstrip their initial course goals and expectations with respect to professional and personal psycho-social development. The depth and value of the relationships, perspectives, insight, and understanding participants gained on institutions, disciplines, peoples, and agronomic problems were largely unlooked for and unanticipated prior to the course.
As a result of the course, several former participants have taken research internships with IRRI scientists, initiated collaborations with IRRI that have formed a significant part of their thesis research, and/or accepted positions as IRRI scientists or educators in the Training Center after receiving their degrees. Others have joined the USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, served as policy advisors in Washington, DC, become professors at major research universities, or joined community groups and NGO's that contribute to agricultural development. It will be interesting to follow up with all the participants after they are more settled in their careers to see where their paths have led and how the course may have played a role in shaping those trajectories.
The Rice: Research to Production Alumni Association is a loosely formed association consisting of the 219 members from all eight years the course has been run under the direction of a former R2P 2008 participant, the association started a fundraising campaign this past April to purchase and donate a mini hydrotiller to the Bocos Farmers Association in the Banaue rice terrace region.
During past visits to Banaue, many members of several past years of the R2P course had met with members of the Bocos Farmers association, most of whom are members of the Ifugao tribe. Last year, 2013 participants asked the farmers what their most pressing setback to sustaining terrace-based rice farming was. "Lack of access to mechanization" was the farmers' reply and they indicated that PhilRice-designed mini hydrotiller would be welcome, as theirs was broken beyond repair.
R2P 2014 participants were privileged to be able to meet the Bocos farmers and represent the R2P Alumni Association in the hydrotiller hand-over ceremony. The ceremony included prayer, speeches, traditional music and group dances, and the formal signing of a contract witnesses by dozens of course participants and staff, farmer association members, and local government officials and extension workers. The terms and conditions of the hydrotiller use and maintenance by member and non-member users were left for the Bocos Farmers Association to decide amongst themselves; however there is expected to be informal follow-up with the farmers association during future course years.
Post-handover discussion by 2014 course participants yielded interesting conversation on the potential ramifications for that community, and strategies to balance small-scale agriculture and traditional cultures, beliefs, and social structures with the inevitable push for 21st century development and standards of living. R2P alumni group members are also discussing other projects and campaigns that might also be adopted in future.
The campaign to raise funds for the mini hydrotiller has been completed, thanks to the generous donations of R2P alumni and their families and friends. Visit the GoFundMe site here.
This course updates my knowledge on rice production and opens my mind to think [about] rice production and research in more wider perspectives. After the course, now I am looking [at] rice research in more wide perspective, thus when planning for research I have to think on social, economic, environmental and policy factors. Practical sessions were very useful for me. Alternative Wet and Dry method of water application was something new... I think this is very useful technology that would help poor farmers in Africa to save little resources and produce more rice and hence more income from the land. Can't Banaue experience be applied in Uluguru mountain slopes in Tanzania and other mountainous areas in Tanzania and Africa? I have been asking this question when we were moving across Banaue terraces.
The farmers we interviewed near PhilRice told us that while farming is physically easier due to mechanization, that they now can harvest two crops that they are not making more profit than 40 years ago. It has challenged me to think about the role of rice/agricultural commodities in development activities in general.
My study background is Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Now I am working at molecular level. I have no idea about rice field or farmers. By this training, I introduce in rice field and we get interview a farmer and know about their livelihood. It is very good.
My background is in plant pathology that focusing on Fusarium spp study and I never did any rice study. Although my country produces rice for consumption, I [was] never involved in any activities on rice. Therefore, I'm really glad to join this course and expose to the real world of rice. And also to get the opportunities to learn from the experts and gain more knowledge of rice research to production.
This course gave me an understanding of where my research belongs in the process of improving the lives of rice farmers and consumers. Every scientist should get this sort of practical knowledge about the broader implications of their work.
The course has been very intensive from the beginning and has provided insight about almost all aspects related to rice production. The group was very diverse and interesting and working in this group has provided a fresh view on rice research. I see a lot of potential for both productivity by breeding and for improving sustainable use of natural resources that can increase food security. The information received felt more like one year of courses than three weeks.
Extension [was a major highlight of the course for me]. I have been unable to connect with extension in my current graduate school position. The requirements of fast, effective solutions has given me a new understanding of the products that basic science should produce for farmers. There should always be practical application in mind.
Being able to hear stories from farmers in Banaue and Nueva Ecija and comparing and contrasting experiences and life stories [was a major highlight of the course for me]. Especially my 77-year-old farmer representative and his struggle to put kids through college, which is much different from Mexican immigrants that I have known in California.
As I am going to work on C4 rice project lead by IWI, my initials was to see IRRI, meet IRRI people, meet colleagues working in the project. But if I could change my reasons for coming, I would say, is to get my feet wet in the paddy field, to live with everyone involved in the course for this 3 weeks.
I loved the interaction with the co-op farmers. Hearing the first-hand experience of farmers who have been growing rice for decades was fascinating and really made me appreciate them for their hard work and dedication.
After this course, I really realized how Filipinos and the rest of the world put great importance to rice. Valuing rice as part of their lives, tradition and culture. Working in the rice fields and going to Banaue is a wonderful experience to me! I then have a clearer picture of rice farming and how difficult it is, and what true farmers are their hopes, aspirations and their valuable contributions to the society and national pride.
An excellent course on everything rice related. It has pushed me to examine the research and production rice in unexpected ways and, as a result, am more to understand how I best fit in the agricultural industry. Moreover, I have been able to engage with people from a variety of cultures, experience cropping systems that are truly a world wonder, and reevaluate my underlying assumptions regarding agriculture.
This course was fantastic - the interactions with other participants, researchers and farmers have changed the way I think about agriculture in developing nations and given me priceless insights into a plethora of rice-related topics. I would recommend this course to anyone interested in broadening their horizons and learning more about this vital crop.


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George W. Bush in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, John McCain in 2008 — though the nominees change, the quadrennial promise to shift the American embassy in Israel to the country's capital has been as consistent as Old Faithful.
Washington has never formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. When asked what the country's capital is, administration spokesmen tie themselves in knots to avoid giving an answer. This isn't just an absurdity, it's an insult to an ally. It's also a continuing act of appeasement to rejectionists who oppose Jewish sovereignty over any part of the Jewish homeland. Such discriminatory treatment is obnoxious; that is why presidential hopefuls keep pledging to fix it, and why the House and Senate more than a decade ago, by overwhelming majorities, passed a law — the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 — requiring that the embassy be moved.
When pressed, the White House or State Department says that relocating the embassy would amount to prejudging an issue that should be settled through negotiation. That might be plausible if the US embassy were to be established in eastern Jerusalem — which was occupied by Jordan from 1948 until Israel liberated it in the Six Day War. But no one has ever suggested that the embassy go anywhere but West Jerusalem, the undisputed seat of Israel's government since 1948.


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